showing up to a house that already burned down and offering to water the grass (just go away)

“In other tentatively good news, a potential coronavirus vaccine by the company Moderna has shown promising early results on a human trial of eight people. The news caused Wall Street to shoot up 900 points on Monday, even though on Friday, at an event to generate hope for finding a vaccine, Trump dismissed the importance of vaccines since the coronavirus ‘problem’ will eventually ‘just go away’. Such a statement, is like standing up at your wedding and saying, ‘I am so excited to spend the rest of my life with you, Cindy, but also living alone is super cool. At some point, like so many other women, you will go away.’” —Stephen Colbert

“The US now accounts for 30% of the world’s coronavirus cases, with 36 million people out of work; last week, the Fed reported that 40% of households making less than $40,000 a year lost a job in March. Or, as the president put it last week: ‘We have met the moment, and we have prevailed’. Trump later walked back his ‘prevailed’ comments, claiming they only applied to testing, but still – we have not prevailed on testing. I mean, it’s good that we’re ramping up testing now, but we needed it three months ago. Bragging about testing now is like showing up to a house that already burned down and offering to water the grass.” —Seth Meyers

http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html

“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. 

A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”