“DEBATE NIGHT 2020!” — a Bad Lip Reading of the First Presidential Debate of 2020
Donald Trump and Joe Biden debate vital issues while participating in spirited rounds of “Five Favorites” and “Time To Act”.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden debate vital issues while participating in spirited rounds of “Five Favorites” and “Time To Act”.
Donald Trump is going to lose and will go to jail.
He’s in better shape than all other Trumps.
Hunter Biden should be appointed interim AG until the senate confirms Doug Jones, Katie Porter, Preet Bharara or whoever. Trump broke the mold on interim jobs.
Obama didn’t press his majority, Biden should
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn old
Apollo 11 landing for me.
What’s the earliest major historical event you can remember happening? (If you say 9/11, I’ll kill you for your youth)
I have a vague recollection of playing in the lounge with my toys and my parents watching the Berlin Wall coming down on TV.— David Veevers (@DavidVeevers1) October 23, 2020
OMG you guys I’m watching Killer Klowns again for the first time in 30 years. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
New record high set this Friday night. 545 Covid patients in an Iowa hospital.
101 Covid patients admitted in past 24 hours. A slight decrease in number of Covid patients in an ICU. pic.twitter.com/aInMKW2fZq— O. Kay Henderson (@okayhenderson) October 23, 2020
That’s the look of someone who was tweaking in the bathroom before the debate
— Melissa Cruz (@MelissaWrites22) October 23, 2020
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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Newsreel images of the Korean War conflict.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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The Challenger explosion.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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The earliest I remember is the launching of Explorer 1 in 1958 watching it on TV at my grandparent’s home. It was launched on my 2nd birthday.
Fidel Castro as a guest on Meet The Press, live broadcast.
Cuban missile crisis. I arrived home from school and my mum was beside herself. She was in her early thirties with four kids and, as she told me years later, she was convinced that we were all going to die in a global nuclear conflagration.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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My earliest reliable memories kick in around the age of three. Apollo-11 was three weeks before my third birthday. I remember watching live coverage of a lunar landing *before* the aborted-in-progress mission of Apollo-13 in April 1970.
But, what I can’t remember definitively is if my memory is of Apollo-11 or Apollo-12. Throughout my childhood and well into adulthood, I was certain it was Apollo-11. Now, in my advancing years, I’m no longer certain that my memory of it being the first lunar landing is historically correct.
I do remember watching ABC’s coverage with the anchor desk being set up on a simulation of the lunar landscape and being somewhat confused by the news anchor apparently being on the Moon before the astronauts got there. (Hey, I was almost three or barely three years old depending on which landing I was actually watching. I think I could be cut some slack for falling for studio trickery.)
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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The resignation of Richard Nixon in August 1974. I’d just turned five a few days earlier.
Kennedy’s election.
Whippersnappers.
re: #20 Cheechako
Bunch’a kids hanging out tonight!
For sure: I’m another one whose first “historical” memories are Kennedy-related: the 1960 election, the Cuban Missile Crisis (though I recall it mainly because my parents were obviously freaked out) and the assassination.
re: #22 Jay C
For sure: I’m another one whose first “historical” memories are Kennedy-related: the 1960 election, the Cuban Missile Crisis (though I recall it mainly because my parents were obviously freaked out) and the assassination.
I don’t really remember the missile crisis — probably everyone kept it from the children — but I remember a feeling of menace from the sky. It’s not really more specific than that. And of course I remember the assassination.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Nixon’s resignation.
Czech media is reporting that Polish president Andrzej Duda has COVID-19.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
Superb Owl 1.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
What’s the earliest major historical event you can remember happening?
I remember being annoyed as a kid that I could not watch Rocky and Bullwinkle because news of the JFK assassination was all over the TV,
re: #25 Dr Lizardo
Czech media is reporting that Polish president Andrzej Duda has COVID-19.
wow, you must be really young…
re: #23 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
I don’t really remember the missile crisis — probably everyone kept it from the children — but I remember a feeling of menace from the sky. It’s not really more specific than that. And of course I remember the assassination.
I remember all the ballyhoo with people wanting to build bomb shelters, which I found cool, but the JFK assassination is the first discrete historical event that I can place
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
What’s the earliest major historical event you can remember happening? (If you say 9/11, I’ll kill you for your youth)
I have a vague recollection of playing in the lounge with my toys and my parents watching the Berlin Wall coming down on TV.— David Veevers (@DavidVeevers1) October 23, 2020
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (the second, that is)
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (the second, that is)
I was also aware of the Korean War about that time, but the coronation was the first specific event I could remember. I also remember the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the first time I heard of Vietnam, though the broadcaster pronounced it “Veet-numb.”
The earliest datable (as distinct from historic) event I remember was falling out of the car at the grocery store on June 21, 1952. I know the date because it was my third birthday. My grandmother was backing out of a parking space. I grabbed the door handle and pulled it out of curiosity. The door swung open and I tumbled onto the pavement. I wasn’t hurt other than skinned knees, and I remember being more upset by my grandmother screaming than about the fall.
Kennedy assassination, like several other Lizards in the getting-to-Medicare range
re: #33 CleverToad
Kennedy assassination, like several other Lizards in the getting-to-Medicare range
actually it was not the assassination coverage but the funeral procession that interrupted my afternoon cartoon viewing schedule. I remember being quite annoyed and riding my tricycle around in angry circles in the basement…
We had just come to the US at the end of October 1960. We didn’t have a TV until 1962 so that’s why I don’t know much before that. I was totally confused why black kids hated me at 5 years old. I did see the Queen in Canada in the late 50s.
One of my first memories is of lying at the bottom of the stairs looking up at the family and my mom asking “who left the gate open?” I recall seeing my oldest brother there wearing his high school letter jacket, so I could not have been much more than 15 months hold at the time.
re: #31 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth (the second, that is)
hi
For me the first major news event I remember is Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon.
On the Covid-19 front, it is entirely out of control in the Panhandle now.’
Total cases: 1,741 (+49, there were 1,001 on October 6), hospitalised 25, active 525 (nearly a third of all the cases since April 1)
Weekly positive rate: 36.2%, cumulative rate since April 1: 9.2%
Highest age group: 20-29, then 40-49. Women and girls are 60% of cases
re: #27 IngisKahn
Challenger, watched it live in kindergarten.
I watched it live outside from a lawn at NAS Cecil Field in Jacksonville.
Yawn
.@BernieSanders tells @krystalball that he’s going to lay out his own 100-day agenda post-Nov. 3.
