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Less than 1 hour old. Trump's newest lawsuit. He's been treated so unfairly. lol

Yet, he hasn't even gotten the virus.
Maybe we should be the ones suing.

Today in The New Yorker;

In response to:

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Trump Sues the Coronavirus for Treating Him Unfairly

By Andy Borowitz
July 17, 2020

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Alleging that it “has treated me very unfairly,” Donald J. Trump announced on Friday that he is suing the coronavirus.

“This is a very nasty virus, and by that I mean it has been nasty to me personally,” Trump told reporters. “I never thought that there could be anything more terrible than Jim Acosta, but the coronavirus is like an invisible Jim Acosta.”

Offering a preview of his lawsuit, Trump said that he was accusing the coronavirus of meddling in the 2020 election.

“You look at the numbers and, every time the virus’s numbers go up, my numbers go down,” he said. “This virus is trying to rig the election for Sleepy Joe.”

Trump said that he was prepared to take his case against the coronavirus all the way to the Supreme Court, claiming, “My case is so perfect, even those ungrateful beauties Kavanaugh and Gorsuch will side with me.”

Relations between Trump and the virus have reportedly grown so strained that he no longer allows discussions of the coronavirus at meetings of the Coronavirus Task Force.

At the White House, the press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said that Trump felt “deeply betrayed” by the coronavirus.

“COVID-19 would not be what it is today without President Trump,” she 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.

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Like a falling stone - New Nationwide poll shows that Trump now trails Biden by 15%.

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July 15, 2020 - Biden Widens Lead Over Trump To 15 Points In Presidential Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump Job Approval Rating Drops To 36 Percent

As coronavirus cases surge and states rollback re-openings, former Vice President Joe Biden opens up his biggest lead this year over President Donald Trump in the race for the White House. Registered voters back Biden over Trump 52 - 37 percent, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll released today. This compares to a June 18th national poll when Biden led Trump 49 - 41 percent. Since March, Biden's lead had ranged from 8 to 11 percentage points.

Independents are a key factor behind Biden's widening lead as they now back him 51 - 34 percent, while in June, independents were split with 43 percent for Biden and 40 percent for Trump. There is also some movement among Republicans as they back Trump 84 - 9 percent, compared to 92 - 7 percent in June. Democrats go to Biden 91 - 5 percent, little changed from 93 - 4 percent in June.

"Yes, there's still 16 weeks until Election Day, but this is a very unpleasant real time look at what the future could be for President Trump. There is no upside, no silver lining, no encouraging trend hidden somewhere in this survey for the president," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.

BIDEN VS. TRUMP: THE ISSUES

Voters now give Biden a slight lead over Trump in a direct match up when it comes to handling the economy. Voters say 50 - 45 percent that Biden would do a better job handling the economy, a reversal from June when Trump held a slight lead 51 - 46 percent.

Asked about other key issues:

* On handling a crisis, Biden leads 57 - 38 percent;

* On handling health care, Biden leads 58 - 35 percent;

* On the coronavirus response, Biden leads 59 - 35 percent;

* On addressing racial inequality, Biden leads 62 - 30 percent.

BIDEN VS. TRUMP: PERSONAL TRAITS

When asked about whether the candidates are honest, have good leadership skills and whether they care about average Americans, President Trump receives some of his worst scores ever.

Honesty:

Trump: 31 percent say "yes;" 66 percent say "no;"

Biden: 46 percent say "yes;" 42 percent say "no."

Good Leadership Skills:

Trump: 35 percent say "yes;" 63 percent say "no;"

Biden: 49 percent say "yes;" 42 percent say "no."

Cares About Average Americans:

Trump: 37 percent say "yes;" 61 percent say "no;"

Biden: 59 percent say "yes;" 33 percent say "no."

TRUMP JOB APPROVAL

Voters give President Trump a negative 36 - 60 percent job approval rating, a 6 point drop in his job approval compared to last month. In that June 18th poll, Trump had a negative 42 - 55 percent job approval rating. Trump's net job approval is his worst since August of 2017.

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It's getting exciting. Will it happen ?

Trump had the lowest approval rating of any of the recent presidents on January 1st of a re-election year.

But, can he actually beat Jimmy Carter on election day ?

Carter fell all the way to an average of 37.9% approval rating. The worst.
Trump is currently at 38%. But, I believe he's got more terrible leadership in him.
He can do it !
He's officially the worst president in US history. He ignored at least 10 warnings
about the impending (at the time) pandemic.

His response to the California fires was......to rake the forest.

He turned the military on peaceful protesters.

He indirectly killed thousands of people with lack of leadership during the pandemic.

He called the KKK, Neo-Nazis & Alt-right "very fine people".

