As written-word clichés go, this is the time of year for the appearance of schmaltzy recountings of things for which we are thankful. But, seeing how 2020 is the WORST YEAR EVER!, the thankful list is on the thin side.
• I am THANKFUL that my family is safe and healthy. I’m thankful that Joe Biden won the election, although I wish it had been by 10 million votes instead of “just” 6 million. I’m thankful that we have so many dedicated health-care professionals, teachers, and people who do the important things that keep the country going in these awful times. That’s really about it. Meanwhile:
• I’m AGHAST at the number of people who voted for Donald Trump. I knew there were a whole lot of pissed-off white people who see themselves like Tea Leoni and Maximilian Schell at the end of “Deep Impact,” standing on the shore, waiting for the 80-foot-high wave to crash over them. Only, in real life, the wave isn’t water from the Atlantic, it’s dark-skinned people from all over the world.
I’ll say it again. I sincerely don’t think that all Trump voters are racists (but all racists are Trump voters). That doesn’t provide complete absolution, however. Walking out of the polling place, they should be made to wear a T-shirt that reads “I’m Not a Racist But I Just Voted For One.”
• I’m PUZZLED by the relatively high number of Trump voters among Latinos (or, as some wish to be called, Tejanos) along the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Starr and Hidalgo counties by 60% and 40%, respectively. Biden won them by 5% and 17%, respectively.
I would never, ever make the mistake (that the Democratic Party apparently did) of expecting people to vote a certain way simply because of their skin color. But neither would I expect people who are getting hated on to vote for the guy doing the hating. These people have to know that if Donald Trump were to show up along the Rio Grande and see all those brown faces, he would want them to be on the other side of the river.
Latino men were much more likely to vote for Trump than were their female counterparts. Two of my more-enlightened Latino in-laws suggested that it might have had something to do with a variant strain of macho nonsense. Mi cuñado (brother-in-law) Jesse said that maybe some of those guys secretly wish that they could mistreat women the way Trump does without having to worry about being stabbed to death in their sleep.
• I’m CURIOUS as to how much they have to pay people to lie for a living. It’s probably not a whole lot, just enough so that they can live in a place with bare walls so they don’t ever have to look at themselves in the mirror. I can’t say that I’ve never lied, but to do it for hours at a time, five days a week, for the bulk of one’s adult life would eat away at my soul and I spent years listening to my mother (and Marvin Gaye) to build up my soul for the final accounting.
Of course, there are honest disagreements when nobody is lying, but there are also times when somebody is just flat-out being dishonest to prop up a false point.
The local morning-radio tRump-licker believes that all teachers are evil and lazy (and Democrats). He rants that teachers love the pandemic (the severity of which he downplays) because they can just stay at home and pretend to teach. This is ridiculous; every teacher I know is aching to get back in the classroom and they’re working harder than ever in an effort to make remote learning effective.
Last week, this clown was hyping a letter that was sent by the head of a local hospital to the Pima County Health Department, urging an opening of all the schools. The talker made it sound as if the hospital guy was saying that the pandemic is no big deal and that there is little risk to opening the schools. In fact, it’s the exact opposite. The hospital guy was saying that the pandemic is so bad (and rapidly getting worse) that the hospital is suffering from a manpower shortage as parents stay home with their kids while the number of cases soar. Shame on you.
• I’m really DISAPPOINTED that stores (but not Costco) are letting more and more people walk around without masks. Bosses offer feeble excuses about not wanting their employees to get into confrontations. If that’s the case, then hire security guards to do it.
Businesses should always be looking long term. This would protect the employees’ health (a vital concern) and help to put an end to the virus just a little bit sooner so we can get back to normal. This should be the easiest and smartest business decision ever.
• Donald Trump Jr., who always looks like an angry armpit, said that the virus would magically disappear the day after the election. Instead, it has exploded to new record levels and Don Jr. himself has come down with it. Idiot. However, I am HOPEFUL that he decides to pursue a political career, thereby providing a constant reminder of all that is wrong with his family and what used to be the Republican Party.
Please have a happy (and safe) Thanksgiving.
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2020.
Continue to distance yourself from the truth. You will never be set free from your racist tendencies.
The headline lies. Danahy doesn’t have a range of emotions this Thanksgiving. He is still filled with hatred and stupidity. His racist rant puts him in the category of being a full-fledged bigot.
II am aghast at the number of ballots cast for Biden. But that’s what happens when you allow illegals to register to vote and you send out ballots to every registered voter. Everyone knows that the voter rolls are filled with people who are not legally eligible to vote. That’s nothing new.
But it is time to move on from the results of Nov 3, 2020. It’s time to work on getting everyone vaccinated and the economy rolling again, as President Trump proved it could.
I’m wondering how long it is going to take the Dem’s to start to push Joe out. This is going to be the stuff for the infamous Paul Harvey ‘Page 2’
All eyes on Georgia!!!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!
