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I'd take a horse over Trump for president.

We're still waiting for your comment on the 30,573 Trump lies (and that's just during his administration and doesn't count the whoppers he told during this campaign).

Tropical storm Sara, which formed yesterday afternoon near the Honduras-Nicaragua border, is the 18th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season and the third this month.

Sure look like Trump's surge.

Hey, at least Fred Trump made his money the old fashioned way, by profiteering at taxpayer expense and violating the civil rights of minorities. Unlike the Kennedy fortune, made by bootlegging, or the Bush fortune made by trading with the Nazis and funding Hitler's war machine.

Just for the record, I am an immigrant and I have never eaten a dog. Yet.

"Marry in haste, repent at leisure" There needs to be a version about voting. I suspect there will be a lot of repenting going on.

“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” Onion CEO Ben Collins said in a statement.

Perfectly reasonable, IMO. After all, (the real) Cambridge is where the electron was discovered.

Looking at voting patterns vs educational level, I doubt many Trump supporters realize that it is their ox he's going to gore.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die.

Not so much Bayesian so much as awareness of the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

When you look at the list of "giver" and "taker" states, it is very clear that the takers of federal largesse are primarily the red states (8 of the top 10 takers are red). I suspect Trump/Musk will get a lot of pushback from those takers when trying to cut federal spending.

Given the dismal record of every GOP administration since Nixon on the debt (including Trump 1), why do you think this time will be different?

Trump on COVID. More flip flopping than anyone: Jan. 22, 2020 “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Jan. 24, 2020 “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” Feb. 2, 2020 “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 7, 2020 “It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu... This is deadly stuff.” [Trump in a private interview with Bob Woodward from The Washington Post made public on Sept. 9, 2020] Feb. 10, 2020 “I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.” Feb. 10, 2020 “Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” Feb. 24, 2020 “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb. 25, 2020 “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb. 25, 2020 “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb. 26, 2020 “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb. 26, 2020 “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26, 2020 “Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.” Feb. 26, 2020 "This is a flu. This is like a flu." Feb. 27, 2020 “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” Feb. 28, 2020 “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” March 2, 2020 “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered "No."] March 2, 2020 “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” March 4, 2020 “Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild.” March 4, 2020 “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5, 2020 “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5, 2020 “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” March 6, 2020 “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” March 6, 2020 “You have to be calm. It’ll go away.” March 6, 2020 “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” March 6, 2020 “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” March 6, 2020 “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” March 7, 2020 “No, I’m not concerned at all. March 8, 2020 “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine-tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” March 10, 2020 “Just stay calm. It will go away.” March 11, 2020 “It goes away….It’s going away. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths.” March 11, 2020 "The vast majority of Americans, the risk is very, very low" March 12, 2020 “The system is not really geared to what we need right now...That is a failing. Let’s admit it.” [Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to Congress] March 12, 2020 "You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done. We've stopped it." March 13, 2020 “I don’t take responsibility at all.” March 13, 2020 The Atlantic reports that less than 14,000 tests have been done in the ten weeks since the Administration had first been notified of the virus, though Mike Pence had promised the week prior that 1.5 million tests would be available by this time. March 14, 2020 “I’d rate it a ten,” [Trump’s rating of his coronavirus response] March 15, 2020 “Relax.” March 15, 2020 “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.” March 16, 2020 “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment-try getting it yourselves,” March 17, 2020 “The only thing we haven’t done well is get good press.” March 17, 2020 “I felt like it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” March 19, 2020 I intended "to always play it down.” [Trump in a private taped interview with Bob Woodward, made public on September 9] March 20, 2020 “I say that you're a terrible reporter, that's what I say. I think it's a very nasty question, and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people." [Response to reporter’s question: "What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?"] March 22, 2020 “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF.” March 24, 2020 “I'm also hopeful to have Americans working again by that Easter - that beautiful Easter day.” March 24, 2020 “We’ve never closed down the country for the flu,” Trump said. “So you say to yourself, what is this all about?” March 24, 2020 “They have to treat us well, also. They can’t say, ‘Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.’” March 25, 2020 “The faster we go back, the better it’s going to be.” March 26, 2020 The United States becomes the country with the most confirmed coronavirus cases. A title it keeps for the remainder of Trump's time in office. March 26, 2020 “Congratulations AMERICA!” [On Senate passage of third relief bill] March 26, 2020 “I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’” March 26, 2020 “We’ve had a big problem with the young, a woman governor from — you know who I’m talking about — from Michigan,” March 27, 2020 “I love Michigan, one of the reasons we are doing such a GREAT job for them during this horrible Pandemic. Yet your Governor, Gretchen “Half” Whitmer is way in over her head, she doesn’t have a clue. Likes blaming everyone for her own ineptitude!” March 27, 2020 “Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington. You’re wasting your time with him…” March 27, 2020 “I want them to be appreciative. We've done a great job.” March 27, 2020 “We’re doing a great job for the state of Washington and I think the Governor...he’s constantly chirping and I guess complaining would be a nice way of saying it.” March 29, 2020 “Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?” March 29, 2020 “Unfortunately the enemy is death. It's death. A lot of people are dying. So it's very unpleasant.” March 30, 2020 "Stay calm, it will go away. You know it -- you know it is going away, and it will go away, and we're going to have a great victory." March 30, 2020 “I think New York should be fine, based on the numbers that we see, they should have more than enough. I mean, I’m hearing stories that they’re not used or they’re not used right.” March 30, 2020 “I haven’t heard about testing in weeks. We’re testing more than any other nation in the world. We’ve got these great tests...But I haven’t heard about testing being a problem.” March 30, 2020 “We inherited a broken test — the whole thing was broken.” March 31, 2020 “...it’s not the flu. It’s vicious.”