President Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden for President [FULL VIDEO]

PoliticsApril 2020 • Views: 27,517

A long-awaited endorsement for Joe Biden, and watching it was almost painful because of the contrast with the current sociopathic squatter in the White House.

On April 14, 2020, President Obama endorsed Joe Biden For President. He noted Biden’s leadership on health care, climate change, and the 2008 recovery, and said that he believes that Biden is the person who can heal the country in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. With President Obama on our team, we’re going to unite our party and restore the soul of the nation. Together, we will defeat Donald Trump. Join our campaign: http://www.joebiden.com

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Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 10:21:44am

You have to admit satin is a very nice fabric, though, Steve. So smooth.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

I Would Prefer Not To Apr 14, 2020 • 10:21:54am

Go Biden. I have a little optimism that he dan pull it off and defeat trump. I hope to have more by November.

The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 10:23:20am

JFC

“What do you have to use? They’ve been taking it for 40 years for malaria … I haven’t heard a bad story” — Trump has turned a White House event with Covid survivors into a commercial for hydroxychloroquine, which can cause fatal heart problems pic.twitter.com/oRVYqsNecZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:23:58am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I just saw a Trumpist on FB accuse those criticizing the President’s horrific coronavirus response of being “satin worshippers” and now I can’t get the image out of my mind.

He means “stain worshipers”, and we know what sort of stains he is talking about…

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:25:59am

remember way back just a couple of weeks ago:

…Trump stood in front of the White House and promised the US a way to get tested for COVID-19. Google was working on a new website, he said, which would give every American consumer an easy way to see if they should be tested and find a place to get that test. Vice President Pence had promised a “dramatic increase in testing capacity” at a press conference a few days earlier — and now, it looked like an American tech giant was swooping in to make good on the promise.

…It’s now clear that nothing of the kind was actually happening.

we dont even talk about it any more
we’re 10 more outrageous scandals down the road

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:28:21am

re: #5 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

remember way back just a couple of weeks ago:

we dont even talk about it any more
we’re 10 more outrageous scandals down the road

but he put together a very impressive video which shows via clips - taken terribly out of context - that he seemed to be doing a decisive and effective job of displaying leadership.

Rightwingconspirator Apr 14, 2020 • 10:28:26am

Well it’s good to see him. Cheers me up quite a bit.

A Cranky One Apr 14, 2020 • 10:28:49am

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 10:33:11am

Today, Trump found out that there’s this thing called Lyme disease, and it’s bad.

It’s clear Trump doesn’t get that he’s endorsing people tossing him aside. Dumbass is *dumb*. pic.twitter.com/Iah4EhxWyI

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2020

The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 10:34:39am

GREEN =
Getting
Republicans
Elected
Every
November #Biden2020 #resist #OrangeMenace pic.twitter.com/UknM6kGYVL

— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 14, 2020

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 10:36:14am

25,000+ dead Americans, on its way to 26,000 before the end of the day.

Trump’s busy baffling with bulkshit on what can be done to treat covid19 patients. Still hawking an unproven remedy no better than snake oil at this point.

And still leading from the rear. These pressers are all about trying to soothe his fragile ego, because he’s got nothing to offer. Nothing. He can’t do his fucking job. He can’t play golf, and further interfering and slowing the response will now affect red states as much or more than blue states.

Fuck him and fuck the complicit GOP.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:37:56am

re: #7 Rightwingconspirator

Well it’s good to see him. Cheers me up quite a bit.

The first two minutes reminded me of so much of what’s been missing in the government response and now I am sad.

goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 10:40:27am

From last thread:

Fucking idiots.

This is really, really not good.

Thousands of Germans are pouring into the streets of Berlin today to protest the lockdown.

pic.twitter.com/Zz7e47Ber8

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) April 14, 2020

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:41:56am

re: #11 lawhawk

25,000+ dead Americans, on its way to 26,000 before the end of the day.

Trump’s busy baffling with bulkshit on what can be done to treat covid19 patients. Still hawking an unproven remedy no better than snake oil at this point.

And still leading from the rear. These pressers are all about trying to soothe his fragile ego, because he’s got nothing to offer. Nothing. He can’t do his fucking job. He can’t play golf, and further interfering and slowing the response will now affect red states as much or more than blue states.

Fuck him and fuck the complicit GOP.

democracy falters because trump couldnt golf more

Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 10:45:16am

Blast from the past:

Facebook Post

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 10:45:29am

We’re supposed to care for all Americans when disaster strikes.

We’re supposed to have a president who cares for all Americans, not just his privileged insiders.

You are what’s wrong with Trumpworld and his enablers.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2020

Trump’s failed travel ban wasn’t a ban, as it allowed hundreds of thousands to travel to/from China and Europe with haphazard screening. It allowed covid19 to take root, and Trump’s slow roll of testing contributed to the huge toll.

The economic collapse & +25k dead is on him.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2020

Hecuba's daughter Apr 14, 2020 • 10:47:35am

re: #14 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

democracy falters because trump ~~couldnt golf more~~

FTFY

Trump was ignoring the needs of the country and allowing the virus to spread while he was golfing and holding his rallies. No evidence that this nation would have fared better if he could have continued unrestrained his favorite activities.

Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 10:47:38am

The same people who acquitted him in his impeachment trial, giving him total authority to do anything he wants without consequences. https://t.co/owsuqvMzEm

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 10:48:57am

Red Rose Trumporrhoid Projectin’ Like An IMAX In Outer Space… SPACE… SPAAAAACE!!!

Here is another Red Rose Trumporrhoid pretending to be a progressive. #Biden2020 #BernieForBiden #VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare #resist #TrumpGenocide pic.twitter.com/A2dfIF0cS4

— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 14, 2020

Teddy's Person Apr 14, 2020 • 10:49:16am

re: #16 lawhawk

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JFC, Candice Owens is a ghoul.

goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 10:49:17am

Republicans are an existential threat to the health and safety of everyone everywhere. I am done addressing them with even a patina of respect

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 14, 2020

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 10:49:52am

re: #16 lawhawk

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Apologist for Hitler shows no remorse for anyone but herself.

It’s what we expect from you.

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 14, 2020

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 10:50:54am

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

This is really, really not good.

Thousands of Germans are pouring into the streets of Berlin today to protest the lockdown.

Not good, but it looks like at most a few thousand in a city of four million.

Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 10:53:44am

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

From last thread:

Fucking idiots.

If it wasn’t for the optics of the country they’re in, I would suggest the government build a facility where they could all hang out together. It could be like a roach motel, but voluntary.

Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 10:54:07am

re: #23 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not good, but it looks like at most a few thousand in a city of four million.

I hope they are keeping distanced at at least take measures against contracting respiratory infections.

Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 10:55:10am

I guess it isn’t surprising that a sociopathic president attracts sociopathic followers. https://t.co/h04vSMCNsI

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 10:55:15am

re: #24 Belafon

If it wasn’t for the optics of the country they’re in, I would suggest the government build a facility where they could all hang out together. It could be like a roach motel, but voluntary.

The thing is, lot of this “Corona skepticism” as well as bullshit cures or defences against it, Zinc is the latest, comes from… Guess what source?

Sufficient unto the day... Apr 14, 2020 • 10:55:17am

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 10:55:23am

re: #20 Teddy’s Person

JFC, Candice Owens is a ghoul.

I’ve been reliving my younger days playing D&D with my friends, and I think it’s time to consult the monsters manual to see what else applies to these fucknuts besides ghouls.

Harpy, banshee, lich, wights, and wraiths are also acceptable.

Sufficient unto the day... Apr 14, 2020 • 10:57:38am

re: #29 lawhawk

They’re DEFINITELY not liches, their INT scores aren’t NEARLY high enough.

danarchy Apr 14, 2020 • 10:58:42am

re: #16 lawhawk

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I am not sure I even follow what she is saying there? Is this an Alex Jones style “these are crisis actors, there aren’t really that many dead people” thing?

goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 10:58:57am

As art reconstructions go, this is an absolute masterpiece. I can’t stop looking 😂 pic.twitter.com/wL01JhYYDl

— Mappers (@CarolMaps) April 13, 2020

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 11:00:18am

re: #31 danarchy

I am not sure I even follow what she is saying there? Is this an Alex Jones style “these are crisis actors, there aren’t really that many dead people” thing?

It’s a zero empathy and who cares how many NYers die, I want to go back to public events and fuck the consequences hot take.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:01:50am

re: #33 lawhawk

It’s a zero empathy and who cares how many NYers die, I want to go back to public events and fuck the consequences hot take.

It is taken for granted that NYC is overrun with Jews, Cosmopolitans, Liberals; Media and Social Elites, Atheists, and other undesirables…

William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 11:06:30am

re: #29 lawhawk

I’ve been reliving my younger days playing D&D with my friends, and I think it’s time to consult the monsters manual to see what else applies to these fucknuts besides ghouls.

Harpy, banshee, lich, wights, and wraiths are also acceptable.

To play off Dresden Files, White Court vampires that feed on fear, hate & despair.

Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Apr 14, 2020 • 11:07:03am

re: #28 Sufficient unto the day…

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Objection! Storm Troopers and Bobba Fett were not dark side force users.

(((Viking Sea Mexican))) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:08:50am

re: #9 lawhawk

Today, Trump found out that there’s this thing called Lyme disease, and it’s bad.

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Trump: “A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch”

This reminded me of one quote of my favorite Megatron, “Treachery keeps the wits sharp.” Being a master manipulator, he was able to use it to his advantage.

goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 11:08:52am

JUST IN: 93-year-old Olive Veronesi of Seminole, PA, who held up a sign at her window asking for more beer, has received a delivery from @CoorsLight. The brand tells me 150 cans arrived at her house today. pic.twitter.com/c2lfGFBBTS

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 13, 2020

Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 11:09:34am

Feel-good story of the day. https://t.co/SroVa1bLDL

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

Ferdinand Apr 14, 2020 • 11:11:09am

re: #16 lawhawk

And, um, NYC is not an island. Although it includes one. Am I shocked that Candace isn’t up on basic geography? No. No I am not.

plansbandc Apr 14, 2020 • 11:12:01am

Mad.

hey @darth i am fostering kittens with colds and every morning they get medicine and eye cleanings so we turn them into #purritos for ease of application… their sweet grumpy faces are the highlight of my day pic.twitter.com/tNZnkXrcDE

— Stepha (@HeyStepha) April 14, 2020

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 11:13:49am

re: #40 Ferdinand

It actually includes 3 (or parts of 3):

Manhattan is an island. So too is Staten Island (right there in the name), and Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island. Only the Bronx is part of the mainland.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 11:14:01am

re: #13 goddamnedfrank

From last thread:

Fucking idiots.

Germany 🇩🇪
Hundreds pour onto the streets of Berlin to Protest to end the lockdown…#COVID19 #CoronaVirusUpdates pic.twitter.com/QEqn0i4Ihz

— Terrence Daniels (Captain Planet) (@Terrence_STR) April 14, 2020

Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 11:14:54am

re: #41 plansbandc

Mad.

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Is this the wrong moment to post this video? 🤔https://t.co/eAdY3PIdup

— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 14, 2020

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:15:05am

re: #41 plansbandc

Mad.

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I’ve been tempted to purrito Chat Noir since he’s been sick - but you can’t really do that if you’re trying to give them subQ fluids. Might try it for when I need to pill cats.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 11:17:10am

It’s a pandemic.

A small group of #COVIDIOTS got together for a “massive march against tyranny.” https://t.co/lzgiRTwDja

— TheReal Truther (@thereal_truther) April 13, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:20:24am

re: #32 goddamnedfrank

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Forgot to add painting!
Goya #gettymuseumchallenge pic.twitter.com/PHcjMFRxCX

— C20 Vintage Fashion (@C20Vintage) April 7, 2020

William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 11:23:31am

re: #38 goddamnedfrank

I thought she asked for beer? ///// still a good deed.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 11:25:18am

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It’s a pandemic.

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I’m not surprised that “march for liberty” is led by DICKS!

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:25:56am

Ferdinand Apr 14, 2020 • 11:28:43am

re: #42 lawhawk

It actually includes 3 (or parts of 3):

Manhattan is an island. So too is Staten Island (right there in the name), and Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island. Only the Bronx is part of the mainland.

D’oh, yes of course! I actually grew up in the greater NYC region (Cranford, NJ, where folks got on the train every morning to commute to Grand Central) and my grandma who raised me grew up on Staten Island. In my defense I’m sure dense Candace was only picturing Manhattan.

goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 11:29:07am

Really super cool how many people do not understand that willfully and unnecessarily exposing themselves to a highly communicable, deadly disease is fundamentally a form of violence against others.

Fuck your anti-quarantine protest

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 14, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:29:50am

BREAKING: We’re suing to keep Tennessee from using the COVID-19 crisis to block access to time-sensitive abortion care.

Pregnancy can’t be put on pause during a pandemic. The fight for reproductive freedom won’t be either.

With @ReproRights and @PPFA, we’ll see you in court.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 14, 2020

GlutenFreeJesus Apr 14, 2020 • 11:30:14am

re: #11 lawhawk

I’m seeing lately: “The COVID deaths are way over-inflated. They’re counting any death as the fault of the virus. People dying of heart attacks? COVID!!!”

There’s no reasoning with these people. The psychosis is deep.

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:31:31am

This whole thing is great, but my favorite part is when he basically calls Trump ignorant. https://t.co/rCNfRsVkUQ

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 14, 2020

EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 11:32:16am

re: #54 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m seeing lately: “The COVID deaths are way over-inflated. They’re counting any death as the fault of the virus. People dying of heart attacks? COVID!!!”

There’s no reasoning with these people. The psychosis is deep.

Every mental pathology in Trump is also dominant in the Republican Party. In fact, that’s why he won the 2016 GOP primary so effortlessly.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:32:30am

re: #52 goddamnedfrank

Really super cool how many people do not understand that willfully and unnecessarily exposing themselves to a highly communicable, deadly disease is fundamentally a form of violence against others.

Fuck your anti-quarantine protest

If these people were going to return home and then isolate themselves fully for the next 14 days, it might be seen as an acceptable form of protest and expression of individual freedom.

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:32:43am

This is the section of Obama’s endorsement referenced before - he has clearly been holding back a lot of thoughts for the last 3 years —> pic.twitter.com/7VvCK3u8kX

— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) April 14, 2020

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:33:28am

re: #42 lawhawk

It actually includes 3 (or parts of 3):

Manhattan is an island. So too is Staten Island (right there in the name), and *** Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island***. Only the Bronx is part of the mainland.

*** You know thems fighting words in some parts

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:35:11am

The New York Yankees mourn the passing of General Partner and Co-Chairperson Henry G. “Hank” Steinbrenner. pic.twitter.com/rL07EUHirS

— New York Yankees (@Yankees) April 14, 2020

Hecuba's daughter Apr 14, 2020 • 11:37:56am

So once again the NYTimes is trying its hardest to support Republican malfeasance.

