Donald Trump, US President #47, US President #45, convicted felon, twice impeached, four times indicted, liable of rape, convicted for financial fraud, guilty of hiding hush money payments to porn actress in attempt to influence 2016 elections

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#2447745 27-Mar-2020 10:25

TRUMP INVOKES DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TO MASS-PRODUCE SPRAY TAN

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Invoking the Defense Production Act, Donald J. Trump has ordered the nation’s factories to begin mass-producing gallons of spray tan.

Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said that, because millions of Americans have been forced to remain indoors, the country’s stockpiles of tanning fluid have fallen to “dangerously low” levels.

“I sent Mike Pence out to buy some yesterday, and he went to store after store and they were all out,” Trump said. “It’s a disgraceful situation.”

Trump said that, although he had been reluctant to invoke the D.P.A., “People are going to lose their tans within days if nothing is done.”

Under the order, the specific hue of spray tan that Trump has demanded will be pumped out by retrofitted factories that normally manufacture orange paint.

White House sources confirmed that Trump has also invoked the Defense Production Act to manufacture Sharpies and yellow hair dye.

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#2447799 27-Mar-2020 11:25

If Trumpy was the president to succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt, he would have cancelled the Manhattan Project as it sounded too technical to him and his brain hurts.

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#2447801 27-Mar-2020 11:30

If Trump was president during WWII, he'd have said there were "very fine people on both sides."

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#2447870 27-Mar-2020 12:01

Trump doesn't always blow on the pie.

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#2447881 27-Mar-2020 12:11

dclegg:

Trump doesn't always blow on the pie.

But when he does, it is the bigliest, most tremendous blow ever, maybe in the whole history of blows. Folks are telling me.

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#2447883 27-Mar-2020 12:12

Apparently Biden did a broadcast from his basement that was worse than embarrassing. The auto cue failed, he was fishing around looking for papers and back to being bumbling Biden.

i know we've talked about Trump having dementia but I'm starting to wonder if Biden is going the same way.

Even if the virus figures are truly horrifying for Trump I just can't see him losing the election with Biden running against him. The Dems really are doomed to be out of the frame for a long time if they can't even find a candidate to beat the worst President ever.

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#2447912 27-Mar-2020 12:42

At this point they ought to just say what the hell and select Bernie at the convention. Or could they still choose someone else then? I'm not sure how that works.

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#2447982 27-Mar-2020 13:43

Rikkitic:

At this point they ought to just say what the hell and select Bernie at the convention. Or could they still choose someone else then? I'm not sure how that works.

The only advantage Sanders has over Biden is I'm pretty sure he doesn't have dementia. And for a lot of Americans it would be the same as voting for Chairman Mao.

Just pick one of the younger female candidates (not Warren). After all what have they got to lose. At least it would make Trump look like the old duffer he is.

IMO this all comes down to how Schumer and Pelosi have been running the show. They should have been put in the retirement home a long time ago.

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#2448007 27-Mar-2020 13:51

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is the guy they need.

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#2448018 27-Mar-2020 14:01

Trump on the Titanic: That's not an iceberg. It is just a fog bank put there by the Democrats!

To Jack in the water: Don't worry about the cold. Soon you will start to feel much better, better than you have ever felt before!

To Rose on the plank: If you get lonely, here's my number!

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#2448040 27-Mar-2020 14:17

Rikkitic:

At this point they ought to just say what the hell and select Bernie at the convention. Or could they still choose someone else then? I'm not sure how that works.

I think they are bound to vote for the candidate they are pledged to in the first round of voting. If there are subsequent rounds it can be a free-for-all. They could end up choosing someone not even running in the primary if they wanted.

I am not sure there are any real rules to being bound in the first round or if it is just expected with no hard and fast rule about it.

