Now that right there is some funky bass.
VULFPECK /// 3 on E (feat. Antwaun Stanley)
buy vinyl this month only → vuuulf.comAntwaun Stanley — vocals
Jack Stratton — drums, mixing, overdubs, composer
Joe Dart — bass
Cory Wong — guitar
Theo Katzman — guitar
Woody Goss — ocarina
Joey Dosik — percussion
Rob Stenson — lyric animations
Eric Ryan — engineer
Schadenfreude, it’s what’s for dinner.
This is bananas.
Florida Republicans intentionally made the unemployment-application system impossible to navigate so (1) they’d pay fewer benefits; and (2) they could pretend unemployment doesn’t exist.
Now they’re freaking about the political fallout.
Vote. For. Democrats. https://t.co/JvP72DTPUZ— Eli Savit (@EliNSavit) April 3, 2020
Never forget that this pandemic response is the quintessence, the distilled essence, the dream come to final grotesque fulfillment, of the 40 year Reagan/Gingrich/McConnell strategy, their fever-dream model of government as something that exists only to protect wealth.
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) April 3, 2020
From downstairs.re: #400 Dread Pirate
It’s pangolins. #COVID19
Researchers studied lung tissue from 12 of the scaled mammals that were illegally trafficked in Asia and found #SARSCoV2 in 3. The animals were found in Guangxi, China. Another virus+ smuggled pangolin sample found in Guangzhou.https://t.co/nAMQ292J0f pic.twitter.com/L17P8YY9o7— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 3, 2020
They eat pangolins, too.
I was only somewhat aware of pangolins until I saw a documentary on them last week.
Cutting edge technology, AKA “Freedom Razor” and “Citizen Steel”
Options. Always options pic.twitter.com/Jpjq6qAkL2
— joel bren (@chefjoelb) April 3, 2020
re: #5 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Cutting edge technology, AKA “Freedom Razor” and “Citizen Steel”
And there was much rejoicing. Yayyyy.
Trump was directly responsible for thousands of dead Americans long before the covid19 pandemic.
So covid19 is nothing new for him. Everything Trump touches dies, part one million and one.
Official Chinese statistics put Wuhan’s coronavirus death toll at 2,563. Evidence coming out of the city suggests it was actually more than 40,000. Our latest: https://t.co/6D2zHtAd17
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) April 3, 2020
re: #3 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From downstairs.
They eat pangolins, too.
I was only somewhat aware of pangolins until I saw a documentary on them last week.
Pangolins are going to freaking go extinct because of “traditional medicine” which is neither traditional nor medicine.
re: #4 Ace Rothstein
Why? Who needs to see a close up photo of an anus with teeth.
re: #3 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From downstairs.
They eat pangolins, too.
I was only somewhat aware of pangolins until I saw a documentary on them last week.
re: #5 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Cutting edge technology, AKA “Freedom Razor” and “Citizen Steel”
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I don’t care what happens - I will not dine on the Trump Administration.
re: #8 Dread Pirate
The numbers out of China are literally incredible. An outbreak on that scale cannot be flat-lined as advertised.
CL’ed
Regarding that Sun article about burning 5G masts. It is a thing. I went for a more reliable and respectable source of news and I found it. Here’s the Guardian:
Telecoms engineers are facing verbal and physical threats during the lockdown, as baseless conspiracy theories linking coronavirus to the roll-out of 5G technology spread by celebrities such as Amanda Holden prompt members of the public to abuse those maintaining vital mobile phone and broadband networks.
Facebook has removed one anti-5G group in which users were being encouraged to supply footage of them destroying mobile phone equipment, with some contributors seemingly under the pretence that it may stop the spread of coronavirus and some running leaderboards of where equipment had been targeted.
Video footage of a 70ft (20 metre) telephone mast on fire in Birmingham this week has also circulated widely alongside claims it was targeted by anti-5G protesters. Network operator EE told the Guardian that its engineers were still on site assessing the cause of the fire but it “looks likely at this time” that it was an arson attack.
There’s got to be a better word than Luddite. The Luddites were (rightly) afraid that their jobs were going away. These people are just nutters. Their jobs are not being threatened. Hell, their lives aren’t even being threatened. It’s like the people who were against smallpox vaccine. Someone have a better word???
re: #12 NetworkKed
I don’t care what happens - I will not dine on the Trump Administration.
All that fat can’t be healthy for a person.
re: #4 Ace Rothstein
How does he manage to make his mouth do that?
re: #17 jaunte
How does he manage to make his mouth do that?
Those Russian hookers managed to teach him a few things in that Moscow hotel room.
So last night I noticed that Albertsons had La Fin Du Monde on clearance, which seemed extreme apropos so I snagged a bunch.
Also I just drank one and definitely shouldn’t drive right now— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2020
Sure. Totally normal to joke about fucking models right after talking about death tolls in the hundreds of thousands.
New tone.
God I hate this timeline. https://t.co/XHdRwUQ91A— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
About those pangolins.
From the paper “… it is most closely related to bat coronavirus RaTG13 in the remainder of the viral genome.”
