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Monday, August 10, 2020

Nation hits 5 million coronavirus cases with few signs of slowing

Nation hits 5 million coronavirus cases with few signs of slowing
As the U.S. surpassed 5 million coronavirus cases this weekend, the milestone was met with little fanfare as some school districts planned to reopen and thousands descended on Sturgis,

America offers the most worthless COVID test results in the world. - Bill Gates

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

Hillary Clinton Warns on Russian Interference: ‘When Even the Trump Administration Intelligence Officials Have to Admit’ It
Protests erupt after tainted election in Belarus
Puerto Rico’s primary goes off the rails
Man Broke Jaw of 72-Year-Old Partially Disabled Veteran in Spat over Mask: Police
Georgia High School Switching to Virtual Learning After Viral Photos of Crowded Halls -- And At Least 6 Students, 3 Staff Test Positive
As Reopening Date Approaches, Florida Teacher Launches GoFundMe So Her Students Can Wash Their Hands
Canada is telling Americans: Please don't sneak across the border.

Georgia Governor Orders Statewide Ban on Science. - Andy Borowitz

Trump Must Be Itching To Stir Up More Trouble In Portland, Oregon
President Trump on Monday suggested Oregon authorities call in the National Guard in response to sustained protests here, claiming state officials were “putting people’s lives at risk” by failing to do so...The arrival of federal agents to protect a federal courthouse, whose tactics included detaining protesters in unmarked vehicles and deploying large amounts of tear gas, rejuvenated the protests around their 50th day.

What I have learned in 2020 : During a pandemic, entire societies are held captive by the immovable certainties of its dumbest citizens. - Kurt Eichenwald

Republican Shenanigans

It's so hard to trust anyone married to Kellyanne Conway. - DKnight10000 tweet

Bikers For Trump Membership Soon To Be Reduced Thanks To Sturgis
In a Saturday evening appearance on CNN, the founder of the “Bikers For Trump” organization, Chris Cox, made several questionable claims about the coronavirus pandemic, calling it a “plan-demic” organized by the “left” to sink the U.S. economy and damage President Donald Trump.

The only white people in the Bible are the ones who executed Jesus. - John Fugelsang

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I used to think Mitch McConnell was the greatest traitor to this country since Robert E. Lee. Bill Barr has proven me wrong. My bad. - Mary L. Trump

Rock The Voter News

Trump’s executive orders from the golf club:
Cut unemployment benefits for millions.
Reduce funding for Social Security and Medicare.
Do nothing to treat the virus, open schools, or help people vote.
What’s next for Trump while millions of Americans suffer?
The back nine. - Adam Schiff

Hear, Hear! ACLU Wants To Dissolve Homeland Security
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday called for the dissolution of the Department of Homeland Security, calling it a “fail[ed] experiment” that has become a “badge of shame” under President Trump.
“Nearly 20 years of abuse, waste, and corruption demonstrate the failure of the DHS experiment. Many knew DHS to be an ineffective superagency, but President Trump has converted DHS into our government’s most notable badge of shame,” the organization said in a series of tweets Monday.

If you’re looking for someone to blame for football getting canceled, you might start with the guy who keeps saying the virus will just magically disappear and then goes golfing. - Rex Chapman

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Business/Tech News

Trump Furious After Bezos Offers Free One-day Prime Shipping For All Mail-in Ballots. - Andy Borowitz

Conservative Cat Fight
Pro-Trump personalities Diamond and Silk, since leaving Fox News streaming service Fox Nation in a cloud of Covid-19 controversy, have found a new outlet to host their show: Newsmax TV...Diamond & Silk were sacked from Fox News’ subscription service, Fox Nation, in late April of this year after the controversial duo floated coronavirus conspiracy theories.

China, if you're listening, please find the results of Trump's cognition test. - Jeff Tiedrich

Sign in 1918 (courtesy of Emma Donoghue's THE PULL OF THE STARS): MASK YOUR COUGH AND MASK YOUR SNEEZE, ONLY FOOLS AND TRAITORS SPREAD THE DISEASE. - Stephen King tweet

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Friday, August 7, 2020

Pelosi, Schumer say White House declined $2T coronavirus deal

Pelosi, Schumer say White House declined $2T coronavirus deal
Democratic leaders said Friday that the White House rejected an offer for a roughly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package.

What kind of sh-thole president takes a three-day golf holiday in the middle of emergency stimulus negotiations in the middle of a pandemic. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

Trump on Biden:
“No religion, no anything. Hurt the Bible, hurt God. He’s against God, he’s against guns, he’s against energy, our kind of energy.”

