John Oliver in a Blank White Void: Coronavirus IV [VIDEO]
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John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers.
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Every “Red Rose True Progressive” who is bashing Joe Biden is in fact a Trumporrhoid campaigning for Trump to destroy America. BLOCK ON SIGHT. #Biden2020 #resist #Trump
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 13, 2020
Here is a typical “Red Rose Trumporrhoid” #Biden2020 #resist #TrumpGenocide pic.twitter.com/XuX69HW0sV
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 13, 2020
re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Notice how he’s not going after the parent company (NBC), he is singling out this one local affiliate. He knows if he goes after NBC itself, the case will drag out forever in a battle between the Trump campaign and the network’s lawyers. But go after the affiliate itself and he figures he can force them to knuckle under to his demands to pull a “false” ad.
re: #2 Targetpractice
It’s Trump trying to SLAPP suit his way to reelection by silencing critics.
They’d never get past discovery, and going after affiliates in states that don’t have anti-SLAPP laws means that he’s trying to abuse the law to protect himself from valid criticism.
How private equity is using the pandemic to extort taxpayers
Judd Legum, popular.info
This made me sick, and it just shows DT isn’t the only evil one out there. He has friends.
re: #2 Targetpractice
Exactly. DT is the bully who picks on the little kid to make himself feel bigger.
re: #6 Teddy’s Person
I think this is the ad. Nothing but Trump’s own words.
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They just need to update it to the current date. There are plenty of quotes from his daily pressers to make it even more damning.
re: #3 lawhawk
It’s Trump trying to SLAPP suit his way to reelection by silencing critics.
They’d never get past discovery, and going after affiliates in states that don’t have anti-SLAPP laws means that he’s trying to abuse the law to protect himself from valid criticism.
And it will never work with the Big Media corps. They have the legal muscle to fight back.
re: #3 lawhawk
It’s Trump trying to SLAPP suit his way to reelection by silencing critics.
They’d never get past discovery, and going after affiliates in states that don’t have anti-SLAPP laws means that he’s trying to abuse the law to protect himself from valid criticism.
The intent being to do as he’s done for years with small businesses and contractors he’s made deals with: Threaten to bury them under months or years of costly litigation, with the only “victory” being court costs that will never be repaid by him and a ruling he’ll simply ignore.
By filing suit, the Trump campaign has guaranteed that this ad gets free airtime with every story run about the litigation. Moreover, NBC may come to the defense of its affiliate, depending on the relationship, which means long drawn out battle wherein the campaign is spending money on litigation instead of campaigning.
re: #11 KGxvi
The ad should be more widely aired. It needs to be on every tv in the nation.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
This is one hell of a good CCR cover.
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Bitchin’. That’s goin’ on the favorites list.
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
This is one hell of a good CCR cover.
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Love that band. We’ve seen them 5 times, always a great show.
I guess I really don’t have to put “NSFW” on videos like this at the present time.
Oliver’s show is (IMO) the only one whose writing hasn’t suffered by working from home. As much as I like Seth Myers, he needs an editor. He tends to drift off into the weeds a whole lot while doing ‘A Closer Look’ from his attic.
You are in serious need of psychiatric help.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 13, 2020
re: #16 makeitstop
Oliver’s show is (IMO) the only one whose writing hasn’t suffered by working from home. As much as I like Seth Myers, he needs an editor. He tends to drift off into the weeds a whole lot while doing ‘A Closer Look’ from his attic.
Seth is still playing for audience reactions.
re: #16 makeitstop
Oliver’s show is (IMO) the only one whose writing hasn’t suffered by working from home. As much as I like Seth Myers, he needs an editor. He tends to drift off into the weeds a whole lot while doing ‘A Closer Look’ from his attic.
Yes, I’ve noticed that Seth’s bits have been getting a lot longer when there are no ads to run, and not always for the better.
re: #16 makeitstop
Oliver’s show is (IMO) the only one whose writing hasn’t suffered by working from home. As much as I like Seth Myers, he needs an editor. He tends to drift off into the weeds a whole lot while doing ‘A Closer Look’ from his attic.
And he always does his lousy Trump imitations. He’s really bad at it.
Sure, this is gratifying to watch, but it will have absolutely no effect on the lies and propaganda pouring out of this gang of villains. And nobody in Trump’s cult watches, believes, or cares about this. https://t.co/Gcl5Itp72g
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2020
Folks, I hope you’ll join my 2:00 PM Economic Response to COVID-19 remarks — I’ll be joined by a special guest. Tune in at 2:00 PM to watch live!https://t.co/xk0GcS7PGq pic.twitter.com/KmSe2QvcQD
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 13, 2020
The entire Trump administration and their media arm (Fox, OAN, talk radio, social media shitposters) is currently waging a blitzkreig war of disinformation that’s staggering in scope. They’re trying to manufacture a reality that keeps Trump blameless.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2020
Sam Stein at @DailyBeast reports that the Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit against WJFW-NBC of Rhinelander, Wisconsin for airing this ad.
Let’s make it go viral again. pic.twitter.com/DKlc7wao9Y— Matt Rogers (@Politidope) April 13, 2020
re: #23 Charles Johnson
They have invested so much into Trump-worship that if the object of their cultlike devotion is proven to be a fraud, it will devastate them
Their only option is to double down on what has worked for them so far:
1. race hatred,
2. gleeful bashing of media,
3. phone patriotism
4. conspiracy theories
Patients with #COVID19 have suffered strokes and other neurological symptoms, according to the first scientific study to analyse the effects of the disease on the brain https://t.co/oZ2La6Y4I9
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) April 13, 2020
Statement from @guycecil on the Trump campaign suing a local WI TV station for running @prioritiesUSA’s ad pic.twitter.com/TtB7mVS7sU
— Josh Schwerin (@JoshSchwerin) April 13, 2020
OT Philly has some very wild weather today. When your weather map looks like this it is not a good thing.
weather.gov
Now watch as the most die-hard bros turn on Bernie. https://t.co/8sWZiYi83H
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2020
re: #30 Charles Johnson
At this point, you’ll know exactly who to block.
re: #27 Dread Pirate
This doesn’t surprise me. Any disease that can seriously mess up the flow of blood/oxygen to your organs can cause a lot of ancillary problems.
re: #29 PhillyPretzel
Tornado watches extend just west of us. Everyone in line for t-storms, high winds, and potential power outages, to say nothing of flash floods, areal floods, and hazardous conditions.
At least it forces people to stay inside.
I saw Santorum trending and I briefly thought: “let it be covid-19.” I kinda hate myself for that, but that’s where I am right now. I guess John King had him on CNN today.
re: #35 lawhawk
I charged up all of my solar batteries yesterday so if the power goes out I will at least have some abilities on the computer.
Just in - @BernieSanders endorses @JoeBiden
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) April 13, 2020
re: #31 Belafon
Apparently a shit ton of bots out there. And those who are more than happy with 4 more years of Trump and his disastrous policies rather than someone who’d be far better for the nation and left wing policies. https://t.co/bRem4euG5b
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 13, 2020
re: #35 lawhawk
Tornado watches extend just west of us. Everyone in line for t-storms, high winds, and potential power outages, to say nothing of flash floods, areal floods, and hazardous conditions.
At least it forces people to stay inside.
As long as you have a house to stay inside of…
Incredible damage done by a tornado near Cedar island and Fairlawn in Moncks Corner about 30 miles north of Charleston, S.C. Photos via Reagan Prince #scwx #ncwx pic.twitter.com/HLUVQllOvx
— Ed Piotrowski (@EdPiotrowski) April 13, 2020
re: #38 The Pie Overlord!
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Ah, so that’s that sound: Berner heads popping like champagne corks.
Warms my black heart so.
re: #35 lawhawk
Tornado watches extend just west of us. Everyone in line for t-storms, high winds, and potential power outages, to say nothing of flash floods, areal floods, and hazardous conditions.
At least it forces people to stay inside.
Super strong winds up here, too. I saw on the Boston news that areas along the coast are almost certain to get power outages for as much as 72 hours (and they noted how this is obviously worse than normal with food insecurities and kids doing school from home).
re: #39 lawhawk
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In refusing to endorse Biden, they’re endorsing four more years of suffering and exploitation of the very people they claim to care about.
Fuck’em.
re: #40 BeachDem
As long as you have a house to stay inside of…
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Yes, that’s true, too.
Well, crap. I can hear the volunteer FD siren going off. Never a good thing. We’re just a little cold after yesterday’s snow but someone’s got a real problem.
There’s gonna be a shit-ton of anger over the fact that Bernie endorsed now, versus holding out til the convention. But I guess after he got blown out of the water so decisively in Alaska, any hope he had of going to the convention with enough delegates to retain “leverage” evaporated.
re: #46 Targetpractice
There’s gonna be a shit-ton of anger over the fact that Bernie endorsed now, versus holding out til the convention. But I guess after he got blown out of the water so decisively in Alaska, any hope he had of going to the convention with enough delegates to retain “leverage” evaporated.
Bernie was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
re: #46 Targetpractice
There’s gonna be a shit-ton of anger over the fact that Bernie endorsed now, versus holding out til the convention. But I guess after he got blown out of the water so decisively in Alaska, any hope he had of going to the convention with enough delegates to retain “leverage” evaporated.
I’d be willing to bet that Biden gave Bernie assurances that he would not be excluded from the drafting from the 2020 platform, as it is becoming more and more likely that there won’t be a traditional convention where the delegates would be voting as blocs for specific planks.
Joe is on fire with Bernie’s help.
the Berniebots are throwing tantrums…
OT: Both the online app and online banking website for my Credit Union have been down for nearly SIX hours. I just need to know my balance. This is aggravating.
“…you and I agree. This country wasn’t built by Wall Street; it wasn’t built by CEOs… it was built by workers. By Union Labor!”
Joe Biden to Bernie Sanders. #UnityCandidate #Biden2020 https://t.co/du7WprhPjN— 🍂Selena Adera🍂 (@Selena_Adera) April 13, 2020
re: #43 Targetpractice
In refusing to endorse Biden, they’re endorsing four more years of suffering and exploitation of the very people they claim to care about.
Fuck’em.
sanders endorses biden
some of his ‘followers’ dont
then they’re not his followers
after all, how could bernie himself be wrong?
@BernieSanders asking for unity - to support @JoeBiden - as we work to defeat Trump. https://t.co/Gs8xmCWShr
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) April 13, 2020
Never thought I’d say it, but good on Bernie. He seems to realize how important it is to get rid of Trump.
Now…off to Twitter. I wanna see how the Bro-verse is reacting, should be…interesting.
re: #46 Targetpractice
There’s gonna be a shit-ton of anger over the fact that Bernie endorsed now, versus holding out til the convention. But I guess after he got blown out of the water so decisively in Alaska, any hope he had of going to the convention with enough delegates to retain “leverage” evaporated.
if it’s a streamed / virtual convention theatrics are gonna be tough
a speech, yeah. not much more.
re: #52 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
The metaphysical Bern cannot fail, it can only be failed.
re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹
Joe is on fire with Bernie’s help.
the Berniebots are throwing tantrums…
Maybe, unlike many of his IRL followers, Bernie finally realized the nightmare we will face if Trump is re-elected. Maybe he understood that the evil we now live under was due partially to the movement he inspired and his belated and less than enthusiastic endorsement of Hillary.
re: #54 makeitstop
Never thought I’d say it, but good on Bernie. He seems to realize how important it is to get rid of Trump.
Now…off to Twitter. I wanna see how the Bro-verse is reacting, should be…interesting.
agreed
and he probably doesnt want to even be ‘accused’ of what he was last time
re: #41 Targetpractice
Ah, so that’s that sound: Berner heads popping like champagne corks.
Warms my black heart so.
A significant percentage of the “Berners” who have been most vocal had no intention whatsoever of voting for whoever the Democratic candidate turned out to be - they are dedicated Trumper ratfuckers whose only goal during the primary process was to sow division across the Democratic party.
re: #43 Targetpractice
In refusing to endorse Biden, they’re endorsing four more years of suffering and exploitation of the very people they claim to care about.
