The president brought along props for his 46-minute ramble of a speech posted to Facebook, but even he seemed to understand how poorly his lies would be received. #Colbert #Monologue #ALateShow
1954: Only 1/2 of GOP senators voted to censure Joe McCarthy
1974: Less than 1/2 House JC GOP members voted to impeach Nixon
2020: Only 2 GOP senators voted for impeachment witnesses
2020: Only 1 GOP senator voted to impeach
Always craven, the GOP is worsening over time— Mike (@Antidote4BS) December 2, 2020
“If we don’t change the president soon, he’s going to get a rash.”
re: #157 🌹UOJB!
And She’s back now working with the Trump legal team…and when I filed a complaint against her with the California State Bar…yep, it went…NOWHERE…
Really? Orly Taitz, Esq., DDS, Realtor, is on Team Shitshow?
Do I need popcorn for this?
So I just saw the story about the Dems accepting the $908B Repub offer as the “starting point for talks.” So it’s a classic Dem “win”: Spend months insisting that you will not budge, budge little by little as time goes on, and then finally capitulate with promises that you’ll fix it all “later.”
Amazing what happens the moment election pressure eases up.//////
re: #3 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Really? Orly Taitz, Esq., DDS, Realtor, is on Team Shitshow?
Do I need popcorn for this?
Actually you may want to do the Dennis Hopper Blue Velvet Thing With The Laughing Gas if you see the latest BS she posted on her web page…and hell no I ain’t gonna link to it!
Is it drunk or did it snort some of Kudlow’s nose candy?
Would any of you get away with showing up to work in this condition? pic.twitter.com/p1IGx8kuLc
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) December 3, 2020
“All travel, including travel on foot, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, automobile, or public transit is prohibited.” https://t.co/WFyJHIeqnN
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 3, 2020
This is what happens when people don’t take a pandemic seriously at first.
re: #8 jaunte
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This is what happens when people don’t take a pandemic seriously at first.
Cue cries of “BUT HOW WILL I LIVE WITHOUT MY MANICURE?!”
re: #89 teleskiguy
Dude. These people are out of their fucking minds.
This is such an embarrassment for my state. It’s gonna take hundreds of thousands of “Pure Michigan” ads to compensate for this hearing’s damage to our image.
— billiecat (@billiecat) December 3, 2020
re: #8 jaunte
This is what happens when people don’t take a pandemic seriously at first.
Fuque the Red states, Los Angeles edition:
I don’t feel bad for LA residents one bit. They’ve made their bed. Now go lie in it.
— Gonzalo (@Ganso2k) December 3, 2020
Yup, all you people in LA can die because there are some asshats in your city. This sounds so much like those bashing Nebraska or South Dakota for our asshats.
re: #8 jaunte
Fuck this guy.
Today in Fort Lauderdale, my kids went to school, I worked all day, and kids had a soccer and baseball game at night. And we ate out after the games. You get what you vote for Cali.
— Paul G 🇺🇸 (@PaulGonzalez10) December 3, 2020
re: #7 🌹UOJB!
Is it drunk or did it snort some of Kudlow’s nose candy?
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The man is slowly metamorphosing into Ted Kennedy.
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 3, 2020
Top ten states in new cases (12/02) per 1M/population: pic.twitter.com/AlTsCSVa3t
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) December 3, 2020
re: #12 Sherlock Hound
Fuck this guy.
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Now compare the deaths per million between the states.
re: #8 jaunte
I was just reading the order. It’s another “everyone stay home, except for these 463 exceptions” order that makes me wonder if there’s any point to it
re: #13 Targetpractice
The man is slowly metamorphosing into Ted Kennedy.
Unlike Senator Kennedy, he won’t pull out of the dive.
re: #17 KGxvi
I was just reading the order. It’s another “everyone stay home, except for these 463 exceptions” order that makes me wonder if there’s any point to it
I took a look over at the Los Angeles subreddit, and the users noted so many exceptions, defined as “essential services”, as to render the order more or less meaningless.
Morning all.
re: #16 Dread Pirate Ron
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Now compare the deaths per million between the states.
I remember back during the summer, when the pandemic was initially written off as a “blue state problem,” that the experts were saying that this shit would hit the rural states come the fall and that it would be no less of a bloodbath.
Good to see that red state govs took those warnings to heart.//////
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
I took a look over at the Los Angeles subreddit, and the users noted so many exceptions, defined as “essential services”, as to render the order more or less meaningless.
Morning all.
Yeah, my reading of it is that it doesn’t really change anything. So I don’t really understand the point of the order other than to freak people out, which is probably not something political leaders should be trying to do
re: #17 KGxvi
I was just reading the order. It’s another “everyone stay home, except for these 463 exceptions” order that makes me wonder if there’s any point to it
I have yet to see an order like that with any support payments. They can’t do it. They cannot “lockdown everything” because they cannot pay support. California can’t, and nor can Rhode Island and nor can my state of Massachusetts.
re: #17 KGxvi
I was just reading the order. It’s another “everyone stay home, except for these 463 exceptions” order that makes me wonder if there’s any point to it
Well I sure do hope that I’m able to use public transportation to get to the Dr and get my RX’s…Now I’m banned from walking for my medical conditions so the blood sugar is going to spike…
re: #22 Sherlock Hound
I have yet to see an order like that with any support payments. They can’t do it. They cannot “lockdown everything” because they cannot pay support. California can’t, and nor can Rhode Island and nor can my state of Massachusetts.
Here in Czech Republic, we’re coming out of a broad retail and restaurant closure today. The government’s hand was forced because of a class-action lawsuit filed by retail shop and restaurant owners - because there was no compensation in this most-recent second shutdown. If the Constitutional Court rules on their behalf (which is a very strong possibility), the government is going to have to fork out billions of crowns in compensation and they’ve admitted they have no idea where that money’s gonna come from.
re: #23 🌹UOJB!
Well I sure do hope that I’m able to use public transportation to get to the Dr and get my RX’s…Now I’m banned from walking for my medical conditions so the blood sugar is going to spike…
Public transportation and doctors and pharmacies fall under the exceptions, so you should be good there
The other amazing thing is Garcetti had a press conference earlier and said nothing about this order, then just dropped it late at night with no warnings. If he really was on a short list for a Biden cabinet position, this should be enough to get his name crossed off
re: #17 KGxvi
I was just reading the order. It’s another “everyone stay home, except for these 463 exceptions” order that makes me wonder if there’s any point to it
Well, number 26 on there basically tells churches to go back to outside church or forego meeting at all. Megachurch Grace Community Cult Church in Sun Valley is under the LA city order, and its pastor, John MacArthur, has been tussling with the county health department. I believe there’s yet another in the long series of hearings either next week or the week after in a case involving the LA County Health Department, because MacArthur continues to insist on meeting in his church, with no social distancing and no masks. I honestly wonder if the city will actually step in and padlock the damned church this Sunday. It should.
Let’s remember that a couple weeks ago Trump entertained the Michigan GOP legislative leaders in Washington. Hopefully Rudy’s freak show before the Michigan legislature remains just that and doesn’t allow the GOP members the excuse to succumb to Trump’s entreaties to override Michigan law and appoint their own slate of electors. Trump is still trying to steal the election. We underestimate his evil and cunning at our own peril— especially given that much of the GOP is in thrall to him. He’s escaped justice his entire life — and every time we believe that he is finally defeated, he arises again like Michael Myers. This has gone on way too long — and few in the GOP leadership are willing to end it — which certainly gives Trump the hope that he can pull this off.
re: #123 🌹UOJB!
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re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Michigan certified the results. The governor will send Biden’s delegates. If the legislature tries, the US House will ignore them.
Florida House Rep, District 49:
2,650 Americans dead from COVID just today. Let that sink in. Unless we do something different, we’ll see on average 3,000 dead every single day in a matter of weeks or sooner. That’s like a 9/11 happening every day. 😷 https://t.co/KyTG8RS9A5
— Rep. Carlos G Smith (@CarlosGSmith) December 3, 2020
In other news, Trump’s campaign has recorded over $170 Million in donations towards their fight to ‘regain their stolen votes’.
Meanwhile poor Americans like 59 yrs old Hollis who pays thousands of $ in taxes can’t afford his medications.https://t.co/mWQWFVAyAq— Adeyemi Adams👑 🇳🇬🇺🇸 (@HRHAdeyemiAdams) December 3, 2020
re: #25 KGxvi
Public transportation and doctors and pharmacies fall under the exceptions, so you should be good there
The other amazing thing is Garcetti had a press conference earlier and said nothing about this order, then just dropped it late at night with no warnings. If he really was on a short list for a Biden cabinet position, this should be enough to get his name crossed off
Garcetti had NO BUSINESS being on the list for any cabinet position based on his obsession with gentrification allowing speculators to tear down old buildings and replace them with “Luxury” apartments not subject to rent control. Garcetti is even worse than Villagairoisa who let gentrification run unchecked. Garcetti’s legacy here in Koreatown are all the tents set up that block whole lengths of sidewalks.
Many people think the government is “here to help” when it comes to birth control, wedding cakes, and marijuana.
If some of that “helpful” energy could be put in practice as we near 300,000 deaths in this preventable pandemic, we would be in a much better place. https://t.co/AMpxwWcz4t— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) December 3, 2020
re: #29 Belafon
Michigan certified the results. The governor will send Biden’s delegates. If the legislature tries, the US House will ignore them.
Mo Brooks says nothing will stop him from throwing out every electoral vote cast for Joe and Kamala.
Fuck that cracker.
A Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Tennessee brought the same charge against an anarcho-punk band member after his home was raided by officers over a photoshoot he posted on Facebook: https://t.co/ebMBnNkRNB
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 2, 2020
re: #145 DodgerFan1988
This trash tweet by Aubrey Huff which SE Cupp is responding to is infested with MRA assholes.
By Mr. Huff’s assertion, since my father was killed in combat, my mother should have just stayed alone for the rest of her life because she had children already.
Bishop Swan smacks down another Pulpit Pimp.
.@MarioMurilloMin says it’s “a conspiracy theory” to believe that Joe Biden has been elected president.
He claims that any Christian who voted for or believes Biden was elected will be judged by God.
I’m telling you, white evangelicalism is nothing but white supremacy in drag. pic.twitter.com/OO44srUWVs— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) December 2, 2020
re: #37 🌹UOJB!
Bishop Swan smacks down another Pulpit Pimp.
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To believe that Donald Trump not only won reelection, but did so by a “landslide,” you have to believe that one or more foreign nations conspired to engage in simultaneous schemes to hack voting machines, manufacture faux ballots, and corrupt/deceive numerous state officials in several states in order to allow Joe Biden to win by less than 80,000 votes while also allowing Republicans to win back numerous House seats and potentially retain the Senate majority.
To believe that Joe Biden won, all you have to believe is that a federal election conducted in one of the most trying periods in modern US history led to a convoluted but ultimately valid result. That millions of Americans voted against Donald Trump but could not bring themselves to support Congressional Democrats, and any “irregularities” are due in part to efforts by Republicans in several state to fuck with the election through totally legal (if bad faith) efforts such as preventing the early counting of mail-in ballots so that their submission as one bulk count looks “suspicious.”
Now, which seems like more of a conspiracy theory?
Good god. https://t.co/1W21ankOVl
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 3, 2020
The weather is drunk and should go home.
It’s about fifteen to twenty degrees warmer in the Rockies to our west above five thousand feet, than it is here at 3,600 feet.
re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron
Where once again I call for trials for crimes against humanity.
re: #37 🌹UOJB!
