From EARTH TO DORA, out now. Stream/buy: https://ffm.to/e_etd
A typical EELS fan finds solace in EELS music. The feel-good hit of the feel-worst year.
Directed by Greg Barnes
Starring Jon Hamm, Mike Mitchell, Eric Edelstein, Caroline Bloom and Jude B. Lanston.
Right wingers are advertising that they would literally rather die than share a version of reality with liberals and we’re all supposed to act like this is normal https://t.co/UAycQQ0uCU
— Alex (@JewishWonk) November 15, 2020
False. NASA was not a disaster when Trump took over. Obama set in motion the process that led to the successful SpaceX launch with astronauts. He decided to send crews via commercial spacecraft in 2011, in the face of congressional opposition. https://t.co/71VkAIyRLu
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 16, 2020
I am watching GI Jews Jewish Americans in WWII on NJTV. This program is available to download from amazon.
njtvonline.org
Too soon to celebrate, Rebecca! The war on Christmas can neither be won nor lost. It exists outside of time and the rational universe.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2020
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
Literally killing themselves to own the Libs.
It’s kind of … weird … to see a president-elect doing things a president is expected to do. I’m not sure the world is ready for this. https://t.co/ILqIvnekDo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2020
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
Well, if they post photographs of their events it might make contact tracing easier.
re: #4 Charles Johnson
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The war on Christmas won’t be won until Santa Claus’s head is mounted on a pike somewhere in the far Canadian north.
re: #8 thedopefishlives
The war on Christmas won’t be won until Santa Claus’s head is mounted on a pike somewhere in the far Canadian north.
Hey! Don’t drag us Canadians into this!
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Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park on why it is hard to design the perfect garbage bin to keep bears from breaking into it: “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
— math prof (@mathematicsprof) November 14, 2020
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
Hey! Don’t drag us Canadians into this!
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For what it’s worth, I’m about 80% sure there’s a petition for Minnesota to secede from the US and become a part of Ontario.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
Huh.
“As the Senator stated in the hearing, this commercial provider cannot deliver the trash from the space station much less take humans into space and back.”https://t.co/bhAlajIOsW— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 16, 2020
Republicans have a brainwashed army of angry drones they can call on to promote any ridiculous right wing BS they’re peddling, on any given day. The drones get all up in social media and parrot the latest fake outrage, free of charge.
Democrats don’t have an equivalent.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 16, 2020
re: #8 thedopefishlives
The war on Christmas won’t be won until Santa Claus’s head is mounted on a pike somewhere in the far Canadian north.
Why in the far north? How about the entrance to the Peace Bridge?
re: #13 Charles Johnson
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As was posted in the last thread, it’s also true that the right-wing memes and bulkshit are an easier story to sell to anyone who desperately wants to blame “others” for their problems than reality. Junk food vs. vegetables.
J. Fucking. C.
Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency, not even allowing our side to show, which we are just getting ready to do, how badly shattered and violated our great Constitution has been in the 2020 Election. It was attacked,..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
….owned Dominion Voting Systems, turned down by Texas and many others because it was not good or secure, those responsible for the safeguarding of our Constitution cannot allow the Fake results of the 2020 Mail-In Election to stand. The World is watching!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
Why does the Fake News Media continuously assume that Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency, not even allowing our side to show, which we are just getting ready to do, how badly shattered and violated our great Constitution has been in the 2020 Election. It was attacked,..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
….owned Dominion Voting Systems, turned down by Texas and many others because it was not good or secure, those responsible for the safeguarding of our Constitution cannot allow the Fake results of the 2020 Mail-In Election to stand. The World is watching!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020
Whiny. Little. Bitch. With a tinfoil hat.
re: #18 teleskiguy
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Whiny. Little. Bitch. With a tinfoil hat.
I know that 2021 is not going to make this man go away. He’s not going to shut up until he dies. I hope he doesn’t pull a Herman Cain and keep tweeting after he dies.
*Democrats set up for new member dinner*
*get ratio’d into oblivion and cancel*
*Republicans hold their dinner anyway* https://t.co/NGNs1Ubkdy— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) November 16, 2020
Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald
Educators in Nebraska and elsewhere are struggling against burnout, fear and exhaustion at a time when schools can ill afford to lose any staff.
“They’re exhausted, and they feel abandoned,” said Tim Royers, president of the Millard Education Association.
Teachers said they feel overwhelmed and overworked, especially where they have been asked to simultaneously teach both students learning remotely and those sitting in their classrooms.
Teaching both is like doing “two jobs for the price of one,” one teacher said.
While school leaders praise teachers for their efforts, the teacher said it’s like “high-fiving us while we’re drowning.”
Teachers who spoke to The World-Herald about their experiences in the classroom said they feared retribution if their names were published (my emphasis).