Their Judith Miller was a cheerleader that helped get us into the Iraq war. Their daily email coverage helped sink Hillary’s candidacy. And now they are using Tara Reade coverage to do the same to Biden — anything to promote the treasonous Putin-loving grifter that occupies the White House. The Burisma story that they were going to promote died with Trump’s Ukraine call investigation. So a new story magically appeared that they can now use “in good conscience” to destroy the Democratic candidate.

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:39:59am

another entry for “not all heroes wear capes”:

On one New Jersey man’s newspaper route, he was seldom more than a blur past the driveway.

But a realization about the most vulnerable during this pandemic called him to duty & forever changed his approach to service.@SteveHartmanCBS is “On the Road” https://t.co/mlT9xOwrsy pic.twitter.com/r3YrM6kQVo

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) April 10, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:41:09am

Now ask him which part of the budget we should cut.

That’s the hilarious part. https://t.co/Owq5s94gWd

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 14, 2020

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 11:42:55am

re: #59 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

*** You know thems fighting words in some parts

Win trivia contests and piss off people in one fell swoop is kinda my jam.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:43:07am

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now ask him which part of the budget we should cut.

That’s the hilarious part.

That was the plan - when the tax cuts create a budget deficit, that is a call to cut more social programs…

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 11:44:58am

re: #61 Hecuba’s daughter

So once again the NYTimes is trying its hardest to support Republican malfeasance.

Their Judith Miller was a cheerleader that helped get us into the Iraq war. Their daily email coverage helped sink Hillary’s candidacy. And now they are using Tara Reade coverage to do the same to Biden — anything to promote the treasonous Putin-loving grifter that occupies the White House. The Burisma story that they were going to promote died with Trump’s Ukraine call investigation. So a new story magically appeared that they can now use “in good conscience” to destroy the Democratic candidate.

And when you call out the Presstitutes pushing this on Twitter they block you!

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 14, 2020 • 11:46:21am

Blistering thread.

You wanna know what white privilege is?

Let’s look at the credentials for the “Council to Reopen America”

1. Mark Meadows: Not only is Mark Meadows not a doctor, but his official gov’t bio also says he only holds a bachelor’s degree.

That is a lie. pic.twitter.com/hpTnpKvO0p

— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) April 14, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:46:25am

please proceed, Charlie

Charlie Kirk: Christians Should Defy “Godless” Lockdown - https://t.co/Nkifhi83u8 pic.twitter.com/7xG6W55Cpt

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 14, 2020

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 11:47:14am

Owens is even more of a sociopath than anyone knew:

WOW. Just had a police officer called over to me and my husband at Whole Foods bc we were not wearing masks. We come to this @WholeFoods EVERY DAY. Apparently beginning yesterday, it is now illegal to come in without a mask.
Total deaths in D.C from Covid? 69.

WTF if going on?

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 14, 2020

Why the fuck are you going to a supermarket on a daily basis in the middle of a pandemic. What the hell do you need that you can’t get in a weekly or biweekly trip?

Your sociopathy shows.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:48:15am

I’m into the phase of quarantine where I’m just walking around my house eating any combination of butter, sugar, and flour, and staring at my vacuum cleaner waiting for it to turn itself on. https://t.co/l5zZMvl5WP

— rosanne cash (@rosannecash) April 14, 2020

garzooma Apr 14, 2020 • 11:49:15am

re: #52 goddamnedfrank

Really super cool how many people do not understand that willfully and unnecessarily exposing themselves to a highly communicable, deadly disease is fundamentally a form of violence against others.

Fuck your anti-quarantine protest
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Rhode Island’s Governor had a message for these people that resonated so much, they made a t-shirt with it:

R.I. shop selling T-shirts with Raimondo’s message to social distancing scofflaws: ‘Knock it off’
‘We all need an Italian mother right now,’ Frog & Toad co-owner Asher Schofield said. ‘Break out the wooden spoon.’

sagehen Apr 14, 2020 • 11:49:36am

re: #42 lawhawk

It actually includes 3 (or parts of 3):

Manhattan is an island. So too is Staten Island (right there in the name), and Brooklyn and Queens are part of Long Island. Only the Bronx is part of the mainland.

You’re forgetting Governor’s Island, Roosevelt Island, Ellis Island, Hart’s Island…

(((Viking Sea Mexican))) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:50:12am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

another entry for “not all heroes wear capes”:

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Damn these onion cutting ninjas. I think I have a plague of them.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 11:51:54am

re: #69 lawhawk

Owens is even more of a sociopath than anyone knew:

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Candace goes into the Julius Streicher bag for the Washington Genocide Tribunal of 2021.

lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 11:52:42am

re: #72 sagehen

Riker’s too.

And yeah, they’re overlooked, as only Roosevelt (part of Queens) is occupied by people who aren’t incarcerated, Riker’s is a jail, and Hart and Governor’s are not populated.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:53:29am

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m into the phase of quarantine where I’m just walking around my house eating any combination of butter, sugar, and flour, and staring at my vacuum cleaner waiting for it to turn itself on.

I am at the stage of wondering if I am dead and still haven’t done everything that I want or if I’m still alive and there’s nothing I want to do…

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:54:57am

I painted my husbands social distancing mask. Inspired by a favorite masterpiece Magritte’s “The Son Of Man” Safe & Creative #gettymuseumchallenge pic.twitter.com/qT70Z9yUdP

— LONye (@Nye1O) April 14, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 11:56:46am

1882 and still relevant 138 years later

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 14, 2020

Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 11:57:24am

re: #69 lawhawk

Owens is even more of a sociopath than anyone knew:

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But it’s either taking measures known to work against aerosol-transmissible diseases, or having the emerging disease, which we don’t have many countermeasures against, spreading throughout the population, with the death and suffering that means /END

— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 14, 2020

Teddy's Person Apr 14, 2020 • 11:58:20am

It shouldn’t have taken a pandemic to make this possible. https://t.co/gr0GbCT1tX

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 14, 2020

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 11:58:55am

re: #69 lawhawk

Owens is even more of a sociopath than anyone knew:

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WOW. Just had a police officer called over to me and my husband at Whole Foods bc we were not wearing masks. We come to this @WholeFoods EVERY DAY. Apparently beginning yesterday, it is now illegal to come in without a mask.
Total deaths in D.C from Covid? 69.

WTF if going on?
————
Wtf is going on is trying to keep it from getting to 70

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 12:00:07pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

please proceed, Charlie

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Hey Charlie Jerk!

Do it!
Do it!
Do it till you’re satisfied…being six feet under…https://t.co/0ucLpdEYuk

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 14, 2020

A Cranky One Apr 14, 2020 • 12:00:32pm

retired cynic Apr 14, 2020 • 12:02:10pm

OT: For the first time in years, I have a bit slow cooker full of pinto beans simmering with garlic, onions, garlic, bay leaves, garlic, peppercorns and garlic. Smells pretty darned good!

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 12:02:15pm

re: #69 lawhawk

Owens is even more of a sociopath than anyone knew:

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Hmmmmm. Candace is into 69ing?????

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:02:46pm

re: #80 Teddy’s Person

Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the United States since 2002.

I checked: there were nonetheless at least 26 other mass shootings (with four victims or more), just none of them at schools…

PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:03:12pm

re: #84 retired cynic

Sounds good yes but do you think it may be a little heavy on the garlic?

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:03:56pm

If this passes your smell test you should probably be tested for Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/MZXn000jdK

— Karen Schwartz (@pithywidow) April 13, 2020

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:04:11pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel

Sounds good yes but do you think it may be a little heavy on the garlic?

Can never use too many onions or too much garlic

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:05:32pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel

Sounds good yes but do you think it may be a little heavy on the garlic?

Not possible!

(((Viking Sea Mexican))) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:06:18pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel

Sounds good yes but do you think it may be a little heavy on the garlic?

There’s no such thing as too much garlic!

PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:06:24pm

OT Postal update: I got both the adapter and the Pepcid AC I ordered this morning. I thanked the postman. Now I am waiting for amazon to deliver my mashed potatoes.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 12:07:08pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday is expected to outline a framework to reopen California’s economy, one day after unveiling a pact with Oregon and Washington to work jointly to lift stay-at-home restrictions on the West Coast.

Without giving away details or a time frame, Newsom said Monday that the “bottom-up plan” will feature a “framework for targeted interventions and easing of restrictions in the state to allow us to toggle between approaching issues on the population basis versus on an individual basis.”

He emphasized that science — “and not political pressure” — will guide the decision-making.

One critical component of any plan will be ensuring that COVID-19 won’t spread rapidly through the community once stay-at-home rules are lifted, which is a major concern. Federal health experts have already warned that the virus could see a resurgence in the fall.

ktla.com

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:07:10pm

re: #90 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Not possible!

Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic | Everyday Food with Sarah Carey

Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 12:07:14pm

re: #84 retired cynic

OT: For the first time in years, I have a bit slow cooker full of pinto beans simmering with garlic, onions, garlic, bay leaves, garlic, peppercorns and garlic. Smells pretty darned good!

What you’re really saying is you have a slow cooker full of garlic simmering with beans, onions, bay leaves, and peppercorns.

Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 12:07:28pm

re: #92 PhillyPretzel

Now I am waiting for amazon to deliver my mashed potatoes.

Won’t they be cold, though?

Teddy's Person Apr 14, 2020 • 12:07:45pm

This is what real leadership looks like. Something Donald J. Trump and his ilk will never understand.

But there was another detail in the New York Times report that hasn’t gotten very much attention. Not only did Capt. Crozier risk his own career—he protected the senior officers below him. They asked to sign on to the now infamous letter, and he refused. He showed the kind of selflessness that is at the core of military and civic duty. He sacrificed his entire career for the sailors on that ship. Is it any wonder they cheered him so enthusiastically as he departed? Daily Kos

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:08:08pm

re: #92 PhillyPretzel

OT Postal update: I got both the adapter and the Pepcid AC I ordered this morning. I thanked the postman. Now I am waiting for amazon to deliver my mashed potatoes.

An adapter, pepcid and mashed potstoes?
what are you doing over there?

I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:09:07pm

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Indeed. Been making this for 30 years

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:09:19pm

the perfect storm. pic.twitter.com/KSI6x5JziC

— Scoot (@ImpeachmentHour) April 14, 2020

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 12:09:29pm

re: #92 PhillyPretzel

OT Postal update: I got both the adapter and the Pepcid AC I ordered this morning. I thanked the postman. Now I am waiting for amazon to deliver my mashed potatoes.

James Brown delivering them?

James Brown - Mashed Potatoes U.S.A. (1962)

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:10:20pm

re: #98 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

Instant mashed potatoes, an Ethernet adapter for my MacBook Air and I over ordered the Pepcid AC.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 12:10:50pm

Politics 101 for Berners:

1. Coalitions win

2. Seek out allies not enemies

3. Elections have consequences

4. Votes are all that matter

5. Losers don’t dictate terms

— Sasha (@SashaBeauloux) April 12, 2020

Maybe we can. Maybe we can’t. But that’s the hand we’ve been dealt so we’ll have to try.I’ve always understood we’d have to try to win without you.🤷🏽‍♀️

— Sasha (@SashaBeauloux) April 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:11:45pm

“The WHO warned of a new stage of transmission in countries that instituted lockdowns and social distancing, but left many of the contagious at home.”

“In a sense, transmission has been taken off the streets and pushed back into family units.”https://t.co/sAM5Yl0Kev

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:12:18pm

re: #101 Joe Bacon 🌹

Nah. amazon is delivering the instant mashed potatoes. They expected to come from about 3:45 to about 6:30 today.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:13:28pm

re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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no no no no no
i dont care what james beard said way back when
jane brody rules on this. do not peel the garlic!

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 12:14:12pm

Senator Richard Burr sold his small DC townhouse to a team led by a lobbyist (and donor) with business in front of the committee he leads.

It looks like the $900k price may have been tens of thousands above market rate, raising serious ethics questions.https://t.co/E8By02O0Qr

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 14, 2020

The surprise is not that they’re so corrupt, but for how little they sell themselves.

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 12:14:49pm

No, you idiot, the media is asking why Trump didn’t declare an emergency, invoke the Defense Production Act to create ventilators and PPE, and set up a streamlined process to distribute it to states in February. https://t.co/Ff6Ca7waPK

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:14:56pm

I’ve invented an automatic hand sanitizer dispenser. My fortune is made. pic.twitter.com/vX1TRhLzfP

— Nick Short (@nickfshort) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:16:49pm

The US may have to keep social distancing measures in effect until 2022, unless a vaccine becomes available quickly, researchers project. Follow live updates:https://t.co/ZhAIZ1rsdP pic.twitter.com/JNIQdAPaQd

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:17:27pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

Someone had way too much time on their hands. But don’t we all have the same these days.

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:18:03pm

re: #106 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

no no no no no
i dont care what james beard said way back when
jane brody rules on this. do not peel the garlic!

From page 436 Jane Brody’s Good Food 1985

“4. Serve the chicken with the garlic, advising the diners to squeeze the flesh from its papery coat. The garlic is especially tasty when eaten on crusty bread”

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 12:18:56pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Handy , but not gonna be market-viable, though: uses up too much in the way of valuable resources (TP)….

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:19:32pm

Last night James Corden got a tour of Speaker Pelosi’s freezer lol. pic.twitter.com/aVzVcx8DI2

— Aaron Black (@BlackCatUnloads) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:20:41pm

re: #111 PhillyPretzel

Someone had way too much time on their hands. But don’t we all have the same these days.

another time-saving invention that is so much Wallace and Gromit

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:21:42pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought it was Rube Goldberg.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:21:46pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

How soon until the TP Police come to visit?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:22:03pm

re: #112 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

From page 436 Jane Brody’s Good Food 1985

“4. Serve the chicken with the garlic, advising the diners to squeeze the flesh from its papery coat. The garlic is especially tasty when eaten on crusty bread”

really…it spreads like butter when roasted that way

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:23:30pm

re: #108 jaunte

No, you idiot, the media is asking why Trump didn’t declare an emergency, invoke the Defense Production Act to create ventilators and PPE, and set up a streamlined process to distribute it to states in February.

They do not listen to people who disagree, they put words in other people’s mouths and then bat down the straw-man arguments.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:23:41pm

re: #116 PhillyPretzel

I thought it was Rube Goldberg.

Rube Goldberg probably invented the concept, but Wallace and Gromit took it to new lengths of silliness

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 12:23:46pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

And it is supposed to be milder and nuttier in flavor than raw.

