John Oliver: The Next Pandemic
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As COVID-19 continues to spread, John Oliver discusses what could cause the next pandemic, what we can do to avoid it, and why you shouldn’t kiss pigs.
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And while we’re on the subject of pandemics, let me remind you that I still have the COVID-19 denying asshat Andy Biggs as my congressman. Oh yeah, and today he couldn’t even bring himself to acknowledge Joe Biden as president.
My congressman, @RepAndyBiggsAZ, does not acknowledge Joe Biden as @POTUS. And, why yes, I have brought receipts. Andy Biggs should be expelled from Congress @SpeakerPelosi. Please feel free to retweet. pic.twitter.com/tKAak0XgwS
— Dee *I picket cults, I don’t join them* Holmes (@mmmirele) February 15, 2021
ETA: Andy’s happy that Parler is back up and invited us to join him there. I sweetly reminded him of how so many Parler members decided Parler was the place to upload their videos of insurrection. What a jackass.
re: #1 mmmirele
“Hey, no President after Grant truly counts!”
re: #1 mmmirele
Notice the names he picked. He’s very clearly saying that only Republicans or George Washington are good Presidents. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t acknowledge Biden as President, though that is likely true.
I can only hope we don’t have a President as bad as Trump in office when the next Pandemic hits.
re: #1 mmmirele
And while we’re on the subject of pandemics, let me remind you that I still have the COVID-19 denying asshat Andy Biggs as my congressman. Oh yeah, and today he couldn’t even bring himself to acknowledge Joe Biden as president.
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ETA: Andy’s happy that Parler is back up and invited us to join him there. I sweetly reminded him of how so many Parler members decided Parler was the place to upload their videos of insurrection. What a jackass.
@jack won’t let me retweet you. I’m now blocked from retweeting posts that slam Republicans.
But @jack will gladly let Republicans post all the racist shit their little hearts desire…
re: #3 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Notice the names he picked. He’s very clearly saying that only Republicans or George Washington are good Presidents. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t acknowledge Biden as President, though that is likely true.
I’m aware of that and of what you said, but he’s been such an asshole about “stop the steal” I would like to at least be “wrong” and embarrass him into correcting himself.
Now, if people watch the Last Week Tonight video, at 13:50 is a really, really good point about how we Americans are just as bad as other nations about cramming together many different species in one place. But it’s so *wholesome*, people say. Ah, NOPE.
I wonder if Trump will pop up on Parler now that it’s back?
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Hmm. I think he might pop up on Parler. We have to wait and see.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Hey, no President after Grant truly counts!”
AND according to my QAsshole family, none of the Constitutional Amendments past the 15th are legitimate. No direct election of Senators, No income tax, no term limits for Presidents, and they claim that’s why the 25th Amendment wasn’t used against Trump because it was illegal…oh and the cherry on the cake…DC can’t vote for electors…
re: #251 Eclectic Cyborg
A lot of homeless people are going to die in this cold tonight.
How many are in their predicament because of FFVCS’ stupid policies?
We have a homeless person who is known by the town. One of the local hotels receives donations so that this guy can stay there at times like these. He won’t take anything himself.
re: #3 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Notice the names he picked. He’s very clearly saying that only Republicans or George Washington are good Presidents. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t acknowledge Biden as President, though that is likely true.
Coolidge. Coolidge?!
re: #11 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Coolidge. Coolidge?!
I know. I saw that and literally said “what the fuck” out loud at my desk.
re: #3 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Notice the names he picked. He’s very clearly saying that only Republicans or George Washington are good Presidents. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t acknowledge Biden as President, though that is likely true.
What is it with Republicans and their love of Coolidge? Is it just because he believed that the President didn’t have much of a role in running the nation? After all, the underlying problems with the stock market arose during his administration.
I still remember the Ali Akbar Alexander clip where he boasts that Gosar and Biggs were in on the coup planning…Now will Merrick Garland’s DOJ go after those assholes?
And by the way, WHO is financing Ali? Who is giving him the $20K he says he needs weekly? Is it the Mercers? If so will they be arrested?
re: #11 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Coolidge. Coolidge?!
Didn’t Rage furby write an homage to Coolidge?
re: #15 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Didn’t Rage furby write an homage to Coolidge?
Why yes, the floorpooper sure did “write” Why Coolidge Matters!
Ah, I see Tim Scott is trending on Twitter thanks to his Trump asskissing!
re: #3 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Notice the names he picked. He’s very clearly saying that only Republicans or George Washington are good Presidents. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t acknowledge Biden as President, though that is likely true.
only certain kinds of Republicans… note he doesn’t mention Teddy or Ike.
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
What is it with Republicans and their love of Coolidge? Is it just because he believed that the President didn’t have much of a role in running the nation? After all, the underlying problems with the stock market arose during his administration.
They also don’t seem particularly fond of Teddy. What’s the problem with him? The fact that he was concerned about the environment? That he supported national health care? or is it that his race in 2012 guaranteed the Democrat would win the election?
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
Memories of Birchers calling Teddy Roosevelt a Communist who was intimate with Friedrich Engels. According to the Birchers TR met with Engles when he came to the US in the 1880s…
re: #20 🌹UOJB!
Memories of Birchers calling Teddy Roosevelt a Communist who was intimate with Friedrich Engels. According to the Birchers TR met with Engles when he came to the US in the 1880s…
Also first to invite a Black leader to a White House dinner. Frederick Douglas, IIRC.
edit: docsouth.unc.edu
Went back to using my real name on Twitter now that Trump is no longer president and I’m not so wound up about him I’m worried I’ll say something my employer wouldn’t like.
