What Else Doesn't Cheatin' Brian Kemp Know?

Does he know Blockbusters has closed?

Does he know Ned Stark doesn't win the Game of Thrones?

I wonder if he knows that viruses aren't living organisms?

Can he explain the infield fly rule?

Can he name five state capitals (even including the easy ones like Atlanta, New York City and Chicago)?

Does he know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

Does he know how to breathe with his mouth closed?

Has anyone told him about Santa Claus yet?

Look, it's one thing to be stupid - some people just can't help it.  But it's another thing to be willfully stupid and for your stupidity to result in the deaths of the people you were elected to protect.

Shelter-In-Place Involuntary Quarantine, Day 12: I live in the City of Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, and am therefore subject to at least three different shelter-in-place rules.  Kemp's statewide rule, which by the way is less restrictive than Atlanta's or Fulton County's and has more loopholes and exceptions, explicitly states that it supersedes all other similar orders in the state.  No municipality or county can issue a shelter-in-place rule in Georgia unless it has the exact same language as Kemp's state-wide rule. Legally, no one can pass or enforce a more restrictive rule. No local leaders can do more than Kemp's minimum to protect their constituents.

In other words, he's deliberately putting Georgians at greater risk; he's intentionally causing an unknown number of additional deaths.  His slack rule, which allows church attendance and opens golf courses and the state's beaches, among other things, will only make the pandemic last that much longer.

Kemp said in his defense that he's been modelling his actions on the so-called "leadership" of Trump and Pence.  Prior to his recent realization that coronavirus can be spread by those without symptoms, his stated position was that it should be up to local authorities to develop their own quarantine rules, if any, just like Trump and Pence were saying that it was up to the governors to determine the best course for their individual states.  But Georgia's governor?  The buck didn't stop with him and he passed the responsibility down to the next lower levels of government, the counties and municipalities, at least until his great revelation, just like he saw his role models in Washington doing.

Also, note to Trump: You declared the pandemic a "National Emergency" ("Two very big words!"), meaning that the response will be coordinated at the national level, not by the individual states.  It's a declaration that the federal government is now in charge.  Declaring a national emergency and saying that it's the responsibility of state governors are two opposite things.

Absentee mail-in ballots were sent out to all registered Georgia voters for the upcoming primary; mine arrived in the mail today.  As I understand it, the primary will use all mail-in votes this year instead of public polling places because of you-know-what, and as a trial rum in case we need to do the same come November.  I don't care what I have to do to vote the Trump-Pence regime out of the White House, even if I have to risk exposure at a public voting booth, and in two years, I'll do the same to vote cheatin' Brian Kemp out of the Governor's Mansion.