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October 28, 2020

Police Say Man Caught With Cocaine In Boxes Of Lucky Charms Cereal

VERONA, N.Y. (CBS) – A Worcester man was arrested in upstate New York after police said he was driving around with two boxes of Lucky Charms cereal that were actually filled with cocaine.

New York State troopers pulled over 23-year-old Jahn Rentas around 1:45 a.m. last Saturday on Interstate 90 in the town of Vernona for a vehicle and traffic violation.

After talking to Rentas, police said there was probable cause to search his car. Inside the two cereal boxes police said there was about 4.5 pounds of cocaine.

Rentas was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/10/28/lucky-charms-cocaine-arrest-jahn-rentas-new-york-state-police/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

October 27, 2020

Time to dump the presidential dilettante -- he's a cruel and incompetent failure

... Trump's blinding dumbness in the areas of history, the Constitution, the presidency and democratic institutions has infected him with an ugly, bastardized view of his job description, inflamed by his own biases and whatever he's picked up from watching cable news. He's a presidential dilettante, even now, nearly four years into the gig.

His wafer-thin understanding of presidential leadership contributes to his most self-defeating misapprehension: that he's only the president of the red states. Everyone else is the enemy, even more so than our actual overseas adversaries — surely more than Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, whom Trump praises more often than many of his fellow citizens and colleagues. The rest of us are only useful to him as punching bags and targets for his screechy, obscene, misspelled tweets and, more recently, his fascist police force. The upside of his deformed view of the presidency is that if he loses this election, it'll partly be because he refused to expand his support beyond his loyalists.

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His relationship with his disciples is a match made in hell, given that his Red Hat fanboys have an equally stunted view of the presidency. I assure you, they'd never allow Trump-style behavior from their doctors, their kids' teachers or, hell, their airline pilots. If they hadn't been so badly brainwashed by the conservative entertainment complex, they never would have gifted the nuclear codes and the immense power of the presidency to such an unstable, erratic, incompetent political tourist who has utterly failed to grow into the job and rise to the occasion — who has failed to accept the intense gravity of his post. As Barack Obama said in August, "It's because he can't."

At no other time has that been more evident than in Trump's response to the pandemic. For the first two years of his presidency, many of us sat on the edge of our seats wondering when Trump would be seriously challenged either by a military threat, a terrorist attack or a global pandemic. From the moment Hillary Clinton conceded, I suspected this buffoonish greenhorn would be put to the test and fail badly. I never imagined that his reaction, untethered from experts, would be quite this calamitous.

His response to the hurricanes that collided with Puerto Rico represented a harrowing preview of how he'd handle the pandemic. I was convinced at the time that he was at least temporarily unaware that Puerto Rico was even part of the United States. I mean, how could he have been so thoughtless and unsympathetic to actual Americans? Turns out, he probably knew — he just didn't give a shit. Never before has a modern president behaved so callously toward a devastated population of his own people, hurling paper towels at their heads as if he were firing a T-shirt cannon at a college basketball pep rally. Today, the island territory continues to rebuild despite Trump's reprehensible indifference.

America is better than this. We're better than him.

https://www.salon.com/2020/10/27/time-to-dump-the-presidential-dilettante--hes-a-cruel-and-incompetent-failure/

October 25, 2020

Protesters hurl eggs at Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump demonstrators in NYC

Anti-Trump protesters hurled eggs and insults at supporters of the president — including former mayor Rudy Giuliani — as they rolled through Manhattan in a convoy on Sunday.

Video posted on Twitter shows a flag-draped pro-Trump caravan — identified online as a Jews for Trump demonstration — led by Giuliani being bombarded with eggs, including one spot at 59th Street and 5th Avenue — with one protester yelling “f—-g scum” at the former Big Apple mayor.

“F–k you Rudy,” another man is heard screaming.

“You f—-g coward, go back to f—-g Long Island,” another man yells.

Giuliani is seen in one clip rolling down the passenger side window of the SUV he’s riding in and calls out to a cop — “Lieutenant.”

“I’m a sergeant,” the cop says as he walks over to the vehicle, which pulls away after the two speak briefly — with Giuliani seeming to point out vocal demonstrators repeatedly shouting, “f–k you Rudy, f—-g piece of s–t.”

https://nypost.com/2020/10/25/protestors-hurl-eggs-at-giuliani-pro-trump-demonstrators-in-nyc/

October 24, 2020

Look at these cuties!

Somebody ought to call Child Protective Services.

https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1319732044495261699

October 22, 2020

Rudy Releases Video Of Himself Masturbating To Show What It Actually Looks Like

WASHINGTON—In response to a compromising scene featured in the Borat sequel in which the president’s personal attorney claimed to be tucking in his shirt, Rudy Giuliani released a video of himself masturbating Thursday to show what it would actually look like.

“You thought that was masturbating? I’ll show you masturbating,” said Giuliani in a blurry iPhone video that he released to every major national news outlet, which showed the former New York City mayor getting completely naked and weeping as he vigorously pleasured himself.

“Hopefully, this footage of me beating my meat to toe-curling completion will dispel any salacious claims about what took place in that hotel. I’ve also shared this with the FBI so they can authenticate it. If you don’t see me standing in the middle of my living room jacking off to a family photo album, then you can rest assured I wasn’t masturbating.”

At press time, Giuliani vowed to release a new video of him masturbating every day until the election to help prevent the spread of disinformation.

https://politics.theonion.com/rudy-giuliani-releases-video-of-himself-masturbating-to-1845453299/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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