Wednesday, May 20, 2020

'We've been muzzled': CDC sources say White House putting politics ahead of science

In the early weeks of the US coronavirus outbreak, staff members in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tracked a growing number of transmissions in Europe and elsewhere, and proposed a global advisory that would alert flyers to the dangers of air travel.
But about a week passed before the alert was issued publicly -- crucial time lost when about 66,000 European travelers were streaming into American airports every day.


Troubling thought: What if these are the good old days? - Conan O'Brien





The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

I do believe that President Trump has been taking hydroxychloroquine. Since childhood. - Conan O'Brien




Pompeo's Taxpayer Funded Feasts
As federal workers file out of the State Department at the end of a Washington workday, an elite group is often just arriving in the marbled, flag-lined lobby: Billionaire CEOs, Supreme Court justices, political heavyweights and ambassadors arrive in evening attire as they're escorted by private elevator to dinner with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.






VP Pence & Florida Gov. DeSantis visited a somewhat crowded Beth's Burger Bar in Orlando today. Pence was't practicing social distancing & nobody appeared to be wearing a mask. The pool reporter called it “chaotic” and said many local press, patrons & officials not wearing masks. - Vivian Salama, CNN


Republican Shenanigans



Trump Fears Painting of Obama at White House Would Spy on Him. - Andy Borowitz

I Hope This New Investigation Is As Successful As The Benghazi Hearings


Wait they didn’t even finish locking up Hillary but they’re moving on to Obama? Sheesh. - Sarah Cooper









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Trump Breaks With Tradition By Unveiling Portrait of Putin at White House. - Andy Borowitz



Revenge Shall Be Mine Sayeth The Trump


Somebody should call out the Elephant in the room before Don Jr. shoots it. Trump is a drug addict. - Noel Casler

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Business/Tech News

Here’s an idea. Instead of judging the recovery by the stock market how about we judge it by food lines and unemployment? - Claire McCaskill 






On Friday, February 28, 2020, AHNC Noted That JFK Airport Was Not Screening People For Covid-19
The number of newly reported coronavirus cases worldwide hit a daily record this week with more than 100,000 new cases over the last 24 hours, according to the World Health Organization...The majority of new confirmed cases are coming from the Americas, followed by Europe, according to WHO’s daily report. The U.S. reported 45,251 new cases on Tuesday, according to the agency. Russia had the second-most reported cases Tuesday at 9,263






What I Googled in January: "Who directed 'Ford v Ferrari?'"
What I Googled in May: "Can Murder Wasps get Coronavirus?" - Conan O'Brien






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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

I wish I had a dancing partner in my garden.

Peace.


Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Trump says he takes hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus infection

President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for over a week to prevent coronavirus


Trump Optimistic About Winning Nobel Prize in Medicine. - Andy Borowitz





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We're going after Virginia, with your crazy governor, we're going after Virginia. They want to take your Second Amendment away. You'll have nobody guarding your potatoes. - Donald J. Trump





Put-Down by Pelosi





I'm so inspired by Trump taking an anti-malarial drug to prevent a coronavirus that he's already tested for every day.

Also, I don't ever wanna get measles so I'm starting chemotherapy.
#hydroxychloroquine
- John Fugelsang




Republican Shenanigans

Trump is moving into the Late Elvis stage of presidency.  Everyone around him trying to make as much money as they can fast and doctor giving him whatever he orders up. - Stuart Stevens

 


Florida Is Covering Up Coronavirus Data
As Florida starts to reopen, the architect and manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, announced she'd been removed from her position, Florida Today reported...Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News that her removal was "not voluntary" and that she was removed from her position because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."





It’s crazy that the president is taking an experimental medication and also it’s possible he’s lying about it. - Molly Jong-Fast

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Another White House Tradition Bites The Dust
For decades, it’s been a gesture of the peaceful transition of power from president to president, regardless of party politics. But, according to a report from NBC News, President Trump will not be unveiling his predecessor Barack Obama’s official White House portrait. For 40 years, a first-term president has hosted his immediate predecessor in the East Room for the first public showing of the portrait of the former president. 




Republican Martha McSally is getting CLOBBERED in Arizona by DEM Mark Kelly, 51% to 38%.

A good sign of what's to come in 2020. - Brooklyn Dad Defiant tweet

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A coal lobbyist runs the EPA

A pharma exec runs HHS

An oil lobbyist runs the DOI

A Raytheon lobbyist runs DOD

A Verizon lawyer runs FCC

A Goldman Sachs exec runs Treasury

A private equity kingpin runs Commerce

And you wonder why stimulus funds become corporate handouts. - Public Citizen tweet



Meanwhile, In China


Does anyone else tell their pets "I'll be back soon" when you leave the house or is it just me?





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Monday, May 18, 2020

‘Grossly incompetent’: Trump dismisses Obama over coronavirus criticism

Without naming names, the former president had condemned leaders’ performance during the pandemic.


I guess we're just going to sit here and watch Trump and the Republicans kill a few hundred thousand more of us. - Kona Lowell




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Hey, MAGA fans! Almost 90,000 dead on your boy's watch. Is it enough yet, or do you need even more? - Stephen King





Coronavirus Chaos Continues
Two of President Donald Trump's top officials are now pointing the finger at the administration's own scientists and Americans' pre-existing health conditions to explain the country's world-leading Covid-19 death toll.


I spend a lot of time thinking about how Dan Quayle misspelled potato and we all laughed and said, "Well, CLEARLY he can never be President.” - Jennifer Wright




Republican Shenanigans

Never forget that the Eric Trump Foundation was caught funneling cancer research money directly to Donald Trump. 

They stole money from children with cancer. - Andrea Junker





Pompeo Pomposity
The State Department inspector general who was removed from his job Friday was looking into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations for Pompeo and his wife, among other personal errands, according to two congressional officials assigned to different committees.


Trump Orders Pence to Start Picking Up Pompeo’s Laundry. - Andy Borowitz





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Giuliani Claims He Has Evidence Linking Biden to Obama. - Andy Borowitz


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Watching President Obama’s graduation address tonight I think I finally understand Obamagate. It’s the scandal of having a president being able to speak with empathy, humor, insight, inspiration and in complete and coherent sentences. - Dan Rather


Trump Wants To Take Food From The Poor, Really.
Amid a global pandemic that has rattled the United States economy and led to record-breaking job losses, the Trump Administration is continuing to push to restrict access to the nation’s largest food assistance program.





Do taxpayers have to pay for secret service for an ex President in jail? Asking for the future. - Diana




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Business/Tech News

I sometimes don’t know these days  if something I heard was from Kanye West or Elon Musk. - George Takei




Pompeo Does About Face
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be backing away from a theory he and President Donald Trump were pushing that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated at a lab in Wuhan, China.






Your grandparents and great-grandparents probably had the good sense to wear a mask during the Spanish flu pandemic. They didn't die young. That's why you are alive today. - TDP tweet




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New York City florists are making beautiful statements with their displays in public places.

Peace.