CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN’s Jim Acosta Mocks Trump’s ‘Sad Old Elvis Act’ At Mar-A-Lago: ‘Like Watching the Hall of Discredited Presidents at Disney World’

CNN Newsroom anchor Jim Acosta mocked former President Donald Trump for putting on a “sad old Elvis act” at Mar-a-Lago, referring to a video clip of Trump halfheartedly repeating his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

I’d like to see Mar-a-Lago turned into a prison. - Mayo tweet

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• McConnell: 'The bipartisanship of last year has broken down' because Dems are 'stretching out the pandemic'
• Experts warn low vaccine levels among police officers are looming public health risk
• DHS weighs outside contracts to monitor extremists online

America won’t ever attain “Herd Immunity” because we have too much “Herd Stupidity.” - David Leavitt 

 

The Dumbing Down of Children Continues...
A fifth-grade math and science teacher peddled a bogus conspiracy theory Wednesday to students at Centner Academy, a private school in Miami, warning them that they should not hug parents who had been vaccinated against the coronavirus for more than five seconds because they might be exposed to harmful vaccine shedding.

Crazy that Matt Gaetz’s Venmo and text exchanges don’t even raise an eyebrow in a party that’s generated incredible conspiracy mileage out of “child trafficking”... - Cyrus McQueen

 

The people who preached herd immunity in 2020

are now the reason we won't reach herd immunity in 2021. - John Fugelsang

 

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP Congressman Defends Liz Cheney: She May Not Fit in Current GOP Because 'She Isn't Going to Lie to People'
• Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Botches Pledge of Allegiance at Lin Wood Rally
• House Republicans request hearing with Capitol Police Board for first time since 1945
• Trump lawyers up after Capitol cops sue him for inciting MAGA mob
• Chris Wallace Presses GOP Senator on Trump-Era Tax Cuts: ‘What’s Wrong With’ Corporations, Wealthy People Paying More?
• Brian Kilmeade Goes OFF on Biden Adviser's 'Unbelievably Insulting' Caution on School Reopening
• Pelosi's archbishop calls for Communion to be withheld from public figures supporting abortion rights
• Sen. Mitt Romney booed at Utah GOP convention
• Experts call for federal monitors of Arizona Senate election audit, citing violations of voting laws

The fact that Republicans are fighting against people like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney is so monumentally stupid and it will help Democrats. - Jason Elias

 

 

Dear Lord, Florida's Governor Is Taking Away People's Right To Be Safe
Gov. Ron DeSantis kept his promise and signed a bill into law Monday that bars businesses, schools and government entities across Florida from asking anyone to provide proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

The Arizona state Senate has completed their audit and has proven that Donald Trump did in fact win the Emmys. - Jeremy Newberger

 

Republicans never call it socialism when they give away trillions to the rich.- Andy Borowitz

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Thousands of Fact-checkers Laid Off In Biden’s First Hundred Days. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Not The 'Enemy of the People': Biden Salutes 'Fierce Bravery of Journalists' on World Press Freedom Day
• DNC Raises $15.4 Million Online During Biden's First 100 Days
• Bill Nelson has been sworn in as NASA Administrator
• Most in new poll say government should help Americans age in homes, not institutions
• Joe Manchin says he opposes DC statehood bill, dealing blow to efforts to make nation's capital the 51st state

Republicans Lack Critical Thinking Skills, In Case You Haven't Noticed.

Some Florida Republicans are reportedly growing concerned that a new bill curbing the use of mail-in voting could end up backfiring on the party...After all, the bill will be "curtailing a practice that millions of state Republicans use," the Post writes, and Republicans are worried their "political fortunes are in peril" as a result.

