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re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
2020-21, full recap
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You had me until the Browns won. Then I knew it was bullshit.
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re: #2 Targetpractice
You had me until the Browns won. Then I knew it was bullshit.
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Were they playing the Detroit Lions?
#TrumpHasNoPlan is currently trending on Twitter.
This makes me happy.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
Nah. They were playing the Eagles.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
Were they playing the Detroit Lions?
Yep, and they beat the Bengals in the AFC Championship.
For once we agree, @RealDonaldTrump - we really DO need a great leader in charge instead of a goddamned laughing stock.
But not to worry - we’ll have one as soon as #JoeBiden boots your incompetent, corrupt ass out of the Oval Office!
#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica https://t.co/Q9Ps5XV6Wp— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) May 15, 2020
Tropical atmosphere https://t.co/qFe2g30lpk pic.twitter.com/mCB89YRWc2
— Old L.A. Photos (@OldLAPhotos) May 15, 2020
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
#TrumpHasNoPlan is currently trending on Twitter.
This makes me happy.
Has me wishing my shoddy video editing skills were actually worth a damn.
My previously-mentioned poor effort to make a clip with tRump’s speeches on COVID against the backdrop of the death toll in terms of bigger and bigger stadiums and well-known venues?
That’s its literal working title.
The whole world laughed at you because you are an asshole!https://t.co/Gr3wBsIhcn
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 15, 2020
re: #9 Disloyal Archangel
Has me wishing my shoddy video editing skills were actually worth a damn.
My previously-mentioned poor effort to make a clip with tRump’s speeches on COVID against the backdrop of the death toll in terms of bigger and bigger stadiums and well-known venues?
That’s its literal working title.
I have some skills. Do you have the audio, video and still (pic) files?
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I have some skills. Do you have the audio, video and still (pic) files?
Archangel’s idea gave me one of my own along similar lines, though it’s probably too ambitious and might need a professional-level crew to pull off (or perhaps CGI and archival footage could be enough…?)
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LOL
BREAKING: ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams: “Based on what we know today, this Obamagate theory is 100 percent bullshit.”
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 15, 2020
on thegreatpoolpondconversion
it has not rained a lot this year (yet).
now that the liner is in, we’ve only had to pump out the water twice - a couple of inches each time - so we could continue to work down in the bottom.
well last night was a drown pour.
so much water flowed in that the entire bottom, plus a part of the first shelf are all under water.
it’s a pond!
until tomorrow when we drop in the sump pump and bail it out again
we can’t keep doing that as we progress, and we figure there may be times we have to actually get in the water later so we’re looking at fisherman’s waders.
if we do, there will definitely be photos.
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I have some skills. Do you have the audio, video and still (pic) files?
Yeah, so …I might have gotten pissed off and scrapped most of what I had at an early stage due to lack of satisfaction and a sinking feeling I’d never be able to get it right in its original form…. xD
Figured I’d just stick to graphics (some of which I posted here) while keeping it pending until i’d come up with newer stuff I could pull off.
Narrator: The newer stuff never really came.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
Were they playing the Detroit Lions?
I just want to point out, everything has (really) gone down hill since the Cubs beat the Indians in the World Series.
re: #12 Interesting Times
Archangel’s idea gave me one of my own along similar lines, though it’s probably too ambitious and might need a professional-level crew to pull off (or perhaps CGI and archival footage could be enough…?)
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There will be several posts here, as I got an email from the U of Illinois, talking about some things that U of I students and faculty have been working on to help combat COVID-19, and I got all proud in my feels. (They also provided a number of photo backdrops of campus places that we can use as zoom backgrounds, including one of Smith Music Hall, where I spent most of my time for four years, and one of Krannert Performing Art Center, which came on line in my last year, so got to play there a couple of times.)
They produced a quickie ventilator — RapidVent — (not used on humans yet, but been through 1.5 million of breathing cycles) that could be used with an oxygen tank or regular hospital room oxygen feeds. Really cool!
re: #12 Interesting Times
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Another U of I Lab started making hand sanitizer for health care facilities, doing 300 gallons a day.
And my favorite: medicine.illinois.edu
Carle Illinois College of Medicine students designed a concept called “COVI-Pod, a negative pressure system isolation pod that creates a secure barrier between the patient and the hospital room. The COVI-Pod places the patient’s medical equipment—including IV poles, monitors, and ventilators—in a clean area outside the pod, where no PPE is required. When healthcare workers need to reposition patients or perform physical exams or emergent procedures, only then do they need to enter the COVI-Pod donning full PPE. By reducing patient contact while continuing patient care, the COVI-Pod could reduce the need for PPE by 60%.”
I’m so proud of these folks, and my alma mater!
re: #12 Interesting Times
Archangel’s idea gave me one of my own along similar lines, though it’s probably too ambitious and might need a professional-level crew to pull off (or perhaps CGI and archival footage could be enough…?)
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Me likey!
My initial concept was a split screen sort of thing with Trump being shown golfing (or referenced playing golf, in video only) on one half, with audio in the background from his COVID speeches, starting with the “It’s their new hoax” clip and progressing onward, with dates being emphasized at the bottom.
Meanwhile, on the right side of the screen, a growing death toll showed increasingly larger stadiums and venues, with their capacities highlighted in the front & corresponding to the dates of the Trump speeches being heard.
For example:
Carnegie Hall New York, Capacity: 3,671
U.S. COVID Deaths, April 1, 2020: 4,079
Anaheim Convention Center California, Capacity: 7,500
U.S. COVID Deaths, April 5, 2020: 8,501
Latter Day Saints Conference Center Utah, Capacity: 21,000
U.S. COVID Deaths, April 13, 2020: 22,100
The audio would play Trump’s words against an ominous tune that would grow louder as the numbers grew in size.
I was never really satisfied with my endings for it, but most featured the same text against the backdrop of the latest and biggest sporting stadium in black and white:
“Donald Trump thinks this is a game. But Donald Trump has no game plan. How many more have to die until America has one?”
I honestly will be surprised if Judge Sullivan doesn’t flay Donny’s appointed hack lawyer alive at the next hearing:
#BREAKING
Flynn prosecutors revolted because DOJ wouldn’t agree to tell the judge their work was ethical: reporthttps://t.co/wEzxxzOYCD— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 15, 2020
On Friday, CNN reported the reason why the motion from the Justice Department to dismiss the charges against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn did not bear the signatures of all the federal prosecutors who worked on the case.
Specifically, according to justice correspondent Evan Perez, the two prosecutors who did not sign had first wanted the motion to include an acknowlegement that their work on the case was ethical, and that there was no prosecutorial misconduct on their part.
