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You are here: Home / Elections / Biden For President / Monday Evening ‘End of the Holiday Weekend, Except Lockdown’ Open Thread: FORE!

Monday Evening ‘End of the Holiday Weekend, Except Lockdown’ Open Thread: FORE!

by Anne Laurie|  May 25, 20206:50 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Biden For President, Open Threads, Trumpery

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I woke up this morning and noticed that my drawing 'Donald the Reaper' was liked and shared en masse on Twitter. Thank you all for that. Please Retweet this image; I want to be sure Trump also sees this drawing today. pic.twitter.com/wxOspPyvNB

— Mark Dolk (@vrjrdgstknng) May 24, 2020

Biden’s strongest rationale has always been the Bush 41 “man at the desk” argument. What was not clear, before the pandemic, was whether that message would match the moment. https://t.co/KlC4dQnHV0

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) May 25, 2020

I’m sure people who can’t go to loved ones funerals are very sympathetic to Trump’s pain at not golfing since March.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 25, 2020

This doesn’t meet the criteria for inclusion in the #ToddlerinChief thread, but it’s still one hell of a lede. https://t.co/w6VoMt0xC3 pic.twitter.com/w3mAzjBMfp

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 24, 2020

Trump's golf habit alone has cost taxpayers $137.1 million in extra travel and security costs.

And several million dollars of that has flowed directly back into his own cash registers through lodging and meals by U.S. government employees. https://t.co/ogEGTvLk5g

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 25, 2020

The Wall Street Journal assures us that this… “Shinola”… is actually delicious chocolate pudding!

Trump's golf outing today is no accident. He & Biden are taking very different approaches to life w covid, placing very different bets on how voters will view the outbreak by November. More here w @KThomasDC on the potential risks and benefits for both:https://t.co/NwSpsqKbaA

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) May 23, 2020

Went back to look at Politico on Obama golfing. pic.twitter.com/Ya10yb2l57

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 23, 2020

This actually happened like two weeks ago. You don’t need to imagine it. https://t.co/mZOgHRf9O4 pic.twitter.com/HM6L8DM8hE

— andrew kaczynski?? (@KFILE) May 24, 2020

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Nearly 100,000 Americans are dead. With no plan in sight, Donald Trump has decided to hit the golf course.#TrumpGolfsYouDie pic.twitter.com/VmxeBpRPuj

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) May 23, 2020

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  1. 1.

    Raoul

    May 25, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    Businesses that reflexively support Republicans (or give to both parties, but most weight their contributions “R”) are getting screwed anyway. Which of course we all coulda told ’em. For quite some time now.

    U.S. Airlines Are Now Pawns In The President’s Re-Election Saber Rattling Against China
    by Gary Leff on May 25, 2020

    Delta and United are looking to restart flights to China. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is largely under control there. It is home to several important business markets. Delta owns a stake in China Eastern and has viewed Shanghai as a hub, while for United the country is their sixth largest international market.

    However they’re caught up in escalating tensions between the U.S. and China. President Trump has made a ‘tough on China’ stance a centerpiece of his re-election campaign… [more]

  2. 2.

    Brachiator

    May 25, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    I woke up this morning and noticed that my drawing ‘Donald the Reaper’ was liked and shared en masse on Twitter. Thank you all for that. Please Retweet this image; I want to be sure Trump also sees this drawing today.

    Damn, that cartoon presents an incredible image.

    And the current count is 99,427 dead from the Corona Virus.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    I wonder if there is any chance of modifying the pie filter so that I can pie images of Donald Trump.

  4. 4.

    germy

    May 25, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    Canine commentary observed on a sidewalk in San Mateo California. pic.twitter.com/ANx6SRe77o

    — melanie chartoff (@melaniechartoff) December 1, 2019

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    May 25, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    This whole thing reminds me of a tweet Obama read as part of Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment. Somebody asked “Is there any way we could fly Obama to some golf course halfway around the world and just leave him there?” Obama, having a sense of humor, said he thought it would be a great idea. I honestly think we’d be in a lot better shape if we just let Trump spend the remainder of his term golfing, as long as he wasn’t allowed to use the power of his office while he was doing it. The whole government would function a lot better if he weren’t actively making things worse.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    May 25, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    Doc Brown may have been on to something.

    :)

  7. 7.

    debbie

    May 25, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @Raoul:

    And is American agriculture back up and running as if nothing ever happened? //

    This man has decimated every single thing he has ever touched.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    May 25, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    Day for experimentation with the super duper bread machine. Sounds delish on paper. Cross yer paws, jackals.

    Had some of those little fruit cups of diced pears in juice. Two of those came out to 1 cup on the nose.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    May 25, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @Amir Khalid

    How went the Eid feast-for-one?

  10. 10.

    ThresherK

    May 25, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    I’m sure Shinola is a perfectly cromulent shoe polish, but they’ve been fighting an uphill branding problem for decades. This could make a perfectly good comedy sketch, like a parody of Mad Men.

    (Unless someone’s already done that. It’s right there, people!)

  11. 11.

    Mike in NC

    May 25, 2020 at 7:22 pm

    Fat Bastard made a few remarks about the 100K dead from his criminal negligence while at Arlington National Cemetery today. As always, the insincerity was palpable.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    May 25, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Mike in NC

    Could he be heard over the sound of so many bodies spinning in their graves?

