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Tome to President Misery

I’m finding it harder and harder to write satirically about President Misery, I mean this is getting serious and he ought to be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, really.

The Watergate star Bob Woodward writes that President Misery knew many moons ago that COVID-19 was deadly serious and was spread airborne and that he withheld that information from the public because he didn’t want the country to panic (read he didn’t want Wall Street to take a dive). And you can go to the tape to hear the conversation with Woodward so nobody can claim fake news or Photoshop or whatever.

The result was that many, many people listed to President Misery and consequently, went about their lives, ignorant of the viral dangers, and got sick and maybe died.

So after all the brouhaha over Woodward’s revelations, last week, President Misery holds an indoor rally outside of Las Vegas for where thousands of wackos are packed like sardines and where social distancing is a cruel joke and many wore no masks, including President Misery. Forget there is a state law in Nevada prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 people. It only applies to mortals and not kings.

People with no brains who salivate over President Misery, don’t you think it’s kind of odd that the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball don’t allow fans into the stadiums out of fear of spreading COVID-19. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, President Misery considers you who attend his rallies rather expendable and something to be tossed in the trash when no longer needed.

I admit there were some attendees at the rally who have impeccable intellectual qualifications, like Dana White of Ultimate Fighting Championship and Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars, neither of whom wore the demon mask.

Trump has a good script writer, holding a rally so close to the place where people regularly gamble their lives away. Talk about unmitigated gall and insensitivity that is very close to if not at, criminality.

The nature of those who carry Trump-Pence 2020 and Make America Great Again signs is that they get their information largely from watching the Simpsons so President Misery is pretty darn influential. He tells his minyons to jump, they say how high; he tells them not to wear masks, they say for how long. He is the great hypnotist to the willing victims.

And he’s still saying that the China flu is not that big a deal. That’s OK for people like President Misery who have enough money to buy a COVID-19-free island and shoot anyone who approaches. Most of us can’t afford islands and I daresay most of his zombie followers don’t have that kind of dough.

Now, I know it sounds harsh but I don’t really care about those nuts who follow President Misery like dogs in heat but I am very concerned that some or all of them will pick up the virus and spread it around to unsuspecting victims, like people I might know or even, maybe, me.

I would guess that even many of the crazed, formerly anti-mask bikers who rode out to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota would be likely to get masked now that reports show a minimum of several hundred people and likely many more came down with COVID-19 at the largely-Trump supporting rally.

This has gone way, way beyond reason. There is absolutely no argument among people with working brains that wearing a mask may be the number one tool to stemming the pandemic. So what are these anti-maskers thinking or not thinking? Suicidal? Left their brains at WalMart?

The rationalizations they pose for not wearing masks are getting thinner and thinner to the point where they are way past absurd and getting more dangerous with each passing day.

For the sad proof about the relationship between virus and masks, you don’t have to look further than Herman Cain, the pizza king, former presidential candidate and Trump advisor, who died of COVID-19 after attending the mass, indoor Trump rally in Tulsa where wearing masks was considered this side of treason. I assume the mask-deniers will claim that Cain didn’t die of COVID-19 but really died of bad sushi.

So what are people thinking when they don’t wear a mask?

I ask you, anti-mask, pro-President Misery person, would you jump out of a plane without a parachute in hopes that a strong wind will save you?

Will you walk across a field of broken glass, barefoot, under the belief that the glass is probably nothing more than sparkling Rice Krispies?

Would you take a hike in 30 below weather wearing just your Speedo, even though that is a terrible sight to imagine?

Would you jump off a 200-foot high cliff, assuming you’ll land safely on a mountain of marshmallows?

Will you wear a silly little mask if it might keep you and others from dying?

So how much did it cost to get into the Trump rally? I understand it was free but the loyal followers had to agree to get COVID-19 and spread it everywhere.

Is a person liable if he has smallpox and goes to the mall where he tries on many types of clothing and meets many people and spreads the disease. Is a doctor liable if he fails to tell a patient that he has a disease so contagious that it spreads by simply thinking about it?

Anyone who acts in such a blatantly irresponsible way as to put innocent people, and yes, even Trumpers, in harm’s way has committed a crime against us all.

This is the ultimate cruelty for even President Misery and he should pay.

Disgusting.