“Sail On” appears on Tommy Emmanuel’s album “The Best of Tommysongs.” It was written, performed, and produced by Tommy. He plays his TE Personal Custom Maton on this song. The video was directed and edited by Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard with Neighborhoods Apart.
Works for me…
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
#breaking: @GovofCO is asking all Coloradoans to wear cloth coverings when they are going out of the house to do things like go to the grocery store. However, the Governor says non-medical masks should be worn to save resources. @DenverChannel pic.twitter.com/Y4kTlWquGo
— Meghan Lopez (@Meghan_Lopez) April 3, 2020
Ambulances from Indiana, Ohio, Massachusetts, Minnesota and more, waiting for calls in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens pic.twitter.com/CNXxf0hT5n
— katie honan (@katie_honan) April 3, 2020
Here’s @jaredpolis’ remarks to @donlemon on CNN a few minutes ago… #copolitics pic.twitter.com/KZf2hmCc3O
— Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ (@JesseAPaul) April 4, 2020
Colorado is a blue state. And our one Republican senator is starting to get cold feet in re: slobbering devotion to Fuckface Von Clownstick.
Someone is getting worried enough about his re-election that he is starting to break away, ever so slightly, from the Trump cult. https://t.co/tKuB68xyom
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) April 3, 2020
“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.”
— rabia O’chaudry (@rabiasquared) April 3, 2020
Car accident.
Arianne Caoili, Chess Master, Is Dead at 33 https://t.co/vxxF9Y07Yp
— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) April 4, 2020
My daughter called me in a crying panic. She has the virus and was terrified to go to the hospital as advised by her doctor. We discussed her symptoms and decided that I would call her every hour and if she got worse, we would call the hospital for instructions. She is 22 and this is day 5 of symptoms. I ended up getting her Albuterol from the Walgreens and left if for her. She is doing much better - sleeping. She said not to call till morning.
My wife cannot have gall bladder surgery due to two severe concussions she received in March. She hit her head on a metal table after a fall..then was hit in a car accident by someone not paying attention on her first day attempting to drive. Anesthesia and concussions don’t play well together - possible permanent damage.
Shit…seriously. I have so much anger with Trump and enabling Republicans.
I imagine being a super volunteer for any democrat up for election. I would guess a lot of people feel this way.
What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 3, 2020
It wasn’t so much a fear of dying, but rather the knowledge that what was happening was worse than death—that the future would be one endless day of nothingness.
“It was amidst the bleating of the fools and the fervent clamoring of the zealots that the fates conspired to bring their very wishes upon us all, to the collective horror of the watchful world.”
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 4, 2020
he will suppress his own voters - older voters afraid to go out. https://t.co/yCcwDfYQOw
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 4, 2020
What is The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgian Bay, eh?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 4, 2020
I’m not exactly prone to conspiratorial thinking, but they’re definitely trying to make things as bad as possible in blue states so they can point to the ‘destructiveness’ of liberal governance, right?
re: #13 CBGB
I’m not exactly prone to conspiratorial thinking, but they’re definitely trying to make things as bad as possible in blue states so they can point to the ‘destructiveness’ of liberal governance, right?
Which might have worked except he fired a captain for taking care of his crew. Oh, and it’s getting out there what’s happening with the stuff being confiscated.
Common Name(s):Sticky Monkey Flower
Scientific Name:Diplacus aurantiacus
Family:Phrymaceae (Lopseed)
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re: #10 Disloyal Archangel
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I keep trying to write the first paragraph of this memoir of The Terror but the anger and hurt and the still lingering fear of the revolution that followed in the footsteps of the plague leaves me speechless instead.
re: #15 Belafon
lol as if that will matter
It should, but none of the granular details will matter, at all.
I won’t begrudge Shaun if he sets up a gofundme for Twitter burn victims and keeps 100% this time for himself. pic.twitter.com/pOZmO5Hx25
— TBogg (@tbogg) April 4, 2020
She snagglepussed her way out of there pic.twitter.com/Sv5cgDfZ3L
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 4, 2020
re: #21 gocart mozart
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I’ve said this before but this feels like we’re in a horror movie and that eventually it will be announced the polar ice caps are releasing pathogens that haven’t been seen in millennium that affects humanity, animals/aquatic life, plants, & bugs #COVID19 #coronavirus https://t.co/GfZPO2foBv
— Black Cherry Nerd (@cherry_LA) April 4, 2020
I miss hanami in Osaka and Nara. Anyway, surprised to see so many people out, not a lot of social distancing though of course lots of masks.
It’s Saturday afternoon in Osaka so a lot of people are not at work, but I expected there to be fewer people out and about. Doesn’t seem they are doing much different than a normal year hanami.
Trump announced Friday that he has nominated his own special assistant, Brian Miller, to be the Inspector General that will oversee that $500 billion slush fund. Anybody else think this is another fox in the henhouse moment? 😡😡😡👇https://t.co/vkJeKfY2tB
— Ladywolf (@NorskLadyWolf) April 4, 2020
When the Coronavirus-induced shutdown ends, hundreds, possibly thousands of dormant planes will have to return to service.
I hope the mechanics are ready.
BIGGEST TWIST ENDINGS
3) fight club
2) the sixth sense
1) the song “row row row your boat”— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) April 3, 2020
Singer Pink says she had COVID-19 and is donating $500,000 each to two emergency funds. https://t.co/IVw14uqFFf
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 4, 2020
Good point. Too distracted by impeachment to handle a pandemic, but not so distracted right now as people are dying byh the thousands that he can’t take time to fire a career public servant as petty revenge. https://t.co/23mlQTKxtR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 4, 2020
I didn’t hear about the supplies bound for Germany:
White House scrambles to scoop up medical supplies worldwide, angering Canada, Germany
Officials from Berlin say the U.S. even hijacked a shipment of masks in Thailand that was bound for Germanyhttps://t.co/rC13gkfmKt— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) April 4, 2020
The #FBI has issued an #alert about state-sponsored #hackers using the Kwampirs #malware to attack supply chain companies and other #industry sectors as part of a global hacking campaign. 😟https://t.co/6uzaNDOv0F
— CyberGhost VPN (@CyberGhost_EN) April 2, 2020
re: #33 Belafon
I didn’t hear about the supplies bound for Germany:
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Both the Canadian orders and the German orders were from 3M. Trump has decided that he’s going to fuck with their business.
re: #35 stpaulbear
Both the Canadian orders and the German orders were from 3M. Trump has decided that he’s going to fuck with their business.
Considering he tried to get that one German company to produce vaccine exclusively for the US and only the US? Par for the fucking course for this guy.
Pro tip: You can’t touch your face if you’re holding a glass of wine in each hand.
— Ann Snyder (@lifeinthePNW) April 1, 2020
Not my state, but:
🚨 BREAKING: State Rep. Bob Glanzer has died after testing positive for COVID-19, family and South Dakota House of Representatives Majority Leader have both confirmed tonight. More to come from #KELONews pic.twitter.com/M1fGhiWsnc
— Michael Geheren (@mgeheren) April 4, 2020
“These machines can “possibly increase the spread of infectious disease by aerosolizing the virus..”
Low-information, high-net worth white men in America are really gonna get us all killed. https://t.co/GiZFQx7KxK— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) April 4, 2020
#Spotlight: As toilet roll becomes symbol of #coronavirus-era panic buying, the #bidet gains traction in #US and #Europe. Yet it was #France that gave the world the word ‘bidet’ https://t.co/IdwkUaUD03 pic.twitter.com/s8C66XJWUI
— Arab News (@arabnews) April 4, 2020
re: #21 gocart mozart
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I’m scrolling through my twitter feed - obviously - and there are so many comments about Shaun.