“You got it,” Sanders says when asked if it would be entirely separate from @JoeBiden’s 100-day plan if he takes the White House.https://t.co/VuaserZNcz— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) October 22, 2020
Did anyone know about this?
Still impressed that they were able to keep a lid on this. https://t.co/nxOjAPLw42
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 24, 2020
CHP officer just said he was passed by a blacked out Corvette going 150+. He won’t pursue.
re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Seen this tweet getting quoted all day.
And, the memories are making me feel pretty damn oldApollo 11 landing for me.
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Walter Cronkite evening news reports on the Vietnam war.
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Walter Cronkite evening news reports on the Vietnam war.
This is a guy who also flew along on B-17 combat missions during World War II and reported live on atomic bomb tests in the 50s.
Researchers from two Japanese universities have released video,
created using a supercomputer, showing how humans spread respiratory droplets. #droplets #simulation #covid19 #ctvnews pic.twitter.com/VQVPgyRv2T— CTV News (@CTVNews) October 24, 2020
re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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This is a guy who also flew along on B-17 combat missions during World War II and reported live on atomic bomb tests in the 50s.
If I remember correctly, he was also the man who most influenced Johnson decision NOT to seek reelection because of his reporting on that war.
re: #48 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I see some huge chunks falling.
re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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This is a guy who also flew along on B-17 combat missions during World War II and reported live on atomic bomb tests in the 50s.
Walter Cronkite got his start as a war reporter in WWII. Some years back I remember being very impressed reading an online reprint of a piece he had written describing his ridealong with an airborne unit in a glider during (I think) the Arnhem assault in 1944. Harrowing shit: the glider (as they were prone to do) broke up on landing: Cronkite was lucky - unlike some in the squad - not to have been killed. Really powerful writing, though. But what really irked me was that the site the report was on had just one comment attached: a sour rant from some wingnut slagging Cronkite for personally causing the US to lose the war in Vietnam.
Hopefully that was a (very) minority opinion….
re: #21 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Kennedy’s election.
Whippersnappers.
get off our lawns
re: #40 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Yawn
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he knows he lost, right?
.@BernieSanders tells @krystalball that he’s going to lay out his own 100-day agenda post-Nov. 3.
“You got it,” Sanders says when asked if it would be entirely separate from @JoeBiden’s 100-day plan if he takes the White House.https://t.co/VuaserZNcz— Hanna Trudo (@HCTrudo) October 22, 2020
FAUCI: “The reason I’m particularly concerned, as we get deeper into the cooler months of the fall and the colder months of the winter, that activities out of necessity are going to have to be done indoors. And that’s going to be a problem.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 24, 2020
FAUCI: “We really are facing a very challenging situation, and if we don’t do something in the sense of paying stricter attention to the kinds of public health mitigation issues that we were talking about, it’s not going to spontaneously turn around.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 24, 2020
FAUCI: “I get the argument that say, well, if you mandate a mask, then you’re going to have to enforce it, and that will create more of a problem. Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 24, 2020
At least 80,005 people in the United States tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, the highest number of new cases in a single day since the pandemic began, according to data from CNN and Johns Hopkins University.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) October 24, 2020
Four years of complicated “foreign election interference” debates and the prime minister of Slovenia just tweets it out. https://t.co/WiFc1kqXJO
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 24, 2020
Alwyn Cashe’s long-awaited Medal of Honor is delayed in the Senate (Stars & Stripes)
Republicans can’t be bothered with a little thing like a ni*CLANG getting a Medal of Honor when they have a religious zealot to put on the Supreme Court.
re: #51 Jay C
Walter Cronkite got his start as a war reporter in WWII. Some years back I remember being very impressed reading an online reprint of a piece he had written describing his ridealong with an airborne unit in a glider during (I think) the Arnhem assault in 1944. Harrowing shit: the glider (as they were prone to do) broke up on landing: Cronkite was lucky - unlike some in the squad - not to have been killed. Really powerful writing, though. But what really irked me was that the site the report was on had just one comment attached: a sour rant from some wingnut slagging Cronkite for personally causing the US to lose the war in Vietnam.
Hopefully that was a (very) minority opinion….
Walter Cronkite: The War As He Saw It
Incredible stuff. In his first B-17 mission, against Wilhelmshaven in 1943, thirteen of the sixty-six planes were lost. One correspondent, Bob Post of the New York Times, was killed.
His career had gotten off to a very rough start. One of the first stories he covered, as a 20 year old stringer for UPI, was the New London Texas school explosion in 1937. The disaster killed 295 students and staff members and is still the worst school disaster in US history. It was caused by an undetected natural gas leak that had allowed gas to accumulate in the basement. It is the reason that foul-smelling odorant is added to utility gas to this day (most natural gas is otherwise odorless or close to it).
Although Cronkite went on to cover World War II and the Nuremberg trials, he was quoted as saying decades later, “I did nothing in my studies nor in my life to prepare me for a story of the magnitude of that New London tragedy, nor has any story since that awful day equaled it.”
Someone is going to get killed.
Trump followers just want to kidnap a governor, even if they have to go after a Republican https://t.co/D4MKgn8QH4
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) October 24, 2020
Trump making inroads with suburban housewives.
Trump, trailing among women, says a socialist president would be bad but it would be especially bad if it were a woman. https://t.co/WZboC3XjJu
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) October 23, 2020
We had to buy a new refrigerator a few months back. It’s a Samsung and it makes more different noises than any appliance ever. One day I was convinced there was a squirrel in the wall behind the fridge but when I went to the other side of the wall I couldn’t hear it. This thing farts, ‘releases steam’ sounds, makes scratching sounds, gurgles, grinds, clunks, and more. Great refrigerator other than that.
re: #62 Dread Pirate Ron
Steampunk cooler.
A link from the New London Explosion article led me to this article.
Our Lady of the Angels School fire
This happened in Chicago and killed 95 people.
It’s another big event I remember pretty well, since it happened in 1958 when I was 9 years old. I especially remember a harrowing newspaper photo of a girl jumping out a second story window. My firefighter father was completely disgusted and said the responsible officials should be hanged.
re: #62 Dread Pirate Ron
Just watched the new Borat film and for me it’s a miss, and not as fun as the first. It’s not the worse thing I’ve watched, it’s just not outstanding. Maybe for someone else it’s great, but I’ll stick to B horror flicks for the month.
I have too much on my mind with the election coming up and stuff around the homestead to invest a lot in mediocre distractions. I rate Borat as mediocre.
