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THIS wins Auntie’s tweet of the day! pic.twitter.com/oyMbl51pVI
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) June 19, 2021
JFC
A high school student walked at her graduation with a Mexican flag in her hand as a symbol of gratitude to her parents.
However, the principal can be seen trying to grab it before guiding the graduate off the stage, without a diploma: https://t.co/SGg4LtZzj7 pic.twitter.com/MSVK5bC4DT— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) June 19, 2021
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — When South Carolina high school student Flor Silva decided to walk across the stage at her graduation ceremony with a Mexican flag in hand, she said she still wasn’t sure if it was allowed or not.
For her, it was a message of gratitude to her parents, but it led to her being escorted out of the ceremony before graduates turned their tassels and a delay in getting her diploma.
A video of the moment that has since gone viral on Tik Tok, shows the announcer calls Silva’s name, and Silva walking up while unfolding the flag. The principal tries to grab it, Silva pulls away, and the principal guides her off stage.
video and more at the link
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
This reminds me of when I graduated LaSalle University. Since my dad was there I gave him what he and I knew as “V” (“V” for victory) because I graduated. Some other person who saw it was saying it was for peace. Fortunately my dad shut them up with the correct meaning of what I did.
Memories of how shitty high school graduation was when the asshole principal handed me my diploma and said “good riddance you failure”…I should have yelled FUCK YOU to his face…
On this day in 1964 The Civil Rights Act is approved after overcoming an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. Let us keep in mind because of this filibuster: justice had been denied for years & this law that passed was actually weakened in order to get the bill passed. pic.twitter.com/DrMjhTFRd9
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) June 19, 2021
‘Dawson’s Creek’ writer Heidi Ferrer dies after long COVID-19 battle https://t.co/vzkwJgXC6o #HeidiFerrer #DawsonsCreek #LongCOVID
— Canoe (@Canoe) June 19, 2021
A vein/artery figure and a skeleton, in a 15th/16th-century medical manuscript
Royal MS 18 A VIhttps://t.co/cJPjGw4EeY pic.twitter.com/dIIqNaKt8L— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) June 19, 2021
re: #8 Dread Pirate Ron
She committed suicide because of the pain Covid was causing her.
Damn it, people. GET VACCINATED!
Shut up, Traitor. https://t.co/GAxE2VwWC0
— Titus (@TitusNation) June 19, 2021
Can someone explain to my why it is important what Macy Gray thinks of the flag?
Also:
My mom had a glioblastoma removed from her brain on the first. As of this past Friday the MRI is still clear. The tumor carries a genetic marker associated with good response to chemotherapy, so this is positive news. She is feeling better with the sutures remove and has now gone out to dinner two nights in a row. Treatment begins week after next and I am going to fly back to drive her there for a few weeks. She is in slightly better overall health than the average 78 year old, but this is going to be rough. I am certainly convinced the risk/reward ratio of treatment is very much in her favor, as easy as that is for me to say of course.
crawdad ain’t taking no shit
😅😅#dogs #dogsofinstagram #dogsoftwitter pic.twitter.com/Vf5PL54sAB
— Dog fans (@funnydo25814387) June 19, 2021
re: #13 bratwurst
Can someone explain to my why it is important what Macy Gray thinks of the flag?
Also:
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All the best to your mom, and the rest of the family.
Rudy Giuliani endorses Eric Adams for Mayor. “There’s no question that Adams gives us some hope.”
Should tell you everything you need to know about Adams. pic.twitter.com/3KVPoM1fcu— Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) June 19, 2021
Hey now, a lot of the old engagement goin’ on with this tweet. Must have struck a chord. https://t.co/X620ruIzhj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2021
🔴 Two people were run over by a truck at the Wilton Manors pride parade in Florida. pic.twitter.com/xdCnpYzrwm
— Johnattan F. Bilancieri (@BilancieriNews) June 19, 2021
re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth
DEVELOPING
Pickup truck driver in custody after hitting two people, narrowly missing the car with Congresswoman @DWStweets at the Wilton Manors #Pride2021 parade in the city just north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. https://t.co/4jfvBbnk0X— Grant Stern is fully vaccinated (@grantstern) June 19, 2021
The Tornado Watch for portions of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida has been extended until 7 AM Sunday. The risk of isolated tornadoes along with damaging winds from Claudette will continue into the overnight! pic.twitter.com/aFzRkW3GJE
— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) June 20, 2021
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought Giuliani had already endorsed Curtis Sliwa, like a week ago.
Did Sliwa already drop out?— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 20, 2021
I warned you not to use the guest towels
— Karen Carlson (@sloopie72) June 20, 2021
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
ah, I see the confusion
newyork.cbslocal.com
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With four days left on the mayoral primary countdown clock, Eric Adams still leads the pack according to a new poll.
The front runner is picking up some unsolicited, and apparently unwanted support, from a controversial former mayor.
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Adams and Rudy Giuliani were never friends. In the 1990s, Adams frequently blasted Giuliani over his handling of police brutality.
So it was a bit of a head scratcher when Kramer asked the Republican former mayor, who has endorsed Curtis Sliwa, which Democrat would do the best job.
“New York being a heavily Democratic town, who do you think is the best candidate in the Democratic field?” Kramer asked.
“I have to say, with tremendous reluctance because there are so many negatives there, that at least Adams talks about reducing crime,” Giuliani said. “I’m going to vote for Curtis. I’m a Republican, and if I had to, there’s no question that Adams gives us some hope that he can be practical once elected.”
Adams made it abundantly clear what he thinks of Giuliani’s support.
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Adams is the good guy
re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth
You lunatics have made the Republican party a menace to public health. All because you bent over for a narcissistic madman and need to shift the blame. Nice going, trash.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) June 20, 2021
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
What IS it with people in trucks trying to run over people?????
re: #27 gwangung
What IS it with people in trucks trying to run over people?????
I have trucks and have never felt the urge to run over anyone or anything.
re: #27 gwangung
What IS it with people in trucks trying to run over people?????
Was it “rolling coal” as well?
Rest east sweet Champ. We love you forever, we’ll miss you for always. pic.twitter.com/d6SzfwWSym
— Naomi Biden (@NaomiBiden) June 19, 2021
Apparently, though, that chord was not nuanced enough for some. Maybe I should make it an augmented chord instead. Or even better, half-diminished.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2021
Some chords exist only to lead to a better place.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2021
that’s a long way to drag a fucken alligator in a noose. respect. https://t.co/yOnJQdNBGX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2021
How to keep your house clean
1. Do not own a cat.
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
How to keep your house clean
1. Do not own a cat.
I’m screwed. Got 4 now lol
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have trucks and have never felt the urge to run over anyone or anything.
I can’t tell you how relieved I am to hear that!
re: #34 Rightwingconspirator
Oh my you have four cats? Oh gee.
This is interesting.
The FBI has been questioning at least one person charged in the Capitol riot about possible connections to members of Congress,.MSNBC.
— Michael Grossman (@MichaelArt123) June 20, 2021
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
Oh my you have four cats? Oh gee.
Yeah, 2 came with the house. Peaceful integration has been the job. So far so good.
re: #37 No Malarkey!
Very interesting. Let us hope that something comes of it.
My cat thinks he’s incredibly stealthy 🤣#CatsOfTwitter #Caturday pic.twitter.com/Zh1Twm1o96
— Amanda 🌈 (@BoredCatLady_) June 19, 2021
BREAKING: I just spoke with Fort Lauderdale mayor who tells me one of the people run over in Wilton Manors right before Pride parade started has died. Says another victim is clinging to life. He witnessed the whole thing and says it was a deliberate attack on the LGBTQ community. pic.twitter.com/xW8H20bkfT
— Gina Benitez (@GinaMBenitez) June 20, 2021
MORE: Trantalis says the driver acted like he was part of the parade. Says he was on the parade route when he was was told to move up because he was next and floored the gas.
— Gina Benitez (@GinaMBenitez) June 20, 2021
This video would have you believe hippos are playful, lovely creatures instead of the amphibious homicide horses they truly are. https://t.co/RQWnGubDqT
— Harlo 🏳️🌈🇩🇴 (@ultraviolet_end) June 20, 2021
McQueen 100%
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 20, 2021
Southern Baptist leader calls out QAnon: ‘Armed insurrection does not fit with God’s word’
Oh Bullshit you sleazy Pulpit Pimp. You and your fellow Southern Fried Baptists have been preaching the QAnon shit in your churches ever since 2015 when you folks showed those fake frazzledrip videos libeling Hillary Clinton.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
This country needs to get its shit together. I know that hatred of The Other in all its forms has always, always been here. But it seems like things are more, open, blatant and spiteful right now. I wish I knew a way to counter this community of destruction, like they’re on a mission to do the exact opposite of what it takes to have strong and healthy communities. Like they literally can’t stand for people to have happy, healthy, financially secure and well educated communities. How the hell do you counter that level of anger,spite and hate effectively? I think about that a lot, and it’s overwhelming sometimes.
re: #47 JOE 🥓
So much wrong with Litton. As I posted the Vox article earlier, given the NYT labeled him as “moderate” is absurd.
It’s just that Litton isn’t the looniest right-winger in the cadre of the SBC movers and shakers, so that some think he is “moderate”.
But Litton is in all ways as fundamentalist as, say, Albert Mohler.
This dog is a genius
pic.twitter.com/HCT81rPntO— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 20, 2021
re: #48 A Mom Anon
This country needs to get its shit together. I know that hatred of The Other in all its forms has always, always been here. But it seems like things are more, open, blatant and spiteful right now. I wish I knew a way to counter this community of destruction, like they’re on a mission to do the exact opposite of what it takes to have strong and healthy communities. Like they literally can’t stand for people to have happy, healthy, financially secure and well educated communities. How the hell do you counter that level of anger,spite and hate effectively? I think about that a lot, and it’s overwhelming sometimes.
These spiteful assholes are going to push too far and there’s going to be a reckoning. And they are NOT going to like it.
re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth
Speaking of hippos
hmm looks like a hippo capy hybrid
— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) June 19, 2021
Eric Adams - don’t know the guy and I’m not in NYC, but if this is his view of education:
NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Eric Adams: “With new technology you don’t need school children to be in a school building with a number of teachers. It’s just the opposite. You could have one teacher teach 300-400 students.” pic.twitter.com/elaChcS1oV
— The Matt Skidmore Show (@ZachandMattShow) June 11, 2021
… then I’d be a bit worried if I were in NYC.
It’s fucking leftover pizza not something soup or stew. This is perfectly ok. https://t.co/riEBS6eIo0
— Guns, Ganders, and Goats (@MENA_Conflict) June 19, 2021
I can attest that leftover pizza was stored similarly in my ‘fridge less than a week ago
I fail to see what the problem is— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) June 20, 2021
I wonder where the hell he got the idea to do it.https://t.co/D0MT8lHiWA
— Girl Dwt (@GirlsDwt) June 20, 2021
re: #54 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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This is a weirdly aggressive way to get yourself on TV, Christopher.. Why not just contact my booking producers like a normal person, rather than going with the White Man Demands option? I had never even heard of you until @oneunderscore__ piece exposing your plot to rebrand CRT. https://t.co/kzqp1edxzF
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) June 19, 2021
re: #51 gwangung
I hate thinking like that, but they want a war.
A long ass time ago I had to learn the hard way that most of the time, force has to be applied to domestic abusers or bullies to get them to stop and/or retreat. But, you only use the force they are using towards you plus enough to subdue them. In my case the assistance of a hammer on a finger with a threat of worse put a stop to some shit so I could get free and come back with reinforcements. These people aren’t brave, they’re hateful. These supposed patriots are driven by hate and the only way to stop it is to stop it. I don’t advocate this, I hate it, but being nice and taking the high road does zero to stop this shit. They want a war, and we cannot be surprised at the lengths they will goto get there. I don’t want any of this, but I do get afraid sometimes that it’s inevitable. It’s heartbreaking 💔
I’ve said it before, I really struggle with the things they are so angry and hateful over don’t actually exist. Critical Race Theory is just the latest bullshit thing. Think of all the made up shit about African slaves and Black Americans, the reasons to be scared, the made up stereotypes that get passed down as a really fucked up legacy, that way too many humans are still proud of.
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So much wrong with Litton. As I posted the Vox article earlier, given the NYT labeled him as “moderate” is absurd.
