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 A Sense of Doubt blog post #1981 - And now, the NEWS - WONKETTE - Mom Walls, Ratings Gold, and Accepting Elections

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The writers who share stories to the site viciously attack all the bullshit in our nation with the hard edge of truth and incisive, smart-ass wit that is intellectual and punk in its sensibilities.

And since I collected these good newsy bits on the MOM Wall and the fight for Portland's freedom from 1984-styled Federal goon squads, the occupier Trump suggesting that he may not "accept" the results of the 2020 presidential election (we assume only if he loses), and two daily collections of good tabs, there's been even better stuff, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outraged that slavery existed and Americans owned slaves, that occupier Trump wants to "edit" the Census data to exclude illegal immigrants (IE. "rig" the election, oh no, wait, it's only rigged if he loses), and the plucky little data company that will try to replace the CDC's robust 15-year old National Health Safety Network in the middle of a pandemic, which is like trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a battle-tested strong ship that's not leaking but deciding to transfer to a possibly leaking, much tinier boat with a small engine because that would be better, why?

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Portland Has Own WALL — Of Moms!

Doktor Zoom

July 21, 2020 02:16 PM

Screenshot, Twitter video by Nathaniel St. Clair

In response to the federal goon squads sent by Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland have come up with a new strategy: the "Wall of Moms," and also some dads, who stand in front of the protest line as a symbolic and moral barrier against police brutality. About 30 of the moms showed up at the federal courthouse Saturday night, chanting "Feds stay clear! Moms are here!" and "Leave our kids alone!"

The unidentifiable goon squad, being a goon squad, allowed the women to stand for a few hours, arms locked, but eventually moved in with flash-bangs and tear gas, because clearly the protest was a threat to national security somehow.

It's America in 2020 and that's our federal government. The Trump administration isn't interested in doing a goddamned thing to protect us from a deadly pandemic, but by God it's got plenty of munitions to "protect" a building from people chanting rude things about cops.

The Wall of Moms got started with a Facebook post by Bev Barnum, 35, who was moved to action by social media video of unidentified federal agents hustling an unarmed protester into an unmarked minivan.

"As most of you have read and seen on the news, protestors are being hurt (without cause)," Barnum wrote on a Facebook event page, calling for moms to join Saturday's protest. "And as of late, protestors are being stripped of their rights by being placed in unmarked cars by unidentifiable law enforcement."

"We moms are often underestimated," Barnum wrote. "But we're stronger than we're given credit for. So what do you say, will you stand with me? Will you help me create a wall of moms?"

"We wanted to look like we were going to Target, like normal people," Barnum told BuzzFeed News, adding that she hoped their nonthreatening appearance would let them provide protection. However, she said that the mothers were later tear-gassed by federal officers.

Protesters got behind the moms, who stood in front:

But surely the use of force Saturday taught those terrible moms a lesson? It sure did: It taught them there's strength in numbers. Sunday night, there were even more moms.

LOTS more moms, and others.

And lo, there were dads, too:

Wow, what a wild mob of radical leftist terrorists. (Some wonderful smartasses on Twitter suggested the dads bring leaf blowers to disperse tear gas, an idea whose utility seems dubious at best.)

The moms and dads didn't seem especially intimidated by the Trumpentroopers.

But how can these be moms? They curse like a common Wonkette Editrix! More to the point, they know that sometimes you have to curse. But when they arrived at a mural commemorating the murder of George Floyd, their silence was just as eloquent:

Monday night, the Oregonian reports, there were hundreds of parents marching along with the younger Black Lives Matter demonstrators. Amazing how many complete families of dangerous terrorists there are in Portland.

By 9:15 p.m., more than 1,000 people had gathered in the area. The crowds filled Southwest Third Avenue and the nearby park in front of the jail. Almost everyone wore masks. Some people stood on the steps of the jail and delivered speeches to rally the crowd. When one person asked how many mothers were in the crowd, several hundred people rose their hands.

