Get a Load of These Assholes
Prominent legislators are eager to make sure your sacrifices are for naught.
I spent the last 67 days in self-isolation. I don’t say that as a hero.
Despite being sick for three days in the last 10 years, I have been taken the threat of coronavirus seriously. That was until right-wing man-baby militia members pretending going two months without a haircut was the definition of tyranny.
I don’t care what the statistics say about my chances of survival. I don’t have the liquidity to survive for more than roughly 30 minutes inside an American hospital. Dying on my couch would be preferred to a six-figure bill and then dying of a stroke two weeks later.
South Korea’s conservative government proved through early widespread testing that while young people were at low risk of dying they were at high risk of being an asymptomatic carrier that can become a super-spreader with one trip to a bar. Their bars are closed while ours are opening next week. Makes you think for sure.
I could ultimately live with my ignorance killing me. I couldn’t live with my ignorance killing a grocery store clerk who was only working during a pandemic because they had no other choice.
That’s why I have no problem wearing a mask in public places. I felt like that was basic humanity unworthy of praise until I saw Larry Householder, the Speaker of the Ohio House, spending his quarantine time trying to undermine the one Republican governor in America who took coronavirus safely.
Out-of-state liberals might read one article about Householder and think oh there goes Ohio electing backwood simpletons.
And they might have a point if Householder was defined by his last stint as Speaker that ended in a cloud of an FBI investigation into his corruption.
He then got dinged for a couple DUIs while serving as commissioner of Perry County.
I am no fan of Householder. I still had a sliver of respect that he rode a wave of dark corporate money back to the Statehouse and then brokered a deal with super-minority Democrats to install him back to the Lincoln Chair.
You almost come to respect a man. If not for his terrible political ideas but because he is a ruthless political operator with a populist streak. And then he goes and throws it away by pretending he knows more than public health officials about a deadly virus without a vaccine.
This is deeply evil stuff. In a functional democracy it would be enough to cost them an election. In Ohio? I’m not sure it will.
Republicans in Ohio bank elections on gerrymandering and elderly voters. You would think they would want to keep elderly voters, who are most at-risk of coronavirus, as live as long as possible.
Not to mention, rural hospitals were going bankrupt before coronavirus. They have threadbare social services that led to increased drug addiction, overdoses and suicides. Republicans ignored those spiking rates for the last 12 years before suddenly pretending to care about them as a way of deflecting for the greatest public policy failure since Hurricane Katrina.
Householder’s legislative patsies that he appointed to the “Ohio Economic Recovery Task Force” spent the last month jerking off on Zoom while platforming small business tyrants who peddled conspiracy theories while swearing they would re-open their business in the safest way possible.
Then Householder and some prick named “J. Todd” return to session while sitting on top of a $3 billion rainy day fund that they have refused to tap. Two elderly white men who lack the lung capacity to run around the block trying to score cheap political points by making a show out of shaking hands and not wearing mask in crowded public spaces. What an epic win for the conservative movement that has a vise grip on state poltics.
No mention of the 1,400 Ohioans that died or the 25,000 Ohioans infected.
These assholes must not know anyone infected since that’s the only way lizards like them can feel sympathy. If they did I doubt they would act so flippant.
Wearing a mask isn’t about their feelings. It’s about protecting other people. Our leaders are instead content to lead their followers to the slaughterhouse. In a functioning democracy that would be considered the antithesis of democracy. Unfortunately we live in Ohio.
Do I wish bad things on Republican voters? No. Does the refusal of prominent Republicans to observe basic health precautions during a pandemic without a vaccine represent the best chance an avowed Communist like me has of beating them at the ballot box? Yes.
THOSE WMDs. You’ve been cooking chicken breasts wrong… America’s meat shortage is more serious than your missing hamburgers… Towing an iceberg: One captain’s plan to bring water to four million people…. Tell me what you did today and I’ll tell you who you are… The anti-gay crusader and her gay son were making it work… until Trump.