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This really is the most haunted thing I’ve ever seen.
In fifty years it will hang at Mar-a-lago and the guy who takes care of the place during off season radiation storms will slowly be driven mad while mutating into a can of beans pic.twitter.com/AOLEh1S99K— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
§ 2635.702 Use of public office for private gain.
“An employee shall not use his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise.” https://t.co/FVilEoWgWz— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 15, 2020
Local conservative corruption.
Cindy Drake, a librarian who’s worked at the state history society for 43 years, was placed on paid “investigatory leave” for a week on Friday afternoon, a couple of hours after reading a critical statement to the History Nebraska Board of Trustees.
Most of the criticism was directed at the agency’s director, Trevor Jones, who Drake maintains has engaged in a campaign to force her to retire over the past four years.
Future Historians: The Trump Administration chose to die on a hill of beans
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
A COVID-19 scam is making the rounds.The Better Business Bureau warns of scammers leaving or sending messages explaining that you’ve come in contact with someone who has tested positive for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The message provides a link for more information, but the link can contain malware that downloads to your computer, tablet or smartphone.
Another version of the scam, officials said, involves a robocall claiming to be part of “contact and tracing efforts.” It asks individuals to verify personal information.
With some people already wary of contact tracing, scammers are making it worse here.
Public Health districts, county and city health departments here always contact people by telephone and identify who they are. If a person is unsure whether the call is legitimate, they can call the health department and verify the caller.
Video of the today’s incident from a camera mounted on one of the Russian vehicles. Witnesses told local journalists that the explosion was a car bomb. https://t.co/fQ6fGg2mJl
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) July 14, 2020
#LangstonHughes pic.twitter.com/uZ7oJfzwHQ
— *terp garden* (@KanariKira) July 14, 2020
this timeline is bad and it should feel bad
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
Well, after the Independence Day Rodeo at Camp Clark here went swimmingly, creating a Covid-19 outbreak, Cheyenne County pushes ahead with their county fair.
One of the annual events in Cheyenne County is the county fair. There is the viewing of crafts, including clothing designs, animal shows and auction, carnival, concerts and many other events.
Many of this year’s events have been put on hold. The good news is the majority of the 4-H programs will remain.
The livestock judging and showing, and the numerous other programs, from clothing construction to static exhibits, will be conducted. However, this year, 4-H members will be the only ones in the exhibit building and the pavilion. The goal is to keep participants healthy, according to Laura Narjes. 4-H Extension Educator. She added they also want to return more normalcy to the community. However, the return of normalcy has to be done under public health guidelines including Panhandle Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Nebraska’s Directed.
County Fair 4-H Events On Schedule (Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph, more at the link)
I have a better way to “return to normalcy”: Cancel public events like this for a few weeks.
From a California mfg biz pal-
All day long today at work. “Will you be open tomorrow?” “Will we have warning of closing?” “What if I can’t come to get my castings?” Various fellow employees stressing about being sick or getting exposed. Feeling hot? Might be a fever might just be 100 degrees and a two-block walk and a long wait for the elevator. Then you set off the fever alarm on the thermometer trying to get in to work…
Do the job dodge the bullet and try not to explode at nonmask Plandemic assholes.
So if COVID-19 required schools to close in March and it’s worse now, why are we talking about reopening?
— Isaac Wilson (D-SC) (@wilsonforsc63) July 13, 2020
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, after the Independence Day Rodeo at Camp Clark here went swimmingly, creating a Covid-19 outbreak, Cheyenne County pushes ahead with their county fair.
County Fair 4-H Events On Schedule (Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph, more at the link)
I have a better way to “return to normalcy”: Cancel public events like this for a few weeks.
The State Fair of Texas has canceled for this year, and it normally starts in late September. If those running that fair called it off, every other fair should close.
LOL
This…could have come from my dad. His name is even John. 😔 https://t.co/kPoEvit1Ey
— Jess Phoenix 🌋 (@jessphoenix2018) July 2, 2020
re: #14 Belafon
Meanwhile in Utah:
Evidently, some schools in the US are already readying templates for student & staff death announcements. 😢 pic.twitter.com/evC2zr9vZ5
— Amelia Have❤️Heart (@AviFlyGirl) July 14, 2020
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Someone replied to that saying it’s standard procedure when preparing for a crisis as if that makes it ok.
I’M FUCKING DONE pic.twitter.com/XQukW1JMgY
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 15, 2020
re: #15 Belafon
The State Fair of Texas has canceled for this year, and it normally starts in late September. If those running that fair called it off, every other fair should close.
Our state fair is still full steam ahead for August 28-September 7. Governor Ameritrade can’t be arsed with caring about people in Grand Island, one of the hardest hit towns of the pandemic.
re: #20 Belafon
Someone replied to that saying it’s standard procedure when preparing for a crisis as if that makes it ok.
I can see having some sort of template for a school, in that the likelihood someone will die during the school year is pretty high. They probably shouldn’t have published that though.
re: #9 Dread Pirate
Don’t know about the Russians’ and Turks’ SOP’s, but it was doctrine in the US Army ‘back in the day’ that you do not stop in the killzone of an ambush.
re: #20 Belafon
and the only reason that it’s likely to be a crisis is because it’s self imposed on us by a raving fucking narcissist and everyone else is just going to throw up their hands and mindlessly go along as if anything he says and does has any legitimacy after the last 36 months.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in Utah:
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Umm… I agree about reopening, but people die of all sorts of things. I say this as the former person-in-charge of administrative details when a death occurred in one small branch of a large institution. Of course there’s a procedure to follow.
Beans and Circuses. 😳
— Adam Rifkin 🐼 (@ifindkarma) July 15, 2020
“All across the country, Nextdoor posts advertising protests get struck down by community moderators while racist and inflammatory messages, some calling for direct violence against black people and protestors, are left to stand.” https://t.co/MVEnYzpaJt via @verge @kellymakena
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) June 8, 2020
Nextdoor lets moderators control the narrative of their neighborhood - yet doesn’t hold them accountable or even provide basic training (???)@Nextdoor needs to do something NOW. We don’t have all the answers, but we think this petition is a good start: https://t.co/7Wc6Q2rYJL
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) June 8, 2020
GUYS WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💚
Nextdoor to update their moderation policy to prevent #BlackLivesMatter convos from being censored, recruit more Black moderators, AND offer bias training to mods 🙏
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SIGNED OUR PETITION OMG 😭😭😭https://t.co/rUYDMmFFVU— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) July 2, 2020
This is relevant to my interests.
Wow Incredible….. hiking the Watzmann Mountain, Germany pic.twitter.com/CCiUnAI3l4
— Domenico (@AvatarDomy) July 10, 2020
I hope we can get into Europe again some day.
re: #30 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
That is nothing compared to my driveway. I will be spraying it over the weekend.
re: #31 jaunte
This is relevant to my interests.
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I hope we can get into Europe again some day.
Nope nope nope nope nope…
I also want to go back to Europe, but closer to sea level.
I was on Nextdoor just long enough to realize it was all about the racism. Every other post was about a suspicious brown person. Hello. This is New Mexico.
Nextdoor is trash.
re: #31 jaunte
This is relevant to my interests.
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I hope we can get into Europe again some day.
I don’t have a problem with heights generally. I spent a couple summers assembling scaffolding for a construction company back in the day, I did lighting and sound back in college and climbed and scurried across trusses way up in the air, but this…no thank you. You roll your ankle and you are freaking dead.
re: #35 plansbandc
My co-workers have asked to join several chat forums. To be honest I rather stay here where it is a break from what is going on in politics and the world.
re: #38 PhillyPretzel
My co-workers have asked to join several chat forums. To be honest I rather stay here where it is a break from what is going on in politics and the world.
THIS is a break from politics and the world? (I like it here too, obviously.)
re: #35 plansbandc
I was on Nextdoor just long enough to realize it was all about the racism. Every other post was about a suspicious brown person. Hello. This is New Mexico.
Nextdoor is trash.
All I ever see on nextdoor is people trying to get rid of stuff or warning about random coyote sightings. Even one bobcat sighting which is pretty rare in the Massachusetts burbs
re: #39 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
THIS is a break from politics and the world? (I like it here too, obviously.)
Of course. Here, we talk about the world and politics. Totally different.
re: #41 Belafon
At least we are trying to be sensible about it.
re: #40 danarchy
All I ever see on nextdoor is people trying to get rid of stuff or warning about random coyote sightings. Even one bobcat sighting which is pretty rare in the Massachusetts burbs
I see that, missing dogs, and repairman recommendations. But I have also seen arguments over guns, Covid-19, and the reports of suspicious black teens walking down the sidewalk, if you get my meaning.
re: #43 Belafon
I think it could be useful for finding a lost pet, but that’s about it.
re: #40 danarchy
All I ever see on nextdoor is people trying to get rid of stuff or warning about random coyote sightings. Even one bobcat sighting which is pretty rare in the Massachusetts burbs
I heard (maybe here) nextdoor was trash. Got a few marketing promos like “all your neighbors are here where are you?” which reeks of BS. I grew up in MA burbs years ago (well before nextdoor type apps) and never saw a bobcat :)
re: #44 plansbandc
The Ring doorbell has the missing pets too as well as the suspicious persons.
re: #46 PhillyPretzel
The Ring doorbell has the missing pets too as well as the suspicious persons.
Ring is actually worse in my book, because it actively sends “security reports in your area” crap out. I have the device, but I haven’t subscribed.
re: #44 plansbandc
I think it could be useful for finding a lost pet, but that’s about it.
It has been great for getting dogs back to their owners, and sharing school info.
re: #35 plansbandc
I was on Nextdoor just long enough to realize it was all about the racism. Every other post was about a suspicious brown person. Hello. This is New Mexico.
Nextdoor is trash.
I was on Nextdoor for a week. Most of the posts were pro-Trump and yes the racism ran unchecked on it. I cancelled my account and I won’t waste another second on it.
Tonight’s kind of a big deal for me ‘cuz I’m the guy at ANTIFA who’s been splicing subliminal images of beans into Ivanka’s TV feed
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
I actually argued with someone on here that believed the test gives you the virus. 🤦♀️
— TenaciousT (@Temocracy17) July 15, 2020
re: #45 Jason Munro
I heard (maybe here) nextdoor was trash. Got a few marketing promos like “all your neighbors are here where are you?” which reeks of BS. I grew up in MA burbs years ago (well before nextdoor type apps) and never saw a bobcat :)
There is a Nextdoor group for Morrill County (none of our towns are big enough to have their own group).
I’ve been invited to join several times through E-mail. I don’t know if it comes from people who are actually on Nextdoor, or the site itself sending me E-mails claiming to be members of the site.
Say what you will about covid, the economy, Russian bounties, etc.: humiliating Jeff Sessions has been one of Trump’s most consistent policy goals and tonight is a major victory on that front that Biden will be hard pressed to match
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) July 15, 2020
My wife wants to plan a local trip since we weren’t able to go to Germany this year.
She’s planning a trip to Nebraska’s newest state park, Smith Falls State Park (goes to the state game and parks commission Website)
Smith Falls is the highest waterfall in Nebraska, and is located south of Valentine on the Niobrara River.
This is your Wednesday morning CoViD-19 PSA:
Your minute of conservative hypocrisy:
JUST IN: Trump campaign lawyer who swiped at voting by mail has done so three times: report https://t.co/VdPixkvSyZ pic.twitter.com/iW5ikAiUrs
— The Hill (@thehill) July 15, 2020
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your minute of conservative hypocrisy:
As usual at The Hill, don’t read the comments. An endless litany of conservaderp.
It’s quite telling they only attack blue states or swing states for mail voting, and not red states like Utah or Nebraska.
Plus trying to make a distinction between absentee ballots and mail ballots. They’re both mail ballots.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ours is the second or third biggest state fair, and it’s canceled. Balloon Fiesta is canceled too. Our economy is going to crater, but we might just stay alive for awhile.
The group which holds the ballooning championship in Scottsbluff cancelled due to the virus, but the Old West Balloon Festival will go on anyway August 12-15.
Haven’t spoken for a bit on VA, but if other coastal Southern states are any indication, you should understand that the word “clusterfuck” adequately explains the current situation.
Basically the situation is easy to understand: Just as Northern states initially bore the brunt of the outbreak while Southern states seemed to be taking it all in stride due to rural isolation, Northern VA was a hot zone from March to May while Southern VA was relatively okay despite the earliest cases being seen here in Hampton Roads.
3 months have passed and the situation is entirely reversed, with Northern VA having the virus relatively under control because they took it seriously, while Hampton Roads is now a leper colony because Richmond rushed forward with “reopening” to take advantage of the summer tourism dollars. Districts that previous were doing alright are now posting higher and higher numbers because nobody’s following the rules and everybody’s treating the outbreak as “over.”
