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We’re watching you, @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/OD3juWBCW1
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 4, 2020
Police are standing by as three dozen people defy Fort Lauderdale closure of beach. No arrests. Some told me they know virus is real, but can no longer take the financial and mental strain of quarantine. Almost no one is wearing a mask. pic.twitter.com/lBBjkE6guI
— Brittany Wallman (@BrittanyWallman) July 4, 2020
boo-fucking-hoo
I’m just copying and pasting this comment from another website. I did not write it, but it encapsulates how I feel:
The Lincoln Project ads are excellent, and it should give Democrats pause. Why?
Because THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRATS should have been doing years ago. This always how Republicans have made ads, and the Democrats never hit back nearly as hard.
It is quite ironic that it took Republicans to create the ads FOR DEMOCRATS to defeat a Republican!
So, learn the technique, learn the quick turnaround time, and learn how to raise the money to place these types of ads on targeted social media and TV.
In the meantime, let’s get Bloomberg’s money, and Steyer’s money, and blanket the airwaves and digital spaces with these incredibly powerful ads.
This is where I got it:
‘Name this band. Wrong answers only’https://t.co/FQ3Lr29zRf pic.twitter.com/v1LtK4doQF
— The Poke (@ThePoke) July 4, 2020
Didn’t Benny promise he was leaving Twitter? Why is he still here? https://t.co/FejA0Q2V1b
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 4, 2020
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
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boo-fucking-hoo
It is truly stunning to see what a nation of whiny, entitled babies we have become.
Grampa had to live in a shack with his buddy during a Wisconsin winter in the Great Depression. A sack of potatoes. 8 bullets for the deer rifle. That was it.
How have we devolved this far?
You are literally a punchline @realDonaldTrump to every joke about stupidity heard across the world in the last three and a half years. https://t.co/rvBzGePRB9
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) July 4, 2020
re: #249 jaunte
There it is …’
They who are not grateful for what they have been given, will soon be deprived. Our founders gave us freedom yet MSM would have us cynical, divided, and yielding to their pervasive voice. E Pluribus Unum. Real Americans are all alike in our zeal for freedom, faith, and unity.
— grant poynor (@oatsrbetter) July 4, 2020
Atheists are not real Americans. Unity is not equal to freedom. The only protected business in the Constitution, the free press, is derided. (The cowards at my regional newspaper would not print my letter in defence of the free press, because the owner is a wingnut. The last letter was several days ago on how to make tea which is not cloudy.)
The face you make when you haven’t even had your first cup of coffee and the kids are awake and asking what’s for breakfast and then you got to go catch another goddamn fish. pic.twitter.com/FAlser8GwX
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 4, 2020
A PERCONTATION is a question that requires more than a yes or no answer. https://t.co/BXumv9tUV2
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) July 4, 2020
My S.O. has a real sweet pup that is terrified of fireworks. And even though the annual show has been cancelled here in Steamboat, the local stand is open and has been selling them all week. Lots of Texans and other tourists have been smuggling them across the state line and detonating them all week throughout town. Super annoying. Thankfully I live up the hill a few miles and all the neighbors appreciate peace and quiet, so we plan on bratwurst and a little fire in my chimnea to celebrate Independence Day.
Here’s Deja, such a sweet girl
I’ll be taking the flowers out before I light the fire.
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
“they know virus is real, but can no longer take the financial and mental strain of quarantine”
Wait until they feel the financial and mental strain of having covid-19. Jesus.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There it is …’
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Atheists are not real Americans. Unity is not equal to freedom. The only protected business in the Constitution, the free press, is derided. (The cowards at my regional newspaper would not print my letter in defence of the free press, because the owner is a wingnut. The last letter was several days ago on how to make tea which is not cloudy.)
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) July 4, 2020
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area on this 4th of July. In past years, I’d spend the day visiting family who comes in from other parts of the country, I’d go blueberry picking and visit the Delaware River Gap, or I’d head over to Paterson Great Falls NHP.
This year? Nope. None of it. We’re home. Not going anywhere. No parades. Nothing.
Ridgewood NJ is known for having an annual parade, where families line up chairs days ahead of the parade to reserve their spots. No parade. Nothing.
No official fireworks shows either - because it isn’t safe to do so.
But yet we have the treasonweasel and his cabal of cronies flying off to South Dakota to give a slurred speech about how he’s going to protect Confederate statues and monuments to those people who also owned slaves and did heinous things.
He did that at the foot of Mount Rushmore, which was expropriated from Native Americans after Americans found gold in the Black Hills. They lost their land, and many lost their lives at Wounded Knee - where American troops massacred more than 300 men, women, and children. The region belongs to Native Americans. The mountain itself was held sacred to Native Americans, but American entrepreneurs decided to turn it into a roadside attraction instead and hired Borglum to blast the visage of former presidents into the granite.
It’s indeed an impressive bit of engineering and monumental work, but it was done on land not belonging to those who did it.
So Trump’s latest EO is about building a statuary park honoring a bunch of people, as if that means anything. Adding Scalia to that list is a bunch of red meat to his know nothing base.
What BLM and the protests continue to show is that Americans are starting to take a hard look at all aspects of society, and that includes who we honor and respect - and whether that honor and respect is fully warranted.
That’s why watching Hamilton is so interesting to me. Watched it last night and I did see it on Broadway. It’s complex. It raises complex issues. It tangentially touches on everything from slavery and states rights to work left undone and how immigrants were treated like second class citizens even back at the founding of the nation.
Hamilton wasn’t without his own faults - both his womanizing - and he didn’t challenge slave owners like Washington nearly enough. So, while the founders thought of equal rights, it was more of a slogan for privileged white folks than something to extend to all people throughout the country.
It’s that legacy that we still deal with on a daily basis.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There it is …’
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Atheists are not real Americans. Unity is not equal to freedom. The only protected business in the Constitution, the free press, is derided. (The cowards at my regional newspaper would not print my letter in defence of the free press, because the owner is a wingnut. The last letter was several days ago on how to make tea which is not cloudy.)
You didn’t need HAMILTON to have known the Founding Fathers were anything BUT united. Contentious, passionate, prone to arguments and divided along all sorts of lines of class, slavery and economics.
uhhhhhhhhh
Kansas: The Anderson country review, a Kansas newspaper, posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor’s order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust pic.twitter.com/137wDzwxwT
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) July 4, 2020
#bunkerboy is ruining America pic.twitter.com/BHiUoWflcg
— Ariz0nian (@Ariz0nian) July 2, 2020
Based on reporting right now, there’s NOBODY & I mean NOBODY, i.e. MAGA’s lining up and/or amassing for Trump’s D.C. fireworks. Showed maybe 10 people at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Yet, this morning the networks were reporting over 300,000 are expected. They better hurry.
— Wiseronenow~~#AYFKM Kinda Day (@Wiseronenow) July 4, 2020
re: #14 Blizard
Oh yeah and brews. Bratwurst AND brews. Forgot that part.
Frank Luntz is a fucking lunatic.
These words are inscribed on the wall at Auschwitz, where a memorial is maintained so we never forget.
Leaving most monuments in place while stating the inhumanities associated with them is a better lesson for future generations than tearing them down indiscriminately in anger. pic.twitter.com/avs8x99OtV— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 4, 2020
The camps are there to memorialize and preserve the history of what the Nazis did to 6 million of my kin.
The Nazis tried destroying camps to prevent them from falling into Allied hands.
This isn’t anywhere near the same as erecting statues to Confederate treasonweasels— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 4, 2020
Auschwitz wasn’t erected by the Allies after the war. It was built by the fucking Nazis as a death camp. We captured it before the Nazis could destroy it to hide the evidence of their genocidal efforts. We preserve it because it’s part of history.
We don’t erect new statues of goddamned Nazis to remind us of what the fucking Nazis did.
But secessionists, segregationists, and Confederate treasonweasels got statues erected to them decades after the South lost the war to preserve their right to own slaves. This was done to revise history - to rewrite it and give legitimacy to their cause to own slaves, all while reminding persons of color of their second class status.
We don’t erect statues to the losers of a war they started. We shouldn’t. They were erected with bad intentions.
But Luntz thinks that the two are equivalent. That’s the worst hot take of the day… so far.
Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him https://t.co/T5WT0uxzXv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 4, 2020
Republicans are just pissed Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud.
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
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Republicans are just pissed Trump keeps saying the quiet part out loud.
And when asked, they’ll just say they haven’t heard what he’s said, or they don’t read his tweets.
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Oops - wrong tweet (fixed - so reload):
The GOP prefers the racism to remain in the background and not expressly and overtly asserted the way Trump does.
They’re fine with the outcomes, but question Trump’s overt acts.
That’s why GOP is fine with all the anti immigration bulkshit and defending Confederate statues.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 4, 2020
I hate these people. https://t.co/eo3lBEyMlm
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 4, 2020
re: #20 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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New derogatory nickname for Donald J. Trump:
Osama bin Bunker
Mt. Rushmore before Borglum started blasting away:
This is the mountain held sacred by Native Americans before Borglum started blasting away. https://t.co/m1ZkLgW33G
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 4, 2020
re: #29 lawhawk
Mt. Rushmore before Borglum started blasting away:
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re: #27 jaunte
See and raise:
Covid19 vectors and soon to be Covid19 victims.
Zero social distancing. Maybe 1-2 people out of all those in the foreground who are masked.
This is reprehensible and irresponsible. But it’s entirely on brand for Trump and his failed pandemic response - they’re just ignoring it— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 4, 2020
Breathing problems?
If you can wear this, then you can wear this: pic.twitter.com/0X9GNDUPUE— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 28, 2020
Here’s some more shots from the yard. Grass is still green thanks to the well, but we need rain. Bad. I’m hoping these are a good distraction for those who need it, they’ve certainly brought me joy the past few weeks as summer finally set in.
re: #23 lawhawk
Frank Luntz is a fucking lunatic.
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Auschwitz wasn’t erected by the Allies after the war. It was built by the fucking Nazis as a death camp. We captured it before the Nazis could destroy it to hide the evidence of their genocidal efforts. We preserve it because it’s part of history.
We don’t erect new statues of goddamned Nazis to remind us of what the fucking Nazis did.
But secessionists, segregationists, and Confederate treasonweasels got statues erected to them decades after the South lost the war to preserve their right to own slaves. This was done to revise history - to rewrite it and give legitimacy to their cause to own slaves, all while reminding persons of color of their second class status.
We don’t erect statues to the losers of a war they started. We shouldn’t. They were erected with bad intentions.
But Luntz thinks that the two are equivalent. That’s the worst hot take of the day… so far.
The bolded is actually a good example of how even with memorials and statues people can have an incomplete picture of history. Auschwitz actually started life as a Polish Army barracks, originally used after capture by the Reich as a holding facility for “political prisoners” (i.e. Polish politicians and military leaders). After Operation Barbarossa began, it then started a new life as a POW camp for captured Soviet commissars and officers. It wasn’t until late in the war that it became finally became a labor camp for Polish Jews, then a death camp with the construction of what became known as “Auschwitz II” adjacent to the original facilities. But because that’s the state that Allied soldiers found the camp in, it became accepted that it was always intended as a death camp.
Needed some fresh air and exercise earlier so after a (physically distanced, outdoor) family visit to Fife, I dragged @PeterMurrell for a bracing walk across the Forth road bridge. The rail bridge was looking majestic as ever. pic.twitter.com/hZhED0HfcH
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) July 4, 2020
jeebus
Soho 10.15pm #SuperSaturday pic.twitter.com/iNtFBovdMN
— Justin Tallis (@JustinTallis) July 4, 2020
Many towns in CO finally putting their foot down on the mask requirements since so many tourists and a few diehard locals aren’t playing nice. I’m grateful for it. But man, the comments in the paper, so many ppl crying about “loosing” their freedoms. Town enacted a stage 1 fire ban and people are even complaining about eroding freedoms with that, too . Uh, we do fire bans every year almost. SMDH.
