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Masked Santa: Punishing The Naughty And Rewarding The Nice In 2020
If Santa is smart, he and his reindeer will “shelter in place” at the North Pole and not come anywhere near this Covid-infested nation, but in case he decides to ignore the don’t travel warnings, don his mask, and head south on Christmas Eve, I’m providing him with my annual list of the people I believe most deserve to be rewarded with gifts and those who should be punished with a big lump of dirty, unhealthy coal. I wish Santa could punish Covid for killing and scaring so many people and Mother Nature for burning and flooding so much land while destroying so many homes in 2020. But Santa looks only for naughty and nice people, so here’s my 2020 list of the most naughty and nicest:
The Naughty:
1) Anti-democracy and/or white supremacist politicians who still haven’t provided relief for hungry, soon to be homeless American citizens but rushed a pre-election appointment of a racist white woman to prevent the man they knew was going to win the 2020 Presidential election from placing the first black woman on the Supreme Court and then refused to acknowledge the victory of that man whom some of them called a friend. The ones who are still talking about overturning a free and fair election because the insane, incompetent man who would never have been President if America were a real democracy won the majority of the white vote should receive two lumps of coal. But the biggest lumps should go to Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham.
2) Reality-denying, Alternative Facts Believing Americans - The people who believe that Covid is a hoax and that Donald Trump really won the 2020 election, but the Republicans in Georgia and Arizona stole it for Biden shouldn’t be allowed to vote in 2024 and should receive lumps of coal with notes attached describing the coal as chocolate cake. Santa should use a black Sharpie to write the notes in big letters. He probably should also ask the fools to send money to the North Pole so that he can feed Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the reindeer.
3) The news media who continued to allow Trump to play them, most recently reading his tweet announcing the resignation of the even worse Attorney General than Jeff Sessions just after the California electors voted, formally making Biden the President-elect (again), and who played the viewers in the days after the election, treating a consequential election like a sporting event. These ratings-obsessed, wannabe reality television stars need to tone down the entertainment (I like Steve K and his big board, but he should not be moonlighting on sports broadcasts) and the “real housewife” drama. Two otherwise really good anchors Rachel Maddow and Joshua Johnson shared so much of their personal stories recently that I thought I was watching a soap opera or “Real Housewives of MSNBC.” They need some coal and some tapes of Walter Cronkite’s old newscasts. They could even watch Tom Brokaw from the more recent past or the wry, occasionally comical, but always cooly professional Brian Williams today. Stop oversharing, news media drama queens!
4) The over 74 million deplorables, fanatics, cultists, and fools who voted for an insane, incompetent white supremacist, a malignant narcissist, a corrupt con artist who is literally killing us. They should lose their right to vote for at least two presidential cycles.
5) Javanka, the worst couple in the world. Not only did the overconfident idiot who was accepted at Harvard because his father donated millions and who is in the White House because his father-in-law won the electoral college criticize smart, competent, experienced men like General Mattis and Gary Cohn in Bob Woodward’s latest book, but he showed his racism by commenting on how much black basketball players earn during the BlackLivesMatter so-called racial awakening this summer and then later suggesting that black folks don’t succeed because we don’t really want to be as successful as he and his equally fortunate insane father-in-law do. As her squeaky-voiced, blank-faced husband became more visible, the bottle blonde with the fake husky voice seemed to disappear, but she did pose (perhaps appropriately since she’s full of them) with a can of beans, which we all know she would never cook and eat, and she and the overconfident idiot tried to sue the Lincoln Project for trolling them with a huge billboard in Times Square. The most unqualified senior advisers to ever enter the White House need to follow the worst President in American history to Saudi Arabia, Siberia, or wherever he’s going next and take their unfortunate children and their dirty coal with them.
The Nice:
1) The essential workers — doctors, nurses, first responders, senior caregivers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers, mail carriers, delivery men, teachers—who risk their lives while helping us to live ours and in some cases working to save our lives.
2) The poll workers, vote counters, Secretaries of State, and governors who defended our democracy. Surprisingly, some otherwise fairly despicable Republicans like the governor and Secretary of State in my new favorite state (at least until January 5) Georgia showed some integrity and refused to cheat in a presidential election. Most years they deserve coal, but this year they should receive gifts from Santa.
3) Peaceful protesters, especially the ones wearing masks, who risked Covid, jail, pepper spray, violent police officers, and even murder (two protesters were murdered in Kenosha by Killer Kid Kyle) to demand that we recognize that Black Lives Matter and that we reform (not defund, people!) police departments.
4) The truth tellers in the media, including the ones on the least reality-based news channel Fox News and the Never Trump (sometimes former) Republicans in the Lincoln Project, who countered the lies and myths told by Trump and his enablers with reality-based truth. The petite just the facts y’all scientist Dr. Fauci was especially effective when he boldly told the truth while standing near the much larger, pathologically lying President during those early, often surreal Covid briefings. Fauci told us Covid would be bad in the fall, and he was right. I also appreciated interviewers like Fox’s Chris Wallace and Axios’ Jonathan Swan who tried usually in vain to force the insane President to face reality. But no one told the truth like Lincoln Project all-star Steve Schmidt. I’d love to see him debate Jared Kushner or Steve Miller. Steve Schmidt has the same expressionless face, but the words that come out of his mouth would make those two know-it-all racists cry. Schmidt puts the “war” in word warrior! Santa should gift him with a golden microphone.
5) The more than 81 million Americans who braved Covid and in some voter suppression states (looking at you, Georgia) ten-hour lines to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris like our lives depended on their winning. We saved democracy and (hopefully) some of our lives, Santa, and we deserve some wonderful gifts on Christmas Eve.
