Before I get started, I would like to wish a belated Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there who are actively engaged in their children's lives, who do not consider themselves "babysitters," and whose children are literally the air they breathe.
I spent my day with a dad like that - my husband. And while there was much to write about, I refused to give any part of the day to Trump and his railure (rally failure), as tempting as the schadenfreude was.
But today is a new day, and that schadenfreude still tastes pretty sweet. So pull up a chair and let's serve up a slice, shall we?
Hyped as it was for weeks leading up to it, it is no secret that Sharty McBabyhands was beyond excited to be released from COVID captivity and be publicly fellated by his adoring minions. That his underlings like Stankbeard Parscale and Kaleigh McInanity were gleefully updating ticket requests on Twitter (800,000! A MILLION!) must have had him busting at the already stretched seams of his designer Depends.
They were all so giddy with optimism, so happy that they were going to be able to serve up to their master the dish he likes best in the whole world: an Adoration Souffle. Filled with hot air, hubris, a generous helping of smarm, and covered in bigotry sprinkles, Trump was salivating as he boarded AF1 to head to Tulsa (Tulas for those of you following Large Grifter Son #2). But something was happening...
Despite interviews during the week leading up to his arrival - people openly bragging about camping on the concrete, how this was #35 for them in terms of rallies - I guess there is a Deadhead version of MAGAts?; how they could not wait to get in there and breathe the same air as the "God's Chosen One" - I am quoting; People posting pictures of themselves from planes flying to Oklahoma to be a part of it all and those ticket request numbers that kept mounting - the streets were not filled with hordes awaiting his Royal HighnASS's arrival.
And that huge area and stage built outside so VP Qtip and the Rancid Creamsicle could speak to the overflow rubes? EMPTY. So empty, in fact, that they began quickly tearing it down before he even arrived. As the diehards were finally allowed into the arena which holds 19,200 people, the real tale was beginning to be told.
Jim Jordan scans the site of Trump’s Tulsa Rally for signs of Ron Perlman. @perlmutations pic.twitter.com/R7GFvdpjJb
— MaTT FLaMMaBLe (@MaTTFLaMMaBLe) June 21, 2020
A clip showed a concerned looking Jim Jordan taking it all in. Or looking for the locker room. Either is possible. Picture after picture, video after video showed row after row of empty blue seats (love that Dem blue imagery) and large swaths of empty floor space. (Official headcount, just shy of 6,200) Bear in mind, this same space was sold out by The Wiggles in 2019. The fucking WIGGLES. (Hell, even Nickelback sold this place out.)
Doors open, streets empty, the campaign, in full panic mode, began sending out texts beseeching people to come.
Narrator: They never came.
We now know that Trump was watching from behind a curtain and was aghast at how empty the BoK was. For a narcissist, whose very lifeblood is attention, this cut deep. But the show must go on, and so out he strode to give a rambling account of Watergait. You know, the now infamous West Point water he could not lift and ramp he could not navigate? Yes, that was what was important to cover as he kicked off his re-election campaign. Not the 122,373 lives now lost to COVID. Not the 45+ million people on unemployment. But his ego saving version of events we all saw with our own eyes.
He ranted about the "Kung Flu" - seriously, you people shit yourselves blind over Obama and a jar of mustard, and this racist motherfucker is just out there in the open like this mocking those who have been lost to COVID and you are fine? - he then bragged about asking for coronavirus testing to be slowed down because the numbers made him look bad.
This. An open admission to willfully endangering every citizen in this country - all 330,000,000 of us - despite the enormous sea of empty blue chairs, I saw red. For months now people have had to fight to even find someone willing / able to test them. Seriously ill citizens have been denied testing because they were not sick enough. People have died at home - untested - so unlisted in the official count.
This racist, ignorant, reality TV D-lister stood there and bragged about murder. That is not hyperbole. He is responsible for the slow response of our government in which he wished this all away at the beginning of the year. People died. He is responsible for the lack of funding, the lack of PPE for frontline healthcare workers, the lack of available testing. More people died.
Donald Trump is not just an inept, self absorbed, whiny, ungainly looking, slop trough of a human. He is a murderer.
How any GOPer continues to remain silent at this point? The stain is on all of them. Blood red. Their silence is complicity. Their silence enabled him to get to this point. Their silence, their fear of a mean Tweet, their tunnel vision about being re-elected to the easy life makes them accomplices. In this mass murder of now 122,507 people, the GOP has driven the getaway car.
The rest of his self congratulatory, hot mess of a rally does not matter. It was just more of him doing amazing things like drinking a glass of water with one hand. <insert MAGAt mania!!!>
We are in the midst of a Wave 1 resurgence - yes, WAVE ONE - we never got through it to begin with. Over half of our states are now reporting record numbers of positive cases. I live in Arizona - our cases have nearly doubled in the past 14 days. Florida shot up over 100,000 cases last night. Cases among 18-30 year olds are spiking. Texas is running out of ICU beds in major cities. Orange Julius Caesar's own advance team had EIGHT people come up positive on Saturday ahead of his arrival. Yet today he had the testing/temp taking tent outside the White House (used for press) dismantled. He is holding up 15 BILLION dollars that Congress approved months ago for testing and tracing.
