Darn that reality

Herman Cain dying of Covid-19 has gotten a lot of attention. He was famously photographed at the Tulsa campaign rally fizzle unmasked and undistanced, and had campaigned against face masking continually as part of the required fealty ritual to Dear Leader. (Congratulations on your Darwin award.) Much less attention has been paid to the death of Bill Montgomery, co-founder of the wingnut youth organization Turning Point USA, which is now busily deleting all of its anti-mask Facebook posts. Louis Gohmert, the stupidest person in congress -- and that's saying something -- has actually blamed his infection on wearing a mask, even though he hardly ever did it. Then there is the sad case of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who who spent much of May and June demanding an apology from people who said he had lifted restrictions too soon. Well now there's this:

There are plenty of other examples but you get the idea. Just saying it doesn't make it so. These people have to live in the same reality we all do, regardless of their ideology. Faux News and Breitbart can create an alternative reality for a little while, but eventually it catches up with them. So that's what I don't understand about these people. Don't they know that tomorrow will happen?

Dear Dipshit: It is completely irrelevant and beside the point whether Cain became at the Dump rally. I did not say that he did. Learn to read and to think before commenting here.

More true facts! Herman Cain was the CEO of a chain of pizzerias, not a representative. And the Tulsa rally sparked an outbreak. "President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa in late June that drew thousands of participants and large protests “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said Wednesday. . . .