One America News, or OAN, is a far-right news network being embraced by President Trump at his coronavirus press briefings. John Oliver takes a look at who they are, how they report, and why they could be a big problem during the pandemic.
We’ll see.”— Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, quoted by the Charlotte Observer, when asked if the city can still host the Republican National Convention later this year.
anyone tell whatshisname who was tweeting all morning about the Dems?
When I first watched this video yesterday I kept thinking. “Graham Ledger… I know that name from somewhere.”
It bothered me enough to do some research on it and it turns out he was a news anchor here in San Diego on the CBS affiliate (KFMB Channel 8) for like 2 decades. I don’t remember of him being blatantly crazy or dumb back then.
This also led me to find out this OAN Network is based here. I’m disturbed.
re: #2 Jack Burton
When I first watched this video yesterday I kept thinking. “Graham Ledger… I know that name from somewhere.”
It bothered me enough to do some research on it and it turns out he was a news anchor here in San Diego on the CBS affiliate (KFMB Channel 8) for like 2 decades. I don’t remember of him being blatantly crazy or dumb back then.
This also led me to find out this OAN Network is based here. I’m disturbed.
Yeah,I remember him.I lived down there until 2012.He has really gone off the deep end.
Wonkette has been keeping on top of the latest Q arglebargle so you don’t have to.
QAnon Idiots Very Concerned About Mole Children Nowhttps://t.co/Tst6o7ytBm
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) April 6, 2020
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The Acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly — whose sum total qualification for his job was that he was once a junior helicopter pilot who became an investment banker and Trump campaign donor — visited the USS Theodore Roosevelt this morning and chasitized the crew.
1/— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 6, 2020
re: #5 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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It all comes down to Trump only surrounding himself with people who agree that ‘Trump is God, His Word is Law’.
re: #1 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
We’ll see.”
— Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, quoted by the Charlotte Observer, when asked if the city can still host the Republican National Convention later this year.
anyone tell whatshisname who was tweeting all morning about the Dems?
Who is going to be the first state legislator to suggest that their state legislature just appoint electors instead of having a presidential election? Not that it would stop the down ballot races… but you have to figure someone is going to suggest it.
Modly was someone who had real experience and credentials for his post. It is sad to see how this administrations corrupts everything it touches; anyone who serves the unprincipled monster who leads it becomes unprincipled, vicious, and dishonest in turn. I don’t know how Fauci can survive his tenure here, given what he is subjected to on a daily basis. ETTD
re: #2 Jack Burton
When I first watched this video yesterday I kept thinking. “Graham Ledger… I know that name from somewhere.”
It bothered me enough to do some research on it and it turns out he was a news anchor here in San Diego on the CBS affiliate (KFMB Channel 8) for like 2 decades. I don’t remember of him being blatantly crazy or dumb back then.
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This also led me to find out this OAN Network is based here. I’m disturbed.
I had never heard of him before. He’s almost like a parody. They all are. Do we know anything about the guy bankrolling OANN? Reckon he’s a San Diego guy too.
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— LillianVikingDK (@Lilliancphmco) April 5, 2020
Even when I’m wrong, I’m right. It really borders on parody or something out of a dystopian novel.
re: #10 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I had never heard of him before. He’s almost like a parody. They all are. Do we know anything about the guy bankrolling OANN? Reckon he’s a San Diego guy too.
Yep. OAN is a part of Herring Networks; apparently a media vanity project of wealthy wingnut Robert Herring based in SD.
re: #10 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I had never heard of him before. He’s almost like a parody. They all are. Do we know anything about the guy bankrolling OANN? Reckon he’s a San Diego guy too.
According to Wikipedia, OANN’s parent company is Herring Networks. The CEO of Herring Networks is Robert Herring, who does in fact live in San Diego.
Then there’s this:
In March 2005, Herring offered $1 million to Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael Schiavo to release all guardianship rights to her parents so that they could keep her alive on a feeding tube.
re: #13 Jay C
Yep. OAN is a part of Herring Networks; apparently a media vanity project of wealthy wingnut Robert Herring based in SD.
Thanks. Had never heard of him before last night.
re: #14 Jack Burton
According to Wikipedia, OANN’s parent company is Herring Networks. The CEO of Herring Networks is Robert Herring, who does in fact live in San Diego.
Then there’s this:
In March 2005, Herring offered $1 million to Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael Schiavo to release all guardianship rights to her parents so that they could keep her alive on a feeding tube.
Yep I found that very interesting
Modly calls @IgnatiusPost at 1 am to explain why he fired Capt. Crozier, saying he wanted to act before Trump did, knowing that his predecessor was fired for getting “crossways with the president. I didn’t want that to happen again.” https://t.co/3Ty3MA4tgn
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 6, 2020
Wisconsin Gov. acts to thwart GOP plan to have an election without voters tomorrow. We’ll see if the courts think it’s a good idea or not.
BREAKING: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issues order shutting down Tuesday’s election — delaying until June 9.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) April 6, 2020
It’s the FNC model though. The women reporters are all eye candy. And Graham is the “straight talk” bullshit artist wingnuts love.
re: #6 Citizen K
It all comes down to Trump only surrounding himself with people who agree that ‘Trump is God, His Word is Law’.
I don’t think so. He’s so easily played by those who are currently enabling him. They are only putting up with him to enrich themselves as much as possible while they can. IF, not when, IF he loses reelection, they will drop him faster that a radioactive turd and try to get as far away from him (and his family) as they can. Those who can’t get away, will turn on him in a heart beat to save their own corrupt asses.
Then again, they may actually be that stupid and as such, will burn with him when he inevitably fails.
re: #8 KGxvi
Who is going to be the first state legislator to suggest that their state legislature just appoint electors instead of having a presidential election? Not that it would stop the down ballot races… but you have to figure someone is going to suggest it.
that’s allowed and it could happen.
electoral-vote.com has gamed this out a bunch of different ways
(im sure others have too)
bottom line is there no viable way - by enlisting governors, or state legislators or in any other way that the numbers could work in his favor
their best advantage, if it is one: manipulate turnout
re: #17 Dread Pirate
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re: #20 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
So he ruined a career to save his own career
appease Trump.
re: #22 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
that’s allowed and it could happen.
electoral-vote.com has gamed this out a bunch of different ways
(im sure others have too)bottom line is there no viable way - by enlisting governors, or state legislators or in any other way that the numbers could work in his favor
their best advantage, if it is one: manipulate turnout
Exactly what the GOP in Wisconsin is trying to do by having an election during a pandemic.
re: #19 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s the FNC model though. The women reporters are all eye candy. And Graham is the “straight talk” bullshit artist wingnuts love.
I watched him for years on KFMB.He was a longtime weekend anchorman,his coverage of the Cedar fire in ‘03 and other later blazes got him lots of accolades.He seemed to be a hard news guy,I guess from under the surface his inner wingnut emerged.
re: #26 nicdanger
I watched him for years on KFMB.He was a longtime weekend anchorman,his coverage of the Cedar fire in ‘03 and other later blazes got him lots of accolades.He seemed to be a hard news guy,I guess from under the surface his inner wingnut emerged.
I bet there was big $$$ involved.
re: #28 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I bet there was big $$$ involved.
No doubt.
I will add that there are a metric shit-ton of rich conseravtives in SoCal,mainly San Diego and Orange counties…
I wonder if the Republicans wanting to prevent voting by mail will realize that
young voters will turn out in droves, some of whom may have covid19, and give covid19 to the old folks who do nothing but go out and vote.
My latest. “Donald Trump’s Traveling Snake Oil Show”https://t.co/9V1WXYUso3
— Rocky Mountain Mike (@RockyMntnMike) April 6, 2020
It would be a damned shame if people reposted Yashar’s video.
Apparently Dr. Drew wants this video taken down. RT @yashar: Dr. Drew is a snake oil salesman. Really terrible stuff here. What a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/jVebEuBZMN
— Dee “Flatten The Curve” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 6, 2020
“Boo them right back” @DaftLimmy teaches techno 👇 (via @BBCScotland) pic.twitter.com/yimLOJBBQL
— BBC The Social (@bbcthesocial) April 6, 2020
This is a key talking point in the Trump gang’s coronavirus disinformation campaign - the ludicrous idea that Trump was totally surprised and everybody else was, too. We need to always point out that this is a ridiculous lie. Every expert predicted this. For decades. https://t.co/z2HxGasiN6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 6, 2020
But of course.
#BREAKING: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unveiled new charges in the FIFA corruption probe, including against 2 former FOX marketing execs. Prosecutors say their involvement helped them “obtain confidential bidding” info for U.S. rights to 2018, 2022 World Cups, which FOX won.
— Zach Zagger (@ZachZagger) April 6, 2020
Shit’s just got real.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has coronavirus, has been taken to intensive care https://t.co/hQClxR7lRt
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 6, 2020
BBC now reporting Boris Johnson transferred to Intensive Care…
BREAK: @BorisJohnson in intensive care. pic.twitter.com/lH3yuV4KMI
— Joe Pike (@joepike) April 6, 2020
When the reports surfaced yesterday that UK PM Boris Johnson was taken to the hospital with covid19, they were spinning it as precautionary
Well, today we learned he’s now in the ICU. With covid19, people go downhill very quickly. This is not a disease that you ever want to get.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 6, 2020
This is not good news for Boris, let alone the UK.
This is not a disease anyone wants to get. And we’ll probably learn before long that he’s getting ventilated because he’s having respiratory distress too.
Not good at all.
re: #37 Alephnaught
Shit’s just got real.
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Not surprising. The only reason Boris was taken to the hospital was that his condition had significantly deteriorated. Let’s hope his fiancee doesn’t require this level of treatment — that her case is mild and she recovers quickly.
The reporting, or at least the party line, is that Boris has been taken to intensive care as a precaution, just in case he needs to go on ventilation. But his symptoms have worsened. Dominic Rabb is going to be deputising for him. (Which he pretty much has been doing for the past week and a half.)
re: #37 Alephnaught
Shit’s just got real.
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Some very very dark humor.
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I don’t know how to fell about this. Wasn’t Boris shaking hands when people told him not to? Yes, I feel bad for his family, just not him or maybe I should. It’s so hard, I’ve save my hate for trump and kushner.
Well, Boris wanted Brexit and he’s getting it…not the way he expected…
Yesterday, it was “Boris is in the hospital ‘just in case.’”
Today, it’s “Boris is in the ICU ‘just in case.’”
One hopes tomorrow’s isn’t “Boris in the morgue ‘just in case.’”
re: #42 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Some very very dark humor.
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re: #35 Charles Johnson
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Larry “pretty much airtight” Kudlow is always wrong about everything.
re: #41 Alephnaught
The reporting, or at least the party line, is that Boris has been taken to intensive care as a precaution, just in case he needs to go ventilation. But his symptoms have worsened. Dominic Rabb is going to be deputising for him. (Which he pretty much has been doing for the past week and a half.)
With resource limitations, you’re not taken to the ICU unless you’re in real trouble. This reeks of retconning the fact that he’s in bad shape.
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re: #35 Charles Johnson
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It’s always the same deal: Larry insists he can predict the future, then has nothing but excuses when his predictions turn out to be as accurate as Miss Cleo’s.
re: #43 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how to fell about this. Wasn’t Boris shaking hands when people told him not to? Yes, I feel bad for his family, just not him or maybe I should. It’s so hard, I’ve save my hate for trump and kushner.
And yet Trump is still well, which if it’s not evidence there is no God, maybe evidence there is a devil.
re: #32 mmmirele
It would be a damned shame if people reposted Yashar’s video.
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Yes. A damn shame:
It would be a damned shame if people reposted @yashar’s video. Apparently Dr. Drew doesn’t like it being in circulation… https://t.co/54GyLQcLBS
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 6, 2020
re: #41 Alephnaught
The reporting, or at least the party line, is that Boris has been taken to intensive care as a precaution, just in case he needs to go on ventilation. But his symptoms have worsened. Dominic Rabb is going to be deputising for him. (Which he pretty much has been doing for the past week and a half.)
It almost certainly means he’s on high flow oxygen.
re: #42 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Some very very dark humor.
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re: #45 Targetpractice
Yesterday, it was “Boris is in the hospital ‘just in case.’”
Today, it’s “Boris is in the ICU ‘just in case.’”
One hopes tomorrow’s isn’t “Boris in the morgue ‘just in case.’”
I’m expecting to wake up on my side of the world tomorrow morning, and hear that Boris is now on a ventilator. I hope it doesn’t happen, and I certainly wouldn’t wish it on anyone, even an Eton Tory like Boris. But I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the next stage of coverage.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 6, 2020
Yeah, they don’t put a person in intensive care just as a precaution, normally. Maybe for a prime minister, though.
re: #48 lawhawk
With resource limitations, you’re not taken to the ICU unless you’re in real trouble. This reeks of retconning the fact that he’s in bad shape.
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Today The Devil Whispered in My Ear, “You’re Not Strong Enough to Withstand the Storm”…
…And I Whispered, 6 FEET BACK, Motherf—-er” #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/FXAq4VjhkU— Sam Girgis (@BioBreakout) April 2, 2020
This is what The Washington Post has on Boris Johnson:
(it is not good)
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re: #57 Charles Johnson
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That quote: “to deputize for him where necessary,”.
Where “necessary”?! He’s in flipping intensive care right at the moment, I don’t think he’s going to be doing any work.
re: #64 Alephnaught
Except trying to stay alive.
re: #52 Teukka
Dr Drew is the Dr. Oz of addiction medicine.
“It seemed like everything that could have run, had…” How Rare Was the Idaho Avalanche Cycle Caused by an Earthquake? https://t.co/JHoPnt0JnT via @PowderMagazine
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 6, 2020
The avalanches weren’t necessarily historic in terms of their size—the carnage was noteworthy because there was a fresh crown on almost every path.
You don’t put someone in an ICU without a very good reason because just being in an ICU is goddamned fucking stressful in and of itself. Mother fuckers constantly coming in and disturbing you, damn near impossible to get any real sleep. You don’t get there unless your shit is already rickety.
Oh my goodness, now UK politicians on Twitter are starting to do “thoughts and prayers”, and pay tributes to Boris, like he’s already died.
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re: #72 Decatur Deb
We all have extra time these days. I spent a good part of my morning watching some old PBS travel shows like Rudy Maxa’s World.
re: #69 goddamnedfrank
You don’t put someone in an ICU without a very good reason because just being in an ICU is goddamned fucking stressful in and of itself. Mother fuckers constantly coming in and disturbing you, damn near impossible to get any real sleep. You don’t get there unless your shit is already rickety af.
