John Oliver: The End of the Endless Afghanistan War
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John Oliver discusses the end of America’s war with Afghanistan, and the humanitarian crisis being left behind.
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re: #1 Shropshire Slasher
Cuomo’s last day.
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don’t forget your dog!
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I was already done with him for his predatory behavior, but abandoning his dog is the last straw. Seriously…fuck that guy.
re: #1 Shropshire Slasher
Cuomo’s last day.
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don’t forget your dog!
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Is that Captain?
I don’t feel the least bit sad about losing Asshole Andy, but I do feel sorry for the dog.
(Unless Captain is just pissed the door is closed and he can’t get a last bite in…..)
re: #1 Shropshire Slasher
Cuomo’s last day.
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don’t forget your dog!
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so the dog was just a prop
Party City Wig Enthusiast, Kirsten Sinema: “I simply won’t back a $3.5T spending bill.” As the bipartisan infrastructure bill becomes a House bargaining chip, she’s doubling down. pic.twitter.com/2iswfkCvuR
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) August 23, 2021
re: #2 darthstar
I was already done with him for his predatory behavior, but abandoning his dog is the last straw. Seriously…fuck that guy.
I still haven’t forgiven a former neighbor for planning to abandon two cats when she moved from Philly to Michigan.
Luckily one of the apartment building front desk people was willing to adopt them. Last I knew they had adapted to the new digs after a period of hiding out.
re: #5 The Pie Overlord!
I had a dress and boots like that when I was a teenager back in the ‘60’s.
re: #5 The Pie Overlord!
I have the impression that her actions are rapidly adding up to political career suicide. Which is probably a good thing.
re: #5 The Pie Overlord!
Why is this person in the Senate? She’s fucking useless.
re: #8 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I have the impression that her actions are rapidly adding up to political career suicide. Which is probably a good thing.
I’d like to see her get primaried, but I wish someone would buy her off and make her support President Biden and the Democrats unconditionally for the next 8 months.
someone in portland just hit andy ngo with a dildo lol pic.twitter.com/7K3ehzDLPI
— 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰🔪 (@MommyMediumDick) August 23, 2021
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
I believe the brand name of that model is the “Silicon Death Rod”
aka the “Come Ngo”
re: #10 darthstar
I’d like to see her get primaried, but I wish someone would buy her off and make her support President Biden and the Democrats unconditionally for the next 8 months.
Lieberman owns her right now from what I gather.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
Concussion? What a softhead.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
Funny but fake, apparently:
ANTIFA made the fake tweet!!
Checkmarks responding to a fake tweet: pic.twitter.com/0JRkbGYJ9Z
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 23, 2021
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
He’s saying he got a concussion from a…..dildo? What is it, the Dildo of Doom? The Iron Dildo?
Remember the ISIS Dildo Flag?
re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I believe the brand name of that model is the “Silicon Death Rod”
aka the “Cum Ngo”
“Oh, COME on!” I would have shoved it down his SOMEWHERE.
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re: #10 darthstar
I’d like to see her get primaried, but I wish someone would buy her off and make her support President Biden and the Democrats unconditionally for the next 8 months.
Unfortunately, Sinema is in the Senate until 2024 - she was elected to the open seat in 2018. Mark Kelly - who is actually serving out the remainder of John McCain’s term - will have to stand again next year.
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
It’s a dildo…could someone with Twitter access respond to Mr Ngo with the below?
re: #14 jaunte
Concussion? What a softhead.
A glass dildo would do the trick. Those are too pretty to waste on Andy, though.
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re: #22 darthstar
It’s a dildo…could someone with Twitter access respond to Mr Ngo with the below?
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Down the hall from the complimentary peanuts
re: #23 Sherlock Hound
A glass dildo would do the trick. Those are too pretty to waste on Andy, though.
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STEELY DAN!!!
re: #11 The Pie Overlord!
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Aw shit! It was only a silicon dildo that assaulted Piece Of Shit Andy Ngo….
Rawstory
In the rush to build the wall, Trump sidelined environmental and cultural protection laws. Those laws are meant to protect the natural world and historically significant artifacts and sites. But they also serve the purpose of ensuring multibillion-dollar construction projects don’t face catastrophic failures within a few years of being built.”
re: #28 Dangerman
I will rant this one last time:
If Trump had been the least bit serious about The Wall as anything other than a symbol and rallying slogan, he would have immediately convened a planning commission to deliver engineering and design studies, environmental and legal impact statements and a proposed budget and timetable.
Nothing like that happened, despite Trump’s claims that he was “familiar with large-scale construction projects”.
And yet nobody called him out on that blatantly obvious failure on his part.
So the state can mandate that a 14 year old girl carry the pregnancy forced upon her by a rapist to term and endure delivery at her age, BUT the state CANNOT mandate that same girl wear a mask at school, because that’s too great a burden for the state to impose. WHAT?
— Bob Quinn (@bquinnjcmo) August 21, 2021
re: #28 Dangerman
I can’t be the only one who thinks the busted fence bears a striking resemblance to open doors, right?
A Long Distance Dedication to Andy after that nasty attack!
NSFW but sooooooooooo appropriate!
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You could make a country like the US destroy itself for you without firing a single shot or launching a single nuke. That’s the power of disinformation.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) August 23, 2021
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will rant this one last time:
If Trump had been the least bit serious about The Wall as anything other than a symbol and rallying slogan, he would have immediately convened a planning commission to deliver engineering and design studies, environmental and legal impact statements and a proposed budget and timetable.
Nothing like that happened, despite Trump’s claims that he was “familiar with large-scale construction projects”.
And yet nobody called him out on that blatantly obvious failure on his part.
Cause then he wouldn’t have gotten any wall built
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Oh he was called out for it. He just didn’t care, because the visual of a wall was more important than it being sustained and long-lasting. He didn’t care about how it was built any more than he cared how his casinos were built. Other people paid for it. He got to slap his name on it, and could avoid personal cost in bankruptcy.
He could then move on to his next disastrous project.
You’ve been hit by,
You’ve been struck by,
A fake genital.— Chris (@hydinout) August 23, 2021
re: #34 Dangerman
Cause then he wouldn’t have gotten any wall built
True, we would have seen what a ridiculously impractical undertaking this was.
re: #6 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I still haven’t forgiven a former neighbor for planning to abandon two cats when she moved from Philly to Michigan.
Luckily one of the apartment building front desk people was willing to adopt them. Last I knew they had adapted to the new digs after a period of hiding out.
That’s one of the things that’s most worrying me about my upcoming move to Philly. I need a place that’ll take two cats and three lizards. My ancient doggo is unlikely to live long enough to make the cross country move.
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nothing like that happened, despite Trump’s claims that he was “familiar with large-scale construction projects”.
Well, Donald Trump WAS familiar with large-scale construction projects. It was just that the areas he was most familiar with were the “fiddle the financing to get vast rakeoffs and writeoffs” bits: the “construction” part he always left to others to deal with.
re: #36 lawhawk
Somebody posted an article yesterday about the wall literally being broken by the monsoon rains in my neighborhood.
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will rant this one last time:
If Trump had been the least bit serious about The Wall as anything other than a symbol and rallying slogan, he would have immediately convened a planning commission to deliver engineering and design studies, environmental and legal impact statements and a proposed budget and timetable.
Nothing like that happened, despite Trump’s claims that he was “familiar with large-scale construction projects”.
And yet nobody called him out on that blatantly obvious failure on his part.
See what happens when you “build” a wall with third rate Russian Steal, er, Steel????
I love how spellcheck substitutes a bunch of words…
re: #41 DesertDenizen
Somebody posted an article yesterday about the wall literally being broken by the monsoon rains in my neighborhood.
Yeah, but I’m sure some wingnut will soon be along to claim that it was actually broken down by a caravan of Afghan terrorist “refugees”….
re: #41 DesertDenizen
Somebody posted an article yesterday about the wall literally being broken by the monsoon rains in my neighborhood.
Good thing we didn’t make Mexico pay for it or they would be demanding their money back…
re: #43 Jay C
Ha! Well, the floodgates did burst after all. A BP agent I know was complaining yesterday about how bad the crossings are. It’s so bad that they are catching, wait for it, an average of a car a day carrying UDAs.
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will rant this one last time:
If Trump had been the least bit serious about The Wall as anything other than a symbol and rallying slogan, he would have immediately convened a planning commission to deliver engineering and design studies, environmental and legal impact statements and a proposed budget and timetable.
Nothing like that happened, despite Trump’s claims that he was “familiar with large-scale construction projects”.
And yet nobody called him out on that blatantly obvious failure on his part.
His people don’t understand these things. They’re the people who go to water parks that were built using no math at all.
JUST IN: The officer who shot and killed rioter Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6 insurrection acted within department policy and won’t be disciplined, the Capitol Police announced.https://t.co/uOTXgDCB1z
— NPR (@NPR) August 23, 2021
re: #47 The Pie Overlord!
I thought this was already announced.
Biden: “Even as the delta variant has ravaged the unvaccinated…the death rate is still 70% lower than it was last winter…[experts estimate] the pace of our vaccination effort has saved over 100k lives & prevented more than 450k hospitalizations…[but] we need to move faster” pic.twitter.com/VE61mY1UlQ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 23, 2021
NEW: Biden calls on private sector leaders to impose vaccine mandates in wake of FDA approval of Pfizer shot.