By the intent of this game, my first memory of a historical event was the Iranian hostage crisis. Not the immediate start, and I surely didn’t quite understand what was happening, but some point in 1980 that I caught the coverage in the nightly news and got Very Worried.
…but my actual earliest memory of something newsworthy happening was Jimmy Carter trying to run in a race, and something happening to him. I had to look it up, it was September 1979 and I was just barely 4.
My memory was that it was a marathon, but apparently it was a 10k. He just kinda bonked, staggered off the course, and after a bit an ambulance showed up. Not really all that important but the news kept replaying the helicopter shot of of his slowing and going off-course and it really stuck in my head. A relative muttered something about “well, he’s not gonna get re-elected”.
Poor guy. Professionally I do business with some people that he works with in sort of a lobbying capacity - they used to keep an office for his exclusive use in their building, though he probably only used it a day or two a year - and they always had the nicest things to say about him.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s former company, in which he continued to hold millions in shares at least until recently, just landed a lucrative contract with the Postal Service.https://t.co/14teWGtF1y
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) October 23, 2020
“It’s brought joy”: Georgia food writer opens porch restaurant for chipmunk https://t.co/NQPPlAzB3D
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 24, 2020
I haven’t gone to a non-fast-food chain restaurant in a long time because given the pandemic and the state of the economy, I’ve been trying to support local places.
But damn it I’ve gone so long without a @redrobinburgers fix. I just might cave tomorrow.— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) October 24, 2020
My family is trying to keep The Cheese Steak Shop alive with our business through DoorDash.
re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Four years of complicated “foreign election interference” debates and the prime minister of Slovenia just tweets it out.
I do not consider that “interference”, he is expressing his opinion. If they are secretly trying to influence the outcome of the vote by illegal means or colluding with US citizens to do wo, then that is full-on interference.
Remember when people said it was all about population density, and the rest of America had nothing to learn from New York? https://t.co/gpwckpNtvx pic.twitter.com/mA7c6hFYZG
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 23, 2020
Amazing @NYTimes investigation: Trump properties got money from 200+ special-interest groups, corps & governments reaping benefits from President Donald Trump. 60 patrons paid ~$12M https://t.co/Bg1oqemR3r
POTUS got $200M+ more from foreign business deals https://t.co/33zLtvXD8k pic.twitter.com/pqUqPyWU1a— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) October 10, 2020
You can follow @OpenSecretsDC’s reporting on the Clinton Foundation at the following link: https://t.co/Ua559GeDWS
— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) October 10, 2020
Insufficient sleep in the week before getting a flu shot can lead to the production of less than 50% of the normal antibody response — a reaction that would render the flu shot largely ineffective, according to a sleep specialist https://t.co/rZ4rCgkqKA
— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2020
Actual voters do not appear to be as obsessed with natural gas drilling as the president thinks they are https://t.co/Ry1iqzkIDp
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 24, 2020
Please let it be so.
Stuart Stevens, former Mitt Romney campaign adviser, says “no Republican can win without winning senior citizens by a good margin. And right now, it’s really the big story in this race, I think, that Republicans are losing senior citizens.” https://t.co/Fv2SPvXysB pic.twitter.com/S50BwGgEi4
— CNN (@CNN) October 24, 2020
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I do not consider that “interference”, he is expressing his opinion. If they are secretly trying to influence the outcome of the vote by illegal means or colluding with US citizens to do wo, then that is full-on interference.
They don’t want Melanoma back.
I was 3 when JFK was assassinated. I remember it because my dad came home from work early and I was sitting on my tricycle in the living room watching the news. My parents were really quiet and were sitting on the couch. Dinner was quiet too. Usually we talked about things or I would show Dad something I drew that day.
The next historical event would have been the moon landing. Everyone was watching it, you could see out our living room window and all the houses I could see across the street had it on. Once school was back in session we talked a lot about it in class and the science behind how we got there. I was 9 then.
Earliest memory of any kind: The neighborhood loudly celebrating the 1st (possibly 2nd) anniversary of VJ Day. My grandfather explained the atom bomb in terms for a 3-yr old.
re: #76 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Actual voters do not appear to be as obsessed with natural gas drilling as the president thinks they are
People know that fossil fuels are yesterday’s energy and that we need to look to the future.
re: #79 A Mom Anon
The next historical event would have been the moon landing. Everyone was watching it, you could see out our living room window and all the houses I could see across the street had it on. Once school was back in session we talked a lot about it in class and the science behind how we got there. I was 9 then.
I was about the same age and I remember running out to look at the moon right after they had landed but before they had stepped out onto the surface and feeling like the proudest kid in the world…
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People know that fossil fuels are yesterday’s energy and that we need to look to the future.
People know the pump price of Regular. It’s $1.74 here.
Some of the posts made me wonder: Should you get a second flu shot after a few months?
Most articles said no need. There is no evidence that antibodies go up. Some articles indicated there are some groups who should, like young children.
Here is one link:
Is this a “good guy” with a gun or a Mass shooter just before his rampage?
Who knows? They look EXACTLY the same.
Yet I’m supposed to BLINDLY bet my life and merely “hope” that he doesn’t open fire?
This violates my RIGHT to pursue happiness. Period.
PASS IT ON pic.twitter.com/MkWr51kDYq— Mark Judson For Congress - Scorched Earth Democrat (@Judson4Congress) October 24, 2020
re: #86 Shropshire Slasher
Someone who plays a lot of Call of Duty.
Solves my Halloween costume problem for the year.
re: #85 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m going with trigger happy asshole just looking for a reason. Keep Calm and Return Fire? On the gun itself?And he’s totally covered so he can’t be identified. Oh hell no. That right there should prevent this asshole from ever owning any firearm anywhere ever. Fuck these people.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
People know the pump price of Regular. It’s $1.74 here.
Here I just bought gasoline the other day in Scottsbluff. Premium was $3.69. Good thing we’re an oil producing state, it might be expensive elsewhere. /s
Oh for fucking fucks sake.
Trump administration grants permit to maskless superspreader ‘worship protest’ on National Mall https://t.co/CVjpmXu3jv
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) October 24, 2020
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oh for fucking fucks sake.
Lemme fix that headline there….
Trump administration grants permit to maskless superspreader ‘worship protest natural selection lottery drawing’ on National Mall
re: #88 A Mom Anon
I’m going with trigger happy asshole just looking for a reason. Keep Calm and Return Fire? On the gun itself?And he’s totally covered so he can’t be identified. Oh hell no. That right there should prevent this asshole from ever owning any firearm anywhere ever. Fuck these people.