I’m thinking of making stickers that say ‘True Pro Lifers Wear Masks!’
re: #6 Scout
I’m just copying and pasting this comment from another website. I did not write it, but it encapsulates how I feel:
This is where I got it:
fwiw
it may be that Republicans are better at making attack ads
the Lincoln Project folks have greater latitude because they are Republicans.
…the Russia-themed anti-Trump ad yesterday. If that had come from the Biden campaign, it would have come off as cheesy and over the top.
But coming from Republicans, particularly Republicans who have established a reputation for producing edgy ads, it came off as clever and well-executed
Here in VA, while the folks in Richmond keep trying to assert that the state is on the downturn because cases overall have been in decline, Hampton Roads reported over 200 cases today alone. That accounts for 1/4 of all the new cases in the state for today, continuing the trend of being the state’s new hot spot that started (surprise, surprise) in the wake of Memorial Day.
But there’s money to be made, so other than the cancellation of fireworks displays that were announced weeks ago, there’s no real restriction on what is likely to be another superspreader event at the beachfront.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is denouncing a newspaper’s post of a cartoon criticizing her face-mask order. It depicts Kelly wearing a mask with a Jewish Star of David on it, next to an image of people being loaded onto train cars. https://t.co/ymszVN8KvG
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 4, 2020
So I see he’s being a disgusting, divisive, asshole again.
Is it exactly the same speech he gave last night?
This is just a cartoon fascist campaign speech.
Why are taxpayers required to pay for this shit?— digby (@digby56) July 4, 2020
re: #262 sagehen
I was a child in 1968 (a Republican child), but even in hindsight…
1968 Nixon was EPA, OSHA, Title IX, Title X
1968 Democrats was Richard J Daley and George Wallace.I won’t apologize that it took me until Reagan to start backing away from the R’s.
George Wallace ran on the American Independent ticket in 1968.
Nixon was running an illegal war in Cambodia which got my father killed. He was an anti-Semite. He ran with the overtly racist Southern Strategy to win the election. The GOP was already the racist party then. Reagan ran in that primary against Nixon. Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964 to the Republicans and supported Nixon in the 1968 election.
He imposed wage and price controls which made both inequity and poverty worse in the interest of controlling inflation for banks and big businesses.
That election happened when I was eight years old, and I already knew they were the racist party then.
re: #35 stpaulbear
They’re never going to forget, and they’re never going to trust us again.
Americans have an irrational quasi-religious worship of their 18th century Constitution and an obsession to continue with what a small self-selected group of well-off property owners ten generations ago thought was a good idea regarding government and legislature. Thanks to that Slaveholders Wishlist of a Constitution you have an Executive with the powers of an absolute monarch who can and often does change everything in regards to foreign policy every four or eight years. Treaties negotiated over decades get unilaterally abrogated at the stroke of a pen, trade wars are initiated to look tough to the voters, pointless military adventures and judicial appointments not to the benefit of the courts but to pay off internal political debts.
Why the everlasting fuck would we trust the US? Oh, and happy Independence Day.
Trump just now: American heroes defeated Nazis, communists and hunted down terrorists; “We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
Trump: pic.twitter.com/nulHg7QzYZ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Trump is really committed to his talking point that the US only has so many coronavirus cases because of testing, ignoring that we also have the most deaths, a relatively high death rate, and hospitals on the brink of being overrun pic.twitter.com/hrHFjfYIvT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
re: #6 Scout
I’m just copying and pasting this comment from another website. I did not write it, but it encapsulates how I feel:
This is where I got it:
The last Dem POTUS or POTUS candidate with this kind of killer instinct was LBJ.
We need more of that blood & guts mentality.
There is always one clumsy person in the group… pic.twitter.com/fn97aJjJdC
— Woof Woof® (@WoofWoof_TV) July 4, 2020
So Much Floof!
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
What’s not incredible is once again Trump has his hands at his sides during the National Anthem in that photo.
@henrymcmaster, how about you call up @NicolaSturgeon and do what she’s doing & maybe don’t kill my family?
— Bruce E. Baker (@BruceHistorian) July 4, 2020
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
What’s not incredible is once again Trump has his hands at his sides during the National Anthem in that photo.
he was saluting and his arm got tired
re: #49 thecommodore
The last Dem POTUS or POTUS candidate with this kind of killer instinct was LBJ.
We need more of that blood & guts mentality.
indeed
the daisy ad was brilliant
and devastating
In Stone Mountain, Georgia earlier today pic.twitter.com/F2Autd4YtI
— Naomi (@naomiruta) July 4, 2020
You think you’re joking, but I once mentioned that I was drinking tea (one cold damp evening) and my timeline erupted into a shitfight over how only totally gay soyboy unmanly wimpy unamerican socialists drink tea.
Yeah.
I drink a LOT of coffee, but I also enjoy tea. fuck ‘em https://t.co/YjqpMl4tYt— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 4, 2020
moron
“Let me also say a word to those in the media, who falsely and consistently label their opponents as racists who condemn patriotic citizens who offer a clear and truthful defense of American unity,” @realDonaldTrump says, attacking the press at an official taxpayer funded event.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 4, 2020
“We want to bring the country together, and a free and open media will make this task, a very easy one,” says @realDonaldTrump, who has never given any indication that he either wants to bring the country together or believes in a free press.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 4, 2020
Trump is out here straight up delivering a campaign speech during what is supposed to be a non-campaign event pic.twitter.com/Zfk1OTVbTb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
“swipping” pic.twitter.com/rzO4RodaYt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 4, 2020
Trump, with no apparent basis, on coronavirus cases: “99% of which are totally harmless.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
He needs to go.
OH I ❤️ YOU, RUTH!!!!!!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 4, 2020
Trump IS the top source of false information in the nation.
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 4, 2020
One of my relatives, a nurse, just contracted COVID-19. So if you aren’t going to wear a mask, please don’t go to a hospital when you get sick. Deal? Individual choices have collective consequences for innocent others.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 4, 2020
Trump devotes a section of his Fourth of July speech to “the media” that, he says, falsely and slanderously calls opponents racists just for truthfully defending history.
I am going to eat, have a good day everyone— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
These wealthy people are lucky they tried to violate a border in Europe — if they’d done it in America, Trump’s DHS might have taken their kids away. https://t.co/nYlYqCNGK2
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) July 4, 2020
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
‘Name this band. Wrong answers only’https://t.co/FQ3Lr29zRf pic.twitter.com/v1LtK4doQF
— The Poke (@ThePoke) July 4, 2020
The Doofs
The Hateful Dead
re: #70 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Doofs
The Hateful Dead
Josie and the Pussy.
re: #70 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Guns n’ Poses.
Man, on a typical year this would be prime July 4 fireworks-watching real estate but the National Mall is near empty today pic.twitter.com/oq1DAoyShT
— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) July 4, 2020
Crowds picking up on the National Mall pic.twitter.com/urh9pFRPwO
— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) July 4, 2020
In a cluster of a few 100 Trump supporters at the base of the Washington Monument, prayer just broke out between two women, one black, one white. “No Jesus, no peace!” said one. “Come, Holy Spirit!” “America, love it or leave it!” pic.twitter.com/WDFF3v4dFy
— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) July 4, 2020
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And here I thought we were celebrating the day when we took back our airports from the British in the revolutionary war. 😂 silly me.
— Shannon (@0sosneaky) July 4, 2020
re: #70 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Doofs
The Hateful Dead
re: #71 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Josie and the Pussy.
Debbi and the Douche
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 4, 2020
re: #76 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Lawyers, Guns and Money.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow. Going straight for the antisemitism in that cartoon.
That cartoon is goddamned disgusting BUT this is what I expect from Republicans.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh shit. That’s gonna scare a whole lotta white folks on the east side of the Atlanta metro. I have had the tv off today to save my sanity ,so I don’t know what the reaction has been. Part of me is jumping for joy and the other part is hoping no one gets hurt. Lots of white folks get VERY defensive about Stone Mountain, hell the Klan still goes up there to remind everyone they’re still around. Nazis too.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Group of demonstrators enter Stone Mountain Park
The north and west gates of the park were closed after the group entered, park police said.
A group of demonstrators marched into Stone Mountain Park on Saturday afternoon, according to park authorities.
The group was comprised of about 75-to-100 persons, all dressed in black, according to John Bankhead with the Stone Mountain Park Police.
Shortly after 2 p.m., Bankhead said the group had entered the park at the West Gate and was headed toward the Lawn Area of the park, where the large Confederate carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the north face of the mountain can be viewed.
After breaking into her duplex, the rapist dug his elbow into the her neck, pushed her into the wall, & said, “Maybe next time you’ll learn your lesson.”
Again, this is after a NORMAN POLICE OFFICER posted her home address publicly in the context of “teaching her a lesson.”— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) July 4, 2020
In May, Norman PD also declined to press charges on a fellow cop in nearby Lexington, after he threatened Norman Mayor Brea Clark, saying she, “needs to be pulled out of office & tried on the court house lawn…the problem with politicians, they don’t get hung in public anymore.” pic.twitter.com/rg4yNRXVTk
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) July 4, 2020
lovely people…
*SPIT*
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
In Stone Mountain, Georgia earlier today
What’s been needed in the new wave of protest? Organization, planning, and discipline.
Well that makes sense, because he sure isn’t defending American principles. https://t.co/v9DRhtJeyF
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 4, 2020
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow. Going straight for the antisemitism in that cartoon.
Reported that trash to Facebook for review although I am NOT holding my breath that Marky Mark will do anything.
re: #68 jaunte
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They should quarantine them on the plane for as long as we quarantined people on cruise ships.
— Willow (@umnwillow) July 3, 2020
Boy now you know this some bullshit. It was LITERALLY IN YOUR EXACT TWEET TONE. There is no “junior staffer”. You’re just a liar. https://t.co/UUOCAW1EqP
— Peloton Papi (@jfull1914) July 4, 2020
I had a social studies teacher who everyone knew didn’t read kids’ homework.
So, we’d write one good paragraph and then gibberish just for a laugh in the ones after that.
Those answers were still more cogent than this. https://t.co/xgqPaKLwh9— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 4, 2020
Yo. Happy 4th of July. Who wants to ride out to Stone Mountain with me later on tonight while they’re shooting off fireworks and yell “All Countries Matter” out the window? It’ll be a blast.
— Myke C-Town Ⓥ (@mykectown) July 4, 2020
Regular people are facing 11% unemployment and many don’t know where their next paycheck is coming from, but @realDonaldTrump just billed American taxpayers $3 million to film this campaign ad. Disgraceful. https://t.co/NcVVDxX6uD
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) July 4, 2020
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re: #81 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Looks like this story refers to an earlier group of more generic demonstrators rather than the armed and highly disciplined group shown in the video. Prediction: Kluxers and racist bug-boys won’t show their brainless heads anywhere near Stone Mountain while this is going on.
Here’s the guy who still inexplicably sits in the Oval Office and won’t release his medical records failing to pronounce the word “sweeping” and mistaking the Gulf War for the Vietnam War.#TrumpIsNotWellpic.twitter.com/RFjoNhv7xU
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) July 4, 2020
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Biden should announce that the government will be collecting expenses Trump ran up on the American people.
Do you know the worst thing that happened last night at the Mt Rushmore CV 19 fuck fest?
Twenty fucking Lakota arrows didn’t find their way into Trumps chest live on streaming services.
Bummer.
Nice fascist stage. And people drove hundreds of miles to scream “GO HOME” to Native Americans whose very land was under them.
And the speech itself was a notch above the Tea Bag “water the tree of liberty” threat.
Gassing native Americans as a fascist president stands on over 125,000 dead Americans, never mentioning them, and defends Confederate statues as “founders” as he allowed Russians to buy dead American service personnel…..
Happy Nazi Day.
But we do have Cooper.
Yes we do.
