As the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, John Oliver discusses President Trump’s inconsistent response to the pandemic, including his suggestion of an Easter deadline for sending America back to work, and his reluctance to use the Defense Production Act.
Meanwhile in Florida https://t.co/qkIWKhymCF
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) March 30, 2020
So, coming back to this…let’s have a hypothetical disease that takes about a week to kill someone and kills 50%. First 2 cases resolve, 1 dead, but they spread to 8 more next week.
You wouldn’t call it a 10% mortality. It’s still 50%, the cases just aren’t closed yet.— jay (@random__name) March 30, 2020
Literal boot fetishists don’t lick boots as much as you do.
— jay (@random__name) March 30, 2020
Let me repeat again, don’t film patients.
Imagine that I am visiting my mother (I can’t visit her right now for obvious reasons), and I find out someone is filming her. I will have words with that person.
The hospital is a good place to have words with someone.— jay (@random__name) March 30, 2020
There are a lot of churches where I live, but thank God there are no megachurches anywhere nearby.
I am also happy my Pastor has been extremely on point with the COVID precautions. We’ve been doing online services for the past three Sundays now. That’s how I know I picked a good church.
By the way, I was always taught the whole “God will multiply your blessings” thing was meant as: “If you work hard and with purpose and you live out your faith well in your daily life, God will reward you for it.”
Not that he would magically make more of something out of thin air.
Religious groups of any denomination are a public health threat when they ignore the public health experts warning to avoid group settings.
This is what caused an outbreak in South Korea - thousands of cases tied to a single church gathering.
We will see the same here in the states. We have seen it with Jewish celebrations (New Rochelle bar mitzvah) being an initial outbreak point, and we’ll see it with Christian gatherings too (cue Liberty U in about a week to 10 days), and we’ll see it with these megachurches that ignore the expert warnings to not hold public gatherings.
The Orthodox Jewish community in Bergen county was on the vanguard telling everyone to stay home and avoid going to shul and to not even attend funerals or shiva calls due to the dangers. Even still there are other communities where they were still holding weddings w/more than 50 people, which is just nuts.
And of course, there are state leaders who think nothing wrong with any of these gatherings.
That’s why when Dr. Brix says that 200,000 dead is if everything goes perfectly, you know damned well it’s going to be much worse than that since nothing has gone perfectly to date and nothing will so long as Trump continues to botch the federal response and leads from behind.
I was talking with colleagues in India, and they were on a total lockdown. No one outside at all except for limited hours to get food and health-related issues. Police enforcement (there are videos of Indian police clobbering people who are out with no excuse). Only one person allowed out any any time for said food/health related trips. No nonessential travel.
All of that would be useful here, but we still have states doing nothing, all while cases are active in their states. This guarantees a worse outcome, especially since we aren’t doing nearly enough testing.
Even if we started doing 45 minute testing tomorrow, it’s not going to be enough to bend the curve.
Cuomo asks nurses and doctors in other areas not impacted to come to NY and help. When we are on the other side of the curve, NY will send our workers to your state.
Cuomo “This is the time for us to help one another.” This is national leadership- shadow president now.— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 30, 2020
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
There are a lot of churches where I live, but thank God there are no megachurches anywhere nearby.
I am also happy my Pastor has been extremely on point with the COVID precautions. We’ve been doing online services for the past three Sundays now. That’s how I know I picked a good church.
The article said that the MegaChurch livestreams so there’s no need to hold services in person. The only real reason for continuing in person services at this time is that they probably pass the plate to collect funds and if the service is online, they will lose that opportunity.
Certainly many parishioners may not be computer literate and so therefore would be deprived of religious observances — but the church should be placing the lives of the congregants first, if they actually cared about them.
re: #5 lawhawk
The Florida pastor who violated orders and held services in a packed church yesterday is now facing arrest. https://t.co/spWXr2mf5K
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 30, 2020
The warrant charges the pastor with reckless disregard for public safety and unlawful assembly in violation of public safety orders, both misdemeanors, according to @HCSOSheriff Chronister.
— Jessica De Leon (@JDeleon1012) March 30, 2020
re: #9 lawhawk
The Florida pastor who violated orders and held services in a packed church yesterday is now facing arrest.
It starts with Religious Persecution and ends with the the Mandatory 666 vaccine!!!
re: #11 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It starts with Religious Persecution and ends with the the Mandatory 666 vaccine!!!
And perhaps following the nut prescription to attempt to spread the virus to law enforcement?
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re: #10 jaunte
Hadn’t realized that Florida had yet implemented a stay at home/social distancing order. Saw something today that the governor had made an announcement of some kind but it sounded more like a recommendation.
Or was this in violation of a County order?
re: #10 jaunte
Ah, yes, apparently this was a county, as opposed to state, order the church and pastor violated.
https://t.co/KQwVqOGiKE oh you fucking know it pic.twitter.com/NZYdh0S52T
— Lauren L Walker (@LLW902) March 30, 2020
re: #12 makeitstop
Claims of ‘religious persecution’ should start any minute now.
It will, and the answer to that charge is that they’re not being stopped because they’re a church. Plenty of churches are having online service. Now, we know that there are areas that don’t have the infrastructure for that, but I doubt those places contain a megachurch.
re: #14 Sir John Barron
Hadn’t realized that Florida had yet implemented a stay at home/social distancing order. Saw something today that the governor had made an announcement of some kind but it sounded more like a recommendation.
Or was this in violation of a County order?
Looks like it’s from Hillsborough County:
hillsboroughcounty.org
re: #18 jaunte
Looks like it’s from Hillsborough County:
hillsboroughcounty.org
yup, thanks
The state of Florida has been pretty far behind in flattening the curve, but the counties have issued their own orders it appears.
re: #19 Sir John Barron
yup, thanks
The state of Florida has been pretty far behind in flattening the curve, but the counties have issued their own orders it appears.
Far too many Republican governors have been willing to do the right thing, but at least there’s only been one Mississippi so far.
re: #20 Belafon
Far too many Republican governors have been willing to do the right thing, but at least there’s only been one Mississippi so far.
Soon there might not be one left…
This is because she is better at politics than you are. https://t.co/gQKOC46O9E
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 30, 2020
re: #22 gocart mozart
This is because she is better at politics than you are. https://t.co/gQKOC46O9E
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 30, 2020
And better at politics than Bernie. She’s working toward real influence and accomplishments in the Democratic Party.
Yikes. Thread.
1-I know I ranted while Trump was speaking with a lot of profanity. I apologize.
To explain why I am so MAD. I am going to share with you the data I see daily for a living and why I think end of April is crazy unrealistic:
Thread:— ALT-immigration 🛂 in profanity anonymous meeting (@ALT_uscis) March 30, 2020
Dictatorship returns to central Europe. https://t.co/o0wmuyLp4q
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2020
Qanon believes in both anti-vax and bleach-drinking. This is nothing new.
— Toddd Nugent (@tN_W_Harmony86) March 30, 2020
And if you get this you still won’t have, FluAnon.
Oy.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 30, 2020
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
The article said that the MegaChurch livestreams so there’s no need to hold services in person. The only real reason for continuing in person services at this time is that they probably pass the plate to collect funds and if the service is online, they will lose that opportunity.
The last three churches I’ve attended all have online tithing options. Heck, two of them would also let you do it by text if you wanted.
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
The last three churches I’ve attended all have online tithing options. Heck, two of them would also let you do it by text if you wanted.
Yeah, but you can’t be pressured by groupthink if you’re at home.
re: #27 Chrysicat
I really don’t understand the end game with the right’s endless hyping of chloroquine. Is it really as simple as them thinking it’ll make Trump look good if he happened to guess which treatment was best?
In Trump’s Sacred Realm of Dream Reality (the one he has been drifting through for more than three years now), he would be the visionary who recommended an quick, cheap and easily available cure to the Covid scourge, and then send us all back to work to set the economy booming again.
re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg
The last three churches I’ve attended all have online tithing options. Heck, two of them would also let you do it by text if you wanted.
Well, yeah, but enough of their folk might be old-fashioned enough to not trust either a credit card or paypal.
I’ll bet some even won’t willingly write a check ‘cause it’s facilitated by the godless government.
re: #6 lawhawk
I was talking with colleagues in India, and they were on a total lockdown. No one outside at all except for limited hours to get food and health-related issues. Police enforcement (there are videos of Indian police clobbering people who are out with no excuse). Only one person allowed out any any time for said food/health related trips. No nonessential travel.
All of that would be useful here, but we still have states doing nothing, all while cases are active in their states. This guarantees a worse outcome, especially since we aren’t doing nearly enough testing.
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Even if we started doing 45 minute testing tomorrow, it’s not going to be enough to bend the curve.
Yup, and people entering the country have been quarantined for 14 days, with a hand stamp (that lasts for at least a few days). A relative returning to India mentioned that the police have been making surprise visits to make sure that they were staying indoors.
re: #22 gocart mozart
This is why, as much as AOC seemed all in on Bernie, she still seemed like someone worth backing because she actually understands politics in a way that some of her colleagues don’t. Incrementalism isn’t a sin, it’s an understanding that you can’t get everything you want all at once, and half a pie is better than no pie at all. Yes, complacency is dangerous, but then so is purity politics. Accept what you can get and keep pushing for the rest so that it can be a reality later. Don’t stomp your feet if you can’t get 100% all at once and demand that the road to getting even part of what you want be torn down and dug up.
AOC has a future ahead of her, which is a lot more than can be said of the folks remaining on the Bern It Down train.
re: #31 Chrysicat
Well, yeah, but enough of their folk might be old-fashioned enough to not trust either a credit card or paypal.
I’ll bet some even won’t willingly write a check ‘cause it’s facilitated by the godless government.
And I don’t think Paypal processes chickens and eggs.
re: #29 Belafon
Yeah, but you can’t be pressured by groupthink if you’re at home.
yes, these Svenghoulis have to be able to look you in the eyes and make you squirm until the only way you can get it to it stop is by forking over the poscreds…
re: #29 Belafon
Yeah, but you can’t be pressured by groupthink if you’re at home.
True, but on the flip side God is supposed to provide. So if the churches did what they were supposed to, they should switch to online services and online giving and trust God to give them what they need. That’s kind of how faith is meant to work.
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
And better at politics than Bernie. She’s working toward real influence and accomplishments in the Democratic Party.
Oh, his job is to “keep it real”. OK, buddy.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
By the way, I was always taught the whole “God will multiply your blessings” thing was meant as: “If you work hard and with purpose and you live out your faith well in your daily life, God will reward you for it.”
Not that he would magically make more of something out of thin air.
Yeah, some people read the whole “loaves and fishes” thing and their inherent desires & magical thinking kicked in, and well, things got out of hand from there.
I’ll avoid digging into the whole medieval trade in indulgences thing, but yeah, the “live out your faith well in your daily life” thing seems to be sadly lacking in the MAGAchurches. How is it that yelling really loud about Jesus in an aggressive way is taken to be a good thing? It’s like religious faith is equivalent to a school pep rally or something.
re: #14 Sir John Barron
Hadn’t realized that Florida had yet implemented a stay at home/social distancing order. Saw something today that the governor had made an announcement of some kind but it sounded more like a recommendation.
Or was this in violation of a County order?
Counties are taking over because Desantis is the governor after all
Much like states vis a vis trump
re: #20 Belafon
Far too many Republican governors have been willing to do the right thing, but at least there’s only been one Mississippi so far.
And Alabama.
What’s Oklahoma doing now?
The man has a type pic.twitter.com/vlKSLmZrpm
— Keith Edwards 🍥 (@keithedwards) March 30, 2020
re: #39 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Counties are taking over because Desantis is the governor after all
Much like states vis a vis trump
Exactly
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
The article said that the MegaChurch livestreams so there’s no need to hold services in person. The only real reason for continuing in person services at this time is that they probably pass the plate to collect funds and if the service is online, they will lose that opportunity.
Certainly many parishioners may not be computer literate and so therefore would be deprived of religious observances — but the church should be placing the lives of the congregants first, if they actually cared about them.
You’d think that they’d be able to figure out putting a PayPal button or link onto the web page. Sheesh. Frictionless payment systems are pretty much what the modern web is built around.
re: #40 Sir John Barron
And Alabama.
What’s Oklahoma doing now?
All I gotta say is Louisiana should be damned thankful they have a Democratic governor right now. I shudder to think how that state would look at the moment if a Republican is still in charge.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
True, but on the flip side God is supposed to provide. So if the churches did what they were supposed to, they should switch to online services and online giving and trust God to give them what they need. That’s kind of how faith is meant to work.
It’s supposed to work that way for toilet paper.
re: #43 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
You’d think that they’d be able to figure out putting a PayPal button or link onto the web page. Sheesh. Frictionless payment systems are pretty much what the modern web is built around.
But then they miss out on the donations from people who think online banking is either of the devil or entirely too risky to use.
re: #29 Belafon
Yeah, but you can’t be pressured by groupthink if you’re at home.
If you have to login to watch, they know who you are
re: #48 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
If you have to login to watch, they know who you are
For most of them, you don’t have to.
“What’s wrong with calling it China virus/Wuhan virus/kung flu/whatever other stupid bullshit racists think is funny?” https://t.co/e9eq2BdL9u
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 30, 2020
Wow. Looks like Putin may be getting serious about Covid-19. Noticed RT (Russia Today) at top right of video:
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If you want to sit through just about any of the major churches’ services, just google them.
Yell or spit at anyone right now - much less in a grocery - and you get what you get…pic.twitter.com/zzJa5PpFir
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 30, 2020
Had a largish box of art supplies turn up on my doorstep on Saturday. Took it in since it was raining and left a message with the apartment leasing office that something had been mis-delivered.* The manager sent me an email that they’d emailed the proper apartment about picking it up.
Now Monday afternoon and I haven’t heard anything. Will probably email the manager back soon since I fill no particular compulsion to haul this box a couple of blocks and have to leave it outside another building.
* - Living here in Hidden Gondolin has the complication that the street address of the building complex has no entrance to the complex on that street. And the complex on the other side of the street has a very similar name, but it’s street number is not clearly displayed. So I’ve seen numerous packages for the other complex turn up here and more than one of my Amazon orders have disappeared into the aether or been marked as “not deliverable”.
re: #41 gocart mozart
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Science Based Medicine has a good critique of the French study.
re: #47 klys (maker of Silmarils)
But then they miss out on the donations from people who think online banking is either of the devil or entirely too risky to use.
I guess. There is a certain portion of the population that refuses to get into ecommerce. For these hateful MAGAchurches, I guess maybe the Venn Diagrams intersect as a circle?
Church near me insisted on holding a choir practice. 45 cases have so far come out of that. I had contact with one of the people who had been there, before anyone knew they were sick. Just saying hi while picking up some wet noms for the felines at the corner Walgreens.
That was it. Seriously. 30 seconds of “Hi howareya.”
