States are easing restrictions as coronavirus cases tick up, the FBI warns about a potential Capitol attack on March 4, and Amazon has to change its app’s logo because it resembles Hitler. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #CapitolInsurrection
The main things Manchin got: A cap on who is eligible to write off $10,200 in jobless benefits. Under the deal, Democrats agreed to ensure that households with incomes under $150,000 were only eligible to deduct that amount from their taxes.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 6, 2021
So the Republican Party is just gonna skate away from being complicit in Donald Trump’s coup attempt and pretend they can go right back to whining about being persecuted and the media will go along with it, is that about the size of it?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2021
Inaugural poet> https://t.co/CowHiiSCjR
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) March 6, 2021
re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron
Manchin gets:
*$300 a week pandemic UI bonus instead of House-passed increase to $400 - he and others worried it will be hard for employers to find workers
*First $10,200 UI tax-free up to cap of $150K family income
*Keeps early September cliff for UI instead of October— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) March 6, 2021
re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron
Inaugural poet> ht
Those poets will cut you if you look at them wrong. I blame Francois Villon.
At this point the Covid bill is a victory.
re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron
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In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance. Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be. https://t.co/hY9miR0b6J
— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) March 6, 2021
re: #8 Dread Pirate Ron
Hi Kevin. I still like Dr. Seuss too. I also agree with Seuss Enterprises’ decision to stop publishing the couple of his books that contain racist caricatures. And I also wish, as a member of Congress, you’d focus on real problems like passing pandemic relief. https://t.co/LzflvkIqqy
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 6, 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act provides that there will be no clawback of 2020 subsidies. Another benefit of passing it. https://t.co/oBeikhsHAZ
— Karoli 🇺🇸 (@Karoli) March 6, 2021
If you think about it, it’s horrifying that a rogue president actually tried to overturn a legitimate election by inciting a mob of cultish supporters, they BROKE INTO THE US CAPITOL, and now the media is complaining that Joe Biden hasn’t done a press conference. WTF.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2021
one day you’re backing a violent insurrection and trying to overturn a national election, next you’re sitting on camera reading a Dr Suess book https://t.co/9FykyjZTmN
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 6, 2021
2/ #ProudBoys leader Enrique Tarrio separately told the @nytimes today that he put Roger Stone on speaker at a protest at @marcorubio’s house before Jan 6th…
…but a law enforcement official speaking to the times said this was *NOT* the call being scrutinized. pic.twitter.com/XJrnYTmex6— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 6, 2021
Here are the numbers of people who make under $15 per hour in states of senators who voted no on the hike, as of 2019:
Sinema: 839K
Manchin: 229K
Carper: 106K
Coons: 106K
Hassan: 146K
Shaheen: 146K
King: 158K
Tester: 126K
From this study I reported on:https://t.co/JTq3SNVnuR— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 5, 2021
I’m so old I remember when conservatives hated Dr. Seuss because was indoctrinating their kids with commie ideas about environmentalism and climate change in “The Lorax.”
That fake freakout was about 10 years ago.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2021
re: #13 Dread Pirate Ron
Stone lies about everything, even under oath. Of course, now that he doesn’t have an automatic Get out of Jail Free card, any future such lies would subject him to perjury charges and those won’t be excused, unless he can bring down bigger fish.
Ten years after, they LOVE Dr. Seuss because some of his books contained racist elements.
Kinda revealing.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2021
re: #15 Charles Johnson
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I’m almost positive there’s a Sean Hannity rant about the Lorax from the Bush years. It would be nice to find that and throw it in his face next time he yammers about Dr. Seuss.
Here’s some of it:
unfortunately the page links to an old Media Matters video in Flash which… is rightfully destroyed.
Maybe not Hannity but… Lou Dobbs:
‘Secret World of Arrietty,’ ‘The Lorax’ Are Further Examples of Left-Wing Propaganda, Says Lou Dobbs
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Octopus Dancing at a depth of 1,600 meters 😍🐙 ||
🎥 NautilusLive IG team spotted this elegant #octopus billowing its arms like a circus tent while exploring southwest of Baker Island in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. #ocean pic.twitter.com/sWVTe5gtIU— Reg Saddler (@zaibatsu) March 6, 2021
re: #16 Hecuba’s daughter
Stone lies about everything, even under oath. Of course, now that he doesn’t have an automatic Get out of Jail Free card, any future such lies would subject him to perjury charges and those won’t be excused, unless he can bring down bigger fish.
They really thought they were going to win on 1/6. Ha ha surprise.
THANK YOU AGAIN to all law enforcement defending the Capitol.
Unfortunately (in this case) Fox already sent Lou Dobbs on one of those “Vacation is when you go away and never come back” vacations. So I can’t really throw it in his face.
I could have sworn that Hannity was on this bandwagon at the time though.
My children have learned remotely for 1 year and will continue until next school year. By then, my immediate household and a large majority of the American population should be vaccinated. We’ve made it this far, why risk it now? 5/6
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) March 6, 2021
I will also vaccinate my children when the opportunity arises.
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) March 6, 2021
Officially, Tuk Tuk is 50% armadillo, 50% roly-poly, and 50% pug. By our calculations that’s 150% good boy and you can see him right now in #DisneyRaya
Learn more: https://t.co/VQxUGJQCy3 #ad pic.twitter.com/vUFi9z7UVp— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) March 5, 2021
The Republican Party is the biggest problem facing the US today.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2021
re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Still can’t believe an artistic friend (someone I’ve boosted on his way up) is co-screenwriter of a Big Ass Disney movie.
Milanese metalworkers likely created the intricate pieces, which are valued at an estimated $600,000, between 1560 and 1580. https://t.co/LqtKyNdnmu
— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) March 6, 2021
Mark Pavelich, of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice”, was found dead in a Minnesota mental health facility earlier today. He was 63.
