Seth takes a closer look at the president participating in an ABC town hall with undecided voters last night where he lied as often as he breathed.
Texas and Florida, both states that voted for Trump in 2016 and have GOP governors, are currently 2nd and 3rd in coronavirus cases.
Georgia, another red state run by a Republican, is 5th.— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 16, 2020
He’s so lazy, he can’t even be bothered to vary his lies, even when they contradict each other https://t.co/BIdaz1l3Lq
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 16, 2020
A handful of little bunnies.. pic.twitter.com/uCBRFjnCck
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) September 17, 2020
(ugh, got new-posted hard)
So 538 has ticked over to 76-1-23 today. This seems to be on some good state polling (I don’t see now MN can be considered competitive at this point, and WI is getting there fast).
Ohio, Texas, Georgia numbers are close-ish, but I don’t really expect to see wins there unless it’s a total wipeout. PA is looking good. Florida is light blue on my internal map, but I expect we won’t know until election day.
I see the election something like this: 270towin.com
Note that Biden wins without Ohio, and without Florida. And can lose either Arizona or Pennsylvania and still get over the line. And has plenty of bonus states. Though I really don’t want him to be showing up at the EC vote with 270…
re: #8 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Jesus Idaho.
And this is data from July. Dear God in heaven, what would the data look like now?
of everything we’ve normalized, the worst may be the total servility of Rs in Congress.
POTUS just said blue state deaths don’t count, masks don’t work, covid would end if we didn’t test, the CDC doesn’t know science & the election will be rigged.
nobody expects Rs to speak up.— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) September 16, 2020
Rachel Maddow’s on fire tonight, angrily dissecting Trump’s herd immunity solution to Covid-19 & showing by logical extension 215 million Americans would be infected, with a minimum of 2.5 million dead Americans, & as many as 6.5 mllion dead.
Maddow’s rage is apparent.— Charles Campisi (@1813Doncarlo) September 17, 2020
Donald J Trump, President of the Red States of America. https://t.co/XViLRaHNeh
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) September 16, 2020
Fucking DHL. They take every bad thing about USPS, UPS, & FedEx and roll them up into one horrifically hideous package. I ordered a present last month. It shipped from Bulgaria on the 10th and got to Minneapolis at 7 am the 14th. And sat there. They’ll deliver it tomorrow supposedly.
Thankfully my sword from China was handed over to UPS by the Chinese shipping company and is going to be here tomorrow as well.
Enough to drive me nuts.
re: #9 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And this is data from July. Dear God in heaven, what would the data look like now?
Yeah it’s probably worse now after Sturgis.
re: #12 dangerman
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He repeatedly shows he’s only interested in the states that voted for him. Best argument for getting rid of the EC imo.
re: #14 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah it’s probably worse now after Sturgis.
I actually went and checked on 91-divoc. It looks like after a huge spike in early August, most states - and by extension, the United States overall - has largely come back down. Hmm, I wonder what changed in August that suddenly places that were accelerating on rapid exponential curves started to abate?
re: #17 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
With that said, I changed the chart to show the daily positivity rate, which has been the metric I’ve been keeping my eye on the most. Here’s a list for you:
Idaho
Alabama
South Dakota
Mississippi
Iowa
Kansas
Wisconsin
Florida
Utah
Missouri
Texas
South Carolina
And there’s a 10% gap between Idaho, at 28%, and Alabama, at 18%. Holy crap.
So it looks like the White House wanted to use a microwave weapon deemed unsafe for use in Iraq against US protestors so that Trump could have a photo op in front of a church. https://t.co/zQDnjkNZCV pic.twitter.com/7lcsPEpOsF
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) September 17, 2020
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
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FT
Abides where the only fucks given are middle fingers to Trump.
re: #16 Belafon
My son and I finally finished both versions of Full Metal Alchemist. And a “blooper” reel, though only one of the lines really sounds like a blooper:
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I really liked Brotherhood much better. But I binge both randomly throughout the year. Every year.
Thanks to local college radio I recently found a cool LA punk band I had never heard of, Illuminati Hotties.
Their latest album leans heavy, but has some cool nerd-core, math-rock, even old-school Weezer type influences. Ear-worm incoming with one of the most mellow, catchy, and relatable songs from the album:
re: #16 Belafon
just finished Ore Monogatari!! recently, quite a sweet love story… trying to decide what I want to try and backfill next, although in this day and age, high school romances are such a refreshing change of pace from what is going on everyday I may go back and hit up Toradora or Lovely Complex once again.
This is what Trump wanted to use on protestors:
This is the Active Denial System.
It was deemed too unpredictable to use in Iraq, but the Trump Administration sought it out during DC’s peaceful protests in early June.
It makes it feel like your skin is on fire. pic.twitter.com/ZBQRpkh7R4— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 17, 2020
He gets off on torturing and killing his enemies.
re: #24 The Pie Overlord!
This is what Trump wanted to use on protestors:
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So, if you are hemmed in by people who aren’t moving, are unconscious or otherwise unable to move what happens to you?
So Trump said the people in blue states don’t matter?
Has he been talking to my representative, who said he does not represent Democrats in his district?
This fascist crap from conservatives isn’t new, nor is Trump the first person to say this.
re: #10 dangerman
Congressional Republicans aren’t servile to Trump. They are collaborators with him and are complicit in all of Trump’s crimes and corruption. Particularly for the Senate Republicans, since they are the only people in the country who could actually remove Trump from office tomorrow.
So the natural conclusion is that Republicans like what they see in Trump, including the bigotry, crimes, corruption, gross stupidity and malignant narcissism.
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So Trump said the people in blue states don’t matter?
Has he been talking to my representative, who said he does not represent Democrats in his district?
This fascist crap from conservatives isn’t new, nor is Trump the first person to say this.
They’ve been doing 50%+1 since Bush. Now, they realize they don’t even need that.
My GOP colleagues are actually spending their time on this, 48 days before the election. That’s the best news I’ve heard since they found D.B. Cooper. https://t.co/WWunNJ4R6N
— Rep. Jared “Please Wear a Mask” Huffman (@JaredHuffman) September 17, 2020
re: #29 Belafon
They’ve been doing 50%+1 since Bush. Now, they realize they don’t even need that.
Earlier than Bush. Remember how Reagan treated HIV? Probably where Pence got the idea.
There really needs to be genocide trials.
re: #30 teleskiguy
Definitely a long shot bid, since the GOP is in the minority.
re: #30 teleskiguy
That should be ‘House Republican Power Caucus’.
These people don’t understand freedom and if they do they don’t like it.
Speaking of War Of The Worlds and anime I think I’ll go watch Goliath - War Of The Worlds again.
Teddy Roosevelt runs Earth’s defences, Nikolai Tesla is the head of research and I love hearing Manfred von Richtofen say, “Deutschland can kiss my ass.”
Later.
The last county in Panhandle Public Health District has reported its first case of Covid-19.
Grant County is not in the Panhandle, but they caucus with us.
There was another death in Scott’s Bluff County, raising the number to eight. (All eight have been there.)
In total, there are ninety-four active cases.
Twenty new cases were reported today.
The largest age group remains 20-29, and women and girls are still 2/3 of cases.
Only three towns have had no cases: mine, and Lisco and Llewellyn in Garden County.
Counterfeit bills are showing up across Lincoln, and police there are urging workers to check currency for telltale signs.
Between Sept. 1 and Wednesday, the Lincoln Police Department investigated 21 incidents in which people tried to pass counterfeit bills. The bills showed up at such businesses as convenience stores, gas stations and restaurants, police said.
The counterfeit currency is ranging from $5 bills to $100 bills.
Counterfeit bills can be detected in several ways, police said. Workers at the businesses that were given the bills noticed the money “didn’t feel right” and also did not have some basic security features such as the orange background colors. In other cases, police said, the bills lacked the embedded security thread that glows when illuminated by UV light. (more)
Firefighters literally fight fire.
Also firefighters fighting conspiracy theories on TikTok.
Not all heroes wear capes…pic.twitter.com/WvUrN6tWqc— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 17, 2020
As expected after our state AG got involved threatening to take the Big Ten to court:
Husker football players drop lawsuit against Big Ten (Omaha World-Herald)
Players earned a partial victory in their motion for early discovery when a Lancaster County District Court ruled Sept. 2 that the Big Ten must produce certain documents — primarily its governing bylaws and evidence that an 11-3 vote to postpone took place among the Council of Presidents and Chancellors — by last weekend. The court said the league didn’t have to disclose medical documents or data related to its postponement decision or how individual schools voted at the time.
re: #17 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I actually went and checked on 91-divoc. It looks like after a huge spike in early August, most states - and by extension, the United States overall - has largely come back down. Hmm, I wonder what changed in August that suddenly places that were accelerating on rapid exponential curves started to abate?
I can’t tell if you’re being rhetorical or not, and all I can remember is that Texas at least started taking it seriously.
I’m not saying the outcome will be the same but this is almost word-for-word what went viral on FB in Myanmar and Sri Lanka just before the incitement turned to massive real-world violence. In both cases Facebook did nothing even as innocent people were dying. https://t.co/ibXYlNpQa3
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) September 17, 2020
today
40,000 new cases
1,100 dead.
This is not winning.
Lre: #44 I Would Prefer Not To
today
40,000 new cases
1,100 dead.
This is not winning.
Nearly at 200000 dead.
Abominable. Dreeben a lawyer of unimpeachable integrity and skill and for that reason hand picked by (Republican) Bob Mueller. He can’t believe this, and there is a who’s-who of Republican former officials (and justices of the Supreme Court) who have no doubt how shameful it is. https://t.co/T0kre6hQdW
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) September 17, 2020
Bill Barr is off his nut.
re: #46 jaunte
Perhaps this is a sign the Durham investigation is not reaping the results Barr wants.
— DebbieMiller (@dgmiller13) September 17, 2020
Dear Bill Barr of @TheJusticeDept: NO, the authority and legitimacy of @FBI agents do not come from you. Their authority comes from the Constitution. FBI agents swore an oath to the Constitution, not to you.
Also, we are not a Banana Republic. Stop acting like a tinpot dictator. https://t.co/3Z0lnIHXKH— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 17, 2020
re: #48 jaunte
Oh, yes, he does say that in a pompous way.
New QAnon-Allied GOP Senate Candidate Also Pushed Anti-Semitism, Flat Earthism, and 9/11 Conspiracies https://t.co/VZCwETmQKy via @thedailybeast
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 17, 2020
And here’s the truly evil part:
How much is he just consciously trying to stoke more anger, more protests with this rhetoric? That’s their goal, right? Protests they can put down with violence in every city for election day.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 17, 2020
re: #51 jaunte
and that’s just it, he’s using protests against racial violence as their own prop to state that these protests are out of control and violent when who’s doing the violence, the cops, the paramilitary guys and these boogaloo boys and militia types… if there is a reckoning, I sure as hell hope he gets reckoned…
re: #48 jaunte
Read everything Barr was saying to the DOJ prosecutors. Then remember that last week, one of Durhams top deputies resigned in protest of Barr trying to rush the Durham report for politician purposes. We are seeing Barr’s rage filled reaction that his corruption got delayed.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 17, 2020
Read this thread. This is what dude and I are beginning to face. My new doctor wants me to take a daily med for my asthma. My insurance doesn’t cover it, so it would be $250 a month. Can’t afford it. Not getting it. Dude is having trouble getting insulin that isn’t $400 dollars a month.
And this is before preexisting condition protection gets stripped away. We are so fucked.
“Why do you want to be a doctor?”
I answer without hesitation, “I want to help people.”
“There are many ways to help people.”
“I want to save lives.”
“There are many ways to do that too. So I’ll ask you again, why do you want to be a doctor?”
“Because I believe in it.” 1/— Sayed Tabatabai, MD (@TheRealDoctorT) September 16, 2020
re: #54 plansbandc
Read this thread. This is what dude and I are beginning to face. My new doctor wants me to take a daily med for my asthma. My insurance doesn’t cover it, so it would be $250 a month. Can’t afford it. Not getting it. Dude is having trouble getting insulin that isn’t $400 dollars a month.
