Seth takes a closer look at Trump irreversibly lighting American democracy on fire as his allies and lawyers pursue one deranged conspiracy theory after another while also letting a deadly plague ravage the country uncontrolled.
Evict the lying, cheating, delusional squatter. 65 days.
Watch Falcon 9 launch Crew Dragon on its first operational mission to the @space_station with astronauts on board → https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK https://t.co/Sx1UE8lgsD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 15, 2020
In non-political Twitter news, a prank map is making the rounds of favourite restaurant by state.
Here are America’s favorite FOOD CHAINS by states.
What is your state’s favorite? #NationalFastFoodDay pic.twitter.com/cp5T7nzi0e— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) November 16, 2020
Probably the last chance Trump will have as President to pay his respects to soldiers who died overseas and even though he has literally nothing else going on…he passed it off to Pence. Again. https://t.co/hsci3KCPZ2
— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) November 17, 2020
Past is prologue
So it looks like Trump is going to end his administration the same way he ended the USFL; a hail Mary legal gambit that will utterly blow up in his face. https://t.co/FYtbOKbldo
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 17, 2020
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In non-political Twitter news, a prank map is making the rounds of favourite restaurant by state.
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I’m sorry, but there is no way California’s favorite is anything other than In-N-Out. Their logo is practically an alternate state flag.
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Carl’s Jr. for Maryland? Never seen any where I live so 🤷🏽♀️ .
Even though Anymouse said it was a fake, we’re all falling for it.
(New Mexico had darned well better be Blake’s Lotaburger, for instance, and Runza for Nebraska.)
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
Past is prologue
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I would not want to be that radio show host/lawyer.
re: #9 i(m)p(each)sos
Even though Anymouse said it was a fake, we’re all falling for it.
(New Mexico had darned well better be Blake’s Lotaburger, for instance, and Runza for Nebraska.)
Yeah, Tim Horton’s leading in Oklahoma should have been a dead giveaway.
re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
re: #7 Ace-o-aces
As I noted, it’s a prank map.
The same with Nebraska, Taco Bell is not even close; the most popular chain by far here is the homegrown Runza.
A runza (also called a bierock, krautburger, fleischkuche, or kraut pirok) is a yeast dough bread pocket with a filling consisting of beef, cabbage or sauerkraut, onions, and seasonings.[3][4][5][6] Runzas can be baked into various shapes such as a half-moon, a rectangle, a round (bun), a square, or a triangle. The runzas sold by the Runza restaurant chain are rectangular while many of the bierocks sold in Kansas are round buns.
The runza is a regional cuisine of Nebraska, with some commentators calling it “as Nebraskan as Cornhusker football.”[8] It is served by the Nebraska Society of Washington, D.C. and the Nebraska Society of New York at their Taste of Nebraska events and was chosen to represent the state at Flavored Nation, an event serving iconic dishes from all fifty states.
i went to go read joe biden’s twitter feed.
shocking lack of all caps.
just shocking— 🍁Imani Gandied Yams🍁 (@AngryBlackLady) November 17, 2020
re: #9 i(m)p(each)sos
Just had a Blakes breakfast burrito today. Eggs, beans, hash browns, Christmas.
It was delicioso.
re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron
We saw the station and Dragon tonight from Phoenix, way cool, just a very short pass in the SW sky before they entered the earth’s shadow. Needed binocs to see the Dragon though.
re: #7 Ace-o-aces
I’m sorry, but there is no way California’s favorite is anything other than In-N-Out. Their logo is practically an alternate state flag.
Seriously.
Also, “Olive Garden” in New Jersey looks like an obvious prank.
Wildest thing about this take is that “those with college debt” is ~45M people & their families. That’s like 1/3 of the voting public lol https://t.co/9dKih0lzoL
— Brent Newsome Purdy, Non-Aggressive White Man (@BreeNewsome) November 17, 2020
Wowzers
The latest in a very long line of death threats against elected officials, civil servants, judges, juries, whistleblowers, journalists, witnesses. The US is a mafia state. https://t.co/A8hZ86WDal
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 17, 2020
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I fell for it. Which is stupid ‘cause there’s not one Rainforest Cafe in Colorado.
re: #14 plansbandc
Just had a Blakes breakfast burrito today. Eggs, beans, hash browns, Christmas.
It was delicioso.
Not being able to travel to the southwest and eat green chile and such is making this Northeasterner cranky as hell.
(I have a fantasy of retiring to NM someday.)
re: #19 teleskiguy
There was once one in Cherry Creek, but that was long ago.
re: #19 teleskiguy
I went to one in a mall in Katy Texas once. You aren’t missing anything at all.
re: #24 jaunte
Went to the one in Vegas. It was entertaining enough, I guess.
re: #25 plansbandc
The competition there probably improved their game.
Ski porn.
Dude. This has me salivating. @gregstrokes https://t.co/f7FBm7zih2
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 17, 2020
The Chairman of the Federal Election Commission attests to the character of the conspiracy theorist who, among other insanities, claimed the Fed worked with Soros to crash the market to hurt Trump https://t.co/P0d2jSlJIP pic.twitter.com/TDiYnExmV9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 17, 2020
Did someone post an article about Kamala Harris that debunked all the fake news about her being a crooked prosecutor?
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
Exactly. So many other options. Community college - live at home - join army - etc
— traveler (@twesley06) November 16, 2020
Just the sort of people you want as a surgeon, a lawyer, or designing bridges.
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In non-political Twitter news, a prank map is making the rounds of favourite restaurant by state.
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What sells this one is the fact that there are a few accurate choices in there.
Whataburger in Texas and Popeye’s in Louisiana, and some of the southern states having Chick-fil-a won’t get much argument from here.
That being said, having Denny’s in California is hilarious, and naming Sbarro for New York and Subway for Pennsylvania could be considered an act of war.
So is this where we start to play the 2 Live Crew’s Me So Horny as background music?
Jerry Falwell Jr. and Wife Becki Falwell ranked Liberty University students they wanted to sleep with: report
Jerry Falwell Jr., recently resigned president of Liberty University, had allegedly ranked students with his wife, Becki Falwell, that they’d see on campus and ranked the one whom they most wanted to have sex with.
The scandal broke when a former student of the university told Politico that “[Becki] and Jerry would eye people down on campus. She didn’t go into specifics, but said, ‘Oh, me and Jerry play games all the time, like ‘Would you rather?’ with people on campus.’ I’ll never forget that.”
Nobody who gets this worked up over a photo-shoot in Vogue should be lecturing people about “traditional masculinity”. https://t.co/aKYagoYKuV
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 17, 2020
So you’re going to lecture us on traditional masculinity while admitting you read “Vogue”?
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) November 16, 2020
Moe Davis thank you letter is truly classy. Can’t believe he lost to that little twit.
I want you to know how grateful I am for your support in my attempt to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District. While I am disappointed in the outcome, I am encouraged by the fact that over 23,000 people made over 42,000 individual donations in support of my campaign to bring Western North Carolina into the 21st Century. Thank you for being a part of the team.
At the end of the day, voters chose to vote along party lines. There wasn’t more than a point or two of difference in the results for me, Joe Biden or Cal Cunningham in any of the 17 counties in the district. Statewide, the results in each of the 13 congressional districts mirrored the district’s party tilt. The closest congressional race was decided by over 6.5 points and eight of the races saw the winners victorious by margins of 20 points or more. That resulted in Republicans winning eight seats and Democrats winning five seats in a state where the presidential vote was almost evenly divided.
I’m proud of the campaign we ran. Unlike my Republican opponent, I never accepted any corporate PAC money, I never pivoted on any policy positions to try to appease special interests, and I never put public health at risk in the midst of a pandemic to try and win a race for public office. I’m pleased that, unlike my opponent, I never had to explain I’m not a Nazi or a racist, nor did any of my former college classmates form a PAC to tell voters I’m a sexual predator and a habitual liar who is morally unfit for office. We ran a clean and honest campaign and, for the first time in a decade, we made the Republicans expend a huge amount of money and effort to hold onto the seat.
It’s wonderful that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won and the Trump presidency is drawing to a close. I look forward to supporting the new administration’s efforts to get the country back on the right track and to defeat the pandemic. I’m confident that if you supported my efforts you are supporting their efforts too.
Again, thank you for backing my campaign. Let’s keep working to bring better days to Western North Carolina and America.
Regards,
re: #36 Ace-o-aces
Ben Shapiro, the voice of traditional masculinity.
re: #38 jaunte
Ben Shapiro, the voice of traditional masculinity.
More like the voice of MESSculinity…
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Just the sort of people you want as a surgeon, a lawyer, or designing bridges.
Most students have to move on from community college to continue their studies. The services are flat out not open to students with disabilities. And, I stayed at home for five years during my college years—I was just as broke coming out of school as I was going in.
Which “The East” is Candace Owens using as a frightener?
Do you realize how many books these nerds in DC are gonna buy once that student loan cancellation hits? pic.twitter.com/bGj9q4GQI2
— Capitol Hill Books (@chbooksdc) November 16, 2020
re: #40 Sherlock Hound
Most students have to move on from community college to continue their studies. The services are flat out not open to students with disabilities. And, I stayed at home for five years during my college years—I was just as broke coming out of school as I was going in.
That thread is soaked with small l libertarians.
I was too broke to go.
My wife’s student loans for her degrees weren’t fully paid off until well after we married. (It seems I’ve helped pay the student loans of two women but never got to go to college myself. This seems wrong somehow. //s)
re: #40 Sherlock Hound
Most students have to move on from community college to continue their studies. The services are flat out not open to students with disabilities. And, I stayed at home for five years during my college years—I was just as broke coming out of school as I was going in.
You can’t apprentice in medicine or engineering? Who knew? /s
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ah The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 shuffles round again like a zombie.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That thread is soaked with small l libertarians.
I was too broke to go.
My wife’s student loans for her degrees weren’t fully paid off until well after we married. (It seems I’ve helped pay the student loans of two women but never got to go to college myself. This seems wrong somehow. //s)
I dropped out and went to work so my GF could finish school with much less in the way of loans. They still weren’t paid off until long after we’d gone separate ways.
re: #38 jaunte
Ben Shapiro, the voice of traditional masculinity.
Maybe this is Mr. Shapiro’s problem (or at least his wife’s):
Women prefer tall men because they die earlier, MGTOW explains (Goes to We Hunted the Mammoth)
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He’s figured you out, ladies! Or so he thinks. One bold MGTOW has a new explanation for why women generally prefer taller men. It’s because every woman is a golddigger at heart, and tall men die younger than short men, which means a briefer wait to cash in on the life insurance.