Sometimes I just wanna grab a torch and march on DC. https://t.co/uziAnORClp
— Elizabeth Rogers (@ahumorlessfem) April 4, 2020
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
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They may not be that useless. Cuomo has been talking about converting bipaps all week.
re: #24 Targetpractice
Few things as soul-nourishing as watching assholes like Talcum X getting owned.
Except for inventing new names for him…Thurgood Partial, Feelgood Marshall, Martin Luther Keyboard, and today’s favorite, Snow J. Simpson!
re: #21 gocart mozart
He’s digging:
Multiple people who co-sponsored Medicare for All have bailed.
Many others who ran for President, & co-sponsored it, hardly supported it by the time their campaign ended.
I had NO intention on having a gotcha moment with @brianschatz.
Just wanted to gauge his current support pic.twitter.com/GbnLOE3pcr— Shaun King (@shaunking) April 4, 2020
Looks like an active night in the crust of the planet over the western US. Cluster near the Riverside/San Diego border (which I am feeling), another up in the high desert where the big one was a few months ago, and now in central Idaho.
The one I just felt was a 3.6, part of that same cluster. I wonder if a few mountains are slipping down an inch or two?
Also, there are too many likes in this one from Shaun:
Here’s a hint: He didn’t stumble into anything. He’s killing people and you’re falling for his act.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 4, 2020
re: #50 Belafon
Anand has gone around the bend. Just after I followed him. Pity.
Oh sweet fucking lord. People trying to un-cancel Andrew Yang saying that his op-ed was just about ‘practical solutions’ and how ‘no one else is putting solutions forward’.
When he’s saying the same exact status quo shit that every single fucking minority has had to deal with for centuries, and Asian-Americans for at least over 100. The sacrifice to respectability politics and deference to the great American default. Because that’s the brilliant new fucking solution to people wanting to lynch Asian-Americans because they think the Chinese literally invented a virus.
Ya see, that’s the exact problem there: respectability politics only work long as you can avoid being the convenient scapegoat for the ‘Default’, after which all that shit gets thrown to the wayside and you get hard othered yet again. And yet people are trying to celebrate this as some brilliant new thought and approach.
Like…no, fuck that. Minorities are already expected to tear off our own skin and dance around Buffalo Bill style in an American flag to prove we belong and maybe only then we get tolerated by the Great American Default, and that only lasts so fucking long.
Good goddamn, I hate people who continue to hold Racism up as a great angry god that just needs to be appeased rather than a cancer that needs to be fought.
re: #43 goddamnedfrank
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Why is he so “timid”? Simple answer: He’s still not taking this outbreak seriously. The explanation was given weeks ago when he was asked why he fired the epidemic response team, that he doesn’t like having people “stand around” and doesn’t like buying equipment until it’s “needed.” The man truly still believes that this is all going to be “over” in a matter of days or weeks, that it will all go back to “normal” virtually overnight, and his big concern is getting the economy firing on all cylinders again than the health of the American people. So what if hundreds of thousands die? That just means more jobs for the survivors!
re: #52 Citizen K
Respectability politics works for the disabled community, oh wait…
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(It wasn’t so long ago that Yang, like a typical techbro, was saying that the disability community was a small one and could wait until “more important” problems could be addressed.)
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Hotspot no one is speaking of
270 total positive cases of COVID-19 for the Navajo Nation, four more deaths confirmed pic.twitter.com/wOiUXY6lZQ
— Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez (@NNPrezNez) April 4, 2020
re: #58 Dave In Austin
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Trump will just have it disbanded so it doesn’t count at all.
Texas would curb oil output under broader deal by Trump: state regulator https://t.co/5RjcR4CTj8 @GlobeBusiness pic.twitter.com/AJM5Y3S2Nq
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) April 4, 2020
Did Trump cave first?
re: #54 Sherlock Hound
Respectability politics works for the disabled community, oh wait…
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(It wasn’t so long ago that Yang, like a typical techbro, was saying that the disability community was a small one and could wait until “more important” problems could be addressed.)
ONe of the things coming up in defense of Yang is the idea of ‘being the change you can believe in’. That somehow just being a good person will soften hearts.
…motherfucker, even Martin Luther King, who got bleached and sanitized post-mortem into a vague ‘peace, love, and non-violence’ figure didn’t believe that. Simply being a good person simply makes you one of the ‘good ones’, it makes you the exception rather than the rule to those who are intent on maintaining the ‘other’.
This kind of shit is not something you survive and win through attrition just by being. ‘Being the change you can believe in’ is just…you know…being a good person. That’s…good, but not sufficient. Prejudice does not die without being actively fought. Xenophobia, Sexism, Religious Bigotry, etc. does not die without actively being fought. It’s like they completely misinterpreted the thrust of that old Gandhi-(mis-)attributed axiom: “”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”. They interpret it as simply persisting under a force, rather than being an active opposition to a force.
If you measure death rate as deaths against all reported cases then the rate is 5.3%. If you measure death rate as only the resolved cases, then the death rate is 20.5%
The grift keeps on keepin’ on.
People keep tweeting me that they know someone who, similar to the CT infant, died from something entirely different than #coronavirus but was counted toward its death toll anyway.
Please e-mail: info@candaceowens.com
Time to start researching & cataloguing these fraud cases.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 3, 2020
re: #63 teleskiguy
I don’t remember who it was, but someone recently said that Candace Owens is exactly the right combination of stupid and dangerous to become a superstar in modern American society. I think that’s entirely too accurate. People love to express optimistic, sunny-side-up feelings about the USA, but I think right now our primary defining characteristic is that as a culture we’re just dumber than shit.
Looks like Georgia has entered the [actively trying to get people killed] chatroom:
Some of the state’s most popular beaches will be allowed to reopen Friday night due to Gov. Brian Kemp’s statewide order superseding that of some city-level shelter-in-place mandates.
Georgia beach communities, including Tybee Island, had closed in response to local mandates imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19, Department of Natural Resources officials told news station WJCL. The beaches had the option to reopen at the start of the stay-at-home order’s execution at 6 p.m. Friday.
“The Governor’s Executive Order suspends the enforcement of any local ordinance or order adopted or issued since March 1, 2020, that relates to COVID-19,” said Josh Hildebrandt, director of public and governmental affairs for DNR. “This Executive Order thus lifted any local ordinances or orders that had closed or restricted access to Georgia beaches.”
re: #64 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I don’t remember who it was, but someone recently said that Candace Owens is exactly the right combination of stupid and dangerous to become a superstar in modern American society. I think that’s entirely too accurate. People love to express optimistic, sunny-side-up feelings about the USA, but I think right now our primary defining characteristic is that as a culture we’re just dumber than shit.
It is the triumph of anti-intellectualism. The Age of Unreason has begun.
You know that one job you had, maybe as a teen or in your adult years, with that one boss who seemed to resent the idea of spending money? You walked in on that first day and saw people struggling with equipment that looked like it had been new when Ike was in office or computers running programs that hadn’t seen a graphical update since mullets were fashionable?
Who would drag your supervisor in and make them justify items on the monthly expenses and be flabbergasted that you couldn’t just “reuse” something intended to be disposable?
