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Subscribe to Tommy Emmanuel on YouTube: goo.gl
re: #9 Shropshire Slasher
Has everyone put up plastic and duct taped everything shut yet?!
Not sure what you mean here. Is it snark or are you concerned that conservatives are in fact trying to kill us for profit?
re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Not sure what you mean here. Is it snark or are you concerned that conservatives are in fact trying to kill us for profit?
Duct Tape?!?!? I knew I was forgetting something, I only have 72 rolls!
At this rate Diamond and Silk will be on stage tomorrow talking about Space Force and the glorious future Trump is bringing us all.
This was such an amazing performance it made me want to go “Yee-haw!” and I’m not a yee-haw kind of guy normally. https://t.co/bTQ76B5ivC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Not sure what you mean here. Is it snark or are you concerned that conservatives are in fact trying to kill us for profit?
From 2003:
As the Homeland Security Department called on Americans to buy duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal windows and doors in the event of a terrorist attack, critics on Wednesday said such precautions would have limited value and likened them to ineffective civil defense measures of the Cold War era.
They also chided the Bush administration for not yet taking more significant actions that, they said, could potentially save many lives if terrorists strike. Those moves would include sending more money to state and local governments for equipment and training needed by fire and police departments that would be the first to respond to a terrorist incident.
re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Not sure what you mean here. Is it snark or are you concerned that conservatives are in fact trying to kill us for profit?
It’s just trolling.
Oh, I see. It was another in-your-face show of the corrupt nepotism that he wants us to think is a functional government.
This is what we have after the Republican Party gave an obviously incompetent and historically corrupt madman the ultimate free pass.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
re: #7 Charles Johnson
it was a bad episode of ‘The Apprentice’.
PLEASE if you can manufacture HELP New York. They should not have to beg like this, please do not fail them. If you can sew then make masks, gowns, caps at home for local needs. Our fed government has totally failed us, we all might be in this boat soon please help if you can. https://t.co/gryfNhB2Nu
— Tarkloon (@Tarkloon) April 3, 2020
Of course the irony of locking us all indoors and closing beaches and parks is that one of the best defenses against COVID-19 is Vitamin D, which of course, you get from the Sun - outside.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) April 2, 2020
It’s gonna be 47 in Chicago on Saturday but I implore all of Bill’s fans to bask all day…
re: #10 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
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Grifter says what
Co-sign. https://t.co/juLKJoBRCm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
Trump Presidency, December 8, 1941:
Hawaii: President Trump, we need ships and arms! We were attacked!
Trump: Hawaii should have been sticking up when times were good. We aren’t a supply clerk.
Kushner: it is a federal stockpile of arms—not the States’.
ICMI earlier,
Jesus Christ, at least get your talking points in order. pic.twitter.com/8pY2tc1kSC
— Michael Stahlke (@MichaelStahlke) April 2, 2020
accusing Crozier of leaking his letter to his local newspaper was bullshit
re: #10 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
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It’s strange how hard Trump grifters are working to kill off Trump’s elderly base.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
I want to be Jerry Douglas.
Another military officer who Trump’s guys have scapegoated. We’re going to need a Secretary of Defense that will restore morale. Not sure who would be a good fit there.
re: #17 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Another military officer who Trump’s guys have scapegoated. We’re going to need a Secretary of Defense that will restore morale. Not sure who would be a good fit there.
John Kerry.
re: #17 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Another military officer who Trump’s guys have scapegoated. We’re going to need a Secretary of Defense that will restore morale. Not sure who would be a good fit there.
Mayor Pete?
Again and always disappointed in the White House Press Corp. This was their time to at least stand up for themselves and boycott the briefing based upon the White House violating social distancing protocols enacted to ensure the safety of the press.
They blew it. They blew an easy one that was designed to save their own lives.
ooooh…look out…we got ourselves a tough guy here…
We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. “P Act” all the way. Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing - will have a big price to pay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2020
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
*snerk*
Isn’t there video of you and the P act?
— T. Filson Rogers (@tfilson59) April 3, 2020
re: #19 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Mayor Pete?
