And now for the most important of this bunch, and, to no one's surprise, it's not really sports...

There have been a couple of criticisms leveled against me from known readers of the blog...

1) I have Tom Brady living rent free in my head.

2) There are more important problems.

I'll cop to the latter, and that's the subject of this post.

I have become increasingly angry at the Right (and, more correctly, White Right) in this country for trying to use their version of "Freedom" (the warped view that only the legitimately-purposed productive -- read White cis-Male Christian Landowners -- have any rights whatsofuckingever) to put away the rest of us for good, or put us six feet under.

It's for this reason that I now believe this country has -- and past-tense HAS -- lost the fight to COVID-19.

And I think the ramifications of this situation are frighteningly-far reaching.

(And I'm going to try to keep this an "in general" situation.  A lot what I've written about in sports may be considered a more directed effect of this, but the fact is that I think there's far more importance, at this point, because of what's about to happen in November.)

The fact is, we are already seeing the loss of our rights not to get infected -- the mask mandates, the vaccine mandates, what have you.

(To wit I ask the twits:  What separates this from the vaccines children have to have given to them to attend school, or are they next once everything hits the table?)

At what point are they just going to say that they've won and COVID can run rampant with the rolling 5-10 million gone per cycle.

Keep in mind:  I do believe we've lost the better part of 3-5 million in the first place, even with all the mitigations attempted.  I believe we are going to see those mitigations outlawed.

Why?

Because COVID, to the Libertarians especially, is an opportunity to finally cull those of us too fat, lazy, unproductive, useless, or burdensome to the American country, society, and/or economy.

And they, the pussies they are, don't have to fire a shot.

Well, think of this frightening scenario (< 1 year):

If they get their way, no mandates, etc.

Explain to me how the government can govern on any other subject, if it's clear that a White Right Snowflake's rights not to have mitigation efforts enforced upon them to save them from a bioweapon virus trumps a rolling 3-5 million or more per cycle death toll.

This is a bioweapon.  Whether the dissemination of this bioweapon virus was intentionally "fired" into the First World or not, it is clear that this stupid White Right Snowflake situation falls into one of two camps:

Either there is no virus at all

or

They want the virus to spread as rapidly and as virulently as possible and kill as many liberals as they can.

Let's look at both cases here.

If there's no virus at all, White Right -- then IT'S OVER ALREADY.

Even by your admission, at that point, we would be in the very early nascent stages of a Kill List.  Vaccine, however you wanna do it, but the fact is, if there is no virus, morans, then we would be looking at a Kill List of people being eliminated, and the entire concept of a "free society" is already kaput and you're not getting it back.

(Or is that you are scared because you know that, under that scenario, you have no control over who is on the Kill List or how high they are...)

If there is a virus but you want everybody to get it, etc., you have two problems:  First, the virus is not discriminating politically.  Second, it is DEMONSTRATABLE FACT that those taking precautions and mitigation measures are dying at far less rates than those who do not.

But there's another issue here in the short/medium term:  There's a group and a concept called "Become Ungovernable".  

Do you guys on that side of the fence have any idea how many of us are only working within the system because we know what we end up doing if we are allowed to "Become Ungovernable"?

In short, be careful what you wish for.  You may get it.

And a manifestation of how you might get it comes in the other scenario which can frighten, in the longer term (1 year +):

Justice Breyer of the Supreme Court is retiring.

This means that, if the Republicans in the Senate can stonewall things (especially, now with a Democratic Senator in the hospital with a stroke, they have the functional majority, Sinema and Manchin aside!), they will have a 6-2 Supreme Court for the foreseeable future.

Now, it's January 2023.  The rout has happened, and the Republicans have a 40-seat majority in the House, 10 in the Senate, and that 6-2 Court.

Someone tell me what stops a January 3, 2023 BINDING Joint Resolution revoking the consent to the 2021 Electoral College count and a revocation of the 2020 Presidential election, on the grounds of the Q-Conspiracy led theory that Kamala Harris is not eligible for the office (rendering the Dem ticket illegal under the Constitution), and/or the increasing number of right-wing judges in states ruling mail-in voting unconstitutional.

At that point, at noon Eastern January 6, they install the person selected on the 3rd as Speaker of the House President, who then activates the White Right militias as an army under the Second Amendment.

And some of these people scoffing at the thought of naming Donald Trump the Speaker of the House don't get this scenario.  And do you think a 6-2 Conservative Supreme Court is going to stop it?

We need something to break and break hard, or we're beyond fucked and had best enjoy what little time we have left.