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OK, I posted a press briefing with Jen Psaki earlier, so let’s see how President Joe Biden (I like the sound of that) is doing…
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Biden distinguishes between “unity” and bipartisanship, saying that you can pass a bill on party lines and that doesn’t mean there wasn’t “unity.” He says unity is about eliminating personal vitriol in debate and trying to act on the wishes of “a majority of the American people.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2021
Biden on how he defines unity: Lowering the “vitriol” of the political discourse, and what unifies the American public.
“If you pass legislation that breaks down on party lines, that doesn’t mean there’s no unity.”
But says he would prefer bipartisan legislation.— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) January 25, 2021
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re: #205 Charles Johnson
Charles, whatever magical wizardry you did to the website is massively appreciated. My institution blocks social media. So, from my view, embedded tweets that were retweets or quote tweet never showed the original tweet. But now I see both tweets (example below). Really makes it easier to follow conversations now. Cheers! 🥃🥃
I guess the only thing @BrandonStraka walked away from was the Constitution https://t.co/8mq38aUwG1
— Pinche-Pastor of Our🚺of the🖕Church (@Pinche_Pi) January 25, 2021
re: #3 Dr. Matt
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Charles, whatever magical wizardry you did to the website is massively appreciated. My institution blocks social media. So, from my view, embedded tweets that were retweets or quote tweet never showed the original tweet. But now I see both tweets (example below). Really makes it easier to follow conversations now. Cheers! 🥃🥃
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Ahh, so that’s why there are broken image links in that screenshot, because your institution blocks them. Those images come from Twitter’s image server.
Biden says he thinks that, if things go well, the US can get to 150 million vaccinations in 100 days, above the previous goal of 100 million in 100 days (that had recently been criticized as overly modest given that he took office with the US already around 1 million per day).
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2021
Trump having to not live at MAL is making my heart sing. Who’s going to loan him money for a multi-million dollar home?
Die broke and homeless. Better still if you’re in prison but I’ll accept this.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s an assumption being made that the doses are available for distribution. Lots of places around the country are finding out that they aren’t available and have to scale back vaccination efforts.
re: #7 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Trump having to not live at MAL is making my heart sing. Who’s going to loan him money for a multi-million dollar home?
Jarvanka?
25. The very first work-related illness ever documented was called CHIMNEYSWEEP’S SCROTUM, in 1775. pic.twitter.com/yc5UYuhXpG
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) January 25, 2021
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Ahh, so that’s why there are broken image links in that screenshot, because your institution blocks them. Those images come from Twitter’s image server.
FYI, when I click on “Show embedded tweets”, the tweets convert to “basic text”, e.g.,
re: #9 sagehen
Jarvanka?
Good luck for them, too. They’re going to find themselves in a similar boat.
re: #11 Dr. Matt
FYI, when I click on “Show embedded tweets”, the tweets convert to “basic text”, e.g.,
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Makes sense, because the Twitter Javascript file that renders embedded tweets is also being blocked.
re: #7 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Trump having to not live at MAL is making my heart sing. Who’s going to loan him money for a multi-million dollar home?
Die broke and homeless. Better still if you’re in prison but I’ll accept this.
Let him check into a Motel 6 even if Tom Bodette won’t leave the light on for him!
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
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even at 1m a day
100m in 100 more days assumes everything continues to go right
- drug supply
- all other supplies - syringes, ppe etc
- staff
- flow of $
The earliest of these suits was filed within days of Trump taking office. So SCOTUS has effectively said the Emoluments Clause is unenforceable in court, at least against one term presidents. https://t.co/jb6O4CDWMf
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) January 25, 2021
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like his own family walked away from him…
Sen. Leahy is expected to preside over the second impeachment trial of former Pres. Trump instead of Chief Justice Roberts.https://t.co/NyNJLoRz2l
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 25, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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scotus got it 9/14/20
they punted
(yes i know they have procedures and schedules)
they still punted
The earliest of these suits was filed within days of Trump taking office. So SCOTUS has effectively said the Emoluments Clause is unenforceable in court, at least against one term presidents. https://t.co/jb6O4CDWMf
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) January 25, 2021
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s Keith Richards…….
I’m sure that at this point even McConnell is somewhat shocked at how easily intimidated Senate Dems are. https://t.co/B4EQxWlQIx
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 25, 2021
re: #19 Dangerman
Of course, had a D president done even half of Trump’s emoluments violations, the judiciary would have done something about that. The imperial presidency is only in full effect for Republicans.
so the argument is Roberts doesnt have to preside over the impeachment trial as chief justice because trump is no longer president
im assuming from this clause:
In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office.
that’s some real pretzel logic and i dont read it that way.
trump was president, was he not?
isnt it still ‘presidential’?
and if not, they why the hell should anyone still call him President?
did the framers really have to add ‘including ex-presidents’?
if so why?
they didnt explicity state ‘the president’ either
this is nuts. we all know what they meant
roberts is a coward
and there’s no way to arbiter this
all in all though have a dem run the proceedings will not help the republicans as they obviously think it will
Trump derangement syndrome as an excuse for participating in a violent failed coup.
Capitol insurrectionist apologizes to AOC saying he was just ‘following the instructions of’ Trump
jeebus
Oregon GOP passes a formal resolution calling the attack on the Capitol “a false flag” and comparing it to the Reichstag fire. https://t.co/hcHOoomXB8
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 25, 2021
Schumer: “It makes no sense whatsoever that a president or any official could commit a heinous crime against our country and then defeat Congress impeachment powers by simply resigning, so as to avoid accountability and a vote to disqualify them from future office.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 25, 2021
Schumer:”Once a president is convicted of an impeachment charge,they are removed from office,in other words,they become a fmr official.If we are to believe the Senate can’t hold fmr officials to account,then the Senate could never proceed to that second vote on disqualification.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 25, 2021
Schumer: “And if the former president is convicted, there will be a vote to disqualify him from future office.”
