Breaking! Dr. Ben Carson releases a 'plan' to defeat ISIS.... or something....
(Believe it or not, this is an actual portrait of Dr. Ben Carson with Jesus that hangs prominently in his living room…. ummm, Carson’s living room, not Jesus’. It sure was nice of Jesus to pose with...
View ArticleTrump: $8 billion to build my Great, Great wall..... seriously?
So here’s our wanna-be Dear Leader, showing his expertise in construction estimating on MSNBC:"What we're doing is we have 2,000 miles, right? 2,000 miles long, but it's not 13,000 miles like they have...
View ArticleExactly which jobs is The Donald going to 'bring back from China and Mexico'???
Is anyone else just plain sick and tired of listening to our wanna-be Dear Leader prattle on about…. well, just about anything? Yeah, I thought so.High up on his list of ‘I’m gonna’s’ is that he — and...
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Marco Rubio: Still the worst money manager ever?
About 3 months ago, when Marco Rubio’s credit card ‘problem’ was making headlines, I wrote a diary about it:Why is Marco Rubio so incredibly poor?(I was properly chastised for using the term ‘poor’ in...
View ArticleTrump claims he'll pay off the $19 trillion national debt in 8 years.... say...
There is certainly no shortage of ridiculous, preposterous or outrageous claims made by our wanna-be Dear Leader during this presidential campaign, but this one, spouted during an interview with Bob...
View ArticleIdiotic Trump tells WV voters not to vote in their primary election... say...
Some day I’ll stop being amazed at the amazing ability of our wanna-be Dear Leader to seek out new and more outrageous ways to display his stupidity and narcissism to the world.Today, as you might have...
View ArticleTrump thinks US military should communicate via courier.... no, seriously!
Here we are, in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, prepping for our trip to Newfoundland next week. We have satellite TV, so we watch CNN for our news.And here’s our wanna-be Maximum Leader for Life, somewhere...
View ArticleTrump's anti-ISIS 'ideological test' for immigrants would exclude..... most...
I was just watching (badly failing) CNN, where the panel was discussing our wanna-be Dear Leader’s upcoming ‘how to destroy ISIS without really trying hard’ speech this afternoon. Carol Costello put up...
View ArticleTrump on war: "It used to be: 'To the victors go the spoils'... But I always...
Our wanna-be Maximum-Leader-for-Life was breathtaking in his ignorance of everything at the NBC Commander In Chief Forum this evening, and it was tough deciding which statement to blog about.In answer...
View ArticleKoch brothers and fossil fuel utilities poised to destroy roof-top solar in...
For everyone who lives and votes in Florida, it is absolutely critical to understand the ballot initiative called Florida Solar Energy Subsidies and Personal Solar Use Initiative, also known as...
View ArticleBest Campaign Ad EVER!
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View ArticleCNN: Ryan rules out Trump's "Deportation Force"... Oh, Really?
I just watched CNN replay the snippet from their Paul Ryan ‘Town Hall’last night, in which a Dreamer asks Speaker of the (Republicans in the) House Paul Ryan if he wants her deported. His response:"I...
View Article3 million or more illegal votes cast in 2016 election, Dear Leader claims....
Monday night, while hosting a bipartisan Congressional delegation, our newly-minted Dear Leader once again made his claim that he would have won the popular vote except for all the ‘illegals’ who...
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Nordstrom dropping Ivanka's line was a business decision, not a political one...
Yesterday we got this spew from Orange Julius:Of course, Nordstrom replied that their decision not to buy Ivanka’s line for its spring collection had nothing to do with politics:"We made this decision...
View ArticleFlynn talked sanctions with Russia, and Trump didn't know??? Seriously???
Thanks to the intrepid media — and some brave, concerned leakers in the government — we now know that former (hooray!) National Security Advisor Michael Flynn did in fact discuss President Obama’s...
View ArticleBREAKING: White House analysis of TrumpCare is WORSE than CBO!
As bad as the CBO analysis is — I’m calling TrumpCare ‘Dead Plan Walking’— it turns out that HHS Secretary Price lied through his teeth. Here’s what Politico is reporting:The executive branch analysis...
