Seth takes a closer look at President Trump trying to force students and teachers back to school without a plan to keep them safe.
Happy Infrastructure Week
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 14, 2020
Fork that guy. With a rusty pitchfork.
— Chickie31976 (@Chickie31976) July 14, 2020
White supremacists work for Tucker because Tucker is a white supremacist. It isn’t complicated. https://t.co/zsC8NxruvX
— Jonathan Myerson Katz (@KatzOnEarth) July 14, 2020
My son pointed out something that just slipped by: 7-11 didn’t do Slurpy Day on Saturday.
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
How about the Washington Foreskins?
Certainly puts getting sacked in a whole new light.
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
I’d lose the feathers on that though if I were the artist. It still implies something not cool.
WTAFITFS
I don’t know what’s going on but a president publicly threatening an act of extortion is pretty terrifying as we can all now see https://t.co/pFigVT7I3M
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 14, 2020
Does he mean the child jails on the border or sending kids to school because only a few thousand will die of COVID? https://t.co/Unqu3cizhR
— No Police Occupation (@ZackKopplin) July 14, 2020
These scumbags are getting worse.
re: #9 The Pie Overlord!
WTAFITFS
I watched that video with the sound off. Kushner knows he’s going to spend decades in prison because of his father in law. I have no sympathy for him but it’s obvious in that look he gives Trump.
re: #11 William Lewis
I watched that video with the sound off. Kushner knows he’s going to spend decades in prison because of his father in law. I have no sympathy for him but it’s obvious in that look he gives Trump.
Re-open Alcatraz and lock the whole Trump family and their Republican enablers on if for the rest of their miserable lives.
Ted Cruz Under Investigation For Not Wearing A Mandatory Mask On Flight
American Airlines has announced that they are investigating Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after he was caught not wearing a mandatory mask on a flight
Absolutely mind boggling to think a Treasonous, lying, thieving, sex-assaulting, Russia colluding, race-baiting, violence-inciting, Justice-obstructing, Democracy-destroying, divisive son of a bitch is still this high in the polls. #Tragic pic.twitter.com/ARwdB8S46F
— David F🎸 (@IwasDavidFagin) July 14, 2020
re: #12 🌹UOJB!
Dump a big pile of dead fish there about once a week. It’ll attract birds that will then shit all over everything. And it will smell horrendous, all the time.
re: #14 Patricia Kayden
We truly are an exceptional nation. Exceptional at being fucking idiots.
re: #12 🌹UOJB!
Re-open Alcatraz and lock the whole Trump family and their Republican enablers on if for the rest of their miserable lives.
They could double the price for tours too.
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
We truly are an exceptional nation. Exceptional at being fucking idiots.
Bibi and Boris keep winning elections.
More lurid Ghislaine dope from the Daily Fail. Naturally the couple would have had a jewel thief among their friends. It just wouldn’t do for me to be a degenerate billionaire. I have too many vivid memories of those army lectures about using someone else’s toothbrush.
Former friend of the couple claimed they wanted to convince him of their ‘power’
He said he saw clips of ‘celebrities’ and ‘world figures’ having ‘orgies with minors’
It follows Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, being arrested in New Hampshire last Thursday
The socialite will appear in New York’s southern district court on July 14 at 1pm
I don’t think the trump administration is going to solve this pandemic part 214 pic.twitter.com/Sul51gzAIt
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 14, 2020
re: #14 Patricia Kayden
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re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
More lurid Ghislaine dope from the Daily Fail. Naturally the couple would have had a jewel thief among their friends. It just wouldn’t do for me to be a degenerate billionaire. I have too many vivid memories of those army lectures about using someone else’s toothbrush.
If those tapes have Bill Clinton on them this will turn into 2000 again…
re: #18 Belafon
Bibi and Boris keep winning elections.
Boris did luck into having Corbyn as an opponent but true point about Bibi.
Melania Trump Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Dares to Call Her an Ex-Hooker or Former Escort https://t.co/QPWF9TbmSJ via @NicoleJames
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) July 14, 2020
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Well, if she suddenly is able to commit “suicide” we might have a idea about the truth of that statement.
re: #24 DodgerFan1988
Does she know that she can be deposed and served with discovery if she files such a lawsuit?
re: #26 Patricia Kayden
Does she know that she can be deposed and served with discovery if she files such a lawsuit?
Doubtful and man I can’t wait for this trashy family to leave the White House.
re: #22 🌹UOJB!
If those tapes have Bill Clinton on them this will turn into 2000 again…
Pence and McConnell
re: #24 DodgerFan1988
“Discovery” says that if I were a reporter the next time I saw her the only thing I’d say is to ask “How much did you charge per night when you were an escort?” and watch the fun begin.
re: #22 🌹UOJB!
If those tapes have Bill Clinton on them this will turn into 2000 again…
If you think about the people who have acted like she has tapes on them, Bill doesn’t strike me as one of them. Graham, on the other hand…
re: #29 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Pence and McConnell
Actually I wonder if she provided little boys for Lindsey? That would explain a LOT.
re: #24 DodgerFan1988
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Melania Trump Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Dares to Call Her an Ex-Hooker or Former Escort https://t.co/QPWF9TbmSJ via @NicoleJames
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) July 14, 2020
re: #28 Dread Pirate
How about slut?
Where I come from an honest slut was much higher on the food chain than she ever managed.
re: #31 Belafon
If you think about the people who have acted like she has tapes on them, Bill doesn’t strike me as one of them. Graham, on the other hand…
Ever since Epstein entered the court system (and never came out), everybody’s said “Bill Clinton Next!”. But there hasn’t been a whisper of his name mentioned. Not once in three years. If I’m asked about it, I’ll be like “Bill ain’t an elected official anymore. What’d you expect me to do about it?!”
re: #37 Sherlock Hound
Ever since Epstein entered the court system (and never came out), everybody’s said “Bill Clinton Next!”. But there hasn’t been a whisper of his name mentioned. Not once in three years. If I’m asked about it, I’ll be like “Bill ain’t an elected official anymore. What’d you expect me to do about it?!”
He hasn’t been on the ballot in nearly a quarter century. I’d be surprised if it was Bill. If it is a prominent Dem though, I think George Mitchell could be it. I’ve seen a lot more credible evidence linking him to Epstein than Clinton.
re: #36 William Lewis
Where I come from an honest slut was much higher on the food chain than she ever managed.
Sex workers of all kinds, have two things Melania doesn’t have: Ethics and limits.
Lafayette Square was a little too on the nose, so now they’ll attempt to normalize soldiers in cities this way https://t.co/2q96JyzZRi
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) July 14, 2020
Why do they need the National Guard to collect data?
re: #42 jaunte
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Because he doesn’t trust the state numbers. There’s no way the Democratic states have been handling this pandemic better than the greatest state, Florida.
re: #43 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Because he doesn’t trust the state numbers. There’s no way the Democratic states have been handling this pandemic better than the greatest state, Florida.
What’s he going to do when the guardsmen report the truth which is that his asssniffers like DeSanittis, Kemp, & Abbott fucked up big time?
re: #44 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
What’s he going to do when the guardsmen report the truth which is that his asssniffers like DeSanittis, Kemp, & Abbott fucked up big time?
1) Lie
2) Deep State + Fake News
3) Go golfing
re: #40 Sherlock Hound
Sex workers of all kinds, have two things Melania doesn’t have: Ethics and limits.
Amen. One of the nicest women I’ve ever known was a stripper because that could pay the bills better than any other job she could get. I respected her utterly.
5m lost eer provided health ins between Feb and May when they lost their jobs:
Before: “What do I need Obummercare for? I get insurance at work, and I’m happy with it.”
After: “How come I can’t get health insurance?! It’s not my fault I got laid off…
Tweeted this at the asshat from OANN who was repeating Kaylee McEnany’s inane bullshit about what the Native American community thinks about the Washington DC football team changing its name.
That’s not what the president of the Navajo Nation says!https://t.co/dp8P3I5lIe
— Dee “I’m not Mrs. Holmes, that’s my mom” Holmes (@mmmirele) July 14, 2020
FTR, the Navajo Nation is the largest tribe in the USA.
Federal Mission
During peacetime each state National Guard answers to leadership in the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia. During national emergencies, however, the President reserves the right to mobilize the National Guard, putting them in federal duty status.
While federalized, the units answer to the Combatant Commander of the theatre in which they are operating and, ultimately, to the President.
Even when not federalized, the Army National Guard has a federal obligation (or mission.) That mission is to maintain properly trained and equipped units, available for prompt mobilization for war, national emergency, or as otherwise needed.
The Army National Guard is a partner with the Active Army and the Army Reserves in fulfilling the country’s military needs.
nationalguard.mil
Or just, you know, general hospital data collection.
re: #48 mmmirele
Tweeted this at the asshat from OANN who was repeating Kaylee McEnany’s inane bullshit about what the Native American community thinks about the Washington DC football team changing its name.
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They always lie about the most inane shit.
Seriously if you’re “very angry” about a name change but not how dumbnuts handled Covid, you’re a moron of the highest level.
re: #48 mmmirele
Tweeted this at the asshat from OANN who was repeating Kaylee McEnany’s inane bullshit about what the Native American community thinks about the Washington DC football team changing its name.
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My not-dumb-at-all blonde daughter (PhD, Analytical Chemistry) is incensed at McNinny for perpetuating that unctious stereotype.
re: #52 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
My not-dumb-at-all blonde daughter (PhD, Analytical Chemistry) is incensed at McNinny for perpetuating that unctious stereotype.
I really hope she’s never able to get serious employment again after this. She’s a disgraceful, racist liar.
Ding, Dong, the Bridge Troll is Dead! (Don’t know who owns the Bridge now, the Trollspawn maybe)
Manuel ‘Matty’ Moroun, controversial bridge owner and trucking magnate, dies at 93 https://t.co/aRszoFE3mw
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) July 14, 2020
re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really hope she’s never able to get serious employment again after this. She’s a disgraceful, racist liar.
Unfortunately, she will always have a career with the GOP or Faux or OANN. You can’t keep a bad woman down.
re: #54 The Pie Overlord!
Happy news. I’d like to think Matty Maroun is having the first day of an eternally unpleasant afterlife in Hell.