And this is before preexisting condition protection gets stripped away. We are so fucked.
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Yet I have to deal with callers who INSIST that Trump has improved their access to health care and made it more affordable. Oh and Trump protects people with pre-existing conditions with tax credits, too.
Four years ago the press and the right erupted over the *appearance* of a possible conflict when Lynch met with Clinton, arguing improper political influence on prosecutions. Now the Barr/Trumpist position is: political influence on prosecutions is great and we need more of it.
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) September 17, 2020
re: #56 Dread Pirate Ron
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Bill Barr is off his nut.
Barr can see the walls closing in and he’s getting increasingly desperate.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Barr can see the walls closing in and he’s getting increasingly desperate.
And they all know that there are going to be big ramifications of they don’t steal the election.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Barr can see the walls closing in and he’s getting increasingly desperate.
I hope he’s prosecuted after this or at the very least is permanently disbarred.
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Barr can see the walls closing in and he’s getting increasingly desperate.
God willing he’ll die of old age in a prison cell.
re: #59 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And they all know that there are going to be big ramifications of they don’t steal the election.
Yep. Barr is worried that an incoming DOJ under a Biden administration will begin investigations of his tenure - and he knows full well he’s done some shit that could land him in prison.
re: #62 Dr Lizardo
Yep. Barr is worried that an incoming DOJ under a Biden administration will begin investigations of his tenure - and he knows full well he’s done some shit that could land him in prison.
I got this creepy feeling Barr is going to do the R. Budd Dwyer thing…
re: #61 William Lewis
God willing he’ll die of old age in a prison cell.
So many of these guys do. It frightens me that there’s so much we don’t know. The story of the ICE camps. Yeah I think AOC was right to call them concentration camps.
Biden explaining how RNA works and the logistics of vaccine storage but sure he’s in mental decline and the guy who wants us to gargle Lysol is totally fine.
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) September 16, 2020
Republican donors are such suckers. https://t.co/X7TcBwky4d
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 16, 2020
Note this it’s called Democrat Voters and not Democratic Voters.
re: #63 🌹UOJB!
I got this creepy feeling Barr is going to do the R. Budd Dwyer thing…
IIRC, Barr is a pretty staunch Catholic. But who knows? It’s not like a Catholic has never committed suicide before.
re: #65 Belafon
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Seriously it’s amazing how many people buy the idea that Biden is senile. Yet another one of Putin’s ops fwiw.
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
IIRC, Barr is a pretty staunch Catholic. But who knows? It’s not like a Catholic has never committed suicide before.
Yeah not sure if he’s Opus Dei. Santorum to my surprise is not OD. Not all conservative Catholics are OD.
re: #68 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Seriously it’s amazing how many people buy the idea that Biden is senile. Yet another one of Putin’s ops fwiw.
At this point I’m glad they think Biden is senile. They are going to underestimate him until it is too late.
FT and good night people. Have to sleep, have a show tomorrow.
re: #70 I Would Prefer Not To
At this point I’m glad they think Biden is senile. They are going to underestimate him until it is too late.
FT and good night people. Have to sleep, have a show tomorrow.
Yeah I am too honestly. I’m just furious that they use dementia as a punchline. Shit is personal to me. But I’m impressed with Biden more daily. I think he’s gonna be what the country needs after Trump and I really like Harris too as the next defacto leader of the Democratic Party.
Here’s some good numbers. In 2018, Snapchat, though their app, got over 450k people to register to vote, 57% of whom actually voted. Most of their user base is Millenials and GenZ. In the last two weeks they have gotten over 400k registered to vote so far. If they can get at least the same percent to vote, that will seriously help in the election.
re: #72 Belafon
Here’s some good numbers. In 2018, Snapshot, though their app, got over 450k people to register to vote, 57% of whom actually voted. Most of their user base is Millenials and GenZ. In the last two weeks they have gotten over 400k registered to vote so far. If they can get at least the same percent to vote, that will seriously help in the election.
I told my youngest brother to register in his college’s town. Told him to pay attention locally. The past four years have taught me that Tip O’Neill had it right. This time next year I might have all Democrats representing me in Richmond and Washington.
re: #72 Belafon
I like how autocorrect changed Snapchat to Snapshot.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As expected after our state AG got involved threatening to take the Big Ten to court:
Husker football players drop lawsuit against Big Ten (Omaha World-Herald)
Has it been disclosed whether the student-athletes have any say in whether they are required to participate in these games? Specifically, how many of the universities are coercing the players by threatening to strip their scholarships if they don’t agree to play?
re: #63 🌹UOJB!
I got this creepy feeling Barr is going to do the R. Budd Dwyer thing…
That would be awesome. I hope it’s PPV.
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
IIRC, Barr is a pretty staunch Catholic. But who knows? It’s not like a Catholic has never committed suicide before.
He’s a fucking liar. He’s not so Catholic.
re: #77 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s a fucking liar. He’s not so Catholic.
What I would prefer is that incontrovertible evidence reveals that Barr had arranged for the early demise of Jeffrey Epstein. And the publication of that information is the October surprise for this election year!
If you thought Delaware RepubliKKKlans scraped the bottom of the barrel running Christine O’Donnell for Senator…they dug thru the bottom of the barrel and went full China syndrome with the latest asshole they nominated!
With her victory still just hours old, the newest Republican Senate nominee publicly thanked a white nationalist leader who marched in the “Unite the Right” rally and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Witzke has posted racist messages of her own on social media, calling Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “third world” and “tards.” Witzke has also more or less endorsed the idea of Trump becoming a lifelong king of the United States, and said she believes that the earth is flat.
In August 2017 Witzke was arrested in Tennessee on a series of charges. The newspaper noted that a woman named Lauren Witzke had been arrested on violating both heroin and methamphetamine laws, charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest, and introduction of contraband into a penal facility
Yet another mainstream QAnon Freak who puts the “KKK” in RepubliKKKlan
re: #81 Dread Pirate Ron
Marianne never quite was able to reach back to her height that she reached with her big hit way back in the mid ‘60’s. I don’t think I’d classify her as a one-hit wonder, yet she’s someone who I wonder could have done better if something could have changed in her career (a different manager? a better contract with a major company?)
re: #4 dangerman
He’s so lazy, he can’t even be bothered to vary his lies, even when they contradict each other
which is why he could never testify under oath without immediately perjuring himself or contradicting other sworn testimony
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Marianne never quite was able to reach back to her height that she reached with her big hit way back in the mid ‘60’s. I don’t think I’d classify her as a one-hit wonder, yet she’s someone who I wonder could have done better if something could have changed in her career (a different manager? a better contract with a major company?)
She is as much a cultural icon as a musician/artist.
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Marianne never quite was able to reach back to her height that she reached with her big hit way back in the mid ‘60’s. I don’t think I’d classify her as a one-hit wonder, yet she’s someone who I wonder could have done better if something could have changed in her career (a different manager? a better contract with a major company?)
I got into her work in the 90s. I like her whiskey voice of later years.
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
which is why he could never testify under oath without immediately perjuring himself or contradicting other sworn testimony
But that does NOT matter to the 46% of the voters who worship him as God’s Anointed King. They love how Trump kicks colored people and queers down. They love to see people they hate get hurt. They cheered when the cops killed George Floyd and Brianna Taylor.
Trump has made it acceptable to be stupid, racist, and sadistic. He is a real life narcissistic Ayn Randian sociopathic sadist.
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Marianne never quite was able to reach back to her height that she reached with her big hit way back in the mid ‘60’s. I don’t think I’d classify her as a one-hit wonder, yet she’s someone who I wonder could have done better if something could have changed in her career (a different manager? a better contract with a major company?)
Not being a heroin addict? Pretty sure her career would have gone better if she’d been able to do that…
re: #88 sagehen
Not being a heroin addict? Pretty sure her career would have gone better if she’d been able to do that…
there was a “golden age” in London when you could get it on prescription - and they would throw in a prescription for Merck cocaine to pick you back up…
remember the line from You Can’t Always Get What You Want about “I went down to the Chelsea drugstore…”?
re: #93 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Morning Lizardim from the sleepless wild north country. I saw the following infographic:
Can we go be part of Canada yet?
If we discount the blue states…
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If we discount the blue states…
Depending on how much of a discount it is, we might be for sale.
re: #42 Belafon
S+Oxeiq3lP33f4ZS/jfWcdO8hrkG4T7iLNE1ng0Iny0M0AUDW9JITnqjzRdsdPMC82LPcNhGOz5AS99L9yCM7e6Gd094AKzx
I was being rhetorical; late July into early August is when most mask mandates started to come down.
re: #95 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Depending on how much of a discount it is, we might be for sale.
They can pay us in Canadian Dollars…
This is what autocrats do in Hungary and Russia, use state power to seize companies and turn them over to political allies. @mashagessen refers to this as a “Mafia State” and @anneapplebaum describes it in depth in “Twilight of Democracy”. https://t.co/tXilUoRVwX
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) September 17, 2020
re: #99 DodgerFan1988
This is what autocrats do in Hungary and Russia, use state power to seize companies and turn them over to political allies.
He is just pissed at them for punking his organization over the Tulsa rally…
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is just pissed at them for punking his organization over the Tulsa rally…
as if it was the company and not the users who did it
re: #101 dangerman
as if it was the company and not the users who did it
I was thinking the same thing, but c’mon, it’s not like Trump is that smart.
He is unraveling.https://t.co/5SISq3TRWJ
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 17, 2020
Barr’s insanity, McConnell shrugging off Trump’s stimulus proposal, GOP senators talking about the deficit, all point to one thing: they know the Trump presidency is over in 4 months
This is straight up authoritarianism of the exact brand Trump has been demanding. The closer we get to the election, the more unhinged and dangerous Barr has become. https://t.co/lg586UAU6Y
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 17, 2020
re: #103 dangerman
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The window to change enough minds to narrow the polls is shrinking fast. Most absentee ballots have gone out and started either being mailed back or shoved in ballot drop-off boxes. And numerous states start early-voting as soon as this week (VA starts tomorrow). The idea that Donny is gonna be able to get 100% of the late-breaking voters is foolhardy. The fat lady has not sung, but she is warming up.
The more I think about it the more I think the artificial normality around Trump almost operates almost like a social compact - a tacit conspiracy of mutual silence. https://t.co/3VGd3Qklfd
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) September 13, 2020
drill down
New - Top Rs had raised alarms about Marjorie Taylor Greene but now are setting those aside and say she‘s part of the “team.” She has distanced herself from Q but hasn’t disavowed. Scalise says her passions “are fighting for life and battling socialism.” https://t.co/48pMje4GdZ
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 16, 2020
I think it’s a good thing the US is making political assassinations legal again.
re: #101 dangerman
as if it was the company and not the users who did it
the users were posting what they were doing and yet his own organization did not pick up on it
re: #103 dangerman
Barr’s insanity, McConnell shrugging off Trump’s stimulus proposal, GOP senators talking about the deficit, all point to one thing: they know the Trump presidency is over in 4 months
In a normal world, yes, but the more desperate the situation, the more extreme and desperate the measures they will resort to.
One hit short of 150K!!! Who will put me over?
I haven’t looked at my stats in months. It looks like I’ll hit 100k in a year or so.
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In a normal world, yes, but the more desperate the situation, the more extreme and desperate the measures they will resort to.
At the same time, the more desperate the measures, the more obvious they’ll end up becoming. Based upon current projections, Trump would not only need to run the table (pick up every “toss-up” state) but he’d also have to flip one or more states viewed as “leans Dem.” If he loses even one “toss-up,” then it’s over for him and the question at that point becomes how big an EC win Biden will walk away with.
re: #114 Targetpractice
At the same time, the more desperate the measures, the more obvious they’ll end up becoming. Based upon current projections, Trump would not only need to run the table (pick up every “toss-up” state) but he’d also have to flip one or more states viewed as “leans Dem.” If he loses even one “toss-up,” then it’s over for him and the question at that point becomes how big an EC win Biden will walk away with.
