Seth takes a closer look at the GOP and Fox News lying about the state of the economy under Joe Biden and attempting to purge anyone who dared to vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill from their ranks.
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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I think we should look at the pajama correlation there.
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— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) November 12, 2021
Fox News currently going hog-wild pimping Kyle Rittenhouse as a right wing hero.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 12, 2021
re: #4 Charles Johnson
From the witness stand straight to an appearance on Tucker pic.twitter.com/VoG7Ko50lq
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 12, 2021
Same as it ever was, same as it ever fucking was.
Of course. This guy is a connected right wing troll, and the judge stopped the prosecution from even mentioning it in the trial. https://t.co/lJYL5gOLab
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 12, 2021
With the Rittenhouse trial, we are watching what the Emmitt Till murder trial would look like if it were held on TV.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) November 12, 2021
did not expect
Agreeing with KISS Gene Simmons was not on my 2021’s Crazy Bingo Card. https://t.co/PCmA5fvMYC
— BluePamNTexas. 🌊🌊🐫💮🌶️👣🐞🌊🌊 (@PamalaDalrympl2) November 11, 2021
re: #8 I Would Prefer Not To
Funny, I always thought that whatever you thought of his music, Gene Simmons was no one’s idea of a fool. You can’t live that long in the completely batshit crazy world of acid rock and not have a rock-solid head on your shoulders.
Before you die, alone, your most cherished beliefs, for which you have sacrificed everything, will be discredited, and your remote descendants will think of you with shame, if they have not obliterated your memory, and changed their names. That’s progress.
— Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) November 11, 2021
Conservatives can’t deal with progress, it hurts their feelings.
I care less than nothing for golf. This is fucking amazing anyway. https://t.co/QT1eIFfO0C
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) November 12, 2021
re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Just another day at the office for this dude.///
re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Indeed.
re: #9 Dopamine Fish
Funny, I always thought that whatever you thought of his music, Gene Simmons was no one’s idea of a fool. You can’t live that long in the completely batshit crazy world of acid rock and not have a rock-solid head on your shoulders.
He’s smart. Awesome business person. But my reaction is to his conservative political views.
re: #14 I Would Prefer Not To
He’s smart. Awesome business person. But my reaction is to his conservative political views.
I guess I assumed he was more on the left-hand side of the road. I don’t know enough of the man himself to judge. If such is the case, then that’s quite a reversal.
Gene Simmons is a trumptard.
Big deal he’s pro vaccine, so is Fox News.
re: #16 EstebanTornado1963
Gene Simmons is a trumptard.
Big deal he’s pro vaccine, so is Fox News.
Stopped clock, twice a day, etc., etc.
Hold ABC’s beer.https://t.co/xJpVf7G7DH
— Barney (@barney1776) November 12, 2021
In case we needed some reminder about how the ‘unbiased’ media is reporting on it so far.
Just shit thrown into the wind.
re: #18 Citizen K
Gives you the idea they’re not even watching the trials.
I’m sure you meant to say “right wing operative who works for Steve Bannon,” right?
Because he is no journalist. https://t.co/6cTHaF2ukj— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 12, 2021
CL’d from the previous thread:
re: #105 Belafon
Thanks. I was sure I posted it here, but I cannot even find it in my history.
Found it in one of my posts a few days ago:
Because of the police’s favoritism, SHE is the one who ended up with a citation. They completely trapped this girl WHO IS NOT ME because of my notoriety. This sucks and I am tremendously angry for her.
So fascists, for next time: pic.twitter.com/dBLI1YlHWv— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 7, 2021
Proud Boys started insisting she was me. They kept following her in and out of the bar and when the cops came and escorted her out the group was chanting “fuck antifa”.
The bartender knows the victim and tried to tell them she wasn’t me, but they didn’t give a shit.— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 7, 2021
The mother of the victim has decided to step forward https://t.co/F9xHGbTCqj
— Melissa “Claudio” Lewis (@Claudio_Report) November 7, 2021
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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re: #22 Citizen K
CL’d from the previous thread:
Found it in one of my posts a few days ago:
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Best explanation yet #KyleRittenhouseIsGuilty: pic.twitter.com/dkO1WQ6zal
— Anna Horford (@AnnaHorford) November 12, 2021
re: #28 jaunte
“But he had a second amendment right to walk around waving that gun!!” In the replies.
re: #29 Belafon
“But he had a second amendment right to walk around waving that gun!!” In the replies.
Except he didn’t, because he wasn’t of age and he obtained the rifle through a straw purchase.
Apropos to absolutely nothing, next Thursday (November 18th) is the third Thursday in November. Which means the release of the 2021 vintage of Beaujolais Noveau.
Heh… It looks like someone copied parts of a promotional website into the Wiki article on Beaujolais Nouveau.
Beaujolais Nouveau
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Rev. Al Sharpton responds today to defense attorneys objecting to him, Jesse Jackson, and other “black pastors” sitting with Ahmaud Arbery’s family during the trial. He vows to go back again. pic.twitter.com/7jMaMpN4eH
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 11, 2021
Here’s something that none of Rittenhouse’s defenders can dispute beyond engaging in whataboustism: If Kyle Rittenhouse had not been breaking the law that night, then three men would not have been shot and he would not be on trial.
He was in possession of a firearm he did not legally purchase and could not legally possess, as well as being in violation of the very same curfew that others were arrested that same evening for violating.
re: #31 ckkatz
I’ve only had that once, at a winery on the east side of Haleakala on Maui. It was enjoyable. I’m more into to California reds like Zinfandel and Cabernet.
If you thought Larry Elder was an asshole here is an idiot running for governor who out-assholes him!
At the Golden Gate anti-vax protest tonight, candidate for CA Gov Reinette Senum: “It takes 3.5% active participation from citizens to actually topple a dictator, to be successful in a civil war, and we already have that happening. We’re beyond that number.” pic.twitter.com/w7xGnlNjjv
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 12, 2021
re: #35 JOE 🥓
If you thought Larry Elder was an asshole here is an idiot running for governor who out-assholes him!
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Zod, what a joke. Few things exhaust me as much as all these “revolution” fantasies that the far ends of the political spectrum endlessly engage in yet never act upon.
Came across this on my Twitter feeds. It’s an article from the Daily Bruin (UCLA).
Written by Ben Shapiro. Dated 2001. It reads like Ben Shapiro. The usual stupid humor and concerns. Was he at UCLA in 2001? No idea
 Ben Shapiro Shapiro is a first-year
philosophy student bringing reason to the masses.
read it and you will want to punch him. He’s also the worst person to invite to a party.
You know you’re at UCLA when loony liberal
Dear Ben, never change.
no one gave a shit that rent, education, healthcare and other costs skyrocketed for years, but the minute a gas station has $4/gallon we’re all supposed to panic about inflation
— shocks (@shocks) November 10, 2021
re: #39 Belafon
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re: #34 Dread Pirate Ron
I’ve only had that once, at a winery on the east side of Haleakala on Maui. It was enjoyable. I’m more into to California reds like Zinfandel and Cabernet.
Sounds like you much prefer the more complex wines.
I was just looking at how it is made. The process is different than that of ‘normal’ wines. And means that the Beaujolis Nouveau taste is less ‘complex’ (has fewer chemical compounds). Which means that the fruit taste is more pronounced.
One of the pleasures of applied chemistry.
re: #40 Targetpractice
Welcome to 2009, when people forgot that gas prices had shot up to $4/gal in Dubya’s last year to scream that Obama was the cause of high gas prices.
Yep it maxed out at $4.75ish in San Diego County (except for the trap stations) around then.
And oil was $120/barrel then. So why is gas higher now when it’s about $85/barrel?
re: #42 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Yep it maxed out at $4.75ish in San Diego County (except for the trap stations) around then.
And oil was $120/barrel then. So why is gas higher now when it’s about $85/barrel?
Distribution bottlenecks, primarily tanker truck drivers. There is no oil shortage nor is there a projected one in the near-term, but if you can’t move the finished product effectively then there might as well be one.
I’ve been using my e-bike for errands in the area. I rode to the bank yesterday, today I went to CVS but they charged too much for what I wanted I rode to the other side of town and got it at Target. I had to ride up and down the Target mall area twice looking for a bike rack. they had it buried with parked shopping carts. I found the end and had enough room to lock the bike. Later in the day my wife needed her prescription picked up so I biked to the medical center. I drive my car maybe once a week. Bike rack availability at shopping areas, lack of bike lanes, and decent ADA ramps on pork chop islands at intersections are the main hindrances for going green on an e-bike.
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Throughout the history of Christendom there have been so-called Satanic Panics; Q-Anon is only the latest version of a story two thousand years old. Specific details change, but the core remains: There is a satanic cabal, bent on abusing or destroying children; they are very powerful, and anyone can become the next victim.
The CBC has a seven-part audio series on how the Satanic Panic of the Eighties swept into the town of Martensville, Saskatchewan (a suburb of Saskatoon less than ten thousand people), all on the allegation of a single parent who alleged her child was sexually abused. When examined by a physician, that was found to be false. But it was too late.
At the height of Martenville’s panic, the police department itself was accused of being Satanists abusing children. Even to this day, the town is recovering from the effects of the psychic destruction of the town, those accused, and those put on trial for hundreds of charges of child abuse.
The story starts with a woman who was an officer of the RCMP in Manitoba who had resigned because her husband took a job in Saskatoon. The Martensville Police Department was very short-handed because several officers were benched due to unrelated causes. The police department asked her if she would become a temporary constable.
The day after she took her temporary position was when the first allegation came in. She says if she knew then what she knows now, she would have run the other way when the police department offered her the temporary constable position.
Uncover: Season 6—Satanic Panic (CBC Radio)
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Q-Anon is basically the Grand Unified Theory of Anti-Semitism and UN/Illuminati Conspiracy theories.