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Gov. Ricketts busy trying to burn out educators in “government schools.”
Nebraska teachers say they’re exhausted, stressed after months of teaching in the pandemic
He’s tweeting this as his campaign just filed a revised lawsuit that scrapped the very allegations he’s making here about observers in PA pic.twitter.com/cvqKLfJqT1
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) November 16, 2020
re: #18 teleskiguy
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Whiny. Little. Bitch. With a tinfoil hat.
Well, are any of these guys getting into the neighborhood where Dominion Voting Systems can sue them for libel?
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald
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Gov. Ricketts busy trying to burn out educators in “government schools.”
Nebraska teachers say they’re exhausted, stressed after months of teaching in the pandemic
There was an article in the local news that a survey showed that some 28% of Minnesota educators wanted to resign or retire due to the stress of COVID-related classroom challenges.
re: #23 The Pie Overlord!
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He’s saying the campaign is “getting ready [to show]”, implying that these challenges aren’t the actual effort. Which doesn’t make any sense from the perspective of timing.
re: #21 Dread Pirate Ron
There’s those $500 toilet seats.
re: #27 thedopefishlives
They’re commencin’ to fixin’ to just about start to get the show on the road.
No humor today, just a plea. We’re tired. We’re stretched. Today I’m reviewing “crisis standards of care” protocols for #COVID19 (polite-speak for “who doesn’t get care”). Since @GovRicketts refuses mandates, you can help: use takeout, don’t dine-in. Don’t gather. Mask.
Please.— David Quimby, MD (@ID_Doc_Quimby) November 15, 2020
“Trump Refuses to Concede to ‘Rigged Election,’ Hunkers Down with Armed Faithful in ‘Trump Tower White House’” #headlinesfromthefuture pic.twitter.com/Lg8lfW1syX
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) October 16, 2016
re: #27 thedopefishlives
He’s saying the campaign is “getting ready [to show]”, implying that these challenges aren’t the actual effort. Which doesn’t make any sense from the perspective of timing.
In 2 weeks….
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
North Dakota and Utah have moved to statewide mask mandates. Even if you don’t like them, they work. I don’t like speed bumps but they appear to be successful at slowing down traffic and preventing accidents.
It’s past time for a statewide mask mandate in Nebraska. https://t.co/Hw2uPyrrrf— Sara Howard (@saraehoward1) November 14, 2020
The person who has the power to change this is @GovRicketts. I cannot overstate how bleak this is. Please stay home and wear your mask all the time.
The wave is upon us. https://t.co/SxwEbEnwpC— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) November 15, 2020
re: #29 jaunte
They’re commencin’ to fixin’ to just about start to get the show on the road.
There’s a doin’s a transpirein’!
No doubt. It’s a Mercer/Kremlin op https://t.co/fm0UehIN7g
— Ballerina X (@ballerinaX) November 16, 2020
Which candy world would YOU run to first? #CandyLand pic.twitter.com/G4oECpO0oE
— Food Network (@FoodNetwork) November 16, 2020
re: #26 Scout
To the dear people of LGF, can some kind soul please explain this cartoon to me? A “friend” sent it to me, saying it’s really funny once you figure it out. Well, I can’t figure it out and he’s not spilling. (I feel like Elaine in that one episode of “Seinfeld”.)
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Not 100% but sure seems to be riffing on…
Canoeing a joint is when a joint burns on one side but not the other (or, more accurately, it burns more on one side than the other). This uneven burn causes the joint to look like a canoe because it’s open on one side (hence the name). It’s a giant waste of weed and money.
Here’s a thing I want everyone to understand.
There is a roughly 12-day lag between rising cases rising hospitalizations.
So the 1.5 million (!!!) confirmed cases from the last 2 weeks have not yet factored into stories about packed emergency rooms. https://t.co/JID98tWjbt pic.twitter.com/3DNeiX2esb— Ed Yong (@edyong209) November 15, 2020
I say Iowa, but you could do this same analysis for any number of states, especially in the Midwest. The near-term future is already baked in, which is why you have to act *ahead* of the virus. (See Problem #8 in this story about 9 intuitive fallacies.) https://t.co/HnAvNf4gMk
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) November 15, 2020
Don’t forget the long-haulers, many of whom are still struggling with lasting symptoms from COVID-19 infections in *the spring*.
A lot of the 1.5 million Americans who were infected this month—many young & prev healthy—will still be sick well into 2021.https://t.co/VnMsxPhvdW— Ed Yong (@edyong209) November 16, 2020
He “WINS!!!!!” by disenfranchising military voters.
