Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Russia coronavirus vaccine approved, Vladimir Putin says

Russia coronavirus vaccine approved, Vladimir Putin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of a coronavirus vaccine for use on Tuesday, claiming it as a "world first," amid continued concern and unanswered questions over its safety and effectiveness.

It won't be long before Trump tells us he's already taken Russia's vaccine. - DKnight10000 tweet





BREAKING: Joe Biden Chooses Kamala Harris As His Running Mate



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Trump Says Spanish Flu of 1918 May Have Caused War of 1812. - Andy Borowitz




Secret Service Shoots Man Outside White House. No, It Wasn't Trump
The sister of a former Dayton man shot by a Secret Service agent outside the White House on Monday said the family is still trying to understand what happened.
Myron Berryman, 51, was shot about 6 p.m., disrupting President Donald Trump’s news conference as a Secret Service agent ushered the president out of the briefing room.


Trump Praises Woodrow Wilson For Opposing Online Learning During Spanish Flu Pandemic. - Andy Borowitz




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Thanks, but I'll wait for the covid vaccine that Joe Biden says is safe. - Jeff Tiedrich






Karening From Behind Bars
In new court filing, Ghislaine Maxwell complains about "uniquely onerous" conditions behind bars, and argues that she is being treated worse than other inmates as a result of Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide in jail.









Trump Signs New Executive Order Granting Himself Unemployment Check in January. - Andy Borowitz


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"George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague.” — President Trump today





Trump Wants To Infect College Football Players, Too!
President Donald Trump railed against reports that college football’s Power 5 conferences will cancel their season, defending several top athletes who are advocating for the season to continue.




Republicans: "I wonder what we could do to keep the Democrats from winning the Black voter bloc?"

Black Voters: "Deal with COVID, do some police reform, and denounce white supremacy as a political ideology." 
Republicans: "Got it! We'll put Kanye West on the ballot." - Corey Richardson tweet





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If u tariff me I gonna tariff u. - Sarah Cooper

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People are calling for the presidential debates to be canceled, but if that happens, how will I decide who to vote for? - Conan O'Brien


NOW Republicans Require Masks At Their Convention?
Attendees at the Republican National Convention will be required to wear masks and badges that allow them to be tracked through Bluetooth technology, NPR reported Tuesday.
The badges will allow for full contact tracing if anyone is later diagnosed with the coronavirus, Jeffrey Runge, a health consultant for the convention, told the outlet.




I'd pay good money to watch Trump try to pronounce coccyx. - Jeff Tiedrich





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Honolulu, Hawaii. I'd love to get that sand in between my toes.

Peace.


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




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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




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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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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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Apparently even the cows are social distancing in Cadiz, Spain.

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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





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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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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





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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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I'm going to build one of these for the orange squirrel that visits my Guanacaste tree.

Peace.