“I call on you now to do that — require it,” Biden says.— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) August 23, 2021
re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth
* Results not applicable to Florida
What a conundrum for Trump. He wants to try and claim credit for the vaccine as a signature achievement of his presidency, while half his followers think it’s a Bill Gates plot to wipe out half the world’s population in two years.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 23, 2021
re: #52 darthstar
Chevron, Valero, Hess, and other energy Cos mandating vaccines.
With full approval, it’s over for the nutters. They’ll get vaccinated if they want to work or go to any mainstream social venue. Some will fake being vaccinated, and be caught when they get sick.
“If you don’t trust doctors and science to keep you from getting sick, why the hell are you clogging up hospitals trusting them to cure you?”
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
And they’ve got it backwards. The VIRUS is the plot to kill off half the people, but the people are self-selecting.
re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
With full approval, it’s over for the nutters. They’ll get vaccinated if they want to work or go to any mainstream social venue. Some will fake being vaccinated, and be caught when they get sick.
The Las Vegas Raiders already said a few days ago they’d require vaccine proof for fans to attend live games.
re: #50 Punish Domestic Terrorists
April 14th, 3 days ago, and today.
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I love the use of “exonerated”
Deliberate?
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
The dirtbags always said they loved him because he’s one of them, not because they’re falling in line for him. They control him more than he controls them.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 23, 2021
re: #33 DodgerFan1988
There’s a very good techno-thriller written with that idea in mind.
re: #60 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Also: Dead people can’t donate to PAC slush funds.
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Not even Donald Trump can control the monster he created
CNN and yes its cillizza
What this shows is that Trump doesn’t have the inclination to try to control the monster he’s built — whether he could or not. He wants to hear cheers and applause, not booing. So rather than tell his people a hard truth they need to hear — vaccination is the only way out of the hell of the past 18 months — he soft-pedals his own decision to get the vaccine and makes sure people know he is on the side of their, um, freedoms.
Saturday night was the logical end of what Trump has worked to create. The monster Trump built no longer listens to him all the time. It has grown beyond his capacity to control it.
re: #58 darthstar
The Las Vegas Raiders already said a few days ago they’d require vaccine proof for fans to attend live games.
It’s the smart move. Any unvaccinated person who shows up with a fake card and gets extremely sick won’t have a claim against them for allowing the spread of disease at their games. You want to show that you’re working to mitigate the risk.
OOPS! Hitler Lover Candace Owens is getting sued!
Baltimore County Republican Central Committee member Kimberly Klacik claims that Owens styled fabrications about her as an “investigation,” released in the form a video sent out to millions of her followers on Facebook and Instagram.
“Specifically, [Owens] affirmatively accused Ms. Klacik of tax fraud, campaign fraud, money laundering, illegal drug use, and acting as a ‘madame.’ There was no truth to the allegations,” the complaint states.
“In making these allegations of criminal activity, [Owens] claimed to have received information from someone who ‘stripped with [Ms. Klacik]’ and who allegedly told [Owens] that Ms. Klacik used campaign funds to purchase cocaine and scammed people of millions,” the suit continues. “These caustic and made-up defamatory allegations are without factual support.”
Klacik’s lawyer Jacob S. Frenkel told Law&Crime that the details in her complaint speaks for themselves.
“Baseless character assassination has no place in political dialogue,” Frankel wrote in an email. “The defendant chose to use her huge social media platform to attack a respected Baltimore political figure; we are using the proper forum - the power of the courts - to respond.”
re: #58 darthstar
So I saw this teen that had gotten his vaccine QR code tattooed on his arm. I thought okay, but are ya gonna add the roughly twice-a-year boosters?
re: #62 Eclectic Cyborg
Also: Dead people can’t donate to
PACslush funds.
They can for a couple of months till the executor finds it buried in the recurring trx to the bank or credit cards
So… I got the excuse to produce some tinfoil in a chat re: how the Qaliban, antivaxxers and other refuseniks are behaving, and the most reasonable tinfoil I can produce is:
A) they’re knowingly trying to produce the biggest pile of corpses possible to try to pin on their political opponents,
B) they’ve lost anchoring in reality to such a degree that they are a danger to themselves and others,
Or a combination of both.
I humbly request tinfoil quality assessment…
Have we FINALLY gotten to Trump’s Lonesome Rhodes moment?
re: #60 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The only control anyone has had over the Frankenstein’s monster created by 50 years of constant pandering to whiteness and suburban grievance populism is how much they can keep feeding the monster.
Trump was just the latest wacky-loon to fit the bill (starting with a doddering fascist Reagan) but he will quickly lose favor with the white grievance monster for someone like Gaetz or Desantis who has no obligation other than the complete destruction of the USA multicultural reality for an attempted white ethno-state.
re: #67 Rightwingconspirator
So I saw this teen that had gotten his vaccine QR code tattooed on his arm. I thought okay, but are ya gonna add the roughly twice-a-year boosters?
For all the tattooed non-vax out there, tattoo ink is not FDA approved
re: #70 Teukka
So… I got the excuse to produce some tinfoil in a chat re: how the Qaliban, antivaxxers and other refuseniks are behaving, and the most reasonable tinfoil I can produce is:
A) they’re knowingly trying to produce the biggest pile of corpses possible to try to pin on their political opponents,
B) they’ve lost anchoring in reality to such a degree that they are a danger to themselves and others,
Or a combination of both.I humbly request tinfoil quality assessment…
Clearly A — another tool they are using to sabotage the Biden administration.
re: #71 JOE 🥓
Have we FINALLY gotten to Trump’s Lonesome Rhodes moment?
I have hard time feeling that kind of optimism right now.
re: #69 Punish Domestic Terrorists
999 names were considered to not be as good as this one.
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Vaccine mcvaxface
re: #73 Dangerman
For all the tattooed non-vax out there, tattoo ink is not FDA approved
And the ingredients are not all disclosed lol.
re: #67 Rightwingconspirator
So I saw this teen that had gotten his vaccine QR code tattooed on his arm. I thought okay, but are ya gonna add the roughly twice-a-year boosters?
I hope the tattoo artist screwed up one dot and instead it redirects to a Rick-roll.
re: #77 Rightwingconspirator
And the ingredients are not all disclosed lol.
and needles are used in the process
re: #76 Dangerman
Vaccine mcvaxface
I have no doubt that was in there. We had something similar, in jest, when naming a new application at my office.
re: #70 Teukka
A lot of anti-vaxxers are still operating under the MO that:
1. the virus affects minorities more than the white population. In other words, genocide.
2. A very real nihilism where survival of the fittest should be the operating philosophy for this pandemic. …“Herd immunity” where science and medical technology only makes the species weaker.
Pastor of DC church from which banner was stolen is about to testify at Tarrio’s sentencing
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
The other day I waxed really long about offending vaccine deniers and horse paste eaters, but I think there’s a briefer less tangled way to describe them:
They’re looking to be angry and offended, because then they can reduce everything to a power struggle. They like power struggles because it’s all-or-nothing, and everything is just tactics to win—they don’t have to be reasoned, or have facts, they just have to create forceful rhetoric. This was never about addressing a need relating to the virus specifically or health generally, it’s about a deeper need to have the world confirm they are a better kind of person, and fear and intimidation are perfectly good ways of meeting that need.
Their beliefs change tremendously, Ship of Theseus style, and the only assumption that’s retained is that they’re a priori both moral and correct.
Vote NO pic.twitter.com/DtbBIodlvc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 23, 2021
BREAKING: Following the full FDA approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this morning, I’m calling on EVERY Virginia employer to require all eligible employees to be vaccinated. We need every eligible Virginian to get vaccinated to beat this virus. Together, we’ll get it done.
— Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) August 23, 2021
re: #69 Punish Domestic Terrorists
999 names were considered to not be as good as this one.
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Many years ago my employer developed a product for their corporate clients and hired an outside firm to create a name. My company spent tens of thousands — and as soon as they announced the name, they were threatened with copyright infringement! So they were forced to come up with a new name on the spot, which turned out to be the acronym they used before they wasted money on consultants.
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
I know he won’t be given much time, but even a 12-18 month prison sentence would be something…and it would spur all kinds of plea deal requests and cooperation agreements - PBs testifying against other PBs and Roger Stone, Mo Brooks, etc…
re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth
He is not about forgiveness.
“His careless act of violence and hatred… had the presumably desired effect.”….. says pastor
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
re: #87 darthstar
I know he won’t be given much time, but even a 12-18 month prison sentence would be something…and it would spur all kinds of plea deal requests and cooperation agreements - PBs testifying against other PBs and Roger Stone, Mo Brooks, etc…
I seem to recall that he was a prolific law enforcement informant.
Once screened and cleared, we will welcome Afghans who helped us in the war effort to their new home in the United States of America.
Because that’s who we are. That’s what America is.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 23, 2021
Update:
In the last 24 hours, 28 U.S. military flights evacuated approximately 10,400 people from Kabul. 61 coalition aircrafts evacuated approximately 5,900 people.
Since 8/14 the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 37,000 people.— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 23, 2021
NYPD Commissioner says another officer dies of Covid. That is 3 dead in the past week. He imploring officers to get the vaccine
— Erin Burnett (@ErinBurnett) August 23, 2021
The secret of Trump is that his audience likes him for exactly the opposite reasons they say.
He panders.
He punches down.
He soothes their shame and guilt by, with both word and deed, telling them that their immoral behavior isn’t immoral.
