The Return of Clown Core: “Earth”
You’re not fooling anybody, Louis.
You’re not fooling anybody, Louis.
Congrats to the Rockwall, Tx Lizardia contingent.
Rockwall, Texas (Number 4 of 50 Best Places in the US to Live 2020)
money.com
Rockwall makes its debut on the Best Places to Live list this year, thanks to its status as one of the fastest-growing cities in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states. This Dallas suburb has experienced 19% job growth over the last five years and is projected to grow another 17% in the next five.
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It’s not all work. Rockwall’s super-walkable downtown district has a small-town vibe, with historic false-front buildings and a broad variety of locally owned shops and restaurants. In the summer and fall, live music events liven up San Jacinto Plaza, while the Rockwall Farmers’ Market attracts visitors from all over the Dallas metro area. Fresh peaches, grass-fed beef, and honey from Texas bees are all available on Saturdays from May to September.The biggest draw, however — and the first thing you see coming from Dallas across the 4-mile-long Lake Ray Hubbard Bridge — is the waterfront Harbor District with a lighthouse, boat slips and amphitheater which regularly holds live concerts by artists like The Voice’s Hannah Kirby, among others.
Also FT!
Texas turning blue? It may really happen. I will overdose on schadenfreude if it does. I have put years and more than a little bit of money into this. The electoral value will be immense but, beyond that, it will be devastating, perhaps fatal, to right wing morale and confidence.
🙌The Biden train in Texas 🙌 pic.twitter.com/ZxO0HHQv3t
— 🌸FEISTY🌸 (@crzyfkinworld) September 23, 2020
re: #3 ckkatz
It’s too white for this white guy, and their only two solutions to problems are:
1. Ignore it until you can’t
2. The raise property taxes to pay for the crisis.
But it isn’t a terribly bad place to live. The citizens are conservative, but they did stand up to the mayor when he tried to impose a bathroom policy on Target.
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas turning blue? It may really happen. I will overdose on schadenfreude if it does. I have put years and more than a little bit of money into this. The electoral value will be immense but, beyond that, it will be devastating, perhaps fatal, to right wing morale and confidence.
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re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas turning blue? It may really happen. I will overdose on schadenfreude if it does. I have put years and more than a little bit of money into this. The electoral value will be immense but, beyond that, it will be devastating, perhaps fatal, to right wing morale and confidence.
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While I do not expect Texas to turn blue, if it happens, I will be overjoyed beyond belief.
re: #5 Belafon
I have always wondered if these magazines are trying to pick up more readership by rotating through most of the localities in the US. When I lived in Pittsburgh, it was declared a Most Livable City. (To the amusement of most of my friends.) And some of the DC ‘burbs I lived in also ended up on the list.
But, as you point out “it isn’t a terribly bad place to live”. And that has also been my experience with respect to the finalists I have lived in, or near. At my age, I guess I prefer boring to ‘exciting’.
Thinking of that apocryphal Chinese curse “May you live in interesting times”. Uh… No thanks…
Me: How was your school day?
Ryan (8): Good. How was your day checking Twitter?#owned— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 25, 2020
Sometimes I cross my arms and lean forward.
It’s how I roll….
:)
Conservative alternate reality laid bare.
We went to a Trump rally to ask people what they see in their Facebook feeds.
You can watch the full video here:https://t.co/Qj7T8rOlBk @CNN pic.twitter.com/WM7T5F9EXx— Donie O’Sullivan (@donie) September 24, 2020
The whole family is losing it! It’s as if they know that if (when) their dad loses the election—and it looks like he will, then they will all go to prison for their crimes, which up to now, Bill Barr and Mitch McConnel have managed to protect them from.
TikTok MFs! https://t.co/6laUYPs60Z— Virginia, with the Resistance’s Latinos for Biden (@bTheResistance) September 25, 2020
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I agree - if TX flips blue, even by the narrowest of margins, it’ll be badly demoralizing to the RWNJ’s.
“Given Lukashenko’s fraudulent inauguration, I have directed the FCDO (foreign office) sanctions team to prepare Magnitsky sanctions for those responsible for the serious human rights violations,” Raab told parliament.
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) September 24, 2020
“We are coordinating with the United States and Canada to prepare appropriate listings as a matter of urgency.”
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) September 24, 2020
“As the world burns, it’s very frustrating that Australia still has not passed its own Magnitsky Act.”@Billbrowder urges Australia to pass a #Magnitsky Act as allies sanction human rights abusers in #Belarus.
My report 👇🏽https://t.co/9OKCUFxCIs | @smh @theage— Latika M Bourke (@latikambourke) September 25, 2020
He paid $290,000 to have sex twice.
— JRehling (@JRehling) September 25, 2020
oops messed that up
Big question: Why is the EU not doing the same thing? Answer: because Cyprus has vetoed it (probably at the request of Russia)
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) September 24, 2020
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas turning blue? It may really happen. I will overdose on schadenfreude if it does. I have put years and more than a little bit of money into this. The electoral value will be immense but, beyond that, it will be devastating, perhaps fatal, to right wing morale and confidence.
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If this could be like the 1964 blowout — an overwhelming Democratic victory, there will be socially-distanced dancing in the streets!! It would be the first day in almost 4 years, when the future begins looking bright.
I am trying to follow the philosophy expressed in the beginning credits of season 2 of the South Korean series “Stranger”:
…marching toward what’s right is a never-ending process. To stop, even for a moment, is to fail. Marching towards change… never stopping for a breath as you march on. In the belief that a handful of hope is better than immeasurable despair, we move forward with unwavering determination once again.
re: #16 Dread Pirate Ron
Yeah, Cyprus has vetoed such a move thus far - and almost certainly at the Kremlin’s behest.
Yup! We can hope for serious repudiation of the current GOP. Two decades of the GOP deliberately sabotaging the nation’s governance has had a deeply corrosive effect on the United States.
re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
If this could be like the 1964 blowout — an overwhelming Democratic victory, there will be socially-distanced dancing in the streets!! It would be the first day in almost 4 years, when the future begin looking bright.
I am trying to follow the philosophy expressed in the beginning credits of season 2 of the South Korean series “Stranger”:
The “redone” press release makes it sound like ballots may not have complied with the rules for counting, but don’t lose sight of scope here. Even if there is a problem with 7 ballots that doesn’t invalidate national results after a proper Count. https://t.co/JeMVgVK5ny
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 24, 2020
This is how I would write election night. As the returns come in, and Biden’s victory become more and more certain, Trump sits in the Oval Office, fuming.
Jared, becomes increasingly nervous, the blood draining from his already pale face…1/9 https://t.co/UXXWQMqxj7— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 25, 2020
“Joe”, he cries, “I’ll confess, I’ll tell everything, but you have to promise me immunity. You have to protect me!”
Trump, overhearing this, grabs a letter opener off the Resolute Desk and lunges at Jared, “Shut up you idiot!”…3/9— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 25, 2020
“Ivanka!”, exclaims Trump.
Jared stumbles backwards. “No, no. They’ll pin this on me. I..I can’t…”
With the letter opener now in his hand, Kushner runs screaming from the room and right at a group of secret service agents. In a hail of gunfire, Jared is blown apart…5/9— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 25, 2020
Having been alerted to what has occurred, Mike Pence enters the Oval office. He see Ivanka’s lifeless body lying in a pool of blood, while Trump begins to activate the Nuclear football, preparing to usher in Armageddon…7/9
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 25, 2020
With one swift move, Pence grabs the president’s head, twisting it quickly and snapping his neck. The VP grabs Trump’s limp body as it falls, holding him in a pietà pose.
Pence looks heavenwards and screams, “MOTHER!!!!!!!!” 9/9— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) September 25, 2020
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Texas turning blue? It may really happen. I will overdose on schadenfreude if it does. I have put years and more than a little bit of money into this. The electoral value will be immense but, beyond that, it will be devastating, perhaps fatal, to right wing morale and confidence.
Oh yes. I’m just looking from far away, but a blue Texas would be wonderful. Tens of thousands of wingnuts fear-shitting themselves into high earth orbit would be a glorious sight. Kudos to you for fighting the good fight there.
re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
I am trying to follow the philosophy expressed in the beginning credits of season 2 of the South Korean series “Stranger”:
…marching toward what’s right is a never-ending process. To stop, even for a moment, is to fail. Marching towards change… never stopping for a breath as you march on. In the belief that a handful of hope is better than immeasurable despair, we move forward with unwavering determination once again.
That is an excellent goal. Beau of the Fifth Column had a video on part of this last week.
Let’s talk about when progressives will be satisfied….
And one more thought before I head to bed:
Why do programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween?
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Because 31oct = 25dec
G’night all!
re: #23 ckkatz
That’s a good answer to “when will progressives be satisfied?”
However, more immediately and specifically with reference to Trump and the GOP, I’ll just copy Tolkien on peace-making with those scurvy dogs:
We shall have peace… We shall have peace when you answer for the burning of the Westfold! When you answer for the children who lie dead on the plains! For the soldiers who were hewn even as they lay dead! We shall have peace when you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows!
“What does it mean when the system says, ‘Everything that happened in this Breonna Taylor shooting was legal’? Issuing the no-knock warrant was legal, breaking down the door was legal, and killing her in her bed was legal. Until there’s real justice, nobody wins.” pic.twitter.com/GrRI49mJn7
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 25, 2020
We’ve obtained access to FSB and Russian Interior Ministry case files, including wiretaps of both the Russian and Argentine suspects in this massive drug-running operation. What Moscow and Buenos Aires allege simply doesn’t add up.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) September 20, 2020
A narco-trafficking ring orchestrated by Russian intelligence to procure money for ‘black operations.’
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) September 20, 2020
I like the “virtually uncut cocaine” part. it’s all virtually uncut cocaine down to ounce size transactions, um, or so I heard.
Adam Weeks, Candidate In Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, Dies; Special Election To Follow (CBS)
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — With more than a month remaining in the election cycle, Minnesota’s 2nd congressional district appears headed for a special election after the death of one of its candidates.
Adam Weeks, who was campaigning against incumbent Rep. Angie Craig in the district, represented the Legal Marijuana Now Party. On Thursday, it was reported that he had died.
“I want to offer condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Weeks. The loss of any of us is a tragedy, and that’s felt especially in someone who has put his energy into a campaign to serve in public office,” Secretary of State Steve Simon said.
Simon went on to say that the law is clear that, when a major party nominee dies within 79 days of Election Day, a special election is to be held in that office the second Tuesday of February — Feb. 9, 2021.
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“Major party nominee?”
re: #27 Dread Pirate Ron
Yeah, I’m gonna go with “…narco-trafficking ring orchestrated by Russian intelligence to procure money for ‘black operations.’”
re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Adam Weeks, Candidate In Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, Dies; Special Election To Follow (CBS)
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“Major party nominee?”
From mprnews.org:
Because the Legal Marijuana Now Party’s candidate for state auditor received more than 5 percent of the vote in the 2018 elections, they qualify as a “major party” along with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the Republican Party, and another marijuana-focused party, the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party. And that means the provisions of a 2013 law apply, setting up a special election in February.
ETA: Two separate marijuana parties? Both considered “major parties”? Maybe someone from Minnesota can explain that.
The refusal to agree to a peaceful transfer of power is getting 1/000th of the coverage that Hillary’s emails got.
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) September 25, 2020
re: #23 ckkatz
That is an excellent goal. Beau of the Fifth Column had a video on part of this last week.
Quoting arch-conservative William F. Buckley, Jr.
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
re: #30 Dr Lizardo
Russia’s a full kleptocracy in which criminality, corporate malfeasance, and government corruption have completely collapsed into one another, with the proceeds going to a small number of operators and bankers.
Is it even necessary to create a separate channel to fund black ops?
My guess is that it’s more simple: the entire system is rotten and at each level people are creating their own corruption franchises.
If it was another country: Democratic experiment in former British colony increasingly tenuous as embattled leader refuses to commit to respect election results or to peaceful transfer of power. Fears of local militias violently intimidating voters rise. pic.twitter.com/rSSGVih1RO
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) September 24, 2020
Right-wing media and specifically Fox News have been salivating over the idea of running over protesters for years and it happens pretty regularly now. https://t.co/Tc7uK0TEaR
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) September 25, 2020
The Czech Republic’s daily coronavirus caseload rose to 2,913 on Thursday, the second highest figure on record.Data from the health ministry shows the total number of infections now stands at 58,374 in the country of 10.7 million people, which has been experiencing a surge in infections in recent weeks after a relaxation of lockdown measures in the summer.
Hard to say what’s gonna happen here in the next couple of months - the government has said they won’t do the hard lockdowns like they did earlier this year, but of course, that same government is well-known for abruptly reversing course.
The simple truth is they don’t have the money to lock everyone down again; by law, they are required to compensate business owners for lost profits due to a state of emergency….and they’re dragging their feet on that from the first lockdown this spring (several of my students, accountants by trade, have noted that if the government were forced to hand over the cash now, say by a constitutional court decision - a real possibility - the state would be essentially bankrupted overnight). There are several class-action lawsuits against the government regarding that currently making their way to the Czech Constitutional Court.
re: #36 DodgerFan1988
Right-wing media and specifically Fox News have been salivating over the idea of running over protesters for years and it happens pretty regularly now.
you need only plea that you were “fleeing from a mob”…namely the one you just drove into.
LMPD have arrested Rep. Attica Scott, author of Breonna’s law…#LouisvilleProtests #BlackLivesMatter #BreonnaTaylorWasMurdered pic.twitter.com/aMzauoeGII
— Terrence Daniels (Captain 🍀 Planet) (@Terrence_STR) September 25, 2020
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
From mprnews.org:
ETA: Two separate marijuana parties? Both considered “major parties”? Maybe someone from Minnesota can explain that.
Can Nebraska have one of them? /s
“Right now Tupolev is removing the safety features on all his weapons. He won’t make the same mistake twice.” https://t.co/FzFz5zzVRT
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) September 25, 2020
re: #41 Dread Pirate Ron
Now, how did it end?IIRC, one of his underlings hissing “You’ve killed us all” to him as the torpedo hits…
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) September 25, 2020
re: #42 Teukka
Doubling down:
Another one from the same book and movie:
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) September 25, 2020
Meanwhile, here in Czech Republic, we’ve got a bit of an eco-disaster brewing not far from me:
On Thursday, the Czech Environmental Inspectorate confirmed the presence of cyanides in Bečva. Tens of thousands of fish have died in the river since the weekend. It is not yet known who caused the pollution. The police took over the investigation. “This morning’s analysis identified our original assumption that they were cyanides. Inspectors from Brno are currently looking for their origin, “said inspection spokeswoman Radka Nastoupilová.
