What came to my mind when I heard this guy say he had no idea was, "Damn dude, people are scared, angry, and oh so fuckin tired of being cooped up." I went on to shout at the TV, "The current leadership and its insistence on fanning the flames of fear, hate and discontent is not helping either you asshole." As usual, the TV ignored me, cheerfully continuing on its merry way spreading the latest serving of said hate and discontent.
Call it a perfect storm where three plus years of divisive and fearful rhetoric from Donald Trump ramped up to breakneck speed and was swallowed by a catastrophe that should have been foreseen and planned for, but was not. And then everything really went to Hell in a hand basket because our leader couldn't think himself out of a wet T-shirt, let alone deal with a worldwide pandemic. Mass ignorance and stupidity on the grandest of scale now has us by our short hairs.
Hang in there and wish us luck.
5 comments:
Is scrime actually increasing, or is that an excuse for deploying his secrete police force to major Democratic leaning cities?
the Ol'Buzzard
we're fucked..
I tend to agree with ol buzzard’s suggestion.... it may not really be rising.... but then again, I cannot say. Regardless, the agents in the Democratic states are horrific and that will lead to more violence, making a self-full filling prophesy.
I so HOPE tRump is defeated in November.... but there are so many foolish folks who still support him with all the crap he does.... I am truly fearful that we will have another 4 years of him.
PipeTobacco
Back in the late 70s economic conditions were total shit in the western U.P./northern Wisconsin. No jobs anywhere and a social safety net that basically penalized couples for staying together (There's a man in the house? No ADC for you.) A friend from high school, married guy with a couple kids, got busted breaking into coin boxes at a laundromat. That's what flat broke and desperate can look like. Unemployment climbs, so does crime. So crime rates are going to climb but Cheetolini's tactics won't help.
Ol' Buzzard - I just checked and its been an odd year for crime stats. Overall crime is down, as is violent crime with the subcategory of murder though seeing a rise. All in all a wash I guess. But any crime the Wingers can get their teeth into is bound to become "Oh my God, The Democrats are on a mass murder rampage, we need more bullets."
Jackiesue - Fucked indeed
Pipe Tobacco - For sure, no matter the stats, Thr Right will seize on any stat they can conflate into their message of Democrats equal Anarchy, blah blah blah. Hang in there. Its all we got.
Nan - You are right of course. An economy like you describe is on our horizon I think.
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