From the stage on the South Lawn, Pres & Mrs Trump watch a B-52 bomber fly above. pic.twitter.com/amzy1MKxnk
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 4, 2020
re: #95 nines09
Ahh a Cooper break. That is beautiful. :)
Happy Birthday, America! https://t.co/GqLLRP9QQX
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 4, 2020
SOON pic.twitter.com/NL5bh1956g
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 4, 2020
Also, please note that it’s not just the mangled and disjointed sentence, it’s also this bizarre historical retcon that there was some “swift and sweeping” victory in Vietnam.
I mean, I know he wasn’t there, but goddamn, it was on TV for a decade. https://t.co/jb3wJH5Ylf— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 4, 2020
re: #97 PhillyPretzel
Ahh a Cooper break. That is beautiful. :)
Been hands full busy and hotter than hell.
Thanks.
Be well be safe.
re: #46 Nojay UK
Americans have an irrational quasi-religious worship of their 18th century Constitution and an obsession to continue with what a small self-selected group of well-off property owners ten generations ago thought was a good idea regarding government and legislature. Thanks to that Slaveholders Wishlist of a Constitution you have an Executive with the powers of an absolute monarch who can and often does change everything in regards to foreign policy every four or eight years. Treaties negotiated over decades get unilaterally abrogated at the stroke of a pen, trade wars are initiated to look tough to the voters, pointless military adventures and judicial appointments not to the benefit of the courts but to pay off internal political debts.
Why the everlasting fuck would we trust the US? Oh, and happy Independence Day.
Mostly true… but the pot is speaking to the kettle.
I want it noted in the record that I was against all of this
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 4, 2020
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
From the stage on the South Lawn, Pres & Mrs Trump watch a B-52 bomber fly above.
Operating cost: $70,388/hr
businessinsider.com
Devin Nunes has been tweeting that he’s leaving twitter for awhile now. Every time he says it we celebrate because #DevinNunesIsAnIdiot but his repeated goodbyes are getting awfully old.#SayGoodbyeDevin and then be gone! https://t.co/2ojFlYklad
— Nick Walden Poublon (@NWPinPDX) July 4, 2020
Apparently Bill Mitchell blocked me for this.
Why he didn’t block me much earlier defies explanation. https://t.co/naDbgLwAjZ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 4, 2020
My wife just put on the cinematic masterpiece “Tank Girl,” so I’ll catch y’all later.
Bonus footage: Breezy’s bark pic.twitter.com/6DPgbn3Gsm
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020
Classic cars parade through Anchorage in a socially distant July Fourth celebration: https://t.co/UV6gCunUQ4 📸: @marclesterphoto pic.twitter.com/hJGYm1umLs
— Anchorage Daily News (@adndotcom) July 4, 2020
In dark times, it’s important to remember that America can be what we make of it.
We have more power than we can imagine when we wield it together.
Let’s keep raising our voices, marching, and registering to vote.
We’ll celebrate all we accomplish next Independence Day. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2LLLC3yNjF— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 4, 2020
what America meant to him. - https://t.co/KS9VRUTP5g
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) July 4, 2020
Basically. [via @willamato] pic.twitter.com/nZQeQgrtLn
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 5, 2020
Happy Birthday, America! https://t.co/7wT3z5nWbP
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 5, 2020
Got a bit PO’d earlier. Was out and wearing my cav stetson and some older gent was making comments about CNN=Communist News Network and various racist crap. Then he sees me & my hat and is all cheerfully asking if I was into re-enactment and the group up the road putting something on.
I was all “No, I don’t do re-enactment. I have nothing to do with anything that helps glorify the treasonous scum that rebelled against the US.” Then I walked away.
Now I don’t have any real problem with actual historical groups and the like, but I know damned well I was going to get a pile of, at best, both siderist crap. Nope. Headed that off at the pass like I was still riding C/1/13th.
I’d have shown him the IWW pin on it but he wouldn’t have understood it.
re: #54 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
indeed
the daisy ad was brilliant
and devastating
The Dems need to hang Trump around the neck of the GOP like a millstone, from Biden all the way down to dog catcher - each and every one of them chose Trump over their country. The result is 130,000 dead and counting, a crash economy, a reputation of a laughingstock worldwide, and national security possibly compromised. Take them all out back and beat them to within an inch of their lives, so that not even remaining Koch Brothers can prop them up.
Biden probably doesn’t have it in him to do that.
But we do!
re: #106 Decatur Deb
Operating cost: $70,388/hr
businessinsider.com
How much extra would it cost to have Lindsey Graham to ride the bomb down like a bucking bronco?
re: #121 thecommodore
The Dems need to hang Trump around the neck of the GOP like a millstone, from Biden all the way down to dog catcher - each and every one of them chose Trump over their country. The result is 130,000 dead and counting, a crash economy, a reputation of a laughingstock worldwide, and national security possibly compromised. Take them all out back and beat them to within an inch of their lives, so that not even remaining Koch Brothers can prop them up.
Biden probably doesn’t have it in him to do that.
But we do!
imo biden shouldn’t be the one to do that
the same way the boss does client outreach and not billing and collections. it separates the emotional issues. and it seems to work
re: #76 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Garbage (apologies to the real band)
COVID-19 in Los Angeles County.
Public Health will be improving our data processing systems and will not report data beginning on Friday, July 3rd until Monday, July 6th.
California will have really big numbers when LA adds in the missing counts.
re: #121 thecommodore
I’m still finding links, but I remember these ads:
It’s odd watching people swing in claiming Biden doesn’t go after Trump when I remember it.
re: #123 A Three Hour Tour
How much extra would it cost to have Lindsey Graham to ride the bomb down like a bucking bronco?
It would fit a crowdsource site.
BAKERY: We refuse to serve gay people.
CONSERVATIVES: That is their right!
BAKERY: We refuse to serve anyone not wearing a mask.
CONSERVATIVES: You’re violating our rights!— Just Mary (@BlueHenArt) May 20, 2020
re: #129 Patricia Kayden
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CONSERVATIVES: That is their right!
BAKERY: We refuse to serve anyone not wearing a mask.
CONSERVATIVES: You’re violating our rights!— Just Mary (@BlueHenArt) May 20, 2020
them/us. see? //
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 5, 2020
Man, is the Lincoln Project gonna have some fun with this one. JFC.
re: #131 Charles Johnson
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The amateur pyros have started on the eastern edge of CDT. Clouds will wreck the lunar eclipse.
re: #138 Decatur Deb
The fireworks are going off in my neighborhood too. Very noisy.
While we were watching Trump, Barr was removing another NY attorney:
Huh! Richard Donoghue from EDNY is moving to DC to be top deputy to Deputy AG Jeffrey Rosen. Donoghue is who Putin’s operatives in Ukraine are convinced will take down Joe Biden and they have been feeding him lots of disinfo. This is something to watch https://t.co/rro75NpHiE
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) July 2, 2020
re: #139 PhillyPretzel
The fireworks are going off in my neighborhood too. Very noisy.
cats not happy
if I still had the horses they wouldn’t be happy either
re: #136 Charles Johnson
Well I guess I start season 1 tonite…. Thx
re: #131 Charles Johnson
I smell a publicity stunt.
I don’t mind ifn I do…….
Making my world famous titty biscuits! pic.twitter.com/rJiOkBOFIj
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 4, 2020
This is literally a quote from Hyman Roth in Godfather Part II https://t.co/gf1Wf7gSfp
— Kevin Carey (@kevincarey1) July 4, 2020
Moe, now I love you a little bit more!
— Ellie Richard (@ellie_ellbell) July 4, 2020
re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth
Godfather pedant here.
“That kid’s name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn’t even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! Someone put a bullet through his eye.”
Wishing all American’s a happy and safe #4thofJuly! Looking forward to celebrating the birth of our great Nation & the signing of the Declaration of Independence with @POTUS at the @WhiteHouse this evening! 🇺🇸
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) July 4, 2020
good grief…none of these morons know American history.
The Declaration wasn’t signed on July 4
People are wondering why neither Donald nor his sons have gotten infected. But I’ll tell you, if it jumps species over to them, it will be big news.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 4, 2020
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
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good grief…none of these morons know American history.
The Declaration wasn’t signed on July 4
While I knew that it wasn’t signed on July 4, TIL that the document that sits on display was ordered as a decorative copy and was mostly signed on August 2.
A fool and his money…
An Indian man says he paid about $4,000 for a bespoke gold face mask to protect him from the coronavirus raging in the country
The precious metal covering weighs 60 grams (two ounces) and took craftsmen eight days to make https://t.co/ZKCroE7WzE pic.twitter.com/7z63UutOZc— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 5, 2020
Trump HATES the fact this has empty seats. Definitely don’t share this. It will upset him so. https://t.co/oif3pYIHIT
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 5, 2020
re: #151 Eclectic Cyborg
A fool and his money…
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re: #151 Eclectic Cyborg
Somebody put some straps on one of those ‘SwissGold’ coffee filter thingies.
re: #155 Blind Frog Belly White
Somebody put some straps on one of those ‘SwissGold’ coffee filter thingies.
And accessorized it with a $4000 price tag….
Perfect anology for the deterioration at the White House: 5 years ago the real Bruno Mars performed at the White House. https://t.co/1qPtMCtoiu
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) July 5, 2020
There is no pretense to following CDC guidelines at the WH. Catching COVID-19 at its 4th of July event will likely become a point of pride in Trumpworld. #FailedLeadership https://t.co/pP4tz1yQui
— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) July 5, 2020
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
They just don’t care. Anti-science. Anti-medical experts. Just very stupid, crass people. Can’t wait to vote them out.
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
“You’re just going to have to live with it.”
Can’t wait:
HIghlights:
“European Capitals Cheer”
“Ex-President Trump refuses inauguration ceremony, flees capital in disguise.”
“Attorney-General Kamala Harris indicts Barr.”
“Mnuchin Absconds on Yacht with Virus Funds; Yacht Sinks”
Not so great: Winfrey and Bezos in the cabinet.
As The Beach Boys once said, “Wouldn’t it be nice.” pic.twitter.com/1EvT3gshjw
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 3, 2020
My neighboorhood in VA has been very noisy since about dusk. I’m confident that much of it is gunfire, and probably with live rounds, not blanks. So unless they are aiming for the ground a few feet away, I expect that quite a large number of homes are going to have leaky roofs soon, and maybe leaky bodies too.
Oh jeez. They’re starting to shoot some heavy stuff now, and with as hot and dry as it’s been this week, it could get kinda real.
Is this the upper flurmin? pic.twitter.com/r2YLPvPSlF
— Libtard Jesus, Lord of the left wing mob (@LibtardJesus1) July 5, 2020
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
“GOP apologizes to nation”
Yeah, right.
“GOP apologizes to nation after collectively being fired out of a cannon,” perhaps.
re: #169 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
“GOP apologizes to nation after collectively being fired out of a cannon,” perhaps.
Shot into the sun.
Anti-maskers & anti-vaxxers getting violent in #Austin today https://t.co/9jtZ47Gpiw
— TheReal Truther (@thereal_truther) July 5, 2020
re: #170 lawhawk
Shot into the sun.
With a carefully crafted exit vessel, the nuclear potato gun could just probably make that happen.
re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg
“GOP apologizes to nation”
Yeah, right.
Oh, I don’t know. There may not be anyone left by then but Romney, Dole, and McMullin, with GW Bush allowed to tag along so long as he behaves. The rest will be in jail or Russia.
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
For those asking about protestors not wearing masks: law enforcement I talked with on scene said no warnings/fines had been given out.
— Kacey Bowen (@KaceyonFox7) July 4, 2020
Do normal non-online people know what “cancel culture” is? So the Trump plan is to introduce this concept to regular people, get them real mad about it, and argue it’s more important than the pandemic or the economy or racism or corruption? I mean, god speed with that strategy.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 5, 2020
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait until they find out what it’s like to be on a ventilator.
re: #174 jaunte
Were the cops wearing masks/ppe?
Asking because the leading cause of death in 2020 is covid19; second leading cause of death for cops is firearms.