NEW: General Electric workers who normally make jet engines have walked off the job to demand that their factories are converted to make ventilators instead https://t.co/mTUjeco2gA
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) March 30, 2020
WTAF
86-year-old patient dies after possible “social distancing” related assault in N.Y. hospital, police say https://t.co/JNVhNYxL0s
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 30, 2020
re: #55 lizardofid
It takes courage to speak the uneasy truth sometime. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says if you’re able to bring your elderly family member home from the nursing home, it would be the safer option.
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There’s a reason most people don’t have that option. They can’t care for a loved one properly. They don’t have the skill or ability to do so.
Or it’s not a safe situation at home.
Or they lack the equipment or space to have them at home properly.
But that they’re warning to take people home if possible is a value signal that it’s going to get dire quickly.
Governor Northam just issued a stay at home order. I’m glad my governor is a former military hospital doctor and not a GOP apparatchik.
From last string:
re: #506 The Pie Overlord!
I just realized “Your high school mascot name” is a security question used by many apps.
— Maria Martin (@Ria_Martin) March 30, 2020
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“Banana Scorpion” I think it would sound better the other way ‘round though.
re: #59 lawhawk
NEW: General Electric workers who normally make jet engines have walked off the job to demand that their factories are converted to make ventilators instead
I was just mentioning this film by a German comedian, Loriot, about a German tank factory that had switched over to making marzipan potatoes for the holiday season…
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
From last string:
“Banana Scorpion” I think it would sound better the other way ‘round though.
Stir-fry Hornet (would also sound better the other way around)
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
The article said that the MegaChurch livestreams so there’s no need to hold services in person. The only real reason for continuing in person services at this time is that they probably pass the plate to collect funds and if the service is online, they will lose that opportunity.
Certainly many parishioners may not be computer literate and so therefore would be deprived of religious observances — but the church should be placing the lives of the congregants first, if they actually cared about them.
Memories when I was forced to go to my Aunt’s Foursquare Church and hear the Pulpit Pimp insist that cash had to be put in the plates. No checks. He also cancelled taking credit cards because too many bounced.
Yep—That Pimp was in it for all that sweet, sweet tax-exempt ¢a$h!
re: #59 lawhawk
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I’m no logistical genius, but I would expect the company can withstand a little lull in jet engine production right now. They would probably be lucky not to be laid off in the coming weeks.
NJ: 37 new deaths & 3,347 new cases in past day; death toll now 198; 16,636 cases statewide
NYC: 1st minor dies from coronavirus in NYC, death toll climbs to 790, citywide cases now 36,221
And Macy’s is furloughing 130,000 workers.
If you thought last week’s unemployment stats were crapulent, you aint seen nothing yet.
All of this could have been mitigated/minimized with Trump following the very protocols his predecessor put together and that the public health experts demanded.
He ignored them and instead took the advice of know nothings like Jared and a law professor who has zero experience in public health or medicine.
i am not having a good day
tech sux
tech support sux worse
almost all tech support i encounter is a catch-22 of one form or another
if your multifactor authentication isnt working you must login to fix it
you need your multifactor authenticator to log in
re: #59 lawhawk
Yup. GE Aviation, West Lynn, is the next town over from me. Maybe Moulton can get off his ass.
re: #70 lawhawk
NJ: 37 new deaths & 3,347 new cases in past day; death toll now 198; 16,636 cases statewide
NYC: 1st minor dies from coronavirus in NYC, death toll climbs to 790, citywide cases now 36,221
And Macy’s is furloughing 130,000 workers.
If you thought last week’s unemployment stats were crapulent, you aint seen nothing yet.
All of this could have been mitigated/minimized with Trump following the very protocols his predecessor put together and that the public health experts demanded.
He ignored them and instead took the advice of know nothings like Jared and a law professor who has zero experience in public health or medicine.
furlough - another word for layoff which is another word for fired
we’re looking at unemployment worse than the depression.
figure 30-50% of all open to the street businesses (ie retail, food, etc) not reopening.
rental real estate ownership is gonna be a bear.
there’s not gonna be new businesses needing all that retail space.
many malls never even recovered from ‘09. they’re gonna be wastelands.
there will be no market to sell to
or any need to build another new one
maybe turn into affordable housing of some kind.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 30, 2020
re: #74 NetworkKed
Does heat deactivate bee/hornet/wasp venom?
these are larvae, I am guessing they do not have stingers or venom glands yet…
Italy reported its lowest new cases in 12 days, so hopefully that is a sign that their lockdown is working.
Spain reports their lowest new cases in 8 days, likewise hopefully indicates their lockdown is working.
re: #47 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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re: #54 gocart mozart
I’m so angry at people who insist on gathering in groups I’m going full anti-social distancing.
re: #75 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
furlough - another word for layoff which is another word for fired
we’re looking at unemployment worse than the depression.
figure 30-50% of all open to the street businesses (ie retail, food, etc) not reopening.
rental real estate ownership is gonna be a bear.
there’s not gonna be new businesses needing all that retail space.
many malls never even recovered from ‘09. they’re gonna be wastelands.
there will be no market to sell to
or any need to build another new onemaybe turn into affordable housing of some kind.
Even after they sound the all clear, people will be staying away from crowded events in large numbers, avoiding amusement parks, movie theaters, concerts, cruise ships and air travel in general.
I wish I lived in a shopping mall
Governor Northam has our various state cabinet members to answer questions on issues relating to it.
re: #80 Rightwingconspirator
I’m so angry at people who insist on gathering in groups I’m going full anti-social distancing.
avoid people.
it’s not just for curmudgeons anymore
re: #79 Ming5000
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I am noticing a huge disparity in the quality of shows broadcasting from home. CBS this morning was super high quality video and audio, like they sent professional equipment to people’s homes, If they didn’t tell you they were working from home you could have assumed they were on a set, where The View it seems like a crappy Zoom meeting with laptop web cams and microphones.
You’d think these people all being fairly wealthy could afford to set up a decent home system at least as good as your typical youtuber. Or maybe the studio could hook them up for decent home broadcasting.
I think it’s totally valid to question who gets ventilators when we run out, if they have been going to church/Trump rallies/beaches/ignoring Shelter in Place orders or not.
Not sure if it’s practical, having doctors check their social media feeds and whatnot to see if they’ve been naughty or nice. Not sure if we’ll get their, but the consideration should be made if it gets dire.
Well, afternoon walk now in delay mode as a thunderstorm is now rolling through.
re: #86 BigPapa
I think it’s totally valid to question who gets ventilators when we run out, if they have been going to church/Trump rallies/beaches/ignoring Shelter in Place orders or not.
Not sure if it’s practical, having doctors check their social media feeds and whatnot to see if they’ve been naughty or nice. Not sure if we’ll get their, but the consideration should be made if it gets dire.
I’m old enough to remember when hospitals had “Ethics Panels” deciding who received kidney dialysis before they enacted Medicare for dialysis patients.
In his last full show fifteen days ago, Limbaugh likened COVID-19 to the common cold.
He just now said it was “pneumonia times ten.” Never said he was wrong about it, either.— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) March 30, 2020
Tragic news to report on the health front:
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, noted war criminal and friend of Mao and the Shah or Iran, is still alive. He is 96.
Rest in peace, SOON.
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I can’t even remember who my high school mascot was lol. I remember what kind of animal it was, but not the actual mascot name.
re: #86 BigPapa
I think it’s totally valid to question who gets ventilators when we run out, if they have been going to church/Trump rallies/beaches/ignoring Shelter in Place orders or not.
Not sure if it’s practical, having doctors check their social media feeds and whatnot to see if they’ve been naughty or nice. Not sure if we’ll get their, but the consideration should be made if it gets dire.
Can’t agree. If Triage is necessary, let’s not base it on ideology. There are MAGA doctors, after all.
re: #74 NetworkKed
Does heat deactivate bee/hornet/wasp venom?
Most venom doesn’t survive digestion to get in the blood stream, they have to be injected under the skin to be effective.
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Tragic news to report on the health front:
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, noted war criminal and friend of Mao and the Shah or Iran, is still alive. He is 96.
Rest in peace, SOON.
at least Francisco Franco is still dead
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t even remember who my high school mascot was lol. I remember what kind of animal it was, but not the actual mascot name.
ours were just generic hornets
re: #85 danarchy
I am noticing a huge disparity in the quality of shows broadcasting from home. CBS this morning was super high quality video and audio, like they sent professional equipment to people’s homes, If they didn’t tell you they were working from home you could have assumed they were on a set, where The View it seems like a crappy Zoom meeting with laptop web cams and microphones.
You’d think these people all being fairly wealthy could afford to set up a decent home system at least as good as your typical youtuber. Or maybe the studio could hook them up for decent home broadcasting.
The camera rental places are mostly shut down, due to cuts in production. 4k online ain’t as easy as you may think. Those YouTubers get help or endure a learning curve before it looks good. Like how to angle all the lights in a 3 light interview configuration.
o keep all the colors broadcast tuned.
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
From last string:
“Banana Scorpion” I think it would sound better the other way ‘round though.
Ambridge PA had no high school mascot. Pitt’s was a Panther…
re: #74 NetworkKed
Does heat deactivate bee/hornet/wasp venom?
dunno.
but meat tenderizer (papain) does
‘Murica:
Residents of a small island in Maine took the coronavirus quarantine matters into their own hands, and potentially broke the law in the process.
Sheriff’s deputies in Vinalhaven, an island town of about 1,100 people, arrived after a man found a downed tree blocking the driveway to a home he shared with two roommates.
“While investigating the downed tree, a neighbor started yelling at him and a group of people showed up and began to gather around,” the Knox County sheriff’s office said in a press release seen by Business Insider, adding that the man told officials that several neighbors displayed guns.
“Believing the group may be there to harm him, [he] fled to his residence and told his roommates what he had found. The trio decided to stay put in the residence, utilized a VHF radio to hail the Coast Guard for assistance, they had no other means of communication, and utilized their drone to keep an eye on the group until law enforcement could arrive to help them,” the statement added.
It turns out the neighbors’ fears over the spread of the novel coronavirus were misinformed, despite the fact that the homes’ occupants were driving vehicles with New Jersey license plates.
[…]
re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
‘Murica:
And this is only week two…the worst is yet to come.
Wrong X 10,000 = Perfect Response
Thirty days ago. Thirty days ago today. pic.twitter.com/EckaI2WcxW
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 30, 2020
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
dunno.
but meat tenderizer (papain) does
Grand Dad would slap his chaw on it. ; )
The MSM wants you to believe:
-Hospitals look like war zones
-Hydroxychloroquine will kill you
-100,000+ Americans are going to die
When in reality:
-Hospitals are empty -Hydroxychloroquine cures the virus
-100,000+ Americans have already recovered
It’s always the opposite.— Educating Liberals ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@Education4Libs) March 30, 2020
Just went to 2 hospitals in LA to check out these “War Zones” the MSM keeps telling us about.🏥
They are very quiet & EMPTY.
We are not being told the truth. Why?? Let’s get #FilmYourHospital trending. We ARE the news now. We can’t trust the news. Post pics of ur hospital here! pic.twitter.com/5AJ5L588lQ— DeAnna Lorraine🇺🇸 (@DeAnna4Congress) March 29, 2020
I’m confused.
We keep hearing #media reports of hospitals at the brink, hallways filled with dead and dying, doctors and nurses collapsing from exhaustion.
And yet, actual reports from the field seem to confirm nothing of the sort. Half empty parking lots, short ER waits.— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 29, 2020
Woke up this morning to checked Facebook and noticed all my conservative family members and friends are posting how the hospitals are empty and there’s “no crisis at the ER.” I checked Twitter and see they got their disinformation from the usual right wing sources.
The man has a type pic.twitter.com/vlKSLmZrpm
— Keith Edwards 🍥 (@keithedwards) March 30, 2020
re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
American’s favorite combo: a misinformed mob armed with weapons.
On February 5th, I sat in a meeting with top Administration officials as Senators pressed them to request emergency funding to hire staff and stockpile supplies for the coming crisis.
They said they had it covered. Didn’t need any additional funding.
What a fatal screw up. https://t.co/SGrH9q7QS7— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 30, 2020
re: #92 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Can’t agree. If Triage is necessary, let’s not base it on ideology. There are MAGA doctors, after all.
It’s not based on ideology, it’s based on behavior and response to orders handed out by government in the best interest of public safety. If you reject those safety measures and increase risk and only seems fair that when choices are made, your own choices are considered.
If there are so many liver transplants to go around and you chose to keep drinking and not get help quitting, the ethics board will def take that into consideration.
10 yrs ago I was in Hungary as a deputy assistant secretary of state, calling out backsliding on human rights & democratic institutions.
People told those of us who were concerned that we were overreacting. We weren’t. Orban’s power play today has been a long time coming. pic.twitter.com/auywKhLxMr— Dan Baer (@danbbaer) March 30, 2020
I know the world is on fire, and we’re not allowed to talk about baking bread on here cos’ it’s super annoying, but… check out the sourdough bread I’ve been baking! (I’ve started making extra loaves for my neighbors.) pic.twitter.com/mdi1oC3aLS
— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) March 30, 2020
Rep. Velázquez represents the NY 7
I have been diagnosed with presumed coronavirus infection. My symptoms are mild. I am isolating myself at my home and following the guidance of the Office of Attending Physician.
My full statement is below. pic.twitter.com/9TgPXoy9dN— Rep. Nydia Velazquez (@NydiaVelazquez) March 30, 2020
It’s #NationalDoctorDay, and there are no words to express our gratitude for all that you do. This leaf from the Arabic version of Dioscorides’ De materia medica (W.675) was copied in 621 AH / 1224 CE in Baghdad, and shows two doctors preparing medicine. https://t.co/O9IPVbINcu pic.twitter.com/0F7z03nrOZ
— Walters Manuscripts (@MedievalMss) March 30, 2020
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
Just went to 2 hospitals in LA to check out these “War Zones” the MSM keeps telling us about.🏥
They are very quiet & EMPTY.
We are not being told the truth. Why?? Let’s get #FilmYourHospital trending. We ARE the news now. We can’t trust the news. Post pics of ur hospital here!
Their Prez told them it was a hoax. Thee people cannot back down, it is part of their identity…
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
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whose hospitals?
re: #104 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wrong X 10,000 = Perfect Response
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But at least we don’t have to worry about Administration officials using unofficial email accounts. https://t.co/2kitednheE
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 30, 2020
Uh oh, Chuck C. Johnson has a new line of work…
Clark County coronavirus cases surge past 100 over weekend https://t.co/HWkMhw6kX8 pic.twitter.com/IQYKK5R9Xs
— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) March 30, 2020
re: #111 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Is it weird enough for you yet?”
Yes, it’s entirely fucking weird enough for me:
my kids used to love those things
re: #65 jaunte
Don’t know about banana scorpions, but here is a banana slug fight song courtesy of the Austin Lounge Lizards:
I just asked my husband if he wanted anything to eat for dinner.