Who’d wait until the very last minute to order supplies, usually towards the end of the month/quarter, so that you were always running out of something in a crunch period, all because he worried about ordering “too much” and thus spending money on something that “wasn’t needed”?
And whose first reaction whenever told something was broken was to grab the most tech-savvy guy in the office and task the poor fucker with “fixing” it, no matter how long it took or how far behind it was putting him with his own work?
That’s Trump in a nutshell. He is the Bill Lumbergh of American presidents.
Updates: Grand Princess crew member dies due to COVID-19 https://t.co/IVmcrFNAqu pic.twitter.com/8gvHtNad3R
— SFGate (@SFGate) April 3, 2020
re: #9 BeachDem
What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?
It was all a hoax!
re: #9 BeachDem
“What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?”
I’ll go with wishful thinking and non-fiction for this one:
“Trump’s bungled response to the covid19 pandemic in the US ended the national power of the Republican party.”
re: #40 Dread Pirate
As toilet roll becomes symbol of coronavirus-era panic buying, the bidet gains traction in US and Europe. Yet it was France that gave the world the word ‘bidet’
I always wondered why such an eminently useful bit of plumbing was not common outside France, but I read that it came to be frowned on as a symbol of sinful licentiousness, as prostitutes were known to use it to flush themselves out between clients…
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always wondered why such an eminently useful bit of plumbing was not common outside France, but I read that it came to be frowned on as a symbol of sinful licentiousness, as prostitutes were known to use it to flush themselves out between clients…
Ain’t no way I squirting cold water up my ass. That’s going to need an instant warm water setup.
re: #74 Dread Pirate
Ain’t no way I squirting cold water up my ass. That’s going to need an instant warm water setup.
I’m with you on that. I measured the temperature of the cold water coming out of the the bathroom spout in February. A nice warm 34.5 degrees. If I ever sprayed that water on my butt you’d have to peel me off the ceiling.
Check out No. 10. Remind you of someone? 25 Different Ways to Say “Fart” https://t.co/kZBui0UJtL
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 4, 2020
do really nasty roast garlic farts kill the rona? Asking for a friend.
re: #76 Cheechako
I’m with you on that. I measured the temperature of the cold water coming out of the the bathroom spout in February. A nice warm 34.5 degrees. If I ever sprayed that water on my butt you’d have to peel me off the ceiling.
Unless a bidet comes with crazy accessories like a blow drying option, it doesn’t seem like it would reduce TP consumption very much.
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always wondered why such an eminently useful bit of plumbing was not common outside France, but I guess it came to be frowned on as a symbol of sinful licentiousness, as prostitutes were known to use it to flush themselves out between clients…
Well, one reason is that they were more expensive until relatively recently, both in terms of plumbing costs and floor space. Even today, you’ll often still see them portrayed in American media as something that the “well-to-do” have because they can afford the cost of installing one.
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always wondered why such an eminently useful bit of plumbing was not common outside France, but I read that it came to be frowned on as a symbol of sinful licentiousness, as prostitutes were known to use it to flush themselves out between clients…
I always assumed it had something to do with the size of most people’s bathrooms, and how much extra space it would take to have both a toilet and a bidet.
re: #74 Dread Pirate
Ain’t no way I squirting cold water up my ass. That’s going to need an instant warm water setup.
Proper bidets have that, I have also seen a bidet hose attachment that connects under the sink (you regulate the temp with the sink tap)
re: #79 EPR-radar
Unless a bidet comes with crazy accessories like a blow drying option, it doesn’t seem like it would reduce TP consumption very much.
I have read about Japanese toilets which have that feature.
If you are washed off, then you can use a (dedicated) towel for that.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have read about Japanese toilets which have that feature.
If you are washed off, then you can use a (dedicated) towel for that.
Like this:
re: #82 sagehen
I always assumed it had something to do with the size of most people’s bathrooms, and how much extra space it would take to have both a toilet and a bidet.
found this article
“Because the fixture was a French invention, it was rejected by the English, and that sentiment drifted across the pond. During World War II, the Times notes, American soldiers saw bidets in European brothels, “perpetuating the idea that bidets were somehow associated with immorality.”
It also mentions that size also plays a role. But American bathrooms are generally enormous compared to their European counterparts.
Absolutely crazy: Two major shipments of PPE purchased by MA (by the governor) were impounded by the federal government en route. Feds then cited “force majeure” to compel them to sell the millions of masks to them instead. HCW in MA be damned. #COVID19 https://t.co/LEMrdXrdNU
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 4, 2020
bidet translates to ass blaster in Engrish.
Loosely.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We’ll call them Freedom Fountains!
re: #92 Dave In Austin
And this one?? Well. I have questions about this one.
It attaches under the sink, you hang the hose next to the toilet. I have used one, but it tends to splash all over. Nothing beats the petit Robert as the French call their bidets.
The Charles Manson of presidents.
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Charles Manson of presidents.
He is still ratings gold and we cannot get our reporters to back away from their fawning feigned admiration. Let us just hope that enough voters (in the right places) see through it and remove him ignominiously from office.
re: #87 goddamnedfrank
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Feds send out broken/rotting supplies to desperate blue states, then seizes and hoards brand new supplies straight from the factories while insisting that such is theirs to use or distribute.
This is a fucking protection racket.
Germany is likely to top 100K cases today (with 1,275 fatalities), good news is that the rate of doubling is nearly 10 days, compared to half of that for the US and UK.
And that is still fewer cases and fatalities than New York State alone
(Germany: population 83 million, NY: 19.5 mil)
re: #98 Targetpractice
Feds send out broken/rotting supplies to desperate blue states, then seizes and hoards brand new supplies straight from the factories while insisting that such is theirs to use or distribute.
This is a fucking protection racket.
I’m afraid of posting this question, but….
How long before it becomes even more apparent?
If I was going to come over to the pineapple on pizza dark side:
‘real’ Hawaiian pizza
fresh shredded white pineapple, or pre grilled
portugese sausage sliced thinly
Maui onions
instead of portuguese sausage maybe Hawaiian style smoke meat
FYI if you’re missing a random angry, mumbling duck it’s wandering outside my window right now just quacking drunkenly
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 4, 2020
Look for the WH to pull the same shit that shady sheriffs/cops do of seizing “suspicious” amounts of money/goods as “evidence” of a possible crime and that they’ll have to “investigate” before they can give it back. What’s that? How long will it take? Just long enough for the law to transfer ownership to us. You’re free to go, we’ll let you know when our “investigation” is concluded.
re: #105 Targetpractice
Look for the WH to pull the same shit that shady sheriffs/cops do of seizing “suspicious” amounts of money/goods as “evidence” of a possible crime and that they’ll have to “investigate” before they can give it back. What’s that? How long will it take? Just long enough for the law to transfer ownership to us. You’re free to go, we’ll let you know when our “investigation” is concluded.
Their argument is that there is no writ of habeas corpus for property…that is what happened to people who had property seized and were later exonerated but never got their property back.
re: #101 BigPapa
If I was going to come over to the pineapple on pizza dark side:
‘real’ Hawaiian pizza
fresh shredded white pineapple, or pre grilled
portugese sausage sliced thinly
Maui onions
Maul onions?
oh, Maui onions
India is likely in for some real bad times, as the coronavirus is starting to move into the rural heartlands.
