The Bob Cesca Podcast: Put Dat Cookie Down

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Amidst all the wild news, I missed posting this last week, but it’s still worth a listen: last Thursday’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show, powered by Hawkins Spizman Fortas:

Put Dat Cookie Down — NSFW! Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson are here today; Stephanie Miller’s Patreon; Tulsi drops out and endorses Joe Biden; Coronavirus news; Trump signs House bill with sick leave and unemployment benefits; Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hilarious isolation videos; Trump’s horrendous press conferences; OAN and Chinese Virus; Dana Bash falls for Trump’s football trick again; Hydroxychloroquin; Trump’s non-joke joke about the press; Good news about cures; Disinformation and some guy on the internet; Don Junior’s latest conspiracy theory; The economy continues to melt down; With music by Richard Turgeon and Kaz; and more!

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621 comments
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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:31:25am

CL’d:

Now the Trumpists are touting some anti malarial drug as the panacea (in full staccato effect).

This reeks of phalanx (the WWZ placebo bs vaccine that didn’t do anything to stop spread).

It doesn’t stop the spread. It might not even be a good treatment option without double blind testing / controlled tests to determine whether it works.

At this point, I could say with equal conviction that drinking water saved these people.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:31:58am
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:31:59am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:33:32am
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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:35:54am
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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:36:56am
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:37:30am

re: #2 Dread Pirate

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2009: “FUCK THE AUTO INDUSTRY! LET’EM GO BANKRUPT! THIS IS WHAT THEY DESERVE FOR GIVING INTO SOCIALIST UNIONS!!!”

2020: “ZOMG! WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CRUISE LINES?!”

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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:38:04am

re: #5 lawhawk

Senate GOP acting like their bill has to be passed immediately as is no changes with no House input, or input from the Dem Senate for that matter.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:39:09am

re: #5 lawhawk

I hope it passes. Go Nancy. :)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:39:42am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:39:55am

re: #8 Sir John Barron

Senate GOP acting like their bill has to be passed immediately as is no changes with no House input, or input from the Dem Senate for that matter.

That is the strategy, because then any calls for changes or added input can be decried as “stalling” from the “do-noting Democrats”.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:40:01am

re: #8 Sir John Barron

Senate GOP acting like their bill has to be passed immediately as is no changes with no House input, or input from the Dem Senate for that matter.

Compare the “urgency” of the Senate GOP bill versus the “We’ll get to it when we get to it” attitude they showed the House Dem bill. Which (it bears mentioning) passed with an overwhelming bipartisan vote.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:40:52am

re: #2 Dread Pirate

There is zero need for cruise liners.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:42:10am

re: #13 Belafon

There is zero need for cruise liners.

There are jobs at stake, but that is a separate issue to be addressed. And AFAIK, most cruise lines use cheap third-country labor for most positions.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:42:13am

re: #1 lawhawk

Fun fact: 100% of people who have drunk water have died.

It’s true. Really.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:42:26am
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:43:15am
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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:43:42am

re: #12 Targetpractice

Compare the “urgency” of the Senate GOP bill versus the “We’ll get to it when we get to it” attitude they showed the House Dem bill. Which (it bears mentioning) passed with an overwhelming bipartisan vote.

“Meanwhile I have to go back to Kentucky with my buddy Kavanaugh and hang out with some other buds. We’ll see ya.”

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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:44:59am

re: #12 Targetpractice

Compare the “urgency” of the Senate GOP bill versus the “We’ll get to it when we get to it” attitude they showed the House Dem bill. Which (it bears mentioning) passed with an overwhelming bipartisan vote.

All the economy and the stock market. Meanwhile, where’s the GOP urgency to have their maga potus genuinely invoke the DPA for medical supply production?

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:45:15am

Olympics, postponed.

In other news, the name ‘Dick Pound’ is summoning my inner Beavis.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:45:48am

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are jobs at stake, but that is a separate issue to be addressed. And AFAIK, most cruise lines use cheap third-country labor for most positions.

Carnival purposefully flags their ships in Liberia, Bermuda, and other countries as a flag of convenience, instead of as US so as to avoid taxes, regulation, and oversight. The crews are almost entirely non-American. The companies themselves might be headquartered here, but the bulk of their employees are low wage folks from overseas. They’re some of the hardest working people out there too, but the cruise lines would rather that you don’t notice them at all.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:45:52am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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Complain to @jack about Mitchell passing on the false cure info…and @jack gives Mitchell a pass…

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:46:04am

re: #20 makeitstop

Olympics, postponed.

In other news, the name ‘Dick Pound’ is summoning my inner Beavis.

Dick Pound should take on Dick Army.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:46:16am

re: #20 makeitstop

Olympics, postponed.

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In other news, the name ‘Dick Pound’ is summoning my inner Beavis.

After Canada and Australia both told the IOC to pound fucking sand and pulled themselves out.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:46:28am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:48:01am

re: #24 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

After Canada and Australia both told the IOC to pound fucking sand and pulled themselves out.

Enough other nations would have followed to make it a moot point.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:48:11am

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are jobs at stake, but that is a separate issue to be addressed. And AFAIK, most cruise lines use cheap third-country labor for most positions.

Ie the people we wouldn’t let in…

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:48:27am

re: #21 lawhawk

Carnival purposefully flags their ships in Liberia, Bermuda, and other countries as a flag of convenience, instead of as US so as to avoid taxes, regulation, and oversight. The crews are almost entirely non-American. The companies themselves might be headquartered here, but the bulk of their employees are low wage folks from overseas. They’re some of the hardest working people out there too, but the cruise lines would rather that you don’t notice them at all.

A high school friend of mine is a musician on one of the cruise liners, so I feel for her, but I think a better solution for the cruise lines would be to take care of people with some kind of stipend and pause all payments on loans.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:49:04am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Enough other nations would have followed to make it a moot point.

Exactly.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:49:07am

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:50:34am
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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:51:12am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:51:24am

And one more

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:51:48am

re: #30 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:52:58am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

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It still bears repeating that not a single one of the “faith healers” has been willing to visit a sick patient and do the “laying of hands” routine on them. Apparently their sky fairy is big into social distancing.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:53:02am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

States should start announcing that if churches want to meet, they will build a wall around the church AFTER people arrive.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:53:16am

Un-fucking-believable. More Branch Covidians, in Louisiana no less.

Central church hosts more than 1,800 people amid covid-19 outbreak

The Life Tabernacle Church hosted 1,825 people at their Sunday morning service.

26 buses were used to pick people up from around the Baton Rouge area and transport them to Sunday service.

Pastor Tony Spell says the way to handle a pandemic is through the healing hand of Jesus.

That is our command, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

Social distancing did not happen at the service, held outside. All 1,825 people were spread across the campuses seven buildings.

Throughout the service parishioners could be seen touching each other and closely gathering, very few wearing masks or gloves.

Spell says if anyone in his congregation contracts covid-19 he will heal them through God.

“I’m going to address that by laying hands on them and praying for them and depending on God to heal their body,” Spell said.

Arrest this fucker. The courts have ruled many times that First Amendment protection does not apply in cases of imminent harm (eg “FIRE!” in a crowded theater).

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:53:22am

re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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He’ll have to fight my cats for the privilege.

/

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:55:13am

re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:55:17am

re: #37 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Un-fucking-believable. More Branch Covidians, in Louisiana no less.

Central church hosts more than 1,800 people amid covid-19 outbreak

Arrest this fucker. The courts have ruled many times that First Amendment protection does not apply in cases of imminent harm (eg “FIRE!” in a crowded theater).

Louisiana is south korea

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:55:24am

remember 1 turkey vulture = 0.65 albatross

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:55:39am

re: #15 Florida Panhandler

Fun fact: 100% of people who have drunk water have died.

It’s true. Really.

Hey, I’ve drunk water and I’m still alive!

/

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:55:55am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:58:15am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

remember 1 turkey vulture = 0.65 albatross

Albatrosses are more picky eaters
I hope

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2020 • 10:58:58am

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF”

typical republican/trump values: a recession is worse than the deaths of potentially thousands of americans

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:00:59am

re: #45 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF”

typical republican/trump values: a recession is worse than the deaths of potentially thousands of americans

To paraphrase St. Ron:

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Donald Trump loses his.”

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:01:24am

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I like that: If I’d followed procedure, I would have broken procedure.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:01:38am

re: #39 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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re: #30 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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ROFLOL.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:01:38am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:01:50am
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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:02:37am

Please, Rand, don’t make Ted Cruz seem like the intelligent one.

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Kilroy was here  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:02:41am

Oregon joins the stay at home crowd..

opb.org

Gov. Kate Brown Issues Order Directing Oregonians To ‘Stay Home’
In the last week, the governor had repeatedly declined to make an order of this scope, reasoning the coronavirus could be slowed if Oregonians would voluntarily observe social distancing practices. Brown was hesitant to further hurt the state’s economy by forcing more businesses to close, her office said.

That changed over the sunny spring weekend, when Oregonians flocked in large numbers to the coast, Columbia River Gorge, and other outdoor hot spots.

“Some Oregonians are not adhering to social distancing guidance provided by the Oregon Health Authority, as represented by crowds this last weekend at the Oregon Coast, Smith Rock State Park, the Columbia River Gorge and other places around the state,” Brown’s order says. “To slow the spread of COVID-19 in Oregon, to protect the health and lives of Oregonians, particularly those at highest risk, and to help avoid overwhelming local and regional healthcare capacity, I find that immediate implementation of additional measures is necessary.”

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:02:54am

2019. “Quite the shit show, eh? Never thought you’d see this shit did ya?”
2020. “Hold my beer!”
(hops into car, drives into bridge abutment)

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:03:30am

re: #50 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

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That really should be the talking point right now: “It’s not about whether you get sick, it’s about the people around you getting sick. Just because you survive doesn’t mean grandma will.”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:03:40am

re: #47 Belafon

I like that: If I’d followed procedure, I would have broken procedure.

The intellectual quality of our senators

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:04:09am

re: #45 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF”

typical republican/trump values: a recession is worse than the deaths of potentially thousands of americans

I do not love wingnuts either, but it’s not nearly that simple. A serious recession (or, heaven forbid, a depression or a real collapse) would also mean deaths, likely in the millions.

Time to stop trading sound bites and talk about the path between catastrophes. If they can’t do it on the twitters, at least we can consider real solutions here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:04:26am

re: #42 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Hey, I’ve drunk water and I’m still alive!

/

you are like a ticking time bomb…

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:04:30am

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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Tim is right

Charles is more right

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Kilroy was here  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:05:27am

re: #53 Mescalero09

2019. “Quite the shit show, eh? Never thought you’d see this shit did ya?”
2020. “Hold my beer!”
(hops into car, drives into bridge abutment)

2020….

Looney Bugs Bunny Movie - Daffys Last Trick

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:05:41am

“Yeah, I was irresponsible enough to walk around and act like nothing was wrong while waiting on test results, but think of how much worse it would have been if I hadn’t been tested and kept walking around!”

Congrats, Rand, you’ve now arrived at where tens of millions of Americans are right now. Sorry to see that you’ve learned nothing from the experience other than “I’m the only person who matters!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:05:41am

re: #51 Belafon

Please, Rand, don’t make Ted Cruz seem like the intelligent one.

Already too late for that. That ship has sailed!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:06:32am

Republican governors will dutifully follow Cheeto’s directive to back off on the profit-sapping measures. Democratic governors will give him the big finger.

Red state=Dead state

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:09:23am

“Everything’s normal. Back to work.”
Wait………….

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:09:30am

re: #54 Targetpractice

That really should be the talking point right now: “It’s not about whether you get sick, it’s about the people around you getting sick. Just because you survive doesn’t mean grandma will.”

Yes
It’s mr Magoo and the trail of accidents in your wake.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:10:54am

re: #15 Florida Panhandler

Fun fact: 100% of people who have drunk water have died.

It’s true. Really.

Mother’s milk
Gateway drug to heroin

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:11:50am

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Republican governors will dutifully follow Cheeto’s directive to back off on the profit-sapping measures. Democratic governors will give him the big finger.

Red state=Dead state

Biggest issue for Donny? Most of those states who will tell him where to get off have the biggest industries vital to the well-beng of the economy. And the states that would still have industries that would abide by the CDC guidelines, which would mean staying closed or working at reduced capacity in order to look after the safety and well-being of their workforce. So proclaiming “THE WORST IS OVER! GET BACK TO WORK!” would not mean an immediate return to “normal.”

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:12:34am

re: #56 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I do not love wingnuts either, but it’s not nearly that simple. A serious recession (or, heaven forbid, a depression or a real collapse) would also mean deaths, likely in the millions.

Time to stop trading sound bites and talk about the path between catastrophes. If they can’t do it on the twitters, at least we can consider real solutions here.

They haven’t cared about the poor or the elderly dying when the economy was good.
They haven’t cared about the poor or the elderly dying when there wasn’t an epidemic.
They’re not going to start when the economy is tanking because of an epidemic.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:13:53am

re: #65 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

Mother’s milk
Gateway drug to heroin

Luckily, my parents only fed me formula.

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Interesting Times  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:14:10am

re: #67 Belafon

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:14:12am

re: #68 Belafon

me too. :)

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:15:06am

My troll storm from MAGAts seems to be subsiding. Tedious shit. Block blockity block block block.

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aatharuv  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:16:54am

re: #69 Interesting Times

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William F. Buckley in National Review praying for the Pope to Die (2005)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:17:45am

re: #37 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Upding for Branch Covidians.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:18:09am

re: #68 Belafon

Luckily, my parents only fed me formula.

I was a breast baby, which no doubt accounts for my placid disposition and mellow temperament. Fortunately, though, I fell into a statistical gray area and never tried heroin.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:19:27am

Look forward to Faux tonight shifting gears again without a clutch and declaring that Trump’s totally right about how we need to “get back to work” and people just need to make peace with grandma dying so that CEOs don’t have to forego that third gold-plated yacht this year.

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aatharuv  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:19:39am

The New York Times is again placing the blame on the Senate Democrats for obstructionism from my latest push notification, in the lede and saying _nothing_ about why the bills are horrible.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:20:12am

re: #76 aatharuv

The New York Times is again placing the blame on the Senate Democrats for obstructionism from my latest push notification…

SMDH.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:20:57am

re: #69 Interesting Times

tomorrow, in the federalist:

I’m a pro-life doctor sworn to do no harm, but the old and infirm have had their chance and it’s time for them to go

If it’s a choice between saving a handful of old geezers and continuing billions of dollars’ worth of corporate stock buybacks, well, that’s a no-brainer…

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BigPapa  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:21:27am

Cruise ships should be used as hospitals… or quarantine centers.

They should have Trump cruises, leaving Coron-a-Lago.

I’m serious.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:21:30am

re: #73 Eclectic Cyborg

Upding for Branch Covidians.