Police at first stayed away from the crowd, which appeared to have grown beyond 2,000 people by 9:45 p.m. One speaker encouraged people to vote and told them how to register, drawing a wave of cheers. Another person explained how to react to tear gas and other uses of force: "Stay together. Stay tight. We do this every night."

And once again Monday, the feds used smoke and "impact munitions" to clear away the demonstrators from the courthouse after some in the crowd "started to tear off the plywood and other materials nailed to the front of the building."

Thank heaven order was restored against those bloodthirsty anarchists. Donald Trump says the federal soldiercops are there to keep the city safe. From moms and dads with bullhorns and projectors. Go, moms and dads!
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The Battle Of Portland Heads To Court

Jamie Lynn Crofts

July 20, 2020 01:35 PM

Portland is under attack. Armed men in military-style fatigues are roaming the streets and throwing people into unmarked minivans, shooting at peaceful protesters, and intimidating protesters who dare speak out against police brutality against Black Americans.

And, because we are here in the year of our Satan, 2020, these thugs are federal officers.
As we've previously written about here, here, and here, Donald Trump and acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf (yes, amazingly, that is his real name) have sent stormtroopers to Portland to harass, shoot at, and disappear people. These goons have been terrorizing protesters in the name of "law enforcement," with Wolf calling the protesters "violent anarchists" because of ... wait for it ... because of some graffiti.

Thankfully, the Oregon attorney general is fighting back. Friday night, state AG Ellen Rosenblum filed a complaint in federal court, seeking a stop to this fascist fuckery.

The complaint (posted below), styled Rosenblum v. John Does 1-10, alleges federal officials are violating the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments, as well as creating a "public nuisance" by unreasonably interfering with the general public's right to public safety, public peace, public comfort, and public convenience.

Rosenblum notes that federal officers "have engaged in actions endangering Oregon's citizens and the people walking Portland's streets," and have engaged "in unlawful law enforcement in violation of the civil rights of Oregon citizens by seizing and detaining them without probable cause." Her office is seeking a temporary restraining order and eventually a permanent injunction to put a stop to this absolute madness.

What's happening right now in Oregon is so utterly insane that it borders on unbelievable. And yet,

federal law enforcement officers ... have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland, detain protesters, and place them into the officers' unmarked vehicles, removing them from public without either arresting them or stating the basis for an arrest, since at least Tuesday, July 14.

As the complaint notes,

Citizens peacefully gathering on the streets of Portland to protest racial inequality have the right to gather and express themselves under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The federal government's actions

are undertaken with the intent of discouraging lawful protest and therefore constitute an illegal prior restraint on the First Amendment right of Oregonians to peacefully protest racial inequality. Citizens who are reasonably afraid of being picked up and shoved into unmarked vans—possibly by federal officers, possibly by individuals opposed to the protests—will feel compelled to stay away, for their own personal safety, and will therefore be unable to express themselves in the way that they have the right to do.

The lawsuit names the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the US Marshals Service, the Federal Protective Service, and 10 unidentified officers as defendants.

Of course, the feds haven't helped the Oregon Attorney General identify the people or agencies involved in this twaddle. Rather,

They have prevented the Attorney General from knowing which agencies and which officers are acting. [...] The identity of the officers is not known, nor is their agency affiliation, according to videos and reports that the officers in question wear military fatigues with patches simply reading "POLICE," with no other identifying information.

It's all fascist bullshit.

As of Monday morning, no hearings have been scheduled, but judges usually try to motions for handle temporary restraining orders quickly. For now, we'll just have to wait and see. And hope that, in the meantime, people like last night's amazing wall of moms continue to step in.Defendants' tactics violate the rights of all people detained without a warrant or a basis for arrest, and violate the state's sovereign interests in enforcing its laws and in protecting people within its borders from kidnap and false arrest, without serving any legitimate federal law enforcement purpose.

And not only is this fascist bullshit, it's also incredibly dangerous in other ways. How easy would it be for white supremacist militias to wear and do the same things?