It’s quite a promotion for a small town mayor but I think he could do that job honorably.
re: #67 Decatur Deb
I despised the notion of locking up a political rival—that’s pure banana republic shit. Then came “Lock her up”, then came the depth and effrontery of these thieves. So I’m not so prejudiced about putting them on an island far in the South Atlantic.
Put them close enough to disturb the endless slumber of Cthulu and the Old Ones?
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
ooooh…look out…we got ourselves a tough guy here…
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re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
ooooh…look out…we got ourselves a tough guy here…
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But see again its all about the punishment and retribution
Bummer. Apple Music removed Procol Harum’s greatest album “Home” from their system and it blinks out of existence in iTunes as if it never existed.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
Just noticed it, haven’t googled but I assume it’s some kind of licensing dispute.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
Or did somebody go back in time and kill Gary Brooker’s grandfather?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
ok which one of you guys went back in time
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
no one elected you idiothttps://t.co/EzHXG9m5Pu
— darth™ (@darth) April 3, 2020
This is remarkable. The US has set up an airbridge for PPE & med supplies to the US from abroad. But in answer to question from @cbsnews @weijia the Admiral explains that this is going through private companies, which explains why states are having to bid to get the stuff. pic.twitter.com/eO646wAeNF
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 3, 2020
re: #13 Mike Lamb
Trump Presidency, December 8, 1941:
Hawaii: President Trump, we need ships and arms! We were attacked!
Trump: Hawaii should have been sticking up when times were good. We aren’t a supply clerk.
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Kushner: it is a federal stockpile of arms—not the States’.
Hawaii isn’t/wasn’t even a state, and there is big water between us and them…
The “Comfort” ship is here.
But you can’t be treated on it if you’re sick.
This is madness. https://t.co/nDsPs2nPUU— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 3, 2020
re: #30 jamesfirecat
Hawaii isn’t/wasn’t even a state, and there is big water between us and them…
Hawaii didn’t vote for me okay. They were very rude and unappreciative.//
We are one, united in our peril. pic.twitter.com/s8uF1zbEqe
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) April 3, 2020
Arrested for narcotics violations https://t.co/lkW48vNaYG pic.twitter.com/liiJ1sNyjK
— Old L.A. Photos (@OldLAPhotos) April 3, 2020
Ice + wind + wide open space = a BAD combination.
Tractor-trailers and snow plow trucks were blown off the road or slid off the road today in parts of western Minnesota. Travel is not recommended tonight!#MNwx pic.twitter.com/n7rkY9K4LB— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 3, 2020
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) April 3, 2020
Man of Steel Bacon Fat
Nah, we’re good there ummm 🤔 “Superman”. pic.twitter.com/CFp1wQeQ0a
— Hoodlum in Lockup again 🇺🇸 (@HoodlumRIP) April 2, 2020
a “center right corporatist rag” sure does sound like us. Why on earth did I unmute him to see this tweet? https://t.co/W4mnOAMNo6
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) April 2, 2020
re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth
ooooh…look out…we got ourselves a tough guy here…
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I wonder if he decided to attack them because they’re based in a blue state (not that I expect him to know that one of the ‘M’s is for Minnesota).
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Back off the Bernie kid a little. I think his goldfish just died,
So, my head is pretty good tonight. Unfortunately, the nervous breakdowns are coming closer together.
But tonight, pretty good.
re: #39 gocart mozart
Man of
SteelBacon Fat
He didn’t even spell “libtard” correctly.
As for the gun, some wag commented “I could draw a picture faster than he could draw that gun.”
One of the people I went to high school with was one of the first female Nukes in the Navy. She’s a winger, but she’s pissed about the firing, but her response is just shit:
So the 2700 people disembarking is the air wing. That’s not a surprise; it’s the squadrons finding a way to get their planes and people home.
But he’s being relieved of command? Because he asked for help???? When the &$?@ did Killary start working in the Pentagon?!?!?
THE MAN ASKED FOR HELP BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE BAD.