Our esteemed Lizard-mate Teleskiguy coined that and authorized one and all to use it at every appropriate occasion.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:21:47am

According to The Washington Post they are screaming at each other. Oy Vey.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:22:37am

re: #79 BigPapa

Cruise ships should be used as hospitals… or quarantine centers.

They should have Trump cruises, leaving Coron-a-Lago.

I’m serious.

Did Princess Cruises not donate a number of empty cruise ships to be used as floating hospitals (for non-COVID patients in order to free up capacity)?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:22:56am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If it’s a choice between saving a handful of old geezers and continuing billions of dollars’ worth of corporate stock buybacks, well, that’s a no-brainer…

Unless said old geezer runs one of those corporation s

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:23:31am

re: #79 BigPapa

Cruise ships should be used as hospitals… or quarantine centers.

They should have Trump cruises, leaving Coron-a-Lago.

I’m serious.

Great idea. Not enough medical staff

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:23:45am
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:23:50am

re: #81 PhillyPretzel

According to The Washington Post they are screaming at each other. Oy Vey.

They’ve escalated from “furrowed brows” to “screaming”?

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steve_davis  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:23:52am

re: #30 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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speaking of turkey vultures, we get a ton of them in this neighborhood. In the evening, they all congregate on one of the large power lines, where there’s room for at least 20 of the big bastards. Normally, they start with an invocation and then a presentation. Sometimes awards are given. Later, they will sometimes congregate in smaller groups down in the creek by the bridge, where they seem to very much appreciate getting their feet cooled down.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:24:22am

re: #13 Belafon

There is zero need for cruise liners.

Believe me, there will be cruise lines when this is all over, even if they have to reorganize in bankruptcy.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:25:43am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:25:59am

re: #86 Targetpractice

That is what the sub title says. Near screaming.

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aatharuv  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:08am

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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This was the same New York Times that downplayed reports of the Holocaust, and buried them….

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:14am
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:30am

re: #89 jaunte

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Susan is really worried…that this might hurt her reelection effort.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:34am

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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as with trump, assume anything the times writes is a lie. the pretzels they have to tie themselves into…

The Greatest Deliberative Body:

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) explained why Democrats blocked the economic rescue bill last night: “We voted no on the McConnell-GOP bill because among other problems it includes huge bailouts without protections for people and workers and without accountability, and because it shortchanges our hospitals and healthcare workers who need our help.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) responded: “Blah blah blah.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:41am

From CNN:

Aides say Trump is itching for the guidelines to be eased when the 15-day period ends a week from Monday, but realistically there are few health experts who think that’s enough time to know whether the measures he announced last week — including recommending closing schools, limiting gatherings and keeping at least 6 feet of distance between individuals — will suffice.

Trump and some of his top officials are growing more anxious with social distancing guidelines put in place to combat the coronavirus, sources close to the White House effort said. One senior official said the President is losing patience with the period of national self-isolation that has frozen the US economy.

Meanwhile, the public health experts advising the President and his team on the coronavirus pandemic are continuing to argue that the broad guidelines urging people to work from home, avoid restaurants and large gatherings should remain in place.

As Trump’s leadership is tested, he turns to states and the private sector
The dynamic has led to a robust internal debate over how best to balance the actual health of the country — with potentially hundreds of thousands of lives at stake — with its economic health.

“The President is right, the cure can’t be worse than the disease, and we’re going to have to make some difficult tradeoffs,” Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Monday on Fox News. “I spoke with the President about this very subject late last evening, so we’ll be looking at a number of different things. Let’s give it another week.”
Some of Trump’s allies have continued to publicly suggest the measures announced by the White House last week were too stringent and have caused unnecessary economic pain. Many of his conservative allies circulated a Wall Street Journal editorial from last week, which questioned whether the shutdown was worth the trade-off of a shuttered economy.

That has helped fuel growing opposition among some of Trump’s advisers to an extended lockdown.

Discussions are already underway with advisers over what to do at the end of the 15 days. Trump very much wants to get people back to work, but his medical advisers continue to tell him the country has a way to go before emerging from the worst of the outbreak, a source familiar with the matter said.

It’s sane people vs. Donald Trump. I’m sure you can guess how this may well end.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:26:47am

Best way to deal with the Cruise Lines? Make lots of money available - but only to those companies that have 100% their ships US flagged and under US regulations. The wailing and gnashing of teeth would be a joy to hear.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:28:30am

We’re respected around the world again!

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:28:36am

re: #88 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Believe me, there will be cruise lines when this is all over, even if they have to reorganize in bankruptcy.

I agree. There’s just no NEED for them.

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Jay C  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:28:49am

re: #68 Belafon

Luckily, my parents only fed me formula.

Merely delaying the toxic effects: eighty-ninety years on, you’re still gonna be in trouble……

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:30:35am

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:30:54am

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

From CNN:

Aides say Trump is itching for the guidelines to be eased when the 15-day period ends a week from Monday, but realistically there are few health experts who think that’s enough time to know whether the measures he announced last week — including recommending closing schools, limiting gatherings and keeping at least 6 feet of distance between individuals — will suffice.

Trump and some of his top officials are growing more anxious with social distancing guidelines put in place to combat the coronavirus, sources close to the White House effort said. One senior official said the President is losing patience with the period of national self-isolation that has frozen the US economy.

Meanwhile, the public health experts advising the President and his team on the coronavirus pandemic are continuing to argue that the broad guidelines urging people to work from home, avoid restaurants and large gatherings should remain in place.

As Trump’s leadership is tested, he turns to states and the private sector
The dynamic has led to a robust internal debate over how best to balance the actual health of the country — with potentially hundreds of thousands of lives at stake — with its economic health.

“The President is right, the cure can’t be worse than the disease, and we’re going to have to make some difficult tradeoffs,” Trump’s top economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Monday on Fox News. “I spoke with the President about this very subject late last evening, so we’ll be looking at a number of different things. Let’s give it another week.”
Some of Trump’s allies have continued to publicly suggest the measures announced by the White House last week were too stringent and have caused unnecessary economic pain. Many of his conservative allies circulated a Wall Street Journal editorial from last week, which questioned whether the shutdown was worth the trade-off of a shuttered economy.

That has helped fuel growing opposition among some of Trump’s advisers to an extended lockdown.</em>

Discussions are already underway with advisers over what to do at the end of the 15 days. Trump very much wants to get people back to work, but his medical advisers continue to tell him the country has a way to go before emerging from the worst of the outbreak, a source familiar with the matter said.

It’s sane people vs. Donald Trump. I’m sure you can guess how this may well end.

Whether 15 days is long enough or not, it’s not fucking magic
It was an easy to understand estimate

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:31:19am
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:31:56am

re: #96 William Lewis

Best way to deal with the Cruise Lines? Make lots of money available - but only to those companies that have 100% their ships US flagged and under US regulations. The wailing and gnashing of teeth would be a joy to hear.

What other foreign companies are we gonna bail out?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:32:38am

re: #103 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

What other foreign companies are we gonna bail out?

foreign in all but name

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:33:27am

Not being mentioned nearly enough is the insanity that 14 states have not expanded Medicare. And if Trump and the GOP succeed, will kill the ACA at the height of it’s necessity.
Evil walks.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:33:42am

re: #102 Rightwingconspirator

Thanks. :)

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:33:49am

“Pro-life” crowd: “Look, all we’re saying is if grandma dying is worth 200 points on the Dow Jones, then granny needs to die…and quick.”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:34:50am

re: #99 Jay C

Merely delaying the toxic effects: eighty ninety years on, you’re still gonna be in trouble……

Voltaire was a noted caffeine fiend, drinking up to 50 cups of coffee a day. Late in his life (he lived to be 83) someone told him that coffee was a slow poison. He responded, “It must be; I’ve been drinking it for 75 years and I’m not dead yet.”

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:34:56am

I had to walk away from 2 dudes here at work basically saying “just let it happen and if people die they die”. What can I say?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:35:50am

re: #108 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Voltaire was a noted caffeine fiend, drinking up to 50 cups of coffee a day. Late in his life (he lived to be 83) someone told him that coffee was a slow poison. He responded, “It must be; I’ve been drinking it for 75 years and I’m not dead yet.”

Teddy Roosevelt also went through like three gallons a day of the stuff…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:36:19am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I had to walk away from 2 dudes here at work basically saying “just let it happen and if people die they die”. What can I say?

That was going to be the UK plan until the EU threatened to totally cut off the border and let them starve.

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Interesting Times  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:36:48am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I had to walk away from 2 dudes here at work basically saying “just let it happen and if people die they die”. What can I say?

“You first.”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:37:00am

41k cases in the us according to arcgis

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Thanos  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:37:16am

Busking on the internet - in about 20-30 mins a new Colors stream will go live, right now it’s just the chat and roadies setting up. The channel is set p so you can donate & that gets split by the artistss.

A COLORS STREAM - Broadcast Live from London

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:37:47am

re: #112 Interesting Times

“You first.”

“How’s the family? Everybody in good health?”

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:38:02am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I had to walk away from 2 dudes here at work basically saying “just let it happen and if people die they die”. What can I say?

“Fuck you and yours. Because that’s what you just said to me and mine, so fuck you. And yours.”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:38:03am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

I had to walk away from 2 dudes here at work basically saying “just let it happen and if people die they die”. What can I say?

Ttry:. “Youre ok if one of them is you?”

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:38:18am

Facebook Post

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:38:41am

re: #109 Amory Blaine

We’re all Ron Paul now.

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:39:43am

re: #119 Ace Rothstein

We’re all Ron Paul now.

Not quite. He got a test.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:39:46am

Charles

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:41:49am

Fuck, this week is going to be an epic shitshow as Trump tries to overrule public health experts with cargo cult capitalist dogma from Moore & Laffer

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:42:03am

You notice that the people who are the biggest advocate of this “Throw Momma From The Train” attitude…are those who think they’re either young enough or rich enough to survive?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:43:39am

re: #43 Charles Johnson

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He was at an event in Louisville where a number of attendees (including the Louisville Mayor’s wife) subsequently presented with the virus.

HE KNEW HE HAD BEEN EXPOSED

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:43:46am

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

Fuck, this week is going to be an epic shitshow as Trump tries to overrule public health experts with cargo cult capitalist dogma from Moore & Laffer

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Donny wants to build a bridge to reelection on the bodies of millions of Americans.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:44:15am

re: #123 Targetpractice

One of the dudes in the above conversation has a weakened immune system from battling cancer. The other is a typical wingnut. Shrug.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:45:30am

re: #126 Amory Blaine

One of the dudes in the above conversation has a weakened immune system from battling cancer. The other is a typical wingnut. Shrug.

And let me guess, both think it’s “no worse than the flu” and no different than “the crud that goes around every year,” right?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:45:31am

I have learned never elect a person to high office unless they have experience. DT has no experience except in conning the public.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:45:45am

re: #122 goddamnedfrank

Fuck, this week is going to be an epic shitshow as Trump tries to overrule public health experts with cargo cult capitalist dogma from Moore & Laffer

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I have no sympathy for Moore and ESPECIALLY Laffer who more than anyone else is the person who fucked this country up. May they both get the karmic retribution they deserve!

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:46:17am

Wingnuts will destroy america and rule the ashes with an iron fist.

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BeachDem  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:46:32am

re: #97 jaunte

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We’re respected around the world again!

Still bad, but…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:46:50am

Trump is basically endorsing needlessly endangering the lives of American citizens.

If that is not 25th Amendment territory, what the fuck is?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:46:53am

This is what it looks like when you put a [failed] businessboy in charge of the nation: economy over the people.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:47:07am

So Mr. Dow is -600 right now.

I got the feeling that Orange Foolius hit the limit where he shorted the market and he’s panicking!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:48:23am

I can imagine that in the background his businesses are all collapsing and he REALLY NEEDS THAT SLUSH FUND to keep them up and running.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:48:50am

re: #123 Targetpractice

You notice that the people who are the biggest advocate of this “Throw Momma From The Train” attitude…are those who think they’re either young enough or rich enough to survive?

Miller is at little risk……until the Biden administration signs on to the ICC just so they can extradite him to the Hague.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:51:35am

Ugh….sorry to do this to you my lizard friends:

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:52:00am

Remember when the Berners spent 2016 telling everybody that electing Hillary would be a disaster because she’d be beholden to big business and big banks, making decisions that would benefit them at the cost of American workers?

Good times.///////

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:53:17am

re: #138 Targetpractice

Remember when the Berners spent 2016 telling everybody that electing Hillary would be a disaster because she’d be beholden to big business and big banks, making decisions that would benefit them at the cost of American workers?

Good times.///////

And how Trump supporters insisted that as a successful, independent businessman, he would not be not be beholden to special interests?

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:53:58am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And how Trump supporters insisted that as a successful, independent businessman, he would not be not be beholden to special interests?

“He’s a billionaire! He wouldn’t hire a bunch of lobbyists because he doesn’t need their money!”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:54:03am

Let me guess. “Exponential progression” is not on Republican-mandated standardized tests, so few red-staters have learned about in the past 35 years. Might explain their gullibility about the low initial numbers. “Compare that to the flu! It’s all a hoax!”

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Disloyal Archangel  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:54:53am
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:57:31am

re: #141 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Let me guess. “Exponential progression” is not on Republican-mandated standardized tests, so few red-staters have learned about in the past 35 years. Might explain their gullibility about the low initial numbers. “Compare that to the flu! It’s all a hoax!”

“I’m not sick! It’s all a hoax!” is gonna sound really hollow in months time, when they’ve either gotten sick, seen people get sick in their lives, or (in a lot of cases) lost someone to the virus. Of course, that’s when they’ll be screaming at the experts who “lied” to them and “didn’t do enough” to stop the outbreak.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:58:04am

re: #138 Targetpractice

Remember when the Berners spent 2016 telling everybody that electing Hillary would be a disaster because she’d be beholden to big business and big banks, making decisions that would benefit them at the cost of American workers?

Good times.///////

By the way anyone hear from Susan Sarandon????

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 11:58:34am

re: #143 Targetpractice

“I’m not sick! It’s all a hoax!” is gonna sound really hollow in months time, when they’ve either gotten sick, seen people get sick in their lives, or (in a lot of cases) lost someone to the virus. Of course, that’s when they’ll be screaming at the experts who “lied” to them and “didn’t do enough” to stop the outbreak.

To them, Trump does not lie, only those who disagree with him are the liars and purveyors of “fake news”, remember?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:00:47pm

Here’s a A MAGAT at work…

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:01:08pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:01:13pm

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To them, Trump does not lie, only those who disagree with him are the liars and purveyors of “fake news”, remember?

Ayep. And when this “Go Back To Work!” decree leads to explosive growth in the numbers of infected and/or dead, they’ll totally believe him when he insists that he had “no idea” it would be so bad and that he acted on the advice of the very experts he’s now telling to fuck off.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:02:24pm

re: #142 Disloyal Archangel

Thanks. I needed that. Even though I have an urge to shove a cattle prod up DT’s (fill in the blank with any bodily orifice).