“A GOP-produced list of allegedly illegal voters in the state of Nevada turned out to be legal voters who were soldiers, sailors and their spouses stationed elsewhere.” https://t.co/P4O1muWJ9V
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 15, 2020
re: #33 Belafon
This is Nebraska. The gray counties have no hospitals. The orange counties have no ICUs. Almost all advanced emergency care in the state is available only in Lincoln and Omaha. @GovRicketts, what is going to happen if #COVIDー19 spreads to rural Nebraska? https://t.co/wLSXThOB8E pic.twitter.com/VgwCCtENTn
— Ted Genoways (@TedGenoways) March 24, 2020
About that, it already did spread to rural Nebraska and is still accellerating.
re: #29 jaunte
They’re commencin’ to fixin’ to just about start to
get the show on the roadrelease the Kraken.
As per that wingnut lawyer woman.
Why is this “cop” wearing armor from the latest Assassin’s Creed game? https://t.co/uji0AIgFAi
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 16, 2020
⚠️MOTHER OF GOD—El Paso nurse’s horrifying story of hospital situation. There is a COVID room nicknamed “the pit” where no doctors enter, patients only get 3 CPR cycles—patients are sent there to just wait, code & die. None has survived “the pit”. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/vvih3rVzPL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 14, 2020
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) November 16, 2020
Seriously, this is the kind of thing we used to hear about in failed third world countries.
Not here. Alas, Trump is Trump. https://t.co/wc4clJ9up9— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) November 16, 2020
re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron
Wgat the fuck, are those Herman Munsters pumps??
— John (@jck1962) November 16, 2020
re: #45 Belafon
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He knows he’ll get his ass thoroughly kicked, and is not about to sabotage himself. Too bad he already did that by siding with Trump’s insane election fraud claims.
I think I really mastered third-grade math — fractions, polygons, you name it. https://t.co/MCLSUehnOe
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 16, 2020
On the good side, they’re going after every vote:
https://t.co/yGo83RQjhI Good Start
— dwayne cobb (@dwaynecobb) November 16, 2020
re: #49 Belafon
I accomplished staying alive and not getting sick.
re: #49 Belafon
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I accomplished my first mail-in election, in which I proceeded to VOTE THAT MOTHERFUCKER OUT.
re: #52 thedopefishlives
I accomplished my first mail-in election, in which I proceeded to VOTE THAT MOTHERFUCKER OUT.
Ditto.
When you want to pick on Senator Richard Shelby, just remember that in Alabama we call him “the smart one”.
Though in seriousness, I made some major professional accomplishments this year. Like, say what you will about how shitty 2020 was - and it absolutely was, especially when it came to home projects and home situations - but I am the shit when it comes to my job. /braggart off
re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #49 Belafon
I managed to get the house we’ve been living in since 1990 cleaned up and sold.
re: #8 thedopefishlives
The war on Christmas won’t be won until Santa Claus’s head is mounted on a pike somewhere in the far Canadian north.
It’s not the Canadians fault that Santa’s Workshop sunk into the sea thanks to global warming!
This is how we get 3000 deaths a day by Christmas.
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) November 16, 2020
Don’t do it, people.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Literally killing themselves to own the Libs.
As long as they take no one else with them, I have no problem with that.
Only problem is they are taking other people with them, the barbaric slime buckets.
Here’s the current map for a gathering of 15 people. For much of the midwest the chances are >50% that you’ll share the Thanksgiving table with someone who has Covid-19. Who would take those odds with grandma or grandpa? pic.twitter.com/J5wB78t1sn
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) November 16, 2020
re: #60 makeitstop
Welp. Just got a tornado warning here. Great.
Have you tried seeing if OAN or Newsmax are saying there isn’t going to be one?
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re: #8 thedopefishlives
The war on Christmas won’t be won until Santa Claus’s head is mounted on a pike somewhere in the far Canadian north.
re: #62 Romantic Heretic
As long as they take no one else with them, I have no problem with that.
Only problem is they are taking other people with them, the barbaric slime buckets.
Even though they take a lot of us with them, CV19 is biased towards killing the stupid. In time it will raise the average IQ of the country.
re: #67 Decatur Deb
Even though they take a lot of us with them, CV19 is biased towards killing the stupid. In time it will raise the average IQ of the country.
“In hindsight, historians see in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 the beginnings of the Great American Renaissance.”
re: #67 Decatur Deb
Even though they take a lot of us with them, CV19 is biased towards killing the stupid. In time it will raise the average IQ of the country.
But how much collateral damage will we have to endure before we get there?
The number of Omaha and Nebraska doctors begging for help on social is astounding. Will they be heard?
re: #11 thedopefishlives
As long as they’re willing to pay their share of taxes, sure.
re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg
But how much collateral damage will we have to endure before we get there?