There will be more sequencing and that may change the conclusions, but let’s try to stick with what is known for now?— Heather “Possibly redundant by 2021” Hendrickson (@DrHHNZ) April 3, 2020
Incoming clarification
… the important point is that La Fin Du Monde is aptly named because it’s fucking my shit up over here
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2020
re: #19 goddamnedfrank
Your mouth has my sympathy. Why do the Belgians insist on ruining beer that way?
Working on a Chrome extension, really wishing the API was Promise-based instead of callbacks.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
re: #27 William Lewis
Your mouth has my sympathy. Why do the Belgians insist on ruining beer that way?
IT’S VERY GOOD BEER AND PAIRS EXTREMELY WELL WITH A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE!
This is a key precept of my new religion
Bill Maher is doing like the late night hosts, doing his show tonight on FaceTime with no audience, guests not in the same room.
Eric Garcetti, Max Brooks.
re: #30 goddamnedfrank
IT’S VERY GOOD BEER AND PAIRS EXTREMELY WELL WITH A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE!
This is a key precept of my new religion
Yeah, but coriander????
re: #30 goddamnedfrank
What wine goes best with Cap’n Crunch?
Have you seen this?
‘Take This Serious’: Bus Driver Dies Of COVID-19 After Calling Out Coughing Rider
Once you understand how to do the async/await pattern, callbacks seem like prehistoric technology.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
Just a total indifference to the loss of human life and widespread suffering by thousands of Americans. https://t.co/RDxvMZRROA
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 3, 2020
There is something extremely worrying and strange about this. Dmitriev who was involved in the Seychelles meet has given us his company’s coronavirus tests. I remember when he invested in this company last month but never thought those tests would be for us. pic.twitter.com/25T8JRUeeZ
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) April 3, 2020
Yes something is very wrong especially the company that is involved. Looks like money laundering
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) April 4, 2020
Setting the example as always: asking lenders for forbearance on paying them back and laying off employees. https://t.co/S7JFftPNox
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 4, 2020
“A lot of people cheat?” An absentee ballot is mailed to you and mailed back to the Board of elections to be counted. How does one cheat? What evidence do you ha….nevermind…
Oh, and it has been shown that vote by mail increases voter turnout by 10%. Ahhh, now I understand.. https://t.co/JRP7053E7X— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) April 3, 2020
re: #29 Charles Johnson
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There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States, either in-person or absentee. Period. Period. Period. Also, @realDonaldTrump voted absentee (read: by mail) as recently as the Florida primary a few weeks ago. https://t.co/YVMI4WrETv
— Bill Barrow (@BillBarrowAP) April 4, 2020
re: #40 jaunte
Never work for a Trump.
Terminal capitalism ensures a steady supply of those desperate enough to work for the likes of Trump.
In fact, that’s the whole point.
When you’re a cheater, you think every one else cheats.
Interesting ship CO firing timeline shared by a SWO source regarding the Roosevelt:
USS Fitzgerald Collision: 17 Jun 17
CO Relieved: 11 July 17
24 days
McCain Collision: 21 Aug
CO Relieved: 10 Oct
41 days
TR CO Sends Letter: 30 Mar
CO relieved: 2 Apr
2 days— Geoff Ziezulewicz (@JournoGeoffZ) April 3, 2020
MV FuckTrump
As I mentioned last week, @LarryRasky, a longtime adviser to @JoeBiden and Boston political legend, died suddenly on March 22. He had COVID-19.
His family has set up a memorial page for those who would like to share reflections.
You can find it here:https://t.co/S3Mg6Me7HL pic.twitter.com/jgo3SSsWmk— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 4, 2020
From the previous thread, almost got CL’d:
re: #311 Belafon
University of Kentucky is building a 400 bed field hospital at their football stadium.
re: #322 austin_blue
Which is great, except that it’s spring and tornado and thunderstrom season and it has no roof…
Quick clarification. The beds are being set up at the indoor practice facility. About two blocks away from the UK Hospital main building. UK has a very large hospital system. Less than a mile north of the hospital is Samaritan Hospital. Less than a mile south is Central Baptist Hospital. There are other hospitals in Lexington as well. But in reality, Lexington has to be the hospital hub for most of Eastern KY-for things that can’t be handled in much of the rural areas.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Just a total indifference to the loss of human life and widespread suffering by thousands of Americans. https://t.co/RDxvMZRROA
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 3, 2020
JUST IN: A second member of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division has also been ordered RELEASED.
Johnny Roman Garza allegedly took part in a nationwide conspiracy to target journalists and activists.
A federal judge in Seattle ordered him to be released this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/hpetKkrANl— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) April 4, 2020
Here is the order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida releasing Atomwaffen Division member Johnny Roman Garza from federal custody.
It says that a woman named Stacey Ehrig (a relative?) will be in charge of him while he’s out of custody. https://t.co/Tm9jrZ56ih— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) April 4, 2020
Globally, deaths now make up 21% of “closed cases”.
This troubles me.
Even if we assume that 10x as many have contracted SARS-Cov-2 as the number of counted cases, that means the death rate is still over 2%.