Let’s hope Rush Limbaugh follows soon.
The Secretary of State wants to hold a diplomatic celebration with the government that paid the Taliban to kill US soldiers.
The Trump administration is filled with cartoon villains that’d be easy to make fun of if they weren’t so god damn dangerous. https://t.co/hC4XtQZlVS— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) July 13, 2020
re: #55 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, she will always have a career with the GOP or Faux or OANN. You can’t keep a bad woman down.
Especially if she’s willing to spout right wing lies. The GOP base likes to be physically attracted to GOP liars as they degrade their minds with willful stupidity.
The Open Society Foundations has announced that it is investing $220 million in efforts to achieve racial equality in America, a huge financial undertaking that will support several Black-led racial justice groups for years to come. https://t.co/lm9V6OfKPC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 14, 2020
re: #55 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, she will always have a career with the GOP or Faux or OANN. You can’t keep a bad woman down.
Serious employment is the operative word.
re: #60 Dread Pirate
Cue right wing ranting and raving for years to come about this.
But fuck the right and kudos to the Soros foundation.
which way western man pic.twitter.com/o4BMwqDOAX
— 𝗽𝗼𝗱 𝗴𝘂𝘆 𝘃.𝟭 (@yungdresscode) July 13, 2020
re: #59 EPR-radar
Especially if she’s willing to spout right wing lies. The GOP base likes to be physically attracted to GOP liars as they degrade their minds with willful stupidity.
I’m sure but I merely meant I hope she is only reduced to jobs on the old wingnut welfare circuit. She’s also got a JD from Harvard. I hope she won’t be practicing law.
re: #65 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m sure but I merely meant I hope she is only reduced to jobs on the old wingnut welfare circuit. She’s also got a JD from Harvard. I hope she won’t be practicing law.
Christ. What a waste of an education. But that means she is fully culpable for all her lies.
re: #64 jaunte
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re: #66 EPR-radar
Christ. What a waste of an education. But that means she is fully culpable for all her lies.
These really are awful people.
re: #65 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m sure but I merely meant I hope she is only reduced to jobs on the old wingnut welfare circuit. She’s also got a JD from Harvard. I hope she won’t be practicing law.
Harvard Law wasted a perfectly good law school education on her. (Also Ted Cruz.)
Why don’t the Russian oligarchs have a brothel in the Kremlin?
It’s in Washington DC.
This shit is ruthless. Retweet it far and wide. #ByeDonJr pic.twitter.com/lPrgHJkFMw
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 14, 2020
If you’re worried about the paper talking about people losing their Covid-19 antibodies, you should read this: dailykos.com. If you’re not worried, you should read it because it has good points to counter people who are.
Something I did not know: For a short while after you have been infected with any virus, your antibody count will drop because your body’s “primary antibody response” has to mature, “which occurs in 3-4 weeks.”
If they want to ban TikTok cuz it’s owned by China shouldn’t they ban Trump since he’s owned by Russia
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 12, 2020
Grant Imahara of Mythbusters dies of a brain aneurysm. 49 years old.
Grant Imahara, Host of ‘MythBusters’ and ‘White Rabbit Project,’ Dies at 49
An electrical engineer and roboticist by training, he worked for a long time at Lucasfilm’s THX and Industrial Light and Magic divisions.
Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix’s White Rabbit Project, has died. He was 49.Imahara died suddenly following a brain aneurysm, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. “We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family,” a representative for Discovery said in a statement on Monday.
Unreal story. six months into this catastrophe HHS can’t get its head out of its ass to just collect data effectively. So they’re blaming it on the hospitals and threaten to send in troops to get the data. Unreal. https://t.co/0TwEftXqRe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 14, 2020
“…even the possibility of National Guard involvement has infuriated hospital industry leaders, who say any data collection problems lie primarily with the Department of Health and Human Services and repeatedly changing federal instructions. The idea of bringing in the Guard was first broached at a late June meeting by Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force response coordinator, according to two hospital industry officials who attended and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions.”
“Given our track record of being cooperative to evolving data requests, it’s perplexing that the possibility of using the National Guard has been suggested,” said Rick Pollack, president of the American Hospital Association. “It makes no sense. Certainly the expertise of the National Guard can be used in a more productive way.”
HHS officials on Monday finalized a new data reporting protocol for hospitals, which will eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a data recipient, leaving health-care institutions to report information about covid-19 to a federal contractor or to their state, which would coordinate the federal reporting. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the virus.
Not vegan, virgin. Or incel as the kids say nowadays. But red meat, no sex, and perhaps, a little too much gas for this man who seems really, really ready to join our national legislature from the dystopic state of Florida. Christ almighty: https://t.co/xmd37820sy
— David Simon (@AoDespair) July 13, 2020
re: #73 Belafon
If you’re worried about the paper talking about people losing their Covid-19 antibodies, you should read this: dailykos.com. If you’re not worried, you should read it because it has good points to counter people who are.
Something I did not know: For a short while after you have been infected with any virus, your antibody count will drop because your body’s “primary antibody response” has to mature, “which occurs in 3-4 weeks.”
Every breathless utterance you see on the internet needs to be taken with a whole keg of salt. It’s usually preliminary material, picked up by journalists who have deadlines and no scientific knowledge, and amplified (with added errors) by the twitterati. The only way we’re going to find out how long immunity lasts is to track a large group of cured people, wait a few years and see how many got it again.
(I’m sure we’re all going to feel like broken records repeating this. Later if not sooner.)
Brain aneurysm
On Monday evening, Grant Imahara’s #MythBusters and ‘White Rabbit Project’ co-host Kari Byron tweeted, “Sometimes I wish I had a time machine,” and included a picture with Imahara and Tory Belleci https://t.co/H9YgUO9WoA
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 14, 2020
Naomi is Hunter’s kid.
Respect & compassion—those are values I was raised on.
So maybe I don’t understand how society fails someone so badly they look at this photo & go somewhere so dark. I feel sad for you.
And for the record, we’re @Eagles fans. pic.twitter.com/sXYrQLXNsq— Naomi Biden (@NaomiBiden) July 13, 2020
re: #80 jaunte
“Given our track record of being cooperative to evolving data requests, it’s perplexing that the possibility of using the National Guard has been suggested,” said Rick Pollack, president of the American Hospital Association. “It makes no sense. Certainly the expertise of the National Guard can be used in a more productive way.”
HHS officials on Monday finalized a new data reporting protocol for hospitals, which will eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a data recipient, leaving health-care institutions to report information about covid-19 to a federal contractor or to their state, which would coordinate the federal reporting. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the virus.
Welp, this is how you bury the data, never to be seen again.
This is not science. This is the farthest thing from science.
Everyone at the CDC and the NIH should just quit and leave the government if this goes through and get jobs researching “additional deaths over existing trends.”
Disgusting. Revolting.
Good night. Fuck ‘em all.
Well, my copy of Peace Talks just showed up, so let the downloading begin!
re: #84 gocart mozart
Naomi is Hunter’s kid.
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Forget corruption and malfeasance for a minute; the GOP needs to be beaten into the gutter for its cruelty alone. It is a barbarous cult of psychopaths.
Regarding my question earlier, it’s now 11:20 ish and my bank account just got dinged for the cost of the pre-order :D I open my Fire and there’s the icon front and center.
See you all later!!!!
Man, I’m sure ICU nurses and doctors will be just THRILLED to have the National Guard all up in their business.
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The only reason to introduce the NG into the reporting chain is to control the data, whether it’s by laundering it through them directly or by tricking outside observers into concluding that the only reason to get the NG involved is because hospitals are “unreliable” at collecting and collating the data themselves.
re: #91 Targetpractice
And another opportunity for a contractor to kick back to the Trump crime family.
re: #70 mmmirele
Harvard Law wasted a perfectly good law school education on her. (Also Ted Cruz.)
And Ben Shapiro. Let’s not forget he also has his law degree from Harvard.
a weather report from hell’s blast furnace https://t.co/S267xF4Suf
— Forrest Wilder (@Forrest4Trees) July 14, 2020
re: #92 jaunte
And another opportunity for a contractor to kick back to the Trump crime family.
THIS.
From the governor of Mississippi, this is pretty good and reasonable: coming out against the herd immunity fallacy and in favor of universal masks https://t.co/j2O0OcpVuU
— Ed MD (@notdred) July 14, 2020
Elections have consequences.
— csd (@csd) July 14, 2020
re: #94 jaunte
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Yikes! It’s 96°F in Lubbock right now (11:50 PM). Must be what hell is like: Hot, dark, and full of Trump cultists.
If only he had access to some good epidemiologists with many years of experience with such things to give him some good information.
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) July 14, 2020
US military sees 60 percent jump in coronavirus cases in first few weeks of July | @barbarastarrcnn & @rabrowne75 https://t.co/FKrD5Gh3tu
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) July 13, 2020
Coronavirus: HK Disneyland to close one month after reopening https://t.co/CeaFR5ss9V
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 14, 2020
re: #104 Dread Pirate
Same thing’s gonna happen to Disneyworld in Florida, too. It’s just a matter of time. Hell, California has shut down again because of spiking COVID-19 cases.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
Same thing’s gonna happen to Disneyworld in Florida, too. It’s just a matter of time. Hell, California has shut down again because of spiking COVID-19 cases.
Except it’s going to be way worse in FL because MAH RIGHTS and rugged individualism.
