Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth addresses Tucker Carlson’s criticisms of her policies and shares her fears for the U.S. reopening schools too soon without proper sanitation methods.
Holy shit.
SPEECHLESS: “You can’t plan for something that hasn’t happened yet” - Betsy Devos (US Secretary of Education), when asked what she would do if there is an outbreak of #Covid19 in schools.
➡️ Madness. Those to fail to plan, plan to fail.— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 16, 2020
“You can’t plan for what hasn’t happened”, said Eisenhower as he told the troops on D-Day to just get across the Channel somehow, and when they got to France, just do what they thought best.
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I’m predicting outbreaks at schools in five states before the end of August…at least.
Also, got CL’d on that last thread:
Twitch forces U.S. Army to stop tricking viewers with fake giveaways
The U.S. Army has a Twitch channel that it uses to fish for potential recruits. Last week, it came under fire for issuing bans to viewers who asked about war crimes. This week, a report by The Nation dug deeper, pointing out, among other things, that the channel had a habit of running fake controller giveaways that redirected viewers to a recruitment page. Following widespread scrutiny, Twitch says it’s forced the Army to stop.
According to The Nation, the giveaways—which took place “repeatedly” in chat—offered viewers a chance to win an Xbox Elite Series 2 controller. Clicking the associated link, however, would send viewers to a recruitment page “with no additional mention of a contest, odds, total number of winners, or when a drawing will occur.”
Upon learning of this yesterday, Twitch viewers and streamers reacted with disbelief.
Please let us kill ourselves and our kids.
I see the faces of archeologists standing at the edge of once was us saying ” It makes no sense. How did this collapse happen?”
Packed into small rm, pulled tape off seats meant for soc distancing, crowded against walls, wore “Trump 2020” hats, every time someone said “freedom” or “constit rts” whole room cheered. Almost no one wore mask; those who did had them pulled under chins https://t.co/nWDVnGiuww
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 16, 2020
re: #6 nines09
Please let us kill ourselves and our kids.
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Two weeks from now is when?
re: #6 nines09
Please let us kill ourselves and our kids.
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Frank Zappa was right when he said the most abundant element in the universe is stupidity.
I may end up liking her after all
There were some superficial comparisons On Here between MJ Hegar and Amy McGrath, but Hegar’s approach is uhhhh a little different pic.twitter.com/7hwMS77TkU
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 16, 2020
re: #10 nines09
Not following what you’re saying.
There’s about two weeks between people gathering in a small space and Covid-19 symptoms start showing.
It took until July, but the Trump Campaign has finally found its 2020 slogan. https://t.co/AQg9838pHZ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 16, 2020
I’m sorry, but you can’t convince me that they aren’t actively trying to lose the election:
Kayleigh McEnany: Pres. Trump wants schools to open, “and when he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this.” https://t.co/USdmss0Ygu pic.twitter.com/XTowM3TKIx
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) July 16, 2020
re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White
Holy shit.
“You can’t plan for what hasn’t happened”, said Eisenhower as he told the troops on D-Day to just get across the Channel somehow, and when they got to France, just do what they thought best.
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She’s always just required that other people plan for her, or that other people clean up the messes she creates. Why should she debase herself to this ‘planning’. Fuck Betsy.
re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White
Holy shit.
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I mean, they are basically reactionaries, so reacting rather than planning seems on brand.
re: #15 KGxvi
I mean, they are basically reactionaries, so reacting rather than planning seems on brand.
“General, you don’t have a plan. All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!” MacNamara (maybe) responding to somebody (Lemay?) describing how we’d respond to a Russian nuclear attack.
re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White
Holy shit.
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Just for clarification, from fact-checker extraordinaire, Daniel Dale. (Not that her actual answer was any better)
DeVos didn’t say that. She was asked if she’s OK with an area that has a “flare-up” reverting to remote learning. She said, “If there is a short-term flareup…that’s a different situation than planning for an entire school year in anticipation of something that hasn’t happened.” pic.twitter.com/2QPZMFJcHn
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2020
re: #11 Belafon
There’s about two weeks between people gathering in a small space and Covid-19 symptoms start showing.
