See the Porch Episode where this song was first performed. https://neilyoungarchives.com/
“I invite the President to play this song at his next rally. A song about the feelings many of us have about America today, it’s part of the ‘The Times,’ and EP coming soon from Reprise Records - my home since 1968.”
Every day remind yourself: we could cautiously return to school, sports, restaurants in six weeks—if we only had the courage to do a real lockdown, w/ real financial support. Every day we’re six weeks away from sanity, if only we’d reach for it. Today that’s September 27.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) August 17, 2020
It seemed a big deal when US deaths from Covid passed the number of US fatalities in 12 yrs of Vietnam
That was 3+ months ago. https://t.co/P6tzhNvuAP
About to have three times as many US deaths as in Vietnam, and it’s as if the numbers are too high for people to keep counting— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 16, 2020
re: #3 jaunte
We’re shooting for 2,000,000 in the US.
Photo of the Day: Up close and personal with a F15 from #RAFLuton
Taken from a Canberra over London City Airport #AvGeek pic.twitter.com/35JYMYpqZk— RAF_Luton (@RAF_Luton) August 16, 2020
re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I swear the IR sensor made me think it was a MiG rather than a F-15.
Broken Bow schools cancel bulk of classes after 24 staff members put in quarantine over COVID-19 (Five hours ago at the Omaha World-Herald)
Classes for most, but not all, grade levels in the Broken Bow school district have been canceled this week after three staff members tested positive for COVID-19 and 24 staff members were placed in quarantine.
Superintendent Darren Tobey announced the decision on the district’s website.
Tobey said classes for pre-kindergarten and grades six through 12 have been canceled through Friday. Nor will there be off-campus learning during that time, he said.
Pair of Wayne State professors upset by not getting bosses’ nod to teach remotely
Republicans will kill everyone they can on the altar of their religious faith.
I don’t think folks on the hill understand that insurers often REQUIRE that chronically ill folks get their medications from mail-order pharmacies in order to cut costs.
It isn’t just expensive specialty Rx, it’s often just maintenance meds we’re forced to rely on USPS for https://t.co/2YjSfUOW2O— Matthew Cortland, Esq (@mattbc) August 17, 2020
Being in Congress is a pretty good insulator.
My shoulder has bursitis. I keep trying to get away from it because its too damn clingy, but damn, its like the thing is attached to me.
re: #9 jaunte
Being in Congress is a pretty good insulator.
That would be the same Republicans following along Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s assertion that old people need to die for the stock market.
This is not a bug of conservatism, it’s a feature. If a bunch of people who need maintenance medications (cough cough me) die, that is a bonus.
Death of the “underclasses” is a feature.
re: #8 Targetpractice
*clears throat* That’s a MiG-29.
That’s what I thought but I was second guessing myself because of the RAF and reverse Google image search found nada.
re: #11 Jack Burton
That’s an Russian SU-27, or one of it’s variants.
Could be a MiG-29. They look very similar. I can tell it’s not a MiG-35 or Su-34 because of the shape of the cockpit canopy though.
Regardless. F-15 it is not lol.
re: #14 Jack Burton
Its definately not a Subaru Forester.
re: #11 Jack Burton
That’s an Russian SU-27, or one of it’s variants.
Good Zod, you’re right. I’m going blind over here.
re: #16 Targetpractice
I know that feeling. At least I wasn’t trying to think a T-72 was an M-60!
re: #18 Jack Burton
Dammit, I should be on Jeopardy.
Or at least on the building where they tape it.
re: #21 b_sharp
I’m bored, hit me.
Congratulations to b_sharp on reaching 69,716 LGF Karma Points.
These are not honoured to cross the Canadian border.
re: #3 jaunte
It seemed a big deal when US deaths from Covid passed the number of US fatalities in 12 yrs of Vietnam
That was 3+ months ago. nationalgeographic.com…
About to have three times as many US deaths as in Vietnam, and it’s as if the numbers are too high for people to keep counting
By the time we’re done, it will pass the number of US fatalities in WWII.
If we’re counting European theater and Pacific theater separately… it’s already passed one or the other of those.
Hubble Finds That Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming Is Due to a Traumatic Outburst https://t.co/eeK4rIHSrJ #ASDNews #defense #aerospace pic.twitter.com/T7u0RyUDsZ
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Congratulations to b_sharp on reaching 69,716 LGF Karma Points.
These are not honoured to cross the Canadian border.
They’re not convertible into loonies?
/
The #GrizzlyCreekFire is now the largest fire in White River National Forest history. It got to that point in just six days.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) August 17, 2020
re: #25 Dread Pirate Ron
Betelgeuse is a three-year old. /s
Multiple police officers in Cedar Park, Texas, have been shot while responding to a call at a home, the police department says. The subject is barricaded in a home. https://t.co/uDZYNpNoah
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 16, 2020
Hi! My name is Juan Carlos Munoz (@astro_jcm). I’m an astronomer in Heidelberg, and this week I’ll fill your timelines with stories about life in the Atacama desert, cool shots of the night sky and the science behind them, and the occasional bad astro-pun. You’ve been warned! pic.twitter.com/3YNmkiqy8c
— People_of_Space: Juan (@People_Of_Space) August 16, 2020
On the eve of the Democratic convention, Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump has significantly narrowed since June, a new CNN poll showshttps://t.co/qpjZH5LIJI
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 17, 2020
This isn’t good.
Portland police say someone who was among a group of people with the word “press” on their clothes threw a nearly 10-pound rock at police during protests, sending two officers to a hospitalhttps://t.co/iW67Bhnc4p
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 16, 2020
BREAKING: The planet may have seen its highest temp since at least 1931 today. Death Valley hit 130, a preliminary August record for the globe. If confirmed, this is one of top 3 highest temps ever measured on Earth and arguably highest reliably measured. https://t.co/MNvOQrqM0Z
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) August 17, 2020
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Still waiting for this heat to make The China Virus disappear…
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would be the same Republicans following along Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s assertion that old people need to die for the stock market.
This is not a bug of conservatism, it’s a feature. If a bunch of people who need maintenance medications (cough cough me) die, that is a bonus.
Death of the “underclasses” is a feature.
Zabar’s sells more than 1/2 their food mail-order nationwide. Harry & David fruit of the month subscriptions.
re: #37 Jack Burton
Still waiting for this heat to make The China Virus disappear…
132°F isn’t hot enough. Trump didn’t say exactly how hot.
I presume our 100° days aren’t going to get rid of it either.
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Betelgeuse is a three-year old. /s
Here’s a thought experiment. Betelgeuse is said to be a point in its stellar evolution where it will become a supernova in the next 100,000 years. Betelgeuse is also believed to be 10 million years old. In other words, Betelgeuse has passed through 99 percent of its lifetime.
I wish a closely-observed and relatively nearby star would go supernova. You know, like Betelgeuse. It’s weird to imagine that the star just went along fusing hydrogen into helium for over eight million years, then ran out and moved to fusing helium for a million years (and expanding because of the higher temps from fusing helium) to carbon for 1,000 years, neon for three years, oxygen for four months and then silicon for *five days* before the whole shebang falls apart because once the silicon that fuses into nickel and then deteriorates into iron, there’s no more fusing going on. The hydrostatic equilibrium of the star ends and the core collapses, then rebounds.
This is the one thing I want to see in my lifetime, a naked-eye supernova. Yeah, I knew about SN1987A, and my boyfriend and I seriously talked about maybe driving down to southern Mexico to get a glimpse (of what was a very ordinary looking star). But I was in law school and that was not possible. I’d really like a naked-eye, in this galaxy supernova. But one with no gamma rays or anything else otherwise civilization ending. Please.
Unsurprisingly, there is an air quality alert across a large swath of Colorado up to the Wyoming and Nebraska Panhandle line.
re: #40 mmmirele
So, the Sun going nova is out for you then I guess.
re: #42 Kilroy was here
It might be failing if the goal is reëlection.
If his goal is lining his pockets, one gigadollar is pretty good.
The tropical outlook has a wave moving across the Windward Islands in the next day or two, then developing into a tropical depression as it reaches the central Caribbean Sea. That might be one for our southern patrons of Mr. Johnson’s Isle of Sanity to keep an eye on.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Whats with this 100 F stuff I keep seeing? Is it some kind of American idiosyncrasy?
re: #49 b_sharp
Whats with this 100 F stuff I keep seeing? Is it some kind of American idiosyncrasy?
That is normal where I live. We normally have about a fifty degree Fahrenheit swing from day to night here.
Further west except in the desert, this isn’t very common.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Use Celsuis. It will be much cooler.
re: #31 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
For all intents and purposes. This is where I live (but about 6 miles out of town).