After revelers celebrated the Fourth of July at a Michigan lake, some started testing positive for Covid-19 — prompting health officials to warn other party-goers that they might have been infected, too. https://t.co/MVqR4OZoOI
— CNN (@CNN) July 14, 2020
re: #31 Belafon
If you think about the people who have acted like she has tapes on them, Bill doesn’t strike me as one of them. Graham, on the other hand…
According to the report, the timeline on this was between 1996 and 1998 - right in the middle of when Clinton was under a microscope scrutinizing him for his Monica Lewinski affair. I find it extremely unlikely that he would have had the opportunity to sneak out to party with Epstein at the time. On the other hand, the OTHER guy who does have well-documented and credible reports of sexual indiscretions involving minors (like say, at teen beauty pageants being held in Russia) had a heck of a lot of freedom to move around at will.
and then this 💀💀 https://t.co/L7HXfn35Dj
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌏🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) July 14, 2020
Now I really need one with Jennifer Coolidge’s “hi”https://t.co/npDuWSPXHt
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 14, 2020
Boeing lands $1.2 billion deal for eight F-15EX fighter jets https://t.co/bbZ6qlmCNF
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 14, 2020
Guess who😂🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/7GtxHJXDiW
— JOEL Sloane (@METALBLADE28) July 13, 2020
why I won’t wear a mask pic.twitter.com/CyiKIgWuwF
— kylie brakeman (@deadeyebrakeman) July 12, 2020
Yet another setback for cruises>> Study: Ship’s AC system likely spread COVID-19 https://t.co/ZFY9dpn7VI via @SFGate pic.twitter.com/bLY5QC1KTh
— Chris McGinnis (@cjmcginnis) July 13, 2020
re: #113 Dread Pirate
Yet another setback for cruises>> Study: Ship’s AC system likely spread COVID-19
Ships were not designed for social distancing and need to be as full as possible to be profitable…
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ships were not designed for social distancing and need to be as full as possible to be profitable…
Cruise ships or ocean liners are the exact opposite of social distancing. Airplanes are similar, or even public transportation. It needs to be at capacity to work effectively and profitably.
I’m secretly hoping the cruise industry collapses forever. They are one of the biggest causes of ocean pollution, and a massive greenhouse gas source. They are also masters of dodging regulation and taxes.
And… anytime anyone so much as sneezes on one, hundreds or thousands of people get sick. Then COVID happened.
Just let this business die. We’ll all be better off.
re: #115 Dr Lizardo
Cruise ships or ocean liners are the exact opposite of social distancing. Airplanes are similar, or even public transportation. It needs to be at capacity to work effectively and profitably.
bars can still sell drinks at reduced capacity but music venues cannot begin to sell enough tickets to cover a band and retain distancing regs.
re: #116 Jack Burton
I’m secretly hoping the cruise industry collapses forever. They are one of the biggest causes of ocean pollution, and a massive greenhouse gas source. They are also masters of dodging regulation and taxes.
And… anytime anyone so much as sneezes on one, hundreds or thousands of people get sick. Then COVID happened.
Just let this business die. We’ll all be better off.
If that and the NFL go out of business in my lifetime, I’ll die happy.
re: #116 Jack Burton
Your comment me wonder “why aren’t there any nuclear-powered cruise ships” so I looked that up and turned out, there was, in fact, a nuclear-powered American merchant vessel, the NS Savannah. It was built as a demonstration project under “Atoms for Peace” and it ended up being a complete boondoggle, and she now spends her days moored in Baltimore as a museum ship after her decommissioning.
So, today I learned something new.
TFW you mistake the treasure chest for a cake pic.twitter.com/lQ9uLnAsYH
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 14, 2020
re: #116 Jack Burton
I’m secretly hoping the cruise industry collapses forever. They are one of the biggest causes of ocean pollution, and a massive greenhouse gas source. They are also masters of dodging regulation and taxes.
And… anytime anyone so much as sneezes on one, hundreds or thousands of people get sick. Then COVID happened.
Just let this business die. We’ll all be better off.
They are in need of a major reform. And the way they make a mockery of tax and labor regulations is an ongoing scandal.
re: #118 teleskiguy
If that and the NFL go out of business in my lifetime, I’ll die happy.
College Sports need to be reorganized and officially declared the official commercial Minor Leagues to the NFL and NBA and stop pretending that these players are any sort of “student athletes”.
They are at best athletes who study part-time.
Nothing like a good alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning.
Today it’s a KC-135 and 4 Dassault Mirage 2000’s.
Happy Bastille day!
re: #123 John Hughes
Nothing like a good alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning.
Today it’s a KC-135 and 4 Dassault Mirage 2000’s.
Happy Bastille day!
I suppose it’s similar to the rednecks who shot off a flight of leftover fireworks at almost 11:00 PM last night.
Morning Lizardim.
NEWS: The House intends to quickly revive its legal effort to access President Trump’s financial records — and tonight it’s asking for the Supreme Court’s help to speed things up.https://t.co/Bw9Gpbm7nw
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 14, 2020
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
The Russians run cruises to the North Pole on their big nuclear-powered Arktika-class icebreakers during the northern hemisphere summer. They’re pretty basic working ships, not any kind of floating gin-palace but they have TWO! saunas fed with heat from the reactors, and a ping-pong table as well.
re: #127 Nojay UK
The Russians run cruises to the North Pole on their big nuclear-powered Arktika-class icebreakers during the northern hemisphere summer. They’re pretty basic working ships, not any kind of floating gin-palace but they have TWO! saunas fed with heat from the reactors, and a ping-pong table as well.
$30,000 per ticket?
Leaves room for a big profit margin.
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
$30,000 per ticket?
Leaves room for a big profit margin.
And who says the Russians don’t love capitalism?
re: #129 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And who says the Russians don’t love capitalism?
Since 1991 they have set out to embrace all the worst aspects of it. And it is no wonder that the GOP admires Putin, he runs a the very kind of state they want to see here: authoritarian, plutocratic, miltaristic, patriarchal, xenophobic, homophobic and theocratic.
Only difference is that they prefer Fundamentalist Protestantism over Russian Orthodoxy.
hi
I can only be here briefly. My wife and I have to go to town later. Yay, in one of the riskiest counties in the state to appear in a group of ten or more.
I was playing with some of the functions of Little Green Footballs I didn’t know Mr. Johnson has programmed into this corner of sanity in an insane world.
I found for example that I’ve posted (as of this time) 11,294 items to the Media Library. They mostly consist of tweets I thought interesting and reposted here, but include videos, images, &c.
Little Green Footballs is a daily exercise in discovery.
re: #119 Dr Lizardo
Your comment me wonder “why aren’t there any nuclear-powered cruise ships” so I looked that up and turned out, there was, in fact, a nuclear-powered American merchant vessel, the NS Savannah. It was built as a demonstration project under “Atoms for Peace” and it ended up being a complete boondoggle, and she now spends her days moored in Baltimore as a museum ship after her decommissioning.
So, today I learned something new.
I mentioned the NS Savannah in the May Flag Observance post.
Quoting me:
On this date in 1919, the steamship SS Savannah set sail on the first trans-Atlantic voyage entirely conducted under steam power. The day is marked in law to recognise that event, and fallen mariners in the United States Merchant Marine. The date is a full-staff day.
NS Savannah (the world’s only nuclear-powered merchant ship, named after the famous steamship) is currently docked in Baltimore, MD., is where events marking the day usually take place.
All government agencies are directed to fly the flag on National Maritime Day. All ships and boats registered under the American flag should dress ship. All citizens are encouraged to fly the flag on National Maritime Day.
Flag Observances for May (Goes to the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs)
Amongst other things to do today is send off a birthday card for my mother (she will be eighty on July 20—she maintains NASA gave her a birthday present in 1969 by landing people on the Moon). Since she is adamant about not leaving Chicago despite being unable to afford to live there, my wife and I are going to send a bunch of money in a Postal Money Order to her disguised as a gift (gee, Mom, we can’t figure out what you’d like for your birthday, so buy yourself what you want).
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Since 1991 they have set out to embrace all the worst aspects of it. And it is no wonder that the GOP admires Putin, he runs a the very kind of state they want to see here: authoritarian, plutocratic, miltaristic, patriarchal, xenophobic, homophobic and theocratic.
Only difference is that they prefer Fundamentalist Protestantism over Russian Orthodoxy.
Because with their choice of fundamentalism over orthodoxy, they get a genuine American religion - one that requires them to literally do nothing and change nothing in order to feel like they’re going to heaven. The Orthodox, for their faults, at least require you to go through the motions.
re: #132 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Because with their choice of fundamentalism over orthodoxy, they get a genuine American religion - one that requires them to literally do nothing and change nothing in order to feel like they’re going to heaven. The Orthodox, for their faults, at least require you to go through the motions.
They are both equally patriarchal and homophobic, and both home-grown to the greatest extent and tailored to fit the nationalist sentiment of representing “God’s Chosen Nation”.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ships were not designed for social distancing and need to be as full as possible to be profitable…
This is also a problem for navies.
Until there is some sort of handle on the coronavirus, navies around the world are going to be in dire straits.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are both equally patriarchal and homophobic, and both home-grown to the greatest extent and tailored to fit the nationalist sentiment of representing “God’s Chosen Nation”.
You nailed it.
re: #116 Jack Burton
I’m secretly hoping the cruise industry collapses forever. They are one of the biggest causes of ocean pollution, and a massive greenhouse gas source. They are also masters of dodging regulation and taxes.
And… anytime anyone so much as sneezes on one, hundreds or thousands of people get sick. Then COVID happened.
Just let this business die. We’ll all be better off.
I’d just as soon that people who want to go on cruise ships not be forced to switch to other forms of vacation.
Some campers wanted a better view of the lake from their public campground in the Superior National Forest. So they cut down some trees.
“You think something as basic as that wouldn’t happen,” said Trent Wickman of the U.S. Forest Service, but many travelers are forgetting to pack their wilderness etiquette.
North Shore locals are losing patience with careless visitors trashing trails and campsites, with one resident saying: “We and Cook County are not here for you to beat us up.”
“It’s the only pandemic of our lifetime and we’re having the busiest summer of our lifetime,” he said, and while that’s great for business, some visitors are showing “a lack of regard for authority and for regulation.”
…visitors are showing up without knowing what to expect or what is expected of them.
Visit Cook County, the area’s tourism bureau, said “there is no janitor in the wilderness” and that folks need to follow the principles of Leave No Trace more than ever.
“This philosophy is not just for backcountry campers,” the group said. “It is critical that we do what we can to mitigate damage to our environment.”
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is also a problem for navies.
Until there is some sort of handle on the coronavirus, navies around the world are going to be in dire straits.
Needless to say, a warship cannot function effectively without a full crew compliment and that precludes any sort of distancing or effective safety measures.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are in need of a major reform. And the way they make a mockery of tax and labor regulations is an ongoing scandal.