    //

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    @NotMax:

    It had a kind of not-really-Eid vibe. ?

  14. 14.

    Ruckus

    May 25, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    @Raoul:

    shitforbrains is good at screwing his supporters.

    They aren’t good at understanding that he’s screwing them. Of course they are his supporters so excess brain power is extremely unlikely to be a problem for them.

  15. 15.

    AWOL

    May 25, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Bothsiderist Jeremy Scahill found religion? Any contrarian fool can be redeemed, I guess.

  16. 16.

    Uncle Cosmo

    May 25, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @Brachiator: And the current count is 99,427 dead from the Corona Virus.

    On track to exceed the total number of US military dead in all wars since the end of World War II (102,684 per Wiki) by the end of May. Truck Fump.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 25, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @AWOL: good to know he found something to distract him from his ice cream outrage.

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    May 25, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    @Amir Khalid: If only.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    May 25, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    From the Washington Post article linked in the tweet up top:

    As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided and insulted perceived enemies and promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf.

    In a flurry of tweets and retweets Saturday and Sunday, Trump mocked former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s weight, ridiculed the looks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and called former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton a “skank.”

    He revived long-debunked speculation that a television host with whom Trump has feuded may have killed a woman and asserted without evidence that mail-in voting routinely produces ballot stuffing.

    He made little mention of the sacrifice Americans honor on Memorial Day or the grim toll of the virus.

    In fact, Trump’s barrage of social media attacks stood in sharp contrast to a sober reality on a weekend for mourning military dead — the number of Americans whose lives have been claimed by the novel coronavirus has eclipsed the combined total of U.S. deaths from wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    …

    The White House on Saturday announced that Trump would travel next week to Florida, his fourth trip to a political battleground state in as many weeks, as he encourages a return to regular life and commerce in much of the country.

    “Cases, numbers and deaths are going down all over the Country!” Trump tweeted, incorrectly, on Sunday.

    New cases are declining in most of the former hot spots, including New York City, but are “plateauing,” rather than declining, in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx told reporters last week.

    After weeks of near-universal sheltering in place, the overall daily toll has begun to decline because of a sharp decrease in deaths and reported infections in some of the hardest-hit urban centers. But the virus is accelerating in other areas.

    As of mid-May, every state had plans to loosen restrictions on activities and businesses as public health officials urge caution to avoid another surge.

    Rural counties now have some of the highest rates of covid-19 cases and deaths in the country, topping even the hardest-hit New York City boroughs, a Washington Post analysis found.

    The alarming increase signals a new phase of the pandemic, one of scattered outbreaks that could devastate some of the country’s most vulnerable towns as states lift stay-at-home orders. The virus has spread rapidly over the past month in places where even a minor surge in patients threatens to overwhelm existing health-care systems.

    A devastating indictment.

  20. 20.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 25, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Sorry, but that drawing in the top Tweet can’t be Trump. Ass isn’t fat enough.

  21. 21.

    Brachiator

    May 25, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    He revived long-debunked speculation that a television host with whom Trump has feuded may have killed a woman and asserted without evidence that mail-in voting routinely produces ballot stuffing.

    Well, as Michelle Obama once said, when they go low, we watch them go even lower.

  22. 22.

    Jackie

    May 25, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    O/T: Has Adam been around? I was sure he’d post something today. Is he ok? Or, did I miss something?

  23. 23.

    zhena gogolia

    May 25, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    @Jackie:

    I’ve been wondering too. But sometimes he gets busy and doesn’t post for a while.

  24. 24.

    FelonyGovt

    May 25, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    Somehow I don’t think people will have forgotten the pandemic or its economic fallout by November.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    May 25, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    @zhena gogolia

    Would hazard a guess he’s off doing Adam things which are gobbling up the bulk of his time and attention (and which he’s forbidden from sharing).

  26. 26.

    TS (the original)

    May 25, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Trump mocked former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s weight, ridiculed the looks of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and called former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton a “skank.”

    Be nice if the pundits had picked up on the issue that it is usually – if not always – women that he attacks in this fashion.

  27. 27.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 25, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    @Jackie: I don’t think he’s posted here, but I got an email from him Saturday afternoon, so he’s not dead or in prison.

  28. 28.

    sdhays

    May 25, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Trump’s golf habit alone has cost taxpayers $137.1 million in extra travel and security costs.

    This triggers a memory of something Biden mentioned off-hand during his long interview with Colbert. He mentioned that as VP, he would still take the train back to Delaware against the recommendations of the Secret Service, which wanted to fly. He said it was “too expensive”, and I took that to mean “too expensive to the taxpayer”, since I wasn’t under the impression that he would have to pay for the flight on Air Force 2.

    What a dramatically different set of priorities.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    May 25, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    @TS (the original): Yep.  It would be nice if the pundits did a lot of things.  But you have to be asleep at the wheel not to notice that.

    The president of the fucking united states is calling a woman a skank.  The candidate who beat him by 3 million votes is a skank.

    Trump is what we used to call white trash.

  30. 30.

    KrackenJack

    May 25, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That’s one reason I suppress images pretty ruthlessly on my regular news sites. Frankly, most of the other images don’t add any value either. I can unblock as needed for charts, superblooms, heart warming pets, or weather phenomena.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 25, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think of him, his family and his supporters as trump trash

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    May 25, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Trump trash.  I like it.

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