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If you were a duck the size of a brontosaurus you could not produce a bigger quack than Judy Shelton. https://t.co/UufS4F2aKT
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) November 17, 2020
re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron
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Simply put, Shelton is a demonstrably unqualified partisan quack who has no business working at the world’s most powerful central bank. Her nomination has been condemned by hundreds of economists and Fed alumni, including prominent Republicans and at least seven Nobel laureates. The senators poised to confirm her appear to know she is unfit; ahead of February hearings, a former Republican Senate Banking Committee aide said that “the idea of even calling her as a witness for something was beyond the pale” not long ago.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That thread is soaked with small l libertarians.
I was too broke to go.
My wife’s student loans for her degrees weren’t fully paid off until well after we married. (It seems I’ve helped pay the student loans of two women but never got to go to college myself. This seems wrong somehow. //s)
Barack Obama graduated Law School in 1992. Michelle was a few years ahead of him. They paid off their student loans when Dreams From My Father became a bestseller, in 2005.
re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron
Not just her lifetime, but mine as well.
Congressional GOP have made one thing extremely clear:
To them, there are no rules.
There are no principles.
There is only power.
They are ruthless, and always have been in my lifetime.
Dems must recognize they cannot be reasoned with at present & better adapt to that reality. https://t.co/DPq6xj61fF— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 22, 2020
re: #51 sagehen
Barack Obama graduated Law School in 1992. Michelle was a few years ahead of him. They paid off their student loans when Dreams From My Father became a bestseller, in 2005.
That was where my ex-wife and my wife went wrong. They didn’t write best-sellers.
it seems as if the GOP is simply trying to play out the string, even though they have lost, despite our being exhausted, they continue to try and make the victory a pyrrhic one.
All I can say is that I hope that our Democratic government representatives can pace themselves accordingly… not only to restore government functionality, but to take the needed steps forward that the country wants and needs…. they need to see action, moving into green energy solutions, reconciling income inequality, restoring faith in education and some sorely needed police reform.
Then on the other hand, they need to make those who governed in bad faith pay.
Fine the good people of South Carolina and Kentucky saw fit to return to us Graham and McConnell, I think we need to have a DOJ in place to ensure that they are not corrupt and have behaved ethically. If not, bring charges, if guilty, convict them. All of them, each rotten piece of crap corrupt sob that conspired, took money and was essentially an ethical nightmare, convict, sanction, fine, shame them all.
no peace, no quarter. They could have followed ethical norms, instead they do this…
the time has come to give no fucks, you wanted to burn it all down, fine, we got the torches, feel free to be inside when it goes up
tick tock motherfuckers.
Category 4 Hurricane Iota, with sustained winds near 155 mph (250
km/h), made landfall along the northeastern coast of Nicaragua near
the town of Haulover, or about 30 miles (45 km) south of Puerto
Cabezas, at 1040 PM EST…0340 UTC…this Monday evening.
Hurricane Iota’s landfall location is approximately 15 miles (25
km) south of where Category 4 Hurricane Eta made landfall earlier
this month on November 3rd.
SUMMARY OF 1040 PM EST…0340 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…13.6N 83.5W
ABOUT 30 MI…45 KM S OF PUERTO CABEZAS NICARAGUA
ABOUT 100 MI…155 KM SSW OF CABO GRACIAS A DIOS ON NIC/HON BORDER
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…155 MPH…250 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 275 DEGREES AT 9 MPH…15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…920 MB…27.17 INCHES
re: #30 VegasGolfer
Did someone post an article about Kamala Harris that debunked all the fake news about her being a crooked prosecutor?
If somebody here posted this thanks.
There’s been many lies on the prosecutorial record of Kamala Harris which have been easily debunked. People are choosing to be ignorant and instead use OPINION pieces as their research which aren’t fact checked. Below I will link FACT checked sources on her record. pic.twitter.com/qtWThVhoHP
— roshanawallace (@roshanawallace) August 12, 2020
This how y’all sound complaining about student loan debt https://t.co/s7Mx04rNk6
— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) November 16, 2020
They’re still trying to kill us to retain a grasp on power. They’re also apparently getting their orders written for them from the same owners.
Paging @GovRicketts https://t.co/jUEbP4Z5o6 pic.twitter.com/M6B9yiRURQ
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) November 17, 2020
Unfortunately Iowa’s new mask “mandate” is an exact copy of what Ricketts said today in that it only applies after 15 minutes plus other exceptions
— Kyle Mac (@Mcnichs_) November 17, 2020
re: #58 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
.@GovRicketts says it isn’t time, yet, to declare @JoeBiden the winner of the presidential race. Only after all the legal challenges are exhausted, he just said.
— Paul Hammel (@PaulHammelOWH) November 16, 2020
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
LOL, so the day after tomorrow then or something?
What an asshat.
“Following the Fifth of Never…”
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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And much like the “Biden Rule,” this is a standard that they will never try to enforce after this year.
The political scientist who was out in a couple hours after the election was called saying it’s time for liberals to reach across the aisle and empathise with conservatives has a new post.
Per Pew, only 20% of Americans surveyed believe that supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump share the same core American values and goals for the country’s future. #HardNumbers @gzeromedia https://t.co/RBdALBB6Xj
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 17, 2020
Not sharing the same core values as racists, fascists, and child-kidnapping apologists is a good thing, Ian.
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
LOL, so the day after tomorrow then or something?
What an asshat.
But he’s our asshat. /s
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Western MA should probably be Dunkin also.
re: #17 Patricia Kayden
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We can’t solve today’s problems because people who struggled under yesterday’s problems will feel jealous.
Yeah, no offense, but my generation is still paying off the debt incurred to help our parents and grandparents out of the financial hole that was the Great Recession. Our most productive years were sacrificed so grandma and grandpa’s retirement was secure.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The political scientist who was out in a couple hours after the election was called saying it’s time for liberals to reach across the aisle and empathise with conservatives has a new post.
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Not sharing the same core values as racists, fascists, and child-kidnapping apologists is a good thing, Ian.
Well Ian, the first step in reconciliation would be for Trump supporters to acknowledge that his loss was legit, that the talk of “voter fraud” is total bullshit, and that Biden is the lawfully elected 46th POTUS.
I don’t know why this coverage of SpaceX Crew-1 is in 4k, none of the camera’s are 4k.
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
I didn’t know solar panels came in pink and blue stripes. /s
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dragon sure looks pretty up there. Its crew of 4 adds to the 3 on the station for a full crew of 7 now.
In fact, investigating potential criminal activity is precisely in the purview of the Senate Ethics Committee.
None of those are ethics violations, though. They’re crimes, but they’re not ethics violations. The Ethics Rules desperately need to be updated if committing a crime isn’t considered unethical.
— Hypnotoad (@Hypnotoad__) November 17, 2020
On way to 80 million and a 6-7 million popular vote margin. Complete shellacking.
— 🇺🇸🌊 J is for ___ 🌊🇺🇸 (@J_Remixed) November 17, 2020
Wow. Some people have way too much money rather than sense. Why is this $1,241?
Mine came with the house when indoor plumbing was installed in the Sixties. I wasn’t aware my toilet is worth more than a used car.
This will be added to tomorrow’s figures.
I think I’ll spend the rest of my life in my house.
As the risk level of COVID-19 continues to increase, Panhandle health officials announced 551 more cases and 84 hospitalizations. Eleven deaths are awaiting confirmation; 24 have already been confirmed https://t.co/SNFoxQRyYo
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) November 17, 2020
Tri-City Roadrunner service suspended https://t.co/A7IWYwPWMF
— NBCNeb Scottsbluff (@NBCScottsbluff) November 17, 2020
“Tri-cities” refers to Scottsbluff, Gering, and Terrytown. The Roadrunner service is the bus system; it’s been suspended due to the epidemic.
re: #78 Dread Pirate Ron
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And yet, we’re in for 2-4 years of “Biden isn’t just president of the people who voted for him, he needs to reach out to Republicans and find common ground!”
The windstorm which hit the Great Lakes and the East Coast hit us first. These are the winds reported here when we had it, but it wasn’t national news when it happened to us.
Peak wind gusts reported today! #NEwx #WYwx pic.twitter.com/wTKAzDwfjg
— Rural Radio Storm Center (@RRNStormCenter) November 15, 2020
re: #82 Targetpractice
And yet, we’re in for 2-4 years of “Biden isn’t just president of the people who voted for him, he needs to reach out to Republicans and find common ground!”
Bremmer is still going:
Yes, Never Trump types who started #NotMyPresident are part of the problem.
Trump of course baited them and exploited the divide every step of the way.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 15, 2020
That started with conservatives and President Obama, but feel free to revise history.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This will be added to tomorrow’s figures.
I think I’ll spend the rest of my life in my house.
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Yeah, California is losing control too. 200 cases a day in my county. There a whole bunch of stupid fuck-nuts in California, too.
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Bremmer is still going:
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That started with conservatives and President Obama, but feel free to revise history.
Didn’t you know? History started on Jan 21, 2017. The 8 years prior never happened in the minds of guys like Ian.
re: #85 Dread Pirate Ron
Yeah, California is losing control too. 200 cases a day in my county. There a whole bunch of stupid fuck-nuts in California, too.
At least Gov. Newsom isn’t actively trying to kill you.
Not to minimise California’s plight, but your state has nearly forty million people. The Nebraska Panhandle has just over eighty thousand.
re: #86 Targetpractice
Didn’t you know? History started on Jan 21, 2017. The 8 years prior never happened in the minds of guys like Ian.
He still hasn’t backed down from this, though the dragging has been going on for ten days:
Now is the time for every Biden supporter to reach out to one person who voted for Trump.
Empathize with them.
Tell them you know how they feel (you do, from 2016).
Come up with one issue you can agree on.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 7, 2020
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He still hasn’t backed down from this, though the dragging has been going on for ten days:
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Found myself ruminating on that earlier and I can’t remember there being all that much effort spent by guys like Ian in ‘16 to get Trump voters to reach out to folks like myself. I actually remember the opposite, with that crowd lecturing me and other Hillary voters on how we were “out of touch” and “elitist,” that Donny had been elected due to “economic anxiety,” and we were the ones who needed to crawl on hands and knees to beg forgiveness for all that “deplorables” talk.
re: #72 Targetpractice
Well Ian, the first step in reconciliation would be for Trump supporters to acknowledge that his loss was legit, that the talk of “voter fraud” is total bullshit, and that Biden is the lawfully elected 46th POTUS.
It’s called “Truth and Reconciliation” for a reason.
FIRST Republicans have to tell the truth, for the first times in their miserable lives.
After that, we can think about reconciliation.