And yes, all this is happening while the debate rages over whether or not schools will reopen in September (VA traditionally opens after Labor Day to give Hampton Roads an extra month of tourism revenue on the backs of student labor). No talk yet of things closing back down, but don’t be surprised if we’re back in lockdown the moment Labor Day passes.
So Deserving (Juanita Jean’s)
The newly-elected chair of the Harris County GOP, who was outed as a racist from a Facebook post juxtaposing a banana with a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, has reversed his decision to not assume his new position.
Basically, you elected me you get to keep me.
They elected him, they get to keep him. Besides, he wears a cross everywhere he goes so he’s a racist for Jesus and that makes it okay.
Way to go, Harris County.
This shit just went completely soilent https://t.co/v8L1SdYx9E
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
This shit just went completely soilent https://t.co/v8L1SdYx9E
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
“Better a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian” ——Ishmael in Moby Dick, upon learning that he would be sharing a bed with Queequeg. What happens when the cannibal IS a drunk (and drug addicted) Christian though?
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
Somebody tweeted Tuesday morning that Limbaugh has mentioned cannibalism multiple times and that it might be a good idea to visit him with some cadaver dogs.
I do not have a Google or YouTube account, so I have nothing to log into when I watch a YouTube video.
Since I also have plenty of paranoiaware on my computer, it tends to throw off their algorithm in recommended videos after watching one.
So after watching a Utah Outcasts video, it recommends these to see next:
The Most Brutal Chimpanzee Society Ever Discovered (Discovery UK)
How the Creation of the Tube (subway) Shaped the Way We Live (Discovery UK)
The World of the Dragonfly (Nature)
Calling Scammers by Their Real Names
What is Hinduism?
Tucker Carlson: Can the Left Lead a Country They Hate? (FOX, and fuque ewe)
Dialysis (John Oliver)
Civil War 1864: A Virtual Experience (American Battlefield Trust)
You could spin the Wheel of Cowardice for almost every Republican Senator and ask them about today’s insane presser and they’d stare at the camera blankly and say, “What is television?” “I don’t read social media.” “English is my fourth language.” “Donald Who?”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 15, 2020
re: #62 Targetpractice
Yup, according to the WashPost, the Tidewater region reported 346 new cases Tuesday. If its any consolation Northern Virginia (DC ‘burbs) is also facing a rising case rate with 161 reported Monday.
Va Gov Northam is threatening to clamp down on the Hampton part of the Tidewater Region:
After a sharp increase in infections in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area, Gov. Ralph Northam (D) took more aggressive steps to control the virus from spreading further. He is ordering inspectors to make unannounced visits to restaurants and retail establishments, and then revoking their licenses if workers aren’t wearing masks or customers are allowed to congregate in tight spaces.
He said the statewide action will involve 500 health inspectors with 100 more to be added in the coming weeks.
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The action will mainly be focused in the tourist-heavy Hampton Roads area, where some younger patrons inside restaurant bars and at parties have not been wearing masks, Northam said.
re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
“Better a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian” ——Ishmael in Moby Dick, upon learning that he would be sharing a bed with Queequeg. What happens when the cannibal IS a drunk (and drug addicted) Christian though?
Sick Rush Limbaugh seems to have a thing about cannibalism as a survival technique. He recommended the Donner Party strategy during 2013’s ‘Snowmageddon’ as well: https://t.co/8AucUIFkyv
— WomenForSurvival🌵 #StayHome or #MaskUp! (@WMN4SRVL) July 14, 2020
Reason called it in 2017:
Republicans Won’t Win Unless They Start Electing Cannibal Dictators
Some posters here pointed out that it might be a good strategy to take care of risky errands as soon as an area opened up, rather than wait for the infection rate to climb.
This sounded like a good idea.
So last week, immediately after NoVa reopened, I got my first haircut since January and my car’s Va State Annual inspection. So far I am knocking on wood.
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You know, I have to wonder about Limbaugh and Alex Jones talking about cannibalism.
I could not figure out where all these pedophilia smears on Hillary were coming from. Until I found out how Trump and his friends were hanging out with Epstein, Maxwell, and probably more. And realized it was projection.
re: #14 Belafon
So if COVID-19 required schools to close in March and it’s worse now, why are we talking about reopening?
because the slush fund is running out and Trump properties are facing a serious cash flow shortage
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
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You have to love that in making what he thinks is a winning argument for people accepting that the worst has occurred and we have to learn to live with it, he still thinks the people who should sacrifice are Millenials who should accept that people will die from the virus rather than Boomer and Gen-Xers who are simply being asked to wear masks and stay home if they don’t need to be out.
That instead of a few weeks or months of discomfort and isolation, the “solution” is just to accept hundreds of thousands of deaths and “adapt.”
re: #72 ckkatz
Yup, according to the WashPost, the Tidewater region reported 346 new cases Tuesday. If its any consolation Northern Virginia (DC ‘burbs) is also facing a rising case rate with 161 reported Monday.
Va Gov Northam is threatening to clamp down on the Hampton part of the Tidewater Region:
Northam’s punting, that’s all he’s really doing. Most of Hampton Roads basically shuts down after Labor Day anyway, so he’s just trying to get us to that hurdle and then he can slap the “shutdowns” back in place. Why? Because if he shuts things down now, that’s a month and a half of revenue that won’t be there when budget talks start this fall.
re: #47 Belafon
My son and I are reading World War Z, and just this:
Is this fantasy, or is it real life?
I am not a big fan of zombie anything, but I really liked WWZ because is as much about zombies as it is about how humanity fails to deal with an impending crisis: first suppression of information, then denial, then measures to prevent “panic”, all of which wind up making things worse, then the real panic when people find out what has been going on and trust nobody, then trying to employ outdated measures that worked before in other crises but once again are at best ineffective or even counter-productive…
re: #75 ckkatz
You know, I have to wonder about Limbaugh and Alex Jones talking about cannibalism.
I could not figure out where all these pedophilia smears on Hillary were coming from. Until I found out how Trump and his friends were hanging out with Epstein, Maxwell, and probably more. And realized it was projection.
There was a Republican delegate in Florida who was a cannibal, though his name escapes me now.
The Conservatives are calling for human sacrifice not in the name of freedom or liberty or justice or even survival, but in the name of preserving property rights and assuring that 1% of America will not have to share any of the 40% of America that it owns in order to ease the burden on the remaining 99% of us.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third just got his ass handed to him, as Alabama Republicans pick yet another clownshow candidate. God offered Doug Jones one gift, and he chose “Let me have my choice of opponents.”
Think what irritates me about Limbaugh’s little rant is that he’s portraying Millenials as the only group who are supporting a shutdown, when really no one generation has a monopoly on either taking this pandemic seriously or not. There are just as many Millenial “dudebro” douchebags who are driving up new infection numbers by insisting on going to bars and clubs without masks are there are Boomers and Xers who are pushing for masks and social distancing.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third just got his ass handed to him, as Alabama Republicans pick yet another clownshow candidate. God offered Doug Jones one gift, and he chose “Let me have my choice of opponents.”
Roy Moore would have been his candidate of choice, but even the GOP had enough sense to leave him outside the mall from which he has been banned…
The only way Sessions could have ever hoped to preserve his political career was simply to never abandon his Senate seat. By accepting the AG appointment, he was inevitably going to find himself in a position where he’d either incur Trump’s ire for refusing to take a bullet or taking that bullet and exposing himself to criminal liability. Even if he’d chosen not to recuse himself after Comey’s termination and put the kibosh on any investigation by the DOJ, all he would have done is delayed the inevitable unless one assumes that the House would have stayed in Repub hands past the midterms. If anything, a total refusal by the DOJ to look into any of Trump’s crimes with Sessions in the AG office would have only fueled the fires that saw a Blue Wave in 2018.
re: #87 Targetpractice
By accepting the AG appointment, he was inevitably going to find himself in a position where he’d either incur Trump’s ire for refusing to take a bullet or taking that bullet and exposing himself to criminal liability.
Because that is the fate of almost all all non-family members who enter into any sort of arrangement with Trump
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third just got his ass handed to him, as Alabama Republicans pick yet another clownshow candidate. God offered Doug Jones one gift, and he chose “Let me have my choice of opponents.”
You really think Jones has a chance to retain his seat?
I don’t know much about AL politics, and Tuberville seems (even by today’s debased (R) standards) an oddball candidate, but unless Doug Jones has really worked hard to build some sort of following, I would think the tribal pull of partisanship (and what seems to be extra involvement by Jesus) would make it an uphill climb.
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There are rumors that the DNC, DSSC, and Alabama Democratic Party might actually kick in some material help to Sen. Jones. That would be refreshingly innovative.
re: #89 Jay C
You really think Jones has a chance to retain his seat?
I don’t know much about AL politics, and Tuberville seems (even by today’s debased (R) standards) an oddball candidate, but unless Doug Jones has really worked hard to build some sort of following, I would think the tribal pull of partisanship (and what seems to be extra involvement by Jesus) would make it an uphill climb.
Doug has to stay healthy just in case Trump takes a dump on the 50 yard line during the national anthem at the ‘Bama opener. Tuberville is a standard dumbass SEC carpetbagger, but he lacks most of the moral stench of Sessions, so we’re ahead on points.
I’ll kick a bit more cash to Doug, and keep registering voters for him in passing, but the fight is across the line in Florida.
“Just go buy a can. What could it cost, ten dollars?” https://t.co/bjsGbwrlPX
— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) July 15, 2020
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The group Republican Atheists is still trying to make itself a thing in God’s Own Party.
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Trying to be an atheist Republican is worse than trying to be a Christian Democrat. Democrats will accept Christians; they only face pushback from the Christian community. Atheist Republicans take flak from both Republicans and Christians.
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The group Republican Atheists is still trying to make itself a thing in God’s Own Party.
Just go take a seat with the Log Cabin Republicans and the Black/Latino Republicans. We might need you to make some rhetorical point but don’t expect anything from us…
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The group Republican Atheists is still trying to make itself a thing in God’s Own Party.
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I guess atheists want their capital gains taxes eliminated, too. Dumbasses.
re: #95 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trying to be an atheist Republican is worse than trying to be a Christian Democrat. Democrats will accept Christians; they only face pushback from the Christian community. Atheist Republicans take flak from both Republicans and Christians.
Well, Christian Democrats really only face pushback from Republican Christians. Despite what the GOP says, Christians make up the majority of the Democratic Party.
Pew Religious Landscape Survey (held every few years) puts the overwhelming majority of atheists in the Democratic Party (54% Dem, 23% GOP, rest independent or minor parties).
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Only because nominal “Christians” make up the majority of the country, even though I would argue that many of them aren’t Christians in the Biblical sense, but only in the historical sense. It’s an academic point; an atheist Republican is considered to be an oxymoron in a lot of circles.
Catholic theology uses the concept “practical atheist” to define someone who attends a lot of masses, professes the faith, but acts and lives as though there were no heaven, hell, nor god. A lot of priests and a number of notable popes were practical atheists.
Note that the term has been adopted within the atheist community in a different sense, tangled up with “pragmatic” and other flavors of atheist.
Forbes
Florida set a new record for coronavirus deaths Tuesday, one of several metrics that show the state’s coronavirus crisis is still getting worse, even as Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed at a news conference Monday afternoon that the state’s situation had “stabilized.”
idiot
Brian Dalton (“Mr. Deity”), a Christianity counter-apologist who used to work for Dennis Prager in the 1980’s and 1990’s, takes aim at a PragerU video entitled “The Charlottesville Lie.” If you guessed that Dennis Prager is mischaracterising what happened at Charlottesville at the “Unite the Right” rally you’d be close: He mischaracterises how the press treated that event and Donald Trump in the days afterward.
I’ve never seen Mr. Deity go into a stream of invective on his videos, but in this one he directly calls out Mr. Prager then descends into -ah- colourful language. He directly calls out Mr. Prager for intellectual dishonesty over the things he taught Mr. Dalton while employed with him.
(Caution for coarse language, 10:46)
There may be God, but it most certainly isn’t any one of the dick-splat representations worshiped by humans.
re: #101 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Forbes
idiot
At this point, I don’t think he’s an idiot. I think he is willfully destroying his state, doing exactly what we claimed in sarcasm (and perhaps in fear) - sacrificing his people on the altar of The Economy. He wants his state to lead the economic figures, and he Just. Plain. Doesn’t. Care. about the death toll it takes to get there.
Quite some time ago I noticed the Youtube phenomenon of people having channels where all they do is present themselves with their “scratchers” being revealed.
It’s a form of entertainment, I guess.