Maybe in the current climate, but overall that’s not necessarily so. People go to ICUs all the time that don’t need it, especially a surgical ICU, where they might be observed overnight after a long case to ensure that they don’t have a problem. Right now ICU beds are at a premium, but in better times ICUs are often used for someone who you want to be looked at more frequently than every 4-8 hours or so, just in case, because a standard nursing floor doesn’t have the staff to check more often than that. Most of them do fine.
“Too soon” has never been in The Onion’s vocabulary.
Boris Johnson Released From Hospital After Defunding It, Shutting It Down https://t.co/Y5GPgGurNS pic.twitter.com/aeNhTEKyDN
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 6, 2020
Tomorrow I break out the short trousers for my vineyard walk! Temps will be pushing 70 degrees.
re: #75 teleskiguy
“Too soon” has never been in The Onion’s vocabulary.
NHS should present him a bill for 50 millions pounds per week for treatment.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tomorrow I break out the short trousers for my vineyard walk! Temps will be pushing 70 degrees.
I hate you.
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Tomorrow, Boris Johnson’s soul transferred to magic jar out of an “abundance of caution”
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 6, 2020
So the new IHME model, run on the 5th, has lowered the predicted US deaths by 4 August. The error bars have been tightened a bit too, but still are pretty large:
covid19.healthdata.org
They explain in their release:
Updated COVID-19 estimates find that need for hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators needed to deal with the COVID-19 epidemic are less than previously estimated.
The revised forecasts reflect “a massive infusion of new data,” said Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. New data on COVID-19 health service use from multiple US states, including New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, and California, has led to revisions down in estimated need to deal with the pandemic.
In addition, estimation of the likely peak of the epidemic in each state has been strengthened by epidemics peaking after social distancing in seven more locations internationally.
[…]
Murray noted that for patients who do not require ICU services, their length of stay has gone down, but for those who need ICU services, the length of stay has increased. Estimated demand for ICU beds and ventilators is also influenced by the longer length of stay for patients who survive. Lower numbers of required hospital beds may also reflect triage practices in over-stretched hospital systems, such as New York’s, where some moderately ill patients cannot be admitted because of demand for hospital beds.
[…]
Murray, however, cautioned that, “As we noted previously, the trajectory of the pandemic will change - and dramatically for the worse - if people ease up on social distancing or relax with other precautions. Our projections are strengthened by the new downturns in more regions. This is evidence that social distancing is crucial. Our forecasts assume that social distancing remains in place until the end of May.”
[…]
“Our estimates assume statewide social distancing measures are continuing in states where they have already been enacted, and for those states without such measures in place, it is assumed they will be will be in place within seven days,” Murray said. “If social distancing measures are relaxed or not implemented, the US will see greater death tolls, the death peak will be later, the burden on hospitals will be much greater, and the economic costs will continue to grow.”
[…]
re: #72 Decatur Deb
Seemed to have time on my hands, so put the little Mexican pizza oven in play:
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(Wife has time, too. She’s been labeling everything, like oil cruets, with her vinyl cutting program.)
Darn that looks good. My 18yo is now in the kitchen making a matcha (dark green tea) cheese cake.
Boris Johnson moved to intensive care after persistent symptoms of a liberal hoax.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) April 6, 2020
Some Big Brains wrote an OpEd that will surprise none of us, and in light of Boris taking turn for the worse… I take no joy in any of this. But there is a hope I have: this pandemic will annihlate ignorance in many ways. The ‘body’ of evidence will grow and the ignorant will be painted into an intellectual corner, made all the more difficult by the speed at which the pandemic operates.
And some of these people will die.
re: #81 danarchy
Good video, needs to lose the bad anime style hair though.
I think it’s some unwritten rule for medical professionals on social media, look frazzled etc.
re: #47 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Larry “pretty much airtight” Kudlow is always wrong about everything.
What was he to do?
Tell the truth? hahaha
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the new IHME model, run on the 5th, has lowered the predicted US deaths by 4 August. The error bars have been tightened a bit too, but still are pretty large:
covid19.healthdata.orgThey explain in their release:
From the article:
IHME forecasts 81,766 deaths, with a range between 49,431 and 136,401
Trump and GOP governors will attempt to take credit when the only reason the numbers will be that low is Democratic governors and local politicians took actions they wouldn’t.
re: #85 Teukka
I think it’s some unwritten rule for medical professionals on social media, look frazzled etc.
That’s not frazzled. Getting hair to stand up like that takes effort, and product.
re: #82 Barefoot Grin
Darn that looks good. My 18yo is now in the kitchen making a matcha (dark green tea) cheese cake.
That’s mostly marinated artichoke, but Wife’s sun-dried tomatoes really made it.
re: #88 danarchy
That’s not frazzled. Getting hair to stand up like that takes effort, and product.
He doesn’t normally have that bad a hair day.
re: #74 Renaissance_Man
Maybe in the current climate, but overall that’s not necessarily so. People go to ICUs all the time that don’t need it, especially a surgical ICU, where they might be observed overnight after a long case to ensure that they don’t have a problem. Right now ICU beds are at a premium, but in better times ICUs are often used for someone who you want to be looked at more frequently than every 4-8 hours or so, just in case, because a standard nursing floor doesn’t have the staff to check more often than that. Most of them do fine.
Yep. Back in 2007, after open heart surgery, I was placed in an ICU for maybe about 2 days. Total time in hospital was 10 days.
re: #87 Belafon
From the article:
Trump and GOP governors will attempt to take credit when the only reason the numbers will be that low is Democratic governors and local politicians took actions they wouldn’t.
GOP Gov Ivey finally put AL on soft lockdown 2 days ago, and the model quickly responded by dropping our death projections a bunch.
For folks wondering where MAGA political culture came from, here’s an article published in 1969 that sound quite familiar to anyone who’s read any of the reporting from Trump rallies or watched Fox or read Breitbart lately. https://t.co/vEjTZ4egnZ
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) April 6, 2020
re: #87 Belafon
From the article:
Trump and GOP governors will attempt to take credit when the only reason the numbers will be that low is Democratic governors and local politicians took actions they wouldn’t.
For example, and I keep coming back to this because it’s so outrageous, the Wisconsin GOP is trying to kill a lot of people tomorrow, and only the Democratic Governor is standing in their way.
No10 emphasising that Johnson has been moved to ICU in the event he needs a ventilator. But “that’s not the stage we’re currently at,” insiders say.
The prime minister remains conscious at this time.— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) April 6, 2020
The local community is devastated by the recent loss of two friends caught in separate avalanches this week. Teton County SAR & the Bridger Teton Avalanche Center remind you to do a beacon test every time you head out. Our hearts go out to the friends & family of the victims. ❤️
— TetonGravityResearch (@TetonGravity) April 6, 2020
Very sad. Both guys that died were very experienced backcountry travelers. Their avalanche beacons weren’t turned on or had dead batteries.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Translation: They’re expecting him to only get worse, but they’re still holding out hope that he could beat the odds.
BREAKING: Retired Captain of the USS Iowa calls for Acting Navy Secretary Modley to resign, or be fired immediately. Full statement here: https://t.co/lPdQ6nXUri pic.twitter.com/cEIkComwXF
— VoteVets (@votevets) April 6, 2020
More Captain (Ret.) Seaquist: “Bizarre and inappropriate as Mr. Modly’s actions may be, vets will recognize a second, bigger problem: So far, the Navy chain of command has been silent, invisible. That is also very wrong and very dangerous.” More here: https://t.co/lPdQ6nXUri
— VoteVets (@votevets) April 6, 2020
“If he took his own advice he would apologize and resign today. If he won’t, then Secretary Esper should immediately fire him.” – Captain (Ret) Seaquist of the USS Iowa on Acting SECNAV Modley. Statement here: https://t.co/lPdQ6nXUri
— VoteVets (@votevets) April 6, 2020
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of the things they talked about on the PBS show about the 1918 flu is that some people would show symptoms, go to the doctor, and die within 12 hours, before the doctor had time to even do anything. It would be better to be proactive if you reach a certain stage than to hope it won’t get worse.
The IHME model predicts that Louisiana daily deaths will peak… today. So I guess we’ll know in a week or so how well that went.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Reporter Robert Costa revealed that Jared Kushner has been coordinating the distribution of medical supplies with Republican donors.https://t.co/iaqxCGmZIJ— Hondo Resists (@HondoResists) April 6, 2020
Far as Boris Johnson goes, let’s not forget that he had initially promoted the bonkers ‘herd immunity’ defense toward the virus until he was thankfully convinced off that batshittery.
Somehow it’s fitting, but at the same time, I still would not wish this on him. This’ll be a shitty way to go, however karmic.
re: #42 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Some very very dark humor.
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🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
But we were gonna build herd immunity https://t.co/9Z52agADsq— Topimorita (@TopiMorita) April 6, 2020
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If that can be proved, Kushner needs to be arrested the next time he crosses the Hudson.
re: #104 Decatur Deb
If that can be proved, Kushner needs to be arrested the next time he crosses the Hudson.
I volunteer to take a swing at him.
re: #105 I Would Prefer Not To
I volunteer to take a swing at him.
Just put him in the Epstein Suite, with better guards.
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just think, Republicans in states with Democratic leaders, Trump doesn’t care about you at all. And for those of you Republicans in the other states, he doesn’t care about you either. You’re just more useful fodder.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at all the trouble in this banana republic.
Oh.
Wait.
NeverMind
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Reading that article, it also reminded me of films from that era with just those kind of white working-class characters - films like Joe (the 1970 film with Peter Boyle) and of course, TV’s All In The Family, Archie Bunker virtually being a personification of such sentiments.
Those toxic sentiments have never left white working-class America.
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is the least surprising surprise ever. What will be surprising is if they don’t just keep doing it out in the open now that he’s caught.
Now hospitals are running low on medicine they need for treatment. vox.com
re: #109 Dr Lizardo
I reference to All in the Family Carroll O’Connor was interviewed a little while back and he said that he thought Archie was too bigoted and that no one would like him.
re: #110 stpaulbear
That is the least surprising surprise ever. What will be surprising is if they don’t just keep doing it out in the open now that he’s caught.
Why not? No-one will hold them accountable.
re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tomorrow I break out the short trousers for my vineyard walk! Temps will be pushing 70 degrees.
I’ll be doing that in about 50 minutes for Captain Cement Head’s daily walk. Pushing 70° in South Jersey.
re: #113 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Why not? No-one will hold them accountable.
I think this one may be different. 200,000+ people are dying for this scam.
re: #112 PhillyPretzel
I reference to All in the Family Carroll O’Conner was interviewed a little while back and he said that he thought Archie was too bigoted and that no one would like him.
What made the Archie Bunker character work was not only Carroll O’Conner’s superb portrayal, but that as the series progressed, we saw that Archie’s bigotry stemmed more from ignorance than outright malice. His character was capable of personal growth and change, albeit rather slow - and sometimes reluctant - change.
re: #113 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Why not? No-one will hold them accountable.
Not in DC. In NYC you can get righteously dead for selling a couple cigarettes.
https://t.co/Okhdy46unA pic.twitter.com/UwvjgE1ycz
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 6, 2020
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Not in DC. In NYC you can get righteously dead for selling a couple cigarettes.
If Covid19 would just steal some cigarettes or soda pop. They would’ve killed it already.
Amid Fox News’ round-the-clock promotion of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential coronavirus cure, renowned biologist Dr. William Haseltine told Fox News host Dana Perino that it was “irresponsible” to tout the unproven drug https://t.co/SCF7796jfL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 6, 2020
jeebus
And for anyone who thinks this is simply because the video is sped up, I did a second video which includes Dr. Birx. Compare her lack of movement to Trump. pic.twitter.com/EIw64g2jSj
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) April 5, 2020
Was utterly horrified last night to discover that my younger idiot ass had left Kirkland brand batteries in the old SB-800 and they had all leaked.
Still not over it— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 6, 2020
hey, Teo!
Maybe this is why we allow the FDA to actually test drugs for safety and efficacy instead of listening to a reality TV host play doctor. https://t.co/RBeBtKGGZt
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 6, 2020
re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the new IHME model, run on the 5th, has lowered the predicted US deaths by 4 August. The error bars have been tightened a bit too, but still are pretty large:
covid19.healthdata.orgThey explain in their release:
The analysis assumes that our shelter in place is held until the end of May. Texas doesn’t have a statewide mandate, and where I live the current shelter in place is until the first Monday of May. It will be interesting to see if the local government will lift it or extend it.
Time to call it a day. Guess I’ll have to wait and see what fresh hell awaits the world tomorrow when I wake up.
Have a good one, Lizards. Stay healthy.
re: #115 stpaulbear
I think this one may be different. 200,000+ people are dying for this scam.
The Wisconsin GOP is willing to kill people tomorrow to retain a state Supreme Court seat. People dying won’t move Republicans.
I’m sorry, I’m having trouble feeling that bad for Boris Johnson. Yes, it sucks that he’s sick but he willingly and purposefully ignored the experts and continued behaviors that it was well known significantly increase one risks of getting the virus. It’s a classic “you reap what you sow” moment.
Boris has no one to blame for this but himself.
re: #117 Decatur Deb
Not in DC. In NYC you can get righteously dead for selling a couple cigarettes.
Sure, if you’re black.
Here comes the recovery using hydroxychloroquine
— Scott North (@ScottNorth89) April 6, 2020
To QAnon, if Johnson dies, it will be because the deep state denied him HQ. If he lives, it’s because the Q team defied the deep state and gave him HQ.
What *actually* happens to him will be irrelevant in this scenario. https://t.co/JgdcRgSQiq— Mike “Trump Can’t Cancel the Election” Rothschild (@rothschildmd) April 6, 2020
re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹
The new Republican Anthem
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To be honost, that’s not really new.
A portent of things to come, courtesy of our “business president”:
Family of Walmart associate who died of COVID-19 alleges managers ignored his symptoms: lawsuithttps://t.co/oQybhLITyS
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 6, 2020
OT: Al Kaline, Detroit baseball legend, dies, age 85, cause of death not immediately available.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
Compared to most people, I’m unfortunately fairly familiar with QAnon and their various little terms and phrase (“breadcrumbs” and “bakers” are two particularly insipid ones), but WTF does it mean to “give someone HQ”?
I’m sure I’ll regret asking.
re: #136 Mattand
Compared to most people, I’m unfortunately fairly familiar with QAnon and their various little terms and phrase (“breadcrumbs” and “bakers” are two particularly insipid ones), but WTF does it mean to “give someone HQ”?
