Whistling past ALL the graveyards...

Suppose that you were an idiot, and suppose that you were a Republican, but I repeat myself. ~Harry S. Truman

Seriously, what the actual fuck is wrong with these fucking people?

Republican governors are overruling local shelter in place orders, one goddamned idiot tried to hold up the vote on the Coronavirus relief package...over supposed concerns about the deficit, of all fucking things...somehow earning the ire of both Donald Trump and John Kerry in the process, and yet with that passed, Trump is right back to picking fights with the Democrats, refusing to invite any of them to the signing ceremony for the package he'd never have gotten passed without them.

I'm serious, what the fuck is it going to take before everybody else gets as tired of these fucking people as I am?

I mean, Republicans are literally trying to use this virus to kill people, in the hope that it'll take out more of the people that they don't like than it will of them.

Again, and I can't say this enough, it's a fucking virus. It is incapable of giving a shit about you.

Coronavirus doesn't care if you're rich or poor, it doesn't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican, and it doesn't care what you look like or what group you belong to. It will kill you just the same.

It's a fucking virus, what the hell is so hard to understand about that?!

Seriously, these people's abysmal handling of this crisis, this soup sandwich of an emergency response, has led to the United States surpassing China in the number of infections.

America, fuck yeah, I guess.

And then these fucking people, if Dinesh D'Souza or my Evangelical ex-partner are any indication, are all but crowing about the number of cases in places like New York City.

I mean, the fuck what?

If you look at places like Alabama, the Florida Panhandle or Mississippi and the health indicators involved...Republicans are whistling past their own graveyard as they slouch towards an apocalypse that's going to hit them worse than it does anybody else. The reason that it looks like there's more cases in "Blue" states is because those states are doing more testing and more proactive in their handling of the situation.

It's the crisis response equivalent of not paying your bills...and then bragging about how much money you're saving. That works out fine, until you start getting notices taped to your door, the heat goes off, the lights go out, and then you're in the hole for a lot more than you would have been if you'd just done shit right and paid your bills to start with.

It seemed like a good strategy when I was 18, too, until my Mom found out about it, explained the facts to me and made me pay my goddamn bills. Seriously, don't any of these people have mothers?

Seriously, when the closest parallel to Republican behavior that I can come up with is the behavior of shitty teenagers and twenty-something dumb asses, ya'll have a problem. I mean, aside from the argument that these people are intentionally trying to get people killed (which I can't really disagree with, but since I know how natural phenomena work (i.e. they don't care about you) I can pretty well see how that's going to work out. It isn't going to work the way Republicans think it will. But then, stupid people never think it's going to happen to them.

The problem is, in a case like this we're only as smart as the dumbest fucking person. We're only as strong as the weakest link...because there is nothing whatever to prevent some person from getting infected and then spreading the virus where ever they go. Somebody showed a tracking video on Twitter, of all the cell phones of Florida spring break beach kids and by the time the video was done playing, the little lights had spread all around the world, an ocean of little lights that looked exactly like one of those pictures of the earth's night-side from space.

Think about that for a second.

I wonder if all those 4-Chan idiots are still so happy that they helped to get a meme elected President in 2016?

And then of course there's the religious nuts, here we have anti-Semitic Fundamentalist whack-a-nut Rick Wiles saying that "God is spreading Coronavirus..." You know, if the Evangelicals aren't real damn careful, they're going to create one hell of a lot more Atheists before this is over.

When something bad happens, telling people that God caused it, or worse that God is on the side of whatever shitty little ethnic cleansing pogrom you think you'd like to see in this situation, you're not going to get people to believe in your God. It's the same with politics, you aren't going to get more people to vote for you by being an asshole. In fact, your pool of followers will probably get smaller, because eventually your behavior will begin to prick at the consciences of those for whom the cruelty is not the point of it all.

I mean, I get that these fucking people whack off to thoughts of some kind of pure, white, fascist America where everybody is (or at least has to pretend to be) the "right" kind of white Evangelical. But the problem with that is that over 200 years of history and reality point in completely the opposite direction, and conservative white people are not only already in the minority, their power and wealth are slipping fast with every dumb shit thing that comes out of the President's mouth.

Honestly, I just wish that it wouldn't have taken something as bad as this virus to make people see stuff like this, or care enough to go out and vote. If Americans weren't, by and large a pack of apathetic fools who need to be smacked upside the head with stuff, this wouldn't be happening.

Yes, the situation in New York City or San Francisco, or for that matter Italy or Spain, is going to be bad. But you know what? It's going to be a lot worse in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi if nothing changes. Why? Because this is a bad situation and it's worse if you don't prepare or if you want to make everything some kind of political bullshit or see how much money you can make instead of keeping your eye on the ball and your mind on the science and your focus on protecting the people.

The governor of Mississippi is right that his state will never be China. What he doesn't understand is that per capita it could in fact be a lot worse off. But of course, understanding that would require giving a shit in the first place.

Here's the thing I don't understand, Republican voters...and mind you I ask this as a former Republican myself; When all we've seen from Republican elected officials is bottomless contempt for everybody else in general...and for the voters in their own states in particular, how do you justify supporting that?! Do you somehow think that they have utter contempt for everybody else in Florida but you? Those of you who vote for a fruitcake like Thomas Massie, do you think he hates everybody else in his district...except you?

How does that work, exactly?

If you want a better country, you have to be better citizens. If we want a better country, we're going to have to stop electing these goddamned morons.