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Monday, August 31, 2020

The Last Day Of August 2020

Trump retweets conspiracy theory questioning COVID-19 death toll
President Trump over the weekend retweeted a conspiracy theory falsely claiming that only about 9,000 people had “actually” died from coronavirus, instead of about 150,000.

Trump Says He Could Beat LeBron James in a Dunking Contest If Not for Bone Spurs. - Andy Borowitz

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

Just to be clear, Trump supporters have murdered three more people in a week than Antifa has in its existence. - Tony Posnanski

Reminder: as he rants about “Democrat-run cities,” remember: America is a Trump-run country. It has been for four years. That’s it. That’s the tweet. - Dean Wallace

Wisconsin Gov. Nicely Tells Trump To Stay Away
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to reconsider his plan to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Trump had announced his plans on the flight back to Washington, D.C. after visiting Texas and Louisiana to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Laura. The planned visit drew swift backlash, including from Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who told CNN’s John King that he didn’t believe the visit would be helpful, considering Trump’s past “incendiary remarks.”

A case could be made that Nixon was the beginning of this mess.

But it's Reagan and his courting of Evangelicals and his nationalist drum beating who REALLY got the ball rolling. - Stonekettle tweet

Republican Shenanigans

Millions out of work. Millions more trapped in cycles of poverty. Millions on the brink of losing their homes. Millions of restaurants and stores hanging by a thread.

This crisis is bad—and didn’t have to be this way. This is on Donald Trump and the Republicans who enable him. - Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Wow, Ghislaine Maxwell Is Still Alive!
A Brooklyn federal jail rolled out the orange carpet for Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense team Friday, allowing them what sources said was the first in-person federal jail visit in the city since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News has learned.

Somewhere in America, Donald Trump's 4th wife just finished her math homework. - John Fugelsang

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Reminder: If Democrats hadn't flipped the House in 2018 we would be fully and completely f-cked. - driftglass tweet

Rock The Voter News

Years from now, historians will look back on this period of American History and move to Canada. - Conan O'Brien

US Cops Have Lots Of White Supremacists "Serving"
White supremacist groups have infiltrated US law enforcement agencies in every region of the country over the last two decades, according to a new report about the ties between police and far-right vigilante groups.

Melania Trump Figures It’s Time To Sit Barron Down And Tell Him He Was Bred For His Organs. - The Onion

He has his mother's eyes and his father's frown.

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"More cops have died this year from COVID than those on patrol." -- Joe Biden

Biden at speech in Pittsburgh: "Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Reallly?"

Business/Tech News

Why do some Americans hate immigrants who pay taxes, but admire billionaires who don't? - MoBella tweet

Bitch? No, you're the bitch!

Ivanka Should Be Very Nervous
A former Melania Trump friend and adviser said she is working with multiple prosecutors on investigations into potential financial crimes committed in connection with the president's 2017 inauguration.
"I'm working with three different prosecutors, and it's taken over my life," Stephanie Winston Wolkoff told ABC News in an interview Monday,

Remember how at the dawn of the Information Age the futurists described a new era of marvels where shining technology would connect the world, erase the divisions between people, and usher in a new age of enlightenment and brotherhood?

I f-cking love that story. - Stonekettle tweet

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Odd News

Time To Deflate Photo

Doing the neighborly thing, road repair. When Hurricane Marco formed off Nicaragua and Honduras we got hit hard with rain and wind. And since then we've had almost daily heavy rainstorms cutting gullies in the road which cut off access. So, several of my neighbors got together and filled the gullies with rocks and soil. Waiting for the government road repair wasn't an option. Pura vida.

Peace.

Friday, August 28, 2020

Trump taunts Democrats in White House speech: 'We're here and they're not'

Trump taunts Democrats in White House speech: 'We're here and they're not'
President Trump taunted critics of his administration Thursday by gesturing to the White House during his convention speech and saying, "We're here and they're not."
The off-script moment came on the final night of the GOP convention as Trump addressed hundreds of people on the South Lawn of the White House to accept his party's nomination for president, breaking with a tradition of not using the building for campaign events.

Guess what, trump, no sane Democrat would want to be there at your coronafest.

Forget the Hatch Act violations, we're getting into a matter of life and death here. - Jake Tapper, CNN

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

A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15.

He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives.

Fix your damn headlines. - Rep. Ayanna Pressley

I'd replace today's New York Times headline with this:

Trump Violates Hatch Act During Superspreader Event

"He had a knife." "He used a counterfeit $20 bill." "He was selling loose cigarettes." "He was playing with a toy gun in the park." "He walked home." "She was driving down to her new job." "She was asleep in her own house." "He complied and reached for his license, registration."

Here's Something No One EVER Said About Trump or Pence
The father of Jacob Blake said Friday that his hour-long conversation earlier this week with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris was akin to “speaking to my uncle and one of my sisters.”
“They were so comforting that you almost forgot how the situation was really playing out,” Jacob Blake Sr. told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on “New Day,” referring to Biden and Harris. “It was like I was speaking to my uncle and one of my sisters — literally, literally.”

Brian Williams described part of Trump's convention as a "gaslighting visible from space."

