All from Harper’s Weekly Review:<\/p>\n
Bill Montgomery, the 80-year-old cofounder of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, also died of COVID-19; shortly after his passing, the group\u2019s Twitter account deleted a meme making fun of protective masks that used the hashtag #BigGovSucks.<\/em><\/p>\n Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas, who is among a group of House Republicans who have often refused to wear masks on Capitol Hill, blamed his COVID-19 diagnosis on his wearing a mask. \u201cI can\u2019t help but wonder if my keeping a mask on and keeping it in place, that if I might have put some germs or some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in,\u201d Gohmert said in an interview.<\/em><\/p>\n I can’t remember how many years ago I heard from someone who knew his Congressional stuff that Gohmert had a long tenure as the Dumbest Guy in Congress, determined by a popular Congressional vote.<\/p>\n \u201cNow that\u2019s pretty scary, isn\u2019t it,\u201d said a woman who, at a city council meeting in Springfield, Missouri, compared requirements to wear masks in public to the yellow Star of David in Nazi Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n No, says me, a New York Jew who wears her a mask everywhere. “It isn’t pretty scary.”<\/p>\n Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon\u2014who is not among the company\u2019s executives who actively participated in bribery and money laundering for 1MDB\u2014DJ\u2019d at a benefit concert in the Hamptons that \u201cegregiously\u201d violated social-distancing rules.<\/em><\/p>\n King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who is under investigation for corruption, announced that he is leaving the country.<\/em><\/p>\n Today I saw on Twitter that they’re looking for him. Searched the DR but no King. Of course since that’s Twitter, who knows if it’s real news? I mean, I’m pretty sure the King departed Spain but cannot verify the rest.<\/p>\n Trump said that he would give Microsoft or \u201ca big company, a secure company, a very American company\u201d the opportunity to purchase TikTok instead of banning it immediately, and claimed that the U.S. government should get a cut.<\/em><\/p>\n “Get a cut.” I can’t be the only person suspicious that when Trump says the US Government should get a cut, the cut he means is the slit of his pocket.<\/p>\n As many as 6,000 macaques, who store their dead in a movie theater that is also their base of operations, have overrun Lopburi, Thailand. \u201cThe monkeys are never hungry, just like children who eat too much KFC,\u201d said a Thai wildlife-conservation official.<\/em><\/p>\n A plane bound for Australia crashed shortly after takeoff because it was weighed down with 1,120 pounds of cocaine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All from Harper’s Weekly Review: Bill Montgomery, the 80-year-old cofounder of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA, also died of COVID-19; shortly after his passing, the group\u2019s Twitter account deleted a meme making fun of protective masks that used … Continue reading