The Bob Cesca Podcast: Free Soloing

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show, powered by David
Clark Attorney at Law:

Free Soloing — NSFW! Jody Hamilton from the Sexy Liberal Podcast Network is here; TRex is under the weather; The Democratic debate; The stock market is collapsing; Is Trump profiting from the market declines; Trump’s completely incompetent press conference about coronavirus; Mike Pence’s HIV record in Indiana; Drunk Larry Kudlow joins Pence’s team; Trump is starting to sue people who said he colluding with Russia; Justice Thomas’s wife is helping to compile the enemies list; With music by Marina Rocks and Kate Mills; and more!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 2:57:04pm

Health officials: U.S. nearing coronavirus pandemic

[…] Dr. Leonard Marcus, Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health […]

Marcus said that Americans should not panic but, there are things that should be done in order to prepare for what health officials believe to be an inevitability.

[…]

While Marcus believes the chance of contracting coronavirus is still low, he said that the chance that everyday life will be disrupted by the spread is much higher.

“They could cancel public events and if there are many, many people who are contracting the disease, as we saw in Wuhan they might discourage people from going outside for some period of time,” he said.

Marcus said that it is still a mystery as to why very few children have contracted the novel coronavirus.

Thoughts of the TV adaptation of Childhood’s End comes to mind.

[…]

Marcus confirmed that Harvard University has received a $500 million grant from a private company in China to develop a vaccine to treat the virus.

He said it could be more than 9 months before experts are able to develop that vaccine.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 2:57:41pm

Ah. Here we go. This is how he’ll do it. Setting up the excuses early so Trump can eventually sue every state he loses in the election, dragging out the results and certifications long after election night. https://t.co/14DjvrQtjU

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) February 27, 2020

goddamnedfrank Feb 27, 2020 • 3:01:53pm

Factoid: 5% of doctoring is just telling people not to shove whatever they’re holding right now into a random orifice https://t.co/454XlhnRrt

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 27, 2020

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 3:03:16pm

Cults are always bad, never good:

Coronavirus’ rapid spread in South Korea linked to secretive church

The number of South Koreans infected by the novel coronavirus was announced to have hit 1,595 by Thursday morning, marking a rapid increase after passing the 1,000 mark on Wednesday, and with hundreds of the cases linked to the Shincheonji Church of Jesus religious group.

Infections in the country have multiplied more than 40 times in the past 10 days, despite the government’s heightened alert status. The death toll is 12.

[…]

South Korea’s first case of the COVID-19 infection was found at a Shincheonji Church of Jesus premises in the southeastern city of Daegu. Infections reportedly then spread among church members who had spent long periods of time together in closed rooms.

According to local media reports, one member who had symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 refused to undergo tests recommended by a physician at a hospital, and left the premises. The individual then moved around the city, attending a social meal and a service, meanwhile spreading the disease to others.

[…]

The church has agreed to a request by the South Korean government to submit a list of several hundred followers who attended the same church services as infected people and whose whereabouts are unknown.

But media reports have suggested that followers of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus usually hide their religious beliefs. Furthermore, the religious group is believed to be making it difficult for its followers to be identified by telling them to attend churches across the country, rather than in Daegu.

[…]

The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 3:03:22pm

Trump spent 45 minutes today w/producers behind a play that dramatized the text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, complaining about why “some people are in prison and others aren’t.” He is now meeting with Diamond and Silk and others. https://t.co/5jIxvyyUfl

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 27, 2020

Chrysicat Feb 27, 2020 • 3:06:32pm

Me me me! “Emperor Tang”, “Palpatang”, “Agent Orange”, “the Fanta Menace” “Cheetolini”, very occasionally “IQ45”, “the king”, [much more often] “YOUR king” [at Rs], “His Majesty”, “Mad King Donald”, just “Trump”, but I think I try to avoid the p-word.

— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 27, 2020

retired cynic Feb 27, 2020 • 3:08:35pm

re: #6 Chrysicat

Me! DT works, making it as small as possible.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Feb 27, 2020 • 3:08:36pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Let me guess—Gohmert Pyle uttered that bullshit at Assholepalooza!

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 3:09:33pm

When even the DailyFail sees through your smokescreen:

Is there a doctor in the house? Mike Pence unveils the White House’s coronavirus taskforce amid growing crisis - with just FOUR medical experts out of 15 chiefs (and one of them isn’t even there)

EPR-radar Feb 27, 2020 • 3:15:51pm

re: #3 goddamnedfrank

That headline missed the most entertaining part of the story — apparently this quack cure is to put frozen potatoes up one’s ass.

Chrysicat Feb 27, 2020 • 3:22:10pm

re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Cults are always bad, never good:

Coronavirus’ rapid spread in South Korea linked to secretive church

I’d say every Shincheonji deserves a drawn-out and unpleasant death at this point, but the problem is I wouldn’t be wishing anything on them they may not have already sentenced themselves to. Along with every Korean Methodist they infect by going stealth in their churches since their sanctuary is closed for the duration.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:23:14pm

re: #5 The Pie Overlord!

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Can we please 25 amendment his ass.

The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 3:25:44pm

JFC

“I gave a press conference yesterday that really was a very good press conference,” Trump says.

He says it was a “calming” press conference.

(He hasn’t yet directly addressed the markets today.)

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) February 27, 2020

Trump says the Coronavirus could get worse before it gets better, or that it could just go away. Nobody knows, Trump says.

— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) February 27, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:29:08pm

re: #13 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

He has no idea what the fuck he’s doing.

The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 3:29:27pm

Yes, exactly.

He said the number of cases in the US will soon decline to “near zero”… while experts stood next to him saying “there will be more cases.”

He lied about the lethality of flu.

He said we’ll “have a shot for this in a fairly quick manner”.

All absurd. All lies. https://t.co/oDk5THayeJ

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) February 27, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:31:09pm

re: #15 The Pie Overlord!