To win in any normal legal sense…he has to kick over the table and create a clusterfuck the likes of which we have never experienced. The idea will be to leave us so flabbergasted that we do not know how to react until it is too late.
And no matter how extreme, we can count on our press to treat it as if it were somehow normal and valid.
As suspected Triumph was not able to shake the faith of trump supporters. Nothing trump would do would make them leave him.
WATCH: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog proves real Trump supporters will defend anything the president says https://t.co/UMlbT3iiro— Jim and Chuck 🏳️🌈 👬🐻🌪🌊🌎 (@fireman452a) September 17, 2020
Scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Now they’re pretending like they’re bill collectors. pic.twitter.com/7CWhXp0QN0
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 17, 2020
Helter Skelter. Coming down fast but I’m miles above you. Helter Skelter.
re: #119 Patricia Kayden
Now they’re pretending like they’re bill collectors.
Soon they’ll be coming to confiscate your pre-existing conditions…
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
To win in any normal legal sense…he has to kick over the table and create a clusterfuck the likes of which we have never experienced. The idea will be to leave us so flabbergasted that we do not know how to react until it is too late.
And no matter how extreme, we can count on our press to treat it as if it were somehow normal and valid.
He can kick the table over, he can stamp his feet, he can yell and scream all he likes. But at the end of the day, if the votes aren’t there, then the votes aren’t there. There’s not a lot of legal options available to him that we haven’t seen past campaigns try to employ in order to skull-fuck democracy.
re: #34 Romantic Heretic
That should be ‘House Republican Power Caucus’.
These people don’t understand freedom and if they do they don’t like it.
Great point. Nobody should use their self-given name.
re: #122 Targetpractice
He can kick the table over, he can stamp his feet, he can yell and scream all he likes. But at the end of the day, if the votes aren’t there, then the votes aren’t there. There’s not a lot of legal options available to him that we haven’t seen past campaigns try to employ in order to skull-fuck democracy.
Plus, if he wants to challenge vote counts, he has to challenge states or individual precincts. If claims about the campaign’s lack-of-funds are true, they don’t have the money to mount those challenges in the first place.
Local issue on that: In the 2014 village board election, the gun shop owner lost reëlection here in a tie vote. In Nebraska, close votes within a couple of percentage points are subject to automatic recounts, and that recount remained a tie. (My own reëlection bid in 2018 went to an automatic recount as well from my four-vote loss.)
He asked me to research the law regarding mounting a candidate recount bid. It turns out that you have to put up a bond based on the size of the area you want recounted in Nebraska: for a village the size of ours, the bond is $5,000.
If the recount goes your way, the money is returned. If it fails to flip the election, the $5,000 goes to the county.
He decided against the recount, since at the time village trustee was an unpaid position, and went with the state law regarding ties instead (settle by lot, which he lost in a card cut).
Trump’s campaign would have to put up bonds in every jurisdiction he wanted to recount, and have people on the ground willing to do all the work to get that set up.
As far as recounts, when Dr. Jill Stein called for funding to recount three states, that was millions of dollars (which we still haven’t seen returned yet since those recounts didn’t happen).
I don’t think Trump has the money to mount all the recounts he would want to do if he loses the election, and considering all the grifting he’s done from the RNC, they might not have it either. They’ll go on about stolen elections and such, but they can’t prove it.
re: #106 dangerman
And this why he may be able to steal another election. I’m praying for another blue tsunami like the mid term election.
This does not sound like the tweet of a man who thinks he can cheat his way to victory:
Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to “voters”, or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want. Another election disaster yesterday. Stop Ballot Madness! https://t.co/3SMAk9TC1a
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020
Ugh. Regional news
A former Torrington Police Officer accused of sexual assault is seeking to suppress evidence in the case.
Attorney for Anthony John Scoleri, filed a motion on Aug. 5, to suppress evidence based on the State of Wyoming not providing evidence during discovery.
Scoleri, a former Torrington [Wyo.] Police Department (TPD) officer, has been charged with five felony counts: One count of first-degree sexual assault, three counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the first degree, and one count of incest.
(more)
Former Torrington officer seeks to have evidence suppressed before trial (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald. Torrington is in the coverage area of our regional newspaper)
The argument is on constitutional grounds: The defendant’s lawyer argues the warrant issued by Wyoming described the place to be searched, but not the items to be seized, thus violating his client’s rights.
re: #126 Targetpractice
This does not sound like the tweet of a man who thinks he can cheat his way to victory:
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It sounds like a man willing to fill the water with ink and see if he can shape claim to a second term out of the chaos.
re: #126 Targetpractice
Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to “voters”, or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want. Another election disaster yesterday. Stop Ballot Madness!]
Let us declare the election Null and Void from the very outset
Make Trump President for Life and empower him to name his successor.
re: #126 Targetpractice
This does not sound like the tweet of a man who thinks he can cheat his way to victory:
For all his whinging about mail ballots, I have not seen one attack on the mail voting systems of red states like Nebraska and Utah.
Our state secretary-of-state announced some time ago that cities with polling stations would all receive ballot applications due to the ongoing epidemic, meaning everyone in Nebraska can vote by mail. (Nebraska has no-excuse requests for absentee or mail ballots in areas with polling stations; counties which went to all-mail voting noted dramatic turnouts—mine was over 80% in the last election.)
re: #128 Decatur Deb
It sounds like a man willing to fill the water with ink and see if he can shape claim to a second term out of the chaos.
IMHO, it sounds like a man who is already setting up his excuses for losing. That he never lost because “nobody knows the real results.”
Trump has a scheme to steal the election before it happens. An elaborate, well-funded strategy has his lawyers getting conservative judges in battleground states to issue orders disrupting mail voting, erecting barriers to voting rights & creating chaos.https://t.co/FsPBHGlvlk
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) September 17, 2020
re: #131 Targetpractice
IMHO, it sounds like a man who is already setting up his excuses for losing. That he never lost because “nobody knows the real results.”
“You who return unvanquished from the field of battle …”
Just like the German Army at the end of WW1.
setting us up all for the Dolchstosslegende
Why don’t Republicans talk about the criminality in the states they run? Torrington seems to be a hotbed of crime for a city of 6,500.
A Torrington man agreed to a plea agreement in a case in which he is accused of kidnapping.
Nathan Johnson pleaded no contest Monday morning, Aug. 31, before Judge Patrick Korell in Goshen County District Court.
Johnson, who was charged with felony domestic assault and kidnapping, agreed to a plea agreement with the State of Wyoming, who was being represented via video Assistant Goshen County Attorney Jeremiah Sandberg.
Per the agreement, if Johnson pleads no contest, he will receive a split-sentence in the Goshen County Detention Center with probation after that, have the charge of kidnapping dropped, and agree to treatment.
re: #132 Patricia Kayden
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This was pretty much a given. What remains to be seen is how effective such efforts will be.
Well, for all the constant complaining here about the high property taxes, ours are going up again.
Property assessments were down $10,000,000 in the county this year, so the county commission voted in a 0.3+% rate hike to make up the shortfall in the county budget.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump has proclaimed “manufacturing miracles” during his presidency, especially in the Midwest. The truth is decades of decline have left the US’s industrial commons incapacitated in the face of the pandemic. https://t.co/dpZZF2IMPe
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) September 17, 2020
re: #132 Patricia Kayden
Rodent copulators weighing in on that thread
Biden/Harris are a losing ticket and an insult to the electorate. They are Wall Street’s & the Billionaires’ ticket, not the people’s. It will be austerity for the 99% & endless wars fought by the poor while Biden/Harris grift & become multimillionaires as they obey their donors.
— Jay Bird (@312shelly3) September 17, 2020
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rodent copulators weighing in on that thread
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It really is distressing how hard it is to tell the difference between bitter losers and bots.
Are you anyone’s Twitter crush?
— Brandon (@slimyfoil) September 15, 2020
No but I’m the obsession of like 47 random maga cultists who are desperate for me to notice and validate them https://t.co/NjIW9dKfvP
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) September 17, 2020
re: #139 Targetpractice
It really is distressing how hard it is to tell the difference between bitter losers and bots.
Particularly since “Wall Street billionaires” aren’t normally known for supporting Democrats.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Russian bot? The spelling and grammar is off. Their argument is stupid.
re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Particularly since “Wall Street billionaires” aren’t normally known for supporting Democrats.
There was a story I just read earlier that Wall Street, contrary to the idea that they’re anticipating a Biden presidency, are instead preparing for how to hide their money for the next 4-8 years.
It’s a special kind of torture to re-read the op-eds about how reasonable a nominee Barr was, and how he clearly believed in the rule of law. Lol, scoff, etc https://t.co/WMuIW6oSh1
— alexwagner (@alexwagner) September 17, 2020
re: #144 Patricia Kayden
Russian bot? The spelling and grammar is off. Their argument is stupid.
The account is mostly retweets of news articles and support for Palestinians in Gaza. The pinned tweet is about missing indigenous girls in Canada. (My understanding is Canadians normally refer to indigenous peoples as First Nations. The account bio claims they are gay and Métis.)
It’s hard for me to tell if an account reflects a real person or not on social media. I don’t even know if you’re real. /s I don’t even know if I’m real. /s/s
Lets go conquer the world pic.twitter.com/kb14j7m8Oi
— 🐶 (@Cutemp4) September 16, 2020
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Rodent copulators weighing in on that thread
He knows he cannot win legally, but legal and “court validated” are divergent principles
In the southwest Panhandle, southeastern Wyoming and northeastern Colorado, the air was much smokier, according to the EPA. Vulnerable persons in those areas were advised to curtail activities.Bill Mokry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, Wyoming, said the Panhandle was being affected by fires in Colorado and Utah as well as the West Coast.
Nebraska puts out health advisory for wildfire smoke (Omaha World-Herald)
Scottsbluff AQI is now 108.
You & the ghoulish right wing lunatics from Trump on down have politicized wearing masks, which are known to save lives and prevent spread. You ignore social distancing protocols.
Trump’s corrupted the FDA, NIH, and CDC with his nonstop attacks on scientists. You’re projecting— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 17, 2020
Kudlow’s claiming the economy is booming.
The economy is booming, as in imploding. There’s no boom here. Jobs aren’t being created. People are sometimes getting their old jobs back, but more than half of all businesses that shuttered this year are never coming back.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 17, 2020
re: #151 lawhawk
How can Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wage a campaign to convince Americans not to take a VACCINE even if the FDA certifies it is safe and scientists and doctors say it is safe? Are they really willing to sacrifice thousands of Americans for their narrow political interests?
There is no vaccine
FDA has not certified anything
What the fuck are you on about?
There are numerous fires in Colorado near the Wyoming and Nebraska Panhandle lines.
The largest is the Cameron Peak Fire (also the closest to me), which has burned over 102,000 acres and is 8% contained.
So, wait a moment, Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million in a defamation suit.
Alan Dershowitz Files $300 Million Lawsuit Against CNN for Portraying Him as an ‘Intellectual Who Had Lost His Mind’ https://t.co/uqFHebnUrP pic.twitter.com/YyYzBha5XY
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) September 15, 2020
*roflmao*
Wait…. *roflmao*
I can’t catch my breath….
*roflmao*
Does he get the fact that Dershowitz is: 1) a public figure and therefore has a higher burden to show defamation; 2) facts are an absolute defense to the claims; and 3) discovery will end this charade.
He’s hoping that the mere mention of a lawsuit will stop CNN from investigating Dershowitz’s shady behavior.
re: #155 lawhawk
So, wait a moment, Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million in a defamation suit.
*roflmao*
Wait…. *roflmao*
I can’t catch my breath….
*roflmao*
Does he get the fact that Dershowitz is: 1) a public figure and therefore has a higher burden to show defamation; 2) facts are an absolute defense to the claims; and 3) discovery will end this charade.
He’s hoping that the mere mention of a lawsuit will stop CNN from investigating Dershowitz’s shady behavior.
He might be looking for a payout from CNN to make this go away. Then he gets to claim they settled so they must be guilty.