9-1-1. See something, say something. It appears there is someone about to start a mass shooting. Be careful, he’s wearing a gas mask.
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
9-1-1. See something, say something. It appears there is someone about to start a mass shooting. Be careful, he’s wearing a gas mask.
Even the freaking Alabama gun laws would not permit that clown within 1000 feet of a demonstration.
re: #90 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oh for fucking fucks sake.
As noted by the Independent , the instigator of this “worship” protest is Sean Feucht, a failed Republican candidate for Congress, singer/musician, and “worship pastor” at the Bethel Church in Redding, California. Feucht was denied a permit for a similar event by the city of Seattle last month. He also provoked the wrath of local health officials in Nashville after holding one of these public gatherings in violation of that city’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Hurricane Epsilon is still plugging along.
The tropical wave in the Caribbean Sea is now expected to become a tropical depression within 48 hours as it approaches western Cuba and the Straits of Florida.
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
Lemme fix that headline there….
Trump administration grants permit to maskless superspreader ‘
worship protestnatural selection lottery drawing’ on National Mall
I wish it were a purely Darwinian thing that affected only the Covidiots but it will also lead to others getting infected as well.
Targeting 11:31 a.m. EDT today for Falcon 9 launch of Starlink from SLC-40; weather is 60% favorable for liftoff
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 24, 2020
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
Contagious disease vectors are about population density.
So when there’s a Rock/Biker rally in South Dakota, the population density at that place skyrockets.
It is indeed the density that is the problem.
Local density spikes by rallies are the problem.
re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Contagious disease vectors are about population density.
Mental density
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
Lemme fix that headline there….
Trump administration grants permit to maskless superspreader ‘
worship protestnatural selection lottery drawing’ on National Mall
I’m really sorry for their families but at this point fuck em, they deserve whatever happens to them.
👋🏼 see ya
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s too bad we can’t corral all these assholes together in the same place once they all show up. Make them breathe all over each other for a couple of weeks, then wait two more weeks to see who lives. Hell, let it be a reality tv show, surely Mark Burnett needs more money to roll around in.
re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Contagious disease vectors are about population density.
So when there’s a Rock/Biker rally in South Dakota, the population density at that place skyrockets.
It is indeed the density that is the problem.
Local density spikes by rallies are the problem.
The second problem is post-infection dispersion of the carriers. Like the bikers, it sounds like these plague carriers will be traveling through all parts of the country.
re: #39 unproven innocence
One of Trump’s latest scorched earth strategies against America:
Rachel Maddow explains … new executive order signed by Donald Trump[Embedded content]
Can this be undone? They seem to have just missed the 90-day window…
re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m really sorry for their families but at this point fuck em, they deserve whatever happens to them.
👋🏼 see ya
While I am totally in support of the morons congregating and killing each other off, it is unfair to the residents of DC; I live right on the MD-DC border. It won’t affect me, but the idiots will interact with the native DC residents.
At this point I’m starting to think that trump knows he’s toast and he wants the HC system to fail on Biden’s watch.
Except it’s going to happen sooner than January as it’s happening in some places right now.
There’s not enough hospitals in rural areas, there’s not enough HC access overall in rural areas. Once cities are beyond capacity the whole thing comes crashing down.
re: #104 sagehen
Can this be undone? They seem to have just missed the 90-day window…
There isn’t a lot of information in the clip, but if they’ve violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which this administration does often, then yes, it can and (hopefully) will be challenged.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Rural hospitals have been in trouble for awhile. This has accelerated their decline. That along with clinic shutdowns in small towns have left parts of the country with no medical care for literally hundreds of miles in some places. It’s fucking wrong. And evil.
re: #108 A Mom Anon
Rural hospitals have been in trouble for awhile. This has accelerated their decline. That along with clinic shutdowns in small towns have left parts of the country with no medical care for literally hundreds of miles in some places. It’s fucking wrong. And evil.
Here in the Panhandle, each county has one county-run hospital mostly paid for with tax money. However, they are primarily set up to deal with everyday problems and certain trauma care like agricultural or auto accidents. They are not set up for an epidemic.
State Republicans are trying to undermine the tax base which supports county-owned hospitals in the state. They keep selling it as “tax relief” for rural residents, but in actuality just like Kansas is to undermine all public services.
re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
At this point I’m starting to think that trump knows he’s toast and he wants the HC system to fail on Biden’s watch.
Except it’s going to happen sooner than January as it’s happening in some places right now.
There’s not enough hospitals in rural areas, there’s not enough HC access overall in rural areas. Once cities are beyond capacity the whole thing comes crashing down.
He’s simply put a spiteful asshole. Oh and I caught Borat 2 last night. Jesus Christ, Rudy is a creep.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yep. This is a message that Democrats have got to counter. The public in general is really ignorant of what taxes are supposed to do and why it’s patriotic to pay them.
re: #112 A Mom Anon
Yep. This is a message that Democrats have got to counter. The public in general is really ignorant of what taxes are supposed to do and why it’s patriotic to pay them.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, I like taxes, with them I buy civilization.
re: #104 sagehen
Can this be undone? They seem to have just missed the 90-day window…
Assuming Biden takes office Jan 20, the executive order can surely be undone, but getting the many unqualified new appointees removed (and *their* actions reversed/remedied) can be problematic. Some things are simply not reversible. Not sure what the 90-day window refers to.
re: #117 Belafon
Write some bills, Bernie, you’re in the Senate.
Seriously he’s in line to be Budget chairman. He needs to focus on that rather than trying to paint himself as the left shadow President. This is why he’s not a good leader btw. It’s all about him and his agenda.
re: #116 unproven innocence
Assuming Biden takes office Jan 20, the executive order can surely be undone, but getting the many unqualified new appointees removed (and *their* actions reversed/remedied) can be problematic. Some things are simply not reversible. Not sure what the 90-day window refers to.
There isn’t enough time to do irreversible damage if he loses. The holiday slowdown, normal bureaucratic processes, and malicious compliance are on our side.
“Sir, this thing that came down is a really bad idea.”
“OK, coordinate it to death.”
re: #119 Decatur Deb
There isn’t enough time to do irreversible damage if he loses. The holiday slowdown, normal bureaucratic processes, and malicious compliance are on our side.
“Sir, this thing that came down is a really bad idea.”
“OK, coordinate it to death.”