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:02:48pm

re: #147 The Pie Overlord!

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Without looking, I’m guessing the first eight paragraphs are largely “They said/they said” stenography where the Repubs are treated as if they’re the ones who really care versus the Dems who are angry that they weren’t consulted.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:02:54pm

re: #45 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF”

typical republican/trump values: a recession is worse than the deaths of potentially HUNDREDS OF thousands of americans

Sorry.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:04:27pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:04:29pm

re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF”

This is going to be their talking point. We are headed into a major clusterfuck and I fear that there will be shootings and unrest before it all dies down.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:04:42pm

Perhaps somebody should tweet to Trump that he can really sell this whole “Fuck The Poor!” initiative by selling it as a “job-creation” measure. That all those who die will open up jobs for younger, healthier workers who will make so much more money because their bosses will value them.

//////

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:05:30pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:06:39pm

We’ve compared this repeatedly to the Spanish Flu, but it’s looking less like that and more like the Black Death in terms of Republican attitudes towards medical advice. “What? Stay away from the infected? Nonsense, a good blood-letting and hours of prayer will fix them right up!”

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:06:52pm

The silver lining in this is that Trump is going to kill a lot of his voters.

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Interesting Times  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:06:56pm

re: #141 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Let me guess. “Exponential progression” is not on Republican-mandated standardized tests, so few red-staters have learned about in the past 35 years. Might explain their gullibility about the low initial numbers. “Compare that to the flu! It’s all a hoax!”

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:06:58pm

Ponder the ramifications if Trump follows through with this growing sentiment of “re-starting” the economy and announces that people should stop social distancing and return to work:

1. The virus rages through the population basically unconstrained, and with the associate negative impacts on the health care system.
2. The US becomes persona non-grata internationally. No international flights originating from the US would be allowed (with the exception of a few dopey countries).
3. Any US traveler somehow arriving in another country would be put into mandatory quarantine.
4. In states where governors maintain shelter in place order, there would be MAGA cultists openly defying such orders, possibly requiring police or even national guard to step in to enforce the orders. The possibility of violence becomes high.
5. MAGA cultist governors lift shelter in place orders. Other states with governors that have a clue attempt to institute travel bans on any state where shelter in place/social distancing orders have been lifted. Chaos ensues as to the legality of such efforts.
6. Economy still in the shitter because no one wants to act as our trade partner and the chaos of states attempting to contain the virus bumping against those that aren’t.

Total and complete shitshow with the chance of violence while the virus rages on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:07:02pm

re: #146 Joe Bacon 🌹

Here’s a A MAGAT at work…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:07:03pm

re: #152 jaunte

I knew it. I fucking knew it.

“Acceptable losses”. I guessed it, right down to the goddamn phraseology.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:07:04pm

How the fuck are they going to force people back to work?

Seriously, how? Their leverage is what exactly, risk yours and your family’s lives or be made homeless?

Okay, sure, try that.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:08:19pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:09:17pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:09:19pm

re: #162 goddamnedfrank

How the fuck are they going to force people back to work?

Seriously, how? Their leverage is what exactly, risk yours and your family’s lives or be made homeless?

Okay, sure, try that.

“Desperation.” Force the working class to choose between poverty or “normalcy.” Let late-stage capitalism take its course, watching workers forced to choose between eviction or working while sick.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:09:20pm
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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:10:31pm

Is a conservative pundit considered “productive”?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:10:35pm

I had to shut MSNBC off. They’re doing the Blame The Democrats shit.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:11:29pm

re: #168 Joe Bacon 🌹

That is why I am watching my videos of PBS TV shows.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:11:30pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:12:03pm

re: #166 jaunte

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Bear in mind that economists for years have said that the removal of that many “illegals” from the population would be devastating to the economy just in terms of demand for products and services.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:12:09pm

The GOP has been a cult since Trump won the nomination.

Now it’s a death cult.

Un-fucking-real.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:12:34pm
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BigPapa  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:16:35pm

Wingnuts aren’t considering the shock to the economy if 2.5% of the population just dies in 3-6 months.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:16:42pm

What a fucking mess.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:16:44pm

re: #79 BigPapa

Cruise ships should be used as hospitals… or quarantine centers.

They should have Trump cruises, leaving Coron-a-Lago.

I’m serious.

They have offered… not the Trump cruise part.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:16:48pm

It’s official.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:17:39pm

8.2m are viewed as “acceptable losses” because they’re not “productive.”

That’s 8.2m fewer people buying from stores. 8.2m fewer people paying for services. 8.2m fewer people buying gas for their cars. 8.2m people signing up for streaming platforms. 8.2m fewer people signing up for club memberships.

And that’s before the costs that will be sunk in trying to save those 8.2m.

But hey, funeral homes and coffin manufacturers are gonna make a killing (pun totally intended).

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:17:49pm

re: #175 jaunte

Yes one big f*ing mess. :(

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:18:22pm

Illinois. Branch Covidians finally relented when the sheriff showed up.

Kane County religious school moves to e-learning as sheriff’s deputies prepare to bring the school into compliance with stay-at-home mandate

Kane County sheriff’s deputies spent Monday morning at Northwest Baptist Academy in Elgin planning to ask parents to keep their children home from what was believed to be the last open school in the state, but without telling officials, the school decided before the start of the school day to move to e-learning.

The sheriff’s office had been in talks since late last week with the school, which is part of the larger Northwest Bible Baptist Church community and had resisted Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s order closing schools, citing religious freedom grounds.

“The group had resisted efforts to cancel their planned virgin sacrifice, citing religious freedom grounds, but finally changed their minds when deputies reminded them that sacrifices have to be of legal age and, well, it’s Kane County.”

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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:19:07pm

re: #173 jaunte

Collins and Turtle ranting on the Senate floor. I know I’m crazy, but it just seems like Senate GOP should try to get more Dems to vote for their bill or make changes to it in order to do so.

I”m just talking out loud here, spitballing as it were…../

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:19:54pm

re: #174 BigPapa

Wingnuts aren’t considering the shock to the economy if 2.5% of the population just dies in 3-6 months.

Nor are they considering this 2.5% of the population is a major part of their own constituency, not to mention the VAST majority of the Fox News and AM radio audience.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:21:10pm

re: #182 bratwurst

They are being to say the least very short sighted.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:21:47pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:21:48pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

8.2m are viewed as “acceptable losses” because they’re not “productive.”

If we want to “run this country like a business” then that is an entirely rational and valid conclusion.

But if we want to run this country like human beings, then it is an abomination.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:22:11pm

re: #183 PhillyPretzel

They are being to say the least very short sighted.

I think “psychopathic” covers it better.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:23:06pm

re: #186 bratwurst

I think “psychopathic” covers it better.

“sociopathic” is the term here…entirely cool and rational, just lacking any sense of human empathy

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:23:22pm

re: #186 bratwurst

Yes. It does. I stand corrected.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:23:43pm

re: #87 steve_davis

speaking of turkey vultures, we get a ton of them in this neighborhood. In the evening, they all congregate on one of the large power lines, where there’s room for at least 20 of the big bastards. Normally, they start with an invocation and then a presentation. Sometimes awards are given. Later, they will sometimes congregate in smaller groups down in the creek by the bridge, where they seem to very much appreciate getting their feet cooled down.

There were a lot of those in southern Indiana when I lived there. I did a significant amount of country driving and on some late-spring early-summer mornings it was a real treat to see several of them standing in a field with wings outstretched to catch the first rays of the morning sun—you could see steam arising from the wings.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:24:19pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:24:23pm

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If we want to “run this country like a business” then that is an entirely rational and valid conclusion.

But if we want to run this country like human beings, then it is an abomination.

Even running it as a business, portraying 8.2m as “acceptable losses” makes no Zoddamned sense. Not if you actually listened in Econ 101 to the idea of “supply and demand.” If you remove 8.2m in demand, then all that supply goes nowhere and you don’t make any money.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:24:42pm
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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:25:38pm

Witnessing one of the reasons that may have destroyed ancient civilizations in real time is not fun.
At all.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:25:45pm

:Scottish accent:
Brilliant. Fookin’ brilliant.

BBC News: Climate change: Earth’s deepest ice canyon vulnerable to melting

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:26:01pm

re: #182 bratwurst

Nor are they considering this 2.5% of the population is a major part of their own constituency, not to mention the VAST majority of the Fox News and AM radio audience.

As a final desperate ploy, we can remind the Genocidal Old Party that their plan will kill off hordes of Fox News viewers but relatively few young black and Hispanic men. Miller in particular might be duly persuaded.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:28:50pm

Germany: 29K cases, 119 fatalities. At least the pace of growth is slowing a bit. I got no closer than six feet to anyone today.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:28:52pm

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“sociopathic” is the term here…entirely cool and rational, just lacking any sense of human empathy

Well yes.

It’s just that I called Rand Paul sociopathic for being a MEDICAL DOCTOR who exposed his own colleagues yesterday.

It feels like contemplating the idea of millions of deaths in exchange for (possibly) improving Trump’s chances of being re-elected is way worse than Paul’s behavior.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:30:14pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

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re: #168 Joe Bacon 🌹

I had to shut MSNBC off. They’re doing the Blame The Democrats shit.

This shit is why I remain so worried about November. Regardless of what it is, The Left, The Right, and the news all always seem to agree: the Problem is Biden and the Dems and the party must be burned down forever for America!(tm).

The fact that you had Berners peddling ‘Holy Shit, Biden hasn’t spoke in 2 days, he must be dead with dementia, this is all the Dems fault!!’ during this crisis and continue to persist in acting like the Dems are the ones holding up any aid is just….

I can’t even fucking deal.

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Alephnaught  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:30:44pm

Well, this happened live on Channel 4 News about 15 minutes ago. During a live broadcast spot by a reporter outside Westminister, someone stood behind the reporter and held up a sign. Normally, they would be bundled off camera tout suite, but because of social distancing, they can’t do that- especially not on a live broadcast, with less than 90 minutes before UK PM Boris Johnson is expected to effectively put the UK in lockdown mode.

BTW Channel 4 has been particularly good the past few days: the camera work has been updated to emphasise that, in both and studio and reported segments, the journalists are keeping a safe distance from the people they’re interviewing. Judging by the slightly different look of the footage, presumably the camera operators are also using distancing by using more magnifying lenses, and filming more from a distance.

Even more significantly, the main presenter Jon Snow, who is 72, and thus at more danger than most, is presenting segments of the show from his house. Indeed, he said on air tonight, just a few minutes ago, that he is “self-isolating”, before beginining his segment.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:30:59pm

re: #155 Charles Johnson

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:31:31pm

re: #197 bratwurst

Well yes.

It’s just that I called Rand Paul sociopathic for being a MEDICAL DOCTOR who exposed his own colleagues yesterday.

Didn’t he create his own certification program so he wouldn’t need to actually get, you know, certified?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:32:09pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

8.2m are viewed as “acceptable losses” because they’re not “productive.”

That’s 8.2m fewer people buying from stores. 8.2m fewer people paying for services. 8.2m fewer people buying gas for their cars. 8.2m people signing up for streaming platforms. 8.2m fewer people signing up for club memberships.

And that’s before the costs that will be sunk in trying to save those 8.2m.

But hey, funeral homes and coffin manufacturers are gonna make a killing (pun totally intended).

many of whom still pay taxes…

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:33:10pm

re: #166 jaunte

They also somehow think they won’t be part of that 8.1M.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:33:26pm

re: #202 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

many of whom still pay taxes…

That’s how you know that they aren’t productive Americans. Real Americans find ways to mine tax breaks so they pay negative tax!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:33:41pm

re: #201 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Didn’t he create his own certification program so he wouldn’t need to actually get, you know, certified?

Why Yes He Did!

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:33:43pm

re: #181 Sir John Barron

Collins and Turtle ranting on the Senate floor. I know I’m crazy, but it just seems like Senate GOP should try to get more Dems to vote for their bill or make changes to it in order to do so.

I”m just talking out loud here, spitballing as it were…../

they’ve been doing this schtick so long they forgot how politics actually works:

The complicated business of negotiating agreements between honest groups with different interests with the object of finding a common way forward.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:33:52pm

re: #181 Sir John Barron

Collins and Turtle ranting on the Senate floor. I know I’m crazy, but it just seems like Senate GOP should try to get more Dems to vote for their bill or make changes to it in order to do so.

I”m just talking out loud here, spitballing as it were…../

Instead they’re whining, complaining about Pelosi, etc. Hey, can you at least get Manchin on your stupid bill?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:34:14pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:34:20pm

I just got an e-mail from my alma mater (La Salle University) giving details on a Student Emergency Fund and other funds to donate to. And for parents they are having a session for parents who are trying to balance remote working and homeschooling. I will give them credit where it is due they are trying to help the community.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:34:52pm

re: #206 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

they’ve been doing this schtick so long they forgot how politics actually works:

The complicated business of negotiating agreements between honest groups with different interests with the object of finding a common way forward.

And I thought this was just a “procedural vote”? They’re acting like the bill is gonna get voted on and go right to Drump’s desk this afternoon, totally bypassing the House.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:34:56pm

re: #206 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

they’ve been doing this schtick so long they forgot how politics actually works:

The complicated business of negotiating agreements between honest groups with different interests with the object of finding a common way forward.

They haven’t HAD to do actual politics in a while because they’ve essentially had the system by the balls in a death grip thanks to infinite bad faith and watchdogs that treat said bad faith as the best of faith instead.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:35:05pm
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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:35:07pm

We are SO fucked.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:35:15pm

By the way, love the “let the young go back to work!” BS coming largely from assholes who have the opportunity to phone in their hackery from the confines of their homes. Meanwhile, the “young” guys like myself (35 years “young”) who are working in the service industry are basically being told that in a choice between profits and lives, I will be expected to show up even if my state is put on lockdown because I’m “essential.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:36:54pm

Regarding deaths and all, remember that the Trump administration already overseas camps dealing in death:

Mexican man dies in ICE custody; 10th since October

A 42-year-old Mexican man died in a South Texas hospital while being held pending his deportation, immigration authorities said Monday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified the man as Ramiro Hernandez Ibarra and said he died Saturday after being hospitalized Thursday. ICE said Hernandez’s preliminary cause of death was complications related to septic shock but did not provide further details.

Hernandez is the 10th person to die in ICE custody since October, the start of the governmental fiscal year. Eight people died in the previous fiscal year

.

So, septic shock. Which means preceded by sepsis.

How did a detainee get sepsis?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:37:13pm

Facebook Video

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:37:31pm

re: #208 The Pie Overlord!

