There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they’re forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.
To those hurting, I’m so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you. pic.twitter.com/SBBRKV4mPZ— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 27, 2020
Joe deserves to be president.
fuck trump
Fascinating indeed.
Utterly fascinating piece on why a few people seem to spread #coronavirus to many people, but most don’t. Also: Avoid shouting or singing in cold places, like meatpacking plants. https://t.co/PMUJSXLUyI
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 28, 2020
He’s still shitposting, miserable son of a bitch.
He looks better! https://t.co/qzxn6Svlpc
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
According to the CDC, so far this year, Florida has had 1,762 deaths from #COVID and 5,185 from pneumonia.
Average pneumonia deaths in Florida from 2013-2018 for the same time period are 918.
Probably just a coincidence, yeah?— Kellen Squire (@SquireForYou) May 27, 2020
re: #6 Dread Pirate
Florida is probably doing what Russia is accused of doing - putting COVID deaths in the pneumonia column in order to conceal the extent of the outbreak.
Wyoming: All statistics, no change.
health.wyo.gov
Wingnutville (Weld County, Colorado):
weldgov.com
Total cases: 2,444 (+9)
Doubling rate: 37 days
Largest by age: 30-39, then 50-59
Total deaths: 86 (+1)
Doubling rate: 46 days
Largest by age: 80-89, then 70-79
Largest outbreak: City of Greeley
Joe Biden wasn’t even my third choice in the Democratic Primary (I voted for Elizabeth Warren). But he’s secured my vote for him unequivocally. It’s not a question of choosing between the lesser of two evils, it’s a question of one evil vs. one good.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 28, 2020
re: #6 Dread Pirate
Jim White wrote about this at emptywheel this morning in more detail than the Reddit post.
I thought for sure it was a lawsuit against Fox that made hannity turn. Maybe not.
Did they finally resize they were killing their own voters? First hannity and now the turtle.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 28, 2020
re: #9 teleskiguy
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Like Teleskiguy I voted for Elizabeth Warren because I thought she would be the best person to take on Trump. The more I see of Joe and see every asshole trying and failing to kneecap him the more I’m convinced that he’s the one we need right now.
I believe he’s only going to serve one term and he is the transitional person to open the door for a more inclusive Democratic Party. Just looking at the map I think Joe’s really down to 3 choices for Vice-President—Catherine Cortez-Masto from Nevada to shore up Latino support, Val Demings to nail down Florida or Stacy Abrams because of those two Senate pickups in Georgia. No doubt in my mind that either one of those three will be the 2024 Democratic nominee running against Pompousass on the GOP side.
Welp
As Chief Prosecutor, Klobuchar Declined to Bring Charges Against Cop that Killed George Floyd https://t.co/u8yIqYgaS7
— yvette nicole brown (@YNB) May 28, 2020
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought for sure it was a lawsuit against Fox that made hannity turn. Maybe not.
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#MoscowMitch sees the polls showing he will lose the Senate. He also knows that this time Schumer will be out for blood and then some. He’s trying to stanch the GOP bleeding but I got a feeling we’re going to see a lot of those 14 pickups the GOP took in 2014 go down and go down big.
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
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I saw this and that’s why I think Klobuchar got scratched from Joe’s list.
re: #12 Joe Bacon 🌹
Like Teleskiguy I voted for Elizabeth Warren because I thought she would be the best person to take on Trump. The more I see of Joe and see every asshole trying and failing to kneecap him the more I’m convinced that he’s the one we need right now.
I believe he’s only going to serve one term and he is the transitional person to open the door for a more inclusive Democratic Party. Just looking at the map I think Joe’s really down to 3 choices for Vice-President—Catherine Cortez-Masto from Nevada to shore up Latino support, Val Demings to nail down Florida or Stacy Abrams because of those two Senate pickups in Georgia. No doubt in my mind that either one of those three will be the 2024 Democratic nominee running against Pompousass on the GOP side.
Elizabeth Warren was my first choice, but by the time the primary reached Nebraska, Elizabeth Warren had bowed out (everyone had bowed out). The choice was clear though: Ridin’ with Biden.
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did they finally resize they were killing their own voters? First hannity and now the turtle
Yep. I think it finally sunk in. And not only killing off a key segment of their voter base, but alienating that voter base as well….and flipping them to Team Biden.
re: #15 Joe Bacon 🌹
I saw this and that’s why I think Klobuchar got scratched from Joe’s list.
If she WAS on the list, I’m guessing Joe has (probably regretfully) scratched her off by now.
Though it does bring home the point that there IS a downside to promoting “tough on crime” policies.
Though said downside comes seldom, and usually too late.
Cheyenne just cancelled Frontier Days, one of the biggest rodeos on the circuit, and a major tourist draw for Wyoming.
Scottsbluff cancelled the Iris Festival, one of the big draws for our area.
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
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Different case, yes? What are the details?
Don’t leave us hanging, here.
re: #13 goddamnedfrank
Welp
The police officer in question was involved in several questionable actions while she was the county prosecutor.
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Cheyenne just cancelled Frontier Days, one of the biggest rodeos on the circuit, and a major tourist draw for Wyoming.
Scottsbluff cancelled the Iris Festival, one of the big draws for our area.
Pretty much all the social events here in Va Beach have been canceled through the middle of July, including all the big concerts and fireworks displays on July 4th. So while people are going to insist on visiting the beach while the weather’s nice and warm, all the big events that attract huge crowds are gone until at least August.
re: #21 austin_blue
Different case, yes? What are the details?
Don’t leave us hanging, here.
He’s been involved in several other use-of-force incidents, leading to investigations and a lawsuit.
But Amy Klobuchar was in the Senate when those happened; it wasn’t her making the decisions.
re: #23 Targetpractice
Pretty much all the social events here in Va Beach have been canceled through the middle of July, including all the big concerts and fireworks displays on July 4th. So while people are going to insist on visiting the beach while the weather’s nice and warm, all the big events that attract huge crowds are gone until at least August.
Gov. Ricketts just issued a new so-called Directed Health Measure for the Panhandle which further loosens restrictions here.
Gatherings of up to 25, or 25% of a venue of capacity up to 3,000, excluding staff, will be permitted starting June 1. (This would allow every church here to fully open as well as every restaurant.)
Those planning to reopen a venue of over 500 must submit a plan to Panhandle Public Health District on social distancing and severe weather.
This is what it looks like when you’ve decided that the law doesn’t apply to you or yours:
Just like @realDonaldTrump, I’ve been completely and totally exonerated. Live look at the fake news media, career politicians, and Swamp elites who thought they were going to take me down. pic.twitter.com/hUSmW109MM
— Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) May 27, 2020
I’m not sure which would be a bigger fall at this point: Losing her seat in Nov or winning only to be indicted by Biden’s AG?
Crazy person attacks doctor and spouse in Houston. Called them “Mexicans” and told them to go back to their own country.
Hammer-wielding woman arrested after going on racist tirade, couple says
Tropical storm Bertha downgraded to a tropical depression, now located in west-central North Carolina.
re: #9 teleskiguy
I voted for Elizabeth Warren, but it was very, very close between her and Biden, so I’m okay.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The police officer in question was involved in several questionable actions while she was the county prosecutor.
Again, what are the details? Was she directly involved or was it sent to a Grand Jury?
I’m not not defending Amy, but this needs some clarity. What are the facts, and how does it directly affect the actions of this specific LEO, who needs to be charged, apparently, with either murder or manslaughter (probably pleaded down to depraved indifference, in my cynical worldview).
re: #27 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Crazy person attacks doctor and spouse in Houston. Called them “Mexicans” and told them to go back to their own country.
Hammer-wielding woman arrested after on racist tirade, couple says
In the photograph she’s wearing her mask underneath her chin, because of course.
re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gov. Ricketts just issued a new so-called Directed Health Measure for the Panhandle which further loosens restrictions here.
Gatherings of up to 25, or 25% of a venue of capacity up to 3,000, excluding staff, will be permitted starting June 1. (This would allow every church here to fully open as well as every restaurant.)
Those planning to reopen a venue of over 500 must submit a plan to Panhandle Public Health District on social distancing and severe weather.
As of yesterday, VA is under a mandatory mask order from Northam, but I’ve not heard any new easing of restrictions on businesses or reopenings. But what I did hear was he offered a new and even lamer excuse for his failure to wear a mask during the holiday weekend: (parahrased) “I left it in the car.”
re: #32 Targetpractice
As of yesterday, VA is under a mandatory mask order from Northam, but I’ve not heard any new easing of restrictions on businesses or reopenings. But what I did hear was he offered a new and even lamer excuse for his failure to wear a mask during the holiday weekend: (parahrased) “I left it in the car.”
Gaaa.
Lady in the Houston television station yelling “go back to your country” is wearing an Irish flag t-shirt. She wanted to hammer irony dead.
re: #30 austin_blue
Again, what are the details? Was she directly involved or was it sent to a Grand Jury?
