A Message To Americans From The Future: Do Not Let Trump Get Away With This

[Celerity]

It is the distant year of 2022 and we thought it would be nice to give you a preview of the hellscape you left us in the wake of Trump's Coronavirus disaster.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/a-message-to-americans-from-the-future



Hello from the future! It is the distant year of 2022 and we thought it would be nice to give you a preview of the hellscape left to us by you ancients (since days feel like years, that’s what we call you people now). We don’t really blame you for the charred and twisted wreckage we live in because you really didn’t have a lot of options at the time. Still, it wasn’t like there weren’t plenty of warning signs of what was coming…

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Brave MAGA store owners were standing up for their right to...spread a deadly disease? Well, yes, that’s exactly what the right wing was demanding back in your time. This was America and no one was going to temporarily inconvenience them, goddammit!



It was around this time that the official death count was at around 80,000. We all knew it was way higher but 80,000 was still unbelievably bad. Amazingly, reports were still saying it would take until August to reach over 100,000 dead. That happened by the end of May. By August, because so many states had reopened without mass testing and contact tracing in place, the first wave of Covid-19 never really peaked; it just kept rolling through the country, killing tens of thousands of people a week. By the time the Fall came, almost half a million people had died just from the coronavirus. A few hundred thousand more had died of heart attacks, injuries and strokes who didn’t get medical care in time because the hospitals were overflowing with patients already.

While that nightmare was unfolding, the economy was still spiraling into an extended depression because Trump had no idea what to do and his cronies were too busy looting the treasury to be bothered trying to fix anything. Between the mountain of bodies and mounting economic destruction, Attorney General Bill Barr’s “October Surprise,” opening a massive “corruption” investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter, backfired spectacularly. Trump lost in a landslide. Even Texas turned blue for the first time since 1976. We know you ancients were super excited about this and you had every reason to be! Trump was the worst president in America’s history, to be sure. But historical records known as “blogs” show that some people tried to warn you, over and over again, that it was going to get really ugly after that. You probably should have listened.

“Real Americans Don’t Wear Masks!”

Back when you ancients did things like go to school and learn about history, you read about weird stuff our distant ancestors did, like invade the wrong country after 9/11 and think Fox News was actually news. We learn about history sitting around burning cars and telling stories about the before-time. In the months leading up to the 2020 election, the right wing, already deep into their collective psychosis, was reaching a new peak of insanity over the pandemic:



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[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. That Kevin Bain jerk looks like the old guy...

... at my local USPS office who looked annoyed at me, and the postal clerks, for wearing masks.

He kept raising his voice at the clerk, saying he couldn't understand her because she was wearing a mask. (She was perfectly understandable, and he earlier replied to her when she was speaking more softly.)

He was a curmudgeon about pretty much everything, it seemed. "I do NOT want the $50 insurance for priority mail!"

Ugh, the poor people who work with the public.

[COLGATE4]

2. The cry of the keyboard warrior, safe in Mother's basement:

"I have more power than they do...they just don't know it yet".

Idiot.