But don't worry, the complaint touches on that, too, noting that

Oregon's citizens are at risk of kidnapping by militias and other civilian "volunteers" taking it onto themselves to pull peaceful protesters into their cars, in a manner that resembles the federal actions described above. And Oregon's own police agencies are therefore injured, by roving federal officers confusing citizens about whether they are obligated to comply with armed men ordering them into unmarked vans.

In one case,

in the early hours of Wednesday, July 15, Mark Pettibone alleges that he was confronted by armed men dressed in camouflage who took him off the street, pushed him into a van, and drove him through downtown until unloading him into a building, which is believed to have been the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse.

And he's not the only one!

On information and belief, unidentified federal officers including John Does 1-10 have likewise detained other citizens off the Portland streets, without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action. There is no way of knowing, in the absence of those officers identifying themselves, whether only U.S. Customs and Border Protection is engaging in these actions. The Marshals Service and other Homeland Security agencies reportedly have been sent to Portland to respond to the protests against racial inequality.

As the lawsuit points out,

Oregonians have the right to walk through downtown Portland at night, and in the early hours of the morning.

And

Ordinarily, a person exercising his right to walk through the streets of Portland who is confronted by anonymous men in military-type fatigues and ordered into an unmarked van can reasonably assume that he is being kidnapped and is the victim of a crime.

[...]

Defendants are injuring the occupants of Portland by taking away citizens' ability to determine whether they are being kidnapped by militia or other malfeasants dressed in paramilitary gear (such that they may engage in self-defense to the fullest extent permitted by law) or are being arrested (such that resisting might amount to a crime).

The ACLU of Oregon has, of course, filed its own suit against the feds on behalf of protesters and legal observers. The ACLU suit "seeks to block federal law enforcement from dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, or using physical force against journalists or legal observers." And the civil rights organization has promised that there is more to come, noting that "[t]he lawsuit is one of many the ACLU will be filing against federal authorities in Portland for their unconstitutional attacks on people protesting the police killing of George Floyd."

Rosenblum and the ACLU are far from alone in objecting to the authoritarian tactics being used by federal ghouls. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (who is no friend of BLM protesters) and Oregon Governor Kate Brown have already told Trump's "personal army" that it is not wanted there, to no avail.

Here's the complaint!

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Texas Parents Shocked Kids Came Back From Jesus Camp With COVID-19

Robyn Pennacchia

July 20, 2020 02:34 PM

As the country was in the midst of a pandemic, and as cases in Texas in particular were surging up to nearly 10,000 cases a day, dozens of parents across the state sent their children to sleepaway camp at Keller's Keystone Church in Hill County.

It did not end well.

Many of the campers came home from the July 6-10 session with COVID-19 and are now very, very sick, and their parents are very, very unhappy. A camper on the first day was revealed to have been exposed to the virus through a family member and was sent home later that day, later testing positive. The church assumed it was in the clear, but that camper had already been around several other campers and passed it along. They did send out an email to parents at some point during the week notifying them that the camper had been sent home.

That was when parent Stephanie Brady started checking in on the camp's social media, and did not like what she was seeing.

Via NBCDFW:

"So I start watching the photos come through, no masks, sometimes masks and it just looked really unnerving to see this happen," Brady said. "So I reached out to them again during camp, I texted them both again (people affiliated with the camp), and they're like, 'No everything is fine, we're taking temperatures every day, all is good.'"

Photos and videos which have since been removed from social media as of Sunday evening. The church said in an email, 'By request, and to protect the privacy and safety of campers of Keystone Church, we have removed all photos and videos from summer camp."

Brady quarantined her 17-year-old daughter Paige in her room when she came home, and soon enough, Paige tested positive for COVID-19. The church's response was to just delete all of the pictures from their social media, citing "privacy."

The church deleted photos from the summer camp that they had posted on their Facebook page. Those photos and videos showed dozens of students shoulder to shoulder, not social distancing.

"We found out later from my daughter that they considered their small group 40, which was how many were in her cabin," Brady said. "So when they were with those 40 girls, they didn't have to social distance, they didn't have to wear masks, to me that is not a small group."