And the experts contradicting will get the people that he actually listens to like Dr. Limbaugh, Dr. Hannity, Dr. Dobbs, and Dr. Ingraham to tell him that they’re never Trumpers trying to get him.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 3:34:26pm

Trump is competing with Iranian leaders for the stupidest reactions to COVID-19:

Iran’s response to coronavirus to surprise the world: Minister

Iran’s health minister has vowed that the country would surprise the world with its way of dealing with a coronavirus that has claimed more than two dozen lives since it break out in the country last week.

Saeid Namaki made the remarks in a letter addressed to the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Thursday.

The letter came after Ayatollah Khamenei thanked Namaki and all medical personnel across Iran for their efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The minister said in his letter that all government departments had joined in the fight against coronavirus in a “unique show” of solidarity.

“This, without any question, would surprise the entire world when the disease is brought to its knees,” wrote Namaki.

[…]

Eclectic Cyborg Feb 27, 2020 • 3:36:55pm

re: #17 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I fucking hate autocrats.

Chrysicat Feb 27, 2020 • 3:36:59pm

He asks on the very day that Scotland announces a money-laundering investigation into #OrangeFoolius’s properties there.
If they find laundering, where ELSE do you think it might have come from, genius?

— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) February 27, 2020

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 3:37:01pm

WaPo opinion writer opines:

How Trump can avoid being his own worst enemy on coronavirus

I don’t care about Trump being his own enemy.

I’m concerned about Trump being my enemy.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 3:39:07pm

To no surprise, the Australian equities have now also lost over 10% from their high:

Australian share market goes into freefall over coronavirus fears losing $50 BILLION in minutes

The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 3:39:37pm

Too bad this is a lie.

President Trump: “I had a man come up to me a week ago. I hadn’t seen him in a long time. I said, ‘How you doing?’ He said, ‘Fine, fine.’ He hugs me. I said, ‘Are you well?’ He says, ‘No.’ He said, ‘I have the worst fever and the worst flu,’ and he’s hugging and kissing me.” pic.twitter.com/SWfEPbTOuP

— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2020

steve_davis Feb 27, 2020 • 3:41:09pm

Announcer: “Is this a time when we should crack open our neighbor’s heads with clubs and eat the gooey insides?”

Pundit: “Yes, Ken. That would be my feeling.”

Joe Bacon 🌹 Feb 27, 2020 • 3:42:24pm

re: #15 The Pie Overlord!

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Paula White stands ready with her Holy Crisco Oil to heal the sick and pray for them…after she gets all of their income tax refund…

Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2020 • 3:42:43pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

And the entire press corp laughed when he said it. I heard it.

aatharuv Feb 27, 2020 • 3:44:11pm

re: #24 Joe Bacon 🌹

Maybe she can stay in the same room as the Iranian health minister and try to convert him with her miracle oil

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:49:10pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

Too bad this is a lie.

I can’t wait for this madness to be over. I want to be able to know that our country is in good hands again. There’s been too much of this for one lifetime.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Feb 27, 2020 • 3:51:45pm

re: #26 aatharuv

Maybe she can stay in the same room as the Iranian health minister and try to convert him with her miracle oil

She got to lay her hands on him, too…in the name of Jay-Zuss!

Targetpractice Feb 27, 2020 • 3:52:15pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

Too bad this is a lie.

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Well, we can’t be sure it’s a lie. It contained no mention of “tears” or “sir.”

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 3:55:34pm

re: #14 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Knows/doesn’t know isn’t really black and white in this case, because we’re not dealing with people that think in ways that fit with the general understanding of “belief” as something solid. Trump is saying contradictory things and untrue things and believing them, because ultimately he has no interest in describing what is real, only how to avoid negative consequences and appropriate good results. His people are echoing it because ultimately they hold the same standard of veracity, that there is no truth except what they can make true.

Which is scarier than just being liars, because they’re going to expect to be taken seriously and their prescriptions obeyed, not questioned, but are also going to be enraged when their untruths do not produce results that were never capable of producing.

It’s like a gambler who believes their system is always responsible for their wins, but claim their losses are not just because of the house cheating, but because someone else forced them to make a bet.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:57:03pm

re: #30 The Ghost of a Flea

Knows/doesn’t know isn’t really black and white in this case, because we’re not dealing with people that think in ways that fit with the general understanding of “belief” as something solid. Trump is saying contradictory things and untrue and believing them, because ultimately he has no interest in describing what is real, only how to avoid negative consequences and appropriate good results. His people are echoing it because ultimately they hold the same standard of veracity, that there is no truth except what they can make true.

Which is scarier than just being liars, because they’re going to expect to be taken seriously and their prescriptions obeyed, not questioned, but are also going to be enraged when their untruths do not produce results that were never capable of producing.

It’s like a gambler who believes their system is always responsible for their wins, but claim their losses are not just because of the house cheating, but because someone else forced them to make a bet.

Yeah true. I think he really believes he’s actually presidential. That’s the danger of the FNC echochamber and bootlicks in the inner circle. God it’s awful.

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 3:58:27pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

Too bad this is a lie.

Yeah, but can we also talk about how cringey the weird escalation at the end is, where the stranger is kissing him?

Because I feel like a need to purified with bleach and fire.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 3:59:59pm

re: #32 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah, but can we also talk about how cringey the weird escalation at the end is, where the stranger is kissing him?

Because I feel like a need to purified with bleach and fire.

I mean his stories always end with a regular citizen treating him like a great savior. He’s got a serious messiah complex.

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 4:01:48pm

re: #33 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I figure if they’re getting to first base they’re worth at least half a billion.

BeachDem Feb 27, 2020 • 4:02:28pm

re: #5 The Pie Overlord!

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Three brain cell opera pic.twitter.com/x3s6TB2siO

— Daniel Balsz (@dbalsz) February 27, 2020

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 4:07:35pm

re: #33 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s also a victim all the time, too.