We desperately need the antibody test to be made available in huge quantities, because we need to get a handle on how many people really have contracted the virus.
re: #51 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
From the previous thread, almost got CL’d:
Quick clarification. The beds are being set up at the indoor practice facility. About two blocks away from the UK Hospital main building. UK has a very large hospital system. Less than a mile north of the hospital is Samaritan Hospital. Less than a mile south is Central Baptist Hospital. There are other hospitals in Lexington as well. But in reality, Lexington has to be the hospital hub for most of Eastern KY-for things that can’t be handled in much of the rural areas.
When I was doing archaeological surveys of the Big Sandy system (early 70’s) the medical services from UK were our entry to community acceptance.
COVID has officially hit close to home. The neighbor across the street called our house phone. Mom answered. Her 30-something year old son who lives two blocks away was found in his home dead. Estranged wife found him. He tested positive. The mother. Poor woman. She also lost her daughter many years ago because of a car accident. I don’t know how she’s going to be able to mourn given the climate today. Nobody should have to outlive both children. Fuck anyone not taking this seriously.
When Teacher puts you in charge while she runs an errand and the other children are NOT behaving pic.twitter.com/g1vQADd0Cc
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 3, 2020
re: #57 GlutenFreeJesus
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re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Globally, deaths now make up 21% of “closed cases”.
This troubles me.
Even if we assume that 10x as many have contracted SARS-Cov-2 as the number of counted cases, that means the death rate is still over 2%.
We desperately need the antibody test to be made available in huge quantities, because we need to get a handle on how many people really have contracted the virus.
Mayo Clinic reports that they may have something coming out next week.
This morning @RepRubenGallego & I requested the @DoD_IG to investigate Acting @SECNAV Modly for relieving Captain Crozier of command after he blew the whistle on #COVID19 spreading through the ship.
Here is the link to our letter:https://t.co/q7AHGvleGD… https://t.co/WRnLRYjNBE— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 3, 2020
Dear @realDonaldTrump: You are making the same mistake Jared Kushner made yesterday. The federal stockpile is for all Americans, not just for your family or federal employees. We are all Americans. Get it?#TrumpPressBriefing https://t.co/pHplag5QWk
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 3, 2020
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
You just know that motherfucker Trump wants to auction off the federal stockpile of medical supplies to the highest bidders and personally pocket all the proceeds.
re: #42 Unabogie
Isn’t that simple with the chrome API, unfortunately.
The battle to keep Americans from understanding what went on January to April is going to be one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in modern US history. https://t.co/p5yj7nP6bz Precisely because so much of it is public, confusion has to be made massive.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 3, 2020
“…More than 80 residents and employees at a Texas City nursing home have tested positive for the new coronavirus, the Galveston County Health District announced Friday.
The county health district announced late Thursday that it had tested 146 residents and employees at The Resort, a Texas City nursing home, after finding that 13 residents and employees tested positive for the virus last weekend. The health district became aware of the first positive case at The Resort on Saturday and saw an increase in positive coronavirus cases from the facility early this week.
The health district conducted the tests in partnership with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and some results are still pending.
houstonchronicle.com
— Vertebrate (@AngieGr60130939) April 3, 2020
re: #67 Dread Pirate
I disagree with Rosen’s thesis. Gaslighting the shit out of the history of the covid19 pandemic is nothing compared to the Great Both-Siderist Lie of the US political media.
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn: An ambulance is driving around blasting Bill Withers’ “Just The Two Of Us.”
There is solidarity all around us.
RIP Bill Withers. pic.twitter.com/mM8FmZhnA8— Ben Hallman (@nowandben) April 3, 2020
Ahem pic.twitter.com/TVkmkEEm5X
— Pervy Sage Bundle 💋 (@BadSalishHeart) April 3, 2020
Devin, you need to sue the Governor and Big Science🐮#DevinNunesIsAnIdiot https://t.co/OGsBIAs0iE
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) April 4, 2020
Trump to City: Drop Dead https://t.co/YMPyWd5ysJ
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 4, 2020
re: #51 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
From the previous thread, almost got CL’d:
Quick clarification. The beds are being set up at the indoor practice facility. About two blocks away from the UK Hospital main building. UK has a very large hospital system. Less than a mile north of the hospital is Samaritan Hospital. Less than a mile south is Central Baptist Hospital. There are other hospitals in Lexington as well. But in reality, Lexington has to be the hospital hub for most of Eastern KY-for things that can’t be handled in much of the rural areas.
Okay then. I thought they had misstated and they were setting it up at the Rupp Center.
In case you missed it, Trump is putting Fox News mouthpieces in charge of defense policy. https://t.co/Vr9EruUCJs
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
Can’t get a test? Test access is still atrocious, all over the US.
Today, though, they tested all the oil execs at a White House event.
The President said,“You know what? I like it. Let’s test these guys…If anybody wants to be tested, we’ll test them.”https://t.co/MwmPZMu3nx— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 3, 2020
Every day, in every way, the hellspawn of the Trump administration are working day and night to do evil. https://t.co/IVchDpBELo
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) April 4, 2020
re: #79 jaunte
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As someone who benefited greatly from the IEP program, I can’t express how much this angers me but hey Betsy bought the job fair and square.//
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m looking at that front page photo and my god I’m seeing something straight out of The Division. Goddamn you Ubisoft.
re: #80 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Both of my kids are on IEPs, being firmly on the spectrum. The good news is, my governor and my school system are both well-grounded, and I doubt they’ll mess anything up.
