John Oliver discusses the sudden disappearance of sports due to coronavirus, how their absence is impacting people emotionally and financially, and the complications of bringing them back anytime soon.
To me, live sports with full crowds will be the sign we’ve moved past the worst of the Pandemic. Same with live concerts.
Sports with limited/no crowds will be the norm for a while once athletes get back on the field…whenever that is.
Impacts to the fall NFL and College Football seasons are just days away. There’s a lot of money in Football. Be interesting to see how many risks the leagues are willing to take in a few months time.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Washington Post that the fired inspector general “wasn’t performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to” and was “trying to undermine what it was that we were trying to do.”
“IG fired for lack of lackeyness”
(i totally stole this)
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
To me, live sports with full crowds will be the sign we’ve moved past the worst of the Pandemic. Same with live concerts.
Sports with limited/no crowds will be the norm for a while once athletes get back on the field…whenever that is.
Impacts to the fall NFL and College Football seasons are just days away. There’s a lot of money in Football. Be interesting to see how many risks the leagues are willing to take in a few months time.
Florida is essentially already trying to tempt them. (Arizona as well?)
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
To me, live sports with full crowds will be the sign we’ve moved past the worst of the Pandemic. Same with live concerts.
Sports with limited/no crowds will be the norm for a while once athletes get back on the field…whenever that is.
Impacts to the fall NFL and College Football seasons are just days away. There’s a lot of money in Football. Be interesting to see how many risks the leagues are willing to take*** in a few months time.
*** With the lives of the players
re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Florida is essentially already trying to tempt them. (Arizona as well?)
A reminder
It’s not about sitting in a stadium with empty seats between us
It’s the crush at the entrances
The bathrooms
The railings
The food
Programs
Souvenirs
And a thousand other vectors
Thee seating is the least of it
re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Florida is essentially already trying to tempt them. (Arizona as well?)
Either of those arrangements though will be limited crowds, most teams playing in the same geographical area.
I was talking about a time when all teams are back playing regular schedules from their home venues with regular crowd sizes.
Admittedly it will be interesting to see how local/regional restrictions and lockdowns will fare against a well monied nationwide Football league with a ginormous legal team.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
To me, live sports with full crowds will be the sign we’ve moved past the worst of the Pandemic. Same with live concerts.
Yeah, same here. All the big summer festivals in Czech Republic have rescheduled for next summer, and in most cases, the artists and bands have agreed to play (including Judas Priest and Nightwish). Iron Maiden has rescheduled all their concerts for next year. Anyone holding tickets for this year’s festivals will be able to use them next year, no questions asked.
Wear masks in public! https://t.co/g5vCPeubL5
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 15, 2020
re: #5 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
*** With the lives of the players
Nothing new about that.
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Either of those arrangements though will be limited crowds, most teams playing in the same geographical area.
I was talking about a time when all teams are back playing regular schedules from their home venues with regular crowd sizes.
Admittedly it will be interesting to see how local/regional restrictions and lockdowns will fare against a well monied nationwide Football league with a ginormous legal team.
I expect states like New York and Pennsylvania with strong leadership will stand up to them (though in NY’s case the league owners would really be dealing with New Jersey.)
My real curiosity with this is what happens if they start training back up in Arizona or Florida (where especially the baseball teams have training facilities), build up some “we’re gonna reopen!” hype and then there is an outbreak in one of the professional teams. Does everything just shut back down with a minor “mea culpa”, or do they try to brazen it through as some kind of anomaly? Though I expect the players’ union would freak out - and they should.
I just discovered the greatest house listing of all time. It starts out very unassuming and modest. pic.twitter.com/cCubUFd1k4
— Middle-Aged Rust Belt Voter (@frazierapproves) May 18, 2020
Then, things start to escalate pic.twitter.com/RqMVzmLWmp
— Middle-Aged Rust Belt Voter (@frazierapproves) May 18, 2020
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
To me, live sports with full crowds will be the sign we’ve moved past the worst of the Pandemic. Same with live concerts.
Sports with limited/no crowds will be the norm for a while once athletes get back on the field…whenever that is.
Impacts to the fall NFL and College Football seasons are just days away. There’s a lot of money in Football. Be interesting to see how many risks the leagues are willing to take in a few months time.
So, students on campus until the end of football season.
— JⓂ️S (@JeffMSMlTH) May 18, 2020
Was not expecting Pompeo to admit the Trump Administration is an authoritarian regime!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 18, 2020
re: #12 jaunte
$150k for a spaceship with a pool seems reasonable.
— Jeff Reguilon (@jeffreguilon) May 18, 2020
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Either of those arrangements though will be limited crowds, most teams playing in the same geographical area.
I was talking about a time when all teams are back playing regular schedules from their home venues with regular crowd sizes.
Admittedly it will be interesting to see how local/regional restrictions and lockdowns will fare against a well monied nationwide Football league with a ginormous legal team.
The leagues will have to weigh that against the bad press of 100s or 1000s of fans getting sick from exposures, because that’ll lead to another shut down that is perhaps longer.
After all, we’re seeing outbreaks from Mother’s day and smaller gatherings. Now imagine 20-30k or more in a single venue. It’s a guarantee for further spread.
re: #9 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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That’s Italy, the Galleria in Milan, off the cathedral square.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
Reminds me of the mansion in PA (what’s in the water there), where it looks all fine right up until you stumble upon the BDSM dungeon.
re: #9 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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Wear masks in public! https://t.co/g5vCPeubL5
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 15, 2020
infection rates would statistically drop to approximately one twelfth
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re: #18 Decatur Deb
Well if they are doing it in Italy we should defiantly consider it here. Whenever I go out usually to the local Acme I wear a mask.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
It’s that intersection of spaceship/medieval study/tiki bar that really sets the place apart.
re: #12 jaunte
My house is sorta like this only on the outside. Typical looking late 70’s house, remodeled and updated, nothing fancy. Until you walk into the backyard. 20 x 40 ft pool, 9 ft deep at the deep end and a really huge backyard, over half an acre. No one would ever guess looking at the place from the road. We remodeled the whole house, but no space themed conference rooms or indoor beach, lol. We paid 116K for it 26 yrs ago.
re: #21 PhillyPretzel
Well if they are doing it in Italy we should defiantly consider it here. Whenever I go out usually to the local Acme I wear a mask.
The Italians have managed to make masks compatible per fare una bella figura.
re: #22 jaunte
It’s that intersection of spaceship/medieval study/tiki bar that really sets the place apart.
I can absolutely see an alien chestburster coming out of a person laid down on that dining room? table.
re: #22 jaunte
It’s that intersection of spaceship/medieval study/tiki bar that really sets the place apart.
It’s like some kind of demented TARDIS.
Windows are a leading cause of death among critics of Putin.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2020
Wow. HBO backing John Oliver to award large donations to the winners of the Marble League races.
(I know HBO only does it because they make a fuquetonne of money off John Oliver—I mean they bought him a wax figure of President Warren Harding for a comedy bit—but that is the sort of PR that gets a corporation a bunch of good will, probably more than any amount of advertising.)
A bit of good news from Washington state:
A Washington state lawmaker whose actions surrounding an armed standoff with federal agents were dubbed “domestic terrorism” will not seek reelection.
The Spokesman-Review reports that Matt Shea did not file a petition of candidacy for his state House seat on Friday, the last day available for people seeking offices in the 2020 election. Shea, a Republican, is from Spokane Valley.
The article doesn’t say exactly why Shea has decided not to run for re-election. Calls to his office went unanswered.
re: #13 jaunte
You have to admit that the Star Trek room is pretty cool.
Summer fun at Spirit Lake near Mount St Helens in the 1940s. pic.twitter.com/so2yITZPU3
— History Daily (@historydailypix) May 18, 2020
The volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, May 18, 1980 [1024x687] https://t.co/2j7xAB6E42 pic.twitter.com/UQwpVMXvIC
— History Slide (@HistorySlide) May 18, 2020
re: #28 Charles Johnson
Windows are a leading cause of death among critics of Putin.
Died of terminal defenestration…
Sammich Pr0n pic.twitter.com/mSmnJG9tNd
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) May 18, 2020
re: #32 teleskiguy
Prior to the May 18th eruption, Mt. St. Helens was sometimes called “America’s Mt. Fuji” for its symmetry.
I was living in the Portland, OR area when that erupted back in 1980. Front-row seats, as it were. Quite something, an event I’ll never forget.
Karl Rove speaking the language of the Trump base.