When Brady found out her daughter was far from alone, she contacted the church and asked them to contact people and let them know, because hey — there were 300 kids at that camp who are now walking around, potentially spreading the virus to others. The church declined, though once the story came out in the news, they did release a statement.
Via WFAA:

"When I reached out to [the camp director], he was like, 'Well I didn't make you send your kid to camp. I didn't force you to send her.' And I was like, 'No you didn't, but we were really hoping that you would have taken the necessary precautions to make sure she was safe.'"

I'm not sure why anyone would assume or even hope that, what with it being a sleepaway church camp in Texas. Personally, I am only surprised that they weren't purposely trying to expose kids to the virus for the purpose of faith healing them afterwards.

Obligatory "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party" tweet.
If you are thinking that, at the very least, this will lead to other parents deciding to take things more seriously, be more careful, or even get angry at the church for having been so incredibly irresponsible, you would be very wrong about that. Other parents who spoke to NBCDFW said that they thought that if parents didn't want their kids to get risk sick, they shouldn't have sent them to camp:

"At the end of the day, these kids are junior high and high school kids and again, risk versus reward, and at some point if the parents were super uncomfortable with sending their kids because this virus was hanging around that we all know is hanging around, then they shouldn't have sent their kids to camp," [Amy] Jackson expressed.

She said there was a point several weeks before camp that the church had offered refunds to those who did not want their kids to go to camp due to the pandemic.

"We knew going into it that there's a risk and we did it anyway, I would probably make the same decision over again and I feel like the church did everything in their power to keep things as safe as possible while our kids were there," said Jackson.

Yes. Knowing what she knows now, this woman would still send her kid to Camp Corona. Which may be part of why Texas's COVID-19 graph looks like this.

Daily new cases graph showing Texas' cases skyrocketing.
Comments left on the Facebook post about the children getting coronavirus thanked the church for "not being ruled by fear":

I'm so thankful for Keystone's dedication to our kids, for not being ruled by fear, and for handling this tough time with so much grace, and so much community outreach. I love my church.

And even parents who sent their kids there said it was worth the risk:

Keystone made it very clear to the parents what to expect at the camp. As a parent, my son's spiritual growth and the connections he makes at camp far outweighed the risk of getting sick. Lives were forever changed by God and that is what matters. Thank you, Keystone, for your heart for students.

Yes, there are some long-lasting effects to people's lives after contracting COVID-19. Like long-term heart and lung problems. Thanks, God!

On the bright side, at least a few of the parents were smart enough to at least think this was bad enough to contact the local news, so there's that. Maybe some of their friends will think twice before they send their kids to overnight Jesus camp. And maybe, just maybe, that will put just the tiniest dent in Texas's surge. If we're lucky.
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Trump Resumes Coronavirus Briefings For Ratings Gold, Oops, We Mean Public Health

Liz Dye

July 20, 2020 04:01 PM

Hooray! Our national plague of afternoon sobriety is over, as the White House announces it will resume daily coronavirus briefings after a three-month-long hiatus. Drink up, kids!

"I was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching in the history of cable television. There's never been anything like it," the president told reporters in the Oval Office this afternoon. "It's a great way to get information out to the public as to where we are with the vaccines, with the therapeutics."

Ratings gold, or horrified rubbernecking? Eh, same difference.

You may remember those briefings as hours-long rantfests, where everyone praised the Dear Leader and promised that this COVID problem was totally under control thanks to his wise stewardship, spiced up with a little abuse for Democratic governors. You may also remember they they got canceled after Commander Biglybrain got bored of hyping Hydroxybonercream 3000 and speculated about the possibility of injecting bleach and sticking a tanning bed up your ass to murder COVID molecules.

Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant Into The Body To Treat Coronavirus | MSNBCyoutu.be

TRUMP: So, supposedly when we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that so that you're going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we'll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That's pretty powerful.