CNN has a story including an interview with Alexey Raksha, a former Russian statistician, that the actual number of deaths in Russia from COVID-19 is probably around 130,000 instead of the 33,000 officially reported — so almost 4 times as high. Very grim numbers: based on population size, on the same order as Spain, and somewhat higher than here.
re: #89 Targetpractice
Found myself ruminating on that earlier and I can’t remember there being all that much effort spent by guys like Ian in ‘16 to get Trump voters to reach out to folks like myself. I actually remember the opposite, with that crowd lecturing me and other Hillary voters on how we were “out of touch” and “elitist,” that Donny had been elected due to “economic anxiety,” and we were the ones who needed to crawl on hands and knees to beg forgiveness for all that “deplorables” talk.
And when those Nazis in Charlottesville carried tiki torches and yelled “Jews will not replace us” Ian just thought that it’s OK to let those deplorables vent!
Now relatives are spreading the latest lies that Joe and Hunter ran a scam cancer charity…
re: #85 Dread Pirate Ron
Yeah, California is losing control too. 200 cases a day in my county. There a whole bunch of stupid fuck-nuts in California, too.
Yeah, the relaxed restrictions were nice while they lasted.
I can’t speak for your area, but I saw people keeping to the (relaxed) regulations, so I think the problem is with the rules, not people breaking them. (Of course, the Veterans Ay holiday may be part of the problem.) Once we get this under control again, I think if we keep indoor dining and church services on the forbidden list, we might avoid this the next time around.
(And maybe the state should track down everyone who buys a turkey larger than about six pounds and cite them if they prove to be having big gatherings.)
re: #89 Targetpractice
Found myself ruminating on that earlier and I can’t remember there being all that much effort spent by guys like Ian in ‘16 to get Trump voters to reach out to folks like myself. I actually remember the opposite, with that crowd lecturing me and other Hillary voters on how we were “out of touch” and “elitist,” that Donny had been elected due to “economic anxiety,” and we were the ones who needed to crawl on hands and knees to beg forgiveness for all that “deplorables” talk.
Yup. The same song and dance when a Republican is elected, and is never reciprocated when a Democrat is elected.
That and all the “f—- your feelings” shirts and flags. Now we’re supposed to be concerned for their feelings, because we’re supposed to be the bigger folks.
Nevermind the Muslim ban, kidnapping children, deporting people to the wrong frickin’ countries, virtually banning asylum, the hundreds of millions grifted for his golf properties, his Nazi advisor, the endless lying by his multiple press secretaries, the overt racism, attacks on the free press, Christian nationalism, &c &c &c but sure, reach out to his voters and find something in common with them.
I’ll acknowledge we’re probably both carbon-based life forms.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At least Gov. Newsom isn’t actively trying to kill you.
Not to minimise California’s plight, but your state has nearly forty million people. The Nebraska Panhandle has just over eighty thousand.
We’re going back to the old, restrictive rules, which should work now as well as they worked the first time. Newsom and his team show an ability to learn from mistakes, so I hope we can get this under control again soon.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The one issue I can agree with conservatives on is, “Fuck your feelings, motherfucker.”
(14:31, caution for coarse language and adult subject matter, and you’re stuck with it because I support the podcast)
re: #93 🌹UOJB!
Now relatives are spreading the latest lies that Joe and Hunter ran a scam cancer charity…
Every Republican accusation is actually a confession via projection.
re: #103 EPR-radar
Every Republican accusation is actually a confession via projection.
And this case they’re projecting what they’ve already been busted on.
re: #95 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Yeah, the relaxed restrictions were nice while they lasted.
I can’t speak for your area, but I saw people keeping to the (relaxed) regulations, so I think the problem is with the rules, not people breaking them. (Of course, the Veterans Ay holiday may be part of the problem.) Once we get this under control again, I think if we keep indoor dining and church services on the forbidden list, we might avoid this the next time around.
(And maybe the state should track down everyone who buys a turkey larger than about six pounds and cite them if they prove to be having big gatherings.)
That’s my take as well. If CA’s stages were working the way they should, we shouldn’t be in the current situation where the entire state shit the bed simultaneously with little or no apparent warning.
I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.
Tomorrow’s a day closer to Tang the Conqueror being out of office.
re: #105 EPR-radar
Quarantine fatigue. I saw it in my wife, she’s been allowing gatherings in the garage, masks and social distancing. That’s how it starts. I have other friends that are doing everything wrong and one is a director of pharmacy in a hospital. Fuck if I can figure out where his head is at. I only talked to him once a few months ago when he first called to tell me another friend had covid, then the friend went into the hospital for a blood clot.
re: #107 Dread Pirate Ron
Quarantine fatigue. I saw it in my wife, she’s been allowing gatherings in the garage, masks and social distancing. That’s how it starts. I have other friends that are doing everything wrong and one is a director of pharmacy in a hospital. Fuck if I can figure out where his head is at. I only talked to him once a few months ago when he first called to tell me another friend had covid, then the friend went into the hospital for a blood clot.
I’m sure that’s the main underlying reason, but at least in CA there is a system of stages where each county gets a risk assessment based on hospitalizations, positive testing rates etc. If a system like that is working as intended, one should be able to see hot spots etc. show up in individual counties backsliding a stage or two. But what this announcement of Nov 16 looks like so far is damn near the whole state going from “moderate risk” to “worst risk” in one shot, skipping over an intermediate stage.
If that’s what happened, then at least the “moderate risk” stage wasn’t properly defined.
re: #108 EPR-radar
I’m sure that’s the main underlying reason, but at least in CA there is a system of stages where each county gets a risk assessment based on hospitalizations, positive testing rates etc. If a system like that is working as intended, one should be able to see hot spots etc. show up in individual counties backsliding a stage or two. But what this announcement of Nov 16 looks like so far is damn near the whole state going from “moderate risk” to “worst risk” in one shot, skipping over an intermediate stage.
If that’s what happened, then at least the “moderate risk” stage wasn’t properly defined.
My thought exactly. Good behavior got most of the state to “moderate” (orange), then two weeks of that brought it all the way back to purple. So back to the drawing board — orange needs to be reexamined.
And on that note, good night all!
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Now is the time for every Biden supporter to reach out to one person who voted for Trump.
Empathize with them.
Tell them you know how they feel (you do, from 2016).
Come up with one issue you can agree on.
Except that the entire GOP policy is based on “Reject anything that the Liberals support!”
re: #110 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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Google Eric Burdon San Francisco Nights. there must be a EU licensed source for that.
Back in the 80s I could see local bands in bars and be 25’ from the stage, even at the back of the room. Next thing, they get a hit album and you never get to see them again because they don’t play small towns anymore. So many local bay area bands became hits and poof.
re: #114 Dread Pirate Ron
Back in the 80s I could see local bands in bars and be 25’ from the stage, even at the back of the room. Next thing, they get a hit album and you never get to see them again because they don’t play small towns anymore. So many local bay area bands became hits and poof.
We performed a couple times at a local Frankfurt venue, the Batschkapp (capacity of about 600) that at one point had featured all the Big Names on their first European tour, all were listed on the doors of the single toilet stall: Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Smithereens, etc…
I read that Kurt Cobain had bad stage fright and used to throw up before performances. Once my (ex) wife got ahold of some bad salmon from the backstage catering tray and I pointed out that she was hurling in the same toilet that Kurt Cobain used…
I know this host, wait, his name will come to me….
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Except that the entire GOP policy is based on “Reject anything that the Liberals support!”
There’s no fuckin’ way to find common ground with someone who cheered when Half-Scoop stood in front of a superspreader crowd not 24 hours before the polls opened and declared “Make liberals cry again!”
re: #117 Targetpractice
There’s no fuckin’ way to find common ground with someone who cheered when Half-Scoop stood in front of a superspreader crowd not 24 hours before the polls opened and declared “Make liberals cry again!”
or to find common ground with someone who thinks that
-Covid is a Democrat hoax
-the 2016 inauguration crowds were bigger
-You can use a sharpie to correct a NOAA hurricane forecast
etc…
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or to find common ground with someone who thinks that
-Covid is a Democrat hoax
-the 2016 inauguration crowds were bigger
-You can use a sharpie to correct a NOAA hurricane forecastetc…
Oh yeah, we have that to look forward to: Wingnuts using every picture that shows “small” crowds to insist that Biden’s inauguration crowd is nowhere as “big” as Trump’s was.
It would be easier to forgive the Trumpisiti for their murderous crimes IF THEY WOULD STOP DOING THEIR MURDEROUS CRIMES.
re: #119 Targetpractice
Oh yeah, we have that to look forward to: Wingnuts using every picture that shows “small” crowds to insist that Biden’s inauguration crowd is nowhere as “big” as Trump’s was.
The answer then is to have no crowds. Put 10 family/officials at the Reflecting Pool and do the rest through online media.
re: #119 Targetpractice
Oh yeah, we have that to look forward to: Wingnuts using every picture that shows “small” crowds to insist that Biden’s inauguration crowd is nowhere as “big” as Trump’s was.
Because it will be.
Because people who support Biden tend to have the sense to avoid large crowds these days…
The Wesleyan dean who called Biden voters “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” in a FB post has now deleted his FB account and resigned from the university. One departure at a time. May Trump follow soon.
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
The Wesleyan dean who called Biden voters “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” in a FB post has now deleted his FB account and resigned from the university. One departure at a time. May Trump follow soon.
I’m actually surprised at that. Anti-Democratic sentiment is so high among American Christians (funny, you won’t find a lot of this attitude among Christians elsewhere in the world, I wonder why) that it’s practically a requirement in many churches.
re: #124 thedopefishlives
I’m actually surprised at that. Anti-Democratic sentiment is so high among American Christians (funny, you won’t find a lot of this attitude among Christians elsewhere in the world, I wonder why) that it’s practically a requirement in many churches.
Again, it is not his views, it is just how he chose to express them that got him into trouble. He will just go pray and meditate a bit and will be reinstated again soon…
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, it is not his views, it is just how he chose to express them that got him into trouble. He will just go pray and meditate a bit and will be reinstated again soon…
There, that’s the take. Excellent point.
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
The Wesleyan dean who called Biden voters “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” in a FB post has now deleted his FB account and resigned from the university. One departure at a time. May Trump follow soon.
Hey fellas, if he “apologized profusely” and was fired for it, it isn’t “alleged.” And this is CNN, which is supposed to know how journalism works.
re: #127 steve_davis
Hey fellas, if he “apologized profusely” and was fired for it, it isn’t “alleged.” And this is CNN, which is supposed to know how journalism works.
Good people in both heaven and hell…
re: #24 jaunte
I went to one in a mall in Katy Texas once. You aren’t missing anything at all.
We went to the one on Galveston years ago. Totally agree.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or to find common ground with someone who thinks that
-Covid is a Democrat hoax
-the 2016 inauguration crowds were bigger
-You can use a sharpie to correct a NOAA hurricane forecastetc…
Other than COVID, those are the dumb ones.
