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Need some Ghost Note now. Sounds like studio they so good.
And.. ya know.
ISIS leaders are smart and tough.
US military leaders are losers and babies.
Trump is a traitor. https://t.co/pFLNdCeBZp— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 10, 2020
Well done, Republicans.
https://t.co/iXz4fSm92N— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) September 10, 2020
I posted about Trump’s fundraising woes a few days back and noted the Trump campaign had not released its August numbers. Well, there’s a reason for that.
Those numbers *sucked*. Trump raised $210 million to Biden’s $365 million.
This on top of Trump burning through $800 million, pulling back on TV commercials and other campaign actions makes me think they don’t have a whole lot of money sitting around.
In their respective announcements, neither side said how much cash it has on hand for the election’s stretch run. We’ll get more details on Sept. 20, which is the next filing deadline for Federal Election Commission reports.
I can tell you that the Biden campaign is texting me at least twice a day and I got two calls on my land line from the Biden Victory Fund today, which I let roll to voicemail. They’ll get more money but not quite yet.
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (R-Ameritrade) reading the room in light of today’s news about Bob Woodward and Donald Trump.
Ricketts eases coronavirus restrictions for most of Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald, five minutes ago)
LINCOLN — Gov. Pete Ricketts announced steps Wednesday that should allow a return to near normal across most of Nebraska.
The governor said all counties, except Lancaster, will be in a Phase 4 directed health measure as of Monday. Twenty-seven were already in that phase.
That phase limits the size of indoor gatherings but drops all other state-imposed mandates, including restrictions on restaurants, bars, gyms, child care centers, salons, weddings and funerals. Those entities are encouraged to follow voluntary guidelines to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus.
Locally imposed mask mandates in Omaha and Lincoln will remain in place, however. Both require people to wear face coverings in most indoor public spaces where they are not able to maintain 6 feet of social distance. There are several exceptions.
Ricketts did not elaborate about his reasons for the change at a press conference. His spokesman, Taylor Gage, pointed to the governor’s past comments about taking steps to slowing the spread of the coronavirus in order to keep enough hospital beds and ventilators available for those who need them.
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Lancaster County is the county with the state capital (Lincoln).
sitting here at my keyboard trying to grasp all of the implications that have been dropped today…
firstly and kind of overlooked is that today the Counter Intelligence folks dropped word today that they have proof that not only did the Russians penetrate our electorial system, they can pinpoint two counties in Florida that were penetrated and that votes may have been actually altered. So, if they could have done that there… were other locations affected? Was the 2016 election actually compromised? Considering the margin of victory in certain states, it needs to be asked….
Now we come to the revelations that Trump knew exactly how bad the Corona-19 virus was, and his reactions/responses to it reveal his character more clearly than ever before. Certain voices in the media pass it off as if he didn’t understand or is too stupid to have known what was coming and the tapes reveal he knew very well what was coming.
His response in protecting what matters the most to him are equally revealing.. of utmost importance was his polling numbers and secondarily was in keeping the folks on Wall Street profitable… You and I are apparently outside of those calculations, and anything that doesn’t service him and his image is of no consequence.
What we need to know now, is based on Trump’s history, he has a damned difficult time keeping his trap shut about things that should not be talked about, so now I want to know that while he certainly is unworthy of being in office a single additional day, what about the rest of his administration? What about the GOP itself, who else knew? We already have an understanding that these guys would in no way consult with the Dems, on any fucking thing, certainly not in any act of potential bipartisanship, one they’ve long promoted themselves as not needing any help and their base would come unglued.
I think we already suspect how far the rot runs, but like most folks I want to know before I condemn, but if the GOP was just as complicit in this charade as the Administration and felt compelled to sacrifice your local doc, nurses, grocery shelf stockers as well as your kids and family for the sake of THIS guy, then if they end up on pikes I would shed nary a fucking tear.
Sept 11 will be particularly intolerable this year, as conservatives solemnly pretend to care about 3,000 dead Americans. They can fuck right off.
— Elon Green (@elongreen) September 10, 2020
Friday is going to be hard for many people. We have to reconcile the 3,000 people who Died For Our Sins on 9/11, whom the Republicans will promote ad nauseum, AND the 200,000 who also died for our recent sins. The latter will be purposely forgotten.
re: #7 piratedan
At this point I can see other countries opening investigations into the United States, and Donald Trump’s and the GOP’s response specifically.
They might be able to stonewall with Bill Barr in the DOJ, but they can’t stonewall other nations’ investigations into whether Trump or the GOP was engaged in a genocide.
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At this point I can see other countries opening investigations into the United States, and Donald Trump’s and the GOP’s response specifically.
They might be able to stonewall with Bill Barr in the DOJ, but they can’t stonewall other nations’ investigations into whether Trump or the GOP was engaged in a genocide.
Of course they can stonewall.
“We have denied visas to UN investigators.”
They’ve already done that.
re: #5 mmmirele
I posted about Trump’s fundraising woes a few days back and noted the Trump campaign had not released its August numbers. Well, there’s a reason for that.
Those numbers *sucked*. Trump raised $210 million to Biden’s $365 million.
This on top of Trump burning through $800 million, pulling back on TV commercials and other campaign actions makes me think they don’t have a whole lot of money sitting around.
I can tell you that the Biden campaign is texting me at least twice a day and I got two calls on my land line from the Biden Victory Fund today, which I let roll to voicemail. They’ll get more money but not quite yet.
And Sheldon Adleson has cut trump off. He’s pissed that trump has cost him billions in casino revenue.
Womp womp.
re: #7 piratedan
firstly and kind of overlooked is that today the Counter Intelligence folks dropped word today that they have proof that not only did the Russians penetrate our electorial system, they can pinpoint two counties in Florida that were penetrated and that votes may have been actually altered. So, if they could have done that there… were other locations affected? Was the 2016 election actually compromised? Considering the margin of victory in certain states, it needs to be asked….
And how much is still in place? That system used in Florida is used around the nation.
A new program in Denver that sends a paramedic+a mental health expert to 911 calls instead of police launched amid calls for alternatives to policing. So far, the van has taken more than 350 calls without once having to call in police backup: https://t.co/GWuTXfT6M8
— Elise Schmelzer (@EliseSchmelzer) September 8, 2020
Man saves a baby swan while it’s mom is being a mama..
Thank you.. Not all heroes wear capes.. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/RB3D7vr7Py— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 9, 2020
I’m dying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
On Cameo - Joe Arpaio welcomed a furry convention to Arizona. Hours later, he learned what it was… pic.twitter.com/eAkvKKOxW7
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 10, 2020
A Furry Convention.
2020, y’all…https://t.co/YaRrA2gVbB
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 10, 2020
oh @clairecmc just has no fucks left.pic.twitter.com/v7plxCNHop
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 9, 2020
Lre: #15 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m dying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Sparky Arpaio. He’s a bad boy who will hump your leg.
LMFAOOO why am I so corny, I’m legit weak asf pic.twitter.com/Nfp88rZ2xf
— Megan’s Twerk Wind (@OhYeahItsG) September 9, 2020
Pence is all in: Pence set to appear at fundraiser hosted by QAnon supporters - Axios #PenceKnew https://t.co/UV8AXKVM6y
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) September 10, 2020
re: #21 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
They’ve gone full Q.
They have been Q for awhile, just not openly.
re: #22 I Would Prefer Not To
They have been Q for awhile, just not openly.
Taylor-Greene in Congress. Man. We have a lot of work to do even if Biden wins big.
Breaking extremely local news:
I FIXED MY WEATHER LIVE TILE IN THE START MENU
It only took me about eight months of searching for answers on the Web. It’s flipping again and showing the current weather forecast.
I must have gone through fifty computer blogs (all written in some foreign programmer’s language) plus Microsoft’s user blogs (where there are thousands of complaints about this problem but not one answer).
I finally ran across a blog tonight where the fellow describes the problem and how to fix it, with pictures and really small words.
Thanks, Dave.
There’s always a tweet, as the kids say nowadays.
“I’m taking this book with a grain of salt & everyone should do the same. Multiple sources, but almost every one of them has come out and discredited the claims made by Woodward. You cannot take this book too seriously.” Katelyn Caralle, Washington Examiner
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2018
— NY_WOMAN🗽 #RESIST 😷😷 (@99rose_99) September 10, 2018
I’m off to watch “Dark Shadows.”
To overhaul the Senate, @BenSasse calls for (among other things) abolishing cameras, dumping committees, limiting senators to one 12-year term, and this: “Senators should live, eat, and meet in dormitories when the Senate is in session.” https://t.co/EZyormBTyj
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) September 9, 2020
What if Senators just upheld their oaths? Say, when presented with a President abusing their power? You wouldn’t even need an overhaul - just people of character. Maybe start there @BenSasse https://t.co/ERPNd9MquP
— PostFactTim (@PostFactSojourn) September 9, 2020
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m off to watch “Dark Shadows.”
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Well, I have a better Congressional reform proposal
House of Representatives:
Increase the size of the House from 435 to 1250
Each state has a minimum of 3 representatives.
Congressional districts are drawn by nonpartisan commissions and if the commission cannot agree on a map the state defaults to using proportional representation.
250 members elected nationally at large using proportional representation with a 5% threshold.
Senate:
Expand the size of the Senate to 3 from each state with a Senate election every 2 years in each state.
Additional 100 members elected nationally at large using proportional representation with a 5% threshold.
re: #28 🌹UOJB!
Well, I have a better Congressional reform proposal
House of Representatives:
Increase the size of the House from 435 to 1250
Each state has a minimum of 3 representatives.
Congressional districts are drawn by nonpartisan commissions and if the commission cannot agree on a map the state defaults to using proportional representation.
250 members elected nationally at large using proportional representation with a 5% threshold.Senate:
Expand the size of the Senate to 3 from each state with a Senate election every 2 years in each state.
Additional 100 members elected nationally at large using proportional representation with a 5% threshold.
Your Congressional reform proposal does require several Constitutional amendments:
>> Increasing the number of senators per state
>> Having at-large representatives or senators
>> Specifying a minimum of 3 representatives per state
Expanding the number of representatives can be accomplished through legislation.
In general, Ben Sasse’s proposal is ridiculous. What is wrong with this man? But his idea for housing for senators (and representatives) may actually make sense — that could provide free accommodations for legislators so that they wouldn’t have the financial burden of maintaining two residences. Offering communal dining facilities may encourage people to talk to each other.
Now — his proposal for dormitories may
The congressional dormitory idea sounds like Christian wingnut Sen. Sasse wants to stay with the Family Christofascists over on C Street.
