Current Events – Page 20

November 26, 2020

Are People Really This Stupid?

Yes, Virginia. Yes they are.

From scenes at packed airports to the much more intimate specter of Ben's father hosting his his business-as-usual Thanksgiving family brunch, I cannot comprehend why people are insisting on gathering today as if everything is normal. As if the number of cases of COVID aren't already going through the roof, I fully expect a HUGE spike in January.

I mean seriously, what are they thinking? Are they so selfish and concerned with tradition and their supposed "rights," they're willing to put Aunt Zelda on a ventilator in 8 weeks? Will this truly be the threat my mother used to hang over my head when I was living out-of-state, "This may be the last Thanksgiving you see your grandparents alive, so you better damn well be here."

BTW, Ben and I both politely refused his dad's (last-minute, but that's another story altogether) invitation.

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020

WEAR A FUCKING MASK

I'm all for a national mask mandate. Look, I hate wearing the things as much as anyone, but wearing them (along with a proven vaccine that reaches 90% of the population) is the only way we're going to make it through this.

So do your part. And remember…masks can be very sexy.

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

This is Inexcusable

Hey Truplethinskin, if you're not going to do your job, at this point just step aside and let your replacement do his.

November 11, 2020

I Dare Say, NONE

November 9, 2020

Fuck His Feelings

All.Of.This!!!

Someone actually had the cajones to suggest we have to be understanding of him and give him time to come to terms with losing and that we should be sensitive of his feelings

Really??

He's 74 years old, not 5

He is a bully who calls people names and makes fun of them—you think that he has feelings?!

If he has made it to 74 without coming to grips with winning and losing then there are too many people around him fearful of speaking the truth and America has just done it for them.

So FUCK TRUMP and everyone who still supports this sociopath!

November 8, 2020

#Mood

November 4, 2020

Waking to a Another Nightmare

But seriously, at this point did anyone expect any less from this fucking year?

Blue wave? Blue tsunami?!

Where? Can someone please point to this map and tell me where it is, because I certainly don't see it.

Yes, Joe is currently ahead by a small number of Electoral College votes, but if those states that are leaning Trump end up going in his favor, game over. And not just for this election. For this country. For the American Dream; the American Dream, which apparently has been gone for quite some time.

Or maybe that was as much an illusion of the left, as the right's Ozzie & Harriet view of what America should be.

What is most disheartening is seeing that half the people who voted—and those that couldn't be bothered to—looked at the last four years and and especially the events of 2020 and thought, "Yeah, I'm fine with that."

And all those people waiting in hours-long lines? Those were Trump voters?

Joe is going to need to wrap up Nevada (6), Wisconsin (10), and Michigan (16, where it's currently a dead heat) or somehow grab Pennsylvania (20)—where at the moment (admittedly with only 64% of the votes counted)—Trump holds a solid lead in order to pull this off.

And even if Joe Biden does manage to secure the presidency, this map shows it's anything but a mandate. We are a country as divided as ever, and it's obvious that half of us are racist, bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic assholes.

November 3, 2020

October 29, 2020

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

We can't forget this critical fact: Mask-wearing didn't have to be politicized.

It wasn't inevitable. Trump made it that way, not only with his personal refusal to wear one, but even more importantly by deriding people who wear masks as weak and encouraging protests against efforts by Democratic governors to impose public health measures to contain the virus. He turned refusing to wear a mask into a badge of tribal identification, a way of saying "MAGA 2020! To hell with you, liberals!"

And despite his insane insistence that 224,000 dead Americans — with who knows how many more to come — is the best we could possibly have done, all we have to do is look around the world to see how things could have been different.

We could have been like Canada (just under 10,000 deaths), or Japan (1,700 deaths), or Germany (just over 10,000 deaths), or South Korea (fewer than 500 deaths). Why did those countries succeed where we failed so spectacularly?

Two closely related reasons: They had competent leadership, and their populations didn't go to war with themselves about whether to take simple public health measures — in part because those leaders weren't so spectacularly stupid as to encourage people to flout them.

But Trump did. And even though he's likely to lose the election primarily because of his failure on the pandemic, his narcissistic recklessness will keep killing people even after he's gone.

Trump's last gasp: The pandemic isn't real and everything's fine (behind paywall)

Source: Washington Post

October 25, 2020