As America’s Covid-19 death toll passes another grim milestone the devastating consequences of President Trump’s disregard for human life are still becoming clear, as they did this week when the CDC mysteriously removed guidance from their website indicating that the Coronavirus may transmit through aerosol droplets. #Colbert #CDC #Monologue
45 will be 86ed in the usual way. It will seem odd for these unusual times.
re: #3 wrenchwench
45 will be 86ed in the usual way. It will seem odd for these unusual times.
I sure hope so.
re: #2 i(m)p(each)sos
FT. F the Louisville grand jury.
Remember, a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted if they want. This is on Cameron.
I don’t know what is going on globally, but the fighter jets from Scott AFB about 75 miles south of here are rumbling non-stop this morning. They use the IL River as a geographic marker.
Years ago, they used to dive bomb our horse pastures. Fortunately, no horses were killed in the resulting dashes. They weren’t supposed to do that, legally, and we kicked and kicked until they finally stopped. One time a plane was so low we could see the pilot in silhouette, maybe 150-200 feet up. The horses did not care for that!
Possibly symbolic occurrence in Jefferson Square. Somebody set a trash can on fire, cameras zeroed in on it, a protester walked up and put it out with a water bottle. wlky.com
re: #7 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Possibly symbolic occurrence in Jefferson Square. Somebody set a trash can on fire, cameras zeroed in on it, a protester walked up and put it out with a water bottle. wlky.com
It would be instructive for them to track down the person starting the fire. Bet it wasn’t a protester.
More paint schemes should have doggos on them, agreed @dog_rates? 🐶🐾 pic.twitter.com/HtHnQ3lKim
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) September 23, 2020
4 tires: ✅
Fuel: ✅
A quick game of fetch with some zoomies thrown in: ✅
Definitely doable.— NASCAR (@NASCAR) September 23, 2020
It’s a national disgrace that millions of Americans are forced to stand in line for hours just to exercise their right to vote. I just introduced legislation to ensure voters can cast their ballots quickly, and to hold officials accountable for long voting lines. https://t.co/GAks4DwknT
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) September 23, 2020
Trump: “Hold my beer.”
— Thomas Johnson (@ThomasJinLA) September 22, 2020
Chuck Schumer says Republicans are trying to build a “new, hard-right, special interest-nominated Supreme Court.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 23, 2020
Boy, sure hope Moe drops out, he’s really making it a nailbiter in PA.
— Rich Nixon (@RichNixon2666) September 23, 2020
I think Louisville is going to be burning tonight.
The grand jury did not indict a single officer for the killing of Breonna Taylor. One was charged with “wanton endangerment.”
“The cops shot Taylor under the cover of darkness, but prosecutors are trying to lose the case in broad daylight,” wrote @ElieNYC https://t.co/8Oq30qCcdJ— The Nation (@thenation) September 23, 2020
A Kentucky grand jury has indicted a police officer for Wanton Endangerment of neighbors because of bullets that fired through the apartment walls but not for killing Breonna Taylor by shooting her.
The law here blatantly fails even to try to protect the life of a Black woman.— JRehling (@JRehling) September 23, 2020
Someone should ask how he knows that for a fact if there’s no footage.
— Nick Neely (@ukfanneely) September 23, 2020
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s a national disgrace that millions of Americans are forced to stand in line for hours just to exercise their right to vote. I just introduced legislation to ensure voters can cast their ballots quickly, and to hold officials accountable for long voting lines. https://t.co/GAks4DwknT
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) September 23, 2020
re: #3 wrenchwench
45 will be 86ed in the usual way. It will seem odd for these unusual times.
We need a clear and incontestable voter outcome. Put this puppy to bed on Election Day.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) immediately took the floor, accusing Sen. Cruz of using the late justice’s “dying words” against her, which he said was “so, so beneath the dignity of this body. I do not modify.”https://t.co/QIvS1MZnsZ
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) September 23, 2020
There are so many things about the world that are just so fundamentally broken — or if not broken, in need of major reform. We should all be able to agree that this shouldn’t happen to anyone, that equal justice under the law needs to actually be equal.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 23, 2020
I don’t know. My heart and my thoughts go out to her friends, her family, and for everyone who hoped that the people who stole her life away would be held accountable. Solidarity.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 23, 2020
Thread’s a good read
👉Senate historical records dating to 1900 reviewed by @NBCNews:
No president has seated a Supreme Court nominee within 3 months of an election.
👉A confirmation weeks before Election Day would be first in modern history.
(Trump says he wants a vote before election day.)— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) September 23, 2020
re: #21 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He said there was an eyewitness other than the cops.
and eyewitnesses are always unquestionably accurate..
re: #21 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He said there was an eyewitness other than the cops.
There was one that said they heard an officer yell “Police!” before they entered, and 11 that did not, according to the NYT.
re: #25 Belafon
There was one that said they heard an officer yell “Police!” before they entered, and 11 that did not, according to the NYT.
well, who are you going to believe? One person who believes in Law and Order or 11 obvious BLM/Antifa radicals?
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Cameron: Six bullets struck Taylor and only one of the shots was fatal.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
O_O
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cameron: Six bullets struck Taylor and only one of the shots was fatal.
“co-morbidity”
Correct. That is the state of human rights in Kentucky. https://t.co/mgHsEcreEG
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 23, 2020
Well, now they are unless you can stick your boobs through a visor in a remote service station toilet as you stink of sanitiser. What the fuck is this ? https://t.co/jtIt65RXF1
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) September 23, 2020
Pennsylvania Republicans are openly discussing the appointment of Trump electors if Trump can tie up the vote count long enough. There is a 34% chance that Pa will be the tipping point state, according to fivethirtyeight.com.
jesus, nate, tweet less and read more: pic.twitter.com/PTtRvp95yj
— Jim Miani (@JimMiani) September 23, 2020
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Doesn’t seem to be any dispute that they used a battering ram to enter. It was midnight. Even if they knocked (why would they have knocked after having gone to the trouble of obtaining a “no knock” warrant), my guess is that they knocked, shouted “It’s the police”, and within 5 seconds, had destroyed the door and were in the house. I’m guessing it was really similar to Tamir Rice in terms of time from arrival to shots fired.
Cameron says there is no video, so the case had to be “pieced together” from scratch.
— Lawrence Smith (@LASmithReports) September 23, 2020
I think I see the problem
re: #32 Mike Lamb
I’m betting you are correct.
There are so many things about the world that are just so fundamentally broken — or if not broken, in need of major reform. We should all be able to agree that this shouldn’t happen to anyone, that equal justice under the law needs to actually be equal.
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 23, 2020
There isn’t equal justice
Never has been
We were heading there and then…
Time to change the pledge of allegiance
“Liberty and justice for some”
re: #32 Mike Lamb
Doesn’t seem to be any dispute that they used a battering ram to enter. It was midnight. Even if they knocked (why would they have knocked after having gone to the trouble of obtaining a “no knock” warrant), my guess is that they knocked, shouted “It’s the police”, and within 5 seconds, had destroyed the door and were in the house. I’m guessing it was really similar to Tamir Rice in terms of time from arrival to shots fired.
Cameron claimed it was not a no knock warrant.
Cameron says he’s not going to release the full grand jury report.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
“police knocked and announced their presence”
Someone banged on the door and shouted something inaudible to the occupants of the house.
re: #23 dangerman
Only 41,000 more AMERICAN DEATHS from Covid-19 until Election Day!
