I think I'm well enough to host the Cartoon Voices Panel today. We go live at 4 PM (our time out here on the West Coast) and if I can get a nap in between now and then, things should be fine. I would like to thank the makers of Pepto-Bismol for bringing us the most wonderful scientific breakthrough in the history of mankind. At least, it felt like that last night.
My Trump-disliking friends were pretty angry that the Supreme Court did not order him to immediately produce all the requested financial documents so that whatever criminality they might expose could be exposed before Election Day. They were not as mad, however, as Trump seemed to be over even his own appointees denying his claim that the President of the United States is absolutely immune to prosecution.
The legal consensus, I get from reading about a dozen articles on it, is that sooner or later, the New York prosecutors will get their hands on those papers and even if Grand Jury secrecy rules prevent them from being made public, Trump could be indicted. In terms of denying him a second term, revealing it all now might have been pretty potent…but the reality that Trump could face criminal charges early next year is yet another reason that some folks won't vote for the guy.
This morning, my news aggregator thingie on my iPhone showed me this story with the headline: 'I think I made a mistake': Patient who thought pandemic was a 'hoax' dies after going to 'COVID party.' I don't know how true this is but it seems to me we're going to see news stories like that all year and beyond. All the claims that this thing was just a sham or no more dangerous than the common cold are dying off at…well, about the same rate as people who go to COVID parties.
Trump and those around him seem pretty determined that schools have to reopen. What, I wonder, makes them think that parents are going to send their kids to those reopened schools? Or that enough teachers will report to work?
Okay, nap time. Hope to see a lot of you at 4.