“If she didn’t know that everyone else knows the United States is a complete, incompetent mess at this pandemic, she wasn’t paying attention!”

Oh, the plight of the pretty white woman. 

I was supposed to go to the Middle East before the end of the year. Because the United States is a shit show, we are labeled a high risk country. As soon as I land, the government required me to quarantine for seven days at my own expense where I will be PCR tested twice a day. If I ever test positive, I will be…

When reached for comment on this situation, gorillas walked away totally uninterested.

You’re telling me that’s not the same person over and over again?

You know, in my day, when a group of young adults shared a house, we’d trash the place, do all the drugs, listen to or make loud terrible music, and get obscenely drunk on a regular basis round the ping pong table we used because we had no other furniture.

And if you are gonna badmouth the troops, might as well shutter Stars & Stripes so they can’t read about it.

New vid from The Lincoln Project.

. . . a Marine who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan, sources report that Trump looked at Kelly and said “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?

I wonder if anyone pointed out to her the WH Press Sec is supposed to talk about what the administration is doing, not serve as a propaganda machine about the enemies of the Fascist in Chief.

I’m a college professor. I’m at a public institution in a poor state. My research specialty is related to the ongoing pandemic.

No one in the school’s faculty was contacted about the return to school plans. We have experts. Not one of us was asked what we thought.

Our school decided to try to forge ahead with an…

it’s foolish that the Speaker of the House is failing to do something as simple as learning the covid-19 restrictions in the area where she’s traveling she represents.

NO YOU DI’INT!

And there’s a parade of sorts, with colorful people and a road made from yellow bricks!

In another post I said she was like an aging, Slovenian Courtney Stodden. She’ll be about the right age in 20 years. 

Effort harder, Kayleigh!

I wish that I could be efforting some outreach, but I’ve never quite been able to architect the metrics of the data. 

This shit reminds me of the Connie Willis short story Blued Moon, where a character generates language to impress another character. But it was deliberately written in the style of a screwball comedy. Which this is anything but.

The Trump administration is trying out a new strategy in their efforts to have covid-19 kill as many Americans as possible, taking cues from Trump’s new pandemic adviser Scott Atlas, a man who has no background in epidemiology but does go on Fox News and call himself the “anti-Dr. Fauci.” [Washington Post]