It is still not clear who caused the water poisoning in the Vsetín region. There is all sorts of speculation on the Internet. The biggest suspicion fell on the Valašské Meziříčí chemical plant. DEZA, which belongs to the Agrofert Group, but is not to blame. “We insist that pollution does not come from us. This has already been confirmed by the environmental inspection”, said company spokesman Karel Hanzelka. DEZA is a producer of aromatic hydrocarbons and other chemicals. “We have nothing to do with cyanides. Our production spectrum is completely different in nature”, added Hanzelka.
DEZA, the company who’s denying blame for this incident, is part of the Agrofert group….which is owned by Czech PM Andrej Babiš.
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
Didn’t you have a crisis with poisoned Becherovka a few years back?
A very senior network news executive to me on why they aren’t focussing on Trump not accepting results of election:
“He’s been saying that for a while, our audience wants new news of the day”. #DoBetter— Eric Ortner (@eortner) September 25, 2020
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A very senior network news executive to me on why they aren’t focussing on Trump not accepting results of election:
“He’s been saying that for a while, our audience wants new news of the day”.
It’s about entertainment, not information.
Been that way for some time now.
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Didn’t you have a crisis with poisoned Becherovka a few years back?
Yeah, a couple of assholes decided that they could make a few bucks by brewing up some hooch - while saving a few bucks by mixing it with a little leftover methanol they had lying around.
They’re now in prison for the rest of their lives.
re: #44 Dr Lizardo
To add to that, despite DEZA’s frantic denials, what we know so far is that:
- the cyanide poisoning was all downstream from the DEZA facility. Upstream, no problems at all
- DEZA does, in fact, work with cyanide.
- the Minister of the Environment is a supporter and financial contributor to the PM’s political party
re: #36 DodgerFan1988
Prius driver plows through crowd, gets run down by a pickup truck, gets car smashed up, crashes into another car, speeds away (📹 KCAL) pic.twitter.com/QVoK2l4kP9
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 25, 2020
RW Militias don’t drive a Prius…
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
RW Militias don’t drive a Prius…
Urban camouflage.
Don’t stand in the street.
Didn’t your parent(s) teach you anything?— Johnny (@johnnyboyph) September 25, 2020
Yes, I was taught conservatives are asshats.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Don’t stand in the street.
Didn’t your parent(s) teach you anything?
“If you stand with a crowd of people in the street, expect to get run over!”
We have had no significant precipitation since the blizzard a couple weeks ago.
Panhandle drought deepens, no measurable precipitation in forecasts (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, more at the link):
Paula Brown mounted her paint horse, Bird, and took to the hills still black with soot to mark a road through her father’s property with pink flags. Much of the road was obscured from the efforts to fight the Hubbard’s Gap fire which raged for 4,000 acres across her father’s Angus ranch and a state wildlife management area in late August. Officials suspect the fire was human-caused, but said the exact method may be impossible to tell.
Panhandle drought deepens, no measurable precipitation in forecasts
Despite the green shoots of grass poking up through the cinders, the air still has the smell of a grill left on too long. Brown stared over the ridge, looking over blackened piñon and ponderosa pine into the draw.
“Excuse me, I’m sorry if I get emotional, I just had seen this part,” she said, wiping away tears with her sleeve. “I can’t believe it’s all gone because of one stupid person.”
While the green grass gives her hope, she said the area needs more moisture.
“We’re going to need that snow desperately,” she said.
But the moisture might not come.
Drought conditions deepened in Nebraska this month, despite the cold snap earlier this month.
Paula Brown helps mark the ‘Old Oil Well’ road, across her father’s ranch. The road was largely obscured after the fire that tore across her father’s ranch and government land this August.
The U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday showed much of the Panhandle dropped to the third of four levels of drought severity, which hasn’t been seen since 2012. Much of Sioux County through Morrill County, into Scotts Bluff and pieces of Box Butte and Banner counties are now rated in extreme drought conditions. Much of the surrounding Panhandle remains at level two, in severe drought.
Kroger Store Demands Employees Replace BLM Buttons With Bland Corporate Wristbands (Wonkette)
Back in August, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21 handed out Black Lives Matter buttons to employees of Seattle-area QFC and Fred Meyer stores, two supermarket chains owned by Kroger. On Tuesday, they filed an unfair labor charge with the National Labor Relations Board against these stores for refusing to allow employees to wear the buttons at work, on the grounds that refusing to allow employees to wear the buttons is a violation of federal law and their union contract.
Employees are upset because not allowing them to wear the pins suggests that there is something controversial about the statement that Black Lives Matter. Additionally, rather than issuing some sort of official statement on the buttons and why they can’t wear them, store directors have merely been pulling employees aside and asking them to take the pins off. It’s almost as if they knew it was bad to ask employees to do that and were hoping to keep it a little more hush-hush.
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Japan’s latest tourist attraction will be a 65-foot high mockup of the big G, the one and only Godzilla.
#Godzzila#淡路島
『ゴジラミュージアム』建設中 pic.twitter.com/OHgLocJgJs— kazz50 (@horohoro_no_mi) September 21, 2020
Cool. There’s gonna be zipline that takes you right into Godzilla’s mouth.
“Never have we had a prosecutor so cowardly dehumanize and demoralize a victim,” James Scurlock II said. Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine fired back, saying he doesn’t consider Scurlock a victim.
Scurlock’s dad, attorney slam Kleine; ‘the community deserves better than to dehumanize the victim’ (Omaha World-Herald)
The attorney for James Scurlock’s family expressed dismay.
The father of James Scurlock expressed doubts.
James Scurlock II, father of the 22-year-old Omahan who was killed May 30 amid unrest in Omaha’s Old Market, said he won’t believe that the man who took his son’s life killed himself until he sees an autopsy or a report.
The elder Scurlock questioned how Jake Gardner, 38, could have killed himself, alleging that he had a police escort when he left Omaha after May 30. Law enforcement officials say that’s not true.
“I will not believe that suicide until I see documentation,” Scurlock said.
Hillsboro, Oregon, police have refused a World-Herald request for Gardner’s autopsy results. They also refused a request by Omaha attorney Justin Wayne, who represents the Scurlock family. The reason given to the newspaper was vague. The reason given to the family: Oregon law precludes police from releasing autopsy information on a suspect.
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re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fuck Kroger.
I work at The Competition and I spend much of my time cleaning since The Ongoing Problem began. I was told by a co-worker who is married to a person that works for Kroger that they don’t have people doing what I do, and they don’t have the health check-in thing either…
re: #24 ckkatz
And one more thought before I head to bed:
Why do programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween?
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.Because 31oct = 25dec
G’night all!
In high school long ago, I wrote a program to handle decimal to octal conversions.
I named it DECOCT.BAS.
I didn’t realize that I could interpret the name in a lewd way, until a few days went by. A classmate (and colleague) told me that he nearly had a “decimal-to-octal conversion” in gym class.
I could NOT stop laughing!
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re: #60 Sufficient unto the day…
Fuck Kroger.
I work at The Competition and I spend much of my time cleaning since The Ongoing Problem began. I was told by a co-worker who is married to a person that works for Kroger that they don’t have people doing what I do, and they don’t have the health check-in thing either…
None of the stores here have a health check-in.
Sonny’s in Bridgeport does wipe down carts and is closing early every day for deep cleaning. In Scottsbluff, Safeway seems to be operating as if nothing is going on. The same goes for the Safeway in Sidney. Wal*Mart in Sidney closes at 7PM and doesn’t reopen until 8AM, presumably for cleaning as well.
Well, Senator, if you think that’s the case, don’t you think that’s also a cause for concern?
‘He says crazy stuff’: Sasse, other Republicans dismiss Trump comments on transfer of power (Omaha World-Herald)
Three new cases yesterday, nineteen new cases the day before in the Panhandle.
Cumulative positivity rate rises to 6.1%.
Total cases: 845, active cases 93, hospitalised 3, total beds available 42%
Most by age: 20-29, then 40-49, then 10-19.
Most hospitalised by age: 60-69, then 50-59, then 70-79
Deaths: 9 (+1, Box Butte County [seat Alliance], first death outside Scott’s Bluff County)
By gender, women and girls remain 2/3 of cases.
By race: White 62.37%, Hispanic/Latino 29.11% (Panhandle population White 80%, Hispanic/Latino 14.81%, rest 5.19%)
pphd.org
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, Senator, if you think that’s the case, don’t you think that’s also a cause for concern?
‘He says crazy stuff’: Sasse, other Republicans dismiss Trump comments on transfer of power (Omaha World-Herald)
He is the President of the USA, not our deranged uncle.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is the President of the USA, not our deranged uncle.
He’s Mary Trump’s deranged uncle.
The only tropical system being tracked by the National Hurricane Center is post-tropical cyclone β. It is moving into Tennessee tonight.
At 400 AM CDT (0900 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Beta
was located near latitude 34.3 North, longitude 86.3 West. The
post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the northeast near 10 mph (17
km/h) until it becomes indistinguishable within the background wind
and pressure field by mid-afternoon Friday.Maximum sustained winds are near 10 mph (20 km/h) with higher gusts.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 1010 mb (29.83 inches).
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We, our society here in the US, have determined that we are going to accept hundreds of thousands of more deaths from Covid-19.
That’s the only explanation.
Eventually, we hope, there will be a vaccine, and enough people will take it, so that SARS-Cov-2 can be greatly reduced, if not made extinct, in the human population.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We, our society here in the US, have determined that we are going to accept hundreds of thousands of more deaths from Covid-19.
That’s the only explanation.
Eventually, we hope, there will be a vaccine, and enough people will take it, so that SARS-Cov-2 can be greatly reduced, if not made extinct, in the human population.
We didn’t accept it, the minority-rule government accepted it, and foisted of their genocide on the rest of us.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The oceans have gone suddenly quiet regarding tropical storms. Even in the western Pacific.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The oceans have gone suddenly quiet regarding tropical storms. Even in the western Pacific.
Well, this is 2020, so that can only be a bad omen.
A take on Brexit:
Did Downton Abbey lead to Brexit? How ITV’s flagship drama put the upper classes on a pedestal
[…]
Should we blame Downton and its ilk for fomenting wistfulness for a time when Britain ruled the waves? Did Downton birth Brexit? That’s probably taking things a bit far, but you can imagine Nigel Farage experiencing a stirring in his corduroys at its picture-postcard scenes of cricket on the village green, afternoon tea and white faces all around. The series undoubtedly peddled a particular type of Englishness that put the upper classes on a pedestal and looked down its nose at anyone who had no truck with the feudal systems of yore. It’s significant that every time a socialist walked into the Crawley residence, they were either shouted down or converted to the capitalist cause.
[…]
The role of popular entertainment in shaping public opinion ought not be dismissed.
It is, after all, how we got Donald Trump.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We, our society here in the US, have determined that we are going to accept hundreds of thousands of more deaths from Covid-19.
That’s the only explanation.
Eventually, we hope, there will be a vaccine, and enough people will take it, so that SARS-Cov-2 can be greatly reduced, if not made extinct, in the human population.
Because wearing masks is such an imposition on our freedoms.
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s that kind of night…
..
Hinterseher is literally “someone who sees your behind”
“I didn’t wanna be here ANYWAY” is way more his style than a fight. Don’t forget, at the heart of it, this is not a badass, tough man. He is a bitch.
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 25, 2020
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I believe in SCIENCE when it comes to gender issues, but I believe in MEDIEVAL MYTHS and PRIMITIVE SUPERSTITION when it comes to Satan…
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Downton Abbey was not bad - but it doesn’t hold a candle to Brideshead Revisited, which I think is probably one of the all-time greatest TV adaptations of a literary work, maybe the greatest.
re: #76 dangerman
Well, we wouldn’t be “presidentless” as Chrissy put it. If Trump just said, “Fuck it, I quit, you’ve all failed me” and skedaddled off to Mar-a-Lago, Pence would simply serve as a caretaker President until Biden’s sworn in.
re: #35 Dread Pirate Ron
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don’t need another country
need a better press/media
If it was another country: Democratic experiment in former British colony increasingly tenuous as embattled leader refuses to commit to respect election results or to peaceful transfer of power. Fears of local militias violently intimidating voters rise. pic.twitter.com/rSSGVih1RO
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) September 24, 2020
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Well, we wouldn’t be “presidentless” as Chrissy put it. If Trump just said, “Fuck it, I quit, you’ve all failed me” and skedaddled off to Mar-a-Lago, Pence would simply serve as a caretaker President until Biden’s sworn in.
Besides, even more than running away from a fight, there’s still seventy-eight days of grifting and theft to accomplish. He’s known more for that.
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Well, we wouldn’t be “presidentless” as Chrissy put it. If Trump just said, “Fuck it, I quit, you’ve all failed me” and skedaddled off to Mar-a-Lago, Pence would simply serve as a caretaker President until Biden’s sworn in.
And if Pence fucks off or blue-screens or hides in the closet and doesn’t come out, we get a real President for the rest of the time.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Besides, even more than running away from a fight, there’s still seventy-eight days of grifting and theft to accomplish. He’s known more for that.
Good point - Trump would likely never turn down an opportunity to hustle the rubes.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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A very senior network news executive to me on why they aren’t focussing on Trump not accepting results of election:
“He’s been saying that for a while, our audience wants new news of the day”. #DoBetter— Eric Ortner (@eortner) September 25, 2020
how does that make it normal and not newsworthy
cf: benghazi, Hillary emails, Clinton foundation
John Cornyn’s attack on MJ Hegar is getting coverage in The Independent.
Hegar was awarded a Purple Heart after the Taliban shot down the helicopter she was co-piloting
After a Republican super PAC in Texas posted a photo of Senate candidate MJ Hegar featuring her tattoos and calling her a “radical,” Hegar had a quick response on Twitter: the tattoos covered shrapnel wounds she received as an Air Force helicopter pilot in Afghanistan.
“A pro-Cornyn Super PAC is using a photo of my tattoos to make me seem ‘radical.’ That’s pretty funny to me,” Hegar tweeted on Thursday, referring to her opponent in the race, longtime GOP Senator John Cornyn. “You think I’m ashamed of them? They cover my shrapnel wounds from when my helicopter was shot down. They’re a mark of my service to our country. I’m damn proud of them.”