No hero worship from Bernie supporters.
OK. 2+2=5
His 2020 logo contained the bird which is supporters believe was divine providence. https://t.co/hsx6Xfj7N1
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) August 17, 2020
re: #51 b_sharp
Use Celsuis. It will be much cooler.
LOL
It’s 18°Commie here now.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Southeast wind around 5 mph.
Monday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 95. South southeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Monday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 60. South southeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday
Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming northeast in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.
Wednesday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 96.
Wednesday Night
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 61.
Thursday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 95.
Thursday Night
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 61.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #53 Sherlock Hound
No hero worship from Bernie supporters.
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What “civic debate”? The debate among his cultists about whether Warren was a sell-out or a turncoat?
Great fun being on @SundayBrunchC4 this morning to talk about ultimate cosmic destruction! (Thx @free_sparrow1 for the screenshot!) #EndOfEverythingBook pic.twitter.com/COf72HiI1j
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) August 16, 2020
Ultimate Cosmic Destruction is the name of my garage Zydeco-Death Metal fusion band.
Listen I’m not saying we should round up the rich and spit roast them like overfed hogs, but I would pay attention to your power point on it. https://t.co/Q0ggjXmGnY
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) August 17, 2020
re: #13 William Lewis
That’s what I thought but I was second guessing myself because of the RAF and reverse Google image search found nada.
There’s also no such thing as RAF Luton.
Speculation on Twitter the important former Republican politician who will endorse Joe Biden is Paul Ryan.
Not a chance. He’s a small-l libertarian, and on the board of FOX News.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Speculation on Twitter the important former Republican politician who will endorse Joe Biden is Paul Ryan.
Not a chance. He’s a small-l libertarian, and on the board of FOX News.
Even if it were Ryan, I can’t think of many people in the party ranks who’d be overly impressed.
re: #63 Targetpractice
Even if it were Ryan, I can’t think of many people in the party ranks who’d be overly impressed.
Ryan is the type of person who will endorse Biden the day after Biden wins.
re: #64 I Would Prefer Not To
Ryan is the type of person who will endorse Biden the day after Biden wins.
Ryan is the type of person who will be bitching that Biden hasn’t fixed everything hours after he took the oath of office.
re: #40 mmmirele
Here’s a thought experiment. Betelgeuse is said to be a point in its stellar evolution where it will become a supernova in the next 100,000 years. Betelgeuse is also believed to be 10 million years old. In other words, Betelgeuse has passed through 99 percent of its lifetime.
I wish a closely-observed and relatively nearby star would go supernova. You know, like Betelgeuse. It’s weird to imagine that the star just went along fusing hydrogen into helium for over eight million years, then ran out and moved to fusing helium for a million years (and expanding because of the higher temps from fusing helium) to carbon for 1,000 years, neon for three years, oxygen for four months and then silicon for *five days* before the whole shebang falls apart because once the silicon that fuses into nickel and then deteriorates into iron, there’s no more fusing going on. The hydrostatic equilibrium of the star ends and the core collapses, then rebounds.
This is the one thing I want to see in my lifetime, a naked-eye supernova. Yeah, I knew about SN1987A, and my boyfriend and I seriously talked about maybe driving down to southern Mexico to get a glimpse (of what was a very ordinary looking star). But I was in law school and that was not possible. I’d really like a naked-eye, in this galaxy supernova. But one with no gamma rays or anything else otherwise civilization ending. Please.
Sadly, that’s not a real choice. A supernova is a supernova, and if you are close enough, you are going to get a half to two-thirds of your planet scoured with enough gamma radiation to kill everything right down to viruses on terrestrial surfaces, depending on the length of the pulse.
Physics. It’s the law.
re: #63 Targetpractice
Even if it were Ryan, I can’t think of many people in the party ranks who’d be overly impressed.
Emily – I shared with Amy my theory that the verification of the Higgs Boson by the supercollider started this descent into hell. First, it was small details like Paul Ryan as the VP nominee and John Boehner singing. Then Trump came down that escalator, and space-time was fucked.
— Trey Adkins (@TreyAdkins6) August 17, 2020
LOL
You’d think a guy with a mail order bride would have a little more respect for the post office.
— Mo Bella🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica (@Mocraig13) August 16, 2020
re: #47 Dread Pirate Ron
Over the past 4 days we’ve had 100, 109, 107, 106.5F
and the forecast isn’t much better.
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Several of those have increased since this morning.
Over the past week, we’ve had 103, 104, 106, 104, 107, 107, and today a balmy 106.
The problem is that above 103, a fan in your face on your shaded back porch doesn’t really cool you. It just pushes a blast furnace into your face. This requires a huge amount of ice water to be consumed. But you can’t turn the fan off, because then you start to die of heat stroke.
Texas summer.
re: #69 austin_blue
Over the past week, we’ve had 103, 104, 106, 104, 107, 107, and today a balmy 106.
The problem is that above 103, a fan in your face on your shaded back porch doesn’t really cool you. It just pushes a blast furnace into your face. This requires a huge amount of ice water to be consumed. But you can’t turn the fan off, because then you start to die of heat stroke.
Texas summer.
California summer: turn the AC down another 2 degrees, it’s a mother-fucker out there. Fuck, power’s out!
re: #70 Dread Pirate Ron
California summer: turn the AC down another 2 degrees, it’s a mother-fucker out there. Fuck, power’s out!
We don’t even think of turning on the AC until 5 PM. We’ve got fans and ice water, and the cost per KwH is steep in the afternoon. We also have a limestone clad house with a metal roof and an attic fan.
Now when it gets above 110…
(Hottest I’ve ever seen here is 117, and that was in September.)
My school district (Leyton Public School, Village of Dalton) will open Aug. 19.
I guess they are ignoring the Covid cases in Dalton. Maybe they are hoping to spread it to my town.
They were planning to stay closed; they caved to the governor’s threats to withhold CARES funding.
The other school district serving my village (Bridgeport Public School) never planned to close.
Covid-19 isn’t even mentioned on the Website, except as “your child should be kept home if she has flu-like symptoms.”
I’m off to bed. Yack at y’all in the tomorrow. Sweet dreams.
Next county to my west (Banner County) is still defying the governor’s order prohibiting mask requirements in any government agency (including schools). The penalty is withholding CARES funding. Banner Public School will be starting with 143 students K-12, and masks will still be required for all students.
re: #71 austin_blue
Ours is programmed to 80 in the day and 76 at midnight. If it’s under 94 outside it doesn’t come on until midnight. We can usually open windows at 8-9 PM since the marine layer pushes in each night. We had an 118 degree day back around ‘73-74, since I’ve had a weather station (1998) I don’t think we’ve broken 114F.
re: #71 austin_blue
We don’t even think of turning on the AC until 5 PM. We’ve got fans and ice water, and the cost per KwH is steep in the afternoon. We also have a limestone clad house with a metal roof and an attic fan.
Now when it gets above 110…
(Hottest I’ve ever seen here is 117, and that was in September.)
We pay the same price for electricity regardless of the time (I guess that’s the horrible reality of a state-owned utility).
Our AC is running any time it is too warm in the house. My wife bought an indoor swamp cooler at the beginning of the year, but that tends to make the house too humid.
new CNN national poll:
Biden 50%
Trump 46%— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 17, 2020
re: #77 DodgerFan1988
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So…is this the point where we’re supposed to run around like our hair is on fire?
Since we started our trip Wednesday, statewide we’ve had 1,211 new cases and 10 deaths.
We don’t have a handle on this.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Since we started our trip Wednesday, statewide we’ve had 1,211 new cases and 10 deaths.
We don’t have a handle on this.
Our county has jumped from 50 cases a day to 250-300 cases a day in the last 10 days. A bunch of slackers can’t maintain enough self-discipline and fuck shit up for the rest of us.
re: #78 Targetpractice
So…is this the point where we’re supposed to run around like our hair is on fire?
We still work to make sure people vote and keep an eye on the prize.
270towin currently has Safe, Likely, Lean as
Dem - 278
GOP - 169
Toss up: FL, GA, NC, OH, ME-2, AZ, NE-2 - 91.
There is no path to victory on 270towin’s model. That said, complacency could set in with “well, the election is in the bag so I don’t need to spend my time going out to vote.”
Running up the score is what matters, and ousting GOP politicians in state offices (particularly since redistricting is coming up).
John Oliver - Bumper Stickers, think of them as Twitter for your car. That’s not a compliment.
re: #77 DodgerFan1988
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Christ, if Americans were the supposedly smart electorate that pundits constantly say we are, every fucking poll would be minimum 70% to 30% in favor of Biden.