— Joe Justice (@JoeMoney5617) September 23, 2020
The only remedy for this blatantly authoritarian behavior is for voters to turn out for Biden-Harris in such overwhelming numbers that Trump & the GOP can’t steal the election. https://t.co/hVdMMsbUgq
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 23, 2020
re: #39 retired cynic
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As a practicing Catholic and a loyal Democrat, I am proud that my party’s most recent president put a Catholic on the Court, that our Speaker is Catholic, and that our presidential nominee is Catholic. As we Catholic Texans say, that dogma don’t hunt. https://t.co/ijpgGI2YvB
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) September 23, 2020
Disgusted about police getting away with murder again in the #BreonnaTaylor case. Nothing about this awful situation will change until Republicans are voted out of office across the board. But if Trump wins another term, you can expect it to get even worse.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
Daniel Cameron just called Breonna Taylor’s death “part of a national story.” No, man. Her death is a robbery. Those officers robbed her of her life. They robbed her family and her boyfriend of their loved one. They robbed Louisville of a first responder. Who elected this man?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 23, 2020
re: #14 GlutenFreeJesus
I think Louisville is going to be burning tonight.
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This is how we have spent most of the last few months and pretty much how it was written. The end result is ‘Olive, Mabel & Me’, available for order from all the usual places here: https://t.co/DfhxRfqGCd
And here: https://t.co/8T3I5bitFC pic.twitter.com/vPjU0IAI8y— Andrew Cotter (@MrAndrewCotter) September 23, 2020
Cameron: It is unlikely that there will be additional charges related to Taylor’s death.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
What a pathetically out of touch tweet. You might as well wear a badge saying, “I LEARNED NOTHING FROM 2016 AND I’M PROUD OF IT!” https://t.co/VMWrIJzFpW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
“Peaceful protests are your right as an American citizen. Instigating violence is not.” — Kentucky A.G. Daniel Cameron apparently forgetting he just found that the police’s INSTIGATION OF VIOLENCE was TOTALLY JUSTIFIED.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 23, 2020
The US abandoned this operation and left these people to their fate in a massive foreign policy failure that LITERALLY cemented Castro’s rule over Cuba
But, go ahead and promise unwavering commitment. If they’re dumb enough to believe it, they deserve what they get https://t.co/KcvFqfoj8f— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 23, 2020
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
As a practicing Catholic and a loyal Democrat, I am proud that my party’s most recent president put a Catholic on the Court, that our Speaker is Catholic, and that our presidential nominee is Catholic. As we Catholic Texans say, that dogma don’t hunt.
Catholics come in all sorts of types, from Liberation-Theology social activist Catholics to pedophile-coddling Medieval fertility cult Catholics.
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
Plus, he’s dismantled Obama’s attempts at opening up Cuba.
re: #38 jaunte
“police knocked and announced their presence”
Someone banged on the door and shouted something inaudible to the occupants of the house.
Who were asleep. Has anybody asked what the fuck was so urgent that they had to go in the middle of the night? Are cops no longer capable of a stakeout?
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, very impressive
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 23, 2020
Fuck off!
Reading more, the warrant was changed from a no-knock to knock and announce. Kenneth Walker claims to have heard loud banging but didn’t hear that they identified themselves as police, even after Walker asked who was knocking. They then broke through the door. The account I read is that Walker fired once. Police put the entire apartment on blast. No one gave Breonna medical attention for 20 minutes after she had been shot, and it was left to Walker to call 911 5 minutes after the shooting.
Oh, and the police lied repeatedly in the incident report, but we are supposed to believe the parts of their account that would matter, such as that they did, in fact, announce.
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Catholics come in all sorts of types, from Liberation-Theology social activist Catholics to pedophile-coddling Medieval fertility cult Catholics.
We say it in regards to Anglicans but the classic statement is that if you ask 10 believers a question of dogma you’ll get 25 answers. It’s pretty much that way on the other bank of the Tiber.
Is Cameron’s sickening show today going to push more people to vote for Amy McGrath? Can she get over the top?
re: #53 Jebediah, RBG
Who were asleep. Has anybody asked what the fuck was so urgent that they had to go in the middle of the night? Are cops no longer capable of a stakeout?
They might destroy evidence is the usual excuse. That’s the whole purpose behind no knocks in the first place.
Everything in modern American policing is set up to preserve & protect the ability of Joe the Cop to waste anyone he choses and not suffer any consequence.
Cameron said his meeting with Taylor’s family was “difficult” and a “challenge.” “It’s been a difficult day.”
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
Cameron: All of us have a responsibility to find common ground. Says he hopes the media reports on this responsibly.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
good fucking grief
re: #5 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Remember, a prosecutor can get a ham sandwich indicted if they want. This is on Cameron.
That quip in full reads “indicted by a Grand Jury.” Most states don’t use them.
re: #60 William Lewis
They might destroy evidence is the usual excuse. That’s the whole purpose behind no knocks in the first place.
Everything in modern American policing is set up to preserve & protect the ability of Joe the Cop to waste anyone he choses and not suffer any consequence.
Because Trump and many of his supporters define “Law and Order” as “the ability of Joe the Cop to waste anyone he choses and not suffer any consequence.”
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
Common ground between wanting to live a peaceful life and an unneeded death caused by police. I’m trying to figure out the middle of that.
BREAKING:
Eric Trump CANNOT delay his deposition by @NewYorkStateAG until after election.
“This court finds [Eric Trump’s] application unpersuasive,” Justice Engoran says, noting his is “not bound by the timelines of the election.”
Background: https://t.co/bdshDiDfJM— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) September 23, 2020
re: #64 Belafon
Common ground between wanting to live a peaceful life and an unneeded death caused by police. I’m trying to figure out the middle of that.
“Know your place”.
Attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Breonna Taylor’s family, tweeted that the charges against a Kentucky police officer involved “NOTHING for the murder of Breonna Taylor. This is outrageous and offensive!”https://t.co/QPUVklR6MX
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2020
“You misconstrued that, Senator. And you’ve done that repetitively in the past.” — Fauci is out of patience with Rand Paul pic.twitter.com/6xRoO19ZYL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2020
re: #68 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s good to see someone, anyone, pushing back on that ignoramus.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
Take a look at the article this references — it makes me glad I’m no longer involved with HR.
In all my years watching US politics, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more blatant, desperate pandering for votes, directed at a community he actually despises. pic.twitter.com/2mx6PFsnvj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
We only rate dogs. Please don’t submit Suburban Porch Polar Bears. They mean no harm. Just a little hungry. Thank you… 13/10 pic.twitter.com/AS9ybCN5z6
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) September 23, 2020
So what I’m getting from this is that it’s ok for cops to shoot black people but god forbid they shoot a wall. https://t.co/DMEwDVKwiQ
— Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) September 23, 2020
Prominent members of the media not having any sense of the bigger picture was how we ended up with breathless coverage of Hillary Clinton’s email security practices in 2016 — and we all know how that turned out
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2020
Never Trumpers, man.
The fake thing that isn’t happening, but which I myself did for real a few years ago, is OUTRAGEOUS! pic.twitter.com/Jl9Z0Jv6XG
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) September 23, 2020
re: #68 Dread Pirate Ron
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Fauci was too kind in his response. I would have worked the terms “worthless, know nothing piece of shit” and “fucking moron” into my answer to him.
re: #68 Dread Pirate Ron
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Isn’t @RandPaul an eye doctor and Dr. Fauci is head of NIAI and top infectious disease doctor, highly respected! You decide! 🤷♂️🤷♀️ https://t.co/F2dLQmC6hh
— D Fullen 🇺🇸🌊 (@dhfull50) September 23, 2020
re: #59 stpaulbear
Is Cameron’s sickening show today going to push more people to vote for Amy McGrath? Can she get over the top?
