May 27, 2020

Preview of the Front Page of The New York Times Edition for January 20, 2021

“Parody Created By Barry and Geoffrey Golson”.

Reading this parody cheered me. Let’s all do what we can to make it so. Come Hell or High Water, Get Out The Vote. If need be, I will stand in line in cold rain for hours, just like Democrats did in Wisconsin to vote in the recent State Supreme Court election and Democratic Presidential Primary.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1948057/-Preview-of-the-Front-Page-of-the-New-York-Times-Edition-for-January-20-2021?utm_campaign=trending

May 27, 2020

"50 percent of active-service military hold an unfavorable view of the president"

“ 50 percent of active-service military hold an unfavorable view of the president, compared to only 37 percent when he was elected. Officers especially disfavor him, with only a third indicating approval.”

https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1265739999720419328?s=20

May 27, 2020

"100,000 people died Joe & all you did was to help your friend the president-That's what you did."

"100,000 people died Joe and all you did was try to help your friend the president. That's what you did. Every single morning on this show. ... You used and abused your position."
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1265612243754004481?s=20

May 27, 2020

A US passport used to be an asset. Under Trump it has become a liability

Donald Trump’s favourite hobbies seem to consist of golf, Twitter and banning people from the US. Alas, he may no longer have the opportunity to do as much of the latter, because who would now want to come to the US anyway? The country is doing such a bad job of containing coronavirus that you are better off almost anywhere else. Indeed, last month, a number of American citizens in Lebanon declined a repatriation offer, saying they were safer in Beirut.

It’s not just a trip to the US that looks unappealing right now; it seems many countries aren’t exactly salivating at the prospect of hosting American visitors in the near future. The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, for example, called the border with the US a clear “vulnerability” for Canada in terms of infections; the US-Canada border has been closed since March, and will remain closed to nonessential travel until at least 21 June.

Meanwhile, officials in Mexican border cities are reportedly tightening checks on visitors from Texas, because they’re worried new coronavirus cases are coming from the American side of the border. Which brings to mind a joke that is going around: what borders on stupidity? Canada and Mexico.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/us-passport-used-to-be-asset-under-trump-it-has-become-a-liability

May 27, 2020

"It's all a big hoax"

May 27, 2020

- Leadership matters a great deal

New Zealand has no patients in hospital being treated for #COVID19 & hasn't had new cases in 5 days:
- Winning is possible in controlling the virus
- Leadership matters a great deal

BREAKING GOOD NEWS ALERT:

New Zealand has announced it no longer has any patients in hospital being treated for coronavirus.

It comes on the fifth straight day where no new cases have been reported.

This is what winning looks like.

https://twitter.com/Covid19Digest/status/1265491371856625666?s=20

May 27, 2020

Trump: 'This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!"

Vanity Fair:

As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained that he was COVID-19’s biggest victim. “He was just in a fucking rage,” said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. “He was saying, ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!” Even as the death toll neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. “The intelligence community let me down!” he said.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-whines-about-his-covid-19-victimhood-as-campaign-flails

May 26, 2020

IN HIS WORDS Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear responds to being hung in effigy on Sunday

Gov Beshear

You cannot fan the flames and then condemn the fire. Those elected officials that embraced these individuals, and that stood in front of people dressed in tactical gear and the rest, and threw as much red meat as possible at them, they have to claim responsibility because they absolutely know what could have happened. And they are in part responsible for what did happen. All elected officials can no longer actively seek the support and cater to these groups like we have seen.

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Let’s also not ignore that the hanging was intended to send a message to others – one of intolerance, and one of hate. I can never understand the depths of pain that this symbol causes to many of my fellow Kentuckians, but I can condemn it outright, as wrong, as vile and as evil.

So where does that leave us? I will not be afraid. I will not be bullied. And I will not back down, not to them and not to anybody else. Being governor in this pandemic means that I have a responsibility, and it’s a heavy responsibility – to lead us through one of the most dangerous times, where an invisible enemy is taking people we care about, and could do so much more damage than it has done thus far. I have to lead Kentucky through a 100-year outbreak. And I know that the people out there are with me. I see the signs of unity in the sidewalk chalk, the green lights, the bells, and the thousands of letters I’ve received, and almost thousands we receive every couple of weeks. I owe it to the people of Kentucky not to bow to terror, but to continue to do what is right, for their families and for mine.


MORE:
https://www.wdrb.com/news/in-his-words-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-responds-to-being-hung-in-effigy-on-sunday/article_9d9194ae-9f9d-11ea-a85a-f3b9d154ca1e.html

May 26, 2020

acting Director of Homeland Security has signed order making professional athletes essential workers

https://twitter.com/Zeisberger/status/1265407120389873670?s=20

May 26, 2020

Gov Whitmer: "because there was a vacuum of leadership at the federal level, we had to take action"

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: "I'm never going to apologize for the fact that because there was a vacuum of leadership at the federal level, we had to take action to save people here in Michigan."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1265258886363140098?s=20
MORE:
https://www.axios.com/michigan-whitmer-coronavirus-lockdown-a3c2f355-1b0f-43ba-9ac3-010e723d63a1.html?utm_source=tsc&utm_campaign=hboseason3a