Seth takes a closer look at Trump sending more federal officers into cities and trying to convince people he’s taking the pandemic seriously and that his brain works.
May the fleas of one meellion camels infest the underwear of every republican. ALL of them. And may someone replace their relief medication with itching powder.
I’m not ready to make nice.
1. Joe Biden has had a healthy lead of 7%-9% which is holding steady or (if we rely on polls done with interviews rather than just online) is growing. But as a guard against complacency, consider 1988. https://t.co/NpusrPGkQM
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 24, 2020
3. Clearly Trump’s “law and order” push — including sending federal agents to Portland & Chicago — is move to reignite culture wars by stoking racist paranoia about urban America. So far it hasn’t been working.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 24, 2020
The framing on this — that her repetition of “fucking bitch” on the floor is somehow more notable, more norm-shattering than that a colleague called her this in the first place — is shocking and, sadly, also not surprising. https://t.co/qF6WJeTInU
— Sarah Mimms (@mimms) July 24, 2020
NYT needs to shrivel up and die.
re: #7 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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The difference is that neither Dukakis nor Bush were incumbants, with four years of being president to define them.
re: #9 Belafon
The difference is that neither Dukakis nor Bush were incumbants, with four years of being president to define them.
Agreed. Just remember, the only poll that matters is election day.
re: #8 Dread Pirate
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NYT needs to shrivel up and die.
You know the contempt I have for that goddamned corporate propaganda rag that let Judith Miller cheerlead us into a war that killed my son.
Right now they are doing everything they can to kneecap Joe. He knows that they’re trying and he’s outwitted them every time. But I fear what Putin Stooge Ron Johnson is going to try to do.
re: #4 🌹UOJB!
请告知唐纳德*特朗普，拉崔不是真正的中国菜！
Wow, with my two years of Chinese in grad school I could almost read that. I had no idea what the characters are for “Donald” (but I’ve seen Trump in Chinese before), and I was stumped by La Choy (“swing…American”).
Since Japanese was my specialty, I was allowed to skip by on traditional Chinese characters as the Taiwanese use, so I’m super shaky on simplified.
re: #8 Dread Pirate
“How can a woman who wants respect say those words? It gives me the vapors.” - NYT
re: #12 Barefoot Grin
Wow, with my two years of Chinese in grad school I could almost read that. I had no idea what the characters are for “Donald” (but I’ve seen Trump in Chinese before), and I was stumped by La Choy (“swing…American”).
Since Japanese was my specialty, I was allowed to skip by on traditional Chinese characters as the Taiwanese use, so I’m super shaky on simplified.
DAMN! I thought I was going to stump everyone by tossing “La Choy” in there!
re: #13 Belafon
“How can a woman who wants respect say those words? It gives me the vapors.” - NYT
My favorite part of Ocasio Cortez’s statement, I’m gonna heavily paraphrase, was when she mentioned having worked in an establishment where she would throw out a person who spoke that way to another person. A respectable joint, unlike Congress.
re: #9 Belafon
The difference is that neither Dukakis nor Bush were incumbants, with four years of being president to define them.
And Bush had a lifetime of service to the nation that made him much more credible than just about anyone who had run for president in the modern era.
Trump didn’t have that in 2016, and his record at this point is… subpar.
Greetings, folks.
No update on my stepmom yet, though I was able to find out it’s some kind of lung issue (again, she was negative for Covid). Dad still really upset he can’t be with her.
re: #15 wrenchwench
My favorite part of Ocasio Cortez’s statement, I’m gonna heavily paraphrase, was when she mentioned having worked in an establishment where she would throw out a person who spoke that way to another person. A respectable joint, unlike Congress.
I loved the “having a daughter doesn’t make you a decent man, having a wife doesn’t make you a decent man” bit. That line needs to be adopted for all the Trump defenders in Congress who in 2016 said they couldn’t defend him because they had wives and daughters. Because, honestly, fuck them (and not in the fun way).
re: #9 Belafon
The difference is that neither Dukakis nor Bush were incumbants, with four years of being president to define them.
Biden is also a much more known quantity than Dukakis was. I get we shouldn’t get complacent but chicken little shit is getting old especially when they’re from people like Jeet who refuse to give Biden credit for the lead he’s built up.
re: #19 KGxvi
I loved the “having a daughter doesn’t make you a decent man, having a wife doesn’t make you a decent man” bit. That line needs to be adopted for all the Trump defenders in Congress who in 2016 said they couldn’t defend him because they had wives and daughters. Because, honestly, fuck them (and not in the fun way).
‘Using his daughters and wife that way makes it clear that it’s OK with him if you speak to them that way.’
re: #16 KGxvi
And Bush had a lifetime of service to the nation that made him much more credible than just about anyone who had run for president in the modern era.
Trump didn’t have that in 2016, and his record at this point is… subpar.
Exactly, that too. Trump is in really shit shape for an incumbent. I goddamn get we can’t get complacent but living in the wreckage of 2016 isn’t helpful.
re: #18 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My sons had competitions for distance and accuracy.
When they left home, we had all the bathrooms redone. I mean new tiles grouted and the wallpaper stripped off and replaced.
Oh and it’s my birthday today. Woot. Got the beer and pies.
re: #11 🌹UOJB!
You know the contempt I have for that goddamned corporate propaganda rag that let Judith Miller cheerlead us into a war that killed my son.
Right now they are doing everything they can to kneecap Joe. He knows that they’re trying and he’s outwitted them every time. But I fear what Putin Stooge Ron Johnson is going to try to do.
Fun fact (of no particular relevance): Kamala Harris is on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is chaired by Ron Johnson.
Of all David Brooks’ garbage opinions, this may be the stinkiest. If conservative writers are so “unemployable,” why does Brooks still have a job? And Bret Stephens? And Marc Thiessen? I could go on for a long time. https://t.co/02DsO7w31I
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
It’s impossible to express how completely fucking sick and tired I am of right wing whining and manipulative phony victimhood.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
re: #23 The Pie Overlord!
My sons had competitions for distance and accuracy.
When they left home, we had all the bathrooms redone. I mean new tiles grouted and the wallpaper stripped off and replaced.
You’re the inspiration for the Clorox (I think it was Clorox) commercial!
re: #22 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Exactly, that too. Trump is in really shit shape for an incumbent. I goddamn get we can’t get complacent but living in the wreckage of 2016 isn’t helpful.
Instead of “we need to play like we’re behind” we should be adopting a mindset of “fuck it, let’s run up the score”.
re: #15 wrenchwench
Poorly done, @nytimes. Please change. https://t.co/8sHd1yaZvO
— Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette Editrix, King Of You (@commiegirl1) July 24, 2020
“…So sure, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez connected with every woman who ever had to put up with a man’s shit, at work or elsewhere, only to see him face no consequences for it. She was rightly recognized as having a sharp perception of just how insidious and pervasive it all is. And she pointed out the whole rotten system and says it has to change.
But that’s kind of her brand, you know?”
re: #25 KGxvi
Fun fact (of no particular relevance): Kamala Harris is on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is chaired by Ron Johnson.
She’s my choice for VP. If people really want law enforcement reform. A former ADA, DA, & AG in the top levels of the executive branch is perfect for that.
re: #23 The Pie Overlord!
My sons had competitions for distance and accuracy.
When they left home, we had all the bathrooms redone. I mean new tiles grouted and the wallpaper stripped off and replaced.
Can one laugh and regurgitate at the same time? Asking for a friend.
re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh and it’s my birthday today. Woot. Got the beer and pies.
Happy Birthday! 🧁
As Jim Nabors would say…
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
The Shocking Secret Past of One of QAnon’s Most Toxic Stars
Trash-talking QAnon conspiracy theorist Tommy Gelati has a long list of celebrities he thinks belong in prison—or who might secretly be there already.