McConnell knew in January.
But a month later he told the American people we were not facing an immediate crisis.
190K dead. Millions of jobs lost. Children left behind. No plan in sight.@senatemajldr: What did you know and when?
And why didn’t you ACT? pic.twitter.com/1iGAmdeMK6— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) September 10, 2020
The tropical Atlantic is getting busier. The wave off the Carolinas is expected to move ashore in North Carolina tomorrow, and time for it to develop is running out.
A wave east of The Bahamas is forecast to move across Florida and start developing as soon as it emerges over the Gulf of Mexico.
The wave over the border of Senegal and Guinea is about to emerge over the eastern Atlantic and is expected to develop immediately. The five-day outlook has it moving most of the way across the Atlantic and possibly becoming a threat to the Windward Islands.
The two tropical storms in the central Atlantic at the moment are only a threat to shipping.
NOAA Five-Day Tropical Atlantic Outlook map and details.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The congressional dormitory idea sounds like Christian wingnut Sen. Sasse wants to stay with the Family Christofascists over on C Street.
Dormitories don’t work — but what about an alternative like the better senior living facilities which provide a full apartment plus cafeterias and “restaurants” where residents can get together for meals? It’s costly to maintain a home in your district plus separate accommodations in DC. It’s a challenge for citizens of more modest means to run for office and this could alleviate some financial burdens.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
Dormitories don’t work — but what about an alternative like the better senior living facilities which provide a full apartment plus cafeterias and “restaurants” where residents can get together for meals? It’s costly to maintain a home in your district plus separate accommodations in DC. It’s a challenge for citizens of more modest means to run for office and this could alleviate some financial burdens.
Well, all of Sen. Sasse’s idea is a problem.
No cameras in the Senate? You don’t get to see what your government is doing.
No committees? There have been committees since the first Congress. Committees dividing the work more efficient and effective.
Nowhere in Sen. Sasse’s proposal is the idea of removing dark funding from congressional races.
A single twelve-year term means a senator would not be beholden to voters. Once elected the senator could ignore the voters for twelve years.
As for dormitories, any senator wealthy enough (or connected enough) will have the money to live on their own. It’s a path to bribery.
The only real way to reform the Senate is to abolish it.
It’s very hard to let go of the past.
And that applies to national polity too.
The Senate as construed originally in the US Constitution was intentionally anti-democratic. It was created to perpetuate the power structure of the colonies.
It is obsolete and each year into the 21st century shows that more and more.
Sure, having a senior body to do oversight is fine and all political structures need that. But that does not mean such a body should be involved in legislating laws or allocating revenues or voting on political appointees.
But Americans are very religious, and transfer their religious feelings of reverence (mostly to the Bible for fundamentalist Protestants, or to historical institutions for other theists) to the US Constitution, as if it is somehow inerrant and unchangeable.
But it was designed to be change.
And it needs some radical updating.
BREAK: Warning shot fired by US Democrats on #Brexit @SpeakerPelosi
“If the U.K. violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord, there will be absolutely no chance of a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement passing the Congress.”— Darren McCaffrey (@DarrenEuronews) September 9, 2020
“If the U.K. violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord, there will be absolutely no chance of a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement passing the Congress.”
Boris seems to think that Ireland will be fine with a hard border.
In fact they should have one, involving the Irish Sea and not an arbitrary line across NE Ireland.
re: #36 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s very hard to let go of the past.
And that applies to national polity too.
The Senate as construed originally in the US Constitution was intentionally anti-democratic. It was created to perpetuate the power structure of the colonies.
It is obsolete and each year into the 21st century shows that more and more.
Sure, having a senior body to do oversight is fine and all political structures need that. But that does not mean such a body should be involved in legislating laws or allocating revenues or voting on political appointees.
But Americans are very religious, and transfer their religious feelings of reverence (mostly to the Bible for fundamentalist Protestants, or to historical institutions for other theists) to the US Constitution, as if it is somehow inerrant and unchangeable.
But it was designed to be change.
And it needs some radical updating.
Nebraska abolished its own Senate many years ago. The argument at the time was it cost too much money to run two houses of the state legislature. The state constitution was changed to create today’s unicameral legislature (where the legislators are called senators, but districts are approximately equal in population).
We just blew through “Dark Shadows” episode 700, in the middle of the Quentin Collins the Victorian ghost werewolf haunting Collinwood story arc.
The description of the episode at Dark Shadows Everyday has something of interest in the cultural insensitivity department.
Professor Stokes (the professor in Collinsport who seems to be a professor of arcane knowledge and the occult) has found Quentin dabbled in the iChing, so Barnabas will use that to travel back to 1897 to learn more about Quentin when he was alive.
The description contains this part:
Professor Stokes introduces the iChing, Apple’s new disruptive divination technology.
Episode 700: I Ching the Body Electric
Stokes: It is the oldest known book of divination and mysticism, written in China long before the time of Confucius. It is also the most dangerous.
Barnabas: Why do you say that?
Stokes: Because it is the least understood. Even Confucius, with all his wisdom, could not master it. So, Quentin Collins practiced I Ching… and I would guess his motives were anything but pure.
Barnabas: Is this some kind of black magic?
That happens to be one of my all-time favorite lines in Dark Shadows, because it’s such a delirious, slap-happy moment of late 60s cultural insensitivity.
I mean, imagine if Professor Stokes reached into Quentin’s desk, said “Good Lord,” and then pulled out a Chanukah menorah.
The Professor turns to Barnabas, his face ashen. “Have you ever heard of Chanukah?” he asks. Barnabas has not.
“This is a menorah. It is one of the oldest artifacts of the Jewish faith, inspired by a rebellion in the 1st century BC. It is also the most dangerous.”
“Why do you say that?” Barnabas asks.
“Because it is the least understood. The ancient Maccabees only had enough oil to last for one night — but the light burned for eight nights.”
“Professor,” Barnabas gasps. “Is this some kind of black magic?”
Meanwhile, not having a Senate is no guarantee legislators will pay attention to the needs of constituents.
11 Nebraska state senators called for a special session to address racial justice and pandemic issues
20 asked for the Governor to accept federal SNAP money (49 other states already did)
28 sent a letter to the Big Ten asking for fall football.
Our leaders’ priorities.— Bobby Larsen (@_ASAPBobby) September 9, 2020
Well, after last night’s winter storm (we got about three inches of snow, plus hail from the thunderstorm before with temperatures plunging seventy degrees from day to night), we’ll be going back to summer next week.
Right now it’s 33°F (it’s warmer in Cheyenne at 6,000 feet than it is here at 3,600 feet), but by Monday we’ll be back in the nineties.
So the furnace will go off early next week and the air conditioner will be back on.
Winter is the expensive part of the year because natural gas to heat our house comes from a private firm; electricity comes from the state public power district.
Meanwhile, we’re sucking on the Covid front in the Panhandle. Our positivity rate in testing has climbed to 10%.
Cumulative cases are curving the wrong way.
Total cases: 726
Active cases: 88, in hospital: 8, deaths: 6 (no change)
Eleven counties of ninety-three have reported no cases (only one in PPHD, Grant County); all Panhandle counties are at “moderate risk” (Grant is at “low”)
All towns in the Panhandle and Grant County have now had cases except Hyannis (seat of Grant County, population 182), Lisco (Garden County, population 64), and Broadwater (Morrill County, population 124).
Women are 2/3 of cases.
Most by age: 20-29, 40-49, then 10-19
Racial makeup: 1/3 is Hispanic or Latino of any race (Hispanic/Latino makes up 15% of the populace)
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You did get snow. The precipitation was done here, but the temperature is currently 44 degrees F and tonight’s low is supposed to be 40. I have a weird buzz in the furnace that our family furnace guy is coming out to check on this morning, just in case.
re: #42 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
You did get snow. The precipitation was done here, but the temperature is currently 44 degrees F and tonight’s low is supposed to be 40. I have a weird buzz in the furnace that our family furnace guy is coming out to check on this morning, just in case.
Why is it furnaces always seem to crap out in the winter? /s
We’ve had to have our ancient Montgomery Ward floor furnace serviced twice since we bought the house in late 2011. Both times the pilot light burned through the thermocouple, only discovered when it was about minus holy crap outside.
re: #37 Dread Pirate Ron
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One of the bigger selling points of Brexit was this idea that a post-Brexit UK would find itself in a bidding war with its former trade partners to grab a slice of the British pie. That not only would they be able to deal direct with other nations rather than as part of the EU, but they’d even be able to bypass Brussels and go directly to the nations of continental Europe to make insanely great trade deals by simply teasing access to all those eager Britons wanting foreign goods.
The reality has been…a total bust. The EU has slammed its foot down and made clear that Boris won’t be going to Berlin, or to Paris, or even to Prague and making one-on-one deals. If the UK wants to keep its old trade network, it will have to work through the EU and that means playing by the EU’s terms. The promise of an Anglo-American trade deal was supposed to be 10 Downing’s lifeline, that even if they couldn’t get good deals with the EU that D.C. would be there to save their asses. Well, that door’s now in danger of being slammed shut in their face. Where are they going to look now?
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t think it’s dead yet. The heat still works. However, you’re quite right in that our thermocouple burned through when the ambient air temperature was something on the order of -10 degrees F this past January. Waking up to a house that was 58 degrees F was terrifying. And cold.
We are adaptable creatures. We will teach ourselves how to cope with 2020. Thus:
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The temperature dropped another degree; it is now 32°F. (I’m still marvelling at my Windows weather live tile working again after tearing my hair out so long trying to figure out why it stopped.)
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Needless to say, Dennis Prager is all in on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, part of his proof the Left (tm) is trying to destroy the objectivity of science.
GOP Cornyn To Push for Airline Aid in Final Stimulus Package https://t.co/O1vUiKFcm3
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) September 10, 2020
Mike Pence knew all of this as well and lied to our faces too
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) September 9, 2020
re: #51 Dave In Austin
Well, Mr. Pro-Life both allowed an HIV epidemic in his state and was pro tobacco lobby.
I almost get the impression that conservatives are really liars, and all they care about is conserving their power.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That impression would be fair.
Glad to see you back. Did you get your service issues worked out?
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At this point I can see other countries opening investigations into the United States, and Donald Trump’s and the GOP’s response specifically.
They might be able to stonewall with Bill Barr in the DOJ, but they can’t stonewall other nations’ investigations into whether Trump or the GOP was engaged in a genocide.