Biden should use Trump’s executive order to clean house, then rescind it and then Democrats can pass legislation strengthening civil service protections and countering future executive actions of this nature unless the law is overturned.
Kellyanne Conway is being paid $15,000 a month by the GOP following her White House exit: filings - https://t.co/bptl5NI2aS
— Republican Swine (@RepublicanSwine) October 24, 2020
re: #116 unproven innocence
Assuming Biden takes office Jan 20, the executive order can surely be undone, but getting the many unqualified new appointees removed (and *their* actions reversed/remedied) can be problematic. Some things are simply not reversible. Not sure what the 90-day window refers to.
Seems like a whole lot of “sabotaging government” firings will happen in the future.
I spend lots of time writing about all ways voting is being suppressed. So here’s a hopeful story: we could be seeing a backlash to GOP suppression in states like TX & GA, with voters turning out in record numbers to defend their right to vote from attack https://t.co/mEbSgq3ssd
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 23, 2020
Harris Co clerk @CGHollins deserves lot of credit for making voting easier:
-3x early voting locations
-drive-through voting
-24/7 voting
-arenas as polling places
“Voters are responding by saying, ‘I’ll show you,’ & coming out in record numbers to have their voices heard.” pic.twitter.com/KLXPb8wK1E— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 24, 2020
re: #121 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If conservative voters want to continue to donate to the Republican Party to help their former employees continue to live in the lifestyle they’re accustomed to, I’m not going to tell them no. That’s $15,000 a month that can’t buy advertising or other support for Republican candidates.
re: #122 A Cranky One
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re: #115 A Cranky One
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Stephen Colbert:
Now that the debates are done, you’re all faced with a difficult, important decision.
Are you going to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on November 3rd, or are you going to vote early to have your vote counted before November 3rd?
A helicopter has flown a COVID-19 patient from the Netherlands to a German intensive care unit. It was a noisy reminder of how the coronavirus is again gripping Europe and straining countries’ health care systems. https://t.co/YcZxjIrOK4
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 23, 2020
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If conservative voters want to continue to donate to the Republican Party to help their former employees continue to live in the lifestyle they’re accustomed to, I’m not going to tell them no. That’s $15,000 a month that can’t buy overpriced advertising from well connected firms advertising or other support for Republican candidates.
re: #116 unproven innocence
Assuming Biden takes office Jan 20, the executive order can surely be undone, but getting the many unqualified new appointees removed (and *their* actions reversed/remedied) can be problematic. Some things are simply not reversible. Not sure what the 90-day window refers to.
Executive orders can be undone if it hasn’t been 90 days since it was signed; that’s how Trump was able to reduce the Bears Ears National Monuument.
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesman said on Twitter, adding that he is well and in isolation. Duda’s diagnosis comes amid a surge in the number of confirmed new infections and virus deaths in Poland. https://t.co/GftU504PlX
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 24, 2020
“We can’t preach water and drink wine.” The Czech Republic’s prime minister calls for the resignation or firing of his health minister after he was caught visiting a Prague restaurant amid strict COVID-19 measures. https://t.co/7SX8gb1PL4
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 23, 2020
Omaha World-Herald:
Omahans commemorate 1891 lynching of George Smith to set record straight, learn from past mistakes
He was accused of raping a white girl who subsequently died. He was awaiting trial and was dragged out of the jail and beaten to death, then his body hung from a streetcar wire downtown.
This is the second such event; one was held last year in Omaha for the 100th anniversary of the lynching of Will Brown.
Despite a blustering north wind and the ongoing pandemic, more than 60 people came together Friday to commemorate the lynching of a Black man in Omaha 129 years ago.
The people stood, masked and socially distanced, on Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza between the Douglas County Courthouse and the City-County Building. They listened as a series of speakers read a historian’s account of how a white mob murdered George Smith and hanged him from a streetcar wire at 17th and Harney Streets in 1891.
The people on the plaza scooped courthouse soil into jars, which will be displayed along with Smith’s story in Omaha and at a national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama.
Similar events have been taking place across the nation in recent years in collaborations between local organizations and governments and the Montgomery-based nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative.
They include collecting soil from sites where Black people were lynched and erecting historical markers in the cities.
Organizers hope to raise awareness about racist violence in the past and spark dialogue about race and justice today.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to know about dangerous places where COVID transmission is almost a certainty so you could stay outta them places?
There’s a new on-line tool that does just that. It’s called “Donald Trump’s Rally Schedule.”— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 24, 2020
#tcot has been swarmed by liberals to expose conservatives to facts and news.
I am in love with @DanRather twitter https://t.co/BsbUg83fdq
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) October 24, 2020
LOL he’s getting mocked by everyone.
My wife has the gift of premonition.
Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”.
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed.— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) October 23, 2020
Last night I dreamed that I owned an art studio in a small mountain town and the Olsen twins wanted to use it for a fashion show. It was VERY fun and brought a lot of tourism to the city, and I got to keep some of the floral centerpieces. https://t.co/wxlhLZELby
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) October 24, 2020
I remember the 1976 election because my stepmother (who I hated, I was 5 years old!) asked me who won and I said Ford because she loved Jimmy Carter. I now adore my stepmother, by the way. I vividly remember the Iran hostage crisis because my dad would watch Ted Koppel every night and they would broadcast the daily count when the show began. DAY 26, DAY 174, DAY 222, etc.
What the fuck happened to the West? We’re lost.
Just so you know that we in the US haven’t cornered the market on boorish, dumb, and irresponsible… https://t.co/z65UD93EwY
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) October 24, 2020
I had to unfollow my wingnut cousin. Nothing but wingnut propaganda. It’s sad.
re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What the fuck happened to the West? We’re lost.
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re: #142 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What the fuck happened to the West? We’re lost.
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Cyber warfare happened. I keep on going back to this thesis. But I feel the industrial revolution defined warfare last century. I likewise feel the digital one defines ours. I’m sure the academics can describe it better than I ever could.
re: #144 Renaissance_Man
The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.
There’s a special place for Rupert for his role in disinformation.
re: #144 Renaissance_Man
The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.
They drove it, but it could not have taken root as it has if we better educated our children on how to deal with media, government and science.
It was the attitude that education is another “business expense” to be minimized instead of looking on it as an investment in society. That started under Reagan and continued apace ever since then.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They drove it, but it could not have taken root as it has if we better educated our children on how to deal with media, government and science.
It was the attitude that education is another “business expense” to be minimized instead of looking on it as an investment in society. That started under Reagan and continued apace ever since then.
