The Magical Vaccine Tour Kicks Off!

Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right.
President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.

Donald Trump is the best friend a deadly virus ever had. - Tea Pain

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• ‘Traitor!’: Local News Reporter Abused and Stalked By Lockdown Protestors on Long Island
• Trump Deploys Bonkers Logic to Deflect Blame for High Outbreak Numbers: 'If We Didn't Do Any Testing, We Would Have Very Few Cases'
• European Commission suspends delivery of 10 million masks from China
• American cargo pilot jailed in Singapore for breaking quarantine order
• Pentagon fires its point person for Defense Production Act
• Vaccinations, The Law In Costa Rica

Trump says there will be a vaccine by the end of the year. It is made of one part hydroxychloroquine, one part Lysol and a spoonful of sugar. - Barbara Malmet

What Is The Penalty For Allowing 80+ Thousand People To Die?

Testifying before the House of Representatives Thursday morning, Rick Bright, a federal scientist who alleges that he has been sidelined by the Trump administration, warned that “our window of opportunity is closing” to stop the coronavirus, and without quick action it will return in autumn with redoubled force....

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Replace Trump And Bolster The CDC, A Leading Medical Journal Urges
• Trump Thanks Fox & Friends Minutes After They Prompt Kellyanne Conway to Defend Focus on Flynn During Pandemic
• Trump exults in his Mueller revenge play
• GOP sees groundswell of women running in House races
• CDC releases scaled-back guidance on reopening after White House blocked earlier release
• Daughter-in-chief: Ivanka Trump pushes food distribution program
• Bret Baier Forces Mitch McConnell to Admit He Falsely Claimed Obama Didn't Leave Trump a Pandemic Plan: 'I Clearly Made a Mistake'

Ideally, you want the President of the United States, the Mayor of Crazytown and the village idiot to be three different people. - Jeff Tiedrich

Municipalities stuck footing the bill for Trump campaign

President Donald Trump’s campaign committee has not paid at least 14 bills — totaling more than $1.82 million — sent to it by municipal governments to cover public safety and other costs associated with Trump campaign rallies.

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Raise your hand if you'd like to see Donald Trump testify in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain how tens of thousands of people came to die under his watch. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• Biden says he would not pardon Trump
• Bernie world descends into disarray
• Dems form new super PAC to oust Lindsey Graham

Watching Joe Biden today made me think, "'Now that's how our President should sound like & look like!" - Carl Reiner

Trump Unveiled Space Force Flag Today

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled the official flag to be used by the Space Force, the newest branch of the military.

President Trump held an Oval Office ceremony where the flag was unfurled, signing a proclamation denoting Armed Forces Day alongside military leaders.

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Business/Tech News

• Retail sales dropped more than 16 percent in April as coronavirus seized economy
• Manufacturing output dropped by record 13.7 percent in April: Fed
• Mayo Clinic expects to lose $900 million in revenue this year
• Fox News at Night Swings Back to Big Win in Wednesday Ratings as Fox Reigns in Daytime, Primetime

Trump's promising a vaccine by the end of the year so please don't forget he also said "everyone who wants a test gets a test" and "it will be down to zero" and it will go away "like magic." - Randi Mayem Singer

Grifter-in-chief

Various U.S. government agencies have paid properties owned by President Trump at least $970,000 for room rentals throughout Trump's first term, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The Post said that the payments included more than 1,600 nightly room rentals at Trump's hotels and clubs. According to the paper, the rooms were for staffers and Secret Service agents that accompanied the president on his travels, not for Trump and his family.

You look cooler wearing a facemask than a ventilator. - Tony Posnanski

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Odd News

• Vegas-Reno highway cracked, closed after 6.5 quake in Nevada
•  Loose tiger lassoed on street in Mexican suburb
• Restaurant using blow-up dolls to enforce social distancing
• Charity seeks volunteers to walk on Lego bricks
• Cafe In Germany Gives Customers Hats With Pool Noodles To Keep Them Apart

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President Eisenhower painted this portrait of Winston Churchill in 1955.

Stay safe and have a peaceful weekend.

