This huge issue has not gone away, folks. Trump and his cronies haven’t changed a thing; they’re still working to kneecap the Postal Service.
A brief history of The Great USPS War, from the beginning. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #USPS
Feel good thread of the day
I’m 62. I’ve never voted for a Democratic Presidential or Senate candidate. This November, I won’t vote for a single R candidate at any level. They’ve sold their soul (and America’s future) to a despot.
— Ted (@ted_rood) August 31, 2020
re: #1 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ted is taking time to honestly respond to everyone saying welcome to the resistance.
Inertia, listening to wrong, venomous media, and the misguided belief that today’s Republican party shared my principals and values.
— Ted (@ted_rood) September 1, 2020
re: #2 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Glad to see the scales falling from eyes.
I’ve been a bit burnt out the last day or two, and just sort of melancholy. So going to try and unplug and decompress for a few days. See ya all on the flip side.
re: #2 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Ted is taking time to honestly respond to everyone saying welcome to the resistance.
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I’m seriously curious.
Thank you!
How do you think we can get others to see the reality of the situation? To get them away from that venom?
How did you see the light?— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 1, 2020
re: #3 KGxvi
Glad to see the scales falling from eyes.
I’ve been a bit burnt out the last day or two, and just sort of melancholy. So going to try and unplug and decompress for a few days. See ya all on the flip side.
I feel ya. I had to disappear for a couple of days myself.
Take care of yourself.
re: #3 KGxvi
Glad to see the scales falling from eyes.
I’ve been a bit burnt out the last day or two, and just sort of melancholy. So going to try and unplug and decompress for a few days. See ya all on the flip side.
Take care. See ya back here soon.
He hasn’t removed his permalink to Infowars, though. https://t.co/WVSsrYCXD9
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
Republicans are quick to denounce violent protests.
Almost as quick as they are to denounce non-violent protests.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
or maybe its the private interests, media, and intra-party politics arrayed against them
— Content Town, USA (@contenttownusa) September 1, 2020
The problem is, these people go to the table with 50%, and then get 25% (Obamacare is a perfect example), when you could go to the table with the broadly popular 100% plan.
— Content Town, USA (@contenttownusa) September 1, 2020
Politics is a constant struggle of getting what you can, when you can, even if it’s not 100% or even 50% of what you want, & continuing to fight for the rest. The problem is when you have folks who see that they’re not getting 100% and then refusing to fight because it’s not 100%
— Citizen K’s sick of 2020… (@Citizen_Kryptik) September 1, 2020
Maybe thats because democrats hardly ever deliver the goods and improve peoples lives? Obamacare is not Single Payer, its not M4A, its not the Public Option.
— Content Town, USA (@contenttownusa) September 1, 2020
Dealing with this constantly on and off twitter and it seems like it’s only getting worse, and worse, and fucking worse.
Trump is going full fascist in fast-forward and we have a gigantic fucking glut of people in this country that are willing to dick kick the Dems and burn everything down because they’re not getting all their fucking ponies.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
But not so quick to distance themselves from the right wing domestic terrorists carrying out Trump’s stochastic terrorism that Trump pumps out regularly.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 1, 2020
@realDonaldTrump is quite, simply, an American mobster.
Picking up the Senate conversation from the last thread:
If I had the money to send in to any Senate race right now, I’d be all in on Jaime Harrison.
He’s been holding even with Lindsey in the polls all summer, and I get the impression that Lindsey has become just generally unlikable even at home in SC.
And you’ll have a flood of Democratic ad dollars in border media markets (Charlotte, Asheville, Augusta) that might be mainly aimed at boosting NC and GA turnout but won’t hurt any in SC.
If we score both this seat and a Jones re-election in AL, it would go a LONG way to eroding the last solid bloc of dependable red seats for the GOP.
If I were putting money on a second race, too, it would be MJ Hegar.
(Sidenote: why can’t we have a Florida seat up in this cycle? If ever the odds were in our favor, this should be the year, and ousting either Rubio or Rick Scott would be so sweet.)
Here’s Senator Pat Toomey’s (R, PA, Vichy) hot take on the USPS being sabotaged; excerpted from email message (bolded by me). I called his office to say that he has no credibility, neither does DeJoy, and that the GOP citing “conspiracy theories” has killed the irony meter.
In recent weeks, some politicians and media figures have peddled conspiracy theories about actions taken by the USPS to save money. These persons cite sensible reforms like having mail carriers make only a single delivery run each day (as opposed to multiple runs in the same neighborhood) in order to reduce overtime expenses and removing underused postal boxes (even though 12,000 collection boxes were removed during the Obama administration according to the USPS Inspector General). Given the blowback resulting from misinformation, on August 18, 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that the USPS would be suspending all reforms until after this fall’s election and stated that “the Postal Service is ready to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall.” You may read the full statement here: about.usps.com.
For further context, even if every voter who participated in the 2016 election voted by absentee ballot this year, that would still amount to less mail than the average amount delivered by the USPS - 400 million - each day. Given the problems in several 2020 primaries with voting-by-mail, concerns about election integrity have far more to do with unrealistic state balloting deadlines, overwhelmed local election offices, and sending ballots universally to people who don’t request them (as California and other states plan to do).
Cher raises $2 million for Biden at LGBTQ virtual fundraiser (goes to the Blade)
Great details in the article. about Cher meeting Biden.
re: #2 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Maybe just anecdotal, but I was speaking to one of my financial advisers today (young guy - 30s - new family - working from home on LI), and when the subject of the election came up, he mentioned that he was a Republican: but hastened to add that he was a “Lincoln Project Republican”, and hated Trump for (among everything else) poisoning the brand.
He had an interesting take on the markets, though: agreed that they were being mainly propped up by the Fed (and would continue to be for a while yet), but that there would probably be a big correction either just before or just after the election. NOT, we agreed, because a Biden Administration was going to institute the Bolshevik Terror - but mainly because the markets will be needing an excuse to profit-take, and the election will be as good a one as any.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
They’re also quick to START violent protests…or at he very least protests that could easily become violent.
re: #10 Citizen K
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Dealing with this constantly on and off twitter and it seems like it’s only getting worse, and worse, and fucking worse.
Trump is going full fascist in fast-forward and we have a gigantic fucking glut of people in this country that are willing to dick kick the Dems and burn everything down because they’re not getting all their fucking ponies.
A lot of progressives forget that ideas being popular is not the same as candidates being popular. It really DOES matter that a politician needs to be personally appealing (and a good manager and a cogent thinker) as well as putting forth progressive ideas.
Its NOT ENOUGH to have good ideas. You have to manage a good campaign, you have to manage people and you have to have a basic amount of personal appeal to win.
Basically, much of Trumpworld appears to see extreme exaggeration as no-lose: 1) lots of people believe the lie; 2) if the lie is corrected, they can turn the correction into an example of media bias - accusing the correcters of being hatefully blind to some different point.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2020
re: #18 gwangung
Its NOT ENOUGH to have good ideas. You have to manage a good campaign, you have to manage people and you have to have a basic amount of personal appeal to win.
You also have to beat the media/social media bias machine.
Here’s what we know about the USPS.
Before DeJoy dismantled the scanners and stopped OT, we were seeing on time mail delivery. We know this from the USPS own metrics.
Since Trump put sabotage of USPS on his agenda, the delivery time metrics have fallen off the cliff, and this affects everyone from those waiting to get their mail order meds to payroll checks and SS checks and bills.
USPS is a key way that rural Americans communicate, and Trump’s fucking all those folks over too.
Trump’s too busy lying and sabotaging to care, as he’s moving on to the next act of sabotage.
Whenever Trevor Noah raises his eyebrows, he gets Klingon Forehead.
