What I think....I think a lot of you trump loyalists do not care what he says. Because it doesn’t matter. Nothing he says will ever change your position. Which is disgraceful and bitch like.
Because real talk....you don’t even realize 70% of the stupid shit Trump says until I quote it and you flip shit and realize how fucking pathetic it is and you go after me like I said it. Hilarious. Embarrassing. But I expect nothing less from you guys.
Because real talk....you don’t even realize 70% of the stupid shit Trump says until I quote it and you flip shit and realize how fucking pathetic it is and you go after me like I said it. Hilarious. Embarrassing. But I expect nothing less from you guys.
No proof lmfao. Yeah ok. Even though the articles claiming that they overcounted on some are still saying most likely we are undercounting STILL. Even with that massive toll of 20-30 in WA.
You didn’t know what I predicted? Over 100K+ when you guys were setting Over/Unders of 12K. I set it at 100K. and said OVER. I said OVER any number you guys set and then I came up with my own because all of yours weren’t taking this shit serious
I don’t listen to any Trump or any politician talk. 50% open , but not adhering , bar packed last night shoulder to shoulder listening to band playing , restaurants more like 75% as tables are not 6’ apart
There will be a spike after this long weekend , but that’s to be expected
just hope the weak and old know to stay in. But I doubt it, I see lots of old people out and about
There will be a spike after this long weekend , but that’s to be expected
just hope the weak and old know to stay in. But I doubt it, I see lots of old people out and about
Some people look at it as their duty. Like when Americans were called to war and died for this country. They were doing their duty. Now, we are being tasked with a different type of duty. A duty that respects your neighbor and gives recognition to healthcare workers who are fighting this battle everyday.
We should reopen subtlety. But there’s still a war going on outside. And if this thing was really gone, why not just allow fans back at games and start up all the sports?
Well if you have been following my posts...you would realize that would be suicide. So who knows exactly when it will be safe for that. And if it’s not safe to do normal things like that, then obviously we haven’t completely gotten rid of the virus. And not to mention, there are still a lot of new cases everyday here. But there’s only one concern for our administration. That’s trumps re-election. All that matters to them.
We should reopen subtlety. But there’s still a war going on outside. And if this thing was really gone, why not just allow fans back at games and start up all the sports?
Well if you have been following my posts...you would realize that would be suicide. So who knows exactly when it will be safe for that. And if it’s not safe to do normal things like that, then obviously we haven’t completely gotten rid of the virus. And not to mention, there are still a lot of new cases everyday here. But there’s only one concern for our administration. That’s trumps re-election. All that matters to them.
Floyston Bryant, whose nickname was “Beau,” had always stepped in as a father to his three younger sisters when their own father fell short.
In September 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He became a Staff Sergeant in the 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, nicknamed "Wray's Ragged Irregulars" after their commander Col. Stanley T. Wray. By the time Beau joined, the squadron was training with new B-17s at Dow Army Airfield near Bangor, Maine, and he hitchhiked three hours home before deploying to England so he could see his family once more.
It would be the last time. The 91st Bomb group was a pioneer bomb group, figuring out tactics for air cover. By May 1943, it was experienced enough to lead the Eighth Air Force as it sought to establish air superiority over Europe. But the 91st did not have adequate fighter support until 1944. It had the greatest casualty rate of any of the heavy bomb squadrons.
Beau was one of the casualties. On August 12, 1943, while he was on a mission, enemy flak cut his oxygen line and he died before the plane could make it back to base. He was buried in Cambridge, England at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, the military cemetery for Americans killed in action during WWII. He was twenty years old.
I grew up with Beau’s nephews and nieces, and we made decades of havoc and memories. But Beau's children weren't there, and neither he nor they are part of the memories.
His sisters are all gone now, along with almost all of their friends. We are all getting older, and soon no one will be left who even remembers his name.
When Beau was a teenager, he once spent a week's paycheck on a dress for his middle sister, so she could go to a dance.
I wish you all a meaningful Memorial Day.
-5/24 HCR
In September 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He became a Staff Sergeant in the 322nd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, nicknamed "Wray's Ragged Irregulars" after their commander Col. Stanley T. Wray. By the time Beau joined, the squadron was training with new B-17s at Dow Army Airfield near Bangor, Maine, and he hitchhiked three hours home before deploying to England so he could see his family once more.
It would be the last time. The 91st Bomb group was a pioneer bomb group, figuring out tactics for air cover. By May 1943, it was experienced enough to lead the Eighth Air Force as it sought to establish air superiority over Europe. But the 91st did not have adequate fighter support until 1944. It had the greatest casualty rate of any of the heavy bomb squadrons.