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 25, 2021
re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Trump derangement syndrome as an excuse for participating in a violent failed coup.
Capitol insurrectionist apologizes to AOC saying he was just ‘following the instructions of’ Trump
i am still seeing trumps defense something like “doesnt matter what all these people ‘believed’. i never told anyone to do anything”
of course that’s bullshit and there’s video.
still…watch for it
Hoboy. Wait til Trump tweets about this in ALL CAPS!
Oh. Nevermind. https://t.co/poUe3Isk0Y— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 25, 2021
re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth
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it’s been pointed out dozens of times already
an impeached current president could resign minutes before the vote to convict/acquit, thus avoiding consequences
did the framers have to write that explicitly too?
it’s The Fucking Constitution
not
Fucking The Constitution
“The Senate will conduct a timely and fair trial”-Schumer on 2nd impeachment trial of Donald Trump:”Some of my Republican colleagues have latched onto a fringe legal theory the Senate does not have constitutional power to hold a trial because Donald Trump is no longer in office.” https://t.co/VylFU13OnD pic.twitter.com/ETodBqAS0Z
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 25, 2021
re: #28 Dangerman
“Fight for Trump”: Video Evidence of Incitement at the Capitol (JustSecurity)
re: #31 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“Fight for Trump”: Video Evidence of Incitement at the Capitol (JustSecurity)
ezzacto
re: #30 Dangerman
it’s been pointed out dozens of times already
an impeached current president could resign minutes before the vote to convict/acquit, thus avoiding consequencesdid the framers have to write that explicitly too?
it’s The Fucking Constitution
not
Fucking The Constitution
Right-wing authoritarians don’t care about laws or precedent; They believe whatever is convenient for them in any given moment. Trump has failed, but there’s still a fascist movement within the GOP.
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
There is no such thing as a “moderate” Republican anymore. Republicans are defined by their current platform. And this new one from Oregon is just nuts.
Anyone who calls themselves a “moderate” Republican has no idea that either they have already been ejected from the now mainstream bonkers edition of modern Republicanism, or they are in denial or even lying about their own white supremacism and anti-intellectualism.
NEW: There’s a fake news story blowing up on MAGA-internet that Lloyd Austin is shutting down the Army and subcontracting the military to China.
It’s molded off a @reporterjoe piece from last week. So, he wrote about it.
This is wild.https://t.co/lW4rGuiMYZ— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) January 25, 2021
Per Worldometer, COVID-19 deaths exceeded 429,606 this morning which is more than the census estimated population of this US City at the end of 2019:
On the SC emoluments dismissal - I think Trump can still be sued. The dismissed lawsuits asked the court to prevent Trump from collecting emoluments, something that is moot now the Trump isn’t president. The plaintiffs in that case could sue to stop Trump, but not to recover damages on behalf of the US. The US AG could still file a civil suit to recover emoluments.
Another Kentuckian arrested for Capitol insurrection https://t.co/r95hPVPCZo
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 25, 2021
Am I losing my mind or did Democrats win the Senate and McConnell is essentially filibustering them taking majority control of the body?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 25, 2021
re: #33 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Right-wing authoritarians don’t care about laws or precedent; They believe whatever is convenient for them in any given moment. Trump has failed, but there’s still a fascist movement within the GOP.
i had a bout with plantar fasciitis late last year
every time i see ‘fascist’ my eye twists it…
You know what might’ve kept her from accessing the internet? Keeping her in JAIL 🤷🏿♂️ https://t.co/9rdByXJcdQ
— Dr. Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) January 25, 2021
re: #41 Dangerman
i had a bout with plantar fasciitis late last year
every time i see ‘fascist’ my eye twists it…
Hurts like a sonofabitch, doesn’t it?
And Sen. Hawley, back against the wall, employs the classic Pee Wee Herman gambit in an attempt to regain credibility. Will the Democrats also make monkeys or will they just trade them? Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/GJxL5MEZ8i
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) January 25, 2021
morons
Washington state GOP leaders demand Rep. Newhouse resign over Trump impeachment vote https://t.co/SSJ5VPvH5b pic.twitter.com/QTUouxPel5
— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) January 25, 2021
re: #43 austin_blue
Hurts like a sonofabitch, doesn’t it?
indeed it did
found a good foot/sports doctor
it healed well
i was very conservative with my early comeback training
i did a 10k steps a day challenge for 30 days in late april
klys and I ran the keys100 / 10 miles a day for 10 days challenge in may
and i’ve got a marathon in 3 weeks (last marathon was 2019)
i havent had a single twinge since i started recovery
so things are looking up
It’s Burns Night
“Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.” The Bards words sadly still have relevance today. 130 Burns dinners on its way to our friends @KindnessGlasgow . #BurnsNight #Thankful #homelessness pic.twitter.com/rJ8L54BmSo
— Eusebi’s (@eusebi_deli) January 25, 2021
Go home, Republican Party. You’re drunk. https://t.co/8ZycyyNvvM
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 25, 2021
Ben Shapiro and the rest of the magatards are going to have strokes:
The Treasury Department is working to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, @PressSec Jen Psaki said at a White House briefing pic.twitter.com/MThVjDbBBG
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) January 25, 2021
Our Armed Forces are at their best when they represent the talents of our entire population, regardless of gender identity. I fully support @POTUS’s direction today that all transgender individuals who wish to serve and can meet the appropriate standards shall be able to do so. pic.twitter.com/3oBNgsOjGl
— Secretary of Defense Austin (@SecDef) January 25, 2021
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not too funny in reality…
Chimney sweep’s cancer, also called soot wart, is a squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum. It has the distinction of being the first reported form of occupational cancer, and was initially identified by Percivall Pott in 1775.[1] It was initially noticed as being prevalent amongst chimney sweeps.