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Thank you for your service to our country as an international embarrassment, Sen. Cornyn.
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Well, we wouldn’t be “presidentless” as Chrissy put it. If Trump just said, “Fuck it, I quit, you’ve all failed me” and skedaddled off to Mar-a-Lago, Pence would simply serve as a caretaker President until Biden’s sworn in.
I think she meant he just stops working.
doesn’t officially resign.
they’d have to go all 25th amendment…
re: #87 dangerman
I think she meant he just stops working.
doesn’t officially resign.
they’d have to go all 25th amendment…
He will just stop pretending to work for the Country and devote his energies to covering his ass and assets…
Hmm.
Kim Jong-un ‘apologises for killing of South Korean official’ (BBC)
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has issued a rare personal apology for the killing of a South Korean official, Seoul says.
Mr Kim reportedly told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that the “disgraceful affair” should not have happened.
South Korea has said the 47-year-old man was found by troops floating in the North’s waters.
He was then shot dead and his body was set alight, according to Seoul.
The killing - the first of a South Korean citizen by North Korean forces for a decade - has caused outrage in the South.
The border between the Koreas is tightly policed, and the North is thought to have a “shoot-to-kill” policy in place to prevent coronavirus from entering the country.
What did Kim say in his apology?
The apology came in the form of a letter sent to President Moon which acknowledged that the incident should not have happened, according to South Korea’s presidential office, also known as the Blue House.
Mr Kim called it a “disgraceful affair” and said he felt “very sorry” for “disappointing” Mr Moon and the South Korean people, the Blue House said. It is the North’s first official comment on the incident.
The North also gave the South the results of its investigation - it said more than 10 shots were fired at the man, who had entered North Korean waters and then failed to reveal his identity and tried to flee, South Korea’s director of national security Suh Hoon said.
However the North insisted that it had not burned the man’s body but rather the “floating material” that was carrying him.
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re: #87 dangerman
I think she meant he just stops working.
doesn’t officially resign.
they’d have to go all 25th amendment…
Ah, OK. Trump taking an extended golf holiday, basically.
re: #90 Dr Lizardo
Ah, OK. Trump taking an extended golf holiday, basically.
Working with his legal team…
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg will lie in state today in the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman in the history of the nation to do so.
A funeral date has not yet been announced, but she will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery. She is not a veteran, but under the cemetery’s rules, Supreme Court justices can be buried there. Her late husband was buried there in 2010.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate for military women, to be buried at Arlington (Stars & Stripes)
John Mackey, the founder of Whole Foods, blames obesity on bad decisions by consumers rather than lack of access to healthy food. “It’s less about access and more about people making poor choices, mostly due to ignorance.” https://t.co/IvDFUcAvJj
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) September 24, 2020
We’ve deleted a tweet that mischaracterized John Mackey’s comments about obesity in the U.S. Mackey blamed poor decision making, a lack of education about healthy options, and the marketing of fast food and processed food for the problem. https://t.co/IvDFUcAvJj
— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) September 24, 2020
If I could fast, I would. Food has no pleasure for me, not when affluent food snobs can judge you on the spot and online.
re: #93 Sherlock Hound
If I could fast, I would. Food has no pleasure for me, not when affluent food snobs can judge you on the spot and online.
Hey asshat (Mackey, not you), I have one grocery store sixteen miles away. (The general store here only sells quick-fix type meals.)
The next two are sixty miles away if i want a really good selection of healthful foods.
What is it with this modern phobia against personal responsibility? Adults are not children and can make responsible decisions regarding what they choose to eat, just as they make choices in other sectors of their lives
— Après pugs, le déluge (@dcsmith1987) September 24, 2020
I wish I could remind this person of an aphorism I saw once:
Responsibility without authority is slavery.
(And its corollary: Authority without responsibility is tyranny. Not that we know it.)
Not responding on Twitter because it’s not worth my dignity getting trashed.
re: #93 Sherlock Hound
The lowest profit margins come from selling you healthy, fresh, whole foods to cook yourself. The highest profit margins come from highly-processed, mass-produced bulk foodstuffs mixed with a handful of industrial chemicals.
And I recall the tizzy fit that some people threw when the FLOTUS tried to encourage kids to learn how to eat healthy…
What a putz! Clank, clank, clank,…BOOM! [Cue wild applause]
Good lord what a dork pic.twitter.com/m9pl5BSBH2
— Minion Death Cult Podcast (@miniondeathcult) September 24, 2020
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The lowest profit margins come from selling you healthy, fresh, whole foods to cook yourself. The highest profit margins come from highly-processed, mass-produced bulk foodstuffs mixed with a handful of industrial chemicals.
And I recall the tizzy fit that some people threw when the FLOTUS tried to encourage kids to learn how to eat healthy…
Plus Mackey’s Whole Foods were also outed as XIX Century style cheats on weights and measures in 2015 (Denver Post)
Mihm: Whole Foods resurrects the thumb-on-the-scale trick
For most of the country’s history, grocers’ scales were checked by people called “sealers” (you still see official seals on scales or other measuring devices like gasoline pumps today). The problem was sealers were only paid by commission by states, and only received a commission on measuring devices which checked properly against standards. They were paid nothing for checking measuring devices which failed.
That caused a whole lot of fraud, both on the sealers’ part and grocers’ part. That didn’t change until the middle of the XX Century when states and cities started getting serious about grocers cheating. The problem existed across the country in the overwhelming majority of stores.
The Whole Foods chain’s marketing celebrates a more wholesome past. Heirloom tomatoes, GMO-free products, and organic fruits, vegetables and meats recall an earlier, more innocent time when family farms, not modern agribusiness, put food on the American table.
On Wednesday, the grocery giant’s chief executive officer and its co-founder apologized for resurrecting a more controversial tradition: the sale of “short weight” food. In New York last week, municipal authorities responsible for ensuring that the weight of packages of food matched the labeling announced that Whole Foods had been systematically overcharging customers in a number of stores.
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This is the future libertarians want.
re: #98 Sherlock Hound
What a putz! Clank, clank, clank,…BOOM! [Cue wild applause]
30-50 feral hot dogs
— Prairie Rose Clayton🥈 (@hoover_dam) September 24, 2020
Open carrying like this is basically just a ‘shoot me first’ sign.
— Soros check-Hammerer (@lyleleander) September 25, 2020
What Makes Us Whole: From a counterculture organic market to an exploitative corporate giant (Goes to Whole Worker)
The long history of shady and illegal business practices of Whole Foods Market.
Two examples from a very long list:
Retaliation against whistleblower for sewage leak (2011)
OSHA sued Whole Foods after firing a whistleblower over a sewage leak coming into a specialty department in Florida. - OSHAMaggots found in a meat department in San Francisco (2014)
Meat team member Marc Melancon found 40 maggots inside of Noe Valley store’s meat case. The company claimed that only one maggot was found to the health department and made continued attemps to discredit Melancon’s story. - KRON4
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A close friend of mine back in the US who I’ve known for well over 30 years used to work at the now-defunct Nature’s Marketplace. She loathed Whole Foods with every fiber of her being (and she’s the first person I ever heard that “Whole Paycheck” crack from, too).
re: #103 Dr Lizardo
A close friend of mine back in the US who I’ve known for well over 30 years used to work at the now-defunct Nature’s Marketplace. She loathed Whole Foods with every fiber of her being (and she’s the first person I ever heard that “Whole Paycheck” crack from, too).
I’ve never been in a Whole Foods, nor lived anywhere near one.
Using Kellyanne Conway on an anti-trust case (2007)
It was revealed through Business Insider in 2017 that Whole Foods hired Conway to do a survey to prove Whole Foods’ acquisition of Wild Oats Market was not an attempt to get a monopoly over the organic food supermarket industry. The survey was never used in court as it was “fundamentally flawed”. - Business Insider
The guy who runs Whole Foods has been an asshat for a long time.
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare (Opinion piece by John Mackey, August 11, 2009, Wall Street Journal)
He lets you know right where he’s going in the first line:
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”—Margaret Thatcher
Insurance regulations are not socialism.
Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America
A version of the conservative prattle of “originalism”: If it isn’t explicitly in the text, they didn’t mean it (and if it is, we’ll explain why they didn’t mean it).
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
—Declaration of Independence
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
—Preamble to the US Constitution
PREDICTION: Trump’s debate performance will be a disaster and create a perfect storm of declinin’ polls and Trump’s declinin’ mental condition.
His campaign’s death spiral will accelerate and he will make numerous unforced errors that will alienate more voters.
Your thoughts?— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) September 25, 2020
KETV, Omaha (ABC)
Judge Laurie Smith Camp, a trailblazer on Nebraska’s federal bench, dies
She was appointed as the first woman to the Nebraska federal bench by President George W. Bush.
OMAHA, Neb. —
The first woman to serve as federal judge in Nebraska died overnight, according to a news release from the United States District Court in the state.
Senior District Judge Laurie Smith Camp, 66, served on the court since her appointment by President George W. Bush in 2001. She was chief judge from 2011 until she stepped back from that role in 2018.
According to the news release, she died peacefully at her home.
Smith Camp was currently serving as the president of the Omaha Bar Association.
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Gov. Ricketts’ Statement on Passing of Judge Smith Camp (Goes to the State of Nebraska Website)
“Susanne and I are shocked and saddened that Judge Smith Camp has unexpectedly passed away. Before becoming a federal judge, she was a highly-respected attorney in both private practice and public service. Outside of her legal career, she was a friend to the arts and a deeply-involved member of the community. We celebrate her work and will long remember her contributions to the Good Life.”
Such a heartbreaking loss. I admired Judge Laurie Camp Smith so much and benefited many times from her advice and experience. She was a trailblazer and a truly thoughtful person in these times when it is so needed. Sad to hear this news. https://t.co/HSl0LbeQj5
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) September 24, 2020
Those who drafted the Declaration of Independence espoused in it views that would today be dismissed as the ramblings of SJW snowflake anarchist terrorist cucks.
— Future Hashtag (@absurdistwords) September 24, 2020
So, I just found a 469 page book in the mail, unsolicited and not postmarked, list price is $14.99.
“The Great Controversy” The Untold Truth Behind the Vatican’s Rising Influence in America
re: #110 Sufficient unto the day…
So, I just found a 469 page book in the mail, unsolicited and not postmarked, list price is $14.99.
“The Great Controversy” The Untold Truth Behind the Vatican’s Rising Influence in America
A tree gave its life for that piece of wisdom.
re: #111 Decatur Deb
Press “F” to pay respects to the tree.
re: #110 Sufficient unto the day…
So, I just found a 469 page book in the mail, unsolicited and not postmarked, list price is $14.99.
“The Great Controversy” The Untold Truth Behind the Vatican’s Rising Influence in America
The Seventh Day Adventist Church periodically makes mass-mailings of the book by Ellen G. White, first published in 1858.
Congratulations, you’re on the anti-Catholic hate list.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On the plus side, I now have a new coaster, and they’re out however much they spent for the book.
re: #116 Sufficient unto the day…
On the plus side, I now have a new coaster, and they’re out however much they spent for the book.
LOL
The TL;DR critical summary is probably a better read.
The Great Controversy: About That Book You Got In The Mail (Goes to SFist)
Have you gotten your free copy of The Great Controversy? I bet you have! But don’t confuse the mailed text — subtitled “Past, Present, Future” and “How Will It End?” — with a wasteful phone book. It’s actually a “crucial end-time book,” says Remnant Publications, the Christian publisher responsible for already blanketing New York City, Washington, DC, and Charlotte, NC, with nearly two million copies of the not-so-light reading material.
Your skepticism is shared by the publisher, who has low expectations for success in the Bay: “San Francisco is not the easiest community to reach,” reads Remnant’s website. “For years the city has been at the forefront of the gay movement. In fact, 15 percent of San Francisco residents are homosexual.”
That’s not all, folks: “The area is home to the University of California-Berkeley, a hotbed of liberal ideas. It also contains the affluent communities of Silicon Valley, where high-tech companies like Google and Facebook are changing the world on a daily basis.”
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re: #106 Patricia Kayden
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(also… his fans won’t be judging his performance by the standards of truth or logic or relevance. I’m not at all convinced his fans will see it as disaster even in real time.
Once the Fox editors chop up clips for their coverage… R’s are going to think he was masterful.)
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Didn’t NPR read the Declaration on air and take shit for it? something something socialism…
re: #119 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Didn’t NPR read the Declaration on air and take shit for it? something something socialism…
Yes, NPR reads the Declaration on-air every year on July 4.
Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence. (Washington Post, 2017)
To echo its 29-year on-air tradition, the public radio network’s main Twitter account tweeted out the Declaration of Independence, line by line.
There — in 113 consecutive posts, in 140-character increments — was the text of the treasured founding document of the United States, from its soaring opening to its searing indictments of King George III’s “absolute tyranny” to its very last signature.
Who could have taken issue with such a patriotic exercise, done in honor of the nation’s birthday?
Quite a few people, it turned out.
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If elected Dictator on November 3, I will ban “pumpkin spice” for anything but pumpkins, with death by rusty chainsaw for violators.
Kraft introduces Pumpkin Spice Macaroni & Cheese
After a test run in Canada, Kraft announced Thursday it will bring its Pumpkin Spice Macaroni & Cheese to the United States.
In a news release, Kraft said its Pumpkin Spice Macaroni & Cheese is the “same cheesy mac and cheese Americans know and love, now with added fall flavors.”
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Pumpkin spice only belongs on pizza.
With that, I’m off to bed. Catch y’all another time.
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Can’t be any worse than turkey and gravy-flavored soda.
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If elected Dictator on November 3, I will ban “pumpkin spice” for anything but pumpkins, with death by rusty chainsaw for violators.
Kraft introduces Pumpkin Spice Macaroni & Cheese
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Working on some late medieval ancestors in Norway… and wondering what they would have thought of what we do 4 centuries later when it comes to how we squander away whatever little influence we have on which way our nation goes.
Back then, there was the landed and the poor. If you came from the landed class you married in that class. Life was easier for them than for the poor, true. But they were always under the thumb of the king (in this case in Copenhagen). Also, the local Bishop held sway in many affairs of the local resident.
There were no elections, there was no freedom of speech. There was plenty of intrigue and plenty of scandals.