Unlikely, but we can always hope. How do you convince black people that their vote can change things when shit like this keeps happening?
This is disquieting:
“According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly.”
re: #78 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Unlikely, but we can always hope. How do you convince black people that their vote can change things when shit like this keeps happening?
How you convince white people that this crap is causing them trouble as well, and that they need to vote to end it?
re: #78 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Unlikely, but we can always hope. How do you convince black people that their vote can change things when shit like this keeps happening?
If we had a Democratic administration, this response would get the federal Justice Department involved. We could expect consequences.
If Kentucky weren’t overwhelming red,… you get the idea.
re: #80 Belafon
How you convince white people that this crap is causing them trouble as well, and that they need to vote to end it?
Shoot some more of them. It’s beginning to happen.
re: #75 bratwurst
Never Trumpers, man.
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re: #80 Belafon
How you convince white people that this crap is causing them trouble as well, and that they need to vote to end it?
There is no convincing Magats; they are hopeless.
“You misconstrued that, Senator. And you’ve done that repetitively in the past.” — Fauci is out of patience with Rand Paul pic.twitter.com/6xRoO19ZYL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2020
“Rand, you ignorant slut!”
re: #81 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
If we had a Democratic administration, this response would get the federal Justice Department involved. We could expect consequences.
If Kentucky weren’t overwhelming red,… you get the idea.
Yep, but I sure wouldn’t be lecturing black people about their voting turnout today, especially with the way the states work to prevent them from voting.
There’s no way to “prove” something like this, but I have no doubt whatsoever that Donald Trump’s fetishization of the police and calls for them to get even more brutal are making them much more likely to casually kill POC.
The president of the US enjoys it.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
So the cycle continues.
There will be more George Floyds, more Breonna Taylors, more Travyon Martins, more Tamir Rices, more Michael Browns and more Eric Garners.
And the fear of every black person in America is: “Am I gonna be the next one?”
If only the criminal justice system valued Black people as much as drywall https://t.co/UycSP6BXNJ
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 23, 2020
This is why cops love Trump https://t.co/WYAphFy712
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 23, 2020
Nobody seems to want to face this fact, but it’s way past the point of simple incompetence. It’s staring us in the face; Trump is taking deliberate actions to make the pandemic worse, and he’s been doing it all year. https://t.co/kNf9rF7AuI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #86 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yep, but I sure wouldn’t be lecturing black people about their voting turnout today, especially with the way the states work to prevent them from voting.
They know how cops are hired and who signs cops’ paychecks.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
That shit on Rachel Maddow last night was direct proof of this. I seriously hope Joe has a strong AG in mind, they’re going to be busy for a long time.
re: #86 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yep, but I sure wouldn’t be lecturing black people about their voting turnout today, especially with the way the states work to prevent them from voting.
I am 99.9999999999999999999….% confident that blacks know exactly what’s going on and don’t need anyone worrying about their responsibilities as voters. I’m sure they’re much more worried about cops and white people blowing this off.
re: #94 Belafon
I am 99.9999999999999999999….% confident that blacks know exactly what’s going on and don’t need anyone worrying about their responsibilities as voters. I’m sure they’re much more worried about cops and white people blowing this off.
I’d go all the way to 100%. And they’re most worried about white guys blowing this off.
Because if there’s one group that appears impervious to facts and logic and reality, it’s that group of privileged folks who think that everyone else having the same rights as they do somehow diminishes their rights (so they fight to deprive everyone else of their rights and screw themselves in the process as the rich white folks deprive everyone of their opportunities)
A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldn’t identify their group, but I know I’ve seen some here before. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville @WDRBNews pic.twitter.com/1Og09rdL38
— Chad K. Mills (@ChadKMills) September 23, 2020
Covid isn’t going away anytime soon.
I’d say “Indiana’s doing the full Sweden” except Sweden actually has a lot more restrictions than this. https://t.co/Ca1xS6wFrL https://t.co/MO8mf8cWPG
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 23, 2020
re: #97 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Covid isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Indiana….forever, if possible.
here’s a little mystery:
KyAG Daniel Jay Cameron got married on July 31. They are engagement party pictures of the couple and the internet rumor mill claims she is Mitch’s granddaughter.
The woman has no name. She is only referred to as “wife” anywhere you look (wiki page only lists his first wife, Elizabeth).
I have other things to do now that I wasted about half an hour on this.
Just a very curious thing.
re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg
Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Indiana….forever, if possible.
Indiana is doing little testing, and has a 9% positivity rate, soon to skyrocket, I suspect. Pretty clear that the GOP is going for herd immunity, no matter how many die in the process.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
here’s a little mystery:
KyAG Daniel Jay Cameron got married on July 31. They are engagement party pictures of the couple and the internet rumor mill claims she is Mitch’s granddaughter.
The woman has no name. She is only referred to as “wife” anywhere you look (wiki page only lists his first wife, Elizabeth).
I have other things to do now that I wasted about half an hour on this.
Just a very curious thing.
Timing:
In September 2020, Cameron appeared on a shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees by President Donald Trump.[30][31]
re: #102 Decatur Deb
Timing:
In September 2020, Cameron appeared on a shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees by President Donald Trump.[30][31]
Mitch was at the wedding…
re: #95 lawhawk
I’d go all the way to 100%. And they’re most worried about white guys blowing this off.
Because if there’s one group that appears impervious to facts and logic and reality, it’s that group of privileged folks who think that everyone else having the same rights as they do somehow diminishes their rights (so they fight to deprive everyone else of their rights and screw themselves in the process as the rich white folks deprive everyone of their opportunities)
I was playing a bit of a math trick with the statement. It is totally 100%. .9999… with the nine repeated forever is mathematically 1. The proof lies in writing .999… as a fraction:
x = .9999…
10x = 9.99999…
Subract the first from the second:
9x = 9
x = 1
As for the privileged group, they cannot fathom that just because it’s not a problem for them doesn’t mean someone else has it as easy.
re: #104 Belafon
I was playing a bit of a math trick with the statement. It is totally 100%. .9999… with the nine repeated forever is mathematically 1. The proof lies in writing .999… as a fraction:
x = .9999…
10x = 9.99999…
Subract the first from the second:
9x = 9
x = 1As for the privileged group, they cannot fathom that just because it’s not a problem for them doesn’t mean someone else has it as easy.
No one said that there’d be math!
If everyone would #VOTE this headline would come true. pic.twitter.com/tkvc7GULzl
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 23, 2020
“Those who support Russian malign activities,” like Ron Johnson, Giuliani and Trump?https://t.co/av5o5MkHxb
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 23, 2020
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
“GOP apologizes to nation” will never happen. But the rest of that is something to work towards.
re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth
..Except for the “GOP apologizes to nation” sub-headline. more like GOP still mired in court battles.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
Putin’s puppets in the US pretending to be against Putin’s puppets in other countries.
Ridiculous.
re: #110 EPR-radar
Putin’s puppets in the US pretending to be against Putin’s puppets in other countries.
Ridiculous.
They’re just against Putin’s puppets in other nations. Daddy should be paying attention to them.
re: #111 Belafon
As my kids will tell you, there’s always math.
New entry in the Bulwer-Lytton contest: “Let X be a separable Banach space.”
re: #96 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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It might help if we stopped calling them “militia,” an honorable term for the legal armed force of state governments.