Two weeks today is 7/30.
Literally jaw-dropping. Pinch me, I must be having a really bad dream. This can’t be real. https://t.co/fwmUDEfw49
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
When the White House press secretary is saying insane things like “the science should not stand in the way” of opening schools, it’s time for Dr. Fauci to stop being diplomatic and take a public stand. Because the Trump gang is trying to kill our kids. https://t.co/lPRGA4GRFq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #22 Charles Johnson
And the teachers - especially the teachers because they keep kids from falling for republican lies.
cancel culture is out of control!!!! https://t.co/G1nrax8MaM
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 16, 2020
Heh, I like fighting Texas Dems.
Texas Democratic Party announces its endorsement for Texas Republican Party chair.
WIse guys. pic.twitter.com/qOLZaj1ZD2— Ken Herman (@kherman) July 16, 2020
re: #21 Charles Johnson
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up from this nightmare, it was November 9 2016, and Hillary had pulled out a narrow electoral victory?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 16, 2020
It’s now clear to me how Trump managed to lose money owning casinos, a business where “The House always wins”:
He just gambles, with no sense of probabilities. Every ‘bet’ he’s made during the Pandemic has been a losing one - ignoring it in January didn’t keep it out. Kinda-sorta closing off travel from China didn’t keep it out. Saying it would go away didn’t make it go away. Saying we’d reopen on Easter didn’t make it safe to do so. Saying states should reopen on Memorial Day didn’t work out, either. Saying the plague has passed didn’t make it so.
Now, he’s gambling with the lives of children and their parents and grandparents, with the lived of teachers and staff and their families, and indeed with every community everywhere that opening school when the Pandemic is reaching new highs every day will not kill a lot more people, in an easily documented way, and life will go back to normal by November for him.
re: #13 KGxvi
I’m sorry, but you can’t convince me that they aren’t actively trying to lose the election:
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OK then pray tell what should stand in the way of this?
Literally jaw-dropping. Pinch me, I must be having a really bad dream. This can’t be real. https://t.co/fwmUDEfw49
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
From Priorities USA “8% of Trump’s 2016 voters across the key states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin now say they will support Biden in 2020” cc: @RVAT2020 @ProjectLincoln
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 16, 2020
You just know that in October Trump will claim a “perfect, beautiful” vaccine has been approved by the FDA, is in mass production, and will be distributed to everyone before the end of the year. Bank on it.
The full quote makes Kayleigh look a) even stupider b) more of a liar and a) & b) can both be true.
Report her full quote fairly!
“The science should not stand in the way of this…the science is very clear on this…the science is on our side here. We encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools.” pic.twitter.com/keQ9oZUzcA— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) July 16, 2020
re: #30 NO SMOCKING GUN!
You just know that in October Trump will claim a “perfect, beautiful” vaccine has been approved by the FDA, is in mass production, and will be distributed to everyone before the end of the year. Bank on it.
And no one will believe him. No one. It’s just that ~30$% of the country doesn’t care.
It doesn’t hurt to take a position when the issue is this crystal clear. Try it. You might like the way it feels. https://t.co/6TYkQjK17r
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
Jake Tapper thinks we should be fair to Kayleigh McEnany. I CANNOT EVEN WITH THIS SHIT.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
So, she’s making a bad faith argument. Got it.
Tapper already hates me so what do I have to lose? Maybe he’ll block me now.
The science is absolutely NOT on their side. This is an outright lie. You know that, right? Just checking, because tbh it’s nuts to say we should be “fair” to a liar who’s advocating something that would cause children and teachers to die.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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Children and teachers may die but Jake must keep his access…..dammit!
re: #29 Dread Pirate
14,888,478 votes for Trump in those states. 8% is 1.19 million. That would be a wipeout of Trump of epic proportions.