The poor were poor. They worked, they might have kids, they died. The local church recorded their names at baptism, and usually marriage and death. Otherwise, nothing is known of them.
It’s hard to think of Donald Trump, America, and our contemporary digital society as anything other than a fluke in the big picture of humanity. A massive accumulation of natural wealth and compiled work effort, all to be squandered by the most stupid of national leadership to yet be cranked out by the American experiment.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, this is 2020, so that can only be a bad omen.
Kaiju are coming out of the Mid Pacific Rift. And Namor is active in the Atlantic. That can be the only possible answer… /
re: #85 dangerman
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cf: benghazi, Hillary emails, Clinton foundation
The problem is that Trump and his administration say/do something criminal or crazy every day — a Gish Gallop of evil — that makes it difficult to focus on one particular outrage. After all, the “suckers and losers” quote disparaging the military was the beginning of the month, and we’re not talking about it any longer. We are overwhelmed with his monstrosity but if the media try to do an extended email style storyline, a daily drumbeat focused on one crime, they would lose the next 10 atrocities which may be equally or even more devastating. Let’s not forget that the GOP are using the RBG replacement story to distract from what should be the biggest story: the 200,000 deaths caused by Trump’s malfeasance.
Trump is a master at manipulating the media. But I don’t know how you can be effective in this environment where there is a new abomination each day. It’s not a drip-drip-drip of evil — it’s a Noah’s storm of evil, but not one that stops after 40 days.
re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Working on some late medieval ancestors in Norway… and wondering what they would have thought of what we do 4 centuries later when it comes to how we squander away whatever little influence we have on which way our nation goes.
Back then, there was the landed and the poor. If you came from the landed class you married in that class. Life was easier for them than for the poor, true. But they were always under the thumb of the king (in this case in Copenhagen). Also, the local Bishop held sway in many affairs of the local resident.
There were no elections, there was no freedom of speech. There was plenty of intrigue and plenty of scandals.
The poor were poor. They worked, they might have kids, they died. The local church recorded their names at baptism, and usually marriage and death. Otherwise, nothing is known of them.
It’s hard to think of Donald Trump, America, and our contemporary digital society as anything other than a fluke in the big picture of humanity. A massive accumulation of natural wealth and compiled work effort, all to be squandered by the most stupid of national leadership to yet be cranked out by the American experiment.
Even without Trump and his ilk, our economic/environmental/social model wasn’t going to work indefinitely. When the Berlin Wall came down I had a brief flash of optimism—we seemed to have a good chance, if we could make “free” fusion or similar energy work.
“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.”
re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
RW Militias don’t drive a Prius…
There is a Prius I see occasionally around here that has a sticker that say something to the effect of “I dream a Prius but I’m not a Liberal.”
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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So they will report on Clinton emails and foundation then. You know, current things.
More reassuring words from Teri Kanefield that Trump’s bluster is a distraction.
See my piece in today’s Washington Post⤵️https://t.co/yCEktU4F1W
If you are Donald Trump, and your image is based on the claim that you are a winner, what do you do when every recent national poll has you losing?
1/— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) September 25, 2020
If you’re wondering what Trump won’t do if he loses the elctions, one thing he won’t do is care about getting this passed:
Democrats in the House are working on a $2 trillion-plus reboot of their COVID-19 relief bill in an attempt to restart stalled negotiations with the Trump administration. https://t.co/wWwapyCTUI
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 24, 2020
re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
The problem is that Trump and his administration say/do something criminal or crazy every day — a Gish Gallop of evil — that makes it difficult to focus on one particular outrage. After all, the “suckers and losers” quote disparaging the military was the beginning of the month, and we’re not talking about it any longer. We are overwhelmed with his monstrosity but if the media try to do an extended email style storyline, a daily drumbeat focused on one crime, they would lose the next 10 atrocities which may be equally or even more devastating. Let’s not forget that the GOP are using the RBG replacement story to distract from what should be the biggest story: the 200,000 deaths caused by Trump’s malfeasance.
Trump is a master at manipulating the media. But I don’t know how you can be effective in this environment where there is a new abomination each day. It’s not a drip-drip-drip of evil — it’s a Noah’s storm of evil, but not one that stops after 40 days.
The Biden campaign should be hammering on covid in swing state commercials. Trump’s recent comment that “nobody” dies of covid is perfect to combine with ominous music and a voiceover targeted to the elderly and poc that Trump thinks you are nobody and doesn’t care if you die, followed by upbeat music and comment that Biden has a plan to beat covid and cares about all Americans. The commercial practically writes itself.
Long story by a former Evangelical about her experience standing on the outskirts of a “riots to revival” rally with a Bible verse on a posterboard. Let’s just say it was not pleasant.
Just standing on the edge of the worshipping crowd was enough to draw the ire and attention of many folks. For almost two hours I was constantly confronted, yelled at, livestreamed, prayed over and told I was not a real Christian (for the record, I was simply holding a sign that had a Bible verse on it).
I was not prepared for how much worse this would be than tear gas. I was not prepared for the pit in my stomach as I saw the thousands of Christians gathered, without masks, triumphantly singing songs to God, hands in the air and all eyes turned toward the worship leader on stage.
Idol worship, folks, idol worship. These people are not worshiping Jesus, they’re worshiping their own power and ability to impose on everyone else.
re: #110 Sufficient unto the day…
So, I just found a 469 page book in the mail, unsolicited and not postmarked, list price is $14.99.
“The Great Controversy” The Untold Truth Behind the Vatican’s Rising Influence in America
I’m assuming these people are opposed to the judge considered Trump’s possible pick for SCOTUS. //
re: #132 Belafon
So close @AP. That’s not quite it.
House Democrats passed a relief bill in *May*, and McConnell sent it to his legislative graveyard. Now Democrats, knowing how badly GOP has destroyed economy, are negotiating against themselves to come up with new relief package— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 25, 2020
So fucking irresponsible.
No you idiots, what you’ve managed to do is make the illusion that all is well and many people will think it’s ok because they saw it on TV.
It’s highly irresponsible. But it’s @MaskedSingerFOX on @FOXTV so that’s on brand.@ABCNetwork @DancingABC WTF?https://t.co/YkcN2tbGBL— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 25, 2020
re: #137 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s propos. All propaganda all the time. Consequences be damned.
Trump would use the same tech if he could to show that he’s got overflow crowds at his rallies.
re: #98 Sherlock Hound
What a putz! Clank, clank, clank,…BOOM! [Cue wild applause]
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It is needed because they are rough, tough, scared shitless cowards.
We’ve settled in at a new normal plateau that is higher than the worst of it in March-May when NYC metro was taking it on the chin.
The majority of cases and deaths are now in states dominated by the GOP.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 25, 2020
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
The TL;DR critical summary is probably a better read.
The Great Controversy: About That Book You Got In The Mail (Goes to SFist)
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Shame that was six years ago. The USPS could use that money now.
re: #132 Belafon
If you’re wondering what Trump won’t do if he loses the elctions, one thing he won’t do is care about getting this passed:
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If it passes quick enough, Mnuchin and the Fed might be able to convince him that the stock market and the economy overall would like it, and Jared might be able to convince him that it would improve his odds in the election.
re: #143 sagehen
If it passes quick enough, Mnuchin and the Fed might be able to convince him that the stock market and the economy overall would like it, and Jared might be able to convince him that it would improve his odds in the election.
Too bad there’s not enough time to send out donny trump signed letters with the bribe, so it’ll never happen.
re: #143 sagehen
If it passes quick enough, Mnuchin and the Fed might be able to convince him that the stock market and the economy overall would like it, and Jared might be able to convince him that it would improve his odds in the election.
On the one hand, Trump is flinging money around in a desperate bid to buy votes, so he may finally support a large deal. OTOH, it contradicts his claim that the pandemic is just about over and the economy is roaring back to life thanks to him. I think McConnell is also preparing for a post Trump era of severe austerity to try to make Biden a failure so that the GOP can roar back to power in 2022 and 2024. So I don’t think odds of a deal are good.
Judge tosses suit over Trump affair story after Fox News argues no “reasonable viewer” takes Tucker Carlson seriously https://t.co/0YAJsMPZie
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 25, 2020
But then there is this:
Democrats are Rigging our 2020 Election! pic.twitter.com/1FwrJiuSNY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2020
The Republican position really is: it’s your fault if you get cancer. https://t.co/5Qn0JnhPOE
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) September 25, 2020
The GOP has no plan for health care except to watch more people die.
They’re doing this explicitly with covid19, and they’re explicit here too.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 25, 2020
Preexisting conditions run the gamut from diabetes and hypertension to cancer and other genetic disorders.
GOP position is fuck you, pay more for health coverage, ignoring that all Americans face this, not just Democrats. Nearly half of all Americans have preexisting conditions.
All Americans know someone who have a preexisting condition, whether it’s heart disease or cancer or diabetes.
What these fucknuts want is for them to pay a lot more for their health care, which would render them unable to pay for their health coverage.
Yet time and again we know from history that a health public is a more productive public, and less time is lost to health care issues. These troglodytes want a return to the bad old days. They think their money and privilege protects them - right up to the moment that they face their own cancer battles or prolonged health care treatments that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
Heck, most Americans lack an emergency fund of $1,000 or more. What do you think happens when they can’t pay their health care bills. That’s right, they go bankrupt, can’t afford to remain in their homes, and they lose their jobs because they can’t remain healthy enough to do the work.
Fuck Erikson with a rusty pitchfork sideways, and the rest of the GOP too.
re: #146 The Pie Overlord!
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Problem is that Fox News viewers are not “reasonable”.
The men behind QAnon
…look exactly like you’d expect… https://t.co/wLPXP5l3Hp— DeMarcus 🛹 (@semperdiced) September 24, 2020
Their appearances are matched only by the chaos and conspiracies they spew that embolden the likes of Trump (and vice versa).
re: #147 lawhawk
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Preexisting conditions run the gamut from diabetes and hypertension to cancer and other genetic disorders.
GOP position is fuck you, pay more for health coverage, ignoring that all Americans face this, not just Democrats. Nearly half of all Americans have preexisting conditions.
All Americans know someone who have a preexisting condition, whether it’s heart disease or cancer or diabetes.
What these fucknuts want is for them to pay a lot more for their health care, which would render them unable to pay for their health coverage.
Yet time and again we know from history that a health public is a more productive public, and less time is lost to health care issues. These troglodytes want a return to the bad old days. They think their money and privilege protects them - right up to the moment that they face their own cancer battles or prolonged health care treatments that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
Heck, most Americans lack an emergency fund of $1,000 or more. What do you think happens when they can’t pay their health care bills. That’s right, they go bankrupt, can’t afford to remain in their homes, and they lose their jobs because they can’t remain healthy enough to do the work.
Fuck Erikson with a rusty pitchfork sideways, and the rest of the GOP too.
Another great issue for Democrats to run on and perfect for ominous attack ads. In my CD, currently represented by the loathesome Andy Barr, good ole boy Josh Hicks, a bit chunky with a country accent, has a lead in the one poll of the race, and he is running on preexisting conditions.
Live now on @MSNBC: Memorial ceremony for Justice Ginsburg as she lies in state in the US Capitol. https://t.co/RdYLvfum24 pic.twitter.com/jvCvyyZb17
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2020
Trump supporter who dismissed Covid as ‘socialist’ hoax is killed by disease
https://t.co/GrKGbOaYC4— Gus 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 (@Gus_802) September 25, 2020
re: #152 lawhawk
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Is it bad of me that I hope the Governor of Missouri dies of covid? Could save other lives!
re: #152 lawhawk
What truly stuns me, while knowing it shouldn’t, is there are stories like this every damned day and it STILL doesn’t phase the assholes among us. I bet if you went back to maybe April, you could find at least one of these stories for every fucking day til today. Donald Trump is responsible for all those deaths. ALL of them.
Dreaming of diving head first into this giant pot of 2nd Ave Deli’s matzo ball soup 💭🤗 pic.twitter.com/g2PDUee7SE
— Food Network (@FoodNetwork) September 25, 2020
re: #152 lawhawk
Updinged because good. I’m tired of these idiots. Let the gene pool cleansing continue.
re: #155 The Pie Overlord!
Indeed. Trivia Q: 2d Ave Deli is no longer located on 2d Ave. They had to move because the rents got too damned high and are now on 3d Ave. Their original location is now a bank.
Their soups are amazing.
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Updinged because good. I’m tired of these idiots. Let the gene pool cleansing continue.
I’ve taken to calling it “The Great Cleansing”.
re: #157 lawhawk
Indeed. Trivia Q: 2d Ave Deli is no longer located on 2d Ave. They had to move because the rents got too damned high and are now on 3d Ave. Their original location is now a bank.
Their soups are amazing.
Looks good. On a side note, bagels have finally arrived in supermarkets in my neck of the woods here. Nowhere near as good as something I’d get in NYC, mind you, but it satisfies the occasional jonesing for bagels and lox.
re: #157 lawhawk
Indeed. Trivia Q: 2d Ave Deli is no longer located on 2d Ave. They had to move because the rents got too damned high and are now on 3d Ave. Their original location is now a bank.
Their soups are amazing.
There is something very weird looking about their knaidlach. My knaidlach do not look anything like that and I have been making matzo balls for DECADES. Yeah, also a knaidel that is the size of a softball is going to take up so much room in the soup bowl there will be no place for the soup.
re: #160 The Pie Overlord!
From what I recall, their matzah ball soups can be a meal unto themselves. It’s the kitchen sink of soups. They throw everything in there, and the soup bowls are huge.
If you order a cup, you basically get a matzah ball and not much else.
For fuck sakes, man…
As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, state Rep. Attica Scott (D) took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March. In August, Scott proposed Breonna’s Law, a bill that would end no-knock warrants statewide. And when a grand jury decided not to indict the officers for Taylor’s death, Scott joined hundreds of protesters in the streets of Louisville.
On Thursday night, Louisville police arrested Scott along with a handful of other protesters near First Unitarian Church and the Louisville Free Public Library, which had allegedly been set on fire, according to a police report reviewed by WAVE. The state representative received a felony charge of first-degree rioting and two misdemeanors for failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. It is unclear if Scott was released on bail or is still in custody.
I don’t even know what to say anymore…
re: #106 Patricia Kayden
PREDICTION: Trump’s debate performance will be a disaster and create a perfect storm of declinin’ polls and Trump’s declinin’ mental condition.
