Too Crazy

I am going stir crazy. I need a laugh! So I sat in front of my computer thinking I could write a parody or a satire to make me laugh at my present situation, or perhaps I should say our situation. For some reason my mind turned to the great humorist, Art Buchwald. During the Watergate scandal Mr. Buchwald's column was a much welcomed laugh in a very angry world. It was a world in which everything seemed to be so exaggerated that people wanting to write parodies or satires were hard pressed to come up with anything more ridiculous than the truth. Indeed, Mr. Buchwald said that writing his column was far too easy during those years. He assured us that he was not making it up, that he was merely telling the truth and people found it funny. Thank you, Martha Michell!

Today we do not have a Martha Mitchell ringing the bell or blowing the whistle, but we do not need her. We already have the idiot in chief and the chumps who are stupid enough to believe him and support him. In which orifice does Trump propose injecting sunlight to kill Covid-19? Whichever one he chooses you can safely bet it is not where you want a sun burn and/or skin cancer. While propounding his specious Covid-19 cures Trump frequently points out that he is not a doctor. Neither was my father. My father was a plumber, but he was still far too knowledgeable to suggest that anyone should drink Drano to cure constipation, and he knew where the “sun don't [and shouldn't] shine.” Now Trump claims he was just being sarcastic when he suggested ingesting disinfectants or injecting disinfectants and/or sunlight into the body. The funny part is that the Trump chumps (particularly Fox viewers) will actually believe him unless they are among to few who wound up in the hospital because they followed his advice about taking hydroxychloroquine.

Speaking of Trump chumps, let me just say that while I am sympathetic to people who are losing their incomes during this crises, a very large number of the people demonstrating against stay at home orders are making more of a political statement than an economic statement, and they are more than willing to trade lives to gain a political advantage. One of the reasons they are willing to do this is because they are not smart enough to think about whose lives they might be sacrificing. This issue takes on a whole different meaning when the life sacrificed is yours or that of a beloved family member. But, in the name of God, the Trump chumps banish all thoughts about such consequences. In the alternative world of the right wing there is only the earthly present and an eternity ruled by faith rather facts.

There is no need to award a Darwin to the people who gather in close proximity to other chumps demonstrating against social distancing. The award far too many of those people are likely to receive is the Covid-19 virus. While I do not wish that on them, I have an even stronger objection to them passing that virus on to others who did nothing to earn it!

Oh, and one quick note to Moscow Mitch. Be careful what you wish for, dumb ass! If New York and California go bankrupt who is going subsidize Kentucky?