Now I can’t unsee that.
re: #18 gwangung
A lot of progressives forget that ideas being popular is not the same as candidates being popular. It really DOES matter that a politician needs to be personally appealing (and a good manager and a cogent thinker) as well as putting forth progressive ideas.
Its NOT ENOUGH to have good ideas. You have to manage a good campaign, you have to manage people and you have to have a basic amount of personal appeal to win.
Not to mention again that some voters will like a policy but determine some other policy to be their one and only redline, forgoing any support for those other policies over there. As well as folks who will instantly hate a policy once a certain party gets attached to it due to sheer contrariansm.
re: #10 Citizen K
And this tweet:
Maybe thats because democrats hardly ever deliver the goods and improve peoples lives? Obamacare is not Single Payer, its not M4A, its not the Public Option.
— Content Town, USA (@contenttownusa) September 1, 2020
exactly misses the point you’re making. The ACA was a step, because we weren’t going to get to the goal in the one round.
re: #19 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Exactly. There’s a well known quote that I can’t remember about the moment about telling a lie so often it eventually becomes the truth. That is precisely what these people are doing.
Also, truth and PERCEPTION can be two very different things.
re: #24 Belafon
And this tweet:
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exactly misses the point you’re making. The ACA was a step, because we weren’t going to get to the goal in the one round.
Been saying it a lot lately, but it’s making perfect necessarily the enemy of good, even if it means letting evil win.
re: #14 cat-tikvah
Here’s Senator Pat Toomey’s (R, PA, Vichy) hot take on the USPS being sabotaged; excerpted from email message (bolded by me). I called his office to say that he has no credibility, neither does DeJoy, and that the GOP citing “conspiracy theories” has killed the irony meter.
In recent weeks, some politicians and media figures have peddled conspiracy theories about actions taken by the USPS to save money. These persons cite sensible reforms like having mail carriers make only a single delivery run each day (as opposed to multiple runs in the same neighborhood) in order to reduce overtime expenses and removing underused postal boxes (even though 12,000 collection boxes were removed during the Obama administration according to the USPS Inspector General). Given the blowback resulting from misinformation, on August 18, 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that the USPS would be suspending all reforms until after this fall’s election and stated that “the Postal Service is ready to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall.” You may read the full statement here: about.usps.com.
For further context, even if every voter who participated in the 2016 election voted by absentee ballot this year, that would still amount to less mail than the average amount delivered by the USPS - 400 million - each day. Given the problems in several 2020 primaries with voting-by-mail, concerns about election integrity have far more to do with unrealistic state balloting deadlines, overwhelmed local election offices, and sending ballots universally to people who don’t request them (as California and other states plan to do).
So easy question then: How does removing mechanical sorting/scanning machines increase efficiency?
re: #10 Citizen K
“Content Town, USA” is Rose MAGA or a Russian bot. There is not a thing you can do, short of a bomb, that will sway their opinion.
Rand is only a libertarian on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Today is Monday and Mondays are fascism conspiracy days .
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 1, 2020
Rand Paul is only a libertarian on Wednesdays and Fridays. Tuesday is Facebook conspiracy day.
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 1, 2020
Still refusing to wear a mask, of course, because he’s the worst human being alive. https://t.co/nv7adVTIrP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
re: #19 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Basically, much of Trumpworld appears to see extreme exaggeration as no-lose: 1) lots of people believe the lie; 2) if the lie is corrected, they can turn the correction into an example of media bias - accusing the correcters of being hatefully blind to some different point.
I gave up on a gay Republican friend who continues to spout easily-refuted GOP talking points. I really wonder how much of it is just his contrarian, cantankerous personality and how much of it is his political convictions.
Rand’s concept of liberty is not expansive enough to include people saying mean things to him.
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 1, 2020
re: #24 Belafon
And this tweet:
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exactly misses the point you’re making. The ACA was a step, because we weren’t going to get to the goal in the one round.
ACA also made it mandatory to cover pre-existing conditions, something that Trump has been out to dismantle from the get-go.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
He’s got that weird lean forward stance. That’s just so weird.
re: #26 Citizen K
Been saying it a lot lately, but it’s making perfect necessarily the enemy of good, even if it means letting evil win.
“If evil wins, more people will TaKe To tHe StReEts!”
“After evil, us.”
“I got mine, pal!”
Never gets old. pic.twitter.com/GCf1Dl2MUq
— DumpsterFire45 (@DFire45) September 1, 2020
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s got that weird lean forward stance. That’s just so weird.
Since his elder male spawn often mimic it, I’d say it’s some sort of weird alpha male stance that they think makes them look like they’re in charge instead of ready to topple over.
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I gave up on a gay Republican friend who continues to spout easily-refuted GOP talking points. I really wonder how much of it is just his contrarian, cantankerous personality and how much of it is his political convictions.
My read is that it’s to pledge fealty to “his” side. It doesn’t matter what the truth is, and the wilder the lie the more he shows his loyalty. That’s why you get 37% of the poll respondents saying that the economy is better than last year: they know what you’re really asking (do you support Trump) and they respond appropriately.
He’s lying, of course. But notice how everyone in the room is wearing a mask except Trump and his goon squad. https://t.co/Y1SgUihqzQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
re: #10 Citizen K
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Dealing with this constantly on and off twitter and it seems like it’s only getting worse, and worse, and fucking worse.
Trump is going full fascist in fast-forward and we have a gigantic fucking glut of people in this country that are willing to dick kick the Dems and burn everything down because they’re not getting all their fucking ponies.
Remind your friend that the ACA is what you can get when you need every single dem vote — because the repugs are in lock step against whatever the dems have to offer.
re: #36 gocart mozart
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Certainly more fitting than constantly photoshopping the faces of one’s enemies onto the Children of the Damned.
re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s got that weird lean forward stance. That’s just so weird.
Lifts in his shoes…..
re: #40 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Remind your friend that the ACA act is what you can get when you need every single dem vote — because the repugs are in lock step against whatever the dems have to offer.
What frustrates me about the purity ponies is they ignore that ACA is supposed to be a start not the end. Social Security when it was enacted in 1935 exempted agricultural workers for example.
re: #14 cat-tikvah
Here’s Senator Pat Toomey’s (R, PA, Vichy) hot take on the USPS being sabotaged; excerpted from email message (bolded by me). I called his office to say that he has no credibility, neither does DeJoy, and that the GOP citing “conspiracy theories” has killed the irony meter.
In recent weeks, some politicians and media figures have peddled conspiracy theories about actions taken by the USPS to save money. These persons cite sensible reforms like having mail carriers make only a single delivery run each day (as opposed to multiple runs in the same neighborhood) in order to reduce overtime expenses and removing underused postal boxes (even though 12,000 collection boxes were removed during the Obama administration according to the USPS Inspector General). Given the blowback resulting from misinformation, on August 18, 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that the USPS would be suspending all reforms until after this fall’s election and stated that “the Postal Service is ready to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall.” You may read the full statement here: about.usps.com.
For further context, even if every voter who participated in the 2016 election voted by absentee ballot this year, that would still amount to less mail than the average amount delivered by the USPS - 400 million - each day. Given the problems in several 2020 primaries with voting-by-mail, concerns about election integrity have far more to do with unrealistic state balloting deadlines, overwhelmed local election offices, and sending ballots universally to people who don’t request them (as California and other states plan to do).
That doesn’t explain why they destroyed all those sorting machines.
re: #43 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
What frustrates me about the purity ponies is they ignore that ACA is supposed to be a start not the end. Social Security when it was enacted in 1935 exempted agricultural workers for example.
They don’t count the voters who oppose their policies as real people. The only real people are those that agree with them.