That they’re taking zero precautions for covid19 shows their priorities too.
re: #159 lawhawk
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“let’s keep it going”
buddy it never STARTED https://t.co/lDwPLQdCxu— Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) July 5, 2020
re: #123 A Three Hour Tour
How much extra would it cost to have Lindsey Graham to ride the bomb down like a bucking bronco?
Just the thought of Lady G singing “Hello Dolly” while riding the bomb down to Ground Zero…
Wishing all of my friends in the United States of America a happy Independence Day.
In truth, we sort of thought you’d be over it by now… pic.twitter.com/i3QkZrynDm— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 4, 2020
I love how certain people need to see, all over again, that death is a lagging indicator before acting semi-responsibly.
That’s great. That’s very cool.— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2020
Baltimore’s Columbus statue gets dumped in the harbor pic.twitter.com/ZwuNcqAH6d
— J. M. Giordano photo (@jmgpix) July 5, 2020
re: #159 lawhawk
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Brings back memories of July 4th 1981 when then Interior Secretary James Watt refused to allow the “Gawdless” Beach Boys to perform on the Mall.
Instead, that asshole had Wayne Newton and The Army Blues “Bland” get down with the crowd...but the crowd goofed on them…
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #181 🌹UOJB!
Just the thought of Lady G singing “Hello Dolly” while riding the bomb down to Ground Zero…
He missed his chance a few weeks back to jump out of an oversized novelty birthday cake while singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President.”
I don’t know if Trump will lose, but he is lost
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 4, 2020
I’ve had the same set of flatware for 30 years.
Friday night 2 of the spoons and a fork snap.
Lunch today a knife snaps.
Dinner today, another spoon goes to Recycle Heaven.
Nice to see Amazon delivering a new set tomorrow…
@realDonaldTrump - Now let’s try this- Same song, Same Lawn: this time with a crowd & a real @flotus @MichelleObama pic.twitter.com/n8tNapa1Tx
— Eric Ortner (@eortner) July 5, 2020
re: #190 🌹UOJB!
I’ve had the same set of flatware for 30 years.
Friday night 2 of the spoons and a fork snap.
Lunch today a knife snaps.
Dinner today, another spoon goes to Recycle Heaven.
Nice to see Amazon delivering a new set tomorrow…
Good lord! What are you washing them in?
Isn’t it fun how the media has already moved on from the Trump complicit in the murder of American soldiers story?
I think the whole Trump strategy has been to inundate us with so many scandals we get desensitized to them.— Helena (@thelastpinkcar) July 5, 2020
re: #190 🌹UOJB!
I’ve had the same set of flatware for 30 years.
Friday night 2 of the spoons and a fork snap.
Lunch today a knife snaps.
Dinner today, another spoon goes to Recycle Heaven.
M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie.
“The White House is a circus in the way it makes decisions,” says Moon Chung-in, an adviser to @moonriver365 for diplomatic and security affairs. https://t.co/gdAEjSQDHH
— William Gallo (@GalloVOA) July 2, 2020
“We do not feel any need to sit face to face with the US,” says North Korean vice foreign minister Choe Son-hui. She suggests another summit would only benefit Trump, not Pyongyang.
Full statement via KCNA: pic.twitter.com/LBnsPKa9hE— William Gallo (@GalloVOA) July 4, 2020
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #192 Blind Frog Belly White
Good lord! What are you washing them in?
I generally keep them soaked in the sink after I eat then I wash and rinse them before I eat. But I guess they had a good 30 year run…
re: #197 🌹UOJB!
I know we have hard water but breaking the silverware is a new one. :-)
re: #171 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
And the cops stood around and made no arrests of the anti-vaxxers who became violent. How predictable,
re: #190 🌹UOJB!
We are awash in flatware and silverware. My wife inherited both her Grandmother’s and her Mother’s sterling and stainless. They both had the same pattern of stainless, and her Grandmother must have gotten the special ‘having people over for coffee’ set because we have a gazillion teaspoons, over and above the dozen or more place settings.
The sterling, I spent a little time this winter cataloging and bought a few pieces to make both up to the original number of place settings. Also polished them all by hand. And we haven’t used them since!
Sky is clearing. Might get the eclipse in about 30 min.
Sterno
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2020
Happy birthday, America. Thank you for letting me live the American Dream. We must fight every day to make sure that dream is as true for a Black child born in Minneapolis as it was for a white bodybuilder born in Austria. via @attn pic.twitter.com/rM95vb3twC
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) July 4, 2020
Yes there is a partial eclipse of the moon tonight.
And
There is NO religious significance about it.
re: #205 🌹UOJB!
Yes there is a partial eclipse of the moon tonight.
And
There is NO religious significance about it.
LIES, IT FULFILLS THE PROPHECY WHICH FORETELLS THAT TRUMP WILL OWN THE LIBS AND BRING ABOUT GOD’S KINGDOM ON EARTH
re: #202 goddamnedfrank
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— KellyAnn Noble 🖤 (@starmagicsoul) July 4, 2020
‘21 will be a Molotov cocktail though.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 5, 2020
The real story is they’re afraid of losing power. When they had power, they didn’t care what Trump said. That is the objective reality. Reporting people’s excuses for themselves is not.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 4, 2020
re: #205 🌹UOJB!
Yes there is a partial eclipse of the moon tonight.
And
There is NO religious significance about it.
So we don’t need the virgin after all?
re: #209 Decatur Deb
So we don’t need the virgin after all?
It’s still ok to toss that false prophet into the volcano though.
re: #209 Decatur Deb
So we don’t need the virgin after all?
Aw, man. I’ll return the ceremonial knife and the goats.
Me, with every new fuckin’ thing that comes along now pic.twitter.com/ZwK4ZRnY2r
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2020
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
I just released my new painting tonight called “Trump Rushmore.” Happy Independence Day! I hope you like it. I am selling these on my website at https://t.co/3rYfs3Z0lS pic.twitter.com/uS2q7pEmog
— Jon McNaughton (@McNaughtonArt) July 5, 2020
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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Damn, that’s nauseating!
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
McNaughton should start labeling things so we know who’s who.
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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Looks like there’s a forest on fire behind it, or possibly some hellfire bubbling up to consume the abomination.
Nice clear sky as it’s about to start. I’ve come back in for sunglasses. A bright planet and perhaps a dim one are trailing it by a few degrees.
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) July 5, 2020
re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
BINGO!
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re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
BINGO!
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God: “I told you motherfuckers you opened up too fast.”
I saw Trump standing with the monument behind him, and I had a real hankering for a repeat of the final scene of Don Giovanni.
re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White
I saw Trump standing with the monument behind him, and I had a real hankering for a repeat of the final scene of Don Giovanni.
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go d-o-w-n!
There is also this.
(This story is from Tennessee but, well, who who is likely to have more gators and more meth?)
‘Meth-gators’: Tennessee police warn flushing drugs could create hyper-aggressive alligators
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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If bomb that shit myself (if I knew how).
That’s not the rock that traitor will wind up on.
The Rock he and his crooked family deserve to be put on is Alcatraz!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 5, 2020
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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Fucking hell, that’s nauseating.
#BREAKING: Evidence is growing that a mutated coronavirus strain, the main one circulating in Houston, is more contagious than the original virus, via @ChronMedhttps://t.co/IykL765tMu
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) July 4, 2020
Ten out of 12 hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley are full.
“We are now at the point of grave concern,” said the CEO of one hospital system in deep South Texas. https://t.co/aJ42wA6JOo— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 4, 2020
re: #232 Dread Pirate
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The virus is taking advantage of our stupidity to amp up the damage. I’m a gamer, I know what’s going on here. This is an enrage mechanic.
Is it possible Covid19 could evolve to be more lethal to younger people, say, from fighting stronger immune systems? This would be something like the 1918 H1N1 strain, which mainly affected younger and stronger people.
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 5, 2020
re: #232 Dread Pirate
“We are now at the point of grave concern,” said the CEO of one hospital system in deep South Texas.
Welcome to my April, Mr. CEO.
re: #236 jaunte
Welcome to my April, Mr. CEO.
A CEO who, this reporter has learned, goes by the name of N. S. Sherlock.
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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Might I point out that there isn’t actually any rock to carve Trump’s face out of where the “art work” shows it? You might be able to get it out of the rock to the right and well behind Lincoln, but right next to him, there’s only air.
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re: #238 calochortus
Not likely to be a problem.
re: #238 calochortus
Might I point out that there isn’t actually any rock to carve Trump’s face out of where the “art work” shows it? You might be able to get it out of the rock to the right and well behind Lincoln, but right next to him, there’s only air.
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And if you shift around too much to the right, I don’t know if that rock is going to be suitable to blast a new face into it. The reason Teddy is so far in the back is because the rock face was unsuitable and they had to keep blasting until they found some rock which would hold the shape.
re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And if you shift around too much to the right, I don’t know if that rock is going to be suitable to blast a new face into it. The reason Teddy is so far in the back is because the rock face was unsuitable and they had to keep blasting until they found some rock which would hold the shape.
Yup. Maybe they’ll just use clay and build it out.
re: #238 calochortus
Might I point out that there isn’t actually any rock to carve Trump’s face out of where the “art work” shows it? You might be able to get it out of the rock to the right and well behind Lincoln, but right next to him, there’s only air.
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Stucco
re: #241 calochortus
Yup. Maybe they’ll just use clay and build it out.
Headline in 2037: “Trump face slides off Mt. Rushmore after record rainfall.”
Liberals in 2037: trollface.gif
Ah we can just put a bronze in the Capitol Rotunda of him strapped to a gurney and the leathal drip attached to his arm.
They could call it “dying like a dog”…
Also, apparently McNaughton didn’t really look at the rock around the carvings, because speaking as a geololgically-educated person, it looks absolutely nothing like it.
re: #245 William Lewis
Ah we ca just put a bronze in the Capitol Rotunda of him strapped to a gurney and the leathal drip attached to his arm.
The could call it “dying like a dog”…
Trump’s legacy: Multiple bankruptcies, The Apprentice, “grab them by the pussy”, the biggest failure of a presidency in American history with multiple hundreds of thousands dead, dying alone and in pain in Sing Sing from an infection he was supposed to help prevent.
re: #215 Blind Frog Belly White
129,000 COVID-19 victims could not be reached for comment.
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One of the symptoms of coronavirus is loss of taste; you should probably get tested immediately.
— Bruce E.H. Johnson (@BEHJ) July 5, 2020
re: #246 calochortus
Also, apparently McNaughton didn’t really look at the rock around the carvings, because speaking as a geololgically-educated person, it looks absolutely nothing like it.
Artistic license
bless her heart. this one’s just kinda sweet https://t.co/uw2gYcKs3v
— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) July 5, 2020
re: #246 calochortus
Also, apparently McNaughton didn’t really look at the rock around the carvings, because speaking as a geololgically-educated person, it looks absolutely nothing like it.
I would bet that he works by projecting an image and then painting over it. The reason the “mountain” bulge where he painted DT looks so odd is that he had to make that part up.
re: #251 retired cynic
I would bet that he works by projecting an image and then painting over it. The reason the “mountain” bulge where he painted DT looks so odd is that he had to make that part up.
And as I mentioned, there’s no way the weathered rock on the right could hold that shape. If the mountain can take a face at all to the right of Lincoln, it’s almost going to be pointing directly away, in the same direction as Teddy or Jefferson.
I think the internet is done for the day
This is the prequel! Meyer-Rocklow & Gal (2003) - Pressures produced when penguins pooh https://t.co/efJjhIkWw2 pic.twitter.com/El8LeSP1zC
— Jeff Pea | #BLM ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 (@jt_pea) July 4, 2020
For no particular reason, here’s a beautiful colorized pic of the French pre-Dreadnought battleship Charlemagne, ca. 1903.
This is from Warships of the Pre-Dreadnought Age on Facebook. If well moderated, special interest groups like this are one of the good things about FB.
Fragile white people apparently don’t like the tables being turned on them. https://t.co/v238OaC5jQ
— Petty AF (@FCDallasMom2) July 5, 2020
re: #257 Dave In Austin
This vid is a fake bro. Those guys are white lo. Look at the ones wrist and the others face. The voices in the vid is doctored and these guys are literally giving the guy in the car, directions.