And this story is the weird intersection of that.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:09:00pm

re: #35 BeachDem

Is he going to play himself in the Hollywood right wing has/never was’s production of the Trump story that will be a worse film than that Kirk Cameron one from a few years back? This all is so fucking weird. Like I feel like I could be reading or watching about a former Soviet republic’s bizarre strongman that exhibits weird behavior like ths.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:11:26pm

re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea

He’s also a victim all the time, too.

And this story is the weird intersection of that.

Yeah I’ve studied Nixon a little- wrote a paper on him in college that required me to read some Nixon biographies including his own memoirs so I understand Nixon’s psychology a little bit. Trump I don’t think I can remotely comprehend. Weirdly and I despise the man though I know he accomplished things, Nixon’s paranoia and persecution complex was a little understandable. Of course, that doesn’t excuse the things he did that led up to his impeachment and other things that were only known later.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Feb 27, 2020 • 4:11:35pm

re: #37 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Is he going to play himself in the Hollywood right wing has/never was’s production of the Trump story that will be a worse film than that Kirk Cameron one from a few years back? This all is so fucking weird. Like I feel like I could be reading or watching about a former Soviet republic’s bizarre strongman that exhibits weird behavior like ths.

No. Jon Voight will play Trump because you need a REALLY BIG ASSOLE to play the role of the Biggest Asshole Of All Time!

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:13:13pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹

No. Jon Voight will play Trump because you need a REALLY BIG ASSOLE to play the role of the Biggest Asshole Of All Time!

Ah yeah, I could see Trump having Jon Voight play him. Voight’s a kooky wingnut now which is too bad since I don’t think he’s a bad actor but his right wing hackery is sad. Don’t know when he turned or was he always a wingnut. Voight actually proves the whole conservatives are victims of liberal hollywood bs to be just that though. I haven’t watched it yet but a lot of people love Ray Donovan.

EPR-radar Feb 27, 2020 • 4:14:13pm

re: #37 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Is he going to play himself in the Hollywood right wing has/never was’s production of the Trump story that will be a worse film than that Kirk Cameron one from a few years back? This all is so fucking weird. Like I feel like I could be reading or watching about a former Soviet republic’s bizarre strongman that exhibits weird behavior like ths.

I still think that the first Trump toady to look up the personality cult of Turkmenbashi and start making corresponding suggestions to Trump will get at least a cabinet position out of it.

E.g., Trump would love to have a giant gold-plated statue of himself erected on the White House lawn, on a motorized base so it forever faces the sun.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:15:29pm

Outrageous! Trump purported to delegate authority to Esper to end unions in DoD, citing “national security.” But “Esper said he did not request the memo and did not know why the White House drafted it,” which kills the claim that national security was at issue. It was politics. https://t.co/lVyybMf9Rt

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) February 28, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:16:34pm

re: #41 EPR-radar

I still think that the first Trump toady to look up the personality cult of Turkmenbashi and start making corresponding suggestions to Trump will get at least a cabinet position out of it.

E.g., Trump would love to have a giant gold-plated statue of himself erected on the White House lawn, on a motorized base so it forever faces the sun.

Man that’s a scary thought. I don’t know a ton about Turkmenbashi but I know the name.

KGxvi Feb 27, 2020 • 4:20:09pm

re: #3 goddamnedfrank

Funny, because 95% of lawyering is telling someone to shove something up an orifice.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:22:56pm

re: #33 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I mean his stories always end with a regular citizen treating him like a great savior. He’s got a serious messiah complex.

generals and cops and firefighters and construction workers,etc…ya know…TOUGH GUYS

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 4:24:29pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

generals and cops and firefighters and construction workers,etc…ya know…TOUGH GUYS

Oh god I don’t even know how to process the accumulated masculinity paradoxes embodied in Trump’s endless “crying tough guy says ‘sir’” stories.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:24:55pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

generals and cops and firefighters and construction workers,etc…ya know…TOUGH GUYS

Yeah, I forgot that they’re always tough guys that work in professions that Trump wouldn’t last a day in. Add to your list- coal miners, steelworkers, etc. He wants to project himself as a blue collar guy when he’s quite honestly the least blue collar person you’ll ever meet. I can’t imagine him in a t-shirt and jeans. I can’t imagine him actually enjoying a good sports game. Yeah he is a sports fan but he’s more the kind of fan that a lot of other sports fans hate to deal with.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:26:00pm

re: #46 The Ghost of a Flea

Oh god I don’t even know how to process the accumulated masculinity paradoxes embodied in Trump’s endless “crying tough guy says ‘sir’” stories.

Too bad Freud never met Trump eh? Seriously, as I got at earlier, his psychology is going to be studied for years to come. Trump’s gonna be remembered like he’s always wanted to but not the way he’s always wanted to.

jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 4:28:16pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

generals and cops and firefighters and construction workers,etc…ya know…TOUGH GUYS

Suddenly I’m hearing Y-M-C-A!

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:30:17pm

re: #49 jaunte

Suddenly I’m hearing Y-M-C-A!

You do know that he just got permission from like the 5th version of the Village People to play YMCA and Macho Man at his rallies. As I said, this is all very weird as hell to me. Sometimes, it almost feels like those people who say we are in a simulation are right. This all feels like a bad movie more and more.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:30:27pm

re: #49 jaunte

Suddenly I’m hearing Y-M-C-A!

I KNOW!

and Village People just gave permission for trump to use that song

#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:31:04pm

just bought a fasta pasta

someone here mentioned it the other day

it is awesome

uses almost no water, compared to a pot
- and that’s for both cooking and cleaning up after

and it’s accurate in the cooking / done-ness

for 2 servings, i’m thrilled

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:32:14pm

I think the idea that Trump is an ultimate man’s man is one of the most surreal parts of his whole image. It does show you how he’s emulated Putin in how he sells himself.