The DOJ did not allow such language into the motion filed with District Judge Emmet Sullivan, presumably because it would undermine the entire basis for their claim that the charges against Flynn should be dismissed.
Translation: In addition to jamming a dagger right between the FBI’s shoulder blades, Barr ordered the DOJ’s own prosecutors burned in order to secure Flynn’s release without a pardon.
re: #21 retired cynic
Another U of I Lab started making hand sanitizer for health care facilities, doing 300 gallons a day.
And my favorite: medicine.illinois.edu
Carle Illinois College of Medicine students designed a concept called “COVI-Pod, a negative pressure system isolation pod that creates a secure barrier between the patient and the hospital room. The COVI-Pod places the patient’s medical equipment—including IV poles, monitors, and ventilators—in a clean area outside the pod, where no PPE is required. When healthcare workers need to reposition patients or perform physical exams or emergent procedures, only then do they need to enter the COVI-Pod donning full PPE. By reducing patient contact while continuing patient care, the COVI-Pod could reduce the need for PPE by 60%.”
I’m so proud of these folks, and my alma mater!
I was born at Carle and my dad’s construction company built a major addition in the 1980s! Anyway, great stuff.
ETA: Ok, that was dumb. Carle Hospital and the school of medicine are not the same. Anyway, great stuff (my dad’s first projects as a young engineer were the Assembly Hall and a major part of the Union Building).
So I’m trying out jokes on Mike Birbiglia
All bits will have to involve masks in some way, so brush up on your Lone Ranger, Zorro, and Batman jokes.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 15, 2020
All bits will have to involve masks in some way, so brush up on your binary logic.
If someone wanted to do a video, and show the number of people that have died from CV19, all they have to do is show football, baseball, hockey and basketball (because they are usually the same venue) college football stadiums and NASCAR tracks.
Do a countdown.
Venue.
Capacity.
Numbers dead versus capacity.
Your sports fans will grasp that.
“Right now 3/4 of Beaver Stadium, home of the Penn State Nittany Lions, are filled with dead Americans.”
Do the voice over and then speed it up.
Bam.
Bam.
Bam.
Bam.
Don’t even have to explain. The venues are known to 3/4 of us.
Venue-Capacity-Dead………..
and it is not over because the GOP and Donald Trump cared more about making money than you or your family.
Vote like your life depended on it.
It does.
Anyone? Panda=Pandemic but other than that, no clue. The handwriting sucks.
If a eagle-eyed reader can decipher the handwriting on the cover page held up by McEnany, my DMs are open. (I only recognize “Crimson Contagion” and a few other words.) pic.twitter.com/W3WSs7zbQ2
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 15, 2020
Idiot
President Trump: “This came from China! It should’ve been stopped in China!” pic.twitter.com/2ooLUtbvCk
— The Hill (@thehill) May 15, 2020
re: #28 Omar Comin’ Yo
It’s part what I was originally going for (entertainment, basketball, and football venues), and been trying to do just with images…
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Anyone? Panda=Pandemic but other than that, no clue. The handwriting sucks.
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“Crimson Contagion”?
OFFS, how about spending the time they’re wasting on witty nicknames and actually working out ways to deal with the damned plague!?
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
Idiot
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He’s still pissed that Xi fucked him on this. He totally bought into the idea that this was a China problem and China would fix it if they only had the resources they needed from our stockpiles. Or, at least he was willing to so long as Xi kept hinting to him over the phone that anything else would mean a resumption of the trade war.
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
And it might have had he not eliminated a post set up for it.
re: #33 Targetpractice
“Crimson Contagion”?
OFFS, how about spending the time they’re wasting on witty nicknames and actually working out ways to deal with the damned plague!?
If you’re going to use crimson, then it had better be called the Crimson ‘orror.
Half a man says what? pic.twitter.com/mbhjQVEtfO
— Bill (@BillWilde8) May 15, 2020
re: #38 gocart mozart
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When you can name a crime and make the case, Ted, get back to us. Until then, feel free to fuck off.
It’s very existence.
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) May 15, 2020
re: #32 Disloyal Archangel
Pretty soon we’ll need a list of stadiums that hold 100,000+ - and across the world to boot.
Here comes the heavy weather.
Speaking of heavy weather, gale warning in the SW North Atlantic, as Invest 90 has formed in the Straits of Florida. Chance of becoming a tropical depression in 48 hours: 80%
nhc.noaa.gov
Warning charts and text:
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A short thread by me.
A fellow crone’s mother was in a nursing home because of dementia. FC couldn’t talk with her mother on the phone because her mother was deaf. She couldn’t visit her other than window visits. Mother became depressed and quit eating.
— Peg (@PFlowerstone) May 15, 2020
re: #41 Eric The Fruit Bat
Pretty soon we’ll need a list of stadiums that hold 100,000+ - and across the world to boot.
Michigan Stadium. en.m.wikipedia.org
— 𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 (@doohickeydongle) May 15, 2020
re: #44 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Michigan Stadium. en.m.wikipedia.org
For the record the largest sports venue in the world is Rungrado Stadium in, of all places, Pyongang, North Korea. It’s total capacity is 114000.
(Some stadium out of India is #2, Michigan is #3)
Downstairs it seems the Facebook discussion continued while I was away.
I still use Facebook, mostly to see who’s died, or has a birthday, etc.
Facebook attracted many older Americans, perhaps because of all those stupid diversions Facebook offered.
Anyway, the world of genealogy mostly belongs to old people.
So what happened is that many genealogy forums were abandoned and now Facebook is genealogy central (at least for the US.)
So for my purposes in genealogy I also use Facebook.
The real problem with Facebook is that it enables, even encourages, people to live in bubbles. Facebook is horrible for doing any sort of detailed post (the limited image embedding and almost non existence typography are two examples.)
So the older folk who are afraid that the dirty god-hating socialists are going to take away their Social Security and take away Je$u$ all congregate in masses on Facebook groups dedicated to Real Americans.
In other words, Facebook was made for the John Birch Society types.
I gather most young people just waste away their lives playing games on Twitch, while their grandparents waste away their few remaining days on Facebook playing Candy Crush and falling for every nostalgia meme that comes by.
re: #45 Disloyal Archangel
He forgot to don the spinner hat.
re: #44 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Beaver Stadium in State College Pa holds 106,572.
Why is the Captain Kangaroo theme song banging through my head? Is this the final nervous breakdown?
— Peg (@PFlowerstone) May 15, 2020
Anybody else beginning to feel like this “unmasking” shit is just Plamegate v2.0? That it’s going to end with some minor functionary or low-level Obama admin employee being implicated as the source of the “leak” to the press, followed by days of screaming from wingnuts that the order could only have come from the top and insist that “everybody knew”?