- it’s not ok to kill black people
- it’s not ok to put kids in cages
- it’s not ok to represent only those who voted for you
- it’s not ok to profit from people dying
- it’s not ok to fiddle (golf) while Rome (US) burns
- it’s not ok to put your unqualified spawn into high paying jobs to further benefit you personally
- it’s not ok to lie every time you open your pie hole about things that affect public health
This list should include many more worse things that I’m so inured to at this point that they don’t come to mind that quickly any longer.
Nice story. Why are you eating in a restaurant?
I was eating at a restaurant, & as I looked outside I saw a homeless girl staring at me, I invited her to my table ‘social distancing due to covid’. We enjoyed our meals. This’s not what made my day. When I asked for the bill, they sent a paper “You did well, now it’s our turn.”
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) November 17, 2020
re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I was eating at a restaurant, & as I looked outside I saw a homeless girl staring at me, I invited her to my table ‘social distancing due to covid’. We enjoyed our meals. This’s not what made my day. When I asked for the bill, they sent a paper “You did well, now it’s our turn.”
In France? In lockdown where all restaurants are closed?
Inspiring but apocryphal.
Then: I can’t wait for November 3.
Now: I can’t wait for January 20.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He still hasn’t backed down from this, though the dragging has been going on for ten days:
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After the inauguration.
“Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?” https://t.co/FKG2GqQDtY
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 17, 2020
Republicans on November 4:
Trump deserves his day in court
Trump loses all court cases.
Trump deserves….his marches for mob justice.
I fully support defunding these people completely.
My client called me sounding like despair so I asked what’s wrong and he told me his photo was published as a public safety threat. I was confused til I googled it and saw ICE published his named and photo as a public safety threat for what’s going to be a traffic infraction.
— Olayemi, Esq. (@msolurin) November 16, 2020
I…uhm…can’t tell if this is performance art or nah.
👇”… The J stands for genius”👇🤣 https://t.co/Pas23fcY7k
— 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆 (@thorchrs) November 17, 2020
This has to be real, because you can’t make this shit up!!! https://t.co/IfFj9oAwTf
— Jim Meaney (@MeaneyJim) November 17, 2020
I’ll just share this joke chyron (‘shopped into a CNN news piece) I found on another site:
“IN FINAL BID FOR VICTORY, TRUMP CHANGES NAME TO ‘JOE BIDEN’”
re: #141 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I…uhm…can’t tell if this is performance art or nah.
I think it is a piss take, but again, that is exactly what DT wants.
So how many lawsuits are we watching today?
I know there’s one in PA (with the radio DJ cum lawyer for trump). What else is on the dockets?
Anyone know?— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) November 17, 2020
Iota as it makes landfall and then speeds through Nicaragua:
One of the side effects of Trump’s ego sucking all the air out of the room is that the rest of the world is forgotten by Americans.
Trump’s foreign policy is not so much a policy but a domestic publicity stunt on making other countries the enemy.
Trump’s withdraw from the global stage has hurt the US.
But Trumper’s don’t care. They are in their own little xenophobic bubble.
It’s the cover up, stupid.
“The question is: Why? Why has Devin Nunes acted so strangely for the last four years? Why has he so brazenly attempted to scuttle the Russia investigation? Why was he talking to Lev Parnas, of all people, on the phone? Was he a client of Fraud Guarantee?”https://t.co/rItDM1M0cg
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) November 17, 2020
Every couple of hours, sometimes less. Talk about spam.
The Trump campaign has sent supporters 248 fundraising emails in the nearly two weeks since 11:00 pm on election night, Tuesday, November 3. pic.twitter.com/ZwKFesquND
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) November 17, 2020
Your daily reminder that Dolly Parton is one of the main funders of the #Moderna vaccine. Dolly will save us all. pic.twitter.com/oGQy9bpZST
— Damian Barr (@Damian_Barr) November 17, 2020
re: #136 Sir John Barron
Then: I can’t wait for November 3.
Now: I can’t wait for January 20.
It’ll be a milestone but he won’t go away
We’ll still have to deal with his insanity daily for a long time
re: #71 Targetpractice
Yeah, no offense, but my generation is still paying off the debt incurred to help our parents and grandparents out of the financial hole that was the Great Recession. Our most productive years were sacrificed so grandma and grandpa’s retirement was secure.
This makes no sense at all.
Your productive years were sacrificed to give more money to the rich, not to pay off any fictitious “debt”.
re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron
Musk likes to name his stuff after cool Banks ideas.
But in reality it’s pure Gerry Anderson.
re: #152 dangerman
It’ll be a milestone but he won’t go away
We’ll still have to deal with his insanity daily for a long time
He’ll linger like dog shit on our shoes.
re: #76 Dread Pirate Ron
Dragon sure looks pretty up there. Its crew of 4 adds to the 3 on the station for a full crew of 7 now.
Time to add some more bits.
re: #152 dangerman
It’ll be a milestone but he won’t go away
We’ll still have to deal with his insanity daily for a long time
True: but it will be a lot easier to ignore/mock/dismiss coming from the Tweet Room at Mar-a-Lago or wherever, than when it comes from the White House…
PS: am I alone in thinking that The Orange Anus is likely to do his “Trump TV” shit from a set mocked up to look like the Oval Office (just in case we might miss the point)?
Sweden abandons the Swedish model. https://t.co/IbFRyE3s2r
— Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) November 17, 2020
Coronavirus: Chinese citizen journalist faces jail for Wuhan reporting https://t.co/fp0L0Y7CeU
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 17, 2020
Fact-checking this was worth it just to see @DollyParton in the acknowledgments of a @NEJM article. And I thought I couldn’t love her more. https://t.co/S3njHEFcGT pic.twitter.com/WcrFIrHp67
— Dr. Meade Krosby (@MeadeKrosby) November 17, 2020
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Would wearing “fuck your feelings” T-Shirts be seen as appropriate “reaching out”?
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There’s no way that Subway is the PA favorite. It’s either Sheetz or Wawa. NJ is definitely not Olive Garden. Again, WaWa would be preferred.
Besides, it’s saying fast food, and Olive Garden isn’t fast food.
re: #158 Belafon
Sweden abandons the Swedish model.
I will happily take all the models that Sweden can send me…
re: #157 Jay C
True: but it will be a lot easier to ignore/mock/dismiss coming from the Tweet Room at Mar-a-Lago or wherever, than when it comes from the White House…
PS: am I alone in thinking that The Orange Anus is likely to do his “Trump TV” shit from a set mocked up to look like the Oval Office (just in case we might miss the point)?
He can be as delusional as he wants as long as he is no longer able to make decisions that destroy our nation.
re: #161 John Hughes
Would wearing “fuck your feelings” T-Shirts be seen as appropriate “reaching out”?
Full reciprocity. I’m in.
re: #162 lawhawk
There’s no way that Subway is the PA favorite. It’s either Sheetz or Wawa. NJ is definitely not Olive Garden. Again, WaWa would be preferred.
Besides, it’s saying fast food, and Olive Garden isn’t fast food.
And I never saw an In-an-out burger when I lived in AZ although I have not even been back there in almost four years…
re: #162 lawhawk
There’s no way that Subway is the PA favorite. It’s either Sheetz or Wawa. NJ is definitely not Olive Garden. Again, WaWa would be preferred.
Besides, it’s saying fast food, and Olive Garden isn’t fast food.
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
Most fast food is overrated. The emphasis is on fast, and relatively cheap, therefore good is lost.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
Some of their newer specialty sandwiches aren’t bad, but I’ve definitely noticed a falloff in quality. The only benefit it has for me now is it’s local - one of two restaurants in town - so if I’m feeling cheap and lazy, they’re always there.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
I used to like their meatball sub, that is something that cannot be easily assembled at home.
So, Trump continues to get his covid19 public health guidance from a guy who isn’t a public health expert and hasn’t actually been practicing medicine for a bunch of years. He’s a radiologist, not a epidemeologist or an infectious disease expert.
Atlas is the kind of bigot and know nothing Trump loves, because he’s telling Trump what he wants to hear, not what he must hear.
Atlas is still spewing nonsense about herd immunity, and right wing echo chamber continues insisting that Sweden is the model for this. It’s all junk science and woo.
Trump hasn’t been at a covid task force meeting in months, but spends as much time as possible tweeting about how great a job he’s done while the body count just keeps rising. We’re now at the exponential growth stage where cases are going to absolutely wreck health care providers in many parts of the country, and there’s no backstop because capacity is maxed out in so many parts of the country.
This was avoidable with proper guidance from the feds on down. We could have avoided the worst of this with sensible leaders and guidance that would have slowed the spread and kept the outbreaks contained, especially during the summer. GOPers wasted months. They encouraged nonmasking and dangerous behaviors, and continue peddling that covid is a hoax, right up until these people get covid and have to get hooked up to a respirator and die. They’ll ignore the health experts that say mask and social distance. They’ll make terroristic threats against Democrats insisting on masking and social distancing mandates to keep all residents safe. This is what Trump has wrought.
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
If you don’t like Subway, we have Firehouse, Which Wich, Jimmy John’s, and Jersey Mike’s in Rockwall. We used to have another sub shop that was good, but it wasn’t in a location that got a lot of traffic, and it ended up closing. I don’t remember its name.
re: #161 John Hughes
Would wearing “fuck your feelings” T-Shirts be seen as appropriate “reaching out”?
especially if bought from the same source
re: #168 Belafon
Most fast food is overrated. The emphasis is on fast, and relatively cheap, therefore good is lost.
fast cheap and predictably consistent
🚨NEW: Rudy Giuliani has filed to appear as counsel for Trump in his Pennsylvania federal case. pic.twitter.com/9HernE6wvG
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 17, 2020
This is Rudy about to immolate his legal career pushing bogus claims in a PA court.
re: #176 lawhawk
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This is Rudy about to immolate his legal career pushing bogus claims in a PA court.
sounds like a well oiled machine.
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re: #171 lawhawk
So, Trump continues to get his covid19 public health guidance from a guy who isn’t a public health expert and hasn’t actually been practicing medicine for a bunch of years. He’s a radiologist, not a epidemeologist or an infectious disease expert.
Atlas is the kind of bigot and know nothing Trump loves, because he’s telling Trump what he wants to hear, not what he must hear.
Atlas is still spewing nonsense about herd immunity, and right wing echo chamber continues insisting that Sweden is the model for this. It’s all junk science and woo.
…
…
Stanford University issued a statement about Dr. Scott Atlas, who is on leave of absence from the university to serve as coronavirus adviser to President Trump:
“Dr. Atlas has expressed views that are inconsistent with the university’s approach in response to the pandemic. Dr. Atlas’s statements reflect his personal views, not those of the Hoover Institution or the university
re: #176 lawhawk
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This is Rudy about to immolate his legal career pushing bogus claims in a PA court.