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sux sitting in the chair where the buck stops, don’t it?

prolly sux worse if you never thought you’d win…

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:38:22pm

re: #210 Sir John Barron

And I thought this was just a “procedural vote”? They’re acting like the bill is gonna get voted on and go right to Drump’s desk this afternoon, totally bypassing the House.

yeah that part.

nancy probably just cant even…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:38:39pm

re: #217 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

sux sitting in the chair where the buck stops, don’t it?

prolly sux worse if you never thought you’d win…

sux being in a situation where you cannot just declare bankruptcy, pay pennies on the dollar and walk away…

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:39:22pm

re: #213 bratwurst

We are SO fucked.

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DEMOCRACY!

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:41:13pm

Random art from a Discord I frequent:

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:42:31pm

re: #213 bratwurst

Oh how lovely. The person who understands what is going on has been muzzled. Oy Vey.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:42:46pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:45:00pm

in case it wasnt obvious, its jared.

vanity fair

Trump is fuming privately that Fauci advised him that the only way to blunt the pandemic was to bring the economy to a halt.”*

“Trump’s view that he can ignore Fauci’s opinion may be influenced by advice he’s getting from Jared Kushner, whose outside-the-box efforts have often rankled those in charge of managing the crisis… Kushner has told Trump about experimental treatments he’s heard about from executives in Silicon Valley… Throughout the crisis, Kushner has counseled Trump that the crisis isn’t as bad as the media is portraying. Two sources said Vice President Mike Pence has complained to Trump about Kushner’s meddling in the work of the coronavirus task force.

*because the economy is the only tool he has/had

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:45:01pm

re: #210 Sir John Barron

And I thought this was just a “procedural vote”? They’re acting like the bill is gonna get voted on and go right to Drump’s desk this afternoon, totally bypassing the House.

Those of us who remember the 2011 “Debt Ceiling Crisis” know how this words: Repubs work to ram through a “must-pass” bill in order to address a crisis they’ve created, assured that they’ll get 98% of what they want and pick up the other 2% in a future bill.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:45:45pm

Wisconsin is moving to mandatory shutdown. My hotel is, however, considered essential (docs stay there and who knows with quarantine issues…) so my employment is still secure.

Now if we could just do something with the biggest vector of them all - that mango moron.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:46:28pm

re: #224 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

in case it wasnt obvious, its jared.

vanity fair

*because the economy is the only tool he has/had

Two sources said Vice President Mike Pence has complained to Trump about Kushner’s meddling in the work of the coronavirus task force.

And to think, I was really only joking when I said that Mike had to be livid that he’d been pushed aside in favor of guy whose only job qualification is “nailing Donny’s daughter.”

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:46:59pm

re: #224 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

Oh lovely another ignoramus.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:47:16pm

How anectdotes become legend:

‘Miracle’ malaria drug touted by Trump saved me from coronavirus: Infected patients around the world reveal medications helped them recover as Gov. Andrew Cuomo reveals doctors will start trialing them on patients from tomorrow

Several people have come forward saying the drug has helped fight COVID-19

Rio Giardinieri, of Florida, said the drug ‘saved his life’ after he fell ill with virus

Margaret Novins, of New Jersey, also said the medication made her feel better

Note: 101,383 people are counted as “recovered” from Covid-19. I bet most of them were not treated with hydroxychloroquine. Both Giardinieri and Novins above may very well have recovered anyway, without the treatment.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:47:22pm

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:08pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

The distancing is working!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:18pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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They’re such cultists.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:20pm

re: #227 Targetpractice

And to think, I was really only joking when I said that Mike had to be livid that he’d been pushed aside in favor of guy whose only job qualification is “nailing Donny’s daughter.”

how do we know the kids are his?

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:35pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

There aren’t 74M Americans that love him.

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BigPapa  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:39pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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OMG. How lucky you are to be mass blocked like that.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:45pm

re: #228 PhillyPretzel

Oh lovely another ignoramus.

the biggest portfolio in washington

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:50pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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74 million? Who, him and the voices in his head?

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:48:54pm

re: #224 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

“Trump’s view that he can ignore Fauci’s opinion may be influenced by advice he’s getting from Jared Kushner, whose outside-the-box efforts have often rankled those in charge of managing the crisis

“Outside-the-box efforts” = Uninformed bullshit with no grounding

“Rankled those in charge of managing the crisis” = Pissed off those who actually know what’s going on and are trying to herd the cats necessary to handle it.

So of fucking course he’s described with language making him out to be some noble maverick bucking orthodoxy successfully and paving the way to success.

Fuck this shit, I need a fucking drink.
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:49:40pm

BTW, Jared, how’s that Middle East Peace initiative working out?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:50:35pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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We all wish! Congrats!

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:50:39pm
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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:51:19pm

Snake oil salesmen kill people.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:51:19pm
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Sir John Barron  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:51:41pm

re: #238 Citizen K

“Outside-the-box efforts” = Uninformed bullshit with no grounding

“Rankled those in charge of managing the crisis” = Pissed off those who actually know what’s going on and are trying to herd the cats necessary to handle it.

So of fucking course he’s described with language making him out to be some noble maverick bucking orthodoxy successfully and paving the way to success.

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Just realized yesterday that that line he keeps repeating (“we inherited an obsolete system for pandemics and we replaced it with a great new system”) is just something being fed him by Jared.

So we should all feel so much better. ////

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:52:04pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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Feature, not a bug.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:52:49pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

Oh noes! I got blocked by 74 million people!!!

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that would be almost every adult american on twitter
appx us population 327M
appx us population on twitter:

Around one-in-five U.S. adults (22%) say they use Twitter, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.

74 m / 327m is….22.6%

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:52:56pm

re: #224 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

The most incompetent and unqualified people are leading this effort, and ignoring all the facts and evidence. Of course it’s fucking Jared.

Hey Jared. Your family is from Bergen county NJ. You have family here. Bergen county is the worst hit part of NJ, but it’s coming for Essex and Hudson counties too. Family there? I’m sure they are.

Your parents and grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and the extended mispocha are all around. Most of them can’t stand you (I get that, because your family is full of sociopaths). Those that do? They’re not going to stand you either as you completely misinform Trump with this kind of bulkshit response as the covid19 spreads across the region and nation because you think some rando online touts a cure despite the fact that there aren’t any serious tests underway and the best solution is to not let it spread in the first place. They’re going to get hard hit too. The body count will grow. It will affect you at some point. Your failures will be measured by the dead bodies.

Fuck all these GOPers sideways with a rusty pitchfork.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:53:26pm

Wasn’t Twitter supposedly going to start locking accounts for spreading misinformation about the pandemic?

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:53:58pm

Alien. The Beginning….

(It’s a Sugar Glider)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:54:09pm

re: #241 jaunte

Trump voters killing themselves because they think everything - EVERYTHING - trump says is true.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:54:59pm

re: #247 lawhawk

The most incompetent and unqualified people are leading this effort, and ignoring all the facts and evidence. Of course it’s fucking Jared.

The thing that must always be remembered: Trump must be treated like he’s far and away the smartest person in not just the room, but the building. That’s why he pushes aside the people who actually know their shit. It’s not about convincing him of a new way, but convincing him that the way he already decided unilaterally is the greatest way in the entire world.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:55:18pm

re: #249 Mescalero09

Thank you. That was sweet. :)

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:57:27pm

I’ll be surprised if Dr. Fauci isn’t shit-canned before next Monday.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:57:50pm

Dr. Fauci’s replacement:

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:59:34pm

re: #250 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump voters killing themselves because they think everything - EVERYTHING - trump says is true.

even so. these people are stump stunningly stupid (no not just these two)
a lot goes into making workable medicines. - dosages, time release, contraindications, side effects, etc

you can sort of drink pool water
i wouldnt suggest licking an undissolved chlorine tablet or drinking a glass of the liquid

also warfarin is it a blood thinner or rat poison?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 12:59:45pm

As I was doing the dishes before calling it a night, it occurred to me that Trump’s notion of letting the virus burn through in order to save the economy from the effects of prolonged social distancing means that (based on what we’ve already observed from other outbreaks) a good many older Americans would end up dead in such a scenario - IOW, the GOP base.

A Pyrrhic victory - you might even say, a bigly Pyrrhic victory.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:00:36pm
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:00:44pm

re: #253 Targetpractice

I’ll be surprised if Dr. Fauci isn’t shit-canned before next Monday.

Well, look at Mr. Optimist here!!

I give it til Friday evening D.C. time.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:01:23pm

Mitch McConnell, Coronavirus profiteer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:01:33pm

Hi.

The organiser of the event we’re supposed to attend in Germany wrote me last night asking if we wanted our money back. (The event is still on for now.)

I told him yes, because it won’t be long before there is an outbreak in my area, and we don’t want to carry the disease to others there. (Most of the attendees will be from Germany and France.)

In the meantime, my wife says we need to go into town for a few things, so I’m going to pop back out again in a few minutes.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:02:26pm

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

As I was doing the dishes before calling it a night, it occurred to me that Trump’s notion of letting the virus burn through in order to save the economy from the effects of prolonged social distancing means that (based on what we’ve already observed from other outbreaks) a good many older Americans would end up dead in such a scenario - IOW, the GOP base.

A Pyrrhic victory - you might even say, a bigly Pyrrhic victory.

Particularly since it’s totally based upon the idea that if people “go back to work” then the economy will not only recover, but it will “skyrocket” before November. As opposed to the reality, which is that it will sputter and stall out as millions get sick and end up either at home or in the ICU. Then we’ll get involuntary social-distancing as people stay the fuck away from public venues for fear of getting sick, turning what might have been a couple weeks/months of economic pain into a slow and lingering death spiral.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:03:38pm

Returning everyone to work will end any aid to americans. Then, businesses will fold (maybe not as many) anyways as the workforce will be sick. These sick workers with no insurance or sick leave will default on loans in the millions. Rinse and repeat.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:03:50pm

re: #261 Targetpractice

Particularly since it’s totally based upon the idea that if people “go back to work” then the economy will not only recover, but it will “skyrocket” before November. As opposed to the reality, which is that it will sputter and stall out as millions get sick and end up either at home or in the ICU. Then we’ll get involuntary social-distancing as people stay the fuck away from public venues for fear of getting sick, turning what might have been a couple weeks/months of economic pain into a slow and lingering death spiral.

As always, Trump is simply incapable of any type of long-term thinking and he lacks the ability to recognize potential consequences.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:06:08pm

re: #253 Targetpractice

I’ll be surprised if Dr. Fauci isn’t shit-canned before next Monday.

re: #258 Dr Lizardo

Well, look at Mr. Optimist here!!

I give it til Friday evening D.C. time.

This presumes that he hasn’t already been shitcanned and it just hasn’t been officially announced.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:06:46pm

re: #253 Targetpractice

I’ll be surprised if Dr. Fauci isn’t shit-canned before next Monday.

He can join Biden’s team.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:06:55pm

re: #259 jaunte

Mitch McConnell, Coronavirus profiteer.

I feel a bit dirty typing this, but I can’t get too bent over McConnell investing in Moderna after Moderna announced it was fast tracking efforts to create a vaccine. At most, it implies that he knew COVID-19 was going to be a bigger issue than the Fed gov’t was willing to admit, but by the time Moderna made that announcement, things were already escalating.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:07:24pm

re: #264 Citizen K

True. DT does not like people who tell the truth after he has spun his version of the “truth.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:07:57pm

Dow Jones closes down 580 points, or 3%.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:08:06pm

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are jobs at stake, but that is a separate issue to be addressed. And AFAIK, most cruise lines use cheap third-country labor for most positions.

Foreign-flagged vessels can seek help from those countries. Too bad about their flags of inconvenience to avoid US maritime and labour laws and taxes.

I’m sure Liberia or Belize is willing to bail out Princess and Disney.

There is exactly one US flagged cruise ship. If businesses are bailed out, give that one money.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:08:12pm

America is so morally bankrupt that the CV is that democrats are creating the disaster instead of the evidence right in their fucking face.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:08:26pm

re: #264 Citizen K

This presumes that he hasn’t already been shitcanned and it just hasn’t been officially announced.

I don’t think Trump will fire Fauci any time soon. Fauci would then be free to go on any and every network and blast Trump’s response. They need to keep him under wraps.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:09:04pm

re: #269 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Foreign-flagged vessels can seek help from those countries. Too bad about their flags of inconvenience to avoid US maritime and labour laws and taxes.

I’m sure Liberia or Belize is willing to bail out Princess and Disney.

There is exactly one US flagged cruise ship. If businesses are bailed out, give that one money.

Which one is that?

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:09:25pm

re: #271 Mike Lamb

I don’t think Trump will fire Fauci any time soon. Fauci would then be free to go on any and every network and blast Trump’s response. They need to keep him under wraps.

Hasn’t exactly stopped those ‘resignation letters’ before.

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Ferdinand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:09:56pm

Wife and 20 year old stepson just ventured out to her closed public school. Teachers are coming in small batches to pick up materials. And shockingly I’ve got a phone interview for a good job in an hour, thanks to a recruiter reaching out to me on LinkedIn. How weird is that? More later lizards! TTFN

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:10:04pm

re: #271 Mike Lamb

You have a valid point.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:10:33pm

re: #19 Sir John Barron

All the economy and the stock market. Meanwhile, where’s the GOP urgency to have their maga potus genuinely invoke the DPA for medical supply production?

You forgot about the parts defunding rape crisis centres and clinics which treat the disabled. That’s in there too.

They don’t give a shit about the DPA.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:10:37pm

re: #266 Mike Lamb

If he had made a public announcement of his investment, and why he thought it was important to invest in any efforts to mitigate the pandemic, I would be ok with it. But he’s just another self-dealer, trading on his special information.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:12:20pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:12:41pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:12:59pm
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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:13:28pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:14:11pm

re: #281 jaunte

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“Pro-life,” my ass.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:14:44pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

It still bears repeating that not a single one of the “faith healers” has been willing to visit a sick patient and do the “laying of hands” routine on them. Apparently their sky fairy is big into social distancing.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:15:01pm

re: #278 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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But hey, I’ve been informed that this virus is not a danger to “younger, healthier” people!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:16:18pm

re: #281 jaunte

Oh, yeah, here we go folks.

The consensus has emerged. Like I posted earlier, the new conservative line is Lord Farquaad’s quip, “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:16:36pm

re: #281 jaunte

“AtHeIsTs ArE mOrAl ReLaViTiStS.”

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:17:28pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:18:16pm

DT and his cronies want me to go to work so he will look good by November. The Mayor of Philadelphia Jim Kenney, and the Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf want me to stay at home to slow this virus. Personally I would rather listen to Mayor Kenney and Gov Wolf they have not muzzled doctors to make themselves look better.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:19:44pm

re: #284 Targetpractice

But hey, I’ve been informed that this virus is not a danger to “younger, healthier” people!