— MrShadowCX (@MrShadowCX) July 5, 2020
re: #246 calochortus
Also, apparently McNaughton didn’t really look at the rock around the carvings, because speaking as a geololgically-educated person, it looks absolutely nothing like it.
Does Jon McNaughton ever really LOOK at anything? He really is basically a political cartoonist: he just takes a bit more time with it.
Though to judge by “Trump Rushmore”, not a hell of a lot more….
re: #257 Dave In Austin
All I can say is….BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!
We watched Hamilton. I’m not a big musical fan, and my wife has played the soundtrack enough that I know the major songs, but it’s worth a watch. I did find the roll call at the beginning interesting.
re: #256 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
For no particular reason, here’s a beautiful colorized pic of the French pre-Dreadnought battleship Charlemagne, ca. 1903.
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love that tumblehome hull
Jeez, I was on a long phone call with family, and this madness happens
I was on a boat for *three hours* and THIS HAPPENS
2020 WTAF pic.twitter.com/Mg4QHRN5OQ— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) July 5, 2020
re: #263 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Jeez, I was on a long phone call with family, and this madness happens
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re: #263 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
soooooooo Kanye is going to be the Jill Stein of 2020…
re: #262 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
love that tumblehome hull
The French Navy was inordinately fond of that hull style. Drachinifel’s video on the French Hotels is amazing.
re: #258 Belafon
The fingers are a dead giveaway.
Who wore it better, Part II? pic.twitter.com/g9KIj7XCII
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 4, 2020
re: #266 William Lewis
The French Navy was inordinately fond of that hull style. Drachinifel’s video on the French Hotels is amazing.
I saw that vid: someone here linked to it a couple of weeks ago(?) - fascinating stuff:
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 5, 2020
Another incredible colorized pic from the pre-Dreadnought era. This is the USS Kearsarge, the only US battleship not named for a state, in Portsmouth England 1903. That’s HMS Victory in the right background. Kearsarge was later converted to a crane ship, saw much service in World War II in that role, and lasted until 1956 (60 years of service). Victory, of course, is still there.
re: #261 Belafon
We watched Hamilton. I’m not a big musical fan, and my wife has played the soundtrack enough that I know the major songs, but it’s worth a watch. I did find the roll call at the beginning interesting.
We watched last night. It’s very good, although I have 2 minor complaints.
The first is just me, but there was far too much going on. I get rather easily overwhelmed by too much sensory input and there’s just too much frenetic motion, especially while one is trying to pay attention to fast paced audio as well.
My other thought is that it’s really hard to pack the content of Chernow’s 800 pages (IIRC) of text into 3 hours of music and get everything in.
Still, I recommend it.
re: #270 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That image of Trump is truly nightmarish. It looks like the flesh is just sloughing off… something.
re: #265 🌹UOJB!
soooooooo Kanye is going to be the Jill Stein of 2020…
You might want to go read twitter. Kanye isn’t going to gain any votes.
re: #273 jaunte
That image of Trump is truly nightmarish. It looks like the flesh is just sloughing off… something.
And that ridiculously oversize suit jacket
Axl Rose having more moral clarity than Kanye and Elon Musk combined is so fucking 2020. https://t.co/H2gW4YqfPM
— ⚖️Powerful Mel Ankoly 🦈 #ForThePeople (@Mel_Ankoly) July 5, 2020
Our house smells like gunpowder. The neighborhood has upped its game with the fireworks. Went to see one of the 4 mini displays in ABQ. Parked at Costco and was rightnext to the fireworks. The finale made the care shake. We were amused.
Happy 4th.
So apparently, while I tried to grab a nap before work, the Battle of the Bulge was being fought all over again in my neighborhood. Pops and booms started just before 7pm and hadn’t stopped when I left almost 4 hours later. I suppose they’ll have to wait until morning light to cart out the dead and wounded.
I think I’m going to need to wait at least another hour before attempting to walk the dogs.
There is still the random mortar firing in the neighborhood
Happy Birthday Bill Withers!
You are missed.
Remember the time we talked at Greenblatt’s Deli. Sure was a treat to see and talk to you!
Remembering Bill Withers, born on this day in 1938 in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Here he is performing “Grandma’s Hands” in 1973. pic.twitter.com/e2o9Wa6372
— Dust-to-Digital (@dusttodigital) July 4, 2020
Holy shit. This whole video. Yikes.
this bitch think she in I Am Legend LMAOOO pic.twitter.com/SYVgcWMPYe
— xander (@whosalex) July 2, 2020
I’m out for the evening.
Hasta mañana, lizards.
re: #276 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And that ridiculously oversize suit jacket
He borrowed it from David Byrne from the Stop Making Sense wardroom closet.
This! This is why we can’t have nice things!
Common sense is on the endangered list. https://t.co/fqoQ3y2v9n
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 5, 2020
I don’t read much, if any, of Jane’s sports coverage. But, I follow her for her “citizen” Jane tweets
That’s a wrap. Let’s just start watering the crops with Gatorade. https://t.co/Zstko4MEas
— Jane McManus (@janesports) July 5, 2020
Finally a viable third party in American politics: Rich narcissists. https://t.co/fIBCouXmau
— Jane McManus (@janesports) July 5, 2020
“We’re so fed up with one version of incompetence but this other one seems fun.” https://t.co/k39lQucD5L
— Jane McManus (@janesports) July 5, 2020
re: #285 Targetpractice
This! This is why we can’t have nice things!
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Fookin’ idjit.
Kanye West 2020: “If you thought Trump was a total douche, you haven’t seen me!”
re: #286 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Just waiting for Kanye to announce his running mate—Candace Owens…
re: #282 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Holy shit. This whole video. Yikes.
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This is what I had to say about this when a shorter version was posted:
re: #310 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
This posting (original twitter poster, not LGF people) illuminates all the problems I have with “Karen,” and the misogyny hiding in it. We’ve all seen and laughed at the meltdowns over mask wearing (me too, and I have no problem with highlighting them). But when we create the type and start throwing every woman we deem to have misbehaved into it, we end up with something very different.
What does this clip have to do with covid-19 bad behavior? Is there something about wearing a mask? Has an employee prevented her from going in because she’s not wearing one? We don’t know — all that clip shows is woman behaving badly while some (unseen) men laugh at her. (If you follow the link, you’ll see what it was clipped from — a two minute sequence of her throwing herself at that door, which might be to a retail establishment, while people laugh at her. No clue how we got there. It’s clearly cut from an even longer sequence of events, and it’s not funny at all. Except, maybe, to people who are amused by the antics of the homeless mentally ill who decorate our streets these days.)
Yet whoever edited and posted it originally thought it was fine to dismiss her as a “Karen,” edit it to a single moment and post it for our amusement. I predict we will never see an equivalent “Ken” category for the men who act out about their entitlements in their own special ways. Because we don’t just dismiss them.
And while I’m on this soapbox (it’s heavy and I don’t want to drag it out again), might we spare a little understanding for all the shutdown protesters? I know I said the milk of human kindness had curdled in my veins, but I seem to have a bit left somewhere. We know there are at least 35 million people out of work, and there’s probably another large group of people who are hanging by a thread and know it. Is it any wonder that some of them grasp at straws, like “covid hoax” and hate the visible symbol of what hit them, the mask? We lizards are mostly educated at least enough to be able to recognize nonsense, but members of the group that’s hardest hit by the economic crash are likely not to be, so they’re susceptible to faux noise brainwashing and 8-chan conspiracies — anything that gives them a sense that someone is controlling this and can fix it. I’m not suggesting any sort of compromise — they’re still wrong, and wrong-headed — but maybe we could dial down the contempt.
re: #246 calochortus
Also, apparently McNaughton didn’t really look at the rock around the carvings, because speaking as a geololgically-educated person, it looks absolutely nothing like it.
He’s every bit as much a sculptor as he is a painter.
Well, today was…odd. The Mango Mussolini was incoherent last night and equally bull-goose loony today. They need to stuff him in an armoire, take his phone, and install any cyborg add-ons needed to make him seem sane until the debates. This present version of Fascist v3.0 is just not working.
The local Boogaloo vs. AntiFa firefight has finally calmed down, apparently because of a dearth of ammunition. Certainly was loud, earlier. There is still some residual gunfire, but it’s in far South Austin, Alex Jones country, so what are you going to do?
And the Wolf is just starting to take a bite out of the Moon.
But it’s late, and I’m for the bed. Sweet dreams, all.
I’ve been reading newspapers from 1964 and man, if I had a nickel for everytime someone described Goldwater’s GOP this way I’d have a lot of nickels. “Birchers, miscellaneous crackpots, and segregationists.” pic.twitter.com/4Zxues5i84
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) July 5, 2020
Constant bombardment since 6PM here and the idiots are firing off their guns and rifles as well…
Yeah, fireworks kind of suck, especially if you have a dog. At least I’m not in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/BqfwU4lEHY
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 5, 2020
To anyone who feels like they “wasted” the time during quarantine because they didn’t write a book or learn a second language or get their bodies in shape, I have good news: Quarantine ain’t over get back inside.
— Denzel Washington (@DenzelWashngton) July 4, 2020
re: #297 Belafon
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Be sure to thank all the gormless fuckwits who wanted to “reopen” so they could get a haircut before they went out to the bars.
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Your reminder, as Trump continues his COVID-19 lies, including his China travel ban, the EU has lifted their travel ban for resident of 15 countries.
China is on the list.
USA still banned.
So much winning.— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) July 5, 2020
re: #296 teleskiguy
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It’s not letting up. And they’re setting off M80s that are triggering car alarms.
I’m running for President. Wait. I tried that and it didn’t end well. Take two: I’m voting for @JoeBiden to end this national nightmare. You with me?
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) July 5, 2020
He’s a right-winger. They have no, and I mean zero, common sense.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 5, 2020
I’m a political scientist with a PhD from one of the best programs in the country .. there’s NO SUCH such thing as “left wing fascism”! That’s not a thing! .. fascism is a RIGHT wing not a left wing movement. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
— (((Mia Bloom)))🦈👽🧠🏳️🌈supporter (@MiaMBloom) July 5, 2020
A related thread, 12 tweets:
Yes, I read the Bret Stephens piece. Ho hum. Yes, the intolerant left is a threat. Stipulated.
However, I have excoriated people on the left for most of my career. But only opposing Trump produced harassment, demands to fire me, and death threats. Cancel culture, indeed. /1— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2020
re: #290 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
She was apparently drunk and they tossed her out (per someone’s comment). She wanted back in.
From what I saw, none of the kids in that bar were wearing masks.
Like this shit, right here … https://t.co/AanikKQf4H
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 5, 2020
When do the aliens land on the White House lawn?
re: #306 goddamnedfrank
Those jellyfish are near the Salem area. Plymouth had a shark sighting. I wonder who’s hot lunch for the shark? // Kidding aside, we get shark sightings about every year.
re: #307 Targetpractice
When do the aliens land on the White House lawn?
I’m pretty sure they’re just going to blow it up.
Anti-maskers and their freedom being threatened by teenagers enforcing a company policy
Ohio ice cream shop asks customers to stop yelling at teenage employees about mask requirement: “Does it feel good to make a 16-year-old girl cry in the bathroom? Does that make you feel better about Covid?” https://t.co/i2iVeXH2Gj pic.twitter.com/aUZg9Cv3Rx
— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2020
WATCH WHAT HAPPENS!!! NICE TV NETOWORK YOU GOT THERE, BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO IT…
Wow. @CNN got caught cold manipulating the words and meaning of my 4th of July Speech. They were brazen, desperate. Watch what happens!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 5, 2020
re: #310 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Anti-maskers and their freedom being threatened by teenagers enforcing a company policy
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They need to hire a bouncer (or reassign one of the huskier teenagers). Wearamaskassol is the best preventative we have, and without an explicit assignment, a teenager won’t find it easy to stand up to an adult.