The last time Trump went to Thighland it cost him $130,000 in hush money. - Patrick S. Tomlinson

The House Wins
The House of Representatives can sue to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, but McGahn can continue to challenge the House's subpoena and likely will not have to appear anytime soon.
A divided US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said McGahn's refusal to testify is grounds for the House to sue

Republican Shenanigans

Joe Biden is a devout catholic and regularly attends Sunday service.

The last time Trump went to church, he gassed peaceful Americans. - The Lincoln Project

I'm So Old I Remember When Florida Had Sunshine Laws Before Republicans Took Them Away
As Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed this summer for schools to reopen, state leaders told school boards they would need Health Department approval if they wanted to keep classrooms closed.
Then they instructed health directors not to give it.
Following a directive from DeSantis’ administration, county health directors across Florida refused to give school boards advice about one of the most wrenching public health decisions in modern history: whether to reopen schools in a worsening pandemic, a Gannett USA TODAY NETWORK review found.

It's not the deplorables that worry me, it's da gullibles. - John Fugelsang

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Rock The Voter News

Today I used the straps I keep to jam my classroom doors in case of an active shooter as a measuring tape to space out student seats to prevent the spread of a deadly viral pandemic. This is what it is to be an American teacher. - Mrs. Wiseman tweet

So How Are The School Reopenings Going?
Fourth-graders in a North Carolina private school system that Vice President Pence applauded last week for reopening must now quarantine for 14 days, along with their teachers, after a student tested positive.

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The only people who are better off now than they were four years ago are billionaires and nobody. - Middle Age Riot

Business/Tech News

Hi, I'm Larry Kudlow. I once had a 100k-per-month coke habit & a reality TV star picked me to manage your economy. - John Fugelsang

Save The USPS! Please!
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced Friday that it lost $2.2 billion in the second quarter of the year as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the U.S. economy.

"Butterflies are like women - we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane." - Betty White

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Fauci says nation can survive Covid-19 without another shutdown

Fauci says nation can survive Covid-19 without another shutdown
In a POLITICO interview, the infectious disease specialist says he's a "realistic optimist," but worries about the future.

The above headline should say, Fauci says nation can survive Covid-19 without another shutdown but...

The World Is A Safer Place Without ~~Saddam~~ Trump

Hey other countries, do your public health experts get death threats in the middle of pandemics too? - Craig Spencer MD tweet

Black Woman Follows The NRA Money And Bada Bing, Bada Boom!
New York’s attorney general sued the National Rifle Association on Thursday, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.

Turns out that what stops a bad guy with a gun is a good gal with a ton of fricking evidence of fraud. #NRA - Crutnacker tweet

“Without the NRA, there’s no Trump.” - Wayne LaPierre, 2019
#ThoughtsandPrayers

Republican Shenanigans

Trump Considering Replacing Pence with Confederate Statue. - Andy Borowitz

U.S. Sending Three Planeloads of Supplies To Lebanon
The U.S. military will deliver three planeloads of relief supplies such as food, water and medicine to Lebanon to help victims of the deadly explosion in Beirut this week.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, informed his Lebanese counterpart, Lebanon Armed Forces Commander Gen. Joseph Aoun, of the shipment in a phone call, according to a Thursday news release.

Lest We Not Forget

Students are being suspended for taking pictures of schools that aren’t following coronavirus safety protocols. Hopefully they don’t stop until every student is suspended and safe at home. - Chelsea Handler

Trump Warns That Social Distancing in Schools Would Make It Harder for Students to Cheat Off One Another’s Papers. - Andy Borowitz

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Pretty weird how the country that can't stop an epidemic of gun deaths is the same country that can't stop a pandemic. oh well, it is what it is. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

“Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn." -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi , on Republicans

Trump Campaign Fails Miserably At Photoshopping Biden
An ad released by President Trump’s re-election campaign falsely depicts former Vice President Joe Biden as "hiding" alone in his basement using an image edited to remove several other people.
The Trump campaign tweeted the ad Wednesday. The edited picture of Biden sitting on the floor of a house appears about five seconds in, as a narrator claims Biden is “hiding ... in his basement.”

Nixon's final lunch as President, August 9, 1974

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I am still available if Joe Biden changes his mind and decides to go with a white woman. - Conan O'Brien

Business/Tech News

I know you don't want kids to miss a year of school cause they’ll fall behind but we never missed a year and my classmates still grew up to fall for pyramid schemes. - Dani Fernandez tweet

Let The Inmates Use Skype, For Crying Out Loud. Problem Solved.
A group of Senate Democrats are pushing to include a provision in the next coronavirus relief package that would provide access to free phone and video calls for people incarcerated in federal prisons.
The lawmakers point out that despite the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s regulations on interstate prison calls, which account for about 20 percent of calls made by federal prisoners, telecommunications providers can still charge up to $25 for fifteen minutes for the remaining 80 percent of calls.

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