Dozens of new Trump Facebook ads appear to be trying to convince people that they are voting to reelect Ivanka Trump pic.twitter.com/02TJM4l0ak
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 1, 2020
“Look at all the work Ivanka has done for you, the American worker!”
re: #27 Mike Lamb
GMTA
re: #42 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
Lifts in his shoes…..
and an ass so big it has a competing center of gravity
re: #39 Charles Johnson
I’m pretty sure the sun deserves most of the credit.
re: #37 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Since his elder male spawn often mimic it, I’d say it’s some sort of weird alpha male stance that they think makes them look like they’re in charge instead of ready to topple over.
Or a genetic back problem.
re: #46 jaunte
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“Look at all the work Ivanka has done for you, the American worker!”
It’s a lame ass attempt to try to appeal to women.
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s a lame ass attempt to try to appeal to women.
Does anyone actually like Ivanka other than her father?
re: #46 jaunte
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“Look at all the work Ivanka has done for you, the American worker!”
I’m sure all the knuckle-dragging racists are stoked to vote for President Marketing Barbie (Make America Effect Re-imagined Synergies Again!)
Just got another Google Adsense policy violation for a post from 2015. WTF is going on here?
I turned off the comments, requested a review, and the violation was lifted within minutes.
This is absolutely maddening.
re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Does anyone actually like Ivanka other than her father?
All the Republican men who want to fuck her.
Like her daddy does.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Just got another Google Adsense policy violation for a post from 2015. WTF is going on here?
I turned off the comments, requested a review, and the violation was lifted within minutes.
This is absolutely maddening.
Someone is reporting them. Stalkers perhaps.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Some of these RW assholes have waaaaay too much time on their hands.
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
All the Republican men who want to fuck her.
Like her daddy does.
I said like not lust.
Straight dude here. I don’t find Ivanka attractive in the slightest. She’s got a weird “Stepford Wife” thing going on.
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s a lame ass attempt to try to appeal to women.
Or men who think Vanky is hot.
I lost face today—about a square centimeter of cheek gouged out by the dermatologist. Baja Alabama is one of the places that claim to be The Skin Cancer Capital of the Country.
On the way back, I set up our traveling voter registration table in the library portico. Despite warnings, one of my League of Women Voters volunteers hung in there for an hour or so, but the display is set up to run unattended. It’s arranged to provide DIY mail-in VR, absentee ballot requests, and voter education handouts. It also displays QR codes linked to VR and LWV websites and the Secretary of State site.
I’ll maintain vehicle surveillance over it for a few days, then we’ll go to the next branch. Next step in defeating the virus environment is to work through plate glass, with a large-screen monitor and computer inside the building and a sanitizable keyboard and mouse outside.
re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg
Straight dude here. I don’t find Ivanka attractive in the slightest. She’s got a weird “Stepford Wife” thing going on.
She’s not the most unattractive person I’ve ever seen but she’s an unattractive person based on all I’ve seen from her. The whole “I’m the Trump with a social conscience” bullshit. No you ain’t Vanky, you’re your father’s daughter in everyway.
re: #10 Citizen K
more purity pony bullshit…
no more claims denial on pre-existing conditions
kids on policies til age 26
no more crap insurance policies
affordable insurance covering more americans than ever before (in the MILLIONS)
perfect… no, better yes and for those that benefited a tangible plus
re: #53 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Does anyone actually like Ivanka other than her father?
I’ll let an anonymous Indian diplomat field that question.
India diplomat tells me: “We regard @IvankaTrump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It’s in our national interest to flatter them.”
— Bobby Ghosh (@ghoshworld) August 11, 2017
re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg
Straight dude here. I don’t find Ivanka attractive in the slightest. She’s got a weird “Stepford Wife” thing going on.
All I see is Eric in drag.
My “I haven’t had any strokes” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 1, 2020
Something, not news-related or even Trump-related but involving relationships.
Today, on the 20th anniversary of the death of my birth mother, quite out of the blue, I received a call from a long-lost sister. My last memory of her was from 1964 when she and another sister were removed from the house where we lived and placed into foster care. As the eldest of five children, born to parents who were woefully unprepared to handle their lives — much less five children under the age of six — I lived a life consumed by hunger, dread, and grief by learning to survive without parents to guide and care for us. Shortly thereafter, a sister passed away due to rheumatoid arthritis. The death hit our home quite hard, parents divorced, we (remaining sister and I) were placed into the foster care system. A coupled of months into our stay we were returned to our father — in six weeks time, he found a woman and got married. Our newly redefined family moved into a house together and put a lid on our previous lives and memories. No words were spoken about the two siblings who were taken away and a fading of discussions about the sister who passed. Life went on.
Our birth mother moved away when I was 8, and we never saw her again. Flash forward to 2001 and at my wife’s urging, I looked up my birth mothers’ info on the internet. Her last name was unique enough that she was the only name that popped up during a search of birth records. So weird to see the names of all the siblings in one place. Sadly, she had passed away the previous year. She turned her life around and passed away after having lived a stable family life with her husband and son from her last marriage. A feeling of rejection (she never mentioned the fact that she had five children to her family) was replaced with happiness for her having found some solace in this life.
During this phone call, I found that the two sisters were adopted into a loving family and the path their lives was a much better one. She had waited until her parents were gone before looking for the big brother who picked her up out of the playpen. So odd to be the focus of someone else’s earliest memories. We had a nice talk — emotional sometimes — now look forward to meeting in Covid-19 world.
One more mystery solved!
I’m off to do the things I didn’t do this morning, but:
1) New covid cases today in CA are less than 4000 for the first time since about June, and the 14-day average is below 5000.
2) 14-day average rate of positive cases is 5.3% and dropping.
3) In my little town (some day, I’ll find out why our cases are tracked separately from the county’s), rate of positive tests dropped below 2% for the first time since forever.
If those numbers still seem large to you,
a) they are.
b) consider the population of California.
Last night the plane was headed for the RNC (which ended 3 days before the plane took off).
Today, the plane was going ‘from Washington to wherever.’
TRUMP: “A person was on a plane, said there were about 6 people like that person, more or less, and what happened is the entire plane filled up with the looters, the anarchists, rioters, people looking for trouble. The person felt very uncomfortable on the plane.” pic.twitter.com/VP0idEzLNi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 1, 2020
Ralph Wiggum talking about the babies is a more consistent story.
Short fingers, mini strokes.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) September 1, 2020
re: #13 i(m)p(each)sos
Picking up the Senate conversation from the last thread:
If I had the money to send in to any Senate race right now, I’d be all in on Jaime Harrison.
He’s been holding even with Lindsey in the polls all summer, and I get the impression that Lindsey has become just generally unlikable even at home in SC.
And you’ll have a flood of Democratic ad dollars in border media markets (Charlotte, Asheville, Augusta) that might be mainly aimed at boosting NC and GA turnout but won’t hurt any in SC.
If we score both this seat and a Jones re-election in AL, it would go a LONG way to eroding the last solid bloc of dependable red seats for the GOP.
If I were putting money on a second race, too, it would be MJ Hegar.
(Sidenote: why can’t we have a Florida seat up in this cycle? If ever the odds were in our favor, this should be the year, and ousting either Rubio or Rick Scott would be so sweet.)
I’m going to make a small donation to Harrison and a few others.
re: #72 makeitstop
Last night the plane was headed for the RNC (which ended 3 days before the plane took off).
Today, the plane was going ‘from Washington to wherever.’
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Ralph Wiggum talking about the babies is a more consistent story.
And then someone said sir to me and I remembered I was the greatest president ever!
re: #72 makeitstop
Last night the plane was headed for the RNC (which ended 3 days before the plane took off).
Today, the plane was going ‘from Washington to wherever.’
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Ralph Wiggum talking about the babies is a more consistent story.
