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jls4561's JournalBorowitz: Trump to Retaliate Against Russia by Sending Jared to Advise Kremlin on Coronavirus
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an act of retaliation against the Russians for sponsoring Taliban attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Donald J. Trump is sending Jared Kushner to the Kremlin to offer advice on its coronavirus response, the White House confirmed on Monday.
“To all those who thought that this President was not taking the Russians’ actions seriously, this response should speak for itself,” the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said. “The President had an array of responses to choose from, and the one he selected is by far the most punishing.”
According to White House insiders, Trump and his advisers debated the response to the Russians for hours before finally settling on the Kushner option late Sunday night.
“Jared Kushner is the most brutal weapon in our arsenal, and deploying him is a decision that no one should ever take lightly,” one adviser said.
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McEnany indicated that Kushner will be dispatched to the Kremlin by Monday afternoon and will start advising the Kremlin on ventilators, personal protective equipment, and other coronavirus-related matters as early as Tuesday.
“He will bring Russia to its knees,” she said.
Many in Washington were surprised by the severity of Trump’s retaliation against the Russians, including the esteemed virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“I know that the Russians are our enemies, but I’m still not sure I would wish Jared Kushner on them,” he said.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-to-retaliate-against-russia-by-sending-jared-kushner-to-advise-kremlin-on-coronavirus-response?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_062920&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be5ca70fbd2976368715f24&cndid=49787632&hasha=22ffff498c4858274348f4b4acc455d6&hashb=599bbf974bf4cade7ccd0536c884e7c4a3ad5d98&hashc=24a04332b8c3582bbccd0342f89e84f1dbcb2b6847011fce0a30cc3f0acd9c66&esrc=article-newsletter&utm_term=TNY_Borowitz
It was ask if there is a Nobel prize for incoherence. No, but there is this...
The Doublespeak Award is an "ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered", i.e. those who have engaged in doublespeak. It has been issued by the National Council of Teachers of English since 1974.
Fat Donnie has already it the one for 2016 AND 2019.
2016 – Donald Trump, for the obfuscation and inconsistency of his statements and proposals in pursuit of the United States presidency. The committee cited his "unique gift of capitalizing on what he labels the dishonesty of his opponent, all while spinning unsubstantiated claims of his own". The five member committee unanimously voted Trump as the champion of the dubious Doublespeak honor, with one member quoted as saying, "I don't think we've ever had a better example of the Doublespeak Award."
2019 – Donald Trump, for perpetuating language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, and self-centered.
All of the above is direct from Wikipedia, except the Fat Donnie sentence. He is currently tied for the most awards with St. Senile Ronnie and Bush 43. But he's not yet the winner - that's Bush 45.
2003 – George W. Bush, for lying about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction and using those lies as justification for going to war.
2004 – George W. Bush Administration, for the same things as the previous year, for manipulating and forging intelligence data about Iraq, for creating euphemisms to downplay the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, and for the Justice Department turning a blind eye to torture authorized by officials in the Bush Administration.
2006 – George W. Bush, for speaking out against poverty and income inequality after having just signed an executive order to permit contractors to employ people below the minimum wage in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
(The above also copied from Wikipedia.)
If anyone is making book on the 2020 award, I've got 10 bucks that says BLOTUS wins again this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak_Award
Bolton says trump wanted China's help in reelection
President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser John Bolton.
During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.
“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html
Why am I picturing a sieve with a big hole punched in the side?
Question about jury service
So there was this post about something that got posted on facebook, and I was asked if it was offensive. Well, yes, I was offended by the thing that was posted on facebook, but the poster basically said "Look at this." I may have reacted too quickly, because I was offended by by the thing on facebook, but I was not offended by the poster.
Disgusting things get posted here all the time. Example: Any picture of Donnie Tiny Hands. I enjoy making fun of him, and enjoy the comments about him that are captioned cleverly. Side note: I enjoy your posts, Ferret, although I had to look up some of the words in your insults.
Should I have clicked so quickly on the "It violates the rule" button because the content offended me but the poster did not?
So the bloviating orange clown says Florida has a surplus of tests..
Florida DUers - is this true? What is your testing experience? I'm really curious.
This maladministration has turned me into a conspiracy theorist. I think all the surplus equipment is being stored at Merde-a-Lardo, being dispensed by Jared to places that send the biggest kickbacks.
It's the shit show with a Foxbot!
It's an orange thing up there lying. And discussing Flynn, the "Democrat" party, and defending sexual misconduct by BLOTUS and Kavanaugh.
This thang is copying Kellyanne - she'll lie about anything.
I can't wait to see SNL.
BLOTUS
We all know how much the government loves acronyms. NASA, NATO, RADAR, FBI, CIA etc. Presidents are known by the acronym POTUS, even the current squatter in the White House.
I was reading the news, saw a reference to tRump and a picture, and thought, "POTUS? He looks more like BLOTUS!"
Not only does it describe his physical appearance, but it is also an abbreviation for
Biggliest Liar of the United States.
Please post your own ideas on what BLOTUS stands for.
Also, I think I'll call Melania SLOTUS.
Two stories about voting by mail in California
First my little cousin. When he turned eighteen, twenty years ago., I cornered him at his birthday lunch and refused hear about the new car he'd just bought (that boy has had more cars by the time he'd turned twenty than I've had in my lifetime - don't know if he's ever finished paying one off before he traded it in, but oh well) until he'd signed a voter registration form. He did not want to, because he heard that jury duty is taken from the voter rolls. Prevaricating just a bit, I told him that wasn't true - it was taken from the DMV rolls. So he signed the application and was registered to vote absentee because he was moving around the state a lot at that time.
The ballot came to his mom's house. We were up at my aunt's (his grandmother) and I asked his mom did he vote. This is Bush vs Gore. His mom said yes, the ballot arrived and she filled it out, signed it and mailed it in. Grandma and I both laid into her.
"That's illegal!" I said. "And wrong!" said my aunt. After several minutes of this, we dropped it, because you can't tell mom anything.
Couple of weeks later, mom and I are up at grandma's house again. Grandma was recently widowed so we went there as often as we could. Mom blurts out, "Son got kicked off the voter rolls!" Why? The signatures did not match. Oh really?
Skip to several years later and I'm up at grandma's house again by myself. She has started to vote by absentee because she's getting frail. Election day is tomorrow, but she hasn't mailed the ballot out yet. This the is 2008 primary, Obama vs Clinton, and the vote is tomorrow. She asks me what to do. We looked at the voter information she had and found that I could drop it off at any polling place if she signed and and sealed the envelope.
I went to my polling place on election day and checked with the poll worker. She said grandma's ballot was fine if the signatures match. My aunt was happy because she believes in voting as strongly as I do.
So grandma got to vote, and her grandson didn't. Because the signatures matched or didn't.
The moral of the story is:
States check. Don't believe vote by mail is always about fraud (unless you are in North Carolina apparently).
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