Gotham City Digest

(2020: The year people on social media went from showing pictures of their dinners to their toilet paper scores.)

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     This is from two days ago from the CDC's own website. Forget it. The United States now has over 81,000 cases of coronavirus and COVID-19, more than any nation on earth. A little over two weeks ago, we had 800.
     That’s over than a 10,000% increase in confirmed cases in just 14 days.
     But, sure, LET'S keep pretending this is an ordinary flu bug and, fucking A, why don't we reopen America on Easter Sunday, while we're at it?

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     So, this is the guy Trump was so scared of that he committed impeachable offenses? Imagine how scared shitless he is of Bernie.

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     There will be "suicides by the thousands" if he gets reelected.

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     Uh, excuse me, but in what alternate universe was this, again?

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     Prince Charles now has coronavirus.

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    This is Trump's FEMA Director. Typical deer in the headlights interview with another Trump flunky. Forget James Lee Witt. We should be thinking nostalgically at Michael Brown.

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      Why isn't the word "billionaire" isn't officially a synonym for "sociopath"? Case in point...

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      Meme intermission.

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      60% approval rating, huh? I've said it before & I'll say it again- We are the stupidest nation on the planet.

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      "A senior Health and Human Services official told me that if they could do it all over again, they would have engaged the private sector to ramp up medical manufacturing in mid-January — about two months earlier than ended up happening."

      In other words, Trump should've invoked the Defense Production Act the month before last, not the week before last, then actually used it.

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     The MO on Planet MAGA: If you don't like the message, kill the messenger.

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     "In the 1944 case Prince v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court stated that ‘the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community…to communicable disease.’"

      In other words, this sick fetish for "freedom of religion" will get even more of us to the Pearly Gates before our times. And, like sociopath billionaires who are snarling for us to get back to work to save an economy of which we're only a microscopic part, they'd be perfectly happy with hijacking non-believers in their sick Rapture endgame.

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     Trump tried to dig up dirt on Andrew Cuomo instead of doing his job and protecting the American people. Oh, and he cited as his source material a right wing blog post by the Gateway Pundit.

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     No, Digby, we DON'T have to feel sorry for "President" Trump. He's getting people killed with inaction and spreading false information.

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     My, my, my, how quickly the worm turns, eh, amigos?

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     You KNOW where this bullshit came from.

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     So, the closer you are to Trump, the faster you get tested. I think to this, Mulvaney would say, "Get over it."

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    So, Donnie Dumbo, you want to reopen the country by Easter, eh? Well, here's what would happen...

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     Yes, Brit Hume said this,. Of course he did.

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     The SPCA in Florida is looking for emergency foster families.

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     I thought my landlord was a scumbag (Actually, he is), but this takes the cake. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC.)

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     Douche D'Souza & Danny Bongos are at it again.

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     Welp, looks as if Trump's getting one less vote this November.

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Remember this when you go to the polls on election day- The party that broke its collective neck to bail out Wall Street and oligarchs who aren't financially stressed barked about the unemployed getting a little extra money.

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And the provision Democrats included to block government officials and their families from getting bailout funds might not apply to Kushner, The Times reported. It only applies to individuals who “directly or indirectly” control 20% or more of a company, and since the president’s son-in-law typically shares ownership with his parents and siblings, he rarely owns that much of his family’s businesses.

Also tucked away in the fine print was a provision that would allow a company with multiple hotels to qualify as a small business, even if it has more than 500 employees. Though the provision excludes large brands like Marriott and Hilton, it could reportedly benefit the Trump Organization’s small six-hotel chain in the U.S. Several of the company’s hotels are members of a trade group, which heavily lobbied for the provision.

     Typical right wing, pork barrel legislation. Lobbyists shouldn't have gotten anywhere near this, ESPECIALLY Trump's lobbyists.

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     I can't possibly imagine Joe Biden fighting this hard for us as Bernie is. Knowing him, Biden would try to cut unemployment altogether.

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      Oregon's PPE stockpile's almost depleted and they haven't even been hit hard by the pandemic, yet. And finally...

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      It seems the wrong people are coming down with COVID-19. Take this asshole, for instance...