Will this even go through in time? I guess the hearing is Friday, so there’s still time. Correction: The hearing is today. Question is valid.
re: #179 thedopefishlives
Will this even go through in time? I guess the hearing is Friday, so there’s still time.
I thought it was today
re: #179 thedopefishlives
Will this even go through in time? I guess the hearing is Friday, so there’s still time.
There’s a hearing today. 1:30 pm ET.
I thought of an argument for Biden to try on Manchin and any other Democrat who opposes eliminating the filibuster if Democrats manage to win the two seats in Georgia. He should tell them he doesn’t want to rule by executive order, but in order to get bills through, he’s going to need the Senate to function responsibly, and right now, it can’t do that if Republicans block everything.
re: #181 Ace-o-aces
https://t.co/8C1aUFwlsn pic.twitter.com/4T4LpbK6AU
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) November 17, 2020
Prosecutors better be investigating the fuck out of Graham and Trumpworld for this.
The answer is yes. And he did it at Trump’s behest.
Graham isn’t doing anything without Trump and Trump’s cronies telling him to do it. Graham wouldn’t have a reason to go to GA officials to rig the election on Trump’s behalf unless Trump told him to do it.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 17, 2020
re: #176 lawhawk
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This is Rudy about to immolate his legal career pushing bogus claims in a PA court.
WHAT “legal career”??
Was this the case where the judge had demanded (under threat of sanctions) that the Trump/GOP lawyer actually show up to present the case - after all the other attorneys had bailed?
Or was that some other judicial farce?
THREAD
1/ It turns out that Donald Trump was right: the election was rigged. He would know, of course, because he and Lewis DeJoy were the ones who rigged it.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) November 16, 2020
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
I thought Biden said he wasn’t going to direct the DOJ which is appropriate.
There needs to be less that presidents can’t direct the DOJ. Full stop.
re: #176 lawhawk
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This is Rudy about to immolate his legal career pushing bogus claims in a PA court.
I expect hilarity to ensue.
Please let it be televised.
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I expect hilarity to ensue.
Please let it be televised.
(Fingers crossed) Change of venue motion to the Four Seasons, change of venue motion to the Four Seasons…
re: #188 The Pie Overlord!
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I’m a little confused by his 10th post, about “millions” of votes being discarded in this election. don’t know what he is referring to.
Thread. This nurse won over a denier, but ended up quitting her job.
I’m an RN in El Paso and was recently transferred from the OR to COVID ICU.
I resigned from my job last week and I’ve been asked several times, “What was the breaking point?” I don’t know a specific one, but I’ll share this: a thread 🧵1/— Ashley in the OR😷 (@TheBlondeRN) November 16, 2020
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
Detrumpification
Here I am, awake in the early morning to watch @LindseyGrahamSC hold a hearing on “suppression and the 2020 election” a day after it was revealed that *he* was demanding Georgia’s Secretary of State throw out *legal* votes. The hearing’s not about Graham, though, but “big tech.” pic.twitter.com/OgLfUvXVrO
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) November 17, 2020
The thing that @LindseyGrahamSC is misleading everyone about right now is that it’s not #Section230 he’s mad at, it’s the 1st Amendment. And that’s why this whole hearing is so damn stupid.
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) November 17, 2020
re: #193 Sir John Barron
I’m a little confused by his 10th post, about “millions” of votes being discarded in this election. don’t know what he is referring to.
Yeah he’s getting dragged for that. The rest of the thread is about voter suppression by purging registered voter rolls.
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
No, he’s doing it the way it’s supposed to be done.
Trump weaponized the DoJ and we freaked out. Biden is letting an independent agency be independent.
That said, he’d better nominate a goddamn bulldog with retribution on his or her mind.
re: #176 lawhawk
NEW: Rudy Giuliani has filed to appear as counsel for Trump in his Pennsylvania federal case.
“But your honor, I filed the briefs at Middle District Court Landscaping Company!”
re: #199 makeitstop
Biden’s doing the presidential thing. I’m confident whoever he appoints as AG is going to pursue a bunch of prosecutions.
re: #193 Sir John Barron
I’m a little confused by his 10th post, about “millions” of votes being discarded in this election. don’t know what he is referring to.
The “millions of votes” is in reference to a bogus claim by wingnuts that voting machines run by Dominion Software fraudulently discarded millions of votes in key swing counties.
re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought Biden said he wasn’t going to direct the DOJ which is appropriate.
There needs to be less that presidents can’t direct the DOJ. Full stop.
That’s what he’s saying and there’s also state matters that isn’t even in DOJ’s jurisdiction. Watch what DOJ does rather than Biden himself. After four years of a DOJ acting as Trump’s personal henchmen, it will be better for Biden to let them independently operate without him commenting or involving himself too much on investigations and prosecutions.
re: #202 thedopefishlives
The “millions of votes” is in reference to a bogus claim by wingnuts that voting machines run by Dominion Software fraudulently discarded millions of votes in key swing counties.
Even Fox News is backing away from those claims.
This should go well…
According to PACER, the last time Rudy Giuliani entered an appearance in federal court was 1992 pic.twitter.com/0tSdbjlUNe
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November 17, 2020
re: #199 makeitstop
No, he’s doing it the way it’s supposed to be done.
Trump weaponized the DoJ and we freaked out. Biden is letting an independent agency be independent.
That said, he’d better nominate a goddamn bulldog with retribution on his or her mind.
I’m liking the names I see for AG and high ranking DOJ officials.
re: #201 jaunte
Biden’s doing the presidential thing. I’m confident whoever he appoints as AG is going to pursue a bunch of prosecutions.
And if McConnell refuses hearings on that person, appoint an Acting AG who is more pissed than us.
re: #205 makeitstop
This should go well…
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Shit the attorney I worked for got his JD in ‘91 and he was quite experienced.
re: #194 makeitstop
Thread. This nurse won over a denier, but ended up quitting her job.
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FWIW, I had a single-sided pleural empyema back in ‘16 (TL;DR fluid in the baggie the lung sits in). Ended up having a 12 day hospital stay. And I’ve since learned that my experience then is easy compared to a CoViD infection, and the empyema is not anything I wish on anyone.
re: #182 lawhawk
There’s a hearing today. 1:30 pm ET.
Delaying tactic. Or prepping for the next “line of defense” that will be a tweet about a corrupt court in a “Democrat state” refusing to allow the Trumpers to mount a credible lawyering of their obviously valid petition to the court regarding voting fraud.
Trump strategy is simply to put up the appearance of doing something. They don’t care about results from there. Just that appearance that they can then trumpet far and wide to their supporters to prop up the fake reality they need to continue the grift and fading grip on power.
re: #210 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Totally agree. But wasting the court’s time especially during a pandemic where court time is limited and cases are getting juggled will not sit well with judges.
They should face sanctions and costs for these cases since there’s zero evidence, no facts, and no law supporting these claims.
re: #211 lawhawk
Totally agree. But wasting the court’s time especially during a pandemic where court time is limited and cases are getting juggled will not sit well with judges.
They should face sanctions and costs for these cases since there’s zero evidence, no facts, and no law supporting these claims.
But he’s Rudy f***ng Giuliani and thus deserves all the attention and time he wants!
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re: #198 The Pie Overlord!
Yeah he’s getting dragged for that. The rest of the thread is about voter suppression by purging registered voter rolls.
I’m not sure where the numbers come from but I want to know three things:
1. How many ballots were USPS delayed so they weren’t counted?
2. From what states?
3. Who were these votes for?
re: #202 thedopefishlives
The “millions of votes” is in reference to a bogus claim by wingnuts that voting machines run by Dominion Software fraudulently discarded millions of votes in key swing counties.
right but those aren’t votes that the GOP got thrown out, which was what the tweet seemed to suggest.
re: #214 Sir John Barron
right but those aren’t votes that the GOP got thrown out, which was what the tweet seemed to suggest.
Hmm. On reading the thread, I originally thought that it was the ones where a witness signature was no longer required due to states waiving that requirement for 2020, but now I’m not really sure what he’s talking about.
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not sure where the numbers come from but I want to know three things:
1. How many ballots were USPS delayed so they weren’t counted?
2. From what states?
3. Who were these votes for?
I think #3 is not ascertainable since I presume they were discarded since they were late.
What little I have seen indicates that there appears to have been greater effect on ballots in swing states.
Graham spoke with the GA Secretary of State. Graham’s dissembling by claiming he didn’t seek to toss ballots, when the very nature of what they discussed was what was required to.. toss ballots. https://t.co/Lq0wxfA6OQ
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 17, 2020
re: #123 Hecuba’s daughter
The Wesleyan dean who called Biden voters “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” in a FB post has now deleted his FB account and resigned from the university. One departure at a time. May Trump follow soon.
Fun fact: I went to high school with a teenaged golf prodigy who, last I knew, was employed on the faculty of Virginia Wesleyan’s athletic department as a golf coach. He’s also a rabid misogynistic transphobic knuckledragging Trumper who has spent years in his Facebook feed peddling baseless conspiracy theories against the Obamas, Clintons, and liberals in general.
I never friended this guy, but I used to frequently see his demented spew because he spent a lot of time trolling my friends - the few liberal-leaning people my high school produced in the Reagan Era.
I eventually blocked him. (Occasionally, I unblock him to take a peek at what he’s up to for Intel-gathering purposes, but haven’t recently.) He has said much worse things about us liberals than the Dean of Virginia Wesleyan’s business school. I would wager that, unlike said dean, he’s still employed by VWU and still trolling the libs on Facebook in his monosyllabic, inarticulate, serial emoji-abusing manner.
re: #219 Sir John Barron
why is Graham talking to the GA SoS in the first place?
Just an innocent question about absentee ballot signature verification… which requires you to directly talk to the SoS. Nothing a staffer couldn’t be told to look up for you of course.
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It stinks to high heaven but Lindsey is pretty sure he can brazen it out since the DoJ or GA won’t do anything about it. And I expect the Senate won’t either.
re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think #3 is not ascertainable since I presume they were discarded since they were late.
What little I have seen indicates that there appears to have been greater effect on ballots in swing states.
Exactly.
re: #210 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Delaying tactic. Or prepping for the next “line of defense” that will be a tweet about a corrupt court in a “Democrat state” refusing to allow the Trumpers to mount a credible lawyering of their obviously valid petition to the court regarding voting fraud.
Trump strategy is simply to put up the appearance of doing something. They don’t care about results from there. Just that appearance that they can then trumpet far and wide to their supporters to prop up the fake reality they need to continue the grift and fading grip on power.
Trump and the GOP figure they have nothing to lose in violating another norm and degrading the trustworthiness of our elections and institutions even further than what they have already managed to do.