India has the potential to be a recipe for an unmitigated disaster when it comes to pandemics. Poor sanitation and very close, crowded contact with little access to proper healthcare in rural India is the stuff of apocalyptic nightmares.
re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Maul onions?
oh, Maui onions
Darth Maul onions stare at you intently, look intimidating and angry, but dice up much easier than you expect them to.
// ;)
Morning everyone.
re: #109 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Darth Maul onions stare at you intently, look intimidating and angry, but dice up much easier than you expect them to.
// ;)Morning everyone.
and you slice them with a double-bladed knife…
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and you slice them with a double-bladed knife…
It’s pretty amazing how @seanhannity attacks @andrewcuomo for not buying thousands of ventilators before the pandemic when Trump simultaneously argues that no one could have ever seen this coming.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 4, 2020
re: #113 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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re: #73 BigPapa
Media has it’s issues, it’s not a monolith. Click farming doesn’t help for sure. But a large part of Trump surviving in this media environment, if not thriving, is our media treating him like all the rest of the Presidents before him giving him the benefit of the doubt, assuming he’ll play by rules long respected, that he’s a good faith actor. It appears we offer the same relative respect for all the other right wing grifters and give them a basic level of de facto respect.
The media are giving him very special treatment. He is the first reality-star TV President, and his administration is a 24/7 political/crime/scandal/sex show. Our broadcast media do not want to see it end, because in the end, their main concern is drawing an audience. And they are willing to keep it playing regardless of what it is doing to this nation.
If they were treating him the way he deserves, they would not let him get away with what he does, they would ignore his bullshit and walk out of his conferences when he attacks fellow members of the Press, not cover his rallies and try to rationalize or explain away his contradictions and blatant misinformation.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The media are giving him very special treatment. He is the first reality-star TV President, and his administration is a 24/7 political/crime/scandal/sex show. Our broadcast media do not want to see it end, because in the end, their main concern is drawing an audience. And they are willing to keep it playing regardless of what it is doing to this nation.
If they were treating him the way he deserves, they would not let him get away with what he does, they would ignore his bullshit and walk out of his conferences when he attacks fellow members of the Press, not cover his rallies and try to rationalize or explain away his contradictions and blatant misinformation.
Piled on this is that the GOP in general seems to get at least partially the same treatment. (And that’s beyond Fox’s very biased spin.)
re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Piled on this is that the GOP in general seems to get at least partially the same treatment. (And that’s beyond Fox’s very biased spin.)
They really think that what McConnell is doing is normal politics.
Note: When governors of ex-Confederate states finally are shamed into statewide shelter-in-place orders, they are just as likely to negate the restrictions emplaced by smarter local leaders. Georgia is RE-OPENING beaches closed by mayors.
re: #119 Decatur Deb
Note: When governors of ex-Confederate states finally are shamed into statewide shelter-in-place orders, they are just as likely to negate the restrictions emplaced by smarter local leaders. Georgia is RE-OPENING beaches closed by mayors.
and they will do nothing to prevent mass religious services at Easter…so we are going to see another major wave hitting the US in a couple of weeks…
They will keep on with their “abortion clinics are open but churches are closed!” indignation until they all start showing symptoms…
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will keep on with their “abortion clinics are open but churches are closed!” indignation until they all start showing symptoms…
And then blame it on abortion clinics and libs as God punishing the country for allowing them to exist.
When you bother to collect the data:
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
re: #113 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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More than that….Kushner the Frog and the rest of the yahoos are saying NY doesn’t need that many ventilators right now. So they are burning the candle at both ends: Why weren’t you building your stockpile even though you don’t need the amounts we are criticizing you for not buying?
re: #74 Dread Pirate
Ain’t no way I squirting cold water up my ass. That’s going to need an instant warm water setup.
Yes, they warm the water and they blow dry.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and they will do nothing to prevent mass religious services at Easter…so we are going to see another major wave hitting the US in a couple of weeks…
That implies we might be past this wave.
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will keep on with their “abortion clinics are open but churches are closed!” indignation until they all start showing symptoms…
Of course, if churches took the same care to protect their “patrons” from the coronavirus as abortion clinics (or really, any medical or medical-related facility) do, they wouldn’t have to worry….
Donald “Jericho” Trump.
When it comes to mishandling the pandemic, Trump is #1, but other world leaders are giving him a run for his money. pic.twitter.com/6qmSCnCHxW
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 4, 2020
re: #13 CBGB
I’m not exactly prone to conspiratorial thinking, but they’re definitely trying to make things as bad as possible in blue states so they can point to the ‘destructiveness’ of liberal governance, right?
By exposing the destructiveness of conservative governance.
I hope @Fahrenthold seriously follows the money. Who, precisely, are the medical equipment vendors profiting handsomely from this Kushner-fueled price war? Who are the CEOs of those vendors and how much are they donating to GOP PACs? https://t.co/9oV8lBqlqL
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) April 4, 2020
re: #60 Dread Pirate
Trump’s idiotic approach to oil prices is idiotic.
Low oil prices aren’t going to get people to start driving and using products again because the pandemic rages on uncontrolled. Raising oil prices to keep the US domestic oil industry afloat isn’t going to help either. These are the same companies that had record profits over the past few years. They don’t need a bailout when they’ve been entitled to countless and endless tax breaks for decades.
Great thread. There are some brilliant sentences in here.
What’s the first sentence of the best novel that will be written about this epidemic?
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) April 3, 2020
re: #95 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Charles Manson of presidents.
No. It is simply not possible.
Trump extorted Ukraine to get dirt on Biden (and was caught red handed by his own admission not that the GOP cared).
Trump’s now extorting states to do what he wants, and withholds aid and critical gear, all while Americans are dying at an increasing rate.
Trump’s death toll keeps rising exponentially. His actions are responsible for thousands dead in Puerto Rico, and now thousands of Americans across the nation, with a possible catastrophic death toll.
And this is just within the first year of this pandemic. We are guaranteeing that the US is a reservoir of the covid19 virus that will continue to rage around the world because no one in Trumpworld is bothering to engage in a nationwide shutdown of all nonessential businesses - health and food only (and support businesses for both).
Trumpists and GOPers keep excluding churches and gun shops from shutdown orders.
And undermining local restrictions. Like Georgia governor overruling local closures of beaches.
There’s still no restrictions or screening on domestic air travel.
A new machine designed to churn out millions of masks at high speed during a pandemic was green-lit by the Obama administration. In 2018 the Trump administration received a detailed plan on the initiative. It went nowhere. https://t.co/yeACuFq17z
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) April 4, 2020
I do not understand the federal government collecting taxes from us, using that money to buy medical supplies from the private sector, then giving the supplies to the private sector so the private sector can rip off states that have to purchase the supplies with more tax dollars.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 4, 2020
re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Great thread. There are some brilliant sentences in here.
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— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 4, 2020
re: #140 Teukka
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— rabia O’chaudry (@rabiasquared) April 3, 2020
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and they will do nothing to prevent mass religious services at Easter…so we are going to see another major wave hitting the US in a couple of weeks…
it will be interesting contrast as churches open here while the pope continues to pray to an empty vatican square
maybe the pope has better information because the connection is clearer
it is a local call for him after all
re: #125 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And then blame it on abortion clinics and libs as God punishing the country for allowing them to exist.
yes, and they can forgive any GOP wife abuser or philanderer who repents before God but will never forgive godless Democrats who allow legal babycide.