View ArticleHR McMaster boldly (and badly) lies for Dear Leader, gets thrown under the bus
HR McMaster was supposed to be the ‘adult in the room’— the anti-Flynn. He was brought on board in the middle of the Michael Flynn crisis to provide legitimacy and solid leadership to a White House...
View ArticleWhat's so funny? 'Covfefe' came from the stubby fingers poised to push the...
Let that sink in for a minute: It was after midnight, Dear Leader was likely alone in the White House — or at least only accompanied by his goon Keith Schiller. All the ‘adults’ had gone home…. Ivanka...
View Article'Not stupid' Trump admits Comey told the truth in his Senate testimony
From an interview with Faux Noose this morning:"When he found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story...
View ArticleChina used fever screens, masks and contact tracing to beat down Covid-19 -...
Beating down a highly contagious virus like Covid-19 isn’t easy. Obviously, if everyone in the USA could self-isolate for 14 days, the virus would ‘die’ for want of a host. Short of that, a...
View ArticleCan we test our way out of this mess?
Dear Leader is desperate to ‘re-open’ the country (whatever that means), claims our testing is the best (hardly), and says he has the power to do it (not bloody likely).Every sane person agrees that we...
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Mike Pence uses horribly misleading and dishonest maps in Covid-19 briefing.
During the 5-o’clock follies, we got our regular dose of butt-kissing (of Trump, of course) and ‘ain’t things swell!’ from Mike Pence.To show us how much better things are now, he flashed 3 maps very...
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OMG! CDC Director uses same FLU data in briefing that Pence used Thursday,...
I barely got finished with my story (we used to call it a diary, didn’t we?) about Mike Pence yesterday claiming that the maps showing the abating of FLU in the states were actually Covid-19 maps.I...
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Found - The mother-lode of Covid-19 data at the NY Times
Like many of us, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of availability, and/or coherence, of data on the Covid-19 pandemic. Every state has a tracking site, and most counties as well, and the CDC puts up a...
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Here's the 'massive' new testing capability touted tonight by the White House
At tonight’s 5-o’clock follies, the president waved around a list of ‘locations’ that he, of course, couldn’t really describe with any kind of of clarity. From the sidelines, the aide who passed him...
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Sorry, Dear Leader... Yesterday's negative test is meaningless
OK, hang on to your hats… or whatever you think you need to hold onto for this… I’m going to start with a statement that our Dear Leader makes often that is actually TRUE:The USA has tested more people...
View ArticleNY Gov Cuomo confirms testing debacle - WH claim of 'plenty of machines' is...
A couple days ago, our Dear Leader waved around a list of what turned out to be lab test machines capable of running Covid-19 tests, claiming that there were ‘lots of locations’ and other blather.I...
View ArticleNY survey: 13.9% total infected, ~10X confirmed cases - preliminary data
As with all of these types of surveys, the data out of New York is preliminary, not peer-reviewed and we have to view it with a grain of salt, if not a jaundiced eye. Having said that, here are the...
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US to NOT participate in WHO global Covid-19 vaccine consortium.... say what?
This is a story that was reported by Reuters and The Guardian and other foreign press, but hasn’t made it into the US mainstream media until I saw it on CNN about a half hour agoIt seems that the US...
View ArticleDr. Birx just totally gave up the game on Covid-19 testing
Dr. Deborah Birx was on CNN yesterday, and along with her dubious defense of Disinfectant Donnie’s musings about ‘cleaning out’ the body, she talked about the future of Covid-19 testing."For every lab,...
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Kayleigh McEnany blows Trump's absurd testing claims right out of the water
As we all know only too well, Disinfectant Donnie can’t stop pointing out that the United States has done more Covid-19 tests than any other nation in the world. This is demonstrably true, which is...
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Why can't Seattle (or Italy, Spain, France, etc.) beat down Covid-19? Let's...
(I just heard that Dr. Fauci is going into quarantine because of possible Covid-19 exposure at a White House task force meeting where nobody wore a mask because Trump doesn’t like them. I hope like...
View ArticleUh-Oh! Small problem with the awesome new antigen test that Trump is touting!...
Here it is — the latest and greatest silver bullet being pushed by Disinfectant Donnie and his merry band of bumbling fools. This is the Quidel 20299 Sofia 2 Rapid Test Analyzer, which runs the antigen...
