News of the Day III

[pete]

Remember when Trump's dumbass campaign was bragging about "selling" a million tickets for this?

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Forget about disinfectant, you can inject ALL this schadenfreude straight in my veins!

[Hoek]

Epic fail for Trump. The people don't love him as much as he wishes.

[pete]

Epic fail for Trump. The people don't love him as much as he wishes.

Bragged about selling a million tickets to an event only 10,000 showed up for.

[pete]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1274489756345344001?s=20

I guess it's easy to confuse those metal barricades for Antifa(!) super soldiers.

My Lord, it ought to be illegal to have this much fun.

[Puckhead]

Drain, meet circle.

[Puckhead]

Berman has agreed to leave now that his deputy will serve as acting head of the SDNY and not the flunky Barr and Trump were trying to install.

So, if the baton is passed to Berman's second in command, what does Barr/Trump gain by forcing Berman out??? Crazy..
Was it all about Berman's personality? or what? He probably loses a few thousand I voters over this crazy BS.

Oh, and Berman is now free to testify before the House Judiciary. Agree with the MAV. I doubt he will duck a subpoena.
We'll need some popcorn and tasty suds for that hearing.

[Donnie D]

Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally.

Good thing nobody was there to hear him say this

[pete]

Trump: When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1274500811486228482?s=20

He just said what we all knew out loud. He let this pandemic get out of control through deliberate negligence.

[Donnie D]

I have been told that all icu beds in one Tampa hospital are full.

If you live in Florida, my suggestion is to treat this like you did the first week of the pandemic. Stay home. Don’t go out for anything.

[pete]

I have been told that all icu beds in one Tampa hospital are full.

If you live in Florida, my suggestion is to treat this like you did the first week of the pandemic. Stay home. Don’t go out for anything.

It's about to get really real in Tampa over the next 10-20 days, folks. Stay your asses inside. Amazon Prime and Grubhub are beautiful things.

[BurnTHalO]

Rumors are flying around that around 30 employees at Universal have tested positive.

[Puckhead]

It's about to get really real in Tampa over the next 10-20 days, folks. Stay your asses inside. Amazon Prime and Grubhub are beautiful things.

Yeah, but its only 35 year olds, right? They’re bulletproof, right? Little or no “symptoms”.

Only fly in the ointment is that this is not “the flu”. A study documented many cases where recovered folk had minor and major organ damage—and that the damage could compromise folks for years afterword.

So, Ok, because I’m 35 I’m going to roll the dice on subsequent organ damage, but pass me that second margarita please.

[the_narrow_way]

It's about to get really real in Tampa over the next 10-20 days, folks. Stay your asses inside. Amazon Prime and Grubhub are beautiful things.

I work for a major grocery chain and it was nuckin' futs at the store today (and almost every day recently, especially an hour before closing time. Wave upon wave of families with no masks buying party supplies. People in there multiple times a day for a few things each time. People in there just for the Lottery or a pack of cigarettes. People with newborns. Etc.

We're doomed. The number of people who just can't be bothered to behave in a civilized manner is too high.

[Hoek]

[Donnie D]

“If they don’t want to come, you can’t stop them.”

Fear. It’s what George Wallace, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump ran on. And last night it bit him on the ass. And it was of his own making.

Geezers for Trump were afraid of coronavirus. Even the last minute sales pitch of come on down didn’t work. While you might get sick like our six co-workers you can sign this waiver and party like it’s your last night on earth. The lack of masks, social distancing and increasing cases in Oklahoma made for a deadly concoction that made all but his most fervent supports stay away.

Fear of African Americans. For weeks, and again last night, he has been telling everyone who would listen that the big black men were coming to rape their white daughters. Maybe it wasn’t that blunt, but it was the message. Eric, last night, called BLM “animals.” The Geezers for Trump couldn’t bring their guns, so who was going to save the virtue of the white women? Better to stay home.

Fear of Antifa. Yes the organization that exists only in the minds of his supports frightened them. For weeks they were coming by the bus load to murder god fearing Americans. Hundreds of armed men stood on the sidewalks of Bethel Ohio, population 2,000, after hearing that 2 bus loads of Antifa warriors were coming to destroy the city. (I’ve been to Bethel - there isn’t anything there worth destroying.).

And last night he gave an incredibly divisive speech - even for Trump. He defended the confederacy, the monuments to traitors, he defended white supremacy. He said “left wing mobs” were trying to “desecrate history” - our history.

It was the rhetoric that is causing suburban women to leave him by the droves. And it was the rhetoric that is driving down his numbers among the elderly.

It was a speech of fear. And what Trump might learn, if he wasn’t such a stable genius, is that America fears him most of all.