Doug's Darkworld

Couldn’t make this up if I tried. Here’s the story: Trump kills stimulus talks, tweets no deal until ‘after I win’ election, In the minutes after his tweet, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 400 points. He blames the Democrats of course, and is prioritizing getting his SCOTUS pick rammed into place, essentially guaranteeing that Obamacare will be killed and tens of millions of Americans will lose their health coverage. Let’s see, Trump has made America a Covid-19 sanctuary country, is withholding any economic stimulus until after he is reelected, and plans to strip about 20 million Americans of their health care. He’s also planning on overturning Roe vs Wade, nullifying half a million marriages, and legalizing discrimination against LGTB people. What a platform! How can he possibly lose the election?

The outbreak continues to spread through the upper echelons of America’s government. Trump continues to insist everything is fine, it’s just a flu, even though he looks terrible from reports I’ve seen. And he’s by no means out of the woods yet, as the Herman Cain timeline above shows. It’s unreal really, basically Trump and company are insisting the rest of the world’s governments, and the world’s medical community are wrong about Covid-19, it’s no big deal. Just another flu, we live with the flu, right? The fact that it’s already killed about ten times as many people as the flu kills annually would seem to make that point ridiculous. It’s a claim so absurd that Twitter and Facebook removed Trump’s post. 

Honestly Trump’s behaviour appears to be getting more erratic. Facts and opinions aren’t the same thing, but apparently Trump and his supporters don’t agree. I knew the country was headed in a strange direction when Truthers, Birthers, and Anti-Vaxxers moved into mainstream belief, just never thought it would get to this point. Here’s a lovely little tweet I came across addressing Trump’s cavalier attitude towards Covid-19:

In a similar vein Facebook has started removing QAnon posts: Facebook bans QAnon conspiracy theory accounts across all platforms. Too little too late I am sure. I’m assuming that others have made the connection between QAnon believers and Evangelicals waiting for the rapture/second coming? QAnon believers think something called “The Storm” is coming where Trump will move in and arrest the Satanist Clinton led pedophilia global elite cabal that is ruling the world. 

Twenty years ago if someone had told me I’d be writing today about a mainstream theory that a Satanist pedophile ring was ruling the world and the POTUS was secretly at war with it, I’d have laughed. Not laughing now. Weirder by the hour: 

Pretty much. Trump is bragging about catching Covid-19. He’s also bragging about surviving it, though it’s by no means certain he will survive it. I hope he recovers, it’s vulgar to wish someone’s death. And at this juncture, no matter what happens, pretty safe to say the next few months will be a wild ride. Tomorrow is the Pence/Harris vice presidential debate. I’ll watch and blog about it. I’d say it was going to be boring, but it’s 2020. Like the couple that rented the tower room on a stormy night in an old English castle. Seemed kinda creepy, they asked the clerk if anything unusual had ever happened to guests in the room. “Why yes,” he said. “Something very odd happened 40 years ago to a couple that stayed in the room.” “And what, pray tell, was that?” the couple asked. “Oh, a couple spent the night … and the next morning they came down for breakfast!”

I know so many jokes and anecdotes it’s scary. One for every topic. I could write a post of just my favorite jokes. Multiple posts really. Humor is important. One of the things that always creeped me out about Trump, he doesn’t appear to have a sense of humor. Well, beyond thinking that mocking people is funny. I stopped finding that funny in High School.

Final analysis, I think Trump knows on some level that in any fair election, he’s toast. And he’s going to get more and more out there as election day approaches. I’ll keep blogging daily, it’s a promise I made to myself. I always wondered what it was like to live through historic times. I was too young to appreciate the sixties. Hoped to see the next great “sixties” in US history. Well, here it is, and 2020 is about as predictable as the sixties was.

Stay safe everyone. Hold your nose and vote blue. Or convince me otherwise. Likes, comments, shares, suggestions appreciated. Not that I ever run out of things to blog about. #StaytheFHome #WearaDamnMask #FelesRegula

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(All Facebook found images, attribution in image. Used without permission, but I believe legally under US Copyright law, claimed as Fair Use. The Herman Cain timeline is accurate, attribution: Tim O’Brien.)