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Trump Adds ‘Black Lives Matter’ Sticker To SUV So Media Can’t Claim He’s Spreading COVID - The Babylon Bee

“Checkmate,” Trump said as he smiled and waved to reporters.

Governor Whitmer Refuses To Throw Ring Of Power Back Into Fires Of Mount Doom - The Babylon Bee

“Nooo! Not my precious!” Whitmer screamed as the state Supreme Court handed down the order to destroy the Ring. “Nasty, nasty Constitution! We don’t likes it! Nasty, fat Founding Fathers!” She turned and left.

Pope Francis Says Covid-19 Pandemic Shows Limits to Market Economics - WSJ

The encyclical includes severe words about digital culture, which he says “encourages remarkable hostility, insults, abuse, defamation and verbal violence destructive of others, and this with a lack of restraint that could not exist in physical contact without tearing us all apart.”

A bright spot in this letter.

“Things that until a few years ago could not be said by anyone without risking the loss of universal respect can now be said with impunity, and in the crudest terms, even by some political figures,” Pope Francis writes.

A Huawei Turning Point - WSJ

The U.S.-led campaign isn’t about promoting American companies, as Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia will be the biggest winners of Huawei’s exclusion from Europe. The real concern is national security. Huawei has longstanding ties to the People’s Liberation Army, and no Chinese company is independent under Communist Party rule.

Regal Cinemas Suspending Operations at All U.S. Locations - WSJ

“We are like a grocery shop that doesn’t have vegetables, fruit, meat,” Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger said in an interview. “We cannot operate for a long time without a product.”

I’d like to see this pandemic completely break the traditional film distribution model.

An End to Michigan’s Endless Emergency - WSJ

“Almost certainly,” Justice Markman wrote for the majority, “no individual in the history of this state has ever been vested with as much concentrated and standardless power to regulate the lives of our people, free of the inconvenience of having to act in accord with other accountable branches of government.”

It’s great that the Courts are starting to deliver relief on these extended “emergencies,” but it’s remarkable how long they were permitted to endure totally unchecked.

The real solution in emergencies is for all constitutiencies to work together. Government first encourages and gains the buy in of the public. Then the Executive and Legislative branches work together on solutions as needed within the legal framework of a jurisdiction.

What happened in this case is everyone panicked over the course of a single week. They ran right past asking the public to pitch in and instead opted for unending emergencies and odious infringements on civil liberty.

The World That War Has Made - WSJ

The income tax, a rare and light burden in the U.S. before 1914, steadily grew, first as an emergency measure during World War I and then afterward as American governments found that they could tax more heavily without breaking the economy. (Emphasis added)

Emergency powers are a dangerous thing.

Happy Feast of St. Francis! 🦌

Party That Wants To Run Your Healthcare Roots For Political Opponent To Die - The Babylon Bee

Leftists who want to manage your healthcare for your own good also think it is a good thing when their political opponents fall ill, and they’re especially excited when they die. From Trump’s brother Robert to Herman Cain, whenever someone with the wrong beliefs dies, they are ecstatic.

New Footage Shows Heroic Trump Leaping In Front Of Mike Pence To Protect Him From Sneeze - The Babylon Bee

“But, quarantine isn’t so bad. I get soup and cartoons, all day. Can you believe this coyote? He’s a total failure! Hasn’t so much as laid his hands on the roadrunner all day. A real loser! I’d catch the roadrunner in two, three hours tops.”

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What’s the Ballot Deadline? Who Knows - WSJ

But it’s certainly true that, left to their own devices, judges across the country are making it up as they go.

General Motors’ Credit Card, Brought to You by Goldman Sachs - WSJ

In addition to its Apple card, which had $4.5 billion in outstanding balances as of June 30

That escalated quickly.

Biden Claims Communist China Is ‘Just An Idea’ - The Babylon Bee

“The right wants you to think Communist China is an organized threat, but it’s just an idea,” Biden said.

Enough to ruin any taxpayers’ day.

‘No Chris Wallace To Save You Now!’ Trump Ambushes Biden In Alleyway To Debate Him - The Babylon Bee

“Don’t I get two minutes to respond?” Biden finally asked.

October 1st, amirite?

Americans Come Out Of Debate Excited By Their Two Great Choices - The Babylon Bee

“One of those two will be running the country for the next four years? How can you not be optimistic?”

Pompeo Calls On Pope Francis to Defend Religious Freedom in China - WSJ

A senior Vatican official expressed irritation with Mr. Pompeo’s suggestion that the Holy See hadn’t been standing up for religious freedom in China. “We speak about religious freedom to China all the time, but we do so in our own way,” the official said.

Get real, dude.