In those same states, Hillary garnered: 14,433,274 votes. That’s a difference of: 455,204.
That completely flips the script on Trump. He’d lose in a blowout election.
It doesn’t matter what she said or how she said it or what the context was. The bleach and light White House does not respect science.
… . Or government ethics. Or the high office of the president. Or America.— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 16, 2020
Now we know why Tapper called for “fairness” - McEnany complained instantly.
“Media bias” = quoting your exact words verbatim. https://t.co/Wi5Rhe0K48
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #38 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
Children and teachers may die but Jake must keep his access…..dammit!
I wonder if the families can sue the Government for ordering the schools back open?
I agree McEnanys quote was not properly presented in its context.
HOWEVER, I also agree she was BLATANTLY wrong about the science being “on our side”.
So it’s a pile of shit regardless.
“We don’t care whether your children live or die, but they MUST attend school (where we hope they don’t learn too much science).”
“Don’t worry. We’re starting to hide the numbers of deaths so you won’t know how many children we are sacrifice at the alter of Trump’s reelection.”— Tami Burages (@tburages) July 16, 2020
re: #37 Charles Johnson
The science isn’t on their side, because the CDC made it clear that you have to meet conditions to consider reopening, and Trumpists have gone in on the idea of ignoring the guidelines altogether.
The GOP doesn’t care about those facts, or logic. The fact is that countries that reopened their schools had the pandemic under control, were able to contact trace and test, and have robust methods for all of this.
Trumpworld has failed on every front, and they don’t care about contact tracing or testing, as Trump’s statements make explicit.
You can’t reopen schools into the teeth of a pandemic. It just guarantees further spread and where you have districts needing to make plans for how to announce deaths of students and staffers from covid19, you need to reassess reopening.
Want to reopen safely? Wear a fucking mask and mandate it for everyone. That gets transmission rates below 1, we get the testing and tracing done, and we can squash covid19 like every other rational nation on the planet.
We wont do any of that with Trump in office, or mendacious media that still plays magic balance fairy bulkshit with this.
“The science should not stand in the way of this”
From the president who told you to:
-Inject bleach
-Rake forest floors to stop wildfires
-Change hurricane paths with a sharpie
-Focus on windmill cancer
-Stare at eclipses without safety glasses https://t.co/bFs0tkicOl— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 16, 2020
They’re trying to control the data collection because the science is not on their side.
On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a “red” truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a “blue” truck. pic.twitter.com/OoWmRPnWum
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 16, 2020
When you have to look up to see Idiocracy.
re: #49 jaunte
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When you have to look up to see Idiocracy.
Water? Like from the toilet?
The public health experts at the CDC say what the president is recommending schools do presents the “highest risk” of the virus spreading further. The Press Secretary’s misunderstanding or misrepresentation of “the science” doesn’t amount to a defense. https://t.co/hULKfD48dk https://t.co/LLyqcI2fV8
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 16, 2020
Ahem:
.@PressSec, in response to question about Trump’s low approval numbers: “His historic COVID response speaks for itself.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) July 16, 2020
re: #49 jaunte
“Yeah, but you’ve been cutting the break lines, draining the radiator, and disabling the airbags.”
re: #33 Charles Johnson
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@jaketapper
Folks read the ENTIRE McEnany comment about “the science should not stand in the way” of opening schools. She’s arguing that the science is on the side of those who want to open them, she cites a JAMA study. I’m not taking a position on the matter but be fair.
What JAMA study is Tapper talking about?
re: #53 Belafon
“Yeah, but you’ve been cutting the break lines, draining the radiator, and disabling the airbags.”
“And stole the catalytic convertor to sell for scrap, and pumped it up with leaded fuel, and revved it up right next to a public school’s air intake system.”
re: #52 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
No lie detected here.