Using a verified Twitter account with more than 230,000 followers and a hugely popular podcast, Gelati, who goes by the alias “Tommy G” online, has whipped up QAnon conspiracy theory mobs against celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and companies like online furniture store Wayfair. He promises that prominent figures in the Democratic Party and Hollywood will soon be arrested in a wave of that mass detention QAnon believers call “The Storm.”
He’s claimed that top celebrities torture children for “adrenochrome,” a substance conspiracy theorists believe contains magical life-giving powers. After Tom Hanks contracted the coronavirus, Gelati began speculating that Hanks’s recent haircut proved that he was secretly hosting Saturday Night Live from prison.
But what’s less clear to his audience is that Gelati himself served nearly two years in a federal prison after engineering a sensational bank robbery with a crew dubbed the “College Boy Robbers.” Now, his online rise highlights how anyone can reinvent themselves and find success in an era where conspiracy theories run rampant.
AND MY FAMILY CONTINUALLY POSTS THIS ASSHOLE’S SHIT!
re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh and it’s my birthday today. Woot. Got the beer and pies.
Again? Didn’t you just have one? 😂😂
Seriously, Happy Birthday!!!!
re: #28 KGxvi
Instead of “we need to play like we’re behind” we should be adopting a mindset of “fuck it, let’s run up the score”.
Exactly. We’re seeing Texas and Georgia as possibilities. Biden is also outraising Trump. Humiliate the bastards. Let Trump be known as the Republican who lost Texas.
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Again? Didn’t you just have one? 😂😂
Seriously, Happy Birthday!!!!
Haha. Nah still in July.
re: #30 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
She’s my choice for VP. If people really want law enforcement reform. A former ADA, DA, & AG in the top levels of the executive branch is perfect for that.
She’s mine too. But it’s worth noting that any “investigation” or “hearings” that Johnson does, Harris is going to be there to cut a motherfucker. So they may want to think real hard about how much they really want to do.
re: #37 KGxvi
She’s mine too. But it’s worth noting that any “investigation” or “hearings” that Johnson does, Harris is going to be there to cut a motherfucker. So they may want to think real hard about how much they really want to do.
Which is why Russia is going stright to the traitor senators rather than through the government.
A male Karen is called a “Kyle”
“Kyle Arendell, 39, was arrested on Sunday and charged with malicious injury to property valued less than $2000, and breaching the peace, deputies say.”
Full story:https://t.co/pGgGL6Dxzb— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 24, 2020
re: #37 KGxvi
She’s mine too. But it’s worth noting that any “investigation” or “hearings” that Johnson does, Harris is going to be there to cut a motherfucker. So they may want to think real hard about how much they really want to do.
Yep.
This is not a 3D drawing. It’s a restaurant in Korea ☺️ pic.twitter.com/kZRV5vQjbp
— ༻⋆≺ Martin 🏳️🌈 ≻⋆༺ (@KlatuBaradaNiko) July 24, 2020
Zarif says U.S. warplane fly-by of Iranian airliner may have led to ‘disaster’ https://t.co/MLwQFR8JfL pic.twitter.com/BMchZ3VcUX
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 24, 2020
Trump can’t wait to try and distract from his disastrous covid19 response with a disastrous series of violent assaults, kidnappings by his DHS thugs against protesters, to be followed by instigating a war with China or Iran (or both simultaneously all while the US Navy is short-shipped with Bonhomme Richard laid up indefinitely after a massive fire/explosions, 2 other ships suffered fire damage this past week, covid19 hampering efforts with the Navy and Marines, etc.)
He’s been an abject disaster with everything, but his base doesn’t seem to care, and his sycophantic advisers aren’t going to tell him anything but what he wants to hear.
re: #28 KGxvi
Instead of “we need to play like we’re behind” we should be adopting a mindset of “fuck it, let’s run up the score”.
All of this “play like you’re 100 points behind!” attitude is so demoralizing. Almost as if we’re internalizing what our opponents say about “Hard Work and Personal Responsibility”.
In this piece, @baseballcrank refers unironically to the “reassuring, experienced presence of Mike Pence.” https://t.co/FNicjP59gy
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 24, 2020
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I rather have Joe’s stutter than Pray-it-Away Pence.
re: #44 Sherlock Hound
All of this “play like you’re 100 points behind!” attitude is so demoralizing. Almost as if we’re internalizing what our opponents say about “Hard Work and Personal Responsibility”.
I mean if Biden wins big, I don’t want us getting cocky about the future either. We need to realize the set of circumstances we’re in.
re: #44 Sherlock Hound
All of this “play like you’re 100 points behind!” attitude is so demoralizing. Almost as if we’re internalizing what our opponents say about “Hard Work and Personal Responsibility”.
As someone who has been on both sides of a blow out in sports, there really isn’t much more demoralizing than facing an insurmountable lead. What typically happens is that you just try and run out the clock. And a lot of times, that is what happens whether you’re winning or losing. I’m all for playing to win instead of playing not to lose, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong when you’re ahead recognizing that you’re ahead. Especially in politics, where you can create a bandwagon affect - because people like a winner.
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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NRO always being douchebags. Must be a day ending in day.
To all those people who keep up the tired refrain that Lincoln was a Republican. I get it. But things change. Babe Ruth was a pitcher for the Red Sox.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 24, 2020
re: #50 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
NRO always being douchebags. Must be a day ending in day.
So, you’re saying there’s hope for tomorrow?
Credit card issuer American Express reported an 85% slump in quarterly profit after it set aside nearly $628 million to prepare for a flood of potential defaults https://t.co/RQuhCDaFst pic.twitter.com/BwmMwQLVC3
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 24, 2020
Other banks and financial companies are reducing their exposures by cutting credit limits, closing accounts, and otherwise restricting credit even as people need to dip into their credit to make ends meet. And this situation will accelerate as we head towards August 1 without a deal to extend PPP/CARES Act funding mechanisms.
GOP doesn’t care. They spent months doing nothing, and they’d rather watch the economy burn than see people other than millionaires get a dime of support to keep the economy afloat.
re: #51 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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That is great. I will need to remember that.
One more
Yeah. Here’s the deal. If you keep “turning the corner” like apparently President Trump keeps doing, it really means you are going around in circles.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 23, 2020
re: #51 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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It’s all so stupid. We know Lincoln was a Republican. Jesse Helms also was a Republican who bragged about wanting to whistle Dixie to make a black colleague cry and Trump and the modern GOP have more in common with him than Abe.
re: #50 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
NRO always being douchebags. Must be a day ending in day.
Days ending in day are my least favorite days.
re: #51 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Barry Bonds is now and forever will be a Pittsburgh Pirate. /
re: #54 Belafon
I kind of want to start a thread of a lot of these:
Nolan Ryan pitched for the Mets.
Steve Young was QB for the Bucs
I bet Trump will hate it if we retweet this photo of him working very hard to catch a softly lobbed ball.
So don’t do it, okay? pic.twitter.com/ZPNTvDQDpZ— that’s DOCTOR emigre80 to you, mate (@emigre80) July 24, 2020
Speaking of escaped rats who want to gnaw holes in the sinking ship, Joe Walsh continues to bite big chunks out of the hull.
The Republican Party BEFORE Trump was a weak, arrogant, elitist Party that ignored the concerns of its base voters.
NOW, the Republican Party is a dangerous cult, ruled by a demagogic con man.
Just plain bad all around.— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 23, 2020
re: #59 lawhawk
Barry Bonds is now and forever will be a Pittsburgh Pirate. /
Who could forget Roger Maris, Kansas City Athletic.
::: setting up the buffet table with all sorts of goodies :::
re: #61 KGxvi
I kind of want to start a thread of a lot of these:
Nolan Ryan pitched for the Mets.
