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A song for our times. https://t.co/wo0zxvUYV1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 2, 2020
Our statement on the completely false Vanity Fair story. Senior Advisor Jared Kushner & Admiral Brett Giroir have done remarkable work on testing.
FYI: the reporter never reached out. She attempted to email a former staffer who left the White House more than one month ago. pic.twitter.com/XCcvgD0TKf— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) July 31, 2020
When I saw this video pop up on YouTube, I have to admit I thought it was going to be a joke.
But this guy actually makes all-E tuning work. Pretty amazing.
Almost supersonic: Gulfstream G700 hits Mach 0.99 on test flight. #gulfstream #g700 https://t.co/INq0Y1H7gp pic.twitter.com/VAlMuBrkd4
— Airway (@airwayaviation) August 1, 2020
re: #10 Belafon
That is true. DT was the only POTUS who used it to hide from people.
He really fantasizes a LOT about killing people:
….and ruined. The Federal Government must again seek the Death Penalty in a do-over of that chapter of the original trial. Our Country cannot let the appellate decision stand. Also, it is ridiculous that this process is taking so long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2020
It’s a groundswell!
Well, mostly ground, though. https://t.co/BTeTtYjmm9— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 2, 2020
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
He really fantasizes a LOT about killing people:
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Like he actually gave a shit about the victims of that tragedy.
You’d think Trump would be happy with just killing 155,000 people. https://t.co/inOm30Y4Yq
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 2, 2020
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Ouch. Lunatic fringe in my area always there but happily ignored
The city closed Main to vehicle traffic to make a nice dining district outdoors. The 1885 built city hall has a series of 9 great marble relief faces on the outside.
There is the beach and art and a historic mission and a great promenade to walk and ride bikes
But yeah, there is a reason it’s called Ventucky
Exterior side hatch now open
First astronaut being helped out
re: #21 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
First astronaut being helped out
and now @astro_doug is out. both crew members secure
📷: @typicalpotato pic.twitter.com/NyboUJQFq6
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) August 2, 2020
re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I don’t know how I got from there to here, but I did.
You understand you have to write this now, right? That’s the only way to keep them… contained.
— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) August 2, 2020
Heavy weather is coming to the Mid-Atlantic and New England. There is a flash flood watch for the Greater Delaware Valley and a tornado watch for Northern NJ into New England.
weather.gov
So some of these mooks are really trying to create a Sophie’s choice for their constituents.
Screw them. Keep your kids home unless you’re positive it’s safe. https://t.co/jcaivnyq48— Don Linn (@DonLinn) August 2, 2020
re: #14 Charles Johnson
“Get covid on your own terms?” Really?
My movies:
Avengers
Infinity War
Endgame
Howl’s Moving Castle
Sahara
Spirited Away
Groundhog Day
Real Genius
Star Wars 3,4,5
Independence Day
Nightmare Before Christmas
Tokyo Godfathers
re: #27 jaunte
So some of these mooks are really trying to create a Sophie’s choice for their constituents.
Screw them. Keep your kids home unless you’re positive it’s safe.
are they offering extra funds or programs to ensure safety, minimize contact, hire extra staff or add auxiliary rooms facilities?
then fuck ‘em
Major League Baseball, a multi-billion dollar organization with access to instant tests and populated with millionaires with financial incentives to avoid getting sick can’t avoid the pandemic but we’re still going to throw America’s children into it without a plan or funding.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) August 2, 2020
re: #31 jaunte
It’s going to be a disaster. Anyone with a functioning brain knows this.
And yet we’re still about to fly off the cliff at warp speed.
The president’s declining mental state continues. Two weeks ago he said he’d be releasing a health care plan today.
There’s no scheduled press conference, no release.
If Trump can’t even keep track of his Administration’s plans, how can we trust him with anything else? pic.twitter.com/JNtY2IVP1q— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 2, 2020
“Nobody will have done what I’m doing in the next four weeks”
He still gets away with saying things like that unchallenged…
Sorry if this was posted in the last thread. I just watched it.
📺 NEW VIDEO
Trump has no healthcare plan. Never has. Never will. #TrumpHasNoPlan pic.twitter.com/jQjfHFchU6
Not sure how I feel about using Dixie as the background music.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was in and out of the hospital last week, said she intends to remain on the court:https://t.co/rj10nlmOyo
— KATU News (@KATUNews) August 2, 2020
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hold on RBG. We need you.
IF WATER WAS NECESSARY FOR OUR SURVIVAL WE WOULD HAVE EVOLVED TINY HAMSTER BOTTLES AFFIXED TO OUR SKULL PROVIDING US WITH DROPLETS OF WATER https://t.co/LcfUGbaYqB
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) August 2, 2020
Me: This cool thing happened
Twitter: Space travel is oppression!
T: Elon Musk sucks!
T: The capsule is designed all wrong!
T: We should just shoot people in boats.
Me: Maybe just enjoy this moment?
T: Fuck off. I will now argue about something NASA did 70 years ago— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 2, 2020
Did he seriously say this?
Donald Trump today:
“If you elect Joe Biden, the money in your bank account will literally disappear. You will have no money ever again.”— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 2, 2020
Rep. James Clyburn pulling no punches on CNN this morning.
That I feel very strongly that this man has taken on a strongarm tactics and I feel very strongly that he is Mussolini, Putin and [emphasis mine] Hitler. Source: C&L
Trifecta Don
These boating idiots are everywhere in Florida, endangering others with #Covid19 and now the #SpaceXDragon crew. They are a human infestation. https://t.co/VzXmhFcuo3
— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) August 2, 2020
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“If you elect Joe Biden, the money in your bank account will literally disappear. You will have no money ever again.”
This is a great meme template:
“If you elect Joe Biden the ________________ in your ________________ will literally ______________. You will have no _______________ever again”.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe they should go back to having capsules land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean again.
