We have now been in isolation for 129 days while the president and the morons in Austin spin gossamer tales and fantastical fantasies ignoring the simplicity of science.  As Neil deGrass Tyson famously said, “The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.”  Cases of Coronavirus have exploded in not only Texas, but other red states like Florida, Georgia, Arizona, and Oklahoma.  Even California continues to be threatened due to the idiocy of some of its populace.

Those of us at most risk try to protect ourselves while our leaders do nothing to actually do anything to help.  I’ve never felt so exposed to risk since my draft lottery in 1971 during the horror of the war Viet Nam.  I have no confidence in our state government, and certainly not in the federal government that has devolved into a fascist regime run by criminals and screwballs.  And while all this is crashing down around our ears, what is Trump doing?  Besides firebombing by tweet, he’s sending out federal agents in unidentified combat uniforms carrying weapons of war and driving in unmarked vehicles to attack peaceful protestors against the very violence these stormtroopers are committing.  Against the orders of state and local authorities, Trump has sent these goons in for his own political purposes, trying to appear powerful in the face of his own abject ignorance and weakness.  The result?  Peaceful protests have become violent, turned so by the very agents Trump has declared are there to enforce the peace.  Last night, the mayor of Portland was actually gassed by federal goons in unmarked uniforms while he was speaking to his own people.

This. Is. Enough.  We all know the mental and moral state of the most corrupt president in US history.  He doesn’t care if you live or die, and has actually become the leading cause of death in the US after his unimaginable recklessness and gross negligence as the pandemic exploded in our country during the last six months.  Trump’s most recent assault on American’s constitutional rights and common decency by his unidentified goons has been exposed by Reuters and the Lawfare blog, showing documents that articulate a strategy of “protecting” monuments and federal property from “violent criminals” in America’s cities.  Of course, that’s not at all what they’re actually doing.  What they’re actually doing is starting violence where no violence existed in order to justify Trump expanding this to other cities to cause more violence to give Trump the excuse to expand…you get the drill.

All of this effort was organized in secret by Trumpists in the WH and “acting” officials in the DHS.  It’s designed in such a way that its secrecy makes it almost impossible to exercise oversight by the Congress.  This operation certainly requires funding by illegally using money appropriated for other purposes.  And all this is happening with McConnell laying down and allowing Trump to do what he wants, when he wants as he destroys what’s left of our democracy.

To summarize – Trump is violating the Constitution, federal laws, and two centuries of practice in not using federal forces on its own people.  DHS was founded as a knee-jerk reaction to the 911 attacks.  The problem is that having DHS consolidates too much authority in too few officials with not enough oversight by the legislative and judicial branches.  The DHS must be broken up post haste.  I know that won’t happen any time soon, but this is just one more righting of a wrong on the list of thousands of wrongs that must be fixed after we fumigate the WH and the Senate.

I’m getting emails about what’s going on at the Chinese consulate in Houston.  I don’t have any inside information.

The State Department ordered it closed down “in order to protect American intellectual property and Americans’ private information.”  So, that’s Mike Pompeo.

Last night the police and fire department were called to the scene in midtown Houston because people inside the courtyard of the consulate could be seen burning papers inside of trash cans.

They have until Friday afternoon to completely leave the building.

That’s all I know but I’ll update if I learn anything else.

Florida Governor Rick Scott is pushing to open public schools, but his grandchildren aren’t going.

He says parents should have a “choice” between distance learning and brick-and-mortar buildings.

His grandchildren will chose distance learning.

“My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe,” Scott told Varney.

So, he’s saying that brick-and-mortar in-person school is not safe.  So, why would people make the choice to send their children to a place that’s not safe?

Rick has an answer.

“Other parents are going to want to make sure their kids are in the classroom.”

Scott said parents have their own reasons for sending their kids to school, such as free lunches.“

Some [parents] are going to do it because it’s a way for students to get a subsidized meal, things like that,” Scott said.

Excuse me for a minute while I bang my head against the wall.

Florida is at a place where children have to risk their lives to get food. Children have to play Corona-Roulette to sustain life.  That’s where good ole Republican Florida is.

So, public school is only good enough for poor kids? Kids of parents who are out of work? Kids who have sick parents?

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is probably the most anti-mask person on earth.  He’s suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms because she wants to require masks in Atlanta.

After all the hullabaloo over him and masks, Trump’s new view on the virus moved Kemp’s soul or somebody took him down to the river and bashed his head on the rocks instead of baptizing him. I don’t know which one but I’m betting on the rock thing.

Kemp put on his preaching clothes, held up a science book he’s never read and had something to say —

He also wants them to wash their hands“several times throughout the day,” and practice social distancing.  Damn, why didn’t we think of that?

I do not think he has a plan for all those people he scared to death about wearing a mask.  Maybe he’ll go out to the cemetery and apologize.

“Trump is morphing DHS into his private little rogue, secret army.”

— Paul Rosenzweig, a senior policy official at the DHS during the George W. Bush administration.

With Trump sending his army into cities with Democratic mayors. I know the chaos he thinks will put him back in the White.  He’s looking for 1968 to happen all over again.  I am sure of it.

I believe there will be attacks against this alien army – triggered by one of Trump’s people with a belly filled with Kool Aid. They will put on a hippie tee-shirt and start a riot.

I am frightened.

Where are all the Republican voices against big government or secret police?  Did they all turn into crickets?

I saw the look of pleasure on Trump’s face when he walked across the street to pose for a picture, injuring people so he could look important in front of the military men he drug with him.

It scared me.

Momma would not mind me posting this because it just goes to show that Florida Republicans were not raised properly.

Ted Yoho accosted AOC on the steps of the capitol.  He was a total jerk.  Following a discussion …

The two then parted ways. Ocasio-Cortez headed into the building, while Yoho, joined by Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), began descending toward the House office buildings. A few steps down, Yoho offered a parting thought to no one in particular.

“Fucking bitch,” he said.

Go on home, Ted, and exilian your clever comment to the church ladies in your district.  Knowing hem, they’ll put it in the Book of Common Prayer.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.