I’m not not defending Amy, but this needs some clarity. What are the facts, and how does it directly affect the actions of this specific LEO, who needs to be charged, apparently, with either murder or manslaughter (probably pleaded down to depraved indifference, in my cynical worldview).
I can’t say whether she was directly involved, though as county prosecutor she would be in charge of those under her.
As for a grand jury, the ol’ “you can indict a ham sandwich” applies.
Perhaps she’s not involved in any sort of chicanery, but optics is freakin’ everything in politics.
This is extremely powerful. Everybody please watch this. pic.twitter.com/IxsERqonni
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 28, 2020
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Gaaa.
Lady in the Houston television station yelling “go back to your country” is wearing an Irish flag t-shirt. She wanted to hammer irony dead.
The “Hispanics” were a Medical Doctor and his wife.Typical MAGAt idiocy.
I’m off to bed.
Another .42” inches of rain today. Up to 10.41” in my backyard this month. That’s just a skosh short of a third of our annual rainfall average (32”) in a year.
Night all, sweet scaly dreams, if you can. I’m still trying to process 100,000 dead in three months. At this point, it’s like a rogue nuclear attack on an American city.
We are quickly getting into post-apocaylypse movie territory, here.
You’re not truly pro-life if you’ve seen the video of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd being murdered and your first response is still:
“He was resisting arrest.”
“Wait for the entire story.”
“Does he have a criminal record?”
“What did he do to deserve that?”#GeorgeFloyd— Rondell Treviño (@Rondell_Trevino) May 26, 2020
I also continue to be confused with the standards: If Barr has complete freedom to just “investigate” anything he thinks seems wrong without predication, even if it involves Trump’s political opponent, and that’s legal, why would the same not apply to the DOJ under Obama????
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 28, 2020
— Keith Tatem (@KeithTatem) May 27, 2020
Joe has always been my number 1. I felt he was by far the best anti-Trump candidate. And the one truly electable candidate.
I love Warren and Harris too. And I think either one would be a fantastic President. But I never thought they were electable, most unfortunately.
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Balloon Fiesta will be canceled. It’s going to devastate ABQ’s economy in particular, but it’s going to be a terrible blow to the whole state.
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
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The whole rant is…well, it’s certainly something:
CANDACE OWENS (HOST): Scottish people were severely behind the English people, just in terms of everything. And David Hume inspired and uplifted and challenged the Scottish people by saying if we want to get ahead, we have to learn English.
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In a matter of years, in a matter of decades, the Scottish people passed the English people in engineering, and in the sciences. And it’s because they challenged themselves to be better, and not to be worse.
They didn’t pretend that somehow having a broken language, having broken-down families was a symbol of who we are. And that is so unique to Black America. I won’t subscribe to it. People say that’s how you have to be Black.
“That’s how you have to be Black”? Listen to your psychological conditioning. If to be Black, you can’t speak in proper English, or you’re “acting white.” Right? To be Black, you instantly have to jump up like a fucking trained chimpanzee - excuse my language - like a trained chimpanzee every single time the media runs a story, and act angry, and riot, and talk about how pained you were to see this happen to Black people, but keep your mouth shut, right, when it happens Black-on-Black because if you talk about the Black-on-Black crime, you’re a race traitor, right?
To be Black, you need to celebrate LeBron James. You’ve got to say that you want to be a football star, right? LeBron James the greatest, right?
When you see someone like Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, you call that person a coon, because they betrayed you. Do you want to know why? Because they’re talking about economics. They graduated, and they’ve got tons of degrees. They’re not being Black enough. Don’t listen to them. Listen to LeBron James, when he throws on the Beto cap and tells you that we’re literally being hunted down, right? Because he’s not educated, right? Celebrate that. That’s our hero. He represents us.That is what being Black is in 2020. That is what we are told that being Black must be in 2020. And we are then routinely told that we should be ashamed if we don’t subscribe to that. I do not subscribe to that, okay? I don’t subscribe to that, my family doesn’t subscribe to that, the children that I will have one day will not subscribe to that, okay? That is not an example of Black greatness, that is not an example of American greatness, it’s an example of a broken culture that has been fostered by people that were racists in the 1960s and it’s being perpetuated now by people that are race hustlers in 2020.
For those who may be new to Canned Ass’ shtick, she sued her high school for “racial harassment” because (she claimed) some white students had harassed her and threatened to kill her. She won (with the NAACP’s help) a settlement from the school, went on to graduate, and then dropped out of college to become a “Youtube star.” Now she’s a proud member of the Wingnut Welfare Circuit, being a “trained chimpanzee” for white folks who want to feel good about their racism by assuring them as a black woman that all problems in the black community are their own fault.
re: #40 plansbandc
Joe has been my choice for a while. Although I have seen him a few times on the U of Penn campus I have not personally met him. From the times I have seen him my impression of him was positive. The more I see of him the more I am impressed with him.
Here’s another local news source. Sickening. What is happening in this country. https://t.co/juICoSuRhC
— Ryan Jaslow (@ryanjaslow) May 28, 2020
re: #45 Dread Pirate
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It’s always been there, we’re just more aware of it because everybody has a cellphone with a camera now. Think the Cooper case from the other day. 10 years ago, he’d have been kissing the pavement as she told the cops about how this “scary black man” popped up out of nowhere and started making threats towards her and her dog.
re: #45 Dread Pirate
Rolling through a stop sign? It is a good thing they are not in Philly. Lots of people roll through stop signs especially in South Philly. In South Philly it is called the South Philly Slide.
re: #45 Dread Pirate
If Biden gets elected and the Dems can take the Senate (and hold the House), perhaps some kind of Congressional hearings into excessive force/police brutality aimed at African-Americans and other minorities should be on the agenda.
Unconscionably selfish and dangerous behavior affecting my colleagues in Pennsylvania, who have confirmed this. Public pressure needs to be put on these lawmakers to resign for concealing their COVID status and putting their colleagues at risk. https://t.co/QkGF0sG3EB
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 28, 2020
And the partisan stuff about concealing a R rep’s positive status from Ds is so weird to me. The virus doesn’t care what party you are. Abortion/gun safety/immigration/etc will still be here to fight over after everyone is vaccinated - right now, we are truly in this together.
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 28, 2020
Like truly, I have no idea what people think they have to gain by lying to their colleagues about being sick or doing anything other than putting public health first. We can only rebuild, do our jobs, and move forward if we are healthy and alive.
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 28, 2020
re: #47 PhillyPretzel
Rolling through a stop sign? It is a good thing they are not in Philly. Lots of people roll through stop signs especially in South Philly. In South Philly it is called the South Philly Slide.
Heh, I’ve always referred to it as a “Hollywood stop”.
re: #37 DodgerFan1988
And there are plenty of conservative apologists in that thread arguing exactly the things which were called out as anti-life.
Conservatives do not care. They want to “wait for everything to come out.” They are “upset about mob rule.” They want to know “more of the story.” Anything to justify or at least excuse what the cop did.
re: #46 Targetpractice
It’s always been there, we’re just more aware of it because everybody has a cellphone with a camera now. Think the Cooper case from the other day. 10 years ago, he’d have been kissing the pavement as she told the cops about how this “scary black man” popped up out of nowhere and started making threats towards her and her dog.
Yup. That’s precisely the reason Emmett Till’s mother had an open casket funeral, and the photos published in Look.
The only thing which has changed about racism is now we have cameras, and even that’s not enough for the racists (wait for the whole story, what happened before the video started, should have just complied with the police, &c).
I too, love The Association. (God Bless the amazing Wrecking Crew)
God, I love the Association (even more than ever now). https://t.co/pDvBwmEYoo pic.twitter.com/h37c3jF7Se
— Tom Cox (@cox_tom) May 28, 2020
re: #47 PhillyPretzel
Rolling through a stop sign? It is a good thing they are not in Philly. Lots of people roll through stop signs especially in South Philly. In South Philly it is called the South Philly Slide.
And here I always thought it was called a California stop.
Mary J. Wilson, first African American senior zookeeper at the Baltimore Zoo, dies of the coronavirus https://t.co/zIkulQuQvK
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) May 28, 2020
Medicaid expansion under the ACA was passed by referendum here in Nebraska by a wide margin in 2018.
The Republican-controlled Unicameral refuses to pass the enabling legislation to implement the will of the voters.
Legislators do not get health insurance at all from the state, one of the many ways they keep the poor off the ballot and out of the legislature.
I am a single mom myself and in the same position —uninsured in the Medicaid gap. It’s a real thing for nearly 100,000 Nebraskans. We need make sure *everyone* can see a doctor when they are sick. If a pandemic doesn’t teach us that, I don’t know what will. Elect different people https://t.co/MawHYKOAs0
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) May 27, 2020
Yes, Sen. Hunt, but you’re a hoor bigeyh atheistic socialist WOMAN who probably doesn’t even count as an American. Why should the GOP give a fuque about you?