A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a “gang”
As in:
“Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville.” https://t.co/oXnLQCR5Wx— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 23, 2020
I was told I scared her away … oh well.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) September 23, 2020
re: #114 DodgerFan1988
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Haven’t you heard? They’re only gangs and thugs when they’re black. Otherwise, they’re “militia” or “young boys” or if you’re watching Fox News, “heroes”.
— BR¡TT (@TheBrittAdams) September 23, 2020
Sen. Joe Manchin brings a little history @RoyBlunt with @mitchellreports There have only been 4 SCOTUS vacancies between July-November of an election year. Three presidents refused to put forth a nomination out of decency and respect for voters. The fourth is @realDonaldTrump
— Emily A. (@emzorbit) September 23, 2020
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
Was there a public engagement or wedding announcement?
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
here’s a little mystery:
KyAG Daniel Jay Cameron got married on July 31. They are engagement party pictures of the couple and the internet rumor mill claims she is Mitch’s granddaughter.
The woman has no name. She is only referred to as “wife” anywhere you look (wiki page only lists his first wife, Elizabeth).
I have other things to do now that I wasted about half an hour on this.
Just a very curious thing.
Extremely curious—many peeps have been searching for her name for weeks. No references I can find. And usually twitter sleuths (heh) are really good at that kind of stuff. Curiouser and curiouser.
re: #121 A Mom Anon
Was there a public engagement or wedding announcement?
engagement party photos were on Cameron’s instagram account.
wedding was just news articles a few days after the wedding.
A 26 year old black woman is tragically shot & killed by the police and Donald Trump’s response? “ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, and more ME!” https://t.co/P5tXM0TQKp
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) September 23, 2020
Police in Louisville starting to confront protestors in order to initiate some violence for Fox News viewers.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wondering if she could be IDd via her photos. I guess it depends on if there’s any others of her in family pics online.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
engagement party photos were on Cameron’s instagram account.
wedding was just news articles a few days after the wedding.
Not even a first name anywhere. Wonder if they had a wedding registry. Hard to believe nobody has been able to come up with a name, as there are pics of her everywhere.
Governor Beshear’s press conference is starting at 4pm.
Because McConnell has brought this on himself, but what will his supporters think if a black man is allowed in his family?
re: #130 Belafon
Because McConnell has brought this on himself, but what will his supporters think if a black man is allowed in his family?
He is married to a Chinese woman.
yeah some parts are vaguely NSFW but WTH
Allow me to correct the hashtag. It’s #GetYourBootyToThePolls and it is glorious
— Lisa Respers France (@LisaFranceCNN) September 23, 2020
re: #127 A Mom Anon
Wondering if she could be IDd via her photos. I guess it depends on if there’s any others of her in family pics online.
Maybe she is just a private person and just wants to keep it that way because the internet is full of a-holes?
re: #128 BeachDem
Aren’t marriage licenses a matter of public record?
re: #86 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yep, but I sure wouldn’t be lecturing black people about their voting turnout today, especially with the way the states work to prevent them from voting.
Just what about my post contains the lecturing of black people?
re: #130 Belafon
Because McConnell has brought this on himself, but what will his supporters think if a black man is allowed in his family?
they let a rich chinese woman in.
also, Mitch’s daughters from his first marriage despise him
Indiana reported 613 new cases YESTERDAY. This is incredibly reckless and stupid. https://t.co/RVge1UlynS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #134 danarchy
Maybe she is just a private person and just wants to keep it that way because the internet is full of a-holes?
LOL, too late
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah some parts are vaguely NSFW but WTH
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re: #140 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Since my bedroom is now my office, nothing is NSFW.
that one dancer has glutes of iron
re: #132 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He is married to a Chinese woman.
As someone said to Chuck C. Johnson when he bragged about marrying an Asian woman, that’s about about the most white thing a person can do.
Is Kyle Rittenhouse in Louisville to “protect his people” yet?
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 23, 2020
re: #95 lawhawk
I’d go all the way to 100%. And they’re most worried about white guys blowing this off.
Because if there’s one group that appears impervious to facts and logic and reality, it’s that group of privileged folks who think that everyone else having the same rights as they do somehow diminishes their rights (so they fight to deprive everyone else of their rights and screw themselves in the process as the rich white folks deprive everyone of their opportunities)
Alas, no. Polls show DT has 5% support among African-Americans. 😳 Almost within he margin of error, but not quite.
That makes them more sane by far than any white cohort I know of.
re: #136 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Just what about my post contains the lecturing of black people?
Didn’t mean to imply you did. Beating Mitch would probably take a near 100% turnout rate by blacks, because Kentucky has a lot of poorly educated rural evangelical whites.
If you follow this account you are a #Springsteen fan. If you are a fan, you already know that today is his birthday. 71 trips around the sun! And here are a few pics for. Those revolutions! Thanks John Kelly for the picture on Facebook! pic.twitter.com/ksMoBK7517
— Bruce: The Podcast (@abcsofbruce) September 23, 2020
A court hearing is happening now over a lawsuit challenging the number of ballot boxes allowed in Ohio counties.
I’ll have an update on @Local12 News at 5 p.m. pic.twitter.com/ZKRn0lMKXS— Christian Hauser (@ChristianWKRC12) September 23, 2020
Not “unless” - EVEN IF Democrats win by an unquestionable landslide. https://t.co/aPYsJFdqpJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
same day NYT publishes “How Trump Can Win”
anyone think if Biden trailed in *every* national poll this yr, NYT would be publishing “How Biden Can Win” articles? https://t.co/JlzONatXnP— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 23, 2020
Beshear: I can’t control decisions of AG or grand jury, but I can control what I say and commit to changing.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
Beshear says that AG Cameron should post online grand jury info that doesn’t compromise the Hankison case. People deserve to know more facts presented to the grand jury.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
In particular, they should identify how protecting the right of drywall was a greater concern than charging the officers of murdering Breonna Taylor who was doing nothing wrong except being a person of color.
re: #144 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Alas, no. Polls show DT has 5% support among African-Americans. 😳 Almost within he margin of error, but not quite.
That makes them more sane by far than any white cohort I know of.
I wonder if you did that poll before the “veterans are losers” thing came out if that percent would be any higher. Every African American I know in the military (the ones I know are all Navy and Marines) that is enlisted or NCO supports Trump, manly because they hate Democrats so much they’d vote for Satan before voting blue. I’ve unfollowed most of the RWNJ friends of mine that I haven’t already blocked, so I haven’t seen if they changed their tune recently.
“He’s too stupid to be a Nazi” and “He’s a crass, unfeeling asshole to women, too” is the DEFENSE from people who know and work with Trump. pic.twitter.com/Nd1N1B1Ki1
— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) September 23, 2020
Secretary of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet:
Brown: Sometimes the effort to changes hearts and minds is not enough. We need to change behavior. We need criminal justice changes.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
re: #119 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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re: #151 lawhawk
In particular, they should identify how protecting the right of drywall was a greater concern than charging the officers of murdering Breonna Taylor who was doing nothing wrong except being a person of color.
and castle doctrine in Kentucky only works for white people
re: #145 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Didn’t mean to imply you did. Beating Mitch would probably take a near 100% turnout rate by blacks, because Kentucky has a lot of poorly educated rural evangelical whites.
Well, Kentucky polls are fluctuating between “Mitch is dead” and “he’ll wipe the floor with her,” and hope springs eternal.
Don’t listen to Popehat, Eric. Your dad will really respect you if you outsmart her with your rhetorical gifts. I know you can do it.
— Ed Mix (@TheEdMix) September 23, 2020
re: #158 gocart mozart
Eric Trump taking the 5th works for me, as long as it’s before the election.