From a Secular Coalition for America E-mail today:
In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, SCOTUS narrowly ruled (5-4) to severely limit the “no-aid-for-religion” clause in Montana’s and 30 other states’ constitutions. This unprecedented decision and direct assault on the Establishment Clause opens the floodgates for taxpayer funding of private schools, the vast majority of which hold some type of religious affiliation. It also comes at a time when our public schools are already suffering extreme shortfalls in funding, and are being forced to adapt to instruction during a pandemic without the necessary resources.
To further exacerbate the Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, SCOTUS decided to double-down with their decision on Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, which expands any religious school’s ability to legally discriminate against teachers by considering them “ministers.” In other words, if you combine both decisions, it essentially means that taxpayers will now be footing the bill for legal discriminatory practices under the guise of “religious freedom”.
But the train doesn’t stop there! SCOTUS is on a roll and god…okay maybe not “god”, but “someone” help whoever gets in their way! The Supreme Court went all-in for the trifecta in their decision on Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania. In their ruling, the court upheld the Trump Administration’s regulations allowing employers with religious objections to unilaterally exempt themselves from Affordable Care Act requirements that mandate insurance cover contraception at no cost, and without alerting the government of their intention to do so.
re: #40 mmmirele
Here’s a thought experiment. Betelgeuse is said to be a point in its stellar evolution where it will become a supernova in the next 100,000 years. Betelgeuse is also believed to be 10 million years old. In other words, Betelgeuse has passed through 99 percent of its lifetime.
I wish a closely-observed and relatively nearby star would go supernova. You know, like Betelgeuse. It’s weird to imagine that the star just went along fusing hydrogen into helium for over eight million years, then ran out and moved to fusing helium for a million years (and expanding because of the higher temps from fusing helium) to carbon for 1,000 years, neon for three years, oxygen for four months and then silicon for *five days* before the whole shebang falls apart because once the silicon that fuses into nickel and then deteriorates into iron, there’s no more fusing going on. The hydrostatic equilibrium of the star ends and the core collapses, then rebounds.
This is the one thing I want to see in my lifetime, a naked-eye supernova. Yeah, I knew about SN1987A, and my boyfriend and I seriously talked about maybe driving down to southern Mexico to get a glimpse (of what was a very ordinary looking star). But I was in law school and that was not possible. I’d really like a naked-eye, in this galaxy supernova. But one with no gamma rays or anything else otherwise civilization ending. Please.
You and me and an astrophysicist I was talking to at a convention earlier this year. It’s been on my bucket list since I learned it could happen.
It was supposed to be roasting again today, but we got some actual rain this morning and it seems to have cooled things down. It’s about 70 now and not too humid.
Whatever tomorrow may bring, I will sleep tonight.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Can I join and play washboard?
re: #88 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
It was supposed to be roasting again today, but we got some actual rain this morning and it seems to have cooled things down. It’s about 70 now and not too humid.
Whatever tomorrow may bring, I will sleep tonight.
We’ve cooled from 106.5 to 78.2…. windows are open…
Atheist Republic (an international support group primarily for people who live in Muslm-majority nations and the USA), ejected administrators from their Facebook group who attempted to hijack the organisation by “woke” (Bernie Sanders) supporters.
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The “woke” group of Sanders supporters (about 2,000 people in an LGBT sub-group of about 80,000 total members) started banning people from the group for being “anti-trans” (no) and “anti-Christian.”
re: #77 DodgerFan1988
How, tell me how, does Trump rate 46% ????
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How, tell me how, does Trump rate 46% ????
The magic R. It doesn’t matter what an R does or stands for, they must support their religious leaders.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would be the same Republicans following along Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s assertion that old people need to die for the stock market.
This is not a bug of conservatism, it’s a feature. If a bunch of people who need maintenance medications (cough cough me) die, that is a bonus.
Death of the “underclasses” is a feature.
the 1% are not content with the 40% of America they already own, the more of us that die, the more wealth they can accumulate.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How, tell me how, does Trump rate 46% ????
perhaps a bit of sympathy vote for his bro, a lot of serious ratfucking and trolling against Biden, Harris, the FBI-Russia investigation bullshit…it will all grow more intense as the election approaches.
Just a tad bit cooler this early morning, a bit easier to sleep.
Here’s the low level (troposphere) water image:
You can see way down in the extreme southwest corner of the US, San Diego county has fairly dry air aloft. This helps the IR dump back into space. You can also see a stream of low and mid level moisture coming up over central and northern California - this is due to the dying tropical depression Fausto southwest of San Diego - and this water vapor and clouds did lead to some scattered showers in central California over night, which helped, but they are going to broiling again in the day.
Oh, and models show hurricanes showing up in the GoM late next week and the following week, the latter more likely. Be aware that one of them could be a strong hurricane, so there’s something that will steal the news headlines at least for a few hours.
To the alarm of some government health officials, President Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to approve an extract from the oleander plant as a dietary supplement to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works,” Axios reports.Said a senior official: “The involvement of the Secretary of HUD and mypillow.com in pushing a dubious product at the highest levels should give Americans no comfort at night about their health and safety during a raging pandemic.”
the first paragraph is more of “here we go again “
the second one is full goose bozo bonkers
re: #99 dangerman
the first paragraph is more of “here we go again “
the second one is full goose bozo bonkers
First over-dose deaths expected momentarily.
re: #55 Targetpractice
What “civic debate”? The debate among his cultists about whether Warren was a sell-out or a turncoat?
INORITE!
re: #83 Mattand
Christ, if Americans were the supposedly smart electorate that pundits constantly say we are, every fucking poll would be minimum 70% to 30% in favor of Biden.
Brains alone won’t get you there.
re: #99 dangerman
I was wondering why Carson was trending on twitter.
Alabama Secretary of State is determined that voting will be a high-risk adventure.
Masks not required to vote in Alabama, Merrill says
al.com
Alabama’s top elections official said no voter will be turned away from the polls on Nov. 3 for not wearing a mask….
Merrill said poll workers will not be required to wear a mask either.
I’m convinced militant vegans are the way they are just because they, like the Rose MAGAts, need to hate and rage 24/7. I’ve seen them bully disabled people.
can vegans please shut up about how meat-eating is exactly like the holocaust because even if you don’t mean to, you’re comparing jewish people, roma, and other holocaust victims to literal animals
— i bless the mines down in moria (he/him) (@Khoshtistic) August 17, 2020
re: #106 Sherlock Hound
I’m convinced militant vegans are the way they are just because they, like the Rose MAGAts, need to hate and rage 24/7. I’ve seen them bully disabled people.
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It’s one of the Militant Merit Badge requirements.
OTOH, this week I’ve seen a twitter thread attacking vegans for appropriating the meatless cuisine of poor POC.
re: #107 Decatur Deb
The entire nation is in a milieu of grumpy angst, all trying to shout over the next person to be heard.
I’m thinking now that our “information age” has been feeding input to humans at too high a cadence, that many people who are not trained in how to sort through the pile of info quickly are trying to communicate that they are drowning in a sea of over-stimuli.
Two skills from grade and junior-high school have stuck with and proven to be of an immense help:
1) learning how to type on a QWERTY keyboard;
2) how card-catalogues and libraries are organized.
re: #109 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Two skills from grade and junior-high school have stuck with and proven to be of an immense help:
1) learning how to type on a QWERTY keyboard;
2) how card-catalogues and libraries are organized.
Every kid in our highschool had a mandatory semester of Library Science, and a year of typing on an old Remington to the Colonel Bogey March. (For that matter all courses were mandatory—there were no electives.)
re: #110 Decatur Deb
Every kid in our highschool had a mandatory semester of Library Science, and a year of typing on an old Remington to the Colonel Bogey March. (For that matter all courses were mandatory—there were no electives.)
Yahoo, in the internet’s earliest days, had a great taxonomy page that was the closest thing to a Web Index. It’s probably untenable now. Google doesn’t really do adjacency searches very well.
Quite a moment. Lukashenko flies by helicopter to the MKTZ plant in Minsk, giving a speech to what he must have assumed was a friendly audience of industrial workers. Instead, the crowd erupts with “Ukhodi” — “Leave!” #Belarus pic.twitter.com/08TVpwnJvF
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) August 17, 2020
Every promoter that ever told us our bar tab was more than we made at the door when we tried to settle up pic.twitter.com/FJIpkUoha0
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) August 16, 2020
re: #51 b_sharp
Use Celsuis. It will be much cooler.
Or don’t test the temperature as much, the number of degrees will be smaller.
I know my human appreciates me. She keeps telling me how beautiful I am but that’s because she’s weird. I am just a black cat, and probably look exactly like every other black cat. #BlackCatAppreciationDay pic.twitter.com/q7HVIwoKc5
— Robert the allotment cat (@AllotmentCat) August 17, 2020
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
At BMZ, workers completely stopped all three furnaces and drained the metal. There are about 11,000 people working there.