I hope CNN takes his bogus suit, crams it in a cheese grater, then crams the cheese grater in an uncomfortable place for Mr. Dershowitz.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He might be looking for a payout from CNN to make this go away. Then he gets to claim they settled so they must be guilty.
Because anyone who offers a payout is obviously guilty, just ask Donald Trump
Breakfast of champions this morning: Ranch Style Beans (tm).
I love those things. I’ve been eating them since I was a kid. I’ve probably eaten a couple acres of beans from them in my life.
Some people have a plan for getting ballots out to the voters and getting them back. This is from Adrian Fontes, Maricopa County Recorder. The county has 4.5 million people in it and is larger than four states (NJ, DE, RI, CT). I got this email from Fontes last night. Note the detail of the plans, including “hey this is when you need to mail your ballot” and “we have drop off places” and “we will have lots of staffed locations for early voting.”
November Election Plans
ANNOUNCEMENT ️ : This week I was proud to approve the Early Voting Plan for the November General Election. Today the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved the Election Day and Emergency Voting Plan. I am proud to work alongside members of the Board, our elections administrators, and staff and partners in sectors outside and throughout government to serve our voters this election.
Accessibility in elections during the time of COVID-19 is incredibly important. Close to 78 percent of Maricopa County’s 2.5 million registered voters have already requested a ballot in the mail. It is a popular choice among Maricopa County voters. Voting by mail is secure, verifiable and transparent. Voters can check their voter registration and track their ballot every step of the way on their personalized voter dashboard at BeBallotReady.Vote and with direct text or email alerts.
Voters have the option of returning their ballot by mail by October 27 or drop off their early ballot at any Vote Center or ballot drop box before 7 p.m. on Election Day. New for the November General Election, the Maricopa County Elections Department is introducing drive through drop boxes in the parking lots of sport stadiums across the county.
While voting by mail is a convenient choice, in-person voting remains a vital part of our elections. I’m opening more early in person voting locations earlier, including evenings and on the weekends. Voters can expect 50-60 sites open for almost two weeks and 90 for one week before Election Day. We’ll have Vote Centers open Oct. 7-Nov. 3. Early ballots can be dropped off at any of these in-person early voting locations.
We’ve made sure these voting locations are located across the county, including on tribal land and rural areas. Vote Centers will be located in large retail facilities that allow for physical distancing. We also have a health and safety plan to maintain these centers. Voters will also be offered gloves and masks upon arrival.
Prioritizing bi-partisan efforts is critical to the success of our plan to ensure every eligible voter has options to cast their ballot. Maricopa County is setting a model for the rest of the country with elections built on access, safety and security. We take our responsibility to Maricopa County voters seriously and appreciate the opportunity to serve.
For years, Republican Helen Purcell had been county recorder and in charge of voting. But she completely screwed up the presidential preference primary in March 2016 with so few locations to vote and so many long lines. Fontes jumped into the race after the fuck up and won that November. Some Rs lost their shit when Fontes suggested sending out ballots to everyone, and he was smacked down, but he’s still moving forward nonetheless.
People have no idea what a convenience a mail-in or drop-off ballot is. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, wants to hear me shouting at my mother about the next office on the ballot. Because that is what it takes to help my mother vote these days.
re: #159 mmmirele
Trump’s currently in court trying to stop NJ counting mail in ballots before election day, and to sabotage counting votes period. He wants to suppress voter turnout and deprive people of their right to vote. His excuse? That counting the votes is somehow introducing fraud into the process, even though there’s more of a paper trail than electronic ballots.
re: #155 lawhawk
So, wait a moment, Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million in a defamation suit.
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*roflmao*
Wait…. *roflmao*
I can’t catch my breath….
*roflmao*
Does he get the fact that Dershowitz is: 1) a public figure and therefore has a higher burden to show defamation; 2) facts are an absolute defense to the claims; and 3) discovery will end this charade.
He’s hoping that the mere mention of a lawsuit will stop CNN from investigating Dershowitz’s shady behavior.
He has a case…In his circles calling someone an “intellectual” is defamation.
re: #155 lawhawk
So, wait a moment, Dershowitz is suing CNN for $300 million in a defamation suit.
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*roflmao*
Wait…. *roflmao*
I can’t catch my breath….
*roflmao*
Does he get the fact that Dershowitz is: 1) a public figure and therefore has a higher burden to show defamation; 2) facts are an absolute defense to the claims; and 3) discovery will end this charade.
He’s hoping that the mere mention of a lawsuit will stop CNN from investigating Dershowitz’s shady behavior.
Uhm, wasn’t Dersh somewhat involved with *Epstein*? And there are allegations that girls were procured for him as well? I don’t think I dreamed that.
re: #160 lawhawk
Trump’s currently in court trying to stop NJ counting mail in ballots before election day, and to sabotage counting votes period. He wants to suppress voter turnout and deprive people of their right to vote. His excuse? That counting the votes is somehow introducing fraud into the process, even though there’s more of a paper trail than electronic ballots.
Electronic voting can be manipulated. The companies involved support Republicans. I am finding it hard to support e voting these days.
re: #162 mmmirele
No, you didn’t dream that, but he’s suing because CNN apparently questions his intellect, not his being a player in a child rape ring.
re: #161 Decatur Deb
He has a case…In his circles calling someone an “intellectual” is defamation.
Indeed. It keeps them from getting invites to those parties on Martha’s vineyard.
On the wingnut Senate candidate in Delaware:
She also claims that she used to be a “low level drug runner” for the Mexican cartels, She claims that Trump’s win inspired her get off drugs and become a Republican “political operative.” Think about it, though, Mexican drug runner and Republican political operative aren’t that far apart and require the same skill set. I mean, in both you force people to take things that will actually kill them but they thank you for doing it.
I Dunno. Maybe It’ll Be An Improvement. (Juanita Jean’s)
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He might be looking for a payout from CNN to make this go away. Then he gets to claim they settled so they must be guilty.
I hope CNN takes his bogus suit, crams it in a cheese grater, then crams the cheese grater in an uncomfortable place for Mr. Dershowitz.
That might bind up his undies.
re: #162 mmmirele
Uhm, wasn’t Dersh somewhat involved with *Epstein*? And there are allegations that girls were procured for him as well? I don’t think I dreamed that.
I’m pretty sure he confessed to “getting massages” from someone in Epstein’s stable of trafficed women. One of the underaged girls accused Dersh outright of having sex with her.
There was something about underwear (hence the Professor Underpants hashtag noted above) but I don’t recall exactly what (maybe he got messages but that’s all and he never took off his underwear).
Dersh is a creeper.
re: #162 mmmirele
Uhm, wasn’t Dersh somewhat involved with *Epstein*? And there are allegations that girls were procured for him as well? I don’t think I dreamed that.
Dershowitz is one of the libertarians who believes age-of-consent laws are unconstitutional. Back in 2005 he defended Jeffery Epstein against a charge of statutory rape, resulting in a sentence of 13 months in county jail, most of it on work-release to his own office.
vox.com (July 30, 2019)
Thread, three tweets:
I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/ https://t.co/48Thb8Uaym
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019
Alan Dershowitz calls Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre a ‘serial liar’ while once again denying he ever had sex with her (Insider, 31 July 2020)
Trump: “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level.”
Except!https://t.co/uxvgKFuShG pic.twitter.com/fhP5VcKs3G— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 17, 2020
This entire fracas came just a couple hours after Joe Biden gave remarks warning the politicization of the administration’s COVID-19 response could undermine public confidence in its actions. https://t.co/RLKBjIfQ5t
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) September 17, 2020
A slew of studies from around the world has reported a disturbing trend: since the coronavirus pandemic started, there has been a significant rise in the proportion of pregnancies ending in stillbirths. https://t.co/1CAVDGnCMz
— Nature (@nature) September 15, 2020
re: #170 Belafon
This might work globally if you remove the Northern Hemisphere.
— Blue Check (/) (@eff_the_outrage) September 17, 2020
So adelson’s gonna throw in $50m.
Most of the money is expected to go toward the new pro-Trump super PAC, Preserve America, these people added. Other organizations, including the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and groups helping Republicans in Congress, could also see some of Adelson’s money.
One of the people noted that Adelson’s team has recently been in touch with GOP officials close to Trump about where best to deploy the cash. Another person noted that Adelson was a major donor who helped get Preserve America up and running. The people declined to be named as these efforts are private.
That kind of coordination is illegal.
And…crickets
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/
So he is abandoning morality for an abstract Constitutional argument…to defend a serial child molester.
Impregnating a teenage girl as an adult is a clear case of statutory rape, but one does not have to be over 18 to get another teenager pregnant.
His argument is unworthy of anyone who calls himself “intellectual”
Almost 60% of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows. https://t.co/d1AJKzrHP1
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2020
Priorities:
ABC News reports the Trump administration offered to provide the Big 10 with enough coronavirus testing to restart college football.
Meanwhile, the US is only conducting 62% of the daily testing experts say is needed to mitigate the spread of the virus.https://t.co/QH76RwOhcJ https://t.co/1Rd6rr26Xl— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 17, 2020
According to @leahjdouglas’s daily tally: 52,018 meatpacking and food processing workers have contracted #COVID19 and 237 of those workers have died. Their “hero pay” has expired, and even at-risk workers are being called back to work—or will face firing. https://t.co/SvhCqrmD9Z
— Ted Genoways (@TedGenoways) September 16, 2020
Projections are looking really awful for Nebraska by 2021.
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump: “If you take the blue states out, we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level.”
“If you don’t count the British dead, the Battle of the Somme was a walk in the park.”
re: #174 dangerman
So adelson’s gonna throw in $50m.
That kind of coordination is illegal.
And…crickets
BUT SOROS!!!!!!
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
So he is abandoning morality for an abstract Constitutional argument…to defend a serial child molester.
All accused people have the right to counsel; Epstein was no different. The thing is that Dersh wasn’t just making an argument a lawyer might make to defend his client, he believes Epstein was unconstitutionally convicted. A lot of libertarians (small and large L) believe age-of-consent laws are unconstitutional (the same argument is made for guns).
re: #174 dangerman
So adelson’s gonna throw in $50m.
That kind of coordination is illegal.
And…crickets
Let’s call a quorum of the Federal Election Commission to look into … oh, wait.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
All accused people have the right to counsel; Epstein was no different. The thing is that Dersh wasn’t just making an argument a lawyer might make to defend his client, he believes Epstein was unconstitutionally convicted. A lot of libertarians (small and large L) believe age-of-consent laws are unconstitutional (the same argument is made for guns).
I agree that age-of-consent laws are a modern social construct, but they are constructed for valid reasons having to do with the relative social and economic status of (especially female) teenagers in our society.
re: #174 dangerman
So adelson’s gonna throw in $50m.
That kind of coordination is illegal.
And…crickets
That’s what lawyers are for, and Adelson (and Bloomberg) can afford a battalion of them.
re: #171 Belafon
“Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked….have been sacked.”
— eli friedmann (@eligit) September 17, 2020
In terms of cases per 1 million, NY now ranks 9th (a per capita measure). Louisiana is now tops, followed by FL, MS, AZ, AL, GA, SC, and TN. Texas is just behind NY.
NY is the first solid blue state on that list. And all these other states had a chance to stop the spread and avoid the deaths had they followed masking/social distancing protocols from the get go.
Meanwhile, if you look by per capita death, NJ leads the way, with 1,821 deaths per 1 million. NY, MA, CT, LA, RI, MS, DC, AZ, and MI round out the top 10. Many of those were in the early hit of covid and were learning how to address the crisis all while Trump was sabotaging efforts and lying his ass off.
Meanwhile, other states that had a chance to learn the lessons are still seeing cases climb. 75% of the deaths occurring now are in what you can call Red states. That’s no accident. It’s on purpose. They ignore the masking/social distancing protocols, and Trump politicized both and continues to do so.
NY is now averaging around 1,000 new cases a day (and has been bouncing around that since June), though I expect that number to rise as in person schooling and dine-in restaurants reopen.
Texas is seeing 7-day moving average of nearly 4,000 a day. Florida is around 2,700 on the moving average.
