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b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:37:19am

That Trump guy, Fuck Him.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:38:05am

Got CL’d. And….fuck Trump.

If Trump’s “triumph of the will” rally gets the ax as a result of that determination, his meltdown is gonna be one for the ages.

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gwangung  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:41:27am

FUCK TRUMP.

(And, yeah, facial recognition is not a good thing..)

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lawhawk  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:43:12am

re: #2 Dr Lizardo

Fuck him and his meltdown. Our economy suffered a Fukushima style meltdown due to his complete failure to deal with covid19 in anything resembling competency. Heck, even using the word competency and Trump in the same sentence might result in a time-space rupture.

His failures caused our economy to collapse, to see 117,000+ deaths to date, and unemployment rates triple in record time.

About half the states that have reopened so far shouldn’t have. They’re seeing cases trending up, they’re not meeting the testing penetration set by the CDC or have elevated ICU usage due to covid19. And we’re into summer time here and warmer weather isn’t making covid19 disappear. In fact, the cases are growing in the hottest parts of the country.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:43:42am

re: #2 Dr Lizardo

Got CL’d. And….fuck Trump.

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If Trump’s “triumph of the will” rally gets the ax as a result of that determination, his meltdown is gonna be one for the ages.

Wow! If he can’t keep Oklahoma on board with his act, he is well and truly finished.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:46:50am
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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:47:22am
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Ferdinand  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:48:35am

re: #2 Dr Lizardo

I cannot imagine our wingnut Gov. Stitt implementing any restrictions state-wide based on this news. Our closures were small scale as it was, with OKC and Tulsa having to basically go on their own with since-lifted restrictions. And, this means that a shit ton of people are going to come to Tulsa and bring more virus here, mix it up and then bring it back too to their points of origin. Just a fucking horror show any way you look at it.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:50:44am

Biden event really well. You can make calls to other states if you feel yours is already safe for Biden or won’t flip for Trump. I’m planning on making calls as we get closer to the election but check out these links. All in all it was encouraging.
go.joebiden.com
voice.google.com
joebiden.com
go.joebiden.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:51:50am

re: #2 Dr Lizardo

We are entering a precarious situation RE Covid-19.

As cases climb, some states may move to impose lockdowns again and if you thought the resistance to them was bad the first time well….round two might be even worse.

And the stupid thing is people would just be smarter and wear masks more often we wouldn’t be talking about a potential second lockdown because there would be no need for one.

But instead of smart people we’ve got thousands of yahoos on their way to a Trump rally next week that could become a flashpoint for a new infection and more packed clubs and restaurants sure to follow for July 4th.

America, Fuck Yeah!!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:52:01am

World in flames! Treason and violence everywhere! Disaster! Pestilence! War! Trump still in office!

Emergency mass cute infusion:

😍 Cute Puppies Doing Funny Things 2020 😍 #8 | Cute VN

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lawhawk  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:53:34am

Read the entire thread… it’s hilarious.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:55:02am

re: #8 Ferdinand

Sadly, you’re probably right. And COVID-19 cases are going to increase - as duly noted, warmer late spring/early summer temperatures don’t seem to be doing much to inhibit the spread of the virus.

The economy is likely going to crater even further, and by the time election day rolls around, the US could be facing an added disaster, the collateralized loan obligations bubble blowing up.

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John_Manyjars  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:56:41am

re: #8 Ferdinand

A lot of this going on in ‘enlightened, liberal’ CA too. Just swarms of people milling around with no masks, eating, drinking, etc. All the sacrifice of the lockdown is going to be for nothing. Full stop.

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John_Manyjars  Jun 15, 2020 • 10:58:03am

re: #13 Dr Lizardo

Guayaquil, Ecuador was an ominous portent of the ‘warm weather’ somehow stopping Covid-19, it’s warm all the time there and the city is choked with cases.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:00:14am

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Wow! If he can’t keep Oklahoma on board with his act, he is well and truly finished.

well support hjm.but we really would really rather not die doing it

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lawhawk  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:01:24am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

*ding ding ding*
Winner winner chicken dinner!

States that have shut down once already will be hard pressed to shut down again as cases climb. Heck, Cuomo’s taking heat for threatening to shut down the Hamptons and Manhattan after the lack of social distancing and protocol violations seen in videos and photos from over the weekend.

He’s right to do so, and it’s as if people have the attention span of a gnat. The pandemic isn’t done. We just got some time before the ICUs fill to capacity again. It’s still there.

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John_Manyjars  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:02:18am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m in South Korea right now, on the health immigration forms the US is lumped in with ‘3rd-world’ countries thanks to tRump and his morons. I’m ashamed to be an American for the first time in my life.

And sure enough, the only person I’ve seen not wearing a mask so far at our hotel is…American.

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:06:21am

Summer in Wisconsin. One thing I do not miss about my farm childhood is hay season…

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goddamnedfrank  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:08:14am
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:11:14am

re: #20 goddamnedfrank

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I don’t see how overturning the ACA in a election year isn’t the best gift to the Biden Campaign. (I don’t think they will vote to overturn).

It seems they are more hateful than intelligent.

fuck all of them.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:13:26am

re: #21 I Would Prefer Not To

I don’t see how overturning the ACA in a election year isn’t the best gift to the Biden Campaign. (I don’t think they will vote to overturn).

It seems they are more hateful than intelligent.

fuck all of them.

Seems like their hatred is overriding their political survival instincts. Quite remarkable to see.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:13:33am
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:13:45am

re: #12 lawhawk

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Read the entire thread… it’s hilarious.

I’m curious how Trump’s new rule about denying health coverage to gays and trans will play against this.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:13:53am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:14:49am

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

Fucking Trump. Literally any other person who ran for this office in 2016 would have done better. They’d have nationalized the testing effort, put the DPA into action to make PPE and ventilators, and distribute them. They’d have a NATIONAL plan to deal with an epidemic that doesn’t care about state borders. They’d have WORN A MASK in public and encouraged others to. They could have made the “We need to come together, and be willing to take a hit personally to save lives. We can get through this” speech and meant it.

Instead, the response has been a patchwork, exacerbated by Trump pretending everything was fine and demanding his sycophants also pretend. Because we didn’t do the national ramp up in testing, at the end of 1 1/2 months of lockdown, we were STILL far away from testing enough people.

Because our President sees EVERYTHING solely in terms of his own popularity and election prospects, and totally lacks human empathy and even the ability to fake that, we are where we are - everyone’s bored of COVID, and it’s just getting started on us.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:18:03am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:22:20am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Well that’s reassuring.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:26:18am

re: #17 lawhawk

*ding ding ding*
Winner winner chicken dinner!

States that have shut down once already will be hard pressed to shut down again as cases climb. Heck, Cuomo’s taking heat for threatening to shut down the Hamptons and Manhattan after the lack of social distancing and protocol violations seen in videos and photos from over the weekend.

He’s right to do so, and it’s as if people have the attention span of a gnat. The pandemic isn’t done. We just got some time before the ICUs fill to capacity again. It’s still there.

They think their money will insulate them from the disease. They’re all like DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:29:02am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:29:55am

re: #28 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Well that’s reassuring.

Honestly, I worry less about big companies getting money that we may not feel they ‘deserve’ than I am about the GOP letting benefits dry up later this summer because they are afraid people won’t want to go back to work.

Matt Yglesias said last month that there are two things that could happen to the economy over the next year.

1) We rapidly regain 95% of where the economy was in January.

2) We’re mired in low growth and high unemployment.

Then he pointed out that these are the same scenario. 95% recovery leaves us as bad as the depths of the Great Recession, and even if - perhaps ESPECIALLY if - we take the WH and the Senate, the GOP will dig in its heels against doing anything fiscally to address it, same as 2009.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:30:17am
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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:34:32am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Just wait until the moratorium on evicting rental tenants expires. That’s gonna be a clusterfuck.

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:34:33am

Tailgunner Ted Cruz Needs a Hobby, and Starting a Fight Club Ain’t It
The Texas senator embarrassed himself in defense of Jim Jordan, the coatless nuisance from Ohio. Charlie Pierce

Granted, self-quarantining is getting to us all. But Lord save us, Senator Tailgunner Ted Cruz needs a hobby very badly.

The Tailgunner enlivened the electric Twitter machine for nearly 12 hours by getting in a wrangle with actor Ron Perlman in defense of Rep. Jim Jordan, the coatless nuisance from Ohio. Perlman first tangled with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Breathalyzer) and, in the course of their tussle, Perlman made a crack about Jordan. This proved to be Cruz’s cue to flounder into the hooley. Which he did, with spectacular results.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:36:13am

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

Honestly, I worry less about big companies getting money that we may not feel they ‘deserve’ than I am about the GOP letting benefits dry up later this summer because they are afraid people won’t want to go back to work.

Matt Yglesias said last month that there are two things that could happen to the economy over the next year.

1) We rapidly regain 95% of where the economy was in January.

2) We’re mired in low growth and high unemployment.

Then he pointed out that these are the same scenario. 95% recovery leaves us as bad as the depths of the Great Recession, and even if - perhaps ESPECIALLY if - we take the WH and the Senate, the GOP will dig in its heels against doing anything fiscally to address it, same as 2009.

Fair points.

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Mike Lamb  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:36:28am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

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Is where someone tweets at you “You’re surprised by this?”?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:40:14am

re: #32 Charles Johnson

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What happened to it is that the CARES act was actually an effective cushion, which has left us with Great Depression-level unemployment without Great Depression-level deprivation. A lot of that was the big boost in Unemployment Insurance benefits, as well as the PPP. Those two things have created the false impression that things aren’t as bad as they seem.