Mom made some strange sounds in her throat this morning when she came down the stairs and saw me. Yesterday, she was extra tired from giving all the floors and walls a good scrub down. But she forgot to disable the dog door last night—and it rained! pic.twitter.com/y3EpCMgqQ5
— mazapan_in_canada (@MazapanInCanada) August 2, 2020
This is my bath water. Sigh. Not happy with Mom. 😡 pic.twitter.com/iLbJWRrVNP
— mazapan_in_canada (@MazapanInCanada) August 2, 2020
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you elect Joe Biden the blow-up doll in your mom’s basement will literally explode. You will have no sex ever again.
re: #46 Teddy’s Person
If you elect Joe Biden the tuna fish in your sandwich will literally swim away. You will have no lunch ever again.
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did he seriously say this?
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I think he’s just on a roll.
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did he seriously say this?
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JFK: The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
DJT: The only thing I have to offer is fear itself.
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“If you elect Joe Biden, the money in your bank account will literally disappear. You will have no money ever again.”
This is a great meme template:
If you elect Joe Biden, the hogs in your yard will literally evaporate. You will have no bacon ever again.
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you elect Joe Biden all the tacos in the world will literally disappear. You will have no Taco Truck on your corner ever again.
(this is fun)
Donald Trump today:
“If you elect Joe Biden that terrible kid who tormented you as a child will re-enter you life and become your new roommate.”— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 2, 2020
If you elect Joe Biden the zit on the end of your nose will literally take over your face and you will have no friends ever again.
If you elect Joe Biden the proles in your sweatshops will literally join unions. You will have no yachts or high-priced call-girls ever again.
If you elect Joe Biden the oil in your crankcase will literally congeal. You will have no SUVs ever again.
If you elect Joe Biden the guns in your homes will literally shrivel. You will have no overcompensation ever again.
If you elect Joe Biden the rabble in your city will literally walk down your street. You will have no BBQs ever again.
edited to add back “literally”
If you elect Joe Biden the moose head in your dining room will literally start talking. You will have no peace and quiet ever again.
Even in a batshit crazy world, this is some exquisite guano.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) August 2, 2020
If you elect Joe Biden the Confederate statues in America will literally cry. You will have no heritage ever again.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you elect Joe Biden the moose head in your dining room will literally start talking. You will have no peace and quiet ever again.
This made me wonder what happened to all the talking mooseheads when bugaboo creek went out of business.
I love this meme. What a fun toy the tangerine wankmaggot has given us.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dude doesn’t even think about his nose much. The hairs and most forward passages do indeed function to filter out stuff.
Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce used “Colin Kaepernick stand-in” for K-9 demonstration at fundraiser last year #BecauseFlorida https://t.co/COHFCeJ3GN pic.twitter.com/EpcELHxrSe
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) August 2, 2020
Yeah, I saw it.
Not exactly the Navy’s finest moment there.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 2, 2020
Yes. I do. https://t.co/IhgPFbMVFN
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 2, 2020
Is that plain enough for everybody? #Covid_19 https://t.co/T0ZGHsOQNf
— Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) August 2, 2020
Republicans in disarray.
The Republican National Committee says no final decision has been made about whether President Trump’s renomination will be held in private at the GOP convention, contradicting previous reports that restrictions on crowd size during the coronavirus pandemic would prevent members of the press from attending.
Two RNC officials insisted Sunday that they are still working through the logistics and press coverage options, a break with a statement reportedly made by a GOP convention spokesperson the previous day. Source: WaPo
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Dude doesn’t even think about his nose much. The hairs and most forward passages do indeed function to filter out stuff.
dude has no concept of what gets into the lungs and the mechanisms for the body fighting whatever it is and trying to get it out (i dont mean coughing)
its the age old argument against natural selection and for some other mechanism
if this was right, why are there glasses? why dont eyes adapt?
after hundreds of years why do we still shave? why hasnt the body ‘adapted’
asininity
re: #67 Teddy’s Person
Republicans in disarray.
The Republican National Committee says no final decision has been made about whether President Trump’s renomination will be held in private at the GOP convention, contradicting previous reports that restrictions on crowd size during the coronavirus pandemic would prevent members of the press from attending.
imagine some clever and enterprising person tweeting that trump was not selected on the first ballot….
re: #69 dangerman
imagine some clever and enterprising person tweeting that trump was not selected on the first ballot….
If it’s wrong to delight in watching Republicans burn their party to the ground, I don’t want to be right.
re: #4 Belafon
So, it’s confirmed then. It’s exactly what was claimed.
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’re losing 250 Benghazis a day and the GOP are avoiding reporters like the plague, except to suggest we need to investigate Obama and Biden for Benghazi again.
re: #33 Belafon
There was never a plan. There’s no bill. No markup. Nothing to score. No one knows anything about what Trump’s bloviating about because it’s all vaporware that Trump knows media will fixate on while he moves on to the next massive failure or corrupt act.
SS/DD.
We’re losing over a thousand people a day and the orange sociopath is out playing golf or rage tweeting.
And now he wants nearly 400 million in the covid relief package to renovate the White House.
JFC
— Michael McDonnell (@mikemcdonnell) August 2, 2020
re: #14 Charles Johnson
Hahaha…
“Signing this petition does not mean you are a Trump supporter”
“Get Covid on your own terms”
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you elect Joe Biden the zit on the end of your nose will literally take over your face and you will have no friends ever again.
I welcome our new zit overlords.
re: #33 Belafon
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It’s lies all the way down. And the media knows it and just keeps up with these hand wringing exercises and concern time and time again like that is going to make a difference.
It’s actually more annoying than Susan Collins since it’s a whole industry that knows better rather than a single individual.
re: #79 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
It’s lies all the way down. And the media knows it and just keeps up with these hand wringing exercises and concern time and time again like that is going to make a difference.