All figures are from Worldometers.
re: #172 Belafon
Betcha the so-called pro-life party goes diving for the elevators if a reporter questions them about this. “God’s will” argle-bargle.
re: #185 lawhawk
Meanwhile in our state’s largest city, Omaha’s school board voted to go to regular in-person classes.
The Omaha Public Schools have announced dates for getting students back inside classrooms for the first time since March.
The district also said in an email that it will be conducting regular COVID-19 testing of all staff.
Last week, Superintendent Cheryl Logan said the goal is to get students in school by the start of the second quarter, which starts Oct. 19. On Wednesday, the district sent a letter home elaborating on those plans.
That’s right when the projections say the death rate in Nebraska will take off vertically.
re: #174 dangerman
So adelson’s gonna throw in $50m.
That kind of coordination is illegal.
And…crickets
So much for Adleson stiffing trump. Fucking asshole.
re: #185 lawhawk
Hidden Joker in that hand: Alabama is 5th in Cases/million, 39th in Tests/million. We would probably be first if we were testing anyone but the starting lineups for Bama and Auburn.
—Yesterday’s Worldometer numbers
re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Want that the entire plot of Up in the Air?
BOKER TOV LIZARDIA!!
This morning (or maybe yesterday) I got a robocall from Lara Lea Trump, aka “Princesse de Dumballe” urging me to apply for an “absentee ballot” which she guaranteed was completely different & totally safe and legal unlike the “mail-in ballot” which the “radical extreme left Democrats” want people to use. (Absentee & mail-in ballots are the exact same thing)
“Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked….have been sacked.”
Motto of the Trump administration
Why are there no daily calls for Adleson and the Mercer’s to be culled from existence like there are for Soros?
re: #188 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
50 million will end up in grifter pockets just like all the other money. The commercials they run are all the same fucking thing:oooooh scarrrry liberals are coming to steal your America…. be afraid….(scary background music and darkened photos of liberals…) BOO! Be afraid!!
If it wasn’t so fucking mind numbingly stoopid and boring as fuck, it might be mildly amusing.
As much as I hated Obama when I was a Republican, I never once felt I had to report a tweet of his as I am reporting Trump’s tweets on a regular basis for misinformation and suppression of an election.
— David ex Trump voter for Biden Weissman (@davidmweissman) September 17, 2020
I’m curious, how did your realization come to be? (I didn’t see that in your pinned tweet.) How do we take what you did and replicate that with others? How can we break the cult of personality surrounding trump? Did Fox News play into your thoughts?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 17, 2020
Today at work seems to be “Republicans complaining about how the virus is interrupting their lives” day.
re: #197 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can you post the tweet? I can’t go to twitter at work.
re: #198 Belafon
Can you post the tweet? I can’t go to twitter at work.
It’s 12 parts:
1. My journey
I still get asked why I support Trump & what was the moment that got me to stop supporting Trump, along with trolls trying to discredit my story, & because of that I decided I will be sharing my story with real time tweets that will answer questions with validation.— David ex Trump voter for Biden Weissman (@davidmweissman) August 4, 2020
re: #199 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s 12 parts:
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Thanks. I’ll read the rest at home.
Lre: #200 Belafon
Thanks. I’ll read the rest at home.
Not a problem. He seems very introspective and willing to admit he was wrong.
New sexual assault allegation against Trump.
re: #202 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
New sexual assault allegation against Trump.
He’s been accused by more than 2 dozen women, including E Jean Caroll, who’s suing him for defamation (and Trump got the DOJ to pick up the case claiming that it was in his official duties). Trump’s not only been accused by more 2 dozen credible women, but Trump’s corroborated what they accused by and through his Access Hollywood video where he admits to being a sex predator.
There’s also the evidence of him going into dressing rooms to creep on the women participating in his pageants while they were in states of undress.
re: #203 lawhawk
He’s been accused by more than 2 dozen women, including E Jean Caroll, who’s suing him for defamation (and Trump got the DOJ to pick up the case claiming that it was in his official duties). Trump’s not only been accused by more 2 dozen credible women, but Trump’s corroborated what they accused by and through his Access Hollywood video where he admits to being a sex predator.
There’s also the evidence of him going into dressing rooms to creep on the women participating in his pageants while they were in states of undress.
Yep. He’s at Cosby levels of accused assaults. Wouldn’t be upset to see him end up like Cosby but I also want him punished for his federal crimes too.
Interesting state endorsement.
State senator Kate Bolz (D-District 29) is leaving the Unicameral due to term limits, and is running against Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE1).
The Democratic candidate for the Unicameral seat is Eliot Bostar (currently executive director of Nebraska Conservation Voters). He received an endorsement from Lisa Lee (Republican candidate for the seat who lost the primary).
Strictly, state legislative seats are non-partisan, so for the Unicameral the primary is a jungle primary. Top two go on to the General Election. Mr. Bostar’s opponent is Jacob Campbell, a Republican.
There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one. In A Promised Land, I try to provide an honest accounting of my presidency, the forces we grapple with as a nation, and how we can heal our divisions and make democracy work for everybody. pic.twitter.com/T1QSZVDvOm
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 17, 2020
Will be in my holiday reading.
Yep, Trump and his pudgy Wormtongue at DOJ are hunting down the leaders of an organization that doesn’t exist. https://t.co/A7hMFkdTEW
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 17, 2020
Meanwhile, in the battleground district of NE-2:
This is what Congressman Don Bacon likes and retweets - a sitting US House Rep - spreading more lies about his challenger.
People always ask me how we become less divided and begin to heal our country. It begins with HONEST leadership and representation. pic.twitter.com/zq7NdwPc6j— Kara Eastman (@karaforcongress) September 17, 2020
re: #202 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
New sexual assault allegation against Trump.
This will be the one that drives his approval rating into the low 10s.
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The person Rep. Don Bacon retweeted to attack Ms. Eastman is actually a bot.
You’d think a guy who was in electronic warfare in the military would be aware of such things, but he benefits from sewing division, and bots will do just fine for that.
re: #209 Decatur Deb
This will be the one that drives his approval rating into the low 10s.
That’s not happening but it’s yet more evidence of what a monster we have residing at 1600 Pennsylvania.
Just in: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before Congress at worldwide threats hearing that Russia continues to actively interfere in the 2020 election, primarily to “denigrate former Vice President Biden”.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 17, 2020
re: #213 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Ugh. Probably get him more voters.
I converted (2012) when asked if I was better off that day than I had been 4 years ago. The answer (yes) made me reflect on WHY I was anti-Obama. When I couldn’t provide a good answer, I wrote a letter to @BarackObama saying I was sorry. He wrote back & said “it’s okay” 💙
— The Lady Ev #BidenHarris2020 🌊🌊🌊 (@esabbagauthor) August 4, 2020
re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ugh. Probably get him more voters.
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re: #214 jaunte
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Wray and Powell at Fed are the few Trump appointees that don’t make me want to punch walls. And yeah I’ve seen the Russian efforts on social media because people I know fall for it.
re: #217 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Wray and Powell at Fed are the few Trump appointees that don’t make me want to punch walls. And yeah I’ve seen the Russian efforts on social media because people I know fall for it.
Powell should never have even gotten the call, given that Yellen was there and doing a proper job. Trump just wanted to eliminate every single person associated with President Obama no matter how competent they were. He’s sabotaged everything he touches, and even Powell has succumbed to the bullying. Wray too. They’re just more circumspect when they testify before Congress.
Again, the point was about how we see America, about how the WORLD sees America, those things that are iconic “America.”
And those things are by and large Blue States.
There’s a reason the Statue of Liberty is in New York harbor and not standing in some Nebraska cornfield.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 17, 2020
Hey, we have a bunch of Statues of Liberty in Grand Island, North Platte, &c. They’re even along the Platte River, which everyone knows is as important as New York Harbor. They’re not in cornfields. Take that back, Mr. Wright. /s
Just saw that Jim Carrey will be playing Biden on SNL when the new season starts. Great choice.
re: #218 lawhawk
Powell should never have even gotten the call, given that Yellen was there and doing a proper job. Trump just wanted to eliminate every single person associated with President Obama no matter how competent they were. He’s sabotaged everything he touches, and even Powell has succumbed to the bullying. Wray too. They’re just more circumspect when they testify before Congress.
Oh absolutely. No argument there. It’s just compared to Barr, Pompeo, Mnuchin, etc.
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.”
Oh just shut the fuck up, you fat, corrupt asshole.
re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg
Just saw that Jim Carrey will be playing Biden on SNL when the new season starts. Great choice.
Yeah I loved Jim Carrey as a kid. Don’t like his kooky beliefs on vaccines but I’m sure he’ll do Biden justice and I’m sure Biden will enjoy it as well since he actually has a sense of humor.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.”
Oh just shut the fuck up, you fat, corrupt asshole.
Worst AG ever.
It’s just me & Zedushka for the holidays. Our son is driving to Boston to lead services as cantor at a Chabad congregation.
Our congregation will be holding services in a large outdoor tent so they can observe social distancing. I think I will stay home anyway. Our neighbor can come over to blow shofar for us.
Anyway today I am baking Apple Strudel (we prefer it to pie). Last night I left a bowl of raisins and Montmorency cherries soaking in triple sec.
re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg
Just saw that Jim Carrey will be playing Biden on SNL when the new season starts. Great choice.
Saw someone point out that Dee Snyder could have played the role of Biden’s Anger Translator. That too could work.
re: #191 The Pie Overlord!
BOKER TOV LIZARDIA!!
This morning (or maybe yesterday) I got a robocall from Lara Lea Trump, aka “Princesse de Dumballe” urging me to apply for an “absentee ballot” which she guaranteed was completely different & totally safe and legal unlike the “mail-in ballot” which the “radical extreme left Democrats” want people to use. (Absentee & mail-in ballots are the exact same thing)[Embedded content]
First question for tRump in the debates should be for him to define the difference between a “mail-in ballot” and an “absentee ballot”. How do they actually differ specifically.
It is very rare when you compare some event to either the Holocaust or American slavery you are making the point you think you are.
William Barr suggested yesterday that calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.” https://t.co/hQWMN01Yyr
— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) September 17, 2020
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Hey, we have a bunch of Statues of Liberty in Grand Island, North Platte, &c. They’re even along the Platte River, which everyone knows is as important as New York Harbor. They’re not in cornfields. Take that back, Mr. Wright. /s
Blue states and Texas, which I’m working on making blue.
re: #199 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I seek don’t see it. Not to what I was asking.
re: #226 lawhawk
Saw someone point out that Dee Snyder could have played the role of Biden’s Anger Translator. That too could work.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.”
Oh just shut the fuck up, you fat, corrupt asshole.
Asshole libelz. They serve a critical purpose for the body.
We are so far over the fucking rainbow https://t.co/KbDyGpz2CZ
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 17, 2020
“If you object, you’re a node.”
so has president ****neck mcshitbutt resigned in shame after another victim of his alleged sexual assault came forward a week after we all found out he lied and let 200k ppl die which was a week after it was confirmed he called the military a bunch of suckers oh okay nevermind pic.twitter.com/OJLRq4kVUp
— ᑕᕼᑌᑎK (@chunkled) September 17, 2020
“William P. Barr is party to Trump’s scheme to maintain power via illicit means if necessary, and is corrupt enough to employ his power over law enforcement toward that end.” Plain fact from @ThePlumLineGS https://t.co/2pgWJiXOQm
— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) September 17, 2020
re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The person Rep. Don Bacon retweeted to attack Ms. Eastman is actually a bot.
You’d think a guy who was in electronic warfare in the military would be aware of such things, but he benefits from sewing division, and bots will do just fine for that.
Or he knows and he is just following the plan.
The crazy claims continue:
(Includes clip from Fox Sports Radio)
President Donald Trump is a member at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York, where the U.S. Open is being contested this week. It’s a notoriously tough layout — but Trump is claiming he routinely scores well enough that he probably should have entered the tournament.
Appearing on Fox Sports Radio Thursday morning, the president was asked by host Clay Travis what his best score has been on the supremely difficult track.
