Scientific American endorses Biden: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-to-back-biden

I especially liked Don Lemon's reaction -- "Whew! Do you need a drink of water after all that?"

I saw bits of the Town Hall -- this may be the first time that Trump faced a truly diverse crowd and questions rather than supporters (or reporters). He seemed a bit put out that he wasn't getting applause and cheers for his regular spew.

It's less than two weeks until the debate with Biden. I'm increasingly thinking there will suddenly be a reason for Trump not to show up.

NewsThump: Presidential motorcade to be replaced with clown car

From 2017, but just as relevant today.
Except today, I'm leaning less towards clown car and more towards some mafioso/banana republic outfit.

A convoy of Toyota pickups with machine gunners on the back for escort vehicles would better fit his current image as wannabe-Banana Republic dictator. This motorcade would escort the President's vehicle, a vintage black vehicle reminiscent of 40's mafia godfathers. Something like this.

The contrast might be somewhat jarring, so maybe paint it white or spray paint some logo onto it so as to better match the pickups.

Sports, but...
 

I know it's sports, but my reason for sharing is that I'm curious how Trump will play this. He insisted the Big Ten play football, and I'm ready to watch him take credit for this. WOnder whether it will impact swing-states, like MN, MI, WI, OH...

https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...october-return

No college football is a religion in parts of the country and if you put a gun to my head and asked how sarcastic I'm being I'm not 100% sure I'd have an answer.

Israelis have been holidaying in Egypt for decades.

I could totally see The PDJT suggesting to meteorologists -- "Why don't we just take all the extra water from the hurricane in the Gulf Coast and use it to put out the fires in California?" Why, I'm sure he could even draw out how to do it in Sharpie on a map!

President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Here's the target area.
Gerou : That's Minnesota, sir.
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Damn it, man, that's the genius of my plan. Why go over there to fight? We can do it right here at home, and get in some good fishing while we're at it.
Gerou : Sir, the enemy is over there.
President Thomas 'Tug' Benson : Then we'll fly them over here. Their families too. We'll teach them to skate... Do I have to think of everything?

He is literally claiming that down is up.

Laura Ingrahm on Fox News called it an "ambush."

Now, aside from the idiocy of being "ambushed" by questions from people (as someone on Twitter responded, there weren't even any questions from any family members!), it does reflect the fact that he even she recognizes that it was a disaster. The "ambush" is an excuse for bad performance.

Trump voluntarily agreed to answer questions at a televised event, and the attendees ambushed him with questions!?! The nerve!!! Totally unexpected!

Trump Tweets

Thank you for the great reviews of the @ABC News show last night!

Trump Tweets

Jim, you didn’t make a mistake. It’s true, and that’s why you said it. No pandering!
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The Recount
@therecount
Jim Cramer apologizes to Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "I made a very stupid comment."

Trump Tweets

Great News: BIG TEN FOOTBALL IS BACK. All teams to participate. Thank you to the players, coaches, parents, and all school representatives. Have a FANTASTIC SEASON! It is my great honor to have helped!!!

Democrats are “heartless”. They don’t want to give STIMULUS PAYMENTS to people who desperately need the money, and whose fault it was NOT that the plague came in from China. Go for the much higher numbers, Republicans, it all comes back to the USA anyway (one way or another!).

Vaccines are moving along fast and safely!

Setting aside that there's no rule against ambushing presidents with questions, if he and his staff didn't expect those questions, they are even dumber than I thought they were. My only disappointment was that the people in the town hall didn't ask him an unexpected questions.

President dumb **** is going to find out that the only review that matters happens in November.

Trump Retweeted

The Recount
@therecount
Jim Cramer: “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy? I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reverence for the office. I would never use that term ...”
Pelosi: “But you just did. But you just did.”

:D
This is so good that I may steal it and use it on other boards.

