Month: July 2020

Not sure what the deal is, but the last few days I think I’ve averaged at least 6 emails a day from the Trump campaign. This is the latest one and it showcases one of the many reasons I won’t vote for the bastard. I can’t stand a bully.

“Daniel,

How do you want to be remembered?

As a Patriot who fought to Keep America Great? Or as an un-American Liberal who stood idly by as Radical Democrats ripped our Nation apart?

Team Trump just informed me that you haven’t accepted my father’s offer to join the Trump 100 Club, and I have to admit, I’m pretty disappointed.

Trump 100 Club Members are going to be the ones President Trump relies on when he needs the advice of REAL Americans. He’ll be counting on YOUR feedback to represent the views of millions of voters.

I will hold your spot open until 11:59 PM TONIGHT before it is PERMANENTLY RESCINDED”

So… Where’s all the pictures of them empty hospital parking lots showing proof of this Covid hoax now?

Anyone? Anyone?

Everybody are just sheep, right?

It was mid-March when I first saw this meme posted. I got into a few hot discussions about it then. I posted about it again on May 1st, and I’m doing it again now. Seems appropriate to post just days before we celebrate our “freedom”.

This week our President and ~1/2 our political leadership finally decided that maybe this wasn’t a political issue after all. For the first time, he finally, personally, kinda/sorta said that maybe masks would be a good thing. And he still managed to say that this will probably “all go away” soon, and “Hey, how about that economy?! It’s recovering!”

That’s not leadership.

It was never political. Never a conspiracy. The whole world has had to deal with this. We were warned, we were told, we had it shoved in our faces. This impacted everybody, everywhere.

Except here. We’re special here. Different. We knew better, right?

Over here it was all just a political hoax, right?

No, no it wasn’t. All you had to do was take ownership of the problem, that’s it. Step up and take care of business, like we Americans are known for doing, right?

It only became political when people made it about us vs them, Republicans vs Democrats, Conservatives vs. Liberals. It became political when people needed an excuse to be assholes, to call people snowflakes, to find a justification for selfishness over the common good. It became political when people chose power over the well being of the country and the citizens they were responsible for. And all the pundits, the media organizations, and the donors that supported that division, that put out “alternative facts”, that broadcast how much God supported our leadership? That bill is going to come due soon.

So, thank you for all the effort some of you have put into your conspiracy theories, and your Internet memes, your YouTube videos and Twitter outrages. Thank you for fighting tooth and nail to prevent any effective, proactive measures against this “Hoax”- The very same measures that everyone around the world are taking. Thank you for spending the last 5 months convincing as many people as you can that you have the inalienable right to irresponsibility. It’s working and that bill is coming due now.

The numbers today:

USA
Confirmed: 2.74M adding 50K+ daily.
Recovered: 844K hopefully this number rises much higher/faster
Deaths: 130K adding ~500+ daily.

Worldwide
Confirmed: 10.7M
Recovered: 5.48M
Deaths: 516K

The numbers back around March 10th.

Well of course not! This is a great time to get all the older, tenured teachers and administrators off the payroll. Clear the ranks, so to speak. Downsize those expenses and open up positions so that a new generation of teachers can be brought in…at 1/3rd the cost.

The United States doesn’t know what to do with itself the moment it has to think about the welfare of its citizens. We’ve conditioned everyone to fit into the machine that is our economy. Everything we do is in service to the economy, to making money, to driving the economic engine. Our very identity is wrapped up in the pursuit of economic gain.

“What do you do?”
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“Who do you work for?”
“Starving artist.”
“What will your college major be?” -asked when in 9th grade.
“I can’t wait for retirement!”
“Where will you go when you retire? What will you do?”
“Poor people just need to work harder.”
“You’re just not working hard enough.”
“Put in the over time now so that you play later.”

Our daily conversations, our getting to know you questions, all of them are couched in some form of -“How do you, or will you, make money?”

And, as we know, the overwhelming majority of that “production” does not end up with the majority of citizens.

Capitalism isn’t bad, but it does make for a very lousy God.