Putting that side by side with daddy’s tweet that only crooks take the 5th will be most entertaining, and may help the cause.
re: #79 thecommodore
This is disquieting:
Especially since those “legislative majorities” come from extreme gerrymandering. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania both have D governors and Lt Govs, D’s got the majority of votes in the 2018 races… but “somehow”, both states’ legislatures and both states’ congressional delegations are majority R.
re: #151 lawhawk
In particular, they should identify how protecting the right of drywall was a greater concern than charging the officers of murdering Breonna Taylor who was doing nothing wrong except being a person of color.
I understand the anger but this “drywall” talking point is ridiculous and makes us look like clowns every time it’s mentioned.
Bullets went through the walls. Could have killed other people. Shooting wildly in that situation was asinine, even if the raid was legitimate and Taylor and BF were armed and firing back. If I was her neighbor and that happened I’d be trying to sue the city into oblivion right now.
The wanton endangerment charge against that guy is totally legit. The problem is it should have been the least of the charges, not the only one.
re: #158 gocart mozart
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re: #161 Jack Burton
I understand the anger but this “drywall” talking point is ridiculous and makes us look like clowns every time it’s mentioned.
Bullets went through the walls. Could have killed other people. Shooting wildly in that situation was asinine, even if the raid was legitimate and Taylor and BF were armed and firing back. If I was her neighbor and that happened I’d be trying to sue the city into oblivion right now.
The wanton endangerment charge against that guy is totally legit. The problem is it should have been the least of the charges, not the only one.
That’s the point of the quote. One person was charged with essentially shooting drywall while the elephant in the room (the shooting victim) is treated like they were not even there by the indictments.
re: #160 sagehen
Especially since those “legislative majorities” come from extreme gerrymandering. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania both have D governors and Lt Govs, D’s got the majority of votes in the 2018 races… but “somehow”, both states’ legislatures and both states’ congressional delegations are majority R.
Which suggests that the margins might be too large for any failure to certify the election. And those dems took office without questions being asked.
This means that whoever he nominates is going to be a fully compliant puppet. https://t.co/NZLmnGZeA1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #165 Charles Johnson
There it is again. He’s just basically saying at this point that he is going to contest the election no matter what.
This isn’t an “if” anymore, it’s a “when”.
He’s going to try and steal the Presidency.
re: #163 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That’s the point of the quote. One person was charged with essentially shooting drywall while the elephant in the room (the shooting victim) is treated like they were not even there by the indictments.
Saying that the Grand Jury is protecting “the rights of drywall” instead of finding her neighbors could have been killed (but then gave no shits about her rights) isn’t making that point.
re: #165 Charles Johnson
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That thinking is so old school
re: #164 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Which suggests that the margins might be too large for any failure to certify the election. And those dems took office without questions being asked.
What Trump is hoping for is that his voters turn up on election day while most Democrats cast mail in ballots, he then declares “victory” and goes to court to stop the count because “voter fraud”, and the Pa legislature then says “we have to appoint Trump electors to meet the deadline.” It would be a desperate ploy.
re: #31 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Pennsylvania Republicans are openly discussing the appointment of Trump electors if Trump can tie up the vote count long enough. There is a 34% chance that Pa will be the tipping point state, according to fivethirtyeight.com.
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The last time this was done in Pennsylvania was 1800 when the Federalist Senate refused to allow people to directly vote for President and they split the Commonwealth’s electoral votes with the Republican State House.
“Thus was the vote of a state bargained away”… wrote Jefferson…
re: #165 Charles Johnson
It was always clear that Trump has only one question for people he’s considering for this nomination: “What are you going to do for me in the election if I put you on the Supreme Court?”
Which is why I’m hoping for a big conflict between McConnell and Trump on the timing. There’s nothing in it for McConnell to have the vote on Trump’s schedule.
re: #168 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Of course no one mentions how a new justice should recuse themselves from such a case.
That thinking is so old school
During the confirmation hearing she should be asked to recuse because Trump made it clear he was appointing her in order to steal the election.
re: #167 Jack Burton
Saying that the Grand Jury is protecting “the rights of drywall” instead of finding her neighbors could have been killed (but then gave no shits about her rights) isn’t making that point.
Change “drywall” to “property”, OTOH…
Remember, property never dies, but can be damaged.
re: #171 EPR-radar
It was always clear that Trump has only one question for people he’s considering for this nomination: “What are you going to do for me in the election if I put you on the Supreme Court?”
Which is why I’m hoping for a big conflict between McConnell and Trump on the timing. There’s nothing in it for McConnell to have the vote on Trump’s schedule.
There is, because with one tweet denouncing Yurtle, Trump can put his election campaign in peril.
re: #164 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Which suggests that the margins might be too large for any failure to certify the election. And those dems took office without questions being asked.
For what it’s worth, here are the most applicable cliches for this situation:
1) Forewarned is forearmed
2) Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
And then there’s a new thought which I find myself coming back to more and more:
I don’t believe in hope and I don’t believe in hopelessness. I believe in compassion and pragmatism, in doing what is right for its own sake.
Keyword there for me is pragmatism - the difference between a doomsayer (or bad-faith troll deliberately trying to bring people down) and someone who’s genuinely on your side is that the latter will always look for pragmatic actions to take in the face of GOP StupidEvil®
re: #128 BeachDem
Not even a first name anywhere. Wonder if they had a wedding registry. Hard to believe nobody has been able to come up with a name, as there are pics of her everywhere.
Elizabeth, no middle name, no last name.
Wait. Hang on.
What? https://t.co/GdRvzRlnZc— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #177 Charles Johnson
What the actual fuck?
Won’t somebody rid me of these meddlesome mail carriers? https://t.co/k6ta1BoCdH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #176 sagehen
Elizabeth is his first wife’s name according to Wikipedia. They divorced in 2017.
Booker: Our community has been through so much. Recognizing the loss of Taylor’s mother and family as the grieve before the entire country, and today was another painful chapter.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
Booker: The strength of Taylor’s family and protesters gives me hope.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 23, 2020
Booker lost to McGrath in the primary but, as the state representative for the Kentucky district that includes Louisville (and a decent person overall), he’s still staying involved.
Makes it easy to find them at baggage claim, though.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #163 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That’s the point of the quote. One person was charged with essentially shooting drywall while the elephant in the room (the shooting victim) is treated like they were not even there by the indictments.
the neighbors’ “fear” (and their drywall) were more important than Breonna’s life (or her door for that matter).
re: #167 Jack Burton
Saying that the Grand Jury is protecting “the rights of drywall” instead of finding her neighbors could have been killed (but then gave no shits about her rights) isn’t making that point.
Yes, it does.
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m not going to play the video at work, bu tthe still of the cop looking like he’s ready to fight that white guy just standing there with the Breonna Taylor poster should be shared.
re: #173 Eric The Fruit Bat
Change “drywall” to “property”, OTOH…
Remember, property never dies, but can be damaged.
imagine if it had been a CORPORATION!!!
Heads would still be rolling!
re: #167 Jack Burton
Saying that the Grand Jury is protecting “the rights of drywall” instead of finding her neighbors could have been killed (but then gave no shits about her rights) isn’t making that point.
It’s exactly as frivolous as the charge itself.
Again: When police preemptively bring out overwhelming force in anticipation of protest, the very violence they’re trying to prevent becomes inevitable. You unite peaceful and non-peaceful protests behind a common enemy. There’s 50 years of research on this.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) September 23, 2020
Have any Trumporrhoids attempted to explain how to tell the difference between a legitimate absentee ballot and a fraudulent ballot other than ALL VOTES THAT ARE NOT FOR TRUMP ARE TEH FRAUD HOAX FAKE BALLETS!!!!!!
re: #174 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There is, because with one tweet denouncing Yurtle, Trump can put his election campaign in peril.