I think we’ll see a lot of this. European courts have jurisdiction and can indict Republicans on the same basis that they charged Pinochet: Their citizens were affected regardless of where the offense occurred. I can see this becoming a major issue for the Biden administration.
re: #44 Targetpractice
The reality has been…a total bust. The EU has slammed its foot down and made clear that Boris won’t be going to Berlin, or to Paris, or even to Prague and making one-on-one deals. If the UK wants to keep its old trade network, it will have to work through the EU and that means playing by the EU’s terms.
What’s incredible is that the UK knew it could never do that.
“Let’s leave the EU”.
“Why”.
“So we can make deals with other countries directly, which we’re not allowed to do while we’re in the EU”.
“What countries do you want to make deals with”?
“Oh, France, Germany, Italy…”
“But they’re in the EU, they can’t make deals directly…”
“… uh …”.
What are they going to propose next? International trade deals with individual US states?
re: #54 Dave In Austin
That impression would be fair.
Glad to see you back. Did you get your service issues worked out?
Yes. I got my modem late yesterday by UPS Next Day Air after only seven days. That’s an improvement because the previous modem took fourteen days by UPS Next Day Air.
Since I plugged in my new modem, my service has been slow but stable.
I did have to spend more than an hour on the telephone with CenturyLink yesterday to get a mail address to send my failed modem to; they expect me to return it by UPS and they do not come to my town to pick up packages. (CenturyLink will not refund my postage to me though, nor will they credit my service being fouled up since August 26: If you have an issue with your billing, you can come to Delaware to take it up in arbitration.)
I think about this guy a lot: the director of a majority-Black nursing home took early measures to prepare for a pandemic because he heard Trump say in February that there’d soon be zero cases and just figured that was going to turn out to be bullshit. https://t.co/FNyTnV6Zuk pic.twitter.com/hjgqDAMsKr
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) September 10, 2020
re: #58 Patricia Kayden
Reverend DeWitt is no fool.
re: #7 piratedan
Well, at least a few Senators got a briefing and then went and bought/sold stocks accordingly. Or told select donors that bad things would happen, thus facilitating further insider trading.
re: #60 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Well, at least a few Senators got a briefing and then went and bought/sold stocks accordingly. Or told select donors that bad things would happen, thus facilitating further insider trading.
Simply furthering my assertion that the stock market exists to transfer wealth from the poor and middle-class to the wealthy. There is no way I could compete in the market against such corruption of the so-called free market.
I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later, now that I have regular Internet service again.
Another problem for Trump, with the Woodward stuff, is that it takes whatever juice there was out of the argument that China lied to us about how dangerous the coronavirus was, etc.
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) September 9, 2020
This would seem to fuck up the yam’s BUT GYNA ranting. I’m sure he’ll keep doing it, though. And no, he’s not going to lose the MAGAt cultists, but each one of these dumps might peel a few off the edges of his support, and if not vote for Biden, just decide to stay home.
re: #62 ericblair
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This would seem to fuck up the yam’s BUT GYNA ranting. I’m sure he’ll keep doing it, though. And no, he’s not going to lose the MAGAt cultists, but each one of these dumps might peel a few off the edges of his support, and if not vote for Biden, just decide to stay home.
If 5% of Trump’s 2016 voters decide they’re just gonna sit this election out because they’re sick of his petty-ante bullshit, that’s all it’ll take for his useless ass to get bounced out of the Oval Office.
OK….off to work. Back later today.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The temperature dropped another degree; it is now 32°F. (I’m still marvelling at my Windows weather live tile working again after tearing my hair out so long trying to figure out why it stopped.)
My adventure with furnace during a cold snap back when I had a house was the thermostat going haywire and the furnace running full-on until the internal house temp was over 88 F while it was 25 F outside. I woke at 3am sweating profusely and wondering what was going on. Happened to look at the thermostat in passing and noticed that the temp gauge on it was pegged - and the furnace was also still running.
So I had to go shut off the furnace and open a bunch of windows. It was still over 80 F in the house at 7am when closed windows and headed to work. Called a repair service once I got to work and managed to get the thermostat replaced the next day. (Glad it wasn’t something in the furnace itself that would be more expensive.)
Imagine telling Bob Woodward that a virus
- is DEADLY
- is AIRBORNE
- affects CHILDREN
…and not screaming at the entire fucking country to start wearing masks IMMEDIATELY.
IMAGINE THAT SHIT.#TrumpDoesntCare pic.twitter.com/r4PrRGkyDm— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) September 10, 2020
Claire has been bringing the fire this week.
So delicious. Beyond delicious. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 It’s Lindsey’s fault! It’s Lindsey’s fault Trump talked to Woodward 18 times! And agreed to be recorded! It’s Lindsey’s fault that Trump lies! It’s Lindsey’s fault that Trump is stupid! https://t.co/swwK9J6ArL
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) September 10, 2020
re: #66 Dave In Austin
Claire has been bringing the fire this week.
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I’d love it if Trump throws Lindsey under the bus on Fox. Might cost him some votes from the rabid base and perhaps torpedo his reelection chances.
I decided to go to #HobbyLobby and make some art.
Do you guys like it!?!?
😁😁😁 pic.twitter.com/i2ThuIQGDt— American Satan 😈 (@BrandonSharks) September 9, 2020
Kim Jong Un is in good health. Never underestimate him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
re: #69 Dave In Austin
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Kim Jong Un is going to host The Apprentice: Pyongyang isn’t he?
re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron
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Pence must be getting nervous that he too will not be able to escape arrest and prosecution for his role in various Trump monstrosities should they lose the election. If Pence embraces Qanon it means he is prioritizing his pretend Christian faith for an all-out cult.
Combine this stuff from Woodward with the story that they weren’t going to help blue states and”democrat controlled” cities and I’m not sure what other word applies but genocide.
The question is though, besides “vote him/them out”, is what consequences will there be for this? They knew and they took steps to protect themselves and no one else. There has to be legal recourse for us, the people left to die by design. All the people who have and will lose their homes and businesses forever, what about them? If these assholes are allowed to get away with this we have no justice system, there has to be a price they pay legally. Somehow.
Dig Dig Dig…….
“Why didn’t Bob Woodward save 190,000 people from my deadly incompetence” is the new spin https://t.co/ZddsdMqorM
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) September 10, 2020
When you’re deep in a hole, it’s wise to stop digging. pic.twitter.com/CseiQnw2yi
— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) September 10, 2020
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re: #75 A Mom Anon
Combine this stuff from Woodward with the story that they weren’t going to help blue states and”democrat controlled” cities and I’m not sure what other word applies but genocide.
The question is though, besides “vote him/them out”, is what consequences will there be for this? They knew and they took steps to protect themselves and no one else. There has to be legal recourse for us, the people left to die by design. All the people who have and will lose their homes and businesses forever, what about them? If these assholes are allowed to get away with this we have no justice system, there has to be a price they pay legally. Somehow.
Democide. When mass deaths are directed at a group not because of race, ethnicity, or religion, the term used should be democide.
Trump’s engaged in criminal misconduct since before entering office, and his mishandling of covid19 - coupled with never reversing himself because he thinks it makes him look weak - resulted in 200,000 deaths. So far.
His death toll isn’t going to go away. Tens of millions are out of work because of it.
He failed the nation, and his excuse is he didn’t want to cause a panic?
The fact is that he knew and did worse than nothing. He made up bulkshit about how this wasn’t as serious as a flu, that it’d go away, that there were junk science snake oil cures and treatments, and none of that approached reality. He’s now pinning his hopes on pushing a vaccine to approval as his last gasp.
He failed. He failed to mandate masks (not at his fucking klan rallies, not at his pressers, not at his photo ops, not at his RNC, nowhere), and he insisted on states reopening faster than the experts warned was safe. The outcomes were entirely predictable. More people died. That’s all on him.
You could insist on people masking up and social distancing without causing a panic. That’s what happened practically everywhere else in the world - no panic, no rioting - just people doing what they needed to do in order to keep themselves, their families, and their communities safe. People masked up in states where Democrats insisted on following the health experts, and they bent the curve down. That was without panic.
But panic is a weird thing for Trump to use as an excuse to do nothing. Trump insists that everything is so chaotic and awful that he’s insisting that the nation is already in a panic from caravans, to open borders, to undocumented people murdering white women in the suburbs to crime and riots and protests. Trump’s entire worldview is one of chaos and projection.
He brings the chaos and panic, and he can never project an air of calm. He doesn’t have it in him. Even medicated, he still spews his usual garbage and he sounds like he took a metric shit ton of valium to counter the adderall and whatever else his docs give him and he garbles through a speech he never prepared to read.
re: #50 Dave In Austin
People are starving, being evicted, and you’re offering a relief package to the airline industry.
Republicans are killing Americans with every single thing they do.
No help for Americans.
We’re dying, starving, homeless and Republicans do not care.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 10, 2020
Cover of TIME magazine hits hard pic.twitter.com/Mg93F60Zqy
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) September 10, 2020
You admit that they’re accurate and true.
You killed 200,000 with your failed covid19 response.
You lied to the nation repeatedly and refused to follow health experts advice to mask up and social distance.
Their deaths are on your corrupt and criminal admin. They’re on you.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 10, 2020
re: #67 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’d love it if Trump throws Lindsey under the bus on Fox. Might cost him some votes from the rabid base and perhaps torpedo his reelection chances.
Tucker Carlson did. Them he backed up and drove over him again.
It was glorious.
At least we found someone whose health the President cares about https://t.co/uw0viR3vmz
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 10, 2020
re: #44 Targetpractice
One of the bigger selling points of Brexit was this idea that a post-Brexit UK would find itself in a bidding war with its former trade partners to grab a slice of the British pie. That not only would they be able to deal direct with other nations rather than as part of the EU, but they’d even be able to bypass Brussels and go directly to the nations of continental Europe to make insanely great trade deals by simply teasing access to all those eager Britons wanting foreign goods.
The reality has been…a total bust. The EU has slammed its foot down and made clear that Boris won’t be going to Berlin, or to Paris, or even to Prague and making one-on-one deals. If the UK wants to keep its old trade network, it will have to work through the EU and that means playing by the EU’s terms. The promise of an Anglo-American trade deal was supposed to be 10 Downing’s lifeline, that even if they couldn’t get good deals with the EU that D.C. would be there to save their asses. Well, that door’s now in danger of being slammed shut in their face. Where are they going to look now?
Boris doesn’t even read the history of his own country. One of the reasons for the current US constitution was that Britain was making trade deals with individual states, undermining the even then weak central government.