Rainy day fleurs…no beach play…maybe after it clears up later. Merle isn’t amused, Milo’s eating a petal. pic.twitter.com/br9IEH5aaS
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 15, 2021
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
They also don’t seem particularly fond of Teddy. What’s the problem with him? The fact that he was concerned about the environment? That he supported national health care? or is it that his race in 2012 guaranteed the Democrat would win the election?
He was part of the Progressive movement, and his election allowed legislation that would be anathema to current “conservatives.”
re: #149 ckkatz
And another Balkan song. This is a fairly simple one, written in 1964 in what was then Yugoslavia and now is Macedonia. I think that the singers are Violeta Tomovska and Kiril Mancevski. There is an English translation in the video for those interested. As was much verbiage coming out of the period and place, the restrained lyrics are an understatement. (Insert sarc tag here.)
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A belated thanks for posting this. Used to dance to this back when I was in college and did a lot of folk dance. A lifetime ago.
Only 65% of Americans are willing to take the COVID vaccine, according to Gallup.
Far more Democrats feel confident about taking vaccines than Republicans.@gzeromedia | #GZEROWorld: https://t.co/qYrRokz2UL pic.twitter.com/Bm6rAZJ6CQ— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 15, 2021
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
If there’s someone who gives a shit about people who aren’t rich white males, you better believe Republicans are gonna have a problem with it.
Tennessee GOP Lawmakers Want To Let Rapists Sue Victims To Make Them Stay Pregnant https://t.co/h9r8wwCUaj
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) February 15, 2021
re: #29 PrairieQueen
Your womb belongs to The Reich God
re: #29 PrairieQueen
It is not enough that a woman lives through being assaulted she will be forced to have a child that was a result of said assault. Oy.
re: #31 PhillyPretzel
It is not enough that a woman lives through being assaulted she will be forced to have a child that was a result of said assault. Oy.
It is just the notion that a man who rapes a woman should be allowed any say in the child’s well being. Fathers who abuse their spouses or children are generally denied any custody.
It is all about reminding women that their bodies are not their own…
re: #31 PhillyPretzel
I just read a thread on reddit about a woman who was sexually assaulted. The amount of money a woman who has been raped has to pay for the drug cocktail to help prevent pregnancy, AIDS, etc. is $1000 plus. You have to pay for the rape kit too.
The gal who was assaulted said that she was able to pay for everything. But what if you’re poor?
This is more victimization and it’s completely fucked. Yet another reason why women don’t come forward and don’t get the care they need post assault.
re: #11 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Coolidge. Coolidge?!
IIRC, Coolidge (maybe it was Hoover or both) paid a lot of lip service to the whole “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and “rugged individualism” bullshit.
One thing is clear — these are two screenshots. What is not clear, however, is how this is supposed to own me. https://t.co/emj4Rdfkhm
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 15, 2021
re: #13 Hecuba’s daughter
What is it with Republicans and their love of Coolidge? Is it just because he believed that the President didn’t have much of a role in running the nation? After all, the underlying problems with the stock market arose during his administration.
Something like that: I recently read Amity Shlaes’ much-touted (and poorly-written and wildly overrated IMHO) bio of Silent Cal, and apparently his CV/tenure ticks off a lot of boxes on the standard “GOP good” list:
* He was a resolute law-and-order/union-busting Governor (breaking the Boston Police Strike of 1919 which brought Coolidge to national attention and got on the 1920 ticket).
* He was a rare exemplar of ethics and honesty in the sleaze-ridden Harding Administration.
* He was the original Deficit Hawk (Shlaes’ main obsession) - a policy his (quite genuine) frugal-Yankee persona helped bolster.
* And, of course, Coolidge was the typical non-activist Republican President: content to let the Cabinet and Congress run the government (which, post-WWI, they tried to minimize wherever possible).
Of course, the national economy WAS gleefully barreling along towards the 1929 Crash, and the Great Depression, but, since that didn’t happen on Coolidge’s watch, he gets a historical pass….
Uncle Chuck is trying to text someone using Twitter again.
Someone take the guy’s phone away. And by “phone” I mean “senate seat”. https://t.co/FKNoEt9jvN— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 15, 2021
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
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May I point out that when we lived in PA there was some Very Cold Weather that resulted in rolling blackouts because the pile of coal at the power plant was all frozen together and they couldn’t fuel the plant. Frozen wind turbines is not a unique problem.
Accurate. pic.twitter.com/FocfU77afe
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 15, 2021
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s also about reminding women that rapists are not held to account, so they can continue to assert the fuck out of themselves all over the weaker sex. You know, women should expect men to be kinda rapey. Goes with the territory.
Which reminds me, when the fuck is Trump having his fat ass hauled to court over any one of his dozen-plus rapey things?
Louisiana
MY GOODNESS! Look at this video from Chris Fitzmorris in Kenner 😳😳😳😳 @wdsu pic.twitter.com/TOXx9qptYb
— Christina Watkins (@CWatkinsWDSU) February 15, 2021
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
OMG. It looks like they are going to have to replace a lot of wire. That was incredible.
re: #40 PrairieQueen
It’s also about reminding women that rapists are not held to account, so they can continue to assert the fuck out of themselves all over the weaker sex. You know, women should expect men to be kinda rapey. Goes with the territory.
The notion that a rapist should have any paternal rights is an abomination and really shows the true agenda behind this legislation: reminding women of their place.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
Louisiana
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WTF was that??
Some kind of discharge (?? “ball lightning”??) moving along a power line?
re: #42 PhillyPretzel
OMG. It looks like they are going to have to replace a lot of wire. That was incredible.
What was that, a power surge along a line?
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have no idea.
Z & I are off to get our first COVID shot.
There were signs of how unbalanced Trump’s supporters were two years ago.
White.
Nationalist.
