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.

And Here We Are

While I seriously doubt any of you who stop by my wretched little hive of scum and villainy on the internet have not already cast your ballot, this is the day. Get off your sorry asses and get out there.

We already know that even if tonight's tally comes in at 80 Biden/20 Trump, the Putrefying Orange Creamsicle is planning on declaring himself the winner regardless of the numbers. That is why it's so important everyone shows up and makes that ratio even higher so that goddamneddaughterfucking asshole who has been squatting in the White House has absolutely NO wiggle room and any lawsuits he invariably will bring will be laughed out of court.

And in case anyone needs reminding:

I'm not pretending that the next few days—or the the next 78 for that matter—are going to be easy. There is going to be violence, whether or not the demon manages to get re-elected.


You can count on it.

I'll leave you with one final thought:

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

Can't Say I Disagree with the Agenda…

Found somewhere on the interwebs:

"You Trumpsters better pray that liberals never gain control of the WH again because we are going to pay you back so fucking hard for all this shit. Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner. We are going to repaint Air Force One pussy hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms, and atheist literature from the cockpit. We are going to tax your mega churches so bad Joel Olsteen will need to get a job at Chik-Fil-A to pay his light bill. Speaking of Chik-Fil-A, we're buying up the company and giving them to any LGBTQ person your sick cult leaders tortured with conversion therapy. Have fun with the new menu, you bigoted fucks. Try the McPence: it's a boiled unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother. We're going to gather up ALL of your fucking guns, melt them down, and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton. ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks, asap. We're replacing Confederate statues with BLM Leaders and Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the WH, we're repainting the whole thing rainbow. Fox News Headquarters will be taken over via Eminent Domain and turned into a family refugee shelter. We're turning Hannity's office into giant unisex bathroom with changing tables and free tampons. And every single time a Trumpster complains about any of the changes, we're adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie."

All by Executive Order.

Source Unknown

Probably apocryphal, but still funny nonetheless:

My wife and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.

We went up to him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?"

He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. 

I called him an asshole. 

He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires.

So Shirley (my wife) called him a shithead.

He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing more tickets as he walked around the car. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

He finally finished, sneered at us, and walked away.

Just then our bus arrived, and we got on and went home.

We always look for cars with Trump 2020 bumper stickers. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired.

And I kept thinking that if this couple were black they'd both be dead and there wouldn't be a funny story… How sad is that?

Good Question

And yet we must remain ever vigilant. The next time something wicked this way comes, it may not be as totally, fundamentally incompetent as the Trump regime.

Quote of the Day

Believe me, I know the original Nazis. I was born in Austria in 1947, shortly after the Second World War, and growing up I was surrounded by broken men; men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology. And I can tell you that these ghosts that you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they're resting in hell." ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let Me Get This Straight…

From Hopes & Fears:

Hunter Biden lives in LOS ANGELES.

So Rudy wants us to believe he decided to fly 3000 miles to drop off 3 laptops with some sketcy af half blind dude because he only charges $85 to fix MAC laptops…after they say he earned millions of dollars from Burisma…pretty sure there are still Apple Stores in LA.

So you're trying to tell me that he flies 3000 miles, signs a contract to fix his laptops with a half blind dude and just…ghosts? Nah.

So you're trying to tell me that this guy who just happens to be a conspiracy theorist crazed supporter of Trump who says Hunter Biden signed a contract with him but didn't leave a manner of contacting him? Nah.

So you're trying to tell me that this sketchy af half blind guy who happens to be a Trump supporter goes through all these email looking for contact information instead of just wiping the drives and reselling the laptops like any other computer repair guy would do? Nah.

So now you're trying to tell me that this guy who is a total conspiracy theory nutjob that is so waaaaay down the Qanon rabbit hole he believes that the FBI are the government's hit men that he suddenly decides to call in the FBI? Nah.

And if this guy was soooo concerned about the information he had but couldn't find the contract information for Hunter but that he had the contact information for Rudy Giuliani? Nah.

And Rudy, who the FBI and CIA have warned Donny Boy's administration that he's being used as a stooge for the Russian mafia and Putin, thinks we're all just going to believe it?

NAH!

A 5 year old would say this doesn't check out.

Good thing the President of the United States thinks it's totally true.

All this coming from Rudy Giuliani. Yes, that Rudy Giuliani. The crazy-uncle-you-keep-locked-in-the-attic Rudy Giuliani. Yeah, totally believable. ?