Bishop Swan smacks down another Pulpit Pimp.
I don’t understand how Christians on one side use the same Bible to go after Christians on the other side, and both say “God is on our side.”
Until all these people settle what the heck it is they believe first, I see no reason to believe any of it.
Bishop Talbert Swan is not a good man because he’s a Christian; he’s a good man because he’s a good man.
Mario Murillo isn’t an awful man because he’s a Christian, he’s just an awful man.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
God is a two-timing whore.
— Possum Every Hour (@PossumEveryHour) December 3, 2020
Ex French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing dead of COVID-19 at the age of 94 years.
Legalised abortion, reduced age of majority to 18, launched French nuclear energy program, high speed train network, collaborated with Helmut Schmidt on beginning of what became the Euro. Played the accordion on TV.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
God is a two-timing whore.
Jerry Falwell. Eric Metaxas. Charlie Kirk. Jenna Ellis.
WTH is in the water at Liberty University?— Ryan Healy (@ryhealy) December 2, 2020
Well…. I’d start with a few hundred years of white supremacy combined with a couple thousand years of Christian exceptionalism? 😬#EmptyThePews https://t.co/QevwloqAwG
— Em *smashing the patriarchy daily* (@life_she_wrote) December 3, 2020
California megachurch pastor, Bob Bryant, 58, dies from COVID-19 one week after being hospitalized. Water of Life has a congregation on 26,000 and Bryant was among the evangelical Trump-cult leaders calling for places of worship to reopen in May.
— Frank Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) December 2, 2020
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course they will, because you can never get enough of that tax-free money.
@mindshift Never fails to shock…
“The megachurch, which continued to welcome hundreds to services despite the ever rising cases in California, has said it will continue to hold services with social distancing despite Bryant’s death.” https://t.co/AlA1aVzeus— Pam Martella Shaouy (@PamMartella) December 2, 2020
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And nothing of value was lost.
So much for the Southern Baptist Convention trying to be less racist than in the past.
Southern Baptist Leaders: Critical Race Theory is “Incompatible” With Our Faith (Goes to Friendly Atheist)
At one point in recent memory, the Southern Baptist Convention made an effort to try and distance itself from its racist roots. Its leaders even began rejecting the word “Southern” because of the connotations.
But now they seem to have dropped that ball, declaring Critical Race Theory incompatible with their faith.
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There were 2833 Covid-19 deaths in the US yesterday, a new record high. @Mike_Pence is an idiot and an ass.#COVIDIOTS pic.twitter.com/IoKbpTexCT
— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) December 3, 2020
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was sent to Fukushima to provide tsunami aid.
I still imagine the Captain presenting himself to the local authorities: “I’m from the US government and we’re here to help.”
re: #46 wrenchwench
Well, that was disappointing.
Oh, POSSUM every hour. Boy did I misread that account title.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of course they will, because you can never get enough of that tax-free money.
And on-line donations are traceable, cash money can just fall down between the pews and be discovered later…
Republicans would have no standards at all if it weren’t for double standards. 🙄
— PearlyBidenisPOTUS (@PearlyB57) December 2, 2020
re: #58 Dread Pirate Ron
GOP: States’ Rights!
State: Mask Mandate
GOP: Federal Law Banning Mask Mandates!!!
Do you think we can get them to accept more than 2000 deaths a day?!
From story w/@yabutaleb7 in May: “Some advisers worry the number of deaths will either stabilize around 2,000 per day or continue to climb over the next month. ‘The question is, will people become anesthetized to it? Are they willing to accept that?’” https://t.co/Sn50Y9jLzk https://t.co/Szzhaqb3ug
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 3, 2020
What if activists aren’t PR firms for politicians & their demands are bc police budgets are exploding, community resources are shrinking to bankroll it, & ppl brought this up for ages but it wasn’t until they said “defund” that comfortable people started paying attn to brutality
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020
The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the “polite language” policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore.
It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn’t their full demands.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020
The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.
Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.
To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable… that’s the point.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020
It is good to create controversy, the issue was the backlash over the wording, which made it sound like they want to disband police.
On the other hand, opponents are going to twist your words no matter how you formulate them.
Remember, according to his own words, Trump is the only thing standing between White America and an armed Antifa thug coming up to hit you on the head (and nobody talks about it).
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I agree with all that within the constraints of, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
re: #62 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is good to create controversy, the issue was the backlash over the wording, which made it sound like they want to disband police.
On the other hand, opponents are going to twist your words no matter how you formulate them.
Remember, according to his own words, Trump is the only thing standing between White America and an armed Antifa thug coming up to hit you on the head (and nobody talks about it).
Conservatives will always twist our words. It would seem the best policy is to ignore them. Let ‘em howl.
The real question is; “Is declaring martial law, to invalidate an election, SOCIALISM?” (which we all know is WAY WORSE than Fascism).
— One of the shadowy figures (@RogerRwyatt365) December 2, 2020
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The real question is; “Is declaring martial law, to invalidate an election, SOCIALISM?” (which we all know is WAY WORSE than Fascism).
Unless it’s NATIONAL Socialism…
‘Breaking news: New coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 200,000 cases in a day on Wednesday, while hospitalizations topped 100,000 for the first time.’ https://t.co/PVZma4Oxti
— Andrew deGrandpre (@adegrandpre) December 2, 2020
re: #60 Dread Pirate Ron
Do you think we can get them to accept more than 2000 deaths a day?!
Sure. We’re about to hear endless refrains of “The only moral Christmas gathering is my Christmas gathering.”
Just like Thanksgiving, there will even be people on this Website who will offer up excuses why they need to have a Christmas gathering (they’d never lie to us, we’re careful, it will be a small gathering, my grandma’s really old, &c).
Update about the storm damage in Haines, Alaska. Four homes knocked into the ocean by mudslides and 6 people are missing.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She is right to a point. But, the left is notorious forgetting that they need to convince others to get things done. Yet again. Getting real reform of policing in the US is going to be an uphill battle waged while pissing in the wind of an C5 hurricane. There’s no reason to alienate a huge chunk of the population from word one. There’s no bonus rewards for doing this on the nightmare difficulty setting.
There will be plenty of things that will make people uncomfortable on this trip.
Obama did a whole interview on why “defund” is really bad wording to start.
Rose Twitter completely lost their shit. Yet again.
After two public hearings, Papillion will vote on a mask mandate Thursday (Omaha World-Herald)
Papillion is a suburb of Omaha. We continue our piecemeal approach to this while the state spirals out of control.
Two city councilors voted against waving the third reading of the bill, which pushes it out farther.
Several people spoke in favour of the mandate. Some of the anti comments are below.
More than a dozen people spoke against the mandate. Some questioned the science behind the effectiveness of masks, while others said mandates are pitting community members against one another.
One opponent, laundromat owner Peter Mayberry, was the first person in Omaha to receive a citation for violating Omaha’s mask mandate.
Mayberry, who owns Anytime Laundry, said he believes the virus is real but doesn’t believe the government should be requiring people to wear masks.
“You’re putting people in impossible situations,” Mayberry said.
Melissa Panko, a member of Papillion’s Library Board, said a high number of people in Papillion already wear masks and questioned why a mandate was necessary.
Councilman Tom Mumgaard said many laws are designed for the minority of people who don’t act responsibly.
“One of the obligations we have as elected officials is to lead people to responsible behavior,” Mumgaard said.
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Hey, Councilman Mumgaard, send that to Gov. Ricketts.
re: #69 Jack Burton
She is right to a point. But, the left is notorious forgetting that they need to convince others to get things done. Yet again. Getting real reform of policing in the US is going to be an uphill battle waged while pissing in the wind of an C5 hurricane. There’s no reason to alienate a huge chunk of the population from word one. There’s no bonus rewards for doing this on the nightmare difficulty setting.
There will be plenty of things that will make people uncomfortable on this trip.
Obama did a whole interview on why “defund” is really bad wording to start.
Rose Twitter completely lost their shit. Yet again.
There are no words which will satisfy the right or the moonbat left. It is no different now discussing the difficulties of cruel policing than it was during the Civil Rights Era, where endless barrels of ink were spilt telling people they needed to be civil, change their language, wait for everyone else to catch up, &c.
You get the same protests over “defund the military.” Everyone knows the USA is not going to literally disband our military like Costa Rica did.
The outrage on the right is entirely performative, and the outrage from the moonbats is they don’t get their pony now.
And yet for all the outrage from the moonbat left whose whims we supposedly need to cater to, Joe Biden won in the largest landslide since Herbert Hoover’s defeat.
The moonbat left can get what they want incrementally, or they can have it all taken away by conservatives.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A Republican state legislator here tried to pass a resolution prohibiting “defunding the police.”
He was embarrassed enough to withdraw it when Democrats pointed out there isn’t a massive crime wave in the 2/3s of incorporated towns in Nebraska with no police at all.
re: #68 Cheechako
Update about the storm damage in Haines, Alaska. Four homes knocked into the ocean by mudslides and 6 people are missing.
I’ve been to Haines on a cruise ship, our thrusters were fucked so we couldn’t make our intended ports. Nice town, not as modern and urban as Juneau. We took a tour of a wildlife animal trainer’s compound out in the sticks, about a 90 minute bus drive into the forest. I would say it was more foreign than a typical small Canadian town in the middle of nowhere, although Prince Rupert may have won that challenge with all the used condoms in the park on the hill…
Another Republican goes down. Must be a Democratic plot.
Don Bacon in quarantine after being exposed to COVID (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
Rep. Don Bacon is the recently reëlected Republican from NE-2.
Congressman Don Bacon, R-Neb., is in quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19.
According to a press release from Bacon’s office, the congressman was exposed to COVID-19 last week.
He is following CDC guidelines and is quarantining for 10 days “out of caution,” said Danielle Jensen, a spokeswoman. He has not been tested, she said.
She did not say where the exposure took place.
Based on CDC guidelines, he is cleared to return to Washington D.C. by Friday if needed for a vote.
re: #68 Cheechako
Update about the storm damage in Haines, Alaska. Four homes knocked into the ocean by mudslides and 6 people are missing.
That’s awful. Hopefully the people are simply out-and-about somewhere else.
Saw Steven Crowder trending and somehow knew it wasn’t for giving out Christmas toys to orphans.
— Matt Harris (@mattysmoof) December 3, 2020
An expat buddy of mine has been doing a Christmas Eve Dinner for the homeless at a church in downtown Frankfurt, organizing the food and the helpers and all, we often did the music.
That is obviously out of the question this year.
Germany has allowed family holiday visits of up to ten people. I will be having my four kids to visit and my oldest daughter’s BF who cannot fly home to visit his family this year.
2020 is bad for reasons far worse than the deaths of celebs (though some did die of Covid). Nevertheless, some very long time in-the-public personalities passed away this year:
de Havillandand Douglas were some of the last connections to the old Golden Age of Hollywood. Trebek had been in broadcasting for 59 years.
re: #12 Sherlock Hound
Today in Fort Lauderdale, my kids went to school, I worked all day, and kids had a soccer and baseball game at night. And we ate out after the games. You get what you vote for Cali.
Fuck this guy.
No need to fuck him, he’s fucked himself.
Florida has peaked for now, but expect a second (third) wave to overshadow California.
And Spring Break is just around the corner…
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Super-spreaders in Staten Island protest coronavirus guidelines. No arrests. pic.twitter.com/ZW3dml7q7w
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) December 3, 2020
That protest came on the heels of this:
Hundreds Of Protesters Show Up In Support Of Staten Island Bar Owner Who Refused To Follow Orange Zone Rules (CBS New York)
Police said there were no arrests and no summonses were issued on Wednesday night.
As CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported earlier, officers were guarding the bar door all day, making sure people did not try to eat and drink inside.
McAlarney defied the rules, last week declaring his business an “autonomous zone” and marking those words on the sidewalk to try to protect himself from COVID lockdown rules.
But it didn’t work. He got slapped with more than a dozen summonses.
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re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Florida has peaked for now, but expect a second (third) wave to overshadow California.
And Spring Break is just around the corner…
Christmas is sooner. Plenty of people will head to Florida for Christmas breaks.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
McAlarney defied the rules, last week declaring his business an “autonomous zone” and marking those words on the sidewalk to try to protect himself from COVID lockdown rules.
Following that logic, if someone had come in and robbed, smashed up or set fire to his premises, he would not have been in a position to summon the authorities.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Following that logic, if someone had come in and robbed, smashed up or set fire to his premises, he would not have been in a position to summon the authorities.
This is another example of wingnuts using whatever words the left uses as either a personal attack or twists them (as in the Autonomous Zone in Seattle, or claiming “my body my choice,” or claiming the phrase “Black lives matter” is racist).
It’s why I’m not bent out of shape over messaging on “defund the police.”
A federal watchdog found “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” at the parent agency of the Voice of America under Trump-appointed CEO Michael Pack’s leadership — and ordered a sweeping internal investigation.https://t.co/wB6mwnzx63
— NPR (@NPR) December 3, 2020
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Florida has peaked for now, but expect a second (third) wave to overshadow California.
And Spring Break is just around the corner…
Yep, beginning in late February 2021.
re: #86 Dread Pirate Ron
I predicted at the start of the maladministration that Trump and Bannon would try to turn VOA into a propaganda outlet for the GOP. Michael Pack has been doing precisely that.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Following that logic, if someone had come in and robbed, smashed up or set fire to his premises, he would not have been in a position to summon the authorities.
LOL, logic. He’s just another selfish conservative. Words are plastic in meaning.
While charges against Robert Kraft were dismissed, an immigrant masseuse accused of giving him a handjob has to pay $31,573 and spend a year on probation https://t.co/rKxnilO6J0
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) December 2, 2020
No one was ever charged with human trafficking.
In fact, women providing massages & sex acts—the group authorities said they were in it to rescue—faced the most severe charges & were the only ones ultimately convicted in this “human trafficking” bust https://t.co/rKxnilO6J0— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) December 2, 2020
The victims are the criminals.
At the end of the NPR article is this:
According to a person with direct knowledge, visas will expire this month for four VOA journalists who are foreign citizens.
Numerous current and former staffers at VOA and USAGM say they fear Pack will take more actions to damage the agency before he departs. Several senior aides are departing or have already done so, including his chief of staff Emily Newman and Frank Wuco, a former radio talk show conspiracy theorist who previously held other roles inside the Trump administration.
Michael Pack is going to do all the damage he can on the way out. Joe Biden has already said he will be replaced.
re: #90 Dread Pirate Ron
This is Reason Magazine complaining about this. This is precisely the sort of system that libertarians work toward, a system where the wealthy and powerful are above the law. (To be fair to libertarians, they generally don’t think sex work should be illegal. To be also fair to libertarians, they generally don’t think there should be statutory rape laws.)
Nebraska Doctor Craves More Help, Less Hero Talk (NPR Shortwave)
Audio, fifteen minutes.
Like many states in the Midwest, Nebraska was somewhat spared during the early days of the pandemic. But now, the state has more cases per capita than any other in the country. We talk with two Omaha doctors who say this latest surge is exhausting health care workers, and one explains why she’s tired of people calling health care workers heroes.
There could be benefits to Trumps revival of political assassinations. Maybe we need a Star Chamber.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is Reason Magazine complaining about this. This is precisely the sort of system that libertarians work toward, a system where the wealthy and powerful are above the law. (To be fair to libertarians, they generally don’t think sex work should be illegal. To be also fair to libertarians, they generally don’t think there should be statutory rape laws.)
The Law is a just another commodity to be bought and sold - to the highest bidder
Shoe0nhead is a YouTuber of the “horseshoe left” wtih 1.55 million subscribers at YouTube.
some reasearch paper listed me as not left, not center, not right, but *FAR RIGHT*
even my 2nd channel that is *dedicated* to talking about bernie sanders lmfao
in awe
find ur faves ✨ pic.twitter.com/Sbs44aU1ud— shoe (@shoe0nhead) December 1, 2020
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Shoe0nhead is a YouTuber of the “horseshoe left” wtih 1.55 million subscribers at YouTube.
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Some nobody thinks he’s mis-defined. No one cares. Please enjoy Arby’s.
re: #97 Dread Pirate Ron
Some nobody thinks he’s mis-defined. No one cares. Please enjoy Arby’s.
Well, it’s a she. She is also not a nobody. She has more followers on her YouTube channel than people who live in my state.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, it’s a she. She is also not a nobody. She has more followers on her YouTube channel than people who live in my state.
Just think how many fuck-sticks are in scientology, doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid. There’s lots of white supremacists too, they’re still tards. I’m so old I remember when only 27% of Americans were crazy, now it’s up to 42%.
re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron
Just think how many fuck-sticks are in scientology, doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid. There’s lots of white supremacists too, they’re still tards. I’m so old I remember when only 27% of Americans were crazy, now it’s up to 42%.
Pretty soon we’re going to be the crazy people.
The FBI is promoting an at-home exercise app that also tracks your phone’s location and data (Business Insider)
If you are interested in privacy, this is probably not the app for you.
In a statement to Business Insider, an FBI spokesperson reiterated the app’s privacy statement, adding that “the app does not gather or save any personal information other than what you select for your profile.”
But the app’s privacy statement makes room for some tracking: When FitTest accesses pages from the official FBI website, it says, “fbi.gov’s privacy policy applies.” The fbi.gov privacy policy states that “individuals using this computer system are subject to having all of their activities monitored and recorded.” The FitTest privacy statement doesn’t explicitly state which app functions fall under the fbi.gov privacy policy and which do not.
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The app has been around since 2018, but they’ve been promoting it during the epidemic.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The FBI is promoting an at-home exercise app that also tracks your phone’s location and data (Business Insider)
If you are interested in privacy, this is probably not the app for you.
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The app has been around since 2018, but they’ve been promoting it during the epidemic.
Fitbit?
AT&T room 641A, everything you do has been monitored by the government since 2003.
re: #102 Dread Pirate Ron
Fitbit?
No, this is a cell phone app.
As of yet, the FBI has not come up with a cross-platform app which will operate on my rotary telephone.
The FBI’s workout app, called FitTest, offers a rudimentary interface that guides people through sit-ups, push-ups, and jogging routines. But the app also collects data from users’ smartphones, including their location and the WiFi networks they connect to.
One Android user posted screenshots of the FitTest permissions in a tweet that was shared widely this week, noting the data the app was collecting. Business Insider confirmed that the app requests location and network data — per iOS and Android privacy functions, users have to manually grant permission to share location data before the app can track it.
First rule of crimin’, don’t carry a fuckin’ cell phone outside of a faraday cage.
re: #105 Dread Pirate Ron
First rule of crimin’, don’t carry a fuckin’ cell phone outside of a faraday cage.
Screen captures of what the app’s permissions do to your phone.
oh come on pic.twitter.com/ElFpbjCzkP
— general yikes (@said_mitch) March 23, 2020
Earworms - term is used to apply to certain Christmas songs that have been played so much that they sit on the brain without end (and I’ve got plenty of those lined up for the future…)
Serious (“classical”) music has a few of those, pieces that stick in the mind and won’t leave.
Here is one I consider as such:
..
It’s a great piece of music nonetheless.
All going to plan we should have the biggest story we’ve ever published coming out on Bellingcat at the end of next week. Invest in shares of popcorn.
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) December 3, 2020
BARACK OBAMA ACTUALLY BORN IN HAWAII USA
re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Earworms - term is used to apply to certain Christmas songs that have been played so much that they sit on the brain without end (and I’ve got plenty of those lined up for the future…)
Serious (“classical”) music has a few of those, pieces that stick in the mind and won’t leave.
For me it was “Alla Hornpipe” from Handel’s “Water Music.”
I used it as the Groom’s March for my first wedding.
Strangely, since my first wife dumped me on the street, it is no longer an earworm to me.
Our wedding was the first held in the little Presbyterian church in Bartow, Fla. in over ten years. The organist, who was classically-trained, lit up when I suggested that tune. (I imagine endless Presbyterian hymns were not exactly a challenge for her.)
(3:53)
“Whamageddon” is on: how long can you go this season without hearing Last Christmas?
re: #112 Dread Pirate Ron
We’ve had 0.40” of rain so far this year.
I thought I lived in a desert.
A normal year for us is 19.77 inches of rain (or the equivalent in snow).
Currently we’re at 12.18 inches.
Every year before we were above the average back to 2012 (when we only got 7.29 inches for the year), sometimes as much as 150% above normal.
Currently it’s clear and 7°Freedumb (-14°Commie)
Tomorrow the high temperature here will be near 50°F, with a wind chill near zero.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your rainy season is spring to fall. ours is fall to spring. season here starts July 1. We had one .01” sprinkle, and one actual rain in the past 60 days. Back in the 60s our average rainfall was around 24”, now it’s an optimistic 17”.
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tomorrow the high temperature here will be near 50°F, with a wind chill near zero.
Current temperature here in the lowlands of the wild north country is a balmy 24 degrees F (-4.4 degrees C). Highs all week are projected to be 35-40 degrees F (1.7-4.4 degrees C), which is 5-10 degrees F above average. We are having an unseasonably warm and dry winter so far; ordinarily, temperatures would be consistently at or below freezing, and we’d be covered with 3-6 inches of snow.
I’m trying to imagine a Kinzinger townhall in the Trump era—
AK: It’s time to return the Republican party to its core principles of smaller government with sensible fiscal policies that….
Trumper: Lock him up! Lock him up!
Time to delete your account https://t.co/gURWzRmOW6
— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) December 3, 2020
re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Conservatism is not a bedrock ideology. It is a vector. Conservatism is a one way direction towards more and more power being shared amongst fewer and fewer people.
That’s all it is. What we are seeing is the end result of 50 years of unhinged Conservatism
building since FDR and unleashed during the Civil Rights years. Trump supporters are fighting for the right to take away all rights of anyone not exactly like them. And then later on, they too will be stripped of their power in favor of those at the very top. Conservatism has been and always will be a con.
re: #118 Florida Panhandler
Conservatism is not a bedrock ideology. It is a vector.
Deep down inside, I am a fan of a lot of conservative principles: personal responsibility, individual initiative, free market mechanisms, etc.
But not the Free Market as an ideology, and not one in which individuals and families with limited resources are expected to negotiate one-on-one with international, multi-billion-dollar corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.
But any attempt on the part of individuals to band together in unions or consumer groups to level the playing field is seen as “removing responsibility/stifling initiative”.
This looks to be an interesting film - a somewhat fictionalized account of the 1938-1939 Sutton Hoo excavations, one of the most important British archaeological finds of the Twentieth Century. Stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, and Ken Scott; directed by Simon Stone, based on the novel “The Dig” by John Preston.
