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Associated Press reporter James LaPorta: Senior Defense Department officials I just spoke with confirmed this story by Jeffrey Goldberg in its entirety.

https://twitter.com/AlexHortonTX/status/1301718837059035138?s=19

CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr: “This article has been published for several hours. Complete silence from the four star generals and admirals. No words of support for the commander in chief.”

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  1. The guy is despicable and disgusting. There is a large veterans for Biden movement.
     
    Tornado touched down about two miles from here.  It was a rough, and very wet, ride while the storms built up and bashed through here.

  3. BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

     
    (from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth)
     

    Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
    To the last syllable of recorded time;
    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
    The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
    And then is heard no more. It is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

  5. When I first heard this, I thought it was a story from the Onion.  I mean…   like….  could trump possibly be this stupid?…    YUP!
     
    Sturg…  perfect Shakespeare quote.

  6. Now that’s one I haven’t heard in quite a while. I suppose we can use a bit of happy music, to remind us there’s still some happy out there. 

  7. So dumbass’s dystopian view of the BLM protests is false. Imagine that. WaPo. 

    About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence and property damage that has dominated political discourse constituting only a minute portion of the thousands of demonstrations that followed the killing of George Floyd in May.

    The report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, also concluded that an escalation in the government response to protests and a sharp uptick in extremist activity means the United States faces a growing risk of “political violence and instability” ahead of the 2020 election.

    ACLED, which monitors war zones and political upheaval around the world, launched the US Crisis Monitor reportwith Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative. Using media accounts and other public information, the report identified 7,750 protests from May 26 through Aug. 22 that were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. The protests took place in 2,400 locations across all 50 states and the District.

    “The heavy-handed police response appears to have inflamed tensions and increased the risk of violent escalation,” the report states. “The escalating use of force against demonstrators comes amid a wider push to militarize the government’s response to domestic unrest, and particularly demonstrations perceived to be linked to left-wing groups like antifa, which the administration views as a ‘terrorist’ organization.”
    The report noted that National Guard troops or federal agents have been dispatched at least 55 times since Floyd’s killing.
    In Portland, Ore., where protests this summer have been especially intense, the arrival of federal forces in July created even more volatility, the report states. In late May and June, fewer than one-fourth of Portland’s demonstrations were “met with state force,” the report states. That figure jumped to 40 percent in July and August.

    Conversely, the number of violent demonstrations rose from 53 percent to 63 percent after President Trump dispatched federal agents to that city. Statewide in Oregon, the number of “violent” demonstrations increased from 17 percent to 42 percent after the federal deployment began.
    “Although federal authorities were purportedly deployed to keep the peace, the move appears to have re-escalated tensions,” the report states.

    (Continues)

    Despicable Dumbass. LSOS. 

  8. reposting from earlier this morning:

    the atlantic :

    Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day

     
     

  10. the hill:

    Progressive group NextGen America on Thursday unveiled a series of new presidential and Senate ads seeking to boost Democrats in battleground states by targeting young voters.

    The group is spending more than $1.3 million across six states to boost presidential nomineeJoe Bidenand six figures on ads in four states backing Democratic Senate candidates.

    The ad buy is part of NextGen America’s $11 million pro-Biden advertising program that has been running since June 1.

    […]

    The latest pro-Biden ads will run in Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida — six statesPresident Trumpnarrowly won four years ago that are battlegrounds again this year.

    […]

    The Senate ads the group is launching will back Democrats Sara Gideonin Maine,Mark Kellyin Arizona,Cal Cunninghamin North CarolinaandTheresa Greenfieldin Iowa.

    […]

    NextGen America’s ad launch comes after the group released an August survey finding 77 percent of registered voters ages 18-35 across 13 battleground states said they “definitely will vote”in the upcoming elections. The same poll found Biden leads Trump by 27 points among those voters. 

    The group’s August poll also found that 56 percent of the voters said they would vote for a Democratic Senate candidate, a 6-point increase from the number who said the same in a July poll.