If we survive Covid and the last few days of Trump, all of us will deserve an “I SURVIVED TRUMP AND 2020” t- shirt or hat next Christmas. Let’s hope the naughty people on the 2020 list will “disappear like a miracle,” that they will be in Siberia, jail, or hell by this time next year, and the nice people will survive to celebrate our ability to eat in restaurants and visit our friends and family again.
The Naughty:
1) Anti-democracy and/or white supremacist politicians who still haven’t provided relief for hungry, soon to be homeless American citizens but rushed a pre-election appointment of a racist white woman to prevent the man they knew was going to win the 2020 Presidential election from placing the first black woman on the Supreme Court and then refused to acknowledge the victory of that man whom some of them called a friend. The ones who are still talking about overturning a free and fair election because the insane, incompetent man who would never have been President if America were a real democracy won the majority of the white vote should receive two lumps of coal. But the biggest lumps should go to Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham.
2) Reality-denying, Alternative Facts Believing Americans - The people who believe that Covid is a hoax and that Donald Trump really won the 2020 election, but the Republicans in Georgia and Arizona stole it for Biden shouldn’t be allowed to vote in 2024 and should receive lumps of coal with notes attached describing the coal as chocolate cake. Santa should use a black Sharpie to write the notes in big letters. He probably should also ask the fools to send money to the North Pole so that he can feed Mrs. Claus, the elves, and the reindeer.
3) The news media who continued to allow Trump to play them, most recently reading his tweet announcing the resignation of the even worse Attorney General than Jeff Sessions just after the California electors voted, formally making Biden the President-elect (again), and who played the viewers in the days after the election, treating a consequential election like a sporting event. These ratings-obsessed, wannabe reality television stars need to tone down the entertainment (I like Steve K and his big board, but he should not be moonlighting on sports broadcasts) and the “real housewife” drama. Two otherwise really good anchors Rachel Maddow and Joshua Johnson shared so much of their personal stories recently that I thought I was watching a soap opera or “Real Housewives of MSNBC.” They need some coal and some tapes of Walter Cronkite’s old newscasts. They could even watch Tom Brokaw from the more recent past or the wry, occasionally comical, but always cooly professional Brian Williams today. Stop oversharing, news media drama queens!
4) The over 74 million deplorables, fanatics, cultists, and fools who voted for an insane, incompetent white supremacist, a malignant narcissist, a corrupt con artist who is literally killing us. They should lose their right to vote for at least two presidential cycles.
5) Javanka, the worst couple in the world. Not only did the overconfident idiot who was accepted at Harvard because his father donated millions and who is in the White House because his father-in-law won the electoral college criticize smart, competent, experienced men like General Mattis and Gary Cohn in Bob Woodward’s latest book, but he showed his racism by commenting on how much black basketball players earn during the BlackLivesMatter so-called racial awakening this summer and then later suggesting that black folks don’t succeed because we don’t really want to be as successful as he and his equally fortunate insane father-in-law do. As her squeaky-voiced, blank-faced husband became more visible, the bottle blonde with the fake husky voice seemed to disappear, but she did pose (perhaps appropriately since she’s full of them) with a can of beans, which we all know she would never cook and eat, and she and the overconfident idiot tried to sue the Lincoln Project for trolling them with a huge billboard in Times Square. The most unqualified senior advisers to ever enter the White House need to follow the worst President in American history to Saudi Arabia, Siberia, or wherever he’s going next and take their unfortunate children and their dirty coal with them.
The Nice:
1) The essential workers — doctors, nurses, first responders, senior caregivers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers, mail carriers, delivery men, teachers—who risk their lives while helping us to live ours and in some cases working to save our lives.
2) The poll workers, vote counters, Secretaries of State, and governors who defended our democracy. Surprisingly, some otherwise fairly despicable Republicans like the governor and Secretary of State in my new favorite state (at least until January 5) Georgia showed some integrity and refused to cheat in a presidential election. Most years they deserve coal, but this year they should receive gifts from Santa.
3) Peaceful protesters, especially the ones wearing masks, who risked Covid, jail, pepper spray, violent police officers, and even murder (two protesters were murdered in Kenosha by Killer Kid Kyle) to demand that we recognize that Black Lives Matter and that we reform (not defund, people!) police departments.
4) The truth tellers in the media, including the ones on the least reality-based news channel Fox News and the Never Trump (sometimes former) Republicans in the Lincoln Project, who countered the lies and myths told by Trump and his enablers with reality-based truth. The petite just the facts y’all scientist Dr. Fauci was especially effective when he boldly told the truth while standing near the much larger, pathologically lying President during those early, often surreal Covid briefings. Fauci told us Covid would be bad in the fall, and he was right. I also appreciated interviewers like Fox’s Chris Wallace and Axios’ Jonathan Swan who tried usually in vain to force the insane President to face reality. But no one told the truth like Lincoln Project all-star Steve Schmidt. I’d love to see him debate Jared Kushner or Steve Miller. Steve Schmidt has the same expressionless face, but the words that come out of his mouth would make those two know-it-all racists cry. Schmidt puts the “war” in word warrior! Santa should gift him with a golden microphone.
5) The more than 81 million Americans who braved Covid and in some voter suppression states (looking at you, Georgia) ten-hour lines to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris like our lives depended on their winning. We saved democracy and (hopefully) some of our lives, Santa, and we deserve some wonderful gifts on Christmas Eve.
If we survive Covid and the last few days of Trump, all of us will deserve an “I SURVIVED TRUMP AND 2020” t- shirt or hat next Christmas. Let’s hope the naughty people on the 2020 list will “disappear like a miracle,” that they will be in Siberia, jail, or hell by this time next year, and the nice people will survive to celebrate our ability to eat in restaurants and visit our friends and family again.