I’m sure I’ll regret asking.
Given the context, I’d say hydroxychloroquine.
re: #136 Mattand
Compared to most people, I’m unfortunately fairly familiar with QAnon and their various little terms and phrase (“breadcrumbs” and “bakers” are two particularly insipid ones), but WTF does it mean to “give someone HQ”?
I’m sure I’ll regret asking.
Probably refers to the anti-malarial drug? (Or to the Hooge Quartermass—hard to tell with Q-tips.)
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry, I’m having trouble feeling that bad for Boris Johnson. Yes, it sucks that he’s sick but he willingly and purposefully ignored the experts and continued behaviors that it was well known significantly increase one risks of getting the virus. It’s a classic “you reap what you sow” moment.
Boris has no one to blame for this but himself.
I’m just shocked that this has not happened to Cheetolini yet. A guy that unhealthy surrounded by infected people and he somehow has dodged it (so far).
Also, total agreement with you on Boris Johnson. Particularly after claiming to have been glad-handing COVID patients a few weeks back (which I read was a straight-up lie).
It’s like something out of a horror movie. And the GOP doesn’t care how many people suffer like this. Thread.
My husband and I are recovering from COVID-19.
We’re getting better. But it’s taken more than two weeks to say that, and that was with the “mild” version, meaning no trouble breathing. This virus is absolutely brutal. “Mild” is not mild by any normal definition. Thread: 1/x— Maggie Astor (@MaggieAstor) April 6, 2020
re: #137 TedStriker
Hydroxychloroquine
re: #138 Decatur Deb
Probably refers to the anti-malarial drug? (Or to the Hooge Quartermass—hard to tell with Q-tips.)
That makes sense. I kept reading it as “Headquarters”. Probably a little dense on my part, but it was not out of the realm of possibility that “giving someone headquarters” would be a phrase for these idiots.
LOL’d at “Q-tips”, BTW. Definitely stealing that.
NEWS: @JoeBiden spoke today with @realDonaldTrump about the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a source with knowledge of the call tells NBC News.
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) April 6, 2020
Number of COVID-19 cases in Kanawha County hits 70. #EyewitnessWV pic.twitter.com/UC4XxBmquE
— Bob Aaron (@BobAaronWCHS) April 6, 2020
Kanawa County is the location of Charleston, the state capital
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
What made the Archie Bunker character work was not only Carroll O’Conner’s superb portrayal, but that as the series progressed, we saw that Archie’s bigotry stemmed more from ignorance than outright malice. His character was capable of personal growth and change, albeit rather slow - and sometimes reluctant - change.
It also helps that the series was based a long running UK TV sitcom “Till Death Do Us Part”, starting in 1965, in which the equivalent of Archie Bunker was Alf Garnett, and the show’s writer Johnny Speight, a working class Socialist in the old 1960s UK sense, made sure that although the focus of the show was essentially taking the piss out of Alf Garnett’s prejudices, every effort was made to portray Garnett as a real working class man, as an actual person, not a fictional bigot cliche. Warren Mitchell’s portrayal of Garnett certainly helped in this, although, as in the US equivalent, a lot of people who were watching didn’t actually get that this show was taking the piss out of prejudice: they were laughing with Alf Garnett, not at him.
This really annoyed the writer, and he tried to chuck in various indications that this show is actually really quite left-wing. The epitome of this is when the show was revived in the late 1980s, and Alf Garnett was dependant on a care worker coming round to their house, and that care worker just happened to be a very camp gay person of colour. And still, people didn’t get it…
I’m expecting to see a lot of stories next year about companies being sued by the families of dead or injured employees who were ignored as they were hacking up blood because managers were basically told by corporate that staff were expendable but quarterly earnings were not.
Mr. President, I hope we can gather in Milwaukee, but that is going to depend on you stepping up and doing what needs to be done to handle this pandemic. I have laid out how you can do that: https://t.co/YLHCGEKnUB. Happy to discuss anytime. https://t.co/ePQuQKkeZV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 6, 2020
We need a president who actually listens to the experts and heeds their advice. https://t.co/J7VA462Aff
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 6, 2020
re: #141 Mattand
That makes sense. I kept reading it as “Headquarters”. Probably a little dense on my part, but it was not out of the realm of possibility that “giving someone headquarters” would be a phrase for these idiots.
LOL’d at “Q-tips”, BTW. Definitely stealing that.
I think it’s been around a while.
re: #143 teleskiguy
I bet that was a short call.
re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter
Not surprising. The only reason Boris was taken to the hospital was that his condition had significantly deteriorated. Let’s hope his fiancee doesn’t require this level of treatment — that her case is mild and she recovers quickly.
I hope Boris recovers, but my guess is he has pretty substantial weight-related health issues.
Here’s the French study the Trump didn’t tell you about. It contradicts the earlier French study that he relies on to tout his “miracle cure.” Trust your doctor, not Trump or Peter Navarro. https://t.co/2JWh98LjcA
— Steven J. Harper (@StevenJHarper1) April 6, 2020
re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet that was a short call.
I hope Biden recorder it and then releases it.
I really don’t mind being an inside cat at Fort Cattis, but if making the human feel guilty results in some extra treats or canned food, I’ll do it.#MondayMotivaton #MondayMood #QuarantineCats pic.twitter.com/M8w9ZnAfEj
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) April 6, 2020
Beshear: “We are now one month from our first positive case.”
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 6, 2020
Hydroxycholorquine or however the fuck you spell it is NOT a cure.
The only thing that will truly stop this virus is a vaccine.
re: #106 Decatur Deb
Just put him in the Epstein Suite, with better guards.
Same guards, they’ve proved themselves competent at their assigned tasks.
“No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra https://t.co/2qMhUXzSLk
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) April 6, 2020
re: #155 Eclectic Cyborg
Hydroxycholorquine or however the fuck you spell it is NOT a cure.
The only thing that will truly stop this virus is a vaccine.
All the unbiased evidence so far seems to indicate is that it shows some promise for easing the symptoms of severe cases. But it is not a panacea as is being touted, and it sure as fuck is not a preventative as the MAGAts believe. And even those positive aspects are overshadowed by the potential for permanent neural damage, cardiovascular complications, or toxicity in patients already using Metformin.
re: #49 Targetpractice
It’s always the same deal: Larry insists he can predict the future, then has nothing but excuses when his predictions turn out to be as accurate as Miss Cleo’s.
everyone has an expert opinion why the market did what it did yesterday
Just a guy and his pet duck at home during the quarantine… pic.twitter.com/lZZzXuNTtL
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 6, 2020
Someone check my math. Why is the USA 25% of COVID19 cases but only 5% of world population? My guess is Trump is 5 times more stupid than other world leaders and #WorstPresidentInHistory and #WorstAdministrationEver
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) April 6, 2020
re: #139 Mattand
I’m just shocked that this has not happened to Cheetolini yet. A guy that unhealthy surrounded by infected people and he somehow has dodged it (so far).
Also, total agreement with you on Boris Johnson. Particularly after claiming to have been glad-handing COVID patients a few weeks back (which I read was a straight-up lie).
Satan takes care of his own?
Military offers ventilators: they sit un-allocated
And testing labs: they sit unused
And hospital ships: they sit mostly empty
And hospital build-outs: same
While: hospitals overflow, vent capacity nears, test backlog is terrible.
*Put someone in charge*https://t.co/hq2QJQSwCs— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 6, 2020
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
That is one explanation that works.
CL’d the hell out of this one
lol
re: #337 jaunte
For the record, Palm Beach County — where Mar-a-Lago is — has 1,000 confirmed coronavirus cases.And 49 deaths — the highest death toll of any Fla. county.https://t.co/KbMQxgBpmv
— Sez Me (@HoffmanHopes) April 6, 2020
Palm Beach County’s ratio of deaths per infected, and deaths per hospitalized is dramatically higher than anywhere else in Florida
experience.arcgis.com
heh
Homemade Anti-coronavirus Mask of the Week.https://t.co/bvV9N7D19c pic.twitter.com/nxu4QbDREr
— The Poke (@ThePoke) April 6, 2020
re: #105 I Would Prefer Not To
I volunteer to take a swing at him.
mrs dm has already volunteered to be the official president face slapper
there’s room for jared in her portfolio
There’s a reason that it takes months or years for the FDA to approve a drug/procedure for usage, and it’s not because (as wingnuts currently believe) they want to hurt Donny’s approval polls. Untested drugs have the potential for all sorts of side-effects while totally failing to live up to the promises/expectations of the manufacturers. Procedures that haven’t been rigorously tested may maim or kill patients needlessly for no appreciable gain.
We don’t go chasing down blind alleys in the hopes that we’ll stumble across a cure-all, since most civilized nations decided ages ago that human experimentation for the sake of experimenting is not something they wish to be associated with.
*snerk*
I am sooo comforted by PETER NAVARROS’ evaluation of scientific reports! WhT does Dr FAUCI , an eminent immunologist, really know, that a “social science” guy (political science?) can’t easily deduce from looking at statistics?? RIGHT!! The stupid arrogance is STUNNING!
— Eric Braeden (@EBraeden) April 6, 2020
Interesting thread.
In November 1970, officials in Oregon, USA decided to blow up a rotting whale carcass. The whole thing went horribly wrong.
Why do we bring this up? Well, this story can teach us 3 things about #coronavirus ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/9MOeRESkzx— Doncaster Council (@MyDoncaster) April 6, 2020
re: #137 TedStriker
Given the context, I’d say hydroxychloroquine.
they like it cause it’s got a “Q” in the name
LOL
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re: #143 teleskiguy
Who wants to bet at today’s press briefing, @realDonaldTrump will say @JoeBiden told him he was doing a wonderful job on their call today. Don’t laugh, you know he will.
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) April 6, 2020
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
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this is great
mr president, let me tell you how to do your job….
Mr. President, I hope we can gather in Milwaukee, but that is going to depend on you stepping up and doing what needs to be done to handle this pandemic. I have laid out how you can do that: https://t.co/YLHCGEKnUB. Happy to discuss anytime. https://t.co/ePQuQKkeZV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 6, 2020
A Pharma-funded group tied to a top Trump donor has been pushing Trump to approve the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19. https://t.co/nwyd0hYEWR
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 6, 2020
Please cite 1 specific Gospel teaching of Christ that Trump has fought for or that guided your vote. Just one. Something Jesus says in the Bible. Thank you.
Also, listing biblical facts about JC that you don’t like is not “intolerance.”towards you.
Also, it’s “you’re.”
2x. https://t.co/cnFhYs6sU6— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 6, 2020
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now that makes sense he is getting paid to promote a drug.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Follow the money. Always follow the money. Never stop following the money. Because you will never go wrong in assuming that every move this admin makes is predicated on a buck being made.
9 new cases in Boone, 5 new in Muhlenberg
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 6, 2020
Beshear: 14 new deaths in Kentucky.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 6, 2020
Beshear: Almost 163 hospitalized over course of this, but 70 currently hospitalized.
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 6, 2020
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone check my math. Why is the USA 25% of COVID19 cases but only 5% of world population? My guess is Trump is 5 times more stupid than other world leaders and #WorstPresidentInHistory and #WorstAdministrationEver
— Margaret and Helen 🌎 (@HelenPhilpot) April 6, 2020
Part of the reason for that is that certain countries are either deliberating concealing their statistics (China, Russia) or don’t have the capacity to test (e.g. India)
Beshear says they’ll use the cabins in state parks as quarantine sites for first responders. They say they have plans to use the lodges if they need to house additional coronavirus patients.
— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) April 6, 2020
FYI: Kentucky state park cabins are VERY nice
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
Part of the reason for that is that certain countries are either deliberating concealing their statistics (China, Russia) or don’t have the capacity to test (e.g. India)
kinda sounds like what the trump gang are doing here
re: #170 Targetpractice
There’s a reason that it takes months or years for the FDA to approve a drug/procedure for usage, and it’s not because (as wingnuts currently believe) they want to hurt Donny’s approval polls. Untested drugs have the potential for all sorts of side-effects while totally failing to live up to the promises/expectations of the manufacturers. Procedures that haven’t been rigorously tested may maim or kill patients needlessly for no appreciable gain.
We don’t go chasing down blind alleys in the hopes that we’ll stumble across a cure-all, since most civilized nations decided ages ago that human experimentation for the sake of experimenting is not something they wish to be associated with.
theres 330m people in the US alone
all shapes, sizes, genders, ages, climates, with allergies, sensitivities etc
who already take medications and have other health conditions
NO drug works the same on everyone for those and hundreds of other reasons
from testing derives a measure of predictability
re: #170 Targetpractice
There’s a reason that it takes months or years for the FDA to approve a drug/procedure for usage, and it’s not because (as wingnuts currently believe) they want to hurt Donny’s approval polls.
This is reminiscent when HIV began getting press in the 1980’s: all sorts of drugs used for entirely different and some HIV-specific purposes (cyclosporine for transplant patients, HPA-23, a weird-ass antimony/tungsten-based pharmaceutical that failed spectacularly developed by the Nobel winning virologist Luc
Montagnier ) were tried until a failed cancer drug, ziduovine, actually showed effectiveness and got approved as Zithromax.
re: #43 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how to fell about this. Wasn’t Boris shaking hands when people told him not to? Yes, I feel bad for his family, just not him or maybe I should. It’s so hard, I’ve save my hate for trump and kushner.
re: #128 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m sorry, I’m having trouble feeling that bad for Boris Johnson. Yes, it sucks that he’s sick but he willingly and purposefully ignored the experts and continued behaviors that it was well known significantly increase one risks of getting the virus. It’s a classic “you reap what you sow” moment.
Boris has no one to blame for this but himself.
If we all got what we deserved, we’d all be dead. I should have drowned in a quarry when I was a teenager, being stupid. Almost killed another kid jokingly putting him in a stranglehold. If he hadn’t fallen out of my arms, he never would have started breathing again. Just imagine that he’s in ICU, by himself, scared, having somebody tell him that he’s drowning in his own mucus, and that the ventilator hook-up may be the last conscious experience of his life.
This is so damning … THERE … WAS … A … LITERAL … PANDEMIC PLAYBOOK … PRESIDENT OBAMA … LEFT … FOR … TRUMP … TO … FOLLOW … and he and @AmbJohnBolton threw it in the trash, I guess because “Obama.” God help us. https://t.co/bMuSjT0UwO
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 6, 2020
re: #180 Targetpractice
Follow the money. Always follow the money. Never stop following the money. Because you will never go wrong in assuming that every move this admin makes is predicated on a buck being made.