No Trump tweets in almost 12 hours? Should we be worried?
re: #222 Sir John Barron
Trump and the GOP figure they have nothing to lose in violating another norm and degrading the trustworthiness of our elections and institutions even further than what they have already managed to do.
Our entire electoral system is based on a degree of mutual goodwill and trust, with controls and oversight. But Trump is attacking the system at all levels and points wherever he thinks he might win a court ruling in his favor just to make the point that HE DID NOT LOSE.
It is hard to appreciate the amount of damage he is doing to our democratic institutions and practices.
re: #108 EPR-radar
But what this announcement of Nov 16 looks like so far is damn near the whole state going from “moderate risk” to “worst risk” in one shot, skipping over an intermediate stage.
If that’s what happened, then at least the “moderate risk” stage wasn’t properly defined.
Exponential means exponential.
By the time you see it taking off it’s in the stratosphere.
More cabinet positions filled.
NEW: President-elect Biden announces Dana Remus, who served as campaign’s top lawyer, will be his White House counsel.
Rep. Cedric Richmond will leave the House to become WH director of public engagement.
Biden aide Annie Thomasini will become director of Oval Office ops.— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) November 17, 2020
re: #226 John Hughes
Exponential means exponential.
By the time you see it taking off it’s in the stratosphere.
again, first Thanksgiving, then Christmas then New Year…every one of those holidays is going to kick the curve up by another factor…
re: #226 John Hughes
Exponential means exponential.
By the time you see it taking off it’s in the stratosphere.
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” ~ Albert Bartlett
I wonder what this is all about.
Rather strange: @SecPompeo’s @usairforce operated Boeing C-32A (757-2G4(WL)) spent the night in Sofia and now is returning to Istanbul. pic.twitter.com/IyEc5TXtl4
— Yörük Işık (@YorukIsik) November 17, 2020
re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I would perhaps be slightly nervous if i were in Iran right now, with the change at the helm in US armed forces..
re: #227 makeitstop
Not cabinet - Biden’s WH staff:
Weird — none of these people appear to be grifters or felons nor members of Biden’s own family?! How are they qualified to work in the White House?! https://t.co/VaWLVxrIQv
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) November 17, 2020
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
Their bread is too floofy.
re: #232 lawhawk
Weird — none of these people appear to be grifters or felons nor members of Biden’s own family?! How are they qualified to work in the White House?!
I am sure that we will soon be hearing all about their Deep State credentials…
re: #233 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Their bread is too floofy.
Australia ruled that they cannot even call it bread…
Rudy LOL
Oh no! (h/t @benjaminwittes) pic.twitter.com/dC8gbieps0
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 17, 2020
Trump cried election fraud in 2016 when he won.
Trump crying fraud now in 2020 when he lost.
It’s almost like HE’s the fraud.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 17, 2020
This is pretty cool. It’ll no doubt send me down a rabbit hole.
The Beach Boys | God Only Knows
Beautiful song written by @BrianWilsonLive pic.twitter.com/Yk3S2o973p— Adam Barrett (@AdamMBarrett) November 16, 2020
re: #242 lizardofid
This is pretty cool. It’ll no doubt send me down a rabbit hole.
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Well done! That’s a really difficult song to pull off.
Paul McCartney’s favorite song, BTW.
re: #240 The Pie Overlord!
Trump cried election fraud in 2016 when he won.
Trump crying fraud now in 2020 when he lost.
It’s almost like HE’s the fraud.
and after 2016 he convened a commission that failed to find any substantial evidence of the sort of widespread fraud he had accused the Democrats of…
Two phone calls. Witnesses. https://t.co/mUyalCFGq1 pic.twitter.com/L77DXKpLCR
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 17, 2020
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), without a mask, walks through the corridor before today’s Facebook/Twitter CEO hearing. pic.twitter.com/lYTVMEa3Dw
— The Recount (@therecount) November 17, 2020
WTF is wrong with her.
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
He has to make the offer. Once it’s rejected, he can move on. Remember, his VP has spent the last several years face to face with this shit. So have Pelosi and Schumer. They show no signs of being fooled.
File under:
BREAKING: OAN JUST REPORTED data seized in server seized by army SHOWS PRESIDENT WON BY LANDSLIDE
TRUMP 410
BIDEN 128— Aoirthoir An Broc (@aoirthoir) November 17, 2020
These people are proper delusional…
re: #239 makeitstop
The Rudy dumpster fire now includes lying to the court about his credentials.
This afternoon’s dumpster fire is going to be…. something.
re: #178 dangerman
“Dr. Atlas has expressed views that are inconsistent with the university’s approach in response to the pandemic. Dr. Atlas’s statements reflect his personal views, not those of the Hoover Institution or the university
Not consistent with Stanford, maybe. Consistent as hell with the Hoover Institution.
re: #252 lawhawk
The Rudy dumpster fire now includes lying to the court about his credentials.
This afternoon’s dumpster fire is going to be…. something.
Is there a good chance that the judge will raise the issue?
And where does that leave Trump if Rudy doesn’t get to represent him?
The Kraken lady?
How it went. How it’s going. pic.twitter.com/XcqVG8tDyK
— Mo Latno Bill Phelan (@MoBill) November 17, 2020
re: #254 makeitstop
Is there a good chance that the judge will raise the issue?
And where does that leave Trump if Rudy doesn’t get to represent him?
The Kraken lady?
I’m no legal expert, but my guess is yes.
Right on cue
Sheriff @MikeJBouchard says a part-time @oaklandsheriff deputy has been terminated after this racist social media post.
It shows a carving of VP-elect @KamalaHarris from a watermelon and others from a pumpkin.
A statement from the sheriff is in the photos. @wxyzdetroit pic.twitter.com/pCFN2peQc7— Rudy Harper (@RudyHarperWXYZ) November 16, 2020
Graham tells reporters he’s also spoken to election officials in Arizona and Nevada
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 17, 2020
This motherfucker.
Graham tells reporters he’s also spoken to election officials in Arizona and Nevada
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 17, 2020
Multiple felonies in service of that fucking toad in the White House.
There better be repercussions here.
re: #259 makeitstop
Multiple felonies in service of that fucking toad in the White House.
There better be repercussions here.
Pardon, me, but probably not…
re: #251 Teukka
File under:
BREAKING: OAN JUST REPORTED data seized in server seized by army SHOWS PRESIDENT WON BY LANDSLIDE
TRUMP 410
BIDEN 128These people are proper delusional…
The server was a trainee waiter at the EUCOM officer’s club. Spilled his guts.
re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder what this is all about.
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testing the waters for a Trump destination fleeing from the Law.
re: #261 Decatur Deb
The server was a trainee waiter at the EUCOM officer’s club. Spilled his guts.
And Dominion shall have no dominion!!!
re: #261 Decatur Deb
Trump 410, Biden 128. I don’t even know in what universe that’s remotely possible. What states do they think swung as a result of … whatever the fuck their crack-fever dream incident did to the vote totals?
Graham’s actions are being done at behest of Trump. This is a conspiracy to interfere in the elections of multiple states to throw the results to Trump.
This is a criminal act, and Graham should be prosecuted accordingly.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 17, 2020
Unfu… Nope. Totally fucking believable. These fuckers all think they’re above the law.
And it now throws into question what happened in SC. Did he talk with SC election officials to rig the election? This demands an immediate investigation.
re: #264 thedopefishlives
Trump 410, Biden 128. I don’t even know in what universe that’s remotely possible. What states do they thing swung as a result of … whatever the fuck their crack-fever dream incident did to the vote totals?
I think some of these people expect a SWAT team on their porches, and are trying to run through a sizeable stash of questionable pharmaceuticals.
re: #266 Decatur Deb
I think some of these people expect a SWAT team on their porches, and are trying to run through a sizeable stash of questionable pharmaceuticals.
Whatever they’re smoking, no thanks, I choose life.
re: #265 lawhawk
Just followed up with Graham: he says he spoke to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and someone else in Nevada, *not* the Secretaries of State in AZ and NV.
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) November 17, 2020
Biden’s DOJ better be prosecuting the fuck out every GOP MAGAt.
hi
Resistance is starting to mount in Nebraska to Governor Pete Ricketts.
The city of Ralston does not have a health board. They are in the process of forming one now. It will include city council members, the police chief, and a physician from University of Nebraska Medical Center who lives in Ralston.
Debate emerges over city authority to issue mask mandates as Ricketts resists state requirement (Omaha World-Herald)
Several communities across Nebraska are discussing a possible mask mandate, including Scottsbluff, Kearney, Grand Island and Ralston.
State Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha, an attorney and the chairman of the Legislature’s Urban Affairs Committee, said Monday that state law gives cities of all sizes the authority to “make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious, infectious or malignant diseases into the city.”
He argued that the law would clearly allow for a city ordinance mandating the use of face masks or face coverings. If not, he said, cities and towns could issue a mandate under their authority to regulate nuisances.
Wayne noted that many Nebraskans are pleading for state and local leaders to take steps to slow the spread of COVID-19. Since Gov. Pete Ricketts has continued to resist calls for a statewide mask mandate, Wayne urged local leaders to step up.
and
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reported over the weekend that local leaders from Scottsbluff, Terrytown and Gering said they were exploring options but declined to make any policy announcements.
Ricketts has repeatedly refused to consider a statewide mask mandate, arguing that he doesn’t want to use government power to force mask use and that doing so would breed resistance. He also has barred local public health departments from establishing mandates in their areas.
He sounded the same theme on Monday, despite mounting calls for a mandate from health care professionals, teachers and other citizens.
NSEA calls for mask mandate, other COVID-19 protections (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
The Nebraska State Educators Associations called for a mask mandate, a suspension of youth and high school sports, and more transparency in regards to COVID-19 numbers on the same day the Nebraska Department of Education recommended a statewide mask mandate.
Gov. Pete Ricketts has continually resisted imposing a statewide mask mandate and last week said that he would deny mask-mandate requests from regional public health departments.
“If leadership in this state won’t make hard decisions and put mandates in place, our schools will close,” NSEA President Nancy Fulton said during the call.
Over the last two months, cases in the Panhandle and Nebraska have grown exponentially, putting local hospitals’ ability to provide care for any medical emergencies in jeopardy, as previously reported in the Star-Herald.
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re: #273 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If the schools close, does Ricketts have any recourse to force them back open?
Holy crap, you idiot [Dr. Scott Atlas], if they get Covid it most certainly is their last Thanksgiving. I believe that.Look, my family has postponed Thanksgiving until the weekend of May 8th - that’s also Mother’s Day - We’re doing it on Saturday - turkey and all that stuff - and then the kids can go to their significant others’ on Sunday for the real Mother’s Day.