SRSLY? You think that - no matter what Trump tweets about McConnell - that Kentucky voters are going to get so pissed off that they’ll say home, or vote for the Democrat???
Nice thought, but nagonnahappen….
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
No it doesn’t.
HE WASN’T CHARGED WITH PROPERTY DAMAGE FFS!
No one is protecting property rights over the rights of people here.
They ignored a very serious crime and pursued a less serious, but still serious one that should have been among the charges regardless. That’s the issue. You all seem to be downplaying cops spraying bullets wildly inside an apartment complex without clearing it first. Trying to claim it’s “property damage” or “property rights” vs. Human rights is being grossly intellectually dishonest.
You can make the point that COPS are getting away with murder here, without going there. But you all did.
Jesus fucking Christ on crutch. I’m done with this.
Whatever else has lockdown has meant, it’s not as bad as his haircut https://t.co/Tnwjsm3QIM
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 23, 2020
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…
here I am…
dOnald tRump’s Boogaloo thugs terrorizing folks in Louisville. pic.twitter.com/rJZinxVPpY
— Baligubadle (@Baligubadle1) September 23, 2020
This shit has long since ceased to be the ‘last gasp’ of these kinds of folks. This is them feeling emboldened. This is them feeling invincible and untouchable. This is them realizing they’re so protected and entrenched that they will never pay any consequence and therefore have decided to cut to the chase and tighten the noose.
This is them screaming at us ‘WE OWN THIS COUNTRY AND YOU NEED TO DIE’, and there may not be any actual way to prove them wrong at this point. They’re fucking winning because they really do seem to own all the fucking power.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dude looks like he uses the same barber as Mark Zuckerberg.
The police warrant on Breonna Taylor’s apartment was part of a gentrification drive, her family says
(LPD chief says NO IT WASN’T!!!)
City buys home rented by Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend for $1 as new allegations arise
not property/drywall indeed…nothing to see here…
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re: #192 Jack Burton
No it doesn’t.
HE WASN’T CHARGED WITH PROPERTY DAMAGE FFS!
No one is protecting property rights over the rights of people here.
They ignored a very serious crime and pursued a less serious, but still serious one that should have been among the charges regardless. That’s the issue. You all seem to be downplaying cops spraying bullets wildly inside an apartment complex without clearing it first. Trying to claim it’s “property damage” or “property rights” vs. Human rights is being grossly intellectually dishonest.
You can make the point that COPS are getting away with murder here, without going there. But you all did.
Jesus fucking Christ on crutch. I’m done with this.
I agree. Their shooting was totally reckless; there have been many times when some innocent was killed because a bullet intended for someone else or for some other purpose went through a wall. This was indeed a justifiably charged offense; the problem is that Daniel Cameron made sure that it was the only offense and that more serious charges were not on the table.
re: #192 Jack Burton
No it doesn’t.
HE WASN’T CHARGED WITH PROPERTY DAMAGE FFS!
No one is protecting property rights over the rights of people here.
They ignored a very serious crime and pursued a less serious, but still serious one that should have been among the charges regardless. That’s the issue. You all seem to be downplaying cops spraying bullets wildly inside an apartment complex without clearing it first. Trying to claim it’s “property damage” or “property rights” vs. Human rights is being grossly intellectually dishonest.
You can make the point that COPS are getting away with murder here, without going there. But you all did.
Jesus fucking Christ on crutch. I’m done with this.
He got charged with one of the lowest levels of felony. The grand jury said that theoretical danger to some other person is the only thing that we can do, even though an actual person fucking died in the same ‘wanton’ disregard for human life as to the neighbors. That is fucking absurd, and using additional absurdity simply underscores the point.
re: #196 Citizen K
The intro to Chapter 6 of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” published 2017:
Be wary of paramilitaries.
When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
I bought this book a year or so ago but just started reading it this week. It’s a small book with “twenty lessons from the 20th century, adapted to the circumstances of today”. It’s unsettling.
I am old enough now that I can refuse to be fucking “fair” when the facts are complete manufactured bullshit.
So go ahead and call me a clown for calling it drywall excuses.
Call me Pennywise for alI I fucking care anymore.
I am a Kentucky native (something that Mitch and Rand CAN’T claim) and when my state is WRONG (which it often is) I will say so.
re: #201 stpaulbear
The intro to Chapter 6 of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” published 2017:
I bought this book a year or so ago but just started reading it this week. It’s a small book with “twenty lessons from the 20th century, adapted to the circumstances of today”. It’s unsettling.
In other words, we may just be too late. Comforting thought.
As a great American hero once said: “what’s sauce for the goose is now sauce for the gander.”
.@GovParsonMO’s office’s just put out a statement confirming that he tested positive for COVID-19, along with Missouri’s first lady. #MOGOV #MOLeg pic.twitter.com/atDeYi6Zqq
— Eli Yokley (@eyokley) September 23, 2020
re: #196 Citizen K
That’s from a few weeks ago but it matters not. They’re clearly supported by law enforcement.
This is, um, some pretty serious tax fraud by Trump if they didn’t declare this income. Which, given how hard they are fighting to block production of documents and provide testimony, I assume they didn’t declare it. When will CULT45 get that its all a con?https://t.co/3RPJsWv1fp
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 23, 2020
My rule is usually one full year, but my dear departed Mushi recently came to me in a dream and said “Gurl, there’s enough sadness in the world. Go find a little joy.” This little joy is coming home to me next week. 🥰 pic.twitter.com/YNazmJqScS
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) September 23, 2020
American’s right to peacefully assemble is being quashed by police for no reason other than to arrest more people than were arrested for Breonna Taylor’s murder. https://t.co/ELbsu640es
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) September 23, 2020
heh
re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth
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welcome to Kentucky where the Bill of Rights only apply to drywall and fearful neighbors
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
welcome to Kentucky where the Bill of Rights only apply to drywall and fearful neighbors
and white people
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is, um, some pretty serious tax fraud by Trump if they didn’t declare this income. Which, given how hard they are fighting to block production of documents and provide testimony, I assume they didn’t declare it. When will CULT45 get that its all a con?https://t.co/3RPJsWv1fp
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 23, 2020
Sorry — voters who don’t care that Trump’s negligence has killed 200,000+ Americans certainly don’t care that he has committed tax fraud. They love his racism and misogyny and his support for a theocracy and putting immigrant children in cages. They are fine with fraud and money laundering, unless the criminal is a Democrat; then they object.
How is that not wanton endangerment by all three? And how is it not manslaughter?? #BreonnaTaylor
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 23, 2020
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because Shut Up that’s why.
re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Because it presumes that Breonna Taylor was a human being, which the law clearly believes she wasn’t.
No, no snark tags on that. That seems to be literally what the law is saying.
re: #213 stpaulbear
Because Shut Up that’s why.
I was going to go with “Fuck you” but this works too.
re: #177 Charles Johnson
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Nothing new to this report. An obsession of Mrs. Netanyahu exposed 2 years ago in Israel; she’s been at it for years. Common knowledge for Israelis & for anyone living & working in the country.”Sara Netanyahu Sent Laundry Abroad For Dry Cleaning” (2018) https://t.co/4Gs7q3IcWb
— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) September 23, 2020
There’s nothing remotely new to this.
