No mas. We will not allow Republicans and Right Wingers to clutch pearls and call for civility. Not when the sitting president insults people using very harsh terms. A former president threw a soft, almost diplomatic criticism at the current White House, and that’s outrageous? Think about that. Would *you* respond to 100,000 dead with a soft, “the people in charge here aren’t even pretending to be in charge”? Not even raising your voice. You would, I hope, be furious, ready to set fire to every state house that didn’t take the pandemic seriously. I mean, this is the Obama Anger Translator sketch, right? He is so calm and so chill. He can sleep well at night. He’s not quite as chill as “Stoner Mom” Alicia Keys, but he’s close. And he took the courageous step of making a compliant about the current White House losing tens of thousands of citizens seem calmer and friendlier than a typical compliant launched inside a crowded DMV office.

I get it. US Presidents are not human. They are aliens. And once they are in the club, they act like no other human beings, and they protect each other. But Obama could have been a little more pointed in his remarks. He could have said that those in change are responsible for the US death tool being more than double what it could have been. He could have expressed sadness over the number of our dead. He could have assured us that incompetence will not prevail. Instead, he gave us nothing, as he almost always did. His reaction to the Sandy Hook massacre is still the most human he has ever been as president or in the years since.