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plansbandc Apr 14, 2020 • 12:24:33pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel

I’m worried there isn’t enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:24:39pm

“NO PETS” pic.twitter.com/0xqBOTuz8V

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) April 14, 2020

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:25:37pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

really…it spreads like butter when roasted that way

i remember the first time i had garlic roasted that way
1981 or so, The Upperline restaurant in New Orleans
one bite and i was hooked

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 12:27:54pm

Public information posters by @AnnieAtkins. pic.twitter.com/2kGII2guPD

— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) April 14, 2020

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sagehen Apr 14, 2020 • 12:28:23pm

re: #107 jaunte

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The surprise is not that they’re so corrupt, but for how little they sell themselves.

Isn’t that exactly what got Duke Cunningham 8 years in prison?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:29:18pm

re: #124 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

i remember the first time i had garlic roasted that way
1981 or so, The Upperline restaurant in New Orleans
one bite and i was hooked

Only way I like it better is when it stews in the bottom of a cheese and wine fondue caquelon and you fish them out at the end…

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steve_davis Apr 14, 2020 • 12:29:19pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Hey, satin worshippers and muslins: two cuts from the same cloth!!

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 12:30:14pm

pic.twitter.com/Y5w2SdcBAp

— : Destroyasaurus : 📡📡📡 (@TensionFilter) April 14, 2020

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 12:32:41pm

re: #129 gocart mozart

PROOF!

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GlutenFreeJesus Apr 14, 2020 • 12:33:43pm

re: #103 goddamnedfrank

6. Bernie didn’t win. Did he?

— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:34:03pm

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only way I like it better is when it stews in the bottom of a cheese and wine fondue caquelon and you fish them out at the end…

toss a bunch of peeled cloves into jars of homemade dill pickles and save them to eat last

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 14, 2020 • 12:34:54pm

re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth

toss a bunch of peeled cloves into jars of homemade dill pickles and save them to eat last

whoa
gonna go do that right now

or at least put some into a jar of store-bought that I just opened…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:35:48pm

huge thanks to @KayleeConsolo and @JacobEarnest for sharing Paulo with us pic.twitter.com/FFf4vXFDjt

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 14, 2020

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Apr 14, 2020 • 12:39:06pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah. Sell the TP on E Bay. :-)

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Eventual Carrion Apr 14, 2020 • 12:41:20pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Our local college drama department did that play a couple years ago. The wife and I went to it. The kids did a very good job.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:42:55pm

I don’t invite my family to family dinner.

Leave the bourbon on the porch. https://t.co/8RvGh6YBqu

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:43:53pm

“We have won the first battle but we can’t stop there.”

Dr. Acton and Gov. DeWine talk about how Ohio has flattened the curve and what reopening the state might look like when the time comes. https://t.co/MYyNhhcUpO pic.twitter.com/GQlRrTVPwX

— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) April 14, 2020

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 12:44:56pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who has “Mike DeWine, 2024, the reasonable conservative” on their list?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:46:35pm

Apparently the Kentucky Senate is spending this afternoon overriding every single one of Beshear’s vetoes (and there are a lot of them).

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 12:52:59pm

re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh

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Govt here in Sweden was out early saying that we should expect restrictions to be in place at least until the end of the year, or even become stricter.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 14, 2020 • 12:53:12pm

What. The. Fuck.

“It’s unclear from leaked online chats whether group members knew their leader was 13.”

That’s a negative. https://t.co/T0XiHJ5C3t

— rabia O’chaudry (@rabiasquared) April 14, 2020

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Citizen K Apr 14, 2020 • 12:53:29pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently the Kentucky Senate is spending this afternoon overriding every single one of Beshear’s vetoes (and there are a lot of them).

So we’re basically going to have another Wisconsin/North Carolina situation where the state legislature is so overwhelmingly red that they get to be de facto in charge and neuter the Governorship whenever a Dem gets the seat? And there’s basically nothing the gov can do about it?

Fun.

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 12:54:10pm

re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What. The. Fuck.

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Speaks volumes about their discernment and judgment, doesn’t it?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:54:57pm

This is a glimpse into my future with a dog. This is it. pic.twitter.com/1Q0jr1d8A9

— Stef🌻 (@StefanieNaps) April 14, 2020

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Apr 14, 2020 • 12:55:51pm

re: #45 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I’ve been tempted to purrito Chat Noir since he’s been sick - but you can’t really do that if you’re trying to give them subQ fluids. Might try it for when I need to pill cats.

Wrap the towel around his front and hold it together below the scruff of his neck (leaving room for the needle). I avoided being clawed to death because of big, thick towels.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 12:57:02pm

It is only Karen if it originates from the Karen neighborhood of Nairobi otherwise it is just sparkling entitlement. https://t.co/bk96HQetrO

— Restat home and wash your hands. (@lizzrest) April 14, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 12:58:06pm

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I checked: there were nonetheless at least 26 other mass shootings (with four victims or more), just none of them at schools…

With the mental health issues that are going to explode combined with the surge in gun sales to first-time buyers, we shouldn’t be surprised if this also becomes a bigger issue this summer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 12:58:39pm

Sen. Schickel says you need an ID to buy a Corona beer and get a coronavirus test, so why not show an ID in order to vote.

McGarvey says you already need an ID to vote, it just doesn’t have to have your photo on it.

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

Senate votes to override veto of SB 2 by a 27-6 vote along party lines.

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

because…of course…

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:00:01pm

re: #131 GlutenFreeJesus

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6. You can’t win without us.

So if you actually believed in 1-4, you’d understand that 5 makes no sense.

Since we care about policy (while the avg Biden voter is agnostic, comparatively), there seems to be a simple path forward.

Or be snarky.. maybe that’ll work.

— Brandon (@TizOnly1) April 12, 2020

from the trusty electoral-vote.com this AM

Some sizable portion of Sanders’ supporters would have held their noses and voted for Biden no matter what the Vermont Senator did. The question now is: How much influence will Sanders have over the remainder? …folks who see little difference between Biden and Satan, and say they will vote third party or will vote for Trump, in order to register their anger and/or to help “bring down” the system. Maybe folks like that are lost causes for the Democrats.

On the other hand, the healing process is starting earlier than it did in 2016, and with a candidate that is generally more popular than Hillary Clinton, and who also has a warmer relationship with Sanders. For what it is worth, roughly 20% of Sanders voters said, on the day he left the race, that they would not vote for Clinton under any circumstances. When it came time to actually vote, however, that percentage dropped about 7 points, to 13%. Right now, about 15% of Sanders voters say they will not vote for Biden under any circumstances. And remember, in politics a week is a long time. Between now and November, stuff can happen that can change minds.

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:00:10pm

re: #79 Teukka

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As a note to the side, the “measures known to work” I allude to above are old, as in you being able to find their predecessors in the Torah old.
When all else fails, containment of the disease and preventing its spread is what medical professionals and governments which listen to them take to.

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Omar Comin’ Yo Apr 14, 2020 • 1:00:26pm

Sound on……………….

ᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃᵃblughvblugh💦💦
pic.twitter.com/TJeEBTVq4D

— Cute Animal Vines (@CuteAnimaIVines) April 14, 2020

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Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 1:01:15pm

BABY DINO BIRB https://t.co/5iaGvzZ0A6

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:02:48pm

God: you lay eggs.

Platypus: like a reptile?

God: yes but you aren’t a reptile.

Platypus: oh.

God: and you’re venomous.

Platypus: [happy gasp] like a reptile?

God: you aren’t a reptile.

Platypus: ok I understand.

God: you do?

Platypus: I have a reptile dysfunction : (

— Oops!…I Dad It Again (@NewDadNotes) April 14, 2020

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 1:03:23pm

I never have milk in the house - I don’t drink it and when I need some for cooking, powdered is fine. That said when I get a big box of corn flakes from the pantry, then what? Well, eating ‘em by the handful dry makes an interesting potato chip substitute :D

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sagehen Apr 14, 2020 • 1:03:45pm

re: #147 goddamnedfrank

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oh, I saw the movie. Meryl Streep is Karen, and Robert Redford is the big-game hunter she has an affair with.

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Patricia Kayden Apr 14, 2020 • 1:04:41pm

re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To

Go Biden. I have a little optimism that he dan pull it off and defeat trump. I hope to have more by November.

We are the ones that need to pull it off in November by coming in droves to vote for Biden and every other Democratic candidate on the ballot.

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 1:04:44pm

re: #155 William Lewis

They also make a crunchy coating on chicken.

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:06:55pm

So… This passed thru one of my discords…

Ladies and Gentlemen…. KKKoViD-19.

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Eventual Carrion Apr 14, 2020 • 1:08:47pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel

Sounds good yes but do you think it may be a little heavy on the garlic?

Bite your tongue, never too heavy on garlic.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 1:08:58pm

Something weird is going on with Twitter. Tweets show up fine through the API and Tweetdeck but the website itself is glacial af.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:10:05pm

re: #153 Charles Johnson

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Maybelline’s lashes are her second set of wings pic.twitter.com/5owL0PkSqJ

— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) April 14, 2020

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:10:41pm

re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess she was just born with it. Or maybe it’s Maybelline?

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:11:51pm

re: #141 Teukka

Govt here in Sweden was out early saying that we should expect restrictions to be in place at least until the end of the year, or even become stricter.

until there’s a way to prevent people from getting it - we can think all the rosy thoughts we want.

it’s still gonna spread. because it doesnt care and it wont become less contagious.

so until there’s a vaccine, how do I keep from infecting me and mine?
distance, PPE (as best as I can) and minimize the opportunity be in contact with where the germs are - limited shopping and outings.

i dont care what they re-open up. im not putting me and mine in danger.
and much as i’d like to do things - like fly to see family, i think the evaluation is ez:

how likely is it i’ll get infected in the uber (or whatever), airport, bathrooms, plane, bathrooms, airport, bathrooms, uber and is it worth the risk to my wife’s life?

to me it’s a no brainer. i love my family. and i will not threaten my wife’s health because i’d like to be in the same room with them.

———
now dont get me started on the economy coming back and the unemployed all being re-employed.

thing’s are not going back to the way they were.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:13:02pm

The Irish name for the Skua reflects this aggressive seabird’s propensity to steal other bird’s food. It is known as ‘Meirleach Mara’, or the ‘Outlaw of the Sea’.

Photo: Dirk-Jan van Roest (CC BY 2.0) pic.twitter.com/Tg95oP3vgb

— Irish Archaeology (@irarchaeology) April 14, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 1:13:18pm

Wow, the CNN chyron writer. pic.twitter.com/mdzrvlxa3Q

— Bradley Paul (@elBradleyPaul) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 1:14:03pm

re: #166 goddamnedfrank

Hmm. Can someone say photoshop?

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 1:15:03pm

re: #167 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. Can someone say photoshop?

I know and don’t care

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 1:15:16pm

re: #167 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. Can someone say photoshop?

Probably not genuine, but you know it’s what we’re all thinking….

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:16:11pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

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because…of course…

no you dont need personal identification to buy beer
you need proof of age
we tend to use ID that has our age on it cause it’s ez
call it a pedant if you like

Sen. Schickel says you need an ID to buy a Corona beer and get a coronavirus test, so why not show an ID in order to vote.

McGarvey says you already need an ID to vote, it just doesn’t have to have your photo on it.

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 1:17:02pm

It’s called an Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain https://t.co/eyel2mtBmq [full video by La casa De La Ciencia, Seville, Spain: https://t.co/wbqlg4QjeC] pic.twitter.com/QBXnRDhuQ5

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 13, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:18:45pm

What were House Democrats doing in February while @realDonaldTrump was AWOL on #coronavirus? We were reversing his cuts to @CDCgov and writing legislation to address the pandemic. No amount of lies from @POTUS or his @GOP enablers can change those facts.#TuesdayMotivation https://t.co/MT9E0QrOjJ

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 14, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 14, 2020 • 1:20:34pm

re: #166 goddamnedfrank

Dude, I would have mad respect for the person responsible if CNN decided to actually run that.

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Patricia Kayden Apr 14, 2020 • 1:21:15pm

melissa mccarthy dressing up as sean spicer feels like it happened during the bush administration

— Deanna McDonald (@deannagmcdonald) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:21:52pm

The KY GOP is hitting Beshear because they say he’s been dismissive of a recovery plan… coincides with a House GOP attempt to ease “safe” businesses back into being open.

— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) April 14, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 1:22:31pm

I’m going to hazard a guess that Trump will not attempt to open the economy on May 1, because as badly as he wants the economy back up and going, he also doesn’t want to make any decisions or take any responsibility. If the pandemic comes roaring back after he reopens the economy, it’s all on him. It would also make him look weak when Democratic governors defy his back to work order, and he can’t do anything about it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:22:53pm

And yet none of these imaginary Black and Brown people, women and queer people voted for Bernie. He was winning until states with large Black and Brown populations got to participate. You might say “What about Nevada” but I will reply “Get back to me when Nevada holds a primary” https://t.co/H45QdBkMbE

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 14, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 1:23:36pm

re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Thank dog Beshear is Governor and not Bevin; we would all die.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:25:08pm

Kasparian’s grandparents fled the Armenian genocide.

She now works for The Young Turks - an outlet run by someone who denied it occurred.

She’s super mad at Obama though. Because, principles. https://t.co/uHWP8CvCUv

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 14, 2020

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:25:43pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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and yet, he lost.
interestingly money and ‘support’ did not turn into votes
bernie knew it. why dont you support his vision?

And yet none of these imaginary Black and Brown people, women and queer people voted for Bernie. He was winning until states with large Black and Brown populations got to participate. You might say “What about Nevada” but I will reply “Get back to me when Nevada holds a primary” https://t.co/H45QdBkMbE

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) April 14, 2020

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:27:12pm

The Swedish authorities and the PM Löfvén have bluntly said to expect the restrictions to be in place until at least the end of the year, and possibly being tightened.
And this was early on. The SARS-CoV-2 battle is going to be a long-haul affair.

— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:27:20pm

Two years and 11 months ago, Fox News announced it was investigating how the network — led by Sean Hannity — pushed conspiracy theories about Seth Rich’s murder. No details of that inquiry have ever been released publicly and key figures involved in the story are still there. https://t.co/X8KAhiqyf4

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 14, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 1:28:36pm

When BBQ chicken is life
(Emma Chatterley / FB) pic.twitter.com/bi6H2O2ZZo

— Woof Woof® (@WoofWoof_TV) April 13, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:28:49pm

Trusting experts and preparing for potential pandemics isn’t partisan.

At least it didn’t used to be.

Presidents of both parties recognized the threat and started to prepare.

President Bush in 2005: “If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.” https://t.co/d203OjmRmn

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 14, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 1:29:57pm

re: #181 Teukka

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The only way to safely reopen before a vaccine is ready for mass inoculation is to ramp up testing to the level of millions of tests conducted and processed every day.

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Citizen K Apr 14, 2020 • 1:30:44pm

“Nobody has a better memory than Trump. Unless I don’t want to remember certain things,” Trump said during a White House meeting just now.

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) April 14, 2020

Good god, what is wrong with him?