Fuck’em.
They cared about others?
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re: #42 Barefoot Grin
Super strong winds up here, too. I saw on the Boston news that areas along the coast are almost certain to get power outages for as much as 72 hours (and they noted how this is obviously worse than normal with food insecurities and kids doing school from home).
Here as well. Another part of the fence came down. They closed our local Lowes as someone tested positive. We’ve band-aided the sections that blew out (one post affecting two sections last week and multiple individual boards now) all of which should hold… For now.
Whoever built this fence needs lessons. They nailed the slats into the crossbeams and missed making contact with those crossbeams like 50%. So a 6’ slat has maybe one nail holding it on.
Awesome.
All credit to Bernie for acting on the weight of this moment unlike a single Trump enabling Republican.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 13, 2020
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
Thanks for the reminder. My credit union is up and running and I am going to get $1200 very soon. The deposit is pending.
re: #56 jaunte
The metaphysical Bern cannot fail, it can only be failed.
if bernie yells at the world off camera, do we hear?
And Snow J. Simpson is stroking out!
Deep breaths traitor @shaunking pic.twitter.com/EF1XRXqRrk
— Πατριωτισμός οχι εθνικισμός (@XAscum) April 13, 2020
Rose Twitter is going to have a fucking meltdown…
Bernie Sanders to Joe Biden: “I am asking all Americans — I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans — to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 13, 2020
re: #47 BeenHereAwhile
Bernie was made an offer he couldn’t refuse.
I’d say the poll that came out yesterday, showing that some 80% of Bernie voters are prepared to vote for Biden versus just 7% who’ve said they’d vote for Trump, was the final blow after the blow-out in Alaska. Bernie’s realizing that a negotiated surrender is better than a total one.
Any drug that kills one in six patients usually doesn’t get an FDA indication and patent protection.
But it’s been a little while since I personally did a dossier.
I remember Astra Zeneca had a billion-dollar drug that flamed out for rhabdomyolycis…but not DEATH.— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 13, 2020
re: #56 jaunte
The metaphysical Bern cannot fail, it can only be failed.
Yeah, but when it’s “failed” by Bernie himself, you know something’s not right…..
And just maybe. one positive side effect of this endorsement will be to expose the Bernouts as the distinct minority they are: which, unfortunately, is all-too-easily masked by the Internet…..
Wow. Whole lotta ‘Fuck you, Bernie’ on this tweet.
We must come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern history. I’m joining @JoeBiden’s livestream with a special announcement. https://t.co/AC3zh3ChX3
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 13, 2020
Them people are nuts.
re: #67 lawhawk
Joe has had my vote for at least 4 years. He will get it this November.
Berners stroking out in anger fits is the highlight of my day.
Way to go, @SenSanders.
I have been blistering in my criticism of Sanders and his stubbornness even though, as I said many times, I would have voted for him if necessary.
What he did just now is an act of patriotism and I hope the people who supported him follow his example. https://t.co/VTkGgbCifc— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 13, 2020
re: #73 Targetpractice
It is a pleasant thought. :)
re: #69 Dread Pirate
FDA has 3 phases of drug testing on humans:
Phase 1 studies (typically involve 20 to 80 people).
Phase 2 studies (typically involve a few dozen to about 300 people).
Phase 3 studies (typically involve several hundred to about 3,000 people).
The FDA would shit can any drug if it had that kind of performance in any phase. But because Trump, they’re going to push this regardless of the consequences - like investigating other drugs that might be more useful/successful.
re: #71 makeitstop
Wow. Whole lotta ‘Fuck you, Bernie’ on this tweet.
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Them people are nuts.
Most Bernie voters, who aren’t shit posters on Twitter, will vote for Biden in November.
re: #77 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Most Bernie voters, who aren’t shit posters on Twitter, will vote for Biden in November.
Yes, it is time to sort out the True Believers, who, although perhaps a bit overly idealistic, see the writing on the wall, and the trolls and ratfuckers who were in it only to stick spokes in the DNC’s wheels.
And the inevitable civil war has begun to percolate
In this round we have,
…. MICHAEL TRACEY bashing Bernie & David Sirota??????
Someone catch me ! pic.twitter.com/I1Ea1QeUUg— T. Fisher King (@T_FisherKing) April 13, 2020
re: #77 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Most Bernie voters, who aren’t shit posters on Twitter, will vote for Biden in November.
Like noted above, the latest polling showed some 80% of Bernie voters polled are planning or have indicated willingness to vote for Biden in November. 13% said they were on the fence.
That last 7%? They were either rodent copulators or “moral high ground” assholes who are prepared to fuck the nation over for another 4 years to avoid admitting they backed the losing horse. Either way, the best response to them is to point and laugh.
re: #68 Targetpractice
I’d say the poll that came out yesterday, showing that some 80% of Bernie voters are prepared to vote for Biden versus just 7% who’ve said they’d vote for Trump, was the final blow after the blow-out in Alaska. Bernie’s realizing that a negotiated surrender is better than a total one.
As someone said the other day, 93% will vote for Biden, and the other 7% are on Twitter.
re: #79 teleskiguy
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Jeez, Louise!
I guess it’s too “simple” an explanation for some folks that the Sanders campaign’s failure stems from the fundamental fact that NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM????
re: #83 Jay C
Jeez, Louise!
I guess it’s too “simple” an explanation for some folks that the Sanders campaign’s failure stems from the fundamental fact that NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM????
“HOW COULD WE LOSE?! WE HAD THE BEST MEMES!!!”
Bernie Sanders is like a cool little indie punk band that comes along every 4 years that you’re really into until you hear one of their songs in a Burger King commercial
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) April 13, 2020
re: #69 Dread Pirate
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they already wrote the commercials for:
“do you know someone who took hydroxychloroquine and died”?
if so contact us at …
I haven’t done pharma competitive intelligence in a little while, but a 17% fatality rate usually stopped the launch of a drug. https://t.co/evgWubJv8u
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 13, 2020
Good point.
Its better to start dealing with this “not voting for Biden” nonsense now instead of not dealing with it until July or August. The sooner we get these Cosplay Socialist ratfckers and saboteurs exposed for the frauds they are, the better.
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 13, 2020
In retrospect not having a white penis was Hillary’s biggest mistake https://t.co/wmRJh7FPIv
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 13, 2020
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
Relax guys. We’re in good hands. This will be handled smoothly and wisely. pic.twitter.com/NlL3JMedlw
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 13, 2020
re: #86 teleskiguy
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And now we get to hear the shrill screaming from the Green Party as they exit their 4 year hibernation cycle to emerge like cicadas and declare how they totally are the “true progressive” party and how all Bernie supporters need to join them to strive towards finally hitting that 5% mark they’ve been trying to achieve for the last 20 years.
re: #85 Targetpractice
“HOW COULD WE LOSE?! WE HAD THE BEST MEMES!!!”
It wasn’t so much Bernie’s agenda, it was him. Too many people have been turned off by his personality. Maybe a Beto O’Rourke could have won on that platform assuming Bernie dropped out after the heart attack. After all, Beto didn’t have Warren’s absolutely disqualifying attribute of being a female. And Beto was widely liked.
re: #83 Jay C
Jeez, Louise!
I guess it’s too “simple” an explanation for some folks that the Sanders campaign’s failure stems from the fundamental fact that NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM????
same as last time
bernie woulda won if everyone just voted for him
bernie woulda won if there werent so many other candidates
etc
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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Not a single person who knows a goddamn thing about medicine or economics. This is as bad as it gets.
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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The Council to Reopen America, previous the Council to Shove America Into An Early Grave.
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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Let the grifting commence!!
re: #91 Targetpractice
And now we get to hear the shrill screaming from the Green Party as they exit their 4 year hibernation cycle to emerge like cicadas and declare how they totally are the “true progressive” party and how all Bernie supporters need to join them to strive towards finally hitting that 5% mark they’ve been trying to achieve for the last 20 years.
Getting Republicans Elected Every November.
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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they needed a ‘council’?
Relax guys. We’re in good hands. This will be handled smoothly and wisely. pic.twitter.com/NlL3JMedlw
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 13, 2020
I blocked this CENSORED after his snide remark.
FUCK THE GREENS!
GREEN =
Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November.
Why not ask my son what he thinks of the GREEN party?
Oh wait a second, you can’t becuase Nader took enough votes away from Gore in 2000 to let Dumbya get in…the same Dumbya who lied us into a war…that killed my son…— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 13, 2020
re: #95 Targetpractice
The Council to Reopen America, previous the Council to Shove America Into An Early Grave.
Just fucking rename it the AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE WITH NO OTHER PROTECTIVE MEASURES council
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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Echoing my thoughts
This is like the nightmare version of your quarantine house.
— Denise Schipani (@DeniseSchipani) April 13, 2020
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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Bad graphics there. It originally read: ” Council to Reopen America’s Wounds”.
re: #94 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not a single person who knows a goddamn thing about medicine or economics. This is as bad as it gets.
fortunately there’s not much they can do
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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To be fair — they had to select people who are in the administration or who supported the administration policy; once you have those limitations, who can you get to serve on a committee?
re: #94 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not a single person who knows a goddamn thing about medicine or economics. This is as bad as it gets.
Hey now, they have Steve, Larry, and Wilbur, aka The Three Stooges. All men who’ve been blowing smoke up our asses for the past 3 years about how this latest scheme to raid the Treasury will surely lead to that 3%+ economic growth Donny promised.
These seven assholes aren’t even fit to sit in Howdy Doody’s Peanut Gallery!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 13, 2020
re: #104 William Lewis
Just another not quite so manic Monday landscape photo. Went to check the mail and swung past one of the usual suspects. I have new to me wide angle lens that’s supposed to arrive tomorrow so it’ll be fun to compare this with that after it arrives.
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Nice shot. Tough call on the exposure, no? Must be a lot of F stops between the snow and treeline.
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
To be fair — they had to select people who are in the administration or who supported the administration policy; once you have those limitations, who can you get to serve on a committee?
the same 6 people who are doing most everything else because no one would touch this admin with a 10 foot social distancing pole
re: #101 BeachDem
Why are they using a toilet for the background?
re: #103 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
fortunately there’s not much they can do
Trump, who previously said he couldn’t issue a national shelter at home order because of federalism, this morning tweeted that he can issue a national go back to work order, the Governors be damned.
re: #108 Rightwingconspirator
Nice shot. Tough call on the exposure, no? Must be a lot of F stops between the snow and treeline.
snow? i thought it was sand
(florida and all)
Live updates: Sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt dies of coronavirus complications; White House says Trump isn’t firing Fauci. The Orange Balloon is a “one trick pony”. Blather! Blather! Blather. “You’re fired!” It’s getting old. https://t.co/gXmq7ewGAt
— Tim Matheson (@Tim_Matheson) April 13, 2020
re: #110 stpaulbear
Why are they using a toilet for the background?
Not sure, but someone should give it a flush.
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
To be fair — they had to select people who are in the administration or who supported the administration policy; once you have those limitations, who can you get to serve on a committee?
Dr. Fauci, for example.
re: #110 stpaulbear
Didn’t notice that until you mentioned it. Good question. Are they going to trash America for DT?
I admit, I had to actually look like Bob Lighthizer because he’s been a relative non-entity for much of the past 3 years. Find out he’s the sorry shit who thinks the best answer to America’s trade issues is protectionism and spent the last 3 or so years getting gobsmacked whenever his latest effort to win over Beijing ended up in ratcheting up of the trade war.
Now I’m totally reassured about this Council.//////
re: #111 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump, who previously said he couldn’t issue a national shelter at home order because of federalism, this morning tweeted that he can issue a national go back to work order, the Governors be damned.
my guess is eventually they’re gonna ‘opine’ that the economy will ‘only’ contract by like 20 or something percent and that’s a win because ‘everyone else’ is predicting 30+
just trump saying 60k deaths is a win because everyone’s predicting 100k+
re: #108 Rightwingconspirator
Nice shot. Tough call on the exposure, no? Must be a lot of F stops between the snow and treeline.