Forget the myths that the media has created about the White House.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys…
Trump calls Joe Biden to discuss how to manage coronavirus pandemic: reporthttps://t.co/oxFPWuMYSy
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 6, 2020
Hell freezes over.
White House news conference at 5:45 P.M. Eastern. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 6, 2020
they’re waiting for the meds to kick in
I have called on @EsperDoD to immediately fire Acting @SECNAV. If you want to know why, listen to this. 👇🏼 https://t.co/s50POMB4qq
— Elaine Luria (@ElaineLuriaVA) April 6, 2020
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
kinda sounds like what the trump gang are doing here
Trump gang doing it — but information is provided at the state level and the states are publishing what they have. Certainly red states may be suppressing information — but even red states have blue areas that will release the data and everyone uses the Internet to report their personal experiences. So this kind of information will leak out.
Beshear reports 54 new COVID-19 cases today in KY, for a total of 1,008.
At this point, 54 is “a lot less than we expected,” he said, though the numbers “are still escalating.” If ppl “want to take some positives from this number,” it’s that social distancing “is working.”— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) April 6, 2020
re: #192 DodgerFan1988
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Hell freezes over.
Cue Berners losing their fucking minds over the idea of Biden being in contact with Trump in any fashion.
re: #195 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump gang doing it — but information is provided at the state level and the states are publishing what they have. Certainly red states may be suppressing information — but even red states have blue areas that will release the data and everyone uses the Internet to report their personal experiences. So this kind of information will leak out.
it will leak out eventually, but none of the data being reported RIGHT NOW is any more reliable than what is coming out of the other countries initially mentioned.
re: #192 DodgerFan1988
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Hell freezes over.
Trump won’t listen.
He’ll blame Biden for something.
He’ll brag that he told Biden how to do something.
I hope Biden got through Trump’s thick fucking skull, but I doubt it.
re: #170 Targetpractice
There’s a reason that it takes months or years for the FDA to approve a drug/procedure for usage, and it’s not because (as wingnuts currently believe) they want to hurt Donny’s approval polls. Untested drugs have the potential for all sorts of side-effects while totally failing to live up to the promises/expectations of the manufacturers. Procedures that haven’t been rigorously tested may maim or kill patients needlessly for no appreciable gain.
We don’t go chasing down blind alleys in the hopes that we’ll stumble across a cure-all, since most civilized nations decided ages ago that human experimentation for the sake of experimenting is not something they wish to be associated with.
And then the drug manufactures promote them for off-label use and get people killed/injured and end up paying through the nose for it.
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
Part of the reason for that is that certain countries are either deliberating concealing their statistics (China, Russia) or don’t have the capacity to test (e.g. India)
Yeah, India and Russia in particular must have the way the fuck more people sick than they are letting on.
re: #175 teleskiguy
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Which is why I posted up thread that I hope Biden has recorded it.
re: #201 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And then the drug manufactures promote them for off-label use and get people killed/injured and end up paying through the nose for it.
Yeah, but they make enough profit on the drugs that paying through the nose in lawsuits is just “the cost of doing business”.
re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg
India has extended their shutdowns until the end of the month, so it’s clear that they know that they aren’t getting ahead of it. They just might not have the tests available to identify cases quickly enough.
re: #195 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump gang doing it — but information is provided at the state level and the states are publishing what they have. Certainly red states may be suppressing information — but even red states have blue areas that will release the data and everyone uses the Internet to report their personal experiences. So this kind of information will leak out.
NYC can’t even say how many of those who have died at home due to Covid-19 because they aren’t testing the corpses because there are too many (10x+ more than normal)
Gotta give the Biden campaign loads of credit here. I got a call from a volunteer. Made it clear that he wasn’t asking for a donation but how I was holding up. I really think given our circumstances Biden is the right person to take down Trump.
re: #180 Targetpractice
Follow the money. Always follow the money. Never stop following the money. Because you will never go wrong in assuming that every move this admin makes is predicated on a buck being made.
And somehow going into his pockets.
Shithead is doing a rally in the Brady Room.
Tweets by ddale8Hey, fuck your family, I have supporters.
Trump says he’s asked major, “genius” drug companies to “contact London” immediately, and “we’ll see if we can be of help…we’ve contacted all of Boris’s doctors, and we’ll see what is going to take place.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If he didn’t think this audio would come out in this Information Age, he’s either too naive or too stupid to be the secretary of the navy.
— B (@BJC522) April 6, 2020
CNN not airing Trump. Bravo!👏👏👏👏
— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) April 6, 2020
Just thought I’d sit a spell to catch-up with the lizard talk. TV is on and Trump is reading to the class.
re: #197 Targetpractice
Cue Berners losing their fucking minds over the idea of Biden being in contact with Trump in any fashion.
hey bernie: what’s a phone and how does it work?
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have to watch paint dry. Thank you!
re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Which is why I posted up thread that I hope Biden has recorded it.
likely biden had people on the call even if trump didnt/wouldnt
re: #197 Targetpractice
Cue Berners losing their fucking minds over the idea of Biden being in contact with Trump in any fashion.
They already are…just as I expected…
re: #213 Semper Fi
Just thought I’d sit a spell to catch-up with the lizard talk. TV is on and Trump is reading to the class.
Kill your TV
what we were talking about here this AM:
Washington Post: “As Democrats escalate their general-election campaign against the president, they have targeted his failure to act urgently to deflect the damage the coronavirus is wreaking over lives and the economy, as he brushed aside intelligence briefings and warnings from health officials while holding fundraisers and gathering thousands of his followers at rallies.”
“Their greatest ammunition? Trump’s own comments, aired daily in the marathon coronavirus briefings where he commands center stage.”
There are two reasons why Trump is pushing this quackery about hydrochlorawhateverthefuckitscalled:
1. He owns stock in the company that makes it.
2. Dr. Fauci is a pain in his ass, and so the more Fauci disagrees with Trump, it gives Trump a reason to kick his ass out by Friday.
re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, but they make enough profit on the drugs that paying through the nose in lawsuits is just “the cost of doing business”.
Sadly enough.
re: #222 lawhawk
He’s alright for a Sox/Pats fan. Seriously though I love SGN. John is great at it. Emily is wonderful too.
Everyone in my twitter feed:
FFS QUIT LIVE-COVERING TRUMP’S BRIEFINGS EVERY DAY OMG
Also everyone in my twitter feed:
live-tweets the briefing every day
It would seem Rump Admiral Moldy is a card carrying Branch Covidien.
— PhoenixRising (@Phoenix72868151) April 6, 2020
Trump brags about doing 1.7 million COVID-19 tests. Even if that’s true (remember: Trump lies about almost everything), that’s about half of 1 percent of the population. Widespread testing should have happened more than a month ago. People died because Trump waited.
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) April 6, 2020
re: #227 Dread Pirate
Politico has a story saying that this asshole did not clear his remarks with Trump or anyone in the White House. That means that everything asshole said was written by Trump with a threat that if asshole didn’t say it, he’d find a horse head in his bed like Jack Woltz did in “The Godfather.”
just a giant day for nice and happy and warm phone calls about the coronavirus
— Matt Berman (@Mr_Berman) April 6, 2020
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m almost surprised he didn’t say Biden cried and said thank you, sir.
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
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he only ever talks in this assholic vague general way
Trump on Biden call: “A really wonderful, warm conversation” about the coronavirus.
“A very friendly conversation, lasted probably fifteen minutes. It was really good. It was really good. Really nice.”— Matt Berman (@Mr_Berman) April 6, 2020
re: #232 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m almost surprised he didn’t say Biden cried and said thank you, sir.
we’re only 15 minutes in….
re: #180 Targetpractice
Follow the money. Always follow the money. Never stop following the money. Because you will never go wrong in assuming that every move this admin makes is predicated on a buck being made.
Add to the known info (from 3/23:
U.S. regulators have lifted import restrictions on an Indian pharmaceutical company in an effort to increase supplies of a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a potential coronavirus treatment.
Mumbai-based Ipca Laboratories Ltd. said in a March 21 securities filing that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “has made exception to the import alert” for three of its facilities, allowing it to supply tablets as well as raw materials for making chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulphate.
Ipca’s shares jumped to touch a record high on March 20 after Trump endorsed the drug the day before
The factories where Ipca makes the medications have been under an import alert from the U.S. regulator since 2015, after inspectors discovered multiple violations of its manufacturing guidelines, including “systemic data manipulation” in tests meant to ensure the drugs’ efficacy and safety.
At one facility in central India, now permitted to ship the main ingredient of the two chloroquine drugs to the U.S., inspectors found raw data and test results were being manipulated so drugs could pass quality-control checks. At another facility where finished tablets are made, inspectors found data meant to decide quality-control tests mysteriously deleted.
The FDA inspected the third Ipca factory again in August and cited “a cascade of failure” regarding quality measures drugmakers are required to take to ensure the safety of their products.
“What do I have to do for you ma’am to get you to drive home a brand new Hydroxychloroquine today?” pic.twitter.com/2OPVrWKs4j
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 6, 2020
Another one.
A potential vaccine against the new coronavirus has proven successful in mice — and researchers say it could be rapidly made and distributed if it proves effective in humans. https://t.co/8DIPmgp3LN pic.twitter.com/WlQxLhKX6x
— WebMD (@WebMD) April 6, 2020
re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Still a ways to go of course, but encouraging nonetheless.
Trump repeats his false claim that people are being tested getting on and off planes. Just not happening. Airlines and airports have no idea what he’s talking about.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth
So why doesn’t one of the reporters do their job and fucking CALL HIM ON THIS BULLSHIT?
She should have replied “I wish we had a competent president…we really don’t.”
— Alberta Williams🇨🇦 (@8pointedstar) April 6, 2020
This is the problem. We may not be able to get back to normal until there’s a vaccine. Trump keeps lying about this. https://t.co/U9fs9LvIVZ
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) April 6, 2020
I’m calling it: By next week, Trump won’t allow anyone in the room except Fox and OANN.
Dr. Fauci: “If you want to get to pre-coronavirus, that might not ever happen.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 6, 2020
How can a bump/hill/mountain be flat?
I need a drink. https://t.co/KebiLLfzYc— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 6, 2020
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Trump asks a reporter repeatedly if she’s working for China. She says she works for a private company in Hong Kong. He asks if her company is owned by the state. She says it’s not. He says OK good.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Breaking. - You can see where the tanning goggles has a strip part that goes over the nose…
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 6, 2020
Trump expresses exasperation when asked about the state of testing. “We’re the federal government. We’re not supposed to stand on street corners doing testing.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
sad trombones…
re: #248 teleskiguy
Jesus Fucking Christ.
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Now ask Trump who he works for. https://t.co/v9ipeTj8qY
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 6, 2020
Turns-out the Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court are just as psychopathic as the Republican legislators.
Holy moly, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Evers postponing tomorrow’s primary. One of the justices is up for re-election tomorrow but he recused himself. The primary is back on during the pandemic.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) April 6, 2020
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
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General welfare. Maybe you should have read Khzir Khan’s Constitution he offered you instead of a slobber piece by one of your ass kissers.
Weirdly, it’s easier to clean up voter rolls than it is to build additional morgues https://t.co/u8NmkYlszq
— cheesecake proletariat (@jesseltaylor) April 6, 2020
re: #252 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Let’s not pull punches. If any deaths occur from coronavirus because people had to come out to the polls in WI and had to have poll workers present, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices will have blood directly on their hands. Accessories to murder, along with R legislators.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 6, 2020
If you don’t think Trump’s a liar, then explain how he can say with a straight face, “I’m in very good shape.”
I’ll wait.
Kthxbye. https://t.co/t4rh5Xqne8— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 6, 2020
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Pod Save America has Senator Warren on today. They posted a clip on instagram, wherein she says that this election is basically about the role of government, moreso than just about any election in living memory (my phrasing, not hers). It is absolutely true, too. The nihilistic Trumpian version of government (basic governing philosophy: fuck you, I got mine) vs really, anything else.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t know if it is still the case, but I know back in the day, if you moved from one county to the another in California, you could be on the voter rolls in both counties for a couple of cycles. Given how sprawling our metropolises are out here, it’s not very difficult to do.
Donald Trump — Don’t you dare tell journalists how to ask their questions. Read the damn Constitution to which you Republicans pretend to pray.#1stAmendment #Coronavirus #COVID19
— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) April 6, 2020
17 favourite tributes to Honor Blackman, James Bond’s Pussy Galore, who has died aged 94https://t.co/nTc3AK3hHM pic.twitter.com/87sLO184ls
— The Poke (@ThePoke) April 6, 2020
This is significant not only because the president is saying things that aren’t true but because he’s using this imaginary testing to justify not taking action to limit plane travel. https://t.co/zw7uB7WpOh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Stupid asshole.
Trump gets in fight with @jonkarl about Inspector General that Trump appointed. pic.twitter.com/8BbkWHNbr2
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 6, 2020
re: #264 teleskiguy
Stupid asshole.
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re: #158 Targetpractice
All the unbiased evidence so far seems to indicate is that it shows some promise for easing the symptoms of severe cases. But it is not a panacea as is being touted, and it sure as fuck is not a preventative as the MAGAts believe. And even those positive aspects are overshadowed by the potential for permanent neural damage, cardiovascular complications, or toxicity in patients already using Metformin.
You forgot blindness, another common side effect.
re: #252 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Turns-out the Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court are just as psychopathic as the Republican legislators.
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I was concerned voting March 17 in the Illinois primary. Republicans at all levels are monsters — it would be wonderful if the GOP and its Trump variation go the way of the Whig party, but my fear is that voter disenfranchisement and suppression will reach a peak with the November coronavirus election. Our best hope for the future is that Trump and Pence succumb to the plague — and soon.
re: #265 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You are absolutely right.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
Interesting tidbit re: Goldfinger
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) introduces herself to James Bond (Sir Sean Connery), who replies “I must be dreaming.” The original script had Bond replying “I know you are, but what’s your name?” This was deemed too suggestive
re: #270 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
When the outbreaks dissipated so quickly, they stopped looking.
This. The money for research wasn’t there anymore.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
McDaniel uses the word “California” as a dog-whistle for the Trumpers. The Trumpers have often mis-represented California’s change in voter rolls, because Trump has done so:
California “admitted” there were “a million” illegal votes in the 2016 presidential election.
Crozier saved his sailors’ lives when we weren’t at war and there was no cause for such reckless disregard for truth
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 6, 2020
They promised us rain… it’s taking forever to get here. A few sprinkles after midnight… then nothing.
