Brian Stelter Says We’re in a Truth Emergency and He Isn’t Wrong
He backslides more than I like, but Brian Stelter does see that something bad is happening, even if he’s still fighting against what it really means to acknowledge it.
He backslides more than I like, but Brian Stelter does see that something bad is happening, even if he’s still fighting against what it really means to acknowledge it.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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“Enjoy life” - Yeah, all six weeks you’ll have left of it.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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Post the story about the Ohio veteran and say “You mean like this guy?”
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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I have a somewhat left-of-center friend in WI who is a teacher with diabetes. He posted something that, summarized, comes out like this: “I support freedom and responsibility. The problem is, right-wingers are blindly supporting the former without talking about the latter. If I drink too much and drive, my freedom to drive is revoked. Your freedom to be in public should be contingent on wearing a mask, and if you aren’t responsible enough to do that, that freedom should be revoked.”
Why does it feel like the mainstream media establishment is fighting just as hard to deny reality as the Republican Party?
Asking for a thoroughly confused friend.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 13, 2020
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
“Enjoy life” - Yeah, all six weeks you’ll have left of it.
Something like the meme about antivaxxers’ children.
What do you call an antivaxxer parent’s seven-year-old?
Middle aged.
The mainstream media establishment has made the calculation that its business model can survive pandemic deaths.
Warren endorsed Hegar in my emails:
Warren Democrats
Something’s happening in Texas, Lonnie.The latest polls there have Joe Biden and Donald Trump just a few points apart. In one from a few weeks ago, Joe Biden is actually ahead. In Texas.
And you know whose approval ratings are dropping? John Cornyn — the GOP Texas senator up for re-election this November.
MJ Hegar is running against him, and I’m proud to support her. She’s got a real chance to win in November and help Democrats take the Senate. But first, she needs to win her primary this Tuesday, and she needs support from this grassroots team.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Because that’s what nets them viewers and ad dollars, apparently.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
New model from Georgia Tech. What’s the Covid risk from a crowd? If you’re in a group of 50 you have a:
84% chance of being with someone infected if you’re in Atlanta
98% chance if in Phoenix
94% chance if in Austin
Essentially 100% if in Charleston https://t.co/Z3hIoJfVVz pic.twitter.com/wOXMN4rllS— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) July 12, 2020
When the CNN clip got to the point of “I hope Kayleigh will learn her lesson and change”, I just started wincing.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I think I forgot to post this. It’s my zoom comedy show from last week. I’m at 35 1/2 minutes. I love feedback, but please don’t tell me I move around too much. I’m working on it (if I was on stage you wouldn’t notice or care, but in a zoom box it looks like I’m trying to escape or something).
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👏👏👏👏 Nice set. I don’t think you look like you were going to escape. Honestly, if you hadn’t mentioned it, I probably won’t have given a second thought to your movement.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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At least whoever wrote that didn’t stack the smart side up with a bunch of stupid strawmen. Everything on the smart side is stuff that I am more than happy to do.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
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Because recognizing reality also includes recognizing that they’ve been enabling this shit for years.
“And remember that thing Pompeo did in Ukraine with us. And some other stuff. You’re gonna need to save a pardon for him, too…
Here’s a list of some DOJ lawyers for you. And Jared. And Don Jr… We only have 6 months left. You might want to start drafting them now…”— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) July 12, 2020
It would be interesting to see if any of the cases Barr is trying to close down in New York relate to the entities noted in this excellent @jedshug thread from last year before we all aged 1,000 years. https://t.co/NfPviUT9PY
— Super Angry Attorney (@SuperAngryAtty) July 12, 2020
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
Thoroughly enjoyed. I liked the pacing. You are so likable. Great future!
Sorry it is the end of the world as we know it.
ps. I think a lot of people will be mulling over pumpkin spice douche less critically than you. Let’s game it out!
[I am so blown away by what you do with your comedy]
My wife is currently watching a live-stream on YouTube with Nervardia (a religion counter-apologist) with Scientist Mel (a conservatism and medical quackery counter-apologist), discussing Covid-19.