Yeah, I took a number of them trying to bracket it. None were quite perfect but I liked this one, last of the series, best.
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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They’re here to put America on the white track.
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re: #110 stpaulbear
Why are they using a toilet for the background?
Heh. Just noticed that.
Subtle editorial comment?
wait if there’s a virtual dnc with multiple splitscreens, dems will be literally in array
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) April 13, 2020
Dems in array.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 13, 2020
2017
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 13, 2020
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 13, 2020
re: #121 Jay C
Heh. Just noticed that.
Subtle editorial comment?
I know it’s not really a toilet, but I can’t tell what it is and I can’t see anything else but a toilet now.
re: #115 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Dr. Fauci, for example.
But he doesn’t support this administration policy so he’s a no-go for the committee.
re: #124 teleskiguy
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re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
I just realized…No Franky Graham Cracker? No Falwell Jr? No Pat Robertson? No Paula White? Not even one Pulpit PImp in the Maleficent Seven????
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re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
But he doesn’t support this administration policy so he’s a no-go for the committee.
Decisions are always-better when there is no-one to pushback on the groupthink. /
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
I just realized…No Franky Graham Cracker? No Falwell Jr? No Pat Robertson? No Paula White? Not even one Pulpit PImp in the Maleficent Seven????
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re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
I hope that Robert Lightheizer is wearing a wire.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
Lighthizer is the USTR. He’s a trade representative who somehow has managed to stick around despite admitting that USMCA was NAFTA 2.0.
re: #131 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Decisions are always-better when there is no-one to pushback on the groupthink. /
And as pointed out in the Twitter thread, no Peter Navarro. Some suggestions that he’s in the dog house. My guess is that Trump will thank him for his service and then throw him out the door.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
Eli Wallach would have made a great Mnuchin in the inevitable movie.
Yeah…imagine Ivanka giving him the cannolis laced with rat poison!
Why does Noam Chomsky objectively want people without health insurance to die? Huh? https://t.co/qVCrTbfHtd
— Judean People’s Front of Judea (@BklynMichael42) April 13, 2020
re: #134 lawhawk
Lighthizer is the USTR. He’s a trade representative who somehow has managed to stick around despite admitting that USMCA was NAFTA 2.0.
Yeah. Lighthizer looks to be the only official on that “council” who even remotely ought to be there: I mean:
Mark Meadows? [hack/crony/hired hand]
Ivanka Trump? [nepotist - utterly unqualified]
Jared Kushner? [nepotist - even less qualified]
Steve Mnuchin? [hack; Tool Of Wall Street]
Wilbur Ross? [hack; crooked grifter]
and Larry Kudlow? [The Man Who Has Always Been Wrong About Everything]
The mind, it is boggled…
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
What’s in the picture?
re: #138 Teukka
Except that voting for Cthulhu in a Cthulhu vs. Trump election is voting for the lesser evil.
re: #141 Belafon
What’s in the picture?
A wretched hive of GOP/Trumpist scum and villainy, identified in post 140.
Supposedly they are the council to re-open America.
Trump’s version of Nixon’s Committee to REElect the President.
[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]
If I survive COVID19 maybe I should write a memoir of my boring, unremarkable life.
Would anyone make a movie about an Orthodox woman (who was raised secular) with 9 children, who gets a degree in computer science and then a career in the automotive industry? Of course not, that’s utterly ridiculous, who would believe that, it’s only my life for 40 years.
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 13, 2020
re: #141 Belafon
What’s in the picture?
It’s the White House brain-trust that’s going to save the economy enrich themselves.
Biden supports replacing RBG and Breyer himself, instead of letting Trump do it. Bernie also agrees that a 7-2 conservative court would be bad. But I guess you don’t. https://t.co/bFoHE9MGXz
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) April 13, 2020
The court was arguably the biggest issue back in 2016, the bulwark that conservatives are not only using to deny any legislative progress but actively rolling back gains made over several decades. But please tell us how letting Trump/McConnell control the judiciary is irrelevant
— Citizen K says “Wash Your Hands” (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 13, 2020
I want to bite people’s heads off.
re: #138 Teukka
Has this been posted yet?
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If you want to save the US Postal Service, have them make an Ivanka stamp. Trump will keep it open just to lick them. @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) April 12, 2020
re: #132 Decatur Deb
Eli Wallach would have made a great Mnuchin in the inevitable movie.
“Generosity. That was my first mistake!”
re: #151 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
“Generosity. That was my first mistake!”
“I leave these people a little bit extra, and then they hire these men to make trouble. It shows you, sooner or later, you must answer for every good deed. “
re: #145 Joe Bacon 🌹
Tim Conway as Ross…
Ivanka and Jared could be played by a couple of emojis. 👦👱♀️
re: #148 Citizen K
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You’d think that after the ACA survived only due through the thinnest of margins that the importance of appointing justices to the SCOTUS bench would have got through to some of these morons. Getting M4A through Congress ain’t worth a damn if some red state AG manages to get a 7-2 vote to abolish it.
Welp, wouldn’t have expected it, but kudos to you Sanders…
We must come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern history. I’m joining @JoeBiden’s livestream with a special announcement. https://t.co/AC3zh3ChX3
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 13, 2020
re: #154 Targetpractice
You’d think that after the ACA survived only due through the thinnest of margins that the importance of appointing justices to the SCOTUS bench would have got through to some of these morons. Getting M4A through Congress ain’t worth a damn if some red state AG manages to get a 7-2 vote to abolish it.
It’s like all they care about is campaigning not governing. Gee that sounds familiar.
re: #157 Teddy’s Person
It’s like all they care about is campaigning not governing. Gee that sounds familiar.
They’re working on unicorn farts and pixie dust thinking. Pass a law and it can never be repealed, modified, or struck down. And the way to pass laws is to hold rallies and throw protests. Most people get past that shit by the time their gonads have dropped, but we’re dealing with a shit-ton of privileged children who really were only ever in it for “free” stuff.
Joint press release from governors of CA, Wash and Oregon: https://t.co/JBttmY8Oxa
— Miriam Pawel (@miriampawel) April 13, 2020
Good move.
BREAKING: NJ, NY, CT, PA, DE, and RI have formed a regional advisory council to help guide our re-opening once the #COVID19 emergency has passed.
We cannot act on our own. We must be smart & tactical in how our region comes out of this, or else we’ll be right back to square one. pic.twitter.com/fZeOk3GBca— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) April 13, 2020
re: #107 Joe Bacon 🌹
These seven are dangaroos.
So…
-A tea party goon.
-Princess Idiot.
-A Howdy Doody puppet.
-Thurston Howell III.
-A drunk.
-Some guy.
-Vice chairman from the Bank of Cyprus. https://t.co/Exjj84kj2I— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
re: #160 makeitstop
BREAKING: NJ, NY, CT, PA, DE, and RI have formed a regional advisory council to help guide our re-opening once the #COVID19 emergency has passed.
We cannot act on our own. We must be smart & tactical in how our region comes out of this, or else we’ll be right back to square one.
In other words, “We are going to formulate our own damn strategy and ignore what Trump and his Seven Stooges come up with!”
re: #160 makeitstop
A very good move since this area has been hit hard.
Pretty wild how the announcements from the West Coast and Northeast both dropped within an hour of one another.
It’s like they read Trump’s tweet this morning and said ‘That ain’t it.’
Every bit as bad as I feared. https://t.co/jtxiSC1tw6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2020
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Meanwhile, in a country that actually does have a competent leader…
They’ve had a single death so far. https://t.co/Tj06HpZ4iJ
— Metro (@MetroUK) April 10, 2020
re: #167 Targetpractice
I keep wondering whether or Lighthizer should consider himself fortunate that most everybody’s looking at this picture and drawing a blank when seeing his face.
Or unfortunate since everyone’s now googling him.
re: #148 Citizen K
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There is a real chance that something as milquetoast as the ACA is going to be struck down for reasons that are complete Federalist Society bullshit. People think that this Court (and the appellate courts) wouldn’t undo anything that got passed under a Democratic administration that was as progressive as M4A or student loan forgiveness?
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oooooh
Maybe try some meditation and self-reflection on how not to always just shoot your mouth off. Make good use of the time! https://t.co/6zsegsc3Fc
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 13, 2020
re: #168 Interesting Times
This is what a real leader looks like, not what is currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
re: #170 Mike Lamb
There is a real chance that something as milquetoast as the ACA is going to be struck down for reasons that are complete Federalist Society bullshit. People think that this Court (and the appellate courts) wouldn’t undo anything that got passed under a Democratic administration that was as progressive as M4A or student loan forgiveness?
The ACA was passed through legislative sleight-of-hand, avoiding being struck down only because Roberts had an attack of conscience, and has kept running despite repeated attempts by a Repub-majority Congress to kill it.
Obviously the answer is to junk it and then roll the dice that we can get a whole new entitlement program passed and implemented in less than 4 years.///////
We passed a massive expansion of unemployment insurance, but thousands of Floridians have been unable to get it due to the state’s broken system.
We also passed $60 million to FIX that system, but it’s still in progress. If you live in CD10 & need help, please contact my office.— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) April 13, 2020
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ahh the rumble of thunder is going through the area and long rolling ones too.
The mind reels. pic.twitter.com/wAoj3dERaq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2020
re: #176 Teddy’s Person
My mom was like… there’s a floor that could use vacuuming or silver that could use polishing or you could practice piano or work on your art or play with your brother…
Usually in that order of her preference (and opposite of mine).
So much for me getting any work done this afternoon. https://t.co/gpjJY9M9o3
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) April 13, 2020
I could while away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers,
Consulting with the rain;
And my head I’d be a scratchin’
While my thoughts are busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain.
Is there a legitimate economist in the group? https://t.co/jtkN8F29we
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 13, 2020
re: #179 lawhawk
My mom was like… there’s a floor that could use vacuuming or silver that could use polishing or you could practice piano or work on your art or play with your brother…
Usually in that order of her preference (and opposite of mine).
To this day, I never say I’m bored.
“Think about what they were willing to do for an election for a Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin. Then ask yourself, what would they be willing to do in November?” https://t.co/7OyVQbc0sn
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 13, 2020
Chinese coffin magnate Ivanka Trump wants America to reopen.
re: #173 PhillyPretzel
This is what a real leader looks like, not what is currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Others have pointed out that most of the countries with the best covid outcomes (Germany, New Zealand, Taiwan) have women in charge.
Susan Collins hits lowest approval rating ever, maintains position as least popular senator in the United States, new poll shows pic.twitter.com/tOBipTJJiU
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) April 13, 2020
re: #185 jaunte
Chinese coffin magnate Ivanka Trump wants America to reopen.
those coffins won’t fill themselves!
I get the feeling that I may be posting variants of this quite often in the foreseeable future (with or without swear words)…
1. This isn’t a multi-party nation with the decades-long politics & infrastructure required for it.2. You’re either with Mr. Blue or Mr. Red.3. A 3rd-party vote on the left helps Mr. Red.4. A 3rd-party vote on the right helps Mr. Blue.5. There’s more of 3 than 4.6. CHOOSE. pic.twitter.com/lk0YxCYdkh
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) April 13, 2020
re: #158 Targetpractice
AND being pushed from behind by Moscow just like the “Getting Republicans Elected Every November” Party. The ones that aren’t bots are Useful Idiots.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
those coffins won’t fill themselves!
Get to work for at least two weeks, America.