He's probably trying to talk about spontaneous combustion, at least as best as his scatterbrained mentality can cobble together. The bits and pieces are there, or alluded to, decomposition and material piling up but mashed together in a cargo cult kind of way, making it devoid of any substance. So spontaneous combustion becomes a kind of spontaneous exploding, in his feeble minded misunderstanding.

Called it!

(Yeah it was an easy call - really stuck my neck out, eh? And it's possible he tweeted before I posted, but I hadn't seen it yet.)

WH Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows said the President’s healthcare plan is “ready”, and that it will be an “executive action with a legislative component”.
But he did not say when they will roll it out.

It's going to cure all cancer and give everyone a full head of healthy hair. Just got to wait a couple of weeks. Well, till after the election at the latest.

Americans, if you are good and vote for Trump, you will get some healthcare on Nov. 5th.
But if you vote for Biden, Trump will send out his Death Panels.

But that's health care, too, isn't it? After all, it solves your problem. And the Repubs have never actually said what they wanted to replace the ACA with, have they?

Kayleigh McEnany says

"I'm not going to give you a readout of what our health care plan looks like and who's working on it. if you want to know, come work here at the White House"

Yeah, it's not like the electorate needs any actual information a month and a half before an election!

You are going to pay for it but it’s none of your business. Trump politics, or Republican politics?

But Trump put so much effort into preparing for the debates!

From: NBC
President Donald Trump has not held a single mock debate session, and has no plans to stage a formal practice round, as he readies for his first faceoff with Joe Biden in less than three weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.

Oh, never mind.

Remember that Trump pulled the same thing in the 2016 election... he had a great health care plan that would cover everything and be cheaper, but gave no details.

To nobody's surprise here, there actually was no health care plan.

Oh come on, how much practice do you need for some stream of consciousness
when it's your turn to talk, and yelling "WRONG!" every time your opponent speaks? Trump probably doesn't get why anyone would prepare.

I would love for Wallace to bring two bicycles to the debate and challenge the two candidates to a race, though :D .

Trump Tweets
China is drooling. They can’t believe this!
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The United Spot
@TheUnitedSpot1

Joe Biden has just ONE thing to say and it ain’t good. Listen to this

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...19979566710784

(Video of Biden at a lectern with manipulated audio using the 'N' word in link)

Twitter has marked the video as 'Manipulated Media'

USPS on-time delivery plummets under Trump appointee.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...senate-report/

Trump Tweets

“Cratered”. We have plenty of politics to go around without disrespecting our great American Flag or Anthem. I thought the NFL learned their lesson two years ago. The people will not put up with this (again). Just not worth it, hard to watch!
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David Hookstead
@dhookstead

The NFL's TV ratings have crated, and are reportedly down 28% to open the season compared to 2019.
This is what happens when you make sports about politics. People stop watching.

Trump Retweeted

thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Trump has exposed the decades of foreign policy failures by the elite, political class.
THAT is why they hate him.

Woodward says that Trump can't tell what "is real and what is unreal". I think that's becoming increasingly apparent at this point. He believes his own lies.

:sulks: I notice they haven't marked any of Biden's tweets as manipulated media. They only do this to Twump for some reason! Unfair! :pouts:

That's been part of the problem with most Republicans the last decade or so. They've collectively made the great mistake of believing their own propaganda.

Propaganda like "Dem Leftists want to destroy America!" is all fun and games when all we're talking about is what an obscure tax rate should be, but now that they actually believe that line, we're at a point where they've politicized the response to the pandemic, because they can't bring themselves to admit that the Democratic governors are honestly interested in promoting the health and well being of their constituents.

The election’s a few weeks away, please vote for the president without asking stupid questions like “what are his actual policies”

It’s also apparent that he can’t remember them.

CDC Director Dr. Redfield and other officals were asked directly about Trump's health plan he claims to have. None of them knew anything about it. In other words, Trump is lying. :jaw-dropp

Just like his taxes, it'll all come out after the election...