If they would just have worn a mask like we told them too
/more sarcasm
How does this make any sense at all?
Okaaaaay, “democratic legitimacy”. Sure thing, dude. 
Wait… “detached supervisors”? “dispassionate decision-makers”? In what reality are those accurate descriptors of political appointees? 
Oh look, DTS wants to put that American exceptionalism bullshit back in school curriculums. President Trump Launches 1776 Commission to Restore "Patriotic Education" to Nation | C-SPAN.org
Cross-posted in the Coronavirus Breaking News thread because it’s so f-ed up.
The controversial CDC recommendation last month that people without symptoms didn’t need to be tested wasn’t written by CDC scientist, but by HHS officials. Anyone surprised?
A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as internal documents obtained by The New York Times.
The guidance said it was not necessary to test people without symptoms of Covid-19 even if they had been exposed to the virus. It came at a time when public health experts were pushing for more testing rather than less, and administration officials told The Times that the document was a C.D.C. product and had been revised with input from the agency’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield.
But officials told The Times this week that the health department did the rewriting itself and then “dropped” it into the C.D.C.’s public website, flouting the agency’s strict scientific review process.
“That was a doc that came from the top down, from the H.H.S. and the task force,” said a federal official with knowledge of the matter, referring to the White House task force on the coronavirus. “That policy does not reflect what many people at the C.D.C. feel should be the policy.”
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A new version of the testing guidance, expected to be posted Friday, has also not been cleared by the C.D.C.’s usual internal review for scientific documents and is being revised by officials at Health and Human Services, according to a federal official who was not authorized to speak to reporters about the matter.
More info at the link.
Wonkette really has a way with words. It’s still a shitshow, but you can indulge in some macabre laughter while you’re reading about it.
The entire internet is asking right now whose genius idea it was to sit Donald Trump down in front of a bunch of voters in Pennsylvania, where he’d have to talk to people and attempt his best impression of a competent human who wants to continue being president.
…It was probably Jared Kushner’s idea, because all bad ideas are.
It was so hilariously bad. It was so bad Fox News is calling it an “ambush,” because we all know how it is when voters “ambush” candidates by asking them questions. In one question he’d shoot his dick off, then the next question, he’d tape his dick back on so he could punch it repeatedly. After that, he’d somehow manage to julienne his own dick, that’s how bad it was.
The best thing you can say about it is that to our knowledge Trump did not poop on the stage, though somebody should ask George Stephanopoulos what it smelled like up there.
…Maybe If Joe Biden Had Done A Nationwide Mask Order!
No, really. Trump lied and said we’re going to have a safe vaccine in just a few weeks, and whined that the Obama administration would have “taken perhaps years to have a vaccine because of the FDA and all the approvals” — you know, the way things are supposed to be done so vaccines don’t kill people or make them sprout third armpits. He lied and said our mortality rates were the best in the world. He lied and said he didn’t downplay coronavirus, even though THERE HE IS on tape telling Bob Woodward he did just that.
Then, in response to a voter question, Trump blamed Joe Biden for not imposing a national mask mandate…
Goddam that Joe Biden for not being president already. It’s his fault that the coronavirus got out of hand!
And Biden has a fake spray on orange tan, and stupid hair as well!
Biden was responsible for World War 2, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
fuBarr wants his hench to look into charging Seattle mayor Jenny Durkin and/or WA governor Jay Inslee with something or the other for allowing CHAZ to happen.
The Treasury Department offered a loan to the Postal Service if it would allow Treasury to take over control of the USPS.
One part of the government tried to buy out another part??
More like a hostile take-over bid, as I interpreted what I read.
Wow, they really are trying to run government like a business, hostile takeovers and everything.
Just wait, Congressional lay-offs will be next.
The Guiteau Defense: Yes, I shot President Garfield, but it was the doctors who actually killed him.
Actually, most of them fit the usual profile of undecided voters (people who prefer to just mind their own business and not pay attention to national issues until some national issue (e.g. access to health care, the pandemic) insists on paying attention to them).
I suggest a two-word reply, second word “you”.
Likely with the goal of asset strippting Vulture capitalism.
It seems il Doofus is still butt-hurt over the Tulsa fiasco…
From that article:
“Today’s actions prove once again that President Trump will do everything in his power to guarantee our national security and protect Americans from the threats of the Chinese Communist Party,” U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement. “At the President’s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations.”
On Sunday, the U.S. will also ban the provision of services that enable WeChat to be used for money transfers or mobile payments.
And as of Sunday for WeChat, and Nov. 12 for TikTok, the U.S. will ban any provision of internet hosting services that allow the apps to function in the U.S. And it will prohibit “any utilization of the mobile application’s constituent code, functions, or services in the functioning of software or services developed and/or accessible within the U.S.”
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By what authority does trump do this???
We KNOW one if not the only reason Trump hired Atlas -
“Atlas? Doctor Atlas? Yeah, I want a guy named Atlas. I can’t even pronounce that other guys name”
Russia is complaining that the US and NATO have sharply increased air and naval exercises near Crimea:
I’m thoroughly confused. Has Trump finally grown a pair and decided to stand up to Putin, is he simply unaware of what his own military is doing, or what?