Chimney sweeps’ carcinoma is a squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum. Warts caused by the irritation from soot particles, if not excised, developed into a scrotal cancer. This then invaded the dartos, enlarged the testicle, and proceeded up the spermatic cord into the abdomen where it proved fatal.
re: #25 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Trump derangement syndrome as an excuse for participating in a violent failed coup.
Capitol insurrectionist apologizes to AOC saying he was just ‘following the instructions of’ Trump
These statements should go into the record for Floridaman’s impeachment trial.
re: #52 William Lewis
Not too funny in reality…
wasn’t meant to be funny, just a historical factoid
except for the Keith Richards reference
re: #40 Dangerman
There will never be a better time to end the filibuster than now, with McConnell basically filibustering the Senate organizing bill.
An icy hell-wind is blowing through the City of Angels.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 25, 2021
Baked Alaska (Anthime Gionet) is being released with GPS monitoring bc, before going to DC & livestreaming the insurrection, he had already violated condition of release after being arrested for another offense and banned from traveling out of his home state of AZ. From FBI file: pic.twitter.com/YsaqjZGUMu
— Ema O’Connor (@o_ema) January 25, 2021
re: #55 EPR-radar
There will never be a better time to end the filibuster than now, with McConnell basically filibustering the Senate organizing bill.
Isn’t old McTurtle, in effect, filibustering the organizing process? IIRC, the “organizing resolution”, or whatever it’s called, is a matter of internal Senate rules, not an actual “bill” - I.e., legislation. So McConnell and the GOP can, in a 50-50 Senate, make as much trouble for the ostensible Majority as they can - and, of course, will. As long as it doesn’t necessitate a tie-breaker vote from the VP.
This viral claim is wrong. The President’s watch was a Christmas gift from the First Lady.
This is a trivial one - I hope it is my last watch-related fact check - but there’s generally a lot of bad info going viral from unverified accounts with moderate followings. pic.twitter.com/YvVn0WEMB2— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2021
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
wasn’t meant to be funny, just a historical factoid
except for the Keith Richards reference
Ah, there were some joking references in the tweet thread that I was probably misattributing since I don’t have a twitter account. Sorry,
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is Leia. She turned a squeaker toy into a nose flute and would like to play a few notes for you. She’s still learning so please be nice. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/dUc493g6M3
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) January 25, 2021
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
At least he’s fact-checking claims about the President, instead of claims by the President.
Helluva story from @CraigSilverman @JaneLytv & @PranavDixit https://t.co/4oOIW3xQmF
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 25, 2021
New: Biden has withdrawn a Trump proposal to allow poultry plants to speed up their processing lines. A big deal for these essential workers who say they already have a hard time keeping up with the fast pace. pic.twitter.com/svyLW23rWG
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) January 25, 2021
BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK pic.twitter.com/25qEQZHYOF
— Racism Watchdog ☃️ (@RacismDog) January 25, 2021
In case anyone forgot about this https://t.co/QH4bjwtSOL
— rabia O’chaudry (@rabiasquared) January 25, 2021
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
That looks like a parody account with the height and fake IQ in the name, but I think he’s serious.
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
jeebus
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The Republican Party is becoming a terrorist organization before our very eyes. And it isn’t a frog in a boiling water scenario. They have done a swan dive off straight into the abyss.
re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth
What kind of insecure asshole puts his height and supposed IQ IN HIS TWITTER HANDLE?
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
I guess Daniel Dale finds it a relief (of sorts) to have go fact-checking bullshit claims about the President, rather than BS claims from the President…?
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
What kind of insecure asshole puts his height and supposed IQ IN HIS TWITTER HANDLE?
Probably an incel.
re: #73 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Probably an incel.
No. His girlfriend goes to school in Canada.
re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth
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so released. another chance.
effing white people
Baked Alaska (Anthime Gionet) is being released with GPS monitoring bc, before going to DC & livestreaming the insurrection, he had already violated condition of release after being arrested for another offense and banned from traveling out of his home state of AZ. From FBI file: pic.twitter.com/YsaqjZGUMu
— Ema O’Connor (@o_ema) January 25, 2021
re: #58 Jay C
Isn’t old McTurtle, in effect, filibustering the organizing process? IIRC, the “organizing resolution”, or whatever it’s called, is a matter of internal Senate rules, not an actual “bill” - I.e., legislation. So McConnell and the GOP can, in a 50-50 Senate, make as much trouble for the ostensible Majority as they can - and, of course, will. As long as it doesn’t necessitate a tie-breaker vote from the VP.
it’s a great trick but it’ll only work once
re: #24 Dangerman
I’m of the opinion that Roberts doesn’t have to preside:
When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Since Trump is not the president, the Senate doesn’t need to call of Roberts (and probably shouldn’t). This should proceed like a judicial or cabinet impeachment. I’m also of the opinion that they should have either the judiciary committee or a special committee handle the trial and provide a report and recommendation once the trial is complete.
re: #76 Dangerman
it’s a great trick but it’ll only work once
Unfortunately, like most of McConnell’s rule-bending shit, it only has to work once…
re: #50 Dr. Matt
Ben Shapiro and the rest of the magatards are going to have strokes:
Let’s see all these Republican morons have the guts to start burning their $20 Tubman bills.
Everything old is new again. Welcome all the way back to 2008 - paging Orly Taitz, Esq., to the white courtesy phone.
