California Gov. Gavin Newsom romps based on twin fears of COVID-19 and Trump

California Gov. Gavin Newsom romps based on twin fears of COVID-19 and Trump

California Gov. Gavin Newsom would probably never have faced a recall election had it not been for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also might not have survived the recall had it not been for that very same reason.

California Republicans Flee To Florida And Texas In Search Of Dumber Governors. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Donald Trump Predicts America Will End Within 3 Years
• 1 out of 500 Americans dead from COVID
• Fauci on Minaj tweets: She 'should be thinking twice'
• Fox Corp. Says 90% Of Its Workers Are Vaccinated; Holdouts To Be Tested Daily
• Then-CIA director Gina Haspel said the US was 'on the way to a right-wing coup' after Trump lost the election: book
• Milley's Office Defends China Calls Detailed in Woodward Book: Was 'Conveying Reassurance' to 'Maintain Strategic Stability'
• Roger Stone Warns Upcoming Rally in Support of Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters is a 'Setup’

The Pentagon has spent 14 trillion of US tax $ since 9/11 

Brown's "Costs of War" project & the Ctr for Int'l Policy just revealed:  btw 1/3 - 1/2 of the $ went to for-profit defense contractors.

So it turns out that some Americans *did* win the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq. - John Fugelsang

This Has A Foul Saudi Scent
President Biden’s order to the Justice Department and other executive branch agencies to declassify documents related to 9/11 could help solve a mystery about a Saudi family who fled a gated community in Sarasota County just before the attacks.

$280 million wasted on this California recall could have ended homelessness for thousands of Californians. - outofbeltway tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Larry Elder Conceded, But OAN Is Refusing to Report That Gavin Newsom Won in California
• Newsmax Host Comically Struggles With Newsom's Recall Victory: 'This Guy's Gonna Win 'Cause of His Hair'
• Third Republican drops out of race to replace Cheney after Trump endorses challenger
• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says people need 'better parenting' and to 'restore God in our communities' to reduce crime
• Pastor offers to sign vaccine exemptions in exchange for becoming online member of his church
• Mike Huckabee Blames COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy On Biden ‘Boring Us To Death’ With Science
• Pennsylvania GOP authorizes subpoenas in election probe
• Tucker Carlson: 'Dumb' and 'Annoying' AOC Wore Met Gala Dress So People Would Stare at 'Her Butt'
• Aly Raisman Excoriates FBI for Failures in Larry Nassar Case: They Knew He Molested Children 'And Did Nothing'
• Dan Quayle Convinced Mike Pence To Ignore Trump's Decertification Pleas

"We got a great idea!  Lets recall the Dem governor in the bluest state in the f'n galaxy and look like losers"......Gotta love MAGAts - BlueVotr tweet

Are There Any Conservative Radio Talk Show Hosts That Haven't Died From COVID?

A conservative radio talk show host and preacher in Denver who spoke out against COVID-19 vaccines has died after contracting the coronavirus, one of his co-hosts announced.

Bob Enyart, who reportedly pushed unfounded claims about vaccines on his radio program and website, earlier this year urged his followers to boycott the vaccine in an attempt "to further increase social tension and put pressure on the child killers."

New York Times tomorrow: Governor Newsom won by 273849%, here’s why Democrats are in disarray - Adam Smith

Literally every major media outlet for weeks treated Caitlyn Jenner as a serious gubernatorial candidate and that should be unsettling to us all. - Brian McBride

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Rock The Voter News

• Pope: No place for politics in Biden Communion flap
• Blinken cracks up at hearing over GOP senator's conspiracy theory
• Biden meets with Sens. Manchin, Sinema as Democrats try to build support for $3.5 trillion bill

Let’s keep it simple, you ainti-vaxxers: You have a right to kill yourself, whether with booze, cigarettes, chew, or high living. You do not have the right to kill others by spreading a virus. That’s not freedom, it’s selfishness. - Stephen King

FBI Director Chris Wray was part of the same rightwing legal org as Kavanaugh…at the same school…at the same time…and ignored 4,500 tips abt Kavanaugh, allowing him to be confirmed for a lifetime on the Court…insurrection inciter Hawley was also in same group at same school. - Kaivin Schroff

FBI Director, Chris Wray, Has A Lot Of Splainin' To Do
The FBI director, Chris Wray, is facing new scrutiny of the bureau’s handling of its 2018 background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, including its claim that the FBI lacked the authority to conduct a further investigation into the then supreme court nominee.