Love this video… especially the Rocky Mountain ZEBRAS.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2021
Catholic group opposes Colorado bill that would give child sex abuse survivors the ability to sue their abuser at any time (Denver Post)
Buried in the article is the note the Boy Scouts are also opposed to the bills.
The renewed push to eliminate the statute of limitations for lawsuits against alleged child sex abusers saw an unanimous Senate vote this week — a vote Wheat Ridge Democratic Sen. Jessie Danielson called “historic.” But the bipartisan bill, which now heads to a House committee, doesn’t apply to civil claims that will have already expired by the time it takes effect, which was a sticking point over constitutionality concerns last year.
That’s why lawmakers have introduced a second (also bipartisan) bill to create a new cause of action to allow people abused as children to sue public and private institutions like churches, schools and the Boy Scouts for past abuse that occurred under their watch. Both the Colorado Catholic Conference and the Boy Scouts, which is also facing abuse allegations in the state, are opposed.
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Catholic group opposes Colorado bill that would give child sex abuse survivors the ability to sue their abuser at any time (Denver Post)
Buried in the article is the note the Boy Scouts are also opposed to the bills.
Gee. Known sex abusers oppose a bill that would allow their victims to sue them. Imagine that.
On Friday, Trump released a lengthy statement denouncing the immigration and border security policies of his successor. He accused President Joe Biden of “disastrous leadership” and warned of a “spiraling tsunami at the border.”https://t.co/aln8uKvYOv
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 6, 2021
and no one heard anything of even vague importance…
re: #27 gwangung
A friend of mine’s daughter is a big time animator with Disney. Her team won an Oscar for Frozen.
Oh.
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LOLOLOLOL!
We know how much the orange moron adores sharks…
🦈 Woah! Hundreds of sharks near the shore off Singer Island, just north of West Palm Beach, Florida. Watch some of them spin, breaching the surface of the water.
📹: Paul Dabill Photography pic.twitter.com/hH13KOgfny— Brandon Orr (@BrandonOrrWPLG) March 5, 2021
re: #34 plansbandc
Big team of animators and each one got to spend some time with the Oscar. It was sort of how each member of the team that wins the Stanley Cup gets to have the cup for a day.
Pretty cool.
DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is back: https://t.co/daS6DpAoJo
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) March 6, 2021
re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wasn’t she an expert for the Dems on Impeachment One? I liked her!
This is Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world. Its means “the one who lives in the heights”, a Greek mythical titan. It doesn’t only hold the record for being the tallest tree, but also the tallest LIVING BEING on the planet 🌳 pic.twitter.com/t9nBCKXpL8
— Rob N Roll (@thegallowboob) March 6, 2021
“It all happened in an instant, I can’t forget it even now,” he says, weeping. I visited Otsutchi, a town hit by the 2011 tsunami and earthquake, to write about a poignant phone booth where survivors can call their lost loved ones https://t.co/5hXp48uUBP
— Mari Saito (@saitomri) March 4, 2021
There is something to dialing an old phone, the act of actually winding the numbers yourself that adds to the powerful experience. The owner says the confined space forces people to truly reckon with their emotions, which he sees as a way for people to find healing & move forward pic.twitter.com/8xnA4yOAbl
— Mari Saito (@saitomri) March 5, 2021
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d like one of these. I could call my work buddy Carol, who I never got to say goodbye to last July.
Ron Johnson leaving office is definitely my preference now! https://t.co/aNQXOrEYFh
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) March 5, 2021
Inevitable. DC is an accountability-free town. https://t.co/NR24kCTESM
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 6, 2021
I’m gonna take a wild guess here and say this isn’t his first run in with the law
— Randy 🏴☠️ (@BigDfromCinci) March 6, 2021
He’s fallen off the wagon. There is no other explanation.
MyPillow’s Mike Lindell announced that he’ll be releasing a new “documentary” and lawsuit in the coming weeks that he claims will finally force the Supreme Court to issue a 9-0 ruling that the election was stolen from Trump. https://t.co/XOq267kXWB pic.twitter.com/PRNlAsk1Ip
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 5, 2021
Fuck Mike Lindell. I hope mypillow goes bankrupt. I’m in no mood for his Bull Shit.
re: #45 Dread Pirate Ron
BREAKING: In a memo, the @USChamber attempts to provide cover to corporations to resume donating to the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election
“We do not believe it’s appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification”— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 5, 2021
As I’ve said repeatedly, I’m willing to forgive Tim Rice — the other 146 deserve to be permanently banished from public office.
You mean SOCIALISM? Let them pull themselves up by the ole bootstraps like granny did!
— LNC Capital (@oncallprofile) March 5, 2021
I thought you needed to know this.
Rudy’s daughter, CAROLINE ROSE GIULIANI, has an article in Vanity Fair about having threesomes. She also did lots of drugs (can you blame her?).
Only skimmed. Was slightly amused, but since I already hated Rudy to the max it didn’t really interest me.
A Unicorn’s Tale: Three-Way Sex With Couples Has Made Me a Better Person
FOX NEWS SENIOR EDITOR: *get me more Dr Seuss stories!* pic.twitter.com/QSAmTtCBIZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 5, 2021
“COVID was a political football and not a scientific / medical issue”
That’s insane of you to say. What reality do you live in? Is it one where the United States doesn’t have half a million excess deaths since the pandemic started?— 💀Malachias💀Graves💀 (@Malagraves) February 12, 2021
Thus, TO HIM, even letting people KNOW that they might be a little safer without eating out was “wrong” and the government should have just treated this EXACTLY like the common cold and DIScouraged people from taking any steps to not contract it.
— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
Also, thank you so much for the gift subscription.
