Above: “Bring out your dead” plague scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). Covid-19, the novel coronavirus is a new virus. There is no human immunity to it. There is no demonstrably successful treatment for it. There are no antibiotics or a vaccine for it. Some people will suffer only “mild” symptoms (a … Read more
I’ll begin where I ended this morning: “”Moscow Mitch” McConnell’s singular focus on partisan Republican politics is the last thing this country, or the world, needs right now. We need to get this right.” Yet this is exactly what is happening. Republicans are not serious about an economic stimulus package. The sham stimulus package they … Read more
“Moscow Mitch” McConnell’s Senate Republican stimulus bill, which no senator had time to read or absorb, or to debate failed on a 47-47 vote on Sunday, far short of the 60 votes needed for cloture. No Democrat voted for his bill, and five Republican senators are now in self-quarantine because of exposure to the coronavirus. … Read more
The coronavirus pandemic has rendered Donald Trump’s Nuremberg-style MAGA campaign rallies impossible, but no worries, he has found a new outlet, hijacking the coronavirus task force daily press briefings. And the news media is being used to “catapult the propaganda,” as George W. Bush infamously once said. Trump can’t hold his massive rallies because of coronavirus, … Read more
Donald Trump’s presidency is going to end the way it began. Trump used his inaugural address to do what no other American president has ever done before: he described America as a dystopian post-apocalyptic hellscape right out of Escape from New York. Trump takes office, vows an end to ‘American carnage’: “This American carnage stops right … Read more