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talkpoliticsBut the realities of how low and abysmally out of its way to be evil the Legion of Doom and Dorito Benito are proving themselves to be continues to hit new lows. First, for good news:
The EU shows itself to be the remaining center of what compassion and decency the Western world has. It is helping Iran, Trump is trying to weaponize Beervirus in the dangerous gamble of regime change, having learned sweet fuck all from 2003, or 1979 for that matter.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/iran-europe-send-medical-aid-sanctions-workaround.html
And the United States is literally stealing masks from other countries that they ordered from factories made on the territory of those countries. The raw reality of the Empire of Bases exposed without any pretense of democracy involved, the price the expectation that people in other countries will get sick and die for this Administration of baboons to seem like it's halfassing trying to deal with a crisis it has made worse globally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/modern-piracy-germany-accuses-trump-of-stealing-n95-masks-it-ordered-from-factory-in-china/
There are multiple degrees of evil and ambiguity in global geopolitics. The current day USA is going out of its way to meet every single element of the worst it could be expected to do and quite a few of the ones that it shouldn't and couldn't but is managing to do anyway.
The implosion of a social order can bring out the best and the worst in people. For the US regime it is bringing out the worst well before the crisis reaches the point where the singing and optimism stop and the unrest starts to spiral out in a country that has more arms and brawn than it ever has brain or sense. I spend much of my time goofing off on social media because otherwise, the dim shadows of the various elements of onrushing catastrophes would see a paralyzing oscillation between the kind of fear and anger that produce a fatal stress.
My home state is a hot spot with the most consistent cases where catching Beervirus means that it's fatal. New Orleans, fortunately 300 miles from where I live, has one of the highest fatality rates in the USA. 12,496 cases as of today, 409 fatalities. Four in my home parish. with 135 cases. And in the midst of all this, the Feds are literally turning into pirates for a virus they denied existed and if it did, Xi was doing a wonderful job of handling it so there was nothing to fear and that's just.....what is there to be done, here?
The EU shows itself to be the remaining center of what compassion and decency the Western world has. It is helping Iran, Trump is trying to weaponize Beervirus in the dangerous gamble of regime change, having learned sweet fuck all from 2003, or 1979 for that matter.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/iran-europe-send-medical-aid-sanctions-workaround.html
And the United States is literally stealing masks from other countries that they ordered from factories made on the territory of those countries. The raw reality of the Empire of Bases exposed without any pretense of democracy involved, the price the expectation that people in other countries will get sick and die for this Administration of baboons to seem like it's halfassing trying to deal with a crisis it has made worse globally.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-coronavirus-equipment-masks-tests
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/modern-piracy-germany-accuses-trump-of-stealing-n95-masks-it-ordered-from-factory-in-china/
There are multiple degrees of evil and ambiguity in global geopolitics. The current day USA is going out of its way to meet every single element of the worst it could be expected to do and quite a few of the ones that it shouldn't and couldn't but is managing to do anyway.
The implosion of a social order can bring out the best and the worst in people. For the US regime it is bringing out the worst well before the crisis reaches the point where the singing and optimism stop and the unrest starts to spiral out in a country that has more arms and brawn than it ever has brain or sense. I spend much of my time goofing off on social media because otherwise, the dim shadows of the various elements of onrushing catastrophes would see a paralyzing oscillation between the kind of fear and anger that produce a fatal stress.
My home state is a hot spot with the most consistent cases where catching Beervirus means that it's fatal. New Orleans, fortunately 300 miles from where I live, has one of the highest fatality rates in the USA. 12,496 cases as of today, 409 fatalities. Four in my home parish. with 135 cases. And in the midst of all this, the Feds are literally turning into pirates for a virus they denied existed and if it did, Xi was doing a wonderful job of handling it so there was nothing to fear and that's just.....what is there to be done, here?
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Date: 4/4/20 21:44 (UTC)They've called it state piracy now.
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Date: 4/4/20 21:49 (UTC)It's reckless, evil, short-sighted, and tailor-made to make already bad situations astronomically worse. So another day ending in y for Dorito Benito and his Legion of Doom.
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Date: 6/4/20 06:25 (UTC)https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html
The Don's rather damaging narcissism meant that he had to trash anything Obama had done. So useful, so farsighted, so statesmanlike, so protective of the American people... so Republican.
The thing is if the US epidemic is as bad as it could be, the voting demographic will change. All the MAGA chaps who regarded Covid19 as a hoax will be rather more exposed than anyone else. The cowardly Dems, sheltering in their homes, may be less affected.
It's not a good time to be human with the sort of chaps we have in charge.