DCI Rahman is survived by his wife Sadia and 4 sons, the FDNY says.
He was 59 years old. pic.twitter.com/VrdrJCUpRs— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) April 3, 2020
The point I’m arriving at is the Republican Party is hot sweaty garbage
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2020
re: #83 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Both of my kids are on IEPs, being firmly on the spectrum. The good news is, my governor and my school system are both well-grounded, and I doubt they’ll mess anything up.
Thankfully here too.
People elected Trump to hurt people.
Man did they ever get their wish.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
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re: #88 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Watergate too. I just don’t get how anyone can be a partisan Republican with their record of consistently failed presidential leadership.
God, Guns, Abortion.
Retired Navy Captain Larry Seaquist is not mincing words, in support of Captain Brett Crozier, who was just relieved of command of the USS Teddy Roosevelt. pic.twitter.com/lC2gpqjcC9
— VoteVets (@votevets) April 3, 2020
re: #89 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
God, Guns, Abortion.
I’m glad that my mom’s parents just never fell for that. They never stopped being religious, Grandpa never stopped liking guns, and Grandma while she didn’t like abortion understood why it needed to be legal but they were New Deal Democrats till the end. I’ll always look at my maternal grandparents as fairly conservative compared to my Dad’s since I can’t imagine my mom’s parents having a martini together as my dad’s did or my mom’s father enjoying the 2000 year old man sketch but when I think about it, my grandmother did love Golden Girls and I remember they had a VHS of comic legends from the 40’s and 50’s that I watched a couple times at their old house when I was a little kid. I think my Grandpa liked Red Buttons. Not sure though since it’s been so long and I obviously can’t ask him.
This is a headline every American should see: “Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses”
Donald Trump’s shortsighted actions left our nation ill-prepared to deal with this outbreak. https://t.co/P9zT0a3mNg— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 3, 2020
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is why Trump wanted to make Hunter Biden the real perp of his Ukraine shenanigans. He knows that Biden will expose him for the fraud he is because Biden more than any other Democrat that ran has an intimate understanding of what Presidents should and should not be doing.
re: #51 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
From the previous thread, almost got CL’d:
Quick clarification. The beds are being set up at the indoor practice facility. About two blocks away from the UK Hospital main building. UK has a very large hospital system. Less than a mile north of the hospital is Samaritan Hospital. Less than a mile south is Central Baptist Hospital. There are other hospitals in Lexington as well. But in reality, Lexington has to be the hospital hub for most of Eastern KY-for things that can’t be handled in much of the rural areas.
Thanks. My son lives there, and last year walked in at about 4 in the morning with his abdomen hurting, and by 10 had his appendix out, and was back home by 5pm.
re: #85 goddamnedfrank
Teapot Dome set the GOP baseline for corruption. Any ‘party of big business’ is going to be at least as corrupt as that.
The civil rights realignment and the resulting accumulation of most of the nation’s cranks, know-nothings and bigots into the GOP has created a toxic religious/political cult, where rampant corruption is justified because it pisses off liberals.
“America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected”: In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask https://t.co/ywoSuLOPYP pic.twitter.com/czY3JAN0rr
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 3, 2020
Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, on Jared Kushner: “I don’t believe he knows what the hell he is talking about.” pic.twitter.com/nqDxyT6TAX
— David Gura 🏡 (@davidgura) April 4, 2020
OMG the drama.
pic.twitter.com/SJmYlgIpSp— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) April 4, 2020
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was wondering why his name got brought up as a possible defense secretary the otehr night.
THIS IS THE ASSHOLE WHO FIRED CROZIER???
THE SAME DOUCHEBAG WHO CRIED BECAUSE HE HAD TO WAIT TO GET HIS PRECIOUS ENGLISH MUFFINS???? https://t.co/YTYY4EZd7G— the warax. 🦛💨 (@iAmTheWarax) April 4, 2020
re: #93 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
This is why Trump wanted to make Hunter Biden the real perp of his Ukraine shenanigans. He knows that Biden will expose him for the fraud he is because Biden more than any other Democrat that ran has an intimate understanding of what Presidents should and should not be doing.
And he was there in 2016. He likely was briefed as VP on the extent of Russian meddling in the election, and he knows things. And Trump knows he knows them.
On another note - what is up with that swoopy arm motion he’s been doing lately?
“The professionals did the models, I was never involved in a model … at least this kind of model.”
😱💀 pic.twitter.com/AgOsiPYMfR— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) April 3, 2020
While Trump was making fake time covers to hang in his shitty golf clubs here is a real one from 2017. pic.twitter.com/JzGwucSZFf
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 4, 2020
re: #100 jaunte
The ACTUAL FUCK?!
Does Modly even know how the Navy fucking works? Six weeks to get English muffins is a DAMN RUSH JOB! He was lucky!
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trumpworld is stuck on fucking stupid. Their incompetence, malice, ignorance, and dumbfuckery continues to leave a body count in its wake.