This is really cool - this artist takes pulp novel covers and marries them with song lyrics.
He even sells prints through his Etsy store.
Given what Trump knew about Covid-19, does Biden blame him for thousands of deaths?
“Yes, I do,” he told reporters on the tarmac at DTW. “I absolutely do.”— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) September 10, 2020
Biden was asked what the consequence should be. “Kick him out of office is the consequence,” he said.
— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) September 10, 2020
Haven’t seen this mentioned, but also possible he needs to keep the market propped up so his & Kushner’s portfolios stay healthy enough so they can keep paying their (Russian & Chinese) lenders https://t.co/AFZy1xmihE
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 9, 2020
Actress Dame Diana Rigg, known for roles from The Avengers to Games of Thrones, dies aged 82https://t.co/gbJ7BUmGSv
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 10, 2020
Good night, Mrs. Peel.
Morning all.
Looking through the thread and the comments about Sen. Sasse’s inane “Senate reform” proposals* , I can see one bright prospect looming: Senators, especially Republican Senators, rarely if ever show any interest in changing the rules of their institution except when there’s a danger of their Party losing power/control. So I’m wondering what GOP polling looks like wrt to various Senate races around the country (dire, I hope).
So far ( just as a SWAG analysis) the only “gimme” races (ME, AZ, CO, AL) will leave the GOP with just.a 51-49 Majority- so they basically would HAVE to retain every other seat they hold In order to maintain control of the Upper House. And that really doesn’t seem very likely.
* except for the provision of residences in DC - though the “dormitory” idea is fairly stupid. Surely there are 100 condos/LT rentals available in Washington….
re: #91 Jay C
I know that a number of Senators “bunk” together, including Schumer. But on the list of priorities, it’s at the bottom.
To everyone who believed Trump when he called Coronavirus the Democrats new hoax & refused to wear a mask because he didn’t, how does it feel to know he was lying to you & didn’t care if your family members died? pic.twitter.com/L848WtRivM
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 10, 2020
Having read more of the excerpts in the Woodward book where @realDonaldTrump is on tape, I’ve concluded this is not just dereliction of duty by @POTUS. Trump repeatedly lied to the American people and that resulted in preventable deaths.This is reckless homicide.#TrumpKnew https://t.co/c7SziWD3CK
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 9, 2020
And of course Pence knew at the time as well
NEW AD: Donald Trump knew how deadly the coronavirus was.
He played it down anyway. Almost 200,000 Americans are dead because of his lies. pic.twitter.com/OwgeCI6Miy— Priorities USA (@prioritiesUSA) September 10, 2020
re: #94 dangerman
Everyone in Trumpworld knew. They knew and did worse than nothing. They lied about the seriousness. Claimed it wasn’t as dangerous as the flu. Pooh poohed the warnings by Dr. Fauci and other health experts.
Trump sidelined other experts and ignored the evidence. He and his sycophantic suckups claimed we should do business as usual. They attacked cities and states that shut down to prevent further spread. They attacked governors who put lives first. They attacked the masking/social distancing mandates.
They still do.
They are culpable. They’re responsible. People I know would still be alive but for Trump’s failures to act.
I talked to John Barry, a 1918 flu pandemic expert, on FEBRUARY 28, the day before the first known Covid-19 death in the US.
“I think the No. 1 lesson that came out of the experience is that if you want to prevent panic, you tell the truth.”https://t.co/AeUvNAKT0t https://t.co/eQNSFYUXNA— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) September 9, 2020
Imagine had Trump done a 3-week shutdown in February - nationwide - coupled with a total shutdown of air travel. Only essential food service/transportation/health workers traveling anywhere. He could have gotten the R rate below one, and with masking - kept it there - along with reopening based on keeping the R rate below one with contact tracing.
That’s how you control the spread and keep it from flaring back up.
He did the exact opposite. He did worse than that. He lied about all of it. And now we have 200,000 dead.
Don’t know what imp from Hell inspired Trump to self-incriminate on tape, but I’ll buy him a beer if I ever meet him. (Coor’s Light, of course—favorite beer in Hell.)
NEWS: There were nearly 1.7 million *new* unemployment claims last week (regular + PUA), up from 1.6 million the prior week.
There are still incredibly high numbers of Americans losing jobs and applying for aid.
**In total, the US still has 29.6 million people on unemployment** pic.twitter.com/mlpJqFhGN8— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) September 10, 2020
So, now it’s private citizen Bob Woodward’s entire fault, not the President of the United States.
Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
2020 is playing like a GRRM book.
Covid19 is playing the role of the white walkers, and Trump’s playing the role of Cersei Lannister, who knew but thought it’d wipe out his enemies leaving him unscathed. Yet, if and when he loses, he’ll go all Sept of Baelor on everyone. Because he always puts himself first. He will burn it all down to protect himself.
And the GOP are more than happy to ride along. You’ve got Pence and Ivanka and Jared and all the rest as playing everyone from Tywin to the Freys to Euron Greyjoy.
*and yeah, I know that Trump’s cast as Cersei in this version, but it works if you consider how they treat Ivanka as Jaime (the so-called honorable one).
re: #99 Decatur Deb
Don’t know what imp from Hell inspired Trump to self-incriminate on tape, but I’ll buy him a beer if I ever meet him. (Coor’s Light, of course—favorite beer in Hell.)
According to Hannity, it was Lindsey Graham!
All that ass-kissing, and Graham still gets thrown under the bus. You hate to see it.
Wait, no you don’t.
re: #101 The Pie Overlord!
So, now it’s private citizen Bob Woodward’s entire fault, not the President of the United States.
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He just wants the power and prestige of being called President but none of its responsibilities. If there’s an anti statesman, it’s Trump.
i want to correct and amplify something i said yesterday
Correction: Yes. Trump did say ‘to avoid panic’ to Woodward back in Feb/March so it was not just a recent post hoc justification. I got that wrong.
However i dont believe it was a chosen / deliberated ‘strategy’.
I believe it was a lie of justification even back then.
Sure, maybe to protect the stock market.
And still most certainly not to avoid general public panic.
how do we know?
well there’s the totality of his otherwise counterproductive actions and statements through today - as others have pointed out.
He could have ‘avoided a panic’ AND promoted all sorts of logical, positive, health and life saving messages. He hasn’t.
And there’s the actual tapes of the rallies he was also doing at the same time. spewing a totally different message than ‘calm, and no panic’.
and now we are here, today where these symbols - masks/vaccines/distancing, etc are almost 100% political and not science/medicine based personal decisions.
see for example:
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) “is neither a physician nor a scientist but he continues to attack public health advice and scientific evidence on COVID-19,” the Arizona Republic reports.
“In his latest tweets, Biggs urges Arizonans to flout national and local public health guidance on COVID-19… He’s also been urging members of the public to ‘unmask.’”
this is not MEDICAL advice. it’s us vs them….
so why would an R congressman make such an absurd statement?
We are here because trump weaponized medicine/science/truth.
Not because he didn’t want to cause a panic.
‘i want to avoid a panic’ was a lie when he said it then.
it is still a lie.
re: #104 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He just wants the power and prestige of being called President but none of its responsibilities. If there’s an anti statesman, it’s Trump.
It’s the “Mr. President” pageant. Just like “Miss Universe” but without the swimsuits.
re: #101 The Pie Overlord!
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“Because Bob didn’t say anything, I was correct in not doing anything.” Not a great argument.
re: #107 The Pie Overlord!
It’s the “Mr. President” pageant. Just like “Miss Universe” but without the swimsuits.
Thank the deity of your choice for that.
re: #107 The Pie Overlord!
It’s the “Mr. President” pageant. Just like “Miss Universe” but without the swimsuits.
The Apprentice: Presidency Edition. No man has disgraced the office of the American President more than Trump.
Whoa if true….
Trump has LOST his 2016 lock on faith-based voters. @politico predicts an 11 point swing toward Biden among evangelicals & Catholics, based on new polling in FL, MI, NC, PA, WI.
We have a prayer, America.@VoteCommon @LincolnsBible @DavidYankovich @GenMhayden @VP— Billy Ray (@BillyRay5229) September 10, 2020
Here come the bankruptcy filings.
Luby’s went bankrupt and will be closing all their locations, including all the Fuddruckers.
Yesterday, JC Penney avoided that fate with a bailout by Simon and Brookfield, because their mall businesses would follow the same fate if one of their key anchor tenants went bankrupt too.
Today, NYC metro area chain Century21 is shuttering.
That’s a huge shame. It got its start in Brooklyn as a go-to for discounted designer clothes, and we used to go there all the time pre-pandemic for clothes and home goods.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 10, 2020
CALM, NO PANIC.
The Democrats never even mentioned the words LAW & ORDER at their National Convention. That’s where they are coming from. If I don’t win, America’s Suburbs will be OVERRUN with Low Income Projects, Anarchists, Agitators, Looters and, of course, “Friendly Protesters”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
re: #111 makeitstop
Whoa if true….
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I’ll believe that when I see it because I know from first hand experience just how brainwashed those Xtian Pod People are.
re: #111 makeitstop
Whoa if true….
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I don’t identify as Catholic anymore but Biden speaks the language of the ethnic Catholics that made my family Democrats.
“Avoid panic” = Save the DOW. The end.
RIP Ronald “Kahlis” Bell, co founder of Kool and The Gang.
This reads like a taunting note from a serial killer. pic.twitter.com/he5TNsafDv
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) September 10, 2020
MSNBC out here committing journalistic malpractice this morning.
Headline: MOST VOTERS DON’T SEE TRUMP AND BIDEN AS MENTALLY FIT TO BE PRESIDENT, NEW POLL SHOWS
Key info from story: A 51% majority said Trump is mentally unfit to be president, while 49% answered that he is fit to hold the job. A similar share, by a 52% to 48% margin, responded that Biden is mentally unfit to be president.
A more accurate headline would be: VOTERS SPLIT ON MENTAL HEALTH OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Kim Jong Un thought Obama was an ‘a–hole,’ Trump tells Bob Woodward https://t.co/vVv4JEsByA pic.twitter.com/f2Bvwl1Kes
— New York Post (@nypost) September 9, 2020
re: #102 lawhawk
2020 is playing like a GRRM book.
Covid19 is playing the role of the white walkers, and Trump’s playing the role of Cersei Lannister, who knew but thought it’d wipe out his enemies leaving him unscathed. Yet, if and when he loses, he’ll go all Sept of Baelor on everyone. Because he always puts himself first. He will burn it all down to protect himself.
