Friday, April 17, 2020

Michigan MAGA Moron Motorcade

It's an appalling development, coming at a time when this country could turn the tide in its fight against COVID-19 through social isolation, but the MAGA people are growing restless... an astroturfed group of idiots decided to descend on the capital of Michigan to snarl up traffic. Charmingly, a cadre of armed demonstrators posed with their shooting irons on the state capital building steps in order to intimidate the government. Good luck using hot lead against a novel coronavirus, guys.

Titillated and energized by this spectacle of self-harming sycophants, Trump was feeling frisky today on the Twitter, fomenting insurrection against Democratic governors, singling out Michigan, among others:



This uprising is coming at perhaps the worst possible time- when social isolation should be 'flattening the curve', people are gathering in states which are on the cusp of a disaster which is about to spiral out of control. Being a cynic, in a conversation with a coworker, I predicted that a half-million people in the US will die from this thing (being a bigger cynic, he's convinced that it will be a million). I would really, really hate to be right about this, but protests in Ohio and a scheduled protest in Austin don't exactly comfort me.

On a personal note, this chaps my ass because I have friends who are fighting (sucessfully) COVID-19, and a coworker of mine has a day job at a senior care facility which lost seven residents over the past two weeks. This pandemic is a horrorshow beyond the comprehension of most Americans, and these people are just dragging it out, and ensuring that more people will suffer.
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3 comments:

  1. Robert McneillyApril 18, 2020 at 10:08 AM

    I live in Michigan and am familiar with Lansing. The worst they did trying to snarl traffic, which is bad enough, is keep an ambulance from getting into a hospital for 10 minutes(according to daughter).
    Of course assembling like they did was not good and they should have been disbursed by our national guard. Funneled into check point lines and issued citations. The streets around the Capitol are 1 way so not too hard. But we have a Democrat for governor (yeah) so they got off easy.
    Hosta season is now. Shoots and leaves(especially unrolled leaves)delicious.

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  2. Big Bad Bald BastardApril 18, 2020 at 7:55 PM

    Thanks for the tip about the hosta. It'll make a nice break from nettles and garlic mustard.

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  3. sosApril 22, 2020 at 6:46 PM

    Don't forget the Day Lilies! Tubers this time of year are great. I wanted to try them together with hosta shoots but the damn rabbits beat me to them (thanks dog).
    -sos

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