It was nice to see that Stanford University distanced themselves from Atlas and was obviously embarrassed by his sucking-up behavior.
You Don’t Need Glasses To Read That One (Juanita Jean’s)
I could think of nothing more annoying than running down the subway stairs to catch the train and seeing some dude dressed like a rat trying to make a viral video blocking my way… https://t.co/keE7PPolUJ
— Mordechai Lightstone (@Mottel) November 17, 2020
re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg
If the schools close, does Ricketts have any recourse to force them back open?
Pete Ricketts calls them “government schools” (including the universities) and wants them all privatised. He is quite willing to kill every person in a public school.
His plan so far has been to threaten any government agency (including schools) to withhold funding if they require masks. It’s his intent to return as much CARES Act funding to the federal government as possible (it must be spent by December 31 or it has to be returned).
For those wondering if the GOP could come up with someone to capture Trump’s fans, Ricketts would be a good guess, is much more intelligent than Trump, is just as genocidal, and his term-limited office expires in 2022.
I would not be surprised if he becomes the face of GOP genocide and destruction of democracy in 2024. He has had his lips firmly planted on Trump’s ample ass the whole time he has been President. He continues to support Trump not conceding and his lawsuits.
re: #252 lawhawk
The Rudy dumpster fire now includes lying to the court about his credentials.
This afternoon’s dumpster fire is going to be…. something.
Might need to create a corollary to go with the adage “a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”.
re: #277 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is also why so many towns have been afraid to cross him.
My query to my village board about requiring masks and limiting gatherings, citing what the town did in 1918, was met with “no.”
The reason for the no was while the village has plenty of money in the bank, it cannot afford fighting the state government if they cut off the usual funding to the village.
This same scenario is playing out all across the state, in towns much larger than mine.
Since he has the National Quarantine Center in this state, the world-class Nebraska Medical Center’s epidemiology department, public health officials all across the state telling him he’s wrong, &c., the only conclusion is a deliberate genocide.
He is concerned with eliminating corporate and personal income taxes and replacing them with sales taxes (which he calls “consumption tax” and insists that’s different than a sales tax). That is what consumes him, to turn us into a libertarian paradise to protect his billions.
re: #278 dat_said
Might need to create a corollary to go with the adage “a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”.
A Rudy who is his own Rudy has a fool for a Rudy. /s
Ho boy
So this just happened.
Sen. Lindsey Graham tells reporters he’s also spoken to Secretary of State of Arizona (and Nevada). To normalize the idea of these communications?
Secretary of State of Arizona immediately responds that Graham’s statement is false.👇 https://t.co/widIyZYJFP— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 17, 2020
Wow.
Must be nice to get $1.8 million from the Falwells and have your life ruined at the tender age of 28…
Sex, Lies, And Regret: Giancarlo Granda Reels From Eight Years With The Falwells
from downstairs cuz I like the mats and westerberg
re: #57 William Lewis
They were like that. Either the Best or the Worst, rarely were they meh. I remember seeing Paul pull one of the Best shows after he’d sobered up and I couldn’t help but wonder how things would have been if he hadn’t been so terrified of success?
I have always kind of had the impression that it wasn’t so much fear of success as it was fear of the identity crisis success could cause for him. If you are at least partly defining yourself by your rejection of society and/or its trappings of and definitions of success, how can you work for, or even accept, success without negating yourself?
I think I can empathize with and understand that idea and ones like it.
re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve always found Subway to be overrated. If I want a cold cut, I’d rather go to a local deli or just get one from the grocery store.
I’m fine with Subway. There is one that is walking distance from me — which is more than I can say about the grocery or a deli.
re: #285 🌹UOJB!
Wow.
Must be nice to get $1.8 million from the Falwells and have your life ruined at the tender age of 28…
Sex, Lies, And Regret: Giancarlo Granda Reels From Eight Years With The Falwells
If I’d had 1.8 million dollars at the age of 28, I would have spent the bulk of it on hookers and blow…and squandered the rest.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Nah, they get a Runza.
I grew up there and had never heard of Runza til yesterday, but I haven’t lived there for almost 30 years so maybe they invaded when I wasn’t looking.
re: #289 Jebediah, RBG
I grew up there and had never heard of Runza til yesterday, but I haven’t lived there for almost 30 years so maybe they invaded when I wasn’t looking.
Pirozhki, prairie-style.
re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If I’d had 1.8 million dollars at the age of 28, I would have spent the bulk of it on hookers and blow…and squandered the rest.
Sound investments.
At 28, I fear would have dropped out of grad school thinking 1.8 million would last my entire life. I suppose it would depending on how one lives. But, I was an idiot….I would have bought too many expensive cars, too many expensive guitars, and too much expensive scotch.
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My husband is pretty tall so 🤔.
re: #172 GlutenFreeJesus
Just as I feared. Biden is choosing “unity” over divisiveness. I hope someone can change his mind. 1/4 million Americans are dead because of these damn criminals. I hope the Justice Department has a different take.
Things would be very different if Trump lost instead of gaining 10 million voters, if Pelosi’s margin grew instead of dwindled, if the Democrats had won the Senate. Yes, it’s possible that both D candidates will win the Georgia runoff — but that is highly unlikely. So if Biden wants to accomplish anything permanent, he will need Republican support, otherwise everything will have to be handled through EO, which drastically limits his options. It’s going to be a tough 2 years.
re: #294 Dr. Matt
There are receipts:
Georgia secretary of state had witnesses on call when Lindsey Graham plotted to ‘throw out’ ballots
Bye Lindsay. Hope it was worth it.
There Is No Greater American Than Dolly Parton, by Charlie Pierce
I looked at my email from the Washington Post, and the lead article was about how in love with Trump Melania is. Kind of made me want to puke. Why? I did not read it and will not link it.
re: #294 Dr. Matt
There are receipts:
Georgia secretary of state had witnesses on call when Lindsey Graham plotted to ‘throw out’ ballots
“That’s just ridiculous,” Graham told reporters this week. “If he feels threatened by that conversation, he’s got a problem. I actually thought it was a good conversation.”
In fact, it was perfect…
re: #295 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Bye Lindsay. Hope it was worth it.
Time to lawyer up, Lady G.
what in the world is this guy even going off about, where are the millions of trump supporters in camo? pic.twitter.com/Z5Tp1Fdzul
— Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) November 15, 2020
So the Dilbert guy is whining & sobbing nonstop on social media, desperately clinging to ever-more-absurd theories to sustain the “WE’RE WINNING!” narrative that is so essential to his entire being?
Aw. So sad.
Maybe we should give this pwecious liddle snowflake some words of encouragement to get him through this unexpected brush with reality?
re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“That’s just ridiculous,” Graham told reporters this week. “If he feels threatened by that conversation, he’s got a problem. I actually thought it was a good conversation.”
In fact, it was perfect…
The Perfect Phonecall 2: Georgian Bugaloo
re: #297 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I looked at my email from the Washington Post, and the lead article was about how in love with Trump Melania is. Kind of made me want to puke. Why? I did not read it and will not link it.
Only a matter of time before the CCCP trashes Jill Biden the same way they trashed Michelle and Hillary.
re: #300 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
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So the Dilbert guy is whining & sobbing nonstop on social media, desperately clinging to ever-more-absurd theories to sustain the “WE’RE WINNING!” narrative that is so essential to his entire being?
Aw. So sad.
Maybe we should give this pwecious liddle snowflake some words of encouragement to get him through this unexpected brush with reality?
I won’t tire of pointing out how creepy this guy is. I wouldn’t want to be near him in real life.
Live look at Trump’s former lawyers tossing new lawyer under the judicial bus! pic.twitter.com/8lLTtJvDC0
— Tams (@travelgyal) November 17, 2020
re: #300 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)
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So the Dilbert guy is whining & sobbing nonstop on social media, desperately clinging to ever-more-absurd theories to sustain the “WE’RE WINNING!” narrative that is so essential to his entire being?
Aw. So sad.
Maybe we should give this pwecious liddle snowflake some words of encouragement to get him through this unexpected brush with reality?
Just waiting for Scott Adams to go full Mark Taylor and prophesize about the Deep State lying about the Red Wave at the ballot box.
re: #303 Nyet
I won’t tire of pointing out how creepy this guy is. I wouldn’t want to be near him in real life.
I haven’t read his comic strip lately, but last I saw it, he tended to keep any sort of RW meathead politics out of it.
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I haven’t read his comic strip lately, but last I saw it, he tended to keep any sort of RW meathead politics out of it.
It’s an almost bizarre cognitive dissonance. The characters in the strip were among the first on the comics page to mask up, for instance.
I suppose he’s smart enough, at least, to know he doesn’t want to kill his cash cow by poisoning it with his loony-bin politics.
re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
From that time when he was “just asking questions” about the number of the Holocaust victims.
Another day, Another Asshole Karen.
Part 1: Discovery Bay, CA • I am TIRED of living this way. I am TIRED of passive aggressiveness. I am TIRED of the fake smiles. I am TIRED that I don’t feel safe in a house that I’ve lived in for 10+ years cause of the color of my skin. #karensgonewild #blm #racisminamerica pic.twitter.com/ZRf90pr2Il
— Jariell (@Jaa_Rule) November 17, 2020
14 hours and counting with no tweets from Cheeto.
Kind of a nice break, isn’t it?
☎️Dialed in and ready to live-tweet
While waiting, here’s the docket for today’s 1:30 p.m. oral argument in Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar. https://t.co/qLByR3vSH4— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
re: #311 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Please let Rudy flip out and be found in contempt of court!
Nobody can argue with the fact that Giuliani is a pro hack indeed.
re: #312 🌹UOJB!
Please let Rudy flip out and be found in contempt of court!
I wonder if we could get Sacha Baron Cohen to disguise himself as a judge?
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re: #265 lawhawk
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Unfu… Nope. Totally fucking believable. These fuckers all think they’re above the law.
And it now throws into question what happened in SC. Did he talk with SC election officials to rig the election? This demands an immediate investigation.
gee what role exactly does a US senator have in a State run election?
New Rule.
Any tweet where Rev Warnock is mentioned needs to have pics of Cute puppies. He said so not me. But it would be a great trend.
And every tweet where @ReverendWarnock is mentioned in needs puppies. pic.twitter.com/8bsSm5h0Ju
— And The Wind Cries: “I WON THE ELECTION!” (@DaveoutofAustin) November 17, 2020
re: #270 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
hi
Resistance is starting to mount in Nebraska to Governor Pete Ricketts.
The city of Ralston does not have a health board. They are in the process of forming one now. It will include city council members, the police chief, and a physician from University of Nebraska Medical Center who lives in Ralston.
