Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 23, 2020

Reality?

Like 225,000 covid deaths because of Trump? (and still climbing)

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Like Trump claiming that he paid millions and millions of income taxes in advance? And he paid those taxes 15 years in advance?

And all Trump Disciples believe every word he says?

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And more than 500 little kids turned into orphans by Trump? And His Disciples believe it’s totally right and proper and not immoral in the slightest?

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And Treason is OKAY as long as a Republican does it?

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You want four more years, Scott?

As well as paying a lot more in tax to Chyna than the company he professes to love.

Paying more taxes to foreign countries than he does to the USA, whose flag he embraces, is a monumental disgrace beyond the words that the English language has to offer!

Why 40% of this country supports him is beyond the beyond of rational thought!

This orange thing HAS to go!!

That hard landing is coming fast for millions of families McConnell won’t allow relief for. 8 million already fallen.

Who remembers Tom Price? Gee, you might say, that name sounds familiar … he had something to do with the Trump administration, didn’t he?

You’re right! He was one of those guys who resigned from a cabinet position because he was abusing something…

…he was the one who took all those flights on private jets, something like a million dollars worth of flights, including on military aircraft during trips to Europe and Africa with his wife.

He refunded $51,887 to the federal government, which he said accounted for the cost of his seat on private charter flights he took before he resigned from Trump’s cabinet. But that was just the cost of his seat. ✁

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Busy, busy man, old Tom, with all those flights around the world and fighting to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood and banning abortion.

Took up a lot of his time. In fact, it took up the time he could have spent studying the plan to contain pandemics which was left for him at the Department of Health and Human Services by the Obama administration.

But old Tom Price didn’t study that plan, did he?

No, he shelved the Obama pandemic plan, where it stayed as his successor, Alex Azar, was appointed.

So it was Azar who was running HHS when COVID hit in February of this year, and it was Azar who left the pandemic plan on the shelf and was first put in charge of the pandemic task force at the White House, until Vice President Pence took over that job.

Are you beginning to get the picture here? Health and Human Services is just one Trump cabinet department that has been led by not one, but two half-wit hacks and undercut by the White House from Day One.

Both HHS and CDC have been hollowed out and weakened under the control of the Trump White House while some 220,000 Americans have lost their lives and 8 million more have been infected by the COVID virus.

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https://www.salon.com/2020/10/17/undoing-the-damage-done-what-will-it-take-to-rebuild-whats-left-of-our-government/

The “October Surprise” unleashed by President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has turned out to be a dud of epic proportions—so sketchy that the author of the New York Post’s article reportedly refused to add his name to the byline.

Despite glaring credibility issues, Giuliani argued the story should be widely disseminated. “Even if it isn’t accurate, the American people are entitled to know it,” he said.

The Trump administration’s trusty bedfellows at the Kremlin apparently adhere to the same philosophy.

Russian state media outlets are going overboard to promote and legitimize the Hunter Biden allegations.

Their desire to see Donald J. Trump re-elected is unwavering.

It seems their increasingly overt support for Trump is motivated by fear. 60 Minutes, which is broadcast on Russia’s most prominent state media channel Rossiya-1, reported that Trump is trailing behind Joe Biden in the polls and “will most likely lose the election.”

They played the clip of the American president threatening to leave the country in the event he isn’t re-elected. “To Moscow, he’ll come to Moscow,” sniped co-host Olga Skabeeva.

Tuning in from the United States, correspondent Denis Davydov weighed in: “Will the agent return to Moscow? Most likely not.”

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When the mainstream U.S. media outlets didn’t take the Hunter bait and the sharing of the story was temporarily curtailed on social media, Kremlin-controlled news channels couldn’t hide their frustration—and jumped into action.

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Moscow’s state media coverage of the allegations betrays the remarkable alignment with President Trump’s de-facto state media outlets like Fox News and OAN, as well as the president himself.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-is-desperately-trying-to-keep-the-hunter-biden-story-alive

Biden slams Trump over Covid at final debate: ‘Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain president’

Biden didn’t just accuse Trump of being at his golf course during the pandemic. He accused him of being in a sand trap at his golf course. And that slight against his golf ability probably means more to Trump than the comment on his abysmal covid response.

“Reality. What a concept!” Robin Williams.

The repugs fighting relief (after lining their and their owners pockets) are following decades of GOP SOP …leave a smoldering ruin and then whine as the dems. try to fix their mess.

GOP scorched earth policy is the way for them to weasel back in next cycle.

Fact-Checking the Debate — Biden has a couple of exaggerations, (arguable; Trade war may not have raised the deficit but it killed the global recovery, Spike may not be mostly in red states but it’s never been controlled there). Trump has too many to count, and they’re all silly things disproven easily and often. “Fox facts”…

Putin Most Likely Directing Election Interference to Aid Trump, C.I.A. Says — The assessment, which the agency has moderate confidence in, buttresses earlier findings that the Russian president supports President Trump’s re-election. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/cia-russian-election-interference.html

Absolutely nothing

Yikes… What if Only White Men Voted? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/gender-gap-2020-election.html

Cats are slightly better at defying gravity than human beings. I’ve seen some unbelievable gravity-defying moves. At certain speeds, for cats, gravity is just a suggestion.