12/21/21: Interesting new evidence surfaced in the Ghislaine Maxwell, sex-trafficking trial today. Flight logs showed that then-Citizen Donald J. Trump flew four times on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane in 1993, hitched a ride in 1994, and again in 1995.
Throw in a trip in 1997, which was already known, and you wonder what Don was doing aboard an aircraft dubbed the “Lolita Express.”
Know who never flew on Epstein’s plane? Joe Biden.
Or Barack Obama.
12/22/21: With only two more shopping days until Christmas, the plot to kill Trump fans is working to perfection. I admit. I am an unwitting part of the plot – much as I may seem to be only a mild-mannered former Marine – one who spent his military career, 1968-70, plunked at a desk in Camp Pendleton. I used to tell my students that I defended my country with a staple gun.
Still, I am doing my bit to kill Trump fans.
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Guess who's vaccinated! |
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“We want
smallpox! We want smallpox!”
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Sunday, we had fresh evidence that the scheme is working to perfection. When the Donald Trump-Bill O’Reilly-Sex-Abusers Tour plunked down in Houston for a show, even the ex-president ran into trouble. When Donald told a normally adoring (but sparse) crowd that he had received the booster shot to protect his lard ass from the coronavirus, his fans started to jeer.
O’Reilly confirmed that he, too, had had the booster and he was neither magnetized nor glowing in the dark like a night-light, as right-wing opinion-makers have warned would happen.
I really thought the crowd might erupt in shouts of, “Lock
him up! Lock him up!” But they were stunned to inaction.
Trump quickly shushed his followers and did his best, hogging all the credit for getting the vaccines made – even though most of his followers believe the vaccines are going to cause them to become impotent, or start acting like chimpanzees, as their DNA is manipulated. He told the audience he still opposed vaccine mandates, but warned that when they doubted the vaccine’s benefits his enemies loved it. That meant Trump supporters were “playing right into their hands.”
Yeah. Our hands.
That same day, we had a second jolt of proof that the plot was playing out to perfection. Famous quitter Sarah Palin assured yet another conservative audience, “It will be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot.”
Not all the forces of the federal government could make her bend a knee to the tyranny of good health, she assured listeners. “I will not. I won’t do it and they better not touch my kids either.”
(Sound of
unvaccinated Trump fans loading their automatic rifles.)
You had to love that last touch if you were in on the plot. Speaking of protecting her “kids.” Why it tugged at even my satanic liberal heart strings. (See: QAnon.) Her kids are all adults, however, and can get or not get the shots as they so desire.
Anyway, the crowd cheered and started chanting, “We want smallpox! We want smallpox! Also measles!!”
At almost that same moment, here in Ohio, we had ample evidence to show that the conspiracy to kill off Trump supporters was proceeding. The state set a record for daily COVID-19 cases, with 12,502 on Tuesday. A few more days like this and we’ll set the state record for most coronavirus patients hospitalized – almost all of them unvaccinated. According to the Ohio Hospital Association, 4,797 patients with the virus currently reside in hospital beds.
The OHA also reports that since the start of this year 13,327 unvaccinated Ohioans have died from COVID-19.
That compares with 646 fully-vaccinated individuals.
Or, to put it another way, the unvaccinated Trump supporters, who jeer the shots, have 20 times the risk of dying from the virus.
We’re going to turn Ohio back to blue in 2022.
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AND SO it comes to this. For two years, I have been saying, hey, wear a mask, because it will help reduce the spread of not only the coronavirus, but cold germs and flu germs, and flying snot if you sneeze.
It’s also good to mask up out of politeness to store clerks, waiters, and others, who otherwise have to consider every customer they meet a potential germ time bomb about to blow up.
My cousin’s wife keeps telling me that Joe Biden wants to kill her by making her get a vaccination. According to Trump, I trick her by posting a long, long list of medical organizations that recommend wearing masks and getting shots – including pediatricians’ groups, who fear a fresh variant might start killing children.
Well, then, the plot, I guess, is working.
I post about the number of deaths (as above), vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated. A conservative Facebook friend says he won’t get the shots because the shots will make his balls swell to the size of cantaloups. I quote a string of real doctors who say almost every patient they see in hospitals with COVID happens to be un-vaccinated. Another Facebook “friend” questions my character.