Holy shit, Karl Rove compared the first black president’s commencement speech to a drive-by shooting. That’s not a dog whistle, it’s a loudspeaker https://t.co/WuEppK4v3y
— Apparent Steve (@Steverocks35) May 18, 2020
After skirting NC, TS Arthur is slowly pulling away into the Atlantic. It will eventually turn due East, possibly make a loop:
re: #36 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I wish that Karl Rove and all of the supposed DT supporters would just shut up. DT is going down because of his non-handling of this virus.
Damn. This kiddo is sick!
Karizmanın öz oğlu pic.twitter.com/FRGWOnjKe2
— ÇOCUK TERÖRÜ (@cocuktrr) May 18, 2020
re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I just went over to the Mt Holly-Philadelphia NWS page and went under Tropical page. You are correct.
weather.gov
re: #36 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Karl Rove speaking the language of the Trump base.
Elegant, strong black men scare people like Rove.
re: #38 PhillyPretzel
I wish that Karl Rove and all of the supposed DT supporters would just shut up. DT is going down because of his non-handling of this virus.
Turdblossom earning his nik every day.
re: #36 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Karl Rove speaking the language of the Trump base.
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Ah yes noted champion of HBCUs Karl Rove is concerned. Tell ya what Karl, I don’t think it was right to use opposition to marriage equality to help secure Bush’s re-election.
re: #41 Belafon
Elegant, strong black men scare peole like Rove.
It’s why he was in such disbelief that Obama beat Romney.
re: #44 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s why he was in such disbelief that Obama beat Romney.
I was about to mention his famous meltdown in the newsroom when the Ohio results came in…
re: #6 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
A reminder
It’s not about sitting in a stadium with empty seats between usIt’s the crush at the entrances
The bathrooms
The railings
The food
Programs
SouvenirsAnd a thousand other vectors
Thee seating is the least of it
yeah, hundreds if not thousands of people breathing in enormous viral loads coming from someone else’s processed burrito that melted down at halftime.
Meanwhile, the US Navy has moved the track slightly of Tropical Cyclone Amphan to strike land over eastern India.
The forecast now has the cyclone at 150 knots in twelve hours and 85 knots after landfall in forty-eight hours.
It should weaken to a tropical depression as it approaches Bhutan.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow. HBO backing John Oliver to award large donations to the winners of the Marble League races.
(I know HBO only does it because they make a fuquetonne of money off John Oliver—I mean they bought him a wax figure of President Warren Harding for a comedy bit—but that is the sort of PR that gets a corporation a bunch of good will, probably more than any amount of advertising.)
IMO, Oliver’s show is the best in the current situation. As much as I love Colbert and Myers, their comedy just isn’t as funny without an audience. Oliver doesn’t seem to need that live reaction to put together a show.
(Yes, I know his show is weekly while Colbert and Myers are daily. He’s still the best at comedy without a live audience.)
From Downstairs:
re: #367 Dr Lizardo
hifructose.com
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Amazing sculpture. I mean, I’m sure a few people might’ve shit themselves if they didn’t know about those and just stumbled along them while out for a walk, but nonetheless….genuinely brilliant.
I remember this one from a while back… I can totally see masonry building materials being defecated if this one catches you unawares…
You sir, are an asshole. A genius, but an asshole nonetheless.
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to mention his famous meltdown in the newsroom when the Ohio results came in…
I think he really thought Obama was a fluke rather than the skilled leader he is.
re: #52 Teukka
From Downstairs:
I remember this one from a while back… I can totally see masonry building materials being defecated if this one catches you unawares…
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LOL, yeah there’s some nightmare fuel for an unaware driver or passerby.
re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think he really thought Obama was a fluke rather than the skilled leader he is.
A lot of GOP pundits also overestimated Romney’s appeal. He failed to motivate the GOP base.
re: #4 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Florida is essentially already trying to tempt them. (Arizona as well?)
Arizona can’t support a bunch of beisbol teams. Yeah, we have a lot of stadiums, but only the Diamondbacks home stadium id roofed. The rest are open to the sun and there ain’t nobody who is going to want to sit in a stadium on days where the low temperature is 88 degrees. Nobody.
Obama only the second President to get over 50% of the popular vote twice since 1960. Nixon didn’t do that neither did Clinton or Rove’s old boss GWB.
FUN FACT: #ObamaGate lasted less than 2 Scaramuccis.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) May 18, 2020
re: #57 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Obama is well liked by many people. Even my late dad admitted he felt sorry for Obama because both had to quit smoking.
re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A lot of GOP pundits also overestimated Romney’s appeal. He failed to motivate the GOP base.
The endless number of not Romney front runners confirms that just as I think Bachmann exposed sexism in their ranks. She was saying a lot of the same insane shit that Trump did four years later granted with a smaller platform.
Area weather: Nice day.
I remember this view from the Spirit Lake Boy Scout Camp (Was there in 79 for a week).
I was at work that morning and heard the blast, but had no idea what it was.
Portland got its first ash dusting on the 25th of May. The number of car windshield destroyed by people using their wipers was amazing.
You can still find the ash layer to the east of blast for several hundred miles.
If you are even in the area the Mount St Helen’s Visitor Center is very good.
Due to an unfortunate typo in my schedule I’ve been keeping fit during lockdown by going for a rum every morning.
— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) May 18, 2020
“Nearly 200 possibly exposed to coronavirus at religious service that violated stay-at-home orders. All attendees have been advised to self-quarantine.”
Butte County, California:https://t.co/6OtUcA9ENh— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 18, 2020
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Love the typo. lol
“The state of Arizona’s reasoning for not naming nursing homes where seniors are dying after contracting COVID-19 is truly astounding.”https://t.co/B5qJrhQQi6
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 18, 2020
Get out.
Larry Birds. Buckets.
Best thing you’ll see today…🏀🏀 pic.twitter.com/YzGO7sEBRJ— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 18, 2020
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
None of whom will.
New face mask. @umphreysmcgee #umphreys pic.twitter.com/h0pLZsOKWd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 18, 2020
From the previous thread:
re: #371 danarchy
I didn’t say liberal politicians didn’t take bribes. I pointed out how cheap Republican politicians are to buy.
Plus these articles are from over ten years ago, during the GW Bush administration.
List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes (Wikipedia, very long list)
Politicians of both parties might be tempted to take bribes. The difference is the Democrats tend to oust their members when they do that.
RIP Ken Osmond
Leave It to Beaver’ actor Ken Osmond, known for role as Eddie Haskell, dies at 76
Osmond later became an LA police officer and always seemed to take his role as the conniving Eddie Haskell in good humor. Eddie was as close to a villain as the show ever had.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
Religion poisons everything, sometimes with pestilence.
If Democrats win the White House, the new president won’t use the term “fake news” but party officials will continue this trend of disparaging journalists if a story they don’t like is published. But it’ll be the good guys doing it, for good reasons, so it’s okay. https://t.co/yz3gs3LoU5
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 18, 2020
It’s nice to know the media’s view is that the media can’t be criticized.
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 18, 2020
Ryan on Megyn Kelly as resistance journalist:https://t.co/Z5lJInNWUI https://t.co/A5Ky2kFcsj
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) May 18, 2020
When you have to insist that everything is a Biden conspiracy because he’s really super-mega-ultra-worse than Trump somehow.
And “Both Sides Same Thing” continues apace because of course the Dems have to be somehow just as bad or worse than the GOP, and any media malpractice necessary to show that is just A-Ok.
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wholly crap, that’s even worse than Nebraska’s excuse (privacy).
re: #73 Citizen K
When you have to insist that everything is a Biden conspiracy because he’s really super-mega-ultra-worse than Trump somehow.
And “Both Sides Same Thing” continues apace because of course the Dems have to be somehow just as bad or worse than the GOP, and any media malpractice necessary to show that is just A-Ok.
That’s the dude who tried pushing the Christine O’Donnell niece saying that Biden said she had nice breasts. He’s no different than a Jim Hoft, right wing misinformation bullshit artist.
My wife just sent an E-mail to the owner of the Website Dark Shadows Everyday.
She offered us up to do snarky write-ups of Episodes 1-210 (before Barnabas Collins appears on the show) to complete his series (as we have all those episodes).
If he agrees, then we’ll have to do something like the Drunk History folks on YouTube.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Just a reminder that “Pleasure” (better known as Paradise) is in Butte County.
This never gets old.
We’re at the “Fake the Cause of Death of Grandma to Own the Libs” part of our story.https://t.co/bHMoSNkTFc
— Maga Bot Angel (@MagaBotAngel1) May 18, 2020
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #77 BeachDem
Just a reminder that “Pleasure” (better known as Paradise) is in Butte County.
This never gets old.
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But you know Biden is the one with dementia.
The insider trading investigation stemming from Sen. Richard Burr’s sale of stocks ahead of the coronavirus pandemic highlights the North Carolina Republican’s long record of investing in companies with business before his committees.https://t.co/GFIcHi6uzp
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) May 18, 2020
Skeptical but probable.
white people are not okay https://t.co/ePKseI5XVf
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌏🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) May 18, 2020
Iced Tea like my tweet so at least I got that going for me now.
It worked in old movies all the time.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 18, 2020
NYT today: https://t.co/UrsDxxHxUg pic.twitter.com/7BNuvTkjfN
— Torr Leonard (@torrHL) May 18, 2020
All too true. https://t.co/HZ87PtMX6K
— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 (@soonergrunt) May 18, 2020
re: #83 gocart mozart
Iced Tea like my tweet so at least I got that going for me now.
I hope you’re not talking about the rapper because you butchered his name (I can’t see the tweet you’re responding to).
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Fucking depraved assholes. Yet this kind of utter callousness has been fully normalized, at least in conservative America.
That reminds me. I was musing about a design contest for a multiple guillotine, a machine that would dispose of a large number of soul-dead criminals and genocide profiteers in one whack, so to speak. One idea I had was for a very long serrated blade, that is, one with a separate angled section for each “bay.” This would have a lightweight upper structure of beams or welded tubes and multiple upright guides to maintain rigidity. The subjects could be containerized to speed the process up still further, strapped down to a special platform that could be wheeled and clamped into place just after the last one, minus the heads, was being wheeled away. The heads of course would go down a chute and be automatically sorted for re-unification with the relevant carcass. This would then be cleaned up, embalmed and presented in perfect condition to the relatives. We aren’t savages after all.
re: #52 Teukka
Jeebus thanks for the nightmares.
I did butcher ICE T’s name.
It worked in old movies all the time.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 18, 2020
You’re Whining…….. Ted. pic.twitter.com/AiVLDRPNdL
— And the Wind Cries “Not liked or respected!” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 18, 2020
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
From the previous thread:
I didn’t say liberal politicians didn’t take bribes. I pointed out how cheap Republican politicians are to buy.
Plus these articles are from over ten years ago, during the GW Bush administration.
List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes (Wikipedia, very long list)
There’s some real winners in that listing.
My favorite so far:
Texas
State Representative Mike Martin (R) from Longview, hired his cousin to shoot him as a publicity stunt. He pleaded guilty to perjury and paid a $2,000 fine on the condition that he also resign. (1982)[689]
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Your ideas are intriguing, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
This idea is much more efficient than my old-school scythe.
re: #83 gocart mozart
Iced Tea like my tweet so at least I got that going for me now.
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A better one would be to have a lighter or similar hard object of similar size in your hand as you grab the perps hand by the joint, it will hurt… You do need to learn the locations and pressures to use, and I would strongly recommend training before trying.
re: #90 Dave In Austin
They’re on the fainting couches after Obama, at worst, subtweeted Trump with those kind of comments. Meanwhile, Trump is explicitly saying that Biden and Obama are the greatest crooks ever and should be rotting in jail, without ever saying what great crime they supposedly did.
But you know, IOKIYAR.
re: #92 GlutenFreeJesus
Very few young people end up in the ICU from Covid-19.
If they have grandparents, though, then those people are in trouble.
re: #90 Dave In Austin
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Pretty mild compared to the shit you said about him while he was President, Senator I folded like a lawn chair for the guy who accused my father of murder. But go on Ted, be the coward we all know and loathe.
Protesters Probably Took The Virus Back to ‘Real America’, JM Ashby
This is what is keeping Gov. Pritzker up nights, especially now that Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri are open or opening. He’s fighting to keep downstate IL in a moderately closed situation, and the Republicans and downstate politicians are fighting back hard. I can sort of see their point, but if the virus gets roaring again, their communities aren’t set up to handle the fire.
Trump continued: “I don’t think Obama knows where he is, you know, in a lot of ways.” (Not clear to me if he was trying to make fun of Biden being confused and then mixed up Biden’s name with Obama’s.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
So much projection he could support the entire movie theater industry solo. #TrumpIsAnIdiot #TrumpIsJealousOfObama #ObamaWasBetterAtEverything https://t.co/49sX5hwybS
— Citizen K says “Wash Your Hands” (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 18, 2020
re: #98 retired cynic
Protesters Probably Took The Virus Back to ‘Real America’, JM Ashby
This is what is keeping Gov. Pritzker up nights, especially now that Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri are open or opening. He’s fighting to keep downstate IL in a moderately closed situation, and the Republicans and downstate politicians are fighting back hard. I can sort of see their point, but if the virus gets roaring again, their communities aren’t set up to handle the fire.
I am rapidly approaching the point where I say fuck em. Let them all die. Sorry about your relatives.
Trump again says Pompeo asked him to fire the IG. He then says Pompeo should’ve should’ve done it a long time ago, since “he’s an Obama appointment and he had some difficulty.” Trump says, it seems, that he invited his officials to make recommendations on their IGs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife just sent an E-mail to the owner of the Website Dark Shadows Everyday.
She offered us up to do snarky write-ups of Episodes 1-210 (before Barnabas Collins appears on the show) to complete his series (as we have all those episodes).
If he agrees, then we’ll have to do something like the Drunk History folks on YouTube.
Frequent Dark Shadows Everyday commenter “PrisonerOfTheNight” is slowly doing his own write-ups of the pre-Barnabas episodes at darkshadowsfromthebeginning.com.
He’s only up to Episode 63 so far, though.
re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Butte they won’t
“Nearly 200 possibly exposed to coronavirus at religious service that violated stay-at-home orders. All attendees have been advised to self-quarantine.”
Butte County, California:https://t.co/6OtUcA9ENh— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 18, 2020
jeebus
TRUMP: You lost 50 percent of your revenue, or more than that?
PANERA BREAD EXECUTIVE: 50 to 60 percent was the revenue decline
TRUMP: That’s not bad! pic.twitter.com/UbhOrc8DTq— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2020
re: #104 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Butte they won’t
“The Bible didn’t catch the virus. It’s a miracle.”
.@realDonaldTrump, without providing evidence, says he believes @BarackObama and @JoeBiden were involved in the “hoax” against him, says he was surprised by AG Barr’s comments that DOJ will not pursue them for criminal wrongdoing pic.twitter.com/5QY2F3zYRn
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) May 18, 2020
These Documents Are a Likely Source of Jacob Wohl’s Legal Troubles, by Jared Holt, Right Wing Watch
Just some documentation about how far off the wall (wohl?) this guy (and his father) are.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
You would think Trump would understand Discovery.
Cats: excellent goalkeepers https://t.co/3Oui3HuH1v
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 18, 2020
Trump brought up LA County health officials saying they’d extend their stay-home policy until August. He said, “That’s a death wish. Because you know, there’s death on both sides.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
It’s good to see Republicans turn the dark arts of scaring the shit out of voters on Trump.
Hello, @realDonaldTrump.
And goodbye. And good riddance.@ProjectLincoln pic.twitter.com/ClanZIeWbl— George Conway, Noble Committee Chair (@gtconway3d) May 18, 2020
Asked why he passed up the chance to give a statement to the WHO virtual summit, he said, “I chose not to make a statement today. I’ll be giving them a statement sometime in the near future.” He said the WHO has done a “sad job.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
CBS hired conspiracy reporter from Fox News, now she’s pushing “Obamagate”
She hyped Benghazi for three years, Eric Boehlert, PressRun”
Catherine Herridge, who did the softball interview with Bill Barr a few days back. What a turkey. I just do not understand these folks on the right who think they can say anything, no matter how wrong, and just be delighted by the confusion they cause. How can we survive such people?
re: #82 Dave In Austin
Skeptical but probable.
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grow the fuck up
a mask is not a muzzle
its not an ice cream cone either
Coronavirus wants to gay marry your children.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 18, 2020
all right, somebody help me out here. HBO’s Perry Mason looks intriguing, but did Perry start out as a private I? Having a hard time reconciling this Perry with the one Gardner was involved in for television.
Trump repeatedly calls Obama “incompetent.” He says, “By the way, there was great division in our country with President Obama. You didn’t see it as much, but there was tremendous division in our country.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
re: #90 Dave In Austin
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folks in charge
and you assume he meant you and the administration
thats so cute ted
re: #114 retired cynic
CBS hired conspiracy reporter from Fox News, now she’s pushing “Obamagate”
She hyped Benghazi for three years, Eric Boehlert, PressRun”Catherine Herridge, who did the softball interview with Bill Barr a few days back. What a turkey. I just do not understand these folks on the right who think they can say anything, no matter how wrong, and just be delighted by the confusion they cause. How can we survive such people?
You know how the NFL keeps designing things to try to get more minorities hired as coaches? The major networks need the same thing for reporters.
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
Trump continues that it’s fine if Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a government staffer wash his dishes. He says, “I’d rather have him on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes because maybe his wife isn’t there, or his kids aren’t…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #112 NO SMOCKING GUN!
It’s good to see Republicans turn the dark arts of scaring the shit out of voters on Trump.
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I’ll give the Lincoln Project credit, they make good ads.
Trump attacks Democrats and the media for caring if Mike Pompeo told a government staffer (Trump muses it might’ve been a Secret Service person) “please walk my dog.” He says, “This country has a long way to go. The priorities are really screwed up.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
Bron-Yr-Aur
Machynlleth, Wales
Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage. Atlas Obscura.
This was a getaway for Robert Plant’s family when he was a kid, and Led Zeppelin used it in the same way. Stairway to Heaven, amongst others, was written there. Beautiful place!
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
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President Trump says he has been taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc for the last two weeks.
“I take it,” he said. “So far, I seem to be OK.”— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) May 18, 2020
re: #122 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Death on both sides? I know it sounds hypocritical since I hate it being done to Biden but I think Trump legitimately has some signs.
It’s true that I wouldn’t pound on this point, due to seeing family members pass from this, but it is alarming, and very apparent now. I expect him to be non compos mentis if he isn’t already at that point. I remarked to myself several months ago that Trump looked BAD, and he reminded me of a cousin I had who similarly declined. She passed not long after I saw her. I’m not sure he makes it to Inauguration. Maybe the medical unit in a NY prison.
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
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Trump continues that it’s fine if Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a government staffer wash his dishes. He says, “I’d rather have him on the phone with some world leader than have him wash dishes because maybe his wife isn’t there, or his kids aren’t…”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
Trump says he’s talking hydroxychloroquine “right now.” He says he started “a couple weeks ago.” He explains, “Because I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
Trump: “So far, I seem to be okay.” Asked why he started taking this drug, he said he’s gotten “so many letters,” “a lot of positive letters,” “and it seems to have an impact - maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
Narrator: Of course, Donald might be lying. https://t.co/N0q7JkWkbK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2020
re: #122 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Death on both sides? I know it sounds hypocritical since I hate it being done to Biden but I think Trump legitimately has some signs.
maybe that’s the plan
now we can’t use it
re: #127 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
His contempt for good governance is obvious more every time he opens his fat mouth.
But that’s what his supporters adore. They are all on board with a white male minority -detesting autocrat. Why do you think they love businessmen so much? CEO’s, especially of privately owned companies, are dictators who can commit almost any crime and get away with it.
Fifty bucks says it’s a Flintstones vitamin that Mark Meadows tells him is hydroxychloroquine. https://t.co/WVye1nHYVB
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 18, 2020
re: #129 Sherlock Hound
It’s true that I wouldn’t pound on this point, due to seeing family members pass from this, but it is alarming, and very apparent now. I expect him to be non compos mentis if he isn’t already at that point. I remarked to myself several months ago that Trump looked BAD, and he reminded me of a cousin I had who similarly declined. She passed not long after I saw her. I’m not sure he makes it to Inauguration. Maybe the medical unit in a NY prison.
My Nana had it. It was very tough to watch. She was older than Trump is and obviously not having the responsibilities Trump has. He just repeatedly says things that make me wonder if he’s all there. It’s related to why I think Biden dementia crap is amplified. I listen to Biden speak a bit and read what he writes, he seems sharp to me. I have an uncle who is his age who is still sharp.
Trump, who just said that his evidence for the preventative value of hydroxychloroquine is that “I get a lot of positive calls,” now says the study showing higher death rates for hydroxy patients at the VA is “a very unscientific report.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
But that’s what his supporters adore. They are all on board with a white male minority -detesting autocrat. Why do you think they love businessmen so much? CEO’s, especially of privately owned companies, are dictators who can commit almost any crime and get away with it.
It was an observation. I don’t give a fuck about what his supporters think. I do think his actions are causing him to bleed support though.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
Yep. He’s just lying. Trying to continue to promote this “treatment”, because sales have probably dropped due to the recent bad press.
Here’s the FDA safety warning for the use of hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or clinical trial. Trump is wrong that we know it won’t harm people because it has been previously used for malaria, arthritis and lupus. https://t.co/2EAQLiwAUe
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
I wish the president of the united states would experiment with the truth, even just once
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 18, 2020
re: #87 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Fucking depraved assholes. Yet this kind of utter callousness has been fully normalized, at least in conservative America.
That reminds me. I was musing about a design contest for a multiple guillotine, a machine that would dispose of a large number of soul-dead criminals and genocide profiteers in one whack, so to speak. One idea I had was for a very long serrated blade, that is, one with a separate angled section for each “bay.” This would have a lightweight upper structure of beams or welded tubes and multiple upright guides to maintain rigidity. The subjects could be containerized to speed the process up still further, strapped down to a special platform that could be wheeled and clamped into place just after the last one, minus the heads, was being wheeled away. The heads of course would go down a chute and be automatically sorted for re-unification with the relevant carcass. This would then be cleaned up, embalmed and presented in perfect condition to the relatives. We aren’t savages after all.
No heads falling into numbered baskets so we can bet on the festivities? And if you were doing multiple at once it could be a head race down a hill, like those marble races, which we could also bet on.
Trump notes the VA study that showed hydroxychloroquine wasn’t effective and that there were higher death rates for people taking it, but suggests the people who did it “aren’t big Trump fans.” He then lies that he’s the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program passed.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
He’s lying.
Usual Adult Dose for COVID-19:
At least 50 kg: 800 mg salt (620 mg base) orally on day 1, followed by 400 mg salt (310 mg base) orally once a day
Total duration of therapy: 4 to 7 days, based on clinical evaluationComments:
-In March 2020, the US FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine sulfate supplied from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) for treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients.
-The optimal dosing and duration of treatment for COVID-19 are unknown; recommended dose and duration may be updated as clinical trial data becomes available.
-For additional information: fda.gov
drugs.com
So hey, the president of the US says he’s taking a dangerous medication because he got some nice letters about it. Every medical authority in the US says DO NOT TAKE THIS FOR COVID19 but Trump got some NICE LETTERS and those doctors are all DEMOCRATS.
2020.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2020
Listen to this. Trump has absolutely no clue why it’s wrong for Mike Pompeo to ask employees to do personal favors for his family. In fact he thinks it’s the sort of thing he should be doing. pic.twitter.com/Rkdq7PiSiq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2020
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump would have actually had the doctors removed if he had gotten an answer he didn’t like if he asked what Reagan did after Hinckley. He’s paranoid as hell and thinks any oversight or anything contradictory of his narrow worldview is an anti Trump conspiracy.
IT’S CALLED HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE, I TAKE IT EVERY DAY. WANT ONE? pic.twitter.com/3uVCc1MmDg
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 18, 2020
re: #151 Joe Bacon 🌹
I really have to ask…Does Trump have a Harding-type Death Wish??????
Let’s hope so.
absolutely no /
There’s nothing normal about this President.
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love Larry the Cat’s timeline:
Good news for those worried about the lack of sport on TV: live cat wrestling is now a thingpic.twitter.com/kJeEhbP0Qj
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 18, 2020
re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump, who just said that his evidence for the preventative value of hydroxychloroquine is that “I get a lot of positive calls,” now says the study showing higher death rates for hydroxy patients at the VA is “a very unscientific report.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 18, 2020
what fucking doctor would prescribe (or allow) this as a preventative?
fda says for treating if you have covid19 AND you’re in a hospital
should be used for COVID-19 only when patients can be appropriately monitored in the hospital as required by the EUA or are enrolled in a clinical trial with appropriate screening and monitoring. FDA is reviewing the safety of their use when used outside of the setting of hospitalized patients for whom use was authorized.
There is no evidence that taking hydroxychloroquine is effective in preventing a person from contracting the coronavirus
re: #149 jaunte
He started “a couple of weeks ago.”
” Trump got some NICE LETTERS and those doctors are all DEMOCRATS.”
So if some loyal MAGAs wrote a convincing endorsement of Jimson Weed…..
re: #148 Charles Johnson
BREAKING: Hydroxychloroquine associated with rapid cognitive decline, irritability, and mood swings. https://t.co/XxBQa4x1Gz
— Barry Schapiro, MD, FAAOS (@bschapiroMD) May 18, 2020
re: #156 Eric The Fruit Bat
Me too. Some of it is quite funny.
The dude is infected, and he’s been spreading it through the maskless drones on his publicity tour.
re: #159 I am that guy
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That doesn’t sound like anyone I know. Seriously, psychology departments are going to have a field day in studying the empty void that is Trumps mind.
re: #159 I am that guy
BREAKING: Hydroxychloroquine associated with rapid cognitive decline, irritability, and mood swings. https://t.co/XxBQa4x1Gz
— Barry Schapiro, MD, FAAOS (@bschapiroMD) May 18, 2020
How would an observer distinguish those symptoms from Trump’s normal behavior?
When the devil took Jesus to the pinnacle of the Temple and told him to throw himself off, quoting Psalm 91, Jesus refused because “thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (Deut. 6:16)
MAGAs would have been standing at the bottom chanting “Jump! Jump! Jump!”— Chris Csernica (@chris_csernica) May 18, 2020
Ten bucks says the ‘hydroxycloroquine’ the doctor is giving him is aspirin.
Even if Trump isn’t lying this one time the irresponsibility of what he’s doing here is just staggering.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2020
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Charles when my rheumatologist tried hydroxychloroquine on me, I had a TERRIBLE reaction that my Apple Watch caught and he told me to STOP!
re: #165 makeitstop
Ten bucks says the ‘hydroxycloroquine’ the doctor is giving him is aspirin.
Pretty sure there are Doctor Rules against that.
Remember, this guy’s campaign constantly tries to smear Biden for how he talks…. https://t.co/GdT9w6zmL2
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 18, 2020
Dear doctors — how is Trump’s White House physician allowed to prescribe this to him? Wondering what rules would govern a licensed doctor doing this at the order of the patient? https://t.co/HfhcIyjmQJ
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) May 18, 2020
It’s honestly sad. I’m seeing a distant relative have a meltdown claiming Trump has done a great job. Trump has helped create an alternative reality for millions of our fellow Americans. I remain more optimistic than most about defeating him in the Fall but he’s leaving scars that will be on our country and planet for a long time.
i repeat myself:
FDA says take HydroC maybe. IF you have covid-19 AND you’re in a hospital.
NO ONE has proved it’s a preventative. There is ZERO evidence.
What DOCTOR is approving prescribing and ADMINISTERING this?
re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter
He’s trying to sell that shit, I doubt he’s taking it.
But then again.
I know he’s on Dexedrine derivatives, I’ll bet a Benzo or 3, and an anti depressant.
Then I would bet the bank on some Viagra in there.
Doctors can cook up some real cocktails.
re: #172 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
… I remain more optimistic than most about defeating him in the Fall but he’s leaving scars that will be on our country and planet for a long time.
The electorate signed up for that in 2016.
If that’s the case, I’m on Team Arrhythmia. https://t.co/JXm6lSpo01
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 18, 2020
The Senate is back in session to consider Coronavirus legislation, and by “consider Coronavirus legislation” I mean “confirm right wing judges.”
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 18, 2020
re: #157 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
There is no evidence that taking hydroxychloroquine is effective in preventing a person from contracting the coronavirus
Palliative/preventive, engh, what’s the diff?
re: #169 Decatur Deb
Pretty sure there are Doctor Rules against that.
We’re talking about Ronny Jackson here.
re: #175 Decatur Deb
The electorate signed up for that in 2016.
I know. I didn’t have pandemic on my bingo board though.
is trump sure that guy is a doctor because https://t.co/2HA1pmQrN2
— darth™ (@darth) May 18, 2020
or malaria or lupus or some other non covid related illness
why would an actual doctor prescribe it otherwise— darth™ (@darth) May 18, 2020
Trump on Hydroxy. This begs the question I’ve been asking for a month. Have you finished your physical yet? @realDonaldTrump Are you drinking clorox too? pic.twitter.com/AuV3ETASvL
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 18, 2020
re: #117 steve_davis
all right, somebody help me out here. HBO’s Perry Mason looks intriguing, but did Perry start out as a private I? Having a hard time reconciling this Perry with the one Gardner was involved in for television.
As far as I know, Perry was always a lawyer. Erle Stanley Gardner wrote another series under a pseudonym that involved a private eye.
- re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth
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- the president says he’s on HydroC
- why? - to either treat or prevent covid-19 - we don’t know which
- if there was no covid-19 he would’nt be taking HydroC, right?
- so if he dies of a heart attack from the HC, does it count as a Covid-19 death?
seems like a direct cause to me.
If that’s the case, I’m on Team Arrhythmia. https://t.co/JXm6lSpo01
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 18, 2020
re: #178 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Palliative/preventive, engh, what’s the diff?
well, a bunch of letters after the “P” for starters…. ;-)
I do not believe that the president* is taking hydroxychloroquine. I’d sooner believe he shoved an UV lamp up his arse.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 18, 2020
He never ate Trump steaks, drank Trump vodka, or paid Trump University admission either.
re: #180 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I know. I didn’t have pandemic on my bingo board though.
Pandemic is always on offer.
“Mr. President, good news! The Hydroxycholoquine comes in a cookie form! See you can see the Hydrox on the package!” pic.twitter.com/3wliEkiFaY
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) May 18, 2020
re: #188 Decatur Deb
Pandemic is always on offer.
I’ll be honest. I knew he would be a clusterfuck but JFC.
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now that type of Hydrox I would take.
re: #190 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ll be honest. I knew he would be a clusterfuck but JFC.
While we’re leveling, I was mostly just afraid of the Supreme Court picks.
Please raise your paw if this cat could be imitating YOUR human…🐾#MondayThoughts pic.twitter.com/GaDSSdy6Z0
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) May 18, 2020
This will be the single greatest encapsulation of Fox News I will ever post:
Fox News now warning viewers they could die from taking the thing they said was a cure for the disease they said was a hoax. https://t.co/qKgcJLK4c9— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 18, 2020
I already have wingnuts coming at me on FB saying: “See? Hydroxycholorquine WORKS!!!
re: #192 Decatur Deb
While we’re leveling, I was mostly just afraid of the Supreme Court picks.
I was worried about the international relations and economy but certainly SCOTUS.
re: #197 Belafon
Cavuto left an out: IF they are in a risky population.
re: #199 jaunte
Cavuto left an out: IF they are in a risky population.
Chile, I think we’re all in a risky population.
re: #199 jaunte
Cavuto left an out: IF they are in a risky population.
actually, he did say “vulnerable population”
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
“But we’re invulnerable.”
Weird that Trump says he’d take a drug prophylactically, but won’t use a condom.
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 18, 2020
Hitchcock’s The Birds with the birds taken out is fabulously funnyhttps://t.co/ilGUVcgEa0 pic.twitter.com/NIsAdsU6C7
— The Poke (@ThePoke) May 18, 2020
I can’t wait for all the Thoughtful Conservatives to reverse engineer the president ingesting a dangerous medicine into some kinda op-ed about freedom and federalism and a revolt against the College Left and plus Benghazi.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 18, 2020
re: #203 Decatur Deb
Doctor of Televangelical Medicine.
You get your degree after you’ve said “It’s God’s will” in response to the second death under your care.
re: #194 jaunte
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so THIS turns out to be the thing i said last week “what could be next/worse/more bizarre” than whatever last week’s was after the week before that….
The President says he’s been taking Hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half pic.twitter.com/PT9IIb7C5H
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 18, 2020
This may be the most reckless thing Trump has ever done and that’s saying something.
re: #210 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
so THIS turns out to be the thing i said last week “what could be next/worse/more bizarre” than whatever last week’s was after the week before that….
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The week is young but you ain’t wrong.
re: #209 Belafon
You get your degree after you’ve said “It’s God’s will” in response to the second death under your care.
COD: Deus Vult.
‘A Dash Of Soap Bubbles, 2 Pinches Of Sunshine, And Just A Drop Of Imagination’ Says Top Hat-Wearing Trump Pouring Ingredients Into Fizzing Concoction https://t.co/3a4XuAdZPH pic.twitter.com/KJ5M8U14fE
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 18, 2020
re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
This may be the most reckless thing Trump has ever done and that’s saying something.
I’m going with “said” not done
Meanwhile:
And, according to Grassley, have access to whistleblower files and identities.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 18, 2020
Polishes the knob, too!
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 18, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Monday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will serve as the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee while a federal investigation into Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) is ongoing, Axios reports.
guy didn’t even want to be a senator anymore
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Wait three hours… Then Fox will be telling its viewers to eat up!
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 18, 2020
Welp. I got no idea how to do the oddsmaking math on “terminal liar committed to magical thinking about one drug” versus “dude who looks and sounds like he has a toolbox full of medications he uses to adjust his mood at random.”
re: #218 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
guy didn’t even want to be a senator anymore
Oh joy, we get to watch Rubio be an empty suit again.
Joe Biden quietly giving money to a homeless veteran and hearing about his struggle, when he thinks nobody is watching. #GoJoe pic.twitter.com/X9ZAZl2sAL
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 17, 2020
re: #222 The Ghost of a Flea
There’s a good chance Trump is trying to pump the value of the drug so he can dump a recent investment.
re: #138 jaunte
Of course. Then he will take a mixture of other things, proclaim himself healthy, and grift the useless drug some more.
re: #216 jaunte
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we are learning that too many mechanisms move too slow for the 21st century
there’s just no way to stop this nonsense
or get trumps tax returns
or get an answer to whether subpoenas have to be followed
or whether the white house doctor should be removed
or or or
at least Rod Blagojevich got disbarred today
of course confirming judges seems to work pretty quickly
So, as if the IG purge isn’t bad enough, Trump’s new acting IGs at State and Transportation will keep their day jobs as agency management officials. That’s INSANE! It means the Office of Inspector General, which oversees agency management, will be led by… agency management. https://t.co/fgf2epNCTt
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 18, 2020
Ah, it was just a typo.
Umm this was a week ago and look what is being said today! Hmmm https://t.co/W8DeiMucnk
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) May 18, 2020
re: #210 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
so THIS turns out to be the thing i said last week “what could be next/worse/more bizarre” than whatever last week’s was after the week before that….
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The latest Trump lie to distract everyone from the fact that thousands of Americans are dying and 36 million have lost their jobs because of his incompetence.
re: #227 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
we are learning that too many mechanisms move too slow for the 21st century
there’s just no way to stop this nonsense
or get trumps tax returns
or get an answer to whether subpoenas have to be followed
or whether the white house doctor should be removed
or or orat least Rod Blagojevich got disbarred today
of course confirming judges seems to work pretty quickly
If we had a functioning Senate, this wouldn’t be allowed to happen.
If we really had superior Twitter-fu we could get him to eat a live bug on TV.
re: #194 jaunte
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FOX: hold our beer
This will be the single greatest encapsulation of Fox News I will ever post:
Fox News now warning viewers they could die from taking the thing they said was a cure for the disease they said was a hoax. https://t.co/qKgcJLK4c9— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 18, 2020
re: #173 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
No doctor. He’s not taking it. He’s lying like he lies about everything else.
re: #229 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I think you are correct. Another case of distraction.
re: #233 plansbandc
No doctor. He’s not taking it. He’s lying like he lies about everything else.
Sick or well, lying or not, taking it or not—-None of this shit makes him look sane.
BREAKING: TV ratings for Obama’s event last night were higher than almost any show on broadcast tv all last week.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) May 17, 2020
re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Someone caught on.
88,754 people have died due to coronavirus in the United States according to the latest reported numbers.
The number of dead could fill every single seat at the home of the Gators Ben Hill Griffin Stadium aka The Swamp. pic.twitter.com/kn83ux4Zyz— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 17, 2020
re: #179 makeitstop
We’re talking about Ronny Jackson here.
Dr. Ronny moved on and is running for office and rage tweeting about Obama.
March 2018-present: CDR Sean Conley, DO, USN
I agree Trump probably hasn’t taken HQ but to even SAY he has is fucking reckless.
[trump] I am taking Hydroxychloroquine on the advice of Mike Pence.[/trump]
re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Someone caught on.
If the Lincoln Project were willing to spend the money, they should make those type of messages appear at every sporting event that is about to happen. “The empty seats you see at todays event could have been completely filled by the dead.”
re: #233 plansbandc
No doctor. He’s not taking it. He’s lying like he lies about everything else.
and that’s kind of the point
this one should be easy to nail down
if it’s true, the doctor is in deep shit - against all medical advice - using the effing president!!! as a test dummy
or it’s a lie
so squeeze the doctor
he said it on TV - there is no confidentiality to protect
re: #240 Eclectic Cyborg
I agree Trump probably hasn’t taken HQ but to even SAY he has is fucking reckless.
Need we say, Freepers are thrilled. And angry that Cavuto pointed out this could be dangerous.
re: #231 Decatur Deb
If we really had superior Twitter-fu we could get him to eat a live bug on TV.
Can he lick a toad?
re: #244 calochortus
Need we say, Freepers are thrilled. And angry that Cavuto pointed out this could be dangerous.
Are they? Have you seen them? I would love to see that.
Ok. Like and RT if you’re so inclined.
@ProjectLincoln this needs a video. Also see @Arch_LGF timeline. He’s been doing this for a while now.
This is the visual we need to see daily…week by week for the last 3-4 months. https://t.co/t4fqUwBXlR— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 18, 2020
I don’t understand claiming to take a drug for prophylaxis, when previously it was being presented as treatment.
It could never be that Ms. Reade is lying. Victims never have agency.
Noticing a trend of white women going out of their way to denounce Reade. Makes me think how rape is used to control femininity and divide among who is and isn’t worthy of compassion & concern.
white women are integral in policing gender & enforcing a hierarchy of femininity.— Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸 (@wagatwe) May 18, 2020
re: #249 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t understand claiming to take a drug for prophylaxis, when previously it was being presented as treatment.
It’s Trump. It’s not supposed to make sense.
And the headlines should really read: “Trump CLAIMS he has been taking…”
re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Someone caught on.
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That almost seems familiar somehow…
xD
re: #249 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t understand claiming to take a drug for prophylaxis, when previously it was being presented as treatment.
Don’t question The Healer.
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s Trump. It’s not supposed to make sense.
Yeah, true that.
Even though I’m often the “it doesn’t make sense, that the point” guy I still hit my particularly limits of incredulity.
re: #249 The Ghost of a Flea
If he can fool enough people, more will take it as prophylaxis than as treatment.
re: #248 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ok. Like and RT if you’re so inclined.
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Thanks. :)
On March 27, the COVID-19 fatality figures were just a little over a full Broadway crowd.
We crossed Disneyland at max capacity last week, barely two months later.
It’s just surreal.
re: #258 jaunte
Now we have to choose between this and turmeric.
Turmeric is actually good even if hipsters are trying to ruin it.
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Unnecessary..
Imagine the poor fucking doctors now getting slammed with people demanding HQ…
Giant kitten terrorizes city. pic.twitter.com/fuyCD5PEvZ
— Giant Military Cats (@giantcat9) March 9, 2020
re: #250 Sherlock Hound
It could never be that Ms. Reade is lying. Victims never have agency.
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My degree is in Women’s Studies and I have no idea what she’s trying to argue here.
re: #240 Eclectic Cyborg
I agree Trump probably hasn’t taken HQ but to even SAY he has is fucking reckless.
agree 100%
re: #265 BlueGrl21
My degree is in Women’s Studies and I have no idea what she’s trying to argue here.
Good, I thought it was me.
Been taking box wine to ward off the CV bug. Works so far.
re: #108 retired cynic
These Documents Are a Likely Source of Jacob Wohl’s Legal Troubles, by Jared Holt, Right Wing Watch
Just some documentation about how far off the wall (wohl?) this guy (and his father) are.
Doesn’t matter because Jackoff Wohl and his even bigger asshole Dad are Republicans to whom the law does not apply.
re: #249 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t understand claiming to take a drug for prophylaxis, when previously it was being presented as treatment.
why does any of this have to make sense?
re: #265 BlueGrl21
My degree is in Women’s Studies and I have no idea what she’s trying to argue here.
I’m pretty sure it’s longhand for “Why aren’t people making Biden resign?”
re: #270 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
why does any of this have to make sense?
Ghost is pre-Post-Modernist.
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
And the headlines should really read: “Trump CLAIMS he has been taking…”
and ‘unproven’ should read “NEVER TESTED FOR THIS PURPOSE”
re: #258 jaunte
Now we have to choose between this and turmeric.
Which pepper activates it better, white or black?
re: #268 Decatur Deb
Been taking box wine to ward off the CV bug. works so far.
Vodka is working for me thus far.
re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Vodka is working for me thus far.
ditto
as well as bottled in bond bourbon
(not at the same time)
re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Vodka is working for me thus far.
Tried vodka and grape juice (Purple Passion) to knock out a bad cold before a History mid-term. The Prof was cool about it.
I’ve been banging rocks against the wall of my garage to keep both SARS-CoV-2 and tigers away. Been working wonders.
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
As expected, Trump taking drugs is the top news item on Google right now…
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what if the white house doc is a secret democrat and this is a way to…..
nah……
the producers would laugh it out of the room
re: #279 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I’ve been banging rocks against the wall of my garage to keep both SARS-CoV-2 and tigers away. Been working wonders.
My brujo says you have to ingest the rocks.
JFC Maggie. The lengths she’ll go to normalize Trump’s behavior is mind numbing.
The president is increasingly playing in a social media bubble that most of the country isn’t living in, where 2016 is forever. Most of the country is either scared, or frustrated by the closures, or terrified about their finances. https://t.co/u8TKtk7qpW
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 18, 2020
This tracks.
“I’m taking hydroxychloroquine” simply means the Pompeo-Saudi scandal has some real legs to it.
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) May 18, 2020
re: #259 Disloyal Archangel
Thanks. :)
On March 27, the COVID-19 fatality figures were just a little over a full Broadway crowd.
We crossed Disneyland at max capacity last week, barely two months later.It’s just surreal.
I envision a nice dirge softly playing in the background with trump espousing how great he’s doing as the voiceover…as the crowds go from a theater to a kids baseball field to a high school stadium to the NFL stadiums to the latest stadium in the world (in SoKo I believe).
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 18, 2020
re: #272 Decatur Deb
Ghost is pre-Post-Modernist.
The funny thing is that my blood pressure and cortisol levels are spiking precisely because I read the postmodernists…
…and we are experiencing the kind of stuff they warned was possible.
re: #250 Sherlock Hound
Nope. I’m a survivor and I do not find her credible in any way. That’s it.
Who prescribed the hydroxychloriquine to Trump? It’s not an over-the-counter drug like ibuprofen.
re: #286 plansbandc
Nope. I’m a survivor and I do not find her credible in any way. That’s it.
Ditto. Abba it belittles and damages actual victims. Which infuriates me.
re: #250 Sherlock Hound
It could never be that Ms. Reade is lying. Victims never have agency.
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re: #287 Ace Rothstein
Who prescribed the hydroxychloriquine to Trump? It’s not an over-the-counter drug like ibuprofen.
Pence. (Alluding to b.d.’s #241.)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo refused to sit for an interview with the State Department inspector general’s office as part of its probe into the administration’s move to bypass Congress and expedite last year’s $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia by declaring an emergency, a congressional aide told CNN Monday.
Neither the State Department nor the office of the inspector general responded to CNN’s request for comment on the matter. Source: CNN
re: #288 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ditto. Abba it belittles and damages actual victims. Which infuriates me.
Susan Faludi had an essay today about how the right wing is trying to hijack the #MeToo movement by
1) claiming feminists demanded to “Believe ALL Women”
2) finding wackaloons to denounce prominent liberals
3) screaming “HA! GOTCHA!” when said wackaloons are met with skepticism
The problem is, countering the claims of freaks who are out to gouge out some $$ or fame or simply delusional, requires nuance, and that just doesn’t fit into the cable-news ethos…
I just got an email from an acquaintance hyperventilating about the government surveilling our travel and how CA is recruiting people to do this under the color of covid prevention. Aside from the stupidity of the concept, why wouldn’t the evil government thugs just use cell phone data like everyone else?
re: #287 Ace Rothstein
Who prescribed the hydroxychloroquine to Trump? It’s not an over-the-counter drug like ibuprofen.
Rush…… They are sharing their stash.
So going to take the plunge and order a pizza stone. Any advice? VB? Also would like to be able to use it on my gas grill as well
re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
This may be the most reckless thing Trump has ever done and that’s saying something.
Nope. He’s saying it, not doing it. And he promoted this drug months ago so it’s just a reminder to his followers that they need to continue purchasing this drug.
re: #296 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
JMO, but your money is better spent somewhere else. I never cared for mine and it sucked on the grill.
re: #294 calochortus
I just got an email from an acquaintance hyperventilating about the government surveilling our travel and how CA is recruiting people to do this under the color of covid prevention. Aside from the stupidity of the concept, why wouldn’t the evil government thugs just use cell phone data like everyone else?
The ones I’ve detonated weren’t rated for temps above 500f. I’ve had no trouble with a normally-aspirated charcoal grill.
re: #287 Ace Rothstein
Who prescribed the hydroxychloriquine to Trump? It’s not an over-the-counter drug like ibuprofen.
He gets all the free samples he can stuff in his pockets. The manufacturer is a campaign contributor.
re: #275 teleskiguy
Which pepper activates it better, white or black?
They’re the same berry (drupe). Black pepper is unripe ones where they are soaked, cleaned, and then dried - the black part is the unripe skin shriveled up and browned from the drying. The white pepper is just the seed. Both contain piperine, if that’s the chemical that is interacting with the tumeric.
re: #299 Dave In Austin
JMO, but your money is better spent somewhere else. I never cared for mine and it sucked on the grill.
I’ve heard both good and bad. VB seems to like hers for baking bread.
There’s two possibilities with Fuckface Von Clownstick taking hydroxychloroquine: 1.) He’s lying, for any number of reasons up to and including juicing the drug maker’s stock so he can dump it later, hijacking the media to deflect from Pompeo/Saudi Arabia or the monstrously fucked up COVID-19 response or 2.) his doctor is giving him a placebo, which in that case the doctor needs to lose his medical license for gross malpractice. Either option is still a massively fucked up thing. Now the red hat fascists are going to deplete the supply of hydroxychloroquine and more people are going to die needlessly.
WaPo nails it on the Trump Hyroxycholorquine claim:
This announcement follows a predictable pattern for Trump of escalating a rhetorical point. Trump wants to disparage Bright, so he claims that hydroxychloroquine is safe and effective. To bolster that point, Trump points to unnamed doctors who he asserts have been prescribing the medication. Then, he escalates the point again: in fact, he himself is taking it, and he’s doing just fine. How can you argue with that? Trump is healthy and covid-free, so how can anyone suggest that the drug is dangerous or ineffective? Sure, the argument is of the anti-tiger-rock variety, but you work with what you’ve got.
In the moment, it’s an expedient example to cite and, who knows, perhaps an honest one. But one effect of the claim is almost certain: Trump supporters will view the drug as a harmless way to potentially prevent a dangerous illness. Many, presumably, might then seek it out and take it — hopefully without negative side effects. The case of the couple in Arizona who took a fish-tank cleaning substance that was tangentially related to hydroxychloroquine may, in fact, have been a complicated murder plot. But if the president insists that he’s taking a potentially lifesaving medication without any problems, why wouldn’t others try to do the same?
More broadly, this reinforces a central gap in Trump’s approach to the pandemic. While formally embracing the suggestions of medical experts, he has consistently undermined their advice, from pushing for a rapid scaleback of efforts to contain the virus to ignoring the need to wear a mask in public. This is another example of Trump knowing better than the “experts,” a message that resonated with many of his supporters in 2016 but which is far riskier in the present conditions.
In other words, the best-case scenario to Trump’s admission on Monday is that he is, in fact, taking a risky medication with his doctor’s consent for which he’s not seeing repercussions and which his supporters will not see as a green light for seeking it out themselves. The worst-case? Trump claimed to be taking the medication to make a point, inadvertently triggering a new embrace of the medication among those who take his words at face value — putting lives at risk.
Not only the lives of those taking it, mind you. Trump’s past advocacy of the drug led to a shortage among patients who rely on it to treat other illnesses. What’s more, a legion of Americans taking the drug who believe erroneously that it protects them from contracting covid-19 can be relied upon to take risks in their behavior that increase the possibility that the virus might spread to others.
Fucking. Reckless.
re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Not just sport stadiums.
We reached Hollywood Bowl California’s seating capacity of 17,500 on April 11.
The Latter-Day Saints Conference Center Utah capacity of 21,000 on April 13.
Disneyland California’s max capacity of 85,000 on May 14.
Entertainment venues, conference halls, sport stadiums - every aspect has been reached in horrific manner…
re: #307 Disloyal Archangel
Not just sport stadiums.
We reached Hollywood Bowl California’s seating capacity of 17,500 on April 11.
The Latter-Day Saints Conference Center Utah capacity of 21,000 on April 13.
Disneyland California’s max capacity of 85,000 on May 14.
Entertainment venues, conference halls, sport stadiums - every aspect has been reached in horrific manner…
Yep. We’re up to over five Joel Osteen Mega Churches worth of dead bodies now…and counting.
re: #305 teleskiguy
There’s two possibilities with Fuckface Von Clownstick taking hydroxychloroquine: 1.) He’s lying, for any number of reasons up to and including juicing the drug maker’s stock so he can dump it later, hijacking the media to deflect from Pompeo/Saudi Arabia or the monstrously fucked up COVID-19 response or 2.) his doctor is giving him a placebo, which in that case the doctor needs to lose his medical license for gross malpractice. Either option is still a massively fucked up thing. Now the red hat fascists are going to deplete the supply of hydroxychloroquine and more people are going to die needlessly.
This brings back memories of Peter Bourne who was Jimmy Carter’s White House assistant. Bourne prescribed quaaludes for a staffer using an anonymous name and he was blistered by the media. Bourne was forced out of the White House and his medical license was suspended.
Does anyone think the asskissing DC Press Corpse will do the same to whomever gave Trump those orange M&Ms?
Where the hell is Mike Pence?
When was the last sighting of him?
Is he home recuperating?— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) May 18, 2020
Hey, MAGA fans! Almost 90,000 dead on your boy’s watch. Is it enough yet, or do you need even more?
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 18, 2020
Trump’s the real-life Randal Flagg.
re: #306 Eclectic Cyborg
I said this earlier but if they want to listen to trump, let the cards fall where they may. If he wants to kill his supporters, who am I to argue?
This goes for masks, too. Sorry about the relatives but….
re: #314 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I needed that laugh. Thank you.
re: #312 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I said this earlier but if they want to listen to trump, let the cards fall where they may. If he wants to kill his supporters, who am I to argue?
This goes for masks, too. Sorry about the relatives but….
Masks primarily protect others if the wearer is infected, so it may be a good point to argue to persuade MAGAts that they are helping others around them. OTOH, given they are MAGAts, they probably don’t care.
Trump Org loses its bid to slow down a civil case alleging fraud—in which it had tried to force plaintiffs who had never signed an arbitration agreement into arbitration. https://t.co/wox98SRyOY
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 18, 2020
re: #320 plansbandc
I prefer the top picture. At least they had an idea where they were headed.
re: #316 Hecuba’s daughter
There is no hope for these crazy fucking idiots. I mentioned earlier I was at Home Depot earlier for some home repair stuff and saw two moms of very young children, one an infant and one 1-2 yr old, no masks, to buy a flower pot in once case and a gallon of paint in the other. Where’s the protective instinct for your baby, FFS. People are just selfish and mean, that’s all I can come up with.
re: #265 BlueGrl21
My degree is in Women’s Studies and I have no idea what she’s trying to argue here.
I was embarrassed to say that myself, in case I was missing or misunderstanding something. I tried to figure it out and just couldn’t.
re: #183 calochortus
Yeah,under the pen name A.A.Fair ,Gardner wrote a series of novels about Bertha Cool and Donald Lam,private detectives.
re: #323 A Mom Anon
There is no hope for these crazy fucking idiots. I mentioned earlier I was at Home Depot earlier for some home repair stuff and saw two moms of very young children, one an infant and one 1-2 yr old, no masks, to buy a flower pot in once case and a gallon of paint in the other. Where’s the protective instinct for your baby, FFS. People are just selfish and mean, that’s all I can come up with.
Let’s not underestimate the effect of ignorance too. She may not read or see much news since her life may be totally involved in caring for two young children. All the original reports, even from the medical profession, promoted the notion that the disease is hazardous only to the elderly and the infirm, that children and the young are immune to the more serious consequences of this disease.
re: #275 teleskiguy
Which pepper activates it better, white or black?
Black, because it’s whole grain.
Question for those of you who are more familiar with Twitter than I am:
Is it possible to link together multiple past tweets or replies to a single thread, or would I have to create a new thread while reposting the contents of those tweets all over again?
Thought I should have a consistent dedicated thread for the “Trump Death Toll” posts and graphics i’ve been posting since April…
oh my
Today we commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Saint John Paul II. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! pic.twitter.com/v7y0r1oSDh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 18, 2020
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
Moron didn’t write that.
This takedown of someone who doubted the worth of wearing a mask is a thing of brutal beautyhttps://t.co/nZqdIf6OTm pic.twitter.com/wXpfVJqemd
— The Poke (@ThePoke) May 18, 2020
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
Reminds me of this old (but clearly evergreen) meme:
“I’ve done my research… that’s cute” My experience on the Internet in a nutshell.http://t.co/l654l5gx8v pic.twitter.com/LAKJ56kRwR
— c0nc0rdance (@c0nc0rdance) January 27, 2015
How The Daily Beast is playing the hydroxychloroquine news… https://t.co/vzmDOz5I7C pic.twitter.com/docR3R9iZV
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) May 18, 2020
He’s just a small town dog living in a lonely world. pic.twitter.com/R2nQXwYEj0
— Brad Sams (@bdsams) May 18, 2020
re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Brad Sams (@bdsams) May 18, 2020
The media again falls over itself to follow the latest pronouncement from the President, which is likely a lie, which they all know. They will not, however, frame it as likely a lie. They will quote him and tweet those quotes without context.
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 18, 2020
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
And by tomorrow morning Trump will walk it back saying he was “being sarcastic” and he “thought no one would believe him”
Full McConnell release pic.twitter.com/lQCwqXd953
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) May 18, 2020
Well, I was beginning to wonder if I needed to do something, but my stimulus check finally arrived. In the mail.
So, pretty standard day. https://t.co/vEd1T5ob1H
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 18, 2020
County Official: Don’t Touch A Stranger’s Balls [VIDEO] - https://t.co/grd97VgQG0 pic.twitter.com/OAQFnqrW31
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 18, 2020
re: #339 I Would Prefer Not To
I clinked the link but it took me to a web site that was designed in the 1970s. Please explain.
They are idiots?
re: #341 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Well, I was beginning to wonder if I needed to do something, but my stimulus check finally arrived. In the mail.
That’s encouraging. We’re waiting for ours to come in the mail, too and there’s no sign yet. We could have given them the bank info, but we aren’t having cash flow issues, so just let it go.
Senate just adjourned until 10a tomorrow. Senators will first vote on confirmation of Scott Rash to be US District Court judge for AZ at 11:45a. Senators will later vote at 2:30p to advance the nomination of Trey Trainor to serve on FEC w/his confirmation vote planned for 4:30p.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) May 18, 2020
re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Joe must be getting a lot of traffic. The web held me for 5 seconds to assure I wasn’t part of a DOS attack.
Mount St. Helens erupted 40 yrs ago
People were told not to go there because scientists were predicting a major eruption. Locals protested the blockades saying it violated their rights.
So, they lifted the blockade. A caravan of cars went in. It blew up the next day & ppl died. pic.twitter.com/S2VoySzXs1— Strictly 🌊 📻 (@christoq) May 18, 2020
re: #296 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
So going to take the plunge and order a pizza stone. Any advice? VB? Also would like to be able to use it on my gas grill as well
I use a baking stone in the oven for bread. Great results. I have never used one in the grill so suggest asking the Almighty Google.
Okay, but this is such a weird thing to say. He has to know Pompeo is too fucking rich for him or his wife to ever be doing any dishes. Melania isn’t doing dishes. No one he knows is doing dishes.
He literally got off at an exit just to be sexist for no good reason. https://t.co/SUihaBDfZd— Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD in Hand-Washing (@dynamicsymmetry) May 18, 2020
PUDDLES !!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/TXjpJGW0Jl
— 🎸𝐆𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐲 🤘 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧🎸 (@ScotsmanGrumpy) May 17, 2020
I guess I’d better start rustling up something for dinner or Mr. C. and I will both be disappointed when actual dinnertime comes around.
BBL
re: #345 calochortus
That’s encouraging. We’re waiting for ours to come in the mail, too and there’s no sign yet. We could have given them the bank info, but we aren’t having cash flow issues, so just let it go.
Likewise. I’m just going to donate mine, and didn’t want to use the time of the operator who could be helping someone who needs the money.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
Deleting and moving to the new thread to avoid being CL’d as well as being more relevant there.
re: #296 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Cooks Illustrated recommends Pizzacraft All Purpose Baking Stone
cooksillustrated.com
re: #348 DodgerFan1988
(At least) one of the networks interviewed a guy named Harry Truman (no relation) who said he’d always lived on the mountain and wasn’t going anywhere. Hasn’t been seen since the eruption.
(I remember it because I was really annoyed at them for encouraging him. They should have said, “Moron, get out!” and left him to think about it.)
re: #342 Interesting Times
Hopefully another side effect causes you to resign from your job!
— James (@holla_425) May 18, 2020
re: #348 DodgerFan1988
Too bad they didn’t have Hydroxychloroquine then. It makes you volcano-proof.
— Michael Strickland (@MichaelGarboduk) May 18, 2020
re: #356 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
(At least) one of the networks interviewed a guy named Harry Truman (no relation) who said he’d always lived on the mountain and wasn’t going anywhere. Hasn’t been seen since the eruption.
(I remember it because I was really annoyed at them for encouraging him. They should have said, “Moron, get out!” and left him to think about it.)
They couldn’t force him; he was very old and reasonably well-educated, had nowhere else to go, and it was totally an informed decision. He knew the volcano would kill him, turn him into a Pompeii exhibit, and was okay with that.
The sheriff on Twin Peaks was named after him.
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