He’s not leading them to become what they’re becoming, he’s giving them permission to do what they want.
A farmer in Nebraska asking a pro-fracking committee member to honor of his word of drinking water from a fracking location. pic.twitter.com/G9Rx4D25N1
— People Freakout (@peoplefreakout) August 23, 2021
“Didn’t mention natural immunity once…” Well, asshole, that’s because people aren’t naturally immune to a relatively new virus. That takes a couple thousand generations.
Biden just gave speech encouraging vax mandates.
Said Covid is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Didn’t mention natural immunity once.
Why? Bc it destroys vax mandate narrative.
No one truly knows motivation for this insatiable push for 100% vax…but it isn’t about health. pic.twitter.com/QXmpmVlR0U— George Gammon (@GeorgeGammon) August 23, 2021
re: #88 Punish Domestic Terrorists
He is not about forgiveness.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean you get out of punishment.
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
Everyone in this Great Country of Ours is entitled to express their opinion - except specialists and scientists who have studied a particular topic all their lives, because those are obviously all a bunch of elitists with an agenda and/or are in the pocket of Gates-Soros.
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
I seem to recall that he was a prolific law enforcement informant.
Tell that to his fellow inmates after he gets locked up. They won’t have a ton of time to explain to him how they feel about informants.
re: #95 darthstar
“Didn’t mention natural immunity once…” Well, asshole, that’s because people aren’t naturally immune to a relatively new virus. That takes a couple thousand generations.
He probably means herd immunity, but inadvertently used the correct term. The “herd immunity” enthusiasts apparently believe that getting the disease is the best way to prevent against getting the disease again, because everyone remembers the chicken pox when they were kids - hence, “natural immunity” is the actual correct term for what they want. Except:
1) Natural immunity to COVID is, in fact, strictly inferior to that introduced by these miracle medicines; and
2) COVID, in particular the current variants, is a serious and quite deadly disease that you would be stupid to actually WANT to get.
re: #95 darthstar
“Didn’t mention natural immunity once…” Well, asshole, that’s because people aren’t naturally immune to a relatively new virus. That takes a couple thousand generations.
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and this virus is mutating. The quicker we get it under control, the less likelihood that we wind up chasing our tails to fight a version that is even more virulent and contagious.
(Just wait until we get to the Omega Variant: 100% lethal and transmissible by sight…)
re: #99 Dopamine Fish
He probably means herd immunity, but inadvertently used the correct term. The “herd immunity” enthusiasts apparently believe that getting the disease is the best way to prevent against getting the disease again, because everyone remembers the chicken pox when they were kids - hence, “natural immunity” is the actual correct term for what they want. Except:
1) Natural immunity to COVID is, in fact, strictly inferior to that introduced by these miracle medicines; and
2) COVID, in particular the current variants, is a serious and quite deadly disease that you would be stupid to actually WANT to get.
FWIW, Re: 1), from what I understand, the immunity you get from being exposed to a virus and optionally having the disease has a strong tendency to be tailored to the specific virus variant you were exposed to (the tendency varies with virus), while vaccines, especially the mRNA ones, tends to impart a wider spectrum immunity (i.e. more than one specific variant).
re: #95 darthstar
“Didn’t mention natural immunity once…” Well, asshole, that’s because people aren’t naturally immune to a relatively new virus. That takes a couple thousand generations.
He’s doomed to never have a thoughtful or compassionate response to anything ever.
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and this virus is mutating. The quicker we get it under control, the less likelihood that we wind up dealing with a version that is even more virulent and contagious.
(Just wait until we get to the Omega Variant: 100% lethal and transmissible by sight…)
Didn’t Sandra Bullock do a movie about that where she ran around blindfolded?
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m out of fucks to give with the NYPD too. PBA Pat Lynch is uncharacteristically quiet about covid among the rank and file, despite covid being the leading cause of death among NYPD over the past two years. He was quick to claim that Shake Shack was poisoning (attempted assassination) of cops, but facts showed it was no such thing. Here, cops are dying of covid, and he can’t be bothered to get his union to support vaccinations (which NYPD have done at a lower rate than other NYC agency/departments).
re: #103 darthstar
Didn’t Sandra Bullock do a movie about that where she ran around blindfolded?
Yes, Bird Box, a mega Netflix hit. Something like 80 million views in the first week.
At ten bucks a pop in the cinema, that film would’ve grossed 800 million
re: #99 Dopamine Fish
1) Natural immunity to COVID is, in fact, strictly inferior to that introduced by these miracle medicines; and
2) COVID, in particular the current variants, is a serious and quite deadly disease that you would be stupid to actually WANT to get.
Especially if you are old, immunocompromised, have pre-existing conditions or other indicators.
HAPPENING NOW: Sentencing in case of accused Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio
Tarrio was arrested before Jan 6 (given stay away order) for stealing, burning Black Lives Matter banner from church, carrying unlawful ammo magazine w/ Proud Boy logo
Feds seek prison, $5,347 in damages pic.twitter.com/7E3g3rDxFD— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth
Though I don’t think they’d have a problem with Bill Gates wiping out half the world population if they had assurances that it was the *right* half in their viewpoint.
re: #108 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Though I don’t think they’d have a problem with Bill Gates wiping out half the world population if they had assurances that it was the *right* half in their viewpoint.
the “unproductive” half
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Does not appear to be going well for Tarrio
Judge (more): “Court agrees with the government that Mr. Tarrio has not expressed… remorse.”
Judge then calls Tarrio’s claim not to know BLM banner was stolen from church a “Bald, self-serving assertion”— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
Judge: Considering Mr. Tarrio’s previous criminal conduct, particularly for fraud, the court does not credit his claims that he had no reason to know possession of (ammo magazines) was illegal”
“He cared about himself and self-promotion.. not the laws of D.C.”— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
NC court grants voting rights to thousands of people on probation or parole for a felony
Yeah, I’m using a private window to view the blue bird of bullshit - looking for more mandate stories. Can’t get enough. So want this country to get its shit together.
Kudos to UVA.
University of Virginia Disenrolls Hundreds for Violating COVID-19 Vaccine Policy https://t.co/cksIVNlq7p
— Lisa (@Lisa_indeed) August 23, 2021
re: #110 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Does not appear to be going well for Tarrio
“He cared about himself and self-promotion.. not the laws of D.C.”
Sounds familiar. The Trumpists are rotten from their cult leader all the way down.
re: #110 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He’ll be headed to DC jail to serve his time.
Dozens of Jan 6 defendants.. including some other accused Proud Boys are already there (in separate, “J6” unit)— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
Tarrio is now apologizing for unlawfully bringing ammunition magazines into DC.
“There’s no excuse for what I did” Says he no longer carries “even a pocket knife around” with him— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
Tarrio is done talking. Judge doesn’t want to hear from “character witnesses”
Judge is now about to speak…
Standby— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
snip
Judge goes higher-end on sentence for Enrique Tarrio:
240 days (all but 150 days suspended) & fine for unlawful possession of ammo magazine
60 days for destruction of BLM banner
Probation too and fees— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
He’ll be headed to DC jail to serve his time.
Dozens of Jan 6 defendants.. including some other accused Proud Boys are already there (in separate, “J6” unit)— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 23, 2021
re: #108 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Though I don’t think they’d have a problem with Bill Gates wiping out half the world population if they had assurances that it was the *right* half in their viewpoint.
Never bet against Americans loving some Social Darwinism.
It’s…deep and not just a conservative thing.
I seriously wonder if this is some kind of massive cultural wound that exists because the nation was founded on the idea that the natives didn’t deserve their lives or their lands, and that both Nature and God allowed the settling of the continent.
The indifferent forces of the world are choosers of the fallen, judgements…but also it’s a violation of the order of everything if the “right” people are judged.
re: #116 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s a shame they won’t be scared straight, and will continue to organize to undermine our liberal democracy, even when in custody.
I support Biden 100% in ending the Afghanistan war, but the truth is that like MANY politicians over the last 20 years, he did talk about “nation-building” as a reason we were there. So just admit it and say you were wrong. (I certainly was.)
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 23, 2021
re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Wow. Judge threw the damn book at him.
300 days total? That’s not too bad - sure got real apologetic when he heard that.
Silicone Rod is my new nickname for Rod Dreher. https://t.co/CnX42EktUd
— Edwin (@EdMix13) August 23, 2021
Any Report on Afghanistan That Doesn’t Include These Facts Is Not Worth Your Time
The elite political media is making a Benghazi-sized dog’s breakfast out of this.
Charlie Pierce
esquire.com
And now the “story” is that the president’s poll numbers have fallen? Will o’God, they haven’t learned anything since their forebears got lost along the White River in Arkansas years ago. Between the apparently impervious storyline of an Afghan catastrophe and the deliberate monkey-wrenching of the Covid response by Republican governors, Republican state legislatures, and the wilder elements of the Horse Pill marketing complex, it’s a wonder that people aren’t walking past the White House with strings of garlic around their necks. Instead, this president’s approval rating is still higher than the best number the former president* ever racked up.
re: #117 The Ghost of a Flea
Never bet against Americans loving some Social Darwinism.
It’s…deep and not just a conservative thing.
I seriously wonders if this is some kind of massive cultural wound that exists because the nation was founded on the idea that the natives didn’t deserve their lives or their lands, and that both Nature and God allowed the settling of the continent.
The antivaxxers in Covid groups talk about The Great Reset, which is descended from the Agenda 21 conspiracy.