На БМЗ рабочие полностью остановили все три печи и слили металл. Там работает примерно 11 тысяч человек pic.twitter.com/r6mIIUCcLJ
— Чай з варэннем (@belteanews) August 17, 2020
Maybe the beginnings of a general strike? That certainly played a role in Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution.
It’s impossible for me not to imagine Trump having to face his own mortality in the death of his brother — but then I can’t imagine what goes through Trump’s head when he realizes his own mortality.
— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) August 17, 2020
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
“BT, stop lying”. “We are against violence”. Number of state media workers striking, protesting in #Minsk (+pics, video) #Belarus #BelarusProtest #BelarusSolidarity https://t.co/0Ea1ENWSgL pic.twitter.com/6bpU1jUcsW
— Belsat in English (@Belsat_Eng) August 17, 2020
Рабочие БТ(основного гос канала) вышли на страйк. В итоге в эфире просто играла музыка, а в последствии и вообще был выключен свет. Нереальный респект рабочим БТ за их гражданскую позицию. pic.twitter.com/DHENRw1Gpf
— РБ головного мозга (@belamova) August 17, 2020
Workers of BT (the main state channel) went on strike. As a result, the air just played music, and in the aftermath and in general was turned off the light. Unrealistic respect for BT workers for their civic position.
Look at this strike at BelAZ, one of the biggest plants in Belarus. https://t.co/bi1cnGFYdM
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) August 17, 2020
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Huge sigh. I’ve already resigned myself to a second, horrific Trump term. Not sure why he is gaining ground when so many Americans are dying from COVID-19 and so many are unemployed. It’s baffling.
#Lukashenko approached a worker at MZKT, yelling at him: „Put the phone down!” He also threated him: “If anyone provokes here, we will act harshly.” #Belarus pic.twitter.com/XrULFHqGTY
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) August 17, 2020
Why is polling all over the damn place? Was there back end data on that CNN poll?
new WashPost/ABC national poll:
Biden/Harris 53%
Trump/Pence 41%— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 17, 2020
Trump touts the Israel-UAE deal, adding, “It’s incredible for the evangelicals, by the way. The evangelicals love Israel.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How, tell me how, does Trump rate 46% ????
35% of this country is upset that they (2% of the world’s population) are losing control of their right to dictate to the world. This along with the increasingly obtuse reliance on technology as a replacement for real economic household wealth.
35% are in a vast racist conspiracy cult. The other Trump supporters are a combination of trolls, con men and wealthy bigots.
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
Huge sigh. I’ve already resigned myself to a second, horrific Trump term. Not sure why he is gaining ground when so many Americans are dying from COVID-19 and so many are unemployed. It’s baffling.
It’s not that bad, yet. The events and conditions that will determine this election haven’t even occurred. Despair and overconfidence are both unwarranted.
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
When can we expect the #allcatsmatter brigade?
Trump, saying he’s getting out of the Middle East, says there are “very few” US soldiers left in Afghanistan. There are about 8,000.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
Trump’s tribute to his late brother is all about him: “He was my biggest fan. People would tell me all the time, ‘I spoke to your brother and your brother was so thrilled.’ And so thrilled at what was happening. And what was happening for the country, he was so angry with China.” pic.twitter.com/jTWkAL4dwW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
O_o
Checks out pic.twitter.com/86Ri6vndmv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
We have a choice this November. It’s a choice to vote for a man of character or a man without character. #AmericaOrTrump pic.twitter.com/HPSfGyrVdy
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 17, 2020
Trump: “I’ll tell you what, we gotta play football.” He says it’s a “false rumor” that people will be angry with Trump for some football not happening, because he’s the one that wants football played. (Again, he is either missing or skipping the point.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
“Salihorsk, Svaboda correspondents: All Belaruskali mines have stopped producing ore.” https://t.co/xbrMe3CGYY
— X Soviet (@XSovietNews) August 17, 2020
NEW: Biden’s campaign will devote a “substantial” portion of $280 million in reserved ad time this fall to educate voters on their options to vote safely and securely.
— United for the People 💛🥁 (@people4kam) August 17, 2020
re: #106 Sherlock Hound
I’m convinced militant vegans are the way they are just because they, like the Rose MAGAts, need to hate and rage 24/7. I’ve seen them bully disabled people.
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can vegans please shut up about how meat-eating is exactly like the holocaust because even if you don’t mean to, you’re comparing jewish people, roma, and other holocaust victims to literal animals
— i bless the mines down in moria (he/him) (@Khoshtistic) August 17, 2020
Holds true for militant anybodies
re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The entire nation is in a milieu of grumpy angst, all trying to shout over the next person to be heard.
I’m thinking now that our “information age” has been feeding input to humans at too high a cadence, that many people who are not trained in how to sort through the pile of info quickly are trying to communicate that they are drowning in a sea of over-stimuli.
Trump’s MO in one paragraph
re: #110 Decatur Deb
Every kid in our highschool had a mandatory semester of Library Science, and a year of typing on an old Remington to the Colonel Bogey March. (For that matter all courses were mandatory—there were no electives.)
re: #140 Patricia Kayden
It’s amazing how they can only play the same old cards to their asshole base.
Voting in person will not be the riskiest thing I have ever done, but it’s a disgusting commentary on the state of our civilization that I have to go all the way back to my contract in Iraq to find something that was unambiguously more hazardous.
Logo on Belarus state TV changed in mid-broadcast. Heh.
У БТ новый логотип #Беларусь2020 #Belarus Жыве Беларусь! pic.twitter.com/So2twOCT8d
— Alexey Dmitriev (@AlexeyDmitriev) August 17, 2020
Trump supporters are refusing to believe he could lose in November: report https://t.co/W1aovFFSqe pic.twitter.com/LcsTVMvkiL
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊🌊🌊 (@Politics_PR) August 17, 2020
I’m not sure which aspect of this election I’m most worried about, USPS fuckery or electronic voting machine fuckery.
re: #142 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s amazing how they can only play the same old cards to their asshole base.
People are comforted by predictability
re: #145 Dr Lizardo
Logo on Belarus state TV changed in mid-broadcast. Heh.
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Somebody is seriously fucking with the system over there: the red-stripe-on-white (as on the huge flags displayed all over Belarus at every demonstration) is the symbol of the Opposition.
The evolution of Piers Morgan is interesting. What the Tory’s are doing is appalling.
Our kids have had a horrendous year with their education - or lack of it.
Not to mention all the stress of dealing with coronavirus/lockdown etc. The very least we can do for them is to award them all their predicted grades for A levels and GSCEs.
Order it @BorisJohnson - now.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 17, 2020
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
Huge sigh. I’ve already resigned myself to a second, horrific Trump term. Not sure why he is gaining ground when so many Americans are dying from COVID-19 and so many are unemployed. It’s baffling.
Conservative media are relentless advocacy, 24-7, free, and lies a lot
Mainstream media are both-siderists, and mostly paywalled
Liberal media is MSNBC, late-night comedy shows, and purity ponies
Social media backs conservatives
re: #149 Jay C
Somebody is fucking with the system seriously over there: the red-stripe-on-white (as on the huge flags displayed all over Belarus at every demonstration) is the symbol of the Opposition.
Czechs are watching the situation warily, hoping for another Velvet Revolution, but worried about another August 1968 scenario.
I’d hope that if Russia really does intervene in Belarus that the western world strongly considers pulling the trigger on the financial nuclear option….the ultimate sanction, kicking Russia out of the SWIFT/IBAN system. I doubt they will, though. Too much business with Russia, especially here in the EU.
re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump touts the Israel-UAE deal, adding, “It’s incredible for the evangelicals, by the way. The evangelicals love Israel.”
The way I love lamb chops and fried chicken.
pathetic
Here’s the transcript of Trump’s remarks on his brother’s death: pic.twitter.com/2vs2MjXNXp
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
re: #139 dangerman
That was rather adorable :)
Theme music for our generation of typing class survivors graduates
re: #153 sagehen
The way I love lamb chops and fried chicken.
Well they do believe it will result in the end times. So fried chicken, yes. Lamb, not so much. 😁
Trump claims “nobody has been killed there [in Afghanistan] for a long time.” As @ddale8 points out, two US soldiers died there last month: https://t.co/qPmo7aQEkA pic.twitter.com/Ut3HAhTZNE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
Asked about a report that he plans to open up part of a wildlife refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, Trump talks about how he got a new highway for the state (as if that’s a fair trade) pic.twitter.com/43RfawHcps
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How, tell me how, does Trump rate 46% ????