More about Sutton Hoo here: en.wikipedia.org
#Iran’s president is unhappy with the legislation of parliament to increase #nuclear activities: Let us do our job…let those who have 20 years of experience in this field & have been successful in diplomacy & have defeated US in UN, do their job w/ patience, tolerance & wisdom. pic.twitter.com/PS78ztnHcT
— Abas Aslani (@AbasAslani) December 3, 2020
Only 28 more days before 2020, the year that has felt like a decade, is over.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) December 3, 2020
So like almost a year to go then.
Lauren Boebert, gun-toting congresswoman-elect, may carry Glock at Capitol (Durango, Colo. Herald)
WASHINGTON - A firearms-toting congresswoman-elect who owns a gun-themed restaurant in Rifle has already asked Capitol Police about carrying her weapon on Capitol grounds, her office has acknowledged. If she does so, she apparently won’t be alone.
The practice is allowed for lawmakers, with some limitations, under decades-old congressional regulations. The public is barred from carrying weapons in the Capitol, its grounds and office buildings.
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re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lauren Boebert, gun-toting congresswoman-elect, may carry Glock at Capitol (Durango, Colo. Herald)
I’m sure she wears her Glock around the clock
re: #109 ericblair
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Hubs said that several people (like Maggie) have said something huge is coming out today. I didn’t see anything yesterday but he said he saw numerous posts on Twitter.
Anyone have any idea what this is about? Did anyone else see this?
re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a great piece of music nonetheless.
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The list of active and honorary members of the Accademia during that period is formidable and includes Cherubini, Mercadante, Donizetti, Rossini, Paganini, Auber, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, and Meyerbeer. Among the crowned heads of Europe who were honorary members was Queen Victoria.[1]
(And Leonard Bernstein)
re: #125 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hubs said that several people (like Maggie) have said something huge is coming out today. I didn’t see anything yesterday but he said he saw numerous posts on Twitter.
Anyone have any idea what this is about? Did anyone else see this?
I’m going to be surprised at how unsurprised I am by this shocka.
My neighbors are the best. Y’all can’t compete. 21409 pic.twitter.com/L5izSnHnaL
— Dirk Schwenk (Esq, gddmit) (@DirkSchwenk) December 2, 2020
Hat, Shirt, or mouth? Or was it flying a bloody Flag with “Fuck Your Feelings” on it?
— And The Wind Cries: “I WON THE ELECTION!” (@DaveoutofAustin) December 3, 2020
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“personal responsibility, individual initiative, free market mechanisms”
Those aren’t conservative principles. Democrats actually believe those as well. We just know that there are times when things are out of your control, that some people need help getting their idea going, and that an unchecked market will destroy.
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m sure she wears her Glock around the clock
One, two, three o’glock, four o’glock rock
Five, six, seven o’glock, eight o’glock rock
Nine, ten, eleven o’glock, twelve o’glock rock
We’re going to glock around the clock tonight
#ELB: Rep. Kelly Has Apparently Withdrawn His Emergency Request for a SCOTUS Injunction to Reverse Pennsylvania Results, As He Awaits PA Supreme Court Ruling on Stay https://t.co/keyVteEW7b
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) December 3, 2020
Why @realDonaldTrump is still tempted, with only 48 days left in his presidency #AGBarr @mikeallen @jonathanvswan @axios https://t.co/p5afDHlPQG
— Margaret Talev (@margarettalev) December 3, 2020
If Barr was smart he’ll have placed some claymores around his position.
The Senate unanimously passed the Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Act to identify and shut down student debt relief scams.
I helped introduce this bill to hold scammers accountable and protect the millions of Americans who have relied on loans to advance their education.— Senator Deb Fischer (@SenatorFischer) December 2, 2020
This is awesome, let’s do something about the cost of education now! https://t.co/p8VKl5tL2B
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) December 2, 2020
Sheldon Adelson is concerned that the monster he helped to fund and create is going to bite him bigly.
Statement by Sheldon G. Adelson (his paper), the president of the United States’ key donor:
“…the president does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would have won the Nov. 3 election absent voter fraud. That’s simply false.”https://t.co/G9LQ51zAuy https://t.co/mp7epxWZN5— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) December 2, 2020
He should have thought about all of this before he funded the most corrupt and incompetent person to be in the WH in our history - after knowing how corrupt he had been.
Eleven of those deaths are this week.
#LNK Local Deaths From COVID-19 Now Total 85: https://t.co/xzmnfvJ1Ck
LLCHD reports 298 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Lancaster County today, bringing the community total to 17,453. pic.twitter.com/3EcOjjVwwP— Lincoln, Nebraska (@CityOfLincoln) December 2, 2020
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Here in California my daughters both received 100% tuition aid when they turned 24. The state no longer considers the parent’s income when considering a student’s ability to pay. Unfortunately it doesn’t apply to the masters program, so I’m paying again.
They found the kraken.
2/ A pretty kickass reporter, Nicole Carr, recorded the video before the guy took it down. When she confronted him he insisted it was all a joke and of course he didn’t register in Georgia. But she checked and he had.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2020
4/ amazing. Here’s where she catches him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/og212bsPTj
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2020
6/ How it started … how it’s going. pic.twitter.com/Tj6K4b4c4t
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2020
8/ Fascinating. This has actually been bubbling locally for more than a week. Here’s the local GOP official who hosted the event and had the video on the local party’s Facebook page saying maybe Price got a bit too enthusiastic but whatever. https://t.co/MgVDmrOJ0s pic.twitter.com/1d6l3MBVho
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 3, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic grows more dire across the US, Dr. Larry Keeperman treats patients in a Covid-19 unit run out of a parking garage in Nevada. After Keeperman tweeted a photo of the unit, President Donald Trump called it “fake” and echoed his false claims about the Nevada election results. Keeperman responds to Trump in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.
We are going to see how low he can go. Slash and burn “transition”. Mitch is fully complicit and looking to hamstring Biden right from the start. Politics over pandemic relief.
re: #135 lawhawk
Sheldon Adelson is concerned that the monster he helped to fund and create is going to bite him bigly.
He should have thought about all of this before he funded the most corrupt and incompetent person to be in the WH in our history - after knowing how corrupt he had been.
The Deep State (TM, marca registrada) got to Sheldon Adelson! Is there anyone those fiends can’t turn against the Orange God-King of the Universe?
re: #138 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They found the kraken.
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re: #138 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They found the kraken.
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Everything they accuse the Democrats of doing, they themselves are actually guilty of doing. Every voter fraud case I know of in my short-ish time here on earth has been perpetrated by a Republican.
re: #138 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They found the kraken.
Hey, @DanPatrick… here’s some election fraud. Can I have that $1 million reward? https://t.co/8VHog4POXI
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) December 3, 2020
re: #142 thedopefishlives
Everything they accuse the Democrats of doing, they themselves are actually guilty of doing. Every voter fraud case I know of in my short-ish time here on earth has been perpetrated by a Republican.
My wife used to repeat the refrain about Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago registering dead people to vote through his alleged machine politics. She got that from the Libertarian Party in Colorado, but the claim originates from Republicans.
I had to sit her down and show her step-by-step how that claim came about originally from Illinois Republicans in 1960 over Nixon losing Cook County by a sliver of votes in the Kennedy-Nixon election.
Republicans insisted that he must have had dead people voting because the vote from the suburbs came in strong for Nixon, and as the night’s counting went on Kennedy narrowed the margin then surpassed him.
Today’s claims by Republicans of dead people voting are not new. They cannot conceive of someone disliking their candidates, so it must be some sort of cheating.
When Angelina Friedman was a baby, she lived through the 1918 flu.
In April, she survived Covid-19.
And now, the 102-year-old New York resident has survived a second coronavirus diagnosis, according to her daughter. https://t.co/EcpcvM0tVG— CNN (@CNN) December 3, 2020
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So that IS where it came from. I KNEW IT. I just didn’t have the historical knowledge to prove it.
OMG. The 2 minute mark. This is why I have dogs.
Hidden camera shows cat doing the most cat thing to his brother 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/olwBrFTuyu
— The Dodo (@dodo) December 3, 2020
re: #142 thedopefishlives
Everything they accuse the Democrats of doing, they themselves are actually guilty of doing. Every voter fraud case I know of in my short-ish time here on earth has been perpetrated by a Republican.
Textbook.
re: #146 thedopefishlives
So that IS where it came from. I KNEW IT. I just didn’t have the historical knowledge to prove it.
Here’s a voter fraud myth: Richard Daley ‘stole’ Illinois for John Kennedy in the 1960 election (Washington Post, August 8, 2017)
The Henrietta Lacks of COVID19.
Researchers… Get on this, STAT.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) December 3, 2020
re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Textbook.
And just remember, we are not supposed to call them Deplorable.
re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Textbook.
Let’s see if the Georgia Secretary of State goes through with a prosecution of this Florida asshat.
SECRETARY RAFFENSPERGER WARNING: ‘MOVING’ TO GEORGIA TEMPORARILY IN ORDER TO VOTE IN JAN. 5 RUNOFF IS ILLEGAL AND WILL BE PROSECUTED (State of Georgia Website)
(ATLANTA) - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a warning Friday to out-of-state partisans seeking to vote in the Jan. 5 runoff election for Senate: Moving to the state with the sole purpose of voting and leaving is illegal and is considered voter fraud. Per O.C.G.A § 21-2-561, it is a felony to register to vote in Georgia if you are not a resident of Georgia with no intention of leaving and is punishable by up to 10 years in jail and a $100,000 fine.
“Let me be clear, those who come to Georgia with the intention of voter fraud will be prosecuted,” said Secretary Raffensperger. “We thoroughly investigate every single allegation of voter fraud. Anyone is welcome to move to the state named the No. 1 place to do business. However, let me warn anyone attempting election mischief: If you illegally participate in our elections, you might be spending a lot more time in Georgia than you planned.”
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has a team of seasoned investigators who have been looking into every allegation of illegal voting and fraud. The secretary’s investigators will look into voter fraud allegations, including any allegations of non-residents registering to vote or voting.
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re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Here’s a voter fraud myth: Richard Daley ‘stole’ Illinois for John Kennedy in the 1960 election (Washington Post, August 8, 2017)
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs when it was under the reign of his son, Richard M. Daley, the man made infamous for carving up the runway at Merrill C. Meigs Field on Lake Michigan in the dead of night simply because he could. My dad repeated that myth and the supposed Chicago mantra “vote early, vote often” many times throughout my formative years. I didn’t fully come to terms with dealing with these lies, in my own head, until this most recent election.
A cat pushing a cat off of a shelf is so meta.
As long as you think I look like Bruce Lee, I’m cool with that.
Also, a photo ID requirement would not work if you think we all look alike. Why are racists so often stupid as well? https://t.co/1tqolhHKcu— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) December 3, 2020
re: #151 Florida Panhandler
And just remember, we are not supposed to call them Deplorable.
What’s the next level below deplorable? Because I think we’re past that.
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Their ID’s all look alike too.
re: #157 Dread Pirate Ron
Their ID’s all look alike too.
Exactly. That was my first thought last night.
Dumbasses.
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
…Then what good would a photo ID do..?
— Liberal Cynic (@Liberal_Cynic) December 3, 2020
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Logic is not their forte.
Hackers backed by foreign governments are targeting companies involved in shipping and storing the coronavirus vaccine at a low enough temperature to keep it from spoiling, IBM says in research released Thursday. https://t.co/wFQI88aFX7
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 3, 2020
Back in the early 70s in high school the field at lunch was a massive drug market. We had one black guy in a school of 3500. “The black guy is selling weed.” That poor guy was fucked. Everybody else was selling in the open without a problem.