For those curious about the biggest stadiums:
re: #50 plansbandc
Used to watch Capt. Kangaroo.
re: #44 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Michigan Stadium. en.m.wikipedia.org
Been using this to verify locales and figures:
en.wikipedia.org
(List of U.S. stadiums by capacity)
Michigan Stadium is literally at the top of the list.
Once we’re past that, we’ll have to start racing venues primarily.
en.wikipedia.org
(Venues with an Attendance of 100,000 or More)
Biggest one in the United States, and the world, is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which can accomodate up to 400,000 people.
Dog help us all if we get anywhere NEAR that many…
re: #50 plansbandc
I must have completely wiped that from my memory.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
Were they playing the Detroit Lions?
A Cleveland-Detroit Super Bowl would surely signal the End Times - one of them has to win….
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Grocery store updated: went this afternoon.
There were some surprises. First off, it was quite busy for 3PM. The Friday rush used to start a bit later.
And the big surprise: the paper aisle simultaneously had toilet paper and paper towels. Name brands of both - two of each type. Though the toilet paper second name brand was almost diminished. I expect both stashes of paper to be gone by tomorrow.
And the third surprise: hydrogen peroxide! This was a shock.
The frozen fruit section was still quite bare, but it did have a few products. That the frozen fruit have been in very high demand is the one thing that took me by surprise and I still don’t know what people are doing with frozen fruits in the pandemic that they didn’t do before.
I’ve only gotten this exact response like 25 times today 🙄#TrollBye #CloseTheObamaGate https://t.co/Wzdkzl6dsu
— Tara Dublin Is Witnessing Darwinism in Real Time (@taradublinrocks) May 15, 2020
re: #12 Interesting Times
Archangel’s idea gave me one of my own along similar lines, though it’s probably too ambitious and might need a professional-level crew to pull off (or perhaps CGI and archival footage could be enough…?)
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re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not sure about those numbers, but let’s grant they are sort of accurate:
Many 65+ don’t use computers that much, so of the ones who are willing to spend time each day on a computer I bet Facebook owns most of those.
Many young people use Instagram, and I wonder if that leads them to also have a Facebook account, which they probably use more to post Instagram pics?
re: #59 jaunte
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Yeah, those indictments will arrive on the same day as the ones for the FISA court “abuses” that were supposedly going to lead to everybody in Comey’s inner circle going to jail.
Oh dear Dog. Fell into a childhood rabbit hole because of the damn Captain Kangaroo. Watching episodes of Underdog, and Go-Go Gophers is on. One of the most racist cartoons ever. Currently, the whites are attacking the Indians with a secret weapon called the Indian giver machine. (JFC)
I watch a show on youtube that the two guys from one of my fave podcasts (The Dollop) do. They watch horribly racist, sexist, violent cartoons. I think they need to do some Go-Go Gophers.
re: #51 Targetpractice
Anybody else beginning to feel like this “unmasking” shit is just Plamegate v2.0? […]
The thing about the “unmasking” shit, as was pointed out by TPM, is that it’s even dumber than the usual Obama fake scandal:
But the fact of the request means that the officials who are asking don’t know the identity of the target. So, there’s no way that Flynn could have been “targeted” in some kind of conspiracy. The officials involved asked because they had no idea what they would find.
re: #59 jaunte
Let me guess: The indictments were in Al Capone’s vault along with Jimmy Hoffas burial location.
/
re: #54 Disloyal Archangel
Actually NASCAR has cut capacity seating in their tracks. Empty seats don’t play well on TV. It’s like watching a losing football teams game after they have no chance.
Tight shots. No overhead. Cut the empty. Show the full.
And as far as I’m concerned NASCAR can drive the entire franchise into a bridge abutment.
Added:
Did Daytona remove seats?
When the huge project was done, the number of permanent seats at the speedway had gone from 146,000 to 101,500. That’s 44,500 seats gone, or 31 percent of its former capacity. Daytona said the seats removed were its “lowest quality” ones on the backstretch, according to ESPN
More:
According to Speedway Motorsports annual reports, the Charlotte speedway had 171,000 permanent seats in 2001. After the 41,000 seats are removed between now and mid-2015, capacity will shrink to 93,000, a decrease of 46 percent from the 171,000 peak.
re: #62 Targetpractice
Yeah, those indictments will arrive on the same day as the ones for the FISA court “abuses” that were supposedly going to lead to everybody in Comey’s inner circle going to jail.
I’ve been playing with a Q but today. This is when those indictments are coming…
Next week!
Or the week after!
Or the month after!
Or the year after!
Sometime!— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 15, 2020
re: #62 Targetpractice
Yeah, those indictments will arrive on the same day as the ones for the FISA court “abuses” that were supposedly going to lead to everybody in Comey’s inner circle going to jail.
I thought Hillary would have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by now - but instead, Trump’s traitors (Flynn, Cohen, Manafort, Stone, etc.) have taken the fall.
How incompetent is Trump that his own folks are doing time and the one he threatened during the debates is out and about?
Trump will be playing at a one-hole golf course this weekend.
He will still ride a cart.
re: #64 garzooma
The thing about the “unmasking” shit, as was pointed out by TPM, is that it’s even dumber than the usual Obama fake scandal:
Thing is, most everybody’s in agreement with the leak to the press about Flynn being the second party in the intercepted call. Or, at least they’re in agreement that if that info was classified, then leaking it to the press is a crime. The problem the Trump admin has on their hands is trying to convince everybody listening that “unmasking” and leaking are synonymous in the law. They’re not, hence the incredulity being expressed that they think this shit is actually going to work.
Little Steven and Dave Davies have a discussion about who invented the first hard rock riff
Sorry Dave. No offense meant. You know I love you. I thought that was something the whole world agreed on. I never said he influenced you. You took it to the next level. You influenced everybody who came after you. Compare Rumble and No Trespassing. It’s not a close call. https://t.co/lMRfiSX7Bj
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) May 15, 2020
You know I love you. No offense intended. Thought it was one of those obvious things everybody agreed on. I didn’t say he influenced you. I’m sorry but the attitude that became Hard Rock was born with Rumble. What other instrumental has ever been banned on the radio? https://t.co/29NvmcUlGv
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) May 15, 2020
How about we give him inventing the Hard Rock power chord, and you inventing the Hard Rock riff? Townshend won’t mind being 2nd. Or 3rd! https://t.co/PmtTmsRmFB
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) May 15, 2020
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re: #59 jaunte
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So what’s the basic principle at work here?
Is it that it’s an unconscionable abuse of power to expect that presidential campaign officials should abide by the law?