One of these things is not like the others. pic.twitter.com/o5ULLlSQfL
— Robin Masters (@Robin_Blue19) July 16, 2020
re: #49 jaunte
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When you have to look up to see Idiocracy.
I wonder which White House worker gets to keep the trucks?
What’s up people? Since the pandemic started I’ve been a wee … disconnected.
re: #57 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
Jared And Melania Associates.
The thing is, I was just checking out the JAMA site, and I didn’t find much in the way of studies (i.e. w/peer review and all) that would qualify. Just some articles, which are *not* studies (and don’t say what Trump would like them to say in any event).
Theater for idiots. https://t.co/mHBEKD1cHW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Jake Tapper thinks we should be fair to Kayleigh McEnany. I CANNOT EVEN WITH THIS SHIT.
The entire media is awaiting a moment that will never come.
Only the bodies stacked higher.
re: #62 (((Viking Sea Mexican)))
What’s up people? Since the pandemic started I’ve been a wee … disconnected.
Welcome back! You OK?
re: #31 The Pie Overlord!
The full quote makes Kayleigh look a) even stupider b) more of a liar and a) & b) can both be true.
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Why would she say that “the science should not stand in the way….” and then say that “the science is on our side”?
I know she’s a lying idiot….
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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I know it’s Infrastructure Week, but isn’t there a pandemic going on, one that has killed almost 140k people?
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re: #64 Charles Johnson
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“Now, move your crane forward about eight feet aaaaaaand … .”
re: #63 garzooma
The thing is, I was just checking out the JAMA site, and I didn’t find much in the way of studies (i.e. w/peer review and all) that would qualify. Just some articles, which are *not* studies (and don’t say what Trump would like them to say in any event).
Use the Google we don’t have to do your research for you!!
re: #66 makeitstop
Welcome back! You OK?
Mostly yes. The start of the pandemic was quite overwhelming, but things are becoming more normalized around here (not as bad as in the states).
How you doing?
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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“Notice how, once we remove the load from the bed of this pickup, it’s much easier to spin out on freeway offramps!”
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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Do the trucks have the Covid-19 tests the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION promised?
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It’d be funny if the crane cable snapped while Trump was speaking.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
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If Biden or The Lincoln Project don’t use this in an ad they’re doing it wrong.
It’s just surreal how utterly disconnected from reality he is. This is Jim Jones territory. https://t.co/3mZlStlPWG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #71 (((Viking Sea Mexican)))
Mostly yes. The start of the pandemic was quite overwhelming, but things are becoming more normalized around here (not as bad as in the states).
How you doing?
Mostly good. I’d love to go out and get a good steak, but that’s not happening for a while yet.
re: #26 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up from this nightmare, it was November 9 2016, and Hillary had pulled out a narrow electoral victory?
No, because I’d be sitting here with my hair down to my shaggy klarn, wondering where all this fucking rice and beans and toilet paper came from.
re: #49 jaunte
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If the illustration were accurate, the blue truck would be safe, quiet, and fuel-efficient while the red truck would have holes in the exhaust, oil leaks, bald tires, cheap brakes that fail often, and no seat belts or air bags.
— Boston Bugsy (@davibesman) July 16, 2020
WSJ pg 13 yesterday: reopening schools in Israel in May has led to virus surge and is forcing govt to re-shutdown country
WSJ editorial today: re-open US schools nothing bad will happen! https://t.co/d62p8aivvt— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 16, 2020
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m predicting outbreaks at schools in five states before the end of August…at least.
Already seeing it in three Greater Cincinnati school districts because of their sports (mostly football) programs.
re: #82 Dread Pirate
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The WSJ has good journalists who have broken big stories; and it also has a full metal wingnut editorial board.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
REPORT THE SCIENCE!
What on Earth is your job then? Whatever it is your apparently suck at it.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 16, 2020
re: #39 lawhawk
14,888,478 votes for Trump in those states. 8% is 1.19 million. That would be a wipeout of Trump of epic proportions.