KGxvi Feb 27, 2020 • 4:32:19pm

re: #47 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah, I forgot that they’re always tough guys that work in professions that Trump wouldn’t last a day in. Add to your list- coal miners, steelworkers, etc. He wants to project himself as a blue collar guy when he’s quite honestly the least blue collar person you’ll ever meet. I can’t imagine him in a t-shirt and jeans. I can’t imagine him actually enjoying a good sports game. Yeah he is a sports fan but he’s more the kind of fan that a lot of other sports fans hate to deal with.

The thing is… he’s not really white collar either. He’s should be an old money white collar type, but he’s not. He is in most every way, the worst of America.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:33:10pm

re: #52 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

that would have been me who mentioned it.
I totally love that thing

jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 4:34:53pm

Y.M.C.A was a big hit in 1978, Trump’s heyday of clubbing at Studio 54 and denying rentals to black people.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:35:00pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

that would have been me who mentioned it.
I totally love that thing

also, it works great for steaming veggies

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:35:48pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

also, it works great for steaming veggies

a tablespoon or so of water, 60 seconds in the microwave…TADA!

Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2020 • 4:35:56pm

re: #56 jaunte

Studio 54 was his personal Vietnam.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:37:41pm

Muslim student groups were infiltrated. Imams were tracked. Plainclothes officers went into stores and cafes and questioned people on their political views. Mundane details of Muslims’ daily habits were mapped. Breakdown from my story earlier this week: https://t.co/0hDAIkyhW9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 28, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:37:44pm

re: #54 KGxvi

The thing is… he’s not really white collar either. He’s should be an old money white collar type, but he’s not. He is in most every way, the worst of America.

I mean he’s not even the refined old money type like the Roosevelts were. Though to be truthful, he’s more akin to the Kennedys. Not old, old money but not new money exactly either since it’s not his money. What is it they say about fathers and sons and fortunes?

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:38:43pm

re: #59 Ace Rothstein

Studio 54 was his personal Vietnam.

He lost Mick Jagger in the back one night I guess because Mick probably would have rather talked to anyone else.

The Ghost of a Flea Feb 27, 2020 • 4:39:33pm

re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Go back through time and authoritarians of all stripes, all the way back to monarchs, end up using masculinity as part of their justification of power. This inevitably requires counterfeiting and moving goalposts.

Yet it works consistently, because there are a pool of people who accept the premise that there is something inherently worthwhile in “manliness” such they that don’t notice or care when all the supposedly good qualities are swapped out or mitigated.

I talk a lot about words that are empty of meaning, and “masculinity” is such a venerable repeat offender.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:39:40pm

re: #62 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He lost Mick Jagger in the back one night I guess because Mick probably would have rather talked to anyone else.

was that the same night Keith Richards wanted to stab him?

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:40:44pm

NEW DETAILS JUST ANNOUNCED for @JoeBiden’s March 2nd Texas trip:

Houston: 1:00 PM CT @ Texas Southern University College of Science —> https://t.co/zggKMyhFc1

Dallas: 7:30 PM CT @ Gilley’s —> https://t.co/TUbNhn9mVi #JoeMentum https://t.co/MxqcRWpn88

— Ike Hajinazarian 🥁 (@ikehaji) February 28, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:41:10pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

was that the same night Keith Richards wanted to stab him?

I dunno. I was making fun of how he claimed the STDs were his Nam. And I thought of the first person I thought of that I knew was a Studio 54 regular. I still need to see that Netlfix documentary.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:41:47pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good move to hit the cities.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:42:10pm

Syrian refugees are entering towards Europe through Turkish border gates.

Turkey opened border crossings.

— Turkish Media pic.twitter.com/gIAsPAOCr4

— İbrahim Haskoloğlu (@haskologlu) February 28, 2020

EPR-radar Feb 27, 2020 • 4:42:48pm

re: #66 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I dunno. I was making fun of how he claimed the STDs were his Nam. And I thought of the first person I thought of that I knew was a Studio 54 regular. I still need to see that Netlfix documentary.

Back in the day, someone really should have convinced Trump that soaking his balls in kerosene for hours at a time was most efficacious vs. STDs.

#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:42:58pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

that would have been me who mentioned it.
I totally love that thing

anything to use less water…

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:43:03pm

And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. pic.twitter.com/FE0rGPrtdd

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 27, 2020

EPR-radar Feb 27, 2020 • 4:44:40pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Right wing nut jobs can’t count to ten, so they have settled on one commandment for their religion: “Thou shalt be a hypocrite at all times and in every possible way.”

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:44:42pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Diamond and Silk acting all lay on the hands preachery….

Belafon Feb 27, 2020 • 4:45:20pm

President Obama set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries, as a way to protect against something just like Coronavirus breaking out across the world.

Experts begged Trump to keep them open.

He closed 37 of them.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 27, 2020

b.d. (We're gonna win) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:46:39pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But that is a special Diamond & Silk Prayer!

This is the biggest crisis of Trump’s term and he is too busy getting Jesusfied by Diamond & Silk than try and do something for the country and world.

Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 4:46:41pm

wow

Amazing grace in a tunnel 🎶🎵 pic.twitter.com/ksEcLOQoAu

— 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 (@Dutchwouter777) February 27, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:47:55pm

re: #74 Belafon

Murphy’s another one who I think has a future ahead of him.

JC1 Feb 27, 2020 • 4:50:27pm

re: #77 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Murphy’s another one who I think has a future ahead of him.

He’s great. When I lived in CT I emailed him about an issue. He took the time to reply with a considered response.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Feb 27, 2020 • 4:51:57pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I see President Shithead is consulting with his CDC team!

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:52:54pm

re: #78 JC1

He’s great. When I lived in CT I emailed him about an issue. He took the time to reply with a considered response.

