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Jul 26, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Fugitive Richard Nixon Dies in Shootout With Police"

The Onion--always there before any of us!

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Jul 26, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Sometimes I get to thinking we live in the stupidest time line.

Then I imagine the world where Goldwater won.

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Jul 26, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Ah, the good old days before everyone “did their own research” and considered themselves their own “expert.”

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White folks are sure riled up about things these days. .Never hear much about "white unrest" though.

"The island’s slot machines are airlifted to Monte Carlo."

That's a great sentence!

I bet if we included say, a five pack of oxycontin with each vaccine we lick most of this " anti-vax bullshit in a couple of weeks. JD's people would be coming down out of the hollers by the pick-up load to get a shot. They'd be getting it every other week. Some every other day if they could! Put them in blister packs.Makes it easier to crush them up without losing any powder.

So I'm told.

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Sublime

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Dunno why, but this cracked me up:

"The island’s slot machines are airlifted to Monte Carlo."

But I must be a whiner here and criticize this piece. Why put so much energy in a lulz-filled alt-history when the underlying reality is pretty much happening with worse likely to come. (Fairness requirement: Tennessee backed down from their broad anti-vax idiocy. Til, I suppose, next time.)

Or maybe I failed to get the joke. It's, like, a meditation on what could have happened if things were then like they are now (or will be real soon). I don't know...

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In Roy's completely credible alt-history, Nixon ends up shooting JFK. Since we're living through what seems to be a bizarre alt-history as it is, who's going to get offed by whom a few years from now? My guess, Barron Trump whacks Alec Baldwin, in the clubhouse, with a nine-iron.

(PS Thanks for the great link to the NIH info on the Cutter Labs debacle.)

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I think you've innovated a genre. Alternative Factual Science History. My favorite quote: “It’s plain as day these same skull-cap scientists who invented the drugs that make our children into hop-heads and the social theories that cause Negro unrest in our cities are now killing our children,” Senator Ronson was, of course, the great uncle of Mark Ronson. Uptown funk you up, Mallory Tepper Gruen.

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I had a third-grade teacher, in my bilingual curriculum once available in Colorado public schools, proudly wax rhapsodic about her college-dauys advocacy for Barry Goldwater (=piss). Fast forward 15 years later: she emerges as one of the most strident advocates for the "English Only" referendum on the state ballot.

Fascists don't get better. They go into dormancy like cicadas or fungus.

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Years ago a chiropractor I was seeing about an injury (guess who had no insurance for a real doctor) told me the polio vaccine does not prevent polio. Last time I saw a chiropractor.

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So we all get sick and die. A fitting end for a stupid species.

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I don't believe in gods or such but if I did I'd curse the motherfucker(s) for placing me on such a dumb planet.

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Trivia: Herb Caen invented 'beatnik' in 1958—in our timeline.

In the late 1950s if you were a Jew looking for an house in La Jolla, Ca. (renamed 'Tuckergrad' in 2030) (basically San Diego's Grosse Pointe) your realtor put a green card in the windshield of his car to let the realtor or seller at the house in which you were interested know to tell you that the house were suddenly off the market. Then one day the City Fathers came by the realtors' club and said "We want U.C.S.D. to get a medical school and Dr Salk to open his Institute here, so lay off.' and most of them did. (I gather this is similar to a lot of stories from Atlanta, 'The city too busy [making money] to hate.'.)

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This piece will be quoted verbatim by Qanonnuts in 24 hours. Vol.1

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Yay! love it, bravo. Second season: WHIPLASH: The London blitz. Constitutional part-hardiers refuse to turn off the lights or close the curtains, and their neighbors lynch them and hang them from lamposts, London survives, and the war is won. It's only a couple episodes and won't air in America but all the EU embraces it as an antidote to Brexit.

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The stupidest kind of conspiracy thinking, if two or more people are saying the same thing, they must be "conspiring." Both NASA and my third-grade science teacher told me the Earth is a sphere, they must have met in secret to get their stories straight, obviously in the pay of the Replogle crime family.

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