Radar keeps showing a band of rain working itself southward, but it sure is taking its time, over 24 hours to go from Pt. Mugu to northern San Diego county.
I am going to be so happy when that asshole isn’t President anymore…even if I am still stuck at home when it happens.
re: #273 goddamnedfrank
“we’re not going to be showing weakness to anybody.”
Except every time he appears in public.
I slipped on an rock on a pool waterfall last Monday and got a nasty deep cut from it on my left leg, as well as a good skid mark up my thigh. It didn’t bleed for about an hour and then I went to a local clinic when it did. I got ten stitches, and was told the lack of bleeding at first was because my body was in shock. Two or three days after I’m in the shower, I noticed a purple like bruise near the base of my foot on the same leg but there’s no pain at all. Until this morning, my leg has been really sore and irritated from it with some swelling at the cut. Is it possible this foot “bruise” is from some lack of circulation from the accident? I get the stitches removed on Wednesday.
Trump arguing that Crozier’s seeking to prevent his sailors from dying absolutely preventable and needless deaths was a show of weakness is a glaring tell about how he views his own responsibility to safeguard lives entrusted to his own care
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 6, 2020
re: #279 Ace Rothstein
If it were me, I’d call my doctor, today. Not a doctor and won’t play one on the internet… but a pooling of blood may have happened around your ankle.
re: #189 steve_davis
If we all got what we deserved, we’d all be dead. I should have drowned in a quarry when I was a teenager, being stupid. Almost killed another kid jokingly putting him in a stranglehold. If he hadn’t fallen out of my arms, he never would have started breathing again. Just imagine that he’s in ICU, by himself, scared, having somebody tell him that he’s drowning in his own mucus, and that the ventilator hook-up may be the last conscious experience of his life.
And he has a young family. the difference between BJ and tump is that BJ may actually learn from his experience. trump is incapable of learning. the other difference is that boris is getting about the same healthcare as anyone in the UK. I hope he pulls through.
re: #279 Ace Rothstein
I slipped on an rock on a pool waterfall last Monday and got a nasty deep cut from it on my left leg, as well as a good skid mark up my thigh. It didn’t bleed for about an hour and then I went to a local clinic when it did. I got ten stitches, and was told the lack of bleeding at first was because my body was in shock. Two or three days after I’m in the shower, I noticed a purple like bruise near the base of my foot on the same leg but there’s no pain at all. Until this morning, my leg has been really sore and irritated from it with some swelling at the cut. Is it possible this foot “bruise” is from some lack of circulation from the accident? I get the stitches removed on Wednesday.
Did you roll your ankle at all? I’ve gotten that kind of bruise after bad ankle sprains where the foot folded all the way inside.
re: #284 goddamnedfrank
No, not that I can think of.
Trump says the Democrats “shouldn’t be allowed to win” the election because of how good a job he’s done. He says they were “artificially stopped” by the virus.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Whut
re: #286 jaunte
What the actual everloving fuck?
re: #14 Jack Burton
According to Wikipedia, OANN’s parent company is Herring Networks. The CEO of Herring Networks is Robert Herring, who does in fact live in San Diego.
Then there’s this:
In March 2005, Herring offered $1 million to Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael Schiavo to release all guardianship rights to her parents so that they could keep her alive on a feeding tube.
SHE HAD NO FOREBRAIN.
She was as dead as a stump.
re: #252 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Turns-out the Republicans on the Wisconsin Supreme Court are just as psychopathic as the Republican legislators.
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The Republicans are doing every fucking thing to boost Bernie.
How is it that CVS and Walgreens haven’t gone to curbside delivery or drive thru at all locations. It’s up to local stores to figure this out?
You’re hoping your customers aren’t carrying covid19, infecting employees and pharmacists who are trying to get thru the shift?— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 6, 2020
re: #283 I Would Prefer Not To
And he has a young family. the difference between BJ and tump is that BJ may actually learn from his experience. trump is incapable of learning. the other difference is that boris is getting about the same healthcare as anyone in the UK. I hope he pulls through.
I have way less faith in BJ than you. If he comes through he’ll double down on the assholeness because he made it through and you should be able to, too.
re: #291 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I have way less faith in BJ than you. If he comes through he’ll double down on the assholeness because he made it through and you should be able to, too.
It’s one of those times I feel bad, because I very rarely wish death on people (I can’t say never, there’s one person in recent memory) but honestly, it would result in soooooo much improvement in that political situation.
re: #284 goddamnedfrank
Did you roll your ankle at all? I’ve gotten that kind of bruise after bad ankle sprains where the foot folded all the way inside.
I’m also thinking a possible hairline facture in one of the foot bones (been retired as an EMT for quite a while, though).
re: #292 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It’s one of those times I feel bad, because I very rarely wish death on people (I can’t say never, there’s one person in recent memory) but honestly, it would result in soooooo much improvement in that political situation.
I don’t wish death on him, but I’m going to have a hard time feeling bad.
Fuckface Von Clownstick is being more of a shithead than usual in his televised Nuremberg speech today, so he’s being the biggest shithead on Earth, basically. The worst fucking president* at the worst time.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 6, 2020
He’s been taking questions for over an hour and no news has been made. Just lies, damned lies, petty grievances, temper tantrums, childish insults, and the orange tub of shit praising himself for the tremendous bigly job he’s doing. Nice job, America.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 6, 2020
re: #279 Ace Rothstein
I slipped on an rock on a pool waterfall last Monday and got a nasty deep cut from it on my left leg, as well as a good skid mark up my thigh. It didn’t bleed for about an hour and then I went to a local clinic when it did. I got ten stitches, and was told the lack of bleeding at first was because my body was in shock. Two or three days after I’m in the shower, I noticed a purple like bruise near the base of my foot on the same leg but there’s no pain at all.. Until this morning, my leg has been really sore and irritated from it with a lot of swelling. Is it possible this foot “bruise” is from some lack of circulation from the accident? I get the stitches removed on Wednesday.
the swelling a week later is a real concern.
Call your doc and in the meantime, keep it elevated.
re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hmmm, interesting, even with no pain whatsoever in my foot? I did have hairline fractures in four ribs from coughing when I had pneumonia, and never felt that.
Trump is railing against sanctuary cities and “open borders.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
Trump falsely says of the H1N1 pandemic: “The other administration, they didn’t even know — it was like they didn’t even know it was here.”
Just ridiculous. Obama declared a public health emergency within two weeks of the first confirmed US case.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
TRUMP brushed aside an @HHSGov inspector general report showing hospitals were struggling to obtain coronavirus supplies.
It’s only the I.G.’s “opinion,” he said.
* Actually the I.G. report was based on a survey of 323 hospitals around the country. https://t.co/2ORqht96bS— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) April 6, 2020
Partygoer at Trump National Golf Club dies of coronavirus
A Rancho Palos Verdes resident has died from the coronavirus after contracting it at a birthday party on March 8 at Trump National Golf Club, the city has confirmed.
Robert “Bert” Argo Jr., 75, was an active member of the Rancho Palos Verdes community, according to a recent statement.
“The city extends its deepest condolences to the family,” the statement said. “We ask for their privacy to be respected during this difficult time.”
Argo attended a birthday party for former Mayor Susan Brooks at the Trump golf club, where roughly 16 to 20 others also came down with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Brooks was among those who tested positive and she was briefly hospitalized.
[…]
D.C., Maryland and Virginia saw their biggest single-day increase in coronavirus-related fatalities Monday, with deaths up to 169 as officials warned that the region could become one of the country’s next hot spots and hospitals prepared for a surge https://t.co/pYMhvm4dtv
— Rachel Chason (@Rachel_Chason) April 6, 2020
From @jennaportnoy Cardin and Van Hollen said public health officials have told them cases in the region are expected to rise with a potential peak of early May, but stressed that the situation is fluid and not enough tests are being conducted to get a true picture
— Rachel Chason (@Rachel_Chason) April 6, 2020
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
I need to be clear about something. The swelling in my leg was for the first two or three days, but the swelling has gone down considerably. As a matter of fact, there is no swelling now at all. And the soreness when I walk, etc, is almost gone. Today is the first day I’ve felt almost 100%.
re: #304 Ace Rothstein
I need to be clear about something. The swelling in my leg was for the first two or three days, but the swelling has gone down considerably. As a matter of fact, there is no swelling now at all. And the soreness when I walk, etc, is almost gone. Today is the first day I’ve felt almost 100%.
ah! I misinterpreted what you said.
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
ah! I misinterpreted what you said.
so, it’s just the bruise that’s new this morning?
The president of the United States is, in my view, after having studied, taught and written about leadership in Washington for most of my adult life, what we would call…a dick.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 6, 2020
Cadet Bone Spurs is dying to be a big military commander guy. He never was, he never will be.
So he’s playing fake-Army games with a virus as Americans die. https://t.co/axXfxQaR8M— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 6, 2020
re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth
No I noticed it maybe Friday (??). I’ll keep my eye on it this week and have the doctor(s) look at it Wednesday when/if they take the stitches out.
Oh, yeah, while I’m at it: Minnesota had 51 new cases out of 1400 tested, up to 986 and 28,100; 1 new death to make an even 30. Our hospitalization and ICU utilization is remaining fairly low, and as long as we don’t have a rebound from the inevitable weekend goings-on (grocery shopping and outdoor activities), then we’re still on track.
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
Welcome to the party, pal!
re: #289 Joe Bacon 🌹
The Republicans are doing every fucking thing to boost Bernie.
It isn’t going to affect the outcome.
This is Nellie. She’s an astronaut. Please don’t interrupt her spacewalk. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/h2An2AKuSW
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 6, 2020
pup, pup, and away my friends pic.twitter.com/MXpj7WFoFW
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 6, 2020
Conservatives hate democracy.
WOW: By a 5–4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court reverses a lower court order extending the deadline for mail-in ballots in Wisconsin. All four liberals dissent.
The conservative majority just effectively threw out thousands of ballots. Incredible.
Link coming soon.— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 6, 2020
56 seconds of soothing repartee… pic.twitter.com/WaozY4cmNw
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) April 4, 2020
We at one point or another have said it at this weblog: the only thing Donald Trump is concerned with is his so called image and how much money he is making playing at being president.
re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth
Crying out for subtitles.
Barack Obama has been out of office for 3 years.
Donald Trump threw out the playbook Obama wrote, and fired the pandemic team he put in place. @RepBera and I warned him two years ago that he was grossly unprepared for this crisis.
This is your failure, @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/migNPggxZq pic.twitter.com/MT6l2YvPy4— Rep. Gerry Connolly (@GerryConnolly) April 6, 2020
re: #279 Ace Rothstein
I slipped on an rock on a pool waterfall last Monday and got a nasty deep cut from it on my left leg, as well as a good skid mark up my thigh. It didn’t bleed for about an hour and then I went to a local clinic when it did. I got ten stitches, and was told the lack of bleeding at first was because my body was in shock. Two or three days after I’m in the shower, I noticed a purple like bruise near the base of my foot on the same leg but there’s no pain at all. Until this morning, my leg has been really sore and irritated from it with some swelling at the cut. Is it possible this foot “bruise” is from some lack of circulation from the accident? I get the stitches removed on Wednesday.
I broke my right foot three weeks ago while walking the dog. She lurched for something and pulled me off the pavement and I not only broke the 5th metatarsal, but twisted the heck out of my ankle. The next day the pain was too intense so I went to Convenient Care. They put a temporary splint on and the next day I went to the orthopedist from whom I got the boot. It was only on the second to third day, with the boot, that my toes turned purple. That was gone in about three days with icing and rest. Today is the first day that I can walk with only a small amount of pain. Tomorrow and beyond! Hope you heal soon.
re: #309 Ace Rothstein
No I noticed it maybe Friday (??). I’ll keep my eye on it this week and have the doctor(s) look at it Wednesday when/if they take the stitches out.
If you’re taking daily aspirin you might back off for a bit.
Trump admits he hasn’t read Capt. Brett Crozier’s letter — but is angry about it anyway
https://t.co/UN5jyyqdk3— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 6, 2020
Lessons from South Korea:
“Better assessments of viral shedding are needed to properly ..understanding of transmission dynamics and infection-control practices. Early detection of #COVID19 is difficult because of its apparent subclinical nature.”https://t.co/0uuPPU9sTQ @NEJM pic.twitter.com/2JMqcvI327— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 6, 2020
Biden should blow the dust off of the 14th Amendment and punish Wisconsin Republicans by stripping a GOP congressman of his seat.
re: #319 Barefoot Grin
I broke my right foot three weeks ago while walking the dog. She lurched for something and pulled me off the pavement and I not only broke the 5th metatarsal, but twisted the heck out of my ankle. The next day the pain was too intense so I went to Convenient Care. They put a temporary splint on and the next day I went to the orthopedist from whom I got the boot. It was only on the second to third day, with the boot, that my toes turned purple. That was gone in about three days with icing and rest. Today is the first day that I can walk with only a small amount of pain. Tomorrow and beyond! Hope you heal soon.
ah! Possible anecdotal support for my hairline fracture suggestion
(I’m old…I’ll take what successes in distance flimsy diagnoses I can get…)
re: #320 goddamnedfrank
If you’re taking daily aspirin you might back off for a bit.
Also, slow on the ibuprofen if you broke something, according to my doctor. Tends to inhibit bone growth.
Thank goodness we have 5 originalists just calling balls and strikes, not like those activist judges who like to legislate from the bench https://t.co/3Io0r9il6d
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 6, 2020
NYT: They’re the Last Couple in Paradise. Eventually, It May Bankrupt Them. https://t.co/12cGPIuBeU
— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) April 5, 2020
My local NPR station isn’t covering DT’s press rallies anymore, but Governor Newsom gives a report every day at noon, and they are all that you could want from a chief executive. He even takes questions and answers them!
Recommended.
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
ah! Possible anecdotal support for my hairline fracture suggestion
(I’m old…I’ll take what successes in distance flimsy diagnoses I can get…)
Good call. I learned a lot from the x-rays. I was about 2 or 3 millimeters from a small part of the outside foot that, if it breaks, requires surgery to put in pins. And yes, I rolled my ankle something fierce.
Donald Trump just told Jon Karl that he’ll “never make it” as a White House correspondent.
Jon Karl has been with ABC News for seventeen years. He’s currently the President of the White House Correspondents’ Association. I think he made it.— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 6, 2020
Grocery store was busier this week than I’ve seen it in a while. Roughly half the folks in there, if not more, wearing masks. Stock levels continue to recover - the frozen veggies were practically back to normal, as was the bottled water. (I picked up a bottle of distilled water for some of the pickling I’ve been playing with.) Only things really still missing were flour and rice and beans - mostly the beans, there are starting to be smatterings of rice. And we were having supply issues when it came to dried beans BEFORE this so… Reusable bags currently not allowed, sigh, so I guess I will have a growing collection of paper bags for the cat to chew on.
