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75k more people died of covid through the summer than officially reported, so the death toll is about 300k now. But never fear, Barrett is coming for your health insurance! About 75,000 more Americans died from COVID-19 pandemic than reported in spring and summer, study finds
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Kamala Harris: “This hearing should have been postponed. The decision to hold this hearing now is reckless and places facilities workers, janitorial staff and Congressional aides and Capitol Police at risk.” https://t.co/Jvg9Nk4T3T
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
re: #2 Charles Johnson
She has Michelle Bachmann eyes in that photo.
So it’s okay for the Republicans to literally risk peoples lives to put an unqualified person on the Supreme Court less than three weeks before an election but Fuck Democrats for even talking about adding Justices if they win.
Do I have that right?
//
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So it’s okay for the Republicans to literally risk peoples lives to put an unqualified person on the Supreme Court less than three weeks before an election but Fuck Democrats for even talking about adding Justices if they win.
Do I have that right?
//
Yeah pretty close.
re: #3 Decatur Deb
She has Michelle Bachmann eyes in that photo.
What is it with religious fanatic nutjob women and crazy eyes? pic.twitter.com/pNiyVzf59u
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 12, 2020
The Fox chyron had a quote from one of the Republican Senators saying that it’s Democrats talking about packing the courts.
The “pro-life” SCOTUS candidate brought her unmasked children to a packed event during a pandemic. This alone should disqualify her.
re: #8 Dr. Matt
The “pro-life” SCOTUS candidate brought her unmasked children to a packed event during a pandemic. This alone should disqualify her.
Naah, the fact that she’s willing to take this nomination at this time is enough to disqualify her.
Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be confirmed through an illegitimate, bad-faith process.
Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be confirmed because of her extremist views.
Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be confirmed—period.— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) October 12, 2020
At the end of the last thread, on term limits for supreme court justices, it is not clear that a constitutional amendment is required. The language is ambiguous.
re: #8 Dr. Matt
The “pro-life” SCOTUS candidate brought her unmasked children to a packed event during a pandemic. This alone should disqualify her.
Republicans are willing to sacrifice children on the altar of conservatism for the principle of guns everywhere, why should they care about children when a Supreme Court seat can cement minority rule for years to come?
What’s the sacrifice of a few children for the goal of the religion of conservatism?
I’d pay good money to see a Democrat bring a poster of a child tied up on an altar with Edmund Burke’s name on it.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
So it’s okay for the Republicans to literally risk peoples lives to put an unqualified person on the Supreme Court less than three weeks before an election but Fuck Democrats for even talking about adding Justices if they win.
Do I have that right?
//
The Republicans packed the Court when they reduced it to 8 members in 2016 for a year, then they expanded it back up to 9 for a Republican President.
Watch Live as the Republican Party Packs the Supreme Court With Yet Another Far Right Extremist
Sorry. I can’t watch it for reasons of mental health.
I did take some advice from the last thread and donated some to NE-2 and CO-3 house races via ActBlue. Instead of donating to any MN candidates I donated to the MN-DFL to use the money where needed. There don’t seem to be any cliff-hangers here although it looks like we’re going to loose a D seat (the D that voted to not impeach Trump).
I realized that you have to be mindful when donating to a candidate on ActBlue because their name may appear under a dozen different funds. My donation to Diane Mitsch Bush shows up on my credit card as a donation to ‘DonateToDems” so I hope I didn’t screw up. Now I know to double check.
re: #11 BlueSpotinAL
At the end of the last thread, on term limits for supreme court justices, it is not clear that a constitutional amendment is required. The language is ambiguous.
Congress should enact a term limit, and include a provision prohibiting the Court from reviewing it.
re: #14 stpaulbear
From a lifelong resident of Colorado’s 3rd district, I thank you.
Getting tested for covid in 5 minutes….awesome
re: #14 stpaulbear
From a resident of NE-3, I thank you for the donation to Kara Eastman in NE-2.
re: #15 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Congress should enact a term limit, and include a provision prohibiting the Court from reviewing it.
That would draw a challenge to the clause that Congress can prohibit judicial review.
I have to turn the sound off when the Republicans start whining and posturing. These fucking hypocrites make me sick.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would draw a challenge to the clause that Congress can prohibit judicial review.
True, but its an express constitutional power of Congress.
This is INSANE, but also inspiring.
It’s INSANE that people have to wait 5+ hours to vote early in Marietta, GA or anywhere.
It’s INSPIRING that people are so fired up to Vote Biden they’re willing to wait 5+ hours to do it.pic.twitter.com/RAxcbOSXUi— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) October 12, 2020
New high quality Siena polls have Biden +10 in Wi, and +8 in Mi.
Sport shooting news in the Omaha World-Herald:
Dagen Voigtman looks like any other freshman trudging to class at UNO.
Polite and soft-spoken, he wants to be an accountant.
But put him on a trap range, and Voigtman almost overnight has become a rock star.
The 19-year-old from Plattsmouth this summer became the first person to record a perfect score of 400x400 — in other words, 400 of 400 targets hit — while winning the high all-around title at the Grand American World Trapshooting Championships, the Super Bowl of the sport.
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NYT-Siena poll:
Michigan: Likely voters
Joe Biden 48%
Donald Trump 40%
Wisconsin: Likely voters
Joe Biden 51%
Donald Trump 41%
“Biden’s polling leads in both states would currently withstand a 2016-size polling miss.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 12, 2020
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
Notice they are prepared with barriers and poles. Kemp knows the voting infrastructure is a farce. Funny how they are prepared with crowd control mechanisms, but NOT prepared with enough polling stations.
— Borje Semenko 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BorjeSemenko) October 12, 2020
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.#IndigenousPeoplesDay2020
— Lou Diamond Phillips (@LouDPhillips) October 12, 2020
Same deal here at the northside library in Atlanta. I’ve moved 6 feet in one hour. I’ll wait until next month if I have to. pic.twitter.com/SNXtw9lKdi
— Jacob Jon Parker (@mr_jacobjon) October 12, 2020
Making the ghost of Phyllis Schlafly proud.
Marsha Blackburn’s argument is that feminists should support women whose policies block women’s rights.
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) October 12, 2020
re: #11 BlueSpotinAL
At the end of the last thread, on term limits for supreme court justices, it is not clear that a constitutional amendment is required. The language is ambiguous.
Article 3 Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
With three weeks to go, barring something completely out of left field, there is little doubt of a Biden victory. This is not a reason for complacency though. Everyone has a duty to vote to send a clear message in defense of democracy, and elect people to help Biden succeed, not hinder him.
re: #29 teleskiguy
Marsha Blackburn’s argument is that feminists should support women whose policies block women’s rights.
the spin is that anyone anti-ACB is anti-women, anti-motherhood, anti-family, anti-God and ultimately anti-America
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I have to turn the sound off when the Republicans start whining and posturing. These fucking hypocrites make me sick.
But then you can’t hear them cough and wheeze.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Nice!
NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s adult children turned their Secret Service agents into captive customers for Trump Org — by taking them to Trump properties, then charging the government for their rooms.
Total bill: More than $239K, that we know of.https://t.co/gDyPSuW5zw— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 12, 2020
re: #22 Patricia Kayden
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Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world’s largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election (Stars & Stripes, more at the link):
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world’s largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware, which officials say is one of the top threats to the 2020 election.
U.S. Cyber Command’s campaign against the Trickbot botnet, an army of at least 1 million hijacked computers run by Russian-speaking criminals, is not expected to permanently dismantle the network, said four U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. But it is one way to distract them at least for a while as they seek to restore operations.
The effort is part of what Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of Cyber Command, calls “persistent engagement,” or the imposition of cumulative costs on an adversary by keeping them constantly engaged. And that is a key feature of CyberCom’s activities to help protect the election against foreign threats, officials said.
Sick and tired of Republicans who co-opt faith as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism.
Fact is, if today Christ himself came to the floor of Congress and repeated his teachings, many would malign him as a radical and eject him from the chamber. https://t.co/y19PBDw5co— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 12, 2020
re: #32 NO SMOCKING GUN!
With three weeks to go, barring something completely out of left field, there is little doubt of a Biden victory. This is not a reason for complacency though. Everyone has a duty to vote to send a clear message in defense of democracy, and elect people to help Biden succeed, not hinder him.
I’m having an existential crisis about whether to mail in my ballot or wait until drop boxes open in a week. It’s like it’s the postal service which has been corrupted or the drop boxes…holy crap, can’t Adrian Fontes (Maricopa county recorder) take my ballot by hand?
re: #37 A Mom Anon
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re: #39 teleskiguy
Love thy neighbor? I dunno, sounds a lot like socialism to me.//
Nobody with any sense ever wondered if Trump would change his behavior or suddenly become presidential.