But most of these people have relatively (to major Youtube entertainment channels) few subscribers and viewers. So they can’t be making very much money from Youtube, certainly not enough to support their gambling habit.
Example: check out the stack of $20 scratchers this youtuber is playing with… and this is just on one day:
From where do these people get the money to buy hundreds of $20 tickets at a time?
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I found it surprising how few subscribers Dalton had when he was doing the Mr. Deity skits. There were quite humorous, IMO, and better quality than much of Youtube.
But it’s still a very risky thing to do, to poke fun at the Bible. Lots of people get upset.
I can’t overstate how much I need this to happen.
Biden needs to come out tomorrow and strongly say “The Trumps don’t know beans about the things Americans really care about.”
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
re: #14 Belafon
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stupidity?
So if COVID-19 required schools to close in March and it’s worse now, why are we talking about reopening?
— Isaac Wilson (D-SC) (@wilsonforsc63) July 13, 2020
Here is the San Diego Covid-19 situation. Looking at page 13, we can see that the % testing positive has gone up. But fortunately the Covid-19 ICU usage is still moderate, though there are more hospitalizations:
re: #84 Targetpractice
Think what irritates me about Limbaugh’s little rant is that he’s portraying Millenials as the only group who are supporting a shutdown, when really no one generation has a monopoly on either taking this pandemic seriously or not. There are just as many Millenial “dudebro” douchebags who are driving up new infection numbers by insisting on going to bars and clubs without masks are there are Boomers and Xers who are pushing for masks and social distancing.
his shtick has always been transparent and repetitive
pick a thing
twist it into something it wasn’t
twist it more and make it outrageous
pick a group
link it to group
broadbrush it to all the other evil people
re: #104 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
At this point, I don’t think he’s an idiot. I think he is willfully destroying his state, doing exactly what we claimed in sarcasm (and perhaps in fear) - sacrificing his people on the altar of The Economy. He wants his state to lead the economic figures, and he Just. Plain. Doesn’t. Care. about the death toll it takes to get there.
He’s playing the part of Mayor Vaughn from Jaws, shouting “THOSE BEACHES STAY OPEN!” even as people watch swimmers getting munched on the hour. It’s all about “summer dollars,” all about getting the tourists in now so that he doesn’t have to stand before the voters in a couple months to explain why he’s butchering the state budget due to funding shortfalls. The fact that an economic “recovery” plays to his biggest political sponsor (Donny) also doesn’t hurt things in his eyes.
I stand by what I said weeks ago, these fuckers all told themselves back in April that if they could “reopen” in May and keep things open all the way til August without major flare-ups, then the outbreak would be deemed “over” and they’d get all sorts of accolades for standing fast in the face of criticism. They bet the farm on that scenario and so are committed to it, come hell or high water.
re: #113 Targetpractice
140,000+ Americans were unavailable for comment.
re: #65 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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I think you can combine a couple of those. Maybe all of them?
re: #114 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
140,000+ Americans were unavailable for comment.
It’s all short-term thinking for these assholes, about getting past the next “hurdle” under the delusion that the long-term will take care of itself. Get to August and the schools reopen, which frees up the parents to go back to work, which means the economic “recovery” kicks into high gear. That “recovery” provides the stage for the big Trump comeback in the polls, which starts with a huge turnout for the convention and leads to him winning back public support because things have returned to “normal.” That public support follows him into the debates, where he makes the case for another 4 years while destroying Biden’s base of support. And lauded debate performances lead to a big win in November that not only sees him reelected, but Repubs surge back to control of Congress.
What’s that you say? “What if they stumble at any one of these hurdles?” Well, that can’t happen, because this plan is very cunning. More cunning than a fox!////
re: #100 Decatur Deb
Catholic theology uses the concept “practical atheist” to define someone who attends a lot of masses, professes the faith, but acts and lives as though there were no heaven, hell, nor god. A lot of priests and a number of notable popes were practical atheists.
Note that the term has been adopted within the atheist community in a different sense, tangled up with “pragmatic” and other flavors of atheist.
Germany is full of people who attend church just to be part of the community: so they can marry there, have their children baptized/confirmed (major family and social events) and be buried in the church cemetery.
re: #117 Targetpractice
Throw in a war with China and you got the full Winning Package.
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Throw in a war with China and you got the full Winning Package.
I still don’t know how it’s possible that even the most brain-damaged Republican (but I repeat myself) thinks that a war with China is a good idea. Geez.
Famous physics professor (MIT) Walter Lewin, who has taught vast numbers of promising engineers and scientists basic physics, started to put his lectures online some time back, and now is putting his notes and solutions to problems online during the pandemic. So y’all can take his intro physics class online for free if you so feel inclined.
Lewin is now at that age where “fashion” means something different to him than to younger people.
Of late he’s been dressing a bit, shall we say, eccentric. But I guess at his age that’s ok.
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re: #120 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I still don’t know how it’s possible that even the most brain-damaged Republican (but I repeat myself) thinks that a war with China is a good idea. Geez.
If they think it will help Trump’s re-election chances, they will push it as far as they think necessary
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife wants to plan a local trip since we weren’t able to go to Germany this year.
She’s planning a trip to Nebraska’s newest state park, Smith Falls State Park (goes to the state game and parks commission Website)
Smith Falls is the highest waterfall in Nebraska, and is located south of Valentine on the Niobrara River.
I’m mostly noticing this because I used to work for the MN DNR (often with the parks department), but there is NO information on that Smith Falls SP site about Covid-19 procedures while using the park. If you open a website for a MN park the first thing on the site is a VISITOR ALERT with information about what’s open or closed, where you can’t camp, and rules you must follow to use the park safely.
We’re kind of authoritarian like that up here. Have fun but follow the goddamned rules!
re: #123 stpaulbear
We’re kind of authoritarian like that up here. Have fun but follow the goddamned rules!
Those rules have not been put there arbitrarily or to enforce an ideology that wants to make sheeple out of us all.
But that is an ongoing problem in America, and one that has really come to a head recently: when people find rules inconveniencing, many of them choose to make a political issue out of them. Especially when they they have gotten a reinforcing message from their leaders.
…
Simply
…
“You call me selfish for not wearing a mask? You’re the one who’s trying to force me [to wear] a medical procedure”
Anti-mask activists rally at a restaurant in Florida, where nearly 300,000 cases of coronavirus across the statehttps://t.co/sUtCv50f9d pic.twitter.com/cfzvtEy7yS— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 15, 2020
re: #123 stpaulbear
I’m mostly noticing this because I used to work for the MN DNR (often with the parks department), but there is NO information on that Smith Falls SP site about Covid-19 procedures while using the park. If you open a website for a MN park the first thing on the site is a VISITOR ALERT with information about what’s open or closed, where you can’t camp, and rules you must follow to use the park safely.
We’re kind of authoritarian like that up here. Have fun but follow the goddamned rules!
Governor Ameritrade has been heavily pushing in-state tourism. He doesn’t want to scare people off from spending money by acknowledging there’s a pandemic.
We’ll be following the rules on Covid-19.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
[Blocking Fox News]
Someone took offense that the child blocked Fox from the parent (the family destruction stories are so sad) and this was in the replies.
Right wing media is killing you. https://t.co/X14hgvG1L0
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 15, 2020
Just thinking about how girls can still get sent home for shorts and spaghetti straps in 2020 but schools claim they can’t mandate masks.
— Beth (@electricsheeple) July 15, 2020
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Just thinking about how girls can still get sent home for shorts and spaghetti straps in 2020 but schools claim they can’t mandate masks.
Sending kids back to schools without at least a contingency plan on how to do it safely is child endangerment.
And if we want to do it, we would need to look into temporary auxiliary facilities and additional teachers/staff to reduce class size and crowding, changes to existing facilities to minimize risk and exposure and a clear set of guidelines.
I see none of that forthcoming, only threats to withhold funding if schools do not buckle down and obey the Federal government.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Meanwhile in Utah:
They are also making people sign child COVID Death Waivers… pic.twitter.com/SzvNbdVbKx
— Kimberly R. Kelly (@KimberlyRKelly1) July 15, 2020
re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sending kids back to schools without at least a contingency plan on how to do it safely is child endangerment.
And if we want to do it, we would need to look into temporary auxiliary facilities and additional teachers/staff to reduce class size and crowding, changes to existing facilities to minimize risk and exposure and a clear set of guidelines.
I see none of that forthcoming, only threats to withhold funding if schools do not buckle down and obey the Federal government.
I would argue it’s genocide.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Governor Ameritrade has been heavily pushing in-state tourism. He doesn’t want to scare people off from spending money by acknowledging there’s a pandemic.
We’ll be following the rules on Covid-19.
I hope that other people do too, and that the park is keeping tabs on how far apart the campers are.
re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They are also making people sign child COVID Death Waivers…
No responsible parent should sign such a document.
re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A document to sign away your rights is prima face unenforceable.
re: #134 stpaulbear
I hope that other people do too, and that the park is keeping tabs on how far apart the campers are.
We’re not going to camp there. We’re going to day trip to the park.
That said, anyone getting near us will also get an earful of “keep your distance.”
re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If I were a parent, I’d be talking to a lawyer about that waiver. Fuck that shit.
re: #138 Dr Lizardo
If I were a parent, I’d be talking to a lawyer about that waiver. Fuck that shit.
Talk to an advocacy group about suing the school district for presenting it to parents in the first place. It is an abomination.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third just got his ass handed to him, as Alabama Republicans pick yet another clownshow candidate. God offered Doug Jones one gift, and he chose “Let me have my choice of opponents.”
What’s Doug’s chances again Tuberville (? I never remember this guy’s name)?
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Talk to an advocacy group about suing the school district for presenting it to parents in the first place. It is an abomination.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No responsible parent should sign such a document.
I certainly wouldn’t.
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’re not going to camp there. We’re going to day trip to the park.
That said, anyone getting near us will also get an earful of “keep your distance.”
And you’re just as likely get a face full of .22.
I gave up watching DWTS several seasons back, when they abandoned the idea of the show being based around ballroom dances and also turned even more schlocky, still, Bergeron was the best host IMO, even better than the original BBC version’s hosts.
Tom Bergeron & Erin Andrews Axed From’DWTS’
And then the news broke last night that Tyra Banks is going to be the new host. Tyra is very talented and created her own empire with ANTM. But the move is clearly aimed at trying to appeal to a younger audience. DWTS really dropped in viewership the past couple of years compared to the early years.
DWTS has alway been gimmick-heavy, more so than the original Strictly Come Dancing on BBC. But even the latter show has turned more gimmicky in recent years (and I gave up on watching it too.)
The judging on these shows were always in large part a work. What the judges say in public is not really an accurate description of the dancing ability or performance. The judges intentionally vacillate between saccharine and vitriolic in an attempt to appear dramatic.
Also, the shows in recent years have included more and more not-really-amateur dancers as contestants. These days many of the contestants have professional dancing backgrounds, even if not partner-dancing backgrounds. In the UK this caused some outcry a couple of years ago, but I think the UK audience now accepts it.
“Reality-tv” has always been a work, a lie.
Donald Trump is the reality-TV President.
We are a society that pretends about what “reality” truly is, because we don’t want real reality.
Disney/ABC are saying the Banks choice is about diversity.
But it really isn’t (note DWTS has long been a show that included just about anybody from any background.)
It’s about agism.
Tyra doesn’t have gray hair (that she shows anyway.)
re: #89 Jay C
You really think Jones has a chance to retain his seat?
I don’t know much about AL politics, and Tuberville seems (even by today’s debased (R) standards) an oddball candidate, but unless Doug Jones has really worked hard to build some sort of following, I would think the tribal pull of partisanship (and what seems to be extra involvement by Jesus) would make it an uphill climb.
So you’re saying there’s a chance! //
A slim chance. Tuberville comes across as a pandering phony. Trump is doing his part to drag down the Republican party as a whole. It may be enough to bring out the democratic vote in county level elections, and get some sort of candidates with experience.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No responsible parent should sign such a document.
how would you feel as an older kid if you found out your parents signed one regarding you?
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I was surprised that I really like World of Dance, with JLo, Neo and Derek Hough. I didn’t watch the first season much but watch it pretty regularly now.
Could be that there’s no new TV show options, but I record it every week and zip through all the commercials (there are A LOT of commercials).
re: #147 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
how would you feel as an older kid if you found out your parents signed one regarding you?
Just go get yourself suspended from school
re: #147 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
how would you feel as an older kid if you found out your parents signed one regarding you?
What’s worse is how will you, as a child, live any kind of normal life if you contract the disease and both your parents die as a result?
re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just go get yourself suspended from school
Not a good idea. That shit follows you through life.
re: #60 plansbandc
Our economy is going to crater, but we might just stay alive for awhile.