The closest thing to the Satanic Panic right now is either… the “Fentanyl Crisis” or “Antifa” as an actual organization.
Both are horseshit. Both are generally believed by scared old white people and cops, and often are just glossed over by journalists as if it’s true without questioning.
Same shit with satanic cults being “responsible” for various crime in the 80s.
re: #46 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Q-Anon is basically the Grand Unified Theory of Anti-Semitism and UN/Illuminati Conspiracy theories.
The closest thing to the Satanic Panic right now is either… the “Fentanyl Crisis” or “Antifa” as an actual organization.
Both are horseshit. Both are generally believed by scared old white people and cops, and often are just glossed over by journalists as if it’s true without questioning.
Same shit with satanic cults being “responsible” for various crime in the 80s.
QA is just the 80s “Satanic panic” with the serial numbers filed off. The basic framework remains the same, the only major differences are that the targets have changed and the internet has allowed the panic to spread wider and faster than did pulpy novels and dead-eyed “investigative reporters.”
re: #46 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Q-Anon is basically the Grand Unified Theory of Anti-Semitism and UN/Illuminati Conspiracy theories.
The closest thing to the Satanic Panic right now is either… the “Fentanyl Crisis” or “Antifa” as an actual organization.
Both are horseshit. Both are generally believed by scared old white people and cops, and often are just glossed over by journalists as if it’s true without questioning.
Same shit with satanic cults being “responsible” for various crime in the 80s.
In the radio broadcast, one of the people interviewed is a journalist. He notes that the story was catnip, and he bit hard at the time.
Fentanyl being sold illegally is a problem, but again, catnip for lazy reporters.
UN conspiracy theories of course only came into existence after the UN did. We can thank folks like the John Birch Society for that.
In the USA, Satanic Panics go back to the Salem Witch Trials (no anti-Semitism or Illuminati then).
The radio broadcast notes that even today, no one wants to talk about what happened in the late Eighties in Martenville.
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the radio broadcast, one of the people interviewed is a journalist. He notes that the story was catnip, and he bit hard at the time.
Fentanyl being sold illegally is a problem, but again, catnip for lazy reporters.
UN conspiracy theories of course only came into existence after the UN did. We can thank folks like the John Birch Society for that.
In the USA, Satanic Panics go back to the Salem Witch Trials (no anti-Semitism or Illuminati then).
The radio broadcast notes that even today, no one wants to talk about what happened in the late Eighties in Martenville.
Early nineties, actually. But yeah, it reads like the usual stuff when a Satanic Panic gets going… Innocent people convicted, some are sitting of their sentences to this day, some even died in prison. Some have gotten justice.
And I’m the pedophile hugger when I urge caution when a case is developing… Not to mention what I get called when I’ve seen enough to a call case what it is… Every innocent convicted is a nail in the coffin for the victims of (child) sexual abuse. And the false reporting rate for those crimes is the same as for other crimes.
re: #49 Teukka
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re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The radio broadcast notes that even today, no one wants to talk about what happened in the late Eighties in Martenville.
In LA at about the same time was the McMartin Preschool case.
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, arrests and the pretrial investigation took place from 1984 to 1987, and trials ran from 1987 to 1990. The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case’s end, it had become the longest and most expensive in American history. The case was part of day-care sex-abuse hysteria, a moral panic over alleged Satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s.
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In the radio broadcast, one of the people interviewed is a journalist. He notes that the story was catnip, and he bit hard at the time.
Fentanyl being sold illegally is a problem, but again, catnip for lazy reporters.
UN conspiracy theories of course only came into existence after the UN did. We can thank folks like the John Birch Society for that.
In the USA, Satanic Panics go back to the Salem Witch Trials (no anti-Semitism or Illuminati then).
The radio broadcast notes that even today, no one wants to talk about what happened in the late Eighties in Martenville.
Collective shame. The instigators feel ashamed at what they caused, even if they will argue in the presence of others that they did what they felt was “right.” Those who fed fuel to the fires fear the loss of face that admitting their shame would bring. And the victims have been forced to remain silent so that the former two groups are not constantly reminded of their own shame.
re: #52 Targetpractice
Collective shame. The instigators feel ashamed at what they caused, even if they will argue in the presence of others that they did what they felt was “right.” Those who fed fuel to the fires fear the loss of face that admitting their shame would bring. And the victims have been forced to remain silent so that the former two groups are not constantly reminded of their own shame.
One of the child victims of the feeding frenzy of the press is eager to talk about the issue,
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she was ripped away from her home by social workers and kept from her family. She says it damaged her relationship with her father for the rest of his days, as he was so afraid of showing affection to his daughter he would no longer hug or play with her for fear of another accusation.
She notes her family was conservative Christians, and when the RCMP was trying to get her to identify on the dolls where she was hurt, she was mortified.
She is no longer a Christian, nor is anyone in her family. They destroyed her family.
re: #9 Dopamine Fish
Funny, I always thought that whatever you thought of his music, Gene Simmons was no one’s idea of a fool. You can’t live that long in the completely batshit crazy world of acid rock and not have a rock-solid head on your shoulders.
People derided KISS for all its commercialism and marketing, but that has pretty much gone on to become the industry standard in promoting a band: the merch brings in as much revenue as the music.
And besides, kids love stuff that has monsters on it!
re: #37 Targetpractice
Zod, what a joke. Few things exhaust me as much as all these “revolution” fantasies that the far ends of the political spectrum endlessly engage in yet never act upon.
Along with Secessionists.
The unusual feature of the Martensville cases was the accused were members of the police department.
The Crown’s case against them had no physical evidence at all. None. No blood, no semen, no hair, no evidence that any children were ever held at the alleged location of the “satanic church.” No lineups were ever done of the accused police officers.
The Crown alleged that was more proof of the conspiracy: Who would know better how to destroy evidence than police officers? In the first case the officer was convicted. In the second case, the judge actually held a lineup for the children, none of whom identified him. He was acquitted.
re: #42 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Yep it maxed out at $4.75ish in San Diego County (except for the trap stations) around then.
And oil was $120/barrel then. So why is gas higher now when it’s about $85/barrel?
That’s just one of the ineffable the mysteries of the Free Market, son. We should not seek to understand it, just believe in it a serve it by obeying those placed in charge of it. For it is our Lord and Master.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Time to start playing Whamageddon…who will be the last in your gaming group to get through the Christmas season without hearing Last Christmas?
re: #46 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Q-Anon is basically the Grand Unified Theory of Anti-Semitism and UN/Illuminati Conspiracy theories.
with pizza replacing Passover Matzohs in the Blood Libel department
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The unusual feature of the Martensville cases was the accused were members of the police department.
The Crown’s case against them had no physical evidence at all. None. No blood, no semen, no hair, no evidence that any children were ever held at the alleged location of the “satanic church.” No lineups were ever done of the accused police officers.
The Crown alleged that was more proof of the conspiracy: Who would know better how to destroy evidence than police officers? In the first case the officer was convicted. In the second case, the judge actually held a lineup for the children, none of whom identified him. He was acquitted.
The allegations in the McMartin case included that one of the guys could fly through the air, there was tunnels under the school, balloon trips to exotic locations, etc. The school was torn down and excavated in a search for the tunnels, obviously the guy couldn’t flap his arms and fly, etc.
The mom whose initial accusation started the whole thing… it later turned out she was a paranoid schizophrenic, diagnosed years before and unmedicated. And the “investigators” prompted the kids during their interviews to make some of the more salacious claims.
re: #59 Teukka
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The allegations in the McMartin case included that one of the guys could fly through the air, there was tunnels under the school, balloon trips to exotic locations, etc. The school was torn down and excavated in a search for the tunnels, obviously the guy couldn’t flap his arms and fly, etc.
The mom whose initial accusation started the whole thing… it later turned out she was a paranoid schizophrenic, diagnosed years before and unmedicated. And the “investigators” prompted the kids during their interviews to make some of the more salacious claims.
I heard a story of a young boy who had a phimosis: a tight foreskin, whose father was advised by the doctor to clean it carefully so it would not get inflamed.
The boy mentioned something in day-care about how “daddy plays with my pee-pee in the bathtub” and was whisked away by the authorities without asking any questions about what might have prompted such an utterance.
Funny how we went from totally ignoring/suppressing cases of child abuse (especially at the hands of the church) to over-reacting to the most superficial signs of it.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Huffington Post:
These Corporations Funded The Co-Sponsors Of Ohio’s Proposed Abortion Ban
Health care companies like Pfizer and Anthem donated to GOP lawmakers who are backing H.B. 480, which aims to ban abortion at any stage in pregnancy.
A number of health care companies and major corporations have made campaign contributions to two dozen Ohio state lawmakers who are co-sponsoring new legislation to ban abortion in the state.
A new report from UltraViolet, a national gender-justice organization, identified 38 companies that gave more than $132,000 last year to Ohio lawmakers who are backing the anti-abortion bill introduced last week. That list includes health care companies such as Pfizer, Anthem, Molina Healthcare and Merck. Other donors include telecommunications company Charter Communications, Dominion Energy and General Motors. UltraViolet sourced much of its report through OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks political spending.
“Where you decide to spend your political dollar ― in this case literal dollars ― is a huge barometer of your values and who or what you’re willing to sacrifice,” said Sonja Spoo, director of reproductive rights campaigns at UltraViolet. “Corporations are directly funding the erosion of our rights with their political dollars.”
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The bill is similar to the Texas bill, except it bans all abortion.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Huffington Post:
These Corporations Funded The Co-Sponsors Of Ohio’s Proposed Abortion Ban
Health care companies like Pfizer and Anthem donated to GOP lawmakers who are backing H.B. 480, which aims to ban abortion at any stage in pregnancy.