New masks from my mother arrived, so I was able to go while looking stylish.
I am super tired of a lot of things but most especially the death cult that’s currently “running” the country.
re: #329 Barefoot Grin
Good call. I learned a lot from the x-rays. I was about 2 or 3 millimeters from a small part of the outside foot that, if it breaks, requires surgery to put in pins. And yes, I rolled my ankle something fierce.
MrBWS fell from a barn roof truss about 20 years ago. Broke a bunch of crunchy foot parts that required at least three screws.
It was not fun, but the bruises and swelling were spectacular.
He also has friends named Skippy, Spanky, and Buckwheat. https://t.co/nK2CCBWhuq
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 6, 2020
Outside of TP, our local store is mostly recovered and stocked. Except, oddly, for firm tofu. You can get all the silken you want, but I got lucky a few days ago to find two trays of firm. Today—nada. We use firm for lots of stuff.
re: #332 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Grocery store was busier this week than I’ve seen it in a while. Roughly half the folks in there, if not more, wearing masks. Stock levels continue to recover - the frozen veggies were practically back to normal, as was the bottled water. (I picked up a bottle of distilled water for some of the pickling I’ve been playing with.) Only things really still missing were flour and rice and beans - mostly the beans, there are starting to be smatterings of rice. And we were having supply issues when it came to dried beans BEFORE this so… Reusable bags currently not allowed, sigh, so I guess I will have a growing collection of paper bags for the cat to chew on.
New masks from my mother arrived, so I was able to go while looking stylish.
I am super tired of a lot of things but most especially the death cult that’s currently “running” the country.
Recycled bags aren’t allowed in my grocery store either, but that’s because the clerks aren’t supposed to touch anything a customer brings in (a Good Thing). So I put my stuff back in my cart after it’s rung up, wheel the cart into the parking lot, and bag it myself there.
re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth
MrBWS fell from a barn roof truss about 20 years ago. Broke a bunch of crunchy foot parts that required at three screws.
It was not fun, but the bruises and swelling were spectacular.
Ouch! He’s lucky to be alive. The hands and feet in their structure are really something to behold. But goddamn it hurts when you injure that delicate balance.
re: #337 Barefoot Grin
Ouch! He’s lucky to be alive. The hands and feet in their structure are really something to behold. But goddamn it hurts when you injure that delicate balance.
he landed on his feet.
lucky that only one foot was busted up
re: #336 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Recycled bags aren’t allowed in my grocery store either, but that’s because the clerks aren’t supposed to touch anything a customer brings in (a Good Thing). So I put my stuff back in my cart after it’s rung up, wheel the cart into the parking lot, and bag it myself there.
Yeah, I’d been responsible for doing all the bagging the last few visits because I was using my own bags, which was fine! I totally get that.
Just …sucks.
re: #334 teleskiguy
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Was he talking about the time he almost got on a helicopter but had a moment of intuition and decided not to and the helicopter crashed without him on board and their deaths were all about him? I can’t listen to him talk.
#SCROTUS @realDonaldTrump is the ABSOLUTE WORST.
To be clear: If @JoeBiden were to come to my house, knock on my door, whack me with a mallet, key my car, kick me in the nuts & tell me “Go f*ck yourself” on his way out, HE WOULD STILL GET MY VOTE.
#VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 6, 2020
Just found that on our governor’s daily update, the wild north country has the lowest infection rate in the country so far, at 17 per 100,000. However, he is far from resting on his laurels - our stay-at-home order expires this coming weekend, and he is busy trying to get the equipment and space we need and figure out how to continue to be safe. He cited some business sectors claiming they can reopen while being socially responsible, and concern over the fair weather bringing crowds to outdoor locations.
re: #341 Disloyal Archangel
I find a hard time disagreeing with that rationale.
Sounds like Modly ignored his chain of command and could also be accused of being “naive” or worse for not thinking those remarks would be recorded by the sailors on board and made public. https://t.co/Z4IB3zty0o
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) April 6, 2020
re: #339 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I have bag my own stuff because I brought my own sack to the Acme. I have to go for a few things tomorrow I think I will leave my sack at home.
re: #341 Disloyal Archangel
As I say, I will be out voting in November no matter what the status of the Coronavirus is.
On our side of things today, only 17 new cases. Sadly, 3 new deaths, including the first in my age grouping.
I may have spent part of my run this afternoon being angry at people who are agitating against the stay-at-home orders because they are apparently incapable of entertaining themselves without interacting with other humans on a daily basis. I get that I am a) an introvert and b) sharing my home with someone, so that helps mitigate a need for human interaction, but the person in particular who has prompted some of this anger is the sort of person who required the stay-at-home order to not be contributing to the spread. (Read: he was at Tahoe the weekend all the ski resorts shut down - and not to do backcountry skiing.)
Whatever makes the miles go by, I guess.
Ousted US intelligence inspector general urges others to speak out and defend whistleblowers || Via Guardian https://t.co/AwQgm6gufH
— SafetyPin-Daily (@SafetyPinDaily) April 6, 2020
D.C., Maryland and Virginia saw their biggest single-day increase in coronavirus-related fatalities Monday, with deaths up to 169 as officials warned that the region could become one of the country’s next hot spots and hospitals prepared for a surge https://t.co/pYMhvm4dtv
— Rachel Chason (@Rachel_Chason) April 6, 2020
Employees working in at least 25 different ShopRites in New Jersey have been sickened with the coronavirus https://t.co/8TBuAWXciy
— Anthony DeRosa 🗽 (@Anthony) April 6, 2020
re: #332 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I am super tired of a lot of things but most especially the death cult that’s currently “running” the country.
This is one of the things that’s eating at me the most. Trump stands a good chance of getting re-elected, despite the fact his utterly fucking up the COVID response is a major reason so many people are needlessly dying.
Far too many Republicans/conservatives/MAGAts are in full-on Christian jihadi mode right now. They’re willing to die for this guy, and take as many people with them as they can. And quite frankly, there’s too many people who still won’t open their eyes to how bad this has gotten.
Paper grocery bags make good packing material for Ebay shipments. Plastic bags are useless for this purpose for the same reason stores like them, near zero volume when flattened or crumpled. The paper bags, otoh, are excellent filler and padding when crumpled. I have been selling on Ebay for 8 years now, 500+ sales, and I have never added to, or even completely used, the single roll of brown wrapping/padding paper I bought when I started. There is always plenty of material from incoming packages and recycled grocery bags.
re: #350 Dread Pirate
Employees working in at least 25 different ShopRites in New Jersey have been sickened with the coronavirus
The ones in South Jersey have been spared so far, but I can’t imagine that’s going to last too much longer.
They’re so full of shit. Just send the supplies!
— Jennifer Moss (@mossifer) April 6, 2020
re: #353 Mattand
It probably won’t be too long. :(
The firing of Crozier and the broadcast by Mobley have pissed off the otherwise conservative person I went to high school that was in the Navy.
I’ve been home since March 25th and made my second trip away from the house to go to the grocery store. I wore a simple mask made from a folded bandana and two rubber bands. About half of the customers and all of the store employees were wearing masks. Lots of employees in the store because they’d obviously just gotten a shipment and were restocking like crazy. The toilet paper shelves were full so I bought a 6-roll pack and now I should have enough to make it through the summer. I had $66.20 in cash with me and my groceries came to $65.98. I bought some fancy (but day-old) pastries because tomorrow is my 15th anniversary at my current job. No meetings or any other human contact scheduled.
Fuckface Von Clownstick, you have to understand, is *exactly* what millions of our citizens want in a “leader,” a know-nothing blowhard. Because sadly many Americans are stupid assholes just like him. https://t.co/cabFhHVMVE
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 7, 2020
Two days after Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves finally issued a stay-at-home order for his state, much later than most, he found time for another proclamation.
He declared April to be “Confederate Heritage Month.”https://t.co/6SGgkNx2jz— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 6, 2020
Trump: They called him “Chopper…”
Every helo pilot all the way back to Igor Sikorsky:“Chopper.” https://t.co/XnYMrqHbB7 — Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 6, 2020
I’m actually just a ball of incandescent rage this afternoon but I’m trying to channel it into getting something done.
It’s not really working so far.
I get it: it’s easy to mix up Supreme Courts disenfranchising Wisconsin voters today https://t.co/EMWROY54Y6
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 7, 2020
So Trump said the Federal government has nothing to do with testing? So, um, why did everyone have to use the bad CDC test (federal) and no one could get their own PCR approved because of FDA (federal) paperwork?
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) April 7, 2020
Yeah he doesn’t know that. He only knows how to disclaim responsibility if anything needs doing.
Trump on hospital workers suiting up and going in: “It’s like no different than you watch the war movies or you watch the old clips of war, running up hills. To me, it’s the same thing.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
*SPIT*
hi.
5PM CDT numbers from Nebraska.
Positive tests: 412 (+50 from yesterday)
Total deaths: 8 (no change for two days straight)
Newly added counties are now stretching across the eastern rural area of the state, including Cheyenne County (county seat: Cabela’s Sidney, immediately south of me)
There are cases in over a third of the state’s counties.
nebraska.maps.arcgis.com
re: #336 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Recycled bags aren’t allowed in my grocery store either, but that’s because the clerks aren’t supposed to touch anything a customer brings in (a Good Thing). So I put my stuff back in my cart after it’s rung up, wheel the cart into the parking lot, and bag it myself there.
My grocery store still has guys (usually seniors) who bag your groceries and bring them out to your car. I was kind of bummed that I only had 22 cents after I’d paid for the groceries, but I remembered I have a small cash stash in the car so I was able to give him a tip.
The ~4min comments from Queen Elizabeth II (@RoyalFamily) has provided me more strength than anything our @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump has said. https://t.co/KDeqZEWXzl pic.twitter.com/i2ongHZiD8
— Carl G Streed Jr MD MPH FACP 🌈 (he/him) (@cjstreed) April 6, 2020
Jon Karl is apparently a “third-rate reporter” who will “never make it” because the HHS inspector general served during the Obama administration.
That isn’t supposed to make sense because none of this does. This is deranged. pic.twitter.com/pz4VxMRbkg— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 6, 2020
How how’s your stock portfolio looking NOW, @SenatorLoeffler? https://t.co/G7egKq0Hdz
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 7, 2020
YRTC is the Youth Rehabilitation and Training Center in Kearney (in the center of Nebraska)
On Sunday, DHHS’ Epidemiology and YRTC-Kearney staff along with Two Rivers Health Department and the Nebraska National Guard, setup on-site testing for all of YRTC-K residents and staff. After one teammate, who did not return to work after becoming symptomatic, tested positive, a contact investigation commenced. A second teammate was identified as a result of the initial contact investigation.
CEO Dannette Smith said, “We are taking decisive action to coordinate testing to ensure the safety and well-being of our residents and staff. As outlined in our pandemic plan, staff did everything right, those who were symptomatic did not come in to work and immediately reported symptoms to a supervisor, temperature checks of residents and staff began in March and physical visitations were replaced with virtual visits. These steps were key in us immediately identifying potential exposures and mitigating spread. Today, 162 staff were tested with the help of about 25 National Guardsmen. The testing process was very efficient and we appreciate the rapid response from the Guard and Two Rivers.”
(more)
dhhs.ne.gov
Trump said at this briefing that, before him, “China never spent money in our country.”
That is beyond a lie — it’s just bonkers. Even ignoring FDI, China has spent more than $100B on US goods every year since 2011. https://t.co/WARcFVzxiX— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020
re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He always says so little but he never stops running his mouth.
re: #374 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He always says so little but he never stops running his mouth.
Perfect reflection of his constituency, though…
re: #368 stpaulbear
My grocery store still has guys (usually seniors) who bag your groceries and bring them out to your car. I was kind of bummed that I only had 22 cents after I’d paid for the groceries, but I remembered I have a small cash stash in the car so I was able to give him a tip.
The nearest grocery store to me generally uses teenagers for baggers. The store discourages tipping.
re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Another one.
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I worked for UPMC for years and they are where my doctors are affiliated. I get their email announcements. Here is part of one I just got today:
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UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Scientists Announce Potential Vaccine
Scientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
When tested in mice, the vaccine produces antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 at quantities thought to be enough to neutralize the virus. This marks the first study on a potential COVID-19 vaccine to be published after a critique from fellow scientists at outside institutions.
The research team calls this vaccine PittCoVacc, short for Pittsburgh Coronavirus Vaccine.
Scientists also use a new approach to deliver the drug, called a microneedle array, to increase potency. This array is a fingertip-sized patch of 400 tiny needles that deliver spike protein pieces into the skin, where the immune reaction is the strongest.
The patch goes on like a Band-Aid®, and the needles, which are made entirely of sugar and protein pieces, simply dissolve into the skin.
re: #376 Anymouse 🌹🏡
The nearest grocery store to me generally uses teenagers for baggers. The store discourages tipping.
In normal times, I would agree. Right now, I think folks working in a grocery store deserve it.
What the ever-loving fuck.
FDA Commissioner Hahn was brought to Oval Friday afternoon to meet w/Laura Ingraham and two doctors close to her about hydroxychloroquine.
FDA Commissioner Hahn was brought to Oval Friday afternoon to meet w/Laura Ingraham and two doctors close to her about hydroxychloroquine. On the drug Trump is banking will work, and the pressure on the FDA, w/@PhilipRucker @costareports @lauriemcginley2: https://t.co/Zs2K9vGPNM
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 6, 2020
I fucking give up.
New: the VA and DOJ’s Bureau of Prisons have both placed orders for hydroxychloroquine. If there’s internal WH dissent about it, that doesn’t appear to be stopping admin efforts to get the drug out the door https://t.co/EPE1zhzlFw
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 7, 2020
re: #368 stpaulbear
My grocery store still has guys (usually seniors) who bag your groceries and bring them out to your car. I was kind of bummed that I only had 22 cents after I’d paid for the groceries, but I remembered I have a small cash stash in the car so I was able to give him a tip.
Publix has baggers too.
They don’t allow tipping no how
re: #351 Mattand
On the other side of the coin, we have the largest turnout for a midterm election in history in 2018, because there were a fuquetonne of people who were tired of the graft and corruption. That flipped the House. Imagine if the GOP still controlled it now.
In off-year elections Kentucky’s and Virginia’s governors’ offices flipped (and Virginia flipped its legislature).