It’s just that Litton isn’t the looniest right-winger in the cadre of the SBC movers and shakers, so that some think he is “moderate”.
But Litton is in all ways as fundamentalist as, say, Albert Mohler.
Of course he is, the SBC is a fundamentalist sect. But apparently he isn’t openly racist like Stone.
re: #55 DodgerFan1988
How soon will the killer be sprung thanks to DeSADIST’s “It’s OK To Run Down Protesters In The Name Of Jesus” law?
“Somebody told me” https://t.co/aUM4n8xSDF
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) June 20, 2021
Robert E. Lee was a bad general.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 20, 2021
NEW: The Stonewall Pride Parade and Festival in Wilton Manors turned deadly Saturday night when a person drove a truck into two people, killing one, and narrowly missing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said. https://t.co/H344ZUgoK0
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) June 20, 2021
BREAKING: I just spoke with Fort Lauderdale mayor who tells me one of the people run over in Wilton Manors right before Pride parade started has died. Says another victim is clinging to life. He witnessed the whole thing and says it was a deliberate attack on the LGBTQ community. pic.twitter.com/xW8H20bkfT
— Gina Benitez (@GinaMBenitez) June 20, 2021
As if “Dancing Sandwiches” weren’t enticing enough🤷🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/U1z9jv80tm
— gabby (@gabby_UCMaroon) June 19, 2021
Police identify man whose body parts were found in two locations in Minneapolis. It’s unclear how the man died, but authorities are investigating the death as a homicide and believe there are more missing body parts.https://t.co/n3uPsodQaD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 19, 2021
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
Somebody told me that Rachel Maddow and Alex Jones are the same person, flipped.
Rachel Maddow tells her audience conspiracy theories, but makes them sound like the truth.
Alex Jones tells the truth, but makes it sound like a conspiracy theory.
This really isn’t too far off from how most of my family and a lot of my friends view politics.
That’s one of the huge pitfalls of Both-Siderism: the above ‘observation’ starts with the idea that the liberal must be doing something that is the perfect flip side of what the conservative is doing, because they can’t/won’t believe the modern conservative movement is that fucking crazy.
Speaking of that operative from the Manhattan Institute:
My sense is that many have known that the Manhattan Institute have a long history of being typical right wingers who concern troll with larger vocabularies, in order to sound smart to the throwbacks in American society.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) June 20, 2021
So did you ever drive by an active car fire, and the heat was so intense, you can feel it three lanes over as you drive by at 67 MPH?
I did, about 90 minutes ago. That was nuts. Extra surprise is the battery or something popping and shooting white sparks everywhere. Really hope no one was hurt. The entire vehicle was a wall of flame.
No taxes, property or income. No vaccination, no medical treatments will be illegal, except abortion. Reclaiming federal land in Idaho. Financial privacy. I guess that means only the corporations’ can have access to your banking/credit history.
Ammon Bundy running for governor on the Everybody For Themselves, Take Whatever You Can, No Worries About The Earth platform. https://t.co/5JrxpNHCFo
— HG Tomato 🍅 Wash Your Hands (@HGTomato) June 20, 2021
Hmmm…
Assassination attempt?
NEW: The Stonewall Pride Parade and Festival in Wilton Manors turned deadly Saturday night when a person drove a truck into two people, killing one, and narrowly missing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said. https://t.co/H344ZUgoK0
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) June 20, 2021
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s wearing a shirt for the Ft Lauderdale Gay Mens Chorus. Hard to believe someone wearing that shirt would attack people at pride… hopefully it was a horrible accident. pic.twitter.com/YFbuaWgljj
— Miss B 🐝 (@PixByBee) June 19, 2021
Given the targeting of specific people, the lack of any attempt to stop, and the attempt to flee, the t-shirt is probably part of his deceptive effort to get inside the parade. This could also have been an attempt to assassinate Debbie Wasserman Schultz, since the pickup missed her car by inches.
re: #71 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
MORE: Trantalis says the driver acted like he was part of the parade. Says he was on the parade route when he was was told to move up because he was next and floored the gas.
— Gina Benitez (@GinaMBenitez) June 20, 2021
No, Robert E. Lee was a great General who made bad choices.
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) June 20, 2021
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Right after this comment, my town was hit with a barrage of lightning, including my backyard. An asparagus I let go to seed took the hit instead of my elm tree.
That barrage knocked the whole town off the electric grid. The public power district just restored power.
Just because you have a preference for democracy over fascism doesn’t mean we should pander to your opinion.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 20, 2021
re: #78 retired cynic
Grilled asparagus.
(Glad no one was hurt!)
Ashed asparagus.
I’m somewhat amazed the whole town wasn’t destroyed. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
There was only one fire, on the south edge of town, but the fire brigade quickly put that out.
re: #79 No Malarkey!
The criticism I have of the mainstream media is its near-absolute unwillingness to cover the truth about Republicans.
E.g., why do Republican liars get invited to Sunday talk shows every week to spew more of their lies in formats with little or no pushback vs. lies?
Why is the media’s entire support of drooling credulity reserved for Republican talking points, while Democratic proposals are met only with skepticism?
Why is there no sustained coverage of the simple fact that the GOP is a fascist death cult with absolutely nothing to offer to anyone that isn’t filthy rich?
re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We had a cat that would hide behind a rolled up newspaper, and right before he’d “pounce” he would wiggle his tail.
re: #62 No Malarkey!
Southerners couldn’t shoot straight.
“TERRORISM”
Feds refer to crime committed by Jan 6 defendant & accused Proud Boy Robert Gieswein as “terrorism” in new motion to hold Gieswein in jail
Gieswein is accused of assaulting 3 police officers - including w/ chem. spray
“Steal one of our nation’s crown jewels” ===> pic.twitter.com/obnMbCGazp— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 19, 2021
re: #81 EPR-radar
The criticism I have of the mainstream media is its near-absolute unwillingness to cover the truth about Republicans.
E.g., why do Republican liars get invited to Sunday talk shows every week to spew more of their lies in formats with little or no pushback vs. lies?
Why is the media’s entire support of drooling credulity reserved for Republican talking points, while Democratic proposals are met only with skepticism?
Why is there no sustained coverage of the simple fact that the GOP is a fascist death cult with absolutely nothing to offer to anyone that isn’t filthy rich?
“That’s just your opinion.”
There are two planes flying over Florida that say “Cokehead Matt Gaetz tried to drug test welfare recipients” pic.twitter.com/Fnt0QYCF5O
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 20, 2021
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Right after this comment, my town was hit with a barrage of lightning, including my backyard. An asparagus I let go to seed took the hit instead of my elm tree.
That barrage knocked the whole town off the electric grid. The public power district just restored power.
Did the lightning smell funny after?
re: #79 No Malarkey!
No, Todd, because what we see is you inviting people on who say it’s raining and, rather than checking to see if it is, you ask them why they’re not wet.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) June 20, 2021
There has not been an end to slavery in the United States. The injustices of slavery evolved into Jim Crow, redlining, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, the death penalty, and beyond.
The work is not over, and your Nebraska Attorney General’s office stays being in the way. https://t.co/GCaoI1ZiXg— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) June 19, 2021
Many people who act like they have done something for Black people and racial justice are the ones actively supporting measures that make it harder to vote - long lines, voter ID, purging voters who don’t vote in every election, etc.
Folks need to say less and do more.— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) June 19, 2021
re: #81 EPR-radar
The criticism I have of the mainstream media is its near-absolute unwillingness to cover the truth about Republicans.
E.g., why do Republican liars get invited to Sunday talk shows every week to spew more of their lies in formats with little or no pushback vs. lies?
Why is the media’s entire support of drooling credulity reserved for Republican talking points, while Democratic proposals are met only with skepticism?
Why is there no sustained coverage of the simple fact that the GOP is a fascist death cult with absolutely nothing to offer to anyone that isn’t filthy rich?
Because centrism doesn’t mean anything but it’s a way that people can emptily perform loftiness and deep insight?
Like the idea that there’s a dialectical synthesis possible between the sides is false, simply on the basis that the sides are not consistent across time: the entire country has moved right such that stuff Eisenhower considered normal politics is now dangerous socialist thinking. Dig in even slightly and observe that one side constantly operates in bad faith, and the concept isn’t just vapor, it’s actively misinterpreting the world. Saying you’re being smart by taking neither side is at best wishful thinking—that there’s a status quo, and it will hold, tautologically, because it is the status quo—but it more often than not it’s an active form of pseudo-intellectualism: to maintain the position, you cannot look at materially what happens.
There’s no one reason this turns up, but there are a few comorbid ones:
- one, it’s present in media because it launders both that the news readers are uninformed, and creates an explanation for omissions and evasions that cynically maintain your viewing audience share. It also dovetails with the ascent of optics—that perception is so important that material conditions just don’t matter—in that one can expose endless on the aesthetic of ideas…how they are presented, how “reasonable” they seem as rhetoric…without actually talking about how they work.
- two, it’s present in general because change is terrifying, and centrism articulates that nothing drastic has to change. It is the status quo, unexamined but radicalized. Since leftism—or in the American context, center-right-to-center-left liberalism—includes statements that things are not okay and new things must arise, it’s more threatening than authoritarianism and fascism, which promises and simple and expedient return to nostalgic things. This is why “centrism” always breaks right: reactionaries promise that their measures will either keep things the same, or will make things more like they were. Liberals and leftists say that things have to change, and that rustles jimmies more, resulting in the loop in which “centrists” smooth obvious gestures at fascism…because fascism is an aestheticized nostalgia thrown over nihilistic drive for power…but shit themselves at the mildest bits of social democratic criticism of power: implicit in the latter is disruption of what is comfortable.
- three, it’s politics for cowards and poseurs. Conservatives call themselves centrists to create effective distance from their insane fellow travelers but not do anything; liberals call themselves centrists because our society has accepted the culture image of the liberal as both bad and un-pleasing aesthetically; eta: also notable is in the USA that open liberalism means being open to insane rhetorical attack because the other side has normalized that you deserve attack, and leftism is cause for you to be physically attacked both by private and state agents. People who don’t want to deal with the idea that the status quo still hurts people to keep things going arrive at centrism because the alteration is to concede that things are already awry. Centrism is the philosophy of non-examination, of keeping Omelas up and running and the volcanoes stocked with virgins.
(and please note that if you’ve maintained your position in the “center” as the reactionaries has slid deeper into their thing, you’re not a centrist. You’re a mild US conservative or a mild US liberal, but centrism is defined by that sense of a false synthesis…there’s a central tendency that mathematically-impossibly remains the same even though one side of the oscillation has bigger peaks)
What’s currently happening with CRT is a great example of this loop: reactionaries make the thing scary and suggestive that the status quo is bad and people will uncritically move to preserve their comfort while excising yet another part of the societal structures that keep them safe and free in the long term. It’s like a frog that contributes to its own boiling because the alternative is the uncertainty of what’s beyond the pan of water.
It’s also exactly how the fascists took over all those European countries: the promise of a return to something simple and benevolent once the dangerous alien thing has been extracted from society. Communists and anarchists are scary because they propose that the world is hurting people, and those people are entitled to respond; fascism proposes that problems only arise from outside forces, that the big systems cannot fail, only be failed…and people like the latter because it demands nothing of them.
This fool’s timeline is a Dumpster fire.
Shut up and make me a sandwich
— undercover caddie (@undercovercadd2) June 19, 2021
re: #90 The Ghost of a Flea
re: #81 EPR-radar
Commercial television exists to sell advertisement.
Whether we like it or not, a large swath of the US is filled with the religious-right and the fascist-adjacent.
And these are more often than not old people.
And it’s the old people who tune into the kind of shows about which you are agonizing.
Future voters are found on Tik-Tok.
Sunday morning news shows are for voters who have maybe only a few more Presidential elections ahead of them until they die or end up in a nursing home.
re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Commercial television exists to sell advertisement.
Whether we like it or not, a large swath of the US is filled with the religious-right and the fascist-adjacent.
And these are more often than not old people.
And it’s the old people who tune into the kind of shows about which you are agonizing.
Future voters are found on Tik-Tok.
Sunday morning news shows are for voters who have maybe only a few more Presidential elections ahead of them until they die or end up in a nursing home.
Unfortunately, no.
This pattern can and will replicate to new media formats.