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The bill is similar to the Texas bill, except it bans all abortion.
Time to invest in companies that make red robes and white bonnets:
US women are being jailed for having miscarriages
Brittney Poolaw was just about four months pregnant when she lost her baby in the hospital in January 2020.
This October, she was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the first-degree manslaughter of her unborn son.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Time to invest in companies that make red robes and white bonnets:
US women are being jailed for having miscarriages
Brittney Poolaw was just about four months pregnant when she lost her baby in the hospital in January 2020.
This October, she was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for the first-degree manslaughter of her unborn son.
The GOP wants to make us El Salvador.
Chinese-built mock-ups of U.S. warships and aircraft meant for target practice send a clear message to the United States military, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College said recently.Satellite imagery released Nov. 7 by the U.S. Naval Institute through Maxar Technologies shows targets built in the shape of a U.S. aircraft carrier and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers at a complex of target ranges in the Taklamakan Desert in China’s Xinjiang province.
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Chinese mock-ups of US carriers send a clear message, expert says (Stars & Stripes)
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Chinese mock-ups of US carriers send a clear message, expert says (Stars & Stripes)
Which nation has the largest aircraft carrier fleet in the world with 11 supercarriers in service?
Which other nations even have aircraft carriers? UK and China have two, France, Russia and India one each…
Covid still sux in my area.
Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard
Population: 82,962 (2019)
Last seven days: 250 cases
Case rate: 289.8/100,000
Most cases by age: 20-29, then 30-39
Positivity rate: 13.5%
Fully vaccinated: 39%
The PPHD dashboard once again is separated by counties (the dashboard has whiplash).
Morrill County population: 4,836 (2017)
Last seven days: 24 cases
Case rate: 599/100,000 (highest case rate of the Panhandle plus Grant Co.)
Risk factor: LOL (100/100,000 is “high”)
My wife and I went to the store after the cardiologist yesterday (doc says I’m alive, that’s good to know).
There was a woman telling another (neither wearing masks, the rate in the store was about 20%) that her son had Covid-19 and drank a whole gallon of orange juice the day before. She was there to buy another gallon.
My wife and I put a whole lot of distance between her and us, and got the hell out of there as soon as possible.
I wish people around here would take this more seriously.
Fun: Late arrival decides to show up at tail end of my shift.
More fun: They’re foreign nationals who have no other photo ID besides a passport.
Most fun: They’re Quebecois who barely speak enough English to ask things like “Where’s the bathroom.” Which means anything more complicated has to go through Google translate.
Of the twelve counties in PPHD, all are “high” risk, except Sioux County (NW corner of the state, which has no cases in the last week).
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I wish people around here would take [Covid] more seriously.
Not taking Covid seriously is part of how they identify themselves and display their group affiliation.
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not taking Covid seriously is part of how they identify themselves and display their group affiliation.
Around here it just seems that people think we’re way out in the middle of nowhere, the horrible numbers come from high-population states or cities, so “it can’t happen here.” There’s a lot of “I don’t know anyone who got seriously ill” (though not in my town with the two early deaths before there was a vaccine).
The sheer arrogance of these anti-vax grotesques knows no boundaries https://t.co/c8uDmBNI1S
— Ian Young (@ianjamesyoung70) November 11, 2021
PSA: if anyone is wondering at what age kids can commit to memory every piece of Halloween candy in their basket to support detailed theft accusations against their dad, it’s six. Not seven or eight as I would’ve thought.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 10, 2021
re: #81 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
ABC News clip:
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Sure enough, after 8 hours, the down thumbs are way ahead of the up thumbs.
The comments are a testimony against American society.
For all their bitching about “censorship” and their inability to voice their opinions, there sure are a lot of brain dead fuckers spouting off at the top of the list.
re: #85 Targetpractice
For all their bitching about “censorship” and their inability to voice their opinions, there sure are a lot of brain dead fuckers spouting off at the top of the list.
Ever since they insisted that Trump’s inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama’s and nobody told them to just shut up and fuck off, I realized that the New Media Reality was upon us, and Truth was determined by Those Who are the Most Insistent
Snow falling here for the first time this fall. The ground hasn’t frozen yet so it’s melting on impact - depending on the air temp later we’ll see if it gets icy today or not.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nobody, including Trumpers, actually believes that the Trump inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama’s and Sean Spicer was rightfully ridiculed for that claim. But I agree with you that rightwing propaganda is still loudly spouted by large elements of society including an entire political party.
re: #88 Patricia Kayden
Nobody, including Trumpers, actually believes that the Trump inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama’s and Sean Spicer was rightfully ridiculed for that claim. But I agree with you that rightwing propaganda is still loudly spouted by large elements of society including an entire political party.
The point is that Trumpers will still insist that his crowds were bigger and no amount of objective evidence will alter their claim to a Higher Truth.
re: #83 Patricia Kayden
**Correction: They brought their own microphone.**
— KelownaNow (@KelownaNow) November 11, 2021
The full video and article is here:
Serious sociopaths.
Inverse logic again
Dershowitz to Newsmax: Rittenhouse Would ‘Probably Be Dead’ Without Gun
It would be better if nobody brought guns to protests, and everybody just used their voices, Dershowitz told hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith. “But that’s not the reality in which many from Black Lives Matter operate,” he said.
When’s the last time you saw a Proud Boys or III%er or Oath Keepers protest without guns?
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Does the Derpsh realize that if Rittenhouse didn’t have his gun, nobody would have attacked him???
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Inverse logic again
Dershowitz to Newsmax: Rittenhouse Would ‘Probably Be Dead’ Without Gun
It would be better if nobody brought guns to protests, and everybody just used their voices, Dershowitz told hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith. “But that’s not the reality in which many from Black Lives Matter operate,” he said.
When’s the last time you saw a Proud Boys or III%er or Oath Keepers protest without guns?
January 6, because D.C. has gun control.
re: #93 Dopamine Fish
Does the Derpsh realize that if Rittenhouse didn’t have his gun, nobody would have attacked him???
Of course, but he has a narrative to promote, namely “Good Guys With Guns need to be prepared to defend themselves from BLM/Antifa terrorists.”
re: #35 JOE 🥓
If you thought Larry Elder was an asshole here is an idiot running for governor who out-assholes him!
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3.5%, who is going to be their France?
re: #93 Dopamine Fish
Does the Derpsh realize that if Rittenhouse didn’t have his gun, nobody would have attacked him???
Nobody would have attacked him because he wouldn’t have had the balls to step foot into Kenosha that evening. Or go looking for a fight after he found out that the “militia” he was supposed to be part of wasn’t showing up and the property he was “defending” was being ignored.
re: #93 Dopamine Fish
Does the Derpsh realize that if Rittenhouse didn’t have his gun, nobody would have attacked him???
Wait a minute, what about all those unarmed guys the BLM protesters killed? //
The narrative is that - especially with all the police quitting over defunding and Covid vaccinations - guys like Rittenhouse are the Thin White Line protecting our God-fearing neighborhoods from marauding armed BLMau-Mau rape gangs.
re: #51 sagehen
In LA at about the same time was the McMartin Preschool case.
Tell me about it. And it was all triggered by a Presstitute named Wayne Satz at KABC who was sleeping with an unlicensed therapist who lied her way into a position at the “Children’s Institute” which was a block away from where my office used to be. Satz whipped up the lies during local Nielsen ratings sweep weeks to kick up KABC’s ratings. Of course that Presstitute got away with it…
re: #87 William Lewis
Snow falling here for the first time this fall. The ground hasn’t frozen yet so it’s melting on impact - depending on the air temp later we’ll see if it gets icy today or not.
It went to 90 yesterday in my part of Los Angeles and it’s going up to 87 today. No rain in sight..
re: #101 JOE 🥓
It went to 90 yesterday in my part of Los Angeles and it’s going up to 87 today. No rain in sight..
Snow is sticking to the grass here in the wild north country this AM, though the roads and sidewalks are still warm enough to stay melted.
re: #100 JOE 🥓
Tell me about it. And it was all triggered by a Presstitute named Wayne Satz at KABC who was sleeping with an unlicensed therapist who lied her way into a position at the “Children’s Institute” which was a block away from where my office used to be. Satz whipped up the lies during local Nielsen ratings sweep weeks to kick up KABC’s ratings. Of course that Presstitute got away with it…
The whole Satanic Panic got its start from the book Michelle Remembers (Wikipedia).
Michelle Remembers is a discredited 1980 book co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith.[1] A best-seller, Michelle Remembers relied on the discredited practice of recovered-memory therapy to make sweeping, lurid claims about satanic ritual abuse involving Smith that contributed to the rise of the Satanic ritual abuse moral panic in the 1980s.[2][3] While the book presents its claims as fact, and was extensively marketed on that basis at the time, no evidence was provided; all investigations into the book failed to corroborate any of its claims, with investigators describing its content as being primarily based on elements of popular culture and fiction that were popular at the time when it was written.[4][5]
(more, including how the book was debunked)
We also have Oprah Winfrey to thank for promoting the authors on her show, which caused the whole thing to take off.
The book was used by trainers who went around Canada and the United States training police, teachers, social workers, &c and was presented as fact. Cases of so-called Satanic Ritual Abuse would then be reported in the area of said conferences shortly thereafter.
Overheard at the grocery store:
“Excuse me, everyone is required to wear a mask”
“How does it feel to live in communist America?”
“Feels pretty good! I mean, we’re standing in a fully stocked grocery store”— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 12, 2021
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The psychiatrist who co-authored the book became an “expert,” testifying at trials around North America, including the McMartin Preschool case.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yep and what show was on KABC pushing that Satanic Panic shit?
