One of the Best Live Jams Ever: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “You Wreck Me”
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“You’ll be the girl at the high school dance”
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He knows he is a BIGLY LOSER
The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple! https://t.co/jlDhzGRnqa
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
Weird. I was just watching this earlier today.
Mike Campbell is one of my “I’d kill to play like that” guitar heroes.
The president is taking questions https://t.co/VLMxGKLEqn
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) May 25, 2020
Eugenia works in the blueberries & is a proud UFW supporter. She says, growers must show us how to social distance. They must provide masks. It’s easy to get infected. Farm workers were left out of federal help despite paying taxes. It’s not right. #WeFeedYou #IAmEssential pic.twitter.com/5dZMJjOAYk
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) May 24, 2020
My Plans, 2020 #voteblue #Biden2020 #resist pic.twitter.com/aVVm76ClBm
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) May 20, 2020
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
The President is taking questions…
Real ones or soft balls?
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
He knows he is a BIGLY LOSER
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His only real hope for winning was low turnout/electoral shenanigans. So every state that embraces some measure of voting by mail is one less state he can hope to win because people stayed home.
What should I name my new kitten?
- Meowlly Jong-Fast
- Soledad O’Feline
- Nancy Purrlosi
- Rachel Maddmeow pic.twitter.com/PBgeYQBm40— ReallyDon’tTrump (@reallyDontTrump) May 24, 2020
some other runners up are:
Katy Fur
Asha Rangappurr
Niclaw Wallace pic.twitter.com/UlmRP6TPqS— ReallyDon’tTrump (@reallyDontTrump) May 24, 2020
Instead they chose to attack the US military - the most diverse meritocracy in the country and the most powerful force for good in world history. We have many stories of valor still waiting to be told this Memorial Day weekend.
— Jonathan Rath Hoffman (@ChiefPentSpox) May 24, 2020
Maybe the US military should honor the men who fought to preserve the Union and shatter the tyranny of chattel slavery rather than those who fought to destroy the Union and preserve it. Unless you think there’s another principle they were upholding you think is worth honoring. https://t.co/Q2aQq7NQ3g
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) May 24, 2020
Imagine being angry at saying the US military should not honor terrorists and war criminals. https://t.co/Om241PK7Jz pic.twitter.com/Hi0q7GXLqd
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) May 25, 2020
Will be looking at the San Diego county Covid-19 statistics closely this week. So far, infections, ICU usage, and deaths have been pretty steady, but there is still a doubling time for these statistics that are measured in weeks, which is still far too scary.
Reality takes time to set in. Pandemics work over time, also. All these crowds out and about this weekend will help spread the virus, but it will still take weeks to see the major effects.
I’m betting that by July 4th, for the holiday, we will be in the same position we are today - with a nation wide infection rate about steady but with local flare-ups as super-spreaders do their thing.
And, will the GOP still insist on holding their convention in person? This will be the real test to see who if any remaining Republicans split with Trump.
I fear that the toll of time will also be a surrender to the virus, the giving up on fighting it. I expect lethargy in American politics to be victorious.
re: #8 Targetpractice
His only real hope for winning was low turnout/electoral shenanigans. So every state that embraces some measure of voting by mail is one less state he can hope to win because people stayed home.
Also riding the expected “wave” of a continuing (or at least un-crashed) economy: and then relying on the usual “Build The Wall”/“Drain The Swamp” crapola to boost him over the line (with shenanigans not hurting….)
Oops!
I’m trying to find a bike for my 15 year old. The problem is that everyone else has decided to buy a bike.
I went to Target to check, and they didn’t have anything. Maybe a quarter of the people were wearing masks. I had to cross the Lowe’s parking lot to get to sonic, and far more people going in and coming out were wearing masks, at least 2/3.
Hmmm.. Charlie Kirk and the Pentagon spokesperson with the same talking points…
How odd
//https://t.co/klIbQHbWAp— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
1. Several states from red Utah to blue Washington have all-mail elections.
2. There’s no evidence mail-in voting enhances fraud.
3. A Stanford study last month found that vote-by-mail has no net benefit to one party or the other. https://t.co/CcGiac3Irh https://t.co/EQdcIW2jCF— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 25, 2020
The Orange Curse is rage-Tweeting a bunch of conspiracy shit. It must be a day ending in “y”.
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OK but, how you gonna do a bris?
if we only keep one thing from this pandemic, i hope it’s priests with water pistols pic.twitter.com/2LNCjqEFtc
— beth (@bethbourdon) May 24, 2020
My mistake…still going…. pic.twitter.com/ImQvcul4oy
— Gene K 🇺🇸 Stay home = save lives (@GeneZog) May 24, 2020
re: #17 The Pie Overlord!
The Orange Curse is rage-Tweeting a bunch of conspiracy shit. It must be a day ending in “y”.
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Guess that trip to the golf course did nothing to reduce his stress level.
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The reason Trump is so afraid of universal or on demand vote by mail is that street violence by gun wielding “protesters” can’t suppress it
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 25, 2020
re: #20 Targetpractice
DT shot a bunch of mulligans. or was it boogies.
Reminder: This is the same Republican Party that has spent the last three days telling black folks that we’re stupid and brainwashed for supporting Joe Biden, and the Democratic Party. They believe this is a better alternative. https://t.co/lqxR0NyvTL
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 24, 2020
This was yesterday. In America. These are the people that are stopping our kids from going to school in the fall and having a childhood to remember this summer. And they are killing Americans. pic.twitter.com/PwAXzckAms
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) May 24, 2020
A woman raises her middle finger at Trump’s motorcade as it passes through Sterling, Virginia, on its way to the Trump National Golf Course. (Mandel Ngan/AFP) pic.twitter.com/DbBK24IegH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 24, 2020
And another woman launches her campaign for a political seat in Virginia.
U scared bro?
I HOPE ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS WILL READ AND STUDY THIS. 100% CORRECT. SLEEPY JOE WILL NEVER GET YOU THERE. HE NEVER HAS IN THE PAST. I WILL & HAVE!!! https://t.co/j15DLun4KV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 24, 2020
Next they’ll be going to driver’s ed.
I can’t stop watching this 😭 Please be safe this holiday weekend! pic.twitter.com/LAiNjGS9Yc
— Staying in the Game (@AdrienneLaw) May 23, 2020
re: #27 The Pie Overlord!
He sounds like it to me. And if we are to read our history we should remain in lockdown for at least a few more months.
re: #27 The Pie Overlord!
The Clinton years were great for Black Americans as President Clinton oversaw a booming economy. Ditto President Obama. Trump has done nothing but insult Africans, Haitians and protesting Black athletes. Who is he fooling?
re: #30 PhillyPretzel
I’m blessed in that at least my husband and I can afford financially stay home for the next few months. Our son who lives with us is probably being called back to work after next week. I am scared, he works in a warehouse and as of now, the company hasn’t said what their company policy is about masks and distancing, etc. I wish he could stay home and let this job go, but it’s not financially feasible. I can’t pay his bills and ours. Did I mention I’m scared?
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
The Clinton years were great for Black Americans as President Clinton oversaw a booming economy. Ditto President Obama. Trump has done nothing but insult Africans, Haitians and protesting Black athletes. Who is he fooling?
Not a single person.
Any economic gain from Trump’s inauguration to date was wiped out thanks to Trump’s economic collapse due to his failure to handle covid19 in any rational manner.
*SIGH*
Ilhan Omar tells @joshglancy “I do believe [Tara] Reade. Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.” She adds that if it was up to her, Biden wouldn’t be the candidate. https://t.co/xCax3m5QYK
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2020
re: #33 lawhawk
Any economic gain during the Trump years didn’t go to people like us. It went to the millionaires and billionaires.
— Todd Domke (@ToddDomke) May 23, 2020
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
The Clinton years were great for Black Americans as President Clinton oversaw a booming economy. Ditto President Obama. Trump has done nothing but insult Africans, Haitians and protesting Black athletes. Who is he fooling?
Not African-American voters in any numbers! I’m sure of that…
(Does Trump put his tweets intended for black audiences IN ALL CAPS because he thinks it makes it easier for them to read?)
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely misses a beat as an earthquake strikes during a live TV interview.
“We’re just having a bit of an earthquake here Ryan, quite a decent shake here.” Via RNZ pic.twitter.com/rVjsXYr0uz— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2020
JFC what a fucking crybaby
…vacationing, relaxing & making shady deals with other countries, & that Barack was always playing golf, doing much of his traveling in a fume spewing 747 to play golf in Hawaii - Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the gruesome death of a great young man by ISIS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
So.
This is what happens when the far right gains power in the US.
100,000 people dead.
Economy in ruins.
A legion of dumbass cultists who eagerly make things much worse.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2020
re: #39 The Pie Overlord!
Driving a golf cart is exercise?
Breaking: The RNC has filed suit against California to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom from mailing ballots to all registered voters ahead of the November general election. Lawsuit comes after Newsom announced the changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic.https://t.co/3Im53W1XxJ
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 25, 2020
re: #34 Targetpractice
Reade has been exposed as a liar. So Rep Omar is okay with another four years of Trump — a man who has disparaged her and placed her life in danger? I really don’t understand her thinking.
They’re not going to speak up. https://t.co/hHU1XqKQLR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2020
So, he thinks New York & New Jersey are not part of the U.S. Probably California too.
Trump was asked Wednesday what he’d have done differently in dealing with the pandemic crisis. pic.twitter.com/LIysW6Qb3p
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 25, 2020
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
Reade has been exposed as a liar. So Rep Omar is okay with another four years of Trump — a man who has disparaged her and placed her life in danger? I really don’t understand her thinking.
What’s supposed to happen by her lights: Biden withdraws, and Bernie steps in, in a contested convention. When I suggested, on Twitter, that that would be a shit show and that Bernie likely wouldn’t be chosen, the Berners told me “nuh-uh, it’s already a shit show!”
OK.
I don’t think Omar has women in mind if they can’t be used for her objectives.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
I’m done defending her.
I gotta hand it to COVID-19, you sure did expose the sheep among us.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) May 24, 2020
Look in the fuckin’ mirror.
Trump’s donation is a gimmick.
His decision not to divest his businesses netted him $434 million in personal revenue in 2018—hundreds of thousands of which came in the form of taxpayer-funded payments to his properties.
That’s a thousand times more than his presidential salary https://t.co/cCUebrVMJF— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) May 25, 2020
Killing voters to own the libs. https://t.co/g3kykCJG9w
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 25, 2020
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
OK but, how you gonna do a bris?
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“The fly had been circumcised.” (Punchline to the three swordsmen joke — ethnicities depend on who’s telling the joke.)
re: #51 William Lewis
This is long, but it’s a great documentary about Steve Winwood. Lots to recommend. He’s lived a very rich life.
re: #52 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
“The fly had been circumcised.” (Punchline to the three swordsmen joke — ethnicities depend on who’s telling the joke.)
re: #31 Patricia Kayden
The Clinton years were great for Black Americans as President Clinton oversaw a booming economy. Ditto President Obama. Trump has done nothing but insult Africans, Haitians and protesting Black athletes. Who is he fooling?
Not African-Americans, if the polls I see are right.
re: #46 Sherlock Hound
Bernie is done. I hope he doesn’t run again in 2024. There’s no way he’s going to be our nominee and Bernie Bros need to get over themselves. He has already moved on and endorsed Biden. Enough.
re: #48 DodgerFan1988
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Look in the fuckin’ mirror.
Yep. There are those of us who believe in being responsible for our actions, stay at home and wear masks if we have to go out because we might make others sick, and then there are the sheep that blindly listen to those that say it’s their right to be irresponsible.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 25, 2020
See the second amendment for another example.
re: #34 Targetpractice
*SIGH*
The article Ben Jacobs cites has nothing in it about Tara Reade. He’s lying about Ilhan Omar.
Always double-check what a conservative says.
Ilhan Omar interview: “I am America’s hope and President Trump’s nightmare”
The firebrand congresswoman tells Josh Glancy how her traumatic escape from war‑torn Somalia prepared her for the cut and thrust of America’s politics (Goes to the Sunday Times of London)
re: #53 stpaulbear
This is long, but it’s a great documentary about Steve Winwood. Lots to recommend. He’s lived a very rich life.
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I’m doing an overnight shift at the hotel tonight. That will be a delightful thing to watch then - thank you!
The other long piece I should rewatch one of these days is “This Might Get Loud”. Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge sitting around talking about playing, writing and living music. Great great doco.
re: #43 Patricia Kayden
Reade has been exposed as a liar. So Rep Omar is okay with another four years of Trump — a man who has disparaged her and placed her life in danger? I really don’t understand her thinking.
Ilhan Omar didn’t say that in the article. Ben Jacobs lied, knowing most people wouldn’t actually check the article to verify it.
These people would 100% hide a walker bite https://t.co/TjprEAPuaW
— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingDead) May 24, 2020
re: #48 DodgerFan1988
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”
— wint (@dril) February 15, 2017
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“I do believe Tara Reade,” Ilhan Omar told me. “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”https://t.co/m8R4jYUhFO
— Josh Glancy (@joshglancy) May 24, 2020
A cousin of mine will be pulled off of life support tomorrow. She suffered multiple strokes due to complications from COVID-19. She was 44 with no health issues and was a mother and wife and will leave her children motherless and her husband a widow.
Do not underestimate COVID.— Matt The Producer🎙⚾️🥅 (@Matt_NSR) May 24, 2020
During WWII Americans went without. They ate beans 3x a day. Grew their own vegetables. They lived on rations. They purchased war bonds to save the economy. Many women left their homes for the 1st time to replace soliders in factories. Today’s “patriots” won’t even wear masks.
— Hell’s Snowflake 🔥❄🌊 (@politicalnative) May 25, 2020
When conservatives cannot win elections, they will not give up conservatism. They will give up democracy.
Breaking: The RNC has filed suit against California to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom from mailing ballots to all registered voters ahead of the November general election. Lawsuit comes after Newsom announced the changes in response to the coronavirus pandemic.https://t.co/3Im53W1XxJ
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 25, 2020
Three inches in the rain gauge, now. Hopefully, this line will fall apart before it gets here:
I have some of my grandparents’ old WW2 ration books, with the little 1” x 1/4” stamps that read “butter”, “sugar”, and “milk.” It was as if they only had about eight food items.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When conservatives cannot win elections, they will not give up conservatism. They will give up democracy.
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Something like 3/4 of all Californians voted by mail in the last election, so I’m not sure what the point of a lawsuit would be. Just entertaining their lawyers, maybe?
Both-siderist statement. “America” hasn’t lost her way, conservatives have.
You are correct in that America has lost her way… 😢
— Sam Masters (@SamuelMasters19) May 25, 2020
re: #70 calochortus
Something like 3/4 of all Californians voted by mail in the last election, so I’m not sure what the point of a lawsuit would be. Just entertaining their lawyers, maybe?
The whole point is to undermine trust in democracy. Hence the constant drumbeat of voting fraud from mail ballots (but only in liberal and close states).
re: #53 stpaulbear
I love his voice. And he sings one of my all-time favorite classic rock songs…
Here, with a couple of friends.
If the President is watching Fox, you may see some tweets about reopening schools or designating schools essential
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 25, 2020
re: #64 Patricia Kayden
Hmm. If that’s the case, she should be called out on it then.
THREAD
Today is a good day to remind everyone that the twitter account @realdonaldtrump is djt’s personal account, of which there is no oversight on who else may have access (domestic or foreign), to plant tweets as drafts (foldering).
The twitter account of the President is @POTUS. /1— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) May 24, 2020
Are you gonna supply every classroom with hand sanitizer and wipes? Are you ensure that older teachers and staff and those with respiratory and other conditions are safe? What are you willing to do, motherfucker, before mouthing off? https://t.co/wyzHQLSGt9
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 25, 2020
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The whole point is to undermine trust in democracy. Hence the constant drumbeat of voting fraud from mail ballots (but only in liberal and close states).
It’s also a sign of the GOP’s behind-the-scenes desperation. They’re terrified they’re going to get their asses handed to them in an electoral bloodbath this November.
I’d dearly love to see their internal polling.
Well, this is awkward…. pic.twitter.com/jiYZ01ybCT
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) May 25, 2020
re: #69 jaunte
I have some of my grandparents’ old WW2 ration books, with the little 1” x 1/4” stamps that read “butter”, “sugar”, and “milk.” It was as if they only had about eight food items.
Yes there were also stamps for flour, meat, gasoline and cooking oil.
When Mom and Dad got married they used their whole month of flour and sugar ration stamps to make their wedding cake. And for the whole month they ate bacon, eggs and sweet potatoes 3X a day.
re: #79 Ace-o-aces
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— John Ales* (@IAmJohnAles) May 25, 2020
re: #32 A Mom Anon
I’m blessed in that at least my husband and I can afford financially stay home for the next few months. Our son who lives with us is probably being called back to work after next week. I am scared, he works in a warehouse and as of now, the company hasn’t said what their company policy is about masks and distancing, etc. I wish he could stay home and let this job go, but it’s not financially feasible. I can’t pay his bills and ours. Did I mention I’m scared?
{{MomA}}
I hear you, loud and clear. They go back and forth every day or so as to whether customers are required to wear masks at my kid’s Safeway. The only good part is that they ARE enforcing the rules about employee masks and customer limits, and he says they’re taking the cleaning procedures very seriously. Ditto with us, we need his paycheck. I send up a prayer every time I drop my kid off — will keep the fingers crossed for your kid too.
re: #80 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yes there were also stamps for flour, meat, gasoline and cooking oil.
When Mom and Dad got married they used their whole month of flour and sugar ration stamps to make their wedding cake. And for the whole month they ate bacon, eggs and sweet potatoes 3X a day.
I remember my father-in-law talking about how carefully he drove on a bad tire for some ridiculous length of time because you couldn’t just go buy tires because the rubber was needed elsewhere.
Nebraska Panhandle reaches milestone of one hundred cases.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Cases: 100 (+9, 1 in Box Butte County, 8 in Scott’s Bluff County, largest single day rise)
Doubling rate: 22 days
Recovered: 66
Deaths: 0
Largest age group: Tied 10-19 and 40-49
re: #69 jaunte
I have some of my grandparents’ old WW2 ration books, with the little 1” x 1 1/4” stamps that read “butter”, “sugar”, and “milk.” It was as if they only had about eight food items.
I’ve had the time to read a book while in quarantine called “Once Upon a Town”, by Bob Greene. It’s the story of North Platte, Nebraska, which, beginning before Christmas, 1941, and continuing until May of 1946, put together, with surrounding towns, in shifts, volunteers to greet every fucking troop train that stopped there, sometimes up to 40 a day, to meet, greet, and feed everyone on them.
I cried my eyes out reading it. It’s a GREAT book, about how one town, in the middle of nowhere, adopted “our boys” during the war.
re: #79 Ace-o-aces
Hypocrites one and all.
re: #86 austin_blue
I’ve had the time to read a book while in quarantine called “Once Upon a Town”, by Bob Greene. It’s the story of North Platte, Nebraska, which, beginning before Christmas, 1941, and continuing until May of 1946, put together, with surrounding towns, in shifts, volunteers to greet every fucking troop train that stopped there, sometimes up to 40 a day, to meet, greet, and feed everyone on them.
I cried my eyes out reading it. It’s a GREAT book, about how one town, in the middle of nowhere, adopted “our boys” during the war.
Several people from my town worked at the North Platte Canteen; a few are still alive.
North Platte Canteen (goes to the Lincoln County, Nebr. Museum, with photographs and text stories)
re: #84 calochortus
I remember my father-in-law talking about how carefully he drove on a bad tire for some ridiculous length of time because you couldn’t just go buy tires because the rubber was needed elsewhere.
Yes because there was a severe rubber shortage at the start of the war since Japan seized the Asian rubber plantations. It took a while to create synthetic rubber (late 1942).
re: #82 Interesting Times
At least those morons would only have to make that mistake ONCE. If said moron gets their building bombed, they’ll be either dead from the bomb, or dead by their neighbor’s hand.
One doesn’t take too well to having your downstairs neighbor put on his light and gets you bombed out. At least the nasty-neighbor-notes would be something to behold!
IT horror in 5 words (also applies lots of other places).
Please refer to the documentation.
re: #92 Rightwingconspirator
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I had a foundry class in jr high. Mostly we did fairly industrial kinds of things - aluminum casting in sand molds, etc. But for my final I did a lost wax casting of a ring in silver. It wasn’t anything special, just a very plain band but I was proud of it because I got to learn what a pain silver is to work with compared to, say, aluminum or bronze. I wonder if that old girlfriend I gave it to still has it :)
re: #94 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
IT horror in 5 words (also applies lots of other places).
Please refer to the documentation.
You overwrote the updated code.
re: #94 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
This behavior is by design (seen a lot in Microsoft support articles!)
re: #97 Sherlock Hound
This behavior is by design (seen a lot in Microsoft support articles!)
Well, most IT solutions boils down to 80% Googling and 20% Weird IT Voodoo.
I Suspect Much Higher (Goes to Juanita Jean’s)
Twitter. Entertaining as it is, it may destroy us. First, you have Trump’s tweets. And last, you have Trump’s tweets.
And then the bots. This study shows that the Coronavirus is causing more than double the amount of bot activity than anything else ever has. It is used to spread conspiracy theories which leads to uncertainty and that divides us even more.
(more)
Nearly Half Of The Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots (Carnegie-Mellon University School of Computer Science)
re: #95 William Lewis
I should show you the silver bar the came out. Technical difficulties…
re: #95 William Lewis
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re: #100 Rightwingconspirator
I should show you the silver bar the came out. unfinished.
I had to think for a moment to remember how it comes out prior to polishing :) Oh, yeah, that’s right LOL!
Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available. @SteveHiltonx @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
“Much very good information now available”.
How is this NOT a fucking parody tweet?? JFC.
re: #100 Rightwingconspirator
I should show you the silver bar the came out. Technical difficulties…
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Heh. I can imagine. I gained a lot of respect for casting of all kinds that semester.
Good old sterling. I think what I bought for that class was US coin silver (90%) rather than sterling. Cheaper for the parents.
Local county data for the past couple of days:
Confirmed cases: 2,428 (+6)
Deaths: 236 (+0)
I expect the reporting is off a bit and there will be a jump in a few days. Or, like recent, days the data will be corrected and have higher numbers.
What I am also seeing from the “anti-maskers” is the following arguments:*
1. A link to a PubMed study that is essentially claiming that the asymptomatic infected people are not contagious.
2. No one under 30 has died from COVID-19 in Pennsylvania.
(Did not try to verify this.)
3. COVID-19 is not killing these people, it’s the various comorbidities.
(Variants of deaths over counted, elderly were going to die anyways, etc. etc, BS. And ignoring that a *lot* of people have hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, etc.)
4. Most of the deaths are people in nursing homes, so other places are not dangerous.
Seems to be pretty ignorant about the fact that non-elderly can spread it to elderly people. And I really don’t believe #1 can be accurate simply from the speed and scope of the virus spreading. (Alternatively, we have a lot more stupid people about?)
* - PA GOP is spreading some of this stuff. Saw a memo from a State Senate leader trying to raise pressure on Gov Wolf to raise the stay-at-home orders and they mentioned multiple of these points.
re: #105 William Lewis
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Heh. I can imagine. I gained a lot of respect for casting of all kinds that semester.Good old sterling. I think what I bought for that class was US coin silver (90%) rather than sterling. Cheaper for the parents.
There is something magic about a lot of silver and just a little copper, say 10% down to 5% or so. You can get it to do about anything you can ask of a metal. Soft, springy, or just hard. Takes a patina or sets stones just fine. Funny thing is in high purity it can outperform gold in a material engineering way.
Area weather for Scottsbluff, and North America forecast.
re: #107 Rightwingconspirator
There is something magic about a lot of silver and just a little copper, say 10% down to 5% or so. You can get it to do about anything you can ask of a metal. Soft, springy, or just hard. Takes a patina or sets stones just fine. Funny thing is in high purity it can outperform gold in a material engineering way.
I like to always have an old silver dollar tucked into my wallet. It’s meaningless as money but that 1935 Peace dollar is a pretty thing and when you need flip a coin, it gets everyone’s attention. Yeah, I have a soft spot for silver, especially as art.
re: #86 austin_blue
I’ve had the time to read a book while in quarantine called “Once Upon a Town”, by Bob Greene. It’s the story of North Platte, Nebraska, which, beginning before Christmas, 1941, and continuing until May of 1946, put together, with surrounding towns, in shifts, volunteers to greet every fucking troop train that stopped there, sometimes up to 40 a day, to meet, greet, and feed everyone on them.
I cried my eyes out reading it. It’s a GREAT book, about how one town, in the middle of nowhere, adopted “our boys” during the war.
Part of the history of the tiny Jewish temple in our Alabama town. Thousands of very lost Jewish soldiers passed through Camp Rucker and the 5 training bases here. The largest seder gathering was said to be 1000-1500 visitors.
In 1943, the soldiers held their own Orthodox service on the second day of Rosh Hashanah at the temple. On one notable Passover in 1943, Emanu-El congregants, along with Rabbi Wolf, traveled to Napier Field to join the servicemen in what was likely the largest Passover seder in Dothan’s history. Longtime residents of Dothan still remember the massive piles of matzah balls cooked by the women of Emanu-El for the hundreds of servicemen. In 1944, the temple-sponsored seder at Camp Rucker drew one thousand people, and German prisoners-of-war were brought in to help with the massive dinner. Many Jewish G.I.’s stationed in the area got married to their hometown sweethearts at Emanu-El. Some married Jewish women from Dothan whom they had met while stationed in the area
re: #108 plansbandc
This made me laugh today. It’s The Mother of Venus Chicken.
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re: #110 William Lewis
There’s something about the feel of that particular coin. When I was a kid, my dad would put one under our plate on our birthdays.
re: #106 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So now they trust Chinese case studies? (the weakest form of study)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (goes to PubMed)
Conclusion:
In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection and we conclude that the infectivity of some asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers might be weak.
“some might be weak” is a pretty big weasel phrase.
Pennsylvania teen recently died of coronavirus, becoming youngest COVID-19 victim in state (Pennsylvania Press & Journal)
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So now they trust Chinese case studies? (the weakest form of study)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (goes to PubMed)
Conclusion:
“some might be weak” is a pretty big weasel phrase.
Pennsylvania teen recently died of coronavirus, becoming youngest COVID-19 victim in state (Pennsylvania Press & Journal)
You know how they roll. Any piece of evidence, however flimsy or in opposition to other tenets of their belief system, when it serves the current purpose.
(And I might drop that second link into a FB page or two to kill that “it hasn’t killed anyone under 30” thing - though I expect an immediate goal post shift to morbidities when it lands.)
Cartoonist Steve Brodner suggested editorial cartoonists draw the Trump Golfing theme with today’s epic NY Times cover as a mass art protest, so I repurposed the one I drew yesterday. I think we need a hashtag … #NYTimesCoverCartoonChallenge wow, rolls right off the tongue. pic.twitter.com/R1pFUzDhwK
— Mexican Judge (@laloalcaraz) May 25, 2020
The Imperial College COVID-19 report for 21 May is out. Massachusetts has the fourth-most cases behind NY, NJ and DC. 1 in 11 to as many as 1 in 5 are infected.
The PDF is here: COVID-19 Report 23
This is really damn dangerous.
FDA Announces Temporary Flexibility Policy Regarding Certain Labeling Requirements for Foods for Humans During COVID-19 Pandemic
re: #118 plansbandc
This is really damn dangerous.
FDA Announces Temporary Flexibility Policy Regarding Certain Labeling Requirements for Foods for Humans During COVID-19 Pandemic
What the FUQUE does food labeling have to do with the pandemic, other than Libertarians have been trying to get rid of the FDA for years?
re: #94 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
IT horror in 5 words (also applies lots of other places).
Please refer to the documentation.
They uploaded the wrong version.
re: #117 Sherlock Hound
The Imperial College COVID-19 report for 21 May is out. Massachusetts has the fourth-most cases behind NY, NJ and DC. 1 in 11 to as many as 1 in 5 are infected.
The PDF is here: COVID-19 Report 23
Just skimming still but terrifying.
As I hoped, the earlier activity took all the energy out of the atmosphere, and the squall line from the west is just giving us a steady drizzle. Thirty miles south of us it is just fucking things up.
Dodged a bullet, here.
And night all, sweet scaly dreams.
As a Military pilot who, in the 1980’s was still eating Ham and Mothers as in-flight meals, I’ve got to say the Alpo looks pretty appetizing.
re: #122 Rightwingconspirator
Just skimming still but terrifying.
This is insane.
Specific examples are contained in the guidance. For example, an ingredient could be temporarily reduced or omitted (e.g. green peppers) from a vegetable quiche that contains small amounts of multiple vegetables without a change in the ingredient list on the label. Substitution of certain oils may temporarily be appropriate without a label change, such as canola oil for sunflower oil, because they contain similar types of fats.
“I’m allergic to corn oil but I’m ok with avocado oil”
FDA, small unnoted change.
re: #128 austin_blue
As a Military pilot who, in the 1980’s was still eating Ham and Mothers as in-flight meals, I’ve got to say the Alpo looks pretty appetizing.
I actually hated the Trackpads and Roadwheels meal worse. How about the first generation MRE dehydrated pork patty? Guaranteed to bind your gut for a week all by itself.
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
I honestly don’t see what need there is to change regulations. I smell a grift.
Anyway, off to work; gotta pay them bills. Back later.
Unless the food supply chains are really getting stressed.
re: #122 Rightwingconspirator
GMO Canola oil is cheaper than Sunflower oil:
centrafoods.com
re: #133 Decatur Deb
Unless the food supply chains are really getting stressed.
It is understandable that it might be costly to rewrite labels on a box or can because of a temporary problem with the supply chain, but any substitution or failure to identify an ingredient should be absolutely forbidden.
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
It is understandable that it might be costly to rewrite labels on a box or can because of a temporary problem with the supply chain, but any substitution or failure to identify an ingredient should be absolutely forbidden.
They could do what is done with Mexican-bottled Coca-Cola (where the ingredients are in Spanish): Put a sticker over the ingredient list. No need to reprint a whole box.
As a reminder of who Donald Trump’s current spokesliar is, from 2017:
WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany: Obama rushed off to golf after Daniel Pearl was beheaded.
Pearl was killed in 2002. Obama was a state senator. pic.twitter.com/5QkFRgjoR4— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 28, 2017
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
It is understandable that it might be costly to rewrite labels on a box or can because of a temporary problem with the supply chain, but any substitution or failure to identify an ingredient should be absolutely forbidden.
“Really stressed” means the canners might not know what is going to be in Tuesday’s can.
re: #137 Decatur Deb
“Really stressed” means the canners might not know what is going to be in Tueday’s can.
If there is going to be this level of uncertainty, the label could list the possible ingredients (e.g. “…., canola or sunflower oil,… “).
re: #138 Hecuba’s daughter
If there is going to be this level of uncertainty, the label could list the possible ingredients (e.g. “…., canola or sunflower oil,… “).
Or a QR code linked to today’s lots’ recipes.
In case this was missed here:
‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’ (The Atlantic, May 21, 2020)
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests, distorting several important metrics and providing the country with an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic. We’ve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus. The upshot is that the government’s disease-fighting agency is overstating the country’s ability to test people who are sick with COVID-19. The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.
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The effect of this is to depress the numbers of deaths and total infections. This is what happens when conservatives politicise science.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Ashish Jha, the K. T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard and the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told us when we described what the CDC was doing. “How could the CDC make that mistake? This is a mess.”
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
So they may have to substitute an ingredient or two. It’s not as if, say, a few peanuts are going to kill anyone.
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re: #139 Decatur Deb
Or a QR code linked to today’s lots’ recipes.
I can’t read a QR code. They don’t teach QR code as a foreign language. /s
Sorry, doc, you didn’t factor in antivaxxers being driven by foreign actors.
Why don’t we have a vaccine for SARS? MERS? HIV? These viruses have been around longer than SARS-CoV-2. A mini-thread to provide some perspective and even a little dose of optimism. We are not in the same situation here. 1/7
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) May 25, 2020
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sorry, doc, you didn’t factor in antivaxxers being driven by foreign actors.
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re: #144 Dread Pirate
Actually they went away before they could test vaccines against them.
She mentions that about SARS. MERS is still around but nations have a good handle on that disease to prevent widespread outbreaks. She also mentions HIV, which seems to mutate almost as fast as the flu.
Memorial Day starts in less than an hour…a day that I use to damn Dumbya, The Dick, Neocons and Presstitutes for lying us into a useless war…
Without dating yourself what’s the earliest Internet memory that you have?
— JPAWGMAFIA (@jpawgmafia) May 24, 2020
Archie, Veronica, Jughead.
re: #147 Dread Pirate
IRC. Anything earlier would be BBSs for me.
re: #39 The Pie Overlord!
JFC what a fucking crybaby
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Golf is in no way, shape or form “exercise.” You are literally swinging things that weigh less than 1/2 a pound. And then only occasionally.it’s a game. Like darts or foosball.If it were exercise, you couldn’t do it without suffering a coronary, you out of shape lardass.
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) May 25, 2020
RIP to Jimmy Cobb. Gone at 91. If you’re a fan of Kind of Blue, he was the last living member from those sessions.
Another Jazz great gone in 2020. pic.twitter.com/8dSCTrn0wq— Euclid (@Deuce1042) May 25, 2020
re: #8 Targetpractice
His only real hope for winning was low turnout/electoral shenanigans. So every state that embraces some measure of voting by mail is one less state he can hope to win because people stayed home.
He knows that his people will turn up to the polls without masks, thus scaring off the rest of us folks who have some sense.
re: #18 The Pie Overlord!
OK but, how you gonna do a bris?
Laser pistol!
What do you need to circumcise a whale?
-Four skin divers!
re: #69 jaunte
I have some of my grandparents’ old WW2 ration books, with the little 1” x 1/4” stamps that read “butter”, “sugar”, and “milk.” It was as if they only had about eight food items.
I would assume that the rest were not rationed.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He knows that his people will turn up to the polls without masks, thus scaring off the rest of us folks who have some sense.
Well, good thing we don’t have polls in this Republican state we’ve been busy flipping local offices in for the last three years.
Still waiting for Ronna Romney McDaniels to attack Gov. Pete Ricketts over mail voting that’s been here for years.
The conservaderp about Daniel Pearl is spreading again.
Joe Biden must have forgotten about the thousands of times Obama played golf as president. He played golf minutes after an American journalist was be-headed by ISIS. Where was Joe’s outrage then?
— RD (@real_defender) May 25, 2020
Don’t know about the golf part, but a state senator from Illinois doesn’t have a whole lot of pull in international relations. Daniel Pearl was murdered in 2002.
Wyoming:
health.wyo.gov
Lab confirmed + probable: 838 (+14 lab confirmed)
Doubling rate: 26 days
Greatest number by county: Fremont (rural west-central), Laramie (Cheyenne)
Recovered: 575
Deaths: 12 (no change)
Doubling rate: 33 days
Here in Canada, rationing began in 1942 but didn’t end until 1947.
re: #160 Dread Pirate
Here in Canada, rationing began in 1942 but didn’t end until 1947.
The same in the USA. Rationing ended in 1947, because the combination of all the troops and sailors still deployed overseas awaiting return, plus pent-up demand on the economy.
re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
UK retained food rationing until 1954
There was also the Utility Clothing Scheme (orders on how clothes could be designed, including numbers of buttons, total stitch length, &c), then utility furniture (incorporating the same sorts of rules), and clothing rationing (which actually started just before WW2). Such items were marked with a “CC41” label (cc meant controlled commodity, 41 was the year the scheme was introduced); items which were not marked (they didn’t comply with the scheme) had an excise tax.
That caused High Street fashion designers to go into middle class clothing design to keep up profitability.
Shoes were also part of the scheme, with open-toe shoes banned as unsafe.
The Utility Clothing Scheme was withdrawn in 1952.
YouTube religion counter-apologist and intellectual property lawyer DPR Jones passed away.
He was one of the first counter-apologists on YouTube.
When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed, Christians across the platform started using copyright strikes unlawfully to take down counter-apologetics videos.
DPR Jones then used his legal skills to counter both YouTube and Christian lawbreakers censoring content.
Atheists across the platform held a last toast and lifted the parting glass to honour DPR Jones and his work against Christian religious bigotry on YouTube.
(6:43, Aron Ra telling his story of how DPR Jones getting him started on YouTube)
The fookin’ heater is on because it’s so cold outside. Did someone forget to tell the NWS it’s the end of May?
I’m off to bed; it’s warmer there.
Services Return In-House Option (Goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph)
TL; DR version: Many Sidney restaurants and other businesses roll out the welcome mat for customers as Gov. Pete Ricketts removed the so-called directed health measures on the Panhandle to slow the spread of Covid-19.
Other restaurants and businesses are taking a more cautious approach and remaining closed.
False copyright strikes under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1999 carry a heavy fine and imprisonment.
The go-to example is from prolific Christian apologist VenomFangX supported by Conservapedia and churches in striking counter-apologetics videos to get atheists banned from YouTube.
DPR Jones worked with YouTuber Thunderf00t to extract an apology from VFX posted to YouTube so he could avoid being fined and jailed for his Christian religious bigotry. DPR Jones worked pro-bono.
The VFX retraction video is now the gold standard to ward off Christian bigots who break the law to censor counter-apologist content. (4:00)
Completely unfounded conspiracy. Just stop. Stop spreading it, stop creating paranoia. It will destroy us. https://t.co/XgDl6LmANb
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) May 24, 2020
It really does look like the reality of how fucked his reelection campaign is has finally begun to weigh on Donny’s mind. And the result is not pretty.
re: #147 Dread Pirate
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Archie, Veronica, Jughead.
Usenet, Bitnet, bang paths, UUCP
re: #147 Dread Pirate
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Archie, Veronica, Jughead.
The Great Renaming had just gotten done and the Sept that never ended was about to start.
So it turns out my doggo, Cleo, is not at all scared of thunder unless she’s outside. But lightening freaks her out so bad that she trembles and barks at it. All. Night. Long. For the last two nights. I thought someone was trying to get into the house at 1 this morning because she completely lost her shit and began running through the house barking like her behind was on fire.
And now she’s sleeping on the couch with the husband. Sigh. I need a nap, it’s going to be a lonnnng day….
So I guess you are going to sue Idaho and Gov. Little next? Our May primary was mail in as will be the General in Nov. Oh! Silly me. Idaho is a red State & Little is a (R) Governor so that makes it all right. @GOP is a pack of lying hypocrites trying to cheat, again
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) May 25, 2020
So, I was planning on experimenting on making some Navajo flatbread…got all the ingredients together and then suddenly realized that I don’t have a rolling pin, LOL. I’ll find a cheap one at the little Vietnamese shop down the street. Guess I’ll go pick one up tomorrow - it’s a day off.
so adorable 🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/tZNoeFoGpq
— mari 💗 (@mariikay) May 21, 2020
re: #172 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #168 Targetpractice
It really does look like the reality of how fucked his reelection campaign is has finally begun to weigh on Donny’s mind. And the result is not pretty.
I think he knows there’s a serious possibility he’s going to face criminal or at least civil charges once he leaves office.
re: #176 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ronna and the RNC really have no scruples at all.
You first need to have a soul/heart. They traded theirs in for power.
There’s no chance whatsoever that the Repubs will steal CA. Even if they forced it to be entirely in-person voting, there’s no way they could keep enough people home to swing the state to Donny.
No, the whole purpose of suing over mail-in ballots is to try to save the down-ballot races, the state and national races that could come down to hair-thin margins in red and purple districts where the party has been hemorrhaging votes for ages. They’re not afraid of losing races in Utah or other red states that have begun courting mail-in voting, which is why they’re not going after those states in the courts.
re: #179 Targetpractice
They can’t win unless they cheat. Or game the system so they aren’t “technically” breaking the rules. I truly loathe these fuckers.
re: #179 Targetpractice
There’s no chance whatsoever that the Repubs will steal CA. Even if they forced it to be entirely in-person voting, there’s no way they could keep enough people home to swing the state to Donny.
No, the whole purpose of suing over mail-in ballots is to try to save the down-ballot races, the state and national races that could come down to hair-thin margins in red and purple districts where the party has been hemorrhaging votes for ages. They’re not afraid of losing races in Utah or other red states that have begun courting mail-in voting, which is why they’re not going after those states in the courts.
Just like they only want states to split electoral votes in purple/light blue states.
re: #180 A Mom Anon
They can’t win unless they cheat. Or game the system so they aren’t “technically” breaking the rules. I truly loathe these fuckers.
I do too. It’s all about power and enabling the donors that keep them from going the way of the Whigs.
re: #180 A Mom Anon
They can’t win unless they cheat. Or game the system so they aren’t “technically” breaking the rules. I truly loathe these fuckers.
It’s desperation tactics by this point. In less than a generation, they went from electing “The Governator” to becoming a rump party in the state, and now they’re watching as their national level folks get picked off more and more with each electoral cycle. So their only hope at this point is the courts, praying that Mitch’s packing efforts will slow the decline long enough for them to try to reverse it.
re: #94 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
IT horror in 5 words (also applies lots of other places).
Please refer to the documentation.
RTFM
VIDEO: From Seoul to Florida, Lithuania to Uruguay, drive-in cinemas, which gained immense popularity during the 1950s and ’60s, are making a comeback worldwide. With theatres closed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, drive-ins are a safe alternative for cinemagoers pic.twitter.com/vgtFuHalhe
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 25, 2020
I know there’s still one drive-in operating in the Portland, OR metro area - the 99W Drive-In. I don’t know if it’s already opened for the season, though. I was told there’s also one in Los Angeles, at the old Van de Kamp Bakery building on Fletcher Drive.
re: #101 I Would Prefer Not To
Karen’s Album just dropped.
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“It is coming, and it’s going to be more of a checkerboard…It’s not going to be a wave that spreads out uniformly over all of rural America; it’s going to be hot spots that come and go. And I don’t know how well they’re going to be managed.” —me
https://t.co/RwJhsv6Mu6— Dr. Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) May 25, 2020
Article with up to date numbers and a detailed map of the spread.
re: #147 Dread Pirate
My earliest internet memory is CompuServe and AOL disks everywhere; inside magazines, in mail, every. where.
If he walked from hole to hole at least he’s get that exercise, but Fat Donny can barely walk the 10 feet from the golf cart to his ball..
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
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re: #171 A Mom Anon
So it turns out my doggo, Cleo, is not at all scared of thunder unless she’s outside. But lightening freaks her out so bad that she trembles and barks at it. All. Night. Long. For the last two nights. I thought someone was trying to get into the house at 1 this morning because she completely lost her shit and began running through the house barking like her behind was on fire.
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And now she’s sleeping on the couch with the husband. Sigh. I need a nap, it’s going to be a lonnnng day….
If you crate trained your pup you could try putting Cleo in her crate and putting a blanket over her.
So, just saw a report on the news that the lovely little Czech of Český Krumlov is in rather dire straits - it’s extremely dependent on international tourism and according to their mayor, the town is now looking at the distinct possibility of financial ruin.
It’s damn near a real-life enchanted kingdom sort of place - it’s where I got married (my ex-wife’s hometown).
Trump is tweeting. Before he wished a “HAPPY” Memorial Day, he fired off 4 tweets threatening to yank the GOP Convention from NC unless its Dem gov—“still in Shutdown mood”—“immediately” guarantees “many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans” can fill Charlotte’s arena in Aug.
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) May 25, 2020
re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #195 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #193 Shropshire Slasher
We had a crate for her and I ended up returning it. She was traumatized when I got her from the pound and even just leaving the crate open with a bed and toys inside could not lure her in even to nap or get the toys out. The crate had a cover, in my head I thought she might like a little cave to chill in. Lol, Nope. I might need to get some sort of darker shades or curtains for our bedroom and hope that helps. She does need a quiet corner or something when this happens.
From Camping To Dining Out: Here’s How Experts Rate The Risks Of 14 Summer Activities
“We can think of transmission risk with a simple phrase: time, space, people, place,”
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
He knows he is a BIGLY LOSER
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The Democrats are trying to Rig the 2020 Election, plain and simple! https://t.co/jlDhzGRnqa
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
Trump is golfing today.
In 2014 on Fox and Friends he criticized Obama for golfing when there were *two cases* of Ebola in the United States saying, “it sends the wrong signal” and he should have given up golf as president “to really focus on the job.” https://t.co/br8jLwVLts pic.twitter.com/Jmh5CSt2mp— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) May 23, 2020
re: #202 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Explain Idaho and Nebraska
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Did this get posted? Those of you who moderate social and other media sites might want a heads-up…
PSA: 4chan is planning an attack on the LGBTQ+ community during pride month. They plan on spamming homophobic and transphobic propaganda on all social media sites constantly, in an effort to turn people into raging homophobes and transphobes. Be careful. pic.twitter.com/Krr0m40cot
— samantha✡️🏳️🌈🏴🚩 (@koshersemite) May 24, 2020
Also the Rs fear that absentee voting helps the Dems
Its probably not true this year because of the virus.
Whos most likely to absentee? Seniors.
Historically they skew R
Though they probably like Joe more than they did Hillary
re: #198 A Cranky One
What she needs to do is react to him and then apologize for every fart she doesn’t pass.
“OMG, That’s foul. I’m so sorry! What do you mean you can’t smell it???”
Morning Lizardim from the rainy and warm wild north country. I’m sick of the rain and ready for some actual sunshine, but it’s going to be some time before that happens. In the meantime, I am recovering from an extremely over-social weekend, and thankful for the holiday that I can use to be selfish. How go things among the lizardfolk on this summer-like spring day?
re: #199 A Mom Anon
We had a crate for her and I ended up returning it. She was traumatized when I got her from the pound and even just leaving the crate open with a bed and toys inside could not lure her in even to nap or get the toys out. The crate had a cover, in my head I thought she might like a little cave to chill in. Lol, Nope. I might need to get some sort of darker shades or curtains for our bedroom and hope that helps. She does need a quiet corner or something when this happens.
I had a dog like that. It took a long time to train him to it. Go in, get a treat (throw it in, let her go in and out, repeat). Then we got to closing the door and giving a shot of cheese wiz through the bars (quick in, squirt of wiz, out. Repeat). Then he’d eat in his crate. It took a month or so but it was worth it.
re: #207 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Also the Rs fear that absentee voting helps the Dems
Its probably not true this year because of the virus.Whos most likely to absentee? Seniors.
Historically they skew R
Though they probably like Joe more than they did Hillary
See, it’s not the seniors that they worry about. It’s that mail-in ballot voting gets around their usual trickery, such as shortening/ending early voting, reducing the number of polls and poll workers, voter ID laws, and blocking same-day registration efforts.
Basically the R’s know that mail in voting will likely increase turnout. And they know that the more people that vote generally speaking isn’t good for their party. That’s what happens when your party are the ideological heirs of the Wallace coalition.
I hope NC tells Trump to fuck off and take Coronapalooza somewhere else.
re: #179 Targetpractice
There’s no chance whatsoever that the Repubs will steal CA. Even if they forced it to be entirely in-person voting, there’s no way they could keep enough people home to swing the state to Donny.
No, the whole purpose of suing over mail-in ballots is to try to save the down-ballot races, the state and national races that could come down to hair-thin margins in red and purple districts where the party has been hemorrhaging votes for ages. They’re not afraid of losing races in Utah or other red states that have begun courting mail-in voting, which is why they’re not going after those states in the courts.
I still say the underlying reason is to avoid a paper trail, which would make the election difficult or impossible to steal.
(That said, “CA stolen election 2016” has been a RWNJ talking point since their shellacking that November.)
We have been trying to bear witness, every day.
But we can only scream and Tweet so loudly.
This is the raw pain of our reality:pic.twitter.com/JzxcHJKFuP https://t.co/u9iVVO2qTo— Craig Spencer MD MPH (@Craig_A_Spencer) May 25, 2020
Thread:
Yeah, that’s why we were all fucking crying on election night. https://t.co/8c9taXE7Oe
— ella dawson (@brosandprose) May 24, 2020
re: #179 Targetpractice
There’s no chance whatsoever that the Repubs will steal CA. Even if they forced it to be entirely in-person voting, there’s no way they could keep enough people home to swing the state to Donny.
No, the whole purpose of suing over mail-in ballots is to try to save the down-ballot races, the state and national races that could come down to hair-thin margins in red and purple districts where the party has been hemorrhaging votes for ages. They’re not afraid of losing races in Utah or other red states that have begun courting mail-in voting, which is why they’re not going after those states in the courts.
Probably right: it sounds more like Ronna McHack’s latest screed is just to get the GOP “on record” bitching about mail-in voting so as to provide a convenient excuse for a poor performance in November. And I am hoping “ poor” turns out to be a drastic understatement.
Also: does the RNC (or state parties) have a legal leg to stand on? I thought elections (Presidential and down-ballot) were run by each state: as long as the responsible state officials follow the rules in setting up an election-by-mail, what can they claim? Trump’s stupid gibberings notwithstanding…
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re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg
I hope NC tells Trump to fuck off and take Coronapalooza somewhere else.
re: #222 Jay C
Probably right: it sounds more like Ronna McHack’s latest screed is just to get the GOP “on record” bitching about mail-in voting so as to provide a convenient excuse for a poor performance in November. And I am hoping “ poor” turns out to be a drastic understatement.
Also: does the RNC (or state parties) have a legal leg to stand on? I thought elections (Presidential and down-ballot) were run by each state: as long as the responsible state officials follow the rules in setting up an election-by-mail, what can they claim? Trump’s stupid gibberings notwithstanding…
I can’t begin to guess at what they plan to argue in the courts. Perhaps they’ll just show they have no shame whatsoever and claim it will be discriminatory against Repub voters.
re: #172 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The second tweet in her thread:
Do you know what an inactive voter is? A voter.
The GOP’s idea that having not voted in a while means you can’t vote now is crap. If they are registered to vote, then they can vote.— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 25, 2020
re: #226 Belafon
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Ayep, that’s what scares the absolute fuck out of the Repubs: Millions of voters who can’t spare the time to make it to the polls being able to simply mail in their votes.
re: #228 Targetpractice
Ayep, that’s what scares the absolute fuck out of the Repubs: Millions of voters who can’t spare the time to make it to the polls being able to simply mail in their votes.
Yep. We really need to call out this hypocritical bullishit. Call it what it is, it’s anti American and Ronna and Donald both are that.
re: #227 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ronna really is pathetic.
True: hope she doesn’t throw a joint out by all that flailing.
I guessing California is likely to send out their mail-ballots to addresses they have on file from voter-registration rolls??. So “inactive” is irrelevant….*
* I know some states remove/require re-registration for inactive voters: not sure how CA deals with that. But if their current mail plan is keyed to the active registration list, then the GOP complaints are BS. But we knew that.
A certain point in episode 12 of the anime Dusk Maiden of Amnesia / 黄昏乙女×アムネジア / Tasogare Otome × Amunejia.
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) May 25, 2020
These lunatics r sadly insane. They repeat (ad nauseum) NEXT WEEK! week after week, after month, after year.
They think meaningless calculations & phrases are telling: 2 x eyes = ARREST (next week!).
They want order not chaos. I get it. I’d pity them if they weren’t dangerous.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
re: #231 Teukka
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I know it was historically inaccurate but damn.
re: #216 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I still say the underlying reason is to avoid a paper trail, which would make the election difficult or impossible to steal.
(That said, “CA stolen election 2016” has been a RWNJ talking point since their shellacking that November.)
The whole reason they’re doing this is that trump is going to lose in a landslide and they’re laying the groundwork that a loss of those proportions is impossible so the election was stolen.
re: #234 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The whole reason they’re doing this is that trump is going to lose in a landslide and they’re laying the groundwork that a loss of those proportions is impossible so the election was stolen.
Yep they’re trying to do preemptive conspiracy theories to explain Trump losing.
re: #231 Teukka
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re: #230 Jay C
True: hope she doesn’t throw a joint out by all that flailing.
I guessing California is likely to send out their mail-ballots to addresses they have on file from voter-registration rolls??. So “inactive” is irrelevant….*
* I know some states remove/require re-registration for inactive voters: not sure how CA deals with that. But if their current mail plan is keyed to the active registration list, then the GOP complaints are BS. But we knew that.
It used to be “failed to vote in last general election,” but it’s been a long time since I registered voters.
Greets and saluts on this memorial day. 2020 is unlike any other in my lifetime (or anyone else’s for that matter). We’re in uncharted waters.
And 100,000+ dead Americans from Trump’s fucked up covid19 response. His oath states he’s required to protect and defend the nation, and the only fucking thing he cares about his that people are mean to him because they point out his idiocy.
So now he’s out there golfing at his businesses. Profiting from every trip. He’s ignoring the death toll, and insisting we reopen for business. He’s threatening North Carolina to let him and the RNC hold their convention even as cases soar in the state. States reopening too fast and too soon are going to see cases rise, and even in places that were able to slow the cases are likely to see cases climb again.
re: #223 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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They are ok with 100,000 deaths due to a white man in the WH, but not ok getting healthcare for millions from a Black man in the WH
Uh, they didn’t use the word “black” when it came to Obama. They used a racial slur that began with the letter “N”…
imagine if you possibly can the unquantifiable personal sacrifice this man made in depriving himself of the grueling exercise sitting in a cart and foot wedging for three whole months https://t.co/IS6mDqMKgm
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 25, 2020
he’s gonna choose golf of course
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 25, 2020
Amusing that Trump is now threatening to pull the Republican National Convention from Charlotte.
Apparently, it was the only city that submitted a bid.
Good luck finding a new location with three months to go. https://t.co/Cgy7fs89ye— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) May 25, 2020
re: #226 Belafon
The second tweet in her thread:
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Ronna apparently has no clue as to how mail in voting works.
But there’s no difference between Democrats & Republicans according to today’s Progressives 🙄
I wonder if they understand the consequences of handing the US to rightwing conservatives judges yet? They will eventually https://t.co/PzvKhEUuxg— JAM (@Eviljohna) May 25, 2020
re: #242 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yep, trying to find a city to host a major political convention on such short notice would be difficult - if not outright impossible - even in the best of circumstances.
Now? LOL if Trump makes good on his threat in a fit of pique, I guess he’ll just have to forego his convention coronation. He can sulk, I suppose. Or maybe play some more golf.
Hey, there’s an idea - he can host a GOP mini-convention at Mar-a-Lago. 🤣
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
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re: #245 Dr Lizardo
Hey, there’s an idea - he can host a GOP mini-convention at Mar-a-Lago. 🤣
And you just KNOW that somehow, the government will end up paying for it….
re: #242 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I’m sure Donny thinks if he yanks the convention from Charlotte, there will be a slew of red state cities that will clamor and beg for him to bestow such an “honor” upon them with a 3 months deadline hanging over their heads.
So this is how Trump gets exercise. Digging divots on the green. And he gets back in the cart to go another 20’.
$100M in tax dollars going toward this shit? The grass divot went further than the ball! What a joke! Sad! pic.twitter.com/Le4MrGkDoR
— The Resistance 🇺🇸 (@NightlyPolitics) February 1, 2020
re: #223 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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Yes, the party is racist but let’s be fair here. They weren’t ok with any Democratic President getting healthcare for millions. Actually, the modern Republican Party is opposed to health care for all — is opposed to anything that helps anyone except the wealthy.
The Republican Party went crazy when Bill — a Southern white man — was elected president. Through their WSJ mouthpiece, they fabricated all types of charges against him and tried to bring him down for years. They believed then and they still believe today that only they are entitled to the presidency and they will do anything to retain it. Obama made the mistake of thinking that the Republican outrage was personal to the Clintons; he never understood that it was directed toward anyone who wasn’t Republican.
re: #249 Targetpractice
I’m sure Donny thinks if he yanks the convention from Charlotte, there will be a slew of red state cities that will clamor and beg for him to bestow such an “honor” upon them with a 3 months deadline hanging over their heads.
Thing is, they will. And there won’t be any safety measures taken re: COVID. I say let them.
re: #246 Targetpractice
Cosplay Socialists haven’t the first clue how the government actually works. Remember that they believe Bernie could just force through M4A by fiat and that would all that was necessary. That any opponents of the law would somehow be cowed into submission by protestors in the streets.
Civicz is hard.
re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter
Yes, the party is racist but let’s be fair here. They weren’t ok with any Democratic President getting healthcare for millions. Actually, the modern Republican Party is opposed to health care for all — is opposed to anything that helps anyone except the wealthy.
The Republican Party went crazy when Bill — a Southern white man — was elected president. Through their WSJ mouthpiece, they fabricated all types of charges against him and tried to bring him down for years. They believed then and they still believe today that only they are entitled to the presidency and they will do anything to retain it. Obama made the mistake of thinking that the Republican outrage was personal to the Clintons; he never understood that it was directed toward anyone who wasn’t Republican.
That’s what I’ve been saying all along. Any Dem would get the conservative “treatment”. Racism and sexism is just the icing on the conservative cake.
NYT reported last week the GOP was quietly considering a pared back convention despite public statements. And Trump wondered aloud if it could be in a FL hotel. https://t.co/iFroxl1XVQ
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) May 25, 2020
re: #252 GlutenFreeJesus
Thing is, they will. And there won’t be any safety measures taken re: COVID. I say let them.
I’m not so sure there will be. If he was making this threat 6 months ago or 12 months, then I’m sure there would be cities eager to jump at the chance.
But 3 months? Even if the country wasn’t dealing with a viral pandemic, that would be a tight shave. But in the midst of CV-19, that’s simply asking for a total clusterfuck to commence.
re: #255 jaunte
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Yeah, thinking he might try to hold it at Mar-a-Lago isn’t so much of a joke anymore.
Let me guess…his personal residence slash golf club slash disease vector Mar-a-Plagueo?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
re: #232 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I truly despise what the “Q” shit has done to my family.
Don’t know what fucked my family up more—Q, The Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine or Pulpit Pimping Preachers…
If any good comes of this pandemic, maybe it will be that we all realize what a colossal waste of time and money the national political conventions have become.
One night of televised speeches, maybe.
re: #257 Targetpractice
Yeah, thinking he might try to hold it at Mar-a-Lago isn’t so much of a joke anymore.
If he doesn’t get the whole circus, with fireeaters, swordswallowers, and elephants, it is primetime proof that he lost control to a bug.
re: #245 Dr Lizardo
Yep, trying to find a city to host a major political convention on such short notice would be difficult - if not outright impossible - even in the best of circumstances.
Now? LOL if Trump makes good on his threat in a fit of pique, I guess he’ll just have to forego his convention coronation. He can sulk, I suppose. Or maybe play some more golf.
Hey, there’s an idea - he can host a GOP mini-convention at Mar-a-Lago. 🤣
I’m surprised Branson didn’t bid for the Trump Überfest!
re: #260 Joe Bacon 🌹
I truly despise what the “Q” shit has done to my family.
Don’t know what fucked my family up more—Q, The Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine or Pulpit Pimping Preachers…
I despise the people that came up with Q, because once you have learned to analyze a story in a certain way, you come to realize it is SSDD, only refurbed and with a new snazzy paint job.
The Republican National Convention is going to comprise 50,000 invaders to some unlucky state, people who are bragging about managing their self-care stupidly and bringing trillions of copies of the virus with them. Any state would be smart to cancel it for them.
— JRehling (@JRehling) May 25, 2020
Florida Man Governor welcomes trillions of viruses.
re: #249 Targetpractice
I’m sure Donny thinks if he yanks the convention from Charlotte, there will be a slew of red state cities that will clamor and beg for him to bestow such an “honor” upon them with a 3 months deadline hanging over their heads.
Though he’s probably right: if the RNC in Charlotte doesn’t happen, every red-state burg with an arena bigger than a high-school gym will likely be clamoring for the “privilege” of hosting Dear Leader’s Coronation the Convention.
That this might cause *ahem* a few logistical problems - still less confront the issue of a contagious pandemic still likely to be raging in August - has probably not occurred to them….
Though, as an aside, I wonder if the negative economic effects of a cancelled Convention might not have negative (political) repercussions in Charlotte, and NC (since we KNOW who the Orange Asshole and the GOP will blame). I know the city is far from a backwater: but losing the business from a big political convention isn’t a trivial sum. Though in the Pandemic Year, who knows….?
re: #263 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m surprised Branson didn’t bid for the Trump Überfest!
Nuremberg, Pennsylvania, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 434 at the 2010 census.
re: #257 Targetpractice
Yeah, thinking he might try to hold it at Mar-a-Lago isn’t so much of a joke anymore.
GMTA.
excellent short video worth watching https://t.co/J3yJHG5m8Y
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 25, 2020
Transition to Greatness! https://t.co/McKbj5kRe9
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2020
RIP Skylar Herberthttps://t.co/nkCU57CPDI
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 25, 2020
Both Bidens wearing masks in Newcastle, Delaware. pic.twitter.com/2cntCl66Co
— Elizabeth West (@Limeylizzie) May 25, 2020
no masks
Pres Trump, VP Pence and SecDef Esper salute as Star Spangled Banner is played. pic.twitter.com/0yBiGQgq5M
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 25, 2020
Pres & Mrs Trump exit Oval Office and cross South Lawn to board Marine One for flight to Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Pres doesn’t stop for press Q&A.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 25, 2020
Holding hands, Pres & Mrs Trump cross South Lawn to board Marine One fr flight to Memorial Day ceremony at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. pic.twitter.com/pC7jxblwKn
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 25, 2020
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Note who pays REAL respect…and who is fucking off again…
One thing you can give Melania credit for, she is ace at walking across lawn wearing stiletto heels!
Here’s this week’s #FelineFineArt picture. Reply with your artistic take of it and I’ll share my favourites on Sunday in the National PAWtrait gallery… pic.twitter.com/N63x8ZyC7u
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 25, 2020
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How nice: they’re holding hands…🥰
Probably because he wants to make sure she doesn’t bolt?
re: #272 Backwoods_Sleuth
HOLY SHIT!
WE FINALLY FOUND Q!!!!!!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 25, 2020
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Oh, are we getting treated to a Memorial Day freakout…er, speech?
Disappointed to discover that it’s not only me allowed to spread shit all over the Downing Street garden…
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 25, 2020
re: #257 Targetpractice
Yeah, thinking he might try to hold it at Mar-a-Lago isn’t so much of a joke anymore.
They need a community that has sufficient hotels nearby to accommodate such a large gathering — and given the participants are Republicans, they probably are all eager to attend and flout any rules that might remain in place to protect against coronavirus. They clearly have no compunction about exposing the workers to this disease, especially given that they don’t care about their own personal health or that of their loved ones either.
re: #280 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #281 Jay C
How nice: they’re holding hands…🥰
Probably because he wants to make sure she doesn’t bolt?
I think it’s so that he won’t wonder off confused and muttering to himself.
re: #255 jaunte
A “Florida hotel”? Hmm…..wonder where that might be.
It’s fascinating and horrifying to watch the Trump cult relentlessly follow a path to more destruction and death that’s almost guaranteed to get it voted out of power, and yet it’s ideological commitment to freeedumb! renders it incapable of following any other course.
re: #288 Dr Lizardo
A “Florida hotel”? Hmm…..wonder where that might be.
O mighty Cthulhu if you could generate a Category 5 storm at a certain Presidential retreat while the GOP holds court there…
Karen is having a bad day:
I guess Mexican music is allowed only on Taco Tuesday for Karen ……#KarenStrikesAgain pic.twitter.com/eBBSj9sI6e
— SAVE LIVES ➡️ UBI NOW 😷 (@InsideASCIF) May 25, 2020
This is why it’s generally a bad idea to get drunk in public.
trump in 2017:
Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy.
re: #290 Joe Bacon 🌹
O mighty Cthulhu if you could generate a Category 5 storm at a certain Presidential retreat while the GOP holds court there…
You got any virginity left? ‘Cause that’s gonna cost ya.
re: #291 Targetpractice
Karen is having a bad day:
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This is why it’s generally a bad idea to get drunk in public.
How many Karens are really Qarens?
From the war memorials, to the battlefields, to the historic sites across the U.S., parks help preserve the stories and the memory of those who gave their lives in service to their country. Today and every day, #WeRemember them. #MemorialDay
Pictured: @GettysburgNMP pic.twitter.com/pHYy7VXrAf— National Parks Conservation Association (@NPCA) May 25, 2020
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
That was last month but it is very sad.
re: #261 i(m)p(each)sos
If any good comes of this pandemic, maybe it will be that we all realize what a colossal waste of time and money the national political conventions have become.
One night of televised speeches, maybe.
this was a sub-plot of a west wing episode
*heckles reporter* pic.twitter.com/7DoAVWqkxq
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) May 25, 2020
re: #265 jaunte
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The Republican National Convention is going to comprise 50,000 invaders to some unlucky state, people who are bragging about managing their self-care stupidly and bringing trillions of copies of the virus with them. Any state would be smart to cancel it for them.
— JRehling (@JRehling) May 25, 2020
taken from that NPR article referenced above about weddings can easily be applied to the convention:
“These types of events end up being large crowds where people are having extended face-to-face conversations.”
The larger the guest list, the greater the potential that one of them is infected, says Powers, the UNC epidemiologist.
The danger varies greatly depending on the size of the gathering and how closely people gather.
“Bringing people from other communities” is high risk, says Landon, of the University of Chicago. “If people have to travel by car, by plane, from other places, you’re really asking for it.”
And really think twice about inviting…particularly older …members or those with underlying conditions. People may feel pressure to attend, even though it’s hazardous to their health — and even more so if you emphasize that you’re going to try to make it safe, says Landon.
Dreaming of that perfect drum solo pic.twitter.com/RhzHfQoEuw
— Animal Life (@animalIife) May 22, 2020
re: #291 Targetpractice
Karen is having a bad day:
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I iz confused. We seem to be using the name Karen now for someone who used to be called Becky. Wasn’t Becky the term for someone who was offended by minorities engaging in legal activities? When did Becky morph into Karen?
re: #268 Jay C
Though he’s probably right: if the RNC in Charlotte doesn’t happen, every red-state burg with an arena bigger than a high-school gym will likely be clamoring for the “privilege” of hosting
Dear Leader’s Coronationthe Convention.That this might cause *ahem* a few logistical problems - still less confront the issue of a contagious pandemic still likely to be raging in August - has probably not occurred to them….
Though, as an aside, I wonder if the negative economic effects of a cancelled Convention might not have negative (political) repercussions in Charlotte, and NC (since we KNOW who the Orange Asshole and the GOP will blame). I know the city is far from a backwater: but losing the business from a big political convention isn’t a trivial sum. Though in the Pandemic Year, who knows….?
the convention was lost in March
just like sports, music, etc.
done. gone.
denying it, posturing like it’s still going to go on is just that - posturing
the question is whether it could be (safely) resurrected
Well, they hung a sign on him referencing an assassination, then marched to his house with guns. Seems clear their intention was to frighten and intimidate.
— Matthew Conrad (@themattatlex) May 25, 2020
re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth
no masks
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if he had merely worn one from the start with no comment, no one else would have thought up this nonsense
Remembering Uncle Ira: killed during WW2 when a Japanese plane crashed into the troopship USS Henrico April 2, 1945 #MemorialDay2020 pic.twitter.com/g5XdmUe8Eb
— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) May 25, 2020
re: #291 Targetpractice
Karen is having a bad day:
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someone needs to explain to Karen how, where, and by who(m) most ‘American’ music originated.
I guess Mexican music is allowed only on Taco Tuesday for Karen ……#KarenStrikesAgain pic.twitter.com/eBBSj9sI6e
— SAVE LIVES ➡️ UBI NOW 😷 (@InsideASCIF) May 25, 2020
re: #295 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hey I know where Trump can move the GOP Convention to…and let’s have X and the Utah Outcasts gang drop a hint where it would be!
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Good Dog, please don’t let them come to Kentucky!
re: #291 Targetpractice
Karen is having a bad day:
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This is why it’s generally a bad idea to get drunk in public.
Karen’s Gone Wild. 🤣🤣😭😭😭
re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter
I iz confused. We seem to be using the name Karen now for someone who used to be called Becky. Wasn’t Becky the term for someone who was offended by minorities engaging in legal activities? When did Becky morph into Karen?
Eh, best explanation I’ve ever seen is that a “Becky” is someone who’s clueless about their privilege and their prejudice, while a “Karen” is someone who’s aware of their privilege and chooses to weaponize it.
So yeah, in this particular situation, she’d be better labeled a “Becky.”
re: #310 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Good Dog, please don’t let them come to Kentucky!
does Florida have to do everything?
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
We’ll see. Not all the judges they chose are incompetent, even if they’re much more conservative than I’d like, and some of them have already failed to hold to the GOP line.
#MostUnmanlyPresident - A lard assed, man boobed, girdle wearing, 5X Cowardly DRAFT DODGER, with fake bone spurs, who rage tweets like a deranged teenager, has glued on clown hair, and sports Tammy Faye Baker makeup! pic.twitter.com/2xPUR1Tzrz
— MJ Anderson (@EndPayToPlay) May 25, 2020
re: #313 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
does Florida have to do everything?
Experience matters…
MAGA VIAGRA!
Lasts less than four hours. Won’t listen to doctors. https://t.co/y4RRX8OMBt— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 25, 2020
re: #312 Targetpractice
Eh, best explanation I’ve ever seen is that a “Becky” is someone who’s clueless about their privilege and their prejudice, while a “Karen” is someone who’s aware of their privilege and chooses to weaponize it.
So yeah, in this particular situation, she’d be better labeled a “Becky.”
I had thought of Becky as being a racist, while a Karen is entitled and privileged, thinking rules don’t apply to her. For example, Lori Loughlin would seem to be the epitome of a Karen.
On this Memorial Day, I think of the America so many fought and died for, and I recommit to honoring their valor and sacrifice by devoting my life to helping fellow Americans, promulgating our shared values, and strengthening our resolve to reclaim what America stands for.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 25, 2020
re: #319 Hecuba’s daughter
I had thought of Becky as being a racist, while a Karen is entitled and privileged, thinking rules don’t apply to her. For example, Lori Loughlin would seem to be the epitome of a Karen.
That Karen who parked her car in the middle of an intersection to go yell at a FedEx driver seemed to me the epitome of a Karen.
re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter
I iz confused. We seem to be using the name Karen now for someone who used to be called Becky. Wasn’t Becky the term for someone who was offended by minorities engaging in legal activities? When did Becky morph into Karen?
Let me give this a shot.
You’re right about Beckie. She’s the one who calls the cops on minorities for no reason other than to harass them.
Karen on the other hand, wants to complain to your manager/company because she wants something she feels entitled to and gets told no. She figures if she complains loud and long enough, she will get it.
re: #324 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
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Susan isn’t holding an AR-15?
I’m shocked…
Ivanka is a Becky.
Lara Leigh is a Karen.
re: #312 Targetpractice
Eh, best explanation I’ve ever seen is that a “Becky” is someone who’s clueless about their privilege and their prejudice, while a “Karen” is someone who’s aware of their privilege and chooses to weaponize it.
So yeah, in this particular situation, she’d be better labeled a “Becky.”
The difference I saw was that Karen’s get in your face while Becky’s call the police.
re: #313 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
does Florida have to do everything?
When it comes to having a superspreader event in the middle of a pandemic, Florida is welcome to it; I’m sure their Governor will welcome the GOP Convention with open arms.
My favorite Karens have that aggressive wedge haircut.
Inside every Karen is a soul that lusts to belong to Rupert’s Fox News Stable…
TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1977, the first Star Wars film was released in U.S. movie theaters. https://t.co/gPyEYVflZ4 pic.twitter.com/N19zMRWGCY
— ABC News (@ABC) May 25, 2020
re: #260 Joe Bacon 🌹
I truly despise what the “Q” shit has done to my family.
Don’t know what fucked my family up more—Q, The Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine or Pulpit Pimping Preachers…
I’m sorry that happened to you.
Religious cults tend to do that, whether it’s Q, Republicans, or churches.
When it’s only one cultist, the cultist will disown everyone (like Scientologists) unless they can convert others.
Q is very much like the birth of a new religion, with the Internet replacing the traditional holy book. New religions attract zealots.
My mother is nearly eighty. It seems unlikely she will live more than ten years, and when she dies I will be left entirely out of my family thanks to churches. One by one they all disowned me, starting with my ex-wife and ending with my son.
I’ve found family to be those who care about you rather than to whom you are related. People here are more like family.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
So, I was planning on experimenting on making some Navajo flatbread…got all the ingredients together and then suddenly realized that I don’t have a rolling pin, LOL. I’ll find a cheap one at the little Vietnamese shop down the street. Guess I’ll go pick one up tomorrow - it’s a day off.
Got a wine bottle?
re: #331 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
Saw it opening day… It was for my 13th Birthday Party..
I still remember just how exciting it was at that age.
re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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If I take a bath the cats are all about the tub as it fills as well. Just curious about the large amount of water being collected. And a few of them will also do the paw dip thing as well. None have slipped in yet.
re: #331 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I remember when Star Wars was released in 1977 and the movie reviewer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette said it was a homage to the Saturday Matinee Serials that kids flocked to see in the 30s and 40s…and it really wasn’t anything special…yet the original ran at the same theater in Pittsburgh for two years…and I remember the LONG LONG lines going down the block waiting to see it!
re: #333 A Cranky One
I’d like to pay my deepest respects to all those whose sacrifices and service to our country should be acknowledged today. The many who selflessly gave for our benefit and the families whose sacrifice is often overlooked.
I miss my dad.
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That appears to be an impressive collection of decorations: can you interpret them for us (I recognize the Vietnam medal, and the Legion of Merit (!), but not the rest)?
re: #326 The Pie Overlord!
Ivanka is a Becky.
Lara Leigh is a Karen.
Ivanka seems like a Karen to me — entitled, privileged, with the belief that no one else matters.
Who is Lara Leigh?
re: #331 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1977, the first Star Wars film was released in U.S. movie theaters. https://t.co/gPyEYVflZ4 pic.twitter.com/N19zMRWGCY
— ABC News (@ABC) May 25, 2020
thus making danish a hair style
re: #332 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m sorry that happened to you.
Religious cults tend to do that, whether it’s Q, Republicans, or churches.
When it’s only one cultist, the cultist will disown everyone (like Scientologists) unless they can convert others.
Q is very much like the birth of a new religion, with the Internet replacing the traditional holy book. New religions attract zealots.
My mother is nearly eighty. It seems unlikely she will live more than ten years, and when she dies I will be left entirely out of my family thanks to churches. One by one they all disowned me, starting with my ex-wife and ending with my son.
I’ve found family to be those who care about you rather than to whom you are related. People here are more like family.
+1
re: #333 A Cranky One
I’d like to pay my deepest respects to all those whose sacrifices and service to our country should be acknowledged today. The many who selflessly gave for our benefit and the families whose sacrifice is often overlooked.
I miss my dad.
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Bless your heart.
This is a hard day to always get through because of the burning hatred I have for Dumbya and the thugs who lied us into a useless war. And for that I got a consolation prize which I threw in the trash and never wanted anything more to do with it…
re: #336 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If I take a bath the cats are all about the tub as it fills as well. Just curious about the large amount of water being collected. And a few of them will also do the paw dip thing as well. None have slipped in yet.
Many moons ago, I lived in a house with an old claw-foot bathtub: and every time I or my housemates would take a bath, one of our cats (a tiny black alley Persian) would jump up on the toilet, carefully step onto the rim of the tub, and tidily pace back and forth, back and forth, carefully turning around when she reached the faucets. Only that cat, and only when there was a human in the tub. And never fell in, thank Bast: the little darling had extremely sharp claws…..
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
So, I was planning on experimenting on making some Navajo flatbread…got all the ingredients together and then suddenly realized that I don’t have a rolling pin, LOL. I’ll find a cheap one at the little Vietnamese shop down the street. Guess I’ll go pick one up tomorrow - it’s a day off.
i had no trouble just using the heel of my hand
flour the board/counter and well flour your hand too.
piece of cake, er bread
re: #333 A Cranky One
I’d like to pay my deepest respects to all those whose sacrifices and service to our country should be acknowledged today. The many who selflessly gave for our benefit and the families whose sacrifice is often overlooked.
I miss my dad.
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Both my parents served in WW2 and we miss them. Mom was the only woman in the family who joined the military; she was stationed in Europe, but the men in the family served in Europe, the Philippines, North Africa, and in the CBI theater (my dad).
re: #249 Targetpractice
I’m sure Donny thinks if he yanks the convention from Charlotte, there will be a slew of red state cities that will clamor and beg for him to bestow such an “honor” upon them with a 3 months deadline hanging over their heads.
Or… he forces it to one of his properties as an extremis emergency. Would still be a massive disaster of an event, but DT gets paid!
He can’t get even a Memorial Day greeting right. It’s a day dedicated to honoring and mourning the nation’s war dead. There’s nothing happy about it.
Among his other ample flaws, the guy is simply a dope. https://t.co/SEQaVEg0H4— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) May 25, 2020
I certainly remember the original Star Wars film. I remember it because my dad gave me quite possibly the best birthday present ever.
He took me to the second opening at Mann’s Chinese Theater on August 3rd, 1977 (my birthday). My dad knew a few people at Mann’s and scored us tickets. And I got to see C3PO, R2-D2 and Darth Vader place their footprints in the cement in the forecourt.
So that was my eighth birthday present.
re: #336 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If I take a bath the cats are all about the tub as it fills as well. Just curious about the large amount of water being collected. And a few of them will also do the paw dip thing as well. None have slipped in yet.
it’s not fun if they slip after you’ve already settled into the tub
re: #348 Dread Pirate
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to him it’s a holiday
golf, partying, barbecue, whatever
a day off
(from what, i have no idea. it’s not like he works)
golf, partying, barbecue, whatever
he probably had no idea what it was and that there was one last year….until someone explained it to him this morning.
He can’t get even a Memorial Day greeting right. It’s a day dedicated to honoring and mourning the nation’s war dead. There’s nothing happy about it.
Among his other ample flaws, the guy is simply a dope. https://t.co/SEQaVEg0H4— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) May 25, 2020
re: #339 Hecuba’s daughter
Ivanka seems like a Karen to me — entitled, privileged, with the belief that no one else matters.
Who is Lara Leigh?
Mrs. Eric Trump, the one who is always complaining about how much she “sacrifices” and “nobody appreciates”
re: #353 The Pie Overlord!
Mrs. Eric Trump, the one who is always complaining about how much she “sacrifices” and “nobody appreciates”
Yep. Karen to the core kore……
If you blinked, you missed the Stonekettle pen sale. Gone in 60 seconds!
Yeah. Wow. I didn’t expect them to go so fast.
We’re working on making more. https://t.co/0ZZ9yHpiYG— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2020
CNN headline. Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina
Wish his father had pulled out.
re: #355 The Pie Overlord!
If you blinked, you missed the Stonekettle pen sale. Gone in 60 seconds!
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At only 5 years old, we’re pretty young for a rocket company. But as we matured, we’ve pursued three difficult tasks in parallel: establishing a high-rate production capability, commissioning our flying launch pad, and proving out our launch system.
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s not fun if they slip after you’ve already settled into the tub
I got worried the one day when one of the cats got bold and walked from tub rim onto my chest in order to more closely sniff the water surface.
LOOK AT ME ME ME ME ME!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
re: #338 Jay C
That appears to be an impressive collection of decorations: can you interpret them for us (I recognize the Vietnam medal, and the Legion of Merit (!), but not the rest.)
Bronze Star, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster (LoM was awarded twice), Meritorious Service, Vietnam Service, Air Force Commendation (twice), National Defense Service, Rebublic of Vietnam Campaign, American Campaign, not sure of the last one.
Edit to fix typo.
Thread. With receipts.
Y’all, I was not prepared to do this much research this morning, but you know me. The man who hung the effigy of our governor is Terry Bush, President of KY 3%. From video. From his FB page on the right. The tattoo provides the first ID. #TeamKentucky pic.twitter.com/AzQ2Wugp6j
— Patti M Piatt #OneFamily (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2020
re: #333 A Cranky One
I’d like to pay my deepest respects to all those whose sacrifices and service to our country should be acknowledged today. The many who selflessly gave for our benefit and the families whose sacrifice is often overlooked.
I miss my dad.
I am so sorry for your loss.
(goes to Navy Together We Served, my father’s on-line shadowbox)
As an incompetent president pretends to honor Memorial Day, veterans are dying from a crisis of his making. https://t.co/2kAbl0VpiV
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 25, 2020
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Now call out @SavannahLMaddox
— Paula Marie (@PaulaEquine) May 25, 2020
Hey Bill, what kind of gun is he holding and how much do you suppose one like that costs?
— Patti M Piatt #OneFamily (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2020
JUST IN: World Health Organization says it is pausing its study on the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as part of its research into COVID-19 treatments. https://t.co/FgUj3Ue01h pic.twitter.com/y4figDEkVN
— ABC News (@ABC) May 25, 2020
“… 12:50 p.m.: WHO suspends hydroxychloroquine study
The World Health Organization said it would pause its study on the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as part of its ongoing research into COVID-19 treatments.The move comes after a study was published in medical journal The Lancet that found coronavirus patients who took the drug were more likely to die or develop irregular heart rhythms. WHO said its executive group of the Solidarity Trial is reviewing data on its research into the drug while the pause goes into effect.
“The other arms of the trial are continuing,” Dr. Samba Sow, director general of the Center for Vaccine Development in Mali, said at a news conference. “This concern relates to the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloraquine in COVID-19.” …”
KY 3% sounds like low calorie lube
— 😷 jeff blazos💀 (@syko1969) May 25, 2020
re: #337 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember when Star Wars was released in 1977 and the movie reviewer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette said it was a homage to the Saturday Matinee Serials that kids flocked to see in the 30s and 40s…and it really wasn’t anything special…yet the original ran at the same theater in Pittsburgh for two years…and I remember the LONG LONG lines going down the block waiting to see it!
My mother dragged me, my sister, and my cousins to the opening day showing in Alma, Mich. (strangely on the same day as major cities). My mother is a big sci-fi buff.
re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth
Pulled from the market due to studies showing that it caused shrinkage and the need to call upon substitute artificial appendages.
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Medical lab tech Katie Corley coughed on two petri dishes, one while wearing a mask, and one without a mask. (From her public FB post.) pic.twitter.com/Ez65r2lE2r
— Sophie Rapp (@SophieSRapp) May 25, 2020
Got tested today. Getting tested helps capture this moment in time so we can catch asymptomatic pockets & learn the overall infection rate. @StElizabethNKY drive through was great. Call to schedule yours today,[no phone numbers allowed] #teamkentucky #togetherky #healthyathome #healthyatwork pic.twitter.com/sb5BVjWBYU
— Representative Rachel Roberts (@Rachel4KY) May 22, 2020
re: #358 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I scored a couple.
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How much are they of I might ask?
Daines in Montana must be desperate. I commented a few days back about a Lindsey Graham video espousing him turning up on YouTube. Now just got one featuring Ted Cruz.
Secretly wonder if this is a very subtle anti-Daines campaign.
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Steph the Outraged Snowflake:
This is what the media has done to our communities. https://t.co/b7rZaDmsrz
— Steph (@steph93065) May 25, 2020
re: #368 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
President Trump says he’s no longer taking hydroxychloroquine. https://t.co/TjnrSJqgpi
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) May 25, 2020
re: #373 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How much are they of I might ask?
The skull pen was $120.00 and the Pink Ivory was $35.00
It’ll be awhile before I buy another pen or two.
wut pic.twitter.com/fIgAsm3dpW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 25, 2020
That could be a degree from Trump University to facilitate messing with the election. How prescient!
— Alison Birgel (@AlisonBirgel) May 25, 2020
The president honors Memorial Day by using his platform to promote a business he still owns and profits from pic.twitter.com/by0U5l2KY4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 25, 2020
I am making this for Shavuot.
Recipe of the Day: Cheesecake Tart with Berries 🍰
Save the recipe on your @fnkitchen app today: https://t.co/gZu2DPhpjo! #WeCook pic.twitter.com/qwMiQewvHg— Food Network (@FoodNetwork) May 25, 2020
I’m old enough to remember when 80% sports media labeled Justin Rohrwasser’s Three-Percenter tattoo as “controversial”. https://t.co/N8Bv2zjQfg
— ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) May 25, 2020
re: #380 The Pie Overlord!
I am making this for Shavuot.
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Oh that looks beautiful!
Now I’m thinking of the time when a coworker brought a Sanders Bumpy Cake to work…so sinfully delicious…
Trump seemed to have significant trouble balancing as he approached the wreath today at Arlington Cemetery. pic.twitter.com/p6DHKC5Uqd
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 25, 2020
On #MemorialDay, we honor the lives of those lost in service to our Nation, and remember the families that grieve them. Today and everyday, it is our duty to live lives worthy of their ultimate sacrifice. https://t.co/PSfQBrRTv9
— Dr. Jill Biden (@DrBiden) May 25, 2020
On my dog walk today I noticed a car with a kind of trifecta of derp car magnet: it was a cross (crucifix) in camo with the image of a waving flag faintly visible overlain.
re: #368 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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— ABC News (@ABC) May 25, 2020
we regret we were forced to spend any time and resources on this dumbassery
It’s kind of weird how many accounts that have blocked me on Twitter are now being retweeted by the President of the United States.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 25, 2020
As soon as I saw the tweet about the convention I thought he was trying to make a play to hold it at one of his properties.
Well yeah. Ever since they renamed it Imbecilian.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
re: #372 Dread Pirate
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‘we’ already know this
you cannot convince ‘them’ that wearing a mask is prudent
Medical lab tech Katie Corley coughed on two petri dishes, one while wearing a mask, and one without a mask. (From her public FB post.) pic.twitter.com/Ez65r2lE2r
— Sophie Rapp (@SophieSRapp) May 25, 2020
re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steph the Outraged Snowflake:
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how has ‘the media’ done this?
This is what the media has done to our communities. https://t.co/b7rZaDmsrz
— Steph (@steph93065) May 25, 2020
Why is Allah everywhere & Hashem is everywhere but Jesus is only in church?
EID MUBARAK: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mosque in Mecca was almost empty during annual Eid al-Fitr prayers on Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic. pic.twitter.com/58aDyqqAI4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 25, 2020
Germany, 1934. https://t.co/2WaTDiqsPR
— Tom Brennan (@Brennanator) May 25, 2020
Carrier plane takeoff - 2:50 PM EDT; 1:50 PM CDT; 12:50 PM MDT
Launch - 3:40 PM EDT; 2:40 PM CDT; 1:40 PM MDT
Cosmic Girl takeoff has been pushed until 11:50 AM PDT (18:50 UTC), which corresponds to a launch target of 12:40 PM PDT (19:40 UTC). https://t.co/OGvTpUH2Dk
— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) May 25, 2020
There was no special presentation today at Rose Hill Cemetery due to the epidemic. In a town comprised of so many veterans and family members of military personnel, that hurt deeply here.
It’s noon in the Old West. It’s time for me to go out and raise the village flags. Back in a bit.
re: #394 The Pie Overlord!
Why is Allah everywhere & Hashem is everywhere but Jesus is only in church?
Because too many of us mistake the coffee hour of gossip afterwards for the worship and ignore His actual teachings.
UPDATE: LOX loading is now complete. We’re proceeding smoothly through our countdown and are currently on track for our target takeoff time of approximately 11:40 AM Pacific.
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
re: #268 Jay C
Though he’s probably right: if the RNC in Charlotte doesn’t happen, every red-state burg with an arena bigger than a high-school gym will likely be clamoring for the “privilege” of hosting
Dear Leader’s Coronationthe Convention.That this might cause *ahem* a few logistical problems - still less confront the issue of a contagious pandemic still likely to be raging in August - has probably not occurred to them….
Though, as an aside, I wonder if the negative economic effects of a cancelled Convention might not have negative (political) repercussions in Charlotte, and NC (since we KNOW who the Orange Asshole and the GOP will blame). I know the city is far from a backwater: but losing the business from a big political convention isn’t a trivial sum. Though in the Pandemic Year, who knows….?
I nominate Lubbock. It has the enormous United Supermarket Arena (no, that’s really the name) which is seriously under-utilized outside basketball season, as well as an airport, plenty of churches and roughly the same number of bars (@220 of each) as well as good medical facilities and a MAGA-friendly populace and media
re: #394 The Pie Overlord!
Why is Allah everywhere & Hashem is everywhere but Jesus is only in church?
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Pulpit Pimps need to fill up the collection plates to make their monthly mortgage payments!
re: #402 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Bonus! It’s named for a traitor.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #384 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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My favored Memorial Day image to post. (Put it up on Facebook earlier.)
From the cemetery at Coleville-de-sur right above Omaha Beach in Normandy.
Pictures don’t do it justice. Seeing the rows upon rows in person makes it more real. And tragic.
Hey folks for those that love the Tower and it’s magnificent ravens you can follow my private pages on FB @chrisskaife or instagram under Ravenology. Twitter I’m done #bekind and #staysafe pic.twitter.com/tJ4uOhK4St
— Chris Skaife (@ravenmaster1) May 25, 2020
re: #268 Jay C
I can tell you one red state city that likely will not be bidding—Phoenix. It’s too damned hot and the majority of the leadership is Democratic. *Possibly* Glendale (home of Cardinals stadium) might bid, but I’m telling you, bringing 50,000 people here in the middle of August, when the *low* temperature hovers around 88F/31C and no hotel within reasonable walking distance of Cardinal stadium in 100F+ heat, it ain’t happening.
On the other hand, the heat would keep picketers away. Not everyone is as stupid as me to go picketing when it’s 110F outside, but even I wouldn’t drive 45 miles away to picket Trump. He’s not worth my time.
re: #269 Decatur Deb
Nuremberg, Pennsylvania, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Schuylkill and Luzerne counties, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 434 at the 2010 census.
Or as we would call that in my town, “the big city.”
More on my brother paratroopers deathhttps://t.co/HbwUHQGDfK
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
The RNC should see if Altamont is available.
re: #412 Barefoot Grin
The RNC should see if Altamont is available.
Let them congregate in the various cheesy theaters Branson has!
BREAKING: Federal court finds that SC’s requirement that voters (including elderly and those with underlying conditions) have another person “witness” their absentee ballots unconstitutionally burdens their right to vote by putting them at greater risk of illness from COVID-19. https://t.co/yBPekTEpTB
— Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux (@acepedaderieux) May 25, 2020
‘Chuck’ joined us in the 82nd Pathfinders as young PFC right out of Benning
Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Wesley C. Fortenberry - Honor the Fallen - https://t.co/ndIZBNNQWf https://t.co/37vslP1Ovj— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
re: #412 Barefoot Grin
The RNC should see if Altamont is available.
The Altamont speedway? Please no. I mean, it’s in the Bay Area exurbs and barely a mile from a district that just went blue this cycle, so Donnie can get some vanity points for holding his ralley in the midst of his enemies, but surely there are places which are more deserving of the Grace of His Presence.
re: #404 jaunte
Bonus! It’s named for a traitor.
en.wikipedia.org
Excellent point. Before his brief career as a Civil War bushwhacker, Tom Lubbock was a “most zealous and ardent” supporter. of something called the Knights of the Golden Circle. This was a secret society that wanted to conquer all the lands around the Caribbean (the eponymous “Golden circle”) and carve them up into new slave states. This would have meant re-instituting slavery in areas where it had been abolished decades earlier. The Knights figure in old West lore about hidden treasure and such. They also bequeathed some of their nomenclature and quite a few of their surviving members to the later Ku Klux Klan.
re: #417 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That is new to me; thank you. Not surprising, of course!
re: #312 Targetpractice
Eh, best explanation I’ve ever seen is that a “Becky” is someone who’s clueless about their privilege and their prejudice, while a “Karen” is someone who’s aware of their privilege and chooses to weaponize it.
So yeah, in this particular situation, she’d be better labeled a “Becky.”
From “Bar-b-que Becky” (the original), who called the cops on an African-American family in Oakland for making bar-b-que in a city park, which all sorts of people do.
July 1990
SFC John R. Duryea, 10th SFG served with me in the 82nd Pathfinders
MSG Mark R. Larochelle was one of out SpecOps O/Cs at the JRTC
CPT Gregory W. Sandborn, 1st SFG, was an augmentee O/C. I helped train him up the previews rotation
https://t.co/t9lTf0PIig— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
Here’s another angle, that also shows a large number of people close together with no masks:
pic.twitter.com/xLcSAZd1Ob— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 25, 2020
Just going to sit back and watch:
I will be reaching out to head of twitter about their policies being violated every day by President Tump. Hope my call is taken. Please retweet if you agree
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) May 20, 2020
re: #370 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My mother dragged me, my sister, and my cousins to the opening day showing in Alma, Mich. (strangely on the same day as major cities). My mother is a big sci-fi buff.
My younger sister dragged me to see it the first weekend. I had no idea what the film was about but there were a lot of people in line. It was OK, I guess, but not life-changing. OTOH, I did watch The Empire Strikes Back 65 times the summer it came out. You can tell where my heart is.
re: #414 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Tweeps. This perfectly calculated Bobcat jump.🤩 pic.twitter.com/hPb8YicrmG
— 🌎CKS 🌌💕 (@SchaffnerCk) May 25, 2020
Bobcats, bruh. Majestic leapers… pic.twitter.com/8qQMSR8oNl
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 25, 2020
re: #398 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There was no special presentation today at Rose Hill Cemetery due to the epidemic. In a town comprised of so many veterans and family members of military personnel, that hurt deeply here.
It’s noon in the Old West. It’s time for me to go out and raise the village flags. Back in a bit.
Hey, speaking of flags, did Trump ever issue a proclamation for lowering the flags to half-mast for coronavirus victims, or was that just the usual lies?
Found an old image in my folders. It’s probably between 10 and 15 years old, I’d guess. A Russian made Kiev 4a camera was my ax at the time. It was the prewar Zeiss Jena Contax II that had been taken over by the Soviets as war reparations. I had a prewar Zeiss made lens at the time that I loved. One of my favorite pastimes is to go driving until I see an image. This was one of them.
re: #423 mmmirele
Like you, The Empire Strikes Back was my favorite Star Wars film, but then I’m a Trekkie and not a real Star Wars fan.
Dad and I went to see Star Wars in July of 1977. I sure remember how Dad was impressed with the flying sequences. He said that it reminded him of Howard Hughes “Hell’s Angels” and those Republic serials he loved as a kid.
My nephews got obsessed with it, they went to see it dozens of times. Me? I had no interest in any of the sequels. When I was a kid I was fascinated by Star Trek and Irwin Allen’s 60’s shows but I grew out of it. Now I look at Star Trek and realize just how cheesy the effects were ESPECIALLY in Irwin Allen’s shows…
However I’m still fascinated with Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff’s Thriller and the original Outer Limits. Maybe it’s because they’re in black and white but the scripts hold my attention.
I remember how sad I was when Serling passed away. One hell of a writer. Always wondered what he would have been able to create if he had not smoked so much…
re: #424 BeachDem
I think I’ll still get mine witnessed—better safe than not counted.
In Arizona, if you fill out the ballot yourself, all you do is sign, date and put your phone number on the front of the envelope. If you help someone vote, there is a place on the envelope where you attest to that, but you also have to get the person you’re helping to vote to sign the envelope as well. My mother can’t see that well, so the last time I helped her vote, I put her pen on the X and told her to just sign away. Her signature was all over the place.
re: #431 mmmirele
In Minnesota, all mail-in ballots have to be signed and witnessed by another registered Minnesota voter, but it is enough to have them witnessed by someone in your home. They don’t have to be notarized or anything crazy like that. My wife and I could witness each other’s ballots and be done with it.
June 1996
Yet another of former member of the 82nd Pathfinders, 1SG (SFC) John Harrison killed in the crash.
We even completed Air Assault School together at Campbell, me the class 1SG, him one of the platoon sergeantshttps://t.co/R007HhycQj— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
I was clearing Ft. Campbell, heading to an assignment at the Ranger School at Ft. Benning, when the crash occurred, and wasn’t able to attend the memorial.
News coverage and video of the crash
During the same time period another fellow Pathfinder, SFC Albert SImon, then with the Ranger Regimental Reconnaissance Detachment, killed himself and his wife.
I learned of his death as I was in-processing at Benning a month later
The thing that impressed me about the original Star Wars was the used, scruffy, lived in look of the sets and props. This was a welcome change from the extreme, and rather implausible, sterility that had become a convention in movie and TV SF.
Confirming a smooth takeoff! Cosmic Girl is officially airborne for our first attempt at an orbital launch demo.
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
You can tell the people who dismiss COVID’s estimated 1% overall fatality rate as no big deal never played much D&D, because that shit procs more than you think. They’re also ignoring the percentage of people who will survive with debilitating organ damage.
Again, no imagination— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 25, 2020
He may need to stop popping those chloroquine pills.
No, wait, scratch that. Up the dosage. https://t.co/5UzjO07HGW— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2020
re: #435 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The thing that impressed me about the original Star Wars was the used, scruffy, lived in look of the sets and props. This was a welcome change from the extreme, and rather implausible, sterility that had become a convention in movie and TV SF.
Right. I hadn’t thought about it before but that simple change made it much more accessible
re: #437 goddamnedfrank
I can’t get over how people don’t get that “novel virus” means we do not know what it does to your entire body and therefore there are risks beyond respiratory problems and death.
I mean, we’re beginning to get a picture and it’s not pretty.
Then again, the people unmoved by death because they see the movement of the virus as meaningful—that people live or die for reasons, even though plague is just a random walk through a population—probably are going to be indifferent to the idea of millions of maimed people, too.
re: #437 goddamnedfrank
And the local county numbers, if you took them as fully accurate are inflicting a 10% fatality rate. Which means that it’s a lot more deadly than the flu and/or the number of actual infection cases is still being seriously uncounted and undetected.
re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth
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not my first rodeo
Tweeps. This perfectly calculated Bobcat jump.🤩 pic.twitter.com/hPb8YicrmG
— 🌎CKS 🌌💕 (@SchaffnerCk) May 25, 2020
After the Democrats win back the White House, retake the Senate and increase our House majority in November, our country can finally begin to #RebuildWithBiden. pic.twitter.com/YXBflYYgvK
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) May 21, 2020
re: #431 mmmirele
In Arizona, if you fill out the ballot yourself, all you do is sign, date and put your phone number on the front of the envelope. If you help someone vote, there is a place on the envelope where you attest to that, but you also have to get the person you’re helping to vote to sign the envelope as well. My mother can’t see that well, so the last time I helped her vote, I put her pen on the X and told her to just sign away. Her signature was all over the place.
Ours has the signature/witness stuff on the return envelope and a separate form for
“Authorization to return absentee ballot” by someone else, which sounds similar to your helping someone vote.
That light at the end of the tunnel is an approaching train. https://t.co/2AyWG4Fwd2
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2020
Pretty soon I’ll be done watching all the shows. Let me know if you wanna buy my tv.
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May 25, 2020
You hurt me
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) May 25, 2020
Who wore it better? pic.twitter.com/M5drEaU8wQ
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 25, 2020
thegreatpoolpondconversion - 200524 edition ———————————>
“Rock (W)ranglers”
re: #442 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And the local county numbers, if you took them as fully accurate are inflicting a 10% fatality rate. Which means that it’s a lot more deadly than the flu and/or the number of actual infection cases is still being seriously uncounted and undetected.
It is more deadly than the flu but it’s also being significantly undercounted since those who are asymptomatic or have mild cases are generally not tested. It would not be surprising if the total case number is at least 5 to 10 times the reported number in this country. As measured by worldometer, Diamond Princess would seem to be the best case study — and, with an older than average population, its death rate to date is less than 2%, with only 4 of the unresolved cases in serious condition.
re: #435 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The thing that impressed me about the original Star Wars was the used, scruffy, lived in look of the sets and props. This was a welcome change from the extreme, and rather implausible, sterility that had become a convention in movie and TV SF.
1972’s Silent Running probably gave Lucas some inspiration for that look. I appreciated that in Star Wars as well - it showed us a “lived-in” universe and came across as more authentic and realistic. And as I got older, I came to appreciate that the original trilogy starts in media res.
Long weekend, feeling exhausted from trying to prevent family members from Doing Epically Stupid Stuff, but I had time to find this gem, from the growing feud between Scarborough & Trump,
Apparently, Ted Cruz has jumped in, pointing out the inconvenient truth that back in 2016, Morning Joe gave Drumpf billions in free airtime:
“Joe, you chased after Trump for 2 years like a teenage girl throwing her panties at the latest boy band; now you pretend to be this indignant paragon of virtue outraged at everything he says & does. All to get invited to DC cocktail parties & thrill the 13 people watching MSNBC,” Cruz tweeted.
re: #452 Dr Lizardo
1972’s Silent Running probably gave Lucas some inspiration for that look. I appreciated that in Star Wars as well - it showed us a “lived-in” universe and came across as more authentic and realistic. And as I got older, I came to appreciate that the original trilogy starts in media res.
Recently watched Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker, on Disney+
Just incomprehensibly bad. Illogical. Stupid.
Made Transformers movies look well-thought-out, with clever dialogue.
re: #452 Dr Lizardo
1972’s Silent Running probably gave Lucas some inspiration for that look. I appreciated that in Star Wars as well - it showed us a “lived-in” universe and came across as more authentic and realistic. And as I got older, I came to appreciate that the original trilogy starts in media res.
I dearly loved how Rouge One had the brass ones to slot straight into that beginning with them holding off Vader and the rest of the Empire just long enough to set that up.
re: #451 Hecuba’s daughter
It is more deadly than the flu but it’s also being significantly undercounted since those who are asymptomatic or have mild cases are generally not tested. It would not be surprising if the total case number is at least 5 to 10 times the reported number in this country. As measured by worldometer, Diamond Princess would seem to be the best case study — and, with an older than average population, its death rate to date is less than 2%, with only 4 of the unresolved cases in serious condition.
I think that the best data we have is data from South Korea and NYC. Antibody tests suggest that around 20% of NYC residents have had COVID19, and a bit over .25% of NYC population died; extrapolating from this gets up to around a 1.25% mortality rate. Maybe a bit higher since deaths probably lag a bit more than antibodies.
South Korea did extensive initial contact tracing and testing. They should have far fewer unknown cases than other countries. They’re showing a 2.38% death rate overall, with the vast majority in those over over 50.
Assuming that hospitals don’t become overwhelmed, I would wager good money that the overall mortality rate will be between 1.2 and 2%; skewed very heavily to those over 50.
According to South Korea’s data, those over 70 have a 10%+ IFR
Welp.
We’re now “human capital stock.” https://t.co/cPuZbW5C24— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 25, 2020
re: #456 William Lewis
I dearly loved how Rouge One had the brass ones to slot straight into that beginning with them holding off Vader and the rest of the Empire just long enough to set that up.
Of the recent Star Wars films, Rouge One is my favorite. Also - had the sheer cojones to kill off the heroes. And that final confrontation with Vader? Hot damn, that was the Darth Vader each and every one of us imagined as a kid when we saw the original trilogy, the Sith Lord at his peak.
re: #455 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Recently watched Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker, on Disney+
Just incomprehensibly bad. Illogical. Stupid.
Made Transformers movies look well-thought-out, with clever dialogue.
Too many cooks, yada yada, and Disney being Disney and getting cold feet about the heroes being nobodies. The last scene of her taking the Skywalker name would have meant more to me if she had no connection at all to anyone before.
I still think the best moment in the third trilogy is when the kid uses the force to pick up his broom.
(The unshot draft that everyone is commenting on and many praising of late sounded even worse to me. Ugh.)
re: #459 Dr Lizardo
Of the recent Star Wars films, Rouge One is my favorite. Also - had the sheer cojones to kill off the heroes. And that final confrontation with Vader? Hot damn, that was the Darth Vader each and every one of us imagined as a kid when we saw the original trilogy, the Sith Lord at his peak.
Rogue One was good. I disliked The Phantom Menace and thought that The Last Jedi was the worst one up to that point. Haven’t bothered to watch Solo or Rise of the Skywalker and probably never will; The Last Jedi left that much of a bad taste in my mouth.
re: #455 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
Made Transformers movies look well-thought-out, with clever dialogue.
I’ll also say this, for me the 2007 movie is smack in the “So Bad It’s Fun” category.
re: #449 gocart mozart
That dress was meant to keep squirrels off her face.
Is Rouge One the new makeup based spinnoff of project runway? ;)
re: #454 Joe Bacon 🌹
Alt version
Who wore it better pic.twitter.com/yDm3JGdnfa
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 25, 2020
re: #420 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Thank you for posting these. It helps bring the day home to the rest of us.
Said before, but my pop went ashore at Normandy +1. It affected his life, which meant that it affected our life.
We’ve officially initiated the Terminal Count Autosequence, which means we’re approximately less than 15 minutes away from releasing LauncherOne.
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
re: #461 JC1
Rogue One was good. I disliked The Phantom Menace and thought that The Last Jedi was the worst one up to that point. Haven’t bothered to watch Solo or Rise of the Skywalker and probably never will; The Last Jedi left that much of a bad taste in my mouth.
Only thing I truly enjoyed in The Last Jedi was the scene between Luke and Yoda’s Force Ghost. For that brief moment, it captured the essence of the original trilogy.
The other day I wondered if the GOP was going to hold their convention or not, and whether that was going to cause problems.
Sure enough, today I find on Twitter trending “Republican National Convention ” and of course, it’s Trump threatening to move it from Charlotte, NC, because NC is not going to relax their social distancing requirements.
To where does Trump think he’s going to move it?
Probably no where, but Trump just wants to throw shit at the governor of NC.
Currently, we have green lights across the board. pic.twitter.com/h1KANtAq3k
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
Cosmic Girl has released LauncherOne!
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
re: #457 JC1
I think that the best data we have is data from South Korea and NYC. Antibody tests suggest that around 20% of NYC residents have had COVID19, and a bit over .25% of NYC population died; extrapolating from this gets up to around a 1.25% mortality rate. Maybe a bit higher since deaths probably lag a bit more than antibodies.
South Korea did extensive initial contact tracing and testing. They should have far fewer unknown cases than other countries. They’re showing a 2.38% death rate overall, with the vast majority in those over over 50.
Assuming that hospitals don’t become overwhelmed, I would wager good money that the overall mortality rate will be between 1.2 and 2%; skewed very heavily to those over 50.
According to South Korea’s data, those over 70 have a 10%+ IFR
I remain a little skeptical about antibody tests because so many are apparently not reliable. The 1-2% overall mortality seems reasonable and definitely consistent with Diamond Princess.
re: #472 Hecuba’s daughter
I remain a little skeptical about antibody tests because so many are apparently not reliable. The 1-2% overall mortality seems reasonable and definitely consistent with Diamond Princess.
That’s fair. I haven’t seen which test they used and what the specificity was. I’m giving them a benefit of the doubt that they used one of the better ones.
This is disappointing.
You would think Virgin had learned some things from how space launches have been displayed across media platforms for the past few years.
Flight terminated shortly after release. Cosmic Girl and the launch team is safe and returning to Mojave. https://t.co/jFqe7Gcm1F
— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) May 25, 2020
re: #440 Belafon
Someone mentioned the restaurant named Thai Tanic yesterday. This is a restaurant in Richardson, Tx:
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Pho is pronounced “Fu” as in the word we say about Dumbover Donnie.
That makes this is the best restaurant name ever:
Pho King Good
re: #471 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Something malfunctioned.
We’ve confirmed a clean release from the aircraft. However, the mission terminated shortly into the flight. Cosmic Girl and our flight crew are safe and returning to base.
— Virgin Orbit (@Virgin_Orbit) May 25, 2020
Amazon might be thinking about buying JC Penny.
Worldometer has the current US toll at 99,600 and change.
Our humanoid production drones are anxious to return to their labor stations. https://t.co/KCss0uI64p
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 25, 2020
re: #456 William Lewis
I dearly loved how Rouge One had the brass ones to slot straight into that beginning with them holding off Vader and the rest of the Empire just long enough to set that up.
re: #459 Dr Lizardo
Of the recent Star Wars films, Rouge One is my favorite. Also - had the sheer cojones to kill off the heroes. And that final confrontation with Vader? Hot damn, that was the Darth Vader each and every one of us imagined as a kid when we saw the original trilogy, the Sith Lord at his peak.
isn’t it Rogue One?
dudes, i am not a star wars fan and dont know much about it
;-)
re: #477 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Something malfunctioned.
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Yeah, I kind of surmised that
re: #475 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Ahh well, Launcher One, is Launcher None, but they have some more being built at their factory, so I hope we get another attempt ‘soon’.
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) May 25, 2020
re: #279 The Pie Overlord!
It would be instant face plant for me.
Do we “Moooooooooo” or “Baaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh” ?
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter
I think Karen is a bit older, more ma’am.
I think we AARK AARK like trained seals.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
re: #486 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Back to work everyone pic.twitter.com/BO22k0gce3
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 25, 2020
TFW when you think Memorial Day means “remember how I’m a petulant spoiled little man who never grew up? No? Ha ha, let me spend all day reminding you!” https://t.co/MxXhHN7a2G
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2020
re: #481 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
isn’t it Rogue One?
dudes, i am not a star wars fan and dont know much about it
;-)
LOL you’re right, I didn’t catch that. 😄
Peak Karening:
Seeing a black person *recording you* illegally walking your dog off-leash and announcing *into his camera* that you are going to make a false claim to police.
pic.twitter.com/G1qUTNAB6F— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 25, 2020
re: #487 danarchy
I don’t think the Diamond Princess is necessarily a great metric. The age demographics on the ship were so skewed.
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Just roughly looking at the numbers people over 60 made up about 60% of the ships passengers where they are only 16% of the general population.
The samples are large enough to make some inferences from. We just can’t say “x people died divided by the number of passengers.”
re: #459 Dr Lizardo
Of the recent Star Wars films, Rouge One is my favorite. Also - had the sheer cojones to kill off the heroes. And that final confrontation with Vader? Hot damn, that was the Darth Vader each and every one of us imagined as a kid when we saw the original trilogy, the Sith Lord at his peak.
Original trilogy was Vader as Cosmic Bad-Ass with some haunting things in his background. Second trilogy established him as a weak-minded ill-disciplined (but talented) whiny teen. Which makes the later Vader some sort of extended hissy fit.
re: #487 danarchy
I don’t think the Diamond Princess is necessarily a great metric. The age demographics on the ship were so skewed.
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Just roughly looking at the numbers people over 60 made up about 60% of the ships passengers where they are only 16% of the general population.
Don’t forget that there were also about a thousand crew members, who would juice up the 25-50 groups. Still not really representative, but it’s what we have.
Dude, just go golfing and shut up. https://t.co/U3Ukf0htG5
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2020
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re: #496 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
@Virgin_Orbit #CosmicGirl accompanied by a chase plane returns back over land with an empty pylon having dropped its rocket payload over the Pacific Ocean on its unsuccessful first test. @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/ElTFEPrtdi
— D. Stamos/Helodriver (@SpacecoastPix) May 25, 2020
re: #350 Dr Lizardo
Lucky kid! That is totally bad ass. I saw it for the first time in Santa Fe. (On vacation) It lived up to all the hype and more. Still one of my very favorite movies of all time.
re: #494 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Don’t forget that there were also about a thousand crew members, who would juice up the 25-50 groups. Still not really representative, but it’s what we have.
that 3711 number includes passengers and crew.
I am here but please do not ask me to make any sense. One of my neighbors has their stereo blasting because it is a holiday. I have a blasting headache from it.
Georgia reopened a month ago, but now critics are questioning how the state is reporting its #coronavirus numbers. @ellisonbarber breaks it down.
Watch NOW: https://t.co/U4UZMHn7bF pic.twitter.com/mqtYeet736— NBC News NOW (@NBCNewsNow) May 25, 2020
re: #499 danarchy
that 3711 number includes passengers and crew.
Oh, okay. I suppose it’s like them to include the crew in a column labeled “Number of passengers.”
“They didn’t die a heroic death but they lived heroic lives”
Suicide shouldn’t disqualify military men and women from being remembered on Memorial Day, says Kim Ruocco, whose husband, Marine Corps Major John Ruocco, was on active duty when he died in 2005 https://t.co/hDBZOqgcKY pic.twitter.com/XpmNSdKmng— CNN (@CNN) May 25, 2020
re: #490 Dr Lizardo
LOL you’re right, I didn’t catch that. 😄
there was a sub plot from The Good Wife
Kurt gives diane a copy of palin’s “going rogue’
and she gives him a copy of ‘going rouge’
that’s what my eye picked up
re: #501 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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by lying?
Georgia reopened a month ago, but now critics are questioning how the state is reporting its #coronavirus numbers. @ellisonbarber breaks it down.
Watch NOW: https://t.co/U4UZMHn7bF pic.twitter.com/mqtYeet736— NBC News NOW (@NBCNewsNow) May 25, 2020
re: #493 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Original trilogy was Vader as Cosmic Bad-Ass with some haunting things in his background. Second trilogy established him as a weak-minded ill-disciplined (but talented) whiny teen. Which makes the later Vader some sort of extended hissy fit.
There should’ve been better character development in the prequel trilogy, especially in the second film.
That being said, for me at least, Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine was the standout performance - and he was great in Revenge of the Sith. And Ewan McGregor pretty much nailed it as Obi-Wan…those two really carried the last film.
re: #83 CleverToad
{{MomA}}
I hear you, loud and clear. They go back and forth every day or so as to whether customers are required to wear masks at my kid’s Safeway. The only good part is that they ARE enforcing the rules about employee masks and customer limits, and he says they’re taking the cleaning procedures very seriously. Ditto with us, we need his paycheck. I send up a prayer every time I drop my kid off — will keep the fingers crossed for your kid too.
re: #350 Dr Lizardo
I certainly remember the original Star Wars film. I remember it because my dad gave me quite possibly the best birthday present ever.
He took me to the second opening at Mann’s Chinese Theater on August 3rd, 1977 (my birthday). My dad knew a few people at Mann’s and scored us tickets. And I got to see C3PO, R2-D2 and Darth Vader place their footprints in the cement in the forecourt.
So that was my eighth birthday present.
I would have been eleven. for me, star wars was part of a glorious era that included Star Trek a year or two later, Close Encounters, E.T. I hadn’t experienced 2001 yet, because in the mid to late 1970’s, television consisted of 3 channels, one of which was a not very good PBS on the UHF band, and there was not yet a thriving VHS market.
It’s where the Fyre Festival was supposed to take place.
On the Bahamian island of Great Exuma.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 25, 2020
Great reviews, like on Rotten Tomatoes.
Great reviews on our handling of Covid 19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. Ventilators, Testing, Medical Supply Distribution, we made a lot of Governors look very good - And got no credit for so doing. Most importantly, we helped a lot of great people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
re: #508 gocart mozart
It’s a line from Tangled Up and Blue
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It was also the site of the Fyre Fest debacle so very appropriate.
re: #509 teleskiguy
Great reviews, like on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Still on with the China virus crap.
re: #511 Eclectic Cyborg
Still on with the China virus crap.
Taking credit for the Governors after he told them that they were on their own, and actively attempting to confiscate PPE.
re: #497 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Don’t know how valid this is. Also saw a couple of pics on that thread that purported to showing it going boom.
I was watching on a private stream. Looked like there was ignition then it exploded almost immediately after.
— mouse_fart (@mouse_fart) May 25, 2020
For wherever two or three gather in my name, there am I with them. — Covid 1:9
— Uncle Mark (@UncleOdit) May 25, 2020
re: #423 mmmirele
My younger sister dragged me to see it the first weekend. I had no idea what the film was about but there were a lot of people in line. It was OK, I guess, but not life-changing. OTOH, I did watch The Empire Strikes Back 65 times the summer it came out. You can tell where my heart is.
I saw “The Empire Strikes Back” in Toulon, France, with French subtitles.
re: #427 mmmirele
Hey, speaking of flags, did Trump ever issue a proclamation for lowering the flags to half-mast for coronavirus victims, or was that just the usual lies?
Yes, he did, after he was shamed into it. It ran from Friday morning through Sunday evening.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #432 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
In Minnesota, all mail-in ballots have to be signed and witnessed by another registered Minnesota voter, but it is enough to have them witnessed by someone in your home. They don’t have to be notarized or anything crazy like that. My wife and I could witness each other’s ballots and be done with it.
In Nebraska, ballots do not have to be witnessed (there is no block on the envelope for that). There is a block to sign and put your address if you help someone fill in a ballot (such as reading it to them and marking it on their behalf) or to witness a signature mark X for someone who cannot write.
re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Christ. This is a slightly more polite version of what happened to me in the park a couple of days ago.
re: #402 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I nominate Lubbock. It has the enormous United Supermarket Arena (no, that’s really the name) which is seriously under-utilized outside basketball season, as well as an airport, plenty of churches and roughly the same number of bars (@220 of each) as well as good medical facilities and a MAGA-friendly populace and media
I have elderly family in Lubbock. Thanks, no.
No president in more than 50 years has TOTALLY FAILED to protect U.S. lives than you, Mister Trump.
You’ve been INCOMPETENT while pretending to be in charge.
You gave the Coronavirus EVERY CHANCE to spread.
And we are at nearly 100,000 domestic #COVID__19 deaths ON YOUR WATCH. pic.twitter.com/RW3ON1cTrO— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) May 25, 2020
Let’s interview the family members of the 100,000 DEAD Americans and see if they give you “great reviews” for your handling of the pandemic, you gaslighting, lying, racist, son of a klansman. pic.twitter.com/kEDc9JsWmO
— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 25, 2020
I found the original source for this video…
Outrageous. Insane.https://t.co/Fujo3K4oNw— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 25, 2020
Trump is the first president to refuse to hang the picture of his predecessor in the White House.
What’s the matter Donald, I thought klansmen enjoyed hanging Black men.#ObamaGate pic.twitter.com/YUtm8q6eHJ— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 25, 2020
re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gotta say, my sister-in-law, Karen, really hates that term.
re: #525 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Gotta say, my sister-in-law, Karen, really hates that term.
My mother hated “The Music Man”. She was a librarian and her first name happened to be Marian.
re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That would be a peak Becky. She didn’t call his manager.
re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth
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JollyJack put it best:
A definition. pic.twitter.com/ERcTX0eMb6
— Phillip M Jackson (@Jolly_Jack) May 19, 2020
re: #491 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Loves her dog so much she chokes him.
re: #522 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Maybe it was John Barron (Baron?), John Miller or David Dennison? You know, the three guys who are “famous” supporters of @realDonaldTrump. Real stand up guys who you listen to. (Snirk) https://t.co/gQV2Uj4blH
— Michele: Out of the Closet and into the fire (@michele_out) May 25, 2020
Eastern collared lizards ( Crotaphytus collaris ) are some of the prettiest little dudes, just look at these colours!
These lizards are native here in Arizona 🦎 their range extends across a large part of the state including central AZ + north and south areas of eastern AZ pic.twitter.com/tL78yTzA5A— Alistair Bergstedt 🦎 (@asmallgecko) May 24, 2020
When you have everything you ever wanted except more attention.https://t.co/Eteqhv8lqA
— JRehling (@JRehling) May 25, 2020
That would be Conor Lamb, a former Marine, who did not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker https://t.co/0wwjFikXt3
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) May 25, 2020
Patrick Ewing’s son says the Georgetown basketball coach and former NBA great has been released from the hospital and is recovering from COVID-19 at home. https://t.co/3co6G8w9Bh
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2020
Guys, Biden has a “dementia walk” and the ace diagnosticians on Trump Twitter have identified it in just 13 seconds of video! There are deluded people in this situation, but it ain’t Biden. https://t.co/TlaYi5VLbv
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) May 25, 2020
Congrats on your great reviews, babe! If they gave Emmy awards for highest death toll you’d be the Julia Louis-Dreyfus of COVID! 🙌🏻 https://t.co/B5PmgIWWIF
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) May 25, 2020
mrs DM and I started making an Aeolian Harp on Valentine’s Day 2019.
It’s not particularly hard or time consuming.
Other things kept upstaging it.
We finished it on Saturday.
pix and explanation to come.
“The herd’s done well this year, we’ve culled the weaker members and the bloodlines look good for future breeding purposes. All in all, a profitable year here on the ranch.”#HumanCapitalStock https://t.co/5CB5Mvr019
— 🏳️🌈Jennie ⚢ Trott aka “Collateral Damage”🏳️🌈 (@nevergetfooled) May 25, 2020
re: #528 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would be a peak Becky. She didn’t call his manager.
Becky’s call, Karen’s yell.
re: #525 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Karen Kilgariff of the podcast “My Favorite Murder” thinks it’s hilarious.
Process it and sell it as Trump Steaks? https://t.co/qGzbVK964K
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2020
“In a Memorial Day column for WaPo, military vet Drew Garza, who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan among other deployments, hammered anti-lockdown protesters who have appropriated a quasi-military style of dress.”“Protesters who adorn themselves in military-style garb while carrying high-powered weapons to protest stay-at-home orders designed to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are a personal affront to those who have actually served.”
“To my eye, the overall look is a caricature of a Special Operations warfighter, like those in video games…… People in these outfits show up to political events, where they scream and scowl.”
“They demand freedom as they wield assault rifles. They reject criticism as un-American. Some carry flags that are un-American. In a country where minorities are killed for mistaken perceptions, they protest in a protective ether of unrecognized privilege
A DICAEOLOGY is a speech in which someone admits to the charges or problems they are accused of, while simultaneously justifying or attempting to provide excuses for them.
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) May 25, 2020
The focus is on Dominic Cummings right now and the daggers are SHARP…
— asgerdr (@asgerdr) May 25, 2020
You have to make sure don’t have an independent IG overseeing coronavirus aid for fraud waste & abuse to get away with giving your donors tens of millions of dollars meant to save small American businesses. And that’s exactly what Trump did. https://t.co/eMFHN3Hgjm
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 25, 2020
The phrase “human capital stock” is repugnant. They’re more than happy to lose as many “units” of our existing stocks as it takes to win an election.
“Sure, you may lose some units you care about. But, remember, we have plenty more where they came from. So, no biggie.” https://t.co/ohvLDXKqTC— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 25, 2020
140 clients at a hair salon in Missouri have now potentially been exposed to COVID-19 after a second hairstylist at the location tested positive for the coronavirus. https://t.co/6qxPQp4pDj
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2020
Vanity kills.
re: #536 The Pie Overlord!
Looks like someone’s getting sensitive about the ‘Trump standing’ mockery.
re: #523 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s fine, thankfully. No I told him to be careful! As soon as she leashed the dog, he said thank you stopped filming and went about his business. This kind of entitlement dog walking happens weekly in the Ramble.
— Melody Cooper (@melodyMcooper) May 25, 2020
I don’t know, a minor inconvenience to try to do your part to pull the country out of a literal death spiral seems pretty virtuous to me. https://t.co/pN7H1SsJhJ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 25, 2020
What I don’t get about the no masked men is if they are Trump supporters don’t they think getting the pandemic under control would be better for him than it spiking again? Of course I’m not sure Trump himself has reached that conclusion so 🤷🏼♂️
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 25, 2020
Trump supports have abandoned their capacity to think into the future.
this doesn’t sound good
Rainfall rates up to 4”/hour could lead to significant flooding across south Florida today and tomorrow.
Details -> #FLwx https://t.co/qQLrPJxbuk pic.twitter.com/1oJrTBIoZj— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 25, 2020
re: #546 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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Almost 100 airlines received funds from the Cares act, which came from $25 Billion set aside specifically for airlines not out of the small business fund.
A full list of the 96 airlines that received funds is in this article:
re: #552 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good news: it stops people from congregating outside.
Bad news: it puts everyone indoors where they could see covid19 spread faster.
Good news: it’s not a hurricane.
Bad news: don’t need a hurricane to get disastrous flooding rains.
You didn’t ban travel from China. 40,000+ people have flown to/from China and Europe after your so-called ban. There’s inadequate screening for any flights in/out of the US or domestic flights.
Your failures have led to 100,000 deaths and economic ruin.
You built that.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 25, 2020
The President’s brain is a racist pinball machine and the ball now trapped pinging between the Obama and China bumpers https://t.co/aOm9uZW0BT
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 25, 2020
Reality is now They Live, except instead of needing special sunglasses to identify the monsters we can just listen them confess to being monsters
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 25, 2020
re: #553 jaunte
And this is why tRumpsters are spitting on people and pulling their masks off. Nice framing. JFC I hate Republicans.
re: #548 jaunte
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Vanitystubborn stupidity kills.
re: #527 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
we’re getting a lot of local (ie on the property) flooding right now
it is raining so hard here (for 2 days)
and there is so much water in the upper pool
that even with no pump running
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We’ve > 4.5” in the last 24 hours.
re: #551 jaunte
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Trump supports have abandoned their capacity to think into the future.
the problem with sometimes not wearing masks or certain people not wearing masks is there is no way to know by looking who is or isnt a potential threat or when or why
you cant manage 300 million people with a policy that includes exceptions because ‘i’m telling you i’m safe”
it’s the same reason there is (generally) one posted speed limit even though some of us would claim we are ‘better than average’ drivers and it shouldn’t apply to us
I don’t know, a minor inconvenience to try to do your part to pull the country out of a literal death spiral seems pretty virtuous to me. https://t.co/pN7H1SsJhJ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 25, 2020
re: #552 Backwoods_Sleuth
this doesn’t sound good
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yes, we are now protected by a moat
Rainfall rates up to 4”/hour could lead to significant flooding across south Florida today and tomorrow.
Details -> #FLwx https://t.co/qQLrPJxbuk pic.twitter.com/1oJrTBIoZj— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) May 25, 2020
re: #558 plansbandc
And this is why tRumpsters are spitting on people and pulling their masks off. Nice framing. JFC I hate Republicans.
Refusing to wear a mask shows that you are with Trump. It’s a shame that their behavior harms innocent people and not just themselves and their families.
re: #561 PhillyPretzel
Absolutely. But I may end up having to carry a social distancing walking stick in stores also.
Noah is willing to die for Wall Street.
I’m not.
re: #548 jaunte
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Vanity kills.
At least they will look good in the coffin on Zoom.
President Trump took time over Memorial Day weekend to torment the family of a young woman who died 19 years ago by promoting a baseless conspiracy about her death. Who among his supporters will say “Enough is enough!” https://t.co/bIUqxMO2Lv
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) May 25, 2020
Love always wins over hate. The Kentuckians who stood in front of our home today with signs of encouragement and positivity have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. ^BB
— First Lady Britainy Beshear (@BritainyBeshear) May 25, 2020
re: #536 The Pie Overlord!
Gee, a slow walk out of respect for the dead.
Trump deplorables couldn’t ever understand respect.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 25, 2020
re: #548 jaunte
Vanity kills.
Yes. On this Memorial Day, let’s remember our fallen forefathers who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could get our hair cut.
— Chad Riciteri (@ChadRiciteri) May 25, 2020
I ain’t wearin’ no dayam mask. I’d look stoopid. pic.twitter.com/M3mBaBnmKk
— The Mike Malloy Show (@MikeMalloyShow) May 25, 2020
This is not a good look from a Government minister. It’s obvious they’re keen for people to forget this story, but things like this make that less likely to happen. They simply refuse to understand why people are so angry about this. pic.twitter.com/AAShgOO08p
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 25, 2020
re: #574 Backwoods_Sleuth
He already does. If he wore a mask it might indicate that he might have a couple of working grey cells.
re: #551 jaunte
Noah Pollak is another conservaliar.
It wasn’t just him & his wife there but you knew that.
— gwheezie (@geewheezie) May 25, 2020
re: #291 Targetpractice
I know I am way late to this post, but I’d have broken out my Scottish bagpipe music to drown out her entitled drunk ass. Albannach would do the trick.
re: #577 PhillyPretzel
He already does. If he wore a mask it might indicate that he might have a couple of working grey cells.
And this is why conservatives are all up in their fauxtrage over “mask shaming.” Shaming is an effective tool.
Shaming these “militia” tools is effective as well.
Shaming takes away the conservative victim complex.
re: #476 A Cranky One
Pho is pronounced “Fu” as in the word we say about Dumbover Donnie.
That makes this is the best restaurant name ever:
Pho King Good
Not sure which was first, but there’s also one in Keene, NH: Pho Keene Great (though the reviews aren’t).
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