Schmaltz und Grieben

 

 

 

 

September 2o20

09/29/2020:

 

ANYONE? BUELLER? ... care to go on record about the president 's massive, Trump-Tower-sized motive for throwing the election, after the disclosure that he doesn't pay income taxes, is broke, has three hundred million dollars of  personal debt, and will be indicted for criminal charges the minute he leaves (or more likely, is removed from) office?

Because, like, right now would be a great time to mention that, y'know?

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09/26/2020:

 

ATTENTION REPUBLICANS: When you lose your honor, you lose everything, and you have nowhere left to go.

Also: What a wonderful world you want your kids and grandkids to grow up in, where they'll never know freedom and everything, I mean everything, is for sale at the right price.

You should so be proud of what you've done for to this country.

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09/24/2020:

 

NEWS FLASH! Senator ron johnson (R-WI), possibly the most useless (except to the Kremlin) asshole in the entire United States Senate--and I should know, I'm one of his unfortunate constituents--has been assigned the thankless task by the drumpf of trying to find "dirt" on Joe Biden's son Hunter, who once served on the board of a Ukrainian (our allies, as opposed to the Russians, who are not, in case anyone isn't clear on that) gas company.

Now Fox News, always our forever friend in the pursuit of truth, justice and the American way NOT, is getting its frilly panties in a bundle because no one but Fox News (and drumpf, and rojo as we unfortunates call johnson) seems to care.

 

Some of us might forget that drumpf was, um, actually impeached for trying to coerce the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden as a precondition for receiving desperately-needed military aid to resist a Russian incursion.

So in a best-case scenario, tell me why in the world I or anyone else with a functioning brain is supposed to care what the Kremlin-praising rojo has to say about Hunter Biden's dealings in anything, unless Hunter Biden has chopped-up human bodies in his trunk? rojo, better try again when Putin isn't so obviously leading you around by your johnson (yeah, that was deliberate).

 

And kindly tell the rest of humanity what we're supposed to do with the worst-case scenario we actually find ourselves in, with a president who has announced that he will go to any and all lengths to install himself as dictator-for-life?

AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN??!?!?!??

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GO TO HELL. GO DIRECTLY TO HELL. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $2,000,000,000:

1) Whoever did this.

2) Mitch McConnell.

3) Donald Trump.

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09/16/2020:

 

IMAGE OF THE DAY: Smoke from the California wildfires is making for some hazy conditions here in Wisconsin. Sunset, September 15.

 

 

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09/14/2020:

 

YANKED RIGHT OUTTA THE SOCKET (September 13, Part II): I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea here. Many, many, many people in this country are in much worse shape than I (COVID victims, wildfire victims, hurricane victims, folks who have no choice but to keep working and risk their lives during the pandemic).

So maybe it's better to explain this as a "strange feeling" and not a complaint.

I was contemplating retiring next year (2021-2022 school year). I was already rehearsing my little retirement speech to the kids, many who have grown up with me as their bus driver (10 years on the same route!). I could already envision my retirement party at the Maple Tree Supper Club, which beyond being the place where our bus company throws retirement parties, is also my very favorite restaurant--also my wife's.

When we came in from our routes on Friday the Thirteenth of March, we were informed that due to COVID, school was officially over for the year. Just like that. It was like being yanked out of a wall socket. We knew something was coming, but we had no time to prepare.

After a long and disorienting weekend, it occurred to me that I might never see any of my kids again (we don't live in the same town) and that "official retirement" wasn't in the cards. I'm old enough to draw Social Security--though I hadn't yet, preferring to work while I was able even if my health is beginning to fade--and I correctly predicted that, with no federal government plan to contain the virus (here it is September with 200,000 dead, and we're STILL WAITING!) school was NOT going to start up in the fall.

It didn't.

TO BE CONTINUED

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09/13/2020:

  

SEPTEMBER 13: Well, let's begin with what this day represents.

Six months ago today, I was happily driving my school bus on a March Friday afternoon (the thirteenth, as it happened... makes it kinda hard to forget). The school year was almost done and I was going to spend the summer delivering new school buses all over the state. In the several years past I had driven summer school too, which kept me busy until the middle of July when I would start my deliveries and work till the end of August. But I had noticed in the past couple years that I could do with a longer break from the kids. So I decided I'd spend the whole summer basically on the road with the empty buses.

It had only been in past few weeks that I had begun to realize that at some point things were going to have to shut down for awhile because of the COVID-19 virus. You normally would figure that when you have a once-in-a-century pandemic, your president and your federal government would be right on top of things. But then, in a normal world, your president isn't Donald Trump.

As the bodies began to pile up in Seattle and Trump went on raging tirades against Washington's Democratic governor--as if it was his fault?!?--I and millions of other Americans wondered when the bullshit was going to stop and the cavalry would come to the rescue.

The answer, friends, was never.

Because, you see, we no longer live in "America" as Americans, and even other first-world nations, have long understood it. We live in--to tell you the truth, I do not know WHAT the fuck we live in. Let's just say it's something like a nuclear-armed nation of 330,000,000 angry people with no functioning national government, in the middle of a lethal pandemic, with heavily-armed idiots roaming the streets like rabid dogs.

That's for starters. Gotta go now. Let's traipse along together tomorrow on our merry little quest. See you tomorrow (promise). Ciao!

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BACK, LIKE A BOUNCED CHECK: One year, four months, and six days ago I said goodbye to this blog. Not that I really said goodbye... I just sort of walked away. And it wasn't because I "didn't want to blog anymore" or that "blogging is so square now" or anything like that. It was more like, well, after two and a half years of Donald Trump, I was just tired of slaying dragons (as previous entries will attest, I was pretty much finished after eight endless years of Scott Walker's reign of terror AND THEN WE GOT TRUMP, who makes Walker look like, er, well, Walker.

Anyway, I'm back. For good. Stick around while I blog the end of the world. Fun!

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