Well, That Didn't Work...Or: Brainstorming With The Trump Pandemic Response Team

So, pretending that something isn't happening doesn't make it stop happening?

Shocked! Shocked to find this out!

Imagine the medical possibilities if only it were true! An entire new field of, well, let's call them "alternative" treatments.

Your doctor says you have cancer, but you tell him you don't. And just like that, you don't have cancer! Same for diabetes, heart disease, STD's, indeed everything!

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Damn shame, too.

I know! We stop counting the number of people who contract the disease.

Sure, the bodies will continue to pile up, but that's a small price to pay for peace of mind.

How about touting a "cure" that doesn't work and may actually kill people?

Tried it already. Anybody else?

We'll pretend that it's over!

And?

Tell everybody to just go back to work, or school, or church, or wherever they want.

With masks?

No. Masks are optional.

Why?

Because...uh...FREEDOM!

I like it!

Shouldn't we listen to the experts? I mean, like that Fauci guy?

Fuck him. Goddamn busybody.

Remember, in this case, we're the experts.

Oh, right.

And Now, A Few Words About U.S. History

Some people seem confused by the concept of treason and traitors.

The Confederacy took up arms against the United States. They did it, despite all that revisionist nonsense about "states' rights", to maintain the institution of slavery. After all, what capitalist doesn't dream of free labor? Even if it meant keeping millions of human beings in bondage. That's "our history".

They were traitors.

Their flags, all of them, are traitors' flags.

Their "heroes", all of them, were traitors.

The statues and other monuments to these people celebrate treason.

(By the way, in addition to being traitors, they were losers.)

This is only confusing to people who applauded when Reagan laid a wreath at that SS cemetery. Or, more recently, when Putin's lapdog does anything.

Go to New England. Look for a statue to King George III or General Cornwallis.

Go to Germany. Look for statues to Hitler, Goerring, or Rommel.

It is very easy to remember our history, unvarnished, without resorting to bronze memorials to treason and traitors and slavery.

Religious Notes From All Over, Or: WHAT?

Since when is a church a business?

And aren't businesses supposed to pay taxes?

Apparently, billions of dollars earmarked to go to "small businesses" have ended up going to churches, with the Catholic church taking in the biggest haul. Including a cool million for St. Patrick's cathedral.

(As a side note, if you want to light a candle at St. Patty's you have to pay for it. And every time I've been there I've marveled at the amazing architecture and wondered just how many poor people could have been fed and housed with the money spent on all that marble, stained glass, gold, and granite.)

And let's not overlook all of the Mega Churches, aka CoVid Palaces, that are also at the Republican grift trough. Apparently God wants to make sure that his "Holy" Men can afford their Gulfstream jets, custom made suits, and well lacquered pompadours.

So, by all means give them money while mom and pop businesses fall by the wayside.

If that isn't insanely corrupt, I don't know what is.

Of course it's just par for the course with the Most Corrupt Administration In America's History.*

Republicans like to rail against Big Government--but not nearly as much as they like to loot the Treasury of Big Government for their friends.

*Trademark pending

How To Tell If Someone Is Crazy: A Primer

They watch Fox News. If they happen to go out for more ammo, they record Fox news.

They have a Confederate flag.

They think slavery wasn't so bad.

They're sure that all those black people killed by the police either were committing some sort of crime punishable by death or brought it on themselves by being "disrespectful of the police."

They believe everything Sean Hannity/Laura Ingraham/Tucker Carlson/Rush Limbaugh/Lou Dobbs tells them.

They think CoVid 19 is a "liberal hoax".

They're convinced that there is a pedophile ring run by the Democrats and based in the basement of a pizzeria. (Let that one sink in for awhile. Oh, by the way,  the pizzeria has no basement.)

They insist that, right or wrong, George Will is an intellectual.

They proudly wear a red hat that reads Make America Great Again.