I thought journalists were supposed to be smarter than this. https://t.co/J90yUkityI— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
Russia says human trials of its coronavirus vaccine have begun in the Middle East (MSN)
Key points of the article:
Russia has announced that human trials of its controversial coronavirus vaccine have begun in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
Experts question the safety and efficacy of the “Sputnik V” vaccine.
On the other hand, religious faith has been an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism for as long as religious faith has existed. https://t.co/RtqYD0sfHE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
From Russia’s own site about the vaccine they are testing:
Post-registration clinical trials involving more than 40,000 people in Russia will be launched in a week starting from August, 24. A number of countries, such as UAE, Saudi Arabia, Philippines and possibly India or Brazil will join the clinical trials of Sputnik V locally. The vaccine has received a registration certificate from the Russian Ministry of Health on August 11 and under emergency rules adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic can be used to vaccinate the population in Russia. Mass production of the vaccine is expected to start in September 2020.
The unique substance of the Sputnik V and method of using it has a patent protection in Russia, obtained by Gamaleya National Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
I’m convinced.
This is pure malice. https://t.co/kzJBgR5ZXi
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
ACB may have won arguments because the opposition couldn’t stand to listen to her speaking voice.
Last night I turned on my old (repower-supplied) PC for the last time. It was huffin’ and puffin’ and I turned it off for the last time and set up my brand new laptop as my primary machine!
It was while I was loading devices on to the docking station that I realized that it did not have a VGA port for my old monitor.
So, I ordered an adapter cable and I’ll plug in that monitor in a couple days.
Another conservative who doesn’t understand the Constitution, responding to AOC:
People can do whatever they want with their private enterprise..period…first amendment
— Avi (@HufManHufAmazin) October 12, 2020
Private enterprise is not protected in the I Amendment, or anywhere in the Constitution.
There’s a reason Republicans have undermined Civics classes for so many decades.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
The state GOP allowed the same thing in my state some time ago.
Barrett is now boasting about her children.
Remind me … when was the last time a male nominee to the Supreme Court made a big deal about his children?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here is Philly’s answer to that or at least part of it.
billypenn.com
THREAD:
Alliance Defending Freedom (fka Alliance Defense Fund) will likely come up in Barrett’s confirmation hearing this week.
I’ve been reporting on ADF for more than a decade.
1/x— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) October 12, 2020
Republicans’ argument today, in sum: “We love her because she’s a mom, and she will force you to be a mom too. If you don’t love that then you must a party that hates moms.”
— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) October 12, 2020
That’s just stupid Joni. https://t.co/ScukcXr8P1
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) October 12, 2020
Barrett’s mentor Scalia was a devout partisan under Obama. When an ACA case came up, or any other partisan case, there was no doubt where he would land, even if it directly contradicted his previous writing.
Barrett’s partisan positions are more explicit than his.— Jesse Lee (@JesseCharlesLee) October 12, 2020
“After all” — OMG this is their answer to Ginsburg? Their new Scalia? Forget politics — this is *awful* public speaking and worse writing.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) October 12, 2020
Thread, thirty-four tweets, on the decades-long effort by the GOP and its funders to turn the USA back into a white-supremacist, unregulated capitalistic, Christian nationalist state.
Okay.
With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and rising fascism.
For more on this, pick up my book AMERICAN RULE.
1/https://t.co/84HbGzJKwe— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) October 12, 2020
re: #55 Charles Johnson
They think this makes her more likable and warm. Nope. I love my son, adore him. But I would never require him to sit still for all this time and stay quiet.
I also wonder how she and her husband feel about corporal punishment. A lot of right wing conservatives do believe that “spare the rod, spoil the child” is the proper way to raise kids.
re: #50 jaunte
ACB may have won arguments because the opposition couldn’t stand to listen to her speaking voice.
I actually thought, at first, that I was listening to a little girl speak. Then the camera zoomed in on her. Pretty quickly, for me, the gravity and content of her words and the precise articulation with which they were expressed gave her voice great weight that grew through to become massive by the end. I was wowed.
She’s lying through her teeth. If she were totally honest she would be saying she’s glad RBG is now burning in hell because of her pro-choice stance. https://t.co/cgnoaJYVyd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) October 12, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett has been groomed like a show pony for this her entire life by a cult of women-hating freaks. https://t.co/rvZLYzWLcp
— TBogg (@tbogg) October 12, 2020
re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth
That what she is. A show pony that was nominated by a con-man.
re: #15 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Congress should enact a term limit, and include a provision prohibiting the Court from reviewing it.
Both the provision prohibiting judicial review and the term limit itself (unless via amendment) would be struck down as unconstitutional. The district court judge that it was before would strike it down. That decision would be upheld by the circuit court of appeal, and then by the Supreme Court - and at both levels of the appellate process they’d be unanimous decisions.
Questions for Amy Barrett:
Senator Hawley has said he would not vote for a Supreme Court Justice who doesn’t believe Roe v Wade was wrongly decided. He says you meet that criteria. Question is how was it wrong?— Doremus Jessup (@DoremusJ) October 12, 2020
re: #47 Charles Johnson
OMG her voice.
She probably sounds like a female version of Abraham Lincoln. Contrary to movies, he wasn’t a bass. It carried really far, though, and was useful for speaking to crowds.
And of course, Republican Sec of State in charge, and of course this is a county Hillary Clinton won.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 12, 2020
Speaking in Toledo, Ohio, @JoeBiden shows off his state school pride 💪 >>
“Since when can someone who went to a state university not be qualified to be president? I know what it takes to be president.” pic.twitter.com/rwYzAoYNBI— Matt Hill (@thematthill) October 12, 2020
.@JoeBiden in Toledo today ——>
“I view this campaign between Scranton and Park Avenue. Between Toledo and Park Avenue”
“I spent a lot of my life with guys like Donald Trump looking down on me … guys who inherited everything they ever got — and still managed to squander it” pic.twitter.com/CliV8T69Uc— Mike Gwin (@MichaelJGwin) October 12, 2020
🚨REMINDER: Amy Coney Barrett said Obama should not replace Scalia with a liberal Justice in an election year because “it’s not a lateral move.”
Now she wants to be confirmed just days before the election despite being the antithesis of RBG.
She has absolutely zero credibility. pic.twitter.com/JIZzSQt9Du— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 12, 2020
As a woman, I have heard more than one man tell me my voice “bothers” them in my lifetime. Unless I speak quietly and softly, and am not heard. God forbid I would show anger or not “watch my tone”. My personal fave is when a guy acts like my voice is hurting his ears, but the men he surrounds himself with can talk like they’re at trying to be heard at a metal concert and it’s no problem. It’s not the sound of her voice that irritates me nearly as much as the content of her speech and what it says about her character.
I make an exception for Ivanka and her fake ass, breathy, affectation that’s supposed to sound both sexy and reassuring. That shit is annoying as fuck. It’s not HER actual speaking voice.
re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Even if social distancing was not a thing, this line would be about half the length, but still too long. Note the people who came prepared with portable seating. All the times I have voted in person it was never longer than 20 minutes to cast a vote.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.#IndigenousPeoplesDay2020
— Lou Diamond Phillips (@LouDPhillips) October 12, 2020
It’s been years since I’ve seen this proverb, but I first saw it on the wall of my high school history classroom and it certainly struck a chord with 15 year-old me. After reading it, I remember being like: “Damn, that’s deep. We have to protect the environment.”
And I still feel that way.
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
Since when can someone who went to a state university not be qualified to be president? I know what it takes to be president.
Reagan was the last president that didn’t go to an Ivy League school. Before him, Carter was a Naval Academy grad, Ford went to Michigan but got an Ivy League JD, Nixon went to Whittier College and Duke for law school, and LBJ went to what is now Texas State University. That’s probably our longest run of non-Ivy League presidents (depending on how you count Ford’s JD).
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
This goes along with my thoughts regarding gold-hoarders. When first money no longer exists because of some apocalypse, your gold ain’t edible.
re: #82 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This goes along with my thoughts regarding gold-hoarders. When first money no longer exists because of some apocalypse, your gold ain’t edible.
This was one of the arguments I always had with my fellow libertarians when I was much deeper in that movement…
They’d argue against fiat currency and how it’s not backed by anything. And I’d point out that gold is only valuable because we say it is. But really, it’s just a shiny rock that thousands of years ago, we decided was valuable and could be traded for things. It broke a few brains, but usually not enough to get them to realize how dumb it was.
re: #82 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This goes along with my thoughts regarding gold-hoarders. When first money no longer exists because of some apocalypse, your gold ain’t edible.