Sinking cruise ships to create artificial reefs is a good start.
Even something like ferries for the Inside Passage along the Alaska and British Columbia coast, or ferries across Lakes Huron and Michigan are problems for social distancing.
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Needless to say, a warship cannot function effectively without a full crew compliment and that precludes any sort of distancing or effective safety measures.
The only way I can see navies functioning effectively is to quarantine crews for a few weeks before the start of a deployment, and very limited port visits for liberty.
That’s not a really good way to keep up morale amongst the officers and crew.
re: #125 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I suppose it’s similar to the rednecks who shot off a flight of leftover fireworks at almost 11:00 PM last night.
Morning Lizardim.
There hasn’t been a night since Memorial Day weekend that someone hasn’t shot off some fireworks within earshot of my house. Not. One. Night. Usually between 10-11.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sinking cruise ships to create artificial reefs is a good start.
Even something like ferries for the Inside Passage along the Alaska and British Columbia coast, or ferries across Lake Huron and Michigan are problems for social distancing.
vital connections can be subsidized to keep them running at less than full capacity.
re: #123 John Hughes
Nothing like a good alarm clock to get you out of bed in the morning.
Today it’s a KC-135 and 4 Dassault Mirage 2000’s.
Happy Bastille day!
Here it’s usually biplanes spraying crops. Sometimes they remember to turn off the sprayers when they turn over the village.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Don’t you already have enough natural stuff trying to destroy your village?
I was just reminiscing with some other Midwestern kids about how we used to chase after the mosquito control truck spraying clouds of DDT all through our neighborhood…
re: #143 stpaulbear
Don’t you already have enough natural stuff trying to destroy your village?
Mountain lions, rattlesnakes, turkey vultures, brown recluse spiders (killed a couple already this summer in my house), cattle stampedes, tornadoes, hailstorms, &c.
We’re like Australia North.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mountain lions, rattlesnakes, turkey vultures, brown recluse spiders (killed a couple already this summer in my house), cattle stampedes, tornadoes, hailstorms, &c.
We’re like Australia North.
Survivalists with weapons arsenals…
And that’s why I didn’t go.
Morrill County rodeo identified as COVID-19 exposure site (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Baseball and basketball aren’t the only sports which are going to have problems with this.
A Morrill County rodeo has been identified as a possible exposure site as Panhandle health officials announced new coronavirus cases.
During Monday’s Panhandle Public Health District’s daily briefing, officials announced Camp Clark Rodeo, held over the July 4 weekend, as a daily exposure site. It’s the first community exposure site in some time that has been announced since PPHD began tracking coronavirus cases and doing monitoring in the Panhandle on March 2.
Officials would not say how many of the 12 people who were announced as new cases of the coronavirus could be tied to the rodeo.
“At least one,” Scotts Bluff County Health Director Paulette Schnell said.
Schnell said, “What we identified was the person or people who were there that were positive were at a lot of different places and may have been in close contact with people that they cannot identify.”
Last month, a Morrill County event, a golf tournament played on June 20, had been tied to an influx of coronavirus cases. Kim Engel, PPHD director, said that not all cases in Morrill County since that date were tied to the event, but a large number were. A total of 38 cases were announced in Morrill County over an approximately two-week period beginning June 24.
None of the 12 identified during Monday’s call were Morrill County residents, but from other counties.
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Camp Clark is about eighteen miles from my house. The golf course in question is sixteen miles from my house.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was just reminiscing with some other Midwestern kids about how we used to chase after the mosquito control truck spraying clouds of DDT all through our neighborhood…
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was just reminiscing with some other Midwestern kids about how we used to chase after the mosquito control truck spraying clouds of DDT all through our neighborhood…
Oh, man, I used to do that. Only we’d ride our bikes behind the truck.
I used to do it until one day when the bug spray cloud got so thick I ran straight into a telephone pole on my bike. Completely wrecked my front wheel, and I was done at that point.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
brown recluse spiders (killed a couple already this summer in my house)
First thought on quick read - ‘Oh, my, that poor couple.’
A hay bale fire here which could have turned into a disastrous prairie fire has been extinguished.
Bale Fire Lasts Three Days Near Potter (goes to the Western Nebraska Observer, Kimball, more at the link)
The fire was two miles from the Colorado state line.
Potter Fire Department, along with Sidney, Peetz, Dix, Kimball and Dalton, responded to the 500 bales of millet/hay on fire. The fire departments rotated in and out. Stevens was thankful for the help from the area departments.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but spontaneous combustion is a possibility. When the Potter Fire Department arrived the entire top row of big round bales was engulfed in flames, according to Stevens, “one of our concerns was the trees, but we worked pretty hard to keep the fire away from them.”
Using meters and other measuring devices, Stevens said they poured 700,000 gallons of water to the fire. When they would take one bale off, the oxygen would get to the bale underneath and it would just explode according to Stevens. Even though the bales would be soaked it would be hot underneath.
The fire departments used tractors, skid steers and loaders but had to be cautious as not to overheat the hydraulics of the equipment they were using.
I’m going to write an article for the right-hand column on connecting with people you don’t know during the coronavirus outbreak. You’ve been warned. Be right back.
Real good thread here, about New York’s success story and what southern states can learn from it.
COVID UPDATE July 13: There are successful examples of taking on COVID-19.
And there is one story like no others. New York. 1/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 14, 2020
re: #3 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m a fan of the Washington Carvers. /seriously no, I think the Doormats is a more appropriate name (as an Giants fan before stopping watching football altogether).
I’m better at game shows than Chuck Woolery, wear a mask.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) July 13, 2020
re: #154 makeitstop
Not to say that NY didn’t make mistakes either. They were slow to enact the closures by a day or two (and that makes all the difference). Their handling of nursing homes was inadequate, and we know about 40% of the deaths occurred in nursing facilities in both NY and NJ. The lack of testing made all of this so much worse. Now, NY tests are more easily available, and that makes containment feasible.
FL, TX, and AZ aren’t doing enough testing, it’s not easily available, and the cases are soaring. Hospitals filling up and requesting refrigerator trucks is a sign that they learned precisely nothing from the NY experience other than to make sure there’s testing for nursing homes (so far).
I’m back. Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column.
Personal: Connecting With Isolated People in the Time of Coronavirus
Scotland’s COVID-19 numbers as reported by the First Minister — no new deaths of confirmed cases, the sixth day in a row that’s happened. More cases hospitalised, three new cases confirmed. The numbers on a Tuesday are usually higher than Monday’s since there’s a backlog of data from the weekend to process.
The Scottish government are starting to plan for an expected second wave of COVID-19 in the late autumn and early winter, along with the usual respiratory diseases like season flu which will hit medical services and expected hospital bed availability.
There’s been some speculation that Scotland might impose quarantine restrictions on English visitors if the English government doesn’t get a better grip on the COVID-19 outbreak there. This proposal has not received a welcome in Conservative circles in London but the Nippy Sweetie is all out of fucks to give on what the Tories think.
BREAKING: The first federal execution in 17 years has just taken place.
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was pronounced dead after lethal injection at 8:07 a.m.https://t.co/0AiDtb3I0N— KSL NewsRadio (@kslnewsradio) July 14, 2020
One thing I don’t understand is why so many people think that flattening the curve only applies to the epidemic.
There were two new cases reported in the Nebraska Panhandle yesterday, bringing the total to 359. Four are in hospital.
However, hospital bed availability here is 52%. It turns out you need hospital beds for other problems.
If that number reaches 100, then people who have problems from a heart attack to a broken hip aren’t going to be able to get into a hospital. Flattening the curve leaves hospitals available for all the other problems which haven’t gone away.
The way some of you on this website defend billionaires who would sell you out for a corn chip is really something… hope he sees that, bro! https://t.co/9fgAJP5USO
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 13, 2020
Watching KTLA’s six a.m. news and oof, yeah…..California’s going back into shutdown. And the shutdown looks to be - for all intents and purposes - indefinite.
What is “one-morbidities?”
Also, why would anyone take medical advice from this guy? https://t.co/ZmA6pKKh3G— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 14, 2020
Which part is the problem? “Ex?” https://t.co/64IwkuUcLd
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 14, 2020
re: #154 makeitstop
Real good thread here, about New York’s success story and what southern states can learn from it.
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we’re pretty serious about social distancing here. Even in the parks.
Florida records over 12,000 new coronavirus cases https://t.co/fyb5na9m4W pic.twitter.com/LKNOB6dPVt
— The Hill (@thehill) July 14, 2020
You don’t defeat a virus with politics. You defeat a virus with science and medicine.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 14, 2020
re: #19 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Having sex with minors isn’t having sex, it’s rape.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
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Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lee killed an Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. https://t.co/a00TSN3zDP
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2020
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s a lovely story. Thank you for sharing!
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
No great loss for humanity, I’d say.
Legions of small businesses are struggling to find their footing amid the pandemic. Whether they make it will affect not just local economies but the fabric of communities. https://t.co/wfasjfrzk4
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2020
Since March, I’ve been driving by my favorite barbecue place hoping they might reopen for takeout at least.
“Space Available” signs up in the window today. Gone for good.
Raise your hand if there is a coronavirus casualty in your area. A business lost to the pandemic.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 14, 2020
…But for rash, foolish irresponsibility, I’d nominate the opposition research paper recently circulated by the White House in an attempt to discredit the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Anthony S. Fauci. As reported by The Post, the document recounted a number of instances — on community transmission, asymptomatic transmission and mask wearing in particular — where Fauci’s views have shifted over time. As far as I know, this official record is unique: A White House attack on the government’s leading infectious-disease specialist during a raging pandemic. It indicates an administration so far gone in rage, bitterness and paranoia that it can no longer be trusted to preserve American lives.
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Rather than addressing these failures, Trump has chosen to sabotage a public official who admits their existence. Rather than confronting these problems, Trump wants to ensure his whole administration lies about them in unison. The president has surveyed America’s massive spike in new infections and thinks the most urgent matter is . . . message discipline.
re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth
Thanks for this! I read two articles and neither showed why this was a federal crime. Now I get it.
Wow, not Texas or Florida…..