Sorry I haven’t been able to acknowledge anything sooner, but I’ve been largely away from my laptop for the last couple days, between entertaining my aunt the trucker as she came through town last night and my car keys falling out somewhere along 5 miles-plus of dog-walking (and jogging) trail today.
Folks, I’m mad at Sinema too, but there were 7 other Democrats AND 50 REPUBLICANS who voted against the minimum wage increase. Yes, she had visuals as well, but be sure not to make yet another issue only the woman’s fault.
— Eyes on the Prize (@TaritaC) March 6, 2021
re: #54 Belafon
Asshole:
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I’m unpleasantly surprised I could still see that tweet when I opened it in Twitter itself.
I had thought that I should already have antagonised “@briebriejoy” enough to get on her block list.
The only block-related thing I’m more disappointed in is that I can’t get off @notcapnamerica’s.
Imagine being the guy who took 100 bucks a week away from millions of people. Sometimes I think politicians like Manchin are still in a pre-Trump mindset where a lot more people weren’t following politics much at all.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 6, 2021
Schumer is forcing republicans to stay up all night to vote and got Manchin & Sinema to agree not to adjourn. With the hope that the GOP just gets exhausted and gives up.
Quick have we seen do something Twitter?!— LadyGrey (@TWLadyGrey) March 6, 2021
Every time I serve myself ice cream in a dish rather than eating it straight from the pint container, it is the wrong amount. Every time.
— Roma Panganiban (@romapancake) March 6, 2021
The 42 senators that voted to increase the min wage still represent more people than the 58 that didn’t. What a ridiculous and archaic institution
— Richie Floyd (@richiejfloyd) March 5, 2021
— Liberal Resistance (@LiberalResist) March 6, 2021
re: #54 Belafon
Asshole:
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The Bernie faction strikes again. There were a few responses on the thread critical of her and Bernie - e.g.:
Sanders promised he could rally the votes.
He failed.
Kinda like when you worked with him on a presidential campaign.
Fortunately, the Bernie people failed to stop Biden’s election but too many are still trying to undermine his administration. Writing laws and getting them passed are complicated processes — there have always been compromises that leave many legislators unsatisfied but as they say, we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Yes.
Every Gawdly Xtian man needs to be married to a Melania clone…
Missouri pastor slammed for suggesting women should strive to look like “epic trophy wife” Melania Trump https://t.co/OPa1f1H1R6 pic.twitter.com/94U6dHQJKb
— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2021
Not dignifiying the rest of those falsehoods with a response, but Biden isn’t going to enter the Capitol for a State of the Union Address while half your party’s congresscritters in both houses are trying to get it wired to explode around him and, if need be, them.
— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
re: #64 Chrysicat
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Funny thing; a LOT of the Right also believes that everyone who physically CAN work should work (and the vast majority at physical labour).
We’re ALREADY in a position where there are more adults under 67 than jobs—even filthy, dangerous grunt jobs best done by robots.— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
I hate losing track of time so badly that I’m literally the only person I know awake, let alone online.
re: #65 Chrysicat
If the free market worked that way, a person would be able to sit at home and do nothing until a job came along and paid them enough to live and raise kids on. But people have to eat, so they have to undercut their value just to get through each day.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 6, 2021
I’m awake because I just got home from my mother’s.
I’m momsitting this weekend so my brother can go to a friend’s daughter’s hockey tournament. He needs the break.
What I have discovered is that mom has become more demanding in the over a year since I last momsit for more than two hours.
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Tomorrow I promised to help her wash her hair. We’ll see how that works out.
re: #66 Belafon
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If I were on twitter, this old socialist would probably post something like this from Reddit:
Adam Smith believed in a minimum wage equal to twice what it would cost one working person to raise a family with two kids. Did you know that? do YOU know who Adam Smith REALLY was?
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.
By Adam Smith CHAPTER VIII. OF THE WAGES OF LABOUR. gutenberg.org “A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. Mr Cantillon seems, upon this account, to suppose that the lowest species of common labourers must everywhere earn at least double their own maintenance, in order that, one with another, they may be enabled to bring up two children; the labour of the wife, on account of her necessary attendance on the children, being supposed no more than sufficient to provide for herself: But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood. The poorest labourers, therefore, according to this account, must, one with another, attempt to rear at least four children, in order that two may have an equal chance of living to that age. But the necessary maintenance of four children, it is supposed, may be nearly equal to that of one man. The labour of an able-bodied slave, the same author adds, is computed to be worth double his maintenance; and that of the meanest labourer, he thinks, cannot be worth less than that of an able-bodied slave. Thus far at least seems certain, that, in order to bring up a family, the labour of the husband and wife together must, even in the lowest species of common labour, be able to earn something more than what is precisely necessary for their own maintenance; but in what proportion, whether in that above-mentioned, or many other, I shall not take upon me to determine. “
he also believed high rewards for labor were a sure sign of increasing national wealth. “The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards. “
he also believed in challenging monopolies and what we would call today “class warfare” from the same chapter:
“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate.”
Of course, this socialist has actually read Smith. Most “free enterprise” asshats haven’t.
re: #63 🌹UOJB!
Lookin’ at that “fine Christian gentleman” there, I’d reckon he’d have a tough time getting laid in a morgue.
re: #57 Belafon
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The reality is that Manchin hates this bill. The bill he wants is the $600B “bipartisan” one that he endorsed alongside his buddy Susan Collins. That bill not only spent less, but the spending was “targeted” to those people he thought actually needed it. And it had the bonus of having buy-in by Senate Repubs, so he’d be able to polish those “centrist” bonafides by telling folks that this was a “bipartisan” bill.
You can hear it in his statement about the “deal” made tonight, he’s convinced that this is all gonna blow over by summer and the country’s gonna roar back to life by the fall. That having enough vaccine doses by May means everybody will be vaccinated by then and we’ll start moving back to full employment by no latter than next winter. So that if you don’t have a job by September, then he’ll be convinced that you’re just not looking hard enough.