Or is that the unconscionable abuse is to expect that Trump campaign officials should do so?
I haz a curious….
re: #63 plansbandc
Oh dear Dog. Fell into a childhood rabbit hole because of the damn Captain Kangaroo. Watching episodes of Underdog, and Go-Go Gophers is on. One of the most racist cartoons ever. Currently, the whites are attacking the Indians with a secret weapon called the Indian giver machine. (JFC)
I watch a show on youtube that the two guys from one of my fave podcasts (The Dollop) do. They watch horribly racist, sexist, violent cartoons. I think they need to do some Go-Go Gophers.
That reminds me, when I first encountered the term “Indian giver,” I decided it had to mean someone who gives things to Indians, even though I was older when I learned that whites who gave things to Indians generally took them back.
Yerushalmi Lockshen Kugel #ShabbatShalom pic.twitter.com/xfFp75Y3Fa
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) May 15, 2020
re: #51 Targetpractice
Anybody else beginning to feel like this “unmasking” shit is just Plamegate v2.0? That it’s going to end with some minor functionary or low-level Obama admin employee being implicated as the source of the “leak” to the press, followed by days of screaming from wingnuts that the order could only have come from the top and insist that “everybody knew”?
Everybody already knew. That’s already the truth. And the documents say it was legal.
re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Grocery store updated: went this afternoon.
There were some surprises. First off, it was quite busy for 3PM. The Friday rush used to start a bit later.
And the big surprise: the paper aisle simultaneously had toilet paper and paper towels. Name brands of both - two of each type. Though the toilet paper second name brand was almost diminished. I expect both stashes of paper to be gone by tomorrow.
And the third surprise: hydrogen peroxide! This was a shock.
The frozen fruit section was still quite bare, but it did have a few products. That the frozen fruit have been in very high demand is the one thing that took me by surprise and I still don’t know what people are doing with frozen fruits in the pandemic that they didn’t do before.
Contributing factor:
A frozen food plant in Albany [OR] has been fined $2,000 by the state of Oregon following an outbreak of COVID-19 there affected nearly three dozen people.
re: #56 Eric The Fruit Bat
A Cleveland-Detroit Super Bowl would surely signal the End Times - one of them has to win….
I think the Cubs winning the World Series was the harbinger of the apocalypse. Right after that, Trump won the election.
I’ll have to vote for Link Ray but it’s close.
re: #80 gocart mozart
I’ll have to vote for Link Ray but it’s close.
I touched Dave Davies’ guitar strings once. He was on stage in San Diego.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Tin-foil mode: Makes me wonder if Q madness might be a LEFT-wing plot, designed to distract and mis-direct the Trumpian masses. Q-balls have already gained control of a number of county-level Republican operations. If they can do the same at the state level, and have major influence nationally, they could well induce reality-based fascists and grifters, not to mention money-baggers, to sit out the election entirely, or vote lepertarian, which is the functional equivalent.
Is this good foil or has my hat gotten too tight while isolated here on Planet Kirel?
Update from the Panhandle Public Health District (the eleven counties of the Nebraska Panhandle plus Grant County):
Confirmed: 82 (+3, all in Scott’s Bluff County, all age 10-19)
Recovered: 54
Deaths: 0
Largest age group: 10-19
Second-largest: 40-49
Female: 44 Male: 38
pphd.org
re: #82 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If the Q people are this good at making (some) people believe absolutely ANYTHING, they could easily turn direction as the election approaches… could they even drive their followers into Biden votes with the right bits of manipulation?
re: #84 i(m)p(each)sos
If the Q people are this good at making (some) people believe absolutely ANYTHING, they could easily turn direction as the election approaches… could they even drive their followers into Biden votes with the right bits of manipulation?
No.
re: #72 Jay C
The latter is what they’re going for, but can’t articulate in the open.
re: #81 wrenchwench
Were they attached to his guitar at the time?
re: #72 Jay C
So what’s the basic principle at work here?
Is it that it’s an unconscionable abuse of power to expect that presidential campaign officials should abide by the law?
Or is that the unconscionable abuse is to expect that Trump campaign officials should do so?I haz a curious….
I understand Biden gave us a new Biden Rule. This would be Biden Rule No.2. He said he would not pardon Trump. Okay,fair enough. That means Biden Rule No.2, is prosecuting a former President is acceptable to DNC. #Obamagate….A great place for Biden Rule No. 2
— TullyJustTully (@TullyJust) May 15, 2020
Asshat doesn’t understand pardons. Biden’s statement by necessity would include that Trump stands accused of a federal crime first. He also won’t pardon Trump if a charge is not brought.
English, how does it work?
Biden sure baited the wingnuts into snowflakery though.
re: #87 jaunte
Were they attached to his guitar at the time?
Yep. He was holding it tight. (I was not the only one reaching that way.) And I didn’t break any.
re: #82 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This should be spread on Q threads on Twitter and Facebook. Make them believe they are the dupes of liberal rodent copulation. Watch them turn on each other, then make popcorn.
Mood: pic.twitter.com/AGW8vSjEoW
— Umphrey’s McGee (@umphreysmcgee) May 15, 2020
re: #86 jaunte
The latter is what they’re going for, but can’t articulate in the open.
Maybe somebody else could articulate it.
I have a certain former VP in mind….
re: #86 jaunte
The latter is what they’re going for, but can’t articulate in the open.
Pineapple pizza = Birtherism
— neontaster (@neontaster) May 15, 2020
re: #60 Jebediah, RBG
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re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t follow what neontaster is getting at there. Is he claiming what Capehart is saying is nonsense? Because it isn’t.
re: #96 jaunte
I don’t follow what neontaster is getting at there. Is he claiming what Capehart is saying is nonsense? Because it isn’t.
I think so. I don’t clam to fathom the wingnut mind.
85k dead, 40M lost jobs under Trump but it’s *Biden* that having tough week.
NYT completely committed to this storyline. virtually *every* Biden article is Dem Disarray. and yes, Trump leads in 1 of the last 49 polls at RCP; https://t.co/I9Jxq6swqU— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 15, 2020
The Stooges: “I Want to be Your Dog” (1968)https://t.co/qk8mOM5vQy
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 15, 2020
Rotating thunderstorm ten minutes away from me.
wunderground.com
Cheyenne County (the next one south) is getting obliterated.
Out the window to the southwest it doesn’t look very good. I might be knocked off line in a minute (you lucky devils). Thunder is rattling the house.
re: #99 gocart mozart
Remember Mods and Rockers?