We read the second part as a beneficial outcome, while too many Republicans think the first part is all we need to concentrate on.
re: #143 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And you’re just as likely get a face full of .22.
I am not afraid of terrified gun nuts. There are things for which it is worthwhile to stand up for.
That doesn’t mean I want to get shot, but no one has the right to take my rights, and I will stand up for them.
This is good.
The most devastating thing about Mary Trump’s portrait is her empathy for Donald Trump https://t.co/nKi5B3lFTc
— L.A. Times Books (@latimesbooks) July 14, 2020
Nor did I expect such good, observant writing. Mary Trump crafts both the tragic and comic scenes well. She begins with a great, witty set piece about her visit to Washington for a family get-together in honor of her two Trump aunts’ birthdays. In her room at the Trump International Hotel, “my name was plastered everywhere, on everything: TRUMP shampoo, TRUMP conditioner…TRUMP shower cap, TRUMP shoe polish….I opened the refrigerator, grabbed the split of TRUMP white wine, and poured it down my Trump throat so I could course through my Trump bloodstream and hit the pleasure center of my Trump brain.” When Jared Kushner finally, briefly joins them in a White House dining room, his wife responds like a Stepford princess: “‘Oh, look,’ Ivanka said, clapping her hands, ‘Jared’s back from his trip to the Middle East,’ as if we hadn’t just seen him in the Oval Office.”
re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not a good idea. That shit follows you through life.
It goes on your permanent record.
I distinctly remember how the one in-school suspension I got ruined my life.
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
That’s not a might. It’s a clear violation.
Neither of the two exceptions apply:https://t.co/KBg6W7i8OM pic.twitter.com/jDfSt3C37i— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 15, 2020
re: #158 lawhawk
Ivanka Trump tweets support for Goya Foods in a move that may have violated federal ethics laws.
It was clearly a plug offered in return for political support
Banksy gets out there, shouts out Chumbawamba.
#Coronavirus: Banksy sprays Tube with COVID-19 face mask message.
The street artist was filmed stencilling a London Underground train with a message encouraging people to wear face coverings.
More here: https://t.co/EaEPV5v1mz pic.twitter.com/uTmlbEC1Yp— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 15, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda breaks down his process of writing the song, ‘My Shot’ for #Hamilton. pic.twitter.com/YjoYGk7qq7
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) July 7, 2020
re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s Doug’s chances again Tuberville (? I never remember this guy’s name)?
Went back to bed for a couple hours (59 LGF comments). The discussion pretty much answered you.
Yeah, that bandanna I’ve been wearing looks like a better idea
The pop-up drive in movie theatre in Scottsbluff (a pop-up theatre is a couple of white semi trailers stacked on top of each other to provide a projection screen) has been replaced.
The theatre will inaugurate its permanent screen today, meaning there is now a true drive-in theatre.
I am no longer running for president.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 15, 2020
Apparently!
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 15, 2020
The reason Trump wants to reroute hospital data to the HHS rather than the CDC is the CDC director won’t submit to Trump:
CDC Director Robert Redfield: “I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be probably one of the most difficult times that we experienced in American public health.” pic.twitter.com/8LLnbXxpHW
— The Recount (@therecount) July 14, 2020
Precious little daylight between Fox News and InfoWars nowadays. This is irresponsible and dangerous.
Fox News guest warns that teachers are “grooming our children for sexual predators” pic.twitter.com/Tn49sOlmnO
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 15, 2020
WTAF?
Final results:
Mary Hegar 498,180 52.13%
Royce West 457,555 47.87%
100% of polling locations reporting. Last updated 07:56 am, Jul 15, 2020.
Now the two of them need to get together, get on message, and get state Democrats voting for her.
Florida Man
— And the Wind Cries “Not Talented in Many Ways!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) July 15, 2020
re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The pop-up drive in movie theatre in Scottsbluff (a pop-up theatre is a couple of white semi trailers stacked on top of each other to provide a projection screen) has been replaced.
The theatre will inaugurate its permanent screen today, meaning there is now a true drive-in theatre.
Starting in August at select Walmart stores, we’re partnering with @Tribeca and rolling out the red carpet for drive-in movie premieres, complete with car-side 🍿and 🥤service. Stay tuned for more details. See you at the movies! https://t.co/JfUPB6QK8C pic.twitter.com/t4Enk8aYzL
— Walmart (@Walmart) July 1, 2020
Walmart is transforming 160 of its parking lots into drive-in theaters - CNN Business
Methodist church split vote delayed until 2021 (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Vote on a proposed split within the United Methodist Church (UMC) has been put on hold due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and social injustice within the United States.
The worldwide church conference has been scheduled for May 15 in Minneapolis, however, with the onset of COVID-19, the conference has been pushed back to the last few days of August and the first week of September in 2021.
At the heart of the split is whether same-sex marriages should be permitted and whether LGBTQ individuals should be permitted to become clergy. Traditionalist Methodists say no. More progressive members say yes.
(more)
Both camps of the United Methodist Church of course cite the Bible for their positions, leaving people like me wondering how the Bible can be used to justify anything, since it can be used to justify everything.
re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Walmart is transforming 160 of its parking lots into drive-in theaters - CNN Business
Will they be showing the “Ernest” movies?
My brother’s perspective on masks in school. He says I better than I ever could. @CFAware pic.twitter.com/KLHRFwi05B
— Taylor Allen (@tallen43) July 13, 2020
re: #168 makeitstop
Precious little daylight between Fox News and InfoWars nowadays. This is irresponsible and dangerous.
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WTAF?
So, if the teachers and schools are grooming kids for predators why do Trump and Fox News but I repeat myself want so much for everyone to go back to school in the fall?
re: #170 Dave In Austin
n six words or fewer, write a story about this photo.
Sex doll over-reach always disappoints.
re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I thought Walmart and Walgreen and Target and all the rest were going to open their parking lots for covid 19 testing.
half sarc
re: #168 makeitstop
Precious little daylight between Fox News and InfoWars nowadays. This is irresponsible and dangerous.
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WTAF?
I hope the new are on teachers doesn’t distract from the new war on Dr. Fauci.
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re: #175 Sir John Barron
So, if the teachers and schools are grooming kids for predators why do Trump and Fox News but I repeat myself want so much for everyone to go back to school in the fall?
I believe the meme is that making them take classes online will groom them to find sexual predators more attractive online.
re: #175 Sir John Barron
So, if the teachers and schools are grooming kids for predators why do Trump and Fox News but I repeat myself want so much for everyone to go back to school in the fall?
The crazy woman actually says that the online courses encourage sexting and watching pr0n, so they’re effectively saying ‘open the schools to save kids from sexual predators.’
People like that woman used to stand on street corners and tell and get ignored. Now they get get prime time hits on Fox.
re: #168 makeitstop
Fox News guest warns that teachers are “grooming our children for sexual predators”
Makes sense for a group of people who spend the majority of their time online on porn or adult chat sites…
re: #177 Sir John Barron
Funny though they could do both. Go for the test, stay for the movie.
A week so far with no new reported deaths in Scotland. (*Cross fingers*)
🎥 Nicola Sturgeon confirms Scotland’s gone 7 days without a confirmed COVID-19 death.
▶️ The First Minister admits she’s “nervous” about the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, & the tourism sector.
▶️ She says we should take our custom elsewhere if we feel unsafe👇 pic.twitter.com/HHUItj3OIf— Radio Forth News (@RadioForthNews) July 15, 2020
Florida DIL, tested last week, came back positive. She’s to be re-tested in 10 days. No sign of tracking from the authorities. Son is OK so far, might become a work-at-home occupational infection.
Florida is fucked, but at least you can ride Space Mountain.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third just got his ass handed to him, as Alabama Republicans pick yet another clownshow candidate. God offered Doug Jones one gift, and he chose “Let me have my choice of opponents.”
It says something about the crazy world we’re in that in a room with three people, Jeff Beauregard Sessions, Donald Trump, and Tommy Football Coach, that Jeff Beauregard Sessions is the principled one.
re: #186 Sir John Barron
It says something about the crazy world we’re in that in a room with three people, Jeff Beauregard Sessions, Donald Trump, and Tommy Football Coach, that Jeff Beauregard Sessions is the principled one.
Darnit, Yexit would have been better
— David B. Larter (@DavidLarter) July 15, 2020
re: #173 Barefoot Grin
Will they be showing the “Ernest” movies?
I’m thinking probably not
“… Walmart (WMT) is partnering with Tribeca Enterprises, the Robert De Niro-backed media company, to program the films. Locations and movie titles haven’t yet been announced, but they will be revealed later on a special website. The event will run through October and encompass more than 300 showings. …”
re: #186 Sir John Barron
It says something about the crazy world we’re in that in a room with three people, Jeff Beauregard Sessions, Donald Trump, and Tommy Football Coach, that Jeff Beauregard Sessions is the principled one.
Not principled, he is just smart enough to see when his own interests are potentially endangered by Trump, unlike an awful lot of the GOP.
Holy SHIT pic.twitter.com/SlztuxewtY
— 𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕕𝕒𝕕 (@HaitianDvorce) July 15, 2020
OMG! pic.twitter.com/ZFj03e08Ib
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) July 15, 2020
Oh boy, a lot of anti-vax Trump supporters are going to have mixed feelings about this tweet. https://t.co/fJGyyoXUbh
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) July 15, 2020
So a totally irrelevant thought about SARS-CoV-2 just crossed my mind.
If you gathered all the viruses on the planet together on one scale, how much would they weight?
re: #197 Ace-o-aces
Oh boy, a lot of anti-vax Trump supporters are going to have mixed feelings about this tweet.
Trump knows he needs a vaccine to knock Covid on its head and get the economy back up…but that is going to run him head-to-head with a large portion of his base…
re: #196 stpaulbear
Last night, the Simpsons Network (Fxx) had the regrets episode, which had Rachel Madow. In the story, she had worked in Springfield along side Kent Brockman, but decided to move up to be on MSNBC. While returning for a funeral, she offers him a job, “after the prison stories block during the two hours it takes to get Joe Scarborough ready.”
Wow, you think we’ve been seeing “no-masker” videos now…
Just wait
Breaking news from @nmeyersohn: Walmart is going to require all customers to wear masks (starting next week). https://t.co/3VWaKfjdyz
— Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) July 15, 2020
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wow, you think we’ve been seeing “no-masker” videos now…
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I hope they have their security ready to deal with it. Oh, that’s right, they just call the cops.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So a totally irrelevant thought about SARS-CoV-2 just crossed my mind.
If you gathered all the viruses on the planet together on one scale, how much would they weight?
Paging Randall Munroe.
re: #196 stpaulbear
shot:
sounds like that was most entirely intentional: let him publish the op-ed and then “deny” that it was approved: Schrödingers Fauci.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wow, you think we’ve been seeing “no-masker” videos now…
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Gonna have to put the greeters back at the doors, with kevlar and M-16.
re: #190 GlutenFreeJesus
28 Days/Weeks Later.
They could do a whole Apocalypse Festival.
The Stand.
I am Legend.
Terminator.
Zombie Land.
A Boy and His Dog.
Maze Runner.
Andromeda Strain.
Rise of Planet of the Apes.
re: #192 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Then don’t waste your time with hope.
Fight like that’s all you got left.
You can’t make a fist when your fingers are crossed.— Marty Olliff (@MartyOlliff) July 15, 2020
I just thought of it, though others may have said it before me.
— Marty Olliff (@MartyOlliff) July 15, 2020
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A document to sign away your rights is prima face unenforceable.
That is patently untrue.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m expecting a cacophony of Karens.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So a totally irrelevant thought about SARS-CoV-2 just crossed my mind.
If you gathered all the viruses on the planet together on one scale, how much would they weight?
1.23 Donald Trumps
re: #206 sagehen
They could do a whole Apocalypse Festival.
The Stand.
I am Legend.
Terminator.
Zombie Land.
A Boy and His Dog.
Maze Runner.
Andromeda Strain.
Rise of Planet of the Apes.
My 2020 Apocalypse playlist:
Good morning Lizards:
He had 130K people to practice on https://t.co/jkMD21xVMN
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) July 14, 2020
re: #206 sagehen
They could do a whole Apocalypse Festival.
The Stand.
I am Legend.
Terminator.
Zombie Land.
A Boy and His Dog.
Maze Runner.
Andromeda Strain.
Rise of Planet of the Apes.
Omega Man
Logan’s Run
Hunger Games
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Blob
Contagion
Outbreak
re: #206 sagehen
The Omega man.
The Crazies (1973).
Oh my god this infuriating response. https://t.co/GKnKEQV6Ki
— Meghann Myers (@Meghann_MT) July 15, 2020
re: #219 John Hughes
The Omega man.
