Arizona still hasn’t come to terms with the fact that Donald Trump lost the state election, so they’re recounting the votes for a third time. Jordan Klepper investigates. #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #ArizonaRecount
These guys never seem to realize that they’re saying that they’re fascists when they’re afraid that anti-fascists will come to stop their attack on our democracy.
Correction: because they *claim* it’s unsafe. 😉
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) May 12, 2021
re: #3 Dangerman
If that goes as expected, they won’t need a vaccine, having gone the TFG disinfectant route instead.
One wonders how many unreported fuel spills there are in Florida and Georgia today.
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 13, 2021
The next Trump will be even worse.
The root cause of all of this is Fox News, Hate Radio & letting deranged billionaires hijack our democracy https://t.co/RzCv2Azxrp— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) May 13, 2021
I really REALLY want Liz Cheney and the rest of the Lincoln Project/Never Trumpers to address the root cause of America’s descent into fantasyland delusion: FOX
If they’d just start consistently identifying Fox and the lies it peddles as the real enemies of America, we might actually start bringing at least some of our relatives back to reality.
Cyber Ninjas aren’t looking for traces of Baltic Birch, because that would be perfectly alwhite.
re: #1 Dave In Austin
Twitter looks……… Hosed. ??
How so? Not seeing anything more than the usual firehose of right-wing ranting about insignificant bullshit while the planet burns …
!! ALERT - US Marine Corps commissioned officer arrested & charged in US Capitol Insurrection.
Feds say 40 y/o Chris Warnagiris of Woodbridge, Va pushed through police & forced open door pic.twitter.com/wVQ9SDUAeU— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON — An active duty U.S. Marine Corps commissioned officer stationed at the Marine Corps Base Quantico was arrested today in Virginia and charged with crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Major Christopher Warnagiris, 40, of Woodbridge, is charged with federal offenses that include assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; and obstruction of justice, among other charges. Warnagiris will make his initial court appearance today at 2:00 p.m. in the Eastern District of Virginia.
re: #9 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
How so? Not seeing anything more than the usual firehose of right-wing ranting about insignificant bullshit while the planet burns …
I had log in problems from the laptop
re: #10 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He better damn get booted out of the fucking service for this.
I really hope Matt Gaetz get his comeuppance in re: his endless Florida Man shadiness and douchebaggery. Saying he needed to get his balls removed to him on Twitter appears to have permanently put the kibbosh on teleskiguy at Twitter. Almost 11 years I had that account, tweeted almost 50,000 times. Poof.
Matt Gaetz and I were born on the exact same day. Our connection is almost cosmic. One thing’s for sure, he was instrumental in the demise of teleskiguy on Twitter.
re: #10 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He’s not showing up at 474 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all. so looks like we’re up to at least 475 charged.
re: #14 teleskiguy
Saying he needed to get his balls removed to him on Twitter appears to have permanently put the kibbosh on teleskiguy at Twitter.
Womder if saying that Gaetz needed an orchiectormy would have slid through…
re: #15 aatharuv
He’s not showing up at 474 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all. so looks like we’re up to 475 charged.
Looks like the warrant was signed ~5PM last night and arrested some time today
Christopher Warnagiris, aka #YellowZipSkulker, was arrested in Quantico, per his arrest warrant. pic.twitter.com/qdhUkkHaDz
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 13, 2021
re: #17 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Looks like the warrant was signed ~5PM last night and arrested some time today
What do we do with active-duty servicemen when they betray the country for Donald Trump? I’d think it would involve lethal-injection or at least being thrown down a deep dark hole before the Republicans made betrayal one of their values.
So that house GOPer that said the 6th attack was just like a tourist visit is not going to like my visit to the repub HQ in DC.
Tell me the this is just liberal panic when the former #3 in House GOP says this about Trump:
“He’s going to unravel the democracy to come back into power,” @RepLizCheney on NBC.— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 13, 2021
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
So that house GOPer that said the 6th attack was just like a tourist visit is not going to like my visit to the repub HQ in DC.
It wasn’t that different than some tourists.
Italy: 2 US tourists jailed for life over policeman killing (DW)
re: #18 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What do we do with active-duty servicemen when they betray the country for Donald Trump? I’d think it would involve lethal-injection or at least being thrown down a deep dark hole before the Republicans made betrayal one of their values.
Naaah, not an appropriate response for that sort of betrayal: he’s an active-duty US serviceman!
A simple firing squad would suffice.
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Florida, man
(Person fills up car + four 5gal jugs with gas, then apparently lit a cigarette?)
Story: https://t.co/tkGIUt4ZNt
Pics: pic.twitter.com/SmN2Teh3Xv— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 13, 2021
re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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HA, as I predicted yesterday about that couple filling those 5 gallon cans in their SUV. This wasn’t them but I could see it happening. Just like there is instructions on Preparation H to “not be taken orally”.
The Underground Railroad is an astonishing miniseries, based on an astonishing novel.
This is my first straightforward TV review in over a year, and I cannot say enough good things about this series. https://t.co/jZPEWs8gLX— Emily VanDerWerff 🙋♀️ (@emilyvdw) May 13, 2021
re: #24 Eventual Carrion
HA, as I predicted yesterday about that couple filling those 5 gallon cans in their SUV. This wasn’t them but I could see it happening. Just like there is instructions on Preparation H to “not be taken orally”.
I really don’t want to know, do I?
re: #24 Eventual Carrion
HA, as I predicted yesterday about that couple filling those 5 gallon cans in their SUV. This wasn’t them but I could see it happening. Just like there is instructions on Preparation H to “not be taken orally”.
It just takes a little longer to get where it needs to be if used orally.
re: #19 Eventual Carrion
So that house GOPer that said the 6th attack was just like a tourist visit is not going to like my visit to the repub HQ in DC.