An unsolicited text from the Bernie 2020 campaign to sign some well intentioned but meaningless petition.
Unlike every other of their previous unsolicited texts, I responded to this one.
I was kind.
re: #41 stpaulbear
I wonder if he decided to attack them because they’re based in a blue state (not that I expect him to know that one of the ‘M’s is for Minnesota).
Nah. They were supposedly sell DIRECTLY to foreign governments without going through a tRump controlled entity. By doing so, they weren’t paying the required bribe. Or something like that.
Please consider the source.
However much money @3M spent buffing it’s image in recent years was just destroyed in 5 minutes on @TuckerCarlson.
3M dealers selling N95 masks to foreign countries that jump the line for $$$.
Our first responders go without. Awful.— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 3, 2020
Fellas.
Trojan Introduces New Anti-Anxiety Weighted Condoms https://t.co/DsMFJTLCRC
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 1, 2020
On the Worldometer, the striking statistic is that deaths now make up 20% of closed cases.
re: #50 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On the Worldometer, the striking statistic is that deaths now make up 20% of closed cases.
Still in the realm of garbage data collection. The dead are harder to overlook.
Just gonna drop this here, and go
Jared Kushner says some governors don’t know how many ventilators they have & coronavirus outbreak is revealing manager skills.
“What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody…think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 2, 2020
Kimball County residents advised to stay at home or monitor for COVID-19 symptoms (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
This afternoon three more people were identified with the virus, bringing the total in Kimball County to six; two men in their sixties and a woman in her forties.
Contact tracing of the three people’s movements is underway.
When the state epidemiologists saw the list of locations in the community from the latest investigation, Engel said they advised: “If you live in Kimball County, you should consider that you are at high risk for exposure already,” she said. “Anyone in Kimball County should be monitoring themselves for symptoms twice a day.”
The recommendation is that residents of Kimball County should check their temperature twice a day and monitor for symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough and sore throat.
If possible, Kimball County residents should stay home.
“Staying at home is the best way to protect yourself,” [Kim] Engel [Panhandle Public Health Director] said.
Kimball County is the southwesternmost county in the Panhandle, bordering on Laramie County in Wyoming, Weld and Logan Counties in Colorado, Banner County to the north (largely empty), and Cheyenne County (includes Sidney).
Other than China, where I strongly suspect a large number of cases were administratively declared closed after some duration, not a lot of places are burning tests on retesting people who have appeared to be recovered. So the closed case reporting is even more fluky and arbitrary than everything else.
There’s some worthwhile science to be done in this space, but I wouldn’t have a problem calling a case closed a month after a positive test if the person is not in the hospital or the ground.
Beginning to look like Donald Trump may be responsible for getting more Americans killed than GW Bush.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2020
re: #52 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Just gonna drop this here, and go
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Who the eff are you and why are you in government?
Oh yeah. Banging the daughter
Jared Kushner says some governors don’t know how many ventilators they have & coronavirus outbreak is revealing manager skills.
“What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody…think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 2, 2020
re: #56 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Who the eff are you and why are you in government?
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He really is one of the most detestable people in the administration and that’s saying something.
re: #17 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Another military officer who Trump’s guys have scapegoated. We’re going to need a Secretary of Defense that will restore morale. Not sure who would be a good fit there.
Russell Honore.
Here we go. Dallas County @JudgeClayJ is targeting Hobby Lobby for its refusal to close its Dallas stores despite being non-essential. Hobby Lobby is owned by Trump supporters, so it’s only a matter of time before the governor or Trump side with the store. https://t.co/rZt5rzUv1l
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) April 3, 2020
Another Time, Another Virus (Goes to the Western Nebraska Observer, Kimball, Nebr.)
I’m Not Quitting,’ Polio Survivor Shirley Tank Combs Vowed
The front page of the February 20, 1953 issue of the Sidney Telegraph read: “Potter Child Polio Victim”. The article began: “Cheyenne county’s first polio fatality of 1953 was a 14-year-old boy from Potter who, during the first few days of his illness, gave every indication of having the flu which has been so prevalent in this area.”