Glad to hear it. I like to play talent scout when looking at our Reps and Senators and seeing where they might fit in for future leadership positions within Congress, Cabinet, or maybe even the presidency. Murphy I think is the youngest Democrat maybe even the youngest person period in the Senate. He seems very much on top of his game. I could see him running for POTUS one day, chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, or being SoS. And I see that the sub-committee he chairs is a very important one- United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism. My Senator, Tim Kaine is on there and I really like him a lot too.

JC1 Feb 27, 2020 • 4:53:40pm

How is this not a top story on every site?
bbc.com
Russian airstrike kills 29 Turkish troops.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:54:09pm

Diamond and Silk were what would have happened if Not Joe the Not Plumber were brought into the McCain WH which to give McCain credit, I don’t think he would have done even though I think he let him get 15 minutes of fame that he did not deserve.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 4:54:45pm

re: #81 JC1

How is this not a top story on every site?

Covid-19 and market panic are filling up the mindspace of news consumers.

Semper Fi Feb 27, 2020 • 4:55:00pm

Just a quick mention of Elizabeth Warren:
Just now, as I walked to my favorite chair, Warren’s voice was responding to some question (which was asked while I was out of earshot) saying, “that was Bernie’s position in 2016.”
I don’t know what she was responding to but whatever it was I believed her. After 3 yrs of this crap the truth is so damn refreshing. Gave me a good feeling.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:55:30pm

re: #81 JC1

How is this not a top story on every site?
bbc.com
Russian airstrike kills 29 Turkish troops.

Jesus.

Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2020 • 4:56:16pm

re: #82 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Turns out, ol’ Joe the Plumber loved getting his public services without paying for any of them. Just like every other phony that hates “socialism.”

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:57:02pm

re: #84 Semper Fi

Just a quick mention of Elizabeth Warren:
Just now, as I walked to my favorite chair, Warren’s voice was responding to some question (which was asked while I was out of earshot) saying, “that was Bernie’s position in 2016.”
I don’t know what she was responding to but whatever it was I believed her. After 3 yrs of this crap the truth is so damn refreshing. Gave me a good feeling.

Oh? Some Bernie supporter asked her what she would do if Bernie didn’t have the required delegates for the nomination but had a plurality and she pointed out how Bernie did what he did four years ago and pointed out his double standard. The guy supporting Bernie did not like hearing that and then PrimaryWarren trended today.

makeitstop Feb 27, 2020 • 4:57:10pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

was that the same night Keith Richards wanted to stab him?

No, that was in Atlantic City. Stones were playing one of his casinos but they did not want him in the building. Trump showed up anyway.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:57:29pm

re: #86 Ace Rothstein

Turns out, ol’ Joe the Plumber loved getting his public services without paying for any of them. Just like every other phony that hates “socialism.”

Yeah glad he hasn’t gotten a second act in the Trump administration. Same thing with Palin.

jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 4:57:40pm

Statement from Trump administration: “No one could have possibly known that smugglers might tunnel under the wall. This is a completely new development.”

Border Patrol discovers new smuggling tunnel in US https://t.co/OQ2AKaF94S

— Gary Andover (@andover_gary) February 27, 2020

The Administration That Never Read History

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:58:08pm

re: #88 makeitstop

No, that was in Atlantic City. Stones were playing one of his casinos but they did not want him in the building. Trump showed up anyway.

Still breaks my heart that Bowie who was born the same age is gone but Trump remains. I know that’s wrong but damn it.

secretslothbear Feb 27, 2020 • 4:58:31pm

I’ve been thinking about the delegate math.

The superdelegates have a combined 771 votes.

1991 is a clear majority of pledged delegates, but to win on the second (or subsequent) ballot, you need a majority with the superdelegates included, which means a minimum of 2375.5.

If the leader has any fewer than 1605 pledged delegates (slightly more than 40%), the superdelegates alone can’t decide the nomination. There aren’t enough of them.

In this scenario, the only way to win is to peel off delegates from other candidates.

Ace Rothstein Feb 27, 2020 • 4:58:52pm

re: #90 jaunte

Never heard of the Tijuana-San Diego Drug Tunnel, I guess.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 4:59:21pm

re: #93 Ace Rothstein

Never heard of the Tijuana-San Diego Drug Tunnel, I guess.

He knows more about it than anyone. Believe him. //

jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 4:59:31pm

re: #93 Ace Rothstein

Or the Battle of the Crater.

Semper Fi Feb 27, 2020 • 4:59:56pm

re: #87 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Oh? Some Bernie supporter asked her what she would do if Bernie didn’t have the required delegates for the nomination but had a plurality and she pointed out how Bernie did what he did four years ago and pointed out his double standard. The guy supporting Bernie did not like hearing that and then PrimaryWarren trended today.

Thanks for that.

Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:00:18pm

re: #91 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Still breaks my heart that Bowie who was born the same age is gone but Trump remains. I know that’s wrong but damn it.

“Wrong”? No, it’s not wrong. I’d trade them in a second.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:00:59pm

re: #95 jaunte

Or the Battle of the Crater.

or seen The Great Escape. Then again, he probably was imagining himself as Herr Kuhn when he’s actually more like the guard that James Garner stole the papers from.

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:01:22pm

re: #96 Semper Fi

Thanks for that.

No problem. I liked hearing that too. I’m voting for Biden on Tuesday but I like/respect Warren.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:02:12pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

“Wrong”? No, it’s not wrong. I’d trade them in a second.

Yeah true. I keep on thinking about those we’ve lost in the past four years. People we personally know, people who made our lives better, and of course people we know here.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Feb 27, 2020 • 5:03:21pm

re: #81 JC1

How is this not a top story on every site?
bbc.com
Russian airstrike kills 29 Turkish troops.

Because Turkey hasn’t claimed that Russia conducted the strike?