But, you know, nobody’s flying. Airlines can’t survive on 10% of their old bookings, at least not with the old level of staffing. Restaurant can’t survive with 50% occupancy, nor can hotels. Gyms are going under because they’re one of the best places to catch this shit.

And the GOP is starting to grumble about giving working people money not to work, so they’re unlikely to do anything helpful when these benefits run out.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:40:15am

re: #34 retired cynic

Lol at “flounder into the hooley.”

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:44:10am

Ron Perlman slapped the living shit out of Cruz.

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:45:34am

Puritopian: See It, Learn It, Use It in a Sentence, by driftglass

Links to the Urban Dictionary.

Puritopian supersedes Emo Progressive. (Seen as too pejorative).

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:52:11am

my 91 yo mom just walked up a ramp

no cane
no handrails
not holding on to me
didn’t even think about it

no problem

she can drink with one hand too

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:54:38am

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA!

Coffee is becoming endangered! Whatever will we do? There is a fungus, plus the coffee trees are very susceptible to climate change, surviving only in a certain area.

atlasobscura.com

Shudder.

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:55:36am

re: #40 retired cynic

Puritopian: See It, Learn It, Use It in a Sentence, by driftglass

Links to the Urban Dictionary.

Been using it for years. Bernie bros HATE that word because it gets right to the core of their selfish egotism.

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:57:32am

re: #42 retired cynic

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA!

Coffee is becoming endangered! Whatever will we do? There is a fungus, plus the coffee trees are very susceptible to climate change, surviving only in a certain area.

atlasobscura.com

Shudder.

As long as tea is safe… < he whispers in quiet terror… >

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:58:14am

re: #42 retired cynic

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA!

Coffee is becoming endangered! Whatever will we do? There is a fungus, plus the coffee trees are very susceptible to climate change, surviving only in a certain area.

atlasobscura.com

Shudder.

Same with cocoa beans surviving in specific climates.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:58:43am
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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 11:59:39am

re: #39 nines09

Ron Perlman slapped the living shit out of Cruz.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:00:44pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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Trump’s peasants.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:01:23pm

re: #47 Jebediah, RBG

Ted never even wiped Trumps spit off his wifes’ face.
I predict his kids will disown him in the future.
Punk is as punk do.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:02:28pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:02:56pm

re: #47 Jebediah, RBG

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Why did Cruz thought this would be a good look for him is beyond me.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:03:21pm

re: #49 nines09

Ted never even wiped Trumps spit off his wifes’ face.
I predict his kids will disown him in the future.
Punk is as punk do.

Exactly.
I have a million reasons to be proud of MY dad. Ted’s kids? Yeah, not so much.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:03:46pm

Toto’s Africa played by Tesla coils:

nerdist.com

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:05:20pm

re: #49 nines09

Ted never even wiped Trumps spit off his wifes’ face.
I predict his kids will disown him in the future.
Punk is as punk do.

Trump called his dad a murderer. Brave Sir Ted showed him by enthusiastically supporting his agenda. These guys like to think they’re tough but they’re just like Biff’s sidekicks in BtF. They’re not particularly memorable and they got shit all over them.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:05:29pm
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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:05:57pm

re: #49 nines09

I predict his kids will disown him in the future.

Giphy

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:08:18pm
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:08:47pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

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“My son’s appendix burst!”
“I would love to help you, but the ICU is stacked with bodies for some unknown reason.”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:09:09pm

re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They think their money will insulate them from the disease. They’re all like DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

and the virus going (in best NY accent):
” who duh fuck are you?”

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:09:52pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:10:44pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

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and the cluster fuck that is unemployment pmts not even paid

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:11:18pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

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Since Trump left testing entirely up to the states he can’t stop it, fortunately.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:12:14pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:13:01pm

“Sir, it’s pouring out there! Everything is soaked”

“My report says there’s no rain.”

“Sir, your front yard is nearly flooded!”

“There are no records to support that.”

“They just closed the bridge three miles down the road because it’s IMPASSABLE right now!”

“That’s a Democrat plot to limit your freedoms. FAKE NEWS!”

“People are drowning!”

“That’s a matter of opinion.”

“I can show you videos!”

“These reports say there’s no rain so there’s no rain. Just beautiful clear skies.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:13:36pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

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HOLY SHITBALLS!!!!

I mean…

It’s….

I can’t…..

Um…..

HOLY SHITBALLS!!!!!

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:13:48pm

re: #41 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

my 91 yo mom just walked up a ramp

no cane
no handrails
not holding on to me
didn’t even think about it

no problem

she can drink with one hand too

She would be a much better President than Trump too.

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lawhawk  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:14:17pm

re: #60 jaunte

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:15:10pm

re: #63 teleskiguy

Conservatives: “Alito correctly states gender dysphoria didn’t exist as a concept until the 1980s so Title VII couldn’t protect lgbtq folks”
Also Conservatives: “The Founding Fathers specifically meant that all Americans should have assault weapons and grenade launchers”

This is a good example of why is it simplest to just assume that all conservative political arguments in the US are lies and bullshit crapped out by bad faith actors.

The only difference between Scalia and an average wingnut internet troll is that Scalia was better at pretending the lies and bullshit were in good faith.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:16:47pm

So the Evangelicals are pissed now? Good.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:17:58pm

re: #63 teleskiguy

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The term didn’t exist until the 80s, maybe, but people experiencing it have been around for a while.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:19:06pm

re: #69 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

So the Evangelicals are pissed now? Good.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:19:17pm
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sagehen  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:20:25pm

re: #14 John_Manyjars

A lot of this going on in ‘enlightened, liberal’ CA too. Just swarms of people milling around with no masks, eating, drinking, etc. All the sacrifice of the lockdown is going to be for nothing. Full stop.

People forget how to math.

“Liberal” California has only about about 30-35% Republicans… but California is BIG. And POPULOUS.

30% of California… is more than 10 million people. There’s 40 states whose entire population is less than that.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:21:05pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:21:25pm

re: #71 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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I’m dreaming of a landslide.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:21:47pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Trump is a Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:21:55pm

re: #69 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

So the Evangelicals are pissed now? Good.

There was some SCOTUS ruling back during the Reagan era that got Falwell Sr. into a huff and called them an “Institution damned by God Almighty.”

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:21:59pm

It’s the testing for Covid-19 that killed 118,000 Americans.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:22:16pm
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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:22:19pm

re: #75 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I’m dreaming of a landslide.

I’m dreaming of a landslide. YOU’RE working towards one.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:22:46pm

re: #77 Eric The Fruit Bat

There was some SCOTUS ruling back during the Reagan era that got Falwell Sr. into a huff and called them an “Institution damned by God Almighty.”

Hmmm. Wonder which one.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:23:02pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

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I guess it makes a bizarre kind of sense - if we hadn’t tested the 118,000 Americans who died of COVID-19, we wouldn’t KNOW they died of COVID-19, so there wouldn’t be 118,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Sure, they’d still be dead, but we would not know why.

Or something.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:24:05pm

Did the dinosaurs worry about meteors?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:24:23pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:25:20pm

re: #83 jaunte

Did the dinosaurs worry about meteors?

Not at first.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:25:39pm

re: #84 Dread Pirate

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That’s going to get the Right in a tizzy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:27:09pm

re: #86 Belafon

That’s going to get the Right in a tizzy.

(insert champagne bottle labled “Tears of Impotent Rage” image here)

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:31:02pm

re: #87 Blind Frog Belly White

(insert champagne bottle labled “Tears of Impotent Rage” image here)

Yeah, this is the kind of embarrassment a US veto in the security council can’t stop.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:31:09pm

re: #86 Belafon

That’s going to get the Right in a tizzy.

Combine this, with the SCOTUS ruling today, and with the huge swing in approval for BLM, and the rise of COVID-19 in states that had been feeling like this was all a “Coastal Elite” problem, and I can imagine a lot of sputtering rage.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:31:41pm

re: #87 Blind Frog Belly White

(insert champagne bottle labled “Tears of Impotent Rage” image here)

I’mma wait until November 3rd to uncork that particular vintage (knock on wood).

Have a good one, Lizards. Stay healthy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:32:43pm

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

I’mma wait until November 3rd to uncork that particular vintage (knock on wood).

Have a good one, Lizards. Stay healthy.

You and me both. Don’t count your Tears of Impotent Rage until they’re shed.

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Teukka  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:33:17pm
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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:33:33pm

re: #62 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Since Trump left testing entirely up to the states he can’t stop it, fortunately.

He may not be able to legally stop it, but his push to reopen everything shows that he can get a lot of Republican governors to fall in line and comply with his insane demands.

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b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:33:35pm

re: #83 jaunte

Did the dinosaurs worry about meteors?

THEY SIGNED THE WAIVER!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:35:48pm

OK, before I call it a day, here’s an apéritif of “tears of conservative rage” for everyone:

On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with their liberal counterparts to deliver a landmark decision about LGBTQ workplace protections. And conservative observers are feeling the keen sting of betrayal.

Some are expressing outrage that the justices broke ideological ranks. Some are declaring the decision the end of President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects. And some are just plain mad.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:38:54pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:40:30pm

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

OK, before I call it a day, here’s an apéritif of “tears of conservative rage” for everyone:

talkingpointsmemo.com

“It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.”