On a side note, this was the kind of coverage Brett Crozier has gotten in Swedish Public Service TV: svt.se
re: #144 BigPapa
*yawn*. It was and still is a racial slur.
re: #147 BigPapa
Just stop. There is enough ugliness in the world right now. We don’t need it here. You’ve obviously pissed several lizards by using the term, stop trying to justify it.
re: #142 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
it will be interesting contrast as churches open here while the pope continues to pray to an empty vatican square
maybe the pope has better information because the connection is clearer
it is a local call for him after all
Aren’t Jesuits pro education and science?
I hereby declare that there is entirely too much toilet content on this page.
re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Aren’t Jesuits pro education and science?
Whatever other issues I have with the Catholics, at least the Pope came out to say that he sees no inherent contradiction between Evolution and Creation.
re: #144 BigPapa
So, you’re saying that the noun is a slur, but that the verb directly derived from the noun is not an insult based on race…
Stop now, and step away from the shovel.
re: #154 Sufficient unto the day…
So, you’re saying that the noun is a slur, but that the verb directly derived from the noun is not an insult based on race…
Stop now, and step away from the shovel.
If you insist on being right, then go off and be right. But please leave it…
Home Depot is restricting customer numbers the same way Walmart is.
re: #157 plansbandc
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That should include the day the senate impeachment vote occurred so that people understand how much he did afterwards.
re: #74 Dread Pirate
Ain’t no way I squirting cold water up my ass. That’s going to need an instant warm water setup.
Then you want a Toto toilet. I am telling you, that is luxury. And it’s engineered within an inch of its life. If/when I redo my upstairs bathroom, I’m getting a Toto.
re: #126 Decatur Deb
When you bother to collect the data:
Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
Ugh. That reminds me, one of my coworkers, whose father was African-American, had her birthday yesterday. But she was depressed, because her older brother was being taken from the rehab where he’d been staying after surgery to the hospital. His symptoms: low oxygen saturation and difficulty breathing, as in the chief signs of coronavirus. As he was recovering from surgery, this is not a good sign. My brother remarked that it sounded like coronavirus was probably raging through the rehab facility. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Brave & remarkable statement by DOJ IG Horowitz (in this era). https://t.co/6b6zCZE9Qj
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) April 4, 2020
Forced to venture out for emergency provisions & this happened. Everything’s just ducky. pic.twitter.com/dwNPqz5RKA
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) April 4, 2020
Transcript of the president’s remarks about how he can’t guarantee New York will have the ventilators it needs because “they should have had more ventilators” and “we have other states to take care of”: pic.twitter.com/4c5RYhDQKf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 4, 2020
The late-night firing of Inspector General Atkinson is a brazen act against a patriotic public servant who has honorably performed his duty to protect the Constitution and our national security, as required by the law and by his oath. https://t.co/MzFFY9xPgT
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 4, 2020
On a purely unrelated note, New York also controls multiple Trump properties and his tax returns. https://t.co/TQb5gruAqW
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) April 4, 2020
re: #156 Belafon
Home Depot is restricting customer numbers the same way Walmart is.
It’s as if they know something we don’t.
re: #152 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I hereby declare that there is entirely too much toilet content on this page.
Can’t afford a bidet, but I do have peanut butter and a dog….
re: #161 Teukka
It has NOT been posted yet…well, obviously NOW it has been.
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The late-night firing of Inspector General Atkinson is a brazen act against a patriotic public servant who has honorably performed his duty to protect the Constitution and our national security, as required by the law and by his oath. https://t.co/MzFFY9xPgT
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 4, 2020
Morning Lizardim from the freezing cold but beautiful wild north country. Today dawned a brisk 23 degrees F (-5 degrees C), but it should warm up with the abundant sunshine coming in through my back door. How go things among the lizardfolk on this glorious gorgeous Saturday?
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Motherfucker you are the President, you could try acting like it for once instead of being a rancid piece of shit.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chaos Goblin says it’s the state’s fault for not having enough, despite him literally stealing orders from states. And then he whines when the world’s largest manufacturer of respirators tells him to fuck off and die.
Note the date: May, 2017
Trump’s Katrina will be a deadly pandemic. https://t.co/e4rMUQOAqs
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 5, 2017
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
More indication that Trump and those around him don’t understand how this will work. If he can’t help NY get it under control, sick people will not go to the hospital, nor will they get screened. Instead, they will interact with others and spread the disease out, eventually reaching further and further out from the epicenter, into those states that Trump thinks will be OK, and he won’t have enough stockpiled to help them.
On the same day Larry Kudlow said coronavirus was “contained” on Feb. 25th, Trump’s campaign spox made an even more bold claim.
“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here..and isn’t it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama.” pic.twitter.com/O0DDH3Rvkw— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 4, 2020
re: #174 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Motherfucker you are the President, you could try acting like it for once instead of being a rancid piece of shit.
It’s not within him to be able to do so.
re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Aren’t Jesuits pro education and science?
As part of my adventures with Italian, I ran across a copy of a textbook for third graders for $1.00, so I picked it up, being curious about what they teach their kids (or taught, it’s 20 years old). I’m not sure how it fits into the normal curriculum — in particular whether it would be part of regular coursework or bought by parents as a supplement — but the history section starts with the big bang and how to get your head about the depth of deep time. A bit later, it starts on the three million years in which hominids become humans.
Italy is 80% Catholic (more than half of those not “active,” of course), but that appears to be the background they all start from.
I’ll never not be confused by this.
What a pathetic joke this administration is. https://t.co/b3vrE0T7zg
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 3, 2020
re: #180 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
As part of my adventures with Italian, I ran across a copy of a textbook for third graders for $1.00, so I picked it up, being curious about what they teach their kids (or taught, it’s 20 years old). I’m not sure how it fits into the normal curriculum — in particular whether it would be part of regular coursework or bought by parents as a supplement — but the history section starts with the big bang and how to get your head about the depth of deep time. A bit later, it starts on the three million years in which hominids become humans.
Italy is 80% Catholic (more than half of those not “active,” of course), but that appears to be the background they all start from.
It’s not just cosmology. Daughter2’s 7th grade art textbook (Scuola Media Dante Alighieri) required understanding of the internal workings of a single-lens reflex.
When he nails it, he nails it. https://t.co/2jFreQRVk0
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 4, 2020
A month ago I would hear forty+ planes departing Ontario airport (CA) daily. Now, it’s two or three usually in the early morning and evenings. Helicopter traffic remains near normal levels. Far less local traffic noise as well, except for those with sirens—lots more of those.
I’ll expect the zombies once it goes completely quiet…
re: #62 Dread Pirate
If you measure death rate as deaths against all reported cases then the rate is 5.3%. If you measure death rate as only the resolved cases, then the death rate is 20.5%
In certain first world countries that have been on top of this crisis from the beginning, the death against resolved cases is much lower than 20.5%:
Germany: 5%
South Korea: 2.7%
re: #184 HypnoToad
A month ago I would hear forty+ planes departing Ontario airport (CA) daily. Now, it’s two or three usually in the early morning and evenings. Helicopter traffic remains near normal levels. Far less local traffic noise as well, except for those with sirens—lots more of those.
I’ll expect the zombies once it goes completely quiet…
The zombies will be looking for brains, to give our maladministration. Lord knows they don’t seem to have any.
That will be immediately confiscated by the tRump (mal)administration upon arrival, turned over to his buddies in the private sector to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, FEMA/CDC.
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) April 4, 2020
re: #182 Decatur Deb
It’s not just cosmology. Daughter2’s 7th grade art textbook (Scuola Media Dante Alighier) required understanding of the internal workings of a single-lens reflex.