In those same states, Hillary garnered: 14,433,274 votes. That’s a difference of: 455,204.
That completely flips the script on Trump. He’d lose in a blowout election.
Not sure how Trump* is going to be able to “right” that script, anyway. That’s the flip side of our relying on the Electoral College to legitimize a Presidential election: a candidate can “win” (as we saw in 2016) by a narrow margin in just a few states, but unless that margin is backed up by real *popularity* , said states can easily flip back the next time. Which (hopefully) will be the case this year. Big time.
*”Trump” as President, of course, but seeing as how he and his creatures have turned the Republican Party into, basically, a personality cult, his *unpopularity* may have a reverse-coattail effect on “subsidiary” races, i.e. Senate/HoR/Governorships/Statehouses (the last being VERY important, IMO) - and lead to poor GOP performance downballot. I.e. Good Riddance….
It’s not a dog whistle, it’s now a full on tornado siren.
Trump, denouncing an Obama-era rule meant to combat racial segregation in housing, says, “The suburb destruction will end with us.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2020
re: #67 Sir John Barron
Why would she say that “the science should not stand in the way….” and then say that “the science is on our side”?
I know she’s a lying idiot….
Obligatory:
“She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”
― George Orwell, 1984
re: #13 KGxvi
I’m sorry, but you can’t convince me that they aren’t actively trying to lose the election:
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she says “science should not stand in the way” and then says “the science is on our side”.
JFC
re: #88 The Pie Overlord!
It’s not a dog whistle, it’s now a full on tornado siren.
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Area man warns that Brown vs Board of Ed will destroy beautiful successful suburbs and Excellent kids education.
re: #81 BeachDem
If the illustration were accurate, the blue truck would be safe, quiet, and fuel-efficient while the red truck would have holes in the exhaust, oil leaks, bald tires, cheap brakes that fail often, and no seat belts or air bags. And a Confederate-flag bumper sticker.
Travel bans meant to stop the coronavirus from getting to the US from China and Europe came too late, according to a new analysis of cases from the CDC https://t.co/hxAwDPzQ9E
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2020
Anyone who tries to tell you the American Academy of Pediatrics supports Trump’s insanely reckless push to reopen schools is lying to you. Their statement makes it very clear they want to reopen SAFELY, following the advice of scientists and school officials.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
That is NOT what the Trump gang is saying.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #19 BeachDem
Just for clarification, from fact-checker extraordinaire, Daniel Dale. (Not that her actual answer was any better)
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re: #95 Charles Johnson
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Also, shouldn’t it be up to states and localities to decide for themselves and their communities, instead of being forced to take
“one size fits all demands from an out of touch, overly intrusive, federal government.”?
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
and there is no plan
Other than trying to bully states and localities…
That’s their “plan” for everything.
Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden has sharply narrowed his cash gap with President Trump’s political operation, as some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors from the worlds of Hollywood and Wall Street have stepped up to fund his campaign https://t.co/Kuq6OoyzLQ
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2020
re: #95 Charles Johnson
And this is the galling thing about the last 6 months - the Right Thing To Do has always been pretty fucking obvious, and it’s also been obvious what we’ve needed to do to get things back to anything like normal, and EVERY GODDAM TIME, Trump et al. have opted for happy talk and half-assing it, and trying to move on too soon, and trying to WILL the Pandemic away, and EVERY GODDAM TIME it’s been obvious that will fail, and EVERY GODDAM TIME, it fails and we find ourselves exactly where we don’t want to be.
re: #81 BeachDem
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I see. So, the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is bragging, today, about how they’re mercifully reducing harmful regulations and federal demands and such things WHILE AT THE SAME TIME demanding that every state, city, and county in the U.S. open their schools in a month no matter who has to get sick or die?
Do I have that right?
