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May Day 2020: America is Ruled by a Death Cult
They wanted to shake things up. Well, they can own what by now amounts to a 9/11 every week because their Commander in Chief pissed away whatever time he bought us with a half-assed travel ban while convincing the flock that a viral pandemic would go away by Easter. “Like a miracle,” he said. But they won’t, of course. Now it belongs to the states.
Here in Illinois, so far, two Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against the governor for extending the shelter in place policy through the end of May. Never mind that their commander in chief’s own policy prohibits opening states before there are no new cases for 14 days. Never mind that not a single state in the nation has even come close, Republicans are desperately trying to will the plague away like a congressional subpoena.
They live in a fantasy world that they inflict on the rest of us while they insulate themselves from the consequences with propagandistic media platforms, gerrymandered districts and packed courts. If they could launch an Elysium into Earth’s orbit, they would. In the meantime, they have built one in our collective consciousness. It might even be better than the movie, had the producers done better casting than a reality TV game show host who had to settle a $25 million settlement with students of his fraudulent university before he took the oath of office as…