Murdoch built it slow. Early Fox, because I tried watching it, was very much like “We know smoking is bad, but why can’t they just push it to one side of the restaurant.” It built from there into what it is today one small slight at a time. And very few people are aware that they are the frog in the pot of water.
I really think it’s processing information. We have more access to information than any proceeding generation. So it’s easy for conspiracy theories & racism to spread in that environment.
Trump campaign sending out Ivanka in last-ditch effort to win over suburban women: reporthttps://t.co/k25kOnhUB4
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 24, 2020
that seems not ideal https://t.co/ZtZI42meZg
— Cassandra, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody (@ChrisWarcraft) October 24, 2020
They are desperate for that one electoral vote. Mike Pence was in Carter Lake, Iowa (the exclave of Iowa surrounded by Omaha and the Missouri River) a couple weeks ago, now this.
President Trump planning Tuesday rally in Omaha (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Considering our exploding coronavirus cases in the state, he continues Genocide Tour 2020.
re: #151 Belafon
Trump campaign sending out Ivanka in last-ditch effort to win over suburban women
Suburban women should respond appropriately to the respect shown their intelligence.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They drove it, but it could not have taken root as it has if we better educated our children on how to deal with media, government and science.
It was the attitude that education is another “business expense” to be minimized instead of looking on it as an investment in society. That started under Reagan and continued apace ever since then.
Education in and of itself is no barrier. Every surgeon’s lounge in America is filled with Trumpers.
Education specifically in the management of information and disinformation also was never possible, because the march of technology has been too fast. The internet is barely two decades old. Facebook and Youtube, even less. The relentless hammering of endless cable news and the ubiquity of 24 hour television is only barely older. Perhaps as a species we will improve on this in coming generations.
Adults need to adult so kids can kid:
I would ask: why do schools have closing metrics and restaurants, bars, casinos etc don’t? Instead: prioritize schools by setting metrics determining when to close everything else so schools can stay open!! Priorities are all wrong #schoolsnotbars
— Helen Jenkins (@jenkinshelen) October 24, 2020
re: #151 Belafon
Why not send Ghislaine Maxwell, she’s good at recruiting
— Amphibious (@hmsthunderfish) October 24, 2020
Trump: “80,000 new coronavirus cases in one day. Democrats & Joe Biden are running around like that’s a lot. Not me. It’ll be 120,000 before the election, maybe more if I can squeeze in an extra rally each day. U-S-A #1”
— Top Conservative Cat (cat/cat) (@TeaPartyCat) October 24, 2020
It would be a wage people could live on:
It’s Saturday so you should know that if the minimum wage had increased at the rate of productivity since 1960, it would be $22.50. Instead, it’s $7.25.
That’s $15.25 per hour that’s disappeared (or taken) from the pockets of low income workers the past 60 years…— Joe Sanberg (@JosephNSanberg) October 24, 2020
Voting is literally a societal construct designed for societal decisions. There’s nothing personal about it. Everything about voting is meant to represent the polity, not the individual. The ballot is even kept secret! https://t.co/YMOBHSKohz
— Kaitlin Byrd: Apocalypse Diarist (@GothamGirlBlue) October 24, 2020
Politics is and has always been about how people interact with the world and each other. It is impossible to atomize. You can tell yourself that your vote isn’t an investment in collective society, but lying to yourself and others is a punk move during a genocide.
— Kaitlin Byrd: Apocalypse Diarist (@GothamGirlBlue) October 24, 2020
re: #119 Decatur Deb
There isn’t enough time to do irreversible damage if he loses. The holiday slowdown, normal bureaucratic processes, and malicious compliance are on our side.
“Sir, this thing that came down is a really bad idea.”
“OK, coordinate it to death.”
As a former bureaucrat (in a small way), I know that all you have to do to slow things to snail’s pace is to follow the rules exactly, dotting every “i” and crossing every “t.”
So Georgia is on a list of states rated with a high chance of violence by white terrorists from now til at least Election Day. I’d bet on well past that, especially if they don’t get their way on 11/3. MSNBC had a map up, I didn’t catch the rest of the states, but this is out of control.
The more I think about it the more I think there have got to be a set of federal level rules that every state has to follow with appropriate penalties for not doing that. No guns, no blocking ballot boxes set up for early voting, no political ads or signs within 100 yards minimum of any polling place or wearing candidate based clothing accessories. Early voting should be uniform across the country, a set amount of voting machines per 1000 people, etc.
I’m tired. Exhausted. And scared. And angry that this is fucking happening. And angry at anyone who thinks this is ok.
re: #33 CleverToad
Kennedy assassination, like several other Lizards in the getting-to-Medicare range
My very pregnant 23 YO mother had me and my sister and was shopping in Grants department store when it was announced over the loudspeaker. Mom completely lost her shit. What I didn’t know at the time because gee, I was only three: Dad was in Indianapolis at some sort of school to learn how to install very complex phone systems and wasn’t expected to come home until Christmas. However, this was so shocking and traumatizing, the company (Western Electric) sent the students home the next day, not to come back until the next week.
That said, I remember the day of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy very well. Remember where mom went to vote (in someone’s garage with voting booths set up), remembered asking her why we couldn’t go to Shakey’s for a pizza like on her voting receipt where we’d get a discount, and, of course, remembered the TV coverage.
re: #155 Nyet
It’s missing the sunglasses on top of the brim, and needs a grey goatee.
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Did….did he actually say that? I only ask because it’s impossible to tell anymore.
re: #85 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Many in that thread asking for origin of photo. According to Valley News, it’s
Mark Randall of the Boogaloo movement hands out pamphlets explaining the group and its values during the protest at City Plaza in front of the State House on Saturday, April 18, 2020.
re: #144 Renaissance_Man
The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.
Umm… no. The Murdoch (or “tabloid”) press won’t do it, nor will RWNJ talk radio or phony “evangelical” preachers; you need to prepare the ground with a populace steeped in ignorance and insularity.
re: #92 Dr Lizardo
Lemme fix that headline there….
Trump administration grants permit to maskless superspreader ‘
worship protestnatural selection lottery drawing’ on National Mall
I keep hoping that Sean Feucht and his enablers at Bethel Church Redding get their comeuppance. The *best* comeuppance would be a Biden win, because so many of associated “prophets and seers” are saying Gawd will give Trump a win.