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. https://t.co/ogYbsveIQV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 16, 2020
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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But *Biden* has alzheimer’s, is too old and rickety, etc.
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Deal With The Devil, Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair, August 2017
In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. At 27, Donald Trump took the ruthless attorney as his sometime guide, learning many of the tactics that would inexplicably propel him to the White House. MARIE BRENNER untangles the symbiosis that bound them until Cohn’s death from AIDS in 1986
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And as Trump’s first major project, the Grand Hyatt, was set to open, he was already involved in multiple controversies. He was warring with the city about tax abatements and other concessions. He had hoodwinked his very own partner, Hyatt chief Jay Pritzker, by changing a term in a deal when Pritzker was unreachable—on a trip to Nepal.
My emphasis: so there is history between DT and Gov. Pritzker from way back. Well, well.
For author Sam Roberts, the essence of Cohn’s influence on Trump was the triad: “Roy was a master of situational immorality…. He worked with a three-dimensional strategy, which was: 1. Never settle, never surrender. 2. Counterattack, counter-sue immediately. 3. No matter what happens, no matter how deeply into the muck you get, claim victory and never admit defeat.” As columnist Liz Smith once observed, “Donald lost his moral compass when he made an alliance with Roy Cohn.”
The article goes on to connect Roger Stone (and Manafort) to Cohn and Trump, starting in 1979.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
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If this is also not in a Biden ad I will be greatly disappointed.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
Trump: “Remember when garden hoses were long rubber tubes with metal … what are those called … connection things on each end? Water came out. With the new hoses, the ones that are spiraled like that toy … Slinkees, that great, resolute toy called a Slinkee … they don’t.”
Resolute Slinkee? WTF? Someone has been talking to him about the Goya on the desk.
Something really jacked is going on in his head.
re: #112 Decatur Deb
Resolute Slinkee? WTF? Someone has been talking to him about the Goya on the desk.
Something really jacked is going on in his head.
Hey, cut him some slack. He learned a new adjective. Maybe he’ll use it instead of “powerful”.
Opinion: Trump won in 2016 arguing we had nothing to lose. He proved that so wrong. https://t.co/TJtwt6Fv7h
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2020
BIG STRONG MEN, CRYING, CRYING TEARS, SIR SIR SIR
🚨 TEARS ALERT 🚨
“People that haven’t cried since they were a baby. Some of them never even when they were a baby, and they were crying” pic.twitter.com/1kk0yTOEwL— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 16, 2020
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
Shorter Trump: “Bring back red lining”
“The AFFH rule sets out a framework for local governments, States, and public housing agencies (PHAs) to take meaningful actions to overcome historic patterns of segregation, promote fair housing choice, and foster inclusive communities that are free from discrimination.”
- HUD https://t.co/GUM33p0FOo— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 16, 2020
re: #13 KGxvi
Kayleigh McEnany: Pres. Trump wants schools to open, “and when he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this.” ]
“should” in the sense of “science is not allowed to stand in the way of this”
re: #119 gocart mozart
Shorter Trump: “Bring back red lining”
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“Segregation was actually pretty great. Not many people know that.”
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re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“should” in the sense of “science is not allowed to stand in the way of this”
“No True Scotsman Science would fail to support the reopening!”
re: #123 Blind Frog Belly White
“No True
ScotsmanScience would fail to support the reopening!”
But is that, should that be, even the federal government’s call?
(Even conceding their “point” about the “science”)
re: #72 Blind Frog Belly White
“Notice how, once we remove the load from the bed of this pickup, it’s much easier to spin out on freeway offramps!”
Also notice how the blue truck isn’t weighed down by the ‘regulations’ and that the weights being lifted by the ‘TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’ crane are fake as hell.
re: #105 makeitstop
Yes he’s tall. Great sense of humor and talent. His Twitter is @Mansqwatch.
My first introduction to him was the Gristle King/Meister pedal. Still in production.