Election truthing having catastrophically failed, it seems it’s time to turn to the next failure - rebirtherism. https://t.co/P50vPTmEgJ
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 25, 2021
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Fuck all of these people with rusted flaming chainsaws.
re: #81 KGxvi
Fuck all of these people with rusted flaming chainsaws.
As if we didn’t hash this endlessly to death with the last person of color to hold one of the top two offices in the country. Jesus H. Fucking Christ, it just never ends with these idjits.
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
TL,DR: “Only white people are actual citizens.”
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I’ll go ahead and paraphrase the captioned Alabama snark- let’s be honest what this is really about:
JUST IN: Unless proven with my own eyes, at the time of Kamala’s birth her parents were not white. They were one of those dark skinned not “normal people.” At the time of her birth she was the daughter of subhumans. This makes her an n-word. She is not eligible to be in this country where normal white people should be only allowed.
Anyone think this a little more honest as to the intent of these ridiculous memes?
re: #84 Florida Panhandler
That’s more or less true. You know the disclaimers will go on for many more paragraphs.
Trump is going to be pissed.
Psaki says the Treasury Department is working on getting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill again. Trump was critical of the decision and Mnuchin said it wouldn’t happen until 2026.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 25, 2021
That’s unfortunate. pic.twitter.com/eYyNjZzdBv
— jamie (@gnuman1979) January 25, 2021
thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210124 edition ———————->
“Fish Fry & Frog Feet”
Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
What kind of insecure asshole puts his height and supposed IQ IN HIS TWITTER HANDLE?
At least we are spared the purported length and width of his dick.
ummm
Gather round folks. I have a story to tell you about the interpreter in the current White House Briefing.
This is her. In the Trump/Pence shirt and the MAGA hat. https://t.co/go0FXMIfw8 pic.twitter.com/W89RErON5X— Jon Henner (@jmhenner) January 25, 2021
re: #89 EPR-radar
At least we are spared the purported length and width of his dick.
To say nothing of his blood test results.
/
Oh great, a highly transmittable version of Covid is in the Twin Cities.
Minnesota officials announced Monday they have identified a person infected with a highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has been spreading at alarming rates in recent weeks in Brazil. This is the first report in the United States of the so-called P.1 variant.
re: #92 still stpaulbear
Oh great, a highly transmittable version of Covid is in the Twin Cities.
The good news is, from what I understand, the vaccines are still highly effective against the new strains so far.
re: #93 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The good news is, from what I understand, the vaccines are still highly effective against the new strains so far.
This is becoming as much a race against the clock at the Biden election. I wanted to be able to relax for a while.
re: #86 Patricia Kayden
Trump is going to be pissed.
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re: #93 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The good news is, from what I understand, the vaccines are still highly effective against the new strains so far.
I also suspect that the major variants have been here for a while—we just weren’t looking for it.
The north door of St Edward’s Church flanked by ancient yew trees and an oil lamp hanging above it. This doorway, with its studded wooden panels, was constructed during the 13th century. The church was built between the 11th-15th centuries on the site of an earlier Saxon church. pic.twitter.com/YpJ0ERUglF
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) January 11, 2021
I guess @Sen_JoeManchin doesn’t want to be a committee chair https://t.co/UI7p6Ty7gi
— tippdx 🇺🇸 (@TipPDX) January 25, 2021
“This is no way to govern!” cry the asshats who were fine with that way of governing so long as it was THEIR side to do it…
You know perfectly well that Mr. Trump signed more executive orders in the four years of his “term” than any prior president going back at least half a century.
And many of his were to undo the actual progress made by President Obama.
So kindly go fuck off, Mr. Norman.— Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 25, 2021
How about you resign or be expelled?#Sedition #SeditionCaucus #SeditionHasConsequences
— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 25, 2021
We’re all basically Joe Manchins bitch right now, aren’t we?
Proud and honored to be sworn in today by @VP and ready to represent the great men and women of the Department of Defense. Let’s get to work! pic.twitter.com/xHZpQzf8lu
— Secretary of Defense Austin (@SecDef) January 25, 2021
Just voted to confirm @JanetYellen as Treasury Secretary.
Continuing phone calls with Georgia public health and local gov leaders now re: COVID relief priorities while awaiting arrival of House impeachment managers.— Jon Ossoff (@ossoff) January 25, 2021
I cannot believe the number of ppl who actually care about this crap. Let’s start talking about Melania’s $3700 dress that looked like my mother’s housecoat from 1970. pic.twitter.com/Uf1154EwK3
— GlamGram (@GlamGram7) January 25, 2021
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m starting to wonder if Mitch won’t offer him one to change parties.
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
“This is stupid, so let’s talk about this other stupid thing…”
This is one of many, many reasons why we can’t ever have nice things.
15 Republicans voted no on Yellen: Barrasso (WY), Blackburn (TN), Boozman (AR), Cotton (AR), Cramer (ND), Cruz (TX), Hawley (MO), Hoeven (ND), Lee (UT), Paul (KY), Risch (ID), Scott (FL), Shelby (AL), Sullivan (AK), Tuberville (AL)
— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) January 25, 2021
Couldn’t help myself. pic.twitter.com/HV0vVes50D
— Proud Liberal (@Waters102) January 25, 2021
just go round with an L tattooed on your forehead, it wouldn’t scream loser nearly as much as the sad desperation of “Office of the Former President” does
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) January 25, 2021
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
I count 4, maybe 5, on that list that are probably already preparing to run for president in 2024.
