Give Me Liberty and Give Me Death

     OK, so you don't like the phrase "death cult" when appended to you and like-minded people.
     Tough shit, That's what you are.
     A death cult.
     You unquestioningly obey the merest dictates of a child molester on Twitter who's telling you to take your sorry selves (and, in the case of Virginia, its guns) straight to your state capitals, provided there's a Democrat governor who works within it to tie up traffic and put your screaming, red pusses on TV screens all over the country. And he's telling you to do this at a time when coronavirus / COVID-19 is spreading literally like wildfire in a nation that accounts for about 25% of the world's fatalities without giving the slightest thought as to whether or not doing this will get you infected with a fatal illness.
     That's a death cult. There's no two ways about it.
     You want to take your motorboats out. You want to get your hair done. Spring's here and you want to enjoy it. We all do. I get it.
     What I don't get is your willingness to risk not only your own lives but the lives of others who aren't quite as suicidal. And when you take to the streets to say stupid shit like, "I don't believe there's a coronavirus because I don't trust the Democratic party" and, "It's just another flu," you're running the risk of sending yourselves and innocents to hospitals that are already overworked, undermanned and short-supplied because said pedophile on Twitter currently masquarding as the president of the United States is actively stealing supplies from various states (perhaps even yours) as well as nations who are supposed to be our allies.
     Jesus Christ, Trump might as well be on a throne with a microphone in his tiny hand and telling you all to drink the Koolaid or armed security will shoot you.
     What few of you who are actually complaining about not being able to go back to work seem to forget is that if the SBA and the management of the CARES funds were worth a shit, your employer just might be able to get a loan to keep your paychecks coming and an assurance your jobs would be waiting for you when things return to a semblance of normal. Then you wouldn't need a onetime stimulus check of $1200 that you deride as "welfare" (while being blithely ignorant of the half a trillion dollars that Wall Street got after just a few weeks after the economy began to tank or the $1.4 trillion tax scam bill of 2018 in which 83% of that money, which would sure come in fucking handy right now, was vacuumed straight to the 1% but, please, continue railing about what little your Republican reps on Capitol Hill were willing to give you after pissing and moaning about it).
     What you recycled teabaggers don't seem to realize is you're being used. You're being astroturfed yet again just as you were a decade ago. Your idiotic, bullshit protests in various state capitals are organized, timed, funded and publicized by right wing astroturf organizations with close ties to the DeVos family and other rich scumbags who'll never know if you contract coronavirus or care if you die from it. You're being used as window dressing. Fuck all, they even make your signage in the same exact font and that they pathetically try to pass off as actual homemade signs. Who put them in your hands? Did you even ask how they could pay for it or who had?
     You're all being used as loud window dressing, stage props in a sick, right wing drama that might as well be entitled, "Give Me Liberty And Give Me Death."
     It's all supposed to manufacture consensus that really isn't there, the Nixonian "silent majority" trope that all fascists like to use to gin up anger and resentment at people who hold elected office within a certain political party that's currently out of favor with the current fascist in the Oval Office.
     You've been had. And you keep falling for it because, like a pathetic incel who gets all his hot dating tips off men's room walls, you get 100% of your news from Trump's Twitter feed and Fox "News", both of whom busting a nut trying to gin up the fake outrage they've decided you should feel. And why are they doing that?
     Because Election Day is in less than seven months. And the "president" is anxious that his one big campaign platform plank, the economy, is still going to be in the shitter come November 3rd and that, once he's thrown out of office, he'll be vulnerable to all sorts of litigation. He wants to get Wall Street's numbers back up and had even admitted that if 200,000 of us die, it'll still be a job well done.
     That's why he wants you back at work. That's why, when the federal response to battling this pandemic still hasn't even really begun, he'd already organized a task force to get America back to work and is even tying it to your individual liberties that he never gave a flying fuck about. Because he knows that, plus the 2nd Amendment, are always guaranteed to push those buttons in your simple, reptilian brains.
     And now you're even going after your Republican governors in states such as Arizona and Idaho, deeply crimson states in which even those governors issued shelter-in-place orders. You're even invoking Holocaust imagery, a Holocaust that many of you actually believe never happened.
     Look, guys, I personally don't give a fuck about your lives and if you choose to put them at hazard but I care about the ones of more sensible-minded folk who are trying to take the necessary precautions and aren't making idiots of themselves in public screaming about Socialism and how social distancing is "Communist." You're putting innocent people at risk and threatening to make the lives of hospital workers infinitely more difficult.
     Just stop with the death cult bullshit and try to responsibly ride this out like the rest of us without making things worse. This isn't about you, your uncoiffed hair or your motorboats or unpainted sheds. This is about the survival of the human race. This isn't a seasonal flu bug, this isn't a Democrat hoax and this isn't liberal alarmism. I wish to God it was.
     This is the decimation of the human race. This disease is now in at least 184 of the world's 194 sovereign nations. It has infected nearly two and a half million people, had killed 170,000 human beings, 42,560, or a quarter of them, from right here in the United States, which for the second month running is the planet's new Ground Zero.
     And part of that is because of morons like you.
     Just fucking stop it.