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COVID-19 Drug Cocktail Trump Said He Is Taking Brings 45% Higher Risk of Death: Major Study REUTERS / Leah Millis A massive worldwide study of coronavirus patients has found that the malaria drug that President Trump has relentlessly promoted during the pandemic poses a significant risk of death, the Washington Post reports. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-coronavirus-drug-cocktail-linked-to-45-higher-death-risk-says-major-study?ref=home

A QAnon supporter just won a Republican primary for US Senate Jo Rae Perkins will be one of at least six GOP candidates for federal office on the ballot November 3. By Katelyn Burns May 20, 2020, 3:20pm E In winning the Oregon GOP primary for the US Senate Tuesday, Jo Rae Perkins became the seventh Republican congressional candidate who openly supports QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that maintains the president is secretly fighting “deep state” operatives and Democratic pedophiles. Perkins won a four-way race for the party’s Senate nomination, earning just short of 50 percent of the vote. Former naval officer Paul Romero finished second with 30 percent. Perkins will face off with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley in the general election on November 3, which Merkley is expected to win. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/20/21264925/jo-rae-perkins-qanon-us-senate-oregon

Well then, more for the rest of us.

Leaked Pentagon memo undercuts Trump's big promise: No vaccine until “at least the summer of 2021” Trump and his defense secretary tout a vaccine by year's end. An internal Pentagon memo paints a different pic A leaked Pentagon memo obtained by the military news outlet Task & Purpose undercut President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper's claims that a coronavirus vaccine would be widely available by the end of the year.

Trump: ‘I Tested Very Positively’ for COVID-19 I TESTED‘POSITIVELY TOWARD THE NEGATIVE’ Justin Baragona President Donald Trump was apparently so proud that he still doesn’t have coronavirus that he attempted to put a sunny spin on his most recent test results, briefly claiming he tested “positively” for the virus before explaining “negative” means “positive.” Telling reporters Wednesday that he thinks he has “another day” of his two-week regiment of the unproven anti-malaria hydroxychloroquine—which he says he’s taking as a coronavirus prophylactic—Trump then boasted about his latest COVID-19 test. “And I tested very positively in another sense,” Trump bellowed. “So this morning, I tested positively toward negative, right? So no, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it: Positively toward the negative.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-boasts-that-he-tested-very-positively-for-covid-19 (As if we needed any more proof that Trump is almost as smart as dryer lint)

You ain't seen nuthin' yet.

‘He ain’t bright’: Trump brutally mocked for ‘nonsensically’ insisting there are ‘many per capitas’ President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, participates in a roundtable discussion on the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation Monday, Dec16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Phois week, President Donald Trump defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic by asserting that that the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States isn’t so bad when analyzed on a per capita basis. But when Trump expanded on that line of thinking, his statement led to brutal mockery on social media. “And you know, when you say ‘per capita,’ there’s many per capitas,” Trump asserted. “It’s like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we’re really at the top, meaning positive, on a per capita basis too.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/he-aint-bright-trump-brutally-mocked-for-nonsensically-insisting-there-are-many-per-capitas/

Trump is on the verge of repeating a historic disaster by pushing the Wuhan lab hoax This time around, it’s the Trump administration’s reckless charge that Covid-19 — maybe manmade, maybe not, advocates of this conspiracy theory argue — was released perhaps deliberately, perhaps by accident from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the city that was the epicenter of the outbreak late last year. It’s a story that has ricocheted around the echo chambers of the far right, from conspiracy-oriented Internet kooks like Infowars’ Alex Jones to semi-respectable media tribunes and radio talk-show hosts to the very highest reaches of the administration itself, including President Trump. (It appears that Trump has chosen another plank for his re-election campaign )

This may have been posted elsewhere already and if so, my apologies. Ambrosie today announced that the league is exploring several season-opening scenarios but the most likely one is a September opening of the season. Good news!

It is still staggering to me that any sane American would still vote for Trump after all this. Hmmm.....I guess I just answered my own question.

There is a very preliminary study out of Norway (I think) that indicated that children were very unlikely to spread the virus.

Trump's past behaviour is that whenever his usual pattern of insults and belittling no longer work, he will escalate, first to threats, then he will intimate that violence is the only resort all the while denying he is doing so- his sycophants will do all the dirty work.

