My grandson is a pretty smart little guy for a kindergartener.  Being an only child with both parents working from home has him with more alone time than normal for a kid that age, even when they stagger their work time to play with him.  Luckily, he has an enormous backyard with a great tree swing and lots of things to climb on or hide in. And he reads. He reads anything he can get his hands on.

An odd skill has emerged. He can spell damn near anything and he loves to do it. He can spell captain, determine, surface, contraption, and other words I have to look up. It’s weird for sure, but it brings me great comfort because now I know he can never be a Republican.

Thank you, Sweet Jesus.

Let’s recap today’s news:

1. Trump blurted out yesterday that he’s stopping ALL immigration, no how, why, timing, nothing.
2. After 30 minutes of guys in uniforms talking about how they are ramping up the supply chain for testing, Trump took the mic and said that “a lot of people really don’t want testing”.
3. US coronavirus infections continued to grow at a rate to double cases every 4 days.
4. Idiot Trumpists continue to protest in public to immediately lift all stay at home restrictions, supported by idiot governors to start doing just that, egged on by Trump.
5. Crude oil futures prices fell from $20 per barrel to NEGATIVE $35 per barrel.  That’s right, holders of crude contracts had to PAY buyers to take them off their hands.  This morning June price is down 25% and still falling.
6. Kim Jong Un has disappeared, and rumors are that he underwent heart surgery and is very ill or even already dead.
7. The largest mass shooting in Canada’s history happened this weekend.

On a happy note, the Rockefeller Foundation has stepped up to take away dependence on Trump for massive testing.  They are investing an initial $15 million to rapidly expand testing starting at 1 million tests per week to 30 million in 6 months.

Other than that, nothing going on today.

Y’all, it’s 4/20.  I hope you left out milk and cookies for Willie Nelson last night.

I just thought I’d share a recipe with you.

Okay, this is from the Pro-Virus Rally in Austin.

It doesn’t work that way.

The air is not yours.  You are welcome here and please feel free to breathe in all you want to, just don’t breathe out, please. Your exhales may be lethal to me.

You are free to go outside as long as you are will to accept the consequences of knowingly killing me or my child.  You are welcome here but the minute you touch anything, you have recklessly endangered my life and my child’s life.

Me having an abortion does not make you have an abortion.

This is not hard. You are not free to smoke in a theater.  For the same damn reason. Air belongs to all of us and we cannot section off the crazy damn fool part.

Internationally known fool, which is not a title to be taken lightly with all the competition lately, Louie Gohmert, claims the Germans have preventative for Covid-19.

And, to make it sound even better, it’s a white mist.

“It is being used in Germany as a mist,” Gohmert said in an interview with a local Texas news station earlier this month. “Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed it is killed.”

You know, like magic.  Why hell, it’s practically the Jesus Mist!

Doctors in Germany are saying … “Whaaaaa?”

Several German doctors replied to questions from the American media and all of them said nope.

Thomas Ruttkowski, spokesman for the German Society of Hospital Hygiene, said there is no product like the one Gohmert described.

“I’m sorry, but we did not hear about that magic powder,” he said in an email. “Thank you for your mail. … Finally, something to laugh about.”

Gohmert also claims there’s an unnamed company in Arizona working on such a magic mist.  Arizona says nope, too.

But thanks for the laugh, Louie.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

I’m working on a paying job deadline right now but y’all have sent me a ton and half of links about the Astroturfing going on among these former tea partiers storming state capitols.

It ain’t real. It’s probably not the Russians this time.  It’s the insane greed thirsty capitalists.  They need to get people bak to work for minimum wage.

The players look like a Trump New Year’s Eve party.

Here’s a few links to get you started.

Mother Jones

BuzzFeed News

Copied from Reddit.

As an example, right now, this is happening in Orange County, CA.

Now, here’s a screenshot of the description of the “Operation Gridlock Los Angeles” group when it was first spotted by Buzzfeed News.

Concurrently, here’s a screenshot of the description of the “Operation Gridlock Tennessee” group.

But, hey… it’s Buzzfeed News right? Cool-cool-cool-cool-cool…

Here’s a link to the group “Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine” – sitting 55,281 members deep at the time of this post.

Okay…

Now here’s a link to the group “Minnesotans Against Excessive Quarantine” – presently with 18,938 members.

Why do these groups have the exact same description? Some of these domains are registered with the same registrar and were registered on the exact same day at the same time.

Please feel free to make of this what you will.  Hopefully I’ll finish my job this evening and come see what you’ve found on your own.