“Low 70s, quite a bit,” Trump replied. “I’ve been a member there a long time. I could do pretty well.”
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Fox Sports Radio is all-in on promoting Trump as are the other Fox properties.
re: #237 Eventual Carrion
Or he knows and he is just following the plan.
I think politicians could all benefit from spending less time on Twitter and more time actually talking to people.
CNN is not holding back. 👀 pic.twitter.com/YCDEnCgVxz
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) September 17, 2020
Good effort, but should have started earlier.
I mean we all already know he’s a major league asshole, but…
Trump likes to ‘punish’ blue states, according to insiders. Even when they’re burning
While Trump’s most recent invocations of “forest management” as a cause of the wildfires appeared to be an attempt to downplay the role played by climate change, one former White House official said his forestry fixation is, was, and has always been a way for him to attempt to assign responsibility for the fires to California’s Democratic-dominated state government.
“He doesn’t care one bit about managing forests — or much of anything for that matter — unless he can spin it as a failure of governance under the Democratic Party,” said the official.
Another former Trump administration official, ex-Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor, said Trump’s disdain for the state with the largest economy in the US extended not just to the elected officials in charge, but to the people who vote for them.
Taylor, who has previously stated that Trump expressed a desire to cut off funding for disaster relief to California after a string of wildfires that devastated the state in 2018, said in an interview that the President specifically ordered a halt to individual assistance for Californians who’d been displaced from their homes or otherwise affected by the disaster.
“He didn’t want the people in California to get the money, because he basically said he didn’t think that they deserved it,” said Taylor, who added that after then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen explained the people in question were victims of natural disasters, Trump began ranting about how badly he’d been treated by former California Governor Jerry Brown and his successor.
“He talked about how terrible Jerry Brown was as governor, how bad Jerry Brown’s been for him, that Jerry Brown hasn’t supported him politically, and then Gavin Newsom,” he said.
Taylor said that Trump was particularly upset by Newsom’s first State of the State address.
“Trump said: ‘Did you see that f**king thing? It was a disaster. And this guy is against me on everything. And there’s no way I’m gonna support California, there’s just no way… If they don’t support me, I’m not gonna support them,’” Taylor explained. “It was a very clear political statement of him saying that if the past two governors aren’t supporting me, and the people of California don’t like me politically… do not provide money, don’t provide disaster relief.”
And though Trump has by now signed declarations to assist victims of wildfires in Oregon and Washington as well as California, Taylor said Trump has often had little interest in providing federal assistance to those Americans he deems insufficiently supportive of him politically, and would often complain about the leadership of a given state when asked to sign disaster declarations.
“It happened enough times that the leadership of DHS and DEMA would be worried about the President politicizing it when where was a disaster in a blue state,” he said.
re: #240 jaunte
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Good effort, but should have started earlier.
And hell Trump’s Uncle John was a physicist. Trump has zero medical qualifications and credibility.
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bulkshit on a stick. Even 10-20 years ago, you could see that Trump’s form was nowhere near good enough to get in the 70s at Winged Foot or any other PGA tour course. He’s lying - and we know he lies. He lies about absolutely everything.
But his golfing lies aren’t what bothers me today.
It’s the 201,000+ dead Americans due to his covid19 lies. He just keeps lying and misinforming the masses, adding to the body count. His COS Meadows is lying. He’s lying about having a health care plan (he doesn’t). It’s all vaporware and malware all the time. It’s a firehose of bulkshit.
re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean we all already know he’s a major league asshole, but…
Trump likes to ‘punish’ blue states, according to insiders. Even when they’re burning
While Trump’s most recent invocations of “forest management” as a cause of the wildfires appeared to be an attempt to downplay the role played by climate change, one former White House official said his forestry fixation is, was, and has always been a way for him to attempt to assign responsibility for the fires to California’s Democratic-dominated state government.
“He doesn’t care one bit about managing forests — or much of anything for that matter — unless he can spin it as a failure of governance under the Democratic Party,” said the official.
Another former Trump administration official, ex-Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor, said Trump’s disdain for the state with the largest economy in the US extended not just to the elected officials in charge, but to the people who vote for them.
Taylor, who has previously stated that Trump expressed a desire to cut off funding for disaster relief to California after a string of wildfires that devastated the state in 2018, said in an interview that the President specifically ordered a halt to individual assistance for Californians who’d been displaced from their homes or otherwise affected by the disaster.
“He didn’t want the people in California to get the money, because he basically said he didn’t think that they deserved it,” said Taylor, who added that after then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen explained the people in question were victims of natural disasters, Trump began ranting about how badly he’d been treated by former California Governor Jerry Brown and his successor.
“He talked about how terrible Jerry Brown was as governor, how bad Jerry Brown’s been for him, that Jerry Brown hasn’t supported him politically, and then Gavin Newsom,” he said.
Taylor said that Trump was particularly upset by Newsom’s first State of the State address.“Trump said: ‘Did you see that f**king thing? It was a disaster. And this guy is against me on everything. And there’s no way I’m gonna support California, there’s just no way… If they don’t support me, I’m not gonna support them,’” Taylor explained. “It was a very clear political statement of him saying that if the past two governors aren’t supporting me, and the people of California don’t like me politically… do not provide money, don’t provide disaster relief.”
And though Trump has by now signed declarations to assist victims of wildfires in Oregon and Washington as well as California, Taylor said Trump has often had little interest in providing federal assistance to those Americans he deems insufficiently supportive of him politically, and would often complain about the leadership of a given state when asked to sign disaster declarations.“It happened enough times that the leadership of DHS and DEMA would be worried about the President politicizing it when where was a disaster in a blue state,” he said.
He’s a fucking psychopath and the natural political evolution of right wing talk radio.
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The crazy claims continue:
(Includes clip from Fox Sports Radio)
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Fox Sports Radio is all-in on promoting Trump as are the other Fox properties.
Dear leader shot a hole-in-one on every hole!
Orwell-Kafka-Catch-22 maneuver:
The committee subpoenaed Wolf to testify, but DHS is citing a precedent that The people awaiting Senate confirmation to their positions don’t testify before Congress. What’s left unsaid: normally, people don’t serve in the positions they are nominated for in acting roles https://t.co/8GTZbEXVV9
— Michelle Hackman (@MHackman) September 17, 2020
re: #244 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s a fucking psychopath and the natural political evolution of right wing talk radio.
Ain’t that the truth!
re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean we all already know he’s a major league asshole, but…
Trump likes to ‘punish’ blue states, according to insiders. Even when they’re burning
Democrats only want BAILOUT MONEY for Blue States that are doing badly. They don’t care about the people, never did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020
re: #245 Eventual Carrion
Dear leader shot a hole-in-one on every hole!
Except for the 9th hole, where the ball bounced out so hard it landed in the 10th hole!
56 under par for the course!
Excellent!!!
semi ///
re: #247 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ain’t that the truth!
He’s not only the worst potus ever but he’s one of the worst Americans ever.
re: #245 Eventual Carrion
Dear leader shot a hole-in-one on every hole!
And swam the Yangtze. End-to-end.
re: #251 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s not only the worst potus ever but he’s one of the worst
AmericansHumans ever.
Absolutely.
GOP senate candidate in Delaware gets the all-important Nazi Holocaust denier endorsement.
Congratulations @LaurenWitzkeDE ! HUGE victory for America First!
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) September 16, 2020
The tropical wave in the Bay of Campeche is expected to become a tropical depression later today, then start moving north toward the United States. The Air Force is going to investigate it later today.
The non-tropical wave in the northeast Atlantic is expected to develop before it reaches the Portuguese coast Friday.
re: #201 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
Not a problem. He seems very introspective and willing to admit he was wrong.
People can change. I did. Or, I think I grew up and worked past my ego and biases. Cut the bullshit. Lots of politics is tied up in identity as well.
I’m going to hit the rack, you lucky devils. Have a good day.
re: #246 jaunte
Orwell-Kafka-Catch-22 maneuver:
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Then none of his changes/dictates/etc should be enacted, and if already enacted they should be rescinded. He should have no power if we cannot regulate it with our ELECTED representatives as checks and balances. Fucking unconstitutional pricks.
re: #261 BigPapa
People can change. I did. Or, I think I grew up and worked past my ego and biases. Cut the bullshit. Lots of politics is tied up in identity as well.
All politics is identity politics in some form. What made you change btw? For me, I was more far left but I became center left because I saw how Obama improved the economy and progressed us socially through incrementalism.
re: #112 Dread Pirate Ron
I haven’t looked at my stats in months. It looks like I’ll hit 100k in a year or so.
My math indicates around 2564 years to hit 100k karma. Slow but sure.
re: #227 Eventual Carrion
First question for tRump in the debates should be for him to define the difference between a “mail-in ballot” and an “absentee ballot”. How do they actually differ specifically.
I think the (irrelevant) distinction Trumpco wants to emphasize is that you request an absentee ballot but a mail-in ballot is automatically mailed to the voter.
re: #265 carey94tt
My math indicates around 2564 years to hit 100k karma. Slow but sure.
We’ll still be arguing pizza.
re: #266 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
I think the (irrelevant) distinction Trumpco wants to emphasize is that you request an absentee ballot but a mail-in ballot is automatically mailed to the voter.
Here in PA they sent out a form to request a mail-in ballot. You sent it back if you wanted one. Seems if you don’t request one they don’t send one.
re: #268 Eventual Carrion
Here in PA they sent out a form to request a mail-in ballot. You sent it back if you wanted one. Seems if you don’t request one they don’t send one.
In AL you download an application and mail it with photocopy ID under 1st class postage. Then they send you a ballot, security envelope, and outer envelope that you sign and get 2 witnesses or a notary to sign, then mail it back under 3X 1st class stamps. Oddly, the Jim Crow poll tax was also $2.00, IIRC.
re: #268 Eventual Carrion
Here in PA they sent out a form to request a mail-in ballot. You sent it back if you wanted one. Seems if you don’t request one they don’t send one.
In WA, the just sent out the ballot and voter info pamphlet since we’re all vote by mail. I think in the beginning states controlled by Dems just wanted to do what we do here in WA. Send all registered voters ballots. This is what Trump is trying to say leads to voter fraud. FYI, there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in WA.
re: #270 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
In WA, the just sent out the ballot and voter info pamphlet since we’re all vote by mail. I think in the beginning states controlled by Dems just wanted to do what we do here in WA. Send all registered voters ballots. This is what Trump is trying to say leads to voter fraud. FYI, there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in WA.
Clarification, send to all registered voters.
re: #126 Targetpractice
This does not sound like the tweet of a man who thinks he can cheat his way to victory:
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Ah yes. “True the Vote”. That would be the Texas group who have made a living during the past decade openly engaging in voter suppression, including outright intimidation and voter fraud.
.@realDonaldTrump, the job is to be president of all Americans. For the love of God start acting like it. https://t.co/kkHf9aWZmR
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 17, 2020
Cue “not this shit again” meme:
Twitter makes sure that Trending on Twitter is anything bad, Fake or not, about President Donald Trump. So obvious what they are doing. Being studied now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020
re: #273 lawhawk
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I’ll always appreciate that Biden pointed out it was all Virginia when he came here after Palin who I bet had never been here before 2008 ran her mouth about how happy she was to be in the “ real Virginia.”
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
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He cares more that people are criticizing him on Twitter than people are dying.
re: #270 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
I. FYI, there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud in WA.
Seriously, is there ANY evidence of “widespread voter fraud” anywhere in this country?? * And by that, I mean real fraud - not just Donald Trump’s insane blather that any vote NOT for him, must be ipso facto, “fraudulent”.
*OK, I’ll concede “Chicago”…
As a Chris Rock fan, I’m deeply disappointed by this ridiculous take.
Whatever you think about impeachment - which, in my view, was totally justified - it has nothing, ZERO, to do with Trump’s coronavirus (non) response. https://t.co/2hIiOX6bjx— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 17, 2020
re: #278 DodgerFan1988
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Psst Chris, there’s a little body called the Senate controlled by a little man named Mitch you should talk to. I’m sorry but so many of these comedians are full of shit and self righteous bullshit and ignorant of civics.