Someone has x-ray eyes to see all the black costumes in the plane?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
re: #72 makeitstop
Last night the plane was headed for the RNC (which ended 3 days before the plane took off).
Today, the plane was going ‘from Washington to wherever.’
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Was there blood coming out of this one, or no?
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Calm down, Strokeahontas. https://t.co/wCy7ouWRE1
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) September 1, 2020
“Mini-strokes” is what he does when he’s looking at Ivanka’s pictures on his phone.
— Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy) September 1, 2020
re: #74 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m going to make a small donation to Harrison and a few others.
I already have, and will again — going to put all that money I haven’t been able to spend for 5 1/2 months because I cannot go out to good use. AZ too, GA and KY (because just maybe), and I’ll find others.
re: #79 goddamnedfrank
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Yeah it’s not like he’s President. Fucking asshole wants all the glory of the presidency and none of the responsibilities.
Chris Titus goes all in eviscerating Trumpists:
For years during Obama/Biden, you Trumpers claimed “AMERICA!” like you were cowboys or had stormed the beach at Normandy. You screamed that Obama, the constitutional law attorney, was violating the constitution. You claimed to be patriots, constantly. You bitched about…
— Christopher Titus (@TitusNation) August 31, 2020
It’s a long thread, and worth the read.
re: #84 lawhawk
Chris Titus goes all in eviscerating Trumpists:
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It’s a long thread, and worth the read.
Hell of a rant. Jim Gaffigan’s was also on point
Just a thought.
So hard guy Tea Party water the tree of liberty die for my freedom has 2 months worth of freeze dried food in his basement.
He can survive the nuclear winter.
If he’s a deer hunter he drenches himself in buck piss, wraps a gaiter around his face and sits still while the drive sends the deer to him. For hours. In the cold and rain and snow.
Plays cosplay with all manner of T shirts and hats and bumper stickers, screams about how he packs and loves his Pep Boys bolt ons to his arsenal.
Brags about how he did this and that and how everybody else is a pussy and on and on and fucking on.
Why does he melt down when told to wear a mask?
Doesn’t he know he can dress up like Billy The Kid?
I’m missing something…..
No I’m not.
re: #85 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Hell of a rant. Jim Gaffigan’s was also on point
Why are comedians the only ones really NOT afraid to tell it like it is?
re: #86 nines09
If he’s a deer hunter he drenches himself in buck piss
Trumpers seem to have a very specific kink, and it isn’t masks.
re: #26 Citizen K
Been saying it a lot lately, but it’s making perfect necessarily the enemy of good, even if it means letting evil win.
But it’s fair to ask if the step that was ACA was a long enough step. It is better than what existed before, but was as nearly as good as what could have been passed with a supermajority in the Senate (I get that the supermajority only existed for a short time due to Al Franken delay and Kennedy’s death, and that it included some blue dogs), but still. GWB and Trump managed to pass massive top heavy tax cuts with far slimmer majorities.
I’m left to wonder if Obama wanted something like a public option or if he thought that that was a step too far. No Medicare drug price negotiation? No importing of drugs from other countries? And a massive amount of political capital wasted.
re: #89 JC1
But it’s fair to ask if the step that was ACA was a long enough step. It is better than what existed before, but was as nearly as good as what could have been passed with a supermajority in the Senate (I get that the supermajority only existed for a short time due to Al Franken delay and Kennedy’s death, and that it included some blue dogs), but still. GWB and Trump managed to pass massive top heavy tax cuts with far slimmer majorities.
I’m left to wonder if Obama wanted something like a public option or if he thought that that was a step too far. No Medicare drug price negotiation? No importing of drugs from other countries? And a massive amount of political capital wasted.
You fail to take into account just how much of the ACA negotiations were as much against the right-most edge of the Dem caucuses as it was against the GOP. 2009 had actual conservative Dems and Blue Dogs that had to be negotiated with (and against in some cases). Remember that the faint supermajority also had to include Joe fucking Lieberman.
re: #89 JC1
But it’s fair to ask if the step that was ACA was a long enough step. It is better than what existed before, but was as nearly as good as what could have been passed with a supermajority in the Senate (I get that the supermajority only existed for a short time due to Al Franken delay and Kennedy’s death, and that it included some blue dogs), but still. GWB and Trump managed to pass massive top heavy tax cuts with far slimmer majorities.
I’m left to wonder if Obama wanted something like a public option or if he thought that that was a step too far. No Medicare drug price negotiation? No importing of drugs from other countries? And a massive amount of political capital wasted.
Obama did want the public opition. We didn’t get it because of Lieberman. I do agree that it could have perhaps been done better but we did get it which was huge given Clinton’s failure on the issue sixteen years prior.
re: #90 Citizen K
You fail to take into account just how much of the ACA negotiations were as much against the right-most edge of the Dem caucuses as it was against the GOP. 2009 had actual conservative Dems and Blue Dogs that had to be negotiated with (and against in some cases). Remember that the faint supermajority also had to include Joe fucking Lieberman.
That’s the thing that I laugh when people claim the Dems have moved to the right. The Blue Dogs have very little influence in the caucus. I feel that although I expect 2022 to favor the R’s on the House side (due to precedent), I don’t think they’re going to be able to replicate their same success in 2010 and 1994.
re: #82 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah it’s not like he’s President. Fucking asshole wants all the glory of the presidency and none of the responsibilities.
He thinks that the “real job” was CAMPAIGNING in 2016, and it was like winning a pageant. He gets to “Be President” for 4 years, just like being Miss Universe, and he gets to do a bunch of ceremonial stuff, and then he gets to be in another pageant.
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Contemplating this American moment is essential because the crisis will worsen and become more dangerous. What is it that we are watching unfold in front of us? What does it mean? What is at stake? What was the meaning of the Republican Convention? What happened there? (1)
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 1, 2020
re: #89 JC1
But it’s fair to ask if the step that was ACA was a long enough step. It is better than what existed before, but was as nearly as good as what could have been passed with a supermajority in the Senate (I get that the supermajority only existed for a short time due to Al Franken delay and Kennedy’s death, and that it included some blue dogs), but still. GWB and Trump managed to pass massive top heavy tax cuts with far slimmer majorities.
I’m left to wonder if Obama wanted something like a public option or if he thought that that was a step too far. No Medicare drug price negotiation? No importing of drugs from other countries? And a massive amount of political capital wasted.
Based on the makeup of the Democrats and Republicans in office, yes, it was the biggest thing that could be passed. They had to get one Republican, Collins, just to get it to the point where they could vote to pass it.
re: #88 jaunte
They truly are fucked in the head. I tried talking to quite a few.
Useless.
After this shitshow is over, those who I disowned will stay disowned.
They can kiss my white Irish ass.
Saw a statement today on Facebook today from a dude who I’ve “known” for decades.
Huge Trump Train jagoff.
He’s distressed with BOTH SIDES NOW.
Oh my.
Eat me.
Drudge hasn’t. It’s still rabid right. Just not as slobbery over Trump as the rest of them. https://t.co/oRF5CJkwdb
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
re: #93 The Pie Overlord!
He thinks that the “real job” was CAMPAIGNING in 2016, and it was like winning a pageant. He gets to “Be President” for 4 years, just like being Miss Universe, and he gets to do a bunch of ceremonial stuff, and then he gets to be in another pageant.
That’s exactly right.
re: #89 JC1
sorry, that’s bullshit, the ACA passed by the slimmest of margins in the house, some of those blue dogs that voted for it and allowed its passage were “made examples of” by targeted GOP campaigns in 2010 when the GOP took back the house. There was no mandate for it to be even more progressive because the blue dog dems were a real thing, comprised of roughly 15% of the Dem caucus at the time.
