"A very big heart"

I take it back.  Initially American taxpayers provided Melania Trump with the new "kidneys" she had installed at Bethesda Naval Hospital in 2018, but she has earned them now.  Campaigning in Tampa the First Escort accused the media of spreading hate, and she didn't mean by amplifying her husband's words.  She then went on to extol his "very big heart" and love for us:  "My husband's administration is focused on the future, the health and safety of the American people, the education and well-being of our children."  This slice of campaign cake could have come anyone from Grace Coolidge to Michelle Obama, but it was the irony icing that caught everyone's attention.   And she kept a straight face, though Botox probably demanded it.  Well done, Mel.  In the future, law schools will study that pre-nup.

It's been a week when President Bigheart exposed his followers to biting cold, suffocating heat, and always a deadly virus, and they panted for more.  My sympathy is reserved for those whose jobs require them to attend the Rolling Chunder tour.  Like the media who are abused and threatened everywhere.  Like the Tampa Fire Department who saw people in distress and began spraying the crowd with water.  Their reward was to have Bigheart ask if they were "friend or foe" and then order the mob, "If they're foe, let's take care of those sons of bitches."  Because it's not a rally without some fantasy violence.

Today it was historical fantasy violence.  In Michigan he proclaimed the protests in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd "like Berlin in its worst day during the war...the worst day they ever had."  No one can pack so much bullshit into one phrase.  The idiot said he saw it on CNN but it was Ali Velshi on MSNBC, and he was reporting from Kenosha, and in addition, Donzo, you know fuck-all about Berlin at any point during the war.  Unless the Red Army was bombarding Kenosha while gang-raping women, just shut up.   Then he celebrated Velshi's wounding by police with rubber bullets:  "He was down.  He was down.  Nobody cared.  Those guys didn't care.  They moved him aside.  It was the most beautiful thing.  Wasn't it really a beautiful sight?  It's called law and order."  "Those guys" being the police.  By then Trump was so excited he had to hug the lectern.  Who needs Viagra?  

Is it time for a new conspiracy theory?  Here's a hot one:  "Our doctors get more money if someone dies from covid.  You know that, right?  I mean, our doctors are very smart people."  Oh, no, he's on to us.  Tell Soros to cancel the covid bounty, stat.   Junior Trump is right.  Hardly anyone is dying, really, and they don't matter.

Back in the dreary old land of reality, covid continues to spike and hospitals set up tents in parking lots.  It's easy to forget Americans who had a hit-or-miss health system before the Trumpandemic and are suffering, too.  Today's Guardian tells of a man with Type 1 diabetes who lost his health insurance along with his job and has to come up with $1,500 a month for the insulin he needs.  In the meantime he buys insulin from Walmart for $26, which is not as effective.  The only thing Trump loves more than the baying of the mob is signing stuff and showing it to us, and he has signed several executive orders designed to lower the price of prescription drugs in general and insulin in particular.   Strangely, they don't seem to solve the problem.   Meanwhile his regime fights to destroy the Affordable Care Act, this man's best hope after the GoFundMe money dries up.  In other words, even if you dodge the coronavirus, you're screwed anyway.  Four more years of Bigheart and we'll be counting the dead hourly.

We have many weapons, though, and one of them is the meth-addict mental processes of the Trumpanzees.  Like these two members of The Base, arrested yesterday for neo-Nazi-terrorizing the wrong house in Michigan.  Two innocent people and their infant -- why can't you threaten someone your own size, like the governor?  This family is lucky they didn't get swatted.  

Then there's the woman in Orlando who went into labor and made her husband stop at the polling station so she could vote.  They checked her ID and gave her a ballot, she filled it out, and then she went to the hospital.  It doesn't say who she voted for but I have my suspicions.  Anyway, cheers.

And when we need to kick back and have a few laughs there's fake investigator "Martin Aspen," whose Hunter Biden intel fools no one except, well, fools.  Fools named Rudolph, for instance.  This one is a Borat movie.

And the rapidity with which they turn on one another.  Like Laura Ingraham wearing a mask because she doesn't want to die.  Political correctness!