/////

To be fair — we know she was younger but there is no information yet on her pre-existing health condition.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:20:20pm

My partner was talking to a colleague who lives near the Philly Art Museum. Apparently people are playing baseball and partying at the steps in front (aka, the Rocky Steps).

Americans cannot follow directions, common sense, or respect/comprehend science even if their fucking lives depend on it.

I could possibly die from the disease these fuckups are helping spread because this stuff always happens to someone else.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:21:13pm
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Mattand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:21:15pm

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

DT and his cronies want me to go to work so he will look good by November. The Mayor of Philadelphia Jim Kenney, and the Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf want me to stay at home to slow this virus. Personally I would rather listen to Mayor Kenney and Gov Wolf they have not muzzled doctors to make themselves look better.

See my comment above. Kenney and Wolf may want to consider get some National Guard on the Parkway, stat.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:21:29pm

re: #282 Targetpractice

“Pro-life,” my ass.

This just confirms the allegations that most people who claim that they are pro-life are actually pro-fetus only.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:21:36pm

re: #288 PhillyPretzel

So what happens if Trump tries to restart things and the states say: “No, fuck you, we’re leaving these shutdowns in place.”?

The Trump Admin goes to court to force the states to reopen?

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:21:58pm

re: #287 jaunte

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“Some of you are just less ‘people’ than us, so you’re not as important to save. Sorry!”

Ghouls. Fucking ghouls. And yet coverage is screaming that the Dems are in the wrong here, all fucking over.

I hate this fucking entire timeline.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:22:01pm

re: #292 Mattand

Yes. That will probably happen soon.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:22:24pm

Ah. Black humor.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:22:45pm

re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg

So what happens if Trump tries to restart things and the states say: “No, fuck you, we’re leaving these shutdowns in place.”?

The Trump Admin goes to court to force the states to reopen?

Thought about this earlier. If that happens, expect lots of MAGAts suing state and local governments because they’re being denied a right to work, oppression, blah blah blah.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:24:08pm

re: #290 Mattand

My partner was talking to a colleague who lives near the Philly Art Museum. Apparently people are playing baseball and partying at the steps in front (aka, the Rocky Steps).

Americans cannot follow directions, common sense, or respect/comprehend science even if their fucking lives depend on it.

I could possibly die from the disease these fuckups are helping spread because this stuff always happens to someone else.

Mixed messages at best. I’m not saying they’re not at fault, they are, but we have layers of government saying different things.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:24:37pm

re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg

I do not know the answer to that one. I personally would tell the states to hold their ground. DT is playing around with peoples lives. That is not good for anyone.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:24:41pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:25:36pm

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

This just confirms the allegations that most people who claim that they are pro-life are actually pro-fetus only.

Even that’s being generous. They’re pro-control, as in controlling what women can and can’t do with their bodies.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:26:18pm

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

This just confirms the allegations that most people who claim that they are pro-life are actually pro-fetus only.

And they’re only pro-fetus if it means controlling women. If we develop an artificial womb, they’re not going to care about the fetus at all.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:26:22pm

re: #301 jaunte

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Because shitkicking women and vulnerable populations is always the highest priority, remember.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:26:30pm

Another take on the social distancing meme:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:26:34pm

re: #298 Mattand

Trump is running out of tricks. The power of the Presidency in great part stems from the power of the pulpit, and the ability to corral other leaders to get them to work together. Yes, the President is CiC of the military, but our nuclear weapons don’t mean much against a virus. One can’t bomb-bomb-bomb a virus like we do those middle-east countries we are fond of destroying.

So Trump has squandered, through his malevolent narcissism, his most powerful asset - convincing others who otherwise may not agree with him. He won’t admit it in public, but Trump needs the governors, and he needs the Democrats.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:27:25pm

re: #304 Citizen K

It really is like trying to keep a horde of zombies from breaking through holes in the perimeter fence.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:27:32pm

re: #299 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Mixed messages at best. I’m not saying they’re not at fault, they are, but we have layers of government saying different things.

No, they are absolutely at fault. As Philly Pretzel pointed out, state and local government couldn’t have been clearer. And while South Philly is MAGAt-ville, the rest of the city despises Trump.

This is people doing what they do best: failing at risk assessment and not giving a shit about the greater good.

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:27:57pm

re: #20 makeitstop

He’s living his best life with a porn star name.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:28:46pm

re: #291 teleskiguy

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Where was Tipton last week, when Mitch decided that attending the swearing in of a far-right judge was of greater importance than a crisis? Certainly not in chambers, demanding that the House bill get an immediate vote.

And securing Donny’s reelection bid is NOT a crisis, Scott.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:29:16pm

re: #308 Mattand

You are correct. The National Guard might have to be called out for Philly and its suburbs.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:33:22pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:33:51pm

re: #271 Mike Lamb

I don’t think Trump will fire Fauci any time soon. Fauci would then be free to go on any and every network and blast Trump’s response. They need to keep him under wraps.

ive thought of this, and joining the biden team
i dont think he would do either — to much of a scientist pro, even though part time politician

what he might do is go on any and every network and ‘tell the frank truth’ about what to do and not to do (not what the admin did or didnt do or should). the contrast to the admin would be stark

which is why they likely wont fire him. this way they can muzzle him

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:36:09pm

A one-time $1,200 check ain’t going to do jackshit for the majority of workers. Most of that will go to the rents and mortgage payments that Repubs don’t address in their bill. Or to student loan debts that (again) are not in that bill. Or any of a number of other bills that Repubs think you should still be paying even in the midst of an economic crisis.

That’s not money that’s going back into the economy, that’s money that’s going into a CEO’s stock portfolio.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:37:29pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:38:40pm

The Democratic party is losing the battle of the headlines.

E.g., Newsweek:
MCCONNELL WARNS CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS PACKAGE MIGHT NOT PASS UNTIL WEEKEND AFTER DEMS BLOCK VOTE FOR 2ND TIME

And that headline is better than most.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:39:16pm

I heard some noise coming from over the back fence, checked; yes, a spring break pool party is underway. Mix and mingle.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:39:40pm

re: #306 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump is running out of tricks. The power of the Presidency in great part stems from the power of the pulpit, and the ability to corral other leaders to get them to work together. Yes, the President is CiC of the military, but our nuclear weapons don’t mean much against a virus. One can’t bomb-bomb-bomb a virus like we do those middle-east countries we are fond of destroying.

So Trump has squandered, through his malevolent narcissism, his most powerful asset - convincing others who otherwise may not agree with him. He won’t admit it in public, but Trump needs the governors, and he needs the Democrats.

to be fair, he’s never ‘convinced’ anyone of anything

cajole, bribe, threaten, coerce, sure

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:40:09pm

re: #317 jaunte

I heard some noise coming from over the back fence, checked; yes, a spring break pool party is underway. Mix and mingle.

JFC.

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A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:40:33pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:40:47pm

re: #312 teleskiguy

Not one person responding to him is buying it. Not one.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:41:08pm

re: #319 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I see UT Austin shirts.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:41:12pm

re: #316 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Democratic party is losing the battle of the headlines.

E.g., Newsweek:
MCCONNELL WARNS CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS PACKAGE MIGHT NOT PASS UNTIL WEEKEND AFTER DEMS BLOCK VOTE FOR 2ND TIME

And that headline is better than most.

It’s easy to lose the game when the refs are clearly on the take.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:41:17pm

re: #317 jaunte

I heard some noise coming from over the back fence, checked; yes, a spring break pool party is underway. Mix and mingle.

Call the police to break it up.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:41:33pm

re: #320 A Cranky One

Not to be too morbid that one might just work.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:41:50pm
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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:42:44pm

re: #324 The Pie Overlord!

The Houston mayor still hasn’t issued a shelter in place order.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:42:55pm

On a happier — in a small way — note, on my takeout-and-walk today, I popped into a Walgreens and came out with a package of toilet paper! The good stuff — I still have the package I bought earlier because it was the only one available, but it won’t last long.

It would still be nice to find some hand sanitizer, as the homegrown I made feels sticky, but I’m still happy.

And the one I bought wasn’t the last one on the shelf.

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:01pm

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:17pm

today or yesterday someone posted a tweet with a recipe for navajo flatbread.
here ya go:

it makes 6
there’s 5 1/2 left

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austin_blue  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:44pm

re: #322 jaunte

I see UT Austin shirts.

Teenagers acting like fools? Shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:45pm

re: #322 jaunte

I see UT Austin shirts.

My youngest brother is home from college indefinitely. Thankfully he’s not playing basketball with his friends though I know he’d very much like to.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:45pm
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:43:56pm

re: #315 bratwurst

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So….do they worship Khorne or Cthulhu?

Is it “Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!” or is it “Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:44:16pm

“some people may have to die to straighten this mess out”

- Other people at relatively low risk of death.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:44:53pm

re: #330 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

today or yesterday someone posted a tweet with a recipe for navajo flatbread.
here ya go:

[Embedded content]

it makes 6
there’s 5 1/2 left

How was it?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:45:22pm

re: #330 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

I’m gonna have to try making that.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:46:15pm

re: #328 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

On a happier — in a small way — note, on my takeout-and-walk today, I popped into a Walgreens and came out with a package of toilet paper!The good stuff — I still have the package I bought earlier because it was the only one available, but it won’t last long.

It would still be nice to find some hand sanitizer, as the homegrown I made feels sticky, but I’m still happy.

And the one I bought wasn’t the last one on the shelf.

And what city/town are you in?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:46:32pm

re: #255 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

even so. these people are stump stunningly stupid (no not just these two)
a lot goes into making workable medicines. - dosages, time release, contraindications, side effects, etc

you can sort of drink pool water
i wouldnt suggest licking an undissolved chlorine tablet or drinking a glass of the liquid

also warfarin is it a blood thinner or rat poison?

Time for a reminder — Paracelsus

He was a pioneer in several aspects of the “medical revolution” of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom. He is credited as the “father of toxicology”.[15] Paracelsus also had a substantial impact as a prophet or diviner, his “Prognostications” being studied by Rosicrucians in the 1600s. Paracelsianism is the early modern medical movement inspired by the study of his works.[16]

The dose makes the poison” (Latin: sola dosis facit venenum) is an adage intended to indicate a basic principle of toxicology. It is credited to Paracelsus who expressed the classic toxicology maxim “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.” This is often condensed to: “The dose makes the poison” or in Latin, “Sola dosis facit venenum”. It means that a substance can produce the harmful effect associated with its toxic properties only if it reaches a susceptible biological system within the body in a high enough concentration (i.e., dose).[2]

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:47:14pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:47:36pm

re: #336 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

How was it?

tasty
about as simple as a bread could be
soft, good texture, just the right amount of ‘char’

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:47:59pm

re: #337 Dr Lizardo

I’m gonna have to try making that.

ez

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:49:18pm

re: #312 teleskiguy

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He pulled the tweet. Coward.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:49:20pm

This is happening at Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö just South of Stockholm. The defence forces are helping to set up a field hospital a significant number of ICU beds.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:49:30pm

re: #338 Belafon

And what city/town are you in?

3MUzgFbPTmirpIxwKFcOLnhvRFzAWu3O

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:51:05pm

re: #339 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Time for a reminder — Paracelsus

you know some of the things doctors evaluate when they prescribe is (even if not out loud), review

your medical history and condition
other medications
weight
gender
age
lifestyle issues
etc

that’s why you cant get a lot of ‘medicines’ without a prescription (doctor’s note)
AND
why you don’t get your drugs in a goddamned PetSmart

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:51:41pm

Republicans: Terry Schiavo must be kept alive at all costs

Also Republicans: Why are we destroying the stock market to protect the lives of millions of unproductive 60+ year olds?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:52:31pm

re: #347 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Republicans: Terry Schiavo must be kept alive at all costs

Also Republicans: Why are we destroying the stock market to protect the lives of millions of unproductive 60+ year olds?

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:53:24pm

Nice gesture by Dolan, nonetheless.

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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:53:46pm

Geez, it’s a bad day for MN politicians. Our governor is self-isolating after contact with someone with covid-19, our lieutenant gov’s brother in TN died of the virus, and Amy Klovuchar’s husband has it.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:54:16pm

re: #269 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Foreign-flagged vessels can seek help from those countries. Too bad about their flags of inconvenience to avoid US maritime and labour laws and taxes.

I’m sure Liberia or Belize is willing to bail out Princess and Disney.

There is exactly one US flagged cruise ship. If businesses are bailed out, give that one money.

Pride of America

MS Pride of America is a cruise ship built in the United States* and is operated by Norwegian Cruise Lines. Inaugurated during the 2005/2006 cruise season as the first new U.S.-flagged cruise ship in nearly fifty years,[5] Pride of America was designed to pay homage to the spirit of the United States, from the patriotic artwork on the hull to the U.S.-themed public spaces.

She may be flagged in the U.S. but is owned by a foreign company. Don’t think they would be eligible for a bailout.

OOPS! My bad: Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), also known in short as Norwegian, is a cruise line founded in 1966 and based in the United States. It is the third-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling about 8.7% of the total worldwide share of the cruise market by passengers as of 2018.[2] It is wholly owned by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

* Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd acquired the unfinished ship and was towed to Germany for completion as Pride of America for their newly launched NCL America division. In the process, the ship was lengthened from 850 feet (260 m) to 920 feet (280 m), increasing the gross tonnage from 72,000 to more than 80,000. Under NCL America, the ship was initially slated for completion in 2004, but the delivery date was pushed back to 2005 after a major storm hit the Lloyd Werft shipyard and caused considerable damage to the vessel which also sank at her berth.[6] A special exemption on the part of the U.S. government allowed the modified, mostly German-built ship to attain U.S. registry.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:54:25pm

re: #330 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

today or yesterday someone posted a tweet with a recipe for navajo flatbread.
here ya go:

[Embedded content]

it makes 6
there’s 5 1/2 left

5

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:54:50pm

Just learned one of my closest friends is now under a quarantine order bc of exposure at doctor’s office. He’s got some symptoms but can’t get tested b/c they’re rationing them in NYC. Unless you need hospitalization, you aren’t getting tests in NYC. They don’t have the tests to even begin to contain this thing.

Fuck Trump. Fuck ‘em all to hell. This isn’t going to be over in 15 days. We aren’t returning to normal in 15 days. This is going to persist because Trump’s a fucking lunatic who listens to Jared and not Dr. Fauci.

The GOP is perfectly content to watch the world burn so long as they can make a buck on it.

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Ferdinand  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:56:02pm

This is from a friend in Eastern Oklahoma, posted on FB: “Like I have said Oklahoma will be hit hard and unfortunately a big part is Okies’s idealist right wing outlook. Yesterday across our road our neighbors had a “Covid party”. Under a huge four foot Trump 2020 banner on the second story balcony, they had seven Confederate flagged pickups parked on the road, barbeque fired up with loud c&w music. Eight to ten people at a time coming and going. No words could express my astonished outraged feeling. Stupid self centered a**holes!”