Steve Young was QB for the Bucs
Wayne Gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers
Mark Messier played for the Edmonton Oilers
Drew Bledsoe QB’d for the Patriots
re: #44 Sherlock Hound
All of this “play like you’re 100 points behind!” attitude is so demoralizing. Almost as if we’re internalizing what our opponents say about “Hard Work and Personal Responsibility”.
That’s why it’s 2 points.
re: #66 PhillyPretzel
::: setting up the buffet table with all sorts of goodies :::
::: slides chair over to buffet :::
re: #65 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bucky Dent, Chicago White Sox.
Dave Winfield, San Diego Padre.
::: pours glasses for everyone in the room :::
To whomever gave me that karma point that gave me 42,000 points Thanks.
re: #70 lawhawk
Bucky Dent, Chicago White Sox.
Dave Winfield, San Diego Padre.
There are non baseball examples too. Wrestling company WCW famously fired Steve Austin because they thought he was too “bland” and he would never be a very marketable performer. Less than two years later, he landed in the WWF, became “Stone Cold” and…well you know the rest.
re: #72 Belafon
Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.
A-Rod, Seattle Mariner
Bret Favre, Atlanta Falcon
Rudy Giuliani, federal prosecutor specializing in breaking up corruption.
🧵 Okay. I’m listening by phone to the hearing in McCarthy v. Pelosi. In this case, the Republicans sued to block the Dem-controlled House from using a proxy voting system to allow for remote legislating
Parties are appearing by video. Hearing begins momentarily at 2 p.m.
1/ pic.twitter.com/6Tu12I9KGu— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) July 24, 2020
Caitlyn Marie Jenner——-Winner, men’s decathlon, 1976 Summer Olympics Montreal.
re: #24 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh and it’s my birthday today. Woot. Got the beer and pies.
re: #48 KGxvi
As someone who has been on both sides of a blow out in sports, there really isn’t much more demoralizing than facing an insurmountable lead. What typically happens is that you just try and run out the clock. And a lot of times, that is what happens whether you’re winning or losing. I’m all for playing to win instead of playing not to lose, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong when you’re ahead recognizing that you’re ahead. Especially in politics, where you can create a bandwagon affect - because people like a winner.
As well, the GOP is a thoroughly authoritarian party. They believe in power. When it looks like they’re going to lose that power, there’s nothing that keeps them going, especially if losing that power means that they may have to (finally) answer for their crimes. Authoritarian structures don’t look like they’ll ever collapse, until they think their power is slipping and suddenly everything goes to hell. So great poll numbers can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Plus, it doesn’t do you any good to think you’re losing when you’re not (like General McClellan). You end up over-protecting territories not at risk, refusing to counterattack and extend because you assume you’ll lose, and sapping morale from everyone who needs it. If you’re winning, you still can lose, but pretending you’re losing doesn’t do anyone any good.
This is a White House press briefing. pic.twitter.com/bbzQKEX6MD
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) July 24, 2020
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Again? Didn’t you just have one? 😂😂
Seriously, Happy Birthday!!!!
Honestly, I thought the same thing.
re: #86 The Pie Overlord!
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The DC Press Corpse sits there and takes it. They won’t walk out because they’re addicted to kissing Trump’s ass.
Good lord. White House now saying kids are essential workers so they have to go back to school.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 24, 2020
She’s a partisan propaganda writer. A performer. Also acceptable: an actor.
Not a “media representative.” Not a journalist. Not a reporter. https://t.co/uwUaI2OeCq— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) July 24, 2020
re: #67 lawhawk
Wayne Gretzky played for the Edmonton Oilers
Mark Messier played for the Edmonton Oilers
Drew Bledsoe QB’d for the Patriots
Roberto Clemente plays for the Pirates. Always and Forever.
re: #72 Belafon
Ronald Reagan, Democratic Party.
Ronald Reagan, President of the Screen Actors Guild.
Run up the score.
New Cook Political Report ratings.
Biden is at 308 electoral votes in Solid, Likely, and Lean. With another 43 as toss up. In the leaning states, there’s 90 EV leaning Dem vs 62 leaning Rep (Iowa, Texas, and Ohio).
Run up the score.
PAW PATROL HAS NOT BEEN CANCELED
THIS IS A DUMB ONLINE RUMORhttps://t.co/zaQyrLNQDE https://t.co/GvrvZOxW1M— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 24, 2020
re: #86 The Pie Overlord!
I am no longer speechless or surprised. What I always come back to, which terrifies the living shit outta me, is what we DON’T know. How much evidence has been destroyed? These people have to go to prison. At least enough of them to make a giant dent in this continuing onward. One thing is for certain, assuming people will do the right thing is a really fucking stupid idea. Especially those wrapping themselves in flags and wearing crosses, the ones screaming about how patriotic and by god American they are. You can’t claim to love your country and then hate nearly every person in it. We need to run any elected official or anyone running for office spouting this shit completely into a corner and never let them near government offices ever again. And fucking Kayleigh, professional liar and shit thrower, needs shit thrown at her. Literally and figuratively. (As I said earlier, I am not ready to make nice. Ever Again. Not with these motherfuckers)
What makes me truly sad is that I don’t think we’re learning a thing from the destruction here. At ALL.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
There are non baseball examples too. Wrestling company WCW famously fired Steve Austin because they thought he was too “bland” and he would never be a very marketable performer. Less than two years later, he landed in the WWF, became “Stone Cold” and…well you know the rest.
Oh, wrestling is all kinds of fun:
Stunning Steve Austin to Stone Cold Steve Austin
Mean Mark Calloway to the Undertaker
Rocky Miavia to The Rock
The Three Faces of Foley
And that’s before we get into the more ridiculous repackagings over the years.
re: #86 The Pie Overlord!
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No it isnt
Calling it that don’t make it so
This is a White House press briefing. pic.twitter.com/bbzQKEX6MD
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) July 24, 2020
re: #100 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
No it isnt
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I think Nazaryan left off the sarc tag.
TexASS Strikes Again!
Texas GOP lawmaker brutally mocked for talk of bringing space aliens ‘salvation through Jesus’
And YES, it’s a Republican uttering this insanity!
Texas State Rep. Jonathan Stickland reacted to reports about declassifying information on UFO sightings by stating that any aliens aboard the ships would have to accept Jesus Christ into their hearts if they wanted a chance at eternal paradise.
Wonder what that TexAssHole would do if Aliens land in TexASS and they claim this…
Maybe they have their own sky god(s).
Maybe THEY created us.
Maybe your god was a precocious child of theirs that ran away and made a mess in a mud puddle.
All this and more is possible.— Libtard Jesus, ANTIFA (it’s in the Bible) (@LibtardJesus1) July 24, 2020
re: #95 KGxvi
Run up the score.
New Cook Political Report ratings.
Biden is at 308 electoral votes in Solid, Likely, and Lean. With another 43 as toss up. In the leaning states, there’s 90 EV leaning Dem vs 62 leaning Rep (Iowa, Texas, and Ohio).
Run up the score.
When they go low, we go higher. And higher.
😂😂
I’ve seen more photos of trump with Ghislaine Maxwell than with Barron.
— romy🦋 (@romyreiner) July 23, 2020
OK, let’s name the bases for some of those heroes
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 24, 2020
re: #102 Belafon
I think Nazaryan left off the sarc tag.
Tag or not they haven’t done a briefing or proper press conference in years…actually this admin maybe never
these gatherings are nothing but campaign performance art pieces
The DC press is drugged. Or hypnotized.
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
“Elvis Jesus is not dead, he just went home.”
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
TexASS Strikes Again!
Texas GOP lawmaker brutally mocked for talk of bringing space aliens ‘salvation through Jesus’
And YES, it’s a Republican uttering this insanity!
Texas State Rep. Jonathan Stickland reacted to reports about declassifying information on UFO sightings by stating that any aliens aboard the ships would have to accept Jesus Christ into their hearts if they wanted a chance at eternal paradise.
