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Re-posting since it got page-bottomed, today's WTFJHT:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/09/04/day-1324/
Global: Total confirmed cases: ~26,411,000; deaths: ~871,000
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~6,174,000; deaths: ~187,200
Source: Johns Hopkins University
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
💻 COVID-19 Live Blogs: New York Times
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🗳 How To Vote In The 2020 Election In Every State. Everything you need to know about mail-in and early in-person voting in every state in the age of COVID-19, including the first day you can cast your ballot in the 2020 election. (FiveThirtyEight
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1/ Trump disparaged members of the U.S. military who had been captured or killed as “losers” and “suckers.” In 2018, Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris, telling senior staff members: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” He publicly blamed the rain for the decision, saying “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him – neither claim is true. Trump reportedly was also concerned about his hair in the rain. During the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. When John McCain died in August 2018, Trump told senior staff “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral.” Trump was also reportedly furious that flags were lowered to half-staff, saying: “What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser.” Trump was not invited to McCain’s funeral. And, on Memorial Day 2017, Trump and John Kelly visited the Arlington Cemetery gravesite of Kelly’s son, Robert, who was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. While standing by Robert’s grave, Trump turned to John and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” The White House, meanwhile, called the report “patently false.” (The Atlantic / Associated Press / Washington Post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ajHAeXMU
📌 Day 663
: Trump blamed the Secret Service for his canceled visit to a World War I cemetery in France, claiming that he suggested driving after it was deemed unsafe to take a helicopter. “By the way,” Trump tweeted, “when the helicopter couldn’t fly to the first cemetery in France because of almost zero visibility, I suggested driving. Secret Service said NO.” (ABC News / USA Today)
📌 Day 473
: John McCain told friends that he does not want Trump to attend his funeral and would like Mike Pence to come instead. During the 2016 presidential primary, Trump said McCain was considered a war hero only “because he was captured” during the Vietnam War and that he prefers military figures weren’t taken prisoner by the enemy. (New York Times / NBC News)
2/ Trump disputed reports that he called dead American service members “losers” and “suckers,” calling it “a disgraceful situation” by a “terrible magazine.” Trump suggested that the Atlantic had “made it up,” using “a couple of people that have been failures in the administration.” The White House also denied the Atlantic report, which was independently verified by both the Associated Press and the Washington Post. “If people really exist that would have said that, they’re lowlifes and they’re liars,” Trump said. “And I would be willing to swear on anything that I never said that about our fallen heroes. There is nobody that respects them more.” He added, “What animal would say such a thing?” Later, Trump tweeted that the report “is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!” Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, meanwhile, called Trump’s alleged remarks disparaging soldiers who died in combat “despicable.” (New York Times / Associated Press / NBC News / Politico / BuzzFeed News / Bloomberg)
https://apnews.com/edf5d17c4d41cfb69117f0cf97ef6ac6
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/pentagon-halts-stars-and-stripes-newspaper-408945
3/ The World Health Organization does not expect widespread COVID-19 vaccinations until mid-2021. Trump’s vaccine chief added that it is “extremely unlikely” that a vaccine could be available before the election. Trump, meanwhile, suggested that a vaccine “will be delivered before the end of the year, in my opinion, before the end of the year, but it really might even be delivered before the end of October.” (Reuters / New York Times / NPR / CNN)
4/ Trump mocked Biden for wearing a face mask and observing social distancing measures. The U.S., meanwhile, continues to lead the world in coronavirus cases under Trump’s direction, with more than 6 million infections and 187,000 deaths. (CNN / Politico)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/politics/trump-biden-coronavirus-mask/index.html
poll/ 55% of Americans think Trump’s rhetoric on protests over racial injustice is making matters worse, while 13% think he is making it better. 29% believe what Trump has said on the topic has had no effect. (ABC News)
Edited by sgamer82 on Sep 4th 2020 at 4:42:44 AM
You'll have to explain how a man put into power by a foreign country who repeatedly has betrayed us to said country is not a traitor.
