There are some strange things going on during these days of angst, confinement, and in some places, extreme anger. How else do you explain the President of the United States dragging the My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell on stage during a press conference billed as a coronavirus update?
Lindell is a recovering crack head and high profile fan of Don Trump, but it remains unclear what he brings to the table when it comes to the battle against COVID-19. Unfortunately for many of us who were watching the presser on CNN his particular expertise will remain a mystery since the network cut away from his appearance about four words into it. After all the dude has reportedly spent nearly $100 million on TV infomercials, so why give him free air time?
Besides, another connoisseur of meth has found his way into the national consciousness. Mr. Joseph Maldonado-Passage is the subject of a Netflix docu-series which is currently available for viewing. Maldonado-Passage, who in the past has run for Governor of Oklahoma and President of the United States, is better known by his stage name, Joe Exotic.
Down in Wynnewood, OK Mr. Exotic owned and operated a place called, among other things. the G.W. Zoo. The big stars of the place were a large number of lions and tigers. He did have some alligators once, but most of them boiled to death when a giant fire took down their compound a few years ago. The fire remains unexplained, as does Joe Exotic and the people he associates with.
Mr. Exotic, who is shown in the series marrying two different gentlemen at the same time--known as a throuple--became the focus of investigations and action by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Also one, Carole Baskin, who PETA claims runs an, "ethical," big cat compound in Florida. In other words she keeps lions and tigers in cages too, but according to the organization, doesn't exploit them.
Joe is doing 22 years in the joint right now for hiring a guy to kill Ms. Baskin. The hit supposedly cost Exotic three grand, but alas the man who was supposed to pull it off took the cash, went to Florida, blew it on nightclubs, booze, and who knows what else, but never came near Baskin.
Other federal charges against Exotic include selling lemurs, which is against the law, and killing five tigers with a shotgun because he needed room for more, smaller, tigers. Proving he was a true renaissance man Joe also produced his own country-western music albums and videos. In addition, during his presidential run, he handed out condoms to voters with his photo on the packages along with the advice to, "Feel free to use them anytime."
In another twist to the sordid tale, the target of the murder for hire plot, Carole Baskin is suspected, mostly by Joe and his boys, of killing her first husband Don Lewis. He vanished without a trace in 1997. According to Big Joe, Lewis will never be found because Baskin murdered him, chopped up his body, then fed the remains to one of her tigers.
This whole exercise in debauchery is a testament to how bored we really are these days. "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness," is the highest rated series in Netflix's history.
Meanwhile, on a more serious note, the governors of Ohio, Texas, and Oklahoma have used the spread of COVID-19 to, temporarily anyway, outlaw abortions. All three chief executives have declared abortions fall under the heading of, "elective surgeries," which have been blocked in their states during the current crisis. In addition, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt is claiming the ban will also free up needed personal protection equipment such as surgical masks and gowns.
A scant 36 hours before he began locking down huge swaths of the state, Stitt posted a photo of himself and his family on Twitter enjoying dinner at an OKC eatery. In the text of the now deleted Tweet he urged Oklahomans to get out and enjoy themselves at their favorite restaurants and bars.
Proving progressives can play the same game, California Governor, Gavin Newsom has declared gun stores in his state are non-essential businesses. As such he ordered each and every one of them to close. The NRA immediately sued, but as of right now, if you are on the left bank, anywhere between Mexico and the Oregon line, your testosterone replacement therapy is unavailable..
Yes, it is beyond weird and in many locales deadly. As hospital staffs are being overwhelmed some on Twitter and other social media claim the plague is a massive hoax. Our whole blue ball and everyone on it has become, to many, part of a vast conspiracy. This as, Mike Lindell tells a world wide audience Donald Trump can save us all and Joe, fucking, Exotic rules American pay for view TV.
Ladies and gentlemen the world isn't dealing with the apocalypse. We have, however, ended up stuck in a play written by Franz Kafka.
sic vita est
3-31-20
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