The science section includes at-home experiments in elementary physics (“but remember that you should never use fire without the assistance of an adult person”) and information on biomes and adaptations to them, plus ideas on observing nature. For third graders.
FUN FACT: The latest tracking polls by Navigator Research find that 40 percent of TRUMP VOTERS believe he didn’t take the coronavirus threat seriously enough — that’s a 17-point jump in just over a week!
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) April 4, 2020
re: #192 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s going to have to hoard a lot of medical supplies when things go really bad in conservative states.
re: #156 Belafon
Home Depot is restricting customer numbers the same way Walmart is.
My youngest sister is working at Lowe’s so I hope they follow suite. I talked with her a few days ago and she told me that people are still coming to the store because they wanted to look at stuff ‘for ideas’ with no intent to buy while they were there.
re: #186 BigPapa
The offensive nic for Ms Owens is retired.
Good. Now ask Charles to delete the original post. It’s still there.
re: #196 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
No. Use the tools he created to report and he’ll do with as he sees fit. I’m otherwise done with it.
Minnesota’s new numbers: 2 new dead, up to 24; 76 (!) new cases out of 1200 tested, up to 865 and 25,400. While we’re still holding a flat line of increased cases, it’s disheartening that we broke the trend of 3 straight days of fewer reported positives.
I’m surprised this was announced before they had them in their possession.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 4, 2020
re: #199 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m surprised this was announced before they had them in their possession.
It was done to make it harder for FEMA to snatch them up en route…
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was done to make it harder for FEMA to snatch them up en route…
I don’t think it works that way. They can grab them wherever they desire until they’re in the possession of the receiver.
Unless there is a NY State Guard that’s willing to shoot the feds.
re: #197 BigPapa
No. Use the tools he created to report and he’ll do with as he sees fit. I’m otherwise done with it.
Fine. Hey Charles! Would you do us all a favor and nuke big papa’s #73
Also please nuke my #115 as I quoted him in full.
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I don’t think it works that way. They can grab them wherever they desire until they’re in the possession of the receiver.
Unless there is a NY State Guard that’s willing to shoot the feds.
It will just be a lot harder for them to bury in the press. Ultimately there is nothing to stop them from doing so except bad publicity.
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It will just be a lot harder for them to bury in the press. Ultimately there is nothing to stop them from doing so except bad publicity.
That doesn’t seem to be stopping them at all.
re: #205 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That doesn’t seem to be stopping them at all.
National Security needs and immanent domain are two excuses I can see them claiming.
I really think his lordship wants people begging him for their lives.
So an update on how the Big Apple is dealing with the pandemic: I’m waiting around in a hospital ER to be tested: My wife was admitted yesterday with an unrelated issue (and not being allowed to visit is a huge bummer), And I’ve basically had to claim possible exposure to get into the EM system. Everyone I have talked to here agrees with me that testing of this sort ought to be done outside the normal medical System, but that given the resources allotted to mass testing (I.e. very little), not much can be done
Mrs Jay tested negative, btw: but I feel vaguely guilty admitting this: I really feel like I am wasting their time.
But at least I have a few minutes to spend on LGF: always valuable
re: #207 HypnoToad
I really think his lordship wants people begging him for their lives.
He wants to see his “enemies” grovel at his feet, yes, another symptom of a sick sociopath.
re: #199 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I can’t see the tweet you’re replying to, but I think state officials should bring along the press any time they’re having to do back deal transactions like that one that handed a check over at a McDonald’s parking lot to buy supplies.
The state of Oregon is sending 140 ventilators to NY.
We are so grateful to @OregonGovBrown and the people of Oregon.
On behalf of the people of NY, I thank you and rest assured that NY will repay the favor when Oregon needs it.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 4, 2020
Kate Brown does a solid for NY.
re: #212 Kilroy was here
That is good to hear. :)
re: #211 Belafon
I can’t see the tweet you’re replying to, but I think state officials should bring along the press any time they’re having to do back deal transactions like that one that handed a check over at a McDonald’s parking lot to buy supplies.
From Cuomo…
We finally got some good news today.
The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators that will arrive in JFK today.
I thank the Chinese government, Jack Ma, Joe Tsai, the Jack Ma Foundation, the Tsai Foundation and Consul General Huang.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He wants to see his “enemies” grovel at his feet, yes, another symptom of a sick sociopath.
He wants constant praise from everyone. It’s not just his enemies that need to bow down to him, it’s his allies too. Except for his handlers Putin, Erdogan, and MBS, he demands the same obeisance from all who interact with him. Basically, only murderous autocrats get a pass from him. Everyone else must praise the naked emperor.
re: #184 HypnoToad
A month ago I would hear forty+ planes departing Ontario airport (CA) daily. Now, it’s two or three usually in the early morning and evenings. Helicopter traffic remains near normal levels. Far less local traffic noise as well, except for those with sirens—lots more of those.
I’ll expect the zombies once it goes completely quiet…
there’s talk of closing ft lauderdale int’l airport totally
re: #205 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That doesn’t seem to be stopping them at all.
Yes, but Trump might not want to cross General Huang.
Trump is a murderous thug just like his heroes.
Imagine that.
630 more dead in NYC alone. 1000 ventilators have arrived at JFK from China.
And Trump’s got the states playing Hunger Games to fight for the scraps since he’s releasing from FEMA stockpiles in drips and drabs all while slow rolling even that. Everything he does is about himself and whether he thinks he benefits in some perverse way.
All of his decisions have been disastrous. All of them. He hasn’t learned a goddamned thing and never will. His idiot advisers are no better and they’re continuing to feed him whatever Trump wants to hear, not what he must hear.
The death toll continues to climb, and will be approaching 9000 before the end of the day as we near 300,000 sickened.
And over here in NJ, a report finds that 1/3 of nursing homes in the state have covid19 cases, but families suggest that the number is even higher than that.
If you think NJ is bad, just wait til Florida’s retirement communities have this rip roaring rampage its way through. It’s going to be apocalyptic. But Trump and the GOP don’t care about any of that. Dead people don’t matter. They just want the machines (the stock market) turned back on as if millions of lives disrupted, hundreds of thousands snuffed out by Trump’s depravities and indifference and incompetence will not affect the economy.
Fuck Trump and the complicit GOP.
Shaun F’King. It’s always a fucking scam or hit by Bernie’s bros against people trying to do the right thing for all Americans:
It’s absurd how some of the left treats this like it’s a hit list. They’re all original co-sponsors of Sanders’s Medicare-for-All bill in the Senate. We don’t need fewer of them, we need more. pic.twitter.com/Gz0ZXRF9oV
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) April 4, 2020
I am so excited. It was thrilling when JeffreyW posted a wonderful photo of a towhee. I have always loved them, and never had one here. Boom. This morning, I am waiting for the coffee water to boil, and look out, and there is one on my patio, large as life! So I yanked my phone out to get a photo, and he ducked behind a bush, scratching away until he flew away, so no photos to back it up. But he was here!
Raise your hand if you called it. 🙋🏾♀️ pic.twitter.com/KT9gHQWvwN
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) April 4, 2020
Our current surgeon general at the beginning of February https://t.co/uiEOJ50VAU
— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) April 4, 2020
re: #223 Belafon
Joe Rogan saying he’ll vote for Trump because he thinks Biden can’t handle anything and we’d have to rely entirely on his Cabinet.