Debate bros like Destiny, “skeptics,” and New Atheists are examples of groups that in the Internet Content Age replicate the voluble emptiness of TV…constantly mad at people that insist things can change, and thus doing the loop—excuse the reactionary positions because the alternative is to acknowledge that what is doesn’t work.
re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Commercial television exists to sell advertisement.
Whether we like it or not, a large swath of the US is filled with the religious-right and the fascist-adjacent.
And these are more often than not old people.
And it’s the old people who tune into the kind of shows about which you are agonizing.
Future voters are found on Tik-Tok.
Sunday morning news shows are for voters who have maybe only a few more Presidential elections ahead of them until they die or end up in a nursing home.
Yup, you want commercial-free opinion pieces, you view atheist channels on YouTube.
Virtually no company wants to advertise on an atheist video, and atheists themselves frequently opine about more things than counter-apologetics (such as Christian nationalism, the intersection of the Republican Party and theocrats, &c).
When was the last time any labor union sponsored a network TV show?
The ILGWU did sponsor several years of Carol Burnett’s shows in the 70s.
Outside of that—nope
Breaking extremely local news: The battery in my laptop is one minute away from full charge, after the six hour+ power failure.
re: #95 The Ghost of a Flea
Yes, I concur there is a whole dude-bro glibertarian group in the new media that are attempting to carry on their grandparents biases and bigotry.
This is most notable on Youtube when one tries to find history or archeology or anthropology channels. The throwbacks come out of the woodwork when, say, a channel puts up a show about how the defense of slavery really was the reason for the Confederacy.
One can also tell on Youtube that there are only a few channels, though, which have large subscriber counts, who push the throw-back positions. When you look at a wingnut’s own page they have as their “channels”: Ben Shapiro, or DailyWire, or Veritas. These are the big three. Then PraegerU… and a few more.
Most of the screechier hate-right is off of Youtube now but are found in the plethora of small reach websites.
My belief, though, is that the video-centric, social-media centric web in which the young dwell will be of not as much help for those who are pushing atavistic agendas, compared to the old media in this country from post WWII through say 2008.
It’s not just that Bill Barr supports the death penalty. It’s that he ORDERED executions. He was a direct participant in the execution of at least 7 people on death row. Yet was not only administered Holy Communion but rewarded by a Bishop for “Christlike” behavior.
— Gigi for Voting Rights (@JCDCF1) June 19, 2021
re: #95 The Ghost of a Flea
Unfortunately, no.
This pattern can and will replicate to new media formats.
Debate bros like Destiny, “skeptics,” and New Atheists are examples of groups that in the Internet Content Age replicate the voluble emptiness of TV…constantly mad at people that insist things can change, and thus doing the loop—excuse the reactionary positions because the alternative is to acknowledge that what is doesn’t work.
Since the only position of atheist is “I do not believe in gods,” it turns out there are a whole range of things they otherwise don’t agree with.
But things can and have changed with the rise of the Internet: Marginalised peoples can find each other, bigots are exposed for who they are, people are exposed to ideas even within their own religion that are different from each other because that other fellow goes to a different church down the street.
Father’s Day: Trump suggests spending $100 to $7,500 for 2 tickets to see him with Bill O’Reilly
Yes there will be people stupid enough to buy those tickets.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m an atheist and I have gotten the vaccine, don’t worship guns, and vote Democrat. The father of one of my son’s friends is an atheist, hasn’t gotten the vaccine even though his wife and kids have, loves his guns more than his second child, and is proud of his vote for Trump.
The plot thickens…
2 hit by truck, 1 killed at Pride parade in Wilton Manors
Driver and victims were part of Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus
Spidey Sense thinks this was an attempted hit on DWS…
As my son Elijah was dying of pediatric brain cancer in 2017, @HamillHimself contributed to a birthday video Lucasfilm put together where several Star Wars actors wished him happy birthday for his ninth bday (April 22). Here is Elijah watching Mark Hamill. He died the next day. https://t.co/TdMkiMKVFW pic.twitter.com/aTbbGJSYeE
— Brad Simpson (@bradleyrsimpson) June 19, 2021
re: #103 Belafon
I’m an atheist and I have gotten the vaccine, don’t worship guns, and vote Democrat. The father of one of my son’s friends is an atheist, hasn’t gotten the vaccine even though his wife and kids have, loves his guns more than his second child, and is proud of his vote for Trump.
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Republicans all my life have tried to smuggle religion into places where it should be excluded (schools, government, laws, &c). Even if Trump was a frickin’ genius, he’s still the head of the party that wants to make this a Christian State.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
If they’re wealthy chickens wishing to not pay taxes, or business-owner chickens wishing to avoid OSHA and EPA regulations… it makes sense.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Republicans all my life have tried to smuggle religion into places where it should be excluded (schools, government, laws, &c). Even if Trump was a frickin’ genius, he’s still the head of the party that wants to make this a Christian State.
Memories of the Young Libertarian Alliance organizing on the Pitt campus in the 70s and they were full blown Randite atheists who totally embraced Murray Rothbard’s Anarcho-Capitalism.
re: #109 JOE 🥓
Memories of the Young Libertarian Alliance organizing on the Pitt campus in the 70s and they were full blown Randite atheists who totally embraced Murray Rothbard’s Anarcho-Capitalism.
At least the Libertarian Party isn’t trying to smuggle religion into the law, and Ayn Rand was an atheist. (She also viewed the LP as a bunch of unserious LARPers.)
Christians in the US are not persecuted. On the contrary, they have Christian privilege.
Evidence: most atheists on social media are anonymous, for fear their bosses, family, & neighbors would shun them or fire them if they knew.
Atheist politicians stay in the closet, too.— Godless Liz 😇 (@GodlessLiz) June 5, 2021
She isn’t wrong. My family fired me. So did the voters in my town.
I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth (Abigail Disney at The Atlantic, June 17, 2021)
A common ideology underlies the practices of many ultra-wealthy people: The government can’t be trusted with money.
When ProPublica published its report last week on the tax profiles of 25 of the richest Americans, jaws dropped across the United States. How was it possible that plutocrats such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett could pay nothing in income taxes to the federal government? What sneaky sleights of pen, what subterfuge, what acts of turpitude could have led to this result?
The shock stems, in part, from a disturbing reality: Nowhere does ProPublica assert that these men cheated, lied, or did anything felonious to lower their tax burdens. The naked fact of the matter is that not a single one of the documented methods and practices that allowed these billionaires to so radically minimize their tax obligations was illegal.
What’s worse, these methods and practices—things such as offsetting income with losses in unrelated businesses; structuring assets to grow rather than generate income, then borrowing against those growing assets for cash needs; and deducting interest payments and state taxes from taxable income—are so downright mundane and commonly applied that most rich people don’t see them as unethical. The more interesting question is not how the men in ProPublica’s report were able to avoid paying much or anything in federal income taxes, but why. What motivates people with so much money to try to withhold every last bit of it from the public’s reach?
One factor is the common ideology that underlies all of these practices: The government is bad and cannot be trusted with money. Far better for the wealthy to keep as much of it as possible for themselves and use (a fraction of) it to do benevolent things through philanthropy.
(more at the link)
As Ive mentioned before, I attended seminary classes which led me to understand what hypocrites many conservative religious types are. So let’s talk about @USCCB and all the mortal sins they ignore as the Bishops go full MAGA.
You’d be surprised, given their obsessions, that../1— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) June 19, 2021
This song slaps.https://t.co/OQD2u7iTgL
— Edwin (@EdMix13) June 20, 2021
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Republicans all my life have tried to smuggle religion into places where it should be excluded (schools, government, laws, &c). Even if Trump was a frickin’ genius, he’s still the head of the party that wants to make this a Christian State.
Might make sense for obscenely rich atheists who mostly care about lower taxes.
re: #113 JOE 🥓
Plus when religions are weak, they cry out for the protection of the state (such as the Danbury Baptists arguing for separation of church and state, because the theocratic colonies of New England persecuted Baptists).
When they are strong, they try to seize the levers of the state. And when they do, they start persecuting everyone who is not like them, throughout history.
Separation of church and state was written into the various constitutions of the Soviet Union. They lacked freedom of religion not because it wasn’t protected in the law, but because of soldiers in the churches.
Catholics were long persecuted in this country; now they want to become persecutors in turn. That won’t get Protestants to love them, and Catholics are still outnumbered.
Highest calling for Catholic man is priesthood right?
Fr. Enda: Right.
Child born out of wedlock can’t be priest, right? ( I think this has changed)
E: Right.
Bringing a bastard into the world deprives that child of highest calling, right? 2/— GardenVarietyHeroes Cheese (@alspruce) June 19, 2021
So consequence is eternity in hell for fornication with or without contraception, right?
E: Right.
So isn’t it better to use contraception and not impose a disability on the resulting child?
E: Spruce, OUT!
/Fin.— GardenVarietyHeroes Cheese (@alspruce) June 19, 2021
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The martyr who may rise again: Christian right’s faith in Trump not shaken
The talk in the airy, carpeted corridors of the Road to Majority conference suggests that it has firmly taken root. Several attendees cited the increased use of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic as ripe for voter fraud, even though some states have used mail-in voting for years. They also endorsed so-called “audits” taking place in Arizona and elsewhere.
Shelley Villarreal, 56, a retired teacher from Houston, Texas, cited the work of Sidney Powell, a discredited lawyer who was ridiculed for threatening to “release the Kraken”. She said: “Sidney Powell has some pretty good statistics and data and facts. I rely on her to know.”
“If Trump runs, he will be the nominee hands down. I’d like him to; he gets a bad rap from the press. He has a habit of saying things but his policies were great. He got the vaccines out pretty quick. He is pretty sharp but he gets himself into trouble.”
But Kat Kerr, 70, a business owner wearing a Stars and Stripes stole and a “I don’t do demons” badge, insists that the 45th president never lost.
“Trump is our president right now,” she said. “Eighty million Americans know that. You can’t steal a free country.”
This is what passes for Xtianity in America.
And yes we have fireworks going here in my part of Los Angeles tonight…
Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
Image Credit & Copyright: Max Alexander, STFC, SPL
➡️ https://t.co/096reD9wk5
➡️ https://t.co/z7YvbW8Yu0
➡️ https://t.co/yG6NomsqpD pic.twitter.com/f622tbKqXG— S⊙l Infectus (@solinvictus137) June 20, 2021
re: #119 JOE 🥓
And yes we have fireworks going here in my part of Los Angeles tonight…
Juneteenth Independence Day?
re: #59 No Malarkey!
Of course he is, the SBC is a fundamentalist sect. But apparently he isn’t openly racist like Stone.
It seems Litton was seriously involved in promoting racial unity. He also (shocking though it may be) allowed his wife to preach in his presence. So not only is he not a dedicated racist, he may not be as misogynist as most members of the clergy in his church.
re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter
It seems Litton was seriously involved in promoting racial unity. He also (shocking though it may be) allowed his wife to preach in his presence. So not only is he not a dedicated racist, he may not be as misogynist as most members of the clergy in his church.
There’s a whole lot of Black congregations who walked out of the SBC over their racism; it’s now a much smaller denomination than it was a year or two ago.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Republicans all my life have tried to smuggle religion into places where it should be excluded (schools, government, laws, &c). Even if Trump was a frickin’ genius, he’s still the head of the party that wants to make this a Christian State.
Not all your life; only since Reagan.
Perhaps it’s just a personal observation, but I’ve noticed that many of the sorts of folks who ascribe to a “BSAB” philosophy are also the sort of brave souls who will respond to discussions about racism with some variation of “I’m color-blind.”
States with higher vaccination rates now have markedly fewer coronavirus cases, as infections are dropping in places where most residents have been immunized and are rising in many places people have not, a Washington Post analysis has found.States with lower vaccination also have significantly higher hospitalization rates, The Post found. Poorly vaccinated communities have not been reporting catastrophic conditions. Instead, they are usually seeing new infections holding steady or increasing without overwhelming local hospitals.
As recently as 10 days ago, vaccination rates did not predict a difference in coronavirus cases, but immunization rates have diverged, and case counts in the highly vaccinated states are dropping quickly.
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Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated, rising where they are not, Post analysis finds (Washington Post)
Nebraska falls into the “fewer vaccinations, fewer cases” portion of the chart, below the national average.