You guessed it—Oprah. Just another reason I ignore anything she’s involved in. The crap she mainstreamed continues. Now her beloved Dr. Oz is going to enter the Pennsylvania Senate race on the GOP side…
Someone was hoping to blackmail people:
A database of Russians who purchased fake coronavirus vaccine certificates has leaked online, the Kommersant business daily reported Friday, with experts warning that the buyers are now at risk of both blackmail and jail timehttps://t.co/bZ32uKBcoD
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 12, 2021
Good morning Lizards.
Has Garland’s DOJ done anything about Bannon yet?
We’re number two:
Europe had over half of the world’s Covid deaths early this month, according to the World Health Organization. Continent-wide deaths rose 10% during the 1st week of November & made up >half the 48k coronavirus deaths reported globally in that time https://t.co/VVAtCS9OvO
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) November 12, 2021
Nearly two years into a global health crisis, infections are again sweeping across parts of Western Europe. That’s in a region with relatively high vaccination rates and good health care systems but where lockdown measures are largely a thing of the past. https://t.co/Ovvd1k5bR8
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 12, 2021
Eastern Europe is the epicenter of the pandemic right now. Many parts of Europe now also surging past US, Germany at its highest point of cases ever pic.twitter.com/EsCduDwSiG
— Mark Witzke (@mkwitzke) November 11, 2021
Some people prone to acute immune system reactions or other health issues have been reluctant to get #COVID19 vaccines, fearing rare but potentially serious side effects. They may soon have a new option: vaccines made from purified proteins. https://t.co/J5KG85oYNs
— Global Health NOW (@ghn_news) November 11, 2021
re: #111 Belafon
Europe had over half of the world’s Covid deaths early this month, according to the World Health Organization. Continent-wide deaths rose 10% during the 1st week of November & made up >half the 48k coronavirus deaths reported globally in that time
My gig this evening was cancelled and it looks like there will be no Christmas markets again this year…
Russia is carrying out snap military drills in Belarus just a few miles from the Polish border today, as fears grow that Vladimir Putin is preparing for an invasion in eastern Europe.Russia’s defence ministry said the unannounced drill involved paratroopers from both countries dropping at the Gozhsky range, just 20 miles from where thousands of migrants are gathered at the Polish border, where they practiced capturing bridges as well as hunting down and destroying enemy patrols.
Belarus said the drill was in response to the ‘build-up of military activity’ at the Polish border, where 15,000 troops have been stationed to hold back the migrants, while Russia said it was to test the ‘combat readiness’ of its troops.
re: #115 Shropshire Slasher
They are playing the EU like a fiddle, which is not hard: they are totally shambolic when it comes to their international/immigration policy.
re: #31 ckkatz
Apropos to absolutely nothing, next Thursday (November 18th) is the third Thursday in November. Which means the release of the 2021 vintage of Beaujolais Noveau.
Heh… It looks like someone copied parts of a promotional website into the Wiki article on Beaujolais Nouveau.
Beaujolais Nouveau
en.wikipedia.org
Beaujolais Run time!
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
All clear-cut cases of correlation:
1) Married couples in Maine fight more about margarine than about butter,
2) Nicholas Cage inspires young female Harvard law students to excel
and
3) People who “accidentally” strangle themselves in their own bedsheets leave large sums to their ski-bum children.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I like Spurious Correlation’s comparison of the defence spending of the United Kingdom to the annual rainfall of my county.
When they don’t spend enough money, we have a drought.
I’m going to write the UK Defence Ministry a letter about that.
re: #40 Targetpractice
Welcome to 2009, when people forgot that gas prices had shot up to $4/gal in Dubya’s last year to scream that Obama was the cause of high gas prices.
Welcome to September 2005, when gas prices soared to $3.19 a gallon after Dubya utterly botched the response to Katrina. Granted, gas is $3.72 today, but inflationwise, it’s still cheaper as $3.19 in 2005 is $4.52 today.
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re: #120 mmmirele
Welcome to September 2005, when gas prices soared to $3.19 a gallon after Dubya utterly botched the response to Katrina. Granted, gas is $3.72 today, but inflationwise, it’s still cheaper as $3.19 in 2005 is $4.52 today.
It’s $3.24 here in the wild north country. That doesn’t bother me at all; I’ve seen gas prices that high not too long ago. But I’m an intelligent voter who understands that the administration in the White House generally has little impact on gas prices unless they do something abysmally stupid, such as, say, threaten a trade war with China.
Puerto Rico has an underfunded health care system, high levels of poverty and its infrastructure remains devastated by a major 2017 hurricane — so how is the US territory leading the rest of the country in #COVID19 vaccinations?
✍️ @Ge1604 & Laura Perezhttps://t.co/lbDDBfz672— AFP News Agency (@AFP) November 11, 2021
re: #120 mmmirele
I have 7 silver dollars my Grandmother Mitchell gave me when I turned 7. Kept them all these years as a reminder of her love.
Remember back in college when the Young Libertarian Alliance was endlessly preaching about how Americans lost their freedom when FDR removed all the gold coins and LBJ removed the silver coins…
No shit?https://t.co/Dmwyb5ploh
— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) November 11, 2021
re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’ve got twenty bucks that says he can’t do it twice in a row.
re: #113 JOE 🥓
It’s not that I don’t find the cartoon funny, but its overall thesis of “The GOP is willingly destroying itself” just isn’t true. It’s not even close. It’s like when Bob Cessca says on his podcast “Trump only makes things worse for Trump” ad nauseam. This mindset assumes facts not evidence.
I have yet to see any evidence that either Trump or the GOP have truly destroyed themselves. Trump may have lost the election, but he literally tried to instigate a coup and will most likely go to his grave getting away with it. Along with all the other crimes he’s committed over the decades. He still has money and he still controls the GOP.
How the fuck is that making things worse for himself?
Same with the GOP. They may not have literal control of the government, but they tend to get what they want (no taxes on the rich, restricted abortion, disenfranchising minority voters, etc). They’re on the verge of realizing Karl Rove’s permanent majority, twenty years later.
It’s a funny cartoon but this idea that the GOP is on its way out relies heavily on our idiot independent voters doing the right thing. Which is a fucking fantasy.
re: #126 Mattand
It’s a funny cartoon but this idea that the GOP is on it’s way out relies heavily on our idiot independent voters doing the right thing. Which is a fucking fantasy.
We’ll start to see a change when CNN does morning diner interviews and, rather than validating the conspiracies of those they talk to, treat the interviews like a roast and shame them mercilessly on live TV for being fucking idiots.
Marge is a Trump voter who refuses to get vaccinated because she doesn’t trust the science…what’s your fucking problem, Marge?
re: #123 JOE 🥓
I have 7 silver dollars my Grandmother Mitchell gave me when I turned 7. Kept them all these years as a reminder of her love.
Remember back in college when the Young Libertarian Alliance was endlessly preaching about how Americans lost their freedom when FDR removed all the gold coins and LBJ removed the silver coins…
Libertarians treat the gold standard something like holy writ. They uphold it as if that is the solution to all the nation’s economic ills, much like a religious tenet.
In real life, under the gold standard there were frequent “panics” (recessions or depressions) and agricultural states like mine were constantly hammered with a shortage of credit necessary for farming or ranching business.
re: #127 darthstar
We’ll start to see a change when CNN does morning diner interviews and, rather than validating the conspiracies of those they talk to, treat the interviews like a roast and shame them mercilessly on live TV for being fucking idiots.
Marge is a Trump voter who refuses to get vaccinated because she doesn’t trust the science…what’s your fucking problem, Marge?
They’re kissing Chris Christie’s ass with an hour long love fest.
After that will come the glorification of Kyle Rittenhouse and how the evil liberals tried to jail an innocent kid…WAIT! CNN is doing that right now…
re: #127 darthstar
We’ll start to see a change when CNN does morning diner interviews and, rather than validating the conspiracies of those they talk to, treat the interviews like a roast and shame them mercilessly on live TV for being fucking idiots.
Marge is a Trump voter who refuses to get vaccinated because she doesn’t trust the science…what’s your fucking problem, Marge?
LOL, I’d love it but the only way that’s going to happen is if the Cletus Safari subjects start openly attacking and killing CNN employees. And even then, CNN would be all “Yeah, having our reporters murdered with impunity is bad for morale, but damn it, we need to truly understand what makes these people tick, mostly because we need their advertising money.”
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I like Spurious Correlation’s comparison of the defence spending of the United Kingdom to the annual rainfall of my county.
When they don’t spend enough money, we have a drought.
I’m going to write the UK Defence Ministry a letter about that.
A clear-cut case of chemtrails, or to use the UK spelling, Chelmsford-upon-Catherwolds
re: #126 Mattand
Plus everything Democrats accomplish, Republicans rush right home and take credit for.
Those who don’t closely follow politics don’t realise that their representative or senator voted against those things. They just see money coming in for local projects and their representative or senator claiming they worked to get that.
Right now here there is a project to widen US-385 between Bridgeport and Alliance. That money comes from Democratic bills, but my rep is right out front claiming credit for it. The regional newspaper doesn’t report he had nothing to do with it, nor do local radio stations.
re: #121 Dopamine Fish
It’s $3.24 here in the wild north country. That doesn’t bother me at all; I’ve seen gas prices that high not too long ago. But I’m an intelligent voter who understands that the administration in the White House generally has little impact on gas prices unless they do something abysmally stupid, such as, say, threaten a trade war with China.
We all know what that means in terms of RW narrative: that the America-hating, tree-hugging liberals cancelled pipelines, abolished permits for drilling offshore and on public lands, and instituted even more invasive, useless and pesky government safety, health and environmental regulations.
re: #129 JOE 🥓
They’re kissing Chris Christie’s ass with an hour long love fest.
