1/ Tucker Carlson tomorrow: "To evade detection from the Black Lives Matter drones that track all UPS packages, we stored a cache of damning documents implicating Hunter Biden in myriad international grifts on the hard drive of a Commodore 64 computer. My assistant packed...
2/ ...the computer in a large envelope, because we feared a box might seem suspicious, since rectangles are the symbol of the largest satanic Democratic child-sex ring. To protect the computer, my assistant surround it with Wonder Bread. We have photos of him buying the bread...
3/ ...and sealing the envelope. He used two slices of the bread to make a sandwich, but that also disappeared. We suspect Obama. It's clear that sometime after the package arrived at UPS, someone - possibly Chelsea Clinton - opened the package, removed the bread and computer...
4/ ...and made off with the very real secret documents that were definitely stored on the Commodore 64 along with an old copy of the game Jupiter Lander. UPS officials tell us all they found was an open envelope, several bread crusts and a note containing a series of symbols.
5/ We called in Rudy Giuliani to translate the symbols, and he recognized them as part of a secret language Hillary Clinton used when she was plotting the invasion of the American consulate in Benghazi. It simply read: "Glucose." We're investigating what that might mean, but...
6/ ...we suspect it's related to radical Islamic terrorism or Sharia law. Meanwhile, we can say definitively tonight that the very real documents stolen by Chelsea Clinton and her mother were all the proof you need to know that Hunter Biden is actually Barack Obama...
7/ ...and Joe Biden is Obama's cousin, Osama bin Laden, whose death was a hoax perpetrated by Jimmy Carter, who is actually head of cabal of globalists dead-set on destroying Christmas and turning Branson, Mo., into a smelting plant where enslaved rural Americans melt guns...
8/ ...and forge them into statues of Karl Marx. We'll keep on top of this developing story, unless Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shrinks herself down to microscopic size again and enters my brain through my ear canal. Good night, and stay vigilant. END
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Trump speaking to Rush Limbaugh, in about 15 minutes, probably: "You know, Rush, I hate the letter 'V.' We should really get rid of it, just a stupid letter. This one general came to me and he said, 'Sir, we don't need that dumb letter that kind of looks like a 'U' but isn't.'"
"I mean, seriously, it's a dumb letter. Get rid of it. Anyway, I have this bucket next to me. Beautiful steel...maybe aluminum or rubber...who knows. Beautiful steel bucket. And I like to stick my head in it sometimes. Just wear it around and pretend I'm a knight, you know?"
"Everyone around me loves it. They all say, 'Mr. President, you look great in that bucket. It's so good for our country.' And it is so good, Rush, truly. It's so good for our country. Bucket. I sold many buildings, you know. And they were made of things too. Not buckets."
1/ And now Fox News - yes, Fox News! - confirms the story from The Atlantic about Trump talking shit about veterans. For what it's worth, I'll share my thoughts from a journalism perspective.
2/ A story using anonymous sources is easy to deny, even if it comes from a respected journalist at a respected publication. But, when other reputable news organizations (AP, Washington Post etc...) start getting confirmation that the story is accurate, it gets hard to tamp down.
3/ It's worth noting that magazine fact-checking is often painstakingly thorough. Nobody wants to get sued. So it's highly unlikely a publication like The Atlantic runs a story like that unless it's rock solid.
But regardless, that reporting is now buttressed by other reports.
1/ This is beautiful, and gut-wrenching. And horribly true. So let me tell you a story.
I've felt an anger boiling in me lately. I try to keep those kind of feelings at bay and use humor to make my points. It seems better, for some reason. Maybe even more productive.
2/ But between the catastrophe of Trump's coronavirus response and the senseless, cult-like devotion of his supporters, I feel angry. Mad that people aren't fully rejecting incompetence and rank cruelty. Mad that damn near 40% of the country seems lost. And I mean lost. Gone.
3/ That video from tonight's convention reminded me of the root of my anger. Before the rest of the country heard of "family separation," I got a tip about a little girl being held in Chicago. She had been separated from her mother, who fled Africa with her in mortal fear.
I live in a state (Illinois) that has taken coronavirus seriously and in a metropolitan area (Chicago) that has had serious and smart restrictions. But things have reopened a good amount, and what I'm seeing is confounding.
2/ This morning I drove past a baseball field and there was a little league game starting. None of the kids were wearing masks and they were huddled around each other making no effort to distance. None of the coaches were wearing masks or distancing. None of the parents either.
3/ I see high school kids all over the place congregating, and the vast majority are not wearing masks. Kids in our area are hanging out mask-less and not social distancing.
What the hell do people not understand about this? If you can't socially distance, you wear a damn mask.
1/ I've said this before: Trump's play - and likely what he wanted all along - is to draw his cult following and their unquenchable thirst for grievance into a news network that will give him constant adoration while also allowing him to continue the grift.
2/ Some part of his lizard brain surely sees that reelection - while definitely still possible - is in jeopardy. As a narcissist, he needs an exit strategy, and OANN is the culmination of his ego-driven dreams. It gives him a platform to never admit defeat, and to stoke rage...
3/ ...among his most slavish supporters, squeezing them for donations to legal defense funds and various other shams. It also gives him and his Evil Addams Family offspring a tool to promote endless Trump-branded garbage.
1/ Something from today's column about coronavirus stay-at-home order protesters I wanted to expand on a bit. There are good people out there who are feeling desperate because they need to get paid. Rent is due. Bills are due. The government's $1,200...
2/ ...isn't nearly enough. I get that, I empathize with that and I'm worried too. As I noted in the column, my industry is getting clobbered. Pay cuts, furloughs or layoffs are coming. It scares the crap out of me. But the thing that doesn't seem to be getting through to some...
3/ ...is that rushing to reopen the country will set us back. We'll be right back where we are now, or we'll let a huge number of people die. The other issue is: How do you reopen businesses when people aren't ready to come out? The polling is clear on this. A vast majority...