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 14, 2020 • 1:31:43pm

re: #185 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The question I;’m afraid to ask. Almost.
What happens if/when 99% of us are still not immune, and the remaining 1% is still way too many to track and contact trace?

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:31:49pm

re: #185 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The only way to safely reopen before a vaccine is ready for mass inoculation is to ramp up testing to the level of millions of tests conducted and processed every day.

And have a system in place which can keep track of such an operation. In Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Norway, it’d be easy.

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Citizen K Apr 14, 2020 • 1:32:33pm

re: #178 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Thank dog Beshear is Governor and not Bevin; we would all die.

Unfortunately, the KY legislature may still kill the state yet.

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 14, 2020 • 1:32:42pm

re: #188 Teukka

Okay but scale is the thing. Yikes.

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:33:17pm

re: #190 Rightwingconspirator

Okay but scale is the thing. Yikes.

Scale and infrastructure (e.g. clinics, IT, SSID system etc.).

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:33:22pm

meanwhile in South Dakota:

Noem says she doesn’t believe it is appropriate to issue a shelter in place order for Minnehaha and Lincoln Counties based on “science, facts and data.” Noem says she will also not set up an isolation center that was requested by Sioux Falls’ Mayor.

— KELOLAND News (@keloland) April 14, 2020

what “science, facts and data” you may ask?

Thank you @DrOz for recognizing the hard work of South Dakota and @SanfordHealth to go on offense against #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/vEaXhIDz7K

— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) April 14, 2020

O_o

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 1:33:32pm

re: #166 goddamnedfrank

Fake. He’s much paler than that.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 14, 2020 • 1:35:59pm

I have a bad feeling about this.

Trump will signal he wants the economy reopened. Blue states will do it slowly or not go for it at all, but most red states will ramp back up pretty quickly and well, do the math.

And I live in a deep red state.

If my Governor tries to open things back up, I’m staying my ass put.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 1:36:45pm

re: #188 Teukka

And have a system in place which can keep track of such an operation. In Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Norway, it’d be easy.

We have local governments to do it called states which are no bigger than those countries. They will need robust federal support however.

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 1:37:01pm

NYC sharply increases its #coronavirus death toll by more than 3,700 victims after officials include people who had never tested positive for #COVID19 but are presumed to have died of it. https://t.co/gJslSXVzZj

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 14, 2020

Cue the conspiracy nuts.

The ghouls will claim that the count is being exaggerated to blame Trump.

25,000+ dead are already on Trump. Another 3,000+ reflects the damage that was done due to the inability to get the victims tested.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 1:38:08pm

re: #189 Citizen K

Unfortunately, the KY legislature may still kill the state yet.

Their session is ending; they have no time to pass bills to kill us.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Apr 14, 2020 • 1:38:32pm

re: #126 sagehen

Isn’t that exactly what got Duke Cunningham 8 years in prison?

Close - it was a yacht.

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Teukka Apr 14, 2020 • 1:38:32pm

re: #195 NO SMOCKING GUN!

We have local governments to do it called states which are no bigger than those countries. They will need robust federal support however.

You also don’t have healthcare IT system which is state-level for everyone, regardless of what clinic you use, using SSID’s, nevermind the socialized healthcare system.

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 1:38:53pm

New COVID-19 numbers dampen hopes of Texas turnaroundhttps://t.co/n615jxEzQ7 by @chucklindell

— Texas Medical Association (@texmed) April 14, 2020

The 31 deaths reported were an all-time high for a single day, while the number of known infections rose by 718, dwarfing Monday’s increase of 422 cases (which had been the lowest one-day increase since late March).

In addition, a jump of 233 COVID-19 patients hospitalized across the state ended a streak that had seen hospital numbers decline for three consecutive days.

The updated numbers, provided by the Department of State Health Services in the early afternoon Tuesday, listed 318 deaths, 1,409 hospitalizations and 14,624 known cases of COVID-19 in the state.

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Eventual Carrion Apr 14, 2020 • 1:39:28pm

re: #128 steve_davis

Hey, satin worshippers and muslins: two cuts from the same cloth!!

Whenever I see them I bolt!

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 14, 2020 • 1:39:35pm

re: #196 lawhawk

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Cue the conspiracy nuts.

The ghouls will claim that the count is being exaggerated to blame Trump.

25,000+ dead are already on Trump. Another 3,000+ reflects the damage that was done due to the inability to get the victims tested.

We should turn Trump Tower into a fucking morgue.

Sorry if that seems harsh but I am angrier with Trump at the moment than I ever been with any political leader anywhere I’ve lived for my entire life.

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 1:39:58pm

re: #201 Eventual Carrion

You got to know when to fold ‘em.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:40:33pm

re: #197 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Their session is ending; they have no time to pass bills to kill us.

now, we have to convince Kentucky Democrats to nominate viable candidates and the support their election efforts.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 1:43:59pm

There have already been more COVID-19 deaths reported in the US today than the highest reporting day (2,035 last Friday 10 Apr)
This comes after 2 days with much lower counts in the 1,500s

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 1:45:11pm

pic.twitter.com/VY4FAH5S2Z

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 14, 2020

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mmmirele Apr 14, 2020 • 1:46:32pm

The fucktards of Apologia Church/Studio apparently decided to take themselves off to Texas to harass women at an abortion clinic there. These are the same asshats who harass women at the Tempe Planned Parenthood, and who up and moved church 36 miles after their (former?) location decided not to have their building turned into a Petri dish.

As you can tell, I’m tired of their bullshit.

This guy, and his buddies at @ApologiaStudios apparenty took themselves off to Texas to harass women at an abortion clinic. Normally they’re here in Tempe harassing women, so not sure why they’re in Texas, but they think they’re being badly treated. https://t.co/acuIliAW1I

— Dee “Flatten The Curve” Holmes (@mmmirele) April 14, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 1:48:07pm

re: #206 goddamnedfrank

Professor of English Literature, Owensboro Community and Technical College

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) April 14, 2020

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 1:50:17pm

re: #208 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I’d go with: Office pedant who steals the pens and paper from the office supply closet when he thinks no one is looking.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 1:51:31pm

Lachlan Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch spread lies and idiocy which costs thousands of lives. I wonder if they will still be treated like royalty in all the circles they run in. Seems like money makes people forgive anything— even being responsible for bad info which causes death. https://t.co/mtdMgIlNTS

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) April 14, 2020

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 1:51:39pm

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

I have a bad feeling about this.

Trump will signal he wants the economy reopened. Blue states will do it slowly or not go for it at all, but most red states will ramp back up pretty quickly and well, do the math.

And I live in a deep red state.

If my Governor tries to open things back up, I’m staying my ass put.

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Renaissance_Man Apr 14, 2020 • 1:54:47pm

re: #205 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

There have already been more COVID-19 deaths reported in the US today than the highest reporting day (2,035 last Friday 10 Apr)
This comes after 2 days with much lower counts in the 1,500s

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I think this is because of New York updating its death total to include presumed cases.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 1:59:17pm

re: #209 lawhawk

I’d go with: Office pedant who steals the pens and paper from the office supply closet when he thinks no one is looking.

So, you’re saying he one day hopes to attain the position of Assistant to the Regional Manger of a multi-state paper company.

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Teddy's Person Apr 14, 2020 • 1:59:22pm

re: #206 goddamnedfrank

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The douchebag TA in your philosophy 101 class. You know the one who thinks teaching is beneath him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:01:23pm

“There is no excuse for @Interior to push past public comment periods during this national emergency.” —@RepLowenthal and 70 members of Congress call on @SecBernhardt to pause or extend all open public comment periods during the #COVID19 crisis. https://t.co/WxFK8ZxY04 pic.twitter.com/HhYXOrOwGu

— National Parks Conservation Association (@NPCA) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:04:04pm

State governments: Fuck off, sir. https://t.co/OiU1Pcb7cR

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 14, 2020

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 2:04:34pm

Looting during a pandemic.

Remember when Senate Republicans said the relief bill’s unemployment benefits were “too generous”? https://t.co/5NeklPuQG8

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 14, 2020

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Dave In Austin Apr 14, 2020 • 2:06:01pm

...

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 2:10:27pm

re: #207 mmmirele

Shot, chaser pic.twitter.com/URGz17HkbK

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 14, 2020

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BlueSpotinAL Apr 14, 2020 • 2:11:48pm

re: #208 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Homeless vagrant dressed up for court appearance.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 2:14:11pm

re: #206 goddamnedfrank

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He runs a strip club off the highway that is Atlas Shrugged themed.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 2:14:32pm

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

But Barr is just fine with special exemptions that allow religious groups to meet…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:15:43pm

Beshear: We will get through this in a way that will be the envy of everywhere else in the country.

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

Beshear avoiding specifics here, but calls on everything to spread positive messages instead of negatives ones, says “”this isn’t a time for political statements.” GOP now releasing the floodgates of criticism on him in recent days.

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:16:17pm

re: #222 klys (maker of Silmarils)

But Barr is just fine with special exemptions that allow religious groups to meet…

only certain religious groups…

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 2:16:44pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

only certain religious groups…

Is the KKK considered a religious group? Asking for the GOP…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 2:18:16pm

If they persist in getting too close, you can throw it at them. For years I have wanted to rig my car with a retractable catapult that would pop up and fling cow pies at coal-rollers, tailgaters, bright-lighters and other road-pests. Unfortunately, there are already patents for dung catapults so I couldn’t make real money from it. Maybe I could distribute 3-D printer plans for it. Millions of them would really clean up the roads; except for the masses of cow shit, of course. That would still be better than the obnoxious human shit-heads, though, and it would do wonders for the roadside grass.

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steve_davis Apr 14, 2020 • 2:19:19pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

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hey, it was an album where dylan still sounded like dylan. nothing wrong with crying about the bittersweet quality of that.

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 2:20:09pm

re: #226 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

lol but there are some people out there who will believe that cow dung will stop this virus.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 2:23:46pm

Evening Lizardim from a wild north country that is once again cold and snowy. Today’s numbers: Only 814 new tests, up to 39241; 45 new cases, up to 1695; 9 new deaths, up to 79. Governor Walz is emphasizing the testing angle very hard, knowing that he will be feeling immense pressure from the President and from the Republicans here at home to reopen the state as soon as humanly possible, and refusing to do so unless it can be done with a modicum of safety and in accordance with the opinions of actual health experts, like the esteemed Dr. Fauci. How go things among the lizardfolk on this cloudy cold day?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 2:26:26pm

re: #212 Renaissance_Man

I think this is because of New York updating its death total to include presumed cases.

What makes you think they would do something that stupid?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:28:05pm

“Not enough,” Gov Beshear says. This is the personal protective equipment Kentucky now has on hand. ^JC pic.twitter.com/LUHNsjmH9T

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) April 14, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 2:31:47pm

re: #221 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He runs a strip club off the highway that is Atlas Shrugged themed.

Atlas Tugged

Sorry, low hanging fruit

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:31:47pm

The biggest hospital system in Michigan is launching what’s believed to be the nation’s largest test for novel coronavirus antibodies. The study could determine who has already been infected with the virus and may now be immune to it. https://t.co/XDgR1L33yv

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:32:26pm

.@JoeBiden’s heartfelt reaction to earning @BarackObama’s endorsement >>

“President Obama understands, as I do, that we will come through this crisis stronger. And then we’ll not only rebuild this nation — we will transform it.” pic.twitter.com/ywZrP6iehu

— Matt Hill (@thematthill) April 14, 2020

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I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman) Apr 14, 2020 • 2:33:08pm

Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN) told WIBC that Americans need to get back to work immediately, even if it means significantly increasing the spread of the coronavirus.
He acknowledged that ending social distancing could result in major public health harms and “loss of life,” but he said it was better than letting the economy fall apart.

Said Hollingsworth: “It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils.”

you first

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bratwurst Apr 14, 2020 • 2:33:09pm

And to think Biden didn’t call Michelle ugly or accuse Obama’s father of killing Kennedy. Why would he endorse someone like that?

— Make Ethics Great Again (@EthicsMake) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:33:19pm

“When people try to create divisions, just push it out. Just push it out. People’s lives are on the line,” Beshear said.

He was referencing political divisions.

— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) April 14, 2020

Beshear says it will be a “public health decision” on when and how we open back up. Sounds like he’s talking about the legislative effort to write a bill allowing “safe” businesses to open again.

— Daniel Desrochers (@drdesrochers) April 14, 2020

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 2:34:51pm

re: #236 bratwurst

I like how everyone pretends that past presidents don’t endorse during active primaries unless they are related to one of the candidates. Don’t get me wrong… I fully expect Trump to endorse someone in 2024 (assuming he isn’t running himself… bet me motherfucker, bet me).

Edited to add the thought: because this is just normal American politics.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 2:35:10pm

re: #212 Renaissance_Man

I think this is because of New York updating its death total to include presumed cases.

re: #230 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

What makes you think they would do something that stupid?

And, New York obviously did not include ‘presumed deaths’ in today’s count. As the State’s count increased 778 thus far today. While it was the New York City government that said it was adding 3.700 ‘presumed deaths’ to “it’s” count

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:35:33pm

trump saw the high approval numbers for the governors compared to his own 😹 https://t.co/S5aL1XFdin

— darth™ (@darth) April 14, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 2:36:35pm

J.D. Salinger would be riding this out like a champ.

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 2:37:14pm

I just watched Obama’s endorsement video, and I can’t emphasize enough how happy and proud I am that that man was president of our country for eight years.

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EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 2:37:28pm

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s a nice statement by Biden.

But there is the cold, hard fact that there is no such thing as bringing the nation together until after the GOP is ended as a national party.

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electrotek Apr 14, 2020 • 2:38:57pm

These Goddamn grifters in the faux-hippie communities:

CORONAVIRUS CAN BE PREVENTED - VITAMIN D SOLUTION

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 14, 2020 • 2:40:49pm

Today’s additional deaths in the US will make today the deadliest yet in this country from Covid-19.

Some of the hardest hit European countries appear to have passed their peak, at least in this wave.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 2:41:01pm

re: #243 EPR-radar

That’s a nice statement by Biden.

But there is the cold, hard fact that there is no such thing as bringing the nation together until after the GOP is ended as a national party.

The problem is that even if the Republican Party goes the way of the Whigs, their voters will still exist and will still vote for terrible people. And our system has evolved into a system that really can’t support multi-party politics. Best case scenario is something like the UK has where you have the Tories, Labor, and the Lib Dems, and then possibly a unique regional party, but unless and until some region (we all know which reason) starts talking about becoming independent, we likely won’t have one of those.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:41:07pm

He’s only gone and raised £3million for the NHS 👏👏
Well done @captaintommoore #walkwithtom pic.twitter.com/bUOUbg5d1s

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) April 14, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 2:41:23pm

He was right.
I’m tired of WINNING ! ! !