The disease, which took the life of the 14-year old youth and afflicted many other area residents in a variety of ways, was poliomyelitis. Poliomyelitis, more commonly known as infantile polio was named because it generally attacked young children and youth in their prime. The effects of the disease had a broad range, many people were not even aware that they were infected. They had few if any symptoms, meanwhile they spread the disease. Others suffered paralysis or even death. Individuals, families, and communities across the country had to face and learn to deal with the devastating emotional, physical, social and financial effects of polio.
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Someone to follow:
First tweet here after exposure on television…I was encouraged to start twitter lol…
— Dr. Rishi Desai (@DrRishiDesai1) April 2, 2020
I’d have bought more life insurance.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 3, 2020
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Comfort” is for appendectomies, broken bones, heart attacks, c-sections, etc.
If the Captain of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt had wanted job security so badly, he could have just tortured and murdered a couple of Muslims.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 3, 2020
I love when @KamalaHarris almost about to cuss but she hear the whisper of the lord just in time pic.twitter.com/mppHNA6fSE
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) April 3, 2020
People in violation of Gov. Whitmer’s stay-at-home order and other executive actions could face fines of up to $1,000 and businesses could see licensing penalties, according to a new emergency order from the director of the state health department.https://t.co/HMlDpvXqNd
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) April 3, 2020
re: #63 Belafon
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At least Jared appears to recognize that he doesn’t know anything about what he’s supposed to be fixing. He looks very uncertain to me. Of course, he needs to ‘fess up and let a grown-up handle it, but we can all enjoy the fact that he seems stressed.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: “This state had purchased 17,000 ventilators, more than any other state in the nation, and they never got delivered. Because they were all coming from China, and 50 states are competing. … We can’t get any more.” #CNNTownHall https://t.co/8dbvP3uS8W pic.twitter.com/kL02XQuwB8
— CNN (@CNN) April 3, 2020
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody…think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”
Someone tell Jared that more voters did not think his FIL was a competent manager.
Random thoughts as I recover.
The Kentucky Derby is going to be cancelled. I had a dream that it would be replaced with a Ben Hur type event. Much more exciting.
I hope and pray that during the presidential debates Biden makes the case for a federal govt. (CDC, FEMA, etc). Let trump try and blame it on the states. I’m sick of these people who don’t get it.
I really hate Jarad. Fucking Ivanka should not be a requirement for deciding what medical equipment states need.
If someone offered me a million dollars to set in the same room as trump and not call him an idiot I would fail.
Gun Violence is coming. As soon as it happens it will be too soon to talk about.
I did say random.
I am getting better, but am not sure about my mental health. It’s a long road, and we are never going back to the ways things were.
Peace
Jared Kushner:
“”What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody…think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”
So he’s really cutting another ad for Joe Biden to use in his campaign this fall??
and even iiiiiiii….
with alllllllllllllllllllllllllll of this confidence….
NAY—
ARROGANCE…
even with allllllllllllllllll of my ADMITTED arrogance—
i am
FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED-
utterly and COMPLETELY UNDONE——
by the augoddamndacity-
of jared kushner.— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) April 3, 2020
re: #57 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He really is one of the most detestable people in the administration and that’s saying something.
I’ve given up trying to rank order the bastards. They’re all equally deplorable.
I have two entries
It was a dumb and stormy year; the inanity fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of insanity which swept up the streets, rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the minds of the sane who struggled against the idiocy.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 3, 2020
Call me JesusChristWhatTheFuckNow?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 3, 2020
Millions losing jobs along with health insurance during a pandemic is going to be so bad.
re: #72 Jay C
Jared Kushner:
“”What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody…think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”
So he’s really cutting another ad for Joe Biden to use in his campaign this fall??
Jared is now going to called away to a very important, must go to meeting with tRumps very good friend MBS to negotiate a cut in Saudi oil production. We wish him well in this endeavor.
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“We can all agree just actions were heroic. The question is why were they necessary.”
