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August 13, 2020

From here on out, I'm just going to assume that Biden is president.

We can deal with the formalities later.

The current occupant is just squatting in the White House, and we have to go through a process to evict it.

August 13, 2020

In the early 80s, the Federal govt told the states to raise their drinking age to 21 or...

risk losing their highway funds.

On July 17, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, a law that required states to raise the drinking age to 21 or face a 10 percent cut to their federal highway funding. All states complied and adopted the higher drinking age.


https://www.boston.com/culture/health/2014/07/17/why-21-a-look-at-our-nations-drinking-age#:~:text=On%20July%2017%2C%201984%2C%20President,adopted%20the%20higher%20drinking%20age.

Yes. That Ronald Reagan. I don't recall people crying about losing their "freedumbs" back then. Nor calling Reagan a dictator.

So, why can't the Federal govt do the same here. Tell the states to mandate wearing masks or lose federal funds.
August 11, 2020

Preet Bharara for AG

If you someone to take down the Trump crime family and the Kushners, he's your man for the job.


From his Wikipedia page:

Russian money laundering fraud
In 2013, Bharara began investigating a money laundering fraud scheme in New York City operated by a Russian criminal organization.[44] The alleged fraud links a $230 million Russian tax refund fraud scheme from 2008 to eleven U.S. real estate corporations.[45] The underlying tax refund fraud was first discovered by whistleblower and Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested under tax evasion charges, and within a year he was found dead in his prison cell—a suspicious circumstance.[46] Bharara and his office stated that some of the illicit proceeds were laundered in the U.S. by purchasing luxury Manhattan and Brooklyn real estate, including a 35-story block that has a pool, roof terrace, Turkish bath and indoor golf course. One of the companies named in the complaint, Prevezon, at the time had assets that included four condo units in the Financial District, each valued close to or in excess of $1 million, a $4.4-million condo at 250 East 49th Street in Turtle Bay, and an unknown amount of funds on deposit in eight separate Bank of America accounts in the name of different limited-liability companies registered in New York.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara

August 11, 2020

Congrats to Maya Rudolph



August 11, 2020

Jokes in movies and TV that technology has ruined.

Phonebooks are no longer a thing. So, this joke goes over everyone's head.

August 10, 2020

Do Trump and his team realize that these press conferences are not working for him?

Are they that bad at politics that they don't understand that these press conferences only appeal to their base and no one else? Are their egos so big that they think that Trump's bullshit will work?

Yes, I know. Trump won in 2016, but that was a fluke which means that it's not likely to happen again.

August 7, 2020

Forecast for tomorrow: be ready for a major Trump tweet storm in the morning.

Tomorrow, July's unemployment numbers will be announced. So, we'll either get a tweet from Trump bragging about the rate which won't be as bad as expected but still very bad, or we'll get a huge distraction tweet because the UE rate will be as bad or worse than expected.

Either way, get your umbrellas ready.

August 6, 2020

This weatherman is a pro

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