Census delays could push apportionment to Biden administration
Internal census documents reveal errors involving more than 900,000 records nationwidehttps://t.co/U0rZPnB48e— Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon) (@RedTRaccoon) December 3, 2020
Yesterday a woman on Twitter was telling me that the vote counting in Pennsylvania was fraudulent because half the election workers were black. I kid you not.
— Phillipe de Gravaux (@DreadPhil1) December 3, 2020
.@CDCgov director Robert Redfield has accepted the recommendation that health-care providers & long term care residents should be at the front of the line when #Covid19 vaccines roll out in the next couple of weeks. States should be using this guidance in their rollout planning. pic.twitter.com/oPasEP7MWo
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) December 2, 2020
Nebraska, Texas, and South Dakota Republicans, therefore, will roll it out to their wealthy donors first.
Who boy. Reading this now.
Not, I hope, Seth Abramson long. But will see.
I apologize in advance to my wife, who would very much prefer I be billing time (today’s a light day, though) and to my assistant, to whom I owe some administrative stuff this will likely keep me from 😃— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 3, 2020
A Hawaiian couple was arrested after they boarded a flight while knowingly infected with coronavirus. https://t.co/wqRuXFXlgz
— Complex (@Complex) December 3, 2020
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s the next level below deplorable? Because I think we’re past that.
Whale shit at the bottom of the ocean
— Matthew Reichbach (@fbihop) December 3, 2020
Incredibly, Gov. Tate Reeves told @nickjudin that Mississippi HAS NOT surpassed our summer peak.
“That’s just not true. That’s false, in fact,” Reeves said.
SUMMER PEAK: 1,775 cases on July 30 / 7-day Avg: 1,201
TODAY: 2,457 cases / 7-Day Avg: 1,605 https://t.co/MxiNi8XJFp— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) December 3, 2020
re: #171 Belafon
He is a conservative. Therefore he lies.
The burden of proof for a conservative claiming he is telling the truth is on the conservative. This has become axiomatic.
Depending on which counter you use, we had either over 3,000 covid19 deaths yesterday, or just under 3,000 deaths. Either way, it’s a horrific milestone. The CDC’s Redfield is warning we’ll have 450,000 covid19 deaths by February. Given that we’re at 270,000+ now, that means we’d be seeing 60,000 deaths a month between now and then.
This is avoidable. Wearing a fucking mask and social distancing slows and stops the spread. Washing hands stops the spread. Not going to holiday parties where masks are not in sight stops the spread.
But the GOP is intent on making the body count as high as possible. There’s no sane rationale for any of this other than to consider that they are nihilists and don’t care how many die.
I know GOPers will point to the high death tolls in NY, NJ, MA, and CA, but let’s cut through that. Those deaths occurred in the early weeks of the pandemic when little was known about the disease, treatments, and there was a severe lack of tests, ppe, masks, and Trump was blocking aid and support to the states at a critical moment. There were missteps to be sure, but that first wave should have been the clarion call to do everything to avoid the second wave by masking/social distancing to prevent spread.
Not only did GOP states refuse to follow the CDC public health guidance, they’re actively touting their refusal as a badge of honor. They politicized wearing masks and got their addled base to engage in terrorism against Democrats seeking to protect their residents from the spread of a deadly outbreak.
The GOP are irredeemably amoral and corrupt. The states that now see the highest per capita new cases are those where the GOP refuses to follow health expert guidance.
It didn’t have to be this way. A halfway competent national strategy could have minimized the death toll after the initial wave, and kept the cases in check into the fall without having to resort to renewed “lockdowns”. Instead, we’ve become the epicenter of the world’s pandemic and there’s no end in sight because a vaccine doesn’t just stop the pandemic. It takes time - time in which still more will die in the interim.
All the deaths are on Trump and the GOP. All of them. It started with Trump’s nonstop lies and obfuscations about the dangers, their politicization of the masking/social distancing strategies, inciting and enabling right wing domestic terrorists to go after Democrats who want to protect their residents from further spread of the pandemic, and the surge in cases that was avoidable with a reasoned approach.
re: #171 Belafon
Incredibly, Gov. Tate Reeves told @nickjudin
that Mississippi HAS NOT surpassed our summer peak.
Yeah, there are records and charts too, Gov. Reeves.
re: #173 lawhawk
Depending on which counter you use, we had either over 3,000 covid19 deaths yesterday, or just under 3,000 deaths. Either way, it’s a horrific milestone. The CDC’s Redfield is warning we’ll have 450,000 covid19 deaths by February. Given that we’re at 270,000+ now, that means we’d be seeing 60,000 deaths a month between now and then.
This is avoidable. Wearing a fucking mask and social distancing slows and stops the spread. Washing hands stops the spread. Not going to holiday parties where masks are not in sight stops the spread.
But the GOP is intent on making the body count as high as possible. There’s no sane rationale for any of this other than to consider that they are nihilists and don’t care how many die.
I know GOPers will point to the high death tolls in NY, NJ, MA, and CA, but let’s cut through that. Those deaths occurred in the early weeks of the pandemic when little was known about the disease, treatments, and there was a severe lack of tests, ppe, masks, and Trump was blocking aid and support to the states at a critical moment. There were missteps to be sure, but that first wave should have been the clarion call to do everything to avoid the second wave by masking/social distancing to prevent spread.
Not only did GOP states refuse to follow the CDC public health guidance, they’re actively touting their refusal as a badge of honor. They politicized wearing masks and got their addled base to engage in terrorism against Democrats seeking to protect their residents from the spread of a deadly outbreak.
The GOP are irredeemably amoral and corrupt. The states that now see the highest per capita new cases are those where the GOP refuses to follow health expert guidance.
It didn’t have to be this way. A halfway competent national strategy could have minimized the death toll after the initial wave, and kept the cases in check into the fall without having to resort to renewed “lockdowns”. Instead, we’ve become the epicenter of the world’s pandemic and there’s no end in sight because a vaccine doesn’t just stop the pandemic. It takes time - time in which still more will die in the interim.
All the deaths are on Trump and the GOP. All of them. It started with Trump’s nonstop lies and obfuscations about the dangers, their politicization of the masking/social distancing strategies, inciting and enabling right wing domestic terrorists to go after Democrats who want to protect their residents from further spread of the pandemic, and the surge in cases that was avoidable with a reasoned approach.
They are genocidaires, not nihilists.
Texas has surpassed the numbers of cases and deaths in California (it is number one in both), though Texas has a lower population.
Trump reportedly praised QAnon in a strategy meeting with Mitch McConnell, calling them people who “basically believe in good government.” https://t.co/EP3Q458SMm pic.twitter.com/KdY8081Jyg
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) December 3, 2020
Seriously, the prosecutor of Alamance county, NC, tried to ban someone from the county because he led protests and it might lead to riot. A judge was like, NOPE.
As a semi-pro protester, I feel this. The notion that a prosecutor thought he could ban someone from the entire county for protesting! What nerve! Hey @AlamanceNC this is *such* a bad look. https://t.co/LAKNolS6jk
— Dee *I am a Judges 4:21 woman* Holmes (@mmmirele) December 3, 2020
re: #171 Belafon
Mississippi’s got it bad now, but we’re not far behind.
The GOP is busy trying to kill off the “useless eaters” and “life unworthy of life.” (Did I just compare them to Nazis? Why yes, I did.)
I know a sheriff’s deputy who says that we’re making too big of a deal of a disease with a 99% survival rate. So I asked him if 100 deputies went out on duty and one of them didn’t come back alive if he’d be okay with that. He told me that was not the same thing.
— Dave Matt (@davematt88) December 1, 2020
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Mississippi’s got it bad now, but we’re not far behind.
The GOP is busy trying to kill off the “useless eaters” and “life unworthy of life.” (Did I just compare them to Nazis? Why yes, I did.)
My jaw drops when I see relatives posting religious insanity from pulpit pimps who tell their marks that they should accept Covid as God’s call for them to enter heaven…
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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i posted this the other day when Cornyn said this on biden not “coordinating” with Republicans on his cabinet picks
I really am a little surprised … that there hadn’t been at least some consultation. I mean, some of these problems can be avoided and people, you know, saved from the embarrassment if there would simply be some consultation on who they’re thinking about,”
now he’s said this (from electoral-vote.com)
Some Republican senators (but not all) are actually acting like senators first and partisans second. For example, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that he has “philosophical problems” with Janet Yellen as secretary of the treasury, but he could see no reason to oppose her nomination. Specifically he said: “My attitude is that, absent conflicts of interest or other—lack of temperament, and uber-partisanship—beyond those, that [Biden] should get the people who he wants to serve him.” Note that this statement kind of implies that Biden, and not Trump, is going to be sworn in on Jan. 20…
so i take back half the bad things i was thinking about him.
note also the sentence after the italics ;-)
re: #180 🌹UOJB!
My jaw drops when I see relatives posting religious insanity from pulpit pimps who tell their marks that they should accept Covid as God’s call for them to enter heaven…
I watched you on the “Comments from trolls” section of the Utah Outcasts broadcast. You looked like you were being eaten by the Time Tunnel. /s
Our cases in Wyobraska have doubled since November 4. We’re about to be fooked.
re: #183 dangerman
i posted this the other day when Cornyn said this on biden not “coordinating” with Republicans on his cabinet picks
now he’s said this (from electoral-vote.com)
so i take back half the bad things i was thinking about him.
note also the sentence after the italics ;-)
Some Republican senators (but not all) are actually acting like senators first and partisans second. For example, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that he has “philosophical problems” with Janet Yellen as secretary of the treasury, but he could see no reason to oppose her nomination. Specifically he said: “My attitude is that, absent conflicts of interest or other—lack of temperament, and uber-partisanship—beyond those, that [Biden] should get the people who he wants to serve him.” Note that this statement kind of implies that Biden, and not Trump, is going to be sworn in on Jan. 20…
Don’t. There’s his Out.
re: #180 🌹UOJB!
My jaw drops when I see relatives posting religious insanity from pulpit pimps who tell their marks that they should accept Covid as God’s call for them to enter heaven…
You should just get disowned by all your Christian relatives like I did. My life is so much better with the religious bigots out of it (and it saves stamps on Christmas cards; I have a much shorter list to send).
re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Considering that among those hardest hit by covid19 are … cops, that’s a rather odd thing to say.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks all those officers killed in the line of duty during a given year, the leading cause of death for cops in 2020 is…. drumroll: covid19. The second leading cause of death: firearms.
For 2020: 155 have died from covid19. Gunfire accounts for 46 (including inadvertent). 9/11 ailments account for 4.
In prior years, the leading cause of death is invariably firearms.
Yeah, I don’t see a problem there… /sarc
Excess deaths from covid19 are likely well over 400,000, which means that the 270,000+ death toll is undercounting by a third.
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Don’t. There’s his Out.
There will be his out on some, for sure. But a lot of Biden’s picks are professionals that have been approved before. Now, his possible Secretary of the Interior pick, that will be an interesting battle.
And yes, Cornyn sucks.
Wait Lin Wood represented Richard Jewel?
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) December 3, 2020
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re: #12 Sherlock Hound
Fuck this guy.
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I have unprotected sex all the time with strangers and haven’t got an std…yet
I drive without a seat belt and I’m fine…so far
BREAKING: L.A. city residents are ordered to remain in their homes effective immediately, and non-exempt businesses must cease operations requiring in-person staffhttps://t.co/LbzD1kaFJq
— KTLA (@KTLA) December 3, 2020
re: #191 🌹UOJB!
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The CEO pimps running the insurance business are back to their old tricks!