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yup. That’s precisely the reason Emmett Till’s mother had an open casket funeral, and the photos published in Look.
The only thing which has changed about racism is now we have cameras, and even that’s not enough for the racists (wait for the whole story, what happened before the video started, should have just complied with the police, &c).
The mindset hasn’t really changed since Till’s death, just the means by which they go about arguing it. Even those who doubted Till’s accuser decided that he was a black youth in the South, he “shoulda known better.”
San Diego county situation:
The percentage who test positive has been going down slowly.
But the numbers in ICU (for Covid-19) have been slowly increasing. This has to be due to the long term medical intervention, where some Covid ICU patients are there for weeks. Then they die. Sad, but this is the reality of the disease, which is why the deaths in the US are going to be a steady stream all through the lull between the first and second phase of the disease in this country.
Rachel Maddow covered the problems facing local government officials in dealing with the epidemic, particularly focusing on Alabama.
She also notes the twin failure of the national media outlets, which as the virus sweeps inland, the coverage is being mostly dropped.
She points out that one of the things national media outlets could do is focus on local media outlets to get a better handle on what’s happening away from the coasts.
For us here, we just see it as the Flyover Country effect: If it’s occurring in Flyover Country, it’s not occurring. Meat packing plants get covered because they affect people on the coasts, but the towns they’re in don’t get covered. As for the rest, it’s like they don’t exist. Seen any coverage of Weld County, Colorado’s disaster other than the numbers I post here?
Weld County has one-sixth of the total cases of Nebraska, and sixty percent of the deaths of Nebraska. They have less than one-tenth of our state’s population.
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#NowPlaying Tchaikovsky > 18 Morceaux, Op. 72 > No. 2. Berceuse https://t.co/7utmuFJE1g
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 27, 2016
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rachel Maddow covered the problems facing local government officials in dealing with the epidemic, particularly focusing on Alabama.
She also notes the twin failure of the national media outlets, which as the virus sweeps inland, the coverage is being mostly dropped.
She points out that one of the things national media outlets could do is focus on local media outlets to get a better handle on what’s happening away from the coasts.
For us here, we just see it as the Flyover Country effect: If it’s occurring in Flyover Country, it’s not occurring. Meat packing plants get covered because they affect people on the coasts, but the towns they’re in don’t get covered. As for the rest, it’s like they don’t exist. Seen any coverage of Weld County, Colorado’s disaster other than the numbers I post here?
Weld County has one-sixth of the total cases of Nebraska, and sixty percent of the deaths of Nebraska. They have less than one-tenth of our state’s population.
Don’t feel bad, even on the coasts most coverage is devoted to the major cities (NYC, Philly, Boston, Atlanta, etc). The only reason the national media has given a fuck about Virginia Beach in the past 3 months is because the first nice weekend saw the beaches packed in defiance of the governor’s order.
re: #64 Targetpractice
Don’t feel bad, even on the coasts most coverage is devoted to the major cities (NYC, Philly, Boston, Atlanta, etc). The only reason the national media has given a fuck about Virginia Beach in the past 3 months is because the first nice weekend saw the beaches packed in defiance of the governor’s order.
There is that.
Though Virginia Beach was a shyteshow, I imagine beaches along both coasts and the Gulf were packed, cities large and small.
(Infographic from Psychology Today)
Still think atheists have no morals?#atheism
6972 pic.twitter.com/QSYdDHNkIh— Atheist Quote Bot (@Atheist_Bot) May 28, 2020
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There is that.
Though Virginia Beach was a shyteshow, I imagine beaches along both coasts and the Gulf were packed, cities large and small.
That’s what I’m seeing. I’m waiting to see what the next 48 hours will bring, but the lack of major social events over the next 2-3 months, along with most clubs and bars remaining closed, is likely to put a damper on too much more than people just visiting the beach for an afternoon of fun.
re: #67 Targetpractice
That’s what I’m seeing. I’m waiting to see what the next 48 hours will bring, but the lack of major social events over the next 2-3 months, along with most clubs and bars remaining closed, is likely to put a damper on too much more than people just visiting the beach for an afternoon of fun.
If it was just visiting the Oceanfront and staying apart from strangers, sunning or swimming (does Virginia Beach still have the “no fun at all” signs they had when I was there along the boardwalk), it wouldn’t be a problem. Being outside is safer.
Packing the clubs and hotels along the Oceanfront is the problem.
My fun riding out a hurricane on the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
Hurricane Charley (1986) (Wikipedia)
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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When the evangelical/dominionist crowd argue that atheist/agnostics/etc “have no morals” or that you “can’t have moral without religion,” it’s not really morals that they’re talking about. At least not as society these days generally interprets the word. No, when they blather such shite, what they’re really saying is “We have no way to shame those people, and thus no way of controlling them.”
The problem for them in modern times is that shame isn’t what it used to be. Society doesn’t put as much value as it once did on where you pray or who your pulpit pimp is or how much you drop in the collection plate. If anything, the growth of social media and “alt-news” has turned such things into liabilities. Where once church scandals were isolated matters, something that was whispered about over Sunday dinner but never spoken out loud, now they’re major news that leads to a lot of very uncomfortable conversations for the faithful. It’s hard to argue that you’ve any level of “moral authority” when you’re caught paying altar boys to stay quiet.
re: #70 Targetpractice
A great number of religious people (Christian, Muslim, &c) believe that “no faith” equals “no morals.”
I’ve heard that from people here … really? Really? Have you ever seen anything immoral from either my wife or me in the eight+ years we’ve lived here?
Most often, it seems to be learned by rote at a young age. “Those people” are immoral because they lack God.
Though politicians aren’t highly thought of as moral people (hashtag notallpoliticians), suddenly there’s a morality test when someone runs for office, and it’s “what church do you attend?”
There are more open Muslims in Congress (about 1% of the populace) than there are atheists (depending on your definition, about 20%, and there are no open atheists).
My state has the most open atheists in the state legislature (two).
A common apologetic is that a person making an argument “needs God” to be a moral person (often given in the context of rape, robbery, or murder).
The counter-apologetic is usually “if you need God to keep you from raping or killing, by all means don’t give up your religion.”
Amymouse, did you get your Colbert stamps yet? I got mine yesterday and the sheets are interesting. They’re large by USPS norms, and they have a bar-code on them which regular USPS stamps don’t have.
(I shouldn’t be up and writing at this point of the morning but I’ve developed insomnia during the shutdown, which sucks. I wish I could fall back to sleep.)
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Cheyenne just cancelled Frontier Days, one of the biggest rodeos on the circuit, and a major tourist draw for Wyoming.
Scottsbluff cancelled the Iris Festival, one of the big draws for our area.
MN cancelled the State Fair which is easily the biggest event in the state (10 days long), and one of the best state fairs in the country.
re: #74 stpaulbear
MN cancelled the State Fair which is easily the biggest event in the state (10 days long), and one of the best state fairs in the country.
Oh darn, we won’t have to deal with pictures of candidates trying to look like “one of the people” by choking down a corn dog.
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Make no mistake — this is the Trump-GOP plan too. https://t.co/VAI7xqRs42
— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) May 27, 2020
re: #76 Patricia Kayden
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congratulations to United States President Stupid J. Moron for bringing 15 cases of coronavirus all the way down to one hundred thousand deaths. ace job there, you depraved incompetent fuck
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 27, 2020
China’s legislature endorsed a national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday that has strained relations with the United States and Britain and prompted protests in the territory.The National People’s Congress backed the bill as it wrapped up an annual session that was held under intensive anti-coronavirus controls. The vote was 2,878 to 1, in line with the high-profile but largely ceremonial body’s custom of near-unanimous approval of legal changes decided by the ruling Communist Party.
The Hong Kong security law will alter the territory’s mini-constitution, or Basic Law, to require the territory to enforce measures to be decided by the standing committee of the NPC, a small body controlled by the ruling Communist Party that handles most lawmaking work.
IIRC, Hong Kong’s Legislative Council will have to approve this as well - and then it’s a done deal.
And then the PLA rolls in to “restore order”.
re: #46 Targetpractice
It’s always been there, we’re just more aware of it because everybody has a cellphone with a camera now. Think the Cooper case from the other day. 10 years ago, he’d have been kissing the pavement as she told the cops about how this “scary black man” popped up out of nowhere and started making threats towards her and her dog.
“Racism isn’t getting worse. It’s getting filmed.” — Will Smith on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, August 3, 2016.
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
I looked it up and next it goes on to the Politburo’s Standing Committee, and if they approve it, then it’s a done deal.
re: #37 DodgerFan1988
There is no such thing as pro-life. It’s a made-up term used solely to force women to give birth.
U can’t be pro-life & not care about a woman’s life
U can’t be pro-life & pro death penalty
They don’t care about life, only controlling others
Sorry, didn’t mean 2 tangent on ya— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 28, 2020
Let me help ya’ll out on this one. And since folks like you love to bring up Dr. King he’s what he thinks about rioting 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/CDAGrj5YTz
— Tara Gordon (@islandgirl222) May 28, 2020
re: #47 PhillyPretzel
Rolling through a stop sign? It is a good thing they are not in Philly. Lots of people roll through stop signs especially in South Philly. In South Philly it is called the South Philly Slide.