The Crazies (1973).
First movie in the I Am Legend cycle—Vincent Price, 1964 B&W.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #210 jaunte
So all the viruses on Earth way about 3⅓ times all the humans on earth. Ugh.
re: #219 John Hughes
The Omega man.
The Crazies (1973).
Death Race 2000. At least let’s try to make the apocalypse entertaining in a B-movie sort of way.
I’m gonna give the asshole this one.
According to my calculations @kanyewest’s presidential aspirations lasted one full Scaramucci
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 15, 2020
re: #221 Decatur Deb
First movie in the I Am Legend cycle—Vincent Price, 1964 B&W.
en.wikipedia.org
Thanks for that, I’d never heard of that version.
This Karloff film (1945) was one of the creepier movies when I was a kid.
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn’t enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka. Written by Ken Yousten
Isle of the Dead
imdb.com
re: #225 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
A The Crazies double feature
The problem being that the 1973 version is better, showing them both together means either spoiling the story by showing the 2010 version first or having the second showing be a let-down.
The versions of I Am Legend are so different that that might be less of a problem.
Republicans know that Trump is toxic but won’t publicly disavow him.
In a mass-solicitation designed to boost flagging interest in registering to vote by mail, the Republican Party of Florida featured a Trump tweet from June 28 that praised absentee ballots but that had his opposition to mail-in voting strategically edited out.
“Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them,” Trump said in the tweet. The rest of the quote was blurred out: “Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins. Just look at Special Election in Patterson, N.J. 19% of Ballots a FRAUD.” Source: Politico
This thread is literally to long to read
It seems to add a new entry almost daily now
D: The GOP has nominated a candidate who literally does nothing but fling poop around all day
R: What about that time in 1995 when Bill Clinton threw his poop at a Congressional staffer
D: I am 98% certain that never happened
R: I read it on Breitbart
MONKEY: (flings poop)— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) November 25, 2019
INAUGURATION DAY
CNN: An abysmally low turnout arrived in Washington for the inauguration of the Poop-Flinging Monkey as President
R: Fake News! The crowd was huge!
D: That’s not what the photos reveal
R: That’s just what the media WANTS you to think!
MONKEY: (flings poop)— Dreamweasel (@Dreamweasel) November 25, 2019
THREAD (this is infuriating)
Palantir is in charge of the HHS database, in case anyone was wondering. https://t.co/sO39GRTYTO
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) July 15, 2020
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
sounds like that was most entirely intentional: let him publish the op-ed and then “deny” that it was approved: Schrödingers Fauci.
Or else they just thought they could get away from it and then threw Navarro under the bus when they got pushback this morning. I doubt Navarro signed up for it to happen that way.
re: #192 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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I love “ready to storm hell with a supersoaker.” That’s a great line.
re: #236 BeachDem
I love “ready to storm hell with a supersoaker.” That’s a great line.
My pastor has used that line in several sermons before.
re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg
Perhaps the only decent part of that film.
They really should’ve ended the Terminator franchise after Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
re: #236 BeachDem
I love “ready to storm hell with a supersoaker.” That’s a great line.
Has a nice fedayeen vibe to it, and it’s pretty much the reality of progressive AL politics. Infuriatingly, it actually works once a generation.
re: #220 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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If she’s legally married, wouldn’t the marriage license be public record? Evil people always seem to come with a side of weird.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s secret marriage was a detail that zipped by the shaky audio and breezy revelation of yesterday’s hearing.
The prosecutor chastised the defense for not revealing the “assets of [Maxwell’s] spouse whose identity she declined to provide to Pretrial Services.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 15, 2020
re: #238 Dr Lizardo
Perhaps the only decent part of that film.
They really should’ve ended the Terminator franchise after Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Agreed. None of the sequels were better. Genisys was decent, Dark Fate was disappointing, even WITH the return of Linda Hamilton.
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. None of the sequels were better. Genisys was decent, Dark Fate was disappointing, even WITH the return of Linda Hamilton.
All the computer graphic stuff in Dark Fate was distracting. No attempt to make any of it the least bit realistic.
But I liked the cast, especially Mackenzie Davis.
Videos are coming out of the late Hal Wilner’s Marc Bolan compilation, Angelheaded Hipster. Joan Jett, Kesha and Devendra Banhart videos are all out, but this Nick Cave cover of ‘Cosmic Dancer’ is just so Hal Wilner - a marriage of song and artist that is totally unlikely but somehow works like a charm.
I miss Hal Wilner. He was the last impresario.
Pennsylvania poll: Monmouth
Biden 53%
Trump 40%
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DEMS: Biden leads 93-1%
GOP: Trump leads 84-12%
INDY: Biden leads 54-33%— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 15, 2020
re: #246 Sir John Barron
All the computer graphic stuff in Dark Fate was distracting. No attempt to make any of it the least bit realistic.
But I liked the cast, especially Mackenzie Davis.
Agreed. She was a high point. My main gripe with Dark Fate isn’t the cast, it’s the derivative story. There’s so much great material to mine in the Terminator storyline it’s frustrating the films keep going back to the same basic plotline again and again.
Efforts to kill that USPS continue apace.
“If the plants run late, they will keep the mail for the next day,” according to a document titled, “New PMG’s [Postmaster General’s] expectations and plan.” Traditionally, postal workers are trained not to leave letters behind and to make multiple delivery trips to ensure timely distribution of letters and parcels. Source: WaPo
A few years ago, I was coming out of my apartment building with Teddy. The mail person was at the bank of mailboxes. He saw me and came running over and said that there was a package for me but he left it at the post office. First, I don’t know how the hell my mail person knew who I was. I live in an apartment complex in suburban Seattle. I say hello but never had a conversation with him. I told him that it was okay to just bring it tomorrow. About an hour later, he was knocking at my door delivering my package.
re: #117 Targetpractice
It’s all short-term thinking for these assholes, about getting past the next “hurdle” under the delusion that the long-term will take care of itself. Get to August and the schools reopen, which frees up the parents to go back to work, which means the economic “recovery” kicks into high gear. That “recovery” provides the stage for the big Trump comeback in the polls, which starts with a huge turnout for the convention and leads to him winning back public support because things have returned to “normal.” That public support follows him into the debates, where he makes the case for another 4 years while destroying Biden’s base of support. And lauded debate performances lead to a big win in November that not only sees him reelected, but Repubs surge back to control of Congress.
What’s that you say? “What if they stumble at any one of these hurdles?” Well, that can’t happen, because this plan is very cunning. More cunning than a fox!////
A plan so cunning you can put a tail on it and call it a weasel!
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Wow. The @nytimes is under siege. The real reason is that it has become Fake News. They never covered me correctly - they blew it. People are fleeing, a total mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
He doesn’t say the name “Bari Weiss” but it’s clear what he’s talking about.
Fallen Confederate Monument Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III expected to retreat back to his Treehouse, making stale flavorless cookies for only Caucasian children, sources say. pic.twitter.com/YEOFnhUk9R
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 15, 2020
re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. She was a high point. My main gripe with Dark Fate isn’t the cast, it’s the derivative story. There’s so much great material to mine in the Terminator storyline it’s frustrating the films keep going back to the same basic plotline again and again.
the previews had me kind of stocked. a little let down.
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
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He doesn’t say the name “Bari Weiss” but it’s clear what he’s talking about.
I thought you were under siege, presidential harassment and all of that.
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And hey don’t you have a nationwide virus to manage.
Also: what a peculiar number of successful endorsements…
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88 and 2 (really 1) in ENDORSEMENTS this election cycle, and @FoxNews was critical. Has anyone ever done so well? I doubt it! Steve D. @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg
Also: what a peculiar number of successful endorsements…
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Another morning of Fox and Friends for our president* I see.
re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg
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He doesn’t say the name “Bari Weiss” but it’s clear what he’s talking about.
Wow! This is really critical news to focus on during a nationwide pandemic, shutdown, and mass unemployment. Very good sir!
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re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. She was a high point. My main gripe with Dark Fate isn’t the cast, it’s the derivative story. There’s so much great material to mine in the Terminator storyline it’s frustrating the films keep going back to the same basic plotline again and again.
My main gripe with the films following T2 is that it makes little sense.
In T2, Miles Dyson dies after destroying/deleting all his research, Cyberdyne itself is destroyed, the Skynet processor and surviving T800 arm from the first film are destroyed, the T1000 is destroyed and the T800 is also destroyed, taking its Skynet processor with it. With no Skynet processors to reverse-engineer, Skynet would’ve simply ceased to exist in the blink of an eye as it was the paradox of Skynet sending back a T800 in the first film that led to its creation.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the other films in the franchise so I might be forgetting some details. But the story should’ve wrapped up with T2 as the paradox was resolved.
re: #248 lawhawk
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OMG!
Joe Biden can only muster 93% support in PA?
Dems in Disarray!!!
Morning music: twitch.tv
Anjuna streams are usually AWESOME - at least the DJs. There’s some other stuff I can take or leave. Only downside is you’re never quite sure if it will last 80 minutes or 5 hours.
Twitch is… Twitch. It’s a festering mound of gamer insanity, but the great thing compared to Youtube is it’s more focused and it doesn’t bombard you with piles and piles of utterly awful recommendations.
packaged arvvired? No, it is dog pic.twitter.com/6FJmpn4PQO
— Dog Solution (@DogSolutions) July 15, 2020
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. None of the sequels were better. Genisys was decent, Dark Fate was disappointing, even WITH the return of Linda Hamilton.
I thought Hamilton was the weakest part of that movie. Angry Princess Leia was really annoying.
The wine of incompetence, economic collapse, and 139,000+ Americans dead.
Cheers!— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 15, 2020
Inconsolable Jeff Sessions Tries To Commit Suicide By Smoking Joint https://t.co/fU58u5MnXw pic.twitter.com/hzKDY1Tq1D
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 15, 2020
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
My main gripe with the films following T2 is that it makes little sense.
In T2, Miles Dyson dies after destroying/deleting all his research, Cyberdyne itself is destroyed, the Skynet processor and surviving T800 arm from the first film are destroyed, the T1000 is destroyed and the T800 is also destroyed, taking its Skynet processor with it. With no Skynet processors to reverse-engineer, Skynet would’ve simply ceased to exist in the blink of an eye as it was the paradox of Skynet sending back a T800 in the first film that led to its creation.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen the other films in the franchise so I might be forgetting some details. But the story should’ve wrapped up with T2 as the paradox was resolved.
T3 addressed that. The plot of T3 was basically the inevitability of Skynet and the war with machines. And, unless you’re going to buy that the universe can have a loop that creates itself, something would have to create Skynet without the chip.
re: #243 Teddy’s Person
If she’s legally married, wouldn’t the marriage license be public record? Evil people always seem to come with a side of weird.
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re: #265 Belafon
I thought Hamilton was the weakest part of that movie. Angry Princess Leia was really annoying.
Yeah that was the point I was making, between her lack of character development and being pissed off the entire movie, it wasn’t as exciting seeing Sarah Connor again as it should have been.
This seems like a situation that would have been avoidable had everyone been required to mask up.
In Florida, there 54 hospitals that have reached ICU capacity & show zero ICU beds available, according to data released by Agency for Health Care Administration. Ten of those hospitals are in Miami-Dade County.
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) July 15, 2020
re: #250 Teddy’s Person
Efforts to kill that USPS continue apace.
First, I don’t know how the hell my mail person knew who I was. I live in an apartment complex in suburban Seattle. I say hello but never had a conversation with him.
He’s had many chats with Teddy while you were at work. Teddy told him EVERYTHING.
Hospitals will soon be jammed with patients suffering from unknown causes.
“Coronavirus hospital data will now be sent to Trump administration instead of CDC” https://t.co/rHPY4urKB7— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) July 15, 2020
re: #271 lawhawk
This seems like a situation that would have been avoidable had everyone been required to mask up.
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This is data that should obviously be sent directly to the White House so no one from the CDC or the American public sees it. Kepe AmeriCa GreAt Agen.
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re: #273 jaunte
All those deaths will be marked down as “2009 H1N1” in order to blame Obama.
Oy.#SharkWeek pic.twitter.com/UdeaBsulql
— 𝐉𝐨𝐝𝐢.✍️ (@_Jo_di) July 15, 2020
❗️BREAKING: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announces he has tested positive for COVID-19.
— Dillon Richards (@KOCODillon) July 15, 2020
OK Gov. tests positive for covid19, meeting a few days ago with staff showed only handful had masked up. Contact tracing underway. I’d say unfu…. but nope, this is entirely believable and predictable.
re: #275 The Pie Overlord!
All those deaths will be marked down as “2009 H1N1” in order to blame Obama.