Wisconsin Bars Welcome Crowds After Court Strikes Down 'Safer At Home' Bans

Wisconsin Bars Welcome Crowds After Court Strikes Down 'Safer At Home' Bans

People flocked to bars in Wisconsin on Wednesday night, after the state Supreme Court voided the state's "Safer at Home" orders. The ruling quickly triggered a jumble of policies in counties and cities, as officials set their own rules related to COVID-19.

"Remember "Click it or Ticket"?

Morons hated seatbelts but it saved lives! Maybe we'll start "Mask it or Casket" for same reason?"

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright Warns in Prepared Testimony 2020 Could Be ‘Darkest Winter in Modern History’
• Florida and Georgia Coronavirus Cases Decline Despite Concerns, South Dakota Cases Shoot Up
• Russia accuses NYT, FT of publishing 'disinformation' on nation's COVID-19 death toll
• Global coronavirus death toll surpasses 300,000

Florida Governor Deploys National Guard To Force Residents Back Into Malls, Movie Theaters. - The Onion

I Hope Jared Serves More Time Than His Father
Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it...

Rand Paul Says Secret to Social Distancing Is Making Everyone Despise You. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Maria Bartiromo Reassures Trump That 'Obamagate' is 'The Biggest Political Scandal We've Ever Seen'
• Tucker Carlson Goes On a Tear Against Fauci: Makes ‘Buffoon-Level’ Comments, Is He Even ‘Right About the Science’?
• Trump Demands Lindsey Graham Haul Barack Obama Before Senate Judiciary Committee: 'Just Do It'
• Trump Says Democrats Would Rather 'See Our Country Fail' and Create 'Death' Than Let Him Win Another Term
• Trump ‘Surprised’ by Fauci Comments on School Reopenings: 'Not an Acceptable Answer'
• Meghan McCain Swipes at Dr. Fauci: What Rand Paul Was Saying Was You've Been 'Really Wrong' On Lots of Things
• GOP senator doesn't want to 'wear a face mask in the shower'

Dr. Bright: "I fear the pandemic will get far worse... Without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter."

A tragic culmination of four dark years under Trump.

Problems of a Pandemic Profiteer 
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) surrendered his cell phone to the FBI after agents served him a search warrant at his Washington-area home in the ongoing investigation into his questionable stock trades during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.

Richard Burr Asks FBI Agents If He Can Make One Phone Call To Stockbroker. - Andy Borowitz

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Forty Per Cent of Nation’s Toilet Paper Found in Richard Burr’s Garage. - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Biden Rips Trump For Testing Everyone at White House After Coronavirus Infections But Not Doing Same Nationwide
• Sanders calls for Senate to improve House Democrats' coronavirus bill
• Obamas read children's book aloud in video 'to give all you parents a break' amid pandemic

Why is it safe for kids to be in school, but too scary for Paul Manafort to be in prison?

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Business/Tech News

• Good News: College Students Link Farmers To Food Banks To Combat Hunger and Waste Amid Coronavirus
• Washington Post tells employees to work remotely until September
• Delta retiring Boeing 777 fleet amid coronavirus fallout
• Trump goes without mask on trip to Pennsylvania PPE factory

If Trump wins in November, will he blame everything on the first Trump administration? - Conan O'Brien

Amazon To Produce Low Cost Face Shields
Amazon announced Thursday that engineers from its drone delivery unit are developing face shields that will soon be sold to medical professionals on the front lines of the fight against coronavirus. ... "Because of the design innovations and capabilities of our supply chain, we are confident we will be able to list them at a significantly lower price than all other reusable face shields currently available to frontline workers."

I just burst into tears for no apparent or pressing reason...anyone else on my level? - Amee Vanderpool

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Odd News

• Georgia officials warn of 4-foot-long invasive lizards that eat 'anything they want'
• Bull scratching itself on utility pole knocks out power to 700 homes
• Student earns Guinness record for 588-square-foot spice painting
• Blind people can ‘see’ letters traced directly onto their brains
• Evidence T. Rex’s Long Legs Evolved for Distance, Not Speed Like Previously Thought
• Florida woman angry over Mother's Day flowers batters victim

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A baby sloth I would love to hug.

Stay safe everyone.

