Recommend you watch #5 and #7....the best so far!
1/ Biden predicted this week's news months ago....
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Three months ago, Joe Biden predicted that President Trump would eventually try to delay the November election. “Mark my words,” he told a fundraiser, “I think he is going to try to kick back the election somehow.” Conservatives exploded in outrage at the suggestion.
2/ I love to see these videos of Fox News sycophants making fools of themselves....per the story above here is a good one about
them laughing at Biden warning about Trump and the election. "Trump Would Never Try To Cancel The Election".....one amusing minute...
3/ Good one....
4/ The Guardian with a look at the Lincoln Project and its aims....you see their ads here at DDD, read
this and understand what they are doing....
Good journalism...
Amid all the noise of an election involving Donald Trump – all the inflammatory tweets and shadowy Facebook posts – one set of ads has somehow managed to break through.
5/ "Trumps Evil Plan" from Don Winslow Films....powerful, absolutely true and Democrats - no matter what you think and how good you're
feeling it ain't over yet! This ad says exactly what Trump is going to do, and he has already started....
6/ The Guardian with a look at the Border Patrol which is now functioning as Trump's private army. This is a disturbing story
about a powerful arm of US law enforcement that is out of effective control....
In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border Protection, attended a meeting of about 100 senior CBP leaders in a hotel in Irvington, Virginia.
Amid the sanitized splendor of the hotel ballroom, he vividly recalls hearing the nation’s then highest-ranking border patrol agent, David Aguilar, laying out his vision for the future. Border patrol, the former CBP deputy commissioner said, was to become the “marine corps of the US federal law enforcement community”.
7/ "Wake Up"....an ad about a Republican who had a car accident in 2016, went into a coma and was revived this month....the story
is his Republican family telling him about the last four years.......
It's VERY well done, amusing in parts and it's interesting to hear how Republicans interpret Trump's term.......
Recommend this one!
8/ Benjamin Studebaker with a contrary view to the financial narrative we are being fed....we are being told the whole of Europe is recovering better economically than the US, but in reality it's only Germany. Most interesting article, but if only the issue was just economic - the virus is out of control here, whereas it's in check in all of Europe........
As the rich countries begin to release economic data for the second quarter, we can begin to form a clearer picture of where things stand. To date, it is undeniably the case that the crisis has been much worse for the European states than for the United States. This may change going forward, because the United States is still seeing its case load expand. But at present, the mainstream media narrative that the United States has uniquely mismanaged the crisis does not withstand scrutiny. The Europeans now face new long-term, existential threats to their social programs. They are much worse off. https://benjaminstudebaker.
9/ From a school somewhere in Central Florida....
10/ "Impotus Americanis" - in the style of a National Geographic doc narrated by Richard Attenborough, this ad from the Lincoln Project is
designed for an audience of one - to get under Trump's skin....an amusing minute...
11/ One of the serious consequences of climate change will be the forced migration of people from areas where it is either too hot to live, or crops and farms fail due to flooding /drought. Either way there will be a flood of migrants globally. This is a long but fascinating Times interactive story, focused on Central America that tells us the forced migration has already begun....at the very least check out the first few graphics....scary.
Early in 2019, a year before the world shut its borders completely, Jorge A. knew he had to get out of Guatemala. The land was turning against him. For five years, it almost never rained. Then it did rain, and Jorge rushed his last seeds into the ground. The corn sprouted into healthy green stalks, and there was hope — until, without warning, the river flooded. Jorge waded chest-deep into his fields searching in vain for cobs he could still eat. Soon he made a last desperate bet, signing away the tin-roof hut where he lived with his wife and three children against a $1,500 advance in okra seed. But after the flood, the rain stopped again, and everything died. Jorge knew then that if he didn’t get out of Guatemala, his family might die, too.
12/ "Memories" from the Lincoln Project.....painful ad....mothers mourning all of the experiences
their children have missed....because of Trump....one minute...
13/ The title of this short essay is "I Am Done With America".....written for conservatives and liberals
alike, and an inspiration to us all....
I’d only been up for four hours, which was about the length of time I’d slept the night before, and already I’d been beaten relentlessly by a social media tsunami of anti-mask proselytizing, confederate statue worship—and a quick cut horror show of trending news stories about COVID parties, Costco white fragility, pandemic school re-openings, and inexplicable World Health Organization departures.
14/ George Carlin [who passed in 2007] was way ahead of his time.....here is a two minute extract from one of his stage riffs set to Trump era
video - surprisingly effective, very powerful and as true now as it was then....maybe even truer.
Note - salty language...
15/ I am sure at least some of you make sure all of the produce and fruit you eat is organic, but as this article spells out clearly is the organic label has been degraded by the USDA [no surprise under Trump's boy Sonny Perdue] to include berries and produce grown hydroponically, which is NOT the same as organics grown in soil without pesticides.
This is really disillusioning, because you do your best to buy healthy food, but the whole food system is owned by Big Ag - and after reading this I am never buying Driscoll's berries or fruit again...
The lesson here is buy from your local farmers whenever you can. We are lucky here in Central Florida that there are still some local farms and farmers markets you can go to and support....