No matter what, Trump will try to portray himself as a victim so as to inflame his lunatic base and begin to set the stage for him to claim that the pending election is being stolen from him. Simultaneously, he and his minions will try to smear any and all opposition.

And the initial study done in France that seemed to support the efficacy of the hydroxychloroquine has been thoroughly discredited by the organization that sponsored it .

James Woods is a diehard Tea Party right-winger, but if he said this, it would mean that he is back into the nose candy again.

Trump Is Officially Out Of Control: An ‘assault on checks and balances’: Trump removes the IG investigating Transportation Secretary Chao — and Mitch McConnell already vetted the successor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (Image via Wikimedia Commons). Written by Alex Henderson May 20, 2020 1.3K Steve Linick, former inspector general for the U.S. State Department, isn’t the only watchdog who has been fired or demoted by President Donald Trump recently: Trump has also fired the U.S. Department of Transportation’s watchdog, Mitch Behm, who had been investigating Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. And Donald K. Sherman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington denounces the move as an “assault on checks and balances” in a scathing article for CREW’s website. “This move is the latest salvo of Trump’s assault on oversight,” Sherman.

Watched it. They used animation and split screen green screen and stitched things together- odd but got the job done.

World now looks at the US with ‘pity’ after White House coronavirus response ignites ‘disbelief and horror’: columnist Written by Sky Palma / Raw Story May 20, 2020 In an report for Business Insider this Wednesday, Adam Bienkov writes that President Trump is “presiding over the deterioration of the United States’ position on the world stage as European countries increasingly look towards China as a future global leader.” Citing recent opinion polls published in Germany, Britain, and France that show a decline in how Germans positively view the U.S., Bienkov points out that the shift came as a result of “global shock” over how President Trump was handling the response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump Threatens to Keep Money From Flood- and Virus-Hit Michigan After Apparently Misreading News Reports Jamie Ross Reporter Updated May. 20, 2020 9:39AM ET / Published May. 20, 2020 8:23AM ET Reuters / Leah Millis People in Michigan are facing historic floods on top of the coronavirus pandemic—but, rather than offering some help, President Trump has threatened to make things even harder. After an apparent misunderstanding, Trump has threatened to withhold unspecified funding from the state because, he said, it mailed out millions of absentee ballots for the upcoming primaries and presidential election. But that’s not the case—state officials said Tuesday that all registered voters will receive applications for absentee ballots to give them the choice to take part in elections without the risk of infection by the deadly virus. Trump has, knowingly or not, misunderstood that important distinction. The president wrote Wednesday morning: “Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-threatens-to-keep-money-from-flood-and-virus-hit-michigan-after-apparently-misreading-news-reports?ref=home

Trump Fans Gobble Up His Favorite, Unproven COVID Drug—Some Are Even Trying To Cook It Themselves QAnon users are posting make-at-home recipes for hydroxychloroquine as Trump says he’s using the drug Will Sommer Published May. 20, 2020 4:20AM ET Donald Trump’s allies are seeking out hydroxychloroquine and even trying risky substitutes for the anti-malaria drug as it has become an emblem of the president’s unorthodox approach to fighting coronavirus. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-gobble-up-his-favorite-unproven-covid-drugsome-are-even-trying-to-cook-it-themselves

Trump actually tried to spin the high COVID-19 case rate in the US as a ‘badge of honor’ Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement May 20, 2020 As the U.S. speeds ahead toward the stunning milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths President Donald Trump is trying to spin America’s first place status in the number of coronavirus cases as a “badge of honor.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-actually-tried-to-spin-the-high-covid-19-case-rate-in-the-u-s-as-a-badge-of-honor/

Leaked documents reveal how Trump White House ‘muzzled’ the CDC’s early COVID-19 warnings Written by Brad Reed / Raw Story May 20, 2020 New documents obtained by CNN show how the Trump White House shut down the Centers for Disease Control’s early attempts to sound the alarm about COVID-19’s spread throughout the United States. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/leaked-documents-reveal-how-trump-white-house-muzzled-the-cdcs-early-covid-19-warnings/

It started out well, but lost its way in series of sub-plots very quickly. I wouldn't miss it if it did not return, but it will.