And the GOP are more than happy to ride along. You’ve got Pence and Ivanka and Jared and all the rest as playing everyone from Tywin to the Freys to Euron Greyjoy.
*and yeah, I know that Trump’s cast as Cersei in this version, but it works if you consider how they treat Ivanka as Jaime (the so-called honorable one).
Um, no one is playing the role of Tywin, Tywin was the one person who could actually keep Cersei more or less on leash and force her to do sane reasonable things.
re: #114 🌹UOJB!
I’ll believe that when I see it because I know from first hand experience just how brainwashed those Xtian Pod People are.
I’m more concerned about Russians changing votes. That was a big deal which is getting no airplay.
re: #115 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I don’t identify as Catholic anymore but Biden speaks the language of the ethnic Catholics that made my family Democrats.
Also, outside the hardcore clericofascist element, wouldn’t some sort of shift to Biden among Catholic voters be expected, anyway? Even if just because he is one?
Though Joe’s down-to-earth persona can’t hurt, I’m sure.
re: #119 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Kim Jong Un didn’t like Obama? Next you’ll tell me that Hitler hated FDR. God Trump’s fucking love of this guy is sickening. Trump is a dictator lover.
No, this president would never try to panic anyone. (Roll eyes so hard that I see into the pits of Hell) https://t.co/UAZlf9vMLB
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) September 10, 2020
re: #122 Jay C
Also, outside the hardcore clericofascist element, wouldn’t some sort of shift to Biden among Catholic voters be expected, anyway? Even if just because he is one?
Though Joe’s down-to-earth persona can’t hurt, I’m sure.
Yeah I think it was inevitable but Biden speaks Catholic better than Kerry did. I like Kerry but I can’t see him quoting John Paul II or talking about what the church means for him. I think Kerry like me is someone who has been shaped by the church but not as heavily as Biden.
re: #119 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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True. And it also indicates Lil Kim had a pretty solid book on Donnie.
See also: the party of “rugged individualism,” which has now become its own Borg collective. https://t.co/9QzDVPTObI
— Bill Harnsberger (@BillinPortland) September 10, 2020
re: #126 lizardofid
True. And it also indicates Lil Kim had a pretty solid book on Donnie.
I’m certain he uses his phone calls to Putin to bitch about how unfair everyone is to him.
re: #116 lizardofid
“Avoid panic” = Save the DOW. The end.
RIP Ronald “Kahlis” Bell, co founder of Kool and The Gang.
Their Emergency album was among the first cassettes I ever bought.
I wonder how many Trumpers worship Kim Jong Un like their dear leader. https://t.co/9NCjejOI11
— American Satan 😈 (@BrandonSharks) September 10, 2020
re: #107 The Pie Overlord!
It’s the “Mr. President” pageant. Just like “Miss Universe” but without the swimsuits.
Just the thought of Trump in a Speedo…oh good lawd not when I just woke up and didn’t get my first espresso shot of the day, PLEASE…
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
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Trump helped them embrace Putin. Embracing of KJU will be fully part of the GOP program as long as Trumpers lead the party.
re: #124 The Pie Overlord!
Seriously when Trump’s own @DHSgov & @FBI both gave grave warnings! Guess that intell wasn’t switched!🤔 pic.twitter.com/GQzWaZ0mhh
— 🇺🇸PatsLadi99 #TeamJustice 🇺🇸🇺🇸🏈🌏🗽⛵🍀✌ (@PatsLadi99) September 10, 2020
“I don’t want to cause panic” says the guy who tells the country every day that Joe Biden and his Antifa army are coming to destroy your suburb.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 10, 2020
re: #132 🌹UOJB!
Just the thought of Trump in a Speedo…oh good lawd not when I just woke up and didn’t get my first espresso shot of the day, PLEASE…
Here is some brain bleach.
re: #135 nines09
You mean who tells White people that scary Blacks will be invading the suburbs. (Completely ignoring the fact that Blacks already live in the suburbs).
Watched a bit of Fox News this morning to see the spin. Some old guy from the WSJ was being interviewed, he complained about the media focusing on Trump’s comments instead of his covid policies; the blonde (of course) interviewing him didn’t point out Trump’s policies have killed 200k Americans. Then he talked about the election crisis coming up because Rs are voting in person and Ds are voting by mail, so we are having two elections that each candidate can claim victory in. The blonde didn’t point out its one election in which all votes count, so if there is a crisis it would be entirely of Trump’s making. So, Fox.
re: #119 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
So the New York Post thinks it’s a bad thing that a murderous dictator thinks that President Obama is an a-hole? Really?
I just got some spam attempting to rebrand the Affordable Care Act as “TrumpCare”. They certainly feel a need to mark ownership on everything by peeing on it.
Lre: #139 Patricia Kayden
So the New York Post thinks it’s a bad thing that a murderous dictator thinks that President Obama is an a-hole? Really?
I have no doubt that Murdoch would have pushed Hitler sympathetic pieces had his organizations been around in the 20’s and 30’s.
I fear the answer.
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) September 10, 2020
The most recent Lincoln Project Podcast discusses the likely timing issue with in person voting versus mail in ballot voting. It generally recounts what has been posted on LGF in somewhat greater detail.
Basically, the pollsters expect that the in person voters will be mostly Republican voters while the mail in voters will largely be Democratic.
Most states do not start validating and counting mail in votes until after the in-person polls close.
Thus the in-person totals will become available the evening of Nov 3rd and may reflect a majority Republican vote. The mail-in votes will straggle in over the next couple of weeks and will likely show the Democratic vote overtaking and overcoming the in-person totals.
One concern is that Trump is setting up his less sophisticated voters to believe that the late arriving pro-Democratic votes are the result of some corrupt fix rather than a slow validation and counting process.
The talk goes into greater technical depth. And remains technical rather than politically partisan.
I found it quite interesting. As always, ymmv…
Explained: Vote Counting & The Election Results Delay The Lincoln Project
Our host and co-founder Ron Steslow asks fellow co-founder Mike Madrid to break down how votes are counted, how the surge in mail-in ballots will impact when we know who wins the Presidential election and why this November may hold the three most critical weeks in American democracy.
Hypothesis: Putin has set a quota of dead Americans as his price for providing refuge and loan payoffs for Cheeto and his hench-ghouls. What would be different if he weren’t?
re: #144 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Hypothesis: Putin has set a quote of dead Americans as his price for providing refuge and loan payoffs for Cheeto and his hench-ghouls. What would be different if he weren’t?
On that note…
Key Biden Campaign Strategy Firm Targeted By Suspected Kremlin-Backed Hackers
One of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms was likely targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers.
Reuters reports that according to three sources briefed on the matter, Microsoft alerted campaign strategy and communications firm SKDKnickerbocker that recent hacking attempts had targeted staff from the company.
Joe ain’t stupid. He knew this was coming.
We haven’t seen the worst of this yet. I remain optimistic about beating him but the lingering remnants of Trumpism is going to be with this country for a long time.
re: #144 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Hypothesis: Putin has set a quote of dead Americans as his price for providing refuge and loan payoffs for Cheeto and his hench-ghouls. What would be different if he weren’t?
Oh come on now. The idea of Russia paying for dead Americans is just sill…
Oh wait.
re: #144 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Hypothesis: Putin has set a quota of dead Americans as his price for providing refuge and loan payoffs for Cheeto and his hench-ghouls. What would be different if he weren’t?
I doubt that Putin cares about dead Americans one way or another. He just wants to keep enriching himself and rebuilding the USSR unmolested. Trump’s NATO bashing probably means more than covid.
Conservative media is trying to blame Lindsey Graham for the Woodward tapes.
Fine, then. It just shows if Trump is easily fooled by Lindsey, he’s definitely no match for Putin or any other world leader.
You could say he’s a sucker.— Leslie - 54 Days 🇺🇲 🌊 (@Leslieoo7) September 10, 2020
re: #146 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
We haven’t seen the worst of this yet. I remain optimistic about beating him but the lingering remnants of Trumpism is going to be with this country for a long time.
“Russia, if you’re listening… HELP ME! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELP ME NOW!!!”
re: #143 ckkatz
In 2016, the only state where mail-in votes seemed to change in large numbers was California, which Hillary won anyway. I don’t remember there being much change for the battleground states. And I am wondering where Democrats will vote differently in large numbers. Yes, there is the virus. But in primaries in Wisconsin and DC, people were willing to stand in line. My only change this year is I am going to vote early, where I traditionally like to vote on election day.
When the Texas Legislature meets in three months to hammer out a budget, I believe folks will be stunned at how little money is available thanks to the incompetent handling of #Covid19. Texas GOP lawmakers will try to slash everything including education, like the last recession.
— Mike Collier (@CollierForTexas) September 10, 2020
re: #148 JC1
I doubt that Putin cares about dead Americans one way or another. He just wants to keep enriching himself and rebuilding the USSR unmolested. Trump’s NATO bashing probably means more than covid.
Have to agree. Putin wants Russia to be a dominant nation state in Europe again. I’m definitely interested in seeing what Biden plans to do in Europe.
You must die. The Party commands it!
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) September 9, 2020
re: #141 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
I have no doubt that Murdoch would have pushed Hitler sympathetic pieces had his organizations been around in the 20’s and 30’s.
Harold Harmsworth, later Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Daily Mail in the 1930s, penned a 1934 article (published in the 15 January edition of the Daily Mail) called “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”, praising Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists.
re: #154 🌹UOJB!
Kennedy had composed his rote response and he wasn’t going to deviate from it.
The GOP is going to try to Jedi their way out of this.
“i don’t have confidence in the reporting” of Trump’s own words that the entire nation has now heard https://t.co/ZVhe7U5la2
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 10, 2020
re: #155 Dr Lizardo
Harold Harmsworth, later Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Daily Mail in the 1930s, penned a 1934 article (published in the 15 January edition of the Daily Mail) called “Hurrah for the Blackshirts”, praising Oswald Moseley and the British Union of Fascists.
Oh yeah. The old right had plenty of Hitler fans which is exactly why I want to smack conservatives who say liberals are Nazis. I’ll concede Nazism isn’t your typical conservatism but it’s definitely an ideology that attracted and attracts the right and sees itself as the right.
re: #153 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Have to agree. Putin wants Russia to be a dominant nation state in Europe again. I’m definitely interested in seeing what Biden plans to do in Europe.
He won’t have to do much to improve US standing: just showing up to a NATO summit and not insulting anybody will probably be a huge boost by itself.
I’m guessing, though, that the hardcore “nationalist” wingers won’t be happy to see Trump booted out: his brand of bigoted xenophobia was right up their alley.