Remember this about individual polls:
1. If the MOE is 5%, then 1 in 20 polls are complete garbage.
2. Because of the MOE, you can have a large swing in either direction and still be valid. 50-46 isn’t that far out of whack compare to 53-41.
Take an individual poll with a lot of salt.
another busy morning i see https://t.co/dQugnI817A
— darth™ (@darth) August 17, 2020
LOL
Trump says that because foreign leaders like Erdogan are “world-class chess players,” you can’t have a president who isn’t mentally sound dealing with them.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
Huge sigh. I’ve already resigned myself to a second, horrific Trump term. Not sure why he is gaining ground when so many Americans are dying from COVID-19 and so many are unemployed. It’s baffling.
I can only say from the comments of pro-Trump folks on our community FB page, but they live squarely in a parallel universe where everything is the fault of the Democrats who are puny ankle-biting weaklings trying to bring down Trump-the-Magnificent. Everything that should count against Trump is reality is a lie to them.
checkmate, Marx https://t.co/YHhKVSYmJc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
“We may have all come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now” @RepJeffries quoting #JohnLewis to kick off the #DemConvention for @tndp. Let’s go!!! #DNCConvention #DNC #TeamBiden #BidenHarris #TeamJoe
— Pete Griffin (@WhatUpPete) August 17, 2020
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) August 12, 2020
This is like a Delphic oracle. https://t.co/PfTTvSBZf1
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) August 16, 2020
Donald Trump has had a lot of failures in his career, but he knows how to do one thing well: inherit something great and squander it. And never take any responsibility. pic.twitter.com/mDTSFogeUW
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 15, 2020
History:
Vick’s VapoRub was the hydroxychloroquine of the 1918 flu pandemic. Some people swallowed spoons full thinking it would cure the deadly flu strain. It couldn’t. The ointment was introduced in 1905 as a “pneumonia salve.” In 1918, stores frequently ran out … pic.twitter.com/8NIHEdldHL
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) August 17, 2020
re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey y’all with a Twitter account, could you please RT and Like this? This company needs to know about one of their employees.
I removed a post bcos of an error. It has been corrected.
This person works for @AutoCanada in Edmonton. Here’s his bio and the tweets that I am reporting. pic.twitter.com/LQJhcz6MWK— Paulbyjove (@Paulbyjove1) August 17, 2020
“Some universities are already battling Covid outbreaks, including the UNC at Chapel Hill — where 4 viral clusters have emerged one week after in-person classes started — and Oklahoma State University, where a single sorority house has 23 confirmed cases” https://t.co/5hwHWdWFrl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
Christians, killing each other for Jesus:
South Korea warned of a looming coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hundreds more are reluctant to get tested https://t.co/xBJW8Fyvc6
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 17, 2020
Someone ought to declare that meeting in large groups at church right now is essentially suicide.
re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why is polling all over the damn place? Was there back end data on that CNN poll?
Because polling is a subjective art, not a precise science.
“Just following orders” people are the worst people. It starts with mundane shit like this, but when you give up on pushing back when you know something is wrong, well…you know. https://t.co/iyG9kOM9l7
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) August 17, 2020
re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL
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Trump’s idea of a “world class chess player” is a chimpanzee that wanders in to a chess match, throws the board then proceeds to eat the chess pieces.
Of course in real life world-class chess players like Gary Kasparov can’t stand Trump.
re: #173 Kilroy was here
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This is a change of direction…
No.. I didn’t tear up.. really..
I’ve got no problem saying it. I like Joe Biden the man a lot.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
If DeJoy can only wreck the reputation of the USPS enough that people stop sending mail through it, it will eventually become profitable. //
If it’s a former congressman, I’ll put 10 bucks on Boehner strolling out to a podium with a Rob Roy in a highball glass, firing up a Camel Light and saying “yeah, Joe’s a good egg,” then walking away https://t.co/JMhxN6yoo4
— Laura Lorson (@prairielaura) August 17, 2020
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think joints are more Boehner’s thing. I mean if it helps Joe in Ohio, I’m fine with Boehner. A complete repudiation of Trump and Trumpism is essential.
The hard truth is that our economy wasn’t working for folks long before this crisis. It’s why we can’t just go back to the way things were — we have to build back better.
We’ve got to create an economy that works for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 17, 2020
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Go easy on the president, he is mourning his brother. I know when I’m sad the first thing I do is call Fox and Friends and rant for an hour on about how amazing I am
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) August 17, 2020
Announces surprise visit in advance. https://t.co/vEZWQP29AA
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 17, 2020
re: #149 Jay C
Somebody is seriously fucking with the system over there: the red-stripe-on-white (as on the huge flags displayed all over Belarus at every demonstration) is the symbol of the Opposition.
Someone altered the graphics templates in master control. A low-level person wouldn’t do that (and have a life afterwards).
Upper-level people at the network are doing this.
Godspeed and good luck to them all!
re: #167 Belafon
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Local residents recorded the entry of Russian armored vehicles into Belarus. 24 armored military carriers are near Orsha heading towards Minsk direction https://t.co/MAcsWo7rSW
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) August 17, 2020
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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If Trump can vote by mail, you can vote by mail.
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) August 17, 2020
re: #186 jaunte
The “little green men” have arrived.
Will he bring paper towels?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 17, 2020
When I feel my patience running low with the 6 year old lately (which is often these days) I try to remember that one day in March, without warning, we picked him up from school and then he never saw his friends again and even most adults would lack the tools to process that. https://t.co/zKz0hFGgZi
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) August 17, 2020
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Anything so that he doesn’t have to now deal with the Belarus crisis (and pandemic, and economy, and healthcare, and…).
Llre: #192 Barefoot Grin
Anything so that he doesn’t have to now deal with the Belarus crisis (and pandemic, and economy, and healthcare, and…).
We know he’s going to spout out the Putin line on Belarus.
Jesus fuck. The CRA had some users compromised because those users used a password on several different sites, hackers got them from sites other than the CRA and then used them on the CRA site. Conservatives here are all upset that the CRA wasn’t able to stop the hackers from using those passwords.
Bloody idiots are attacking the CRA as if the CRA was breached. No other site would shut down and notify users that their accounts were accessed by somebody other than themselves.
This problem at the CRA is completely because of user’s re-use of passwords and not using 2 factor auth. And the dishonesty of some people trying to steal money/information.
“White Genocide”
LOL https://t.co/cRgxb3puye— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 17, 2020
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
I feel that my 15 year old is missing a lot of necessary interaction with friends, and I have been trying to think of ways to help him get some. This is painful even for teens.
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every day, this kind of pressure on kids makes me angry all over again at the undisciplined supposed grown people who couldn’t be bothered to manage this.
@JeffSharlet
Every day remind yourself: we could cautiously return to school, sports, restaurants in six weeks—if we only had the courage to do a real lockdown, w/ real financial support. Every day we’re six weeks away from sanity, if only we’d reach for it.
Amazing how Covid is not dangerous to your kids, but a national security threat at the same time. The Trump Administration Is Preparing To Treat Asylum-Seekers As Security Threats https://t.co/Vi5OpM1LXE
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) August 17, 2020
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
The only real supremacy is Jewish supremacy. It’s the only group we’re not allowed to criticize without consequences. And of course it’s the group driving the hate division and white genocide.
If I had to choose between Zionist overlords and inbred redneck crackers, then I would welcome the Hebrew Nationalists every time…
re: #200 jaunte
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re: #201 Barefoot Grin
Holy shit. I checked that dudes twitter and nearly every single post is anti-semitic/WS bullshit.
major Holocaust denier
re: #201 Barefoot Grin
Reported, for what good it will do.
🚨New Senate ratings change this morning at @CookPolitical 🚨#SCSen moves from Likely to Lean Republican https://t.co/5f6ulgmmUH
— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) August 17, 2020
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
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JUST ANNOUNCED: @NBCNews and @MSNBC have launched #PlanYourVote – an interactive, state-by-state voting guide.
This year, how you vote is as important as who you’re voting for – and casting a ballot requires a plan. Visit: https://t.co/9LZp1SWKQT.
https://t.co/AnhnAPY4eT— NBC News PR (@NBCNewsPR) August 17, 2020
re: #158 Belafon
Remember this about individual polls:
1. If the MOE is 5%, then 1 in 20 polls are complete garbage.
2. Because of the MOE, you can have a large swing in either direction and still be valid. 50-46 isn’t that far out of whack compare to 53-41.