Heck, Bush recognized his failed Katrina response needed to be fixed and fast. He brought in an expert to straighten things out.
Trump has no such intention or capacity to do so. He will continue to lie as the bodies pile up.
7000+ from covid19
4000+ from Maria in Puerto Rico.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone or anything unless he thinks he has an angle he can benefit from something.
Great. The crusty old war criminal is awake enough to put his name on a Wall Street Journal opinion column. Just what the world needs. https://t.co/UrO1yBMTqW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
On a six figure salary, he can just buy his own damn muffins.
re: #106 jaunte
On a six figure salary, he can just buy his own damn muffins.
You clearly don’t know how to be rich./////
Look how well I’ve trained my human. Best game ever. #dogsoftwitter pic.twitter.com/J9hKQNaoyM
— Barry the Cockapoo (@CockapooBarry) April 3, 2020
re: #101 makeitstop
And he was there in 2016. He likely was briefed as VP on the extent of Russian meddling in the election, and he knows things. And Trump knows he knows them.
On another note - what is up with that swoopy arm motion he’s been doing lately?
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People are talking about curves, and it stuck in his syphilis-riddled brain.
Ben Garrison usually makes Trump look like some kind of chiseled Adonis, but here he’s gone with Martin Short in “Clifford” pic.twitter.com/Kb0f750gqy
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 4, 2020
WHOA… quake…rolling, two waves…
Two distinct waves, multiple rolling in each.
If this was way out in the desert as I expect, this was a big one.
There was a small quake at Palomar about an hour ago, but this was way too big to be that.
re: #111 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Initial report: 4.6 quake near Anza CA.
4.6 out in Anza, northeast part of San Diego county area.
re: #111 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
WHOA… quake…rolling, two waves…
So how far are you from the Yellowstone Caldera? Just askin’.
re: #115 lawhawk
This was pretty strong here, and I’m a good 50 miles away from Anza.
There was an quake in Idaho when I was listening to Josh Ritter play a show from his home the other night. We’re about to head into tornado season too.
USGS now says there was a whole cluster at Anza, not just a single quake.
re: #110 gocart mozart
You just know that Ben Garrison rakes in extra cash from rich, demented redcaps by drawing Trump with a three-foot long thundercock in private commissions.
The President gets his every lying utterance covered as if it is fact. Why would he be humbled when the media bends over backward to normalize his crazy rants, when cable tv reporters encourage us to applaud him, when not being a buffon for ten mins gets “somber tone” headlines. https://t.co/Asmmq73OIQ
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) April 4, 2020
Just had a Earthquake jolt in San Diego, just one quick hit
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 4, 2020
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah, and followed up with 3 smaller quakes - got yourself a swarm.
Hope those aren’t foreshocks of something bigger in the offing.
re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The ACTUAL FUCK?!
Does Modly even know how the Navy fucking works? Six weeks to get English muffins is a DAMN RUSH JOB! He was lucky!
Rich assholes think on an entirely different plane. Act that way, too. DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?? Yeah. Lite that.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not to mention the Great Both-Siderist Lie as a foundation for normalizing Trump.
They always start with the Pet Me command. After that, we are doomed.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 4, 2020
Up graded to 4.9. Felt stronger, how far away I am. I felt all four.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
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The defeat was mostly caused by a pandemic during the Spartan Wars…..Typhoid Fever.
re: #103 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The ACTUAL FUCK?!
Does Modly even know how the Navy fucking works? Six weeks to get English muffins is a DAMN RUSH JOB! He was lucky!
Obviously doesn’t know any cumshaw artists.
A pathological liar can triumph around the clock when reporting is reduced to the level of mere stenography
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) April 3, 2020
….there is something wholly and frustratingly ironic in this reply, and I just don’t know where. Hrm….
re: #125 lawhawk
Yeah, and followed up with 3 smaller quakes - got yourself a swarm.
Hope those aren’t foreshocks of something bigger in the offing.
Lots of aftershocks, at varying depths, about 2km difference in depths.
This part of the mountains is pretty remote: goo.gl
Near the border of San Diego and Riverside counties. Beautiful wilderness but dry, except for the mountain peaks which get enough rain and snow to have some trees. Area is full of faults, always active.
re: #90 jaunte
I support the VoteVets organization. They had a petition to sign today in support of Captain Crozier.
Soon, the GOP ringleaders will face hordes of destitute Bubbas roaming the streets with AR-15s, the same AR-15s the GOP encouraged them to buy.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) April 4, 2020
Don’t mean to be a bummer, but I’ve talked to several people today who are trying not to panic about what it means to shut down the world’s economy for months.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
re: #132 Citizen K
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The 800lb gorilla in the room is that Trump is the very model of a modern Republican.
There is no pathology in Trump that is not also dominant within the Republican party.
Therefore the media must normalize Trump as long as they continue with the Great Both-Siderist Lie of pretending that Republicans are a normal center-right political party.
They aren’t. They are as floridly malicious and insane as Trump himself.
The farm manager and his wife are in their house about 100 yards away. The nearest other person is half a mile away. I have plenty of food, my own water supply, fuel, and, if needed, my own electricity. It is one of the safest places in the world. Yet I still feel like running away and trying to hide somewhere. There is nowhere to hide.