Back in 2008, there were so many of these “prophets and seers” running around, sending their “prophecies” out to email lists. There was this guy who collected them on a website day by day and to him and his followers, it looked like McCain was going to win. The “prophecy” portion of the website (which had hundreds and hundreds of prophecies) came down very shortly after the election and went into a black hole. But I remember the crazy. It’s going to be harder in 2020 for people to deny their “prophecies”, since so many are on video and the videos are out there in the aether.
I so hope Biden wins, because a Biden win would be a comeuppance. A *huge* Biden win would serve as yet another blow to the tottering Evangelical Industrial Complex.
Moran arguing very hard that ballots aren’t really secret.
The ballot is numbered and assigned to me and then scanned. There is a computer record of how I voted.
— Echuta (@Echuta) October 24, 2020
No, the number is put on the envelope, not the ballot. Once the ballot is removed from the envelope and put in the pile, there is no record of how your vote attaches to you. The number is what’s kept to show you voted, not your particular vote.
Here we go …
Get the winter coats, stocking hats, gloves,snow boots, and scoop shovels ready western Nebraska, here comes a shot of winter. In all seriousness, let’s make sure we are prepared for this storm. #Winteriscoming #DriveSafe #thinkwarmthoughts pic.twitter.com/LYeoSrSOFQ
— NSP Troop E (@NSP_TroopE) October 24, 2020
Atlantic 5-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook
Interests along the northern Gulf Coast should keep an eye on the tropical wave.
Bible twist.
Voting is patient. Voting is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) October 23, 2020
This stuff ain’t easy or the most comfortable for lots of folks. It’s not always comfortable for me. I’ve been hung up on many times, sometimes I feel awkward and ridiculous making calls, but then I help someone and I know there are thousands of others doing this work with me.
— Mandy Patinkin (@PatinkinMandy) October 24, 2020
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Atlantic 5-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook
Interests along the northern Gulf Coast should keep an eye on the tropical wave.
Oh, why the hell not?
Saw that my vote was received by Virginia. Still listening to Sandberg’s Lincoln and I’m feeling optimistic about what we can accomplish in a post Trump world.
re: #176 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Saw that my vote was received by Virginia. Still listening to Sandberg’s Lincoln and I’m feeling optimistic about what we can accomplish in a post Trump world.
Here soon I’m going to have to enter the ring for Round 2 with my car. I hope I can get the job actually done this time.
re: #175 Decatur Deb
Oh, why the hell not?
One last chance for a hurricane party before the War on Christmas begins in earnest.
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Damn. It’s that time of year again isn’t it? Shit, and me with no giant pentacle in the backyard, I can’t find my Satanic Bible and I’m out of goats to sacrifice. Sigh, I am so disorganized….
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
One last chance for a hurricane party before the War on Christmas begins in earnest.
With the proper timing it can wipe out our trick-or-treat AND in-person voter turnout.
re: #175 Decatur Deb
Oh, why the hell not?
Belize radar showing the developing tropical storm in the western Caribbean.
The entire region is about to be shellacked with winter storms.
re: #179 A Mom Anon
Damn. It’s that time of year again isn’t it? Shit, and me with no giant pentacle in the backyard, I can’t find my Satanic Bible and I’m out of goats to sacrifice. Sigh, I am so disorganized….
My wife suggested you could sacrifice a virgin, if you can find one.
re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I already had it, and it isn’t like everyone doesn’t know about it, so at this point anybody willing to go out and get it can literally FOAD. Sure, it’s a burden on hospitals and morgues, but they want to “live free and die hard,” and I can’t stop them. So stack them like cord wood, fire up the crematoriums, and make room for the rest of the population that doesn’t plan to get sick or die. Just don’t expect a lot of tears, space, or time spent mourning a preventable loss.
re: #184 PrairieQueen
I already had it, and it isn’t like everyone doesn’t know about it, so at this point anybody willing to go out and get it can literally FOAD. Sure, it’s a burden on hospitals and morgues, but they want to “live free and die hard,” and I can’t stop them. So stack them like cord wood, fire up the crematoriums, and make room for the rest of the population that doesn’t plan to get sick or die. Just don’t expect a lot of tears, space, or time spent mourning a preventable loss.
The rise of the introverts.
I spent a long time on ships with no way to leave (unless I wanted to go overboard). I have no problem with sitting in my house for long periods of time with brief “liberty calls” to go to the store or whatnot.
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hmmm. That could be tricky.
re: #166 Dr Lizardo
Did….did he actually say that? I only ask because it’s impossible to tell anymore.
He did tweet this:
The Fake News is talking about CASES, CASES, CASES. This includes many low risk people. Media is doing everything possible to create fear prior to November 3rd. The Cases are up because TESTING is way up, by far the most, and best, in the world. Mortality rate is DOWN 85% plus!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2020
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife suggested you could sacrifice a virgin, if you can find one.
It’s too long to CPAC.
Good luck with that.
In spite of the coronavirus pandemic, things are flowing smoothly in the Sidney school system.
Parent-teacher conferences were held this week with a Zoom meeting option for parents as well as the standard in-person sessions.
“I visit two or three schools a week, and when I get to the classrooms, it’s pretty much normal,” Sidney Public Schools superintendent Jay Ehler said. “It truly is. We have the protocols in place to keep kids safe and staff safe and avoid quarantines. A lot of why you’re wearing masks is to avoid quarantines. Really, as far as the teaching and learning going on, it’s pretty normal here in Sidney. We feel really good about it.”
Students in grades 5-12 wear masks any time they can’t distance to 6 feet. Grades 1-4 are in “masks on the move.” If they’re doing a reading group or any activity where they’re close to each other, they wear masks.
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Sidney schools doing business as usual (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
For a lot of people, we can isolate and entertain ourselves without breaking a sweat. It’s called any day ending in a Y. I realize it’s much harder for people that work outside the home, but the idea of keeping a low profile and not spreading shit isn’t that hard to wrap your head around. It’s common sense and it’s courtesy.
Unless it’s all about your freedumb. And I’m out of sympathy, frankly. The rest of the population is on defense because some people choose to offend. For those that choose not to protect themselves, just please “be a dear” and die quietly, with your boots on, without undue fanfare, and without sucking resources.
Libertarian dragging continues over purity pony voting:
I did this last time with millions of others and now we are in this mess with this President. I’m going against my deeply flawed party for the first time in my life and voting blue. Moving out of the GOP after the election.
— Karin Stephens (@karinforjustice) October 24, 2020
Dammit. Six feet AND wear your damn mask. The six foot rule was when we thought that it was just big droplets, but that’s not the case. Masking reduces how much smaller droplets/naked virus floats, but you still don’t want to be breathing on other people.