He said, ” What are the choices?”
I replied, ” Yes or fucking no.”— Carleen Ceraldi (@ceraldi_carleen) March 29, 2020
re: #113 Charles Johnson
LOL. I read a thread last night where a dude actually captured/cultivated wild yeast in the English countryside and baked sourdough 6 days later.
This is how far back we have to put the swab to test you for #COVID19.
You might want to follow medical recommendations and #StayHome. pic.twitter.com/gCMqUdpsEk— Jessica Peck, DNP APRN CPNP-PC (@DrPeckPNP) March 29, 2020
Everyone tweeting out pictures of hospitals that look like no one is there (like hospitals don’t have multiple entrances) should be met with that video circulating yesterday of the guy filming outside a hospital (I think Brooklyn) where they were loading bodies into a tractor trailer truck. Fuck these fucking fucks!
Today’s fresh air quota: lunchtime traipse along the wild garlic trail. #Ramsons #AndBreathe #Lunch pic.twitter.com/tbA5Mag40X
— Del Sneddon (@WeeRascal) March 30, 2020
Part of JJ’s COVID-19 Truther thread
While simultaneously peddling the “cure.” https://t.co/DmZRXckmFS
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) March 30, 2020
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
Everyone tweeting out picture of hospitals that look like no one is there (like hospitals don’t have multiple entrances) should be met with that video circulating yesterday of the guy filming outside a hospital (I think Brooklyn) where they were loading bodies into a tractor trailer truck. Fuck these fucking fucks!
If the social distancing works to keep the death toll down, these trolls will claim it proves the virus was no big deal.
Michigan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases up to 6,498; Death toll now at 184 https://t.co/NC8UeKH4Nz
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) March 30, 2020
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
Everyone tweeting out picture of hospitals that look like no one is there (like hospitals don’t have multiple entrances) should be met with that video circulating yesterday of the guy filming outside a hospital (I think Brooklyn) where they were loading bodies into a tractor trailer truck. Fuck these fucking fucks!
It’s silly. The average hospital has people wandering in and out all the time. They are visiting, have an appointment in some specialty department, whatever. This has nothing to do with how many patients are being treated in the hospital. The fact that no one is wandering in or out, or walking down the street is because of hospitals prohibiting visitors and cancelling appointments and things generally being on lockdown.
re: #125 Dread Pirate
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re: #106 DodgerFan1988
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Woke up this morning to checked Facebook and noticed all my conservative family members and friends are posting how the hospitals are empty and there’s “no crisis at the ER.” I checked Twitter and see they got their disinformation from the usual right wing sources.
Try these fuckers in the Hague. Deliberately trying to maximize death tolls on behalf of a foreign enemy is genocide. Advocating it is the crime for which Julius Streicher was lawfully hanged. Follow his path, share his fate.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
Everyone tweeting out pictures of hospitals that look like no one is there (like hospitals don’t have multiple entrances) should be met with that video circulating yesterday of the guy filming outside a hospital (I think Brooklyn) where they were loading bodies into a tractor trailer truck. Fuck these fucking fucks!
Even worse - the video that Starnes took of the hospital where ‘nothing was going on’ - is the same hospital.
The video @toddstarnes took of Brooklyn Hospital’s parking lot to claim “what’s really going on” is nothing at New York City hospitals has 4 million views and 134K shares on Facebook. It’s the same hospital in the viral video of bodies being loaded into a refrigerated truck. pic.twitter.com/j0FO7Gr5Ey
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 30, 2020
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
Woke up this morning to checked Facebook and noticed all my conservative family members and friends are posting how the hospitals are empty and there’s “no crisis at the ER.” I checked Twitter and see they got their disinformation from the usual right wing sources.
This Educating Liberals guy is sure fascinating. I must run out and subscribe to their newsletter.
/
.@NydiaVelazquez says she’s been diagnosed with a presumed case of coronavirus
She was in the room with top House leaders @SpeakerPelosi & @GOPLeader on Friday
She & other N.Y.-ers came to vote after @RepThomasMassie threatened to hold up relief package https://t.co/Op0bF5H6Or— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) March 30, 2020
According to the Kremlin, Trump initiated the phone call. The call addressed:
▪️#coronavirus & “closer interaction between the U.S. & Russia”
▪️oil prices
▪️”some other issues re: bilateral relations”
Trump and Putin “agreed to continue personal contacts.”https://t.co/y8xJSRYM7o— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 30, 2020
Fed reporting that 47 million could lose their jobs, creating a 32% unemployment rate.
re: #135 Sir John Barron
This Educating Liberals guy is sure fascinating. I must run out and subscribe to their newsletter.
/
JFC, if only this asshole had to mimeograph his newsletter and pass it out on the street corner, only 3 people would listen. But in the unregulated world of twitter, he can spread his bullshit with little to no effort.
According to a local doctor:
— the death rate doubling time in Calif slowed to 5 days (more reliable than cases, which depends on testing)
— in San Mateo county, it slowed to 1-2 wks, only 1 death in 4 days. Curve Flattening is happening.
— Of note, in USA doubling remains at 3 days (for many reasons, but largely due to delays in responses such as shelter in place, and disbelief/disinterest of policymakers and citizens. Bay Area led the country in response, so we are seeing results first too).
This seems consistent with data I’ve seen, but I haven’t bothered to run the numbers myself. It’s early days yet, but but I think we’re doing it right.
Of course, what this means is fewer people have gotten sick and there is a large pool of people who can get it as soon as we relax the stay home orders, but I’d like to think someone is working on how to get things up and moving again without a large second wave of covid.
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
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Local authorities better get on this shit quickly. Fucking morons.
It’s hit the fan. Howard-Browne is a major player in Fundy-grift circles and closely connected to Cheeto’s circle of witch doctors.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister announces that an arrest warrant has been issued for pastor Rodney Howard-Browne for repeatedly holding church services in violation of the local safer-at-home order. https://t.co/UUDJp9A1b3 pic.twitter.com/NrW87zMA16
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 30, 2020
re: #141 calochortus
Here in San Diego we have 515 cases, far fewer per 100k population than many counties in the South. We’ve been under lockdown since the governor gave the issue.
Only today did DeSantis give a lockdown order, and that for only a few counties in the southeast part of his state.
Early intervention works.
re: #141 calochortus
According to a local doctor:
This seems consistent with data I’ve seen, but I haven’t bothered to run the numbers myself. It’s early days yet, but but I think we’re doing it right.
Of course, what this means is fewer people have gotten sick and there is a large pool of people who can get it as soon as we relax the stay home orders, but I’d like to think someone is working on how to get things up and moving again without a large second wave of covid.
We’ll need massive testing to isolate the infected and clear the immune.
re: #143 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It’s hit the fan. Howard-Browne is a major player in Fundy-grift circles and closely connected to Cheeto’s circle of witch doctors.
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LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
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“We were able to convince the President to settle for only murdering 200,000 Americans instead of 2 million. And to his credit, he listened.”
How. Is. This. Real. Life? https://t.co/fgoQEhQmNk— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) March 30, 2020
They’re running out for supplies over here at the WH too… pic.twitter.com/m099859NIA
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 30, 2020
re: #146 Eclectic Cyborg
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
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re: #149 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That the GOP forces grown ass adults to play the “look Donny made a poo poo” game just infuriates me.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
Everyone tweeting out pictures of hospitals that look like no one is there (like hospitals don’t have multiple entrances) should be met with that video circulating yesterday of the guy filming outside a hospital (I think Brooklyn) where they were loading bodies into a tractor trailer truck. Fuck these fucking fucks!
And the hospitals they are taking pictures of probably are quite. Their quite because they are in areas that have YET to be hit hard by the COVID-19 virus. Hell, St.Luke’s Magic Valley is taking COVID-19 patients from Blaine County to help ease their patient load because they have the beds available.
Hospitals are not doing electives.
Hospitals are not accepting any visitors except under specific circumstances.
ERs are being cleared out of non-emergency cases (diverted to urgent care centers). Waiting rooms are being cleared.
Why?
Because the same hospitals are overrun by covid19 cases swamping ICUs and staff to the point where they’re converting other parts of the hospitals into covid19 units.
But sure, post a picture of a waiting room with zero context.
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And the hospitals they are taking pictures of probably are quite. Their quite because they are in areas that have YET to be hit hard by the COVID-19 virus. Hell, St.Luke’s Magic Valley is taking COVID-19 patients from Blaine County to help ease their patient load because they have the beds available.
Completely off topic. The other day you posted a pic with you holding some yummy salmon. I wanted to comment then that I really like the top you were wearing. It totally suited you.
re: #106 DodgerFan1988
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if this is a ‘hoax’ it would have to be the largest, best coordinated ‘conspiracy’ of all times - involving multiple governments at all levels around the world. coordination with hospitals, thousands of health care workers, governors, the royal family, and on and on.
millions of people will have volunteered to lose their jobs, businesses, etc and every single one keeping their collective mouths shut
these people are crackpots and asshats
Expect an outburst of caterwauling about “religious freedom,” as well as death threats, from the usual suspects, as though these fanatics’ decisions can outweigh public safety. Well, superstitious mobs aren’t allowed to sacrifice virgins, either (not that they could, this being Florida and all).
re: #154 lawhawk
But sure, post a picture of a waiting room with zero context.
The Bigger Context is that this is all a Liberal Hoax meant to make Trump look bad!
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re: #157 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Charlie Kirk is all over it.
re: #157 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Expect an outburst of caterwauling about “religious freedom” and death threats from the usual suspects, as though these fanatics’ decisions can outweigh public safety. Well, superstitious mobs aren’t allowed to sacrifice virgins, either (not that they could, this being Florida and all).
Do keep in mind that with the exception of the children dragged along, those were all adults who came to the services - people who should know better.
What can be done in the face of such reckless derp?
re: #155 Teddy’s Person
Completely off topic. The other day you posted a pic with you holding some yummy salmon. I wanted to comment then that I really like the top you were wearing. It totally suited you.
Thank you. Purchased it and several others online from rotita.com
Stay tuned, everyone … https://t.co/EWDsmeQhbg
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) March 30, 2020
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Oh wow. Not that long ago he was in the White House standing right behind Trump https://t.co/yMKD9sqL9I pic.twitter.com/malhKuygfW
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) March 30, 2020
WFH moment of the month:
While on a zoom conference on my phone I received a phone call from a local area code. Since my wife has had a lot of medical issues recently I answered putting my Zoom conference on hold. Some guy says, “Did you just call me?”. I course I simply said “No”. The result was a stream of hate about how I was a m***f*** liar. Well, I lost it and launched into a profanity laden stream of anger directed at this guy. Then I realized he had hung up. Uh oh. So my next question was “Did you guys hear that”. There was pause…then a tentative “yes”.
I am still embarrassed days later.
re: #162 Dread Pirate
The distraction Trump has been looking for. :)
re: #164 carey94tt
WFH moment of the month:
While on a zoom conference on my phone I received a phone call from a local area code. Since my wife has had a lot of medical issues recently I answered putting my Zoom conference on hold. Some guy says, “Did you just call me?”. I course I simply said “No”. The result was a stream of hate about how I was a m***f*** liar. Well, I lost it and launched into a profanity laden stream of anger directed at this guy. Then I realized he had hung up. Uh oh. So my next question was “Did you guys hear that”. There was pause…then a tentative “yes”.
I am still embarrassed days later.
Don’t be. If I was on your conference call, my opinion of you would have risen exponentially.
re: #157 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Expect an outburst of caterwauling about “religious freedom,” as well as death threats, from the usual suspects, as though these fanatics’ decisions can outweigh public safety. Well, superstitious mobs aren’t allowed to sacrifice virgins, either (not that they could, this being Florida and all).
can i yell ‘fire’ in a crowded megachurch?
didnt think so
re: #162 Dread Pirate
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Stay tuned, everyone … https://t.co/EWDsmeQhbg
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) March 30, 2020
re: #153 carey94tt
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re: #164 carey94tt
WFH moment of the month:
While on a zoom conference on my phone I received a phone call from a local area code. Since my wife has had a lot of medical issues recently I answered putting my Zoom conference on hold. Some guy says, “Did you just call me?”. I course I simply said “No”. The result was a stream of hate about how I was a m***f*** liar. Well, I lost it and launched into a profanity laden stream of anger directed at this guy. Then I realized he had hung up. Uh oh. So my next question was “Did you guys hear that”. There was pause…then a tentative “yes”.
I am still embarrassed days later.
ok i called you
what did i want?
Markos’s take on the AOC article: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘breaks’ with Bernie because she can do math, and 30% doesn’t win anything.
re: #154 lawhawk
Hospitals are not doing electives.
Hospitals are not accepting any visitors except under specific circumstances.
ERs are being cleared out of non-emergency cases (diverted to urgent care centers). Waiting rooms are being cleared.Why?
Because the same hospitals are overrun by covid19 cases swamping ICUs and staff to the point where they’re converting other parts of the hospitals into covid19 units.
But sure, post a picture of a waiting room with zero context.
Not to mention case concentrations are vastly different by region.
Las Vegas version of caring for the homeless in a pandemic.
Enraging and heartbreaking https://t.co/Dr3WAG6XX6
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 30, 2020
re: #166 Teddy’s Person
Don’t be. If I was on your conference call, my opinion of you would have risen exponentially.
mrs dm was doing a presentation at a client a few months back
using her laptop connected to one of their big screens
i didnt know
i sent her a mushy i love you email. and of course everyone saw it’s arrival - even just the header (it was safe)
she texted me and said she was doing the preso.
so i emailed again and said hi to everyone in the room
Most doctors don’t go to medical school with the expectation that treating patients will mean putting their own lives on the line. But over the last few weeks, that’s what they’ve been doing.
On #NationalDoctorsDay, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all you do.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 30, 2020
re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Do keep in mind that with the exception of the children dragged along, those were all adults who came to the services - people who should know better.
What can be done in the face of such reckless derp?
There is more to it than the well being of the adult marks, who richly deserve whatever happens to them imho. Problem is, they will disperse into the community after infecting each other, with thousands spreading disease where there might only have been dozens.
I’d throw him a going away party
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 30, 2020
re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg
Not to mention case concentrations are vastly different by region.
Even within a city it can have vastly different concentrations.
re: #177 gocart mozart
Lead anchor?
Toilet paper?
Paper towels?
A perfect call?
A copy of his torn up SOTU?
re: #63 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
From last string:
“Banana Scorpion” I think it would sound better the other way ‘round though.
Frittata Cavalier
YAH. American exceptionalism:
More have died from covid19 than Union forces at Antietam.
And we’re already exceeding the 9/11 death toll looking at NYC alone (but we could be past that number by the time I finish writing this).
And we’re already at +700x Benghazi that we all know the GOP were fixated on as a crime or malfeasance requiring multiple hearings.