As much as we are too stupid, as a community, to prevent. Look on the bright side—less stress on Social Security, easier access to assisted living facilities, perhaps even a significant dent in the housing shortage.
re: #71 Romantic Heretic
As long as they’re willing to pay their share of taxes, sure.
Minnesota is one of the higher taxed states in the country already. Unlike other places, we don’t mind paying for a nice quality of life.
re: #1 The Pie Overlord!
We’re obligated to reach out to them for reasons.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It won’t be heard by the masses until our elected officialstake it more serious.Many people older, poor and those living in rural Nebraska don’t have internet or want to use the internet and social media. They are getting coffe shop news at the local diner. Much of it not true.
— Linda In Chicago (@LindaInChicago) November 15, 2020
re: #64 jaunte
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I want to know what’s up with Jones County, TX on that map? It’s the red one in West Texas not up in the panhandle.
re: #76 Belafon
I want to know what’s up with Jones County, TX on that map? It’s the red one in West Texas not up in the panhandle.
Trump’s court filing in PA looks like the redacted Mueller report.
Wow. Trump’s lawyers, bound by reality and ethical rules, are quietly abandoning his claims before a judge can even rule. This is their redlined amended complaint in PA. pic.twitter.com/52thxHsIgp
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) November 16, 2020
re: #6 Charles Johnson
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Get ready for other shocking, totally off the wall stuff like:
1. Biden and VP actually attending security briefings and taking notes.
2. Gathering advice from science experts and formulating policy based on reality.
3. Military and CIA leadership not afraid to report security issues with Russia.
4. Health experts actually being an advisory asset instead of being treated as an enemy.
And a whole long list of other weird stuff. If by “weird” you mean anything resented in loony-bird right wing. La-la land.
re: #76 Belafon
Population 20,083.,
Covid cases 1,577.
usafacts.org
re: #78 makeitstop
Trump’s court filing in PA looks like the redacted Mueller report.
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Wow I found this in the affidavit. pic.twitter.com/tCr5fsHA9M
— Schnorkles O’Bork (@GetRogerStoneJR) November 16, 2020
Louie, Shuddup, Man, Juanita Jean
He’s stirring up more cornbread than can fit in the turkey. Louie Gohmert went on a Zoom call last week and announced that “U.S. Army forces” had seized servers from a Frankfurt office of the software company Scytl.
…
Now, of course, none of this happened. None of it. Not even little.
So, Louie, you were like triple wrong. There ought to be a prize for that.
re: #68 thedopefishlives
“In hindsight, historians see in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 the beginnings of the Great American Renaissance.”
Much like the Black Plague in Europe.
Makes them losers, right? https://t.co/oigmoV0y5V
— Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) November 16, 2020
re: #80 jaunte
Population 20,083.,
Covid cases 1,577.
usafacts.org
Thanks. I grew up in Abilene, which is the county below it. It’s just odd that Jones is getting hammered like that and none of the surrounding counties are.
re: #81 Belafon
It should not have taken me that long to figure out that was a joke.
Man, our political discourse has gone down the shitter.
re: #85 Belafon
I was just trying to find if they have some kind of big meat processing operation there, but I don’t see anything.
lady if antifa wanted to hurt you they’d just paint the entrance to a train tunnel over a brick wall
— Simon Girthy (@daggerandpen) November 15, 2020
re: #89 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was like… Is this real or…?
That’s how far we’ve fallen.
I’m fairly certain the story about running into a wall painted to look like a tunnel at which point he is told “MEEP MEEP” is false. But maybe Charles can check the kerning just to be sure.
My news.
My Daughter in college was exposed to Covid, but took first test and it was negative.
My son, with Diabetes. Took a test. Results not back yet. He wants to come live with me because his mother doesn’t want him to do his part time job at a pet store. He works mostly with the animals. Don’t mind if he stays with me, but not sure about the working. NYC is seeing an uptick in cases. (Some of this is back to school and hasidic jews refusing to acknowledge reality).
One one hand there is at least a 10% chance that if he gets covid he dies. The isolation is killing him.
Mask usage in the city is 95% and no one goes into any store without one.
I don’t know what to do anymore.
Joe Biden’s likely pick you lead his party:
Tom Perez, the head of the Democratic National Committee, won’t run for reelection. Jaime Harrison, who raised more than $100 million for his U.S. Senate bid, is positioned to replace him. https://t.co/mwXkmz18TE— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 16, 2020
re: #85 Belafon
15% of the under-65 population has a disability.
re: #83 Romantic Heretic
Much like the Black Plague in Europe.
Which actually brought quite a few improvements to the lives of the survivors. Labor shortage, you know. Also a healthy skepticism about the benevolence of God and the position of the Church.
Thread, eighteen tweets.