Life comes at you fast, even if you’re a 4th place sexy farmer https://t.co/4HGxcGBz6n pic.twitter.com/CywgUqm2GN
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 25, 2021
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
What the fucking fuck? If ending the filibuster for the Senate organizing resolution is not the same as ending the legislative filibuster, then there is absolutely no reason not to ram the organizing resolution through on a majority vote.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to approve Biden’s Secretary of State nominee, Tony Blinken, sending his nomination to the full Senate.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 25, 2021
re: #107 KGxvi
“This is stupid, so let’s talk about this other stupid thing…”
This is one of many, many reasons why we can’t ever have nice things.
If Manchin were going to change parties, he’d have done so a long time ago.
He didn’t do it when it would have put him in a solid majority, and he’s not going to do it now. He’s been a pretty reliable Democratic vote on a lot of things that have mattered over the years. He’s up for reelection in two years. Assuming he’s running again - and he hasn’t said otherwise - he has no chance of winning as a Republican, because he’ll instantly be primaried by someone way to his right. Maybe he wins again as a Democrat, maybe he doesn’t, but if he does, it’s going to be in the West Virginia Byrd tradition, by bringing home lots of pork. That has zero chance of happening for him as part of an extremely shaky Republican majority enabled only by his flipping, where he’s working against the House and Biden. It has at least a fair chance of happening for him as a key vote in a narrow Democratic majority working in tandem with the House and with Biden.
And I say “a” key vote, not “the” key vote, because Kyrsten Sinema is every bit as much an obstacle to filibuster reform. In many ways, she’s a less reliable Democrat than Manchin has been. If I were an Arizonan, I’d be looking for a primary challenge to her if she’s still playing this game come 2024 when she’s up.
Seriously, though, the Manchin Flip has become another one of those political red herrings on a par with the Faithless Elector and the Tied Electoral Vote. It’s not happening. It almost never happens, and on the rare occasions when it does, it rarely works to the flipper’s benefit. We remember how Arlen Specter’s flip got the Democrats to a very brief 60-vote margin in the Senate - but we forget that he got creamed in the primary the next year, and cost the party the seat entirely in the general election.
Guess who’s got a new office.
Inbox: pic.twitter.com/EOBjpiVwOS
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) January 25, 2021
re: #116 darthstar
The employees are nuts if they don’t get paid up front.
With @SpeakerPelosi and the House managers, I will deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate at 7pm ET.
As President, Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and against our democracy.
He must be tried, convicted, and held accountable.— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) January 25, 2021
re: #117 jaunte
The employees are nuts if they don’t get paid up front.
And the landlord. And the utilities. And the web developers. And the food vendors. And the…
re: #116 darthstar
Guess who’s got a new office.
Please send money. https://t.co/lxmzV2RZCZ
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 25, 2021
Details: https://t.co/fyOjVu4WU9
— Cannabis News (@ChronicReports) January 25, 2021
I just literally took two seconds on Google to find Daniel Inouye presiding over the Senate during the Porteous impeachment trial. https://t.co/cO8rHatZs0
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 25, 2021
I just read pertinent quotes in WP from Manchin on nuking the organizational filibuster. He just sounds like a moron. “They’ll just have to get past this.” Hey, McConnell is happy to keep the senate in limbo for the next two years, you useless fuck.
And video games, too! Don’t forget, a lot of those violent rioters played a LOT of VIDEO GAMES. SMH https://t.co/13J28tmTRO
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 25, 2021
re: #124 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
“Official activities”? What da fuq is this shit?
Golfing.
.@CNBC: “Republican officials are increasingly concerned about their ability to raise money for the 2022 midterm congressional elections as corporations distance themselves from GOP lawmakers who challenged the results of the presidential election.” https://t.co/BApf8Lx9fe
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 25, 2021
3. This is a predictable response: “Republicans are discussing several tactics to rejuvenate their fundraising prospects, including making a strong push with corporate executives themselves”
We will be monitoring for this kind of scheme.https://t.co/MRHVxZeBZl— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 25, 2021
re: #124 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
“Official activities”? What da fuq is this shit?
He really thinks he’s going to get invited to do shit like the other former presidents get to do… even though he never invited them to do anything like that
Also, if this “Office of the Former President” AKA Losers R’ US gets a Twitter account, someone better watch it real close.
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, if this “Office of the Former President” AKA Losers R’ US gets a Twitter account, someone better it real close.
Ha. $20 says that’s 90% of the reason he opened this “office”.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sure, the right wing noise machine is partly to blame for 1/6, because of their amplification of Trump’s Big Lies.
But I’m sure that’s not what this Nazi had in mind.
re: #122 nines09
I can’t believe Arizona legalized before New Mexico. SMDH
I think we’re going to get it soon though. It’s a priority with this administration.
re: #122 nines09
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Our local rural Medicinal clinic got their dual use license last week and had lines around the block all weekend.
re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Republicans are discussing several tactics to rejuvenate their fundraising prospects, including opening secret offshore slush funds.
We got records showing that National Park Service employees spent nearly 4,000 hours working on the pro-Trump fireworks show on the National Mall during the RNC, in a shocking use of federal employees to boost Trump’s re-election. https://t.co/9u0DlaRcET
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 25, 2021
#BuildBarkBetter https://t.co/qL7aILjHEH
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 25, 2021
It’s so weird to see a President who wears a mask all the damn time.
/
re: #136 jaunte
Republicans are discussing several tactics to rejuvenate their fundraising prospects, including opening secret offshore slush funds.
The GOP donor class parasites that run the GOP establishment could fund the whole damn party out of their pocket change, but they are too cheap to do that unless they have no choice.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s so weird to see a President who wears a mask all the damn time.
/
Trump should have worn a mask just to cover up his hideous anus-mouth.
It’s so nice to have dogs at the White House. A little thing, but it’s part of the much craved for normalcy.
re: #134 plansbandc
I can’t believe Arizona legalized before New Mexico. SMDH
I think we’re going to get it soon though. It’s a priority with this administration.