The Who were Mods.
re: #102 wrenchwench
They were like the 20th or the 1st UK punk band
re: #71 gocart mozart
Rumble came about 5-6 years before You Really Got Me and was considered so sick and disruptive to polite society that it got banned from the radio. You Really Got me was mind blowing at the time but The Beatles had opened things up a lot for raw rock music. I think Rumble is more of a ground-breaker.
re: #104 stpaulbear
The beef was who did the first hard rock riff. It depends on if you think Rumble was hard rock. Stevie say yes but Davies says no ut was me, but he’s a bit biased.
Kayleigh McEnany: The dog ate the President’s plan.
Yamiche Alcindor: But Trump doesn’t have a dog.
Kayleigh McEnany: It was Obama’s dog.— Ellen Garrison (@EllenTrailerDog) May 15, 2020
First all black punk band 1971? Depends on if you call it punk.
en.wikipedia.org
So they’re going to fly jets today to honor health care workers. I don’t get the connection. Wouldn’t it be better to spend the cost of these flights on PPE or maybe bonus pay? #coronavirus #Florida pic.twitter.com/XeNugP6dIj
— Megan Smolenyak🕵️♀️ (@megansmolenyak) May 15, 2020
Statewide:
nebraska.maps.arcgis.com
Confirmed: 9,772 (+356)
Deaths: 119 (+12, nearly 10% in one day)
The state is still rising exponentially according to the so-called dashboard (click the radio button marked “positives by date”on the lower right to see the curve in cases here)
The University of Washington has us at projected deaths by August 4 of 127-312 (we’re pretty close to 127 now).
covid19.healthdata.org
Nebraska currently is in the middle of the states with new cases/day, despite our very low population. The curve has been going down for a week or so.
91-divoc.com
Breaking: JCPenny throws in the towel, files Chapter 11.
Have to take care of some business. I’m going to miss a vacation to see my boys and my grand daughters this year. If that’s all we miss, I’ll take it. But at a certain time in your life, yesterday doesn’t come back and tomorrow isn’t promised. Fingers get stiffer and your reaction time slows.
Time and tide wait for no man.
My mother used that to effect. Stayed with me.
So goodnight and may tomorrow hold the promise you hoped for.
Tom Waits says it the best.
He writes the best drinking songs.
More alleged “trespassers” entering the construction site where Ahmaud Arbery was last seen before his murder. These children were not implicated in any crimes due to their presence at this location.
No white person ever was. pic.twitter.com/ezLfDwXB39— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) May 15, 2020
re: #23 Disloyal Archangel
I dunno, I think that ending sounds great!
and why wouldn’t they? Missile test after missile test doesn’t even get a comment from Conald anymore. Kim knows he can do whatever he wants and Conald won’t do anything about it
— Arthur “Two Sheds” Jackson (@StankOnnit) May 15, 2020
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
Idiot
President Trump: “This came from China! It should’ve been stopped in China!.”
The journey from Tokyo to Hong Kong normally takes me about five hours. It’s now been 19 hours since I left Narita airport and I’m still not home, as I await my COVID-19 test result. This is what international travel is like during the coronavirus pandemic. (Thread) pic.twitter.com/mjO0N3PUil
— Will Ripley (@willripleyCNN) May 15, 2020
Nine-tenths of a treadmill construction kit is in the TV room. This is why boys and girls need to build plastic model ships and planes.
re: #113 Dread Pirate
So Florida is doing the KC-135 thing with their Air National Guard as well. Not going to be upstaged by Pete Ricketts. What is this, a jingoism contest? Well, I guess we won since they flew from Omaha to Scottsbluff and back. I made a point of not going out to look when they flew over my house.
what could possibly be worse than mannequins in 40s garb, you ask?
A South Carolina restaurant is using dressed-up blow up dolls to fill empty tables as people maintain safe social distancing. https://t.co/lEgtsi9Ycn pic.twitter.com/ZhPREsM8XG
— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) May 14, 2020
Texas reports single-day high in coronavirus deaths two weeks after reopening https://t.co/c4HfQZZVOc pic.twitter.com/NgBq735MhS
— The Hill (@thehill) May 16, 2020
re: #122 Decatur Deb
Nine-tenths of a treadmill construction kit is in the TV room. This is why boys and girls need to build plastic model ships and planes.
Does it help them learn to keep all 10 tenths in the same room?
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Responding to a chowderhead:
Lucrative how? How much you think Ahmaud’s family is paying ($0)? How much you think I’ll be able to sue the McMichaels for? They have no assets & their home was just forclosed. So please tell me how I can be like you & bravely stop the murder of Black people from Twitter?
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) May 15, 2020
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
what could possibly be worse than mannequins in 40s garb, you ask?
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Ones with loud vibrators?
Now I’m out.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR HIS “CAMPAIGN FLAIR”
Trump gives White House business trips some campaign flair https://t.co/3fDnmGYvh8 pic.twitter.com/FhlLunPMFt
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 16, 2020
re: #126 wrenchwench
Does it help them learn to keep all 10 tenths in the same room?
At 4/10ths it pretty well covered one room. Reviews said “no worse than IKEA.”
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Anyone? Panda=Pandemic but other than that, no clue. The handwriting sucks.
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“Pademic review” is that whole crew illiterate?
OK I’m outta here. See you all on the other side of Sabbath!
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So Florida is doing the KC-135 thing with their Air National Guard as well. Not going to be upstaged by Pete Ricketts. What is this, a jingoism contest? Well, I guess we won since they flew from Omaha to Scottsbluff and back. I made a point of not going out to look when they flew over my house.
Same in SE Alaska. Couple of C-17’s did a fly-bye over all the towns in SE. Heard them but didn’t bother to go and look.
A networking question for pros:
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re: #95 Sherlock Hound
1. The only font colors that really work are white, yellow and blue. Yellow tends to pop out while blue recedes. A “lower third”, someone’s name and affliation or title, will usually be done with the name in white and the affliation in yellow, or blue.
All gods curse graphic designers who use (movies especially) red fonts.
re: #122 Decatur Deb
Nine-tenths of a treadmill construction kit is in the TV room. This is why boys and girls need to build plastic model ships and planes.
Is your laundry hanging from it yet?
re: #125 Citizen K
I live in Texas, and no one around here gives a shit. It’s almost as if the virus never happened. Thanks, Rush.
re: #41 Eric The Fruit Bat
Pretty soon we’ll need a list of stadiums that hold 100,000+ - and across the world to boot.
Pretty soon stadiums won’t do it - have to start with small towns, and work up as necessary
House Republicans explode with rage over new rule that lets members vote remotely https://t.co/VRomWZu2zy
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) May 16, 2020
Rage is so last year. Who’s committed enough to explode with Covid?
re: #138 Shropshire Slasher
Is your laundry hanging from it yet?
