First, let me say that CNBC is generally more informative with the sound turned off.  I’ve actually stopped watching it during market days because the schedule is filled with talking heads (usually option and/or futures traders spewing bullshit trading strategies that nobody outside of specialists make any money doing.  The end of each day is polluted by Jim Kramer, who’s antics never produce any factual or useful information.  Yesterday morning, though, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen host the morning turned the sound way up, finally clashing after months of pandemic coverage where Sorkin raised genuine, thoughtful concerns and Kernen spouted pablum and was one of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders, covering up his massive failure in leadership or thinking of anyone but himself.  He made the mistake of lecturing Sorkin and spouting Trumpist talking points when Sorkin decided he’d had enough.  I’ve now watched it three times – it’s most entertaining.

Have a look here:

Thank you again for pitching in to help me get a highly qualified Democrat elected in a swing district.  I appreciate your time, your money, and your encouragement.

And thank you for giving me the day off to get everything straightened away and ready for a girlfriend to take over the majority of the project.

I’ll try to be back tomorrow.  I just wanted you to know that everything’s okay.

Well, it’s not really.

Armed protest over the ability to go to Applebee’s.

Protesting violence against our fellow Americans.

There’s something real wrong.

Look at this.

Twitter has decided to fact check Trump.

A new warning label encouraging Twitter users to “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” appeared on a series of tweets in which the president baselessly claimed ballots received through mail-in voting methods are “fraudulent.”

 

Clicking through the new prompt from Twitter brings users to a fact-checking page highlighting a CNN story debunking the president’s false claims. The page also offers a summary with bullet points providing useful context for the misleading tweets, including the fact that vote-by-mail is already widely in use around the country.

Well, I wonder when Tump will have a conniption fit?

Y’all, I am sick of white people.

When is this crap going to stop?

Black while birding? You know what kind of people do birding? Not violent people, I can tell you that. Put your damn dog on a leash whether you’re white or not because it’s the law.

Know what?  I can’t breathe means I can’t breathe.  I don’t care if the man was involved in a forgery. We int give the cruel and unusual death penalty for that.

It feels like black men are being singled-out.  And, I know why it feels that way.  Because black men are being singled out.

If a Republican County Commissioner in New Mexico had his druthers, some guy in North Carolina would have already shot me dead.

“I’ve come to a place where I’ve come to the conclusion that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,” he said to a crowd gathered in Sierra County.

Commissioner Couy Griffin says he meant “political death,” not the dead kind of dead, but that wasn’t what the crowd cheered for.

That picture over there is of Cuey during some desperate times in his life.  His Cowboys for Trump PAC neglected to file all the necessary paperwork for PACs.

Okay, so these ReOpen people are truly off their rocker.

Adam Smith, the husband of the ReOpen North Carolina movement, just said that he’s willing to kill people (and by people he means his fellow Americans) if we try to make him do something I guess dangerous, like make him wear a mask when he’s in my airspace.

Here ya go.

I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of enemies foreign and domestic. He clearly has chosen the domestic path to killing Americans.

Look, Adam, we won’t let you pee on the sidewalk, drive a car without a seatbelt, sell you alcohol if you’re already drunk, or drive around and shoot out pesky traffic lights. If you think what’s really wrong with America is that you cannot cough on people while there’s a damn pandemic, then bygawd you’ve got life too damn easy.

And Trump wants to talk about enemies of the people.