It’s actually more annoying than Susan Collins since it’s a whole industry that knows better rather than a single individual.
The CCCP is absolutely useless. All these stenographers will do is recite GOP talking points and endlessly “both sides do it” while the rest of the world tells the truth about the asshole Republicans!
Trump & Republicans don’t want FBI to know how much the Kremlin is inferring in the election.
Trump & Republicans don’t want the American people to know what foreign governments are contributing to their campaigns— Joseph Ferraro (@joebferraro) August 2, 2020
Texas pastor says his church was ‘lied to’ about Blue Lives Matter rally he never approved: ‘We experienced deceit and hate’…
Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas was asked if a group could hold a Black Lives Matter rally in the church’s parking lot. But when the people hosting the rally showed up, they weren’t Black Lives Matter, far from it.
#BREAKING: Before y’all start sharing stuff, @friendshipwest releases video following alleged #BlueLivesMatter event on their property. They are saying this rally/meeting was NOT approved by the church or Pastor @fhunscripted. #friendshipwest pic.twitter.com/IX7YQJ0695
— TasharaP. (#TasharaTakesTexas) (@TasharaParker) August 2, 2020
A black church welcomes a procession of confederate flags and Trump flags…and a bunch of blue lives matters thugs…
If Dzokhar Tsarnaev deserves the Death Penalty for killing 3 people, what kind of punishment awaits the Domestic Terrorist who killed 156,000 Americans in the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu? So many lives lost…. #voteblue #BlueWave2020 #Biden2020 #Resist #TrumpVirus pic.twitter.com/VgGqV3rVRD
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) August 2, 2020
Colleagues and I are out with a new report today with 10 recommendations for how the US should chart a new course. Here’s a thread with a quick rundown of the 10 -https://t.co/Sy42qDtPrS
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) July 29, 2020
In our argument the other day about vaccines, I stood on the side that the tests look like they’re ready for people trials. But, I’m definitely not arguing what Eric is arguing:
Again, I very much disagree with this view. For the last six years, my research has focused on evaluating investigational vaccines during public health emergencies. If we are going to vaccinate *millions* of people, we have to follow the process, and we can’t skip steps. https://t.co/Jly8EYU64o
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) August 2, 2020
We drove by a church today that had an absolutely packed parking lot. No they weren’t having a parking lot service. No one was in their cars. It’s almost as though this church was having a full-house church service in defiance of state mandate. But I’m SURE that wasn’t the case.
— Peg (@PFlowerstone) August 2, 2020
If we can’t change our actions in the country right now, we’re going to be dealing with Covid and the flu in the winter:
The social distancing to stop COVID-19 has resulted in cutting flu infections by more than half https://t.co/p2UO8hPD6l
— Doomscrolling (@Lee__Drake) August 1, 2020
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you elect Joe Biden your daughter will start having sex with black guys.
re: #89 Florida Panhandler
If you elect Joe Biden your daughter will start having sex with black guys. And you will never have any white people again, ever!
Wish I could say this is /////…
An update: The Greater Delaware Valley is going to get a taste of Isaias. When your local weather map has this many colors it is not a good thing.
weather.gov
To SNIRTLE is to try to suppress a laugh.
— Haggard Hawks 📚🦅 (@HaggardHawks) August 2, 2020
Flying over the Jersey Shore today…. pic.twitter.com/jGB0XKm4ev
— JustJanis (@jsavite) August 2, 2020
The president told PA voters during his tele-rally that the Biden family abandoned the state for Delaware when Joe was a child. “Not only isn’t he from Pennsylvania, but he left Pennsylvania,” Trump said.
— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) August 2, 2020
re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This from the guy who just declared himself a Floridan. This is so desperately stupid. No one is going to hold it against Biden that he left Pennsylvania as a child.
re: #95 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
This from the guy who just declared himself a Floridan. This is so desperately stupid. No one is going to hold it against Biden that he left Pennsylvania as a child.
Given that Florida is currently a cesspool of disease, is it REALLY a good idea to say that you’re from there?
re: #96 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Given that Florida is currently a cesspool of disease, is it REALLY a good idea to say that you’re from there?
IT’S A HOAX!!11!!!
I was going to say it’s 1955 all over again, but presidents didn’t even say this shit in 1955. https://t.co/m35SxuU7sg
— Cliston Brown (@ClistonBrown) August 2, 2020
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
Actually Sen Booker would be great in that department.
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
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After posting that Vanity Fair article a couple days ago about Pennsylvania Democrats For Trump, I fear that those folks are lapping up every racist syllable President Tweetler utters and they are having an orgasm over it.
You must do several things:
1. Watch this video.
2. Follow #LindseySimmons @LynzforCongress immediately.
3. Donate to her campaign ASAP.
4. Definitely retweet !!!
She has 17,000 followers at the moment. Let’s make sure she’s at 25,000 before the end of the day today. https://t.co/CRC6Pw54C8— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) August 2, 2020
Now let’s send her husband to Congress. https://t.co/fCBPkGjPBK
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) August 2, 2020
There’s a reason this is getting a lot of attention today. https://t.co/4l7FZITS0c
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 2, 2020
re: #99 PhillyPretzel
Actually Sen Booker would be great in that department.
Unlike Carson, he would actually be qualified. I want Booker involved in CJ reform though. It’s a big reason why his candidacy got positive reviews from me.
😂😂 #calvinandhobbes pic.twitter.com/gl0qeSePZu
— Calvin and Hobbes (@Calvinn_Hobbes) August 2, 2020
This week, Joe Biden will announce his VP choice. Chances are MANY will like it, many will NOT.
MANAGE YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
Don’t go tearing down his choice. You’ll just be helping trump and the GOP, who’ll be doing the same.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 2, 2020
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
The exact choice likely will not matter to me.
What I don’t like, though, is the the selectee will be seen as a token pick.
That’s what is troubling me about this whole process.