Any dozen of things can be said to have gotten him into power, let's not pretend that he's the product of foreign machinations instead of America's own sins.
Anyway, they're presumably using the legal definition of traitor which requires working with a state we are at war with or making war on the US. Trump has done neither.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangNo it does not, killing soilders is not automatically at war with....
Agian the legal definition is stupidly narrow by design.
The last time the US was at war, and thus able to declare some one a traitor was in 45, it has not legaly been in a war since.
Edited by Imca on Sep 4th 2020 at 4:56:03 AM
Part of the problem is also that the legal definition of war is incredibly narrow, bordering on “obsolete”. To put it this way, by the strict legal definition of war, The US hasn’t been in a war since about WWII. In fact, there’s next to no war at all in the world by this definition. Wars these days are fought in countries, not between them.
Leviticus 19:34On one hand I agree, on the other hand I think that was exactly the intent.
They were very worried about any political oppisition being declared as treasonous, and upsetting democracy that way.... Speaking from experiance if your not careful, that DOES happen even in developed nations, the LDP uses that tactic fairly often to spy on there oppisition.
Edited by WillKeaton on Sep 4th 2020 at 7:17:19 AM
@Charles Phipps Trump is an unprofessional ass that should never have been president. He has done a plethora of illegal things that does include things that classify as treason. All that being said though, I think that text you quoted has the right idea. He is a symptom of a much more grand problem and that is the degeneration of political discourse in America. He's not actively malevolent, he's a guy who says and does things because he gets off on the power.
If anything, he is a brilliant example of why this celebrity shit needs to end immediately. Actual, trained politicians need to get back into position because at the very least they actually understand what they're doing.
That's a big reason I believe that despite all the hype, if he loses in November he's not going to try and squat in the White House. If he leaves somewhat gracefully he may have to answer for his crimes in office and he may go to prison. But if he doesn't, he will be executed as an enemy of the Union. He'll go for the option with more hope of escape.
Edited by Codafett on Sep 4th 2020 at 6:15:09 AM
Just Having FunFallout's openings in most of the games. "War, War Never Changes" is essentially the 'slogan'/'arc words' of Fallout.
@Will Keaton Actually, in Fallout 4, they have a different narrator (the male player character) say that line. It's the first Fallout game to not have him say it, IIRC.
Edited by Protagonist506 on Sep 4th 2020 at 6:16:08 AM
Leviticus 19:34When the issue of racism came up, there was a conversation that people needed to stop worrying about overt racists and deal with the much more insidous brand of things. I pointed out that the overt racists were not something in hiding, that they were dangerous in and of themselves, and they were growing in number.
Trump is the symptom of a larger problem but he makes everything worse and getting rid of him is needed before you can get rid of the smaller problem.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Speaking of social media, I've observed that in the past five years or so, the majority of Facebook users are middle-aged suburban whites mostly ranging from ignorant to living right-wing boomer stereotypes spreading around alternative facts and mind-blowing (in a bad way) conspiracy theories. What happened there?
Scaled seeker
The usual tech exodus to a new platform. People moved from My Space to Facebook, leaving the older folks there. People have moved from Facebook to Twitter, once again leaving the older folks there.
Honestly, nothing changed except computers got more common. White privilege and racism were always there, it's just more "overt" with people no longer pretending they're not racist.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Yeah, this emphasized part isn't happening. If he tried to squat in the White House he'd just be evicted once his term ends, nobody's going to execute him.
You're right. I guess I was referring to this idea that he'd raise an army of rednecks and start civil war 2 or whatever. What I mean is, first of all he'd look like a damn fool and secondly at that point he is committing the biggest no-no possible in the US government. He would be politely asked to leave, and failing that they would send someone in to get him. The President's power erodes when he ceases to be president, the loyalty is to the office not the man.
I remember that episode of King of Hill which takes place in Texas, where the characters finally discovered My Space years after it came out & at a point in real time when most people already abandoned it for Facebook.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

You'll have to explain how a man put into power by a foreign country who repeatedly has betrayed us to said country is not a traitor.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.