Should be Air Force one back there.— Kanova (@kanova) April 3, 2020
Lizards, calling it a day. See you in the morning. As usual, may the Goddess (or your Dirty of choice) smile down upon you and yours.
Cue The Rise of Skywalker and let the credits roll.
re: #79 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Lizards, calling it a day. See you in the morning. As usual, may the Goddess (or your Dirty of choice) smile down upon you and yours.
Cue The Rise of Skywalker and let the credits roll.
Dirty of choice? LOL autocorrect
Newest link to all the data:
drive.google.com
US is going to hit 3% fatal of confirmed cases soon. Upward trend. No graphs tonight - download the excel.
Contributor to USA Today:
My favorite thing about Jared Kushner is that he got to where he is in life on merit and hard work alone.
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) April 2, 2020
Jared has a more punchable face than Stephen Miller. I never thought that was possible.
Orangutans and otters playing together https://t.co/mLyyEzyuVp
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 3, 2020
We’re up to two 9-11s or 1500 Benghazis now on the US death count, closing in on the Iraq War. We left D-Day and Afghanistan in the dust much earlier.
re: #83 Ace Rothstein
Jared has a more punchable face than Stephen Miller. I never thought that was possible.
Serious uncanny valley vibe on Jared, while Miller looks like a living creature, of some sort.
World (total cases) 1,015,531 Dead 53,198
U.S. (total cases) 245,066 Dead 6,075
Informative chart/website that is updated regularly
worldometers.info
Your daily reminder that the Goodfellas painting was based on an actual photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. pic.twitter.com/Uajqsa4wUI
— JustinBrannan (@JustinBrannan) April 2, 2020
re: #75 gocart mozart
I have two entries
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— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 3, 2020
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, make up silly nicknames for them on Twitter and whine about them constantly.
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 3, 2020
Update to the Kimball County coronavirus cases:
Kimball Health Services notes one of the people is a KHS healthcare administrator, not directly involved in patient care.
As such, KHS is altering their service.
Only one entrance may be used to enter the Kimball Clinic, and all specialty clinic appointments are cancelled.
KHS has also released a list of places their employee visited in the last two weeks as part of their own contact tracing (all places in Kimball, but I was not aware there is a business in Kimball named “Beer and Loathing”).
re: #90 The Pie Overlord!
“It was a dark and foolish presidency; the corruption fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was swelled by a violent gust of prevarication which swept into the Congress (for it is in Washington that our scene lies), rattling into the offshore accounts, and fiercely agitating the scanty hopes of the citizenry that struggled against the darkness.”
re: #90 The Pie Overlord!
“In my older and more vulnerable years my son gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since: Stay home.”
We’re already seeing syrupy inspiration porn about the latest coronavirus.
The thinkpieces and articles that I, A Disabled, don’t ever wanna see when this pandemic ends:
- How I Grew as a Person While Socially Distancing
- 10 Skills I Picked Up While in Quarantine
- How A Pandemic Positively Changed the Healthcare Industry— Hell on Wheels🔥♿🔥 (@rollwthepunches) April 3, 2020
re: #89 teleskiguy
I like this one! One dog looks one way, the other dog looks the other way. And the guy is looking at ya like “What do you want from me??!!”
re: #95 Sherlock Hound
We’re already seeing syrupy inspiration porn about the latest coronavirus.
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re: #89 teleskiguy
IT IS HAPPENING.#goodfellas #ilovethatcar #itsinmymothersname pic.twitter.com/nmbnWIjLZA
— Robert Shields (@rshields37) March 19, 2018
re: #98 Ace Rothstein
That’s a deep cut. *cue the piano solo on “Layla”*
That guy with his hat in his hand on Deutsche Bank’s doorstep pleading for help? Oh, he’s the head of the presidential administration that is investigating Deutsche Bank. So that’s the absolute nightmare that somebody (ahem) warned about three years ago. https://t.co/9wCNCVxbI4
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 3, 2020
Co-sign.