Wonder what that TexAssHole would do if Aliens land in TexASS and they claim this…
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For Fuck’s Sake.
Our nuns explained this away in the 1950s: Christ was born of a descendant of Adam to erase Adam’s sin. If aliens even need redemption, they get it through their own messiah, born of their own sinner.
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
I’ve always wondered what would happen to most organized religions in this world if we confirmed sentient life of non-Earth origin. That they would go this route is depressing but not surprising.
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
TexASS Strikes Again!
Texas GOP lawmaker brutally mocked for talk of bringing space aliens ‘salvation through Jesus’
And YES, it’s a Republican uttering this insanity!
Texas State Rep. Jonathan Stickland reacted to reports about declassifying information on UFO sightings by stating that any aliens aboard the ships would have to accept Jesus Christ into their hearts if they wanted a chance at eternal paradise.
Wonder what that TexAssHole would do if Aliens land in TexASS and they claim this…
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Dude, if aliens are real, their exhaust wake destroyed your ‘heaven’
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
Deep Thoughts, by J.Strickland…. It speaks volumes that people are clueless and careless enough to elect this oxygen starved life form. If we were even close to sane, he’d be laughed out of office and back to his front porch.
re: #113 A Mom Anon
Just the thought of a spaceship landing in Texas and 50 aliens come out chanting “Hare Krishna…”
re: #111 KGxvi
I’ve always wondered what would happen to most organized religions in this world if we confirmed sentient life of non-Earth origin. That they would go this route is depressing but not surprising.
Using the nunsplanation above, it don’t make no never-mind. Different rules for different galaxies.
re: #103 Teddy’s Person
Pete Best, drummer for the Beatles.
Also, the dude who was the “Guns” part of “Guns N’ Roses”
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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She just admitted the generals names don’t matter
Incoherent https://t.co/jOVvH7JWZ9
— Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) July 24, 2020
re: #114 🌹UOJB!
Baruch ata adonai…. That’d really bake their noodles in Jesusland.
re: #104 🌹UOJB!
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Contact, where the relevant Government officials, once they receive unambiguous proof of intelligent aliens “out there”, meet to decide what to do, but get bogged down in repetitive nonsense blathered away (by a character very much like Rep. Strickland there) about how the only important factor to consider is whether or not “they” “believe in God”….
re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
John Rutsey, Rush drummer.
re: #111 KGxvi
I’ve always wondered what would happen to most organized religions in this world if we confirmed sentient life of non-Earth origin. That they would go this route is depressing but not surprising.
Orson Scott Card (cursed be his name) wrote about that in Speaker of the Dead. And Paul had a lot of fun with it.
re: #117 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
“the bases are not known for the generals they are named after. The bases are known for the heroes that served at them.”
“Without looking at your notes, Kayleigh, would you name one of these heroes for us?
re: #122 jaunte
“Without looking at your notes, Kayleigh, would you name one of these heroes for us?
All of them, Katie.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
Using the nunsplanation above, it don’t make no never-mind. Different rules for different galaxies.
But still only the one earth based god of course. Right?
WTAF
Barstool’s Portnoy asked Trump what people should do to show displeasure if they’re dissatisfied, since kneeling is better than looting.
Trump: “Well, I mean, you can always say you run for office…You can become successful…you can do things…there are ways…friendly ways”— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 24, 2020
re: #123 Belafon
All of them, Katie.
That quip is the ONLY good thing that came from Sarah Palin’s failed run for VP.
re: #124 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
But still only the one earth based god of course. Right?
Not of This Earth. (That would make a good horror movie title.)
And, to put the ‘ZTI’ conspiracy to rest
General Honoré is wrong about this. As other photos show, these are US Marshals wearing personal “cell tags” for identification to one another: ZT1, ML8, AP1 (and one pic is a CBP guy with Z-26). Thanks @JakeGodin and @mikenelson586 for flagging. https://t.co/Shdk4aeHeF pic.twitter.com/6VJSvCyVez
— Wesley Morgan (@wesleysmorgan) July 24, 2020
re: #124 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
But still only the one earth based god of course. Right?
It would be a hoot if we contacted intelligent aliens, and their answer to the question of religion was something like:
“God? Of course we believe in God! She created the whole cosmos and gave birth to it about 15 billion of your years ago…..”
re: #84 Teddy’s Person
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re: #130 Jay C
It would be a hoot if we contacted intelligent aliens, and their answer to the question of religion was something like:
“God? Of course we believe in God! She created the whole cosmos and gave birth to it about 15 billion of your years ago…..”
That’s what I menant
re: #128 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And, to put the ‘ZTI’ conspiracy to rest
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That woman that Z-26 has a hold on, looks utterly terrified.
Yesterday I was all jazzed, planning to make a lemon meringue pie today.
My feet hurt so bad I’m just gonna bake up a box of brownie mix. It’s OK to do that.
re: #84 Teddy’s Person
I can’t get over that you have two dogs named Teddy. They both have delicious eyes.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
That quip is the ONLY good thing that came from Sarah Palin’s failed run for VP.
I was going to say ‘I can see Russia from my house!’ but then I remembered that was Tina Fey, who came up with most of the good Palin Quotes.
re: #137 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I can’t get over that you have two dogs named Teddy. They both have delicious eyes.
It’s only one dog with different haircuts. That pic of him in the birthday hat is about 10 years old.
How much will they get paid? Since they’re not servers getting tips, they have to make minimum wage.
When will Congress start paying them? What about the COVID19 premium for essential workers?— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 24, 2020
Hypothesis:
Three years from now the United States will be farther down the road to a just society than it would have been if Trump were never president.
Show your work.
re: #143 Decatur Deb
Hypothesis:
Three years from now the United States will be farther down the road to a just society than it would have been if Trump were never president.
Show your work.
My variation is that Trump has done more to end the civil war than anyone since Lincoln.
re: #144 Belafon
My variation is that Trump has done more to end the civil war than anyone since Lincoln.
There’s that. And he may do more to end oligarchy than anyone since Joe Hill.
Senate Republicans’ departure for the week makes it official:
There WILL be a lapse in enhanced federal unemployment benefits.
As the recovery stalls and layoffs grow, an estimated 30 million American workers will soon lose over half of their income.
Mitch McConnell did this.— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 24, 2020
I scheduled an oil/transmission fluid change at my long time auto shop for this morning. Usually I use their shuttle service to get to where I’m going and then back when their done. Now there is no shuttle service and no lobby waiting. There were restaurants with patio service nearby for breakfast, but the place next door to the shop had packed tables with no one wearing masks so I decided to just walk the 1.2 miles home and then back again.
There is a severe heat advisory in effect today that started at noon. I started the walk back to the shop at about 11:00. I’m too old & fat to be doing something like that. I blasted the AC when I got my car back and did about an hour’s worth of errands, but I feel like I’m still recovering. No more work for me today.
re: #147 stpaulbear
I scheduled an oil/transmission fluid change at my long time auto shop for this morning. Usually I use their shuttle service to get to where I’m going and then back when their done. Now there is no shuttle service and no lobby waiting. There were restaurants with patio service nearby for breakfast, but the place next door to the shop had packed tables with no one wearing masks so I decided to just walk the 1.2 miles home and then back again.
There is a severe heat advisory in effect today that started at noon. I started the walk back to the shop at about 11:00. I’m too old & fat to be doing something like that. I blasted the AC when I got my car back and did about an hour’s worth of errands, but I feel like I’m still recovering. No more work for me today.
Top off the fluids in the walking machine.
re: #97 jaunte
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There is literally someone in this country sitting in a chair, watching the Spokesliar, who is freaking out that Paw Patrol was canceled while their kid/grandkid is concurrently watching Paw Patrol….
re: #147 stpaulbear
Please take it slow and be safe!
re: #143 Decatur Deb
Hypothesis:
Three years from now the United States will be farther down the road to a just society than it would have been if Trump were never president.