Here’s my impression of David Sirota learning that Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/jTfIxZKsI8
— Foe to Princes 🐰 (@ifthedevilisix) April 13, 2020
We’re sure these are two different guys? pic.twitter.com/gmEAW9YA97
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 13, 2020
I said it last year and I’ll say it again: The next Dem presidency is going to be a caretaker one. They will not be elected to pass bold progressive initiatives or to reshape the face of America, they will be there for 4 years to clean up after Trump is finally kicked out on his ass. If there are any bold initiatives, they will be with the aim of rolling back all the horrible shit that has been done in our names by the mango-colored shitgoblin that the GOP allowed to run amuck in the name of tax cuts and profits.
If you’re still maintaining the belief at this late stage that the purpose of electing a president this year is to score a bunch of “free” goodies or usher in the American October Revolution, then the best use you serve is as a warning to others of what happens when you make bad choices in life.
I’m completely innocent!!!!
I just thought we were all posing for a photo. https://t.co/h2u0bZwSe9— Worlds Smallest Sheepdog (@WSheepdog) April 13, 2020
Trump is gonna do it. He’s gonna roll the dice and try to pressure the states to lift restrictions insanely sooner than he should. Because he needs to bring back that tremendous incredible economy he keeps pining for, as people die by the tens of thousands, or how will he be reelected? So he’s just gonna hope the virus doesn’t come roaring back even worse.
Which it probably will.
Maybe he thinks he can prevent it by sheer force of will, orange makeup and ridiculous hair. This is the craziest shit I have ever seen and I have seen my share of crazy shit.
“Trump’s supporters will run through a brick wall to vote for him”
well they are pretty fuckin stupid https://t.co/0U6eEeW09c— darth™ (@darth) April 13, 2020
re: #148 Citizen K
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Careful—they’re probably rabid.
And one of the morons on that thread thinks BrieBrie should primary Elizabeth Warren. Uh huh.
Strangely, Nina “I’m in it for myself” has been very quiet lately.
re: #195 Targetpractice
I said it last year and I’ll say it again: The next Dem presidency is going to be a caretaker one. They will not be elected to pass bold progressive initiatives or to reshape the face of America, they will be there for 4 years to clean up after Trump is finally kicked out on his ass. If there are any bold initiatives, they will be with the aim of rolling back all the horrible shit that has been done in our names by the mango-colored shitgoblin that the GOP allowed to run amuck in the name of tax cuts and profits.
If you’re still maintaining the belief at this late stage that the purpose of electing a president this year is to score a bunch of “free” goodies or usher in the American October Revolution, then the best use you serve is as a warning to others of what happens when you make bad choices in life.
That was true 3 months ago. Now? The next president will be digging out of depression competing with the Great One. Whoever the president is, and Congress is, will have to be making some bold plans and changes.
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s it! At this point, I’d run through a brick wall to vote for Biden!
re: #203 retired cynic
That’s it! At this point, I’d run through a brick wall erected by Republicans to vote for Biden!
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re: #197 Charles Johnson
Trump is gonna do it. He’s gonna roll the dice and try to pressure the states to lift restrictions insanely sooner than he should. Because he needs to bring back that tremendous incredible economy he keeps pining for, as people die by the tens of thousands, or how will he be reelected? So he’s just gonna hope the virus doesn’t come roaring back even worse.
Which it probably will.
Maybe he thinks he can prevent it by sheer force of will, orange makeup and ridiculous hair. This is the craziest shit I have ever seen and I have seen my share of crazy shit.
I am 95% certain that my home town, a red city in Ratcliffe’s district, will tell Abbott to mind his own business if he tries to reopen schools.
what kind of shithole country murders its own postal service
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 13, 2020
re: #203 retired cynic
That’s it! At this point, I’d run through a brick wall to vote for Biden!
I’m smart enough to go around the wall, climb the wall…
re: #207 I Would Prefer Not To
::: opens door installed in brick wall :::
Would you care to enter here?
re: #197 Charles Johnson
Trump is gonna do it. He’s gonna roll the dice and try to pressure the states to lift restrictions insanely sooner than he should. Because he needs to bring back that tremendous incredible economy he keeps pining for, as people die by the tens of thousands, or how will he be reelected? So he’s just gonna hope it doesn’t come roaring back even worse.
Which it probably will.
Maybe he thinks he can prevent it by sheer force of will, orange makeup and ridiculous hair. This is the craziest shit I have ever seen and I have seen my share of crazy shit.
And he’s going to do it in the most half-assed way, having the CDC issue various measures that will be more wishful thinking (everybody wear masks, wash hands thoroughly, maintain social distancing) in the belief that everybody will comply and life can just go “back to normal.”
The reality is that, without a vaccine or an effective cure, people are not going to chance it. Businesses that can will maintain WFM measures, while those that can’t will either stay closed or limp along due to non-existent customers. Sport leagues will continue to remain shuttered in the absence of sufficient testing supplies, while sports venues will stay closed rather than operating at a loss. The wingnut vision of an America that just springs back to life and goes on as if life didn’t grind to a stop is going to be replaced with one of a lot of very angry workers ordered to return to empty workplaces and told to work under threat of termination.
Happy 69th (nice) Birthday to my Dad, @EStreetMax! I love you. We’ve walked side by side for 29 years, and you continue to be an inspiration in every way.
Today’s his first day on Instagram. If you’re on there, give him a follow @ mightymaxweinberg!#MightyMaxWeinberg pic.twitter.com/fiy6tZRthS— Jay Weinberg (@jayweinbergdrum) April 13, 2020
Another grifter just lost her hustle. https://t.co/eGbpHRK0jD
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 13, 2020
You refer to yourself as “Writing in Bernie in November.” Trump’s pretty much laughing at you. #Toodles https://t.co/tNyCZE9N2Z
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 13, 2020
Plague of Wild Beasts
There are feral hogs on the loose in Haifa, Israel. No word yet on where in the 30-50 range they may be. https://t.co/B1yjiNkytj
— Alex (@JewishWonk) April 13, 2020
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
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At this point, had I donated to the Sanders campaign, I’d really be wondering where my money went.
NEW: House is now out till May 4, per @LeaderHoyer, who says lawmakers will be given “sufficient notice” if they need to return to Washington to vote on coronavirus-related legislation.
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) April 13, 2020
re: #197 Charles Johnson
Trump is gonna do it. He’s gonna roll the dice and try to pressure the states to lift restrictions insanely sooner than he should. Because he needs to bring back that tremendous incredible economy he keeps pining for, as people die by the tens of thousands, or how will he be reelected? So he’s just gonna hope the virus doesn’t come roaring back even worse.
Which it probably will.
Maybe he thinks he can prevent it by sheer force of will, orange makeup and ridiculous hair. This is the craziest shit I have ever seen and I have seen my share of crazy shit.
If a second COVID-19 outbreak kicks off in mid-to-late September or thereabouts, Trump can kiss it all goodbye.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Plague of Wild Beasts
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re: #197 Charles Johnson
Trump is gonna do it. He’s gonna roll the dice and try to pressure the states to lift restrictions insanely sooner than he should. Because he needs to bring back that tremendous incredible economy he keeps pining for, as people die by the tens of thousands, or how will he be reelected? So he’s just gonna hope the virus doesn’t come roaring back even worse.
Which it probably will.
Maybe he thinks he can prevent it by sheer force of will, orange makeup and ridiculous hair. This is the craziest shit I have ever seen and I have seen my share of crazy shit.
MN Gov Walz had said that he really wanted to reduce restrictions in MN for the sake of businesses, but then when he came out with his new recommendations last Friday, he decided that the stay-in-place order would remain unchanged. It’s possible that these governor groups will decide that the danger is still too high to open things up.
imagine if we had a president to lead the states, united https://t.co/43pivbkLkT
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 13, 2020
When my doctor finally called to say my Coronavirus test had come back positive, she told me to get an EKG because there might be long-term heart problems caused by severe cases.
She’s the only person I’ve heard talk about lasting problems.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) April 13, 2020
Today, Governor @GavinNewsom, @OregonGovBrown & @GovInslee announced an agreement on a shared vision for reopening their economies and controlling COVID-19 into the future. #StayHomeSaveLives https://t.co/Uzl6SPw2Rb
— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) April 13, 2020
re: #223 Dread Pirate
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Much like the 1918 H1N1 outbreak, we’re going to see entire generations bearing the scars of this outbreak. Someone really ought to clue wingnuts in that the seasonal flu usually doesn’t carry the risk of lung scarring, weak hearts, or strokes.
re: #225 Targetpractice
Yes. This is not a seasonal flu. This is far more dangerous. And even more so with DT as president.
Trump + his company + Don Jr./Ivanka/Eric are appealing an order last week from a federal judge in NY rejecting the Trumps’ effort to get a fraud case against them moved to arbitration. Context: https://t.co/1BHMPwnWFC pic.twitter.com/h8hRvXfT9v
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) April 13, 2020
Red State contrast:
Florida’s surgeon general just said Floridians will have to maintain social distancing measures until there’s a vaccine.
“This is the new normal,” he said.
He acknowledged that a vaccine could be a year away.
Then he was removed from the Cabinet room by @helenaguirrefer.— Lawrence Mower (@lmower3) April 13, 2020
JASPER LOOK INNOCENT TO ME DANA
JUST A ROUTINE SQUEAKY BULB INSPECTION
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
JUST CHECKING IF THIS PINK ELEPHANT HAS A SQUEAKY BULB INSIDE
CASE CLOSE https://t.co/bvlJILUkyF— darth™ (@darth) April 13, 2020
re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth
Way to go SDNY. Keep up the good work. :)
re: #222 jaunte
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Somehow, I don’t think it entered his syphilis-riddled brain that the states would take that as their cue to flip him the bird when he tried to force the slaves back to the fields.
re: #90 bratwurst
You knew it would be bad…but did you know it would be THIS bad?
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Also known as the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, who will be/were the first against the wall when the Revolution comes/came. (Delete as appropriate depending on your temporal location on the space-time axis.)
we’d thought that Mad Magazine was wild satire, not prophetic of US in 2020. but here we are, & the only face missing here is “What, Me Worry?” https://t.co/5OfiGHTUUN
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) April 13, 2020
One of my favorite responses on Twitter.
What? Carrot Top wasn’t available?
— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) April 13, 2020
re: #166 Charles Johnson
At least they didn’t have Art Laffer “Laffer Curve.”..
Ivanka and Jared, because when I need advice on the economy, I turn to the failed handbag-plagiarizing daughter who the president wants to quote-unquote “date,” if that’s what we’re charitably calling it, and her overleveraged and underqualified idiot slumlord husband
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 13, 2020
Be grateful he didn’t put Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Dennis Miller or James Woods on this panel…
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 13, 2020
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
re: #241 Joe Bacon 🌹
Be grateful he didn’t put Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Dennis Miller or James Woods on this panel…
Pillow Guy.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Plague of Wild Beasts
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Feral hogs in Haifa?
What? They figure in a country populated mainly by Jews and Muslims it’s gonna be safer to run around??
re: #242 Disloyal Archangel
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
It *may* have a dead battery.
re: #242 Disloyal Archangel
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
M-Audio makes good products.
re: #244 Jay C
Feral hogs in Haifa?
What? They figure in a country populated mainly by Jews and Muslims it’s gonna be safer to run around??
There’s a couple Russian butchers in Netanya who can make that problem go away.
re: #129 Joe Bacon 🌹
I just realized…No Franky Graham Cracker? No Falwell Jr? No Pat Robertson? No Paula White? Not even one Pulpit PImp in the Maleficent Seven????
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re: #242 Disloyal Archangel
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
Shure SM-57 is good for just about anything, and virtually indestructible.
not the choices i’d have gone with but ok pic.twitter.com/2wE3tkef6s
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) April 13, 2020
Twitter and comment sections are on fire responding to the Council to Re-Open America.
(Starting at top left to right):
Idiot
Baby-talking nitwit
Creepy Victorian doll come to life
Lipless sex machine (To Louise Linton only)
Cocaine cowboy
Whitey McGeneric guy, possibly a Montgomery Ward suit model
Dead guy, maybe not, put a mirror under his nose pic.twitter.com/if7kWiJd8s— TBogg (@tbogg) April 13, 2020
re: #250 makeitstop
Shure SM-57 is good for just about anything, and virtually indestructible.
