Me, Me, Me!
Trump is on an ego roll today.
President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that coronavirus testing is “overrated” and claimed that some Americans may be wearing masks to signal disapproval of him — not as a preventative measure.
He added: “I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history.”
You didn’t create anything ‘cept a mess, Honey.
Then Axios reports that there was something special about Juneteeth and Trump. Trump claimed that nobody ever heard of Juneteeth before now.
“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous.”
I think he expects a statue at the Civil Rights Museum.
And then he tweets —
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And, yes, that generally is the basis for all Supreme Court decisions – even before Trump was born.
And speaking of before he was born, he doesn’t want to rename military installations named after Confederate soldiers because the names were a way to help unite the North and the South after the war.
Yeah, well, Fort Hood was built and named in 1942, as was Fort Killeen, Fort Polk, Fort Pickett, and Fort Rucker. I think there was something else pulling us all together about that time. Fort Bragg (Oddly enough, considered the worst general in the Civil War) was built and named in 1918, as was Fort Benning. There was a great coming together at that time, too.
Everything is all about him.
Q: Why does Trump use lifts in his shoes?
A: Because the Viagra doesn’t make him taller any more.
1With what he just said about a Suprme Court decision, I think he just plain old doesn’t like this country. He thought he was elected king and now nobody will let him execute somebody in public. Remember his contention that he could shoot somebody in broad daylight on 5th Avenue and get away with it? That’s his chiled down version of a royal execution.
As for the help he needed ot get down the ramp at West Point, his knees are giving out. And the two-handed drink of water? Well, he has reached the age wher efolks kinda drop a lot of things they normally would have held tightly.
And Volton – you knew i owuld bring that up, didn’t you? They are two of a kind and I think in a battle between two equally nasty men, both might not make it out alive.
2… and today in Trump History!!!…
* COVID-19
* Juneteenth
* That friendly rivalry between North & South that was finally settled by naming military forts after those who lost
Stay tuned for more, after this word from Dr. Scholl’s Cushion Comfort Invisi-heel Shoe Lifts…
3Anybody with half a brain is getting the idea that the Orange Moron is truly a . . . moron.
(BTW: That’s Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Ask me how I know 😉
4“The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles”
The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway.
The grifting never stops!
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-paid-millions-for-test-tubes-and-got-unusable-mini-soda-bottles
5RepubAnon’s remark made me disrupt the whole house laughing!
6Alright, mostly OT, but the topic of the ‘police’ has been sorta quiet.
I’ve been ranting about the militarization of our police forces for a long time, again, here’s why.
A DK article [link below] explains a lot of it.
It’s incredible, they’re getting many tons of military equipment every quarter. From chingos of small arms to million dollar helicopters, boats, MRAPs, etc. And so much effing —sniper— equipment it bugs your eyes out .
All for local PDs, county sheriffs, state LEO, –school PDs–, on and on. Check out your own areas, don’t freak out.
Holeee Crap, it’s mind boggling, –and they’re itching to use it–. —- Except for all of it that’s slipping out the back door…
If you download the DoD LESO xls file [open it with a spreadsheet app] for just the latest quarter [this goes on quarter after quarter, year after year], you’ll see how much free military equipment our police are acquiring.
Some of them getting battalion level uber-military grade ‘stuff’.
Nobody is going to stand up against this armament .
DLA’s [Defense Logistics Agency] Law Enforcement Support Office transfers excess Department of Defense property to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies within the United States and its Territories —
“LESO Property Transferred to Participating Agencies
By state and agency name as of
March 31, 2020.
This is the most recent quarterly update of the accountable property held by participating agencies:
ALASKA – WYOMING AND US TERRITORIES:
https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/DispositionServices/LESO/DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories_03312020.xlsx
[about 7MB size]
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/18/1954086/-Demilitarize-the-Police-The-DOD-s-1033-program
…”Today I explore the Department of Defense’s NDAA 1033 program. If you don’t know about it, I share.
The National Defense Authorization allows the transfer of unused military equipment to civilian law enforcement agencies at no cost. This includes armored vehicles, grenade launchers, M16 rifles and mine-resistant ambush vehicles – just what every local sheriff longs for.
