Old Navy stores are making a significant donation to democracy.

The retailer announced on Tuesday that it will pay store employees for eight hours who serve as poll workers for the 2020 election. The company said employees “will also be eligible for compensation from their local jurisdiction.”

That means they get their salary from Old Navy and the small payment from the county for working the polls.  Holy cow, this is a great idea. Getting young people involved and paying them to do it is a double whammy. It not only helps us when we need it, it kickstarts interest in working again two years from now.

I’m skipping over to Old Navy online and buying a hat or something.

Now here’s the funny part.  There are naysayers.

Oh yeah, those Planned Parenthood people will throw microscopic embryos all over your ballot!  And I am not worried about the NRA, Mr. Woods. They won’t be allowed to bring their guns inside a polling location so they are not going to come help. They are afraid to leave home with an armory to protect them from those radical and violent Old Navy employees.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Okay, so maybe it was Pence who had the strokes.

Pence doesn’t recall if he was put on standby during Trump’s visit to Walter Reed. Yeah.

Okay, picture this.  A guy comes to Pence’s house at night and says, “Dude, go take off those plaid bermuda shorts and Jesus Loves Me, Only Me tee-shirt. They just took Trump to the hospital and you may have to take over as President.

You know for a fact that Pence tinkled in his bermuda shorts and that Mother stripped down to her birthday suit and bounced her boobies all the way the grand staircase yelling, “Pack your bags you whore, Melania.”

That would be something you would remember and there were probably eye witnesses to it.  So, instead of lying his butt off, he just said, “I don’t recall,”  which is a lie where you can’t get caught which is the very worst kind of lie.

That’s a lie and Jesus heard it, Wimpy Mikey.

Trump lies about his enemies’ mental states and physical health in a continuous stream as long as those lies serve his purposes, whatever those are.  Well, karma turned on him yesterday, this time self inflicted.  Here’s how the story has evolved:

Remember last November when Trump made a rushed and unexpected trip to Walter Reed Hospital?  The trip was not scheduled, and he was accompanied by the White House physician.  We asked about the trip, a spokesman said the trip was for preliminary tests before Trump’s annual physical.  We all knew THAT was a lie, but no one really figured out the real reason.  Well, now we know and it’s not good; for Trump I mean.  Here’s how the story is playing out…

Yesterday a new book titled Trump v. The United States by NY Times reporter Michael Schmidt was published.  It is an investigative look at the chaos of the Trump WH and how he is actually threatening the very survival of democracy in the US.  In the book, though, Schmidt mentions that during said November trip to Walter Reed, Pence was put on standby to take over in case Trump needed to be put under anesthesia for a surgical procedure.  That story had not been picked up by any major news agency, and then Trump tweeted this:

So, Trump denies reports that he had a series of mini strokes, when, in fact NO ONE WAS REPORTING THAT.  Maggie Haberman of the NY Times then tweeted:

So, Trump, frantic to kill any story that happens to be true about his health, actually outed himself.  As you would expect, the Twitterverse exploded, and one doctor even gave a plausible argument that Trump is actually displaying signs that he has had a stroke:

The fact that Trump has had a series of strokes explains a LOT of his physical issues including slurring of words, his difficulty walking down the ramp at West Point, and trouble drinking water with one hand.  Everyone in the United States (except for Trumpists) know Trump is in terrible physical condition.  He is at least 40 pounds overweight, he eats junk food every day, and even had to ride a golf cart during a walk of world leaders during a G7 meeting in 2017.  The possibility that he’s had a series of strokes explains all of those unanswered questions about Trump’s health.

Karma is a bitch, to be sure.

A year ago, we introduced you to William and Kecia Pollock.  They run a group of scam Super PACs out of their home in Las Vegas.  The millions of dollars they were raising in the name of children with leukemia, breast cancer victims, police and firefighters – much of which they simply kept for themselves – attracted a great deal of negative publicity.  William Pollock recently lost his job as a La Vegas police officer.

He took a major beating in the news over the scammed money.

Their lawyer evidently told them that unless they actually followed through on their claims and made independent expenditures supporting candidates they could be prosecuted for mail and wire fraud.

So two of their scam PACs have begun making independent expenditures supporting a candidate who shares their values:  Donald Trump.

The Police Officers Defense Alliance

and

The Firefighters Alliance

It’s a Scamfest!

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

Okay, so have you been wondering why Mitch McConnell has been blocking $25 billion in funding for USPS for 105 days, I have some candy for your curiosity.

Harold Cook, the funniest man in Texas, found some more good stuff.

Dang he caught us. And I just ordered a very fetching new black uniform off of Amazon too. Drats. https://t.co/f9BQs2UHRq

— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) September 1, 2020

Okay, okay, it was actually people on their way to a Batman convention. Isn’t that Batman’s slogan, “people in the dark shadows of the night controlling crap and stuff?”

Or …

From now until election day, every declarative statement I make will be followed by, “I can’t reveal anymore because it’s under investigation.” Like, you know, “I need to get a bid on painting my house and I can’t reveal anymore because it’s under investigation.” I’m cool.

Your thoughts on who the thugs dressed in black are?  I mean, outside of Trump’s imagination.