Phoenix is closer to California than Santa Fe or Albuquerque, wait for a few more Californians to move out there.
And I remember when @RandPaul shamelessly supported the guy who incited it all.
It was today. https://t.co/QinCZG1oS8— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) January 26, 2021
U.S. House Impeachment Managers deliver Article of Impeachment against former President Trump to U.S. Senate https://t.co/3CjlngsyXj pic.twitter.com/oe8jLafC38
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 26, 2021
re: #141 EPR-radar
The GOP donor class parasites that run the GOP establishment could fund the whole damn party out of their pocket change, but they are too cheap to do that unless they have no choice.
It’s not that they’re too cheap… it’s that they are apparently pissed on how the money has been spent lately. They signed up for tax cuts and deregulation. They didn’t sign up for insurrection and chaos.
JOB: Apply now to become the next @WisDems Data & Analytics Director. Or if someone who follows you might be the right person, RT to pass this along. This person could help determine whether McConnell gets control of the Senate in 2022… and much more. https://t.co/wddIifgEY8
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) January 25, 2021
Watch as the House Impeachment Managers, led by the House Clerk and the Acting House Sergeant at Arms, participate in a procession ceremony to deliver the article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate. https://t.co/tjBAmFe44R
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 26, 2021
re: #148 KGxvi
It’s not that they’re too cheap… it’s that they are apparently pissed on how the money has been spent lately. They signed up for tax cuts and deregulation. They didn’t sign up for insurrection and chaos.
More than any other group of people, the GOP donor class are the Dr. Frankensteins that have created the monster of Trumpism.
Everything they have ever done politically for at least the last 50 years has been leading directly to chaos and insurrection, as they would know if they ever listened to any liberal.
Fuck them all with flaming cactuses loaded with dynamite.
“The Senate floor is a crime scene.”— @RepJeffries to @AriMelber talking #impeachment. It so often was with Republicans in charge, but now it is in the literal sense. https://t.co/KE6SVhZ2LO
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 25, 2021
JFC
Republicans should reject any process that involves a partisan Democrat in the chair instead of the Chief Justice.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 25, 2021
lol
.@joebiden Your leadership is needed now to denounce those like John Brennan & Rep Schiff who are advocating for targeting half the country as potential domestic terrorists. Truly unite the American people around our Constitution & the rights that are endowed to us by our Creator pic.twitter.com/OpemBm4biS
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) January 24, 2021
And here we are again.
Trump impeached for the second time. Trial delayed by GOP because they wanted excuse of him being out of office to insist the issue moot (it isn’t).
High crimes have consequences, and the GOP has covered up Trump crimes TWICE.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 26, 2021
The GOP has covered up for Trump for years. They’ve excused and enabled Trump at every opportunity and allowed Trump to continue his nonstop crime spree.
The GOP purposefully delayed this trial until after 1/20 to claim that the issue is now moot so they could avoid having to vote Trump’s removal, and use the fact he’s out of office as an excuse to not vote to punish Trump.
You’ve got a shit ton of GOPers claiming this isn’t a legit trial, which is bullshit as we’ve had other impeachments occur even after people have left office.
Motion to designate the Proud Boys as terrorists in Canada was unanimous. https://t.co/5G10lawl4m
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 25, 2021
Lead House #impeachment manager @RepRaskin reads the Article of Incitement to Insurrection, concluding with the charge that Trump “will remain a threat to national security”- he will harm us again. #ConvictAndDisqualifyTrump pic.twitter.com/swtBFah6K4
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) January 26, 2021
so, the new Republican thing is just pretending January 6 never happened pic.twitter.com/itOURvMAjZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
These treasonous assholes are going to acquit Trump. AGAIN.
Like getting arrested? pic.twitter.com/rwV87Aps4U
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 25, 2021
lololol
Sandmann pasted this from Lin Wood’s telegram account.
Now Lin Wood says Sandmann has a new lawyer: Todd McMurtry.
Nobody to root for here. https://t.co/AostK0CxNB— HG Tomato 🍅 Wash Your Hands (@HGTomato) January 26, 2021
Sucks to be Nick
O_o
Jim Jordan’s defense of Trump is that he couldn’t have incited the Capitol riot because he was still speaking when the building was breached (as if the first part of a speech in which he invoked “fighting” more than 20 minutes wasn’t sufficient) pic.twitter.com/zeh3mVZbJC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
These treasonous assholes are going to acquit Trump. AGAIN.
Get them on the record doing so. Hang it around their necks like an albatross and tar them as traitors and enemies of the nation in 2022.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, right. January 6 was the ONLY DAY EVER that Trump told his followers to get rowdy.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump had been inciting the crowd to act on their violent fantasies for months. He was flagging the date to act for weeks.
The day of the attack, he was urging the crowds to act. They did.
And Jordan got the timeline of events on the day wrong too.
Pretty clear counter-clockwise rotation around the low pressure center that is slinking down to us, bring all the cold, blustery conditions (and a little bit of rain too, but not much):
News — President Biden tells CNN that President Trump’s impeachment trial “has to happen.” While acknowledging the effect it could have on his agenda, Biden tells me there would be “a worse effect if it didn’t happen.” https://t.co/gzuQrWGItT
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 26, 2021
Impeachment is in the Constitution. Four times.
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5
Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7
Article II, Section 2
Article II, Section 4
Maybe have someone read it aloud to you. https://t.co/i3Oqif8l77— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 26, 2021
re: #170 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Only Republicans are buying Trump’s lies.
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Everything old is new again. Welcome all the way back to 2008 - paging Orly Taitz, Esq., to the white courtesy phone.
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There’s no requirement that both parents are citizens for you to be a citizen at birth.