Show your work.
My report would plagiarize the novel ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ by Ursula LeGuin.
re: #147 stpaulbear
Do not over do anything in that type of heat. Drink some water and rest. :)
The coronavirus surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population, 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world. https://t.co/r4qCwdb9ho
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2020
re: #143 Decatur Deb
I guess if nothing else we see the flaws and holes in our system that allowed for this. That laws don’t mean shit if no one enforces them. And we certainly have to see that a pretty significant number of “Americans” hate the rest of the American People. Enough to do some pretty significant damage. What will happen to our system of government is going to depend on whether we learn from this and work together to fix the damage. That last part, the working together, is going to be the key to success. Bullies and assholes have to STOP being put in charge and put in a corner.
re: #149 Mike Lamb
There is literally someone in this country sitting in a chair, watching the Spokesliar, who is freaking out that Paw Patrol was canceled while their kid/grandkid is concurrently watching Paw Patrol….
Not tweeting McEnany briefings is the nicest thing I ever did for you people.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 24, 2020
re: #154 A Mom Anon
I guess if nothing else we see the flaws and holes in our system that allowed for this. That laws don’t mean shit if no one enforces them. And we certainly have to see that a pretty significant number of “Americans” hate the rest of the American People. Enough to do some pretty significant damage. What will happen to our system of government is going to depend on whether we learn from this and work together to fix the damage. That last part, the working together, is going to be the key to success. Bullies and assholes have to STOP being put in charge and put in a corner.
Trump was given to us to provide clarity to the situation.
Why the Fuck is Paw Patrol trending?
Oh, because shitgibbons in the WH thought that they’d spew nonsense about a beloved kid’s cartoon as proof of “something”.
It’s a huge franchise and it’s not going anywhere - and it’s on heavy rotation in kids’ homes nationwide. But Trumpists want to ignore the facts and substitute this bulkshit.
I fucking knew the Senate wouldn’t get their shit together this week and get a relief measure passed.
It’s going to be a long August folks…
re: #156 Decatur Deb
Trump was given to us to provide clarity to the situation.
In his own half-vast way.
re: #157 lawhawk
Why the Fuck is Paw Patrol trending?
Oh, because shitgibbons in the WH thought that they’d spew nonsense about a beloved kid’s cartoon as proof of “something”.
It’s a huge franchise and it’s not going anywhere - and it’s on heavy rotation in kids’ homes nationwide. But Trumpists want to ignore the facts and substitute this bulkshit.
Paw Patrol is not a show about cops. It has many characters. One is a police dog. One is a fire dog. One is a needy mayor who cares only about his own glorification. All cartoons. https://t.co/LzXBg2WM9W
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 24, 2020
What about Deputy Dawg?
I heard that the cop in the Village People has been cancelled and replaced with an Antifa. Is this true?— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 24, 2020
Fascinating. Trump admin sending in ICE, CBP under the jurisdiction of Federal Protective Service. But the 2002 law that created Homeland Security Dept took away from FPS the authority to disperse “unlawful assemblies”. https://t.co/PlC0n8JaXr via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 24, 2020
“Cease quoting laws to those of us with swords.”
— Josué Hurtado (@josuehurtado) July 24, 2020
re: #146 Charles Johnson
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your boss ever tell you to stay and get the job done because it’s critical, even though you had travel plans, tickets, etc?
(oh wait, i said critical)
Senate Republicans’ departure for the week makes it official:
There WILL be a lapse in enhanced federal unemployment benefits.
As the recovery stalls and layoffs grow, an estimated 30 million American workers will soon lose over half of their income.
Mitch McConnell did this.— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) July 24, 2020
I honestly don’t understand all the panic about kids missing a few months of school, if it means we’d be saving lives and helping stop the spread of coronavirus.
Kids can always catch up on schoolwork.
But not if they’re dead and their teachers are dead.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
This seems like a very simple, straightforward choice to me.
Trump wants kids back in school so he can pressure parents to go back to work and the economy will improve and he can get re-elected.
Now THAT strikes me as a VERY BAD reason to rush kids back into school.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
That’s exactly where a sane government would step in and help with money for childcare and other services for people who can’t work from home.
But that isn’t the government we have. https://t.co/YXYaaOAT7G— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
re: #156 Decatur Deb
Trump was given to us to provide clarity to the situation.
Trump and his followers have also made the shitty parts of culture very, very visible in a way that’s embarrassing. The sadism is naked, almost horny, which offsets the decades of heavy makeup and vaseline on lens that makes stuff like The Lost Cause seem attractive.
Trump has shitty taste and a preoccupation with superficial signs of power, and whether it’s an airline, a casino, or the past. Live by the aesthetic…hopefully die by the aesthetic.
re: #153 lawhawk
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The coronavirus surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population, 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world. https://t.co/r4qCwdb9ho
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2020
Superstitious peasants, cynical patricians, and corrupt priests installed an incompetent buffoon as emperor. Oh, wait, that’s the United States.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 24, 2020
re: #157 lawhawk
Why the Fuck is Paw Patrol trending?
Oh, because shitgibbons in the WH thought that they’d spew nonsense about a beloved kid’s cartoon as proof of “something”.
It’s a huge franchise and it’s not going anywhere - and it’s on heavy rotation in kids’ homes nationwide. But Trumpists want to ignore the facts and substitute this bulkshit.
that shows about ‘police’ were being cancelled
re: #167 The Ghost of a Flea
Trump and his followers have also made the shitty parts of culture very, very visible in a way that’s embarrassing. The sadism is naked, almost horny, which offsets the decades of heavy makeup and vaseline on lens that makes stuff like The Lost Cause seem attractive.
Trump has shitty taste and a preoccupation with superficial signs of power, and whether it’s an airline, a casino, or the past. Live by the aesthetic…hopefully die by the aesthetic.
Look what he’s done for the voting rights movement. The drive towards “One American, One Vote” has been eroded for 10 years or more. We are wound up to make a shocking leap forward. Voting rights, including Felon Rights Restoration, is at the top of the League of Women Voters’ target list. That’s white suburban women.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
That quip is the ONLY good thing that came from Sarah Palin’s failed run for VP.
Imagine if Palin came to prominence in the age of memes and gifs? The McCain campaign would have been sunk in a week
re: #156 Decatur Deb
I truly hope with all the hope in the world that this is what moves us forward. I am probably overly concerned about retaliatory violence beyond what we’ve seen so far.But then again, maybe not. That is what has silenced liberals/democrats to some degree in many places. When you still have a part of your town with a store that is still a Klan meeting place, where they sell pictures of lynchings and “confederate memorabilia for historical reasons”,and the store owner has received awards for being a model citizen, it can be a little daunting. This tension has been building, especially since 9/11 and the concentrated effort by conservatives to make people fear and hate liberals. I’m in GA, Rove, Gingrich and Ralph Reed did a lot of awful shit here after 9/11 to escalate shit and it never went away. Lots of folks are mad at a caricature of liberals that conservatives made up. I don’t think that can be fixed. Not anytime soon at least.
re: #167 The Ghost of a Flea
Trump and his followers have also made the shitty parts of culture very, very visible in a way that’s embarrassing. The sadism is naked, almost horny, which offsets the decades of heavy makeup and vaseline on lens that makes stuff like The Lost Cause seem attractive.
Until now I thought that Lucille Ball’s “Mame” used the most vaseline on the camera lens…
The house across the street is occupied by the young family of our old neighbor. Over the years we joked that the old guy and his wife cancelled our votes.
Wife just reported that their yard has grown a Doug Jones sign.
re: #168 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
There’s a saying in Science! — “torture the data until it confesses.” Chartology is one of those Dark Secrets taught in the shadowy corners of scientific academia to up and coming Lobachevskis, masterful methods of psychological manipulation by cherrypicking data sets, subtle use of colour in lines, “missing” axis labels and offset axes, unsubstantiated best-fit lines and, best of all, the unjustified extrapolation aka a trend.