In April, Trump's minions begged him to STOP TALKING, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, since every time he opened his mouth, Joe Biden's polling got better. And today would seem an odd time to go back to addressing the nation, what with Trump openly at war with his scientific advisers. The White House is releasing oppo research on Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the administration blocked CDC Director Robert Redfield from testifying to Congress last week. Even Dr. Deborah Birx, who apparently wanders around the White House blithely predicting that everything is just great, never better, won't stand at the podium and endorse Trump's wacko plan to open every school in America at full capacity. So we'll probably get Jared Kushner and Mike Pence warming up the crowd with vapid assurances that a vaccine is right around the corner, followed by and hour of freeform blarping from President Loudstupid.

Hey, put that bleach down, it's not that bad! You don't ever have to watch that shit.

"The president wants the American people to know what the federal government is doing," White House spokesliar Kayleigh McEnany told Fox News. "It's why he'll be resuming those 5 p.m. briefings starting tomorrow, to talk about Remdesivir and convalescent plasma and these innovative therapeutics only made possible by President Trump tearing down barriers." Oh, yes, he tore down the barriers to medical innovation with his giant, manly hands. Say thanks, ya bunch of heathen ingrates!

But Kellyanne Conway, whose time in the White House appears to have sapped her will to live, couldn't even be bothered to pretend it wasn't a blatant electoral stunt.

"The president's numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day-by-day basis about the coronavirus. Just giving people the information," she told Fox. 

"I think the president should be doing that."

Hahaha, that liar knows this is going to be a disaster. Criminy, at this rate we'll be drunker than Judge Jeanine before dinnertime.

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Biden And Pelosi Kindly Inform Trump His Ass Will Be Leaving White House January 20, One Way Or Another!

Evan Hurst

July 20, 2020 04:35 PM

By now, you've heard all about Donald Trump's big fun interview with Fox News's Chris Wallace, who actually laughed right in the president's face when he started bragging about that cognitive "camel" test he took a million years ago. Trump protested that the test WAS TOO VERY HARD, and Wallace giggled as he told Trump that the ability to answer "which one is elephant" correctly is not actually a marker of stable-genius-level intelligence. We are not sure, but we think Wallace may be running out of fucks to give, at least by Fox News standards.

One part of that interview we haven't focused on yet is when Trump refused to commit to accepting the results of the election, just like he wouldn't accept them in 2016. Hell, in a way, he didn't accept them in 2016, considering how Hillary Clinton beat the shit out of him in the popular vote, and his Electoral College victory was tiny-weenus-not-bigly-yooge.

Hillary's three-million popular vote win? Rigged! Illegal immigrants voting! Trump's Electoral College victory? Historic! No Republican has ever even won the Electoral College, probably! Or whatever he said, we don't feel like looking it up.

Here's video of Trump with Wallace:
Joe Biden's campaign quickly assured Trump that when Biden kicks Trump's ass, Trump will be leaving the White House one way or another:

In response to Trump's comments to Wallace, the Biden campaign's Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates said "the American people will decide this election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House."

It would almost be funnier if it went down that way. Maybe Trump thinks Bill Barr can just bring whatever team of incels he and DHS have deployed to Portland back to Washington to protect him. That'll be cute, except for how Joe Biden becomes commander-in-chief of the United States military at noon on January 20, 2021, assuming we all vote, and assuming we kick Trump's ass hard enough that Russia's pro-Trump interference isn't enough to make up the difference.

US military > Bill Barr's Team Of Incels. Oh yeah, and Barr won't be attorney general anymore. Womp womp.

(Did we mention VOTE? Thanks. The election is 106 days away. Start making your voting plan NOW. There's a pandemic on, if you haven't heard.)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi also had thoughts about Trump's refusal to commit to GTFO when America tells him for the umpteenth time that we loathe his nasty ass, but this time with votes.

PELOSI: The fact is, whether he knows it yet or not, he will be leaving. Just because he might not want to move out of the White House doesn't mean we won't have an inauguration ceremony to inaugurate a duly elected president of the United States. [...]

I'm second in line to the presidency, and just last week I had my regular continuation of government briefing. [...] This is never going to happen, God willing, it never will. But there is a process. It has nothing to do with the certain occupant of the White House doesn't feel like moving and has to be fumigated out of there.