One of Kamala parents could be from Mars. It doesn’t matter.
Just like it didn’t matter with Obama even if he actually was born in Kenya.
Defn from Wikipedia: Birthright citizenship in the United States is United States citizenship acquired by a person automatically, by operation of law. This takes place in two situations: by virtue of the person’s birth within United States territory or because one or both of their parents is (or was) a US citizen.
Rand Paul is right, there are always two sides. There’s the true side and the false side. There’s the honest side and the dishonest side. There’s the right side of history and the wrong side. And there is no question which sides Rand is on. https://t.co/GnrRDCSGJN
— Rep. John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) January 25, 2021
Inbox: In the two weeks since Pennsylvania Lt. Gov John Fetterman announced that he’s exploring a run for the U.S. Senate, “grassroots donors have responded with an incredible 33,000 contributions totaling more than $1,000,000.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 26, 2021
re: #122 nines09
I got to a local dispensary about an hour after they opened to recreational MJ. Got some nice sativa flower and a vape pen.
So damned cool.
New: Former overseer of @voanews hired two law firms to vet employees he wanted to get rid of. Cost to taxpayers: about $4 million (via no-bid contracts). Latest by me: https://t.co/bi9QJGhUZO
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) January 26, 2021
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
lololol
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Sucks to be Nick
UAH42iFziOffWR3JmyOmv0uHrXhzBRYx4ayxaIaPJ+6qnGPOyggTPISZr/qdOO5q2s0GMu1bfhkKrmNSSGirzbA+xWv56dlJ8AozBiBYPk2czZRlVGWseNjQ1KqOdmuO
Beware the Republican senator who dresses up his desire to let Trump off the hook in the rhetoric of healing. https://t.co/pUlvoeDzfb
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) January 26, 2021
- lunchtime , let me in 🐶🤗 pic.twitter.com/w7ku0m9k6H
— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) January 25, 2021
Rand Paul lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. I was born there. My parents are from Owensboro and London, Ky respectively. I grew up in western Kentucky. It’s why I live in Kentucky to this day.
Rand Paul is the son of a Texan.
Born in Pittsburgh.
Went to Duke.
What a knob.— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 26, 2021
He’s a Russian asset
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 26, 2021
re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s quite the dance. Someone is hungry.
Just do it. Stop playing hard to get! https://t.co/ntADYCDHeg
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 26, 2021
Who did this?! #burnsnight #bernienight pic.twitter.com/0SCbTdoUfn
— The Scotsman (@TheScotsman) January 25, 2021
A President of the United States, indicted by the House of Representatives for incitement of insurrection. This is the definition of “disgraced.”
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 26, 2021
House Impeachment Manager @RepRaskin reads the Article of Impeachment in U.S. Senate.
Full video: https://t.co/3CjlngsyXj pic.twitter.com/FCSAl19G0r— CSPAN (@cspan) January 26, 2021
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Everything old is new again. Welcome all the way back to 2008 - paging Orly Taitz, Esq., to the white courtesy phone.
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John Eastman promoted this in Newsweek months ago. This is an old part of the RW attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship. If Trump had been reelected and the Republicans had regained the House, birthright citizenship would have been substantially limited.
Warren Hastings impeachment lasted 7 years, and was convicted 2 years after he left office. The U.S. founders referenced this case repeatedly. The founders did not expect these to wrap up in a week. Original intent is obvious unless people have an agenda.
— Orwellspeak (@Orwellspeak) January 26, 2021
The founders didn’t anticipate an entire political party, the Republican Party, to be seditious and against everything the founders stood - and America stands - for.
REPUBLICANS are a threat to US Democracy.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) January 26, 2021
bumpy night in Mississippi
Storm is riding along MS 25 near Marydell - circulation will be entering SW Winston County here in the next few minutes. Louisville, Stallo and Noxapater should be getting to their shelters now. #mswx pic.twitter.com/xUWnPEKmHO
— Patrick Ellis WLBT (@PatrickEllisWx) January 26, 2021
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bogue Chitto, one of the best town names in the country.
re: #97 Mike Lamb
I also suspect that the major variants have been here for a while—we just weren’t looking for it.
Because like practically everything else, we have been mismanaging testing of the virus to identify different strains. I heard some report the other day and don’t recall the numbers at all but it might be that we’re testing as little as .3% (or is it .03%?) of infections to identify the strain.
Timeline cleanser:
Statler and Waldorf — 2021… pic.twitter.com/hQQBdcXMDD— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 26, 2021
He escalates Senate combat by using filibuster to prevent the new majority from taking over, but will say Ds r violating the norms if they restrict filibuster to respond. Most amazing thing: so many Senate Ds let McC get away w/it in name of protecting “norms” that he’s trashing!
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 25, 2021
Prepare yourself for 4 years of Maggie Haberman basically sending out Trump’s tweets for him. https://t.co/gl1YiQ0HLw
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) January 26, 2021
Trump hacked your Twitter account?
— Jefferson (@jeffersonalle) January 25, 2021
which is why avoiding a Senate trial on Trump’s impeachment is simply not an option, whatever the effect on opening of Biden’s term
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 26, 2021
re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah, I wrote the Oregon GOP today to let them know that they are now the party of seditionists and traitors. That the Party of Lincoln is dead and the party of racist white male resentment has taken its place. That I curse them, spit on them and will do everything to pull supporters from the cult they have become.
Just another day in Brookings, OR.