It’s an age-old bit of no-longer-news that Sarah Netanyahu, Bibi’s clearly-not-in-any-way-psychotic wife (whose habits include screaming at the hired help, throwing objects at hired help, abusing the husband, hitting the husband with shoes, repeatedly screaming “I have a B.A.! I have an M.A!!!!1” to reporters and random folks while on record, and more), insists on doing this whenever the PM’s family flies abroad on official business.
There are those who claim she has a serious obsession with money (owing to her childhood growing up in a poor household). She goes out of her way to save the family’s money in any way possible, regardless of how far-fetched, and this was looked into in 2018 after it was revealed she’d been doing it for years, as a means of saving a tens of thousands in cleaning fees (dry cleaning is costly in Israel) at the taxpayer’s expense.
Facebook is a far-right swamp you couldn’t find your way out of with floodlights. https://t.co/wc6hjrLdZL
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) September 23, 2020
Even 1 hour later, only HuffPo isn’t conned:
WaPo: One officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting is charged
NYT: Former Louisville Officer Is Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case
CNN: Ex-officer indicted in Breonna Taylor case
HuffPo: NO COPS CHARGED WITH KILLING BREONNA TAYLOR— Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org (@froomkin) September 23, 2020
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC, that’s the OFFICIAL White House account.
Today in insurance fraud
Same energy pic.twitter.com/glhM6gisQR
— StillSteerage (@StillSteerage) September 23, 2020
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s the exact same bullshit they’ve so successfully done with “old media”: accuse them of bias, abuse assumptions of good faith, leverage sympathetic folks into power so they infinitely privilege your voice and philosophy, then repeat ad nauseam so the folks you leveraged into influence have even more justification to drag things infinitely rightward.
And it works because no matter what happens in this country, the “Dems” or the “libs” are always really to blame and therefore will never be trusted with anything but a kick in the dick.
I don’t care that he’s infected.
I just hope he doesn’t infect the healthcare workers that will undoubtedly go above and beyond to make sure he survives.— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) September 23, 2020
I am completely out of words to capture the complete lack of legitimate governance happening https://t.co/ype5qRMgss
— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) September 23, 2020
Of course that doesn’t apply to the right wing militia members walking around with assault rifles on full tac gear. Just the unarmed Breonna Taylor protesters. Again, this is what fascism looks like.
— Seth Dunlap (@sethdunlap) September 23, 2020
Here is a video of some right wing militia members. Police are not forcing these people to disburse. This is eerily similar to Kenosha where police directly supported the man who shot and killed two protesters. Again, this is what fascism looks like. pic.twitter.com/FdJwzKlJpS
— Seth Dunlap (@sethdunlap) September 23, 2020
Fascism in full bloom, because no one can stop them. This is what invincibility looks like.
re: #226 Belafon
I’m not tolerant of Nazis myself.
Well then, how dare you lecture them on tolerance.
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Insane: The “price of admission” for Russia to secure the deal with the United States will go up if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to terms before the U.S. presidential election, Billingslea warned in an interview Monday with the Russian newspaper Kommersant.”
— Ned Price (@nedprice) September 23, 2020
My wife and I got back from Denver early this morning.
Two new keys for the Smart, plus four wheel covers and the windshield cowling to replace the broken parts from the summer’s two massive hailstorms.
The car also got it’s 100,000 mile checkup (it gets checked more frequently than what the book calls for due to the rural area and dirt roads we drive it on).
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re: #228 Dread Pirate Ron
The “price of admission” for Russia to secure the deal with the United States will go up if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to terms before the U.S. presidential election
I believe this is called Extortion.
re: #225 Citizen K
This is why we need to arm ourselves now, before they make being a “known leftist ” a disqualifier like being a felon. There is violence coming. The only question anymore
is if it’s mild like Bleeding Kansas or full out Civil War and social cleansing like the breakup of Yugoslavia.
re: #225 Citizen K
Hey, look, white people, it’s the 1950s again, but you get to participate.
re: #231 William Lewis
This is why we need to arm ourselves now, before they make being a “known leftist ” a disqualifier like being a felon. There is violence coming. The only question anymore
is if it’s mild like Bleeding Kansas or full out Civil War and social cleansing like the breakup of Yugoslavia.
And then there are people like me who will be caught in the middle - a liberal living in a conservative area, unwilling to own a gun for personal safety reasons, slow on the uptake and naturally isolated even before coronavirus laid waste to our interpersonal communications.
BREAKING NEWS: Video Shows First Trumpist Assault on a Peaceful Civilian Protester Occuring in Louisville Kentucky; at 20 Seconds into This Video, a Far-Right Pro-Trump Militiaman Closes a Car Door on a Protestor’s Arm, a Violent Crime in Kentucky (and Potentially a Felony) https://t.co/GZESxO1Izm
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 23, 2020
Today the President announced plans to sign a “born alive” Executive Order. Let’s be clear: What these policies would do is forcibly take infants from their parents’ arms, force doctors to undergo futile procedures and leave parents with no say.https://t.co/Mq0wqKmg8R
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) September 23, 2020
Politicians continue to push laws that have nothing to do with how abortion care actually works. False political rhetoric about abortion care belittles & misrepresents the real-life experiences of women.
These difficult choices always belong with families. Not with politicians.— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) September 23, 2020
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
The “price of admission” for Russia to secure the deal with the United States will go up if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to terms before the U.S. presidential electionI believe this is called Extortion.
“quid pro quo”
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
The “price of admission” for Russia to secure the deal with the United States will go up if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to terms before the U.S. presidential electionI believe this is called Extortion.
a language the Russians understand, unfortunately.
re: #233 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
And then there are people like me who will be caught in the middle - a liberal living in a conservative area, unwilling to own a gun for personal safety reasons, slow on the uptake and naturally isolated even before coronavirus laid waste to our interpersonal communications.
And people like me also caught in the middle - a liberal living in a conservative area who owns a shotgun and everyone here knows it, but hopelessly outnumbered.
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
False political rhetoric about abortion care belittles & misrepresents the real-life experiences of women.
Which is exactly why they’re doing it. It’s a sign that you’re a second-class citizen, and wholly owned because “Fuck you, we are permanent and forever, and you exist only for us to grind under our boot to demonstrate our utter and eternal superiority”.
You don’t know how abortions work, do?
— I Don’t Want to Live on This Planet Anymore (@eshuman34) September 23, 2020
re: #241 Eclectic Cyborg
“Your too stupid for this job.”
Awesome self own there, buddy.
They do that intentionally now, to trigger the libs. And the grammar Nazis. Which are, apparently, the only kind of Nazi it’s okay to trigger.
Meanwhile, in the town on the opposite side of my county:
The last place most students — as well as some adults — want to be on a Monday evening is a board room going over budgets, discussing contracts and arguing about the finer minutiae of education policy. But that’s exactly where high school Freshman Nathaniel Barker and Junior Madison Oliverius plan to be.
The two high school students were appointed to Bayard Public Schools’ Board of Education this month, with Barker serving for the remainder of the fall semester and Oliverius taking over in the spring.
“(Our role is) to give perspective from the student side because the adults don’t always know what’s going on here,” Oliverius said.
Barker and Oliverius said they wanted to join the board because they had a curiosity about school administration. They also expressed a sense of civic duty for their school and their fellow students.
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Bayard youth act as a voice for fellow students before school board (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
It’s not even 8am…. there will be more bottom later today.
— SRMichael (@SueRMichael) September 23, 2020
And the treasonous self-proclaimed “Grim Reaper” @senatemajldr aided and abetted him every step of the way.