My goal is to live to see the current government die. https://t.co/VSFBKvRG8w
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) April 3, 2020
THREAD: https://t.co/bCPfzgkTvc
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 3, 2020
Trump Administration to Couple: Ditch Adopted Daughter or Risk Exile (Daily Beast)
The cruelty and bigotry of conservatism continues unabated.
Last month when the World Health Organization dubbed the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, State Department officials gave Robin Gallite and her husband Alli, both 41, a choice: Return to the U.S. from Lagos, Nigeria, quickly before the country’s airports closed and the health-care system deteriorated, or stay with their 16-month-old daughter, Nike, and risk getting stuck in the country.
After applying for her adoption in 2018, Robin and Alli took home Adenike-Rae—“Nike” for short—in August from Cross River, a Nigerian state bordering Cameroon. The couple planned to stay with Alli’s family in Lagos for several months while they waited for Nike’s adoption to be finalized by local officials and until they received a U.S. visa for their daughter. They had wanted to spend time with Alli’s family before returning home to the U.S. so Robin could introduce Nike to her own mother. The couple had heard from other parents that obtaining a visa for adopted Nigerian children took months, but they were optimistic about being able to fly back to the U.S. with their daughter in the spring of 2020.
That confidence quickly faded. In February, President Donald Trump placed Nigeria on his travel ban list along with other countries with predominantly large Muslim populations. Weeks later, the coronavirus epidemic ballooned, causing the closure of borders around the world and forcing Americans like Alli and Robin to scramble to find a way out on evacuation flights. The dual events left the couple with a harrowing choice: Even if they were to get on one of the few flights out of Lagos, officials told them that they would not be able to bring their daughter with them.
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A book title I seriously want to see when this is over:
Trial of the Century: White House to Super-Max
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Trump Administration to Couple: Ditch Adopted Daughter or Risk Exile (Daily Beast)
The cruelty and bigotry of conservatism continues unabated.
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May Steven Miller burn in hell for all eternity.
re: #105 Joe Bacon 🌹
May Steven Miller burn in hell for all eternity.
If not Steven Miller, I’m sure the GOP has a pool of thousands of other racists and bigots they could employ in his stead.
re: #105 Joe Bacon 🌹
May Steven Miller burn in hell for all eternity.
Amen. And the same is true to the President, his wife, his VP, Ivana’s children, and every member of his cabinet, acting or otherwise.
re: #104 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A book title I seriously want to see when this is over:
Trial of the Century: White House to
Super-MaxMoon Prison
More Daily Beast: The documents they knew what was going on are starting to come out. Conservatives lie and people die.
Army Warned in Early February That Coronavirus Could Kill 150,000 Americans
An unclassified briefing document on the novel coronavirus prepared on Feb. 3 by U.S. Army-North projected that “between 80,000 and 150,000 could die.” It framed the projection as a “Black Swan” analysis, meaning an outlier event of extreme consequence but often understood as an unlikely one.
In other words, the Army’s projections on Feb. 3 for the worst-case scenario in the coronavirus outbreak are, as of this week, the absolute best-case scenario—if not a miraculous one.
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“Everyone wants a hero in a time of crisis. But while Cuomo has certainly been willing to play the part (convincingly enough that a few folks even want him to run for president), what he’s done away from the cameras is telling: using $2/hour prison labor to rebottle hand sanitizer, refusing to release elderly and sick incarcerated persons from Riker’s Island, and slashing Medicaid rather than raising taxes on the 0.01 wealthiest New Yorkers. These aren’t the sorts of measures that would save lives in this crucial moment, and they certainly won’t prevent future crises from happening.”
Here for the record is the story Reuters got suspended by the Iraqi authorities for writing. It says there are thousands of covid-19 cases in excess of the 772 reported by the government, and many more deaths than the 45 the government claims. https://t.co/qPHHTd1NLs
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) April 2, 2020
the simulation is moving too fast https://t.co/AyPhMauA75
— ceeks (@70Ceeks) April 2, 2020
This is concerning
After hearing the White House say critical supplies are going to commercial distributors who are then selling them to the states which are begging for help, I called @ltgrusselhonore who commanded federal troops after Hurricane Katrina to get his reaction. Watch this: pic.twitter.com/x7u3qoQ0v6
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 3, 2020
re: #113 Dread Pirate
A whole lot of people attacking that as Reuters or Western propaganda.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but: starting a GoFundMe because you’re unwilling to pay your workers what they deserve or do things well-within your power to help consumers in need is not charitable. It’s cheap.