Moar Benghazi deaths also plz.
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re: #276 The Pie Overlord!
The fart bubbles are missing…
re: #275 The Pie Overlord!
All those deaths will be marked down as “2009 H1N1” in order to blame Obama.
Or HHS will chalk it all up to “viral pneumonia”.
re: #275 The Pie Overlord!
All those deaths will be marked down as “2009 H1N1” in order to blame Obama.
I really want to read comments like this and have a hearty laugh, but in this timeline, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Jared wouldn’t try exactly this.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has tested positive for COVID-19.
Surprising no one, he was at…
wait for it….
the Tulsa rally. https://t.co/HNcYBJhjru— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) July 15, 2020
re: #281 Teddy’s Person
I really want to read comments like this and have a hearty laugh, but in this timeline, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that Jared wouldn’t try exactly this.
Ah, yes, another position for Jared to commandeer. It’s too bad we don’t have a government organization of scientists whose job it is to monitor diseases, we could call it the Center for Disease Control, or something like that. Oh well, Jared will fix that right up yes sir.
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re: #280 Dr Lizardo
Or HHS will chalk it all up to “viral pneumonia”.
Ah, the Russian approach. Makes sense.
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re: #282 Dr Lizardo
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has tested positive for COVID-19.
The WH should next make sure that no Republican governors or congresscritters or office holders anywhere report that they have tested positive. Just send that data to Jared.
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re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
The best Terminator after Judgement Day was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Taylor Allen
@tallen43
My brother’s perspective on masks in school. He says I better than I ever could.
I so agree! I was a normal, healthy young woman when I entered the classroom to teach back in the 70s. I was sick for the whole first year, until I developed some immunity. I had never had mumps, so got that vaccine before I started.
re: #272 sagehen
He’s had many chats with Teddy while you were at work. Teddy told him EVERYTHING.
Oh no, Teddy knows some shit.
JFC this video
Our New Short Film
Back To School
We’d like to invite you to see the world through the eyes of an innocent, trusting child as she heads back into a life that she’s told is safe.pic.twitter.com/3Yrku1vhJg— The Protest Films (@TheProtestFilms) July 15, 2020
re: #288 John Hughes
The best Terminator after Judgement Day was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
This.
re: #282 Dr Lizardo
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has tested positive for COVID-19.
This is great news! Positive tests are positive, OK? The governor has positive results, as I’ve had very positive administration in handling virus since I kept Chinese flights out against advice of all advisors and media and Fauci. Very positive.
re: #291 The Pie Overlord!
JFC this video
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Um, can we try seeing this through the eyes of the person, the great leader, who has suffered the most in the WH, who has been treated so unfairly?
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Because tourism is out of the question for now:
If you earn more than 50K/yr working from home… Barbados is offering a one-year visa to relocate there (with your family) for the duration. $5000. You have to quarantine your first week there while they process the tests, but then you can live at the beach and pay rent and buy groceries and go to restaurants and send your kids to school and everything else until it’s safe to go home.
re: #287 Sir John Barron
The WH should next make sure that no Republican governors or congresscritters or office holders anywhere report that they have tested positive. Just send that data to Jared.
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And the Trump tweet accusing governors of getting tested just to make him look bad coming in 5, 4, 3, …
JFCIJCEA
Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
re: #280 Dr Lizardo
Or HHS will chalk it all up to “viral pneumonia”.
The Florida approach. They’ve had 4,000+ excess viral pneumonia deaths so far this year, and no health experts can explain that as anything other than covid19. There’s no unidentified pneumonia outbreak, so any attempt to claim some mystery ailment as causing these deaths run up against excess mortality stats and that the only thing that’s changed is covid19 being present and out of control.
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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You’ve already abolished the American Way of Life.
re: #211 Decatur Deb
The Seventh Seal
Oh, if you’re going to go there, the alternative end to The Last Action Hero where Ian McKellen just kills everybody.
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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new Trump ad quadruples down pic.twitter.com/8lorCwxitq
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) July 15, 2020
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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I suspect that Republicans favor abolishing bail (for those people, of course).
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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With 140,000 Covid deaths in four short months I’m not sure the OMG YOU WON’T BE SAFE UNDER BIDEN is a totally convincing or sincere argument.
re: #277 lawhawk
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OK Gov. tests positive for covid19, meeting a few days ago with staff showed only handful had masked up. Contact tracing underway. I’d say unfu…. but nope, this is entirely believable and predictable.
Another Tulsa rally surrogate—how many does that make now?
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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Well, the abolish ICE part is accurate. And necessary.
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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And Biden is going to outlaw puppies, except for human consumption.
White House releases guidance on how to stay COVID-free:
1. Don’t get tested— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 15, 2020
I WILL ACTUALLY START ROOTING FOR THE YANKEES IF SHELDON ADELSON BUYS MY TEAM.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) July 15, 2020
re: #307 Decatur Deb
And Biden is going to outlaw puppies, except for human consumption.
Joe’s going to abolish windows by giving everyone free Macs.
re: #298 lawhawk
The Florida approach. They’ve had 4,000+ excess viral pneumonia deaths so far this year, and no health experts can explain that as anything other than covid19. There’s no unidentified pneumonia outbreak, so any attempt to claim some mystery ailment as causing these deaths run up against excess mortality stats and that the only thing that’s changed is covid19 being present and out of control.
This should be a lead story on every broadcast and cable news network (well, OK, I get that FNC and OANN sure as hell aren’t gonna cover it). That seems to me to be like a deliberate cover-up on the part of the government of Florida.
re: #307 Decatur Deb
And Biden is going to outlaw puppies, except for human consumption.
AND TACO TRUCKS EVERY CORNER
re: #307 Decatur Deb
And Biden is going to outlaw puppies, except for human consumption.
Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that Biden is going to outlaw cannibalism. Rush Limbaugh promised me a glorious future of cannibalism, goddammit!
re: #310 The Pie Overlord!
He’s going to abolish windows by giving everyone free Macs.
BIG Macs, the biggest.
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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OK, hear me out here, but say we abolish all those things…will we be worse off than now, mister president*?
In historic move, North Carolina city approves reparations for Black residents #SmartNews https://t.co/EhYUXQzUdJ
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) July 15, 2020
re: #298 lawhawk
The Florida approach. They’ve had 4,000+ excess viral pneumonia deaths so far this year, and no health experts can explain that as anything other than covid19. There’s no unidentified pneumonia outbreak, so any attempt to claim some mystery ailment as causing these deaths run up against excess mortality stats and that the only thing that’s changed is covid19 being present and out of control.
Link please?
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
My main gripe with the films following T2 is that it makes little sense.
T3 takes a different premise: Skynet/the Terminators are no longer the closed time loop of T1, T2, now they’re the result of Steam Engine Time.
re: #265 Belafon
I thought Hamilton was the weakest part of that movie. Angry Princess Leia was really annoying.
No, no, you’re confused. Angry Princess Leia was in The Blues Brothers.
re: #317 Renaissance_Man
It’s actually 8,600+ excess deaths. My numbers aren’t current. They keep upping the tally because of excess mortality getting updated each time the state figures are revised.
re: #266 lawhawk
Trump winery makes a Blanc des Blancs (and gets the name wrong). Why am I surprised?
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
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Otter: Abolish suburbs?
Boon: Forget it. He’s rolling.
re: #273 jaunte
Winston Smith is working in a little cubicle at HHS, getting reports from hospitals, having them corrected and sending the incorrect versions down the memory hole.
If you want to keep a boiler from exploding, all you have to do is smash the gauge.
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
JFCIJCEA
Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment – and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
BIDEN WILL INSTITUTE SHAKIRA LAW AND FORCE US TO DANCE TO HIS EVIL TUNE, BECAUSE THE HIPS DON’T LIE!
re: #322 Mike Lamb
Otter: Abolish suburbs?
Boon: Forget it. He’s rolling.
It’s a clear white nationalist/supremacist talking point. Suburbs are primarily white, so saying Biden’s abolishing them is an attempt to claim that minorities are going to cancel ‘em.
re: #325 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
BIDEN WILL INSTITUTE SHAKIRA LAW AND FORCE US TO DANCE TO HIS EVIL TUNE, BECAUSE THE HIPS DON’T LIE!
It actually is kind of interesting that this tweet has no ISLAM TERRORISTS SHAKIRA LAW.
re: #280 Dr Lizardo
Or HHS will chalk it all up to “viral pneumonia”.
So, we’re all coming to understand that, as always, it’s projection with Trump: “the WHO are under Chinese influence” means “the CDC don’t bow to my will”. “China hid the outbreak” means “I want to hide the outbreak”.
re: #321 John Hughes
Trump winery makes a Blanc des Blancs (and gets the name wrong). Why am I surprised?
LMAO. You’re right. It’s supposed to be blanc de blancs, which is a style of sparkling wine using only white grapes, not some combination of pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay
re: #327 Sir John Barron
It actually is kind of interesting that this tweet has no ISLAM TERRORISTS SHAKIRA LAW.
I guess since we don’t have the homosexual transgender Islamic Muslim from Kenya in the WH the right wing fear message has had to find new boogeymen.
re: #289 retired cynic
I so agree! I was a normal, healthy young woman when I entered the classroom to teach back in the 70s. I was sick for the whole first year, until I developed some immunity. I had never had mumps, so got that vaccine before I started.
Every parent’s experience. The years my children were in elementary school are the years I lost the most days of work for random viral crap.
Trump campaign in disarray! Article from Politico, here are a couple tidbits about how they’re trying to bounce back from Tulsa.
In the days after President Donald Trump’s poorly attended rally in Tulsa, Okla., senior campaign aides repeatedly assured their optics-obsessed boss it was a one-off debacle.
They demoted a longtime staffer who had managed logistics for the failed campaign comeback [Tulsa].
…
Two people close to the Trump campaign said its primary issue is locating areas where local and state officials are both willing to permit large-scale campaign events and unlikely to blame the president if an outbreak of the virus occurs once he’s come and gone.
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Internal divisions over how much focus Trump should lend to the virus have plagued the White House in recent weeks. Chief of staff Mark Meadows and senior adviser Jared Kushner have both pushed the president to focus on communicating a strong second-term agenda, including measures he would take to help bring the U.S. economy roaring back to life, while others have encouraged him to focus on the combating the virus itself given its widespread impact on most people’s lives.
…
I’m surprised the Trumpists aren’t bragging about putting an end to school shootings, or are they?
At what point is something too literal to be a metaphor. pic.twitter.com/pKJHc0Nefl
— Robert McNees (@mcnees) July 15, 2020
re: #332 Teddy’s Person
while others have encouraged him to focus on the combating the virus itself given its widespread impact on most people’s lives.
Good grief why would he do that?
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There is no fucking way that tool Navarro wrote that op-ed without White House approval. No fucking way.
re: #333 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I’m surprised the Trumpists aren’t bragging about putting an end to school shootings, or are they?
The school shootings are fake news false flags with crisis actors.
/
re: #297 The Pie Overlord!
Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment - and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!
Sounds like a plan to me, I’d vote for it if I were a citizen.
re: #332 Teddy’s Person
Internal divisions over how much focus Trump should lend to the virus have plagued the White House in recent weeks..
So to speak.
re: #334 Sufficient unto the day…
It’s not on fire… that’d be the only thing that’d be too on point.
Rona will, Rona will ROCK US pic.twitter.com/AxE194X605
— Esther Choo, MD MPH (@choo_ek) July 15, 2020
re: #338 Sir John Barron
The school shootings are fake news false flags with crisis actors.
/
Where did we recruit 140,000 crisis corpses?
SHOT
Three individuals were sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests. The execution is expected momentarily. Executing these three people sends a terrible signal to the world and should not be done! #StopExecutionsInIran
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2020
CHASER
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2020
re: #345 The Pie Overlord!
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Off message. All protesters are terrorists who hate America.
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re: #313 Dr Lizardo
Next thing you’re gonna tell me is that Biden is going to outlaw cannibalism. Rush Limbaugh promised me a glorious future of cannibalism, goddammit!
Some guy on r/FO76 was asking why everyone looked askance at him because he had taken the cannibal perk. I had to explain that it was not that people were horrified by him eating dead people, it was that people were worried he might actually be Rush Limbaugh.
re: #348 John Hughes
Some guy on r/FO76 was asking why everyone looked askance at him because he had taken the cannibal perk. I had to explain that it was not that people were horrified by him eating dead people, it was that people were worried he might actually be Rush Limbaugh.
Seriously, someone should check Rush’s estate for human remains.
Also, his freezer.
re: #302 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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They have nothing to sell but fear itself…
Umm, I did I miss the news about a bunch of kids being fatally shot in city streets?
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Empty podium coverage begins now. MSNBC will broadcast the empty podium for hours.