Covid Unknowns Leave Survivors Fearing Life Insurance Rejection.
Insurance companies are rejecting applicants for life insurance because of Covid. Yes they are using Covid as a pre-existing condition to deny coverage…
Now just wait till the corrupted court kills Obamacare…
Well, Frontier School of the Bible (the place rich conservative Christians send their children after high school for four years in La Grange, Wyo. [pop. 400] so they can isolate them from the secular world in a place miles from any larger town—sixty miles to either Cheyenne, or Scottsbluff, Nebr. with no public transport) will be holding full, in person classes for the pandemic.
Frontier School of the Bible only teaches ministry-related things and exactly how you should think about the Bible (they are an indoctrination centre). They are also fookin’ expensive.
They know who my wife and I are; no one from the school will speak to us when we’re in La Grange. Across the street from the school, there is a café owned by Mennonites who also know who we are but are very nice to us.
re: #195 🌹UOJB!
The CEO pimps running the insurance business are back to their old tricks!
Covid Unknowns Leave Survivors Fearing Life Insurance Rejection.
Insurance companies are rejecting applicants for life insurance because of Covid. Yes they are using Covid as a pre-existing condition to deny coverage…
Now just wait till the corrupted court kills Obamacare…
I have to save money for my death, because I can’t get life insurance (epilepsy does that in).
re: #14 Teukka
Did this one get posted yet?
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via electoral-vote.com on maybe there are starting to be cracks in the dam
It is relatively rare for a very high-profile journalist to say that a very high-profile party official is so dishonest and untrustworthy that reporting his or her take on an article would be deceiving the public. And no, it’s not Maggie Haberman vs. Donald Trump. It’s about two Michigan natives, Politico’s chief political correspondent Tim Alberta and RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.
it’s a quick read. alberta wrote an article calling mcdaniel a liar and didnt contact her for comment. here’s the money quote from Tim Alberta’s response.
To answer your question: Our editorial standards are fairly uniform across mediums/verticals. 99.9% of the time, I will request comment from a principal or organization I’m writing about. However, there are extremely rare instances when the person/entity has proven so dishonest and so untrustworthy that I feel no obligation to provide them a platform from which to deceive the public. Sadly, that is the case with Chairwoman McDaniel and her staff at the RNC.
This is a really important story—evidence of how @CBP is increasingly taking over from the Justice Department as the nation’s catch-all federal police force, with none of the legal underpinnings or historical protections that have guided the DOJ on America’s streets: https://t.co/YAOWYWe5cm
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) December 3, 2020
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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So Kristi, how does “not the government” solve this pandemic?
Scientifically, financially, medically, economically, socially, etc?
Btw, you are government right?
Many people think the government is “here to help” when it comes to birth control, wedding cakes, and marijuana.
If some of that “helpful” energy could be put in practice as we near 300,000 deaths in this preventable pandemic, we would be in a much better place. https://t.co/AMpxwWcz4t— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) December 3, 2020
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pretty soon we’re going to be the crazy people.
Larry Niven addressed that in Ringworld writing about Pierson’s Puppeteers, a notoriously scared species. But really, the small percentage that were brave were what evolution had geared them towards. In Ringworld, the Puppeteer Nessus states that the majority is always considered sane — even if that is not true.
We will always be the same ones, even if in a minority.
Amazing people don’t say a peep about the threats of violence, but OH NOES the Senate! If Mitch McConnell isn’t leader, that’s what will cripple America! https://t.co/5FF1rAwPRR
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) December 3, 2020
Operation convince Georgia Republicans that elections are so fraudulent there is no point in voting may be working. Thanks Trump!
This poll implies a drop-off in Republican turnout. It has Biden +4 among the likely voter electorate for the runoff, when Biden actually won by <1. https://t.co/EGxzpbVqi3
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 3, 2020
re: #202 Dr. Matt
And Newt Gingrich in that thread gets underbussed as a RINO.
Cue more NYT Cletus Safaris and another round of articles about “Democrats in Disarray.”
As I’ve explained to you all, the Border Patrol is unimaginably cruel. Recognize that this means agents who recorded this info knew this whole time it existed and still said nothing. #HonorFirstIsALie https://t.co/v7reAyBp3v
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) December 3, 2020
Giuliani brings witnesses to testify on voter fraud at Detroit TCF Center election night
Giuliani has made claims of “massive cheating,” particularly by Detroit Democrats, that he said resulted in 500,000 to 700,000 “illegal” votes.
“Detroit Democrats” is code of Teh Blacks.
Spent some time reading through the latest legal wharrgarbl from Wisconsin. It’s kind of fun to start to understand how all this stuff works, but it’s honestly wearying to have SO MUCH to go through. I hope our Twitter legal eagles are taking care of themselves.
In 1956, compliance by teens with the new polio vaccine was .6%. On Oct 28, Elvis Presley was set to appear on the Ed Sullivan show. He was asked to get the shot before his performance and did so, live.
Compliance went up to 80%.
Influencers matter. Including political ones.⬇️ https://t.co/B66LFK3ZLm pic.twitter.com/zgADaRGQ1O— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) December 3, 2020
re: #209 Belafon
So you need to line up Beyonce and her hubby, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams for this?
re: #209 Belafon
In 1956, compliance by teens with the new polio vaccine was .6%. On Oct 28, Elvis Presley was set to appear on the Ed Sullivan show. He was asked to get the shot before his performance and did so, live.
and that vaccine contained an alien tracking device that allowed them to successfully abduct him 21 years later…
re: #210 gwangung
So you need to line up Beyonce and her hubby, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams for this?
No, you need to line up Nascar and WWF people to reach the unvaxxed masses
re: #209 Belafon
Better get Lee Greenwood on board.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
No, you need to line up Nascar and WWF people to reach the unvaxxed masses
Larry the Cable Guy.
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’m just thinking of the rather justified suspicion of the medical profession that exists in the black community…
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Joe the Plumber and Judge Judy
Donald J. Trump.
[Hysterical laughter.]
re: #216 gwangung
I’m just thinking of the rather justified suspicion of the medical profession that exists in the black community…
Antivaxxers are all over from anti Big-Pharma, anti-Western Medicine woo-woos to anti-Big Government, anti-Modern Science wingnuts. Getting enough on board to ensure herd immunity will be a difficult task.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that vaccine contained an alien tracking device that allowed them to successfully abduct him 21 years later…
He’s gone home
re: #218 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Antivaxxers are all over from anti Big-Pharma, anti-Western Medicine woo-woos to anti-Big Government, anti-Modern Science wingnuts. Getting enough on board to ensure herd immunity will be a difficult task.
And the “Bill Gates put a microchip in the vaccine” is a real thing out there.
The entire Fox News lineup including Lew Dobbs need to get their shots on Live TV
re: #221 Ming5000
And the “Bill Gates put a microchip in the vaccine” is a real thing out there.
I know. And according to those people, the burden of proof is on us to show that is not the case…
Rooting for injuries…
Right-wing media is at war over pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood. pic.twitter.com/mIT6tv0niP
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) December 3, 2020
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Following that logic, if someone had come in and robbed, smashed up or set fire to his premises, he would not have been in a position to summon the authorities.
Well, he took an apparently safer course than trying to sell single cigarettes on a street corner. At least as far as interacting with the NYPD was concerned.
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re: #226 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Well, he took an apparently safer course than trying to sell single cigarettes on a street corner. At least as far as interacting with the NYPD was concerned.
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I assume he we was the “right” color to non-fatally interact with NYPD
Leslie Jones!
This is FUCKING EMBARRASSING!! pic.twitter.com/8fszMT8pbm
— Leslie Jones 🦋 (@Lesdoggg) December 3, 2020
re: #210 gwangung
So you need to line up Beyonce and her hubby, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams for this?
I think there will need to be something like this. I can definitely understand the mistrust. The FDA will need to show that testing involved a representative sample of minorities. But it’s also going to be a while before anyone other than health care workers receive the vaccine, so hopefully there will be enough data for blacks to trust the vaccine.
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Trump legal team’s ⭐️STAR⭐️ witness pic.twitter.com/ZKWiwUmdk4
— Ben Yahr (@benyahr) December 3, 2020
Two video sources with different points of observation during collapse.
Drone footage starts around 50 seconds in
There was a drone inspecting the Tower 4 Cables when the collapse started so we get a close up on the cables breaking, check the second video segment. pic.twitter.com/Qw37Z5byWg
— Scott Manley (@DJSnM) December 3, 2020
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that vaccine contained an alien tracking device that allowed them to successfully abduct him 21 years later…
Well, the MIB wanted to track him in case he violated his alien green card status and needed to be deported.
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re: #231 Belafon
I think there will need to be something like this. I can definitely understand the mistrust. The FDA will need to show that testing involved a representative sample of minorities. But it’s also going to be a while before anyone other than health care workers receive the virus, so hopefully there will be enough data for blacks to trust the vaccine.
that we have to do this, think this way is just…wow
i fear there is no ‘demonstration’ that will have any effect because there’s always a counter:
- it’s all for show / tv. it’s not real
- they are using saline
- even if it is ‘real’ there’s no way we will get the same thing they got
- i don’t care if obama is willing to be injected with the bill gates chip, i’m not gonna
and on and on
as i’ve said, i know how science works.
when it becomes available to us peons there will be experience and evidence enough.
me and mine will get the vaccine to protect ourselves.
getting society at large on board is not my personal problem and will have to wait.
we will still wear masks, because no one else can tell by looking at me whether i’m ‘safe’ or not.
we will also continue to take whatever safety measures are recommended like limited contact, distancing, washing, etc. because these are minimally inconvenient and a vaccine isn’t a guarantee.
what we might find is more comfortable is easing up just a bit on the ‘limited contact’.
- no, absolutely no bars, restaurants, or anything ‘unnecessary’ like that .
- we might consider road travel by car and hotel so mrsdm can see her family.
re: #235 dangerman
- it’s all for show / tv. it’s not real
- they are using saline
- even if it is ‘real’ there’s no way we will get the same thing they got
- i don’t care if obama is willing to be injected with the bill gates chip, i’m not gonna
Everything teens could have said about Elvis. I’m not talking about appealing to the real wackos, just those that have a more rational reason to mistrust a rapid vaccine. And yes, my family will be getting it when it’s available.
re: #233 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Courtesy of
the Arecibo Observatory,
a former U.S. National Science Foundation Facility
:(
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
For me it was “Alla Hornpipe” from Handel’s “Water Music.”
I used it as the Groom’s March for my first wedding.
Strangely, since my first wife dumped me on the street, it is no longer an earworm to me.
Our wedding was the first held in the little Presbyterian church in Bartow, Fla. in over ten years. The organist, who was classically-trained, lit up when I suggested that tune. (I imagine endless Presbyterian hymns were not exactly a challenge for her.)
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My mother was an excellent pipe organist (pianist), and as a child I used to love to sit and watch her hands and feet fly and the huge pipes blast. She didn’t have anyone to help her turn pages or manage stops, but I did like how this clip shows the athleticism involved.
You know Trump’s trip to Georgia is gonna be lit.
The president would regularly stop meetings with Senate advisers to complain, officials said, at how senators such as Republican Thom Tillis of North Carolina criticized his “perfect” phone call that led to his impeachment. https://t.co/zMEFiqrtgQ
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) December 3, 2020
re: #69 Jack Burton
She is right to a point. But, the left is notorious forgetting that they need to convince others to get things done. Yet again. Getting real reform of policing in the US is going to be an uphill battle waged while pissing in the wind of an C5 hurricane. There’s no reason to alienate a huge chunk of the population from word one. There’s no bonus rewards for doing this on the nightmare difficulty setting.