Reggae. pic.twitter.com/RnfrBawMMx— Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ) (@benjancewicz) January 22, 2018
re: #44 Jay C
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Woah! Video shot by Chris Fitzmorris shows electricity surging through power lines in Kenner after a transformer went down. https://t.co/e86xhTDRy1 pic.twitter.com/WROyTo73iV
— WWL-TV (@WWLTV) February 15, 2021
re: #47 The Pie Overlord!
My parents both just got their second. :)
GQPers find yet another new low….
When the Brevard County Commission passes a resolution “honoring” you, taking up the public’s times and a commissioner makes a bunch of xenophobic comments because you got under their skin. #winning #BeijinhoNoOmbro pic.twitter.com/4HUv4tSXE0
— Isadora Rangel (@IsadoraRangel2) February 11, 2021
The GOP is an irredeemable party.Local Florida officials passed a resolution mocking newspaper columnist Isadora Rangel’s work and immigrant background https://t.co/rYq9pVHwtB
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) February 15, 2021
“Local Florida officials passed a resolution mocking a newspaper columnist’s work and immigrant background”The racist, childish scumbags wasting tax dollars to attack a columnist they didn’t like: @VoteLober@JohnTobiaD3@D1Commissioner@curtsmith2014https://t.co/T3HL0Sdh1k
— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) February 15, 2021
Trump’s authoritarianism was an immediate, existential threat to democracy. But what we’ll be grappling with for years is the fact that a significant majority of Republican officials and voters didn’t just tolerate his authoritarianism. They cheered for it - and they want more.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 15, 2021
re: #44 Jay C
WTF was that??
Some kind of discharge (?? “ball lightning”??) moving along a power line?
MrBWS is trying to figure it out. Best guess, he says, is that the ice got so heavy that the primary line sagged down onto the neutral.
re: #51 darthstar
Could have charged my car with that.
Probably not enough juice to travel back to 1955, though.
re: #47 The Pie Overlord!
Z & I are off to get our first COVID shot.
Danger mom got her first yesterday
Still nothing on the horizon for immunocompromized Mrsdm
Or healthy 63 yo me
Entergey is saying there are 1,000 outages in NO. Don’t know how many customers are impacted.
re: #50 ipsos
My parents both just got their second. :)
Up to 2.2 million/day yesterday. 2.1 million the day before. California’s almost up to 15% vaccinated. Country as a whole is over 16%
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
MrBWS is trying to figure it out. Best guess, he says, is that the ice got so heavy that the primary line sagged down onto the neutral.
The lines just have to sag together closely enough so that the clearance is small enough to arc. Add very wet, humid, icy air.
re: #48 darthstar
White Supremacist Reggae Hits
I Shot the Senator
Three Little Percent
Us Belly Full
The Fatter They Come
I read earlier Texas is buying power from Mexico. Apparently the wall doesn’t stop electricity.
re: #62 darthstar
I read earlier Texas is buying power from Mexico. Apparently the wall doesn’t stop electricity.
Make Mexico pay for it!
reposting from downstairs because it matters, and bears repeating
re: #235 Dangerman
Is anybody fuming at this ‘jurisdictional technicality’ vote defense bullshit?
I am.
The Republicans, from trump on down to these senators have perverted the entire concept of ‘voting’.
You are a member of the senate. You took an oath.
You made the senate voting rules.
You are part of the body and you voluntarily participated
You agree how the system is supposed to work, at least in advance, (or maybe you don’t and i’d shut up but you’d never admit to that.)
You took another rarely invoked, special oath.
There is a vote.
Your position on the vote lost.
Now ‘ignoring the result’ of that vote, you vote to acquit and justify it by ignoring the first vote.
Voiding the process you just took part in. This is worse than mere jury nullification.
Because you voted for the process and then voted in the process and the result of that vote was that this trial is ‘constitutional’.
You created a Second Big Lie and did it exactly the same way Trump did with the first*. By ignoring what happened in the vote that *you actually participated in* and would have been fine with if the result when your way.
How is this not the exact same perversion of reality that Trump just tried to pull off, without the storming the castle part?
There were no remaining ‘technical grounds’ or arguments once you voted on it. Now you want to ignore it because you didn’t get the result you wanted because there were more who voted the other way. (Note *not* tribally more D’s than R’s, but yea votes.)
So an election, a vote is meaningless - I ‘declare’ what I want to be the case instead because no one can stop me or force me.
And now we 100% most certainly cannot trust an R on anything.
They do not respect the process or system they are participating in unless they win.
And even if they don’t, like 5 year olds, they pretend they did.
*h/t CleverToad for bolding
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I Shot the Senator
Three Little Percent
Us Belly Full
The Fatter They Come
Red, Red Hat
Could you be indicted
Buffalo-headed Soldier
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s scary as hell.
This is what it means when he says he’s president of ALL Americans…
Texas, decide either to secede or to mooch off the feds every time you get three stinking inches of snow. https://t.co/UrTZSML4Ro
— Real Fake P0TUS (@RF_P0TUS) February 15, 2021
re: #11 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Coolidge. Coolidge?!
My bet is due to the Immigration Act of 1924.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I Shot the Senator
Three Little Percent
Us Belly Full
The Fatter They Come
I can see clearly now (the blacks are gone)
No Love
(Don’t) Legalize It
Baby I hate the Gays
Those of us who know Utah’s GOP best can witness that it is deeply, profoundly deranged. https://t.co/omJeF46yzW
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) February 15, 2021
Yeah!
Got my first vaccination on Thursday morning.
You ain’t bright.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 15, 2021
re: #70 Dread Pirate Ron
I replied to that - “Deep state” in Utah just means it’s a really good powder day on the slopes.