His campaign’s death spiral will accelerate and he will make numerous unforced errors that will alienate more voters.
Your thoughts?
RW media will still insist that it was a towering performance and he really showed Biden who is boss
re: #157 lawhawk
I forgot to add this anecdote; a few weeks ago, I bought some bagels and brought them home. Next morning, I had one for breakfast and then headed off to work.
When I come home, my on-again/off-again girlfriend was sitting on the couch, looking at the news online. There was a bagel on a small plate with a single bite taken out of it.
She looked at me and said, “Those are really funny-tasting donuts. I don’t like them much.”
I absolutely lost it and she spent a couple of minutes wondering why I was laughing like a madman.
re: #153 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Is it bad of me that I hope the Governor of Missouri dies of covid? Could save other lives!
Then this guy, the “good” governor and Herman Cain can have some fabulous hate meetings in hell.
re: #146 The Pie Overlord!
Judge tosses suit over Trump affair story after Fox News argues no “reasonable viewer” takes Tucker Carlson seriously
This is the Alex Jones “performance art” defense.
And it tells us what journalism has become in our country.
re: #154 A Mom Anon
What truly stuns me, while knowing it shouldn’t, is there are stories like this every damned day and it STILL doesn’t phase the assholes among us. I bet if you went back to maybe April, you could find at least one of these stories for every fucking day til today. Donald Trump is responsible for all those deaths. ALL of them.
Oddly, I’ve completely run out of fucks to give for these people. You want to die? Go with God.
re: #155 The Pie Overlord!
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That looks amazing…
Now just take out the matzah balls and it’ll be perfect! ;)
(Never really liked those, and yes, I most certainly DO get grief over that every Passover dinner.)
re: #167 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oddly, I’ve completely run out of fucks to give for these people. You want to die? Go with God.
My main issue with these people is that their being reckless puts who knows how many others at needless risk?
re: #151 lawhawk
MSNBC Headline: Capitol Hill Service Service for Late Justice
Fox Headline: Ginsburg Late for Own Funeral!!!
re: #151 lawhawk
Did Trump show up on his way to the links?
re: #168 (((Archangel1)))
That looks amazing…
Now just take out the matzah balls and it’ll be perfect! ;)
(Never really liked those, and yes, I most certainly DO get grief over that every Passover dinner.)
As you should…. Is it a texture thing? Or do you prefer kreplach instead?
re: #157 lawhawk
Indeed. Trivia Q: 2d Ave Deli is no longer located on 2d Ave. They had to move because the rents got too damned high and are now on 3d Ave. Their original location is now a bank.
Their soups are amazing.
Except for the 2nd Ave Deli’s uptown location: which is actually on First Ave.
Agree about the soups: we definitely miss having them in the neighborhood (we moved, they stayed!)
re: #58 Dr Lizardo
Japan’s latest tourist attraction will be a 65-foot high mockup of the big G, the one and only Godzilla.
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Cool. There’s gonna be zipline that takes you right into Godzilla’s mouth.
And I am trapped in the USA. This is no fun!
re: #152 lawhawk
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For a socialist hoax, it sure is killing off a lot of capitalist conservatives…
re: #173 lawhawk
As you should…. Is it a texture thing? Or do you prefer kreplach instead?
I love big balls of dough…
re: #160 The Pie Overlord!
There is something very weird looking about their knaidlach. My knaidlach do not look anything like that and I have been making matzo balls for DECADES. Yeah, also a knaidel that is the size of a softball is going to take up so much room in the soup bowl there will be no place for the soup.
I’m ok with that. 😁
The only thing about super big matzo balls is making sure they’re fluffy inside.
The Bagel in Chicago made softball sized kreplach that were divine.
I miss home sometimes. Tho I’ve made my own stuff pretty well (thankfully).
Your help with the kreplach was invaluable. Thank you!! They came out really well.
This thread is making me SOOOOOOOO hungry… and even though my address says “New York” at the end of it, it’s amazing how awful the deli is here, six hours upstate from Second Avenue, Katz’s, Pastrami Queen, Ben’s, Sarge’s and all the other places where I’d rather be having lunch today.
(I think my absolute favorite was Ben’s Best in Rego Park, may it rest in peace.)
re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg
My main issue with these people is that their being reckless puts who knows how many others at needless risk?
Yep. This weekend Indiana is dropping all covid restrictions, even though its got a 9% positive test rate. This means that Kentuckians will be flocking to restaurants and bars in Evansville and New Albany, bringing covid back here. The pandemic will just keep raging until we get a safe and effective vaccine, and enough people are vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, hopefully by the end of next year, though that is optimistic.
I will be doing matzah ball duty later today ahead of Yom Kippur… I’m thinking of doing a Yemeni style soup, with lots of tumeric in the matzah balls with fresh herbs… The stock is already prepared (I freeze a bunch from when I make stock previously). Since it’s just the Mrs. and I, we are free to experiment as much as we want…
re: #180 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Yep. This weekend Indiana is dropping all covid restrictions, even though its got a 9% positive test rate. This means that Kentuckians will be flocking to restaurants and bars in Evansville and New Albany, bringing covid back here. The pandemic will just keep raging until we get a safe and effective vaccine, and enough people are vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, hopefully by the end of next year, though that is optimistic.
And all those neighboring states will bear brunt of it, since covid19 knows no boundaries.
re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg
My main issue with these people is that their being reckless puts who knows how many others at needless risk?
A lot. The only thing conservatives care about (sometimes) is when something happens to someone they know (sometimes) so perhaps that might wake them up (maybe).
re: #183 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A lot. The only thing conservatives care about (sometimes) is when something happens to someone they know (sometimes) so perhaps that might wake them up (maybe).
Hell, Herman Cain is apparently tweeting from beyond the grave, trying to warn us all from his comfy chair in the afterlife that it’s just a hoax.
re: #173 lawhawk
Is it a texture thing? Or do you prefer kreplach instead?
It’s both a texture and flavor thing - never encountered a variety that tasted good to me, and I’m in Israel so there’s no shortage on varieties. In contrast, I LOVE gefilte fish in nearly all forms (like everything, there are bad ways to make it - and yes, I’m looking straight at you, Sriracha Chipotle Geflite Abomination From Hell). Sadly, that is not the case for plenty of Jews I know well, family included.
Compared to a disliking of gefilte fish, I consider my dislike of maztah balls a lesser offense.
Also, it’s not a matter of this or that when compared to Kreplach - everyone in my family loves those universally, across every known variety (and there are so many).
re: #147 lawhawk
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Preexisting conditions run the gamut from diabetes and hypertension to cancer and other genetic disorders.
GOP position is fuck you, pay more for health coverage, ignoring that all Americans face this, not just Democrats. Nearly half of all Americans have preexisting conditions.
All Americans know someone who have a preexisting condition, whether it’s heart disease or cancer or diabetes.
What these fucknuts want is for them to pay a lot more for their health care, which would render them unable to pay for their health coverage.
Yet time and again we know from history that a health public is a more productive public, and less time is lost to health care issues. These troglodytes want a return to the bad old days. They think their money and privilege protects them - right up to the moment that they face their own cancer battles or prolonged health care treatments that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
Heck, most Americans lack an emergency fund of $1,000 or more. What do you think happens when they can’t pay their health care bills. That’s right, they go bankrupt, can’t afford to remain in their homes, and they lose their jobs because they can’t remain healthy enough to do the work.
Fuck Erikson with a rusty pitchfork sideways, and the rest of the GOP too.
If only GOP politicians were as honest as Eric son of Eric. Instead they lie that they will protect people with preexisting conditions, because they know they can’t run on their real position.
re: #186 NO SMOCKING GUN!
No, they have Trump out there claiming he’s got a brand new health care plan. Except it looks like it’s a shattered Obamacare that he renames America First health care.
None of this is actually going to happen. It’s vaporware and promises that are unsupported by Congressional appropriation. This is equivalent of a valpak coupon book, with less usefulness.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 25, 2020
re: #181 lawhawk
I will be doing matzah ball duty later today ahead of Yom Kippur… I’m thinking of doing a Yemeni style soup, with lots of tumeric in the matzah balls with fresh herbs… The stock is already prepared (I freeze a bunch from when I make stock previously). Since it’s just the Mrs. and I, we are free to experiment as much as we want…
Just don’t add too much spice right before Yom Kippur, it can make you really thirsty.
I made a big pot of soup last week and a big batch of kreplach on Wednesday so we are good to go.
Z and I no longer do kapparos with the chickens (for which the neighbor’s chicken that gets out of their yard & up on our front porch should be thankful). The chickens are supposed to be distributed to the needy but in most cases they end up getting thrown out so that’s a huge waste and a sin. And even if you were needy & someone gave you a kapporos chicken dinner, would you want to eat a chicken full of somebody else’s sins?
We do kapparos on money and make a donation to Pantry Packers, a food bank that my son-in-law runs in Jerusalem. Other worthy destinations for the sin-full money are Masbia Soup Kitchen and Chef Andrés World Central Kitchen.
re: #187 lawhawk
Soon, 33 MILLION Medicare beneficiaries will receive a card in the mail containing $200 they can use towards prescription drug costs.
At which point the cost of their prescription drugs will go by an average of $200…
re: #36 DodgerFan1988
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One solution js pretty simple. Make it very expensive for these yahoos to drive through a crowd.
It’s amazing how much damage one little screwdriver can do to an entire side of a paint job as it drives through people trying to injure or kill them. Tires can get pretty expensive too.
Here is Florida, one can claim “Stand your Ground” I suppose.
re: #190 Florida Panhandler
One solution js pretty simple. Make it very expensive for these yahoos to drive through a crowd.
It’s amazing how much damage one little screwdriver can do to an entire side of a paint job as it drives through people trying to injure or kill them. Tires can get pretty expensive too.
Here is Florida, one can claim “Stand your Ground” I suppose.
Unless you are standing on a roadway…
WH COS Mark Meadows attacks FBI Director Wray for his testimony that there is no widespread voter fraud. politico.com
re: #188 The Pie Overlord!
We do kapparos on money and make a donation to Pantry Packers, a food bank that my son-in-law runs in Jerusalem. Other worthy destinations for the sin-full money are Masbia Soup Kitchen and Chef Andrés World Central Kitchen.
Chef Andrés deserves all the money! What a wonderful human being he is.
I love watching cooking shows. I make a lot of those dishes.
At the end of every cooking show when the judge or cook tastes the food that is the “money shot” like in porn.
You can’t have porn without the money shot, nor with food apparently.
Not sure what that says about me. pic.twitter.com/DfubCzL9BX— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) September 25, 2020
Take a breath.
Read it
Read it
Read it
Read the whole thing. It’ll take 5 minutes.
Read it
Read it!
In short, this business of state legislatures stepping in and stealing the election simply does not add up. The mathematical hurdles are large, and the legal hurdles are even larger. This is not to say that Trump & Co. cannot steal the election; it’s certainly possible. However, we once again return to an observation we’ve made before: The plausible shenanigans for stealing the election all involve things that would happen before the election. In other words, things like limits on absentee voting, USPS chicanery, Russian malfeasance, voter ID laws, flyers in poor areas saying the election has been postponed until Nov. 10, and things like that. The post-election schemes that have been put forward—legislatures stealing EVs, Team Trump somehow throwing the election to the House, Trump refusing to leave the White House, etc. are implausible.
and yes, this conclusion is important:
This whole analysis, of course, depends on Joe Biden winning most or all of the states the polls say he’s supposed to win
Did I say read it?
Did you?
Then take another breath.
And VOTE! if you haven’t yet.
re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg
For fuck sakes, man…
As the only Black female representative in the Kentucky Capitol, state Rep. Attica Scott (D) took action after the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police raiding her home in March. In August, Scott proposed Breonna’s Law, a bill that would end no-knock warrants statewide. And when a grand jury decided not to indict the officers for Taylor’s death, Scott joined hundreds of protesters in the streets of Louisville.
On Thursday night, Louisville police arrested Scott along with a handful of other protesters near First Unitarian Church and the Louisville Free Public Library, which had allegedly been set on fire, according to a police report reviewed by WAVE. The state representative received a felony charge of first-degree rioting and two misdemeanors for failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. It is unclear if Scott was released on bail or is still in custody.
I don’t even know what to say anymore…
Every Democratic congressperson ought to have at least one item in their police record related to protesting for people’s rights.
Thank you for bringing #Facebook to account. I have been screaming from the rooftops that #MarcZuckerberg has no social conscience and actually loves the power he wields. A jumped up a little nerd who couldn’t get a date In college is wreaking his revenge. https://t.co/j6E7FogJte
— Marina Sirtis (@Marina_Sirtis) September 25, 2020
re: #146 The Pie Overlord!
Judge tosses suit over Trump affair story after Fox News argues no “reasonable viewer” takes Tucker Carlson seriously https://t.co/0YAJsMPZie
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 25, 2020
Hopefully, McDougal’s lawyer can get a higher court to overrule the judge. Millions of Americans take Tucker seriously; this is not Comedy Central. Nor is the program advertised as entertainment.
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
Zuckerberg is pretty much a textbook psychopath.
re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter
Hopefully, McDougal’s lawyer can get a higher court to overrule the judge. Millions of Americans take Tucker seriously; this is not Comedy Central. Nor is the program advertised as entertainment.
Reasonable viewers don’t watch his show, or most of Fox.
re: #153 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I’m more inclined to root for becoming a long-hauler.
re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I love watching cooking shows.
I was watching an Australian cooking show in which a fellow made a meringue and the audience cheered.
I was confused, I thought the Australians boo meringues…
re: #159 Dr Lizardo
Looks good. On a side note, bagels have finally arrived in supermarkets in my neck of the woods here. Nowhere near as good as something I’d get in NYC, mind you, but it satisfies the occasional jonesing for bagels and lox.
Here too: it’s marketed as an American thing (with stars and red white and blue).
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was watching an Australian cooking show in which a fellow made a meringue and the audience cheered.
I was confused, I thought the Australians boo meringues…
Doooood. 😳
re: #203 ericblair
Here too: it’s marketed as an American thing (with stars and red white and blue).
They started coming back to Germany about 20 years ago and are now pretty common. But not a patch on the quality of a good American Deli bagel.
re: #175 mmmirele
And I am trapped in the USA. This is no fun!