It’s going to be our generation’s Depression. Inevitable. but things happen faster now. We fell fast, but can and with good leadership, recover fast. But head-spinning times no doubt.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) April 4, 2020
re: #137 Charles Johnson
I know we don’t like to compare this to a war, but it is in many senses, including this one. And like before, we will have to restructure.
re: #137 Charles Johnson
On one hand …yep. On the other hand, what’s the effect of letting this rip through unchecked? What are the economic consequences of that?
Like so many, many things, there are no really good choices here.
That said, my negroni and I are not looking at the stock account balance for a while.
re: #138 EPR-radar
The 800lb gorilla in the room is that Trump is the very model of a modern Republican.
There is no pathology in Trump that is not also dominant within the Republican party.
Therefore the media must normalize Trump as long as they continue with the Great Both-Siderist Lie of pretending that Republicans are a normal center-right political party.
They aren’t. They are as floridly malicious and insane as Trump himself.
It just feels like there’s some disconnect there when someone with an NYT twitter handle says that. And then NYT continues to run away with the normalization gold medal.
re: #142 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On one hand …yep. On the other hand, what’s the effect of letting this rip through unchecked? What are the economic consequences of that?
Like so many, many things, there are no really good choices here.
That said, my negroni and I are not looking at the stock account balance for a while.
As I told a MAGAt on FB the other day, if 4 million people die, it will wreck the economy for a hundred years no matter how many stores, bars, and resorts stay open.
Because she doesn’t want to see the country fail.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 4, 2020
re: #137 Charles Johnson
We have not has a pandemic like this in a century. So this is the first time nations around the world have acted so quickly to prevent millions of people dying.
Recent epidemics were regional and while high death rates of SARS and MERS made them scary, with rapid reaction the nations affected were able to contain them.
HIV is a slow rolling pandemic, but contracting the virus is just not as easy as an airborne or fomite-carried virus.
So we are sort of in a new regime here.
re: #144 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
As I told a MAGAt on FB the other day, if 4 million people die, it will wreck the economy for a hundred years no matter how many stores, bars, and resorts stay open.
I lied, we’ve actually looked. mr. klys was planning to retire in September. Still might. We’ll see. In the meantime, hi negroni.
Grateful the crash has come now and not next year. It’s a lot more comfortable to be where we are versus on the other side of it.
On another note:
The states who aren’t trolling sketchy parking lot deals on Craigslist and hiding their deliveries from the Feds are gonna miss out, and I wish I was joking. https://t.co/8aXh8yWQ0K
— Courtney Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan) April 4, 2020
Of fucking course….. https://t.co/LIaWnxCqLF
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 4, 2020
Trump likes inspectors generals who ignore his criming. https://t.co/x6a6tzRq4K
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 4, 2020
Damn. The shit is getting deep tonight.
!! BREAKING from @NatashaBertrand: Trump has fired the intelligence community inspector general, Michael Atkinson, who first informed Congress of the existence of the Ukraine whistleblower report.https://t.co/0fSyHXXF97
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) April 4, 2020
I see a mistake in that letter. It calls Richard Burr “honorable.”
I mean I know at this point “Never let a crisis go to waste” is banal and even trite, and yet that’s exactly what this regime is doing as far as covering its tracks from Trump being impeached.
Just a few months ago. https://t.co/aM5izokSD7— The Zandarlorian (@ZandarVTS) April 4, 2020
It’s like screaming into the void and hearing nothing back.
Abhorrent & Soviet. The man doesn’t believe in checks and balances. And yet our Founders wrote those checks and balances precisely to restrain someone like him. https://t.co/wckDc1kYhg
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) April 4, 2020
re: #150 Charles Johnson
Damn. The shit is getting deep tonight.
How many day ending in day massacres have we had under Trump? And Colonel Vindman being humiliated by the WH seems like ages ago. I bet he’s glad he got removed though. He’s probably assigned to a place where people around him actually have hygiene and brains and don’t get their news from Pete “I’m a dummy who doesn’t believe in germs” Hegskith.
Trump and his cronies are taking advantage of the pandemic to advance their far right agenda, consolidate their power, and eliminate anyone who isn’t a sycophant to the dear leader.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
re: #154 jaunte
All he understands about executive power comes from listening to autocrats. There’s a reason why they are his best friends in international politics.
re: #157 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
When you’re a Tsar they let you do it.
re: #156 Charles Johnson
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We’re going to have a hollow shell of a gov’t left by the time Trump is out, if he hasn’t turned it into a de facto autocracy by that point. Even if/when we get power back, repairing the damage will take all our lifetimes, under the best of circumstances.
re: #147 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I lied, we’ve actually looked. mr. klys was planning to retire in September. Still might. We’ll see. In the meantime, hi negroni.
Grateful the crash has come now and not next year. It’s a lot more comfortable to be where we are versus on the other side of it.
