Just over two years ago, after a recent school shooting, I asked on First Draft what does death mean in America anymore?
That was an observation based on mass shootings, indifference to hundreds of thousands dying from COVID-19 based on nothing more than not wanting to wear a mask, and the GOP being cool with running over protestors and driving trans people to suicide. Now we have the Duke of Death, Donald Trump, as president once again, and it’s pretty much going as you would expect.
The Grim Reaper is pleased.
A person could come out of a 20-year coma, look at the current Republican Party, and quite possibly wonder when the GOP started focusing so much on the Grim Reaper constituency. For starters, despite what Human Jellyfish Marco Rubio thinks to the contrary, Trump’s cuts to US Aid are going to kill millions.
Not that MAGA world is angrily denying it like Rubio. Hell, if you go on Truth Social, you’ll find many people over the moon about the fact that impoverished people around the world will die from disease and starvation without US Aid. I personally don’t go on Truth Social because I wouldn’t go there if I were wearing a dozen haz-mat suits, but I have seen screengrabs from people who dare venture into the Love Canal of the Internet. The glee is obvious and disturbing.
After all, they are a death cult.
Then there is The Worst Kennedy, Bobby Jr. If the Grim Reaper were to decide to run for president as the GOP’s candidate, The Disgrace to the Family Name would be the perfect running mate.
You might have heard that our intrepid Man at the HHS took a break from dealing with the scourge of fluoride to go after the bird flu vaccine. Our pal Mr. Reaper really must be over the moon about this news. Who knows what is going on with bird flu, given Bobby Jr. is in control of the data? But if it ever reaches the pandemic stage, the Reaper owes Jr. a solid.
Finally, we can’t talk about the Party of the Grim Reaper without Sociopathic Senator Joni Ernst, who last week at a town hall dropped a very dark version of Let Them Eat Cake. Yes, Joni, we are all going to die. That’s a fact of life, the inevitable truth. But I am going to go out on a limb and say that your constituents don’t want their cause of death to be President Rotting Semi-Sentinent Carrot’s Big Bullshit Bill and it’s many cuts to important social services, such as Medicare.
Then Joni decided to do an apology video. This will go into the Terrible Apologies Hall of Fame. It starts off as a sort of apology and then doubles down on the Who Cares If You Die, You Are One of the Little People.
You can’t expect them to care about things like human life; those taxes for the wealthy aren’t going to cut themselves. George Carlin once said “Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own.”
I wonder how surprised George would be if he lived to see just how much of a death cult the GOP has become. In any event, the Grim Reaper continues to be Trump and the GOP’s biggest fan.
That last word goes to, of course, Blue Öyster Cult.