But I always wonder: Wouldn’t they like the reset button if THEY were pushing it?
re: #117 The Ghost of a Flea
Never bet against Americans loving some Social Darwinism.
It’s…deep and not just a conservative thing.
I seriously wonders if this is some kind of massive cultural wound that exists because the nation was founded on the idea that the natives didn’t deserve their lives or their lands, and that both Nature and God allowed the settling of the continent.
Funny that Social Darwinism is big among people who reject Evolution.
Ayn Rand explained that we had the right to take the land from the natives because they were not making proper use of it.
And that it was obviously up to us to determine what that “proper use” was
(my ex-wife has a similar attitude about other people’s time and property)
re: #83 The Ghost of a Flea
The other day I waxed really long about offending vaccine deniers and horse paste eaters, but I think there’s a briefer less tangled way to describe them:
They’re looking to be angry and offended, because then they can reduce everything to a power struggle. They like power struggles because it’s all-or-nothing, and everything is just tactics to win—they don’t have to be reasoned, or have facts, they just have to create forceful rhetoric. This was never about addressing a need relating to the virus specifically or health generally, it’s about a deeper need to have the world confirm they are a better kind of person, and fear and intimidation are perfectly good ways of meeting that need.
Their beliefs change tremendously, Ship of Theseus style, and the only assumption that’s retained is that they’re a priori both moral and correct.
This.
The original nation-builders came over the Bering Strait. They did not need to perform any nation-destruction before beginning to build.
Psaki 1200. Doocy 0
— Palmer Report reader Tim McDonough (@Tmcd1952) August 23, 2021
Yup, he’s a Republican all right.
California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder’s ex-fiancee says he brandished a gun at her while highhttps://t.co/vtFzEU7STb pic.twitter.com/P90AcOSVFN— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 23, 2021
“All Navajo Nation executive branch employees will need to be fully vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 by the end of Sept. or be required to submit to regular testing, according to an executive order announced by President Jonathan Nez.” 👏🏾👏🏾https://t.co/HEBByFQWIM
— Apache County Democrats (@apachecodems) August 23, 2021
such a moron
If this is the new standard — that failure to take measures to alleviate your own health problems are punishable by doctors refusing treatment — the extension of this logic to obesity will certainly be something https://t.co/QBzLZyrOan
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 23, 2021
“I’m sorry, we’ve been telling you for years to eat healthy, stop drinking, and start exercising. Now you’ve got [FILL IN NEARLY EVERY MEDICAL CONDITION KNOWN TO MAN]. You’re on your own.”
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 23, 2021
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not their first epidemic.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
Your wife’s obesity cannot kill me, but her Covid could. See they difference, spanky? https://t.co/1Xwla2qU4U
— Rob Wagner 😷😷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@wagner_rob) August 23, 2021
He did not say this. https://t.co/U5yVkFOdQ4
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 23, 2021
🐾💔 This is a paperwork issue. One piece of paper is all @KSAnimalRescue needs. They organized / funded their own cargo plane, visas for staff etc. They just need a LANDING PERMIT FOR THE ANIMALS too, or they’ll all be killed by the Taliban. @SecDef @DeptofDefense #Help pic.twitter.com/O4S2HrPoGz
— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 DOTUS Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) August 23, 2021
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought conservatives were against forcing medical staff to treat anyone. They claimed Obama care made doctors state owned slaves. Now they complaining that doctors are refusing to treat people who are maliciously causing harm to others? I’m torn about what the doctors are doing, but this is just more right wing hypocrisy from Ben.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
They will gladly judge others. Health is Morality. Ben Shapiro will make damned sure that other people take the punishment they deserve for being poor and unhealthy.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
such a moron
There is massive denial in the right’s obvious effort to target the obese for extermination.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funny that Social Darwinism is big among people who reject Evolution.
I would disagree. Spencer and ilk took the aesthetics of Darwin’s ideas to dress up the already-existing European racism and classism—the belief there’s a natural order, and it has already chosen winners and losers on a human scale and thus The System Is Right—and people loved it.
Darwin’s selection of the fittest is about context—the “fit” between animal and viable niche across generations, which changes chaotically and without direction—which is directly contradictory to the idea of natural hierarchy. The closest thing to Darwinian thinking about human culture would be Boasian anthropology, where you look at the “logic” of a culture’s survival within its environment on its own terms.
Ayn Rand explained that we had the right to take the land from the natives because they were not making proper use of it.
And that it was obviously up to us to determine what that “proper use” was
Yeah, Rand was a Social Darwinist with extra steps. A lot of her work is Bizarro Marxism—if Karl said it was bad it was good—and the rest is reading Aristotle and Plato in a very shallow way. She’s also a pretty class example of That Kind of Person that turns everything into a rhetorical contest.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence she gets so much love from business people, economists, and greedy fuckers, because what they all have in common is need to belief that money is real and that there’s a moral and hierarchical character to the accumulation of money. Making the number go higher is Good and smart in absolute terms, not in made-up relative terms because money is an token of value and value is largely irrational and aesthetic.
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
Nobody is asking you to do anything more than to get vaccinated. A quick, simple and free treatment that can SAVE LIVES
If obesity were contagious as well as potentially deadly, then Ben’s argument might have some grounds, but again, it is this failed lawyer using his rhetorical flair to make a bold statement
re: #140 The Ghost of a Flea
When it comes to evolution, people like to confuse the concept of “fittest” with the biggest and baddest.
That is not a 1:1 correlation, just ask what happened to saber tooth tigers, dire wolves and giant elk.
Darwin simply refers to the ones most likely to successfully reproduce, regardless of what traits creatures evolve to do so.
And now, today’s edition of “Deep Thoughts,” by Ben Shapiro. https://t.co/jKViYMd1jQ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 23, 2021
The slippery slope argument is really getting a workout here.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 23, 2021
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When it comes to evolution, people like to confuse the concept of “fittest” with the biggest and baddest.
That is not a 1:1 correlation, just ask what happened to saber tooth tigers, dire wolves and giant elk.
Darwin simply refers to the ones most likely to successfully reproduce, regardless of what traits creatures evolve to do so.
They often seem to miss that evolution is also applied to populations. And the top of a food pyramid is not necessarily a “superior” animal anyways. Just the one in that particular niche in that particular biome.
re: #140 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t think it’s a coincidence she gets so much love from business people, economists, and greedy fuckers, because what they all have in common is need to belief that money is real and that there’s a moral and hierarchical character to the accumulation of money. Making the number go higher is Good and smart in absolute terms, not in made-up relative terms because money is an token of value and value is largely irrational and aesthetic.
Wealth as an outward sign of moral superiority
In an ideal world, that might be the case.
In a world, where we are born fully developed and can simply be sent out into the world to fulfill our potential as individuals, that might work.
But that is not who or how we are.
re: #145 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They often seem to miss that evolution is also applied to populations. And the top of a food pyramid is not necessarily a “superior” animal anyways. Just the one in that particular niche in that particular biome.
Just like the concept of “alpha” simply refers to an individual who happens to occupy that particular spot in the hierarchy at that time.
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— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) August 23, 2021
Is there a free vaccine for obesity? For drug addiction? For mental illness? For being a hack stooge like you?
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) August 23, 2021
re: #148 Juan Carlos Mescalero
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re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If obesity were contagious as well as potentially deadly, then Ben’s argument might have some grounds, but again, it is this failed lawyer using his rhetorical flair to make a bold statement
Ben Shaprio is 100% the guy is was describing earlier.
Everything is rhetoric in the moment to give his audience what they need to feel how they want to feel.
That during COVID conservatives have frequently talked about obesity being part of fatality, and obesity being a moral failing, and thus death from COVID being a failure of character and thus conservatives are entitled not to care about the deaths should diminish the point he’s making right now.
As should the fact that doctors do deny service to people who won’t comply. A lot of surgery and treatment includes alteration of lifestyle as part of prep…and if you don’t do those things they don’t do the treatement. In fact, obesity is one of those things—you have to lose weight before joint replacement or they won’t do the surgery.
But those things don’t matter because Shapiro isn’t trying to represent what is, he’s performing rhetoric so his audience can feel they’re not doing anything wrong and are being attacked, and that the inevitable slippery slope of this kind of attack means their opponents are freedom-destroying monsters.
The part that does not move or change is that they’re entitled to get exactly what they want and the rest of us are bad and stupid people for questioning this.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All evolution ‘cares’ about is the ability to survive in your ecosystem and reproduce. There’s no big, small, frierce, timid,etc. Selection for those traits is what drives the separation of a species into more than one.
re: #149 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So, what you’re saying is this might work itself out on its own as those responsible for this “audit” may find themselves dead or incapacitated due to covid?
I’m shocked. Shocked! That the same people who spewed conspiracies about the election are the same ppl who refused to vaccinate or take sufficient precautions to prevent covid.
re: #145 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
They often seem to miss that evolution is also applied to populations. And the top of a food pyramid is not necessarily a “superior” animal anyways. Just the one in that particular niche in that particular biome.
Big cats are at the top of the food chain — they are on their way out.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When it comes to evolution, people like to confuse the concept of “fittest” with the biggest and baddest.
That is not a 1:1 correlation, just ask what happened to saber tooth tigers, dire wolves and giant elk.
Darwin simply refers to the ones most likely to successfully reproduce, regardless of what traits creatures evolve to do so.