The horrible thing here is that we need hearings on Trump’s abject failures, but that would imperil those who’d be holding them (and those who’d testify) because of the health crisis entirely of Trump’s doing.
Dim Jim Hoft is now relying on a wackaloon Brit who is trying to tie coronavirus to some alien reptile plot and …
…hey! Why didn’t you other Lizards alert me to this? Dammit!
Jim Hoft promoting a guy who believes that reptilian aliens have replaced our world leaders. why? because the coronavirus, apparently pic.twitter.com/Zy8w1oqTSr
— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) March 30, 2020
re: #177 gocart mozart
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6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
A company in Oklahoma:
One of the few positive things about the Coronavirus pandemic is that it shows us just how greedy, heartless and merciless some corporations can truly be.
For example, we have learned via the Ogle Mole Network that ImageNet Consulting - an Oklahoma City-based “Information Technology Solutions” firm that sells high-dollar copiers, scanners, and IT services to companies all across the country - wanted their remaining employees to forfeit a portion of their April paycheck that is equal to the amount they will receive from their government-issued Coronavirus stimulus payment.
Basically, ImageNet Consulting came up with a plan to pocket their employees’ stimulus checks!
The move came after the company had already conducted mass layoffs as a result of the pandemic. It was first kind of reported by KXAN out of Austin, which is home to an ImageNet Consulting branch.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 30, 2020
re: #177 gocart mozart
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i really dont care, do u?
Paper towels https://t.co/WqElrFYCIq
— Amy Aiello Lofgren (@azsweetheart013) March 30, 2020
re: #187 Eventual Carrion
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I’ve got Summer 2014 lined up for a nice three month vacation. Just gotta crosscheck every place I was that summer so I avoid myself.
Just got an email from the “Family Prepping Association” advertising a “high tech nano-mask” Supplies are limited!
re: #176 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
There is more to it than the well being of the adult marks, who richly deserve whatever happens to them imho.
yes, they should know better
and should also be fined/busted for attending
A choir practiced in Washington March 10th. Now 45 out of the 60 people who practiced have the virus. Just awful.
How obvious is it that singing in a group is a terrible idea during a pandemic??
(My chorus is on indefinite hiatus)
“The Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth referred to social distancers as ‘sissies’ and ‘pansies’ who have been ‘neutered,’ and described Christians who use hand sanitizer as having ‘fake faith’ and ‘no balls.’”
This story is nuts:https://t.co/lJlQS9eAy9— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) March 30, 2020
re: #193 plansbandc
A choir practiced in Washington March 10th. Now 45 out of the 60 people who practiced have the virus. Just awful.
How obvious is it that singing in a group is a terrible idea during a pandemic??
(My chorus is on indefinite hiatus)
How many syllables does “Gloria” have?
According to Catholics, eighteen.
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth referred to social distancers as ‘sissies’ and ‘pansies’ who have been ‘neutered,’ and described Christians who use hand sanitizer as having ‘fake faith’ and ‘no balls.’”
Can this have something to do with God’s Chosen President having called Corona a “hoax”?
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
Anyone who takes Dr. Salk’s “vaccine” hates Jesus and doesn’t want want God’s will to happen. //
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Can this have something to do with God’s Chosen President having called Corona a “hoax”?
I’d say so. Falwell Jr was flaunting the suggested things to do and now Liberty University has fifteen cases in its student body. Falwell Jr may somehow be more more depraved than his old man was and his old man will always be known as the guy who said we deserved 9/11.
Today is the last day to register ONLINE at https://t.co/W0BDmZdsuc. After today, voter reg will be available thru the curbside voting service thru Fri, 4/3 and on #ElectionDay, 4/7.#MadisonVotes2020 #MadisonWI @CityofMadison pic.twitter.com/gX08UczSSS
— Madison WI Clerk (@MadisonWIClerk) March 30, 2020
re: #188 gocart mozart
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“There is no do-over for the November elections … We need to be prepared for a pandemic that disrupts our elections and we need to anticipate what the solution looks like,” Stacey Abrams says. https://t.co/zshIn4qhsv
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 30, 2020
San Diego County coronavirus cases surge past 500
San Diego County reported 31 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, bringing the total to 519. The death toll remained unchanged at seven.
The largest number of cases, 130, was among patients in the 30-39 age range, followed by 107 cases among 20- to 29-year-olds. Only four cases were patients 9 or younger, and 298 of the cases were males.
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Interesting statistic. We’re a county full of retirees, but the young male crowd seems to be the hardest hit.
I’m reminded of those news stories of Navy sailors testing positive.
The young think they’re invincible. Even when I go to the grocery store I see young people walk together, not taking the hand wipes at the door, etc.
Oh, to be young again.
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
There are a lot of leaders that have emerged out of this crisis. I think a generation of politicians will be defined on their actions and rhetoric on COVID-19.
@johnkrasinski #SomeGoodNews Hi John. We as a family have been welcoming our mum home from work as a hero. She is a nurse in the NHS in Britain and is working so hard everyday! We will continue to do this every time she returns home from work. pic.twitter.com/f1o1dq90pq
— Jonathan (@JonAddisonLake) March 30, 2020
Today’s home welcome #somegoodnews #homewelcome #mymumisahero pic.twitter.com/iLN60pHp0E
— Jonathan (@JonAddisonLake) March 30, 2020
Yamiche and Trump pic.twitter.com/LlrLapzVQx
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) March 29, 2020
re: #206 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There are a lot of leaders that have emerged out of this crisis. I think a generation of politicians will be defined on their actions and rhetoric on COVID-19.
I have the best ratings, that woman in Michigan, whatever her name is, no one could have expected this, it’s the Chinese Virus or Wuhan Virus, it’s Obama’s fault.
re: #86 BigPapa
I think it’s totally valid to question who gets ventilators when we run out, if they have been going to church/Trump rallies/beaches/ignoring Shelter in Place orders or not.
Not sure if it’s practical, having doctors check their social media feeds and whatnot to see if they’ve been naughty or nice. Not sure if we’ll get their, but the consideration should be made if it gets dire.
doctors aren’t going to do that, with good reason.
For anyone with a 3D printer, the design is here. The plastic covers I made from empty soda bottles, and they’re held in place with large hair elastics. https://t.co/SqHoMpnmg6
— Daniel Summers (@WFKARS) March 30, 2020
re: #180 lawhawk
Lead anchor?
Toilet paper?
Paper towels?
A perfect call?
A copy of his torn up SOTU?
Two firm middle fingers straight up in the air.
re: #209 Sir John Barron
I have the best ratings, that woman in Michigan, whatever her name is, no one could have expected this, it’s the Chinese Virus or Wuhan Virus, it’s Obama’s fault.
He’s lucky that he takes terrible shape of himself. He’s not going to be alive to see his legacy as the worst POTUS ever but his sons and daughters will be. History isn’t going to be kind to Donald Trump. If he had just put his ego aside and never ran for President, he’d at best be remembered as what would have happened if Father Coughlin had a reality show but he had to run for President.
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
More of this please. A lot more.
KUMAIL I HAVE FOUND A FEEDER FOR YOUR SQUIRREL KUMAIL@kumailn https://t.co/WEKH0ukcvz
— darth™ (@darth) March 30, 2020
Important news - Sully has found a big stick! This good boy has been waiting for his forever home for far too long, and he wants to come home with you! pic.twitter.com/aHOopluRdU
— Nebraska Humane Society (@NEHumaneSociety) March 30, 2020
If you think that China is lying about covid19 and their containment - suppressing the total cases and death toll, but think Trump’s doing a great job here, you might be a Trumpist ignoring facts and logic, because Trump tried the China approach of lying and suppressing testing and minimizing the toll for as long as possible.
As it is, we’re still not testing nearly enough to get containment, and it’s likely that China still has cases despite claiming to have clamped down.
China’s malfeasance doesn’t affect Trump’s performance. He was briefed on this in January. He was briefed in February and downplayed it both times. He is responsible for slow rolling the response, and not using the WHO test, especially when the CDC version ended up having critical faults.
Every day of delay in aggressive testing meant the disease spread undetected, until it reached critical mass.
And now we’ve got a death toll that keeps growing by the day and Trumpists are treating 100,000 dead as a win.
Anything more than 1 is a fucking terrible loss. We couldn’t prevent all the deaths, but we could have prevented the scope and size of the death toll by taking the SK approach. That worked. We see the results. Trump led from the rear and states acted haphazardly and inconsistently - ignoring the experts and far too many delayed.
more looking for furever homes
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— Austin Pets Alive! (@austinpetsalive) March 30, 2020
folks in NY / brooklyn: would anyone like to adopt this little bug? his name is billy bottlebrush and a friend recently rescued him. DM me! pic.twitter.com/HEQq9HP2Vr
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) March 30, 2020
Do art thieves practice social distancing?
Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police and the museum said Monday.
The Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam said that “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884” by the Dutch master was taken in the early hours of Monday. By early afternoon, all that could be seen from the outside of the museum was a large white panel covering a door in the building’s glass facade.
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re: #218 lawhawk
We couldn’t prevent all the deaths, but we could have prevented the scope and size of the death toll by taking the SK approach. That worked. We see the results. Trump led from the rear and states acted haphazardly and inconsistently - ignoring the experts and far too many delayed.
He called it a hoax
He said it was contained
He said it would go away
We cannot let people forget what he said and when he said it.
re: #218 lawhawk
If you think that China is lying about covid19 and their containment - suppressing the total cases and death toll, but think Trump’s doing a great job here, you might be a Trumpist ignoring facts and logic, because Trump tried the China approach of lying and suppressing testing and minimizing the toll for as long as possible.
As it is, we’re still not testing nearly enough to get containment, and it’s likely that China still has cases despite claiming to have clamped down.
China’s malfeasance doesn’t affect Trump’s performance. He was briefed on this in January. He was briefed in February and downplayed it both times. He is responsible for slow rolling the response, and not using the WHO test, especially when the CDC version ended up having critical faults.
Every day of delay in aggressive testing meant the disease spread undetected, until it reached critical mass.
And now we’ve got a death toll that keeps growing by the day and Trumpists are treating 100,000 dead as a win.
Anything more than 1 is a fucking terrible loss. We couldn’t prevent all the deaths, but we could have prevented the scope and size of the death toll by taking the SK approach. That worked. We see the results. Trump led from the rear and states acted haphazardly and inconsistently - ignoring the experts and far too many delayed.
I don’t believe either. Both Trump and Xi are products of the same political culture.
re: #220 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Do art thieves practice social distancing?
Dutch museum says van Gogh painting stolen in overnight raid
Shit.
there are no rules these days. i didn’t even put my collar on today. just walked around the house naked
— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) March 30, 2020
re: #218 lawhawk
Trump does not sit through briefings. He has the attention span of a bedbug. He sends Jared to sit through the briefings and then makes his “decisions” on what he hears on “Fox & Friends”
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
By the way, I was always taught the whole “God will multiply your blessings” thing was meant as: “If you work hard and with purpose and you live out your faith well in your daily life, God will reward you for it.”
But even that is a morally disgusting idea.
“Do good and you will get good stuff [in heaven]” is no better than “do good and you will get good stuff [on Earth]”.
“Do good because it’s the right thing to do — you may be punished for it”.
re: #224 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Shit.
That does suck, but I suspect it will be recovered. Kind of hard to covertly sell something like THAT.
This is Wolfgang. When he was rescued, he weighed 89 pounds. He couldn’t fit through the dog door and could barely walk to the mailbox. Today, less than a year later, he’s down to 52 pounds. He still has a ways to go, but wanted to thank everyone for never giving up on him. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/g9YIIFwSyI
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 30, 2020
they are heroes
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 30, 2020
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
That does suck, but I suspect it will be recovered. Kind of hard to covertly sell something like THAT.
Oh I don’t doubt it. It’s just crazy all that is going on. It’s just. We are all witnessing history here. I’m talking to you all while I listen to an old friend/camp counselor of mine play a Facebook live concert from his yard. Just him and his guitar. I’m in awe all that’s going on.
For those bitching about this delay, please note that Judge Walton is 71 years old and has been one of the DC District judges most willing to take on Executive overreach in recent decades. Let’s keep him safe. https://t.co/ibv69HIWum
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 30, 2020
re: #230 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
These really are fascinating times.
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
The market is there. Just need to find someone willing to pay to put it in a private collection in one of their mansions. Off limits to anyone but the purchaser.
re: #7 jaunte
Cuomo asks nurses and doctors in other areas not impacted to come to NY and help. When we are on the other side of the curve, NY will send our workers to your state.
As is being done in France — patients are transferred from stressed regions (Grande Est, Ile de France) to less heavily impacted regions (and neighbouring countries), simultaneously nurses and doctors volunteer to move to the stressed regions to help reduce the load.
But then, even if you think Emmanuel Macron is an insufferable git, he’s no Donald Trump.
re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter
The only real reason for continuing in person services at this time is that they probably pass the plate to collect funds and if the service is online, they will lose that opportunity.
So people are going to die ‘cos they can’t figure out how to put a donate button on the web app?
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
That does suck, but I suspect it will be recovered. Kind of hard to covertly sell something like THAT.
There’s a good chance that the new ‘owner’ hired the thieves.
re: #235 John Hughes
As is being done in France — patients are transferred from stressed regions (Grande Est, Ile de France) to less heavily impacted regions (and neighbouring countries), simultaneously nurses and doctors volunteer to move to the stressed regions to help reduce the load.
But then, even if you think Emmanuel Macron is an insufferable git, he’s no Donald Trump.
And transferred to Germany where space is available, and supplies from there and Czech Republic and elsewhere are taken where they’re needed by NATO military airlift. There definitely could be better sharing, but there’s more going on than you’d think because they don’t call the TV camera crews in to make sure it hits all the propaganda sites (cough China, Russia cough).
re: #34 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And I don’t think Paypal processes chickens and eggs.
Well, fuck, a gap in the market. I’m sure Ron Paul will be able to find someone to fill that.
Trump testing sanitized masks pic.twitter.com/loIxTLz0V3
— M_A_Arendsen (de Hoog) (@arendsen_a) March 30, 2020
re: #235 John Hughes
Yup. I was reading that the French were using their TGV trains to transport multiple patients to hospitals in less affected areas instead of air flights or ambulances due to the ability to move gear, multiple patients, and with speed. It’s a great use of the infrastructure they have, and it can help spread the load.
Also, having medical help from other areas coming to NYC can help not only ease the load on NYC docs, but there’ll be knowledge transfers that work both ways to help recover people faster. And when the NYC crisis eases, those docs will be able to share their hard learned lessons elsewhere.
NYC has a volume of cases that few other places in the country can match in a normal day.
Because of the impeachment, his golf game was off. When he has a bad game of golf, he pouts and is incapacitated for a week. He can’t rightly prepare for a pandemic when he’s zonked on Adderall and horse horse tranquilizer 24/7. This is all the fault of @SpeakerPelosi
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 30, 2020
re: #238 stpaulbear
There’s a good chance that the new ‘owner’ hired the thieves.