( My little town of 122,000 had reported a total of 161 infections yesterday. We’re close to — not a hot spot, but a rather warm one. And we never really relaxed the stay-at-home order. I know very well we’ve been lucky, but good covid practices are the way to take advantage of good luck.)
re: #311 teleskiguy
WATCH WHAT HAPPENS!!! NICE TV NETOWORK YOU GOT THERE, BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO IT…
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Any idea what he’s talking about?
re: #313 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Any idea what he’s talking about?
Probably this:
People are sharing a short clip that makes it seem like Trump said Desert Storm happened in Vietnam. He did not, though he stumbled. Here’s the transcript of that section. pic.twitter.com/vTlOnY9CAR
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 5, 2020
re: #313 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
probably an allusion to criminal charges for the network for not “telling the truth” and perhaps even Trump thinking he can sue them for libel for “misrepresentation”.
Never mind that they do the same shit every day on the networks that support him and have been doing so for the last four years…. It’s always projection with these guys and remember, laws pertain to you and I but never them.
“Sleepy Joe” Biden …https://t.co/9futef4bsP pic.twitter.com/2FqhyW1ceB
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 1, 2020
re: #314 Targetpractice
Probably this:
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Thanks. Heaven forbid that I should have to fact-check one of DT’s tweets. As to the rest of what he said, I know someone who”s brazen and desperate, and it’s not CNN.
(Just heard another couple of bangs. I was hoping they were done with the bang-bangs, but it looks like they still have some in reserve.)
That’s how you get them hooked
First, the free sample.
Then, they come back for more, with friends
It’s drug dealing 101
I’ve been watching cop shows for something near five decades— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 5, 2020
re: #318 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I imagine a chocolate chip cookie is pretty special for deer.
re: #319 EPR-radar
I imagine a chocolate chip cookie is pretty special for deer.
There was a story just like that a while back, although I don’t remember if chocolate chip cookies were the hook that time.
ETA: Yes, this is the same story. Two years old, but bears repeating.
Sure, TMZ, that’s the requirement, not getting on the ballot in 50 states. pic.twitter.com/l3tSqrSnSD
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) July 5, 2020
It’s been sounding like the Tet Offensive here in the Diablo Valley. I’d say 50x more illegal fireworks than ever before. There have been more than 50 fires in the area and one person blew his hand off.
Greg Treverton, NIC chair (2014-17) “voiced concern that the assessment of the suspected Russian bounty program could be politicized to fit the White House’s characterization of the intel about it.”
“‘I have real concerns, given the pressures these analysts are under,’” he said.— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) July 3, 2020
re: #321 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Folks on Twitter thinking West is going to be the Jill Stein of 2020 and I gotta say that’s giving him way too much credit. This isn’t 2016, Trump isn’t a mystery as to how he’d run things if reelected, and Stein’s relationship with Trump went as far as her fan club suggesting he wouldn’t be “that bad” if he beat Hillary.
But all of this is pure speculation, the egotistical fuck hasn’t even taken the time to file the paperwork and start gathering signatures to get on ballots. Before we talk about how he’d help/hurt the race, let’s see if he’s actually gonna be in it.
Jupiter and Saturn tonight
canon rebel sl1, 114x900mm f/8 newtonian @ f/32 (2x barlow stacked with 2x teleconverter)#Astrophotography pic.twitter.com/6rv84TEgqN— hypatia THEY/SHE #1312 📷🔭🌻🏴 (@HypatiaPhoto) July 5, 2020
re: #205 🌹UOJB!
Yes there is a partial eclipse of the moon tonight.
And
There is NO religious significance about it.
Rain here tonight. No visible eclipse.
re: #214 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Solar eclipse in 2024. We can be patient.
This time we won’t be on the line of totality. My brother-in-law will be close, if we can travel to Texas assuming Covidiots still don’t have us quarantined.
Carbondale, Ill. is interesting in that it was on the path of totality last time and will be again in 2024.
The official denial is out:
Elon Musk denies Jeffrey Epstein toured SpaceX facilities (Business Insider)
He says the photograph of Ghislaine Maxwell and him together at a party was her inserting herself into a picture of him without his knowledge, and the better question would be to ask Vanity Fair, which threw the party.
BI previously reported the tour of SpaceX was arranged by Kimbal Musk (his brother) but it was unclear whether either Musk was at the site when Epstein’s entourage was there. They also reported in January that Epstein set up Kimbal Musk with a girlfriend (an adult who had been Epstein’s girlfriend before Maxwell).
Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk’s brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources say (January 13, 2020) .
Last year, he denied introducing Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg, after Vanity Fair reported on that.:
“It’s Going to Be Staggering, the Amount of Names”: As the Jeffrey Epstein Case Grows More Grotesque, Manhattan and DC Brace for Impact (Vanity Fair, July 17, 2019).
Zuckerberg said he met Epstein in passing at a dinner not hosted by Epstein and never spoke to him again.
re: #324 Targetpractice
But all of this is pure speculation, the egotistical fuck hasn’t even taken the time to file the paperwork and start gathering signatures to get on ballots. Before we talk about how he’d help/hurt the race, let’s see if he’s actually gonna be in it.
He’s already past the filing date of most states for an independent to gain a ballot line. Most states also require petitions.
In thirty-three states, paperwork must be filed for write-in candidates. In nine states, write-in candidates aren’t permitted.
This is nothing more than self-promotion by Kanye.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s also a good idea to remember that Kanye West is, on the books, diagnosed as bipolar.
“…temperatures occurring in the High Arctic during the past 15 years were not predicted to occur for 70 more years…” Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists https://t.co/3nxCgf1J5C via @washingtonpost
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 5, 2020
re: #332 The Ghost of a Flea
It’s also a good idea to remember that Kanye West is, on the books, diagnosed as bipolar.
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re: #334 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fixed part behind privacy bar for poor wording.
And yet our self proclaimed “small government” @GovRicketts threatens local governments that he will take away millions of dollars of their taxpayer’s dollars if they impose something as sensible as a mask requirement in public buildings. Actions speak louder than words. https://t.co/Mvf2BXa5JJ
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) July 3, 2020
Always check before sharing a video clip that makes Donald Trump seem like a moran. There are plenty of real ones, there’s no need to share manipulated ones.
Fact-checkers at both CNN and Snopes confirm the video clip of Trump’s Coronapalooza where it appears he said that Desert Storm happened in Vietnam is false. He stumbled in that part of his speech, but he did not say that. The video was deceptively edited. It should be called out and not shared.
People are sharing a short clip that makes it seem like Trump said Desert Storm happened in Vietnam. He did not, though he stumbled. Here’s the transcript of that section. pic.twitter.com/vTlOnY9CAR
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 5, 2020
drunks on Dinesh 🤣 @KevinMKruse https://t.co/AjZZGMpYTg
— Adam Rothman (@arothmanhistory) July 4, 2020
Black Lives Matter Versus Catholics?We’ll go into detail about what transpired in St. Louis [on June 27 at Ant Hill], but let’s address the general claim right at the top. These videos don’t show “Black Lives Matter” activists beating up “Catholics” who were just praying at the feet of a statue of King Louis IX. Claims using this language omit some key details.
The group described as “Catholics,” for instance, was partly comprised of individuals who align themselves with hate groups (such as the Proud Boys) and other white nationalist ideologies. Also, this prayer event was organized by the proprietor of a far-right conspiracy website. While there were certainly Catholics who attended this event in good faith, describing this entire group only as “Catholics” omits some very important and relevant details about who exactly was involved in these altercations.
Furthermore, while the politics of the people who organized the counter-protest may align (at least in part) with the Black Lives Matter movement, and while there were Black Lives Matter activists present at this event, this was not an official BLM protest. This counter-protest was organized by Muslim and Jewish activists who wanted the statue taken down in part because of King Louis IX’s persecution of Jews in the middle ages.
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Were Catholics Attacked by Black Lives Matter Protesters in St. Louis? (Snopes, rated “misatributed.”)
Every hour, on the hours, for the past five hours somebody in this neighborhood fires off a black powder rifle.
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Further down the article (I missed it the first time through), that prayer event was organised by Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit (AKA SMOTI).
re: #340 Dread Pirate
Every hour, on the hours, for the past five hours somebody in this neighborhood fires off a black powder rifle.
I can see now why you Colonial chappies had such a hard go of it back in the day — our Redcoats could manage two rounds a minute in the heat of battle. Practice, my dear fellow, practice!
re: #340 Dread Pirate
Every hour, on the hours, for the past five hours somebody in this neighborhood fires off a black powder rifle.
They need a ship’s bell or a town crier.
Professional cornhole is no joke for Nebraska’s top-rated player (Omaha World-Herald)
Stop snickering, cornhole is a serious sport in Nebraska, even if the Firefox dictionary doesn’t recognise the word and underscores it as an error.
Cornhole (Goes to Wikipedia, board layout, equipment [cornbags which weigh 1 lb. each], scoring, rules)
ESPN has been covering professional cornhole tournaments (amongst other things, social distancing is possible), in which the woman described in the article above appears.
She wanted to be an athlete in other sports, but never could figure out why she always came in last in competitions. She was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder which reduces oxygen flow.
She now competes in five-figure prize money cornhole tournaments.
The good old days when we still had a sane person as president.
— Kateration (@Katerationopia) July 5, 2020
Wait… @govkristinoem thinks the confederate generals who fought a civil war against America, killed U.S. troops and declared themselves to be a separate, forever slave-holding country 87 years after the cleve from Britain… she thinks THEY are our “founding fathers???” #read https://t.co/sAWc8sDLjL
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 5, 2020
I’m beginning to think the kids who couldn’t cut it in elementary school became republicans.
re: #347 Dread Pirate
They were the kids you’d see asleep during history class.
re: #349 Dr Lizardo
They were the kids you’d see asleep during history class.
I hated history, never paid attention, and hardly ever did my homework. I still learned it, maybe through osmosis.
I’ve never understood why “run the government like a business” is an appealing slogan. Would you want someone to run your church like a tennis club? Or your favorite bar like a university. They are entirely different things. https://t.co/ATfVLodzl2
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 3, 2020
re: #351 Dread Pirate
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I have never understood the appeal of “run government like a business.” But that’s probably because I can’t read the news anymore without it seeming like every business has either fucked up, is currently fucking up, or looks about to fuck up.
I still remember all those fantasies about how Donny would not be beholden to lobbyists because “He’s independently wealthy! He doesn’t need their money!” In the end, he’s proven them right…by choosing to instead steal directly from the Treasury.
re: #333 teleskiguy
This is the month of fastest melt in the Arctic. Even so, the melting in the past month is impressive:
And the bulk of Trump’s portfolio is real estate, which is one of the most cutthroat and money-grubbing industries out there. And a privately-owned one at that, which means he can act as a dictator as compared to publicly-traded companies that could have long ago ran his ass out on a rail for driving the whole mess so far into debt that he’s asking some rather shady people to float him loans.
Trying again at the Omaha World-Herald with a letter, this time responding to a bigot Catholic who’s letter was published July 4.
Mr. Charlie Aliano asserts that as a practicing Catholic, he is appalled by the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in business and government. No one on the Supreme Court struck down the First Amendment’s provision of Free Exercise in any church. That would include churches which accept LGBT persons in their services.
Fortunately our nation is not run on the Catechism of the Catholic Church or any particular person’s interpretation of the Bible. It is a secular state which allows free exercise for all faiths and none.
The argument “God said” has been used in our country to deny rights to women, to enforce slavery, to enforce Jim Crow, to enforce miscegenation laws, and to enforce anti-Catholic laws.
The Constitution, which is the law of our land and not the Bible, explicitly prohibits the government from interfering in the affairs of any church, so they are as free to be as restrictive and non-welcoming as they wish. No Catholic Church is going to be forced to distribute the Eucharist to any person it deems unworthy.
By law your church may enforce its Catechism on its members as it wishes. It may not enforce it on anyone outside the Catholic Church, just as the Lutheran Church may not enforce its doctrines on Catholics.