Which is how the next chapter of Atlas Shrugged goes. The summary goes like this:
The Barons, realizing they don’t know how to farm, set out to buy some food. They take their gold with them, and find a small colony of farmers. After buying some food, on their way back, they are ambushed. Only Galt makes it through, using the banker as a shield after throwing the remaining gold at the gunmen. “It was in my self-interest to survive,” he would state later.
Al Frankin just filleted Rich Lowry on MSNBC
re: #83 KGxvi
This was one of the arguments I always had with my fellow libertarians when I was much deeper in that movement…
They’d argue against fiat currency and how it’s not backed by anything. And I’d point out that gold is only valuable because we say it is. But really, it’s just a shiny rock that thousands of years ago, we decided was valuable and could be traded for things. It broke a few brains, but usually not enough to get them to realize how dumb it was.
“How much is this gold worth?”
“How many sodas can you buy out of that vending machine with it?”
re: #79 Acemarilllion
Even if social distancing was not a thing, this line would be about half the length, but still too long. Note the people who came prepared with portable seating. All the times I have voted in person it was never longer than 20 minutes to cast a vote.
I have friends who warned me not to vote on the first day of early voting because the lines will be way too long. And there isn’t any effort at voter suppression in deep blue Illinois. Early voting usually doesn’t have that many places open. Of course, for this election, they cannot pack you in as is typical — so the lines look much longer than they would be in a non-pandemic year.
re: #86 Belafon
Spot price for gold is: $1921.70 as per Kitco. That is from a few minutes ago.
Watch “Prince Jazz Funk Sessions 1977 Instrumental” on YouTube https://t.co/cNGTxQ8zi0
— Ed Monster Mix (@TheEdMix) October 12, 2020
re: #88 PhillyPretzel
Spot price for gold is: $1921.70 as per Kitco. That is from a few minutes ago.
And the vending machine doesn’t care.
“You don’t know how hard it is being the dumbest bag of skin in every single room” 😂 https://t.co/LhUjhM9Cgi
— 🇨🇦Canadian Reports (@CanadianReports) October 12, 2020
re: #90 Belafon
Of course. Machines do not have feelings.
re: #91 gocart mozart
Does he want a binky to go with his blankie?
re: #40 mmmirele
I’m having an existential crisis about whether to mail in my ballot or wait until drop boxes open in a week. It’s like it’s the postal service which has been corrupted or the drop boxes…holy crap, can’t Adrian Fontes (Maricopa county recorder) take my ballot by hand?
Is there an election office that you can drop your ballot off at? It might take some time to get there, but it also might put your mind at ease to know it’s at the location it needs to arrive at. I voted early in person at the election office for this reason. I’m also lucky enough to live in an area where I knew I wouldn’t be standing in line for hours.
re: #92 PhillyPretzel
Of course. Machines do not have feelings.
Nor do they have the electronics to convert gold into a monetary value to determine if a soda can be purchased. Its like having a $20 and going to a vending machine that only takes ones.
I like to bring this up when we talk about gold because it really is about the value humans see in it, rather than some intrinsic “natural” value that can be useful.
re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter
I agree there, but there are places where there are fewer voting machines by design and fewer places to vote too. One of the places close to us is not on the list of places to early vote this time around, after being on the list for at least three General Elections. Looking at the list, it appears the list has gone down by at least three locations. I’m next to Fulton County where Atlanta is, suburbia. It makes zero sense to take early voting locations away unless you want to see longer lines and fewer people. Plus we have a governor and sec of state who approved use of untested voting software just a week or two ago. The good news is that people are fired up to vote, that makes me happy. And at least the rain moved out of here for the most part last night.
KAMALA KABOOM HARRIS https://t.co/aZe8RRvgVq pic.twitter.com/fFpT0HT8GB
— NEWSNOTES💙 (@ReportsDaNews) October 12, 2020
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
What did the next Vice President of the United States say?
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well done Kamala. I like her style.
Fauci has gone on the record stating that between 5 to 7 million Americans will need to die in order for us to achieve herd immunity.
Trump’s plan?
Let 5 - 7 million Americans die: https://t.co/Ia2Hx1US7V— William LeGate 🇺🇸 (@williamlegate) October 12, 2020
re: #98 KGxvi
What did the next Vice President of the United States say?
For the twitter video impaired.
re: #71 KGxvi
Both the provision prohibiting judicial review and the term limit itself (unless via amendment) would be struck down as unconstitutional. The district court judge that it was before would strike it down. That decision would be upheld by the circuit court of appeal, and then by the Supreme Court - and at both levels of the appellate process they’d be unanimous decisions.
Hard to argue that something in the Constitution is unconstitutional. The Democrats probably won’t do it anyway, because the media would roast them for it, but would barely peep if the GOP did.
re: #83 KGxvi
This was one of the arguments I always had with my fellow libertarians when I was much deeper in that movement…
They’d argue against fiat currency and how it’s not backed by anything. And I’d point out that gold is only valuable because we say it is. But really, it’s just a shiny rock that thousands of years ago, we decided was valuable and could be traded for things. It broke a few brains, but usually not enough to get them to realize how dumb it was.
The folly of gold is that the quantity is fixed, whereas wealth is not.
Alternative #covidbriefing
I apologise that the leadership that’s needed has been lacking and that the advice you’ve followed has been confused and ineffective. I wish I could tell you what’s been announced will work but the scientists are clear that it won’t. Please take care x pic.twitter.com/pWEXixzUtb— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 12, 2020
President Trump is lying.
His only plan is to jam his Supreme Court nominee through this illegitimate process to rip away health care from millions and end protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Democrats are fighting to stop it.#WhatsAtStake https://t.co/qBox7o7mgM— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 12, 2020
re: #83 KGxvi
This was one of the arguments I always had with my fellow libertarians when I was much deeper in that movement…
They’d argue against fiat currency and how it’s not backed by anything. And I’d point out that gold is only valuable because we say it is. But really, it’s just a shiny rock that thousands of years ago, we decided was valuable and could be traded for things. It broke a few brains, but usually not enough to get them to realize how dumb it was.
While they’ve been waiting decades for us to notice paper money has no intrinsic value, most of us have moved on to electrons. Its an antediluvian mindset.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
There ya have it… Let Rome Burn.
re: #101 Belafon
For the twitter video impaired.
In the clip, she lambasted the Senate for trying to rush through the Supreme Court nomination in 16 days while the HEROES act to help the nation during the pandemic has been languishing in the Senate for 150 days.
re: #102 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Hard to argue that something in the Constitution is unconstitutional. The Democrats probably won’t do it anyway, because the media would roast them for it, but would barely peep if the GOP did.
Older people in the US political media will remember how Soviet politics was covered in the US press — e.g. an appropriately high level of skepticism applied to official statements, especially when they contradict the reality of official acts.
That’s how they should be covering the GOP. Instead they exhaust the world’s supply of drooling credulity every time the GOP lies about something.
re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter
I have friends who warned me not to vote on the first day of early voting because the lines will be way too long. And there isn’t any effort at voter suppression in deep blue Illinois. Early voting usually doesn’t have that many places open. Of course, for this election, they cannot pack you in as is typical — so the lines look much longer than they would be in a non-pandemic year.
I voted on the third day for that reason. I showed up at about 2:00 in the afternoon and heard that there had been a long line outside over the lunch hour that had cleared out just before I arrived. I timed my visit well, but I also had the freedom to visit whenever I wanted. Most people don’t have those choices.
re: #98 KGxvi
What did the next Vice President of the United States say?
Honestly, I don’t get the kaboom. It was a fine statement, but was basically boilerplate democratic talking points about how people are struggling, covid is rampant and the senate should be trying to help people rather than ram a supreme court justice through. Wasn’t much different that anything any of the other dems have said.
Roberta Died today. RIP
It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my wonderful Mother In-law, Roberta McCain. I couldn’t have asked for a better role model or a better friend. She joins her husband Jack, her son John and daughter Sandy.
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) October 12, 2020
You know it pisses me off that ACB is somehow considered a stronger nominee because she’s a mother.
The whole notion that people that have kids are somehow more inherently important than those who don’t is so fucking stupid.
I don’t have kids (infertility sucks) but I shouldn’t be valued any less than a man who does. I may not have kids of my own but I still have children in my life that are important to me and I can still make meaningful contributions to make a better future for society.
And guess what? The fact that I DON’T have kids is actually an advantage when it comes to some of those contributions because it opens up time and resources I wouldn’t otherwise have so I can step up when people that do have kids can’t.
I have no ill will towards anyone who has kids, I only ask for the same in return for those of us who don’t have them.
re: #111 danarchy
We’re currently in a state of transition that is beyond what we’ve had to do since the Civil War. Not since then have we had elected officials who were so intent on causing so much damage for the sake of their pockets.