Diana Rigg, the Emmy- and Tony-winning British actress who vaulted to international fame in the 1960s with her performance as Emma Peel on The Avengers, then gained a new following decades later as Lady Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones, has died. https://t.co/UBwVfkHrJr pic.twitter.com/6RKu2hWoYT
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 10, 2020
RIP.
re: #154 🌹UOJB!
You must die. The Party commands it!
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My Dad had that on and was just stunned by Kennedy’s bullshit. Dad’s been anti Trump from the start but I think he’s seeing the full extent of the rot.
re: #158 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Oh yeah. The old right had plenty of Hitler fans which is exactly why I want to smack conservatives who say liberals are Nazis. I’ll concede Nazism isn’t your typical conservatism but it’s definitely an ideology that attracted and attracts the right and sees itself as the right.
Yeah, some of the biggest supporters of Mussolini and Hitler in the interwar period were conservatives. They saw Fascism as a bulwark against Communism and the USSR.
re: #159 Jay C
He won’t have to do much to improve US standing: just showing up to a NATO summit and not insulting anybody will probably be a huge boost by itself.
I’m guessing, though, that the hardcore “nationalist” wingers won’t be happy to see Trump booted out: his brand of bigoted xenophobia was right up their alley.
Yeah that at the bare minimum will help. I’m sure he’ll get a hero’s welcome on his first international trip.
re: #78 jeffreyw
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Western good morning!
It’s just a tree, but it was taken yesterday (smokeday) at noon.
And this was the light around noon on a normal overcast day.
We shall see what today brings.
re: #162 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, some of the biggest supporters of Mussolini and Hitler in the interwar period were conservatives. They saw Fascism as a bulwark against Communism and the USSR.
Just a reminder that the biggest asskissers of Mussolini in the 20s and 30s were Hearst, McCormack (Chicago Tribune) and Luce (Time/Life).
re: #162 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, some of the biggest supporters of Mussolini and Hitler in the interwar period were conservatives. They saw Fascism as a bulwark against Communism and the USSR.
Exactly and I’ll concede that a lot of left wingers saw communism and the USSR as bulwarks the other way. But there’s no question that western conservatism lends itself to accepting totalitarianism if it’s done in the name of opposition to socialism and increasingly liberalism.
Now relative posting the latest Q shit alleging the Woodward book is a false flag…
re: #148 JC1
I doubt that Putin cares about dead Americans one way or another. He just wants to keep enriching himself and rebuilding the USSR unmolested. Trump’s NATO bashing probably means more than covid.
Obviously dead Americans are not a Putin goal in and of itself, but it could be part of a strategy of weakening anything (including NATO) that stands in the way of eventual Russian hegrmony
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Exactly and I’ll concede that a lot of left wingers saw communism and the USSR as bulwarks the other way. But there’s no question that western conservatism lends itself to accepting totalitarianism if it’s done in the name of opposition to socialism and increasingly liberalism.
Fascism is a radically reactionary ideology, and conservatism certainly has a reactionary streak to it. It’s no surprise the two ideologies can work quite nicely together.
re: #168 🌹UOJB!
Now relative posting the latest Q shit alleging the Woodward book is a false flag…
I guess it was Rich Little on those tapes. Gah. My Trumpist relatives too. It makes me sick, sad, & angry.
re: #168 🌹UOJB!
Now relative posting the latest Q shit alleging the Woodward book is a false flag…
Tell your relative that’s true: It’s distracting people from the tapes of Trump actually saying the stuff.
re: #99 Decatur Deb
Don’t know what imp from Hell inspired Trump to self-incriminate on tape, but I’ll buy him a beer if I ever meet him. (Coor’s Light, of course—favorite beer in Hell.)
Ate you sure it wasn’t an angel of the Lord?
/
As Trump spins the toilet bowl the cultists will dig in harder. I don’t expect many mea culpas. Just ostracize, ridicule, tell them we done knew, push for legal remedy, vote.
We cannot let the cultists drive narratives.
Thread. Tapes, Republicans. There are freaking #TrumpTapes! Every one of these cowards is complicit in the deaths & chronic COVID illnesses of every infected American. https://t.co/GT91u8jMf5
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) September 10, 2020
Funny how this guy never gets attacked by Trump. I wonder why that is?
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I feel good about myself that I never revealed which one of Trump’s kids was known for getting blackout drunk and giving public BJ’s at friends weddings. @realDonaldTrump
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) September 9, 2020
A crackpot former coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
re: #175 jaunte
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Yeah, funny thing: the only Senators* who have been outright dismissive of the Woodward revelations are those with safe seats.**
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** Unfortunately (for the country) Cornyn’s and Kennedy’s seats are safe.
re: #179 Jay C
Yeah, funny thing: the only Senators* who have been outright dismissive of the Woodward revelations are those with safe seats.**
Not much from several in competitive races: wonder why….?? ///
* AFAICT
** Unfortunately (for the country) Cornyn’s and Kennedy’s seats are safe.
Yes, Texas, but polls have Hegar within one. That’s why I’m still donating to her.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
A crackpot former coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
He’s a f*cking idiot
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
A crackpot former coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
JFC. Esquire actually has a great article on Loose Change and the conspiracy mainstream culture it created.
re: #111 makeitstop
Whoa if true….
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It was clear a while back that DT was losing evangelical women (I even posted it here, but no-one listened). We’ll see what kind of inroads he makes among men.
(My guess all along has been that his rock-bottom base was around 20%, I remain hopeful that that will turn out to be the right number.)
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
A crackpot coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
You should ask your co-worker whether or not Trump spray-tans his balls. After all, your co-worker must get a good look at ‘em with Trump’s dick in their mouth.
re: #180 Belafon
Yes, Texas, but polls have Hegar within one. That’s why I’m still donating to her.
Hegar has a tough road but after living through Jim Webb going against George Allen, anything’s possible and I’m rooting for MJ.
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
A crackpot former coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
Crackpot, indeed: weren’t Woodward’s tapes made during face-to-face interviews with Trump??
So: Joe somehow managed to slip into the WH for Bob Woodward’s interviews (without anyone knowing), made himself up to look like Donald Trump, and imitated his voice in order to get embarrassing statements about COVID-19 on the record - then slipped out before anyone noticed?
Makes me just want to vote for him more: THAT’S the sort of ingenuity I want to see in a President…!
re: #186 Jay C
Crackpot, indeed: weren’t Woodward’s tapes made during face-to-face interviews with Trump??
So: Joe somehow managed to slip into the WH for Bob Woodward’s interviews (without anyone knowing), made himself up to look like Donald Trump, and imitated his voice in order to get embarrassing statements about COVID-19 on the record - then slipped out before anyone noticed?
Makes me just want to vote for him more: THAT’S the sort of ingenuity I want to see in a President…!
Biden has dementia yet he’s the world’s best Trump impressionist.
How stupid do these people think we are? https://t.co/1au0G3AN08
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) September 10, 2020
Biden was warning about this in January when a lot of people wrote him off. He also was warning that we weren’t ready in October 2019. Biden imo more than any Democrat who ran imo knew and knows the damage Trump has done.
It is Derkach who supplied information on Biden to Senator Ron Johnson and lRep Devin Nunes. https://t.co/zEykad5HNq
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 10, 2020
re: #177 Eclectic Cyborg
A crackpot former coworker of mine thinks it was Biden on those tapes IMITATING TRUMP.
That explains why Trump is trying to justify the remarks. Later he’ll reveal it was actually Biden and it was an elaborate trap! 11 dimensional chess!
Poll: Majority of Americans support athletes kneeling in protest, say they should speak out on social issues https://t.co/57uWCFuu25 pic.twitter.com/cX8N3z9xLg
— The Hill (@thehill) September 10, 2020
https://t.co/ue34JbyAtd pic.twitter.com/V3ZmDP2OPy
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 10, 2020
re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Good! Yet another issue Trump and the GOP can self-righteously position themselves on the wrong side of!
(though a 56-42 opinion is hardly overwhelming. Better than the opposite, however…)
re: #176 makeitstop
Funny how this guy never gets attacked by Trump. I wonder why that is?
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Why is that NSFW? It sounds like regular work for the Trump family. Few of them have had a cold sober day that wasn’t spent in police booking.
re: #195 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Trump was afraid to run against Obama.
So I read Ted Lieu mention reckless homicide in terms of Trump deliberately downplaying COVID. The analogy that came to mind is when a doctor or attorney becomes aware that her client is going a credible risk to harm someone. In those circumstances, the doctor or attorney is obligated to notify the police, or face civil penalties if the client does, in fact, follow through with the threat. I’m somewhat at a loss to find a meaningful distinction.
re: #197 Sherlock Hound
Why is that NSFW? It sounds like regular work for the Trump family. Few of them have had a cold sober day that wasn’t spent in police booking.
I just prefer to err on the side of caution with tweets like that.
re: #200 makeitstop
I just prefer to err on the side of caution with tweets like that.
Blood family or in-law, I wonder.
re: #181 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
He’s a f*cking idiot
Agreed. He and I are members of the same FB group (which has nothing to do with politics), which is where I saw his comments. Fortunately the admins deleted his post pretty quickly.
re: #120 jamesfirecat
Um, no one is playing the role of Tywin, Tywin was the one person who could actually keep Cersei more or less on leash and force her to do sane reasonable things.
Fred Sr would be Tywin — and like Tywin, his death freed Trump to do whatever he wanted without any oversight.
re: #191 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
See below re Russian agent.
Plus THIS:
When Sen. Ron Johnson denies taking info from Derkach, note Johnson’s staff worked FOR MONTHS with Derkach’s collaborator, Telizhenko, who FBI warned is a conduit for Russian disinfo.
As @AshaRangappa_ and I wrote:https://t.co/c9cPzX5l8B https://t.co/VijXrDu7lq— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 10, 2020
Why Is The Postal Service Hiding DeJoy’s Calendar?@AOC asked in a recent hearing, and House Oversight followed with a subpoena. HuffPost filed a FOIA.
To each request, USPS says DeJoy’s calendar is not an “agency record,” which is basically nonsense. https://t.co/XLqG5h5LKB— George Zornick (@gzornick) September 8, 2020
Because DeJoy is a criminal, engaged in dismantling the post office for his own profit.
It’s on tape, John. Stop trying to diminish confidence in our press.
It looks like you got the memo back in March to downplay the pandemic too.