Told to wear a mask at Kansas City area BBQ restaurant, man in MAGA hat flashes a gun https://t.co/XbEGSHSthA
— Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal (@EatsBeat) July 13, 2020
What a world.
Rules and manners are for the little people… https://t.co/Mg0oYuYLDq
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 14, 2020
Which part is the problem? “Ex?” https://t.co/64IwkuUcLd
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 14, 2020
40 years ago today, the Republican national convention opened in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan told a welcoming rally he and his supporters were determined to “make America great again.” pic.twitter.com/rJTCTmTGtX
— AP Images (@AP_Images) July 14, 2020
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m back. Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column.
Personal: Connecting With Isolated People in the Time of Coronavirus
nice. very nice.
Whenever you are asked to name the lowest moment of the Trump presidency, one answer is almost always correct: Tomorrow.
As the nation ricochets between chaos and calamity, the one reliable constant is the near certainty that things will get worse.
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And I marched on that convention dressed in white for the ERA. I miss that white 3-piece suit (and that skinny body).
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
One thing I don’t understand is why so many people think that flattening the curve only applies to the epidemic.
There were two new cases reported in the Nebraska Panhandle yesterday, bringing the total to 359. Four are in hospital.
However, hospital bed availability here is 52%. It turns out you need hospital beds for other problems.
If that number reaches 100, then people who have problems from a heart attack to a broken hip aren’t going to be able to get into a hospital. Flattening the curve leaves hospitals available for all the other problems which haven’t gone away.
they also think flattening the curve means done, success, party!
it dont
Oh, and the Orange County Board of Education decided to re-open schools without masks or social distancing.
That being said, the decision is non-binding and it’s up to O.C.’s individual school districts themselves to decide how they’re going to handle the upcoming school year.
L.A. and San Diego are going to do online learning.
So, it looks like Trump called in a favor from one of his 70s pals, retired gossip columnist (and pal of Roy Cohn) Cindy Adams, to trash Mary Trump’s book.
Cindy Adams: Trump’s niece is ‘drawing blood to make money’ with new book https://t.co/IHi0JSdTJF pic.twitter.com/swZv9O06qJ
— Page Six (@PageSix) July 14, 2020
Uday (or is it Qusay?) retweeted it this morning, and the overwhelming reaction was amazement that Cindy Adams was still alive.
Trump used to funnel gossip to her all the time back in the day, and apparently thinks she’s still got some kind of juice. She’s been utterly irrelevant for years.
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
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what word would she prefer we use to describe that period in her life?
Which part is the problem? “Ex?” https://t.co/64IwkuUcLd
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 14, 2020
re: #189 makeitstop
So, it looks like Trump called in a favor from one of his 70s pals, retired gossip columnist (and pal of Roy Cohn) Cindy Adams, to trash Mary Trump’s book.
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Uday (or is it Qusay?) retweeted it this morning, and the overwhelming reaction was amazement that Cindy Adams was still alive.
Trump used to funnel gossip to her all the time back in the day, and apparently thinks she’s still got some kind of juice. She’s been utterly irrelevant for years.
“Drawing blood”….gosh trumpites are mighty sensitive and hyperbolic.
And what’s wrong with making money? I thought that was the free market, conservative way.
re: #189 makeitstop
I didn’t even know Cindy Adams was still alive either. I know she used to be a big deal in NYC gossip back in the day - some of which became national-level gossip - but her heyday has long since passed.
re: #102 Dread Pirate
If a major conflict broke our, our service members would die from the disease, away from combat, and we would be left vulnerable.
re: #192 Dr Lizardo
I didn’t even know Cindy Adams was still alive either. I know she used to be a big deal in NYC gossip back in the day - some of which became national-level gossip - but her heyday has long since passed.
Never heard of her.
re: #189 makeitstop
So, it looks like Trump called in a favor from one of his 70s pals, retired gossip columnist (and pal of Roy Cohn) Cindy Adams, to trash Mary Trump’s book.
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Uday (or is it Qusay?) retweeted it this morning, and the overwhelming reaction was amazement that Cindy Adams was still alive.
Trump used to funnel gossip to her all the time back in the day, and apparently thinks she’s still got some kind of juice. She’s been utterly irrelevant for years.
The traitors are easy to spot.
The NY tabloid society columns have enormous responsibility in creating the myth of Trump.
Buy @MaryLTrump’s book. https://t.co/5Vti6yenim— Greg Olear (@gregolear) July 14, 2020
re: #190 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
I’ll play
what word would she prefer we use to describe that period in her life?
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“Retired sex worker” maybe? Or perhaps “former porn star who hit the motherlode”?
a job u did not get because of your father? https://t.co/SJ9ab1HAbp
— darth™ (@darth) July 14, 2020
A Fox & Friends host acknowledges testing is a disaster because it took 4-5 days for his daughter to get her Covid test back after her soccer teammate got infected https://t.co/G28nz5mqsw
— Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) July 14, 2020
re: #196 Dr Lizardo
“Retired sex worker” maybe? Or perhaps “former porn star who hit the motherlode”?
Woman who got paid to pose naked?
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
Brian Kilmeade: “Right now there’s a huge testing issue and there’s a backlog on PPE. What he can do, what the president can do, and what his administration can do is make sure those aren’t an issue. I mean it’s been 4 or 5 months. It should not be an issue.”
Starting to hit home…
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Starting to hit home…
That usually does it.
i need a tissue
Watch and retweet this if you are ready to replace Lindsey Graham with Jaime Harrison. pic.twitter.com/dzWraQs1uT
— LindseyMustGo (@LindseyMustGo) July 14, 2020
Honestly, we could just recycle some of the smallpox and Spanish Flu ads & cartoons today. pic.twitter.com/t5IwoUNfAm
— adland ® (@adland) July 13, 2020
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Honestly, we could just recycle some of the smallpox and Spanish Flu ads & cartoons today.
FAUCI IS A DEEP-STATE HACK!!!!
BTW, in case anyone was curious, USS Bonhomme Richard is apparently still on fire in San Diego. The latest reports indicate that while the blaze is somewhat contained, it is still not “out”, and that the Navy still has no clear idea of the extent of the damage. Yet.
Though, via the usual authoritative source of Internet gossip, it seems increasingly likely that BHR may have to be written off: it will/may depend on the extent of structural damage to the hull from the fire.
And, of course, the estimated cost of repairs vs. replacement vs. retirement, etc. Oh, not to mention the costs of mitigating any environmental damage the ship fire may cause: IIUC, the vessel’s fire-control systems had been drained, but its fuel tanks (or some tanks of some type of fuel) had not.
moron
Would be so great if the Media would get the word out to the people in a “fair and balanced” way. We will win anyway, but they are a far more difficult adversary than their Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Partner!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2020
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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Have the Republicans made one even quasi-substantive hit on Biden over policy, or is it all personal attacks & “Dems are socialists” boilerplate?
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 13, 2020
Just checked the forecast and I believe it’s the first time that the votes of the “very likely” states has eclipsed 270 votes. pic.twitter.com/ULuOh9Ojgp
— (((Michael Spence 🏳️🌈))) (@michaeljspence) July 13, 2020
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
Would be so great if the Media would get the word out to the people in a “fair and balanced” way.
If Trump Wins expect him to create a Federal Ministry for Fairness and Balance, which will have to approve all political news articles…
This TV presenting lark is harder than it looks… https://t.co/D18ZB7ZoEa
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 14, 2020
re: #194 Sir John Barron
Never heard of her.
Both she and her husband, comedian Joey Adams, had gossip columns that ran side by side in the Post for years. They were part of the pack that ran with Roy Cohn and Trump. The seedy side of Manhattan society, kingmakers in their own minds.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well, Eric, understandable you and the family are upset. Within the first few pages she describes your conduct, revealing you are an asshole both privately as well as we all knew publicly! Cindy Adams is over-the-hill for even this octogenarian! Mary’s book is essential reading! https://t.co/rp8fSOQMYV
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) July 14, 2020
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
FAUCI IS A DEEP-STATE HACK!!!!
These people seem pretty committed to the idea of killing us all. https://t.co/kQFCg3Ch2i
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 14, 2020
lmao at scavino describing fauci as a “colleague.”
infectious disease expert with presidential medal of freedom vs. ex-golf caddie who shares videos from far-right twitter https://t.co/aZWl9yJmsk— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 14, 2020
re: #216 Sir John Barron
At some point reality catches up. I just hope it’s to the right people soon.
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother. https://t.co/suEbguE3jo
— ProPublica (@propublica) July 14, 2020
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The “No NFL Season” is a nice touch, very humanity concerned. We must be entertained!!
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re: #221 Sir John Barron
The “No NFL this fall” is a nice touch, very humanity concerned.
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It is there to illustrate his lack of regard for all that America stands for…
re: #221 Sir John Barron
The “No NFL this fall” is a nice touch, very humanity concerned.
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It’s funny that Garrison has to clearly label every ‘point’ he’s trying to make. I guess his readers would miss them if he didn’t.
re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth
There goes Brian, assuming this isn’t being done on purpose.
re: #223 makeitstop
It’s funny that Garrison has to clearly label every ‘point’ he’s trying to make. I guess his readers would miss them if he didn’t.
But I’m puzzled that the cartoon doesn’t say anything about the number of covid 19 deaths, problems with testing and ppe, etc.
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re: #190 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
I’ll play
what word would she prefer we use to describe that period in her life?
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Courtesan?
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 14, 2020
re: #189 makeitstop
So, it looks like Trump called in a favor from one of his 70s pals, retired gossip columnist (and pal of Roy Cohn) Cindy Adams, to trash Mary Trump’s book.
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Uday (or is it Qusay?) retweeted it this morning, and the overwhelming reaction was amazement that Cindy Adams was still alive.
Trump used to funnel gossip to her all the time back in the day, and apparently thinks she’s still got some kind of juice. She’s been utterly irrelevant for years.
At worst, that makes her no different than any other Trump, she just doesn’t have the power to kill other Americans in the process.
re: #221 Sir John Barron
The “No NFL this fall” is a nice touch, very humanity concerned.
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“My Self-Indulgence” didn’t have the same emotional resonance.
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #208 Belafon
Dana Houle
@DanaHoule
Have the Republicans made one even quasi-substantive hit on Biden over policy, or is it all personal attacks & “Dems are socialists” boilerplate?
