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Who are the bigger fools, I wonder—trump, or those of us who continue to believe a breaking point will sooner or later occur at which time the country will magically wake up and realize, with thundering clarity, just what a fucked-up mess el estúpido has made of his Coronavirus response?

The broader the naked emperor spins his web of misinformation and bullshit, the more his approval numbers rise. If “stupid is as stupid does,” there’s a Whole Lotta’ Stupid Going On right now across the land! Those followers of the trump cult who haven’t yet drunk the Kool aid would gladly do so without hesitation should the trumpster so direct them, so completely has he liberated them from the tyranny of having to think for themselves.

It truly must be a comfort to be able to cheer at his rallies free of the onerous responsibility, thanks to one’s thought repellant MAGA hat, to question his statements & make judgments concerning his actions. For these folks, the saying “ignorance is bliss”— the new mantra of the post-factual—has become actual.

When the English sent the Pilgrims packing to the New World, the prescient among those doing the sending had likely been plagued with visions of tiny future trump clones wearing MAGA hats and running around like locusts spreading havoc throughout the land. Ridding themselves of the ancestors of these toxic trump fanatics was the smartest thing they could have done under the circumstances, akin to blowing one’s leaves into the neighbor’s yard, but with much more dire consequences.

Australia was populated through similar means, only in their case the ancestors thus transported were primarily criminals so their present-day society is more rational than ours, except when it comes to certain issues like climate change, illustrating beyond doubt that the English somehow manage to fuck up everything they touch.

Tim Konrad

2020.03.26