Republican Shenanigans

Trump Children Worried Aging Father Not Safe To Be Alone After Falling In Polls Again. - The Onion

Rand Paul Is Such A Drama Queen
Sen. Rand Paul tweeted early Friday morning that an “angry mob” of “over 100” attacked him as he left the Republican National Convention at the White House, thanking police for “literally saving our lives,” but video of the incident appears to show a much smaller crowd that didn’t touch Paul or his wife, and they seem to have sustained no injuries.

In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned of "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" who might try "to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion"

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When asked if she is a "radical liberal," or a "radical centrist," Sen. Kamala Harris says, "I am radically in love with my country." - Tim Perry, CBS

Rock The Voter News

Seasonal rules aside, Obama should wear the tan suit to Biden’s inauguration. - Jason Kander

My My My, The House Is Launching Contempt Proceedings Against Pompeo. Bet He's Praying For The Rapture!
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is launching contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for what it says is his repeated refusal to cooperate with the committee's investigations.
Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) cited Pompeo's refusal to turn over documents in the House's impeachment inquiry last fall as well as another subpoena seeking documents the State Department has already voluntarily turned over to a Republican-led Senate committee targeting former Vice President Joe Biden.
"I won’t stand by and see the Committee or the House treated with such disdain by anyone," Engel said in statement.

It sounds absurd to say it, but America is in the process of choosing whether to be a white nationalist fascist state or an inclusive democracy. That's not hyperbole, that's just where we are. - Ryan Avent

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There is a very real chance that a year from now, as a post-Trump Republican Party looks at what went wrong, they’ll point to this RNC as a crescendo.

The Party reached one final fork in the road... and decided they’d just let the drunk guy drive even if it was over a cliff. - The Hoarse Whisperer tweet

Business/Tech News

Yesterday, Jeff Bezos became the first man worth $200 billion.

30 million American households didn't have enough food this week.

Tax the rich. - Robert Reich

Apparently, Canada Doesn't Care For The Trump Brand. Smart People.
Three and a half years after it first opened its doors, Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver has permanently shuttered.
Sources wishing anonymity told Daily Hive Urbanized the hotel property has closed for good, and that staff were laid off today. At its peak, the hotel’s operations employed about 250 people.

Hey guys, wanna feel old?

I'm 40.

You're welcome. - Macaulay Culkin

Static Cat

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

RNC ratings fall in Night 3 despite Mike Pence’s headline address: report

RNC ratings fall in Night 3 despite Mike Pence’s headline address: report
Even with the sports world turned upside down by wildcat strikes across the NBA, WNBA, MLS and MLB Wednesday, the third night of the Republican National Convention failed to draw impressive ratings.
About 15.7 million people tuned in to the 10 p.m. block Wednesday night, when Vice President Mike Pence delivered the keynote speech, approximately four million fewer than the night before, when first lady Melania Trump was at bat, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings of six networks

Pence Tells RNC That He Has Accepted Trump As His Personal Savior. - Andy Borowitz

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

Is there any doubt that if a 17-year old black kid with a semi-automatic rifle shot someone in the head and killed them that he would have been shot by police? - Stan Van Gundy

Missouri Lawmakers Gone Wild! Guns For Kids?
Missouri lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would legally allow people to give firearms to children without their parents’ permission after the governor had initially sought to increase the penalty for the crime.
“Recklessly” giving guns to minors without parents’ permission is currently a misdemeanor offense under Missouri law. But the state House in a voice vote Monday advanced a bill that would ax the crime.

Pro-Life Republican is a myth. They are nothing more than Pro-Birth. Pro-Life Republicanism is Pro-Enslavement of women nothing more.As you sit there and snicker understand you’re next. - Darin Larson tweet

Republican Shenanigans

More Americans have died from Covid in the first two days of the RNC than died on 9/11. - Kurt Eichenwald

Any Bets On Who Gets The Virus First, Trump or Pence?
Vice President Mike Pence, the White House’s coronavirus point person, offered some of the most pointed comments of the Republican National Convention on the outbreak, vowing on Wednesday night that the U.S. would develop a successful vaccine before the end of the year.
But just moments after presenting himself as a reassuring authority on the raging virus, the maskless vice president, along with President Donald Trump, walked over to greet the mostly mask-free members of the audience, who crowded close to each other on the grounds of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

Pence says everything Trump says, only backwards and in high heels. - Michael McKean

" [Trump] has to be the bride at every funeral and the corpse at every wedding." - Phillip Wylie

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Rock The Voter News

Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement. - The Onion

I Wonder If Jared Has A Russian Mistress?
More than a dozen Trump administration officials, current and former, described a clandestine relationship between Jared Kushner and the CEO of a Kremlin sovereign wealth fund.

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The way mainstream conservatives are glorifying the mass shooter, calling him their “president” and saying his follow up shots were in self defense, is beyond sickening. This country has hit the point of no return. - Jesse McLaren

Business/Tech News

Mark Zuckerberg Announces Virtual Roundtable With American Hate Groups To Better Understand How They Work. - The Onion

This Should Be Interesting
Walmart said it’s teaming up with Microsoft in a bid for TikTok.
The retail giant confirmed to CNBC that it’s interested in buying the tech company.
Walmart shares are up more than 5% on the news.

Scientists Confirm Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Spread Covid After Discovering Virus Particles With Matching Tattoos. - The Onion

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Behold, A Tip Jar!