The New York Times

BREAKING NEWS

Correction: An earlier alert misstated what Turkish officials said about a strike on their forces in #Syria They have not said Russia was behind it.https://t.co/vT5BTtJsUd

— Shazz 🌊🌊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 (@gordy_shanks) February 27, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:05:02pm

re: #84 Semper Fi

Just a quick mention of Elizabeth Warren:
Just now, as I walked to my favorite chair, Warren’s voice was responding to some question (which was asked while I was out of earshot) saying, “that was Bernie’s position in 2016.”
I don’t know what she was responding to but whatever it was I believed her. After 3 yrs of this crap the truth is so damn refreshing. Gave me a good feeling.

In which Elizabeth Warren decimates a Bernie Bro in the same fashion she did Mike Bloomberg. #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/F52W7cFlTS

— ross (@OnceUponARoss) February 27, 2020

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:07:52pm

re: #92 secretslothbear

I’ve been thinking about the delegate math.

The superdelegates have a combined 771 votes.

1991 is a clear majority of pledged delegates, but to win on the second (or subsequent) ballot, you need a majority with the superdelegates included, which means a minimum of 2375.5.

If the leader has any fewer than 1605 pledged delegates (slightly more than 40%), the superdelegates alone can’t decide the nomination. There aren’t enough of them.

In this scenario, the ~~only~~ way to win is to ~~peel off delegates from other candidates.~~

…. convince enough people that you are the person who can get the job done

it’s not about winning the nomination
its about trouncing trump, holding the house, and taking the senate

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JC1 Feb 27, 2020 • 5:08:00pm

re: #101 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Because Turkey hasn’t claimed that Russia conducted the strike?

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Looks like cooler heads prevailing. There’s some evidence and video (according to The Guardian) that the airstrike was conducted by the Russian Air Force. Probably makes sense for Turkey to blame it on Syria.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:09:14pm

re: #104 JC1

Looks like cooler heads prevailing. There’s some evidence and video (according to The Guardian) that the airstrike was conducted by the Russian Air Force. Probably makes sense for Turkey to blame it on Syria.

Okay I have to admit that I’m a little ignorant on this. Who exactly is allied with who. The thing that makes this frustrating is Trump has praised Putin, Assad, and Erdogan all.

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Semper Fi Feb 27, 2020 • 5:11:15pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hey, that was very good. Don’t know how many knobs and leevers you had to pull but, wow!
Thank you.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 5:12:27pm

What’s on Mike Pence’s schedule as coronavirus point man? A fundraiser in Florida.

The country’s new point man on coronavirus response, Vice President Mike Pence, is expected to travel to Florida on Friday — but not on a public health mission.

Instead, Pence is headed to the moneyed barrier island town of Longboat Key, where he’ll be the main attraction for Congressional Republicans in one of their biggest fundraisers of the year.

It’s $2,500 to get in the door and $5,000 to take a picture with the vice president, according to an invite obtained by the Tampa Bay Times. And $25,000 buys dinner with him, too.

[…]

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jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 5:14:16pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

$5,000 to take a picture with the vice president

How to tell you’re the Biggest Loser.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:15:48pm

re: #108 jaunte

How to tell you’re the Biggest Loser.

Well I can assure you that half of the population won’t be eating with Mike.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:17:01pm

re: #106 Semper Fi

Hey, that was very good. Don’t know how many knobs and leevers you had to pull but, wow!
Thank you.

just searched “warren bernie bro” on twitter and that’s the first one that showed up

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jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 5:17:25pm

re: #109 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

At least the dinner is over quickly. I imagine the photos will be framed and displayed, as bizarre as that seems.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:20:17pm

re: #111 jaunte

At least the dinner is over quickly. I imagine the photos will be framed and displayed, as bizarre as that seems.

I was more riffing on the fact that if he’s eating with any of them, none of them will XX chromosomes. Unless Mother is joining them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:20:21pm

A jubilant overflow crowd came together as the Committee on Oversight and Reform dedicated and renamed our hearing room in beloved memory of Elijah Cummings. He is the first African-American Member to have a room named after him in the House. Who can you spot in this photo? pic.twitter.com/lBKsWdbDXK

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) February 28, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 5:20:26pm

Breaking News! First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Lagos

The statement said, “the case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020. He was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.”

Seems like Italy is the gateway for transmission to many parts of the world. I wonder how many tourists from China ended up in Italy, or if it was a commercial ship.

Regardless, so many nations do not have the resources to handle outbreaks as well as we do. Or did, before Trump.

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jaunte Feb 27, 2020 • 5:20:33pm

Live feed: Elizabeth Warren in San Antonio

Elizabeth Warren makes campaign stop in San Antonio

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:21:56pm

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Breaking News! First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Lagos

Seems like Italy is the gateway for transmission to many parts of the world. I wonder how many tourists from China ended up in Italy, or if it was a commercial ship.

Regardless, so many nations do not have the resources to handle outbreaks as well as we do. Or did, before Trump.

Not good

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:22:14pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

A great honor. Cummings shined as both Chairman and ranking member of Oversight and Reform. He truly is missed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:22:28pm

#BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump now saying on #CoronaVirus “It’s going to disappear one day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear…” @ABC @CNN pic.twitter.com/24mdcfaIlF

— Ross Palombo (@RossPalombo) February 28, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Feb 27, 2020 • 5:22:34pm

re: #104 JC1

Looks like cooler heads prevailing. There’s some evidence and video (according to The Guardian) that the airstrike was conducted by the Russian Air Force. Probably makes sense for Turkey to blame it on Syria.

Erdogan wanted us out of northern Syria so he could conduct this lone wolf adventurist bullshit and commit genocide against the Kurds. Now he’s learning that Russia doesn’t treat their forces with quite the same level of respect that they treated ours. It’s also not like he can plausibly invoke Article 5 and expect NATO to actually lift a finger so he’s left with this paper thin redirection of blame that nobody actually believes.

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:24:49pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Pray the Plague Away.

Sounds like sound policy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:24:57pm

Trump says his press conference yesterday was “calming” and that coronavirus is “going to disappear.” “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens.”

