Virtue Signal spills the tea on Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics, Liz Cheney’s Jan. 6 commission win, the CDC’s new mask guidelines, and more with Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX).
So Chuck Todd gave an interview and admitted he bends over backward to appease the right wing noise machine, but so what?
He’s made statements like this before. But he never changes a single thing about what he does. Remember the pledge not to host climate deniers?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
Congress needs to act on this. https://t.co/MTsb8iF3Fu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
If this country just stands by and lets it happen while millions of people are evicted, it will be a monumental disaster.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
The thing I love the most about America is that everyone is entitled to an opinion and has the right to express it - except for experts and people who actually know what they are talking about.
/
And yet, he keeps putting them on his show. https://t.co/hqVfRvVNPT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Conflict is good for ratings.
Kentucky government recommending, but not mandating, masks for K-12.
Dr. Stack recommending everyone in K-12 indoor school settings to wear a mask. Have not heard mandate yet.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 29, 2021
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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And unfortunately, the federal court ruling means that Congress HAS to be the one to act, doesn’t it?
….which as we’re seeing right now with other negotiations, is a pipe dream.
re: #6 No Malarkey!
Kentucky government recommending, but not mandating, masks for K-12.
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That’s the best they can do, isn’t it? Considering Republicans control the legislature so fully that they can undo anything the executive mandates?
re: #6 No Malarkey!
Unfortunately mask mandates and restrictions are a fucking mess all over the country right now. It’s tough to know what rules apply where and when.
re: #9 sagehen
So the 2nd-best American gymnast, who stepped in for the all-around competition instead of Biles…. WINS GOLD!!
Sunisa Lee. Remember that name.
She’s Hmong, from Minnesota
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And here she is on the balance beam
GOHMERT! https://t.co/RxtJJhP9If
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Polticial prisoners? Terrorists.
re: #7 Citizen K
And unfortunately, the federal court ruling means that Congress HAS to be the one to act, doesn’t it?
….which as we’re seeing right now with other negotiations, is a pipe dream.
That’s the best they can do, isn’t it? Considering Republicans control the legislature so fully that they can undo anything the executive mandates?
The Kentucky legislature doesn’t reconvene until next January, but there would definitely be a battle in the courts.
Two way tie?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 29, 2021
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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Just for how long should the government prevent evictions and foreclosures? It’s distorting the rental and real estate markets insanely. Despite a recession and pandemic, rental prices haven’t dropped and housing prices are through the roof. It’s not sustainable, and the further down the road the can gets kicked, the worse the fallout will be.
Well it would be fitting if Covid sidelined a bunch of assholes that Trump and McConnell packed the benches with.
JFC… How long before someone gets killed?
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on supporters to exercise ‘Second Amendment rights’ on vaccine door-knockers from Biden’s ‘police state’ https://t.co/o3hNWYEzdH
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 29, 2021
re: #7 Citizen K
And unfortunately, the federal court ruling means that Congress HAS to be the one to act, doesn’t it?
….which as we’re seeing right now with other negotiations, is a pipe dream.
States can act; not every government policy has to be Federal.
And if Red states end up with a huge homelessness issue, and Blue states don’t… I’m sure Fox will find a way to make that the Democrats’ fault.
Mastriano’s thugs intimidating Pennsylvania voters.
Why hasn’t this asshole been arrested?
A group calling itself an “election integrity committee” drew allegations of voter intimidation after its members reportedly knocked on doors across York County asking about how and for whom residents voted.
York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler, who said she received numerous calls about the individuals claiming to be members of the committee, emphasized that they have no affiliation with the county government. The county referred the cases to the Southern York Regional Police Department, said Wheeler, a Republican who was elected to the commission in 2019.
re: #9 sagehen
So the 2nd-best American gymnast, who stepped in for the all-around competition instead of Biles…. WINS GOLD!!
Sunisa Lee. Remember that name.
She’s Hmong, from Minnesota
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Which means Trump and the Republicans were trying to kick her out of the country.
re: #9 sagehen
So the 2nd-best American gymnast, who stepped in for the all-around competition instead of Biles…. WINS GOLD!!
Sunisa Lee. Remember that name.
She’s Hmong, from Minnesota
It’s been a Hmong time coming…
re: #15 No Malarkey!
Two way tie? (for stupidenst member of Congress between Gohmert and Greene
Louie has seniority and pretty much set the bar that MTG has managed to lower…
re: #22 Belafon
Which means Trump and the Republicans were trying to kick her out of the country.
You can expect that the usual gang of jackasses are going to whine about her oh and they will double down on Simone…
re: #18 Teukka
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on supporters to exercise ‘Second Amendment rights’ on vaccine door-knockers from Biden’s ‘police state’
This is not a drunk uncle or a fringe lunatic sitting out in his crocs and camo shorts in a trailer park.
This is a sitting member of Congress
In Cuba people are protesting the government for lack of Covid vaccines.
In America, a Congresswoman is encouraging violence against government agents offering vaccines.
re: #9 sagehen
So the 2nd-best American gymnast, who stepped in for the all-around competition instead of Biles…. WINS GOLD!!
Sunisa Lee. Remember that name.
She’s Hmong, from Minnesota
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SHE DID IT 👏
Suni Lee’s family reacting to her gold medal is incredible 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺
(via @Gia_Vang)pic.twitter.com/ze0WJSjCp8— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 29, 2021
re: #21 JOE 🥓
Good question - why hasn’t Mastriano been arrested?
He paid for buses to bring supporters to DC for Stop the Steal.
He claims he left before things got ugly, but video footage seems to show him past a police barrier on the Capitol steps.
Oath Keepers fuhrer Stewart “Dirt” Rhodes is right about one thing: There is going to be bloody civil war. It won’t between Democrats and Republicans or rationalists and fundies, though. It will be between die-hard Trump conspira-liars and their broke, wheezing, and bereaved former marks who realize they’ve been had. Of course, most victims will go right on believing it’s Biden’s fault, or China’s or that they had the flu or whatever crazed rationalization the right wing media whorehouse vomits forth. There will be millions of victims however. If only a small percentage realize the truth, it will still be many thousands of mostly armed and violence-prone folks who may not have much left to lose. The rage will be driven even further by the realization that there were plenty of people who knew the truth all along and endured threats and abuse to get it out there.
re: #16 JC1
Just for how long should the government prevent evictions and foreclosures? It’s distorting the rental and real estate markets insanely. Despite a recession and pandemic, rental prices haven’t dropped and housing prices are through the roof. It’s not sustainable, and the further down the road the can gets kicked, the worse the fallout will be.
We’re talking about making more than 3 million people homeless.
Beshear pushed back against the GOP officers who won’t enforce mask rules for state workers, saying “I’ve got the backbone to do what’s right for them. I wish other people did, too.” https://t.co/pilbkdd03J via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 29, 2021
re: #19 JOE 🥓
See what Russian Disinformation has done to these brainwashed fools!
What you are seeing here is the shit I deal with from my QAsshole relatives.
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You and your cronies are disgusting, selfish morons. https://t.co/ufoTxmexWB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #33 Charles Johnson
This performative toddler routine is getting old, dopey.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 29, 2021
lol, junior is such a moron
Don Jr … thanks pic.twitter.com/qqhllxIFpT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
what the fuck is he on (about)?
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Americans once took a stand for civil rights and against militarism. Today they’re willing to risk it all so they don’t have to wear a piece of cloth on their face indoors during a pandemic. True heroism. https://t.co/uzahuCHS0Y
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
re: #30 Charles Johnson
We’re talking about making more than 3 million people homeless.
But we’re not. Are there really 3 million people who can’t afford rent right now? If so then they should be helped within reason.
A blanket eviction ban has many unintended consequences besides distorting the market.
A friend of mine owns an apartment building. She can’t evict bad actors who are damaging the property and making life miserable for other tenants. It’ll cost her 10s of thousands of dollars to fix up the mess once things settle down.
re: #30 Charles Johnson
I just blocked a “good liberal” on twitter who was happy Biden was going to let the ban on evictions expire.
FFS
I can’t believe the assholes without empathy haven’t figured out how catastrophic it’s going to be to the economy to put 3 million more people on the street.
Those of us who care about other people? God Damn. Biden can eat a bag of dicks for that decision. Sorry about my more than usual horrible language, but this sucks.
Well there you go. It was a tough battle, neck-and-neck with Abbott for a while but @GovRonDeSantis is officially the Worst Governor in the United States 🏆 https://t.co/G3IV6Xx4jj
— Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast) July 29, 2021
Failson fails again.
McDonald’s: $37 billion in yearly US sales.
Chick-fil-A: $9 billion in yearly US sales. https://t.co/lW3fOirV9e— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #30 Charles Johnson
We’re talking about making more than 3 million people homeless.
Which the Republicans want to trigger so they and their Fox/OANN/Newsmax pals can blame Joe.
re: #40 plansbandc
I just blocked a “good liberal” on twitter who was happy Biden was going to let the ban on evictions expire.
FFS
I can’t believe the assholes without empathy haven’t figured out how catastrophic it’s going to be to the economy to put 3 million more people on the street.
Those of us who care about other people? God Damn. Biden can eat a bag of dicks for that decision. Sorry about my more than usual horrible language, but this sucks.
It’s not like with the ban expiring everyone will be on the streets the next day. It takes many months in most states to evict someone. Many people are abusing the situation and there is no recourse. It’s also impossible to evict bad actors for being shit tenants, damaging the property, and making life miserable for everyone else in the building. This isn’t about a lack of empathy; it’s about seeing the bigger picture.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Unfortunately mask mandates and restrictions are a fucking mess all over the country right now. It’s tough to know what rules apply where and when.
cf
- gun laws
- election laws
- abortion laws
sucks being a federation sometimes
re: #39 JC1
But we’re not. Are there really 3 million people who can’t afford rent right now? If so then they should be helped within reason.
A blanket eviction ban has many unintended consequences besides distorting the market.
A friend of mine owns an apartment building. She can’t evict bad actors who are damaging the property and making life miserable for other tenants. It’ll cost her 10s of thousands of dollars to fix up the mess once things settle down.
From the article I posted.
By the end of March, 6.4 million American households were behind on their rent, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. As of July 5, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.
re: #35 BlueSpotinAL
Recipe idea for what to do when the okra crop starts to come in:
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Next week I will reveal what guys can do when the zucchini crop comes in.
What is that from?
re: #33 Charles Johnson
A virus, which is like a dragon, which will turn on you and grill you at least medium rare in the instant you cease respecting it.
Like it or not, but 😷🧼↔️💉are the only tools at our disposal to fight #TheCrownedBastard™.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
Period.
Full stop.
/END— 🤬🌡↔️🧼😷 Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬 (@Teukka72) July 29, 2021
re: #32 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #18 Teukka
JFC… How long before someone gets killed?
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when someone is at your door, your 2a rights include keeping and bearing arms.
and that means controlling your weapons, at all times.
your 2a rights do not include shooting someone who rang your doorbell
re: #46 Charles Johnson
From the article I posted.
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
re: #51 Dangerman
when someone is at your door, your 2a rights include keeping and bearing arms.
and that means controlling your weapons, at all times.your 2a rights do not include shooting someone who rang your doorbell
Why do I see a grizzly coming up behind the vaccination guy, aiming an AR-15 at the 2A afficianado, then the scene where the vaccination guy goes “Oh. Bear arms. I thought it meant arm bears.” to the police officer? /S
One can only hope that that fucking liar Christopher Ruddy who continually lied about Hillary killing Vince Foster gets the karmic retribution he so richly deserves.
The sudden rise and precipitous fall of Newsmax, explained to me by right-wing media expert @JasonSCampbell https://t.co/eUkiNFVR1M
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2021
re: #52 JC1
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
It seems like you think like an uncaring Libertarian or a cruel Conservative. Most people do the right thing just to do the right thing.
re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And then there’s tough girl, Nancy Mace. Not much of a match for the other Nancy, but she thinks she’s really something (she is “something,” but not the “something” she thinks she is. So sad that she beat Joe Cunningham. Sigh.)
Madam Speaker, your insane power grab is showing. Today I’m not wearing a mask outside of the chamber b/c I follow science — not Pelosi. Come and get me. pic.twitter.com/7vDNn4Tzke
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 29, 2021
re: #44 JC1
It’s not like with the ban expiring everyone will be on the streets the next day. It takes many months in most states to evict someone. Many people are abusing the situation and there is no recourse. It’s also impossible to evict bad actors for being shit tenants, damaging the property, and making life miserable for everyone else in the building. This isn’t about a lack of empathy; it’s about seeing the bigger picture.
It wouldn’t take many months. There are lots and lots of landlords arguing a ban on evictions doesn’t mean they can’t get their FED judgment and everything lined up so they can immediately send the police/constable out to evict people once the ban is lifted.
Aside from that, most jurisdictions mandate that FED/eviction proceedings are expedited. Even if a landlord was starting largely from scratch, FED actions move really quickly.
I tend to agree that a blanket ban can’t last forever and there needs to be some provision requiring demonstrating a legitimate hardship in order to avoid the eviction process. But if the bans on evictions are lifted immediately at all levels, it would be a mess in short order.
re: #52 JC1
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
You think all 6.4 million households behind on rent are just getting a free ride? And all 3.6 million facing eviction are bad tenants who deserve to be homeless?
re: #48 plansbandc
Nope. It’s a lack of empathy.
Yeah, you sure know the hearts of men. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s just that empathy shouldn’t trump all other considerations.
Why should anyone bother paying rent if there’s no downside to not paying it?
What about empathy for landlords?
Beneath these GDP numbers are an effective vaccine rollout & the ambitious relief funding in the American Rescue Plan.
Now, our task is to move forward and continue building a fairer, stronger, more resilient economy where American workers can compete and win on the world stage.— Secretary Janet Yellen (@SecYellen) July 29, 2021
re: #52 JC1
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
The downside is they might have been able to pay at a certain point, but having a 12 month rent check come due is no longer affordable.
But there are certainly a non-negligible portion of those behind on their rent who undoubtedly took advantage of the situation.
re: #56 BeachDem
And then there’s tough girl, Nancy Mace. Not much of a match for the other Nancy, but she thinks she’s really something (she is “something,” but not the “something” she thinks she is. So sad that she beat Joe Cunningham. Sigh.)
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re: #61 Mike Lamb
The downside is they might have been able to pay at a certain point, but having a 12 month rent check come due is no longer affordable.
But there are certainly a non-negligible portion of those behind on their rent who undoubtedly took advantage of the situation.
We don’t have any stats on it, but I’d bet the number of people who are deliberately behind on rent because they think they’re getting a free ride is very small indeed.
re: #56 BeachDem
And then there’s tough girl, Nancy Mace. Not much of a match for the other Nancy, but she thinks she’s really something (she is “something,” but not the “something” she thinks she is. So sad that she beat Joe Cunningham. Sigh.)
Another childish right-wing dickhead who just can’t do the right thing in a crisis that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Grow the fuck up.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 29, 2021
re: #59 JC1
Yeah, you sure know the hearts of men. It’s not a lack of empathy, it’s just that empathy shouldn’t trump all other considerations.
Why should anyone bother paying rent if there’s no downside to not paying it?What about empathy for landlords?
I moved into my apartment in 1988—Rent $390 with utilities paid.
Rent now in 2021—$1,285 with utilities not included.
Any improvements done on the building? Nope.
re: #56 BeachDem
More proof the GOP is divorced from facts and reality:https://t.co/hNL4koR2MT
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 29, 2021
re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It seems like you think like an uncaring Libertarian or a cruel Conservative. Most people do the right thing just to do the right thing.
It seems to me that you don’t know a damn thing about me or how I think, and instead of addressing what I said, you ascribe boogie man attributes to me.
Study after study shows that most people won’t automatically do the right thing. If most people did the right thing just to do the right thing, we wouldn’t need all those laws and enforcement mechanisms. If most people did the right thing, charities would be enough, which is actually a libertarian view.
Even if you just say that the bad actors are just libertarians or conservatives that’s still 100+ million people.
The covid rescue packages had a lot of different components, including expanded unemployment insurance with bonus payments from the federal government. What’s the scenario where someone who was able to pay rent pre pandemic, now can’t when if they’re unemployed they’re still able to collect substantial money?
re: #59 JC1
You know what? We aren’t going to agree on this one ever. So how about we drop it?
re: #52 JC1
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
The downside was the knowledge that the rent was still due and payable when the moratorium ended. Renters who let it slide for a year and a half would owe a massive lump sum payout when it ends. Those who could afford to keep up would do so to keep that from happening.
Charles, I’m curious. If it were up to you, how long would you maintain the eviction freeze for?
re: #30 Charles Johnson
We’re talking about making more than 3 million people homeless.
re: #52 JC1
Behind on rent doesn’t mean can’t afford to pay it. It’s rational for renters not to pay rent and get a free ride. What’s the downside?
Yeah, they’re probably using their “free ride” to pay for food, electricity, heating (okay not right now) bills, medicine, and other things that are equally necessities.
So the real question here, is who does the federal government want to leave in the lurch here. An owner of rental property? A utility company? The owner of medical debt?
Are we going to have a moratorium on cutting off electricity and/or gas for non-payment of bills. Are we going to have a moratorium on medical bill collection? Are we going to have increased WIC for those who need it?
Now. if we actually had generous, means-tested federal government rental assistance, with an assurance that rents are kept stable, and give priority to individual owners who own less than a certain number of rental units* (or units with a total value), then we’d manage to keep people in their homes and not screw over people who may own a small number of rental properties.
*This is the tricky part. We need to make sure Thomas Barrack’s firm doesn’t get assistance, but need to make sure that Joe who owns a single rental property can still get paid.
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
Charles, I’m curious. If it were up to you, how long would you maintain the eviction freeze for?
I’m no expert, and I don’t know enough about all the issues and costs to have an opinion on that.
I just know that turning more than 3 million people out onto the street, all at once, while a pandemic is surging again, would be a giant nightmare.
re: #58 Charles Johnson
You think all 6.4 million households behind on rent are just getting a free ride? And all 3.6 million facing eviction are bad tenants who deserve to be homeless?
I don’t know what the numbers of people getting a free ride are, and I suspect neither do you. I don’t know what percentage of the 3.6 million are truly in financial distress vs gaming the system. The unemployment benefits with the federal bonus are enough to pay for rent in most jurisdictions.
I don’t want to see people kicked out on the streets.
How long do you want to see a federal moratorium on evictions and foreclosures go on? What’s the endgame? Another 6 months? Another 10 years? Serious question.
I’ve owned rent houses for 20 years. I have never come close to evicting someone, and relatively few individual landlords do. The big evictors are tax shelter apartment complexes or other large scale investment operations where anybody who lets basic humanity interfere with the bottom line will do so at the risk of their livelihood.
I think I’m gonna buy the movie rights to this #Kisscam GIF. Who’s in? pic.twitter.com/71zIZbZMyi
— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) July 28, 2021
re: #63 Charles Johnson
We don’t have any stats on it, but I’d bet the number of people who are deliberately behind on rent because they think they’re getting a free ride is very small indeed.
Maybe. But I expect the number of people who can pay, but aren’t has risen as the eviction moratorium has continued.
all professional tax prep software sucks
windows or otherwise
all
do
not
fight
me
(i am in a mood, not of my own doing)
The GOP is the pro-death party. https://t.co/WgYxSTdrtY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
re: #72 Charles Johnson
I just know that turning more than 3 million people out onto the street, all at once, while a pandemic is surging again, would be a giant nightmare.
Yeah, I’m with you on this.
re: #71 aatharuv
Yeah, they’re probably using their “free ride” to pay for food, electricity, heating (okay not right now) bills, medicine, and other things that are equally necessities.
So the real question here, is who does the federal government want to leave in the lurch here. An owner of rental property? A utility company? The owner of medical debt?
Are we going to have a moratorium on cutting off electricity and/or gas for non-payment of bills. Are we going to have a moratorium on medical bill collection? Are we going to have increased WIC for those who need it?
Now. if we actually had generous, means-tested federal government rental assistance, with an assurance that rents are kept stable, and give priority to individual owners who own less than a certain number of rental units* (or units with a total value), then we’d manage to keep people in their homes and not screw over people who may own a small number of rental properties.
*This is the tricky part.
Lots of places put moratoriums on debt collections. Colorado, for instance, allowed people to opt effectively out of the collection process for about 7-8 months.
File under, “we’re not making this shit up, really”:
BREAKING: Arkansas Governor Hutchinson declares public health emergency, says masks will not be required and “we’re going to be wide open”
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) July 29, 2021
Of course, true sleaze-bag tenants (with whom I have never been cursed) will skip out to keep from paying back rent as soon as the moratorium ends. We may see a lot of homeless people but there could also be a mini-glut of available housing, which would help mitigate homelessness quite a bit.
re: #82 Teukka
File under, “we’re not making this shit up, really”:
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Here we go, Gooberdammerung.
The excitement from this old puppy for the new puppy is everything… pic.twitter.com/6bTYKrQ9k5
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 29, 2021
re: #65 JOE 🥓
I moved into my apartment in 1988—Rent $390 with utilities paid.
Rent now in 2021—$1,285 with utilities not included.
Any improvements done on the building? Nope.
1) Inflation.
2) what was the change in property taxes during that time.
re: #78 Dangerman
all professional tax prep software sucks
windows or otherwiseall
do
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fight
me
(i am in a mood, not of my own doing)
I have to do my state tax return on paper, because it’s the only way I can get all the deductions I am entitled to.
re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth
😍
Thank you for all the feel good tweets you post here. Because of you, I can count on getting a feel-good fix at LGF most every day.
What right-wing racism?
No words. https://t.co/4jOoa1ESXb pic.twitter.com/wojmVHC1iy
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 29, 2021
“She will go at no elms to break the rules” — Kevin McCarthy on Pelosi
(does anybody understand this?) pic.twitter.com/Rihw6rh53y— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
Everybody knows elms are the dastardly rule-breakers of the arboreal realm.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2021
Apparently this fascist thinks his problem is his lawyer, and not his own lawlessness.
So… it appears Jan 6 defendant Ryan Samsel called the judge’s chambers to tell the court he’s dumping his defense lawyer & will find a new one.
Samsel’s accused of knocking police officer unconscious at Capitol & has LOST several efforts to get released from jail until trial pic.twitter.com/PQw7xWXRuf— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 29, 2021
This is a real test for @GOPLeader McCarthy, whose ambition to become Speaker is conspicuous and all-consuming.
Does he cater to the crazy caucus/Trump & sanction @RepLizCheney & @RepKinzinger?
If he does, he’ll further erode the party brand with suburban voters the @GOP needs. https://t.co/Cabwl0bXso— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 29, 2021
re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It seems like you think like an uncaring Libertarian or a cruel Conservative. Most people do the right thing just to do the right thing.
I can believe there are people cheating this, just like I can believe there are people cheating SNAP or Medicaid. But the vast majority aren’t. In all of these cases, it would be far better to make a system that allows you to deal with the cheaters than punish those that need it.
re: #82 Teukka
Same fuckers who are claiming that they’re following the science are doing the exact opposite because they aren’t mandating masking or vaccinations in states that have paltry vaccination rates and low masking compliance rates before that.
All the available evidence points to masking if you’re not fully vaccinated. It’s also leaning towards masking even among those fully vaccinated.
Performative bulkshit from right wingers who think masking infringes their freedoms but hospitalizations, deaths, and resulting medical bills don’t.
Have you heard about Gateway Pundit - one of the biggest spreaders of election misinformation?
Here’s how our campaign, @SFMisinfo played a role in disrupting their funding 👇👇 https://t.co/KqEZTCaem7— Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate) July 29, 2021
re: #56 BeachDem
And then there’s tough girl, Nancy Mace. Not much of a match for the other Nancy, but she thinks she’s really something (she is “something,” but not the “something” she thinks she is. So sad that she beat Joe Cunningham. Sigh.)
The virus is going “See you soon.”
re: #86 JC1
1) Inflation.
2) what was the change in property taxes during that time.
You’re actually asking about property tax increases?
Does “Proposition 13” ring a bell?
re: #96 lawhawk
Same fuckers who are claiming that they’re following the science are doing the exact opposite because they aren’t mandating masking or vaccinations in states that have paltry vaccination rates and low masking compliance rates before that.
All the available evidence points to masking if you’re not fully vaccinated. It’s also leaning towards masking even among those fully vaccinated.
Performative bulkshit from right wingers who think masking infringes their freedoms but hospitalizations, deaths, and resulting medical bills don’t.
People who conflate sex and gender also say they’re following the science. It’s like they want to pretend to be serious people, even though they don’t actually support scientific research.
re: #90 Charles Johnson
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I’m still trying to figure out what Barry Moore is talking about in re: Marjorie Taylor Green:
“She will fight a circular saw in a phone book for the good of this country”
re: #95 Belafon
I can believe there are people cheating this, just like I can believe there are people cheating SNAP or Medicaid. But the vast majority aren’t. In all of these cases, it would be far better to make a system that allows you to deal with the cheaters than punish those that need it.
That’s why it seemed like the beliefs of a Libertarian or Conservative, people who are so concerned about people getting away with something that they will destroy the lives of decent people who are struggling.
re: #101 BeachDem
I’m still trying to figure out what Barry Moore is talking about in re: Marjorie Taylor Green:
“She will fight a circular saw in a phone book for the good of this country”
You’ve never heard the folksy phrase “circular saw in a phone book?”
Yeah, me neither.
re: #89 No Malarkey!
What right-wing racism?
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Remember folks our racist Chief Justice said that racism no longer exists in the You-Knight-Ted States of Murka!
Is somebody here really asking us to have empathy for apartment building owners?
How will they ever survive?
re: #105 EstebanTornado1963
Is somebody here really asking us to have empathy for apartment building owners?
How will they ever survive?
Especially the slumlord parents of Count Fuckula!
we’re all gonna take it!
yeah! we’re all gonna take it!
we’re all gonna take it …
the vaccine!— Jimbo Hesi (@JimboHesi) July 29, 2021
re: #65 JOE 🥓
I moved into my apartment in 1988—Rent $390 with utilities paid.
Rent now in 2021—$1,285 with utilities not included.
Any improvements done on the building? Nope.
And due to Prop 13, your landlord’s property tax bill is still exactly the same as it was in 1988.
15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Loki (Cracked)
Israelis age 60 and older will begin getting third covid vaccine shots next week, making it one of the first nations in the world to begin delivering booster shots amid a resurgence in infections.https://t.co/tyVStVv8nP
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 29, 2021
This is cool:
University of Washington (UW) scientists formulated a technique for using a gaming graphics card to control plasma formation in an experimental fusion reactor. The team utilized a Tesla graphics processing unit (GPU) from NVIDIA, which is engineered for machine learning applications. The card enabled the team to refine how plasmas entered the reactor, offering a more precise view of plasma formation. The prototype reactor self-generates magnetic fields within the plasma, making it potentially smaller and more affordable than other reactors that employ external fields. UW’s Chris Hansen said, “This new system lets us try newer, more advanced algorithms that could enable significantly better control, which can open a world of new applications for plasma and fusion technology.”
🚨NEWS— House Democratic leaders are currently whipping an extension of the eviction moratorium until Dec. 31. They hope to bring it up this week.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 29, 2021
The newest processor from U.K. chip designer Arm reportedly can be printed directly onto paper, cardboard, or cloth. Arm’s James Myers said the 32-bit PlasticARM chip can run various applications, although it presently uses read-only memory, and so can only execute the code with which it was built. The processor features circuits and components printed onto a plastic substrate, with 56,340 elements taking up less than 60 square millimeters. PlasticARM has roughly 12 times as many components to conduct calculations as the previous best flexible chip, with the potential to give everyday items like clothing and food containers the ability to collect, process, and transmit information across the Internet.
re: #113 Belafon
Is it available in vaccine form?
re: #113 Belafon
“food containers the ability to collect, process, and transmit information across the Internet.”
Wi-Fi enabled Tupperware. Great. Just what we need.
/
And today’s episode of STUPID TREK!
Trump-promoted ‘Alien DNA’ doctor files $100 million defamation suit against CNN
A new lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleges that CNN host Anderson Cooper defamed Dr. Stella Immanuel when he called her a “snake-oil salesman” due to her promotion of hydroxychloroquine, the Trump-promoted anti-malarial drug that multiple studies have shown to be ineffective at treating COVID-19.
In fact, Cooper called her a snake-oil salesman not only for her advocacy of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, but also for her theories about demons impregnating human women during their sleep and about physicians using “alien DNA” to treat their patients.
However, the lawsuit claims that “Cooper and CNN attributed statements to Dr. Immanuel that she never made” and says that “the statements regarding demons and aliens were simply fabricated.”
However, Immanuel’s speech about demons impregnating women can still be found on YouTube, and she promotes it with the following tagline: “Deliverance From Spirit Husbands and Spirit Wives (Incubus and Succubus) — these are demons the lust men and women and sleep with them in the dream.”
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
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4x400 Butt sniff relay.
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
“food containers the ability to collect, process, and transmit information across the Internet.”
Wi-Fi enabled Tupperware. Great. Just what we need.
/
Your current containers can’t even talk to your refrigerator, like back in the caveman days.
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re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
“food containers the ability to collect, process, and transmit information across the Internet.”
Wi-Fi enabled Tupperware. Great. Just what we need.
/
“ALERT! UNABLE TO DETERMINE MYSTERY MEAT IN THIS CONTAINER!”
re: #108 sagehen
33% higher plus special assessments: the law allows a 1% increase per year
they’re at it again
House NOW voting on motion to adjourn by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), delaying a final vote on the Senate-passed $2.1B US Capitol security/Afghan relocation emergency supplemental spending bill.
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) July 29, 2021
re: #99 JOE 🥓
You’re actually asking about property tax increases?
Does “Proposition 13” ring a bell?
You’re paying 1200 rent in Cali? Sign me up!
Looking forward to these idiots, Jordan, Greene, Gaetz, etc. incriminating themselves in front of ‘friendly’ media groups…
He’s as fidgety as a squirrel on meth. Talk faster, Jim…and keep implicating retiree Trump.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 29, 2021
re: #122 JC1
You’re paying 1200 rent in Cali? Sign me up!
I’ve lived here 33 years with rent stabilization.
If you want to move into my building now singles are $1895 and One bedrooms are $2450.
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
they’re at it again
RIGHT NOW: The House is trying to vote on $2 billion for Capitol Police & other agencies that responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
But we can’t. One Republican, @RepChipRoy, wants to adjourn the House because he refuses to wear a mask.
This is the @HouseGOP today.— Rep. Ted Deutch (@RepTedDeutch) July 29, 2021
re: #105 EstebanTornado1963
Is somebody here really asking us to have empathy for apartment building owners?
How will they ever survive?
Not every apartment owner is a slum lord with 100s of units…
re: #124 JOE 🥓
I’ve lived here 33 years with rent stabilization.
If you want to move into my building now singles ate $1895 and One bedrooms are $2450.
And what do you suppose those prices would be if Cali had banned evictions for the past decade?
re: #124 JOE 🥓
I’ve lived here 33 years with rent stabilization.
If you want to move into my building now singles ate $1895 and One bedrooms are $2450.
I don’t dare tell my rent (including 1G/1G intertubes) for my 33 sq m (355 sq ft) single downtown…
4500 SEK ($450) -ish
re: #123 darthstar
Looking forward to these idiots, Jordan, Greene, Gaetz, etc. incriminating themselves in front of ‘friendly’ media groups…
Does the select committee have subpoena power for phone records? Exactly what times were the calls and how long did they last?
re: #127 JC1
And what do you suppose those prices would be if Cali had banned evictions for the past decade?
Do you really think I give an aerodynamic intercourse aimed at Earth’s Natural Satellite about the rich?
re: #126 JC1
Not every apartment owner is a slum lord with 100s of units…
true; but the people who own the majority of units are hedge funds, REITs, etc.
Individual human beings who own an investment property own far fewer properties.
In fact, we own a duplex several hundred feet from our home, holding it for one of our children. We haven’t gotten any rent from the five tenants since October and now have to consider selling the property because we are retired and on fixed income whilst paying our own mortgage.
re: #132 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
In fact, we own a duplex several hundred feet from our home, holding it for one of our children. We haven’t gotten any rent from the five tenants since October and now have to consider selling the property because we are retired and on fixed income whilst paying our own mortgage.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if you were stiffed out of any PPA help. Lots of Mom & Pop places here were stiffed but the big chains got that PPA help
re: #126 JC1
Not every apartment owner is a slum lord with 100s of units…
Just for context: How many apartment units do you happen to own, if any?
Full disclosure: I own none.
re: #128 Teukka
I paid something like that for my first flat in Steamboat Springs, CO - with two roommates, utilities not included, communal ski storage (and waxing table, complete with iron and vise grips) and hot tub, three blocks from the base area of the ski area with bus service - in 2002.
Performative assholery is basically all the House GOP has left. https://t.co/9qVcQvUeLF
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 29, 2021
Matt Gaetz complaining about being locked out of jail is just too funny for words
Have patience man, you will be the soon enough pic.twitter.com/3z8Nt4c82M— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 29, 2021
re: #101 BeachDem
I’m still trying to figure out what Barry Moore is talking about in re: Marjorie Taylor Green:
“She will fight a circular saw in a phone book for the good of this country”
I think the phrase is probably likelier to be “fight a circular saw in a phone booth” - which makes vaguely more “sense” (using that term VERY loosely), if no less stupid.
Also: IIJM, or is Kevin McCarthy pretty much near the absolutely WORST House Leader (of any Party) in living memory? The only thing he seems capable of doing wrt to “leadership” is staging regular presentations of Imbecile Theater to spout cliched insults about the Speaker, the Democrats, the President, etc…
NFL team pays Twitter to distribute an anti-vax message from one of its players. pic.twitter.com/RfuR36PNLy
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) July 29, 2021
re: #116 JOE 🥓
And today’s episode of STUPID TREK!
Trump-promoted ‘Alien DNA’ doctor files $100 million defamation suit against CNN
“Deliverance From Spirit Husbands and Spirit Wives (Incubus and Succubus) — these are demons the lust men and women and sleep with them in the dream.”
Are their genitals like those of donkeys and their emissions like those of horses? (See Ezekial 23:20, you dirty minded heathens.)
re: #135 A Three Hour Tour
Just for context: How many apartment units do you happen to own, if any?
Full disclosure: I own none.
I own none personally. Have friends who own a few and one friend who’s family owns around 70.
In fairness, I hear most of the complaints from the friend who manages dozens of the family properties.
If you look at the real estate market in general today, it’s insane. Home prices are up 15%+ year over year. The big contributing factors are very low interest rates, covid disruption of the construction industry, remote workers fleeing cities, and the foreclosure moratorium (which goes hand in hand with the eviction moratorium). At some point housing prices will return to reality and a lot of homeowners will be underwater with their mortgage. The longer these forces go on, the worse the fallout will be, IMHO.
re: #105 EstebanTornado1963
Is somebody here really asking us to have empathy for apartment building owners?
How will they ever survive?
As I commented elsewhere to a self-professed “libertarian”
It’s hard for the economically illiterate to understand but if you help people pay their rent, that helps the person they’re paying the rent to. That’s why stimulus helps the economy but austerity never does.
Very simple - helping the rent get paid - and preventing evictions - is the only way to have empathy for the owners.
God, the scene at the end of this story, where the man’s wife and son sit outside his hospital window in lawn chairs, sweltering, just to keep him company….https://t.co/QMMiRv15VT
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) July 29, 2021
Montana just passed a bill through their Death Party legislature and signed by libertarian dickhead governor Greg Gianforte amending Montana Civil Rights Law.
It is now a crime to discriminate against anyone who is unvaccinated, putting the willfully ignorant into the same class as Woman or Black.
That’s all vaccines, not just Covid-19.
As it turns out, the bill doesn’t have a caveat even for your own home, so you cannot discriminate against a plumber or a babysitter.
Rebecca Shoenkopf lives across the street from the state senate president, so she had some questions for this when the state Department of Labor sent her as a Montana employer to read about the new law and how it applies to her.
Needless to say, as a conservative, the state senate president is a liar, so he tried to lie his way through a direct conversation with Ms. Shoenkopf about the law he voted for.
Speaking to an ACLU lawyer, the lawyer sums up the law as “yeah, he’s lying about it.”
It gives exceptions only to nursing homes and sincerely-held religious beliefs not to wear masks or get vaccines.
You do not have a religious exemption to exclude people from your home if you support vaccines or masks.
The whole article is wild.
re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
fixed the above link, I put the wrong article up there.
re: #144 JC1
If you look at the real estate market in general today, it’s insane. Home prices are up 15%+ year over year. The big contributing factors are very low interest rates, covid disruption of the construction industry, remote workers fleeing cities, and the foreclosure moratorium (which goes hand in hand with the eviction moratorium). At some point housing prices will return to reality and a lot of homeowners will be underwater with their mortgage. The longer these forces go on, the worse the fallout will be, IMHO.
Speculators and flippers are a problem too.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
Here’s your money quote:
“I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.”
re: #145 William Lewis
As I commented elsewhere to a self-professed “libertarian”
Very simple - helping the rent get paid - and preventing evictions - is the only way to have empathy for the owners.
Congress allocated close to 50 billion for rent assistance, and for some reason it’s not getting to those who need it. That money would go a long way to helping those in need financially.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #143 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Are their genitals like those of donkeys and their emissions like those of horses? (See Ezekial 23:30, you dirty minded heathens.)
Oh no! They’re the Nephilim!
big talk there little tommy
“Hell no, I’m not backing down” — Rep. Thomas Massie says he won’t wear a mask on the House floor pic.twitter.com/0ySNktBzG5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
RE mandatory masking. Just got a text* from my old employer stating that the NGCB has reinstated masking for all individuals on the gaming floors & restaurants starting at midnight tonight. They’ll be shutting down the bars again here real soon.
* It’s an automated system that I should have been removed from when I self-terminated back in May. Since the txts don’t cost me anything I’m not going to worry about it.
Some kid about 35 years from now: “Grandpa, tell us about that time everyone went crazy because of a piece of cloth.”
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s your money quote:
“I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.”
He seems to still not know that “strong conservative” is just a longer way of saying “stupid,” even after being stupid put him in this position.
A Republican senator asked Biden’s Justice Department nominee: “Do you believe in God?”
Can you imagine the reaction on the right if a Democratic senator posed that question to literally any Republican nominee? https://t.co/aXVTT1naul pic.twitter.com/qIk5s3VnUg— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2021
re: #136 teleskiguy
I paid something like that for my first flat in Steamboat Springs, CO - with two roommates, utilities not included, communal ski storage (and waxing table, complete with iron and vise grips) and hot tub, three blocks from the base area of the ski area with bus service - in 2002.
And some individuals ridicule that the government here got a vote of no confidence because it failed to take an overt stance against letting the market decide rent levels. Because many know what the consequences of that will be. Like, in my political circles, there is this joke:
Q: “How do you spell market rents?”
A: “U-S-U-R-Y…”
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
big talk there little tommy
You know how at church they have a separate “Crying Room” for babies? Maybe Massie could sit there. #MaskUp #BeAGrownUp
— Anne Mitchell (@tizzie) July 29, 2021
re: #145 William Lewis
As I commented elsewhere to a self-professed “libertarian”
Very simple - helping the rent get paid - and preventing evictions - is the only way to have empathy for the owners.
I agree. Moving on with an “Eviction” on your record is not always easy plus the renters’ “Credit” standing will suffer much.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Here’s your money quote:
“I was strongly against getting the vaccine,” Barker said through labored breathing. “Just because we’re a strong conservative family.”
ok so a lot of people didnt trust the science, didnt understand or were persuaded or whatever
now we’re reading about all these dire ill people who maybe, finally get it. and many of them too late and die.
ok there are still a boatload who think ‘it wont happen to us’
and probably another ton who dont realize living through infection is not a cakewalk and can mean permanent disabilities and health issues
STILL when (if ever) are they gonna have an aha moment and realize that 99% of those dying are not vaccinated
that they and those like them /em> are (mostly) the only ones dying.
the only ones they’re writing these stories about.
does this never become clear in their minds?
re: #132 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
In fact, we own a duplex several hundred feet from our home, holding it for one of our children. We haven’t gotten any rent from the five tenants since October and now have to consider selling the property because we are retired and on fixed income whilst paying our own mortgage.
Do you think that all 5 of those tenants are unable to pay the rent? Are they getting unemployment assistance?
You should be able to defer the mortgage.
re: #137 EstebanTornado1963
Poor babies
Yeah, you’re saying that to the person who wrote message 132…
Biden says “a mask is not a political statement” and, of course, he is right in principle.
But a significant chunk of the country is treating it as one. Which is a problem.— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) July 29, 2021
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just wish sane Americans could get their kids vaccinated to protect them from the trashy, destructive, people who refuse to behave like responsible adults.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 29, 2021
The conservative House Freedom Caucus is calling for the removal of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) from the Republican caucus, an effort to punish the pair for joining the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, NBC News reports.
just imagine it
R’s want to cancel somebody
eta: a cheney
It’s. A. Cult. A lucrative one too, I guess.
For $45, religious-right activist Gordon Klingenschmitt will sell you a golden Trump coin “to remind you to pray for our 45th president.” pic.twitter.com/FIMlekLj10
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 28, 2021
For the past several days I’ve been thinking about posting a big rant against anti-vaxxers and mask morons on my social media. I know it will lose me some friends but I’m starting to think it’s worth it.
We’ll see what happens.
re: #161 JC1
Where’s your empathy?
People who own multiple properties get no sympathy from me when they spread themselves too thin going for the almighty dollar, then they wanna cry they can’t make ends meet.
re: #170 teleskiguy
It’s. A. Cult. A lucrative one too, I guess.
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Let’s see, brass coin costs about 20¢ to stamp and the sleazy motherfather sells it for $45. And since he’s still a pulpit pimp it’s sweet sweet tax-exempt cash!
re: #170 teleskiguy
At first I missed where it said “coin” and only read “Golden Trump” but given these morons, that seems very plausible too.
Elected Republicans spectacularly fail self-imposed public intelligence tests everyday. https://t.co/kqT3zkLRmp
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 29, 2021
re: #151 JC1
Congress allocated close to 50 billion for rent assistance, and for some reason it’s not getting to those who need it. That money would go a long way to helping those in need financially.
I work part time for the local housing authority.
The application for Rent Assistance, I’m told, is 14 pages long. That’s a major problem for a lot of people. Online or telephone assistance is not, apparently, available (or wasn’t at the time of our last meeting.), The local Ojibwa reservation has a trimmed form that they use that’s only 2 pages (front & back) and they’re having much more use of the programs.
re: #172 EstebanTornado1963
People who own multiple properties get no sympathy from me when they spread themselves too thin going for the almighty dollar, then they wanna cry they can’t make ends meets.
Read post 132. Empathy doesn’t mean much if it’s only for people just like you. Isn’t that one of the things that we rake the right wingers over the coals with: that nothing matters until it happens to them or someone they care about?
re: #170 teleskiguy
So the Golden Trump is actually sounding brass?
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Which is it, vaccines or masks?” — Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) throws a tantrum on the House floor, protesting the reimposed House mask requirement.
until enough people do the first, it’s both
and if people in the know - scientists, doctors, and other medical professionals - not you - say even the vax isnt enough you should still mask, then again, it’s both.
and smart people will do it.
re: #177 William Lewis
I work part time for the local housing authority.
The application for Rent Assistance, I’m told, is 14 pages long. That’s a major problem for a lot of people. Online or telephone assistance is not, apparently, available (or wasn’t at the time of our last meeting.), The local Ojibwa reservation has a trimmed form that they use that’s only 2 pages (front & back) and they’re having much more use of the programs.
Yikes. I wonder if someone made it overly complex on purpose, like Florida’s unemployment system. Wouldn’t surprise me.
The governor of Texas is still trying his best to kill us.
BREAKING: @GregAbbott_TX’s latest executive order outlaws vaccine requirements from governments or entities receiving state funds.
ALSO it seems to remove local officials’ ability to impose restrictions if hospitalizations go above 15% of capacity. pic.twitter.com/Z5gFkZZhk3— Matt Largey (@mattlargey) July 29, 2021
Biden calls for cash incentives for those who are unvaxxed, says, “I know paying people to get vaccinated might sound unfair to folks who have gotten vaccinated already. But here’s the deal — if incentives help us beat this virus, I believe we should use them.” pic.twitter.com/3Y2VgcsXgC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
re: #178 JC1
Read post 132. Empathy doesn’t mean much if it’s only for people just like you. Isn’t that one of the things that we rake the right wingers over the coals with: that nothing matters until it happens to them or someone they care about?
Why you keep going on about them when I am clearly talking about people or corporations who own multiple properties when the sole objective is profit. The other person invested to provide for their family. They are having a problem which I believe they can overcome. Do you have a problem with that?
By the way, if you wanna take advantage of others, use the stock market. That’s where I go when I wanna get money off speculators.
I may be getting this wrong, being so tired I can’t see straight, but it looks like this cartoon about stoned cats is exclusively for people who pay $800 for access.
Mila Kunis’ ‘Stoner Cats’ Cartoon Is Making Millions Selling NFTs (Motherboard)
re: #181 JC1
Yikes. I wonder if someone made it overly complex on purpose, like Florida’s unemployment system. Wouldn’t surprise me.
Lots of Republicans gerrymandered and dug in around here…
re: #185 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Another sign there’s a lot of spare money sloshing around at the top of the heap.
Apparently there are 252 statues of men around the Capitol.
There are 14 statues of women.— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 29, 2021
From downstairs:
re: #343 cat-tikvah
Name this band: Gohmert, Greene, Gaetz and Gosar….
Gang of 4G?
QAnon Quartet?
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
“That question is a violation of my HIPPA rights.” is what I would have said.
re: #184 EstebanTornado1963
Why you keep going on about them when I am clearly talking about people or corporations who own multiple properties when the sole objective is profit. The other person invested to provide for their family. They are having a problem which I believe they can overcome. Do you have a problem with that?
By the way, if you wanna take advantage of others, use the stock market. That’s where I go when I wanna get money off speculators.
I wrote that not every landlord owned 100s of units, clearly talking about smaller operations. Your follow up responses were boohoo, cry me a river.
No idea what you mean about using the stock market to take advantage of other people. That doesn’t make any sense to me. Care to elaborate…
They really suck at this being activists thing. https://t.co/vUhQnFPQsT
— Patti M Piatt #BlackLivesMatter (@PiattPatti) July 29, 2021
re: #191 JC1
I wrote that not every landlord owned 100s of units, clearly talking about smaller operations. Your follow up responses were boohoo, cry me a river.
No idea what you mean about using the stock market to take advantage of other people. That doesn’t make any sense to me. Care to elaborate…
Then we’re done, I clearly posted what I was talking about.
re: #163 Dangerman
It does not exist for a conservative unless it happens to them personally.
The guy said he wouldn’t get a vaccine because of strong conservative values.
He infected ten other people in his family. They are killing their own children.
I guarantee you that guy is also a strong Christian, who is quite fine with sickening or killing others, including his own children (the phrase I use to describe that is “the best of your children will not follow you” because they leave Christianity and conservatism).
His wife says she will get the vaccine after he gets out of the hospital (not now).
They are getting a real-time lesson in evolution by natural selection (which they also “don’t believe in.”)
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
For the past several days I’ve been thinking about posting a big rant against anti-vaxxers and mask morons on my social media. I know it will lose me some friends but I’m starting to think it’s worth it.
We’ll see what happens.
If someone wants to infect you with a deadly disease, they are not your friend.
Beshear: 1,618 new cases in Kentucky today, another increase. 8.55% positivity rate, another increase.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 29, 2021
SO…GOP Representatives, I want to get this right for my notes. What you are saying is that if the conditions in one place are not good and you feel there is a better place, you should be able to meander, or say, migrate over to a…better place? https://t.co/cknsgXlzs0
— Astrid Silva (@Astrid_NV) July 29, 2021
re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth
they’re at it again
My company just announced masks on for everyone tomorrow.
The same people who dismiss genocide, slavery, internment, Jim Crow, red lining, child separation, & the insurrection as no big deal, meanwhile scream oppression at wearing a mask for a few hours to stop a deadly virus. Imagine the privilege. https://t.co/QvIl5qtiR7
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) July 29, 2021
BREAKING: Fire Chief declares there’s a four-alarm blaze downtown, says hydrants will not be required and “we’re going to throw a couple gas cans in there and see what happens” https://t.co/SHu5oG4paW
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 29, 2021
After getting kicked out, Gohmert said they went down there because he heard the insurrectionists were “being treated worse than the bloodthirsty terrorists at Guantanamo.” pic.twitter.com/pgXJR0bJa6
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021
Marge thinks getting elected to Congress allows her to show up at any faculty she wants to with no notice and roam around with cameras. “We were completely rejected, and we were told that we were trespassing. They locked us out! They locked the door and wouldn’t let us back in!” pic.twitter.com/eBpYFty0kF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 29, 2021
Six months ago, a D.C. 20-something was watching the Capitol attack unfold on TV. Outside her window, MAGA fans who were at the Capitol were streaming back to a nearby hotel. The FBI wanted help. So she opened up Bumble, and she got to swiping.
My latest: https://t.co/9t4iqv300N— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 29, 2021
“They wanted to regurgitate a lot of these ideas to somebody, and I seemed like a willing participant. It didn’t take a lot of arm twisting to get them to start talking about it.”https://t.co/D1JcnwbeBZ
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 29, 2021
morons
Over 17.5k new cases in Florida according to world meters. Almost back equal to their highs at the peak, and no signs of a slowdown. This is going to get ugly.
re: #198 Belafon
My company just announced masks on for everyone tomorrow.
My company doesn’t even make me wear pants these days.
McCarthy simply guaranteeing he will be called to testify. https://t.co/lIDGlojXu0
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) July 29, 2021
Moron.
Maybe he’s just not funny pic.twitter.com/TTW8xXuQgs
— EstebanTornado1963 (@ETornado1963) July 29, 2021
My feeling is the ski area won’t mandate the covid vaccine but will strongly recommend it and provide easy ways to get it like they do with the flu vaccine. I know of a couple of people in the company that might not have taken it and won’t want to for whatever reason.
re: #51 Dangerman
when someone is at your door, your 2a rights include keeping and bearing arms.
and that means controlling your weapons, at all times.your 2a rights do not include shooting someone who rang your doorbell
It’s well established that if you are white and the person ringing the doorbell or knocking on the door is a minority, you are free to kill them. See the 1992 murder of Yoshihiro Hattori.
re: #207 EstebanTornado1963
One guy from The Man Show grew up into a man. It was not Adam Carolla.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) July 29, 2021
Help the #FBI and our partners protect the electoral process for all voters. Call 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324) or visit https://t.co/iL7sD5efWD to report threats to election workers. #ElectionSecurity pic.twitter.com/bn9YZR8rWL
— FBI (@FBI) July 29, 2021
Does this go for former presidents too?
— c h é (@chasehayess) July 29, 2021
thread!
My niece Aroon is up here and found this stranded orca several miles from here. In all the years I’ve lived here I’ve never heard or seen anything like this. I have to wonder if the 8.2 #Earthquake was to blame. NOAA is on its way to try to save it. #offgrid #Alaska pic.twitter.com/m6GO1q8Vg1
— Tara Neilson (@neilson_tara) July 29, 2021
re: #210 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Good one👍
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
Our weekly positivity rate in the Panhandle is way above that, but the combination of ending testing and not reporting leaves us in the dark here.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
2 more women isn’t enough. Need more than that.
I suggest Shirley Chisholm and Margaret Chase Smith.
Any other nominees?
re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth
remember when dems tried to get into border holding detention facilities a few years back?
They really suck at this being activists thing. https://t.co/vUhQnFPQsT
— Patti M Piatt #BlackLivesMatter (@PiattPatti) July 29, 2021
re: #207 EstebanTornado1963
Tom Selleck, Kelsey Grammar and Tim Allen are very publicly very conservative.
None of them have trouble getting as much work as they want.
re: #218 sagehen
Tom Selleck, Kelsey Grammar and Tim Allen are very publicly very conservative.
None of them have trouble getting as much work as they want.
James Woods is still getting work as well.
re: #190 GlutenFreeJesus
“That question is a violation of my HIPPA rights.” is what I would have said.
“The Constitution says you’re not allowed to ask me that question.”
re: #168 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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