A: No, and Yes.
Though that’s unsurprising: Trump and the GOP really don’t have much in the way of “policy” to run on (and except for immigration issues - i.e. racist bashing of “illegals” - never have had); so “personality” shit and hysterical fearmongering is all they have left.
Though (just IMHO) dwelling on “policy” in this election would be (for Biden and the Dems in general) a waste of time: this whole contest is going be a personal judgment on Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Going into any but the most generalized descriptions of what a Biden Administration would do, would, I believe, simply bore people, and deflect from the fundamental core issue of the campaign: i.e. replacing an incompetent, corrupt and compromised Executive and Legislature* with one(s) that will be seen to be doing the peoples’ work more effectively.
* The Senate, I mean
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
Imagine being such a tone-deaf shoe plagiarist that you think the reason people are unemployed is that it didn’t occur to them to try to find a new job. Now that you’ve given them that tip, problem solved!
— 🆘Rev Magdalen |This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy (@revmagdalen) July 14, 2020
And not one question asked at Trump press conference. https://t.co/595JDsBVvL
— Ira Flatow (@iraflatow) July 14, 2020
re: #232 Teukka
I used to hang my tassels from my graduations along with a red ribbon. Now? Spare masks in the car.
But…. nobody’s actually defunded anything yet. Sooo—you’re logic is failing, lady. https://t.co/wMTxyMmIcY
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 14, 2020
re: #234 jaunte
The economy collapsed thanks to Trumpworld failing to lift a finger when it mattered. He cares only about a low case number and thinks slow rolling testing will result in lower numbers.
He’s responsible for 137,000+ deaths and no economic policy will save economy. Masking will.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 14, 2020
Nearly a month after Mike Pence published an optimistic coronavirus op-ed, he has been proved wrong in nearly every way on every bit of data he offered. Pence presented a case that was shown to be inaccurate often only days after his article was published. https://t.co/8f6eT9b93S
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 14, 2020
re: #237 lawhawk
I used to hang my tassels from my graduations along with a red ribbon. Now? Spare masks in the car.
fuzzy dice back in the ’50s
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
I live in Los Angeles.
You’re lying, Darling Nikki!
But keep lying since that is all you RepubliKKKlans do!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 14, 2020
INBOX: In a letter to VP Pence and Healthy Secy Azar, @COVIDOversight chair @WhipClyburn asks for a response to the cmte’s multiple requests for updates on the fed handling of pandemic PLUS info on reported efforts by POTUS to sideline Dr. #Fauci from testifying. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/4M6X0jGGQn
— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) July 14, 2020
They keep using that word “great.”
I don’t think it means what they think it means. https://t.co/YT6iz2Lw5S— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) July 14, 2020
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shootings are up. Deaths are up too. Why is a good question. There’s some evidence that domestic violence has accelerated, but NYC saw a spate of drive-by shootings.
I’m still curious where all the guns are coming from in NY. Out of state guns have been part of gun violence in NY for decades - so it’d be curious to see where the guns are coming from - someone’s profiting from them.
NYC disbanded an anti-crime unit, because it disproportionately arrested and went after persons of color and used abusive tactics. But that doesn’t stop the crimes from occurring in the first place.
There’s no department of pre-crime, so something else is going on here. We’re also seeing a lot warmer weather. People are staying home for longer stretches of time.
I’d suggest looking at the water quality in the homes where these people are living. Prolonged exposure to water with high lead levels could lead to violence but not sure how quickly lead exposure could cause people to act violently.
LOL 🤣🤣
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been in isolation for almost a week at the official residence of Alvorada, after confirming that he had contracted the new coronavirus.
In an interview with CNN Brasil, the president indicated that a new examination will be carried out on Tuesday, and he confessed that he eagerly awaits the results because he cannot bear the confinement.
The result of the RT-PCR examination “should come out in a few hours and I will wait with quite anxious because I can’t stand this routine of staying at home, it’s horrible”Said the president in the telephone interview.
This is the funny part….
Beyond his remote labors, the president starred in an unusual scene outside the walls of his residence, which was captured by a photographer and widely commented on media and social networks.
While strolling through the residence gardens, Bolsonaro tried to feed a group of emus who were passing by. However, the result was not what was expected: one of them bit his hand.
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fact: he has no record when it comes to the LGBT community. His base wants to roll back protections. He’s fought against LGBT rights, and has been on losing side in the courts.https://t.co/PFnmisVrBe
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 13, 2020
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #227 makeitstop
LOL
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She was 9 months old when the first Dilbert strip was published
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 14, 2020
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany: “[President Trump] has a great record when it comes to the LGBT community.”
She is referring to the Pulse shooting after which he was able to market his Islamophobia as “support for the LGBT community”.
This Trump comment from yesterday is being misinterpreted. (As usual, he was vague.) Trump was making a claim about H1N1 testing in 2009, based on a recent Fox report, not saying Obama-Biden shut down Covid testing. https://t.co/efZiJqAm23
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If she’s happy, more power to her. I just can’t imagine having enough in common with someone that much younger to sustain a relationship.
re: #252 Barefoot Grin
If she’s happy, more power to her. I just can’t imagine having enough in common with someone that much younger to sustain a relationship.
Love is a funny thing…I had a GF and musical partner of 4 1/2 years who was six months old when I played my first gig..
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I always found Scott Addams’ political views to be those of a jerk but at least he keeps them out of his strip to a great extent
re: #232 Teukka
Rear view mirror decorations through the ages:
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Cop threatened to shoot protesters if they came to his door — now he’s charged with killing a fellow officer who knocked https://t.co/tc7tl6irhy
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 14, 2020
Trump giving our tax money straight to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is right up there with him rewarding Russia with our classified intel for putting bounties on U.S. soldiers. https://t.co/WRgKVTbKgY
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 14, 2020
I picture Jared and Ivanka sitting around “doing work” and thinking it through, what must it be like to *need* money and just *not have it*?
They picture a worker going “My job is gone! Oh noes!! I will have to sit here and starve!” Benevolently, they innovate: Seek a NEW job!— 🆘Rev Magdalen |This Machine Dismantles Patriarchy (@revmagdalen) July 14, 2020
re: #245 lawhawk
Shootings are up. Deaths are up too. Why is a good question. There’s some evidence that domestic violence has accelerated, but NYC saw a spate of drive-by shootings.
Hypothesis:
Too many camera phones to keep beating up people at protests, and the fake poisoning stories didn’t work, so cops (in their own cars, on their way home) do a bunch of drive-by’s to create a justification for why they shouldn’t be defunded and have a bunch of layoffs.
re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth
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More than ever our #PledgetoAmericasWorkers is focused on helping Americans 🇺🇸 bolster skills to find new jobs + navigate career transitions.
Today we are launching the #FindSomethingNew ad campaign!https://t.co/gS1JL50lcU— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 14, 2020
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The U.S. government has awarded coronavirus relief loans to several subsidiaries of Chinese companies, including one linked to the Chinese military that drew scrutiny from Congress”
This is sounding like a shell-company arrangement to pay back Trump’s loans to the Bank of China using US gov’t relief funds.
I cannot wait until this all comes out in the laundry, so to speak…
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Starting to
hitinconvenience home…
oh
“Nothing would make me less likely to go shopping than the thought of having to mask up,” says Conservative Sir Desmond Swayne who calls the new rule for shoppers in England a “monstrous imposition”https://t.co/iKXtspO6TU pic.twitter.com/e0dVtoH3K0
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) July 14, 2020
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Would be so great if the Media would get the word out to the people in a “fair and balanced” way. We will win anyway, but they are a far more difficult adversary than their Radical Left Do Nothing Democrat Partner!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 14, 2020
The Philadelphia mayor’s office says all large public events requiring city permits are canceled through February 2021 https://t.co/ILRfHho7oh pic.twitter.com/wDV5xmsVjp
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 14, 2020
re: #223 makeitstop
It’s funny that Garrison has to clearly label every ‘point’ he’s trying to make. I guess his readers would miss them if he didn’t.
They need to be told what to think
re: #158 jeffreyw
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Western good morning!
(I hope you’re feeling as food as the levitating birds!)
RIP Grant Imahara. He passed from a brain aneurysm. Fuck….
Grant Imahara, host of ‘MythBusters’ and ‘White Rabbit Project,’ dies at 49 https://t.co/j7yhlOekrJ
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 14, 2020
Whoot! 145 K Karma points!!! Thank you all again, now only 105K to go to reach my lifetime goal of 250K, after which I can retire from posting and take up a more rewarding hobby…
re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would think Sir Desmond there would just have one of his hapless serfs do the shopping for him.
Is this today? pic.twitter.com/POLcOStgiP
— LVaddict618 (@LVaddict618) July 13, 2020
re: #223 makeitstop
It’s funny that Garrison has to clearly label every ‘point’ he’s trying to make. I guess his readers would miss them if he didn’t.
It’s an old tradition of political cartoonists from the 18th and 19th century and even into the early 20th century to label their works with lots of explanatory text. These days it’s, well, cartoonish.
re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Nothing would make me less likely to go shopping than the thought of having to mask up,” says Conservative Sir Desmond Swayne who calls the new rule for shoppers in England a “monstrous imposition”https://t.co/iKXtspO6TU pic.twitter.com/e0dVtoH3K0
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) July 14, 2020
House Democrats seek information from CIA and FBI on antifa rumors : https://t.co/ADxfpk0uZX via @AOL
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 14, 2020
Now, do one in a class room. https://t.co/n5zDCkZMNq
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 14, 2020
re: #274 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
“Nothing would make me less likely to go shopping than the thought of having to mask up,” says Conservative Sir Desmond Swayne who calls the new rule for shoppers in England a “monstrous imposition”
I find nothing would make me less likely to shop than the thought of going into a shop full of people without masks.
Lincoln Project video editor is out over crude tweets about female anatomy https://t.co/zI7tSHcvHl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 14, 2020
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are both equally patriarchal and homophobic, and both home-grown to the greatest extent and tailored to fit the nationalist sentiment of representing “God’s Chosen Nation”.