I can tell you from first hand interactions on Facebook, that those I know who are Trumpers are not moving from their embrace of that death-nell celebrating idiot. Most think they are defending “God”, the few who are not are just anti-social.
This rot has stewed for a very long time in America. It goes right back to the Civil War and even as far back as the Constitutional convention. Those who think that Iron Age religions are a prescription for how to live life in the 21st century are part of a larger picture of how humans do all that humans can do to avoid reality for the sake of some dubious relief a religious belief can bring.
This is a very old story. The confirmation hearing going on right now is the great grand child of The Great Awakening.
Trump said it himself - Biden is going to “hurt God”. If that isn’t the most obvious declaration of what is happening in contemporary American politics then I don’t know how to come up with a clearer example.
re: #107 Dave In Austin
This is just insanely irresponsible. It also assumes without evidence to the contrary that people will be careful and practice hand washing and social distancing. JFC. The economy cannot even start a stable recovery til this is under control.
re: #107 Dave In Austin
There ya have it… Let Rome Burn.
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re: #115 A Mom Anon
This is just insanely irresponsible. It also assumes without evidence to the contrary that people will be careful and practice hand washing and social distancing. JFC. The economy cannot even start a stable recovery til this is under control.
This is the direction. They have fouled this thing up so bad. Now we do Sweden.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Large litters are a badge of honor among those that can afford them, as is hardline Christian adoption. It’s pro life and pro money, together. It’s poor folk that get beaten about the head and neck for having children, though birth control, sex ed, even abortion, are made less accessible for those that are struggling. That’s followed up by blaming anyone that relies on government services.
It’s classist, sexist, and regressive as fuck. GOP wear it like a merit badge.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
Rest In Peace Roberta.
re: #117 Dave In Austin
This is the direction. They have fouled this thing up so bad. Now we do Sweden.
We have long passed Sweden in deaths per million: 663 for us, 583 for them.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
Roberta Died today. RIP
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She was born the same year as my Nana. Amazing to think about the changes both witnessed.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m a mom and I totally agree. It’s not some superpower that makes you better at anything, except maybe multitasking. Maybe. Not having kids gives an advantage in many ways too, getting an education, being more upwardly mobile, not having to uproot kids to take a job somewhere new, etc. ACB is using the kids as a photo op and a shield. If you say a word about this you’re anti mom and family and American 🇺🇸 flag waving values. It’s all bullshit.
re: #113 Eclectic Cyborg
… I don’t have kids (infertility sucks) but I shouldn’t be valued any less than a man who does. I may not have kids of my own but I still have children in my life that are important to me and I can still make meaningful contributions to make a better future for society. …
Amen.
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Trump said it himself - Biden is going to “hurt God”. If that isn’t the most obvious declaration of what is happening in contemporary American politics then I don’t know how to come up with a clearer example.
Uh huh. Just like prayers magically change the outcome of anything, Biden can make up his mind to hurt God.
God: “Ouch. That left a mark, Joe.”
It is impossible to take people who think like this seriously.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
Roberta Died today. RIP
littlegreenfootballs.com
How odd that I mentioned her just yesterday, on what turned out to be the last full day of her life. At 108, everyone knew it could happen any time. What a wonderful life she led. Rest in Peace
re: #40 mmmirele
I’m having an existential crisis about whether to mail in my ballot or wait until drop boxes open in a week. It’s like it’s the postal service which has been corrupted or the drop boxes…holy crap, can’t Adrian Fontes (Maricopa county recorder) take my ballot by hand?
You should be able to check with the county or state elections people for the addresses of real dropboxes. I’d be doing it myself if the dropbox I use hadn’t been there for years.
re: #107 Dave In Austin
There ya have it… Let Rome Burn.
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What a good thing those without higher risks don’t ever associate with those who are more vulnerable. And that only young people with strong immune systems hang around schools.
We’re on our way back!
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re: #125 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
littlegreenfootballs.com
How odd that I mentioned her just yesterday, on what turned out to be the last full day of her life. At 108, everyone knew it could happen any time. What a wonderful life she led. Rest in Peace
Could you please write some posts about how old other GOP notables are?
Chuck Grassley would be a great start right now, for instance!
re: #126 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
And track your ballot. We took ours to a location listed on the county board of elections drop box list. It was about 4 days from drop off approval, and super simple to track.
re: #49 Charles Johnson
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They’re going to use this to disqualify votes. Count on it.
re: #125 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
littlegreenfootballs.com
How odd that I mentioned her just yesterday, on what turned out to be the last full day of her life. At 108, everyone knew it could happen any time. What a wonderful life she led. Rest in Peace
Was it your post that contained the fascinating factoid that Roberta McCain’s birthdate (2/7/1912) was closer in time to Thomas Jefferson’s Administration than to our own day (by some years)!
RIP Roberta.
It’s stunning that they still think they can get away with this bullshit when Donald Trump is their dear leader. https://t.co/zPjA32EU2C
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 12, 2020
re: #128 i(m)p(each)sos
Could you please write some posts about how old other GOP notables are?
Chuck Grassley would be a great start right now, for instance!
Ok.
FDR had been in office 5 months and the New Deal was just taking shape when Chuck Grassley was born (September 17, 1933).
Chuck has been kicking and screaming about it ever since.
re: #131 Jay C
Was it your post that contained the fascinating factoid that Roberta McCain’s birthdate (2/7/1912) was closer in time to Thomas Jefferson’s Administration than to our own day (by some years)!
RIP Roberta.
That was it.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
I’m not sure people of color would agree with that….dear god, what a bunch of whiny spoiled brats. I was a preschool teacher for a couple of years and never heard as much whining as this bunch of rich pampered assholes.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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“I’m pretty sure the n-word is much worse. And there are words for women that are worse. You can stop being a racist, Senator.”
Putin smiles and watches magats eat American democracy from the inside out.
— Mantis Gadfly (@MGScott9) October 12, 2020
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “It hurts to be called a racist. I think it’s one of the worst things you can callBE AS an American.”
Fixed it for you, Mr. Kennedy. Here’s an idea—if you don’t want to be called a racist, don’t BE a fucking racist. Problem solved.
re: #91 gocart mozart
This is a brilliant spoof.
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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Says the guy whose state Republican party tried to get David Duke elected as Governor - and almost succeeded.
re: #95 Belafon
Nor do they have the electronics to convert gold into a monetary value to determine if a soda can be purchased. Its like having a $20 and going to a vending machine that only takes ones.
I like to bring this up when we talk about gold because it really is about the value humans see in it, rather than some intrinsic “natural” value that can be useful.
I have to run, but I just wanted to mention that gold was usable as currency because it’s pretty, shiny, and had no other use (like gemstones). Well, except for gold teeth.
Of course, now that we’ve reached the Electronic Age, it suddenly has a use, which makes it even worse as a currency than it was before.
Mr. President, thank you for showing the American people exactly who and what you are. pic.twitter.com/QzNZJky5XV
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 11, 2020
re: #137 Dread Pirate Ron
I wish reporters would drop the word “may”.
re: #117 Dave In Austin
This is the direction. They have fouled this thing up so bad. Now we do Sweden.
No you don’t.
The thing about Sweden is that they have many, many restrictions in place — loads of social distancing. Mostly “voluntary” but backed by huge social pressure.
The US doesn’t have that kind of society.
Teddy had FHO surgery on Friday. All went well. The only hiccup was about 2 hours after I dropped him off, the surgeon called to tell me that his hip had popped back into place. Since it seemed to pop in and out easily, I went ahead with the surgery (then spent the rest of the day worrying if I made the right call). After the surgery, the surgeon told me his hip was really loose and would have probably popped out on the way home if I had decided not to do the surgery and take him home.
When I picked him up on Saturday, he was a little more spry than I thought he would be. I think he was just glad to see me. The vet tech told me when he wanted to move he could really go but if he didn’t he could be really stubborn. That’s my Teddy a stubborn old cuss.
Let the healing and rehab begin!!
re: #78 A Mom Anon
As a woman, I have heard more than one man tell me my voice “bothers” them in my lifetime. Unless I speak quietly and softly, and am not heard. God forbid I would show anger or not “watch my tone”. My personal fave is when a guy acts like my voice is hurting his ears, but the men he surrounds himself with can talk like they’re at trying to be heard at a metal concert and it’s no problem. It’s not the sound of her voice that irritates me nearly as much as the content of her speech and what it says about her character.
I make an exception for Ivanka and her fake ass, breathy, affectation that’s supposed to sound both sexy and reassuring. That shit is annoying as fuck. It’s not HER actual speaking voice.
