One of my favorite columnists is Teresa Hanafin of the Boston Globe, who writes the daily Fast Forward, which always cites interesting tidbits from the Old Farmers’ Almanac, plus her observations on the news:
Trump has another Golf Recovery Monday, with nothing on his public schedule, although it may last more than one day since it’s actually a Vacation Recovery.
A few things from the weekend:
— Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, European countries that are our allies, and executives, editors, and reporters at various and sundry US newspapers and TV networks have been working together to secretly develop a nefarious plan to wreck the economy so that Trump won’t be reelected. Oh, sorry — I should have said that’s the latest paranoid conspiracy theory Trump is spouting.
— Millions of US residents who were ineligible to vote in the 2016 election voted anyway, and a good number of them voted many times, costing Trump New Hampshire’s four electoral votes (Hillary Clinton beat him there) as well as the popular vote (Clinton received almost 2.9 million more votes than Trump). Oh, sorry — I should have said that’s another paranoid conspir … oh, never mind.
— On Thursday evening, the Log Cabin Republicans — a collective of LGBTQ members of the GOP — changed their mind about Trump and endorsed him in the 2020 election. They didn’t give him the nod in 2016, but this time around, they said he has advanced LGBTQ rights and helped the GOP move past “culture wars” during his tenure.
Those poor saps.
The very next day, Trump asked the Supreme Court to let companies fire workers just for being transgender. This isn’t any sort of religious thing. This is any company, any time, no special reason other than the gender identity of an employee.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Who is in the Log Cabin Republicans these days anyway? I’m guessing it is someone like the rabid Trump supporter Peter Thiel who just “coincidentally” happened to sit on the Facebook board at the same time his own employees at Palantir were helping Cambridge Analytica analyze and use the illegally obtained Facebook data to target their dishonest lie to voters they thought would be susceptible.
I’m guessing that it is money from a few right wing billionaires who fund this organization that probably has almost no real members these days.
Has anyone done any research lately as to who funds this group and whether there are any real members left?
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If you wanted Hillary you are a sheep! Find out the truth!
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Absolutely, I wanted Hillary over Trump in a heart beat. Voted for Bernie in the primary however, once Hillary became the choice, the ONLY SANE thing to do was to vote for her. She would not be appointing right wingers to the courts and she would most certainly not be making dog whistles to racists, bigots, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
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I’m with you, Joe Jersey!
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Judi Flanders,
Why did you want Trump appointing Supreme Court justices instead of Hillary? Is it because Trump is the kind of person you pray each night your own children use as their role model for all their behavior?
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If the choice for President were between IQ45 and the pile of dog excrement on my lawn, I would have to go with the latter.
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Depends on the dog excrement’s vice presidential pick. I just don’t see the dog excrement serving out its full term.
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Ah, you have a point!
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No. 4 and 127th House Dem to support impeachment.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/08/19/ben-ray-lujan-no-4-house-democrat-backs-opening-trump-impeachment-inquiry-1467888
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And for what it’s worth, Scaramucci will attempt to get former cabinet members to publicize Trump’s instability and ultimately replace him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/457923-scaramucci-assembling-team-of-former-cabinet-members-to-speak-out
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Log Cabin Repugnicans: https://bobshepherdonline.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/voting-in-trumplandia/
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Mice going, Bob. I like it.
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Hee hee
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I wish the media would stop televising his rallies. He is getting a free ride to campaign. The theme of all of them is that he is doing the best job ever, and he throws in a conspiracy theory or two and a scapegoat tirade for “good measure.” It is unfair that he is essentially getting free TV coverage for his campaign. He has a vast war chest from the billionaires. I wonder what will happen to all that money?
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But Retired Teacher, this is the most amusing comedy on the Internet right now!!! I never miss an episode of the Trumpty Dumpty Comedy Hour.
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Monty Python’s Flying Circus, darkly. Strongly darkly.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/458025-trump-tweets-photo-of-trump-tower-in-greenland-i-promise-not-to-do%3famp
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UNREAL
Trump: Jews who vote dem are either uninformed or disloyal
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/458135-trump-jews-that-vote-democrat-show-lack-of-knowledge-or-great%3famp
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I am Jewish. I am not misinformed, uninformed, or disloyal.
I will vote for anyone running on the Democratic ticket against Trump.
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And this is how an unstable incompetent thinks and speaks.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/08/21/trump-delays-denmark-visit-as-pm-wont-talk-about-him-buying-greenland.html
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I just read the story on the CNN website. Trump is canceling his trip to Denmark because the Prime Minister said Greenland is not for sale and said the idea was “absurd.”
At first I thought it was satire. Could it be Andy Borowitz or Randy Rainbow making fun?
No, it is real.
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On May 9, 1864, at the Battle of Spotsylvania, General John Sedgwick wasn’t happy. His men were ducking for cover, even though the Confederate snipers firing at them were 1,000 yards away. Sedgwick made fun of them: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance,” he said, just before he was shot in the left eye and killed.
Well, here we are now, enacting the John Sedgwick story on THE REALLY BIG SCREEN. We are destroying the planet, and the folks we have in charge are saying, there’s no problem.
Heedlessness is a particularly dangerous variety of stupidity.
This is as serious as it gets, folks. The utter moron, the buffoon in the Oval Office recently told the fellow he refers to as “the Prince of Whales” that climate change is weather
And an entire American political party is letting him get away with this.
There are no do-overs, folks, after getting this wrong.
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