Standing by at @ATLairport, where President Trump will land this afternoon.
He’s scheduled to be on the ground just over an hour, speaking at a UPS facility. Topic: infrastructure.
Coverage all day on @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/Z8bhZklSas— Blayne Alexander (@ReporterBlayne) July 15, 2020
re: #353 The Pie Overlord!
Empty podium coverage begins now. MSNBC will broadcast the empty podium for hours.
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We’re going to get another insane rant, aren’t we?
re: #354 Eclectic Cyborg
We’re going to get another insane rant, aren’t we?
I would be shocked if we didn’t.
Trump: I like people who weren’t captured.
Meghan: Yawn
Trump: Argle Bargle Bigly Important
Meghan: If Trump can’t stay on message, he needs to drop out.
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain called on President Donald Trump to drop out of the 2020 race if he can’t put forward a coherent campaign message. Source: Raw Story
re: #353 The Pie Overlord!
Empty podium coverage begins now. MSNBC will broadcast the empty podium for hours.
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He’ll be the first person to do anything at ATL in “just over an hour”.
re: #353 The Pie Overlord!
Empty podium coverage begins now. MSNBC will broadcast the empty podium for hours.
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“What beautiful infrastructure. BIDEN WANTS TO DESTROY ALL OF IT!!!”
re: #317 Renaissance_Man
Link please?
Well, politifact claims that’s false.
But I think they’re bending over backwards to do it. They say that the current year’s figures count all causes on the death certificate, where historical data only give the underlying cause of death.
The historical data shows about 918 deaths a year from pneumonia. So far this year it’s 1,762 deaths from COVID-19 and 5,185 from pneumonia. So, if the underlying pneumonia rate was unchanged that’d be (ignoring the fact that we’re nowhere near the end of the year) about 918 deaths from “normal” pneumonia, 1,762 deaths from covid-19 and 2,505 deaths from some mysterious pneumonia that came from nowhere.
Politifact: mostly bollocks.
(Edit: “say”, not “sat”. Gotta keep it clear for people making the comprehensive collection of my witty, incisive pronouncements).
Wasn’t this shirt an episode of Seinfeld? https://t.co/dZshNclPvS
— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) July 15, 2020
There was a time I never would have believed that a sitting U.S. President would run election ads saying his opponent is killing children…but here we are.
re: #319 John Hughes
No, no, you’re confused. Angry Princess Leia was in The Blues Brothers.
IT WASN’T MY FAULT!
Veterinarians urge pet owners to prepare for the arrival of rabbit hemorrhagic disease. An emerging virus threatens both wild & pet rabbits in the US. The fatal virus—which causes an Ebola-like infection—already in West/So. western states https://t.co/DEVHiMSMKE via @physorg_com
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 15, 2020
re: #345 The Pie Overlord!
You just moved to restart executions of US citizens. You were more concerned with tracking down drugs to use in lethal injections than you have trying to secure PPE for health workers.
You’re a lying dissembling corrupt thug.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 15, 2020
Ooh, check this out…
There is a great disturbance building in the Trump-right media complex this morning over these tweets, and I am HERE for it all.
As I warned in #ETTD, the lobbyists and GOP operatives who SUDDENLY fell in love with Trump in Nov 2016 are herd animals, and they smell death. pic.twitter.com/yEsd5rCEs5— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 15, 2020
Endgame might be in sight here. Self-preservation instinct, kicking in.
re: #334 Sufficient unto the day…
Hey, at least it’s not on fire. Yet.
You guys have to get rid of Trump or the last scene of this play is the last chapter of The Sheep Look Up.
re: #367 makeitstop
Fuck ‘em all. They deserve to be wiped out by Trump. I want Graham’s missive to ring across all of GOP - if you backed Trump, you will be destroyed.
Trump destroyed the economy, ruined lives of tens of millions of Americans, enabled the rich to get filthy rich - making the wealth gap even larger, and killed 139,000+ Americans to date with no plan how to stop spread of covid19 except to ignore it entirely.
re: #367 makeitstop
I figured that the GOP’s survival instincts wouldn’t kick in until mid-to-late August or so. Looks like the shitstorm going on has accelerated that.
re: #321 John Hughes
Trump winery makes a Blanc des Blancs (and gets the name wrong). Why am I surprised?
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re: #367 makeitstop
Ooh, check this out…
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Endgame might be in sight here. Self-preservation instinct, kicking in.
We’ve thought that before. Don’t count your chickens, etc.
re: #358 Decatur Deb
He’ll be the first person to do anything at ATL in “just over an hour”.
Except The Varsity order window.
re: #370 lawhawk
Fuck ‘em all. They deserve to be wiped out by Trump. I want Graham’s missive to ring across all of GOP - if you backed Trump, you will be destroyed.
Trump destroyed the economy, ruined lives of tens of millions of Americans, enabled the rich to get filthy rich - making the wealth gap even larger, and killed 139,000+ Americans to date with no plan how to stop spread of covid19 except to ignore it entirely.
Could not agree more.
And I don’t think they’ll be able to cut themselves loose as easily as they might think.
re: #374 Barefoot Grin
Except The Varsity order window.
I should have said “Hartsfield”. Chili dogs are a sacrament with my GA Tech co-workers.
re: #360 John Hughes
Well, politifact claims that’s false.
But I think they’re bending over backwards to do it. They sat that the current year’s figures count all causes on the death certificate, where historical data only give the underlying cause of death.
The historical data shows about 918 deaths a year from pneumonia. So far this year it’s 1,762 deaths from COVID-19 and 5,185 from pneumonia. So, if the underlying pneumonia rate was unchanged that’d be (ignoring the fact that we’re nowhere near the end of the year) about 918 deaths from “normal” pneumonia, 1,762 deaths from covid-19 and 2,505 deaths from some mysterious pneumonia that came from nowhere.
Politifact: mostly bollocks.
Well put. Politifact’s explanation is off.
One nit — from the Politifact article, the 918 deaths are for “the same time period”, i.e. not per year.
re: #268 Belafon
Dark on Netflix leans into this paradox hard. Highly, highly recommended.
re: #373 sagehen
We’ve thought that before. Don’t count your chickens, etc.
I know. And the tweeter’s TL is a hot mess, he attracts Qidiots like flies.
But yesterday’s disaster in the Rose Garden was another level of crazy. If he repeats that performance in Atlanta today, it would be hard to see how anyone could ignore that Trump’s about to scuttle their whole party.
I really hope this will be true, but we’ll see… (And of course, it’s dependent on other parts of the UK being cautious)
Disease expert optimistic of Covid-free Scotland by Christmas https://t.co/5wj8NUrgu9
— Expert Witness (@Searchline03) July 15, 2020
Also today, in personal news:
a) Indoor food places, hairdressers and pubs opened today in Scotland, with stringent social distancing and hygiene restrictions. I know, because I went to a previous favourite food place with my husband, as a sort of celebration at being able to eat out for the first time since March. We were wearing masks as much as we could (ie most of the time), and the first thing that happened when I went in was that my forehead was zapped with a futuristic raygun-shaped infrared device, which, it turned out, was taking my temperature. As expected, I passed. It turns out we were the first and only people here this lunchtime. It was good, then we went home. (However, I think I’ll give a pass on the pubs for the moment.)
b) It looks like I’ll be re-joining my work pretty soon, after months of furlough….
Turnout in recent Texas Democratic runoffs:
2012: 236,305
2014: 200,992
2018: 432,180
2020: 955,735
Doesn’t mean Cornyn is vulnerable, but the days of TX Dems just pre-conceding every statewide race are probably over.— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 15, 2020
Apparently, turns out that a lot of those Republicans that have left California for Texas turned out to be Democrats when they got to Texas.
Nothing about this is true.
Trumpworld and GOP have blocked House gun control package (with body count of 40k dead annually and leading cause of death for cops). It ignored covid19, and now has seen 139,000+ Americans dead from covid19.
That’s far more dead/affected by MS-13.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 15, 2020
At a time when Trump, the So-Called Ruler of the United States ( #SCROTUS ), unabashedly proclaims “I take no responsibility at all”, true leadership & responsibility in the Oval Office are sorely missed..#ObamaWasBetterAtEverything #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #Biden2020Landslide pic.twitter.com/25Yd5xARb0
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) July 15, 2020
re: #366 lawhawk
You were more concerned with tracking down drugs to use in lethal injections than you have trying to secure PPE for health workers.
If I remember correctly some of the drugs used in lethal injections are the same drugs are those used for inducing artificial comas in patients under artificial respiration in intensive care.
(Fun announcement from President Macron yesterday — France has been building up its stocks of curare in preparation for a potential second wave).
One more thing I read yesterday re: Texas politics… apparently there’s a decent chance Dems can win the Texas House, which is incredibly important as it gives them a seat at the table when it comes to redistricting for 2022.
re: #377 garzooma
Well put. Politifact’s explanation is off.
One nit — from the Politifact article, the 918 deaths are for “the same time period”, i.e. not per year.
Thanks for the correction.
President Donald Trump is ready to roll back a foundational Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles major infrastructure projects, but that environmentalists say has served for decades as a safeguard for low-income and minority communities. https://t.co/cXPxocFKbt
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) July 15, 2020
It’s sort of perfect that the “Law and Order” candidate would have a daughter who is openly breaking the law. Look, @IvankaTrump, after your husband screws up your dad’s campaign and he loses, are you sure he will pardon you?? https://t.co/VVvkcGkBv0
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 15, 2020
re: #376 Decatur Deb
I should have said “Hartsfield”. Chili dogs are a sacrament with my GA Tech co-workers.
We made regular trips all the way from Decatur, GA for a few chili dogs back in the day.
LOL, Who does the Supreme Court think they are!?!?!
Trump to continue legal battle over his tax returns after Supreme Court defeat, lawyers say https://t.co/ji5YYXNlRQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 15, 2020
A sentence that sums up the Trump administrations’ response to covid-19.
An elderly man has died while waiting in line for a COVID-19 test in a clinic’s parking lot in Utah.
During our morning call today,
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re: #390 Barefoot Grin
We made regular trips all the way from Decatur, GA for a few chili dogs back in the day.
We made it a point when we took the Birmingham grandkid to the aquarium.
re: #380 Alephnaught
I really hope this will be true, but we’ll see… (And of course, it’s dependent on other parts of the UK being cautious)
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Also today, in personal news:
a) Indoor food places, hairdressers and pubs opened today in Scotland, with stringent social distancing and hygiene restrictions. I know, because I went to a previous favourite food place with my husband, as a sort of celebration at being able to eat out for the first time since March. We were wearing masks as much as we could (ie most of the time), and the first thing that happened when I went in was that my forehead was zapped with a futuristic raygun-shaped infrared device, which, it turned out, was taking my temperature. As expected, I passed. It turns out we were the first and only people here this lunchtime. It was good, then we went home. (However, I think I’ll give a pass on the pubs for the moment.)
b) It looks like I’ll be re-joining my work pretty soon, after months of furlough….
*furiously begins searching for ancestral loophole out of America*
re: #391 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
eh. The Supreme Court rarely ends a case. Usually, and this was the case in the subpoena cases, they create some test for the lower courts to apply and then remand the case for the lower court to apply the test. So, yeah, of course, he’s going to keep litigating the matter, because the lower court now has to apply the test that the Supreme Court created. And, of course, there’s still a chance that he could win, though I suspect it is highly unlikely.
re: #378 CBGB
Yeah, about that.
Just a bit too hard work for me. And since all white people (Germans) look alike I can’t tell what the fuck is going on. Great idea, but not relaxing TV.
Ok, I like a good time travel story, I read All You Zombies all those years ago, even Barnes’ horrible Kaleidoscope Century, but Dark? Nah.
re: #381 KGxvi
A lot of the younger people here are not voting with their parents.
re: #392 Teddy’s Person
A sentence that sums up the Trump administrations’ response to covid-19.
An elderly man has died while waiting in line for a COVID-19 test in a clinic’s parking lot in Utah.
71. When I was a kid, I thought that was old. Now, not so much.
Thank you to @peterbakernyt’s editors for resisting the temptation to straighten out this paragraph… It is a fantastic act of grammar as journalism…https://t.co/Mme4N3nNMx pic.twitter.com/6N3byGtnE8
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) July 15, 2020
re: #399 wrenchwench
71. When I was a kid, I thought that was old. Now, not so much.
Old = your age*2+10
When I was 20, 50 seemed old. Now that I’m 42, it seems less so.
re: #401 KGxvi
Old = your age*2+10
When I was 20, 50 seemed old. Now that I’m 42, it seems less so.
Yeah, 162 seems old.
re: #401 KGxvi
Old = your age*2+10
When I was 20, 50 seemed old. Now that I’m 42, it seems less so.
