The Establishment reacts to the bombshell report on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment, the influx of terrorists on Trump’s social media site GETTR, Sen. Joe Manchin’s houseboat COVID hotspot, and more with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lawrence Wright.
The right wing rhetoric about vaccines is mind-blowingly nihilistic and deranged. Right wing media is destroying us all. https://t.co/di2T6KNskI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2021
Rent paid helps landlords you pelican necked dope. https://t.co/W0ouIQOrPb
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) August 4, 2021
And while we’re at it, Hugh, elected Republicans at every level should be asked whether Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar and any other Republican official who backs or is silent about the #BigLie should resign. Democracy 101. https://t.co/BlLNpvhnva
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 3, 2021
re: #1 JOE 🥓
Today we have a new chapter of the KKKevin KKKroniKKKles.
NJ commuter has a violent and racist meltdown after conductor ‘kindly’ asks him to wear a mask
KKKevin said some very nasty words.
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Can we use a name other than Kevin, please and thank you?
re: #4 Dangerman
And why they didn’t feel the need to force Trump to resign.
re: #4 Dangerman
Every elected Democrat I’ve heard has called on Cuomo to resign. Who, outside of Cheney and Kiplinger’s has said a word about the treasonweasels. Fuck you Hugh Hewitt, and thanks for the broken clock moment Mr. Steele.
re: #4 Dangerman
Ugh.
This is not the gotcha question that Hewitt thinks it is. Also, not really the sort of comparison between the parties that he thinks it will be.
re: #5 KGxvi
Can we use a name other than Kevin, please and thank you?
Closest male name to Karen. I doubt we’re going to call them Deltas and Gammas.
re: #7 DesertDenizen
Every elected Democrat I’ve heard has called on Cuomo to resign. Who, outside of Cheney and Kiplinger’s has said a word about the treasonweasels. Fuck you Hugh Hewitt, and thanks for the broken clock moment Mr. Steele.
Steele’s clock has been in the same place for a while now. He’s almost pulling a Kristol.
Plus, KKGeorge just doesn’t have the effect effect.
re: #10 Belafon
Steele’s clock has been in the same place for a while now. He’s almost pulling a Kristol.
But is he in Rubin or Boot territory yet?
re: #7 DesertDenizen
Every elected Democrat I’ve heard has called on Cuomo to resign. Who, outside of Cheney and Kiplinger’s has said a word about the treasonweasels. Fuck you Hugh Hewitt, and thanks for the broken clock moment Mr. Steele.
He knows.
He wants them to keep asking the question to keep the story alive
You know in case one bozo somewhere missed it
Can somebody report that @twitter itself is spreading false information on Twitter? The “What’s happening” tab is increasingly insane: https://t.co/qzm5eZhR6W
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) August 4, 2021
This is the real problem with fact-checking everything that bubbles up from the right wing fever swamp: you risk giving visibility to batshit nonsense that should simply be ignored.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2021
Watching McConnell waddle away from the podium makes my heart happy. pic.twitter.com/SggHYdo7WF
— Kate 🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) August 4, 2021
re: #17 (((Archangel1)))
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The only thing missing is the Burgess Meredith Penguin music.
re: #18 JOE 🥓
The only thing missing is the Burgess Meredith Penguin music.
You got the correct penguin
re: #19 Dangerman
You got the correct penguin
Yeah: for a certain demographic, there will only be one Penguin.
re: #9 Belafon
Closest male name to Karen. I doubt we’re going to call them Deltas and Gammas.
Kieran?
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I bet he had zilch to say about the hundreds of Indigenous Canadians who were killed by churches running Residential schools. Actual genocide.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
At some point this has to be regarded as an enemy attack that is slaughtering the dumbest Americans and people too young to be vaccinated. Right-wing stooges have been living in a narcissistic inverted reality for too long, or they’re just psycho-killers.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
re: #20 Jay C
Yeah: for a certain demographic, there will only be one Penguin.
Burgess will always be Mickey to me.
re: #23 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They thing is, until Delta started hitting children, they were primarily killing their own. Now that kids are dying this should be criminal.
In a sane world, whenever Doocy asks one of his dumbass gotcha questions, the rest of the reporters would groan, laugh, and mock him.
In this world, they just look on and do nothing, while their profession is degraded by propagandists.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2021
re: #25 DesertDenizen
They thing is, until Delta started hitting children, they were primarily killing their own. Now that kids are dying this should be criminal.
Even lying to narcissistic adult fuckups to get them to spread a disease and choke and die should be a crime.
This was from March of this year, but it has an interesting take what the next step will be for Governor Cuomo.
Although sitting presidents are immune from criminal prosecution, the same is not true for sitting state governors. Certainly, if any of the allegations against Cuomo result in criminal charges, that prosecution would likely take precedence over an impeachment in order to preserve Cuomo’s due process rights.
This prosecution-versus-impeachment joust is exactly what’s going on with South Dakota’s Republican Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Ravnsborg is charged with multiple misdemeanors for his role in the death of Joseph Boever. Ravnsborg had been driving on U.S. Highway 14 in Sept. 2020 when he hit and killed 55-year-old Boever; Ravnsborg told police he believed he had run into a deer until returning the next day and finding Boever’s body in a roadside ditch.
So he can probably stick around long enough to run for reelection, and it gets Speaker Heastie off the hook for punishment until after he is convicted.
re: #5 KGxvi
Can we use a name other than Kevin, please and thank you?
From now on I’ll just use KKKooK.
Jen Psaki has little patience for a New York Post reporter who asks her about Trump’s comments about China and Covid reparations, and whether Biden thinks there should be an independent investigation into Tara Reade’s allegations pic.twitter.com/1O05Cb5N6f
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
whatabout whatabout whatabout whatabout https://t.co/0wsrncDCkr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
Did you know that Beto O’Rourke’s father ran Reverend Jesse Jackson‘s campaign? That’s a young Beto on the right.
They also re-created this photo this past weekend at the Moral March: 27-miles for Democracy Georgetown, TX #Goodtrouble ❤️🇺🇸❤️#DemVoice1 📢📢📢#wtpBLUE🌊🌊🌊 pic.twitter.com/dxgqJxfNjq— James Tate (@JamesTate121) August 4, 2021
Psaki calls out CBS radio reporter Steven Portnoy for asking a “many people are saying” question without being able to name names pic.twitter.com/u88ZptM4KU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
re: #9 Belafon
Closest male name to Karen. I doubt we’re going to call them Deltas and Gammas.
Krakens and Choads
re: #26 Charles Johnson
In a sane world, whenever Doocy asks one of his dumbass gotcha questions, the rest of the reporters would groan, laugh, and mock him.
Booing the Doocy would be spun to their narrative of mainstream media trying to silence those who speak Truth to Power.
In a sane world, his employer would not be spend 24/7 broadcasting the Insane Clown Show from Hell
So much of our infrastructure was not build to withstand the extreme weather and wildfires we’re experiencing. We need to invest in resiliency.https://t.co/KWNxqRJpjx
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) August 4, 2021
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
WTF does DeSantis care about the border? Last time I checked, his state wasn’t on it. That said, you want to secure the border? Try humane policy. Make it easy to come work here if you want. Make it easy to claim asylum from all those countries we destabilized over the last century. Decriminalizate drugs to neuter the cartels. Remove the need and incentives to smuggle people or drugs, and watch the border secure itself.
Is there anything duct tape can’t do? https://t.co/sHvXyMQSZA
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2021
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
What border do you share with Mexico, Ron?
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
My little border city is very excited to receive storm water system improvement money in the infrastructure bill. Our system is designed for 100 year storms. In the last three monsoon seasons we have received at least three storms of greater magnitude than that.
re: #38 DesertDenizen
WTF does DeSantis care about the border? Last time I checked, his state wasn’t on it. That said, you want to secure the border? Try humane policy. Make it easy to come work here if you want. Make it easy to claim asylum from all those countries we destabilized over the last century. Decriminalizate drugs to neuter the cartels. Remove the need and incentives to smuggle people or drugs, and watch the border secure itself.
It’s basically the GOP default attack line for a Dem President.
re: #9 Belafon
Closest male name to Karen. I doubt we’re going to call them Deltas and Gammas.
I thought male Karens were called Chip or Chad. (Chip especially has a vaguely old-money entitlement feel to it, Chip off the old block…)
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Booing the Doocy would be spun to their narrative of mainstream media trying to silence those who speak Truth to Power.
In a sane world, his employer would not be spend 24/7 broadcasting the Insane Clown Show from Hell
he’d have to speak some truth first
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
Does this idiot know that he’s not Texas’ psycho-killer, low-IQ governor? He’s Florida’s psycho-killer low-IQ governor, with no border with Mexico.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
fucking moron
Stop with the mask fetish
If you want to wear a mask as a courtesy to those around you or because you are in no mood to get even a little sick go ahead
If you want your kids to mask in school that’s your right
But we aren’t going to mask our way out of this pic.twitter.com/vrRIt4hZ0p— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 4, 2021
We don’t need mask mandates
Nothing is stopping vaccinated people like me from CHOOSING to use one out of courtesy to others
Mask mandates won’t solve the hospitalization surge
And the division they create distract from focusing on the only thing that will
VACCINATIONS!— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 4, 2021
re: #43 sagehen
I thought male Karens were called Chip or Chad. (Chip especially has a vaguely old-money entitlement feel to it, Chip off the old block…)
Tad or Biff…
re: #38 DesertDenizen
WTF does DeSantis care about the border? Last time I checked, his state wasn’t on it. That said, you want to secure the border? Try humane policy. Make it easy to come work here if you want. Make it easy to claim asylum from all those countries we destabilized over the last century. Decriminalizate drugs to neuter the cartels. Remove the need and incentives to smuggle people or drugs, and watch the border secure itself.
He thinks he’s running for president
re: #39 Charles Johnson
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re: #48 Dangerman
He thinks he’s running for president
President DeSantis would be a nightmare. Bloody hell.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
fucking moron
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What about the unvaccinated?
We don’t need mask mandates
Nothing is stopping vaccinated people like me from CHOOSING to use one out of courtesy to others
Mask mandates won’t solve the hospitalization surge
And the division they create distract from focusing on the only thing that will
VACCINATIONS!— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 4, 2021
That’s because Covid has been singling out Florida and Texas https://t.co/rO8ngTZu1S
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
fucking moron
Ha! Opening that video with the lgf player only shows the top of his head.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
fucking moron
Your state’s governor is banning vaccine requirements as well, Marco.
Which border is he talking about - Georgia or Alabama? https://t.co/CYisa9Kh8Z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 4, 2021
Male Karens are called…their names.
Because mistaking emotional disquiet for threat and then escalating the situation is the masculine normal.
I know, not fair to stooges.
Right-wing stooges are stopping other right-wing stooges from being vaccinated or wearing masks with the most stupid form of peer-pressure I’ve ever seen. As a right-wing stooge, you should know this.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
Inhumanity is the GOP platform in a word.
re: #48 Dangerman
He thinks he’s running for president
DeSadist and Ironside are in a contest to see who can kill more people. It’s essential to their Presidential campaigns.
lol
Trump Tries In Court To Block The Release Of His Tax Returns To Congress https://t.co/yu1atKOkJN
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) August 4, 2021
Warning: Florida’s second-largest school district says it will no longer impose a mask mandate after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to withhold funding from districts that require face coverings. https://t.co/4hPgiJUF1L
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 4, 2021
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
He also asked the court to shut down all further investigations of himself. What a loon.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s white, so personal responsibility isn’t something his party thinks should be a thing for him.
re: #62 Charles Johnson
He also asked the court to shut down all further investigations of himself. What a loon.
The NPD makes it impossible for him to understand that he’s an idiot, so he just keeps trying to dictate his inner-world hoping more idiots will join him in it.
Interesting tidbit buried in a news article about rising Covid cases in my home area:
“A Louisiana judge this week offered some probation candidates the option to get a vaccine instead of performing community service.”
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bury these fuckers in civil suits if the authorities won’t deal with them.
Everyone involved in this must be made to pay for the lives they’re taking. People who can’t ever do the right thing, even in a pandemic, are setting deadly policy, with apparently no idea that they’re in so far over their heads.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
Representing himself, Rep. Mo Brooks asked to be dismissed from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to incite the Jan 6 riot.
In an unusual opening, Brooks says he’s always been faithful to his wife, never used tobacco, and that none of his kids are divorced. pic.twitter.com/f8Yu9ls1K4— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) August 4, 2021
Brooks is a lawyer but I don’t think he’s practiced in many years (he was elected to Congress in 2011)https://t.co/zk8kClwrUi
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) August 4, 2021
re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Bury these fuckers in civil suits if the authorities won’t deal with them.
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DeSADIST and his pals are acting this way in full knowledge that the corrupted courts will let them off the hook.
re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Bury these fuckers in civil suits if the authorities won’t deal with them.
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It’s Hague Tribunal stuff. What? There is no “Hague Tribunal” mandated to handle this?
There will be.
I am more convinced than ever that this is the looming catastrophe that Darth Dick Cheney and his clan foresaw when they chose to give up actual power to backpedal from the Trumpsters. They are evil but far from stupid. The rest of the evil ones, Bre’r Abbott, DeathSatan, etc. are going down all the way.
re: #67 JOE 🥓
Mike Dunford unpacked a Gondor-type case involving sanctions against plaintiffs lawyers for spewing so much election conspiracy bulkshit.
This one is a suit against Dominion. The judge is weighing on sanctioning the plaintiff lawyers.
Good morning, all - I’m back from my walk, so let’s dig into the sanctions award in O’Rourke v Dominion. I’m going to do this somewhat superficially right now, since I’ll also be going over it on stream tonight. But we can at least hit the high points.https://t.co/OZ7isRRfWH
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 4, 2021
The federal judge explicitly referenced Lindell as someone who is not a serious person and should not be considered credible.
OK, maybe I should have moved on to the next page before deciding that was some *subtle* shade because OHWOW! pic.twitter.com/a2ed3qu6Jz
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 4, 2021
Order granting motion for sanctions:
Note that the federal judge also insists on the lawyer fees being reasonable as to rates applicable in Colorado, so don’t pad the billing or else face the judge’s wrath too.
Hey Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis 👀 https://t.co/LdbD1h6Aqg
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 4, 2021
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
“The primary purpose of the requests is to obtain and expose Intervenors’ information for the sake of exposure, to improperly conduct law enforcement, or some other impermissible goal — not to study federal legislation,” the motion states as part of a 37-page filing. “The requests are not pertinent to legislation that is within the Committee’s jurisdiction and constitutionally valid.”
Trump’s lawyers say the Democrat-led House committee’s efforts are simply political, claiming the goal “is to expose the private tax information of one individual — President Trump — for political gain.”
doesnt matter
doesnt matter if Neal has a good reason
or a bad reason
or no reason
“shall furnish’ is unambiguous
there are no limits on a request
oh, and there are a lot of good reasons - like say from yesterday’s electoral-vote.com
…of course there is evidence of wrongdoing. There are indications that Trump has engaged in tax fraud, that he has violated the emoluments clause, and that he might be in hock to Russia. Even if Neal, or anyone else, had to have cause to ask for the returns, there practically couldn’t be more cause than there is with Trump. Also bad news for the former president is that he’s already waged this particular fight in New York state court and lost.
re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Warning: Florida’s second-largest school district says it will no longer impose a mask mandate after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to withhold funding from districts that require face coverings. https://t.co/4hPgiJUF1L
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 4, 2021
What’s more dangerous?
a) The virus
b) People who aren’t taking it seriously.
re: #38 DesertDenizen
WTF does DeSantis care about the border? Last time I checked, his state wasn’t on it. That said, you want to secure the border? Try humane policy. Make it easy to come work here if you want. Make it easy to claim asylum from all those countries we destabilized over the last century. Decriminalizate drugs to neuter the cartels. Remove the need and incentives to smuggle people or drugs, and watch the border secure itself.
He’s trying to be New Trump.
But also he’s a conservative and their base assumption is that they can’t fuck up and all problems are foreign.
But also our country is based on pretending we don’t constantly need labor so cheap it’s unethical by our own standards, therefore “the border” has to always be a crisis and the solution to the crisis can never be fair compensation.
COVID Inflation. During the lockdown, my people bought cat food for about $.50. Maybe a bit less on sale. There was a shortage, but now $.75 a can? 4 felines to feed here folks. MEEEOUCH! pic.twitter.com/RDQs2UGtR5
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 4, 2021
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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so you led a clean life. bfd.
no one is a criminal until the first time.
isn’t that the R’s 2A argument all the time?
Representing himself, Rep. Mo Brooks asked to be dismissed from Rep. Eric Swalwell’s lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to incite the Jan 6 riot.
In an unusual opening, Brooks says he’s always been faithful to his wife, never used tobacco, and that none of his kids are divorced. pic.twitter.com/f8Yu9ls1K4— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) August 4, 2021
re: #75 Dangerman
That’s how the Arizona legislature controls municipalities. Do anything to displease them and they withhold your Stare Shared Revenue. It doesn’t even go in escrow until you fix what they don’t like. It is taken and redistributed to the compliant municipalities for however long you are on their shit list. Who’s the arbiter of who’s in the wrong? The Attorney General. Good times.
re: #49 Nojay UK
Duct tape is like the Force in Star Wars — it has a light side and a dark side and it binds the Universe together.
My own philosophy:
The own two tools you really need in life are a hammer and duct tape. If you can’t fix it with those, you should probably call a professional.
re: #79 Dangerman
Those representing themselves, have fools for a client.
Irrelevant bulkshit is irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is that his statements, utterances, and actions helped incite the armed insurrection on 1/6 putting members of Congress and Trump’s own VP at risk of being assassinated by the insurrectionists because they were going to certify election results that were certified by the states because there was no fraud and no wrongdoing that would indicate anything was amiss in the finding that Trump lost in a landslide.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
What’s more dangerous?
a) The virus
b) People who aren’t taking it seriously.
c) the people in charge who are deliberately taking ‘anti/contrarian’ actions -
I am serious. https://t.co/WwXqZblgW2 pic.twitter.com/yzRgQYDRBr
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 3, 2021
Apley, 45, died of Covid — but you wouldn’t know that from reading this Texas GOP statement, which doesn’t mention a cause of death https://t.co/1s2dLSESxp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
re: #82 lawhawk
Those representing themselves, have fools for a client.
Irrelevant bulkshit is irrelevant to the issue at hand, which is that his statements, utterances, and actions helped incite the armed insurrection on 1/6 putting members of Congress and Trump’s own VP at risk of being assassinated by the insurrectionists because they were going to certify election results that were certified by the states because there was no fraud and no wrongdoing that would indicate anything was amiss in the finding that Trump lost in a landslide.
As popehat mentioned this morning, it’s a good rule of thumb to not get a federal judge interested in your case. I can’t imagine “member of congress representing themselves” is a good way to do that.
I’m kind of obsessed with rocks. I’m hitting this one with everything: imaging, x-ray, UV, infrared, the works. Can’t wait to sample it.https://t.co/MYw9RoDbGj pic.twitter.com/Wdx6vdBheQ
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) August 4, 2021
re: #79 Dangerman
so you led a clean life. bfd.
no one is a criminal until the first time.
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Hate to break it to Moron Mo but JC is gonna butt bongo you for your treason.
re: #83 Dangerman
c) the people in charge who are deliberately taking ‘anti/contrarian’ actions -
arguably, they are a subset of group b
re: #26 Charles Johnson
Their profession has been dead for a long time… since like the mid-80’s.
re: #87 Eclectic Cyborg
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Global warming will take care of that so Bugs doesn’t have to exert himself!
Serious question. Is it even feasible that the American people can file a class action lawsuit against elected officials who have basically shirked their public duty that’s resulted in massive deaths? Not to mention the cost of this pandemic nationwide in dollars.
Is leading a clean life until you engaged in sedition to try to end our democracy for a malignant narcissist a mitigating factor to right-wing assholes?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
No, but only because they don’t even know that sedition should be treated extremely harshly.
re: #81 KGxvi
My own philosophy:
The own two tools you really need in life are a hammer and duct tape. If you can’t fix it with those, you should probably call a professional.
In the army we used to say that if you couldn’t fix it with a sledgehammer and a tanker bar (a 5’ crow bar), it didn’t belong on a tank.
re: #95 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I disagree, I think that as far as the MAGA crowd is concerned Sedition should be punished to the fullest legal extent of the law…. just not when they do it. When they do it, it’s called Patriotism!
re: #97 piratedan
I disagree, I think that as far as the MAGA crowd is concerned Sedition should be punished to the fullest legal extent of the law…. just not when they do it. When they do it, it’s called Patriotism!
Of course no one else is doing it, but I can see them pretending that protests are sedition.
I’m sorry you have no virtue, Senator.
Or integrity, honor, a sense of duty, selflessness, altruism, courage, intellect, reason… https://t.co/tzpMbohUXs— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 4, 2021
re: #91 KGxvi
arguably, they are a subset of group b
true
i like to highlight the knowing, malevolent grifters separate from the merely-taken-in-marks/rubes/bozos
re: #99 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Of course no one else is doing it, but I can see them pretending that protests are sedition.
that’s how they get to
- both sides
- it wasn’t so bad
- if you dont go after them you cant go after us
re: #99 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I believe that is exactly the take that they have on the state of affairs, you don’t like the Police killing unarmed people of color and you take to the streets in protest … That’s Sedition… Storming Federal Property in hopes of stopping the validation of an election… that’s Patriotism…
these fuckers have even corrupted our language to twist the meaning of words and concepts to try and give themselves cover for the illegal shit that they do.
When will news orgs enact an outright ban on quoting random people on social media to force a narrative? It’s lazy, sloppy and wouldn’t pass muster in a high school journalism class https://t.co/JDB1JoRIeF pic.twitter.com/p68UuOf9xM
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) August 4, 2021
re: #94 A Mom Anon
Serious question. Is it even feasible that the American people can file a class action lawsuit against elected officials who have basically shirked their public duty that’s resulted in massive deaths? Not to mention the cost of this pandemic nationwide in dollars.
Probably not.
Class actions have fairly specific requirements to certify the class, and saying “the American people” or even the people of a specific state is probably too broad.
Beyond that, articulating a cause of action against an elected (or even appointed) official when they are executing the duties of their office is near impossible. The courts aren’t (typically) the place to argue over policy.
re: #103 piratedan
I believe that is exactly the take that they have on the state of affairs, you don’t like the Police killing unarmed people of color and you take to the streets in protest … That’s Sedition… Storming Federal Property in hopes of stopping the validation of an election… that’s Patriotism…
these fuckers have even corrupted our language to twist the meaning of words and concepts to try and give themselves cover for the illegal shit that they do.
If it weren’t for double standards, conservatives would have no standards at all.
re: #5 KGxvi
Can we use a name other than Kevin, please and thank you?
We don’t set the names, and Kens already have enough to deal with. Your best hope is if people call them “Karens.”
Original question-What do you call a male that acts like a “Karen”?
I usually just go with “Karen”, but if you want a specifically male name the world hasn’t really settled on one. I prefer “Keven” because it’s very similar in terms of sound, spelling, etc to “Karen”.
My best friend, Kevin, does not approve.
I’ve heard both “Ken” or “Kevin” put forward as alliterative suggestions to go with “Karen.” I think either works fine and it’s probably just a matter of preference.
The male version of Karen is also Karen. If a person posssess the qualities of a Karen and behaves like a Karen, regardless of gender, he or she shall be called “Karen.”
The last answer may or may not have been posted by a snake.
re: #103 piratedan
I believe that is exactly the take that they have on the state of affairs, you don’t like the Police killing unarmed people of color and you take to the streets in protest … That’s Sedition… Storming Federal Property in hopes of stopping the validation of an election… that’s Patriotism…
these fuckers have even corrupted our language to twist the meaning of words and concepts to try and give themselves cover for the illegal shit that they do.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter…
we by spinach in a large bag.
last week i froze a bunch of 4 oz bags to see if it would last longer
took one out today
dumped it into a bowl, covered in rice and vegetables.
zapped it and started to eat
wow, this turned horrible in just a week. how did it get so…what is this?
not rancid, not sour or acrid. just blech.
i kept trying to eat it.
mrsdm: is this spinach from that bag on the counter?
yeah
mrsdm: the one that says ‘basil’?
ack!
i totally forgot i froze one ounce of basil too (in a separate bag)
i thought all green bags were created equal.
i did not finish it - i couldnt.
i will not make that mistake again.
now i have this atrocious taste in my mouth that will not quit…
re: #71 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
It’s Hague Tribunal stuff. What? There is no “Hague Tribunal” mandated to handle this?
There will be.
I am more convinced than ever that this is the looming catastrophe that Darth Dick Cheney and his clan foresaw when they chose to give up actual power to backpedal from the Trumpsters. They are evil but far from stupid. The rest of the evil ones, Bre’r Abbott, DeathSatan, etc. are going down all the way.
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No, they’re stupid but they have so much money and entrenched power that their failures look like successes. They never lose so much that it registers as an irretrievable loss…but that’s a bad metric. The better metric is to look at what they aspired to versus what they produced.
They helped create all the cultural elements that lead to the current open fascism because they imagined themselves as the natural oligarchs—the old money, the good family—who would be able to ride herd over all the fucking soup brained hogs that live for revanchism. They also dismantled all the institutions that could call corruption to account because that was necessary to both evade taxes and to fight a colonial war in Iraq. Their plans only ever half-assed worked and we’re all living in the collateral damage, but instead of judging their competence by comparing what they predicted would happened versus what happened, we’re using the flat standard of “did they get away with it?”
They’re not Sith Lords, they’re just jackasses with so much cash that they never have to admit they failed and therefore the scale of their fuck-up has been dropped on the entire world. This is a thing that happens over and over in history: assholes hopped up on hubris imagine that they can use reactionary forces to further control the plebs but miscalculate.They’re not pulling “privatize profits, socialize costs” because they’re Sun Tzu, but because they’re failures who’s only real skill is already being hooked into the culture of power that exists to avoid accountability. They’re as cunning as a secondary infection; as strategic as syphilitic cancre.
re: #109 Dangerman
we by spinach in a large bag.
last week i froze a bunch of 4 oz bags to see if it would last longertook one out today
dumped it into a bowl, covered in rice and vegetables.
zapped it and started to eatwow, this turned horrible in just a week. how did it get so…what is this?
not rancid, not sour or acrid. just blech.
i kept trying to eat it.mrsdm: is this spinach from that bag on the counter?
yeah
mrsdm: the one that says ‘basil’?ack!
i totally forgot i froze one ounce of basil too (in a separate bag)
i thought all green bags were created equal.i did not finish it - i couldnt.
i will not make that mistake again.
now i have this atrocious taste in my mouth that will not quit…
Grab a bit of toast, slice of mozzarella and tomato and pretend you just ate a Marguerite pizza ;)
re: #111 William Lewis
Grab a bit of toast, slice of mozzarella and tomato and pretend you just ate a Marguerite pizza ;)
winner!
re: #72 lawhawk
My favorite passages from the doc:
In short, this was no slip-and-fall at the local grocery store. Albeit disorganized and fantastical, the Complaint’s allegations are extraordinarily serious and, if accepted as true by large numbers of people, are the stuff of which violent insurrections are made…
An “empty-head” but “pure-heart” is no justification for patently frivolous arguments or factual assertions…
This lawsuit was filed with a woeful lack of investigation into the law and (under the circumstances) the facts. The lawsuit put into or repeated into the public record highly inflammatory and damaging allegations that could have put individuals’ safety in danger. Doing so without a valid legal basis or serious independent personal investigation into the facts was the height of recklessness…
Mr. Fielder and Mr. Walker could have spent some of the $95,000 they raised from the public to fund this litigation on an expert or three to assess and verify the truth of the information contained in the materials from other lawsuits which were copied into this Complaint. Rather than hiring an expert pre-filing, they spoke to no one…
They did not take any independent steps to verify the accuracy of the information by talking to actual human beings. The public statements from authoritative sources and courts rejecting allegations of widespread voter fraud or ballot-rigging should have been, if not bright red, at least flashing yellow lights warning Plaintiffs’ counsel to proceed with caution. Instead, they drove through the lights at full speed, even accelerating when it came to the Amended Complaint, which was filed after the January 6, 2021 insurrection that had been prompted, in part, by dangerous suggestions that the election had been stolen.
re: #48 Dangerman
He thinks he’s running for president
The entire GOP theme these days is that the Covid surge is due to undocumented workers coming across the border and not unvaccinated Americans. DeSadist is just regurgitating the lies that the RW media feed their brainwashed masses on a daily basis. The Trump base does not hold Trump responsible for the pandemic within our borders— it’s always someone else’s fault. Like Germany’s dolchstoßlegende.
re: #81 KGxvi
My own philosophy:
The own two tools you really need in life are a hammer and duct tape. If you can’t fix it with those, you should probably call a professional.
Rule of thumb for all repairs:
If it moves and it shouldn’t, duct tape.
If it doesn’t move and it should, WD-40.
Behind closed doors, House Oversight interviews former DOJ official who drafted - but never sent - resignation letter over what he said were Trump’s “direct instructions” to use department to support his false election fraud claims, per @evanperez https://t.co/t66DAB6BFa
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 4, 2021
re: #68 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Bury these fuckers in civil suits if the authorities won’t deal with them.
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Asa Hutchinson must not be running for president; he has clearly expressed his regrets over signing the legislation outlawing masks and would now like to authorize a mask mandate.
re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter
Asa Hutchinson must not be running for president; he has clearly expressed his regrets over signing the legislation outlawing masks and would now like to authorize a mask mandate.
At least some of them seem to realize that they’ve become psycho-killers by pandering to the worst of us, people who can never do the right thing.
Fed’l judge in Colorado sanctions Trump lawyers who brought a big lie lawsuit, ordering them to pay all of the defendants’ legal fees & calling their unsupported allegations “the stuff of which violent insurrections are made.” https://t.co/tn7oZxmuRC
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 4, 2021
“…The two lawyers filed the case as a class action on behalf of 160 million American voters, alleging a complicated plot engineered by Dominion, Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg, his wife Priscilla Chan and elected officials in four states. They had sought $160 billion in damages.
The case was dismissed in April, but Neureiter ruled that the attorneys had violated their ethical obligations by lodging it in the first place and by peppering their motions with wild allegations that they had made little effort to substantiate. Legal rules prohibit attorneys from clogging the court systems with frivolous motions or from filing information that is not true.
Calling the suit “one enormous conspiracy theory,” Neureiter ordered that the duo must pay the legal fees of all the individuals and companies they had sued — 18 separate entities in all — as a way to deter future similar cases”
re: #110 The Ghost of a Flea
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No, they’re stupid but they have so much money and entrenched power that their failures look like successes. They never lose so much that it registers as an irretrievable loss…but that’s a bad metric. The better metric is to look at what they aspired to versus what they produced.
They helped create all the cultural elements that lead to the current open fascism because they imagined themselves as the natural oligarchs—the old money, the good family—who would be able to ride herd over all the fucking soup brained hogs that live for revanchism. They also dismantled all the institutions that could call corruption to account because that was necessary to both evade taxes and to fight a colonial war in Iraq. Their plans only ever half-assed worked and we’re all living in the collateral damage, but instead of judging their competence by comparing what they predicted would happened versus what happened, we’re using the flat standard of “did they get away with it?”
They’re not Sith Lords, they’re just jackasses with so much cash that they never have to admit they failed and therefore the scale of their fuck-up has been dropped on the entire world. This is a thing that happens over and over in history: assholes hopped up on hubris imagine that they can use reactionary forces to further control the plebs but miscalculate.They’re not pulling “privatize profits, socialize costs” because they’re Sun Tzu, but because they’re failures who’s only real skill is already being hooked into the culture of power that exists to avoid accountability. They’re as cunning as a secondary infection; as strategic as syphilitic cancre.
They were smart enough to bail out when they did. They’ll get away with it, too, even though (as you point out) they were among the major progenitors of the disaster in the first place. Liz, who started life as a draft-dodging gimmick, is touted as a model of integrity, with everything before last winter suddenly forgotten.
re: #120 jaunte
The judge basically said, don’t pad your billing (don’t apply a going rate of $1,000 per hour when rates in Colorado are typically much lower than that for appearances or any other legal work), but this is going to be a rather large number given the number of parties and amount of time spent in various motions.
re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter
Asa Hutchinson must not be running for president; he has clearly expressed his regrets over signing the legislation outlawing masks and would now like to authorize a mask mandate.
He may want to do that but I bet the Republicans in the legislature won’t.
re: #123 BlueSpotinAL
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this quote burns me
as if no human had a hand in it
it just happened…
and even so when it got to his desk as if he couldnt have vetoed
cowards, all.
https://t.co/aXKwFCw57r pic.twitter.com/KMYePxAUzA
— zeddy (@Zeddary) August 4, 2021
Is DeSadist reading the tea leaves?
Floridians don’t seem wild about Gov. DeSantis’s pro-COVID policy agenda. A new poll out this morning shows DeSantis’s public support falling roughly ten points since May. The new poll is from St Pete Polls and shows DeSantis with 44% approval and 49% disapproval.
Some other findings. Joe Biden (49%) has higher approval in Florida than DeSantis (44%).
And once again, this is why Fox and other outlets were pumping the “filthy COVID ridden masses” story, because they are smart and could see that DeSantis was going to need a fallback and a scapegoat. https://t.co/q6B9woA1ny
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 4, 2021
re: #128 jaunte
Of course the filthy COVID ridden masses are the idiots who call themselves “a Conservative,” and just fall in line for any right-wing asshole who comes along to lie to them.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
Newt Gingrich is the latest on Fox to go full great replacement theory: The left is bringing immigrants to the United States “to get rid of the rest of us” (ht @EricKleefeld) pic.twitter.com/C0We3CgUKH
— John Whitehouse+ (@existentialfish) August 4, 2021
re: #128 jaunte
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if there’s all these illegals carrying the disease, who’s in the hospital with covid?
all those illegals?
nope.
And once again, this is why Fox and other outlets were pumping the “filthy COVID ridden masses” story, because they are smart and could see that DeSantis was going to need a fallback and a scapegoat. https://t.co/q6B9woA1ny
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 4, 2021
re: #130 jaunte
Maria’s soulless, puffy look makes me think she drinks to soothe her conscience as she lets racist liars run wild on her show.
Meanwhile, in the They’re Really Going to Fuck This Up File… latest polling in the Newsom recall (all standard disclaimers: snap shot in time; one poll is not a trend; the campaign really hasn’t started; etc etc etc), is not looking terribly great.
The latest Emerson College/Nexstar poll of the California gubernatorial recall election finds voters remain split, with 46% in favor and 48% against the recall of Gov. Newsom. Six percent (6%) of likely voters are still undecided. Since earlier in July, when the recall was at 43% in favor and 48% against, the number of undecided voters has fallen 3%, while 3% more have reported that they are in favor of the recall.
That’s dangerously close in what could be a low turn out election.
And on the replacement question, Larry Elder is leading with 23% of the vote, 14% saying someone other than the candidates listed, and 40% undecided. We might actually end up with Governor Elder because no prominent Democrat was smart enough to get on the ballot as a safe guard.
Let’s make one thing abundantly clear….
This high school student, Christopher Justice, does a great job at explaining the Confederate flag and its problems. pic.twitter.com/CcOXHCB8GQ
— 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 🏳️🌈 (@LanceUSA70) August 4, 2021
re: #121 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
They were smart enough to bail out when they did. They’ll get away with it, too. Liz, who started life as a draft-dodging gimmick, is touted as a model of integrity, with everything before last winter suddenly forgotten.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
Why wouldn’t they get away with it?
There’s a giant system that guarantees that most people with power get away with abusing it. The specific misdeeds of the Cheneys are identical to abuses of power by other powerful people. The Cheneys have always been hooked into that via wealth; that’s been their primary power, and as political figures they made maximal use of America’s ability to evade consequences by virtue of being a superpower. Attributing their evasion of consequences to some native ability that the rest of us lack is just self flagellation.
And I say that because…chances are very good that most of the people currently destroying this country will experience zero consequences unless radical effort is made to create consequences. And it’s not going to happen because they’re doing something right, it’s going to happen because there’s always been a safety net for this kind of monster.
I’m choosing my language precisely because I refuse to accept the premise that power reflects intelligence, and thus successful abuse of power is some kind of meaningful skillset that the rest of us lack. I do this precisely because the shitheads with power want everyone else to accept that their parasite-like entrenchment is some kind of hierarchical trait, a thing they have more of and thus win and we have less of and thus lose.
They have two tricks: they do what is unconscionable, even by the standards of the culture they claim to uphold, and they feel no shame.
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tad or Biff…
I vote Biff. (Local mayor. His hair is the whitest part of him, but not by much.)
re: #136 Dave In Austin
Let’s make one thing abundantly clear….
That’s pretty unfair to the dopey Confederate kid. The other kid has about 40 IQ points on him, and the facts on his side.
re: #135 retired cynic
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yeah we think animal facial expressions are the same as ours
that’s probably the ‘im gonna rip your face of in a second’ look
re: #140 Dangerman
yeah we think animal facial expressions are the same as ours
that’s probably the ‘im gonna rip your face of in a second’ look
It looks like a stage in the evolution of the smile. ‘MINE. I might share, if….’
Apley, 45, died of Covid — but you wouldn’t know that from reading this Texas GOP statement, which doesn’t mention a cause of death https://t.co/1s2dLSESxp
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2021
re: #142 jaunte
Why didn’t you mention that he died of Covid because he followed the lead of fantasy-prone, paranoid, Republicans? You could save lives if you talk about the slaughter that Republican propagandists and politicians have engaged in.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
re: #142 jaunte
This guy?
You are an absolute enemy of a free people. #ShoveTheCarrotWhereTheSunDontShine.
— H Scott Apley (@hsapley) April 2, 2021
re: #144 teleskiguy
This guy?
Scott thought that “freedom” meant ignoring a pandemic because he was part of a know-nothing narcissistic subculture, and it killed him. As you can see, he was not a nice guy, or a smart guy, which made him a prominent Republican in Texas.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 4, 2021
re: #119 jaunte
On the whole, this is another very pissed off federal judge.
With good reason. These lawsuits have been using the courts to attack the foundations of the country. That’s not a thing the courts are going to be happy about. Ever.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 4, 2021
The thing in this ruling that gives me the most hope is the connection of these frivolous lawsuits filed to the Jan. 6 Insurrection.
Connect those two things and it’s a rope binding the liars to the terrorists who invaded the capitol and beat, tased, mutilated and gassed the cops.
This is a pathway to those cops suing the instigators.
re: #144 teleskiguy
These are the people I have a lot of trouble having sympathy/empathy for. THEY made this a test of conservative loyalty, no one else. THEY are the ones who have vilified liberals/Democrats for decades, which has led to deaths and ruined policies since long before covid. THEY are literally angry at a stereotype of liberals that they made up and keep adding to, pretty much on a daily basis.
This man has a wife and baby , both parents refusing vaccines, and putting that little one in danger of getting sick and dying or growing up an orphan. I’m sorry he’s a dead dumbass, but I really can’t feel bad or sad about it. Other than the damage left in his wake and the wake of so many other spiteful bullies among us.
re: #149 A Mom Anon
These are the people I have a lot of trouble having sympathy/empathy for. THEY made this a test of conservative loyalty, no one else. THEY are the ones who have vilified liberals/Democrats for decades, which has led to deaths and ruined policies since long before covid. THEY are literally angry at a stereotype of liberals that they made up and keep adding to, pretty much on a daily basis.
This man has a wife and baby , both parents refusing vaccines, and putting that little one in danger of getting sick and dying or growing up an orphan. I’m sorry he’s a dead dumbass, but I really can’t feel bad or sad about it. Other than the damage left in his wake and the wake of so many other spiteful bullies among us.
We’ve reached the point in the US where there simply are no good conservatives — living or dead. Dead ones, like this clown, are mostly harmless.
re: #142 jaunte
Does praying that Apley is enjoying his first days of eternity in hell count as “praying for the family”?
re: #142 jaunte
How does lying about the cause of deaths help? This is a massive coverup and I’m glad it’s being exposed. Republicans playing these games have blood on their hands.
Party of Life, my behind.
re: #151 EPR-radar
“Please join us in praying for the Apley family” is Texas Republican for “we’re not sending any money to them.”
re: #150 EPR-radar
Well except the part about being walking disease vectors…they are harming all of us, and I know I am preaching to the choir on that.
What pisses me off is what they are doing has destroyed any faith I may have had in humanity. Their toxic waste dump of religion and politics has destroyed so many families and friendships. That’s hard to forgive.
re: #39 Charles Johnson
Is there anything duct tape can’t do?
It’s pretty lousy at sealing ducts. Or pipes.
See, he means this, but will hide behind “I was just joking you have JD Vance Derangement syndrome” because not only is he not amusing but he is a coward and a hack. https://t.co/OOlyUasGya
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) August 4, 2021
heh
The procedural history for this case could just as easily read, “the plaintiffs’ filings in this case are distinguishable from the output of a workshop of infinite monkeys only in that the monkeys are theoretically capable of producing sane output.” pic.twitter.com/tH7Z0s3j1F
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 4, 2021
2,583 new COVID-19 cases in Kentucky today, the highest since Feb. 3. Positivity rate is now over 10%. Hospitalizations 889. 84 counties now in the red, only 4 not red or orange… pic.twitter.com/NoQWKJiZVK
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 4, 2021
John Lolos — a Jan. 6 defendant who was “continuously yelling ‘Trump 2020!’” on an airplane and then got nabbed because an airport officer happened to spot him in an Instagram video — is at his plea hearing. It’s been a bit bumpy so far. He just complained the FBI was very rude. pic.twitter.com/vBIgzFOE4K
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 4, 2021
Lolos has withdrawn his request to amend the statement of facts, his lawyer states. But Lolos might try to elaborate on his tale about an officer luring him into a hallway at sentencing, his lawyer says. Bottom line is he acknowledges he made a his own choice to enter Capitol.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 4, 2021
John Lolos pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor.
“Yes I did protest, yes I did picket, yes.”— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 4, 2021
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lolos is someone who has been an asshole all his life without consequences, and is mightily surprised to see that participating in the treason of Jan 6 might break this pattern.
re: #153 jaunte
I saw a go fund me page for them was set up last night I guess. It hasn’t even reached a quarter of the amount asked for (10K I think was the goal). I guess his wife changed her mind about vaccines, but again, someone had to die in her face before it sunk in.
I have been doing some research for my own mental health into being raised by emotionally distant parents. It fucks a kid’s sense of connection and empathy up to a huge degree. The only thing that saved me on the empathy side of things was my paternal grandmother, Edith. She was a great mentor, I even have her o video telling the world I was her favorite grandchild. Without her, I don’t know what would have happened to me. What did happen was awful enough and I miss her as much as the day she died 25 yrs ago. I still don’t feel like I truly belong anywhere. I’ve never had a best friend(I had people I thought were, but the feeling was never mutual) except a few doggos in my life. Hubby and I are friends, but even after 28 yrs of marriage(as of two days ago) that connection is based mostly on parenting our son. Sigh, it’s just hard to sort it all out after a lifetime of wondering wtaf.
I sometimes wonder if that early emotional distancing has run rampant in our society and we’re seeing the end result of that now.
this quokka enjoying a face massage 🥺 pic.twitter.com/HoittGsuYK
— out of context animals (@0contextanimals) August 4, 2021
re: #161 EPR-radar
Lolos is someone who has been an asshole all his life without consequences, and is mightily surprised to see that participating in the treason of Jan 6 might break this pattern.
And he might have gotten away with it if not for making such a disturbance on the plane that the pilot had to turn it around and go back to the gate.
re: #163 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Based on his posts, he knew “firebrand” is a euphemism for crazy asshole.
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None of the answers on Jeopardy! are “God”.
re: #163 Punish Domestic Terrorists
This clown’s “there is no problem for which God is not the answer” is a Trumpish declaration of personal divinity, since it is obviously his God that has all the answers, and his God happens to agree with him in every particular.
re: #1 JOE 🥓
Ah. The raspy sounds of the extreme anger addict.
He should thank that conductor for supplying his hourly hit.
re: #166 Belafon
non of the answers on Jeopardy! are “God”.
It also failed to solve either his willful-ignorance or Covid problems.
We live with cave people who think religion is an acceptable substitute for science, rather than being completely different domains.
Really digging the Offspring story that’s breaking on social media:
So don’t debate, he’ll “watch and wait”
you know he really doesn’t get it anyway
Gonna play the drums, and act all dumb?
For you no way, for you no way
So if you don’t vax, if you just follow quacks
well then, you know you won’t rock out with dudes who prefer facts— Strike 💉x2 (@thatguyStrike) August 4, 2021
Now I kinda wanna hear a cover band play this version of their hit song …
re: #170 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It also failed to solve either his willful-ignorance or Covid problems.
We live with cave people who think religion is an acceptable substitute for science, rather than being completely different domains.
Cave people had no better explanations for things than whatever their shamans came up with.
Now it is known that science reigns supreme in its proper domain, so the atavistic fuckwits pushing young earth creationism etc. are being willfully primitive in a way that cave people weren’t.
Comparing Republicans to cave people is deeply insulting to cave people.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
My commute to and from work. 😩
re: #44 Dangerman
he’d have to speak some truth first
It’s TRUTH™ that Doccy and the rest speak.
Patented, trademarked, and focus group tested to undermine freedom and democracy.
re: #167 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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The sad thing about all this is that my relatives who are cops, really don’t seem to *get* that the conservative right-wing Xtian swamp that they’re marinating in, will gladly throw them right directly under the bus the second it’s convenient.
And by convenient, I mean, “Some dipshit gets on Fox and yammers about White Genocide”
re: #171 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Really digging the Offspring story that’s breaking on social media:
Now I kinda wanna hear a cover band play this version of their hit song …
So Holland’s PhD in molecular biology… does that make him almost as smart as, or slightly smarter than, a guitarist/singer/songwriter with a PhD in astrophysics?
asking for a friend.
Shiva Bagheri is the MAGA anti-vaxxer caught on tape punching a cancer patient *in her surgical scar* outside a protest last month. When confronted, she said the patient was faking her cancer, and insinuated I personally paid her to do so. Because of my last name. https://t.co/8hPkFZ4fQb
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) August 4, 2021
re: #138 wrenchwench
I vote Biff. (Local mayor. His hair is the whitest part of him, but not by much.)
“Now they’re smokin’ up their junk bonds
And then they go get stiff
And they’re dancin’ in the yacht club
With muff and uncle biff
But there’s one good thing that happens
When you toss your pearls to swine
Their attitudes may taste like shit
But go real good with wine
Eat the rich”
- Aerosmith
re: #179 BeachDem
According to the Chick’s song about Earl—turns out he was a missing person who nobody missed at all.
now you made me look it up…
The video stars Dennis Franz, Jane Krakowski, Lauren Holly, Michael DeLouise, Adrian Pasdar…
re: #180 Eventual Carrion
“Now they’re smokin’ up their junk bonds
And then they go get stiff
And they’re dancin’ in the yacht club
With muff and uncle biff
But there’s one good thing that happens
When you toss your pearls to swine
Their attitudes may taste like shit
But go real good with wine
Eat the rich”
- Aerosmith
That’s another vote for Biff.
My human thought this was funny. I have no idea why—it looks right to me….#CatsOfTwitter #WednesdayThought pic.twitter.com/MjFmdVaAbZ
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) August 4, 2021
I’ve mentioned that we have a 9% antivax kook problem where I work. They were going to be permitted to work if they had constant Covid tests, and my employer even gave in and was going to pay for it rather than making the idiots do it like they’d initially planned.
A letter from our CEO just announced that all workers must be vaccinated to return to the office due to Delta. The next all employee videoconference is going to be spectacular. Ordering popcorn now.
re: #171 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
Really digging the Offspring story that’s breaking on social media:
The drummer has Guillain-Barré syndrome which means his immune system is kinda fucked up. There’s no official recommendation by the British medical health services on whether it’s generally safe for G-B sufferers to get a COVID-19 vaccine, in part because it’s a rare enough affliction that there’s no track record of people getting vaccinated and being OK or not afterwards. Basically he’s playing it safe (for him) and, I hope, talking to the medical people who have been keeping him alive for the past few years rather than taking the advice of rando commentators on the interweb-thingies.
His bandmate having a Ph. D. in molecular biology does not make him a virologist or epidemiologist and definitely not a qualified medical professional. But it’s a good story.
Got called in for jury duty this morning. Really was hoping for four days off work to recharge my batteries…while I was waiting in line to check in, I saw the defendant and his lawyer come in. Suit was obviously not his own…looked a bit like Tom Hanks in Big. Lawyer was twice his size…real Better Call Saul vibe…gunmetal blue suit, white shirt, whiter tie.
They found enough jurors before they got to me…so I miss out on three days of entertainment.
Victorian Tear Catchers - for mourners to collect their funeral tears pic.twitter.com/ORtRVlnW1r
— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) August 4, 2021
I agree with DeSantis. Secure the border between the United States and Florida.
— Kyle Conner (@udkyle) August 4, 2021
Tucker Carlson whining about our democracy from Hungary, after meeting with their authoritarian leader, is really something.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 4, 2021
In Harris County, where Houston is located, COVID hospitalizations have increased by 264% since July 1. There were 43 ICU beds available Tuesday in the trauma service area that includes Harris County and eight other surrounding counties and has about 6.6 million residents. (2/2)
— Juan Lozano (@juanlozano70) August 4, 2021
re: #185 Nojay UK
The drummer has Guillain-Barré syndrome which means his immune system is kinda fucked up. There’s no official recommendation by the British medical health services on whether it’s generally safe for G-B sufferers to get a COVID-19 vaccine, in part because it’s a rare enough affliction that there’s no track record of people getting vaccinated and being OK or not afterwards. Basically he’s playing it safe (for him) and, I hope, talking to the medical people who have been keeping him alive for the past few years rather than taking the advice of rando commentators on the interweb-thingies.
His bandmate having a Ph. D. in molecular biology does not make him a virologist or epidemiologist and definitely not a qualified medical professional. But it’s a good story.
Unless he lives in a bubble, Covid is still the thing he needs to play it safe about. If the vaccine is going to cause a problem, the Covid is likely to cause death.
Florida accounts for 23% of new Covid hospitalizations nationwide. pic.twitter.com/fV8HGSO5lv
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) August 4, 2021
I wrote this in my “ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT” voicehttps://t.co/iQXUjkRFqC
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 4, 2021
re: #190 jaunte
Pretty confident we’re going to break 700 000 official deaths by end of summer.
Check his liver. https://t.co/U06tOUB0BW
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) August 4, 2021
The wrongful death suits that state is going to face are going to be mind boggling.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 4, 2021
re: #9 Belafon
Closest male name to Karen. I doubt we’re going to call them Deltas and Gammas.
I thought Kevin was reserved for Qevin (you know the QAnon crazies).
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
$362.50/shot, assuming the bottle is a standard fifth.
— Kevin & Trevor (@WipeHomophobia) August 4, 2021
re: #198 teleskiguy
$362.50/shot, assuming the bottle is a standard fifth.
Would his liver be priced in ounces or grams?
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
You can see it in his face.
Frank Zappa was known for many things but acting wasn’t really one of them. That’s why it was such a surprise to see him on Miami Vice. Here he plays an intimidatingly persistent character hell-bent on recovering a large sum of money. pic.twitter.com/1t41j61VoM
— Daniel Holland🎗 (@DannyDutch) August 4, 2021
Mike Lindell added that reporters wouldn’t be allowed to “roam” around the venue in South Dakota, further noting that the creation of the media “pod” is to prevent “hit-pieces.”
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) August 4, 2021
re: #202 darthstar
That whole thread is interesting. Leonard Cohen, Little Richard…
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Worst. Sturgis. Rally. Ever.
Your dad is about as articulate as a drunken circus chimp with or without a prompter - and you sound like a ferret on meth in even videos you could have re-recorded.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 3, 2021
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
What does this mean pic.twitter.com/WSuivJNgQM
— Susan Abbott (@colinsusan1) August 3, 2021
Who’s this guy and why can’t he read a teleprompter without slurring?pic.twitter.com/C4ROzI1x3P
— Pamela Johnson (@ilovemyjobpj) August 3, 2021
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
So basically using the Trump model of caging up the press, then.
Well, well, well…nobody could have predicted (cough, cough) that a congressmen would flip faster than a proud boy.
“Seeking Immunity From Suit Over Jan. 6th Attack, Rep. Mo Brooks Tells Judge He Was Simply ‘Cooperating’ with the ‘White House’”@LambeJerry reports. https://t.co/1w1ECtgkku via @lawcrimenews
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) August 4, 2021
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lindell tells me reporters will be sectioned off and assigned to a small “pod” area in the arena.
Why would any reporter at this point submit to staying in the “pod?”
Our beloved former mascot Jonathan XIII passed away peacefully today with his successor and best friend @JonathanHusky14 by his side. Rest in peace, good boy. 💙 https://t.co/U2NAZA8EoQ pic.twitter.com/3JojXs8Ih0
— UConn (@UConn) August 4, 2021
re: #189 DodgerFan1988
Tucker should stay in Hungary. That would substantially improve our democracy.
If your kid picks up a serious case of covid at a maskless school in Florida or Texas, there won’t be any room for them in the hospital ICU. Just fyi.
Complaints may be directed to @RonDeSantisFL and @GregAbbott_TX. https://t.co/n7NP8etL8g— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 4, 2021
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Freedom of the press isn’t held in high regard by Conservatives. Recall how Trump treated the press during his campaign rallies.
JFC
I have talked to multiple women who say they miscarried healthy pregnancies after taking the #COVID19 vaccine.
Not only miscarriages, but also reporting blood clots and heavy & irregular periods after taking the Experimental Use Covid vaccine.
Stop vaccine mandates!— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) August 4, 2021
re: #209 darthstar
Well, well, well…nobody could have predicted (cough, cough) that a congressmen would flip faster than a proud boy.
Also, let’s get Mo on the stand before the select committee…I wanna hear what other songs he can sing.
Given how fragile Republicans are when pressured, imagine the stories Matt Gaetz will want to tell when he gets indicted.
I’m outnumbered, and it’s the best thing in the world.
What a blessing. pic.twitter.com/OcyXXJFQze— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) August 4, 2021
Not the onion https://t.co/xYRw5uDxWO
— 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 (@VWAimlessly) August 4, 2021
Today’s nudie pic.
Alfred Soder, Naked Nietzsche on a Rock in the High Mountains (1907)
Alfred Soder, Nackter Nietzsche auf Fels im Hochgebirge (1907) pic.twitter.com/xZGS3MykLV
— Henriikka Hannula (@HHenriikka) August 4, 2021
Jesus…Covid is going to make more Republicans.
⚠️“SUBSTANTIAL DROP” in intelligence—#COVID19 survivors suffer severe cognitive deficit. Patients hospitalised on ventilators saw the biggest drop in on intelligence tests—equal to a **7-point drop in IQ**!
Larger than suffering stroke or lead poisoning!🧵https://t.co/RlnLSl9fdP pic.twitter.com/HJ3qxE8Vra— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 27, 2021
MAGA rally organizer Matt Braynard just announced on Bannon’s show that he has many “high profile speakers, including Members of Congress,” on Sept 18 to “push back on the narrative” that Jan 6 was an insurrection. “It’s going to be huge .. we are going back to the Capitol.” pic.twitter.com/meuFEZ7C7l
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 30, 2021
Honore is on social media telling these orgs, in effect, hey, here’s the “chatter” this time: https://t.co/0SZkDy5pzI
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) August 4, 2021
windows 7 to linux mint is moving along.
hit a snag the last few days - wont recognize my scanner
finally i tabled that and moved on. i’ll come back to it later or maybe get another one.
got google drive to work - more or less - enough for what i need
figured out a good pdf viewer
learned some of the file system, the file manager and a good substitute for windows file libraries.
my hand eye coordination has always sucked
i hate mice - have to be so accurate and to move all over the place on the screen
i use a left handed trackball so that helps. configuring that was easy.
because i hate mice i do *a lot* of windows button, then type a command, or windows button then type a file location…
i got a lot of that to work today.
i investigated linux 12 years ago. a lot has changed. there are good interfaces and a lot of front ends and apps that make it look very familiar to a windows user.
having a long history in software development and support, and computers in general sure, a lot is intuitive. still, after all this time, there are a few things that are much harder than they should be for someone not familiar.
in any event in a little more than a week there is a lot to recommend and i think i see where things are going. i wont have to compromise too much mostly because my needs are way less than they used to be.
Latest from San Diego County: fully vaccinated 12+ is up to 71.9%, single dose is up to 82.1%. So we’re making progress.
Cases are up here, and there is an increase in hospitalizations, but so far no significant increases in deaths:
“We were wolves once; wild and free.
Then we noticed you had duvets.” pic.twitter.com/2exQydOuiz— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) August 4, 2021
An hour in, still going strong. pic.twitter.com/mQER0H9be9
— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) August 4, 2021
re: #227 darthstar
Jesus…Covid is going to make more Republicans.
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Finally their plan makes sense.
Fleets are gone…welcome to Spaces.
No. No. No. pic.twitter.com/cK46MAsK3E
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 4, 2021
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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I mean, I know the reason, but how is that tweet not grounds for a permanent suspension?
Don’t turn away. Look at him. This is what we have willingly done bc we want to play politics and battle with fragile egos over masks and talking points. Children do NOT deserve this. #WearAMask #GetVaccinated https://t.co/T7YT9Sx3Ao
— Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) August 4, 2021
re: #236 darthstar
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Because freedumb. Schlichter or whoever that was said as much.
re: #236 darthstar
Holy shit that’s a hard 45 seconds of video to watch.
re: #236 darthstar
This photo or even the video should be shown to everyone who has labeled COVID-19 as fake.
Yo @FBI @CapitolPolice @USNationalGuard @DHSgov this man just said they coming back to Capitol on 18 September @CNN @MSNBC @WhiteHouse , . The @GOPLeader tour group coming back to the Capitol,
— Russel L. Honore’ (@ltgrusselhonore) August 2, 2021
My wife runs a home for developmentally disabled adults. The staff and residents have all been vaccinated. Two days ago, one of her staff called out after learning that his close friend has Covid, so he’s isolating and testing. Problem is, he had contact with a bunch of other people, including all the residents and, in personal importance to me, my wife. Yesterday she developed a sore throat, fever, and naseua. Of course, this was after I went to work and interacted with a bunch of people. This being rural Arizona, she can’t get a test until tomorrow, and there won’t be any official contact tracing. Our county is at less than 50% vaccinated, for all the reasons you might expect. I’m furious at all these dickholes who refuse to vaccinate, and decline to wear masks. This is why we can’t have nice things.
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every known serial killer went on their first killing spree after years of ingesting dihydrogen monoxide.
re: #241 PhillyPretzel
This photo or even the video should be shown to everyone who has labeled COVID-19 as fake.
It would help in some cases, but our right is pretty far around the bend.
Crisis child actor!
re: #244 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Every known serial killer went on their first killing spree after years of ingesting dihydrogen monoxide.
I mean, it IS habit forming.
/
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
“hit piece” is political speak for “writing anything that isn’t in the approved propaganda/press release/self-created myth”
So, at least he’s getting ready to be a politician.
Daily Beast: “The Gateway Pundit’s small role in Trump’s endeavor to weaponize the DOJ against the American electoral process underscores just how easily a discredited far-right media site established a pipeline to the decision-making of the then most powerful person on Earth.”“It also shows how this one website… managed to play a part in fueling the efforts that brought the country to the brink of democratic rupture.”
“During the final weeks of his presidency, administration officials saw Trump on multiple occasions holding printed-out pages of Gateway Pundit articles in the White House, sometimes in the Oval Office. [A] former senior official recalled one instance when Trump handed them a page printed from the website, which nonsensically alleged massive pro-Biden fraud, and told the official to find out more and to do something about it.”
Well well well
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Some people are saying” huh? Just not the ones that died of Covid.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) August 4, 2021
re: #246 Eclectic Cyborg
I mean, it IS habit forming.
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which is surprising, since as little as 250 mL can kill you.
I hope leaders across the country & particularly in my home of SC see that Covid is ravaging all groups & ages. As the father of two young kids who can’t get vaccinated… it is important that those of us who can should #GetVaccinatedNow https://t.co/9SBlQIc3zi
— Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair (@harrisonjaime) August 4, 2021
re: #244 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Every known serial killer went on their first killing spree after years of ingesting dihydrogen monoxide.
Mother’s milk leads to heroin
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Vaccinated people spread Delta as well as unvaccinated, but it must shorten the duration that you’re shedding virus, and we all have a responsibility to do the right thing, and free up the medical professionals to help the people who can’t be vaccinated.
re: #245 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would help in some cases, but our right is pretty far around the bend.
Crisis child actor!
Don’t forget CGI!
re: #255 Dangerman
Mother’s milk leads to heroin
Reading has led to every human caused catastrophe for thousands of years.
Worst
Piñata
Ever pic.twitter.com/4E1visYVl7— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) August 4, 2021
re: #202 darthstar
Great thread. Never watched Miami Vice that much but it appears to have had loads of great actors, musicians and singers in small roles.
re: #260 Patricia Kayden
Great thread. Never watched Miami Vice that much but it appears to have had loads of great actors, musicians and singers.
I liked it but was always disappointed as I rooted for the drug dealers (I was young!).
Don’t know that I’ve seen that image of Simon & Garfunkel before. 🙃
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 4, 2021
The woman who wrote a puff piece on Don Jr. calling him a “gentle dad” who has been “treated unfairly” wrote a hit piece against PatriotTakes because they expose the far right better than the mainstream media. You can’t make this stuff up. Truly shameful. pic.twitter.com/1zIbe6rjFN
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) August 4, 2021
Ordered a few items from Amazon and have been getting the usual string of emails and notifications about shipping and delivery status.
“Package has been delivered” message includes photo of packages on apartment porch.
Except that the photo is not of *my* apartment porch.
Reported to Amazon, so I’ll see what happens. And a slight chance someone is nice enough to turn the packages in or attempt to find the correct porch for them. (I also did a quick walkabout of the likely alternate locations that could be the pictured porch, but did not see any packages or even a good match for that porch.)
re: #124 JOE 🥓
He may want to do that but I bet the Republicans in the legislature won’t.
Hutchinson has called a special session to amend the legislation.
I’m so done pretending these people aren’t just evil. https://t.co/CXSkrGXP9c
— HatInProSe (@Popehat) August 4, 2021
What’s even worse is Pompeo mixed it with Diet Coke when he drank it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 4, 2021
Cue sinister theramin music in E minor (the spookiest of all keys).
Christian Pastor: If Something Crashed in Roswell, “It’s of Demonic Origin” https://t.co/sFxfxYnP1c pic.twitter.com/YErYlnqIeV
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) August 4, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, service workers have faced a wave of abuse from customers. That’s exactly the way American consumerism was designed to work, writes @amandamull: https://t.co/7suO3xNTBU
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 4, 2021
re: #271 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
What else could it be, since space isn’t real, and is just something scientists lie about to try to discredit the firmament and by extension God?
In a new brief, Michigan officials led by Gov. Whitmer have made their final arguments for why Sidney Powell should be sanctioned.
The brief cites the ruling from today in which 2 other lawyers were sanctioned for their bizarre lawsuit claiming a vast election-rigging conspiracy https://t.co/evPS1cgobg— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) August 4, 2021
Insider: “The Justice Department has in recent months escalated its enforcement efforts, mostly notably with investigations and prosecutions of prominent Trumpworld figures suspected of monetizing their access to Trump’s administration by working illegally for foreign governments and other overseas powers
A new paper published today in Cell describes the results of doing DNA sequencing of over a 100 people from various groups in southwest Asia. It’s interesting and perhaps late at night I’ll write one of my long missives on it.
But more succinctly - be careful of popular writers and press releases when it comes to real science. The authors of easy-to-read stories and the authors of press releases tend to make claims and statements that are not in the actual research paper.
This is a long running problem, and again I lament that we just do not educate our youth well enough. By “educate” I do not mean indoctrinate (much), but to train in the ability to reason and communicate.
I am here assuming we don’t have to worry about actual malice and deceit.
The New York auto show, scheduled to run Aug. 20-29 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, has been canceled because of the rise of the Delta variant and state and local efforts to stop its spread, organizers said in statement Wednesday posted on the show’s website.
Some districts are ignoring desantis
Late Tuesday night, school board members in Alachua County in north Florida voted to require all students to wear masks during the first two weeks of school. And Wednesday morning, Leon County, which includes Tallahassee, announced it’s seeking a mandatory mask rule for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Both are direct rejections of DeSantis’ executive order prohibiting schools from enacting mask requirements for students.
Interesting cause North Florida and the capitol
This is Alfalfa. He’s had a little sprout on his noggin since he was a puppy. Used to be self conscious about it, but has learned to love himself just the way he is. 14/10 pic.twitter.com/TkPDAqxvcL
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 4, 2021
This rare mariner’s handbook once belonged to the library of Sir Walter Raleigh. Its sea charts are filled with beautiful illustrations of ships, and the islands and ports around Suez.
Read more about the manuscript in my blogpost for @BLMedieval today! https://t.co/TKHssYak1J pic.twitter.com/W4EMshYeGU— Calum Cockburn (@CCockburn2) August 4, 2021
re: #279 Dangerman
The federal government should step in and fund these school districts at the level they’ll lose from DeathSantis.
New story out of Falfurrias, Tx. Vehicle wreck resulted in 11 fatalities and 12 injuries, suspected illegal immigrant transport.
News at Ten.
LOL
That mask only protects you from someone coughing in your face. The virus is spreading hands to mouth surface contact. A person wearing a mask outside does nothing but make a person look scared. Because the mask is doing ZERO but collecting germs that you stickin your pocket.
— Bobby S Feely (@BobbyFeely) August 4, 2021
Our ventilation is old, many of us teach in windowless spaces, and we have no information on the vaccination status of our students as a group.
When I asked about ventilation info for various campus buildings I was told “We don’t make that public or people would never come back”— Sarah Tuttle, Princess of Quite A Lot (@niais) August 4, 2021
Literally a degree in astrophysics, my dude. You truly need a hobby that isn’t this.
— Sarah Tuttle, Princess of Quite A Lot (@niais) August 4, 2021
re: #236 darthstar
The Party of Life was fine with children in an elementary school getting shot down and even now refuses to do anything about guns so it’s not surprising that wearing masks is too much trouble for them.
FL superintendent sends letter to Gov pleading for temporary mask mandate, writing: “In the last ten days alone, before school has even opened, four school-aged children in Leon County have been admitted to local hospitals. Two of our Pre-K teachers are currently in the (ICU)”
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 4, 2021
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL
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Suddenly feeling better about my place of employment.
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
The parents could sense the frustration of the doctors at the kid not being vaccinated:
🚨17 y.o. Tyler Fairley from Douglas County #Georgia died from COVID on August 1, 2021. The healthy rising senior high school football player began having seizures after contracting COVID. He was unvaccinated. 💔 https://t.co/eF3X1DfwD3 pic.twitter.com/qXyZjdytl5
— Cleavon MD 💉 (@Cleavon_MD) August 4, 2021
re: #290 Barefoot Grin
My employer has been giving us all extra paid time for Covid quarantine if needed, which is nice, but I’m hoping my wife and I don’t have it. I can mostly do my job from home, but it’s a hassle.
re: #289 EstebanTornado1963
Yesterday somebody on Twitter straight up threatened to kill people like me,
And today I just opined that the world would be a better place without people like this and I got suspended for 12 hours, no appeal process afforded.[Embedded content]
You wished someone dead. People are going to report something like that whether in good faith or not. Someone may have told a group of idiots to report you.
re: #236 darthstar
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What really hurts is that I know people who would utter some religious bullshit when they look at the picture of that innocent kid.
Well damn.
COVID-19 Daily Update:
August 4, 2021
New Cases: 3,734 (1,311,656 to date)
New Deaths: 16 (24,720 to date)
Current Hospitalizations: 1,242 pic.twitter.com/6Ys5BwYlgu— LA Public Health (@lapublichealth) August 5, 2021
re: #292 DesertDenizen
My employer has been giving us all extra paid time for Covid quarantine if needed, which is nice, but I’m hoping my wife and I don’t have it. I can mostly do my job from home, but it’s a hassle.
We all got a small stipend last year as kind of a blanket acknowledgement of the extra costs of maintaining a home office during the pandemic. When I think about it, they’ve done a good job on covid, it’s some of the restructuring behind the scenes while we’re all away that is concerning.
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
This man was punted into the Sun over the course of this thread at a rate of: Punting = delta mansplain velocity/delta time to write “astrophysics.” https://t.co/5CBfcxKH3L
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 5, 2021
re: #293 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You wished someone dead. People are going to report something like that whether in good faith or not. Someone may have told a group of idiots to report you.
It was less than 2 minutes, it was an algorithm. I’ve been threatened many times on Twitter and never has the person been suspended.
If I wished someone was dead , I would’ve said I wish someone was dead
re: #295 Rightwingconspirator
If it was terrorists, we’d already have destroyed a couple of countries.
NEW : “I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid,” Clyburn told me.
With Shontel Brown’s win in Ohio, he’s showing liberals he has a finger on the pulse of Dem politics in a way they must acknowledge. https://t.co/llFG4GwD3c— Alexi McCammond (@alexi) August 4, 2021
THANK YOU EVERYONE! November here we come. pic.twitter.com/vZ2hXFOU10
— Shontel Brown for Congress (@ShontelMBrown) August 4, 2021
Happy 60th birthday, @BarackObama. Cheers to you, and to many more trips around the sun. pic.twitter.com/Kv1ZjEH96i
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 4, 2021
Hello, you can stop lecturing me about outside money in the congressional race here. I know a progressive in Ohio who is targeted by outside money every time he runs for the Senate. Every time, he has won. Enjoy your day.
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) August 4, 2021
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, when they let the barbarians off the leash it will be easy to catch their enemies if they are all in one place.
re: #298 EstebanTornado1963
It was less than 2 minutes, it was an algorithm. I’ve been threatened many times on Twitter and never has the person been suspended.
If I wished someone was dead , I would’ve said I wish someone was dead
Are you saying you think it’s singling you out, or that specifically wishing anyone and their attitude dead would get anyone a timeout, and you think that’s a form of bias?
re: #298 EstebanTornado1963
It was less than 2 minutes, it was an algorithm. I’ve been threatened many times on Twitter and never has the person been suspended.
If I wished someone was dead , I would’ve said I wish someone was dead
Wingnut provocateurs on social media know how to be offensive without getting banned.
If wingnuts can do it, anyone can (even accounting for the usual level of pro wingnut bias on social media).
re: #272 Patricia Kayden
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“Customer Service was designed for abuse”…
Tell me about it…43 years working at my agency and every time I thought I experienced it all…nope…gets more outrageous…still remember the guy who continually called us and farted on the phone…and when law enforcement visited him he farted on them…he said he had a constitutional right to fart thanks to the 9th Amendment…
re: #296 Barefoot Grin
The small city I work for is a great employer. The county I worked for before that, not so much. I’m glad I left there a few months before covid. Everyone in my old office got it before vaccines were available. One spent time in the ICU.
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