Fourth down
The worst of the bombardment is yet to begin, but America's Birthday is already off to a weird start. To keep him from free-associating and complaining about The Ramp, Trump's courtiers concocted a campaign speech full of trendy but muddled expressions like "cancel culture" and "far-left fascism," climaxing in a struggle with "totallie-tario-tism" which he lost. Trump connoisseurs are comparing it to the "American carnage" address with which this nightmare began about forty years ago. Michael McFaul, the former ambassador to Russia with whom Putin still has issues, called it "Perhaps the most un-American speech ever delivered by an American president on the eve of July 4th," adding, "Its degree of craziness is probably best explained by Trump's current level of desperation." He also had trouble pronouncing "Jefferson," whose visage loomed above him. And he pissed off Neil Young by using his music without permission. Like the Rolling Stones, Young has the legal resources to do something about it.
Trump voters mildly troubled by this performance (there must have been a few) were startled today to receive a Facebook post from Mike Pence, demanding money to "CRUSH Sleepy Joe's dreams of blah blah blah...I convinced my father to give you another chance" to have your pittance bigly matched by Shelly Adelson or someone like that. As in "Knew you not I must be about my father's business"? Sounds a little extreme even for the ovine Pence. Actually, somebody cut-and-pasted a pitch by Eric Trump without reading it first, reading being a skill not much prized by this bunch. Hey, even Trump doesn't need another ninny son.
Speaking of which, Junior's escort Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for coronavirus in the pre-rant screenings at Rushmore. The happy couple are driving home, it says here, from South Dakota to Washington. Infect America first!
Trump long ago displaced Andrew Johnson as Worst President Ever, and now another historical figure is off the hook, according to VoteVets. "This July Fourth Benedict Arnold can step aside, because Benedict Donald is America's number one traitor." They're still pissed about "Happy Memorial Day!" and the Russian bounty report was the last straw.
The anti-maskers have raised the rhetorical stakes in Kansas, where the Anderson County Review's Facebook page says requiring people to wear masks is practically the same as the Holocaust. Anytime you force people to put on a disposable mask during a pandemic of a wildly contagious respiratory disease, you might as well make them wear yellow stars and "step on to the cattle car." As usual, I'm not able to follow Republican "thinking," but it's all about the freedom as usual. Typhoid Marys at demos have even stolen a slogan from pro-choice people, "My body, my choice," as if your abortion could cause other women to miscarry. Only in this dark time could public health be a political issue.
Normally (if anything about a pandemic is normal), the nation's chief public health official would be taking the point. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been as scarce as Punxsutawney Phil for the past month, issuing the stern warning "Every single person has to make up their own mind." That should save lives. Fortunately, Anthony Fauci only looks frail. He has a spine of steel and seems to relish standing up to numties like Rand Paul and Dan Patrick. I'm against statues, but he has earned a plaque in the Fearless American Good Guys Hall of Fame.
That's all the patriotism I can wring out.
Trump voters mildly troubled by this performance (there must have been a few) were startled today to receive a Facebook post from Mike Pence, demanding money to "CRUSH Sleepy Joe's dreams of blah blah blah...I convinced my father to give you another chance" to have your pittance bigly matched by Shelly Adelson or someone like that. As in "Knew you not I must be about my father's business"? Sounds a little extreme even for the ovine Pence. Actually, somebody cut-and-pasted a pitch by Eric Trump without reading it first, reading being a skill not much prized by this bunch. Hey, even Trump doesn't need another ninny son.
Speaking of which, Junior's escort Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for coronavirus in the pre-rant screenings at Rushmore. The happy couple are driving home, it says here, from South Dakota to Washington. Infect America first!
Trump long ago displaced Andrew Johnson as Worst President Ever, and now another historical figure is off the hook, according to VoteVets. "This July Fourth Benedict Arnold can step aside, because Benedict Donald is America's number one traitor." They're still pissed about "Happy Memorial Day!" and the Russian bounty report was the last straw.
The anti-maskers have raised the rhetorical stakes in Kansas, where the Anderson County Review's Facebook page says requiring people to wear masks is practically the same as the Holocaust. Anytime you force people to put on a disposable mask during a pandemic of a wildly contagious respiratory disease, you might as well make them wear yellow stars and "step on to the cattle car." As usual, I'm not able to follow Republican "thinking," but it's all about the freedom as usual. Typhoid Marys at demos have even stolen a slogan from pro-choice people, "My body, my choice," as if your abortion could cause other women to miscarry. Only in this dark time could public health be a political issue.
Normally (if anything about a pandemic is normal), the nation's chief public health official would be taking the point. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been as scarce as Punxsutawney Phil for the past month, issuing the stern warning "Every single person has to make up their own mind." That should save lives. Fortunately, Anthony Fauci only looks frail. He has a spine of steel and seems to relish standing up to numties like Rand Paul and Dan Patrick. I'm against statues, but he has earned a plaque in the Fearless American Good Guys Hall of Fame.
That's all the patriotism I can wring out.
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