“Give me three points of data and I’ll fit them to any curve you like. Four and I can make it a cardoid.”
Basically these sorts of charts are not intended to inform, they’re intended to excite and enrage. I try not to let myself get enraged by this sort of manipulation (the raw data is bad enough as it is).
re: #175 Decatur Deb
The house across the street is occupied by the young family of our old neighbor. Over the years we joked that the old guy and his wife cancelled our votes.
Wife just reported that their yard has grown a Doug Jones sign.
Could it be….that maybe - just maybe - we might be looking at a GOP bloodbath this November? One of those game-changing elections?
Knock on wood.
If or when panic is gonna set in for the GOP, it’s going to be around mid-September. That’s usually when you can start to get a sense of how things are going to sort out. And if Trump’s still tanking in the polls by then, and the same polls - as well as the Republicans internal polling - show that the GOP is in for once-in-a-generation ass-whoopin’, that’ll be around the time they’ll start deserting him.
re: #165 Charles Johnson
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I’ve been pretty consistent on this—if the gov’t won’t pay people to stay home or for some kind of COVID safety compliant day care; and the teachers are willing to be there, then kids need to be in school. Everyone suffers with a bunch of parents trying to juggle remote learning and work. For too many, it’s not even possible (the job, the family, or both can’t support telecommuting).
This is ridiculous. Why is this guy interviewing trump? WTF?
In new interview, Trump says the U.S. is more of a problem for him than rival powers: “Someone said: Who’s the toughest in the world to deal with? Is it Russia? Is it China? Could it be North Korea? I said no, the toughest is the United States.” pic.twitter.com/spue9HYqaF
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) July 24, 2020
McDonald’s will require customers to wear face masks at all of its U.S. restaurants starting Aug. 1.
Because face masks have become a subject of contention, the chain says it will help employees get “de-escalation training.”https://t.co/c93W8DIE8Z— NPR (@NPR) July 24, 2020
re: #173 A Mom Anon
Wait what! You have a store that sells lynching postcards?
re: #176 Nojay UK
“Give me three points of data and I’ll fit them to any curve you like. Four and I can make it a cardoid.
re: #181 Teddy’s Person
Wait what! You have a store that sells lynching postcards?
I have seen them. I will not post a link because they are offensive.
Did I not say this was coming? https://t.co/PQHNR0ZMUa
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 24, 2020
(PART 3) - @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/Rx74t5OUyh
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 24, 2020
re: #144 Belafon
My variation is that Trump has done more to end the civil war than anyone since Lincoln.
Let’s wait for this to actually happen before any celebrating.
re: #183 🌹UOJB!
I have seen them. I will not post a link because they are offensive.
Oh I’ve seen them and lecture about them in my 19th century and 20th century history classes.
re: #186 Teddy’s Person
Oh I’ve seen them and lecture about them in my 19th century and 20th century history classes.
I’ve seen them in a museum context.
https://t.co/vtg3iT4qLn pic.twitter.com/wQL2SwYedo
— Ways & Means Committee (@WaysMeansCmte) July 24, 2020
re: #188 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Da fuck? Tesla literally just received a $15 million subsidy to build a new factory in Austin.
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) July 24, 2020
re: #188 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo
The serfs must get back to work!!
I’d like to offer a pre-emptive apology to all the kids, teachers and parents who are going to die because Republicans are fucking assholes.
I apologize that we, the decent and reasonable people of this country, did not do a better job for you.
re: #182 Colère Tueur de Lapin
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This is all kinds of awesome. Where’s it from? XKCD? The typography looks familiar …
This looks like a scene from Putin’s Russia https://t.co/acakOa2r5A
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 24, 2020
re: #192 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
This is all kinds of awesome. Where’s it from? XKCD? The typography looks familiar …
Yup. It’s on my office door, too.
Georgia mom, the new Florida man
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 24, 2020
re: #187 Teddy’s Person
I’ve seen them in a museum context.
I’ve seen them, and more, at the local flea market.
Mitch McConnell knows the country doesn’t have a few weeks. He has decided to let people starve and become homeless. There are no limits to his cruelty. https://t.co/4i4biJ5bzv
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) July 24, 2020
Person. Beer. Chips. Baseball. TV.#LFGM
— Ralph Vacchiano (@RVacchianoSNY) July 24, 2020
re: #197 jaunte
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Yup. It’s a negotiating tactic. Starve people out for a few weeks, they’ll start calling their Reps/Senators begging for anything; then suddenly $200 looks good.
.@NCSCgov Director Bill Evanina has issued a fulsome, if broad, statement on election security threats 100 days before the November election.
Evanina is the top official charged with briefing relevant stakeholders on current threats. pic.twitter.com/o3w8Hua7KP— Olivia Gazis (@Olivia_Gazis) July 24, 2020
House intel chair @RepAdamSchiff, speaking to @mitchellreports, called this statement misleading, saying it draws a false equivalency between what China and Iran are doing and what Russia is doing. Senate Dems who have been briefed agree, I am told. https://t.co/3XxAOXxM4L
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) July 24, 2020
Damn. These people’s brains are just broken. pic.twitter.com/mFaFbd3bHd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 24, 2020
re: #193 DodgerFan1988
As someone said on the comments, a lot of people are allowing these thugs to harass and assault protesting Americans. Biden needs to hold them accountable when he takes office. This can’t be allowed to happen again.
re: #181 Teddy’s Person
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WOW! .@DHS_Wolf called in federal swat teams to arrest 18 people! That’s amazing! 18 PEOPLE! How’d you guys survive? 18 people! https://t.co/x4Vy4Xj3d1
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) July 24, 2020
Setting record for most expensive arrests.
If the country is destroyed, what good will money do?
Rare Black Panther Shadows His Leopard Mate in Incredible Shot by Photographer Mithun H, This is Colossal
Since 2014, wildlife filmmaker and photographer Mithun H has been pining for sightings of Saya, a black panther that’s been eluding his admirers in the Kabini Forest in India for years. After camping out in the area for six days, the photographer captured a stunning image of the mysterious animal shadowing his leopard partner, Cleopatra.
re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I mean, someone could probably make some interesting points wrt executive power in foreign vs. domestic policy arenas. But…I do not believe that’s what we would get from this buffoon.
re: #206 retired cynic
Rare Black Panther Shadows His Leopard Mate in Incredible Shot by Photographer Mithun H, This is Colossal
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Thought that was a photo under harsh flash, until I saw the eyes.
Immediate contact tracing, gov put those contact tracers in a closed due to the virus hotel (supporting business), people took it seriously.
Never work in the US because we, apparently, don’t give a shit about each other.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 24, 2020
If you’ve had a tough week watch this baby playing fetch with his pups.
Dogs, bruh… pic.twitter.com/EXkNVNMaeF— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 24, 2020
re: #202 Patricia Kayden
As someone said on the comments, a lot of people are allowing these thugs to harass and assault protesting Americans. Biden needs to hold them accountable when he takes office. This can’t be allowed to happen again.
And the first step is to remove CPBP authority to stop and detain with out a warrant.
Chilling opinion piece here.
Great piece by .@high_rum . Opinion: Democracy in Danger When Border Agents Come Knocking on Everyone’s Doors - Times of San Diego https://t.co/bZlrCpsxsv
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) July 24, 2020
re: #203 A Mom Anon
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re: #210 Dr Lizardo
Nothing wrong with Surströmming. :)
re: #184 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
60-75% of Americans would probably be fine with Trump returning to his private life.
re: #211 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Plus here in the US of A we support our hotel businesses by imprisoning immigrants in them. (info real, weapons-grade defense-mechanism snark deployed)
re: #216 KGxvi
60-75% of Americans would probably be fine with Trump returning to his private life.