No good news for Alaska today:
Alaska reports 159 new COVID-19 cases, with most concentrated in Anchorage
We did have some great personal news:
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re: #111 Cheechako
No good news for Alaska today:
Alaska reports 159 new COVID-19 cases, with most concentrated in Anchorage
We did have some great personal news:
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And since I’ve already come to the conclusion that the Constitution needs reworking because the Senate is obsolete, I’ll go further out on the limb and say the VP position is also obsolete.
Her choice will obviously be influenced by economic anxiety
/s/— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 2, 2020
Anne Louise Avery is one of my favorite story tellers on twitter. She gathers photos and vintage art to weave tales.
This one, as writer myself, I particularly enjoyed:
Ermine had fallen tail over paw into an old familiar darkness. Her experimental short story about a young man ruined by the decline of the tin industry had been rejected by a journal she greatly admired. What’s the point, she asked herself. My words have no weight, no substance. pic.twitter.com/1f2JV5Gz5q
— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) July 29, 2020
Arriving for a late supper, Sea Otter was horrified to find Ermine so distraught. They said my writing has no edge, she croaked. Whiskers bristling, Sea Otter poured her a stiff rum from his flask & sat down to listen. pic.twitter.com/lagamCT5nN
— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) July 29, 2020
In the fishing village close to Ermine’s cottage there was an old Arts Society, founded in 1889. All morning, Sea Otter had been busy. He called the Secretary, booked the hall, charmed the chapel ladies into making some cakes & went to see each & every member personally. pic.twitter.com/SeQQcyZTdg
— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) July 30, 2020
The rest, in her TL (there is a happy ending).
(Anne Louise also identifies the vintage pieces that she shares.)
re: #109 Teddy’s Person
Feels good to have a deep bench with multiple people for each cabinet position AND multiple cabinet positions for each person.
Absolutely.
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I trust Biden’s judgment here. He’s dealt with every VP since Agnew. He knows what makes a good one and what makes a bad one.
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Out of the baker’s dozen of publicly identified contenders, there’s maybe six I could be enthusiastic about. The others, I’m lukewarm. But not a single non-starter in the bunch.
re: #118 sagehen
Out of the baker’s dozen of publicly identified contenders, there’s maybe six I could be enthusiastic about. The others, I’m lukewarm. But not a single non-starter in the bunch.
and the ones I’m lukewarm about, it’s not that I don’t think they could do the job. It’s that there another job, a cabinet spot or an agency head, that I’d rather see them in.
#JohnLewisCelebration pic.twitter.com/QoDNrD5acK
— Tyler Perry (@tylerperry) August 2, 2020
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
Anne Louise Avery is one of my favorite story tellers on twitter. She gathers photos and vintage art to weave tales.
This one, as writer myself, I particularly enjoyed:[Embedded content]
The rest, in her TL (there is a happy ending).
(Anne Louise also identifies the vintage pieces that she shares.)
I’m very glad there is a happy ending: if Sea Otter and Ermine are guzzling Pusser’s Rum*, I would seriously expect a denouement involving significant bloodshed, and tut-tutting over the diminution of endangered species…
* I usually like rum: after trying some, I decided to make a life-long exception for Pussers….
Yes, the Commercial Crew Program was started in 2010 when our president was smart and science-minded. Program started & funded by Obama Admin. NASA:https://t.co/LKZVisIXT7
— kathycandance (@kattykatty24) August 2, 2020
As @sarahkendzior has said, Trump isn’t looking to win an election—he’s looking to steal an election.
We have to make sure our margin of victory is overwhelming and undeniable. https://t.co/dEw36sxjH2— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) August 2, 2020
re: #119 sagehen
and the ones I’m lukewarm about, it’s not that I don’t think they could do the job. It’s that there another job, a cabinet spot or an agency head, that I’d rather see them in.
Bingo.
re: #121 Jay C
Pusser’s rum is, well, Pusser’s rum. It’s not meant to be drunk straight but with water, quite a bit of it as the official daily tot aka rum ration.
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” #JamesBaldwin pic.twitter.com/djMqmn34or
— Vonnetta L. West (@VonnettaLWest) August 2, 2020
LIVE NOW: Our #LaunchAmerica astronauts are welcomed home after today’s historic splashdown aboard the @SpaceX Dragon Endeavour. @AstroBehnken & @Astro_Doug arrive at Ellington Field in Houston: https://t.co/yRYzeSs3r5 https://t.co/yRYzeSs3r5
— NASA (@NASA) August 2, 2020
You should Google “Tea Party movement” https://t.co/hY54s4lJ3p
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 2, 2020
re: #128 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Or the Civil War. What a fucking dunce.
Right before Trump announced he was going to ban TikTok, the government released his financial disclosures for last year. So you might’ve missed the $40 million he made from his hotel five blocks from the White House. See what else we learned here: https://t.co/fZ8zKt3Ajw
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 2, 2020
As a retired Marine, I pay for a federal health care plan, or as I call it, an “Uncle Sam” plan. Everyone should be able to have one. It wouldn’t be dependent on your employment status and could help achieve affordable, universal coverage. That’s why I support a public option. pic.twitter.com/thC9hcXFiv
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) August 3, 2020
re: #129 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Or the Civil War. What a fucking dunce.
BUTBUTBUT WAIT A MINUTE, THE REPUBLICANS ACCEPTED PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND WON THE WAR
re: #132 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
BUTBUTBUT WAIT A MINUTE, THE REPUBLICANS ACCEPTED PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND WON THE WAR
His religious faith in conservatism overpowers his education. That’s expected.
“John Birch Society.”
“Ku Klux Klan.”
“Civil War.”
“Teahadist Movement.”
Examples of conservative resistance to liberal governance.
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The exact choice likely will not matter to me.
What I don’t like, though, is the the selectee will be seen as a token pick.
That’s what is troubling me about this whole process.