  11. https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/09/03/lovers-vote-swipe-right-not-left-for-biden/

    Arizona college students looking for a date or hookup might instead find a sales pitch for voting for Joe Biden, as a progressive political action committee deploys organizers to canvass on dating apps.

    A team of about 20 organizers from NextGen America began swiping right on young potential voters two weeks ago, with a goal of registering young people to vote and getting them to turn out in November. So far, organizers are chatting up would-be voters between the ages of 18 and 35 on dating apps Bumble, Tinder and Hinge, as well as Bumble’s friendship-based variant Bumble BFF.

    It’s a new technique for NextGen Arizona, which set a goal of registering 30,000 young voters in time for the November election. Campus restrictions caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic prevent organizers and volunteers from freely mingling with college students the way they did in 2018, pushing NextGen to try to reach young people online.

     

    “So far, we’re reaching hundreds of potential young voters each week, and it’s really setting us well on our way to hitting our goal of registered voters before November,” spokeswoman Kristi Johnston said.

    [continues]

  12. somebody needs to remake that john edwards “i feel pretty” primp video to skewer D’ump on his worry about  disheveled hair vs honoring fallen heroes.

  13. Of course the current & former Press Secretaries, Ninny Nanny and The Huckabee were out in full denial that the events ever happened as described since Donny had often praised men in uniform while in their presence.

    The Oaks and race for the lilies is today.  Is everyone on a horse for tomorrow’s Derby?

    Jamie – NY Traffic  & Necker Island 

    Renee / XR – Tiz The Law 

    Patd – Finnick the Fierce 

    Sturgeone – NY Traffic 

    BiD – NY Traffic 

    Pogo – Storm The Court 

    KGC – Authentic 

     

  14. Thanks for Gary US Bonds.  Since I keep trying to remember the day and time, might as well kick off a spate of things to tell time by.

     

  16. Jamie – Authentic looks good to me.
     
    Pogo – heck of a race.  Bora blew the race apart in the first ten kilometers.  Sagan has the points to be in green again.

  17.  
    There is formal planning for every conceivable contingency. Americans should sleep well knowing that their generals are apolitical constitutionalists.
     
     
     
     

  21. Jamie – NY Traffic  & Necker Island 

    Renee / XR – Tiz The Law 

    Patd – Finnick the Fierce 

    Sturgeone – NY Traffic 

    BiD – NY Traffic 

    Pogo – Storm The Court 

    KGC / BB – Authentic 

    David B – Honor AP 

  29. Michael Cohen: The Atlantic⁩ article is accurate. I testified, “Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur. When I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He finished with: ‘You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.” https://t.co/FnHBqOyiaZ

  30. How could you doubt it after what he said about John McCain?  He thinks anyone who is not a cheat and a liar is a loser.

  32. Everything he said in the Swan and Ingraham interviews was disqualifying, and that was on camera!  How could anyone possibly vote for a literal babbling dullard?
     
    Only a fool would vote for a fool.

  34. Hm, if that’s a portmanteau of his name and another word that i suspect, i can’t subscribe to that slight.
     
    i like that the new profanity is words of marginalization while sexual/bodily slang is less of a big deal.  “Fuck” as a condiment, though, i always say.
     
    OK, please resign, Mr. President.
    ✌️❤️🇺🇸
     

  36. A mint julep requires very little ice to be good.  The mint is important, it should not be bubble gum flavour.

    Here is a fun thing. Sometime in the last week or two the name or word “Hunter” was combined with my last name. I am now receiving all sorts of weird ads and junk email to “Hunter Bennett”. I have no idea but it is fun. I can make a nice filter so those go right to the junk/delete folder.

  42. Now that President pettifogger has p.o.ed the warhawks, he’d better flee, while his fleas are still a-fleece.

  44. wapo:

    Biden, his voice raised, responded personally to the claims made in an explosive Atlantic article about Trump’s view of the military, saying that when his son Beau Biden volunteered to serve, “he wasn’t a sucker.”

    Trump is accused, among other comments, of referring to soldiers killed or injured in war as “losers” and “suckers.” Biden said if the “disgusting” allegations are true, Trump owes an apology to every military family.