Everyone speculates how it ‘could have been better”, the fact that it was leaps better over something that never fucking existed to begin with, and was crafted in the middle of a economic crisis/rescue of monumental proportions. What is also forgotten is that it had loads of hearings and input from GOP (which was done in the name of bipartisanship and yet it didn’t get a single fucking GOP vote, the fuckers) and the time that would have been spent trying to re-invent that fucking wheel would have done nothing but feed the GOP narrative because per our national media, only the Dems have agency.
re: #90 Citizen K
You fail to take into account just how much of the ACA negotiations were as much against the right-most edge of the Dem caucuses as it was against the GOP. 2009 had actual conservative Dems and Blue Dogs that had to be negotiated with (and against in some cases). Remember that the faint supermajority also had to include Joe fucking Lieberman.
I noted that the Senate supermajority included blue dogs. I wonder if enough was done to twist their arms to vote with the party on procedure (closure) and vote their conscience on the final bill. There were over 50 votes for a public option.
I get that it’s 20/20 hind sight, Monday morning QBing, other applicable metaphors, but let’s not pretend that it couldn’t have been better.
It makes me sad to think about Obama’s early years. I definitely felt an optimism. I didn’t think all the problems that we faced would be magically overturned but I thought Obama would be instrumental in a new kind of politics after the Bush years. I didn’t realize how much the right would target him personally in result to their bitterness over the defeat.
re: #21 lawhawk
Here’s what we know about the USPS.
Before DeJoy dismantled the scanners and stopped OT, we were seeing on time mail delivery. We know this from the USPS own metrics.
Since Trump put sabotage of USPS on his agenda, the delivery time metrics have fallen off the cliff, and this affects everyone from those waiting to get their mail order meds to payroll checks and SS checks and bills.
Do you know where we can find the USPS delivery time metrics? This looks very interesting.
re: #100 JC1
I noted that the Senate supermajority included blue dogs. I wonder if enough was done to twist their arms to vote with the party on procedure (closure) and vote their conscience on the final bill. There were over 50 votes for a public option.
I get that it’s 20/20 hind sight, Monday morning QBing, other applicable metaphors, but let’s not pretend that it couldn’t have been better.
I’m pretty sure Mutual of Omaha and Prudential had a bigger sway at the time. Remember how the party kicked Liberman out and he won as an independent?
re: #99 piratedan
sorry, that’s bullshit, the ACA passed by the slimmest of margins in the house, some of those blue dogs that voted for it and allowed its passage were “made examples of” by targeted GOP campaigns in 2010 when the GOP took back the house. There was no mandate for it to be even more progressive because the blue dog dems were a real thing, comprised of roughly 15% of the Dem caucus at the time.
Everyone speculates how it ‘could have been better”, the fact that it was leaps better over something that never fucking existed to begin with, and was crafted in the middle of a economic crisis/rescue of monumental proportions. What is also forgotten is that it had loads of hearings and input from GOP (which was done in the name of bipartisanship and yet it didn’t get a single fucking GOP vote, the fuckers) and the time that would have been spent trying to re-invent that fucking wheel would have done nothing but feed the GOP narrative because per our national media, only the Dems have agency.
The house version had a public option…
re: #100 JC1
I noted that the Senate supermajority included blue dogs. I wonder if enough was done to twist their arms to vote with the party on procedure (closure) and vote their conscience on the final bill. There were over 50 votes for a public option.
I get that it’s 20/20 hind sight, Monday morning QBing, other applicable metaphors, but let’s not pretend that it couldn’t have been better.
You shouldn’t wonder. You should count votes. By your remarks, you can’t count votes.
50 wasn’t the number…60 was.
re: #527 Jay C
Was Maggie really “strongly pro-EU”?? Maybe it’s just old CW, but I thought that “European” issues were (along with just too much time at No. 10) one of the things that led to her resignation. IIRC, Thatcher was always skeptical of Britain’s tying itself too much to the Continent, and she lost out to the more “integrationist” bloc among the Tories.
Thatcher was “pro-EU” in the sense that she was one of the major forces behind creating it (replacing the EC, that replaced the earlier EEC). The Single European Act would never happened without her.
She was also strongly in favor of the UK remaining in the EEC in the first Brexit referendum in 1975.
As you can see:
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re: #105 gwangung
You shouldn’t wonder. You should count votes. By your remarks, you can’t count votes.
50 wasn’t the number…60 was.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Did you even read what I wrote?
I do like how we’re rehashing 2010. It’s been a while.
I was just thinking how much I needed a good LOL today when this tweet showed up. https://t.co/jWZ6RPkU5t
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 1, 2020
re: #97 Charles Johnson
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— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 1, 2020
Antifa travel expenses: gas, $23.00, burritos, $9, bandanna, $3.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
Whoa! Wasn’t expecting that particular rat to jump ship.
re: #113 jaunte
“KOA Campgrounds are now pleased to announce an Antifa Discount! That’s right, show up with 5 Antifa Card Carrying members and receive a 15% discount off of any visit over 3 nights!”
re: #97 Charles Johnson
What happened to Drudge? For the longest time was a rabid right wing rag. When did it turn into Little Green Footballs?
It’s nice that you seem to have become something of a benchmark.
“Plane loaded with thugs” pic.twitter.com/r4uesIiVUq
— Resist Programming 🛰 (@RzstProgramming) September 1, 2020
— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) September 1, 2020
Does anyone know if Antifa Airlines allows service animals?#AntifaAirlines pic.twitter.com/yUpM7bwz0M
— VoteEmOut (@VoteEmOut2) September 1, 2020
re: #109 Charles Johnson
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Malicious compliance.
re: #107 JC1
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Did you even read what I wrote?
I most certainly did. But you’re not thinking straight. You named a number that was irrelevant. You needed to get to 60. And it’s stupid to think that people weren’t arm twisting people in their own caucus to do so.
So “Reince” seems to be trending on twitter. This is why:
“My former chief-of-staff. Where’s Reince? Reince. Where is my Reince? Reince Priebus … You are a very proud citizen of right here. You’re still here. You never left, did you? You never would leave. You’ve done a great job. Thank you very much Reince.”
- Trump in Kenosha pic.twitter.com/LnHnTIOhzi— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) September 1, 2020
re: #123 Interesting Times
So “Reince” seems to be trending on twitter. This is why:
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Man, Person, Reince, Elephant.
re: #123 Interesting Times
You are a very proud citizen of right here.
Handy political phrases when you don’t know where you are.
I’m not on twitter, but followed a link, and got a notice from them that Safari is no longer supported on twitter. WTF? How can they just write them off? Figuring they will get all Apple people to switch?
re: #122 gwangung
I most certainly did. But you’re not thinking straight. You named a number that was irrelevant. You needed to get to 60. And it’s stupid to think that people weren’t arm twisting people in their own caucus to do so.
They need 60 for cloture and then 51 to pass the actual bill. He is saying he wonders if arms couldn’t have been twisted to get cloture and then let them vote the way they want on actual passage.
re: #126 retired cynic
You can download Chrome on your iPhone.
“Napoleon’s hat is in the ring” “Wound my heart with monotonous langour.”
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) September 1, 2020
re: #129 nines09
You can download Chrome on your iPhone.
I have Chrome on my computer, but hate it. It’s a memory hog. I will do without twitter. Just don’t see what they have to gain but hacking people off.
re: #131 retired cynic
Try Opera or Mozilla.
I use Mozilla on my iPhone for LGF
Firefox I use for LGF.
WHERE’S MY CAR?
Theory: If 9/11 had happened under Trump, he would have launched nukes in response.
re: #132 nines09
Try Opera or Mozilla.
Haven’t tried Opera, but don’t like Mozilla either. I’ll do without twitter.
re: #132 nines09
Try Opera or Mozilla.
