Y’all, seriously, does he dream this stuff and then thinks it’s real or is he just jacking with us?

Asked at a White House briefing if he is considering a temporary ban on domestic flights and rail travel, Trump said he was thinking about how to handle flights to and from virus “hot spots,” but that it’s “a very tough thing” to shut down “entire transportation systems.” He also claimed that there are safeguards already in place.

“They’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off,” he said.

No.  That’s not happening.

It appears that a couple of airlines are scanning foreheads for temperatures.  Whoop-te-do.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen has spent his indoor time reading Federal Election Commission Reports because … well, he’s weird. Just a little. In fact, just the right amount.

We, of course, get to benefit from the goodies he finds.

He’s found a Friday Fun One.

There is a Republican guy named Wendell Champion who is a Republican running for congress against Shiela Jackson Lee in Houston. Love her or hate her, she wins with 75% of the vote every election, so Wendell does not have a rat’s chance in an owl farm of winning.

He does, though, have some fun with FEC rules.

It seems that Wendell is claiming that anonymous people are depositing money in his campaign account. Oh my goodness. I mean, what can he do about it – they’re anonymous and they direct deposit to his bank account, bypassing all regulations and the people’s right to know since 1776.

Here’s part of it and it looks like this.  Click here to see the big one.

If you check the aggregate amount of anonymous donations, it comes to $5,701, which if it was given by one individual, far exceeds the maximum amount one person can donation to a congressional candidate.  Ya gotta admit this is a pretty good scam.

But, it gets better.  It always does.

When Wendell filed his creative report to the FEC, he merrily included his bank account number.  FEC reports are public record. So, you know, just in case somebody wanted to give him another anonymous donation, he’s advertising his account number.

It’s hard to believe he’s not  a Trump, right?

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

I was not joyful to hear that Jared Kushner was taking over the United States war on a damn pandemic because best I know, Jared isn’t qualified to run a lemonade stand without his father going to prison to cover for him.

There has to be a money angle for Jared to get interested in anything. I’m guessing that I’m taking without you already knowing it.

So, here’s the deal. Jared answering questions from the press about America’s stockpile of equipment to fight the virus.

Okay, Sonny, who do you mean by “our?”  Let me first dissuade you of the silly notion that anything belonging to the federal government does not first and foremost belong to me, and, by the way, to the person reading this and everybody they know.

Nothing, including that podium and flag, belongs to you exclusively. Now, write that on the blackboard 100 times. And quit pulling Betty Sue’s pigtails. Betty Sue does not like you. Go find yourself a little girl who just loves, loves, loves shoes or some damn thing.

So, let me ponder this.  All that equipment belongs to America but not to the United States?

Are you talking like this on purpose just to piss everybody off or should we get you a cute little Prince Charles outfit and a bunker somewhere?

I hate these people, God forgive me, I just hate them.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Several acronyms, yes?  WHCA is White House Correspondents Association which governs the press pool at the WH (White House).  Who’s OAN?  One America News, which is a Trumpist propaganda website which is worse than Fox Noise and even Breitbart.  How’s that even possible?  It takes a lot of effort keeping the rage machine whipped up, but OAN does a great job fabricating fake scandals and conspiracy theories to generate clicks and garner Trump’s praise.  They OAN reporter in the middle of this controversy at the WH actually traveled WITH Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine taping a documentary hit piece about the made up Biden/Clinton “scandal” in Ukraine.  Yeah.  That one.

Said reporter, Chanel Rion, refused twice to follow press room social distancing procedures for the daily Coronavirus press briefing Trump political rally.  Rion is the one who tosses softballs to Trump on a regular basis.  Currently, only about 12 reporters are allowed in the press room in order to keep enough space between each person.  Standing along the wall is not allowed.  Rion, personal pet of Trump, has ignored these rules and come to every briefing, refusing to leave when asked.  The WHCA board voted to boot out OAN from the press pool for that reason.

Key the rage machine in 3, 2, 1.

Would somebody please tell me how this is different from war profiteering?

By the end of the day, roughly 280 million masks from warehouses around the U.S. had been purchased by foreign buyers and were earmarked to leave the country, according to the broker — and that was in one day.

Do you think Harry Truman, FDR, or even Elizabeth Warren (yeah, I’m bitter) would put up with this kind of crap?  Nationalize the damn medical supply companies and let them sue me later.  From jail. They can sue me from jail for profiteering.

The whole article is an interesting read and will get your blood to boiling.

Thanks to Art for the heads up.