Permanent musical accompaniment: Don’t Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult 1976). The Trump Death Cult announced its “Don’t Fear The Reaper” COVID Concert Tour 2020 last week. “It’s to die for!” The Trump campaign is coming to states with a big surge in coronavirus outbreaks, beginning in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Health Department director ‘wishes’ Trump … Read more
The U.S. economic response to the coronavirus pandemic has been entirely ass-backwards and is doomed to cause greater economic pain in coming months. It relied on antiquated state unemployment insurance systems that Republican states have specifically designed to be hard to use to dissuade the unemployed from filing for benefits to which they are entitled, … Read more
Last Friday, Donald Trump returned to his magical thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic from February when he said that the virus would just go away: Feb. 10: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as … Read more
Frank Rich has a summary of the week’s news at New York Magazine. He succinctly ties together a number of related topics that I simply do not have the time to cover in full. I was particularly impressed with this analysis. MAGA vs. COVID: In the face of a climbing death toll and against warnings from some of … Read more
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign launch this week was a textbook example of manufacturing an alternate reality, with an assist from his partner in propaganda, Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing rag the New York Post. Trump says coronavirus comeback underway: People are ‘starting to feel good’: President Trump invited The Post into the Oval Office on Monday for … Read more