- Infidel753 uses simple arithmetic to demonstrate why defeating the pandemic won’t be easy, even with competent leadership, and why an effective vaccine will take time, even if we demand it now, now, now!
- You think OUR president is a little weird with his off the wall cures for COVID-19? The Journal of Improbable Research takes a look at Brazil, where the Minister of Health explains to an anxious public the benefits of Ozone piped into the rectum. I’m not EVER gonna try that. Not after the last time. I’ll just be glad when this pandemic hoax is over and I can stop injecting these household cleaning products.
- Max’s Dad is a bit angry. He reviews the results of ideology replacing medical expertise and makes the case that the growing number of deaths by COVID-19 in Nebraska comprise multiple negligent homicide.
- Scotties Toy Box is generally supportive of unions. Scottie has had some personal experience in the hospital that provides some insight both into chokeholds and into an extraordinary union lawsuit in NYC. In some cases, says Scottie, a police union can become a haven for occasional thugs who don’t mind harming people.
- Hackwhackers has a panel discussion – okay cartoon panels – on the NRA, COVID-19, and Trump governance.
- Trump Confiscates Covid-19 Tests and Replaces Them with Cognitive Tests – – At The Moderate Voice Dr. Laurie Bacon lists some headlines she’d like to see. For myself, I’d like a replay of the time a few decades back when Republicans in Congress voted down proposed agricultural support: Farmer Bill Dies in House.
You know, sometimes people forget that I am hilarious?
- Dave Dubya provides a brief history of great health care by Donald Trump. Let me emphasize the brevity.
- Did you see my president being interviewed by Jonathan Swan? At The Onion, D.C. journalists are in awe of the Australian reporter who is able to speak to Trump without succumbing to his raw animal magnetism.
- Frances Langum listens as my president mispronounces the name of yet another country and a noted conservative absurdly insists there was no mistake. And so Thailand is where they show thighs, not where you buy ties.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger knows why my president has become upset about TikTok.
- Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez looks into Trump’s announcement that TikTok will be closed for national security unless the video platform is sold to Microsoft, and determines that it is a stunningly brazen act of what can only be called political gangsterism. Well, yeah.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson reviews a few of this moment’s corrupt activities including Trump’s ambassador to Great Britain asking Britain’s officials to put money into Trump’s pocket.
- Green Eagle has a photo of the massive crush of supporters that greeted my president as he disembarked in Florida. Looks like they numbered literally in the tens. The word “crowd” actually has to be spelled that way, with quotation marks around it. How many more such embarrassments must this great leader endure?
- When all else fails, as it looks to be happening, want to know how Trump will still win in 2020? nojo doesn’t know, but suspects. With all the things we were told he couldn’t do because it just isn’t done, but he did anyway, nojo reviews just a few that are going on now.
Messing with the census, repurposing DHS patrols into troops to put down protests in US cities, transferring allocated funds from our defense to his symbolic anti-brown-immigrant wall. What if suppressing voters and holding up postal service so mail in ballots can’t get counted turn out to be only the visible part of the iceberg? What is he doing that we don’t see?
- Iron Knee at Political Irony reviews the 2016 election and documents actual cases of voter fraud. Yes, folks, it did exist. (Okay, so that was click-bait. True click-bait, though.)
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz listens as my president tells an audience that Joe Biden, a lifelong active Christian, will “hurt God.” So Trump gets a bit of quick Pavlovitz religious instruction: God is more than a prop you wield, a costume you put on, a resource you rent.
- In MadMikesAmerica, Dr. Mark Bear considers a conservative Christian preacher who screams at a donut store employee, at one point threatening violence, for asking him to wear a mask. Okay, so the guy is my brother-in-Christ. I do sometimes wish a few such members were less of a family embarrassment.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce questions why some who have rejected religion, following the evidence to atheism, would later return to the faith. Bruce wishes them well in finding their own path. For himself, integrity counts. He must maintain fidelity to truth as it is revealed by evidence. My own shaky suggestion: Internal evidence can be legitimately rejected by anyone except the one experiencing it.
- Remember compassionate conservatives? 2000 election? Remember? Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit gives conservatives complete credit for their humane reaction to human tragedy. My sarcasm greatly amuses me.
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