3 Governors Who Want To Kill Their Own Citizens

There are three governors who have been judged so dangerously incompetent that none can be singled out as the worst pandemic governor in America and all three share the spot: Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Brian Kemp of Georgia. Because all have opposed sane social distancing policies, thousands of their states' citizens have been infected. California now has 865 confirmed COVID-19 cases per one million in the population. South Dakota-- compliments of Noem-- has 2,031 cases per million (up from 1,950 yesterday). Florida has 1,335 cases/million (up from 1,314 yesterday) and Georgia has 1,931 cases per million (up from 1,884). The governors of these three states have implemented policies that will absolutely steepen the curve instead of flatten it. It's as if Noem, DeSantis and Kemp were all homicidal maniacs intent on causing their own populations to become infected.

As Georgia hurtles towards the 20,000 cases mark-- another 482 confirmed infections and 24 more deaths yesterday-- Kemp has decided to re-open restaurants, movie theaters, hair salons, barber shops, tattoo parlors and gyms as well as other businesses in his state. He's using Georgians as an experiment in curve-steepening (and as a test of Darwin's "survival of the fittest" law).




Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told ABC News that she's "extremely concerned about the announcement the governor made. I hope that he's right and I'm wrong because if he's wrong then more people will die." Watch her short interview above with CNN's Chris Cuomo yesterday. Cuomo mentioned that the curve seems to be starting to flatten in Atlanta. She noted that "If we're in a better position, it's because we have been aggressive in asking people to stay home... As I look at the data and as I talk with our public health officials, I don't see that it's based on anything logical."

Even the crazy right-wing senator next door, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is hissing that Kemp is opening up too much and too soon, worried that the contagion from Georgia will engulf his ownstate.

Nabilah Islam, the hands down best of the dozen candidates running for the open 7th congressional district seat in the suburbs north of Atlanta, wasn't exactly thrilled with Kemp's latest stunt. "For someone who claims to be pro-life," she told me last night, "Kemp's decision to begin to reopening Georgia after only recently finding out that asymptomatic people can spread the novel Coronavirus is anything but. Governor Kemp was one of the last to issue a shelter in place and is one of the first to open. To no one's surprise, the businesses he's choosing to open first are traditionally minority-owned businesses-- barbershops, nail salons being predominantly owned by populations of the electorate that voted against him in 2018. He has no desire to protect lives. His only desire is profit as with the rest of the Republican Party. Putting people first is not on their list of prerogatives."

Fiends of mine in Texas have asked me not to leave out their state, where the Governor is a complete dolt. True, but the Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, has more power and is an even bigger dolt. He was on Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight Monday babbling away like an imbecile that "there are more important things than living." Money.





In at least one state, though, an increase in infections can't be blamed on the governor. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, though hampered by a legislature firmly controlled by the Republican Party Death Cult, moved to flatten the curve with regulations and tried to prevent in-person voting. The legislature took the case in favor of infecting the citizens of the state to the state and national Supreme Court-- each controlled by the Republican Party Death Cult-- and each court, by narrow party-line votes, ruled in favor of the pandemic.

The April 7 primary was on a day when infections were dropping because of social distancing policies (138 new cases that day, down from 173 new cases the day before). The governor's executive order helped bring the rate of infection down to just 87 new cases on April 12. A week after the forced in-person election, the infection rate began spiking-- back up to 166 per day. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik has said that so far 7 new cases in the city have been traced to the forced election-- six voters and one poll worker.

"As you recall, there were people that were in line for a very long time to get their vote in, so if you figure out around a range of time when someone was there or in the polling sites or in the line, connect to someone who was an actual case, that's when we would do notifications," she said.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said about 3,500 voters came to each of the city's five voting sites and dozens of workers were there as well.

"This will tell you why we were so adamant about trying to not have this occur," he said, referring calls to cancel in-person voting.

Yesterday, the Washington Post released a new poll it did in conjunction with the University of Maryland. Scott Clement and Dan Balz reported that the poll shows governors winning "praise across the political spectrum for their leadership, which has sometimes put them sharply at odds with Trump and his administration."

I wish it broke that praise down by state. It's hard to imagine that incompetents like Kemp, Noem and DeSantis could be winning much praise for their pandemic skills. This seemed to be borne out by most Americans-- 54%-- giving Señor Trumpanzee negative marks for his handling of the pandemic. By contrast, 72 percent of Americans give positive ratings to the governors of their states for the way they have dealt with the crisis.