This tweet really took off, more than 3000 likes so far. It’s weird how the things I just dash off without thinking much are usually the ones that hit a nerve.
The biggest problem in the United States is Fox News.
It’s a malevolent force that profits from sowing hatred and division.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
Of course, I got a bunch of replies from pedants telling me some other problem is much more important than Fox News, some of them with insults and condescension. Something about Twitter encourages this kind of shitty behavior in some people.
re: #72 darthstar
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House Republicans apparently believe that the House Speaker commands the National Guard and the Capital Police.
re: #75 Charles Johnson
Of course, I got a bunch of replies from pedants telling me some other problem is much more important than Fox News, some of them with insults and condescension. Something about Twitter encourages this kind of shitty behavior in some people.
No death threats?
So that’s how big-time lawyers roll in Phil-ee-delphia? https://t.co/vul50sVNV3
— The End Justifies the Memes (@Upsidasium) February 15, 2021
re: #67 darthstar
This is what it means when he says he’s president of ALL Americans…
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Amazing, isn’t it? The WH press office issues a statement without it sounding whiny, sneering, or pompous. No threats, no extortion, no insults, just a formal statement that acknowledges that the president is doing his job to help a state whose government has spent the better part of the last 12 months sneering at any state that requested assistance to deal with CV-19 cases.
re: #78 darthstar
That does not surprise me. Some folks will take anything that is not nailed down.
re: #82 PhillyPretzel
That does not surprise me. Some folks will take anything that is not nailed down.
He needed another souvenir besides the videotape of him giving that god-awful defense?
re: #82 PhillyPretzel
That does not surprise me. Some folks will take anything that is not nailed down.
Be kind of nice if the DOJ followed up with an indictment for stealing government property.
re: #74 Charles Johnson
This tweet really took off, more than 3000 likes so far. It’s weird how the things I just dash off without thinking much are usually the ones that hit a nerve.
Fox News is an essential component of the right wing political machine. A deeply corrupt party dedicated to tearing the country down in order to redistribute it’s wealth to billionaires can’t win without effective propaganda to brainwash the masses.
re: #86 PhillyPretzel
Yes it would.
And he’d earn a place in history as the only defense attorney to do that - a record that would likely never be bested.
re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron
Why is the “Air Force Two” plane just circling?
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Waiting for clearance to land?
re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron
Why is the “Air Force Two” plane just circling?
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Probably flying around with the windows open to get out the stench from the prior administration occupants.
re: #82 PhillyPretzel
That does not surprise me. Some folks will take anything that is not nailed down.
Hell, some of them will take a few things that WERE nailed down.
This has to be so much more rewarding than following Ivanka and Jared around.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 15, 2021
re: #93 darthstar
Certainly, it’s a higher form of life.
Lindsey
I don’t know how Kamala Harris doesn’t get impeached if the Republicans take over the House, because she actually bailed out rioters and one of the rioters went back to the streets and broke somebody’s head open
.
let me help lindsey
not
vp
at
the
time.
also, not a high crime or misdemeanor.
or a crime at all.
not a dereliction of oath of office as vp.
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Just had thunder-fog. In 20 minutes the leading edge of the eastbound rain hits, followed by cataclysm coming in off the Gulf in an hour.
re: #95 Dangerman
Lindsey
.
let me help lindsey
not
vp
at
the
time.also, not a high crime or misdemeanor.
or a crime at all.
not a dereliction of oath of office as vp.
Here’s hoping the Democrats retain control of Congress after the midterms so that it does something useful instead of Bullshit like this.
Cthulu
Lighthouse on Lake Michigan after an ice storm pic.twitter.com/4NOzOrh9Yi
— Alex Eccleston (@AventuraObscura) February 15, 2021
I’m waiting for Fulton County DA Fani Willis to indict Graham over his election tampering…
I just finished reading Two Sons, One Destiny, an article in Vanity Fair from 2004, about Joe Sr and Joe Jr and Jack Kennedy. It really gave me a different picture of all three of them. Worth the time I spent on it.
re: #95 Dangerman
Lindsey
.
let me help lindsey
not
vp
at
the
time.also, not a high crime or misdemeanor.
or a crime at all.
not a dereliction of oath of office as vp.
Graham just telegraphing to us all that a House Republican majority will spend its time indulging in the very sort of petty shit they accuse House Dems of doing by holding Trump responsible for his actions.
re: #29 PrairieQueen
Just mention to these asshole Republican politicians that it could be a black man who could sue to force their white daughters to carry the baby.
That will give them pause.
re: #99 darthstar
Cthulu
LOL. My wife and I were in Niagara Falls some winters ago and saw similar effects on many of the streetlamps there.
That’s called NOT HAVING A PLAN. We’re up to 2.2 million vaccinations a day now because the Biden administration formulated a plan and are executing on it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 15, 2021
First vaccination shot update: Shoulder, sore. Feeling slightly like poop. Resigned to playing a guitar until the Knicks game comes on.
re: #103 Targetpractice
Graham just telegraphing to us all that a House Republican majority will spend its time indulging in the very sort of petty shit they accuse House Dems of doing by holding Trump responsible for his actions.
One word: Benghazi.
re: #106 darthstar
“Throwing it over the wall and blaming the administrations of Democratic states when they fail” is, technically, a valid plan.
Wut?
You do realize that handing it off to the states is not a “national strategy or plan,” right?
Why are you so bad at this? There’s nothing wrong with fact-checking the Biden admin, but this looks like you’re trying to find things to complain about. https://t.co/W3rMsSB2TV— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
re: #10 Belafon
We have a homeless person who is known by the town. One of the local hotels receives donations so that this guy can stay there at times like these. He won’t take anything himself.
moishe the beadle! sometimes these folks are worth listening to. sometimes they even get their own books in the old testament.