Yup. Go to microphone for my modest needs.
re: #186 Interesting Times
Others have pointed out that most of the countries with the best covid outcomes (Germany, New Zealand, Taiwan) have women in charge.
Speaking of women in charge leading to good outcomes, the Atlantic had a good article on SF mayor London Breed:
San Francisco had yet to confirm a single case of the coronavirus when Breed, the city’s 45-year-old first-term mayor, declared a state of emergency in late February. Two weeks later, Breed’s decision to ban gatherings of more than 1,000 people forced the hand of the Bay Area’s beloved Golden State Warriors, who this year moved into San Francisco’s Chase Center after nearly a half century in Oakland. Her decision, along with the NBA’s first positive case of the coronavirus, set in motion a chain of events that effectively shut down all of the nation’s major sports leagues.
[…]
Nearly a month after those initial orders to enforce social distancing, San Francisco and the broader Bay Area have emerged as a national model for how early and aggressive action can prevent the explosive rise in cases that has overwhelmed hospitals in New York, where leaders were slower to respond. San Francisco’s case count of 857 as of April 10—with just 13 recorded deaths due to the coronavirus—is much lower than that in metropolises of comparable size such as New Orleans, Detroit, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
[…]
I credit the NBA’s shutdown as the turning point in getting the country to realize the seriousness of the threat, which in turn prompted the shut downs around the country. Breed’s early action has saved countless lives.
re: #252 Teddy’s Person
Twitter and comment sections are on fire responding to the Council to Re-Open America.
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re: #251 makeitstop
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Burns and Scrooge would arrange for the others to be killed within a week.
And both would be laughing at Trump previous to this and trolling him with videos of them swimming in money pools.
re: #242 Disloyal Archangel
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
Spoken word or music?
Reasonably quiet, well-treated room, or something noisier and more echoey?
Recording straight into a computer, or do you have a mic processor or outboard sound card you’re using? And can it provide phantom power?
Those are the three big factors that would inform a good answer from my end.
It’s the reverse Pinocchio.
I saw an old pic of Jared Kushner and I’m now completely freaked out. What happened to his face? pic.twitter.com/24Djy9xAUG
— Calle (@calleread) April 12, 2020
Not now, Chernobyl. We’ve got enough things to deal with.
Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.
Tour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.
He said it was now just 2 km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.
And on that apocalyptic note, I’mma say goodnight. Stay healthy, Lizards.
re: #251 makeitstop
These aren’t the Seven Hoods - but Donald Trump is Robin and his hand-picked suck-ups are….
In today’s UK Downing Street briefing, the government is still not recommending the general public wear face masks.
The reason given was sort of nebulous, but I got the feeling that their experts don’t believe the non-N95 masks are that effective.
re: #257 i(m)p(each)sos
Spoken word or music?
Reasonably quiet, well-treated room, or something noisier and more echoey?
Recording straight into a computer, or do you have a mic processor or outboard sound card you’re using? And can it provide phantom power?
Those are the three big factors that would inform a good answer from my end.
Absolutely right, should have specified.
1. Spoken word;
2. Quite quiet, slightly echoing room;
3. Connected to an outboard sound card (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, has phantom power).
re: #9 Dr Lizardo
Clutch is loud and yell-y rock and roll. In a good way.
re: #262 Disloyal Archangel
Good, good. And your budget?
re: #258 Teddy’s Person
It’s the reverse Pinocchio.
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From the photos it seems to hinge around his eyelids.
What happened to Jared’s face?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 13, 2020
On the one hand, it is somewhat nice to know that our system still works even when there is an utterly unqualified, feckless, know-nothing, sociopathic, megalomaniac in charge of the federal government:
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a West Coast plan Monday for ending the statewide stay-home order he imposed March 19 to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic that will be coordinated with Oregon and Washington.
But on the other, this would have been so much better if we had someone competent who was willing to listen to experts and actually engage in the job. It seems that federalism works best when the federal government is actually engaged and coordinating efforts between the states.
The only doctor on Trump’s ‘Re-Open America’ task force has a portrait of himself with Klingon Jesus dressed in a Hilton Hotel bathrobe hanging in his house.
So, we have that going for us…. pic.twitter.com/curkGZzTGO— TBogg (@tbogg) April 13, 2020
re: #265 i(m)p(each)sos
Good, good. And your budget?
Well in these parts the prices are higher than back home in the U.S., so with that in mind i’d say in the area of ~400$ (will end up ~600$ here)
re: #138 Teukka
He looks like an Ood in that graphic.
re: #273 gocart mozart
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re: #228 jaunte
Red State contrast:
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‘should broward beaches be reopened only to broward residents’?
im thinking the virus doesnt care where you live
Florida’s surgeon general just said Floridians will have to maintain social distancing measures until there’s a vaccine.
“This is the new normal,” he said.
He acknowledged that a vaccine could be a year away.
Then he was removed from the Cabinet room by @helenaguirrefer.— Lawrence Mower (@lmower3) April 13, 2020
Mailman came by, I mentioned the pork plant shutdown as a cause for worry. He said it’s only 3-4% of the nation’s supply, the other plants would step up.
I asked him if he thought they we all immune?
“We better buy some bacon!”
Have at it lizards.
Name this band. pic.twitter.com/aQVGPa7YAm
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 13, 2020
— SuperKarate🐒 (@DeathCar72) April 13, 2020
Awww Fat Fuck Huck lost his lawsuit to have a beach party while the local lockdown is going on…
The UK briefing, when they put up a chart of deaths, mentioned that the public release of death data is based on deaths recorded at hospitals (which I presume includes hospice facilities.) The speaker made a point of mentioning that the deaths do not include deaths at home, and he said this is because this is the international standard for reporting deaths (in this kind of situation, implied.)
So I’m wondering about the US death reports. How many old people are, say, dying at their home or private senior residence facilities from Covid-19? Say in Florida, where there are many retirees, if an elderly person dies at home and someone calls an ambulance, does the morgue do a coronavirus test as a matter of practice on each body that is brought in?
re: #279 jeffreyw
Mailman came by, I mentioned the pork plant shutdown as a cause for worry. He said it’s only 3-4% of the nation’s supply, the other plants would step up.
I asked him if he thought they we all immune?
“We better buy some bacon!”
For a long time, Kwik Trip has had this decent cheap apple smoked bacon. Alas, it is no more. They changed brands - about the same time as all this so it may be related - to a much worse and, though the same price, actively cheaper brand. Before, $6 for 2 12oz packages was fine, now it feels like a rip off. Unfortunately I can’t afford higher quality.
re: #277 Teddy’s Person
Is that the Surgeon General? I didn’t get that guy until I read he’s from Penceland then everything was clear.
Ben Carson.
re: #283 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Florida? They just package the body and send it straight to Scarsdale.
Illinois covid 19 stats:
Monday 4/13 105,768 tested (5,033 new), 22,025 positive (1,173 new), 794 deaths (74 new)
My county still zero reported, next county up holding steady. Knock wood we are flattening, not just bending. Of course, the vast majority of cases are in Chicago. :<
re: #284 William Lewis
Back in January Kroger had a sale on Smithfield bacon. It was so cheap I checked the weight to see if it was 12 instead of 16 oz. It was 16oz so I bought 6. Still have a few. Don’t recall the price but it was, maybe, 2/$6 or so.
🔥BREAKING: approval ratings in #Maine:@SenatorCollins:
37% approve
52% disapprove@realDonaldTrump:
36% approve
57% disapprove
Bye, Felicia.👋🏼#VoteBlue #FireTrump @SaraGideon @JoeBiden https://t.co/egYVwEiZJx— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) April 13, 2020
Senator Concerned should start shopping for a nice place to retire.
re: #250 makeitstop
Shure SM-57 is good for just about anything, and virtually indestructible.
Wouldn’t a condenser cardioid microphone be better for voice recording/vocals in general than a dynamic cardioid microphone? At least that’s what I’ve been told quite a few times over the years…
“Any business relationship between Prince and Wagner would, in effect, make the influential Trump administration adviser a subcontractor to the Russian military.” https://t.co/SHV0NNpycv
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 13, 2020
re: #289 makeitstop
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This put a smile on my face today. During the confirmation hearings of Judge Beer, I contributed $20.20 to a PAC collecting money for her eventual opponent. If I recall correctly, they raised over $1 million.
Brazil’s health minister urges one voice; as Jair Bolsonaro defies social distancing
To know one’s surprise, Trump replicant Bolsonaro is trying to downplay Covid-19 and is at war with Brazil’s own health experts.
re: #290 Disloyal Archangel
Wouldn’t a condenser cardioid microphone be better for voice recording/vocals in general than a dynamic cardioid microphone? At least that’s what I’ve been told quite a few times over the years…
I’ve got both - a mid-level condenser that sounds pretty good, and a bunch of SM-57s and 58s from my band.
I’ve used both for a number of applications - recording guitars, vocals, etc. For spoken word purposes, a 58 will do the job as well as a condenser. In terms of dynamic range, it’s difficult to tell the condenser from the dynamic. Opinions may differ on this. :)
I have been saving an article for HW, and haven’t seen him the last few days. Is he taking a break?
re: #240 unproven innocence
This development is regrettable, but is it purely due to racism? Or is it due to the obvious FACT that more melatonin results in less VitD production in skin naturally from UV in sunlight?
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I’d go with both. One of the enduring problems PRC faced in trying to court African countries during the Cold War was the racism their students faced when they went to China to study.
Massachusetts throws in with the NE Regional Governors’ group.
Thank you to @MassGovernor for joining our multi-state regional effort – along with NJ, CT, PA, DE, RI – to plan a safe & coordinated reopening.
When we work together, we’re stronger.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 13, 2020
re: #280 Teddy’s Person
Have at it lizards.
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MAGAdeath
— Bryan Harnsberger, Psy.D (@PSYCH_HYPE) April 13, 2020
re: #168 Interesting Times
Meanwhile, in a country that actually does have a competent leader…
The death toll now is five, sadly. In particular there were a cluster of infections in a rest home - I think that accounts for three of them.
Remarkably, last year’s Easter road toll was four, while this year it was zero, and road deaths are down overall due to the massive drop in traffic volume. In a crude and somewhat tasteless sense, we’re even coming out ahead.
Figures fluctuate day to day, but there are somewhere north of a dozen hospitalised cases with a handful in ICU, one or two in a critical condition.
On the plus side, new infection counts are dropping, though it’s acknowledged that reduced testing over the holiday period will have depressed the number, and most promisingly, the number of recoveries has outstripped the number of new cases for several days in a row.
The level 4 lockdown continues and a review will be complete for a decision on April 29th whether to extend it further or drop to alert level 3.
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Everything COVID-19 related is at covid19.govt.nz, including the operation of the alert system and the current lockdown, and the daily televised briefings. Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, has quite the fan following these days through his briefing appearances.
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
A couple of other good ones:
1) Rage in Favor of the Machine
2) Wrong Direction
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
Might have an early winner:
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It’s going to be tough to top that one.
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
Elitist Blight Organsellers
Fun fact:
Massachusetts joins the Northeast coalition bringing the number of states to seven.
Combined with the Western States Pact, the ten states account for just under 40% of the United States economy.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 13, 2020
Name that band: Fine Young Cannibal Capitalists
If you’re going with classic old Italian movies with cute kitten scenes well… https://t.co/Xi0Rf7tJA1
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 13, 2020
re: #242 Disloyal Archangel
Sound-related question: has anyone here used microphones in a professional capacity, and can recommend a good option for voice recordings?
Had a decent condenser mic that’s naturally dead just as I need it for the first time in years, and pondering possibilities…
There is a reason the sure sm58 is the most popular vocal mic in the world. It is inexpensive and great quality.
re: #296 Barefoot Grin
I’d go with both. One of the enduring problems PRC faced in trying to court African countries during the Cold War was the racism their students faced when they went to China to study.
