Friday, December 25, 2020

This IS Christmas?

 The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in California has surpassed 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins Hospital, as the virus has spread with startling speed in the state. It's the first state to pass that number. In the last day, according to Johns Hopkins, California saw 43,986 new cases and 319 deaths. (NPR) Congress on Thursday officially began sending a massive Covid-19 relief deal and government funding package to President Donald Trump who has not yet said whether he will sign it. The Covid relief provisions about $900 billion in spending on programs to support businesses and individuals who are suffering as a result of the recession inflicted by the public health crisis in addition to spending on measures to help contain the virus. (CNBC)

 

And, to no one’s surprise, but to the entire Republican party’s permission, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago, playing golf, maskless, ignoring anyone who is not a member of his private resort, and basking in the delight of his own selfishness, and narcissism, neurosis, and nihilistic lack of sense and sensibilities! And all the public receives is the already over-used, well it's Trump! I do not want to wait until the countdown toward the Inauguration of President-Elect Biden, I DEMAND removal of this enemy of the state, and DEMAND THAT Congress step up to IT’S responsibility in maintaining the health and welfare of this nation. I am so tired of the fools be they 70 million or people like Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani or Michael Flynn (none of which have any official Federal authority) deciding MY future, and the future of this nation; all the while those elected to do so DO NOT!

 

And as trivial as it might be, I am tired of people like Kirk Cameron who, one week after drawing the public's ire for hosting a Christmas caroling event in Thousand Oaks, California largely attended by unmasked, non-socially distanced singers, Kirk Cameron once again invited his social media followers to join him for a rousing, if highly contagious, round of hymns. Cameron, when asked why he has disregarded science/medicine/the well-being of others, adding "Let your voice be heard at this peaceful protest praising the Prince of Peace," Exactly WHOSE well-being, Mr. Cameron are you actually interested in, the 18.7 million Americans testing positive for COVID/the 329,000dead/the newly infected 201,674 Americans, or the over 23 million unemployed, whose joblessness is mainly due to the lack of any passion or concern! And you, arrogant pissant, Christian Crusader, like Christian Crusaders of the past use the weaponized version of Christianity to subvert morals and decency! And where are the voices of the Christians who actually, ESPECIALLY, during THIS HOLIDAY, celebrating the birth of your Prince of Peace, to INSIST that God is not a part of the plan considered Pre-Meditated Murder!

 

Nothing ever ends well, when ignorance, arrogance, stupid, selfishness, and self-serving are the Christmas gifts under the tree waiting to be opened, when all around us death and destruction loom larger and grow larger each moment, people like Trump/Cameron/and Republican Congress People, play God!