Stars are out tonight. Watching over us from their distant shapes. I'd spend more time looking at them but I don't fancy a crick in my neck. Would be cool to get a telescope though, this is the start of the season for starry nights after all.
So Donald Trump has been freed from the state funded healthcare establishment that was treating him in the wake of catching the virus. Shots of him posing, after peeling off his mask like a Scooby Doo Villain ("I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you pesky covid"), reveal a shaky demeanour and what appears to be laboured breathing.
I don't think it's necessary cruel to wish for the worst. He's the author of his own misfortune. His ignorance has charted a course since day 1 that has led to this point where, mere weeks before possible reelection and redemption, he could die of the thing he's been downplaying for months. In fact the site of him in a mask is oddly disturbing. Something must be wrong if the arch denier, the peddler of the racist 'china virus' meme, is wearing one.
We now know that it was. He caught it from a staffer, ironically named Hope, and has, incredibly, spread it to a huge number of people including reporters as well as Republican associates and assorted scumbags. The absolute state of it; the leader of the free world demonstrably laid low by dint of his own ignorance.
Unfortunately it will spin otherwise to his base. Already he's tweeting some messianic crap that his insane fans, the American Taliban, will respond to. He'll be the hero they've been dreaming of; the man who beat the Covid! All they need now is to market his blood. I wouldn't put that past him, he's stamped his name on all kinds of horseshit already. Including a boardgame (which is probably just a reskin of Monopoly, just different enough to evade copyright).
This ain't no game though. He's already accusing Biden of not having Covid and therefore being unfit to govern. Apparently not catching a virus through ignorance is a sign of weakness. While nearly dying (and possibly still dying) of a virus you've helped 200,000 of your countrymen to die is a sign of leadership and strength. If that isn't a metaphor for the now, I don't know what is.
Yes it's not nice to wish death upon anyone. I don't feel great about it. But he has to be stopped and if him catching a disease as a result of months of utter ignorance, conspiracy, denial, and racism, is what it takes....
We can't have another four years of someone that, right now, is overseeing forced hysterectomies on immigrants. That's Dr Mengele levels of disturbing! Give the world a break!
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