Federal debt to exceed size of economy for first time since World War II, watchdog group finds https://t.co/5Zx0iq08cQ pic.twitter.com/wFOylhoOLM

— The Hill (@thehill) April 14, 2020

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 2:44:31pm

re: #227 steve_davis

hey, it was an album where dylan still sounded like dylan. nothing wrong with crying about the bittersweet quality of that.

I enjoy both the old and new Dylan. The old for being iconic, the new for the fun game of trying to figure out what the hell song he’s singing before he gets to the chorus.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 2:44:52pm

11 dead in Ky today.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Apr 14, 2020 • 2:44:58pm

re: #226 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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If they persist in getting too close, you can throw it at them. For years I have wanted to rig my car with a retractable catapult that would pop up and fling cow pies at coal-rollers, tailgaters, bright-lighters and other road-pests. Unfortunately, there are already patents for dung catapults so I couldn’t make real money from it. Maybe I could distribute 3-D printer plans for it. Millions of them would really clean up the roads; except for the masses of cow shit, of course. That would still be better than the obnoxious human shit-heads, though, and it would do wonders for the roadside grass.

I’ve always wanted something similar, but my weapon of choice is a.50 Cal machine gun.

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plansbandc Apr 14, 2020 • 2:45:20pm

re: #232 goddamnedfrank

You have reached your pun limit. Any further punning will be fined with imPUNity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:46:41pm

Justin Theroux has been making his beloved Kuma a pupper-sized version of his dinner almost every night and my heart swells every time pic.twitter.com/FzS0BmqX4C

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) April 14, 2020

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 2:47:17pm

re: #244 electrotek

Reported it to Youtube for fraud but they won’t do anything.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 2:48:29pm

The Top 4 reasons you haven’t got a unemployment check yet: pic.twitter.com/i3Roik3Hvi

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 2:49:34pm

re: #248 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Hand-wringing about this right now or using it to say Trump is bad, isn’t a good idea. That’s going to have to double before all of this is over unless they want half the country to be homeless and starving with all this “We have to stay locked down until 2022” shit I keep hearing.

Letting the country turn into Mad Max by September because ZOMG “fiskul responsssabiliity” is far worse of a item on a resume than, doubling debt to save lives.

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 2:52:15pm

re: #244 electrotek

These Goddamn grifters in the faux-hippie communities:

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OMFG. This morning I was just trying to pump gas into my wife’s car when this guy walked up and said “that mask will do you no good; are you taking vitamin D?”

I said, “as it happens, yes, because I broke my foot and the doctor recommended it as part of bone healing.”

Rando: “how much? how many units?”

I said, “I don’t know but I’m good, thank you.”

Rando: “you need 5000; it’s the equivalent of an hour in the sun. That mask won’t do shit. If you start to feel bad up it to 10,000; and if you still don’t feel well hit the hydroxychloroquine hard.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

Rando: “my dad had a PhD in chemistry and this is his advice; he knows more than your doctor.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

finally I was done filling up, but the fucker wouldn’t just walk away. I think we’ll seeing more of this random shit as misinformation hits the airwaves. I’m not saying that vitamin D isn’t important, but that it’s being promoted as a cure? SMH.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 2:52:48pm

The idea of UBI keeps bouncing around in the back of my head. So, thought I’d kick a few ideas around see what the folks around here thinking:

1. Federal UBI, paid for by an excise tax on stock and commodity transactions.
2. States could also over UBI, paid for by whatever revenue source they deem appropriate.
3. Some sort of reverse phasing, so it is universal, as in everyone regardless of wealth/income gets say $1,000/month non-taxable, but lower income folks get more; preferably with the hope of eliminating traditional welfare programs, effectively just giving people money directly with no strings attached.

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 14, 2020 • 2:52:56pm

LA just officially crossed ten thousand cases. Under 400 dead. It would have been so much worse had the Governor and Mayor not acted swiftly and strongly. My people are safe so far. Really not inclined to take chances now or later, and ruin all the effort that went into locking down.

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Teddy's Person Apr 14, 2020 • 2:53:41pm

re: #228 PhillyPretzel

lol but there are some people out there who will believe that cow dung will stop this virus.

Topical application or do they literally have to eat shit?

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 2:58:30pm

re: #258 KGxvi

The idea of UBI keeps bouncing around in the back of my head. So, thought I’d kick a few ideas around see what the folks around here thinking:

1. Federal UBI, paid for by an excise tax on stock and commodity transactions.
2. States could also over UBI, paid for by whatever revenue source they deem appropriate.
3. Some sort of reverse phasing, so it is universal, as in everyone regardless of wealth/income gets say $1,000/month non-taxable, but lower income folks get more; preferably with the hope of eliminating traditional welfare programs, effectively just giving people money directly with no strings attached.

It would be a great idea if the federal government enacted a UBI to help us get through the pandemic, since the feds can generate basically free money.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 2:59:14pm

If I was in charge of the US Marshals and/or BOP I would confirm his death. Since, he had yet to begin his prison sentence

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) April 14, 2020

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Dave In Austin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:00:08pm

Cow Dung is the new Vitamin D…
Ya Know…… D…. Dung. Dung…..D…..

No?

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retired cynic Apr 14, 2020 • 3:00:34pm

re: #154 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Oh, I saved something for you, too! I know you usually embroider pretty ladies, but in case you want to ever embroider jellyfish…

etsy.com

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 3:00:42pm

re: #263 Dave In Austin

No.

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:00:43pm

re: #263 Dave In Austin

Cow Dung is the new Vitamin D…
Ya Know…… D…. Dung. Dung…..D…..

No?

“What’s brown and sounds like a bell?”

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 3:01:09pm

re: #261 NO SMOCKING GUN!

It would be a great idea if the federal government enacted a UBI to help us get through the pandemic, since the feds can generate basically free money.

What’s going to be interesting is we are going to have real life test cases because a few countries are doing it… I think I read that Spain is going to enact some sort of UBI that will be permanent.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 3:01:20pm

I’ve been doing a spreadsheet on Minnesota’s COVID data that is accurate to 3/1 for the numbers I present here (number tested, number of new cases, deaths), and to 3/24 (when testing was widened out to include third-party labs beyond the Minnesota Department of Health) for some other related data. It appears that we’re not quite past the peak here yet, as the main indicator pointed out by FiveThirtyEight (share of positive tests) has been steadily increasing. However, our social distancing measures have been having an impact; the increase is EXTREMELY slow, and it’s literally within the margin of error as to whether it’s still increasing or flat. The doubling rate has been hovering at or above 5 days (this is my math, which I assume is close but incorrect, as the governor’s office says 8 days) since the 24th.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:04:03pm

re: #267 KGxvi

What’s going to be interesting is we are going to have real life test cases because a few countries are doing it… I think I read that Spain is going to enact some sort of UBI that will be permanent.

Excellent news.

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 3:05:17pm

re: #259 Rightwingconspirator

LA just officially crossed ten thousand cases. Under 400 dead. It would have been so much worse had the Governor and Mayor not acted swiftly and strongly. My people are safe so far. Really not inclined to take chances now or later, and ruin all the effort that went into locking down.

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Los Angeles County has nearly 10 million people living in it, so a reported number of 10,000 COVID-19 adds is ( or would be, if it wasn’t likely to be a vast undercount) not too bad a rate. Unfortunately, it looks like the mortality rate is right there at the “standard” 3.5%.

Hope that low infection rate holds up…

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:06:22pm

Beshear is adamant that reopening will be decided by public health officials, and not legislators with lobbyists whispering in their ears.

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steve_davis Apr 14, 2020 • 3:07:43pm

re: #147 goddamnedfrank

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Karen Blixen = Isak Dinesen, who wrote Out of Africa and was a helluva good writer.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 3:07:51pm

Wait a min, didn’t the mutineers overthrow the evil know it all but know nothing captain of a slave trading ship ? Wasn’t the hateful wicked captain trying to starve them during a crisis he created ? Tell the truth, you didn’t really read this book did you ? https://t.co/bhgdkLQkFo

— Etan Thomas (@etanthomas36) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 3:09:55pm

re: #260 Teddy’s Person

I have no idea.

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:10:19pm

re: #273 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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He watched the movie and identified with the asshole.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 3:12:45pm

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’ve been doing a spreadsheet on Minnesota’s COVID data that is accurate to 3/1 for the numbers I present here (number tested, number of new cases, deaths), and to 3/24 (when testing was widened out to include third-party labs beyond the Minnesota Department of Health) for some other related data. It appears that we’re not quite past the peak here yet, as the main indicator pointed out by FiveThirtyEight (share of positive tests) has been steadily increasing. However, our social distancing measures have been having an impact; the increase is EXTREMELY slow, and it’s literally within the margin of error as to whether it’s still increasing or flat. The doubling rate has been hovering at or above 5 days (this is my math, which I assume is close but incorrect, as the governor’s office says 8 days) since the 24th.

covid19.healthdata.org

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 3:13:32pm

Ugh, Huffington Post has an article up about “theories” that Covid-19 “escaped” from a lab. Not as a bioweapon, but as a virus being studied. And of course, there’s no evidence offered for the theories… and you got to get 4 or 5 paragraphs in before the mention that most experts dismiss the lab theory completely.

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 3:14:20pm

re: #257 Barefoot Grin

OMFG. This morning I was just trying to pump gas into my wife’s car when this guy walked up and said “that mask will do you no good; are you taking vitamin D?”

I said, “as it happens, yes, because I broke my foot and the doctor recommended it as part of bone healing.”

Rando: “how much? how many units?”

I said, “I don’t know but I’m good, thank you.”

Rando: “you need 5000; it’s the equivalent of an hour in the sun. That mask won’t do shit. If you start to feel bad up it to 10,000; and if you still don’t feel well hit the hydroxychloroquine hard.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

Rando: “my dad had a PhD in chemistry and this is his advice; he knows more than your doctor.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

finally I was done filling up, but the fucker wouldn’t just walk away. I think we’ll seeing more of this random shit as misinformation hits the airwaves. I’m not saying that vitamin D isn’t important, but that it’s being promoted as a cure? SMH.

I’d’ve been tempted to tell rando “Ever hear of stand your ground? This is my ground. Leave it.”

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plansbandc Apr 14, 2020 • 3:15:29pm

re: #275 Barefoot Grin

Naturally.

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Barefoot Grin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:15:31pm

re: #277 KGxvi

Ugh, Huffington Post has an article up about “theories” that Covid-19 “escaped” from a lab. Not as a bioweapon, but as a virus being studied. And of course, there’s no evidence offered for the theories… and you got to get 4 or 5 paragraphs in before the mention that most experts dismiss the lab theory completely.

I don’t like this either, but a podcast I listen to (sinica) and like for its fairness wtr to China interviewed a Chinese specialist who said it could not be ruled out.

ETA: I forgot to say that he called it unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 3:21:03pm

re: #236 bratwurst

Warren?

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Decatur Deb Apr 14, 2020 • 3:22:06pm

re: #280 Barefoot Grin

I don’t like this either, but a podcast I listen to (sinica) and like for its fairness wtr to China interviewed a Chinese specialist who said it could not be ruled out.

ETA: I forgot to say that he called it unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.

Not much is outside the realm of possibility, but most shit is what it seems to be.

That’s the lifering I cling to in a sea of insanity.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 3:22:30pm

BREAKING: Trump, in the middle of a pandemic, says he’s halting all funding to the World Health Organization pending a review

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) April 14, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:24:09pm

The President attempts to shift the blame on the World Health Organization pic.twitter.com/62ECtvjlwX

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 14, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:26:18pm

WTAF

Donald Trump: “It would have been so easy to be truthful.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020

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retired cynic Apr 14, 2020 • 3:26:36pm

re: #284 The Pie Overlord!

FUCK TRUMP

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The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:27:48pm

Trump: “It would have been so easy to be truthful.” pic.twitter.com/ScYIvOT6FF

— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) April 14, 2020

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 3:33:08pm

Trump bashes the WHO for praising China’s supposed transparency. “I don’t THINK so,” he says.

Trump himself praised China’s supposed transparency. pic.twitter.com/0RQshCegps

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020

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Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 3:34:10pm

I know he THINKS he has total authority etc., but can he actually suspend funding for the WHO? Wouldn’t that have to be approved by Congress? https://t.co/lgiZ1k8dcQ

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

Oh and… profanity approaching — why in the living fuck is he even thinking about defunding the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic? They may have problems, but this is so reckless and destructive it’s pathological.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 3:38:34pm

re: #280 Barefoot Grin

I don’t like this either, but a podcast I listen to (sinica) and like for its fairness wtr to China interviewed a Chinese specialist who said it could not be ruled out.

ETA: I forgot to say that he called it unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.

One consequence of doing science, at least, is that I am allergic to the idea of saying “why yes, something is most definitely absolutely impossible” because unless I have proof that completely rules it out and can provide that proof for others to look at, you pretty much cannot do that in a paper.

I can say it’s really fucking unlikely and I don’t personally believe it to be the case though.

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unproven innocence Apr 14, 2020 • 3:39:02pm

re: #244 electrotek

These Goddamn grifters in the faux-hippie communities:

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Did she actually make a claim that vitD would prevent contracting Covid-19? If so please point it out.

I watched thru the 8 minute mark, and found no misinformation at all, except for two numbers (at about 4min40sec) that she mis-read from the accompanying chart presented— “1000” instead of 10,000 iu/day for adults, and “400” instead of 4000 iu/day for adolecents 11y to 17y.

Except for those, everything I heard is consistent with info/recommendations by some of the world’s foremost experts, in presentations made before Covid-19 was even named. For example:

Youtube Video

Vitamin D & the Upper Respiratory Tract

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 3:39:39pm

re: #289 Charles Johnson

Oh and… profanity approaching — why in the living fuck is he even thinking about defunding the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic? They may have problems, but this is so reckless and destructive it’s pathological.

It’s more of that “The US pays way more. Other countries don’t pay their fair share.” bullshit like he says about NATO.

also…

The WHO does need to answer for uncritically parroting CPC lies about COVID-19 in December and January, but Trump sees that as “The WHO is working for VaChina!!!” or “The WHO was lying so that I would look bad.” So “Fuck ‘em”.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 3:40:16pm

re: #289 Charles Johnson

In theory, yes, revoking funding for WHO has to happen in Congress. In reality? He could slow roll payments. He could declare a state of emergency and re-allocate those funds to something else. And while we once thought stuff like that would have consequences, they do not because the Congressional GOP has decided that they don’t actually give a fuck.

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Eventual Carrion Apr 14, 2020 • 3:42:04pm

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

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No more than 10 people gathered together at any one time. That means everything from just short of a witches coven on up.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 3:43:08pm

re: #290 klys (maker of Silmarils)

One consequence of doing science, at least, is that I am allergic to the idea of saying “why yes, something is most definitely absolutely impossible” because unless I have proof that completely rules it out and can provide that proof for others to look at, you pretty much cannot do that in a paper.