The idea that you can’t add states to the Union is pretty much undercut by a flag with more than 13 stars. - Dan Rather

 

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Business/Tech News

•  Cruz, Rubio ramp up criticisms of big business
• Facebook Set to Decide Whether Trump Will Be Allowed Back on Platform
• Chip shortage forces production cuts at two Ford plants in Germany
• German Oktoberfest canceled again due to COVID-19

Private equity Buys Yahoo! and AOL.. I guess they'll figure out how to get people to pay for email. 
Verizon announced on Monday that it is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Global Management. Verizon made the deal official just a few days after news reports said that Verizon had put Yahoo and AOL up for sale. The media division will be known just as "Yahoo" after the sale is completed later this year.

From The Archives: Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs. - The Onion

From My Archives, 7 Years Ago During The Benghazi Hearings

I’m waiting for the first great pandemic literary novel—LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID. - Stephen King

 

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Odd News

• Good samaritan jumps off bridge to rescue infant after violent crash
•  Ancient DNA retells story of Caribbean’s first people
• North Carolina man breaks record with 3,050 pushups in one hour
• Police find reported COVID-19 violation was a mannequin
• Bird flocks become unwelcome guests in California homes

Time To Deflate Photo

Sunflower seeds growing into sunflowers while still in the sunflower.

Peace.

Bombshell Letter: Gaetz Paid for Sex With Minor, Wingman Says

Bombshell Letter: Gaetz Paid for Sex With Minor, Wingman Says

A confession letter written by Joel Greenberg in the final months of the Trump presidency claims that he and close associate Rep. Matt Gaetz paid for sex with multiple women—as well as a girl who was 17 at the time.

Donald Trump refuses to talk to Matt Gaetz because he likes rapists who don't get caught. - Middle Age Riot

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'Crisis' Update: Children in Border Patrol Custody Drops 84 Percent in a Month, Time in Custody Drops By 105 Hours
• White House: 100 million Americans now fully vaccinated
• CNN's Brianna Keilar Lists All the Insane Ways Capitol Insurrectionists Were Arrested
• DOJ to Indict Derek Chauvin, Was Going to Arrest Him at Courthouse if Found Not Guilty: Report
• Georgia deputy said that beating Black man was 'sweet stress relief,' feds say

The NRA reminds you that your children aren't quite as important as the right of convicted felons to obtain a gun. - John Fugelsang

 

Go Merick. Go Merrick. Go Merrick. GO!
Attorney General Merrick Garland is quickly negating the Trump administration’s law enforcement legacy, dismaying conservatives with a burst of aggressive reversals and new policies.

“Think back to the day after 9/11. Someone tells you that in the future the home and office of #AmericasMayor would be invaded by the authorities and he’d most likely wind up being charged.  You’d think  they were nuts.” - Bette Midler tweet

 

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Michael Cohen Predicts Giuliani Will Flip on Trump: Rudy Would Give Him Up ‘In a Heartbeat’
• Rudy Giuliani Claims Feds Raiding His Home Refused to Take Hunter Biden's 'Hard-Drives'
• Firing of U.S. Ambassador Is at Center of Giuliani Investigation
• Tucker Carlson Says Media Performed 'A Series Of Symbolic Sex Acts' on Biden After Speech to Congress
• Noem sues Biden administration over rejection of Mount Rushmore fireworks
• MAGA Attorney Lin Wood Crazily Insists Donald Trump Is Still in the Oval Office
• Ghislaine Maxwell appears in photo with bruise under her eye
• Former Reality Star And Scion Of Famed Evangelical Family Josh Duggar Arrested
• More abortion restrictions passed this week compared to any week in last decade

Let this sink in.

Currently, key figures in the Republican Party are under investigation for human traffickin’, child pornography and willingly workin’ with Russia to end democracy. - Tea Pain tweet

 

 

Anyone who thinks the Republican Party is not a cult should ask Mike Pence why he is cool with his boss trying to make him a human sacrifice. - Middle Age Riot

Grifters Grifting. Good, More Evidence.

Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), two of the most conservative members of the House, are joining forces.

The pair filed paperwork with the Federal Election Committee (FEC) on Friday for a joint fundraising committee dubbed Put America First, a move that will allow them to combine their star power on the far right and take in larger checks from donors.