My FireFox has been useless for playing twitter embeds for some weeks. I thought it was a bad upgrade, but I’ve learned to live with it.
re: #127 danarchy
They need 60 for cloture and then 51 to pass the actual bill. He is saying he wonders if arms couldn’t have been twisted to get cloture and then let them vote the way they want on actual passage.
Yes, but you still needed that 60 for cloture. I’m saying that this is Politics 110, some basic maneuvering that’s obvious and done all the time, and seems a little silly to wonder that if they actually tried such an elementary tactic (particularly with Lieberman who had all the leverage in the world to tell the party to fuck off; Dems had nothing to twist with him).
re: #135 Decatur Deb
My FireFox has been useless for playing twitter embeds for some weeks. I thought it was a bad upgrade, but I’ve learned to live with it.
The odd thing is, twitter has been working on Safari for me. And it worked today, after I clicked off the warning. Self-defeating purity, IMO.
re: #124 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Man, Person, Reince, Elephant.
Person
Woman
Man
An airplane full of black-clad ninjas secretly controlling Joe Biden but I can’t explain because it’s a secret investigation and definitely not something I just made up
TV— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 1, 2020
re: #131 retired cynic
I have Chrome on my computer, but hate it. It’s a memory hog. I will do without twitter. Just don’t see what they have to gain but hacking people off.
Chrome on my computer was becoming unusable. But other browsers, like FireFox, didn’t work much better. Eventually, I replaced my hard drive with an SSDD, and that’s worked out.
re: #135 Decatur Deb
Uninstall. Reinstall.
I’ve found that to be the fix for a lot of glitches.
I’m the guy at Antifa who’s been buying airplane tickets for traveling regional theater productions of 12 Angry Men, so they can fly around the country dressed in black to fuck with Trump’s head.
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) September 1, 2020
And that civil suit is gonna slap yo!
— david (@DavidVilly74) September 1, 2020
Speaking of sleeping in a car,
The Trump administration left children — separated from their parents — overnight in cars in the heat of summer.
The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated. We’re still in the courts fighting DHS’ horrifying family separation practices. https://t.co/ftFoaVE6Nm— ACLU (@ACLU) September 1, 2020
Please vote her out.
BREAKING: Senator Collins clarifies her position on President Trump. “Yes, I said that I wouldn’t endorse him but that doesn’t mean I don’t fully support him.” https://t.co/fcWokcwMHR
— PAULUS V (@PAULUSV3) September 1, 2020
re: #143 jaunte
The reunifications weren’t “botched”. These people did EXACTLY what they wanted to do to these kids.
re: #143 jaunte
Speaking of sleeping in a car,
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re: #123 Interesting Times
Related:
One time I read a tweet that said Reince Priebus sounds like Scooby Doo trying to say nice penis and… honestly life hasn’t been the same ever since.
— HubbaBubbaGrape (@treywindon) September 1, 2020
re: #107 JC1
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Did you even read what I wrote?
re: #122 gwangung
I most certainly did. But you’re not thinking straight. You named a number that was irrelevant. You needed to get to 60. And it’s stupid to think that people weren’t arm twisting people in their own caucus to do so.
re: #127 danarchy
They need 60 for cloture and then 51 to pass the actual bill. He is saying he wonders if arms couldn’t have been twisted to get cloture and then let them vote the way they want on actual passage.
But that was the thing: everyone knew at that point that the 60-vote threshold for cloture was the actual battle, while the 50-vote threshold to actually pass the bill was basically academic afterwards if it managed to get there. There weren’t many at that point that were going to vote FOR cloture but AGAINST the bill if it gave any more than we had. It took every bit of maneuvering to get what we got to begin with. I mean, the GOP made amendments that they explicitly made to vote against, just to performatively show how much they refused to budge. And I’m pretty sure the Dem leadership understood this all too well, which is exactly why the last stage of negotiations were almost exclusively with the conservative edge of the Dem caucus.
And don’t forget just how many Dems in Congress ended up running explicitly AGAINST both Obama and the ACA thinking it’d help their political fortunes (it didn’t, which is why the Blue Dog caucus is all but wiped out at this point, regardless of what lefter-than-thou types like to claim). If we could have stemmed the bleeding in 2010 and keep Congress, I have no doubt in my mind that we could have had a go at expanding what we got for the ACA in 2013. But there’s the whole problem of folks believing that presidential elections are the extent of political engagement for voters, and we’re seeing just how problematic that mindset is becoming.
re: #136 gwangung
Yes, but you still needed that 60 for cloture. I’m saying that this is Politics 110, some basic maneuvering that’s obvious and done all the time, and seems a little silly to wonder that if they actually tried such an elementary tactic (particularly with Lieberman who had all the leverage in the world to tell the party to fuck off; Dems had nothing to twist with him).
I wonder if there were 51 votes to nuke the fillibuster. Back in 2008 it may have been a step too far, though now people are talking about it like a necessity if Dems retake the Senate.
I still say that it was a failure of leadership, or the outcome was one that Obama actually wanted.
Obama was far more centrist then the right wing caricature, but also far more centrist than many on the left would like to believe (I voted for him twice, bit I’m not wearing rose colored glasses). Sure he was better than McCain 2008 version and better than Romney.
ACA was Romney care.
Remind me again how many bankers were even prosecuted after 2008? Geitner at the Treasury? Lol
It’s amazing how nothing can be done to get votes unless it’s a bill that transfers huge amounts of money to the .1%
And Obama made the most egregious part of Bush’s tax cuts permanent (long term cap gains rate on dividends). He literally only had to do nothing and the rates would have reverted back. Can’t blame Lieberman for that one.
OK, enough airing of grievances; let’s get Biden elected.
re: #108 Belafon
I do like how we’re rehashing 2010. It’s been a while.
well, everything we know and love in America was destroyed back then, you know…
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NO SOUP FOR YOU!
I somehow missed the President’s extended monologue last month on the use of soup as a deadly protest weapon. “Big bags of soup.” https://t.co/f5Tpsk7D9u pic.twitter.com/sCjGDzbWzv
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) September 1, 2020
Anyone who says Team Biden doesn’t know how to do politics is not paying attention.
the Biden campaign just announced an event with @karliekloss, who is an outspoken Democrat, but also happens to be Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s sister in law
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) September 1, 2020
This is Trump’s America https://t.co/xokB6jL0oR
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 1, 2020
re: #154 makeitstop
Anyone who says Team Biden doesn’t know how to do politics is not paying attention.
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Christmas and Thanksgiving must really blow.
re: #144 Patricia Kayden
Please vote her out.
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Do you really think she gave any thought to that remark? She’s getting drug by the opposition because she insists upon supporting the man.
re: #155 The Pie Overlord!
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“We know this burned down on Trump’s watch, but Biden is totally responsible! VOTE TRUMP!!!”
re: #154 makeitstop
Anyone who says Team Biden doesn’t know how to do politics is not paying attention.
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They’ve been underestimated this entire time.
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Christmas and Thanksgiving must really blow.
You’d have to pay me a fucking fortune to attend a Trump family Thanksgiving.
A FORTUNE.
re: #158 Targetpractice
“We know this burned down on Trump’s watch, but Biden is totally responsible! VOTE TRUMP!!!”
Seriously it’s illogical bullshit.
The Biden team continue to show the sort of subtlety and deviousness that the Bernie campaign would never have been able to come up with on even a good day.
There is nothing like people throwing a fit about masks, oh so hard to manage, blah blah blah, when this baby copes just fine.
Good morning fellow Nigerians, there’s something to learn from this baby man. Wear your mask always, if you must eat, take a bite and protect yourself immediately. #COVID19 is real, stay at home and stay alive.