Famous acts of tourism, as told by GOP @Rep_Clyde: pic.twitter.com/dJxvnwFrxA
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) May 13, 2021
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
I really don’t want to know, do I?
From an appearance of Korean stand-up comic of the seventies Johnny Yune:
I love buying your American products, but I misuse them. I once brushed my teeth with Preparation H. You know, my gums shrunk.
Last night, the Colonial Pipeline resumed full operations. Hear from Energy Secretary Granholm on the steps we’re taking in response to this incident: pic.twitter.com/rvFlTa18ao
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 13, 2021
CDC will ease indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places
https://t.co/RRvirNyjVs— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday will ease indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places, according to a person briefed on the announcement.
The new guidance will still call for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters, but could ease restrictions for reopening workplaces and schools.
It will also no longer recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks outdoors in crowds. The announcement comes as the CDC and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people — people who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose — in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot.
The new guidance comes as the aggressive U.S. vaccination campaign begins to pay off. U.S. virus cases are at their lowest rate since September, deaths are at their lowest point since last April and the test positivity rate is at the lowest point since the pandemic began.
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #34 Eventual Carrion
Damn, now what am I going to do with all these packages of toilet paper I bought.
Use them to mop up the spilled gasoline??
re: #20 Dangerman
Liz Cheney, noted liberal.
McDonald’s is raising pay at 650 company-owned stores in the U.S. as part of its push to hire thousands of new workers in a tight labor market. The fast-food giant is also encouraging its franchisees, which make up 95% of its restaurant base, to boost pay. https://t.co/oHYUHntK5c
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 13, 2021
McDonald’s, based in Chicago, said Thursday that its hourly wages will increase an average of 10% over the next few months to $13 per hour, rising to $15 per hour by 2024. Entry-level workers will make at least $11 per hour; shift managers will make at least $15 per hour.
re: #21 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It wasn’t that different than some tourists.
Italy: 2 US tourists jailed for life over policeman killing (DW)
More details, including photos and full names:
Italian court hands U.S. tourists life sentences for murdering policeman
Two American tourists were sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court on Wednesday for the 2019 murder of a policeman near their Rome hotel in a case that shook the nation.
Finnegan Lee Elder, who was 19 at the time, had admitted to stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega in the early hours of July 26, 2019, while his friend Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, then 18, was tussling with another police officer.
However, the pair say they had acted in self defence because they thought the two policemen, who were not in uniform at the time, were thugs out to get them after a botched attempt to buy drugs.
Hmmm. Didn’t know the victim was a cop? Do they not know that it’s also against the law to kill drug dealers in Italy?
re: #18 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What do we do with active-duty servicemen when they betray the country for Donald Trump? I’d think it would involve lethal-injection or at least being thrown down a deep dark hole before the Republicans made betrayal one of their values.
I see a general court-martial for insurrection and violation of oath in his future at the VERY least followed by stripping of rank and an extended stay at Leavenworth.
re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This gorilla doing an “about face” when he hits the freezing cold water is the video I needed today… pic.twitter.com/4qcd7jfUQM
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 13, 2021
re: #40 Orange Impostor
I see a general court-martial for insurrection and violation of oath in his future at the VERY least followed by stripping of rank and an extended stay at Leavenworth.
That would be nice. I’d like betraying the country to be seen as wrong and punishable.
‘Lying As If We Are Morons’: Russian Demographer Calls Official COVID-19 Statistics ‘Disinformation’ (Radio Free Europe)
President Vladimir Putin was hopeful in remarks on May 10 about the coronavirus pandemic in Russia.
“The situation with the virus in the country, according to specialists, is stable,” he said in Sochi, urging Russians to get vaccinated.
According to official statistics as of May 12, there have been 4,905,059 coronavirus infections in the country and 114,331 fatalities. Those numbers, however, are widely regarded as severely understated.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova acknowledged in December that the country’s data was questionable. She estimated that 81 percent of the 229,700 “excess deaths” that Russia, according to official numbers, experienced in the first 11 months of 2020 could be attributed to COVID-19. That means the death toll would have been more than 186,000, while the Rosstat statistics agency was reporting a pandemic death total of just 57,000 at the time.
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re: #24 Eventual Carrion
Concerning that pair, as I tweeted to someone yesterday
Shared by a friend in Tallahassee: selfish idiots gas hoarding and turning the SUV into a Molotov cocktail pic.twitter.com/QABR42dFz9
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 11, 2021
I have never in my life considered storing a gas can on it’s side, let alone stacked them on their sides.
Likely it’s because history has taught us that no gas can cap ever properly seals
Never, Ever— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 12, 2021
Breaking WSJ: New York prosecutors have subpoenaed a Manhattan private school as they seek the cooperation of Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg in their investigation of Trump and his company.
Weisselberg’s grandchildren are students at the school.https://t.co/wITqNsxtMs— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 13, 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz kept saying that Democrats’ proposed automatic voter registration system is “intended” and “designed” to register millions of undocumented immigrants to vote. That’s just plain false. A look at what the bill actually says: https://t.co/vdGNGOBEjx
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 13, 2021
re: #132 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Britain is also a European country with a national ID. It isn’t a problem to get an ID to vote in Britain, like it is here in America.
No it isn’t. The UK has no national ID card.
re: #45 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Concerning that pair, as I tweeted to someone yesterday
Stupid ass hording aside , gonna reserve judgement on the sideways storage. Not knowing where in the process the picture was taken, the sideways ones could very well be empty.
re: #49 danarchy
Stupid ass hording aside , gonna reserve judgement on the sideways storage. Not knowing where in the process the picture was taken, the sideways ones could very well be empty.
I had actually considered that, and was highly hoping it was so
re: #40 Orange Impostor
I see a general court-martial for insurrection and violation of oath in his future at the VERY least followed by stripping of rank and an extended stay at Leavenworth.