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:56:13pm

re: #349 makeitstop

Most useful thing to come out of MSG in 2+ decades.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:56:23pm

re: #353 lawhawk

Just learned one of my closest friends is now under a quarantine order bc of exposure at doctor’s office. He’s got some symptoms but can’t get tested b/c they’re rationing them in NYC. Unless you need hospitalization, you aren’t getting tests in NYC. They don’t have the tests to even begin to contain this thing.

Fuck Trump. Fuck ‘em all to hell. This isn’t going to be over in 15 days. We aren’t returning to normal in 15 days. This is going to persist because Trump’s a fucking lunatic who listens to Jared and not Dr. Fauci.

The GOP is perfectly content to watch the world burn so long as they can make a buck on it.

You can’t take it with you.
They’ll have no place to spend it

//

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Jay C  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:56:50pm

re: #328 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I hear you: here in now near-deserted Gotham (how a city of 8 million people can manage the appearance of near-desertion is a tricky thing, but New Yorkers manage, somehow!) the retail distribution networks are still functioning, if with the expected lacunae. The Duane Reade (Walgreeen’s) across the street from me is chockablock with TP (their own brand, but it’s an improvement over newsprint), and most OTC medications, etc: but hand sanitizer, and most other disinfectant products, are still mostly unobtainable. They keep saying that they will be getting “deliveries” every few days or so: but sanitizer seems never to be part of them….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:57:37pm

I bet I know what community this will be enforced more readily upon

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:57:51pm

re: #316 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Democratic party is losing the battle of the headlines.

E.g., Newsweek:
MCCONNELL WARNS CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS PACKAGE MIGHT NOT PASS UNTIL WEEKEND AFTER DEMS BLOCK VOTE FOR 2ND TIME

And that headline is better than most.

Democrats don’t win the battle of the headlines, and then Pelosi gets her bill anyway.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:57:54pm

re: #354 Ferdinand

This is from a friend in Eastern Oklahoma, posted on FB: “Like I have said Oklahoma will be hit hard and unfortunately a big part is Okies’s idealist right wing outlook. Yesterday across our road our neighbors had a “Covid party”. Under a huge four foot Trump 2020 banner on the second story balcony, they had seven Confederate flagged pickups parked on the road, barbeque fired up with loud c&w music. Eight to ten people at a time coming and going. No words could express my astonished outraged feeling. Stupid self centered a**holes!”

cant stop people from being stupid
just stay out of their way
way more than 6 feet

and of course if they are lucky enough that no one gets infected: “See it is a hoax”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:58:12pm

re: #156 Targetpractice

We’ve compared this repeatedly to the Spanish Flu, but it’s looking less like that and more like the Black Death in terms of Republican attitudes towards medical advice. “What? Stay away from the infected? Nonsense, a good blood-letting and hours of prayer will fix them right up!”

I can see women’s gloves from the Forties-Sixties making a fashion comeback.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:58:31pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:58:32pm

‘Nother headline:

Democrats again block $2 trillion coronavirus bill; Senate descends into chaos

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Mar 23, 2020 • 1:58:51pm

re: #358 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I bet I know what community this will be enforced more readily upon

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Still the right thing to do.

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:00:00pm

later all…

“Veto seems to have some spunk today……”

re:

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:01:16pm

re: #344 Teukka

This is happening at Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö just South of Stockholm. The defence forces are helping to set up a field hospital a significant number of ICU beds.

[Embedded content]

Double checked 30 ICU beds in Älvsjö, another 20 in Gothenburg, and 45 additional ICU beds in the works in the county.

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Jay C  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:02:54pm

re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I can see women’s gloves from the Forties-Sixties making a fashion comeback.

Already started:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:03:20pm

re: #172 bratwurst

The GOP has been a cult since Trump won the nomination.

Now it’s a death cult.

Un-fucking-real.

Conservatism kills. In every country throughout time. Nazis, the CSA, the Roman Empire, doesn’t matter really. Pick a conservative government, and watch them first kill their citizens, then their country.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:04:11pm

Quite odd for a country not reporting a rapidly growing rate of infection

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:04:23pm

OMG!!!!!

my city is going to put ‘free chlorine’ in the drinking water!!!!!!

at least it wont cost anything

glad they stopped using that monochloramine. sounds dangerous dont it?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:04:37pm

re: #367 Jay C

Already started:

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Wait this isn’t a still from Wall Street: Moochin’ Mnuchin?

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:05:15pm

re: #355 lawhawk

Most useful thing to come out of MSG in 2+ decades.

As much as it pains me, I agree. :)

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:06:08pm

re: #367 Jay C

Already started:

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if that picture wasnt a harbinger….

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:06:44pm
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:07:37pm

re: #369 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Quite odd for a country not reporting a rapidly growing rate of infection

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I’d bet it’s spreading like wildfire, especially in the big metro areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:08:26pm

re: #369 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Quite odd for a country not reporting a rapidly growing rate of infection

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They’re calling it TB I believe. Apparently reported TB cases in Moscow are up. Putin recently quietly made himself President until 2036. It hasn’t really been discussed if at all in American media since then.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:09:02pm

re: #374 Charles Johnson

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Typhoid Trump.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:09:39pm

re: #376 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

They’re calling it TB I believe. Apparently reported TB cases in Moscow are up. Putin recently quietly made himself President until 2036. It hasn’t really been discussed if at all in American media since then.

They’re hiding it as pneumonia - there’s been a big YoY uptick in “pneumonia” cases.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:09:44pm

re: #377 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Typhoid Trump.

I was going to go with Covid Donny.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:09:45pm

re: #323 Citizen K

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It’s easy to lose the game when the refs are clearly on the take.

Seriously…if they can’t get Manchin or maybe Sinema, they need to look in the mirror.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:09:57pm

re: #377 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Typhoid Trump.

Typhoid Donny.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:10:46pm

In case you’ve not been looking at the TV ratings, Fox News is bring in huge audiences.

Millions of Americans are being programmed, trained to accept Trump’s propaganda.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:10:48pm

re: #376 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Putin recently quietly made himself President until 2036.

I saw Barr was coming to this afternoon’s Trump Show, so I assumed he was going to make a similar announcement.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:12:34pm

re: #383 jaunte

I saw Barr was coming to this afternoon’s Trump Show, so I assumed he was going to make a similar announcement.

Well Putin got what he wanted passed in the Duma.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:13:16pm

Here’s that recipe for Navajo bread if anyone wants it.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:13:27pm

re: #378 Dr Lizardo

They’re hiding it as pneumonia - there’s been a big YoY uptick in “pneumonia” cases.

Yeah I saw that. Putin really is even a bigger monster than I thought.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:14:24pm

re: #385 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Here’s that recipe for Navajo bread if anyone wants it.

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Mmmm sounds good. Now do you typically put protein, veggies on it or just eat as is?

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:14:28pm

Huge lines are already forming at liquor stores and ganja shops in Denver.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:15:19pm

re: #379 Belafon

I was going to go with Covid Donny.

well im calling the market drop the trump slump.

feel free

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:16:59pm

re: #385 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Here’s that recipe for Navajo bread if anyone wants it.

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fwiw, in sofla, 1 cup of water was enough

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:18:02pm

re: #387 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It looks like naan and based on the internet you could do anything with it. Cheese, peanut butter, whatever you have.

Or just butter.

It’s meant to sustain you if times go really bad so you’re not starving and your belly isn’t constantly complaining.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:18:03pm

re: #388 teleskiguy

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Huge lines are already forming at liquor stores and ganja shops in Denver.

Shit. I need to get to DC quick. I’m running low.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:18:27pm

re: #248 Targetpractice

Wasn’t Twitter supposedly going to start locking accounts for spreading misinformation about the pandemic?

LOL $$$$$ libertarianism.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:19:24pm
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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:19:25pm

This guy is grabbing still shots from live web cams all over the world.

Absolutely eerie. It’s like a deserted world.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:19:57pm

re: #388 teleskiguy

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Huge lines are already forming at liquor stores and ganja shops in Denver.

You aren’t lying. My friend made a run to Molly’s, a big liquor store near Edgewater. He said the line was out the door. I live a half mile from a huge liquor store in Littleton. I am assuming that it is an absolute mad house right now.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:21:26pm

This is a leader:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:21:29pm

So Boris pulls the trigger on banning groupings… but in classic British manor, the BBC starts the broadcast with a quiet woodland scene:

Boris Johnson: Stay at home, protect our NHS, and save lives - BBC

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:21:58pm

re: #365 Mescalero09

I feel as though a parrot on coffee isn’t all that optimal.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:22:08pm

re: #395 makeitstop

That’s one advantage of this massive shutdown: We are giving our planet a literal breather…at least for a little while. Really fascinating to see.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:22:18pm

Evening Lizardim.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:23:17pm

re: #241 jaunte

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let’s be clear
they did not ‘self medicate’

they didnt take the human pill form of the medication

they took the additive

an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks. Within thirty minutes of ingestion, the couple experienced immediate effects requiring admittance to a nearby Banner Health hospital.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:23:22pm

Boris has been rightly criticized over the years for his own grandstanding and spot-light hogging. But compared to Trump, if you watch that few minutes, Boris is leagues better at this leading thing than Trump ever could be.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:23:29pm

re: #396 Mike Lamb

You aren’t lying. My friend made a run to Molly’s, a big liquor store near Edgewater. He said the line was out the door. I live a half mile from a huge liquor store in Littleton. I am assuming that it is an absolute mad house right now.

Seems the decision to close them creates the exact crowding you want to avoid during a pandemic.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:23:44pm

re: #272 Belafon

Which one is that?

The aptly named Pride of America

MS Pride of America is a cruise ship built in the United States and is operated by Norwegian Cruise Lines. Inaugurated during the 2005/2006 cruise season as the first new U.S.-flagged cruise ship in nearly fifty years, Pride of America was designed to pay homage to the spirit of the United States, from the patriotic artwork on the hull to the U.S.-themed public spaces.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:24:01pm

re: #374 Charles Johnson

Donald Trump as an asymptomatic carrier?

Good God, the Universe could not possibly be that cruel.

Could it?

/

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:24:18pm

re: #272 Belafon

Which one is that?

en.wikipedia.org

MV Pride of Amerca, owned by Norwegian Cruise Lines. It was launched in 2006 as the first US flagged cruise ship in fifty years.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:24:39pm

re: #398 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think Boris is a little late but better late than never I suppose.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:25:15pm

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

Donald Trump as an asymptomatic carrier?

Good God, the Universe could not possibly be that cruel.

Could it?

/

The universe is trying to teach people what trusting Trump really means.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:26:50pm

re: #391 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It looks like naan and based on the internet you could do anything with it. Cheese, peanut butter, whatever you have.

Or just butter.

It’s meant to sustain you if times go really bad so you’re not starving and your belly isn’t constantly complaining.

no knead bread is also just 4 ingredients

flour, instant yeast, salt, water

and also has a surprisingly good taste, texture, and flavor

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:27:03pm

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

Donald Trump as an asymptomatic carrier?

Good God, the Universe could not possibly be that cruel.

Could it?

/

What else would the Antichrist be?

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:27:37pm

re: #404 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Seems the decision to close them creates the exact crowding you want to avoid during a pandemic.

I get wanting to balance out allowing people to have some kind of warning and preparation, but I suspect they might need to start enacting these orders at like 8 PM with immediate effect to avoid these scenes.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:28:04pm

re: #397 The Pie Overlord!

This is a leader:

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each of you is putting appx 50,000 people at risk

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:28:26pm

re: #410 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

no knead bread is also just 4 ingredients

flour, instant yeast, salt, water

and also has a surprisingly good taste, texture, and flavor

I’ve never once had luck with yeast.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:28:27pm

A team of researchers at the Czech Institute of Computer Science, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) has developed a high-grade respirator that can be printed on industrial 3D printers or produced by injection molding technology.

Materials for the respirator are widely available and the present estimate is that the cost of one -printed on a 3D printer -would be under 1,000 crowns*, which is considered a very good price for a high grade respirator of this kind.

1000 Kč = about $39.

radio.cz

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:29:30pm

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

Donald Trump as an asymptomatic carrier?

Good God, the Universe could not possibly be that cruel.

Could it?

/

he was tested right?
the very best test
and amazing results

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:29:40pm

Here’s some good news: A judge has upheld a ruling that stated Donald Trump is NOT allowed to block people on Twitter.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:30:24pm
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austin_blue  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:30:33pm

re: #360 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

cant stop people from being stupid
just stay out of their way
way more than 6 feet

and of course if they are lucky enough that no one gets infected: “See it is a hoax”

Well, you can, but it’s hell on your carpets.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:30:41pm

re: #413 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

each of you is putting appx 50,000 people at risk

Meanwhile we got Trump. We really are going to look back on Obama as a great president when we compare him with his immediate predecessor and successor which is unfortunate because I think Obama stands out as a great president independently of Bush and Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:31:21pm

re: #419 austin_blue

Well, you can, but it’s hell on your carpets.

This made me laugh entirely too much. Thank you.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:32:27pm

re: #414 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ve never once had luck with yeast.

same here. i dont make hardly any yeast breads

that’s why i make this
it’s ridiculously easy
instant yeast - doesnt even need to proof so you cant kill it
no kneading
an extremely satisfying loaf for about 10 minutes work (and lots of waiting)

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Teddy's Person  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:32:59pm

This Spanish biologist is everything to me right now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:34:12pm

re: #385 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Here’s that recipe for Navajo bread if anyone wants it.

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if you use self-rising flour, you don’t need the baking powder and salt, which is good for those watching their sodium intake

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:34:39pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:34:46pm

re: #388 teleskiguy

Huge lines are already forming at liquor stores and ganja shops in Denver.

Liquor stores in Michigan are considered essential due to their selling water and foodstuffs. Some of the stores are cutting their operating hours.

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Skip Intro  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:34:58pm

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

Donald Trump as an asymptomatic carrier?

Good God, the Universe could not possibly be that cruel.

Could it?

/

I think so, yes.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:35:06pm

re: #423 Teddy’s Person

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it’s all fun and games till a virus shows up

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:35:31pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:35:31pm

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s some good news: A judge has upheld a ruling that stated Donald Trump is NOT allowed to block people on Twitter.

And how is that enforced? Will Jack turn off the orange shit-goblin’s ability to block people or is the ruling simply a paper tiger?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:35:39pm

re: #412 Mike Lamb

I get wanting to balance out allowing people to have some kind of warning and preparation, but I suspect they might need to start enacting these orders at like 8 PM with immediate effect to avoid these scenes.

