Prickly City by Scott Stantis for June 01, 2020

So many nights

So many days

So many loves and friends

Not met on the way

How many joys, I wonder

Feelings young love can’t resist

Feelings that never had a chance to live free

Or Silly Love Songs of Last Dances never ending with a kiss

The world kept on turning

It did not need our assist

We lost friends and loved ones

But we must again step out of this mist

In years to come we’ll honor our dead

There will many stories and songs

But we must today step out of the mist

To the land of the living, where we all still belong

For the world of the living is ours today

RobinHood

Thank God we have the Greatest Negotiator in Human History in the White House. For Sure, he will be able to communicate with protestors and come to some agreements.

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I am extremely confident that he will exercise exactly the same leadership qualities he has displayed with all his responses and non-responses to the pandemic.

Would you say 6 out of 8 are wearing masks as they should, or is it 6 out of 10, since neither Carmen nor Winslow have one on either?

And not much social distancing happening either, is there?

Sigh, his Monday strips always follow his Sunday strips.

It is the worst of times. It is the worst of times.

Day 39 of the Georgia Economic Recovery.

President Trump commits war crime: US sending Brazil 2M doses of hydroxychloroquine and 1,000 ventilators

Comparable to Eric Holder authorizing sending 2,000 high-powered weapons to Mexico to launch the drug wars in 2010.

As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic climbed toward the bleak milestone of 100,000 and nearly one-sixth of the nation’s workers were unemployed, President Donald Trump’s mind on May 18 was elsewhere. He welcomed two of his 2016 political soldiers, ✁

A day later, when Trump journeyed to the Capitol for the first time during the pandemic, he again allowed his personal concerns to eclipse the crisis engulfing the nation.

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To some of the senators, Trump seemed obsessed not with saving lives but with appearing politically strong. Several privately concluded he was incapable of meeting the moment.

But resigned to their belief that his conduct could not be changed, they did not share their unease with Trump or with the public. The following week, the number of dead passed 100,000 and the number of Americans filing for jobless claims went past 40 million.

Those two days in May encapsulate how Trump spent the fifth month of the coronavirus crisis: increasingly shaken by a pandemic he could not control; offering no more than fleeting expressions of grief or empathy; quick to assign blame to others; enraged by grievances and feuds; dismissive of health guidelines; and concerned, above all, about his diminished reelection prospects.

And by month’s end, Trump stoked racial tensions over the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis by tweeting comments so incendiary that Twitter flagged them as violating the platform’s rule against glorifying violence.

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“I don’t understand how someone can take the responsibility of being leader of the most powerful nation in the world and then decide…

‘Nah, that’s not really my responsibility anymore, we’ll leave that to other people and I have other things I’d rather do,’ " (retired rear admiral Kenneth) Bernard added.

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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Trump-led-month-of-distractions-and-grievances-15306941.php

Trump has FTD, and it is getting more noticeable on an almost weekly basis. Next, full on dementia. Then the only question is WWRSD?

Trump Disciples are cheered today by reports of Their Messiah speaking to his hero Vlad today.

Maybe asking for technical advice on how to get rid of ‘enemies of the people.’ What are the best tragic and mysterious circumstances for them to die under?

Didn’t you know? This is all part of Obamagate!

“Reopening following the fire sale before the bankruptcy liquidation sale”. (All cartoons now require fact checking)