It’s Wife’s mostly. She had to bail on her gym two months ago. (It’s closed now, until the governor chickens out.) She is working up to 8k steps per day.
Making carrot pineapple cake. Wish me luck.
Cool. Let the Republicans all get together in a small room… And not vote at all to protest.
But being together in a small room is key. 👍👍— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 16, 2020
re: #144 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Making carrot pineapple cake. Wish me luck.
Make sure to shred the carrots.
re: #146 Shropshire Slasher
Make sure to shred the carrots.
The carrots were shredded, the pineapple crushed. The raisins soaked and drained. I substituted hazelnuts and pecans for walnuts… It’s what I had. Looks weird. I’ve never made veggie cake before.
re: #140 Jebediah, RBG
Pretty soon stadiums won’t do it - have to start with small towns, and work up as necessary
worldometers.info
88,485 deaths
Half again as large as Nebraska’s third largest city (Bellvue, 53,225).
Approaching one-third of the state’s second-largest city (Lincoln, 280,849)
You can tailor these to your own state.
Deaths in my state (118) are three less than the estimated population of my town (121).
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
worldometers.info
88,485 deathsHalf again as large as Nebraska’s third largest city (Bellvue, 53,225).
Approaching one-third of the state’s second-largest city (Lincoln, 280,849)You can tailor these to your own state.
Deaths in my state (118) are three less than the estimated population of my town (121).
Do you believe these numbers from NE?
re: #150 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
ooooohhh yeaahhhh!
re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The carrots were shredded, the pineapple crushed. The raisins soaked and drained. I substituted hazelnuts and pecans for walnuts… It’s what I had. Looks weird. I’ve never made veggie cake before.
It sounds delicious. I’m assuming you are using a spring form pan? Add some coconut for me!
re: #141 jaunte
Rage is so last year. Who’s committed enough to explode with Covid?
Fine. If they object to voting remotely, they don’t have to vote. Seems simple enough. They can protest by not casting votes.
re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Do you believe these numbers from NE?
I’m not sure. I believe the numbers from the Panhandle Public Health District (it would be pretty hard to hide someone dying here of Covid-19).
As for the rest of the state, when the governor said he wouldn’t release info about meat packing plants, one public health district defied him and released their numbers anyway, and all the meat packing plants released both the numbers from public health sources and private sources they hired.
Aside from Omaha and Lincoln, cities here really aren’t that big. It would be hard to hide information from people who live in them.
Scottsbluff at 14,805 is the 13th largest city in the state.
re: #114 stpaulbear
More garage band sound than punk
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My town (from which I live out in the country) is about 1700, so we’re losing my town, minimum, each day.
Incoming hot take from the Wall Street Journal
Peggy Noonan has always been a massive fraud, but ending this column that suggests working people would gladly tough out coronavirus but elitist doctors and Democrats are stopping them, then ending it “this is no time to make our divisions worse,” is a new low. https://t.co/VmcgiaSAow
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) May 15, 2020
re: #158 retired cynic
My town (from which I live out in the country) is about 1700, so we’re losing my town, minimum, each day.
You live in the big city. /s
re: #105 wrenchwench
The Germs?
Love the Germs but if one considers the Stooges as proto-punk rather than punk proper, I don’t know who predates the Ramones. First album in ‘76 but they were together and playing out before that. (Plus Dee Dee once handed me a towel.)
.@JohnCornyn The GOP-led Texas Supreme Court, of which you were a member, has been meeting and hearing oral arguments over Zoom. https://t.co/D3vQ0YGtT6 https://t.co/TdTExfqqX8
— Texas Signal (@TexasSignal) May 16, 2020
re: #110 gocart mozart
First all black punk band 1971? Depends on if you call it punk.
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Ha! I was going to suggest Death but then I noticed your video and the link were different bands. I was confused at first cuz how can an all-Black band have a white guy?
re: #136 BeenHereAwhile
All gods curse graphic designers who use (movies especially) red fonts.
Red fonts don’t usually look good. In the Old Days, they looked terrible in NTSC because the color encoding was very noisy. But, once again, modern standards haven’t changed those recommendations much. Red is still not good.
re: #153 Shropshire Slasher
It sounds delicious. I’m assuming you are using a spring form pan? Add some coconut for me!
Nope. Standard rectangle. I’m going to cut it into three…1/3 for us, SIL1 and SIL2.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is why she was called Peggington Noonington over at Wonkette.
//
re: #163 jaunte
Boy, Sen. Cornyn is getting dragged.
Nothing says “pro-life” governor more than “we’re going to continue to look for ways to be able to carry out executions.” https://t.co/GRNjxVqGTZ
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 15, 2020
“Having a high percentage of high-risk patients dying is probably a good thing for our statistics.”
This coming from the pro-life administration in today’s press conference
Four cells in a uterus is a person
But nursing home residents can die
I don’t accept this— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 15, 2020
re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sen. Hunt is quoting our state medical officer, Dr. Anthone.
Not to be outdone by Nebraska:
Wyoming Air National Guard to do statewide flyover Friday (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
The Wyoming Air National Guard will perform an “aerial salute” to health care professionals and essential workers on the “the frontlines in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic” on Friday.
The Guard will fly two of its C-130s over each hospital in the state, beginning on Friday morning in Wheatland and ending Friday afternoon in Cheyenne.
(more)
As many people who live in my whole county +35,000 has died of COVID-19. #TrumpOwnsEveryDeath
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 16, 2020
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The health care workers would appreciate more PPE rather than an aerial salute
Asshat weighs in on Sen. Hunt and Hemant Mehta:
If you equate the death penalty of a convicted murderer to the killing of an innocent baby, you’re morally and intellectually dishonest. Not even remotely on the same level.
— Pastor Greg Locke (@pastorlocke) May 15, 2020
Hello, Lizards.
I left off at the start of the Colbert Birthday thread, so about 4 or 5 back by now.
Apologies for not responding to any major news from this crew, and truly hope there hasn’t been too much bad of it.
Remember the story of the Safeway mask enforcement from a few days ago?
Kid went into work today and was told that the word came down from on high that no, they cannot in fact enforce the no-mask/no-entry rule. Corporate is blaming it on a clause in the union policy, which sounds a bit specious but they feel they’ve covered their little corporate fannies, damn their craven little eyes.