I’m suggesting they shouldn’t have closed them, at least not the ones with drive through windows.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:36:30pm

School’s cancelled for the year here in Virginia. Heard from a former teacher, a former camp counselor who is now a teacher, and a former classmate who is now a teacher. I wonder if there’s anyway to help out the out of work teachers. A lot of their lesson plans will go online but for many of them, I imagine this wasn’t something they ever anticipated dealing with. One reason why I particularly hate the GOP is how they treat teachers. My godmother was a teacher and outside my parents and grandparents, I consider some of the biggest influences in my life to have been my teachers and professors.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:36:56pm

re: #425 teleskiguy

Beat me to it.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:38:00pm

re: #430 Colère Tueur de Lapin

And how is that enforced? Will Jack turn off the orange shit-goblin’s ability to block people or is the ruling simply a paper tiger?

That’s a good question. I can definitely see this as a “Judge Marshall has made his ruling now let him enforce it” reaction by Trump. God though this just pisses me off thinking about the reality of this. Our President is the world’s biggest Twitter troll.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:38:04pm

re: #20 makeitstop

Olympics, postponed.

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In other news, the name ‘Dick Pound’ is summoning my inner Beavis.

Heh heh

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:39:29pm

Fancy that. At least some of those people on FR who felt the government had no right to tell them to stay home (Freedumz!) are starting to change their tune about other people’s freedom to expose them and theirs to a potentially fatal disease.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:39:32pm

re: #23 Belafon

Dick Pound should take on Dick Army.

Private Parts reporting for duty *crisp salute*

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:39:57pm

Half assing plans to limit contacts. Half asses containment within the state. But sure, quarantine people flying from NY/NJ into FL now after you kept the goddamned beaches open and didn’t move to protect the millions of seniors and retirees who live in your state.

Besides, as I’ve pointed out this is now in all 50 states and this should be a national policy, but instead they’re still acting like air travel should go on as normal. Where’s the outbound screening? Where’s all the TSA screening to make sure that you don’t get on board already sick.

They haven’t bothered to do any of that and it’s already too late to contain spread domestically because Trump screwed that up too.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:40:26pm

re: #435 Eventual Carrion

Heh heh

You said Pound. But man how awful. I always love this time of year to be honest with you. The beginning of Spring and of course Opening Day. I was actually looking at playing softball this spring and summer. Haven’t played on a baseball or softball team in years and I wanted to remake myself as a contact hitting lefty as opposed to a poor hitting righty :).

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:40:26pm

re: #432 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

School’s cancelled for the year here in Virginia. Heard from a former teacher, a former camp counselor who is now a teacher, and a former classmate who is now a teacher. I wonder if there’s anyway to help out the out of work teachers. A lot of their lesson plans will go online but for many of them, I imagine this wasn’t something they ever anticipated dealing with. One reason why I particularly hate the GOP is how they treat teachers. My godmother was a teacher and outside my parents and grandparents, I consider some of the biggest influences in my life to have been my teachers and professors.

Is school cancelled there? We’ve gone to online classes here in Rockwall.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:40:28pm

Whoo boy.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:40:33pm

re: #426 Eric The Fruit Bat

Liquor stores in Michigan are considered essential due to their selling water and foodstuffs. Some of the stores are cutting their operating hours.

Californians sell all sorts of alcoholic beverages in grocery stores.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:41:17pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:41:36pm

re: #440 Belafon

Is school cancelled there? We’ve gone to online classes here in Rockwall.

Yeah here in Virginia it is.
wsls.com

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:41:57pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:42:07pm

re: #443 Belafon

It’s getting worse and worse by the day. All this. Breaks my heart. Fuck.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:42:43pm

This fucking shitheel.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:42:52pm

re: #445 jaunte

And Trump apparently wants Dr. Fauci to stop talking about social distancing. Fucker.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:43:45pm

re: #447 teleskiguy

This fucking shitheel.

We will prevail, Donald when you become the first American president to rot away in a prison. And your name will be one of the most infamous in American history.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:44:10pm

re: #446 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s getting worse and worse by the day. All this. Breaks my heart. Fuck.

I think you missed that the number went down.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:44:48pm

My aunt just passed away from cancer. I am on the telephone with my cousin now. She visited my aunt last night.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:44:51pm

re: #448 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s about to start screaming Lügenpresse!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:45:09pm

re: #426 Eric The Fruit Bat

Liquor stores in Michigan are considered essential due to their selling water and foodstuffs. Some of the stores are cutting their operating hours.

Liquor stores in Kentucky are considered essential because:

liquor…

and Kentucky…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:45:38pm

re: #450 Belafon

I think you missed that the number went down.

Good catch. Though seeing today was our first day over 100 is terrifying too.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:45:47pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

My aunt just passed away from cancer. I am on the telephone with my cousin now. She visited my aunt last night.

I’m so sorry. {{{Anymouse}}}

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:47:01pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:47:19pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I am very sorry to hear of your loss. You and your family are in my prayers.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:47:34pm

re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth

Liquor stores in Kentucky are considered essential because:

liquor…

and Kentucky…

I hope we agree. PS I have Kentucky bourbon on hand. I’ll share some in spirit.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:48:22pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

My condolences. I’m sorry for your loss.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:48:34pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

My aunt just passed away from cancer. I am on the telephone with my cousin now. She visited my aunt last night.

Sorry to hear that. This really is a difficult time for humanity. I really hope that progress on a vaccine is coming. I’m talking about COVID not cancer to be clear but obviously I hope we can do more research into cancers too. It’s been a tough year here on the cancer front.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:49:46pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:50:36pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:50:47pm

re: #452 jaunte

He’s about to start screaming Lügenpresse!

They say we have Trump Derangement Syndrome. How the fuck can anyone support this motherfucker ever?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:51:50pm
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cat-tikvah  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:52:04pm

re: #444 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Yeah here in Virginia it is.
wsls.com

My niece is a high school senior. I feel for her to have to miss out on the fun parts of counting down to graduation. Here in PA this is already the reality and I have friends whose kids are bereft, even while understanding why it’s necessary.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:52:05pm

re: #464 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

They say we have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

A sign that they’re as yet unaware of any effects.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:52:41pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:53:54pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:54:36pm

re: #446 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s getting worse and worse by the day. All this. Breaks my heart. Fuck.

With something like this it has to get worse before it can get better. We are behind other countries on shutdowns/social distancing/school closures, etc. There WILL be a turnaround here too, it will just take us awhile to get there.

One day at a time my friend.

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Dread Pirate  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:55:10pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:06pm

re: #466 cat-tikvah

My niece is a high school senior. I feel for her to have to miss out on the fun parts of counting down to graduation. Here in PA this is already the reality and I have friends whose kids are bereft, even while understanding why it’s necessary.

Yeah my cousin’s kid is graduating up in Maryland. He’s going into the USMC post graduation. I feel awful for him because he’s worked really hard and he’s a great kid.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:13pm
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Ferdinand  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:15pm

re: #274 Ferdinand

Wife and 20 year old stepson just ventured out to her closed public school. Teachers are coming in small batches to pick up materials. And shockingly I’ve got a phone interview for a good job in an hour, thanks to a recruiter reaching out to me on LinkedIn. How weird is that? More later lizards! TTFN

UPDATE: Well, the phone interview with the recruiter went great. He’s submitting me as a candidate and we’re planning a phone interview with the employer tomorrow. They have the position on a fast track and hope to make an offer to someone by the end of the day tomorrow. It’s right in my wheelhouse, and as good as anything I might have hoped for even before the apocalypse kicked off a couple of weeks ago. The woman who had the job decided to not return from maternity leave, so they’re scrambling to fill it quickly.
It’s for a Media Director position with a Oklahoma City marketing agency, full-time remote for now and full-time onsite once that’s an option again. The recruiter and I talked some about how local businesses now only have traditional and online media available to them as they attempt to maintain their communities of customers, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a long-established local agency is still seeing business.
And to top it all off, after stopping at 5 stores and sending the kiddo in, my wife scored two big packages of TP.
Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for tomorrow.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:33pm

Has the orange thing had a propaganda conference today?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:48pm

re: #470 Eclectic Cyborg

With something like this it has to get worse before it can get better. We are behind other countries on shutdowns/social distancing/school closures, etc. There WILL be a turnaround here too, it will just take us awhile to get there.

One day at a time my friend.

Yep day by day. Glad I don’t have plans. I haven’t gone too far from home in the past couple weeks.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:51pm

Can they both lose?

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:56:52pm

re: #451 Anymouse 🌹🏡

My aunt just passed away from cancer. I am on the telephone with my cousin now. She visited my aunt last night.

Sorry for your loss, mouse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:58:22pm

I’m going to log out. Time to go to town. This is a sad day.

My cousin said they are going to have a cremation, but delay a memorial service until after the plague is over.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:58:52pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 23, 2020 • 2:58:57pm

re: #365 Mescalero09

later all…

“Veto seems to have some spunk today……”

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My coffee drinking cat has not quite reached that stage yet. He still waits for me to have it in the cup and cooled a bit.

I’m sporting with my coffee. I let it run around a bit first before going for the kill.
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:00:00pm

re: #479 Anymouse 🌹🏡

{{{}}}

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:01:13pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:01:27pm

Wow.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:03:11pm

re: #477 Sherlock Hound

Can they both lose?

We can only hope. I really hate a lot of the so called new left because they’re dishonest dickbags. Just had two of them insist to me that it was Biden not Bernie that slipped and called COVID, Ebola in their last debate. I can handle a difference of opinion and approach on politics. I can not handle gaslighting bullshit by people who want to act like Bernie can do no fucking wrong and are poisoning American left of center politics with their leftist spin on Trumpism. I’m talking about people like the Chapo assholes specifically here.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:03:30pm

re: #471 Dread Pirate

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ive said it before and i’ll say it again:

bipartisan requires a lot of the two major parties to agree about most or all of a bill or political choice

getting one member of the other party to support whatever it is, is not ‘bipartisan’.
it’s one party plus one person. or even 2 or 5.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:03:39pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:03:52pm

re: #484 teleskiguy

Wow.

Good job Governor Polis. Gotta give credit to the Colorado legislature too obviously for passing this.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:04:20pm

Last meme before I head for bed:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:08:03pm

BLUF: Guy pulls gun on two people at post office because he was afraid of being infected

Facebook

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:09:59pm
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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:10:51pm

New spot from Lincoln Project. Fox News, come on down!

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:12:17pm

Oh boy.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:12:37pm

re: #491 teleskiguy

That was my reason for opposing it too. I have this memory of seeing a story about a case about an African-American man convicted of killing a white cop. There was some doubt I recall to his guilt and I feel even though I think murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals should receive harsh punishments for their crimes, you can’t bring back the dead. Death is final. Then I saw the Green Mile. I get why victims families support it but I don’t think it’s right.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:13:22pm

re: #490 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

BLUF: Guy pulls gun on two people at post office because he was afraid of being infected

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the fact that no one got hurt is irrelevant
he lost control of his weapon by brandishing it at an inappropriate time
he demonstrated he does not have the judgement to keep and bear arms

loss of gun rights forever
no second chances
control your weapon at all times, means at all times

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:14:08pm

re: #492 makeitstop

New spot from Lincoln Project. Fox News, come on down!

I won’t have much in way of philosophical agreement with the Lincoln guys on much but their voices are greatly appreciated now.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:16:00pm

re: #495 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

the fact that no one got hurt is irrelevant
he lost control of his weapon by brandishing it at an inappropriate time
he demonstrated he does not have the judgement to keep and bear arms

loss of gun rights forever
no second chances
control your weapon at all times, means at all times

I’ve always contended DM that the biggest reason why I support gun control laws is the American gun owner has a lot of of morons in their ranks. You want to own a gun, fine but be fucking responsible. My grandfather was a responsible gun owner. We had no idea where he kept the key to his cabinet and we were never allowed to touch them. I never felt particularly interested in guns anyhow. I had more fun fishing with him anyhow.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:17:54pm

re: #497 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’ve always contended DM that the biggest reason why I support gun control laws is the American gun owner has a lot of of morons in their ranks. You want to own a gun, fine but be fucking responsible. My grandfather was a responsible gun owner. We had no idea where he kept the key to his cabinet and we were never allowed to touch them. I never felt particularly interested in guns anyhow. I had more fun fishing with him anyhow.

rights come with responsibilities.

as soon as they start to recognize that and act accordingly , especially by self-culling their herd, the rest can have all the guns they want.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:19:00pm

Trump is going to kill as many of us as possible just so he can scrounge a few more bucks and puff up that Stock Market, because that’s the only thing that matters in his eyes.

All of us are just literal fodder for his self-perceived financial godhood.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:19:11pm

16 People Sick Following Birthday Party at LA’s Trump National Golf Club

Several people who were at the March 8 event tested positive for COVID-19

More than a dozen people are reportedly sick after an early March event held at the fine dining restaurant of Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, the wealthy standalone city in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The exclusive event, a 70th birthday party for former Rancho Palos Verdes mayor Susan Brooks, has seen 16 of its 65 attendees fall ill, with several of those cases now confirmed to be COVID-19.

Easy Reader News was the first to report on the health scare, which stems from the event on March 8. Brooks, who has since tested positive for COVID-19, told the News that she cautioned event-goers to stay home if they felt sick in any way, and advised in a message to attendees that they keep a respectful distance throughout the event. The group included a variety of mostly older people from around Rancho Palos Verdes, including current Fourth District county supervisor Janice Hahn, who is now self-quarantining at her home. Two unidentified male guests have been hospitalized and are on ventilators, reports the News.

la.eater.com

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:20:51pm

Who knows. Maybe in this crazy day and age an old favorite will make a comeback.
It’s a cocktail. Simple to make. Effective. Shredded Styrofoam added to it gives thickness and clinging abilities to vertical surfaces. Russian guy thought it up in desperate times.
You’ll get it.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:21:50pm

re: #500 Joe Bacon 🌹

16 People Sick Following Birthday Party at LA’s Trump National Golf Club

Several people who were at the March 8 event tested positive for COVID-19

More than a dozen people are reportedly sick after an early March event held at the fine dining restaurant of Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, the wealthy standalone city in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The exclusive event, a 70th birthday party for former Rancho Palos Verdes mayor Susan Brooks, has seen 16 of its 65 attendees fall ill, with several of those cases now confirmed to be COVID-19.

Easy Reader News was the first to report on the health scare, which stems from the event on March 8. Brooks, who has since tested positive for COVID-19, told the News that she cautioned event-goers to stay home if they felt sick in any way, and advised in a message to attendees that they keep a respectful distance throughout the event. The group included a variety of mostly older people from around Rancho Palos Verdes, including current Fourth District county supervisor Janice Hahn, who is now self-quarantining at her home. Two unidentified male guests have been hospitalized and are on ventilators, reports the News.

la.eater.com

March 8.
deep into it

it’s getting easier and easier for me to have no fucks to give for these people

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:21:59pm

re: #498 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

rights come with responsibilities.

as soon as they start to recognize that and act accordingly , especially by self-culling their herd, the rest can have all the guns they want.