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 28, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 5:25:34pm

With the stock market in the middle of a 2,000 point plunge, and deadly coronavirus threatening millions of Americans, of COURSE you’d expect trump to meet with fellow clowns…

Diamond and Silk.

Scary times. pic.twitter.com/72ffbgsaGz

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 28, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:25:35pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What. The. Fuck.?

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gocart mozart Feb 27, 2020 • 5:25:40pm

Does Rubio have the coronavirus? https://t.co/gQfQhWc0j1

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 28, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:26:55pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s fucking losing it even more than usual.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Feb 27, 2020 • 5:28:06pm

and now for something completely different…

ODDLY SATISFYING: Team of vets pull AN ENTIRE BEACH TOWEL out of a python in Australia – with their bare hands. pic.twitter.com/rjzR2lrmEW

— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 5:29:17pm

Quebec reports first presumptive case of coronavirus

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:32:02pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

and now for something completely different…

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Yeah, but what about the kid who was lying on the towel?
//

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 5:32:52pm

Well, at least they’ll be able to tell if I’m infected:

San Diego County now able to test for coronavirus

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:33:23pm

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gocart mozart Feb 27, 2020 • 5:33:48pm

https://t.co/EP7RFX455v

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 28, 2020

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Charles Johnson Feb 27, 2020 • 5:33:48pm

A very perceptive piece by @sadydoyle on the problem with Bernie Sanders’ fanatical fans, and the way he’s dealt with it.

There’s Nothing Revolutionary About Harassing Critics | Dame Magazine https://t.co/XShBjJ4rs7 pic.twitter.com/RDKp9LQ9bv

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 28, 2020

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Charles Johnson Feb 27, 2020 • 5:34:29pm

I think I’m gonna hurl. https://t.co/HLdxdSitQS

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 28, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:34:44pm

re: #131 gocart mozart

We’re all gonna die of vicarious stupidity, aren’t we?

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gocart mozart Feb 27, 2020 • 5:37:28pm

pic.twitter.com/3vkZfhnlqw

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) February 28, 2020

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lawhawk Feb 27, 2020 • 5:37:40pm

re: #10 EPR-radar

That headline missed the most entertaining part of the story — apparently this quack cure is to put frozen potatoes up one’s ass.

Cool…. cool.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:37:42pm

re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Breaking News! First Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in Lagos

Seems like Italy is the gateway for transmission to many parts of the world. I wonder how many tourists from China ended up in Italy, or if it was a commercial ship.

Regardless, so many nations do not have the resources to handle outbreaks as well as we do. Or did, before Trump.

too soon? not appropriate?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:38:16pm

re: #133 Charles Johnson

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He’s eager to erase Obama.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:38:55pm

re: #134 Blind Frog Belly White

We’re all gonna dies of vicarious stupidity, aren’t we?

I need to hit the bar.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:39:29pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

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to paraphrase Capote, (apocryphal or not) “that’s not writing, that’s just typing”
he’s just spouting gibberish.

Trump says his press conference yesterday was “calming” and that coronavirus is “going to disappear.” “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens.”

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 28, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:40:02pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

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He’s created a cult of personality like Trump. The whole idea that Bernie invented progressive or even social democratic policies is offensive shit.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:40:52pm

re: #140 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

to paraphrase Capote, (apocryphal or not) “that’s not writing, that’s just typing”
he’s just spouting gibberish.

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I apologize President Bush, we could have done worse than you after 9/11.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 5:41:32pm

Jeff Sessions says socialism spreading ‘much like the coronavirus’

Alabama’s Republican Senate primary campaign collided Thursday with the growing concern about the coronavirus with former Sen. Jeff Session drawing a comparison between the spread of the political ideology of socialism to the spread of the respiratory illness that has killed almost 3,000 people worldwide.

[…]

“I see socialism much like the coronavirus, it’s spreading all over the country. It has the same danger to the American economic system and freedom as that other virus has to our bodies and our health.”

[…]

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Belafon Feb 27, 2020 • 5:42:30pm

re: #124 gocart mozart

Trump removed the scientists. All that’s left is the politics of how an incompetent administration and their Congressional lackeys, like you, are going to mess up the response.

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 28, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:42:31pm

re: #139 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I need to hit the bar.

“Two men walked into a bar. The third one ducked.”

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:42:35pm

re: #131 gocart mozart

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seriously, there is no one else
their world is tiny

Does it reassure you to know these two were added to the coronavirus task force? pic.twitter.com/6gksTfgtEy

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 28, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Feb 27, 2020 • 5:43:11pm

It would, if the coronavirus was mostly cocaine

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) February 28, 2020

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Blind Frog Belly White Feb 27, 2020 • 5:43:40pm

re: #146 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)

seriously, there is no one else
their world is tiny

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Why do you think Mulvaney and Kushner have so many jobs, and there are so many vacant posts?

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:45:08pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

and now for something completely different…

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after the first foot, you didn’t realize this didnt taste too good?
or did it?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:45:47pm

re: #144 Belafon

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Look at how your fucking President responded to Ebola.

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:46:18pm

re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White

“Two men walked into a bar. The third one ducked.”

two blondes walked into a bar
you think one of them would have seen it

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goddamnedfrank Feb 27, 2020 • 5:46:48pm

re: #148 Blind Frog Belly White

Why do you think Mulvaney and Kushner have so many jobs, and there are so many vacant posts?

I mean, would you work for these assholes?

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#thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman) Feb 27, 2020 • 5:47:53pm

and of course…

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The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 5:48:29pm

3 Nazis walked into a BAR.

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Charles Johnson Feb 27, 2020 • 5:59:27pm

Olivia Nuzzi sets my teeth on edge.

Just sayin’.

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Sherlock Hound Feb 27, 2020 • 5:59:45pm

re: #154 The Pie Overlord!