Another thing to keep in mind is that 46% was roughly the vote percentage trump got in 2016 (meanwhile, HRC was 48%). The reason she lost the EC (in addition to all the voter suppression fuckery) was the unusual degree of third-party defection. Therefore, the number to pay attention to isn’t so much where trump is, but whether or not Biden is 50% or more (and from what I’ve seen, he’s reached that magic number far more often than HRC…in fact, I’m not sure there ever was a national poll showing her over 50%, let alone a battleground one).
Plus, I always figured Dems should head into this election assuming trump’s 2016 total would either stay the same or slightly grow, which in turn means they’d need to concentrate on turnout, turnout, turnout (remember, Mitt Romney lost in 2012 with 47 percent!)
I deleted this tweet. Am told it is Belarusian paratroopers. Will update with any new information pic.twitter.com/BMk6Nz4GWr
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) August 17, 2020
re: #211 Interesting Times
Another thing to keep in mind is that 46% was roughly the vote percentage trump got in 2016 (meanwhile, HRC was 48%). The reason she lost the EC (in addition to all the voter suppression fuckery) was the unusual degree of third-party defection. Therefore, the number to pay attention to isn’t so much where trump is, but whether or not Biden is 50% or more (and from what I’ve seen, he’s reached that magic number far more often than HRC…in fact, I’m not sure there ever was a national poll showing her over 50%, let alone a battleground one).
Plus, I always figured Dems should head into this election assuming trump’s 2016 total would either stay the same or slightly grow, which in turn means they’d need to concentrate on turnout, turnout, turnout (remember, Mitt Romney lost in 2012 with 47 percent!)
I don’t recall one with her ever above 50%. The thing is and why I’m optimistic is Trump is a known quantity now and Biden isn’t as hated as Clinton was. It ain’t over of course but Biden is in good shape though of course I wish his numbers were higher but I’m convinced 40% of this country would vote for anything Republican.
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
What kind of democracy do we have when you have to plan your vote because REPUBLICANS are doing everything they can to keep you from voting?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) August 17, 2020
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Trump on the use of toxic oleander as a potential coronavirus treatment: “Is it something that people are talking about very strongly? We’ll look at it.” pic.twitter.com/zxrhAidjkh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2020
re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What kind of democracy do we have when you have to plan your vote because REPUBLICANS are doing everything they can to keep you from voting?
and if you vote, to keep you vote from being counted/registered…
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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re: #78 Targetpractice
So…is this the point where we’re supposed to run around like our hair is on fire?
So, we’re supposed to take a single poll that is outside the average of every other poll conducted over the past few months and think that all of a sudden things have collapsed for Biden when the only thing collapsing is the economy, the rule of law, and the USPS due to Trump’s active efforts to destroy democracy?
Let’s get a grip here. Most of the polling shows Biden up comfortably and consistently up by 8-10 points. But let’s also work assuming that Biden is down like 5 points to make sure we’re not complacent. We want to destroy Trump and the GOP, and that means working hard to overcome Trump and GOP voter suppression efforts, which also includes their efforts to damage the USPS.
GOP delenda est, and that includes every fucking GOPer at every level that enables and supports the most corrupt and criminal admin in our history.
Today, DNC starts, and I’m sure Trump will try to upstage with some bulkshit. He’s going to try and take credit for a rapid test or some nonsense, even though all of Trump’s efforts have been to delay testing, undermine confidence in the public health system, undermine the USPS, and destroy the rule of law with the complicity of the GOP.
DNC speakers will take on Trump head-on, and it will be interesting to see how conventions will be an anachronism thanks to the pandemic. It also means that the Bernie supporters who previously undermined Clinton’s 2016 run and marred that year’s convention will not have the same ability to do so in 2020 since they don’t have a floor from which to undermine the candidate.
Kentucky has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation, but Gov Beshear and SOS Adams made a bipartisan deal to make voting safe and much easier in November.
BREAKING: @KYSecState delivered recommendations for running Nov election in Kentucky. It’s VERY good news. Let’s walk through the provisions. But here’s the bottom line: anyone who believes they need to vote by mail cause of #COVID may do so. 1/
— Josh Douglas (@JoshuaADouglas) August 14, 2020
re: #219 lawhawk
So, we’re supposed to take a single poll that is outside the average of every other poll conducted over the past few months and think that all of a sudden things have collapsed for Biden when the only thing collapsing is the economy, the rule of law, and the USPS due to Trump’s active efforts to destroy democracy?
Let’s get a grip here. Most of the polling shows Biden up comfortably and consistently up by 8-10 points. But let’s also work assuming that Biden is down like 5 points to make sure we’re not complacent. We want to destroy Trump and the GOP, and that means working hard to overcome Trump and GOP voter suppression efforts, which also includes their efforts to damage the USPS.
GOP delenda est, and that includes every fucking GOPer at every level that enables and supports the most corrupt and criminal admin in our history.
Today, DNC starts, and I’m sure Trump will try to upstage with some bulkshit. He’s going to try and take credit for a rapid test or some nonsense, even though all of Trump’s efforts have been to delay testing, undermine confidence in the public health system, undermine the USPS, and destroy the rule of law with the complicity of the GOP.
DNC speakers will take on Trump head-on, and it will be interesting to see how conventions will be an anachronism thanks to the pandemic. It also means that the Bernie supporters who previously undermined Clinton’s 2016 run and marred that year’s convention will not have the same ability to do so in 2020 since they don’t have a floor from which to undermine the candidate.
Even the CNN poll shows Biden at 50% and Trump at 46%, which realistically is his ceiling. This poll is nothing to get excited about.
re: #221 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Even the CNN poll shows Biden at 50% and Trump at 46%, which realistically is his ceiling. This poll is nothing to get excited about.
Even if it were tightening, what would be the solution? Activate our voters. Get out the vote. Combat any voter suppression effort.
EXACTLY what we’re doing now.
Treat it as real, but work to get out the vote to prevent chicanery.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
OFFS. Oleandrin is a toxic cardiac glycoside. MSKCC indicates that this compound, found in oleander plant, may kill cancer cells, but there’s no viable treatment here.
It’s another one of Trump’s wishful thinking bulkshit deflections - this time with a “herbal supplement” that is toxic. The consumption of a single leaf of the oleander plant can be fatal.
Anvirzel™, a brand of oleandrin, is able to suppress growth and cause cell death in certain cancer cell lines. It has also increased sensitivity of prostate cancer cell lines to radiation therapy. However, it is unclear whether these effects can occur in the human body.
Great. Now poison control centers are going to get an influx of poisoning cases after Trump touts this latest toxic chemical.
Font designer Brian Willson, with some thoughts related to saving the Post Office:
“…The other day I had a thought about handwritten keepsakes. It started as a recognition of how unique are the times we’re living through. And how, to record our story, future historians will be poring over source material—that is, contemporary accounts of what’s happening. Used to be, contemporary accounts came from folks putting pen to paper. In our modern digital world, of course, putting pen to paper doesn’t happen very often anymore.
In just my lifetime, written communication has gone from thoughtfully hand-penned (or -typed) letters dropped in the mail to quick, scattershot batches of electrons in the form of email, texts, emojis, memes. And that’s just written words. In recent years, communication has trended toward the digital, the immediate—streaming multimedia, smartphone videos, TikTok. Just now, as humanity grapples with the novelty of social-distancing during a pandemic, even good ol’ face-to-face spoken language happens online via Zoom and Skype and FaceTime.
Our very signatures—once our personal mark, our brand—are in jeopardy. (I rarely even sign checks anymore.) Nowadays, we’re most likely to find pages filled with cursive script in boxes of memorabilia, collections of old letters, books of grandmas’ recipes.
Since future generations will surely view this time with fascination and remembrance, why not take advantage of our stay-at-home predicament to create a few handwritten keepsakes?
COVID-19 numbers and rates are “steadily increasing” in children, CDC says https://t.co/WTVD1C0sPp
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 16, 2020
re: #228 Belafon
COVID-19 numbers and rates are “steadily increasing” in children, CDC says
must be all the testing…
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC, next thing you know, he’ll be promoting some quack recommending this:
re: #230 Dr Lizardo
JFC, next thing you know, he’ll be promoting some quack recommending this:
Presidential Cure
re: #230 Dr Lizardo
JFC, next thing you know, he’ll be promoting some quack recommending this:
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President Jim Jones tells the MAGATS to take 2 PC tablets with a glass of Grape Flavor-Aid…
Bwahaha:
Just looked at my phone… pic.twitter.com/pZVNFAj8xY
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) August 13, 2020
rollin… rollin… rollin…
Irony is, I am watching a crappy movie on PeacockTV and there was an earthquake in the movie at the time locally we were shaking.
2020 and its coincidences.
re: #232 🌹UOJB!