At least 176.7 million people have received one or both doses of the vaccine in the U.S. (Washington Post vaccine tracker)
On the county tracker, all Nebraska counties show “insufficient data” (because county data has to be politically vetted by the state, and the state doesn’t publish the data). This has caused a patchwork of state reporting, such as meatpacking plants telling the Governor to take a hike and reporting on their own employees despite him trying to block that data.
Public health districts are reporting data for the district, but there are several districts which makes gathering statewide data harder. The state Website does not track that.
Out here in the Old West, we’re surrounded by the crazy areas of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Weld County Colorado.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
My county has a case rate in the last two weeks of 62 per 100,000, and 24% of the county vaccinated. Hospitalisations are going up again (now 5). My county seat is still “moderate risk,” Bayard is “low risk,” my village is “no risk.” (No risk is subjective as all it would take is an out-of-towner to bring it in. Let’s see what happens after today’s parade, street sales, firehouse feed, and party at the community centre.)
For the entire Panhandle plus Grant County, 30% of the district is fully vaccinated.
I was having trouble staying awake this morning on my drive from Illinois back to NH, so I got a Red Bull. It’s finally kicking in at 1AM in a crappy hotel in Syracuse, NY.
Canada decided to extend the border closure another month.
No train ride for us.
Our friend in Vancouver says he’ll be happy to keep our car for us if we can ever get across the border for the trip.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Coronavirus infections dropping where people are vaccinated, rising where they are not, Post analysis finds (Washington Post)
Nebraska falls into the “fewer vaccinations, fewer cases” portion of the chart, below the national average.
At least 176.7 million people have received one or both doses of the vaccine in the U.S. (Washington Post vaccine tracker)
On the county tracker, all Nebraska counties show “insufficient data” (because county data has to be politically vetted by the state, and the state doesn’t publish the data). This has caused a patchwork of state reporting, such as meatpacking plants telling the Governor to take a hike and reporting on their own employees despite him trying to block that data.
Public health districts are reporting data for the district, but there are several districts which makes gathering statewide data harder. The state Website does not track that.
Out here in the Old West, we’re surrounded by the crazy areas of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Weld County Colorado.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
My county has a case rate in the last two weeks of 62 per 100,000, and 24% of the county vaccinated. Hospitalisations are going up again (now 5). My county seat is still “moderate risk,” Bayard is “low risk,” my village is “no risk.” (No risk is subjective as all it would take is an out-of-towner to bring it in. Let’s see what happens after today’s parade, street sales, firehouse feed, and party at the community centre.)
For the entire Panhandle plus Grant County, 30% of the district is fully vaccinated.
The big issue going forward? It’s now summer vacation season, which means the assholes who live in those low-vaccination states are going to travel to holiday destinations in many of the high-vaccination states, right at the same time that many states are changing their mask requirements to the honor system.
re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
An uptick in infections in numerous states offers a preview of summer surges that could take hold “if the unvaccinated continue to behave as though they’re vaccinated,” said Michael Saag, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For now, risk is unevenly distributed, concentrated in communities where shots are sparse, he said.
The GOP will never allow churches to be taxed.
They will fight that shit tooth and nail.
re: #129 Targetpractice
The big issue going forward? It’s now summer vacation season, which means the assholes who live in those low-vaccination states are going to travel to holiday destinations in many of the high-vaccination states, right at the same time that many states are changing their mask requirements to the honor system.
We haven’t traveled out of state except twice to Cheyenne for VA appointments. That’s going from a relatively low risk area to an insanely high area.
My wife and I have limited travel to outdoors areas or locally, because we don’t want to bring anything back to town. I’m not sure how conscientious other people in town are though.
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
The GOP will never allow churches to be taxed.
They will fight that shit tooth and nail.
Our previous governor, Dave Heineman (R) proposed legislation here to tax churches except for direct charity work.
Every church in the state howled like they were being crucified personally.
Never get between a church and its money.
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
The GOP will never allow churches to be taxed.
They will fight that shit tooth and nail.
“It doesn’t say ‘Separation of Church And State’ anywhere in the Constitution!”
“Alright, then let’s tax churches…”
“WHOA! WHO SAID YOU COULD TAX CHURCHES!? CHURCH AND STATE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SEPARATE!!!”
In Wyoming’s Sweetwater County, population 44,000, authorities are at a loss for what else they can do to achieve herd immunity.
Sweetwater carries the unfortunate distinction of being the county with the steepest increase in infections in the state with the most new infections per capita in the country. Only a quarter of its residents are fully vaccinated, and public health officials don’t see the number budging much higher.
Jean Stachon, Sweetwater County’s health officer, said officials held mass clinics, brought vaccine doses to employers and churches and accept walk-ins at the public health office. They have sacrificed extra doses in a vial to vaccinate at least one person. But demand is minimal, even as the virus still looms in the community. Two people died of covid-19 in the last week. Eight emergency room patients were diagnosed with coronavirus in one night.
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Stachon isn’t sure what she would do if a highly contagious variant tears through the community and some have already been detected. The Wyoming legislature restricted the powers of public health officials like her to put disease control measures in place.
re: #124 sagehen
Not all your life; only since Reagan.
I posted this on LGF back in 2010:
It is indeed. My involvement with conservative politics dates back to 1964, when I was a teenage volunteer for the Goldwater campaign. A few years later, my yellow-dog Democrat parents took me along when my mom was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic convention. They hoped I would witness the process in all its populist glory and be converted from my wayward Republican ways. What I witnessed instead was the Chicago convention riots and the establishment muscling Hubert Humphrey into the nomination. This confirmed to me that I had been on the right track. My parents were deeply disillusioned themselves.
A lot of water flowed under the bridge in the meantime, but I stayed with the conservative cause until fairly recently. In retrospect, I had been growing uncomfortable with what passed for conservatism for many years. I opposed the Clinton impeachment, for example, regarding it as a facetious witch-hunt.
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that the rot really started in 1980, when the Reagan campaign made a conscious effort to recruit the nascent religious right as a GOP voting bloc. This involved the kind of compromise that everyone condemns but that all politicians practice. As with so many things that turn out badly, it seemed like a good idea at the time. It would scarcely have seemed possible that a bunch of Bible beating nuts could actually take over the party of Teddy Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. They could help at the polls, though, and with grassroots activism (a traditional weakness of the GOP) so compromise we did.
Our creation has devoured us now, and Republican conservatism as I knew it has not so much changed as ceased to exist. This process has accelerated with astonishing speed since the 2008 election, with the nuts now fully in charge and the adults either marginalized or driven completely out of the party.
I persisted as long as I did because I thought the nuts would fall flat on their faces and the rest of us could re-build the movement along rational lines. That is impossible now, we are past the point of no return.
The other day, when Robert Gibbs denounced the “professional left,” I suggested that Obama might be trying to construct and define a new right wing to replace the one that has gone over the cliff. I wasn’t joking at all.
Obama is pretty much center-right by global standards anyway. Perhaps we are just catching up with the rest of the world in defining the terms. The self-declared conservatives who attack him are off the scale entirely, a xenophobic mob of quacks and charlatans who have no awareness of, or concern about, what goes on in the rest of the world.
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In Wyoming’s Sweetwater County, population 44,000, authorities are at a loss for what else they can do to achieve herd immunity.
Sweetwater carries the unfortunate distinction of being the county with the steepest increase in infections in the state with the most new infections per capita in the country. Only a quarter of its residents are fully vaccinated, and public health officials don’t see the number budging much higher.
Jean Stachon, Sweetwater County’s health officer, said officials held mass clinics, brought vaccine doses to employers and churches and accept walk-ins at the public health office. They have sacrificed extra doses in a vial to vaccinate at least one person. But demand is minimal, even as the virus still looms in the community. Two people died of covid-19 in the last week. Eight emergency room patients were diagnosed with coronavirus in one night.
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Stachon isn’t sure what she would do if a highly contagious variant tears through the community and some have already been detected. The Wyoming legislature restricted the powers of public health officials like her to put disease control measures in place.
My advice? Give up. There come times when you have to admit defeat and this seems to be one of them. All they’re doing at this point just throwing money away. If the pinheads want to see natural selection acted out in real time, then they’re free to do so on their own dime.
re: #118 JOE 🥓
The martyr who may rise again: Christian right’s faith in Trump not shaken
*snip*
But Kat Kerr, 70, a business owner wearing a Stars and Stripes stole and a “I don’t do demons” badge, insists that the 45th president never lost.
“Trump is our president right now,” she said. “Eighty million Americans know that. You can’t steal a free country.”
This is what passes for Xtianity in America.
How the hell can they talk about Kat Kerr and not discuss that she’s a fucking whackjob who posts verifiably false prophecies on her Facebook and YouTube and YouTube channels? Holy shit, Guardian, I can’t believe you’re this stupid!
re: #137 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I don’t know too much about the political manoeuvering surrounding Hubert Humphrey, but the term “police riot” was coined regarding the handling of protestors.
The Origins of the ‘Police Riot’ (The New Yorker, June 9, 2020)
From President Johnson’s Commission on Crime and Violence:
[O]n the part of the police there was enough wild club swinging, enough cries of hatred, enough gratuitous beating to make the conclusion inescapable that individual policemen, and lots of them, committed violent acts far in excess of the requisite force for crowd dispersal or arrest. To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot.
re: #138 Targetpractice
My advice? Give up. There come times when you have to admit defeat and this seems to be one of them. All they’re doing at this point just throwing money away. If the pinheads want to see natural selection acted out in real time, then they’re free to do so on their own dime.
If they stayed in Wyoming and there was some way to protect those unable to get vaccines (such as shut-ins or truly medically incapable), I’d be all for that.
Unfortunately, they won’t stay in Wyoming.
re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If they stayed in Wyoming and there was some way to protect those unable to get vaccines (such as shut-ins or truly medically incapable), I’d be all for that.
Unfortunately, they won’t stay in Wyoming.
IMHO, we’ve reached or are reaching the limits of the portion of the population that will take the vaccine willingly. We’ll probably see a small surge in the fall or winter as the FDA switches the emergency approvals out for full approvals, but what I see beyond that is first vaccines being made required in certain sectors of the economy followed almost immediately by court challenges against those requirements.
The severe thunderstorm watch here has expired.
Currently here it is clear and 62°F.
Tomorrow will be considerably cooler, with a high of 82°F penciled in. The afternoon and evening are predicted to have severe thunderstorms, with temperatures dropping to the low forties.
re: #142 Targetpractice
Public health officials in Wyoming counties wanted to ship vaccines where they were both in short supply and needed, such as Michigan.
The Wyoming Legislature blocked that. Wyoming’s wingnut party would rather see them expire unused than send them to another place that wants them.
Part of the issue is Republicans are still actively trying to perpetrate a genocide.
Thank you for wasting our tax money for your party’s fear-mongering, Governor.
Gov. Ricketts sending Nebraska state troopers to southern border (Omaha World-Herald, one hour ago)
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts announced Saturday that the state would be sending about 25 Nebraska state troopers to the nation’s border in Texas.
Ricketts joined Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Idaho Gov. Brad Little in stating his plans to send law enforcement officers to the area after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter requesting that other governors send available law enforcement resources to the border.
Ricketts did not say how costs for the deployment would be covered. A spokesman for the governor on Saturday did not address questions about who would pay for the deployment.
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I guarantee our billionaire governor isn’t going to pay for that himself.
re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If they stayed in Wyoming and there was some way to protect those unable to get vaccines (such as shut-ins or truly medically incapable), I’d be all for that.
Unfortunately, they won’t stay in Wyoming.
That has been the problem all along. These people harm those who cannot get vaccines (including children under 12) or have conditions that render the vaccines ineffective. And most refuse to wear masks that would protect these others. And who knows whether gamma or some other new variant might evade the vaccine and unleash a new round of illness and death, thanks to these fools preventing herd immunity.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Public health officials in Wyoming counties wanted to ship vaccines were they were both in short supply and needed, such as Michigan.
The Wyoming Legislature blocked that. Wyoming’s wingnut party would rather see them expire unused than send them to another place that wants them.
Part of the issue is Republicans are still actively trying to perpetrate a genocide.
Which is a pretty good argument for why health officials should be focusing on those places with high demand and letting nature take its course in those places where it’s low. Will the latter travel to the former? Sure, but if the former has been well addressed, then the only people who are in immediate danger are the assholes from one podunk town congregating with shitbirds from others.
The team of troopers will travel from Nebraska to Del Rio, Texas, later this month and will partner with the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide law enforcement assistance, according to a press release from the governor. They will be deployed for no longer than 16 days.
Heads up, Del Rio.
And the “emergency” will be over in sixteen days? Not much of an emergency.
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t know too much about the political manoeuvering surrounding Hubert Humphrey, but the term “police riot” was coined regarding the handling of protestors.
The Origins of the ‘Police Riot’ (The New Yorker, June 9, 2020)
From President Johnson’s Commission on Crime and Violence:
I don’t remember if there is real proof but I think it is almost certain that Mayor Daly and the Police Commissioner gave explicit permission for the cops to run wild and “beat the hippies.”
My parents and I witnessed part of it from the balcony of their hotel room (I was in an adjoining room). Since I was 19 and had longish hair, I didn’t dare go out on the street or even to the lobby. The protestors were fleeing full speed and the cops were running after them, furiously beating and kicking any they caught. One boy fell to his knees, exhausted, and raised his hands, only for a cop to kick him in the chest. My mother in particular was horrified. “This shouldn’t be happening, this shouldn’t be happening.” We couldn’t watch long because of the tear gas in the air. I was amazed that no one was killed by the beatings, since there were thousands of victims, though (iirc) there was a shooting fatality earlier in the day.
re: #147 Targetpractice
Which is a pretty good argument for why health officials should be focusing on those places with high demand and letting nature take its course in those places where it’s low. Will the latter travel to the former? Sure, but if the former has been well addressed, then the only people who are in immediate danger are the assholes from one podunk town congregating with shitbirds from others.
Unfortunately, they travel through other podunk towns like mine, where we have no disease and a low vaccination rate partially due to distribution and infrastructure problems.
It only takes one Wyoming douchecanoe to launch the disease here. We have the only gas station between Bridgeport and the east end of US-26 so it gets a lot of out-of-town use.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unfortunately, they travel through other podunk towns like mine, where we have no disease and a low vaccination rate partially due to distribution and infrastructure problems.
It only takes one Wyoming douchecanoe to launch the disease here. We have the only gas station between Bridgeport and the east end of US-26 so it gets a lot of out-of-town use.
Well, then you better pray for the Feds to come in and start forcing mass vaccinations, because at the rate things are going these plague rats are in no hurry to get the shot.
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I don’t remember if there is real proof but I think it is almost certain that Mayor Daly and the Police Commissioner gave explicit permission for the cops to run wild and “beat the hippies.”
My parents and I witnessed part of it from the balcony of their hotel room (I was in an adjoining room). Since I was 19 and had longish hair, I didn’t dare go out on the street or even to the lobby. The protestors were fleeing full speed and the cops were running after them, furiously beating and kicking any they caught. One boy fell to his knees, exhausted, and raised his hands, only for a cop to kick him in the chest. My mother in particular was horrified. “This shouldn’t be happening, this shouldn’t be happening.” We couldn’t watch long because of the tear gas in the air. I was amazed that no one was killed by the beatings, since there were thousands of victims, though (iirc) there was a shooting fatality earlier in the day.
Another thing my mother said observing the riot, “I’m glad Uncle Sam [Rayburn, actually her great uncle] isn’t alive to see this.”
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I don’t remember if there is real proof but I think it is almost certain that Mayor Daly and the Police Commissioner gave explicit permission for the cops to run wild and “beat the hippies.”
My parents and I witnessed part of it from the balcony of their hotel room (I was in an adjoining room). Since I was 19 and had longish hair, I didn’t dare go out on the street or even to the lobby. The protestors were fleeing full speed and the cops were running after them, furiously beating and kicking any they caught. One boy fell to his knees, exhausted, and raised his hands, only for a cop to kick him in the chest. My mother in particular was horrified. “This shouldn’t be happening, this shouldn’t be happening.” We couldn’t watch long because of the tear gas in the air. I was amazed that no one was killed by the beatings, since there were thousands of victims, though (iirc) there was a shooting fatality earlier in the day.
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In the weeks leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley turned his town into a fortress. He sealed the manhole covers with tar, so protesters couldn’t hide in the sewers. He installed a fence topped with barbed wire around the Chicago International Amphitheater. He put the entire police force of 12,000 men on 12-hour shifts and called in over 5,000 National Guardsmen. About 1,000 Secret Service and FBI agents were also on duty, as the city braced for the 10,000 protesters who would soon arrive, wound up by a year of political assassinations, urban riots and the raging Vietnam War.
What could possibly go wrong?
With the whole world watching, the three major news networks brought the answer to that question into millions of Americans’ living rooms. They spared barely a second of the ensuing mayhem in their coverage—and in the course of doing so sparked a national debate about objectivity and journalistic integrity. The liberal-minded tuned in and saw textbook police brutality and “Gestapo tactics,” in the words of Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. But millions of Middle Americans, the citizens Richard M. Nixon would later immortalize as the “silent majority,” saw an entirely different display of excess—on the part not of the police, but of the TV networks.
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How ‘Fake News’ Was Born at the 1968 DNC (Politico, September 2, 2018)
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Perhaps they’re bigoted against more than just Christianity, like Richard Spencer or 4chan shitlords.
re: #139 mmmirele
How the hell can they talk about Kat Kerr and not discuss that she’s a fucking whackjob who posts verifiably false prophecies on her Facebook and YouTube and YouTube channels? Holy shit, Guardian, I can’t believe you’re this stupid!
The article makes very clear that this is a meeting of people who believe the big lie (and note that all evidence confirms that DT really lost). Adding that each one of the people they interview is a whackjob would seem redundant.
What’s really gonna bake a few MAGAt noodles is the dilemma that will become evident as we move through the summer and into the fall, as cases continue to fall or level out in “socialist” cities/states while they remain level or rise in red ones.
They’ll be forced to decide which is more politically desirable: downplaying the number of infections in order to continue arguing the pandemic is a “hoax” or start inflating the numbers in order to deny Biden the credit for his efforts to get people vaccinated.
re: #151 Targetpractice
Well, then you better pray for the Feds to come in and start forcing mass vaccinations, because at the rate things are going these plague rats are in no hurry to get the shot.
We seem to keep forgetting that being vaccinated will protect you from this. Especially if you don’t get within six feet of them indoors — and why would you? They’re not what I’d want for companions.
🎶This is how we do it.🎶 https://t.co/5DpvUpe2wH
re: #157 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
We seem to keep forgetting that being vaccinated will protect you from this. Especially if you don’t get within six feet of them indoors — and why would you? They’re not what I’d want for companions.
When you go shopping within a store? or dining inside at a restaurant? Being vaccinated significantly reduces your risk but it doesn’t eliminate it entirely.
re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s something I can’t wrap my head around, atheists voting for Republicans. That’s like chickens voting for Col. Sanders.
Republicans all my life have tried to smuggle religion into places where it should be excluded (schools, government, laws, &c). Even if Trump was a frickin’ genius, he’s still the head of the party that wants to make this a Christian State.
I know one non-closeted completely out in the open gay man who is a card-carrying, flag-waving, Trump loving Republican. I attempted to remain friends with him for as long as I could stomach but cut him out of my life last year. This is far more of a chickens voting for Col Sanders thing than atheist Republicans.
re: #160 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I know one non-closeted completely out in the open gay man who is a card-carrying, flag-waving, Trump loving Republican. I attempted to remain friends with him for as long as I could stomach but cut him out of my life last year. This is far more of a chickens voting for Col Sanders thing than atheist Republicans.
Being gay doesn’t mean that you are not an immigrant hating white supremacist.
re: #160 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I know one non-closeted completely out in the open gay man who is a card-carrying, flag-waving, Trump loving Republican. I attempted to remain friends with him for as long as I could stomach but cut him out of my life last year. This is far more of a chickens voting for Col Sanders thing than atheist Republicans.
I had a somewhat different experience back in 2016, namely an non-closeted gay man who was a Berner screaming practically up to Election Day that Hillary needed to drop out and let Bernie “win.” And I lost count of the number of times he opined in one fashion or another about how the LGBTQ community had nothing to fear from Trump because (wait for it) Obergefell had made gay marriage legal and there would be no way for Trump to undo that.
So what was driving his acceptance of Hair Furor? The promises of the Tangerine Toddler that he’d “Bring Back Coal,” which was appealing to a gay man with family in Appalachia. I lost contact with him after 2016, but I imagine he’s no happier today with the state of coal mining than he was back then.
re: #156 Targetpractice
What’s really gonna bake a few MAGAt noodles is the dilemma that will become evident as we move through the summer and into the fall, as cases continue to fall or level out in “socialist” cities/states while they remain level or rise in red ones.
They’ll be forced to decide which is more politically desirable: downplaying the number of infections in order to continue arguing the pandemic is a “hoax” or start inflating the numbers in order to deny Biden the credit for his efforts to get people vaccinated.
The MAGAts will start claiming that it’s part and parcel of a conspiracy to exterminate white, rural, Christian GOP voters. As simple as that.
These people are entirely capable of doublethink in a way that would astonish George Orwell.
re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter
When you go shopping within a store? or dining inside at a restaurant? Being vaccinated significantly reduces your risk but it doesn’t eliminate it entirely.
Yes to both. At this point, all the evidence is that vaccination reduces your chances of hospitalization to about one in a million. People who can’t tolerate that level of risk should probably stay at home under their beds.
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Being gay doesn’t mean that you are not an immigrant hating white supremacist.
Or interested in lower taxes above all else.
re: #163 Dr Lizardo
The MAGAts will start claiming that it’s part and parcel of a conspiracy to exterminate white, rural, Christian GOP voters. As simple as that.
These people are entirely capable of doublethink in a way that would astonish George Orwell.
They simply don’t believe the numbers, and I doubt there’s any way to convince them. On which cheerful note, I’m off to bed. Night!
re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter
Being gay doesn’t mean that you are not an immigrant hating white supremacist.
Neither does being an atheist, but I believe of the two, LGBTQ+ people are more “the enemy” in the minds of the average RWNJ over atheists. Atheists can, and have been, useful idiots in their various crusades (pun intended) specifically against Islam but also feminism and social justice in general. Because a lot of Atheists are rich or entitled middle aged white dudes.
Many prominent people in the Atheist community, especially the online atheist community have proven to be just as big of bigots and reactionary assholes as the right wing Christians.
Pat Condell, remember him LGF? He made videos bitching about religion and creationism, then focused on Islam, and transitioned into spreading conspiracy theories about Muslim hordes taking over Europe and UK, “no-go zones”, etc… Eventually he was indistinguishable from Pam Gellar or Robert Spencer.
Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon of Akkad another really famous personality on Youtube and social media. Atheist, but also a raging right wing asshole on every other topic from his Anti-Feminism, Islamophobia, Pro-Gamergate, Pro-Brexit, Anti-immigration horse shit.
Thomas J. Kirk, AKA The Amazing Atheist. Another asshole on Youtube who’s videos attacking creationism have been posted here, more than once, recently. He’s also a raging anti-feminist who rants in all his other videos about SJWs and is basically an Men’s Rights Activist now, who is teetering on becoming an outright pro-rape apologist.
I believe recently, correct me if I’m wrong, that Richard Dawkins who’s a known atheist, but also a known asshole, said publicly he would rather live in a Christian country than a Muslim one and went into disgusting Islamophobic detail as to why.
I am an agnostic, but I’m basically an atheist for all intents and purposes, so I consider the atheist community to more or less be “my community” as well, but I know we are far from morally superior to theists, and we have A LOT of trash that needs to be taken out.
re: #58 A Mom Anon
I hate thinking like that, but they want a war.
…
I’ve said it before, I really struggle with the things they are so angry and hateful over don’t actually exist. Critical Race Theory is just the latest bullshit thing. Think of all the made up shit about African slaves and Black Americans, the reasons to be scared, the made up stereotypes that get passed down as a really fucked up legacy, that way too many humans are still proud of.
There is nothing anti-American or hateful or racist about admitting that we have made some mistakes in history.
In fact, part of what Makes America (or any other nation) Great is the ability to learn from our mistakes.
If you don’t think that it was mistake to import and keep slaves, to base an entire economy and society on exploitation of slave labor, to fight a war over the expansion of slavery and then to continue to discriminate against the freed slaves and their descendants through legislation, and by denying them education and access to government loans and subsidies, then you really need to rethink things.
re: #93 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Commercial television exists to sell advertisement.
Whether we like it or not, a large swath of the US is filled with the religious-right and the fascist-adjacent.
And these are more often than not old people.
We keep thinking that TV viewers are the “customers” and that the programming is the “Product”
Not at all. The product is the advertising time, the customers are the advertisers, the programming is just window dressing to make the advertising time more valuable by attracting more viewers.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
US Catholic Bishops: willing to weaponize the Eucharist over something Christ never mentioned.
“Body Count of Christ”
re: #108 sagehen
If they’re wealthy chickens wishing to not pay taxes, or business-owner chickens wishing to avoid OSHA and EPA regulations… it makes sense.
The same with the gay Republicans I know.
re: #160 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I know one non-closeted completely out in the open gay man who is a card-carrying, flag-waving, Trump loving Republican. I attempted to remain friends with him for as long as I could stomach but cut him out of my life last year. This is far more of a chickens voting for Col Sanders thing than atheist Republicans.
Similar case here with an old college buddy who later came out.
He was going on about scairdy little rabbit mask wearers and I reminded him of how his husband was in a car wreck last year and needed to be put on a respirator and if those all had been taken by Covid cases, me might well have died in the hospital.
He was also a big Milo fan.
re: #165 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Or interested in lower taxes above all else.
Keep in mind that if you are not raising a family, you don’t have much to gain from the dependent child deduction, nor are you looking for a large house in a neighborhood with good schools to write off a mortgage deduction, etc…
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is nothing anti-American or hateful or racist about admitting that we have made some mistakes in history.
In fact, part of what Makes America (or any other nation) Great is the ability to learn from our mistakes.
Germany’s done a really good job of that. They took a real serious look in the mirror, said “OMG look what we did!” and made a sustained effort to transform themselves into the kind of country that would never ever EVER again do anything even 1/4 that awful ever again.
They have detailed classes 2 or 3 times (different age groups) about “look how bad we fucked up”, they’ve got museums and memorials and public art projects all over the place reminding them, and they keep a pretty close eye on any domestic groups that seem to want to tread a similar path.
ETA: and with all of that, it still took me until 50 years after the war to start to believe their repentance was sincere.
re: #174 sagehen
Germany’s done a really good job of that. They took a real serious look in the mirror, said “OMG look what we did!” and made a sustained effort to transform themselves into the kind of country that would never ever EVER again do anything even 1/4 that awful ever again.
They have done an admirable job if it but sometimes they go a bit overboard with it.
Remember the “Pitch in” campaign from the 70’s with the logo of a figure tossing a can into a bin?
Somebody reworked that into a “Machs mit” logo with the figure tossing a swastika into a bin.
The local authorities in Stuttgart came out and banned him from selling or displaying them because a Swastika is a Swastika and it is illegal to display “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations” in Germany.
So they had to amend the laws to make it legal to display a swastika in a manner that is clearly anti-Nazi in nature….
How drunk do you have to be to run into the back of a fire truck working an accident on a 6 lane wide freeway? Jesus, people amaze me.
It happens about 4 times a year around here.
re: #167 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
You can add David Silverman to your list of awful White make atheists. He’s now spouting nonsense about George Floyd being a criminal and deserving to be murdered and he’s also for limiting discussions about racism.
Pourquoi pas? 🏡 🚲 🛏 🎹 🚲 🏡 #vélomtl, #montréal, #movingbybike, #cycling pic.twitter.com/1Z3gCkCIqS
— Mathieu M-Perron (@matness) June 18, 2021
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
You can add David Silverman to your list of awful White make atheists. He’s now spouting nonsense about George Floyd being a criminal and deserving to be murdered and he’s also for limiting discussions about racism.
If criminals deserve to be murdered then by extension, Capitol police would have been fully justified in Tienamin Square-ing all of the Capitol rioters.
Happy Father’s Day and Happy Summer Solstice.
Celebrating #FathersDay with two electric dads: Jacob and George#myestarlistory #ebike #ebikes #ElectricVehicle #ev #ecotravel #FathersDay2021 #commuterbike pic.twitter.com/OVogRmY4i6
— Estarli (@Estarli_uk) June 20, 2021
One person is dead and five others are injured after a shooting along Lake Merritt near the Juneteenth Festival in Oakland Saturday, police said. https://t.co/5jmvwKk8tb pic.twitter.com/wUcTtsC2Sd
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) June 20, 2021
re: #183 Dread Pirate Ron
One person is dead and five others are injured after a shooting along Lake Merritt near the Juneteenth Festival in Oakland Saturday, police said.
Why do I have a feeling that Juneteenth is going to turn out to be one of our bloodiest holidays? Especially when the GOP finally loses its grip on a lot of its current power and its followers begin to feel even more “persecuted”, “helpless” and “betrayed”?
‘If poor Major had been owned by Trump, rather than Biden, the media pundits would have been demanding that he be sent to the doggie gas chamber’
- Tony Coxhttps://t.co/1GjgR5D55s— RT (@RT_com) June 19, 2021
Russia is butthurt over sympathy for Champ.
re: #185 Dread Pirate Ron
“murders surging in America’s big blue cities”
Where do they get this shit? This is almost “Sky is green” level of bullshit.
Violent Crime was been on a downward trend since 1991. Murders as well. I’ve heard they ticked up a little in 2020, but not a “surge”.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
US Catholic Bishops: willing to weaponize the Eucharist over something Christ never mentioned.
“Body Count of Christ”
That sounds like a great name for a band.
I’ll point out that in Russia, where fans booed when Belgians took the knee, pretty much all of the media and officials have excused this behavior by saying “They boo this in England, too! Everyone is sick and tired of this.”
Well, then. How to tell on yourself in Russian. https://t.co/to5qqdFu9z— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) June 19, 2021
Now we’re starting to do our global outreach:
EXCLUSIVE U.S. triples vaccines for Taiwan with 2.5 million-dose shipment | Reuters https://t.co/UrNZxCBMDr
— Laura Rosenberger (@rosenbergerlm) June 19, 2021
Moscow records pandemic high for Covid cases for second day running. Cases are surging across Russia, many from delta variant https://t.co/TUCv6tAmxo and https://t.co/di7CyXeWZb pic.twitter.com/8sCiLX7ObO
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 19, 2021
From 0 to 100 Covid policy:
Moscow hospitals will only do planned surgeries/procedures on patients who have been vaccinated - apart from cancer treatments, blood diseases, ppl who can’t have vaccine
Vaccine status to be checked before treatment (previously it was pcr tests) https://t.co/9tuHDzGGHJ— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) June 18, 2021
Brazil on Saturday crossed the grim threshold of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, the country’s health minister said, trailing only the United States in lives lost to Covid-19 https://t.co/V63GmOK8uz
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 19, 2021
“Get out Bolsonaro, genocidal.” Protesters have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll soared past half a million, a tragedy many critics blame on President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to minimize the virus. https://t.co/QgbXOkb1G2
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 19, 2021
when people tell you to get vaccinated it means “I don’t want you to die & hurt the people around you”. when people tell you not to it means “I’m insecure in my death cult and want you to join me in hurting others for my own reassurance”
— kilgore trout, dna harvester (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 19, 2021
re: #185 Dread Pirate Ron
Russia is butthurt over sympathy for Champ.
I don’t even want to know what happens to Putin’s dogs when they no longer please or serve him…
re: #191 Belafon
when people tell you to get vaccinated it means “I don’t want you to die & hurt the people around you”. when people tell you not to it means “I’m insecure in my death cult and want you to join me in hurting others for my own reassurance”
“I need you to believe the same unsubstantiated claims about magnetism, 5G tracking and altering DNA. And to reject anything that traitor Fauci says”
CNN isn’t entirely different from outlets for airheads like Fox.
Top story.
They lost their loved ones to Covid. Then they heard from them again (CNN).
Maybe it’s that people can’t handle their loss, or MAYBE IT’S THE DEAD SPEAKING TO THE LIVING!!1! According to CNN.
🧼
I could be this dog 😂#dogs pic.twitter.com/TBRCMXkJlv— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) June 18, 2021
re: #197 HRH Stanley Sea
You cannot say that he is not clean after seeing that.
re: #197 HRH Stanley Sea
I’ve never seen a carwash move before, rather than the car moving through it on tracks, but all my experiences with that kind of carwash were in my parent’s cars 40 years ago.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Our previous governor, Dave Heineman (R) proposed legislation here to tax churches except for direct charity work.
Every church in the state howled like they were being crucified personally.
Never get between a church and its money.
Never get between a Pulpit Pimp and his sweet sweet tax-exempt Swiss Bank account!
re: #196 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I really don’t know an exact timeline on this, but I noticed when my son was very young(he’s 27 now) and I couldn’t go back to work that “morning news” had been turned into a tv version of stereotypical “women’s magazines”. Segments on fashion, makeup, Hollywood gossip, interviews with celebrities, cooking, etc. Some genius decided that morning shows should be aimed at stay home moms and dumbed everything the fuck down because silly womenz can’t understand complex issues . I hadn’t noticed before then because I had been working full time. I hate morning TV, Good Morning America, Today, etc because it’s not informative. I stopped watching CSPAN in the mornings because wingnuts kept flooding the phone lines with their crap. Morning news spends maybe 5 minutes an hour on headlines, the rest is what some corporate jackass thinks women want to see. That has bled into all the other things getting branded as news now. Even MSNBC, that bastion of liberal evilness, has some really awful guests and hosts. Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell as hosts? They are not liberals. They let John Bolton on the air to talk about Biden’s visit to Europe and meeting with Putin. Why? There’s a ton of other people that could host and be interviewed.
I don’t buy that Americans have a short attention span. Many do, but think about how many people sit for hours watching Fox News or even sports. We choose from a crappy menu and think that’s all there is. I’m old enough to remember Walter Cronkite and the coverage of the Vietnam War on TV and in newspapers. While we didn’t get all the details, but the dead were listed and their pictures shown. Contrasted with the deployment of troops after 9/11, where we really didn’t hear much about the dead unless they were from your locale or somehow famous. The people we saw on the news were also journalists, they knew how to report on current events without a lot of personal commentary and experts being interviewed were somewhat qualified. Was it perfect? Nope. But there were some damned rules and standards applied. And the faces and voices were white pretty much exclusively til probably the 80s or 90s. When news became just like entertainment was the turning point. Dumbing it down for mommies(which is offensive and really stupid just for starters) was a death blow.
re: #199 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’ve never seen a carwash move before, rather than the car moving through it on tracks, but all my experiences with that kind of carwash were in my parent’s cars 40 years ago.
Modern times: many recent washes are completely self-service/unattended: you drive your car into it (after first paying at a card-slot outside, of course), stop; and the washers/sprayers/brushes move around the vehicle to clean it: then you drive out (slowly) through an air-blast to dry off. Easy enough for just cleaning the outside, and has the advantage (to the operator) of not needing any personnel. Of course, if something goes wrong, you’re generally SOL, but then again, welcome to 2021….
When people don’t do their research beforehand… [Sauce]
re: #3 PhillyPretzel
That is perfect.
I’m starting to think the one star on the Texas flag represents its rating.
— Kolleen (@littlewhitty) June 19, 2021
re: #45 Dave In Austin
The only correct answer is Yul Brenner.
So let it be written, so let it be done *clap clap*.
re: #206 darthstar
I’m starting to think the one star on the Texas flag represents its rating.
“Come and Take it” is not getting many takers…
Germans celebrate Vatertag on Ascension Thursday, which usually fall in mid-to late May as it depends on the date of Easter.
re: #167 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
……
I am an agnostic, but I’m basically an atheist for all intents and purposes, so I consider the atheist community to more or less be “my community” as well, but I know we are far from morally superior to theists, and we have A LOT of trash that needs to be taken out.
20th century mass murderers include atheists like Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin. You do not need to believe in a supernatural being to be willing to slaughter your fellow man (and woman) in the name of some “higher” principle.
re: #204 Jay C
Some gas stations have track-based carwashes, others have the stationary kind - up in my neck of the worrds (Northern lower Michigan) there are more standalone carwashes (for obvious reasons) and those that are station-based are standa-alone based.
(That video with the dog in the carwash is definitely not from the US - the plates give it away.)
There’s a black owned brewery, dunordcraftspirits.com, that not only sells a variety of spirits, but immediately recognized the employee union. They are based in Minnesota, with a few places in California, but it looks like you can order from them.
Sigh. So my Trump cult FB friend posts today:
News is finally getting out about early successful treatment for Covid. The mainstream media and the government lied to us about early treatment.
Thousands of us know that Ivermectin and Hydroxychloriquine
saved lives with early treatment.
Over 600,000 people died because of the politicization of drugs that have been on the market for years.
Does anyone know of information from legitimate sources that supports this contention? Before her comment, I never heard of Ivermectin.
re: #212 Eric The Fruit Bat
Some gas stations have track-based carwashes, others have the stationary kind - up in my neck of the worrds (Northern lower Michigan) there are more standalone carwashes (for obvious reasons) and those that are station-based are standa-alone based.
The Metroplex has all three of them. Some people prefer doing it themselves. The gas stations tend to be stationary. Our track based ones either allow you to sit in your car, or you can choose one where you hand your car off to the crew, they send it through a track, and at the end dry it off by hand and clean the interior. You can pay monthly as well, so that you can go through as often as you want.
re: #203 Teukka
New insult tiem: “Cosplaytriot”. That is all.
I could see it shortened to playtriot.
Not only does the Quacken not own the mansion, the actual owner says she does not know the woman and has no idea how she got there.
Head of firms that pushed ‘Italygate’ theory falsely claimed VA mansion was her home: report
A woman who heads two firms that pushed an election fraud conspiracy theory known as “Italygate” falsely claimed a mansion in Virginia was her home, The Washington Post reported.
Michele Roosevelt Edwards, who is in charge of USAerospace Partners and the Institute for Good Governance, claimed a $30 million mansion was her home during an interview with a television crew from Iceland.
The mansion is the historical North Wales farm located in Warrenton, Va., according to state records reviewed by the Post.
*snip*
Edwards leads two companies — USAerospace Partners and the Institute for Good Governance — were involved in the election conspiracy theory “Italygate.”
The theory stems from a letter that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows emailed to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen claiming that an Italian defense contractor worked with U.S. intelligence to corrupt the 2020 presidential election.
More specifically, the theory holds that votes were changed from former President Trump to then-candidate Biden President by military satellites controlled by senior CIA officials and people who worked for the defense contractor.
re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Why is Julianne Moore in this terrible, terrible, movie?
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That is a hilarious movie and I rank it with the first Tremors movie. She was in there because she likes to act and doesn’t want to be typecast.
re: #220 Belafon
That is a hilarious movie and I rank it with the first Tremors movie. She was in there because she likes to act and doesn’t want to be typecast.
Even as a fan of bad SciFi, I’m not seeing it.
re: #219 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Why is Julianne Moore in this terrible, terrible, movie?
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$$$$$$$$$$
Actors gotta eat.
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
The Q take a horse de-wormer. Maybe it’s the horse version of that drug.
re: #222 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
$$$$$$$$$$
Actors gotta eat.
Yeah, I don’t think she was JULIANNE MOORE at that point.
This is why we need libel law reform on the Federal level.
Maria Bartiromo erupts defending Jan. 6 lies: ‘Keep trashing me — I’ll keep telling the truth’
Which that liar has never done.
re: #155 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
The article makes very clear that this is a meeting of people who believe the big lie (and note that all evidence confirms that DT really lost). Adding that each one of the people they interview is a whackjob would seem redundant.
Yeah, but Kat Kerr is a known whackjob with 110,000 followers on Facebook. And pink hair. She’s not just a “businesswoman.” She has been prophesying for months that Trump will be coming back to office. Seriously, I am going to fault the Guardian reporter for being stupid.
re: #218 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It’s grifters and swindlers all the way down:
Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property
A fight among fossil hunters, a dubious documentary, and the conservative congressman from North Carolina.
Three years ago, the North Carolina congressman Mark Meadows sold a hundred-and-thirty-four-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado. The buyer was Answers in Genesis, a Christian nonprofit based in Kentucky, which was founded by the Australian creationist Ken Ham. Answers in Genesis is dedicated to promoting young-Earth creationism, which holds that the Earth was created in six days, several thousand years ago. According to documents related to the sale, Meadows was to be paid about two hundred thousand dollars for the property, in monthly installments, the last of which was paid last year.
Neither the sale nor any such payments are noted on Meadows’s congressional financial disclosures, which he is required by law to file annually. Meadows is a founding member of the very conservative House Freedom Caucus and is one of the more prominent members of Congress; last year, Donald Trump reportedly considered making him the White House chief of staff. Why didn’t Meadows disclose the property or the sale? The congressman declined to comment for this story. In August, the Charlotte Observer reported that Meadows—who, before becoming a congressman, was a successful real-estate developer—owned land in northeastern North Carolina that he had also failed to list on his disclosure reports. It’s possible that these nondisclosures reflect a pattern of ignoring congressional reporting rules.
It’s also possible that Meadows wanted to avoid drawing attention to the Colorado property and the complicated and perhaps unflattering story behind it. The property is not an ordinary piece of land but a rich site for finding dinosaur bones, and this appears to be the primary reason that Meadows bought it. Those bones then became the subject of a long-running fight among young-Earth creationists—and they are likely the reason that Meadows sold the land, ultimately, to Answers in Genesis. Meadows’s involvement with the land may have been, in part, a moneymaking venture, but it seems chiefly to reflect his commitment to, and entanglement with, the contentious and controversial world of creationist paleontology.
re: #216 JOE 🥓
Ivermectin is a dog dewormer and the topical treatment is used for mange. How anyone could think this is an antiviral drug is beyond me when you can read the damned label. I know it’s been used in humans for parasites but it’s not that common.
Not if Attorney General Shapiro stops it, convicted felon!
Pennsylvania poised to begin Arizona-style election audit with subpoena power https://t.co/ivRxjG3ups
— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) June 20, 2021
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
Ivermectin has been used in many repurosing trials worldwide along with other medications to treat COVID. Many of these who tout HCQ and Ivermectin fail to mention that little tidbit, and I have not seen any real large-scale (> 1000) trials of re-purposed medications with placebos, because quite frankly, doing such is ethically really, really bad.
One of the websites I monitor will occasionally pop-up with a Ivermectin article that’s been peer-reviwed, although that’s not their main beat.
re: #230 JOE 🥓
Josh will stop it. He has stopped all of the other challenges.
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
Over 600,000 people died because of the politicization of drugs that have been on the market for years.
And which were tested and found ineffective.
They are convinced that Trump could have saved America with Hydroxychloriquine but that the Deep State knew that would turn him into a Savant, Savior of the Nation and unstoppable Presidential Candidate in 2020.
The only possible explanation can be that Fauci and his other co-conspirators lied to keep Trump from being reelected.
re: #226 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I watched Evolution with my kids and found it kinda funny but generally forgettable.
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And which were tested and found ineffective.
They are convinced that Trump could have saved America with Hydroxychloriquine but that the Deep State knew that would turn him into a Savant, Savior of the Nation and unstoppable Presidential Candidate in 2020.
The only possible explanation can be that Fauci and his other co-conspirators lied to keep Trump from being reelected.
I did find a current reference to hydroxychloroquine:
Experts say the small study that this claim is based on proves nothing, and that enough evidence now exists from well-run studies to indicate that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating COVID-19. The study in question is being misrepresented online to falsely suggest that top health officials were wrong when they found that hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria, had no benefit as a COVID-19 treatment. The observational study, which has not been vetted by independent scientists, gained attention on social media after it was posted on May 31 to Medrxiv, a website that displays medical papers that have not been published. Posts online, many from supporters of former President Donald Trump, claimed the study shows that health officials and media were wrong to discount the benefits of hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19, which Trump had championed. Several health professionals told The Associated Press that using the new study to tout the benefits of hydroxychloroquine is misleading. “This is a very small study from a single hospital that was observational only,” said Dr. Jaimie Meyer, infectious disease physician at Yale School of Medicine. “The answer to COVID is vaccination, not hydroxychloroquine.”
God made you an asshole. Live with it.
Just like you said you would never go to a dentist.
Everybody is so all in on science now more than I have ever seen. What happen to God’s will? https://t.co/rk50jjCKgm
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) June 18, 2021
re: #224 Belafon
Yeah, I don’t think she was JULIANNE MOORE at that point.
She was in Boogie Nights back in 1997; IIRC, she won a good deal of praise for her role as Amber Waves. Of course, pretty much everyone in that film brought their absolute A-game.
re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter
Sigh. So my Trump cult FB friend posts today:
Does anyone know of information from legitimate sources that supports this contention? Before her comment, I never heard of Ivermectin.
Per wikipedia, it’s approved for treatment for parasitic infestations, and claims that it helped against covid are not supported by evidence.
re: #220 Belafon
That is a hilarious movie and I rank it with the first Tremors movie. She was in there because she likes to act and doesn’t want to be typecast.
I liked the entire series. I always laugh when Burt returns to base after his first run in with the Shriekers and states, while wiping gore off of his sun glasses, “I feel that I have been denied critical, need to know information, in a very disgusted tone of voice.
re: #238 JOE 🥓
My response to a response to that:
There’s also this:
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”
- Galilei— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) June 20, 2021
re: #236 Hecuba’s daughter
So a lot of people who do not understand how science or research or medicine work came across a FB posting from someone’s cousin that could be construed to read that there might be sinister forces were afoot to prevent a simple, quick cure to Covid being approved because that might inadvertently benefit Trump?
It would also fit into his repeated assertion that Covid is nothing too serious, that is is being overblown, look, you can treat it with some simple and easily available cures, like bleach, pool cleaner and sunlight…
That is the sorta “we don’t need no education” agenda that they love to push because they cannot be bother to learn how science or statistics work.
re: #227 mmmirele
Yeah, but Kat Kerr is a known whackjob with 110,000 followers on Facebook. And pink hair. She’s not just a “businesswoman.” She has been prophesying for months that Trump will be coming back to office. Seriously, I am going to fault the Guardian reporter for being stupid.
I’ve never heard of her, and the Guardian’s British-based audience probably hasn’t either. Why give her the notoriety, or publicize her Facebook presence?
re: #238 JOE 🥓
Because it’s not Cole’s will to do the wrong thing. God just coincidentally wants to do the wrong thing and kill a lot more people just like he does.
re: #232 Eric The Fruit Bat
Ivermectin has been used in many repurosing trials worldwide along with other medications to treat COVID. Many of these who tout HCQ and Ivermectin fail to mention that little tidbit, and I have not seen any real large-scale (> 1000) trials of re-purposed medications with placebos, because quite frankly, doing such is ethically really, really bad.
One of the websites I monitor will occasionally pop-up with a Ivermectin article that’s been peer-reviwed, although that’s not their main beat.
If anything, including these things, worked -I mean really works more than just a possibly marginally statistically signifanct vs placebo (even if that) - everyone would know it and everyone would be using it.
There’s a reason homeopathy just can’t seem to catch on.
re: #244 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I’ve never heard of her, and the Guardian’s British-based audience probably hasn’t either. Why give her the notoriety, or publicize her Facebook presence?
I hadn’t either until her fantasies about Trump being reinstated were covered, probably at RightWingWatch. The name and hair make her hard to forget, but really she’s a crackpot nobody that most people will not be aware of.
re: #244 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I’ve never heard of her, and the Guardian’s British-based audience probably hasn’t either. Why give her the notoriety, or publicize her Facebook presence?
Again, because social media presence and chatter is a news item in and of itself.
That is the first thing that people like Breitbart and Matt Drudge came to learn early on, and they used it to reshape (or rather derail and distort) political and social discourse in America and the rest of the world.
re: #228 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It’s grifters and swindlers all the way down:
Mark Meadows and the Undisclosed Dinosaur Property
A fight among fossil hunters, a dubious documentary, and the conservative congressman from North Carolina.
This, folks, is a great story, and it only scratches the surface that is the crazy of the “creation science” movement. As some of you may know, I keep an eye on Kent Hovind, the bargain basement of creationists. Some of his arguments are SO BAD that other creationists, like Ken Ham, say (without directly naming Hovind) not to use them.
Hovind was convicted in 2006 of failure to pay Social Security taxes for his employees at his “Dinosaur Adventure Land” in Pensacola and for structuring. He got out of prison five years ago and has since that time been working on his grift, which is a combination of creationism and sovereign citizen nuttery at a new DAL in Alabama. He divorced his long suffering (and I do mean suffering, she went to prison for a year for that asshole, also on the structuring charges) wife Jo. Then he married anti-vaxxer Mary Tocco in a (recognized at the time) common law marriage. (Alabama now does not recognize common law marriages.) Then he and Mary had a falling out, but so far as I know, never divorced. He then got a woman named Cindi to come to DAL, he proceeded to sweet talk her out of well over $100K to buy toys for his weird ass little dino park in Repton, AL. (Like a Kubota front end loader and ATVs.) Oh, yeah, he’s got a little cult thing going down there too, but if you cross Kent, you are out on your azz.
Anyway, he and Cindi were “married” (but they weren’t legally) and now Kent has shafted her as well and she’s raising hell. One of my friends has gotten a lot of documentation, and he’s been going through it, but the one thing missing in all of this is a contract for the money she says she lent to DAL and which Kent, and his consigliere, Ernie Land, say was a donation. She’s wanting an attorney to take the case on contingency and I said no attorney would take the case based on the paperwork presently available AND because Kent is a sovereign citizen who will bollix up the court system, because he has in the past.
Personally, I think Kent is a flaming narcissist. I ran into his son, Eric, when I was protesting the anti-abortion church in my neighborhood a couple of years ago and we had a private discussion. Apparently Kent was still texting Eric every day. He was pissed off at Eric for taking his old creationist organization and making it legitimate with the IRS while he was in prison. And he pissed off Eric by divorcing Eric’s mom Jo. I’m no fan of Eric’s, but I felt sorry for him because in discussing it, he just looked *worn out* from dealing with his dad’s constant badgering, but couldn’t bring himself to completely cut him off. However, that’s no excuse for following in Dad’s footsteps and preaching the lie that is young earth six days creationism, which Eric does do.
ETA: another weird angle of the “creation science” movement is Rachael Dolezal, the woman who claimed to be black? Her parents were creationist missionaries for the organization that Ken Ham hived off from.
re: #229 A Mom Anon
Ivermectin is a dog dewormer and the topical treatment is used for mange. How anyone could think this is an antiviral drug is beyond me when you can read the damned label. I know it’s been used in humans for parasites but it’s not that common.
Hydroxychloriquine is an antimalarial, and malaria is also a parasite. Maybe it was investigated as a treatment along with DT’s famous remedy — I don’t know why it was thought that either might be effective against covid, but there were serious investigations. (And DT didn’t pull the name out of a hat.)
re: #250 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Hydroxychloriquine is an antimalarial, and malaria is also a parasite. Maybe it was investigated as a treatment along with DT’s famous remedy — I don’t know why it was thought that either might be effective against covid, but there were serious investigations. (And DT didn’t pull the name out of a hat.)
and had it been proven the slightest bit effective, he would still be President…
Happy Father’s Day!
My dog and I are not cleaning up after you, you sick cannibals pic.twitter.com/eFYvHTitan
— Midge (@mxmclain) June 17, 2021
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Again, because social media presence and chatter is a news item in and of itself.
That is the first thing that people like Breitbart and Matt Drudge came to learn early on, and they used it to reshape (or rather derail and distort) political and social discourse in America and the rest of the world.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. The Guardian quoted her, without any information about her, in a story about DT supporters who think he’s still president.
Trump elevated every junk science and woo suggestion for the pandemic that he and his know nothing sycophantic suckups could find.
That was their solution for a pandemic instead of following the playbook of masking, lockdowns, and holding the line until vaccinations became available. They made every aspect of the pandemic worse.
How many families lost their fathers, brothers, or sons due to this pandemic and Trump’s politicization of masking as a symbol of “freedumb”. How many thousands of families were torn asunder? 600,000+
How many families has to deal with irreparable harms from pandemic? Millions.
That’s all on the so called “pro life” GOP.
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
She was in Boogie Nights back in 1997; IIRC, she won a good deal of praise for her role as Amber Waves. Of course, pretty much everyone in that film brought their absolute A-game.
True, and she did the Big Lewboski the next year, while Evolution didn’t come out until a couple of years later. But neither of the roles in Boogie Nights and the Big Lewbowski were one of the major roles. Then again, Jurassic Park: Lost World came out the year before Boogie Nights, so I could be wrong about her star power at that point.
Happy Father’s Day to those celebrating. Missing both my folks today, so hold on to what you got - and the good memories that you shared with them.
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and had it been proven the slightest bit effective, he would still be President…
As you know, I call bullshit on that.
re: #254 lawhawk
Trump elevated every junk science and woo suggestion for the pandemic that he and his know nothing sycophantic suckups could find.
That was their solution for a pandemic instead of following the playbook of masking, lockdowns, and holding the line until vaccinations became available. They made every aspect of the pandemic worse.
How many families lost their fathers, brothers, or sons due to this pandemic and Trump’s politicization of masking as a symbol of “freedumb”. How many thousands of families were torn asunder? 600,000+
How many families has to deal with irreparable harms from pandemic? Millions.
That’s all on the so called “pro life” GOP.
A man who was in a position where he was supposed to be a leader used it as an opportunity to sell snake oil. The grifters around the chief grifter are still trying to sell snake oil to this day.
re: #252 No Malarkey!
Happy Father’s Day!
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I have noticed that as I do more and more programming and less writing, that I will attempt to write sentences that try to not lead to that kind of ambiguity, even if they don’t exactly flow as great English. When I start writing sentences where the pronoun refers not to the closest noun, but the one before it, my brain gets stuck trying to undo that, and I end up repeating nouns.
But Democrats are the ones indoctrinating their kids? (Gab) pic.twitter.com/T6NWxA1Al6
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 20, 2021
Reference to yesterday
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
M 3.9 Experimental Explosion - 170 km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida (USGS Earthquake Site)
re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Probably USS Ford’s “shock trials”
— U.S. Navy (@USNavy) June 20, 2021
re: #242 Teukka
My response to a response to that:
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There’s were so many responses that seemed to think it was their job to tell him he was a sinner for not believing in God rather than going after the person who didn’t want the vaccine.
re: #252 No Malarkey!
I’ve been reading Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones lately, so that Sign looks wrong in that more words than Nouns are randomly capitalized.
re: #253 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. The Guardian quoted her, without any information about her, in a story about DT supporters who think he’s still president.
I am sure they quoted her because they saw she has a high social media profile
re: #257 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
As you know, I call bullshit on that.
Trump came uncomfortably close to winning. If HQX had been the least bit effective, the RW media would have praised Trump to the skies as a brilliant mind and Savior of America and the World…
re: #262 The Pie Overlord!
There’s a parent there that knows they’re delusional using their family as props in their effort to prop up their crackpot worldview.
If Biden had dementia no one would need to put it on stupid shirts.
Trash made a madman President, and now they need to live entirely in an alternate reality to be able to tell themselves they’re good people.
for those who do not have relationships w/ their fathers, who have been harmed by their fathers, who have been abused, rejected, neglected by their fathers, I’m holding you in my heart today. You’re doing your best to parent yourself and that can be celebrated on this day instead
— Walela (they/them) (@itswalela) June 20, 2021
What the white supremacists don’t want taught.
— Archimedes Persists 🦉Ω (@Archimedes2020) June 20, 2021
A man was arrested after allegedly attacking a 12-year-old #Jewish boy in Fairfax area of #LosAngeles, a Jewish neighborhood of the city.https://t.co/FPUufIDCnK
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) June 20, 2021
re: #250 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Hydroxychloriquine is an antimalarial, and malaria is also a parasite. Maybe it was investigated as a treatment along with DT’s famous remedy — I don’t know why it was thought that either might be effective against covid, but there were serious investigations. (And DT didn’t pull the name out of a hat.)
It is quite common for existing medications to be investigated and repurposed for other uses. It can be very profitable for a pharmaceutical firm to expand their sales market to new customers, without the trouble of developing new drugs.
re: #271 No Malarkey!
What the white supremacists don’t want taught.
You learned about Colin Kaepernick taking a knee but you conveniently forgot that until 2009, the players did not even come out of the locker room until after the National Anthem and only started doing so because the Military started paying professional sports leagues money to make their events “more patriotic” to help boost recruitment.
The elephant in the room is that the GOP has gotten exactly what they’ve been engineering long term: An uneducated populace. This is their victory, proof that the country is dumber than a box of rocks.
— 🇺🇸 This is my shocked face. 😐 (@IsShocked) June 20, 2021
re: #273 Hecuba’s daughter
It is quite common for existing medications to be investigated and repurposed for other uses. It can be very profitable for a pharmaceutical firm to expand their sales market to new customers, without the trouble of developing new drugs.
and had it worked, Trump would have taken full credit for having promoted it, just like he is trying to take all the credit for “developing” vaccines…
“The paper estimates that Bitcoin generates 90.2 million metric tons of carbon gases per year. That volume exceeds by almost two times the total annual reductions achieved by the replacement of gasoline-burning cars by electric vehicles.” https://t.co/xZ8PVp9UFM
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) June 20, 2021
OK, sure, we can save enormous amounts of CO2 by killing off cryptocurrency, but then how are we going to get mail order heroin and ransomware? Huh?
Looks like that RWNJ Belgian solider who went wannabe Rambo a few weeks back may have been found - dead.
A body has been found in the search for a Belgian soldier with far-right views who went missing in mid-May after taking weapons from a military base.
Prosecutors say the body discovered in a wooded area near the Dutch border is probably that of Jurgen Conings, 46.
Conings, who was on a watch-list for suspected extremists, had issued threats, including against the expert who led Belgium’s response to Covid-19.
Hundreds of officers had been deployed in the month-long manhunt.
The body was found in the Hoge Kempen National Park near the town of Dilsen-Stockemon on Sunday, and prosecutors say the initial observations suggest the man had shot himself.
re: #277 ericblair
OK, sure, we can save enormous amounts of CO2 by killing off cryptocurrency, but then how are we going to get mail order heroin and ransomware? Huh?
and I am sure that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsavory Bitcoin-based transactions
If you’re at all into this sort of thing, don’t miss Invincible.
What makes Invincible instantly stand out is the way it takes a familiar superhero story heavily inspired by the tone of early Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spider-Man, while adding a penchant for gore and grim darkness that we’ve grown used to in modern superhero stories that challenge the notion that superheroes are only bright and colorful. (Zack Snyder’s Justice League makes a similar recent case.) When Mark rushes in to fight the aliens, he quickly realizes that even if he can deflect laser beams because of his powers, innocent bystanders aren’t so lucky, and they get instantly eviscerated by an alien warrior trying to kill Mark. Though the show can be interpreted as falling into the same hole as other superhero shows like The Boys or Harley Quinn in how they glorify the violence they’re preaching against, Invincible mostly avoids this by staying focused on Mark’s horrified reactions in discovering that his actions have consequences, and those consequences are far bloodier and permanent than he ever thought they’d be. Sure, heroes are glamorized and the idea of a superhero team sounds great, but the moment the fight begins, the show makes it clear that violence has repercussions. Punching a villain can give them a concussion, throwing a car against them will crush and kill them, and there is no going back.
Where The Boys tears down the idea of superheroes in general, and DC’s animated Harley Quinn series makes fun of the entire concept and knocks its teeth out with a bat, Invincible embraces superheroics, but also grounds them in realism when it comes to the physical consequence of having powers. It’s not too realistic that it takes the fun out of it, but just enough to make you think twice about cheering for The Hulk punching his way through a crowd.
Amazon’s Superhero Series ‘Invincible’ Does Not Mess Around (Thrillist)
re: #280 Punish Domestic Terrorists
This show is just so great.
re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and I am sure that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsavory Bitcoin-based transactions
What’s a poor organlegger to do now?
re: #282 jaunte
What’s a poor organlegger to do now?
“art” and “antiquities” dealers
“diplomatic” and international “courier” services
“rare animal” dealers…
Pretty confident there’s a ton of child
porn and human trafficking conducted by crypto.
Triple-digit temps call for only the classiest of flotation devices. pic.twitter.com/IjBLim1RqT
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) June 20, 2021
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