He actually suggested injecting disinfectant.

While blacks are being killed unjustly by police, he issues an executive order to protect.... statues.

He actually had kids put in cages....away from their parents !

There's only a few months remaining until election, but odds are, that he's going to screw a few more things up....big time.
Hopefully, his horrible decisions will not cost more lives.

However, will his approval rating dip even lower than Jimmy Carter's ?
He CAN do it ! It's the peanut man vs. peanut brain in the battle for lowest approval rating on potential re-election day.

In response to:

Trump starts his reelection year with a low approval rating

Recent presidents’ average approval ratings on Jan. 1 and Election Day of the year they ran for reelection

..................................................... Approval Rating
President Election Year On Jan. 1 On Election Day Change

Lyndon B. Johnson* 1964 76.0% 74.0% -2.0

Dwight D. Eisenhower 1956 75.5 67.9 -7.6

George W. Bush 2004 56.7 48.4 -8.3

Jimmy Carter 1980 55.9 37.9 -18.0

Ronald Reagan 1984 54.1 57.9 +3.8

Harry S. Truman* 1948 54.0 39.6 -14.3

Bill Clinton 1996 52.5 54.6 +2.2

Richard Nixon 1972 50.7 61.3 +10.6

George H.W. Bush 1992 48.9 32.6 -16.3

Barack Obama 2012 45.7 49.5 +3.8

Donald Trump 2020 42.6 ? ?

Gerald Ford* 1976 39.3 43.6 +4.3

*Acceded to the presidency mid-term. In Johnson’s case, he took office mere weeks before the calendar turned to 1964, which also may have affected his numbers.

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First Covid-19 vaccine into humans shows promising results.

Recipients of the vaccine produced antibodies to the virus.

About 1/2 got some minor side effects like soreness at the site of injection or fever.
One person got hives (an immune response) and was withdrawn from the study.
Overall a good step forward.
Phase 3 to start July 27 with 30,000 people.

Yesterday in The New York Times;

In response to:

First Coronavirus Vaccine Tested in Humans Shows Early Promise

The vaccine, developed by government scientists and Moderna, a biotech company, appeared safe and provoked an immune response in 45 people in a study.

By Denise Grady

Published July 14, 2020
Updated July 15, 2020, 1:14 p.m. ET

An experimental coronavirus vaccine made by the biotech company Moderna provoked a promising immune response against the virus and appeared safe in the first 45 people who received it, researchers reported on Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Moderna’s vaccine, developed with researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was the first coronavirus vaccine to be tested in humans, and the company announced on Tuesday that large Phase 3 tests of it would begin on July 27, involving 30,000 people. Half of the participants will be a control group who will receive placebos.

The trial will need to show that those who were vaccinated were significantly less likely to contract the virus than those who got a placebo. The fastest way to get results is to test the vaccine in a “hot spot” with many cases, and the study is looking for people at high risk because of their locations or circumstances.

Vaccines and improved treatments are the only hope of returning lives back to anything close to normal, and dozens of companies are racing to develop vaccines. Experts agree that more than one vaccine will be needed, because no single company could produce the billions of doses needed.

“None of us are safe unless all of us are safe,” said Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York. “It’s not just us. It’s everybody in the world.”

The Moderna vaccine uses genetic material from the virus, called mRNA, to prompt the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

The report on Tuesday confirmed and provided details on findings the company announced on May 18 in a news release that was criticized for lacking data. Moderna defended itself at the time, saying that as a publicly traded company it had a legal obligation to disclose results that could affect its share price, and that the actual data would be published later.

The results are from an early Phase 1 study that was designed to test low, medium and high doses of the vaccine and to gauge their safety and ability to create immunity to the virus. The participants were 45 healthy adults, ages 18 to 55, who received two vaccinations 28 days apart.

After the second shot, all of the participants developed so-called neutralizing antibodies, which can inactivate the virus in lab tests. The levels of those antibodies were similar to those in the upper range in patients who had recovered from coronavirus infections. The vaccine also produced a favorable response involving T-cells, another part of the immune system.

“It exceeds all expectations,” said Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, a viral immunologist and leader of a team that developed the vaccine at the infectious disease institute.

More than half of the participants had side effects, including fatigue, chills, headaches, muscle aches and pain at the injection site. Some had fever. One person who received the low dose developed hives and was withdrawn from the study. None of the side effects were considered serious.

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Trump finally achieves something actually bigger (and not just his record number of lies)

Today in The New Yorker

In response to:

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Trump Claims Biden Could Never Have a Pandemic As Big As His

By Andy Borowitz

July 15, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C.(The Borowitz Report)—Trying out a new line of attack against the former Vice-President, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Joe Biden could never have a pandemic as big as his.

