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Often times, no matter how much bitching and complaining we as \u2018Muricans do about politics, when the day is over, not a lot really happens.\u00a0 A penny tax doesn\u2019t mean people are unable to feed themselves, and when the government talks about some convoluted bill or law that passes, most of the time very little noticeable things actually occur.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s na\u00efve and insular for me to make such blanket statements, but at least in my little world, the things that happen as the result of stalling and bickering in Washington seldom really feel like they affect life on the home front.<\/span><\/p>\n In a prior post, I made a remark about how at no point in the history of my life, has it ever felt so physically tangible, the feeling of disappointment and letdown happening to the American people of the United States until more recently.\u00a0 As stated, no matter how much I may disagree or not like something that\u2019s now law, a lot of the time it doesn\u2019t really impact the daily living of my life or my family.<\/span><\/p>\n Until now.<\/span><\/p>\n My wife is a teacher.\u00a0 My child is immunocompromised.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just state those facts, and if you understand why this is a major problem today maybe you\u2019ll continue reading.\u00a0 If not, well go fuck off.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Usually, the nonsense that the baked potato in charge spews on a daily basis is tantamount to the edgelord in everyone\u2019s friend group that tries to say inflammatory shit every now and then because they want a reaction and they want attention.\u00a0 So often times, it seems like Congress or the Supreme Court suppresses the really terrible things he tries to pass, and they sometimes pick their battles or keep score of what they agree or what they disagree on.<\/span><\/p>\n Again, most of the time, things don\u2019t really affect daily living on my front, other than wonky tax returns and a feeling that my country of birth hates me more because I\u2019m not white, and an ensuing increased empathy for black people.<\/span><\/p>\n But when the baked potato has decided that schools are required to go back to work this fall, in spite of mountains of evidence pointing towards it being a bad idea on account of the fucking coronavirus pandemic that\u2019s ravaging the country, then it finally hits home, directly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s like the baked potato has sprouted 3.5 million arms and is directly reaching into the homes of every teacher in America, and is brusquely pushing them towards an edge of a cliff towards their eventual death.<\/span><\/p>\n And because this awful directive is coming directly from the fucking president of the United States<\/em>, there\u2019s literally nobody higher to escalate disagreement to in every school in America.\u00a0 Teachers can\u2019t go up to principals, principals can\u2019t go to superintendents, supers can\u2019t go to boards of education, boards can\u2019t go to state, state can\u2019t go federal, federal can\u2019t go to the whatever comes up next and next and next, because ultimately the directive is coming from the literal top.<\/span><\/p>\n The fucking president of the United States is forcing people to actively go into life-jeopardizing conditions, and has successfully politicized a commonsense situation, and twisted it into yet another artificial battle between people with conservative Republican values versus those with liberal Democratic views.<\/span><\/p>\n Except the difference is that 3.5 million-plus teachers throughout the country are all at risk, and they\u2019re going to be surrounded by the much more millions of children across the country who are expected to go to these schools, and coronavirus will absolutely never fucking end and America will continue to be the bastard country in the world that nobody wants to allow citizens into their own.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the summer, I said that gyms were about the worst places to re-open when idiots thought that the pandemic was contained enough to start opening shit back up.\u00a0 But that was the summer, and nobody has worn enough masks to get this shit really under control, and now we\u2019re nearing the fall when schools should be in session ordinarily, and things aren\u2019t just not getting better, they\u2019re worse than they\u2019ve ever been before.\u00a0 America has blown away the global competition when it comes to how badly they\u2019re getting decimated by coronavirus, while countries all across the globe are beating it otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n But schools are definitely the worst places to re-open, because gyms are places in which people still voluntarily go, but schools are places where millions more people are expected to go in the fall, as it\u2019s the American dream for kids to learn and become smart and gain the knowledge they need to grow and succeed, and if not for anything else, it\u2019s the child care that parents all across the country pine for, whether they admit to it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s flabbergasting to even try to expound on how bad of an idea reopening schools are, yet here America is.\u00a0 And the baked potato\u2019s stooges and cronies that he\u2019s filled the swamp with are all in 100% agreement, and everyone who wants to get in the baked potato\u2019s good graces are all aboard, and we\u2019ve got a large part of white, childless\/grandchild-less America completely onboard with reopening schools and literally condemning people to their eventual deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, what my disdain boils down to are the insane number of lives of children that are deliberately being put at risk on account of this asinine stupidity.\u00a0 And because this is just another flagrant example of systemic racism, as it\u2019s pretty abundantly clear that the vast majority of those who will be worst affected are poor kids and families which happen to correlate with higher numbers of minorities, this is basically low-key racial genocide in a manner of speaking, as blacks and Hispanic children aim to be the worst hit, when they\u2019re forced to go to school because they don\u2019t have adequate internet, technology, or their parents simply can\u2019t stay home because they have to work in order to make ends meet.<\/span><\/p>\n We in \u2018Murica have gotten to the point where the lives of children are now seen as expendable pawns in this despicable game of politics.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure those who hurt children are seen as the lowest form of scum inside prisons, and yet here we are outside the bars, casually accepting that children are expendable.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, my wife and I have a general plan for the immediate, but when the day is over, I\u2019d rather her quit and us struggle through single-income living until she can find something else, than have her go into a petri dish of a school and be exposed and potentially bring something back that can affect our infant child.<\/span><\/p>\n This is probably something that doesn\u2019t even come into play in just about every other civilized country on the planet, but then again, none of them are necessarily ruled over by a walking baked potato with an ego as frail as a 13-year old\u2019s self-esteem with hordes of like-minded sheep following their every word.<\/span><\/p>\n I hate saying it every time the words formulate in my head, but there\u2019s absolutely no other way of putting it:<\/span><\/p>\n America sucks.<\/span><\/p>\n (right now (hopefully not later))<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Often times, no matter how much bitching and complaining we as \u2018Muricans do about politics, when the day is over, not a lot really happens.\u00a0 A penny tax doesn\u2019t mean people are unable to feed themselves, and when the government talks about some convoluted bill or law that passes, most of the time very little … Continue reading When politics actually hit 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