It would be some time though. He would first have to be convicted in the civilian court of one or more of the charges laid against him.
Just total fucking idiots to the bitter end. https://t.co/gfJaa6lDSM
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2021
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone should say in the Senate “Senator Cruz, you are perfectly allowed to state to the country that you don’t think anyone but white male landowners should vote, but you don’t get to stand here and make up stuff about the bill.”
re: #67 darthstar
MTG is the Tanya Harding of Congress.
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re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would be some time though. He would first have to be convicted in the civilian court of one or more of the charges laid against him.
The fact that there are pictures showing him at the insurrection is enough for him to be convicted under the UCMJ. It’s entirely separate from non-military courts.
Many major retailers and other places around here (Academy Sports, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, most gas stations) have taken down the “Mask required” signs from their front doors.
Other stores that do still have them up (Dollar Tree, Dollar General) aren’t bothering to enforce them, apparently not even with their own staff.
I was at Academy yesterday picking something up and I was the ONLY white person in there (aside from some employees) wearing a mask.
Only some of the upper scale places (Target, some supermarkets) are still requiring and enforcing mask usage.
re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg
Many major retailers and other places around here (Academy Sports, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, most gas stations) have taken down the “Mask required” signs from their front doors.
Other stores that do still have them up (Dollar Tree, Dollar General) aren’t bothering to enforce them, apparently not even with their own staff.
I was at Academy yesterday picking something up and I was the ONLY white person in there (aside from some employees) wearing a mask.
Only some of the upper scale places (Target, some supermarkets) are still requiring and enforcing mask usage.
Target is upscale?
re: #18 Punish Domestic Terrorists
What do we do with active-duty servicemen when they betray the country for Donald Trump?
re: #55 Belafon
The fact that there are pictures showing him at the insurrection is enough for him to be convicted under the UCMJ. It’s entirely separate from non-military courts.
No, the Corps will wait for the federal case to conclude. And then likely charge and UCMJ specific transgressions and anything the federal prosecutors have chosen not to charge.
As it appears the Feds are not seeding jurisdiction to the military courts, the Corps will not wish to preempt the Fed’s case and raise the prospect of double jeopardy
I approve this message https://t.co/Eo12RUCOTj
— General William T. Sherman (@secularagnostic) May 13, 2021
LINCOLN — A legal opinion, as well as political reality, forced the dropping of a proposal Wednesday night to allow most Nebraska counties to authorize concealed carry of handguns without a state-required permit and safety course.…
The so-called “constitutional carry” proposal was deemed constitutionally suspect by the Nebraska Attorney General’s office on Monday. That forced the sponsor of the bill, State Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, to drop the idea this year and amend the bill to include three less controversial gun rights measures.
“Be careful what you ask for,” said Brewer, in lamenting the last-minute legal dart that deflated chances for Legislative Bill 236.
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Nebraska lawmakers pare back bill that would allow concealed carry without permit (Omaha World-Herald)
A window into the GOP mind: Having to behave with consideration for other people is a form of slavery https://t.co/I5Sujok7Tj
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 13, 2021
re: #59 John Hughes
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re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Target is upscale?
Compared to Walmart and Dollar General, sure. But you, it’s no Nordstrom.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Target is upscale?
Only if you pronounce it Targét
Which Target has actually trademarked by the way.
I just saw on Kevin Kruse’s twitter feed that it’s Stevie Wonder’s birthday. He posted this amazing performance from Sesame Street of “Superstition.” Damn, it’s hot.
I’ve posted this before, but if you’ve never seen Stevie Wonder melting faces on Sesame Street, here you go:https://t.co/CqwP5VPX0b
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 13, 2021
So many defendants with links to military https://t.co/XsokdY3Ajv
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) May 13, 2021
re: #60 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
No, the Corps will wait for the federal case to conclude. And then likely charge and UCMJ specific transgressions and anything the federal prosecutors have chosen not to charge.
As it appears the Feds are not seeding jurisdiction to the military courts, the Corps will not wish to preempt the Fed’s case and raise the prospect of double jeopardy
I was more responding to the “have” part. They don’t have to, but I can see them choosing to in this case.
Watching the covid response press conference. So I guess the only strong recommendations are for travel/public transportation, healthcare facilities and businesses who want to continue with masks.
I don’t know. My little family unit is fully vaccinated as of tomorrow, but GA is nowhere near even half of us being fully vaccinated. I know we can’t get covid and die from it now, but I don’t fucking trust my fellow humans anymore. How do I know anyone is telling the truth about their vaccines?
And now we’re also going to hear from the Stupid Brigade about how the CDC keeps changing the guidelines because they’re lying to keep us afraid. Because no one fucking understands science. Or they’re being willfully dense.
I’d forgotten that Matt Gaetz thought a “kangaroo court” was where Captain Kangaroo presided.https://t.co/mBPSnY2mOw
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 13, 2021
“Is this the room for the orgy?” https://t.co/h3hJXW6b7j
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2021
re: #69 Patricia Kayden
Right-wingers are attracted to the military, and they’re the people who decided to betray the country for a braindead NYC malignant narcissist who conned them.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2021
The filibuster has to go. History will remember every Democrat who refused to end the filibuster, from the Majority Leader downwards, if S1 doesn’t pass and the GOP-led assault on black and brown voting rights and brazen gerrymandering and dark money explosion continues unabated. https://t.co/GQv6qzJRfD
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 13, 2021
re: #73 Charles Johnson
That made me throw up 🤮 a little. That photo sets off all my creeped out lady radar signals. Shudder, ack.
Good grief!
University Of South Carolina President Resigns After Plagiarizing Part Of Speech
Seniors at the University of South Carolina had already dealt with one disaster — the pandemic — when they took their socially distanced seats at the school’s commencement ceremony last weekend.
Then came another train wreck.