    “President Trump has demonstrated he has no sense of service, no loyalty to any cause other than himself,” Biden said. “I’m always cautioned not to lose my temper. This may be as close as I’ve come in this campaign.”

    […]

    Biden took questions from reporters, the first of which was what the former vice president believed Trump’s alleged remarks said about “his soul and the life he leads.”

    “How would you feel if you had a kid in Afghanistan right now? How would you feel if you lost a son, daughter, husband, wife? How would you feel for real?” Biden said, his voice emotional. “I probably — I’ve just never been as disappointed in my whole career with a leader that I’ve worked with, president or otherwise.

    “If the article is true, and it appears to be based on other things he’s said, it is absolutely damnable. It is a disgrace.”

  47. Re the ‘debates’ :
    I’d love to see trump try to stalk Biden as he did to Clinton in ’16. However, I suspect that the release of trump’s financial & tax forms will be the price of his admission to the event.

    Think trump will be phased by seeing his ex-wives, and the other 24 women who accuse him of rape in the first row ? Probably not. But, Biden could use his intro time to introduce them all, complete with the dates and places of the rapes, and the amounts trump paid to hush them up. That would be great for ratings and re-runs.

  49. Just out of the hospital
    I can tell you, when the going gets tough the tough take a pain pill
    Good news while it was cancer they think they got it all I may not have to do chemo  just monitor it
    More later when I’m not drug addled
    A request
    I need a back up for Sunday. If someone has a favorite they would like to post please do it would be much appreciated
    Jack

  50. jack, glad it went okay. prognosis sounds good.  you have every right to be addled and excused from sunday duty.  if no one posts anything by early hours sunday, i’ll fill in with something.  one of these maybe

  52. Jamie – NY Traffic  & Necker Island 

    Renee / XR – Tiz The Law 

    Patd –  Money Moves 

    Sturgeone – NY Traffic 

    BiD – NY Traffic 

    Pogo – Storm The Court 

    KGC / BB – Authentic 

    David B/ Flatus  – Honor AP 

    Craig – Major Fed 

     

  54. Apparently a group of Veterans have notified Congress that they want to purchase Stars & Stripes.  Stay posted for major slap in face of the SFB.  

  55. speaking of the derby, this in louisville courier journal today:

    Churchill Downs announced Friday it will play the controversial anthem “My Old Kentucky Home” at the 146th Kentucky Derby on Saturday, proceeded by a moment of silence.

    The song written in 1853 by Stephen Foster is a Kentucky slave’s lament about being sold down the river. For years some people have expressed concerns over the anthem and say Churchill Downs should not play it, especially against a backdrop of racial justice protests being held across Louisville and the country.

    Steve Buttleman, Churchill Downs’ longtime bugler, will perform “My Old Kentucky Home” with no lyrics ahead of the 146th Kentucky Derby.

    “The 100-year tradition of singing the state song of Kentucky has been thoughtfully and appropriately modified and will be preceded by a moment of silence and reflection,” a spokesperson for Churchill Downs wrote on Twitter Friday.

  59. So sick of his arsonist/fireman routine. Start a fire, then claim credit for putting it out. 

    Trump: The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch. It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!

  61. Craig –  considering the budget was provided with the S&S not funded back in February it does not sound like he thought it would be a problem.  He and his cult supporters somehow did not expect a blow back of this size from the military and others.  His Friday really has been a loser.

  65. I’m guessing that US tax dollars paid for the Border Patrol to produce a video DRAMATIZING a migrant attacking someone.     Those a-holes love SFB.

  68. My grandfather served in the march to Berlin, and the emotional trauma from it still reverberates through my family 75 years, later.
     
    What a sucker!

  69. Jack, so glad to hear that they think they’ve fixed you, well, you know…
     
    OK, kids, the Tour moves into the Pyrenees tomorrow and starts with a bang – 2 Cat 1 climbs and one HC (above category) climb between them.  I expect movement in the standings.