There will be plenty of things that will make people uncomfortable on this trip.
Obama did a whole interview on why “defund” is really bad wording to start.
Rose Twitter completely lost their shit. Yet again.
I hated the phrase “defund the police” from the start — it doesn’t matter whether the concept is perfectly justified. If you have to explain a simple phrase, you are losing the argument. Most people do not have the time in their lives to investigate the underlying meaning of a topic; it’s bad enough when the other side develops a phrase that sticks to you no matter how hard you try to refute it. But this is a self-inflicted wound magnified by the refusal to back away. A lot of potential voters will hear the phrase and immediately step back from support — this may have been the difference between 2018 and 2020 in the red-to-blue-to-red districts. “Restructure the police” or “reform the police” or “redesign policing” would have conveyed the message without the toxic side effects.
re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Florida has peaked for now, but expect a second (third) wave to overshadow California.
And Spring Break is just around the corner…
Have to admit I don’t trust any Covid-related figures out of Florida. I am also 100% confident that if the Georgia voting situation happened in Florida, DeSantis would figure out some way to have the vote switched to Trump. The Republican GOP, even more than most states, is a totally criminal organization.
re: #240 Hecuba’s daughter
I hated the phrase “defund the police” from the start — it doesn’t matter whether the concept is perfectly justified. If you have to explain a simple phrase, you are losing the argument. Most people do not have the time in their lives to investigate the underlying meaning of a topic; it’s bad enough when the other side develops a phrase that sticks to you no matter how hard you try to refute it. But this is a self-inflicted wound magnified by the refusal to back away. A lot of potential voters will hear the phrase and immediately step back from support — this may have been the difference between 2018 and 2020 in the red-to-blue-to-red districts. “Restructure the police” or “reform the police” or “redesign policing” would have conveyed the message without the toxic side effects.
Well, other than the fact that they’ve been used before and roundly ignored…..
The other things to think about is that to a certain extent, the more radical phrases and factions might be NECESSARY to make change. Think back to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X; present to wider society the overwhelming need for change, but make clear there are choices—-you either get on the the reform train, or face the fury of the defund faction.
In some ways, this is an indictment of the moderate change position, in that they haven’t seized the moment to craft positions that demand change but aren’t as toxic to conservative segments.
NEW: After intervention was granted, we have filed to dismiss the Georgia Kraken case.🐙https://t.co/QjoooN47HA
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 3, 2020
I’ll bring the popcorn.
J FUCKING C
Biden warns of 250,000 more dead from Covid between now and January. A quarter of a million deaths in two months! This is absurd on its face, the kind of talk that you hear in a lunatic asylum pic.twitter.com/KxVYB36MQr
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 3, 2020
Since this happened today I wanted to revisit the best thing to ever happen to me on twitter. pic.twitter.com/wQTJdFe74T
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 3, 2020
My father-in-law ‘Coco’s dad’ was a serious ‘No Masker’ COVID hit him. Pneumonia in both lungs.. 40 days in ICU close to death.. Now he’s on Oxygen indefinitely. Ohhh he’s a Believer now.. #COVIDisNotAGame pic.twitter.com/fPEifkJCge
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) November 29, 2020
I’m watching a very similar situation with a friend. Bass player for a pretty popular NY band in the 90s, moved to Texas after the band ran its course and got a law degree. Turned into a hard core Red Hat and bought into the ‘no worse than the flu’ mantra, refused to wear a mask.
About two weeks ago, he ‘caught a cold.’ By the day after Thanksgiving he couldn’t breathe and went to the hospital.
Today he’s on a ventilator with his organs failing, and it turns out he infected his wife. I honestly don’t think he’s going to be with us much longer.
I’m sad that we could lose him - he was always a real sweetheart of a guy despite his ‘rock star’ status. But I’m fucking angry as hell to think this all could have been avoided had he just worn a goddamn mask.
Another twist, Another childhood fantasy smashed….. My God, The cruelty of it all.
— And The Wind Cries: “I WON THE ELECTION!” (@DaveoutofAustin) December 3, 2020
re: #173 lawhawk
Depending on which counter you use, we had either over 3,000 covid19 deaths yesterday, or just under 3,000 deaths. Either way, it’s a horrific milestone. The CDC’s Redfield is warning we’ll have 450,000 covid19 deaths by February. Given that we’re at 270,000+ now, that means we’d be seeing 60,000 deaths a month between now and then.
This is avoidable. Wearing a fucking mask and social distancing slows and stops the spread. Washing hands stops the spread. Not going to holiday parties where masks are not in sight stops the spread.
…
I know GOPers will point to the high death tolls in NY, NJ, MA, and CA, but let’s cut through that. Those deaths occurred in the early weeks of the pandemic when little was known about the disease, treatments, and there was a severe lack of tests, ppe, masks, and Trump was blocking aid and support to the states at a critical moment. There were missteps to be sure, but that first wave should have been the clarion call to do everything to avoid the second wave by masking/social distancing to prevent spread.
…..
Illinois is a catastrophe — and it’s a very blue state. Of course, people forget that the bluest of states also have a lot of red voters — about 43% went for Trump. Too many people are maskless in the city and especially elsewhere in the state.
re: #244 The Pie Overlord!
Did you stay for the comments? Whew……
re: #240 Hecuba’s daughter
I hated the phrase “defund the police” from the start — it doesn’t matter whether the concept is perfectly justified. If you have to explain a simple phrase, you are losing the argument. Most people do not have the time in their lives to investigate the underlying meaning of a topic; it’s bad enough when the other side develops a phrase that sticks to you no matter how hard you try to refute it. But this is a self-inflicted wound magnified by the refusal to back away. A lot of potential voters will hear the phrase and immediately step back from support — this may have been the difference between 2018 and 2020 in the red-to-blue-to-red districts. “Restructure the police” or “reform the police” or “redesign policing” would have conveyed the message without the toxic side effects.
an organically originated concept that takes off (meme) like ‘defund the police’ is like a virus
once it has been coined / comes into being it takes on a life of its own and spreads - like a virus or a fire
the ones that spread a lot are not necessarily the quality ones or the intended ones - they’re the ones that replicate easiest
the idea behind it may be valuable and necessary and complicated while the meme becomes a shorthand
since it grew organically and caught on, then it’s too late
as opposed to a bunch of folks sitting in a room trying to hone, tweak, massage and carefully craft a campaign or representative slogan that they then hope will catch on - cf millions of effective ad campaigns or mascots
re: #251 Dave In Austin
Did you stay for the comments? Whew……
These are all the people who eagerly nom nom all the lies that FFVCS & Rudy are force-feeding them.
re: #192 thedopefishlives
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re: #222 Dave In Austin
The entire Fox News lineup including Lew Dobbs need to get their shots on Live TV
Lou Dobbs could also use a rabies vaccine.
re: #233 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Crushing blow to astronomy and science in general.
Just been playing with my quad drone during lunch that I just got. It is so much easier to control than my old single rotor RC helicopter. I think I am going to like it. Haven’t taken a picture or video with it yet.
re: #257 Eventual Carrion
Just been playing with my quad drone during lunch that I just got. It is so much easier to control than my old single rotor RC helicopter. I think I am going to like it. Haven’t taken a picture or video with it yet.
Quadcopters are awesome. I have one sitting in the corner of my office that I used to fly a lot more, before things got busy and stressful. I ought to dig it out and fly it some.
“Traitor Tots” is pure genius.
Some day the law will ketchup with them!— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) December 3, 2020
re: #244 The Pie Overlord!
J FUCKING C
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From the same D’Felon and ilk that scoffed at us hitting 200,000 dead prediction.
re: #244 The Pie Overlord!
J FUCKING C
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a lot but maybe not 250k by ‘january’
at 3k a day, if that didnt abate, it would be closer end of february
not that the concept is in any way wrong
‘people are not paying attention’
Biden warns of 250,000 more dead from Covid between now and January. A quarter of a million deaths in two months! This is absurd on its face, the kind of talk that you hear in a lunatic asylum pic.twitter.com/KxVYB36MQr
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 3, 2020
SCOOP: Donald Trump Jr. and his tight-knit team have been pondering taking control of the NRA, Trump advisors told Insider. by @tomlobianco ($) @Politicsinsider https://t.co/GJ2a0a9RKz
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 3, 2020
Between the NRA and the RNC, it looks like the Trumps want to seize large fundraising outfits, and then skim off the top.
Beats workin’.
//
re: #222 Dave In Austin
The entire Fox News lineup including Lew Dobbs need to get their shots on Live TV
Lou Dobbs needs to be fired immediately— way before the vaccine is available for the masses. He is preaching sedition and the First Amendment does not guarantee him a mass media platform for his hate speech.
re: #255 A Three Hour Tour
Lou Dobbs could also use a rabies vaccine.
I was under the impression that vaccines don’t work once you have the disease.
Akiva is out of fucks to give.
It’s starting to become amusing. I mean it was amusing but it’s getting more so.
Also, “2.5 weeks before the election” is still “BEFORE THE ELECTION” and waiting until a month AFTER the election to complain will not work. pic.twitter.com/PPG9sucTz3
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 3, 2020
re: #259 DodgerFan1988
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‘fair market rate’?
the event planner your own event planner, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, said don’t do it - the charges were at least twice the market rate.
A reminder that Ivanka was on the board of the Trump Foundation, which was dissolved a year ago and required to pay $2m in damages for misusing and misappropriating charitable funds. She and the other Traitor Tots had to take remedial financial training. Salt grain, etc 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/cZRWgtjdjs
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 3, 2020
re: #246 makeitstop
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He was lied to by the people he trusted. Imagine how many lives could’ve been saved if Trump had told the nation what he privately told Woodward and had modeled social distancing and mask wearing.
re: #232 The Pie Overlord!
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It’s like she binged Marisa Tomei’s testimony scenes from My Cousin Vinny.
This is What a $1,500,000 Guitar Sounds Like
Dude gets to play Clapton’s “slowhand” 1954 strat (with an Eddie Van Halen pick).
William F. Buckley shall be forever be a pariah for giving you any oxygen as a so-called conservative. You wouldn’t know a real conservative if it walked up to you and bit you in the crotch. Oh, yes, we can’t forget your infidelity either, you horndog. https://t.co/WSpO7tg7tr
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) December 3, 2020
re: #261 dangerman
a lot but maybe not 250k by ‘january’
at 3k a day, if that didnt abate, it would be closer end of februarynot that the concept is in any way wrong
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Its 3k a day now. By the end of the month it could be double that.
re: #274 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Its 3k a day now. By the end of the month it could be double that.
He probably meant “by the end of January” instead of “by January”. That is still higher than is likely.
re: #261 dangerman
a lot but maybe not 250k by ‘january’
at 3k a day, if that didnt abate, it would be closer end of februarynot that the concept is in any way wrong
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Death per day aren’t stopping at 3k. Double 9/11 per day isn’t unlikely in the next 2 to 3 weeks. 250k is certainly on the high end of the range, but with the way people are behaving, it can’t be dismissed by any stretch.
re: #270 NO SMOCKING GUN!
That right there, to me at least, is THE most horrible thing about all of this. They knew it was going to get bad, they knew a lot of people were going to die and they DID. NOT. CARE. They still don’t. They figure they have access to the best medicines and doctors for themselves and their families, so the rest of us can fuck off and die. Also, are GOP congresspeople going to go to the front of the line for vaccines? Because no. Not after what’s been done to the American people by these monsters. ESPECIALLY the ones who profited off the insider trading info and other information kept from the public.