We don’t have to flip conservatives; we have to ensure we stay angry at conservative politicians.
A president who really cared about the people of the US wouldn’t even hint at opening up the country and getting back to work, while a pandemic was still getting worse. But not Trump. Not our boy Trump.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2020
He makes it clear every time he speaks that he has no real empathy or feeling for the people he’s so blithely suggesting should “get back to work” for the sake of the fucking stock market. While the bodies pile up. It’s nauseating.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2020
The worst possible president for a pandemic.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2020
Helicopter combat briefing for President Trump:
You see, Mr. President, sir, it’s called a chopper because that’s how we defeated enemy tanks in Vietnam. We would sneak up behind them so they couldn’t see us——not much in the way of windows in those things—-and start knocking chunks off the turret with our rotor blades. Then we would really bear down on them, like a buzz saw from the sky, until the whole thing had been converted to scrap metal. It was the same with trucks on the Ho Chi Minh trail, but much easier. Russian trucks are made mostly from pressed cardboard anyway, so it was buzzzbuzzzbuzzzbuzzittt until the whole convoy was wiped out. This wouldn’t work on bunkers though because they were so low to the ground. For those, we had a grappling hook and some tow rope. We would snag the bunker by the slit in the front, then give our machine all the pitch we had and yank that sucker right out of the ground, to be dropped in the nearest river at our convenience. It was almost called a “chipper” but that sounded too friendly and soft so “chopper” it was.
re: #380 Dread Pirate
They’re going to force it on prisoners.
re: #385 stpaulbear
They’re going to force it on prisoners.
clinical test trials…
human guinea pigs…
jfc
re: #377 Eventual Carrion
That is very good news.
victory lap…
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that tomorrow’s election will proceed as scheduled. VOTE for Justice Daniel Kelly tomorrow, and be safe! https://t.co/rYkcxaae1k
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2020
re: #383 Charles Johnson
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He’s showing his true ugliness here. This guy, our lazy asshole who spends more time golfing, hanging out at his lair, & whining on Twitter than being President wants us to go back to fucking normal to save the economy that he thinks is why he deserves re-election. He’s an evil bastard.
.@andersoncooper calls the WH briefing today a “hijacking of the task force press conference by a President determined to rewrite the history of his early and reprehensibly irresponsible response.”
“This is not normal and it matters because this is life or death,” he added. pic.twitter.com/5pfNDKKb2C— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) April 7, 2020
re: #381 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Publix has baggers too.
They don’t allow tipping no how
I don’t even know if it’s banned or allowed. I’ve just gotten into the habit of doing it. On a super busy day when I only had two bags, I tipped the checkout woman. No one has said “sorry, can’t take it”.
re: #378 klys (maker of Silmarils)
In normal times, I would agree. Right now, I think folks working in a grocery store deserve it.
I’m not sure if tipping that is seen would cause a teenager to be fired. I wouldn’t want to cause that.
Trump: “When we took over the cupboard was bare.”
So you allowed the cupboard to sit bare for 3 and a half years?
Hmmm.— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 6, 2020
— Wolfbane (@Wolfbane1946) April 6, 2020
re: #388 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh the template endorsement but now for judges!
re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah he can’t even blame Obama without exposing his own fuckups.
re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth
clinical test trials…
human guinea pigs…jfc
Medical experimentation on incarcerated people against their will (or, you get special privileges if you do this).
There has to be genocide trials when this is over.
re: #397 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Medical experimentation on incarcerated people against their will (or, you get special privileges if you do this).
There has to be genocide trials when this is over.
I sure hope so.
littlegreenfootballs.com
What a bullshit claim by @MarkSimoneNY . Y’all are delusional, and willing to cause harm for your god, Trump.
Not only are anecdotal claim unreliable, but the majority of Covid-19 cases recover *anyway*, without chloroquine.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) April 7, 2020
re: #377 Eventual Carrion
I worked for UPMC for years and they are where my doctors are affiliated. I get their email announcements. Here is part of one I just got today:
———————
UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Scientists Announce Potential VaccineScientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
When tested in mice, the vaccine produces antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 at quantities thought to be enough to neutralize the virus. This marks the first study on a potential COVID-19 vaccine to be published after a critique from fellow scientists at outside institutions.
The research team calls this vaccine PittCoVacc, short for Pittsburgh Coronavirus Vaccine.
Scientists also use a new approach to deliver the drug, called a microneedle array, to increase potency. This array is a fingertip-sized patch of 400 tiny needles that deliver spike protein pieces into the skin, where the immune reaction is the strongest.
The patch goes on like a Band-Aid®, and the needles, which are made entirely of sugar and protein pieces, simply dissolve into the skin.
I’ve been hearing about that too. Fingers crossed, bit mice are not humans.
re: #402 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I’ve been hearing about that too. Fingers crossed, bit mice are not humans.
Nope. Human trials will be the key, and then if it can be expedited if its efficacy is proven.
re: #399 Rightwingconspirator
I sure hope so.
littlegreenfootballs.com
I think there’s going to be a lot of long lasting scars after this for us as a nation. I feel we can rebound but Trump in so many ways has made us a poorer nation.
re: #380 Dread Pirate
Next year, on TV: “If you or someone you loved was given hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19, you are eligible for a cash settlement from the US government.”
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 7, 2020
re: #404 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think there’s going to be a lot of long lasting scars after this for us as a nation. I feel we can rebound but Trump in so many ways has made us a poorer nation.
We can rebound — but only if Trump is thrown out of office, the Democrats take control of the Senate and retain the House, and McConnell loses his seat. GOP delenda est.
Fuck Trump and the enabling GOP.
A family friend is now on a ventilator from covid19. He’s been battling this at home for over a week, was sent to the ER by doctor, who then had him transferred to another hospital where they had beds available. His O2 levels have been okay except they took a dive yesterday, and thankfully they had a ventilator today to put him on to support him.
His wife is a wreck. His kids are young and she’s getting over covid19 too.
And we’ve got Trump trying to micromanage this by counting equipment and gear and not wanting to give anyone too much? Are you fucking kidding me? Gear breaks down. It stays in use for a patient longer. And you have to decide who lives and dies because you don’t have the gear?
This isn’t business sense. It’s depraved indifference to plight of those suffering and dying.
Fuck Trump and his enabling and corrupt GOP. Fuck the GOP dominated court. Fuck McConnell, and the Senate GOP who covered up Trump crimes to stay in power.
This is all on them. All of it.
I’m superfly tnt. I’m the motherfucking guns of the Navarone. This is beyond the pale. We’re watching our friends, family, rich, poor, unknown and known all succumb to this, and Trump’s response was indifference for 2 months. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do even the bare minimum, and then he contradicts his experts and takes the word of Navarro and Kushner over Dr. Fauci.
This is all on the GOP. All of it.
I am so fucking angry all the time that all of this was avoidable. All of it. The death toll. The hundreds of thousands sickened and wrecked economically with the bills. The economic wreckage. The shutdown that will persist for weeks and months.
/rant on.
And yet there’s fucking GOPers defending Trump reflexively. We have an entire network whose sole purpose is to provide agitprop and misinformation to cover for Trump and the GOP. ~40% of the nation still supports this corrupt and incompetent admin, even as the body count is rising steadily. They keep making excuses for why this isn’t serious. Why we should resume work. That it’s a hoax. They fucking held years of investigations over deaths of 4 people at Benghazi.
10,000+ are now dead. 2500 Benghazis worth of dead Americans. And the GOP is still at it trying to protect Trump or even seeking to investigate Hunter Biden for Ukraine nonsense while Jared/Ivanka/Junior/Eric are making crapton of money all while Trump’s in office and directing business at his companies.
I am so fucking pissed at all of the people who equated Hillary with Trump.
I am so fucking pissed at the people who thought that Hillary’s emails were important, but Trump’s incompetence, misinformation, and sex predations weren’t.
The media still aren’t being held to account, and they still haven’t learned the lessons from 2016 even as they reflexively publish Trump rallies without checking to see if there’s any actual news being broken by them. These daily pseudorallies aren’t news. They’re his misinformation spigot, all while the body count rises.
re: #403 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Nope. Human trials will be the key, and then if it can be expedited if its efficacy is proven.
Just use it on Mar-a-Plago partyers. What do they have to lose?
re: #409 Decatur Deb
Just use it on Mar-a-Plago partyers. What do they have to lose?
I like that they’re so easy to just use their own lines back on them.
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re: #409 Decatur Deb
Just use it on Mar-a-Plago partyers. What do they have to lose?
CPAC attendees, what do they have to lose?
re: #362 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I’m actually just a ball of incandescent rage this afternoon but I’m trying to channel it into getting something done.
It’s not really working so far.
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Where is the jurisdictional hook that SCOTUS can intervene here?
re: #408 lawhawk
Fuck Trump and the enabling GOP.
A family friend is now on a ventilator from covid19. He’s been battling this at home for over a week, was sent to the ER by doctor, who then had him transferred to another hospital where they had beds available. His O2 levels have been okay except they took a dive yesterday, and thankfully they had a ventilator today to put him on to support him.
His wife is a wreck. His kids are young and she’s getting over covid19 too.
And we’ve got Trump trying to micromanage this by counting equipment and gear and not wanting to give anyone too much? Are you fucking kidding me? Gear breaks down. It stays in use for a patient longer. And you have to decide who lives and dies because you don’t have the gear?
This isn’t business sense. It’s depraved indifference to plight of those suffering and dying.
Fuck Trump and his enabling and corrupt GOP. Fuck the GOP dominated court. Fuck McConnell, and the Senate GOP who covered up Trump crimes to stay in power.
This is all on them. All of it.
I’m superfly tnt. I’m the motherfucking guns of the Navarone. This is beyond the pale. We’re watching our friends, family, rich, poor, unknown and known all succumb to this, and Trump’s response was indifference for 2 months. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do even the bare minimum, and then he contradicts his experts and takes the word of Navarro and Kushner over Dr. Fauci.
This is all on the GOP. All of it.
I am so fucking angry all the time that all of this was avoidable. All of it. The death toll. The hundreds of thousands sickened and wrecked economically with the bills. The economic wreckage. The shutdown that will persist for weeks and months.
/rant on.
And yet there’s fucking GOPers defending Trump reflexively. We have an entire network whose sole purpose is to provide agitprop and misinformation to cover for Trump and the GOP. ~40% of the nation still supports this corrupt and incompetent admin, even as the body count is rising steadily. They keep making excuses for why this isn’t serious. Why we should resume work. That it’s a hoax. They fucking held years of investigations over deaths of 4 people at Benghazi.
10,000+ are now dead. 2500 Benghazis worth of dead Americans. And the GOP is still at it trying to protect Trump or even seeking to investigate Hunter Biden for Ukraine nonsense while Jared/Ivanka/Junior/Eric are making crapton of money all while Trump’s in office and directing business at his companies.
I am so fucking pissed at all of the people who equated Hillary with Trump.
I am so fucking pissed at the people who thought that Hillary’s emails were important, but Trump’s incompetence, misinformation, and sex predations weren’t.The media still aren’t being held to account, and they still haven’t learned the lessons from 2016 even as they reflexively publish Trump rallies without checking to see if there’s any actual news being broken by them. These daily pseudorallies aren’t news. They’re his misinformation spigot, all while the body count risesCo-Signkquote>
Co Sign. With prejudice. Up the road we will take care of business with these cretins.
This dog is elite 😂🙌
(via mathiasberntsen96/Instagram, kiarathevolleydog/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/Y5p64IYGGK— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 4, 2020
re: #411 Rightwingconspirator
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Apparently us in the DMV are next for a bigger outbreak. I’m definitely a little scared.
re: #418 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I hope you and your family are safe and well. And hopefully you can do effective things to take the edge of the fear and anxiety. It’s awful.
re: #408 lawhawk
And back to my refrain: Conservatism kills. In all nations throughout time, whenever they gain and maintain power. Always. Without exception.
NEW: public affairs folks sent this notice out to leadership on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, telling them to tell their sailors they didn’t have permission to record SECNAV Modly and that bashing “Senior Leaders” online won’t help anything. Stay out the “negative media spotlight” pic.twitter.com/xuFlQGK6rF
— Geoff Ziezulewicz (@JournoGeoffZ) April 7, 2020
I’m angry, scared, pissed, confused, & I cannot express how much I despise Donald Trump.
re: #419 A Mom Anon
I hope you and your family are safe and well. And hopefully you can do effective things to take the edge of the fear and anxiety. It’s awful.
We’re doing okay. Thank you.
re: #421 Patricia Kayden
Oh hell no. Fuque the fake gold-leaf plated god of Conservatism. Fuque their disrespect for the military and their false worship of the Constitution.
By the way, that might be why Trump pancakes so much orange on his face, his love of gold over everything.
BREAKING: Acting Secnav apologizes for comments amid calls for his resignation. pic.twitter.com/SroHrLUYIP
— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) April 7, 2020
The Supreme Court is simultaneously using the pandemic as an excuse to not even hear the case on Trump’s tax returns while telling voters in Wixconsin just now they should be forced to carry on with voting tomorrow with no extension of vote by mail.
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) April 7, 2020
Good news: our county has only 24 cases.
Bad news: We tested only 123 suspect cases.
Alabama is flying blind, as usual.
I haz a confuz. Was it SCOTUS or WISC that ruled against extending the voting deadline?
re: #428 The Pie Overlord!
I haz a confuz. Was it SCOTUS or WISC that ruled against extending the voting deadline?
SCOTUS
Sigh. Germany mortality rate up to 1.75%, with 72% of total cases still active. Germany has a functioning health care system; that suggests the mortality rate of this virus may have been significantly underestimated.
RBG:
“[Under] this Court’s order, tens of thousands of absentee voters, unlikely to receive their ballots in time to cast them, will be left quite literally without a vote,” she wrote. “This Court’s intervention is thus ill advised, especially so at this late hour.”
She noted that the conservative majority cited concerns about the lower courts intervening in an election so close to the day ballots are cast. But, she pointed out, this unusual step is warranted by a “grave, rapidly developing public health crisis.” And she argued that, even if this point were true, the Supreme Court’s intervention now is “all the more inappropriate.”