Vid Credit: @PDChina #Kano #NCDC #alafin #kwam1 #bisi pic.twitter.com/SYYCAIijDy— Olorunshola Emmanuel (@iamimanuel) April 16, 2020
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
You’d have to pay me a fucking fortune to attend a Trump family Thanksgiving.
A FORTUNE.
The LULZ would be something.
re: #162 Targetpractice
The Biden team continue to show the sort of subtlety and deviousness that the Bernie campaign would never have been able to come up with on even a good day.
Bernie would just be treating this like a class reductionist race. And Trump’s red baiting would be working and Democrats would have to defend why our nominee honeymooned in the USSR.
Bill barr is a lying disgrace whose word isn’t worth a nickel. Barr should be impeached and then stripped of his personal law licenses for life. #ImpeachBarr #DisbarBarr https://t.co/TG9FqL03q1
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) September 1, 2020
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I gave up on a gay Republican friend who continues to spout easily-refuted GOP talking points.
Maybe if I suck up to them they won’t send me to the death camp first?
A postal worker in West Virginia today told me #USPS delays are still a problem and he hears complaints “from a lot of Trump supporters.”
“One guy in a Trump hat at my office said, ‘I’ll bet that postmaster general is a Democrat.” I said, ‘Do I have some news for you, buddy.’”— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 1, 2020
re: #168 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Haha oh those poor Trump cultists. They’ll never know.
Conservatives when gutting campaign finance laws: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Conservatives when George Soros donates millions to liberal candidates: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck? https://t.co/HAh2FZ6Owp— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 1, 2020
re: #135 Decatur Deb
My FireFox has been useless for playing twitter embeds for some weeks. I thought it was a bad upgrade, but I’ve learned to live with it.
Firefox as of late has some odd issues. Probably the most annoying one is on my primary gaming machine that I built about a year ago.
Browse streaming videos — and about 15 minutes in, my system does a warm reboot.
re: #165 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bernie would just be treating this like a class reductionist race. And Trump’s red baiting would be working and Democrats would have to defend why our nominee honeymooned in the USSR.
The biggest issue with Bernie is that he’d be mirroring Trump’s play, working on trying to fire up the party’s “progressive” flank than bringing in dissatisfied voters. It would have been far easier for Trump to pin any violence on Bernie, whose staff would have happily embraced such even if Sanders himself denounced it.
re: #70 SerialUpDinger
Something, not news-related or even Trump-related but involving relationships.
Today, on the 20th anniversary of the death of my birth mother, quite out of the blue, I received a call from a long-lost sister. My last memory of her was from 1964 when she and another sister were removed from the house where we lived and placed into foster care. As the eldest of five children, born to parents who were woefully unprepared to handle their lives — much less five children under the age of six — I lived a life consumed by hunger, dread, and grief by learning to survive without parents to guide and care for us. Shortly thereafter, a sister passed away due to rheumatoid arthritis. The death hit our home quite hard, parents divorced, we (remaining sister and I) were placed into the foster care system. A coupled of months into our stay we were returned to our father — in six weeks time, he found a woman and got married. Our newly redefined family moved into a house together and put a lid on our previous lives and memories. No words were spoken about the two siblings who were taken away and a fading of discussions about the sister who passed. Life went on.Our birth mother moved away when I was 8, and we never saw her again. Flash forward to 2001 and at my wife’s urging, I looked up my birth mothers’ info on the internet. Her last name was unique enough that she was the only name that popped up during a search of birth records. So weird to see the names of all the siblings in one place. Sadly, she had passed away the previous year. She turned her life around and passed away after having lived a stable family life with her husband and son from her last marriage. A feeling of rejection (she never mentioned the fact that she had five children to her family) was replaced with happiness for her having found some solace in this life.
During this phone call, I found that the two sisters were adopted into a loving family and the path their lives was a much better one. She had waited until her parents were gone before looking for the big brother who picked her up out of the playpen. So odd to be the focus of someone else’s earliest memories. We had a nice talk — emotional sometimes — now look forward to meeting in Covid-19 world.
One more mystery solved!
What a nice surprise. I wish you and your family well.
re: #170 Ace-o-aces
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re: #170 Ace-o-aces
Wow. That is one batshit crazy “report” from OANN.
Hmmm
Elliott Broidy’s business partner Nickie Mali Lum Davis
just pleaded guilty to one charge of lobbying without registering, and will not be charged further if she forfeits $3 million in proceeds from the offense
Broidy was paid at least $9 millionhttps://t.co/v7ACAD4jYB— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) September 1, 2020
re: #177 gwangung
Hmph. Fines are just a cost of doing business.
Fuck fines. I want real, actual and long prison sentences.
JUST IN, FOLKS 📣 @CNN named South Carolina as one of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in November!https://t.co/ZYHdHGOw0i
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) September 1, 2020
re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Fuck fines. I want real, actual and long prison sentences.
Well, that’s what I meant. I think I used up my quota of “fucks” for today.
I saw the discussion about the ACA upthread and while most of the major points were already brought up, I wanted to add one: The ACA was constantly presented by Repubs as a “trojan horse” that was going to lead to single-payer unless they did everything could to oppose it. Half the party insisted that the law was designed to fail, which Democrats who then capitalize upon to say that half-measures were insufficient and they needed to implement single-payer. The other half insisted that the law would prove so popular that voters would insist it be expanded until it was single-payer.
And yes, the public option was the most prominent casualty of such, as Repubs portrayed it as a “backdoor” to single-payer which would price plans so low that private insurers would be unable to compete and ultimately would become “mandatory.”
!@#$%^&*()_
U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine, WaPo, long and with receipts for what this could mean.
Today is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day! We are facing an unprecedented shortage of poll workers, but you can be part of the solution. Head to https://t.co/70gHiVzDaT to save granny, protect democracy + get paid to do it! pic.twitter.com/dmVoxV79qL
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 1, 2020
… [I]n the many jurisdictions offering early in-person voting for days or weeks prior to Election Day, the need for volunteers is even greater. Public health and elections experts are increasingly urging voters to take advantage of early options to reduce crowding on Election Day, but to make that happen, America needs more poll workers…
We definitely don’t want Trump’s people to be the only ones monitoring early voting.
The fool doth protest too much, methinks:
Trump campaign accuses @joelockhart of claiming the president had a stroke and calls on @CNN to fire him.
“If another CNN employee said similar things about Barack Obama they’d be fired immediately.” pic.twitter.com/4VGzhc4Xmo— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) September 1, 2020
I can’t stop laughing at trumps demand that cnn fire @joelockhart. The people who call everybody snowflakes really are some sniveling little chickenshits aren’t they?
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 1, 2020
“HE NEVER HAD A STROKE AND WE DEMAND YOU FIRE ANYBODY WHO SAID HE DID BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED!!!”
re: #183 retired cynic
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U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine, WaPo, long and with receipts for what this could mean.
Fuck tat paywalled shit,
“Why won’t the media talk about how Biden is going senile? Why won’t they demand he come out of his basement? The people need to know!”
“A soon-to-be-published book will allege that Trump may have suffered mini-strokes last winter…”
“TOTAL LIES! HOW DARE THE MEDIA QUESTION MY HEALTH?! THEY HAVE NO RIGHT! I’LL SUE!!!!”
re: #189 John Hughes
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Fuck tat paywalled shit,
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re: #37 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
Since his elder male spawn often mimic it, I’d say it’s some sort of weird alpha male stance that they think makes them look like they’re in charge instead of ready to topple over.
“pick’s disease posture”
—@AdyBarkan: “If the U.S. discovers a vaccine first, will you commit to sharing that technology with other countries?”