After that will come the glorification of Kyle Rittenhouse and how the evil liberals tried to jail an innocent kid…WAIT! CNN is doing that right now…
This is Christine trying to make nice with as many people as possible to cast himself in the role of “Trump with all the regressive policies and none of the crazy.”
It’ll work, too. My fellow New Jerseyites willingly elected this asshole twice (I still shake my head over the “I don’t like him therefore I must vote for him” rocket scientists). I can see the broader national electorate falling for that bullshit, despite Bridgegate, hanging out on a closed public beach during a shut down, and generally crawling up Trump’s ass a la Lindsey Graham.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A clear-cut case of chemtrails, or to use the UK spelling, Chelmsford-upon-Catherwolds
Well, driving to Scottsbluff last year we were nearly hit by a biplane flying over the highway. They claim to be spraying insecticide but who knows really?
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, driving to Scottsbluff last year we were nearly hit by a biplane flying over the highway. They claim to be spraying insecticide but who knows really?
Please tell me you looked over at the side of the road to see Alfred Hitchcock trying to hide behind a road sign.
I’m going to have to hit the rack. It’s long past my bedtime.
Catch y’all later.
re: #139 Mattand
Please tell me you looked over at the side of the road to see Alfred Hitchcock trying to hide behind a road sign.
+5
re: #123 JOE 🥓
I have 7 silver dollars my Grandmother Mitchell gave me when I turned 7. Kept them all these years as a reminder of her love.
Remember back in college when the Young Libertarian Alliance was endlessly preaching about how Americans lost their freedom when FDR removed all the gold coins and LBJ removed the silver coins…
I have the family collection of silver coins, a pile of 1964 Kennedy half-dollars, plus some assorted quarters, dimes and nickels from pre-64, a handful of liberty head dollars from 1922-25 and a liberty cap Morgan dollar from 1900
Exclusive audio: Trump defends threats to “hang” Pence
He’s such a selfless mensch
re: #144 Dangerman
He would not hesitate to throw Eric or Don Jr. to the wolves if it benefitted him enough to do so.
speaking of old money, I posted this in 2018
Some fractional currency
And a few coins dated to b.c.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
He would not hesitate to throw Eric or Don Jr. to the wolves if it benefitted him enough to do so.
I keep hoping one of them will do the same for him first.
The stupid never stops.
Anti-Vaxxers’ New Grift: Useless ‘Detox’ Baths for the Reluctantly Vaccinated
Anti-vaxxers who have had to cave to COVID vaccine mandates are turning to bizarre—and totally useless—“detox” baths to rid themselves of fictional poisons, according to NBC News. In one TikTok video with hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej told followers to run a bath with baking soda, epsom salts, and benonite clay to remove radiation, unspecified poisons, and nanotechnologies that she falsely believes are in the vaccine.
Unfortunately for her, the lifesaving effects of the vaccine take hold very quickly—“basically, by the time you get out to your car,” one virologist told NBC. Nevertheless, the new grift is taking hold as more and more Americans decide to get vaccinated. With 70 percent of the country vaccinated, and anti-vaxxers’ dire warnings of mass deaths and infertility not coming true, anti-vaxxers are pivoting to the “reluctantly vaxxed” market.
I just read this updated CNN intro to the men—NOT VICTIMS, says the judge—whom Rittenhouse shot. I see that two of the families are suing various entities in Kenosha claiming coordination between LE and white nationalist militias that played a role in heightening tensions and conflict leading to the shootings. I don’t know how that will go, but the framing of the case now in court so narrowly makes it easy to forget how fucked up things were that day and all the images of cops chatting with long-gun carrying meatheads.
re: #149 Barefoot Grin
I hate to admit it, but it would be difficult to impossible to convict Rittenhouse, even without a clearly biased judge, but civil proceedings might go differently.
re: #148 JOE 🥓
The stupid never stops.
Anti-Vaxxers’ New Grift: Useless ‘Detox’ Baths for the Reluctantly Vaccinated
Anti-vaxxers who have had to cave to COVID vaccine mandates are turning to bizarre—and totally useless—“detox” baths to rid themselves of fictional poisons, according to NBC News. In one TikTok video with hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej told followers to run a bath with baking soda, epsom salts, and benonite clay to remove radiation, unspecified poisons, and nanotechnologies that she falsely believes are in the vaccine.
Unfortunately for her, the lifesaving effects of the vaccine take hold very quickly—“basically, by the time you get out to your car,” one virologist told NBC. Nevertheless, the new grift is taking hold as more and more Americans decide to get vaccinated. With 70 percent of the country vaccinated, and anti-vaxxers’ dire warnings of mass deaths and infertility not coming true, anti-vaxxers are pivoting to the “reluctantly vaxxed” market.
Vaccinated and less money to give to Republicans. Sounds like a win.
Jennifer is usually a very solid reporter.
This is embarrassing and pathetic though and she should be ashamed of herself for this. https://t.co/rcj3TGZ1XW— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) November 12, 2021
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
French mustard, French accent…all shows how much they despise America.
re: #151 Belafon
re: #148 JOE 🥓
It’s not just stupid. It’s an attempted crime. Imagine if you will that the vaccine countermeasure actually worked. Then they go to work unprotected. To church, shopping. A surge just waiting for a chance to happen. They want to endanger us all for their false sense of freedom.
A day late, but it just came here:
November 11, 2021
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Not long, and a good essay.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Can’t watch the video, but are they getting onto her for saying “thee topic” rather than “thuh topic”?
re: #156 Belafon
Can’t watch the video, but are they getting onto her for saying “thee topic” rather than “thuh topic”?
yep
Gracie is another 10 year old that is *super* excited to get her vaccine, too. 💉
For those of you who are familiar with Grace, she’s *never* excited about anything. 🙄 https://t.co/I2H0QzYtss pic.twitter.com/JZKjuRyaeX— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 12, 2021
re: #156 Belafon
Can’t watch the video, but are they getting onto her for saying “thee topic” rather than “thuh topic”?
If Kamala ever does campaign for President, you can count on the media reaction being (Obama + Hillary)³
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
yep
I guess that since it’s no longer allowed to complement a minority for being articulate (which I agree with) they can go after them for being articulate.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
Holy motherfucker mother of pearl.
“THEE” is used when a person is putting emphasis on the worth THE.
I.e. “The most important thing to remember is…”
Didn’t any of these morons go to grammar school?
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s a beautiful child. She should be used in pro-vaccination ads for the 5-11s if she wants to do that.
re: #148 JOE 🥓
She also “recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive … to “take nanotechnologies out of you.”
Vax holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to ‘undo’ it https://t.co/djIGrwFu4m @nbcnews— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) November 12, 2021
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where’s the 20 Mule Team when you need it?
the Cummings blog on Boris Johnson & the customs union is quite an eye-opener pic.twitter.com/Tyqmy5t26K
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) November 12, 2021
‘Morning, all. Gotta rant.
One of my long-time Twitter follows is Hoarse Whisperer. I’ve followed him for years and largely enjoy his stuff. But yesterday he got into one of his hair-on-fire rants about how DOJ isn’t moving fast enough for him, all is lost, Dems are gonna lose the House. A valid rant to a point, but he took it to such an extreme that one of his followers replied that he should chill. Not insulting or anything, just ‘You should chill.’
That prompted him to go off on the commenter, going on about how his tweets get millions of reads per month and the commenter clearly shouldn’t come at someone with a widely-followed Twitter account.
This morning he’s still at it, going on about how people with small Twitter accounts shouldn’t go after people with big Twitter accounts (like him), because if they do they’ll deserve all the ridicule and abuse they get.
I’m on the verge of unfollowing the guy. Twitter turns people into assholes sometimes.
re: #161 Eclectic Cyborg
Holy motherfucker mother of pearl.
“THEE” is used when a person is putting emphasis on the worth THE.
I.e. “The most important thing to remember is…”
Didn’t any of these morons go to grammar school?
They went to character assassination training.
re: #166 makeitstop
‘Morning, all. Gotta rant.
One of my long-time Twitter follows is Hoarse Whisperer. I’ve followed him for years and largely enjoy his stuff. But yesterday he got into one of his hair-on-fire rants about how DOJ isn’t moving fast enough for him, all is lost, Dems are gonna lose the House. A valid rant to a point, but he took it to such an extreme that one of his followers replied that he should chill. Not insulting or anything, just ‘You should chill.’
That prompted him to go off on the commenter, going on about how his tweets get millions of reads per month and the commenter clearly shouldn’t come at someone with a widely-followed Twitter account.
This morning he’s still at it, going on about how people with small Twitter accounts shouldn’t go after people with big Twitter accounts (like him), because if they do they’ll deserve all the ridicule and abuse they get.
I’m on the verge of unfollowing the guy. Twitter turns people into assholes sometimes.
So does LGF (not about your comment). Sometimes people have a hill…
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
So BoJo is every bit the idiot that we made him out to be. Got it.
I am blown away by this COVID vaccine video, one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time pic.twitter.com/yREIETqtWh
— Sam (@SamIAm2021MD) November 12, 2021
SQUIRREL!
Best friends.. pic.twitter.com/1P6oTdnOCb
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 12, 2021
Maybe we will get lucky and see this asshole posted at sorryantivaxxer.com!
White nationalist Nick Fuentes, who has embarked on a weeklong anti-vaccine crusade throughout New York City, canceled his nightly online show Thursday evening, citing illness. “No show tonight,” the Unite the Right attendee wrote on Telegram late Thursday night. “I’M SICK and so is Simon,” he continued, referring to his assistant—and adding a puke emoji. Fuentes’ illness couldn’t come at a worse time, as his white nationalist “groyper army” is planning to hold another anti-COVID-19 vaccine protest on Saturday afternoon. That said, the irony appeared not to be lost on the college dropout. “Kind of ironic,” he stated. “Lol.” Fuentes didn’t immediately return a Daily Beast request for comment.
re: #168 Belafon
“Big” social media posters, especially the substack/patreon crowd, have an engagement problem. Unless you’re analyzing, or “analyzing”, the news, or sports, or celebrities, one single person is going to run out of interesting topics in their area of expertise after a certain amount of time.
