Sickophants

Part Sicko, Ass-kisser, Part (Republican't) Elephant – All Fucked Up

July 24, 2020

Sickophant: a cross between sickos, ass-kissers and elephants – but, political-logo-based elephants, not real elephants, who unlike certain (actually, all as it turns out) presidents are both above the law and above reproach.

Gratuitous photograph of stately, intelligent elephants

A small swarm of smarmy sickophants – neither stately nor intelligent

Apparently, Donald Chrump and his many sickophant Republican’t hench-mutants in Congress are true originalists. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia (still dead) always claimed to be a constitutional originalist – he believed in the literal word of the Constitution. Scalia claimed in essence that he knew exactly what was in the hearts and minds of the thinkers and authors of the Constitution. This despite the fact that the Founders themselves were rarely sure of anything, often disagreed with each other, and could disagree with themselves from day-to-day. This of course makes sense given that 1) they were human beings, and 2) they were trying to create something that essentially never existed in governments throughout the world at the time. And given that they were genuinely thoughtful, curious and creative men, who ultimately managed to work together and compromise for the greater good. Ahhh, the good old days.

Today’s Republican’ts are channeling, as you might expect, the worst of what the Founders had to offer (well, maybe not the very worst, which was allowing and participating in slavery), as they attempt to keep their traitorous leader in power by attempting to, as much as possible, limit voting to land-owning white males, and doing everything they can to ensure that everyone else faces as many obstacles as possible to casting and having their votes counted on November 3^rd. This is of course nothing new. Republican’ts have long known that allowing people to vote is their Kryptonite.

Not all Chrump sickophants are politicians. Someone has to propel these tiny brained wipers of other people’s bottoms into office. For example, the anti-brain/anti-mask MAGA crowd.

A very funny, very scary, depressing video

We Have All Been Here Before

Fun fact: During the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, two things that were known and used to control spread of the virus were having people wear masks and observe social distancing. This seems oddly familiar.

Un-fun fact: The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic featured a group called The Anti-Mask League of San Francisco.

The city of Philadelphia ignored the warnings of devastation and calls for social distancing. The city held a parade, and suffered tremendous loss of life; the city of St. Louis heeded the warnings, instituted a quarantine, and suffered 50 percent fewer fatalities per capita. St. Louis instituted strong social distancing measures and a low total death rate. They successfully delayed their peak in deaths, but then experienced a sharp increase when restrictions were temporarily relaxed. Philadelphia finally banned gatherings and closed schools eight days after they endured the highest peak death rate of all cities studied.

Another small group of sickophants comprise the majority of the United States Supreme Court. Yes, on occasion one or two forget their places and uphold the law rather than their political bent. The Fossilized Five just voted to keep what is essentially a poll tax alive in Florida. Floridians voted very strongly and powerfully in favor of allowing ex-felons to regain their voting rights once their debt to society has been paid.

All of these machines can kill fascists when used properly; no MAGAts allowed

The beat-down goes on.

I. Mangrey reporting. For what it’s worth.