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Up until the last 20 years or so, we didn't have the media infrastructure- like writers, directors, producers, and production staff and facilities to crank out the same level of professional productions. Now, we have Lionsgate Films and a lot of good people, but there are Canadians who get caught up in the idea that they have to compete in the US and leave to do that. The same applies to music performers.

Wasn't he on Miami Vice? Or Kojak?

Ah yes. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Euphoric recall is waaaay better.

We have made Popeye's chicken our go-to. KFC is gonna suffer for Popeye's presence.

The good news is that the two younger males identified are not in care, and two people have been discharged from care as cured.

Correction: Kenny is the most despised with Pallister a close second overall.

Trump is igniting a constitutional crisis — and it could doom the US to becoming a failed state There are no universally accepted definitions of either a “failed state” or a “constitutional crisis.” Good arguments can be advanced, however, that we are suffering from both disorders at the state and national levels in the midst of the lethal COVID-19 pandemic. In a May 19 article, Guardian columnist Nathan Robinson argues that Wisconsin is beginning to resemble a failed state, which he defines as “one that can no longer claim legitimacy or perform a government’s core function of protecting the people’s basic security.” The Wisconsin GOP, Robinson writes, is a minority party, but after years of extreme gerrymandering, it wields de facto dictatorial powers, enabling it to gut public-sector unions and advance the privileges of business interests and the wealthy. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-is-igniting-a-constitutional-crisis-and-it-could-doom-the-us-to-becoming-a-failed-state/

She decried how awful mail-in votes are, yet she has voted that way for years.

Trump will pardon every criminal who acted in his behalf and all of his friends- maybe even pardon himself, as he has claimed to have the power to do.

New Zealand epidemiologist: ‘We look at Trump’s behavior and we’re horrified’ https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/new-zealand-epidemiologist-we-look-at-trumps-behavior-and-were-horrified/

When Trump loses the lection, hopefully in a decisive landslide, there is no way he would attend Biden's inauguration- his bone spurs will flare up.

But in France, hydroxychloroquine has been removed from the national formulary- meaning doctors can no longer prescribe it.

Wouldn't Fascistbook be more appropriate?

Study finds only half of Americans would get coronavirus vaccine, far below herd immunity levels Scientists believe roughly 70 percent of the population would need vaccination to achieve herd immunity https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-finds-only-half-of-americans-would-get-coronavirus-vaccine-far-below-herd-immunity-levels/

Trump continues to escalate and lose whatever scraps of reality he has been living in. And its gonna get worse.

Trump sparks horror by promoting video that says ‘only good Democrat is a dead Democrat' President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening promoted a video from the Cowboys for Trump Twitter account which began with the line, “I’ve come to the conclusion that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-sparks-horror-by-promoting-video-that-says-only-good-democrat-is-a-dead-democrat/

Donald Trump just issued his most serious threat yet to free speech Written by Matthew Rozsa There is no freedom more important than the right to free speech. So why aren’t more conservatives speaking out now that President Donald Trump has issued his most serious threat in recent memory to our collective First Amendment rights? On Wednesday the president threatened Twitter, a social media platform that he has used for half a decade to advance his political cause, after it included a fact-check label on one of his tweets. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/donald-trump-just-issued-his-most-serious-threat-yet-to-free-speech/

The only reason Trump was able to stimulate the economy at all was the massive tax cuts for corporations which increased profits and the stock market responded. FDR did not get an easy ride. Apart from his progressing illness, he was the subject of a planned coup because he was interfering with corporate profits by using government funds for massive infrastructure projects. The conspirators, which included several wealthy families, including the Duponts as well as Nazi sympathizers like Lindbergh and only fell apart when the Marine Corps general, Smedley Butler, who they approached went to Roosevelt. Roosevelt called them all in an threatened mass arrests and treason trials.

Surgeon general corrects Trump after he goes on bizarre tangent about insulin The president on Tuesday unveiled a White House plan that would slash the price of insulin for Medicare recipients and wondered if he should try to the hormone himself. “I don’t use insulin,” Trump said. “Should I be? Huh? I never thought about it, but I know a lot of people are very badly affected, right? Unbelievable.” Trump asked Surgeon General Jerome Adams to respond. Adams explained to the president that people without diabetes do not need to take insulin. “Your body, Mr. President, actually makes insulin endogenously, and people such as you and I — we make our own insulin,” he said. “So, yes, we do utilize insulin, but we make it ourselves.” Trump still did not seem to understand why there was anything off about someone without diabetes taking insulin. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/surgeon-general-corrects-trump-after-he-goes-on-bizarre-tangent-about-insulin/

Dr. Fauci undermines Trump’s hydroxychloroquine claims — says it’s ‘quite evident’ the drug won’t treat COVID-19 Written by Alex Henderson May 27, 2020 Although President Donald Trump has aggressively promoted hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19, major health experts do not share his enthusiasm for the anti-malaria drug. The World Health Organization announced Monday that it was suspending a clinical trial of the medication — and the following day, France’s health ministry announced a ban on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. On Wednesday, expert immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is part of Trump’s coronavirus task force, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that there is no proof that use of hydroxychloroquine can prevent one from being infected with coronavirus. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/watch-dr-fauci-undermines-trumps-hydroxychloroquine-claims-says-its-quite-evident-the-drug-wont-treat-covid-19/

Bad-mouthing Al again?

The great majority of police are good people but they are constrained by the culture they work in, just like most of us. Their well-being and sometimes even survival depends on mutual support but often that leads to complicity by silence.

The sad thing is that pretty much all this was predicted when Trump was elected, but I do not think that anyone would have believed the depth and breadth that Trump would go to to benefit himself by corrupting both the GOP and senate. Apart from all the corruption and gross incompetence, the GOP, with complicity/silence from the Democrats has mortgaged the future of America for at least the next decade. If/when the Democrats come into power again, they will have no choice but to raise taxes, and you can bet that its not going to be on the top1% or big corporations. The GOP will howl about how profligate the Democrats are.

Mike Pompeo ‘crossed a line’ by forming CIA advisory board ‘solely designed to advance his potential funding and political network’ Written by Alex Henderson May 27, 2020 Before Mike Pompeo was secretary of state in the Trump Administration, he served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency — a position he held from January 2017 (the month Trump was sworn into office) to April 2018. Journalist Natasha Bertrand looks back on Pompeo’s activities as CIA director in an article for Politico, reporting that he “put together an undisclosed board of outside advisers” that “some at the agency viewed as inappropriately weighted toward wealthy individuals and well-connected political figures.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/mike-pompeo-crossed-a-line-by-forming-cia-advisory-board-solely-designed-to-advance-his-potential-funding-and-political-network/

A couple of years ago, the FBI stated that right-wing/neo-Nazi groups posed a far greater threat than all other groups but were prevented from going after them by..... you guessed it- the White House.