And he saw how different birds exploited different niches on the islands of Galapagos—one bird with a “big bad beak” might be unsuited to picking small nuts out of cracks in rocks on one island where a smaller bird could do quite well whereas the same bird might do better than the smaller bird where nuts were difficult to crack. One bird more likely to survive where the other couldn’t.
There’s no easy way I know of to see blue checks on Twitter that follow me, so it’s jarring when I see someone who is retweet, respond, or interact with that I thought was a hero as a kid.
Like Carl Lewis. Yeah, that Carl Lewis.
A Moscow-led security bloc said Monday it was concerned that the Taliban had not yet started forming a transitional government in Afghanistan, a week after the group’s military takeover of the country https://t.co/ycwake4jJX
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) August 23, 2021
These are not arguments.
These are hollow argument-shaped objects filled with feces to be thrown at anyone that triggers them.
re: #158 Dread Pirate Ron
Yeah, “concerned”. Sure.
On drugs, disheveled, and in Indiana is no way to go through life.
‘BUFFY THE VAMPIRE’ STAR
NICHOLAS BRENDON BUSTED IN INDIANA
Over Prescription Drugs (TMZ)
re: #157 lawhawk
I do miss the regular interactions I had with Nancy Sinatra and Amy Lofgren (Nils Lofgren’ ‘s wife)…but I don’t really miss much else to be honest. Definitely don’t miss the anxiety.
i hold in my hands the billing statement that says this is the last payment on our a/c.
which died on a friday night in 8/16, during a heat wave.
they installed the new one that sunday. that part was good
this afternoon the outdoor unit blew something.
there’s a puddle, and of course no cooling.
theyll be here in the am.
its already 84.
as to windows, its 99 outside
later we’ll open some and run the recirc and ceiling fans at least
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— Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) August 22, 2021
re: #149 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #150 DodgerFan1988
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If this is the new standard — that failure to take measures to alleviate your own health problems are punishable by doctors refusing treatment — the extension of this logic to obesity will certainly be something https://t.co/QBzLZyrOan
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 23, 2021
re: #149 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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did they all get it today?
no, they are ‘quite sick”
so why not notify last week?
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— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) August 23, 2021
re: #151 Teddy’s Person
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re: #144 Charles Johnson
Stop listening to Ben, the pint-sized faux pundit who can’t even give his wife the WAP.
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) August 23, 2021
So…
Alex Jones goes off on Trump after he said this weekend that vaccines work. “BS. Trump, that’s a lie. My God, maybe you’re not that bright. Maybe Trump’s actually a dumbass.”
When you’ve lost Alex Jones … pic.twitter.com/9g24fcuTc1— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 23, 2021
…this is a mistake.
It’s assuming that Alex Jones wants something consistent from Trump, as opposed to Alex Jones will accept anything from Trump that sustains his assumptions.
Jones is authentically mad at Trump, is trying to make his followers mad at Trump, but that’s not part of some larger framework in which Trump is now disfavored…it’s closer to bullying. Trump’s job is to tell these people what they want to hear and never contradict their impulses: Jones is positioning himself as Trump’s boss, the guy that get to shout when Trump performs his task poorly.
If you follow Alex Jones—or follow the people that document him, like Knowledge Fight—this is a thing he regularly does when people on his “side” contradict him—mock, belittle, threaten—but in a few days or weeks Trump will do something that has utility to what Jones wants to push and he’ll be back on-side. He’s done this with people he’s accused of being shills and psyops, because Jones doesn’t care to describe reality, he just needs people to believe him through the next rounds of supplement ads and narcissistic supply.
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
Far as I’m concerned, if Shvok isn’t vaxxed and isn’t masking, they can shut the fuck up and fuck off.
Here’s how the ICU and ventilator records in Kentucky look like on a graph…. still shooting straight up. pic.twitter.com/GSZVECqlU3
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 23, 2021
Stivers said he doubted the GOP caucus in a special session would vote for any blanket mask mandate, but may approve targeted things. Said GOP had compiled a pandemic plan but declined to provide any preview of it.
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 23, 2021
re: #167 Dangerman
did they all get it today?
no, they are ‘quite sick”so why not notify last week?
The “Covid-19 delayed my homework” excuse. Wouldn’t put it past them. Let me see that CEO piece of crap on a ventilator then I’ll buy it.
Freezer disaster update.
Defrost complete, chill down begun. Up next, the not so enjoyable task of determining what to keep and what to toss. Anything without a date on the bag is an automatic toss. Over a year old? Toss. Same goes if the vac seal has been compromised. The rest will be on a case by case decision. Not exactly the ideal way to clean out a freezer, but given the circumstance, it is what it is. :-(
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
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75 Florida doctors stage symbolic walkout in protest of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients
“Just before sunrise, about 75 doctors stepped outside their hospitals and offices to stand together and encourage the community to get vaccinated.”
# of doctors denying treatment: 0
KY now has a record # of people hospitalized with Covid-19 (1,893, up 113 from Friday); a record # of ppl in ICUs (529, up 42 from Friday); & a record # of people on a ventilator (301, up 46 from Friday)
— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) August 23, 2021
Steve Haines, nurse at Ephraim McDowell, said they had 8 covid patients die in 1 day last wk, which overwhelmed the hospital’s morgue. Starts to cry as the video ends.
“We were frantically scrambling to order a refrigerator truck. Funeral homes couldn’t pick them up fast enough”— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) August 23, 2021
re: #174 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Freezer disaster update.
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They can’t even count to 5 or 9.
And they thought they could count millions of ballots? 😜 https://t.co/PIYrh4XLs3— GreatGrey (@GreatGrey) August 23, 2021
re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 23, 2021
re: #167 Dangerman
Must be all those covid infused bamboo ballots from China…
United Airlines moves up its deadline for workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or risk being fired. Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved, United’s 67,000 US workers have until September 27 to get fully vaccinated.https://t.co/hUwlpaBKCd
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 23, 2021
This fucking sucks.
My best friends 2 year old son, who has been in an unmasked daycare.
And another close friends 12 year old son, who has been in an unmasked school
Both likely have Covid.
And our asshole GOP governor is still saying “no mask mandates”.
Of KY hospitals getting overrun, “it’s looking more & more like that’s going to happen,” he said.
He submitted a FEMA resource request today for more health care staff to divvy between hospitals. Includes 8 teams of registered nurses & nursing assts +EMS to transport patients— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) August 23, 2021
New York City will mandate Covid-19 vaccinations for all of its 143,000 education department employees, offering no option to be tested instead. https://t.co/xMiutpAlKg
— CNN (@CNN) August 23, 2021
NEW: Rudy Giuliani associate Igor Fruman is expected to plead guilty in a campaign finance case on Wednesday https://t.co/v4pCm36pKx
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 23, 2021
oops
re: #177 Decatur Deb
Understood. But some of this stuff has been in there for who knows how long and really needs to go. Compromised vac seal stuff that has freezer burned? Same.The majority I plan on keeping as it can be refrozen. As for cooking some of it up? That’s an option I will consider on a case by case basis.
The WellStar hospital nearest to us requested a mobile morgue today. A hospital that just opened one of the largest ER depts in the country last year. Sadly, I have been in this hospital as a patient’s spouse so I know how huge it is. There’s a whole ring of various practices in a one mile circle around the place too. Hundreds and hundreds of practices for every specialty you can think of. They are operating at over 90 percent capacity hospital wide. If they are ordering a morgue trailer, it’s fucking BAD.
re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth
Those graphs?
Those look scarily exponential.
Basically, the virus is meeting little to no resistance in the community it is infecting.
It will end in one of two ways, either the virus runs out of people to infect, or the government takes the appropriate action.
Mark my words.— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) August 23, 2021
re: #186 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Understood. But some of this stuff has been in there for who knows how long and really needs to go. Compromised vac seal stuff that has freezer burned? Same.The majority I plan on keeping as it can be refrozen. As for cooking some of it up? That’s an option I will consider on a case by case basis.
Join a Lutheran Women’s Group. Dominate the potluck.
re: #188 Teukka
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re: #186 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Understood. But some of this stuff has been in there for who knows how long and really needs to go. Compromised vac seal stuff that has freezer burned? Same.The majority I plan on keeping as it can be refrozen. As for cooking some of it up? That’s an option I will consider on a case by case basis.
I hate when these unexpected chores come up, but once the initial drudgery is over, you’ll have a newly defrosted and nicely organized freezer. There is some satisfaction in that.
This is your regular reminder that Americans have often been slow to do the right thing. This story is from the @statesman in 1958, three years after the introduction of the polio vaccine—a vaccine that saved generations, eradicated a dread disease, and changed the world. pic.twitter.com/czcP4hJJen
— Keith O’Brien (@KeithOB) August 20, 2021
Piece of shit needs to know.
Like if she was in office or something and had the ability to
oh fuck it.
Hoping for American deaths to make pennies on the dollar.
i think it’s weird for members of congress to get excited that american soldiers might have died. pic.twitter.com/fIz1Qp60lx
— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) August 23, 2021
re: #189 Decatur Deb
Join a Lutheran Women’s Group. Dominate the potluck.
Uh Huh. Given my religious beliefs and practices, they would more than likely want to burn me at a stake or toss me in a lake to see if I float.