Any religion that is the religion of the ruling class displays these characteristics, Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, “Marxism”, “Maoism”…
Despite being a 2nd generation atheist (and convinced that belief in religion is fundamentally stupid) I contend that it’s any particular religion (or in the case of for e.g. doctrinaire “marxism”, pseudo religion) that’s the problem, it’s what happens when you weaponise a belief system as a way of propping up the ruling class.
I never would have guessed that a 4 by 6 inch piece of cloth would destroy humanity…
…but here we are.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I find nothing would make me less likely to shop than the thought of going into a shop full of people without masks.
Well, I imagine one thing you wouldn’t have to worry about is running into old Sir Tweedy McTweedface there: he doesn’t look like the sort who has ever set foot in a “shop” in his life.
Ben Garrison is suing the ADL for calling him anti-Semitic. He’s represented by Steven Biss, most known for helping Devin Nunes sue a cow. https://t.co/yVTeTqomCy
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) July 14, 2020
re: #239 lawhawk
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FindSomethingNew? Sure. How about Biden?
re: #223 makeitstop
It’s funny that Garrison has to clearly label every ‘point’ he’s trying to make. I guess his readers would miss them if he didn’t.
Wait for the next McNaughton painting that has Trump as Jesus Christ being nailed to a cross by Dr. Fauci.
Satire has died, it’s dead. https://t.co/WK9npSt6sB
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 14, 2020
re: #282 The Pie Overlord!
I wonder what sort of things discovery could find in Mr Garrison’s correspondence and notes.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I never would have guessed that a 4 by 6 inch piece of cloth would destroy humanity…
…but here we are.
The issue is that you’re asking people to be concerned about the welfare of others. Can you see now how much of a problem that is? //
Ben Garrison is suing the ADL for calling him anti-Semitic. He’s represented by Steven Biss, most known for helping Devin Nunes sue a cow.
Next they will be calling him an ex-prostitute
re: #282 The Pie Overlord!
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Suing the ADL. There’s some chutzpah for you.
All they need do is present his cartoons as evidence, and boom.
re: #286 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder what sort of things discovery could find in Mr Garrison’s correspondence and notes.
Yeah…something tells me a lot of kinky stuff is encrypted on Garrison’s computer!
This is not exactly ideal:
.@TXMedCenter update (https://t.co/PcENXhkQA9):
=ICUs at 102% capacity (-1% from y’day; -8 COVID patients/ -5 non-COVID)
=COVID hospitalizations fell (-8 ICU, +1 normal beds)
=In Phase 2 (adding staff/equip. to create more ICU beds); not projected to enter Phase 3 for 2 weeks pic.twitter.com/zM7ik8iP8R— Mike Morris (@mmorris011) July 14, 2020
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
No matter how hard you try, there’s always that one.
re: #286 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I wonder what sort of things discovery could find in Mr Garrison’s correspondence and notes.
You mean the docs tucked into his copy of “The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion” ?
FYI - updated Tax Day is tomorrow. It was pushed from April 15th due to the covid19 pandemic.
How about DUMB & DUMBER, assclown?
Or just say #ByeDonJr.pic.twitter.com/460OLnpQcQ— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 14, 2020
re: #278 The Pie Overlord!
A quick reminder that these people aren’t friends, they’re enemies of our enemies and nothing more.
re: #294 Jay C
You mean the docs tucked into his copy of “The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion” ?
Dear ADL:
Just go on Google and find gems like these…
re: #298 🌹UOJB!
Yep, Garrison is going to get his nuts kicked in pretty quickly on this one.
re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, Garrison is going to get his nuts kicked in pretty quickly on this one.
Reminds me to donate to the ADL.
Because these fucknuts want to make them waste resources on these frivolous suits.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Woman who got paid to pose naked?
Failed architect.
re: #285 lawhawk
Satire has not only died….it was taken outside, roughed up with a baseball bat then shot twice in the back of the head.
They actually submitted this to the court? SRSLY???
This is just great. The ADL knows that the Rothschilds and Soros control McMaster, cause they’re all part of the Jewish conspiracy. Also, I’m not an anti-Semite. pic.twitter.com/gSUGKXL7u4
— Whey Standard (@Whey_standard) July 14, 2020
re: #154 makeitstop
Real good thread here, about New York’s success story and what southern states can learn from it.
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New York’s “success story” is the same as any European country that acted too late, but acted more or less well enough. It’s the same as France, Italy, Spain or the UK.
Not as bad as Belgium, not as stupid as Sweden, just more or less the average for a non-island industrialised country.
re: #296 (((Archangel1)))
You’re a crook.
You’re a crook who commuted another crooks sentence.
You have no idea what Law & Order means.
I pray one day you will.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 14, 2020
re: #297 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A quick reminder that these people aren’t friends, they’re enemies of our enemies and nothing more.
I bet there are people looking really hard to discredit the Lincoln Project. There’s always that one. Imagine if we were all judged by Anthony Weiner.
re: #305 John Hughes
New York’s “success story” is the same as any European country that acted too late, but acted more or less well enough. It’s the same as France, Italy, Spain or the UK.
Not as bad as Belgium, not as stupid as Sweden, just more or less the average for a non-island industrialised country.
Yeah, but compare it to responses in America, and suddenly it looks really good. By no means perfect, of course.
re: #308 Belafon
I bet there are people looking really hard to discredit the Lincoln Project. There’s always that one. Imagine if we were all judged by Anthony Weiner.
Losing that video guy is gonna take a lot of the edge off their work. He was real good.
re: #308 Belafon
I bet there are people looking really hard to discredit the Lincoln Project. There’s always that one. Imagine if we were all judged by Anthony Weiner.
I’m sure that’s true. But these still are not friends.
Many of them helped the US on the path to trump. They’re trying to get rid of him. Great. They’re still not friends.
Hit me up in about 5 years and let’s discuss what has transpired in that time. I don’t trust them. I don’t like them. At best, they’re enemies of my enemy.
re: #304 makeitstop
They actually submitted this to the court? SRSLY???
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re: #304 makeitstop
They actually submitted this to the court? SRSLY???
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re: #310 makeitstop
Losing that video guy is gonna take a lot of the edge off their work. He was real good.
It depends on who had the ideas for the videos. Could be catastrophic, could be replaceable. This remains to be seen.
re: #205 Jay C
BTW, in case anyone was curious, USS Bonhomme Richard is apparently still on fire in San Diego. The latest reports indicate that while the blaze is somewhat contained, it is still not “out”, and that the Navy still has no clear idea of the extent of the damage. Yet.
Though, via the usual authoritative source of Internet gossip, it seems increasingly likely that BHR may have to be written off: it will/may depend on the extent of structural damage to the hull from the fire.
And, of course, the estimated cost of repairs vs. replacement vs. retirement, etc. Oh, not to mention the costs of mitigating any environmental damage the ship fire may cause: IIUC, the vessel’s fire-control systems had been drained, but its fuel tanks (or some tanks of some type of fuel) had not.
Sweet jeebus. Over 60 sailors/firefighters injured. Fire may have started in storage areas in lower portion of ship.
The ships regular fire suppression systems were disabled because of the rehab work underway. That may be why the fire spread and got as intense as it did. They’re still fighting it remotely, but think they can keep the fire from the oil storage bunkers.
re: #316 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me?
YOU GUYS WANNA KNOW
HOW BAD COVID IS IN THE U.S.?
All of Florida’s cases
yesterday 12,600…
Are more than all of the cases
in the entire European Union yesterday.
AND they have over 500 million people. #TuesdayThoughts#TrumpIsKillingAmericans #ITrustDrFauci #KidVicious🤦🏻♂️— kirk acevedo (@kirkacevedo) July 14, 2020
With more than 2,000 patients hospitalized and hundreds in ICUs, “Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic,” one infectious disease expert said https://t.co/OInHYQAUZf
— CNN (@CNN) July 14, 2020
re: #317 lawhawk
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me?
Thanks!
For a second I thought, wait, what did I say?? Duh. 😂
re: #314 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It depends on who had the ideas for the videos. Could be catastrophic, could be replaceable. This remains to be seen.
The content could be the same, but that dude had style. The visuals were a big part of those spots, if they go more ‘conventional’ they’re gonna lose a little muscle.
Hopefully they find some young hot shot to replace him.
Uh oh. Someone jumped in the paddling pool. pic.twitter.com/ztJQcBlRr0
— Katherine Boyle (@FlippinKath) July 14, 2020
Oh, Reuters.
Oh okay. https://t.co/0Y0Zhzk1fu
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 14, 2020
By their metric, it would seem that dads can be as creepy as they want with their daughters. SMH
Just talked to a friend of ours who owns our neighborhood bar. Right before the fucking plague hit, he signed a two year thing for his license and lease for the building. (New Mexico has a set amount of liquor licenses, you need to “borrow” and lease one to run a bar. The people who own the licenses very rarely sell them, but if they do, they run a million and up. They make the real money leasing and dipping their beaks in the profits.)
Anyway, our friend is cool, he’s frustrated and talking about how the virus is a natural thing and we need to not close businesses because of it. He said it’s a type of flu. No, he’s not political and he doesn’t watch Fox, but he does hang out on the internet, so… yeah.
He said if they don’t get to open within the next couple of months, they’ll never open again. We told him as soon as they can open in any form, we’ll come have a drink. (And I am absolutely FREAKED out on spending any time in an enclosed place like that.) But we’ll definitely go have a shot.
We told him about dude getting laid off, and he was bummed for us. Then we told him that all the things dude wanted to be able to do when he retired are off the fucking table, so all we do is go look for wildlife and have a couple of shots.
We are living in hell, or, if you are a Catholic or Episcopalian, maybe it’s purgatory.
re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump can’t go to New York because they don’t like him, and he can’t go to Florida because the virus is taking over.
“our lead writer has nothing to do with the words on our show” https://t.co/5JKd2mwDEQ
— darth™ (@darth) July 14, 2020
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
what words did TC fire his writer over?
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what words did TC fire his writer over?
The ones he got caught with.
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what words did TC fire his writer over?