Do you know who has the most annoying, irritating voice in the world, that sounds worse than scratching on a blackboard or a bunch of cats fighting? Fuckface Von Clownstick.
“INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE HEREBY ORDERED TO CUT THEIR PREMIUMS IN HALF WHILE COVERING PREEXISTING CONDITIONS.” Who knew writing healthcare legislation was so easy?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) October 12, 2020
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
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It’s been years since I’ve seen this proverb, but I first saw it on the wall of my high school history classroom and it certainly struck a chord with 15 year-old me. After reading it, I remember being like: “Damn, that’s deep. We have to protect the environment.”
And I still feel that way.
But guess what! By the time that happens, money will BE actual food!
re: #132 Charles Johnson
One of the easiest ways to avoid being called a racist is to not be a racist.
re: #145 Teddy’s Person ✌
Teddy had FHO surgery on Friday. All went well. The only hiccup was about 2 hours after I dropped him off, the surgeon called to tell me that his hip had popped back into place. Since it seemed to pop in and out easily, I went ahead with the surgery (then spent the rest of the day worrying if I made the right call). After the surgery, the surgeon told me his hip was really loose and would have probably popped out on the way home if I had decided not to do the surgery and take him home.
When I picked him up on Saturday, he was a little more spry than I thought he would be. I think he was just glad to see me. The vet tech told me when he wanted to move he could really go but if he didn’t he could be really stubborn. That’s my Teddy a stubborn old cuss.
Let the healing and rehab begin!!
Healing, rehab and spoilage. He deserves it.
re: #141 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I have to run, but I just wanted to mention that gold was usable as currency because it’s pretty, shiny, and had no other use (like gemstones). Well, except for gold teeth.
Of course, now that we’ve reached the Electronic Age, it suddenly has a use, which makes it even worse as a currency than it was before.
Gold fulminate (40% gold by mass iirc) was the first explosive to be devised after black gunpowder (17th century). It was much more powerful than black powder, too, but had some rather obvious drawbacks.
re: #151 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Gold fulminate (40% gold by mass iirc) was the first explosive to be devised after black gunpowder (17th century). It was much more powerful than black powder, too, but had some rather obvious drawbacks.
Not least, I’m sure, its deleterious effects on military budgets.
re: #116 Hecuba’s daughter
Their statement also depends on
(1) assuming those who have recovered have lasting immunity that protects them from re-infection, though we do not, as yet, know anything about how long immunity typically lasts
(2) ignoring the long-term effects of the disease on those who survive. We do not know how common these problems are and how long the duration.
A friend of mine took her mother to get tested for COVID-19 just now. Thing is, they all had COVID-19 early. If mom has it again, that’s going to be ugly.
re: #151 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Per Wikipedia:
Generally, it is best to avoid accidentally creating this substance by mixing gold chloride or hydroxide salts with ammonia gas or ammonium salts, as it is prone to explosion with even the slightest touch
Sounds fun.
re: #141 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I have to run, but I just wanted to mention that gold was usable as currency because it’s pretty, shiny, and had no other use (like gemstones). Well, except for gold teeth.
Of course, now that we’ve reached the Electronic Age, it suddenly has a use, which makes it even worse as a currency than it was before.
You need a currency where the supply reflects the economic activity of the society, and that’s definitely not true of precious metals. If you double the size of your economy, what do you do with a fixed supply of gold? In a modern society, where most money is “virtual” anyway, I wonder how gold would work.
Trump is a walking, talking tornado of destruction of America’s standing and influence and policy abroad.
— Michael Coghlan (@MichaelCoghla12) October 12, 2020
re: #147 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I had some wingnut cult member tell me yesterday that Trump is making it so premiums are 99 dollars a month! You get to keep your doctor! It will cover everything! Asked for proof and why he hasn’t done this in the 4 years he’s had the chance to and he got quiet. Chirp…chirp…
re: #154 John Hughes
Per Wikipedia:
Sounds fun.
Too bad the stuff is so sensitive. Otherwise it would be just the thing for Soros/Antifa super-assassins, along with silver bullets.
David Gorski has a few (LOL) words to say about the not so Great Barrington Declaration.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
You need a currency where the supply reflects the economic activity of the society, and that’s definitely not true of precious metals. If you double the size of your economy, what do you do with a fixed supply of gold? In a modern society, where most money is “virtual” anyway, I wonder how gold would work.
Apparently poorly. I haven’t read it, but a friend read the book “Golden Fetters” which lays out the theory that the gold standard screwed up international finance in the early part of the 20th century and lead to the Great Depression precisely because there is a more or less fixed amount of gold and that constrains economic growth.
Seems reasonable to me.
re: #141 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I have to run, but I just wanted to mention that gold was usable as currency because it’s pretty, shiny, and had no other use (like gemstones). Well, except for gold teeth.
Of course, now that we’ve reached the Electronic Age, it suddenly has a use, which makes it even worse as a currency than it was before.
When I to a new apartment in NW Moscow, I would get out at the Tushinskaya station where stranbe fellows kept approaching me to ask if I had any “pieces”…I had no idea what that was about.
I asked and it turns out it was where people traded in of old electronic parts which these fellows would scrape off for the gold on them.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
You need a currency where the supply reflects the economic activity of the society, and that’s definitely not true of precious metals. If you double the size of your economy, what do you do with a fixed supply of gold? In a modern society, where most money is “virtual” anyway, I wonder how gold would work.
If we pegged dollars to gold, say $1 was equal to 1 oz of gold, then inflation and deflation would be wild because people buying and selling gold on the market would determine the value of a dollar. Moreover, if a foreign country (or alliance of countries) decided they wanted to fuck with us, they could sell their gold reserves and crash the dollar. Or, if a new gold vein was discovered in some area and extracted, that could effect the value of the dollar. Lastly, it sets up the potential for a run on the banks (a la the start of the depression) where people go to banks demanding the actual gold for their dollars on account.
I’ve got a book on request at the library-Money: the true history of a made up thing. There’s an NPR interview with the author here. I thought of it because he goes into the history of “goldsmith bankers” and the receipts they issued for gold deposits being “money adjacent” as people began to trade the receipts rather than the actual gold they represented.
re: #162 KGxvi
If we pegged dollars to gold, say $1 was equal to 1 oz of gold, then inflation and deflation would be wild because people buying and selling gold on the market would determine the value of a dollar. Moreover, if a foreign country (or alliance of countries) decided they wanted to fuck with us, they could sell their gold reserves and crash the dollar. Or, if a new gold vein was discovered in some area and extracted, that could effect the value of the dollar. Lastly, it sets up the potential for a run on the banks (a la the start of the depression) where people go to banks demanding the actual gold for their dollars on account.
We do not teach in schools what money really is.
Most people just equate money with currency, but the two are not the same. But the thought of it being a tangible substance with a value of its own somehow makes them think it is safer and less easily manipulated when that is far from the case.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
You need a currency where the supply reflects the economic activity of the society, and that’s definitely not true of precious metals. If you double the size of your economy, what do you do with a fixed supply of gold? In a modern society, where most money is “virtual” anyway, I wonder how gold would work.
Well, if the morons ever figure out a way to ram Judy Shelton through to the Fed, we’ll find out.
The case against Ms. Shelton is straightforward: A monetary-policy gadfly who has long advocated a return to the discredited, liquidity-destroying gold standard, Ms. Shelton has spent her career mostly in the politicized realms of GOP campaigns, think tanks and op-ed pages. She lacks the substantial experience in academic economics, government service or the banking sector usually required of Fed governors.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We do not teach in schools what money really is.
Most people just equate money with currency, but the two are not the same. But the thought of it being a tangible substance with a value of its own somehow makes them think it is safer and less easily manipulated when that is far from the case.
Just ask Zimbabwe about how worthless money can get.
re: #163 calochortus
It seems kind of dumb to base huge economies on such a finite resource. And I know zero about anything financial beyond managing a family budget and checking account. I’ve never got the “bring back the gold standard!” thing. Stocks confuse me too. I get that they are supposed to help companies raise capital for expenses, but beyond that it just seems like a way to hoard money with very little finding it’s way to expenses it takes to run things. At some point something has to give and the system breaks down.
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
Just ask Zimbabwe about how worthless money can get.
I recall visiting a bar in Germany that showed the prices for a glass of cider during the post-WW1 inflation, from 60 Pfennigs in 1921 up to 4 billion Reichsmarks in 1023
re: #163 calochortus
I’ve got a book on request at the library-Money: the true history of a made up thing. There’s an NPR interview with the author here. I thought of it because he goes into the history of “goldsmith bankers” and the receipts they issued for gold deposits being “money adjacent” as people began to trade the receipts rather than the actual gold they represented.