If the GOP get the House I am like 99% certain they’ll impeach Biden for some stupid shit.
I hope Dems are prepared for this.
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
If the GOP get the House I am like 99% certain they’ll impeach Biden for some stupid shit.
I hope Dems are prepared for this.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has already introduced articles of impeachment. Your 99% should really be 100%.
Hm…Texas may be a bit more fucked than we thought.
Let’s talk infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/GedU4gUUJG
— Pamplinlaw (@LesaPamplin) February 15, 2021
From laughs over ‘Philly-delphia’ to vandalism at home, Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen draws backlash
Awwww…now who would do such a nasty thing? Surely not the 3%ers! And I REALLY doubt The Q Cucks Klan did it? Maybe some pissed off QAnons????
re: #114 darthstar
Hm…Texas may be a bit more fucked than we thought.
But Free Market Electricity!! Something something…
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re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
But Free Market Electricity!! Something something…
//
Yes, there’s just something about unregulated free markets that put Texas in an obsessive compulsive behavior pattern…
re: #79 Dr. Matt
Iced Earth Members Quit The Band After Jon Schaffer (Q-Terrorist) Arrest.
Reminds me of the old adage: If a shitty metal band breaks up, does anyone notice?
Tocilizumab is expensive, too. $700 for the course, in addition to the cheap dexamethazone. But it sounds like that might be worth the $700.
Adding arthritis drug to current COVID treatment cuts deaths even more
It’s not a smash hit, but the benefits and the clear results are welcome. Ars Technica.
The data—from the massive RECOVERY trial run in the United Kingdom—adds clarity to one of the many murky research areas of COVID-19. Seven smaller trials had also looked into using tocilizumab to treat severe COVID-19 patients in the past. However, the results were mixed and collectively inconclusive. RECOVERY, on the other hand, had data on over three times as many deaths as all seven trials combined and was able to make a clear conclusion.
“Previous trials of tocilizumab had shown mixed results, and it was unclear which patients might benefit from the treatment,” emerging infectious diseases expert and co-lead of RECOVERY Peter Horby said in a press statement. “We now know that the benefits of tocilizumab extend to all COVID patients with low oxygen levels and significant inflammation. The double impact of dexamethasone plus tocilizumab is impressive and very welcome.”
I’m thinking maybe Texas legislators should have spent less time on pushing revisionist history in schools, criminalizing abortion, and suppressing minority voting, and more time on fixing aging infrastructure.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
re: #103 Targetpractice
Graham just telegraphing to us all that a House Republican majority will spend its time indulging in the very sort of petty shit they accuse House Dems of doing by holding Trump responsible for his actions.
they have broken impeachment
re: #106 darthstar
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The Trump “plan” for the CV vaccine was the same as the “plan” for CV: Outsource the work to the states, take credit for their “success,” and blame them for their “failure.”
re: #103 Targetpractice
Graham just telegraphing to us all that a House Republican majority will spend its time indulging in the very sort of petty shit they accuse House Dems of doing by holding Trump responsible for his actions.
We know what the QAP will do if they get the House back in 2022. Endless investigations of Hunter Biden. And Fox will pour gasoline on the fire 24/7.
Charles is right about Fox. It needs to be held accountable for the lies it gladly spreads!
re: #106 darthstar
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so…
50 plans?
how’s that working out for elections?
and again like you said no national plan
.@VP told @mikeallen that “there was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations” and that Biden admin was “starting from scratch.” That’s wrong. The Trump admin had a plan to distribute to locations chosen by states and let them take it from there. https://t.co/0MoQ8OnpoN pic.twitter.com/nYb8r5gPKz
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 15, 2021
re: #124 Dangerman
so…
50 plans?
how’s that working out for elections?and again like you said no national plan
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PolitiCRAP once again showing it’s Republican bias.
re: #120 Charles Johnson
Hard to fix infrastructure when you keep cutting the taxes necessary to pay for it.
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
If the GOP get the House I am like 99% certain they’ll impeach Biden for some stupid shit.
I hope Dems are prepared for this.
it’ll be a waste of time
everyone will see it for what It is
there will be no conviction
it will not help the rs
The WH vaccine “plan” was about as effective as me asking my family what they want for dinner: Everybody shrugs their shoulders, nobody wants to make a choice, and whatever ends up being picked is disliked by somebody.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Hard to fix infrastructure when you keep cutting the taxes necessary to pay for it.
Oh but the Invisible Hand Of The Free Market® will gladly step in to be far more efficient that gubmit!
After all that’s what the Bible says!
re: #115 🌹UOJB!
From laughs over ‘Philly-delphia’ to vandalism at home, Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen draws backlash
Awwww…now who would do such a nasty thing? Surely not the 3%ers! And I REALLY doubt The Q Cucks Klan did it? Maybe some pissed off QAnons????
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ETTD
tough
re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg
But Free Market Electricity!! Something something…
//
and only wind turbines freeze up
lol sure bill, keep telling yourself that https://t.co/6ltgwqCuUt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
re: #122 Targetpractice
The Trump “plan” for the CV vaccine was the same as the “plan” for CV: Outsource the work to the states, take credit for their “success,” and blame them for their “failure.”
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Hard to fix infrastructure when you keep cutting the taxes necessary to pay for it.