He says Biden is a tyrant and I hate freedom.
So, I guess you can say my Trump-loving friends and relatives
continue to play into our liberal hands, just as Rejected-President Donald
warned. We tell them they are mistaken for refusing shots. They say the virus
is no worse than the flu. They say Joe Rogan and Aaron Rogers told them horse
pills will protect them – and they aren’t going to listen to a bunch of disease
experts. They say they won’t get that sick if infected, because they’re young,
and if they do get infected, they have a right to cough in every compass
direction, because that’s what the Second Amendment says.
According to their beloved Trump, we have duped them into a stupor!!! We don’t want them to get vaccinated! When I quote Dr. Fauci, they quote back to me Alex Jones, who says those of us who have had shots will be dead within a year (meaning I’ve only got two more months to live – so I hope it’s a good Christmas). I throw up my hands every time the argument explodes on Facebook. I watch the “scheme” unfolding. Trump fans, at least the older ones, are going to keep dying in larger numbers and our side will win the popular vote by a mile in 2024, and Joe Biden will serve a second term.
Maybe in a wheelchair.
(Oh, wait, our side already did win the popular vote in 1992,
1996, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.)
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ALL KIDDING ASIDE, let’s end by firing a deadly salvo in the “War on Christmas.” Since I don’t know who might read this post (if anyone) let me offer up this wish for all of you out there in America.
a.
“Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,” if you’re a
Christian, dodging fire in the imaginary war no one really declared.
b.
“Happy Kwanza,” if you prefer.
c.
“Enjoy the Winter Solstice,” if you’re a Druid.
d.
“Keep truckin’” if you’re an aging hippie.
e.
“Happy Hannukah!” if you’re a Jew.
f.
“Whodey,” if you cheer for the Cincinnati
Bengals.
g.
“Stay Safe and Healthy, Get Your Shots, and Eat
More Vegetables,” if you’re agnostic, etc.
May all of you have a Happy New Year, both my liberal friends and relatives, and all you Trump-lovers, vaxxed or otherwise.
I (and all my closest loved ones) should be good to go.
I got the COVID and – after catching the virus and enduring seventeen days of fevered misery – lived to tell. It was close, of course, and my nurse-practitioner daughter, who advocates masks and shots (because she was trained at Yale), said one day that if my blood oxygen level didn’t improve, she was going to insist I go to the hospital.
Later, I got the vaccines. Two shots. Had to drive up to Dayton. Felt crappy afterwards, both times.
Recently, I got the booster.
JOKING ASIDE, WE ON THIS SIDE DON’T WANT ANYONE ON YOUR SIDE TO GET SICK – AND CERTAINLY NOT GET SICK AND DIE. OR GET SICK AND HARDLY NOTICE AND GO TO YOUR FAMILY GATHERING AND INFECT AUNT AGNES.
HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY AND I HOPE YOU ALL STAY SAFE IN 2022.
I ALSO HOPE THE VIRUS DOESN’T KEEP SPREADING BECAUSE I HAVE
SEASON TICKETS TO BENGALS GAMES AND WANT TO KEEP GOING. AND FOR ONCE, THEY’RE
ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD.
12/23/21: Yay!!! Congress passes bipartisan legislation – although, to be honest, it’s kind of a “gimee.”
The federal government will set aside $100 million annually for research into neurodegenerative diseases like ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. “When we act together, we get things done. And this is totally — totally, totally a bipartisan effort,” President Biden said.
Republican Congressman Paul Gosar, who voted against the bill, warned that Biden would use the funding to create gay and transgender robot soldiers.
(Okay, that’s a
joke; but in today’s GOP, it wouldn’t be a stretch.)
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T. J. SMTH, police chief of Oakboro Town, N.C., has been placed on unpaid leave, after telling his officers about a “clinic” that would give them vaccination cards to show they had shots…without actually giving them shots.
Dr.
Mandy Cohen, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, said
earlier this week that North Carolina could see as many as 10,000
Covid-19 cases a day at the peak in January.
12/24/21: Six Cleveland hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, MetroHealth, Summa Health, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, sponsored this full-page newspaper advertisement today. It read:
Help.