7Rural and small-town agencies appear most eager to collect combat-ready equipment.”…
@Sandridge: my understanding was that the whole militarization of the police jazz was so that arms manufacturers could force more over-priced product on the US taxpayers, and force the Pentagon to hand it out to the po-po’s, right? And like the hundreds of acres of Bradleys and Abrams tanks in storage in the California desert, i figured it was all just corporate welfare to the military-industrial complex? Just another pack of billionaires with their own private key to the back door into the US Treasury. Or do you see somethig more sinister going on?
8name of base named after the donald: camp runamuck…
9@Sandridge: So, maybe we could save a few bucks on military equipment by not manufacturing so much that they can afford to give it away to every police force in the country? Ordinary police officers are not, and should not be, military. Their missions are different, and their equipment should be, too. If a person wants to play soldier, let them go join the military, not the police.
10“He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you — he really IS an idiot.”
11— Groucho Marx
Um, no.
My mask is homemade and consists of 4 layers of fabric. It’s uncomfortable as heck. I would never go through that much trouble and discomfort to express anything about His Orangeness. He’s not worth it.
Sorry Trump, you’re not the center of my universe.
12Brad in Dallas & thatotherjean , Many Billions/Trillions of dollars in corporate welfare, sure.
But more sinister too, imo, loosely planned from the beginning to lead to an overwhelmingly powerful fascist state.
As proof, just look around; and remember, sixty million of your fellow citizens blindly voted Herr Comrade Bonespurs into our While House.
With a super well equipped paramilitary in front, a military with a large cadre of religio-fanatical questionable leadership and grunts, we’re closer than you think.
Hell yes, large budget cuts/defunding are needed, make that ‘funding reallocation’.
I skimmed through the Texas portion of that list, some of the goodies are utilitarian or medical stuff, but most of it is pure military arms equipment. Going to police units small and large. I’m from the Valley, it’s incredible the amount and type of firepower going to little backborder PDs.
They’re particularly fond of sniper, nighttime, and thermal imaging toys/weapons.
And I can’t imagine the number of ‘Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, doled out.
Hell, between what just the San Antonio, Austin, Houston and area LEOs alone get, most countries could equip their whole military; almost, they’d need to round out their air forces and navies a bit.
Look at that list, it has descriptions, prices, etc., for the whole USA. And represents just the latest –three months– of military hardware handovers.
Oops, looks like my reference to “three months” time period handovers is incorrect. The spreadsheet last column lists “Ship Dates” going back years, so that list -may- be a cumulative one per LEO entities. Needs looking into .
13RE: That DLA LESO equipment handover list “three month ” period vs. cumulative.
I think it may be a rolling 3mo-cumulative list.
When a LEO/PD gets some goodies this quarter, their cumulative totals are also shown?
Because I’ve looked at this report in the past and saw local PDs equipment listed, but those PDs didn’t appear on this quarterly report.
Anyone know how this works?
14Wonderful news: original handwritten Juneteenth order found in National Archives: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/18/juneteenth-celebration-george-floyd-protests/
15Happy Juneteenth!
See some videos on “The Witness Archive” as a demonstration of how the DOD military equipment link may mutate the “protect and serve” civilians ideal.
The Witness Archive is “an independent initiative that archives and presents incidents of police brutality, abuse, and misconduct as captured on video by civilians.”
https://www.thewitnessarchive.com/
16Growing up in Fort Worthless, I remember Juneteenth as the one day of the year when blacks were allowed in the city parks. It may not have been an official law, but if a black family spread out a blanket for a picnic on any other day, police would be along in minutes to chase them away. [As an Anglo, I also remember walking through a park on Juneteenth and being greeted with smiles and invitations to join many of those picnics.]
Now I discover that nobody had heard of it until the Advent of Trump.
MSB: thanks for that link. It will wash the Trumpiness from the date for me in the future.
17Sandridge, I agree with all you said. The chief of police in a small town in my county is serving a year for selling (to himself) a submachine gun (for $100) his department got from DoD.
The county has a firing range near my house for cops to ‘train.’
It’s a recruiting tool. The limp dicks who are attracted to police work just love to get out their penis substitutes and make a lot of noise.
Is there a plan for a police takeover? Maybe among a few but I still think it’s more a matter of childishness. There’s the problem — we don’t really want all that destructive power in the hands of the permanently immature.
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