Five of the Supreme Court Justices are Catholic; fortunately they ruled for the rights of all Americans, not their own sect. They are appointed to uphold secular laws, not church laws.
Responding to No to gay marriage (Omaha World-Herald “Public Pulse,” last letter on the page).
The Not Fucking Around Coalition (NFAC) militia in Stone Mountain, Georgia called out all rednecks and white supremacist militias “We here, where the fuck you at?”. (📹@VlanciPictures) #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/B76Ab6WUSF
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) July 4, 2020
re: #351 Dread Pirate
Even if running the government like a business was actually a good idea rather than the hair-on-fire stupid idea that it is, Trump isn’t an actually businessman. He’s a pretend one. He’s bumbled and Forrest Gumped his way through life. As soon as shit got real, he completely fell apart.
Morning Lizardim. Everybody still have all of their fingers and toes?
re: #247 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trump’s legacy: Multiple bankruptcies, The Apprentice, “grab them by the pussy”, the biggest failure of a presidency in American history with multiple hundreds of thousands dead, dying alone and in pain in Sing Sing from an infection he was supposed to help prevent.
well his legacy sure ain’t the work as president cause he doesn’t do any
I predict biden will put 100% of his time in
presidenting
trump puts in maybe an hour or two a day maybe 4 or 5 days ina week
he spends his time tweeting nonsense and focusing on things that are not the job. like someone who sits at their office desk and surfs all day. you punched a clock. you did absolutely nothing.
re: #359 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Morning Lizardim. Everybody still have all of their fingers and toes?
Someone launching fireworks burned my flag with embers. I need to buy a new one.
I didn’t have “conservative burns American flag” on my wingnut bingo card for 2020. /s
re: #353 Targetpractice
It’s part of the religion, where “business” is seen as the righteous thing for a human to do, and “government” is considered an evil that is tolerated by God until the Judgement.
re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Someone launching fireworks burned my flag with embers. I need to buy a new one.
I didn’t have “conservative burns American flag” on my wingnut bingo card for 2020. /s
I had a friend in California whose house was hit with sparks and debris, twice. Thankfully, he managed to de-escalate the ensuing confrontation and get them to knock it off. When I was out doing our little home fireworks (Minnesota legal for us), I heard our fire department fire up the sirens and roll out, so somebody was not so lucky.
Happy Birthday America
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office has revised casualty figures, saying two people are dead and eight are wounded following a shooting at a South Carolina nightclub. https://t.co/Ml3ypt8F2e
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 5, 2020
re: #357 DodgerFan1988
Do the wingnuts in Georgia suddenly move to ban open carry weaponry like Ronald Reagan did in California? Stay tuned …
re: #353 Targetpractice
Same thing here in Czech Republic. The PM, Andrej Babiš, is an agribusiness oligarch and his voters say, “He’ll run the Czech Republic like he runs Agrofert!!”
Yeah. Right into the fucking ground. His company, Agrofert, is in massive debt and relies on EU subsidies and loans from the Bank of China to stay afloat. Hardly a great business model.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also, please note that it’s not just the mangled and disjointed sentence, it’s also this bizarre historical retcon that there was some “swift and sweeping” victory in Vietnam.
The victory wasn’t swift, but it was sweeping. The Vietnamese victory, that is.
One genetic variant among humans has been shown to be associated with more severe cases of Covid-19, and the troublesome allele was inherited from Neanderthals.
The allele is linked to others nearby, as that portion of chromosome 3 appears to travel together and not get cut up via crossovers during meiosis. So there are a bunch of other alleles one can use to diagnose if you have the troublesome allele, and that is useful because consumer DNA testing companies test at some of these other alleles.
I have one copy of the bad allele, based on my results from 23andMe. One copy of the bad allele increases the risk factor of a serious case by 1.7x, I believe, and having two copies (remember, we all have two chromosome 3) by even more so raises the risk of a severe case.
One can find a list of alleles to check in the back of the scientific paper which discusses this. Look for the alleles with linkage disequilibrium = 1 for the alleles which are linked to the troublesome one:
re: #364 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Happy Birthday America
Well, even in a mass-shooting, no break from Covid-19.
[So. Car. Governor Henry] McMaster reminded South Carolinians last week that he hadn’t lifted restrictions on large crowds, and that those operating nightclubs illegally or holding concerts against his orders don’t have to be caught in the act to face criminal charges, but instead could be charged weeks later if COVID-19 cases are traced back.
bring it https://t.co/dsGop5dyJ9 pic.twitter.com/HYstz9ykjC
— Viridian Forest Autonomous Zone (@weedlewobble) July 5, 2020
re: #358 Jack Burton
Even if running the government like a business was actually a good idea rather than the hair-on-fire stupid idea that it is, Trump isn’t an actually businessman. He’s a pretend one. He’s bumbled and Forrest Gumped his way through life. As soon as shit got real, he completely fell apart.
The idea “government should be run like a business” was articulated explicitly during the Reagan era, but has existed throughout the history of the Republic amongst conservatives.
The basic idea is “debt is bad.”
Unlike a business, the government renders services which do not easily fit into a business model of “profit first,” though the libertarian streak in the model of “government should be run like a business” is shot through with the idea. As such, Nixon moved to privatise the Post Office (it doesn’t generate a profit in the usual sense), Reagan moved regulatory agencies to fund themselves through fees and fines rather than government appropriations, &c.
No essential public need can be provided by capitalist models of governance. A fire department cannot provide for all if it’s working as a business. A jail run like a business tends to cut corners on the welfare of prisoners who are legally wards of the State.
Essentially the libertarian conservative model of “run government like a business” fits right in with the Reagan-era and Ayn Rand philosophies of “greed is good.”
Thus during the Great Depression, Hoover’s model of social spending (which by its nature doesn’t generate a profit on a fiscal year balance sheet) failed spectacularly for society. Never-ending attacks on social programmes since the New Deal also reflect the mindset of “no profit on this fiscal year’s balance sheets.”
A variant model is presented as “government should be run like a household budget.” This assumes households always have positive or neutral budgets. While I am extremely fortunate that my wife and I have no debt whatsoever and our income from all sources exceeds our expenditures, that is not the case for many households.
Businesses large and small require access to credit (debt) to expand or diversify their products or services, or to compete in new markets. The government has taxes and debt for that. One of the worst economic depressions came right after Andrew Jackson’s administration successfully reduced government debt to nothing.
Alleged supporters of capitalism (that is, Republican voters) don’t seem to understand the basic principles of business and debt and need socialists to explain their own economic ideology to them.
It’s nearly 6:30 in Mythical Time Zone (sunrise at 4:50), and no one switched the birds on.
Perhaps they were scared away by last night’s artillery barrage.
The tropics are picking up.
A tropical wave is intensifying in the northern Gulf of Mexico and is expected to move onshore, later to move off the Carolinas and develop into a tropical storm.
Tropical Depression Five is moving northeast at 20mph and is expected to be a tropical storm in twelve hours.
Oh yeah, the Nazis are teaming up with the incels.
And now the sequel: Incels, Daily Stormer find common ground on sexbots and artificial wombs (goes to We Hunted the Mammoth)
One of the women who was hit by that speeding car during a protest the other night has died. The other remains in critical condition.
re: #378 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
One of the women who was hit by that speeding car during a protest the other night has died. The other remains in critical condition.
I understand that driver was arrested and in custody. They’ll probably be charged with murder. At the bare minimum, vehicular homicide.
Other countries may have responded better to the pandemic, but that’s only because they don’t share our great tradition of being uncooperative, self-defeating assholes. pic.twitter.com/UI0OHa57oq
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) July 2, 2020
finished my run. about an hour
86th day in a row
which breaks my personal best of 85 days in a row back in 2014.
i stopped tracking streaks after that.
it’s not really a meaningful measure of anything because so much can cause you to miss a day - travel, illness, injury, scheduling whatever
i also stopped keeping a log book altogether for a couple of years.
then i had to take that pause last october-december from a foot injury
when i started recovery, i started a new log to track my progress from zero.
so i didnt intend a long streak. it just happened. and easily.
131 of the last 135 days
142 of the last 158 because in the beginning i was only allowed to run every other day for the first two weeks.
Well, it’s well past bedtime for me.
I’ll catch y’all another time. Try not to let the wingnuts get you down.
Kanye West is running for President:
We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States 🇺🇸! #2020VISION
— ye (@kanyewest) July 5, 2020
re: #307 Targetpractice
When do the aliens land on the White House lawn?
As soon as they can figure out a way around their standard “take me to your leader” script.
re: #385 Eric The Fruit Bat
Kanye West is running for President:
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As mentioned above, it’s too late for him to file for anything in most states.
re: #388 Belafon
As mentioned above, it’s too late for him to file for anything in most states.
With him pulling this stunt, this will force hand counts in many states.
If only we’d taken back control of our borders during the Pleistocene …. https://t.co/U9qd0u3nEk
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) July 5, 2020
See my link to the paper upstream a bit.
No response at all from kluxers and bug-boys to the NFAC group’s presence at Stone Mountain. Even I am surprised at how thoroughly they have folded up, and I have always thought they were cowards and blowhards who would disappear at the first serious pushback. If anything should get a rise out of them, though, it is Stone Mountain. The place is holy ground to them, the literal birthplace of the modern Kukluxklan and the greatest of all Confederate shrines. I still expect them to commit mass violence when they have a soft target and overwhelming numbers, but not otherwise.
(Sub-literate autocorrect rendered “target” as “tissue.” Idiocracy truly here etc.)
Two awesome videos.
Try this next time pic.twitter.com/1uJDArB4i1
— STOCKZ (@investinStockz) July 4, 2020
A nice list to keep for future reference.
Whenever a Trump supporter asks you to “name one time Trump was racist,” feel free to link to this thread…
1973: The Nixon administration sued Trump for refusing to rent to black people.
1980s: Trump’s casinos were accused of hiding the black staff when Trump visited.
1/12— Translate Trump (@TranslateRealDT) July 29, 2019
So this is trending on twitter:
Lightning strikes, takes 21 more lives in Bihar, CM asks people to stay indoors
Lightning strikes continue to take lives in Bihar with twenty-one more deaths and over 40 injuries reported in the state amid heavy rain and thunderstorms on Saturday, according to the state disaster management authority. However, the chief minister’s office has put the number of casualties at 20. Fifteen people were killed in lightning strikes in different districts of the state on Friday. The injured are undergoing treatment in local hospitals. Most of the fresh casualties are farmers and labourers who were working in the fields.
2020 is too surreal.
Lots of people in Twitter think trump put Kanye up to this fake fun for POTUS.
Looking at the global water vapor images… and one can see in the Bay of Bengal a great deal of possible precipitation. It did not organize into a typhoon, but it’s pretty impressive. No wonder all the lightening.
Did @realDonaldTrump put you up to this? Because if he did, he is forever damning blacks - and you.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) July 5, 2020
That 75% undoubtedly (as the authors acknowledge) includes some people who went on to develop symptoms. But the denialists—who challenged our report of at least 30% and likely 40-45%—are running out of data supporthttps://t.co/z6LCqaplqr@AnnalsofIM @danieloran @ScrippsRTI pic.twitter.com/13LnQyhD6y
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 4, 2020
re: #109 Dave In Austin
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Well, It’s not like he can go to the sporting goods store and buy his own.
Here’s a good demo of why you should wear a mask in public. It’s not difficult to be kind, respectful, and follow the guidelines to protect each other. You might have COVID-19 and not have any symptoms.#WearAMask #Guelph #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/FA41xEoaRw
— Carolyn Weatherson 🦋 (@CarolynWea) July 5, 2020
re: #392 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
No response at all from kluxers and bug-boys to the NFAC group’s presence at Stone Mountain. Even I am surprised at how thoroughly they have folded up, and I have always thought they were cowards and blowhards who would disappear at the first serious pushback. If anything should get a rise out of them, it is Stone Mountain. The place is holy ground to them, the literal birthplace of the modern Kukluxklan and the greatest of all Confederate shrines. I still expect them to commit mass violence when they have a soft target and overwhelming numbers, but not otherwise.