Tucson(b)ass:
I’ve noticed that you comment on Tom’s articles frequently, and it’s obvious that you dislike his opinions and presentation of facts. You rarely have anything positive, correct and/or intelligent to add. Why do you bother? It’s the equivalent of me frequenting articles written by an opinion columnist that has his nose buried in tRump’s ass…and believing that my commentary against everything this columnist believes in is going to change their mind. What a colossal waste of time! It’s counterproductive and it exposes your stupidity.
After reading your post, I was sure that you had mistaken Thanksgiving Day for Opposite Day. That is, until I read the last sentence. It’s the only thing you got correct. The rest of your tired and useless rant was just off the charts incorrect. Face it, Biden is going to be your president on January 20th. Leaky rudy doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of overturning anything.
Biden is already illegitimate. I pray he doesn’t try to read books of the Bible from the teleprompter.
I always look forward to your columns.
And….it’s bizarre how some folks make a career out of insulting you, Tom. I’d take that as a complement.
Lying Tom Danehy continues to promote his false shibboleth:”I sincerely don’t think that all Trump voters are racists (but all racists are Trump voters).”
Just a short list of racists who aren’t Trump voters that demonstrates that Tom Danehy is a liar:
Al Sharpton
Jeremiah Wright
Raphael Warnock
Jesse Jackson
Louis Farrakhan and all of the members of the Nation of Islam
Any member of the New Black Panther Party
Robin DiAngleo
Shaun King
Rahshida Tlaib
Ilhan Omar
Ayanna Pressley
Tom Danehy
I can keep going on and on, but it is just another example that Tom Danehy is a habitual and unrepentant liar.
Lying Tom Danehy wrote: “I’m CURIOUS as to how much they have to pay people to lie for a living.”
I don’t know Tom. How much does the Tucson Weekly pay you to be a habitual liar and racist?
You are a demonstrable liar and unrepentant racist and yet the Tucson Weekly continues to pay you.
Talk about a lack of self-awareness.
Lying Tom Danehy wrote: “I spent years listening to my mother (and Marvin Gaye) to build up my soul for the final accounting.”
Tom Danehy won’t let his girls basketball team listen to Chris Brown but he continues to express his admiration for the incestuous pedophile, female abusing/beating Marvin Gaye.
Nice.
jormo wrote: “and….it’s bizarre how some folks make a career out of insulting you… I’d take that as a complement.”
Really?
You realize that Lying Tom Danehy’s career and purpose for existence for the last four years has been insulting President Trump and other conservatives? Is that bizarre as well?
Should President Trump and other conservatives take that as a compliment?
I am thankful that democrats were too stupid to steal the Senate races.
I like the fact that the conservatives in GA are so mired up in incoherent conspiracy theories about bullshit voter fraud that they may not even vote in the GA runoff. Keep up the good work Reich-wing media! Keep the cowering sheeple in their pens! It’s time for Mitch the Bitch to retire.
to ac/dc The only stupidity I see, is yours: You seem threatened by a commenter exercising freedom of speech. Joining the crowd of most lefties , you need to silence anyone or anything you don’t agree with, exhibiting the hidden face of democratic liberalism by repeating similar acts of students and academia from Berkley to Miami.
Just like Twitter, Google and Facebook. They have lost half their audience and more to follow.
Real loyal citizens . So loyal they feel they must censor any disagreement.
Just like with Covid, you must confront your fears and quit projecting them onto others.
Stand up to these punks Americans.
I’m not threatened by anyone’s freedom of speech ladddderflapppy. I wish you had actually took the time to read my comment word for word instead of skimming it because it was too long and didn’t include pictures.
My issue with this person is the fact that they keep coming back to read something that they will very rarely agree with. That’s not only counterproductive, it’s just plain stupid. Just like your assessment of me and most lefties. First off, I’m not a lefty. Never have been, never will be. I’m a solid independent and I have voted against Democratic policies and/or candidates as recently as the previous election. I do tend to side more with Democrats though, because Republicans have become batshit crazy in their efforts to justify wrongdoings that the little wannabe dictator has been involved in.
I have no desire to silence fools such as yourself and tucson because the more you type, the more it exposes your idiocy and lack of comprehension. Whether that lack is towards the article in discussion (tucsonbAss) or towards a comment made that responds to counterproductive activity (You), it all just makes you appear more and more foolish. Please, keep exercising your freedom of speech and keep spouting your nonsense. It’s definitely counterproductive, but it’s also entertaining in a Jerry Springer Show or Jersey Shore kind of way.
Psychopathic drivel in comments reflects widespread pathology in general GOP politics – all thanks to Trump because he and he alone rebranded your party. Trump is not a conservative in any traditional sense of the ideology. I have never in a long life of observation seen where nobody is allowed to criticize a president. I remember my conservative father unloading on JFK, as was his right. So now, I unload on Trump not because of ideology (he really has no anchoring ideas), but because he lies to all and, when we object, calls us crazy. We are not, but Trump is.
Abnormal. Sociopathic. Delusional. Destructive. Trump wants his people to hate their neighbors in perpetuity.