1/ No surprise here....Trump is a sociopath......
Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
A procession of former Trump administration officials, speaking both on and off the record, have depicted the president as fundamentally unfit for office. Yesterday, the latest addition to their ranks, former Mike Pence aide Olivia Troye, put an especially fine point on the indictment. President Trump displayed “flat-out disregard for human life.”https://nymag.com/
2/ Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Emmys last night....not bad, six minutes....
3/ RGB's death could reshape America....
We
have entered the danger zone. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday evening, and the news was still fresh when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that any nominee to replace her would in fact go to a vote in the Senate before the November election. Republicans have a majority in the Senate, even though they represent a minority of Americans, and could very well speedily seat a new justice. There is little question that President Donald Trump will nominate a right-wing reactionary judge, someone who will spit on Ginsburg’s legacy.
4/ The Meidas Touch with a hard hitting ad "PedoTrump".....Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and young women....
5/ Interesting and insightful article on white voters, and how the Democrats need to find a way to connect to
some of the Trumpies that aren't blatant racists.....
6/ Sam Bee is trying to scare you into voting....amusing, clever.....2 minutes....
7/ One of the excellent NYT interactive articles with very good graphics - this one is on the spread of the virus and how it happened.....
Informative, really well done........
8/ This Lincoln Project ad is from late July, but it's more relevant than ever.
"Wake Up".....a Republican comes out of a coma after 3 1/2 years....a painfully amusing [but informative] six minutes....
Just wonderful....
9/ This is a true toon.....
10/ Seth Meyers with "A Closer Look" at the Trump Town Hall last week.....good comedic reporting if you've only
seen short clips of Trump humiliating himself.....12 minutes....
11/ Totally agree with this story from Mother Jones....Democrats have to grow a pair for once and go nuclear on RGB's replacement.......
It’s a popular sentiment on the left: Don’t mourn, organize. But with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that won’t be enough. Ginsburg, a hero of female empowerment and of the Supreme Court, deserves much mourning. But Democrats and progressives can waste no time prepping for the battle royale that lies ahead.
12/ The Meidas Touch with a great ad - Trump and health care.....
13/ If you have ever wondered why poor people vote against their own interests like rural Republicans
continue to do, read this.
It rings true, and could easily describe the inhabitants of the house you pass with the broken down cars, junk in the front yard etc. and a proudly displayed Trump sign.
What it doesn't explain is the middle class people you know who live in nice homes, in nice neighborhoods still supporting Trump.
That I don't get......
The question was posed, "Why do people continue supporting Trump no matter what he does?" A lady named Bev answered it this way:
“You all don't get it. I live in Trump country, in the Ozarks in southern Missouri, one of the last places where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence.
They don't give a shit what he does. He's just something to rally around and hate liberals, that's it, period.
He absolutely realizes that and plays it up. They love it. He knows they love it.
The fact that people act like it's anything other than that proves to them that liberals are idiots, all the more reason for high fives all around.
If you keep getting caught up in "why do they not realize this problem" and "how can they still back Trump after this scandal," then you do not understand what the underlying motivating factor of his support is. It's fuck liberals, that's pretty much it.
Have you noticed he can do pretty much anything imaginable, and they'll explain some way that rationalizes it that makes zero logical sense?
Because they're not even keeping track of any coherent narrative, it's irrelevant. Fuck liberals is the only relevant thing.
Trust me; I know firsthand what I'm talking about.
That's why they just laugh at it all because you all don't even realize they truly don't give a fuck about whatever the conversation is about.
It's just a side mission story that doesn't matter anyway.
That's all just trivial details - the economy, health care, whatever.
Fuck liberals.
Look at the issue with not wearing the masks.
I can tell you what that's about. It's about exposing fear. They're playing chicken with nature, and whoever flinches just moved down their internal pecking order, one step closer to being a liberal.
You've got to understand the one core value that they hold above all others is hatred for what they consider weakness because that's what they believe strength is, hatred of weakness.
And I mean passionate, sadistic hatred.
And I'm not exaggerating. Believe me.
Sadistic, passionate hatred, and that's what proves they're strong, their passionate hatred for weakness.
Sometimes they will lump vulnerability in with weakness.
They do that because people tend to start humbling themselves when they're in some compromising or overwhelming circumstance, and to them, that's an obvious sign of weakness.
Kindness = weakness. Honesty = weakness.
Compromise = weakness.
They consider their very existence to be superior in every way to anyone who doesn't hate weakness as much as they do.
They consider liberals to be weak people that are inferior, almost a different species, and the fact that liberals are so weak is why they have to unite in large numbers, which they find disgusting, but it's that disgust that is a true expression of their natural superiority.
Go ahead and try to have a logical, rational conversation with them. Just keep in mind what I said here and be forewarned.”
14/ A compilation of dancing from the movies to the tune of "Footloose".....the song gets a little tiresome.....
But the moves! Wow....
15/ Good column from the Times on what the Western States need to do to mitigate the wildfires that will consume more and more land and houses....unfortunately a few of the things that need to be done are politically toxic....
Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing in an ash-coated clearing scorched by the largest wildfires in California’s recorded history, last week vowed to fast-track his state’s transition to 100 percent renewable energy, a target previously set for 2045. “This is a climate damn emergency,” he declared.
16/ Tom Tomorrow nails it again......
17/ Where would we be without a Floriduh story, but this one hits a little close to home.....masks and the harassment
you get if you wear one....
In North Carolina there is no issue with wearing a mask - everyone does in indoor spaces, and everyone social distances....
I know many are hearing the same thing in other states but here in Florida, it is ridiculous and with DeSantis heading the ignorance, the careful are being harassed.
18/ For you Twitterati.....
19/ Yay - Fargo is back, with Chris Rock as the main character.....
Today's Catholic joke...
In parochial school students are
taught that lying is a sin. However, instructors also advised that using a
bit of imagination was OK to express the truth differently without lying.
Below is a perfect example of those teachings
Getting a Hairdryer Through Customs.
An attractive young woman on a
flight from Ireland
asked the Priest beside her, 'Father, may I ask a favour?'
'Of course child. What may I do for you?'
Well, I bought my mother an expensive
hair dryer for her birthday. It is unopened but well over the Customs limits
and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry
it through customs for me? Hide it under your robes perhaps?'
'I would love to help you, dear, but I
must warn you, I will not lie.'
'With your honest face, Father, no one
will question you.'
When they got to Customs, she let the
priest go first. The official asked, 'Father, do you have anything to
declare?'
'From the top of my head down to my
waist I have nothing to declare.'
The official thought this answer
strange, so asked, 'And what do you have to declare from your waist to the
floor?'
'I have a marvelous instrument designed
to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.'
Roaring with laughter, the official
said, 'Go ahead, Father. Next please!'
Today's golf jokes
A husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly she collapses from a heart attack!
"Help me dear," she groans to her husband.
The husband calls 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt.
His wife raises her head off the green and stares at him.
"I'm dying here and you're putting?"
"Don't worry dear," says the husband calmly, "they found a doctor on the second hole and he's coming to help you.
"Well, how long will it take for him to get here?" she asks feebly.
"No time at all," says her husband. "Everybody's already agreed to let him play through."
___________________________
A gushy reporter told Phil Mickelson, "You are spectacular; your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What's your secret?"
Mickelson replied, "The holes are numbered."
___________________________
A young man and a priest are playing golf together. At a short par-3 the priest asks, "What are you going to use on this hole, my son?"
The young man says, "An 8-iron, father. How about you?"
"Help me dear," she groans to her husband.
The husband calls 911 on his cell phone, talks for a few minutes, picks up his putter, and lines up his putt.
His wife raises her head off the green and stares at him.
"I'm dying here and you're putting?"
"Don't worry dear," says the husband calmly, "they found a doctor on the second hole and he's coming to help you.
"Well, how long will it take for him to get here?" she asks feebly.
"No time at all," says her husband. "Everybody's already agreed to let him play through."
___________________________
A gushy reporter told Phil Mickelson, "You are spectacular; your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What's your secret?"
Mickelson replied, "The holes are numbered."
___________________________
A young man and a priest are playing golf together. At a short par-3 the priest asks, "What are you going to use on this hole, my son?"
The young man says, "An 8-iron, father. How about you?"
The priest says, "I'm going to hit a soft seven and pray."
The young man hits his 8-iron and puts the ball on the green.
The priest tops his 7-iron and dribbles the ball out a few yards.
The young man says, "I don't know about you, father, but in my church, when we pray, we keep our head down."
___________________________
Police are called to an apartment and find a woman holding a bloody 3-iron standing over a lifeless man.
The detective asks, "Ma'am, is that your husband?"
"Yes" says the woman.
"Did you hit him with that golf club?""Yes, yes, I did." The woman begins to sob, drops the club, and puts her hands on her face.
"How many times did you hit him?"
"I don't know -- put me down for a five."
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A golfer teed up his ball on the first tee, took a mighty swing and hit his ball into a clump of trees. He found his ball and saw an opening between 2 trees he thought he could hit through. Taking out his 3-wood, he took a mighty swing. The ball hit a tree, bounced back, hit him in the forehead and killed him.
As he approached the gates of Heaven, St. Peter asked, "Are you a good golfer?"
The man replied: "Got here in two, didn't I?
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The bride was escorted down the aisle and when she reached the altar, the groom was standing there with his golf bag and clubs at his side.
She said: "What are your golf clubs doing here?"
He looked her right in the eye and said, "This isn't going to take all day, is it?"
Today's clever joke....
Hell Explained
Allegedly, the following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry mid term, and an actual answer turned in by a student.
The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor share it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
(absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law
(gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some
variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we
need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate
at which they are leaving, which is unlikely.. I think that we can
safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.
Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering
Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world
today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these
religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we
can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as
they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase
exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in
Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and
pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand
proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase
until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in
Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes
over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman
year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,'
and take into account the fact that I slept with her last
night, then number two must be true, and thus I am
sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The
corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it
follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore,
extinct..... .....leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence
of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting
'Oh my God.'
THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.
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