Crush him https://t.co/KVuGDlvOhv
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 17, 2020
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The crazy claims continue:
(Includes clip from Fox Sports Radio)
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Fox Sports Radio is all-in on promoting Trump as are the other Fox properties.
A few years ago, North Korean propaganda solemnly proclaimed that Kim Jong Un had shot two holes in one on the same round. I expect Trump to do the same any day now.
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
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There’s something really fucking weird about anyone who refers to themselves in third person.
re: #278 DodgerFan1988
Damned if they did, damned if they didn’t.
The impeachment was over by the time the virus got started. And, for that matter, Clinton still carried on being president during his impeachment. Trump is over 70. If he’s acting like a 5-year-old, that’s on him.
re: #284 Belafon
Damned if they did, damned if they didn’t.
The impeachment was over by the time the virus got started. And, for that matter, Clinton still carried on being president during his impeachment. Trump is over 70. If he’s acting like a 5-year-old, that’s on him.
Exactly. Hell Nixon was doing doing FP when Watergate was bringing him down. And the reason why Trump was impeached remains pertinent today. I’m sick of bad hot takes from people left and right who don’t even try to understand our basic political reality.
re: #280 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Although leave him enough money for food to protect his neighbors.
That “Princess Bride” reading made $4.25 million for Wisconsin Democrat’s according to @Cary_Elwes in interview with @morningmika
— BillGlauber (@BillGlauber) September 17, 2020
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) September 17, 2020
Anti-masker in Detroit causes a scene at the cell phone store with his no-neck-havin’ ass pic.twitter.com/0H1BtEsMeK
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 17, 2020
I have a hunch we’re finally going to learn which political party Abraham Lincoln was in!!!!!! https://t.co/4NRsVIGZ3x
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 17, 2020
re: #287 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
The Princess Bride reading was fun, even with all the technical issues. Glad it pulled in that much money.
FT.
The comments did not disappoint 💀 pic.twitter.com/xzjUHL07mI
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) September 17, 2020
re: #279 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Psst Chris, there’s a little body called the Senate controlled by a little man named Mitch you should talk to. I’m sorry but so many of these comedians are full of shit and self righteous bullshit and ignorant of civics.
It’s not just that. Look at the DATES — impeachment and covid barely overlap.
re: #285 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Exactly. Hell Nixon was doing doing FP when Watergate was bringing him down. And the reason why Trump was impeached remains pertinent today. I’m sick of bad hot takes from people left and right who don’t even try to understand our basic political reality.
5 minutes with google makes everyone an expert on anything
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
Cue “not this shit again” meme:
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‘cause there is nothing good….
Twitter makes sure that Trending on Twitter is anything bad, Fake or not, about President Donald Trump. So obvious what they are doing. Being studied now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020
Your priorities are askew.
Stop typing— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) September 17, 2020
re: #266 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
I think the (irrelevant) distinction Trumpco wants to emphasize is that you request an absentee ballot but a mail-in ballot is automatically mailed to the voter.
and that’s not even accurate as far as it goes
florida calls it ‘vote-by-mail’ status
no reason/excuse necessary
it’s not even per election
i think we can do it for all elections for like 2 years at a time
right on the internet
im sure other states as well
no, we will not be naming the fish
When you’re getting your hair done but a VP candidate shows up: pic.twitter.com/A4Gh8L3gYw
— Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) September 17, 2020
Music break: Last week (2 weeks ago? Who knows any more?) there was a discussion of Pink Floyd here, and I mentioned that I was doing a cover of ‘Wish You Were Here’ for my covers project with other Long Island musicians.
Well, I finally got the vocal track back and finished the mix this morning. It’s up for your listening pleasure here. Incidentally, I’ve added over a dozen new tunes to the site since I last mentioned it. Main page is here, I think we’ve done some cool stuff.
Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and more than one in 10 believe Jews caused the Holocaust, a new survey has found, revealing shocking levels of ignorance about the greatest crime of the 20th century.
According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world war.
Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, or had been exaggerated, or they weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn’t think they had heard, about the Holocaust.
[…]
Nationally, 63% of respondents did not know 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, and more than one in three (36%) thought 2 million or fewer had been killed.
Eleven per cent of respondents across the US believed that Jews had caused the Holocaust, with the proportion in New York state at 19%, followed by 16% in Louisiana, Tennessee and Montana, and 15% in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Nevada and New Mexico.
This is…..distressing.
re: #301 Citizen K
Eleven per cent of respondents across the US believed that Jews had caused the Holocaust, with the proportion in New York state at 19%, followed by 16% in Louisiana, Tennessee and Montana, and 15% in Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Nevada and New Mexico.
This is…..distressing.
Yeah, ya think??!!
19% in NYS??
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Hey, we have a bunch of Statues of Liberty in Grand Island, North Platte, &c. They’re even along the Platte River, which everyone knows is as important as New York Harbor. They’re not in cornfields. Take that back, Mr. Wright. /s
But you’ve got Carhenge!!
It’s on my bucket list.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.”
Oh just shut the fuck up, you fat, corrupt asshole.
Worse than the Japanese internment? Or the Alien & Sedition Act? Or the Palmer raids? Or McCarthyism?
re: #304 sagehen
Worse than the Japanese internment? Or the Alien & Sedition Act? Or the Palmer raids? Or McCarthyism?
Of course it’s worse: ordinary white people may have been inconvenienced….
Auto-karma:
Fast and Stupid! 🚗😳💥💪👍 pic.twitter.com/xwIu3vJf1F
— DumbSh💩t (@Dumbsheat) September 16, 2020
Heres the email from Trump Bedminster’s GM, announcing the club was closing for covid on 3/17/20.
And here are two bills, showing @realdonaldtrump’s club charging the Secret Service about $16,000 while the club was shuttered.
Why? Trump Org wouldn’t say. pic.twitter.com/8Rjlx0x1QA— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) September 17, 2020
I think I know this one. He’s a fucking thief.
re: #264 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
All politics is identity politics in some form. What made you change btw? For me, I was more far left but I became center left because I saw how Obama improved the economy and progressed us socially through incrementalism.
I was center right; I haven’t changed any of my views on any issues, but the center line moved. So now I’m center left.
re: #300 makeitstop
Music break: Last week (2 weeks ago? Who knows any more?) there was a discussion of Pink Floyd here, and I mentioned that I was doing a cover of ‘Wish You Were Here’ for my covers project with other Long Island musicians.
Well, I finally got the vocal track back and finished the mix this morning. It’s up for your listening pleasure here. Incidentally, I’ve added over a dozen new tunes to the site since I last mentioned it. Main page is here, I think we’ve done some cool stuff.
+1
And I Rocked On as well
re: #307 jaunte
Oh, I know the answer to this.
He’s using taxpayers to bail out his golf and hotel businesses. He’s trying to personally profit while the nation burns.
re: #306 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Auto-karma:
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‘fast and stupid is no way to go through life, son”
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties” in history “other than slavery.”
Oh just shut the fuck up, you fat, corrupt asshole.
Accusing one’s enemies of desperation is a familiar trope in modern rhetoric. Too bad, because the accelerating craziness we see from Barr looks like the real thing: The guy is terrified of Cheeto losing. This is way beyond hoping for more grift, or the chance to create a fascist regime. I think he is looking at hard time when the facts come out.
Seems someone at UGA realized what a bunch of crap they were shoveling
— UGA (@universityofga) September 16, 2020
— UGA (@universityofga) September 17, 2020
— UGA (@universityofga) September 17, 2020
re: #277 Jay C
Seriously, is there ANY evidence of “widespread voter fraud” anywhere in this country?? * And by that, I mean real fraud - not just Donald Trump’s insane blather that any vote NOT for him, must be ipso facto, “fraudulent”.
*OK, I’ll concede “Chicago”…
And that North Carolina congressional race; it was a Republican doing ballot harvesting (election fraud, not voter fraud. The voters did nothing wrong). They ended up having to redo the race.
re: #298 dangerman
no, we will not be naming the fish
These links take me to twitter /search/ realtime/ %23thegreatpoolpondconversion
The USPS had a plan to send 5 reusable facemarks to every household in early April. Even had a press release ready.
The White House blocked the plan.
“There was concern…that households receiving masks might create concern or panic.” https://t.co/pYABjdzTCM pic.twitter.com/v4BLKRMPOc— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 17, 2020
Fucking Trumpworld had a playbook and a plan to deal with an aersolized pandemic, and blew it.
They actively fucked things up.
@CandiHotBod793469649 seems to like me. She keeps asking me to follow her on Instagram. https://t.co/6fR9iYOxqr
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 17, 2020
Our recently-updated Civic Integrity Policy specifically offers guidance on these claims, including that we will label misleading information or disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself. More in this policy:https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 17, 2020
re: #314 sagehen
And that North Carolina congressional race; it was a Republican doing ballot harvesting (election fraud, not voter fraud. The voters did nothing wrong). They ended up having to redo the race.
Has anyone considered the possibility that Barr and his cronies will develop a scheme to take advantage of vote-by-mail in key states to steal the election? The more they talk about this, the more I am certain that they could have a sophisticated plan in place to steal ballots, mark them, and then submit them.
Astronomy Photographs of the Year Contest on This Is Colossal
re: #312 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Accusing one’s enemies of desperation is a familiar trope in modern rhetoric. Too bad, because the accelerating craziness we see from Barr looks like the real thing: The guy is terrified of Cheeto losing. This is way beyond hoping for more grift, or the chance to create a fascist regime. I think he is looking at hard time when the facts come out.
If you look at the real world logistics of murdering Epstein and faking his suicide, it is just this side of impossible, but the AG just might be the one person who could pull it off. Among other things, it would require access to sensitive personnel information (to determine which guards might be corruptible) and even more sensitive information on prison routines, shift changes, and security precautions. It would likely also require good political connections to find a donor who could be relied on to provide the cash for bribes, no questions asked.
re: #315 retired cynic
These links take me to twitter /search/ realtime/ %23thegreatpoolpondconversion
it s/b an instagram search tag
re: #316 lawhawk
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Fucking Trumpworld had a playbook and a plan to deal with an aersolized pandemic, and blew it.
They actively fucked things up.
i dont not believe this altruistic ‘avoid a panic’ nonsense for a second
re: #321 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If you look at the real world logistics of murdering Epstein and faking his suicide, it is just this side of impossible, but the AG just might be the one person who could pull it off. Among other things, it would require access to sensitive personnel information (to determine which guards might be corruptible) and even more sensitive information on prison routines, shift changes, and security precautions. It would likely also require good political connections to find a donor who could be relied on to provide the cash for bribes, no questions asked.
and people smarter than this crew
With Chad Wolf rejecting a subpoena to appear, lawmakers have no one in today’s hearing to ask about reports of questionable hysterectomies performed on ICE detainees and an alleged push to alter intelligence findings to match President Trump’s priorities.https://t.co/dYY28tPNGA
— NPR (@NPR) September 17, 2020
Chad Wolf has been running Homeland Security, but refused to appear before the House for oversight.
Chairman @BennieGThompson: “Despite his refusal to testify today, Mr. Wolf has spoken to the media on multiple occasions … including no fewer than four appearances on Fox News.” pic.twitter.com/4ctdflAcOA— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) September 17, 2020
When Barr says, “whose agents do you think you are?” to the FBI, I believe he is making a veiled legal argument. Remember that Barr believes in the “unitary executive” theory, and that therefore the president can’t, e.g., obstruct justice. 1/
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 17, 2020
If Trump can’t obstruct justice, then nothing that Barr does on his behalf, or that he instructs his prosecutors or FBI to do, can be obstruction, either. In other words, *not only* can this entire legal arm of the government have the power and immunities of POTUS himself, but 3/
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 17, 2020
P.S. The irony of his view of POTUS’ power, of course, is that if you buy it, it means that the whole “Durham investigation” is a crock of 💩 because as long as the FBI and DOJ were acting with acquiescence from Obama, anything they do is legal. To wit: https://t.co/GFftNZ9Xos
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 17, 2020
re: #326 jaunte
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Are the standing rules for testimony then that anyone can refuse to testify and the House has no recourse?