— Katie Porter (@katieporteroc) April 2, 2020
YOU GUYS. My pest control guy literally just told me to get my mom out of Tucson because the Iranians and Mexican cartels are about to invade. He saw it on the news and got pissed when I started laughing. I DID NOT BELIEVE PEOPLE LIKE THIS WERE REAL
— icycoldone (@icycoldone) April 2, 2020
re: #118 goddamnedfrank
Back during the IS scare, a man I know swore to me that his friend who lived in TX had SEEN with his OWN EYES that Obama had a huge IS recruiting and training facility. I am sure the Republican Governor of TX was just too blind to see that all going on under his nose.
This is the best thing you’ll see today 💕💕
pic.twitter.com/wcj1YIRw0U— Akki (@akkitwts) April 3, 2020
Here’s an interesting thread about an actor that doesn’t qualify for medical insurance because the requirements for qualification are convoluted:
Today I join millions of Americans as an uninsured person.
I know there’s many urgent issues out there at the moment, but I felt the need to bring something to light. Bear with me if you will…1/— Lili Mirojnick (@lilimirojnick) April 1, 2020
We could see actors dying from not having health care.
re: #118 goddamnedfrank
They’re real, all right: The same sort who told my wife and me that they could never have travelled to Poland as we did, because ISIS was about to overrun the country.
As foretold in prophecy
Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll… send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.” pic.twitter.com/J96FY30k3y
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) December 4, 2019
re: #119 retired cynic
Back during the IS scare, a man I know swore to me that his friend who lived in TX had SEEN with his OWN EYES that Obama had a huge IS recruiting and training facility. I am sure the Republican Governor of TX was just too blind to see that all going on under his nose.
My nephew swore he saw orders signed by Obama that not only authorized detention camps but they were built while he was President and only The Republicans getting the Senate stopped him from imprisoning Xtians…
re: #119 retired cynic
Back during the IS scare, a man I know swore to me that his friend who lived in TX had SEEN with his OWN EYES that Obama had a huge IS recruiting and training facility. I am sure the Republican Governor of TX was just too blind to see that all going on under his nose.
Well, that was Rick Perry.
He was too busy weighing in on Jade Helm.
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re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Well, that was Rick Perry.
He was too busy weighing in on Jade Helm.
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I pointed that out to him, of course. Told him I didn’t believe that for a minute, and that I thought he was a fool to believe that Texas, in west Texas at that, would just let that go on and not say anything. It did slow him down. At least he stopped trying to sell me that particular story.
Remember Robert Hyde? He was the Connecticut contractor, congressional candidate and Trump mega-fan who somehow found his way into the Trump/Ukraine scandal. He was the guy updating Lev Parnas on the team he purportedly had surveilling US Ambassador Maria Yovanovich in Kyiv, Ukraine. Seems like a lifetime ago, right?
Well, he’s back. And he’s sitting on a stockpile of n95 masks. Or so he claims. This morning we saw this tweet in which Hyde announced he has ten million N95 and KN95 masks available for delivery, apparently through Finley Hyde & Associates, LLC the lobbying firm he established to provide access to Trump world power-brokers.
When Josh Kovensky contacted Hyde to ask how he got the masks and how much he was selling them for the story changed. Hyde said he doesn’t actually have any masks but seems to be trying to set up as a middleman. “We don’t have them. Sourcing agents contacted us and we’ve been paying them up with hospitals etc” and then “I help locate to get into our country to help save lives of our loved ones on the front lines.”
When Kovensky pointed out that this seemed to contradict his public claims, Hyde responded negatively: “What’s it contradict? That we sourced them to America and frontline loved ones. Are you on crack? Go help people. They are dying.”