The university’s president, Robert Caslen, delivered a speech so bungled — with the wrong school name and closing remarks lifted nearly word-for-word from another famous commencement address — that it prompted widespread criticism from social media users to state legislators in South Carolina.
Now, less than a week later, Caslen has resigned.
re: #66 danarchy
Only if you pronounce it Targét
Which Target has actually trademarked by the way.
I once bought a Huffét bicycle from Targét
re: #76 A Mom Anon
That made me throw up 🤮 a little. That photo sets off all my creeped out lady radar signals. Shudder, ack.
That’s a “You gonna get raped” meme photo.
It’s about time I got to the bottom of this…..
“We heard you’re willing to go viral!” https://t.co/17rZ1gzxNt
— Robert Arthur (@jaunte) May 13, 2021
re: #78 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I once bought a Huffét bicycle from Targét
My brother managed a bike store in Bethesda, MD for a few years. Customers were high-priced lawyers, politicians, and even the American wife of the King of Jordan. Anyway, one time some asked him to show him one of the Gee-awnt road bikes (Giant).
re: #73 Charles Johnson
Jeffrey Epstein is here!
Nixon ‘n #Bobbysox
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 13, 2021
Elvis Presley was hero to most, but he never meant much to Marshal Kim Jong-Un.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 13, 2021
CAPTION THIS PHOTO (horrible answers only, please) pic.twitter.com/jrBUkKaTva
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 13, 2021
And, at that moment, everyone around them knew exactly who had let the dogs out.
Enemy sighted, enemy met
I’m addressing the realpolitik
You’ve seen start and you’ve seen quit
(I’m addressing the table of content)
I always thought of you as quick
Exhuming McCarthy
(Meet me at the book burning)
Exhuming McCarthyhttps://t.co/XEbCw9LXbS— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 13, 2021
This is a quote that Orwell edited out of 1984 because he thought it was too silly and over the top. https://t.co/JS1nE0pa4b
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 13, 2021
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
And, at that moment, everyone around them knew exactly who had let the dogs out.
Not a caption, but I swear it looks like the head of a young woman behind Gaetz.
re: #88 gocart mozart
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re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
“Does this smell like chloroform?”
— El Elegante (@ElElegante101) May 13, 2021
Asshole got stupid…and now he’s suspended!
Newsmax host off air after online outrage over antisemitic remarks
Mars may gain another robot on its surface tomorrow! https://t.co/jD1EX7VAzZ
— Haygen Warren (@haygenwarren) May 13, 2021
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I’m so glad Sinema and Manchin like being used by Republicans. //
CNN says a federal judge should not allow Steven Biss - the lawyer who came to some notoriety for helping Rep. Devin Nunes sue Twitter because an imaginary cow was mean to him online — to represent relatives of Mike Flynn. He has “a history of making bad faith allegations.” pic.twitter.com/jqw41hFgFV
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) May 13, 2021
Note, this is one of many awful lawyers out there repping GOPers like Nunes. One court slapped him silly with sanctions/fees/costs: $21k+ in fact.
More like this. Sanction and disbar these fuckers. That’s what it’s going to take.
Thread, eleven tweets. This argument goes back to the Second Klan in the Twenties.
One of the organisations pushing this in the Fifties still exists today, and includes Michael Flynn as one of its leaders.
Today’s conservatives lament the supposed left-leaning indoctrination that happens in today’s schools and nostalgically long for the good Patriotic education of the simpler times, like the 1950s.
Conservatives in 1958: OMG, our high schools are factories of Marxist brainwashing! pic.twitter.com/FSfgikjGGk— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 13, 2021
Just wondering how businesses are supposed to verify that people without masks really are vaccinated?
The honor system? In a country where about half of the people have brains badly broken by Fox News? Seems problematic.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2021
re: #89 Barefoot Grin
Not a caption, but I swear it looks like the head of a young woman behind Gaetz.
Youngish person and a the head of a dog.
re: #92 🌹UOJB!
Asshole got stupid…and now he’s suspended!
Newsmax host off air after online outrage over antisemitic remarks
I did not know that that line existed to cross at Newsmax. He may not have known either.
When an E5 at one of my former units got a DUI they recalled every enlisted person on a Saturday to lecture them about drinking and driving so I think every officer at Quantico should have a mandatory safety brief where the GO tells them to not attempt to overthrow Congress.
— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) May 13, 2021
re: #97 Charles Johnson
Same question here.
My only answer is results oriented.
Those who are vaccinated will not end up hospitalized or dead from covid19. It’s results oriented. If you’re vaccinated, you’re not passing covid19 to others, and they can’t get you sick enough to kill you.
But if they get it, then they can and do end up dead. States with high vaccination rates are proving that out as the overwhelming majority of cases in ICU and deaths are those who aren’t vaccinated.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
You find out when the non-vaccinated clowns get hospitalized. They’re the people that masks are protecting when sane people are vaccinated. They’re the people who will suffer when they fail to vaccinate and go out to maskless events.
re: #99 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I did not know that that line existed to cross at Newsmax. He may not have known either.
Knowing what a fucking scumbag Christopher Ruddy is I’m shocked that racist got suspended!
Come on.
You can’t change a fascist government mid-stream, apparently.
Bennett rules out ‘change gov’t’ due to Gaza unrest, renews talks with Likud
Wait, so… Karma actually IS a bitch? https://t.co/TSrchIIE8l
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 13, 2021
Here’s what I don’t understand:
If you have to have proof of vaccination to enroll kids in school, why is it such a big damned deal to require it for work, air travel or public transportation, or to enter into any large scale facility with a crowd? Isn’t that why the CDC came up with the card in the first place? I even have a QR code on my phone I was given when I signed up to get shots from the National Guard unit at a mass vaccination location.
All these people freaking out over vaccines had to have them in childhood to go to school and if they ever had to travel outside the US to many countries,especially members of the military. I am all out of patience with fools.
re: #107 A Mom Anon
Here’s what I don’t understand:
If you have to have proof of vaccination to enroll kids in school, why is it such a big damned deal to require it for work, air travel or public transportation, or to enter into any large scale facility with a crowd? Isn’t that why the CDC came up with the card in the first place? I even have a QR code on my phone I was given when I signed up to get shots from the National Guard unit at a mass vaccination location.
All these people freaking out over vaccines had to have them in childhood to go to school and if they ever had to travel outside the US to many countries,especially members of the military. I am all out of patience with fools.
Actually, they freak the fuck out about vaccines for their kids, too. They claim a “religious exemption”, which I feel is a patently ridiculous reason to allow children to skip their vaccinations (and I say this as a religious person with extended relatives who use this excuse), but that allows their kids to go to public school without being vaccinated.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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The dogs read their handlers’ body language, and hit when the handler wants a hit. Karma’s handler must be very “enthusiastic”.
Flexing my vaccine this weekend, going to SLC, Utah for a friend’s wedding.
re: #49 danarchy
Stupid ass hording aside , gonna reserve judgement on the sideways storage. Not knowing where in the process the picture was taken, the sideways ones could very well be empty.
Just look at them. The nozzles aren’t even on. Those are new ones that have never been used, waiting to be filled.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
It’s a male dog, but I’ll allow it.
re: #109 DesertDenizen
The dogs read their handlers’ body language, and hit when the handler wants a hit. Karma’s handler must be very “enthusiastic”.
Just like horses “doing math.” Animals are under the control of their trainers to a significant degree.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
That’s my major concern with the new guidance.
re: #113 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Just like horses “doing math.” Animals are under the control of their trainers to a significant degree.
You could say it’s clever use of hands.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s my major concern with the new guidance.
We’ve almost reached the stage of the unvaccinated being the only ones getting sick.
re: #99 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I did not know that that line existed to cross at Newsmax. He may not have known either.
A whole “the remainder of the week.”
Newsmax TV host Grant Stinchfield will be off the air for the remainder of the week after massive outrage over his antisemitic remarks Wednesday night. Stinchfield claimed that American Jews’ “home country” is actually Israel, not the U.S., in a rant attacking President Joe Biden.
re: #116 Belafon
We’ve almost reached the stage of the unvaccinated being the only ones getting sick.
The only ones getting severely ill anyway. It really will just be like the flu, at worst, for the vaccinated. People who just can’t do the right thing will be dying.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m still wearing a mask at the grocery store and out in public. Especially during cold and flu season. I don’t care what anyone else thinks. I’ll continue with that til we hit herd immunity numbers. And even beyond when it’s not just cold and flu season, but during the two months or so where we have pollen so heavy you can literally shovel it up.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is the problem. If Fox were to go down, Newsmax or OAN would just pick up the ball and keep running with it. The RW propaganda factories are NOT going away.
re: #99 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I did not know that that line existed to cross at Newsmax. He may not have known either.
Stinchfield suspended for two whole days for the same thing Donald Trump said.
As Trump questions loyalty of US Jews, Israeli PM is quiet (Associated Press, August 21, 2019)
I learned today that when a blowhard Senator with a poodle on his head pretends to know more than scientists, it’s called “Randstanding.”
re: #113 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Just like horses “doing math.” Animals are under the control of their trainers to a significant degree.
Ah yes, Clever Hans.
The Marine who’s going to be an ex-Marine for participating in a failed coup is an officer.
That’s not good.
re: #108 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Actually, they freak the fuck out about vaccines for their kids, too. They claim a “religious exemption”, which I feel is a patently ridiculous reason to allow children to skip their vaccinations (and I say this as a religious person with extended relatives who use this excuse), but that allows their kids to go to public school without being vaccinated.
Why the Children of Anti-Vaxxers Are Taking to Reddit for Advice (Pacific Standard, February 13, 2019)
“After spending a good amount of time researching and reading, I came to the conclusion that there was something strange going on,” Danny, now 16, told me over Reddit. (Danny, like the names of all the teens in this story, is a pseudonym.) Still, he wasn’t making much progress with his mother—so he turned to strangers instead: On the discussion website Reddit, he asked for advice on how to get vaccinated without her.
Like Danny’s mom, an estimated one in 10 parents in the United States are not following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommended vaccination schedule, forgoing or delaying their children’s protection from up to 16 diseases. This small but vocal anti-vaxxer movement has contributed to a 30 percent increase in measles cases worldwide, leading the World Health Organization to name “vaccine hesitancy” one of the top 10 health threats of 2019.
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Children seek advice at r/LegalAdvice.
VERIFY: Law giving children consent over parents in vaccinations was in DC, not national (fact check by WUSA, CBS, Washington)
DC just passed a law allowing children to obtain vaccines without parental consent. This was falsely stated on anti-social media as the federal government passed such a law.
The DC law allows children aged eleven and up to seek vaccination without parental consent, provided they can provide informed consent.
This kind of law isn’t new at a local or even state level, either. A 2019 resolution to the American Medical Association notes 18 states that had laws allowing for “mature minors” as young as 12 years old to consent to vaccinations without parental approval. That resolution defined a “mature minor” similarly to D.C.’s requirement that the minor is able to comprehend the need for and risks of vaccines.
So let me get this straight. The Irrational Review, a Cult-Conservative rag does a hit piece on Rebekah Jones because she single-handedly dropped some butt-hurt on the Cult-Kool-Aide drinkers? Yeah, I’m gonna sit back and wait for the real evidence to come out. pic.twitter.com/cXzzvsOBDE
— Not Ian Rapoport (@notianrapoport) May 13, 2021
The same National Review in 1963 that blamed the Birmingham Church Bombing on Black Civil Rights Activists trying to frame the Klu Klux Klan.
Religion and vaccine refusal are linked. We have to talk about it. (Vox, June 19, 2019)
Atheists are the least likely group to refuse vaccines.
More recently, that was confirmed in Pew Research’s recently-released Religious Landscape Survey.
There is a strong correlation in every nation surveyed between religion (regardless of faith or sect) and vaccine refusal.
re: #48 John Hughes
No it isn’t. The UK has no national ID card.
Yep. You might want to expound on this, but the current UK news is that the Tories want to require voter ID, even though of course there is no problem to solve, for exactly the same reason that the GOP wants to do it.
We here on the Continent have mandatory national IDs, whether citizen or resident. It doesn’t cost you anything, and is required for exit/entry, employment, government services, and other things. When you move, you often will get a visit from the cops at your declared residence to make sure you actually live there. I’m sure the Economically Anxious would love that.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
Don’t care what the CDC says about masking. This girl is going to be wearing hers for a long time to come. And it not just because at least half the idiots in this town probably haven’t been or will not get, vaccinated. I kinda liked going through the last cold/flu season WITHOUT getting it at least once, even though I get vaccinated. It has also helped my hay fever this spring as well. Only had to use my Claritin once so far.
Go home, 2021, you’re drunk. pic.twitter.com/53OVyhU8Y6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 13, 2021
re: #81 jaunte
Have you got a fake I.D.? Do you want one? https://t.co/pfNL3sbsbA
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 13, 2021
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There are some religions that do prohibit vaccines. Christian Science is one. James Hetfield of Metallica just came out and said the only vaccines he ever had was when he went on a trip to Africa after he got rich and famous and would only get the covid vaccine if he had to to go on tour. Not helpful. Not sure if his kids and wife have been vaccinated. I just don’t think there are that many people who actually have a specific religious excuse. Most of it is bullshit. If that many kids had a religious exemption from getting vaccinated, we’d see serious outbreaks of various diseases, long before covid. I don’t think it’s religion as much as it is the political bullshit our media won’t stop featuring. YMMV.
Another bizarre Project Veritas story.
“Female undercover operatives arranged dates with the F.B.I. employees with the aim of secretly recording them making disparaging comments about Mr. Trump.” https://t.co/BaCEg7Fuhf
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) May 13, 2021
CDC says people who are vaccinated can stop wearing masks indoors. Little heads up: don’t be surprised if you find yourself getting sick in the near future as the masks you’ve been wearing the last year protected you from a shit ton of bugs besides Covid.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 13, 2021
I tuned into Fox to see if they were carrying Biden’s comments live - they were.
Biden’s long form birth certificate.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 13, 2021
re: #137 darthstar
Definitely curious how many are in the air since people haven’t been doing a great job of sharing them.
Oh well, if they get sick it’s on them.
That’s the problem. Most of the anti-vaccers are also anti-maskers, so they will just quit wearing a mask because no-one is going to be carding anyone.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 13, 2021
I’m waiting for the Karens and Fucker C’s to start wearing masks now just to show off what assholes they are!
re: #142 🌹UOJB!
There are anti vaccine dipshits wearing masks now because they’re scared of vaccinated people shedding all over them. Lol. Whatever works. Makes me want to mess with them. Just because.
re: #135 A Mom Anon
There are some religions that do prohibit vaccines. Christian Science is one. James Hetfield of Metallica just came out and said the only vaccines he ever had was when he went on a trip to Africa after he got rich and famous and would only get the covid vaccine if he had to to go on tour. Not helpful. Not sure if his kids and wife have been vaccinated. I just don’t think there are that many people who actually have a specific religious excuse. Most of it is bullshit. If that many kids had a religious exemption from getting vaccinated, we’d see serious outbreaks of various diseases, long before covid. I don’t think it’s religion as much as it is the political bullshit our media won’t stop featuring. YMMV.
Christian Scientists were the group which went around the country getting religious exemptions passed in statehouses in the first place, citing freedom of religion.
We have seen outbreaks of various diseases before Covid-19, particularly measles and whooping cough, almost entirely centred on religious communities in the USA.
My 2012 mumps case which nearly killed me was spread to me by local Christmas carollers from the Lutheran church across the street.
I no longer answer the door to Christmas carollers.
The I Amendment is not a societal suicide pact.
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EXCLUSIVE: @CNN has obtained bodycam video showing the attack on DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Fanone was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole. Watch: pic.twitter.com/TaItyUz9IX— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 13, 2021
But but Republican Andrew Clyde called January 6th a “normal tourist visit.”
re: #132 Charles Johnson
Moffat, CO. On the western edge of the northern Sangre De Cristo Mountains. Right at the foot of the mountains near Crestone there’s a number of known nudist colonies, hippy communes, and cults.
If we don’t out-vote the Republican Party in 2022, there will be two years of Chik-fil-a sauce hearings instead of expanding Medicare and access to college. Think about that. https://t.co/5xw72ZWvrr
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) May 13, 2021
Missouri Senate passes bill giving state some oversight of Christian reform schools (Kansas City Star)
Legislation that would for the first time give the state some oversight of Missouri’s unlicensed boarding schools is one step away from the governor’s desk.
In the final days of the legislative session, Missouri senators on Tuesday passed a measure aimed at stopping abuse at the state’s faith-based schools that for nearly four decades have been exempt from regulation. The final vote was 23-9 following a 90-minute debate.
“I’m excited that the legislature has taken a giant step forward in protecting the children of this state, regardless of where they’re located,” Rep. Keri Ingle, D-Lee’s Summit, who first pushed for legislative action, told The Star after the vote. “The survivors of abuse who have fought so hard to prevent other children from experiencing the same trauma they’ve endured deserve all the credit for their advocacy and work.
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The bill previously passed the state house unanimously. The state senate amended it, so it goes back to the house.
re: #141 No Malarkey!
Oh well, if they get sick it’s on them.
Maniacs will lie about being vaccinated, then they’ll become sick, and some will die of their own inability to behave like responsible adults. They’ll almost exclusively harm themselves and each other. They won’t stop killing themselves, but we can protect ourselves from them.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2021
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If I were in charge of such things there would be no religious exemptions period. Especially for school attendance. Public health should be the primary concern, not religion. Why this is even a thing is still outside of my ability to understand.
Rand Paul is a ghoul, and is a leader of ghoulish people.
Yes, Dr. Fauci’s NIH did fund the Wuhan Virology Lab. Here’s the verbatim admission from their chief scientist Dr. Shi Zhengli. pic.twitter.com/MzXBiRX0tx
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 13, 2021
The mainstream media is not asking Fauci the right questions about China lab, virus research… https://t.co/giix0YywRp #FoxNews
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 13, 2021
Well done @GovRonDeSantis - defender of facial freedom!
DeSantis to pardon anyone charged for defying COVID rules https://t.co/oK8J4vqvHy— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 13, 2021
re: #132 Charles Johnson
So that’s why my wife owns land in area. /s
re: #153 Secret ANTIFA Operative
Rand Paul is a ghoul, and is a leader of ghoulish people.
Your question and the statement made by the good doctor are totally at odds with each other, Senator Paul (R-eally needs his neighbor to kick his ass again). How about you set the damn goalposts down and try again.
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re: #152 A Mom Anon
If I were in charge of such things there would be no religious exemptions period. Especially for school attendance. Public health should be the primary concern, not religion. Why this is even a thing is still outside of my ability to understand.
Having a special exemption for beliefs that are not supported by evidence if we call them “religion” was never a good idea, but people are not rational.
Sovcits find a leader Lord above County Sheriff they can pledge fealty to.
This is coming up on RW social media a bit. pic.twitter.com/5lZ4IDF3TD
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 13, 2021
Autocorrect suggested “Soviets” for “sovcits” LOL
re: #159 The Pie Overlord!
Autocorrect suggested “Soviets” for “sovcits” LOL
Only a minor difference….
THAT HAPPENED TONIGHT IN JERUSALEM: hundreds of Jews and Arabs were STANDING TOGETHER against the violence and the occupation, and for an immediate ceasefire. Next to Jerusalem, @omdimbeyachad
Organised dosends of other rallies.
This is how hope looks like in such dark days. pic.twitter.com/Cx81M7V3mT— Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין (@AlonLeeGreen) May 13, 2021
re: #153 Secret ANTIFA Operative
The know-nothing movement is gathering steam.
re: #158 The Pie Overlord!
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Since leaving the employ of the County for my little City, I haven’t had to deal with any of those nutters. They were distressingly common in the County. I’ve since learned that some of their online groups suggest moving here based on a perceived friendliness to their absurd views.
re: #158 The Pie Overlord!
BTW, do they mention the “gold fringe on the flag”?
I mean, for proper sovereign-citizen conspiracy-theory woo-woo, you’re supposed to throw in a cite about the fringe, right?
Or does “fringe right” just explain it all…?
re: #164 Jay C
BTW, do they mention the “gold fringe on the flag”?
I mean, for proper sovereign-citizen conspiracy-theory woo-woo, you’re supposed to throw in a cite about the fringe, right?
Or does “fringe right” just explain it all…?
But the flag TFG hugged at CPAC had fringe! “GASP!” Super double secret message uncovered!
I know! I want to yell, “If you don’t cover your nose it doesn’t work!”
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 13, 2021
re: #166 No Malarkey!
When you come to the realization that many people around you are dimmer than a poorly lit theater, you’ll experience an epiphany of fear akin to rowing in a life-raft in the face of a hurricane.
And I’m not even suggesting malice here. The malicious ones are in their own category of what to fear.
You know how sometimes a word will pop into your head and not leave?
Happened to me early this morning.
“Defenestration”.
Yeah, ok, I know what it is supposed to mean, but why it’s stuck with me all day I do not know.
By order of likelihood:
1) Gaetz.
2) Ghouliani.
3) The former So-Called Ruler of the United States (SCROTUS).— Arch (@Arch_LGF) May 13, 2021
re: #167 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
When you come to the realization that many people around you are dimmer than a poorly lit theater, you’ll experience an epiphany of fear akin to rowing in a life-raft in the face of a hurricane.
And I’m not even suggesting malice here. The malicious ones are in their own category of what to fear.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Then realize half of them are dumber than that. - George Carlin (though I may be paraphrasing)
I’m willing to bet $20 she doesn’t have the core strength to hold 5 gallons of liquid in her arms and set it in the trunk of her car without sloshing.
Also, the lid probably got sloshed off on the little dip from the gas station onto the road. pic.twitter.com/ERKexfMGLA— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 13, 2021
re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
You know how sometimes a word will pop into your head and not leave?
Happened to me early this morning.
“Defenestration”.
Yeah, ok, I know what it is supposed to mean, but why it’s stuck with me all day I do not know.
You’re on your way to becoming a sesquipedalian.
re: #170 DesertDenizen
I don’t intend to be mean. Yet some of the most obvious things seem to escape people, and I don’t know why.
Also, I don’t believe “intelligence quota” is a meaningful idea. Life is full of aspects that just are not tested on the usual IQ tests.
Still, I think the underlying problem (putting aside our long-term shrinkage of brain sizes due to domestication) is that we humans are first emotional, and only secondarily rational.
Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell says she formed a tax-exempt social welfare organization to protect the integrity of U.S. elections. But a company suing Powell claims she has raided the nonprofit’s coffers to pay for her personal legal expenses. https://t.co/asMNVafNv8
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 13, 2021
re: #145 BlueSpotinAL
Good morning from the Gulf Coast.
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Is this Destin by chance?
re: #170 DesertDenizen
Think about how dumb the average person is. Then realize half of them are dumber than that. - George Carlin (though I may be paraphrasing)
People who talk about ideas, rather than mindless gossip generally have an IQ score of 115 or better. That’s not a large segment of the population.
re: #174 The Pie Overlord!
Well, nobody could have predicted that…
re: #176 Punish Domestic Terrorists
People who talk about ideas, rather than mindless gossip generally have an IQ score of 115 or better. That’s not a large segment of the population.
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I’m not a big believer in IQ meaning much, despite (or perhaps because) I test very far on the right side of the curve. There seem to be much better indicators for both “success” and happiness/satisfaction that this one particular test.
AOC says of MTG: “I used to work as a bartender. These are the kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 13, 2021
Florida, man
(Person fills up car + four 5gal jugs with gas, then apparently lit a cigarette?)
Story: https://t.co/tkGIUt4ZNt
Pics: pic.twitter.com/SmN2Teh3Xv— T. Greg “Still a Texas Lawyer” Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 13, 2021
A broken sea? It’s actually a crack in the ice of lake Baikal, captured by photographer Alexey Trofimov [source: https://t.co/TRfRlQFyJj] pic.twitter.com/MVB33JmYNs
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 13, 2021
re: #178 DesertDenizen
I’m not a big believer in IQ meaning much, despite (or perhaps because) I test very far on the right side of the curve. There seem to be much better indicators for both “success” and happiness/satisfaction that this one particular test.
So do I, and I know that motivation and positive attitude will lead to success and happiness better than being smart will. Understanding society and the world is a burden. It’s all about watching people do things that you know are stupid and destructive, having the majority go along with it, and then having the outcome occur exactly as expected.
re: #183 Punish Domestic Terrorists
So do I, and I know that motivation and positive attitude will lead to success and happiness better than being smart will. Understanding society and the world is a burden. It’s all about watching people do things that you know are stupid and destructive, having the majority go along with it, and then having the outcome occur exactly as expected.
Expert employee: “If you do A, B will happen.”
Boss: “A is cheaper, we’ll do it anyway.”
[THREE MONTHS LATER]
Boss: “OH MY GOD, B HAS HAPPENED.”
Expert employee: [headdesk]
JUNIOR BROUGHT THE COKE!!
CAPTION THIS PHOTO (horrible answers only, please) pic.twitter.com/jrBUkKaTva
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 13, 2021
re: #183 Punish Domestic Terrorists
So do I, and I know that motivation and positive attitude will lead to success and happiness better than being smart will. Understanding society and the world is a burden. It’s all about watching people do things that you know are stupid and destructive, having the majority go along with it, and then having the outcome occur exactly as expected.
Wow, I have never been able to put it so perfectly!
re: #180 darthstar
A temporary gas shortage in states with major educational shortcomings was always going to end in fire.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 13, 2021
re: #186 DesertDenizen
Wow, I have never been able to put it so perfectly!
Been living this life for almost 55 years now, watching people do their thing.
re: #56 Eclectic Cyborg
Many major retailers and other places around here (Academy Sports, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, most gas stations) have taken down the “Mask required” signs from their front doors.
Other stores that do still have them up (Dollar Tree, Dollar General) aren’t bothering to enforce them, apparently not even with their own staff.
I was at Academy yesterday picking something up and I was the ONLY white person in there (aside from some employees) wearing a mask.
Only some of the upper scale places (Target, some supermarkets) are still requiring and enforcing mask usage.
I was in an REI, Staples, and a Wegmans today in eastern PA. All still had their “mask required” signs up and had employees wearing masks. REI also had spacing marked out, especially in the shoes/boots area and sort of limited customers handling the merchandise there. Plus a requirement that you have and use your own socks for trying on boots. Customers were still masking as well without complaint.
re: #176 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Really, the only thing IQ measures is skill at taking certain kinds of tests. I know this because I was very very good at taking those kinds of tests.
re: #190 Deep State SuperElite Satinist
Really, the only thing IQ measures is skill at taking certain kinds of tests. I know this because I was very very good at taking those kinds of tests.
Without the ability to reason, no amount of skill at taking tests will help.
They are biased tests that are made for a white suburbanite like me, but you do need to be able to think logically and apply it to the test.
You can be a logical thinker that does well on the test, but has a motivation deficit, depression, or anxiety, and not go as far in life as the test would have led someone to expect.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A whole “the remainder of the week.”
Soon he’ll say that American Catholics real country is Italy (while meaning Vatican City).
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re: #191 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Without the ability to reason, no amount of skill at taking tests will help.
They are biased tests that are made for a white suburbanite like me, but you do need to be able to think logically and apply it to the test.You can be a logical thinker that does well on the test, but has a motivation deficit, depression, or anxiety, and not go as far in life as the test would have led someone to expect.
Hey now! I feel attacked! But seriously, that describes me to a tee. I’m a 43 year old while male who grew up middle class. Undiagnosed Type 2 Bipolar and lack of any real guidance in my youth have rendered me quite the underachiever. I’ve come to terms with it, but I do sometimes wonder what better attention in my youth might have done for me.
re: #152 A Mom Anon
If I were in charge of such things there would be no religious exemptions period. Especially for school attendance. Public health should be the primary concern, not religion. Why this is even a thing is still outside of my ability to understand.
Because religion still gets special treatment in this country.
re: #193 DesertDenizen
Hey now! I feel attacked! But seriously, that describes me to a tee. I’m a 43 year old while male who grew up middle class. Undiagnosed Type 2 Bipolar and lack of any real guidance in my youth have rendered me quite the underachiever. I’ve come to terms with it, but I do sometimes wonder what better attention in my youth might have done for me.
Heh, I was pretty much describing myself, but I have managed to make it to a nice salary, thanks to IT work paying well. I did not make it to college because of the depression and anxiety, and could have done a lot more in life.
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