1/ The callousness of the Trump administration is hard to stomach, but this is just revolting....
Photo: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
The White House has started a new campaign urging Americans who have bad jobs or no jobs to “Find Something New.” Ivanka Trump, who has spearheaded this initiative, explains, “There has never been a more critical time for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple pathways to career success and gain the vocational training and skills they need to fill jobs in a changing economy.”
2/ This is the week when the White House is trying to discredit Dr. Fauci, and this ad ["Fauci"] from the Lincoln Project is wonderful...
3/ Michelle Goldberg with a very good column....
If you’re lucky enough to live in New Zealand, the coronavirus nightmare has been mostly over since June. After more than two weeks with no new cases, the government lifted almost all restrictions that month. The borders are still shut, but inside the country, normal life returned.
It’s coming back elsewhere too.
4/ Is this you?
5/ It's not just Trump - it's the whole Republican Party that is sending us all over the cliff....Chris Hayes tells it like it is....
6/ We've put this in before, but this is the unedited version....much better.....and says it all....
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
7/ Trevor Noah on Tucker Carlson and other matters.....he's very good! Eight amusing minutes of comedic reporting....
8/ There seems to be a disconnect between the huge rise in positive Covid tests and the death rate......but as this article in the Atlantic
explains - don't worry, the death rate will rise too....
For the past few weeks, I have been obsessed with a mystery emerging in the national COVID-19 data.
Cases have soared to terrifying levels since June. Yesterday, the U.S. had 62,000 confirmed cases, an all-time high—and about five times more than the entire continent of Europe. Several U.S. states, including Arizona and Florida, currently have more confirmed cases per capita than any other country in the world.
But average daily deaths are down 75 percent from their April peak. Despite higher death counts on Tuesday and Wednesday, the weekly average has largely plateaued in the past two weeks.
9/ The Lincoln Project with "Law and Order"....the most corrupt President ever....very good one....strong and direct...
10/ I put this in last week, and got some comments that it was waaaaaay too long, and it is indeed long. So I've put it in again, and would encourage you to give it another chance and fast forward to section 8, when it gets really interesting...
If you read one story today, read this one. You are probably part of the 9.9%, and part of the
problem.....extremely interesting.....
For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, my family would take up residence at one of my grandparents’ country clubs in Chicago, Palm Beach, or Asheville, North Carolina.
11/ Love this one....
12/ The Swedish model of how to handle coronavirus isn't looking very good now....
It seems 2020 was the year that the political right fell into a weird love affair with Sweden. This “high-tax, welfare-loving country” with a universal healthcare system took a unique, “hands-off” approach against the novel coronavirus, much to the delight of Libertarians and anti-vaxxers eager to sow distrust of governmental actions onFacebook. Even traditional “conservatives” such as Newt Gingrich and Tucker Carlson reflexively jumped at any chance to capitalize on the public’s discomfort with social distancing and inconvenient business lockdowns imposed in this country.
13/ An ad about the disgusting pardon of Roger Stone - "Trump's America".....powerful....
14/ Really interesting article about a year in human history that was way worse than this one...
2020 has already been immortalised. It is a year that nobody will forget. However, when speaking of the worst year recorded in human history there are many to choose from:
The year 1349 saw the Black Death kill half the population of Europe.
In 1520 smallpox ravaged the Americas and killed between 60 and 90 per cent of the continents’ original inhabitants.
In 1918 the Spanish Flu led to the deaths of over 50 million people.
The rise of Hitler in 1933 is often claimed to be the turning point in modern history.
However, historians are unanimous in their choice.
The title of the worst year in history is easily held by the year 536 AD.
15/ A wonderful drug ad....Phucumol will help!
16/ Trump doesn't care....a very good ad..."One Day"...
17/ What the poor need to understand about the rich....
Rich people do not care about you.
No, I’m not talking about your cousin who drives a Mercedes, has his own insurance business, and always picks up the tab when you go out for beers. I’m talking about super-rich people: the Walton family, the Koch brothers and, yes, the Trumps. I’m talking about people who continue to make money off the backs of the poor while convincing those same people to remain loyal no matter what.
18/ A VoteVets ad - "Traitor in a Mask"....wow...
19/ Remember the couple that pulled guns on protestors? Heroes to the right wing media? Read the real story....
Personal-injury attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey entered the national spotlight like the ultimate expression of white privilege, waving their weapons toward peaceful protesters whose crime was walking down a sidewalk. Republicans immediately tried to make the pair heroes of the Second Amendment, valiantly defending their home by pointing the weapons in the face of Americans who had the audacity to not be rich and white.
20/ This is true!
21/ If you buy non-organic eggs, beware. Our eggs are the worst in the world....
American eggs are often said to be inferior to those sold in the rest of the world ― their yolks are often paler and they require refrigeration because of the way they’re processed.
But how does the nutritional value of U.S. eggs compare with eggs in other countries?
22/ Since we are now the plague states of America, our passports are worthless now...
America is not united anymore and it’s barely a state. They have crashed right through failed state into a plague state, unwelcome across the world. This has been predicted, including here. Now it has come to pass. Just look at the map.
Americans have gone from having access to most of the world to being banned from most of it. Today, Americans are only allowed in a few Caribbean islands and the Balkans. An American passport is now worthless. Worse than worthless, it’s a plague.
Todays school jokes
Todays golf joke
Just before he was put under, the surgeon dropped in to see him
"I have some good news and some bad news," says the surgeon.
"The bad news is that I have to remove your right arm!"
"Oh God, no!" cries the man
"My golfing is over! Please Doc what's the good news?
"The good news is I have another one to replace it with, but
it's a woman's arm.
I'll need your permission before I go ahead with the transplant."
"Go for it doc" says the man. "As long as I can play golf again."
The operation went well and a year later the man was
out on the golf course when he bumped into the surgeon.
"Hi, how's the new arm?" asks the surgeon.
"Just great," says the businessman. "I'm playing the best
golf of my life.
My new arm has a much finer touch and my putting has really
improved."
"Not only that," continued the golfer "my handwriting has
improved, I've learned how to sew my own clothes and I've
even taken up painting landscapes in water colours."
"Unbelievable!" said the surgeon "I'm so glad to
hear the transplant was such a great success.
Are you having any side effects?"
"Well, just one problem" said the golfer.
"Every time I get an erection I also get a headache."
Todays Muslim joke
Mohammed heard that one of his wives was leaving him, so he rushed home where he found her on the carpet in front of his tent with her belongings . . .
He sat beside her and said, “I just heard you were planning to leave me?”
She replied,“Yes”.
She replied,“Yes”.
Mohammed asked “But why are you leaving me?”.
She replied “I heard your other wives saying you were a pedophile!”
Mohammed thinks for a minute or so and then responds-
Mohammed thinks for a minute or so and then responds-
“My . . . that’s a mighty big word for a 9 year old!”
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