We are not through this virus. We have no true defense against it, no vaccine, and still not near enough testing or contact tracing. And now we know right from his earthworm, gummy lips that he is at the heart of it all. In fact he double downed today and said in terms of testing that "We've done too good of a job."
122,557 people would like a word about how good you have done, but they are DEAD.
How far gone into the Flavor Aid are you that you see this, hear this, yet still stand by and cheer it on? Your ignorance is not come cloaking device. Your belligerence is not immunity. We are at a point where 370 out of every million have died. That number rises daily. That you think you cannot get it, that it is a hoax? Good luck when you need a hospital bed in Trumpfuckistan, USA. There are not going to be any.
That is what masks have been about. That is what shutting things down was about. It was/is about slowing down the spread to give hospitals a chance to deal with those REALLY sick before they are inundated with REALLY SICK. We were making that progress. But you brain dead doorknob lickers had to throw your tantrums to get access to Chilis and get your mullet trimmed up. You refuse to wear a mask, even though you are required to wear seatbelts in cars, shoes and pants in stores and somehow manage that "Constitution violating" feat. You're all a bunch of lost causes. And I won't sit here and lie and say I care one whit about what happens to you. (Look at this picture of you - bored out of your fucking minds, yet still determined to stay suckling at his oozy power teats.)
Whatever it is - mild symptoms, lungs drowning in your own juices, a loved one you watch die via Facetime - you will have brought it on yourselves. You can die to "own the libs" - I do not fucking care, nor do I feel "owned" when I see you out without a mask on your face. What I feel is revulsion. Not pity, not concern, just sickened that decent society is forced to share space with wastes like you and your human troll doll.
Moreover, innocent people do not deserve to be stricken and die because you are too fucking self centered to care about anyone beyond the tip of your own syphilitic nose.
Watching the footage of your sad clown getting off the helicopter Saturday night - make up melting down his deteriorating face, staining his shirt collar with Ipanema Shade 45 or whatever the fuck he slathers on, shirt unbuttoned, tie undone and dangling, it was not lost on me (again) that you hypocrites shrieked like banshees about President Obama in a tan suit. But Trump looking like a bar end drunk stumbling home after closing time? Soooooooooooo Presidential.
Since the BackFyre Festival of Saturday night, his team has tried to spin in every direction to avoid the truth. Parscale ignores the fact that he got punked by Kpop and was too stupid to see how many Mike Hunts, Harry Balls, and Ima Dickholes were signing up online with emails addresses like fuck.trump@gmail.com. Good luck with that huge data haul you bragged about last week, Brad. Mercedes Schlapp tried to blame protesters - that they blocked the entrances so people could not get in. Sorry, you unfortunately named harpy, but Chris Wallace schlapped the taste out your mouth when he corrected you on FOX. No one was denied entrance. And the only protester arrested was a woman wearing an I Can't Breathe t-shirt who was PRAYING quietly in line.
Your emperor is buck ass naked. But you always knew that. The problem for you is that HE now knows it. Enjoy his vengeance. And his spread of this virus. His next event is here in Phoenix at a church claiming to have new equipment that eradicates 99.9% of COVID within ten minutes. Seriously, watch these two used Jesus salemen, who cannot even pronounce ionization much less understand that all their fancy equipment means fuck-all in the face of a single sneeze or cough among friends. Unless every person has this newfangled bullshit strapped to their heads, ACHOO, BOOM, transmission. Buy hey, Bless!
Megachurch hosting Trump's rally on Tuesday here in Phoenix falsely claims they've installed a system which kills 99.9% of COVID-19. Add to that Arizona's surging Coronavirus numbers and Mayor @KateWGallego's refusal to enforce the mask mandate and we have a problem @azcentral pic.twitter.com/hpmZuyAb8q
— Foreknown (@Foreknown) June 22, 2020
The problem for the rest of us is that Trump openly admitted to endangering every citizen, and is now proudly and actively watching COVID rapidly spread across the country. And we are smart enough to understand what that all means.
It means the economy cannot recover. It means cities will be making the decisions to shut down again to try to restrict the spread. It means more and more people will begin coughing, having difficulty breathing. It means more people will be positive, have no symptoms yet be shedding it all over people who will develop symptoms. It means thousands more people will be dead by July 4th.
Including some who attended the biggest loser's murder confession Saturday night.
Hope it was worth it. But we're not completely hard hearted. While we're busy being owned by your death, we will make sure to carve out some time to make sure you are buried in your favorite Lock Her Up t-shirt and COVID diaper. Idiots.
Thanks for catching that, Ron. Typing way too fast!
Posted by: LINDA S to Ron | Monday, June 22, 2020 at 07:30 PM
I think you meant chris Wallace 😋
Posted by: Ron | Monday, June 22, 2020 at 04:01 PM