"Fumigated." She said "fumigated."

PELOSI: The presidency is the presidency. It's not geography or location.

Like we said, at noon on January 20, 2021, Joe Biden is president, if we all do what we have to do as American citizens. And if there is a hairy crusty orange caterwauling Big-Mac-popping dipshit burglar inside the White House at the time, well then, the president will take care of that little problem -- and hopefully they can immediately then transfer that little problem to the proper authorities, maybe the New York state police, before the little fucker tries to flee to Russia forever -- and then the Terminix guy can come to do the fumigation part and once they really air out the place, Joe Biden will move in. End of story.
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Laura Ingraham So Mad Joe Biden Won't Even Let Trump Be Dictator-For-Life :(

Evan Hurst

July 21, 2020 04:22 PM

It seems like the general election is really kicking into gear this week. Donald Trump isn't committing to accept the results of the election (we guess he's not confident how well Russia's interference will work this time, or if China will even try to help), and Joe Biden is saying in no uncertain terms that if Trump doesn't remove himself, he will be removed as a trespasser. Nancy Pelosi says if Trump has to be "fumigated" out of the White House, turn the sprayer on. (We assume Terminix will be involved. Or maybe an enormous glue trap.)
Biden knows the new president is president at noon on inauguration day, no matter what, but all this talk about how Donald Trump won't even be allowed to try to do coups and stay in the White House for life, even if he loses in a 400-electoral-vote landslide and starts whining #RIGGED, well, it's bothering the idiots over on Laura Ingraham's White Power Hour.

Ingraham and guest Fox Nation host Lara Logan bellyached together:

LARA LOGAN: [O]ne of the disturbing things here that people have raised with me is all the talk about Trump is not going to leave office and Trump won't hand over the nuclear codes. What are they setting the conditions for, exactly? If there is any dispute over mail-in ballots or voter fraud or any of those states or giving all their votes to the popular vote winners nationwide and not given their Electoral College votes —

LAURA INGRAHAM: Right.

LOGAN: — as they traditionally have been given.

INGRAHAM: Yes. Got to go.

LOGAN: If there's any dispute over that, are they going to say, yes, you see there, we told you he wasn't going to leave office?

Right. If Trump and his stinky Roy Cohn/Goebbels hybrid over at the Department of Justice start bitching about bullshit nonexistent voter fraud or fraudulent mail-in ballots, it will be a sign Trump is refusing to relinquish power. And no, the American people will not put up with it.

INGRAHAM: They're going to short-circuit it. They don't want anyone to question them, Lara.

We didn't get to question it when Vladimir Putin and James Comey installed Trump in office either. And we're definitely not going to let Trump "question" it with bullshit claims of voter fraud, a problem that literally doesn't exist.

As far as whatever pipe Logan is smoking about states giving all their electoral votes to the popular vote winner, we are not sure which states she thinks are going to do that. There is a National Popular Vote compact, which has been enacted by 15 states and the District of Columbia, which says once states worth 270 electoral votes sign on to the agreement, they'll award all their electoral votes to the popular vote winner. Right now we're at 196, so that's not happening yet.

INGRAHAM: You're exactly right. It's going to be any irregularities, no, you're questioning the results of an election, you got to get out, and we hope the military will help throw him out of the White House. That's exactly what they're setting up.

Yes, we hate how they're "setting up" a situation where, once the Electoral College casts its votes and the election is certified, and once Joe Biden becomes president — God willing — on January 20, then "the military will help throw [Trump] out of the White House." That is just a very terrible thing they are "setting up," where Trump can't even stay in the White House whining into his dirty diapers about how everything was #RIGGED against him. How dare the new American president Joe Biden have the trespasser removed!

