9/17-19/20: To finish out the week, I’m
going to post whatever comes to hand in random order and see what spaghetti adheres
to the wall.
With Trump
there’s always a lot of spaghetti to throw. Trump-brand spaghetti has the
consistency of glue.
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U.S. officials and candidates “should use the absolute
greatest amount of restraint and caution if they are considering publicly
calling the validity of an upcoming election into question.”
Senate Intelligence
Committee Report, unanimous conclusion
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For starters, the president is hedging his bets, regarding the coming
election. With almost every poll showing
him going down to defeat, Trump is claiming we’ll never know who won. So we’ll
just have to stick with him. This week, he tweeted ominously, that “result may
never be accurately determined, which is what some want.”
Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republicans in the
Upper House must once again clean up after their standard bearer.
“I don’t think we’ll have inaccurate election results,” Rubio
contradicted. “They may take a lot longer than they ever have because of the
amount of mailed ballots that are going to come in and so forth. But I don’t
have any concerns about the accuracy of the election.”
In a recent report on Russian
interference in the 2016 election, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee
unanimously endorsed the conclusion that U.S. officials and candidates “should
use the absolute greatest amount of restraint and caution if they are
considering publicly calling the validity of an upcoming election into
question.”
“Such a grave allegation can
have significant national security and electoral consequences,” including
aiding foreign intelligence services, the report adds.
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JOSH VENABLE, former chief of staff to Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos, announces that he will now be working to defeat Donald Trump in the coming election.
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PASTOR PAUL VAN NOY, of
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has spent the last two
weeks in the hospital with coronavirus.
Van Noy has referred to himself as a “no-masker.” In a Facebook post in July,
he claimed wearing masks doesn’t
prevent virus transmission, while urging his parishioners not to fear the “cause
or effect of Covid-19.” Now he’s in ICU and five church staffers
have been infected.
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MORE THAN A
HUNDRED large fires are burning currently across the Western U.S.A. Scientists
know climate change is drying out forests and making them more prone to
burn. Smoke from those fires has drifted as far east as New York City
and Virginia. Fire season is just beginning; already, an area equal in size to
Connecticut and Delaware has been reduced to ash.
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COASTAL
AREAS in Alabama and Florida have been hit hard by Hurricane Sally, a
slow-moving Category 2 storm. At one weather station near Pensacola,
rainfall measured 24.8 inches and flooding across a wide area is expected. There
are reports that as
much as 30 inches of rain may have fallen in parts of the Florida
panhandle. Flooding along the Gulf Coast has been described as “catastrophic,”
and the storm may cause inland flooding as far north as Virginia.
Estimated
cost of damage from Sally: $2 billion
dollars.
Scientists
have repeatedly warned that climate change would mean more hurricanes, more
powerful hurricanes, and hurricanes that dump more rainfall. Hurricane
Paulette struck Bermuda a few days ago. Hurricane Teddy is now moving in the
same direction and could strike on Monday.
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IF YOU
THINK Trump is both a menace and a buffoon, surely a bizarre combination, you
are not alone.
According
to the Pew Research Center, since Trump took office, the reputation of the
United States has plummeted round the world. Close to home,
only a third of Canadians have a positive opinion of the United States. In
Germany, the figure is one in four.
Researchers
also asked people to say whether or not they had “confidence” in five world
leaders. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany had a score of 76%, easily the
best. Emmanuel Macron of France was at 64%. Boris Johnson of Great Britain was
at 48%, Vladimir Putin at 26% and Xi Jinping of China finished second from last
at 19%. Dead last: Donald Trump: 16%.
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AT RALLIES,
in states like Michigan, the president has been pushing a “resurgence” in
factory jobs as a reason to give him a second term. “You better vote for me, I got you so many damn
car plants,” Trump said during
a recent rally in that state. “And we’re going to bring you a lot more.”
Even before the pandemic, however, Michigan had lost 10,200 factory jobs
between February 2019 and February 2020. Currently, 66,500 factory workers are idled by the coronavirus.
Ohio is down 48,000 manufacturing jobs presently.
Trump used to enjoy bashing Obama for bad job numbers – even when they
were good. So, let’s just say there were fewer factory jobs in this country in May, than there were back in
the summer of 2011.
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WHAT OTHER PRESIDENT can you name who could get
sued by the parents of two toddlers?
I’ll let The Hill explain:
The parents of the toddlers featured in
the doctored “racist baby” video posted by President Trump in
June filed a lawsuit Thursday against his presidential campaign.
The now-disabled video featured two
toddlers — one who is white, and another who is Black — with an edited CNN
chyron reading “terrified todler [sic] runs from racist baby.”
Twitter disabled the video because it violated its copyright policy. The video
was also taken down from Facebook after the parents of one of the children filed a copyright
complaint.
Now the parents are headed for court.
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