1/ Jonathan Chait on how Trump has decided to ignore advice from Jared to try to moderate his stance on police violence etc., and go back to being overtly racist....
Photo: Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The good news for President Trump’s campaign is that the candidate seems to be finally moving out of the denial stage and recognizing that he is losing to Joe Biden. Trump “has privately come to that grim realization in recent days,” multiple sources have told Politico.
The bad news is that Trump’s diagnosis of the problem seems to be somewhat underpowered.
2/ And speaking of Jared, here is a Supercut of the sage being statesmanlike.....kidding! He's just being a dick....
3/ Interesting, even anguished story from David Wallace-Wells on how the warming of the planet is happening right before our eyes, and yet we can't make sense of it. He notes the short time it has taken to warm us to the point that billions of people will be living in uninhabitable places because of the heat.
Satellite image of smoke from active fires burning near the Eastern Siberian town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, on June 23, 2020.Photo: Handout/NASA Earth Observatory
On June 20, in the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic Circle, a heat wave baking the region peaked at 38 degrees Celsius — just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. In a world without climate change, this anomaly, one Danish meteorologist calculated, would be a 1-in-100,000-year event. Thanks to climate change, that year is now.
4/ The tragedy is this cartoon is one of the more credible explanations put forward by the White House....it's a
lie of course, but still pathetic...
5/ Anyone seen "Hamilton" in the theatre? Even if you haven't you will appreciate this clever parody
called "The Mask Song"...guy can sing too....
6/ Andrew Sullivan with a good column....
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
One of the things you know if you were brought up as a Catholic in a Protestant country, as I was, is how the attempted extirpation of England’s historic Catholic faith was enforced not just by executions, imprisonments, and public burnings but also by the destruction of monuments, statues, artifacts, paintings, buildings, and sacred sculptures. The shift in consciousness that the religious revolution required could not be sustained by words or terror alone.
7/ Slow the testing down please.....another great Lincoln Project ad..."Truth"....
8/ Tom Tomorrow in the stupidverse....
9/ One of the smartest thinkers I follow is Thomas Frank, and here he has written an essay on where
we are now, and his take on what is to come with Joe Biden....
It is the worst of times in America. The pandemic that disaster-preparation types have been warning about for decades is finally here, and of course we haven’t prepared very well. Our leviathan government, the subject of so much feigned rightwing terror in ordinary times, turned out to be unable to rise from its easy chair when the crisis came. Our president, the former TV star Donald Trump, has proved himself incompetent if not positively injurious to public health with his stupid rambling remarks, which, until recently, he addressed daily to the cameras.
10/ In any other time this story would dominate the news, now it's just a blip in the daily outrage.....Trump knew a Russion Unit of the GRU was offering bounties to the Taliban for every US soldier killed in March, yet ignored it and even tried to get Russia back in the G8....
This might be the definition of treason....
Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed US or UK troops there, a European intelligence official told CNN.
The official was unclear as to the precise Russian motivation, but said the incentives had, in their assessment, led to coalition casualties. The official did not specify as to the date of the casualties, their number or nationality, or whether these were fatalities or injuries.
11/ But leave it to the Lincoln Project.....a blistering, vicious ad about this story....a wow..."Bounty"...
12/ You may have briefly read about locusts decimating crops in Africa, so to get caught up watch this
great video from Vox that will fill you in.....four minutes....
13/ And another take on the Traitor's inaction on the Russians putting a bounty on US soldiers....
14/ The cruise industry is putting a brave face on the future, but the reality is the good times of full ships and mega-profits is over....
W. Bradford Gary spent 10 days trapped inside a cruise ship cabin off the coast of Brazil in March while health authorities in several countries scrambled to figure out what to do with a vessel full of older people who had potentially been exposed to the coronavirus.
But when faced with the question of whether he’d ever cruise again, he doesn’t hesitate.
