So, with time on his hands, Trump scouted the historic American Embassy in Paris, where he was staying, and found art work that he could not live without. Trump had a truck backed up to the Embassy and loaded a Ben Franklin bust, a Franklin portrait and a set of silver figurines of Greek mythical characters to be taken to Air Force One for his use at the White House.

The caper has a Trumpian ending, however. The figurines were determined to be "20th Century fakes of 17th Century sculptures", and of little value.

White House art curators found that the Franklin bust was a replica. The Franklin portrait was a copy of a Joseph Duplessis; the original, painted in 1795,  was then held by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

Trump say he's ok with the "investigations"

Every place I went was nearly 100% masked.  But there was always one.  Or two.  Maybe four in Walmart.  But today there were glaring at people.  I swear.  It was clear others noticed.  Did this go out on Facebook or something?

Anyway I have to say its adding to the tension.  Almost to a person they have a look about them.  Like a cornered animal.

I'm stocking my house.  I'm gonna try to not leave between Nov 3rd and .. whenever.

Right now he is on MSNBC spewing the same lies and BS.

I feel like sending a sternly worded email to both networks

Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly.

The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people--because he rejects evidence and science. The most devastating example is his dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which cost more than 190,000 Americans their lives by the middle of September. He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous and more equitable future.

The Pence/ Senator Kaine debate in 2016 was, essentially, a surrogate event for Trump and Secretary Clinton with little discussion of the two vice-presidential candidates themselves.  

I understand them.  Really.  I do.  Just stop.  

Please, for the love god stop putting these mouth breathing morons on tv so they can whine about how mean people are to them for cultishly following an hateful insane racist strong man wanna be responsible for thousands of dead Americans.

"Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as `a Manchurian candidate' who obtained his Ivy League degrees only by way of affirmative action, according to a new book by Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen," CNN reports.

"Trump's disdain for Obama was so extreme that he took his fixation a step further, according to Cohen: Trump hired a `Faux-Bama' to participate in a video in which Trump `ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.'"

"Cohen's book, Disloyal: A Memoir, doesn't name the man who was allegedly hired to play Obama or provide a specific date for the incident, but it does include a photograph of Trump sitting behind a desk, facing a Black man wearing a suit with an American flag pin affixed to the lapel. On Trump's desk are two books, one displaying Obama's name in large letters."

Austin J. Cordis

President Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education is examining the use of the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project in schools, and warned that institutions that teach this alternative narrative of American history could lose federal funding.

On top of everything else

"I'm not saying the military's in love with me -- the soldiers are, the top people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy," Trump told reporters at a White House news conference.

On Monday night, the New York Times published an article so satisfying that it felt almost pornographic, about how the Trump campaign has burned through most of that Death Star cash, with little to show for it -- except, of course, when it comes to the bank accounts of the Trump family and their ancillary leeches.

It appears much of the problem was the way that Trump himself, along with Parscale, the Trump's family and other associates, treated the campaign as a personal piggybank. Trump paid his family's enormous legal bills with campaign cash. Money was routinely spent to fluff Trump's ego, as with the reported $11 million spent on Super Bowl ads. Nearly a third of the cash was routed through "a single limited liability company linked to Trump campaign officials." The partners of Trump's two sons are literally on the payroll. Trump's own incompetence is also a factor, leading to massive losses as he impulsively switched the Republican convention from Charlotte to Jacksonville to and then, effectively, to Washington. And the campaign spent far more money on fundraising than is typical, suggesting that Parscale was more interested in bragging about his Death Star than making it run efficiently.

Say what you will about Darth Vader, but at least he didn't destroy the Empire by greedily sucking all its resources dry so nothing was left to fight the rebels.

Death Star blows itself up: Trump ran his campaign finances like his businesses -- into the ground
It's no surprise that Trump's campaign is a giant grift. But will his donors keep pouring good money after bad?

He says that Woodward has audio recordings of Trump discussing the Corona virus.  That he knew and discussed that it was really really bad, that it was airborne specifically, that it is much worse than the flu.

Democrats are amassing an enormous lead in early voting, alarming Republicans who worry they'll need to orchestrate a huge Election Day turnout during a deadly coronavirus outbreak to answer the surge.

The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican data experts. In North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Democrats have a roughly three-to-one advantage over Republicans in absentee ballot requests. In Florida -- a must-win for President Donald Trump -- the Democratic lead stands at more than 700,000 ballot requests, while the party also leads in New Hampshire, Ohio and Iowa.