Look, we know things are rough right now for people who love Trump. Unless Russia and/or vote-suppressing Republican governors really outdo themselves, Trump is heading for a humiliating loss, if polls stick where they are right now. (They're likely to get worse for Trump, because of how his administration is STILL killing thousands of Americans with its abdication of leadership through the coronavirus pandemic.) Trump is down as much as 15 points nationally, and Biden has commanding leads in swing states. Indeed, the only result that could be legitimately questioned would be if Trump yet again managed to lose the popular vote by millions and squeak out yet another absolute bullshit "win" in the Electoral College.

For folks like Ingraham, who like all white racists probably believes there is a silent majority of white racists who agrees with her, it's likely to be absolutely humiliating. People who convinced themselves, like Trump did, that his "win" actually was historic, their bubbles are going to burst, quickly and painfully. If the American people are allowed to speak in November, Trump people should probably refrain from operating heavy machinery for their own safety for a while, they'll be so disoriented.

In 2016, after Hillary Clinton's "loss," Democrats grasped at straws, grieving what had happened and what was to come. It's telling that Laura Ingraham and Lara Logan are already starting that process now, 105 days out from the election.

But yeah, if El Shithole loses like he's probably going to in November, and if he refuses to leave, then President Biden will remove him. If he deems the military necessary, that'll be up to him, but we imagine a trail of Big Macs leading out into the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue would do the job just as easily, and Big Macs are only $3.99 and Pennsylvania Avenue is right in front of the White House so that'd be a much more Fiscal Responsibility way to do it.

This post was originally about Laura Ingraham but now we're doing math to see how many Big Macs you'd have to place between the White House and Pennsylvania Avenue to make sure Trump gets the fuck out.

If you solve the math problem right there, then you may have an OPEN THREAD.
[transcript via Media Matters]

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http://profleroy.blogspot.com/2018/04/i-beg-your-pardon-but-could-trump-be.html

https://www.wonkette.com/tabs-july-21-2020

That Scratched CD You Threw Out Might Be More Valuable Than You Realize! Tabs, July 21, 2020

Stephen Robinson

July 21, 2020 04:00 AM

Tabs gifs by your friend Martini Ambassador!

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson thinks kids can just put some Robitussin on COVID-19. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

St. Louis couple who went Yosemite Sam on protesters walking along their “private street" have been charged with a felony. Gov. Parson has already said he'll pardon them if convicted. Don't you hate spoilers? (CNN)

Studies show that Black children are more likely to die after surgery than their white peers. Hard to find a punchline for this one. (USA Today)

A California teen started a petition requesting that Trader Joe's stop using ethnic variations of the company name for food products from different parts of the world. Trader Joe's has agreed so say goodbye to "Trader Giotto's" or "Trader Ming's" or "Trader José." (SFGate)

Georgia state Senator Nikema Williams will replace the late John Lewis on the ballot in November. The first Black woman elected to lead the state Democratic Party, Williams is all but certain to replace Lewis in the House. However, my friends in the Atlanta-based fifth congressional district, please take nothing for granted and go vote like Lewis's legacy depended on it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Andrew Gillum opens up about the depression he experienced after he lost the 2018 Florida governor's race. This is important as there's still unfortunately a stigma in the Black community surrounding mental health. (Politico)

Rightfully angry protesters confronted Ron DeSantis, Florida's theoretical governor, during an event in Orlando. This guy is one and done in 2022 or Democrats aren't even trying. (Orlando Sentinel)

Columnist Naomi Ishisaka thinks the press should stop taking everything the police say as gospel. (Seattle Times)

Portland police are likely canoodling with Donald Trump's goon squad in Portland. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has repeatedly order the feds to leave. The states' rights crowd remains noticeably quiet. (The Oregonian)

Democrats should run an ad featuring the Navy vet who Trump's droogs attacked in Portland. (Washington Post)

Trump plans to sends troops to Chicago, as well. He's a big tough guy. (CNN)

ABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the network after an investigation into her alleged grossness, including making “unacceptable racially insensitive" — or “racist" — comments. (Variety)

Roy Den Hollander, the primary suspect in a fatal shooting at a New Jersey judge's home, was found dead in his house Monday. Hollander allegedly killed US District Court Judge Esther Salas's son and injured her husband. He was a Manhattan attorney and self-described “anti-feminist," the type of asshole who sued clubs for having “ladies' nights." (ABC7ny.com)

Stephen Robinson on Twitter.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-president-coronavirus-plague-982150/

https://www.wonkette.com/flamin-hot-lovers-try-every-flamin-hot-snack-tabs-wed-july-22-2020

Flamin' Hot Lovers Try Every Flamin' Hot Snack. Tabs, Wed., July 22, 2020

Rebecca Schoenkopf

July 22, 2020 08:00 AM

Tabs gifs by your friend Martini Ambassador!