Chris Wray said his FBI will thoroughly investigate any allegations of sexual assault.

Cool, let’s start with the 4500 Kavanaugh tips he ignored. - TheSadTruth tweet

We're going to run out of anti-vaxxers before we run out of vaccine. - Middle Age Riot

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Business/Tech News

• California sheriff says he won't enforce vaccine mandate for employees
• Hotel workers need a lifeline; It's time to pass The Save Hotel Jobs Act
• Women charged after yelling at kids for kicking their seats during flight: police
• UC San Diego student allegedly tapped into iPhones to steal crypto — and tried to blackmail one victim with naked photos
• PhRMA launches 7-figure ad campaign against Democrats' drug pricing measures

59% of the U.S. Aren't Dumbasses!

A majority of people in the U.S. support requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to board airplanes or enter indoor arenas, a new Monmouth University Poll shows. 

The poll found 59 percent of Americans said people should need to show proof of vaccination to be able to get on an airplane...

If earth was indeed "flat" wouldn't cats have pushed everything off by now?

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Odd News

• Fire threatening Sequoia National Park grows five times in size, forcing evacuations
• Number of states with high obesity rate nearly doubles since 2018: CDC
•  Pitcher Throws the Ultimate Blooper and Nearly Hits Himself with WORST Pitch in MLB History
• Alabama Guard member at Texas border tries to traffic cocaine at Whataburger, feds say
• 820-foot pedestrian bridge in Ontario earns Guinness World Record
• Videos show terrifying moment a Florida woman fended off a large, angry alligator while on a paddle board

Time To Deflate Photo

I want an Elephant ear plant like this one in Louisiana. Photo/Eric Svendson

Peace.

‘I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend Anymore’: Trump Gave Pence a Jan. 5 Ultimatum, Book Claims

‘I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend Anymore’: Trump Gave Pence a Jan. 5 Ultimatum, Book Claims

In his desperation to remain in the White House after Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump reportedly resorted to schoolyard threats against Mike Pence to convince him to overturn the results by rejecting certification. “You can do this. I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this,” Trump told Pence...

January 6th

1:20 Trump riot breaches capitol

1:25 Melania Trump gets text asking her to tweet to stop violence

1:26 Melania texts “NO” (in 1 of her 5 languages)

2:24 Trump tweets incitement about Mike Pence who supporters want to hang

Tell me how this couple is unaccountable. - Jeremy Newberger

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• ‘Hospitals are building barricades’: COVID-19 pandemic reaches ugly height with anti-vaxx protests across Canada
• Putin self-isolating after several COVID-19 cases in inner circle
• Now Boris Johnson Is Weighing In on Nicki Minaj's Swollen Testicle Vaccine Tweet Because 2021
• Washington state troopers, firefighters sue over vaccine mandate
• Lawyer for Prince Andrew says he'll fight 'baseless' sexual abuse lawsuit
• 2 middle schoolers attempted to recruit students in alleged shooting plot: police
• Justice department bans chokeholds and no-knock raids for federal officers

FACT: Vaccine mandates save more American lives than invading & occupying Iraq. - John Fugelsang

my cousin’s friend took the vaccine and two weeks later BOOM! he got bitten by a møøse. do your research. - Hayes Brown tweet

It Is Comforting To Know Trump Couldn't Bully This General, If It's Legal?
Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump's top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took top-secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to "Peril," a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.