“We are very anxious to get back on board,” he said, and he believes he’s not alone: “There are people like us who want to do this.
15/ "How to second term"....Sarah Cooper does Hannity and Trump....her Hannity is spot on...
16/ This HAS to happen.....tax inheritances up the kazoo....
A massive transfer of wealth is underway and will accelerate in the coming years. Baby boomers and the generation that preceded them currently own $84 trillion, or 81 percent of all U.S. household wealth — wealth that will before long be inherited by their children and other beneficiaries.
This extraordinary transfer of resources will further cement the economic inequality that plagues the United States because this wealth is tightly concentrated in the hands of a few.
17/ Steve Schmidt is a TV pundit who is a never Trumper, so he's got inside knowledge of how bad Trump is. You will never read such a
brutal description of the idiot than this one...here it is in its entirety...
"Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.
"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.
"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk."
Like I said: It's brutal. But it's also a decidedly succinct assessment of what Trump's conduct in office -- from coronavirus to protests over police brutality and back -- have meant to the Republican Party and the country.
18/ Something that's rarely mentioned is the actual costs involved with coping with climate change, from flooding to fires.
It's going to get really expensive!
The coronavirus crisis has forced the federal government to step up suddenly with fiscal stimulus to sustain the U.S. economy and help avoid a global depression. This necessary intervention comes at a price — a spike in federal debt that will need to be repaid over the long term. The resulting pressure on the government, U.S. taxpayers and the broader economy will intersect with another major fiscal challenge, one that we have yet to reckon with: climate change.
19/ Just a really sad story about the racism in our society....
This package has been sitting outside my house for days now. Why? Because we are black. And yes, I’ll explain.
20/ And here is the ABC News video of the encounter mentioned in the essay above....this racist asshole got 4-10 years....
21/ New York Magazine with the best TV of 2020....
Even as a worldwide pandemic brought most productions to a screeching halt this spring, TV land has continued to expand its borders at a pace that’s all but impossible for the average viewer to keep up with. But fear not, because Vulture TV critics Jen Chaney, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Angelica Jade Bastién are here to help guide the way, pointing out the brightest of the bright spots as we journey together through the labyrinthine landscape that is television in the year 2020.
22/ New York Times's list of the best shows on Netflix....
Netflix adds original programming at such a steady clip that it can be hard to keep up with which of its dramas, comedies and reality shows are must-sees. And that’s not including all the TV series Netflix picks up from broadcast and cable networks. Below is our regularly updated guide to the 50 best shows on Netflix in the United States, ranked alphabetically. Each recommendation comes with a secondary pick, too, for 100 suggestions in all.
Todays video - a wonderful show from the 90's was "Whose Line Is It Anyway", and this segment with Richard Simmons has to be one of the funniest things they ever did - it's up there with the classics of TV comedy.....
Even today, when gay comedy is normal, it's hysterical........the audience is part of it.......
Today's golf joke
A father, son and grandson went to the country club for their weekly round of golf. Just as they reached the first tee, a beautiful young blonde woman carrying her bag of clubs approached them.
She explained that the member who brought her to the club for a round of golf had an emergency that called him away and asked the trio whether she could join them.
Naturally, the guys all agreed.
Smiling, the blonde thanked them and said, "Look, fellows, I work in a topless bar as a dancer, so nothing shocks me anymore. If any of you want to smoke cigars, have a beer, bet, swear, tell off-colour stories or do anything that you normally do when playing a round together, go ahead. But, I enjoy playing golf, consider myself pretty good at it, so don't try to coach me on how to play my shots."
With that the guys agreed to relax and invited her to drive first.
All eyes were fastened on her as she bent to place her ball on the tee. She then took her driver and hit the ball 270 yards down the middle, right in front of the green.
The father's mouth was agape. "That was beautiful," he said.
The blonde put her driver away and said, "I really didn't get into it, and I faded it a little."