Banking pretty much starts from that since being able to transport credit without having to haul heavy amounts of money around is pretty important. And that leads to families doing it since there is trust that a letter from Brother A to Brother B saying to give person X (or the bearer) a certain amount of money does make things a lot more convenient for merchants and others.*
* - Which to a degree is what sucked Neal Stephenson into writing a set of novels. “The Baroque Cycle” is a pretty interesting read on an interesting time period when a lot was going on.
re: #163 calochortus
I’ve got a book on request at the library-Money: the true history of a made up thing. There” an NPR interview with the author here. I thought of it because he goes into the history of “goldsmith bankers” and the receipts they issued for gold deposits being “money adjacent” as people began to trade the receipts rather than the actual gold they represented.
Money is a promise: a promise that you will receive a certain value in goods and services at some future point in time by presenting a piece of paper which, on its own, has no intrinsic value.
re: #167 A Mom Anon
It seems kind of dumb to base huge economies on such a finite resource. And I know zero about anything financial beyond managing a family budget and checking account. I’ve never got the “bring back the gold standard!” thing. Stocks confuse me too. I get that they are supposed to help companies raise capital for expenses, but beyond that it just seems like a way to hoard money with very little finding it’s way to expenses it takes to run things. At some point something has to give and the system breaks down.
Stocks are just buying small parts of larger companies. The companies raise money rather than just by borrowing and investors participate in the profits of the company without liability beyond losing their original investment if things go bad.
The modern stock market is more complicated because people constantly figure out how to extract money from any working system, but for the “little guy” buying something like an index fund (one that buys a large group of stocks spread across industries to lower the risk) without excessive fees is a good hedge against inflation.
Anyhoo, I need to go slap a coat of paint on a length of siding on which I filled some holes. Catch everyone later.
Interesting choice of words. People are literally dead after your rallies. https://t.co/kTAdDgM6q8
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) October 12, 2020
re: #174 Dread Pirate Ron
Interesting choice of words. People are literally dead after your rallies.
He is truly that tone-deaf and has nobody to edit him or shut him down…
GEN Milley should issue a statement similar to Fauci’s, but that’s not the key point.
The key point is @realDonaldTrump does not even feign interest in abiding by civ-mil rules/norms.
Milley shouldn’t be put in this position and he can’t solve the problem. Voters have to do it. https://t.co/2OKYyISSQa— Jim Golby (@jimgolby) October 12, 2020
Interesting observation surveying campaign signs on the drive to and from the market.
Biden/Harris signs outnumbering Trump/Pence signs by at least 10:1.
A few houses with signs for some of the GOP local candidates, but not displaying a Trump sign with them.
— Frank Duffy (@frank_duffy) October 12, 2020
re: #177 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Same here. I see more Biden Harris signs than DT but of course Philly is mostly D.
re: #141 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Aside from the fact that gold as a currency would be just as much “fiat” as current money, the fact is that based on the dollar value of an ounce of gold right now, there literally is not enough gold in the world to use it to back currency. The GDP of the US alone, let alone the whole world, exceeds the amount of gold known to be in existence. In order to use it we would have to catastrophically shrink the economy or we would have to… “artificially” increase the value of gold… by… um what’s the word… “FIAT”.
The whole idea is just mindbogglingly stupid.
And for all the ranting about fiat currency these clowns do, so many of them support the biggest wishful think scam of fiat currency ever invented: cryptocurrency.
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And here you have it:
No mask
Bright red/orange complexion
Hideous blue suit
Giant bandage on his hand (still getting infusions are ya, yam?)
Giant, bloated body (I guess having the virus didn’t hurt his appetite)
Thrilled looking Secret Service guys.
Just another day in paradise…
.@realDonaldTrump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md, for a campaign rally in Orlando, Florida. pic.twitter.com/PbKvSYoahf
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) October 12, 2020
re: #182 BigPapa
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re: #112 Dave In Austin
Roberta Died today. RIP
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And….
2020 just keeps trucking, being itself.
re: #183 BeachDem
And here you have it:
No mask
Bright red/orange complexion
Hideous blue suit
Giant bandage on his hand (still getting infusions are ya, yam?)
Giant, bloated body (I guess having the virus didn’t hurt his appetite)
Thrilled looking Secret Service guys.Just another day in paradise…
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We really need him to come do a rally for Tuberville,. Something inspiring, with the two of them on stage shouting and singing the Auburn fight song.
re: #183 BeachDem
And here you have it:
No mask
Bright red/orange complexion
Hideous blue suit
Giant bandage on his hand (still getting infusions are ya, yam?)
Giant, bloated body (I guess having the virus didn’t hurt his appetite)
Thrilled looking Secret Service guys.Just another day in paradise…
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Unless something dropped today, he still hasn’t said when his last negative test was. Which, of course, means he is still testing positive. This is all truly fucking insane.
Also, a side effect of dexamethasone is weight gain/bloating.
re: #158 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Too bad the stuff is so sensitive. Otherwise it would be just the thing for Soros/Antifa super-assassins, along with
silver bulletssoup cans.
A new SurveyUSA poll in North Carolina finds Cal Cunningham (D) leading Sen. Thom Tillis (R) in the U.S. Senate race by 10 points, 49% to 39%.Cunningham was up by seven points in the September poll.
the ‘scandal’ hasnt mattered at all
re: #189 dangerman
the ‘scandal’ hasnt mattered at all
So wait… when Hugh Hewitt breathlessly told Tuck Choad about a “Cunningham collapse” yesterday on Press the Meat… he was being (gasp) less than honest?
re: #191 i(m)p(each)sos
So wait… when Hugh Hewitt breathlessly told Tuck Choad about a “Cunningham collapse” yesterday on Press the Meat… he was being (gasp) less than honest?
Maybe Cunningham Collapses subtract a negative.
re: #183 BeachDem
That umbrella makes him look so tiny.
re: #185 b_sharp
And….
2020 just keeps trucking, being itself.
Well she was 108 years old. I think that has way more to do with it than The Year of Hell.
Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission.
So, here’s a message from the President in his own words. pic.twitter.com/WCYbIfrQLR— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 12, 2020
Kansas Dorothy…….
PHOTO GALLERY: Oct. 11 dust storm https://t.co/bYgUV3BdPw
— And The Wind Tweets: “I’M INSANE! VOTE!” (@DaveoutofAustin) October 12, 2020
Everyone else on an airplane gets placed on do-not-fly lists if they attempt flying without a mask and they didn’t even have coronavirus three days ago! https://t.co/DSRjd9EmwY
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) October 12, 2020
re: #195 teleskiguy
Bidens media team is really knocking it out of the park.
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
Bidens media team is really knocking it out of the park.
Remember when people were worried they would hold back?
Eric Trump has canceled a Michigan based campaign event scheduled to take place Tuesday at Huron Valley Guns after one of its former employees was linked to the domestic terror plot against the state’s governor, WDIV reports.
it’s kind of obvious: if that story hadn’t broken, he’d be there with bells on
re: #195 teleskiguy
Teleskiguy, I sent Diane Mitsch Bush’s campaign an email today asking about whether they could tell me that the donation I made today was valid (I thought that maybe I got scammed by a false ActBlue site). The campaign wrote back to me within two hours telling me that they had indeed received the donation, sent me a copy of the receipt and thanked me for the contribution. Based on my previous experience whit this kind of thing, I wasn’t even expecting to hear back from them. Good candidate!
🤔🤔🤔
Um, have we heard anything about how Melania is doing?
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) October 12, 2020
re: #190 Teddy’s Person ✌
Happy Hispanic Immigration day to you, too
so, we got a mailer Saturday from a group called Commonwealth Educational Opportunities PAC pushing “educational choice”.
Funny part is a photo of trump pointing at a photo of Ky Dist 99 State Rep Richard White, yelling “You’re Fired!”.
White is a Republican.
They are starting to eat their own, and I am so here for it.
re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth
That umbrella makes him look so tiny.
To make him look tiny, the umbrella would have to be the size of the Goodyear blimp.
“We know that that is asking for trouble when you do that. We’ve seen that when you have situations of congregate settings where there are a lot of people without masks, the data speak for themselves” — Fauci says Trump’s pandemic rallies are bad from a public health standpoint pic.twitter.com/eNV07VMQj6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2020
Texas Secretary of State’s office says Texas’ total voter registration number right now is at 16,901,784.
Up almost 300,000 since just Sept. 22.— Ashley Lopez (@AshLopezRadio) October 12, 2020
November 2016: 15,101,087
— Ashley Lopez (@AshLopezRadio) October 12, 2020
re: #212 jaunte
that sound you just heard is every Texas Republican office holder simultaneously shitting bricks… probably enough for Trump to build his wall
Which 3 counties have added the most voters since 2016?