Beau was one of the casualties. On August 12, 1943, while he was on a mission, enemy flak cut his oxygen line and he died before the plane could make it back to base. He was buried in Cambridge, England at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, the military cemetery for Americans killed in action during WWII. He was twenty years old.
I grew up with Beau’s nephews and nieces, and we made decades of havoc and memories. But Beau's children weren't there, and neither he nor they are part of the memories.
His sisters are all gone now, along with almost all of their friends. We are all getting older, and soon no one will be left who even remembers his name.
When Beau was a teenager, he once spent a week's paycheck on a dress for his middle sister, so she could go to a dance.
I wish you all a meaningful Memorial Day.
-5/24 HCR
It has been a relatively quiet Memorial Day weekend. That being said, an overview of the news suggests there were some important optics this weekend.
Trump took to Twitter with a vengeance, but that frantic tweeting looked desperate rather than commanding. He tweeted or retweeted messages insulting female politicians; insisting that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine-- which has been associated with higher death rates for Covid-19 patients-- has “tremendous rave reviews”; attacking his former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (did you know that was Jeff Sessions’s real name?), and claiming falsely that mail-in ballots will rig the upcoming election.
He threatened to pull the August Republican National Convention from North Carolina if Democratic Governor Roy Cooper won’t guarantee that the event can be held at full capacity, despite coronavirus restrictions. The RNC is under contract to hold the convention in Charlotte, but Trump has talked about moving the event, wondering aloud to aides why it can’t be held in a hotel ballroom in Florida.
Most dramatically, though, he went on a Twitter crusade against television show host Joe Scarborough, tweeting inaccurately, and with no evidence, that Scarborough murdered a young woman in 2001. The 28-year-old woman to whom he was referring was working in a local office of then-Florida Representative Scarborough, with whom she had virtually no contact, when a heart condition caused her to fall and hit her head. There was no sign of a struggle or anyone else with her; the medical examiner concluded that she died of natural causes.
It all just looked mean and self-serving and small, and as if he had given up on appealing to any but the radical conspiracy theorists who make up his base. Some of them are listening: although at the end of April, 81% of Kentucky residents approved of Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, on Sunday protestors in Kentucky hung an effigy of Beshear from a tree limb at a mock lynching at the state capitol. They attached to the effigy's shirt a piece of paper that said “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” the same motto John Wilkes Booth shouted in 1865 when he murdered President Abraham Lincoln, and the same words that were on the t-shirt Timothy McVeigh wore in 1995 when he set the bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City that killed at least 168 people and injured more than 680 others.
But while some are emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric, others recognize that his vitriol has become unhinged and that Americans are turning against it, and him. In response to Trump’s tweets about Scarborough, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tweeted: “Completely unfounded conspiracy. Just stop. Stop spreading it, stop creating paranoia. It will destroy us.”
While Trump tweeted, ordinary Americans grappled instead with the realities of reopening state economies on a long weekend that usually marks the start of summer, but that this year is filled with uncertainty.
They were remembering our soldiers, sailors, and airwomen and airmen, killed in the line of duty.
And over everything hung the pall of almost 100,000 dead from the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 has now taken more American lives than the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the war in Afghanistan, combined.
That grim milestone coincided with Trump’s return to the golf course, prompting opponents to circulate on social media pictures of the president golfing superimposed over the New York Times cover listing 1000 of our dead. It was a dramatic image, and one that I’m shocked his advisors didn’t see coming and work to head off by convincing him not to hit the links on this particular weekend.
Today, the president laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and spoke at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Baltimore’s mayor, Bernard C. “Jack” Young had asked the president not to come to the locked down city to avoid modeling non-essential travel and costing the city money it could not afford as the pandemic has wiped out tax revenues. Trump went despite Young’s objections. Neither he nor Vice President Pence wore a mask during their visit.
In contrast, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went out in public for the first time since mid-March to lay a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veteran’s Memorial Park. He and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, wore black masks and stayed six feet from the veterans with whom they spoke. “Never forget the sacrifices that these men and women made,” Biden told reporters. “Never, ever, forget.”
Biden’s oldest son, who died of a brain tumor in 2015, served in Iraq.
-HCR-5/25
Trump took to Twitter with a vengeance, but that frantic tweeting looked desperate rather than commanding. He tweeted or retweeted messages insulting female politicians; insisting that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine-- which has been associated with higher death rates for Covid-19 patients-- has “tremendous rave reviews”; attacking his former Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (did you know that was Jeff Sessions’s real name?), and claiming falsely that mail-in ballots will rig the upcoming election.
