Is it possible to smell desperation in a tweet?

I would have had many millions of votes more than Crooked Hillary Clinton except for the fact that I had 16 opponents, she had one!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016

Bernie Sanders must really dislike Crooked Hillary after the way she played him. Many of his supporters, because of trade, will come to me.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016

As expected, the media is very much against me. Their dishonesty is amazing but, just like our big wins in the primaries, we will win!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016

Crooked Hillary Clinton will be a disaster on jobs, the economy, trade, healthcare, the military, guns and just about all else. Obama plus!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 9, 2016

"sniff sniff"

Yep smells like somebody is pissing their super extra large, made in China, Trump brand silk boxer shorts alright.

By the way that last one sounds like an endorsement of Hillary to me. 

P.S. If you really want to freak the Donald out, just sidle up close to him and whisper "Elizabeth Warren" in his ear.

All of those Fox News viewers who bought a shit loads of gold are about to lose their shirts. You know, if they wore shirts.

Courtesy of the Washington Post: 

A little less than four years ago, the world looked like it was about to end and gold hit an all-time high of $1,895 an ounce. 

The United States had manufactured a debt crisis, and Europe hadn't been able to manufacture a solution to its actual debt crisis, so panicky investors sought safety in the same place they had for 5,000 years: a shiny rock. The only problem, as you might have noticed, is that the world did not, in fact, end. It's still here, so gold prices aren't. The yellow metal has fallen 42 percent from its peak—and 8 percent in just the last month—despite the fact that the Federal Reserve has printed more than $1.5 trillion in this time. That, after all, is what gold aficionados said would make its price go to the moon, if not infinity and beyond. So what's happened? Well, exactly what economists said would happen.

Hah! God I love this!

The article goes on to point out that gold does not pay any dividends, or interest like other investments, however it does cost money to store. So not only were the conservative morons who put their life savings into gold about to go bankrupt but they are paying a storage fee for the privilege. 

As I am sure most of you know Right Wing media outlets like Fox News and talk radio, have been awash in advertising urging everybody to put all of their money in gold before the zombie apocalypse, or something like that.

And of course like good little lemmings they have been doing exactly that.

Only now those golden parachutes of theirs are more like shiny anvils tied to their ankles as they struggle to stay solvent.

I imagine that pretty soon we will see elderly conservatives jumping out of windows all over the country in response to this news.

Not to worry however as most of them live in one story trailers so the fall should only result in a sprained ankle and some minor abrasions.

Unless they land on one of their personal mobility devices that is. Because THAT could really leave a mark.

The video that perfectly captures the last six years of Obama's presidency.

Courtesy of Vox:  

Today, President Obama read from Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are to entertain children attending the White House Easter Egg Roll. But, midway through the book, danger approached — in the form of a bee. 

When the children first saw the approaching insect and began to scream, the president's first reaction unwittingly fed their fears. "Oh no, it's a bee!" he said. 

But as the frightened screams continued, Obama changed tack: "It's okay, guys. Bees are good. They won't land on you." 

"They sting, and they're scary!" a child yelled in response, to the president of the United States. 

"They won't sting you. They'll be okay," Obama said, chuckling. But the children still didn't buy his assurances, and the screams only grew louder.

So there's our President remaining calm in the face of hysterics and telling people that things will be all right if they just stop panicking.

How many times have we seen that exact same scenario play out during the roll out of Obamacare?

Or concerning the economy and jobs?

Or now with this Iran nuclear deal?

In every case the President is the grown up in the room telling everybody to calm down and things will work out fine. And in every case the Republicans, who usually take the role of the children in the video above, run around screaming that "the sky is falling."

And even after it turns out he was right, they give him shit for not fixing the problem faster.

But at least children have an excuse.

Republicans DON'T!

Time Magazine's Person of the Year is certainly going to irritate a certain New Jersey Governor.

Here is brief portion of the article courtesy of Time Magazine: 

The death in Dallas of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed on U.S. soil, and the infection of two nurses who treated him, shook our faith in the ability of U.S. hospitals to handle this kind of disease. From there the road to full freak-out was a short one. An Ohio middle school closed because an employee had flown on the same plane as one of Duncan’s nurses. Not the same flight, just the same plane. A Texas college rejected applicants from Nigeria, since that country had some “confirmed Ebola cases.” A Maine schoolteacher had to take a three-week leave because she went to a teachers’ conference in Dallas. Fear, too, was global. When a nurse in Spain contracted Ebola from a priest, Spanish authorities killed her dog as a precaution, while #VamosAMorirTodos (We’re all going to die) trended on Twitter. Guests at a hotel in Macedonia were trapped in their rooms for days after a British guest got sick and died. Turned out to have nothing to do with Ebola. 

The problem with irrational responses is that they can cloud the need for rational ones. Just when the world needed more medical volunteers, the price of serving soared. When nurse Kaci Hickox, returning from a stint with MSF in Sierra Leone with no symptoms and a negative blood test, was quarantined in a tent in Newark, N.J., by a combustible governor, it forced a reckoning. “It is crazy we are spending so much time having this debate about how to safely monitor people coming back from Ebola-endemic countries,” says Hickox, “when the one thing we can do to protect the population is to stop the outbreak in West Africa.” 

I don't know if it was purposeful or not, but Time is certainly going to ruffle more than a few conservative feathers with this choice. 

After all it was the conservatives, and their propaganda channel that were yelling "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" when all that was really happening was that America discovered that they were no more immune from getting sick than everybody else.

The treatment of Kaci Hickox was simply embarrassing and I think it is awesome that she is being vindicated for her understanding that she was not a risk to her fellow citizens, and recognition for her selflessness in trying to help those who desperately needed her even at risk to her own health.

Oh and by eh way, and fuck Governors Chris Christie and Paul LePage.

Finally some level headed reporting on Ebola from....Fox News?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

“We don’t have an outbreak,” Smith said. “We have two sick people from one dying man. And the rest of this should stop, because it’s not productive. And it’s not worth ratings, and it’s not worth politics, and we all need to stop it.” 

You know I recently slammed Shep Smith for his histrionics over ISIS and claims that the other Muslim countries would not work with the US to fight them.

However on this topic he is by far the voice of reason.

I usually watch MSNBC, and not only is Chris Matthews constantly pulling his hair out over this, I also watched a clip during Chris Hayes show where they followed an ambulance containing an Ebola victim with a helicopter. 

Shades of OJ Batman, that is ridiculous!

We have been documenting Ebola outbreaks since 1976, and yes this might be the biggest one so far, but there are still far fewer deaths than can be attributed to the common flu each year.

Remember when the AIDS epidemic had some suggesting the rounding up of homosexuals, testing them for HIV and then isolating them from the rest of the population?

Same out of control hysteria this time around. And of course it is driven in no small way by the politics of fear.

And we all know which political party that favors.