Now nearly 200,000 Americans are dead. https://t.co/p0LgMxjYBw pic.twitter.com/mTZaI7xZsQ— MJ Hegar (@mjhegar) September 10, 2020
re: #201 Barefoot Grin
Blood family or in-law, I wonder.
Casler was Ivanka’s handler on The Apprentice, so there’s that.
This is your population on decades of fascist propaganda, most recently aided and abetted by social media:
Not to ruin my own forecast update, but K.I.M. severity of Trump’s “deliberate deceit” which killed thousands- should not only make Trump unelectable, it should have his OWN PARTY clamoring for him to resign. That neither will happen means Amer. democracy is in risk of failure
— Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 (@RachelBitecofer) September 10, 2020
re: #188 jaunte
It is important to remember that President @realDonaldTrump shut down the entire American economy to put the health of America first.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) September 10, 2020
Trump demanded states open up faster than his own experts warned was responsible. He encouraged GOPers like Kemp and Abbott and DeSantis to ignore the need to shut down and open up faster. The result - massive spike in cases and more deaths.
That’s the actual record.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 10, 2020
re: #188 jaunte
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Not just stupid. Misinformed, ignorant, and willing to ignore the facts and instead believe a bunch of baffling bulkshit.
Fun fact: Trump didn’t shut down shit. GOVERNORS made the decisions to lock their states down.
re: #210 lawhawk
Not just stupid. Misinformed, ignorant, and willing to ignore the facts and instead believe a bunch of baffling bulkshit.
Don’t forget racist to the core. They are totally in agreement with the wall and children in cages. Yes — there are some who care only about abortion and Trump is delivering for them — but there is a larger group who are, at heart, white supremacists. They don’t care about his lies, only about the fact that Trump shares their hostility to minorities.
Think of the bumper sticker debasement.
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re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
Fun fact: Trump didn’t shut down shit. GOVERNORS made the decisions to lock their states down.
And Trump and his allies attacked them for it. These gaslighting assholes.
re: #208 Interesting Times
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Republicans are as addicted to power as a junky is addicted to heroin.
Republicans will do anything to grab more power. That is all they live for.— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) September 10, 2020
re: #213 Dave In Austin
Think of the bumper sticker debasement.
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Fifteen-odd people is a giant crowd. Yes, of course it is. 😉
Last month, and on a lark, I filed a dispute with Experian over the derogatory marks on my credit from the evil mortgage company. The mortgage company issue is ongoing, but Experian actually removed the item a week ago. I just got an email from them with the results, but this was after I’d logged into my bank account and saw my FICO score had shot up over 100 points.
Lessons learned:
* Derogatory items on your credit can REALLY take a toll.
* File a complaint if the credit report is in error. Much to my great surprise, it worked.
Wow…all 15 of them!
Nice try, SLUMLORD SEAN! 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) September 10, 2020
The NFL season starts today so expect to Trump to start bitching about players kneeling again.
re: #213 Dave In Austin
I count 21 adults and one child in that photo.
That’s a “giant crowd”??
re: #143 ckkatz
The most recent Lincoln Project Podcast discusses the likely timing issue with in person voting versus mail in ballot voting. It generally recounts what has been posted on LGF in somewhat greater detail.
Basically, the pollsters expect that the in person voters will be mostly Republican voters while the mail in voters will largely be Democratic.
fwiw:
A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds 61% of registered voters nationwide say they want to cast their ballots before Election Day, a significant departure from previous years that will force the candidates to reshape how they campaign in the election season’s final weeks.
re: #213 Dave In Austin
Think of the bumper sticker debasement.
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re: #213 Dave In Austin
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re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg
The NFL season starts today so expect to Trump to start bitching about players kneeling again.
I’m already seeing “Boycott the ‘N-CLANG’ Football League” posts retweeted by The Usual Gang Of Fucking Brain Dead Assholes…
re: #154 🌹UOJB!
You must die. The Party commands it!
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its less ‘a book’, even a ‘gotcha book’ and more a transcript of trump quotes on tape
.@SenJohnKennedy “These gotcha books don’t really interest me that much.”@PamelaBrownCNN: “He’s on the record.”
Kennedy: “These gotcha books don’t really interest me that much.”
Brown: “He did 18 interviews.”
Kennedy: “These gotcha books don’t really interest me that much.”— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) September 9, 2020
re: #209 lawhawk
It is important to remember that President @realDonaldTrump shut down the entire American economy to put the health of America first.
Pence auditioned to be a pimp, but he couldn’t meet the moral threshold.
Now this, this is “confidence.” https://t.co/VVw9TKrLjw
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) September 10, 2020
She’s ready to kick some ass.
How many more people have to suffer because of President Trump’s lies? pic.twitter.com/m2spzGCKgd
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 10, 2020
Biden ad
re: #186 Jay C
Crackpot, indeed: weren’t Woodward’s tapes made during face-to-face interviews with Trump??
So: Joe somehow managed to slip into the WH for Bob Woodward’s interviews (without anyone knowing), made himself up to look like Donald Trump, and imitated his voice in order to get embarrassing statements about COVID-19 on the record - then slipped out before anyone noticed?
Makes me just want to vote for him more: THAT’S the sort of ingenuity I want to see in a President…!
what i read was i think two face to face interviews
the rest were by phone.
trump gave woodward his personal cell #.
woodward could bypass the switchboard
re: #221 dangerman
….fwiw:
A new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds 61% of registered voters nationwide say they want to cast their ballots before Election Day, a significant departure from previous years that will force the candidates to reshape how they campaign in the election season’s final weeks.
But many are probably like me: voting early at an official early polling place, not by mail. And the only reason I may not be voting on the first day is that I have to review what to do about the dozens of judges that typically show up on our ballots.
re: #218 🌹UOJB!
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All the GOP is a bunch of dicks acting like dicks, they think it is clever.
So sick of it.
re: #227 makeitstop
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She’s ready to kick some ass.
OMG! She’s wearing a tan suit!
The horror!
The scandal!!!
re: #231 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
All the GOP is a bunch of dicks acting like dicks, they think it is clever.
So sick of it.
Alternative is what? Being honest about their hypocrisy and complete lack of integrity, lack of belief in public service, and absolute loyalty to a party and President that essentially have none of the core values and behaviors that are supposed to define America?
re: #188 jaunte
No he didn’t. I have worked through the last six months (except on days off) because people tend to freak out if they can’t instantly and virtually fondle their checking, savings and retirement accounts. We would all know if the entire economy was shut dow. IT WASN’T.
— Dee *We are a nation of laws not lynchings* Holmes (@mmmirele) September 10, 2020
re: #143 ckkatz
…
Basically, the pollsters expect that the in person voters will be mostly Republican voters while the mail in voters will largely be Democratic.
…
The obvious problem here is that Republicans are cramming most of their votes into a day they’re also trying to fill with chaos and likely street violence. This tactic is very likely to heavily suppress their own vote. They’ll try to target urban districts but it’s real hard to eliminate the splash back when you’re carpet bombing at low altitude.
Wow this is breathtaking deliberate lying! Trump attacked the Governor of Michigan for “shelter in place” order & encouraged his stooges to swarm the State Capitol with a bunch of guns. #BidenHarris #VoteBlue #KHive #Resist #TrumpLies #GOPKnew #GOPComplicitTraitors pic.twitter.com/i08JG2aqK0
— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) September 10, 2020
re: #230 Hecuba’s daughter
But many are probably like me: voting early at an official early polling place, not by mail. And the only reason I may not be voting on the first day is that I have to review what to do about the dozens of judges that typically show up on our ballots.
what im finding interesting is that if 60 odd percent vote early the entire campaigning dynamic should change. it’s got to be way earlier. who sees that? who’s gonna react accordingly?
tv ads were already slipping in value and now become even far less valuable
an october surprise is almost meaningless with so many votes already banked
re: #234 mmmirele
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how did he shut the entire american economy down?
give us specific actions and citations with dates
It is important to remember that President @realDonaldTrump shut down the entire American economy to put the health of America first.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) September 10, 2020
re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg
Fun fact: Trump didn’t shut down shit. GOVERNORS made the decisions to lock their states down.
Fun fact: Trump objected to those states shutting things down. He actively sought to sabotage those efforts. He actively attacked the governors, including Whitmer and Cuomo and Murphy for shutting things down because Trump valued the economy more than public health and safety, and now we have none of that - we have a shattered economy and 200,000 dead Americans.
This is the guy who’s trying to claim he lied to the public about coronavirus because he didn’t want to cause a panic. https://t.co/ws61vFHS85
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 10, 2020
re: #233 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Alternative is what? Being honest about their hypocrisy and complete lack of integrity, lack of belief in public service, and absolute loyalty to a party and President that essentially have none of the core values and behaviors that are supposed to define America?
That is what the total GOP has been, especially since the Gingrich revolution. But Reagan and Grover Norquist ( of “My goal is to … get [government] down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub” fame) also played major roles in kneecapping the federal government.
re: #217 mmmirele
Last month, and on a lark, I filed a dispute with Experian over the derogatory marks on my credit from the evil mortgage company. The mortgage company issue is ongoing, but Experian actually removed the item a week ago. I just got an email from them with the results, but this was after I’d logged into my bank account and saw my FICO score had shot up over 100 points.
Lessons learned:
* Derogatory items on your credit can REALLY take a toll.
* File a complaint if the credit report is in error. Much to my great surprise, it worked.
Rules:
1) always request credit reports from all 3 agencies on an annual basis. That’s your right to review.
2) Correct wrong/inaccurate info ASAP since that affects your credit scores.
3) Credit scores affect everything else you do, from mortgage interest rates to credit cards to bank accounts.
4) see (1)
5) do (2)
Rinse and repeat.
re: #238 dangerman
simple question, mike.
how did he shut the entire american economy down?
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He can’t.
None of them can, because this assertion is just gaslighting bullshit in a desperate attempt to rewrite history (kinda hard when it’s only a few months ago) to make Trump look good, and deflect attention from his catastrophic failures in dealing with this pandemic.
Yeah, I know 2020 has been one of those historical bitches of a year, but I can certainly recall March - I live in NYC, and it was definitely “shut down” due to the pandemic - but I also recall Trump (and most Republicans) generally dismissing the severity of the virus, blithely assuming that it was mainly/only an “urban” issue, and - most notably - trying to AVOID calling for “a shutdown of the economy” (which they still, really haven’t).
The Big Lie. Trump did exactly NOTHING to shut the country down. Mike Pence is the Goebbels of the Trump crime family.