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“This is really a dire situation.” Once a coronavirus success story, Oregon is being hammered by the delta variant and hospitals are stretched to the breaking point. The state currently has more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than ever before. https://t.co/ofYicjd9Qs
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 23, 2021
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
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re: #196 Belafon
An unvaccinated covid patient and a vaccinated heart attack patient are being brought into the hospital and you have one bed. Which one do you choose?
In a SHTF MCI scenario? The one with the highest probability of survival…
re: #197 Teukka
In a SHTF MCI scenario? The one with the highest probability of survival…
Which in most cases would likely be the heart attack.
It’s … sobering to watch the Facebook comments stream by during Gov Beshear’s COVID briefings.
Doctors: Most of the people struggling for breath in our hospital ICUs are unvaccinated.
Comments: So, if the vaccines don’t protect you, why are you recommending them? ^JC pic.twitter.com/rYTFLND7Om— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 23, 2021
JFC
From the defacto head of the GOP Congress, telling people not to get vaccinated. https://t.co/AlIcTcNPZS
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) August 23, 2021
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
Isn’t Marjorie three names vaccinated?
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
Isn’t Marjorie three names vaccinated?
Asking violated her HIPAA rights, so I’m assuming yes.
Still prepping the ancient camping trailer. Dread Previous Owner painted the bearing covers to the wheel hubs, and they need another couple spritzes of PB Blaster. Don’t want to launch on a long trip without seeing those bearings.
re: #193 Juan Carlos Mescalero
This is what happens when you let people run unopposed. She has a solid challenger this election, but he’s (whispers)Black, and most of that district is rural and white. It’s going to take a lot of work to get people to vote for him. He is a veteran, and he has a cute doggo, so he’s got that going for him. It’s gonna get ugly though.
I heard on the local news at noon that GA now has 95 percent of eligible voters registered. One of the highest numbers in the country. Starting in 2016, eligible voters over 18 are automatically registered when they get their driver’s licenses. A law I was sure would get trashed before 2020 but survived somehow. Thanks to Stacey Abrams and all the hard work and training of volunteers she spurred forward.
Congrats on perfecting that same Man-Baby-Stoooopid-Is-Confused look that @TuckerCarlson has perfected, @JDVance1. Now shut up and go polish your beard or something - the grownups are trying to resolve a crisis of your party’s making pic.twitter.com/jJRlZ7b9Ab
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 23, 2021
So many kids are going to die because of these unforgivable rat bastards. https://t.co/75VlEn1Ycm
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 23, 2021
Q. With FDA approval of Pfizer vaccine, would you consider a vaccine mandate for any or all Ky state employees?
Gov Beshear: Anything having to do with mandates on vaccines would have to be decided by the Ky Leg. That’s now in their court. ^JC— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 23, 2021
re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth
You know we can both bring Afghan refugees here AND get our people out safely.
re: #191 Teddy’s Person
I hate when these unexpected chores come up, but once the initial drudgery is over, you’ll have a newly defrosted and nicely organized freezer. There is some satisfaction in that.
This is true. The defrost and cleaning was planned for later this week after my solar powered freezer showed up. The freezer door coming open during the night was an unexpected and unpleasant surprise that just pushed things up a bit.
re: #130 Charles Johnson
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re: #209 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
This is true. The defrost and cleaning was planned for later this week after my solar powered freezer showed up. The freezer door coming open during the night was an unexpected and unpleasant surprise that just pushed things up a bit.
You need to fess up. What was in the freezer that made its escape in the middle of the night?
😉
lol pic.twitter.com/mf68xzAmlY
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) August 23, 2021
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
Just an idea…
What about demanding full accountability, and if possible, pursue justice?
🤔— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) August 23, 2021
moron
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I find it pretty appalling and pretty shocking that Nancy Pelosi, who has always come across as a pretty tough woman to me, has actually given in and been bullied by the squad, the radical squad, into passing the Green New Deal this week.” pic.twitter.com/eyWyyKQc1A
— The Hill (@thehill) August 23, 2021
re: #212 Teukka
Wow, we’re through the fucking looking glass here.
I was wondering when this’d happen…
The final draft of a sham audit was supposed to arrive on Monday. However, the conspiracy-peddling auditors have said they are “quite sick” with COVID-19. https://t.co/fioW6HkbO4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 23, 2021
re: #211 A Cranky One
You need to fess up. What was in the freezer that made its escape in the middle of the night?
😉
Who knows. Like I said earlier, there stuff that’s been in there for who knows how long. :-)
Actually what happened is that I moved some ice cube trays around last night while doing a pre-clean check and they kept the door from properly closing and it swung fully open during the night.
Conversely, if you will, I pissed Becky off to no end when I reclaimed her kitchen last night as mine and this was her way of showing me just how pissed off she was with me over that. The freezer IS in her bedroom. A room I am leaving for last to reclaim.
This is shaping up to be one of those splendid karma days where the universe is cleansing itself. GoFundMe has canceled Alex Jones’ insurrection sidekick Owen Shroyer’s legal defense fund and refunded all the money to donors. pic.twitter.com/2BASIVyI1d
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 23, 2021
Cannonball!! pic.twitter.com/26RUwmYAHl
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 23, 2021
Thomas Massie has spent the entire global pandemic sharing misleading information regarding ways to keep the country as safe as possible. He has done nothing to help, from casting doubt on science to voting NO on relief packages. Time for effective leadership in D4! Vote Blue https://t.co/I8ntypGwWr
— Oldham County Democratic Party (@OldhamKYDems) August 22, 2021
That purchase and its timing made headlines a last week when the Kentucky senator disclosed it for the first time in a mandatory Senate filing — MORE THAN 16 months after the legal deadline for reporting it had passed.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 23, 2021
Meanwhile, the biggest camera whore in America can’t be found this week on Afghanistan and other shit. It’s almost like he’s hiding after spreading misinformation on coronavirus and buying an alternative therapeutic to line his own pockets. Interesting.
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 23, 2021
re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I just remember riding my bike past the U of K hospital twice a day and the front was always packed with patients and nurses smoking away.
A 48-year-old man accused of buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of online porn using a Virginia couple’s investment money has been sentenced to prison. https://t.co/s762oTQcaz
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) August 23, 2021
The town of Iraan (pronounced Ira-Ann), in Texas, is shut down. According to The Texas Tribune, the oilfield town, with a population just north of 1,200-1,300 people, had its local school shut down last week after about 25% of the staff and 16% of the student body tested positive or were in quarantine for COVID-19. The West Texas town only has a 14-bed hospital with zero critical care facilities. The Tribune reports that the closest hospitals with the equipment and services needed to handle serious COVID-19 cases are “all 80 miles or more away.” The Iraan-Sheffield Independent School District made this announcement last Monday after only five days of classes.Iraan’s schools are not fighting Republican death-eater Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-mask mandates. The Iraan-Sheffield Independent School District joins three other school districts that both allowed mask-wearing to be “optional” and are now closed due to high COVID-19 numbers. A statement from the district’s superintendent, Dr. Tracy Canter, conveyed to parents that the school would be closed until at least Aug. 30. CNN reports that this may be an optimistic timetable as Iraan saw 119 people tested in the first two weeks of August, and 50 of those tests came back positive. The town’s city council has already voted to close down the city building and “postpone late fees on water and gas utilities and stop utility disconnections for at least a month.”
The football season has been postponed for now.
Beside the COVID nonsense, the things that stand out to me from this statement are
1. the AZ senate “legal team” are going to get a chance to see the report before it is finished, which means they could very well be involved in writing it.
2. It says they are going to release the “findings”, not the report itself.
BREAKING: The Cyber Ninjas will not send the full audit draft results to the Arizona state Senate today because its CEO Doug Logan and two other members of the 5-person team have COVID and “are quite sick.” pic.twitter.com/3XqpORRL09
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) August 23, 2021
It looks like Sturgis was a success for Covid: dailykos.com
Go see the maps.
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fading street walker in the GOP gated community cries about be asked to say something positive about herself.
The U.S. has now evacuated more than four times the amount of refugees from Afghanistan than we did from Saigon.
Maybe the over-the-top press outrage is actually about the fact that Biden ended a 20 year war in the first place. https://t.co/1o8yAD1Xlg— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) August 23, 2021
At the anti-vaccine, anti-mask protest on the steps of the Texas Capitol on Sat, Rick Green, the ‘American Constitution’ teacher at the ‘Patriot Academy,’ forgot the words to BOTH the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Flag Pledge. pic.twitter.com/HiQKYDH1pe
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 23, 2021
re: #220 Juan Carlos Mescalero
Incoming! 😂 pic.twitter.com/J1IXH2LfhJ
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 22, 2021
re: #228 Belafon
I still can’t believe my dad went. Then he flew to Atlanta for a work convention, then came back home to Arizona. I can sorta understand his job, but the Sturgis trip drives me nuts.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just like the concept of “alpha” simply refers to an individual who happens to occupy that particular spot in the hierarchy at that time.
I watched a BBC nature show this weekend, and they made a huge point about the Macaque alpha’s kids having a huge advantage, because alpha got first dibs on the best food, she had the best milk, and her kids grew up as much as 50% larger and stronger than the offspring of the lesser troop members. Alpha and her kids were also first in line for any needed escape when predators came around, they’d have better chances of getting mates later in life, forming their own troop…
I wasn’t sure if the narrator was maybe a little heavy-handed trying to make the viewer understand that this kind of “meritocracy” applies to all primates, and hey-lookie-here it’s just like people whose kids go to better schools…
*If* obesity was contagious, rapidly overwhelming our intensive care capabilities, often fatal within days of acquiring, *and* the risks of transmission, hospitalization, and death could be dramatically reduced with a free shot, then yes, we would mandate that too.