He does a lot of stuff for Wildwood Guitars
and has a Kick Ass Amp I would love to have.
2X10…….uhhhhhhhhhh.
re: #118 Sir John Barron
None of us are, even the billionaires with their extra billions. We have a plague and a “president” who wants us to die.
None of us are better off. None of us.
It’s a race in Trumpland:
FLORIDA has taken lead for new daily COVID cases *per capita*
Followed by:
ARIZONA
LOUISIANA
SOUTH CAROLINA
ALABAMA pic.twitter.com/Ke9SwDwnRN— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) July 16, 2020
re: #125 stpaulbear
Also notice how the blue truck isn’t weighed down by the ‘regulations’ and that the weights being lifted by the ‘TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’ crane are fake as hell.
I think I last saw those in the Python sketch, “How To Defend Yourself Against A Banana”
re: #126 nines09
Yes he’s tall. Great sense of humor and talent. His Twitter is @Mansqwatch.
My first introduction to him was the Gristle King/Meister pedal. Still in production.
He does a lot of stuff for Wildwood Guitars
and has a Kick Ass Amp I would love to have.
2X10…….uhhhhhhhhhh.
They even built the Gristlemaster with a bigger body than a Fender Tele for him.
I’ve come to believe that if there’s an heir to the crown of Danny Gatton, Greg is it.
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
BIG STRONG MEN, CRYING, CRYING TEARS, SIR SIR SIR
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Receipts
Trump tells his lie about how, when he signed his executive order on the Waters of the US rule in 2017, “people that haven’t cried since they were a baby, some of them never even when they were a baby…they were crying.”
It was on video. Nobody cried. https://t.co/Ku7uCiVJpi pic.twitter.com/m1frZXAvRo— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 16, 2020
re: #106 Sir John Barron
I see. So, the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is bragging, today, about how they’re mercifully reducing harmful regulations and federal demands and such things WHILE AT THE SAME TIME demanding that every state, city, and county in the U.S. open their schools in a month no matter who has to get sick or die?
Do I have that right?
Reducing harmful regulations to them means allowing meat packing plants to speed up production and not make accommodations to keep their employees safe, so it’s the exact same thing as packing children back into schools.
re: #126 nines09
He does a lot of stuff for Wildwood Guitars
and has a Kick Ass Amp I would love to have.
2X10…….uhhhhhhhhhh.
That amp looks nice. Pricey, although I’ve got about that much sunk into my Two Rock.
re: #128 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a race in Trumpland:
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Virtually all states that were boasting months ago that they were seeing “low” numbers of infections and insisting they needed to take little/no action because “the cure can’t be worse than the disease!”
Covid Update.
Back from my walk,
Saw my pulmonologist yesterday. Couldn’t get an appointment for about a month because he was working the hospital circuit.
He had the results of my CT scan and Pulmonary function test (didn’t study).
The bad news is that I do have some lung damage. He agrees it’s not from Covid, because I had SOB (shortness of breath) prior to the Covid. He thinks he can treat, but wants to treat the effects of Covid first. I’m taking steroids for two weeks and I will follow up in two months.
The good news is that I’m not dying nor is the damage extensive. Since I don’t smoke he thinks the damage may have been caused by an infection, but can’t do blood work cause the covid going to cover up a lot of other stuff.
I’m still writing comedy and hope to do an online show soon. I will invite you and would love your support. (don’t worry you don’t have to pay).
Peace and love and FT
Stuart
re: #130 makeitstop
He’s just effortless. There are videos of him on stage with many a larger paid talent.
Never tries to showboat. Always humble. You just know he’s a good guy.
re: #118 Sir John Barron
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?
we were until May 9, now it’s kinda shit
Only an Incel would say something like this.
K.W. Miller, the man who is running for a seat in the U.S. House to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional District, tweeted “most white women join Black Lives Matter to fornicate with black men.” https://t.co/qZY2EGcJrg pic.twitter.com/ngHaw1NuxM
— The Root (@TheRoot) July 16, 2020
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Only a racist piece of shit Incel would say something like this.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
He’s seen photos.