Or going to prison. Either scenario works.
re: #219 Patricia Kayden
I would settle for prison since I cannot have what I want him to do. Hint: It would be way too honorable for him.
re: #197 jaunte
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Typical Repub “bargaining” tactic: Drag shit out until the last minute, then use the “dire need” to force Dems to “compromise” by accepting whatever bill they serve up without alteration, expecting the media to do the heavy-lifting of presenting them as “saviors” and Dems as “uncompromising radicals.”
re: #213 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And the first step is to remove CPBP authority to stop and detain with out a warrant.
Chilling opinion piece here.
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Mapping and demographic charts show almost everyone in the country is within 100 miles of a border. (IIRC, Border Patrol “borders” include international airports.)
re: #214 Teddy’s Person
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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 24, 2020
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Nikki Haley may actually be more full of shit than the orange thing himself.
At the beginning of the pandemic @GregAbbott_TX broke procurement practices to pay $295M to an unheard of @texasgop lobbyist repped startup to run the state’s track and trace efforts. It’s been a complete disaster: https://t.co/dd3Mufea7d
— Aziz Gilani (@TexasVC) July 24, 2020
You can read the bio of the lobbyist who was paid $50K the day the contract was awarded here. TLDR he’s a @texasgop precinct chair: https://t.co/OqL3MPNKsb
— Aziz Gilani (@TexasVC) July 24, 2020
re: #225 BeachDem
Nikki Haley may actually be more full of shit than the orange thing himself.
Just the thought of the 2024 bloodletting between Nimratta and Ivanka for the 2024 GOP nomination…
Trump meets with Great Patriotic Teachers at White House ceremony. pic.twitter.com/M9pTNozgGe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 24, 2020
re: #227 🌹UOJB!
Just the thought of the 2024 bloodletting between Nimratta and Ivanka for the 2024 GOP nomination…
They both need to spend time between now and then to root out the misogyny in their party or neither one stands much of a chance. It’s one thing to rah rah Trump dynasty. It’s quite another to vote for a woman.
re: #175 Decatur Deb
The house across the street is occupied by the young family of our old neighbor. Over the years we joked that the old guy and his wife cancelled our votes.
Wife just reported that their yard has grown a Doug Jones sign.
there are some large biden banners around here - on dead ended streets
in my immediate neighborhood and areas where i run, over the years ive seen the usual small yard signs
never one for a democrat for president
never a flag sized banner on a fence
re: #176 Nojay UK
There’s a saying in Science! — “torture the data until it confesses.” Chartology is one of those Dark Secrets taught in the shadowy corners of scientific academia to up and coming Lobachevskis, masterful methods of psychological manipulation by cherrypicking data sets, subtle use of colour in lines, “missing” axis labels and offset axes, unsubstantiated best-fit lines and, best of all, the unjustified extrapolation aka a trend.
“Give me three points of data and I’ll fit them to any curve you like. Four and I can make it a cardoid.”
Basically these sorts of charts are not intended to inform, they’re intended to excite and enrage. I try not to let myself get enraged by this sort of manipulation (the raw data is bad enough as it is).
and the data is/are stark
from the above article at btrtn:
One of the most telling measures of the level of contagion of the coronavirus is the number of new cases in the past week per 1,000,000 of population. This measure creates a strong relative benchmark: it allows you to make better comparisons of the extent of the virus between different sized populations…how pervasive is the virus on a per capita basis? More important, it is not a cumulative measure, but is based on the situation in the past week. In short, it answers the question how bad is the situation right now?
As of this morning, consider the “new cases, past week, per million of population:”
Brazil 1,354
United States 1,412Florida 3,450
Mississippi 2,774
Arizona 2,518
S.Carolina 2,415
Georgia 2,384Just for context: the comparable current number for New York State? 253. In Connecticut, it is 135. In Vermont, it is 83.
Italy is 26.
I know I’m late to the discussion on the polls, but I just want to add my two cents: There’s a difference between “confidence” and “complacency.” If you want to stick with the sports analogies, then “complacency” is leaving the second quarter convinced there’s “no possible way” that the opposition can come back and they might as well throw the towel in, while “confidence” is where we are now: Going into the last quarter with a commanding lead while acknowledging that there’s still time on the clock for a “miracle.” Yeah, we have plenty of examples of the former in presidential races, candidates who seemed to be unstoppable only to collapse into a miserable loss. But not too many of the latter…and most of those you can point to have key differences from this election.
Think about it this way: No modern incumbent presidential candidate has failed to lead in the polls and been this far down going into the last 100 days and won convincingly. Joe Biden is not Mike Dukakis, Donald Trump is not George Bush Sr, and the “USA, USA, USA!” fever of the Cold War is not there.
tl;dr: “Complacency” is saying “Trump can’t win!,” while “confidence” is saying “Trump can’t win without a miracle!”
is this is pretty funny, especially if you ever watched Dora the Explorer with your kids.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 24, 2020
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
I’ll give this to the Try Channel, they found a great variety of Irish folks to fill out their video roster. Some of their videos end up being on the threshold of epic. My favorite is the one where they have folks consuming America’s most potent spirits/strongest alcohol.
I’ve been taking long walks in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles over the past weeks.
This time 4 years ago I saw some Hillary lawn signs along with others for Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. Only saw ONE Trump lawn sign.
Now a chunk of the houses that had Jill Stein or Gary Johnson lawn signs in 2016 now show Biden signs.
Not a single sign for Trump. But I did see several “Write-In Bernie” signs…
re: #188 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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— Ways & Means Committee (@WaysMeansCmte) July 24, 2020
re: #232 Targetpractice
I know I’m late to the discussion on the polls, but I just want to add my two cents: There’s a difference between “confidence” and “complacency.” If you want to stick with the sports analogies, then “complacency” is leaving the second quarter convinced there’s “no possible way” that the opposition can come back and they might as well throw the towel in, while “confidence” is where we are now: Going into the last quarter with a commanding lead while acknowledging that there’s still time on the clock for a “miracle.” Yeah, we have plenty of examples of the former in presidential races, candidates who seemed to be unstoppable only to collapse into a miserable loss. But not too many of the latter…and most of those you can point to have key differences from this election.
Think about it this way: No modern incumbent presidential candidate has failed to lead in the polls and been this far down going into the last 100 days and won convincingly. Joe Biden is not Mike Dukakis, Donald Trump is not George Bush Sr, and the “USA, USA, USA!” fever of the Cold War is not there.
tl;dr: “Complacency” is saying “Trump can’t win!,” while “confidence” is saying “Trump can’t win without a miracle!”
And the electorate is a lot less white than it was in 1988, plus the country wasn’t being ravaged by a pandemic and mass unemployment then.
re: #232 Targetpractice
tl;dr: “Complacency” is saying “Trump can’t win!,” while “confidence” is saying “Trump can’t win without a
miracle!massively successful voter suppression and foreign hacking/disinformation effort.”
Minor fix.
re: #237 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
which people?
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Musk and his fellow billionaires who worry that if UEI expansion and $1200 one-time checks keep happening, the wage slaves might begin to ask if they’re being taken advantage of.
re: #233 NO SMOCKING GUN!
is this is pretty funny, especially if you ever watched Dora the Explorer with your kids.
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It occurred to me that question will have to be dropped from the test, because so many of us know it now…person woman man camera TV.
Now all that needs to happen is someone write a catchy tune for it.
re: #233 NO SMOCKING GUN!
is this is pretty funny, especially if you ever watched Dora the Explorer with your kids.
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My nephew loved Dora the Explorer. I think his fourth birthday party was Dora themed. He wanted a t-shirt, but they only made them for girls. So, I printed an image on iron-on transfer paper and made him a couple. He wore them out.
re: #236 🌹UOJB!