I can say it’s really fucking unlikely and I don’t personally believe it to be the case though.

Note that all of this plays really poorly to a population that dislikes nuance and demands yes or no answers, though. Figuring out how to thread that needle is a big part of science communication and one reason why I think things so often go poorly on that front. The scientific community uses language in some very specific and different ways compared to the world at large.

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The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 3:43:56pm

The scariest moment of his life was when the stock market crashed and he knew that it was his fault.

President Trump: “The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators — that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators.” https://t.co/bISM7ReHdH pic.twitter.com/OPMiTKHAyb

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 14, 2020

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 3:43:59pm

re: #280 Barefoot Grin

I don’t like this either, but a podcast I listen to (sinica) and like for its fairness wtr to China interviewed a Chinese specialist who said it could not be ruled out.

ETA: I forgot to say that he called it unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.

I just wish they would lead with the “it is unlikely” party. And I get that there is an investigation and that it is in the realm of possibilities, but I’d prefer less speculative bullshit. Especially since, for all the crazies (and crazy-curious or crazy-adjacent) out there, it is a small stroll from “accidental laboratory infection” to “bioweapon gone awry”

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 3:44:38pm

re: #264 retired cynic

These are super gorgeous and I love how she’s doing it on netting. I wish my artistic skills were even remotely decent so I could try and do something like this.

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EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 3:45:41pm

re: #290 klys (maker of Silmarils)

One consequence of doing science, at least, is that I am allergic to the idea of saying “why yes, something is most definitely absolutely impossible” because unless I have proof that completely rules it out and can provide that proof for others to look at, you pretty much cannot do that in a paper.

I can say it’s really fucking unlikely and I don’t personally believe it to be the case though.

I think this is much of what helps make pseudoscience with its false certainties so much easier to spread than real science.

People want answers, and if problems are complicated then simple, stupid answers will be preferred by almost everyone over real investigations leading to partial, tentative and/or complicated answers.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 3:47:14pm

re: #299 EPR-radar

I think this is much of what helps make pseudoscience with its false certainties so much easier to spread than real science.

People want answers, and if problems are complicated then simple, stupid answers will be preferred by almost everyone over real investigations leading to partial, tentative and/or complicated answers.

See also: the law, practice of.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 14, 2020 • 3:48:40pm

I hate these fucking ~~Trump rallies~~ briefings so much.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Apr 14, 2020 • 3:49:51pm

This is Trump’s way out of his “total authority” nonsense from yesterday — pretending he is benevolently gifting the governors power they already have. https://t.co/rIlD7oKIX7

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020

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EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 3:50:02pm

re: #300 KGxvi

See also: the law, practice of.

I bet people wanting to have legal contracts expressed in ‘plain English’ drives you up a wall. IANAL, but I realize how bone-headed that is. Of course it doesn’t help that contracts are often deliberately made obscure for more or less sleazy reasons.

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Dave In Austin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:53:32pm

CNN is gone

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Dave In Austin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:53:57pm

So is MSNBC

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 3:55:21pm

re: #305 Dave In Austin

So is MSNBC

Some elaboration is required.

Dropping out of another “it’s all about me” campaign speech disguised as a COVID briefing?

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Dave In Austin Apr 14, 2020 • 3:59:20pm

re: #306 Jack Burton

He was reading of a corporate phone book I guess. Just blathering. He’s going to cut off funding to WHO. It’s now ALL their fault. Blah blah.
The Cable networks have cut away several times

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 4:01:06pm

re: #305 Dave In Austin

Unfortunately, the asshole is still on MSNBC. Why, I do not know.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Apr 14, 2020 • 4:01:32pm

re: #290 klys (maker of Silmarils)

One consequence of doing science, at least, is that I am allergic to the idea of saying “why yes, something is most definitely absolutely impossible” because unless I have proof that completely rules it out and can provide that proof for others to look at, you pretty much cannot do that in a paper.

I can say it’s really fucking unlikely and I don’t personally believe it to be the case though.

Just remind them that it’s of the same order of possibility that there’s an asteroid made of pure sugar.

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 4:01:52pm

CNN still has him on too, as well as a great chyron.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 4:02:24pm

re: #303 EPR-radar

I bet people wanting to have legal contracts expressed in ‘plain English’ drives you up a wall. IANAL, but I realize how bone-headed that is. Of course it doesn’t help that contracts are frequenly deliberately made obscure for more or less sleazy reasons.

Eh, the legal community has actually gotten better at that… but it has led to contracts getting longer. The more annoying thing is when you try to explain something to them about why they can’t do something and their response is:

Cartman - Whatever I Do What I Want

It’s like, then why ask me ahead of time? Just come to me when you get sued so I can charge you extra for being stupid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:02:59pm

Trump doesn’t know that the federal government has various agency offices all across the nation. US attorneys, the IRS, the FBI, FEMA, etc etc. He thinks everything is solely in Washington. Someone needs to tell the president about how the government works.

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:03:46pm

I’m tired of a Nazi president who congratulates himself for killing people. https://t.co/Ng0dd9Sc8B

— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin 🩸🦷 (@ECMcLaughlin) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:04:54pm

just incredibly bleak

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 14, 2020

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A Three Hour Tour Apr 14, 2020 • 4:06:27pm

re: #306 Jack Burton

Some elaboration is required.

Dropping out of another “it’s all about me” campaign speech disguised as a COVID briefing?

It’s looking like these briefings are only being carried cable-only now. Over-the-air broadcast networks and their affiliates seem to be sticking with their normal late afternoon/early evening programming.

Even with today’s levels of cable/satellite penetration, I wonder how Trump’s ratings for these propaganda performances actually do compare with the non-cable and non-news/talk competition.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:06:37pm

No new episodes of “Friends.” So let’s put Floridians at greater risk. Deplorable. https://t.co/gZiUKcsNRa

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 4:07:36pm

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

I guess he never heard of PBS. /half

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Apr 14, 2020 • 4:08:20pm

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Let DeSantis and McMahon put on the wrestling show and be held liable for the medical bills of people who go there contract the virus!

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Ace-o-aces Apr 14, 2020 • 4:09:13pm

Trump: “I have absolute authority, unless something goes wrong, then it’s everyone else’s fault.”

— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 14, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 4:10:28pm

Even though I know he’s being totally stupid about how he’s saying it, can I just admit I’m relieved that someone convinced Trump not to challenge the governors on forcing them to reopen?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:10:37pm

🎶oscars music plays 🎶

— darth™ (@darth) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:12:21pm

Make him leave, then. https://t.co/QpBODHdZZg

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:12:54pm

I am hereby authorizing everyone to do things that they were already authorized to do.

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:15:12pm

“This isn’t me — this is the presidency”: Get a load of the guy who pushed racist conspiracy theories about President Obama claiming to care about the institution of the presidency pic.twitter.com/QkkVrgEHYe

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

He has no fucking idea what he’s talking about

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A Three Hour Tour Apr 14, 2020 • 4:16:11pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The media/pundit class, along with many Americans, exhibited a catastrophic failure of the imagination of greater than 9/11 proportions.

When it came to the prospect of the ultimate results of Trump’s victory in 2016, my rule of thumb was, “Imagine any worst case scenario you can reasonably think of. Expect it to be magnified at least a thousandfold.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:16:48pm

Beshear: “Do you trust the governor led by the Department of Public Health and all of our medical officials, or do you trust the legislature and lobbyists that are talking to them each day based on monetary interests that are out there?” #kyga20

— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 4:16:56pm

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

He has no fucking idea what he’s talking about
That is it.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 4:18:34pm

re: #318 Joe Bacon 🌹

Let DeSantis and McMahon put on the wrestling show and be held liable for the medical bills of people who go there contract the virus!

They’ve been doing shows with no audiences, and as I understand, that’s the plan going forward. I actually watched part of Raw last night, and it was kind of weird. I don’t know that pro wrestling works without a crowd, at least in its present form.

They had been pre-taping shows (including Wrestlemania last weekend), but apparently there is an issue with their TV contracts about having to have a certain number of live shows (one dirt sheet suggested it was something like 49 of 52 weeks per year).

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:22:38pm

“Governors are supposed to do testing. It’s up to the governors. Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. The governors are doing the testing. It’s now not up, and it hasn’t been up, to the federal govt … if you keep talking, I’ll leave … just a loudmouth” — Trump unloads on @BrianKarem pic.twitter.com/NAhrR4Xkbs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:23:18pm

Trump says he doesn’t like the way this briefing “looks,” with the distancing and fewer reporters, although it’s okay with him in the other way that there are fewer reporters.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 14, 2020

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Apr 14, 2020 • 4:23:24pm

Who the fuck is watching reruns of anything? There are metric shit-tons on new content out there.

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EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 4:23:42pm

re: #320 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Even though I know he’s being totally stupid about how he’s saying it, can I just admit I’m relieved that someone convinced Trump not to challenge the governors on forcing them to reopen?

There’s nothing to prevent Trump from pivoting back to his ‘absolute authority’ nonsense.

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EPR-radar Apr 14, 2020 • 4:24:26pm

re: #325 A Three Hour Tour

The media/pundit class, along with many Americans, exhibited a catastrophic failure of the imagination of greater than 9/11 proportions.

When it came to the prospect of the ultimate results of Trump’s victory in 2016, my rule of thumb was, “Imagine any worst case scenario you can reasonably think of. Expect it to be magnified at least a thousandfold.”

Optimist.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:24:29pm

re: #331 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Who the fuck is watching reruns of anything? There are metric shit-tons on new content out there.

the same people who keep flushing their toilets a dozen times in a row

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:26:16pm

Our @kaitlancollins pressing Trump on his previous praise for China’s transparency. Following up on @Jordanfabian who asked the same thing.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:26:37pm

“We have beautiful states, will open it up in beautiful little pieces.“

yes, I’m sure he’s totally fine and healthy at this moment.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:28:41pm

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Who cares? If you can’t be here, that’s too bad” — Trump to a reporter who tries to ask a question on behalf of a colleague who couldn’t be there pic.twitter.com/MLRy9xIGhX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:29:18pm

this is so unhinged

REPORTER: The reason many states don’t have problems right now is because of social distancing—

TRUMP: “No … the reason also is they are different kinds of states. They have lots of room.”

Trump then threatens governors who might not cooperate with him & ends the briefing. pic.twitter.com/5lQGfJXFT5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2020

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 4:29:29pm

re: #331 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Who the fuck is watching reruns of anything? There are metric shit-tons on new content out there.

All the binge watchers.

There was a BSG marathon on. I’ve watched old episodes of Julia Child (on create tv).
MASH?
Harry Potter marathon.

And plenty of new content too. But who the heck thinks wrestling is essential to anything other than the McMahon bottom line, and Trumpworld?

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 4:29:34pm

Trump always fucking lies. It’s what he does. Then claims you’re engaging in fake news when you use his own words against him.

Every media outlet should run this tweet when he threatens to hold funding for WHO https://t.co/cwpKfXE8D1

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 14, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Apr 14, 2020 • 4:32:34pm

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

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There is an Andy Beshear for President FB page now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:32:42pm

No questions taken from the health experts who were seated in the front row in the Rose Garden for last 90 mins, as POTUS heads back into the White House.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 14, 2020

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Charles Johnson Apr 14, 2020 • 4:33:24pm

We’re now at the part of Trump’s spew where he pines pathetically for that lost economy that means more to him than human lives. pic.twitter.com/byFVlTUb4B

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:34:04pm

Weird that Trump didn’t similarly snap at @johnrobertsFox when he said he had “a couple questions” for him. Can’t imagine what that’s about.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:35:00pm

The next six months will be a multi billion dollar disinformation campaign to make you think that things like this didn’t happen. https://t.co/CaIpLxdZ2f

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 14, 2020

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Apr 14, 2020 • 4:35:39pm

re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth

IKR. Such a conundrum.

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KGxvi Apr 14, 2020 • 4:36:02pm

Damn, this is just depressing:

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration, told on a recent New York Times panel that “restarting the economy has to be done in stages… Larger gatherings — conferences, concerts, sporting events — … I think those things will be the last to return. Realistically we’re talking fall 2021 at the earliest.”

If we are really living with this for a year and a half more… that’s going to take a huge psychic toll on society.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 14, 2020 • 4:37:35pm

re: #331 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Who the fuck is watching reruns of anything? There are metric shit-tons on new content out there.

Me! Classics like Buffy and Angel. Shows is never watched when they were in (The Closer and Major Crimes). Soo much stuff I had not seen before.

And I’m reading a lot.

If you’re bored you’re not trying too hard to not be.

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gwangung Apr 14, 2020 • 4:37:58pm

re: #347 KGxvi

Damn, this is just depressing:

If we are really living with this for a year and a half more… that’s going to take a huge psychic toll on society.

I’ve prepared not to do any theatre until 2022. Yeah, I’m depressed….

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 4:38:50pm

pic.twitter.com/iDSOZ5fhDt

— Chelle 🌊 (@ChelleStenn) April 14, 2020

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 4:39:52pm

re: #349 gwangung

I’m sad about that too. I worry about the theater and all the shows that wont be able to return, all the actors who wont be able to find work, and all the creative projects sidelined until further notice.

352

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:45:39pm

Gov. Cuomo asked about Trump’s WH briefings: “A governor should not watch that. There’s no value in it.”

He adds that they are “infuriating” “offensive” and “frankly ignorant of the facts.”

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) April 14, 2020

353

The Pie Overlord! Apr 14, 2020 • 4:45:52pm

I’m signing off now for the end of Passover. Two more days without electronics! I will be refreshed.

I have to buy books from Amazon because the library is closed. That kinda sucks.

354

Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:49:00pm

Sure Obama is endorsing Biden, but where is his long-form endorsement??

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:51:32pm

“I SWEAR TO GAWD THAT I WILL CRASH THIS CAR WITH ALL OF US IN IT, I DON’T EVEN CARE!” - Trump https://t.co/RmxvJ3l6O3

— 🇯🇲Black🇭🇹Aziz🇳🇬aNANsi🇹🇹 (@Freeyourmindkid) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 4:51:37pm

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

Colbert would say something like that. We also know he was one of those who gave the doubters (wingnuts and alike) heck.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:52:20pm

There are no words to describe the sickness and ignorance on display in the Rose Garden today. Suffice it to say calling The President of the United States a fucking moron is being kind.

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 14, 2020

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PhillyPretzel Apr 14, 2020 • 4:53:05pm

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

I agree with Rob 110%.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:53:27pm

Note, several of these food processing companies have had COVID outbreaks, in part bc they didn’t do enough to keep their workers safe. Trump should be asking them — nay, ordering them — to do better, but instead he’s fluffing their stock. https://t.co/1LAkv4Dtjg

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 14, 2020

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BigPapa Apr 14, 2020 • 4:53:48pm

we thought yesterday was a shit show, right?