Trump Calls Bush Ungrateful: “I Kept Him from Being the Worst President in History.” - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• DeSantis: Local governments will face $5K fines for imposing vaccine mandates
• Woman who QAnoners demanded hospital treat COVID with Ivermectin dies
• Larry Elder Repeatedly Refuses To Say Whether He'll Accept the Recall Election Results If He Loses
• Conservative Radio Host Who Spread Insane Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Dies of Covid
• GOP Senator Insists to Secretary of State That Someone 'Cuts Off Biden's Mic' When He Speaks: 'It's Been Widely Reported'
• Melania Trump blasts her former top aide Stephanie Grisham's 'poor performance' and 'failed personal relationships'
• Tucker Carlson Touts Nicki Minaj’s Vaccine Comments, Reads Aloud Her Swollen Testicle Tweet

I would pay to watch footage of someone doing their "own research" on vaccines. Share your screen because I am absolutely dying to know what you're looking at. - Jenee tweet

Former Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton And Not Trump Will Welcome Afghan Refugees

Former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton, along with first ladies, governors, mayors and military leaders, will help welcome and support Afghan refugees who fled the country for the United States because of Taliban rule as part of an aid effort being launched Tuesday.

Twenty years out from ‘Freedom Fries’ and the GOP is as dumb as ever. - Noel Casler

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Slams GOP Governors Decrying New Vax Requirements: ‘Putting Their People at Risk, Putting Their Children at Risk’
• 60 percent support Biden vaccine mandates: poll
• FEC finds Twitter didn't break law by blocking spread of Hunter Biden story
• Al Franken on another Senate run: 'I'm keeping my options open'
• AOC Explains Her 'Tax the Rich' Met Gala Dress is 'About Keeping' a 'Critical Conversation' Going

The way Republicans are obsessing over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attending a $35K-per-ticket gala you'd think she'd spent $150 million of taxpayer money to play golf at resorts she owned. - Middle Age Riot

 

Woman Receives 5 Year Sentence For Threatening To Kill Kamala Harris. Did They Slap Her Wrist, Too?

A woman who threatened to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris in a series of videos could be sentenced with up to five years years in prison.

Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, made six recordings in which she said she was going to kill Ms Harris, just a few weeks after the vice president and President Joe Biden were sworn into office earlier this year.

the vaccine is free. funerals are expensive. - Jeff Tiedrich

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If President Biden declared "breathing" mandatory, half of Texas would suffocate itself on purpose. - morninggloria tweet

Business/Tech News

• Employers scramble to secure vaccine verification systems
• New York subway system extends policy withholding death benefits from unvaccinated employees
• AT&T's WarnerMedia Sells TMZ To Fox Entertainment for Reportedly Less Than $50 Million
• CNBC, Reuters Duped by Fake Story About Walmart Accepting Litecoin

Let’s be honest, the only reason Twitter got rid of Trump’s account was because Morgan Stanley was getting nervous about the stock market in light of Jan 6th attacks. - Noel Casler

Morning Cable TV Ratings Race Won By The Misinformation Channel

It was a big morning for Fox & Friends — which thoroughly dominated its time slot rivals in the ratings on Monday.

According to data from Nielsen, Fox & Friends averaged 1.24 million total viewers over its three hours from 6-9 AM. That number topped CNN’s New Day (387,000) and MSNBC’s Morning Joe (810,000) combined.

“I was in hopes that the enlightened & liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians…that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.” - George Washington, 1792

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Odd News

• Mexico to give away ‘El Chapo’ safehouse in lottery
• Woman found safe after being abducted 14 years ago when she was 6 years old
• Drug sting sends two Miami-Dade cop pals to prison. They were big fans of ‘Bad Boys’ movies
• Long-lost Baroque painting found hanging in New York church
• Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to make it happen

Time To Deflate Photo

A clump of Malachite found in 2008 at Tingherla Mine in Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.


Peace.

Today is Independence Day in Costa Rica

 Celebrations included no Internet  for 8 hours and no power for a couple of hours. Pura vida.

Not to leave you empty handed, here are a few memes. Thank you for stopping by!

On this day in 1862, Union scouts find a discarded copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field near Frederick, Maryland. The discovery sets the stage for the Confederate defeat at Antietam the following week. They were dumbasses then and they are dumbasses now. 

Peace and see you tomorrow.