Absolutely.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:22:10pm

We didn’t go to town. We’ll do that tomorrow. Not much in the mood now.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:23:16pm

re: #504 Anymouse 🌹🏡

We didn’t go to town. We’ll do that tomorrow. Not much in the mood now.

real sorry to hear.

take good care.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:23:52pm
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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:24:14pm

re: #501 Mescalero09

Who knows. Maybe in this crazy day and age an old favorite will make a comeback.
It’s a cocktail. Simple to make. Effective. Shredded Styrofoam added to it gives thickness and clinging abilities to vertical surfaces. Russian guy thought it up in desperate times.
You’ll get it.

A little laundry powder - tide for example - works very well in it as well.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:24:19pm

Yeah, it’s a fake but a good one.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:24:33pm

re: #441 Citizen K

Whoo boy.

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So Bernie joins Rand Club of being so elite and on top of things the regular rules don’t apply to him.

And I guess he didn’t care about the GOP Senate relief bill money grab since campaigning for The Revolution was more important.
/ (spit)

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:25:21pm

re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth

Amongst his most ardent supporters they will still call the Coronavirus the Chinese Virus.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:04pm

re: #507 William Lewis

A little laundry powder - tide for example - works very well in it as well.

and those tide pods are like candy!

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:05pm

re: #510 PhillyPretzel

Amongst his most ardent supporters they will still call the Coronavirus the Chinese Virus.

Anything to justify indulging in rampant racism and xenophobia.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:18pm

re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth

SEE LIBTARD YOU”RE THE REALL RACIST.

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Jay C  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:19pm

re: #456 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The DailyFail is failing less and less in these times:

EXCLUSIVE: Hobby Lobby is slowly closing its stores across the country after fallout from a letter claiming the wife of the devout Christian chief exec had a vision from God telling the chain to stay open

Did she get that “vision” after reading one of those “Dead Sea Scrolls”* they bought for their Museum Of The Bible (assuming the ink was dry enough)?

*The “Gospel of St. Bogus”

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:29pm

re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth

After days of calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” Trump says we need to support the Asian-American community who are not spreading the virus.

can you tell just by looking at them who’s who?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:26:40pm

re: #510 PhillyPretzel

Amongst his most ardent supporters they will still call the Coronavirus the Chinese Virus.

He will most definitely continue to do it behind closed doors and will eventually do it in public again.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:27:20pm

re: #515 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

can you tell just by looking at them who’s who?

Well the ones at Mar-Al-Lago that tell him that he’s great are obviously not carriers and the ones that oppose him in Congress like Ted Lieu obviously are. //

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:27:23pm

re: #515 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

can you tell just by looking at them who’s who?

Of course, just like they can tell who’s Chinese or not, just by looking at them. //////

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Teddy's Person  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:27:29pm

I really like Chris Murphy’s tweets. Here he is exposing what Republicans really mean by “bipartisan.” - cooperation between Republicans and lobbyists. In the first minute or so of his speech, he explains the creation of the current bill. Democrats were escorted out of the room on Saturday. Lobbyists sent Republicans their bills on Sunday.

c-span.org

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:27:38pm

Nebraska:
Total number of cases - 50

Cases that tested negative - 356

LINCOLN - Two additional cases of COVID-19 were identified in two Nebraska counties:

A woman in her 40s from Dawson County who recently traveled. She is currently self-isolating at home - trphd.org .
Douglas County also announced an additional travel-related case today.

Dawson County is the next county to the east of the one with North Platte. Douglas County is Omaha and some rural area.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:28:07pm

re: #515 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

can you tell just by looking at them who’s who?

if they don’t look like Brad, Bif, Becky or Karen…they probably aren’t infectious

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:28:09pm

re: #514 Jay C

*The “Gospel of St. Bogus”

That is a good one. I have to remember that one.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:28:42pm

Did someone bork their HTML?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:28:45pm

re: #509 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So Bernie joins Rand Club of being so elite and on top of things the regular rules don’t apply to him.

And I guess he didn’t care about the GOP Senate relief bill money grab since campaigning for The Revolution was more important.
/ (spit)

I really hope that the younger people who support Bernie now when they get older realize what a con that Bernie played on them. And yes I think Bernie is a con man. He’s really not that different than Trump in the same empty promises, rhetoric, and shameless attacks on people who arne’t him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:29:08pm

I honestly believe even if Trump tries to start opening things back up, the stock markets will not respond like he thinks they will.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:29:12pm

re: #523 Dr. Matt

Did someone bork their HTML?

not seeing it here

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:29:49pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:30:16pm
“To preserve medical resources for COVID-19 patients, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that abortions should not be performed unless the mother’s life is in danger,” the Texas Tribune reports.

Said Paxton: “No one is exempt from the governor’s executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers. Those who violate the governor’s order will be met with the full force of the law.”

because clinic based procedures are somehow taking up the precious and rationed icu beds?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:30:21pm

re: #514 Jay C

Did she get that “vision” after reading one of those “Dead Sea Scrolls”* they bought for their Museum Of The Bible (assuming the ink was dry enough)?

*The “Gospel of St. Bogus”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:31:16pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:31:19pm
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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:31:19pm

All this wasn’t italicized before….was it?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:32:12pm

re: #502 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

March 8.
deep into it

it’s getting easier and easier for me to have no fucks to give for these people

That’s a bingo!

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:32:21pm

Anyone who needs some gorgeous photography to look at, go here and click on the gallery button: fotoroom.co

Just beautiful. I am so jelly.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:32:38pm

re: #533 Dr. Matt

Mine is too. I think it was late last week that Charles said he would be working the site.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:33:49pm

re: #510 PhillyPretzel

Amongst his most ardent supporters they will still call the Coronavirus the Chinese Virus.

And trump will again, too. He doesn’t have the mental capacity to stop.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:33:59pm

re: #533 Dr. Matt

All this wasn’t italicized before….was it?

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ah…yes, I can see that.

Maybe Charles is doing some stuff behind the curtain?
He said we might be seeing some weirdness

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:34:23pm

re: #533 Dr. Matt

All this wasn’t italicized before….was it?

[Embedded content]

I don’t think so. That section is not italicized for me now at all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:35:08pm

LINCOLN - Today, Governor Pete Ricketts called on Nebraskans to make appointments to donate blood. The American Red Cross is facing a severe blood shortage as many blood drives are being cancelled across the country due to coronavirus concerns.

“The American Red Cross has been there for Nebraskans in our times of greatest need. Now, I urge healthy Nebraskans to help the Red Cross and their neighbors by setting an appointment to donate blood as soon as possible,” Gov. Ricketts said.

Through March 17, nearly 4,000 Red Cross blood drives have been cancelled across the country due to coronavirus concerns, resulting in more than 100,000 fewer blood donations. Some of these cancellations have occurred in Nebraska.

Organizations can safely host blood drives while adhering to social distancing measures. By continuing to donate, Nebraskans can ensure an available blood supply for patients who need surgery, victims of car accidents and other emergencies, or patients suffering from cancer.

Eligible and healthy donors are strongly urged to make an appointment at redcross.org to provide lifesaving blood products to patients.
governor.nebraska.gov

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:35:09pm

I am staunchly anti death penalty and staunchly pro choice.

Had a teacher in high school who told me I couldn’t be both.

I am not a terribly logical person, but to me if killing a person is wrong, why should the state be allowed to do so?

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:35:18pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:35:44pm

O_o

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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:36:38pm

re: #417 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s some good news: A judge has upheld a ruling that stated Donald Trump was NOT allowed to block people on Twitter.

re: #543 Backwoods_Sleuth

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O_o

That made me literally face-palm.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:37:33pm

re: #544 BlueSpotinAL

That made me literally face-palm.

THEY COOK!

AMAZING!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:37:40pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:38:52pm

re: #504 Anymouse 🌹🏡

We didn’t go to town. We’ll do that tomorrow. Not much in the mood now.

Sorry to hear fella. Sending a hug.

548
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:39:10pm
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Teddy's Person  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:39:31pm

re: #543 Backwoods_Sleuth

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O_o

JFC, Trump next week: I just saw this round thing called a wheel. I think it great. Game changer.

For someone who thinks they’re the smartest, bestest person ever, Trump sure has this making himself look like a paste-eating idiot shtick down pat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:39:56pm

godfuckinggrief

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:40:33pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:41:19pm

How timely.
Well done @RealTimeWWII

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:41:23pm
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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:41:40pm

re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth

THEY COOK!

AMAZING!!!

and people take out!!

555
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:43:00pm

Fauci should hop on Twitter and start getting information out there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:43:25pm
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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:43:49pm

re: #471 Dread Pirate

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:43:56pm
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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:44:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:44:50pm
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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:44:54pm

Man…when you manage to make Chris Cillizza look smart.

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John Hughes  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:46:28pm

re: #287 jaunte

Obviously all lives are not of equal value, writers for the National review fox example probably aren’t even worth their value as fertilizer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:46:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:47:42pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:48:34pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:48:34pm

Well, we’re trapped, though I don’t know how they will enforce this. Police on the roads?

Anyone Who Travels Outside the Panhandle Must Self-Quarantine (goes to Panhandle Public Health District)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:48:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:49:15pm
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:49:43pm

The COVID-19 crisis is an “out of context” issue for an administration that views everything as political. And apparently solely political.

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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:50:16pm

re: #465 The Pie Overlord!

I want to see them try to live without servants. The virus is going to get in.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:50:20pm

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:51:02pm

YOU LOOK AT IDAHO, YOU LOOK AT IOWA, THERE ARE MANY COUNTRIES THAT ARE DOING WELL

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:51:35pm

re: #563 Backwoods_Sleuth

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they’re all touching the same podium

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:51:51pm

re: #571 calochortus

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:52:17pm

I swear to God, if Trump somehow gets re-elected after all this shit…

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:52:40pm

re: #572 teleskiguy

Yes, he did refer to states as countries.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:54:36pm

Hey we have italics on the dingcount now!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:54:46pm

morons, all of them

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:55:36pm

He’s now attempting to soften you up for a daily death toll in the thousands by quoting statistics about people who die from other causes.

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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:55:44pm

re: #575 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear to God, if Trump somehow gets re-elected after all this shit…

Enough people are still blaming Dems primarily for everything under the sun, so he just may somehow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:56:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:57:18pm

re: #576 teleskiguy

Yes, he did refer to states as countries.

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has been notified of 15 additional positive cases of Iowans with COVID-19, for a total of 105 positive cases. There have been a total of 2,043 negative tests to date, which includes testing reported by the State Hygienic Lab and other labs.

The new cases are all over Iowa.

idph.iowa.gov

Allamakee County, 1 adult (18-40 years)
Dubuque County, 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 older adult (61-80 years)
Hancock County, 2 older adults (61-80 years)
Johnson County, 1 middle-aged adult (41-60 years), 2 older adults (61-80 years)
Linn County, 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 middle-aged adult (41-60 years)
Muscatine County, 1 middle-aged adult (41-60 years)
Polk County, 1 adult (18-40 years), 1 middle-aged adult (41-60 years)
Wapello County, 1 older adult (61-80 years)
Woodbury County, 1 middle-aged adult (41-60 years)

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:57:49pm

Listening to Trump, Barr and Pence on the radio without at the same time reading a stream of commentary and fact checking, it’s scary what a plausible play they’re putting on.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:58:38pm

re: #560 Backwoods_Sleuth

[William Barr doesn’t look well]

Well that’s some good news.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:59:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 3:59:34pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:00:00pm

re: #398 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So Boris pulls the trigger on banning groupings… but in classic British manor, the BBC starts the broadcast with a quiet woodland scene:

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Video

Maybe Jarred should show this clip to tRump and point out that this is how a leader is supposed to act in an National emergency.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:00:11pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:00:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:01:42pm

gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:01:58pm

re: #560 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

“William Barr doesn’t look well.”

Don’t tease me.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:02:26pm

re: #590 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

The economy is the most important thing to him, because if it’s in the crapper, he knows he’s completely fucked.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:02:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:03:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:04:41pm
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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:05:07pm

re: #441 Citizen K

Every tool except the one he actually has.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:05:58pm

re: #576 teleskiguy

Obama went to all 57 of them!!!!!

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:06:43pm

re: #595 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmm. The VP just told me to listen to Mayor Kenney and Gov Wolf. Fine. That is what I will do.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:07:45pm

Dear God this is a fucking trainwreck.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:08:23pm

re: #560 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:08:35pm

This shit is still going on? I refuse to watch that’s why I’m asking.

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teleskiguy  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:09:10pm

re: #599 goddamnedfrank

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:09:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:10:03pm

re: #589 Backwoods_Sleuth

And the difference between how Nebraska and Iowa are handling it couldn’t be more different. Gov. Reynolds refuses to shut anything. Gov. Ricketts has been aggressive about shutting businesses and schools. That might be why Iowa has so many more cases than we do.

Over in Wyoming, where they also aren’t doing anything, they are trying to catch up to us as well. They are up to twenty-six. Nebraska is at fifty with many times more people.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:10:18pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:10:48pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:10:53pm

I’m reminded of the story of two people with guns who got into an argument over the existence of life after death. Events transpired exactly as one might have expected them to.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:10:55pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:11:14pm
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Citizen K  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:13:47pm

Of course, what do I see trending on Twitter?

#DemocratsHateAmerica

And a cursory glance shows most of the posts not using it to mock the tag itself, but actually getting behind blaming Dems for this shit, on both sides.

I can’t fucking even.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:13:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:14:49pm

re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

and guns!

oh, wait, too soon…

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:17:10pm

re: #610 Citizen K

Of course, what do I see trending on Twitter?

#DemocratsHateAmerica

And a cursory glance shows most of the posts not using it to mock the tag itself, but actually getting behind blaming Dems for this shit, on both sides.

I can’t fucking even.

Bots. That was trending at 7:30 this morning. About lunchtime in Moscow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:19:22pm

#4 trending on Twitter:
#TrumpLiesAmericansDie

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:21:50pm

re: #586 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think that is what Abbott is saying

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:25:56pm

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If it’s a choice between saving a handful of old geezers and continuing billions of dollars’ worth of corporate stock buybacks, well, that’s a no-brainer…

FUCK HIM … TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!

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Mescalero09  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:31:28pm

Barr looks like something showed up, took his soul, and said “I’ll be right back.”

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BeachDem  Mar 23, 2020 • 4:35:12pm

re: #611 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Now let’s talk about guns…

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2020 • 4:42:06am

re: #419 austin_blue

Well, you can, but it’s hell on your carpets.

Duct tape can’t fix stupid, but it can muffle the sound.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2020 • 5:21:32am

re: #490 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

BLUF: Guy pulls gun on two people at post office because he was afraid of being infected

[Embedded content]

This more polite society is going to get a lot of people killed.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2020 • 6:08:04am

re: #605 Patricia Kayden

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Corporations are people, and those are the people Donny is worried about.


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