Bring on the tumbrels!

"Somebody's got to cut the head off" the Democratic Party, Rudolph Giuliani told Sean Hannity, with a throat-slashing gesture in case his speech was a tad too slurred.  "I'm not trying to cut you off," Hannity responded before cutting him off -- figuratively, of course.  He probably hoped to avoid the fate of fellow Foxnick Tucker Carlson, who had invited Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on but terminated the interview because she "never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately...from one candidate to another."  For being so mean to this flower of Southern womanhood Carlson has spent the day dodging Twitter abuse.  Which saddens me.

Steve Bannon got Twitter-banned for proposing that Christopher Wray and Anthony Fauci be decapitated, but Giuliani is so far out of our solar system at this point he doesn't care.  In their frenzy, the Trump defenders have gone full Terror -- Robespierre's, not Stalin's -- and forgotten that Robespierre himself wound up keeping a date with Mme. Guillotine.  And if you think they're using "cut the head off" as a metaphor, you haven't read up on the "Wolverine Watchmen" and their Plan B, with televised executions and the burning of the State House in Lansing.  Because they don't like masks.  

Ordinarily the words "Louie Gohmert says" signal some form of verbiage so bizarre it tends to evaporate as it exits his mouth, but this is Batshit Crazy season.  When he announced that a server exists that can switch votes and it's in Germany and the US Army seized it to cover up The Truth because the military is under the thumb of George Soros, you either grabbed your Trump flag or rolled your eyes.  Compared to Giuliani's ravings about Hugo Chavez and thousands of dead voters in Detroit, Gohmert sounded comparatively rational.  His "information" came from a defeated state representative candidate in Virginia who pulled a map out of her ass where Trump won 410 electoral votes and the Emmy he always coveted.  (Still no Nobel, which is totally rigged.)   The map will probably be entered as Exhibit Q when Team Trump moves on to whichever court they're clogging up next.  

Geraldo Rivera -- I didn't know he was still around either -- wants to be remembered as the fearless reporter who revealed terrible conditions at Willowbrook in 1972, not the chucklehead who found bupkus in Al Capone's purported vault and then wound up on Fox News.  He wants to be Walter Winchell to Trump's Lepke (sorry for all the classic gangland references), coaxing him to give himself up to the FBI or just get the hell out of the White House.  Not old, bitter, red-baiting Winchell.  Anyway, Geraldo thinks he's got just the solution to rub Blistex on Trump's sores:  Name the coronavirus vaccine in his honor.  He's already accepted credit for it, even though Dolly Parton's contribution was more significant.  Isn't this how it's always been done, like when I got my Eisenhower polio vaccine in 1955 and my little brother got his Nixon shot for measles, mumps and rubella in 1971?  No, you fuckwit, it totally isn't, and although I'm pro-vaccine I would need to be tracked down and tranquilized before anyone injected me with something called Trump.  Go look for Dutch Schultz's gold, you obsequious mustached goon.  "But for him, we'd still be wading into the grim winter, with these amazing miraculous medical breakthroughs."  Because no pharmaceutical giant would sense the profit to be realized from a vaccine and develop one at, shall we say, warp speed if Trump hadn't worked so hard blaming China, accusing health workers of stealing PPE, attacking governors, promoting quack cures and insisting that the economy must come first.  Jeez.

Yesterday 2,015 Americans died of covid.  The total passed 250,000 this week.  It is completely out of control.  The hospitals are overwhelmed, the doctors and nurses are exhausted.  The worst criminal behind all this misery already has his memorial:  Trumpandemic.  Seventy million low-information people will evidently do anything he says.  All he had to say was "Wear a mask and avoid crowds for a while."  Trumpandemic it is, now and forever.

Less than an hour ago Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified that Joe Biden had won the state.  I assume he is now in hiding.  The Giuliani Family* Circus moves on to Michigan, where the hope is that Republican legislators will ignore the results and pick their own electors.  The secretary of state certified the result yesterday, so this could go to the mattresses.  

*I almost forgot that Andrew Giuliani is covid-positive.  Since he works in the White House, it was inevitable.