Today in The New Yorker;
In response to:
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Hundreds of R.N.C. Attendees Test Positive for Delusion
By Andy Borowitz
August 26, 2020
CHARLOTTE (The Borowitz Report)—An outbreak hit the 2020 Republican National Convention this week as hundreds of attendees tested positive for delusion.
While public-health experts have yet to determine the extent of the outbreak, the episodes of attendees exhibiting magical thinking bordering on the hallucinatory appear to be widespread.
Davis Logsdon, who studies delusional epidemics at the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine, said that multiple R.N.C. participants professed to see things “that are not actually there,” such as a strong economy, a successful coronavirus response, and an immigration policy brimming with kindness.
In another worrying symptom, Logsdon said that attendees who tested positive were unable to see things that were clearly in their line of vision. “One participant on Monday was shouting for more than six minutes despite the presence of a microphone inches away from her,” he said.
While scientists tried to get their arms around the extent of the outbreak, containing the spread of delusion at the R.N.C. will be “challenging,” Logsdon warned.
“The most successful treatment for delusion is facts, and these patients have built up an immunity to those over the course of many years,” he said.
Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian
who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.
Andy is correct. Facts don't have any place in the RNC, nor in the Trump presidency.
They have been replaced with lies, termed as "alternative facts".
Today from the Huffington Post;
In response to:
Donald Trump’s Corruption Was On Full Display At The RNC
Eric Trump is running the president’s company and is under investigation in New York, but spoke at the convention Tuesday. That was only the beginning.
By George Zornick and Jesselyn Cook
Midway through the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, railed against the supposed corruption of the Biden family: “A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in the country ? or in the energy sector.” That may sound familiar, because that supposed malfeasance was at the heart of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment late last year.
Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives showed that Trump threatened to withhold crucial military aid unless Volodymyr Zelensky, then Ukraine’s president-elect, opened an investigation into the Biden family and the discredited theory that Joe Biden intervened to end a criminal probe into the gas company where Hunter was on the board. The House voted to impeach Trump after several key actors in this scheme testified against him.
It’s a bold move to remind voters of the extensive scandal for which you were impeached less than a year ago. But Tuesday night’s RNC lineup amounted to an almost proud display of three and a half years of the Trump administration’s corruption ? from the mingling of the presidency and the Trump Organization, which the president did not divest from, to several flagrant displays of using federal resources to advance Trump’s re-election campaign. Four years after he campaigned on “draining the swamp,” Trump is showing off his graft.
Bondi was enmeshed in an entirely different Trump corruption scandal herself, although she claimed on Tuesday: “I fought corruption and I know what it looks like.”
As Florida’s attorney general in 2013, Bondi was considering joining the state of New York in a lawsuit against an affiliate of Trump University, Trump’s now-defunct for-profit education company, which was facing allegations of fraud. But after Trump donated $25,000 through his charity to a political action committee supporting Bondi’s re-election — violating federal tax laws in the process ? Bondi quietly decided not to join the case. (Trump’s campaign later claimed the donation was a “mistake,” and Trump himself paid a $2,500 IRS fine, because as a nonprofit, his charity is prohibited from making political gifts.)
Bondi is also a registered lobbyist for Qatar, which the U.S. Department of Justice has accused of bribing FIFA officials in exchange for hosting the 2022 World Cup, as The Daily Beast reported.
And then there was Eric Trump, who is still executive vice president of the Trump Organization but spoke during prime time at the RNC, urging people to vote for his father.
It was another bold move: Earlier in the day, the New York state attorney general asked a judge to force Eric Trump to answer subpoenas about whether the Trump Organization committed fraud by inflating its assets to get loans and tax breaks. To date, Eric has refused to comply with seven subpoenas about the matter......
(Continued in my next comment below)
Well, last night was weird, unless you want someone screaming at you.
But, tonight will feature a more soft spoken Melania.
And right here & now, courtesy of A Late Show, here's is a preview from (an imitation of) Melania.
Enjoy !
Tonight from NBC News;
In response to:
Michael Cohen records campaign ads against Trump: 'Don't 'believe a word he utters'
The president's former lawyer, who was sentenced to prison, says his ex-boss thinks we're all "a bunch of fools."
Aug. 24, 2020, 8:41 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 24, 2020, 8:45 PM EDT
By Dareh Gregorian
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, has recorded a series of anti-Trump ads that are slated to run during the Republican National Convention painting his former boss as a fraud.
"Later this week, he's going to stand up and blatantly lie to you. I'm here to tell you he can't be trusted — and you shouldn't believe a word he utters," Cohen, who was convicted in 2018 of federal crimes including making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, says in the ad unveiled Monday night.
Cohen, who's serving his three-year sentence in home confinement because of the pandemic, said convention viewers would hear Trump "talk about law and order. That's laughable. Virtually everyone who worked for his campaign has been convicted of a crime or is under indictment. Myself included.
"So when the President gets in front of the cameras this week, remember that he thinks we are all gullible, a bunch of fools."