3 Nazis walked into a BAR.

Loud but brief.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Feb 27, 2020 • 6:03:27pm

It’s GRILLING TIME!

4 oz sirloin steaks marinated in a Lawry’s Honey Bourbon marinade for 6 hrs.
Sauteed Shrimp, shallots and Portabella mushrooms using real butter and a (I know, cheating) package of Birds Eye Asian Medley veggies.

Nom Nom Nom

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Charles Johnson Feb 27, 2020 • 6:07:08pm

re: #157 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

That looks totally awesome in every way.

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The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 6:07:44pm

UUCCCH ZAYDIE YOU’RE EMBARRASSING US!

Apparently Bernie didn’t feel the pic of him waving a drumstick in SC was offensive enough. He literally says “Walking around the ‘hood like this?” while trying to pimp walk. Berners will assure Blacks this wasn’t offensive, tho. pic.twitter.com/vzGMANaoLs

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 27, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Feb 27, 2020 • 6:08:36pm

re: #159 The Pie Overlord!

UUCCCH ZAYDIE YOU’RE EMBARRASSING US!

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He really loves this image as cool Grandpa when he’s actually a scold. And Jesus that is cringeworthy.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Feb 27, 2020 • 6:10:55pm

re: #158 Charles Johnson

That looks totally awesome in every way.

Thanks.

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plansbandc Feb 27, 2020 • 6:17:13pm

re: #157 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

grill on with your bad self!

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Belafon Feb 27, 2020 • 6:26:30pm

Even companies that do offer sick days, best I ever had was three. So, you’re allowed to get sick once a year. Unless your kid got sick and you had to use your days in January.

— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) February 27, 2020

I wonder if we should start making a list of businesses that offer sick time and only visit those.

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Belafon Feb 27, 2020 • 6:33:04pm

The cover of next week’s @NewYorker, ‘Under Control,’ by Brian Stauffer. pic.twitter.com/O2tTevuWYT

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 27, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Feb 27, 2020 • 6:34:43pm

Magical thinking is not limited to Americans:

Health Minister: 0 Coronavirus Cases Due to Prayers and Action

In his visit to the seventh Indonesian Muslim Community Congress on Wednesday, Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto said preventive measures done by the government added to constant collective prayers so far have helped prevent the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19 in Indonesia.

“It is important for me to participate in Indonesia’s muslim congress as I am present here to ask for your prayers,” said Terawan on Thursday, February 27.

The Health Minister asserts that prayer is one of many factors that helped the virus from spreading in Indonesia, which is one of many countries with zero reported cases coronavirus.

[…]

During the same congress, Vice President Ma’ruf Amin also said that prayers from Ulema played a major role in preventing the coronavirus from spreading into Indonesia.

“There are many kyai (Islamic teachers) and Ulema who constantly recite the ‘qunut’ prayers to dismiss dangers and diseases. This is why the coronavirus is not in Indonesia,” said the VP.

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Dave In Austin Feb 27, 2020 • 6:39:43pm

If Donald Trump was the 8th Dwarf…

What would his name be?

— Doc (@DocAtCDI) February 27, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Feb 27, 2020 • 6:41:25pm

re: #155 Charles Johnson

Olivia Nuzzi sets my teeth on edge.

Just sayin’.

She’s all about Olivia Nuzzi.

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Citizen K Feb 27, 2020 • 6:43:16pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Possible options:
Sleazy
Greasy
Fatty
Shouty

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b.d. (We're gonna win) Feb 27, 2020 • 6:45:21pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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Bigly

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The Pie Overlord! Feb 27, 2020 • 6:48:59pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Tweety

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stpaulbear Feb 27, 2020 • 6:50:35pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Impie

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Cheechako Feb 27, 2020 • 6:50:42pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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Dumbo

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KingKenrod Feb 27, 2020 • 6:52:24pm

Stumpy
Sloppy
Greedy
Dunce
Bunghole

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Barefoot Grin Feb 27, 2020 • 6:52:40pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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Donald

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Sherlock Hound Feb 27, 2020 • 6:52:54pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Stinky Dwarf
Orange Dwarf

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Feb 27, 2020 • 6:53:36pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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Grifty.

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Weaselone Feb 27, 2020 • 6:54:27pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Needy

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Feb 27, 2020 • 6:55:50pm

re: #38 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah I’ve studied Nixon a little- wrote a paper on him in college that required me to read some Nixon biographies including his own memoirs so I understand Nixon’s psychology a little bit. Trump I don’t think I can remotely comprehend. Weirdly and I despise the man though I know he accomplished things, Nixon’s paranoia and persecution complex was a little understandable. Of course, that doesn’t excuse the things he did that led up to his impeachment and other things that were only known later.

trump makes nixon look like a saint

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Belafon Feb 27, 2020 • 6:55:58pm

I rewatched that Spongbob 1917 video, and was reading through the comments. It led me to this:

Oh…I wish we could make this the 4th SpongeBob Movie #Spongbob @SpongeBob @SpongeBobMovie @Nickelodeon @ParamountPics https://t.co/lDcsXVkvyN

— Clancy Brown (@RealClancyBrown) January 30, 2020

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Feb 27, 2020 • 6:57:05pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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whiny

he whines all the fucking time

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EPR-radar Feb 27, 2020 • 6:57:20pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

Shitty.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Feb 27, 2020 • 6:59:22pm

stocks whammed
epidemic warnings
democratic nomination panic

great

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Cheechako Feb 27, 2020 • 7:01:15pm

re: #166 Dave In Austin

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Prisoner #20-36723

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Jebediah, RBG Feb 27, 2020 • 7:15:10pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

That fat ignorant fuck sure says “we’ll see what happens” an awful lot. It’s not something I would expect to hear so often from a stable genius who knows the most about everything.

Wait - I think I just got what he means by “stable genius” - when it is just him and the horses in there, he is the genius of the stable. (Except there is no way he is smarter than a horse.)

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