The blood is on both their hands, and will never wash away.#TrumpLiedAmericansDied #MitchMcMurder— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) September 23, 2020
New @QuinnipiacPoll finds that “just 30 percent of likely voters think the country will know the winner of the presidential election on Election Night, while 63 percent say they think we will not know.” Glad this realization is sinking in with voters.
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) September 23, 2020
We can’t let 2016 repeat itself. There’s simply too much on the line for anyone to sit this election out.
Get registered to vote today: https://t.co/eoxT07d7QB#NationalVoterRegistrationDay pic.twitter.com/teVRgVxeeJ— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 23, 2020
Happy Birthday Boss! Born to defy chronological time! Still doing among the best work of your life! pic.twitter.com/AqIAKHLptC
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) September 23, 2020
re: #248 Belafon
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Most of those 30% will be Republicans, who are undoubtedly sure Trump will win in a landslide and/or will declare victory and end voting on election night.
DHS awarded $6M in contracts to firm where Acting Secretary Wolf’s wife is executive. https://t.co/wwMsPGaF0R
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 23, 2020
Heh
When you think you’re Selina Meyer, but at best you’ll end up Serena Joy.
— Dock Ellis (@dockellis10) September 23, 2020
re: #248 Belafon
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New @QuinnipiacPoll finds that “just 30 percent of likely voters think the country will know the winner of the presidential election on Election Night, while 63 percent say they think we will not know.” Glad this realization is sinking in with voters.
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) September 23, 2020
the realization should be that we have never known who won on election night.
the AP and the rest of the media are guessing. nothing more.
because they so rarely got it wrong, we just all always assumed the media got it right.
dewey/truman and bush/gore/florida are two obvious examples.
it doesnt matter that the voting dynamics - early/mail in/day of are different this year. the rules are (basically) the same as always. In each state, votes get counted according to a schedule.
the winner of each state is who the appropriate party in each state says is the winner.
that timetable / announcement is governed by state law.
it isn’t and has never been ‘election night’
p.s. unless it’s totally obvious by, you know, actual math, until enough ballots are counted, no one knows who is going to prevail anywhere. So horse racing based on the order ballots are counted is an idiots game.
The Associated Press correctly reported what happened in Louisville today:
BREAKING: No officers charged directly in Breonna Taylor’s death; 1 faces 3 counts over shooting into neighboring apartments. https://t.co/mxOfXTwkDI
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2020
re: #247 dangerman
i pulled these out to roll my aching calf muscles
mrs dm walked by and said what I know you all thought:
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I immediately thought Dog Toys.
re: #249 Belafon
The 100m non-voters is interesting. I wonder how they are distributed across the country and to what extent the electoral college serves to depress their vote. So, for example, in California we had 75% turnout of registered voters in 2016. In real numbers that’s about 4.8m registered voters who didn’t vote for president. The difference between Clinton and Trump was 4.3m (with another 944k going to third party nominees and write ins). So, Trump would have to win something like 92% of the non-voters to have pulled out a super close win in California. I wouldn’t be surprised to see similar numbers in other safe states. And now I’m also wondering what the turnout numbers in swing states look like.
Also, this is all just another reason to do away with the electoral college.
re: #254 dangerman
It’s also worth adding: election night isn’t even the real election for president. It’s a proxy election as the faithless electors of 2016 reminded us.
Yikes. https://t.co/cuMXR46C2u
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2020
re: #259 Charles Johnson
Insert “this is fine” dog meme here.
Young Republicans doing what they do best: Being jerks.
Republican Rep. Don Bacon and Democratic challenger Kara Eastman are set to debate at least five times between Oct. 7 and Oct. 18.
But the two candidates in the Omaha-based District 2 House race have spent days exchanging barbs on Twitter about the details of those debates, including the number, the timing and whether it’s safe for crowds to attend.
On Wednesday, more than a dozen Omaha Young Republicans took the debate about debates to the streets, protesting outside Eastman’s main campaign office.
Their signs repeated Bacon’s tweeted criticism that Eastman should “honor her word” and stop trying to change who can be in the audience for debates. They say her coronavirus concerns were present when she agreed to the debate schedule this summer.
“Cowardly Comrade Kara is using COVID as a convenient cover to avoid a live debate performance,” Nebraska GOP Executive Director Ryan Hamilton said.
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Bacon, Eastman tussle over 2nd District House debates (Omaha World-Herald)
State polling indicates the NE-2 House race is a toss-up
Breonna Taylor was killed by those who were sworn to protect her. Denied justice by those sworn to pursue it. We must fight for her at the ballot box. We must hold those in positions of public trust accountable. We must change our laws to value Black lives.
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) September 23, 2020
re: #261 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fucking idiots. You can do a “live debate performance” WITHOUT a live audience.
re: #263 Eclectic Cyborg
Fucking idiots. You can do a “live debate performance” WITHOUT a live audience.
Rep. Don Bacon also delayed agreeing to debates until after mail ballots are mailed out.
Here’s today’s Florida Man story:
Doctor at ‘mask optional’ clinic in Melbourne dies; tests positive for coronavirus post-mortem
Patients intending to go to the Eau Gallie Medical Center in Melbourne this week have been met with a grim note at the door since Monday.
“Dr. John J. Magri IV passed away on the morning of Wednesday September 16, 2020,” it begins. “For the privacy of his family, patient’s (sic) and loved ones, the cause of death is unknown at this time.”
For former patients and neighbors the feeling has been one of shock and disbelief — and concern upon learning Magri tested positive for coronavirus after his death.
*snip*
Magri, 59, was infected with the novel coronavirus when he died at home last week; a positive test result was confirmed by the Brevard County medical examiner’s office post-mortem.
And yeah, the clinic was truly mask-optional:
Patient Amanda WIlliams of Indialantic noted in an email to FLORIDA TODAY she didn’t see anyone wearing masks among the staff and did not notice any coronavirus signage posted when she visited with her daughter Sept. 12 — four days before Magri’s death.
“I felt very uneasy, but chose to stay in hopes that we would be in and out quickly. Once we were called back into the patient room, Dr. Magri introduced himself, without a mask and offered to shake my hand,” she wrote.
Williams said she found out through a mutual friend that Magri had died and had tested positive for the virus post-mortem. She said she is concerned she has not been contacted by coronavirus contact tracers from the Department of Health.
“My concern is community spread and the time it is taking to be notified by a contact tracer or office personnel from the Eau Gallie Medical Center,” she said. “Our family has been tested and are self quarantining since Sept. 18, when we received the news that some of the staff had tested positive. We will continue to self quarantine until we hear the results of our tests.”
Remember when the right was like “He’s just joking, you fucking libs”? https://t.co/0bUeMNGL7x
— Ethan Grey (@_EthanGrey) September 23, 2020
Fullerton schools closed due to COVID-19 exposure (Kearney, Nebr. Hub)
TL;DR version: Conservatives will continue to sacrifice your children on the altar of their religious faith of Conservatism, as many children as it takes.
re: #265 mmmirele
That story would be aggravating enough, but the fact it was a DOCTOR flouting health guidelines is just…there are not enough eyerolls.
re: #266 jaunte
No. He doesn’t get to say this. We are not normalizing his chaos shit
— Lisa (@lisascraftylife) September 23, 2020
There will be an election. If he doesn’t win it, his term ends at noon on January 20, 2021. At that point the Secret Service and Federal Marshals can forcibly remove him if he refuses to go.
re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg
So the cycle continues.
There will be more George Floyds, more Breonna Taylors, more Travyon Martins, more Tamir Rices, more Michael Browns and more Eric Garners.
And the fear of every black person in America is: “Am I gonna be the next one?”
This is true, and it breaks my heart into a million pieces.
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