He threatened to pull the August Republican National Convention from North Carolina if Democratic Governor Roy Cooper won’t guarantee that the event can be held at full capacity, despite coronavirus restrictions. The RNC is under contract to hold the convention in Charlotte, but Trump has talked about moving the event, wondering aloud to aides why it can’t be held in a hotel ballroom in Florida.
Most dramatically, though, he went on a Twitter crusade against television show host Joe Scarborough, tweeting inaccurately, and with no evidence, that Scarborough murdered a young woman in 2001. The 28-year-old woman to whom he was referring was working in a local office of then-Florida Representative Scarborough, with whom she had virtually no contact, when a heart condition caused her to fall and hit her head. There was no sign of a struggle or anyone else with her; the medical examiner concluded that she died of natural causes.
It all just looked mean and self-serving and small, and as if he had given up on appealing to any but the radical conspiracy theorists who make up his base. Some of them are listening: although at the end of April, 81% of Kentucky residents approved of Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis, on Sunday protestors in Kentucky hung an effigy of Beshear from a tree limb at a mock lynching at the state capitol. They attached to the effigy's shirt a piece of paper that said “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” the same motto John Wilkes Booth shouted in 1865 when he murdered President Abraham Lincoln, and the same words that were on the t-shirt Timothy McVeigh wore in 1995 when he set the bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City that killed at least 168 people and injured more than 680 others.
But while some are emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric, others recognize that his vitriol has become unhinged and that Americans are turning against it, and him. In response to Trump’s tweets about Scarborough, Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tweeted: “Completely unfounded conspiracy. Just stop. Stop spreading it, stop creating paranoia. It will destroy us.”
While Trump tweeted, ordinary Americans grappled instead with the realities of reopening state economies on a long weekend that usually marks the start of summer, but that this year is filled with uncertainty.
They were remembering our soldiers, sailors, and airwomen and airmen, killed in the line of duty.
And over everything hung the pall of almost 100,000 dead from the novel coronavirus. Covid-19 has now taken more American lives than the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the war in Afghanistan, combined.
That grim milestone coincided with Trump’s return to the golf course, prompting opponents to circulate on social media pictures of the president golfing superimposed over the New York Times cover listing 1000 of our dead. It was a dramatic image, and one that I’m shocked his advisors didn’t see coming and work to head off by convincing him not to hit the links on this particular weekend.
Today, the president laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and spoke at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Baltimore’s mayor, Bernard C. “Jack” Young had asked the president not to come to the locked down city to avoid modeling non-essential travel and costing the city money it could not afford as the pandemic has wiped out tax revenues. Trump went despite Young’s objections. Neither he nor Vice President Pence wore a mask during their visit.
In contrast, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden went out in public for the first time since mid-March to lay a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veteran’s Memorial Park. He and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, wore black masks and stayed six feet from the veterans with whom they spoke. “Never forget the sacrifices that these men and women made,” Biden told reporters. “Never, ever, forget.”
Biden’s oldest son, who died of a brain tumor in 2015, served in Iraq.
-HCR-5/25
Really have no idea how you’re not banned. But until you are, I will make you a project of mine for continuing to troll and follow me around non stop. You better be ready to dedicate that other 10% to make 100% on me. Because I’m going to piss and shit all over you every fucking single day, broken-jaw. Watch me.
Get your coffee
While a lot went on today, the day’s biggest news is that Twitter fact-checked two tweets by the president.
As states have turned to mail-in ballots to enable voting in a time when in person voting endangers lives, Trump has repeatedly attacked the idea of mail-in ballots, claiming they are designed to enable Democrats to cheat. Today he announced: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone…..” “…. living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!”
The truth is that Trump’s tweets are false, and are likely designed to pave the way for him to undermine the election if he loses. There is no evidence that mail-in ballots cause fraud, California will send mail-in ballots only to registered voters, five states already vote entirely by mail, and all states offer some form of mail-in voting.
Tonight, Twitter put warnings on the president’s tweets, telling users to “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.” “These Tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots,” a Twitter spokesman told the magazine The Hill. Clicking on the warning leads to a page that explains the factual errors in Trump’s tweets, and to articles about the issue from fact based sources.
Trump did not take kindly to being fact-checked. “[Twitter] is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” he tweeted. “They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake news CNN and the Amazon Washington Post…. Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”
The First Amendment to the Constitution concerns government power: it guarantees that the government cannot police what Americans say. It does not deal with private limits to speech, and Twitter is a private company. As Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe points out, Trump has this backward: Twitter’s flag on Trump’s tweets is itself protected under the First Amendment. In addition, Twitter’s flag is protected because it is demonstrably true.
