I’m so fucking glad we are done with the presidential contest. I’m just hoping enough of us will be around to vote for our nominee. Sanders supporters, I implore you-go through your grieving process as I did mine as a Warrenite, and then we good liberals shall get to the task of removing Stupid Mussolini.
When I wrote about the novel coronavirus last month, I was pretty fucking glib about preparing for its invasion of the United States. I wasn’t paying well enough attention. I didn’t believe Donald Trump when he said it was nothing, because he’s never right and he’s a liar, but I was also not sure what to make of the exponential numbers some were proffering even though I could plainly see that exponential growth was what we were dealing with.
But here we are, and Trump hasn’t missed an opportunity to make the wrong decision at every juncture because he doesn’t have the attention span god gave a goose and experts hate him. Hell, some of the more paranoid among us are wondering if he’s trying to get people killed. And there’s evidence that’s just what he’s doing; governors not paying Trump compliments and tribute will get your PPE pipeline suddenlly pinched off or stopped. Shipments of supplies to states are being being Hoovered up by FEMA. Then there’s just the continuing, ceaseless rank stupidity of the response; for example, what does one make of Jared Kushner trying to tell states that the federal government’s stockpile of medical supply is only for….the federal government? Trump hawking anti-malaria drugs as a cure to COVID with no medical evidence that it works next to the MyPillow guy? And just the sheer insanity of asking instead of telling the nation’s industries to begin producing masks, gowns and vents for our medical providers while the bodies pile up and the nurses get sick buggers the rational mind trying to get a handle on how FUBAR everything is right now. Trump is making it all about him, he’s taking it all personal, and it’s a recipe for fascism at best and annihilation at worst.
All of this is precisely why we need to make Trump a one-term charlie and we gotta do it with the last man or woman standing and that person is old Joe Biden. I think even Joe knows it’s not how good he is but how horrifyingly bad Trump is, which is why he says he’s only going to be a one-term charlie too. Trust- Joe was near the bottom of the list for me, maybe a hair above Pete Buttigieg, who looked a little too much like he could have been talked into getting into a tank to show he could be commander-in-chief and besides, who the fuck was he anyway?
The bitch of it all is that I liked Bernie Sanders a lot (and I still do, if I remove the frames) once upon a time and would have been more than happy to check the box for him. Somewhere along the line, he developed a following that I liked a whole lot less than I did Bernie. Eventually, by extension, I began to resent the Sanders campaign(s) because he did precious little to manage his “revolution” by making sure it kept the bowling bumpers up and stay within acceptable parameters of voting behavior should he be vanquished. (Aside: this isn’t the first time the left lost its damn mind in a close contest; y’all remember Taylor Marsh, Corrente and a bunch of other bloggers went to the mat against Barack Obama in 2008? That was some shit to behold) Instead, many of his diehards threw a snit and refused to vote for anyone else, and some even voted for Trump in unprecedented numbers. It was bonkers, jerked-off behavior in 2016 and it remains so this year. Those people have now seen what a Trump presidency makes possible, so it is my hope we can all definitely say that it is the worst possible thing that could have ever happened and if you don’t think so, ask the people burying bodies in New York city public parks while Trump drones on about the magic of chloroquine and what a terrific job he’s doing as the number of American COVID cases careens into seven digits by the end of April and then think hard about four more years of endless trolling and tweeting and lying and boasting about nonexistent accomplishments, the federal government being run by about five people, two of which Trump is related to. The possibility of Ruth Bader Ginsburg punching out. The self dealing. Ivanka. Wall to wall impeachable behavior. Cozying up to the worst dictators the planet knows. The de-legitimization of the fourth estate. The end of the regulatory role of government. The end of the an independent Justice Department. Smug Christofascists like Mike Pompeo sailing the ship of state.
Red-hatted, happy MAGA nazi cult fucks. Maybe they’ll run over your kid next.
You think about that and all the other bullshit Trump has brought us, before you fold your hands across your chest just like Trump does at meetings when he doesn’t like the information he’s receiving.
It’s bitter medicine. I know. I’m as left as they come, but where we are right now we simply cannot do another four of the dumbest person on earth running America, which already had a host of problems, into the ground. This is indeed a great time to wring concessions from the masters of the universe, and we can do all that, let’s just get this loser out of the way first because he and the Republicans sure as hell aren’t hearing us.