I was planning on retiring early in July. I’m lucky that I have a work pension to go with my SS, but I have a deferred comp account too that was down about 20% last time I looked. I’m starting to lose faith that I can count on the SS not somehow getting looted by TrumpCo and McConnell. I don’t know what the hell I want to do now. If I keep working, I still want to get out by September. I don’t know if it will make a bit of difference to keep working up until I know who the next president is.
Apparently putting a guy with a decades-long history of screwing investors and contractors and committing public frauds in charge of the federal government was a bad idea https://t.co/jONerC7hmQ
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) April 4, 2020
re: #160 stpaulbear
I was planning on retiring early in July. I’m lucky that I have a work pension to go with my SS, but I have a deferred comp account too that was down about 20% last time I looked. I’m starting to lose faith that I can count on the SS not somehow getting looted by TrumpCo and McConnell. I don’t know what the hell I want to do now. If I keep working, I still want to get out by September. I don’t know if it will make a bit of difference to keep working up until I know who the next president is.
People have been predicting the imminent demise of SS for at least 3 decades. Obviously I can’t guarantee that it will always be there, but I would say it is very likely that it will be.
re: #160 stpaulbear
I was planning on retiring early in July. I’m lucky that I have a work pension to go with my SS, but I have a deferred comp account too that was down about 20% last time I looked. I’m starting to lose faith that I can count on the SS not somehow getting looted by TrumpCo and McConnell. I don’t know what the hell I want to do now. If I keep working, I still want to get out by September. I don’t know if it will make a bit of difference to keep working up until I know who the next president is.
You’re a lot closer to drawing on that SS than we are.
Which is why it’s not actually counted on in our retirement planning except as an additional layer in the safety net. Along with some form of inheritance from either side of the family. (If none of this comes through we should still be okay. It’s just gravy if it does. But the time with him is worth far more to me than a set amount of income, as long as we can manage together, and that’s a big part of what drives wanting to start the next phase. On the other hand, finding out the results of Nov and what that will mean for things like …health insurance… would also be good. So…)
On the plus side, we’d been taking action to prepare for this and were in a more conservative asset mix than before (and than we intend to stay in long term) so that’s a small silver lining.
re: #161 gocart mozart
Governor Walz of Minnesota called it “concerning” and “a roadblock” when he threatened to clap 3M with a DPA order on their respirator production. It’s almost like he anticipated Trump’s response, tried to do an end-run around it, and now he’s pissed because the President* is trying to screw him over because he’s the Democratic governor of a Democratic state.
re: #162 calochortus
People have been predicting the imminent demise of SS for at least 3 decades. Obviously I can’t guarantee that it will always be there, but I would say it is very likely that it will be.
Agreed, but it doesn’t hurt for us younger Lizards to …plan for a worst case scenario, as it were.
(Or if the German supermarket is all out of sausage and cheese, a wurst käse scenario.)
re: #165 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I cannot claim ownership of that pun but man, what I wouldn’t do for some good käsespäztle right now.
Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.
It puts our country and national security at even greater risk. pic.twitter.com/Pnm7chdIkl— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 4, 2020
So Trump just fired the IG who received the whistleblower’s report about the Ukraine shit.
BREAKING: Trump has fired the intelligence community’s chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, saying he no longer has confidence in him. He will be removed 30 days from now. https://t.co/0iz6On0aH3
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 4, 2020
re: #165 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Agreed, but it doesn’t hurt for us younger Lizards to …plan for a worst case scenario, as it were.
(Or if the German supermarket is all out of sausage and cheese, a wurst käse scenario.)
Absolutely correct. But if one does need it, it wouldn’t get too worried about it going away. Imagine all those older people who are hard core dedicated voters losing their SS. And I don’t think they’re going to be enthused about taking away financial security for their children in their old age either.
(I won’t dignify your wurst käse pun with a reply ;) )
It may have only been a 4.9, but the quake was felt from Tijuana to Bakersfield: earthquake.usgs.gov
Oh? It’s just Trump doing a purge during a pandemic. No biggie. Remember that time Obama put arugula on his burger, wasn’t he an awful elitist!
re: #170 calochortus
Absolutely correct. But if one does need it, it wouldn’t get too worried about it going away. Imagine all those older people who are hard core dedicated voters losing their SS. And I don’t think they’re going to be enthused about taking away financial security for their children in their old age either.
(I won’t dignify your wurst käse pun with a reply ;) )
I think means testing is absolutely within the realm of possibility! Which still agrees that if you need it, it isn’t going away.
I’ve also done projections of what we would get if benefits were cut to, say, 70%.
(Now I really want currywurst or another negroni. One of these things is technically doable in the house.)
I underestimated my distance to the epicenter. It is about 90 kilometers away. The shaking seemed pretty strong for a 4.9 at that distance.
Had a little bit of the Twist N Shout here in my part of Los Angeles…
re: #172 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh? It’s just Trump doing a purge during a pandemic. No biggie. Remember that time Obama put arugula on his burger, wasn’t he an awful elitist!
He also let 3/4ths of the country die on his watch during the H1N1 crisis because he hated America so much!
This entire thread, and most of the comments on it, have aged incredibly badly. https://t.co/xqsyT86pDO
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 4, 2020
re: #177 Ace-o-aces
This entire thread, and most of the comments on it, have aged incredibly badly.