Watching the religious right in America worshipping Trump and proudly refusing to take reasonable precautions in a pandemic should once and for all convince us that many American fundamentalist Christians are just one Kool-Aid™ packet away from going full Jim Jones.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2020
re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why is polling all over the damn place? Was there back end data on that CNN poll?
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It’s really important not to pay too much attention to a single poll, good or bad. Look at the average and the trends.
re: #167 Belafon
Back in the early ’80s, I remember a coworker swallowing VapoRub because she had a bad chest cold. I said cautiously, “I don’t think you should be eating that.” “Oh, I’ve done it before with no problem.” Her husband took her to the ER after work.
— Dee *Now On A Social Media Vacation* Holmes (@mmmirele) August 17, 2020
re: #236 Charmingly Persistent
It’s really important not to pay too much attention to a single poll, good or bad. Look at the average and the trends.
It has to be a Horse Race for chrissakes!
re: #235 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s been so long I don’t recall, but the news media misreport that the Jonestown cultists used Kool-Aid in that mass suicide/murder? I mean, it was Flavor-Aid that they used, mixed with cyanide and phenobarbitol. But I always wondered how it was that Kool-Aid came to be identified with that?
M5.1 in Baja, about 100 miles away.
About a half hour ago there was a 4.4 just a few mile south of that.
Big pre-shock for the bigger quake.
re: #236 Charmingly Persistent
It’s really important not to pay too much attention to a single poll, good or bad. Look at the average and the trends.
Exactly
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It has to be a Horse Race for chrissakes!
In this case.. let it look like a horse race. Last thing we need is .. “ah I can skip voting we have this won…”
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
It’s been so long I don’t recall, but the news media misreport that the Jonestown cultists used Kool-Aid in that mass suicide/murder? I mean, it was Flavor-Aid that they used, mixed with cyanide and phenobarbitol. But I always wondered how it was that Kool-Aid came to be identified with that?
Because everyone knows what Kool-Aid is. I never heard of Flavor-Aid.
re: #244 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Because everyone knows what Kool-Aid is. I never heard of Flavor-Aid.
Kleenex/Xerox/Scotch Tape.
re: #240 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
M5.1 in Baja, about 100 miles away.
About a half hour ago there was a 4.4 just a few mile south of that.
Big pre-shock for the bigger quake.
Yeah, this should round off 2020 quite nicely:
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is there anyone in the world more aggressively stupid than Depardoned Defelon?
re: #248 plansbandc
Is there anyone in the world more aggressively stupid than Depardoned Defelon?
He knows what his fans want to hear and gives it to them…
re: #245 Decatur Deb
Kleenex/Xerox/Scotch Tape.
Yeah, probably. Where a brand name just ends up as a generic term.
Now they are reporting a different 5.1, at much shallower depths than the prior:
Don’t know if this is an updated report and the first will be canceled.
IF it’s a swarm, we’re in trouble.
I did feel two rumbles delayed by a couple of seconds, but I thought it was just the difference in the S and P waves.
re: #248 plansbandc
Is there anyone in the world more aggressively stupid than Depardoned Defelon?
Ben Shapiro?
So the crappy movie I’m watching is “100 Degrees Below Zero”.
In the movie, a massive disruption in the European continental plate causes cascading volcanoes and earthquakes.
It’s just fiction, and can’t happen.
Just a reminder that one o the founders of the Lincoln project owns a cooler with a confederate flag on it which says “The South Will Rise Again” so… maybe think about how much space we give them? https://t.co/1p9oo05pkZ
— Courtney Milan 🦖 (@courtneymilan) August 17, 2020
Apparently it belongs to their son, and was in lots of instagram pictures before they started removing them.
re: #253 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sounds entertaining - the most preposterous disaster flicks always start off with some impossible pseudo-science….like 2012.
The next time you hear Trump complain that USPS is “badly run,” remember:
Trump Steaks
Trump Vodka
Trump Airlines
Trump Taj Mahal
Trump Marina
Trump Plaza
Trump University
Trump Magazine
Trump Mortgage
Trumpnet
Trump Ice— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 16, 2020
re: #188 DodgerFan1988
My state, Arizona, has had postal voting for years with no issues. It’s a godsend. I can help my mom vote without having everyone at the polling place hear me shout, “NOW MOM, THIS IS FOR US SENATE. DO YOU WANT MARTHA MCSALLY OR MARK KELLY?” Nobody needs to be hearing me shout.
— Dee *Now On A Social Media Vacation* Holmes (@mmmirele) August 17, 2020
re: #251 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Now they are reporting a different 5.1, at much shallower depths than the prior:
Don’t know if this is an updated report and the first will be canceled.
IF it’s a swarm, we’re in trouble.
I did feel two rumbles delayed by a couple of seconds, but I thought it was just the difference in the S and P waves.
Is 5 better than 4.0 a swarm?
Y’all they done shrunk James Harden. https://t.co/46uCVpHj4B
— Wakandan Brand Ambassador (@Kennymack1971) August 17, 2020
re: #260 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A 5.0 swarm is 30x worse than a 4.0 swarm!
I don’t know much about earthquakes, only that I don’t like them and never want to be in another.
re: #256 Dr Lizardo
Sounds entertaining - the most preposterous disaster flicks always start off with some impossible pseudo-science….like 2012.
How about The Core.
My property tax is due next week, but since the USPS is all fucked up I took my tax payment to the City Treasury office and paid in person.
I noticed they already had a slot prepared for accepting absentee ballots.
Fuck this authoritarian asshole. I don’t have the words to express my contempt for Trump and all of his supporters.
Some states use “drop boxes” for the collection of Universal Mail-In Ballots. So who is going to “collect” the Ballots, and what might be done to them prior to tabulation? A Rigged Election? So bad for our Country. Only Absentee Ballots acceptable!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2020
re: #264 JC1
How about The Core.
That one’s so bad it’s…..nah, it’s just bad. It made me laugh though.
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
It’s been so long I don’t recall, but the news media misreport that the Jonestown cultists used Kool-Aid in that mass suicide/murder? I mean, it was Flavor-Aid that they used, mixed with cyanide and phenobarbitol. But I always wondered how it was that Kool-Aid came to be identified with that?
Because some names are just the generic version of something, Kool-Aid, Kleenex, Xerox.
re: #256 Dr Lizardo
Sounds entertaining - the most preposterous disaster flicks always start off with some impossible pseudo-science….like 2012.
Crack in the World (or how to make a new moon)
When Worlds Collide (a rouge solar system comes to visit)
The Towering Inferno (where building are made of explodium) An Irwin Allen specialty
The list is endless
re: #266 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Some states use “drop boxes” for the collection of Universal Mail-In Ballots. So who is going to “collect” the Ballots, and what might be done to them prior to tabulation? A Rigged Election? So bad for our Country. Only Absentee Ballots acceptable!
isn’t voting a matter left to the states?
Rick Wilson posted this:
That cover has some Soviet energy https://t.co/1kAKOhDeCz
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 17, 2020
And since I couldn’t unsee it in my mind, might as well Photoshop it for all:
Barr-sukov: pic.twitter.com/MbqLhpd03Q
— Interesting Times (@intrstngtimes) August 17, 2020
re: #255 Charmingly Persistent
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Apparently it belongs to their son, and was in lots of instagram pictures before they started removing them.
And my dad complains to me about my brother, who probably wouldn’t have a problem owning that cooler.
re: #266 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Fuck this authoritarian asshole. I don’t have the words to express my contempt for Trump and all of his supporters.
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Who “collects” the absentee ballots? Good dog, he’s such a fucking idiot.
re: #271 Interesting Times
Rick Wilson posted this:
Belarus’ Deputy Minister of Interior, Alexander Barsukov, personally beat and tortured people at Minsk Okrestino detention centre - say people who are now being gradually released.
Is hands-on leadership, comrade.
re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
isn’t voting a matter left to the states?
Oh, it is. I live in a state where voting by mail has been the norm for a couple of decades. It’s his constant stream of lies that 40% of the country believe that piss me off. I suspect there are people in the eastern red part of my state who have been voting by mail for years are suddenly questioning the security of voting because all Needy Amin has got left is to lie 24/7 about rigged elections.
SCOOP: The RNC is planning a fireworks display at the Washington Monument at 11:30pm on August 27—the night President Trump will give his convention acceptance speech from the White House—per a permit application obtained by @CBSNews
— Sara Cook (@saraecook) August 17, 2020
re: #269 Kilroy was here
Crack in the World (or how to make a new moon)
When Worlds Collide (a rouge solar system comes to visit)
The Towering Inferno (where building are made of explodium) An Irwin Allen specialty
The list is endless
Can’t forget The Swarm. LOL that was bad, but I admit, it’s one of those guilty pleasure films.
re: #237 mmmirele
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re: #276 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Oh, it is. I live in a state where voting by mail has been the norm for a couple of decades. It’s his constant stream of lies that 40% of the country believe that piss me off. I suspect there are people in the eastern red part of my state who have been voting by mail for years are suddenly questioning the security of voting because all Needy Amin has got left is to lie 24/7 about rigged elections.