It’s looking like we’ve turned the corner at my house, so I’m going to tell you a story about love and a pandemic. It starts two weeks ago Monday. I taught class that morning, but by lunch I knew something was up. By afternoon, I knew I was sick.
— Matt Waite (@mattwaite) November 15, 2020
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, eighteen tweets.
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Here is the last. It’s a sobering thread.
We’re getting past this. She’s recovering. Many, many, many more won’t. Don’t take chances. Don’t “live your life” or spout some bullshit about imagined rights as you don’t wear a mask because of something dumb you read on Facebook. It’s not worth killing someone you love. /fin
— Matt Waite (@mattwaite) November 15, 2020
re: #92 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Perez did a great job. Winning the general election wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be given how horrible Trump has performed over the last four years. Kudos to Stacey Abrams as well, of course, for flipping Georgia.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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ny nj etc 6 mos ago
wasnt anyone paying attention?
No humor today, just a plea. We’re tired. We’re stretched. Today I’m reviewing “crisis standards of care” protocols for #COVID19 (polite-speak for “who doesn’t get care”). Since @GovRicketts refuses mandates, you can help: use takeout, don’t dine-in. Don’t gather. Mask.
Please.— David Quimby, MD (@ID_Doc_Quimby) November 15, 2020
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thread, eighteen tweets.
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Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Now I’m reconsidering Thanksgiving plans.
This photo (and the deal that followed) are the real reasons Mark Zuckerberg and @Facebook won’t shut down Steve Bannon’s account even after he threatened to behead people.
Every other excuse is just bullshit. pic.twitter.com/qdvqKnUTXd— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 16, 2020
re: #99 thedopefishlives
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Now I’m reconsidering Thanksgiving plans.
I’ve told my wife that if she wants me to be the heavy, I’ll be happy to tell her family I decided we can’t do Thanksgiving with them. Don’t gather with people you don’t live with. Just don’t.
re: #99 thedopefishlives
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Now I’m reconsidering Thanksgiving plans.
It’s not for me to decide on your behalf, but there will be other Thanksgivings.
I know that it’s amusing that Trump is going to lose by the same margin in the EC that he won by in 2016, but in reality it’s **extremely** distressing that Biden had to win by 5 million votes just to get the same number of EC votes that Trump got when he lost by 3 million votes. https://t.co/7ANg2S1MmP
— Social Liberal Twink 🦃🍂 (@samglasf) November 13, 2020
The money will be diverted to pay Trump’s upcoming debts and, yet again, his investors will be screwed. Lather rinse repeat.
— Carl Grossman (@MondeBoeuf) November 16, 2020
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not for me to decide on your behalf, but there will be other Thanksgivings.
Exactly. Better to have many more with family than to have one last Thanksgiving with them.
If you’re having a hard time with glasses fogging or keeping your mask up over your nose, a simple bandaid does wonders. Learned it in the OR.
Feel free to share, it may save lives! pic.twitter.com/RBG8JGUzFS— Daniel M. Heiferman, MD (@DanHeifermanMD) November 12, 2020
re: #99 thedopefishlives
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Now I’m reconsidering Thanksgiving plans.
FWIW, I’m in one of the safest places in the country, and I wouldn’t consider a Thanksgiving party — or any other. We’re not stressing the medical infrastructure yet, but cases are creeping up again, and it’s just not worth the risk.
Think of all the political arguments and/or bitten tongues you’ll be missing.
re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg
But how much collateral damage will we have to endure before we get there?
All of it
re: #98 dangerman
ny nj etc 6 mos ago
wasnt anyone paying attention?
Out here? We have a virtual dictator (who happens to be a real billionaire). All he cares about is making money, making sure his supporters make money, and promulgating a genocide.
Yes, he’s paying attention.
Trump is a buffoon. Ricketts is a psycopath.
re: #103 The Pie Overlord!
From the guy at my job: “The popular vote doesn’t count.” In the constitutional sense, he’s correct. But the way he said it was more of a “I don’t give a shit about the majority.”
re: #110 Belafon
From the guy at my job: “The popular vote doesn’t count.” In the constitutional sense, he’s correct. But the way he said it was more of a “I don’t give a shit about the majority.”
That’s pretty on-brand for the GOP. They get to make the rules, regardless of if people actually want it.
The way the Republicans approach democracy reminds me of a saying from a teacher I used to have. He said, “My classroom is a democratic dictatorship; you vote, and I make the rules.”
re: #99 thedopefishlives
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Now I’m reconsidering Thanksgiving plans.
You have to balance risks. That said, we’re not going anywhere. Nor for Christmas, sadly.