—@JoeBiden: “Absolutely, positively. This is the only humane thing in the world to do.” https://t.co/0M8dniJOKD pic.twitter.com/6Flx7ydeIX— Matt Hodges (@hodgesmr) September 1, 2020
This Trump double down is delicious. Screaming all day I DIDNT HAVE A STROKE is super convincing. Keep going, invisible plane guy!
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 1, 2020
re: #189 John Hughes
Fuck tat paywalled shit,
The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved, a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic and the country’s role in health diplomacy.
More than 170 countries are in talks to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, which aims to speed vaccine development and secure doses for all countries and distribute them to the most high-risk segment of each population.
The plan, which is co-led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, the vaccine alliance, was of interest to some members of the Trump administration and is backed by traditional U.S. allies, including Japan, Germany and the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
But the United States will not participate, in part because the White House does not want to work with the WHO, which President Trump has criticized over what he characterized as its “China-centric” response to the pandemic.
“The United States will continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat this virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China,” said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the White House.
The Covax decision, which has not been previously reported, is effectively a doubling down by the administration on its bet that the United States will win the vaccine race. It eliminates the chance to secure doses from a pool of promising vaccine candidates — a potentially risky strategy.
“America is taking a huge gamble by taking a go-it-alone strategy,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University.
Kendall Hoyt, an assistant professor at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, said it was akin to opting out of an insurance policy.
re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg
Straight dude here. I don’t find Ivanka attractive in the slightest. She’s got a weird “Stepford Wife” thing going on.
100% agree. Even if I didn’t know she’s a trump - zero attraction. To my eyes, it’s sort of an uncanny valley thing.
re: #198 Belafon
Somebody’s got to pay David Fahrenthold’s paycheck.
I thought there covid stuff was free.
Due to what is trending on Twitter, thought it would be a good moment to post this photo of the original Antifa HQ in Berlin, Germany, 1932. pic.twitter.com/uDDOENSbXZ
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) September 1, 2020
re: #183 retired cynic
Trump continuing to wall the rest of us in, away from the world.
Elliott Broidy, who ordered a @MichaelCohen212 mistress-hush-money special, was a Vice Chair of the RNC, and major Trump donor, is about to be indicted by DOJ. pic.twitter.com/BkpP24eBZi
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) September 1, 2020
Considering how much mileage the Trump campaign got out of questioning Hillary’s health in 2016 and how they’ve tried to replicate that with rumor about Biden’s health, the media really should be telling them to fuck off with this “outrage” over questions about Donny’s health.
re: #192 I Would Prefer Not To
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re: #62 Decatur Deb
I lost face today—about a square centimeter of cheek gouged out by the dermatologist. Baja Alabama is one of the places that claim to be The Skin Cancer Capital of the Country.
For biopsy, or was it already identified as a melanoma?
I lost a little more than a square centimeter on my back, up near my right shoulder. That led to losing a 9cm x 15cm chunk of my back. All the way down. When I got my staples out and managed to rip the healed wound open the next day, it was a fairly unattractive sight.
White women: If you think Donald Trump’s armed supporters will protect you and your family from *crime,* a reminder that they’re not just racist and bigoted - they’re misogynists, too.
As @MsPackyetti said, “Your whiteness will not save you from what patriarchy has for you.”— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 31, 2020
Due to what is trending on Twitter, thought it would be a good moment to post this photo of the original Antifa HQ in Berlin, Germany, 1932. pic.twitter.com/uDDOENSbXZ
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) September 1, 2020
re: #189 John Hughes
(unpaywalled)
The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine, in part because the World Health Organization is involved, a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic and the country’s role in health diplomacy.
More than 170 countries are in talks to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, which aims to speed vaccine development and secure doses for all countries and distribute them to the most high-risk segment of each population.
The plan, which is co-led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, the vaccine alliance, was of interest to some members of the Trump administration and is backed by traditional U.S. allies, including Japan, Germany and the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
Three 6.x earthquakes in Chile in the last hour.
Gonna swing by Antifa HQ, you need anything? pic.twitter.com/O1owKuirlP
— Danny Neary (@itsdannyneary) September 1, 2020
Joe Biden is going to gain a lot of international goodwill when he rejoins the paris climate thingy and agrees to work with WHO (and pay our dues). He can also say NATO is cool and we are keeping troops in Germany and doing exercises with S. Korean forces.
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They’re pledging to “protect” white women for the same reason they get upset when a business gets burned down: They view them as property and worry that some black man is gonna come along and do something horrible to them.
They worry that they might like a black man better because he treats them better.
re: #212 I Would Prefer Not To
Joe Biden is going to gain a lot of international goodwill when he rejoins the paris climate thingy and agrees to work with WHO (and pay our dues). He can also say NATO is cool and we are keeping troops in Germany and doing exercises with S. Korean forces.
To a chorus of screams from wingnuts that he’s “surrendering” American sovereignty to foreign entities.
re: #216 Targetpractice
Unlike all the Trumpworld non-declared foreign agents.
They’re all crooks https://t.co/To93xkHNIY
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) September 1, 2020
re: #95 Belafon
Based on the makeup of the Democrats and Republicans in office, yes, it was the biggest thing that could be passed. They had to get one Republican, Collins, just to get it to the point where they could vote to pass it.
Collins didn’t vote for ACA; they had their 60 by then.
Collins was the 60th vote for the recovery act (Franken hadn’t been seated yet).
That was the Feb 2009 stimulus to save the banks and the auto industry and cities that would otherwise have to layoff cops and firefighters, plus some money for renewable energy, etc.
re: #118 The Pie Overlord!
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Oh looky looky at presstitute Marky Mark Halpern smiling right there in the front!
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Based on a lot of FB activity I monitor from old school acquaintances, a lot of middle aged and older white women are so indoctrinated in White Entitlement and embittered with their lot in life that they wish for the romanticized version of patriarchy brought to the screen by such classics as Gone With the Wind and other such revisionist trash. Trump and his merry band of racist trash represent their best hope of either pulling them out of their despair or heaping their misery upon everyone else.
They are evil and they are part of the 35%.
re: #197 Jebediah, RBG
100% agree. Even if I didn’t know she’s a trump - zero attraction. To my eyes, it’s sort of an uncanny valley thing.
Hey, she paid good money to look that fake!
Right alongside his tax returns.
— Susan McBride (@SuzMcBrideBooks) September 1, 2020
re: #197 Jebediah, RBG
100% agree. Even if I didn’t know she’s a trump - zero attraction. To my eyes, it’s sort of an uncanny valley thing.
I was thinking “uncanny valley” literally a fraction of a second before I read your response. GMTA, and so do we, apparently.
re: #123 Interesting Times
So “Reince” seems to be trending on twitter. This is why:
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Reince and repeat.
re: #212 I Would Prefer Not To
Joe Biden is going to gain a lot of international goodwill when he rejoins the paris climate thingy and agrees to work with WHO (and pay our dues). He can also say NATO is cool and we are keeping troops in Germany and doing exercises with S. Korean forces.
He really is. It’s going to be nice to have a President who is respected again.
re: #212 I Would Prefer Not To
Joe Biden is going to gain a lot of international goodwill when he rejoins the paris climate thingy and agrees to work with WHO (and pay our dues). He can also say NATO is cool and we are keeping troops in Germany and doing exercises with S. Korean forces.
He’ll get a Nobel Prize for the achievement of being not!Trump.
re: #205 Jebediah, RBG
For biopsy, or was it already identified as a melanoma?
I lost a little more than a square centimeter on my back, up near my right shoulder. That led to losing a 9cm x 15cm chunk of my back. All the way down. When I got my staples out and managed to rip the healed wound open the next day, it was a fairly unattractive sight.
Confirmed. It was a squamous cell baddie. This is the second time my doc cured me of cancer. He plays a mean klezmer clarinet for a goy.
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