And? He’s narrowed his list down to just women. He’s chosen not to be part of the 50-some campaigns that exclusively chose white men.
Any choice he would have made would have been seen as pandering to some group.
This is not a real Trump quote. (Winslow is tweeting out a series of invented satirical quotes; some of them are very obviously satire, but this one is being spread as if it is real.) https://t.co/nqp2vOfitk
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 2, 2020
If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) July 23, 2020
re: #134 Belafon
And? He’s narrowed his list down to just women. He’s chosen not to be part of the 50-some campaigns that exclusively chose white men.
Any choice he would have made would have been seen as pandering to some group.
I was somewhat taken aback by describing the potential pick as “a token”.
I’m still quite gobsmacked.
As a Dad who has looked into the rage and grief stricken eyes of teenagers as I have taken their phones away, I think @realDonaldTrump has no clue about what’s about to happen when he tries to shut down Tik Tok. Teenagers can be cruel and Trump has earned it. This will be great
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) August 1, 2020
Like “pre-2016” great or just “able to leave our homes again” great? Trying to plan my week. https://t.co/DLM3wx0RRV
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) August 2, 2020
Scoop: Several months ago, Ken Cuccinelli reduced an internal DHS watchdog’s ability to do oversight of DHS’s intel office.
After that scrutiny ended, the intel office put out reports on journalists and protestershttps://t.co/VPn8PoAtei— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) August 2, 2020
re: #139 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #129 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Or the Civil War. What a fucking dunce.
Or the Oklahoma City federal building bombing.
Greetings once again from just outside Lassen Nat’l Park. Today we hiked through an area that a fire went through a few years ago. The trail was closed for a few years after the fire because of the Murder Trees (not an official description.) Apparently it’s safe enough to hike in now.
These trees show the hazards a little better, but the light was better in the first picture.
Happily, we survived. Lots of things to see-many wildflowers, though no big sweeps of color, and birds, bugs and stuff.
I kind of kept an eye on mask wearing, and probably 3/4 of people were wearing them when near others, even though we were all outside. The distressing part is who wasn’t wearing them. Largely groups of extended family members or groups of young adults. There was even what looked like a weekend-long family reunion with dozens of unmasked people near our vacation rental. Just because you are related to someone doesn’t mean you can’t spread it to them.
I can now definitively report that mask wearing does not make it hard to breathe. In fact, hiking above 8000’ on a very dry day we left our masks on even when nowhere near other people because it makes the air you inhale a bit more humid which beats the dry air.
Masks were also useful this morning as it was quite smokey from a wildfire for a couple hours (then the wind shifted and things cleared up.)
I noticed no difference in my ability to breathe the day I didn’t wear a mask while hiking (because we saw 2 people in 4+ hours and the air quality was fine.)
Tomorrow we head home and back to reality, but it has been a lovely break.
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Looks like @seanhannity got a tan. pic.twitter.com/FReqgrTspw
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) August 3, 2020
re: #143 The Pie Overlord!
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The recipe said 325 for 40 minutes, this dude did 450 for 30 https://t.co/njLLYOxV7d
— flavortown alderman (@jesseltaylor) August 3, 2020
There’s been a lot of talk about Joe Biden potentially picking Rep. Karen Bass, and her problematic speech for the Church of Scientology a decade ago.
Hemant Mehta (The Friendly Atheist) weighs in on why that doesn’t really matter, and if Biden did select her how conservatives would use that to rodent copulate Biden.
(I don’t think he’ll pick her.)
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Please follow me for my upcoming views on astrophysics. I’m not an astrophysicist, but I have Googled a ton over the past several days - particularly FB posts by other folks who are also not astrophysicists - and I have figured most of it out.
— Esther Choo, MD MPH (@choo_ek) August 2, 2020
Larry Bird trending because someone found a tomato that looks like him is a throwback to a simpler time on Twitter https://t.co/TUoCMFHPvZ
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 2, 2020
re: #143 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #128 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
One thing that I am pretty much 100% sure about, is that if Biden wins, there will most definitely be a “right-wing version of #Resistance” - and it will most likely go under the name of the “Republican Party”…
Trump did put out a response to the astronaut landing, but this reply is funny:
— Neeners777 (@marygribbin809) August 2, 2020
Another day, another report of corruption coming from the Trump administration. Reports suggest that Trump’s ambassador to Brazil urged the country to lower ethanol tariffs in order to help Trump’s political chances in Iowa, a battleground state. https://t.co/OyHEytTsUx
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 1, 2020
re: #152 Dread Pirate Ron
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Notice how Republicans have stopped talking about how low the mortality rate is?
re: #138 Belafon
I made both my teenagers remove the app.
I don’t care what app my teen likes. If there is a possibility China is accessing our data then … done.
Welcome to life.— Kambree (@KamVTV) August 1, 2020
Did you also have them delete Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media app? Or for that matter, take their smartphone since so many telephone companies have also given away/sold/lost their data?
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Did you also have them delete Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media app? Or for that matter, take their smartphone since so many telephone companies have also given away/sold/lost their data?
I’m not on much in the way of social media, and beyond that I depend on being old and dull to protect my privacy.
re: #156 calochortus
I’m not on much in the way of social media, and beyond that I depend on being old and dull to protect my privacy.
Same here. Other than editing racy bodice-rippers, I’m pretty dull.
re: #156 calochortus
I’m not on much in the way of social media, and beyond that I depend on being old and dull to protect my privacy.
Security through obscurity.
Lady Anti-BLM https://t.co/FfWucOvDJI
— Travon Free (@Travon) August 3, 2020
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There’s been a lot of talk about Joe Biden potentially picking Rep. Karen Bass, and her problematic speech for the Church of Scientology a decade ago.
Hemant Mehta (The Friendly Atheist) weighs in on why that doesn’t really matter, and if Biden did select her how conservatives would use that to rodent copulate Biden.