After the three guys hit their drives and their second shots, the blonde took out an eight iron and lofted the ball within five feet of the hole. (She was closest to the pin.)
The son said, "Damn, lady, you played that perfectly."
The blonde frowned and said, "It was a little weak, but even an easy seven would have been too much club. I've left a tricky little putt." She then tapped in the five-footer for a birdie.
Having the honors, she drove first on the second hole, knocked the heck out of the ball, and it landed nearly 300 yards away smack in the middle of the fairway.
For the rest of the round the blonde continued to amaze the guys, quietly and methodically shooting for par or less on every hole.
When they arrived at the 18th green, the blonde was three under par, and had a very nasty 12-foot putt on an undulating green for a par.
She turned to the three guys and said, "I really want to thank you all for not acting like a bunch of chauvinists and telling me what club to use or how to play a shot, but I need this putt for a 69 and I'd really like to break 70 on this course.
If any one of you can tell me how to make par on this hole I'll take him back to my apartment, pour some 35-year-old Single Malt Strath Mill Scotch in him, fix him a steak dinner and then show him a very good time the rest of the night."
The yuppie son jumped at the thought! He strolled across the green, carefully eyeing the line of the putt and finally said, "Honey, aim about 6 inches to the right of the hole and hit it firm. It will get over that little hump and break right into the cup."
The father knelt down and sighted the putt using his putter as a plumb. "Don't listen to the kid, darling', you want to hit it softly 10 inches to the right and let it run left down that little hogback, so it falls into the cup."
The old gray-haired grandfather walked over to the blonde's ball, picked it up and handed it to her and said, "That's a gimme, sweetheart."
The blonde smiled and said, "Your car or mine?"
She explained that the member who brought her to the club for a round of golf had an emergency that called him away and asked the trio whether she could join them.
Naturally, the guys all agreed.
Smiling, the blonde thanked them and said, "Look, fellows, I work in a topless bar as a dancer, so nothing shocks me anymore. If any of you want to smoke cigars, have a beer, bet, swear, tell off-colour stories or do anything that you normally do when playing a round together, go ahead. But, I enjoy playing golf, consider myself pretty good at it, so don't try to coach me on how to play my shots."
With that the guys agreed to relax and invited her to drive first.
All eyes were fastened on her as she bent to place her ball on the tee. She then took her driver and hit the ball 270 yards down the middle, right in front of the green.
The father's mouth was agape. "That was beautiful," he said.
The blonde put her driver away and said, "I really didn't get into it, and I faded it a little."
After the three guys hit their drives and their second shots, the blonde took out an eight iron and lofted the ball within five feet of the hole. (She was closest to the pin.)
The son said, "Damn, lady, you played that perfectly."
The blonde frowned and said, "It was a little weak, but even an easy seven would have been too much club. I've left a tricky little putt." She then tapped in the five-footer for a birdie.
Having the honors, she drove first on the second hole, knocked the heck out of the ball, and it landed nearly 300 yards away smack in the middle of the fairway.
For the rest of the round the blonde continued to amaze the guys, quietly and methodically shooting for par or less on every hole.
When they arrived at the 18th green, the blonde was three under par, and had a very nasty 12-foot putt on an undulating green for a par.
She turned to the three guys and said, "I really want to thank you all for not acting like a bunch of chauvinists and telling me what club to use or how to play a shot, but I need this putt for a 69 and I'd really like to break 70 on this course.
If any one of you can tell me how to make par on this hole I'll take him back to my apartment, pour some 35-year-old Single Malt Strath Mill Scotch in him, fix him a steak dinner and then show him a very good time the rest of the night."
The yuppie son jumped at the thought! He strolled across the green, carefully eyeing the line of the putt and finally said, "Honey, aim about 6 inches to the right of the hole and hit it firm. It will get over that little hump and break right into the cup."
The father knelt down and sighted the putt using his putter as a plumb. "Don't listen to the kid, darling', you want to hit it softly 10 inches to the right and let it run left down that little hogback, so it falls into the cup."