Not only is Godzilla happening, but a true lifesize RX-71 Gundam has been strutting its moves as of late….
Life-sized Gundam in Yokohama is now in testing mode.pic.twitter.com/51HVoraPb7
— Catsuka (@catsuka) September 21, 2020
re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Tim Gunn on why Project Runway is better for the audience than cooking shows:
“The audience can’t smell it, or taste it, or feel the texture. You can’t learn anything from hearing descriptions, and you can’t decide if your agree with the judges. On our show, the only criteria is what it looks like, and you can see it as well as we can. You have a basis for forming your opinion of the entries, and your opinion of the judges.”
Just had an election conversation with a friend of the family that brought my attention to something I hadn’t given much thought before.
There are over 6 million Americans like myself, living and working abroad, and voting from abroad. How are we voting while abroad? Almost exclusively via mail-in ballots, the legitimacy of which are being called into question by the schmucks in the White House.
To make a long story short, of the voters I know here, all the Democrats have made sure they were properly registered and have either requested the ballots or will be doing so in the next few days. In sharp contrast, on the Republican side of things, many believe that their ballots will be discarded because of the administration’s distrust in mail-in votes, and it’s a hassle to begin with and Trump will win anyway, so why bother?
So despite not trusting Trump and his cronies one bit, all of the democrats I know will still be voting.
Whereas only ONE of the Republicans I know plans on doing it this year, and even he isn’t 100% sure he should ‘waste the time’ to do it.
Here’s the thing that caught my attention - that one republican? He’s originally from New York. When he’ll cast his ballot, it’ll be for the state of New York.
Most of the other Republicans I know who don’t intend to vote time time? They’re from FLORIDA.
There’s no shortage of American Jews from Florida in this particular corner of the world as well as from other Red states, and not a shortage of Republicans abroad in general.
Expat votes can absolutely determine a state’s election results, and this has been the case in previous elections.
If this kind of pattern holds, it could ABSOLUTELY screw the GOP in November.
re: #207 sagehen
Tim Gunn on why Project Runway is better for the audience than cooking shows:
“The audience can’t smell it, or taste it, or feel the texture…”
Smellevision!
re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter
then explain the ratings and their correlation to trump’s favorability ratings
Judge tosses suit over Trump affair story after Fox News argues no “reasonable viewer” takes Tucker Carlson seriously https://t.co/0YAJsMPZie
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 25, 2020
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
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From there, I found Marina’s retweet:
#RBG’s trainer Bryant Johnson does pushups before her casket. pic.twitter.com/lpjdarsZqY
— Lauren Peikoff (@laurenpeikoff) September 25, 2020
RIPower, RBG
re: #208 (((Archangel1)))
Just had an election conversation with a friend of the family that brought my attention to something I hadn’t given much thought before.
There are over 6 million Americans like myself, living and working abroad, and voting from abroad. How are we voting while abroad? Almost exclusively via mail-in ballots, the legitimacy of which are being called into question by the schmucks in the White House.
To make a long story short, of the voters I know here, all the Democrats have made sure they were properly registered and have either requested the ballots or will be doing so in the next few days. In sharp contrast, on the Republican side of things, many believe that their ballots will be discarded because of the administration’s distrust in mail-in votes, and it’s a hassle to begin with and Trump will win anyway, so why bother?So despite not trusting Trump and his cronies one bit, all of the democrats I know will still be voting.
Whereas only ONE of the Republicans I know plans on doing it this year, and even he isn’t 100% sure he should ‘waste the time’ to do it.Here’s the thing that caught my attention - that one republican? He’s originally from New York. When he’ll cast his ballot, it’ll be for the state of New York.
Most of the other Republicans I know who don’t intend to vote time time? They’re from FLORIDA.There’s no shortage of American Jews from Florida in this particular corner of the world as well as from other Red states, and not a shortage of Republicans abroad in general.
Expat votes can absolutely determine a state’s election results, and this has been the case in previous elections.
If this kind of pattern holds, it could ABSOLUTELY screw the GOP in November.
this entire focus on mail in ballots is not based on any kind of truth or fact.
any more than masks were
it’s just a hook they picked and found it’s got legs
logic dont enter into it
re: #206 Eric The Fruit Bat
That’ll definitely come in handy when the kaiju attack in the second week of December.
re: #96 Teukka
It is that time of year…. O.O
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Oh, I have saved this for later. Too many parents use “Elf on the Shelf” in a completely serious way to threaten their kids into behaving.
re: #214 mmmirele
Oh, I have saved this for later. Too many parents use “Elf on the Shelf” in a completely serious way to threaten their kids into behaving.
Look, if you are financing Christmas, you have every right to get your leverage out of it in the form of a few weeks of improved behavior…
re: #212 dangerman
this entire focus on mail in ballots is not based on any kind of truth or fact.
any more than masks wereit’s just a hook they picked and found it’s got legs
logic dont enter into it
Right now there are two actual and critical problems with mail-in ballots:
1. The Trump sabotage of the post office, which should be an impeachable offense.
2. The fact that too many voters don’t know how to fill out the ballots correctly and so their votes are rejected.
- we’re keeping the house
- i’m reasonably confident/cautiously optimistic/still will not ease up that biden will win
so it’s all about the senate
close, flippable races where money could be a factor
- we just sent $100 each to:
ossoff
greenfield
harrison
bollier
bullock
re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter
Right now there are two actual and critical problems with mail-in ballots:
1. The Trump sabotage of the post office, which should be an impeachable offense.
2. The fact that too many voters don’t know how to fill out the ballots correctly and so their votes are rejected.
The prevalence of mail-in voting in this election is due to extraordinary circumstances, which Trump has made it his policy to play down or ignore.
But he is bent on turning it to his advantage.
Speaking of DeJoy and his fuckery… is there any logical reason to not include the House in the confirmation process for political and judicial appointees? Other than potential republican fuckery if they have the majority?
re: #212 dangerman
this entire focus on mail in ballots is not based on any kind of truth or fact.
any more than masks wereit’s just a hook they picked and found it’s got legs
logic dont enter into it
The important point is that it can fuck the Republicans. And not only the overseas ballots (the voting rate for expats is like 10%, unfortunately); from posts from never-Trumpers, Republicans have absentee ballot management down to a science in-state. They send out applications, track the applications, follow up to make sure the ballots are sent in, and do everything they can to make sure their absentee voters are locked in and ballots mailed and received.
Trump blew that all up and the pros are freaking. Some of the voters will vote absentee, some will vote in-person instead, but there’s going to be a percentage of people spooked off of mail-in voting and not able or willing to vote in person, and if that’s more than a couple of percent the goopers have got a big problem in lean-R states (like, yanno, Texas this time).
re: #214 mmmirele
Oh, I have saved this for later. Too many parents use “Elf on the Shelf” in a completely serious way to threaten their kids into behaving.
The elf was a puzzle for my youngest to solve until he got bored with it, long before my wife did.
re: #220 KGxvi
Speaking of DeJoy and his fuckery… is there any logical reason to not include the House in the confirmation process for political and judicial appointees? Other than potential republican fuckery if they have the majority?
The Constitution only gives that authority to the Senate.
re: #220 KGxvi
Speaking of DeJoy and his fuckery… is there any logical reason to not include the House in the confirmation process for political and judicial appointees? Other than potential republican fuckery if they have the majority?
Maybe not “logic”, but the Constitution allots the confirmation power to the Senate alone.
Federal judge orders Census to be continued through October; the Administration is expected to appeal in order to undercount poc. nbcnews.com
re: #221 ericblair
The important point is that it can fuck the Republicans. And not only the overseas ballots (the voting rate for expats is like 10%, unfortunately); from posts from never-Trumpers, Republicans have absentee ballot management down to a science in-state. They send out applications, track the applications, follow up to make sure the ballots are sent in, and do everything they can to make sure their absentee voters are locked in and ballots mailed and received.
Trump blew that all up and the pros are freaking. Some of the voters will vote absentee, some will vote in-person instead, but there’s going to be a percentage of people spooked off of mail-in voting and not able or willing to vote in person, and if that’s more than a couple of percent the goopers have got a big problem in lean-R states (like, yanno, Texas this time).
yup
from this am’s electoral-vote.com associated with what i linked above
Trump Won’t Shut His Mouth: Politicians who are good at stealing elections (say, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, or Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who certainly stole at least one or two each on their way up the ladder) are clever enough to play their cards close to the vest. Trump isn’t. That means, first of all, that everyone is watching closely. What it also means, however, is that the President has potentially created a particularly lousy dynamic for himself. Normally, when a candidate has as big a lead in the polls as Joe Biden does, some of the folks who might vote for them conclude it’s not a problem to vote third-party or to stay home on Election Day (see Gore, Al; Clinton, Hillary). Few will feel that way this year. What it could plausibly add up to is a dynamic where Biden’s supporters are actually a sizable majority, but behave as if they are voting in a razor-thin election. Motivating your opponent’s sizable majority to make sure that every one of them gets to the polls is not usually a winning strategy.
About those 9 “Trump” ballots found in the trash. REPUBLICANS THREW THEM OUT.
Yup. From the latest DOJ statement, it seems like:
9 military voters sent write-in absentee ballots to Luzerne.
Because these letters weren’t in SC-mandated privacy envelopes, Luzerne officials thought they were *requests* for absentee ballots. They opened them, spoiling them. https://t.co/WsAJw9gBg1— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) September 25, 2020
Whew. Good to know Suck Bang Blow got their permit for a 1,000-5,000 person event for Fall Bike Week.
Guess I’ll be staying home.
re: #229 The Pie Overlord!
About those 9 “Trump” ballots found in the trash. REPUBLICANS THREW THEM OUT.
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re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
If elected Dictator on November 3, I will ban “pumpkin spice” for anything but pumpkins, with death by rusty chainsaw for violators.
Kraft introduces Pumpkin Spice Macaroni & Cheese
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re: #233 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Would you rather have pumpkin spice or pineapple on pizza?
Well, it’s 2020 so how about a Pumpkin Spice Pineapple Pizza?
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re: #147 lawhawk
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Preexisting conditions run the gamut from diabetes and hypertension to cancer and other genetic disorders.
Just being female is a preexisting condition.
YouTube
Give this a listen - it will pick you up!
re: #225 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The Constitution only gives that authority to the Senate.
Okay, taking away the power of appointments and treaties from the Senate alone is the _real_ constitutional amendment I’d like to see.
Either moving them to the house alone (which would solve the problem of the tyranny of the minority), or requiring both the house and the Senate to approve them (which would allow the minority _only_ to block, and not to rule over the majority), would both be better than our current situation.
The first might be nearly impossible, but the second one just might be more feasible as a constitutional amendment. Either would be more feasible than abolishing the Senate, and either of them would be a more permanent fix than the fixes of admitting Puerto Rico and DC as states.
re: #229 The Pie Overlord!
About those 9 “Trump” ballots found in the trash. REPUBLICANS THREW THEM OUT.
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So, they’re going to be so busy looking for fraud they’re going to disenfranchize their own voters.
re: #239 Belafon
So, they’re going to be so busy looking for fraud they’re going to disenfranchize their own voters.
They have to create something that FOX can blow up on the evening news.
You may have heard about the “9 discarded Trump ballots”
TL:DR the discarded Trump ballots were discarded because…Trump and GOP lawyers won a lawsuit requiring them to not be counted!!! https://t.co/NE5s90GJDq
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 25, 2020
Does not matter, they are setting the narrative for massive anti-Trump voter fraud.
Time to just void the whole election and let the SCOTUS decide who is the best choice for Amerika
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Does not matter, they are setting the narrative for massive anti-Trump voter fraud.
Time to just void the whole election and let the SCOTUS decide who is the best choice for Amerika
That decision is not up to the SCOTUS bench, it lies with the House of Representatives.
DeSantis trying to kill the whole state while keeping himself safe.
Governor DeSantis jsut re-opened the whole state. His office and Governor’s Mansion are still closed to public
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) September 25, 2020
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Does not matter, they are setting the narrative for massive anti-Trump voter fraud.
Time to just void the whole election and let the SCOTUS decide who is the best choice for Amerika
It does matter. Because you can laugh at the people who bring it up so hard.
re: #241 NO SMOCKING GUN!
You may have heard about the “9 discarded Trump ballots”
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re: #241 NO SMOCKING GUN!
You may have heard about the “9 discarded Trump ballots”
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Trumper: The Pennsylvania Government threw out 9 Trump ballots!
Me: Yep, just like the Republicans wanted.
Trumper: It was a Democrat governor.
Me: Who lost a court case against Republicans who argued that ballots not in a sealed envelope are invalid.
re: #246 retired cynic
Yep.
I would love it if 51k of those 100k invalidated ballots were for Trump.
re: #228 dangerman
What it could plausibly add up to is a dynamic where Biden’s supporters are actually a sizable majority, but behave as if they are voting in a razor-thin election. Motivating your opponent’s sizable majority to make sure that every one of them gets to the polls is not usually a winning strategy.
Sounds like a “dynamic” I could easily learn to appreciate….
Though I’m not all that sure how “sizeable” that (D) majority might be.
I’m just hoping it is sizeable enough to at least give the impression of an unambiguous win on (or shortly after) Election Night.
Which I’m thinking it will - but I take nothing for granted.
re: #249 Jay C
Sounds like a “dynamic” I could easily learn to appreciate….
Though I’m not all that sure how “sizeable” that (D) majority might be.
I’m just hoping it is sizeable enough to at least give the impression of an unambiguous win on (or shortly after) Election Night.Which I’m thinking it will - but I take nothing for granted.
Several tipping point states are allowing ballots postmarked by 11/3 to be counted even if they arrive a few days late, so don’t count on it.
re: #239 Belafon
So, they’re going to be so busy looking for fraud they’re going to disenfranchize their own voters.
please proceed…..
Surrender is not an option:
‘Capitulation’ not an option: Memo details how Dems can stall or stop GOP rush to confirm Trump SCOTUS pick https://t.co/1KiwFPmias
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 25, 2020
Democrats must act to delay action by Leader McConnell to fill Justice Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. Denying action before the election could markedly increase the probability that the results of the election would change the vote in the Senate and thereby allow for the seating of a more progressive Justice. Failing that, moving forward with confirmation during a lame duck session, if consent of the governed had been denied, would buttress the case for structural Court reform.