(I don’t think he’ll pick her.)
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My objection to Karen Bass from day one is the same as my objection to Warren: she’s too old. We need someone young who represents the future, rather than the past.
I don’t have a son but, yeah, I can see it.
— Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) August 3, 2020
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
My objection to Karen Bass from day one is the same as my objection to Warren: she’s too old. We need someone young who represents the future, rather than the past.
My only objection to her is that I prefer Tammy Duckworth.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
We also haven’t evolved underwear,shoes, glasses etc. I usually wear all three to the shops lol
— Nicola Dowsland (@NicolaDowsland) July 30, 2020
re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I don’t have a son but, yeah, I can see it.
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re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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People missing MAGMA and failing to see it’s a joke.
re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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So embarrassing —- saw that joke weeks ago and got it immediately. This time, I went to the twitter account — saw a couple tweets laughing — reread it and — got it this time!!!
AP analysis of 200 Portland arrests finds most charged for nonviolent acts, no neat fit with depiction of ‘anarchists’https://t.co/sREC64P29a
— Wall Of Vets Command Center (@VetsWall) August 2, 2020
re: #160 DodgerFan1988
Rage Against The Marines
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 3, 2020
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Did you also have them delete Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media app? Or for that matter, take their smartphone since so many telephone companies have also given away/sold/lost their data?
My evil too big to fail employer made the news about three weeks ago for telling a few people to pull TikTok off their work phones.
I have a work phone and I don’t do anything on it except answer pages and occasionally look at email. Except for the weeks I’m on call, it stays on my desk. I’m certainly not putting TikTok on it.
ETA: I am absolutely against the idea that any president of the United States can ban an application, especially one that has First Amendment implications, by executive order. TikTok has issues, despite that.
UPDATE: @us_navyseals statement says, “The inherent message of this video is completely inconsistent with the values and ethos of Naval Special Warfare and the U.S. Navy… There were no active duty Navy personnel or equipment involved with this independent organization’s event.” pic.twitter.com/iV9Tt0bNHV
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) August 2, 2020
re: #142 calochortus
The distressing part is who wasn’t wearing them. Largely groups of extended family members or groups of young adults. There was even what looked like a weekend-long family reunion with dozens of unmasked people near our vacation rental. Just because you are related to someone doesn’t mean you can’t spread it to them.
I visited with my sister and bil a couple weeks ago. I wouldn’t go inside the house and I kept my distance while we talked outside. My sister talked a lot about visiting with her son, dil and grandkids and going out to dinner with them and it was kind of freaking me out because it sounded like they weren’t too worried about distancing. When they started handing me their cell phones to show me pictures of the grandkids I felt like it was time to leave. I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer with me so I used it generously after I left their house. Like you, I notice that many large family groups don’t feel the need to distance at all.
YeeHAW! Avalanche win with an insane goal with .1 seconds left.
I missed hockey. I really did.
The federal moratorium on evictions has expired. Biggest asset most people have is their home, even if you do not own a home, the biggest cost you have is housing. Sasse & Senate have let protections lapse in this pandemic. Eviction crisis may be coming soon. #VoteHimOut #nesen
— Chris Janicek for Senate (@CJSenate2020) August 2, 2020
What a ratio https://t.co/6cNB0G638S
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) August 2, 2020
Nearly every person in the thread is posting a variant of “Drop out of the race.”
If Mr. Janicek (who told me I am everything wrong with Democratic politics in Nebraska even though I won two elections here and he’s won zero) refuses to drop out, we’re going to have to rely on other states to vote out Republicans to take back the senate.
re: #175 stpaulbear
I visited with my sister and bil a couple weeks ago. I wouldn’t go inside the house and I kept my distance while we talked outside. My sister talked a lot about visiting with her son, dil and grandkids and going out to dinner with them and it was kind of freaking me out because it sounded like they weren’t too worried about distancing. When they started handing me their cell phones to show me pictures of the grandkids I felt like it was time to leave. I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer with me so I used it generously after I left their house. Like you, I notice that many large family groups don’t feel the need to distance at all.
Those are a major source of spreading events.
Sigh.
re: #160 DodgerFan1988
Uday and the Banshees
Name this band. pic.twitter.com/S7jiMSB1Kt
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 2, 2020
re: #175 stpaulbear
I visited with my sister and bil a couple weeks ago. I wouldn’t go inside the house and I kept my distance while we talked. My sister talked a lot about visiting with her son and grandkids and going out to dinner with them and it was kind of freaking me out because it sounded like they weren’t too worried about distancing. When they started handing me their cell phones to show me pictures of the grandkids I felt like it was time to leave. I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer with me so I used it generously after I left their house. Like you, I notice that many large family groups don’t feel the need to distance at all.
My parents have been going to very few places, though they’re not completely staying at home. My dad has been meeting a couple of times a week with a bunch of retired guys at Whataburger. Now, they all meet in the parking lot in the folded chairs they bring.
re: #173 mmmirele
Your employer seems to keep making the news for all the wrong reasons.
When they were caught opening bogus accounts in people’s names then charging them fees, I moved on our village board to immediately cash the $250,000 in certificates of deposit our town had there and move them to the local agricultural bank, and close our town checking account.
The town no longer does business with them.
Got into Daddy’s make up. https://t.co/x82bpAj3ab
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 3, 2020
Yessssssssss!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/CFKWKOQcLz
— powerwatcher (@DonaPerreault) August 1, 2020
re: #183 mmmirele
I just want to say that whenever I hear “TikTok” I automatically think not of the application, but of Tik-Tok the mechanical man from the Wizard of Oz books.
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re: #183 mmmirele
I just want to say that whenever I hear “TikTok” I automatically think not of the application, but of Tik-Tok the mechanical man from the Wizard of Oz books.
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The movie Return to Oz had Tik-Tok in it.