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bratwurst  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:42:45pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:43:01pm

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Poor babies. Boo.Fucking.Hoo.

You know, all these scholarly conservatives seem to overlook that taking away the rights of the people was never once mentioned anywhere in the founding documents of the nation or the writings of the founders. If anything it’s supposed to be the other way around. Unless my civics classes were full of shit. And yet, any time that there’s a question of limiting the rights of others, it’s nearly always a conservative thing. Voting, equal rights for women, civil rights, etc, all seem to be challenged by conservatives. Unless I am missing something, then I stand corrected.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:43:40pm

re: #95 Dr Lizardo

Some are expressing outrage that the justices broke ideological ranks

It’s a shock when Supreme Court Justices act like judges. //

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:44:13pm
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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:44:42pm

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

Honestly, I worry less about big companies getting money that we may not feel they ‘deserve’ than I am about the GOP letting benefits dry up later this summer because they are afraid people won’t want to go back to work.

Matt Yglesias said last month that there are two things that could happen to the economy over the next year.

1) We rapidly regain 95% of where the economy was in January.

2) We’re mired in low growth and high unemployment.

Then he pointed out that these are the same scenario. 95% recovery leaves us as bad as the depths of the Great Recession, and even if - perhaps ESPECIALLY if - we take the WH and the Senate, the GOP will dig in its heels against doing anything fiscally to address it, same as 2009.

my guess is that if we take all three branches, the senate will simply kick the legs out from under “unanimous consent.” If it needs to get done, it can get done with 50 votes and the vice president.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:45:02pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

He may not be able to legally stop it, but his push to reopen everything shows that he can get a lot of Republican governors to fall in line and comply with his insane demands.

One wonders, as their voters’ bodies are stacking up like cordwood, how long they will pretend everything is fine, nothing to see here!

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:45:38pm

re: #97 Blind Frog Belly White

“It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine.”

Now, if the SCOTUS votes to have Trump turn over his tax returns and then rules in favor of the Dreamers, holy shit, that’ll be a great damn week. Again, knock on wood.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:50:06pm

re: #100 Belafon

It’s a shock when Supreme Court Justices act like judges. //

It’s a shock when Republican SCOTUS justices don’t act like GOP party hacks, no sarcasm.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:50:14pm

re: #102 steve_davis

my guess is that if we take all three branches, the senate will simply kick the legs out from under “unanimous consent.” If it needs to get done, it can get done with 50 votes and the vice president.

Unless the Democrats have the balls to end the filibuster, which I’m not expecting, they will have to do it all with one reconciliation bill next year, then another in 2022.

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lawhawk  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:53:39pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:54:10pm

re: #92 Teukka

I have a weakness for overdramatic music. Here’s a good example (the main theme from Sword Art Online).

Sword Art Online OST - 01 Swordland.mp3

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Citizen K  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:54:41pm

re: #84 Dread Pirate

The replies to both the posted tweet and the quoted one are all essentiall “UN HAS NO MORAL AUTHORITY, WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT ABOUT?!”

You know, utterly missing the fact that we’ve show we neither have nor deserve moral authority at this point. Because “the data” shows that police brutality and racism are all Soros lies. or some goddamn shit.

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:54:48pm

Now it’s time to call it a day.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:55:23pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:57:14pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

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Yep. Suck it Ben, you’re a backass dinosaur.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:59:06pm

re: #107 lawhawk

It almost guarantees that nursing homes will see even more dead bodies and stack ‘em up like cordwood.

I follow the number of deaths on Wash Post and the number keeps going down, but the cases stay the same. Are they under reporting the deaths enough to make the trend go down. Is treatment getting that much better? It’s very strange and not having the most accurate data is going to hurt us in the long run.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 12:59:36pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:01:30pm

I wasn’t thinking about the possible importance of who the governor is when deciding what state to live in. However, New Mexico was in a very good situation as I left (after a very mixed bag of prior office holders), and Oregon is even better.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:01:35pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

I have no idea what that’s supposed to trigger.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:04:12pm
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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:04:15pm

re: #85 Blind Frog Belly White

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:07:14pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:08:20pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

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no you’d have exactly the same number of cases

you just wouldn’t know who or where they are or were in co tact with

asshat

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:09:32pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:10:16pm

re: #116 jaunte

I have no idea what that’s supposed to trigger.

Ben Shapiro’s tears of the fact you can’t fire someone anymore for being LGBT.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:10:32pm

re: #66 NO SMOCKING GUN!

She would be a much better President than Trump too.

probably
also too smart to run

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:12:04pm

re: #121 Dread Pirate

But we owe DeSanittis an apology!

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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:12:32pm

re: #106 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Unless the Democrats have the balls to end the filibuster, which I’m not expecting, they will have to do it all with one reconciliation bill next year, then another in 2022.

that’s a good point. It seems to me that I researched this a little, years ago, and discovered that when filibusters became procedural, it was in a long era when Democrats controlled healthy majorities—sometimes super-majorities—in the Senate, and we could be generous. I wouldn’t be completely surprised if the rules get changed to go back to “talk for as long as you can” filibusters.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:12:43pm

My county is green.
And of course that means the war is over we won the war the war is over.
I ain’t changing a thing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:12:58pm

Trumps endgame here is obvious: He wants a steep drop in cases heading into the election so he can campaign on having “stopped” the virus.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:13:22pm

re: #83 jaunte

Did the dinosaurs worry about meteors?

only for a minute

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:15:16pm

re: #125 steve_davis

that’s a good point. It seems to me that I researched this a little, years ago, and discovered that when filibusters became procedural, it was in a long era when Democrats controlled healthy majorities—sometimes super-majorities—in the Senate, and we could be generous. I wouldn’t be completely surprised if the rules get changed to go back to “talk for as long as you can” filibusters.

I hope you are correct.

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Jay C  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:15:48pm

re: #116 jaunte

I have no idea what that’s supposed to trigger.

Well, considering that it’s Ben Shapiro (i.e., imbecile), I’d guess that the first image (submerged sign) is meant to be some some sort of half-assed stupid jibe at
“Librulz” for bitching about Gorsuch’s nomination in the first place. The South Park “licking” clip, though? Utterly incomprehensible

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:16:11pm

re: #107 lawhawk

It almost guarantees that nursing homes will see even more dead bodies and stack ‘em up like cordwood.

What do you bet that some Trump crony has money invested in Soylent Green futures?
////

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:17:05pm

Kentucky had six covid-19 deaths Sunday and today, 505 total deaths now.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:18:31pm

re: #99 A Mom Anon

Poor babies. Boo.Fucking.Hoo.

You know, all these scholarly conservatives seem to overlook that taking away the rights of the people was never once mentioned anywhere in the founding documents of the nation or the writings of the founders. If anything it’s supposed to be the other way around. Unless my civics classes were full of shit. And yet, any time that there’s a question of limiting the rights of others, it’s nearly always a conservative thing. Voting, equal rights for women, civil rights, etc, all seem to be challenged by conservatives. Unless I am missing something, then I stand corrected.

human rights are never granted nor taken away

what they are is suppressed (yes limited) by state fiat and enforced by police. and sometimes with the blessing of the justice system

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:18:34pm

Governor Beshear pleading with wingnuts to understand that Trump Administration officials are saying masks are our best chance at being able to reopen safely.

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:19:06pm

re: #125 steve_davis

that’s a good point. It seems to me that I researched this a little, years ago, and discovered that when filibusters became procedural, it was in a long era when Democrats controlled healthy majorities—sometimes super-majorities—in the Senate, and we could be generous. I wouldn’t be completely surprised if the rules get changed to go back to “talk for as long as you can” filibusters.

That really should be the rule on filibusters… you want to continue debate? Fine, get up there and talk, but once you are done talking, we vote on the bill.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:22:20pm

re: #119 jaunte

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this is blather until an actual suit is filed

remember withdrawing from WHO?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:23:20pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:24:11pm

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

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Trumps endgame here is obvious: He wants a steep drop in cases heading into the election so he can campaign on having “stopped” the virus.

won’t work

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:25:23pm

In which obligate carnivores show how cute they are:

True Facts: Cats’ Killer Senses

.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:25:32pm

re: #138 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

won’t work

He’s flailing in the bunker right now. And I bet some of his Evangelical buddies are pissed at him right now.

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:26:07pm

I was thinking this morning about what it would take to ashcan the electoral college once and for all. And something I hadn’t considered being the trigger point dawned on me:

The two times it’s happened in living memory, nobody won an actual majority of the popular vote. In 2000 Gore was at 48.4% and in 2016 Clinton was at 48.2%. So, imagine a scenario where a major party nominee gets 50.3% of the national popular vote but loses the electoral college…

It could have happened in 2000, even without flipping Florida. Pull a few votes from Nader in California, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, and a couple of other states, Gore might have been able to eek out a majority.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:26:11pm

re: #137 Charles Johnson

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27 to 40%

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:26:25pm

re: #120 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

no you’d have exactly the same number of cases

you just wouldn’t know who or where they are or were in co tact with

asshat

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To be fair, you’d probably have more cases, because people would not know they should be isolating.

That’s why I was left pretty much speechless for about 5 minutes by that. It’s such magical thinking, that if you don’t know about them they don’t exist.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:26:29pm

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:28:22pm

re: #143 Blind Frog Belly White

To be fair, you’d probably have more cases, because people would not know they should be isolating.

That’s why I was left pretty much speechless for about 5 minutes by that. It’s such magical thinking, that if you don’t know about them they don’t exist.

either way its asshattery

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:28:58pm

re: #119 jaunte

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Didn’t he just torpedo any argument that Bolton’s publishing classified information, if he says it’s all lies?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:29:16pm

re: #141 KGxvi

I was thinking this morning about what it would take to ashcan the electoral college once and for all. And something I hadn’t considered being the trigger point dawned on me:

The two times it’s happened in living memory, nobody won an actual majority of the popular vote. In 2000 Gore was at 48.4% and in 2016 Clinton was at 48.2%. So, imagine a scenario where a major party nominee gets 50.3% of the national popular vote but loses the electoral college…

It could have happened in 2000, even without flipping Florida. Pull a few votes from Nader in California, New York, Texas, Massachusetts, and a couple of other states, Gore might have been able to eek out a majority.

The trigger will be when a Republican wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. As long as Republicans think the EC helps them, they won’t support abolishing it.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:29:45pm

I’ve dealt with evidence and clues for a long time in my career. When you have to sign a medical waiver saying that you won’t hold the president responsible if you contract COVID-19, it’s a pretty good clue that the president should not be holding a rally.”

— Rep. Val Demings

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:30:44pm

re: #138 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

won’t work

Oh, of course not. But that won’t stop Cheeto Benito from trying.

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:31:01pm

re: #147 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The trigger will be when a Republican wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. As long as Republicans think the EC helps them, they won’t support abolishing it.

I wonder though, if in that scenario it turns into one of those “is the economy doing well?” things where partisan opinion flips because of the result.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:31:04pm

re: #146 Blind Frog Belly White

Didn’t he just torpedo any argument that Bolton’s publishing classified information, if he says it’s all lies?

If it’s all lies, the only thing he can do - even as President - is wait for it to come out and sue for libel.

YouTube

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:31:52pm

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Camp Waconda  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:31:56pm

“They’ve taken over Seattle”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:32:09pm

re: #150 KGxvi

I wonder though, if in that scenario it turns into one of those “is the economy doing well?” things where partisan opinion flips because of the result.

I would hope not.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:32:17pm

re: #150 KGxvi

I wonder though, if in that scenario it turns into one of those “is the economy doing well?” things where partisan opinion flips because of the result.

I dunno. I know the Right was preparing to call the 2000 result illegitimate when they thought Gore was going to win the EC but lose the popular.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:33:41pm

re: #140 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s flailing in the bunker right now. And I bet some of his Evangelical buddies are pissed at him right now.

‘flailing in the bunker’, band name or dance craze?

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:34:07pm

re: #156 wrenchwench

DO THE WORM!

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:36:06pm

re: #154 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I would hope not.

re: #155 Blind Frog Belly White

I dunno. I know the Right was preparing to call the 2000 result illegitimate when they thought Gore was going to win the EC but lose the popular.

This is one of the reasons why I think a push to abolish the EC should be made in more general terms… specifically by pointing out that for most people, your vote doesn’t actually matter. If you’re a Republican in New York or California, doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho or Utah or Wyoming, doesn’t matter. And as a result, it probably drives down turn out - why vote if you know the rest of your state is going to vote for the other side?

But you make it a true national election, and then, every vote does actually matter.

I could go into some philosophical arguments about it, but I think for most people, this is the argument that would make the most headway.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:37:26pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:38:11pm

re: #147 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The trigger will be when a Republican wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. As long as Republicans think the EC helps them, they won’t support abolishing it.

they’d have to have congress etc while having just lost the EC.

otherwise where’s the leverage?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:38:52pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:39:19pm

re: #156 wrenchwench

‘flailing in the bunker’, band name or dance craze?

why not both

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:39:59pm

re: #158 KGxvi

This is one of the reasons why I think a push to abolish the EC should be made in more general terms… specifically by pointing out that for most people, your vote doesn’t actually matter. If you’re a Republican in New York or California, doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho or Utah or Wyoming, doesn’t matter. And as a result, it probably drives down turn out - why vote if you know the rest of your state is going to vote for the other side?

But you make it a true national election, and then, every vote does actually matter.

I could go into some philosophical arguments about it, but I think for most people, this is the argument that would make the most headway.

You’d need a few more red states to go blue, especially some of those low population states.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:40:00pm

re: #160 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

they’d have to have congress etc while having just lost the EC.

otherwise where’s the leverage?

I’m assuming the Democrats would support abolishing the EC on principle, even if it did work to their benefit in one election.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:40:17pm

re: #156 wrenchwench

‘flailing in the bunker’, band name or dance craze?

Oh, silly me.

.

.

Both.

re: #162 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

why not both

Post or delete, post or delete…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:40:32pm

re: #155 Blind Frog Belly White

I dunno. I know the Right was preparing to call the 2000 result illegitimate when they thought Gore was going to win the EC but lose the popular.

I remember that. They were convinced that Gore would lose the PV but win the EC. If people want to know why I’m bullish on our chances. Well there’s the fact that the GOP has only won the popular vote once since 1988. No President has ever won two terms while winning the EC but losing PVs and until this century, it actually had been quite a rare event and hadn’t happened at all in the 20th century. 1824, 1876, and 1888 btw and in 1828 Jackson beat Adams again this time in a landslide, 1876 was fishy as hell, and 1888, Cleveland ended up beating Harrison in a rematch four years later. Trump never had a mandate from the American people. Hell I wouldn’t even say he had a honeymoon phase despite the better efforts of parts of the media who wanted to declare that X day he became President.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:42:02pm

re: #164 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I’m assuming the Democrats would support abolishing the EC on principle, even if it did work to their benefit in one election.

Democrats very much seem to operate in the principle I operate under which is one person, one vote. Tough shit Republicans that Democratic voters are concentrated in densely populated areas. I don’t remember the Democrats bitching about that when California was a more red leaning state in the Eisenhower through Reagan days.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:43:17pm

re: #166 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I remember that. They were convinced that Gore would lose the PV but win the EC. If people want to know why I’m bullish on our chances. Well there’s the fact that the GOP has only won the popular vote once since 1988. No President has ever won two terms while winning the EC but losing PVs and until this century, it actually had been quite a rare event and hadn’t happened at all in the 20th century. 1824, 1876, and 1888 btw and in 1828 Jackson beat Adams again this time in a landslide, 1876 was fishy as hell, and 1888, Cleveland ended up beating Harrison in a rematch four years later. Trump never had a mandate from the American people. Hell I wouldn’t even say he had a honeymoon phase despite the better efforts of parts of the media who wanted to declare that X day he became President.

In the Economist election model just released they gave Biden a 97% chance of winning the popular vote, but only an 84% chance of winning the EC.

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:45:59pm

Ya’all know that I live in a small town, middle of nowhere, seriously, one of the reddest parts of the state. But in honor of the SCOTUS actually upholding the constitution and the law today, I want to show you this.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:47:08pm

re: #168 NO SMOCKING GUN!

In the Economist election model just released they gave Biden a 97% chance of winning the popular vote, but only an 84% chance of winning the EC.

Makes sense, Trump hasn’t expanded his base at all and the EC is a little more unpredictable.

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sagehen  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:47:15pm

re: #158 KGxvi

This is one of the reasons why I think a push to abolish the EC should be made in more general terms… specifically by pointing out that for most people, your vote doesn’t actually matter. If you’re a Republican in New York or California, doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho or Utah or Wyoming, doesn’t matter. And as a result, it probably drives down turn out - why vote if you know the rest of your state is going to vote for the other side?

We could solve the electoral college problem without a constitutional amendment. Just enlarge the House.

The last time we expanded the House, to its current 435, was 1927. The population of the country was less than 130 million that year. If we up the House to 700 or 800, then EC results would line up with the popular vote.

There’d still be the problem of the Senate, with 70% of the seats being for States that have 30% of the people… but at least the EC would be okay.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:47:47pm

re: #139 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

ZeFrank got his start with viral videos doing them on cats.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:48:54pm

re: #171 sagehen

We could solve the electoral college problem without a constitutional amendment. Just enlarge the House.

The last time we expanded the House, to its current 435, was 1927. The population of the country was less than 130 million that year. If we up the House to 700 or 800, then EC results would line up with the popular vote.

There’d still be the problem of the Senate, with 70% of the seats being for States that have 30% of the people… but at least the EC would be okay.

I like the idea of expanding the House size because I think it would A) diversify Congress and B) make Congresspeople more accountable to their constituents.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:49:01pm

re: #158 KGxvi

This is one of the reasons why I think a push to abolish the EC should be made in more general terms… specifically by pointing out that for most people, your vote doesn’t actually matter. If you’re a Republican in New York or California, doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho or Utah or Wyoming, doesn’t matter. And as a result, it probably drives down turn out - why vote if you know the rest of your state is going to vote for the other side?

But you make it a true national election, and then, every vote does actually matter.

I could go into some philosophical arguments about it, but I think for most people, this is the argument that would make the most headway.

It won’t make headway, because the wingnuts in ‘overpowered’ red states don’t give a shit about the wingnuts in the blue states. Their ‘reasoning’ is entirely utilitarian, reverse engineered, because they like the results. So, really, the only way to make them hate the EC is for them to lose because of it.

The problem is, as you know, the only way to get rid of it is an Amendment, and the less populous states that would lose power are too numerous.

I say, make DC and Puerto Rico into states, and expand the House.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:49:13pm

re: #156 wrenchwench

‘flailing in the bunker’, band name or dance craze?

Album name.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:49:34pm

taken with appropriate grains of salt

Biden’s path to the White House requires reversing Trump’s 2016 success in key battleground states. Here the news is good for the Democrats. In swing states that Trump won in 2016 (FL, IA, MI, NC, OH, PA, WI) Biden leads by 17-points

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:49:44pm

re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White

It won’t make headway, because the wingnuts in ‘overpowered’ red states don’t give a shit about the wingnuts in the blue states. Their ‘reasoning’ is entirely utilitarian, reverse engineered, because they like the results. So, really, the only way to make them hate the EC is for them to lose because of it.

The problem is, as you know, the only way to get rid of it is an Amendment, and the less populous states that would lose power are too numerous.

I say, make DC and Puerto Rico into states, and expand the House.

That would be my solution too.

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:49:56pm

re: #144 nines09

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:50:26pm

re: #176 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

taken with appropriate grains of salt

Looks good as we head into summer. Hopefully it looks good as we get near Labor Day and the Fall.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:50:56pm

re: #175 Jebediah, RBG

Album name.

All three.

It’s a movement.

Call ANTIFA.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:53:13pm

Customs and Border Patrol is droning the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:53:41pm

re: #38 jaunte

Lol at “flounder into the hooley.”

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:53:44pm

Forgot the picture.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:53:58pm
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makeitstop  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:53:58pm

re: #17 lawhawk

*ding ding ding*
Winner winner chicken dinner!

States that have shut down once already will be hard pressed to shut down again as cases climb. Heck, Cuomo’s taking heat for threatening to shut down the Hamptons and Manhattan after the lack of social distancing and protocol violations seen in videos and photos from over the weekend.

He’s right to do so, and it’s as if people have the attention span of a gnat. The pandemic isn’t done. We just got some time before the ICUs fill to capacity again. It’s still there.

And in the musician community…some of my friends are on Facebook, crying about how ‘protesters are allowed to gather by the thousands, but I can’t play my gig.’

I actually had to tell one of them to sit the fuck down this morning. Your gig is just not that fucking important, dude.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:54:38pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:55:19pm

re: #185 makeitstop

And in the musician community…some of my friends are on Facebook, crying about how ‘protesters are allowed to gather by the thousands, but I can’t play my gig.’

I actually had to tell one of them to sit the fuck down this morning. Your gig is just not that fucking important, dude.

in general the protestors are not “allowed”. no permission or permits

they’re doing it anyway

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:55:30pm

re: #169 William Lewis

Oh, and I forgot to mention, that yes, I have gone next door and thanked them for flying those flags. That I appreciated them, especially here in our small town.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:56:24pm

re: #188 William Lewis

Oh, and I forgot to mention, that yes, I have gone next door and thanked them for flying those flags. That I appreciated them, especially here in our small town.

People need to know they have allies.

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:56:30pm

re: #171 sagehen

We could solve the electoral college problem without a constitutional amendment. Just enlarge the House.

The last time we expanded the House, to its current 435, was 1927. The population of the country was less than 130 million that year. If we up the House to 700 or 800, then EC results would line up with the popular vote.

There’d still be the problem of the Senate, with 70% of the seats being for States that have 30% of the people… but at least the EC would be okay.

Not necessarily. The EC is tied to apportionment. Increasing the size of the House raises the question of “how to we allot these new seats”. Even if you use the current formulas, you still need to do the math to figure out how much it would actually shift the EC vote. I’m not sure it would shift it that much.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:57:45pm

re: #175 Jebediah, RBG

Album name.

“Flailing in the Bunker” by Raydolph Hitler and the Not-Sees

/

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 1:58:15pm

re: #185 makeitstop

And in the musician community…some of my friends are on Facebook, crying about how ‘protesters are allowed to gather by the thousands, but I can’t play my gig.’

I actually had to tell one of them to sit the fuck down this morning. Your gig is just not that fucking important, dude.

Tell them these are people for whom this cause is so important and so right they are willing to risk their health, their wealth and their lives for it.

Their music is nothing compared to that.

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KGxvi  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:00:30pm

For shits and giggles, here’s an interesting tool to play with on apportionment… you can plug in populations (I just copied and pasted the 2017 estimates) and change the size of the House…

psc.isr.umich.edu

Going to 751 seats gave Texas as many electoral votes as California.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:00:34pm

oh dear

Pollster Scott Rasmussen has released the results of a poll showing President Donald Trump is doing as badly as a recent CNN poll said he was.

According to the findings, Rasmussen said Trump was down by 12 points. CNN found Trump was down by 14 points with a margin of error of 4 percent.

Rasmussen, who left the polling firm named after him years ago, is ranked more accurate than his old organization

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:01:11pm

re: #194 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Another Cease and Desist coming in 3…2…1…

//

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:01:25pm

And now the Minnesota Law Enforcement blowback begins:

Star Tribune: Photographer amid Minneapolis unrest sues, says officers blinded her in eye with nonlethal shot

A journalist who was covering the recent rioting in Minneapolis alleges in a lawsuit that law enforcement blinded her in one eye with a nonlethal projectile fired at her despite her declaring in words and documentation that she was a member of the news media.

Linda Tirado’s suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court, names as defendants the city of Minneapolis and its police chief, Medaria Arradondo; Lt. Robert Kroll, in his capacity as head of the city’s police union; state Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington; and State Patrol Col. Matt Langer.

“John Does 1-4” are also among the defendants, referring to unidentified officers she alleges played a role in her injury soon after curfew on the night of May 29, when the 37-year-old from Nashville was wounded.

Maybe the NRA is right - but it seems to me that they better be careful what they ask for - they may get it….

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:02:07pm

re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg

Another Cease and Desist coming in 3…2…1…

//

ras, we hardly knew ye

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:02:37pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:04:42pm

its Monday so…baked salmon

plus this week
a whole roasted cauliflower
leftover marzettis cole slaw
homemade Cuban rice.pudding for afters

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:04:44pm

re: #190 KGxvi

Not necessarily. The EC is tied to apportionment. Increasing the size of the House raises the question of “how to we allot these new seats”. Even if you use the re: #193 KGxvi

For shits and giggles, here’s an interesting tool to play with on apportionment… you can plug in populations (I just copied and pasted the 2017 estimates) and change the size of the House…

psc.isr.umich.edu

Going to 751 seats gave Texas as many electoral votes as California.

That doesn’t make much sense. It sounds like it didn’t adjust California properly.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:07:55pm
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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:10:14pm

re: #198 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Evening Lizardim.

Also seen there:

Jun 15, 2020 • 2:02:37pm

Fake news!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:11:10pm

re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg

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has anyone considered applying g this logic to cancer?

would cure it in an instant!
def a pulitzer in trumps future!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:11:35pm

re: #194 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

oh dear

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

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Dr. Matt  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:14:27pm

This shit again

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:15:44pm

Yeah re: #205 Dr. Matt

This shit again

[Embedded content]

Great news for John McCain.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:16:01pm

re: #202 wrenchwench

Also seen there:

Fake news!

In my upcoming time zone of UTC+0, it is most assuredly evening.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:16:07pm

re: #172 Eric The Fruit Bat

ZeFrank got his start with viral videos doing them on cats.

His Sad Cat videos are funny as hell.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:16:36pm
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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:17:18pm

re: #178 Teddy’s Person

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:18:05pm

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:18:27pm

Coop says hebbo

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:18:27pm

re: #209 teleskiguy

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“Who will rid me of this troublesome (checks notes) majority of Americans?”

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Dr. Matt  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:18:30pm

re: #209 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

After 2 decades of working in health care, I can tell you from first hand knowledge that this vile fucker is very close to death. He looks awful.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:19:12pm

re: #212 nines09

That’s totally awwwww!-inspiring!

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:19:50pm

re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White

Coop DeVille

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:20:53pm

re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

its Monday so…baked salmon

plus this week
a whole roasted cauliflower
leftover marzettis cole slaw
homemade Cuban rice.pudding for afters

If I’m not duplicating someone’s request, what is Cuban rice pudding?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:21:41pm

re: #214 Dr. Matt

After 2 decades of working in health care, I can tell you from first hand knowledge that this vile fucker is very close to death. He looks awful.

Can he live just a bit to see the first woman VP and then the worms can have their feast.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:22:57pm
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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:22:59pm

re: #218 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I seriously hope the last faces he sees are black health care workers. I also apologize for wishing that on them.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:24:16pm

re: #217 retired cynic

If I’m not duplicating someone’s request, what is Cuban rice pudding?

In my head:

recipe..gotta get a recipe..

nope, wouldn’t follow it, just make rice pudding and put things in it…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:24:23pm

re: #217 retired cynic

If I’m not duplicating someone’s request, what is Cuban rice pudding?

i used this recipe for arroz con leche

there are dozens
it’s really yummy but a tad too sweet for our tastes

mark bittman’s in the oven is our favorite. and foolproof

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Dr. Matt  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:25:02pm

re: #218 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Can he live just a bit to see the first woman VP and then the worms can have their feast.

I’m sure hospice can hold off on the morphine until around 11 pm on Nov 3, 2020.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:25:49pm

One more

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:26:07pm

re: #217 retired cynic

If I’m not duplicating someone’s request, what is Cuban rice pudding?

I don’t know. I’ve had a Cuban (sandwich), Cuban rice, rice pudding, and pudding. But never Cuban rice pudding.

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wrenchwench  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:28:08pm

re: #222 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i used this recipe for arroz con leche

there are dozens
it’s really yummy but a tad too sweet for our tastes

mark bittman’s in the oven is our favorite. and foolproof

A serious eats link! You bet I will follow…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:28:31pm

re: #220 A Mom Anon

I seriously hope the last faces he sees are black health care workers. I also apologize for wishing that on them.

I was so disappointed that Jesse Helms missed Obama. I won’t shed any tears for Rush. I’m hoping he dies and is quickly forgotten or if he’s remembered at all, his legacy dissected.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:28:34pm

self cleaning ovens rock!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:29:16pm

re: #226 wrenchwench

A serious eats link! You bet I will follow…

i always follow the first time through

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:29:28pm

re: #205 Dr. Matt

This shit again

[Embedded content]

Even more easily disposed of than most Republican conspira-lies.

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retired cynic  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:29:32pm

re: #222 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Thank you!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:33:34pm

re: #231 retired cynic

Thank you!

yum
Lip-smackin’, whip-crackin’, paddy-whackin’, knickin’-knackin’

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:34:08pm

re: #230 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

There’s also that business of Obama’s birth announcement running in the local HI paper when he was born.

Birtherism is and always has been so stupid that racism is the only explanation for it.

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A Mom Anon  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:34:10pm

re: #230 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

And what’s that got to do with a damned thing? Besides it’s a bullshit lie which was debunked forever ago…

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:34:39pm
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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:34:53pm

re: #212 nines09

My day is complete 🧡💛💚💙💜

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:35:04pm

re: #196 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:35:48pm

re: #214 Dr. Matt

After 2 decades of working in health care, I can tell you from first hand knowledge that this vile fucker is very close to death. He looks awful.

My theory is that he’s too deplorable for the grim reaper.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:36:44pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:36:56pm
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Cheechako  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:37:51pm

re: #171 sagehen

We could solve the electoral college problem without a constitutional amendment. Just enlarge the House.

The last time we expanded the House, to its current 435, was 1927. The population of the country was less than 130 million that year. If we up the House to 700 or 800, then EC results would line up with the popular vote.

There would still be the problem of the Senate, with 70% of the seats being for States that have 30% of the people… but at least the EC would be okay.

Be very careful for what you wish for. Just imagine a House of Representatives having 700 - 800 members. Every member would be a prima-donna with a private agenda. That number would probably have multiple political parties which would require coalitions for every issue which comes up. Nothing would ever get done.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:38:51pm

re: #236 Teddy’s Person

My pleasure. We should have named him Harry.
Like Harry Houdini. Slick pup.
I posted a few yesterday you can pull up.
Your Teddy is a cutie too!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:39:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:42:02pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:43:12pm

re: #214 Dr. Matt

After 2 decades of working in health care, I can tell you from first hand knowledge that this vile fucker is very close to death. He looks awful.

Not close enough.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:43:20pm

re: #175 Jebediah, RBG

Album name.

Or song title, like “Bungle in the Bunker.”

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:43:34pm

re: #242 nines09

My pleasure. We should have named him Harry.
Like Harry Houdini. Slick pup.
I posted a few yesterday you can pull up.
Your Teddy is a cutie too!

No, Cooper is the perfect name for that little ball of fluff. There’s just something about his expressions. Every time I see his pic I think to myself, Cooper knows stuff.

I’m lucky Teddy’s not a jealous guy and patiently indulges me when I call him over to look at Cooper’s pics. He knows who scoops the kibble.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:44:53pm

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

EDNA!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:46:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:47:43pm

re: #248 Blind Frog Belly White

Brian Blessed is MrBWS’s hero

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Alephnaught  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:48:14pm

Just saw this tweet when I was searching about the SCOTUS ruling. I’m guessing this is a right-winger, it does seem a bit conspiracy theory orientated. Not sure what “CRA” is in this context. I did a search and found “Community Reinvestment Act”, but that doesn’t make any sense unless they’re using “community” as a dog whistle.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:48:20pm

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Picked a bad day to quit taking acid.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:48:40pm

re: #19 William Lewis

Summer in Wisconsin. One thing I do not miss about my farm childhood is hay season…

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Milking the cow

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:48:46pm

I have to say, I didn’t have Hollywood piles on Ted Cruz on my 2020 bingo card.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:48:56pm

re: #251 Alephnaught

Just saw this tweet when I was searching about the SCOTUS ruling. I’m guessing this is a right-winger, it does seem a bit conspiracy theory orientated. Not sure what “CRA” is in this context. I did a search and found “Community Reinvestment Act”, but that doesn’t make any sense unless they’re using “community” as a dog whistle.

[Embedded content]

Civil Rights Act 1964.

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Alephnaught  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:49:22pm

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I remember seeing a clip of this being used as a teaser for the upcoming “Blackadder Goes Forth” series.

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Alephnaught  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:49:42pm

re: #255 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Civil Rights Act 1964.

Ah, that makes sense.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:51:53pm

re: #234 A Mom Anon

And what’s that got to do with a damned thing? Besides it’s a bullshit lie which was debunked forever ago…

Malik has (once again) put the fake Kenyan birth certificate in circulation. The “Republic of Kenya” seal is smoking gun proof that it is fake. I like to have, you know, evidence when I call something bullshit and I do not think these people will go away if we ignore them.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:53:39pm

re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

its Monday so…baked salmon

plus this week
a whole roasted cauliflower
leftover marzettis cole slaw
homemade Cuban rice.pudding for afters

oh, did i say garlic roasted cauliflower with potatoes and onions?

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:55:51pm

re: #259 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

oh, did i say garlic roasted cauliflower with potatoes and onions?

When you say whole roasted cauliflower, do you mean you roast it hole? When I roast cauliflower, I cut it into pieces. What the difference between whole and pieces? How long to you roast it?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:56:42pm

re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth

Brian Blessed is MrBWS’s hero

His is the voice I’d most like to have. His, or James Earl Jones’s.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:58:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:58:38pm

re: #261 Blind Frog Belly White

His is the voice I’d most like to have. His, or James Earl Jones’s.

Don Lafontaine for me.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 2:59:26pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:02:07pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:03:45pm

re: #263 Eclectic Cyborg

Don Lafontaine for me.

Sadly, my actual voice is nothing like either. More light baritone. Even tenor.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:05:10pm

re: #260 Teddy’s Person

When you say whole roasted cauliflower, do you mean you roast it hole? When I roast cauliflower, I cut it into pieces. What the difference between whole and pieces? How long to you roast it?

i do it both ways - tonight will be in pieces - to mix with the potatoes, garlic, onions, etc

i use this to roast the head whole and uncut

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:06:03pm

re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth

Brian Blessed is MrBWS’s hero

Augustus

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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:06:23pm

re: #267 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i do it both ways - tonight will be in pieces - to mix with the potatoes, garlic, onions, etc

i use this to roast the head whole and uncut

Thanks for the link. I’m gonna try it whole next time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:07:55pm
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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:07:58pm

re: #253 BeenHereAwhile

Milking the cow

We were beef not dairy, thank God!

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:08:59pm

re: #241 Cheechako

Be very careful for what you wish for. Just imagine a House of Representatives having 700 - 800 members. Every member would be a prima-donna with a private agenda. That number would probably have multiple political parties which would require coalitions for every issue which comes up. Nothing would ever get done.

That’s how the New Hampshire lege works. For too many of its members, it’s a hobby.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:09:50pm

moron

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:10:40pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:11:26pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fake news, coronavirus is ash.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:12:05pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:14:45pm

re: #272 Sherlock Hound

That’s how the New Hampshire lege works. For too many of its members, it’s a hobby.

And they tend to be the nutters. And that’s also why it was targeted by the Free State Project. These radicals run as Republicans, but…. Hold on, in today’s environment they are Republicans.

Chris Sununu has done a good job on Covid management, for the most part. He used to be pro-choice, but recently flipped after caving to pressure from the Trump right. He’s also problematic when it comes to schooling—at least in his choice of the guy selected to run the state’s educational system (IMHO).

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:15:06pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:16:41pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:20:02pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:20:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:21:09pm

re: #266 Blind Frog Belly White

Sadly, my actual voice is nothing like either. More light baritone. Even tenor.

I’m low tenor. I can pull off a pretty kick ass bass voice though it takes me a bit of effort to do it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:22:38pm

That would make for some pretty compelling election ads in the home stretch…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:23:39pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:25:54pm

This is not a joke (at least not intentionally):

Facebook Post

Poor Don, who is a legitimate MD, recently got dragged to hell and gone by his own followers for championing Trump’s push for a Corona vaccine. He was once director of the city health department in Lubbock and is strongly pro-vaccination. Apparently he didn’t get the memo that antivaxx is now a GOP “patriot” cause. The waves of vitriol did not even faze him, he was back to pumping out generic Bircher propaganda almost immediately, and sometimes simultaneously.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:26:10pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:28:08pm

re: #271 William Lewis

We were beef not dairy, thank God!

You ran a kosher farm?

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:28:20pm

Religion

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:30:05pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:30:20pm

re: #285 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

This is not a joke (at least not intentionally):

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Poor Don, who is a legitimate MD, recently got dragged to hell and gone by his own followers for championing Trump’s push for a Corona vaccine. He was once director of the city health department in Lubbock and is strongly pro-vaccination. Apparently he didn’t get the memo that antivaxx is now a GOP “patriot” cause. The waves of vitriol did not even faze him, he was back to pumping out generic Bircher propaganda almost immediately, and sometimes simultaneously.

I could have jumped in and helped defend Don from the antivaxx mob, but I decided to let him stew in his own toxic juice.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:34:05pm

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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they really are black/white all or nothing kind of people

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:35:02pm

re: #267 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i do it both ways - tonight will be in pieces - to mix with the potatoes, garlic, onions, etc

i use this to roast the head whole and uncut

Damn

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:35:15pm

re: #291 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

they really are black/white all or nothing kind of people

Seriously, it was one platform and yet they want to make this out like Gone with the Wind is somehow banned from viewing.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:36:34pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:37:49pm

re: #294 The Pie Overlord!

The common clay of the new right.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:38:12pm

I really, really hate to say this, but my grandparents drove from their little town about 70 miles southwest of Atlanta to see GWTW when it opened. It was a point of pride for a long time.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:38:24pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:39:08pm

re: #296 Barefoot Grin

I really, really hate to say this, but my grandparents drove from their little town about 70 miles southwest of Atlanta to see GWTW when it opened. It was a point of pride for a long time.

The burning Atlanta scenes are pretty cool tho.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:39:30pm

Speaking of testing:

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, the Navy’s leading supplier of high-strength steel for submarines provided subpar metal because one of the company’s longtime employees falsified lab results — putting sailors at greater risk in the event of collisions or other impacts, federal prosecutors said in court filings Monday.
dothanfirst.com

The happy marriage of capitalism and patriotism.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:40:09pm

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:40:23pm

re: #201 teleskiguy

Jim Varney

A great guy to hang out with.

His Saturday morning TV show was hilarious.

I hope they have clips of Varney doing Shakespeare.

Varney had a “Tony Joe White voice” that could penetrate a room full of people all talking at once.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:40:40pm

re: #298 The Pie Overlord!

The burning Atlanta scenes are pretty cool tho.

If you’re stopping by Wendy’s, try the chili.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:40:43pm
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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:41:58pm
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Teddy's Person  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:42:15pm

The one where Lou Dobbs has a sad.

LOU DOBBS: Fourteen of those ads made no mention whatsoever of the president. Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado ignored President Trump but highlighted his work with the state’s Democratic governor, nonetheless. Senator Susan Collins ignored the president as well but promoted her work with Democrat Senators Tim Kaine and Joe Manchin. [scoffs] That should assure a landslide for Collins. House RINOs forfeiting their power under former speaker Paul Ryan in 2018? They followed the same strategy of distancing themselves from the irrepressible president and the man who is the leader of the party and who is already a historic president. Clever people, these republican establishment types. Source: C&L

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:44:41pm

re: #291 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

they really are black/white all or nothing kind of people

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Interesting fact RE: Clark Gable

Adolf Hitler favored Gable above all other actors. During World War II, Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:48:21pm

re: #303 Dread Pirate

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I’m not understanding Numbnut’s stance on this. Does he disapprove of handling unruly types like this? I’m assuming he does, since he disapproves of literally everything in CHAZ.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:51:28pm

re: #307 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I’m not understanding Numbnut’s stance on this. Does he disapprove of handling unruly types like this? I’m assuming he does, since he disapproves of literally everything in CHAZ.

The guy is white. This is obviously wrong, white people should be doing the policing, and black people should be getting brutalized.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:52:07pm

President Trump will travel to Mobile, Alabama, next month to rally on behalf of Tommy Tuberville, who is running against his former attorney general, Jeff Sessions, as he attempts to reclaim his old US Senate seat,” CNN reports.

“In a blow to Sessions, the rally will be held in his hometown days before the runoff election scheduled for July 14.”

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:53:42pm

re: #309 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Mobile was just edged out by Montgomery as “Coronavirus Capital of Alabama”.

morons.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:56:00pm

re: #310 Decatur Deb

Mobile was just edged out by Montgomery as “Coronavirus Capital of Alabama”.

morons.

Team “Stick your head in the sand and it’ll just go away on its own” for the win.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:57:57pm

in a long-awaited report, an investigation conducted on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that agency leadership violated its scientific integrity policy through actions that led to the release of a statement that backed President Trump’s false statement about the path of Hurricane Dorian, the Washington Post reports.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 3:59:28pm

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Mike Lamb  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:00:04pm

re: #309 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

And Sessions would still lick Trump’s taint if he wins.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:00:57pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:03:23pm

re: #314 Mike Lamb

And Sessions would still lick Trump’s taint if he wins.

‘Taint appropriate for you Yankees to impugn our sacrosanct customs.

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Belafon  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:04:26pm

re: #241 Cheechako

Be very careful for what you wish for. Just imagine a House of Representatives having 700 - 800 members. Every member would be a prima-donna with a private agenda. That number would probably have multiple political parties which would require coalitions for every issue which comes up. Nothing would ever get done.

Why didn’t that argument apply before?

More reps means each one represents a smaller block, and would therefore be more likely to listen to the constituents. The fact that you still need a majority means that the members would have to work together more, but it and first past the post voting would still only lead to two major parties.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:05:42pm

re: #271 William Lewis

We were beef not dairy, thank God!

Just had one cow for the family.

Damned cow gave 4 gallons of milk a day.

Always had a few beef cattle for family consumption as well.

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:07:17pm

re: #251 Alephnaught

Just saw this tweet when I was searching about the SCOTUS ruling. I’m guessing this is a right-winger, it does seem a bit conspiracy theory orientated. Not sure what “CRA” is in this context. I did a search and found “Community Reinvestment Act”, but that doesn’t make any sense unless they’re using “community” as a dog whistle.

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Just a reminder of where Tony Perkins comes from- when he became the head of the Family Research Council, he purchased a mailing list to obtain contacts for people to join the organization. That mailing list was purchased from the David Duke campaign.

As further proof of his racist roots, here’s a picture of him speaking back in the mid 1990s to the neo-Confederate/white nationalist Council of Concerned Citizens

Tony Perkins and Friends
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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:07:33pm

Does your cell phone work”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:09:57pm

Since there is no new thread, let me just say: Fuck Trump.

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William Lewis  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:10:30pm

re: #287 Decatur Deb

You ran a kosher farm?

Heh. No, it’s just that farming is hard work to begin with. Dairy is the hardest. Most dairy farmers never have a day off because the cows have to be milked every day. The only time we ever had to milk a cow was when one got mastitis and we had to hand express the mess (to put it nicely… ugh) out. Not fun for the human or the cow.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:21:08pm

re: #205 Dr. Matt

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:21:19pm

re: #315 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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Difference between this time and last time, the Never Trumpers are actually telling people to vote Biden instead of Johnson, writing in, or whatever.

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gocart mozart  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:21:56pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:25:10pm

re: #223 Dr. Matt

I’m sure hospice can hold off on the morphine until around 11 pm on Nov 3, 2020.

Any chance he’d live til the inauguration?

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:25:32pm

Trump is turning the VOA into American Pravda Radio.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:27:28pm

re: #327 Dread Pirate

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Trump is turning the VOA into American Pravda Radio.

Gorka. So Gorka wants to be Trump’s Lord Haw Haw.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:28:47pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:29:21pm

re: #327 Dread Pirate

The only person worse than Gorka to run the VOA would be Rush Limbaugh.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:30:39pm

re: #330 EPR-radar

The only person worse than Gorka to run the VOA would be Rush Limbaugh.

If Rush wasn’t dying, I bet this would be Rush’s gift. I think Gorka might be worse though. Limbaugh wouldn’t know how to appeal to foreign audiences as well.

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EPR-radar  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:31:18pm

re: #329 teleskiguy

The obvious Trump/GOP response to this is to stop collecting the data. If there is no data proving climate change, then climate change doesn’t exist.

Trump’s magical thinking on covid19 testing has deep roots in right wing willful stupidity.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:31:36pm

Y’all hate college football/football etc. But this is a BFD

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:34:15pm

And now round 2………………DING

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Mike Lamb  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:36:09pm

re: #333 HRH Stanley Sea

Y’all hate college football/football etc. But this is a BFD

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I’ve seen people objecting that it’s “just a shirt”. My guess would be that if Gundy is an OAN guy, there are other things that players find objectionable. The now public support of OAN just provide spring board.

But, now that I think about it, just being a fan of a RW propaganda machine that peddles conspiracy theories like a bead stand at Mardi Gras is enough.

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nines09  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:40:03pm

re: #335 Mike Lamb

Head coach of a Big 12 Football team? BFD.
My money is on he’ll be at Trumps rally washing Trumps balls.
I want his ass fired. Because college athletics are fucked up enough without that kind of shit.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:40:15pm

re: #335 Mike Lamb

I’ve seen people objecting that it’s “just a shirt”. My guess would be that if Gundy is an OAN guy, there are other things that players find objectionable. The now public support of OAN just provide spring board.

But, now that I think about it, just being a fan of a RW propaganda machine that peddles conspiracy theories like a bead stand at Mardi Gras is enough.

Gundy is a RWNJ. The players, er moneymakers are going to find their voice.

I’m so ready for the reckoning.

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Dread Pirate  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:41:08pm
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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:41:18pm

re: #335 Mike Lamb

Assuming this has something to do with mis-shaped futbol.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:52:22pm

New disorder: Re-Entry Anxiety, according to Time.
Most everybody in the thread thinks this is, instead, an old and VERY rational fear of getting sick.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:54:51pm

re: #327 Dread Pirate

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Trump is turning the VOA into American Trumpian Pravda Radio.

FIFY

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:55:42pm

re: #340 Sherlock Hound

New disorder: Re-Entry Anxiety, according to Time.
Most everybody in the thread thinks this is, instead, an old and VERY rational fear of getting sick.

Yeah, I was talking to a friend this morning, who is experiencing a weird form of gaslighting because she feels like an idiot for still staying home, wearing a mask when she does go out, etc. It’s like somehow society is punishing those of us who are being responsible because we don’t want to be stupid.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:57:35pm

I just got home from work. I walked around all dang day and I am exhausted. And I am scheduled to do the same tomorrow. When we enter the building we have to our temperature taken and are given a piece of paper that says this is what happened. Being out on the street is not too bad but it is very quiet. And we have to come in earlier so that our equipment can be cleaned. The only good thing is that I will be off next week.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 4:58:24pm

re: #343 PhillyPretzel

Be safe. I start my first (and so far only scheduled) “morning shift” at 3:30 AM Central Time tomorrow, as we start our beta rollout in Europe.

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:00:29pm

re: #343 PhillyPretzel

How are the local trends?

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:01:32pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

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So as it turns out, Republicans/Libertarians are just peachy fine with “picking winners and losers” in business. …just as long as that business is huge, and what other “criteria” means apart from big campaign donations.

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:02:04pm

re: #345 Decatur Deb

Trends as to what? Most folks are wearing some sort of face covering. Buses and trains were half empty.

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Sherlock Hound  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:04:07pm

re: #342 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Yeah, I was talking to a friend this morning, who is experiencing a weird form of gaslighting because she feels like an idiot for still staying home, wearing a mask when she does go out, etc. It’s like somehow society is punishing those of us who are being responsible because we don’t want to be stupid.

Massachusetts has been very good. Most all of us are doing it right. I’m pissed off at the possibility that someone from outside might visit us and we’ll do this all over again. My town is fucked if it has to shut down again. I’m only now thinking of going out for non-essential (recreational) purposes.

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BeachDem  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:04:38pm

re: #340 Sherlock Hound

New disorder: Re-Entry Anxiety, according to Time.
Most everybody in the thread thinks this is, instead, an old and VERY rational fear of getting sick.

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The main thing that bothers me about staying home alone is that it really doesn’t bother me at all. And with all the lunatics running around here at the beach, I don’t see myself going anywhere non-essential anytime soon. My standby graphic—

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:05:26pm

re: #347 PhillyPretzel

Trends as to what? Most folks are wearing some sort of face covering. Buses and trains were half empty.

The CV-19 trends in your catch area. Are your phases honest? In a very bad case, repeated exposure could be challenged as a violation of OSHA’s General Duty clause.

(If anyone at DoL actually gave a shit.)

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PhillyPretzel  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:08:06pm

re: #350 Decatur Deb

Philly still has some high numbers but they are not going up like a rocket. That is why the Mayor and the Governor have labeled us as yellow. We were in red before. I personally would like to see everything go green before people go back to work.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:10:54pm

re: #342 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Yeah, I was talking to a friend this morning, who is experiencing a weird form of gaslighting because she feels like an idiot for still staying home, wearing a mask when she does go out, etc. It’s like somehow society is punishing those of us who are being responsible because we don’t want to be stupid.

Talked to my young neighbor. 2 friends tested positive in NC, but they don’t trust the positive because not sick. Feel that there are fake positives now.

We are fucked.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:11:40pm

re: #352 HRH Stanley Sea

Talked to my young neighbor. 2 friends tested positive in NC, but they don’t trust the positive because not sick. Feel that there are fake positives now.

We are fucked.

[Bangs head on desk.]

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:14:01pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:17:35pm

re: #349 BeachDem

The main thing that bothers me about staying home alone is that it really doesn’t bother me at all. And with all the lunatics running around here at the beach, I don’t see myself going anywhere non-essential anytime soon. My standby graphic—

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I’ve put off my Dad’s huge Walmart list as long as I could (2 weeks)

Going tomorrow. Please send me any super easy tee shirts masks?

My home health care donation mask from 2 mos ago is toast. My BLM one prob won’t arrive till August.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:17:45pm

re: #349 BeachDem

The main thing that bothers me about staying home alone is that it really doesn’t bother me at all. And with all the lunatics running around here at the beach, I don’t see myself going anywhere non-essential anytime soon. My standby graphic—

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Introverts Of The World, Unite!
Separately.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:19:43pm

re: #349 BeachDem

The main thing that bothers me about staying home alone is that it really doesn’t bother me at all. And with all the lunatics running around here at the beach, I don’t see myself going anywhere non-essential anytime soon. My standby graphic—

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It helps me immensely that my team is entirely comprised of anti-social introverted nerds, who are all extremely comfortable with continuing to work from home, essentially until we’re dragged into the office kicking and screaming. Also, as evidenced by the numbers that are being shown, the large proportion of Minnesotans are doing things right, the idjits who attend my church notwithstanding.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:20:07pm

Instagram

The start of summer means jumping in freezing lakes. This one was pretty cold. 📸@nick_de_young
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#ouraycolorado #sanjuans #hiking #swimming #alpinelakes #hikingbangers #turqouise #funlifecrisis #coloRADo #explorecolorado

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Decatur Deb  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:23:02pm

re: #355 HRH Stanley Sea

I’ve put off my Dad’s huge Walmart list as long as I could (2 weeks)

Going tomorrow. Please send me any super easy tee shirts masks?

My home health care donation mask from 2 mos ago is toast. My BLM one prob won’t arrive till August.

At our stores, Walmart will shop for you from a list submitted online a couple days earlier.
A masked worker will drop them in your trunk on your phone confirmation that you’re in a loading slot..

We’ve only done groceries that way, but I’m told they’ll include dry goods.

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jaunte  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:23:31pm

re: #358 teleskiguy

I did that once up at Columbine Lake; I recall diving out as fast as I dove in, and then taking a nice nap on a flat rock.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:26:00pm

re: #360 jaunte

I did that once up at Columbine Lake; I recall diving out as fast as I dove in, and then taking a nice nap on a flat rock.

It reminds me of an old Bill Cosby routine, which makes me mad at him all over again for turning out the be a serial rapist and shitting all over a bunch of my happy memories.

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teleskiguy  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:26:08pm

re: #360 jaunte

I’ve done this once, at Mystic Island Lake. Once was enough.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:28:04pm

re: #355 HRH Stanley Sea

I’ve put off my Dad’s huge Walmart list as long as I could (2 weeks)

Going tomorrow. Please send me any super easy tee shirts masks?

My home health care donation mask from 2 mos ago is toast. My BLM one prob won’t arrive till August.

Cut off 5” (long enough to go over your nose, mouth and chin) from the bottom of a tee shirt. Cut a 3” line from one seam. Lie flat. Slide a rubber band 1/3 of the way in on both sides, so you have two rubber bands “splitting” the material into the sections. Fold 1/3 in from the cut seam outer edge. Fold the other end in 1/3 and tuck into the cut seam. You’re all set.

If you want, take a Kleenex or paper towel and put it between the layers.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:29:36pm

re: #363 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Cut off 5” (long enough to go over your nose, mouth and chin) from the bottom of a tee shirt. Cut a 3” line from one seam. Lie flat. Slide a rubber band 1/3 of the way in on both sides, so you have two rubber bands “splitting” the material into the sections. Fold 1/3 in from the cut seam outer edge. Fold the other end in 1/3 and tuck into the cut seam. You’re all set.

If you want, take a Kleenex or paper towel and put it between the layers.

Or, a simple bandana, in a pinch.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:31:21pm

re: #359 Decatur Deb

At our stores, Walmart will shop for you from a list submitted online a couple days earlier.
A masked worker will drop them in your trunk on your phone confirmation that you’re in a loading slot..

We’ve only done groceries that way, but I’m told they’ll include dry goods.

Oh god, I wish. My dad is so specific. So many of his items do not show up online. I’ve tried…..Maybe I’m not trying enough.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:31:22pm

re: #364 Blind Frog Belly White

Or, a simple bandana, in a pinch.

basically the same instructing (fold the square three times then fold inwards in thirds).

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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:36:20pm

re: #214 Dr. Matt

After 2 decades of working in health care, I can tell you from first hand knowledge that this vile fucker is very close to death. He looks awful.

thank god. i thought you were talking about Coop. I scrolled back past him with relief.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:36:26pm

re: #366 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

basically the same instructing (fold the square three times then fold inwards in thirds).

Or desperado style. Even a simple face covering helps.

I saw a study, from a few years back, that found that extra layers don’t improve filtration by as much as they make breathing more difficult.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 15, 2020 • 5:45:09pm

re: #358 teleskiguy

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Holy fuck. I went camping in Glacier and, because grizzlies were spotted a stone’s throw from our campsite and we had to leave, Bampf after college. But in both places I tried to “bathe” in the lakes and ponds, and it was soooo fucking cold. No way I could do this.

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steve_davis  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:01:04pm

re: #261 Blind Frog Belly White

His is the voice I’d most like to have. His, or James Earl Jones’s.

tom baker’s. you could have anyone you wanted in a bar with that voice. even when he’s just goofing in interviews, he sounds like the smartest person you’ve ever met.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jun 15, 2020 • 6:04:58pm

re: #370 steve_davis

tom baker’s. you could have anyone you wanted in a bar with that voice. even when he’s just goofing in interviews, he sounds like the smartest person you’ve ever met.

“Would you like a Jelly Baby?” - that Tom Baker? I mean, beyond question The Best Doctor, bar none. Everyone knows that.


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