But it’s not. pic.twitter.com/OIRnSWfcLR— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) August 23, 2021
re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
My cat did something similar to me last night. Fortunately, he’s nowhere near as big as that dog.
re: #155 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Big cats are at the top of the food chain — they are on their way out.
exactly. hence, starbucks.
Was looking back at Glenn Beck’s pro-Iraq War rallies from 2002 and this page from his book from that era 1) perfectly reflects the GOP CW at the time and 2) would get you laughed offstage and maybe institutionalized now pic.twitter.com/w92inhVO0O
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 23, 2021
Look at these disgusting filthy nasty slob @RudyGiuliani shaving in a restaurant at JFK yesterday.
You nasty pig you #Rudy
The @iamrapaport is now LIVE discussing the disgusting:https://t.co/miHUOBNbPj pic.twitter.com/yYwUN7lWid— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) August 23, 2021
GOP Rep. Byron Donalds: “President Joseph R. Biden must resign immediately.” pic.twitter.com/52lP723eS6
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 23, 2021
Subtly laying the framework that *all* governance by Democrats is illegitimate and they must be destroyed, literally.
At 6:30pm, the House will vote on 2 Senate-passed bills debated under suspension of the rules on July 26th. Two-thirds vote will be needed for passage. Debate and votes on the 3-bill rule will follow IF ready,
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) August 23, 2021
House Democrats are NOW meeting behnd closed doors in US Capitol basement on their House floor strategy for tonight and tomorrow on the $3.5T budget resolution, Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure package and voting rights legislation. pic.twitter.com/WJaHJ8huOj
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) August 23, 2021
Capitol Hill tonight. #recess https://t.co/qQzVLy5VEr
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) August 23, 2021
re: #240 teleskiguy
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Subtly laying the framework that *all* governance by Democrats is illegitimate and they must be destroyed, literally.
“Also, since Donald Trump started all of this, he cannot be allowed to run for office.”
Right Donalds?
Cows all over the world are laughing at you right now, @DevinNunes
All. The. Cows.
Laughing. Milk squirting of their noses laughing. At you. https://t.co/PEHA1rbeqo— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 23, 2021
[Mr. Ed]
“Wilbur, where’s my parasite meds?”
[/Mr. Ed]
re: #240 teleskiguy
So, he wants President Kamala Harris then?
re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg
So, he wants President Kamala Harris then?
I just saw a headline (in the links under the article in the tweet a couple of comments up) that Marjorie Traitor-Greene is calling on Kamala to resign because she didn’t personally lead the evacuation of Kabul. So, yes, but also no.
re: #240 teleskiguy
How many servicemembers have died since the start of the withdrawal?
re: #212 Teukka
The modern right wing…They live to eat their own
re: #244 gocart mozart
That’s happened to me at Red Rocks a couple of times. I only occasionally smoke tobacco, like at shows, and I usually smoke kreteks. Security made me put out an aromatic clove cigarette while people everywhere around me are puffing on doobies.
This is the best thing posted on Facebook pic.twitter.com/qBtjPwjADy
— Louise! (@themouseyouknow) August 22, 2021
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
Double the purr and meow. :)
re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
You hear that paw print dance LOOK UP!
If y’all find yourself going to a show at Red Rocks one future summer, caveat emptor: I don’t care who’s playing, it could be the most teeny bopper bubble gum heartthrob with screaming girls everywhere or the freaking Colorado Symphony Orchestra, *you are going to smell cannabis smoke.*
Idea:
- Set aside ~15 million Pfizer vaccines
- Give them a weird new name like Hydroxyiverzinc
- Send to doctors, veterinarians, acupuncturists, etc.
- Viral marketing campaign calling Hydroxyiverzinc “the secret COVID cure the government doesn’t what you to know about!”— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) August 23, 2021
re: #255 PhillyPretzel
Double the purr and meow. :)
And twice the food and litter-cleaning needed…
🐱🐱
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
That Shapiro tweet is yet another classic example of the right wing’s fake phony preaching of the “free market”.
Like tech businesses showing them the door and kicking them off their platforms, doctors now that exercise their own free market decisions face the wailing and screaming from the very voices that like Shapiro that would celebrate these actions if they somehow promoted their agenda. But their agenda has never been about a “free market”. It has always been about promoting and legislating a white power social and government structure and the fleecing of every mark they can.
“Afghans arrive in Virginia, greeted by outpouring of support”
“They kept coming: people carrying bags of clothes, toiletries, diapers, baby formula, toys, books.
By noon, the piles of donations had grown so high that volunteers had to turn some away.”https://t.co/wDDWgKFSrk— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 23, 2021
While no huge ratio thing, Yglesias is getting good push back on this tweet:
Every day this website provides new opportunities for prominent people to embarrass themselves https://t.co/LRvmpcGYSF
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 23, 2021
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also known as fucking doing it right.
Tony Blair has dramatically broken his silence over the crisis in Afghanistan by accusing President Joe Biden of an “imbecilic” decision to pull out US troops https://t.co/tSdfCirpxO
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 22, 2021
Isn’t Blair sometimes referred to as “Bush’s lap poodle?”
re: #264 teleskiguy
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One woman in line was so sick that she couldn’t even stand, Lopez said. Because she couldn’t stand, he said she crawled over to the wall. Staff members provided some patients with paper gowns because it was cold. One person, Lopez said, was given a wheelchair because they couldn’t move.
re: #264 teleskiguy
How about you go ahead and send your own damn troops, navy (ha) and Air Force to do this? Go ahead we ain’t here to stop you. See how that all goes for you.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 23, 2021
re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg
Tony who?
/
Public school sociopathic what suck his dick in the mouth of a pig carcass, if I recall correctly.
“If you guys are gonna put me at risk — you’re gonna hear about it.” https://t.co/Ag8rgq5MmQ
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 23, 2021
Story…https://t.co/LHOWJTwfxI
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 23, 2021
re: #230 teleskiguy
The U.S. has now evacuated more than four times the amount of refugees from Afghanistan than we did from Saigon.
Maybe the over-the-top press outrage is actually about the fact that Biden ended a 20 year war in the first place. https://t.co/1o8yAD1Xlg— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) August 23, 2021
Misleading.
From wiki:
“In addition to the over 2,500 orphans evacuated by Babylift, Operation New Life resulted in the evacuation of over 110,000 Vietnamese refugees. The final evacuation was Operation Frequent Wind which resulted in 7,000 people being evacuated from Saigon by helicopter.”
re: #188 Teukka
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Thanks to the Republicans they’re going to turn it into a hyperpandemic that is going to wipe out a lot of their groupies and innocent victims.
This is nonsense. Vermont is *the very best of any state* in its Covid hospitalization situation, per this data - 4 per 100,000! (Florida is at 80 per 100,000.) Vermont has a 141% increase because it went from…11ish total people hospitalized to 26. https://t.co/KZIDFTeUeF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 23, 2021
re: #270 The Ghost of a Flea
Public school sociopathic what suck his dick in the mouth of a pig carcass, if I recall correctly.
“Public school sociopath”
Redundant.
/
Yeah, sadly, Mitch McConnell’s Flem Snopes’ “a little sweetenin’ for the chaps” way of giving a little to give the appearance of bipartisanship seems to work on Democrats.
History’s gonna be unkind about a bunch of things, but refusing to abolish the filibuster to protect democracy, because the big highway bill proved Republicans were reasonable and the system worked, is gonna be the Munich of this American era. https://t.co/qptBqamyDT
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 23, 2021
re: #270 The Ghost of a Flea
Public school sociopathic what suck his dick in the mouth of a pig carcass, if I recall correctly.
nah, that was David Cameron.
Working in some side eye to see if I’ll cave and feed her at 2:29PM pic.twitter.com/DlMM4YqKn6
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) August 23, 2021
I just don’t see how a person could say no to this face
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) August 23, 2021
re: #277 Barefoot Grin
So long as the GOP states are overrepresented in the Senate it will be like this.
Wyoming and Idaho have the same number of senators as New York and California.
Like making them all kiss and snuggle in an ICU https://t.co/ccgAmz0xKX
— jesse taylor (@jesseltaylor) August 23, 2021
👋 Hello, @POTUS! 👋 pic.twitter.com/3UIVIcuXzh
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) August 23, 2021
The 2020 WNBA Champions, ft. @POTUS 🏆 pic.twitter.com/fcxv5vWTHt
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) August 23, 2021
Thanks for hosting us today, @POTUS! pic.twitter.com/NKhjTwYXDW
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) August 23, 2021
Welcome to the squad, @POTUS! 😎🤳 pic.twitter.com/elNy14N0Ap
— Seattle Storm (@seattlestorm) August 23, 2021
re: #264 teleskiguy
Incompetent Tony is welcome to pick up an L85A3 and go there to fight them himself. Until he does so, he needs to STFU & STFD.
— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) August 23, 2021
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
Noem really thinks she’s going to take over the Trumper part of the electorate and ride that to national power.
She has a lot to learn.
re: #257 teleskiguy
Hell yes. It’s legal there, so why the hell not? Especially at an outdoor venue.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
This makes me happy.
re: #287 A Mom Anon
Me too. This is what America is really about. This is something DT would never understand.
re: #287 A Mom Anon
This makes me happy.