Moreover, much of the broad electorate will want to see Congressional Democrats fighting to protect the Court and their Constitutional rights. Mere capitulation to what Washington insiders see as the inevitable will be viewed by many as abandonment of the Democratic base and could undermine enthusiasm.
re: #225 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The Constitution only gives that authority to the Senate.
I know, but what I’m saying is:
In the original structure of the federal government senators were really representing state governments. But that went out the window with direct elections. And when we amended the constitution to allow for filling a vacant VP office, we included the house in the process.
So why shouldn’t we support an amendment to include the House in other appointments?
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just being female is a preexisting condition.
Some senator (?) said women would be happy to pay more for health more if I recall…
Trump administration rescinded Courage Award for woman who criticized Trump, then gave false explanation for its decision, watchdog finds, WaPo
But of course.
Breonna Taylor’s killers have gone free and the police have arrested Kentucky State Representative, Attica Scott, who created “Breonna’s Law.” This is how black women are treated in America. https://t.co/4WgsaGlENY
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) September 25, 2020
re: #238 aatharuv
A lot of our systems are designed to create a consensus. Which works well when there isn’t a statistically significant portion of players within the systems treating it as a zero sum game
Having the House be part of the confirmation process increases the chances of consensus nominees in most cases, I would think. But this is just a random thought I had this morning and need to think about it kore
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just being female is a preexisting condition.
Hell, just being alive is a preexisting condition for a lot of people
re: #253 KGxvi
I know, but what I’m saying is:
In the original structure of the federal government senators were really representing state governments. But that went out the window with direct elections. And when we amended the constitution to allow for filling a vacant VP office, we included the house in the process.
So why shouldn’t we support an amendment to include the House in other appointments?
Not sure that adding another veto point to a system that already has too many would be helpful. The House could well be controlled by the GOP in 2023.
Jeez, QAnon is reaching back to medieval anti-Semitism. I’m thinking that we have more to do than deal with the failure of Reconstruction.
The QAnon gang seem to have wanted to pick up where the Nazis and medieval people left off, sadly. So, as a part of their little club they have grandfathered in several of the more Antisemitic beliefs at play in the medieval period. I am in no way the first person to have noticed and written on this. For example earlier this month, David Livingstone Smith wrote a short piece on this for Forward. Meanwhile over at the Daily Beast they noted that Mary Ann Mendoza, a QAnon enthusiast, was forced to pull out of speaking at the Republican National Convention after she retweeted an Antisemitic conspiracy theory. I am, however, the cutest person to write about this, so get ready for story time.
The author is Eleanor Janega. who is a professional medievalist. and she has a LOT to say on the subject. It may be long, but she gives examples and it’s worth your time.
Health officials admit to being fucking morons.
“Never in a million years did we imagine or think to account for parents deliberately sending their sick or symptomatic child to school,” one health official said.https://t.co/HxwyD4afKd
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) September 25, 2020
re: #243 Targetpractice
That decision is not up to the SCOTUS bench, it lies with the House of Representatives.
and the house relies on what it receives from the states
and there arent enough red ones
see #195 above.
sure theyre gonna try.
none of this post election nonsense is gonna amount to anything
the system will work which in a perverse way is a plus for the future
re: #244 NO SMOCKING GUN!
DeSantis trying to kill the whole state while keeping himself safe.
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i will not personally sacrifice to this carnage
i will not accept or promote this carnage as some kind of perverse new normal
he can do what he wants, say what he wants.*
i’m not leaving the house or doing anything differently
*for my money ‘he’ can mean desantis or trump in this case
Does this sound like a defense team that thinks they’ve got a solid self-defense case that can get the charges tossed?
Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer said that they plan to dispute his extradition to Wisconsin, according to a reporthttps://t.co/n6o9ulBhLL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 25, 2020
re: #249 Jay C
Sounds like a “dynamic” I could easily learn to appreciate….
Though I’m not all that sure how “sizeable” that (D) majority might be.
I’m just hoping it is sizeable enough to at least give the impression of an unambiguous win on (or shortly after) Election Night.Which I’m thinking it will - but I take nothing for granted.
yes
we are close enough to the election
and the numbers have been mostly rock stable so far
and there’s not a lot of leeway for trump to add sizable numbers to his side
and there are too many reasons why this is not 2016
and yes they are trying to r/f with some of the votes
and i am still easing into ‘cautiously optimistic’ territory
and no letting up
and yes a week is a lifetime in politics
re: #261 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Education officials admit to being fucking morons.
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If they didn’t anticipate it, then they did not do everything they could to prepare for reopening those schools, as they promised they would. Those schools are glorified day-care centers for parents who can’t afford to stay home with their children and monitor their educations. Of course they were going to force sick and infected kids to go to classes.
Watching MSNBC. RBG was not laying in state in the Capital rotunda as is tradition. They used the hall of statues instead. Why? Because Speaker of the House and Senate Leader BOTH have to sign off on it. When McConnell’s office was reached for comment no one can say why he didn’t give his approval. It is a mystery isn’t it? Kasie Hunt reported this as RBGs casket was carried out and the motorcade left the Capital.
These people are fucking unreal. What bullshit.
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It’s no dog whistle if deaf folks halfway across the globe can hear it.
Kindly do the world a favor & die in a ditch at your earliest convenience.
There might be a long line to piss on your grave, but it’ll be worth the wait, you degenerate antisemitic piece of bovine excrement.— Disloyal Arch (@Arch_LGF) September 25, 2020
re: #263 dangerman
i will not personally sacrifice to this carnage
i will not accept or promote this carnage as some kind of perverse new normalhe can do what he wants, say what he wants.*
i’m not leaving the house or doing anything differently
*for my money ‘he’ can mean desantis or trump in this case
Me either. If the Kentucky Supreme Court strikes Beshear’s covid restrictions, that just means I have to hunker down even more.
re: #267 A Mom Anon
Watching MSNBC. RBG was not laying in state in the Capital rotunda as is tradition. They used the hall of statues instead. Why? Because Speaker of the House and Senate Leader BOTH have to sign off on it. When McConnell’s office was reached for comment no one can say why. It is a mystery isn’t it? Kasie Hunt reported this as RBGs casket was carried out and the motorcade left the Capital.
These people are fucking unreal. What bullshit.
The amount of passive-aggressive bullshit from Republicans has been so fucking ridiculous.
re: #244 NO SMOCKING GUN!
DeSantis trying to kill the whole state while keeping himself safe.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday afternoon that Florida will move into Phase 3 of reopening, a move that will roll back many of the restrictions put in place over the last six months of the coronavirus pandemic.
All statewide restrictions on bars and restaurants will be removed and it orders a right to work and operate a business so local governments cannot close businesses. Local governments can still limit or regulate the operations in some ways relating to COVID-19.
The changes will go into effect immediately, DeSantis said.
“I think that this will be very, very important to the industry,” DeSantis said. “The order that I’m signing today will guarantee restaurants can operate and will not allow closures. They can operate at a minimum of 50% regardless of local rule.”
Statewide, there will also be a suspension of collecting fines or fees for restrictions like not wearing a mask.
“I think we need to get away from trying to penalize people for social distancing and just work with people, constructively,” DeSantis said.
Proving once again the GOP loves them some government overreach when it works to their advantage.
Also of note: The next Super Bowl is scheduled to take place in Tampa.
re: #147 lawhawk
Put a sock in it, Erick. And if you’re still working on that MDiv at RTS, you might want to move over to an MBA at Capitalism U because you have completely lost the plot on who Jesus is and what Christianity is about.
— Dee *We are a nation of laws not lynchings* Holmes (@mmmirele) September 25, 2020
re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday afternoon that Florida will move into Phase 3 of reopening, a move that will roll back many of the restrictions put in place over the last six months of the coronavirus pandemic.
All statewide restrictions on bars and restaurants will be removed and it orders a right to work and operate a business so local governments cannot close businesses. Local governments can still limit or regulate the operations in some ways relating to COVID-19.
The changes will go into effect immediately, DeSantis said.
“I think that this will be very, very important to the industry,” DeSantis said. “The order that I’m signing today will guarantee restaurants can operate and will not allow closures. They can operate at a minimum of 50% regardless of local rule.”
Statewide, there will also be a suspension of collecting fines or fees for restrictions like not wearing a mask.“I think we need to get away from trying to penalize people for social distancing and just work with people, constructively,” DeSantis said.
Proving once again the GOP loves them some government overreach when it works to their advantage.
Also of note: The next Super Bowl is scheduled to take place in Tampa.
First SB with no fans in attendance, possibly.
re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, I’m worried this will open up the floodgates and more GOP states will just open the fuck back up. (I live in a deep red state)
re: #259 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Not sure that adding another veto point to a system that already has too many would be helpful. The House could well be controlled by the GOP in 2023.
Ro Khanna, Joe Kennedy, and Don Beyer will be introducing a bill early next week to have 18 year appointments for the Supreme Court, without a constitutional amendment, by granting each President the right to nominate justices in the 1st and 3rd years of a term, and if it would bring the court size above 9 (current justices excepted), the most senior judge would be elevated to Senior Status, similar to what judges Kennedy and Souter have today*, where they are still federal judges and can sit in pannels
The bill itself from Khanna’s house website
The relevant part of his bill, if the if the Senate _refuses_ to vote on a candidate within 120 days, it will be as if the Senate has waived its authority to advise and consent, and the nominee is automatically elevated to the court. This doesn’t solve the problem completely, but it will at least allow for members of the majority party in a chamber to vote for a President’s nominee if they want a voice in it.
*I’m not sure if O’Connor still has senior status.
“Never in a million years did we imagine or think to account for parents deliberately sending their sick or symptomatic child to school,” one health official said.https://t.co/HxwyD4afKd
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) September 25, 2020
This is happening because we’ve burned the social safety net to the fucking ground in this country and parents feel like they have no choice but to keep sending little robbie or susie to school lest they (the parents) suffer the economic consequences of staying home with them.
I wonder if this would still be happening if the $600 UI benefits had been extended?
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, I’m worried this will open up the floodgates and more GOP states will just open the fuck back up. (I live in a deep red state)
This is a desperate 11th hour attempt to convince people that the pandemic is “over,” to convince them that Trump has “won” the “war” against the virus.
re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, I’m worried this will open up the floodgates and more GOP states will just open the fuck back up. (I live in a deep red state)
Indiana is. The GOP is going all in on herd immunity, no matter how many have to die to get there.
re: #278 Targetpractice
This is a desperate 11th hour attempt to convince people that the pandemic is “over,” to convince them that Trump has “won” the “war” against the virus.
I bet there’s a lot of doctors and nurses in Florida who are extremely pissed right now.
re: #273 mmmirele
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— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 25, 2020
What “high-risk” COVID 19 behaviors should you avoid?
Indoor restaurants? Gyms? Coffee shops?
Dr. Seheult discusses in this video as we now have some data from the CDC:https://t.co/Hd5JEQL1lP— MedCram (@MedCramVideos) September 23, 2020
re: #277 Eclectic Cyborg
There are/were Mom’s groups on Facebook advocating not keeping kids home with symptoms so they can mess with the counts and keep kids in school. One group I saw(that isn’t on Facebook anymore, a bunch of people reported them) was not mostly working moms. They want things open so they can “get back to normal and not have the kids home all day” and shop and go on vacations “without being judged and hassled”. This is a direct result of Trump and his true believers sowing bad info all over Facebook and other social media. They really think that if they don’t report it to the school then the schools will stay open. Sadly, in red states that’s probably the truth.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet there’s a lot of doctors and nurses in Florida who are extremely pissed right now.
Any sane person should be. Florida has an 11% positive test rate, 177 people died yesterday, and its going to hit 14k dead by next week.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet there’s a lot of doctors and nurses in Florida who are extremely pissed right now.
Pissed? Sure. But they’re not going to strike or stay home because they can’t afford to.
re: #252 Targetpractice
Surrender is not an option:
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And yet I hate stupid humans. Democrats not fighting in Congress doesn’t not give me the right to avoid my responsibilites.
re: #282 Dread Pirate Ron
The only place I have been since mid March is the grocery store. Once every 10 days, in the early morning to avoid as many people as possible. You could not pay me to go anywhere near any indoor gatherings. And hell to the no on restaurants, or anything similar.
I totally realize I am extremely lucky to be able to choose at this time. My son has gone back to work and it scares me to death he’ll get this or become a carrier. I am weary of all this anxiety. I cannot imagine being a front line worker and having to deal with this madness.
re: #261 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Health officials admit to being fucking morons.
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Should WWZ be required reading for adults?
re: #267 A Mom Anon
Watching MSNBC. RBG was not laying in state in the Capital rotunda as is tradition. They used the hall of statues instead. Why? Because Speaker of the House and Senate Leader BOTH have to sign off on it. When McConnell’s office was reached for comment no one can say why he didn’t give his approval. It is a mystery isn’t it? Kasie Hunt reported this as RBGs casket was carried out and the motorcade left the Capital.
These people are fucking unreal. What bullshit.
Because McConnell is a lowlife piece of shit? Or maybe some other, not so obvious reason possibly.
Florida reported more than 2500 new cases and 177 deaths YESTERDAY.
The Republican Party is a death cult. https://t.co/k15QGdliWD— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
Fact check: true. https://t.co/X30gnCkSlT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
re: #288 A Mom Anon
I’m not going to lie, I’ve “rolled the dice” a couple of times since this started (one was a moderate size indoor funeral [with social distancing] for a dear friend of mine, the other was an opportunity to see someone I hadn’t seen in awhile and wouldn’t be able to see again for awhile after that. I met this person at their house, with masks) but for the most part have been extremely cautious.
re: #269 (((Archangel1)))
Justice Sotomayor could not be reached for comment.
It’s almost cute how the Trumpites get busy as soon as another fake outrage hits the right wing media, and start harassing Trump’s critics with links to Gateway Pundit and Breitbart. They’re such eager little brainwashed dumb-asses!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
Translation: In Georgia today, Trump is expected to make some empty gestures that achieve nothing to try to bribe any remaining gullible black folks to vote for him. https://t.co/ljTQLMhIpy
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
Who could ever have guessed. https://t.co/djikOPAD8u
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg
I hate it. It’s depressing as fuck and it’s not healthy. But it’s even less healthy to die of this shit.