The old gray-haired grandfather walked over to the blonde's ball, picked it up and handed it to her and said, "That's a gimme, sweetheart."
The blonde smiled and said, "Your car or mine?"
Today's Walmart joke
Dear Mrs. Fenton,
Over the past 6 months, your retired husband, Mr. Bill Fenton has been causing quite a commotion in our Walmart store. We cannot tolerate this type of behavior and have considered banning the entire family from shopping in any of our stores.
We have documented all incidents on our video surveillance equipment. Three of our clerks are attending counseling from the trouble your husband has caused.
All complaints against Mr Fenton have been compiled and are listed below.
Regretfully Yours,
Mr. Wally Underpants
President and CEO
Wal-Mart Complaint Department.
MEMO Re: Mr. Bill Fenton- complaints-15 things Mr. Bill Fenton has done while his spouse is shopping:
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5 minute intervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the restrooms.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, 'Code 3" in housewares and watched what happened.
5. August 4: Went to the service desk and asked to put a bag of M&M's on layaway.
6. Sept. 14: Moved a ' Caution - wet Floor' sign to a carpeted area.
7. Sept 15: Set up a tent in the camping dept. and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding dept.
8. Sept 23: When a clerk asks if they can help him, he begins to cry and asks "Why can't you people just leave me alone."
9. Oct 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, and picked his nose.
10. Nov 10: While handling guns in the hunting dept., asked the clerk if he knows where the antidepressants are.
11. Dec. 3: Darted around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.
12. Dec 6: In the auto dept, practiced his "Madonna Look" using different size funnels.
13. Dec 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people broused thru yelled "pick me" "Pick me!".
14. Dec 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumes the fetal position and screams "NO! No! Its those voices again.
(And last, but not least!)
15. Dec. 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door and waited a while; then, yelled very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"
Over the past 6 months, your retired husband, Mr. Bill Fenton has been causing quite a commotion in our Walmart store. We cannot tolerate this type of behavior and have considered banning the entire family from shopping in any of our stores.
We have documented all incidents on our video surveillance equipment. Three of our clerks are attending counseling from the trouble your husband has caused.
All complaints against Mr Fenton have been compiled and are listed below.
Regretfully Yours,
Mr. Wally Underpants
President and CEO
Wal-Mart Complaint Department.
MEMO Re: Mr. Bill Fenton- complaints-15 things Mr. Bill Fenton has done while his spouse is shopping:
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5 minute intervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the restrooms.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, 'Code 3" in housewares and watched what happened.
5. August 4: Went to the service desk and asked to put a bag of M&M's on layaway.
6. Sept. 14: Moved a ' Caution - wet Floor' sign to a carpeted area.
7. Sept 15: Set up a tent in the camping dept. and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding dept.
8. Sept 23: When a clerk asks if they can help him, he begins to cry and asks "Why can't you people just leave me alone."
9. Oct 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror, and picked his nose.
10. Nov 10: While handling guns in the hunting dept., asked the clerk if he knows where the antidepressants are.
11. Dec. 3: Darted around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.
12. Dec 6: In the auto dept, practiced his "Madonna Look" using different size funnels.
13. Dec 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people broused thru yelled "pick me" "Pick me!".
14. Dec 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumes the fetal position and screams "NO! No! Its those voices again.
(And last, but not least!)
15. Dec. 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door and waited a while; then, yelled very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"
Today's NRA joke
A guy walked into a crowded bar, waving his 1911 Colt pistol with a 7 round magazine with one in the chamber and yelled,
"I have a loaded .45 Colt, and I want to know who's been screwing my wife!"
A voice from the back of the room called out...
"You'll need more ammo!”
"I have a loaded .45 Colt, and I want to know who's been screwing my wife!"
A voice from the back of the room called out...
"You'll need more ammo!”
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