Pathetic Cutie Patootie

 I do try to avoid behaving like a sexist boor when possible, but clearly, the half-wit governor of one state over - that is, South Dakota - needs to have a few moments of reality injected into her little fantasy world.

It seems that Kristine Noem, the Gubbiner of Sodak, thinks that modern diseases can be defeated by just acting like nothing was wrong.

The problem with Noem is that she is an idiot.  If she truly cared about the people of her state, she would listen to the experts, rather than flaunting her ignorance as something that did someone a favor.  

Now, to be fair, here, I have a bit of skin in this little dust-up.  My wife has a much bigger list of on-line friends than I do, but that's because she's an extrovert, and I'm ... well, a troll hiding under a bridge, trying to be a decent human being when the opportunity arises.  Something this halfwit Noem might do well to emulate.

One of those on-line friends of my wife has a daughter.  I know, it happens in some of the best families, including my own.  But my wife's on-line friend's daughter happens to live across the border in that God-forsaken brain-dead wasteland known as Sodak.  I say this because Noem, the Gubbiner of Sodak, decided that the citizens of her state need not pay attention to, or worry about, that wee little Covid-19 virus she was so much bigger than.  Well, physically, I mean, probably.  Brain-wise, I submit there may have been a fairly competitive race for who had the larger brain - the average Covid-19 virus, or the Gubbiner.  

For you see, this idiot decided people need not listen to or protect themselves.  I do agree that, given the usual distance between people in most of Sodak, they aren't going to get sick from one another.  But said idiot has a few big cities, and oh, yeah, there's a few professions that simply don't have the choice to avoid people like most of her constituents (that means people who live under her alleged governorship).   And this young lady had the good fortune to marry a young man whom she loved deeply.  And early in the marriage, the man happened to get sick.  And he died.  Because his governor was not willing to require masks be worn.

And now she's puffing out her chest and suggesting that all it took to defeat Covid was grit.  Yeah.  And all it took to become the gubbiner of Sodak was a pair of boobs and hair.  Sometimes the boobs are attached to fat old white men, and sometimes they're attached to someone of another gender.  Sometimes they're used as a substitute for brains, charisma, knowledge, or sheer human decency.  And so it goes.

But yeah, I'm a bit pissed that this little fluff of brain-dead matter gets to point to her state's performance through the recent pandemic as commendable.  It's not particularly hard to find out that one of the more sparsely settled states in the United States didn't suffer as badly as others - and yeah, it's not because she was Gubbiner, it was because most of those people in that state are self-sufficient and widely dispersed.  

I get it.  I mean, I do really understand that she thinks she deserves credit for driving people out of the state so they don't get sick.  And yeah, it probably worked, though some of those she drove out left in coffins.  

So when she claims success for her handling of the pandemic, let's all remember that she had the good fortune of ruling over a state that had fewer people than some counties do in the rest of the country, and her collective IQ is somewhere above freezing, maybe.  

But then again, the former Grand Old Party, now known as Ghastly Old Pricks, may well dig deeper into the slime for their next presidential candidate.  I mean, to date, Noem has yet to be accused of raping anyone, grabbing anyone by the crotch, cheating on her taxes, defrauding business partners, running a casino so poorly it went bankrupt, or outright lying.  Well, that is, at least so far as I bothered to research so far.  And I wash my hands often enough so as to not contract whatever stupidity that might attach to her name. 

So yeah, I suppose she might be an even bigger loser than the former President were she to run.  I should think the Reprobates would by now know better than to stand up a candidate who is a complete joke, but they've done it before.  And they did manage to win once.  Which we barely survived.  I can't imagine we might be so lucky next time.