“We needyou to help us watch them because I’ll be busy in the bathroom hoovering up rails off the toilet lid.” https://t.co/0z8yV0QYtU
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
re: #295 Charles Johnson
Good god. He really thinks the black community here is stupid. If it wasn’t so evil I’d laugh.
re: #255 retired cynic
Trump administration rescinded Courage Award for woman who criticized Trump, then gave false explanation for its decision, watchdog finds, WaPo
But of course.
To bury some possible bad press they in fact created more bad press.
These guy can’t shoot straight
re: #296 Charles Johnson
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Probably how it went:
“Sir, we pushed and sued for a way to make absentee voting more difficult, under the auspices of ‘election security’.”
“Did it work?”
“Exactly as intended. We caught nine ballots improperly prepared by voters.”
“Excellent. Who did they vote for?”
“You, sir.”
“It’s a disaster!!!”— Bill McCarty (@billyboy14) September 25, 2020
re: #301 BeachDem
Probably how it went:
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It’s more likely it went something like:
“Mr President, our office in Pennsylvania is investigating reports of ballots being discarded in the trash.”
“Who did they vote for?”
“You, sir.”
“SEE, I TOLD YOU, IT’S ALL A BUNCH OF FRAUD! I WANT THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY!!!”
re: #282 Dread Pirate Ron
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All of them, Katie
What “high-risk” COVID 19 behaviors should you avoid?
Indoor restaurants? Gyms? Coffee shops?
Dr. Seheult discusses in this video as we now have some data from the CDC:https://t.co/Hd5JEQL1lP— MedCram (@MedCramVideos) September 23, 2020
re: #284 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Any sane person should be. Florida has an 11% positive test rate, 177 people died yesterday, and its going to hit 14k dead by next week.
Mrs dm just said we’ll have to smear mud on our license plate if we drive out of state. Of course not till we actually reach a state with brains.
re: #298 Charles Johnson
Thst guy looks perpetually out of his gourd, like he has his own personal bag of snow just off to the right, out of view of the camera.
To be clear about this. At event sponsored by the Waukesha GOP in Wisconsin, the mother of the 17-year-old boy who took a rifle across state lines to Kenosha, and shot three people, killing two… Received a standing ovation. Led by one of the right’s most notorious racists.
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) September 25, 2020
re: #305 mmmirele
Thst guy looks perpetually out of his gourd, like he has his own personal bag of snow just off to the right, out of view of the camera.
I’ve heard that.
People have said it.
Hard to believe we’re in the third day of a completely ridiculous story about NINE FREAKING BALLOTS, and the Trumpites think it proves there’s massive voter fraud happening.
Nine freaking ballots that were improperly sealed. It’s a bad joke.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
Ron Paul has something go wrong while livestreaming.
Ron Paul has been rushed to a hospital, we will update his status as we get info https://t.co/RVS9Q7y25E
— FJ News Reporter (@FJNewsReporter) September 25, 2020
Many people are saying that Don Jr. has put at least four cars and two summer homes up his nose.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
re: #306 Barefoot Grin
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According to the “friend” who Rittenhouse’s lawyers insisted recruited him for the “guard” job, Kyle not only lied to him in order to get a rifle, but also lied about being an EMT when the most he may have had was some first-aid training from his part-time job as a pool lifeguard. If that “friend” is willing to testify to such at trial, then Rittenhouse’s defense that he could legally possess the rifle due to a loophole in WI law goes out the window.
re: #309 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
He did have COVID-19, maybe there’s residual damage. (Edit: I read Rand instead of Ron, my bad and then watched the video. He had a stroke.
re: #308 Charles Johnson
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these people are experts at making something out of whole cloth.
of course a compliant press makes it easier
Hard to believe we’re in the third day of a completely ridiculous story about NINE FREAKING BALLOTS, and the Trumpites think it proves there’s massive voter fraud happening.
Nine freaking ballots that were improperly sealed. It’s a bad joke.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 25, 2020
re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg
“The order that I’m signing today will guarantee restaurants can operate and will not allow closures. They can operate at a minimum of 50% regardless of local rule.”
Wait a minute. That’s not maximum 50%, that’s minimum. Does that mean that restaurants can open up to 100% and have to be prepared to handle 50%+ capacity? If a 100 seat restaurant is serving 40 people and feels it is at safe capacity, can a new customer file a complaint with the state if they’re not seated?
re: #312 A Mom Anon
He did have COVID-19, maybe there’s residual damage.
I knew his son had it but didn’t know about him.
Thoughts and prayers, he never made much sense before today either though.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.
re: #295 Charles Johnson
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H.R.35 - Emmett Till Antilynching Act bill has been in the senate’s hands since February. They have done shit with it.
re: #309 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Reports saying Ron Paul had a stroke on air
— FJ News Reporter (@FJNewsReporter) September 25, 2020
re: #315 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
No, I fucked up. I edited myself above. My mistake.
re: #314 stpaulbear
Wait a minute. That’s not maximum 50%, that’s minimum. Does that mean that restaurants can open up to 100% and have to be prepared to handle 50%+ capacity? If a 100 seat restaurant is serving 40 people and feels it is at safe capacity, can a new customer file a complaint with the state if they’re not seated?
It sounds to me like he’s trying to do a preemption of local regulation - if Broward County says 25% capacity (or even takeout only), he’s giving restaurant owners there the opportunity to ignore that and open at 50% in spite of the local rule. I don’t think he’s mandating 50% for businesses that don’t want to do it. But it’s DeathSantis, so who knows?
Either way, it guarantees there’s no way I’m planning a vacation down there this winter, as desperately as my seasonal depression needs the sunshine.
re: #260 mmmirele
You don’t have access to secret knowledge, you are just a dick.
— the cute Dr Eleanor Janega reveals the truth about QAnon believers
re: #314 stpaulbear
Wait a minute. That’s not maximum 50%, that’s minimum. Does that mean that restaurants can open up to 100% and have to be prepared to handle 50%+ capacity? If a 100 seat restaurant is serving 40 people and feels it is at safe capacity, can a new customer file a complaint with the state if they’re not seated?
i think it means if the town or county says it’s still 25% they can operate at 50
re: #319 i(m)p(each)sos
It sounds to me like he’s trying to do a preemption of local regulation - if Broward County says 25% capacity (or even takeout only), he’s giving restaurant owners there the opportunity to ignore that and open at 50% in spite of the local rule. I don’t think he’s mandating 50% for businesses that don’t want to do it. But it’s DeathSantis, so who knows?
Either way, it guarantees there’s no way I’m planning a vacation down there this winter, as desperately as my seasonal depression needs the sunshine.
that’s how i read it
re: #299 A Mom Anon
Good god. He really thinks the black community here is stupid. If it wasn’t so evil I’d laugh.
That’s usually how racists feel.
U.S. will cross 7 million cases by the end of the weekend.
re: #319 i(m)p(each)sos
My husband has been in Hollywood FL for the last week, helping his dad and sister decide if his mom needs memory care and other things. He’s scared she might die before he can see her again. I wish he hadn’t gone, but they all wear masks and do best practices. The husband left their house once to get groceries for them and the rest of the time was spent hanging out in the house or by their pool out back. I’ll be much less anxious when he’s back and I am sure he’s not sick. Both he and his mom have type2 diabetes and he also has advanced heart disease so they are both at risk. I most likely will be sleeping in the spare room for 10 days once he gets back here Sunday. The kid went back to work last week, I’m hating it because I have no idea how his workplace is dealing with all this. Lots of cleaning and airing out of rooms happening here.
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
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I wonder if there is anything in Donald’s healthcare coupon book to cover Ron’s condition? Better check the mailbox.
Oh Lordy. Trump has landed about miles from here, and he’s headed to his “black summit”. Brian Kemp is there too. Kemp is actually wearing a mask and so is his wife. And fucking Kelly Loeffler just took her mask off to move closer to Trump and have a little moment with him. Lord I loathe that fucking woman.
re: #309 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Ron Paul has something go wrong while livestreaming.
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Cripes. That looks like a stroke.
re: #326 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
I wonder if their is anything in Donald’s healthcare coupon book to cover Ron’s condition? Better check the mailbox.
I think Luap Nor there is well-off enough that he really doesn’t care about it. It’s perfectly libertarian….”Fuck you, I got mine.”
c/c card is expiring so i go to update my c/c info on the health insurance co’s website
no ‘edit this cards info’ button
‘add a new payment option’ errors ‘duplicate!’ because the card number is the same
‘remove’ button doesnt work on existing / expiring card
round and round
do the chat thing and explain what i just did and what happened
he says, do this, do this, then do this
i say - i just told you i did all that (oh and there is no edit button)
then i said…wait…
do i have to turn off autopay then delete the c/c, then enter the new c/c, then re-enroll in autopay, just to change the expiration date on the c/c
well yes. that’s exactly what i had to do.
the world is nuts
re: #327 A Mom Anon
Oh Lordy. Trump has landed about miles from here, and he’s headed to his “black summit”. Brian Kemp is there too. Kemp is actually wearing a mask and so is his wife. And fucking Kelly Loeffler just took her mask off to move closer to Trump and have a little moment with him. Lord I loathe that fucking woman.
She needs to inspect his genitals.
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No ad needed. @SarahHuckabee humiliated herself all on her own. pic.twitter.com/n2VxoyYfZa
A future Supreme Court Justice spotted at the Capitol..
A girl salutes Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true Super Woman.
Photo: Alex Brandon (Reuters) pic.twitter.com/7d8ZD2mXT7— Travis Akers (@travisakers) September 24, 2020
Not sure if anyone posted this yet,, but it looks like Facebook took out a bunch of GRU fake accounts.
My smart colleagues at @Graphika_NYC - @benimmo, @realShawnEib, @Lea_Ronzaud, and @camillefrancois - did a thing and there’s a pun. You should check it out!https://t.co/LhoVzsS8wQ
— Joseph Carter (@Joseph___Carter) September 24, 2020
More here:
But this was a cross-platform effort. Some of the networks - there were several - ran the same persona across multiple platforms. Trying to make them look more credible? pic.twitter.com/7M93GWOAng
— Ben Nimmo (@benimmo) September 24, 2020
Apparently this “Pamela Spenser” person had been pegged as a Russian agent over 2 years ago by Twitter users who noticed, besides her blatant pro-Russia BS, her picture was a well known Norwegian Actress, yet nothing was done by Social Media companies until now.
I am out of fucks to give that Ron Paul suffered some kind of serious medical event on a livestream.
Why?
Because he had always zero compassion for anyone else and didn’t care that the outcome of his policies was to bankrupt anyone who ever had to deal with medical crises or relied on the safety net to avoid bankruptcy or homelessness.
He’s all about the bootstraps, all while slice the bootstraps for everyone else.
re: #304 dangerman
Mrs dm just said we’ll have to smear mud on our license plate if we drive out of state. Of course not till we actually reach a state with brains.
That’s why I’m staying inside MN for a while.
Re: Florida opening back up.
It looks like Desantis’ order DOES mean restaurants can run at full capacity if they want to.
(Via Orlando Sentinel)TALLAHASSEE - Bars and restaurants are no longer required to operate at less than full capacity, as Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday removing all remaining restrictions on businesses because of the coronavirus pandemic.
But the executive order, which takes effect immediately, also prohibits local governments from closing businesses or collecting fines related to pandemic-related mandates, such as mask requirements.
“We are today moving into what we initially called phase 3,” DeSantis said during a press conference in St. Petersburg. “And what that’ll mean for the restaurants is there will not be limitations from the state of Florida.”
Expect many packed out bars and restaurants this weekend…and you know what about three weeks after…
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
Florida’s hospitals are well stocked with body bags and refrigerator trucks… /
re: #337 lawhawk
I am out of fucks to give that Ron Paul suffered some kind of serious medical event on a livestream.
Why?
Because he had always zero compassion for anyone else and didn’t care that the outcome of his policies was to bankrupt anyone who ever had to deal with medical crises or relied on the safety net to avoid bankruptcy or homelessness.
He’s all about the bootstraps, all while slice the bootstraps for everyone else.
And let’s not forget this:
cw racism , antisemitism
Now that Ron Paul is trending, I feel it appropriate to remind everyone of this pic.twitter.com/SkCoeoFWPX— 🍊st. cardigan is trans🍊 🏳️⚧️ (@cardiganhill) September 25, 2020
re: #340 lawhawk
Florida’s hospitals are well stocked with body bags and refrigerator trucks… /
In that heat I would hope so. Those cords of bodies will start to get real ripe after a day or so in the sun.
re: #309 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Ron Paul has something go wrong while livestreaming.
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Thoughts and prayers to the racist scum. His master awaits him in Hell.
re: #341 (((Archangel1)))
Ron Paul is 85. He probably doesn’t have much time left regardless.
Nothing is stopping Trump from doing that right now.
He has no intention of doing any of that in a second term. It’s all empty platitudes all the time.
The KKK is a terror org. Antifa isn’t even an organization.
Trump scheduled a hate rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) September 25, 2020
re: #344 Eclectic Cyborg
Rand Paul is 85. He probably doesn’t have much time left regardless.
Wonder if Ted Cruz will block his Congressional memorial?
re: #344 Eclectic Cyborg
As far as I’m concerned, I hope he stays alive and remains unable to speak.
If you need a couple of minutes of respite from the deluge of eyerolling derp and cringing-inducing headlines.
re: #347 retired cynic
As far as I’m concerned, I hope he stays alive and remains unable to speak.
Coldblooded.
Can he say “Guy Bold!” or “Fend the Ed!” at least?
A standing ovation from Wisconsin Republicans for a 17-year-old who traveled to another state, illegally procured an AR-15, and has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide after fatally shooting two protestors. #wileg pic.twitter.com/lWwqRlvhGr
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 25, 2020
Meanwhile, Breonna Taylor has been all but tried and convicted for being guilty of her own murder because the law refuses to recognize Black people as “people” worth defending.
This country adores its racism and fascism and is willing to destroy itself to preserve that.
re: #284 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Along with all the employees who now must work in unprotected settings, without even mask requirements for customers.
re: #349 b.d. (Competence 2020!)
Coldblooded.
Can he say “Guy Bold!” or “Fend the Ed!” at least?
Get him a ding ding bell for the arm of his wheelchair.
re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg
Iowa is next I bet. Republicans are going for herd immunity even though us can’t be gained with this bug.
It’s a cull.
re: #317 Dr Lizardo
Damn it. God keeps missing the Orange bullseye.
re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I am currently rewatching the first season of Great British Baking Show. I am pretty sure I remember who won, but it’s still fun.