A song for today

Beats hell out of the alternative

 The Beautiful Girl has been telling me for the past two days that regardless of what happens with the election, somehow, someway we're going to be just fine.

In honor of our having slept, oh, about three hours combined since Monday, I thought this song would be a nice soother:

Has there ever been anybody who played music with more joy than Bob Marley?

240,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXVI--Election Day Edition

237,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

 

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXV

 236,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXIV

 236,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

A good last week...for Democrats

Celebrate good times come on!

 Some of the news this week was a doubled-edged sword--it was bad for the President but even worse for Americans.  Some of it was just more of the Trump administration's incompetence. Any way you slice it, politically it was a good last week for Democrats:

• Unfortunately, the U.S. broke 100,000 COVID-19 cases on Friday for the first time--further underscoring just how bad Trump's response to the pandemic has been and continues to be.
• After a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, Trump supporters were literally left out in the cold for four hours--the buses that transported them to the rally did not show up (rumors were it because they had not been paid by the Trump campaign) leaving hundreds of his fans to walk four miles in snow and freezing temperatures.  Six were hospitalized.
• During a rally in Tampa, Florida, the Trump campaign apparently didn't realize that excessive heat isn't good for old people and twelve of his supporters ended up being sent to the hospital for heat exhaustion.
• The Trump campaign put out a list of Trump accomplishments in his first term, and listed ending  the coronavirus pandemic as one of them...in the same week that cases were surging in nearly every state in the country.  It also underscored that his one accomplishment, the tax cuts, were universally despised by everyone except rich people and corporations.
• Donald Trump, Jr. chose this week to go on TV and announce that 1000 deaths a day are "almost nothing"--a major surprise to the families of the 236,000 Americans who died because his father completely botched the pandemic response.
• In a blow to Trump's crowing over how well the stock market has done since he became President (it's improved less than half of what it did under Obama's guidance of the economy), the stock market dropped over 1600 points this week over fears of the quickly rising coronavirus case numbers and Trump's inability to get an economic relief bill passed.

Not exactly a great closing case for Donald Trump's re-election--and for the most part, it's entirely indicative of why Trump will eventually be noted as the worst President in American history.

236,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXIII--Halloween Edition

 236,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXII

 

235,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

It's the abominable snowman!

Not as scary as COVID-19

 It seems that in the waning days of the election, the Trump campaign's final pitch in their TV advertising is that Joe Biden is going to raise everyone's taxes (not true--Biden is going to raise taxes on the few people making more than $400,000 a year, who aren't getting a lot of sympathy from me in their plight to have to pay a few dollars more).

America has had over 9 million cases of the coronavirus since March...but Joe Biden is going to raise taxes.

We have had over 234,000 Americans die from COVID-19...but Joe Biden's going to raise taxes.

Today marks the third time in the last seven days that the United States has set a one day record for COVID cases...but Biden is going to raise your taxes.

The republican strategy is a bit like telling someone standing in the middle of a cornfield in Kansas, miles from shelter, with no transportation and fifteen inches of snow on the ground in the middle of a subzero blizzard that freezing to death is the least of their worries--what they should really be stressing over is that crazy abominable snowman.

234,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Too shy, shy, hush, hush...

Time to buckle up buttercups

 There seems to be some hope among Trump supporters that somehow millions of "shy" Trump voters--those who are too embarrassed to tell pollsters they're voting for Trump--are going to be their salvation in next Tuesday's election, despite polls showing Biden winning handily.

Now some "shy" Trump voters are chalked up to people who want to mess with pollsters and make them look bad, and given republicans' propensity to take a psychopathic glee in hurting others, I can probably buy that.

But too embarrassed by Trump?  Don't you have to have some sort of self-awareness to be embarrassed?  Who's ever seen a Trump supporter that showed the slightest inkling of self-awareness?  For fuck's sake, Trump voters are the poster children for obliviousness.

Besides, if you're too embarrassed to tell a stranger over the phone that you're voting for a particular candidate, maybe you need to find a new candidate.

232,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XXI

 

232,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XX

 

230,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XIX

 

224,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XVIII

 

2220,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Covid Amy

 

The gift that keeps giving...to republican defeats

I was never among those who felt Democrats had a prayer to stop Covid Amy from being confirmed for the Supreme Court--that ship sailed when we didn't win the Senate in 2018.  But I do have to admit I really like their strategy going forward, and that is to make republicans own it when it comes to Obamacare. 

At yesterday's hearings, each and every Democratic Senator featured an Obamacare story in their prepared remarks.  Covid Amy can lie all she wants about how she doesn't know how she'll vote (another fucking lying conservative Catholic--what a surprise), but she was put there specifically to make sure that racist Donald Trump overturns President Obama's signature achievement.

I'm sure the republican strategy is that Americans will have forgotten about it by the next election, but I highly doubt that people are going to forget that their mother can't get healthcare because she has a pre-existing condition and republicans destroyed Obamacare.  Or the countless millions whose children won't be able to get affordable health insurance because republicans killed Obamacare.  Or the tens of millions who won't be able to afford to battle the ravages of COVID-19 so mercilessly mishandled by Donald Trump because republicans extinguished Obamacare.

The salvos from Democrats in yesterday's confirmation hearings weren't for this election--they're for 2022.  So republicans can enjoy their little political stunt and their sham of a Supreme Court hearing.  And in so doing, gift another blue wave to Democrats in 2022.

Or in other words, as President Obama so famously said, please proceed.

220,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XVII

 

220,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XVI

 

219,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XV

 218,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XIV

 

217,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Bye Don 2020, Vol. XIII

 

216,000+ Dead Americans

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee

Spinning wheel got to go round

Only to republicans...

 In spite of Donald Trump's carelessness, foolishness, and outright stupidity in contracting COVID-19 and his heretofore utter incompetence in protecting America from the pandemic, republicans are now claiming Trump is better suited to handle the pandemic because he's had it and Joe Biden hasn't.

This is literally like folks claiming I would be a better chicken farmer because I've had chickenpox.

215,000+ Dead Americans,

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee