With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten worse in recent months, and how to prevent an impending crisis.
America has always placed Property Rights above almost all other human rights, and evicting economic victims of COVID is fully in keeping with that tradition.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
America has always placed Property Rights above almost all other human rights, and evicting economic victims of COVID is fully in keeping with that tradition.
Yep, sad but true. And this is going to be the next big crisis, too.
I love how team Trump is going with the excuse that “The President wasn’t briefed on that” with regards to the Russia bounties while apparently not understanding that it’s still a BIG FUCKING DEAL if the President WAS NOT BRIEFED on extremely vital intelligence like that.
It’s always amateur hour with these wannabes.
People do not die of poverty, they die of lack of proper nutrition, shelter and medical care.
Because America does not believe that poor people deserve access to such things - because they are poor
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
America has always placed Property Rights above almost all other human rights, and evicting economic victims of COVID is fully in keeping with that tradition.
Indeed. Voting used to be limited to landowners only.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I love how team Trump is going with the excuse that “The President wasn’t briefed on that” with regards to the Russia bounties while apparently not understanding that it’s still a BIG FUCKING DEAL if the President WAS NOT BRIEFED on extremely vital intelligence like that.
It’s always amateur hour with these wannabes.
Remember how GHW Bush “slept” through the Iran-Contra briefing?
From downstairs:
re: #339 John Hughes
First they came for r/QAnon, and everybody pointed and laughed.
Then they came for r/TheDonald and everybody said, “about bloody time”.
And /r/chapotraphouse was banned and everyone said “No fucks to give about them, pal!”
{That subreddit was banned, too…)
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Indeed. Voting used to be limited to landowners only.
Specifically, white, land-owning men.
Future headline:
“Colts crush Cowboys 112-0 in Super Bowl CCCXXI! ‘Beat ‘em like a Trump!’ exults coach.”
Gets worse
Now we’re hearing reports that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill Americans. And the White House reportedly knew, holding meetings about the explosive charge in March of this year.
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) June 29, 2020
Trump and his team are in panic mode. Trump suggests the report is a hoax. White House staff doesn’t deny the existence of the intelligence, but says Trump was never briefed on it. But the Administration reportedly did tell the British—so that British troops could be protected!
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) June 29, 2020
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Indeed. Voting used to be limited to landowners only.
And amazingly, even in the 21st Century, I’ve seen some “conservative intellectuals” argue that we ought to reinstate some version of that rule for the “good of the country”.
re: #14 Jay C
And amazingly, even in the 21st Century, I’ve seen some “conservative intellectuals” argue that we ought to reinstate some version of that rule for the “good of the country”.
Conservatives would prefer the vote to be restricted to white males to guarantee Republican rule forever.
The saga of the frightened Gilded Age couple continues
In this video you can see protestors walk right through the gate. It’s not destroyed when they walk onto the street.
You can hear McCloskey, “get the hell out of my neighborhood.” pic.twitter.com/ZbBNP2Xc4v— Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) June 29, 2020
re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter
Conservatives would prefer the vote to be restricted to white males to guarantee Republican rule forever.
Ideally, back to “Constitutional originalism” and make it “White male Christian property-owners”; and figure out some way to work “heterosexual” in there as well.
re: #18 Jay C
Ideally, back to “Constitutional originalism” and make it “White male Christian property-owners”; and figure out some way to work “heterosexual” in there as well.
“White Male Christian” implies married to a white woman, or at least owning a black one.
re: #13 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
If Trump wasn’t told this (which I highly doubt) there’s two possibilities - either the intel community doesn’t trust him enough to share that kind of info with him for fear he’ll go blabbing to Putin about it. Or they did in fact tell him, and Trump was too busy rage-Tweeting on his iPhone or was bored by at all and completely forgot they told him.
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
If Trump wasn’t told this (which I highly doubt) there’s two possibilities - either the intel community doesn’t trust him enough to share that kind of info with him for fear he’ll go blabbing to Putin about it. Or they did in fact tell him, and Trump was too busy rage-Tweeting on his iPhone or was bored by at all and completely forgot they told him.
Or his boss Putin had already told him to ignore it.
Conservatives are dutifully trotting out this cow pie. https://t.co/yENiO0Yt4k
— Baba NostraAdeptus (@brill_inst) June 29, 2020
You buy a place and start moving in and this happens. What do you do?pic.twitter.com/XsmDxIlIp3
— 𝖠𝖺𝗋𝗈𝗇 𝖶𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋 (@Wieneraaron) June 28, 2020
re: #21 William Lewis
Or his boss Putin had already told him to ignore it.
That’s a possibility as well.
Dan Crenshaw and Brian Kilmeade blame Texas coronavirus spike on #BlackLivesMatter protesters, not the state reopening businesses pic.twitter.com/nJxwgcKrgH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 29, 2020
Problem is, Mike Pence is one of the most complacent human beings on the planet.
Also complicit. https://t.co/wGPAszPGYO— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #25 DodgerFan1988
Those protests must have been huge. Dan should listen to his constituents.
Horrific. https://t.co/4Pyli098r4
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I love how team Trump is going with the excuse that “The President wasn’t briefed on that” with regards to the Russia bounties while apparently not understanding that it’s still a BIG FUCKING DEAL if the President WAS NOT BRIEFED on extremely vital intelligence like that.
It’s always amateur hour with these wannabes.
incompetence or treason
there is no third way
re: #27 jaunte
Those protests must have been huge. Dan should listen to his constituents.
Exactly. “So, Dan, if you take care of the issues of racism in this country, our problems with the virus will go away?”
We are so screwed
I’m sure they were careful, and I know this looks better, but photos like this without masks do not promote good public health practices or engender public confidence in officials. https://t.co/Ffq4iIgDIW
— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@BudKennedy) June 29, 2020
re: #31 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
We are so screwed
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Keep wearing your mask, and stay away from these people. All it will take is one sick person getting in the group.
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
If Trump wasn’t told this (which I highly doubt) there’s two possibilities - either the intel community doesn’t trust him enough to share that kind of info with him for fear he’ll go blabbing to Putin about it. Or they did in fact tell him, and Trump was too busy rage-Tweeting on his iPhone or was bored by at all and completely forgot they told him.
I’d vote for option 2: there’s enough evidence* that the “bounty” intel was passed up the chain-of-command to a high-enough level that the WH -someone in the Executive Office, anyway - had to know about it: and either didn’t inform the President (sadly, all-too-likely given the Orange Anus’s dislike of “bad news”); or else Trump WAS informed: either way they’re looking like idiots. And that’s the benign interpretation.
*maybe not “evidence” to the stand-up-in-Federal-Court level; but given the choice of:
A) Intelligence professionals, or
B) The Trump White House
I know who I’d believe….
re: #33 Jay C
I’d vote for option 2: there’s enough evidence* that the “bounty” intel was passed up the chain-of-command to a high-enough level that the WH -someone in the Executive Office, anyway - had to know about it: and either didn’t inform the President (sadly, all-too-likely given the Orange Anus’s dislike of “bad news”); or else Trump WAS informed: either way they’re looking like idiots. And that’s the benign interpretation.
*maybe not “evidence” to the stand-up-in-Federal-Court level; but given the choice of:
A) Intelligence professionals, or
B) The Trump White House
I know who I’d believe….
If it comparable in quality to the evidence that Obama used to go after bin Laden, then it’s pretty good evidence.
re: #17 Teddy’s Person
The saga of the frightened Gilded Age couple continues
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The amount of people responding that the protestors were ‘trespassing’ and therefore deserved to get shot up like the savage antifa deathmob they were is just….good goddamn.
re: #25 DodgerFan1988
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you’re gonna have to prove this scientifically, or else its bafflegab
Dan Crenshaw and Brian Kilmeade blame Texas coronavirus spike on #BlackLivesMatter protesters, not the state reopening businesses pic.twitter.com/nJxwgcKrgH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 29, 2020
re: #33 Jay C
I’d vote for option 2: there’s enough evidence* that the “bounty” intel was passed up the chain-of-command to a high-enough level that the WH -someone in the Executive Office, anyway - had to know about it: and either didn’t inform the President (sadly, all-too-likely given the Orange Anus’s dislike of “bad news”); or else Trump WAS informed: either way they’re looking like idiots. And that’s the benign interpretation.
*maybe not “evidence” to the stand-up-in-Federal-Court level; but given the choice of:
A) Intelligence professionals, or
B) The Trump White House
I know who I’d believe….
offs (not you)
sure some things dont rise to the level of ‘bother the president (yet)”
but there is no set of ‘rules’
the pdb and other briefings often contain unverified, sketchy, and otherwise as yet unconfirmed speculation/guesses/hunches/possibilities.
they’re not only about what is known.
they’re about what we think, guess, surmise, predict, etc
remember when ‘chatter’ used to be enough?
I wonder if HRC was POTUS right now, would Justice Roberts be acting like a “swing vote”? Interesting notion….
We have been cautious throughout every step of our restart.
We’ve always said that we would not hesitate to hit pause if needed to safeguard public health.
This is one of those times.— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) June 29, 2020
Compliance isn’t a polite suggestion. It is required.
Selflessness, not selfishness.— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) June 29, 2020
That’s my guv right there.
re: #38 Dr. Matt
I wonder if HRC was POTUS right now, would Justice Roberts be acting like a “swing vote”? Interesting notion….
If HRC were POTUS, Kennedy would still be on the court and Gorsuch wouldn’t. So there would be 5 liberals vs 4 conservatives, with Roberts still the Chief Justice. No swing vote would be needed.
Is there going to be a guest speaker? pic.twitter.com/6gLrcrsyCy
— Rosanne 🐩🐩🐩 (@RosanneR429) June 29, 2020
Just let it sink in that Matt Gaetz actually thinks these two morons look GOOD. https://t.co/IQOh8Hm0Jw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #43 Charles Johnson
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Did someone edit the picture so that he wouldn’t be pointing the gun at her?
Also, I’ve never fired an AR, but isn’t that tucking it under the arm going to cause problems with control?
re: #40 Belafon
New Jersey, If I’m not mistaken.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
In Joe Biden’s America your job is illegal, you are locked in your home, borders don’t exist, MS-13 lives next door and the police aren’t coming when the mob arrives.
This is all of us. pic.twitter.com/qS5ZeZQyU8— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) June 29, 2020
Matt Gaetz sounds exactly like my Trumpster brother who believes anarchy would reign on the streets if Biden is elected. They get all their talking points from the same source — sheeple every one. And they really believe this — that and that Biden has dementia.
re: #44 Belafon
Did someone edit the picture so that he wouldn’t be pointing the gun at her?
Also, I’ve never fired an AR, but isn’t that tucking it under the arm going to cause problems with control?
Recoil is pretty low, but aim will be for shit, just like hers using the second finger section instead of the tip. Neither of these two yahoos know anything about firearm safety or usage.
re: #38 Dr. Matt
I wonder if HRC was POTUS right now, would Justice Roberts be acting like a “swing vote”? Interesting notion….
If HRC was president, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh wouldn’t be on the court. So no, Roberts wouldn’t be a swing vote.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Every time I see this photo I think “learn how to hold a gun, lady!”
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Biden has dementia and Trump has what then? Trump can’t even read intelligently from a dang teleprompter.
She seems nice.
Woman in Watsontown, Pennsylvania shouts at Black Lives Matter protesters “you live off of white people” and “keep your HIV over there” pic.twitter.com/m6AvRulHRr
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 29, 2020
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Matt Gaetz sounds exactly like my Trumpster brother who believes anarchy would reign on the streets if Biden is elected. They get all their talking points from the same source — sheeple every one. And they really believe this — that and that Biden has dementia.
So the people currently holding the guns in Trump’s America are going to be the futuristic people holding guns in Biden’s America?
The good idea fairy has been busy
This reads like an Onion article https://t.co/ZZ3ZVV9m2g pic.twitter.com/pJKPgGkw8g
— Kate Hinds (@katehinds) June 29, 2020
re: #43 Charles Johnson
If those two idiots had faced a real threat, they’d both be dead. Incompetent morons - IOW perfect MAGAts.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Matt Gaetz sounds exactly like my Trumpster brother who believes anarchy would reign on the streets if Biden is elected. They get all their talking points from the same source — sheeple every one. And they really believe this — that and that Biden has dementia.
This may be the 1st instance of a Republican coming to the defense of a trial lawyer.
//
Finally.
YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech https://t.co/RiputfwEz1 pic.twitter.com/jopbL5pR8i
— The Verge (@verge) June 29, 2020
If you’re wondering about Puerto Rico’s wanting statehood:
U.S. progressive friends, that tweet you’re sending on Puerto Rico is well intentioned. But you’re hurting progressives on the island. A thread 🧵
There’s an entire ecosystem of Puerto Rican grassroots organizations, academics, workers, writers, artists, etc. who have grappled with equity, social justice, undoing racism, and the island’s relationship with the U.S. for a long time.
You stepping into this moment demanding “now do Puerto Rico” statehood is not helpful. It reinforces an imperial mindset — deciding for us — and it erases the work, struggle and thought leadership of an entire people.
An estimated 46 percent of Puerto Ricans support statehood, as is their right. But most others do not. Moreover, the power structures in PR pushing statehood are analogous to the right wing in the U.S.
…
This is just one snapshot of one event this week; we won’t cover the richness of Puerto Rican struggle and resistance over Twitter.
But it’s important to know that the statehood movement tends to be conservative when it comes to LGBTQ rights, women’s equality, the rights of immigrants, energy, and education. Their leaders certainly are.
I don’t fault any Puerto Rican for supporting statehood. I get it. Point is, 1) *they* should get to decide and 2) Their party and movement are unacceptably conservative; they put women, the LGBTQ community, POC in danger.
If you’re a progressive in the U.S., before throwing your support to statehood for Puerto Rico, you need to think about the dynamics and values behind the statehood power structure, and the fact that your support helps them push right-wing ideologies.
Blindly supporting statehood positions you in opposition to local resistance. You should also think carefully before deciding on political status on behalf of Puerto Ricans. (Don’t do it.)
More here: dailykos.com.
re: #33 Jay C
I’d vote for option 2: there’s enough evidence* that the “bounty” intel was passed up the chain-of-command to a high-enough level that the WH -someone in the Executive Office, anyway - had to know about it: and either didn’t inform the President (sadly, all-too-likely given the Orange Anus’s dislike of “bad news”); or else Trump WAS informed: either way they’re looking like idiots. And that’s the benign interpretation.
*maybe not “evidence” to the stand-up-in-Federal-Court level; but given the choice of:
A) Intelligence professionals, or
B) The Trump White House
I know who I’d believe….
Same here. I just pretty much figure that anything Trump says is a lie by default until proven otherwise.
re: #52 Patricia Kayden
Biden has dementia and Trump has what then? Trump can’t even read intelligently from a dang teleprompter.
Non dementia possibilities: dyslexia? too vain to wear glasses?
Sigh. I went to Kroger a little while ago for my once every 10 days shopping extravaganza. Only maybe 10 percent of people had masks, the employees were all in compliance.
While I was in the produce dept, I met my first Karen. Little blonde with very short shorts and a ponytail, no mask. No cart either. I wear a mask and so was another lady shopping. Karen kept leaning in front of one or the other of us reaching for things and putting them back with a little fake smile. I just worked around her, I have no desire to go to jail and become an internet sensation for such a stupid bitch. I seriously hate these fucking people and I would have beat her into a coma til someone pulled me off of her. I’m fully finished with these fucking assholes. Karen was trying to start shit, when I was coming down an aisle she was in she was doing the same shit to other shoppers in masks. She was there to start shit. It’s pretty obvious, so I guess this is a new wingnut game. Did I mention how much I hate these people?
The White House Press Secretary said at the briefing today that Trump “has not been briefed” on the Russia bounty story. Yet Trump tweeted last night that he had spoken to “intel” about the matter. https://t.co/WBe9jv5seU
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 29, 2020
After letting them spread hatred, racism and conspiracy theories unimpeded for YEARS. https://t.co/t3mPlu07sm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #40 Belafon
Which state?
New Jersey.
And it’s entirely warranted. I’ve seen outdoor dining where the restaurants are doing the right thing, and seen others where they didn’t put the tables/seats 6 feet apart. Zero separation. Indoors is a crapshoot, and then bar service means even less social distancing and safe masking.
He’s trying to prevent backsliding; but I fear that we’ll be overwhelmed and back to square 1 by the fall thanks to Trumpists who think wearing a mask is a political statement.
This is NOT how it works. Intelligence is rarely “verified,” and this is just another canard to protect Trump.
E.g., some assessed the intel placing Bin Ladin in Abbottabad was about a 50-50 proposition. Trump’s predecessor, nevertheless, engaged deeply with it, as I recall. https://t.co/hitWiz7GEB— Ned Price (@nedprice) June 29, 2020
re: #58 Patricia Kayden
Finally.
Now if they’d just clean up Prager and the quacks and the anti-vaxxers…
So much for “not politicizing intelligence,” I guess https://t.co/1KPQjWTvRK
— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) June 29, 2020
re: #17 Teddy’s Person
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That bastion of privilege is 20 minutes from Ferguson, where the first large scale demonstrations for BLM started after the murder of Michael Brown.
Fairfax County Sheriff deputies murdered Natasha McKenna when they tasered her four times even though she was handcuffed, shackled, and had a mask covering her head. ME’s office said her cause of death was “excited delirium.”
Her last words? “You promised you wouldn’t kill me.” https://t.co/yHNMhUyFyo— African American Policy Forum (@AAPolicyForum) June 29, 2020
Define “Big Abortion Industry”?
I don’t think you can. I doesn’t exist accept in the minds of fake Christians and Republicans.
Why don’t you make a statement about those Russian bounties instead since you are all “For the Troops” and all.
Seems you’re a phony there as well.— And the Wind Cries “SLOW THE TESTING DOWN!!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 29, 2020
This is NOT how it works. Intelligence is rarely “verified,” and this is just another canard to protect Trump.
To be fair, this may very well be how it works now with that asshole toddler in the Oval Office.
Trump….on everything pic.twitter.com/CPIEJarU3E
— Kat Donovan (@Kat_Don) June 29, 2020
re: #69 Thanos
“I really thought it was storming the Bastille.” St. Louis pink shirted gunman describes horror as protestors walked along sidewalk adjoining his home. pic.twitter.com/ya2DxajKOQ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 29, 2020
They don’t know their history.
The Bastille was a prison - complete with armed guards. How’d that work out?
And what happened to the French monarchy (you know, they had guns too). They lost.
Having guns doesn’t guarantee safety or winning.
But the key question is why they weren’t charged with menacing for waving guns at peaceful protesters? Wait, we know why. It’s mighty white of ‘em.
re: #74 lawhawk
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They don’t know their history.
The Bastille was a prison - complete with armed guards. How’d that work out?
And what happened to the French monarchy (you know, they had guns too). They lost.
Having guns doesn’t guarantee safety or winning.
But the key question is why they weren’t charged with menacing for waving guns at peaceful protesters? Wait, we know why. It’s mighty white of ‘em.
It’s actually a pretty apt comparison, but not the way he thinks it is.
re: #62 A Mom Anon
Sigh. I went to Kroger a little while ago for my once every 10 days shopping extravaganza. Only maybe 10 percent of people had masks, the employees were all in compliance.
While I was in the produce dept, I met my first Karen. Little blonde with very short shorts and a ponytail, no mask. No cart either. I wear a mask and so was another lady shopping. Karen kept leaning in front of one or the other of us reaching for things and putting them back with a little fake smile. I just worked around her, I have no desire to go to jail and become an internet sensation for such a stupid bitch. I seriously hate these fucking people and I would have beat her into a coma til someone pulled me off of her. I’m fully finished with these fucking assholes. Karen was trying to start shit, when I was coming down an aisle she was in she was doing the same shit to other shoppers in masks. She was there to start shit. It’s pretty obvious, so I guess this is a new wingnut game. Did I mention how much I hate these people?
Before masks became required locally I ran into one of these. She wore a shirt reading “My rights don’t end where your fear begins”, and was giving the hairy eyeball to everyone in a mask. We all just ignored her. I figured saying anything would cause her to whip out the .380 hidden under the shirt and start blasting, this being rural Arizona and all.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
To be fair, this may very well be how it works now with that asshole toddler in the Oval Office.
Trump was supposed to get this verified (doesn’t seem like he even bothered) before acting on it but Obama was supposed to already have rescue planes just circling over BENGHAZI!! in case something bad might have happened?
Right. Facebook has gone from no oversight or moderation at all to moderation by incredibly stupid and bad software, backed up by apparent idiots who don’t care about meaning or context. https://t.co/KgYVMw7JjS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
“The face is the most sensitive….” This man has just admitted that he has no balls.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) June 29, 2020
re: #70 Patricia Kayden
Good to hear that this is finally resurfacing.
Death of Natasha McKenna
en.wikipedia.org
washingtonpost.com
(From April 13, 2015)
The Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team regularly records their operations, and the Fairfax County police have said there is video of the “extraction” of McKenna. This presumably would include her being hit with four Taser shocks after she was handcuffed behind her back, shackled around the legs, a hobble strap connected to both restraints, and a spit mask placed over her face. The police, who are investigating the case for any possible criminal violation, have declined to release the video while the case is still under investigation. When it does come out, it may well join the growing canon of video of fatal law enforcement actions which has shocked the country.
re: #36 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
you’re gonna have to prove this scientifically, or else its bafflegab
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The third tweet in that thread pretty much disproves Crenshaw’s bullshit.
The data doesn’t support Crenshaw’s hypothesis.#BlackLivesMatter protests occurred in all 50 states, but the hospital-busting #TrumpVirus resurgence is almost exclusively occurring in GOP states, with the worst in FL, TX & AZ.
Not after NY or NJ’s huge BLM protests.#EpicFail pic.twitter.com/uZWhqtvrld— Monty 🇺🇸Hamilton’s Battery🇺🇸 Boa (@MontyBoa99) June 29, 2020
— And the Wind Cries “SLOW THE TESTING DOWN!!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 29, 2020
Twitch has temporarily suspended Donald Trump’s account. The company says the channel’s broadcast of the President’s Tulsa Rally and recent re-airing of one of his 2016 campaign stops violated its hateful conduct and harassment policies. The comments Twitch took issue with feature the President making negative comments about Mexican migrants.“Hey, it’s 1:00 o’clock in the morning and a very tough, I’ve used the word on occasion, hombre, a very tough hombre is breaking into the window of a young woman whose husband is away as a traveling salesman or whatever he may do,” Trump says in one of the videos flagged by Twitch.
In a statement to Engadget, the company said, “Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch. In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream.”
Come on, Twitter. Do it. DO IT!
re: #71 Dave In Austin
What’s unbelievable is that the GOP is still suing to invalidate Obamacare and the preexisting conditions protections it provides to the nation. We know at least 20 to 50% of Americans have a preexisting condition. You’d screw all of ‘em because you just don’t care.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 29, 2020
tfw a tweet starts out seemingly rational, then takes a sudden left turn.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
If Twitter banned Trump he’d schedule a primetime national address to bitch about it.
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
If HRC were POTUS, Kennedy would still be on the court and Gorsuch wouldn’t. So there would be 5 liberals vs 4 conservatives, with Roberts still the Chief Justice. No swing vote would be needed.
Doh. Yeah. Forgot about the most important part…..
re: #62 A Mom Anon
Sigh. I went to Kroger a little while ago for my once every 10 days shopping extravaganza. Only maybe 10 percent of people had masks, the employees were all in compliance.
While I was in the produce dept, I met my first Karen. Little blonde with very short shorts and a ponytail, no mask. No cart either. I wear a mask and so was another lady shopping. Karen kept leaning in front of one or the other of us reaching for things and putting them back with a little fake smile. I just worked around her, I have no desire to go to jail and become an internet sensation for such a stupid bitch. I seriously hate these fucking people and I would have beat her into a coma til someone pulled me off of her. I’m fully finished with these fucking assholes. Karen was trying to start shit, when I was coming down an aisle she was in she was doing the same shit to other shoppers in masks. She was there to start shit. It’s pretty obvious, so I guess this is a new wingnut game. Did I mention how much I hate these people?
I haven’t encountered any Karens yet—just oblivious un-masked assholes. The post office was a dream today, everyone in masks, plenty of distancing, plastic sheeting over the whole counter area. Five minutes in and out.
I was then headed to Publix. Parking lot was packed. Sat in my car to observe for a few and was not thrilled with the view, so went to Fresh Market instead. Spent more money; bought fewer items, but everyone was wearing masks and distancing, so I guess it was worth it.
Drove home on the beach road. Hotels are already packed (remember, my mayor thinks it’s unfair that people are reporting that they got sick after coming to the beach and said, “We need our visitors, we love them.”)
Nope—not going out among them anytime in the near future.
If I were in Jack’s shoes I’d turn him off for 2 weeks just because I could.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
In Joe Biden’s America your job is illegal, you are locked in your home, borders don’t exist, MS-13 lives next door and the police aren’t coming when the mob arrives.
This is all of us. pic.twitter.com
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) June 29, 2020
When the “mob arrives” I’ll invite them in for some whiskey and a bite to eat….because I’m not afraid of Teh Blacks.
re: #88 Dr. Matt
Scalia would have been replaced by a liberal justice; 6-3.
I’m surprised that Rep Gaetz (FL 1) fails to realize, that had this happened in Florida, the demonstrators would have had the legal right to kill those people
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 29, 2020
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
If Twitter banned Trump he’d schedule a primetime national address to bitch about it.
Hell, he’d probably try to order a nuclear strike on Twitter HQ.
re: #92 lawhawk
Scalia would have been replaced by a liberal justice; 6-3.
But, HRC had an email server at home……
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re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They believe that the poor are sinners.
If the poor just believed in America, and acted according to the faith, they would not be poor.
Helping the poor is helping people to sin.
re: #95 Dr. Matt
But, HRC had an email server at home……
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And Ivanka and Jared have repeatedly used a private server to conduct official govt business (and justified it as claiming to do backchannel govt work). Never mind that after Clinton left office, the rules changed to make doing so improper -
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
If Twitter banned Trump he’d schedule a primetime national address to bitch about it.
If Trump was named Bobby Joe Smith Jr from Bumpfucks, Arkansas, he would have been banned years ago.
After speaking with my sister last night, I’m inclined to hunker down more than ever. She’s a pulmonologist in Memphis so I think I’ll take her word over most anyone’s on the subject of a lung-destroying agent of chaos. She says every day she goes to work it gets worse, and is hitting the Hispanic population particularly hard there and in north Mississippi. Her direct text quote was “It is worse than ever folks. Lay low, stay out of traffic. Stupid activities.” We wear masks like our lives depend on them, every single time we leave our house. Unfortunately, too many people here in West Alabama don’t.
1. Story is false
2. Trump was never briefed
3. Trump was briefed but only verbally
4. The intel was not verified
And today, 5: True, credible, verified and briefed and now the NYT blew up an Intel investigation. But the WH could only tell GOP this story because REASONS. https://t.co/2iKe324ZBp— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) June 29, 2020
If you’re not the candiest-assed white fright-kitten on Twitter today explain how all the neighboring homes without gun-brandishing mooks weren’t burned and looted. I wish I could live anywhere and pay as little rent as scary black and brown people do to occupy your fragile head. https://t.co/I7d3GgLmcO
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 29, 2020
When was Trump briefed about Russia placing a bounty on US troops? More specifically, when in March was he briefed (his laughable denials notwithstanding)?
President Donald Trump engaged in an unprecedented - and previously unknown - “flurry of communication” with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a three-week period earlier this year, according to a sister-network of Voice of America.
“On March 30, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by telephone, the first of five calls between the two over a period of three weeks, a flurry of communication unprecedented during Trump’s 3 1/2 years in office,”
Only one of those five calls, according to research from NCRM, was shared with the press. None were posted to the White House website, a serious deviation from prior practice.
“For many Russia watchers, the flurry of behind-the-scenes phone calls and other communications is a clear indication that something’s going on,” RFERL’s Mike Eckel adds. He notes, “the two countries’ diplomats have spoken at least three times over that same period, which also coincided with an unusual shipment of Russian coronavirus-related humanitarian aid to the United States.”
re: #80 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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umm, it is, thus the masks are needed
It’s the only way she can eat fajitas pic.twitter.com/5VbJSOCIAZ
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 29, 2020
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Matt Gaetz sounds exactly like my Trumpster brother who believes anarchy would reign on the streets if Biden is elected. They get all their talking points from the same source — sheeple every one. And they really believe this — that and that Biden has dementia.
gaetz is talking out of his ass
Bad answer.
Good answer would be: “Russia, if these reports about bounties on our soldiers are true, there will be fucking hell to pay. We will fucking come down on you Russia like a ton of bricks.” https://t.co/QbzbYvl60y— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 29, 2020
Speaking of evictions - New York does the right thing.
ICYMI: New York’s eviction-moratorium survives a legal challenge and continues until Aug. 20. https://t.co/qj62fQwDNP
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 29, 2020
Speaking of the Bastille, and as we approach July 14th…
When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, the Revolutionaries were probably more interested in capturing 250 barrels of gunpowder stored there and giving the French King a big middle finger.
Nerd details -
1. The Bastille was probably stormed by around 1000 people, of whom over 100 were killed in the process.
2. The attack was not effective until mutinous units of the regular Army arrived with artillery.
3. The garrison was largely of infirm soldiers who could no longer serve in the field. Most were not wearing their uniform coats. The crowd apparently thought that they were prisoners rather than guards. The mutinous soldiers recognized the guards and quickly got them away from the mob. The commandant was not as fortunate.
4. The Bastille at the time was largely used for upper class and political prisoners. And as such, was relatively comfy. You could bring servants and even your whole family, if desired.
These prisoners were mainly from the upper classes, and those who could afford to pay for additional luxuries lived in good conditions, wearing their own clothes, living in rooms decorated with tapestries and carpets or taking exercise around the castle garden and along the walls.
5. There were only 7 prisoners there at the time:
At this point, the Bastille was nearly empty, housing only seven prisoners: four forgers; James F.X. Whyte, a “lunatic” imprisoned at the request of his family; Auguste-Claude Tavernier, who had tried to assassinate Louis XV thirty years before; and one “deviant” aristocrat, the Comte de Solages, imprisoned by his father using a lettre de cachet (while the Marquis de Sade had been transferred out ten days earlier).
Storming of the Bastille
en.wikipedia.org
Because of course.
Flu virus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China https://t.co/fcTmu5DhWC
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 29, 2020
We’re beyond incompetent in handling the current pandemic, all while the next pandemic is waiting in the wings.
Mind you, the solution is the same for both - social distancing, masking, washing hands, sanitizing surfaces, etc.
But the Trumpists have made all those efforts a political statement by refusing to follow the health experts and have endangered themselves, their communities, the nation, and the world.
Dumbasses. They’re fucking dumbasses, and they will kill countless numbers of Americans without ever admitting they fucked things up so badly.
re: #106 makeitstop
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re: #104 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)
Damnit Janet, I told you I wanted Imo’s Pizza. But you didn’t listen.
YouTube banned several leading white nationalist accounts today, banning Richard Spencer, Stefan Molyneux and David Duke. https://t.co/eQWVWrleft
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) June 29, 2020
Womp womp.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Matt Gaetz sounds exactly like my Trumpster brother who believes anarchy would reign on the streets if Biden is elected. They get all their talking points from the same source — sheeple every one. And they really believe this — that and that Biden has dementia.
My sister is just as bad. She’s convinced Antifa is a bigger threat than white supremacists or boogaloos (even though WS and boogaloos have killed hundreds over the last 10 years, including the streetcar murderer convicted and sentenced in her own town just last week, and Antifa hasn’t killed anybody. Not even one).
She’s apparently a huge fan of Andy Ngo, excitedly looking forward to his congressional testimony, and worried that Portland is becoming uninhabitable because the progressives have been too lenient. She’s thinking of moving to Texas, or maybe Idaho.
She says she can’t take my views seriously about anything political, “because you’re just so brainwashed by ‘orange man bad’ media coverage”.
I just had a wonderful thought - a fantasy that’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Twitter has declared that they feel obligated to allow the account belonging to the President to say whatever it wants. And while that’s awful, I can see the argument for it. Better to know.
But the day Biden becomes Prez, that immunity runs out. I bet Trump gets in trouble within 10 days, and is banned inside a month.
He can’t help himself. And he won’t have a whole institution trying to make him look good anymore.
re: #115 NetworkKed
I just had a wonderful thought - a fantasy that’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Twitter has declared that they feel obligated to allow the account belonging to the President to say whatever it wants. And while that’s awful, I can see the argument for it. Better to know.
But the day Biden becomes Prez, that immunity runs out. I bet Trump gets in trouble within 10 days, and is banned inside a month.
He can’t help himself. And he won’t have a whole institution trying to make him look good anymore.
I’m imagining Trump trying to create sock puppet accounts.
re: #114 sagehen
I’ll trade with her. Does she have a nice house? I do, I’m in Georgia, she’ll fit right in here.
During a zoom fundraiser, Obama expressed outrage at Trump’s use of “kung flu”.
“I don’t want a country in which the president of the U.S. is actively trying to promote anti-Asian sentiment and thinks it’s funny … That still shocks and pisses me off.” https://t.co/HPaUF5GQLi— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2020
Trump hasn’t held a lead in a single live interview national poll this entire year. He’s the first prez incumbent for who that is true in any election in the polling era. Other incumbents who were trailing at this point (Truman, Ford, Carter) led in polls earlier in the year.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 27, 2020
A wingnut family portrait if ever there was.
Title: “How Idiots Get Shot” pic.twitter.com/wUhxvqLzcp— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) June 29, 2020
Mob. They sure must have had their way with all the houses in that neighborhood unprotected by gun-brandishing mooks. You are a goddamned kitten, Ryan. Just as cute, but not nearly as brave. https://t.co/gL898Qubze
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 29, 2020
“The Republican Party is not a serious governing organization on the national level,” says @StuartPStevens, Romney’s chief strategist in 2012.
“To me, the only thing remotely like it is the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union.” https://t.co/ZAG5Jq7nLk— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 26, 2020
Trump is falling in the polls because he’s failing in reality. He’s never figured out that the best reelection strategy would be to actually do his job. https://t.co/KgE1wxeXHG
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 26, 2020
re: #117 A Mom Anon
I’ll trade with her. Does she have a nice house? I do, I’m in Georgia, she’ll fit right in here.
She has a lovely home. But she’d definitely want to live in a place with several synagogues to chose from. It’s not enough to be able to join a nice congregation, there also has to be “the one I don’t go to”.
You know the shit’s getting deep when @darth goes political.
it is almost july mitch where the fuck have u been with this take
maybe stop taking all those three day weekends https://t.co/tneU221EBg— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
the president and vice president of the united states and GOP members of the senate have been going around maskless for months what kind of lead from behind bullshit is this
— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
no one gets ‘credit’ for stating the obvious four months after it needed to be stated emphatically and publicly the most
— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
“just be happy he is finally saying it publicly stop shaming people for coming to it late”
this guy deserves zero benefit of the doubt
zero— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
his refusal to take a very public stand on masks and against trump and pence on this issue in march has lead to thousands of americans getting unneccesarily sick and dying he can fuck himself
— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
This too. Frickin’ Man-Bat pic.twitter.com/lRkfjHaoym
— F1agg Σagl3t0n 🇺🇸🦅🧼💦👏🏽 (@NM_Che56) June 29, 2020
this is pathetic.
also…not true.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2020
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2020
You’d think they’d at least try to come up with a spin that isn’t this blatantly self-contradictory. What a joke.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
[Don Lafontaine]In a world where everything has gone straight to hell….and back![/Don Lafontaine]
Omg who did this?! 😂 STL Ken and Karen pic.twitter.com/z7fSsjSvVh
— Daniel (@DailyLibber) June 29, 2020
re: #93 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Not if the protesters were Black.
re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
LOL imagine seeing that giant golden-crowned flying fox hanging from the rafters near your front door in the morning.
re: #129 Charles Johnson
Trump’s lied every step of the way, and their latest excuse only proves that everyone reporting on the bounties was correct. Trumpworld knew - and they did nothing.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 29, 2020
There’s no investigation by Trump’s people into the story. They’re flailing about with the fact that they knew the bounties existed, and not only did nothing, but Trump continued to back Putin regardless of the circumstances.
re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Remember when people threw a fit because they engineered a pterasaur in Jurassic World with a dinosaur head? They probably did exist.
Wow. This is the best damage control you guys could come up with?? Lol
— Erin Belieu (@erinbelieu) June 29, 2020
re: #134 Belafon
Remember when people threw a fit because they engineered a pterasaur in Jurassic World with a dinosaur head? They probably did exist.
Who needs bio-engineering?
This big bad boy would probably send most people away screaming….
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
America has always placed Property Rights above almost all other human rights, and evicting economic victims of COVID is fully in keeping with that tradition.
The problem is, it’s a potential crisis up and down the chain. Most landlords (big and small) aren’t in a position to just waive rent - they have mortgages to pay, payroll to keep/property managers to pay; or it may be a main source of income (particularly in retirement for smaller landlords). Tenants stop paying rent, landlords either have to lay off employees or default on their mortgages; that sets up another mortgage crisis as it will fuck with the banks’ liquidity requirements.
It’s a basic economics problem - whatever the system - they are all designed to keep running, like an old clock. When one cog in the system comes loose, it fucks with the entire system. And there really isn’t an easy way to fix it (there are some simple ways, perhaps, but they are not easy).
re: #127 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Great job, non-mask-wearers! You got two weeks of milling around and yelling about freedom before you brought the whole thing crashing down again! https://t.co/Or77gD8K3z
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) June 29, 2020
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
Who needs bio-engineering?
This big bad boy would probably send most people away screaming….
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Though apparently, if raised near/with humans, flying foxes can be friendly: I recall seeing a clip of one nudging a human for treats: and getting scritichies under its little bat chin as well.
Though seriously, I can’t see denying something like that its scritichies: not right away, anyway…
re: #138 KGxvi
The problem is, it’s a potential crisis up and down the chain. Most landlords (big and small) aren’t in a position to just waive rent - they have mortgages to pay, payroll to keep/property managers to pay; or it may be a main source of income (particularly in retirement for smaller landlords). Tenants stop paying rent, landlords either have to lay off employees or default on their mortgages; that sets up another mortgage crisis as it will fuck with the banks’ liquidity requirements.
It’s a basic economics problem - whatever the system - they are all designed to keep running, like an old clock. When one cog in the system comes loose, it fucks with the entire system. And there really isn’t an easy way to fix it (there are some simple ways, perhaps, but they are not easy).
The simplest way would be for the government to assume some amount of the lower level rent to be paid up the chain. Probably not all, but a good chunk. Then tax the wealthy to pay for it because otherwise it’s just moving more money to the rich.
MY HEROS CARL REINER ANNIE REINER & MEL BROOKS pic.twitter.com/yimJbwoqCU
— George Shapiro (@georgeshapiro) June 28, 2020
These two are just now realizing that the left-wing populist movement that’s been protesting for 40-odd days and has driven the fastest societal change in 30 years has nothing to do with them and is passing them by and they can’t handle their irrelevance. https://t.co/ROw8f9e8OC
— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 (@soonergrunt) June 29, 2020
re: #141 Jay C
Though apparently, if raised near/with humans, flying foxes can be friendly: I recall seeing a clip of one nudging a human for treats: and getting scritichies under its little bat chin as well.
Though seriously, I can’t see denying something like that its scritichies: not right away, anyway…
Bats don’t bother me, even a big chonk like that. But my ex-wife? Even tiny bats would have her running away screaming and hiding under the bedcovers. One time, a small bat flew in through our balcony door and honestly, I didn’t know my ex could move that fast. She locked herself in the bathroom, yelling at me to “do something!!” about it.
So, I opened the window and closed the door to the living room behind me and it flew out on its own in a few minutes. Problem solved.
And on that note, time to call it a day. Have a good one Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #144 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
If Trumpism wasn’t a giant fraud, the world would look something like 1931… only with nuclear weapons and the internet fanning the flames.
“We’re finding that the social events and gatherings, these parties where people aren’t wearing masks, are our primary source of infection,” https://t.co/q1Q6pzYksK
— JourJour (@BraceyDuJour) June 29, 2020
re: #142 Belafon
The simplest way would be for the government to assume some amount of the lower level rent to be paid up the chain. Probably not all, but a good chunk. Then tax the wealthy to pay for it because otherwise it’s just moving more money to the rich.
For some reason all I can think of is this scene and “I’m paying you with your own money”
you coulda done that in NC (we know they wont anyway)
“The Republican National Committee announced on Monday that its convention in Jacksonville would comply with any health regulations, including mask-wearing measures, that the city has imposed,” NBC News reports.
“On Monday, the city announced that masks will be mandatory indoors and in public places where social distancing is challenging.”
Four months too late, you wretched turd. https://t.co/D3d7nbeQtQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #53 The Pie Overlord!
She seems nice.
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See why I left PA in 1982?
It’s cause of folks like this who said that Hitler didn’t finish the job right to my face.
Tyranny!
Update: David Duke also just got kicked off YouTube.https://t.co/REXQLp7gjo https://t.co/IFKRMabKDx
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) June 29, 2020
re: #148 KGxvi
For some reason all I can think of is this scene and “I’m paying you with your own money”
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Probably, but I don’t think rentiers actually earned their money, not in any meaningful “contribute to the improvement of the economy or well-being” kind of way.
re: #120 Charles Johnson
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we were so close to “Man ‘accidentally’ shoots wife, blames protesters”
A wingnut family portrait if ever there was.
Title: “How Idiots Get Shot” pic.twitter.com/wUhxvqLzcp— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #129 Charles Johnson
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after 3 1/2 years, no, i don’t think this anymore
You’d think they’d at least try to come up with a spin that isn’t this blatantly self-contradictory. What a joke.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
re: #156 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
we were so close to “Man ‘accidentally’ shoots wife, blames protesters”
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If my husband ever points a gun at me like that, his ass had better pull the trigger
— Nona #GetMasked (@NotGr8flJstDead) June 29, 2020
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
Who needs bio-engineering?
This big bad boy would probably send most people away screaming….
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White people….
I don’t think she is a natural blond. https://t.co/1Kx1fGbl2L
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) June 29, 2020
Wow! I figured out what looks so different about current AR-15s and the visually similar weapons we had in Vietnam: You never saw chubby guys handling them back then.
re: #150 Charles Johnson
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any idea?
Four months too late, you wretched turd. https://t.co/D3d7nbeQtQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 29, 2020
I’m willing that chubby fuck has never even fired that thing. It’s bone stock. It’s the factory mag. He even has the sling that comes in the box.
re: #163 Dr. Matt
I’m willing that chubby fuck has never even fired that thing. It’s bone stock. It’s the factory mag. He even has the sling that comes in the box.
And you can count on it he’s been waiting for this day.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I love how team Trump is going with the excuse that “The President wasn’t briefed on that” with regards to the Russia bounties while apparently not understanding that it’s still a BIG FUCKING DEAL if the President WAS NOT BRIEFED on extremely vital intelligence like that.
It’s always amateur hour with these wannabes.
My read on this: it’s the Intelligence Community totally RATF*CKING Trump; they put the intel into multiple reports, but kept it in printed mode, knowing that Herr Dumbshit is literally too f*cking stupid to read.
That way - the CIA/NSA/FBI can all say, “There it was in the report, just like we said. We told you multiple weeks that Russkies were targeting US troops, and murdering them in cahoots with the jihadis!”
I think the IC just got fed up with having a president who was stupid, arrogant, uneducated and treated them like shit, and decided to cornhole Trump. Hard.
re: #162 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
“Let’s just do nothing to contain the virus and hope this doesn’t eventually blow up in our faces.”
reposting this from yesterday
we must remember this - he’s not trying to spin, rationalize, explain, salvage, anything.
objective reality doesnt matter
what actually occurred doesnt matter
truth and facts dont matter
what he said 10 minutes ago doesnt matter
A.R. in Los Angeles, CA, writes: (Z) speculated that Donald Trump had declared the China trade deal dead, told Peter Navarro, and then cooled off and changed his mind. He also mused that administrations usually improve their messaging over time and get better at the “nuts and bolts” of running the country. That assumes, of course, that the man at the top cares one iota about running the country or about consistent, truthful messaging. Donald Trump cares about one thing and one thing only: Donald Trump. He has been completely consistent throughout his career and his presidency on that score. He will say whatever he thinks he needs to say to get what he wants at any given moment. I have no doubt he told Navarro that the deal was dead. When Navarro announced that, the markets tanked. So, Trump took to twitter and said exactly the opposite and the markets recovered—problem solved. He doesn’t care whether there’s actually a deal with China and he doesn’t care whether China actually buys more soybeans or not. All he cares about is the announcement and appearances and the reaction of his base, his donors and the markets. That’s it!
It was the same with the Bidens and Burisma. Trump didn’t care whether an investigation was actually done or whether there was any basis for one—all he wanted was the announcement. He doesn’t care whether North Korea actually dismantles its nuclear arsenal. All he cared about was the photo op and the announcement of some vague deal. No one believes Trump is actually religious. All he wanted was a photo in front of a church holding a Bible. Likewise, he doesn’t care about the outcome of Barr’s investigation into the investigators or whether that’s proper—all he wanted was the announcement.It’s the same with COVID-19. It’s a hoax when he wants to pack an arena and it’s a deadly scourge when he wants to restrict immigration. He doesn’t care how many people actually test positive; he just doesn’t want it announced—that’s why he doesn’t want any more testing. It was the same in his career, and he bragged about it. How many floors are in his new building? It depends who’s asking. If it’s the press, it’s 100 floors. If it’s the Building Department, who will charge more for a permit, then it’s 80. If he wanted a loan, his loan application claimed he was rich as Croesus. If it’s a tax return, suddenly he’s a pauper. The truth is irrelevant. He says whatever he needs to say in the moment to get what he wants in the moment. That’s the entirety of what drives him and he has never, ever deviated from that, even as president.</blockquote>
This is so goddamn dopey, it might just work.
BREAKING: Bill Gates, George Soros, and Hillary Clinton have funded a nationwide facial recognition program that is designed to force vaccines laced with RFID chips on everyone.
This will then be used to confiscate your guns.
Wear a mask to foil this plot!— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) June 29, 2020
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
America has always placed Property Rights above almost all other human rights, and evicting economic victims of COVID is fully in keeping with that tradition.
If not already mentioned, Covid evictions will mess up voting too. They’ll be those letters sent to former addresses that require a return response in 30 days or you’re kicked off the registered voter list. Your current address won’t match your ID address because you don’t have time to get the ID updated or you don’t have a permanent address yet, so the provisional is murky…
re: #92 lawhawk
Scalia would have been replaced by a liberal justice; 6-3.
Sorry if late, but not with Mitch in the saddle. Remember, he wouldn’t approve any SCJ for Hillary. Not for four years.
His rifle safety is off, her finger is on trigger. They came within a literal inch of murdering at least two protestors pic.twitter.com/FLJKWGjOlm
— Ned Pyle (@NerdPyle) June 29, 2020
In floor speech on Russian bounties and Trump’s knowledge of intel, Sen. Duckworth says “ignorance isn’t exculpatory.”
“’No one told me’ is not an excuse for a commander in chief…it is in fact a confession of incompetence,” she adds— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 29, 2020
Duckworth accuses Trump of making it “more likely that more spouses will be widowed and more moms and dads turned into gold star parents.”
“How dare he still call himself the commander in chief?”— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 29, 2020
White supremacist collaborator Andy Ngo is currently briefing congress from his bedroom. The hearing is on police brutality.
Andy is playing devil’s advocate, smearing peaceful protestors and says he’s “putting his life on the line” by appearing at the Zoom hearing. pic.twitter.com/PG01YrxkCh— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) June 29, 2020
the dude who slandered me and tried to get me killed so hard that German authorities literally intercepted someone coming off the steps of a plane at Tegel just gave testimony in front of congress https://t.co/kFo4r3K311
— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) June 29, 2020
Atomwaffen Andy.
Biden on Trump reportedly doing nothing to protect our troops after Russia bounty:”There’s no bottom to the depths of the Kremlin’s depravity. But what’s more shocking about this revelation, if true, is that Trump, as CIC of these troops, knew it months ago + he has done nothing” pic.twitter.com/CtPZZrmddn
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) June 29, 2020
re: #171 retired cynic
Sorry if late, but not with Mitch in the saddle. Remember, he wouldn’t approve any SCJ for Hillary. Not for four years.
If Hillary Clinton had been elected President, we would probably have had Justice Merrick Garland on SCOTUS for nearly four years now: IIRC, his nomination had never been formally withdrawn, and Moscow Mitch had said (again, IIRC: always chancy) that he would have rushed Garland’s nom through, rather than take his chances on HRC nominating - Bill Ayers, or somebody…….
“Trump’s calls with female leaders were ‘near sadistic’” calling Germany’s Angela Merkel and the UK’s Theresa May “weak” “stupid” “spineless”.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 29, 2020
The evidence would suggest that you don’t, in point of fact, know how to use them. pic.twitter.com/EpgDZx1XUU
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 29, 2020
New statement from Reps. McCaul and Kinzinger on classified WH briefing they received on reports that Russia offered bounties to Afghan militants to kill U.S. & coalition troops: pic.twitter.com/HDbHF94r3u
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) June 29, 2020
Our local NPR station had a show on Illinois as a de-facto slave state, up until 1863. I had not known the half of it. Text and audio of the show: Illinois Issues: Slave State
By Tara McClellan McAndrew
Because Illinois is a northern state and the former home of Abraham Lincoln, it isn’t typically associated with slavery. But there was slavery in Illinois for more than 100 years.
Even after Illinois entered the Union, loopholes in its laws allowed the practice to continue, making the future Land of Lincoln a quasi-slave state.
People bringing up Biden statements from 15+ years ago while Trump is saying the same or worse this day, week, or month, depending on the issue. Biden is someone who can apologize. Someone who can change. Trump says he takes no responsibility at all.
— Dave Stein (@Dave_Stein) June 29, 2020
“…The sources did cite some instances in which they said Trump acted responsibly and in the national interest during telephone discussions with some foreign leaders.”
Please clap.
holy fuck:
“In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with foreign heads of state, President Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders… and so abusive to leaders of America’s principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials — including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff — that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States,” CNN reports.
“The sources said there was little evidence that the President became more skillful or competent in his telephone conversations with most heads of state over time. Rather, he continued to believe that he could either charm, jawbone or bully almost any foreign leader into capitulating to his will, and often pursued goals more attuned to his own agenda than what many of his senior advisers considered the national interest.”
re: #185 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
The whole GOP knew and was fine taking the risk for all of us.
Fried Rice pic.twitter.com/dqwnxEs55Z
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) June 29, 2020
re: #186 jaunte
The whole GOP knew and was fine taking the risk for all of us.
Hey he makes their rage baby base feel better about being impotent rage babies!
re: #182 retired cynic
Our local NPR station had a show on Illinois as a de-facto slave state, up until 1863. I had not known the half of it. Text and audio of the show: Illinois Issues: Slave State
By Tara McClellan McAndrew
Thanks! Going to listen now. I knew that, like Indiana, Illinois was filled with sundown towns after the Civil War. My home of Champaign (as you know from having lived there) was and is extremely segregated.
I should add that before moving to New England I didn’t realize how long slavery persisted here either.
jfc
why are we moving backwards https://t.co/OhvqBecKsw— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
come onhttps://t.co/6S7NZTwiKM
— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
Twitch — Bans Trump for hateful conduct ❌
Reddit — Bans Trump followers for hateful conduct ❌
Twitter — Slaps warning label on Trump for false claims ❌
YouTube — Removes Trump campaign ad w/ Nazi symbol ❌
Facebook — Removes Trump ads for violating “organized hate” policies ❌— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) June 29, 2020
Oh. This is how Trump’s autocratic friends bypass the President’s minders. https://t.co/qfNgcukMLi pic.twitter.com/gnDzHno3pk
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 29, 2020
re: #187 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fuck.
…
Two sources described Trump as woefully uninformed about the history of the Syrian conflict and the Middle East generally, and said he was often caught off guard, and lacked sufficient knowledge to engage on equal terms in nuanced policy discussion with Erdogan. “Erdogan took him to the cleaners,” said one of the sources
Wow: weird weather over NYC;
Thunderstorm just broke and then the sun came out: a huge 180-arc rainbow over the East River.
ETA: Which pix I would love to share with y’all, but I have no idea how to post photos here from my iPad.
Sure @mattgaetz
I’m sure this Renaissance mansion in a gated community where personal injury lawyers reside and MS-13 lives next door is all of us.
Seems plausible, Mr. Marie Antoinette. You gonna tell the protesters to eat cake next while you point that loaded gun? pic.twitter.com/qgYCCxZBMi— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) June 29, 2020
Between this and McConnell on masks, the Trump wall is cracking https://t.co/vEWLyVoAdM
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) June 29, 2020
A Donald Trump presidency is among the greatest threats facing America, and the Republican standard-bearer is the worst major-party candidate for the job in U.S. history.”
— the editors of Foreign Policy, 2016
The platform Devin Nunes has been promoting for its “free speech” just banned a fictional cow. https://t.co/XYDSym5ygs
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 29, 2020
People often think that the U.K. and the USA are much the same. I can tell you that a couple wandering around with a pistol and a machine gun, would never happen in the U.K.This is madness. https://t.co/VK3st2tLnt
— Bradley Secker (@bradleysecker) June 29, 2020
eta: Most countries give their crazy people treatment and medication. we give ours guns.
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Minnesota has been maintaining a < 5% positive test rate, though health officials are cautioning that they expect that to rise in the next couple of weeks. However, we have achieved our goal, set in April, of building capacity to perform 20,000 tests per day. Fuck Trump.
re: #204 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I thought they wanted liberals to join.
Seems like now would be a good time to band together and hold a press conference, but what do I know.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 29, 2020
“The calls caused former top Trump deputies … to conclude that the President was often ‘delusional’ … the calls ‘are so unusual,’ confirmed a German official, that special measures were taken in Berlin to ensure that their contents remained secret” https://t.co/12By8mF6e3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 29, 2020
He is a threat. The world is going to be a much better place when he’s gone.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Trump’s calls with female leaders were ‘near sadistic’” calling Germany’s Angela Merkel and the UK’s Theresa May “weak” “stupid” “spineless”.
Jesus. Again, I wonder what in the ever-lovin’ F did Trump’s mom DO to him?
Did she do the full Cersei Lannister and twist his penis nearly off while he was helpless in the crib? Did she taunt him as weak while his daddy was away marching with the Klan?
re: #205 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Minnesota has been maintaining a < 5% positive test rate, though health officials are cautioning that they expect that to rise in the next couple of weeks. However, we have achieved our goal, set in April, of building capacity to perform 20,000 tests per day. Fuck Trump.
For a nice, relaxing beach vacation, come to South Carolina!
Last week, DHEC reported at least 892 new cases every day, reaching a high of 1,599…The percentage of positive tests, which health officials use to gauge the rate of spread, has also gone up.The average has risen roughly 10 percentage points over the past 28 days. Last week, the percentage ranged from 12.6% to 20.1%. In May, the percentage ranged from 2% to 4% on average.
Trashes our allies. Trashes former Presidents but loves to kiss ass of dictators. He’s yours Republicans. You deserve to be defined by this treasonous rotten orange flesh skinned asshole for as long as I live.
re: #190 Barefoot Grin
Thanks! Going to listen now. I knew that, like Indiana, Illinois was filled with sundown towns after the Civil War. My home of Champaign (as you know from having lived there) was and is extremely segregated.
My little local town was a sundown town, and (if the story be true) horribly hung a black hobo for the rape and murder of a local girl, only to find out it was a hired man on her parent’s farm.
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So tired of them using the word political to deflect from criticism. The very fact that leaders make decisions is politics. Everything they do in my name is a political act. And therefore they can be criticized for making a political decision.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) June 29, 2020
We are the bringers of evil. pic.twitter.com/ebbBnsgL6Y
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) June 29, 2020
re: #217 Belafon
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4 Americans died in a single night in Benghazi and we spent 4 years hearing that even if Obama didn’t know about the possible danger or that the attack was happening until it was already over, he still bore total responsibility for those deaths and the WH needed to explain how it could have allowed such a thing to happen.
So Repubs can kiss my lily white ass about this “political” BS.
as you watch the second spike in the United States just remember that reopening was done literally to force people off the unemployment rolls.
— Abby (@AbbyCScience) June 29, 2020
my thought: we don’t have a functioning state. we have taken apart every form of even what meager social support used to exist. we’ve defunded public health to the point where not even the CDC can implement TTI.
— Abby (@AbbyCScience) June 29, 2020
re: #222 Targetpractice
4 Americans died in a single night in Benghazi and we spent 4 years hearing that even if Obama didn’t know about the possible danger or that the attack was happening until it was already over, he still bore total responsibility for those deaths and the WH needed to explain how it could have allowed such a thing to happen.
So Repubs can kiss my lily white ass about this “political” BS.
They want to cover for Trump. If and hopefully when Biden beats him, we can’t let them act like elected Republicans werent anything but his worst enablers.
re: #14 Jay C
And amazingly, even in the 21st Century, I’ve seen some “conservative intellectuals” argue that we ought to reinstate some version of that rule for the “good of the country”.
You put scare quotes around “conservative intellectuals.”
:D
“She warned that the community is on a ‘worst-case scenario’ trajectory, citing a local model that forecast 1900 hospitalizations by mid-August, which would exceed local capacity.
Hospitalizations are now rising faster than that model’s worst projections”https://t.co/cMHq5j3j6Q— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) June 29, 2020
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick down on the expanded UEI benefits and other provisions of the CARES Act that have prevented millions from becoming homeless, starved, or unable to pay their bills. And there’s no rush to address that because Repubs are still split between those who think “reopening” is working and people should be forced back to work…and those who think that $600/wk is an extravagant giveaway that’s keeping people from looking for jobs.
re: #226 Belafon
So we can blame cats for Trump?
Speaking of cats—
Um, that cat is so far out of the bag it’s already having kittens….
— Velocity Jane (@JaneVelocity) June 29, 2020
Family of 4 arrived at a polling station in Moscow to vote only to see that they already voted. The polling worker closed the journal immediately and threatened to call police. Hmm explains Putin’s 76% exit poll approval to shred the Constitution and make him dictator for life https://t.co/BZ2kK5Jiw2
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) June 29, 2020
Why are Repubs suddenly taking CV-19 seriously? Because they bet on “reopening” and they’re losing big. All the assholes who declared that Texas was showing the country “how it’s done” or saying that the media owed DeSantis an apology because “people aren’t dying in the streets!” are now freaking the fuck out because both states are now surpassing their Apr-May peaks day after day.
re: #231 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
sorry
I got it from cnn via politicalwire.com
Thanks. I finally figured it out. There’s just a lot of comments to catch up on and that one was VERY important. Because the fuckers knew he was damaging national security and didn’t do anything to remove him from office.
Has someone kept a list of all the excuses white people have made for the president’s white supremacy https://t.co/vWa0elTAQi
— Liz Plank (@feministabulous) June 29, 2020
re: #228 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick down on the expanded UEI benefits and other provisions of the CARES Act that have prevented millions from becoming homeless, starved, or unable to pay their bills. And there’s no rush to address that because Repubs are still split between those who think “reopening” is working and people should be forced back to work…and those who think that $600/wk is an extravagant giveaway that’s keeping people from looking for jobs.
30 million plus out of work.
thousands of businesses closed permanently.
there are no jobs to look for
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Does Ben of the Corn realize that Trump tweets from a phone?
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ben continues to show how intellectual dishonesty is his bread and butter. Stupid fuck.
re: #235 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
30 million plus out of work.
thousands of businesses closed permanently.there are no jobs to look for
Remember, we’re talking people who looked at the numbers during the Great Recession and told themselves that there were “plenty of jobs” but nobody was looking because “UEI benefits are too good!”
But they haven’t DONE anything about it in the FIVE YEARS since he stepped into the presidential campaign/WH https://t.co/K3RCDARMfS
— EAGLEWOMAN (@EAGLEjme) June 29, 2020
re: #232 Targetpractice
Why are Repubs suddenly taking CV-19 seriously? Because they bet on “reopening” and they’re losing big. All the assholes who declared that Texas was showing the country “how it’s done” or saying that the media owed DeSantis an apology because “people aren’t dying in the streets!” are now freaking the fuck out because both states are now surpassing their Apr-May peaks day after day.
reality is a slap in the puss
re: #225 thecommodore
You put scare quotes around “conservative intellectuals.”
:D
I was going to asterisk it and add “oxymoron alert”, but figured the quotes would suffice….. ;)
re: #233 Belafon
Thanks. I finally figured it out. There’s just a lot of comments to catch up on and that one was VERY important. Because the fuckers knew he was damaging national security and didn’t do anything to remove him from office.
indeed
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Watch that Villages video without the sound on, there would be no reason for Trump to retweet it
The Trump presidency is imploding. Joe Biden should stand by and let it happen. My column, via @GlobeOpinion.https://t.co/QyUQtYuaXl
— Joan Vennochi (@Joan_Vennochi) June 29, 2020
re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth
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so the presidents an idiot?
Has someone kept a list of all the excuses white people have made for the president’s white supremacy https://t.co/vWa0elTAQi
— Liz Plank (@feministabulous) June 29, 2020
By the way, if you have a wingnut relatives who you expect to run into this coming weekend, you can expect them to insist that it was the protests that caused CV-19s resurgence and that “reopening” was going without a hitch until BLM/Antifa started spreading the virus again.
re: #245 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
so the presidents an idiot?
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It’s totally cool for Trump to retweet stuff he hadn’t heard or sign things that he hasn’t read or appoint people he doesn’t know.
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Damn.
Lina Hidalgo, top elected official in Harris County, has some strong words on the move by Houston hospital CEOs to abruptly change their COVID data reports, & their decision to dial back warnings about ICU capacity.
From a virtual press conference today.
👀👀👀👀 pic.twitter.com/ZxQw0ZWPit— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) June 29, 2020
re: #247 Targetpractice
By the way, if you have a wingnut relatives who you expect to run into this coming weekend, you can expect them to insist that it was the protests that caused CV-19s resurgence and that “reopening” was going without a hitch until BLM/Antifa started spreading the virus again.
Except Minnesota is dramatic proof of the exact opposite, where our new case count and % positive have been falling steadily for more than 2 weeks - and that includes the protest numbers. As opposed to churches, whose indoor celebrations with hugging and a complete lack of masks provides an ideal breeding ground for the virus.
re: #250 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Except Minnesota is dramatic proof of the exact opposite, where our new case count and % positive have been falling steadily for more than 2 weeks - and that includes the protest numbers. As opposed to churches, whose indoor celebrations with hugging and a complete lack of masks provides an ideal breeding ground for the virus.
Exactly. Go anywhere that bars/clubs/churches/etc are either closed or restricted and there’s no massive spike in new cases. But these are also all places we were assured were totally safe to reopen by Repubs.
re: #250 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Actually, on that topic, the Minnesota Department of Health’s official recommendation for fighting the coronavirus - GET THE FUCK OUT(side). While I still don’t believe sunlight destroys or weakens the coronavirus, the evidence is piling up fairly substantially that being outdoors dramatically lowers your risk of contracting the disease, as long as proper social distancing is observed (and for fuck’s sake, how hard is it to stay 6 feet away from other people in the great outdoors unless you’re crowding into a beach?) So if you really, REALLY need to leave home and be with other people - go to a fucking park, you cavepeople.
“This would get in the hands of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, the CIA Director and Director of National Intelligence… It’s inconceivable that not one of them said ‘hey Mr. President we have a direct threat’” - Jeremy Bash w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/FF9peQKMOw
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 29, 2020
re: #250 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Except Minnesota is dramatic proof of the exact opposite, where our new case count and % positive have been falling steadily for more than 2 weeks - and that includes the protest numbers. As opposed to churches, whose indoor celebrations with hugging and a complete lack of masks provides an ideal breeding ground for the virus.
From NPR”
I risked my life to stand in a line down at the post office to pick up two letters. I thought they were packages from the UK, but no, they were two “Notice of Default and Intent to Accelerate” letters. Exactly the same, and exactly the same as the two letters I picked up last week from my mailbox.
I swear, these people are jacking me around and I’m getting very tired of it.
re: #247 Targetpractice
By the way, if you have a wingnut relatives who you expect to run into this coming weekend, you can expect them to insist that it was the protests that caused CV-19s resurgence and that “reopening” was going without a hitch until BLM/Antifa started spreading the virus again.
Just keep this Johns Hopkins chart handy.
In middle school, this young lady’s stepdad used to leave a Post-it note on her door before he left for work each morning to inspire her.
That was six years ago.
Well, she kept all of those notes and just surprised him with a gift from the heart.🌎❤️pic.twitter.com/QTsJqcsbie— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 29, 2020
re: #256 BeachDem
Just keep this Johns Hopkins chart handy.
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I doubt even that will convince them, since Donny spent much of the last three months insisting to people that all the charts by the experts were “wrong” because “They said 1-2 million and we’re nowhere near that many!!!”
Florida to close beaches for July 4th. Expect much wingnut screeching:
Several counties in South Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe (home to the Florida Keys) are closing their beaches for the July 4th holiday weekend as part of a statewide effort to get control over the state’s spiking COVID-19 infection rate.
The Florida Department of Health reported 5,266 new confirmed cases of COVID Monday, the sixth consecutive day in which at least 5,000 new cases have been announced, and 28 more deaths, according to Florida Today, part of the USA TODAY network.
The state now has more than 146,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 3,400 deaths. The cases have more than doubled since Florida entered Phase 2 of its reopening plan on June 5.
I am scared/angry right now because I know, I just KNOW that this weekend we’re going to see videos all over Twitter of crowds of people packed on to beaches, lakes, pools, restaurants, bars, etc. You thought it was bad in March and April? We are seriously close to things going straight to hell next month.
re: #258 Targetpractice
I doubt even that will convince them, since Donny spent much of the last three months insisting to people that all the charts by the experts were “wrong” because “They said 1-2 million and we’re nowhere near that many!!!”
You’re right—nothing will convince them, but it might help to preserve your own sanity.
To be filed under, “Tweet, there’s always a”:
HOLY AGED-LIKE-FINE-CHEDDAR BATMAN! https://t.co/8WpFA6rwN3
— YS (@NYinLA2121) June 29, 2020
EVERY SINGLE TIME trump is in hot water, he starts promoting GOP senators & reps on his timeline
Like… “save me, here’s a fucking cookie”
It’s a pattern I’ve noticed w him over and over again. pic.twitter.com/PVaYQDsJGm— ᎠᏌNᎬᎷYᎢᎻᎪNᏩ™️ (@Kris_Sacrebleu) June 29, 2020
re: #259 Eclectic Cyborg
Florida to close beaches for July 4th. Expect much wingnut screeching:
Several counties in South Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe (home to the Florida Keys) are closing their beaches for the July 4th holiday weekend as part of a statewide effort to get control over the state’s spiking COVID-19 infection rate.The Florida Department of Health reported 5,266 new confirmed cases of COVID Monday, the sixth consecutive day in which at least 5,000 new cases have been announced, and 28 more deaths, according to Florida Today, part of the USA TODAY network.
The state now has more than 146,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 3,400 deaths. The cases have more than doubled since Florida entered Phase 2 of its reopening plan on June 5.
I am scared/angry right now because I know, I just KNOW that this weekend we’re going to see videos all over Twitter of crowds of people packed on to beaches, lakes, pools, restaurants, bars, etc. You thought it was bad in March and April? We are seriously close to things going straight to hell next month.
They insisted on having the beaches open by Memorial Day as a sign that they had the outbreak “under control” and insisted there was no need for ordinances/laws regarding masks and social distancing because “FREEDUMB!!!”, and they didn’t even make it to July 4th before the lockdowns had to start again.
Anybody who thinks those beaches will be deserted this weekend is delusional. They’ll be packed because everybody will think the same thing: “They can’t arrest ALL of us!”
tfw you like birdz pic.twitter.com/7Xxsm5LB3j
— Michelle Dean (@michelledean) June 29, 2020
My work here is done pic.twitter.com/jipt7YKbLI
— Animal Life (@animalIife) June 21, 2020
Mr & Mrs Bonnie & Clyde Hootenanny, (esq) join in the hunt for Nestor’s adoption papers https://t.co/d27MT6f8Is
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 29, 2020
re: #182 retired cynic
Our local NPR station had a show on Illinois as a de-facto slave state, up until 1863. I had not known the half of it. Text and audio of the show: Illinois Issues: Slave State
By Tara McClellan McAndrew
Another thing about this: I learned from the couple of years that I lived in Lexington, KY that there was a special category of enslaved person for sale at Cheapside there called “fancy girls.” They were often young women of lighter skin color (in other words, themselves the product of rape) who were sold as sex slaves. The newspaper ad in the article you link to at the top advertises “A Likely Negro…aged 16”; that struck me as a potential ad for purchase of someone enslaved for rape. I could be reading too much into it, but….
Of course, the plague rats that don’t decide to rush the beaches figuring the cops will just give up with arrests will do the next dumbest thing: They’ll locate beaches that aren’t closed and just crowd them instead. You can be sure that folks in those cities whose beaches just announced closures are already scouting out other beaches in the state or in neighboring states that will be totally open this weekend.
A group of otters is called a ROMP. pic.twitter.com/Gzhi3Rhbfa
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) June 29, 2020
Trumpism. It’s a neurological disease. Study it out.
— Bennu (@Bennu08884998) June 29, 2020
The peak of Mediocre Male Whiteness is blaming women of color whenever another white guy gets canned for his own failures. https://t.co/RItOH9IfPv
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 29, 2020
golfing? https://t.co/9VOqmUVc0f
— darth™ (@darth) June 29, 2020
re: #263 Targetpractice
They insisted on having the beaches open by Memorial Day as a sign that they had the outbreak “under control” and insisted there was no need for ordinances/laws regarding masks and social distancing because “FREEDUMB!!!”, and they didn’t even make it to July 4th before the lockdowns had to start again.
Anybody who thinks those beaches will be deserted this weekend is delusional. They’ll be packed because everybody will think the same thing: “They can’t arrest ALL of us!”
They aren’t getting it on the beaches. They are getting it from being cooped up inside in the air conditioning.
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