Agree. Most likely not purely racism, IMO.
re: #290 Disloyal Archangel
Wouldn’t a condenser cardioid microphone be better for voice recording/vocals in general than a dynamic cardioid microphone? At least that’s what I’ve been told quite a few times over the years…
Are you singing or podcasting? If you’re singing you want something that will capture your dynamic range. Unless you sing for Clutch and you yell, then it doesn’t matter LOL.
There’s an opinion piece in Japan’s Asahi online newspaper that wonders if the response to the coronavirus signals the end of the American era in global politics and a need to turn more toward China as global leader. There have been similar articles (except for the part about turning to China) in the European press lately. Not ideal from my perspective, but understandable.
re: #274 Disloyal Archangel
Well in these parts the prices are higher than back home in the U.S., so with that in mind i’d say in the area of ~400$ (will end up ~600$ here)
That’s a good price point, and I have just the mic for you. Shure SM7B. Street price is in the $350-400 range in the US.
It’s a dynamic cardioid, which makes it much more tolerant of less-than-perfect rooms than a condenser would be.
But it’s much warmer and smoother sounding than your typical SM58-ish $100 dynamic.
It’s literally the mic Michael Jackson recorded Thriller with.
(And the mic I’m using on the air right now!)
With the Scarlett in front of it, you’ll get plenty of level to feed whatever recording software you’re using, too.
re: #300 Eclectic Cyborg
A couple of other good ones:
1) Rage in Favor of the Machine
2) Wrong Direction
Rage in the General Direction of The Machine
re: #309 unproven innocence
Agree. Most likely not purely racism, IMO.
Yeah, I think you’re right. I almost deleted my response because it could easily be misunderstood as a broad smear, and I apologize for that.
re: #303 austin_blue
Josie and the Pussy Splats
I’m digging this one cause I was trying to come up with a take on Diana Ross and the Supreme but Josie and Pussycats was the way to go.
re: #310 BigPapa
Are you singing or podcasting? If you’re singing you want something that will capture your dynamic range. Unless you sing for Clutch and you yell, then it doesn’t matter LOL.
reading/dictating.
Think audiobook or instructional video.
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
There’s an opinion piece in Japan’s Asahi online newspaper that wonders if the response to the coronavirus signals the end of the American era in global politics and a need to turn more toward China as global leader. There have been similar articles (except for the part about turning to China) in the European press lately. Not ideal from my perspective, but understandable.
Agree 100% on this being both regrettable and understandable. America cannot be trusted to be in its traditional post WWII international role as long as 21st century Republicans are a national party.
re: #310 BigPapa
Are you singing or podcasting? If you’re singing you want something that will capture your dynamic range. Unless you sing for Clutch and you yell, then it doesn’t matter LOL.
Now you got me started. :)
re: #319 Disloyal Archangel
Yeah, I don’t have a sound-proof room at my disposal right now, so seeing how 1 minute of this might get me locked up without bail, I’ll not be doing this anytime soon… xD
They are a unique band. Not a pretty face in the lineup, but they cook. :)
Also, loud. One of the few bands I ever saw that could hang with the Kings of Loud, Motorhead.
re: #279 jeffreyw
Mailman came by, I mentioned the pork plant shutdown as a cause for worry. He said it’s only 3-4% of the nation’s supply, the other plants would step up.
I asked him if he thought they we all immune?
“We better buy some bacon!”
FWIW, Smithfield is a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China. Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion.
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
FWIW, Smithfield is a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China. Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion.
Saw that over at Balloon Juice today. I imagine all of the big packing operations are bad places to work.
“Siri, please create a nearly impossible level of ‘Marry, Fuck, Kill.’” https://t.co/Cdi2ngrF0F
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) April 13, 2020
We must come together to defeat the most dangerous president in modern history. I’m joining @JoeBiden’s livestream with a special announcement. https://t.co/AC3zh3ChX3
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 13, 2020
This is good. The infighting between Democrats and the Left is stupid, especially when we have an American Idi Amin as President.
re: #325 DodgerFan1988
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This is good. The infighting between Democrats and the Left is stupid, especially when we have an American Idiot Amin as President.
Much more accurate!
re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth
FWIW, Smithfield is a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China. Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion.
And they’re very abusive to the animals too.
Huffing and puffing already…
“a bad group of tornadoes….”
Talking about the tornadoes to start out with pic.twitter.com/NNxn10IYZ4— Kim ☮️ (@Blacklace40) April 13, 2020
Fauci addresses his weekend comments. He says it’s obvious that if mitigation had been started earlier, more lives would have been saved. He adds that if it was initiated later, more lives would have been lost.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Fauci says that the next time, when they advised Trump to extend the health guidelines for another 30 days, Trump also listened. He says “there were interpretations of that response to a hypothetical question,” on the weekend, and he wanted to “clarify.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
re: #322 William Lewis
Kinda sounds like BOC Jr.
They cover a lot of ground - part metal, part blues, part jam band.
And they’ve got one of the best stashes of vintage gear I’ve ever seen, and they use it live. Another reason I love ‘em. :)
OT I have been home all day and one item was delivered earlier today and I even asked the postman if he had another package for me and he said no. I just got a so-called update from amazon saying delivery was attempted and there is no note or if they will come back. Now I know SOP for USPS is that will try tomorrow. I will wait but this is nerve-racking.
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
…
I deleted and reposted this tweet because the last word was “mitigation,” not “recommendation” again. https://t.co/qJ9ABhaexS
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Trump is now touting his China travel restrictions again, arguing that, actually, he acted fast on the virus. He mocks the media, which he calls “the fake news,” for saying, in his words, “Ohh, he didn’t act fast enough.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
I have no doubt that the senior leadership of Japan are getting very uncomfortable with how badly Trump is damaging the ability of the US to be the good cop of Asia.
Long have critics of the US complained about US hegemony in this modern world.
Well, Trump is accomplishing what revolutionary types have failed at for 8 decades: diminishing the US on the world stage.
COVID-19 cases in KY pass 2,000 as death toll tops 100. At least 629 have recovered. https://t.co/yPoHoVmvZe
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 13, 2020
new book coming:
The Imposters: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics
by Steve Benen.
“Republicans, simply put, have quit governing… The contemporary GOP has become a ‘post-policy party.’ Republicans are effectively impostors, presenting themselves as officials who are ready to take seriously the substance of problem solving, but whose sole focus is the pursuit and maintenance of power.”
Good afternoon. And may I say.
Fuck that guy.
JFC
Trump says he’s been vindicated in his criticism of the number of ventilators states had been requesting. “You don’t hear ‘ventilators’ anymore,” he says.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
The first question for Trump should be: “you’re the president, why is your ego so brittle?”
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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MSNBC drops the fake coronavirus briefing after Trump shows a propaganda video. pic.twitter.com/wmEoElDxx0
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 13, 2020
“We are cutting into what was not a White House coronavirus briefing,” @AriMelber says on MSNBC.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 13, 2020
These press briefings have, of course, been shit from the start.
Even so, what he’s doing today is a new low. He’s devoting a half hour of the nation’s time to refuting one newspaper article.
It got so bad that CNN and MSNBC FINALLY turned away.
Protip: stop carrying these things at all.
the trump campaign is fuckin playing u do u not fuckin get it yet
— darth™ (@darth) April 13, 2020
Bots on the job damn fast tonight.
Weird how bots, trolls, shitposters, and Trump are all on one side, and we’re on the other, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/Fb2DC07IrQ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 13, 2020
Holy shit, this guy is lucky he didn’t have a heart attack. If this guy was tachycardic before he ever got in the plane I wonder what his heart was doing when he unexpectedly went flying out of the cockpit.
re: #337 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
As I like to put it, Republicans are a crime syndicate that barely pretends to be a political party.
Straight up North Korea-style propaganda going on right now in the White House briefing room. Get a load of the dramatic music. pic.twitter.com/p3KO6Ap2Sp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 13, 2020
This propaganda video being aired, via donald’s presser, by cable news outlets leads me to only one conclusion.
I must have nodded off twenty minutes ago & slipped through a teleportation wormhole. Because I’m clearly awake now and living in North Korea.— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 13, 2020
Now that Archer works from home
His outfit choice is shrewd
He wears a tie for video calls
His bottom half is nude https://t.co/f3O2HTXJRs— Curious Zelda (@CuriousZelda) April 13, 2020
re: #348 danarchy
Holy shit, this guy is lucky he didn’t have a heart attack. If this guy was tachycardic before he ever got in the plane I wonder what his heart was doing when he unexpectedly went flying out of the cockpit.
Of course no one ever gets ME a ride like that and I’d love it. Say a nice ride in a TA-4 or a T-38? Foo.
More seriously, if this was not something the guy was known to be in, why would people think he wanted it?
This video was produced by government employees, at taxpayer expense.
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) April 13, 2020
Evening Lizardim from the cold and snowy wild north country. New numbers: 29 new cases, up to 1650; out of 1006 new tested, up to 38427. For the first time since this debacle has arrived in our fair land, we had no new dead. God was good to us on Easter Sunday. Governor Walz has extended our peacetime state of emergency to May 13; he has also stated that we need to be doing 3x-5x more testing than we are doing - over 5000 people per day - in order to consider beginning to reopen the state. I know the Republicans are eager to hold him to the end of the May 4 extended stay-at-home order, but if that’s what they want, they’d better figure out how to get Trump to stop stigginit and give us some goddamn help. How go things among the lizardfolk on this bizarre spring day?
This is the saddest book report ever.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 13, 2020
You know, maybe that’s not fair. Watching Fauci just now reminds me of those videos of POWs broadcast by the North Vietnamese, where they were saying one thing to help their buddies, but blinking the real message in Morse code.
Be ironic if Fauci is pulling a John McCain.
2/2— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 13, 2020
re: #355 William Lewis
Of course no one ever gets ME a ride like that and I’d love it. Say a nice ride in a TA-4 or a T-38? Foo.
More seriously, if this was not something the guy was known to be in, why would people think he wanted it?
I think some people’s idea of gift giving is to give other people things they’d like to get themselves.
re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump is the worst shitbird of all time, but he does have his eyes on the prize. Nothing is more important to him than his continued manipulation of the media.
The response from everyone but Fox News and OANN should be to treat Trump administration propaganda as skeptically as they treat propaganda from North Korea.
Bonus points if the both-sides bullcrap that will kill us all is finally ended.
— Molly Knight (@molly_knight) April 13, 2020
Whenever I get depressed about quarantining I try to remember that some of y’all don’t have curbside canabis pickup and have Republican State governments doing their level best to kill you.
Which, to be clear, I’m really goddamned sorry you have to deal with— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 13, 2020
Maybe CNN ducked away for a few minutes, but they’ve been back on the live feed for most of the 6:00 hour, albeit with a big lower-third saying ANGRY TRUMP TURNS BRIEFING INTO PROPAGANDA SESSION and TRUMP REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANY MISTAKES.
Fucking SURREAL.
There is no “ban on Europe” and there is no “China ban.” There are restrictions with many exemptions. The Europe claim is particularly false given that entire European countries are exempted.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Whatever Trump ingests to amp himself up for these appearances, he doubled the dosage today.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
— Cannabis & Caffeine 🇺🇸😷🤟🥰 (@MizLizTish) April 13, 2020
CNN’s Chyron guy is all out of fucks.