How to human. 👏👏👏pic.twitter.com/1MWUQDwy4U
— ÆnesidemusOZ #IamANTIFA (@AenesidemusOZ) August 2, 2020
Deutsche Bank has opened an internal investigation into the personal banker of Trump & Kushner over a 2013 real estate transaction between the banker & a company owned by Kushner.
“The Trump admin is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a gov’t” https://t.co/vOk1BnqHIW— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) August 3, 2020
“Anti-money-laundering specialists at the bank raised concerns about money going from Kushner Cos to Russians.” Read this thread (and @davidenrich’s book). https://t.co/lhcRbwZli6
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) August 2, 2020
He pushed horrific conspiracies that normal people wouldn’t ever be able to invent including our CIA wanting to assassinate Trump. Also lots of “deep state” bullshit. That’s his qualifications and this is dangerous to have someone this insane in a senior role pic.twitter.com/aW8y17OmeM
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) August 3, 2020
” The U.S. Navy SEALs are investigating after video surfaced from a fundraiser last year in Florida that showed a K-9 demonstration using a “Colin Kaepernick stand-in.”
The video — which was posted last January, but went viral this weekend — shows what appear to be Navy SEAL dogs attacking a man wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey during a demonstration. …”
https://t.co/c2Rtf9dARW pic.twitter.com/Crgj5r1VtC
— US Navy SEALs (@us_navyseals) August 2, 2020
This piece is just comedy gold, both for the subject: John Yoo and the author @debrajsaunders. It’s like a treatment Death of Stalin prequel. https://t.co/MqQKXd6bBI pic.twitter.com/3Clck7EsyV
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 3, 2020
re: #188 BlueSpotinAL
“Return to OZ” was an abomination, and a true repudiation of everything that Baum wrote.
Wait and see how many innocent kids die first. Of course there has to be hundreds for @GregAbbott_TX to do anything, as evidenced by the tens of thousands of infected #Texans. https://t.co/yRqLwdSXm1
— cowboytexas🇺🇸🌊 (@cowboytexas) August 3, 2020
Leave the kid on the stove, we’ll move him if he gets burned.
Baum’s writing is definitely dated, but that movie was, as you say, an abomination. I loved the Oz books and grew up reading my Dad’s old copies - my sister still has them. Family heirlooms.
re: #175 stpaulbear
I visited with my sister and bil a couple weeks ago. I wouldn’t go inside the house and I kept my distance while we talked outside. My sister talked a lot about visiting with her son, dil and grandkids and going out to dinner with them and it was kind of freaking me out because it sounded like they weren’t too worried about distancing. When they started handing me their cell phones to show me pictures of the grandkids I felt like it was time to leave. I keep a bottle of hand sanitizer with me so I used it generously after I left their house. Like you, I notice that many large family groups don’t feel the need to distance at all.
I will confess to seeing my brother and sister-in-law without masks. They aren’t entirely hermits, but don’t go out doing stupid things. My daughter’s family? We mask. We stay outside 95% of the time. My son? Facetime, as he is a bit farther away.
No one needs to be 100% perfect, but we need to be careful.
The extent to which Republicans just don’t give a shit about the health of children and their teachers and families is just simply galling.
This is pure sociopathy. https://t.co/3YcoYLsjr5— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) August 3, 2020
re: #193 Patricia Kayden
This piece is just comedy gold, both for the subject: John Yoo and the author @debrajsaunders. It’s like a treatment Death of Stalin prequel. https://t.co/MqQKXd6bBI pic.twitter.com/3Clck7EsyV
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 3, 2020
Constitutional conservative meaning
(1) anti-choice judges ,
(2) suppression of minority rights,
(3) tax cuts for the wealthy
(4) promotion of fossil fuels
(5) destruction of the environment
(6) further undermining of public education and replacement with private schools
(7) support of torture
(8) anti-immigration, especially of people of color
re: #192 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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And, Yahoo does not have a comment section on the article
They have a little ‘Start Survey’ button after the article, with this statement:
Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. In the meantime, we welcome your feedback to help us enhance the experience.
Prussian Blew https://t.co/JUXKKYoeUT
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 3, 2020
re: #198 calochortus
I will confess to seeing my brother and sister-in-law without masks. They aren’t entirely hermits, but don’t go out doing stupid things. My daughter’s family? We mask. We stay outside 95% of the time. My son? Facetime, as he is a bit farther away.
No one needs to be 100% perfect, but we need to be careful.
I put my mask on when I arrived at my sister’s house but took it off once we settled outside and they brought me a bottle of water. The more they talked, the more I wanted some distance though.
Perhaps Donald Trump doesn’t like the Postal Service because it delivers.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 2, 2020
bold move to want to disenfranchise yourself pic.twitter.com/AlQ4xA2m74
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 2, 2020
There have been 3 straight nights of peaceful protest since trump’s goons left Portland.
It’s NOT a coincidence.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 2, 2020
re: #202 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting. In the meantime, we welcome your feedback to help us enhance the experience.
Good for them. The only media I’ll read the comments on any more is the Washington Post.
re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your employer seems to keep making the news for all the wrong reasons.
When they were caught opening bogus accounts in people’s names then charging them fees, I moved on our village board to immediately cash the $250,000 in certificates of deposit our town had there and move them to the local agricultural bank, and close our town checking account.
The town no longer does business with them.
I’m not sure what your point is here, but I will say that one cannot live “purely” in this world, that there are compromises one has to make. Yeah, I could quit my job at the evil too big to fail bank due to moral outrage, but where else am I going to work that there isn’t something *wrong* going on? Every day, everywhere, every place there are major issues and micro aggressions daily. We can work on them as they’re called out to us or discovered. But while I am not thrilled that the bank side was doing things that were legally, ethically or morally compromised, on the tech side, I think we’ve done a pretty good job within the constraints we were and are given.