Today at 7 PM Central join me and @Nervardia on #ThisWeekInBS as we continue the endless saga of correcting the awful that is @prageru and @RX_forLiberty https://t.co/vQKVbBbHmV
— Mel 🤚🏻STAY AT HOME🏡 (@ScientistMel) July 12, 2020
re: #12 jaunte
To compare, the default group size is 100, and in my county - the most prevalent site of infection in the wild north country, whose seat is the City of Minneapolis itself - the risk is only 78%. In other words, my church’s reopening (where we are restricted to a capacity of 120 by the governor’s order) is less risky than any gathering of 50 in the named cities in that tweet.
so florida set a record
15k cases in one day
record for Florida
record for any state since this started
for context, Florida has 40% of the population of South Korea. Its new covid cases from today are 2,000 more than SK has had in total.
Emphasis needed, because that’s batshit. This is the difference between good leadership and bad leadership, and DeSantis should be removed from his office for dereliction of duty. He is a goddamn disgrace
re: #20 Ming5000
Thoroughly enjoyed. I liked the pacing. You are so likable. Great future!
Sorry it is the end of the world as we know it.ps. I think a lot of people will be mulling over pumpkin spice douche less critically than you. Let’s game it out!
[I am so blown away by what you do with your comedy]
thanks. I will have another show on Thursday. Will post info latter in the week.
Thanks once again.
This is kinda odd…
It’s been 48 hours. There still isn’t *one shred of evidence* yet…that the DOJ actually processed a “commutation” of Roger Stone’s sentence. 🧐 https://t.co/SvrcTQsZXZ
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 12, 2020
This is the Trump legacy. pic.twitter.com/z9usWxc2q0
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 12, 2020
The temps are finally coming down… the skies are clear… but the air has a tinge of a burning smell… not like grass (e.g. wildfires), but like what happens when you’re soldering.
I wonder if this is coming from the Naval base and the ship that burnt?
re: #25 makeitstop
This is kinda odd…
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he shows up to jail or he don’t
It’s been 48 hours. There still isn’t *one shred of evidence* yet…that the DOJ actually processed a “commutation” of Roger Stone’s sentence. 🧐 https://t.co/SvrcTQsZXZ
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 12, 2020
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s great Trump only took 6 months to mask up. The GOP believes Trump more than Fauci, even as Fauci is more respected by anyone who isn’t a GOPer. The GOP is a cult of personality, and the Trumpists death toll keeps climbing. Cases are soaring daily, and the GOPers are acting like it’s no big deal and that we should reopen faster, including schools. This is madness.
These fuckers think it’s just like 300 and Sparta. They think they can arm up and man up against a virus that doesn’t give a shit about your politics. If you’re not social distanced and masked, you increase the chances you get it. And when you get it, you can spread it to everyone around you, even if you’re not showing symptoms. That means masking is essential to slowing the spread.
Trump finally got around to masking up in public once in 3 months. That’s nothing to cheer about. It’s pathetic. The media needs to remind everyone that this is just the 2d time in 6 months that he’s masked up in public. That’s atrocious and shows just how badly he and the GOP have failed. You’ve got the worst outbreaks in the nation ongoing in AZ, TX, and FL - and spilling over into CA too.
The disease knows no state boundaries, so it’s a matter of time before it wraps back to NY metro. And without a national policy on mandatory masking and social distancing, we’re going to be right back in the thick of it.
All these failures are on Trump. All the deaths. All the economic failure. All of it.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
“I’ll do you! Hope your insurance is good and your hospital isn’t in lockdown!”
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These dogs kept telling their parents there was someone inside this shed 😍 pic.twitter.com/TicIfmPCOO
— The Dodo (@dodo) July 12, 2020
re: #12 jaunte
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There seems to be a lot of interest in that Website.
Anyone who thinks that it’s safe to go to Disney or to have the RNC in Florida is deluding themselves and endangering themselves and everyone around them.
Florida has made all the wrong decisions, and refused to learn any of the lessons from any other state that managed to bend the curve. In fact, they refused to act at all. That’s the problem - no masking, no social distancing, and no lockdowns, which means that covid19 is spreading like wildfire, and the positive test results as a percentage of tests shows just how badly DeSantis botched things. This isn’t going to be contained by the RNC.
Fuck the GOP. Let them attend - and then have to quarantine for 2 weeks after to protect everyone else.
re: #7 Charles Johnson
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It’s because the Corporate Controlled Conservative Press sold their collective souls to the Republican Party since 1980.
Splash some water in your face and think about it- He’s aiming at your children now.
He wants kids to go to school, infect each other, carry the virus home, and continue the slaughter.
