{"id":7556,"date":"2020-06-19T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2020-06-25T22:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T05:51:06","slug":"douchey-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"Douchey Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"coronavirus cases have spiked throughout the Sun Belt with record numbers of cases for one day being recorded in many states (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/florida-arizona-texas-set-records-new-covid-19-cases-n1231326\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus cases have spiked throughout the Sun Belt with record numbers of cases for one day being recorded in many states<\/a>. One of the hardest hit states has been our home state of Arizona. Our state was doing fine at the beginning of May. We had kept our numbers down, businesses were closed, people were social distancing and wearing masks. Then Impeached CEO\/Dictator and petulant man child Donald <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump visited a mask factory in Phoenix without wearing a mask (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-trump\/trump-tours-new-face-mask-factory-in-arizona-but-does-not-wear-one-idUSKBN22H1YE\" target=\"_blank\">Trump visited a mask factory in Phoenix without wearing a mask<\/a>. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trumpty Dumpty had some words with Arizona's super-duper-businessman-turned-governor Doug Ducey (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\/opinion\/report\/061520_cv_boom_op\/eating-az-alive-duceys-coronavirus-inaction-killing-arizonans-political-purposes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trumpty Dumpty had some words with Arizona&#8217;s super-duper-businessman-turned-governor Doug Ducey<\/a> (pronounced douchey) and yada, yada yada, restrictions were removed and<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" in the past two weeks COVID-19 cases have spike dramatically, almost tripling since Memorial Day (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/14\/876786952\/health-experts-link-rise-in-arizona-coronavirus-cases-to-end-of-stay-at-home-ord\" target=\"_blank\"> in the past two weeks COVID-19 cases have spiked dramatically, almost tripling since Memorial Day<\/a>. To give you an indication of how dramatic, Arizona was holding at 23rd in the nation in mid-May, just barely ahead of Wisconsin, who just held their stupid anti-lockdown protest. Now, Arizona is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"15th and on the fast track to 13th (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/country\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">15th and on the fast track to 13th<\/a> and a whopping 22,000 cases more than Wisconsin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;d think Ducey would reconsidering reopening or at least mandate wearing a mask in public but nooooooooooo.  Our douchey governor recently stated that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Arizonans are just going to have to get use to the coronavirus (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/kjzz.org\/content\/1591238\/arizona-gov-doug-ducey-arizonans-must-learn-live-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">Arizonans are just going to have to get use to the coronavirus<\/a>. Wear a mask, if you think it&#8217;s wise, or in other words, consumer beware. What a douchebag! Fortunately, for Arizonans, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"local municipalities are looking into mask-wearing mandates (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/news\/continuing_coverage\/coronavirus_coverage\/cities-across-arizona-consider-mask-mandates-after-gov-duceys-executive-order\/article_85ab3c0a-b168-11ea-ad0f-0bb13ee12821.html\" target=\"_blank\">local municipalities are looking into mask-wearing mandates<\/a> since Ducey seems reluctant to. . . you know. . . be a leader.  Ducey can&#8217;t seek re-election in 2022 because of term limits. But unfortunately, we&#8217;ve got two more years of this Trump asskisser, who&#8217;s done absolutely nothing for this state other than typical Republican shit: rip away at regulations in order to privatize federal lands and services thus starving the government for the good of corporate America and the plutocrats who control it.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"His dismal legacy on coronavirus may finally lift the stranglehold the GOP had had on this state since the 1960s (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/news\/local\/arizona-poll-shows-widening-partisan-split-in-covid-19-concerns\/article_d1d7dd6f-8215-5421-8f5c-8c7b341831e1.html\" target=\"_blank\">His now dismal legacy on coronavirus may finally lift the stranglehold the GOP has had on this state since the 1960s<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duceytrumpcoronavirusspike.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (pronounced douchey) receives some poignant advice from the master at ignoring problems, Impeached CEO\/Dictator and stable genius Donald Trump.\" class=\"wp-image-7559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duceytrumpcoronavirusspike.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/duceytrumpcoronavirusspike-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (pronounced douchey) receives some poignant advice from the master at ignoring problems, Impeached CEO\/Dictator and stable genius Donald Trump.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, coronavirus cases have spiked throughout the Sun Belt with record numbers of cases for one day being recorded in many states. One of the hardest hit states has been our home state of Arizona. Our state was doing fine at the beginning of May. We had kept our numbers down, businesses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Douchey Advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[355,381,74,73,2186,2086,20,1899,2188,1071,1072,1070,1725,46,9,787,357,461,781,2127,2190,2189,199,98,852,296,1077,19,2187,47,48,694,2089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}