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 4:55:51pm

re: #360 BigPapa

we thought yesterday was a shit show, right?

The one thing to look forward to - now that he’s found that being a total dick to the assembled media lights up his base, he’s going to run it straight into the ground.

Even the ‘outrageous’ Trump will get fucking boring in no time flat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:56:53pm

And to quote another WHO, I hope November 3rd “We don’t get fooled again!”

— Brian O’Sullivan (@osullivanauthor) April 14, 2020

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lawhawk Apr 14, 2020 • 4:57:47pm

If only it was as simple as clicking together ruby slippers and wishing to go home to end this national nightmare.

Wizard of Oz is on…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 4:59:35pm

The legion is formed. The ranks are set and waiting. We’ve come here for glory. pic.twitter.com/SJdkptLDfQ

— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) April 14, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:00:51pm

re: #364 Backwoods_Sleuth

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alternate caption:

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Go away or we shall taunt you again.

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 5:01:59pm

re: #351 lawhawk

I’m sad about that too. I worry about the theater and all the shows that wont be able to return, all the actors who wont be able to find work, and all the creative projects sidelined until further notice.

It sucks but history shows that after such periods (plague 1603 & 1608, the Commonwealth 1642 - 1660, etc) the theater will come back stronger than ever.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 14, 2020 • 5:02:12pm

Noted that today’s additional deaths in Louisiana is very near the edge of the 2 sigma value from the IHME model run of 13 April.

I do wonder about Louisiana, how much the Mardi Gras lack of shutdown will play out over the next year.

“Little things make big things happen. ” - attributed to John Wooden.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:04:54pm

In an @AP interview, ⁦@BernieSanders⁩ says opposing Biden is ‘irresponsible’ and rebukes his own former national press secretary https://t.co/5y1jHHbVwu

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) April 15, 2020

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I Would Prefer Not To Apr 14, 2020 • 5:05:34pm

re: #366 William Lewis

It sucks but history shows that after such periods (plague 1603 & 1608, the Commonwealth 1642 - 1660, etc) the theater will come back stronger than ever.

I write comedy everyday. May not be able to perform for a long time. I was lucky that my one show was on feb 23. A week latter and it would have been cancelled.

I also write other material (short stories) that I can try and promote.

I think it will all come back, but don’t know when.

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 5:05:50pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump calling someone else a loudmouth. Irony is dead.

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 5:07:26pm

re: #370 Ace Rothstein

Trump calling someone else a loudmouth. Irony ~~is dead~~.

was dragged out into the street and summarily executed.

FTFY.

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 5:07:29pm

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is that Brie Brie he’s talking about here? If so, wow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:09:30pm

pic.twitter.com/Sgk1sKUHz0

— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) April 15, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:11:22pm

Trump is lying, people are dying, and Madam Speaker is NOT here for it: “The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility. A weak person blames others.” #TruthMatters pic.twitter.com/8VIA3Ki2MU

— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) April 14, 2020

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 5:12:43pm

We’re working with a small sample size here, but if different reporters keep getting in Trump’s grill for a week or two, they’ll have painted him into one hell of a corner.

He needs these shitshows to get his daily dose of attention. But he’ll clearly wear down over time, he’s old and he doesn’t have the stamina he thinks he does. He’ll come to hate doing the pressers after a while.

He’ll either stop doing them or he’ll end up assaulting a member of the press corps. No self-control.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:13:41pm

This is Ringo. He appreciates your urge to pet him, but respectfully asks you to keep your distance until this is all over. 12/10 I will do my best sir pic.twitter.com/qTBY4pNMJU

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) April 15, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 14, 2020 • 5:14:59pm

It seems Facebook is no longer allowing me to sort my feed by “Most Recent”. Anybody else find this to be true?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:16:47pm

(I seriously shouted YES! Meg Ryan style.)

— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin 🩸🦷 (@ECMcLaughlin) April 15, 2020

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 5:18:27pm

re: #377 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What the hell is Facebook?

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NetworkKed Apr 14, 2020 • 5:19:39pm

What the fuck is happening.

ourworldindata.org

US daily testing numbers are trending down. I’m not talking about positive test results, I’m talking about tests run.

If I were completely paranoid, I would say that testing is being suppressed in order to create a downwards curve in positives, giving Big Money a reason to push for “opening the country”. This is a combined operation, of course, with multiple people monkey-wrenching testing, including the White House suppressing federal funds for it, and the usual rightwing droolers, financial press wannabes, and actual billionaires gaming the system doing the media press to get the unwashed masses to throw themselves on the altar of stock prices.

But while dreams of some of this probably are rattling around in the Administration’s collective consciousness, I fear that what’s actually happening is they’re just too fucking incompetent to make the systems work right.

Saw news that Korea was shipping us 600k test kits. That’s about four days of national usage at current rates. Just watch, total numbers will still go down.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:20:09pm

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

I will take 4 years late over 8 years late.

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 5:23:10pm

Missed the briefing, but I gather the guy who spent a month praising the Chinese and calling the virus a hoax is now criticizing the WHO for trusting the Chinese and being slow to act? Cool.

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 14, 2020

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 5:26:49pm

Rockwall county announced 8 new cases today. 5 in Rockwall, 1 in Fate, 1 in Royse City, and one in Heath.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 5:29:18pm

It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans could have ignored these places because they were safe:

Interesting that the Senate Repubs’ SuperPAC believes it will need to protect McConnell https://t.co/bzvnY3mmnN

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 23, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:30:02pm

mohr fed up women in art history:

Just fed up, that is all. Fed up. pic.twitter.com/t0btuMKeFS

— Merrill Markoe (@Merrillmarkoe) April 14, 2020

Fed up in France pic.twitter.com/XJak6p3x2e

— Merrill Markoe (@Merrillmarkoe) April 14, 2020

lots more in the thread

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 5:31:58pm

This is what the other buffoon DeSantis said today too. https://t.co/Yaa7CjgjqW

— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) April 15, 2020

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 5:32:09pm

We shall deem statements like this a half-Brit:

POTUS claims of absolute power in Covid 19 emergency are constitutional nonsense, another of his serial exaggerations. The reaction to them are another case of media’s insistent focus on the stuff he says, as if that is more important than what he actually does. (cont’d)

— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 14, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:33:25pm

re: #386 jaunte

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No one misses baseball more than me but fuck Trump for wanting people to risk dying for his amusement.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:34:09pm

re: #387 Belafon

We shall deem statements like this a half-Brit:

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Brit’s just jealous because Hannity has a direct line to Trump that he wants.

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 5:34:12pm

Losing to Obama’s Vice President is going to do wonders for Trump’s Obama inferiority complex

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 14, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 5:34:40pm

re: #388 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

No one misses baseball more than me but fuck Trump for wanting people to risk dying for his amusement.

1000x THIS. I haven’t missed a season at Target Field since it opened in 2010. This might be my first. But you know what, I DON’T CARE if it means the country, and as many people in it as possible, get to live to play another day.

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 5:35:03pm

re: #384 Belafon

It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans could have ignored these places because they were safe:

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AZ, CO and ME have been on the “shaky” list for a while, but that the GOP thinks Tillis and McConnell need extra resources for the fall campaign is NOT a good sign (for Republicans)….

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:37:10pm

Of course President Trump wants to defund the WHO in a pandemic. All of his budgets propose slashing WHO, NIH, CDC, HHS. And his main focus—eliminating the ACA so he can take health care away from millions. President Grim Reaper.

— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) April 15, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:38:07pm

re: #391 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

1000x THIS. I haven’t missed a season at Target Field since it opened in 2010. This might be my first. But you know what, I DON’T CARE if it means the country, and as many people in it as possible, get to live to play another day.

I’m actually falling in love with the game all over again watching old games and reading. I’m well into a Hank Aaron bio. Fascinating stuff. Trump thinks we serve him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:39:09pm

Here’s what 80 Supreme Court cases look like, laid out on the floor — 80 partisan, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions clearly favoring a big Republican donor interest, all since Roberts became chief justice in 2005. pic.twitter.com/W7B0LUqz64

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) April 14, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:39:57pm

re: #392 Jay C

AZ, CO and ME have been on the “shaky” list for a while, but that the GOP thinks Tillis and McConnell need extra resources for the fall campaign is NOT a good sign (for Republicans)….

Biden won’t win KY but McGrath can definitely beat Mitch. Mitch is beatable in a presidential election year especially this one. Mitch and Cornyn hopefully both get wiped out.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 5:40:00pm

Detailed Rockwall info:

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I Would Prefer Not To Apr 14, 2020 • 5:40:31pm

re: #391 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

1000x THIS. I haven’t missed a season at Target Field since it opened in 2010. This might be my first. But you know what, I DON’T CARE if it means the country, and as many people in it as possible, get to live to play another day.

I friend of mine heard that I had the covid and sent me a text asking if I was Ok and if there is anything he can do. I said take me to a game when this is over (he has seats at Yankee stadium three rows behind the Yank’s dugout). I never ask cause they are super expensive, but I figured why not. Said he would love to take me, but I may have to wait a year until they play. Not going until there is a vaccine. Having Covid does not guarantee immunity (at least that’s the current thinking. No one knows for sure).

When baseball returns, it returns. Until then the Astros are cheaters.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:41:11pm

re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Roberts’ legacy is awful. Yeah he saved ACA but he’s been part of a culture of right wing judicial activism.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Apr 14, 2020 • 5:44:54pm

re: #372 makeitstop

Is that Brie Brie he’s talking about here? If so, wow.

Sanders:
“I believe that it’s irresponsible for anybody to say, ‘Well, I disagree with Joe Biden—I disagree with Joe Biden!—and therefore I’m not going to be involved.’”
Says notable holdout @briebriejoy “is my former press secretary—not on the payroll.”https://t.co/AfUvpt7ubY

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 14, 2020

Gray‘s tweets have featured comments like the below, from Sunday (the day before Sanders formally endorsed Biden).

But what he’s making clear here is that he expects to be the one speaking for his movement, not anyone else.

Question is: will the movement listen? pic.twitter.com/Xn957fMnKU

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 14, 2020

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 5:45:55pm

re: #398 I Would Prefer Not To

Not an expert on this but….

Not going until there is a vaccine. Having Covid does not guarantee immunity (at least that’s the current thinking. No one knows for sure).

If the latter is true, the former might never be a thing, at least not in the traditional sense.

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BeachDem Apr 14, 2020 • 5:46:45pm

re: #399 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Roberts’ legacy is awful. Yeah he saved ACA but he’s been part of a culture of right wing judicial activism.

Saved ACA; killed VRA. An asshole of the first order.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:49:21pm

re: #402 BeachDem

Saved ACA; killed VRA. An asshole of the first order.

Yep. I really hope he lives to see a lot of the precedents he created reversed.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Apr 14, 2020 • 5:50:26pm

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good for him. Bernie is doing the right thing. I’m not overly excited about Biden but the choice is not difficult.

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 5:51:55pm

Thank God you all blocked impeachment witnesses and rushed to acquit so the president could devote February to … (checks schedule) holding campaign rallies and golfing? https://t.co/FEzx07KiId

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 14, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:54:41pm

re: #405 Dread Pirate

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Yeah because Presidents can’t multitask. Kiss my ass, Lindsay, you feckless coward.

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 5:54:53pm

re: #396 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Biden won’t win KY but McGrath can definitely beat Mitch. Mitch is beatable in a presidential election year especially this one. Mitch and Cornyn hopefully both get wiped out.

I hope you’re right, but unfortunately (for the country) I think the odds of booting Cornyn are just too long (Because Texas). Just a WAG, though: I think Tillis in NC MAY be vulnerable: and while it’s a good thought that old McTurtle may be in election trouble, I still think KY is at best, a toss-up.

And another WAG, pre-Coronavirus, I would have thought the prospect of a 50-50 Senate in the next Congress was a best-case scenario: now, I’m thinking it’s the worst-case: flipping the Senate is vital (for the country): working to grab one of the GA seats would really seal the deal IMO…

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:55:21pm

re: #401 Jack Burton

Not an expert on this but….

If the latter is true, the former might never be a thing, at least not in the traditional sense.

There are serological tests out there now that can detected antibodies specific to COVID-19. The presence of those antibodies strongly suggests that for folks who have them, they are immune for at least some period of time. This would be consistent with other coronaviruses, including the original SARS. There is a dataset that suggests that some people who had mild cases do not necessarily develop those antibodies, but even among that group it was a minority of cases, not the majority.

Can we say for sure that immunity is a given and how long it lasts? No. Does the evidence suggest that it happens in the majority of cases and likely lasts for at least some time? Yes.

(I have yet to see any good data to suggest actual reinfection is a thing that’s happening, compared to false negatives plus potentially resurgence of symptoms. If someone’s got a paper on that instead of just news articles, that would be great.)

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 5:56:00pm

Some sad news from Balloon Juice…

Link

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 5:58:03pm

re: #388 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

No one misses baseball more than me but fuck Trump for wanting people to risk dying for his amusement.

I have no love for baseball. I won’t go into it now but for those many fans of it I do know, I hope for it to wait and open again only when safe for everyone. I hope that MLB’s greed is, for once, over come by sanity because they may well have to say bye to this whole season.

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 5:59:23pm

re: #400 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh, man, she must be steaming right now. Good.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 5:59:44pm

re: #410 William Lewis

I have no love for baseball. I won’t go into it now but for those many fans of it I do know, I hope for it to wait and open again only when safe for everyone. I hope that MLB’s greed is, for once, over come by sanity because they may well have to say bye to this whole season.

Agreed.

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Decatur Deb Apr 14, 2020 • 6:00:09pm

re: #409 nicdanger

Some sad news from Balloon Juice…

Link

My browser can’t find that site—unless that’s the bad news.

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danarchy Apr 14, 2020 • 6:00:26pm

re: #257 Barefoot Grin

finally I was done filling up, but the fucker wouldn’t just walk away. I think we’ll seeing more of this random shit as misinformation hits the airwaves. I’m not saying that vitamin D isn’t important, but that it’s being promoted as a cure? SMH.

Th only thing vitamins are going to cure are a vitamin deficiency.

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 6:01:22pm

re: #408 klys (maker of Silmarils)

They lack of any good data on the possibility of ‘reinfection’ is irritating me almost as much as Clownstick’s voice.

If really defeating this depends of either a vaccine or robust testing for infection or antibodies, then knowing if reinfection is an actual thing or not seems pretty damn important to me.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Apr 14, 2020 • 6:03:47pm

pic.twitter.com/eCBVkaVcgU

— Jon L.: 约翰 . 在美国 . 心在昆明. (@kmgplace2b) April 14, 2020

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 6:04:19pm

Here it is, everybody. I know you’ve been waiting for it. The Official M*A*S*H Political Alignment Chart.

At last, my life’s work is complete. pic.twitter.com/sPcOJ3lOzG

— Dr. Monkey, MD (@VitruvianMonkey) April 15, 2020

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 6:04:50pm

Just a reminder: every country in the world has had the same information from the W.H.O. Only the US has had 600,000 cases and 25,000 deaths. This is obvious blameshifting by the responsible party - Trump. https://t.co/7W51jlkiq9

— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) April 14, 2020

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 6:05:00pm

re: #413 Decatur Deb

It’s John Coles site,Balloon juice.com

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 6:05:02pm

re: #413 Decatur Deb

My browser can’t find that site—unless that’s the bad news.

Typo in the link - a : is needed between https and //

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 6:07:01pm

re: #420 William Lewis

Thanks William…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡 Apr 14, 2020 • 6:07:31pm

Hey, we’re back from the hospital.

I WON THE LOTTO! Thirteen free tickets and $3!

Extremely local news behind the hide bar.

Click to Reveal

The hospital outpatient clinics were mostly a ghost town. You don’t get in the hospital except by two guarded entrances and with a mask. No mask, no enter. All visitors are now banned.

Hit the grocery store and gas station on the way home. (Premium gas: $3.45. Whar oil price war?)

The store has more added features, including social distancing lines in the checkout lanes.

Paper products were hit hard but available. No sanitising supplies of any kind, nor regular bleach.

This store happens to sell “concentrated bleach” (that is, 8.25% sodium hypochlorite instead of the usual 5.4% laundry bleach with perfume—the reason the market sells the high load bleach is because all the water systems around here which use chlorine have to use at least 8% by state law—nothing prohibits you from using it for laundry or cleaning though, just use a bit less). No Lysol, wipes, hand sanitiser, or ramen noodles (except hot chili). Plenty of Borax, regular laundry soap, Felz Naptha soap, &c.

Regular potato chips were all sold out of all brands including the house brand. Fritos were sold out. However, lots of Dot’s pretzels (Dot’s is a small business in North Dakota; their pretzels are a “secret formula” which is pretty good). No sugar-free cookies.

I got the only loaf of rye bread. Ocean Spray original cranberry juice was gone except two bottles, but it was on a 50% markdown.

Cauliflower was on sale for lower than what my wife says she’s seen in several years; produce was well-stocked.

The butcher shop is still only letting two people in at a time, but no line to get in. Loaded up on various steaks and lunchmeats.

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Jay C Apr 14, 2020 • 6:08:53pm

re: #413 Decatur Deb

My browser can’t find that site—unless that’s the bad news.

Unfortunately no, they lost one of their frontpagers today. ( not COVID, though).
Bummer for the BJ community.

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jaunte Apr 14, 2020 • 6:09:35pm

This feels like a metaphor for his presidency. https://t.co/oggFzqySEK

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 15, 2020

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 6:11:22pm

re: #422 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Hey, we’re back from the hospital.

I WON THE LOTTO! Thirteen free tickets and $3!

Extremely local news behind the hide bar.

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That’s expensive, even California gas can be found for under $3.

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Ace Rothstein Apr 14, 2020 • 6:13:26pm

re: #424 jaunte

Oh for fuck’s sake. FUCK YOU TRUMP!

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William Lewis Apr 14, 2020 • 6:17:12pm

re: #422 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Huh. Gas here is $1.49 regular & $1.69 premium. I’m seeing lots of morons out on their ATV’s as a result of cheap premium around here.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 6:18:07pm

re: #409 nicdanger

Some sad news from Balloon Juice…

Link

You’re link is missing a colon “:”

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 6:19:57pm

The world without humans has allowed animals all over the world to explore new places.🌎❤️pic.twitter.com/7gD4giilum

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 12, 2020

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 6:20:21pm

re: #427 William Lewis

Huh. Gas here is $1.49 regular & $1.69 premium. I’m seeing lots of morons out on their ATV’s as a result of cheap premium around here.

Gas in Greenville, Tx is $1.19 at the QT. It’s $1.29 in Caddo Mills, and $1.44 in Rockwall.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 6:22:38pm

re: #429 Dread Pirate

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Does the Animal Kingdom Bible allow that last pairing? //

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 6:25:03pm

re: #428 Belafon

Figures…I copied it right off the address bar from there and pasted it.Dunno how I managed to screw it up.

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Belafon Apr 14, 2020 • 6:27:48pm

re: #432 nicdanger

Figures…I copied it right off the address bar from there and pasted it.Dunno how I managed to screw it up.

That’s OK. It happens. Just wanted to let you know what you needed to fix it.

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makeitstop Apr 14, 2020 • 6:27:52pm

re: #425 Dread Pirate

That’s expensive, even California gas can be found for under $3.

I saw gas for $1.99 all over LI today, $1.69 in a couple of places. BJ’s Wholesale Club had regular for $1.49.

Never thought I’d see those prices around here again.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 6:29:29pm

re: #434 makeitstop

I saw gas for $1.99 all over LI today, $1.69 in a couple of places. BJ’s Wholesale Club had regular for $1.49.

Never thought I’d see those prices around here again.

$1.79 here in the wild north country. Last time I remember seeing prices this low was before 9/11. I’m sure it has been since then - just not for very long.

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Dread Pirate Apr 14, 2020 • 6:29:39pm

In California we pay more for gas because, uhh, we can.

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 6:30:53pm

re: #433 Belafon

Thanks

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Jack Burton Apr 14, 2020 • 6:33:04pm

re: #436 Dread Pirate

In California we pay more for gas because, uhh, we can.

In my town in Southern California the cheapest is $1.99/gal with over $2.50/gal being the high side.

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BogeyMon Apr 14, 2020 • 6:35:08pm

Hey everyone, hope all the lizards are staying safe, drive by posting.
Yesterday we were in the Food-Lion, getting essentials (beer), we hand our masks on, I didn’t like mine, had a funky, papermill smell to it. After two aisles I told Tammy, “my mask smells like ass” she didn’t miss as beat and said “its probably just your breath”
God I love this woman!
Be cool and stay safe!

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nicdanger Apr 14, 2020 • 6:36:27pm

re: #433 Belafon
Thought about trying to fix it,but would probably just make it worse. It’s at the end of the thread anyway.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Apr 14, 2020 • 6:43:42pm

re: #415 Jack Burton

They lack of any good data on the possibility of ‘reinfection’ is irritating me almost as much as Clownstick’s voice.

If really defeating this depends of either a vaccine or robust testing for infection or antibodies, then knowing if reinfection is an actual thing or not seems pretty damn important to me.

To some extent, lack of well documented cases strongly suggests that reinfection is not likely for the vast majority of people. (You could still see isolated cases where the immune system just doesn’t catch on, but we see that with regular stuff too - see why herd immunity matters for vaccines. It’s not just for the people who can’t have the vaccine - it’s also for the people whose bodies just don’t produce the antibodies for some reason or another.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡 Apr 14, 2020 • 6:47:07pm

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

I have a bad feeling about this.

Trump will signal he wants the economy reopened. Blue states will do it slowly or not go for it at all, but most red states will ramp back up pretty quickly and well, do the math.

And I live in a deep red state.

If my Governor tries to open things back up, I’m staying my ass put.

You and me both.

When we were in the grocery store this afternoon, maybe 20% of the people there had masks.

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 6:48:08pm

Wherin I fact check david Simon

He has deleted.

Didn’t Winchell take a turn to the right wing in the 1950s: following Joe McCarthy’s lead and accusing everyone of being a communist?

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 15, 2020

According to Wikipedia, Alvin Karpis taught Charles Manson how to play guitar.

I can’t find anything on Karpis, Winchell & Hoover. Did you mean Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter? https://t.co/LXCPQQdEiz

— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) April 15, 2020

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Citizen K Apr 14, 2020 • 6:50:12pm

re: #424 jaunte

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His ego demands credit for that which he tried to prevent in the first place, because he is a raging narcissist. And his fanbase will continue to treat him as the reason the sun rises in the east because he is their Sainted God-King Of Hate.

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danarchy Apr 14, 2020 • 6:51:17pm

re: #415 Jack Burton

They lack of any good data on the possibility of ‘reinfection’ is irritating me almost as much as Clownstick’s voice.

If really defeating this depends of either a vaccine or robust testing for infection or antibodies, then knowing if reinfection is an actual thing or not seems pretty damn important to me.

It is a little hard to test this in humans as you can’t ethically expose someone to the virus again if you don’t already know the answer, but small studies in primates have shown you can not reinfect them after they have recovered.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 6:53:51pm

re: #445 danarchy

It is a little hard to test this in humans as you can’t ethically expose someone to the virus again if you don’t already know the answer, but small studies in primates have shown you can not reinfect them after they have recovered.

That didn’t stop that one doctor who put elderly patients on a hydroxychloroquine “observational study” without their knowledge or consent.

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teleskiguy Apr 14, 2020 • 6:57:28pm

I challenge any of these guys to convincingly describe the experience of “buying groceries.” https://t.co/A6rDOAkOMn

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) April 14, 2020

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DodgerFan1988 Apr 14, 2020 • 6:58:18pm

Actually just furious that my aunt died. https://t.co/JjmkGnsVPV

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) April 14, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 6:59:23pm

re: #448 DodgerFan1988

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The pandemic isn’t as bad as the original projections because WE DID THE THING, YOU DUMB BLOND BIMBO. If we hadn’t, 5% or more of the country would be dead and you’d be excoriating the libs for “letting this happen”, as if it was OUR fault that the Republicans are in charge of the federal government.

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gocart mozart Apr 14, 2020 • 6:59:58pm

Ridiculous

— (((Donna Diorio))) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@DonnaDiorio) April 15, 2020

Don’t bother telling me more. I’ve got my own eyes open to what’s happening to this country. Hollywood hysterics are NOT winning hearts & minds.

— (((Donna Diorio))) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@DonnaDiorio) April 15, 2020

And now I must regrettably change tone from simple declarative to relenrlessly abusive: You dopey, uninformed squib, get one thing straight — I don’t get near Hollywood. I live and work and breathe deep in Baltimore fucking Maryland. https://t.co/f4fkiL82jK

— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 15, 2020

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BlueSpotinAL Apr 14, 2020 • 7:01:16pm

re: #257 Barefoot Grin

OMFG. This morning I was just trying to pump gas into my wife’s car when this guy walked up and said “that mask will do you no good; are you taking vitamin D?”

I said, “as it happens, yes, because I broke my foot and the doctor recommended it as part of bone healing.”

Rando: “how much? how many units?”

I said, “I don’t know but I’m good, thank you.”

Rando: “you need 5000; it’s the equivalent of an hour in the sun. That mask won’t do shit. If you start to feel bad up it to 10,000; and if you still don’t feel well hit the hydroxychloroquine hard.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

Rando: “my dad had a PhD in chemistry and this is his advice; he knows more than your doctor.”

Me: “ok, thank you.”

finally I was done filling up, but the fucker wouldn’t just walk away. I think we’ll seeing more of this random shit as misinformation hits the airwaves. I’m not saying that vitamin D isn’t important, but that it’s being promoted as a cure? SMH.

Tell him you are wearing the mask because your brother has covid, and you can’t get tested.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Apr 14, 2020 • 7:02:40pm

re: #448 DodgerFan1988

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God I hate that woman.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡 Apr 14, 2020 • 7:03:24pm

Nebraska 5PM CDT numbers:

901 positive (+30 new)
20 deaths (+10 new)

Still almost no testing (11,757 out of a population of 1.9 million)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 7:06:46pm

re: #453 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Nebraska 5PM CDT numbers:

901 positive (+30 new)
20 deaths (+10 new)

Still almost no testing (11,757 out of a population of 1.9 million)

You’re close, on a percentage basis, with us (~39000 out of 5.8 million).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡 Apr 14, 2020 • 7:08:19pm

re: #235 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)

you first

“You need to die to save my reëlection chances.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Apr 14, 2020 • 7:08:52pm

re: #455 Anymouse 🌹🏡

“You need to die to save my reëlection chances.”

To quote a legendary philosopher, Sid the Sloth: “No thanks. I choose LIFE.”

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goddamnedfrank Apr 14, 2020 • 7:10:04pm

re: #450 gocart mozart

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The ⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the twitter name means a supporter of General Michael Flynn.

It’s nice of them to put shit like that in there, makes it easier

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plansbandc Apr 14, 2020 • 8:26:40pm

re: #412 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’ve been a huge sports fan from age 3 (first football game I went to). It is absolutely insane the whole industry just went away in a split second. But I do not want any of it back until the players are guaranteed to be safe. Obviously, there won’t (shouldn’t be, but our country is really stupid like its “president”) be crowds watching them play, but I think full testing of the players may make some sort of sports ball happen sooner rather than later. Too much money in it.

I fear they are going to push the players into a terribly unsafe situation though. I really do.

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unproven innocence Apr 14, 2020 • 10:06:04pm

re: #244 electrotek

These Goddamn grifters in the faux-hippie communities:

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I concede that the video title itself (CORONAVIRUS CAN BE PREVENTED - VITAMIN D) is a grifty snake-oil-like phrasing, and that is unfortunate, as it is an oversimplification and misleading.

But such is the state of the arts. I was surprised to learn that MDs who are skin specialists seem to be so dedicated to avoiding skin cancer from exposure to sunlight that many of them have VERY low vitD levels —levels that would put them at risk of Rickets if they were younger. Sigh.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 15, 2020 • 3:01:44am

re: #380 NetworkKed

What the fuck is happening.

ourworldindata.org

US daily testing numbers are trending down. I’m not talking about positive test results, I’m talking about tests run.

If I were completely paranoid, I would say that testing is being suppressed in order to create a downwards curve in positives, giving Big Money a reason to push for “opening the country”. This is a combined operation, of course, with multiple people monkey-wrenching testing, including the White House suppressing federal funds for it, and the usual rightwing droolers, financial press wannabes, and actual billionaires gaming the system doing the media press to get the unwashed masses to throw themselves on the altar of stock prices.

But while dreams of some of this probably are rattling around in the Administration’s collective consciousness, I fear that what’s actually happening is they’re just too fucking incompetent to make the systems work right.

Saw news that Korea was shipping us 600k test kits. That’s about four days of national usage at current rates. Just watch, total numbers will still go down.

All the federal test sites were defunded and shut down last Friday. States have not had the time and resources to step up and replace the lost capacity yet.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 15, 2020 • 3:12:41am

re: #453 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Nebraska 5PM CDT numbers:

901 positive (+30 new)
20 deaths (+10 new)

Still almost no testing (11,757 out of a population of 1.9 million)

And Chester County, PA roughly still on par with this - but perhaps improving.

636 positive (+6 new)
20 deaths (+3 new)
~4,000 tested out of 525,000 pop.

Positive case doubling about every 7-8 days now. Which looks like some flattening effect is happening.

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