Cuts. We all know what it means. We have all had it done to us. Chances are we have all done it to someone else.
Cheating the process by slithering into line ahead of people, facilitated by knowing someone further up the queue is something we learn how to do as a child. And while we become more proficient and less dicky about it as adults, it's hardly ever received well by those for whom the line just grew larger by the insertion of your ass.
Amusement parks rides, cafeteria lines, movie ticket queues - in most cases there's no true harm, regardless of how foul is the practice. So we have to wait a few more minutes for our rectangle of pizza or for the next Pirates of the Caribbean boat. We get on with it.
Sadly, the cutting we are seeing take place now at the highest levels of governance is not just irritating, it's infuriating.
For months and months and months we have watched as spineless GOPers blow off the pandemic. From undercutting the importance of mask wearing to playing fast and loose with the reporting of numbers in their states to full on fellating the Tangerine Taint so they may avoid a scary tweet - the GOP have been the purveyors of bad information, lies, violent rhetoric resulting in actual plots. They have paraded around unmasked, demanding restaurants be open, downplaying the severity of the virus. They have championed hydroxychloroquine, called COVID a hoax, laughed at the CDC, derided Dr. Fauci, and accused doctors of faking COVID diagnosis for more money.
This is the latest example of GOPers' blinding stupidity, their "FUCK YOU" attitude towards others, and their complete dissociation from anything resembling reality.
the Whitestone Republican Club in NYC apparently held a Christmas party this year without a care in the world about COVID pic.twitter.com/mHzW86d9M7
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) December 21, 2020
The behavior of those in Congress, the Senate, and the White House has all been disgusting and dangerous. They know they are playing to a seriously dim crowd, a gaggle of armed twats who barely made it past basic high school science, a clot of ignorance just waiting for the chance to break free within the body politic.
One week ago we watched as the first nurse received the first dose of Pfizer vaccine. It was a great moment. Millions of doses stood at the ready in warehouses, just waiting to be deployed across the land to begin making a real difference. Then we found out that Pfizer had not been told by our government what to do with them or where to send them. Florida Man Ron DeSantis, also known as Trump's third ball, boldly stated that Pfizer was suffering a "production issue" and that the Sunshine state's order was “on hold right now.” Pfizer immediately clapped back that, “This week, we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them."
Ahhh, but then the delay began to make sense when Moderna's vaccine was approved for distribution this past Friday night. Moderna being a company in which Trump and his band of merry miscreants have stock. Go figure.
So, here we are, two vaccines now available, countless frontline hospital workers waiting to receive their first dose of the required two. Millions of elderly people, essential workers, those who are immunocompromised, people who may not be doctors or nurses but who have hospital or patient exposure like my daughter - all waiting. All of them queued up to receive these first available rounds.
But look who's cutting the line.
Pence - which whatever. I get it, he's the VP, chain of command, line of succession, etc. But he's also the Coronavirus Task Force leader who co-owns 325,988 deaths. SO FAR. He's the dipshit who tried to declare the virus over back in June. The asshat who entered a hospital to visit COVID patients and REMOVED HIS MASK. The suck up who continually tells us how "proud" he is of Trump's response to the virus. You know, all the while his own staff was contracting it, all the while he happily attends White House unmasked superspreader events.
Mitch McConnell, who looks for all the world like an animated corpse on the best of days, jumped the line and got himself a shot after doing fuck all to help anyone in this country. But fear not, he took a brief break from cramming more conservatives judges in to graciously toss $600 out in stimulus money to the unwashed, unvaccinated masses. Compare that to the $2000 per month citizens of Canada have been receiving all year. But hey, GO USA.
Trump's personal buttplug, Lindsey Graham, cut the line over the weekend to get his first dose. This is the same reprobate who refused to be tested prior to a debate earlier this year. This is the same man who has facilitated Trump's reign of terror for four years, including this year as Trump held rally after rally spreading COVID everywhere he went. He famously said of the attempt to shut down the country to contain the virus in the early days: "WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF." Refresh. 326,331. That's another 343 who would beg to differ with him. If they were still alive.
Then of course we have Marco von Bibleverse, who never met a crisis that could not be solved by throwing up scripture on Twitter. This Jello spined, mealy mouthed, sack of suck, who for the past 8 months has mocked mask wearing, politicized the virus at every turn, and refused to hold Trump accountable AT ALL, grabbed a child on the deck of the Titanic and begged his way to the front of the line for a spot in a vaccine lifeboat. This same bag of bile openly whined last week about Republicans being referred to as "fuckers," clutching Lindsey Graham's pearls and decrying the lack of decorum. Here's a Bible verse for you Rubio: And on the 8th day He said 'Let there be Republicans, and there were, and he said Ooops. FUCKERS.' ~ We'rescrewed, Marco, Puke, and Don 11:03
And then there's this corn brained, useless husk - Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. She has spent the pandemic mocking mask wearing, distancing, downplaying the virus, and gleefully spreading the Qanon conspiracy that deaths were being inflated to make the president look bad. And then she embraced and spread the bullshit that doctors were falsifying COVID deaths in order to pad their bottom line$. Yet there she was, coiffed and wearing a go-clubbing leopard mask, taking a dose that should have gone into the arm of an ER doctor or ambulance paramedic or ICU janitor. Suddenly happy to get a vaccine for a virus she claimed was a hoax, and encouraging all her wetbrained constituents to get theirs, too.
The hypocrisy is staggering to me. The entitlement, the tone deafness, the lack of self awareness, the inability to think about what they have said and done to make this pandemic worse. Yet they have zero compunction about pushing to the head of the line when those on the actual front lines still don't know when they will receive the first round.
Fuckers is far too kind. They are takers. They are venal, self absorbed, C*NTS who have been cutting the lines their entire lives. Only this time, their selfish actions actually have deadly consequences.
Christmas is in four days. 12,000 more people will not be around to open a gift, sing a carol, Facetime a loved one because these feral pigs in the GOP did nothing to help them stay alive. Feral pigs who are now doing everything to keep themselves alive.
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