Grandma
Got Run Over By A Republican
Day
One of Sheltering
In Place:
This morning I signed
an agreement with
the Cucaracha People's
Republic of Under
the Refrigerator.
They stay away from
the Fig Newtons and
I don't burn down
the house for the
insurance money.
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I can't help noticing
how the infection
rate doubles about
every two days. That
is, to put it mildly,
FUCKING ALARMING!!!!
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Texas
Lt. Gov Dan Patrick
said tonight, on
Fox News (of course)
that grandparents
would
be willing
to die to save the
economy for their
grandchildren.
"We've
sure come a long
way from "Obamacare
will kill our nation's
cherished seniors" to "Okay
we need the olds
to die because the
stock market is too
low and we have an
election coming up." - @bryantylercohen
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Can you IMAGINE the
budget-busting, rubber-stamp,
feed-the-corporations-at-all-costs
legislation that
would be being signed
right now by t-Rump
if the GOP had continued
to hold the House?
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In the midst of a
worldwide pandemic
two of t-Rump's closest
autocrat buddies,
Saudi Arabi and Russia,
just happen to
be
waging an oil
war. And yet, because
millions of workers
worldwide are
sheltering
in place
fuel prices have
begin plunging.
Which
sounds
great
until you realize
that the result is
American oil-drilling
companies
closing
up shop because there's
no way they will
sell oil at a loss.
Which means that,
eventually, the current
fuel
supply will dry up
and gas will become
scarce, and expensive.
Really expensive.
Higher
fuel prices will
mean both food and
consumer good prices
will rise, right
in the midst of spiking
unemployment numbers. You
think the toilet
papers riots were
awful? Wait'll you
start fighting over
bread.
The Republican response
to this is "Let's
give a bunch of money
to corporations.
They like money.
We could also, oh,
I dunno, try and
limit access to abortion.
That
would
be SO helpful...
to our base. And,
while we're at it,
let's
have Bill Barr slice
and dice the Constitution
just a smidgen just
in case Trump feels
like fiddling."
t-Rump and the GOP
obviously have no
input into the pandemic
except to somehow
make it worse. And
there actually are
reports that numerous
CEOs
have been actively
lobbying Trump to
not coddle all these
poor sick people
because "it'll
be bad for business".
Fat Hitler is easy
to convince, especially
if you're rich, so
he
wants
everyone back to
work. Chop-chop!
The sooner the better!
Honestly, this American
pandemic feels a
lot like preemptive
revenge
by the obscenely
wealthy against all
this socialist
talk
of
"Medicare for all"
and "income equality"
and "taxing the rich
a tiny, eensy-peensy
smidgen of their
giant hordes
of gold". The
nerve!
It sure seems
like this
never-ending stream
of chaos and Trump-fuckery
is designed to leave
this country on the
brink of civil collapse
just as the campaign
season takes its
final lap this fall.
Who, after all, will
pay attention to
a mere election when
your kids are starving
and bands of armed,
Red-hatted goons
are at your door
demanding your Coors
and your MREs?
It
makes as much sense
as anything else.
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Ahhh, but it's not all bad news.
At least 66 Italian
priests have died of COVID-19.
=Lefty=
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