Debate emerges over city authority to issue mask mandates as Ricketts resists state requirement (Omaha World-Herald)
and
this part here is idiot level insanity
Ricketts has repeatedly refused to consider a statewide mask mandate, arguing that he doesn’t want to use government power to force mask use and that doing so would breed resistance. He also has barred local public health departments from establishing mandates in their areas.
‘resistance’ as compared to no policy at all?
he’s a loon
re: #315 dangerman
He’s now claiming that he was asking questions around election security. As member of Senate Judiciary, that’s a valid concern
re: #318 lawhawk
He’s now claiming that he was asking questions around election security. As member of Senate Judiciary, that’s a valid concern
I’m glad that NOW the senator from SC is concerned about election security in…GA.
Sweet jeebus:
Cases have been declining there for the past week, so the hospital situation should begin to ease eventually. But there’s always that lag pic.twitter.com/VmWfNCMAz7
— Justin Fox (@foxjust) November 17, 2020
re: #320 Sir John Barron
I’m glad that NOW the senator from SC is concerned about election security in…GA.
Yeah that it just happened to be in states that were close rather than his home state stinks to high heaven. I did see today that Rep. Jeffries called for an investigation which is pretty significant since I think he will be Nancy Pelosi’s heir as party leader in the House.
Did Lindsey Graham illegally pressure the Georgia Secretary of State to rig the election after the fact?
The Justice Department should find out.— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) November 17, 2020
re: #315 dangerman
yeah, perpetuating the bullshit that somehow there were election shenanigans that affected ONLY the Presidential election and ONLY in states where Trump lost, despite the federal agency that claims that there wasn’t anything remotely significant and that none of the lawsuits filed thus far have shown anything.
This looks more and more like more people who are deathly afraid of a realistic review of what bodies are buried where by a DOJ that isn’t completely in the tank and complicit for them.
To be honest, I have no issue if Biden soft-pedals this now, because if he’s waiting until his ass is in the chair, why bothering telegraphing the fact that he looks to put in place a new DOJ that will be independent. To play that card now, invites the keyboard commandoes to take to the streets in greater numbers and allow Fox et al, to continue to try and play the victim card and employ their persecution defense. The problem appears to be that the GOP knows that their ass is cooked even in an impartial setting. It’s painfully obvious that after the Mueller investigation that the amount of effort required to find a GOP member who isn’t influenced by their loyalty to their party over the country is telling with the GOP putting Mueller in a box and Mueller simply staying there despite all of the clues and money trails that led elsewhere. More bad faith…
So, if we get a DOJ led by Yates, Preet, Jones, Schiff, I expect them to be honest and fair. I also fully expect them to find plenty of shit under any stones they overturn. Will we see a vindictive Biden, I doubt it, but with Harris also in charge, I wouldn’t be shocked if there are some suggestions to look into things and current members of Congress.
re: #318 lawhawk
He’s now claiming that he was asking questions around election security. As member of Senate Judiciary, that’s a valid concern
Sounds like corroboration.
“Graham called back again and brought up the idea of invalidating absentee ballots from counties with higher rates of signature errors, Mr. Raffensperger said, adding that HE HAD STAFFERS WITH HIM ON THAT CALL.”https://t.co/Zn07PIRbdh— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 17, 2020
It’s not being reported that way, and this is the WSJ.
re: #287 Hecuba’s daughter
I think Subway’s tuna is pretty good. Really don’t eat there very often though. Jimmy Johns tuna is also good, but I won’t go there again because of their twunt of a CEO. Jersey Mike’s is my favorite of chain sub places though. Turkey is pretty good. And they’ll do a tub so I don’t have to have bread.
re: #318 lawhawk
He’s now claiming that he was asking questions around election security. As member of Senate Judiciary, that’s a valid concern
it may be but that’s not how you go about ‘investigating’ it
was he gonna write up notes or memos?
was he gonna report to the committee?
(i assume he might now to cover his ass)
re: #325 piratedan
This looks more and more like more people who are deathly afraid of a realistic review of what bodies are buried where by a DOJ that isn’t completely in the tank and complicit for them.
People who are used to impunity get really sloppy really fast.
ETA: remember Graham was the same asshole who was openly soliciting funds in the Capitol during the Amy Coathanger hearings, too. That’s a felony.
So Facebook won’t draw the line at calling for people to be murdered.
This is why I removed all Facebook links from my site. It’s a malignant influence on the world. https://t.co/T8GXCqUwXy— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #326 ericblair
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It’s not being reported that way, and this is the WSJ.
I get that. He’s trying to reframe his comms with these states as “election security concerns”, when the sum and substance of the conversation was all about what it would take to invalidate votes from places not favorable to Trump to deliver Trump a win.
That there are witnesses to Graham’s statements, and that those witnesses are fellow GOPers shows that Graham is fucked (legal term).
re: #295 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Love your optimism but I doubt anything will actually happen to Graham. IOKIYAR.
re: #330 Charles Johnson
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My Sister was suspended from FACEBOOK for making an innocuous comment about Americans loving their guns though. It’s funny what gets you penalized and what is okay.
re: #333 Patricia Kayden
My Sister was suspended from FACEBOOK for making an innocuous comment about Americans loving their guns though. It’s funny what gets you penalized and what is okay.
THIS.
Rudy’s somehow asking Trumpworld for $20k a day to lead on Trump’s election lawsuits.
Umm… that’s a wee bit excessive given the lack of results and his awkward filing that lied about his bar admission status on day 1.
Seems that this too is all about the grift.
re: #335 lawhawk
Rudy’s somehow asking Trumpworld for $20k a day to lead on Trump’s election lawsuits.
Umm… that’s a wee bit excessive given the lack of results and his awkward filing that lied about his bar admission status on day 1.
Seems that this too is all about the grift.
good $$ work $$ if you can get it.
Election officials from 29 counties across Georgia told CNN they finished their audits and found no discrepancies with the results — further discrediting President Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the state. Officials say the recount will end tomorrow and affirm Biden’s win
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) November 17, 2020
20 grand a day, LOL! Giuliani going for that money before it’s all gone. https://t.co/jp7mlMcfpG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
Oh no! (h/t @benjaminwittes) pic.twitter.com/dC8gbieps0
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 17, 2020
re: #333 Patricia Kayden
My Sister was suspended from FACEBOOK for making an innocuous comment about Americans loving their guns though. It’s funny what gets you penalized and what is okay.
You cannot use the phrase “white trash” in Facebook. Several friends have wound up in Facebook jail for using that phrase. BUT my racist relatives can use the “N” word in conjunction with Obama and Michelle and Marky Mark gives them a pass. Oh and they can use two “C” words when it comes to Kamala and sure enough Marky Mark pats them on the back!
I keep thinking about that thread from the ER nurse who was talking about Covid patients still thinking it was fake WHILE THEY WERE FUCKING DYING FROM IT.
re: #338 makeitstop
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What about Signatures and Transparency and Observers?????!?!?
re: #331 lawhawk
I get that. He’s trying to reframe his comms with these states as “election security concerns”, when the sum and substance of the conversation was all about what it would take to invalidate votes from places not favorable to Trump to deliver Trump a win.
That there are witnesses to Graham’s statements, and that those witnesses are fellow GOPers shows that Graham is fucked (legal term).
When you knowingly buy rotten apples, you shouldn’t be surprised to find worms.
SC and the nation deserved so much better! https://t.co/enZjTe19J3— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) November 17, 2020
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
I keep thinking about that thread from the ER nurse who was talking about Covid patients still thinking it was fake WHILE THEY WERE FUCKING DYING FROM IT.
I put that in the same category as the Kos diaries about white people dying and refusing to sign up for Obamacare, saying they are willing to die for their race….
I saw a comment that the Donnie Regime dropped the request for the Wisconsin recount. Can’t find an actual news story though. Anyone else here this?
re: #340 🌹UOJB!
You cannot use the phrase “white trash” in Facebook. Several friends have wound up in Facebook jail for using that phrase. BUT my racist relatives can use the “N” word in conjunction with Obama and Michelle and Marky Mark gives them a pass. Oh and they can use two “C” words when it comes to Kamala and sure enough Marky Mark pats them on the back!
Yup. Confirmed. I have been banned for 3 days and again for a week for using the term “white trash”.
So we’ve established you’re a genocidaire, we just haven’t established how many people you want to see dead.
99.6% of those cases were completely asymptomatic or ended in full recovery. It’s weird how they never report that statistic. https://t.co/JEY8LESNYY
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) November 16, 2020
No one answers any of these wingnuts back this way.
I must admit I’d like to get paid 20 grand a day too.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 17, 2020
re: #346 Dr. Matt
I saw a comment that the Donnie Regime dropped the request for the Wisconsin recount. Can’t find an actual news story though. Anyone else here this?
He couldn’t afford the almost eight Milton dollars (up front) to fund it.
re: #317 dangerman
this part here is idiot level insanity
‘resistance’ as compared to no policy at all?
he’s a loon
Nope, not a loon. A genocidaire.
Of course he is. 🙄
There was a bit of a back and forth earlier between the judge and Rudy about wearing a mask when not speaking. Rudy complained that it fogged up his glasses.
14/— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) November 17, 2020
re: #351 Nyet
Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?
All the wants you waste
All the things you’ve chased
And it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there’s no one around
Just want one thing, just to play the king
But the castle crumbled and you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Where’s your crown?
Hard and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?
Wish I might, wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?
All the wants you waste
All the things you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but there’s no one around
Just want one thing, just to…
Now say”250000 Dead American is just A-OK with me!!” and you will have all your bases covered.
Who the fuck raised you to think this way???— And The Wind Cries: “I WON THE ELECTION!” (@DaveoutofAustin) November 17, 2020
Imagine getting sucked so far down the Trump universe that you start thinking people like Lindsey Graham are in on the anti-Trump deepstate plan. pic.twitter.com/OS9OyeKXcq
— Coping MAGA (@CopingMAGA) November 15, 2020
re: #356 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Of course he is. 🙄
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The judge should have someone get those adult sized Buzz Lightyear space helmets, and require anyone who won’t wear a mask to put one on.
re: #309 🌹UOJB!
Another day, Another Asshole Karen.
I believe we’ve seen this particular woman featured before.
I see she’s still a racist.
re: #297 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I looked at my email from the Washington Post, and the lead article was about how in love with Trump Melania is. Kind of made me want to puke. Why? I did not read it and will not link it.
I must get 20-25 email messages a day from the WaPo linking to stories. Some of them are going to suck. I just delete all of them and go read the paper when I feel like it.
re: #350 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So we’ve established you’re a genocidaire, we just haven’t established how many people you want to see dead.
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No one answers any of these wingnuts back this way.
Seems in 2018 there were 225+ million car accidents in the US. There were approx 38,000 deaths. So I guess I can stop respecting those pesky stop signs and stop lights now right, very low percentage die from car accidents.
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