We’re going to need a new Nuremberg trial to bring these mass murderers to justice. https://t.co/UGlPohuHOB— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 10, 2020
Interesting. Pence deleted this tweet. pic.twitter.com/3c3FvidrHo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 10, 2020
I was stunned by this image of the devastation in Phoenix, Ore.- then I compared it to what used to be… pic.twitter.com/uK8SGs0ljL
— Kyle Iboshi (@KyleIboshi) September 10, 2020
re: #243 Jay C
He can’t.
None of them can, because this assertion is just gaslighting bullshit in a desperate attempt to rewrite history (kinda hard when it’s only a few months ago) to make Trump look good, and deflect attention from his catastrophic failures in dealing with this pandemic.
Yeah, I know 2020 has been one of those historical bitches of a year, but I can certainly recall March - I live in NYC, and it was definitely “shut down” due to the pandemic - but I also recall Trump (and most Republicans) generally dismissing the severity of the virus, blithely assuming that it was mainly/only an “urban” issue, and - most notably - trying to AVOID calling for “a shutdown of the economy” (which they still, really haven’t).
Trump never shut down the airlines (you know, one of those things that wuold happen if he actually shut down the economy). He never instituted screening or mandates on masking across entire aviation industry. Rather, he fixated on claim that he stopped people flying from China (he didn’t), and then Europe (he didn’t), and then UK (he didn’t).
People were still flying. It’s companies that stopped flying and risking their employees. People saw the risks and stopped flying. They aren’t returning to normal conditions because we aren’t in normal conditions.
Countries across world are now dealing with new outbreaks and instituting lockdowns and masking protocols to deal with localized outbreaks.
Israel, which had been handling things pretty well has gone into meltdown mode because the orthodox communities have decided that shutdowns are targeting them (because they’re the ones where we’re seeing the outbreaks). Bibi’s got a huge mess on his hands.
And other countries are spewing the same kind of Trumpist bulkshit. They are predictably doing worse than those that followed the health expert guidance.
re: #241 Hecuba’s daughter
That is what the total GOP has been, especially since the Gingrich revolution. But Reagan and Grover Norquist ( of “My goal is to … get [government] down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub” fame) also played major roles in kneecapping the federal government.
Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
: “I was a Republican for most of my adult life….
“I understand the attachment to that GOP, even among those who have sworn to defeat Donald Trump, but the time for sentimentality is over. That party is long gone. Today the Republicans are the party of ‘American carnage’ and Russian collusion, of scams, plots, and weapons-grade contempt for the rule of law. The only decent, sensible, and conservative position is to vote against this Republican Party at every level, and bring the sad final days of a once-great political institution to an end. Then build the party back up again—from scratch.”
re: #245 Charles Johnson
Do we know for sure it was Pence that deleted it and not Twitter?
re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
Do we know for sure it was Pence that deleted it and not Twitter?
Wouldn’t Twitter at least put up a notice that they removed the tweet?
Looks like Pence got caught in a lie and bailed.
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020)
Murder In Mind: Terror Stalks The Avengers Set, 1961 - Flashbak https://t.co/Eu5aBvOQQb pic.twitter.com/gJHFooOAde
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— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 10, 2020
re: #244 nines09
They pulled it down.
It says something when the Prez or in this case VP tweets something that’s gotta be taken down within hours
re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020)
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She was my nominee for “Early Hot TV Star” a couple days ago.
littlegreenfootballs.com
Just listened to an NPR report on a small town in Colorado in which several inhabitants interviewed are getting tired of BOTH SIDES screwing up the pandemic response.
re: #244 nines09
They pulled it down.
Trump wants to deny shutting the country down, when it is convenient for him.
re: #250 makeitstop
Wouldn’t Twitter at least put up a notice that they removed the tweet?
Looks like Pence got caught in a lie and bailed.
Imo not so much caught as being so avalanched they couldn’t *maintain* the lie
In the movies something like this never ends well for humanity
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) September 10, 2020
re: #255 jaunte
Just listened to an NPR report on a small town in Colorado in which several inhabitants interviewed are getting tired of BOTH SIDES screwing up the pandemic response.
“Why won’t both Presidents Trump and Biden do something?”
re: #258 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Tony Bennett unavailable for comment.
re: #259 Belafon
The fake balance is getting insane.
re: #246 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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That’s what I’m breathing on my way to and from work. Much less wind this morning. That should help some.
re: #259 Belafon
“Why won’t both Presidents Trump and Biden do something?”
And that Obama guy! He did nothing. //
re: #258 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The Decameron had a story like that. Only, if I recall, a lover found her boyfriend’s head in a cup. Very GoT.
re: #265 Sherlock Hound
I assume it was a shrunken head?
Large network of Facebook pages circulates voting misinformation from obscure right-wing website, Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria.
More malarky.
BTW, in case anyone wants a brief, if thorough, rundown on Treasury’s latest actions re Andrii Derkach (and Rudy Giuliani’s complicity), Adam Silverman at Balloon Juice has a new post up.
“Shorter”: Rudy is being a stooge for the Russians, the “Biden/Ukraine” “scandals” are basically manufactured bullshit, OANN are hack tools for publicizing it.
Like we didn’t already know this crap, but now it’s semi-official….
Hey North Carolina!
As part of her $2 million settlement for FRAUD, @IvankaTrump had to agree to attend classes on HOW NOT TO DEFRAUD any future charity she part of.
Think about that.
She had to take a class on how NOT to steal from sick kids & veterans & other people in need. https://t.co/djwsMPY6az— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 10, 2020
I now have a favorite pinned tweet. Who knew that would ever happen..
Oddly satisfying 🤤 pic.twitter.com/9O390lf7y5
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 9, 2020
re: #266 retired cynic
Not the tweet I was going for, sorry.
I believe there’s gonna be a fight….
“Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation, setting new rules that will likely force the platform to more aggressively fact-check President Donald Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign,” CNN reports.
The company will either add fact-check labels to or hide altogether tweets that contain “false or misleading information that causes confusion” about election rules, or posts with “unverified information about election rigging.”
re: #273 dangerman
Oh, Donnie is going to love that.
re: #273 dangerman
I’ll believe it when it happens.
re: #266 retired cynic
I assume it was a shrunken head?
Yes. But I may have confused this story; I believe, on second thought, that the lady found her boyfriend’s head in a flower pot. Still très GoT.
Mitch McConnell has been blocking $25 billion in funding for USPS for 118 days, legislation to restore Voting Rights Act for 278 days & legislation to prevent foreign election interference for 322 days
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 10, 2020
NEW: Senate Republicans rallied around a scaled-down, $300 billion coronavirus relief bill, but it fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority to advance it, effectively killing the bill. https://t.co/JgRw8WRnIw
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) September 10, 2020
Chuck Todd: “Hillary Clinton was a magnet for this stuff. She couldn’t get away from it. Trump is the magnet now.”
I give up.— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 10, 2020
Johnson is a traitor. https://t.co/8dSHY2TRyl
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) September 10, 2020
Those Trump campaign liability waivers he made attendees like Herman Cain sign might be a bigger problem now
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) September 9, 2020
re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
Do we know for sure it was Pence that deleted it and not Twitter?
Most likely was Trump told him to ditch it because he didn’t want to be tied to the idea of shutting down the economy. He wants to put that all on dems.
Vulnerable Democrat @SenDougJones votes AGAINST the GOP skinny COVID bill. He said he’s appalled at the “complete lack of leadership when the majority leader here, what he’s done is a disservice to the American people.”
— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) September 10, 2020
re: #283 dangerman
Vulnerable Democrat @SenDougJones votes AGAINST the GOP skinny COVID bill. He said he’s appalled at the “complete lack of leadership when the majority leader here, what he’s done is a disservice to the American people.”
Jones is intelligent, honest, and good-hearted. He will be replaced by Alabamians who think they should be represented by someone who is more like themselves.
re: #283 dangerman
The House Democrats passed a big relief package in MAY. Democrats had a plan. They passed it.
The GOP refused to act until today. They waited 4 full months before taking a vote on a package that couldn’t get passed their own caucus. McConnell has screwed millions of Americans and adds to the body count and economic wreckage. Trump and GOP don’t have a plan except to run out the clock while McConnell continues packing the courts with right wing lunatics.
re: #278 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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sorry, no.
NEW: Senate Republicans rallied around a scaled-down, $300 billion coronavirus relief bill that even Mcconnell admitted wasn’t what he or the Republicans even wanted, but it fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority to advance it, effectively killing the bill.
NEW: Senate Republicans rallied around a scaled-down, $300 billion coronavirus relief bill, but it fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority to advance it, effectively killing the bill. https://t.co/JgRw8WRnIw
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) September 10, 2020
re: #282 danarchy
Most likely was Trump told him to ditch it because he didn’t want to be tied to the idea of shutting down the economy. He wants to put that all on dems.
too late. twitter is forever
re: #285 lawhawk
The House Democrats passed a big relief package in MAY. Democrats had a plan. They passed it.
The GOP refused to act until today. They waited 4 full months before taking a vote on a package that couldn’t get passed their own caucus. McConnell has screwed millions of Americans and adds to the body count and economic wreckage. Trump and GOP don’t have a plan except to run out the clock while McConnell continues packing the courts with right wing lunatics.
yup.
mcconnell’s plan was to now be able to say the dems ‘voted against’ covid relief.
which isnt remotely true.
it was a procedural vote.
so if this counts as voting ‘against’ a bill, then what i tweeted above about mcconnell means that he has in fact voted against all these things.
‘procedure’ counts, or it doesnt.
Mitch McConnell has been blocking $25 billion in funding for USPS for 118 days, legislation to restore Voting Rights Act for 278 days & legislation to prevent foreign election interference for 322 days
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) September 10, 2020
re: #99 Decatur Deb
Don’t know what imp from Hell inspired Trump to self-incriminate on tape, but I’ll buy him a beer if I ever meet him. (Coor’s Light, of course—favorite beer in Hell.)
I thought it is the only beer there, and that’s why it is Hell.
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
Fascism is a radically reactionary ideology, and conservatism certainly has a reactionary streak to it. It’s no surprise the two ideologies can work quite nicely together.
ideology works as follows: radicalism is far left, reactionarism is far right. the center is held by (theoretically) liberals to the slight left, republicans to the slight right. Slightly further to the left than liberals (theoretically) are libertarians. Slightly to the right of republicans are tories. a bit to the left of libertarians are socialists. a bit to the right of tories are royalists. a bit further to the left of socialists are communists. a bit further to the right of royalists are fascists. finally, there are anarchists, who will throw bombs in any crowd.
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