Author: Mark Alexander

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#Mood

And it’s not because it’s my birthday. That has very little to do with my current mood. I’m in this headspace because of all the awful going on in this country right now and our seeming inability to remove the cancer that’s metastasizing from from the White House.

It seems COVID-19 and the very reasonable recommendations about staying home, closing non-essential businesses, and wearing masks and practicing social distancing when you do have to go out have brought out the absolute worst in a certain (i.e. racist, Trump rimming, MAGA-hat-wearing) portion of the population.

My heart goes out to my non-white brothers and sisters who are bearing the brunt of this behavior. It’s as if the United States is finally vomiting up 244 years of suppressed hate, and instead of it blocking out the sun as it did in the I Am The Night—Color Me Black episode of The Twilight Zone from 1961, the country—or at least Minneapolis—is going up in flames. I have feared all along it will take just one more incident to touch off a conflagration that will consume this country like none seen in our lifetimes. And George Floyd’s murder seems to be the spark thrown into that dry tinder.

And you know what? I say burn it to the ground. The horseshit treatment of minorities has gone on more than long enough. It needs to be stopped, by any means necessary. Being nice and playing fair only leads to genocide. Racists are bullies just like Trump, and the only way to put them in their place is to smack them back into the 1860s where they belong.

I fear that even if Minneapolis does not spread to the rest of the country, the rage of the minority Reich Wing  when Trump is removed from office will reignite a whole new set of fires because you know that after months of Citrus Calignula’s sowing seeds that the election will be rigged or the results illegitimate when he loses that his followers will not acquiesce to a peaceful transfer of power. He is, after all, their GOD.

And regarding the Orange Russian Wig Stand’s threats to shut down his Twitter account?  Be serious. Trump cut off his only conduit to his brain-dead sheep? Oh PLEASE.

And his promise to muzzle social media? BRING IT, BITCH.

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Sure, Jan

As you all well know, I’m no fan of Twitter, but…

It’s a national embarrassment that this imbecile is the President but it is a national shame that he has NO UNDERSTANDING of the Constitution

The First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

It is freedom, generally speaking, from the government interfering with you saying anything you want, whenever and wherever you want to say it but there is no First Amendment right to use Twitter or have a Facebook page.

Social media companies are private enterprises and therefore free to adopt policies relating to user content and to remove users who violate such policies without implicating the First Amendment.

The moron in chief keeps declaring that he is directing his administration to “explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to protect free speech and the free speech rights of all Americans” & that they will “strongly regulate or close them down” by which he only means people that agree with him or encourage him.

Any regulatory or legislative action taken by the government, which obviously includes the current corrupt AF administration, would constitute a threat to the free speech rights of all Americans.

It’s upside down world in the Cheetohinchief’s head but it’s a reminder to the rest of us never to give so much power to someone so ill informed on the Constitution.

Source.

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Quote of the Day

I am an infectious diseases physician. Let’s be clear about masks. I wear a mask to protect you. You wear a mask to protect me. That’s how it works, and it’s simple. Without your mask, you are telling me and everyone around you that you don’t care about others. And that’s not how we get through a pandemic.” ~ Stan Schwartz, M.D., Tulsa

Preach.

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Oh Sah-NAP!

From The Palmer Report:

There is still no one who has any idea what Donald Trump’s “Obamagate” scandal is about – least of all Trump himself. But that hasn’t stopped Trump’s most embarrassing sycophants from trying to prop up the imaginary scandal. That includes Ted Cruz, who never misses an opportunity to humiliate himself.

It all started when Trump incoherently tweeted “OBAMAGATE MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE SMALL POTATOES!” This prompted pundit John Heilemann to ask, “Could you explain again exactly what it is? We’ll wait.” That’s when Ted Cruz decided to get involved, much to his own detriment.

Cruz thought he was being clever when he fired back at Heilemann with “I thought that was a reporter’s job?” At that point Heilemann finished him off: “Sorry, I’m still busy reporting out Trump’s accusation that your father was involved in the killing of JFK.”

Ouch.

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And that’s exactly why I won’t be able to wear a red cap for the rest of my life.

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It’s About To Get All Stupid Up In Here

From The Palmer Report:

There’s a moment in a science fiction TV show called Avenue 5, in which the captain says “We just watched seven people stupid themselves to death.” And yes, the title of this article is from The Office. What can I say? Those of us who are dutifully staying home during the pandemic are watching a lot of TV. As these past few days have played out in the real world, these lines keep coming back to me – because we’re sadly seeing a whole lot of people stupiding themselves to death right now.

It’s one thing to go to a grocery store right now, masked up, taking as many precautions as you can. It’s a far less safe thing to eat in a restaurant right now, where you can’t stay masked up while eating (if you must do this, please be as careful as possible). Then there is this whole other ballgame where a certain segment of people are tempting fate by doing the most risky and stupid things they can possibly do in a pandemic – and they’re being egged on by the President of the United States.

We keep seeing the images of partiers crowding into confined spaces, smashed up against each other, in large numbers – and almost none of them are wearing masks. No matter where in the country this kind of incident happens, it’s nearly a statistical given that at least one of the people in that crowd has brought coronavirus with them, which means that a large chunk of the others will leave with the virus. They’ll take it back to their families, their communities, their workplaces. This is how the second coronavirus wave begins, while the first wave is still going on.

The amount of stupidity on display here is mind boggling. In every one of these images we’re seeing of tightly packed mass crowds right now, a percentage of the people in each image will be in the hospital or dead within a couple weeks. That’s frankly their problem. But first they’re going to spread the virus around to a bunch of unsuspecting people in their community. That’s unconscionable. And yet Donald Trump keeps egging them on to carry out this murder-suicide routine. When this is over, Trump must be criminally charged for these deaths.

As Ben and I were saying yesterday, the stupidity we see rearing its head on Memorial Day will start bearing its deadly fruit in about 2-3 weeks.

For me personally, grocery shopping is fine. Picking up take-out food or medications (conveniently located in my grocery store) is fine. But anything beyond that is just plain crazy until there is a proven vaccine in place and I’ve been innoculated.

I may end up spending the rest of the year at home.