I got a serious case of whiplash reading that
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just want to know what the heck he is sniffing so that I can avoid it.
Bernie openly accepted and touted this man’s endorsement. https://t.co/12Zhb9xlAY
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) April 4, 2020
After being caught trying to cheat in the next election, Trump opposes vote by mail over concerns about “cheating.”
Nonsense. He prefers making voting dangerous for millions of Americans if it helps his re-election.
Every American must be able to cast a secure ballot by mail. https://t.co/tARS7ub9ng— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 4, 2020
The only official fired over the virus? A captain who tried to protect his crew. Max Boot, WaPo
“He made the right choice, and the Navy will back him up.” So wrote retired Adm. James Stavridis, a former carrier strike group commander and former supreme allied commander of NATO, about Capt. Brett Crozier, the skipper who had sent out an SOS about the spread of the coronavirus on his ship, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Stavridis’s article appeared on Wednesday in Bloomberg Opinion. The next day, Crozier was relieved of duty by acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
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demon post.. :-) See my stats to know why.
The red-headed tit.
(Photo: instagram/joinus12345) pic.twitter.com/GiEbQSQRjB— A Book of Rather Strange Animals (@StrangeAnimaIs) April 4, 2020
AND….this is what happens when the shutter speed of the camera doesn’t synch with the turbine’s angular speed…
…or maybe 👽 are using our technology against us… @StormHour #Physics #CthulhuArms ©Joshua Drury. pic.twitter.com/S1uWU2u0Tf— JH 🌻 (@jhbspacex) April 4, 2020
re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I really can’t understand the love affair that a lot of otherwise smart people have with George Conway. I think he’s part of a good-cop/bad-cop con job with his crooked-ass wife. He makes a lot of anti-Trump noises, but at the same time his wife is one of Trump’s most effective enablers, and I notice that Trump has never once tweeted out any cutesy nicknames for him. He’s the only vocal Trump critic who escapes the dumb tweets. Maybe it’s just me, but he sets off my bullshit detector.
Ugh. Looked into the deeper IN numbers this morning. Yesterday 25% of the conducted tests came back positive. That is not a good sign.
We have a Winner:
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of presidents
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 3, 2020
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
Joe Rogan saying he’ll vote for Trump because he thinks Biden can’t handle anything and we’d have to rely entirely on his Cabinet.
I got a serious case of whiplash reading that
Joe Rogan is a dick. Always was, always will be. Never got his popularity. He rides trends and fads and talks shit and is a human lamprey.
“Celebrities” like him are part of the reason we are where we are.
Mermaids Digifest is currently talking with US folx:
The real reason Donald Trump doesn’t want to wear a mask is the only one they could find large enough to cover his gaping piehole would be a sheet…
…and he didn’t want to be mistaken for his father. https://t.co/JSaGKdi6FP— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 3, 2020
re: #237 Mescalero09
On top of that his stand-up is un-funny. I don’t mean he’s offensive or whatever. I like a lot of comics that anyone would consider offensive (Doug Stanhope, Tony Jeselnik, Ron White, etc) but Rogan just isn’t very funny.
re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg
But her emails. The hue and cry of caterwauling pundits thought that the single most important thing to decide an election was a possible improper but not illegal use of private email.
After the deaths of so many pundits, they still defend that tact.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2020
You gotta watch this! What a good boy 🐶❤🐾
(gabbiefoote) pic.twitter.com/XQ6VU9jzEh— Wina (@wawinaApr) April 4, 2020
re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #242 jaunte
Nominally a stand-up comic, known also for the reality show Fear Factor, and he’s big in the MMA/UFC community. His main claim to fame right now is that he has an enormously popular podcast. According to Wikipedia it got 190 million downloads in April 2019.
8000+ Americans dead, and you’re still playing media critic.
Explain the 8000+ Americans dead nationwide when you claimed that when we had 15 cases, it would soon be down to zero.
Resign you corrupt, incompetent, and dangerous know nothing. Take Jared and Pence with you.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 4, 2020
re: #245 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Ah, my Venn diagram never touches his.
re: #234 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I really can’t understand the love affair that a lot of otherwise smart people have with George Conway. I think he’s part of a good-cop/bad-cop con job with his crooked-ass wife. He makes a lot of anti-Trump noises, but at the same time his wife is one of Trump’s most effective enablers, and I notice that Trump has never once tweeted out any cutesy nicknames for him. He’s the only vocal Trump critic who escapes the dumb tweets. Maybe it’s just me, but he sets off my bullshit detector.
Trump did call him a “stone cold loser” and “husband from hell”. You’re right — it’s kabuki theater with KellyAnne and George. She’s a liar with no principles and her original candidate was another liar with no principles (Ted); there is no doubt that both Conways despise Trump, but they have a good racket going that guarantees income no matter how this plays out, unless we end up in Mad Max world, in which case we are all doomed.
The Federalist claimed the first one was a mistake and just a temporary lapse in judgement. Now they’ve published a second one, saying it’s best for the country to just let New York City die. https://t.co/W6JedczzWW
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) April 4, 2020
Not once, not just in this crisis, but in his entire first term so far (or maybe his entire life for that matter) has Trump EVER lead by example.
Not ONCE.
re: #234 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I really can’t understand the love affair that a lot of otherwise smart people have with George Conway. I think he’s part of a good-cop/bad-cop con job with his crooked-ass wife. He makes a lot of anti-Trump noises, but at the same time his wife is one of Trump’s most effective enablers, and I notice that Trump has never once tweeted out any cutesy nicknames for him. He’s the only vocal Trump critic who escapes the dumb tweets. Maybe it’s just me, but he sets off my bullshit detector.
I wouldn’t cite him as any kind of authority, but I believe we have a few people here whose spouses are also either Trump supporters are don’t think he’s doing a bad job.
because of course…
I will be holding a News Conference at 3:30 P.M. at the White House. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2020
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh sure, let’s just destroy one of the worlds major economic engines. No big deal right?
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Thank you Charles.
re: #235 NetworkKed
Ugh. Looked into the deeper IN numbers this morning. Yesterday 25% of the conducted tests came back positive. That is not a good sign.
I get the sentiment but aren’t we still only testing people who present symptoms?
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh sure, let’s just destroy one of the worlds major economic engines. No big deal right?
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Full of liberals, Jews and people of color….small price to pay to Make America Great Again
re: #237 Mescalero09
Joe Rogan is a dick. Always was, always will be. Never got his popularity. He rides trends and fads and talks shit and is a human lamprey.
“Celebrities” like him are part of the reason we are where we are.
Dicks are quite popular these days.
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
Not once, not just in this crisis, but in his entire first term so far (or maybe his entire life for that matter) has Trump EVER lead by example.
Not ONCE.
But he is leading by example: the example of how you too can lie, bully, cheat on all your wives, be a racist, be a thief — and garner the support and admiration of tens of millions of Americans.
re: #199 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Should point out, NYC has a long-standing Chinatown with close ties to the ancestral homeland. China may very well believe they’re taking care of their own with this donation; that it’s more to NYC than to the US as a whole.
re: #252 Belafon
One’s spouse being a supporter is abstract. But if your spouse’s job is to go on TV and help protect and promote the lies, corruption, and incompetence that you spend your days denouncing as an existential threat to the country, then either your relationship is deeply bizarre or you’re just playing off both sides.
Joe Rogan plays a cool guy on TV. I REALLY like his long-time work with the UFC (he’s the “color commentary” part of the play-by-play). I actually used to watch and enjoy Fear Factor.
