Bearing down on 300 thousand dead....

   

   Sometime in the next day or two, we will pass the daunting milestone of having over 300 thousand Americans dead from Cronavirus.  I remind you that the total, due to all causes, of dead in World War II was just over 405K dead.  If the experts, i.e. science-oriented people like Anthony Fauci, are anywhere near correct in their projections....we will blow past the WW2 total sometime not too far off, perhaps in January even.  Yesterday, setting another new record for a daily death-toll, more Americans died than died on 9-11.  And, yet, this daunting fact doesn't seem to have the impact on people that one would think it might.  Most have become somewhat numb to bad news, is the only conclusion I can draw from this. We are sleep-walking through this...and the fact that the political arena is fraught with conflict and astonishing assaults on our very democracy, doesn't help either.

  Americans, and, I can only observe us, not Europe or the rest of the planet....have kind of thrown up their hands and said, "WTF?"  I do see more people here in rural Maine at least conforming to the supermarket and WalMart stipulation that you need to wear a mask if you want to shop there.  A month or two ago, it was very common to see mask deniers in both stores....now, not so much. But, about a quarter of those who are clearly doing it just so they can shop for essentials...wear the mask under their nose and some even  under their chin. Obviously, this defeats the whole point of wearing it in the first place. C'mon people, this isn't really that difficult or such a terrible imposition on your personal freedom.  That is just a  bullshit idea that the GOPs have pushed so they can conform to what the Idiot wants.  He is still putting himself at crowded events, even a rally in Georgia yesterday, and few of the people who come to grovel at his feet are wearing masks.  How stupid is that?  I'll tell you: it's stupid enough to get you or your family members KILLED...as in fucking DEAD.

   But, hey, we wouldn't want you to compromise your right to infect others.  I confess that I have been guilty of wishing that all of these mask refusing, big crowd loving fools would get the virus and find out for themselves how much fun that is. That is not very kind of me, but, I have a very hard time with people who seem to want to embrace stupidity.  Some folks are born dumb.  It's what life has given them as a challenge, I am guessing.  But, others have a choice, and, yet, they still choose to do things and say things that are not only inane and stupid, but not even true.  Until you have had a first person experience of trying to have a respectful and intelligent....at least reasonably so....conversation with one of the Kool-Aids, it is impossible to understand how this voluntary stupidity is so debilitating.  It renders a person unable to think with any kind of clarity at all.  Once you leave the world of science and a fact-based real world that you live in....all bets are off.  As a biology professor I had in college said, "Now we're getting to some very mushy ground."  He was referring to students willingness to project and conjecture based on a casual perception, as opposed to keeping things grounded in demonstrable facts.

  When you are speaking with someone who is absolutely unwilling to accept the idea that there is a profound difference between a fact and a lie, it is impossible to arrive at any grounded conclusions....other than the fact that your speaking with someone who is clueless...about anything. 

  Now we have the state attorneys general of 17 states joining together to support and sign-on with the Texas AG--a corrupt piece of shit himself--in a suit that is demanding that SCOTUS simply over-turn the vote in four swing states where the Idiot lost.  There is an idiotic argument being put forward that,"...somethin' ain't right in those states....so dear Justices, please throw out millions of votes because we just would really like it if you did".   It is so idiotic that it buggers belief, and yet, there it is, being put out there as if it were a legitimate legal argument. It is not.  What it is, is an ill-conceived and ill-prepared, and stupid attempt to achieve the end of our democracy in one fell swoop.

Indeed, you will be wanting to look behind you, Donny.
The light you see at the end of the tunnel, is a bus-load of attorneys-general coming for you.

  I have a high level of confidence that the supreme justices will toss it aside as soon as they are ready to issue an opinion.  The Idiot's campaign...led by that legal genius Rudy the Clown Prince....has filed over FIFTY suits, and they are batting zero.  Well, okay, they had one minor decision go their way but it was inconsequential.  So,  ALMOST zero.

  The simple fact remains: a lot of very capable people worked their asses off to make this election transparent and fair...and, despite all the challenges, it was.  The only 'conspiracy' that has emerged is that of the Idiot's campaign's efforts to sabotage the entire process and to steamroll democracy into a flat, greasy spot on the pavement under their feet.  The Idiot himself began preparations to do this years ago.  He, as usual, telegraphed his moves by saying that any election that he lost had to be rigged....because, as we all know....Donald J. Trump is no loser.  

  Oh, yes, he is.  And, not only did he lose the election, he lost it by a definitive and substantial margin.  He's not just a loser, he's a seriously disabled head-case and is doing all he can to leave a legacy that will note that fact....as in FACT....for all time.  

  Time is running out.  The Idiot is not merely between a rock and a hard place...it's beginning to squeeze him and that is going to get a whole lot more painful as he realizes that he's lost the protections afforded him by the office of the president.  State AGs are already well into preparing investigations and charges against him as the evidence of his dirty past is dragged out into the light of day.  He's going to be examined and re-examined until it is apparent that he has always been a grifter, a con, a crook and a liar...about damn-near every-fucking-thing.   

  So, come out and play, Donny-boy.  We have been waiting for you.