“Biden was Vice-President for eight years and had all the time in the world to have a pandemic,” Trump said. “Where was his pandemic?”

By contrast, Trump asserted, “In just a few months, I’ve built the biggest pandemic this country has seen in a hundred years.”

“People are going to be talking about my pandemic for generations to come,” Trump said. “What did Biden ever have? Swine flu? What a joke.”

Trump said that Biden’s failure to have “any pandemic worth writing home about” makes him a “terrible choice” to be President.

“I’ve worked hard and built an amazing pandemic, but if Biden gets in, all that goes away,” he warned.

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.

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Monday Monday....(dance party)

In response to:

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day;
Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way.
Oh, Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be.

Monday morning is the number one part of the week when heart attacks occur.
Yep, when that alarm goes off, signalling, that the weekend is officially over, boom !

So, if you are reading this, you likely survived that challenge this week.

Thus, we survivors, should celebrate life, while we still can. Monday party time !
No politics, no religion, no arguments, no trolling, no hate allowed on this blog.

Bring your dance shoes & celebratory self.

Git down wit your funky self.

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Joke of the night - Colbert

Mary Trump's book on her Uncle Donald is out today.
Dirty Don's brother sued to keep the book from getting published,
but a judge ruled against it.

In the book Mary Trump writes that Donald's father,
was "a high functioning sociopath".

Stephen Colbert's joke following this information was....

"too bad that Donald's father didn't pass down the 'high functioning' part of that."

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Lack of proper leadership and reckless abandon of guidelines to blame for pandemic surge

Today from Reuters;

In response to:

Health News

July 13, 2020 / 2:04 PM / Updated 7 hours ago

Fauci blames virus surge on U.S. not shutting down completely

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Monday ascribed the surge in U.S. coronavirus cases to the country’s failure to shut down completely, then a rush to reopen too soon, and urged a commitment to guidelines to snuff out the disease.

He stressed basic protections including physical distancing, wearing masks, avoiding crowds and washing hands. “Those things, as simple as they are, can turn it around. I think we can do that and that’s what we’ve got to do,” he said.

Fauci, who has issued firm warnings during the coronavirus surge, encouraged states to follow specific guidelines put forth by White House coronavirus health experts laying out distinct phases for easing restrictions.

“We did not shut down entirely and that’s the reason why when we went up,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with Stanford Medicine.

“We started to come down and then we plateaued at a level that was really quite high - about 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, we’re seeing the surges that we’re seeing today as we speak in California, your own state, in Arizona, in Texas, in Florida and several other states.”

Many U.S. states began reopening their economies without meeting the criteria in the guidelines.

“Unfortunately, it did not work very well for us,” Fauci said, citing well publicized incidents of people crowding into bars or not wearing masks at close quarters.

Fauci said he was confident the United States would get a handle on the virus “if we step back, you don’t necessarily need to shut down again, but pull back a bit, and then proceed in a very prudent way of observing the guidelines, of going from step to step.”

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Record high Oklahoma Covid-19 cases 3 weeks after Trump's rally in Tulsa, OK.

From Time Magazine;

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Three Weeks After Trump's Tulsa Rally, Oklahoma Reports Record High COVID-19 Numbers

Madeleine Carlisle
Time July 11, 2020, 3:51 PM

Oklahoma health officials reported record number of COVID-19 cases in the state this week, three weeks after President Donald Trump held a controversial rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20.

On Saturday, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) reported 687 new COVID-19 cases had been confirmed in the last 24 hours. It was the second highest increase only coming after Tuesday’s 858 confirmed cases, per the Oklahoman. As of Saturday afternoon ET, Oklahoma had at least 19,779 confirmed cases of the virus, according to OSDH.

According to a reporter for local news channel KOCO 5, the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases is nearly six times what it was in early April. Officials also reported five new COVID-19 related deaths on Saturday.

The surge of new cases comes just weeks after President Trump held a campaign rally in an indoor arena in Tulsa, where many of the attendees reportedly did not wear masks. The event was criticized as being unsafe and a local newspaper ran an editorial asking the President not to hold the rally. On the day of the event, it was revealed that six staffers on the Trump campaign tested positive for the coronavirus.In the following weeks Tulsa County has seen a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the area. As of Saturday afternoon ET, the county has at least 5,005 confirmed cases, according to the Tulsa Health Department. On Wednesday, Dr. Bruce Dart, the director of the Tulsa Health Department, said the President’s rally and subsequent protests “likely contributed” to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the county, per the Associated Press.

A week after the rally, the Washington Post reported that the Trump campaign had removed thousands of stickers within the arena placed to promote social distancing during the event.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced on Tuesday that all visitors coming from Oklahoma must quarantine for 14 days.