There is a cartoon by Claire Bretécher from the 1970s, which is behind the preview. It’s in French; I originally read it in a French textbook. Basically it’s about a guy wanting to be a purist and it doesn’t work.
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re: #209 mmmirele
Exactly. Like trying to buy your gas from a “good ” oil company. Can’t happen. Choose your demon because we all have to dance with the devil anyway.
re: #183 mmmirele
I just want to say that whenever I hear “TikTok” I automatically think not of the application, but of Tik-Tok the mechanical man from the Wizard of Oz books.
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re: #209 mmmirele
… there are compromises one has to make.
After all these years, I’ve come to the conclusion living=compromising.
Real life requires us to make compromises all the time. And if one wants to discuss the real world, then we need to discuss how we manage our compromises and why we choose one over another.
re: #197 LadyBehir
Baum’s writing is definitely dated, but that movie was, as you say, an abomination. I loved the Oz books and grew up reading my Dad’s old copies - my sister still has them. Family heirlooms.
Mom bought a set of Oz and John Carter books for me when I was a kid. Loved reading those stories. Grew up thinking Mars was like Barzoom and Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Boy was I dejected when the Pioneer probes showed Mars to be lifeless…
re: #196 jaunte
Leave the kid on the stove, we’ll move him if he gets burned.
Please tweet that!! Perfect analogy.
Cool, do deaths now. https://t.co/M9qUkOs65e
— Elliott Downing (@elliott_downing) August 1, 2020
re: #213 🌹UOJB!
Mom bought a set of Oz and John Carter books for me when I was a kid. Loved reading those stories. Grew up thinking Mars was like Barzoom and Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Boy was I dejected when the Pioneer probes showed Mars to be lifeless…
The recent John Carter movie was actually really good for a fan of Barsoom.
Sorry, Don, I’m not seeing a downside here.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) August 3, 2020
— Kim Sheff (@GPDuckie) August 3, 2020
re: #203 The Pie Overlord!
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Civil unrest.
160,000 dead Americans.
Russian bounties.
Paramilitaries in the streets.
Who’s best days are ahead? https://t.co/UImfucw4XJ— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 3, 2020
The same political party that’s denying the existence of COVID-19 is denying the existence of climate change. And ultimately that’s going to be much more devastating.
Anti-science fanatics are killing us all.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2020
I’ve got news for you Charlie. The idea that there is only one scientific opinion on global warming and Covid19 is an anti-science as it gets. https://t.co/9wlcZpHLR8
— David Horowitz (@horowitz39) August 3, 2020
As if you have even the slightest clue about scientific opinions on anything, Davey. https://t.co/kaoVTrh0eu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2020
The Birchers and GOP elected officials working together. It’s like 1962 all over again. https://t.co/iBn7MFAxTc
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) August 3, 2020
Current speaker is singing praises of hydrochloriquine, which has been shown to be ineffective against COVID and dangerous.
— Heath Druzin (@HDruzin) August 1, 2020
re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth
He really, really misses those big crowds.
she protec, she eat snac, its all fun and games until the snakes ᵃᵗᵗᵃᶜ
— ℙ𝕒𝕧𝕝𝕠𝕧 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕝𝕠𝕨 🐶 (@PAVGOD) August 2, 2020
re: #221 Charles Johnson
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re: #216 William Lewis
The recent John Carter movie was actually really good for a fan of Barsoom.
My understanding was that the director was a lifetime Barsoom fanboy, and part of the reason the movie didn’t do well is that you have to find fairly hardcore, genre-history-aware SF fans to even know what that series was in the US these days.
I’d read the first book or two as a teenager, but then I’d read a very large portion of the SF shelves at the library, and I only went looking for it because of the explicit references in Heinlein. (Number of the Beast, which is kind of what I define as the starting point of Late Heinlein. I’ve come to the point I don’t really want to acknowledge anything after Time Enough For Love, there’s such a thing as crawling up into your own head and pulling the ladder up after yourself.)
Barsoom always kind of came across as pure pulp to me. It was amusing light reading, but gratuitous and fanservicey in a pre-modern sort of way. I ought to look up to see if anyone has done a modern fanfiction treatment of it.
At first I wasn’t sure this was really David Horowitz, but then I took a look through his timeline and yeah, it’s just as stupid and hateful as you’d expect. https://t.co/kaoVTqZpmW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 3, 2020
It shouldn’t be hard to say no. https://t.co/vuY87FY8YQ
— Doug Heye (@DougHeye) August 2, 2020
For those keeping track at home TikTok behaving more responsibly than Facebook. https://t.co/NUTMIMOoLn
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 3, 2020
Our country is not prepared for the whole new level of crisis that is coming. https://t.co/2zaOrNeVwX
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 3, 2020
re: #216 William Lewis
The recent John Carter movie was actually really good for a fan of Barsoom.
But it had the worst marketing possible so it was gone from the theaters within a week.
re: #229 NetworkKed
I liked Friday and Job as the story was worth tolerating the BS. The others, eh, not so much. Although I do need to check out the alternative manuscript of Number recently published as The Pursuit of the Pankara that is supposed to be a better take on that weirdness.
re: #237 William Lewis
Friday had its moments but felt like it turned into the worst sort of literary nihilism. Job was a little too on-the-spot as far as my theological paranoias went at the age I read it, but was a nicely constructed novel. Except for the multi-page rant about traffic lights.
re: #238 NetworkKed
Friday had its moments but felt like it turned into the worst sort of literary nihilism. Job was a little too on-the-spot as far as my theological paranoias went at the age I read it, but was a nicely constructed novel. Except for the multi-page rant about traffic lights.
I must have erased the memory of those lights!
A nation is only a nation if the people in it share some common values. If you don’t have that, which we don’t anymore, it’s not a nation. It’s a cage match.
National divorce is the peaceful option. The only peaceful option. https://t.co/Ai2h8PfHVh— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 3, 2020
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