Last vagina he touched he fell out of.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Is it too soon to reuse the ‘Koala Jaw Drop’ meme I posted in #111?
re: #142 Blind Frog Belly White
Is it too soon to reuse the ‘Koala Jaw Drop’ meme I posted in #111?
NO.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Only an Incel would say something like this.
K.W. Miller, the man who is running for a seat in the U.S. House to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional District, tweeted “most white women join Black Lives Matter to fornicate with black men.” bit.ly
Once again, the lesbian sisters are overlooked.
re: #146 Decatur Deb
Once again, the lesbian sisters are overlooked.
He did say “most”.
#NotAllWhiteWomen
Even the young rats are scurrying for the gangplank.
The @GOP interns have started to scrub their resumes and asking landlords to let them out of rental agreements.”It’s like Frye Festival up in here” said a 21 year old student from deep red Arkansas. pic.twitter.com/IeL07m8Mfv
— BLUE WAVE News™️ خبر彙報 ข่าว Tin Tức Onda 🌊Azul (@Lazo77400) July 16, 2020
re: #145 A Cranky One
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Way back during the Bush Administration, I remember a Conservative telling me that waterboarding isn’t torture, because the detainees could have stopped it at any time by telling their interrogators what they wanted to know.
I told him that, in that case, the Spanish Inquisition didn’t torture, because the alleged heretics could stop it any time by confessing and recanting.
re: #121 Blind Frog Belly White
(Actually, I am)
Yeah, me too (for the moment). But my neighbors aren’t.
re: #148 makeitstop
Even the young rats are scurrying for the gangplank.
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They should send their resumes to the Federalist Society. I hear they’re running out of young, unqualified white men for Trump to nominate to the Federal bench.
re: #148 makeitstop
Even the young rats are scurrying for the gangplank.
“It’s like Frye Festival up in here”]
Yup. Authentic Arkansas GOP intern.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Only an Incel would say something like this.
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Voter outreach is not a Republican’s strong suit.
re: #151 Blind Frog Belly White
They should send their resumes to the Federalist Society. I hear they’re running out of young, unqualified white men for Trump to nominate to the Federal bench.
I should re-up my long lapsed membership, see if I can get a late appointment to the 9th Circuit.
re: #150 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Yeah, me too (for the moment). But my neighbors aren’t.
Exactly. The nail salon where The Younger Boy was working as a receptionist last year? The owners had JUST opened a second location, right around Christmas, because business at their first location was doing so well. The mall down the street had JUST reopened after a year-long remodel/revamp.
re: #154 KGxvi
I should re-up my long lapsed membership, see if I can get a late appointment to the 9th Circuit.
Yeah: SCOTUS is probably out, since RBG recovered….
re: #156 Jay C
Yeah: SCOTUS is probably out, since RBG recovered….
I don’t think Trump is stupid enough, nor McConnell craven enough to appoint someone with no judicial experience whatsoever to the Supreme Court. Plus, I’m not sure I’d want to move to DC anyway.
re: #157 KGxvi
I don’t think Trump is stupid enough, nor McConnell craven enough to appoint someone with no judicial experience whatsoever to the Supreme Court. Plus, I’m not sure I’d want to move to DC anyway.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if he nominated Jared.
re: #158 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if he nominated Jared.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if he nominated himself.
WUT????
We’ve taken 740+ actions so far to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to the Coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/hUf0kq4NPi
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 16, 2020
re: #55 aatharuv
Make sure to get rid of the turn signals, headlights, tire tread, windshield wipers, rear view mirror, side mirrors, and taillights since those are the results of burdensome, job-killing regulations too.
re: #139 The Pie Overlord!
Only an Incel would say something like this.
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Straight outta the 1830’s.
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