My immediate family has all been isolating. My parents and one sister are joining pods for Thanksgiving. My other sister is going to see my grandparents. So is one of my cousins. I know she’s been good; I’m less sure of my cousin, but I’m not going to tell her to skip it because my grandfather has a cancer diagnosis as is and is pretty much declining treatment beyond the palliative and she’s much less likely to be the source compared to my cousin who goes to college and lives with a bunch of other 19 year old boys.
It’s shit and it sucks and it’s fucking killing me to acknowledge that the chances of seeing my grandfather alive in person again are dwindling every day. But I would still not fly to see him right now because of that risk. (And believe me if I could bar my cousin from showing up I would. Do not get me started on Christmas.)
There were 6,658 Covid cases reported in Texas today. That’s only 15 counties that reported. That means 239 did not report. We are in for a really bad run here.
— Lord Jeffy of Covfefe’ (@Docziggy) November 16, 2020
re: #67 Decatur Deb
Even though they take a lot of us with them, CV19 is biased towards killing the stupid. In time it will raise the average IQ of the country.
Spot on. https://t.co/SdoBrCo0XI
— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) November 16, 2020
The Nebraska GOP is getting dragged:
.@janekleeb well in her way to cult leader status with her crocodile tears and bizarre repudiation of the Catholic Church and it’s centuries old teaching against abortion. https://t.co/Nr9uvffMJk
— NEGOP (@NEGOP) November 14, 2020
re: #110 Belafon
From the guy at my job: “The popular vote doesn’t count.” In the constitutional sense, he’s correct. But the way he said it was more of a “I don’t give a shit about the majority.”
I can only guess what he’d say if Trump won the popular vote and lost the EC?
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Just last month a terrorist plot by Y’allQaida was thwarted against the Governor of Michigan. You knew exactly what you tweeted, lathering up the crazies. Fuck you, fascist. https://t.co/fR5ZFtCaHD
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 16, 2020
re: #64 jaunte
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Borden and other experts urged people to be mindful of the data’s limitations.
For instance, the Georgia Tech map doesn’t tell you your risk of actually contracting the virus at an event, Borden said.
“That’s because your risk depends on a whole bunch of other factors, like is it outdoors or indoors? Are people wearing masks? Is there distancing? What’s the ventilation? Are people touching objects?” he said. “There are all these other factors that we have to really pay close attention to in order to reduce our risk of getting covid-19.”
Brian Garibaldi, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Johns Hopkins, said that the map also isn’t able to adjust for people’s unique behaviors, which may affect the risk of potential virus transmission.
While coronavirus mapping tools may be a “good red-flag indicator” for individuals, Garibaldi said, they may be more useful to policymakers trying to determine community health guidelines, such as limiting the size of gatherings.
Or, fucking stay home.
Only the best
UPDATE: Pennsylvania’s lawyers say there’s now so little left of the Trump campaign’s federal lawsuit over election results there that there’s no need for the argument session a judge has scheduled for Tuesday https://t.co/HXcfS9DDSW
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) November 16, 2020
Thread, four tweets.
I have two friends in ICU with complications from COVID-19. I had one worker miss 14 days of work, another worker quarantine for 14 days. Our Governor gets exposed and has the luxury to quarantine for 14 days…yet five teachers in last the two weeks were exposed and told
— Senator Justin Wayne (@JustinTWayne) November 15, 2020
re: #119 BeachDem
Or, fucking stay home.
I’ve only bought gas once since April, waiting for everyone to figure that out.
Only the best redux
YOU ABSOLUTELY DID. In MI, it’s pretty clear what “ rise up” calls people to do. https://t.co/uAWqVqZWgH
— Karoli 🇺🇸 (@Karoli) November 16, 2020
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Divine wore it better. pic.twitter.com/E0HVpL8GzG
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) November 16, 2020
re: #123 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Only the best redux
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I mean, jeez. Any red-blooded American knows what “rise up” means. It’s in the core identity of our country. We were born in bloodshed. We know the lingo.
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not for me to decide on your behalf, but there will be other Thanksgivings.
one Thanksgiving vs permanent death
easy
re: #126 dangerman
one Thanksgiving vs permanent death
easy
Well yeah, it’s the last Thanksgiving you might get to have with family.
Because you killed them.
re: #122 jaunte
I’ve only bought gas once since April, waiting for everyone to figure that out.
I’ve bought gas twice, but generally we have farther to go to get anything than most people here.
If they don’t cancel it, I have a routine lab test with the VA to check my medication levels. That’s a 120-mile round trip to Sidney.
2 dead bodies per drawer in #Omaha hospital morgues. The refrigerator trucks are next for our excessive deaths. Staffed hospital beds are full. Our leaders can’t stomach closing indoor drinking and dining. #Nebraska
— John Vann, MD (@Docsocksomaha) November 14, 2020
re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Wow did Tim Burton get his remake of Land Of The Giants out of development hell?