What is happening with Russian Ron’s investigation into Biden? Are they actually going to be issuing subpoenas? Based on the precedents from this administration, would that mean that anyone can blow them off?
re: #327 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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In other words, Barr is laying down the legal argument that we are now and forever an Empire.
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The crazy claims continue:
(Includes clip from Fox Sports Radio)
(more)
Fox Sports Radio is all-in on promoting Trump as are the other Fox properties.
What did he shoot on the back 9?
They were planning for war. pic.twitter.com/b5IKr6jNWm
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 17, 2020
re: #327 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Total power for Republicans; Total responsibly for Democrats
re: #329 Citizen K
In other words, Barr is laying down the legal argument that we are now and forever an Empire.
A dictatorship not an Empire, but with an election every 4 years for a possibly new dictator.
re: #289 The Pie Overlord!
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Unfortunately for Patton Oswalt, there is a fair resemblance.
Trump’s national security adviser literally told the Russians that Trump would remove sanctions put in place by Obama, and then lied about it to the FBI. https://t.co/8HPQ1tG2JE
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 17, 2020
re: #327 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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And……wait till the next guy is president
The supposed fear of creating panic expressed by the Trump administration makes me think they have first hand experience of seeing panic when the news of the virus hit.
HOAX!!!
re: #329 Citizen K
In other words, Barr is laying down the legal argument that we are now and forever an Empire.
Yeah but only starting when he was appointed
re: #336 dangerman
And……wait till the next guy is president
Nah, the GOP will be slamming Obama until the end of time.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
Nah, the GOP will be slamming Obama until the end of time.
They’re still blaming Carter and Bill for everything under the sun when they’re not blaming Obama or Pelosi, so…yeah.
re: #335 dangerman
Trump’s first national security adviser was an undeclared foreign agent.
re: #329 Citizen K
In other words, Barr is laying down the legal argument that we are now and forever an Empire.
Well, maybe not “forever”. - but at least til the next Democratic Administration…
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
One fly in the ointment there Asha.
It’s called IOKIYAR. It’s okay if you’re a Republican.
The rules Trump and Barr are putting in place to protect Trump do not apply to any Democrat in the WH, ever. It’s the keep the GOP out of prison card.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 17, 2020
Barr may be even more loathsome than Cheeto himself, if such a thing is possible.
re: #344 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Trump is the symptom of the moral/ethical rot of the entire right wing and GOP. Barr is a manifestation of the fascist tendencies of the GOP to impose an authoritarian despot to impose their Christian doctrine on everyone else.
re: #342 Jay C
Well, maybe not “forever”. - but at least til the next Democratic Administration…
I mean, half the deal there seems to be him laying down the legal argument that the administration could directly interfere with elections without repercussions, which would be….you know….
I have, as you all are quite aware, three hobbies. Photography, Firearms and Swords:
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The NFL has been charging the Defense Dept. for years to “honor” veterans at games. But last night I got to thinking about something. Once or twice a season at Texans’ games (I shoot all the home games), a home builder (I think KB Home) gives away a new house to a veteran. I started wondering if they actually gave it away considering a builder’s margin is around 12%. So far I can’t find anything. I got to thinking that there is just no way they give them away. A veteran could just turn right around and sell it tomorrow and make a 100% profit. My thinking is that they let them live in one, but then the veteran would have to count the average rental price as income. He/she would also probably pay the property taxes and insurance as well as maintenance. And if they moved out, they’d have to give the keys back. Any help with this is appreciated.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
Nah, the GOP will be slamming Obama until the end of time.
I meant that the same rules would apply
re: #342 Jay C
Well, maybe not “forever”. - but at least til the next Democratic Administration…
Exacto
My Ex GF son who came back from college now has Covid-19. 4 out of 6 people in his dorm suite have tested positive. This is in NY where the infection rate is fairly low.
Going back to school is not such a good idea.
I think the playing college football is going to kill a few students.
FT
re: #344 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Barr may be even more loathsome than Cheeto himself, if such a thing is possible.
Been a fucking piece of shit since Iran/Contra
JFC! The Trump administration is VERY LITERALLY trying to get people killed. Actively blocking measures to keep people safe. Unreal. https://t.co/QguX71veMN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2020
re: #347 William Lewis
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re: #344 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Barr may be even more loathsome than Cheeto himself, if such a thing is possible.
Because he is not stupid. Although saying what he is saying now, before the election, could be seen as pretty dumb.
re: #353 Charles Johnson
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We didn’t save lives because it might have caused a panic, is a hell of a campaign slogan
re: #356 dangerman
My memory is a little bit fuzzy because of the insanity that is 2020 but that letter is dated April. Weren’t plenty of people ALREADY PANICKING AND FREAKING OUT by this point?
re: #289 The Pie Overlord!
Am I a bad person for loving how that phone guy kept egging on Mr. no Neck?
Forcing schools to reopen long before it was safe is having the expected result: infection rates are soaring in colleges and schools.
We were warned by the best experts. But the Trump Party went ahead anyway. Now they have even more blood on their hands.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 17, 2020
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Today in Kentucky, the Supreme Court heard arguments from the AG for striking down all of the Governor’s pandemic regulations. If they do, our infections and deaths will skyrocket, and I may never get out of lockdown.
re: #348 Ace Rothstein
The charity involved seems to be:
OperationFinallyHome: House Giveaway at NRG
houstontexans.com
which gets a one star financial score from Charity navigator
charitynavigator.org
but I couldn’t find anything about how the giveaway works.
re: #357 Eclectic Cyborg
My memory is a little bit fuzzy because of the insanity that is 2020 but that letter is dated April. Weren’t plenty of people ALREADY PANICKING AND FREAKING OUT by this point?
I saw the first ‘panic’ on Feb. 28. Turns out it may have been the enactment of a well-thought-out plan. (A man bought 2 carts of groceries for his inlaws because they told him they aren’t leaving the house for a while.)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court defends voting rights in the most likely tipping point state:
🚨BREAKING: BIG Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling:
✅ Ballots postmarked by Election Day must count as long as they are receive within 3 days afterwards!
✅Drop boxes legal.
✅Poll watchers must be from county
❌No ability to cure
❌Ballots w/o inner envelop don’t count.— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) September 17, 2020
re: #361 jaunte
House giveaways, like HGTV and KB Homes impart a significant tax burden to the individual who “wins”. You often need to be wealthy in order to win the home and pay the taxes and transfer fees, even if there’s no mortgage to assume.
re: #298 dangerman
no, we will not be naming the fish
Isn’t that just food for Yvette? You don’t name food (trust me, I brought Larry and Lucinda Lobster home from Boston one time… Cooking them stressed me out).
Standing down from today’s Starlink launch due to recovery issue; vehicle and payload remain healthy. Next launch opportunity is tomorrow, September 18 at 1:57 p.m. EDT, but we are keeping an eye on weather
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 17, 2020
re: #306 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Isn’t that auto-carma? 😳
re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there was a “golden age” in London when you could get it on prescription - and they would throw in a prescription for Merck cocaine to pick you back up…
remember the line from You Can’t Always Get What You Want about “I went down to the Chelsea drugstore…”?
gives new meaning to trump using it for his rally walk-off music…
Steele: The fact that we literally have to beg people to wear a mask to save their own dumbass from getting sick… pic.twitter.com/JdLLUnIXsY
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 17, 2020
Private Neglect, Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria
Deep dive into LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company that added immigrant detention to its remit, and is where the alleged hysterectomies occurred. Nasty, nasty piece of work, even if that is not true.
Immigrant detention as a new profit center
LaSalle Corrections was founded by Billy McConnell, who initially “began cutting deals to build and operate jails in rural towns across the South.” But as states slashed their prison populations to save money, McConnell viewed the election of Trump, and his hard-line stances on immigrantion, as a business opportunity. McConnell’s facilities “now hold more than 7,000 immigration detainees.”
Meanwhile, LaSalle Corrections continues to deepen its ties with ICE. A year ago, Scott Sutterfield left his role as acting director of ICE’s New Orleans field office to become an executive at LaSalle Corrections. At the time, “Sutterfield denied any impropriety in the move, arguing that he was not involved in policy setting at his previous job, which focused on overseeing the immigration deportation process and ensuring detention facilities in the region were in compliance with federal requirements,” wrote USA Today.
Yet, a former ICE official told Mother Jones that it was Sutterfield “who suggested to ICE leadership that it consider using some of the LaSalle facilities.” Now a spokesperson for LaSalle Corrections, Sutterfield recently accused Wooten and Project South of pushing “long-held political objectives.”
McConnell is unapologetic about his work in immigrant detention. “What somebody else thinks about Billy McConnell compared with what God thinks of Billy McConnell is almost irrelevant,” he told USA Today, “We don’t arrest ‘em. We don’t try ‘em. I know what the laws on the books say, and I’m a guy who goes by the rules.”
re: #363 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Pennsylvania Supreme Court defends voting rights in the most likely tipping point state:
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DeJoy was installed to make sure ballot mailing times are as long as possible.
Did I mention, I hate this timeline. Pandemic, fire and smoke. Next up, raining frogs.
re: #364 lawhawk
So just another way for corporate America to make it look like they’re honoring sacrifice while not sacrificing anything including their own kids who they would never let join the military?
re: #357 Eclectic Cyborg
My memory is a little bit fuzzy because of the insanity that is 2020 but that letter is dated April. Weren’t plenty of people ALREADY PANICKING AND FREAKING OUT by this point?
Of course
The whole argument is inane
re: #354 Citizen K
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re: #371 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
DeJoy was installed to make sure ballot mailing times are as long as possible.
Did I mention, I hate this timeline. Pandemic, fire and smoke. Next up, raining frogs.
Bit hard on the frogs, who are good people.
re: #360 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Today in Kentucky, the Supreme Court heard arguments from the AG for striking down all of the Governor’s pandemic regulations. If they do, our infections and deaths will skyrocket, and I may never get out of lockdown.
Hasn’t the rest of the state gov’t basically already neutered Beshear’s regulations wholesale? I vaguely remember something along those lines.
re: #301 Citizen K
Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
This is…..distressing.
Good fucking Christ. That is more than distressing, It’s terrifying.
re: #301 Citizen K
Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
This is…..distressing.
The GOP destruction of public education nears one of it’s goals. You don’t have to worry about “never again” if the kids don’t know what it was the last time.
re: #365 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Isn’t that just food for Yvette? You don’t name food (trust me, I brought Larry and Lucinda Lobster home from Boston one time… Cooking them stressed me out).
It’s 4 feet deep in spots
And we built fish caves and tunnels.
A fighting chance in our microcosm of mutual of omaha
Everyone can be predator or food
re: #365 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Isn’t that just food for Yvette? You don’t name food (trust me, I brought Larry and Lucinda Lobster home from Boston one time… Cooking them stressed me out).
ran into a buddy while i was carrying a lobster home under my arm
he asked me where i was taking the lobster
i said home for dinner
the lobster said “i already had dinner. take me to a movie”
re: #371 Kamrade Teddy’s Person
DeJoy was installed to make sure ballot mailing times are as long as possible.
Did I mention, I hate this timeline. Pandemic, fire and smoke. Next up, raining frogs.
As long as we skip over the boils
re: #351 I Would Prefer Not To
My Ex GF son who came back from college now has Covid-19. 4 out of 6 people in his dorm suite have tested positive. This is in NY where the infection rate is fairly low.
Going back to school is not such a good idea.
I think the playing college football is going to kill a few students.
FT
Is it NYU? The assholes have been throwing raves in Washington Square Park; no social distancing, very few masks.
re: #345 lawhawk
Trump is the symptom of the moral/ethical rot of the entire right wing and GOP. Barr is a manifestation of the fascist tendencies of the GOP to impose an authoritarian despot to impose their
ChristianAmerican doctrine on everyone else.
To these people America is not a nation. To them America is a faith.
One that leaves rich, white men on top and every one else living in fear.
I’m sure they’ll be surprised by their reward when they actually do meet Jesus.
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