“The majority of this Court declares that this case presents a ‘narrow, technical question,’” she continued. “That is wrong. The question here is whether tens of thousands of Wisconsin citizens can vote safely in the midst of a pandemic. Under the District Court’s order, they would be able to do so. Even if they receive their absentee ballot in the days immediately following election day, they could return it. With the majority’s stay in place, that will not be possible. Either they will have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they will lose their right to vote, though no fault of their own. That is a matter of utmost importance— to the constitutional rights of Wisconsin’s citizens, the integrity of the State’s election process, and in this most extraordinary time, the health of the Nation.”
rawstory.com
NEW: U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.) bought stock in medical PPE producer DuPont de Nemours on Jan. 24, the same day the Senate received a classified Coronavirus briefing.https://t.co/fuYMumsoX4
— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) April 6, 2020
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That ship already sailed …
Countdown before he’s quit-fired …
A cleaning person came to my house today. She scrubbed out the fridge (the yearly fridge cleaning) and did a super excellent job in preparing the kitchen (tonight my son will perform the kashering and bring up the Passover stuff).
I gave the cleaning person double my usual tip (they are paid a flat rate by the cleaning service).
I gave my son a tip: TURN OFF THAT FOX NEWS SHIT BECAUSE IT IS GETTING ON MY LAST NERVE.
re: #436 The Pie Overlord!
I know you love your children, but the Fox-watching bunch you can make an exception for. //
Not that I have heard, Jonathan. I haven’t seen an inkling of any emotion from him except angry self-pity, even as coronavirus consumes his literal hometown. It’s like watching a presidential mannequin or a daily episode of Punch and Judy. https://t.co/rr1bWMH1Ru
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 7, 2020
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He needs to resign.
Too bad he would rather allow thousands of his fellow Americans to die unnecessarily than utter one word of criticism in public of a president of his own party. https://t.co/NdaLc5yKRt
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) April 7, 2020
Republicans represent only greed and death.
Stress relief-Cooking dinner. Smoke some bud and work the recipe.
Thawed a steak. Have shallots, garlic, wine, cast iron skillet. Thinking roast the garlic and shallots, pan sear the steak and put them together in the end. Eat and watch with Rachael Maddow.
Man I need a date night. Probably via Zoom. Have a nice dinner delivered to the wife and myself Friday night. Eat together (sorta) and have some conversation.
The audio of the Acting Secretary of the Navy’s comments to the crew of the Teddy Roosevelt is a whiny pathetic treatise in cowardice. It’s also a threat to the crew not to speak to the press.
Throughout the recording, the crew makes it clear they think he is bullshit. He is. https://t.co/V527M1HVC8— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) April 6, 2020
I cannot believe Modly gave these remarks to an actual active duty crew. He demeans, curses, lectures, propagandizes, belittles. He should resign now and hope that no one remembers he ever existed when the sad chronicles of the failures of the covid response is written. Unreal. https://t.co/VRrRFtbpKJ
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) April 6, 2020
They should rename these presidential briefings “Alo Presidente”
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re: #397 Anymouse 🌹🏡
This is textbook genocide. He makes me vomit.
So Modly had to apologize, but then word got down to the crew to not criticize up the chain of command.
NEW: public affairs folks sent this notice out to leadership on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, telling them to tell their sailors they didn’t have permission to record SECNAV Modly and that bashing “Senior Leaders” online won’t help anything. Stay out the “negative media spotlight” pic.twitter.com/xuFlQGK6rF
— Geoff Ziezulewicz (@JournoGeoffZ) April 7, 2020
Yeah, the Navy’s in complete and total CYA mode because they fired a leader who was doing everything to protect their troops because the chain of command ignored COVID19 as a threat. In the process a carrier task force was sidelined. Mazel Tov. You’ve just helped undermine our readiness because the Navy is following Trump’s directives and not common fucking sense.
WHO MADE THIS
(found here: https://t.co/6dA5FMv7qV) pic.twitter.com/XYNYjNbsre— John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 7, 2020
re: #442 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Thank goodness someone had the sense to record him. These idiots need to be exposed at all costs.
Marianne Faithfull in hospital with coronavirus and ‘stable’ https://t.co/yKGEQ7ORKt pic.twitter.com/oZWHC8fzLi
— CTV News (@CTVNews) April 7, 2020
re: #428 The Pie Overlord!
I haz a confuz. Was it SCOTUS or WISC that ruled against extending the voting deadline?
SCOTUS ruled against the extension of the deadline for absentee ballots.
WISC ruled that the governor couldn’t postpone the election because of the pandemic.
They’re both out to kill people.
Complaining about senior leadership is kind of how America happened. Keep it up.
re: #445 lawhawk
So Modly had to apologize, but then word got down to the crew to not criticize up the chain of command.
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Yeah, the Navy’s in complete and total CYA mode because they fired a leader who was doing everything to protect their troops because the chain of command ignored COVID19 as a threat. In the process a carrier task force was sidelined. Mazel Tov. You’ve just helped undermine our readiness because the Navy is following Trump’s directives and not common fucking sense.
As they say, “the fish rots from the head down”. Trump is rotten to the core as are those who still report to him. Anyone with principles in a position of leadership in this administration has long since been fired or resigned. Dr. Fauci may be an exception — but let’s not assume that he will be around much longer.
re: #441 Rightwingconspirator
We’re in Pesach prep. The Mrs is baking - chocolate chip cookies, a chocolate hazelnut torte, and chocolate chip muffins. I’m up tomorrow with a turkey breast and a brisket along with sides.
The turkey will be a citrus ginger sauce.
The brisket is mom’s recipe, which is a rough cut miripoix with tomato sauce, tomato paste, garlic, parsley. I’ve made it a couple of times, and now that I have mom’s pot she would make it in, it actually tastes like how she’d make it. It’s weird how that works.
Gov @GovPritzker confirms that the federal ‘Air Bridge’ flights from China, organized by the White House taskforce, are bringing PPE back from China which are then turned over to private companies. The states then have to bid against each other to purchase from those companies. pic.twitter.com/QG62dWtQuc
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 7, 2020
This fucking guy.
Hannity, who repeatedly downplayed the virus, calls for a task force to investigate Governor Cuomo pic.twitter.com/wYQRU0LnUE
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 7, 2020
re: #454 klys (maker of Silmarils)
We need to know *which* private companies.
re: #456 jaunte
We need to know *which* private companies.
A few run by some former Republican lobbyists are coming to mind. Just a feeling.
Health care workers are getting hammered with covid19. They died in China. They died in Italy. They’re dying here too.
And the counts are scary.
734 Henry Ford workers test positive for COVID-19; Beaumont has 1,500 ill employees https://t.co/Dd5zeIfato
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 7, 2020
My wife is making andouille sausage wrapped in a super-spicy biscuit dough, seasoned with chipotle peppers, Hungarian paprika, black pepper, garlic, rosemary, thyme, Cayenne pepper, and salt.
(Most of those spices are not available in my area, you have to mail-order them.)
re: #449 klys (maker of Silmarils)
SCOTUS ruled against the extension of the deadline for absentee ballots.
WISC ruled that the governor couldn’t postpone the election because of the pandemic.
They’re both out to kill people.
GORSUCH is the monster who ruled (fortunately in minority) that a truck driver had an obligation to freeze to death and not abandon his cargo.
re: #445 lawhawk
So Modly had to apologize, but then word got down to the crew to not criticize up the chain of command.
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Yeah, the Navy’s in complete and total CYA mode because they fired a leader who was doing everything to protect their troops because the chain of command ignored COVID19 as a threat. In the process a carrier task force was sidelined. Mazel Tov. You’ve just helped undermine our readiness because the Navy is following Trump’s directives and not common fucking sense.
Also, WTF is Modly going about the “government of Guam”? Isn’t Guam an American (?dependency? territory?) - he makes it sound like they are going to demand TR leave or whatever??
Stupid Trump putz……
Who needs a laugh?
My daughter’s dance class was through zoom tonight.
The last person to use zoom was my husband, drinking with his band.
So Phatty McBigcock just joined the “Mommy and Me” dance class before quietly exciting and rejoining as Evelyn.— JoanofDarkKnits (@JoanofDarkKnits) April 6, 2020
You demonstrate two biases
One is that you have a superior intellect which has determined that I am influenced by Russian propaganda to point that it has overcome my own decision-making process
Secondly, your atheistic world view is a bias against people w/ conservative value
“Atheistic worldview.” There’s no such thing. And for some reason, there are conservative atheists who support the GOP taking away their rights, but okay.
I don’t think “values” have anything to do with the conservative agenda anymore.
Also, “lickspittle” is a word I didn’t realize I needed in my life.— Lo (@limadeltaflies) April 6, 2020
UPDATE to @stephaniemlee & @dvergano’s story about how the gov’t is only sending states enough Abbott 5-min testing devices to test up to 5,500 people:
An HHS rep said it’s bc “we wanted to leave market share…to purchase through the commercial sector.” https://t.co/B4d159PeUJ— Azeen Ghorayshi (@azeen) April 4, 2020
re: #463 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I am influenced by Russian propaganda to point that it has overcome my own decision-making process
That really works when you read it with a Russian accent.
10,000 dead Americans, and he thinks he’s played a key role in Trump’s failed response somehow qualifying him for another run for the WH.
Well, it’s certainly on brand for the corrupt, incompetent, and failed GOP.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 7, 2020
re: #459 Anymouse 🌹🏡
My wife is making andouille sausage wrapped in a super-spicy biscuit dough, seasoned with chipotle peppers, Hungarian paprika, black pepper, garlic, rosemary, thyme, Cayenne pepper, and salt.
(Most of those spices are not available in my area, you have to mail-order them.)
So, She is making you a spicy Louisiana-style pig in a blanket in other words. What’s the side?
Panhandle Public Health District has completed the latest contact tracing in Kimball, Sidney, and Scottsbluff.
You’ll note in the active orders, one church is in there multiple times (despite the governor’s order closing churches to meetings over ten).
Also Safeways multiple times, Dollar General multiple times, &c.
re: #448 Dread Pirate
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Speaking in broken…English.
In her art that’s the only song I know, but I love it.
The COVID-19 crisis involving mask shipments from the U.S. is the latest frightening example of Donald-Trump-related chaos spilling over to the north, writes @bruce_arthur https://t.co/zq3TKOOdC4
— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) April 7, 2020
The SCOTUS ruling is just a nice, lovely reminder of how truly fucked we remain. And yet how absolutely dire and necessary it will be to vote in November, because if Trump wins again, if we don’t make a dent in the Senate or keep the House, we will be even more irreparably fucked for at least a generation because the courts will ensure we remain a ‘conservative’ country that sees empathy and fairness as the worst of sins.
re: #467 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
So, She is making you a spicy Louisiana-style pig in a blanket in other words. What’s the side?
The side dish: more sausage.
She says she’ll make a snack of beets later.
Wondering what might happen if America wakes up, turns off Dancing With The Stars, and gets mad about what the Republican Party is doing to the country.
I know it’s probably not gonna happen. But what if?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2020
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
re: #473 Charles Johnson
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People will get mad when folks outside of NYC start dying.
re: #473 Charles Johnson
Wondering what might happen if America wakes up, turns off Dancing With The Stars, and gets mad about what the Republican Party is doing to the country.
I know it’s probably not gonna happen. But what if?]
If it doesn’t happen in the next six months, it will never happen.
re: #470 Dread Pirate
The GOP is going to make our nation a pariah amongst civilised states.
The world will find very quickly that they actually do not need to trade with us.
re: #405 Patricia Kayden
Trump told us there would be so much ‘winning’ if he were elected that we’d be ‘sick of it’.
That may be the only thing he said as a candidate that has come true (from a certain point of view).
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
Yes, but you should still carry sanitising wipes (wipe down the door handle and anything else you plan on touching).
re: #431 jaunte
I’d like to see the SCOTUS dissents start calling out the majority as the unprincipled GOP party hacks that they are.
Oh, Gosh, We’re Also Running Out Of Drugs Needed To Keep People On Ventilators (Wonkette)
Turns out capitalism is a really crappy way to deliver healthcare.
As we bumble through a worldwide pandemic with the supply chain for medical supplies looking like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos without enough marbles, it’s worth keeping in mind that it’s not just personal protective equipment and ventilators that could soon be in short supply (goes to Vox). Hospitals all across the country could soon face a shortage of the sedatives, pain medications, and other pharmaceuticals that are necessary to keep people in respiratory distress on ventilators. That could quickly become the next big shortage in this medical crisis, according to experts in the pharma supply chain, and there are a whole bunch of reasons it will be difficult to ramp up production and distribution of the needed meds in time to meet the needs.
So please, look at the kittens and take some deep, regular breaths, because this is some scary stuff.
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re: #442 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Modly is a Rear Echelon Mother Fucker.
re: #481 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And we’re a first world country, right? Sigh.
Perhaps we don’t need to waste so much money on the military or tax cuts for the rich so that we’ll have enough to invest in medicine and healthcare.
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
Sure. It will be an incorrect datapoint for that silly online nonsense where people’s compliance with social distancing is measured by miles driven or the like, but that’s not important.
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
Check with your local police jurisdictions. Some are being stupid.
The Texas Governor is using elderly people in nursing homes as guinea pigs for non-FDA approved drug use. Cool beans. https://t.co/Vgug4smamt
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 7, 2020
re: #485 Decatur Deb
Check with your local police jurisdictions. Some are being stupid.
My planned route goes through several jurisdictions.
Unbelievable. In addition to continuing to harass women at the Planned Parenthood in Tempe, and meeting for church on Sunday in general defiance of good sense, the local anti-abortion types did this. You’ll have to expand to see their work on a billboard.
You mean, your buddies, instead of staying inside and social distancing, decided to be asshats and go out and paint a billboard. Why am I not surprised? You guys are still harassing women at the Planned Parenthood in Tempe. You don’t care about already here life, not in the least
— Dee “Flatten The Curve” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 7, 2020
I wish I had a N95 mask in the worst way. These people DESPERATELY need a protest.
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
Not really. If you get in an accident or the car breaks down it could be an issue.
re: #487 The Pie Overlord!
My planned route goes through several jurisdictions.
Some might have posted their interpretations on their websites.
re: #470 Dread Pirate
Wow. That author pulled no punches.
re: #469 Barefoot Grin
Speaking in broken…English.
In her art that’s the only song I know, but I love it.
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
My wife and I have been doing that - jumping in the car and driving to different parts of the island, checking out houses and looking at all the restaurants we can’t eat at.
It’s nice to get out of the house, and we don’t come into contact with other humans.
re: #425 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He should tender his resignation in the full Japanese sense of the word. Or have a classic Darth Vader performance review.
re: #474 The Pie Overlord!
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
I know this is CL’d
It is better to stay home. Stay off the roads unless necessary.
Reduce the load. Pressure by example everyone to stay home.
Even if just joy riding, you could have a car wreck or other problem requiring interaction with others or first responders.
Stay home
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