Posted on 04/11/2020 5:17:14 PM PDT by simpson96
Like most of you, I’ve been spending my time in quarantine wondering ‘what if?’ What if I could go to hot yoga today? What if my favorite restaurant didn’t close down? What if I could still go on that trip to Mexico City next week? What if Hillary Clinton had won the election in 2016, the federal government didn’t cover up the severity of the pandemic for two months, and New York City hadn’t become an open-air morgue?
You know, just some light musings to start the day. It’s that last hypothetical that’s inspired a large portion of my quarantine pop culture consumption. Albus Dumbledore once said, "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light," and my light, it seems, is a pantsuit. It all started with Hillary, the Hulu documentary that follows her ill-fated campaign. I started choking up within the first few seconds of the opening montage, so once I finished all four episodes the only natural next step was to look for more ways to torture myself emotionally. Quarantine is nothing if not a place for masochists to thrive.
I turned next to Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld's upcoming re-imagining of the former First Lady's life — told as if she had never been First Lady at all. It's a fan fiction of sorts,(snip)
But after binging both of those pieces of pop culture, I was left with an HRC-sized void in my soul and the looming nightly pandemic briefings threatening to dismantle the minuscule amount of sanity I had built up. As such, I dusted off my iPad, Googled how to update the software on a device from 2014, and rented Chasing Hillary from the LA Library app.
(Excerpt) Read more at ew.com ...
I wonder if it has ever occurred to people like this that Hillary by now could have likely suffered a stroke or other health emergency that would have incapacitated her like what happened to Wilson or Harding or even killed her like FDR.
A dystopian fantasy.
Heil Hillary.
When the federal government cover up the severity of the pandemic for two months?
That was certainly my question, how and when did the Trump administration cover up the severity of the pandemic? I guess Italy having a hug a Chinese person event or DeBlasio encouraging celebrations in Chinatown and others denouncing the China travel ban as xenophobic and racially motivated was not covering up.
“But after binging both of those pieces of pop culture, I was left with an HRC-sized void in my soul and the looming nightly pandemic briefings threatening to dismantle the minuscule amount of sanity I had built up.”
Just damn.
Well, the legislative branch was occupied with the impeachment and trial of President Donald J Trump for a couple of months, wasn’t it?
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