These are the people we are supposed to compromise with 🤪
— Cops = Class Traitors (@Let_me_finish_) November 15, 2020
re: #131 Patricia Kayden
What a horrible excuse for a human being.
I’ll confess that we have Thanksgiving plans-9 people, local, family (members of our “pod.”) Mostly outdoors. Masks indoors at all times, outdoors except when eating. Bad weather or anyone in the hosting household cancels the whole thing.
I don’t suppose we’ll get together in person for Christmas which is sad, but the prudent thing to do.
“Trump’s latest tweet makes no sense. It’s not grounded in the real world.”
Neither is he.— NotATweeter16 (@NotATweeter16) November 15, 2020
Nor are the vast majority of his supporters.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) November 15, 2020
re: #133 calochortus
I’ll confess that we have Thanksgiving plans-9 people, local, family (members of our “pod.”) Mostly outdoors. Masks indoors at all times, outdoors except when eating. Bad weather or anyone in the hosting household cancels the whole thing.
I don’t suppose we’ll get together in person for Christmas which is sad, but the prudent thing to do.
The issue with the “pod” idea is it assumes two things:
a) People in the so-called pod are all following the rules and wouldn’t lie about doing something they shouldn’t
b) They still have to go out; they may be exposed and not know it, and before they become symptomatic can spread it to the rest of the pod.
Republicans all these years have been terrifying voters that Dems would ration care…turns out, under GOP rule we have rationed care for a pandemic we could have solved with a damn mask and people not pretending their freedom was at-risk because they couldn’t go to a bar.
— Jane Fleming Kleeb (@janekleeb) November 15, 2020
Baseless conspiracies are the lifeblood of Trumpism.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) November 15, 2020
re: #138 thecommodore
I’ll never understand them and don’t want to.
re: #139 Patricia Kayden
Actually, I think you (and we) understand them pretty well. To our sorrow.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The issue with the “pod” idea is it assumes two things:
a) People in the so-called pod are all following the rules and wouldn’t lie about doing something they shouldn’t
b) They still have to go out; they may be exposed and not know it, and before they become symptomatic can spread it to the rest of the pod.
Yeah, I know. My daughter is probably the biggest risk, but she has been extremely careful-always wearing an N95 at work and so forth. These are close family members and I trust them. They would not lie about where they’ve been. While there is always a possibility of infection, the same is true for going to the grocery store.
We will be outside most of the time and masked.
re: #122 jaunte
I’ve only bought gas once since April, waiting for everyone to figure that out.
Same here, and I still have 1/2 a tank left. Thanksgiving is the one time of year I get to see my family, but there’s no fucking way I’d go to Boston and endanger them, me and everyone around us.
And I’m old, and my siblings are older, so every year could be the last year we’ll be together (my parents have been gone for more than 30 years, so we’re the “older generation.”)
I’m so sick of listening to the whiners and complainers about how bored and put upon they are, I could puke. I know it’s probably not healthy to hate these people as much as I do, but I fucking hate them with every fiber of my being.
re: #140 retired cynic
Actually, I think you (and we) understand them pretty well. To our sorrow.
Describing is not understanding. We understand them when we know how they got that way, and how to keep their grandkids from turning out the same.
re: #143 Decatur Deb
I do know some, and know how those particular people got that way. But you are right. Knowing some of them is not knowing all of them.
No Thanksgiving with friends this year.
Thanksgiving for me will be a day that I just play some chess and bridge on the internet while I pop a Hungry Man Turkey Dinner in the microwave.
re: #144 retired cynic
I do know some, and know how those particular people got that way. But you are right. Knowing some of them is not knowing all of them.
When we know enough about enough of them, perhaps we can find a way to break the chain. This shit isn’t going away on its own.
re: #145 🌹UOJB!
That sounds like my schedule. Except online jigsaw puzzles instead.
re: #145 🌹UOJB!
I will raise a can of cranberry sauce in your direction.
Go to Toronto for an eating spree.
Visit my grandkids in Pennsylvania.
Visit my grandkids in Florida.
Visit my grandkids in Israel.— Key Lime Victory Pie (@Pie_Overlord) November 16, 2020
re: #147 retired cynic
That sounds like my schedule. Except online jigsaw puzzles instead.
Five miles, a weight-lifting workout, writing 1660 words because NaNo, and braised short ribs with mushrooms over udon noodles for dinner. I made it back in September and it was fabulous but more work than I want to do on a typical weekday, so a perfect special occasion dinner that does not require a turkey.
re: #150 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Five miles, a weight-lifting workout, writing 1660 words because NaNo, and braised short ribs with mushrooms over udon noodles for dinner. I made it back in September and it was fabulous but more work than I want to do on a typical weekday, so a perfect special occasion dinner that does not require a turkey.