Personal health concerns are widespread, with 57 percent saying they are “very” or “somewhat” worried about becoming infected and seriously ill from the coronavirus, including at least 40 percent of people in every major demographic and political group. For those most concerned, the fear was enough to override partisanship when it comes to the safety of public gatherings, particularly for Republicans.

...[I]n contrast with that overt pressure to reopen the country, the poll finds a clear majority of Americans expect social distancing practices will be necessary until at least the beginning of the summer.

Asked when people expect the outbreak to be controlled enough that people can safely attend gatherings of 10 or more people, just 10 percent predict such gatherings would be safe by the end of April or earlier, while another 21 percent expect them to be safe by the end of May. More than twice as many-- 65 percent-- say it may take until June or later for people to safely gather in groups of 10 or more.

Partisans divide on this question, with 77 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents saying they expect public gatherings will not be safe until June or later, compared with 51 percent of Republicans and Republican leaners who say the same. Yet Republicans split depending on personal health concerns.

Among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who are less worried about becoming infected and seriously ill from the coronavirus, 60 percent expect public gatherings will be safe by the end of May or earlier. But among Republicans who are at least somewhat concerned about becoming seriously sick, 66 percent say this will take until June, not far from the share of all Democrats who anticipate such a delay.

Americans are also pessimistic about how quickly the economy will recover after the outbreak is under control. A 63 percent majority expect the economy will recover slowly, while 37 percent think it will recover quickly. Trump has predicted a rapid recovery once businesses reopen, and his optimism is shared by 55 percent of Republicans. Most independents and Democrats expect a slow recovery.

In the meantime, Americans are actively taking part in measures meant to stem the spread of the virus. Most-- 65 percent-- report wearing a mask or a face covering when leaving home in the past week. Another 17 percent say they did not leave home at all. Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say they had worn a mask or not left home at all.

The Republican Party-- even at a grassroots level-- is a death cult and is driven towards steepening the curve. If 82% of Americans say they wear a mask in public or don't leave their houses at all, that still leaves almost 20% of the population willing to risk death, risk infecting their loved ones, risk keeping the pandemic growing. They are a real danger. I was happy this week to see Louisiana psychopath-pastor Tony Spell arrested again. Hopefully this time they'll throw away the key instead of letting him out like they did last time. Unlike earlier reports that said he was arrested for encouraging large gatherings at his church so he could continue to fleece his flock, the money-hungry right-wing pastor was actually arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for attempting to back a bus into a protester.

Extra, Extra! Mind Parasites Attack Republicans!

Georgia senator/hate monger

-by Noah

Is there any other explanation for the behavior of today’s Republican Party?

Are they just born that way? Is the Republican lifestyle a choice? Is there a crackpot gene? Or, have mind parasites taken over Republican brains?

In this post, I will give you two examples of just how far the mind rot has set in amongst Republicans. They walk among us, my friends. They might even dress a little like you or I. However, let’s face it, most of them have a weird dead look in their eyes and they dress like the most ridiculous frat boys or sorority sisters you ever knew. You know, like some cross between a department store mannequin sporting the latest in spring tennis or cruise fashions and bow-tied Tucker Carlson.

The Republican Party of my parents’ era is long, long, GONE. Ike is spinning in his grave at the speed of light. More and more proof that today’s Republicans have gone completely insane and that their party is now one of history’s horror shows arrives on an almost hourly schedule, and I don’t mean Donald Trump’s tweets, although, yes, they do make the mind rot/insanity case very well.

Back when I was in college, I read Colin Wilson’s The Mind Parasites. Yeah, I was probably supposed to be reading something else, so maybe, just maybe, I read this wonderful book as part of a self-proclaimed summer reading list. Summer is just about here, so, if you’ve never read it, now may be the time. It’s gonna be a long, hot, grotesque election year summer folks and The Mind Parasites just may put it all in perspective for you. Here’s the quickie amazon “review” of the book:

Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity’s extinction. They can be fought off with one weapon only: the mind…

Tell me. Does anything better describe that crazy Republican uncle or soul-crushing Republican coworker you know? Does anything better describe the humanity-threatening, life-force sapping actions of Mitch McConnell or Paul “Crazy Eyes” Ryan, aka Speaker of the House and Endorser of Donald Trump? Does anything better describe the cause, not just of Donald Trump’s insane wee-hour tweets and daily gjbberish, and the actions of all those republicans who cheer Trump’s obvious mental impairment? Those who became republicans maybe just could not resist the parasites. Maybe it was their parents. Maybe it was dear old grandpa, but somewhere a long the line…

Oh yeah, here are those two examples of extreme mind rot I mentioned. I’ll rest my case on these two lunatics and those who voted for them, but, yeah, as we all know, there’s a lot more where this came from. These two are just from the last few days:

1. U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA): I don’t know if this jerk is related to the chicken guy but, really, who cares? Although, after reading this, you may want to boycott Perdue chicken products just for the name alone.

