Thread by @Shoq

I guess I need a rant a month to keep my own sanity. Keeping this god damn plague away from my 93 yo mother is wearing me down to the barest of nubs. But I am not hysterical right now. I am focused on thinking of ways we might possibly mitigate the worst damage … 1/19

from this rolling existential threat we’re living in.

If you’ve heard of a working plan anywhere, for how we bail out of this plummeting aircraft before we auger in and are burned beyond recognition, please share it with me But I doubt that you have. Not too many … 2/19

speak of speculative or direct action anymore. It’s just too damn risky to their brand. That’s a big problem, but a topic for another day.

But lordy, we do need a plan. And damn soon. If we can’t find one, my dusty old #planB still sits on the shelf, needing … 3/19

only some funding and a few branded people to get behind it. It was designed for our Trump cum Republican problem before #Covid19, but it can easily be adapted to the manifest of problems that followed.

Why do we need a plan so desperately? Because we’re on the … 4/19

verge of an unprecedented, sea-changing catastrophe not seen by any major nation state in all of human history. And we will probably still be living with the coronavirus once we hit bottom. Remember, vaccines are hard. We may never have one. (Snap! there is still … 5/19

no vaccine for any of the other 5 coronaviruses.)

Despite this clear and present danger, every day, we watch very well-paid journalists report on the horse race of this calamity, because that’s all they really know how to do. Meanwhile, equally well-paid politicos … 6/19

get away with doing all but nothing at all, as the rest of us seem to be waiting for someone to pick up a ball and try to score a touchdown. Well, guess what? That’s not going to happen.

So what does happen? We just just wait until next February, assuming Biden … 7/19

wins, and then fashion a strategy to beat this plague when 50 million are infected? Or 100 million? (All of this #covid carnage is rolling over us right now with barely 1% of us being infected. Consider what 5, 10 or 40% infected rates are going to look … 8/19

like?)

And what if @JoeBiden doesn’t win (or does “win,” but loses anyway)? Or what if he does win? How many of us will die before a new administration can get up to speed and attack this disease that is now gearing up to maul our national health care system? … 9/19

@JoeBiden 400,000? 500,000? More?

How many of us will die because we’re all just sitting here waiting for people who will not lead, and probably cannot lead in this Foxicated nightmare, to suddenly start magically leading us? How is that going to work out? We know the … 10/19

@JoeBiden answer: not very well.

And what of the economy? What shambles await that burgeoning hockey-stick of a mess, as the reality of this runaway pandemic finally dawns of these feckless fools in the GOP and related establishments, all so intent on running us off a … 11/19

@JoeBiden cliff for a fantasy belief system that some old and stupid @FoxNews hosts and their nutcase billionaire friends are too invested in to ever pull back from?

Just as the reopening miracle was a Republican fantasy, so is this self-healing “V” shaped recovery that the … 12/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews well-fed and quite secure economist-pundits keep masturbating themselves with on TV. That’s just not happening either.

Let’s face reality, please. We’re about to careen into a chasm, and everyone is still passively waiting for someone to tell them it’s not … 13/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews happening. But it is happening. And we may not be completely doomed, but some are going to be so sick that they may wish we were. Just so they don’t feel like they’re dying alone.

Folks, someone needs to break the class and pull the alarm… while we still can. … 14/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews Then we need to reinvent ourselves and this government right away… while we still can.

And if that requires some kind of revolt? So be it. It’s not like we haven’t done that before. And for much less motivation than we have now. It wouldn’t be a revolt to … 15/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews overthrow our system of government, but actually to preserve it.

It’s too broken, and virus is too powerful and deadly to let it go unfixed. And elections are just too far away.

But fixing it is doable.The #BLM protests have proved my #PlanB thesis for the past … 16/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews year: disrupt the system and Republicans will always cave. Because the people paying them will cave.

We just need 10 branded and credible voices to sign on to the idea, and someone to fund the crafting of a well-coordinated national protest roll-out that makes … 17/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews #BLM look downright modest in scope. It will rattle the crap right out of every Republican still standing in the way of ousting and/or sidelining and/or end-running around this @Potus, so we can start marshaling our greatest minds and resources, listening to them, … 18/19

@JoeBiden @FoxNews @POTUS and together start fixing this god damn killer crisis while we still can.

Give me evidence or a theory of why I’m wrong. Please. It’s scary and cold out on this ledge and only my burning hair is keeping me warm. 19/19