These chyrons are very spot on. #PressBriefing pic.twitter.com/TH29I7Ywtd
— Louie Kahn (@LouieKahn27) April 13, 2020
re: #368 makeitstop
This person might get fired tomorrow, but for one brief shining moment, he or she is a genuine goddamn American hero.
re: #363 goddamnedfrank
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just a bored gal having some fun:
Got bored so i made this 🤩😳 anyways #Biden2020 YALL BETTER VOTE pic.twitter.com/2O28jWOgim
— emily ﾟ* ✧ 🛹 (@emzisgolden) April 12, 2020
Jon Karl’s trying to get Trump to confirm that White House employees broke the law by producing a campaign video. I like where this is going.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
Trump sometimes does his most bitter, least-on-script rally speeches after he hasn’t appeared in public for a few days. We had a briefing-free weekend, and here we are.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Trump attacks a reporter and starts ranting about Joe Biden when asked why there is a one month gap in his coronavirus propaganda video. pic.twitter.com/Ol80Ioo2ou
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) April 13, 2020
re: #338 Dave In Austin
Good afternoon. And may I say.
Fuck that guy.
I have no idea who you are talking about.
Oh, I think I know who you’re talking about.
I’m sure I know who you’re talking about.
re: #311 Barefoot Grin
There’s an opinion piece in Japan’s Asahi online newspaper that wonders if the response to the coronavirus signals the end of the American era in global politics and a need to turn more toward China as global leader. There have been similar articles (except for the part about turning to China) in the European press lately. Not ideal from my perspective, but understandable.
Haven’t those been happening since Trump took the oath of office?
Yep. Any minute now, he’ll start ranting about the Diaz Brothers. https://t.co/VDHQ06c3Ez
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
It’s YOUR CHOICE folks!
Biden names Kamala Harris to replace RBG
OR
Trump names LOUIS GOHMERT to replace RBG
Asked about the campaign ad-style video he just ran at the briefing, Trump says “that was done by a group in the office,” admitting that the video was assembled at taxpayer expense. pic.twitter.com/gMJPUkLPOC
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) April 13, 2020
Uh a campaign video…that is in clear violation of THE HATCH ACT…
re: #380 Joe Bacon 🌹
Uh a campaign video…that is in clear violation of THE HATCH ACT…
But what is anybody going to do about it? That’s what I want to know.
Caitlin Doughty (a mortician who runs the “Ask a Mortician” YouTube channel) goes into the fearmongering the media is using with “refrigerated trucks! Forklifts for bodies!” &c.
Needless to say, she’s not impressed with either the fearmongering in the press or people sharing photographs of the deceased.
One note: The city of New York cremates more people than any state. New York already sends bodies out-of-state to be cremated.
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re: #381 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
But what is anybody going to do about it? That’s what I want to know.
Nothing.
re: #381 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
But what is anybody going to do about it? That’s what I want to know.
Answer—Nothing because Motherfucking Republicans are above the law!
was it jared https://t.co/De1OS2VWM5
— darth™ (@darth) April 13, 2020
re: #378 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s YOUR CHOICE folks!
Biden names Kamala Harris to replace RBG
OR
Trump names LOUIS GOHMERT to replace RBG
You should tweet that!!
CNN chyron guy is my new hero.
These @CNN #PressBriefing chyrons are the only thing keep me sane right now. pic.twitter.com/IX4pXH0X7l
— Kelly ツ (@kellwoohoo) April 13, 2020
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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she’s entitled to defend her profession, but IMHO, none of the reporting even approaches the definition of “fear mongering”.
This shit is happening and pretending that it’s overblown is just wrong.
If anyone is looking for a post-pandemic business opportunity, it looks like the new XFL is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
In the filing, the XFL lists between $10 million and $50 million in liabilities and the same in assets. The league owes more than $14 million to its 25 largest unsecured creditors — including seven of the league’s eight head coaches.
A league source told The Hollywood Reporter that the XFL wants to maximize the value of its assets in order to pay creditors, and has begun the process of seeking a buyer.
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
she’s entitled to defend her profession, but IMHO, none of the reporting even approaches the definition of “fear mongering”.
This shit is happening and pretending that it’s overblown is just wrong.
She should ask people in NYC if it’s ‘fear-mongering.’ Christ.
Trump thanks MBS and Putin for oil deal. pic.twitter.com/6pAMPhlV5M
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 13, 2020
re: #391 KGxvi
If anyone is looking for a post-pandemic business opportunity, it looks like the new XFL is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
why doesn’t Vince get his wife WHO RUNS THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION to bail him out?
re: #395 Joe Bacon 🌹
why doesn’t Vince get his wife WHO RUNS THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION to bail him out?
She left the job about a year ago.
re: #395 Joe Bacon 🌹
why doesn’t Vince get his wife WHO RUNS THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION to bail him out?
She left that job last year to join the Trump2020PAC
re: #396 Backwoods_Sleuth
As per Kitco crude is $22.76 a barrel
A Dam is starting to groan under the weight of excessive water. Holes are starting to pop in the concrete as water spews out.
Donald Trump rushes up and seals ONE hole, but he doesn’t do it very well so it leaks a fair bit. Then he stands idly by while more keep breaks in the concrete keep appearing.
The Supervisor of the Dam arrives, sees what’s about to happen and asks Trump why the hell he hasn’t done anything.
Trump: “I did. I sealed this one up right away, very quickly as matter of fact. Some people didn’t even want me to do it, but I did it.”
SD: But what about all this other water that’s pouring through?
T: *shrugs*
This is basically why his claim that “closing” the country to Chinese people made any kind of difference is such utter bullshit.
re: #397 KGxvi
She left the job about a year ago.
I need a larger scorecard to track all the assholes…
re: #401 Joe Bacon 🌹
I need a later scorecard to track all the assholes…
Their tenure is measured in deci-Scaramuccis at this point.
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
she’s entitled to defend her profession, but IMHO, none of the reporting even approaches the definition of “fear mongering”.
This shit is happening and pretending that it’s overblown is just wrong.
She’s not pretending it’s overblown. Moreover, she frequently attacks her own profession, especially “traditional” funeral directors who insist on things like embalming (which she points out why is dangerous in a pandemic in this video).
She points out what’s normally done in the funeral “industry” in this video, and how they and hospitals plan for things like pandemics or disasters.
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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re: #378 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s YOUR CHOICE folks!
Biden names Kamala Harris to replace RBG
OR
Trump names LOUIS GOHMERT to replace RBG
Both parties are corrupt.
And JFC, exactly how many jobs does Jared actually HAVE now??
re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg
And JFC, exactly how many jobs does Jared actually HAVE now??
All of them, Katie!
re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg
And JFC, exactly how many jobs does Jared actually HAVE now??
He can reopen the economy himself.
re: #403 Anymouse 🌹🏡
She’s not pretending it’s overblown. Moreover, she frequently attacks her own profession, especially “traditional” funeral directors who insist on things like embalming (which she points out why is dangerous in a pandemic in this video).
She points out what’s normally done in the funeral “industry” in this video, and how they and hospitals plan for things like pandemics or disasters.
Oh, so using the phrase “fear mongering” is just fine and dandy and totally NOT the same as “overblown”.
got it
re: #389 makeitstop
“We have to air these press conferences.”
“Fine, but the @steak_umm guy gets to run the chyrons.”— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 13, 2020
re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg
And JFC, exactly how many jobs does Jared actually HAVE now??
Jared is the Lord Privy STEAL of this corrupt administration!
Huh, went down a brief McMahon family rabbit hole to learn that Shane McMahon’s oldest kid is 16, which means we are probably going to see him in the WWE ring within the next 4 years or so.
A Florida police chief has been placed on leave after he told officers that a sheriff’s deputy had died from the coronavirus because he was a “homosexual who attended homosexual events” https://t.co/umiBDhEgma
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 13, 2020
re: #414 Patricia Kayden
In fairness, that is his A-game. It’s just that it’s not very good. Nor is it the right game.
Trump interlaces his fingers after being asked about him retweeting a tweet to fire Dr. Fauci. This nonverbal dynamic projects his anger and frustration.#BodyLanguageExpert #BodyLanguage #DonaldTrump #DrFauci #COVID19 #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/KhoWIBFmwy
— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) April 13, 2020
“A” as in Asshole, dear…
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 13, 2020
re: #413 Teukka
Florida never fucking disappoints, does it?
re: #409 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, so using the phrase “fear mongering” is just fine and dandy and totally NOT the same as “overblown”.
got it
I used the phrase fear-mongering. She didn’t. My apologies.
She also brought up an interesting item: The tidbit circulating around social media saying the city might use parks for mass graves, claimed by someone who said they were a city official.
Turns out no one in the city government knows who this guy is (that is, a social media fraudster for clicks). The city has no plans to do any such thing.
That is fear mongering.
Speaking of Florida, this chart from their daily briefings keeps bothering me (this snip is from today’s briefing):
A few things:
Florida tests as shown in that chart are from a process that is not drawing random people from the population but instead testing those with reason to test (e.g., exposed to a known infected, or admitted to hospital, etc.).
Yet the % that come back positive remains around the same value over two weeks. The number of tests per day vary, but the positive % is pretty steady over two weeks.
For some reason this bothers me. Because it suggests that the positive rate is a function of the testing scheme, not necessarily a true representation of the entire population.
“The president of the United States has the authority to do… what the president has the authority to do. Which is very powerful.”
President Big Brain— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) April 13, 2020
(Trump skips right past that bit about powers being reserved to the states, and to the people.)
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) April 13, 2020
I think we need to dwell on this one a bit before moving on to the next thing. https://t.co/Ui5IDLsujl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Two days in a row of US deaths lower than the previous day. Death doubling rates out to almost a week. It’s working, slowly.
re: #425 Renaissance_Man
Two days in a row of US deaths lower than the previous day. Death doubling rates out to almost a week. It’s working, slowly.
The IHME model suggests that if lockdowns continue until 1 June, then by 1 July the daily deaths will be down to near zero.
Will the all-powerful Trump try to lift the lockdowns sooner?
in other news:
Lovely! Medieval jug neck by the looks of it probably 13th - 14th century. I’d guess Bristol Redcliffe Ware or Malvernian Oxidized ware. Where are you exactly?
— Paul Blinkhorn (@R1100GSBlueNose) April 13, 2020
Ah, nice. I did the pottery from the castle excavations a few years ago. It’s most likely Malvernian Ware then. Unusual to get faces on it like that, but they’re relatively common on Redcliffe Ware.
— Paul Blinkhorn (@R1100GSBlueNose) April 13, 2020
Man, if Obama was taking about what the President can do the way Trump is the GOP would have perpwalked him out of the White House fifteen minutes later.
Dude is wired to the gills.
What is happening here? Involuntary spasm? Trump’s body language today is…#pressbriefing pic.twitter.com/dqwWKzzVxP
— Ascension Mortgage (@AscensionMtg) April 13, 2020
I’ve seen guys get so geeked out that they couldn’t control their own bodies. Looked like that.
re: #429 Eclectic Cyborg
If not sooner. I am glad I am not watching it. It would make me sick.
re: #429 Eclectic Cyborg
BTW, I meant to thank you again for sending me to TaxHawk last year.
This year’s returns were pretty much a piece of cake, and cost less than $15 (including state)
Pence now quivering as he’s asked if he supports the President’s “l’etat c’est moi” theory of the Constitution.
Never another word from a GOP official or voter about limited government again.
Not. One. Word.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 13, 2020
@CNN is on fire tho pic.twitter.com/JUyoo99mHQ
— 🌊 Shane 🌊 🆘️🇺🇸😷 (@egheitasean) April 13, 2020
One of the unusual things here is that Trump and co. are asserting total emergency power to stop states from continuing their emergency measures.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 13, 2020
Thinking of making myself one of those not-really-useful bandanas (as I can’t find real face masks for sale locally) to wear to go to the grocery store, just so I don’t get socially shamed by all the people also wearing not-really-face-masks.
Some warning signs for Kelly, the GOP-backed candidate…
- down in Winnebago County by 4000 votes with 20% of precincts out. GOP-backed candidate won county by 1000 votes in 2019.