100 year storm
we’ll rely on the feds, if it ever happens. //
re: #131 Dangerman
and only wind turbines freeze up
Yeah, that’s going to be their excuse: “If it hadn’t been for those wind turbines pushed on us by the damned liberals, we would have had reliable oil/coal plants that would have kept things online! But we didn’t, so the system got overtaxed and went down! Which just proves that we need more fossil fuels and less renewable energy!”
re: #132 Charles Johnson
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OK, bill
tell us who is.
not you
not mitch
not Ronna
not Kevin
lol sure bill, keep telling yourself that https://t.co/6ltgwqCuUt
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
A little while ago I watched a Frontline episode titled “The Virus: What Went Wrong? Toward the end of the report was a woman saying, “Everyone has to fight for everything they need on the open market…” I am also reminded that even when Gov Hogan of Maryland got some tests from S Korea (even though they ended up being useless) he was subjected to questioning by the feds as well as trying to keep the tests for the people of Maryland from the feds. Keep in mind that DT liked to see people fight for things. That is probably why there was no national plan.
Memories of the time that Dad got an emergency call from the Boilermakers Union at 1AM to get to the Shippingport Nuclear plant because they had to go to capacity generation since the Duquesne Light power plant’s coal was frozen solid.
Laborers had to be called into the Duquesne plant with sledgehammers to break the frozen coal pile up.
re: #97 Decatur Deb
Just had thunder-fog. In 20 minutes the leading edge of the eastbound rain hits, followed by cataclysm coming in off the Gulf in an hour.
re: #123 🌹UOJB!
We know what the QAP will do if they get the House back in 2022. Endless investigations of Hunter Biden. And Fox will pour gasoline on the fire 24/7.
Charles is right about Fox. It needs to be held accountable for the lies it gladly spreads!
Smartmatic is on it!
re: #137 PhillyPretzel
Any plan is WORK. DT didn’t do WORK.
re: #140 retired cynic
True. That is why he was at the golf course so much.
re: #141 PhillyPretzel
True. That is why he was at the golf course so much.
BUT…Paula White said that’s how God told Trump to communicate with him!
re: #140 retired cynic
Any plan is WORK. DT didn’t do WORK.
Which is why he outsourced it to Jared, who never let a crisis go to waste when it could fatten his wallet instead. Hence PPE stocks ordered by states being “confiscated” in-route and magically appearing up for bid from “third-party suppliers.”
re: #25 calochortus
A belated thanks for posting this. Used to dance to this back when I was in college and did a lot of folk dance. A lifetime ago.
Hello! I used to dance to this when I was in high school when there were folk dance clubs around the area. Brings back memories.
re: #136 Dangerman
OK, bill
tell us who is.not you
not mitch
not Ronna
not Kevin[Embedded content]
The answer is (of course) “None of the above.” We know this because all immediately changed their tone about Trump the moment he started making noises about the “Patriot Party” BS, which mysteriously died out as soon as Congressional Repubs started blaming everybody but him for Jan 6th and promised to “acquit” him at his impeachment trial.
Biden is close to 55% approval on fivethirtyeight.com. If the Democrats come through on a big Covid relief package, and keep up the good work at getting people vaccinated, we should see a strong economic recovery that will give the Democrats a fighting shot at retaining control of Congress. They need to follow up the Covid bill with more legislation to make a positive difference in people’s lives.
The woman with the gun has been identified as Sylvia Hall, age 66. The man with the BB gun hasn’t been identified.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) February 15, 2021
Yay! WU says temp is above zero in my neighborhood. Sunny and +1° right now.
It’s not going to be limited to once every 60 years any more, but then the Texas legislature is packed with climate change deniers too.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
Trivia time! We all know George Washington appointed the most Supreme Court justices.
How many presidents did not appoint any justices to the Supreme Court?
Double points if you can name them all. pic.twitter.com/DrohDXOgFA— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) February 15, 2021
re: #149 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, it’s amazing how many “once in a lifetime/once in a century/etc” storms have hit in the past few years. You’d almost think that there was something driving all this extreme weather…
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re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron
66? FFS. I’m dying to see the mugshot.
re: #25 calochortus
I also remember that melody from international folk dancing in college. I heard a version of it at a live performance at Yale by the Eastern European folk music club around five years ago and was glad that interest in this lovely music has not completely died out amongst the younger generations.
You may enjoy this music as well though I don’t believe it ever made it into the international folk dance canon. It was written by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz in the mid 1800’s. Abdulaziz is remembered as a kind and enlightened leader. He famously provided generous assistance to Ireland during the potato famine. Such a wonderful example of a principled Muslim ruler reaching out peacefully to the West.
Sorry, it has been so long since I embedded anything the way to do it has changed and I can’t seem to find the embed code for the video. But it really is worth a click if you like Balkan music. (At the time Abdulaziz wrote this piece the Ottoman empire controlled most of the Balkans.) (Sorry again, the first link I provided did not work, but I fixed it!)
re: #135 Targetpractice
I remember a while back that one of the Texas fossil-fuel barons went big into wind turbines for Texas. He had a lot of natural gas wells in his portfolio and he was looking to displace coal power stations since it was clear that fast-response gas turbine generators would be needed if wind became a big part of the electricity generating supply system.
In Britain over the past couple of decades we’ve built of a lot of gas turbine generating plant to replace mid-1970s coal-burning stations that have mostly been decommissioned and demolished now (Scotland, a major coal-producing nation in the past now has no coal-fired power stations left at all). We get lots of press articles about new wind projects, usually with outright lies about how much electricity they will produce while the contsruction of new gas turbine facilities are never reported in the same manner although they’re the source of much of our electricity nowadays.
Who is this bad boy? pic.twitter.com/HxC018OTIC
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) February 15, 2021
Young punk ass Nixon would beat the shit out of pansy ass fake soldier Trump and take his lunch money. pic.twitter.com/CNHMVuhWpn
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) February 15, 2021
re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron
Awwww. That guy was deluded enough to believe he would be a…”B.B. King”…
JJ, I’m sorry but I just couldn’t help myself…— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) February 15, 2021
This is from when he fronted a goth punk band. They played a lot of Cure covers, I understand. pic.twitter.com/8JBjfjs6Xe
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) February 15, 2021
re: #155 gocart mozart
The big reason why DT went to military school is that he was a problem child.