When I was growing up we used to call it the Hollywood Stop.
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
Heh, I’ve always referred to it as a “Hollywood stop”.
Where are you from originally? (Chicago here)
re: #87 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Where are you from originally? (Chicago here)
I’m originally from Los Angeles.
re: #55 sagehen
And here I always thought it was called a California stop.
Please remind me where you grew up.
I’m fascinated by regional language (do you put your groceries in a bag or a sack?)
The WH is all propaganda all the time. There’s no service to the country component at all. Fascism. https://t.co/c3fOSEVO6T
— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) May 28, 2020
re: #43 Targetpractice
The whole rant is…well, it’s certainly something:
“Scottish people were severely behind the English people, just in terms of everything. And David Hume inspired and uplifted and challenged the Scottish people by saying if we want to get ahead, we have to learn English.”
This sounds less like actual Scottish history, and more like a wonky Hollywood movie where everyone’s going around in kilts, and then in comes David Hume, like a Celtic George Washington, and boom, they’ve become engineers and so on.
Or maybe, just maybe, a Scottish Enlightenment happened in parallel with other European Enlightenments. Seriously, just read the link, and compare it to the above paragraph, and see if you can notice any similarity whatsoever.
This thread. 💔
Read this thread. Please.
We’re all in this thing called life together.
You cannot NOT be affected by this. 💔💔💔 https://t.co/N4zGr32bpO— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 28, 2020
re: #92 Targetpractice
The economic downturn and joblessness is going to disappear one day, like a miracle.
I wrote about Joe Biden and Tara Reade. Whether or not her story is true, it IS credible, and undermining it just to feel better about voting for Biden is wrong.https://t.co/Leer6MEgJE
— manny (@mannyfidel) May 27, 2020
So she’s credible…even if she’s lying…bwah?
re: #6 Dread Pirate
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So they actually have a pneumonia pandemic they need to be taking care of.
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Well, work at home hit a serious glitch this morning. Got back from my (damp) morning walk, showered, feeling happy, turned on my laptop, keyboard lights up, and nothing else happens.
IT is shipping me a loaner, but I am mostly dead in the water. Can’t access our VPN without an FDA issued computer, not a lot I can do right now except read literature and play on medline, etc.
Trump’s plan is to shift unemployed numbers to the “died of pneumonia” column.
re: #98 jaunte
Trump’s plan is to shift unemployed numbers to the “died of pneumonia” column.
I probably shouldn’t have snort-laughed at that, but i did.
NEW: Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Pence, owns between $506,043 and $1.64 million worth of stocks in companies doing work linked to the Trump administration’s pandemic response — including 3M, Abbott Labs and Gilead. https://t.co/zVMrffUASg
— NPR (@NPR) May 28, 2020
But Target looting makes better teevee.
re: #89 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We called it a California stop. (from Denver)
re: #95 Targetpractice
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So she’s credible…even if she’s lying…bwah?
“Whether or not her story is true, it IS credible…”
WHAT? True, false, whatever.🙄
You’re not credible when you change your story multiple times. I guess that falls under Whatever.
Also, why is she being investigated for giving false testimony in dozens of court cases?— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 28, 2020
Fuck Trump and Fuck the GOP. Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area, as we learn that not only have more than 100,000 Americans died, but states like Florida are misclassifying covid19 deaths - treating them as pneumonia instead of covid19, and that new government data shows that 25% of the American workforce has sought unemployment benefits since March. Trump’s economic wrecking crew has been successful in ruining the nation in every way imaginable, and even this morning he was retweeting threats of physical violence against Democrats in New Mexico.
This ruinous regime has no bottom. The GOP doesn’t care. They’re bottom feeding and hoping to suppress turnout to remain in power at any cost.
That’s where we are today.
So let’s turn to each of the aformentioned items in turn.
So, there’s actually 4,000 more covid19 deaths in Florida than they’re willing to admit - 5185 minus the roughly 1,000 pneumonia deaths that the state averaged for the past 5 years.
That means Florida say 5,762 covid19 deaths, not 1,762.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 28, 2020
Misclassifying deaths will get exposed as you look at excess mortality and that there’s no new factor in 2020 other than covid19, so those deaths being classified as pneumonia are actually covid19. That’d add thousands to the tally of covid19 deaths in Florida. Far from being a safe haven, it’s just misrepresenting the numbers.
Unemployment:
NEW: More than 2.1M Americans filed for 1st-time unemployment benefits last week, marking the 10th straight week that jobless claims have been in the millions, as the coronavirus continues to cripple the economy. https://t.co/cgO5oqkg8l
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) May 28, 2020
Trump retweets a cowboys for trump tweet that includes threats of physical violence. Yeah, Trump’s fucking evil and doesn’t care. Twitter doesn’t give a shit either. They wont ban Trump (he’s their cash cow). And they have the ability to block all these fuckers and trolls with the algorithms, but wont because they’re eyeballs and generate revenue for the company.
here’s a dinosaur reading a bedtime story to puppies and I don’t know who needs to see this but I sure as hell did pic.twitter.com/RYmymYjOOC
— shauna (@goldengateblond) May 28, 2020
re: #50 Dr Lizardo
Heh, I’ve always referred to it as a “Hollywood stop”.
as someone who’s been through this a couple of times, I’m pretty sure I’m right in believing that the rolling stop is likely the moving violation that angers recipients more than pretty much anything else. It’s completely open to interpretation, and there’s pretty much no way of fighting it in court. The first time, I actually put on a suit, went to traffic court, pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. Then had to put a suit on again two months later so that I could go see the prosecutor and plead down to failure to exercise due caution. Why? Because it’s a fucking 4 point ticket is why. Basically, failing to come to a complete stop and rolling is more fucking points than going 25 miles over the speed limit. And it is the same points as disregarding the stop sign completely and blowing through. The second time I got ticketed for it, I just didn’t have the energy to fuck around with the court system, and I just paid the money and took the insurance hit.
re: #41 plansbandc
The Balloon Fiesta will be canceled. It’s going to devastate ABQ’s economy in particular, but it’s going to be a terrible blow to the whole state.
That’s too bad. My aunt is into ballooning and went to the festival a few times with some friends of hers. On my dads 70th birthday (she is dads sister) she had a friend of hers that she balloons with from Ohio come out to dads house and give him a ride. I got to hold one of the lines while the balloon was filling with hot air. Sadly I didn’t get a ride :-(. Maybe on my 70th Bday.
re: #107 steve_davis
Back in the day, I was driving in Brooklyn not long after I got my license. I was with friends and we were driving to another friend when I was on a side street with a stop sign. This was at an intersection with a major street that did not have a stop sign (2 travel lanes and a parking lane.
I stopped back where the sign was, but then inched up because there were cars all the way to the corner on both the side street and the main street. Little did I know that there was also a cop car coming up in the travel lane closest to the parking lane.
Flashing lights went on. I stopped. License and registration provided. Questions were asked. I responded that I stopped where the sign said, but due to the cars being within 25 feet of the corner (a violation), I could not safely proceed into the intersection, so it looked like I did a rolling stop. Had I not inched up, I would have hit the cop car.
The NYPD officer went back, ran the plates and license, and sent me on my way saying to remain cautious/vigilant.
Looking back, I now think that if I were a POC, I probably would have been pulled from the car, and given a ticket at a minimum.
Good morning Lizards;
If Twitter would have banned Trump a while back ago then we wouldn’t be in this mess today.
The primary Republican message these days sees to be, “We’re a bunch of greedy dicks and there’s nothing you can do about it”
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) May 28, 2020
re: #45 Dread Pirate
What’s happening is that it’s being documented. Blacks will tell you this isn’t new.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 28, 2020
re: #107 steve_davis
Why? Because it’s a fucking 4 point ticket is why. Basically, failing to come to a complete stop and rolling is more fucking points than going 25 miles over the speed limit. And it is the same points as disregarding the stop sign completely and blowing through.
Pretty sure that’s by design. Ways for insurance companies to get more $$ from you.
re: #114 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Pretty sure that’s by design. Ways for insurance companies to get more $$ from you.
The insurance companies probably don’t care. The police departments, though? “Hey, Bobby’s kid is going to college this year, so let’s bump up the tickets for rolling, so we can send her off in style.”
re: #106 lawhawk
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It looks to me more like a cow than a dinosaur, but I realize now, yes: I needed to see that, too….
re: #103 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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This really calls for one of those “head slamming on desk” gifs: SRSLY: does this maroon not get (or is trying to obfuscate) that “credibility” and “truth”/”fact” are, let’s see, kinda sorta RELATED when it comes to allegations against public figures?
I mean, it’s also “credible” that Joe Biden is financing his campaign by using that black mask and sunglasses as a disguise to rob liquor stores - not VERY credible (no more, it seems, than Tara Reade’s ever-changing narrative(s)) - but shouldn’t that also be “overlooked” as an excuse to vote for him….??
When amusement parks like Tokyo Disney and Universal Studios re-open, visitors will be asked to not scream on roller coasters: https://t.co/PQ0bQ0e2M1 pic.twitter.com/DKw50BKoah
— Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) May 27, 2020
“Testing of samples from a Wuhan food market…failed to show links between animals being sold there & the pathogen. Gao Fu, director of China CDC said ‘It now turns out that the market is one of the victims.’” https://t.co/yqDYsxwOq0
— Peter Daszak (@PeterDaszak) May 27, 2020
That’s all right
You can say it
We all know
Breaking precedent, White House won’t release formal economic projections this summer that would forecast extent of downturn
W/ @jdawsey1 https://t.co/UWHFgaT4c2— Jeffrey Stein (@JStein_WaPo) May 28, 2020
NYT is in Day Three of the Biden story today https://t.co/dOwI7UkKld
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 24, 2020
While trump retweets video “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” gets crickets
re: #95 Targetpractice
So she’s credible…even if she’s lying…bwah?
If her story is false, then it is in no way credible.
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This thread. 💔
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What got me is she (rightly) felt she was in custody. “they let us go”
“What are you all doing here?”
“Did you get into an altercation earlier tonight?”
“If I knock on these people’s door what are they going to say?”
I was fuming. Now I’m nervous.
They eventually stop and let us go.
We ride back to my house silently.
He goes home.— Tarana (@TaranaBurke) May 28, 2020
re: #95 Targetpractice
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So she’s credible…even if she’s lying…bwah?
The pretzels some people will twist themselves into..
As an aside …what makes most lies work is that they are otherwise credible
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
LEAKED: Trump’s EO Board “Fairness in Social Media” named. James Woods, Jon Voight, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Scott Baio and Dinesh D’Souza.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) May 28, 2020
My Congressman’s sock puppet acct.
Oh Fuck off you bloody hypocrite.
100000+ Americans dead on YOUR WATCH. You and #FatDonny are cut from the same corrupt cloth.
Piss off Roger.
Had enough of this corrupt turd? Put your politics aside and vote for someone who cares .@JulieOliverTX
Roger doesn’t care about you.— And the Wind Cries “Not liked or respected!” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 28, 2020
re: #105 plansbandc
A different birdo!
A nuthatch would rather be upside down on the side of a tree than try to perch on that feeder.
re: #123 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
The pretzels some people will twist themselves into..
As an aside …what makes most lies work is that they are otherwise credible
The lower end of credibility is set by the credulous.
re: #89 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please remind me where you grew up.
I’m fascinated by regional language (do you put your groceries in a bag or a sack?)
Grew up in a Los Angeles suburb.
I put my groceries in a bag, my carbonated sugar drink is a soda, and the sandwich on a long roll is a hoagie.
re: #126 Dave In Austin
My Congressman’s sock puppet acct.
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Typical Right To Lifer asshole who BS’s about Freddy and Freida Fetus but once they’re born he could care less what happens to them.
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
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Haha…Ironically, they’re also the Women’s Fairness committee as well.
— Hypocrisy Now (@Hypocrisy_45) May 28, 2020
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
LEAKED: Trump’s EO Board “Fairness in Social Media” named. James Woods, Jon Voight, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Scott Baio and Dinesh D’Souza.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) May 28, 2020
So….a couple of fairly decent actors, two loonie pundits, mediocrity incarnate, a conspiracy theorist, a has-been actor and a convicted felon.
Alrighty then.
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
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Fwiw most people booted off Twitter are not Rs or conservatives
They just acted like dicks
re: #123 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
The pretzels some people will twist themselves into..
As an aside …what makes most lies work is that they are otherwise credible
I think the word you want is “plausible”.
And just like that KKKandy Owens fellow racist Andy Ngo is trending on Twitter…
re: #129 sagehen
Grew up in a Los Angeles suburb.
I put my groceries in a bag, my carbonated sugar drink is a soda, and the sandwich on a long roll is a hoagie.
Same here - groceries go in a bag, I drink a soda, and the only acceptable chili burger is from Tommy’s.
re: #133 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Fwiw most people booted off Twitter are not Rs or conservatives
They were just acting like dicks
And then there was VB, who was kicked off Twitter for no reason whatever. I think I called Tomi Lahren “Gestapo Barbie” and got reported by her botswarm.
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
LEAKED: Trump’s EO Board “Fairness in Social Media” named. James Woods, Jon Voight, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Scott Baio and Dinesh D’Souza.]
Perfect troll if Twitter gives all of them the fact-check footnotes.
re: #127 jeffreyw
A nuthatch would rather be upside down on the side of a tree than try to perch on that feeder.
A co-worker calls them butts-up birds.
Great piece here from the Guardian:
In one of the rare expressions of empathy that Donald Trump has displayed during the course of the coronavirus pandemic, he talked earlier this month about the disease claiming so many lives it was “filling up Yankee Stadium with death”.
Now the death toll from Covid-19 stands at almost twice the capacity of the Yankees’ home stadium, and has reached another booming landmark: 100,000 deaths.
A country that prides itself on its exceptionalism can now without ambiguity claim that title for its experience of the virus. The United States stands head and shoulders at the top of the world league table of confirmed cases, as well as the total number of deaths.
There will be much to analyze in coming years about how the US responded to this contagion, including how many lives have been lost needlessly as a result of Trump’s maverick response.
Already one lesson of the pandemic is clear: America’s deep and brutal fault lines - of race, partisanship, gender, poverty and misinformation - rendered the country ill-prepared to meet the challenges of this disease. The ravages of Covid-19 have revealed the deep cracks in the glittering facade of the richest and most powerful nation on Earth.
I strongly recommend reading the whole thing.
Little soul,
maybe you have no water
no spring
no well
but at least
you still have tears.— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) May 28, 2020
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
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well. that’s an objective, non-partisan panel if I’ve ever seen one…
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Two tweets from the same day in October. pic.twitter.com/rsSslLCsTW
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 28, 2020
moron, late as usual
We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
re: #138 The Pie Overlord!
And then there was VB, who was kicked off Twitter for no reason whatever. I think I called Tomi Lahren “Gestapo Barbie” and got reported by her botswarm.
i had VB in mind when i said ‘most’
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
Same here - groceries go in a bag, I drink a soda, and the only acceptable chili burger is from Tommy’s.
the original? at Beverly and Rampart?
Best at 2-3 am, when most of the crowd is coming from last call at a nightclub.
re: #43 Targetpractice
In a matter of years, in a matter of decades, the Scottish people passed the English people in engineering, and in the sciences. And it’s because they challenged themselves to be better, and not to be worse.
So blacks could improve themselves by learning to play the bagpipes, wearing kilts and telling the captain that they cannae change the laws o’ physics?
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Still think atheists have no morals?
They cannot comprehend how anyone can be moral unless they are afraid of eternal hellfire and damnation.
re: #84 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They don’t care about life, only controlling others
a) women are property
b) fear of pregnancy is what keeps them in line
c) non-virgins at marriage are damaged goods
Wednesday morning around 0900 I went to grocery store where about 75% of shoppers were wearing masks. One clown, not wearing a mask, started giving me a ration of shit about my mask. I explained to him that, as a medic, I have contact with sick people, I don’t know what I may be spreading, so, I wear a mask to protect people from me. He went on a rant that Trump would have been proud of.Shortly after 2300 hours Wednesday night, we were dispatched for 72 year old male difficulty breathing, chest pains. Got on the scene — BP was 200/105; pulse was 80-90; respirations 20-22, rapid and shallow, O2 sats 88%; severe wheezing on exhale and inhale. ECG showed normal sinus rhythm — this guy was in serious respiratory distress. Low O2 would soon lead to cardiac difficulty, so, I had to get his breathing to normal and get some oxygen in him.
Loaded him in the ambulance and hauled ass for the hospital 35 miles away. Meanwhile, I put him on albuterol-Atrovent nebulizer, CPAP and high-flow O2, got his respiration almost to normal, got his BP down a bit; O2 sats came up to low 90%; lung sounds still wheezing; basically saved his life.
By now you have probably guessed he was the same guy who accosted me at the grocery store. And, yes, he recognized me enroute to the ER.
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So blacks could improve themselves by learning to play the bagpipes, wearing kilts and telling the captain that they cannae change the laws o’ physics?
Aye!
re: #149 sagehen
the original? at Beverly and Rampart?
Best at 2-3 am, when most of the crowd is coming from last call at a nightclub.
Yep, that’s the one. Took my ex-wife there. She was a little reluctant at first….she was convinced she was gonna get ptomaine or something, LOL. But she ended up loving it.
WE’VE SUFFERED THROUGH 3-1/2 YEARS OF YOUR INSANITY, KAREN. #PresidentKaren pic.twitter.com/LccxSKSVcS
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) May 27, 2020
#PresidentKaren really is upset. Maybe Twitter should just suspend his account until he cools off. https://t.co/blJHeYxRNK
— Think. (@BireshT) May 28, 2020
re: #155 Dr Lizardo
Yep, that’s the one. Took my ex-wife there. She was a little reluctant at first….she was convinced she was gonna get ptomaine or something, LOL. But she ended up loving it.
The original Tommy’s on Rampart is where you need to go for the full experience. The franchises just don’t offer the same ambience…or numerous paper towel dispensers!
there is an 80% consensus trump is mentally unfit for office across the full spectrum of voters. if everyone started being blunt this fact would be more conventional. the only honest disagreement remaining is over whether to put up with it or not.
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 27, 2020
re: #157 Joe Bacon 🌹
The original Tommy’s on Rampart is where you need to go for the full experience. The franchises just don’t offer the same ambience…or numerous paper towel dispensers!
Oh I entirely agree. I told one my students to go there when she was visiting L.A. with her family. She was raving about it when she got back. That’s one thing I truly miss about L.A. And I also miss Vallarta Supermarkets.
re: #129 sagehen
Grew up in a Los Angeles suburb.
I put my groceries in a bag, my carbonated sugar drink is a soda, and the sandwich on a long roll is a hoagie.
I’m with ya on Bag. We had pop, but somewhere along the way I started calling it Soda-pop. Maybe because WI & other close states used soda? And my sammich was a sub.
re: #148 Belafon
That’s not him.
Nope. Not him at all. No weird capitalization, no name calling. Absolutely not him.
re: #153 Belafon
Wednesday morning around 0900 I went to grocery store where about 75% of shoppers were wearing masks. One clown, not wearing a mask, started giving me a ration of shit about my mask. I explained to him that, as a medic, I have contact with sick people, I don’t know what I may be spreading, so, I wear a mask to protect people from me. He went on a rant that Trump would have been proud of.
This is the part that I cannot get over. How or why do they feel put upon by people wearing masks?
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the part that I cannot get over. How or why do they feel put upon by people wearing masks?
Because the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine programmed them to act that way.
‘I’m entitled’: Kayleigh McEnany defends her 11 mail-in votes while calling it ‘fraud’ for the masses
— And the Wind Cries “Not liked or respected!” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 28, 2020
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They cannot comprehend how anyone can be moral unless they are afraid of eternal hellfire and damnation.
which defines morality as blackmail
re: #160 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m with ya on Bag. We had pop, but somewhere along the way I started calling it Soda-pop. Maybe because WI & other close states used soda? And my sammich was a sub.
In Michigan we drink pop, eat subs and put our groceries in bags. Our favorite beverages are Red Pop (Faygo cherry) and Vernor’s.
re: #165 Joe Bacon 🌹
‘I’m entitled’: Kayleigh McEnany defends her 11 mail-in votes while calling it ‘fraud’ for the masses
That’s the kind of stuff I like posting on Facebook, and I will later.
I wish the whole country would watch this.
Devastating.
— Tynisa the Cynical Gen X Witch Walker (@Kalarigamerchic) May 28, 2020
Oh I got a feeling THE ONION is telling the truth about this!
Jack Dorsey Assures Twitter Users That Company Having Most Idiotic Possible Internal Conversations About Trump’s Account
“Believe me when I say that our top dimwits are engaged in absolutely fucking moronic discussions about what Trump tweets. Our emails and Slack channels are full of cringingly short-sighted and searingly stupid ideas, because at Twitter we address concerns as thoughtlessly and with as little intelligence as we can. We want our users to understand that no matter what side of this or any issue you fall on, we promise to find a resolution that doesn’t solve anything, exacerbates the problem, and makes everyone mad.” At press time, Dorsey responded to outcry by assuring Twitter users that all of their most idiotic and bafflingly uninformed suggestions were being heard.
re: #165 Joe Bacon 🌹
‘I’m entitled’: Kayleigh McEnany defends her 11 mail-in votes while calling it ‘fraud’ for the masses
totally predictable
it’s ok for me
re: #160 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m with ya on Bag. We had pop, but somewhere along the way I started calling it Soda-pop. Maybe because WI & other close states used soda? And my sammich was a sub.
i’ve eaten subs, heroes, hoagies, grinders, wedges etc
for some reason they all taste pretty much the same ;-)
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron, late as usual
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#RichMitch is trending nationally. @ProjectLincoln members, supporters & the Army of the Decent crowdsourced this idea & target. Help @AmyMcGrathKY put @senatemajldr in the history books for “not a damned thing.” https://t.co/8XLe83DeAT
— John Weaver (@jwgop) May 28, 2020
re: #129 sagehen
Grew up in a Los Angeles suburb.
I put my groceries in a bag, my carbonated sugar drink is a soda, and the sandwich on a long roll is a hoagie.
I grew up in Texas hearing and saying “Do you want a coke? Yeah, I’ll take a Dr Pepper.” Over time, I’ve changed to using soda instead of coke. Even though I’m still in Texas, living around DFW that doesn’t get a look like it would in Abilene.
re: #170 plansbandc
I wish the whole country would watch this.
Devastating.
Can you give me a one line summary?
re: #177 Belafon
Black woman’s testimony about her fears for her autistic son and police brutality.
First World Tech Issues
Bruce Lee is reminding me a lot today to “be like water” because I am working the
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Kind of amazing where we are as a country now that we just casually say things like:
“The President didn’t write that Tweet because it’s coherent and everything is spelled correctly.”
Pittsburghers “redd” up their room, use “gumbands”, drink “pop”, watch the “Stillers”, eat “dippy eggs” for breakfast, wake up and put on their “gutchies”, call friends “yunz”, drink “Arn City” with their Primanti sandwiches, dump fries in their salads, and we’re “out” when we’re asleep.
Oh and look out for the potholes and PennDot signs, too!
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So blacks could improve themselves by learning to play the bagpipes, wearing kilts and telling the captain that they cannae change the laws o’ physics?
Some have, but that’s not why they call it The Black Watch.
re: #181 mmmirele
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re: #183 Joe Bacon 🌹
Pittsburghers “redd” up their room, use “gumbands”, drink “pop”, watch the “Stillers”, eat “dippy eggs” for breakfast, wake up and put on their “gutchies”, call friends “yunz”, drink “Arn City” with their Primanti sandwiches, dump fries in their salads, and we’re “out” when we’re asleep.
Oh and look out for the potholes and PennDot signs, too!
And now I’m cooped up in the Heart of Fukn’ Dixie, working on my mullet.
re: #167 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
which defines morality as blackmail
It also assumes that without this threat of eternal hellfire, we would spend all our free time whoring, drinking, fighting, gambling and stealing…
I guess there are people like that who need a strict moral corset to keep them working and praying and too tired to do anything else except go to church to be reminded of the wages of sin…
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So blacks could improve themselves by learning to play the bagpipes, wearing kilts and telling the captain that they cannae change the laws o’ physics?
Gosh, could KKKandy be right?
re: #178 plansbandc
Black woman’s testimony about her fears for her autistic son and police brutality.
Ah. I figured something like that or maybe after it had already happened.
I have similar fears about my Asian schizophrenic son. Combine that with the current racist asshole moment against Asians in general (they’re all from China and all spreading the hoax disease…)
re: #168 The Pie Overlord!
In Michigan we drink pop, eat subs and put our groceries in bags. Our favorite beverages are Red Pop (Faygo cherry) and Vernor’s.
Red Pop for me has always been Barq’s Red Cream Soda (Greater Cincinnati area)
re: #188 Joe Bacon 🌹
That freaking worked, very tight combo.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
Red Pop for me has always been Barq’s Red Cream Soda (Greater Cincinnati area)
Ah yes - Cincinnati: home of Skyline Chili, Gold Star Chili and La Rosa’s pizza. Now how they could call Skyline and Gold Star Chili chili, well…
re: #188 Joe Bacon 🌹
Fun one, Joe!
Reminded me of a Colorado RenFaire act, Celtic Legacy — drum & bagpipe band, one of their signature tunes is ‘Tequila.’
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
My fave red pop is Cheer Wine. Wish it would have been available in Colorado when I was a kid. Only got to try it because I went to the south in ‘08.
Cracker Barrel carries it sometimes. NOM
When I was a tiny kid, we had a regional pop called Duffy’s. The lemon lime flavor was my fave. So long ago. Sometimes I wish I could go back, just for a bit.
Someone here posted this week about how Boogaloo guys were heading to Minneapolis to cause violence. I have that post in mind when I read all the stories about how Minneapolis erupted in violence last night.
Minneapolis shuddered with violence overnight Wednesday, as rioters ignited fires and looted stores all over the city, standing in stark contrast to the mostly peaceful protests outside of a South Side police station over the police killing of George Floyd.
Early Thursday, city and law enforcement officials were still tallying the full toll of the night, which saw at least five people struck by gunfire, one fatally when the owner of a pawn shop opened fire on a man he believed was burglarizing his business. Dozens of businesses were either looted or torched, or both, mostly in the area of Minnehaha Avenue and E. Lake Street, but also along business corridors on the city’s North and South sides.
re: #193 CleverToad
Fun one, Joe!
Reminded me of a Colorado RenFaire act, Celtic Legacy — drum & bagpipe band, one of their signature tunes is ‘Tequila.’
Hava Naguila also works well on the bagpipes
re: #195 stpaulbear
This feels like Michael Brown and Ferguson all over again…
re: #195 stpaulbear
Someone here posted this week about how Boogaloo guys were heading to Minneapolis to cause violence. I have that post in mind when I read all the stories about how Minneapolis erupted in violence last night.
I posted that about the Boogaloo thugs.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
This feels like Michael Brown and Ferguson all over again…
Rodney Kind all over again, for chrissakes…because we have made very little progress at addressing the underlying issues.
re: #199 stpaulbear
It feels like things are going to become very soupy and ugly in Minneapolis. It’s going to be very difficult to determine all the motives of players in the violence.
Needs more Insane Clown Posse.
Barr’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
Gonna find out
Who’s naughty and nice
Bill Barr and the White House plan to collect information on social media users when Trump signs Executive Order: reports
OH ACLU! WHERE ARE YOU???????
re: #166 Dave In Austin
re: #179 Eventual Carrion
What is old is new again pic.twitter.com/8DFq1sjLSo
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 28, 2020
re: #125 Joe Bacon 🌹
SMOTI and Ginger Snapped crying because they got left off…
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what—no danny bonaduci? no potzy? what kind of a fucking kids birthday party is this without more D level celebrities?
The preliminary forecasts for Saturday & Sunday are out: 40% GO for both days. Jeez. 😬
Due to ISS phasing, the next launch opportunities afterwards would take place on June 3rd & 4th, with T-0 getting earlier each day. Let’s hope the weather cooperates! #NASA #SpaceX #Demo2 pic.twitter.com/xzwsAs6FC9— Tyler Gray (@TylerG1998) May 28, 2020
re: #159 Dr Lizardo
Oh I entirely agree. I told one my students to go there when she was visiting L.A. with her family. She was raving about it when she got back. That’s one thing I truly miss about L.A. And I also miss Vallarta Supermarkets.
When I was a teen (in the OC) we made hundreds of pilgrimages to Tommy’s. Someday I will tell the stories.
re: #202 Joe Bacon 🌹
Barr’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
Gonna find out
Who’s naughty and niceBill Barr and the White House plan to collect information on social media users when Trump signs Executive Order: reports
OH ACLU! WHERE ARE YOU???????
Guess I’ll be on that list along with a few other Lizards.
re: #140 stpaulbear
A co-worker calls them butts-up birds.
re: #202 Joe Bacon 🌹
Barr’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
Gonna find out
Who’s naughty and niceBill Barr and the White House plan to collect information on social media users when Trump signs Executive Order: reports
OH ACLU! WHERE ARE YOU???????
The EO has to be signed first before they can file, but I don’t expect this one to stand up in any court. If you get in front of a wavering judge, just say “When President Biden starts…”
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron, late as usual
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Oh look, thoughts and prayers. As usual, without any meaningful introspection.
re: #195 stpaulbear
A lot of the videos I saw on Twitter showed a lot of Caucasian’s doing the damage.
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
The men and women of the National Guard have been doing a great job fighting the CoronaVirus. This week, I will extend their Title 32 orders through mid-August, so they can continue to help States succeed in their response and recovery efforts.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
re: #212 Eric The Fruit Bat
A lot of the videos I saw on Twitter showed a lot of Caucasian’s doing the damage.
I am not surprised about this. Three percenters and oathkeepers, etc. trying to start their long desired race war. These guys GET OFF on this kind of stuff. It’s an adrenaline thrill for them.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
Free Kindle book today:
1123 Hard To Believe Facts: From the Creator of the Popular Trivia Website RaiseYourBrain.com (Paramount Trivia and Quizzes Book 1)
Excellent! Thank you!!
re: #210 Belafon
The EO has to be signed first before they can file, but I don’t expect this one to stand up in any court. If you get in front of a wavering judge, just say “When President Biden starts…”
But we should get rid of the FISA courts because no one should be spying on foreign agents talking to Americans.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
Somebody musta pointed out that those people all vote…
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
Good for the troops.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
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re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
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Do you think the rank and file know this? Or will it be a THANKS TRUMP?
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
Thank you, Rachel.
re: #214 Eclectic Cyborg
I am not surprised about this. Three percenters and oathkeepers, etc. trying to start their long desired race war. These guys GET OFF on this kind of stuff. It’s an adrenaline thrill for them.
And it’s not their neighborhoods that get hurt.
.@RudyGiuliani has teamed up w/ a cannabis entrepreneur to make a Biden-Ukraine “documentary” that one source calls Giuliani’s attempted “kill shot” on Biden. They’re looking for $1 million-investors. Pls read my scoop (with @dfriedman33 & @russchoma).https://t.co/aQ8Xb30Ds8
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 28, 2020
re: #214 Eclectic Cyborg
I am not surprised about this. Three percenters and oathkeepers, etc. trying to start their long desired race war. These guys GET OFF on this kind of stuff. It’s an adrenaline thrill for them.
It’s time to blow the dust off of President Grant’s Force and KKK Acts and shut these tiny pee pee pals down!
Fox: Bugaloo Boys have the right to carry arms
Fox: “These” protestors are flitering with disaster by carrying arms https://t.co/NgB7SBhyJX— Buffalo Headed Hiker 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇱🇫🇷🇮🇸 (@DermotNCosgrove) May 28, 2020
There is always a fucking tweet. Look at this jackass. https://t.co/EBPQ97f2Fo
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) May 28, 2020
More than 100 thousand Americans dead and Trump finally sprung into action yesterday and did an Executive Order - not nationalizing the supply chain for PPE, not for testing, not safer schools, not treatments or distribution of a vaccine, but to whine about social media.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 28, 2020
Nancy Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, says Mark Zuckerberg’s comments objecting to Facebook fact-checking politicians were “a disgrace.”
“I don’t know if there’s honor among thieves,” she says. “But they only have a business model to make money. Not to convey facts.”— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 28, 2020
JFC
So ridiculous to see Twitter trying to make the case that Mail-In Ballots are not subject to FRAUD. How stupid, there are examples, & cases, all over the place. Our election process will become badly tainted & a laughingstock all over the World. Tell that to your hater @yoyoel
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2020
Trump campaign attempts to remove satirical cartoon from online retailer @cbldf @AAEC_Cartoonist https://t.co/JE10F0BcXn
— Nick_Anderson_ (@Nick_Anderson_) May 28, 2020
It’s almost like a physical manifestation of the lack of science that drives the anti-5G conspiracy nuts. https://t.co/iiS2zFETUw
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) May 28, 2020
ter·ror·ism
/ˈterəˌrizəm/
noun: terrorism
the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 28, 2020
Seems like @SenatorCollins may have been wrong about Trump learning his lesson.
— George Mitchell (@RealThndrMonkey) May 28, 2020
So finally picked up my project from the gunsmith:
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re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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— P. T. Barnum
NOT GOOD. “The draft order also requires the Attorney General to establish a working group including state attorneys general that will…monitor or create watch-lists of users based on their interactions with content or other users.” https://t.co/u0VE9g9s1E
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) May 28, 2020
re: #235 William Lewis
So finally picked up my project from the gunsmith:
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One of my FB R’s just said that Biden is the new Jerry Sandusky. This is a person I know in real life.
re: #225 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Fox: Bugaloo Boys have the right to carry arms
Fox: “These” protestors are flitering with disaster by carrying arms
What does the NRA have to say about this textbook expression of 2A rights?
re: #235 William Lewis
So finally picked up my project from the gunsmith:
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The “small government” people are planning to make “lists” of Americans exercising free speech. https://t.co/F3GrIWdlHo
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 28, 2020
re: #235 William Lewis
So finally picked up my project from the gunsmith:
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re: #242 jaunte
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Is that the real Lifebuoy with carbolic acid? I remember that smell as a kid!
re: #243 jaunte
Yep. Republicans would have been in the streets with guns if Obama had tried this.
re: #241 Eventual Carrion
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re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
And thanks to the bad press on the National Guard debacle, he caved:
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Trump is a bully who caves when confronted with truly bad press, except when it concerns his core “pledge” to his base.
Weren’t we supposed to see the EO on monitoring social media sometime yesterday? My guess is that this is another rant on a policy that will never see the light of day.
re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter
It is probably a rant because his feelings were hurt.
re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Why didn’t I think of this? I’d be rolling in dough!!
The £339 anti-5G devices that promise to enable people to survive evil radio waves are really just £5 USB drives with an extra holographic sticker. https://t.co/Wh1I3uvXrr
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) May 28, 2020
The anti-5G conspiracy theory is starting to take off here in Czech Republic, being pushed by the “alternative media” (IOW, pro-Kremlin internet conspiracy peddlers).
its the internet, counsellor pic.twitter.com/YEFuPQ8Qqj
— Swear Trek (@swear_trek) May 28, 2020
re: #249 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump is a bully who caves when confronted with truly bad press, except when it concerns his core “pledge” to his base.
Weren’t we supposed to see the EO on monitoring social media sometime yesterday? My guess is that this is another rant that on a policy that will never see the light of day.
From bits and pieces I’ve seen on line today, it looks like the “EO” is supposed to involve DoJ/ AG Barr wasting government lawyers’ time setting up some sort of “monitoring” project for social media (?).
re: #252 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Very nice! I like the old classics like that.
3/ “Warrior training” exposed to be dangerous and ineffective. Minneapolis’ mayor bans it. The police chief doesn’t want it. But the retrograde police union led by a “Cops for Trump” type keep offering. Read more about it: https://t.co/LoSD6ZnFOk
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) May 28, 2020
re: #251 Dr Lizardo
Why didn’t I think of this? I’d be rolling in dough!!
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The anti-5G conspiracy theory is starting to take off here in Czech Republic, being pushed by the “alternative media” (IOW, pro-Kremlin internet conspiracy peddlers).
Hmm, who’s selling those things? (With oil prices still way down, Putin needs to find money somewhere.)
re: #257 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
lol
OFFS
Obama-Biden didn’t cause 25% unemployment or destroy the US economy. Obama left a stable growing economy. Trump caused economy to collapse.
Trump built that.
These people are awful at being liars. They don’t care. They know their base are racists and that’s all that matters.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 28, 2020
re: #254 Jay C
From bits and pieces I’ve seen on line today, it looks like the “EO” is supposed to involve DoJ/ AG Barr wasting government lawyers’ time setting up some sort of “monitoring” project for social media (?).
What if they monitor for threats of violence? Though it can be a challenge to distinguish between hyperbole and a true threat when an algorithm is looking at posts. On many a past occasion I have said I was going to kill someone — where “kill” meant criticizing the target.
re: #256 Patricia Kayden
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* - Though “kill or be kill”, fostering fear (and using it as a excuse to kill “others”), and being prepared to be a force of oppression might well be the point to them.
“Instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism https://t.co/PMX9emWKsk— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) May 27, 2020
Remember, there are people in this country who want a race war because they think they can win it and use it as a springboard to seize power…
re: #256 Patricia Kayden
“Killology???”
This is a thing now??
Sweet Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
What the fuck is wrong with us?
re: #251 Dr Lizardo
The £339 anti-5G devices that promise to enable people to survive evil radio waves are really just £5 USB drives with an extra holographic sticker.
Is that like my patented special finger-snap rhythm that protects me from tigers? In Manhattan?
re: #259 lawhawk
Trumo is the “Florida Man” of Presidents.
re: #245 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Was this not already allowed? https://t.co/heh09z6u7q
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 28, 2020
How am I supposed to know how big a gun I need if I have to wear pants to the gun store?
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 28, 2020
re: #265 sagehen
Well there are those who would say that there is a sucker born every minute. There are also snake oil salesmen who will sell you anything to make a buck.
Apropos of nothing in particular, but could our stupid media stop making it seem like an economic recovery is on the horizon now that there are fewer people applying for UI benefits?
This is misleading as hell. Yeah fewer people are applying because there’s FORTY MILLION people who lost their jobs and countless others who either don’t qualify for benefits or have exhausted benefits and are no longer counted in the numbers.
The lack of just basic critical thinking in this country is depressing as fuck.
Dude ain’t in charge of your day and your nights. He ain’t even Tony Danza https://t.co/jmnhIdVGAD
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 28, 2020
re: #269 A Mom Anon
Apropos of nothing in particular, but could our stupid media stop making it seem like an economic recovery is on the horizon now that there are fewer people applying for UI benefits?
This is misleading as hell. Yeah fewer people are applying because there’s FORTY MILLION people who lost their jobs and countless others who either don’t qualify for benefits or have exhausted benefits and are no longer counted in the numbers.
The lack of just basic critical thinking in this country is depressing as fuck.
This is because it was not a gradual climb as in most economic downturns, but a rapid spike resulting from a crisis.
They fucking well know that, but they have an agenda to peddle…
re: #262 gocart mozart
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I got a feeling that ass doesn’t have cancer…but he may have something else…
Oh! Hey Chachi. Apologies, I didn’t see you. I’ll keep it short. Joe Biden didn’t say, “Then you ain’t an ape.”
Well, let me get back to work…I hope you enjoy whatever it is that you do. https://t.co/vqHv7fmqgh— Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) May 27, 2020
Man who demanded an apology from Saturday Night Live says people oughta lighten up. https://t.co/GYwWrMnUQF
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 28, 2020
Never underestimate Robert E.T. #GRANT https://t.co/HLLmo9iqT0
— Kevin M. Levin (@KevinLevin) May 28, 2020
It’s only Thursday but I see Tomi, Scott Baio, Andy Ngo and Dan Crenshaw trending on Twitter…
This is my personal hell. The economy collapses, we’re all out of a job, and the only work available is sitting for 12 hours in a cubicle reading complaints about who said what to who on facebook.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 28, 2020
We blew past Orwell a month ago and are deep into Kafka.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ve met Yoel in the course of my job, and he is one of the nicest guys you can imagine. I feel literally sick for him right now.
re: #257 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I can imagine those things would be cheap as hell to make. There’s really nothing to it.
re: #265 sagehen
Is that like my patented special finger-snap rhythm that protects me from tigers? In Manhattan?
Just a little more expensive.
Edit: speling :-)
re: #269 A Mom Anon
Apropos of nothing in particular, but could our stupid media stop making it seem like an economic recovery is on the horizon now that there are fewer people applying for UI benefits?
This is misleading as hell. Yeah fewer people are applying because there’s FORTY MILLION people who lost their jobs and countless others who either don’t qualify for benefits or have exhausted benefits and are no longer counted in the numbers.
The lack of just basic critical thinking in this country is depressing as fuck.
Chatted with the investment advisor who handles my accounts at my bank (much of it an inheritance from my late uncle); he told me yesterday that the bank itself (Canadian bank) believes that there will be major recovery starting in late August, though he personally believes the recovery will be starting in January. Of course, their definition of recovery may relate solely to the market.
But who knows what will actually be happening to the real economy? Can we really trust any of the statistics from the government in a Trump administration? I feel like the mirror image of the ODS racists who disbelieved everything from the Obama administration. Florida handling of the pandemic certainly is an illustration of how statistics can be manipulated.
re: #276 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s only Thursday but I see Tomi, Scott Baio, Andy Ngo and Dan Crenshaw trending on Twitter…
The Four Treasons.
re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Apparently the ten minute warning siren has been sounded
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should fire around 59 minutes past the hour, whichever hour you may reside in
The Israeli intelligence front even produced after action reports all about how social media manipulation worked to elect Trump.
It was ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES skillsets that went into this analysis. https://t.co/sP6JwtGtc9 pic.twitter.com/ZrO3KscFZr— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) May 28, 2020
Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats:
Confirmed Cases: 2,595
Deaths: 248 (+6?)
Like I surmised, the on-the-fly data updates make day to day difference tracking inaccurate. Yesterday’s +6 confirmed cases is now +31.
Doubling rate on confirmed cases is over 30 now - data only goes back a month on the county web site I’m using.
Total tests around 14,000. County pop is ~525,000. Obviously insufficient for a general reopening of businesses. Piled onto this is GOP state reps testing positive for COVID-19 and not being open about this beyond telling their fellow GOP legislators. I guess the facts weren’t playing well with their “reopen the state” rhetoric aimed at the governor.
re: #277 jaunte
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We blew past Orwell a month ago and are deep into Kafka.
And I think Trump already woke up one morning and realized he was a giant cockroach.
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One hopeful sign for the future: npr.org
May we see many more of these party switches in the next few months.
you are an anti-semitic shit-peddling liar. please go away. https://t.co/8rz5vJXwAu
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 28, 2020
sorry, but the press created this monster; https://t.co/cxcpweMjM4
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 28, 2020
re: #284 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
should fire around 59 minutes past the hour, whichever hour you may reside in
Maybe a little longer
lol
re: #290 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I can damned near guarantee it’s these fucking Nazi/incel/military cosplay motherfuckers doing some of this shit.
New poll finds @SenatorCollins down by nearly double digits in her 2020 #MEsen race: https://t.co/kvaLtjR8C4
Sara Gideon (D): 51%
Susan Collins (R-inc.): 42% pic.twitter.com/D0Sy4FQ4hQ— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 28, 2020
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
See also: Soros funded caravans, white genocide retweets and Tree of Life synagogue murders
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