  73. Pogo Bink – The Tour is so different this year.  Two more stages before the rest day.  I think Bora really did a number on the riders, all the riders.  That will be evident ni the morning.  But one thing I was thought was the future of the race was the final one hundred kilometers was the lead group of forty riders.  Those were quite a mix of teams, but seasoned riders.  I think they were the ones who trained well during the shutdown and kept in riding condition.  Also, the kick of the day was Sagan dropping the chain at the sprint – sigh.
     
    Tornado about a quarter mile from me yesterday.  Much closer than I thought.

  74. Dumbass is losing vets.  WaPo.  

    In 2016, Army veteran David Weissman was an “unapologetic, red-hat wearing” Donald Trump supporter. The Palm Bay, Fla., resident would regularly join social media mobs attacking liberals, he later wrote, seeking to defend a candidate who he said rightfully prioritized the armed forces.

    Four years later, Weissman — who served two tours in Afghanistan — has now sparked a Twitter campaign of former service members against President Trump, over reports that he derided fallen U.S. soldiers as “losers” and “suckers.”

    “I recommend all veterans to use their Military pics as a profile pic,” Weissman wrote on Twitter on Thursday evening, “to let Trump know how many people he has offended.”

    Weissman’s online call to arms underscored the outpouring of anger that erupted from military veterans and their families overnight against Trump, following a bombshell article in the Atlantic that Trump and several top aides have vehemently denied.
    ****

    As first reported by the Atlantic and later confirmed in part by other media outlets, including The Washington Post, Trump said wounded veterans should not march in a military parade and canceled his visit to a French cemetery for American Marines killed in World War I because he had no interest in honoring his country’s war dead.

    The president — who received a medical deferment from the Vietnam War — also repeatedly questioned why anyone would join the armed forces, notably in comments to his then-chief of staff, John F. Kelly, according to the Atlantic.

    “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” he asked on Memorial Day 2017, standing beside the grave of Kelly’s son, who was killed in Afghanistan at age 29, the Atlantic reported.

    White House officials swiftly rejected the accounts in the Atlantic article, calling them false and noting late Thursday that the president has demonstrated his admiration for service members through an increase in military spending and key policy reforms for veterans.

    “I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes,” Trump said in Washington late Thursday, upon his return from a campaign trip to Pennsylvania. “There is nobody that respects them more. So, I just think it’s a horrible, horrible thing.”

    Yet the disparaging remarks described in the Atlantic are hardly the first time that Trump has spoken ill of the armed forces.

    Despite a long history of revering generals, the president has criticized his former defense secretary, Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general, as “not tough enough” and “overrated.”
    ****

    Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the reports of Trump’s disparaging comments were “the last full measure of his disgrace,” altering a line from the Gettysburg Address.“When you serve, you do so selflessly. You don’t do it for the paycheck, the medal, or the uniform. You do it because you believe in America,” Crow wrote ina statement. “That’s something Trump will never understand.”

    VoteVets, a liberal political action committee that supports veteran candidates and mobilizes the veteran vote, quickly seized on the Atlantic story as a chance to boost Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

    “There is no rhyme or reason for Trump to cruelly attack our nation’s fallen heroes,” Will Goodwin, the group’s director of governmental relations, said in a statement. “Soon, with the votes of millions of veterans and active duty service members, we will again have a President and Commander in Chief worthy of the title — Joe Biden.”
    (Continues)

    He’d swear on “anything” that he didn’t say it?  Oh, that settles it.~~~~ 

  76. Well kids, time to head for the hills – got some lakeage in the hopper this weekend – a little cool perhaps, but sunny and NOT IN EAST BUMFUCK.

  77. It’d be hard to imagine calling any one of my uncles a loser. tough Alabama boys.   Mostly South Pacific, at the tough ones you always hear about.
    Such a smack in the puss I woulda got….

  81. 52% of young adults in the US are living with their parents. That's the highest share since the Great Depression

    “Before 2020, the highest measured value was in the 1940 census at the end of the Great Depression, when 48% of young adults lived with their parents,” says the report, published Friday. “The peak may have been higher during the worst of the Great Depression in the 1930s, but there is no data for that period.”
    Pew defines young adults as 18- to 29-year-olds. The number of young adults living with parents grew to 26.6 million in July, an increase of 2.6 million from February, Pew said.

