The Herman Cain Award

funny's a weird word for it but if I get your drift, then it's funny in that way. Just like the Darwin Awards are.

one more thing I'll say about this is that it's one of the most pure forms of schadenfreude I've ever encountered - to be a leftist in this country has meant a solid half decade of constantly freaking the fuck out upon the realization that half of this nation does not believe in objective reality or science and the knowledge that being governed by these people will inevitably lead to grave consequences, which they straight up do not care about because they know that it "most likely" won't affect them. and all of us screaming at them "YOUR DECISIONS ARE LITERALLY GOING TO CAUSE PEOPLE TO DIE" has only made their resolve to be shitty people even stronger, since they have no clue what suffering a consequence looks like, as this entire country is built from the ground up to cater to and coddle white Christian idiots. in the early days of the pandemic all of these dumbfucks kept saying "so what, I'm youngish and have no chronic conditions, why should I care", and I'm sure tens of thousands of them have unknowingly spread it to someone who suffered greatly from it or died as a result. half of us were trying to do the right thing and punted a full year of our lives (or more!!) but it didn't matter much because the other half were too busy flouting their idiocy by attending giant "Rallies for Freedom" including the Sturgis event which at one point was linked to literally half the active cases in the country. they will never ever admit it but they have so much blood on their hands and the ironic part is most of it is from kindred spirits, not those who their Lord and Savior spent 4 goddamn years calling the "enemies of America". fuck 'em all.

yes this is hitting me hard lately. there was a case at my son's school and while we're all fine (I hope!) the kids' parents are not. the father just died two days ago and the mother is vented up and apparently things are not looking good. they're gonna leave behind 2 kids who are gonna grow up and the only thing they're gonna know about their parents are they were too fucking stupid to get a shot that would have literally saved their lives. that's gonna be their legacy. it's so goddamn sad, and also, almost completely preventable. and I know they were exactly the same sort of people I'd argue with endlessly on fucking Facebook comment sections, trying to plead with them that I am not trying to trick them but they seriously have no goddamn clue what they are talking about. well well well, I told you so.

they're gonna leave behind 2 kids who are gonna grow up and the only thing they're gonna know about their parents are they were too fucking stupid to get a shot that would have literally saved their lives. that's gonna be their legacy.

i'm sorry to have this cynical perspective on this, but i would guess that the kids will "learn" a load of bullshit about what killed their parents and come away with "research" indicating that they did nothing wrong

for example, my dad did nothing wrong, apparently, and that whole side of the family is in complete denial about all of it

I guess if the only relationship you really care about is the one between you and god, and your god demands that you die a horrifying death, then you'll ride that horse all the way to the finish line. it's even sadder how many of these True Believers in Freedom recant on their deathbeds when they finally discover just what kind of fire they were playing with and how useless their precious Freedom looks, compared to staying alive.

maybe, it's hard to say. I can't imagine those kids are gonna grow up to have many memories of their parents and may not be so defensive

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