Until last March, Twitter refused to fact check misinformation from world leaders. The pandemic forced a reckoning, and it announced it would remove posts, even from world leaders, if they went “against guidance from authoritative sources of global and public health information.” Since then, it has begun to enforce some rules against leaders, including labeling as manipulated an anti-Biden ad that Trump retweeted.
It has since expanded its willingness to note misinformation into areas other than the novel coronavirus.
The popular social media platform policed the president’s tweets today after the widower of a woman who died in 2001, and who is now at the center of Trump’s attempts to smear critic Joe Scarborough, begged Twitter to remove Trump’s tweets involving his wife. “I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain,” the woman’s husband wrote in a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.
Twitter’s moderators responded that the company was “deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family.” But it did not agree to remove the tweets. Instead, it said, “We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.”
Hours later, it fact-checked two of the president’s tweets for the first time.
Twitter remains the president’s favorite place to present his own version of the world to his followers. Until now, he has been able to say whatever he wants, without contradiction, setting the terms of the news cycle without pushback from journalists in real time. Losing that freedom to push propaganda would devastate Trump.
Still, Twitter apparently fact-checked his tweets on mail-in ballots because they appear directly to threaten the 2020 election. But its moderators left unchecked the rest of the disinformation coming from his account today.
-5/27 -HCR
While a lot went on today, the day’s biggest news is that Twitter fact-checked two tweets by the president.
As states have turned to mail-in ballots to enable voting in a time when in person voting endangers lives, Trump has repeatedly attacked the idea of mail-in ballots, claiming they are designed to enable Democrats to cheat. Today he announced: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone…..” “…. living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!”
The truth is that Trump’s tweets are false, and are likely designed to pave the way for him to undermine the election if he loses. There is no evidence that mail-in ballots cause fraud, California will send mail-in ballots only to registered voters, five states already vote entirely by mail, and all states offer some form of mail-in voting.
Tonight, Twitter put warnings on the president’s tweets, telling users to “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.” “These Tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots,” a Twitter spokesman told the magazine The Hill. Clicking on the warning leads to a page that explains the factual errors in Trump’s tweets, and to articles about the issue from fact based sources.
Trump did not take kindly to being fact-checked. “[Twitter] is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” he tweeted. “They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake news CNN and the Amazon Washington Post…. Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”
The First Amendment to the Constitution concerns government power: it guarantees that the government cannot police what Americans say. It does not deal with private limits to speech, and Twitter is a private company. As Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe points out, Trump has this backward: Twitter’s flag on Trump’s tweets is itself protected under the First Amendment. In addition, Twitter’s flag is protected because it is demonstrably true.
Until last March, Twitter refused to fact check misinformation from world leaders. The pandemic forced a reckoning, and it announced it would remove posts, even from world leaders, if they went “against guidance from authoritative sources of global and public health information.” Since then, it has begun to enforce some rules against leaders, including labeling as manipulated an anti-Biden ad that Trump retweeted.
It has since expanded its willingness to note misinformation into areas other than the novel coronavirus.
The popular social media platform policed the president’s tweets today after the widower of a woman who died in 2001, and who is now at the center of Trump’s attempts to smear critic Joe Scarborough, begged Twitter to remove Trump’s tweets involving his wife. “I’m asking you to intervene in this instance because the President of the United States has taken something that does not belong to him — the memory of my dead wife — and perverted it for perceived political gain,” the woman’s husband wrote in a letter to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.
Twitter’s moderators responded that the company was “deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family.” But it did not agree to remove the tweets. Instead, it said, “We’ve been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly.”
Hours later, it fact-checked two of the president’s tweets for the first time.
Twitter remains the president’s favorite place to present his own version of the world to his followers. Until now, he has been able to say whatever he wants, without contradiction, setting the terms of the news cycle without pushback from journalists in real time. Losing that freedom to push propaganda would devastate Trump.
Still, Twitter apparently fact-checked his tweets on mail-in ballots because they appear directly to threaten the 2020 election. But its moderators left unchecked the rest of the disinformation coming from his account today.
-5/27 -HCR
They say to only believe half of what you see. In this case, I believe what I read. Why? Because this person has an impartial perspective not meant to push any agenda. Someone who focuses on the contrast of image and reality in America...especially politics. And most importantly, a historian. Someone who knows the history of this country. I couldn’t hate if I tried