For some reason, that flip-flop has blown out the last even on my can’t scale. Have decided I need to take a week off from the world, or at least the news thereof. Am going to sign off here, stop looking at Hoarse Whisperer and Stonekettle and Charlie Pierce, and try desperately to ignore anything political posted on Facebook. Planning to concentrate on the bulging backlog of things I CAN do something about, in this minuscule corner of the universe. Planning to not to leave the house unless 100% unavoidable and not at all for the five days comprising Memorial Day weekend. Hoping to catch up on connections with IRL folks because I’ve fallen behind. Will see if my blood pressure comes down and the patience level recovers to any extent.
Maybe even play music while I work a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle.
Not flouncing from here!
Not even sure I can stick to the resolution, given the overwhelming gravity of what’s going on out there
Just taking a sabbatical
Stay safe, if you can
Stay well, if you can
Stay as sane as you can when dealing with the news, and as crazy as you need to for relaxation
Good wishes and good fortune to all of you, friends
re: #166 Sherlock Hound
Red fonts don’t usually look good. In the Old Days, they looked terrible in NTSC because the color encoding was very noisy. But, once again, modern standards haven’t changed those recommendations much. Red is still not good.
What about when the point is to emphasize blood or the loss of life (like I did in my modest attempts in #32)?
As for white and blue, I didn’t think they came across well with a black and white background…
Pastor Greg Locke Fantasy Twitter Poll:
For what crime should Sen. Megan Hunt be stoned to death?
a) Hoor (single mother never married)
b) Teh Geyh
c) Atheist
d) Democrat
e) All of the above
f) Other
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
G none of the above. That so-called pastor better open his eyes and live in the real world.
And even before them, check out the Wailers’ Out Of My Tree! https://t.co/dCEEkhwabp
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) May 16, 2020
1965
Just got back from raising the flags in the village to full-mast.
Holy hell, the bar is packed. There are people parked for a block up the street.
I guess we’re going to be the next Panhandle hot spot in a few weeks.
re: #178 Disloyal Archangel
What about when the point is to emphasize blood or the loss of life (like I did in my modest attempts in #32)?
As for white and blue, I didn’t think they came across well with a black and white background…
Use green fonts. That way people can paste in all sorts of stuff like they do with Queen Elizabeth’s dresses.
re: #17 KGxvi
I just want to point out, everything has (really) gone down hill since the Cubs beat the Indians in the World Series.
Let’s not forget the 2014 tweet that predicted the end of the world:
2016 World Series. Cubs vs IndiansAnd then the world will end with the score tied in game seven in extra innings #apocalypse
— RaysFanGio (@RaysFanGio) November 4, 2014
So the Cubs playing the Indians in 2016 World Series was a sign of the apocalypse.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
worldometers.info
88,485 deathsHalf again as large as Nebraska’s third largest city (Bellvue, 53,225).
Approaching one-third of the state’s second-largest city (Lincoln, 280,849)You can tailor these to your own state.
Deaths in my state (118) are three less than the estimated population of my town (121).
Estimated. How hard is it to count up to 121?
re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Holy hell, the bar is packed. There are people parked for a block up the street.
I got elected with Gowdy. Have always liked him. But I have no fucking clue what the hell this nonsense is he’s spewing here. This is just craziness. Smh. The whole Republican Party is gone. https://t.co/ovxCe0suPr
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 16, 2020
A good third of the country has lost its mind. Not that it was using it.
So I take a nap because I have insomnia lately and I have a weird dream that Trump is being arrested and I’m blogging it in real time, and then I wake up and sign on to Twitter and the shit is still totally fucked up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
Let’s not forget the 2014 tweet that predicted the end of the world:
So the Cubs playing the Indians in 2016 World Series was a sign of the apocalypse.
And then Trump was elected. Checks out.
Breaking: The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily put an expansion of voting by mail on hold during the coronavirus pandemic.https://t.co/S3FqfPzpqx
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) May 16, 2020
re: #178 Disloyal Archangel
What about when the point is to emphasize blood or the loss of life (like I did in my modest attempts in #32)?
As for white and blue, I didn’t think they came across well with a black and white background…
If you must use red, try a lighter shade. The main reason for this is because human vision perceives pure red as a dark shade. The eye sees green as a very bright shade. Blues and violets are dark. Most software will let you pick colors that are desaturated—i.e. a lot of white in them. You shouldn’t go overboard and use pastels. Simply pick colors that aren’t too deep.
re: #187 jaunte
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A good third of the country has lost its mind. Not that it was using it.
I’m sticking with my hypothesis; rising CO2 levels, a significant percentage of the world is suffering from hypoxia. Mental impairment is a known symptom.
re: #187 jaunte
I got elected with Gowdy. Have always liked him. But I have no fucking clue what the hell this nonsense is he’s spewing here. This is just craziness. Smh. The whole Republican Party is gone. https://t.co/ovxCe0suPr
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 16, 2020
A good third of the country has lost its mind. Not that it was using it.
Hey Joe, is there some reason you never expressed any such concern during the repeated GOP Benghazi inquisitions? You were fine with Gowdy’s performance then. This newest Gowdy statement seems totally in line with his character.
The key to listening to McEnany is to just add the parantheticals she left out.
“To have a businessman (who went bankrupt six times) at the helm […] was very effective (at destroying the economy).” https://t.co/p3azPfBVN7— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 16, 2020
hahahahahaaaa
The foot jab with the flag pole at the end 😂pic.twitter.com/5W1G8BqbjG
— Tris Resists (@TrisResists) May 16, 2020
re: #185 I Would Prefer Not To
Estimated. How hard is it to count up to 121?
Your need 13 people (assuming they are in possession of all their fingers and toes).
😁😂🤣
re: #187 jaunte
A good third of the country has lost its mind. Not that it was using it.
Joe Walsh only got into the House thanks to a Green Party spoiler in the district. Walsh won his House race by 291 votes. The Green candidate took 6,400.
Walsh ran on the 2010 racist Tea Party idea.
re: #185 I Would Prefer Not To
Estimated. How hard is it to count up to 121?
Well, I think all of them are at the bar right now, except my wife and me.
It probably would only take half-an-hour walking around town and asking. I’m not sure who at Wikipedia is doing the estimating. The 2010 Census was 128; since then I know of five children born and four people who died, five who moved in and three who moved out.
Stochastic terrorism.
“FAKE NEWS IS NOT ESSENTIAL!”https://t.co/5286zgRVWQ
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 16, 2020
Her name is Shasta and I think I’m in love with her. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/cERUC2f2w9
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) May 16, 2020
re: #196 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Your need 13 people (assuming they are in possession of all their fingers and toes).
😁😂🤣
If you count in base six - each hand representing a place in a base six counting system - you only need two people, and you will have one hand left over.