    Young adults have been hit especially hard by the recent economic downturn and have been more likely to move than other age groups, according to Pew research.

  83. Trump’s rhetoric on protests seen as detrimental by majority of Americans: POLL
    Even Republicans are divided on his approach, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.

  84. Tony…  I’d pick Biden as being better at all those questions too.  The only thing I’d give the upper hand to trump is if there were a question asking… who’s better at fucking porn stars…
     
     
     

  85. shedaresthedevil won the oaks!

    drinks all around!!!  

    Original Oaks Lily

    Ingredients

    • 1 ounces vodka
    • 1 ounces sweet and sour mix or lemonade
    • 3 ounces cranberry juice
    • Splash of triple sec
    • 3 blackberries

    Instructions

    • Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
    • Shake until cold, strain into a tall glass filled with crushed ice.
    • Garnish with blackberries on a skewer.
    • Add sipping straws and enjoy.

  86. nbc news:

    Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday he believes his former boss will “do anything and everything” to win re-election and “even go so far as to start a war” to remain in office.

    In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt, Cohen was asked if he thought Trump would win in November.

     

    “So Donald Trump will do anything and everything within which to win. And I believe that includes manipulating the ballots,” Cohen said.

    “I believe that he would even go so far as to start a war in order to prevent himself from being removed from office,” Cohen continued. “My biggest fear is that there will not be a peaceful transition of power in 2020.”

    [continues]

  88. I don’t get why people are so fascinated with the Tour de France.  Nothing but cheaters since it started.  Including an electric moter

  89. KC, there are cheaters in pro cycling, like in baseball, football, the olympics, hockey …. but go do a century ride – do it in 4 hours- the next morning wake up and think “ I’ve got to do 17 of these in the next 20 days and half of them are in the mountains.”  It might give you perspective on why people like the grand tours of cycling. 

  96. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/lou-holtz-medal-of-freedom-donald-trump/index.html
    tRUMP will, again, take a huge crap on freedom, by awarding the Medal of Freedom to a racist, nut-bag…just because he said something bad (and incorrect) about Joe’s  Catholicism.  
    It means absolutely nothing if it comes from tRUMP.  It might as well be cardboard covered in the tin foil from a hat of one of his followers.  
    Lou Holz is a piece of garbage. 

  99. I got the shingles vaccine in my left shoulder on Monday. It hurt on Tuesday. Couldn’t sleep. Slept in agony of pain, fever and chills all day Wednesday. Thursday was a little better, and I got up for a few hours. The left shoulder was red and blistered. Friday morning felt better for awhile, but then had to return to bed and sweat like I was in Death Valley. Fever dreams : In the sauna with hitler; trying to escape nazi Germany in December 1941; trying to escape commie China in the 60s. Slept half the day. 
     
    Diagnosis : I got shingles from the shingles vaccine called shingrex. AVOID IT !  

  100. Damn XR. That’s the new, improved shingles vaccine. I take it you aren’t going back for the 2nd shot?  Kidding aside, shingles is a BITCH. I don’t wish it on anyone (almost). 

  102. Apparently, Mr Pogo, this was my 3d shingles attack. Twice from the very shots that are supposed to prevent it. I’m damned lucky that all of them were short-lived attacks. Some people suffer from this horrid shit for a decade or more. I’d rather just die and get it over with.
     
    WTF did I need that shot for anyway ? Apparently, the protocol excludes old geezers like me, and since I’ve already had shingles, am I not supposed to be less likely to get it again – unless I get their gawdamned fucking shot ! 
     
    Sorry, Mr Pogo. I don’t mean to be rude to you. I’ve just gotta bark. Thanks for your sympathy.

  103. X-R, 3 shots?  why the third? what’s up with your provider?  he/she must not have read CDC guidelines on it or perhaps under the spell of an over active big pharm pimp and drug pusher.

    in the meantime see and heed CDC blurb found at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/index.html

    If you experience side effects from Shingrix, you should report them to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Your doctor might file this report, or you can do it yourself through the VAERS websiteexternal icon, or by calling 1-800-822-7967.

     

     

     

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