Years from now, people talk about what they were doing the moment Jared saved humanity.
— TBogg (@tbogg) April 3, 2020
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— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 2, 2020
re: #129 gocart mozart
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Imagine being told to save the world and then actually believing you can do it because your father-in-law told you.
re: #129 gocart mozart
Notice that the primary goal is to “get things done at the speed that the president demands,” not to save the most people.
re: #131 jaunte
Notice that the primary goal is to “get things done at the speed that the president demands,” not to save the most people.
That’s because he is performing for one man, and it has nothing to do with the country at large.
You think COVID-19 is bad? Give me a break. Wait until Muslims hit critical mass in America. You’ll look back on these times fondly.
— Neal Boortz (@Talkmaster) April 1, 2020
That didn’t take long before an old angry white guy start spewing hatred about Muslims again
Jeez, it’s like every time this guy does crimes or gets thousands of Americans killed, they investigate him again! https://t.co/vPzn9DpZSx
— David Roberts (@drvox) April 3, 2020
re: #134 teleskiguy
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Does anyone wanna point Eric to the nine investigations including a select committee that were launched to look into the deaths of 4 Americans in a town few people had heard of prior to the 2012 elections?
2/ in short supply and customers who are willing to pay anything because they need it to prevent residents of their states from dying. The US doing airlifts to bring supplies from abroad for private contractors is part of this. But only one part.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 3, 2020
4/ political power there are fortunes to be made starting bidding wars for products people are literally dying for. This is much uglier than I think most people imagine. And it’s being made possible by no clear federal response or a federal response which wants to …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 3, 2020
And I will bet that there will be substantial contributions going to the trump 2020 campaign from just those people and companies who are making out like bandits. The same formula as the Gilded Age except so much more disgraceful and damaging
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 3, 2020
.@cagoldberglaw here is channeling the word of God. https://t.co/YPWabbgN0C
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 2, 2020
re: #137 gocart mozart
The invisible hand of the free market at work in the midst of a national emergency.
Coronavirus test kits planned for Laredo drive thru are likely fraudulent - Laredo Morning Times https://t.co/2HOkPQGOy3— Ricardo de Anda (@ricardo_de_anda) April 3, 2020
Fauci calls for federally mandated stay-at-home order: “I don’t understand why that’s not happening.” https://t.co/kulK1X5a47
— Zach Basu (@zacharybasu) April 3, 2020
“There is an increasing tone in the building of not a lot of faith and confidence in Esper.”
Trump’s Defense Secretary is under fire for the Pentagon’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Heckuva a read from @laraseligman and @BryanDBender. https://t.co/DGkzJbCKmd— Connor O’Brien (@connorobrienNH) April 2, 2020
Remarkable detail here on life within the White House’s National Security Council over the past three months:
While Trump and Mulvaney were downplaying the coronavirus threat publicly, their administration’s NSC staff knew it was going to get very bad.https://t.co/2um2wmTY7x— Sudeep Reddy | Wash Your Hands (@Reddy) April 3, 2020
Turrdles, all the way down.
re: #141 Dread Pirate
Not a lot of faith in Esper. Well, you hire a Raytheon lobbyist to be Defense Secretary, combined with “the buck stops somewhere over there” when any conservative anywhere is in charge, and that’s what you get.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
An airbridge, that’s one way to describe it. In France the word most often used is detournement (hijacking).
re: #139 Dread Pirate
Carrie A. Goldberg
@cagoldberglaw
IF SOME HOT CHICK APPROACHES YOU ON A DATING APP OR SOCIAL MEDIA AND WANTS TO MOVE TO KIK TO GIVE YOU A SHOW AND MAKE YOU CUM, DO NOT WHIP YOUR DICK OUT.THEY ARE NOT HORNY FOR YOU.
THEY ARE HORNY FOR YOUR GULLIBILITY AND WILL BLACKMAIL YOU WITH THE THREAT OF SHARING THE VIDEO.]
That’s exactly what Sister Mary Angela told us back in the day, but I think it was about the new Polaroid cameras.
re: #140 jaunte
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