Then, you can either start talking about something else, which pisses off your subscribers who subscribed for what you originally talked about, or you can repeat yourself, which pisses them off for another reason (except for the MAGAts, who enjoy the same crap reheated over and over, and even then it’s tricky).
So, the third option is to pander. Give your base whatever it wants, just make ‘em mad about something they already believe, rightly or not, and up the dose when people get bored. I think Koo Koo Kendzior has been calling Garland a Putin agent recently, so like and subscribe!
re: #101 JOE 🥓
It went to 90 yesterday in my part of Los Angeles and it’s going up to 87 today. No rain in sight..
We’re getting freezing rain in a couple hours and possibly snow for the first time this season. My niece’s new au pair from Mexico was finding temperatures in the 40’s to be challenging — this will be an entirely new (and probably unwelcome) experience for her!
re: #174 ericblair
So, the third option is to pander. Give your base whatever it wants, just make ‘em mad about something they already believe, rightly or not, and up the dose when people get bored. I think Koo Koo Kendzior has been calling Garland a Putin agent recently, so like and subscribe!
I still have a terrible crush on Sarah K but she has really come loose from her moorings and is now so far left that she is starting to turn right.
Same with another site I used to visit a lot more frequently that has been overrun with “Progressive” purist critics and Putinversteher and now lately even Lukaschenkaversteher and even Rittenhaouseversteher.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Plus everything Democrats accomplish, Republicans rush right home and take credit for.
Those who don’t closely follow politics don’t realise that their representative or senator voted against those things. They just see money coming in for local projects and their representative or senator claiming they worked to get that.
Right now here there is a project to widen US-385 between Bridgeport and Alliance. That money comes from Democratic bills, but my rep is right out front claiming credit for it. The regional newspaper doesn’t report he had nothing to do with it, nor do local radio stations.
Who is your representative?
re: #142 Dangerman
“America First” is a theological heresy
Not so fast, there, kiddo.
Recall that the OT God has his chosen people. Follows that the NT God should have his own, too. And that should be the nation that wins the contest to implement HIs Divine Will in its own laws.
And the clear winner in that category is obviously America.
Which is why things like abortion and gay marriage and the welfare state are all threats - because they are all true abdominations unto him and, if allowed to spread, may even force him to turn his divine back on us and open up a creator-size can of Smite Thee upon us.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still have a terrible crush on Sarah K but she has really come loose from her moorings and is now so far left that she is starting to turn right.
Same with another site I used to visit a lot more frequently that has been overrun with “Progressive” purist critics and Putinversteher and now lately even Lukaschenkaversteher and even Rittenhaouseversteher.
The other problem on top of the engagement problem is that you’re competing with other people delivering the same outrage product, so you have to up the volume to compete. There’s also nobody in charge of anything that can or will tamp things down when they get out of hand, so everyone is just making more and more outrageous shit up and not caring what happens because of it.
This is, ironically, the same problem that the authoritarian targets of the “left” outrage have. For the GOP, and to a certain extent the Russian power structure, there are all sorts of strivers and power centers who are trying to get favor and advantage, and therefore saying and doing more outrageous shit to one-up the competition. Nobody cares what happens because of it, because few are (yet) held to account.
I’m saying “yet” because the Father Coughlins and Senator McCarthys of the world do tend to blow up when the winds change, and just because a lot of the loudmouths are enjoying their coyote time right now doesn’t mean it lasts forever.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funnily enough, God’s chosen people are a group of people the “America First” nutjobs aren’t particularly fond of.
re: #174 ericblair
“Big” social media posters, especially the substack/patreon crowd, have an engagement problem. Unless you’re analyzing, or “analyzing”, the news, or sports, or celebrities, one single person is going to run out of interesting topics in their area of expertise after a certain amount of time.
Then, you can either start talking about something else, which pisses off your subscribers who subscribed for what you originally talked about, or you can repeat yourself, which pisses them off for another reason (except for the MAGAts, who enjoy the same crap reheated over and over, and even then it’s tricky).
So, the third option is to pander. Give your base whatever it wants, just make ‘em mad about something they already believe, rightly or not, and up the dose when people get bored. I think Koo Koo Kendzior has been calling Garland a Putin agent recently, so like and subscribe!
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still have a terrible crush on Sarah K but she has really come loose from her moorings and is now so far left that she is starting to turn right.
Same with another site I used to visit a lot more frequently that has been overrun with “Progressive” purist critics and Putinversteher and now lately even Lukaschenkaversteher and even Rittenhaouseversteher.
It honestly seems like way too many have truly internalized the same ‘Dems are really to blame for everything’ mindset that the same legacy media they aimed to rebut and replace have. Somehow, again, the GOP is treated as not having any agency, and as a primal force of nature without direction somehow, and thus pointless to blame or fight against. Meanwhile, Dems are somehow the true roadblocks to everything because they don’t take the GOP’s exact tactics and use them from the left, or they don’t move fast enough because they actually follow procedure rather than fling feces toward a fan and see what gets hit.
It’s honest to god frustrating, and this is from someone who often decried how timid the Obama admin could be at times. There’s just little recognition of how stacked the deck is at points and just the assumption that ‘if the evil obstructionist Dems are for it, we must be against it because everything they do must be wrong somehow by definition’.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not so fast, there, kiddo.
Recall that the OT God has his chosen people. Follows that the NT God should have his own, too. And that should be the nation that wins the contest to implement HIs Divine Will in its own laws.
And the clear winner in that category is obviously America.
Which is why things like abortion and gay marriage and the welfare state are all threats - because they are all true abdominations unto him and, if allowed to spread, may even force him to turn his divine back on us and open up a creator-size can of Smite Thee upon us.
We have competition that’s much more religious than we are. We’re middle of the road as far as religion goes.
re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg
Funnily enough, God’s chosen people are a group of people the “America First” nutjobs aren’t particularly fond of.
Those are the Chosen People 1.0. We are the Chosen People 2.0.
The only use for ((those people)) is to get them back on their feet in order to facilitate conditions to kick-start Armageddon and bring about the Apocalyptic End Times prophecies.
Whereupon the Lord Jesus will return with his Holy Hosts and cast the unbelievers (including the old lot) into the Lake of Fire.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those are the Chosen People 1.0. We are the Chosen People 2.0.
The only use for ((those people)) is to get them back on their feet in order to facilitate conditions to kick-start Armageddon and bring about the Apocalyptic End Times prophecies.
Whereupon the Lord Jesus will return with his Holy Hosts and cast the unbelievers (including the old lot) into the Lake of Fire.
As the Fundamentalists put it, “The Jews had their chance. America is the only Christian nation now. We only support Israel because it sounds nice.”
re: #182 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We have competition that’s much more religious than we are. We’re middle of the road as far as religion goes.
But those aren’t the right religions - or they aren’t worshipping the right way…
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those are the Chosen People 1.0. We are the Chosen People 2.0.
The only use for ((those people)) is to get them back on their feet in order to facilitate conditions to kick-start Armageddon and bring about the Apocalyptic End Times prophecies.
Whereupon the Lord Jesus will return with his Holy Hosts and cast the unbelievers (including the old lot) into the Lake of Fire.
They worship an evil god, imagined in their own image.
You have GOT to be kidding me with this headline.
Project Veritas: Journalists or Political Spies? - The New York Times https://t.co/tR4no2fxEI— Laffy (@GottaLaff) November 12, 2021
Thank you for your concern regarding my pets, but the cat is fine and says she’s sorry to hear about your dick. pic.twitter.com/aKcpYX2zQj
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) November 12, 2021
re: #184 Dopamine Fish
Correction:
Fundamentalists support Israel so that they can fulfill their End Times Armageddon Apocalyptic visions. They think they’re the ones getting Raptured while everyone else is doomed. For this to happen, they need Israel to exist for conflict to rage, and they backed Trump for same reason - chaos agent spurring violence and the End Times they wish for.
I can understand anyone that rants against Garland. I’m close to doing it myself. Time is not on our side, but I don’t see how making Garland the enemy solves anything.
I’m also frustrated that trump gets to delay releasing his docs (OK, the National Archives does). There is going to be a hearing on the 30th. Not a decision, but a hearing. And then a ruling and more appeals.
The frustration is real. I wish I had an answer.
re: #190 I Would Prefer Not To
I can understand anyone that rants against Garland. I’m close to doing it myself. Time is not on our side, but I don’t see how making Garland the enemy solves anything.
I’m also frustrated that trump gets to delay releasing his docs (OK, the National Archives does). There is going to be a hearing on the 30th. Not a decision, but a hearing. And then a ruling and more appeals.
The frustration is real. I wish I had an answer.
When due process is politically weaponised. Sigh.
re: #189 lawhawk
Correction:
Fundamentalists support Israel so that they can fulfill their End Times Armageddon Apocalyptic visions. They think they’re the ones getting Raptured while everyone else is doomed. For this to happen, they need Israel to exist for conflict to rage, and they backed Trump for same reason - chaos agent spurring violence and the End Times they wish for.
exactly. otherwise they do not care a lick about Judaism or the Jewish people. But they often have a lot of overlap with the Israeli government
re: #182 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We have competition that’s much more religious than we are. We’re middle of the road as far as religion goes.
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Note that many of the highly religious countries are also less wealthy ones.
Proposal: Fire the entire staff of the NYT and replace them with ACTUAL JOURNALISTS.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
Note that many of the highly religious countries are also less wealthy ones.