Not that you could tell from how much continued deference is in the mainstream coverage toward conservative ‘thinkers’.
Spoke to my beautiful friend last night - a lung doctor in the nhs. She said, while its a lovely gesture, instead of just clapping please could you just never ever vote conservative again.
— Hollie McNish (@holliepoetry) April 2, 2020
re: #164 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Governor Walz of Minnesota called it “concerning” and “a roadblock” when he threatened to clap 3M with a DPA order on their respirator production. It’s almost like he anticipated Trump’s response, tried to do an end-run around it, and now he’s pissed because the President* is trying to screw him over because he’s the Democratic governor of a Democratic state.
Charlie Baker is the Republican governor of Massachusetts. The federal government has outbid us for supplies and seized orders we have placed. In order to get masks, Bob Kraft bought and flew in 1.7 million masks on the Patriots Plane (300,000 of those masks are for New York). The MA state government had to coordinate this with Kraft, the Chinese Ambassador, the Governor of Alaska and several other individuals to make this happen. It fucking ludicrous.
The Senate GOP acted like it was absurd to act like Trump would abuse his power for political reasons. He’s done that and more in the months since. They can try to make excuses for the impeachment impacting Trump’s ability to respond to the crisis all they fucking want but we all saw him doing the same stupid rallies, the same stupid tweets, and the same stupid whining throughout that. Trump was impeached and should have been removed for the same reasons he’s fucking up the Covid response. He’s unfit to be President because he thinks the American people serve him and not the other way around and I hope he lives to see himself put on trial and especially to see his precious Ivanka sentenced with him.
Italy is flattening the curve
Today’s new data is nearly identical to yesterday’s. pic.twitter.com/4ChgCkIfKv
— Jacob Long (@jacobandrewlong) April 3, 2020
I really like how none of Mike Garcia’s TV ads here in CA-25 mention the fact that he’s a Republican.
It’s some small reassurance knowing that he knows he’s a rancid piece of shit who belongs to a toxic death cult— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2020
re: #172 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh? It’s just Trump doing a purge during a pandemic. No biggie. Remember that time Obama put arugula on his burger, wasn’t he an awful elitist!
He can multi-task. Take that libtards!
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
To all of those that use 9/11 as a cudgel, only to turn around and crow about blue state failure in the face of a global pandemic and massive federal failure, I say to you-
Fuck. Off.
(Keep thinking: I’ve a Masters in Public Health; wrote my doctoral dissertation on global efforts to tackle AIDS pandemic; co-authored a book on global health governance; teach MPH courses on health systems & global health & I’m not qualified to lead a national #covid19 effort.)
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) April 4, 2020
There will be another rescue package, probably w a major infrastructure component. There will likely be more urgency because red states are about to feel the real impact of the virus because of the perfidy of their governors.@speakerpelosi has to make vote protection top priority
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 4, 2020
re: #185 CBGB
To all of those that use 9/11 as a cudgel, only to turn around and crow about blue state failure in the face of a global pandemic and massive federal failure, I say to you-
Fuck. Off.
I really never want to hear again about THOSE BLUE STATE ELITISTS LOOK DOWN ON US. Y’all are okay with blue state residents fucking dying because their governors criticize Trump. Fuck you but especially fuck your Trump and delusions that he made a better President than HRC because you couldn’t get your sorry ass over the fact that she was more presidential than anyone the GOP would have ran against her.
re: #186 Disloyal Archangel
Unlike Ivanka, Chelsea is actually intelligent. Ivanka is there to just look pretty and to make people forget that she stinks as much as her father does.
re: #171 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Honestly felt nothing here in the valley.
sparks joy ✨ pic.twitter.com/IOdCmCYQg3
— Lee Sova Claypool (@lee_gsc) April 4, 2020
What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 3, 2020
Even those who once claimed to adore him could see that this day, this week, this terror was far beyond the meager capacities of a minor entertainer—a has-been playboy elected only to gall the smug elites. Now he was killing them.
— Douglas A. Blackmon (@douglasblackmon) April 3, 2020
Do not worry about the San Andreas. A M4.9 can only affect an area a few miles across. But the San Jacinto fault itself is capable of major M≥7 quakes and the chance of a quake on the San Jacinto is now increased. The chance of a quake of M≥6 is less than 1% https://t.co/m62JN4UhcO
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) April 4, 2020
Two years and 11 months ago
Trump’s Katrina will be a deadly pandemic. https://t.co/e4rMUQOAqs
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 5, 2017
Nearly three years later, this tweet has aged terrifyingly well… #TrumpPandemic #COVID19 https://t.co/9666cZEHmm
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 4, 2020
re: #192 sagehen
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What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 3, 2020
re: #130 Florida Panhandler
A walled city is directly what led to the collapse of the ancient Athenians.
The defeat was mostly caused by a pandemic during the Spartan Wars…..Typhoid Fever.
Uh, no. The plague at Athens happened in 430, the war lasted until 404. (Was it typhoid? Opinions vary….)
re: #196 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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“Impenetrable walls went up on both the northern and southern borders in a matter of weeks, and at the time we did not know that they were meant to keep us in.”
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