Late last week, Perdue was a featured speaker at a Christian Hate Fest that goes by the fancy name of “The Faith and Freedom Summit”. Imagine yourself in a room chock full of… glassy eyed, Bible-thumping, scripture twisters who paid good money, not towards acts of Christian good works, but to bake themselves in a the goo of glorious days and days of religious pandering and worshipping false gods; gods like Perdue and The Donald, who was also invited to speak in tongues as he does so well.

Perdue wowed this crowd of Republican miscreants by offering that he had a very specific prayer in mind for President Obama. He even asked that they help him with it, since, they, being such fine Christians, would know it so well. Perdue’s prayer comes from Psalms 109:8. And it goes like this:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following, let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sins of his mother be blotted out.

Nice, huh? Now that’s what we call being sooo Christian. Perdue apologists are now, disingenuously saying that he only offered the first line; that he didn’t really mean, blah, blah, blah. Horseshit, he knew what he was saying and he knew his audience knew the whole prayer, which, remember, he asked them to help him with. He delivered his message and the nutballs got it loud and clear, cheering raucously.

These idiots are always so caught off guard when someone actually records their hate. Do not be surprised if Perdue ends up getting serious consideration for the VP slot on Trump’s ticket; that is if Herr Trump doesn’t implode completely before or during the Republican convention. You could even consider Perdue’s despicable suggestion as his audition for the job. He knows his party.

Faith and Freedom Summit, my ass.

By the way, his fellow Repugs actually consider Perdue to be a moderate. Stuff like this proves what we’ve known all along, and that is that if someone did manage to make Republican dreams come true and actually make the president’s daughters fatherless, it would be a great day of high fives in Republican World. Like I said: Mind Parasites.

2. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (Republican, what else?): Do you think Perdue crossed a line due to the crossed wires in his brain? If so, this assclown just won the broad jump gold medal for the Republican Olympics.

Just like Trump couldn’t wait to make the Orlando killings all about himself with one of his patented KKKrazy Tweets ™, Dan Patrick, a man with a history of virulent homophobia, and, the elected Lt. Governor of our biggest nutball state, had to weigh in. Like Perdue, Patrick also used the Bible for his own cretinous purposes, quoting Galatians 6:7 just hours after the attack in Orlando:

Do not be deceived:
God cannot be mocked.
A man reaps what he sows.

The above Bible quotation from Patrick was tweeted out at 7:00am, a whole 4 hours or thereabouts after the attack. I guess he, or his staff (same thing really) just could not wait to, like some al Qaeda goon, proclaim God’s justice.

Another (so-called Christian) homophobe, Arizona Baptist Pastor Steven Anderson. He also couldn’t wait. Here, for context, is just part of his Sunday morning proclamation:

The good news is that a least 50 of these pedophiles are not going to be harming children anymore. The bad news is that a lot of the homos in the bar are still alive, so they’re going to continue to molest children and recruit people into their filthy homosexual lifestyle.

Now, if I wanted to be snide (Who? Me?), I might say something about how maybe he was referring, if not to himself, maybe some Catholic priests. You can read more about Pastor Anderson’s Sunday morning message to his appreciative flock at the link. You can even see him deliver it. Warning, this alleged man of God is not for the faint of heart. Anderson wasn’t the only pastor-hater.

By the way, as an aside here; the origin of the word ‘cretin’ or ‘cretinous’ comes from the Latin, Vulgar Latin to be precise but, Latin all the same. The Vulgar Latin word was ‘Christianus’ or ‘Christian’. The Romans use of the word was also, as should be expected, given the times, not all that flattering. Maybe they were on to something, if they had certain so-called people in our society in mind.

Patrick had just hosted the annual Republican Lt. Governors Association (RLGA) confab in Austin. The RLGA’s website features prominent endorsements by fellow virulent homophobe Rev. Mike Huckabbe and the onerous Ralph Reed. Patrick has been particularly set off on a crusade against our LGBT brothers and sisters in reaction to President Obama’s guidance on transgender student issues such as a student being able to use school rest rooms according to whichever gender they identify with.