So I take a nap because I have insomnia lately and I have a weird dream that Trump is being arrested and I’m blogging it in real time, and then I wake up and sign on to Twitter and the shit is still totally fucked up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
This is probably why I have insomnia.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
I see I’m not the only insomnia sufferer.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
A routine that sometimes works for me, although YMMV: Start counting up from zero, and visualize spelling out each number in alphabetic letters slowly, picturing each character as clearly as you can. Z-E-R-O. Then visualize the numeric character. Continue.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
If I can silence the monkey in my brain long enough to focus on this, I usually go out before I reach FIVE.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
Has anyone seen the contents of this supposed pandemic playbook?
Wow. He’s actually co-signing the threatening behavior in this video. https://t.co/NDzPqJzQy0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
re: #201 Belafon
If you count in base six - each hand representing a place in a base six counting system - you only need two people, and you will have one hand left over.
I was told there’d be no math.
If I counted in base 2, with each finger representing the next power of two (2^0, 2^1, &c) I only need two hands, and therefore only one person.
re: #203 Hecuba’s daughter
Has anyone seen the contents of this supposed pandemic playbook?
Of course not. They just borrowed Mitt Romeny’s binders full of women and renamed them.
Alaska Rep. Ben Carpenter, R-Moron. #akleg https://t.co/ManamgQKsL
— Dermot Cole (@DermotMCole) May 16, 2020
re: #204 Charles Johnson
Meanwhile from an empathetic human being, a message (2:04)
To everyone who has lost a loved one due to COVID-19: I know it’s incredibly difficult right now, but there will come a time when their memory brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will take time, but that’s when you know you’re going to make it. pic.twitter.com/bGyr3AIbWH
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 15, 2020
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Alaska Representative Ben Carpenter (R-acist)
basically having to be bribed to seriously consider hiring minority coaches is a staggering indictment of the nfl. https://t.co/1rrvB9jYnw
— bomani (@bomani_jones) May 15, 2020
I spoke with 3 people whose landlords sexually harassed them when they struggled to pay rent during the pandemic. “He knows I don’t have a job. He knows I don’t have anywhere to go — he’s preying on me,” one told me: https://t.co/pPYANbxaeq
— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) May 14, 2020
it’s really saying something, but this is actually one of the stupidest things I’ve seen from the Trump people. https://t.co/ka6yxz9vQQ
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 15, 2020
Linick during the impeachment process requested an urgent meeting with lawmakers to show them the trove of documents Giuliani had given to State about Hunter Biden. Linick also faulted State officials last summer for retaliating against those deemed politically disloyal to Trump.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 16, 2020
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow, and out come the racists on the original tweet.
From an NFL agent in that thread:
Thankfully, I identify as a black trans lesbian paraplegic with COVID. This is my truth.
— Zack Moore (@ZackMooreNFL) May 15, 2020
This is like a Saturday Night Massacre that happens every night for months. https://t.co/AYTeyjafQ1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 16, 2020
Linick’s replacement:
Stephen J. Akard
“…In October 2017, he was nominated to be director general of the Foreign Service.[2] In March 2018, he withdrew his nomination after State Department officials and lawmakers raised objections that the role should be filled by a more experienced career diplomat and someone less politically connected to the Trump administration.”
en.wikipedia.org
I hate that I’m thinking America will ultimately end up with a Nicolae Ceaușescu ending.
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I was told there’d be no math.
If I counted in base 2, with each finger representing the next power of two (2^0, 2^1, &c) I only need two hands, and therefore only one person.
Yep, and I thought about that, but it is so hard using the fingers individually - especially the ring finger independent of the middle or pinky - that base two is not really doable.
re: #216 Charles Johnson
Notice he keeps firing inspectors general.
When the Democrats take back control from the criminal party, we need to take that authority out of the hands of the President. Put the IGs in the civil service or something, or perhaps make the job an impeachable position like a judge or a pumpkin Pinochet.
This is a direct thuggish threat from the President, targeting a specific reporter and co-signing vicious abuse against him. The barely hidden violent implication in Trump saying this member of the free press isn’t essential is that he therefore doesn’t need to be alive https://t.co/Adz8Ak7PsG
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 16, 2020
re: #218 Barefoot Grin
I hate that I’m thinking America will ultimately end up what a Nicolae Ceaușescu ending.
Actually, that would be a happy ending given the current alternatives (in other words, I’d far rather have that than a North Korea, Russia, or even Hungary ending)
re: #219 Belafon
Yep, and I thought about that, but it is so hard using the fingers individually - especially the ring finger independent of the middle or pinky - that base two is not really doable.
You don’t need the ring fingers at all. Cut those out entirely (eww gross). Just with eight fingers, the eighth is the 128 position in base 2. That’s enough.
Tommy Chong ain’t messing around
Oh yeah! You cleaning up girl! You doing your job! Your mama be proud of her baby girl working in the White House! Clean up that mass! https://t.co/2cGgd41Sd0
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) May 16, 2020
Caution from Walt Schaub:
A word of caution to reporters covering the news of State Department’s inspector general: The law requires Trump to give Congress 30 days notice BEFORE firing him. Unless Trump has violated that law, what Trump did was give 30-days notice of an intent to fire the IG. /1
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 16, 2020
If, as you did with Maguire, you cover this story by saying Linnick has been fired, you’re repeating your mistake from the Maguire firing. Linick HAS NOT been fired. Saying he has helps Trump move through the news cycle quickly. COVER THIS AS THE START OF A 30-DAY COUNTDOWN! /7
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 16, 2020
re: #226 gocart mozart
Tommy Chong ain’t messing around
Good thing Kayleigh has that cross there up front and centre so you know you can trust her.
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow, and out come the racists on the original tweet.
From an NFL agent in that thread:
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if he’s really an agent, I can think of a few players that might want to see that tweet.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) May 16, 2020
“For two months, President Trump repeatedly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a safe and effective treatment for coronavirus, asking would-be patients “What the hell do you have to lose?”
Growing evidence shows that, for many, the answer is their lives.”https://t.co/hDK4fDN8aK— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) May 16, 2020
re: #230 Belafon
if he’s really an agent, I can think of a few players that might want to see that tweet.
He is.
linkedin.com
He also has a book entitled “Caponomics” about how to recruit to build championship sports teams, and is a writer at OvertheCap (dot) com.
Rand Paul quote: “We sort of have the smoking gun because we now have the declassified document with Joe Biden’s name on it.” @RandPaul is full of shit. @gtconway3d @TheRickWilson @JohnFugelsang @KYGOP @KyDems @heraldleader @KyChamber @courierjournal https://t.co/wPErHAPSOF
— Bill Adkins (@BillAdkinsKY) May 16, 2020
^^What Bill said^^
JFC
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