…and he’s a thickheaded, borderline MRA, druggie stooge in all his other work. I avoid all of it at any cost. (I almost wrote “like the plague”, but that’s not a good phrase this year.)
I kinda have the same feelings about Penn Jillette - there is a considerable amount of stuff he does which is really admirable… and then there’s the guy who podcasts.
This is part of why I so dislike celebrity culture - I don’t want to get to know the real lives of people I like, I’ll probably hate them.
The government is sending you a $1200 check.
Guillotines cost about $1200 to make.
Weird coincidence.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 4, 2020
Possibly. https://t.co/1TkYXZNCwh
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 4, 2020
I would dearly like to know who at Fox subsequently saw this memo, when, and where they got it. https://t.co/yJqPotRn1R
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 4, 2020
re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth
They needed a professional pollster to tell them this?
It was a dark and Stormy Daniels night…
— jay (@random__name) April 4, 2020
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
They needed a professional pollster to tell them this?
They only listen to polls(ters).
re: #271 unproven innocence
Not sure if US networks are covering this news story— large numbers of releases from US jails and prisons. Seems to be the only way to accomplish some social distancing.
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That’s what some are using to justify the need to keep gun stores open.
This got an actual LOL from me:
“Fox & Friends” has been trending on Twitter today, as it often does. Usually we don’t pay that much attention, because we figure Brian Kilmeade probably just somehow managed to accidentally get an opossum glued to his penis or something, and ain’t nobody got time for that.
re: #263 NetworkKed
Me seeing Jimmie Lee Vaughan (Stevies’ brother) with Rand Paul posters and stickers was almost too much for me. He’s a great old school bluesman, and beyond that I got nothing.
Sad.
Separating the artists work from the artist is daunting.
But Joe “Dick” Rogan is no artist.
re: #262 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
One’s spouse being a supporter is abstract. But if your spouse’s job is to go on TV and help protect and promote the lies, corruption, and incompetence that you spend your days denouncing as an existential threat to the country, then either your relationship is deeply bizarre or you’re just playing off both sides.
Their relationship is deeply bizarre.
But they can’t divorce, because 1) spousal privilege if/when one of them is prosecuted, and 2) financial disclosures in a divorce case often become public.
In Trump’s Sacred Realm of Dream Reality (of which Fox announcers are the high priests and priestesses), hydroxychloroquine was going to be he Hail Mary play of plays to get him out of the fix: a cheap, easily-available miracle drug that was going to save millions of Americans and lead to DT being praised by all except the pouting, stunned intellectual elites who no longer had a failing economy and mounting death toll to “rejoice” in…
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
They needed a professional pollster to tell them this?
it’s the trump gang, they need polls for everything
re: #267 Mescalero09
Along with “Dr. Pinsky”.
I used to like him a lot, back when he was on KROQ doing “Love Line” relationship advice.
And now I’ve said that, you know how old I am.
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s the trump gang, they need polls for everything
polls that make him look favorable are “100% accurate”, the rest are “fake news”…
re: #279 sagehen
You ain’t alone, trust me.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. NYS will repay the favor when Oregon needs it. pic.twitter.com/gicmlNgg4F
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 4, 2020
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is a beautiful thing. Those governors who step up and help those who need it.
re: #271 unproven innocence
Not sure if US networks are covering this news story— large numbers of releases from US jails and prisons. Seems to be the only way to accomplish some social distancing.
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MSNBC has covered it; Trump and his acolytes are whining about it. Claiming that “very dangerous people” are being set loose (not true. It’s either people who were already within a few months of their parole date, people with short sentences for misdemeanors, and people in pre-trial detention for non-violent crimes).
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
New York needs more ventilators, and we are answering their call for help.
We’ll be sending 140 ventilators to help NY because Oregon is in a better position right now. We must do all that we can to help those on the front lines of this response.
Trump fails to realize that this is all making him look like a pusillanimous jerk
Not even VanGogh fully anticipated COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/heIpE9mKDI
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 4, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 277,205 coronavirus cases, 6,593 deaths https://t.co/Crd9cTo8C2 pic.twitter.com/DLxGHUnY38
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020
Broward school deputy, 39, dies of coronavirus https://t.co/EnUiESdeyt pic.twitter.com/0iWNgSKU9B
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) April 4, 2020
re: #283 PhillyPretzel
That is a beautiful thing. Those governors who step up and help those who need it.
Like the gofundme for your chemotherapy, it shows the goodness of (some) people, but in a rational timeline, this would not be necessary.
I’m done trying to convince people who can’t see what’s in front of their fucking noses. If you come at me saying you’ll never vote for Joe Biden I’m just gonna block your sorry irresponsible ass.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 4, 2020
I immediately got swarmed by Bernie stans and weird bots after Alyssa Milano retweeted this.
The Llandudno goats are so much better with a West Side Story soundtrack.
(thanks to @AndrewStuart and the Bergamo boars) pic.twitter.com/A71FumsGNa— David Schneider (@davidschneider) March 31, 2020
re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Great thread. There are some brilliant sentences in here.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There was a re: #160 mmmirele
Ugh. That reminds me, one of my coworkers, whose father was African-American, had her birthday yesterday. But she was depressed, because her older brother was being taken from the rehab where he’d been staying after surgery to the hospital. His symptoms: low oxygen saturation and difficulty breathing, as in the chief signs of coronavirus. As he was recovering from surgery, this is not a good sign. My brother remarked that it sounded like coronavirus was probably raging through the rehab facility. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
African americans suffer from hypertension at a higher rate than the general pop. sadly not surprising.
Tropical Cyclone Harold heads for Vanuatu https://t.co/ElEPc5lGHH pic.twitter.com/tUJIUdXYii
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) April 4, 2020
re: #284 Rightwingconspirator
That said, looking at our local statistics here …the number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital has doubled in the last 4 days. We went from 97 non-ICU cases to 199 between Monday and Thursday. (ICU cases have stayed stable at around 90ish, and we’ve seen about 2-4 deaths a day.)
The curve is starting to flatten and I’m grateful we acted as soon as we did but it’s still rough.
We don’t all ADVERTISE our sufferings https://t.co/zFQvnjbJkv
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 4, 2020
re: #269 Eclectic Cyborg
They needed a professional pollster to tell them this?
Uhm, yes. This is not exactly a bright crowd.
re: #284 Rightwingconspirator
A single person who works in Manhattan and lives in Westchester county could spread a pandemic far and wide before anyone even realizes that it’s deadly.
How do we know that’s the case? Because that’s exactly what happened. Take the train to work. Interact with people in close quarters on a subway or mass transit. Interact with people at work. Interact with people at religious services.
Along the way, hundreds or thousands were exposed, and each of them exposed others. Exponential growth.
And yet we’ve got Trumpists who think that covid19 replaces other types of causes of death and not that this is in addition to all the other kinds of death we normally see. Excess morbidity. It’s what happens when a pandemic sweeps through - more people die. The per capita death rate rises. And it will keep rising because we’re not flattening the curve fast enough.
Even in NYC we’re not doing good enough. It’s hard to self isolate. Imagine being in an apartment building where people have to use a common elevator. Or get mail in a common space. It’s impossible to avoid contact.
It’s also why aggressive testing is absolutely needed -tens of millions, and not a few tens of thousands a day - to be able to repeatedly test people due to potential multiple exposures. We want to contain this - and there’s no way to do it when we aren’t testing enough.
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