Talking about Halloween, he hasn't used the phrase 'witch hunt' in a while. I miss that.
Talking about Halloween, he hasn't used the phrase 'witch hunt' in a while. I miss that.
Sign of a sinking ship? Rats, ship, you know how it goes.
For years, serious government wonks and intelligence officials thought they could manage Trump’s boredom by including more pictures.
Trump was receiving one of his first codeword classified briefings on Afghanistan, at his Bedminster club, when he suddenly got bored and ordered milkshakes. The incident became legendary inside CIA, where like at other agencies, morale has slumped.
The man will spend the next 101 days dragging down everything with him.
Including frozen dairy desserts
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It’s hilarious, they’re in full-on shit-flinging panic mode since their big “October Surprise” was a colossal flop. The cognitive dissonance it would take to make someone believe that a devout Catholic like Biden would ever consider abolishing Christmas would land most people in an asylum.
Trump needs to feed us mcdonalds
He really is a deluded Thanksgiving Uncle. Literally the only people who think there's a "war on Christmas" are the addicts who watch Fox News all day. Target putting up "Happy Holidays" in its stores isn't some grand conspiracy to destroy Christian Christmas, its an inclusive advertising means to make people feel welcome in their store so customers spend money. Happy Holidays is a fine alternative to Merry Christmas because it recognizes the variety of holidays that exist around that time. But no one, literally no one, is getting upset (except maybe the Grinch who lives just north of Whoville) when someone says "Merry Christmas."
It's just marketing. Businesses say "Merry Christmas" all the time, but they also like getting money from Jews and Muslims and others who might not celebrate Christmas, so they'll usually also say something like "Happy Holidays." Inclusivity == more profits.
Not a conspiracy at all.
This is a spectacularly special year. Christmas doesn't need to change much. Maybe it should be more virtual, maybe people should shop online rather than crowding in stores. But we can still find a way to celebrate whatever holiday we wish to celebrate come December.
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Okay...I have to admit, having milkshakes during a security briefing does sounds pretty cool.
Getting bored during one and interrupting it sounds like a security risk. I don't care if it was New York Super Fudge Chunk blended with Hershey's Special Dark and you are handed a long-handled spoon. If you're in a security briefing, you fucking do the security briefing.
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It is indeed. Trump is once again promising something he cannot provide. The federal government cannot stop you from saying "Merry Christmas" "Happy Holidays" or anything else like that. Biden can't force you to say "Happy Holidays" any more than he can force you to say "I am faithful to my wife, and here are my taxes".
Since Trump intentionally blocked WH scientists from going on Sunday talk shows, other non-restricted scientists went on instead.
It was not great news. But we knew that.
"Whoa! Third quarter of next year? That's not what Team Trump is saying at all!"A top infectious diseases expert is warning that the next several weeks will be the “darkest of the entire pandemic” in the U.S. as cases continue to surge in many parts of the country while awaiting a vaccine.
“We do have vaccines and therapeutics coming down the pike, but when you actually look at the time period for that, the next six to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic,” Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said during an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
“Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to [the] third quarter of next year. And even then, half of the U.S. population at this point is skeptical even taking the vaccine,” he said.
Well, then put Fauci on. Or Birx. Or Redfield. If they want to contradict with their own expert opinions, I would welcome that.
"For example, if you're going to a debate..." he should have said, but didn't.“Friday, we had 70,000 cases, matching the largest number we had seen back during the really serious peak in July,” Osterholm said. “That number, we’re going to blow right through that. And between now and the holidays, we will see numbers much larger than even the 67,000 to 75,000 cases.”
The renowned infectious diseases expert warned people against traveling for the holidays to avoid potentially infected members of their own family saying “if you really love the people that you have in your immediate family...do them the greatest gift of all, and that is distance yourself this year and don’t expose them.”
The cases being reported now are from people who caught the virus two weeks ago and are only now getting ill enough and desperate enough to seek medical intervention.
Similarly, people catching it today will be entering hospitals and carried in ambulances in two weeks time.
So that worsening is already baked in for the next two weeks. No actions taken now can stop it.
It is possible to set the disease spread on a downward trajectory after that however.
But the chances of that happening under this covid denialist administration...? Zero.
If I ever got into an argument about saying "Happy Holidays" I would just do this
Them: You should say Merry Christmas
Me: What day is it?
Them: December 10th
Me: Is Christmas on December 10th?
Them: No
Me: Then, "Happy Holidays" it is. Come back when it's December 25th
You know what, that's a big whoopsie-daisies (Notting Hill) on my part. I had in my brain the number of new Senators, and somehow that translated to stars.
Obviously, as you pointed out, it would be just two - D.C. and Puerto Rico. I don't know of any other Protectorates that would be ready for statehood right now.
Honestly, if this Foxconn bullshit alone isn't enough for Wisconsin to wake the fuck up and not vote for Trump this year then there's really no hope for them anymore.
Inside the empty promises and empty buildings of Wisconn Valley.
The article's too long to quote here but it's an eye-opening--and upsetting--read.
I genuinely hope Walker gets protested by locals who want to know where the jobs he promised them were. This was always going to be the inevitable and predictable outcome, and literally everyone with a brain was calling this the second the deal was announced.
It's depressing, and I genuinely hope that enough Republicans in Wisconsin recognize that Scott Walker and Donald Trump pulled a fast one on them and gave them a very, very, very bad deal.
Im royally pissed right now. With a single blurb, Trump has discredited Milkshakes on the Left for like a whole 3 hour news cycle.
Dunno how I will survive this. If 2020 has taught me anything about Leftism. It's 5% policy wants, and 90% aesthetics for twitter and very online activists.
Like all the other discredited leftists, I will have to go for a name change. Need suggestions plz.
I'm thinking "PatronSaintofBrocialists1869"
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