- winning Marathon County, mostly in, by 6 points. Down from 18 point margin in 2019.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 13, 2020
Also, while turnout was actually up in that 2019 race relative to 2018, you can see how close Dems were to winning that race, a result that would give them a 4-3 majority today. If just half of this extra Milwaukee turnout showed up for them in 2019, they’d have won.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 13, 2020
The last trace of innocence has been stripped away, and only burning hatred remains. pic.twitter.com/e5PhE3mNyz
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) April 13, 2020
re: #438 Joe Bacon 🌹
That about sums it up doesn’t it.
Private enterprise means …
No president (or governor) can tell a private company to re-open.
That’s a private decision by private companies.
That’s why it’s called private enterprise.— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) April 13, 2020
re: #430 makeitstop
Dude is wired to the gills.
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I’ve seen guys get so geeked out that they couldn’t control their own bodies. Looked like that.
When Jesse Ventura was governor, you could tell when he was getting upset because he’d get bobble-headed. It would start bouncing around like it was on a spring, and then he’d let fly with the insults and sarcasm. He wan’t as psychotic as Trump but he had the same ego. He actually tried to be a good governor at first, but got so sick of the job after a couple years years.
re: #436 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Thinking of making myself one of those not-really-useful bandanas (as I can’t find real face masks for sale locally) to wear to go to the grocery store, just so I don’t get socially shamed by all the people also wearing not-really-face-masks.
Not sure what local is for you, but might I suggest steadyclothing.com
Not only are they offering masks, but their clothes are pretty cool too.
As great as I felt after watching Biden and Bernie today, I feel equally nauseous watching the federal government taken over by a coked-up self-declared and self-anointed dictator.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 13, 2020
he is pretty fuckin stupid philip to be fair https://t.co/cxPBn8QDJz
— darth™ (@darth) April 13, 2020
re: #427 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The IHME model suggests that if lockdowns continue until 1 June, then by 1 July the daily deaths will be down to near zero.
Will the all-powerful Trump try to lift the lockdowns sooner?
He is trying right now. I find this development of Eastern and Western pacts between the states very interesting. It’s the sort of stuff that happens in failed states like the US - division into semi-autonomous regions and coalitions.
re: #435 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This has the potential to be ugly. Trump says “Open”. Newsom, to pick an example, tells him to fuck himself. MAGAts in the OC follow Trump’s lead. Chaos ensues.
Would really love to hear what the supposed Constitutional sheriffs think about Trump playing dictator.
re: #427 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The IHME model suggests that if lockdowns continue until 1 June, then by 1 July the daily deaths will be down to near zero.
Will the all-powerful Trump try to lift the lockdowns sooner?
Yes, of course. We are watching “Open It Up pt. 2” now with more “arrest Fauci and Birx”.
re: #448 Mike Lamb
This has the potential to be ugly. Trump says “Open”. Newsom, to pick an example, tells him to fuck himself. MAGAts in the OC follow Trump’s lead. Chaos ensues.
Would really love to hear what the supposed Constitutional sheriffs think about Trump playing dictator.
OC less MAGA country than you would think, these days. It’s the northeastern counties that would most likely try to follow Trump’s example. Those are mostly very small counties, population-wise.
re: #420 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I used the phrase fear-mongering. She didn’t. My apologies.
She also brought up an interesting item: The tidbit circulating around social media saying the city might use parks for mass graves, claimed by someone who said they were a city official.
Turns out no one in the city government knows who this guy is (that is, a social media fraudster for clicks). The city has no plans to do any such thing.
That is fear mongering.
This guy? The New York City Council health committee chair?
re: #410 Belafon
If we’re going to have honest chyrons for Trump’s press appearances, this can be done very economically.
Lying “president” Trump craps out another gallon of toxic, runny bullshit
would appear to be universally applicable.
re: #448 Mike Lamb
This has the potential to be ugly. Trump says “Open”. Newsom, to pick an example, tells him to fuck himself. MAGAts in the OC follow Trump’s lead. Chaos ensues.
Would really love to hear what the supposed Constitutional sheriffs think about Trump playing dictator.
They have no problem with it if they can be mini dictators
re: #425 Renaissance_Man
Two days in a row of US deaths lower than the previous day. Death doubling rates out to almost a week. It’s working, slowly.
Good news, but Trump and the Republicans will do everything in their power to restart the US epidemic. They literally can’t do otherwise.
re: #455 EPR-radar
Good news, but Trump and the Republicans will do everything in their power to restart the US epidemic. They literally can’t do otherwise.
Yep. They are going to go hell or high water to try to get the economy going again, and tens of thousands more are going to pay for it. It’s almost as if the value of a life, in the Trump administration’s eyes, is zero - not even a single penny can be spared for a poor person.
re: #454 Backwoods_Sleuth
They have no problem with it if they can be mini dictators
Wonder what happens if they forcibly attempt to require businesses to open.
re: #456 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yep. They are going to go hell or high water to try to get the economy going again, and tens of thousands more are going to pay for it. It’s almost as if the value of a life, in the Trump administration’s eyes, is zero - not even a single penny can be spared for a poor person.
What make this even worse is that in addition to explicitly not giving a shit about human life, they don’t even give a shit about the economy. That’s just secondary to Republicans and most specifically Trump retaining power in November.
The analogy between this and the imaginary ‘pro-life’ concern for the life of the fetus is very strong.
re: #451 danarchy
This guy? The New York City Council health committee chair?
coffee boy…nobody ever heard of him…
re: #458 EPR-radar
Yeah, you’re right. The only reason they even pretend to care about “the economy” is because only a booming economy gives him even a prayer of getting elected. If people are comfortable, they stay home, and he’s got a prayer. Otherwise, he only needs the economy to line his own personal pockets, and rich people will do that even if the rest of the country is a smoking crater.
This is huge in Wisconsin! https://t.co/Id4Af3AzZJ
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) April 13, 2020
re: #461 Patricia Kayden
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re: #461 Patricia Kayden
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That’s great news.
Somebody tweet that to Trump, just to put a cap on his day.
re: #443 KGxvi
Not sure what local is for you, but might I suggest steadyclothing.com
Not only are they offering masks, but their clothes are pretty cool too.
Thanks for that link. I ordered 3 masks.
re: #450 KGxvi
OC less MAGA country than you would think, these days. It’s the northeastern counties that would most likely try to follow Trump’s example. Those are mostly very small counties, population-wise.
I’d be worried about Redding, which has been taken over by a Trump-loving church (Bethel).
re: #450 KGxvi
OC less MAGA country than you would think, these days. It’s the northeastern counties that would most likely try to follow Trump’s example. Those are mostly very small counties, population-wise.
Those people are probably already gleefully ignoring restrictions.
“When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total” - President Donald Trump
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) April 13, 2020
Nixon? Never heard of ‘im.
Salute to @PaulaReidCBS — exposing the Big Lie in Trump’s “I shut it down from China” defense. Trump wasted all of February golfing, partying at MarALago and holding fundraisers and rallies instead of testing and containing the virus. #PressBriefing pic.twitter.com/8catThO0oK
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 13, 2020
Today’s daily propaganda bullshit was not only a pathetic display by a frightened mentally ill child, it was also illegal. The law specifically states that the WH can not be used for partisan campaign purposes. Another day, another law broken.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 13, 2020
re: #469 jaunte
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Nixon? Never heard of ‘im.
Hey Donny, Alex Hamilton, Jimmy Madison, and others would like to have a word with you.
re: #461 Patricia Kayden
After all the screwing around by every Republican up to the SCOTUS, voters were willing to brave a pandemic to vote against them.
Shoutout to the CNN chyron writer though. pic.twitter.com/xAkF1jAaoL
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) April 13, 2020
re: #469 jaunte
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Nixon? Never heard of ‘im.
Awesome. President Biden can use those rules to take care of Republican corruption.
re: #473 Belafon
After all the screwing around by every Republican up to the SCOTUS, voters were willing to brave a pandemic to vote against them.
Not all heroes wear capes.
States rights have only mattered to Republicans when they were stating what rights they wanted to take away from people they didn’t like. https://t.co/a4WtNOwKNe
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) April 13, 2020
Democrats in WI are pissed off. Looks like our Supreme Court justice will win against the conservative encumbent. Democrats are turning out to vote amidst a pandemic. Just wait til November. Sincerely, pissed off in Wisconsin 😉
— Viola 🌺 (@GusAndHadlee) April 13, 2020
Is he also suggesting that Obama was completely justified in investigating Trump’s campaign?
re: #477 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just like how all conservatives hate socialism until they need it. Like right now.
This performance by Trump will be viewed with breathtaking fascination by Presidential scholars someday. The self pity, dishonesty and finger pointing represent a profound failure of leadership capacity in a moment of deep crisis. His unfitness is extraordinary and deadly
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) April 13, 2020
imma guessing that if the vote totals were reversed, AP would have called it a long time ago.
JUST IN: Judge Jill Karofsky declared victory against Justice Daniel Kelly in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race tonight. The Associated Press has yet to call the race, as ballots are still being counted. https://t.co/v5DLmjH8BH
— News 3 Now / Channel 3000 (@WISCTV_News3) April 13, 2020
Good news on a Monday. Imagine that.
My wife will work from home for the duration of this. She’s setting it up and hopefully the glitches will be out by weeks end.
One less thing to concern myself/ourselves with.
Thank you thank you thank you.
My daughter has been working from home for a few weeks with no problems.
Had to spring for a new computer, since ours were a bit older and buggy, but we pull it off.
Friend asked to borrow my chain saw, and I spent a very enjoyable hour or so bringing that back up today. I chained TONS of wood in the day, heated my house with it when it was dirt cheap and all you had to do was chain and split and stack. For years.
No. I do not miss it. Maybe that feeling when you crack oak with a maul…..Yeah that was a great feeling. And cranking off that last 24 inches of cull almost close enough for furniture work….
That and fine tuning a well made machine.
So a good day all around. I hope this evening finds all of you well and safe.
Here’s another Bonnie Raitt tune that always stuck with me.
I knew Louise’s.
You may have too. Probably did.
Stay safe, stay well.
Fuck Trump.
Fuck the GOP.
Fuck them all.
I used to mainly listen to podcasts while driving because I’d spend some days a couple of hours in the car. I’m way behind. But I had things to do yesterday and today and so I listened to Preet’s interview with Peter Baker. Yes, I understand that journalists have to keep their politics out of things, but this fucking guy. Preet: of the presidents you’ve covered, who has been the most interesting? Baker: oh, Trump by far. Journalists want the big story, and Trump is every day a big story.
So, confirmed. He will do nothing to antagonize Trump because he wants the fucking big story. In the interview he consistently soft-peddled Trump’s responses to covid-19 and said “who knows if earlier presidents wouldn’t have struggled.” (Sorry, that should have been a paraphrase.) Of course. But be brave and put it all together: other presidents were prepared and knew how to quickly assemble response teams. Anyway, listen for yourselves, it’s not all as bad as I have put out here.
re: #461 Patricia Kayden
FUCK YEAH! GOP DELENDA EST!
re: #315 Teddy’s Person
I’m digging this one cause I was trying to come up with a take on Diana Ross and the Supreme but Josie and Pussycats was the way to go.
Wilber Ross and the Latrines
re: #391 KGxvi
If anyone is looking for a post-pandemic business opportunity, it looks like the new XFL is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Isn’t the XFL mainly run by Vince McMahon? So what part of this is him cutting and running in order to leave investors holding the bag?
re: #467 mmmirele
I’d be worried about Redding, which has been taken over by a Trump-loving church (Bethel).
I’ve worried about Redding since I spent a year working there one week. //
(And those Bethel people are truly creepy.)
re: #448 Mike Lamb
This has the potential to be ugly. Trump says “Open”. Newsom, to pick an example, tells him to fuck himself. MAGAts in the OC follow Trump’s lead. Chaos ensues.
Would really love to hear what the supposed Constitutional sheriffs think about Trump playing dictator.
How about all the cricket chirping you hear instead of all the GOP Senators, Governors, Representatives and so forth since they are being silent when a few years ago they were so concerned and vocal about Obama declaring himself the dictator of the US?
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