And then when transgirls grow into transwomen, but have had to undergo full male puberty, they’ll tell them “you can’t pass as a woman anyway, so there is no excuse for you to do anything other than BE A MAN and live like a man”.
This is not accidental. https://t.co/WuF0C7AJXv— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
Ukraine said Friday that renewed fighting with Russian-backed separatists was undermining a fragile ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, and urged Western backers to intervenehttps://t.co/HRzjKqnPgm
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) March 5, 2021
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
I wonder if there will be a spring offensive - a way of Putin testing Biden to see how he’ll respond.
Here comes the #rain in the #NorthBay. pic.twitter.com/TUlN3raKuq
— Greg Lee (@GregLeeKTVU) March 6, 2021
coming up on .10”, will be 4.47” for the season then, LOL.
Had a long post here on Smith and the minimum wage. Paged it instead. Hope it’s of some interest.
Wyoming legislator compares the safety of COVID-19 to the vaccines. pic.twitter.com/RjW3T7W2A7
— Bad COVID-19 Takes (@BadCOVID19Takes) March 6, 2021
re: #74 Dr Lizardo
I wonder if there will be a spring offensive - a way of Putin testing Biden to see how he’ll respond.
That and also to get the bro-gressives screaming about Corporate Democrats, warmongers, and all the other things that other puppets can’t help him with.
Personally I’d let the government of Ukraine ask for help and give them a nice demonstration of B-2 conventional carpet bombing on the rebels.
re: #66 Belafon
Just in case you don’t know, minimum wage is not a free market policy, it’s against free market. In a free market min wage will be determined by supply and demand of jobs not by government policy.
Conservatives like to talk about the dignity of labor and about the American Dream of providing a better life for one’s family.
But in the end, to them labor is just another business expense to be minimized and workers are no different than paper clips, toner or copier paper…
re: #76 William Lewis
Had a long post here on Smith and the minimum wage. Paged it instead. Hope it’s of some interest.
These Free Market asshats quote Smith as selectively as their pastors quote the Bible…
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Conservatives like to talk about the dignity of labor and about the American Dream of providing a better life for one’s family.
But in the end, to them labor is just another business expense to be minimized and workers are no different than paper clips, toner or copier paper…
To borrow from Chris Rock, your boss paying you minimum wage is his way of saying “I’d pay you less if I could, but that’s against the law.”
Funny you should mention “her”.
I took my sister’s second-best friend to the only high-school dance I ever attended (because I had been named soph attendant, and even though everyone knew it was done as a joke I was advised to try to turn it into real popularity).— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
(Whole thread is good).
It seems the votes are all 50-49 with Sullivan (R-AK) not voting to avoid bringing Kamala Harris in.
re: #68 William Lewis
If I were on twitter, this old socialist would probably post something like this from Reddit:
Of course, this socialist has actually read Smith. Most “free enterprise” asshats haven’t.
He also believed in a progressive income tax:
The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
re: #55 Belafon
“but there were 7 other Democrats AND 50 REPUBLICANS who voted against the minimum wage increase”
Ugh, idiotic framing. They voted against including it in this package, not against it per se. This happened because some of them, maybe just one of them, are also against it per se, but probably fewer than 7.
re: #88 Nyet
Like it would ever pass on it’s own.
We won the White House by the thinnest of margins.
We won the Senate by the thinnest of margins, though we “should” have lost.
We won the House while losing much of our advantage there.
It’s time to shut up, do what we can, and plan to work harder in 2022.
re: #88 Nyet
re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron
With the slimmest of majorities, the Democrats have to be wise in regards to choosing upon which hill to die.
Bernie and the others who wanted to tack on the minimum wage increase to a general pandemic relief bill were not going to help get things done.
I’m not sure it’s even that much of a strategic advantage to prioritize minimum wage issues right now.
The top item has to be a voters right bill, a law that will counter the GOP’s effort to disenfranchise people.
The second item has to be to get dark money out of elections.
The third item should, IMO, be about health care and reimagining American health care spending.
Raising the minimum wage dramatically will encounter blow-back from not just the usual troglodytes that are the funders and base of the GOP.
Many small business will push back, even those who socially are otherwise “progressive” (e.g. believers in non-discrimination laws, health care funding, etc.)
The Democratic majority in the Senate hangs by a thread. A single Democratic Senator who falls ill and has to retire, or dies in office, could end the entire Democratic agenda for several years.
As such, I think Biden and the Democrats in general need to spend their political capital on voting rights. That may be all that can be done before the next election.
Oh, it’s pronounced Tubberville, not Tuberville like where they grow potatoes.
re: #88 Nyet
“but there were 7 other Democrats AND 50 REPUBLICANS who voted against the minimum wage increase”
Ugh, idiotic framing. They voted against including it in this package, not against it per se. This happened because some of them, maybe just one of them, are also against it per se, but probably fewer than 7.
However one chooses to spin it, the fact remains that there did not exist at any time in the life of this bill 50 Senate Dem votes in favor of a $15 minimum wage hike.
And that, had Schumer and the WH listened to the louder critics and overruled the parliamentarian’s ruling on its inclusion, we would be watching in horror as this bill went down in flames.
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s pronounced Tubberville, not Tuberville like where they grow potatoes.
Thomas Hawley Tuberville
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s pronounced Tubberville, not Tuberville like where they grow potatoes.
In this part of Alabama it’s spelled “Tuberville”, but it’s pronounced “Asshole”, with a short A.
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s pronounced Tubberville, not Tuberville like where they grow potatoes.
Probably doesn’t want to be cancelled like Mrs. Potatohead. /s
It’s 6 AM in Washington and the Senate is still voting on amendments.
re: #82 Dread Pirate Ron
Including one of my senators (Deb Fischer) and my representative (Adrian Smith).
As Congress continues to negotiate on a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, two Nebraska representatives said there is work still to be done on the measure. https://t.co/y3uEpnRHRG
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) March 6, 2021
re: #97 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s 6 AM in Washington and the Senate is still voting on amendments.
It’s good to see athleticism brought back to the sport.
NASA & SpaceX have set April 22 as the target launch date for the next Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station.
Launch from Florida is set for 6:11am EDT (1011 GMT) April 22, with docking at the station at 7:05am EDT (1105 GMT) April 23.https://t.co/GiQLdeCG8V pic.twitter.com/ktxPqT7KpT— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) March 5, 2021
10 Mistakes to Avoid When Cooking Cannabis Edibles! https://t.co/Z4ebIWIyKH #allbud #marijuana #cannabis #weed #health #medicalmarijuana #news #cannabisnews #legalization #use #smoke #enjoy #enjoylife #healthylife
— allbud (@All_Bud) August 8, 2020
re: #90 Decatur Deb
We won the White House by the thinnest of margins.
We won the Senate by the thinnest of margins, though we “should” have lost.
We won the House while losing much of our advantage there.It’s time to shut up, do what we can, and plan to work harder in 2022.
and don’t let the activist base derail us with “defund the police” or any other slogans that will frighten the persuadable middle.
re: #103 sagehen
and don’t let the activist base derail us with “defund the police” or any other slogans that will frighten the persuadable middle.
There is no committee vote that controls the passion of the moment, but it would be good to come up with battle cries that don’t require 6 months of explanation and back-pedaling.
re: #90 Decatur Deb
We won the White House by the thinnest of margins.
We won the Senate by the thinnest of margins, though we “should” have lost.
We won the House while losing much of our advantage there.It’s time to shut up, do what we can, and plan to work harder in 2022.
If you count overall votes, both houses should have large Democratic majorities, but we are a Republican republic.
re: #92 Dread Pirate Ron
Oh, it’s pronounced Tubberville, not Tuberville like where they grow potatoes.
Telly Tuberville
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If you count overall votes, both houses should have large Democratic majorities, but we are a Republican republic.
You go to war with the Constitution you have…
Lankford wants an abortion amendment to the Covid bill.
re: #108 Dread Pirate Ron
Lankford wants an abortion amendment to the Covid bill.
From the “wow, James Lankford made THIS tweet age like meat in a deactivated freezer” department:
(I know it’s explaining the joke, but Jimmeh Boy just put forth an abortion-ban amendment ON the Dem’s relief bill). https://t.co/jKqg9vHpQM— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 6, 2021
Republicans: This bill is too expensive. Let’s spend the money on this instead of that!
re: #107 Decatur Deb
You go to war with the Constitution you have…
We can work to fix the gerrymandering.
There was once a time when “rural/sparsely populated state” did not necessarily equate to “GOP state”, but that has now become a major factor in the Republican-heavy makeup of the Senate.
re: #110 Dread Pirate Ron
Republicans: This bill is too expensive. Let’s spend the money on this instead of that!
Republicans: Money is better spent on political grandstanding than on actually helping people, because fuck you I got mine.
Ted Cruz amendment requiring schools to have in-school learning to get funding to provide in-school learning….
Amazon’s new logo sucks. I liked the shopping cart on my phone.
Also, FBI knows who collaborated with the insurrectionists.
Court documents show FBI warrants for a list of all the phones associated with the cell towers serving the Capitol. FBI received information from the major cellphone carriers on the numbers called by everyone on the Capitol’s cell towers during the riot.https://t.co/Dq1jCohhWr
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 6, 2021
Everyone understand now why @SenMikeLee and @HawleyMO were so interested in “meta data” and cell towers when Director Wray testified?
Yeah - they know what’s up.— I’m ryt beecuz I reed. (@regularcorrect) March 6, 2021
re: #115 darthstar
Amazon’s new logo sucks. I liked the shopping cart on my phone.
Also, FBI knows who collaborated with the insurrectionists.
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Shoulda bought an iPhone.
Jonathan Chait has a rare funny.
If I were trying to design The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, I would not fill it with octogenarians and make them stay up all night making billion dollar decisions on the fly.
But who am I to question the Founders? This is what they wanted!— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) March 6, 2021
Romney seems to have a big herpes sore on his upper lip..
..or is that a scar I never noticed before?
re: #119 Dread Pirate Ron
Romney seems to have a big herpes sore on his upper lip..
..or is that a scar I never noticed before?
He fell last week while on a trip to Boston.
And Dan Sullivan of Alaska isn’t on the floor because he had to go back home for undisclosed family reasons, which means straight party line votes are 50-49 for now and Harris isn’t needed to break a tie.
Guessing Doge coin is going to have a little spike. These crypto assholes are manipulating these markets because something valued at a fraction of a cent can spike in value. Doge pile is about $6.3 billion overall. https://t.co/TEG06cxJoc
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2021
Tuberville amendment to prevent trans playing as women. Very on subject for this bill.
I asked my daughter to give me a phone book. She laughed at me, called me a boomer and lent me her iPhone. So, the spider is dead, her iPhone is broken and my daughter is furious….
— mariana Z (@mariana057) March 5, 2021
re: #123 darthstar
The phonebook joke is getting recycled quickly.
re: #123 darthstar
To Mariana Z be specific such as: “Hand me the old phone book so I can kill a spider.”
They wanted the $15/hr in because it isn’t going to get 60 votes on its own. But a bunch of Democrats and all Republicans are going to keep that from happening.
A few Democrats, in this case Manchin and it seems Sinema, and all of the Republicans think we should have a way smaller bill because they don’t understand actual economics.
So we will get what we can out of it and continue to fight.
re: #113 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
He’s got a small animal femur in his claw and he’s coming for the lens.
re: #63 🌹UOJB!
Yes.
Every Gawdly Xtian man needs to be married to a Melania clone…
He should first look in a mirror, go to the gym, and work on being the Trump-like Adonis that Ben Garrision draws in his cartoons. And then not say such a thing about women - at least he wouldn’t be a hypocrite.
This is what I am really waiting for:
When will children be able to get COVID-19 vaccines? It depends on the child’s age, but some teenagers could be rolling up their sleeves before too long. https://t.co/6yqvWxEDc1
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 4, 2021
re: #125 Dread Pirate Ron
The phonebook joke is getting recycled quickly.
Yes, the first iteration posted earlier.
re: #63 🌹UOJB!
Yes.
Every Gawdly Xtian man needs to be married to a Melania clone…
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Personally I aspired way higher than “Melania”
And she married me!
this dude heard my dad playing bones inside his shop and just came in and started dancing to it💀 he said this was his favorite song pic.twitter.com/Ad5I7rpeIi
— ѕιєяяα (@sierrasesh) March 6, 2021
i just want everyone to know i showed him all the love he’s getting and he started crying. i love the sesh fam fr 🥺🖤
— ѕιєяяα (@sierrasesh) March 6, 2021
re: #123 darthstar
That joke has already mutated in the wild.
The phone just had spider guts on it yesterday.
Here’s why you can truly hate Manchin:
The amendment to ban trans kids in sports looks to be on its way to failing, 50-49.
Manchin voted with GOP, Murkowski voted with Dems.#LetKidsPlay— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) March 6, 2021
re: #124 PhillyPretzel
Falcon photo bomb.
One of my photo traps caught that as it made off with one of the pork rib bones that Mrs J left in a pile. Might have been the raptor that drew the crows but it was probably the same stack of ribs. It was during that week of below zero weather last month. That hawk was hungry., but not hungry enough to take on three crows.
re: #138 Nyet
Let’s do an exchange M/M. //
The sarc tags are needed - AFAICT, Lisa Murkowski doesn’t have (never has had) that usual Republican habit of mindlessly hewing to the Party Line: however, I’m guessing that if she switched parties, she would simply end up being a loose cannon for the (D)s, rather than the (R)s….
Pork Belly Bites pic.twitter.com/Am6M9dF34f
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) March 6, 2021
re: #115 darthstar
First rule of being an insurrectionist: don’t use your own personal phone - get a burner phone or use amateur radio with your own ‘language’.
re: #143 Eric The Fruit Bat
First rule of being an insurrectionist: don’t use your own personal phone - get a burner phone or use amateur radio with your own ‘language’.
2nd Rule: Don’t use your credit card to pay for the burner phone.
re: #90 Decatur Deb
It’s time to shut up, do what we can, and plan to work harder in 2022.
You mean like the previous guy shut up in 2016 when he won by the slimmest of margins in the EC - and lost the total vote by millions
re: #146 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
That is a pretty flower. :)
re: #143 Eric The Fruit Bat
First rule of being an insurrectionist: don’t use your own personal phone - get a burner phone or use amateur radio with your own ‘language’.
0th rule: actually do wear a mask.
Predictable.
“Newsmax Loses More Than Half Its Audience Since Post-Election Ratings Surge” https://t.co/VuOcuwrqfp
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) March 6, 2021
I’m a constituent and I was *ticked off*. One of the Phx TV stations did a story this week, showing that you can’t rent a 2 bed apt on $17/hr, much less $15/hr. Over 800,000 people here get AZ’s minimum wage, $11.00 an hour. Kyrsten Sinema showed CONTEMPT towards the poor!
— Dee *There are “Little Cults Everywhere”* Holmes (@mmmirele) March 6, 2021
Also, there is a car parade/protest going on in Leipzig, Germany right now against COVID restrictions. Interestingly, there’s also a LOT of bicyclists out as well, properly masked up and riding slowly.
Saxony‘s neo-Nazis and Covid conspiracy theorists are staging a motorcade through Leipzig. Sadly, there seems to be an unusual number of very slow bikes on the roads. Rotten luck.#Le0603 pic.twitter.com/ds7gNhR333
— Tom Greenleaves (@TomGreenleaves) March 6, 2021
More at the hashtag #Le0603 on Twitter.
re: #144 Weaselone
2nd Rule: Don’t use your credit card to pay for the burner phone.
Also, don’t connect your burner to your social media accounts and email because you want to have your address books and contacts.
re: #135 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Wow…it happened twice and only 61 minutes apart! What are the odds of that?
re: #149 darthstar
“Newsmax Loses More Than Half Its Audience Since Post-Election Ratings Surge”
I was looking in on them from time to time and they even seemed to be critical of or at least not actively embracing and promoting RW doctrine regarding election integrity and the Capitol riots…
thanks for the kind words on my greenhouse page. Covid has been a time of good personal growth for me. I’m lucky to have landed the job I did just before it started.
Incidentally, this was the previous page I’d done - 2014. I put a lot of work into it.
Funny thread, that Hoft one.
I flipped over to the Senate C-SPAN tab. They are voting on a Cruz amendment that would prohibit stimulus checks going to undocumented workers. Pretty sure there were mover going to be any and the amendment is just a delaying stunt.
re: #155 jeffreyw
I flipped over to the Senate C-SPAN tab. They are voting on a Cruz amendment that would prohibit stimulus checks going to undocumented workers. Pretty sure there were mover going to be any and the amendment is just a delaying stunt.
That’s all any of these are. The Republican’ts are only throwing these things up to delay the inevitable to prove how badly they want to fuck over ordinary working Americans. And 40% of the country will continue to vote for them because God, Guns, Abortion.
Now Lee of Utah is wanting to limit expansion to Obama care.
re: #158 jeffreyw
Now Lee of Utah is wanting to limit expansion to Obama care.
Mike Lee can go fuck himself with Hawley’s extended fist.
re: #160 darthstar
Mike Lee can go fuck himself with Hawley’s extended fist.
At least not with Trump’s, that wouldn’t have been punishment.
Saw a new moniker for the Q Shaman at dkos: MAGAtaur.
Conan’s sex
There were conflicting reports on Conan’s sex following his reveal to the public. Newsweek initially reported that the dog is female, but the magazine later issued a correction which said Conan is male. RTL Nieuws reported that Conan was trained by a company in Best, Netherlands before being transported to the United States, and a man identified as his former owner and trainer was quoted as saying: “It is a five year old male. It is a very good dog.”[10] On November 25, 2019, a White House official said the dog is female before issuing a correction, saying Conan is in fact male.[11][12] The next day, defense officials confirmed with Stars and Stripes that Conan was male.[13] At the same time, a U.S. defense official disputed this and told ABC News that Conan is female, but ABC’s report was retracted a short time later with multiple officials saying they had verified that Conan is male.[14]The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has contested a Freedom of Information Act request for records related to Conan’s sex. SOCOM states that it can “neither confirm nor deny the existence or non existence of records,” but if records exist, they would be a national security secret.[15]
re: #163 Nyet
I didn’t know they let non-binary dogs in the military.
Somewhere in the cloak room Ted Cruz is switching the parts on his Mr & Mrs Potato Heads and muttering, “This ain’t right. This just ain’t right.” to himself.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 6, 2021
re: #145 fern01
You mean like the previous guy shut up in 2016 when he won by the slimmest of margins in the EC - and lost the total vote by millions
And look where his sad ass is today.
re: #164 darthstar
I didn’t know they let non-binary dogs in the military.
As long as they don’t tell
re: #145 fern01
You mean like the previous guy shut up in 2016 when he won by the slimmest of margins in the EC - and lost the total vote by millions
Only a massive record turnout on the part of Democratic voters prevented a repeat of 2016 and then only barely and then only because enough Republican state-level officials had enough shreds of decency not to go along with the scam and to certify results.
Durbin calls Cruz a liar on the Senate floor.
I have been saying it for years and #CancunCruz knows this basic fact but choses to gaslight instead:
there is no existing federal system where Undocumented immigrants receive federal benefits, including stimulus money.
The end https://t.co/y0Jz8UdwXP— Formerly Known as ALT-immigration 🛂 (@ALT_uscis) March 6, 2021
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Only a massive record turnout on the part of Democratic voters prevented a repeat of 2016 and then only barely and then only because enough Republican state-level officials had enough shreds of decency not to go along with the scam and to certify results.
Heard it on the grapevine:
“We don’t take our advice or counsel from former President Trump….”
re: #145 fern01
You mean like the previous guy shut up in 2016 when he won by the slimmest of margins in the EC - and lost the total vote by millions
But that’s irrelevant. The GOP works in lockstep (the one exception being the failure to repeal the ACA) when it comes to legislation to help the rich and powerful and to harm minorities. Bush 43 did not allow his loss in popular vote to affect his policies. Remember Will Rogers famous words: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”. Herding Democrats has always been like herding cats.
re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter
But we get the great comedians, artists, and musicians, so it’s all good.
A beachfront property in Manhattan Beach that was seized from a Black family 97 years ago may be returned to the family’s descendants. https://t.co/cAfNWwRfDh
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) March 6, 2021
LA County, CA
Trumpster comments on HR 1 voting rights legislation reveal that the modern GOP would have fully supported Bull Connor in the 1960’s.
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It is clear that the more restrictions on voting, the more that it pleases them. They do want to see this as a white Eurocentric nation, with any others living here being quiet and submissive.
My team finally retrained our cheerful new boss. Every time she wanted to “powwow” we’d instantly start divvying up frybread duties, offering to press my jingle dress, etc. It worked eventually.
— Mostly Harmless (@TricyrtisHirta) March 5, 2021
re: #176 wrenchwench
A beachfront property in Manhattan Beach that was seized from a Black family 97 years ago may be returned to the family’s descendants.
and what about Central Park?
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and what about Central Park?
The whole goddamned island.
re: #181 Decatur Deb
Everybody back to Olduvai Gorge—NOW.
Who gets to program the RSQ button?
/Return to Status Quo
re: #182 wrenchwench
Who gets to program the RSQ button?
/Return to Status Quo
If we’re boosted out of Alabama, I’m trying to hit “Pause “in County Mayo.
News from this neck of the woods.
Six police officers injured in anti-Corona demonstration [Swedish]. And as usual, right-wingers are involved [Swedish]…
I’m just waiting for the big cluster caused by 600-1,000 people without masks etc…
Big, if real.
SCOOP: TRUMPS SENDS CEASE-AND-DESIST TO RNC, NRCC AND NRSC. Lawyers for former President DONALD TRUMP sent out cease-and-desist letters Friday to the three largest fundraising entities for the Republican Party — the RNC, NRCC and NRSC — for using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a Trump adviser tells Playbook.
I think the rescue plan has passed, 50-49. I hadn’t been listening but there was a round of applause.
re: #185 Decatur Deb
Big, if real.
I guess he figures that his time spent serving as President nominated by the RNC does not make him a public figure: they still have to pay licensing fees.
The bill has passed the Senate!! Now let’s hope the progressives in the House don’t stop it.
re: #186 jeffreyw
I think the rescue plan has passed, 50-49. I hadn’t been listening but there was a round of applause.
Could have been for Ron Johnson falling from the balcony.
re: #184 Teukka
News from this neck of the woods.
Six police officers injured in anti-Corona demonstration [Swedish]. And as usual, right-wingers are involved [Swedish]…
I’m just waiting for the big cluster caused by 600-1,000 people without masks etc…
Video:
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
I just saw that on my WaPo app. I agree, let’s hope it passes.
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Could have been for Ron Johnson falling from the balcony.
Or getting yeeted over the balcony.
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Could have been for Ron Johnson falling from the balcony.
On Ted Cruz! a two-fer
re: #191 PhillyPretzel
I just saw that on my WaPo app. I agree, let’s hope it passes.
Saw messages from WSJ and WaPo — to be followed shortly by CNN. That’s how I get my news these days — from IPhone alerts.
re: #175 Belafon
I would power cuddle that dog of yours.
re: #194 Hecuba’s daughter
Same here. I started when DT was president and I still continue to do it that way.
re: #196 plansbandc
I would power cuddle that dog of yours.
When one of our kitties misbehaves, he gets ‘corporal cuddling’.
Hello, William and Thelma Cagle of Pickens County, Georgia, need to be made famous for trying to harass a grocery store clerk for criticizing them on Facebook. https://t.co/z2FpIA88Ci
— Dee *There are “Little Cults Everywhere”* Holmes (@mmmirele) March 6, 2021
The grocery store clerk has legal representation, but these people need to be made famous in the worst possible way.
There has been frustration expressed about Manchin, but if he wasn’t who he is, his seat would probably be held by a Republican, and no Covid relief would’ve passed the Senate today, or ever again.
He’s Democrats’ most valuable senator. Almost no way another Democrat holds that seat. He defects from the party fairly often but rarely when his vote would be decisive on major issues. https://t.co/W1sw9H53TC
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 6, 2021
re: #136 Belafon
Here’s why you can truly hate Manchin:
I’m favoriting this based on the pushback I got yesterday for criticizing Manchin for the piece of shit he is.
re: #202 Mattand
I’m favoriting this based on the pushback I got yesterday for criticizing Manchin for the piece of shit he is.
That amendment was terrible, and it failed. There would be no Covid relief without Manchin.
I’m taking some of my $1400 and sending it right back to Uncle Sam to finally get my citizenship done. 👍🏼
My CPA emailed me and I was afk. I really hate COVID-19 for taking away my actual meeting with my CPA.
I would still take Manchin over a fucking Republican any day of the week.
OT How does one electronically sign a form? My CPA’s firm is offering this.
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
I would still take Manchin over a fucking Republican any day of the week.
This.
What we need to do is stop worrying about Manchin as such and work on Murkowski to, not actually become a Democrat but perhaps call herself independent and give her enough to get her vote regularly.
re: #208 PhillyPretzel
OT How does one electronically sign a form? My CPA’s firm is offering this.
Depends. Sometimes it’s just typing your name in and acknowledging that it represents your signature. Sometimes you physically sign on the screen (using a mouse or your finger on a touchpad) and it inserts your signature as an image.
re: #210 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Okay. I will see how it comes to me and proceed from there. Thanks.
re: #212 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’ve had to sign on a blank piece of paper, hold that up to the computer’s camera, take the image, then embed it in the e-document.
Seems easy enough to fake, but that is what was required.
I have never had that one before. Yikes.
re: #208 PhillyPretzel
OT How does one electronically sign a form? My CPA’s firm is offering this.
I had a similar question at my credit union. I have an IRA I need to start drawing down and they sent me to a third party that authenticates your signature, or offers you a selection of your name rendered in differing cursive styles.
re: #210 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Depends. Sometimes it’s just typing your name in and acknowledging that it represents your signature. Sometimes you physically sign on the screen (using a mouse or your finger on a touchpad) and it inserts your signature as an image.
I HATE using the mouse or finger on a touchpad — it’s not as though the result bears any resemblance to your actual signature. Almost anyone could forge a signature that way since it would appear just as similar as your real signature.
re: #208 PhillyPretzel
OT How does one electronically sign a form? My CPA’s firm is offering this.
If you have adobe acrobat, you should be able to either type or use your mouse to write your name in a signature block for that purpose.
re: #215 Hecuba’s daughter
I HATE using the mouse or finger on a touchpad — it’s not as though the result bears any resemblance to your actual signature. Almost anyone could forge a signature that way since it would appear just as similar as your real signature.
Finger on my iPhone I can do pretty well at. Using a mouse on the PC, though… Not even a resemblance.
re: #218 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Finger on my iPhone I can do pretty well at. Using a mouse on the PC, though… Not even a resemblance.
I have all sorts of high end tricks, but the one I think is easiest is to manually write it out and then take a photograph of it with your phone, and just paste that into documents.
(I can get fancy and use Photoshop to gussy it up, but the pasted photo generally works).
Thank you everyone for your comments. My CPA said he will walk me through it when it comes. I think he said docusign or something like that.
re: #220 PhillyPretzel
I had to do one last night. The hardest part is filling in all the security questions.
re: #221 jaunte
Okay. My CPA just emailed me again and said it was very easy. We shall see what happens. :)
I use docusign every day. Very easy. Set up your signature & click.
re: #223 HRH Stanley Sea
Thanks. That is what my CPA said too.
re: #217 jaunte
Let them fight. Can everyone lose, please?
Manchin’s $150,000 cap on income to use the tax deduction for the unemployment benefits is not a criminal offense. And the value of the package remains at about 1.9 trillion. So unless some House Bernie fanatics kill this legislation, Biden will have at least one significant accomplishment to help real people. I just wish there were some way to get HR 1 through the Senate or we may never seen another Democratic president in our lifetime — even when they win 10 million more votes than the opposition.
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
Trumpster comments on HR 1 voting rights legislation reveal that the modern GOP would have fully supported Bull Connor in the 1960’s.
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It is clear that the more restrictions on voting, the more that it pleases them. They do want to see this as a white Eurocentric nation, with any others living here being quiet and submissive.
Guess they’ve never read Art 1, Sec 4.
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