As criticism from normal people and even from some republicans mounted later on Sunday morning, Patrick refused to back down. Blowing his one opportunity to at least make it look like it was all a big mistake, he doubled down with another Bible quote. Shortly after, ISIS also expressed jubilation by claiming credit for the attack. Here’s Patrick’s Bible quote fro Psalm 37:39:

The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; he is their
Stronghold in time of trouble.

This is one very sick whatever; man? Choose your own noun. Patrick eventually got the message, though, and removed his tweets. No doubt, he doesn’t understand or care about what he did wrong but he felt the wind blowing against him. Poor, abused Danny! He even tried to play the usual republican victim card. It must be that “war on Christianity” thing. To Patrick and people like him, their positions are all part of a wider fascist authoritarian ideology. Like other Nazis, Republicans go after those they see as ‘different’ in an attempt to ostracize and destroy.

I mentioned Huckabee before. Not long ago when he and former Texas Governor Rick Perry were both running for the republican nomination, they attended another hate fest confab. This one was held by Pastor Kevin Swanson; a Christian preacher known for his declarations that gays must “convert” to heterosexuality or be killed. Love they neighbor indeed!



As I said, Patrick eventually did remove his tweets, with his office making noises that it was all just a big coincidence, that his tweets are planned ahead, etc., as if that somehow changed the meaning of the tweet. I mean, come on! Before or after, we know how Patrick feels about gay people. Period. And, how many of you schedule your tweets? Does this hideous sample of Texan humanity think so highly of himself that he thinks the multitudes are just waiting for his tiny pearls of wisdom, tweeted out like droplets of gold or manna from heaven? Does he issue a schedule in advance so his followers can breathlessly await those few words?

In recent years, there has been a lot of incitement against gay people and latinos. Pulse was not the first gay bar or club to be attacked. It was, however, the first one attacked by a Muslim, and it was the worst one in terms of numbers killed and wounded.

The facts of the case are still coming in but now it seems that the killer, real terrorist or not, might have had some confliction and guilt issues about his own sexuality.

If only so many religions groups and political groups in our society didn’t see being gay, or latino, or being of color, for that matter, as being wrong, somehow inferior, and worthy of death, and whine and bitch and preach to anyone who will listen, maybe some of these incidents wouldn’t happen. One has to ask if what happened in Orlando was the inevitable result of years of incitement to mayhem screamed out by right wing politicians, preachers, and their media cohorts. Remember former republican candidate Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 on gay people? This has been going on for a very long time; way, way too long.

This attack was a trifecta for the haters, gay, latino, of color; a perfect storm with the added bonus that the perpetrator was a Muslim. The likes of Trump and the usual FOX “News” gaggle couldn’t wait to scream about carpet bombing Iraq and Syria because the killer included ISIS in a litany of terror groups, some of whom even hate eachother, that he was proclaiming allegiance to just before he started emptying his clips.

Funny how the same people and their like didn’t want to bomb Michigan when we found out that that was where Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices hatched their plot to bring down the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, or go bomb some Christian Identity people in Idaho who were/are McVeigh sympathizers. Oh, that’s right. McVeigh wasn’t a Muslim, or maybe a Mexican. For some reason, Republicans just don’t get quite so upset if the killer is a Christian who bombs the Olympics or a clinic, or some other gay club. It must be those Mind Parasites again, doing their dastardly work, or, is it just not as upsetting when it’s one of their own team that’s doing the bombing or the shooting?



There are not enough mental institutions in our country to house all of these people.

So, like Perdue, Patrick says he didn’t really mean it. Two sick politicians who believe in “The Lord’s retribution!”

This stuff is all the result of the years of endless hateful spew of other mind parasite-infested lowlife buffoons like Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and their ilk. You know the names an they have followers. In total, they are what amounts to an American Taliban. It’s the same spew, at times, even word for word, that the right of the 1960s directed towards JFK and MLK. This is how today’s republicans think, folks. If you didn’t know who was actually saying these things, especially when they make a warped use the Bible (or the Constitution) as their justification, you could be excused for assuming that their words were coming from the mouths of Muslim extremists, not Republicans.

You can’t make deals in Washington or in State Houses with people like this; people that are so warped and damaged before they even walk into the room. Is it the Mind Parasites? No, you say? OK. Then maybe republicans are just totally evil assholes to begin with; no parasites needed. The end result will be the same, unless we can use our minds to beat them. They’re multiplying fast.