Oh, just $6.9 million in Trump campaign contributions going directly into the president of the United States's pocket. Super legal. Super cool! (Forbes)

Which goes so nicely with this, in which they explained to David Fahrenthold that they'd broken the hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to Trump into 43 stairstepped payments because the Trump org's credit card machines can only run $10,000 in charges at a time, just coincidentally the amount that triggers a banking report *nods so fast in agreement head becomes fire*.

But he's doing fine, so ignore that coronavirus is going to fuck women and children most, and anyone who says it will make our society more equal is spouting "obscenity."

Like almost all department stores, Macy's was in financial trouble even before the coronavirus hit. The pandemic didn't help matters: Revenue fell 45 percent in the first quarter of 2020. Late in June, Macy's laid off 3,900 corporate employees. Tragic, but unavoidable, right? Except two weeks later, the store's board of directors granted the C-suite management team more than $9 million in stock.

— Helaine Olen at Washington Post

Bless the frontline unemployment workers trying to help Oklahoma through their crap system. Poor fucking Oklahoma. (WaPo)

Sorry for so many Washington Posts in a row, but dang New Mexico vs. Arizona, this is what happens when you put people's health first and aren't massive trumpensuckers about it. — Washington Post

Sure fuck it, absolutely, why not.

Dok suggested this tab for you, but I don't think you should read it. (New England Journal of Medicine)

Swedish doctors and scientists all like "What Not to Wear" but with coronavirus. (USA Today)

Are coronavirus "contrarians" either crackpots or grifters? It sure does seem that way! The Grey Lady seems affronted by the peevishness of Alex Berenson, one of her own. (New York Times)

Joe Biden's actual nanny state! — Politico

New York Post article going after the Lincoln Project douches is hilarious. Empty, meaningless, and hilarious. (New York Post)

Daily Mail article simultaneously shitting on pathetic flop Jacob Wohl and also falling for some pretty obvious new lies about "lobbying for Ghislaine Maxwell" — they take Jack Burkman's misspelled lobbying registration document as proof that the pair had been hired by Maxwell — is empty, meaningless, and hilarious. BONUS: Did you know they did a gross porny one about Ted Cruz in October? We must have been busy that day. — Daily Mail

Liz explains the $60 million bribery case against Ohio state Speaker Larry Householder. Thanks Liz! (Above the Law)

Shut up and gimme. — Food and Wine

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/31/coronavirus-cartoons-trump-sees-ratings-bump-amid-record-job-losses-stock-drops/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-cartoons-trump-quits-the-chinese-virus-label/

THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 1981

me - Christmas 1981

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1981.html

What Happened in 1981 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture

What happened in 1981 Major News Stories include The Aids Virus Identified, Iran Hostage Crisis Ends, Yorkshire Ripper is caught, Post It Notes launched, Riots UK Cities, Anwar Sadat assassinated. one of the most exciting was the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. This was also the first year that the Word Internet was mentioned and MS-DOS was released by Microsoft along with the first IBM PC. On the world stage the events that captured the imagination included Lady Diana Spencer marrying Charles The Prince of Wales. In Politics a little known group before Solidarity inspire popular protests and a general strike in Poland and the government in the UK starts the process of privatization of Nationalized Industries which is later followed by many other countries around the world.

Jump To 1981 Fashion -- World Leaders -- 1981 Calendar -- 1981 Technology -- Cost Of Living -- Popular Culture -- Toys



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981

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