It’s another horrid heat wave day. This is the weather I left Arizona to escape, and except for "monsoon season" in August and September, at least it was dry heat there. ARGH!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:58 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Before Trump’s meeting with Putin, Fox couldn’t stop gushing about how "strong" he is
Barf Bag Alert!!
Does the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, have traitor poop on their faces, or what? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is reportedly “upset” and “hurt” that Donald J. Trump is seeing other dictators, sources in Pyongyang have confirmed.
According to an aide close to the North Korean leader, Kim was “devastated” to see images of Trump warmly embracing another dictator in Helsinki on Monday, just one month after jetting off to Singapore to spend a memorable and intense five hours with Kim.
Shortly after their time together, aides close to Kim warned him against becoming emotionally attached to Trump, alerting Kim to press reports linking the American to many other dictators.
“He’s been quoted saying nice things about Xi Jinping and Rodrigo Duterte, to name just two,” one aide said. “Trump could never commit to just one dictator. When it comes to autocrats and strongmen, he’s a total player.”
Dang Andy! Kim had better make sure Putin used a condom with Trump, before Kim gets behind Trump again. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From NY Times: Among the first migrant parents to recover their children after they were taken by immigration authorities at the southwest border were 12 Guatemalans who disembarked jubilantly from a plane last week back in their home country. Immediately, though, there were questions: Had the families given up their right to pursue an asylum claim as the price for recovering their children?
In a court filing on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said there are growing concerns that the Trump administration’s efforts to return more than 2,000 migrant children to their parents by July 26 to comply with a court order could be accompanied by attempts to carry out “mass deportations” once the families are reunited.
Lawyers for the civil rights group referred in their motion to “persistent and increasing rumors — which defendants have refused to deny — that mass deportations may be carried out imminently and immediately upon reunification.”
Those damn Republicans did not even stop deporting the parents of separated children. That is more vile than obscene. It’s Republican. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
(Before the US and USSR became Fascist nations)
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4:38 Cute, though I’m used to dragons with heads that are more knobby.
From VoteVets, not a brand new video, but being brought out again for obvious reasons.
Faux – Oh, they’re talking about “America First!” which was never anything but a slogan. He’s never had anything that could be confused by any sane person with strength. Every sane person saw coming exactly what happened.
TNY – What can I say? So true!!
NYT – Did anyone here NOT see this coming?
Cartoon – Well, yeah. Sort of.