Day 52 – Inflection Points

Friday March 2, 2021

Let me settle into my Alistair Cooke wing chair and look down into the camera.

“We are now at the point in our story …

“Ah yes. We are now at the point in our story where the Republicans are crawling out from under their rocks to claim credit for that which they actively aided and abetted in trying to stop. Now they wish to take credit for it.

“Meanwhile, they are doing their best to make sure that things like free and fair elections never happen again.

“Not only do they seek to keep the poor poor but to keep us sick and dying by actively encouraging the virus to spread via opening up too early their states and suing those who oppose such measures … “

The fact that they want to take credit for all the stuff in the relief bill that they actively opposed such surprise no one. They did the same thing when Obama was president.

Satan issued a statement saying he hoped people remembered him in regards to Covid and the vaccine. I remember. I remember you didn’t order enough vaccine, even when it was offered to you. I remember you refused to use the War Powers Act other than to force meat workers back to work under unsafe conditions. I remember that there was no vaccine held in reserve as you claimed. I remember that there was no roll out plan for the vaccine. Yes. I remember. Imagine where we’d be if you were still president? 

Not only are the “taker” states* opening up too early they are actively working to make sure the vaccine is being spread.

*”Taker States” – those states that always take more money from the Federal government than they put in, ie Wyoming, Mississippi…

Texas was the first to announce no more masks. Now the Attorney General is suing the Mayor of Austin because he wants to keep the mask mandate in place.

Florida is having Daytona Bike Week. Yeah baby. Wear a mask if you want but you don’t have to, up to you. Freedom!

Dr. Fauci said last night that soon we would be in a position to have small family gatherings. Several tens of thousands is not what he had in mind.

So let me ask these Republicans, “With over 90% of the country not vaccinated is it time to take off the mask?”

Is this their fabled idea of “herd immunity.”

Herd idiocy is more like it.

There’s an old joke about a person being hired to become a bank teller. They asked the person to count a stack of dollar bills and see if there were 100 bills in the stack. The person stopped half way through. When asked why they replied, “Well the first fifty were there so I figured the last fifty were too.”

Except for Republicans we need to update the joke. They only need to count to ten. Which is a good thing because after that you run out of fingers! (Ha ha. Get it? What? You thought I’d go West Virginia on ya? Nah, not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent.)

OMG. Save me. 

Meanwhile, the stock market was listless a for a few days and then yesterday it exploded, right after Biden signed the relief bill. I don’t remember that happening after Reagan signed his tax giveaway or when Trump signed his. Remember those cots were only supposed to be temporary. What happened?

And quote of the day goes to Jen Psaki, “I’ll nerd out with you any day.”

Gauntlet thrown down (nicely).

PS Way Out Man!