That’s what I meant about doing it wrong.
In Germany, even the people who call themselves “religious” tend to see the Church as a primarily social/cultural institution: their family has been living in the same village and going to same church for centuries, it is only natural that they should be baptized/married/buried there.
We were not even members of the church, but we regularly participated in the kiddie Christmas services at our village chapel, just out of a sense of community.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
Proposal: Fire the entire staff of the NYT and replace them with ACTUAL JOURNALISTS.
are there any left?
Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging? - ABC News - https://t.co/stA5hYKqjr via @ABC
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 12, 2021
The article itself identifies all of this, and that’s the takeaway.
Get yourself and your families vaccinated and take precautions for those who can’t.
The life you save (and health care costs avoided) could be your own.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 12, 2021
Just asking the questions is an awful strategy for reporting news, but it’s a time tested lazy one.
We know how and why covid19 is spreading where it does.
Covid loves spreading among the unvaccinated. It’s highly correlated to the places least likely to be vaccinated. Even in high vaccination states there are low vaccination rate counties, just as there are high vaccination counties in low vaccination rate states because some localities have gone against the wishes of the GOP shitmongers and their cruel policies to vaccinate their local residents as best as they can.
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
are there any left?
Yes, but some of them are under 15 and others may not want to move from the towns they are located in.
Oh wow, IRONY https://t.co/4iZgdhxFEP
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) November 12, 2021
re: #190 I Would Prefer Not To
I can understand anyone that rants against Garland. I’m close to doing it myself. Time is not on our side, but I don’t see how making Garland the enemy solves anything.
I’m also frustrated that trump gets to delay releasing his docs (OK, the National Archives does). There is going to be a hearing on the 30th. Not a decision, but a hearing. And then a ruling and more appeals.
The frustration is real. I wish I had an answer.
This is a typical timeline for the DOJ, they do not work on twitter time.#politcs https://t.co/nB2SKZ4Us9
— Dave Robbins (@DavidDRobbins) November 6, 2021
None of us knows what’s going on in the DoJ anymore, because that’s how it’s supposed to work. The Charlottesville trial, for a murder that happened in 2017, is going on now, and I don’t think that’s unusual.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has struck the three Republican nominees for Special Master for Redistricting for violating conflict of interest rules and asked for new names to be submitted by November 15 pic.twitter.com/1EuvwfjbKK
— Senator Scott Surovell (@ssurovell) November 12, 2021
re: #197 lawhawk
Also, the important thing is not the case rates.
Are hospitalizations surging? Are deaths surging? Probably not because a lot of these folks are VACCINATED.
That said, this winter is going to be a real measuring stick of how much progress we’ve actually made in this pandemic.
Some vulnerable communities are pondering “managed retreat” from climate change. But for the Gullah Geechee, abandoning their historical home in the southeastern U.S. is a nonstarter.
Read and watch: https://t.co/tzKPx3fBdw pic.twitter.com/EL1W6cddEy— The Associated Press (@AP) November 12, 2021
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, another reason is that we are heading into flu season, or the time when everyone starts staying indoors more hours per day, and people are closer together.
WalMart was jammed yesterday. Just jammed. An employee just arriving for a shift stopped to help me load my groceries into my car, and took the cart back for me. He told me (and I don’t know that this is true) that WalMart’s biggest seller was bananas.
re: #200 ericblair
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None of us knows what’s going on in the DoJ anymore, because that’s how it’s supposed to work. The Charlottesville trial, for a murder that happened in 2017, is going on now, and I don’t think that’s unusual.
But we don’t have 4 years to wait to save our democracy; we don’t have even one year to wait.
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
There was an episode of the Simpsons in the 1990s where at the end the entire town of Springfield had to move five miles down the road because Homers mismanagement had turned the city into an overflowing trash heap.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
Note that many of the highly religious countries are also less wealthy ones.
Better education usually results in less religious extremism, but we have a large faction that opposes education because they do not want their children to be smarter than they are.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those are the Chosen People 1.0. We are the Chosen People 2.0.
The only use for ((those people)) is to get them back on their feet in order to facilitate conditions to kick-start Armageddon and bring about the Apocalyptic End Times prophecies.
Whereupon the Lord Jesus will return with his Holy Hosts and cast the unbelievers (including the old lot) into the Lake of Fire.
yeah that’ll never happen as long as we control all the money //
re: #200 ericblair
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None of us knows what’s going on in the DoJ anymore, because that’s how it’s supposed to work. The Charlottesville trial, for a murder that happened in 2017, is going on now, and I don’t think that’s unusual.
This is a typical timeline for the DOJ, they do not work on twitter time.
We don’t live in typical times. If the Republicans take back the house in 2022, the investigation will end. We all know this. They have a year. If it takes 6 months to get someone to testify, they will run out the clock. I don’t make the rules, but my family will be forced to live with the consequences.
re: #205 retired cynic
He told me (and I don’t know that this is true) that WalMart’s biggest seller was bananas.
True across the supermarket world.
re: #210 I Would Prefer Not To
We don’t live in typical times. If the Republicans take back the house in 2022, the investigation will end. We all know this. They have a year. If it takes 6 months to get someone to testify, they will run out the clock. I don’t make the rules, but my family will be forced to live with the consequences.
The criminal cases won’t, and that’s what we’re talking about.
re: #203 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, the important thing is not the case rates.
Are hospitalizations surging? Are deaths surging? Probably not because a lot of these folks are VACCINATED.
That said, this winter is going to be a real measuring stick of how much progress we’ve actually made in this pandemic.
Case rates have never been the ideal metric because so many cases have never been officially counted. But hospitalizations and deaths tell the real story. And let’s not forget these numbers can also reflect new variants that are more contagious or lethal or not controlled by the current vaccines. The flu vaccine requires new formulations annually; this may also turn out to be true for the coronavirus (yes, I know, it doesn’t mutate as fast as the flu — but it does mutate).
That number is actually much lower than I’d expect, but that could be due to the phrasing of the question.
Hopefully, they’re among the 50% of Republicans who are too willfully-ignorant to vaccinate.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 12, 2021
re: #212 ericblair
The criminal cases won’t, and that’s what we’re talking about.
I’m talking about Bannon and everyone else that is going to refuse to testify.
re: #209 Dangerman
yeah that’ll never happen as long as we control all the money //
Jesus saves, you people hand out the loans…
re: #190 I Would Prefer Not To
I can understand anyone that rants against Garland. I’m close to doing it myself. Time is not on our side, but I don’t see how making Garland the enemy solves anything.
I’m also frustrated that trump gets to delay releasing his docs (OK, the National Archives does). There is going to be a hearing on the 30th. Not a decision, but a hearing. And then a ruling and more appeals.
The frustration is real. I wish I had an answer.
the other day i wondered if garland was waiting for the trump case to settle quickly.
it looks like it could plausibly last until February, or maybe even sooner.
however, with the committee imminently about to refer meadows for contempt, garland’s gonna have a pile of files, all based on the same thing, and that might make it harder to hold back
(imo just cause the DOJ is silent publicly, doesnt mean they are ignoring bannon or any of this etc.)
re: #213 Hecuba’s daughter
Case rates have never been the ideal metric because so many cases have never been officially counted. But hospitalizations and deaths tell the real story. And let’s not forget these numbers can also reflect new variants that are more contagious or lethal or not controlled by the current vaccines.
And Delta really complicated things as it is more contagious and virulent.
re: #154 Rightwingconspirator
It’s not just stupid. It’s an attempted crime. Imagine if you will that the vaccine countermeasure actually worked. Then they go to work unprotected. To church, shopping. A surge just waiting for a chance to happen. They want to endanger us all for their false sense of freedom.
You have not sufficiently accounted for the mindset of antivaxxers. They are convinced that the vaccine prevents nothing (some of them would say that there’s no disease to protect from, others that the vaccine causes covid), and that it’s being provided in order to do those bad things the bath saves them from. So no, they’re not trying to endanger anyone — they’re too far submerged in the pile of manure that is antivax “thought.”
I’m going to take a break. (It’s me, not you). Take care and see you latter.
re: #215 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m talking about Bannon and everyone else that is going to refuse to testify.
In the “what the fuck is going on with Bannon” department, lawfare blog has an interesting article here. The TL;DR is that this is actually more complicated than it looks, because the DoJ itself has been pushing the boundaries of executive privilege for a long time and needs to deal with all the carveouts it’s made for itself.
re: #217 Dangerman
the other day i wondered if garland was waiting for the trump case to settle quickly.
it looks like it could plausibly last until February, or maybe even sooner.
however, with the committee imminently about to refer meadows for contempt, garland’s gonna have a pile of files, all based on the same thing, and that might make it harder to hold back
(imo just cause the DOJ is silent publicly, doesnt mean they are ignoring bannon or any of this etc.)
I’ve had the thought that what looks like slow-walking might be more about timing.
How damaging would it be to the GOP’s prospects in the mid-terms if there are full-blown hearings going on in the weeks before the election? How would a new revelation or two per week impact House elections - especially if it comes out that many House members were directly involved in the insurrection?
Let’s remember that people have short memories. If all this blew up now, it will have become background noise by this time next year.
re: #197 lawhawk
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Vermont has the highest vaccination rate in the country. So why are cases surging? - ABC News - https://t.co/stA5hYKqjr via @ABC
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) November 12, 2021
just like TFG, ABC News forgets that Puerto Rico is part of the country
Yes, Puerto Rico does have the highest vaccination rate in the US
Four in five people eligible to receive the vaccine in Puerto Rico are fully vaccinated, which is a higher rate than any other U.S. state or territory.