That word alone stood out on the page, followed by these sentences at the bottom: “We need your help. We now have more COVID-19 patients in our hospitals than ever before. And the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated.
The six hospitals offer
this advice and make it clear how all of us can
help. “This is preventable,” they say. “The best way to avoid serious illness
is the vaccine. So, get vaccinated and get your booster.”
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PRESIDENT BIDEN and the First Lady spent part of Christmas Eve visiting patients at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Trump spent the entire evening at Mar-a-Lago, telling fat-cat pals that he was cheated out of 500 million votes in the last election, and that he was still president.
No
one had the heart to point out that the U.S. population was only 331 million. (See:
12/28/21.)
12/25/21: Is the bloody “War on Christmas” over? Apparently. I went Christmas shopping last week and toys were still on sale. My neighbors have their lights up, and friends on Facebook wished everyone “Merry Christmas.”
I think the bogus war is over.
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Thirteen of our first sixteen presidents owned
slaves.
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THE NEW FAKE WAR is declared. Republicans don’t want children in the public schools to be taught about “critical race theory.”
Which they never have been.
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Don't blame my husband, John, of my son, John Quincy. The Adams family never had slaves. |
Do we want our students to
know about the first boat load of slaves brought to these shores in 1619? Do
teachers dare mention the Three-Fifth’s Compromise, or that 13 of the first 16
U.S. presidents owned slaves? Do we want students to know that the Cherokee
people went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep their land – and won
their case – and still got kicked off and sent west anyway? Do we mention that
in 1860, the enslaved population in this country reached four million? Do we
want our young to hear about the massacre at Sand Creek in 1864? The attack on
Chinese immigrants in Rock Springs in 1885? The rounding up of
Japanese-Americans, who were sent to camps in 1942? A century of Jim Crow laws?
Racial differences in rates of incarceration?
As one African American on Twitter put it, “If black children are old enough to experience racism, white children are old enough to learn about it.”
12/26/21:Remember when bad poll numbers for President Trump meant President Trump would howl about “phony polls,” and “rigged polls,” and “Fake News” people who hated him for reporting on those polls?
And remember how he went four
years and never once cracked the 50% approval mark in an average of all polls –
but still couldn’t believe he was defeated when he ran for a second term?
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Blurry - but you get the idea. |
Joe Biden’s polling numbers are bad right now. You’d have to be an idiot to deny that. Only 42.9% of Americans approve of the job he’s doing, vs. 53.4% who don’t. Not once have we heard him whine about “rigged polls,” because he’s not a tangerine-tinted man-baby.
Meanwhile, the crazies are busy on various fronts. Fox News and multiple right-wing media outlets made a big deal of a story that Vice President Kamala Harris “spent over $500 at a Parisian shop amid US economic uncertainty.”
Also, Joe Biden spent Thanksgiving at a billionaire’s $30 million Nantucket home during a time of “inflation woes.” This, the hosts at Fox wanted you to think, was an outrage.
As opposed to then-President
Trump spending more than 400 days during his presidency at the homes of
billionaires – namely his own.
In fact, Trump spent the same holiday this year hanging with billionaire pals at…Mar-a-Lago. According to People magazine,
“He is
frustrated and still angry about Biden beating him. He can’t move on,” a political source
tells PEOPLE.
Similarly,
Trump spent last Thanksgiving also focused on the election loss, tweeting that
it was a “100% RIGGED ELECTION,” despite offering no proof to back up his
allegation.
He might be even sadder if he saw a November poll taken by Marquette University. While 60% of Republicans would like him to run again in 2024, 40% would not. The numbers among independents and Democrats were far more depressing, 73% of the former and 94% of the latter wish Donald would go away.
His approval rating among all
Americans stood at 32%, while 65% disapproved. Somehow 3% had no opinion.
12/31/21: Happy New Year to all, and get vaccinated. Let’s get this virus behind us in 2022.
Remember, Donald J. Trump said the vaccines he invented were great.
President Biden did this evening what any normal president would do. On Twitter he posted, simply: “In 2022, we’re going to keep building a better America. Happy New Year!”
That and a picture:
Unlike his predecessor, he didn’t insult anyone and call them “haters” and “losers”
