I Only Mention It

It’s 9/11 – the day we remember and memorialize the 2001 terrorist destruction of the World Trade Towers – 2,606 dead, the Pentagon – killing 184 people and the 40+ people on Flight 93 who went down in a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania.

There was a total of 265 passengers on the planes. In New York 412 emergency workers died – firefighters, medics and police. 2,000 more have died from illnesses with roots in the attacks

Over 5,000 dead.

Since 2001 more than 1,000 of our fellow countrymen/women have been slaughtered in mass shootings by our very own homegrown, gun-happy white terrorists.

Domestic terrorism has been steadily rising for years fueled in no small measure by the NRA, Preznint Shit for Brains and his sycophants.

Here in 2020 we’re closing in on 200,000 lost American lives from COVID. Trump KNEW right from the get-go how dangerous the virus would be but played it down so his precious stock market wouldn’t “panic." He’d slashed pandemic preparedness teams, straight up lied to the country AND, even after his dimwitted fellow Republi/Fascists embraced the need to mask up (but fell short of making it mandatory), the Orange Treasonweasel has gone so far as to suggest that masks are a political statement against him personally.

How many of our fellow Americans would be gone from this good Earth had 45, his enablers and slavishly devoted cult been smart or, at the least, minimally empathetic and less hoggishly self-obsessed?

In the right-here-and-now, the West Coast is in flames. What is Fat Orange Nixon doing?

"President Donald Trump has yet to offer any public statement of support amid historic wildfires spreading  in the Pacific northwest and northern California -- even though he vowed federal intervention in those states earlier this summer amid racial unrest. (ed. note: but NOT for the infernos blazing up and down the coast)

…His familiar response was to blame the state's forest management.

"They're starting again in California," he said at a rally. "I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests -- there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they're like, like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up.” (source)

15 dead so far and he's done fuck-all. What a devastatingly moronically imbecilic, fakakta brained, nimrodian, diseased tumor he is on the face of this country…hell, on the entire world. 9/11 was devastating and horrific to say the least. Since September 11th, 2001, we (specifically 45, his cult and mentally unhinged gun fetishists) have been responsible for, at bare minimum, 40% more dead Americans than the 9/11 terrorists.

I only mention it.

Early Voting starts on October 17th here in Valhalla. We can vote on a weekday OR on a weekend. Ten and I aim to cast our ballots early and in person. Not all states have early or mail in voting – check this site, Vote.org for your options.