In the produce section of my local food co-op sit Driscoll’s berries in their neat little rows: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, each in plastic clamshells. No other berry options are present on the shelf. Paging the receivers, I ask, “Do we have any non-hydroponically grown berries?”
In response, I am told, “We only have organic berries and organic berries aren’t hydroponic.”
It turns out that’s not always true, at least not anymore.
16/ "Susan Collins" from the Lincoln Project - they are running an ad about the pathetic
Senator from Maine in Maine media....
17/ Paul Krugman with an excellent column about, of course, Trump. He likens Trump to a horrible boss
who won't go away and you're stuck with him!
Every worker’s nightmare is the horrible boss — everyone knows at least one — who is utterly incompetent yet refuses to step aside. Such bosses have the reverse Midas touch — everything they handle turns to crud — but they’ll pull out every stop, violate every norm, to stay in that corner office. And they damage, sometimes destroy, the institutions they’re supposed to lead.
18/ He can pass any stinkin test!
19/ One of the better ads out there, from Don Winslow Films - "America's Greatest Mistake"....truly a wow.....
Watch it twice so you catch all of the nuances....
20/ It's not just Trump - our government is a kakistocracy, staffed at every level with incompetent, corrupt
and often unstable assholes.....
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Late Monday night, President Trump and his son Donald Jr. retweeted video testimonials about the alleged effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. The next day, the Daily Beast reported that one of the doctors in the video, Stella Immanuel, has several other rather unusual medical beliefs: that alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that scientists are trying to create a vaccine to make people secular, and that demons are responsible for a wide array of sexual and psychological ailments.
21/ One of those incredible nature videos about our mysterious, complex world....this is about the
Japanese Pufferfish....two wonderful minutes....
22/ Most interesting story from Vanity Fair on how Jared Kushner's band of idiots totally screwed up our virus response....
But the real scandal was they refused to implement a containment plan because they believed the virus would only affect blue states...
It just gets worse and worse....
23/ Tom Tomorrow with "The Unbelievable Trump"....
24/ Taylor Swift with an unlimited budget video and a new song - "Cardigan"......the CGI are
incredible, she is lovely and the song is nice too....
25/ Birmingham Airport [BHX] in the winter has some awful crosswinds....here are some pilots landing in incredible conditions,
including a monster Emirates A380 [world's largest plane] taking off....imagine you're on these flights....8 minutes...
Today's medical joke
The American Medical Association debated whether the country should be re-opened.
Here are the results by medical specialty:The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.Meanwhile, Obstetricians felt certain everyone was laboring under a misconception, while the Ophthalmologistsconsidered the idea shortsighted. Many Pathologists yelled, "Over my dead body!"While the Pediatricians said, "Oh, grow up!”Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while theRadiologists could see right through it.Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing and theInternists claimed it would indeed be a bitter pill to swallow.The Plastic Surgeons opined that this proposal would "put a whole new face on the matter.”The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, butthe Urologists were pissed off at the whole idea.Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and those loftyCardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no.In the end, the Proctologists won out,leaving the entire decision up to theAssholes in Washington.
Today's Little Johnny joke
Little Johnny was sitting on the porch talking to his Grandpa when he innocently asked,
“Grandpa, do you know how to make animal sounds?”
“I sure do” Grandpa replied.
“What sort of animal sound would you like to hear?”
“How about a toad? Do you know how to sound like a toad?”
“Sure”, said Grandpa, cupping his hand to his mouth,
“croaaak croaaak, how did you like that?!”
“Yipee!” screamed Little Johnny jumping up and down,
“We are going to Miami!”
“Huh?” Questioned Grandpa.
“Why’s that?”
“Because Grandma said so,” Little Johnny patiently explained,
“she said that after you croak we’ll all go to Miami!”
Today's traffic stop joke...
I think I'm going to lose my driver's license... and all just because of a stupid police officer...
The conversation went like this, when I got pulled over in my car:
Officer: "License and registration, please, I think you are drunk!"
Me: "I assure you, I did not drink anything."
Officer: "Ok, let's do a little test! Imagine driving in the dark on a highway at night, when you see two lights in the distance. What is this?"
Me: "A car."
Officer: "Of course! But which one? A Mercedes, an Audi or a Ford?"
Me: "I have no idea!"
Officer: "So, you're drunk."
Me: "But I didn't drink anything."
Officer: "Okay, one more test -- Imagine, you drive in the dark on a highway at night, and there is one light coming at you. What is it?
Me: "A motorcycle."
Officer: "Of course! But which one? A Honda, a Kawasaki or a Harley?"
Me: "I have no idea!"
Officer: "As I suspected, you're drunk!"
Then I started to get annoyed and asked a counter question.
Me: "So..., counter question -- You're driving in the dark on a highway at night and see a woman on the roadside. She wears a mini skirt, fishnet stockings, high heeled shoes and only a bra as a top. What is this?"
Officer: "A prostitute of course."
Me: "Yes, but which one? Your daughter, your wife or your mother?"
Things went downhill from there and now I have a court date to attend...
Today's silly joke....
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