Peace.

McConnell Has Gone Full Trump

McConnell puts blame for 2020 coronavirus failure on Barack Obama, in office 2009-2017

With more than 80,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump are trying to deflect blame to former President Barack Obama. 

Are your ears so stuffed with lobbyist money that you can’t hear the American people, 

@SenateMajLdr McConnell? - Sen. Elizabeth Warren

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• ‘Trump Death Clock’ in Times Square Blames President for More Than 50,000 Covid-19 Deaths
• Chinese coronavirus vaccine could be tested, manufactured in Canada
• Trump administration cuts funding for coronavirus researcher, jeopardizing possible COVID-19 cure
• Sen. Rand Paul Doubles Down On Dig At Fauci: 'We Have To Take With A Grain Of Salt These Experts'
• Gov. Cuomo Doubles Down on 'European' Virus: 'No One Knew It Was Coming From Europe'

I still can’t get over how Americans got tired of COVID and just decided it was over. 

Aw, Jared Is Keeping Us In Suspense Over 2020 Election
Jared Kushner on whether the 2020 election will be held as scheduled: “I’m not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that’s the plan.”

Trump+Trump Library=oxymoron

Trump+McConnell=moron

- Stephen King

Republican Shenanigans

• Former NatSec Adviser Says Trump Told Her He Will Press For Obamagate Investigations: 'This is Not Going Away'
• CNN POLL: Trump Leads Biden By 7 Points in the Battleground States, Despite Trailing By 5 Overall\
• New Title IX regulations no longer require coaches to report sexual misconduct
• Kushner Cleans Up Remark Saying He’s ‘Not Sure’ He ‘Can Commit’ To Election Being Held As Scheduled
• Howard Stern Calls on Trump to Resign, Ridicules His Supporters: The President 'Despises You'
• Tucker Carlson Goes On a Tear Against Fauci: Makes 'Buffoon-Level’ Comments, Is He Even 'Right About the Science'?
• Cheney defends Fauci: 'We need his expertise' to defeat coronavirus

People are high-fiving Liz Cheney because she said we should listen to a doctor during a pandemic. That’s where the bar is now America. Don’t trip on it. - Marie Connor

Paul Manafort Released From Prison
President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in home confinement because of concerns over the novel coronavirus, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

It’s safe enough to reopen states but too dangerous to keep Paul Manafort in prison? - JackiSchechner

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How many disaster movies start with some asshole politician like Rand Paul telling an expert like Dr. Fauci to shut up. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• Biden And Sanders Announce Task Forces To Find Party Unity Over Policy
• Pelosi pushes to unite party on coronavirus bill despite grumbling from left
• 'What Universe Are They In!?': Schumer Torches Republicans for Focusing on 'Ridiculous' Conspiracies Instead of Pandemic

Billionaire Barbarians Unveiled
The FBI inadvertently revealed one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive secrets about the Sept. 11 terror attacks: the identity of a  mysterious Saudi Embassy official in Washington who agents suspected had directed crucial support to two of the al-Qaida hijackers.  

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Business/Tech News

• Tesla's California plant gets approval to reopen 
• Airline group expecting coronavirus ramifications for five years
• What pandemic? Carnival Cruise bookings soar 600%
• Twitter Revolts Against Virginia Restaurant's Plan to Enforce Social Distancing With Room Full of Creepy Mannequins

In hindsight that $1200 stimulus didn't really get anyone too far, huh? - Jared Holt

Biden Backs Rent/Mortgage Forgiveness

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, on Wednesday backed rent and mortgage forgiveness for those struggling to get by during the coronavirus pandemic.

Alajuela, Costa Rica is an amazing city filled with art, street performers and dripping Costa Rican culture. Pete Smith nails it. Bravo.

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Odd News

• Angola discovers 171-carat diamond 
• New Enzyme Breaks Down Plastic In Hours And Enables High-Quality Recycling
• Southern California stench blamed on glowing algae
• 11-year-old skateboarder becomes first to land 1,080-degree turn
• Company offers $1,000 to host virtual brunches via video chat

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Being confined is a matter of perspective. I call it chillin'.

Stay safe everyone.

Peace.