(Sub-literate autocorrect rendered “target” as “tissue.” Idiocracy truly here etc.)
The RW sites seem to be linking them to the Black Yahwist world. SPLC has been tracking the Yahwists, but never put anything up on NFAC. Either it’s a recent renaming, or they kept a really low profiole while getting it together. JJ McNab might have something.
Somebody should make a film about 2020 where the Grim Reaper is the only sane person on earth while meeting #Truthers, #5G loons torching phone masts, #KarensGoneWild , “Speak my mind” guys and “It’s just the flu”-boozers. #COVID19 https://t.co/HaHC5B2mxF
— Bernd Porr (@BerndPorr) July 5, 2020
If we really want to know what is happening in the on-fire sates, we need to dive down into the counties - otherwise they will get lost in the state statistics.
re: #403 Decatur Deb
The RW sites seem to be linking them to the Black Yahwist world. SPLC has been tracking the Yahwists, but never put anything up on NFAC. Either it’s a recent renaming, or they kept a really low profiole while getting it together. JJ McNab might have something.
The Yahwists would make sense, since they could come up with the numbers and the level of organization we’re seeing here. A group like this wouldn’t just pop up out of nowhere. I’ve seen other RWNJs going to their default bogeymen, BLM, Antifa, and Soros, which means they don’t have a clue
re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My first read of that was that this was the idiots claiming that we’re close to or at herd immunity already, but a closer parsing shows the top study cites overall 2% (staff) and 4% (resident) positive rates. Use of the term “denialist” seems strange - are there actual people denying that meaningful - perhaps even majority - percentages of cases are asymptomatic?
Idiot republican governors aside, of course.
re: #406 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Yahwists would make sense, since they could come up with the numbers and the level of organization we’re seeing here. A group like this wouldn’t just pop up out of nowhere. I’ve seen RWMJs going to their default bogeymen, BLM, Antifa, and Soros, which means they don’t have clue
Some of the Yahwists (not all or even many) are also quite violent.
re: #403 Decatur Deb
The RW sites seem to be linking them to the Black Yahwist world. SPLC has been tracking the Yahwists, but never put anything up on NFAC. Either it’s a recent renaming, or they kept a really low profiole while getting it together. JJ McNab might have something.
Do you mean the Nation of Yahweh, followers of Yahweh ben Yahweh?
Hell, I’m surprised they’re still around. I know one of them was a former member who was rather tangentially connected to Trump’s 2016 campaign and he still defends the NoY and the movement but that’s the last I’d heard of ‘em.
re: #342 Nojay UK
I can see now why you Colonial chappies had such a hard go of it back in the day — our Redcoats could manage two rounds a minute in the heat of battle. Practice, my dear fellow, practice!
and we won anyway, at least partly because you dressed your guys in bright red, and lined them up like ducks at a carnival booth.
(also, a bunch of your mercenaries changed sides when we gave them free land if they’d get a colonial girl pregnant and marry her.)
pretty sparse crowd out here at this gun weirdo event outside the capitol in richmond. the speaker just cheekily asked how many people here are racists, expecting everyone to say none, and three guys in skull masks gave a hitler salute. pic.twitter.com/HviBVYtz0C
— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 4, 2020
re: #411 Belafon
Here’s the video:
here’s the very special moment where manolo vega was trying to say no one at the rally is a racist & then three literal neo-nazis sieg heil’ed in response.
video from @FordFischer pic.twitter.com/e4HIiWkTcb https://t.co/ffwEr39Mlf— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 4, 2020
re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
BINGO!
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re: #409 Dr Lizardo
Do you mean the Nation of Yahweh, followers of Yahweh ben Yahweh?
Hell, I’m surprised they’re still around. I know one of them was a former member who was rather tangentially connected to Trump’s 2016 campaign and he still defends the NoY and the movement but that’s the last I’d heard of ‘em.
Not familiar with that one, thinking of a Miami group with an internal murder or two. SPLC tends to group them, with this as a historical root:
re: #255 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I think the internet is done for the day
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re: #386 Jay C
As soon as they can figure out a way around their standard “take me to your leader” script.
We’re sorry, but this is really not a good time, and if you come back in a solar revolution or two we’ll be more than happy to deal with you. Now thank you for your interest in our species and have a nice day or whatever.
re: #281 🌹UOJB!
Happy Birthday Bill Withers!
You are missed.
Remember the time we talked at Greenblatt’s Deli. Sure was a treat to see and talk to you!
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NPR did a nice piece on him.
An epidemiologist, an ICU doctor and a scientist all walk into a bar.
I’m just kidding, they know better.— Jerry Avenaim (@avenaim) July 4, 2020
My sister’s family (including her two grown kids and their families) were visiting The Ancestral Home, in one of the ‘White Suburbs’ of Gettysburg, the little town where I grew up and where another sister still owns The Ancestral Home. My niece has two sons she adopted from Ethiopia, now teenagers, one of whom was with her. They went to the Battlefield, as our family often does, because it’s scenic and historical, and found it full of armed white supremacists flying Confederate flags. She said,
“As his mother, I didn’t feel freedom. I wasn’t proud to be an American. I wasn’t proud of the way the man in the big truck with the flags bearing our leaders name, attempted to hit my son and I when he saw us.”
I can sit here, 3000 miles away and poke fun at the goobers with their guns and Confederate flags, flocking to the Middle Of Nowhere, PA to protect ‘the white suburbs’ from the Antifa face-painting/murder squads, but this is serious shit. Somebody put that hoax out there to get this to happen, and they did what they could to make my grand nephew feel unwelcome in his own country.
Facebook is a cesspool:
A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice.
These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrictions.
And many have expanded their focus.
One group transformed itself last month from “Reopen California” to “California Patriots Pro Law & Order,” with recent posts mocking Black Lives Matter or changing the slogan to “White Lives Matter.” Members have used profane slurs to refer to Black people and protesters, calling them “animals,” “racist” and “thugs”— a direct violation of Facebook’s hate speech standards.
On “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan says that they have been requesting Dr. Fauci as a guest for past three months but Trump administration has not approved their requests for his appearance - and they haven’t had a CDC guest either, despite their requests
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 5, 2020
This lying maladministration is going to hide the truth everywhere as long as they possibly can.
Everyone’s so afraid of the pus monster in the White House not realizing he’s immensely vulnerable and the stakes of the pandemic demand that his agitprop is called out — loudly. https://t.co/RVm2QO9kqO
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 5, 2020
Sadly trump doesn’t use the federal government for national strategies. Everyone knows the federal government only exists as something fun for ivanka to pretend to work in. https://t.co/y6hH5PCV34
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 5, 2020
re: #423 Dr Lizardo
Yep, my local group is absolutely one of those. Knew it pretty early on when I would look at a person’s page after a particularly batshit conspiracy comment, only to find that that person didn’t even live in my state.
They have pivoted from defying stay at home and mask orders to railing on the thug protesters and stating that all lives matter and blue lives matter.
Ahh the lunch of champions. Cantaloupe and almonds. A weird combo but I like it.
Had a BLM protest here yesterday. They shut down an intersection for a couple hours.
So the response on the group page?
“Just run them over, they’re just speed bumps”
This after that car plowed into those protesters in Seattle.
re: #430 plansbandc
Trump has popularized political murder.
re: #431 jaunte
He certainly has. If that Sheriff decides to fire on protesters like he’s threatened to, we may have the start of the next civil war.
Though CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News carried Biden’s latest speech, the campaign has been frustrated when other events go uncovered. “The burden is on the candidate to say something that’s newsworthy,” says one veteran producer. Vanity Fair, by Joe Pompeo.
And it’s déjà vu all over again.
Kanye West is the Jill Stein of Ralph Naders.
Happy Sunday.— Shelby Kent-Stewart ™ (@ShelbyKStewart) July 5, 2020
re: #433 retired cynic
And it’s déjà vu all over again.
And Biden is beating DT in spite of it, and DT isn’t pulling in the crowds anymore. Keep calm and keep up the election work.
re: #368 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One genetic variant among humans has been shown to be associated with more severe cases of Covid-19, and the troublesome allele was inherited from Neanderthals.
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I’m blinded by this science
#FuckFlynnhttps://t.co/EWlxB9GbBt
— 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼 🆘🐱🌊✡️🏳️🌈 (@SteveFM20) July 5, 2020
re: #437 Eventual Carrion
I’m blinded by this science
Early on, I was contacted by ancestry.com to ask for my permission to use my DNA for this study (I assume this was the same study), which I gladly gave. Dunno if I have that DNA strand or not, tho’.
Wake up coughing. Both Molekule air filter units have been on full since 6PM last night. Also my Dyson unit has been on maximum.
Air quality index is at 364—hazardous in Los Angeles.
Open the door and you smell lots of smoke from the fires and the assholes who shot off fireworks until 3AM. Looks like they really broke records with all the fires they triggered…
Wow, no crazy ass Tweets from the mango moron this morning?
re: #433 retired cynic
And it’s déjà vu all over again.
Then Biden needs to come out and say, “tRump is a fucking mental midget and treasonous, criminal fuck”. That should get their attention, and then he should go on and enumerate exactly why that is true.
re: #446 CBGB
Lars von Trier’s best film, at least to me.
re: #447 Eventual Carrion
Then Biden needs to come out and say, “tRump is a fucking mental midget and treasonous, criminal fuck”. That should get their attention, and then he should go on and enumerate exactly why that is true.
Well, you know that;s true, and I know that’s true, but unfortunately, the “attention” such a statement would be likely to get would probably be entirely negative, and result mainly in a flurry of “MSM” vaporings about how Biden was :”lowering the tone” of the campaign, or simply generate more BS about his own “cognitive issues”, and give Trump and the GOP one more talking-point about “abusive” Democrats, or whatever….
One lesson I hope Joe and his team have absorbed (and as he has been around DC for decades, I can’t imagine they would ignore it) is that the media’s pro-Republican bias is baked-in to their mindset - or at least at the newsroom/corporate-management level - and that the best they can hope for in campaign coverage (especially with a showoff clown like Donald Trump on the other side) is the occasional grudging admission that Republicans might NOT be right all the time about every issue. But of course, that tack will have to be “balanced” by the viewpoint that Democrats are never right about any issue.
Fairness, y’know….
re: #449 Dr Lizardo
Likewise, and one of my all time favs period. Kirsten Dunst was a revelation.
In 2016 for all his flaws Trump delivered what the GOP’s new demographic base of cranky old people want by opposing Social Secueity & Medicare cuts.
The new “let the old people die” policy agenda is … uh … not as good.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 5, 2020
We just get rid of ours and went with the #MadeIn brand. I also picked up some a couple of Carbon Steel fryers that are out of this world. I love this pan. pic.twitter.com/X6S8Dwv9Mx
— And the Wind Cries “SLOW THE TESTING DOWN!!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) July 5, 2020
re: #447 Eventual Carrion
Then Biden needs to come out and say, “tRump is a fucking mental midget and treasonous, criminal fuck”. That should get their attention, and then he should go on and enumerate exactly why that is true.
Biden actually does effectively say that stuff but he’s decided to do it with some civility instead of being an insult clown like Trump.
So, we went to my BiL’s house yesterday for a distanced BBQ and way more fireworks in the town of Elmont than I’ve seen in 15 years of going there, and when I get home and check Twitter I notice ‘Fire Island’ is trending hard.
Between Fire Island - where a guy showed up with COVID symptoms and sat on the beach waiting to feel better (and went off when called out for it) and the Hamptons assholes who apparently think having money makes them bulletproof, I have even more reasons to be ashamed of the place I live.
My first gig back is supposed to be next Saturday, in the Hamptons. I’m seriously hoping it gets canceled, and I’ve decided to get off the gig circuit altogether by Fall. None of this is going to get better before it gets a lot worse. Selfish assholes will be the death of us all.
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