Harris -238,698
Bexar -136,889
Travis - 126,155
That is a half million more voters in three VERY blue counties than in 2016.— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) October 12, 2020
re: #40 mmmirele
I’m having an existential crisis about whether to mail in my ballot or wait until drop boxes open in a week. It’s like it’s the postal service which has been corrupted or the drop boxes…holy crap, can’t Adrian Fontes (Maricopa county recorder) take my ballot by hand?
One option I looked at while deciding about voting by mail-in was dropping the ballot off at the specific post office that services the board of elections. A second option was sending it certified mail because then it is tracked individually. (Its a little over $4 iirc.)
Who’s Next? DeSantis.
He high-5s all those people and then WIPES HIS NOSE WITH HIS UNWASHED HAND!
— Melissa Jo Peltier (@MelissaJPeltier) October 12, 2020
Well, here’s a funny story. Two Stanford professors, Robert B. Wilson and Paul Milgrom, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for auction theory (apparently they were the guys who came up with the airwaves auction a couple of decades back). Anyway, the Nobel committee could not reach Milgrom, so they asked Wilson if he’d go across the street and knock on his door. Here’s the result.
The #NobelPrize committee couldn’t reach Paul Milgrom to share the news that he won, so his fellow winner and neighbor Robert Wilson knocked on his door in the middle of the night. pic.twitter.com/MvhxZcgutZ
— Stanford University (@Stanford) October 12, 2020
Wilson is 83 and Milgrom is 72, neither of them spring chickens. I’m not sure how I would have reacted if someone rang my doorbell over and over again in the middle of the night. That said, I sleep with my phone on because of my mother.
re: #212 jaunte
For comparison’s sake… California has added just under 3m new voters since September 2016.
Out of 21.24m registered voters, 9.86m are Democrats, 5.13m are Republicans, and 5.04m are independents (with another 1.2m registered in third parties).
re: #215 jaunte
All those jurisdictions that Republicans gerrymandered into Republican seats by splitting blue areas up got a lot bluer.
re: #215 jaunte
238,698 voters with one drop-box. Thanks, governor and state supreme court!
Over/under on how long Trump lasts at his rally in Florida this eve.
I say 27 labored minutes.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 12, 2020
Okay, speaking as an actual veteran:
If you even mention Trump’s bullshit “military” high school anywhere in my presence, it’s an immediate block.
HE DOESN’T ANY MILITARY EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION AT ALL. FUCKING STOP IT.
You even mention it on my timeline and you’re out.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 12, 2020
re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can we call it a “costume” high school?
In 2016, Amy Coney Barrett said that any nomination in an election year would be completely inappropriate and she does not support nominations that would “dramatically flip the balance of power on the Court.”
pic.twitter.com/SxsmyG3ajR— Kristen Clarke 866-OUR-VOTE (@KristenClarkeJD) October 12, 2020
About time
NYT, WP and WSJ are among the big news outlets that have barred reporters from traveling with Trump as he returns to the campaign trail, saying they do not have assurances that precautions will be taken to protect the reporters’ health.@grynbaum reports.https://t.co/eaObIGADi9
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) October 12, 2020
We are truly asking way too much of our front-line service workers during this pandemic.
They’re at higher risk of contracting COVID-19 and they are verbally and sometimes physically abused by sociopathic assholes like Baked Alaska. https://t.co/W8azB7lUKE— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) October 12, 2020
re: #230 jaunte
Baked Alaska? Now there is a name I haven’t heard in many years…
re: #230 jaunte
Also, many frontline workers are from minority and/or immigrant populations.
re: #162 KGxvi
If we pegged dollars to gold, say $1 was equal to 1 oz of gold, then inflation and deflation would be wild because people buying and selling gold on the market would determine the value of a dollar. Moreover, if a foreign country (or alliance of countries) decided they wanted to fuck with us, they could sell their gold reserves and crash the dollar. Or, if a new gold vein was discovered in some area and extracted, that could effect the value of the dollar. Lastly, it sets up the potential for a run on the banks (a la the start of the depression) where people go to banks demanding the actual gold for their dollars on account.
Yup, basically the world pretty was trending towards abandoning the Gold/Silver standard by the early 1900’s due to the negative effects it had on trade. WW1 interrupted this trend. But it resumed after the war. Basically, the precious metal standard systems were far too rigid and limiting to meet the liquidity needed by rapidly changing economy.
Also, those not already familiar with it, might find “Silver Thursday” interesting.
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The lockdown was to give us time to come up with a plan. Your “plan” was to wish it away. It failed. https://t.co/rm8rkcaFqI
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) October 12, 2020
re: #226 The Pie Overlord!
Reform school for rich kids.
Though apparently fairly light on the “reform”.
One candidate acknowledges that LGBT Americans exist and deserve equality and not to be beaten to death tied to a fence.
His name is Joe Biden, and I’m voting for him. https://t.co/Ihq45HoKCz— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) October 12, 2020
re: #230 jaunte
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The last time I encountered The Baked Asshole he was harassing people at the Hollywood In-N-Out Burger store. Everyone told him to fuck off.
It was glorious!
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let’s look at what the WHO actually SAID:
“Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization’s special envoy on COVID-19, urged world leaders this week to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” for blunting a virus surge.
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro told “The Spectator.” Nabarro said lockdowns can only be justified “to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted. But by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
In other words, lockdowns are a nuclear option (because of how much economic damage results). Also, lockdowns are actually (shocking, I know) NOT FUCKING NECESSARY if you are taking all other reasonable measures to combat the virus. Guess what we are NOT doing in this country right now?
re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Gonna go out on a limb and bet that Trump is dramatically misrepresenting what the WHO said….
re: #238 jaunte
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And let us not forget this hideous comment from the always horrible Virgina Foxx (who is favored big time to keep her seat—huge sigh)
“I also would like to point out that there was a bill — the hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. This — the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills,” said Foxx.
re: #237 Jay C
Though apparently fairly light on the “reform”.
I can sort of see Fred Trump saying this in my head:
“You get a goddamn job before sundown or we’re shipping you off to military school with the goddamn Finkelstein-shit kid!”
re: #241 Mike Lamb
Gonna go out on a limb and bet that Trump is dramatically misrepresenting what the WHO said….
From the New York Post:
The World Health Organization has warned leaders against relying on COVID-19 lockdowns to tackle outbreaks — after previously saying countries should be careful how quickly they reopen.
WHO envoy Dr. David Nabarro said such restrictive measures should only be treated as a last resort, the British magazine the Spectator reported in a video interview.
“We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Nabarro said.
“The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”
So, yeah, Rude Pundit was right… the point was to get us in a position to deal with the pandemic, but that would require actual hard work, and the Orange Idiot has never been about that life.
Trump Rally in Sanford, FL. Trump is tossing a bunch of swag into the crowd with his studdy COVID hands.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 12, 2020
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
That is it is on 3rd. And we know the shortstop is I don’t give a da**.
re: #231 KGxvi
Baked Alaska? Now there is a name I haven’t heard in many years…
i thought he was banned from youtube?
re: #249 jaunte
Like handing out smallpox blankets to the simple savages?
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re: #243 BeachDem
Sure….
because all muggings or robberies end in kidnapping, torture, and murder. This is like saying the COVID fatality was AKSCHULLY because they had diabetes.
re: #251 PhillyPretzel
That is it is on 3rd. And we know the shortstop is I don’t give a da**.
I don’t know is on third… what is the name of the guy on second, and who is on first!
re: #230 jaunte
Last I had heard that grifter was back living in his mom’s basement.
re: #255 KGxvi
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello “Who is on First?”
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re: #258 PhillyPretzel
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello “Who is on First?”
en.wikipedia.org
Still one of the best routines there is.
That desecration of the US flag was raised by white nationalists in Charlottesville, and I’m not over it becoming standard Republican paraphernalia. https://t.co/J4ky72bCSm
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 12, 2020
re: #262 jaunte
All those people packed in there. It’s like a fucking petri dish.
re: #262 jaunte
The white supremacist police officer neighbor of mine has that flag and a decal of it along with many other lovely things on his car.
“They spoke…” - well, “they” dress up their own bigotry and hypocrisy with words to obfuscate. Besides being shills for Trump, that gang of old white men have a history of campaigning against rights for anyone they don’t like.
“We have a SIN problem” - nope.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) October 12, 2020
re: #265 plansbandc
I have a police neighbor too. He flies one off his front gate.
re: #266 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Just another ignorant christian who embraces the selfishness of Ayn Rand!
re: #262 jaunte
I find it really interesting that Trump’s version of campaigning at this point is a modern day equivalent to a whistle stop tour… fly in, talk for however long, and fly out.