I’ve been taking long walks in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles over the past weeks.
This time 4 years ago I saw some Hillary lawn signs along with others for Jill Stein and Gary Johnson. Only saw ONE Trump lawn sign.
Now a chunk of the houses that had Jill Stein or Gary Johnson lawn signs in 2016 now show Biden signs.
Not a single sign for Trump. But I did see several “Write-In Bernie” signs…
Doesn’t matter in California; Biden will win there by a gargantuan margin anyway.
In my lifetime I have been:
1. A combat aviator
2. A deputy sheriff
3. A public school teacher
I would already have guessed that the second would turn out to be the least hazardous but I would never have imagined that the other two might be headed for a toss-up.
re: #239 Interesting Times
Minor fix.
No offense, but it’s not minor. The higher the polls go, the more obvious rodent copulation becomes. In a hum-drum, low-turnout midterm, the efforts by the NC GOP to steal NC-9 would have likely gone unnoticed and unremarked.
re: #229 Teddy’s Person
Yep. They can’t win without women, but if they root out the misogyny, then they lose a big share of the men. Not that there aren’t enough asshole women already, look at the Karen count online FFS, but I think most suburban mom types are about done with this shit. They’re watching their kids struggle, their husband’s dealing with losing their jobs and all that entails and the totals in their checking and savings accounts take a nosedive. More than a few own businesses that probably won’t survive. Suddenly they can’t do what they’re used to. Who they vote for never had an actual hard hitting effect on them before now, not that they could really see at home. And it’s harder to blame the evil liberals when the GOP runs the majority of government here, from small town, to the county and right up to the US Capital. November will be interesting to say the least.
re: #245 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
In my lifetime I have been:
1. A combat aviator
2. A deputy sheriff
3. A public school teacherI would already have guessed that the second would turn out to be the least hazardous but I would never have imagined that the other two might be headed for a toss-up.
I would support a national teachers strike against recklessly endangering their lives.
re: #210 Dr Lizardo
This is great.
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surstromming (trump) makes lutefisk (gwb) seem not so bad
re: #240 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
you get an office and a door?
At an earlier job as visiting faculty I was literally given a converted broom closet abutting both the men’s and women’s restrooms (behind one and adjacent to another). I could hear flushing all day. I found a one-frame comic panel that had a guy showing the new hire his office, which included a toilet and sink, with the caption: “Just so you know, this wasn’t always an office” and taped it to my door.
Best argument against the “ZOMG! THEY’RE GONNA STEAL THE ELECTION!” bit? If it were as easy as people suggest it is, then the ‘18 midterms wouldn’t have been such an absolute blowout for them.
re: #249 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Same here. My late dad was a teacher and they do not get paid enough for what they do.
Here’s a probably dumb question:
When the first $1200 was issued, I was employed, now I’m retired and just got my first SS deposit a couple days ago (although that was for June).
Am I off the list for a stimulus check now?
re: #254 stpaulbear
Here’s a probably dumb question:
When the first $1200 was issued, I was employed, now I’m retired and just got my first SS deposit a couple days ago (although that was for June).
Am I off the list for a stimulus check now?
No, my mom got one, and she has been retired for decades.
re: #248 A Mom Anon
And it’s harder to blame the evil liberals when the GOP runs the majority of government here, from small town, to the county and right up to the US Capital. November will be interesting to say the least.
They’ve been getting away with blaming liberals for everything even when they’re in charge of everything. It’s astounding that they can get away with it in deep red ares where Democrats don’t even run, but they do. They’ve conditioned their voters to “blame the libs.” That and the insidious “liberal bias” of the press are Republicans greatest achievements.
re: #224 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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this was never gonna happen
only it took you all 3 months to recognize admit the reality the rest of the world saw at the end of May
right. courage .
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 24, 2020
re: #238 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump’s basically trying to do a re-run of Nixon’s “Silent Majority” shtick. Granted, it worked for Nixon pretty well….in the early 1970s. But the US has changed pretty dramatically in the intervening four-plus decades.
And again….Trump seems to have a peculiar obsession with recreating the Nixon era. It’s like he’s fixated on that time frame - 1968 to 1974. Trump began his career at father’s company in 1968 and in 1971, he became president of that company and renamed it the Trump Organization.
Sounds like the trope of the high-school jock who’s still trying to live in his high-school glory days…..40 years later.
And with that, good night Lizards. Stay healthy.
re: #252 Targetpractice
Best argument against the “ZOMG! THEY’RE GONNA STEAL THE ELECTION!” bit? If it were as easy as people suggest it is, then the ‘18 midterms wouldn’t have been such an absolute blowout for them.
American presidential elections aren’t one election… they’re hundreds of elections being run by county recorders across the country and loosely organized by state level secretaries of state. The number of people you would need to steal the presidential election is roughly about the number of people you would need to vote for you for president.
re: #258 Dr Lizardo
Trump’s basically trying to do a re-run of Nixon’s “Silent Majority” shtick. Granted, it worked for Nixon pretty well….in the early 1970s. But the US has changed pretty dramatically in the intervening four-plus decades.
And again….Trump seems to have a peculiar obsession with recreating the Nixon era. It’s like he’s fixated on that time frame - 1968 to 1974. Trump began his career at father’s company in 1968 and in 1971, he became president of that company and renamed it the Trump Organization.
Sounds like the trope of the high-school jock who’s still trying to live in his high-school glory days…..40 years later.
And with that, good night Lizards. Stay healthy.
The response should be that they’re not the silent majority the are a vocal minority.
re: #258 Dr Lizardo
And again….Trump seems to have a peculiar obsession with recreating the Nixon era. It’s like he’s fixated on that time frame - 1968 to 1974. Trump began his career at father’s company in 1968 and in 1971, he became president of that company and renamed it the Trump Organization.
Also matters that Nixon had been VP to a well-thought of President we really missed. Humphrey had been VP to a president so hated he might come in 3rd or 4th in his own party’s primaries.
re: #238 NO SMOCKING GUN!
And the electorate is a lot less white than it was in 1988, plus the country wasn’t being ravaged by a pandemic and mass unemployment then.
as has been said, both dukakis and bush were governors in a non incumbent race
dukakis’s early lead disappeared when he got defined.
way too late for that w/r/t biden
- biden was Vice President of the United States
- and trump is now a well known quantity
re: #256 Teddy’s Person
I know, but I don’t think it’s going to have the big effect they think it is. It will fire up the base for sure, but that base isn’t getting any larger. Its interesting that the mid 20 somethings are the ones getting the most angry and wanting change. My son’s friends who never voted before are fired up to vote, and they are PISSED at Trump and their parents who made the shitshow possible. Lets hope they follow through. I’m nagging all of them.
re: #263 A Mom Anon
I know, but I don’t think it’s going to have the big effect they think it is. It will fire up the base for sure, but that base isn’t getting any larger. Its interesting that the mid 20 somethings are the ones getting the most angry and wanting change. My son’s friends who never voted before are fired up to vote, and they are PISSED at Trump and their parents who made the shitshow possible. Lets hope they follow through. I’m nagging all of them.
Keep nagging!!!!
re: #259 KGxvi
American presidential elections aren’t one election… they’re hundreds of elections being run by county recorders across the country and loosely organized by state level secretaries of state. The number of people you would need to steal the presidential election is roughly about the number of people you would need to vote for you for president.
re: #254 stpaulbear
Here’s a probably dumb question:
When the first $1200 was issued, I was employed, now I’m retired and just got my first SS deposit a couple days ago (although that was for June).
Am I off the list for a stimulus check now?
Not if it means the same thing and follows the same rules. We got ours in retirement and put them to uses Trump might not have expected.
re: #256 Teddy’s Person
Yes. As an example, they always refer to the “do-nothing Democrats,” while forgetting to mention how many bills have made it out of the House and end up sitting on McConnell’s desk.
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