99.99% when a high end masters piece goes missing it’s an order being filled.
Private and fabulously wealthy.
i dont even want to go outside and touch the mail…
buried lede here is that President’s chief of staff has been on the job for a significant period of time while remaining a member of congress https://t.co/iQ8exXrBZO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 30, 2020
re: #244 gocart mozart
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clinton (bill) managed to do his day job no problem
What, did they make him stand in a corner the whole time https://t.co/CUzlQqWmP3
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) March 30, 2020
All this talk about expanding mask usage. Where the fuck are all these extra masks going to come from???
re: #244 gocart mozart
Trump’s hostility towards democratic institutions remains the things that most infuriates me about the man and man there is a lot.
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
That does suck, but I suspect it will be recovered. Kind of hard to covertly sell something like THAT.
I’m sure MbS already has it hanging in one of his yachts.
re: #250 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump’s hostility towards democratic institutions remains the things that most infuriates me about the man and man there is a lot.
Agreed.
re: #57 JC1
Science Based Medicine has a good critique of the French study.
It has a good critique of the study, attached to an increasingly hysterical hatchet job.
(Disclaimer — I’m pretty sure the “study” is crap, and the larger follow up one is even crappier (no control group!) but the SBM critique rapidly veers into Ad Hominem territory).
re: #248 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
clinton (bill) managed to do his day job no problem
Nixon was doing tons of foreign policy shit during the Watergate investigation. Trump’s defense seems to be “I couldn’t multitask!” Yeah you couldn’t. That’s why our employers often ask us in job interviews how you handle multitasking but not all of us were scions of a Queens slumlord that loaned his brat a “modest” million dollars in the mid 70’s.
Lifting sanctions on Russia would be a disastrous mistake as long as Putin keeps fighting a war in Ukraine and interfering in our elections. Congress must legislate that Russia sanctions remain in place until the IC determines Russia has pulled all troops from Ukraine. https://t.co/Z9CouosOmZ
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) March 30, 2020
. @realDonaldTrump, you implied something today which made me think -
If 1000 nurses (say 2 hospitals in NYC) treat 30 patients a day and change their masks per safety guidelines each time, that’s 30K masks. Over a 10 day period, that’s 300K masks. No conspiracy, just math.— Lou Diamond Phillips (@LouDPhillips) March 29, 2020
re: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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‘but he wasnt taking a paycheck’
on which the constitution is clear - that’s irrelevant
their argument: mulvaney is still the ‘official’ cos
of course they could run that argument for months if they wanted
just another clause the framers knew what they wanted and never figured anyone would… you know
oh, and at this moment, mulvaney has three jobs
- director of omb
- cos
- Special Envoy Designate to Northern Ireland awaiting confirmation
buried lede here is that President’s chief of staff has been on the job for a significant period of time while remaining a member of congress https://t.co/iQ8exXrBZO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 30, 2020
re: #228 Eclectic Cyborg
That does suck, but I suspect it will be recovered. Kind of hard to covertly sell something like THAT.
Tell that to the Isabella Stewart Gardener museum.
Lemmings:
Crowds of gawkers ignored New York’s social-distance regulations and packed the west side of Manhattan on Monday to watch a US Navy hospital ship arrive to give badly needed coronavirus aid.
The throngs of people stood shoulder to shoulder and took photos of the USNS Comfort as it pulled into Pier 90 near West 50th Street at about 10:40 a.m., photos of the scene show.
Some waved American flags and others huddled against one another at the fence of the pier. Meanwhile, joggers out for a morning run brushed past the onlookers.
At least a dozen NYPD cops stood by and initially did not disperse the bone-headed bystanders as they gathered and snapped cellphone photos of the ship pulling into the pier.
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, noted war criminal and friend of Mao and the Shah or Iran, is still alive. He is 96.
Please stop trying to blacken the names of Chairman Mao and the Shah by associating them with this murderer.
½ /s
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t even remember who my high school mascot was lol. I remember what kind of animal it was, but not the actual mascot name.
What is a “high school mascot”?
re: #261 John Hughes
What is a “high school mascot”?
High schools here in the US typically have nicknames and an accompanying mascot. My high school’s was the hornet. Just a way of making the local high school sports games more entertaining.
re: #93 The Pie Overlord!
WHY ISN’T RUSH DEAD ALREADY?
Because you, and all other reasonable people, aren’t.
you first
“Death is an unavoidable part of life,” says GOP Sen. Ron Johnson as he calls on reopening parts of the American economy to avoid throwing it into a recession. https://t.co/bhZCEnQTPE
— essenviews (@essenviews) March 30, 2020
re: #242 Mescalero09
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re: #89 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I’m willing to wager that stage 4 lung cancer has made breathing a bit more difficult.
re: #238 stpaulbear
There’s a good chance that the new ‘owner’ hired the thieves.
I dunno: if they did, they were certainly doing things on the cheap: from the account of that theft (guy smashes a window, runs in and grabs the painting, runs out ahead of the 5-0), it doesn’t sound like the sort of sophisticated heist one would expect from the usual black-market/Black Museum “collector”. More probably just some opportunistic local mook: but who knows…..?
re: #111 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Such genius being used in the cause of evil.
re: #93 The Pie Overlord!
Only the good die young.
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers’ safety concerns https://t.co/6DKfGn5Ko5 via @usatoday
— zoe (@zoegem) March 30, 2020
re: #136 Teddy’s Person
“Try these fuckers in the Hague”.
You do understand that the ICC only tries cases that national jurisdiction refuse to handle, right? It’s a backstop, only used when the national court system has failed.
Do you think the US court system has collapsed?
re: #163 lawhawk
He will be made a martyr by Fox News. Just watch.
Every Picture Tells A Story. pic.twitter.com/OBnTliqbVY
— D.K.R. Boyd (@ReflectingMan) March 30, 2020
John Oliver gives shoutout to Kentucky ASL interpreter Virginia Moore https://t.co/YRjEsNP0DT
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) March 30, 2020
“We know how to bring the economy back to life. What we do not know is how to bring people back to life.”
Nana Akufo-Addo
President of Ghana#Coronavirus— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) March 30, 2020
re: #141 calochortus
According to a local doctor:
Frankly I think he’s overoptimistic. It’s too soon.
re: #167 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
can i yell ‘fire’ in a crowded megachurch?
Can you yell “COVID-19”?
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
recessions are an unavoidable part of life
“Death is an unavoidable part of life,” says GOP Sen. Ron Johnson as he calls on reopening parts of the American economy to avoid throwing it into a recession. https://t.co/bhZCEnQTPE
— essenviews (@essenviews) March 30, 2020
Do we have reliable numbers on recoveries yet? I see that we have positive/negative tests and hospitalizations/deaths, just wondering if we have any idea on what the recovery curve looks like.
One sign of the impact of the coronavirus and stay-at-home orders on law enforcement: Here are the number of daily traffic stops in Baltimore. pic.twitter.com/1witTGIt8W
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) March 30, 2020
re: #177 gocart mozart
How quickly can Amazon deliver an Anvil these days? I have Prime.
I thought Hillary was already in GITMO and/or executed? Is this her clone and/or android tweeting out the secret signals?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 30, 2020
That is an increase of 40 cases since yesterday at 5pm. Not sure if you can draw conclusions from this yet, but the Monday and Sunday totals combined are less than Saturday’s.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) March 30, 2020
LaTasha says you can go out of state for your job, for your health care, to care for loved one or for vital necessities. You can’t go for pedicures or your favorite barber, stuff like that.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) March 30, 2020
Beshear says he’s been told that Tennessee is about to announce some new restrictions, but northern Tennessee counties on Kentucky’s border are having an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) March 30, 2020
re: #282 John Hughes
How quickly can Amazon deliver an Anvil these days? I have Prime.
Not sure but my orders for a UV light and my 70% alcohol orders seem to be tied to one. /
President Trump is now in the Rose Garden with a coronavirus test that is said to be a rapid test approved recently by the FDA.
According to The NY Times, Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, a Democrat, told Trump today that his state still doesn’t have an adequate number of tests. pic.twitter.com/zDUp2Hyf7r— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 30, 2020
Beshear announces 42 new confirmed cases, with Kentucky’s total rising to 480. Beshear says we’re not going to have too many days with that few new cases over the next two weeks.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) March 30, 2020
re: #261 John Hughes
What is a “high school mascot”?
Colleges also have mascots. One of the best imho is the Banana Slug from the University of California/Santa Cruz. This was the result of a student election, in which the facetious banana slug entry ended up winning. This was duly adopted, after some spoil-sport attempts to invalidate the result
.At last, something he’s qualified to do.
— Four Legsgood (@4lgsgood) March 30, 2020
trump stops mid-sentence telling the American people what his administration has done to talk about his hair. You can’t make this s**t up folks. 😃 #CoronaVirusUpdate
— thefieldnegro (@fieldnegro) March 30, 2020
re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And the hospitals they are taking pictures of probably are quite. Their quite because they are in areas that have YET to be hit hard by the COVID-19 virus. Hell, St.Luke’s Magic Valley is taking COVID-19 patients from Blaine County to help ease their patient load because they have the beds available.
A bit late, but important…
Hospitals are closing all entrances except for 1 to allow screening of temperatures prior to entry. So, yes, entrances will be closed. My brother is an essential healthcare worker. This protocol was put in place 3 weeks ago for his safety and everyone else’s safety.
Either ignorance or malice is driving this latest right wing nonsense. Like most things from them, probably an unholy miasma of both.
Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren’t taking this seriously enough.
Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020
note the date above
On February 5th, I sat in a meeting with top Administration officials as Senators pressed them to request emergency funding to hire staff and stockpile supplies for the coming crisis.
They said they had it covered. Didn’t need any additional funding.
What a fatal screw up.
while
The Pentagon has ordered an additional 8,000 ventilators, with delivery of the first 1,400 by early May. The $84.4 million order was placed with several suppliers under existing Defense Logistics Agency contracts.
s.
Worrisome sign:
New Mexico Governor @GovMLG: “We’re seeing doubling in every day-and-a-half.” “And it could wipe out those tribal nations.”
President Trump: “…about the Navajo Nation. I’ve been hearing that.”
(@edokeefe obtained conference call tape)https://t.co/4wAXwkWWa2— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) March 30, 2020
There are dozens of resellers selling garbage disinfectant wipes and sanitizers on Amazon.
re: #272 John Hughes
“Try these fuckers in the Hague”.
You do understand that the ICC only tries cases that national jurisdiction refuse to handle, right? It’s a backstop, only used when the national court system has failed.
Do you think the US court system has collapsed?
For this it has.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is now doing YouTube unboxing videos?
“Here’s your test kit, an some gloves, a spritzer, and a mask.
OH! What’s this? I bet I can tell what this!!! IT’S A MY PILLOW!!!! OH BOY OH BOY ON BOY, AND I HEARD IT STOPS THE VIRUS DEAD.”
President Trump at the coronavirus briefing just now reiterated that his hair is his.
He said: My hair is blowing in the wind and it’s mine. That’s one thing you can’t get away with if you’re president.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 30, 2020
re: #262 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
High schools here in the US typically have nicknames .
Ah, my high school’s nickname could have been “the rioting mob”. I don’t think we had a mascot, unless maybe somebody kidnapped one of the scum from Dulwich College Prep next door and kept them in a cage.
Which we did not do to that little Nazi shit, Farage. I swear.
OMG they have the fucking My Pillow guy on here….
Any woman who wants to go into a doctor’s office or a clinic and get an abortion should continue to be able to do so. Control over one’s reproductive freedom should not be limited to those able to leave their homes as we battle the #coronavirus.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) March 30, 2020
re: #299 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Did he bring his crack pipe?
Omg, I was just kidding! https://t.co/SfylMTZHMg
He’s actually there! https://t.co/NrGTNdRpcQ— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 30, 2020
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
I really think it’s way past time for every media outfit (except Fox News, obviously) to boycott Trump. No live TV coverage of anything he does. Nobody needs to see his lies and bullshit in real time.
OMG! The “My Pillow” guy if licking Trumps boots.
To his credit though, he sez he’s turned 90% of his manufacturing to making masks. He’s suited for it.
We’ve arrived at the Trump shouts out random private companies portion of the briefing pic.twitter.com/N9zn3UwqGB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2020
Trump promises that more ventilators will produced than are needed in the US. He says we’re going to be sending them to Italy, Spain and France. He says he’s already told Italy we’re now sending $100M worth of: “things. Surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 30, 2020
re: #304 Dave In Austin
OMG! The “My Pillow” guy if licking Trumps boots.
To his credit though, he sez he’s turned 90% of his manufacturing to making masks. He’s suited for it.
its a fucking pandemic and they’re putting their time and effort into staging these ‘pressers’
re: #304 Dave In Austin
OMG! The “My Pillow” guy if licking Trumps boots.
To his credit though, he sez he’s turned 90% of his manufacturing to making masks. He’s suited for it.
“WE’LL JUST SHOVE CHUNKS OF CUT UP MEMORY FOAM AND STICK THEM IN OUR ORIFICES! AND THEY ARE TREATED WITH ALEX JONES MEGA SILVER MYSTERY SALVE OF THE MAYAN GODS TOO!’
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just three days ago he was acting as if two ventilators was enough. Hell of a thing.
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
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italy before michigan?
Trump promises that more ventilators will produced than are needed in the US. He says we’re going to be sending them to Italy, Spain and France. He says he’s already told Italy we’re now sending $100M worth of: “things. Surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 30, 2020
“surgical and medical and hospital things”
The President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen.
re: #304 Dave In Austin
OMG! The “My Pillow” guy if licking Trumps boots.
To his credit though, he sez he’s turned 90% of his manufacturing to making masks. He’s suited for it.
The White House press briefing now includes a commercial for My Pillow https://t.co/bpHTA4ykiX
— Alexis Goldstein 🏳️🌈 (@alexisgoldstein) March 30, 2020
Yeah, give us 100 years for this one. I just can’t right now.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 30, 2020
Conservative pastor says coronavirus spreading in synagogues is God’s punishment to Jews for ‘opposing’ Jesus Christ
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“We’ve arrived at the Trump shouts out random private companies portion of the briefing”
I believe in the radio biz that’s referred to as “dollar a holler” !
The Rose Garden press conference is now just a series of pitches from corporate leaders about their companies’ histories and the products they normally sell.
Is … is Trump going to present one of them with a rose at the end? Is that why they staged this here?— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 30, 2020
re: #281 Dread Pirate
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Well, you gotta have traffic to make traffic stops: and if Baltimore is anything like NYC, the streets are likely to be pretty empty.
It is eerie walking around the City streets with virtually no vehicles on them: I went out grocery shopping this afternoon, and the mid-day traffic level was like 4:00am-on-a-holiday-weekend-before-a-blizzard light.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, I guess separation of church and state is officially over.