A retired judge appointed to review the Justice Department's motion to drop charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn said on Friday that calling the agency's actions "irregular," which he did in June, "would be a study in understatement," Axios reports.

Said Judge John Gleeson: "In the United States, Presidents do not orchestrate pressure campaigns to get the Justice Department to drop charges against defendants who have pleaded guilty -- twice, before two different judges -- and whose guilt is obvious... There is clear evidence that this motion reflects a corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system."

"Democratic insiders are assembling a coalition behind the scenes to wage an all-out war on the Senate filibuster in bullish anticipation of sweeping the 2020 election and passing an ambitious progressive agenda," NBC News reports.

"Veteran party operatives, activist groups and supportive senators are coordinating message and strategy to dial up the pressure to quickly end the 60-vote threshold early next year, fearing that preservation of the rule will enable Republicans to kill Joe Biden's legislative agenda in its cradle."

Coastal Elites is an upcoming American comedy television film directed by Jay Roach, from a screenplay by Paul Rudnick. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Paulson, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy and Issa Rae as five people, living in either New York City or Los Angeles, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.

So far I've only seen Bette Midler
It's enough to say you need to see this.

"This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don't. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears. They will not be swayed by data on coronavirus deaths, they won't be persuaded by job losses or stock market gains, and they won't care if Trump called America's fallen soldiers `losers' or `suckers,' as the Atlantic reported, because they won't believe it. They are impervious to messaging, advertising or data. They aren't just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality."

How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election--and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy

This is all true.  It also means they think he's winning.  And democrats can ONLY steal the election.  A lot of people, more that you think, will absolutely believe this.  It's unlike anything that has happened in our country.

"Mike Bloomberg plans to spend at least $100 million in Florida to help elect Democrat Joe Biden, a massive late-stage infusion of cash that could reshape the presidential contest in a costly toss-up state central to President Trump's reelection hopes," the Washington Post reports.

"Bloomberg made the decision to focus his final election spending on Florida last week, after news reports that Trump had considered spending as much as $100 million of his own money in the final weeks of the campaign, Bloomberg's advisers said. Presented with several options on how to make good on an earlier promise to help elect Biden, Bloomberg decided that a narrow focus on Florida was the best use of his money."

She worked at the centre, which houses immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
As part of her complaint, filed on Monday, Ms Wooten expressed concerns about the high number of hysterectomies performed on Spanish-speaking women at the centre.
The nurse said detained women told her they did not fully understand why they had to get a hysterectomy - an operation involving the removal of all or part of the uterus.
The complaint also alleges "jarring medical neglect" during the coronavirus pandemic, including a refusal to test detainees with symptoms and fabricating medical records.
"I became a whistleblower, now I'm a target," Ms Wooten said at a press conference on Tuesday. But, "I'll be a target anytime", she said, rather than staying a part of what she called an "inhumane" system.

"Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action... The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media. But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts."

I especially like this part

At a time when many TV shows arrive in big streamable content lumps, The Third Day will have an unconventional, potentially challenging rollout. In addition to the first three episodes, presented as "Summer," three additional episodes starring Naomie Harris will be presented as "Winter." (The episodes will air weekly on Mondays on HBO without interruption.) On October 3, Law will take part in "Autumn," a live 12-hour theatrical event that will be presented online.

thrillist

Watching I became interested in the mysterious allure of tidal causeways

"If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm going to do," Trump said, in comments that will stoke fears he may try to hold onto power regardless of the will of the voters.

"I will never speak to you again, you'll never see me," he vowed.

• Best comedy series (Eugene Levy and Dan Levy, producers)
  
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I have been talking to lots of seniors lately who really are spooked by the whole herd immunity thing.  

The United States reported 55,054 new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

Axios: "It was the highest single-day increase since August 14, when the country reported 64,350 new cases over a 24-hour span, and suggests that the U.S. has yet to contain the spread of the virus."

Associated Press: "Mattis and Coats, like former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, have refrained from more explicit condemnations, often citing a `duty of silence' or a long tradition of military officials staying out of politics."

"Efforts to draw them out are ongoing. While former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appears disinclined to step forward, there are hopes that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson might be persuaded to comment and that Coats might be urged to say more. And Kelly, a retired four-star general, is said to be on the fence and torn about the decision."

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after he was armed and threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police say