I can’t do the math, but one must factor in the age of the spouse. Mine is 18 years, 11 months, and 50 weeks older than myself. Not that it matters…
re: #390 Barefoot Grin
We made regular trips all the way from Decatur, GA for a few chili dogs back in the day.
What, to Detroit and back?
re: #399 wrenchwench
Ten years older than me. Ten years younger than my dad. Not that old.
#BREAKING: President Trump responds to question about his idea of “taking over” cities: “You’ll be seeing next week.” pic.twitter.com/SiIh2YrpmW
— The Hill (@thehill) July 15, 2020
Bluster? Or is he really starting to fall in love with this dictator shit?
Getting a much better appreciation for They Live tbh. These people really are just dead inside, desperately trying to maintain their rickety claws on wealth, power and whiteness because that’s literally all they have. pic.twitter.com/WDrMMqf845
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
re: #397 John Hughes
HA! I love the insane flow charts that came out of it. A relaxing watch, Dark is not. It’s so freakin’ crazy I just gave up and let it wash over me like a tone poem. Loved it.
re: #404 wrenchwench
I can’t do the math, but one must factor in the age of the spouse. Mine is 18 years, 11 months, and 50 weeks older than myself. Not that it matters…
Oh, I could never marry a woman older than myself. My wife is 4 months younger than me. Gives my the authority of age without which our marriage would crumble.
re: #401 KGxvi
Old = your age*2+10
When I was 20, 50 seemed old. Now that I’m 42, it seems less so.
I remember wondering if I’d still be around to see the millennium or if I would have already died of old age. (I turned 52 in 2000)
re: #408 makeitstop
Bluster? Or is he really starting to fall in love with this dictator shit?
I don’t think he’s starting to fall in love. He’s always been in love with dictator shit. That’s how he runs his business, and he even provides them with condos. From the twitter thread, Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier owned a condo at Trump Tower valued at $2.5 million.
On the subject of #CrimeInfested. A thread.
Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, owned and lived in a condo on 43rd floor of Trump Tower.
Currently in prison for money-laundering, bank fraud, tax fraud, witness tampering and conspiracy against the United States. pic.twitter.com/V5cTCvtyc5— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 28, 2019
re: #409 goddamnedfrank
Yeah, but spare us the fistfight in the alley, please.
re: #412 John Hughes
Oh, I could never marry a woman older than myself. My wife is 4 months younger than me. Gives my the authority of age without which our marriage would crumble.
It’ll have to be a man, then.
/
re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg
There was a time I never would have believed that a sitting U.S. President would run election ads saying his opponent is killing children…but here we are.
I believe that is called projection.
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I read somewhere that there’s a vaccine in Europe, but we don’t have it.
re: #415 John Hughes
Yeah, but spare us the fistfight in the alley, please.
Counterpoint: No, that fight needs to be even longer.
re: #419 goddamnedfrank
Carpenter: I’m going to have a fist fight here.
Producers: don’t you think it’s a little long?
Carpenter: You’re right, needs another couple of minutes.
re: #408 makeitstop
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Bluster? Or is he really starting to fall in love with this dictator shit?
I’m not sure it’s fall in love as much as nothing else seems to be working.
re: #361 goddamnedfrank
lol
I mean, who doesn’t slave over the stove with those puffy sleeves?
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 15, 2020
Broward County sheriff.
Scott Israel has been hospitalized with COVID-19, a campaign spokeswoman confirms. A statement is forthcoming.
— Skyler Swisher (@SkylerSwisher) July 15, 2020
re: #374 Barefoot Grin
Except The Varsity order window.
Been to the Varsity once…it was alright, but I did like their fried pies
re: #412 John Hughes
Oh, I could never marry a woman older than myself. My wife is 4 months younger than me. Gives my the authority of age without which our marriage would crumble.
In order for a man to actuallly be old enough to have age authority over their wife they need to be at least ten years older.
re: #397 John Hughes
Yeah, about that.
Just a bit too hard work for me. And since all white people (Germans) look alike I can’t tell what the fuck is going on. Great idea, but not relaxing TV.
Ok, I like a good time travel story, I read All You Zombies all those years ago, even Barnes’ horrible Kaleidoscope Century, but Dark? Nah.
I binge-watched the first 2 seasons last year before our real-life apocalypse. I don’t recall enough of the series to appreciate season 3 and have no interest in rewatching the early episodes. But I may try to push through anyway.
re: #391 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
LOL, Who does the Supreme Court think they are!?!?!
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re: #427 Hecuba’s daughter
I binge-watched the first 2 seasons last year before our real-life apocalypse. I don’t recall enough of the series to appreciate season 3 and have no interest in rewatching the early episodes. But I may try to push through anyway.
Last week’s winning t-shirt: I binge watch camp fires.
(This week’s: Science doesn’t care what you believe.)
re: #430 John Hughes
Like I have to put sarc tags on here?
Ah, you don’t need them either. :)
I had difficulty. I got over it.
I figured out how to fix the confrontation stuff over masks as businesses: Put veterans with the caps showing their service at the entrances.
re: #413 BeachDem
I remember wondering if I’d still be around to see the millennium or if I would have already died of old age. (I turned 52 in 2000)
Same here, 51 in 2000. I remember our neighbor, Mrs. Rice (who was born in 1860), telling me when I was 8 or 9 that I would probably live to see the twenty-first century. It seemed fantastically distant and I didn’t want to think about being that old.
Mrs. Rice, btw, lived in Washington DC during the Civil War and had seen Abe Lincoln in person several times. She was a tiny little girl at the time, but you don’t forget something like that, ever. She also told me, a little later, that I might be one of the very last people alive who actually knew someone who had seen the great Lincoln with their own eyes. Lincoln has been dead 155 years now, and I am still here, so it could very well be. Mrs. Rice herself passed in 1960, aged 100.
re: #430 John Hughes
Like I have to put sarc tags on here?
Ah, you don’t need them either. :)
I recommend sarc tags no matter how explicit you think you are being. But my statement was the truth.
re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Why do you have to ruin my day/week/month/year/life?
Good lord, I’d rather have the reanimated corpse of Marge Schott, in all it’s likely racist zombie glory, acquire the team
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 15, 2020
Alabama is finally issuing mandatory masking rules. About fucking time.
Only 3+ months late. How many Alabama residents needlessly died because of refusing to institute statewide masking and social distancing rules?
All of them.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 15, 2020
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Tuesday that she would lift a hold on more than 1,100 senior military promotions after the Department of Defense assured her that it did not block the promotion of Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — a key witness in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
Duckworth, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and combat veteran, put the hold on promotions earlier this month, demanding written confirmation from Defense Secretary Mike Esper that the former National Security Council aide had been recommended for advancement to full colonel. Source: NPR
re: #411 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Why do you have to ruin my day/week/month/year/life?
Didn’t being a Mets fan already do that?
re: #436 lawhawk
Alabama is finally issuing mandatory masking rules. About fucking time.
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Watching how the number of people wearing masks jumped after Abbott finally issued his order, it really points that most people still rely on authority figures to tell them what they need to do. Most people, even during the pandemic, aren’t paying attention like we are.
Seen on Facebook.
I knew it would eventually happen and today it did. I was prepared. I came out of the Dollar Store with my mask on and keeping six feet distance to everyone, pushed my cart to my car, all the while wearing my mask. A woman was getting out of her car next to me with no mask. As I’m putting groceries into my car she says, “Let me guess - you’re a liberal. Cause that mask ain’t gonna do anything for you except make you look stupid .” In anticipation of this happening, because I figured it might someday, I already had a response ready. I said “Look, I woke up with a temperature of 102 this morning (I didn’t) plus I work around hundreds of people in close quarters (I don’t) so this is for your protection, not mine. How about I take it off and we hug like old friends?” I stepped toward her and acted as if I was taking off my mask. She stepped back away from me and went across to the next row of cars. I followed her, she kept walking away, I chased her, she ran… She fell down. I grabbed her foot. I pulled on her leg, just as I’m pulling yours.
I L’d OL.
Narrator: In 1000 years a team of Moon Scientists would use a combination of advanced quantum computing techniques and dick swagger to prove that the Scaramucci correlates to the temporal resonance between the exponential distribution & standard deviation of Superliminal Fucktime https://t.co/FSYIltP28P
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
re: #440 Belafon
Watching how the number of people wearing masks jumped after Abbott finally issued his order, it really points that most people still rely on authority figures to tell them what they need to do. Most people, even during the pandemic, aren’t paying attention like we are.
There’s probably a couple of aspects to this:
1. the people who think “well, the folks in government are on top of this, if they say we don’t need them, then we probably don’t”
2. the people who will reluctantly go along with it to avoid a ticket or whatever consequence comes from violating it
3. some partisanship/tribalism thing where the guy on “your side” signals that it is acceptable to act in a certain way
4. the people who aren’t as tuned in as we are
Mary is psychic
Happy Infrastructure Week
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) July 14, 2020
Trump leaves for Atlanta, Georgia to give remarks on infrastructure.
Admin is scaling back environmental requirements for new oil wells, pipelines, highways.
Staff with him include Mark Meadows, Chris Liddell, Dan Scavino, Kayleigh McEnany, Nick Luna. https://t.co/AgzfxAMNN5 pic.twitter.com/liwtSOflD5— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 15, 2020
Also, inside the cake heart are the screams.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
re: #440 Belafon
Watching how the number of people wearing masks jumped after Abbott finally issued his order, it really points that most people still rely on authority figures to tell them what they need to do. Most people, even during the pandemic, aren’t paying attention like we are.
It’s Republicans who refuse to follow mask orders unless they are issued by a Republican authority figure they respect. The Trump-cult ignores such orders from Democratic governors.
Brain today, as I work: pic.twitter.com/8dsKsHLm0n
— skullsinthestars - Black lives matter (@drskyskull) July 15, 2020
Today, outdoor mask-wearing became mandatory in Oregon, when 6’ distance cannot be maintained.
Usage has increased.
Jesus. WTF?
thedailybeast.com
Geraldo Rivera Blasts Judge for Denying Bail to Ghislaine Maxwell: She ‘Chickened Out’
“I think this was a political decision,” Rivera said. “I agree absolutely that the question is not whether she committed these hideous offenses. The question is whether or not she would show up for trial.”
Rivera, who is also an attorney, pointed to Maxwell’s recent purchase of a New Hampshire home to argue that she “went to all this trouble to stay in the country” and yet she’s still being sent to a detention center that’s a “hotbed of COVID-19.”
“I think that if you take her passport, you put the ankle bracelet on her, she owns property now, she could have led this country long ago if she was so inclined,” he added. “Now to keep her there in solitary confinement, essentially for over a year awaiting trial, they are doing this to put pressure on her, the federal prosecutors.”Then, in a similar vein as former Epstein lawyer and friend Alan Dershowitz, Rivera offered up a defense of the accused sex trafficker.
“They are punishing her before conviction,” he grumbled. “She has never been held liable in a civil suit, never been convicted of a crime. She is not Jeffrey Epstein.”
Rivera would go on to insist that Maxwell wasn’t necessarily hiding from the law over the past year but instead was running from the press, saying she was one of the “most sought after tabloid figures in the country.”
re: #450 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Jesus. WTF?
thedailybeast.comGeraldo Rivera Blasts Judge for Denying Bail to Ghislaine Maxwell: She ‘Chickened Out’
Got something to hide, Jerry?
This admin is fighting the virus with insults and memes. While the grown ups fight with science and fact.
— BadNewsB (@TheBadNewsB) July 15, 2020
Anyone else think RBG is popping in and out of hospital just to screw with Trump?
re: #453 Decatur Deb
Anyone else think RBG is popping in and out of hospital just to screw with Trump?
Now I will.
This is most terrifying graph you will see today. https://t.co/MJNsqqmit4
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) July 15, 2020
re: #453 Decatur Deb
Anyone else think RBG is popping in and out of hospital just to screw with Trump?
I doubt it: if Ms. Justice Ginsberg wanted to mess with Trump (quite understandably) she could do so from the comfort of her own home.
re: #399 wrenchwench
71. When I was a kid, I thought that was old. Now, not so much.
Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913
Made his great granchildren believe
You could live to a hundred and three
A hundred and three is forever when you’re just a little kid
So Cyrus Jones lived forever
From Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger
re: #455 Dread Pirate
The more mobile of us carry it to the less mobile.
re: #458 Belafon
The more mobile of us carry it to the less mobile.
That and damned young people thinking they are indestructible. I’m almost 40, so I get to say that now. :P
Magical thinking leads to investment in beans as panacea, we all know this story https://t.co/VfOxDag8tq
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 15, 2020
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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