The difference is in the old days, you’d do multiple speeches a day on the whistle stop tour… Trump barely has the stamina to do a half hour at a time anymore.
re: #271 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
I just found a Credibility Gap album at my local LP shop…wooo!
Latest at fivethirtyeight shows Trump slipped to 13/100.
Joe stays at 86/100 and 1 is tied.
Hay hay hay pic.twitter.com/dK9iSBdhvy
— Ron Stor 🌊🌊🌊 (@ronstor) October 12, 2020
re: #274 🌹UOJB!
Latest at fivethirtyeight shows Trump slipped to 13/100.
Joe stays at 86/100 and 1 is tied.
Princeton Election Consortium has it as Biden 369-169, that 369 is the median number for Biden’s projected total.
unfortunate when your top supporters plot to kidnap and murder a governor https://t.co/5BCvpVIvmp via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 12, 2020
Obviously a perfectly normal President who is not COMPLETELY HIGH AS FUCK BANANAS OUT OF HIS MIND AND SPREADING HIS DEADLY INFECTION. US hit *8 million* cases of #COVID19 today. https://t.co/J3h34icFLi
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 12, 2020
Every day he’s out there undermining public health messaging designed to get the pandemic under control https://t.co/hKiPcZdJeh
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 12, 2020
Republicans out there killing their own voters.
It will be gone soon? pic.twitter.com/sF4IqTSZVT
— Pat Fuller #EmbraceHope #WearAMask #BLM (@bannerite) October 12, 2020
Now at 11hrs in line but we are next! A long journey but wouldn’t be anywhere else! Please vote everyone! pic.twitter.com/ifRcbK1XRm
— Johnta Austin (@johntalsr) October 12, 2020
I’ve been following today’s “five minutes of hate” on twitter (Daniel Dale and Aaron Rupar). All I can say is referring to Donald J Trump as toddler is an insult to toddlers everywhere. What a fucking jackass.
The Court DENIED our Motion to preclude Trump from endangering Floridians by holding his super spreader event, ruling that it was up to the Governor and Sanford Airport Authority to enforce social distancing at the Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/f4JAFp4Jq4
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) October 12, 2020
Trump lies that he got the Veterans Choice program passed. https://t.co/itZlzN3Jvt
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 12, 2020
re: #283 Teddy’s Person ✌
Hey. Haven’t been here most of the time. Saw your Teddy was hurting. I hope all goes well.
Great year.
He just said Iran’s GDP is down 28% — “nobody’s heard of anything like that.” U.S. GDP declined by 32% last quarter.
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 12, 2020
re: #286 nines09
Hey. Haven’t been here most of the time. Saw your Teddy was hurting. I hope all goes well.
Great year.
Thanks, he’s definitely on the mend now.
Trump: “I’ve been — I guess, three or four, maybe now: Nobel Peace Prizes. Can you believe it? Four. Three.”
He’s received nominations, not the prize itself.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 12, 2020
Noun, number, noun, exclamation, noun, exclamation, number number.
re: #288 Teddy’s Person ✌
Sweet. Scritch that noggin for me.
Voters are not “unbothered” by having to wait 5+ hours; they are determined to do whatever it takes to remove Trump from office. We will crawl over broken glass if we have to. You cannot stop or suppress us @GOP. Our resolve is insurmountable. And your defeat is inevitable. https://t.co/qmaZ5DBcGW
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) October 12, 2020
re: #267 jaunte
I have a police neighbor too. He flies one off his front gate.
We don’t see many Confederate flags here in NH (not like in southern Indiana where I used to live—woo boy) but every fucking bearded tough guy has one of those on his truck or jeep (even with a grill made to look like the thin blue line flag).
re: #293 Barefoot Grin
I know they really mean to put all the black stripes on one side and all the white ones on the other.
Waiting longer than 5-10 minutes to vote is a national disgrace. Thanks Republicans 🤬
re: #294 jaunte
I know they really mean to put all the black stripes on one side and all the white ones on the other.
Ebony and Ivory, live separately in harmony!
Says guy accused of rape/sexual assault by 26 women. https://t.co/vP6CPJCPKF
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) October 12, 2020
Trump falsely claims, again, that Biden would “outlaw the private health insurance plans of over 180 million Americans.” Biden vocally rejected single-payer “Medicare for All” proposals.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 12, 2020
You know who did this? Hugo Chávez. Always dropping money to “help people” right before an election, just so he could turn around and screw them over again. https://t.co/cFRGDQQpE4
— Juan Escalante (@JuanSaaa) October 12, 2020
Mitch remains Satan’s towel boy and a complete stain of a man with the charm of a dead snake and the allure of a rabid skunk - on his good days. @senatemajldr https://t.co/ua4a3XIk8z
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) October 12, 2020
I decided to make a run for the border to the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts today to contribute to their tax base in order to get some edibles and RSO for what will certainly be a surge-2 lockdown in the coming weeks. It was so beautiful today. Peak autumn. And to top it off, the last time I went a couple of months ago there were lots of Trump signs in southern NH (though virtually none in northern Mass). Today I saw only a couple of Trump signs in NH and tons of Biden/Harris signs. A couple of homes that previously had prominent Trump signs no longer had them up. I know how dangerous it is to extrapolate, and that’s not my purpose. It just helped make the autumn scenery that much more beautiful.
My Twitter feed right now is just these two things. pic.twitter.com/xB2zyKuD44
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 13, 2020
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
I really hope that in a week we can refer to this series of rallies as Trump’s “Hold My Beer!” tour.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 12, 2020
re: #276 KGxvi
Princeton Election Consortium has it as Biden 369-169, that 369 is the median number for Biden’s projected total.
So they’re positing Joe wins a couple more of those “swing” states?
Works for me.
Though it seems from looking at that linked chart (not that Jay The Innumerate is going to be able get much from it), that the “median” EV number looks more like 350 than 369.
Still works for me…..
What a surprise. Trump has always had a problem with consent. From using artist’s music without permission to sexual advances without permission
— Donny Barnett (@🏡) ♿ (@supertech427) October 12, 2020
Learned that from his Grandfather!
— Timekeeper1346 (@timekeeper1346) October 13, 2020
Good grief! SpaceX is getting zero money for this. Starship is designed to carry people & cargo around Earth (also to moon & Mars). Vast majority of use will be civilian. It’s just like an airline in space. All airlines sometimes carry military cargo, but ~99% is civilian.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2020
re: #306 Dread Pirate Ron
My youngest sister lives right in the middle of it with her husband and 15 year old daughter. She can’t afford to not work and she sounds so on-edge while trying to maintain a somewhat normal family life for her daughter. I’m scared for her.
Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen showed up in Marietta Georgia today to feed all the people waiting in line to vote.
That man deserves the Nobel Prize. This organization has figured out food supply chains and how to feed thousands of people in need all over the world. It’s amazing.
He’s horrible. God I hate this man. https://t.co/TbpfybFKFW
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) October 13, 2020
re: #312 A Mom Anon
One of the truly good people in the world. He has all of my respect and admiration.
moron
BREAKING: Trump just said “I’m about the best thing that has ever happened to Puerto Rico. You better vote for me Puerto Rico.”
Fact: Puerto Rico can’t vote for President.— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) October 12, 2020
This is a pattern. Trump keeps alleging that very-much-not-“closed” states run by Democratic governors are “closed.” https://t.co/2k3ul8qjHp
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 13, 2020
re: #312 A Mom Anon
Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen showed up in Marietta Georgia today to feed all the people waiting in line to vote.
That man deserves the Nobel Prize. This organization has figured out food supply chains and how to feed thousands of people in need all over the world. It’s amazing.
More than one.
I wonder how he can get nominated?
He deserves it a fuckton more than Trump (or any of the politicians who love to pimp themselves for the Prize).
re: #318 Jay C
I follow WCK on Facebook, it’s astounding how many places across the globe they are operating at once. I would love to know how he and his team have this stuff down so efficiently. It’s truly amazing.
re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
Mrs. Krassenstein
@HKrassenstein
BREAKING: Trump just said “I’m about the best thing that has ever happened to Puerto Rico. You better vote for me Puerto Rico.”Fact: Puerto Rico can’t vote for President.
But Puerto Ricans living in Florida can. Hopefully they won’t.
re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #312 A Mom Anon
Chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen showed up in Marietta Georgia today to feed all the people waiting in line to vote.
That man deserves the Nobel Prize. This organization has figured out food supply chains and how to feed thousands of people in need all over the world. It’s amazing.
World Food Program won the prize. So close, Chef Jose. So close.
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