The Pandemic Was Never Going To Fix Republicans

So if doughfacedonny states that the virus is contained and that coming warmer weather will cause it to fade away, does that mean the opposite of truth? As over 12,000 other statements he has made have been lies? What do we make of the official "correction" of the stock market, that bastion of pure capitalism that has been the major marker behind the claim of a strong economy by republicans? Or can we finally cut the crap that stock market gains mean anything? If $3.4 trillion can evaporate in a week, maybe all those rural white republicans who keep claiming everything is great and fuck you libtards will have a crack in their Dunning-Krueger armor and ask a few questions. CNN has been awfully candid in this story, repeatedly stating that Wall Street loves doughfacedonny's "low tax and light regulation approach" so a Coronavirus outbreak could mean his defeat, which they wouldn't like. Because fuck democracy, the rule of law, and the ability to govern Wall Street demands more sacrifice.

Good God, I wrote that on February 28 and not only has that crack in the Dunning-Krueger armor failed to materialize, it has militantly hardened the MAGA idiots to science and facts. This is what freedom means to them:

Freedom is the freedom to dress up like a soldier, tote guns around the state capital, block traffic in front of hospitals in the middle of a pandemic, ignore safety protocols, and threaten a governor because she's a Democrat and a woman. 

These are the same shitheads who were clamoring for laws making protest illegal, making it legal for drivers to run over protesters, and screaming about respecting election results.

BECAUSE THEY ARE IRREDEEMABLE. As Driftglass often says, "never underestimate how much republicans hate this country." A corollary to that Driftism is Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s characterization of Hitler, "he is a man on a bicycle, has to keep moving forward or he'll fall." Meaning that if any of these militant moron MAGA republicans ever questioned, ever doubted, the absolute sanctity of their cause to destroy America as it was intended they would implode from the weight of irony crashing down on them. That is what I mean when you try to interpret their mantras of freedom and liberty, for words to mean anything we have to agree on their definition. Freedom to republicans like the protesters above means the freedom to submit to authority, the freedom to reject whatever facts do not fit their prejudices, and the freedom to act in absolute opposition to common sense. Liberty is the freedom to abuse constitutional rights in bad faith. Freedom of speech is used to attack and bully others, freedom of assembly is for them alone, and obviously the perversion of the second amendment that supports their right of bullying and intimidation.

So never, ever waste a moment's thought on "winning them back" or educating them. It is exactly that, a waste. We must study them to be sure, to find the best ways to defuse them and make them get out of politics. But they have abandoned reason, so there is no reason for us to entertain their delusions, respect their positions, or grant them any influence. That must be our freedom from now on. In 10-14 days there will be a flare-up of COVID-19 cases in the rural wastelands that these shitheads sprang forth from, oh well. This protest isn't even close to the apex of republican crimes against civilization this month. I just led with it because of the evidence it provides that nothing has really changed, crisis or no crisis.

Even if it has had an unexpected result, the Wisconsin primary election last week was a case study in republican hatred of democracy. Brother Charlie Pierce put it about as well as possible in his immediate reaction titled: 

You'd Have to Be a Newborn From Mars Not to See Wisconsin Was a Test Run for November

And, as usual he has words for the meatbag Michigan protesting republicans that put mine to shame.

Of all the screwy moments that we have experienced since the founding of Camp Runamuck, this is going to rank very close to the top. And it is not going to be a surprise to anyone if another AstroTurf movement similar to the Tea Party rises, especially if the president* “opens up” the country at the beginning of May... This is less AstroTurf than it is a spreading poisonous kudzu fed by the toxic sludge that has flowed under the conservative movement for decades.

And we all know what a great job the political press did when presented with a "mass" movement of supposedly "new voters, never before interested in politics" sprang up in 2009-10. So look forward to another round of flattering their every republican whim in the nightly news and on cable... Unless we stop it.

How many of you have seen crap like:

When trump starts sending out these 1000 dollar checks all you “he’s not my president “ people better not cash that bitch!! Just saying !

Irredeemable.

A friend from high school posted this trolling piece of garbage while trying to appear reasonable, just like he does every time he can punch down on us 'libs:

just ignore everything that I did during the Obama years to obstruct and inspire obstruction, and forget that trump inherited the results of all of Obama's work

So it isn't just meatbags with guns parading across the Capitol in Michigan, they are all irredeemable and nothing will fix that. Right after the inauguration of doughfacedonny I saw this meme, no idea where it's from or what metrics were used to come up this number but I have to say I like the sentiment and even more so in the middle of a pandemic:

because fuck'em if they can't take a joke