The recipe, for the curious.
This shouldn’t surprise anybody. John Tesh is experienced in using a keyboard to create things no one is interested in pic.twitter.com/ZqYlgV0RdY
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) November 16, 2020
I’ve been an ordained minister for 10 years, I totally forgot. I got a congratulations email for my 10-year anniversary.
No!! Please tell me we still have Yanni!! pic.twitter.com/bLAwcReV2V
— Danny Zuker (@DannyZuker) November 16, 2020
I’m going to tell my kids this is John Tesh. pic.twitter.com/8rxjHAXZhe
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 16, 2020
re: #155 jaunte
Our daughters went to the same school and I spoke to him once at an event. It was like talking to a narcissistic pod person — the biggest pod you’ve ever seen.
— Fifi Brochure 🌱 (@picklessorrell) November 16, 2020
re: #142 BeachDem
Same here, and I still have 1/2 a tank left. Thanksgiving is the one time of year I get to see my family, but there’s no fucking way I’d go to Boston and endanger them, me and everyone around us.
I haven’t seen my 90+ year old father for nearly a year now. He lives in ND in a long-term care facility. I’m also not going home to see him and my sister and other family this holiday season. My sister understands.
I’m hoping my dad hangs on for a bit more till it’s safe to visit. There’s been a few waves where he’s staying. At one time there was about an eighth of the residents positive for Covid and quite a few deaths. Right now there are only two positive asymptomatic residents. Staff doing a pretty good job but I can’t imagine the stress.
Had a long talk with my sister who lives in the same area as my dad. She hasn’t ventured out much and does where a mask when she does - which she said is finally becoming more common.
She listed all the weddings of first cousin’s children that she did not attend this summer - then she listed all my cousins and spouses and girlfriends and cousins once removed that have since tested positive. Must have been more than a dozen. Luckily all have recovered as far as I know. Not sure if any learned.
re: #145 🌹UOJB!
No Thanksgiving with friends this year.
Thanksgiving for me will be a day that I just play some chess and bridge on the internet while I pop a Hungry Man Turkey Dinner in the microwave.
I work Thursdays every week. I’ll work that Thursday too, sitting behind our sneeze guards with my mask to put on when the occasional person comes by. I’ll read Mark Sandlin’s “A Prayer of Giving Thanks” as I do every year, perhaps a bit more heavy hearted than usual. And towards the end of the evening I’ll pop a frozen dinner in the nuker too with a nice cup of tea.
Perhaps I’ll take it off next year.
re: #145 🌹UOJB!
No Thanksgiving with friends this year.
Thanksgiving for me will be a day that I just play some chess and bridge on the internet while I pop a Hungry Man Turkey Dinner in the microwave.
I’ll spend Thanksgiving as I have for many years: Just my wife and me.
There is a small possibility she won’t buy a turkey the size of a Vega this year.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve bought gas twice, but generally we have farther to go to get anything than most people here.
If they don’t cancel it, I have a routine lab test with the VA to check my medication levels. That’s a 120-mile round trip to Sidney.
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I’ve bought gas five times since March. My mother lives 6.5 miles away and I’ve been going back and forth there fairly frequently. And it’s only increased. Due to a recent deterioration in her mental health, I’ve been over there three times in the last week to keep an eye on her while my brother does things like go to the grocery store or go to the Taco Bell drive up so he can get some of those drunk tacos for mom.
re: #159 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That looks delish! What do udon noodles taste like?
They’re thicker and a little chewier - small difference in flavor but I’d be hard-pressed to describe it. That said, you could absolutely do this dish on something like fettucine and it would be equally fantastic.
(The udon I got for it the first time was from not-an-Asian grocery store and was more like …weird ramen noodles and it was still just fine.)
re: #162 mmmirele
I’ve bought gas five times since March. My mother lives 6.5 miles away and I’ve been going back and forth there fairly frequently. And it’s only increased. Due to a recent deterioration in her mental health, I’ve been over there three times in the last week to keep an eye on her while my brother does things like go to the grocery store or go to the Taco Bell drive up so he can get some of those drunk tacos for mom.
And if enough people had voted for Hillary Clinton, we’d have taco trucks on every corner.
re: #155 jaunte
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Yanni? That guy from Chameleon?
(raises eyebrow slightly hoping that stpaulbear or one of the other Minnesotans know what the hell I’m referring)
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And if enough people had voted for Hillary Clinton, we’d have taco trucks on every corner.
And a whole lot less dead Americans.
re: #157 🌹UOJB!
Music from the heart of Nazi country.
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) November 16, 2020
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