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#2448113 27-Mar-2020 15:15

The Verge: Congress proposes anti-child abuse rules to punish web platforms — and raises fears about encryption

Senators have proposed a law requiring websites to actively fight child exploitation or risk losing legal protections. The bill, Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (or EARN IT) Act, was introduced by Senators. It would establish a new government commission composed of administration officials and outside experts, who would set “best practices” for removing child sexual exploitation and abuse material online.

The principles are theoretically voluntary, but if companies don’t comply, they can be held legally responsible for that content — losing some protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. They can maintain immunity if they establish that they have “other reasonable practices” in place.

A draft of the EARN IT Act circulated in late January, and it was met with alarm by privacy advocates and some tech companies. The draft bill gave the committee wide latitude to make rules governing online platforms, and it gave the Justice Department substantial influence over the committee. It was widely seen as an attack on encryption since the “best practices” could include a backdoor giving law enforcement access to users’ private conversations.

Attorney General William Barr has previously pushed Apple to unlock phones for criminal investigations and urged Facebook to delay implementing end-to-end encryption on its messaging apps.
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Senator Ron Wyden (Democrat-Oregon), however, issued a furious statement calling the EARN IT Act “a transparent and deeply cynical effort by a few well-connected corporations and the Trump administration to use child sexual abuse to their political advantage, the impact to free speech and the security and privacy of every single American be damned.”
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union objected to the proposal, with the EFF calling it “custom-designed to break encryption” and the ACLU arguing it “threatens the safety of activists, domestic violence victims, and millions of others who rely on strong encryption every day.”
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#2448402 27-Mar-2020 20:25

The President is trapped.

For his entire adult life, and for his entire presidency, Donald Trump has created his own alternate reality, complete with his own alternate set of facts. He has shown himself to be erratic, impulsive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel, mendacious, and devoid of empathy. None of that is new.

But we’re now entering the most dangerous phase of the Trump presidency. The pain and hardship that the United States is only beginning to experience stem from a crisis that the president is utterly unsuited to deal with, either intellectually or temperamentally. When things were going relatively well, the nation could more easily absorb the costs of Trump’s psychological and moral distortions and disfigurements. But those days are behind us. The coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions that can catalyze a destructive set of responses from an individual with Trump’s characterological defects and disordered personality.

We are now in the early phase of a medical and economic tempest unmatched in most of our lifetimes. There’s too much information we don’t have. We don’t know the full severity of the pandemic, or whether a state like New York is a harbinger or an outlier. But we have enough information to know this virus is rapidly transmissible and lethal.

There are some 325 million people in America, and it’s hard to think of more than a handful who are more lacking in these qualities than Donald Trump.

But we need to consider something else, which is that the coronavirus pandemic may lead to a rapid and even more worrisome psychological and emotional deterioration in the commander in chief. This is not a certainty, but it’s a possibility we need to be prepared for.

Here’s how this might play out; to some extent, it already has.

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#2448482 27-Mar-2020 22:40

kingdragonfly: If Trump was president during WWII, he'd have said there were "very fine people on both sides."

Which was particulary true on a humaritarian level, not in politics.

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#2448630 28-Mar-2020 10:30

NEW EVIDENCE INDICATES INTELLIGENCE NOT CONTAGIOUS

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—New evidence uncovered over the past several weeks indicates that intelligence is not contagious, a study by the Centers for Disease Control reports.

In a month-long experiment documented by the study, a seventy-nine-year-old man with a great deal of intelligence was placed in close proximity to a seventy-three-year-old man with none, to see if the former's knowledge and expertise could be transmitted.

However, following this period of near-constant exposure, the seventy-three-year-old man appeared “one hundred per cent asymptomatic” of intelligence, the researchers found.

“In terms of facts, data, and wisdom, there was zero spread,” the report stated.

The researchers left open the possibility that, although intelligence might be transmissible between certain people, the seventy-three-year-old subject of the experiment was definitely incapable of learning and had probably been this way for some considerable time.

“There is evidence to suggest that the subject has developed an immunity to intelligence, making it impossible for him to assimilate even rudimentary knowledge,” the study concluded.

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