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.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
And Now, A Few Words About U.S. History
Some people seem confused by the concept of treason and traitors.
The statues and other monuments to these people celebrate treason.
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.
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.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
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
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
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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.
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.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Other Potential Sites For The Republican Convention
Holding a large revival meeting of slobbering, hysterical, boobs in Florida seems somewhat problematic right now, so let me suggest some other sites for the Republicans:
Moscow
Riyadh
The Vault At A Deutsche Bank Branch
Any KKK Clubhouse
A Dumpster
A Dumpster On Fire
A Garbage Barge
A Very, Very, Deep Hole
A Carnival Cruise Ship Somewhere In The South Atlantic
The Ballroom Of The Titanic
Nuremberg
Hitler's Bunker
Hell
Moscow
Riyadh
The Vault At A Deutsche Bank Branch
Any KKK Clubhouse
A Dumpster
A Dumpster On Fire
A Garbage Barge
A Very, Very, Deep Hole
A Carnival Cruise Ship Somewhere In The South Atlantic
The Ballroom Of The Titanic
Nuremberg
Hitler's Bunker
Hell
Sunday, June 21, 2020
The First American Freedom
Forget about religion, assembly, a free press, or bearing arms.
Ditto for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Take a good look around, and you'll see that the ur-American freedom is the freedom to be a complete, fucking, idiot.
That is the only possible explanation for Trump and his MAGAt followers.
And their little "protests".
And their little guns.
And their refusal to wear masks or social distance or believe in science in general.
It can all be traced back to their little, malfunctioning brains.
Ditto for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Take a good look around, and you'll see that the ur-American freedom is the freedom to be a complete, fucking, idiot.
That is the only possible explanation for Trump and his MAGAt followers.
And their little "protests".
And their little guns.
And their refusal to wear masks or social distance or believe in science in general.
It can all be traced back to their little, malfunctioning brains.
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Thank God For Our Hillbillies
Think how advanced we'd be as a people, as a nation, if we hadn't had our hillbillies digging in their heels, and slowing us down every step of the way.
We'd have universal health care, a guaranteed living wage, rational gun control, justice for all-- regardless of skin color, a burgeoning green economy, and equal opportunity for all of our citizens.
But we can't, because our millions of hillbillies want it to be 1856...forever.
And when I say hillbillies, I don't just mean people with a handful of teeth, living in a shack, married to a cousin and eyeing their daughters, somewhere in the Ozarks or the Appalachians.
No, I have it on very good authority that there are hillbillies throughout this great land of ours. In our Congress, in very expensive condos in NYC, in well guarded mansions in Silicon Valley, in state houses and judges' chambers across the land, hell, even in the White House!
We'd have universal health care, a guaranteed living wage, rational gun control, justice for all-- regardless of skin color, a burgeoning green economy, and equal opportunity for all of our citizens.
But we can't, because our millions of hillbillies want it to be 1856...forever.
And when I say hillbillies, I don't just mean people with a handful of teeth, living in a shack, married to a cousin and eyeing their daughters, somewhere in the Ozarks or the Appalachians.
No, I have it on very good authority that there are hillbillies throughout this great land of ours. In our Congress, in very expensive condos in NYC, in well guarded mansions in Silicon Valley, in state houses and judges' chambers across the land, hell, even in the White House!
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