Gotham City Digest

(Scouting out a new venue for the presidential library?)

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    Now I understand how Donald Trump got a reputation for being such a financial genius- By paying $3,000,000 to lose ground to Biden in Wisconsin.

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     If this doesn't show how utterly cold-blooded executives are, nothing will.

    "In a 2017 presentation...McKinsey laid out several options to shore up sales. One was to give Purdue’s distributors a rebate for every OxyContin overdose attributable to pills they sold. The presentation estimated how many customers of companies including CVS and Anthem might overdose. It projected that in 2019, for example, 2,484 CVS customers would either have an overdose or develop an opioid use disorder. A rebate of $14,810 per ‘event’ meant that Purdue would pay CVS $36.8 million that year.”

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     Headline: "Trump had Marine One fly him directly from his golf course to his vacation at Camp David." Yes, you read that right. He had Marine One fly him from Sterling, VA to Camp David when he could've just as easily had driven in his limo for less money.

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     This list is a bit outdated (last June 12th) but still worth a looksee if you're looking for new mystery and thriller fiction.

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     Yeah, he's doing that already. Republicans have been a seditious 5th Column for decades.

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     Melania may write her memoirs. Here's a sneak peak:

     "Our first night in White House, husband could not 'get it up' as you Americans say.

     'It's your fault!' Donald say, 'I take no responsibility at all! I can't close the deal because of you!'

     'I don't care. Do u?' I ask.

     After Becoming, Melania's alternate title is, Weird Scene Inside Gold Digger's Mind.

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   This is an interesting idea. The thing is, the KKK Act has been on the books since 1871 and if it actually had any teeth to it, we could've used it yet haven't. Right wingers have been trying to disenfranchise black voters since they were enfranchised by the 15th Amendment that was ratified the year before in 1870.

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    You're too late, asshole. Trump already enlisted all the "odd people" in his army.

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    I agree with Rep. Cohen. We should deny Trump PDBs after he's kicked out, especially as he's so strapped for cash. I can perfectly imagine Trump spilling national security secrets for money.

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     Trump's history with white supremacists, in one supercut.

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    “Fascist wannabes won’t muzzle my free speech or stop me trying to defend our republic. Those supporting this pathetic resolution are complicit in Trump’s attempt to become a dictator.” -Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ).

    In other words, right wingers only care about THEIR free speech. Everyone else must toe the Republican line or else.

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     This may seem like a superficial article but it really isn't, it's quite funny and informative.

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     There are two groups of incompetents every election year: The pollsters before an election and the journalists telling us where the pollsters went wrong after the election. It's not "the Trump factor" or Democrats harping on health care. Health care, in fact, is the #1 concern for voters across party lines. It was too many Blue Dogs railing against "socialized medicine" and M4A. And health care touches on both the economy and pandemic. They're all inextricably entwined and it's absolutely impossible to separate them. (Tip o' the tinfoil hat to Constant Reader, CC.)

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     Sorry, 'Rona Ronna: This is the only flipped seat that matters.

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     Typical Republican scumbag tribalism. They only care about protecting themselves.

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    Trump's transition was just the harbinger of things to come: Indiscriminate firings (Chris Christie lasted as transition leader for a day and a half), contempt for any information given to them by the outgoing administration, empty transition offices, unattended meetings and backstabbing. Biden's thus far is a model of efficiency. Nice, smooth and boring. Which is the way it's largely supposed to be.

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    This is perhaps the greatest hypocrisy out of many in Trump's "presidency": Ragging on Obama every time he picked up a golf club yet golfing over 400 times in less than four years. In Trump's world view, the only two times a black man ought to be on a golf course is as a caddie or a groundskeeper. And finally...

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     Sean Hannity, on the side of sanity? Say it ain't so!