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Yet again, Dr. Birx uses horribly misleading graphics to paint a rosy picture...
I’ve blogged about this problem before, here and here. If I keep seeing these misleading graphics, I’m going to need a new TV to replace the one with the remote stuck in the screen.Take a look at the...
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Let's not forget that actual Covid-19 infections are 5 to 10+ times positive...
On May 2, New York state reported that it’s second phase of antibody testing indicated approximately 12.3% of the state had tested positive indicating they had ever been infected with Covid-19. On that...
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Was Dear Leader's West Point ramp really slippery? Let's take a look!
We all read the story and watched the video. Our valiant [insert derogatory name here] shuffled slowly and carefully down what looked like a rather pedestrian ramp after his rather low-intensity speech...
View ArticletRump picked August 15 to throw first pitch at Yankee Stadium, then cancelled...
I just looked it up:August 15 is a SATURDAY!Yeah, he’ll be working as hard as usual, probably at Bedminster playing golf.Here’s the rest of the story from the Daily Beast:President Trump’s announcement...
View ArticleWOW! Joe Biden spoke and took questions and knocked it out of the park!
No long-winded analysis here, just wanted to congratulate Joe Biden for his speech/news conference this afternoon.He handled himself excellently, answering a bunch of questions — some of which were...
View ArticleTHE most important question: When was tRump's last negative Covid-19 test?
We only know 1 incontrovertible fact about Dear Leader’s Covid-19 case: At about 6:30pm EST yesterday he was admitted to the hospital. There are a lot of other bits of data that we think we know, but,...
View ArticletRump's Wisconsin partial recount is as stupid as he is!
So our soon-to-be-unemployed (and indicted) Dear Leader saw that he ‘only’ lost Wisconsin by 20,608 votes and decided to demand a recount. Since Joe Biden’s margin of victory (oh, I LOVE to type that...
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Was there voter fraud in Oakland County Michigan? Let's take a look! (corrected)
I saw this in a story sent me by my wife from a friend of hers on Facebook. Click the link for all the gory details, and feel free to watch the entire video if you like, but here’s the gist:CORRECTION:...
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Ultimate narcissism: tRump thinks Dems only stole HIS votes, let other GOPers...
Even for Diaper Don, this tweet was notable:It is true that Republicans did better than predicted in a lot of the down-ballot races nationwide, and that’s a problem that Democrats are going to have to...
View ArticleWhat the HELL is up with this 'maybe extra doses in the Pfizer vaccine vials'?
I must be missing something here…. from HuffPost:The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday vials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may contain up to 40% more doses than originally thought, meaning...
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Who here thinks Weisselberg was the only beneficiary of the Trump Org tax...
I’m reading the text of the indictment, and this scheme was blatant and brazen…. but it was also petty and paltry. It would probably still be going on, except for the inconvenience of the Former Guy...
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Florida reported 901 new Covid-19 deaths today.... or maybe it was 8
As has been explained in other diaries, Florida has been engaging in a horribly duplicative duplicitous practice of reporting Covid-19 deaths based on date of death, not date of report. This has led to...
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DeathSantis takes YET ANOTHER victory lap over his Covid-19 response....
It’s become routine. Every time there is a dip in Florida’s Covid-19 cases, our self-absorbed governor and hopeful 2024 ‘daddy’s best boy’ Ron DeSantis can’t resist patting himself on the back.In an...
View ArticleTheory: Nuke Docs at MAL were unknown copies until the 'rat' spoke to FBI
If in fact there were highly-sensitive ‘nuclear documents’ sought and/or recovered from Mar-A-Lago in the FBI search, there is a sticky question remaining:Why would the National Archives, DOJ and FBI...
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Why wasn't a massive alarm raised in the White House about missing TS/SCI...
We know a lot about how the classified documents made their way to Mar A Lago:tRump is an obsessive collector — if he didn’t have people cleaning up after him, I imagine he’d show up on one of those...
View ArticleSo why did tRump send ANY classified documents at all back to the National...
NOTE: First off, I want to thank everyone who read my previous diary on this topic and especially those who participated in the discussion in the comments. I learned a lot, and was impressed by the...
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