Donald Trump, making America sick again.... and still trying to remove healthcare.

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Final stage of Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine will start in July and Brit final stage starts this month.

Today in Bloomberg;

Moderna Vaccine Trials Moving Fast With Final Study in July

By Robert Langreth

June 11, 2020

Moderna Inc. said it had selected a dose for a final-stage clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine that should begin in July, as the company moves ahead rapidly with its innovative approach to trying to prevent Covid-19.

The final study, which will include 30,000 people, will be conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the U.S. Its primary goal will be to show the vaccine prevents people from developing symptoms of Covid-19, Moderna said in a statement. A secondary goal will be to show the vaccine keeps people from getting severe cases requiring hospitalization.

Shares of Moderna climbed 3.2% to $61.98 at 8:26 a.m. in New York. The stock has more than tripled in value since the start of this year.

The announcement is another indication that coronavirus vaccine trials are moving ahead at a remarkable pace. On Wednesday, Johnson & Johnson said it would begin early trials of its Covid-19 vaccine in the second half of July, ahead of its previous schedule to begin testing in September.

Last month, Moderna began a second-stage study of its vaccine, called mRNA-1273, in 600 healthy adults. In the statement Thursday, the company said it had already enrolled 350 people in the trial, including a cohort of 300 healthy adults 54 years and younger, and the first 50 of 300 older adults.

Some vaccines are moving into clinical trials even faster than Moderna’s. A shot co-developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc is starting final-stage clinical trials this month -- and the U.K. company said Thursday it had recruited Emergent BioSolutions Inc. to help with development and manufacturing.

China has begun offering employees of some large state-run companies the option of being inoculated with two coronavirus vaccines currently in development.

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Trump's hostile takeover of American media with rightwing nutcases

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Hey Baldy ! Jim's new nature photos

Some say that one should make the best of a bad situation.
Well, due to the pandemic, I limited my travels to one day a week.
During that day I accomplished all my errands & local travel.
I stopped by my P.O. Box that day. Prior to that I stopped at a local
market and bought fruits & vegetables.
On the way home I stopped at a Shop-Rite grocery store and bought
meals for the week.

Prior to that I stopped by a bald eagle's nest, that I know of.
This is actually the 5th nest of theirs that I know of.
I've essentially followed them from nest to nest for over a decade,
They've gotten quite comfortable with me.
I've never made any aggressive moves towards them nor their nest
and keep a respectable distance from their nest.
Sometimes I think they feel more comfortable having me there watch their kids,
so they can both fish.
Birds do recognize faces, They get to know people.
Experiments at a college confirmed this,
They even recognized photos of faces and lets face it, eagles have great vision.

Regardless, because if the eagles, the day I chose to do my errands was the sunniest day of each week.
The other thing about the pandemic, is that I wasn't playing sports, as I would have done in
April, May & June of other years. Thus, I was available to take photos at times I usually would not
be available to do so, especially in the evening before the sunset, which is often a key feeding time
for the little ones.

Therefore this year I was able to get more fantastic shots of eagles, than I have the 10 years prior put together because of the pandemic. I took about 600 wonderful photos of them including the parents and their 3 little ones. That was the other different thing this year, They previously only had one or two offspring. This year was the first time they had 3, which did fledge.

I'll show you a few shots, The adults are the ones with white heads & tails.
The kids are brown. The smallest of the 3 is a darker brown. He was the second to fledge.
In bald eagles females are larger than males. With adults its about 20 to 30 % larger.
It takes about 3 to 5 years for them to develop the white head & while tail.

I'll be selling 8" x 10" professional prints at a local
flea market with JimNastics autograph for a whopping $20.
I'll be selling much larger framed autographed prints in some galleries for $200 to $500.

Of course buyers will not have the protective text on them like you will see here
and they will be crystal clear, in total focus;
I know it's somewhat distracting. But try to ignore it.

With no further ado, here's a few of those photos.
Just click on each to view it.

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Less than 1 hour old. Trump's newest lawsuit. He's been treated so unfairly. lol

Like a falling stone - New Nationwide poll shows that Trump now trails Biden by 15%.

It's getting exciting. Will it happen ?

First Covid-19 vaccine into humans shows promising results.

Trump finally achieves something actually bigger (and not just his record number of lies)

Monday Monday....(dance party)

Joke of the night - Colbert

Lack of proper leadership and reckless abandon of guidelines to blame for pandemic surge

Record high Oklahoma Covid-19 cases 3 weeks after Trump's rally in Tulsa, OK.

Final stage of Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine will start in July and Brit final stage starts this month.

Trump's hostile takeover of American media with rightwing nutcases

Hey Baldy ! Jim's new nature photos

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