 

 

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McConnell Refuses To Stand And Applaud After Biden Says Puppies Are Nice. - Andy Borowitz

 

Rock The Voter News

• Kamala Harris to speak at the Naval Academy's commencement ceremony
• Joe Stops to Pick Flower for Jill Biden on Their Way to Ga. Rally and to Visit Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
• Joe and Jill Biden Confirm There Will Be a White House Cat That Major Has Been Trained Not to Eat

Major is going to eat the cat.

Fox News is going to go wild.

Republicans take back the House.

Louie Gohmert leads five investigations into the death of the cat. - Charles P. Pierce

 

 

 

The Nazization of Florida Continues

Florida on Thursday passed new voting laws that place restrictions around vote-by-mail and ballot drop boxes.

Florida’s state legislature passed a bill that specifies who can drop off a ballot at a drop box and where drop boxes can be placed. It also stipulates that drop boxes cannot be moved 30 days before the election and that an election official must be around when the drop box is opened

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Business/Tech News

• Europe's economy falls back into recession
• New York Post Denies it Ordered Reporter to 'Deliberately Publish Factually Inaccurate Information'
• Billionaire Lee Cooperman Fumes Over Wealth Tax on CNBC, Rips Elizabeth Warren for Pushing it: 'A Politician in the Worst Sense of the Word'
• Amazon shares hit record high after blowout earnings results

Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare. - John Fugelsang

 

Surprise, Surprise! People Spent Their Stimulus Checks

Consumer spending and personal income rose sharply in March, according to data released Friday by the Commerce Department, driven in part by President Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic relief bill.

Personal income rose a staggering 21.1 percent in March after falling 7 percent in February, thanks in part to a third round of direct payments and other forms of aid authorized by Biden’s American Rescue Plan.

I’d like to reassure my fellow celebrities that you don’t *have* to run for governor. - Conan O'Brien

 

 

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Odd News

• 5 arrested in shooting of Lady Gaga’s dogwalker and theft of her bulldogs in L.A.
• Elderly woman missing for 5 days found alive trapped inside car
• 64-Year-Old Woman Bitten by Shark While on Her Paddleboard in Florida: Reports
• 'Untouched' Bronze Age tomb containing human remains and a mysterious stone found in Ireland
• Colombian farmers break Guinness record with 9.36-pound mango

Time To Deflate Photo

I name thee Sir Camo. - Mother Nature

Peace.

A petition is calling for Jill Biden to undo all of Melania Trump's changes to the White House Rose Garden

A petition is calling for Jill Biden to undo all of Melania Trump's changes to the White House Rose Garden

More than 40,000 people have signed a petition calling for First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to undo changes made to the White House Rose Garden by the previous First Lady Melania Trump.

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis will not be on the ticket in 2024; they will be sharing a cell with Matt Gaetz and Rudy Giuliani. - Remove Ron tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Ukrainian ex-lawmaker says he spoke to FBI about Giuliani
• Three Suspects Arrested for Burglarizing 26 Asian American Families in Colorado and Wyoming
• 2 Suspects Charged for Dismembering Vietnamese American Man, GoFundMe Created for Surviving Family
• 'Stupid Chino': Homeless Man Charged With Hate Crime After Punching Asian Man in NYC
• Brian Kilmeade Says Biden Keeping the Nation in a 'Sense of Panic' on Covid So Dems Can Keep Spending Money
• Fauci predicts significant 'drop' in COVID cases as vaccinations near threshold

You can't expect people to get over Trump losing when they haven't gotten over Robert E. Lee losing. - Randi Mayem Singer

Is Putin Using Invisible Weapons on U.S. Soil?

Federal officials are investigating two incidents in the United States that appeared similar to the mysterious apparent attacks that left overseas personnel suffering from "debilitating" symptoms, CNN reports.