The ad campaign was made by the Democratic group American Bridge 21st Century, which said it will release digital and TV ads throughout the week.
Cohen, one one of Trump's most trusted employees, was sentenced in December of 2018 for what a judge called a “veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including financial crimes and lying to Congress. He was released in May as part of a nationwide program allowing federal inmates to be transferred to other prisons or confined to their homes because of the pandemic.
He was locked back up about a week after he tweeted that he was writing a tell-all book about Trump.
A judge found that decision was "retaliatory" last month and ordered Cohen released on home confinement.
Kellyanne Conway announced that she will be stepping down from the Trump crime scene at the end of the month
to.....ahem.... focus on her children. In keeping with his how he does .....business, undoubtedly, she will be replaced by a younger, better looking, more prolific liar.
One of her daughters is pushing for emancipation.
I can only imagine the arguments that ensue in that family, between Kellyanne and George Conway,
one of the founders of The Lincoln Project, republicans against Trump. He too will be focusing more time on the family.
Meanwhile the country seeks it's own emancipation in January from the tyrant wannabe currently in the White House.
While there is still a hint of the stuttering issue that Biden used to have (to a greater extent),
it should be obvious, that there is no cognitive issues at all. That was an intentional misinterpretation.
Joe Biden is an experienced good public servant, who has care for fellow citizens and motivation to make things better on many fronts. He and his vice president are exactly who this country needs at this time
to unite and lead us out of the corrupt mess that the current lying "so-called" president has helped create.
Some have suggested that Mike Pence won't even show up for a debate with Kamala Harris.
Indeed, it would not surprise me at all, if he will by coincidence
become sick on that day or the day before.
But, so far, Pence radiates confidence.
From USA Today last night;
In response to:
Chelsey Cox
USA TODAY August 20, 2020, 8:20 PM EDT
Will Pence face Harris on the debate stage?
The vice president is looking forward to debating Harris, according to an interview on Fox News.
"I like the matchup. It's on, Sean," Pence told Fox News' Sean Hannity on the Aug. 12 episode of "Hannity."
"I think she is a skilled debater, but I can't wait to get to Salt Lake City and be on the stage with her, to compare Joe Biden's nearly 50 years in public life – the agenda of the radical left, the agenda that she's embraced throughout her political career – with the results of this president and this administration," Pence said.
After hearing about Harris being picked as Biden's running mate on Aug. 11, Pence told Trump supporters in Mesa, Arizona, he's looking forward to debating Harris in October.
"So my message to the Democratic nominee for vice president: Congratulations. I'll see you in Salt Lake City,” Pence said, according to Fox News.
CNN and The Hill also covered Pence's statements.
The vice presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 7 in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah, according to USA TODAY.
"Lets get ready to rumble !"
Here's a preview;
If I were him, I wouldn't attempt to grab that.... feline.
Hot off the press - Today in The New Yorker;
In response to:
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Trump Calls Biden’s Pro-Empathy Message Offensive to Sociopaths
By Andy Borowitz
August 21, 2020
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it “hurtful and insulting,” Donald J. Trump on Friday said that Joe Biden’s pro-empathy speech at the Democratic National Convention was “deeply offensive” to the nation’s sociopaths.
Blasting Biden’s incendiary pro-compassion rhetoric, Trump said that the “roomful of sociopaths” with whom he watched the speech found it “alienating and divisive.”
“I was watching with Jared, Stephen Miller, and Mitch McConnell, and when Biden started in on the empathy stuff, we all felt very alone,” he said. “He said that he wants to be a President for all Americans, but I guess that doesn’t include sociopaths.”
Calling Biden “a puppet of compassionate extremists,” he demanded that the former Vice-President apologize to every sociopath in the country.
“Sociopaths have feelings, just not for other people,” he said.
Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian
who has written for The New Yorker since 1998.
He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.
Today from CBS in Austin TX
In response to:
82-year-old Houston-area man left without heart medicine for a week due to USPS delays
by CBS AustinMonday, August 17th 2020
HUMBLE, Texas — An elderly man in the Houston area says his heart medicine was delayed over a week due to delays in from the U.S. Postal Service.
82-year-old Don White of Humble told KHOU that he has been tracking the package, which shows it has remained at a north Houston mail processing facility for the last 10 days.
White told KHOU he hopes to get the package on Monday, and says his mail-order prescription has never been this late before.
"There have been a few times in which it’s taken a week, week and a half, two weeks, but this is the first time I actually ran out and checking with the post office didn't do much good, even though I had a tracking number on it,” White told KHOU.
Delays plaguing the USPS have come under close scrutiny recently after President Donald Trump acknowledged last week that he's withholding funding for the postal service to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots.
I'm certain, that Don White is not the only one affected by this. A lot of the elderly depend upon the mail for timely medication deliveries. Indeed, some younger people with chronic disorders likely do
also. The narcissistic tyrant wannabe in the White House should be removed from office before he kills more people with his lunacy. He keeps confirming that he deserves his
Official Worst US President Ever title in so many ways.
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