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August 18th<\/sup>, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Hours before the opening of the Democratic Convention, Trump tried to grab the headlines that he would be making a very, very important pardon the next day.<\/p>\n

A lot of people thought he might pardon Julian Assange, if for no other reason than it would annoy American intelligence agencies. Even Trump couldn\u2019t quite dare pardoning Snowden, who is more of a loose cannon. Now, my own opinion was the pardon couldn\u2019t be all that important, since Hitler blew his brains out 75 years ago and even Trump wouldn\u2019t be able to rehabilitate him. Granted, I was joking, but Trump, like most right wing whacks, will do ANYTHING if he thinks it might annoy a liberal. Honoring Hitler has a proven track record of annoying liberals. And since Trump is reduced to thinking anyone not in Qanon or the Nazi Party is a liberal, that\u2019s a satisfyingly large audience to antagonize.<\/p>\n

So today, he pardoned…Susan B. Anthony. Now, there\u2019s nothing wrong with the pardon itself. The 19th<\/sup> century suffragent was convicted under an unfair and unjust law, one that was struck down some 48 years later and 14 years after her death. She\u2019s since been widely honored, becoming the first actual woman to be on a US coin.<\/p>\n

But in the middle of a vast campaign to persuade voters that permitting mail-in voting would cause vast amounts of voter fraud and thus would justify disenfranchising millions of Americans, he just pardoned someone for committing the crime of \u2026 voter fraud. Yes, that\u2019s right. Anthony was convicted and jailed for voting under false pretences, ie, pretending to be a male. A US male, if you will.<\/p>\n

Trump had various loony toons from the anti-abortion movement with him as he signed the pardon. The no-choicers had decided, based on precious little evidence, that Anthony was anti-abortion. While she surely opposed the practice of forcing women to have abortions against their will, there\u2019s no record of her opinion on the right of women to elect to have an abortion. Indeed, while abortion was fairly common place despite being sometimes illegal in some states, it wasn\u2019t a big issue since the country wasn\u2019t overrun with pseudo-religious nutjobs who mistook their own personal squeamishness for a natural law of the universe.<\/p>\n

Some wondered if Trump was taking a shot of some sort at Michelle Obama. The former first lady had just decimated Trump in a speech at the DNC, declaring Trump \u201cin over his head\u201d and deadpanning, \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d Trump was in an open fury the next morning, banging around on Twitter like a nervous cat in a box with exploding ladyfingers. If he was trying to show up Little Miss \u201cIt Is What It Is\u201d he missed badly.<\/p>\n

Having put that nasty little negress in her place (and I\u2019m pleased to see my spell checker didn\u2019t like that word), Trump went after Jacinda Ardern, another strong women who has humiliated Trump in the past (they are legion, you know). Having just finished eulogizing his brother for having the grace and courage not to be jealous of Donald\u2019s superiority and brilliance, he attacked Ardern and New Zealand for having an outbreak of Covid-19. \u201cThe places they were using to hold up now they\u2019re having a big surge \u2026 they were holding up names of countries and now they\u2019re saying \u2018whoops! Do you see what\u2019s happening in New Zealand? They beat it, they beat it, it was like front-page news because they wanted to show me something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cBig Surge\u201d was nine new cases in one day. Under Trump\u2019s leadership, the United States has more than nine new cases each and every second of every day. The second wave is arriving\u2014there has been a surge of new cases throughout Europe (where the disease actually originated) and Asia. New Zealand had been doing extraordinarily well fighting the plague (the best, as opposed to Trump\u2019s America, which has been the worst) but this is a pernicious disease.<\/p>\n

Perhaps if Trump is really lucky, a child will die in New Zealand. Then he can use that to justify the ten thousand or so children in the US who are likely to die from his push to have the schools reopen.<\/p>\n

Finally, just in case anyone is feeling a need to ironically mock the American leader, Trump yesterday teamed up with that con artist Mike Lindell, who shills pillows on the television to hawk the latest miracle cure for Covid-19: Oleander. The compound, called oleandrin, is toxic, and has no known efficacy against Covid-19. One expert wrote, “Oleandrin? Yeah that would definitely end up killing people,” tweeted David Juurlink, MD, PhD<\/a>, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto. Trump is pressing for the FDA to give it a handwave approval, desperate for a miracle cure before the election and willing to kill millions if need be to secure such.<\/p>\n

I hereby urge Trump and everyone who supports him to take oleandrin and let us know how it works out. After all, it won\u2019t kill all of them, and they should be prepared to risk their all for Donald.<\/p>\n

And we can bury the unlucky ones in the same graveyard where we just buried satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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