The words that came out of Tucker’s mouth…
The new Biden ad is part of a new mid six figure ad buy on air and digital in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and Texas. Each ad features a customized message to the state https://t.co/Dqpf6xDJ0P
— Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) July 14, 2020
- playtime for baby armadillo
❤ pic.twitter.com/reLpcYwZ24— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) July 14, 2020
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
armored cuteness
re: #324 makeitstop
Oh, Reuters.
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By their metric, it would seem that dads can be as creepy as they want with their daughters. SMH
In every picture of Donald & Ivanka he is displaying her in a sexualized manner. EVERY LAST ONE. And she doesn’t look happy either.
re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth
One of my fave animal vids of all time.
60,045 tests in NY yesterday and only 912 positives. For the billionth time, testing does not create cases, it shows you how many there are. The more of it you do per capita, the better you can track the virus, isolate and treat the infected and slow the spread of the disease. https://t.co/td4cL8DFZa
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) July 14, 2020
To summarize the next twelve hours of Twitter:
- Bari Weiss resigned from the NYT
- She wrote a piece about how Twitter is evil and her voice is silenced at the NYT, which is the exact same thing she wrote in the pages of the NYT
- She dated Kate McKinnon, still makes no sense— flavortown alderman (@jesseltaylor) July 14, 2020
Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable. Mural in a Florida courthouse depicts the KKK riding horses.
The mural was painted in 2001.
This mural was painted in… *checks notes* 2001.
Florida y’all. https://t.co/inKpZAPKNL— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 14, 2020
When it comes to our health, we Kentuckians are kind of like the guy who stands on the roof, skateboard in one hand and Wild Turkey in the other, who yells, “Hey, errbody. Watch me.” https://t.co/pWosYg2pSJ
— Joe Gerth (@Joe_Gerth) July 14, 2020
It’s not abouut taking care of yourself, it’s about taking care of your community
— TheWickedWench (@melizzle71) July 14, 2020
re: #155 lawhawk
I’m a fan of the Washington Carvers.
I’ve said it before but the best name of all would be the Washington Social Justice Warriors. SJWs or Warriors for short.
Anyone who uses SJW as an insult is what? An antisocial injustice coward?
Be like the Evzones, if someone wants to make fun of you it tells you more about them than you.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
Owning the libs by executing a white supremacist terrorist.
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I know I’ve said this before, but one of my enduring memories of living in Lexington was riding by the U of Kentucky hospital to and from work each day on my bike past the dozens of patients (some with personal oxygen tanks) and even nurses out front smoking all the time. Common sense.
The Daily Sourdough pic.twitter.com/p56awRVIxa
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) July 14, 2020
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
It took Abbott to get most people to wear their masks here. Why? Because most people need an authority figure to tell them to do something. There are a lot of reasons, but none of them qualify under common sense as the judge means it.
The Latin proverb ‘stultorum quanto status sublimior, tanto manifestior turpitudo’ warns that inept people who engineer themselves into powerful positions will always end up disgracing themselves. It literally means ‘the higher the status of fools, the more obvious their shame’.
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) July 13, 2020
Um… Obama released all his tax returns years ago.
.@BarackObama should release all his records (like other Presidents)….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2012
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
My son, who is working for an attending UK told us the school has figured out a way around ICE’s and Trump’s school orders: Classes are being declared hybrids, with a requirement that international students must meet with the professor sometime during hte semester.
re: #339 lawhawk
Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable. Mural in a Florida courthouse depicts the KKK riding horses.
The mural was painted in 2001.
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Barber wrote a guidebook describing his historical depiction in each of the painting’s 43 panels, archived by the Baker County Historical Society. His entry for the KKK image does not mention anything about the group’s extensive and brutal history of racial terror. It instead describes the KKK as a solution to “lawlessness,” saying in part:
“Lawlessness among ex-slaves and troublesome whites was the rule of the day. No relief was given by the carpetbag and scalawag government or by the Union troops. The result was the emergence of secret societies claiming to bring law and order to the county. One of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that sometimes took vigilante justice to extremes but was sometimes the only control the county knew over those outside the law. The Klan faded from view at the end of Reconstruction. It had minor come-backs in the 1920’s and mid 1950’s. Since then it has become the subject of legend rather than a cause of fear.”
re: #345 Belafon
It took Abbott to get most people to wear their masks here. Why? Because most people need an authority figure to tell them to do something. There are a lot of reasons, but none of them qualify under common sense as the judge means it.
Beshear issued his EO mandating masks because people weren’t wearing them. Kentucky GOP got outraged and said Kentuckians aren’t stupid.
and they found a circuit court judge who agreed with them.
insanity
People release a lot of frustration by baking bread. (In spoiler tags because cuss words)
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There are 112 days until Election Day, it’s been *1,250* days since I first asked the Administration to back up its unfounded claims of 2016 voter fraud, and – not coincidentally – there is still no basis for the conspiracy theory that #VoteByMail will corrupt the election. https://t.co/92Ehu1srRM
— Ellen L 😷 Weintraub (@EllenLWeintraub) July 14, 2020
BREAKING! SESSIONS ARRESTED FOR ELECTION FRAUD! pic.twitter.com/EbJhqK1clH
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 13, 2020
re: #242 🌹UOJB!
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Looks like the official LAPD crime statistics have homicides up by 11.6% YTD, so not really lying, just a bad take on what it means.
re: #154 makeitstop
Well, over here in Scotland, there have been no reported deaths for the last 6 days. (Population of Scotland: about 5.3 million.)
Obviously, this is early days in the easing of the lockdown, but it looks like a good sign.
Nicola Sturgeon taking today’s coronavirus briefing
3 cases in last 24 hours
There are only 2 patients with covid in intensive care in the whole of scotland
There have been zero deaths for the sixth day in a row.— David Wallace Lockhart (@BBCDavidWL) July 14, 2020
re: #349 sagehen
“Lawlessness among ex-slaves and troublesome whites was the rule of the day. No relief was given by the carpetbag and scalawag government or by the Union troops. The result was the emergence of secret societies claiming to bring law and order to the county. One of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that sometimes took vigilante justice to extremes but was sometimes the only control the county knew over those outside the law. The Klan faded from view at the end of Reconstruction. It had minor come-backs in the 1920’s and mid 1950’s. Since then it has become the subject of legend rather than a cause of fear.
“Birth of a Nation view of the Klan; and calling the 1920s revival “minor” is just a flat-out lie.
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Peter Principle, sort of.
re: #356 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Birth of a Nation view of the Klan; and calling the 1920s revival “minor” is just a flat-out lie.
The KKK of the 1920s was the Klan at its zenith. It’s never been more powerful, before or since.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
pphd.org
One thing I don’t understand is why so many people think that flattening the curve only applies to the epidemic.
Do you remember when people were being outraged when hospitals in northern Italy had to start formal triage and only treat people they thought they could save?
Ah, innocent times.
(An aside: Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité is not just a slogan in France, the conseil constitutionel has ruled that it is a part of the constitution. When cases in the Grand Est (d’r Grossa Oschta) started to overwhelm local hospital capacity evacuation convoys (helicopter to Germany and Switzerland, Army air transport to Lyons, medicalised TGV trains to Bordeaux) were organised to free up intensive care beds. The same procedure was put in place when the cases in the Ile de France started to run out of control, and currently l’Armée de l’Air are evacuating cases from Guyanne to Martinique for the same reason. Fraternité. PS. Thanks once again to our German and Swiss neighbours for their help.).
re: #178 Sir John Barron
ocument recounted a number of instances — on community transmission, asymptomatic transmission and mask wearing in particular — where Fauci’s views have shifted over time.
My opinion changes to fit the facts. Yours?
re: #363 makeitstop
Seen on Facebook…
Digging graves for schoolchildren, their parents and grandparents…
re: #364 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And teachers.
re: #360 stpaulbear
Well, they are republicans.
We need to not forget this when they start pushing anti-Biden ads next year.
re: #355 Alephnaught
Well, over here in Scotland, there have been no reported deaths for the last 6 days. (Population of Scotland: about 5.3 million.)
Obviously, this is early days in the easing of the lockdown, but it looks like a good sign.
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I think it’s time for Trump to make a visit to his golf course and take credit for your successes.
I don’t trust this poll, but if true, whoa. https://t.co/PQGWT7gGpG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 14, 2020
Floridians are sick as fuck of Corona and Trump is not in any position to wash his hands of what he has helped to bring about.
I just watched that ‘Bye Don Jr’ spot. (Not gonna link it)
Everybody talks about how annoying Evita’s voice is, but Greazy Punk Jr’s voice is every bit as annoying. He tries so hard to sound authoritative, but it always sounds like someone trying too hard to sound authoritative.
re: #256 lawhawk
Salyers stated that he transferred his weapon from his right hand into his left hand and reached for the door knob and, as he opened the door, the gun went off, firing a round through the front door
Where do they get these magic guns that work by themselves?
re: #369 Charles Johnson
#Florida Presidential Polling:
Biden (D): 53%
Trump (R): 43%
Gravis / July 13, 2020 / n=529 / MOE 4.3% / Telephonehttps://t.co/8bqwSm0A90— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) July 14, 2020
Phone poll — not worth the pixels that display the results.
re: #274 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Don’t go shopping then
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Do you seriously imagine that Sir Desmond Swayne “goes shopping”? He has people for that.
re: #309 makeitstop
Yeah, but compare it to responses in America, and suddenly it looks really good. By no means perfect, of course.
Yeah, but I was comparing New York to first world countries, not third world failed states.
re: #319 Patricia Kayden
AND they have over 500 million people.
Don’t exaggerate. The EU has only 446 million people. Brexit. :(
re: #282 The Pie Overlord!
Let’s face it: Ben Garrison is a lousy right-wing cartoonist. If one were to go through his whole portfolio odds are you’d find a lot of slander and libel on his part. And since he has no backing/agency of any editorial press (AFAIK), he’s just pissing up a rope for distance.
Some of his cartoons, ironically, have proven to have failed so spectacularly in their predictive quality (WeSearchr) that whatever he draws should be laughed at - and if printed, used as toilet paper.
re: #304 makeitstop
@GrrrGraphics You are as dumb as Charles C. Johnson, whose likeness you drew for a WeSearchr toon you drew. If there is one thing that can be said, you certainly know how to pick losers.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) July 14, 2020
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