Newsmax and OAN peeled off some viewers and instead of becoming more sane Fox has made an editorial decision to get even crazier https://t.co/H0qK1vxEWR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
“President Joe Biden on Monday appeared to boost his goal for coronavirus vaccinations in his first 100 days in office, suggesting the nation could soon be injecting 1.5 million shots on an average per day.” @joshboak @ZekeJMiller https://t.co/NeAuPXnjca
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) January 26, 2021
The company I buy mushroom bouillon from sent me a chicken one too by accident and their whole packaging situation is making me very sexually uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/Yxu28qHaNS
— Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) January 26, 2021
THE GREATEST THREAD HAS ARRIVED. https://t.co/pkPpj2m2nK
— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) January 26, 2021
[Marketing Meeting]
No, Carl! We cannot write, “Jizzing with Fruit Flavor!” on the package.
What else ya’ got? pic.twitter.com/Zj6aenmOmv— NurseBrianRN (@rn_murse) January 25, 2021
And for better reasons. https://t.co/VW5HVfiBhW
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 26, 2021
Me no geologist, but me think dat rock look a lot like me… https://t.co/444KeOrAbi
— Cookie Monster (@MeCookieMonster) January 25, 2021
when Taco Bell got rid of potato menu items pic.twitter.com/DlJGwRMVQx
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 26, 2021
Why would they need so many rooms with the numbers they are reporting?
China is building a coronavirus quarantine center with more than 4,000 rooms in a northern city at a speed that’s rarely seen in other countries. https://t.co/gzkUBfnuzV
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 25, 2021
re: #208 Dread Pirate Ron
Why would they need so many rooms with the numbers they are reporting?
Rhetorical question, right?
The Senate Trial Will Test Whether Republicans Care Even About Themselves - The Atlantic https://t.co/PCVaIz5ZzC
— jespanol (@nypapajoe) January 26, 2021
Some good news from my current corner of the globe…
Very positive vaccine news: Israeli HMO Maccabi reports just 20 positive coronavirus tests out of 128,000 people who had their second Pfizer shot a week or more ago. None of the 20 were serious cases.
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) January 25, 2021
Not all 128k were tested, only people with known exposures or symptoms. So the real number is probably a little higher. But most of the 128k will be over 60, because they got vaccinated first. This suggests the vaccine is extremely effective.
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) January 25, 2021
Also good: preliminary results from serological tests done at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center showed that those who received a 2nd vaccine shot had their antibodies increase by 6-20 times over a one-week period.
The figures were higher than those found by the center in patients who had contracted COVID-19 & recovered.
This is some good viewing
Joe Biden has a Rolex and an exercise bike. He’s not like us. pic.twitter.com/1ONd5vuIsL
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) January 25, 2021
re: #208 Dread Pirate Ron
Unless they’re building this to take all the covid cases… except that’s not possible. We saw Wuhan building temp hospitals in January/February 2020. That they’re doing it in other cities bodes badly for China, but they’ll engage in same draconian steps to stop spread that they did previously. They don’t tolerate dissent way we do here, and they are far more willing to mask there than here.
The death toll in China is likely far higher than we’ll ever know. And it still doesn’t change how badly Trump did here.
I’d like to know if Steven Mnuchin will be investigated and charged with funneling $500B of PPP Covid relief loans, giving millions to himself, Kushner, Devin Nunes, Betsy DeVos, Joel Osteen, Kanye West, Tom Brady, $334K to Moscow Mitch’s wife Elaine Chao. Give that money back.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 25, 2021
re: #212 Ming5000
Why does he have chandeliers that look like dicks?
hi
I got my first Covid-19 shot today, and because I’m six years old, I got a sticker from the nurse.
Afterward, we went over to FE Warren Air Force Base to renew my wife’s dependent ID card, which is expired. Holy fuqueballs the security over there.
The appointment with the Cheyenne VA went smoothly. Other than the initial stick, there was no other effect I felt. Because of my list of allergies, they kept me around for an hour to make sure I didn’t die on them.
The trip to FE Warren was quite different. The Main Gate is barricaded. Security is such that you cannot bring a guest on the base, and because my wife’s ID card was expired, she required a special pass and fingerprinting to get on the base.
The only gate open is a side gate with an exit off Interstate 25 (that gate is normally closed). The narrow two-lane street allows them to better regulate traffic and inspect everyone going on or off base. I do love handing over my ID to a woman holding a machine gun and my car being covered by another man with one.
It turns out after all that crap, we sat around the ID card office for about an hour before they told us the machine was broken, come back another time. (We’ll try again when I get my booster shot next month.)
The drive was horrible. It was freezing fog all the way from home to Pine Bluffs, Wyo., which made the road conditions on US-385 and Interstate 80 crap. Only when we climbed up to high enough elevation travelling west did we get above the fog.
NPR helpfully told us as we were leaving for Cheyenne that there was a chance of 10-12” of snow on our return. I figured we’d chance it and if the snow was horrible when we were in Cheyenne, we’d just stay there.
It had not started snowing in Nebraska by the time we were done with the ID card office, so we decided to try coming home.
Snow started coming down when we got to Pine Bluffs, and once again into the freezing fog. By the time we were headed out of Sidney on the way home, we were down to thirty-five miles per hour with heavy snow and frozen roads. At the junction of NE-92 (the turnoff to my town), the crews were out to swing the barriers to close the road when we got there (they let us by for that last eight miles).
re: #212 Ming5000
This is some good viewing
Look at the freakn’ bust on the table, center-left. Also like the dangling dong chandeliers.
re: #212 Ming5000
OMG, I just noticed the giant dildo chandeliers in this photo.
re: #212 Ming5000
This is some good viewing
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is it just me or do the hanging chandeliers look like dicks?
re: #219 I Would Prefer Not To
is it just me or do the hanging chandeliers look like dicks?
Its a visual parody.
re: #221 Decatur Deb
Nah. Them’s dicks.
They are certainly dick chandeliers, but overall this is a parody of Trump’s vulgar taste.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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