So, today’s my birthday. Four years ago to this day, my partner and I were visiting San Francisco for the first time as part of the festivities. Visited Alcatraz and saw the Blue Angels on the ferry ride back from the island. Great place, can’t wait to go again if we get back to “normal”.

Anyways, part of what I thought really added some oomph to the day was the fact the night before, the Access Hollywood tape broke. I thought that was it. Motherfucker is toast. No one in American politics, particularly an alleged Republican, gets caught cheating on their wife with a porn star and comes out unscathed.

Holy shit, was I wrong.

That’s why when Trump announced he had Covid, my gut reaction was “Eh, he’ll somehow beat it. Won’t matter in the long run.” He may come out less healthy than he was before (which, Jesus Christ, that’s a low bar), but in about two weeks, this’ll be a plus. You’re already starting to see that.

We plan on early voting and I’m not throwing in the towel or anything like. I’m just stunned that this guy can:

• facilitate the spread of the worst pandemic in 102 years,
• get people killed while doing that
• catch the damn thing himself
• become the 21st Century equivalent of Typhoid Mary;

and still be in power and in the goddamn race.

Even if Biden wins and the Senate flips, I sometimes feel like we as a country are done. No other country in their right fucking minds should or will want to have anything to do with us. If Biden becomes President, watch how the idiot “independents” and folks like the Lincoln Project turn on him if he doesn’t magically fix everything in 8 months.

This last four years has been a helluva century. Christ.

So, how’s your day going, LOL?