My husband will get the vaccine before my son and myself because he is considered medically fragile. His doctor told him at his appt today that the hospital nearest to us should begin receiving their first responder/hospital workers doses before Christmas and then there’s supposed to be vaccines available for the medically fragile people by the end of the year, barring any mistakes or other glitches. My son and I will be the first ones in line when the vaccines are ready for us. But these assholes who have been feeding the spread of the virus by bullshitting the public shouldn’t be allowed jack shit, but I know a lot of these fucks will get ahead in line because they are wealthy and connected. I’ll hold my thoughts further because right now I am UP TO HERE with these assholes breaking everything and then whining it’s broken.
re: #276 Hecuba’s daughter
He probably meant “by the end of January” instead of “by January”. That is still higher than is likely.
When you take into account the near complete collapse of our healthcare system when people start getting sick from the Thanksgiving holiday, followed by the coming Christmas superspreader events, it may end up being optimistic, including both December and January.
I’m told Trump is furious at what he thinks is Bush, Clinton, and Obama attempting to take away credit for “his vaccine.”
He’s being urged not to tweet anything petulant about it, so I’m sure petulance is imminent.— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) December 3, 2020
re: #272 Dr. Matt
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Dude gets to play Clapton’s “slowhand” 1954 strat (with an Eddie Van Halen pick).
When he opened the case I heard Samuel L’s voice, “We good?”.
BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to hear President Trump’s election lawsuit, likely dooming his effort to subvert Democrat Joe Biden’s
win in the battleground state. https://t.co/o661pZCP0w— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2020
re: #279 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I’m with you on this. I feel that come next week, we’ll start seeing the true shape of things.
re: #279 NO SMOCKING GUN!
When you take into account the near complete collapse of our healthcare system when people start getting sick from the Thanksgiving holiday, followed by the coming Christmas superspreader events, it may end up being optimistic, including both December and January.
Yep. If the medical system collapses in any major metro, it becomes a force multiplier. Things get really bad, really quick. The 5k deaths is based on a fairly linear progression. Might get exponential if hospitals are overrun.
re: #280 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Imagine having to tell the President of the United States of America, “Don’t act like a goddamn petulant three-year-old. Grow the fuck up.”
The Memes….. 😁😁
holy shit there’s more footage of the lady in the trump trials pic.twitter.com/OeMEUE64WV
— kylie brakeman (@deadeyebrakeman) December 3, 2020
This actual sad and pathetic MAGAt is now and forever unemployable.
re: #271 Mike Lamb
It’s like she binged Marisa Tomei’s testimony scenes from My Cousin Vinny.
…without learning what ‘4 degrees before top dead center’ meant
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania DENIES Rep. Mike Kelly’s request to stay their order refusing to invalidate the election that he won.
This is all every single justice of the state’s high court had to say about his request.
Background: https://t.co/QDPhKcuKNF pic.twitter.com/Hyze9S8p5h— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) December 3, 2020
re: #273 Eric The Fruit Bat
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build and promote your own platform if you want to ‘encourage honest debate’
William F. Buckley shall be forever be a pariah for giving you any oxygen as a so-called conservative. You wouldn’t know a real conservative if it walked up to you and bit you in the crotch. Oh, yes, we can’t forget your infidelity either, you horndog. https://t.co/WSpO7tg7tr
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) December 3, 2020
re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Trump tweetstorm incoming in 5….4….3….2…1….
re: #280 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
It’s not Trump’s vaccine. He gets no credit for this medical breakthrough. He did nothing more than what any other President would have done. Plus, his mismanagement of COVID-19 is why one quarter of a million Americans are already dead.
re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t hear Trump election lawsuit, likely dooming state court case seeking to overturn loss.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 3, 2020
re: #290 dangerman
What does Dinesh know about honest debate?
re: #293 lawhawk
It’s not seeking to overturn a loss. It’s seeking to disenfranchise millions of Black voters. It’s a coup attempt.
David Perdue bought Pfizer stock a week before they confirmed they were developing a vaccine.
Gosh, he and Kelly Loeffler sure have “lucky” timing in their stock trades.— Brian O’Sullivan (@osullivanauthor) December 3, 2020
re: #274 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Its 3k a day now. By the end of the month it could be double that.
oh yes, but i shudder to think that, yet.*
which is why i hedged with ‘if it doesnt abate’
* then again the national response has been so different (pathetic) from what i anticipated back in march that, yeah
re: #282 teleskiguy
This is just as Justice Hagedorn did in refusing to hear a case trying to push through a last-minute voter purge in Wisconsin. The Justice may pay a political price (he runs for election) for going against the party line; another Republican hero standing up for rule of law. https://t.co/1HOhvisXgO
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) December 3, 2020
re: #261 dangerman
a lot but maybe not 250k by ‘january’
at 3k a day, if that didnt abate, it would be closer end of februarynot that the concept is in any way wrong
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We’re only going to stay at 3K per day if the curve stops going up.
The vagueness of Trump’s pardon of Flynn’s “offenses” is not only possibly fatal to its validity as a bar to every charge w/in its broad scope, it also highlights its corrupt nature. Trump doesn’t know all charges he might be pardoning, but wants to hide ones he does know about. https://t.co/maDG2DDMa3
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) December 3, 2020
re: #298 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hagedorn, making a name for himself as a swing justice with a strict adherence to the law as written, says this:
“Following the law is not disregarding our duty, as some of the colleagues suggest. It is following the law.”— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) December 3, 2020
re: #298 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I know it cannot be done in practical terms but it would be real justice if Covid denial were a factor in the rationing of care, something that is speeding toward us like a runaway freight train. There is no reason for the perpetrators of genocide, witting or otherwise, to get the same care and consideration as their intended victims.
re: #299 Belafon
We’re only going to stay at 3K per day if the curve stops going up.
And its not going to stop.
re: #289 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Ouch. That’s almost more painful than a caustic retort. The justices literally did not give them the time of day.
re: #282 teleskiguy
re: #287 thedopefishlives
1-41. But who’s counting?
A little less than meets the eye (or tweet) there: the linked AP article points out that the WI SC refused to hear the Trump case because (as I read it) they were trying to use the SC as a court of first resort: it hadn’t been properly sent up through the inferior-court system. Which the Trumpsters might still try, though given the utter lack of [credibility/legal grounds/competency/success] they have already had, it seems unlikely to go any better than any of the other legal debacles these idiots have mounted….
re: #299 Belafon
We’re only going to stay at 3K per day if the curve stops going up.
on reflection, all y’all are probably right.
i was being way too optimistic and hopeful
(no that is not snark)
re: #306 Jay C
I was reading on a Twitter thread - may have been Akiva, even - that this is a thing you can do in WI, to petition directly to the Supreme Court if certain conditions are met. I don’t remember what the conditions are. Clearly, they were not met in this case.
re: #303 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I know it cannot be done in practical terms but it would be real justice if Covid denial were a factor in the rationing of care that is speeding toward us like a runaway freight train. There is no reason for the perpetrators of genocide, witting or otherwise, to get the same care and consideration as their intended victims.
The GOP told us there would be death panels; they have made sure of it!
re: #304 NO SMOCKING GUN!
And its not going to stop.
No, it won’t. It is likely to accelerate dramatically when the GOP-instigated Thanksgiving and Christmas kill-offs start coming in, especially if (when) health care systems collapse in heavily affected areas.
re: #305 thedopefishlives
Ouch. That’s almost more painful than a caustic retort. The justices literally did not give them the time of day.
correct
they gave them the day, not the time ;-)
re: #310 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
No, it won’t. It is likely to accelerate dramatically when the GOP-instigated Thanksgiving and Christmas kill-offs start coming in, especially if (when) health care systems collapse in heavily affected areas.
Which will be almost every area of the U.S.
re: #282 teleskiguy
So that’s 1-41 now is it?
Just imagine the right-wing armed revolts that would be going on if the Dems were asking legislators and the courts to overturn an election.
“Based on your risk profile, we believe you’re in line behind 268.7 million people across the United States” to get the vaccine. Gotta say, that’s totally fair. https://t.co/7va4sD2uwj
— paul mcleary (@paulmcleary) December 3, 2020
Based on your risk profile, we believe you’re in line behind 268.7 million people across the United States.
When it comes to Florida, we think you’re behind 17.4 million others who are at higher risk in your state.
And in Duval County, you’re behind 842,100 others.
I’m never getting a shot
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wife works as a clerk at the local hospital. Essential job.
I work for cps here in the county. Essential job.
I figure I would not get one until readily available because the county is very red and very much of the mindset that there are better essential workers
re: #298 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
How terrifying is this?
Swing Justice Brian Hagedorn joined the three liberal justices in denying the petition
Three conservative justices dissented— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) December 3, 2020
My cousin and good friend just died from covid in Texas. He was fine Saturday, sick Sunday and died an hour ago.
— Brad Norris (@EveryoneLies17) December 3, 2020
re: #290 dangerman
I’m talking about when there were no digital platforms….
re: #317 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How terrifying is this?
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Maybe not as bad as you think.
I’m thinking 2/3 of the dissent was in not taking the case
Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, writing for the minority, says the court should have taken the case and ordered a circuit court to determine the facts and report back so the Supreme Court could quickly issue a ruling
— Scott Bauer (@sbauerAP) December 3, 2020
Actually more like 6-1 on the potential remedy of throwing out election results, as I explain here: https://t.co/L30jhnigUX https://t.co/VZ058y3rsb
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) December 3, 2020
re: #317 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How terrifying is this?
WTF? Three justices were actually going to allow such a farce to occur?!
This is batty. Americans are in dire need of food and paychecks. More people died yesterday from #COVID19 than any day since. We have work to do. Yet, @HouseGOP just motioned to adjourn Congress. What the hell are they doing?
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 3, 2020
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I’m never getting a shot
I fared a bit better, as I work in an “essential industry”; however, as I am not working in-person in the office, I feel that their questions lack a little bit of granularity. I would undoubtedly be behind the people who have to work in-person right now.
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I am entirely focused on keeping my family alive through this apocalypse, because there’s nothing I can do for the brainwashed masses. Once my new GOP state senator is in office, I will be pleading with her that if she really is ardently pro-life not to vote to remove all pandemic restrictions in January.
re: #316 nowherenorth2
Wife works as a clerk at the local hospital. Essential job.
I work for cps here in the county. Essential job.
I figure I would not get one until readily available because the county is very red and very much of the mindset that there are better essential workers
re: #323 thedopefishlives
I fared a bit better, as I work in an “essential industry”; however, as I am not working in-person in the office, I feel that their questions lack a little bit of granularity. I would undoubtedly be behind the people who have to work in-person right now.
And in Duval County, you’re behind 842,100 others
There are around 115K people behind me in line.
I’m guess that would be mostly healthy adolescents. Or, they’re in front of me too, and it’s just us generally healthy middle agers left in line.
With my luck, the last 150K will be chosen to proceed alphabetically.
W.B.Y.
I’ve spent my life in the back of the line and the classroom
re: #303 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I know it cannot be done in practical terms but it would be real justice if Covid denial were a factor in the rationing of care, something that is speeding toward us like a runaway freight train. There is no reason for the perpetrators of genocide, witting or otherwise, to get the same care and consideration as their intended victims.
It will be. These are also the people who will refuse to get vaccinated.
“Don’t get high on your own supply.”
re: #319 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’m talking about when there were no digital platforms….
I meant him, not you
re: #315 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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