Trump’s plan seems clear: sabotage the USPS so lots of ballots aren’t delivered to voters or returned in time to count. Get his voters to vote in person so their votes are counted on November 3. Declare victory that night. Go to court and try to get a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling declaring him the winner.
M1.5 in Campo, which is just on this side of the border. I wonder if it is too far away to qualify as an aftershock?
re: #279 Dr Lizardo
Can’t forget The Swarm. LOL that was bad, but I admit, it’s one of those guilty pleasure films.
The train derailment in the Swarm is a classic… You expect a child to pick the train up afterwards and put it back on the tracks.
re: #258 mmmirele
Oh look, it’s Mr. I was required to report sex abuse but refused to do so while at OSU because it’s my role to enable sex predators complaining about mail in balloting to exercise constitutional right to vote during a pandemic.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 17, 2020
re: #281 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump’s plan seems clear: sabotage the USPS so lots of ballots aren’t delivered to voters or returned in time to count. Get his voters to vote in person so their votes are counted on November 3. Declare victory that night. Go to court and try to get a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling declaring him the winner.
That is currently his only chance of winning.
re: #279 Dr Lizardo
Can’t forget The Swarm. LOL that was bad, but I admit, it’s one of those guilty pleasure films.
Yes. Oh THE SWARM Director’s Cut is in my RAZZIES Holy of Holies box.
Now just imagine what Trump would do in this situation?
After all, it’s Texas…re: #283 Kilroy was here
The train derailment in the Swarm is a classic… You expect a child to pick the train up afterwards and put it back on the tracks.
Oh the part where the reactor explodes is even sillier with Richard Chamberlain and Jose Ferrer getting pelted with puffed wheat!
re: #285 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is currently his only chance of winning.
And if Roberts goes along with such a scheme, which I don’t expect, we have to do what they are doing in Belarus; go on strike and mass demonstrations. Paralyze the country until Trump is out.
re: #286 🌹UOJB!
Yes. Oh THE SWARM Director’s Cut is in my RAZZIES Holy of Holies box.
Now just imagine what Trump would do in this situation?
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After all, it’s Texas…
Oh the part where the reactor explodes is even sillier with Richard Chamberlain and Jose Ferrer getting pelted with puffed wheat!
The two asteroid impact movies that came out the same year in the nineties. The Bruce Willis one is trashy fun.
re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why is polling all over the damn place? Was there back end data on that CNN poll?
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I would have thought there would be a bump in his poll numbers with his VP pick.
Kasich going to go both-sides at the Democratic National Convention. Fantastic s///
Kasich asserted that “both parties have to have new ideas” and that Democrats and Republicans are “not in two warring camps” against each other. Source: TMP
Dems make it official — Saturday votes have been noticed. pic.twitter.com/qls8nnVdEr
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 17, 2020
Paisley is one of the super-expressive kitties. She rarely takes a bad picture. pic.twitter.com/d09sHOWuZ6
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) August 17, 2020
Pelosi is doing everything you’re asking her to do. McConnell is not.
It’s a coward’s way out to shout at Pelosi all day. It absolves you of responsibility from marching in the streets against the Republicans who are causing all the problems. https://t.co/hDaE0x4eAQ— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 17, 2020
You want to talk about “doing something”? In this term, Pelosi impeached the president of the United States, delivered stimulus, passed bills to abolish gerrymandering, reform campaign finance and bail out USPS, and is now investigating DeJoy.
What are YOU doing?— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 17, 2020
It’s consistently amazing how many, including (especially?) those on the left that will hold any and all Dems blameless for not using every power at their disposal to oppose Trump.
— Nicholas Bauer, PhD 👨🔬🔬 (@BioTurboNick) August 17, 2020
Yes, lets focus first and foremost on burning the Dems in effigy for not waving the magic fucking wand around and undoing everything, rather than on what the GOP is actually doing.
Jesus mother fucking christ.
re: #292 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Kasich going to go both-sides at the Democratic National Convention. Fantastic s///
That’s about all he could say. The important message is that the Dems handed him the mic.
re: #277 lawhawk
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Whose the bigger dick making a scene that night: Trump or the Washington Monument? You decide.
re: #292 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Kasich going to go both-sides at the Democratic National Convention. Fantastic s///
Biden is apparently still insisting he will enact his agenda with bipartisan support, which is pure fantasy.
re: #281 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Trump’s plan seems clear: sabotage the USPS so lots of ballots aren’t delivered to voters or returned in time to count. Get his voters to vote in person so their votes are counted on November 3. Declare victory that night. Go to court and try to get a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling declaring him the winner.
Which seems like a bad plan considering Democrats have already demonstrated their willingness to stand in line.
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Could it be because the private bathroom in my home, only people who live in my home ever use it? While the public restrooms at the park, thousands of people use it?
(to be fair, the public restrooms in Riverside Park start to look a little iffy by 7 or 8 in the evening. But by the next morning, they’re all clean again. And there’s always enough toilet paper, the same cannot be said for the bathroom at my sister’s home.)
re: #299 Belafon
Which seems like a bad plan considering Democrats have already demonstrated their willingness to stand in line.
There are no good plans to reelect Trump, except to demonstrate some real leadership to fight the pandemic and economic hardship, which he has refused to do for months.
re: #299 Belafon
Which seems like a bad plan considering Democrats have already demonstrated their willingness to stand in line.
In the right areas this would be a good time for organizations to plan life-support for lines—bottled water, disposable ponchos, sealed munchies, loaner chairs.
re: #278 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
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My person helped a little by buying me this costume.
He looks French. You need to put a Galoise in his paw when you reshoot the portrait.
We cannot continue to address a pandemic of a highly infectious disease with a large segments of our population without access to healthcare.
Houston is THE LARGEST city in the US without Medicaid expansion coverage for our population. https://t.co/520g2bfsrz— Bill Kelly 😷 (@billkellytexas) August 17, 2020
re: #298 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Biden is apparently still insisting he will enact his agenda with bipartisan support, which is pure fantasy.
Biden is also open to nixing the filibuster: thehill.com.
A lot of these appeals, like having Kasich appear, are an attempt to get on-the-fence people to switch, and to get all of those Democrats who don’t pay attention nearly as much as we do to understand that we’re still trying to govern the the whole country.
re: #246 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, this should round off 2020 quite nicely:
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It can’t truly be an apocalyptic 2020 unless a kaiju pays a visit. I’d settle for Mother MOTHRA, she’s Lawful Good but we’re probably going to get King Gidorah, Unlawful Evil.
Melania is an awful person too let’s stop with this she’s a prisoner who secretly hates him narrative.
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) August 17, 2020
“I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
re: #306 mmmirele
It can’t truly be an apocalyptic 2020 unless a kaiju pays a visit. I’d settle for Mother, she’s Lawful Good but we’re probably going to get King Gidorah, Unlawful Evil.
Nothing less than Mothra
re: #308 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nothing less than Mothra
2020… Smog Monster for the win
re: #295 Citizen K
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Yes, lets focus first and foremost on burning the Dems in effigy for not waving the magic fucking wand around and undoing everything, rather than on what the GOP is actually doing.
Jesus mother fucking christ.
It’s what happens when a bunch of self righteous leftist dickwads write about politics. Always whine at Pelosi but never McConnell. It gets them more clicks.
re: #307 DodgerFan1988
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“I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
She was happy to push birther bs. She’s not as scummy as the kids and Jared but she’s no victim.
And from the White House? Crickets.
„We call for new and free elections in Belarus”:
Joint statement by 5 Political Groups
in the European Parliament:
@ecrgroup@EPPGroup
@RenewEurope
@TheProgressives
@GreensEFA https://t.co/fLnqMWiy5Q— Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (@JSaryuszWolski) August 17, 2020
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 17, 2020
re: #312 Dr Lizardo
“We call for new and free elections in Belarus”:
Joint statement by 5 Political Groups
in the European Parliament:
“foreign interference!”
re: #307 DodgerFan1988
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“I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”
Those aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive positions. But I don’t, in fact, care.
re: #299 Belafon
Which seems like a bad plan considering Democrats have already demonstrated their willingness to stand in line.
Hakeem Jeffries at a recent House hearing:
“If Black people have to risk our lives to vote… well, that’s hardly new. We’re used to it, and we’ve proved we’re willing to do so.”
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