Me too…though I hope the people helping them settle in warn them about the bible thumpers who will try to convert them to Xianity…that’s going to be a heavy hit.
Excerpts from the stunning speech by Rev. Dr. Ianther Mills of Asbury United Methodist during Enrique Tarrio’s sentencing hearing.
Notice how she sees and defines the Proud Boys as exactly what they are, despite having no expectation of understanding their world. Emphasis mine: pic.twitter.com/5fFN8wIOzK— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) August 23, 2021
re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth
Good things come to those who wait.
MARGOT LOOK INNOCENT TO ME NATALIE
LET ME DO SOME INVESTIGATING https://t.co/c1kUaE4a2L— darth™ (@darth) August 23, 2021
CASE CLOSE pic.twitter.com/ZdWhRQlUye
— darth™ (@darth) August 23, 2021
re: #284 William Lewis
Tony the Vicar (tm Private Eye) occasionally crawls out from under a rock to see if anyone remembers him. If we’re unlucky he finds a TV camera, opens his mouth and demonstrates to everyone why he should stay under a rock. Forever.
You might note that he’s an ex-Prime Minister who was never put forward by his Party’s leadership for a seat in the House of Lords after he left office, the usual fate for senior pols whose time has come. That’s despite his notable achievement of NOT collecting an entire canteen of cutlery in the back, fish knives included, as an inducement to walk out of the door of Number Ten for the last time “for the good of the Party, Tony. You understand, yes?”
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE LONG TERM EFFECTS OF THE VACCINE ARE!
— Guy polishing off his third McRib with a Marlboro.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 23, 2021
re: #249 Dopamine Fish
I just saw a headline (in the links under the article in the tweet a couple of comments up) that Marjorie Traitor-Greene is calling on Kamala to resign because she didn’t personally lead the evacuation of Kabul. So, yes, but also no.
It is not the vice president’s job to personally lead a military evacuation.
re: #296 DesertDenizen
Nope, it’s her job to personally patrol the southern border.
/s/
Apparently the Vice President’s job is to be a god among men, which begs the question: WHY IS MIKE PENCE???
Ugh. This performative lawsuit bullshit HAS GOT TO STOP.
The tl:dr on the suit itself is that it’s yet another bit of performative nonsense that the usual crowd of grifters will cheer for a little while and quietly ignore once it’s been ignominiously dismissed.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) August 23, 2021
re: #296 DesertDenizen
Nope, it’s her job to personally patrol the southern border.
/s/
That’s not in the Constitution, either.
/s/
today’s dose of grandniece Summer cuteness
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After scraping away DPO’s paintjob and marinating the wheel hub covers in penetrating oil for a couple hours, I saw something totally unique to this camper. The freaking bearing covers are threaded. They coaxed off comfortably after I got one turning. (One of the bearing sets needs a grease job. I’ll do both tomorrow.)
Some humans are pissed they are now mandated to get a vaccine. When I was a kitten I got a few of those. And I got a real microchip. I’m a cat, you don’t get chipped. You, humans, got it easy. pic.twitter.com/fIGklJQ6bv
— Manksy (@TheManksy) August 23, 2021
re: #303 Rightwingconspirator
I like that reply. I am sure you/Manksy will be getting an earful from those who say otherwise.
re: #298 Dopamine Fish
Ugh. This performative lawsuit bullshit HAS GOT TO STOP.
This crap won’t end until these plaintiffs and their lawyers start getting sanctions From Hell.
“South Dakota Codified Law 13-28-7.1 (Rev. 2016) requires that any pupil entering school…receive immunization against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, measles, rubella, mumps, tetanus, meningitis and varicella (chickenpox), according to the recommendations of the State” https://t.co/v3UceHsX6r
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 23, 2021
re: #298 Dopamine Fish
Ugh. This performative lawsuit bullshit HAS GOT TO STOP.
Can’t the courts start punishing these assholes for wasting their time?
re: #293 Nojay UK
He’s a good example of why I believe that every politician who calls for/votes for a war should be inducted into the military within 24 hours of the vote. If they want it, they can lead from the foxhole.
A pause in news to share this “dog library” we found. pic.twitter.com/d0oAetLHFf
— Brian Everstine (@beverstine) August 23, 2021
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you say aloud “protect South Dakotans from life-saving vaccines.” You might realize that in your zeal to pander to conspiracy lunatics, you’ve become a monster who’s working to kill and injure your own foolish supporters. That is not leadership. Pandering now kills.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 23, 2021
Here’s the key infrastructure section of the rule. It gives Transportation Committee Chair @RepPeterDeFazio — not Pelosi — the power to decide when the House votes on the Senate-passed legislation.
It does not set an ironclad date. pic.twitter.com/RZlIUlBmCh— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 23, 2021
re: #308 William Lewis
He’s a good example of why I believe that every politician who calls for/votes for a war should be inducted into the military within 24 hours of the vote. If they want it, they can lead from the foxhole.
From Cheney and Rumsfeld I always sensed an implicit “if you’ve got a military you have to use your military?” Of course, I won’t be surprised if one or both actually said that out loud.
You have already sickened and killed hundreds of your own constituents as a means to preserve your political power, @govkristinoem.
You have no ethical standing on this issue. Please continue to act in such a manner that this ends with your indictment, arrest, and imprisonment. pic.twitter.com/f64iOH286p— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 23, 2021
My son is home! Woot! I haven’t seen him smile that big in a long, long time.
Dad in Fla just compared nazis and children being asked to wear masks in school.
To be clear:
Nazis sought to exterminate Jews & others (physically/mentally disabled, etc). They disenfranchised & segregated homosexuals, Blacks, Jehovah’s Witnesses, & political opponents. Fwiw. https://t.co/nFSynJJvck— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 23, 2021
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol and by so called stopping Joe she will be breaking not only the laws in her state but also trashing her governorship. I hate to say it but a lot of DT’s followers are asses.
Back to back on my timeline pic.twitter.com/PIaRuXkd50
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) August 23, 2021
re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s the problem of very small numbers. If you go from 1 to 2… it doubled.
This is Grizz. He still loves his baby pool, even though he’s grown out of it. Please don’t judge. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/Tzm1R6tCvR
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 23, 2021
THANK YOU DARTH
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) August 23, 2021
*GRIZZ
— darth™ (@darth) August 23, 2021
That is a lot of red pic.twitter.com/gtFvd0xBpr
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) August 23, 2021
re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait, so I’m supposed to take to Tom Nichols serious today when just the other day he was being an ass about Chuck Schumer having some fun over the weekend instead of personally airlifting refugees out of Afghanistan?
Talk about whiplash
who takes 35 minutes to eat one hot dog https://t.co/07Wto1LCQX
— darth™ (@darth) August 23, 2021
what if u are served free hot dogs and french fries in the line at the DMV
these are all free ideas i am providing i am not charging for these suggestionshttps://t.co/LXXcOHCjYb— darth™ (@darth) August 23, 2021
OMG, the “HIPPA Oath”?! I may have to save this tweet to be my spouse’s birthday present. https://t.co/OXCl4Kzcqn
— Alice Dreger, Ph.D. (@AliceDreger) August 23, 2021
re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth
I thought it was this: en.wikipedia.org
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
I made a couple this afternoon. 10 mins Tops.
A passenger and 26 crew members aboard the Carnival Vista tested positive for the coronavirus and the passenger later died. The company says its protocols successfully stopped further spread. https://t.co/VwohjTfdgz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 24, 2021
re: #326 PhillyPretzel
I thought it was this: en.wikipedia.org
Pretty certain that “hippa oath” is supposed to be Hippocratic Oath, but Marina is apparently an eejit
re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth
Most likely the case. ::: eye roll :::
Question: How the fuck are these misdemeanor crimes and how the fuck are these scum not remanded to custody? https://t.co/GGCavx3c8H
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) August 23, 2021
It’s not news that Scott Adams is an ass.
But using his Dilbert strip to push anti-mask propaganda… that’s new, I think?
Caucus meeting is running very high with emotions right now
“Jesus, you fucking assholes,” one member just said off mic (but on mic)— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) August 23, 2021
Also, can’t overstate how much Rep. Josh Gottheimer is probably relishing this right now.
As the frequent butt of caucus jokes, he now has attention of big three, has forced this issue to the brink and is on the verge of cutting a deal with them— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) August 23, 2021
At the feed store #ivermectin #tractorsupply #pleaseDoNotIngest pic.twitter.com/ply85zNQmO
— M_Crouton (@m_crouton) August 23, 2021
And for the love of all things do not consume a combined product like EquiMax or Zimectrin Gold. Those combine ivermectin and Praziquantel. Easy to overdose even with an animal. I shudder to think what would happen if human consumed high dose.
— M_Crouton (@m_crouton) August 24, 2021
re: #225 Dread Pirate Ron
Isn’t porn accessible for free? WTH?
re: #328 The Pie Overlord!
A passenger and 26 crew members aboard the Carnival Vista tested positive for the coronavirus and the passenger later died. The company says its protocols successfully stopped further spread.
Wow, 27 infections out of about 5,000 passengers and crew. That ship must be the healthiest place in Texas.
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
today’s dose of grandniece Summer cuteness
Looks like she’s ready to express her opinions :)
Thanks, that dose of adorable is a nice bright spot in the day
re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth
today’s dose of grandniece Summer cuteness
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