In one incident, a National Security Council official was reportedly sickened near the south side of the White House in November 2020, while in another, a White House official "reported a similar attack" while walking her dog in a Virginia suburb in 2019.

Explosive Video Reveals Biden Plot to Use His Power to Improve Living Conditions. - Andy Borowitz

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Louisiana GOP lawmaker goes viral after mentioning 'the good' of slavery
• Cruz responds to footage of him dozing off during Biden speech
• Rep. Liz Cheney fist bumps Biden amid tense relationship with GOP leadership
• Pence makes foray back into politics with speech to S.C. conservatives
• Teacher at private Miami school tells students not to hug vaccinated parents for more than 5 seconds
• Trump Whines About the Raid on His Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani: 'So Unfair ... I Don't Know What They're Looking For'
• 'They're Very Ungracious People': Trump Rails at Biden Admin for Not Acknowledging His 'Accomplishments' in Office
• Trump Declares Himself 'Father of the Vaccine' as He Rips Johnson & Johnson Pause: 'Stupid Thing to Do'
• U.S. Catholic bishops may push Biden to stop taking Communion

I wish Joe Biden would speak out in favor of proper vision care, just so I could watch every Republican poke their own eyes out. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Wow. Not All Republicans Are Science Deficient!

The Senate voted Wednesday to undo a Trump administration rule that rescinded methane emissions limits and made it harder to regulate releases of the greenhouse gas from the oil and gas sector.

In the 52-42 vote, three Republicans voted with Democrats to get rid of the rule: Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Susan Collins (Maine).

I have yet to see a chunk of adderall fly out of President Biden's nose. - Leona tweet

 

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Speaker Pelosi to CBS on Republicans: "All of a sudden they're deficit hawks, when they were giving away money to the wealthiest people in our country under President Trump."

Rock The Voter News

• Harris, Pelosi Make History Seated Behind Biden at Speech
• Jill Biden leading the way on community college tuition coverage, Biden says
• Newsom gets strong ratings on schools, economy despite recall attacks
• Hawaii legislature passes bill to implement automatic voter registration

There are no tracking devices inside any Covid vaccine, just microscopic copies of Kamala Harris’s book. - Stephen Colbert

85%  Approval Rating For Biden's Speech. 85%.

President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress earned a whopping 85 percent approval among viewers of the speech according to a poll taken afterwards.

Just a casual reminder that in 1861, 11 Senators and 3 Representatives were expelled from Congress for failing to recognize Lincoln’s election and supporting insurrection. - Andrea Junker

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Business/Tech News

• U.S. economy accelerated at a robust 6.4 percent rate last quarter
• Instacart now accepts SNAP benefits at 4,000 US stores
• Twitter Removes 'Uncle Tim' from Trending Topics After Senator Scott Attacked Over Biden Rebuttal Speech
• Royal Caribbean CEO, after months of cajoling, praises CDC’s new path to resume U.S. cruises

The party of Open Carry wants you to know your mask is making them uncomfortable. - Jason tweet

 

Uh Oh. The Pandemic Has Taken A Bite Out Of Apple.

Supply chain disruptions are taking a bite of out Apple, and it may make it harder to get your hands on that shiny new tablet or laptop.

Apple warns that it can't make enough iPads and Macs to keep up with demand, thanks to the global shortage in semiconductors that has already disrupted production at almost every major car company, from Ford to VW.

Now that smart people can go outside without masks, my maga moron identification system  is gone. - Randi Mayem Singer

 

 

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Odd News

• Idaho lawmakers pass bill to kill most of state's wolf population
• Pro Golfer Amazingly Sets Guinness World Record With Thrilling Trick Shot Into a Speeding Car
• A new species of cute but poisonous 'pumpkin' toads discovered in Brazil
• North Carolina 12-year-old graduating high school, college in same week
• Deputies: Florida woman goes on rampage with rollerblade after fight with boyfriend

Time To Deflate Photo


The earth rising, Apollo 15 photo taken in 1971.

Peace.