Paying Attention: A Terribly Busy Boy

Pay Attention

April 14, 2020

While you are busy trying not to die from COVID-19, President Death is busy further dismantling democracy, among other things. Not satisfied with being responsible for thousands of dead Americans, and angry at not being able to bilk taxpayers by playing golf every weekend, Chrump has lots of free time to perpetrate even more damage to everything not bearing his fake name.

Shittiest president in history

Chrump rejected the United States Postal Service’s plea for a bailout as part of the coronavirus rescue package. Republican’ts hate anything the federal government does that helps real people (like keeping them from dying from a pandemic) – as opposed to corporation “people” – have decent lives. Republican’ts have longed to kill the Post Office for decades, preferring to hand our daily delivery – like every other fucking thing, including schools, prisons and the military – over to the private, i.e., greedy profiteering sector.

The USPS is mandated by a little thing I like to call the Constitution of the United States, specifically Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, which empowers Congress “To establish Post Offices and Post Roads.” I happen to be a big fan of the Postal Service. One way they could increase revenues would be to charge triple for unsolicited bulk mailings. I imagine the price of sending a simple piece of mail will increase dramatically once the greed-heads get their hands on the system.

The Orwellian-named Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 was passed by a Republican-led Congress and signed into law by previous worst-president-ever George W. Bush. The law required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. No other federal agency or private corporation is required to follow such absurd and financially debilitating requirements.

Der Furor has also been busy firing inspectors general – non-partisan watchdogs charged with protecting the American citizenry from fraud and abuse by government officials and entities – because, as we are well aware, Chrump, a plaintiff in 3,500 lawsuits, is nothing but a criminal in asshole’s clothing. Chrump fired the IG who did his job by reporting what he deemed questionable behavior regarding Chrump’s “perfect phone call” with the Ukrainian president, which led to Chrump’s long-overdue impeachment, which was ultimately swallowed whole by Moscow Mitch McConnell.

Chrump has fired several other IGs, including the one who was supposed to oversee the $2Trillion-plus rescue package that Chrumpublicans are bound and determined to keep out of the hands of struggling American citizens as much as possible. Moving oversight into hands that are also cradling Chrump’s balls should make it much easier to get that money to those who don’t need it as opposed to those who do, and for Chrump to get away with more, and likely bigger crimes.

In continuing efforts to protect Chrump from democracy, justice and fair elections, the five fascist justices on the Supreme Court cleared the way for Wisconsin Republican’ts to force people to gather in large groups during the critical social distancing period. Not only did these anti-democracy maggots override the state’s Democratic governor’s suspension of the election, they also slashed the number of voting locations from 182 down to 5, causing people to wait in the cold and rain for hours. As if that wasn’t bad enough, some of these people who waited in line for hours were still not permitted to vote.

Republican’ts have never been shy about their disdain for voting because they know full well, and Chrump even said as much recently (as reported here), that Republican’ts can never win a fair election where “too many” people vote. And, let’s be clear, too many people better fucking vote on November 3, 2020. We have to be prepared to overwhelm the most dishonest, racist, anti-democracy forces this nation has seen in a long time, and that is an extremely high bar. Speaking of racists, apparently, having monuments to Civil War traitors is not good enough, there is a nuclear-powered supercarrier in the United States Navy, named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi. I wonder if black sailors are forced to serve on such a ship.

Of course, what dive into the refuse pile that is Donald Chrump would be complete without mentioning his now ramped-up assault on environmental regulations, removing the few restrains left by Chrump’s literal slash-and-burn campaign against the Earth. Our reporting has it that Chrump privately insists that the Earth is a hoax.

And all of this may be just the tip of the asshole.

In the meantime, Chrump was asked, “Can you say, sir, what metrics you will use to make that decision?” (I really wish they would stop calling him sir. “You blithering idiot” would be much more appropriate.) As usual, the Idiot-in-chief pointed to his badly damaged, very, very small uh-brain: