Responding to reports that Americans might experience meat shortages as soon as this week, President Trump moved to force meat processing plants to keep operating. #Colbert #StephenAtHome #Monologue
‘Some countries talked about herd immunity as a strategy. In New Zealand we never ever considered that. Herd immunity would have meant 10s of 10000s of New Zealanders dying & I simply would not have tolerated that’
Today New Zealand returns to work
pic.twitter.com/OtrYB0R22Z— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 28, 2020
What life looks like in countries that are governed by actual sane, smart people.
I keep running across Trumpites whining about @Popehat lately.
Apparently, he’s the new me. 😏 pic.twitter.com/wT0lUxglME— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
Followed a link from a tweet today and suddenly felt like I was in a time warp, a universe where the Weekly Standard was still alive with all its right wing authors. Then I noticed it was The Bulwark. Oh, right.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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I guess they didn’t see where he retweeted about the “breaking news” about the “new witnesses” in the Reade story.
How people from Detroit social distance: pic.twitter.com/z3MuJLGYk4
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 29, 2020
From last thread:
re: #514 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
America did not have large, international stock corporations when the Constitution was drafted. Most businesses were small affairs, owned and run by one person or family. Which meant that unions were painted as gangs using undue leverage on an individual.
So not much has changed: except for a revised definition of “individual”, this is how most conservatives/Republicans still view unions….
Does anybody but me remember how flat out awful the Weekly Standard was during Obama’s presidency? It was an up-scale Breitbart. Non-stop hyper-partisan attacks and lies. It’s pretty weird to see the same people now being treated like sages.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
… when they were just as responsible for creating the sick right wing culture that gave us Donald Trump as _anyone_.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
Visual representation of the lies coming out of Republicans’ mouths. pic.twitter.com/owzWvbGtkP
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 29, 2020
A brain and a set of jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender refuses to serve them. When asked why the bartender says, you brain are out of your head and the cables are looking to start something.
(Courtesy of a friend on FB)
meanwhile, defying the governor in North Carolina:
By working together with our stay at home order through social distancing and good sanitation practices, we have flattened the curve in Gaston County and assured our hospital maintained steady capacity.
— Tracy Philbeck (@tracyphilbeck) April 29, 2020
I plan to sign an order today that reopens Gaston County in phases effective April 29th at 5:00 PM. Staying at home is not a solution. We can protect health and we can work at the same time.
Thank you pic.twitter.com/DU5hzDjEsc— Tracy Philbeck (@tracyphilbeck) April 29, 2020
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile, defying the governor in North Carolina:
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What’s this “we” business, white man?
Thx Trump for admitting that @justinamash’s candidacy is a set-up BY YOU to steal votes from Biden. pic.twitter.com/oUiLD1nnin
— CUPCAKE GALLEGO KETAY BARRON DENNISON MILLER (@CUPCAKEWILLIAM6) April 29, 2020
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile, defying the governor in North Carolina:
“We’re going at the wall at 100mph, but at least we’ve stopped accelerating.”
re: #13 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
An open penstock at the bottom of a dam.
Hung way late on the last thread:
re: #508 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Before 1900, no-one thought that government should interfere in the economy at all, so there’s that. Even the Progressives only thought about breaking monopolies and regulating the quality and contents of merchandise.
I get really tired of people (GENERIC) who seem to think everything from government to technology to people’s attitudes is unchanged since the beginning of time.
re: #527 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I was simply referring to how Republicans treated the economy as it existed in each presidency.
No matter how the economy was viewed in what era, Republicans screwed it up. Regardless of the economic setup, the GOP has always been the party of big business since the end of the Civil War. Thus their economic policies, regardless of how people viewed the economy, tended to favour big businesses at the expense of everyone else. Hence all the panics and economic collapses.
Collapsing the silver industry by the GOP lead to a Populist Party governor elected in Colorado. When Gov. Waite sought to remove corrupt officials from Denver installed by the GOP, they used gangsters and criminals to barricade themselves into city hall. The governor had to use the state militia to dislodge them. Following that, the GOP fought in court all the way to the state supreme court to argue Gov. Waite did not have the authority to remove corrupt city commissioners (the court ruled in favour of the governor).
Protestants aligned with the GOP formed a protective society, the purpose of which was to force businesses to fire Catholics. In response, the Catholic Church infiltrated the organisation to out corrupt GOP officials leading it.
The Populist Party of the XIX promoted collectivism and labour with the help of people like Eugene Debs, and in 1892 won four states in the Presidential election (the idea government should interfere in the economy). The party collapsed with Williams Jennings Bryant taking over their message and making it part of the Democratic Party platform.
This is what’s coming for America, too, as Trump and his right wing sycophants stupidly push to open things up way too soon, against all experts’ advice. https://t.co/rCZMFiD1ni
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #17 teleskiguy
An open penstock at the bottom of a dam.
Is that normal? To have it open? I’ve never seen anything like that before.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
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Which increases the likelihood (at least in my mind) that Repubs either are or will soon be moving to block any future lockdowns in the name of the Magic Line.
The impact on the American economy will be very, very, very small, if any… We really haven’t seen any economic impact. There may be some out there. Our own internal numbers say maybe two-tenths of a percent in the first quarter, but that’s not going to end this growth cycle.”
— White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, on Fox News, February 7, 2020
Off by a factor of like 25
Soooo close
Think of what it would mean if we had a real president, not just somebody who plays one on TV.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 29, 2020
re: #4 William Lewis
Just want to say that I appreciate how tolerant you all have been of my photographic postings here this past month. My photography has been instrumental in keeping me something vaguely resembling sane :D
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I’ve not just tolerated your photos, I’ve enjoyed them. Keep sharing.
Amash isn’t going to fucking Jill Stein all of us, is he?
re: #11 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
A brain and a set of jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender refuses to serve them. When asked why the bartender says, you brain are out of your head and the cables are looking to start something.
(Courtesy of a friend on FB)
Oh, man, my cat was just sick on the carpet.
I don’t think she’s feline well…
(I have an app of dad jokes ;)
re: #24 Teddy’s Person
I’ve not just tolerated your photos, I’ve enjoyed them. Keep sharing.
Seconded.
re: #4 William Lewis
Did you check to see if there was a sign saying “abandon hope all ye who enter here”?
re: #20 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s normal, yes. They get opened when the water behind the dam gets too close to the top of the dam. This is the Hoover Dam in 1998 when Lake Mead was mere inches from the top of the dam.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Germany’s not the only example:
After months of successfully controlling its coronavirus outbreak, Singapore has seen thousands of new cases — including more than 1,400 new cases in a single day.
Here’s how the coronavirus came surging back in Singapore. https://t.co/8ExU8SPILd— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 29, 2020
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Amash isn’t going to fucking Jill Stein all of us, is he?
There’s nobody who’s going to vote for Amash that really wanted to vote for Biden. I guarantee you that any of those that vote for him would have found a reason to vote for Trump.
re: #29 teleskiguy
It’s normal, yes. They get opened when the water behind the dam gets too close to the top of the dam. This is the Hoover Dam in 1998 when Lake Mead was mere inches from the top of the dam.
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Not something they really have to worry about at Lake Mead anymore.
We reached 58,965 dead today Mitch.
That’s over 14,500 Benghazis https://t.co/Z4Jbb2tkdx— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 29, 2020
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
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What life looks like in countries that are governed by actual sane, smart people.
As it turns out, women.
re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg
Amash isn’t going to fucking Jill Stein all of us, is he?
I have very serious doubts that he will. His biggest appeal is to those closeted Republicans who want to believe that the only thing wrong with their party is the troll at 1600 Penn Ave.
re: #35 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yes. Isn’t that something? :)
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
meanwhile, defying the governor in North Carolina:
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Well, I hope, for the sake of the citizens of Gaston County, that their Commissioners are correct: though I seriously doubt it. That “Promise” they’ve published has (IMO) several huge flaws in it, mainly:
1. They posit (doubtfully) that their “distancing” measures have “flattened the curve” for (one presumes) new infections [no numbers provided, and even if correct, does not take into account any future cases]
2. Even if they are correct in postulating that their current stay-at-home measures have slowed the spread of COVID-19, - and stabilized their hospital usage - why they think immediately relaxing said measures wouldn’t have negative effects is a mystery.[“flattening the curve” does NOT mean “virus has gone away”]
3. While they pointedly connect their “re-opening” policy to maintenance of “social distancing practice”, “cleaning and disinfection requirement” and “maximum capacity” regulations, they offer no hints whatsoever about how they plan (or even IF they plan) to enforce these rules.
Have not seen an economic stimulus payment, so I went and puttered about the IRS site. Turns out that the key for receiving a payment is whether my 2018 or 2019 income is used for that calculation. IRS says I am eligible, but my 2019 data appears to have not been processed yet. So I’ll hold off since I suspect putting in the 2018 data will result in a “We own you nothing, good day sir!” response.
That I’m even doing this implies that I don’t really need the money, which is probably true. And my intention upon getting it was to give at least half to the local food bank since I’m pretty sure there are people in the county who would benefit from it. (And I might well make a donation of that scope in advance anyways.)
re: #33 KGxvi
Not something they really have to worry about at Lake Mead anymore.
Sadly, this is true. I visited the dam in 2016, and it was depressing seeing that enormous bathtub ring around the lake. They might not *ever* open the penstocks again.
Some pictures I took.
Hoover Dam power plant, Nevada side. I have to say this kind of blew my mind. Floor of the observation deck. pic.twitter.com/6zcfk5F4BL
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 10, 2016
Here’s the Bypass Bridge from *inside the Hoover Dam*. pic.twitter.com/YvcVv9q8TA
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 10, 2016
A tunnel inside the Hoover Dam.
re: #29 teleskiguy
It’s normal, yes. They get opened when the water behind the dam gets too close to the top of the dam. This is the Hoover Dam in 1998 when Lake Mead was mere inches from the top of the dam.
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re: #40 teleskiguy
Sadly, this is true. I visited the dam in 2016, and it was depressing seeing that enormous bathtub ring around the lake. They might not *ever* open the penstocks again.
Some pictures I took.
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Have New Vegas flashbacks.
re: #28 KGxvi
Did you check to see if there was a sign saying “abandon hope all ye who enter here”?
“Midway upon the journey of our life,
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward path had been lost.” ?
Fortunately for me, there was a well marked trail that day!
re: #31 Belafon
There’s nobody who’s going to vote for Amash that really wanted to vote for Biden. I guarantee you that any of those that vote for him would have found a reason to vote for Trump.
That’s my hunch as well. And as I’ve been saying, any vote that is not for Trump that would have otherwise been for him is a win.
In 2016, Johnson may have tilted a couple states to Clinton (depending on how you view it). But in New Mexico, Johnson’s vote share was larger than Clinton’s margin. Same is true in Colorado, Maine statewide, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Nevada. That’s 36 electoral votes that Clinton won with pluralities at the state level.
And here’s another one. It’s becoming a wingnut meme. pic.twitter.com/1Q2ZqfGJCe
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #40 teleskiguy
Sadly, this is true. I visited the dam in 2016, and it was depressing seeing that enormous bathtub ring around the lake. They might not *ever* open the penstocks again.
Some pictures I took.
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With the growth of the Vegas metro area, it was probably inevitable. I have an aunt and uncle that live out there and they used to have a boat at Mead. I remember going in the 90s and then again in the mid-aughts and you could already see the drop in water levels. Can’t imagine it’s got much better since.
Democrats need to quit letting McConnell gaslight them and learn to play hardball. vox.com
re: #41 Rightwingconspirator
Also when they want more river water for fish to spawn.
The Bureau of Reclamation periodically opens the penstocks on Glen Canyon Dam to stir up the sediment in the Grand Canyon, temporary solution to revive the river ecosystem.
So, just to be clear here: @senatemajldr wants to open up business, KNOWING PEOPLE WILL BE ENDANGERED BY THIS ACTION, but wants to protect BUSINESS from any responsibility?
Business over people.
That is some peak goddamn Republican right there. https://t.co/hhw9vnQBeK— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 29, 2020
President Trump declared Tuesday that the U.S. will be able to carry out five million coronavirus tests per day, but the top official overseeing testing strategy told Time earlier in the day that goal wasn’t feasible given current technology.
Admiral Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health who is in charge of the government’s testing response, said that “there is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even five million tests a day
re: #51 KGxvi
I really don’t understand why House leadership doesn’t ever get in front of things by passing a House Bill and then putting the pressure on McConnell and Trump to argue against it.
Because the media will simply ignore it that while McConnell lets said bill rot on his desk along with all the other stuff the House has passed.
re: #45 Charles Johnson
You’re living rent-free in their heads, Mr. Johnson. You seem to have enough space you could have an AirBNB.
re: #4 William Lewis
Just want to say that I appreciate how tolerant you all have been of my photographic postings here this past month. My photography has been instrumental in keeping me something vaguely resembling sane :D
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tolerate. I enjoy it.
So now Mr. Thomas “6 months” Friedman is pushing the Sweden’s handling of coronavirus to encourage a quick reopening of business in this country. It’s a real challenge, once he gets an idea in his head, to have him reconsider and change course. His wealth insulates him from the tragedies of ordinary people, but certainly helps him parrot the line of billionaire businessmen.
re: #4 William Lewis
I’ve enjoyed them as well as others posted by the various Lizards. Thanks and please keep posting them.
re: #1 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
‘Some countries talked about herd immunity as a strategy. In New Zealand we never ever considered that. Herd immunity would have meant 10s of 10000s of New Zealanders dying & I simply would not have tolerated that’
Today New Zealand returns to work
Not fair to compare an isolated island country of less than five million with the USA or Europe, but they nonetheless did an exemplary job.
re: #55 Hecuba’s daughter
So now Mr. Thomas “6 months” Friedman is pushing the Sweden’s handling of coronavirus to encourage a quick reopening of business in this country. It’s a real challenge, once he gets an idea in his head, to have him reconsider and change course. His wealth insulates him from the tragedies of ordinary people, but certainly helps him parrot the line of billionaire businessmen.
He does know that Sweden has seen a huge spike in their fatality rate, right?
CL’ed on the previous thread:
PRETZEL THREAD:
Today we are making PRETZELS. #QuarantineLife #baking #StayHomeSaveLives #Resist pic.twitter.com/m3zSMi1Z2w
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 29, 2020
The first batch is out of the oven! pic.twitter.com/O0GXs8C83w
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) April 29, 2020
re: #8 Jay C
From last thread:
So not much has changed: except for a revised definition of “individual”, this is how most conservatives/Republicans still view unions….
They really have us convinced that “individual freedom” means the right to negotiate one-to-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services…
re: #7 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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How about a nice cozy teahouse for today?
(Sonnenburg Gardens in Canandaigua, NY.)
Half an hour from casa ipsos!
re: #55 Hecuba’s daughter
So now Mr. Thomas “6 months” Friedman is pushing the Sweden’s handling of coronavirus to encourage a quick reopening of business in this country. It’s a real challenge, once he gets an idea in his head, to have him reconsider and change course. His wealth insulates him from the tragedies of ordinary people, but certainly helps him parrot the line of billionaire businessmen.
His excuse, always available: “A taxi driver told me…”
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not fair to compare an isolated island country of four million with the USA or Europe, but they nonetheless did an exemplary job.
Is fair to compare us to S.Korea, which has fewer number of deaths total than occurs in NY every damn day.
re: #46 KGxvi
With the growth of the Vegas metro area, it was probably inevitable.
Both times I’ve driven to Vegas from Colorado (a very beautiful drive) I’d get past the Virgin River Gorge and see that glow of the city and I thought to myself “That shouldn’t be there.”
re: #60 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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I am fascinated by glass art, especially glass blowing. There’s a series on Netflix called Blown Away that’s a competition show with glass artists. I really enjoyed the show. The winner received a $60,000 prize and an artist residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. So, it had some pretty serious glass artists as contestants.
re: #64 Sherlock Hound
His excuse, always available: “A taxi driver told me…”
But never believe bartenders. Especially if they get elected to office as Democrats.
/
re: #52 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Because the media will simply ignore it that while McConnell lets said bill rot on his desk along with all the other stuff the House has passed.
Then they get members of the House to go on every show possible and hammer home the point that they passed a bill and that McConnell and Trump won’t consider it. Like, this really isn’t fucking difficult.
re: #58 Targetpractice
He does know that Sweden has seen a huge spike in their fatality rate, right?
Some of us may die, but that is a sacrifice he is willing to make.
re: #30 Belafon
Germany’s not the only example:
Wingnuts are all over that saying LOOK AT SWEDEN!!1!2uno!!
Whatever benefit Sweden is getting is because Swedes trust their government and institutions.
Conservatives in this country are famous for not doing precisely that (thanks, Reagan).
I imagine Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa is about to preside over an epidemic in that state, since she’s trying to do the same thing.
re: #68 Teddy’s Person
I am fascinated by glass art, especially glass blowing. There’s a series on Netflix called Blown Away that’s a competition show with glass artists. I really enjoyed the show. The winner received a $60,000 prize and an artist residency at the Corning Museum of Glass. So, it had some pretty serious glass artists as contestants.
That photo is from the Corning Museum of Glass.
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They really have us convinced that “individual freedom” means the right to negotiate one-to-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services…
It’s Lochnertastic (shamelessly stolen from Erik Loomis over at LGM).
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
re: #50 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
And the primary reason we need to do that kind of testing is because Trump slow rolled testing when we had a handful of cases and could try to contact trace. Now? We need many times the level of testing we’re doing, and it still wont be enough.
re: #58 Targetpractice
He does know that Sweden has seen a huge spike in their fatality rate, right?
You think he really cares?
It has come with a high cost, though. As USA Today noted: “Sweden has a population of 10 million people, about twice as large as its nearest Scandinavian neighbors. As of April 28, the country’s Covid-19 death toll reached 2,274, about five times higher than in Denmark and 11 times higher than in Norway.” Nursing home residents account for more than a third of all deaths.
Tegnell said: “There has always been a problem with running these homes safely in Sweden going back a long time. That’s something we are taking advice on now and that we intend to do better on.”
……
Here’s the stone-cold truth: There are only different hellish ways to adapt to a pandemic and save both lives and livelihoods. I raise Sweden not because I think it has found the magic balance — it is way too soon to tell — but because I think we should be debating all the different ways and costs of acquiring immunity.
……
Herd immunity “has historically been nature’s way of ending pandemics,” added Dr. David Katz, the public health physician who helped kick off the debate in an essay he wrote in The New York Times on March 20 and in a follow-up interview we did together.“We need to bend with her forces — even when we as a species are responsible for unleashing them,” Katz said. That means a designed strategy, based on risk profiles, of phasing back to work those least vulnerable, so we gradually cultivate the protection of herd immunity — “while concentrating our health services and social services on protecting those most vulnerable” until we can sound the all-clear.
As long as he’s not in the demographic at risk, let’s go for herd immunity the brutal way.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
Honestly? Yes. Why? Because as noted by the Vox link up above, he’ll link it to something that he’ll sell as a “concession” to Dem “demands,” then expect the media to do the heavy-lifting of portraying any delay in the bill’s passage as Dems “blocking vital aid.”
re: #78 Thanos
& I don’t want to hear any comments about the Owlbrows.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
Read the link I posted. He will reluctantly make a deal to give away taxpayer money to undeserving state and local governments to get much needed relief for red blooded American businesses. And the Democrats will declare it a success of bipartisan negotiation.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
Maybe not. But they can then clog all the shows with Republicans claiming that the Democrats are stopping relief funds from getting to hard working Americans. And Chuck Todd and company will just lick it up.
re: #78 Thanos
And now I can live the dream of going to a bank, and demanding that they hand over money (it’s mine, I swear!)
re: #70 KGxvi
Then they get members of the House to go on every show possible and hammer home the point that they passed a bill and that McConnell and Trump won’t consider it. Like, this really isn’t fucking difficult.
Which requires the political shows to actually have on Democrats.
When Republicans are in power, they invite Republicans to explain their positions.
When Democrats are in power, they invite Republicans to explain why Democratic policies are wrong.
re: #76 lawhawk
And the primary reason we need to do that kind of testing is because Trump slow rolled testing when we had a handful of cases and could try to contact trace. Now? We need many times the level of testing we’re doing, and it still wont be enough.
At some point it goes beyond contact trace, if this gets too out of hand the authorities will have to go to hard quarantine instead of “self Isolation”. I can’t imagine how loud the caterwauling will become then.
re: #83 lawhawk
And now I can live the dream of going to a bank, and demanding that they hand over money (it’s mine, I swear!)
The other day I handed some cash to a cashier, who was handling the money rather like it was infected. “Don’t worry” I said. “All the cash around here is laundered anyway”.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
Will it also include arresting employees who go on strike for better working conditions?
Ok, so y’all remember how the US Department of Defense released some UFO videos the other day? This is from Japan:
Although Defense Minister Taro Kono doesn’t believe in UFOs, he wants the Self-Defense Forces to have a plan in place for any encounter—just in case.
Kono made the comment at a news conference on April 28 after the U.S. Defense Department declassified and released videos shot by Navy pilots pointing to the possibility that UFOs exist.
“We would like to establish procedures in the event an encounter is made with a UFO,” Kono said.
He indicated his ministry and the SDF would begin preparing for such an event.
There’s so much I could say here, but I’m just going to keep my mouth firmly shut.
re: #86 Rightwingconspirator
It depends on the way the cashier takes the statement.
re: #70 KGxvi
Then they get members of the House to go on every show possible and hammer home the point that they passed a bill and that McConnell and Trump won’t consider it. Like, this really isn’t fucking difficult.
If they get invited.
re: #86 Rightwingconspirator
The other day I handed some cash to a cashier, who was handling the money rather like it was infected. “Don’t worry” I said. “All the cash around here is laundered anyway”.
We rub each side of each bill with a lysol wipe after we get to the car until they are thoroughly damp.
re: #86 Rightwingconspirator
The other day I handed some cash to a cashier, who was handling the money rather like it was infected. “Don’t worry” I said. “All the cash around here is laundered anyway”.
Honestly, I hate handling cash even when there’s not a pandemic going on. But now? Now it just makes me inwardly cringe everytime someone walks up to the desk to hand me cash for a single item from the lobby “market.” The salt on the wound is when I tell them the (inflated) price and then bitch to me about how “expensive” everything is.
I finally got tired of it the other day and pointedly told one of them that there was a Wawa right across the road from the hotel if they were unhappy with the price. The response? “I don’t want to walk that far.” GAH!
re: #85 Thanos
At some point it goes beyond contact trace, if this gets too out of hand the authorities will have to go to hard quarantine instead of “self Isolation”. I can’t imagine how loud the caterwauling will become then.
Hospitals are going to be stuck in this new normal, where they’ve got fridge trucks lined up to deal with covid19 patients who died, while trying to function “normally”. It guarantees more patients and staff get sickened and die, and it’s as though the GOP is pushing to get things right up to the breaking point of the health care delivery system, instead of doing everything possible to save as many lives as possible in the shortest time possible.
re: #92 Thanos
We rub each side of each bill with a lysol wipe after we get to the car until they are thoroughly damp.
I think the only cash transaction I’ve done in the past month was paying for a latte with a $5. And I told the barista to keep the change.
re: #89 mmmirele
I do believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
But let’s be clear here: A UFO is NOT necessary something of alien origin.
Unidentified Flying Object.
That means something in the air that someone does not recognize. There are plenty of man made flying objects that can be labeled “Unidentified” if the person watching them doesn’t know what the hell they’re looking at.
re: #90 PhillyPretzel
It depends on the way the cashier takes the statement.
When I was in the general store this morning, I asked the proprietor if he’d rather I use my credit card. He said “no, they aren’t reliable.”
re: #89 mmmirele
Ok, so y’all remember how the US Department of Defense released some UFO videos the other day? This is from Japan:
There’s so much I could say here, but I’m just going to keep my mouth firmly shut.
Unexplained aerial phenomenon are just that. Unexplained. Leaves a lot of possibilities open.
But the human mind is quick to fill in the gaps, all the way to abduction and forced anal probes…
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
GMTA.
I got through to EDD! Never so happy to hear music on hold. No human yet but fingers crossed.
re: #81 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Read the link I posted. He will reluctantly make a deal to give away taxpayer money to undeserving state and local governments to get much needed relief for red blooded American businesses.
And the Democrats will declare it a success of bipartisan negotiation.And liberals will whine that Democrats were the problem in the whole thing.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
I do believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
I believe in the possibility of such, but lacking any sort of solid, verifiable evidence, I still relegate it to the realm of speculation and creative fiction.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Does Mcconnell really think a bill that insulates Businesses from being liable for sick and dying employees will have any chance to make it through the House?
It’s a poison pill and he knows it. He wants it added to kill any more stimulus bills.
I’ll be back this evening, the back yard has gone to rain forest and I’ve got weeds to whack.
re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡
When I was in the general store this morning, I asked the proprietor if he’d rather I use my credit card. He said “no, they aren’t reliable.”
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
re: #67 Jebediah, RBG
First production run of the masks my wife designed and produced is in hand now - these are, in my completely un-biased estimation, 40 million times better than the pretty crummy mask a local dispensary sold me for $20.
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Very nice! Well done!
re: #105 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
It’s 1920 where Anymouse lives.
re: #67 Jebediah, RBG
First production run of the masks my wife designed and produced is in hand now - these are, in my completely un-biased estimation, 40 million times better than the pretty crummy mask a local dispensary sold me for $20.
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Very cool. Are you selling them?
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I believe in the possibility of such, but lacking any sort of solid, verifiable evidence, I still relegate to the realm of speculation and creative fiction.
In light of current scientific understanding, the possibility of life on other planets is almost a near certainty. But the idea that they are crossing vast intergalactic distances just to study us is far-fetched. If we ever see evidence of life from beyond our planet, it will likely be in the form of robotic probes. And if we’re lucky, all they’ll want to do is scan our planet and then leave. Because the alternative is they’re here for something, and the odds that we’ll pose any sort of threat to them are…remote.
re: #96 Eclectic Cyborg
I do too. Just not in the idea they come around the earth. Or our star. My money is that the “Tic Tac” is a breakthrough drone system from DARPA or something like that. Or a flat out glitch in the very very advanced integrated air defenses and new radars.
re: #109 Targetpractice
In light of current scientific understanding, the possibility of life on other planets is almost a near certainty. But the idea that they are crossing vast intergalactic distances just to study us is far-fetched. If we ever see evidence of life from beyond our planet, it will likely be in the form of robotic probes. And if we’re lucky, all they’ll want to do is scan our planet and then leave. Because the alternative is they’re here for something, and the odds that we’ll pose any sort of threat to them are…remote.
Did you say probes?
re: #107 Belafon
It’s 1920 where Anymouse lives.
Far-Western Nebraska is in a special time zone (UTC -50 years).
;)
re: #105 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
Most stores here don’t take them because of the extremely high cost of Internet service here.
Our store in the village does take them, primarily from tourists on US-26, but he prefers cash.
The bar also takes credit cards, but prefers money.
The Post Office takes credit, but only has limited cash on hand for change if you use money.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Unexplained aerial phenomenon are just that. Unexplained. Leaves a lot of possibilities open.
But the human mind is quick to fill in the gaps, all the way to abduction and forced anal probes…
Even before UFOs, there were monsters and demons supposedly doing those things. We just replaced them with ETs.
This… this would make a lot of sense…
Hopefully after the November elections are over and the Orange Menace is out, the next year is gonna be like this:
…soundtrack by Jandek
re: #105 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
Have come across a number of small businesses that are still cash only. My local dry cleaner is one.
Even less surprised for Anymouse’s area since he indicates that internet and thus banking interactions are probably slower and less reliable. And by being cash only you avoid risk of non-payment due to check bouncing or credit card company refusing payment for some reason. And I presume the credit card companies still charge the business a fee for their usage there.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Wingnuts are all over that saying LOOK AT SWEDEN!!1!2uno!!
Whatever benefit Sweden is getting is because Swedes trust their government and institutions.
Conservatives in this country are famous for not doing precisely that (thanks, Reagan).
I imagine Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa is about to preside over an epidemic in that state, since she’s trying to do the same thing.
Sweden enacted plenty of regulations, just not a full scale lockdown. They also have a high death rate, and are pinning their hopes that COVID recovery imparts immunity. While that is probably the case, we have no proof of that, and therefore they are taking a substantial risk.
re: #103 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s a poison pill and he knows it. He wants it added to kill any more stimulus bills.
Not so much a poison pill as his setting the bar higher with each succeeding bill. He got what he wanted in the first bill, which was a massive giveaway to his corporate buddies. And even then, he had to be arm-twisted into accepting any sort of help for workers themselves. With each new bill, he’s raised the bar on what he’ll need to allow Dems to get any sort of aid to Americans.
He knows that state/city aid is pretty much an inevitability, even red states are all but begging him to make it happen. Liability protection isn’t a “poison pill,” it’s the price his corporate masters are asking for “their money” going to the states.
Oh great. A virus that hovers. https://t.co/xI0FHeJEN1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Have come across a number of small businesses that are still cash only. My local dry cleaner is one.
Even less surprised for Anymouse’s area since he indicates that internet and thus banking interactions are probably slower and less reliable. And by being cash only you avoid risk of non-payment due to check bouncing or credit card company refusing payment for some reason. And I presume the credit card companies still charge the business a fee for their usage there.
In a country without an insane rightwing party in power, wiring the entire country for high speed internet would be an obvious economic stimulus that would actually benefit red America.
Now this will make you laugh or cry (or both).
That’s tree sex.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 29, 2020
re: #79 Targetpractice
Honestly? Yes. Why? Because as noted by the Vox link up above, he’ll link it to something that he’ll sell as a “concession” to Dem “demands,” then expect the media to do the heavy-lifting of portraying any delay in the bill’s passage as Dems “blocking vital aid.”
I’m wondering what the blowback might be on companies that try to take advantage of a liability waiver. I can guarantee you any company that does that would be on my permanent and everlasting shit list.
re: #123 lawhawk
And that is why I take Benadryl this time of year.
::: allergy sneeze :::
::: washing hands :::
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Helicopter mom virus…
It’s the annoying roommate who never leaves virus.
Aren’t we supposed to be mad at each other? Honestly I can’t remember. It was something I said or something you did. Or was it the other way around? It all blurs together.
— MilestoneAchievingHat (@Popehat) April 29, 2020
I can’t recall, but your sunny personality makes it impossible to stay mad at you.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #78 Thanos
Where did she find the handsome model?
re: #110 Rightwingconspirator
I do too. Just not in the idea they come around the earth. Or our star. My money is that the “Tic Tac” is a breakthrough drone system from DARPA or something like that. Or a flat out glitch in the very very advanced integrated air defenses and new radars.
Bingo. And let me be clear by “Extraterrestrial life”, I don’t mean complex alien civilizations a la Star Wars or Star Trek, I mean that there are so many star systems and other planets out there it seems logical to me that some of them must be life sustaining, even if said life is only microscopic in nature.
Apparently the Bay Area counties are going to lighten up a bit on Shelter in Place starting Monday. Not a lot, but primarily outdoor activities, presumably gardening services and the like will be permitted. A couple county parks/open spaces will open. Not all are closed now, but some have been so crowded that they did close them. Our neighbors who were a couple weeks from moving into their new house when construction was shut down got permission from the county to finish the house (with social distancing for the workers.) A tiny glimmer of light.
re: #121 Charles Johnson
Measles hangs in the air two hours. Hence a ridiculous R number, as high as 18 in an unvaccinated “herd”.
re: #109 Targetpractice
In light of current scientific understanding, the possibility of life on other planets is almost a near certainty. But the idea that they are crossing vast intergalactic distances just to study us is far-fetched. If we ever see evidence of life from beyond our planet, it will likely be in the form of robotic probes. And if we’re lucky, all they’ll want to do is scan our planet and then leave. Because the alternative is they’re here for something, and the odds that we’ll pose any sort of threat to them are…remote.
and everyone in the heartland grabs their chairs for dear life
re: #124 mmmirele
I’m wondering what the blowback might be on companies that try to take advantage of a liability waiver. I can guarantee you any company that does that would be on my permanent and everlasting shit list.
Let’s be honest, we’re pretty much already there. The companies just get away with it right now because they label employees as “essential” and thus are trying to keep the corporate lawyers happy by sending out official messages saying things like “We encourage mask usage” or “If you’re sick, we ask you to stay home.”
Meanwhile, local management makes clear that if your ass isn’t at your register by the beginning of your scheduled shift, they’re going to write it down as “voluntary separation” and challenge your application for UI benefits.
re: #39 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Have not seen an economic stimulus payment, so I went and puttered about the IRS site. Turns out that the key for receiving a payment is whether my 2018 or 2019 income is used for that calculation. IRS says I am eligible, but my 2019 data appears to have not been processed yet. So I’ll hold off since I suspect putting in the 2018 data will result in a “We own you nothing, good day sir!” response.
That I’m even doing this implies that I don’t really need the money, which is probably true. And my intention upon getting it was to give at least half to the local food bank since I’m pretty sure there are people in the county who would benefit from it. (And I might well make a donation of that scope in advance anyways.)
I upped my monthly food bank donation by 40%, and I’m planning to split the stimulus payment between them and a city fund to help small business that’s been set up. Haven’t decided how much goes to whom.
OMFG, the White House Gift Shop is selling commemorative COVID-19 coins. https://t.co/FqbrSK8mrK pic.twitter.com/ojVXsOkdKB
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) April 29, 2020
These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
re: #133 Disloyal Archangel
And now in Today’s Sanity Break:
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I really miss going out and capturing Sanity Break material to share. William and a few others here are rockin it. Which I truly enjoy.
re: #137 jaunte
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These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
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Is Poe fucking with us again?
re: #137 jaunte
These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
We need ones with famous quotes “You’ve got like fifteen cases, and soon it will be down to zero”
“Anyone who needs a test will get one”
“It’s a hoax!”
re: #105 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
In Japan, that would be a lot of places. You can use a Suica card (a transit card) to buy things from some vending machines and combinis (convenience stores). Hotels and department stores take credit cards, but pretty much everything else is cash. It was explained to me that a lot of people got burned in the early 1990s on credit when the bubble burst, hence the wariness in accepting credit.
PS I know that “UFO” doesn’t mean “little green men.” I just thought it was funny considering how ill-prepared Japan was for the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.
re: #119 Targetpractice
Not so much a poison pill as his setting the bar higher with each succeeding bill. He got what he wanted in the first bill, which was a massive giveaway to his corporate buddies. And even then, he had to be arm-twisted into accepting any sort of help for workers themselves. With each new bill, he’s raised the bar on what he’ll need to allow Dems to get any sort of aid to Americans.
He knows that state/city aid is pretty much an inevitability, even red states are all but begging him to make it happen. Liability protection isn’t a “poison pill,” it’s the price his corporate masters are asking for “their money” going to the states.
fwiw, Reuters
[SBA] DECIDED, IN CONSULTATION WITH TREASURY, IT WILL REVIEW ALL LOANS IN EXCESS OF $2 MILLION, IN ADDITION TO OTHER LOANS AS APPROPRIATE
re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And by being cash only you avoid risk of non-payment due to check bouncing or credit card company refusing payment for some reason. And I presume the credit card companies still charge the business a fee for their usage there.
If you’re cash only, you don’t have to deal with chargebacks.
re: #137 jaunte
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These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
Ummm. seriously? Are they next to the “I survived the Trump administration” T-shirts?
“We fought the covid and the (cough) covid won
We fought the covid and the covid won.”
re: #144 Eric The Fruit Bat
If you’re cash only, you don’t have to deal with chargebacks.
or sales taxes
or income taxes
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So tribal governments were supposed to get $8B in relief from the CARES Act, which became law on March 27.
Treasury hasn’t given out any of it yet.
Meanwhile, the Indian Health Service has reported more than 2,882 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indian Country, per Sen. Udall.— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 29, 2020
Understanding Donald Trump’s Weird Obsession with Andrew Jackson
newsweek.com
An oldie but a goodie. Kitten gonna land on the grass just fine. pic.twitter.com/nT5N2WnBPr
— Manksy (@TheManksy) April 29, 2020
re: #146 jaunte
“We fought the covid and the (cough) covid won
We fought the covid and the covid won.”
Heh. I thought at first you’d said “I fought the Cat and the Cat won” which knowing most feline overlords was easy to believe :D
re: #130 Eclectic Cyborg
Bingo. And let me be clear by “Extraterrestrial life”, I don’t mean complex alien civilizations a la Star Wars or Star Trek, I mean that there are so many star systems and other planets out there it seems logical to me that some of them must be life sustaining, even if said life is only microscopic in nature.
Until we have more data, we just don’t know if life is a rarity that arose on Earth by a freak accident rarely replicated, or if it’s a natural consequence of an environment in which liquid water exists. If we find life elsewhere in the solar system, and can confirm it isn’t a terrestrial stow away, then the galaxy is probably teeming with life. How often life evolves into an organism capable of creating a technological civilization is a complete unknown. Its entirely possible advanced civilizations usually destroy themselves before they can achieve interstellar flight, as we seem intent on doing.
re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I believe in the possibility of such, but lacking any sort of solid, verifiable evidence, I still relegate it to the realm of speculation and creative fiction.
With the size and variance of the universe, I would say the odds of extraterrestrial life are about 1. The odds of us ever seeing any of that life, unless in this solar system, and even then, are about 0.
re: #140 jaunte
Covid-19 task force symbol: an empty podium.
And a media that will film that empty podium from every angle and pontificate on how powerful a symbol it is, while ignoring the health experts face palming at every utterance by Trump.
Waiting for the Executive Time coin with hamberder clusters.
re: #152 Colère Tueur de Lapin
With the size and variance of the universe, I would say the odds of extraterrestrial life are about 1. The odds of us ever seeing any of that life, unless in this solar system, and even then, are about 0.
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Very nice! Well done!
Thanks! I think she did a really good job - she spent a bunch of time researching fabrics to figure out what to use for each of the three layers. Subsequent batches will include a more “manly” pattern and color, for those who think these ones look too “girly.”
I am not one of those, however. I quite happily wear one when I go out.
re: #108 Jay C
Very cool. Are you selling them?
Thanks! We are. Wife’s shopify thingy should be live today.
I think my favorite wingnut tweets complaining about me are the ones that say some variation of “he went batshit crazy.”
These are people who worship a guy who advocates injecting bleach to kill viruses, wants to nuke hurricanes, and thinks windmills cause cancer.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
Research.
re: #122 NO SMOCKING GUN!
In a country without an insane rightwing party in power, wiring the entire country for high speed internet would be an obvious economic stimulus that would actually benefit red America.
Like some sort of electronic TVA effort?
An article in the regional paper this morning interviewing restaurant owners indicates that nearly all of them will continue both curbside and delivery services. They find those to be profitable, and involve less cleaning of dining rooms and such.
re: #161 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Something like the Rural Electrification Administration. It was quite successful, IIRC.
re: #161 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Like some sort of electronic TVA effort?
Or before that the federal effort to get telephone service out here, and before that the federal funding of trans-continental railroads and telegraph service.
re: #140 jaunte
Covid-19 task force symbol: an empty podium.
We need a “Virus Force” camo pattern picture. stat.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡
An article in the regional paper this morning interviewing restaurant owners indicates that nearly all of them will continue both curbside and delivery services. They find those to be profitable, and involve less cleaning of dining rooms and such.
Take a look at what Lucky Devil Lounge in Portland, OR did when they had to shut down.
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re: #161 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Like some sort of electronic TVA effort?
Can you imagine if FDR hadn’t been elected? Rural America still wouldn’t have electricity, never mind the internet.
re: #142 mmmirele
In Japan, that would be a lot of places. You can use a Suica card (a transit card) to buy things from some vending machines and combinis (convenience stores). Hotels and department stores take credit cards, but pretty much everything else is cash. It was explained to me that a lot of people got burned in the early 1990s on credit when the bubble burst, hence the wariness in accepting credit.
PS I know that “UFO” doesn’t mean “little green men.” I just thought it was funny considering how ill-prepared Japan was for the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.
They were putting all their efforts in preparing for kaiju.
/
re: #137 jaunte
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These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
They want $100 for that ugly ass coin…and that’s a sale price!
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡
An article in the regional paper this morning interviewing restaurant owners indicates that nearly all of them will continue both curbside and delivery services. They find those to be profitable, and involve less cleaning of dining rooms and such.
The post CV-19 “normal” is going to be so different from what we considered “normal” as recently as six months ago. A lot of businesses are learning how much money they can save and are not going to just go back to the old “normal” because that’s what people expect.
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
To be filmed to serve as a bad example?
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re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
They don’t have cattle to mutilate or corn fields to make crop circles. /s
re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg
Only months remain to soak the rubes.
re: #167 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Can you imagine if FDR hadn’t been elected? Rural America still wouldn’t have electricity, never mind the internet.
They’d just be finding out now that the Vietnam War ended.
/
re: #137 jaunte
These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
Now, people can commemorate the death of grandpa in the great Trump pandemic 2020.
— sallywarden (@sallywarden) April 29, 2020
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
Our Wimmens and our Waters, duh. Hollywood sez so.
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡
They don’t have cattle to mutilate or corn fields to make crop circles. /s
We’re the intergalactic cross between “Hee-Haw” and “The Truman Show”.
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
Well, if years of watching scifi has taught me anything, it’s that humans are always somehow the missing piece in a massive galactic puzzle that leads to a beneficial future for all. That’s how we went from a bunch of backward savages that nearly nuked ourselves into extinction into the center of a united federation of planets in under a century.
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re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
1 - ask columbus
2 - intergalactic highway
3 - boredom (Barney Miller: Nick Yemana: “let’s go down to the beach and shoot some clams!” (ok he was accidentally high on hash brownies at the time)
re: #137 jaunte
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These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
This is so typically Trump.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Take a look at what Lucky Devil Lounge in Portland, OR did when they had to shut down.
(Might be NSFW, so in a private tag….autoplay vid at link)
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re: #157 Jebediah, RBG
Thanks! We are. Wife’s shopify thingy should be live today.
Can you provide us a link?
Our cheapo masks are getting grungy, and I’d love to get a new one without having to check into an ER (they’re still unobtainable here outside the healthcare profession)….
Might as well keep the business “in-house” if possible.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Take a look at what Lucky Devil Lounge in Portland, OR did when they had to shut down.
(Might be NSFW, so in a private tag….autoplay vid at link)
That’s pretty kewl, and innovative.
re: #178 Targetpractice
Well, if years of watching scifi has taught me anything, it’s that humans are always somehow the missing piece in a massive galactic puzzle that leads to a beneficial future for all. That’s how we went from a bunch of backward savages that nearly nuked ourselves into extinction into the center of a united federation of planets in under a century.
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The Vulcans needed a useful proxy/auxiliary race to serve as a buffer to cover for the development of their capitalist empire.
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re: #180 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
This is so typically Trump.
do NOT be surprised that these ‘coins’ were designed in January
re: #184 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The Vulcans needed a useful proxy/auxiliary race to serve as a buffer to cover for the development of their capitalist empire.
/
If you listen to Enterprise and Discovery, the Vulcans viewed post-WWIII humans like we view those goobers on Youtube who burn down their house with an ad-hoc flamethrower (lighter and spray can) to get rid of a nest of hornets.
re: #178 Targetpractice
Well, if years of watching scifi has taught me anything, it’s that humans are always somehow the missing piece in a massive galactic puzzle that leads to a beneficial future for all. That’s how we went from a bunch of backward savages that nearly nuked ourselves into extinction into the center of a united federation of planets in under a century.
//
A more likely reason: galaxy-wide reality entertainment.
(can’t believe it’s been 17 years since this aired)
re: #181 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Love it!
Come hell or high water - or COVID-19 - Portland loves their dancers.
An astute move by the owner because a lot of his employees would’ve been up shit creek without work, the dancers especially, as they only work on tips.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Take a look at what Lucky Devil Lounge in Portland, OR did when they had to shut down.
(Might be NSFW, so in a private tag….autoplay vid at link)
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re: #186 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
do NOT be surprised that these were designed in January
They misspelt Steve Mnuchin’s name on the Website.
“Mnuuchin”
re: #103 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s a poison pill and he knows it. He wants it added to kill any more stimulus bills.
Nancy just needs to delete it, pass the rest of the bill and send it back to Mitch
re: #186 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
do NOT be surprised that these ‘coins’ were designed in January
I would not be.
Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats for yesterday. (A later update than usual).
Confirmed cases: 1339 (+50)
Total tests: 6407 (+135)
Deaths: 102 (+17)
About 14 days for case count to double to this number. Relatively large jump in deaths, but seem to be spread out around the county rather than centered in a single township or borough.
re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡
They misspelt Steve Mnuchin’s name on the Website.
“Mnuuchin”
I guess the spellchecker was feeling sarcastic.
Give people their freedom back! https://t.co/iG8OYGaVZ0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
re: #190 William Lewis
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re: #187 Targetpractice
If you listen to Enterprise and Discovery, the Vulcans viewed post-WWIII humans like we view those goobers on Youtube who burn down their house with an ad-hoc flamethrower (lighter and spray can) to get rid of a nest of hornets.
Oh, no, it’s even worse than that…
LOL.
Trump Admin: “Why would ANYONE respond to a low-yield nuke with a massive retaliatory strike? That makes no sense, because we said so.”
Russia: “We would absolutely threaten to do that.” pic.twitter.com/WZ7E1684Q6— Joseph Trevithick (@FranticGoat) April 29, 2020
re: #200 Amory Blaine
To Elon Musk: Your millions will not protect you from Covid-19. Viruses do not discriminate.
re: #121 Charles Johnson
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Yes, micro particles - I tweeted out a study from Japan TV yesterday claiming the same thing. You have to ventilate.
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
re: #200 Amory Blaine
Is there ANY value left in the Wall Street Journal? When I was a kid, it was one of maybe two or three nationally famous/advertised papers. The few times I read it I found it very dry, but basically factual. Now it’s just a Murdoch mouthpiece that pushes the standard conservaderp hot takes.
I got hold of a human at EDD. But I have to call a different number and those guys are only 8am-12pm. It’s to get hold of a specialist. What a rollercoaster stress-wise. I just gotta find faith the money will come. I bet a bunch of us are in this boat.
re: #207 plansbandc
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
Mail voting generally leads to higher voter participation. Higher voter participation means Republicans get their asses handed to them.
That’s really all there is to it.
re: #207 plansbandc
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
Mail in ballots ensure that everyone gets to vote. How do you keep Shaniqua, who you’ve ensured has to work 16 hours a day, from voting if she can just drop it in the mail?
re: #207 plansbandc
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
They hate anything that makes participation in democracy easier for the vulnerable. It’s like that with the judiciary too and it’s what Roberts’ legacy will be heavily defined by.
re: #211 Belafon
Mail in ballots ensure that everyone gets to vote. How do you keep Shaniqua, who you’ve ensured has to work 16 hours a day, from voting if she can just drop it in the mail?
Yep they fear a huge turnout that will be devastating to them not just this fall but in the long term.
You may have noticed a rather large spike in COVID-19 deaths in the UK today.
A few thousand were added. These are not ‘probable’ cases. All have positive tests.
UK statement on COVID-19 death statistics https://t.co/UdIQizGOpw pic.twitter.com/SLJ82dT6yF
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 29, 2020
re: #207 plansbandc
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
Can’t make it easy for the masses to vote. They’ve already openly admitted that if they do that in a number of states they’d lose their gerrymandered majorities. And Texas would go purple/blue even faster and they’ve admitted that losing Texas in addition to New York and California puts winning a Presidential election out of their reach.
(Of course, to contest elections why not think of offering and implementing policies that might prove more popular with voters? Because that is not who they are.)
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Yes, but every single R on my FB is ranting about mail in ballots. That the Rs in charge can get that message through so thoroughly when mail-in has been done for decades. SMDH I don’t know why this is the thing that pushed me off the cliff today, but it did.
I’m just tired of the ignorance.
TODAY:
President Trump: “I didn’t say 5 million. Somebody said 5 million.”
TUESDAY:
Reporter: “You’re confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?”
President Trump: “We’re going to be there very soon.” pic.twitter.com/WfwRX2pQbS— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2020
re: #167 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Can you imagine if FDR hadn’t been elected? Rural America still wouldn’t have electricity, never mind the internet.
electricity and internet are still occasionally hit or miss here in TheBackwoods
Yesterday’s statistics for the Nebraska Panhandle:
Total confirmed: 47 (+2 since yesterday, both in Scott’s Bluff County, a woman in her forties and a teenage boy)
Recovered: 30
Deaths: 0
2/3 of cases are women, largest age group 40-49
Montana rancher who recovered from COVID-19: ‘It’s the sickest I’ve ever been’ (Goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
He is a retired internal medicine physician. It is believed he picked up the disease from his wife, who had a sore throat and minor headache. She caught it in a grocery store, where she spent less than five minutes. The state health department presumes she was an asymptomatic carrier of the virus and passed it to her husband.
In the incubation period for the virus, a cow got its head stuck in a tree on his ranch (cattle are really dumb), and his neighbour helped him free the cow. He then passed it to his wife, so now they both have the disease as well. They are believed to have picked up the disease in the short time he spent helping free the cow.
[Dr. David] Graham said [Mark] Ward’s case highlights the fact that there’s no rule book on the disease. While he had some of the typical symptoms, including a fever, Ward said his bigger complaints were nausea, diarrhea, a deep weakness and severe body pain.
“I’ve never had that much pain before,” Ward said.
When he finally decided he needed to get to the hospital, he couldn’t walk from his bed to his truck. An ambulance drove him the 60 miles to Billings.
re: #217 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“See, I didn’t ‘say’ it. I just agreed with it. And now I don’t.”
He will never take responsibility for anything.
re: #209 Rightwingconspirator
I got hold of a human at EDD. But I have to call a different number and those guys are only 8am-12pm. It’s to get hold of a specialist. What a rollercoaster stress-wise. I just gotta find faith the money will come. I bet a bunch of us are in this boat.
Try contacting your state representative and see if they can “jump the line” for you.
re: #200 Amory Blaine
“I need to make more money and don’t care how many people get sick so I can!”
Looks like there’s a chance that the pandemic will accelerate the ongoing retail apocalypse:
First, the department store closes. Then, the apparel shops try to scoot out of deals. This is a one-two punch that could trigger a wave of malls shutting for good over the next 12 months.
More than 50% of the department stores anchoring America’s malls are going to close permanently by the end of next year, a new report by Green Street Advisors predicts. There are about 1,000 malls still open in the U.S. And roughly 60% of those have department store retailers, such as Macy’s, as anchor tenants, the commercial real estate services firm said.
The coronavirus pandemic that has slammed the U.S. economy is speeding up the demise of department stores. As Covid-19 forced the likes of J.C. Penney, Macy’s, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus to shut shops temporarily, the circumstances became even more dire for these already struggling companies. Slumping sales and an overhang of debt could push some into bankruptcy. Strained for cash, these retailers are scrambling for additional liquidity. More department store closures are inevitable. And that will put another level of pressure on mall owners.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see JC Penney’s and Sears bite the dust once and for all. I heard Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy a few days back.
my problem. pic.twitter.com/XqnyGLjLYx
— Scoot (@ImpeachmentHour) April 29, 2020
re: #202 William Lewis
Oh, no, it’s even worse than that…
That pretty much is the canon view of humanity by the major races, that we’re an impulsive child-race that went from an irradiated hellscape to one of the most advanced civilizations in under a century, without managing to blow ourselves up in the process.
re: #209 Rightwingconspirator
I got hold of a human at EDD. But I have to call a different number and those guys are only 8am-12pm. It’s to get hold of a specialist. What a rollercoaster stress-wise. I just gotta find faith the money will come. I bet a bunch of us are in this boat.
I am! I was scheduled to start with the 2020 Census as a field worker; when that was cancelled with everything else I finally relented and applied for unemployment a month ago. I’m still not able to get a straight answer as to which state I should apply in (I live in Oklahoma, and have since the new CARES legislation, but my last work was over 6 months ago in Washington) a month into the process. And of course neither my wife nor I have yet to see any sign of the $1200 pandemic relief payments. We’re barely getting by, partly on the hope that this money will come in and retroactively pay to the beginning of my UI claim. We shall see.
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I imagine Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa is about to preside over an epidemic in that state, since she’s trying to do the same thing.
Mission Accomplished:
Iowa has 15th lowest population density for a state, but currently has the fastest rate of coronavirus spread in the country.
How did it get this bad? Iowa is a state that never officially closed. 🧵👇https://t.co/NVDXBjnkdq— GEN (@GENmag) April 28, 2020
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
Looks like there’s a chance that the pandemic will accelerate the ongoing retail apocalypse:
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see JC Penney’s and Sears bite the dust once and for all. I heard Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy a few days back.
It won’t just be retail stores. While fast food chains are doing reasonably well by just shutting down their dining rooms, the major chains that rely upon those dining rooms are suffering. They’re dealing with it by branching into delivery services, either with their own drivers or through companies like DoorDash, but the writing is pretty clearly on the wall: If you were struggling before CV-19, then your days are numbered.
Did anyone catch David Simon bitch slapping of David Frum this morning?
In fairness to David Frum, his bald desire to declare that he has facts that others do not has convinced him that the Jews of 1840 Newark should know all of the secret, cunning machinations of FDR in real time and the failure of the writers to allow such is just so disappointing. https://t.co/5FExHKK7oU
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 29, 2020
I get mail from the producer and screenwriter of “Plot Against America” pic.twitter.com/0dupZSPlxE
— David Frum (@davidfrum) April 29, 2020
I’m not complaining, fucknut. I’m making fun of your preening and desperate need to misuse any and all other endeavor, including a television series based on a novel, to show that you can summon a handful of facts to make some ideological, predetermined political argument. https://t.co/l8oV1PVtFV
— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 29, 2020
re: #225 Targetpractice
That pretty much is the canon view of humanity by the major races, that we’re an impulsive child-race that went from an irradiated hellscape to one of the most advanced civilizations in under a century, without managing to blow ourselves up in the process.
Humans: The Mary Sues of intelligent races.
re: #207 plansbandc
God I’m sick of the ratfuckery and ignorance from the Rs. What in the hell is wrong with mail in ballots? The military does it, expats do it, several states do it.
My BS tolerance is going into negative numbers.
it’s not about the argument
or the logic
the specifics dont matter
they are just against it - no matter what it is
re: #225 Targetpractice
Even in B5 or Stargate, we’re a young race that somehow becomes central to the plot of intergalactic scheming.
re: #228 Targetpractice
It won’t just be retail stores. While fast food chains are doing reasonably well by just shutting down their dining rooms, the major chains that rely upon those dining rooms are suffering. They’re dealing with it by branching into delivery services, either with their own drivers or through companies like DoorDash, but the writing is pretty clearly on the wall: If you were struggling before CV-19, then your days are numbered.
When we get a vaccine, and enough people vaccinated to allow people to be in groups again, and a few requirements like restaurant employees must be vaccinated, those places will fill up again. Even I occassionally like my free refills of tea, chips, and salsa. And it’s just good to get out of the house.
re: #229 gocart mozart
Did anyone catch David Simon bitch slapping of David Frum this morning?
Speaking of historical context and accuracy, readers should not forget @davidfrum played a critical role in selling America into an immoral and misguided war in Iraq. We will suffer the blowback for generations. But sure, if he wants to nitpick an HBO limited series, so be it.
— David I’m Not Yelling Kleinman (@DavidKleinman2) April 29, 2020
Oh. He’s that David Frum?
— Walter Johnson (@thebigtrain2000) April 29, 2020
re: #217 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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um, no, we’re not gonna be there soon:
Admiral Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health who is in charge of the government’s testing response, said that “there is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even five million tests a day.”
TODAY:
President Trump: “I didn’t say 5 million. Somebody said 5 million.”
TUESDAY:
Reporter: “You’re confident you can surpass 5 million tests per day?”
President Trump: “We’re going to be there very soon.” pic.twitter.com/WfwRX2pQbS— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2020
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I am not kidding - I wish I was https://t.co/vQJJmncjaY pic.twitter.com/mCCSkeq5gg
— Bugs ‘n Gas (@progmilitary) April 29, 2020
re: #227 Interesting Times
Mission Accomplished:
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Georgia: hold our beers
Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
Iowa has 15th lowest population density for a state, but currently has the fastest rate of coronavirus spread in the country.
How did it get this bad? Iowa is a state that never officially closed. 🧵👇https://t.co/NVDXBjnkdq— GEN (@GENmag) April 28, 2020
re: #221 William Lewis
Try contacting your state representative and see if they can “jump the line” for you.
Yup, working that line too. Attached a recording of the EDD voicemail message.
re: #232 lawhawk
Even in B5 or Stargate, we’re a young race that somehow becomes central to the plot of intergalactic scheming.
Also true in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
Why do bio-chemists collect specimens of hard-to-reach stuff in the Amazon, to see which poisons and venoms can be made into medicine?
re: #226 Ferdinand
And of course neither my wife nor I have yet to see any sign of the $1200 pandemic relief payments.
My mother, who is on Medicare, just got her payment.
Envision Healthcare (backed by private equity) claims they’re so cash-strapped they have no choice but to cut physician pay and benefits. If that’s the case, why are they pouring millions into dark money political ads?@SenWarren and I are pressing for real answers. pic.twitter.com/m1HxDwK8TW
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) April 29, 2020
re: #232 lawhawk
Even in B5 or Stargate, we’re a young race that somehow becomes central to the plot of intergalactic scheming.
Most scifi these days generally falls into one of two camps: Humanity is the keystone to bringing all the galaxy together in peace or (more accurately) we’re just another in a long line of victims of an alien race that sees us as little more than spare parts. But that’s usually because the former are morality tales, while the latter are horror shows.
Sounds like Ben’s in favor of death panels, idk https://t.co/sj1e4jFsux
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 29, 2020
re: #232 lawhawk
Even in B5 or Stargate, we’re a young race that somehow becomes central to the plot of intergalactic scheming.
We can be manipulated, hired as mercenaries, and bribed to be traitors.
re: #235 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
um, no, we’re not gonna be there soon:
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re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Humans: The Mary Sues of intelligent races.
In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Quark pretty much nailed humans:
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If all your 81 year olds die off then the life expectancy number will go down quite a bit Ben.
Florida ordered coroners to stop releasing coronavirus death data: report https://t.co/5J4DNqSkzF pic.twitter.com/xQDwaQ2Exl
— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2020
Bay Area highly preferred but not essential.
— J. Kenji López-Alt (@kenjilopezalt) April 29, 2020
thegreatpoolpondcoversion - 200426 edition ——————————->
“Chute”
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
And. Here. We. Go.
Can’t have a catastrophic death toll from a pandemic if no one knows about it, amirite?
*headdesk*
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is how you can tell a country is rationally dealing with an epidemic. //
I actually don’t care that he’s running, & don’t think his candidacy will hurt Dems. But if progressives who were for Bernie vote for Amash bc they don’t like Biden, it was never about policy. Amash doesn’t believe in govt at all. https://t.co/lkDy2RiePf
— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) April 29, 2020
I realize https://t.co/NhJA1wwGFj actually does everything it can to suggest otherwise, but it’s not part of the government. It’s a private for-profit company based in Pennsylvania. Stop tweeting about the purported coronavirus coin, it’s unrelated to the Trump White House.
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 29, 2020
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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if she’s past the ‘life expectancy’ what if they just stop feeding her?
plus i dont think ‘life expectancy’ means what you think it means
Sounds like Ben’s in favor of death panels, idk https://t.co/sj1e4jFsux
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 29, 2020
Interesting. 270toWin has moved one of our house districts (NE-2) to “toss-up.”
They start Democrats at 232 electoral votes and Republicans at 204.
Toss-ups are:
Florida: 25
North Carolina: 15
Pennsylvania: 20
Michigan: 16
Wisconsin: 10
Nebraska: 1
Arizona: 11
God I’m glad we have Dems in charge here. If Martinez was still Governor, we would’ve closed way too late or not at all. Knowing her, not at all.
Well, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #258 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
if she’s past the ‘life expectancy’ what if they just stop feeding her?
plus i dont think ‘life expectancy’ means what you think it means
This rationale formed the very core of the Nazi eugenics argument. Shows their true face. I think this jackwad should understand history better.
— Ковид (@TedC) April 29, 2020
re: #250 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
If all your 81 year olds die off then the life expectancy number will go down quite a bit Ben.
This is up there with his suggestion to sell your house when Climate Change impacts Florida. He really isn’t that smart.
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
Well, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
G’night.
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Interesting. 270toWin has moved one of our house districts (NE-2) to “toss-up.”
They start Democrats at 232 electoral votes and Republicans at 204.
Toss-ups are:
Florida: 25
North Carolina: 15
Pennsylvania: 20
Michigan: 16
Wisconsin: 10
Nebraska: 1
Arizona: 11
If this keeps up, we’ll need to expand that list:
Texas @ppppolls / @demtoolbox (D) Poll:
Biden 47%
Trump 46%
(Trump won TX with a 9 point margin in 2016)— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) April 29, 2020
re: #255 Belafon
This is how you can tell a country is rationally dealing with an epidemic. //
florida may think it’s a country but it aint
re: #266 Interesting Times
If this keeps up, we’ll need to expand that list:
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Texas as a toss up state. I think it’s possible.
re: #156 Jebediah, RBG
Thanks! I think she did a really good job - she spent a bunch of time researching fabrics to figure out what to use for each of the three layers. Subsequent batches will include a more “manly” pattern and color, for those who think these ones look too “girly.”
I am not one of those, however. I quite happily wear one when I go out.
More psychedelic than girly imho.
Right. Some OTHER people chose to sit on their asses, play golf and hold egomaniacal rallies while the virus spread. Not Donald Trump. That was somebody else. https://t.co/rg9qxCnZ2X
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They were never “pro-life,” that much was obvious when their response to the possibility of women dying due to abortion bans was “God’s will,” but at least they would cloak it in “morality” or “religious freedom.” Here, they’re demanding that the weak be sacrificed in the name of the Magic Line.
re: #270 Charles Johnson
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This is their fallback now that they’re beginning to realize that “CHINA DID THIS!!!” isn’t selling with anyone outside of their racist base.
re: #256 Interesting Times
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sorry no
stop pretending
you are not a ‘choice’ and you know it
the choice is a biden administration or a trump administration
an Amash administration is not mathematically possible. no it is not.
now if you want to be honest and admit that another trump administration would be far far worse than even a biden admin, then tell republicans to vote for you. say it out loud.
I actually don’t care that he’s running, & don’t think his candidacy will hurt Dems. But if progressives who were for Bernie vote for Amash bc they don’t like Biden, it was never about policy. Amash doesn’t believe in govt at all. https://t.co/lkDy2RiePf
— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) April 29, 2020
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I realize whitehousegiftshop.com actually does everything it can to suggest otherwise, but it’s not part of the government. It’s a private for-profit company based in Pennsylvania. Stop tweeting about the purported coronavirus coin, it’s unrelated to the Trump White House.
wanna bet? (1/2) //
re: #271 Targetpractice
They were never “pro-life,” that much was obvious when their response to the possibility of women dying due to abortion bans was “God’s will,” but at least they would cloak it in “morality” or “religious freedom.” Here, they’re demanding that the weak be sacrificed in the name of the Magic Line.
I looked up “magic line” because I keep seeing that and don’t know what it means.
A search engine returns pages on “Magic Line Baking Pans.” I don’t think that’s what you mean here (though Pie Overlord might).
re: #202 William Lewis
Oh, no, it’s even worse than that…
That article is amazing. And I say that as a huge Trek fan.
re: #270 Charles Johnson
Trump has the last clear chance to stop SARS-CoV2 from entering and spreading in the US.
He failed spectacularly.
re: #275 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I looked up “magic line” because I keep seeing that and don’t know what it means.
A search engine returns pages on “Magic Line Baking Pans.” I don’t think that’s what you mean here (though Pie Overlord might).
Sorry, it’s something I picked up from twitter, a euphemism for “the stock market.” The idea that a “magic line” on a screen is somehow an indicator of the health of the economy, and thus the ideal situation is that line forever going upward. In other words, the exact opposite of all the “Wall Street v. Main Street” shit that the wingnuts liked to sling around during the Obama years.
re: #137 jaunte
These people are so divorced from reality they’re insane.
TPM says the ‘White House Gift Shop’ is unaffiliated with the actual White House.
NEW: Eighty workers at the Leprino Foods cheese plant in Fort Morgan have tested positive for COVID-19. Half were symptomatic, according to the company. #9News #COVID19colorado
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) April 29, 2020
re: #277 Eric The Fruit Bat
Trump has the last clear chance to stop SARS-CoV2 from entering and spreading in the US.
He failed spectacularly.
And he’s continuing to fail - starting with his refusal to do anything about domestic air travel, let alone international air travel. No systematic screening prior to boarding, no mask requirements, nothing. Everyone gets funneled into a single screening on the arrival side from international locations. It’s a recipe for further spread.
And the thing is that TSA allows people to wear masks and then lower the mask to confirm identification. It’s just that there’s no consistent policy here. There’s nothing. It’s just Trump spewing nonsense from the WH and no one doing anything downstream that can prevent further spread.
Trump on testing: “You’ll see some astonishing numbers — I don’t know that all of that’s even necessary. You have some governors that love the tests, you have others that like doing it a different way, an old-fashioned way, with some testing. But we’re going maximum testing.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
What the actual fuck is he talking about??
How can there be an old-fashioned way of testing for a disease that appeared less than a year ago?
re: #254 Dr Lizardo
And. Here. We. Go.
Can’t have a catastrophic death toll from a pandemic if no one knows about it, amirite?
*headdesk*
Reality is the thing that doesn’t go away when you ignore it, unfortunately.
re: #208 NetworkKed
Is there ANY value left in the Wall Street Journal? When I was a kid, it was one of maybe two or three nationally famous/advertised papers. The few times I read it I found it very dry, but basically factual. Now it’s just a Murdoch mouthpiece that pushes the standard conservaderp hot takes.
The WSJ op-ed pages have always been a wretched hive of wingnut scum and villainy, but traditionally the WSJ straight news reporting was good. Murdoch is probably changing that for the worse.
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
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NEW: Eighty workers at the Leprino Foods cheese plant in Fort Morgan have tested positive for COVID-19. Half were symptomatic, according to the company. #9News #COVID19colorado
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) April 29, 2020
re: #286 EPR-radar
Yes. And that is why I read The Washington Post.
So my dog up and asks me, “What’s up with this Justin Amash dude? I hear he’s running for president or something?”
“Well,” I replied, “to start with, he’s a libertarian…”
“Say no more,” interrupted my best fren. “Are you hungry? I’m hungry.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
What the actual fuck is he talking about??
How can there be an old-fashioned way for a disease that appeared less than a year ago?
Bloodletting. We have assault rifles for that now.
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And we’re probably going to find out that, like the stories from the meat-packing plants, the company has known for awhile and was so desperate to keep the doors open that they were sneaking people onto the production line that they knew to be sick.
“We’re checking temps of all our workers!”
“And the ones who fail?”
“*quietly* We let them come in the side entrance, then hand them a couple aspirin and put’em on the line.”
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
What the actual fuck is he talking about??
How can there be an old-fashioned way for a disease that appeared less than a year ago?
dont try to understand it
it isnt even chinatown
its just the usual bullshit and nonsense word sludge
re: #285 ericblair
Reality is the thing that doesn’t go away when you ignore it, unfortunately.
reality is the thing that doesnt give a fuck what you ‘believe’
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cue civil libertarian lawsuits entered under Florida’s sunshine law …
re: #289 Charles Johnson
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So my dog up and asks me, “What’s up with this Justin Amash dude? I hear he’s running for president or something?”
“Well,” I replied, “to start with, he’s a libertarian…”
“Say no more,” interrupted my best fren. “Are you hungry? I’m hungry.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
re: #205 Thanos
Yes, micro particles - I tweeted out a study from Japan TV yesterday claiming the same thing. You have to ventilate.
I missed that. I saw from NHK World a couple of weeks ago a short piece that showed a lab at Kyoto Tech. University where they arranged lasers to light up the particles that come out through both sneezing and loud talking. It definitely showed the microparticles lingering in the air for 20 minutes or more (and demonstrated the importance of good ventilation, too).
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
What the actual fuck is he talking about??
How can there be an old-fashioned way for a disease that appeared less than a year ago?
If I had to guess? He thinks that antibody tests using blood droplets are “advanced” over the “old-fashioned” tests involving jamming a cotton swab into your nasal cavities, ignoring that the former only really work to figure out if someone’s been infected and developed antibodies versus someone who’s actively fighting an infection.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who in Florida’s state health department ordered this? It looks like the Tampa Bay Times is digging to find out.
Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that the state health department intervened and told him it planned to remove causes of death and case descriptions from mortality data.
Nelson told the newspaper the data is meaningless without that information, and the entirety of the list should be considered public information.
ADVERTISEMENT“This is no different than any other public record we deal with,” he said. “It’s paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.”
Alberto Moscoso, a spokesman for the state health department, told the Times that the department “participated in conference calls” with the state Department of Law Enforcement, which provides administrative support to the Medical Examiners Commission, saying the discussions pertained to “privacy concerns for the individuals that passed away related to COVID-19.”
“Privacy” (bullshyte)
re: #51 KGxvi
I really don’t understand why House leadership doesn’t ever get in front of things by passing a House Bill and then putting the pressure on McConnell and Trump to argue against it.
re: #52 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Because the media will simply ignore it that while McConnell lets said bill rot on his desk along with all the other stuff the House has passed.
Late to this, but isn’t that exactly what the House did for much of last year? And, lo and behold, despite lots of noise made by Dems, none of it filtered through to the mainstream and instead they were hammered over and over for being a ‘do-nothing House’.
Like I’ve put it before, “If a tree legislatively maneuvers in the forest, and no one’s there to report on it, did it really do anything to fight?” And as pointed out earlier, Sunday shows get to pick and choose who they invite, and they always overwhelmingly load up their guest lists with conservatives, no matter how hard Dems fight to get on.
re: #269 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
More psychedelic than girly imho.
Yeah, that’s my take too.
We’re going to need a federal commission after this.
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nancy just needs to delete it, pass the rest of the bill and send it back to Mitch
Who will then try to kill it by reinserting the language.
In other more mundane news. The water finally got turned on and I was able to test my sprinkler system. Lost two valves due to cracking over the winter. I really don’t want to go out but the yard needs water bad.
re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Who in Florida’s state health department ordered this? It looks like the Tampa Bay Times is digging to find out.
“Privacy” (bullshyte)
So it’s officially hidden for political purposes and providing a touch of plausible deniability when people crunch the mortality figures for February 2020 and on compared to the averages for previous years and show that a lot more people in Florida are dying right now than usually do.
re: #291 Targetpractice
And we’re probably going to find out that, like the stories from the meat-packing plants, the company has known for awhile and was so desperate to keep the doors open that they were sneaking people onto the production line that they knew to be sick.
“We’re checking temps of all our workers!”
“And the ones who fail?”
“*quietly* We let them come in the side entrance, then hand them a couple aspirin and put’em on the line.”
probably a small thing regarding temperature taking
98.6 is ‘normal’ body temp and ‘fever’ is defined as 100.4 or over
just like ben up above misunderstood ‘life expectancy’ - these temperatures are averages or norms
a lot of people run cool
my normal is 97.2. that’s a degree and a half
i’d slip right under that threshold with no problem at a barely registering 99.
and im sure a lot of people run hot and so would be flagged as false positives.
i also realize this is just one symptom / data point.
but still, i’m gonna be sick and in there cutting up the meat im trying not to cough on
DeSantis is creating a huge home buyers market, as homes of the deceased flood the market.
— Skip🌈 (@shrinkrap69) April 29, 2020
re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Who in Florida’s state health department ordered this? It looks like the Tampa Bay Times is digging to find out.
“Privacy” (bullshyte)
apparently we have no right to know if our health is at risk or in danger because of something lots of other people are dying from
“Last summer, on his final day of work at the nation’s consumer finance watchdog agency, a career economist sent colleagues a blunt memo,” the New York Times reports.“He claimed that President Trump’s appointees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had manipulated the agency’s research process to justify altering a 2017 rule that would have sharply curtailed high-interest payday loans.”
“The departing staff member, Jonathan Lanning, detailed several maneuvers by his agency’s political overseers that he considered legally risky and scientifically indefensible, including pressuring staff economists to water down their findings on payday loans and use statistical gimmicks to downplay the harm consumers would suffer if the payday restrictions were repealed.”
while i am all out of quelle surprises, wtf
The media keeps talking about McConnell as the gatekeeper on the funds, yet it was the House that passed the first two bills that appropriated funds to deal with the initial outbreak and the damage done to the economy. They were working on their own bill in competition with the CARES Act, but Mitch got his bill to the floor first by grabbing a House bill off his desk, amending his own bill atop it, and then rushing it to a vote before the House could pass theirs and thus force a conference committee to hash out a final bill.
re: #309 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
apparently we have no right to know if our health is at risk or in danger because of something lots of other people are dying from
There is a metric fuquetonne of conservaderp on that thread from The Hill as well: Doctors are calling deaths “coronavirus” to make money with underpants gnomes, privacy laws, the disease is a hoax, the press is trying to scare people, &c.
That’s the reason for the firehose of bullshyte from the real Lying Press (conservative media): To put so many different “theories” out there you can’t possibly bat them all down.
re: #312 Anymouse 🌹🏡
There is a metric fuquetonne of conservaderp on that thread from The Hill as well: Doctors are calling deaths “coronavirus” to make money with underpants gnomes, privacy laws, the disease is a hoax, the press is trying to scare people, &c.
That’s the reason for the firehose of bullshyte from the real Lying Press (conservative media): To put so many different “theories” out there you can’t possibly bat them all down.
No and it conveniently deflects attention from what the REAL problems are and who is responsible for them.
THIS THREAD
1. Here’s Daou getting perturbed at someone calling out his transparent work for Trump.
Lets go to school, folks and read to the end, please
The ONLY- *ONLY* argument the right has against Democrats is the “sexual misconduct” card.
It worked against Gary Hart, John Edwards, https://t.co/2C6NCkskX0— BeeDub (@ItsBW) April 29, 2020
El Jefe at Juanita Jean’s:
Juanita Jean’s goes into a long (and documented) rant on how the Governor of Texas is making what appears to be a dictatorial power grab over the state apparatus.
This particular sequence of events has really stuck with me and I’m glad @edyong209 is centering it here. https://t.co/HG6YcS678l pic.twitter.com/7qfvWzPXK6
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 29, 2020
On a call with activists reported by CNN, Georgia Senator David Perdue described Puerto Rico statehood as part of an apocalyptic outcome for Republicans. Puerto Rican statehood was in the GOP’s 2016 platform thoughhttps://t.co/6YP7I9KUE1
https://t.co/GIu7sMbaQu pic.twitter.com/P1bsxviciH— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) April 29, 2020
New: Trump administration asks intelligence agencies to find out whether China, WHO hid COVID-19 information https://t.co/Fa6JWmoNIX via @nbcnews
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) April 29, 2020
Blaming WHO is a political move by an admin under siege for its incompetence. Analysts don’t care. I worked with CIA analysts for decades. Tough, smart as hell, stubborn, proud, ornery. They will not be intimidated. Also, there are checks in the system to ensure objectivity.
— Marc Polymeropoulos (@Mpolymer) April 29, 2020
re: #305 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Who will then try to kill it by reinserting the language.
then she does it again
and again
re: #314 The Pie Overlord!
THIS THREAD
Hey, @peterdaou , no response?
I could see why you don’t want to draw attention to my thread.— BeeDub (@ItsBW) April 29, 2020
The original tweet shows up as “This tweet is unavailable” in that thread, but the original is still up at Mr. Daou’s feed.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡
You’re living rent-free in their heads, Mr. Johnson. You seem to have enough space you could have an AirBNB.
Don’t encourage Charles. He’s gone full Little Green Footballs.
re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #314 The Pie Overlord!
THIS THREAD
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The problem with this thread’s argument is that it really only speaks to the motivations of MAGAts, who are scared shitless of having to run against Biden when their big hope was going into the fall running against Bernie.
For Berners, the idea is that if Biden is forced to drop out because of “credible accusations,” then they believe the result will be Bernie “unsuspending” his campaign and being crowned the candidate by virtue of being the only person left standing. Some like Daou try to BS that “Warren or Buttigieg or Klobucher could also unsuspend, we have options!,” but the reality is they genuinely believe spreading this BS will lead to a Bernie nomination.
I’m puzzled by Peter Daou’s weird left turn. He seemed like a pretty straight ahead guy when I first encountered him on Twitter.
Crete, Nebraska:
“About 50 workers at the Smithfield Foods pork plant walked off the job after company officials announced that the facility would remain open, just hours after they had said it would close to contain an outbreak.”https://t.co/TIZFMy0Stp— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 29, 2020
re: #317 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
It’s an apocalyptic outcome because their racist voters would go off the rails.
It was in the GOP platform because they had no intent on acting on it anyway.
Trump: “I had one restaurant owner come up to me and said, ‘Sir, you know, I’m going to be opening up but if I distance too much I have 50% of the restaurant I had.’ And I said, ‘You’ll also have a worse atmosphere.’…We want it to be the way it was.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
was the restaurant owner crying?
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
Unions 1, Donnie 0.
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
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was the restaurant owner crying?
I can’t help but be impressed/dumbfounded at how much mileage Trump has managed to get off this one stupid, bullshit story.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This is why corporations desperately want a “liability shield” passed, because right now those workers have fair grounds to challenge any terminations on the grounds that the company has not only promoted but is trying to force them to return to an unsafe working environment. With such a law, Smithfield just fires the lot of them and tells the rest “You’re lucky to still have jobs!”
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
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was the restaurant owner crying?
“The way it was.” That’s what he and his room temp IQ base don’t get, there’s no going back to “the way it was” in the near term. Even if they manage to develop a vaccine by year’s end, it will be a long time before people feel safe enough to just return to “the way it was.”
re: #284 Eclectic Cyborg
What the actual fuck is he talking about??
How can there be an old-fashioned way of testing for a disease that appeared less than a year ago?
I would infer he means - let the plebs go out into the world and if they live, they live; if not, engh.
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
This pushing from Republicans about “open the economy” may very well turn into a general strike.
heh
Ah, so they didn’t actually apply for one. They’re “rejecting” money that was never actually offered, and then taking a victory lap pic.twitter.com/tJiacb0TCk
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) April 29, 2020
re: #332 Targetpractice
This is why corporations desperately want a “liability shield” passed, because right now those workers have fair grounds to challenge any terminations on the grounds that the company has not only promoted but is trying to force them to return to an unsafe working environment. With such a law, Smithfield just fires the lot of them and tells the rest “You’re lucky to still have jobs!”
US ‘business as usual’ is piss-poor in normal times, and is a disaster when stressed by the covid19 outbreak.
Let’s hope that realization sticks and spurs much-needed reforms (starting with the electoral annihilation of the Republican party and all its putrid works).
re: #335 Anymouse 🌹🏡
This pushing from Republicans about “open the economy” may very well turn into a general strike.
Wouldn’t that be a shame.
This dog’s attempt to look not guilty is definitely worth the cost of a new cablehttps://t.co/5N2xlrm13U pic.twitter.com/TRGlWcm0EL
— The Poke (@ThePoke) April 29, 2020
Glad that’s settled. Now where were we? https://t.co/otZdtuzrqp
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
I mean, it’s really the elderly’s own fault for not being a clump of cells or a gun.
— Daniel Brennan (@ripplepig) April 29, 2020
re: #331 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t help but be impressed/dumbfounded at how much mileage Trump has manage to get off this one stupid, bullshit story.
He likes the idea of people who actually made their living legitimately begging him for his eternal wisdom to do what Trump wants. Even if the restaurants were to open tomorrow, I wouldn’t be rushing to get a reservation.
I don’t think she touched his food.
Her teenage-years will be fun for mom and dad…😂🤣😭💀💀 pic.twitter.com/4CsQtUJZHd— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 28, 2020
re: #335 Anymouse 🌹🏡
This pushing from Republicans about “open the economy” may very well turn into a general strike.
It’s why they’ve not only been big on shielding companies from liability, but also pushing for cuts to UI benefits. The only way they keep the plebes in line is under the constant threat of losing everything by being fired and effectively blacklisted from an industry.
CV-19 is totally upsetting that apple cart because the drones have realized that there are worse things than losing your job, like dying and leaving your family without a source of income because your boss told you to report to work no matter how sick you were.
re: #343 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He likes the idea of people who actually made their living legitimately begging him for his eternal wisdom to do what Trump wants. Even if the restaurants were to open tomorrow, I wouldn’t be rushing to get a reservation.
I would never step foot into ANY restaurant that opens before this is under control.
And I mean never, ever
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would never step foot into ANY restaurant that opens before this is under control.
And I mean never, ever
THIS.
re: #321 Anymouse 🌹🏡
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The original tweet shows up as “This tweet is unavailable” in that thread, but the original is still up at Mr. Daou’s feed.
I think Daou has blocked BeeDub.
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would never step foot into ANY restaurant that opens before this is under control.
And I mean never, ever
But there are a bunch of trumperhoids who will go when dear leader says it’s all good.
Lre: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would never step foot into ANY restaurant that opens before this is under control.
And I mean never, ever
Exactly. Trump isn’t getting “his” economy back. Maybe if he cared more about the PDB than getting his daily worship from FNC and his stupid rallies, the economy might be open. Trump has failed on this more than any other world leader.
Observer Art would be pleased
Congrats Congresswoman! Blessed by your leadership and landslide victory in #OH03. (And your profile pic with That Dress will forever bring 😎) pic.twitter.com/NIZTIEByEV
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) April 29, 2020
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
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was the restaurant owner crying?
Big, tough restaurant owner.
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
Taking his statement at face value, if he did apply for a loan, he wasted his bank’s employees’ time processing his loan application, whatever government employees’ time approving it, then “rejecting” the loan to crow about how responsible he is.
That’s pretty frickin’ low wasting all those people’s time just for a talking point.
Or, he lied and said he applied for a loan when he never did. (Would Toilet Paper USA fit the requirements to be approved for such a loan?)
Or, he was turned down and he said he returned the money.
There is no scenario I can think of that doesn’t make Charlie Kirk look like a giant douche.
re: #353 Anymouse 🌹🏡
he never applied for a loan
re: #354 Targetpractice
Never cried a single tear before that day.
not even when onions were being chopped
re: #326 Charles Johnson
I’m puzzled by Peter Daou’s weird left turn. He seemed like a pretty straight ahead guy when I first encountered him on Twitter.
Bernie or bust. There’s no middle ground. They are ok with burning it all down. Daou isn’t the only one.
So, apparently there is momentum for the Tim Ryan/Ro Khanna psuedo-UBI plan now? $2,000/mo for anyone making $130k or less, and phased out at $100 for every $1k over $130? Seems fairly reasonable. Put a 2% excise tax on all publicly traded stock and commodity transactions, and you can probably pay for it fairly easily, no?
re: #258 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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Officials started testing every inmate at a federal prison in Southern California. 40% of them tested positive. https://t.co/w0LTTx76By
— Mark Berman (@markberman) April 29, 2020
re: #349 Colère Tueur de Lapin
But there are a bunch of trumperhoids who will go when dear leader says it’s all good.
They can get each other sick, and I won’t be there to watch it.
Fourteen tweets, in which the founder of the Me Too movement throws her support behind Tara Reade.
I took a moment away from work and movement-related issues to be present where I was needed as my family was affected with COVID. But, I know many of you are wondering about my “take” on the Tara Reade story.
1/14— Tarana (@TaranaBurke) April 28, 2020
LOL he threatened to sue Parscale. So excellent. https://t.co/yxJeNW0amt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
jeebus
Trump says one death is too many, but “if we lose 65,000 people,” that’s horrible but we could’ve lost 1 or 2 million if we didn’t do what we did. (Again, nine days ago, he said we could finish between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths. He keeps revising the success number upward.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
AMC Theaters has declared that it’s not reopening any time soon. I suspect a bunch of businesses are going to do the same, and others will just stay the course, especially restaurants.
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
She could grow up and be the 5th wife of DJTjr.
Ah, a tragedy. I just received my “I’m so awesome for giving you $1,200 of your own money!” letter from Chief Running Eagle, yet I don’t own a paper shredder and it’s now too warm even at night to use the paper as a fire starter.
re: #364 Charles Johnson
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Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn’t want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he can, he’s refusing to do that job, and lashing out at those who ask him to do it.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 29, 2020
re: #155 lawhawk
Why would any extraterrestrial with intelligence and the means to travel the vast distances of interstellar space bother with a bass-ackward world such as ours? /half.
Chocolate.
re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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As I’ve said before, that will be the dogma come November: “It could have been worse!”
And what’s this “we” business, Donny? You’ve done all of jack and shit to address this crisis and been an active hindrance at more than one point.
re: #368 Targetpractice
Do you own a good paper shears? If so then you can cut up said notice. I would.
Cool. Then when deaths spike because we’ve abandoned the process that has worked, and when players/staff/family/bypassers become sick or die, @MLB and the clubs can be defendants in wrongful death suits. https://t.co/cc5ZtKrPh2
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 29, 2020
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I don’t think she touched his food.
Her teenage-years will be fun for mom and dad…😂🤣😭💀💀 pic.twitter.com/4CsQtUJZHd— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) April 28, 2020
re: #371 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Chocolate.
OK, maybe we do need a Space Force.
re: #373 PhillyPretzel
Do you own a good paper shears? If so then you can cut up said notice. I would.
I do indeed. Perhaps I’ll do that later, when I’ll get fewer confused looks from the family. Ah, the joys of being the sole liberal in a conservative household.
“That wouldn’t look too good.”
1. Appearances are all Trump cares about… how HE looks.
2. If he were genuinely worried about how things look, he’d have resigned years ago. https://t.co/i4Nlf825Eq— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 29, 2020
Responding to State Sen. @Adam_Morfeld that decision to reopen was ‘political’ rather than ‘medical’ @GovRicketts said, ‘I would just refer the senator to our hospital data. We are no where near overwhelming our hospital capabilities.’
— Paul Hammel (@PaulHammelOWH) April 28, 2020
“Don’t overwhelm the healthcare system” is not the right goal, especially with 90,000 Nebraskans in the Medicaid gap and over 141,000 completely uninsured.
The goal should be to prevent infections and deaths. Our hospital system wont be overwhelmed if ppl can stay healthy. https://t.co/aCIpHQoAWS— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 28, 2020
re: #368 Targetpractice
Ah, a tragedy. I just received my “I’m so awesome for giving you $1,200 of your own money!” letter from Chief Running Eagle, yet I don’t own a paper shredder and it’s now too warm even at night to use the paper as a fire starter.
I got that letter last week. It felt like a campaign ad on White House stationary, in an IRS envelop. Which, really seems like it shouldn’t be legal, alas… Senate Republicans are a caucus of cowards.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You will notice that Trump only became seriously interested in politics when Obama was POTUS and when Clinton was his likely successor. Trump is the epitome of white male privilege in this country. And that’s how he was able to be treated seriously as a presidential candidate despite showing an astounding ignorance on the issues.
Hanegbi named here: https://t.co/GMt3N4xFzR
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) April 29, 2020
In one exchange specifically mentioning Jerusalem, the document alleges Stone in communication with a high-ranking official in the Israeli capital.
“Roger, hello from Jerusalem,” the document reads. “Any progress? He is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intell [sic]. The key is in your hands! Back in the US next week. How is your Pneumonia? Thank you.”
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe if we put cardboard cutouts of Ivanka in the empty seats he could live with it?
/
re: #360 Dread Pirate
The largest outbreak of COVID-19 in Colorado is at Sterling Correctional Facility. 238 people have tested positive there. Jails and prisons are petri dishes.
re: #380 KGxvi
I got that letter last week. It felt like a campaign ad on White House stationary, in an IRS envelop. Which, really seems like it shouldn’t be legal, alas… Senate Republicans are a caucus of cowards.
and free franked postage?
re: #381 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You will notice that Trump only became seriously interested in politics when Obama was POTUS and when Clinton was his likely successor. Trump is the epitome of white male privilege in this country. And that’s how he was able to be treated seriously as a presidential candidate despite showing an astounding ignorance on the issues.
Two thoughts:
1. “seriously” is doing some Olympic quality heavy lifting there.
2. he got interested when Obama roasted him for his birtherism bullshit at the WHCD
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He never expected to win. It was supposed to be like everything else he’s done for the past three decades, a means of boosting his “brand” while the reality is he’s one bank calling in his debts away from being rendered penniless. He’d spend his days whining on Twitter about President Clinton and how horribly she was running everything, while grifting from the rubes by promising to get “justice” for the “rigged” election.
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I’m hoping a Biden victory in the fall will strike the beginning of the end for the other officials who owe their rise to Trump and Trumpism.
Hey, there’s a great idea - Trump should sue COVID-19!
Either that or nuke it.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
You’ll need very tiny rakes, but we’re the king of tiny rakes.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 29, 2020
They should be concerned about Manatee and Sarasota Counties as well.
Their ratio of cases-to-deaths is higher than those three counties— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) April 29, 2020
re: #372 Targetpractice
As I’ve said before, that will be the dogma come November: “It could have been worse!”
And what’s this “we” business, Donny? You’ve done all of jack and shit to address this crisis and been an active hindrance at more than one point.
the flip side is also true: it could have easily been significantly much better
re: #388 wrenchwench
goddamnedfrank
Hey now, be careful. Invoking his name can cause him to appear.
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re: #386 KGxvi
Two thoughts:
1. “seriously” is doing some Olympic quality heavy lifting there.
2. he got interested when Obama roasted him for his birtherism bullshit at the WHCD
Yeah fair enough but I wonder what he hoped to accomplish from the Birtherism in the first place. I think everyone had Romney as the heir to McCain as the GOP standard bearer.
This is the second time in 2 days that he’s hauled out this “I would like you to do us a favor though” quid pro quo threat. https://t.co/ZaYtHS1DGG
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) April 29, 2020
re: #363 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Fourteen tweets, in which the founder of the Me Too movement throws her support behind Tara Reade.
I’m mostly staying away from this, but as someone posted over at DK, her stories have been so inconsistent Ronan Farrow won’t go near it.
re: #368 Targetpractice
Ah, a tragedy. I just received my “I’m so awesome for giving you $1,200 of your own money!” letter from Chief Running Eagle, yet I don’t own a paper shredder and it’s now too warm even at night to use the paper as a fire starter.
for your dining and dancing pleasure:
re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We’re not going to do mass deportations during a fucking pandemic.
re: #395 Backwoods_Sleuth
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IOW, the man is taking steps to further slow down the restoration of the economy in order to attain something he couldn’t get otherwise.
re: #396 Belafon
I’m mostly staying away from this, but as someone posted over at DK, her stories have been so inconsistent Ronan Farrow won’t go near it.
Yeah there’s a lot of inconsistency here.
May 20 and May 25 reopenings: pic.twitter.com/gYYcddNUqX
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 29, 2020
Beshear: Daycares won’t open in Phase 1. “Hopefully a June solution” for those. Public pools won’t even open in Phase 2
— Joe Sonka 😐 #StayHome (@joesonka) April 29, 2020
re: #397 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
for your dining and dancing pleasure:
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Ah, nourishment for the soul.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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maybe nuance but he totally wants to be in charge
what he doesnt want is any of the blame
power without the responsibility
just like the 2A nuts
Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn’t want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he can, he’s refusing to do that job, and lashing out at those who ask him to do it.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 29, 2020
Trump says he thinks he’s going to Arizona next week, “having to do with industry,” and hopes he’ll be in Ohio very soon.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
re: #394 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah fair enough but I wonder what he hoped to accomplish from the Birtherism in the first place. I think everyone had Romney as the heir to McCain as the GOP standard bearer.
Well, he’s been a fairly racist POS most of his life. So there’s that. But I suspect he also saw an opportunity to build a customer base among the Alex Jones crowd for his various snake oil product lines. Then as everyone said, he didn’t expect to win, just to build his brand - he probably figured he’d lose the primary (if not for sure in the general) and could build his brand railing against the establishment.
Which is funny, when you consider he’s a second/third generation business owner who has (in theory) a massive real estate portfolio based mostly in the most expensive market (NYC). But nobody said that he or his true believers had much self-awareness.
Would love to know if @Gladys4Congress @karaforcongress @Ann_Ashford @NebraskaMegan @senatormachaela @SenatorFischer @MayorLeirion @MeltonforOmaha or — any men in the public limelight hear crazy stuff about their hair from strangers.
My hair is perfect - mostly strangers just call me a bitch https://t.co/EjJZjSlKSq
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 28, 2020
re: #401 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Perhaps someone will explain to me how adults will go back to work while schools and daycares are closed. Oh, I know! Grandma and Grandpa will take care of them. Unless they are over 65…oh.
re: #359 calochortus
Yeah, an 81 year old has a life expectancy that is >-1 year.
And “Carrousel” is not far over the horizon.
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Speaking to @NBCNews, a senior Chinese government official has challenged President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S and accused him of wasting weeks after the threat of the virus became apparent. https://t.co/aDUoCE2CQb - @janisfrayer @ Adela_Suliman
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 29, 2020
re: #391 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Related to actual health policy, or attempting to punish “blue” counties by thinking the residents there will go and spend money in “red” ones?
re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey Ben Shapiro this is my mom yesterday she’s 84 does she look like she’s ready to die so you can go to Capital Grille for dinner to talk about your stock portfolio pic.twitter.com/3DcHUots98
— Mayday Mindy🌊 (@maydaymindy9) April 29, 2020
re: #363 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Fourteen tweets, in which the founder of the Me Too movement throws her support behind Tara Reade.
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Tarana says that victims shouldn’t be used as political pawns, immediately gets deluged with Berners screaming that she’s defending Biden and needs to demand he drop from the race so their Socialist Sugar Daddy can be the nominee.
re: #396 Belafon
I’m mostly staying away from this, but as someone posted over at DK, her stories have been so inconsistent Ronan Farrow won’t go near it.
i think the ‘movement’ is missing the point.
it’s not about ‘support’
and it’s not about standards of proof.
what it is about is not dismissing an allegation *a priori*.
no one is required to ‘support’ the claimant *after* whatever info comes to light.
the rest of us are perfectly welcome to apply our critical thinking skills and not accept an allegation.
because none of this is courtroom level evidence or standard of proof.
it’s way too late for that.
so it’s the public forum and there’s rarely exoneration there.
whatever did or didnt happen, biden’s not gonna admit anything now. his position is set. so there’s nothing for him to ‘do’.
with the current facts, this isn’t going anywhere. for her, or for him.
everyone’s just gonna thrash a lot of ‘information’ that ‘everyone’ knows that doesnt sufficiently *prove* anything.
so unless more, *credible* women come forward, this is going nowhere.
however, *if* biden really did it
and more evidence did come out
and the dem position imploded and he then felt he had to withdraw
here is one solid fact
the DNC does not pick bernie.
no, it does not.
re: #390 Charles Johnson
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I haven’t gotten any emails from Parscale in awhile. Before all this it was at least one a week.
re: #412 DodgerFan1988
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my mom’s 91
lives alone
in her own house
drove until 6 months ago (eye problems)
does her own cooking, baking, cleaning.
NYT crosswords
doesnt need a cane (yet)
ben’s a ass
Hey Ben Shapiro this is my mom yesterday she’s 84 does she look like she’s ready to die so you can go to Capital Grille for dinner to talk about your stock portfolio pic.twitter.com/3DcHUots98
— Mayday Mindy🌊 (@maydaymindy9) April 29, 2020
re: #363 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Fourteen tweets, in which the founder of the Me Too movement throws her support behind Tara Reade.
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There is a whole bunch of word salad in there because she is walking a tightrope over Mt. Doom.
re: #417 The Pie Overlord!
There is a whole bunch of word salad in there because she is walking a tightrope over Mt. Doom.
And the eagles are not going to arrive.
re: #417 The Pie Overlord!
There is a whole bunch of word salad in there because she is walking a tightrope over Mt. Doom.
she’s conflating being ‘heard’ with being believed
since she’s decided who she believes, biden must behave the way she wants
because if he doesnt there are only two conclusions:
- he’s a creep who did it (whatever ‘it’ is) and is hiding it
- he didnt do it and therefore she’s just plain wrong (and that just cannot be!)
re: #178 Targetpractice
Re Starfleet HQ:
No weather in Alpha Quadrant quite as good as California weather
Lots of capitals are in backwater places. See most US state capitals
re: #415 GlutenFreeJesus
I haven’t gotten any emails from Parscale in awhile. Before all this it was at least one a week.
Talk about someone who knows where all the bodies are buried. Please trump, fuck him over. Do it.
Like I said this morning, the Biden campaign has no reason to say more than they have: “He denies it, we deny it, but we welcome the press to investigate and reach their own conclusions.” So far the major outlets that have actually looked into her allegations have been forced to admit they can’t find any corroboration beyond her word or the word of her “witnesses,” and we’ve have confirmation in the past 24 hours that the key “witness” in the WaPo article (Reade’s younger brother) was coached to change his story.
The media’s been tasked to do their job and inform the public, but all they really want to do is stage a fight and then sell tickets to spectators.
Totally cool, totally normal, NBD TBH:
As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus.
Within moments, the President was shouting — not at the aides in the room, but into the phone — at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. It’s not clear how serious the President’s threat of a lawsuit was.
Also: hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
re: #178 Targetpractice
Well, if years of watching scifi has taught me anything, it’s that humans are always somehow the missing piece in a massive galactic puzzle that leads to a beneficial future for all. That’s how we went from a bunch of backward savages that nearly nuked ourselves into extinction into the center of a united federation of planets in under a century.
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That’s one of the reason’s I loved Andromeda… even if Kevin Sorbo is a bit of a douchecanoe. It was one of the few SciFi series I remember where Earth and humans were not the center of a great galactic government.
re: #423 KGxvi
I suspect Parscale knows just how empty a threat of a lawsuit actually is.
re: #423 KGxvi
Totally cool, totally normal, NBD TBH:
Also: hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
So, basically the meeting scene from Downfall.
February: debating over whether it’s okay to punch people’s seats on planes for reclining
April: debating over whether it’s okay to let people die for being old
Honestly, y’all, we’re going downhill quick— Geraldine (@everywhereist) April 29, 2020
re: #425 Belafon
I suspect Parscale knows just how empty a threat of a lawsuit actually is.
“So you diverted money to your daughter-in-law and Jr’s “girlfriend” how?”
#RatFucker pic.twitter.com/Fg7qZsGh7s
— And the Wind Cries “Does sarcasm ever work?” (@DaveoutofAustin) April 29, 2020
Evening Lizardim from the windy but beautiful wild north country. New parts are stacking up in my house as I prep to continue work on Mrs. Fish’s ‘79 Lincoln, sadly abandoned in last year’s severe mental distress. New numbers are new records almost all the way around: 2915 tested, up to 66744; 463 new positives, up to 4644; 17 dead, up to 318. We are seeing the results of focusing testing in areas of high risk, and while I know our Republican dumbshits are undoubtedly hoping to get reopened soon, it’s clear that we have some ways to go to be confident enough to try. How go things among the lizardfolk on this lovely spring evening?
re: #431 Dave In Austin
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Justin, you ran as a TP candidate, one of the ugliest and more hyperpartisan movements seen in recent decades. You were a loyal Republican right up to the point that you began to realize that you might not win reelection in a year where Trump would be on the ballot. And you’ve since dropped that bid because the GOP refuses to take your ass back.
So let us dispense with the bull.
re: #424 KGxvi
That’s one of the reason’s I loved Andromeda… even if Kevin Sorbo is a bit of a douchecanoe. It was one of the few SciFi series I remember where Earth and humans were not the center of a great galactic government.
A BIT of a douchecanoe? I’d say he’s into full on territory by now.
re: #432 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim from the windy but beautiful wild north country. New parts are stacking up in my house as I prep to continue work on Mrs. Fish’s ‘79 Lincoln, sadly abandoned in last year’s severe mental distress. New numbers are new records almost all the way around: 2915 tested, up to 66744; 463 new positives, up to 4644; 17 dead, up to 318. We are seeing the results of focusing testing in areas of high risk, and while I know our Republican dumbshits are undoubtedly hoping to get reopened soon, it’s clear that we have some ways to go to be confident enough to try. How go things among the lizardfolk on this lovely spring evening?
Quiet day. Warmer and some sunshine so I sat outside with a cup of tea for a while.
Going to listen to a Zoom presentation on “Mass Extinctions” in a few minutes being presented by a professor I know.
And maybe getting together with some family on-line this evening to try out ability to remote play Jackbox games.
Case closed. Literally. https://t.co/GTyNAilP43 https://t.co/HmXbHnxj01
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) April 29, 2020
re: #434 Eclectic Cyborg
A BIT of a douchecanoe? I’d say he’s into full on territory by now.
I was trying to be generous because I always loved the campiness of the Adventures of Hercules.
re: #436 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Quiet day. Warmer and some sunshine so I sat outside with a cup of tea for a while.
Going to listen to a Zoom presentation on “Mass Extinctions” in a few minutes being presented by a professor I know.
And maybe getting together with some family on-line this evening to try out ability to remote play Jackbox games.
My Discord friends have been doing some fairly regular Jackboxing, and it’s been a godsend. I just wish they were more about the trivia games in the pack, since I’m a big trivia nut.
Lre: #431 Dave In Austin
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You got elected during the Tea Party wave. Biden got elected during a very bad election year for Democrats.
re: #431 Dave In Austin
I’m saving that pic. Perfecto.
re: #415 GlutenFreeJesus
I haven’t gotten any emails from Parscale in awhile. Before all this it was at least one a week.
It would be pretty cool if he shitcanned his ‘cyber guru.’ He could go back to building Wordpress sites.
re: #105 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Surprised that in 2020 there are still stores that don’t take credit cards.
My favorite bar here in town is cash and carry, no credit or debit cards. He broke down a year or so ago and put in an ATM, but it charges like $3.50 a transaction. I just make sure to grab some cash if I am going to go hang out there. I love the look on the college kids faces when they try to pay with their cards, like they just stepped onto Mars of something. They can’t believe he doesn’t take cards. But us old shot and beer type don’t care much at all.
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