There is a deranged madman in the White House and spineless cowards enabling his criminality.— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) July 13, 2020
Meanwhile, there was an explosion and fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard while it was at port in San Diego. At least 21 injured with significant damage to the amphibious assault ship. The ship was undergoing rehabilitation work at the time, so it had only about 100 crew on board.
The wall the world has built around America will keep getting higher so long as we have the worst executive leadership on earth. https://t.co/EVjInFzSgp
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 13, 2020
Taiwan has *6* active COVID cases, per Worldometers.
7 people have died.
The last reported death was May 11.
More people live in Taiwan than Florida.
They’re playing baseball. https://t.co/jLmpRsrB1r— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) July 11, 2020
re: #40 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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As heard on Twitter, sports is a reward for a functioning society.
LOL trolling antivaxxers at Reddit.
re: #31 Teddy’s Person
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I am allergic to cars, which I didn’t figure out until I left home and got away from them (I just thought i had really bad allergies). But one of the cutest things is when the kitten gets on it’s back, and you reach in and all the legs grab at once.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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And when your RW friend catches COVID, the sensible people won’t try to visit him in the hospital (because they can’t) and if he dies, they won’t attend his funeral.
Sigh.
Turns out “The Masked Singer” host has been unmasked as a raging antisemite. https://t.co/CTR362QBy2
— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) July 12, 2020
Graham, citing Mueller’s willingness to write an op-ed defending his investigation, says he will now call the former special counsel to his committee to testify.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 12, 2020
re: #46 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
And hopefully this will backfire since Mueller has zero reasons to not defend his report which doesn’t put Trump in a good light.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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Can a conservative really be a friend? They are pro-death.
If they were only killing themselves that might be one thing. They are actively trying to kill others. Is your right-wing friend evil or stupid?
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
We have a new contender for dumbest covid meme. An RW friend of mine shared this earlier today:
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I’ll be able to do me years longer than youll be able to do you
re: #47 Patricia Kayden
And hopefully this will backfire since Mueller has zero reasons to not defend his report which doesn’t put Trump in a good light.
hes had all this time to watch them trash him and his work and twist the report conclusions into unrecognizability
re: #46 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Lindsey Graham needs performative outrage in his senate committee for adverts against Jamie Harrison. He has no intent to get to the bottom of anything, because conservatives care about power, not truth.
re: #52 🌹UOJB!
I had no idea. I’m not a fan but this is beyond the pale. He should be fired from The Voice.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lindsey Graham needs performative outrage in his senate committee for adverts against Jamie Harrison. He has no intent to get to the bottom of anything, because conservatives care about power, not truth.
That’s precisely what will happen. Lady G will blast Mueller for not investigating the Clinton Foundation, Hillary, Bill, Obama, Joe and Hunter.
Those oh-so-macho REPUBLICANS, who have called CVD a “hoax”, mocked masks, opened too early, forced meat packers back to work, and who are NOW demanding children be sent to school… else lose federal funding…
… had BETTER FUCKING SHOW UP TO THEIR OWN CONVENTION IN JACKSONVILLE
re: #45 Patricia Kayden
Sigh.
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Michael Twitty (who is Jewish, Black, Gay and Plus-Size—a Grand Slam) should kick his ass, but Michael has a long list of asses and only two feet.
.@MaddowBlog: Key GOP senator says United States “overreacted” to the pandemichttps://t.co/nmn0g6XIt4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 13, 2020
Delusionally hoping it will help his campaign, a U.S. president undermines his renowned expert on pandemics so people will NOT follow expert advice, but will instead, risk their lives to boost the economy, which will not only NOT help the economy, but cause 1000s of added deaths. https://t.co/CeelOGznqy
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) July 13, 2020
I’ve switched from thinking it’s delusional to thinking it’s malicious.
“All the plans of National Socialism, all its dreams and goals, were too great and too noble for this people. The German people are just too cowardly to realize these goals. In the East, they are running away. In the West, they set up hindrances for their own soldiers and welcome the enemy with white flags. The German people deserve the destiny that now awaits them.”
re: #43 Belafon
I am allergic to cars, which I didn’t figure out until I left home and got away from them (I just thought i had really bad allergies). But one of the cutest things is when the kitten gets on it’s back, and you reach in and all the legs grab at once.
