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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.

Between Tijuana and San Diego, Trump built a double layered border wall that was the crown jewel of his wall.  And as if to poke fun of Trump, drug dealers bypassed his fancy-pants wall with a tunnel.

And it is a dandy tunnel.

The nearby tunnel had an extensive rail-cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical cables and panels, an elevator at the tunnel entrance, and a complex drainage system.

Hell, that’s no tunnel.  That’s a condo.

Authorities seized two tons of drugs including, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, and fentanyl.

That’s not a wall, it’s a very expensive decorative item.

War on drugs, my sweet patootie.

You know how Trump keeps saying there are 10,000 ventilators in reserve that he can send to hospitals in need? Yeah, but …

But what federal officials have neglected to mention is that an additional 2,109 lifesaving devices are unavailable after the contract to maintain the government’s stockpile lapsed late last summer, and a contracting dispute meant that a new firm did not begin its work until late January. By then, the coronavirus crisis was already underway.

And that’s the Art of The Deal.

Yeah, they failed to keep a contract to maintain the machines.

Well, that’s just beautiful, isn’t it?

I guess there was no money or kickbacks for Trump’s hoard of cabinet secretaries.

I have a beloved friend who is a retired Presbyterian minister.  He’s as liberal as they come, you know, like Jesus. He’s also non-judgemental, you know, like Jesus.  He’s in his upper 80’s and except for a few incidents daily of “why did I come into this room,” his mind works like it did in college.

Last week, he tried to convince me that maybe, just maybe, Trump is the anti Christ.  Let me say here that I don’t believe in Armageddon. He’s not sure that he does either, but if it is true, it could be Trump. He teased me that I should go get some locust spray.  

And then, the Washington Post prints this today.

Oh yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted to see.

Oh well, at least we don’t have to go out and stock up on hurricane supplies.  We’ve got that covered.

For those keeping track, the hurricane season starts June 1st.