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(At least we here know the proper spelling of "anointed.")

Let's take stock- The so-called HEROES aid bill is hardly more than another corporate giveaway. Even AOC held her nose while voting yes on it and even acknowledged she and Republicans alike objected to the same things.

But it's still better than nothing and, as usual, McConnell's already reaching for his Grim Reaper costume and Donnie Dumbo is already jeering it, even though it's obvious he hasn't read one page of the 1815 page bill.
And if it doesn't pass in the Senate, it'll just give Kentucky one more reason to vote that obstructionist piece of shit out of office once and for all.

I don't see how the Defense Production Act legally allows the federal government to steal from states much less other countries when they make legitimate purchases.

I've often wondered how the late Helen Thomas would've handled Donald Trump. Her former literary agent gives us a glimpse.

This is the time we should be saving human lives, not ramming through tort reform.

“The cruel nature of the economic downturn is that at a time when you need a social safety net is also the time when government revenues shrink,” Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine

While Congressmen have to primarily tend to their districts and Senators to their states, when a pandemic strikes all 50 states and a national relief package is put together, you don't play favorites according to which states vote for which party. You'd think this would be a time of national unity. The reality is that Republicans are hyper-partisan 5th Columnists.

You know something. Donnie Dumbo? If you battled #coronavirus half as bitterly as you attack the press & Democrats, we'd have close to a 0% mortality rate. You can't refuse to claim responsibility for your own fuckups & crow like a rooster on a shit hill how great you're doing.

WTF is it with Republicans and their obsession with Nazis and the Holocaust?

Washington State's most beloved lawmaker/terrorist Matt Shea is at it again.

Cartoon intermission.

Just in case you were wondering why the McMichaels were so proactive in their neighborhood, look no further than the Glynn County Sheriff's Department that enlisted their help.

You see, this is the problem right here- You don't slapdash a plan together after 90,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 to help re-elect the sociopath who let it happen. Because if re-election of your boss is your only or primary goal, you tend to come up with superficial, window-dressing "solutions" that tend to result in more PR than PPE.

"Obama gave Trump only one piece of personal advice during their private meeting in the White House after Trump was elected: Whatever you do, don't hire Michael Flynn. For anything. Ever. But Trump loved Flynn. It had been Flynn who led the delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention in chanting 'lock her up' after mentioning the alleged criminal behavior of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state." Salon

So, this is what Republican voters are often offered- Choosing between a screaming right wing lunatic like Doug Jones or a white supremacist like Matt Gurtler.

"Mitch, I love you"?

Whatever shame or shred of ethics or decency Lindsey Graham ever had was buried in Sedona, AZ with John McCain.

This is how billionaire scumbags like Elon Musk practice "civil disobedience"- By endangering their workers' lives. Now, how is Gavin Newsom going to handle this? Well, he could start by seizing the plant. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC.)

As Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a crisis go to waste."

Andrew Cuomo took a coronavirus test on live TV. This is called leading by example. It would never occur to Trump to do this.

This administration is so stupendously and staggeringly corrupt, it renders parody moot.

McConnell don't like them darkies getting all uppity

Actually, make that a couple of billion bucks in the form of tax cuts to oil companies.

Alex Azar: “We’re going to scale up commercial manufacturing and produce hundreds of millions of doses at risk. They may not pan out, they may not prove to be safe and effective but we’ll have it so we can begin administration right away.”

In other words, "What have you got to lose?"

So, the guy who wants to shove a UV light up your ass, inject bleach in your veins, hit hurricanes with nuclear weapons, vacuum forest floors to prevent fires, thinks windmills cause cancer and stop women from giving birth at 9 months called Obama "grossly incompetent."

Keep in mind, that lazy-eyed, bloated tick, aka Jeff fucking Bezos, has gotten $30,000,000,000 richer since this pandemic reached our shores. Meanwhile, his gig workers are losing everything.

So Tweedle Dee is as incompetent as Dweedle Dum when it comes to combating coronavirus? No surprise there.

Eva Braun opened her mouth again from her bunker. As always, hilarity ensued.

He wants a retrial because he believes they got the sentencing wrong. This is the racist, right wing equivalent of Snoopy writing to an editor and saying, "You should have published my book and sent me a check for $50,000." And finally...

A Vice President of IT posted a meme of Obama with a noose around his neck with the hashtag #Payperview. Why am I not surprised this was in the state where the KKK was founded?