That must make it very hard to get around, especially in Texas
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re: #57 Patricia Kayden
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Overreacted? OVERREACTED?! People are DYING, Senator. There are more people infected per day in red states than have been infected in ENTIRE COUNTRIES since the pandemic started. Fuck you, fuck your tangerine wankmaggot ringleader, and may all of you be arrested and tried for mass murder, genocide, hate crimes and crimes against humanity for the destruction you have INTENTIONALLY wrought on this country in the name of maintaining political power.
re: #57 Patricia Kayden
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Ron Johnson is your typical Kochsucking Republican who wants people to die for the Koch Brothers.
re: #54 🌹UOJB!
That’s precisely what will happen. Lady G will blast Mueller for not investigating the Clinton Foundation, Hillary, Bill, Obama, Joe and Hunter.
and mueller will say for what
and lindsey will say xyz
and muller says show me the evidence
and lindsey says investigate and find it!!
and mueller says cmon you know it doesn’t work like that. wheres the evidence supporting your reasonable suspicion to start the investigation?
Trump has an ad making fun of Joe Biden’s stutter because of course he does.
Click at your own risk.
Dear @realDonaldTrump: You know who gives the same advice about #Covid_19 as Dr. Fauci? Your @Surgeon_General & your @CDCDirector. If you don’t agree with them, then fire them all.
Otherwise get out of the way so we can listen to their expert medical advice. Lives are at stake. https://t.co/2ayWwSN3v2— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) July 13, 2020
are we still doing an emergency or pic.twitter.com/HVeMChKLZf https://t.co/pJBQIRyZ8j
— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) July 13, 2020
re: #47 Patricia Kayden
And hopefully this will backfire since Mueller has zero reasons to not defend his report which doesn’t put Trump in a good light.
It’s never going to happen. Lindsay is all talk and no action.
re: #63 The Pie Overlord!
This will only remind people of Trump’s insensitive mockery of that disabled journalist. Disgusting.
re: #63 The Pie Overlord!
Trump has an ad making fun of Joe Biden’s stutter because of course he does.
Click at your own risk.
If there is a debate between Trump and Biden, the only plan that Trump is going to have is to interrupt Biden enough to get him to stutter. He will have NO OTHER GOAL in a debate.
re what they’re doing to fauci:
All the changing information makes people confused, or even, distrustful.
Here’s my message. The messy process. This is how it is SUPPOSED to work. 5/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 8, 2020
Lose faith in experts? Witnessing the discovery process should GIVE us faith in experts.
We don’t want these heroes to be infallible and stubborn but adaptable, learning, hypothesizing. We have to operate even with gaps in our knowledge. That means sometimes wrong.7/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 8, 2020
This pup put its owner in a sticky situation. pic.twitter.com/2d20PvKF7b
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 13, 2020
Shits all fucked up and shit so here’s a bear practicing nunchuks
nature is not only healing.. they are preparing to eradicate the virus pic.twitter.com/hIQO9zuQFG
— jonny sun (@jonnysun) July 12, 2020
I’m starting to think that having a Secretary of Education who only got the job because of her family’s money, who reports to a President who only got the job because of his family’s money, is not ideal in a pandemic. https://t.co/0dYj2zKfv0
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 12, 2020
re: #58 jaunte
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I’ve switched from thinking it’s delusional to thinking it’s malicious.
Can’t quite tell if that’s an actual quote from Joseph Goebbels or not. But it sure as hell sounds like something that Goebbels would’ve said as the Third Reich fell apart.
The Deaths Trump Wants You to See and the Deaths He Wants You to Ignore (Mother Jones)
The article details the four federal executions scheduled this month. Trump wants that spectacle because it makes him look tough on crime.
Even Indiana Governor Holcomb (R) wants this delayed because of the number of people from all over the country required to attend.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tough on crime? After he pardoned Stone, that’s pretty darn laughable.
April 28: Trump praises DeSantis for a “spectacular job” and says Florida’s “great numbers” will allow the state to reopen
Today: Florida has highest daily number of cases of any U.S. state or European country at their peak
Still no statewide mask order or rollback of reopening pic.twitter.com/iTUODVRiok— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 12, 2020
re: #76 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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DeSantis has Cheeto Benito’s sitting-on-toilet-seat-with-vagina-hands pose down pat, so it’s only logical he’d mimic the coronavirus malicious incompetence as well.
I predict Trump will fire Fauci by the end of the week.
re: #71 BigPapa
Shits all fucked up and shit so here’s a bear practicing nunchuks
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Wait, so Kung Fu Panda was actually a documentary??
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re: #76 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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Jesus, Desantis does the same vagina hands that Trump does. His sycophancy knows no limits.