The stupid is killing people. Scientific knowledge is not static, and biology does not lend itself to instant understanding.
re: #144 Renaissance_Man
The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.
All the “immigration is bad” folks listening to an immigrant’s media station.
re: #194 NetworkKed
Dammit. Six feet AND wear your damn mask. The six foot rule was when we thought that it was just big droplets, but that’s not the case. Masking reduces how much smaller droplets/naked virus floats, but you still don’t want to be breathing on other people.
The stupid is killing people. Scientific knowledge is not static, and biology does not lend itself to instant understanding.
But millions of people believe scientists have a secret agenda to get more government grants, others are religious anti-science people who think the Bible and its ancients writings will protect them, others yet are simply overwhelmed by propaganda and taken in by the con because they can’t discern the truth, and plenty don’t understand civic responsibility from undermining public education since Reagan.
We’re being sucked in by a black hole of propaganda and stupid.
The Taliban has denied responsibility.
Explosion reported in Pul-e-Khoshk area in west of Kabul. At least 13 people died. According to the ministry, 30 more were wounded in the blast: Afghanistan’s TOLOnews
— ANI (@ANI) October 24, 2020
re: #144 Renaissance_Man
The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.
Murdoch hates freedom. That’s the only explanation I can come up with that makes sense. He wants a dictatorship and thinks his family will fill the Goebbels role.
re: #198 William Lewis
Murdoch hates freedom. That’s the only explanation I can come up with that makes sense. He wants a dictatorship and thinks his family will fill the Goebbels role.
More like Julius Streicher.
Meanwhile in Alabama: pic.twitter.com/sgGgnXVxJR
— Fired Jared Kushner 💀 (@Tacticus22) October 24, 2020
re: #198 William Lewis
But there are so many candidates for the Goebbels role already. It would have to be a lottery between the Trumps, Murdochs, Kochs, and so many less grand individuals.
Turning the country blue with accountability would go a long way to burying this foothold. People need to demand the truth, not what they want to hear. Prominent people need to suffer prominent sentences for lying and grifting, from the local sheriff on up to corporate execs and politicians. We’re talking clean house, down to the last cockroach. Truth needs to matter.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They drove it, but it could not have taken root as it has if we better educated our children on how to deal with media, government and science.
It was the attitude that education is another “business expense” to be minimized instead of looking on it as an investment in society. That started under Reagan and continued apace ever since then.
We act as though there is something unique about this time — about new technology allowing the spread of disinformation. This ability to promulgate lies likely arose when language was first developed and poets and orators passed stories down to future generations. It solidified with the development of written language, so that it was no longer necessary to rely on fragile memories to fabricate story lines. Orators and church leaders demonized those who were different and led crusades that killed over a million people.
Gutenberg made it easier to spread the written word. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion didn’t need modern technology to spread lies — it was there before radio broadcasting and movies; Henry Ford was happy to distribute copies of this propaganda in the 1920’s. Hitler didn’t need Zuckerberg or Jack to incite mass murder; Father Coughlin relied on radio to spread his words of hate. Lindbergh, a true hero, and his America First association had no problems in endorsing Hitler’s views.
A majority of our Founding Fathers of sainted memory owned slaves and participated in an institution that endorsed rape, torture, and murder. Andrew Jackson had no trouble with genocide, just like the Europeans who settled here initially. Lynchings , voter disenfranchisement, discrimination, 1921 Tulsa or 1919 Chicago did not need our technology to promote their evil.
Highly educated professional people support Trump. Let’s not fall into the trap of thinking there is something new about this time and the response of ordinary citizens to messages of white supremacy or hatred toward those who are different. What we should realize is that people are the same as they were millennia ago and newer technologies are not more insidious than those that preceded them. What is needed are leaders who promote a message of unity and caring — and a hope that they will succeed when all those who preceded them have failed abysmally.
The media are actually picking up on the topic of the last thread.
It’s been nice to see them finally start to face up to what’s happening, even though it’s 4 years late.
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Another event was cut short because he was too cold. This racist demagogue is incredibly weak, and very low energy.
re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Another event was cut short because he was too cold. This racist demagogue is incredibly weak, and very low energy.
Only he is still talking, I wish he had actually cut it short.
re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Another event was cut short because he was too cold. This racist demagogue is incredibly weak, and very low energy.
Probably too ill and relying on steroids to keep him going. Someone else in his state of health who wasn’t running for office would probably be staying home until a full recovery from the coronavirus.
For sportsball fans:
Army-Navy Game to be held at West Point for first time since World War II (Army Times)
The 121st Army-Navy Game will be hosted by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, this December, marking the first time it has been played at a home site since World War II, the two service academies’ athletic directors announced Friday.
The game was supposed to be held in Philadelphia, but it was moved after Pennsylvania placed attendance restrictions on outdoor events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Those limits would not have allowed the entire Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen to attend, according to a West Point statement.
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re: #208 Hecuba’s daughter
He’s overweight, covered in fat, which would keep him warm, except he has no circulation because he lacks anything close to fitness. He has no balance, he has no circulation. He’s like a big piece of squishy furniture.
re: #162 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
As a former bureaucrat (in a small way), I know that all you have to do to slow things to snail’s pace is to follow the rules exactly, dotting every “i” and crossing every “t.”
Actually, for career bureaucrats, this November-December is going to be extra slow and is had fuck all to do with anything but or self-interest. I’m taking the entire month of December of because I haven’t taken any vacations. I have more than 300 hours of annual leave right now, that will translate to around 350 hours come 2021. I only can carry over 240. Plus, all our fucking awards are in time of now because we have no money. I am not the only person in the gov who has to take a shit-ton of time off or lose it. QED, natural work slowdown.
re: #206 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Another event was cut short because he was too cold. This racist demagogue is incredibly weak, and very low energy.
Cold? Hot? Menopause?
re: #210 PrairieQueen
He’s overweight, covered in fat, which would keep him warm, except he has no circulation because he lacks anything close to fitness. He has no balance, he has no circulation. He’s like a big piece of squishy furniture.
Beanbag chair
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The rise of the introverts.
I spent a long time on ships with no way to leave (unless I wanted to go overboard). I have no problem with sitting in my house for long periods of time with brief “liberty calls” to go to the store or whatnot.
It probably also helps that you aren’t a science-denying psychotically selfish and self-centered prickbag who gives zero shits about anybody else.