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[Chris Kern]

Today, Trump referred to Yosemite as "Yo-Semites" as if it were a Jewish rap group.

You guys have played gotcha games for 4 years with Trump.

It does seem somewhat churlish to single out just one of Trump's verbal hiccups when he has contaminated political discourse for almost four years with such a vast offering of malaprops, invented words, mangled syntax, haltingly repeated adjectives, and incomprehensible sentences—not to mention his many fabricated "facts" and genuinely moronic statements.

[hogloff]

It does seem somewhat churlish to single out just one of Trump's verbal hiccups when he has contaminated political discourse for almost four years with such a vast offering of malaprops, invented words, mangled syntax, haltingly repeated adjectives, and incomprehensible sentences—not to mention his many fabricated "facts" and genuinely moronic statements.

Yeh...he's mangled many of words. I remember when he visited Paradise California after the wildfire destroyed the area and killed somewhere around 85 people...and called the place Pleasure. It's sure reassuring the president really cares if he can't even get the name of the place right.

"Yes, Pleasure is a very, very nice place...a very, very nice place".

[William Walker]

Donald Trump is well-known for complaining that the US is doing too much testing - "the more testing, the more cases you get!"

In his interview with Jonathon Swan the first "graph" he pulls out shows the "deaths vs. cases" where the US is performing quite well compared to the other nations in the "top 20" - i.e. The US shows about 3.2% while the UK is about 9.2%, and France is 15.75% of deaths to positive cases.

Now, does this business genius not realise that that graph would look even better with more testing to confirm more positive cases against the existing deaths?

It is, of course, a meaningless way, in my opinion, to measure the success of a response to Covid.

[faberryman]

Now, does this business genius not realise that that graph would look even better with more testing to confirm more positive cases against the existing deaths?

The problem is that you are approaching this issue rationally. Give in to your irrational side and all will become clear.

[Peter McLennan]

Quote from: Alan Klein on August 04, 2020, 09:46:11 am
The Atlantic and it's editor are anti-Trump. They endorse Democrats including Hillary Clinton.  It's not the place to look if you want balance, especially before an election.

Still waiting, Alan, for a list of the parts of the article you found incorrect. 

Or have you gone out for pizza again?

[hogloff]

The problem is that you are approaching this issue rationally. Give in to your irrational side and all will become clear.

I'd hate to be in a space where Trump's logic becomes clear.

[faberryman]

Speaking of Yo-Semites, here's a link to their workshops for 2021:

https://shop.anseladams.com/collections/photography-workshops

[BobShaw]

Today, Trump referred to Yosemite as "Yo-Semites" as if it were a Jewish rap group.

I doubt there were would be many people anywhere in the world that would pronounce this wrong.
You either grew up with Yosemite Sam on Bugs Bunny or you had the operating system or you had heard of the place.

It seems to be a bigger issue of more and more simple mistakes. He may be losing it.

[faberryman]

I doubt there were would be many people anywhere in the world that would pronounce this wrong.
You either grew up with Yosemite Sam on Bugs Bunny or you had the operating system or you had heard of the place.

It seems to be a bigger issue of more and more simple mistakes. He may be losing it.

He called in to Fox and Friends this morning. He was talking about schools reopening and how kids were "almost immune" and that the virus "will go away." He has lost touch with reality.

[hogloff]

He called in to Fox and Friends this morning. He was talking about schools reopening and how kids were "practically immune" and that the virus was "going away." He has lost touch with reality.

When did he ever have a grip on reality.

[kers]

He called in to Fox and Friends this morning. He was talking about schools reopening and how kids were "practically immune" and that the virus was "going away." He has lost touch with reality.

maybe he was referring to himself as 'The Virus'...
and kids are immune to it...

[Peter McLennan]

Hey, Alan!  Finished your pizza yet?

[faberryman]

When did he ever have a grip on reality.

Turns out Facebook deleted his post of the video where he goes on about children being almost immune.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/tech/trump-facebook-misinformation/index.html

[Robert Roaldi]

This blog post is about politics and photography, sort of, about Kodak and hydroxychloroquine, https://www.japancamerahunter.com/2020/07/film-news-is-kodak-having-a-moment/.

But the more interesting part of the Japan Camera Hunter web site is the camera geekery blog, https://www.japancamerahunter.com/category/camera-geekery/. Good fun seeing all those old cameras. Turns out that high-end film compacts are increasing in value nowadays.

[faberryman]

Schools are opening up and students have returned. However, not all is going well. Take a look at these crowded hallways filled with students without masks as they move from class to class. Masks and social distancing are optional. The student who took this video and posted it to social media has been suspended for five days. Meanwhile, school administrators are sitting on their asses shuffling papers and telling each other everything will be okay, not a problem, nothing to see here, move along.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/06/georgia-students-punished-over-snaps-of-crowded-school-no-mask-in-sight/

The school in question is located in Georgia whose governor has not issued a mask mandate. In fact he has sued the mayors of cities and towns who have issued mask mandates to have them declared null and void. Of course. This is America. Honey, have you washed my camo?

[Robert Roaldi]

Schools are opening up and students have returned. However, not all is going well. Take a look at these crowded hallways filled with students without masks as they move from class to class. Masks and social distancing are optional. The student who took this video and posted it to social media has been suspended for five days. Meanwhile, school administrators are sitting on their asses shuffling papers and telling each other everything will be okay, not a problem, nothing to see here, move along.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/06/georgia-students-punished-over-snaps-of-crowded-school-no-mask-in-sight/

The school in question is located in Georgia whose governor has not issued a mask mandate. In fact he has sued the mayors of cities and towns who have issued mask mandates to have them declared null and void. Of course. This is America. Honey, have you washed my camo?

They suspended the kid? Always a good move that, punish the whistleblower, no one will see through that.

I wonder if the kid posted it on TikTok.

[Robert Roaldi]

I'm sorry but I have another gloom and doom article for you, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/, this time from a Canadian anthropologist. He sees things more bleakly than most people, I suspect, but it's probably a good thing to be aware of the very "bad" if only so that you know what "good" looks like. A safe space alert, Trumpeteers will not like this but you probably already knew that.

[Alan Klein]

It seems Biden keeps getting confused.

Biden rows back from widely criticized interview where he said Latinos are 'incredibly diverse' unlike African Americans
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-rows-back-suggestion-african-american-community-not-diverse-2020-8

[jeremyrh]

It seems Biden keeps getting confused.

Somebody sure seems confused. I watched the Axios interview expecting to find it amusing, but in fact it was profoundly depressing.  But to lighten the mood is this version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUeJINt4dU

[faberryman]

Somebody sure seems confused. I watched the Axios interview expecting to find it amusing, but in fact it was profoundly depressing.  But to lighten the mood is this version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUeJINt4dU

The interview is even worse if you read it in transcript form:

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-interview-transcript-with-axios-on-hbo