The Republican Party is Choking Itself Out

     And I don't mean in a furtive David Carradine "Let's see if I can make myself ejaculate further by choking myself in the closet and hope the chambermaid doesn't find my rotting corpse" sort of way.

     This is a very, very public self-choking out due to nearly a year of flouting health regulations, denying the existence of the most palpably obvious and deadliest pandemic in over a century, gagging and even waging propaganda campaigns against trusted public health officials and publicly mocking those who wear masks and are generally responsible and trying to play their part in the interests of public health.

     I'm speaking, of course, about the Republican fucking Party, that bloated Fifth Column movement stuffed with Luddites that doesn't recognize melting ice when it sees it even when chunks of ice the size of Rhode Island calve and break off the Arctic shelf. Yeah, that party.

     Well, it seems that in the constant sick call we've been hearing since Thursday night, although I could go back to last spring and summer when "Congressman Covid" Louis Gohmert, Rand "The Swedish Model" Paul and Mark Meadows contracted the virus, the names are all of Republicans.

     I guess this was the October Surprise that Trump and Bill Bar in his creepy Peter Lorre voice had been balefully promising us all summer but it's anything but a surprise. In fact, one is wondering why the coronavirus showed Trump so much forbearance regarding Trump, who'd been publicly seen wearing a mask on just two, perhaps three occasions, the first being at, ironically, Walter Reed, the same hospital at which he's now a patient.

     And now, the same exact vicious pricks who short-stroked themselves whenever Trump the sociopath mocked war heroes, the disabled, the war dead and others he deemed weak, "losers" and "suckers", are now, in between wheezes and gasps, demanding "empathy." (As you can expect, Russian State TV has already offered theirs to "their candidate".)

     By Thursday/Friday night, we'd heard that Trump and Melania had COVID just hours after learning that Hope Hicks had come down with it. Then it was Ronna McDaniel, the RNC Chairwomen, then Senator Mike Lee and the president of Notre Dame University, Fr. John Jenkins. We'd learned that Amy Coney Barrett had had coronavirus last summer. Then Kellyanne Conway.

     Today had brought the news that more Republicans have contracted coronavirus or COVID-19:

     Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Thom Tillis of North Carolina (who's also up for reelection this year) have it. Trump's campaign manager has it and Chris Christie, who was at the White House from Saturday until Tuesday, now has it.

     The Republican Party is imploding from within because of its medieval attitude toward science and the advice of health experts. Trump's campaign is broke, partly because of him diverting tens of millions to cover legal fees and former campaign manager Brad Parscale (R-COPS: Fort Lauderdale) likely skimming $40,000,000 off the top to buy houses, luxury cars and a boat.

     It's all but written on the wall the Democrats will widen their lead in the House and retake the Senate. And now, with Trump in the hospital, the rest of the election season is up in the air, to say the least, and Joe Biden is literally the last man standing on the campaign trail. Yet, this party is still in charge of the White House, the Supreme Court and half of Congress. Yet we still don't know who's in charge of the country and the government.

     Doesn't that just heighten your sense of security?

     We haven't had a president die in office since Kennedy was shot and killed nearly 57 years ago. The 1947 Succession Act and 25th Amendment should clearly spell out the succession of power yet even that's already been called into question. And hardly anyone has asked what will happen in the unprecedented event a major presidential candidate dies on the campaign trail? The closest we'd come to that was when newspaper editor Horace Greeley was the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 and Greeley died a month after the election.

     Well, the answer to that question is, "a mess."

     Just as the virus immediately exposed the mighty bull of Wall Street and our economy that was supposed to be the envy of the world as just a writhing nest of One Percent grifters looking to make the biggest bucks in the shortest amount of time with no long-term strategy much less, ha ha, economic stewardship, so the virus has successfully tested our own political stability down to the very succession of power outlined in a 1947 Act of Congress and a Constitutional Amendment.

     Meanwhile, I defy anyone reading this to give me the name of even one Democratic figure on Capitol Hill who's been diagnosed with the virus, especially after Thursday night.

     You can't. Because the Democrats, while most certainly having their flaws, nonetheless do not belong to Trump's suicide death cult and are at least acting responsibly during this pandemic. You can't even remotely say the GOP as a whole has been doing the same thing. All the Fools on the Hill who have caught this virus are Republicans, proving one thing- If you politicize a pandemic, then it WILL be politically divided in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy