Passover begins tonight at sundown.  One of the most beloved passover stories of the Seder is The Four Sons.

Our friend Sue sent us a modern adaption of The Four Sons.

THE FOUR SONS

In telling the Passover story, we are told to tailor our message and are asked to consider four types of listeners:

The wise child asks, How can I help flatten the curve?
To him we say, listen to the scientists, stay at home, and wash your hands.

The wicked child asks, Can’t grandma take one for the team? I’m too young to worry about Kung Flu. It’s a Chinese plot! Or a hoax!
To him we say go lick a doorknob, dipshit.

The simple child asks, Are we going to be OK?
And to him we say yes, son, we’re all in this together.

And to the child who does not even know how to ask, we say: Please sit down, Mr. President, and let us hear from Dr. Fauci.

Thanks, Sue, for the smile.

I was talking to a reporter today from a local network affiliate who expressed frustration at Trump’s successful hijacking of the evening news by holding his Coronavirus “briefings” every single day during that time.  During said “briefings” Trump stumbles from one irrelevant subject to another, lies in a continuous stream, attacks previous administrations, insults everyone who dares disagree with him and has now taken to cutting off medical experts from answering key questions asked by the media.  Very little important information comes from these briefings and the incessant lying has become a serious threat to Americans’ very lives.

It’s long past time to cut Trump off.  His oxygen is media coverage.  He’s a gameshow host who doesn’t know shit about actually running anything successful except attracting media coverage.  It’s time to cut off that oxygen and send the clear message that 1) HE doesn’t control the media, and 2) The media’s obligation is to provide actual useful information that is TRUE to their audiences.  I don’t care in the slightest about Fox and OAN suckers.  They’re on their own.  I’m talking about normal Americans who desperately need information that can help them make their own decisions for their own lives.

It’s time for the networks to wake up and cut Trump off.  Report what happened, but take away his stage.  Take back control of the news hour.  In other words, get off your ass and do your goddam job and stop being intimidated by the biggest bully in the history of the US.

Or maybe we all just yelled loud enough.

Thomas Modly has resigned as the acting secretary of the Navy, according to CNN.

Modly was caught on tape attacking Capt. Brett Crozier in a call with the crew of the USS Roosevelt after the captain’s letter to leaders begging for help was revealed online.

Well done, Loud People!

So Trump thinks he doesn’t need an independent watchdog overseeing the expenditure of $2 trillion in emergency coronavirus funding.

I do not trust this sumbitch with lunch money and he wants to oversee $2 trillion. I can damn well promise you that $1.999 trillion will end up in Jared’s bank account. Or Rudy Giuliani will eat it.

Fine’s removal marks Trump’s latest attack on the world of independent federal oversight.

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Since Friday, Trump has fired the Intelligence Community inspector general who informed Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment and attacked the Health and Human Services inspector general who found vast concerns at hospitals over supply shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Democratic chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, called Fine’s removal “a direct insult to the American taxpayers — of all political stripes — who want to make sure their tax dollars are not squandered on wasteful boondoggles, incompetence, or political favors.”

In the checkers game of White House staff, Press Sectetary Stephan Grisham is out.

Okay, so they didn’t have to announce that. We never would have known.

Oh Stephanie, we hardly knew ye.

Stephanie is going back to work for Melania Trump, who apparently needs a press secretary incapable of speaking to the press.

So y’all quit saying saying that the White House isn’t doing anything because, by gawd, they are playing a hot game of flaming dodge ball.

The new press secretary is Kayleigh McEnamy.  Click right here to watch her in action.  God help us all.