The Most Offensive Mask of History

Although my mind is tired and my noise cancelling headphones are giving a temper tantrum, I have to do something.  It is late into the morning, but my soul is no where near satisfied, even with some libation.  The sounds of Max Roach, an Afro-Cuban collaboration, are echoing in my ears pleasantly.  My eyes are tried and dried out, my back is sore, and I am tired from playing a gig this weekend.  My soul is no where near satisfied, because of the onslaught of negative, hypocritical, deceptive news slung in our faces on the evening news.  What was the banal seemingly harmless lead story?  Vice President Mike Pence for the first time in history dons a mask and suggests it is a good idea to wear one.  Mark this day, June 28, 2020, in history.  Mike Pence, the Vice President of the United States who previously, stubbornly, and vindictively has refused to wear a protective mask during the Covid 19 outbreak, after a massive resurgence of new cases puts on a mask, heads out the door, and like the biggest hypocrite in recent American political history NOW flops his stance.  Faggot.  It is infuriating hypocrites, men who know nothing, do nothing, and feign credibility.  What other word can I muster to describe such an offensive, zealot, harmful elected leader.  The tally is running, and while his tepid, weak, and ineffective presence has not approached the war crimes of our president, attempted genocide of the American people, he is close.  How is it possible that toddlers have been elected to lead our country?  Is it because they can be manipulated?  Is it because they form no opinion?  They are moot?  I never have been so insulted, like a nerd in chess club who suddenly decides he wants and it is appropriate to be the quarter back, like someone told him to wear the mask.  They told him.  He couldn't figure it out for himself.  The Vice President of the United States has not paid attention enough to have a grasp of the task assigned to him by our President.  Head the Covid 19 task force?  Collect milk money during recess?  Deliver newspapers on his bicycle?  Shake the pee pee off his weiner after urinating?  What surrealistic altered reality is transpiring in the Trump Cabinet?  It is unbelievable, like there are no real consequences to his lack of responsibility.  There is only one conclusion, and that conclusion is the American populace is under attack from its own elected officials.  Mass genocide has been attempted from biological attack, from policy suggestions, and from inciting, slanderous, racist rhetoric purposely meant to divide the American people.  Never in our current history has America seen such an underhanded, sideways, oblique attack on our sensibilities.  It is so out of the park that only satan, the devil, beelzebub could muster such a strategy.  From left field.  Out of nowhere.  There is only one conclusion, and that conclusion is that Donald Trump must be removed from office and tried, convicted, and punished for treason against our republic.  There is no other recourse.  He has been impeached.  He was found guilty, and our Senate lead by the most prominent self proclaimed traitor of all time, Mitch McConnell decided he will stay.  There could be no worse state of affairs in America to wake each day and face this milieu.  Monica Lewinsky was one thing, blowjobs in the White House, but an all out assault on the American people, the loss of freedoms, civil liberties, livelihoods, and the rest.  It is unprecedented, and Max Roach riffs on.  My headphones complain as the strains of avant garde saxophone waft in my dead ears, dead from the image of Mike Pence wearing a fucking mask.