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Presidents who didn’t appoint any Justices to the Supreme Court?
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Jimmy Carter
Joe Biden
Andrew Johnson tried to nominate one but Congress eliminated the seat.
re: #159 🌹UOJB!
Joe Biden has not yet to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.
re: #161 PhillyPretzel
Joe Biden has not yet to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.
Yes, that’s why I added him to the list. But Criswell Bacon believes that there’s going to be a seat that opens real soon involving one Mr. K’s rather shady finances…
re: #163 PhillyPretzel
Hi Philly,
I fixed the link for that video if you are interested. :)
re: #164 KerFuFFler
Thanks. What link are you referring to?
re: #165 PhillyPretzel
The link for the music of Abdulaziz. I think it is in comment 153.
re: #166 KerFuFFler
I will check it out later. Thanks.
re: #39 darthstar
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True for at least two of the definitions, as Republican Senators qualify as both:
a) having the character of a chicken and
b) having the personality of a posturing cock.
re: #114 darthstar
Hm…Texas may be a bit more fucked than we thought.
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It’s not just wind turbines. Natural gas pipelines are offline, meaning those plants aren’t producing power either.
re: #153 KerFuFFler
Sorry, it has been so long since I embedded anything the way to do it has changed and I can’t seem to find the embed code for the video.
No need to find the embed code — just paste the URL of the video into a comment and it will be automatically turned into an embed.
re: #103 Targetpractice
Graham just telegraphing to us all that a House Republican majority will spend its time indulging in the very sort of petty shit they accuse House Dems of doing by holding Trump responsible for his actions.
A House Republican majority will end the Republic by refusing to certify elections they don’t win. Impeaching Harris will be the least of our worries.
We are getting hammered by frozen precipitation right now; I made a grocery run this morning, so we’re good unless we lose power.
re: #135 Targetpractice
Yeah, that’s going to be their excuse: “If it hadn’t been for those wind turbines pushed on us by the damned liberals, we would have had reliable oil/coal plants that would have kept things online! But we didn’t, so the system got overtaxed and went down! Which just proves that we need more fossil fuels and less renewable energy!”
I saw this on CNN.
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott said in a Twitter post that the state’s power grid has not been compromised.
The ability of some companies that generate the power has been frozen. This includes the natural gas & coal generators,” Abbott wrote, adding that ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas are working to get power back online and will give priority to residential consumers.
It’s always comical how the right instantly falls into line and starts parroting whatever catch phrase Fox News spoons out to them. Currently it’s “cancel culture.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 15, 2021
re: #171 garzooma
A House Republican majority will end the Republic by refusing to certify elections they don’t win. Impeaching Harris will be the least of our worries.
Doesn’t matter unless the Senate refuses to certify as well. But Trump loyalists in state offices could refuse to certify Democratic victories. This is why Trump needs to be in prison in 2024.
I just read yet another tweet by someone who thinks requiring people to wear a mask is the same oppression that the Jewish people experienced in Nazi Germany.
We are a failed state.
re: #176 plansbandc
I just read yet another tweet by someone who thinks requiring people to wear a mask is the same oppression that the Jewish people experienced in Nazi Germany.
We are a failed state.
Report it for encouraging self harm.
GOT THE SHOT! WOOHOO!
Next one in 3 weeks!
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
GOT THE SHOT! WOOHOO!
Next one in 3 weeks!
Good for you…and Z as well I assume.
re: #170 Charles Johnson
Thanks! Funny how improvements and simplifications can trip a person up…..
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
GOT THE SHOT! WOOHOO!
Next one in 3 weeks!
Gonna start snowing there any minute according to current weather news.
re: #24 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
He was part of the Progressive movement, and his election allowed legislation that would be anathema to current “conservatives.”
A Bircher told me a while back that TR was “the first socialist president.” I said, “Huh? What?” and he explained that TR was the first to interfere with business on a large scale, in the form of the The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Yep, a law against poisoning people with rancid or aduterated food was the first step toward the Marxist hell in which we now live.
re: #182 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A Bircher told me a while back that TR was “the first socialist president.” I said, “Huh? What?” and he explained that TR was the first to interfere with business on a large scale, in the form of the The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Yep, a law against poisoning people with rancid or aduterated food was the first step toward the Marxist hell in which we now live.
What, was John Birch the secret husband of Ayn Rand or something? Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a cracker.
Happy for all the folks getting needles. I hate that I still have to wait awhile, but it’s worth it so that people more at risk than I can move up in line.
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.@SpeakerPelosi says she will “establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission to ‘investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021 domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex.’”
From her letter to colleagues 👇 pic.twitter.com/KFL6mVeaXP— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 15, 2021
re: #102 retired cynic
I just finished reading Two Sons, One Destiny, an article in Vanity Fair from 2004, about Joe Sr and Joe Jr and Jack Kennedy. It really gave me a different picture of all three of them. Worth the time I spent on it.
I haven’t finished it but the bits about Jr & Jack processing applications for refugees and Jack’s idea of “tourist visas” were things I’d never heard before. Amazing what can be done by people who really want to.
re: #185 mmmirele
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re: #182 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A Bircher told me a while back that TR was “the first socialist president.” I said, “Huh? What?” and he explained that TR was the first to interfere with business on a large scale, in the form of the The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Yep, a law against poisoning people with rancid or aduterated food was the first step toward the Marxist hell in which we now live.
A law he fought until it ended up on his desk and then he claimed he was for it all along.
re: #174 Charles Johnson
I’m very happy to cancel racists, insurrectionists and fascists which perfectly describes Conservatives right now. They are dangerous.
re: #186 Dread Pirate Ron
Does including the “interference with the peaceful transfer of power” mean that they can investigate what republican senators and legislators were conspiring to do? Be nice if we could broaden it out to include them if it goes that way.
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
I’m very happy to cancel racists, insurrectionists and fascists which perfectly describes Conservatives right now. They are dangerous.
Yeah the idea that every viewpoint has a place at the table is bullshit.
I mean yes, by all means, believe what you want, but understand that being a bigoted POS WILL earn you some well deserved blowback from the rest of us sane folk.
You have the right to talk. We have the right to ignore the fuck out of everything you say.
re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wind is only 6% of Texas’ energy.
Wow! 185MPH gate to gate shear with this tornado. Very wide debris ball. Likely a violent tornado ongoing northeast of Damascus, GA. pic.twitter.com/KSmkgNqypU
— Trey Fulbright (@CF3_Weather) February 15, 2021
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
I’m very happy to cancel racists, insurrectionists and fascists which perfectly describes Conservatives right now. They are dangerous.
The right created the “cancel culture” from the Dixie Chicks to Monday Night Football to Keurig to NYT to Kellogg to JC Penny to Colin Kaepernick to Nike to Amazon and so on, and so on, and so on….
re: #193 GlutenFreeJesus
Wind is only 6% of Texas’ energy.
the natural gas pipelines are also shut down in Texas
Perhaps you’d support her if she incited an insurrection. https://t.co/ivQqOPVW55
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) February 15, 2021
Bison at 35 below zero. Yellowstone National Park, USA.
Photographer by Tom Murphy Photography pic.twitter.com/k1g1UdNjLL— Karrie Flannigan (@Karrie1313) February 13, 2021
Texas lizards! Any of you online? How are you doing?
Confirmed tornado near Damascus, GA pic.twitter.com/H2K73GW2pH
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) February 15, 2021
Hell, yeah, This has just got to piss Trump off …
America’s top infectious disease official Dr. Anthony Fauci received a prestigious $1 million Israeli prize Monday, along with six other researchers who shared two additional $1 million prizes for their contributions to health and medicine.
The Dan David Prize, affiliated with Tel Aviv University, said it honored Fauci for his career in public health and “speaking truth to power” during the politicized COVID-19 crisis.
Fauci “is the consummate model of leadership and impact in public health,” the awards committee said in a statement.
The award sets aside 10% of the prize money for academic scholarships in each winner’s field. Fauci gets to determine the nature of the scholarships.
Fauci Awarded $1 Million Israeli Prize For ‘Speaking Truth To Power’ Amid Pandemic
BREAKING (Awful). The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Vincent Jackson. Jackson, 38, was found deceased on Monday, February 15, 2021, at the Homewood Suites located at 10240 Palm River Road in Brandon, Florida. pic.twitter.com/SOTftyGnSx
— Josh Benson (@WFLAJosh) February 15, 2021
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow! 185MPH gate to gate shear with this tornado. Very wide debris ball. Likely a violent tornado ongoing northeast of Damascus, GA.
That’s the front that went through here about an hour ago. It was sharp, but not destructive.
re: #171 garzooma
A House Republican majority will end the Republic by refusing to certify elections they don’t win. Impeaching Harris will be the least of our worries.
what i said above
the voting process doesnt matter anymore in any situation if you have the power
re: #182 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
A Bircher told me a while back that TR was “the first socialist president.” I said, “Huh? What?” and he explained that TR was the first to interfere with business on a large scale, in the form of the The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Yep, a law against poisoning people with rancid or aduterated food was the first step toward the Marxist hell in which we now live.
Really?
Where does he stand on the Homestead Act, or the Transcontinental Railroad, or land grant colleges, or…. or maybe even, the fact that it was federal troops who conquered that land in the first place a removed the previous inhabitants…
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
the natural gas pipelines are also shut down in Texas
Lack of regulation in the energy industry as a whole in Texas.
re: #187 William Lewis
I haven’t finished it but the bits about Jr & Jack processing applications for refugees and Jack’s idea of “tourist visas” were things I’d never heard before. Amazing what can be done by people who really want to.
That was one of the things — maybe the major thing — that really hit me. That, and how frail his health had always been. My back has a similar problem to his, and I can’t imagine how he managed the WW2 service and everything else. Of course, if he had lived to my age, it would have become harder and harder for him to keep everything in the air.
re: #208 retired cynic
That was one of the things — maybe the major thing — that really hit me. That, and how frail his health had always been. My back has a similar problem to his, and I can’t imagine how he managed the WW2 service and everything else. Of course, if he had lived to my age, it would have become harder and harder for him to keep everything in the air.
and JFK also had malaria (contracted it when he was in the Solomon Islands)
re: #199 Belafon
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bison being all “this is not my idea”
Bison at 35 below zero. Yellowstone National Park, USA.
Photographer by Tom Murphy Photography pic.twitter.com/k1g1UdNjLL— Karrie Flannigan (@Karrie1313) February 13, 2021
re: #104 Florida Panhandler
Just mention to these asshole Republican politicians that it could be a black man who could sue to force their white daughters to carry the baby.
That will give them pause.
Nope. The rule will only impact WoC and the poor. Rich white women will be exempt.
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
My dad is scheduled for Thursday. Hallelujah!
re: #149 Charles Johnson
This bit is stupid:
Our houses aren’t built to keep in heat either because in Texas that’s normally a bad thing.
In hot places you build houses to keep heat out.
But houses that are well built to keep heat out also keep heat in.
Or you can just build shitty houses and whine.
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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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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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