If he starts to pray we all know we’re in trouble
— Rich Feinstein (@RichardFeinste2) March 30, 2020
Yesterday, Pres Trump denied saying governors might not need some of the equipment requested.
This morning, Trump on Fox repeated that claim & again questioned states’ asks for supplies. “NY should be fine. Based on the numbers that we see, they have more than enough,” he said.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 30, 2020
“The president has called for the entire nation to shelter in place for at least another 30 days. Trump managed to muddy the message with a startling and unfounded accusation against hospital workers amid an ongoing outcry… for more protective equipment” - @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/P5ItBFx72G
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 30, 2020
BUT, BUT, BUT…EASTER!!11!!!
re: #320 Dread Pirate
Trump really shouldn’t talk about ‘numbers’. His personal skill with numbers most likely goes “1, 2, many” very fucking slowly.
Is the My Pillow Guy there to distribute pillows for people to use his pillows to suffocate other people?#BecauseTrump
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) March 30, 2020
As I said this morning, I want to make something clear to those who are at high risk for #COVID19:
I see you & I am fighting for you. Your health is of the utmost importance to me. When I said we’re going to get through this together, I meant it.
You matter. I’ve got your back. pic.twitter.com/KJK4Cad2e3— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) March 30, 2020
Two days ago, I tweeted this.
Right now, Trump has the My Pillow guy speaking in the Rose Garden. https://t.co/tGYtidILaM— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 30, 2020
re: #240 ericblair
And transferred to Germany where space is available,
And Switzerland.
Germany has also taken cases from Italy to reduce stress there.
Thanks Mutti. (And the people that support her).
Is this a press conference about a pandemic or the fucking Home Shopping Network?#StopAiringTrump
— Edan Clay 🇺🇸 (@EdanClay) March 30, 2020
Arizona’s governor has declined to close restaurant dining rooms, listed hair salons and golf clubs as essential businesses, and barred mayors from issuing stay-at-home orders.
The state’s emergency management director resigned in protest over the weekend.https://t.co/u59aJjxtEW— Hannah Dreier (@hannahdreier) March 30, 2020
Hey, cable news executives, no one’s paying you for these corporate advertisements.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 30, 2020
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
We have our second Mississippi.
Your moment of Virginia Zen pic.twitter.com/bBmQloJoGf
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) March 30, 2020
So we have an ex-crackhead evangelical pillow huckster as part of a virus take force?
I just can’t any more… pic.twitter.com/u8UPNGccsy— Speculawyer 🇳🇴-American (@speculawyer) March 30, 2020
Reminder: We live tweet these clips to fact them.
Trump has the My Pillow guy (Mike Lindell) briefing the nation on the pandemic. Lindell gave $100,000 to the Trump Victory committee in 2018. pic.twitter.com/bNAS9qCgeu— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) March 30, 2020
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republican governors are stepping all over themselves, to be determined worthy of Trump’s praise.
Next up, Ted Nugent as head of the Industrial Grade Adult Diaper Response Team.
Really, at this point, even the weak excuse that carrying these “briefings” is supposed to be about informing the public is demonstrably bullshit. Trump was right, the media keeps showing up and broadcasting this shit live for ratings, and he keeps doing them because he craves the attention. Every 2 hour “briefing” should be reported by these networks to the FEC as an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign.
JFC I just happened to turn on this latest clown show right in the middle of the OANN dimwit comparing the pandemic to abortion. Why is this timeline so stupid?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2020
White House witch-doctor Rodney Howard-Browne has brought in the heavy guns to defend him after his arrest.
Liberty Counsel is representing Rodney Howard-Browne after his arrest and claiming that his church “took extra precautions” during yesterday’s service. Really? Do you see any staff wearing gloves or congregants standing six feet apart? pic.twitter.com/WKS8V9boRz
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 30, 2020
re: #338 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
White House witch-doctor Rodney Howard-Browne has brought in the heavy guns to defend him after his arrest.
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Don’t worry, they’ll claim they had some magic machines that were supposed to kill the virus dead the moment it left any infected congregants, thus everybody was totally “safe.”
A month ago no one ever heard of the virus?
This was Trump’s own tweet from *two* months ago. pic.twitter.com/3iTwS27i6Z— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 30, 2020
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Tragic news to report on the health front:
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, noted war criminal and friend of Mao and the Shah or Iran, is still alive. He is 96.
Rest in peace, SOON.
I’ve often joked about Franco, Pinochet, Reagan and Thatcher being roommates in hell. For whatever reason, I never though Nixon deserved to be with them. But Kissinger? I will dance when he goes to his allies in hell.
Notice how they cut off the mic as soon as a reporter asks a question about one of his fucked up statements. Then Trump rants uninterrupted at them while they just sit there.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2020
I can’t wait for the ‘sovereign’ videos related to this
This is what is coming to I-95 in Florida. Checkpoints already set up on I-10 near Alabama. FL Governor says they are enforcing a 14 day quarantine for anyone from NY, Louisiana, or other COVID-19 hot zone states.
Thanks for the pictures @LindseyGirardi . pic.twitter.com/o2qMOcjpGH— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) March 28, 2020
Semi trucks go through a different lane and do not have to stop or be questioned.
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) March 28, 2020
re: #338 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
White House witch-doctor Rodney Howard-Browne has brought in the heavy guns to defend him after his arrest.
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That’s going to be a helluva fight for the local DA. I hope he/she along with the assigned judge dunks on those fucks.
Meanwhile I had a pair of chicken thighs marinating most of the day in plain old “zesty italian salad dressing”. Now they’re in the air fryer and after I flip them I’ll start the water for the instant mashed potatoes along with some corn. Should be a decent little meal. Then since it’s after 5 here, beer & rum.
Coronavirus has now killed more Americans than 9/11.https://t.co/6pMVyqTV0K
— We need #TestAndTrace 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 30, 2020
This was going to happen sooner or later https://t.co/ECiRwH2I8n
— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) March 30, 2020
re: #343 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I can’t wait for the ‘sovereign’ videos related to this
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They are telling that to down state New Yorkers heading upstate to their camps in the Adirondacks. If the down staters were smart they would take off their license plate covers informing everyone what Long Island dealership they bought their BMW or Mercedes from.
re: #338 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Liberty Counsel is representing Rodney Howard-Browne after his arrest and claiming that his church “took extra precautions”
They invoked the protection of God. What more could they have done?
U.S. crude prices at Texas slide to near $10, lowest since late 1998 https://t.co/qlCvObnkWD pic.twitter.com/SF59Ma3gkv
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 30, 2020
Western Canada Select: $53 a barrel a year ago. $4 today.
It. Makes. Your. Jaw. Drop. pic.twitter.com/KXnvGscSxS— Derek DeCloet (@decloet) March 30, 2020
You should have the sound on, as you may not be able to see it
This is funny - I’ll get shut down or done warning after this, but I laughed a lot and we need that pic.twitter.com/QjuZdDgQdR
— Ryan Ramsey (@ryanramsey14) March 30, 2020
re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg
There are dozens of resellers selling garbage disinfectant wipes and sanitizers on Amazon.
I’ve quit signing in to Amazon because it’s been too disgusting and depressing. Everything I look for is overwhelmed by scammers and trash or isn’t available until Mid May. I’m not a Prime member so they don’t even think about shipping anything to me.
re: #346 DodgerFan1988
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FFS, when I was talking this morning, I genuinely didn’t think we’d reach that marker before Friday.
He stalks off immediately after ranting insanely at Yamiche Alcindor again. pic.twitter.com/zKJDcZifKd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2020
re: #351 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
See, COVID-19 is not all bad news.
re: #355 Charles Johnson
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It’s 2016 all over again, the corporate media acting like a battered spouse, continually going back to be beaten up because “HE CAN CHANGE! I KNOW HE CAN!!!”
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe we should close our border with Arizona. Half sarc
Trump explains that he accused nurses and New York officials of misappropriating masks because he was told that was happening by an unnamed “tremendous power in the business” pic.twitter.com/9ANcq2AfCz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 30, 2020
re: #277 John Hughes
Frankly I think he’s overoptimistic. It’s too soon.
To some extent, yes it is too soon. Deaths are a lagging indicator, but it’s still encouraging. He’s telling us to keep up the good work, not to all get together and breathe on each other.
re: #360 Patricia Kayden
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Trump is pathetic and anyone who watches these performances and sees leadership is doubly pathetic. I hate this timeline. I want to be in the one where the email lady is in charge.
Today’s case update says while we may be flattening the curve it’s not as flat as I’d like, although they caution that it includes some cases that were not reported over the last two days. But still, 202 new cases and 3 new deaths is not great news. (We are at 28 total deaths in the county now; I will say the death doubling rate hasn’t been awful, at least.)
We hadn’t broken 100 new cases in a day in the county.
Tonight marks two weeks since the shelter in place order started. Over two weeks for some of the intermediate steps they took though, like no gatherings over 1k and aiming for 6ft distance in things like restaurants, etc. Also over two weeks since a lot of the major tech companies switched to work from home.
re: #330 Belafon
We have our second Mississippi.
Hell, even in my part of Mississippi we’ve closed restaurant dining rooms and shuttered all the Casinos.
New: Trump has been nudging MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to run for Governor of Minnesota. @dlippman @tina_nguyen scoop https://t.co/ZhMjJziUqv
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 30, 2020
What a brittle yet super-needy dirtbag. He should just hand his wig over to Yamiche. https://t.co/LYfNUoCRJ7
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2020
In tonight’s news: Irony reported missing, presumed dead…
Florida governor does not want passengers on virus-hit cruise ship ‘dumped’ in Floridahttps://t.co/w1cr8HKxiC
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 30, 2020
“We view this as a big, big problem and we do not want to see people dumped in southern Florida right now,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told Fox News. “I’m in contact with the White House on this.”
re: #369 Targetpractice
He’s just fine with exporting the virus to other states though, that’s why they had to stay open for spring break.
re: #317 Jay C
Well, you gotta have traffic to make traffic stops: and if Baltimore is anything like NYC, the streets are likely to be pretty empty.
It is eerie walking around the City streets with virtually no vehicles on them: I went out grocery shopping this afternoon, and the mid-day traffic level was like 4:00am-on-a-holiday-weekend-before-a-blizzard light.
Vehicle and pedestrian traffic on my street seems to have increased during the shut down. My house is about two blocks from the paved trail system along the Mississippi River so there are a lot of walkers and bikers going by while I’m stuck at my work computer all day.
re: #370 klys (maker of Silmarils)
He’s just fine with exporting the virus to other states though, that’s why they had to stay open for spring break.
Nah, they had to stay open for spring break the same reason that our own beaches here in Va Beach were open until today: Tourism dollars. When your state relies upon a flat sales tax to fund its budget, welcoming thousands of potential plague rats to party on your beaches is seen as “better” than blowing a massive hole in next year’s budget.
re: #38 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
It’s like religious faith is equivalent to a school pep rally or something.
I think you are on to something there.
Like wing nuts, it is never about being objectively correct, it is always about being on the right team.
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve Marmel
✔
@Marmel
Is the My Pillow Guy there to distribute pillows for people to use his pillows to suffocate other people?#BecauseTrump
Seennnd Meeeee
the pillow
I can die on….
re: #351 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Meanwhile, gas in CA is still ~ 3 bucks a gallon.
re: #371 stpaulbear
Vehicle and pedestrian traffic on my street seems to have increased during the shut down. My house is about two blocks from the paved trail system along the Mississippi River so there are a lot of walkers and bikers going by while I’m stuck at my work computer all day.
I run …a lot… and there are definitely more people out doing physical activity right now. Which makes sense, because it’s one of the few things allowed to get out of the house, so long as you maintain your 6ft from others.
Because of that, I’m actually avoiding my normal multi-use trail because it’s harder to keep that personal space bubble when the trail is busy. There’s relatively less traffic on the normal roads and so far I’ve only been nearly hit once (today! DUDE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROSSWALK WHEN YOU STOPPED AT THE STOP SIGN AND THEN YOU STARTED REVVING TO GO FORWARD WHEN I WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WTF ahem.) so …there’s that.
Doing loops around the neighborhood isn’t the most fun but it’s better than in the backyard, so… (I have a 2.62 mile loop, which is extremely convenient for either half or full training, and then a 3.25 mile loop, which is great for a 5 or 10k.)
re: #372 Targetpractice
Nah, they had to stay open for spring break the same reason that our own beaches here in Va Beach were open until today: Tourism dollars. When your state relies upon a flat sales tax to fund its budget, welcoming thousands of potential plague rats to party on your beaches is seen as “better” than blowing a massive hole in next year’s budget.
Must not be enough tourism dollars on that boat then.
re: #370 klys (maker of Silmarils)
He’s just fine with exporting the virus to other states though, that’s why they had to stay open for spring break.
Republicans everywhere are dirtbags. Trump is just the most obvious of the lot.
We’re SCREAMING at this guy’s Tiger King parody 💯😂 pic.twitter.com/wi3KcNzwSf
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 30, 2020
Trump just said Seoul has “38 million people” in it. That’s such an oddly wrong and yet specific number, I did a google search for Seoul. pic.twitter.com/iuK0g6iBSo
— Adam Bates (@AdamTaylorBates) March 30, 2020
re: #377 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
How much of that is taxes?
A quick look online showed about $0.75 per gallon in state and federal tax.
re: #376 EPR-radar
Meanwhile, gas in CA is still ~ 3 bucks a gallon.
Sure, but I haven’t had to fill up yet in the month of March, so…
(If we have driven 100 miles since getting home from vacation I will be surprised and that includes the three days he went into the office before switching to work from home.)
re: #383 EPR-radar
A quick look online showed about $0.75 per gallon in state and federal tax.
Right. So that $1.56 in Oklahoma means we are under a dollar a gallon outside of taxes. How crazy is that?
re: #379 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Must not be enough tourism dollars on that boat then.
Nah, it’s because the only destinations for those passengers is isolation or an ICU. IOW, he just sees them as a drain on the state’s resources. But young, dumb college students? They’re still welcome to come down and burn their money…just so long as they don’t come from Louisiana or New York.
re: #369 Targetpractice
In tonight’s news: Irony reported missing, presumed dead…
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I don’t know why someone can’t figure out which areas/hospitals have spare capacity and get the sick people there NOW. It may or may not have been foolish to go on a cruise when they did, but we need to take care of them.
So right when we can’t go anywhere, gas is cheap.
Digital facepalm.
re: #388 Targetpractice
Nah, it’s because the only destinations for those passengers is isolation or an ICU. IOW, he just sees them as a drain on the state’s resources. But young, dumb college students? They’re still welcome to come down and burn their money…just so long as they don’t come from Louisiana or New York.
He must be kicking himself for not finding a way to charge sales tax on hospital bills. Just think of how much you could get off those ICU visits!
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(You know Republicans would love to.)
re: #390 Rightwingconspirator
So right when we can’t go anywhere, gas is cheap.
