Extremely loud and incredibly dumb
The countries with the largest number of covid cases continue to be the United States, Brazil, Russia, India and the United Kingdom. That they also have governments headed by authoritarian nationalists is probably a coincidence.
The devil went down to Texas -- excuse me, Trump went down to Arizona. He stood and looked at his very impressive WALL which is painted black so it will be harder to climb at night, and also to get some video for his next campaign ad. (Let us pause and wonder why they are running on MSNBC. Does Parscale think there are votes to be harvested here? Does he wish to pad Comcast's bottom line? Does he no longer give a shit? I'm going with that.) He had already assured the locals that WALL "stopped covid, it stopped everything." There were 3,591 new cases and more than 2,100 hospitalizations in the state yesterday, so I guess they need more WALL.
And less testing. Although we have the best testing in the world, we shouldn't use it. Or just a little. I've given up trying to make sense of the noises that come out of Trump, especially in front of a mob of cultists. "Testing is a double-edged sword," he explained. "In one way it tells you you have cases. In another way you find out where the cases are." Clear? The director of the CDC was more succinct: "Coronavirus has brought this nation to its knees," Robert Redfield said, evoking an image of trouble-making athletes disrespecting The Flag. I thought I could hear the soft, ghostly chuckling of the virus, but that's insane -- viruses have no mouths. Have they?
The undercard at the Phoenix Phun Phest was amusing, too: A young woman went to bat for Aunt Jemima. Reagan Escude's parents must have done worse things to her than name her after the Gipper, because she went full Ann Coulter on those racists at Quaker Oats who won't let us have a friendly mammy on our box of frozen waffles. Nobody stood up and said, "Girl, you full of shit" because, well, guess.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is officially the most powerful freshman Representative since ever. Yesterday her support helped Jamaal Bowman defeat Eliot Engel, 16-term Congressman and chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee, in the primary. She also won her own primary despite big-donation support from Wall Street for her opponent. And she can dance!
What else happened? Oh yes, Trump accused Obama of "treason" for putting "wire tapps" on his 2016 campaign. Russia held a Victory Day Parade in a packed Moscow because Putin envies the big covid numbers that Bolsonaro is putting up and wants to move into second place, I guess. I'm not seeing any masks or distancing. A Republican congressional candidate in Missouri has a fascinating theory that George Floyd actually died in 2016. Then it gets weird. Hashim Thaci, president of Kosovo, has been indicted in The Hague for war crimes. That's right, a sitting president can be indicted. And the Segway will soon join the eight-track tape and the church-key in the dusty precincts of "Hey, what's that?"
NBC is removing several episodes of 30 Rock because they involve blackface for some unfathomable reason, at the request of the show's creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. This show came on in 2006 so I can't imagine what they were thinking, and now I'll never know. Before you think "memory hole," I'm sure the episodes are on a DVD box set somewhere. Nothing ever vanishes, no matter how embarrassing.
The devil went down to Texas -- excuse me, Trump went down to Arizona. He stood and looked at his very impressive WALL which is painted black so it will be harder to climb at night, and also to get some video for his next campaign ad. (Let us pause and wonder why they are running on MSNBC. Does Parscale think there are votes to be harvested here? Does he wish to pad Comcast's bottom line? Does he no longer give a shit? I'm going with that.) He had already assured the locals that WALL "stopped covid, it stopped everything." There were 3,591 new cases and more than 2,100 hospitalizations in the state yesterday, so I guess they need more WALL.
And less testing. Although we have the best testing in the world, we shouldn't use it. Or just a little. I've given up trying to make sense of the noises that come out of Trump, especially in front of a mob of cultists. "Testing is a double-edged sword," he explained. "In one way it tells you you have cases. In another way you find out where the cases are." Clear? The director of the CDC was more succinct: "Coronavirus has brought this nation to its knees," Robert Redfield said, evoking an image of trouble-making athletes disrespecting The Flag. I thought I could hear the soft, ghostly chuckling of the virus, but that's insane -- viruses have no mouths. Have they?
The undercard at the Phoenix Phun Phest was amusing, too: A young woman went to bat for Aunt Jemima. Reagan Escude's parents must have done worse things to her than name her after the Gipper, because she went full Ann Coulter on those racists at Quaker Oats who won't let us have a friendly mammy on our box of frozen waffles. Nobody stood up and said, "Girl, you full of shit" because, well, guess.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is officially the most powerful freshman Representative since ever. Yesterday her support helped Jamaal Bowman defeat Eliot Engel, 16-term Congressman and chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee, in the primary. She also won her own primary despite big-donation support from Wall Street for her opponent. And she can dance!
What else happened? Oh yes, Trump accused Obama of "treason" for putting "wire tapps" on his 2016 campaign. Russia held a Victory Day Parade in a packed Moscow because Putin envies the big covid numbers that Bolsonaro is putting up and wants to move into second place, I guess. I'm not seeing any masks or distancing. A Republican congressional candidate in Missouri has a fascinating theory that George Floyd actually died in 2016. Then it gets weird. Hashim Thaci, president of Kosovo, has been indicted in The Hague for war crimes. That's right, a sitting president can be indicted. And the Segway will soon join the eight-track tape and the church-key in the dusty precincts of "Hey, what's that?"
NBC is removing several episodes of 30 Rock because they involve blackface for some unfathomable reason, at the request of the show's creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. This show came on in 2006 so I can't imagine what they were thinking, and now I'll never know. Before you think "memory hole," I'm sure the episodes are on a DVD box set somewhere. Nothing ever vanishes, no matter how embarrassing.
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