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Because that’s what nets them viewers and ad dollars, apparently.
They don’t even care much about viewers and ad dollars.
The “mainstream media” is half a dozen companies, each of which is a minor subsidiary of a larger firm that makes its money from cable monopolies, superhero movies, license fees from 20-70 year old content, 3rd and 4th and 5th mortgages on their real estate, tax cuts for the C-suite, bailout funds and other federal subsidies, etc.
re: #59 danarchy
That must make it very hard to get around, especially in Texas
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That why I only like short trips, so that I can hold my breath, though having to wear masks now is helpful.
So I checked the PACER database for Roger Stone’s docket. Court’s open Monday and Rog is due in prison Tuesday.Any idea if an actual commutation gets filed? You know - since commutation only is valid if you’re *in* prison. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/vQolnzyOuH
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 11, 2020
By law, one cannot commute a sentence unless you are actually serving a sentence and are not appealing that sentence.
Roger Stone has not served a day and is appealing.
How about some music?
#NowPlaying Circles Around The Sun > Circles Around The Sun > Landline Memories https://t.co/WX5S4Kys0Y
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 13, 2020
Eating McDonald’s fries because why the fuck not? Also got a delicious sugary coke.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine?
re: #83 retired cynic
Can he?
Not from his NIH job. But he can dismiss him from the coronavirus task force.
He can try to play games with NIH…but that’d be worse than his dismissal. (So, of course, I expect that).
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Roger Stone has not served a day and is appealing.
This makes me think that Trump is trying to get a judge to dismiss everything since Trump will probably actually file one when Sotne goes to jail. Like how that federal judge just gave up on ICE.
I am hypnotized by this video. I’ve watched it at least five times. https://t.co/CjMaAA4KZp
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 13, 2020
Omaha vs. Wichita. Buffett vs. Koch. Which will win the race for growth? (Omaha World-Herald)
The difference in two equally-sized cities: One run on a libertarian’s economic ideas, and one run on a liberal’s idea. The Kochs destroyed Wichita’s economy (along with all of Kansas) while Buffett inspired other wealthy people in Omaha to also invest in its future.
It turns out a lot of younger professionals don’t want to live in a libertarian paradise.
And it’s Super Furry Animals for the thread kill!
New York City reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since pandemic hit. This is what competent govt. can accomplish. https://t.co/a2dHoW4yzd
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 13, 2020
Facebook is promoting a vaccine debate between RFK and Alan Dershowitz moderated by Patrick Bet-David (an “entrepreneur” who tells other people how they can become entrepreneurs by grifting lots of money in seminars).
That will happen July 23 on his YouTube channel “Valuetianment” if you don’t have anything better to do like dig worms to go fishing.
Where are all the Trumpsters who were going after Gov. Cuomo for failing the state of NY because of the infections and deaths, now that FL is the nations worst hotspot? Oh yeah. DeSantis is one of them, so SQUIRREL.
re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg
I predict Trump will fire Fauci by the end of the week.
He can’t. Firing a Title 42 employee is not something he can just do, and we already know this administration botches every administrative process they try to follow.
[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]
Ted Cruz for the Pro-Death Party
Jon Francis and Ted Cruz had a get out the vote event today in Granbury. Purportedly 250-300 people at the event. Based on this picture, not any visible masks and not really any social distancing, all at an indoor event. pic.twitter.com/xYDa4ZhXch
— Christopher Tackett (@cjtackett) July 13, 2020
Let’s put this in terms Conservatives can understand: Sending kids to school during a pandemic is late-term abortion.
— 𝓝𝓸𝓶 𝓭𝓮 𝓟𝓵𝓾𝓶𝓮 (@_pseudo_nom) July 12, 2020
@DoktorZoom
logo pic.twitter.com/hJudmwirKh— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 13, 2020
Okay so it’s tough to get through to the Georgia Tech site which lists by county your percentage chance of being with at least one person with Covid-19 but I did.
Panhandle Public Health District here says there is decreasing moderate risk.
Georgia Tech lists Morrill County at >99% in a group of 100 people (the highest county in PPHD).
In a group of 10 people, they give odds of 46%.
Time to reopen the schools. /s
And the obvious solution to the funding is taxing the ultra-wealthy. Their hoarding of cash and voracious pursuit of ever more is sick and a crime against the rest of humanity. https://t.co/YP2oN7K48b
— Jack Jackson❤️🏳️🌈🌊🌊 (@quikkag) July 13, 2020