Digital facepalm.
I was just thinking the same thing: Gas is cheap and I’ve got an extra day off each week, but I can’t go anywhere and I don’t burn enough gas going to and from work to really notice much savings.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
😂😂 Not really funny, pathetic, but…
But, it’s A DRY obliviousness.
— Paul Saltzman (@leonfromb) March 30, 2020
re: #393 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
😂😂 Not really funny, pathetic, but…
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Hey, I laughed. Dark humor is my jam.
re: #390 Rightwingconspirator
So right when we can’t go anywhere, gas is cheap.
Digital facepalm.
Well, that’s part of the reason it’s cheap. No one is buying.
re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Does Governor Bullock have to go on The Price Is Right and bid for these tests?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) March 30, 2020
re: #345 William Lewis
Meanwhile I had a pair of chicken thighs marinating most of the day in plain old “zesty italian salad dressing”. Now they’re in the air fryer and after I flip them I’ll start the water for the instant mashed potatoes along with some corn. Should be a decent little meal. Then since it’s after 5 here, beer & rum.
I use zesty Italian when I do my grill cooking. I use the sauce brush to brush it on every few minutes and when turned. Dad always used it also (wonder where I got the idea) when doing chickens on the spit. As they would turn he would walk down the spit every once in a while just squeezing the bottle all over the turning chickens. Always came out great.
re: #369 Targetpractice
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They should run the plague-ship aground on one of his plague-beaches. Oh, but the passengers won’t be bringing millions of spring-break bucks with them.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) March 30, 2020
re: #345 William Lewis
Meanwhile I had a pair of chicken thighs marinating most of the day in plain old “zesty italian salad dressing”. Now they’re in the air fryer and after I flip them I’ll start the water for the instant mashed potatoes along with some corn. Should be a decent little meal. Then since it’s after 5 here, beer & rum.
Dinner prep time here. Oh my do I have time or what? Anyway… Dinner for two.
Got center-cut pork chops. Got scallions and garlic and the trinity if I want to chop that much. Have an idea that if I sear the veggies, set aside, sear the chops, then add onion soup and water for a finish in the oven I will get a veggie soup and meat all in one big iron pan.
re: #390 Rightwingconspirator
So right when we can’t go anywhere, gas is cheap.
Digital facepalm.
we can go places…just can’t get out of the vehicle.
re: #404 Backwoods_Sleuth
we can go places…just can’t get out of the vehicle.
My sister is actually trying to figure this out - she’s in NY, parents are in NJ. Everyone has been doing the proper self-isolation thing, with minimal trips to the grocery store. She was going to go home for Palm Sunday and now, since she’s working from home, she could go for even longer. We’ve talked about it and judge the risk in either direction is low, because …everyone’s been self-isolating for at least two weeks. (Again, granted, not quite 100%, but it’s a lot better than nothing - and she hasn’t worked with any plague vectors children in over two weeks, so.)
BUT. Both states have stay-at-home orders. So. Legal to drive home to spend some time with the folks before heading back up to her apartment? Not sure.
Noam Chomsky tells me on @ajupfront that leftists who didn’t vote for Clinton to block Trump made a “bad mistake”:pic.twitter.com/L3fr4zoKsI
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 24, 2016
re: #390 Rightwingconspirator
So right when we can’t go anywhere, gas is cheap.
Digital facepalm.
Gas is cheap because we can’t go anywhere.
re: #402 calochortus
I did manage to finish up my latest embroidery project. A bowl of “fruit” (a peach, grapes, figs, and lemons) in crewel (wool) embroidery on stuffed felt forms.
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re: #406 gocart mozart
Noam Chomsky tells me on
@ajupfront that leftists who didn’t vote for Clinton to block Trump made a “bad mistake”:
Sorry but NO FUCKING SHIT.
Not for nothin’, but that SOB must be stress eating. His huge head looks tiny on top of that bloated body.
He’s become Vanna White pic.twitter.com/nbehI4a8i5
— 🌊Facts & science matter🏳️🌈 (@JR61764895) March 30, 2020
hi.
My wife and I had to break isolation today to allow a mechanic to repair our reverse osmosis water unit. Kind of odd maintaining social distancing in my own kitchen.
My appointment today for the outpatient clinics at the hospital in Scottsbluff was cancelled.
re: #402 calochortus
My Coronavirus craft is making little blue clay dolls of Republican officials. Having a hard time finding the locks of hair and nail clippings.
Who did this 👨🏻⚕️🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/B5aMDCEmO1
— (NOT) Dr Anthony Fauci (@notdrfauci) March 30, 2020
re: #402 calochortus
I did manage to finish up my latest embroidery project. A bowl of “fruit” (a peach, grapes, figs, and lemons) in crewel (wool) embroidery on stuffed felt forms.
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re: #400 Eventual Carrion
I use zesty Italian when I do my grill cooking. I use the sauce brush to brush it on every few minutes and when turned. Dad always used it also (wonder where I got the idea) when doing chickens on the spit. As they would turn he would walk down the spit every once in a while just squeezing the bottle all over the turning chickens. Always came out great.
I’ll be using this when I do the rotisserie chicken on the grill tomorrow.
Ten new cases in Nebraska today. For a couple days the curve has been going down, but two days does not make a trend.
Positive tests: 145
Negative tests: 2,584
State population: 1,929,000
Deaths: 2 (unchanged)
re: #410 makeitstop
Not for nothin’, but that SOB must be stress eating. His huge head looks tiny on top of that bloated body.
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Whaddya mean? That’s a svelte 235 if I ever saw it?
re: #408 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thank you. It was a fun project.
Here’s what you need to know this P.M. about the #CoronavirusPandemic:
🇺🇸 More than a million Americans have tested for COVID-19, says Trump
🏙️Airbnb to pay $250 million to hosts
🇮🇱 Israel’s Prime Minister enters self-isolation
MORE: https://t.co/TKpKSEBmRA pic.twitter.com/AMHqlbdwfz
I was looking for that Stormy Daniels advert someone posted a few threads ago but I can’t find it. Can someone repost it?
In the meantime she’s been going after some Republican douchecanoe running for Congress in Texas who’s been lying about her on social media, claiming she had drugs out in her bathroom which he filmed.
Hmmm I wonder why Trump might think this?
Oh—wait. Here’s the title of an article from Chris Cilliza from March 2018:
“Donald Trump is producing the greatest reality show ever
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN” https://t.co/84nwxkh3Vg— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) March 30, 2020
re: #402 calochortus
I did manage to finish up my latest embroidery project. A bowl of “fruit” (a peach, grapes, figs, and lemons) in crewel (wool) embroidery on stuffed felt forms.
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What will it take for one single person in the DC Press Corpse to FINALLY call Trump a liar to his face?
What will it take?
How many must die before the DC Press Corpse ceases their Republican asskissing?
re: #422 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I was looking for that Stormy Daniels advert someone posted a few threads ago but I can’t find it. Can someone repost it?
In the meantime she’s been going after some Republican douchecanoe running for Congress in Texas who’s been lying about her on social media, claiming she had drugs out in her bathroom which he filmed.
That was me. Here you go.
re: #410 makeitstop
Not for nothin’, but that SOB must be stress eating. His huge head looks tiny on top of that bloated body.
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His one outlet of physical activity has stopped for the past few weeks. At his age, that loss will have effects very quickly.
re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹
What will it take for one single person in the DC Press Corpse to FINALLY call Trump a liar to his face?
What will it take?
How many must die before the DC Press Corpse ceases their Republican asskissing?
Any reporter who does that will be immediately fired and blacklisted in the industry.
It’s relatively easy for the independently wealthy to control anyone that needs to work for a living.
re: #424 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Thank you.
re: #428 EPR-radar
Any reporter who does that will be immediately fired and blacklisted in the industry.
What industry? They fucking killed it by being pussies.
re: #405 klys (maker of Silmarils)
BUT. Both states have stay-at-home orders. So. Legal to drive home to spend some time with the folks before heading back up to her apartment? Not sure.
Check what the state says the exceptions are, should be online. In MD (we just got the official with penalties lock down, before it was ‘suggested’) there is an exception for “care”.
Hundreds of cars wait to receive food from the Greater Community Food Bank in Duquesne. Collection begins at noon. @PghFoodBank @PittsburghPG pic.twitter.com/94YFaO7dqX
— Andrew Rush (@andrewrush) March 30, 2020
re: #407 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Gas is cheap because we can’t go anywhere.
Tell me about It. I had a quarter tank of gas in my car 3 weeks ago, I still roughly have a quarter tank of gas in my car and I haven’t filled up.
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Stir-fry Hornet (would also sound better the other way around)
Protein Smoothie Golden Bear for the first high school I went to. Last two years I went to Cathedral High, and I cannot remember the mascot there, so I am going to assume it was The Conquering Cassocks
re: #430 I Would Prefer Not To
What industry? They fucking killed it by being pussies.
The news-entertainment industry, which is very much alive and well.
The profession of journalism is what’s pining for the fjords.
*sigh*
The Trump administration has issued an advisory ruling calling gun shops “essential” businesses that should remain open during stay-at-home directives. https://t.co/GqKZyuTXaa
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 30, 2020
A 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 order is now in effect for the entire state of North Carolina until April 29. These are difficult and uncertain times, but taking action now will save lives and help us defeat this virus in the future. pic.twitter.com/lRYACV610Z
— Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) March 30, 2020
hey ladies!
Moron, 26, jailed for coronavirus coughing prank at Walmart https://t.co/xE5Pa8nbmD Accused man is a convicted felon on probation pic.twitter.com/2t4Gu35CoT
— The Smoking Gun (@tsgnews) March 30, 2020
re: #437 Backwoods_Sleuth
I know. For the City of Philadelphia I am non-essential. For the Philadelphia Parking Authority I am essential. It is one of those undefinable designations that happen with certain jobs. And when I checked a little while ago the company website was not updated.
Ugh! Latest numbers for Idaho.
Confirmed cases 415. 105 new.
Deaths 7 1 new.
My City/County holding at 5 confirmed.
re: #422 Anymouse 🌹🏡
This is some ad (h/t @IanSams)
pic.twitter.com/ujL4S7O0Jc— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) March 30, 2020
Trimming my usual post to a week:
Tuesday afternoon 11,485 tested, 250 new cases, 1535 total, 16 deaths
Wednesday afternoon 14,209 tested, 330 new cases, 1865 total, 19 deaths
Thursday afternoon 16,631 tested, 673 new cases, 2538 total, 26 deaths (c. half of all in Chicago)
Friday afternoon 21,542 tests, 488 new cases, 3026 total, 34 deaths
Saturday afternoon 25,429 tests, 465 new cases, 3491 total, 47 deaths
Sunday afternoon 27,762 tests, 1,105 new cases, 4595 total, 65 deaths
Monday afternoon 30,446 tests, 462 new cases, 5057 total, 73 deaths
There are four in the county where I have to go to shop. Hoping I can stay away for a number of days now.
Me when bitches near by don’t practice social distancingpic.twitter.com/TmSeBBENB6
— Jerry James Stone (@jerryjamesstone) March 30, 2020
re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth
Toss his dumb ass back into the pen.
re: #430 I Would Prefer Not To
Down dinged. Personally disprove of use of that particular piece of slang as a indication of weakness or cowardliness. Especially given current crisis and how female health practitioners are taking part in it at great personal risk.
Trump doing an Ebay video.
Look for them! We have them!
Nice box! Sleek! Modern!
FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER 25 MILLION DOLLARS!
Act now, quantities limited!
GET A FREE TRUMP SIGNED MAGA HAT WITH EVERY 20 MILLION DOLLAR (US) ORDER!
HURRY!
WTF IS HE DOING pic.twitter.com/morpfqoUgQ
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) March 30, 2020
Gotta wonder how My Pillow guy got to the Rose Garden from Minnesota while adhering to the stay at home and no non-essential travel orders.
That’s a good trick.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) March 30, 2020
re: #450 Backwoods_Sleuth
He was probably deemed essential for Trump’s ego.
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re: #31 Chrysicat
Well, yeah, but enough of their folk might be old-fashioned enough to not trust either a credit card or paypal.
I’ll bet some even won’t willingly write a check ‘cause it’s facilitated by the godless government.
I’m not a church person, but I don’t trust credit cards either. In cash we trust (or cheques or money orders for our bills).
Luntz is another asshole who deserves karma.
I’m mocking the entire circus of a WH press conference during a national emergency where the President of the United Freakin’ States calls up the My Pillow guy to do a Jesus Loves Trump campaign ad.
And if it weren’t for people like Lindell, we wouldn’t be *in* this situation. https://t.co/uViptTlunj— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 30, 2020
re: #431 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Check what the state says the exceptions are, should be online. In MD (we just got the official with penalties lock down, before it was ‘suggested’) there is an exception for “care”.
I ended up digging into both states’ info and was surprised at how lenient NY’s order is (and also how hard it is to find the actual text). Nothing about staying at home, necessarily, just focusing on non-essential stuff closed, no non-essential gatherings, and practice at least 6ft physical separation.
NJ does allow travel to visit family.
So it looks like she should be okay to go home and visit for a few days, which will make my mom extremely happy.
Seen this? pic.twitter.com/nRJPgqrNhh
— Hans de Jong (@hanslejeune) March 30, 2020
Evening Lizards:
I am approximately 1,000,000 per cent certain that Trump Googled “Seoul” specifically to make this observation and then confused Seoul’s elevation for its population https://t.co/vXhllhMldj pic.twitter.com/QcUv8mYi4n
— Ian Young (@ianjamesyoung70) March 30, 2020
re: #361 calochortus
To some extent, yes it is too soon. Deaths are a lagging indicator, but it’s still encouraging. He’s telling us to keep up the good work, not to all get together and breathe on each other.
I hope we’re able to do widespread, community testing, followed by isolation and contact tracing soon. As a 62 year old guy with hypertension, it’s not JUST everyone else I’m worried about!
re: #456 b.d. (We’re on our own, Vote!)
Evening Lizards:
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You might say he elevated their population by a bit…
Roflmao…! pic.twitter.com/vmKCkhWaN4
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) March 28, 2020
re: #457 Blind Frog Belly White
I hope we’re able to do widespread, community testing, followed by isolation and contact tracing soon. As a 62 year old guy with hypertension, it’s not JUST everyone else I’m worried about!
That would be optimal. Speaking as a healthy 66 year old.
re: #43 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
You’d think that they’d be able to figure out putting a PayPal button or link onto the web page. Sheesh. Frictionless payment systems are pretty much what the modern web is built around.
Some churches (like Steven Anderson’s hate church over in Tempe) are banned from Paypal. Seriously.
I have been watching Calvinista Twitter wrap itself into knots today to justify not following government directives. It usually boils down to “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together.” The real problem is they don’t want to obey government orders, and when someone brings up Romans 13 (usually used as a hammer for obedience to the government) it’s “but we can’t forsakenotheassemblingofyourselvestogether.” The reality is these people, these hyper-Calvinist Reformed types are more anarchistic than anarchists. They don’t recognize any authority except their own. Even real anarchists (I follow a few on Twitter) are telling people to hunker down. These guys? They’re having church.
Our governor (Doug Ducey, AZ) issued an executive order for stay at home until April 30 but it’s essentially toothless.
Section 2e of his executive order 2020-18: “No person shall be required to provide documentation or proof of their activities to justify their activities under this order.”
It also does not update the essential businesses, so golf courses and salons are still essential, which is just incredible fuckery.
BREAKING: John Prine appears to have recovered.
re: #111 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Is it weird enough for you yet?”
Yes, it’s entirely fucking weird enough for me:
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Thanks. I showed that to my wife, and now she’s going to make kielbasa that way tonight.
re: #402 calochortus
I did manage to finish up my latest embroidery project. A bowl of “fruit” (a peach, grapes, figs, and lemons) in crewel (wool) embroidery on stuffed felt forms.
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Nice work! My wife is quite impressed.
“Regarding a woman’s right to a pre-viability abortion, the Supreme Court has spoken clearly. There can be no outright ban on such a procedure. The court will not speculate on whether the S.Ct. included a silent except-in-a-national-emergency-clause in its previous writings…”🔥
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) March 30, 2020
Ohio got smacked down as well. | Federal judge blocks Ohio from using coronavirus health order to restrict abortions https://t.co/92H0okdSw0
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) March 30, 2020
The judge in the Alabama case is Myron Thompson. He is 100 percent going to issue a TRO and block Alabama’s nonsense.
I just hope he spits a little fire. He usually does.— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) March 30, 2020
CBS News obtained audio of a call Monday between Pres. Trump and rural state governors about coronavirus. After Montana Gov. Steve Bullock discusses difficulty getting testing equipment, Trump says, “I haven’t heard anything about testing being a problem” https://t.co/ScO2YbKZAq pic.twitter.com/YhFPpw7Gni
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 30, 2020
I can smell that ALCOHOL from HERE!!! https://t.co/Xn88cMdDGa
— Franktheshank808 (@Franktheshank88) March 30, 2020
re: #434 danarchy
Tell me about It. I had a quarter tank of gas in my car 3 weeks ago, I still roughly have a quarter tank of gas in my car and I haven’t filled up.
We haven’t been out in nearly a week. I’m tempted to just go and see what my local guy is charging right now.
re: #465 makeitstop
Nice work! My wife is quite impressed.
Thanks! If she (or anyone else) is interested most of them came from the book Botanica, The three-dimensional embroidery of Julie Kniedl with a couple of my own design after I’d figured out how they were working out.
OK folks, the “Seoul has 38 million people’ gaff is easy.
Someone obviously mentioned to Trump in the last few days that Greater Tokyo Area has 38 million residents.
And, well, they’re all Asians, right?
re: #467 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #459 gocart mozart
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She’s a junk food junkie, good Lord have pity on her soul.
u just know jared did the research on this 😹https://t.co/sMqtYSiUro
— darth™ (@darth) March 30, 2020
“ok mr president lets go over this again when they bring up south korea you s…”
“there’s a SOUTH korea?”
“mr president…please sir…”— darth™ (@darth) March 30, 2020
Wholly crap, Ben Garrison is a lunatic.
A prominent New York neurosurgeon who developed a procedure for separating twins conjoined at the skull dies from complications of COVID-19, officials say https://t.co/xB8OlFRuzZ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 30, 2020
re: #476 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I think that was posted in another thread yesterday.
re: #461 mmmirele
Some businesses are going out of the way to label themselves essential, and therefore require people to come to work or otherwise avoid being stopped.
Michaels is one company. Another is Restoration Hardware’s call center.
Joann Fabric is yet another.
A few are claiming that they are necessary because teachers and students might need resources. Sears claims that people might need tools or appliances.
If you keep expanding what people might need, there’s no quarantine/self-isolation to speak off.
The GOP are fine with that - and the body count will suffer. Americans will suffer.
Brix and her 200,000 if things go perfectly will turn out to be a wildly optimistic take as this disease takes a firm hold in the South and predominantly GOP states while spilling over into those states that are trying to be more diligent on testing and containment.
re: #476 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wholly crap, Ben Garrison is a lunatic.
That piece of Anti-Semitic shit was previously posted and I posted my disgust with Garrison. He’s come out of the KKKloset and glorifies antisemitism.
re: #478 PhillyPretzel
I think that was posted in another thread yesterday.
Yes, but Garrison is still nuts.
re: #479 lawhawk
Some businesses are going out of the way to label themselves essential, and therefore require people to come to work or otherwise avoid being stopped.
Michaels is one company. Another is Restoration Hardware’s call center.
Joann Fabric is yet another.
A few are claiming that they are necessary because teachers and students might need resources. Sears claims that people might need tools or appliances.
If you keep expanding what people might need, there’s no quarantine/self-isolation to speak off.
The GOP are fine with that - and the body count will suffer. Americans will suffer.
Brix and her 200,000 if things go perfectly will turn out to be a wildly optimistic take as this disease takes a firm hold in the South and predominantly GOP states while spilling over into those states that are trying to be more diligent on testing and containment.
Don’t forget GUN STORES!!
re: #479 lawhawk
Michaels is one company. Another is Restoration Hardware’s call center.
Joann Fabric is yet another.
I can understand Michael’s and Joann since they might have materials that can be used to sew masks and gowns.
re: #476 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wholly crap, Ben Garrison is a lunatic.
No. Not a lunatic. He knows what he’s doing.
Evil though is a word I’ll use.
GOP still wants to destroy the ACA while Berners are in this thread demanding that Joe immediately implement M4A
This is unconscionable. Americans are already afraid of the impact the deadly COVID-19 pandemic is having on their lives — they don’t need the added stress of losing their health insurance. Drop the lawsuit. https://t.co/VyN90rluy9
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 30, 2020
re: #485 The Pie Overlord!
I can understand Michael’s and Joann since they might have materials that can be used to sew masks and gowns.
Yeah, that’s now the rationale for them being available and open.
re: #476 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Ben Garrison is performing a valuable public service. He is documenting the US right-wing id, in all its florid pathologies.
Happy with 100K dead, huh? Wait until half of the Confederacy is dead, you orange shit stain.
re: #479 lawhawk
Don’t worry. They’ll shift that 200,000 goal post upwards as needed.
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Denies further magnets https://t.co/KuAunEugE7 pic.twitter.com/kzqg4ev5fO
— PZ Myers 🕷 (@pzmyers) March 30, 2020
The Pentagon just announced the death of a New Jersey National Guardsmen who had tested positive for the coronavirus. That marks a first in this crisis.
No additional details at this time.
RIP.— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) March 30, 2020
I am deeply saddened by the COVID-19-related death of Army Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok, a physician assistant & New Jersey National Guardsman. All of us in the #NationalGuard are grateful for his service to our nation, as a Citizen & as a Soldier. (1/3) https://t.co/UdCDw511l9
— Gen. Joseph Lengyel (@ChiefNGB) March 30, 2020
re: #432 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Duquesne… On the Mon. Next to Kennywood. And not too far from Wilmerding.
All of which makes perfect sense to a Pitzburker.
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How many syllables does “Gloria” have?
According to Catholics, eighteen.
We lived in a pretty small town, which must be why ours only had 13 syllables.
re: #495 ckkatz
Duquesne… On the Mon. Next to Kennywood. And not too far from Wilmerding.
All of which makes perfect sense to a Pitzburker.
And all that open space on the river side of the highway is ex-steel mill.
Zucker apparently likes being pantsed by the most vile slagheap to ever snail-trail his way into the White House. https://t.co/wsrry3UGoP
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 30, 2020
My dog’s new favorite toy is a greenbean. He’s been carrying it around the apartment with him for over an hour. BE STILL MY HEART. pic.twitter.com/L07QnyGD5o
— Laura Stampler (@laurastampler) March 31, 2020
Spaghetti & meat sauce #Resist #COVID19 #coronavirus #StayAtHome pic.twitter.com/hsH0TOoTy8
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 31, 2020
Some of you spotted the special message I’m carrying to Mars along with the 10.9+ million names you all sent in. “Explore As One” is written in Morse code in the Sun’s rays, which connect our home planet with the one I’ll explore. Together, we persevere. https://t.co/Bsv1mqpxlA pic.twitter.com/GhcS1HgsIN
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 30, 2020
If Trump had the slightest capacity to lead and demonstrate statesmanship, the nation would’ve rallied around him. In good news, Kentucky had only 42 new cases today, and while I expect a lot more cases as testing ramps up, we aren’t seeing an explosion of cases as in neighboring states. Thanks to leadership demonstrated by Governor Beshear.
Just got an email that the local libraries will remain closed through at least April 30. (Extension of order by Gov Wolfe (PA)). No fines. And patrons asked to hold onto materials until they reopen.
zero people expect trump to be able to locate south korea on a map much less know the population of seoul despite his claims of knowing more about south korea than anybody https://t.co/vWbWlMWcqG
— darth™ (@darth) March 30, 2020
The orange idiot seems oblivious to the fact that train wrecks get high ratings too. As do tornados, hurricanes and mass shootings. People don’t hope for more of those. #WorstPresidentInHistory #COVIDIOT https://t.co/XVSlAH1eue
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) March 31, 2020
The first eaglet has arrived! 🦅 https://t.co/7EmpIV0w3Q
— Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) March 31, 2020
Did he listen to what his own state’s Lt. Governor said last week & projecting it onto Pelosi?
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 31, 2020
re: #197 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Anyone who takes Dr. Salk’s “vaccine” hates Jesus and doesn’t want want God’s will to happen. //
All the way back to Cotton Mather (of witch trial fame), when reading up on how to prevent a smallpox epidemic came across inoculation methods recommended by physicians in the Ottoman Empire.
He ordered a mass inoculation campaign across Massachusetts when a smallpox outbreak occurred in Boston; preachers across the state opposed him, saying it was God’s will. Mather threatened to arrest and jail preachers who opposed his order to physicians.
Vincent and the Doctor remains one of the greatest episodes of television ever and Matt Smith, @karengillan, @TonyCurran69, and more did a tweet along watch of it. #TheUltimateGinger https://t.co/AbVplekW5P
— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) March 30, 2020
Whoa. I hereby take back anything I might have previously said about “a simple nasal swab.” https://t.co/GFsrKJsraN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 31, 2020
A little further and they’d be all up in your temporal lobe.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 31, 2020
they are pals https://t.co/axOwCc7IV7
— iucounu (@iucounu) March 30, 2020
re: #349 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
You are BRINGING it, sir.
The Improv would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of the heroic medical professionals in the world! It’s #nationaldoctorsday, so here’s Ken Jeong answering medical questions from Twitter. pic.twitter.com/s4MChi7mQq
— Brea Improv (@BreaImprov) March 30, 2020
This is funny because Dr Ken reads the tweet like it’s written.
re: #479 lawhawk
Our local JoAnn’s is closed but they are giving out kits that locals can use to make masks. Call ahead and they’ll meet you at the door. The locals are sewing hundreds of masks.
Also, a local canvas shop has developed a process to create surgical gowns. They have really geared up production.
Juneau residents work to prevent mask shortage before it happens
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re: #498 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And all that open space on the river side of the highway is ex-steel mill.
You brought me back to the early 1980’s when all the mills were closing down. Duquesne Steelworks closed in 1984. At its peak, it employed 9000 workers. Each employee had a family and kept 1-2 others in business through buying groceries, getting cars serviced, etc.
Lots of friends lost their jobs then. All they wanted to do was work at the mill like their father and grandfather, live in the neighborhood they grew up in, raise a family, maybe go to the neighborhood bar Saturday evening and see all their buddies from grade and high school. Mostly gone now.
The area is far different than it was 40 years ago. And there are an awful lot of Steelers stickers in the DC Region.
re: #512 Charles Johnson
When you vomit or have the swab exit your ear with earwax on it, it’s considered deep enough.
I want to go on the record and say that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is hot.
Medical Volunteers At Franklin Graham’s Central Park Tent Hospital Must Stipulate That Gays Will Burn In Hell - https://t.co/7zWQFtpboo pic.twitter.com/2EXIctZWdJ
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 30, 2020
You know those medical tents being constructed in Central Park?
They’re being set up by notorious anti-gay bigot Franklin Graham.
Mr. Graham must promise to treat EVERY patient with dignity and respect. pic.twitter.com/9ynZ4jHvrU— Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) March 30, 2020
re: #250 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Trump’s hostility towards democratic institutions remains the things that most infuriates me about the man and man there is a lot.
Not just Trump’s: Pretty much all conservatives. Trump is just more honest about it (probably the only thing he is honest about).
As a lawyer myself, I can say with confidence that relying on a lawyer’s opinion about a pandemic, instead of medical experts, is a mistake.
Two big takeaways:
1. Richard Epstein is a moron, and it’s terrifying that the White House is listening to him
2. The fact that the conservative legal movement thinks Richard Epstein is brilliant tells you everything you need to know about them. It’s morons all the way down. https://t.co/tZ0jwAp2vH— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) March 30, 2020
re: #520 jaunte
“Name?”
Jim sir.
“And?”
GAYS WILL BURN IN HELL!
“Welcome aboard.”
re: #519 Ace Rothstein
I want to go on the record and say that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is hot.
Justin Trudeau is hotter.
re: #521 jaunte
The city needs to take it over and kick him out of it.
Wake up after a 3 day bender to this and you best know how to run..
Whatever horrors or pleasures await us after this life will never eclipse the cold chill of time’s endless decay. pic.twitter.com/4OzysOmeRk
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) March 31, 2020
re: #253 John Hughes
It has a good critique of the study, attached to an increasingly hysterical hatchet job.
(Disclaimer — I’m pretty sure the “study” is crap, and the larger follow up one is even crappier (no control group!) but the SBM critique rapidly veers into Ad Hominem territory).
I read the article; I didn’t see any ad hominem. Calling out a person’s shady history is not an ad hominem attack if it has direct bearing on what they are doing.
This is the Trump meme of the day. (in spoilers because triggering)
#WhoKnewIdiocracyWasADocumentary
I’m utterly speechless. pic.twitter.com/F0hAVkIla8
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
you first
That should be the answer any time a libertarian or conservative brings up “reopening the economy”: You first.
re: #527 Mescalero09
Looks like the late Colonel Meow…..
re: #505 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Here in SE PA, that gave me the chance to actually watch the film I checked out 3 plus weeks ago…
The Book Thief - well worth watching
AND, will give me time to actually listen to and practice along with a 2-CD set on meditation.
Procrastination…even in stay-at-home conditions.
Vincent van Gogh painting stolen from shuttered Netherlands museum https://t.co/sarukhgidU pic.twitter.com/R2Kxb5gPxF
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