PR’s effective rate is somewhere between 74-80%
vermont’s rate 71.x %
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jesus saves, you people hand out the loans…
at fair rates….
re: #144 Dangerman
Exclusive audio: Trump defends threats to “hang” Pence
He’s such a selfless mensch
And Pence is happy as shit to continue sucking trump’s dick. Fuck both of them.
re: #224 Dangerman
Meanwhile, here in the deep red South, my state has 46.2% population fully vaccinated.
re: #219 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
You have not sufficiently accounted for the mindset of antivaxxers. They are convinced that the vaccine prevents nothing (some of them would say that there’s no disease to protect from, others that the vaccine causes covid), and that it’s being provided in order to do those bad things the bath saves them from. So no, they’re not trying to endanger anyone — they’re too far submerged in the pile of manure that is antivax “thought.”
The ones I know think that “natural” immunity is the best and that for younger people the vaccine is not needed because they will survive the disease and thereby have much more effective protection than this insufficiently tested vaccine. Long COVID is not on their radar; they also don’t believe in masking children because it harms their social development.
re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter
The ones I know think that “natural” immunity is the best and that for younger people the vaccine is not needed because they will survive the disease and thereby have much more effective protection than this insufficiently tested vaccine. Long COVID is not on their radar; they also don’t believe in masking children because it harms their social development.
The critics of vaccines, masks, distancing, and of course the lockdowns when hospitals started triage would leave us utterly defenseless if they had their way.
re: #214 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That number is actually much lower than I’d expect, but that could be due to the phrasing of the question.
So that means they would teach US History from 1600 to 1900 in a day or so? Some kind of weird ass Underpants Gnome Theory of History?:
1. Jamestown
2. Revolutionary War
3. ??
4. Profit!
re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter
We still aren’t certain about long term after affects of Covid even in people who do fully recover.
Seems Cinnamon found the screws.
Wait a minute. HOW is it drywall screws cause cancer? You humans are weird sometimes. pic.twitter.com/ntf9TSsuyT
— Manksy (@TheManksy) November 12, 2021
re: #232 Rightwingconspirator
Seems Cinnamon found the screws.
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I think it’s the ‘Reproductive Harm’. Everybody knows a screw can cause that.
re: #230 Mike Lamb
So that means they would teach US History from 1600 to 1900 in a day or so? Some kind of weird ass Underpants Gnome Theory of History?:
1. Jamestown
2. Revolutionary War
3. ??
4. Profit!
Not at all. They would teach the terrible conflict in the 1860’s, explaining that the Confederates were all Democrats and that Republicans freed the slaves, and after then there was no real racism in this country.
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Not at all. They would teach the terrible conflict in the 1860’s, explaining that the Confederates were all Democrats and that Republicans freed the slaves, and after then there was no real racism in this country.
Except of course for that perpetrated by Democrats.
re: #232 Rightwingconspirator
Seems Cinnamon found the screws.
I’d guess it’s whatever oil they coated the screws with to prevent rust. Does the packaging say?
re: #236 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’d guess it’s whatever oil they coated the screws with to prevent rust. Does the packaging say?
someone should lookup the website in the picture.
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
Not at all. They would teach the terrible conflict in the 1860’s, explaining that the Confederates were all Democrats and that Republicans freed the slaves, and after then there was no real racism in this country.
They can create Jim Crow, a cartoon bird that will explain that people who talk about racism are the real racists.
re: #237 Belafon
I already did, it’s about any cancer causing substance.
re: #237 Belafon
someone should lookup the website in the picture.
I did. It’s a generic statement on California’s Proposition 65 regarding labeling toxic chemicals. It’s most likely the metal used in the coating.
re: #239 Teukka
Just a long shot, but what’s the surface treatment of the screws? Some metals used tend to be nasty.
This is my guess too.
The screws are plated with nickle or chromium.
Some responses to Jacob’s calling out Harris for saying “thee” dailykos.com, and these are a couple of my favorites:
This is so, so funny to me
a) Imagine emphasizing “the” but still pronouncing it “thu.” Do it out loud
b) ah yes the French accent, wherein the definite article has a long E sound, as in “Lee Monde” and “Lee Tour Eiffel” https://t.co/qaayvuScPw— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) November 12, 2021
“Some critics,” in my view, should:
a) know that “thé” in French is pronounced “tay” — as in “whew, Tay just dissed the bejesus out of Jake Gyllenhaal”;
b) be told “nique tes mères” — in which “tes” is also pronounced “tay.” https://t.co/pBh2hWR5si— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) November 12, 2021
megan thee stallion is a subset of critical theory that began with immanuel kant in the 1790s. it was a response to—and rejection of—the principles of the enlightenment and the age of reason upon which the american republic was founded. https://t.co/UWQfFpNOL9
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 12, 2021
Behold the Mighty Mississippi: all 11 feet of it.
[VAULT Case G4042.M5 1866 .C6] pic.twitter.com/XRu8AyyaIY— Newberry Library (@NewberryLibrary) November 3, 2021
“I don’t want to have anything to do with politics.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), on Steve Bannon’s podcast.
So many barely functional people have lost it completely when faced with a deadly virus.
He thought doing doughnuts in the parking lot with kids around was a protest against public health that he had to make.
Man faces charges after arrest outside Manchester COVID-19 vaccine clinic (WMUR9)
re: #244 Belafon
Some responses to Jacob’s calling out Harris for saying “thee” dailykos.com, and these are a couple of my favorites:
This is exceptionally stupid, even for right-wing idiots and their fake outrages.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) November 12, 2021
South Dakota lawmakers are pressing Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) administration to hand over a document that could prove whether there was a plan in place to give her daughter another chance to win a real estate appraiser license prior to a meeting last year that has spurred conflict-of-interest questions,” the AP reports.
“The Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee is readying to initiate a subpoena on Monday if the Department of Labor and Regulation doesn’t hand over a signed agreement between the governor’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, and state regulators.”
60 House Dems Intro Resolution To Censure Paul Gosar - https://t.co/OIR5ecdeGO pic.twitter.com/tnMLUDNgcH
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) November 12, 2021
A White House spokesperson mocked Donald Trump after he said he was sending his “envoy ambassador” to Kosovo, Yahoo News reports.
Said the official: “Outside of his very active imagination, Donald Trump is no longer President and doesn’t have any ‘envoy ambassadors’ representing the United States.”
re: #251 Dangerman
A White House spokesperson mocked Donald Trump after he said he was sending his “envoy ambassador” to Kosovo, Yahoo News reports.
Said the official: “Outside of his very active imagination, Donald Trump is no longer President and doesn’t have any ‘envoy ambassadors’ representing the United States.”
I appreciate that there’s a place to mock him for being delusional; the problem is that those delusions are very dangerous, because they’re believed by millions of people. This administration needs to take seriously the very real threat that his supporters pose.
re: #249 Dangerman
Kitzinger and Cheney are on board
re: #247 Punish Domestic Terrorists
So many barely functional people have lost it completely when faced with a deadly virus.
He thought doing doughnuts in the parking lot with kids around was a protest against public health that he had to make.
Man faces charges after arrest outside Manchester COVID-19 vaccine clinic (WMUR9)
It’s a really nice little museum. But I’m seeing more and more of this kind of anti-vax shit around (not so dangerous as this, though). Maybe he’ll get covid in jail.
Might be worth naming the “critics” so we could know whose fake outrage we’re supposed to pretend to believe. https://t.co/m6CfEM08S8
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 12, 2021
re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter
they also don’t believe in masking children because it harms their social development.
they are against masks because they don’t care about Covid (or don’t believe in it), but they use the “harms children’s social development” argument because they think it will come across better to the people they are arguing with
re: #248 Punish Domestic Terrorists
even for THE right wing idiots…. LOL
re: #230 Mike Lamb
So that means they would teach US History from 1600 to 1900 in a day or so? Some kind of weird ass Underpants Gnome Theory of History?:
1. Jamestown
2. Revolutionary War
3. ??
4. Profit!
How America was founded by Christians because religious Freedom
How America won and maintained its freedom because of Guns, God and Guts
How we fought off the threat of foreign domination, socialism, communism, atheism and unionism (hint: we used a lot of guns)
Why America was and is the Greatest Nation in the World and why everybody wants to come here (but we shouldn’t let them*)
*unless we need our lawns mowed, pools cleaned, crops harvested & packed, our meat cut and our fast food served, etc…
re: #244 Belafon
Some responses to Jacob’s calling out Harris for saying “thee” dailykos.com, and these are a couple of my favorites:
“Nothing is better for the than m”
re: #236 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’d guess it’s whatever oil they coated the screws with to prevent rust. Does the packaging say?
Zinc plated. *shrug* And going into a wall to be sealed in anyway.
From dictionary.com: / stressed ði; unstressed before a consonant ðə; unstressed before a vowel ði /
re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And Pence is happy as shit to continue sucking trump’s dick. Fuck both of them.
Pence somehow has convinced himself that he has a political future.
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
Zinc plated. *shrug* And going into a wall to be sealed in anyway.
That’s the culprit, and some people hold screws in their mouth when both hands are busy.
re: #263 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pence somehow has convinced himself that he has a political future.
he came within a hair of not having a physical future
re: #245 jaunte
There’s a great park in Memphis that has a scale Mississippi flowing through it plus some indication of the various tributaries.
re: #266 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There’s a great park in Memphis that has a scale Mississippi flowing through it plus some indication of the various tributaries.
I would be sending my Civil War gunboats up and down it to take Vicksburg…
re: #264 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s the culprit, and some people hold screws in their mouth when both hands are busy.
Sounds right, I had forgotten about that bad habit.
re: #266 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
There’s a great park in Memphis that has a scale Mississippi flowing through it plus some indication of the various tributaries.
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re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
he came within a hair of not having a physical future
What would have happened if he had been unable to preside over the counting of the ballots? Does anyone know the rules in effect under those circumstances? After all, it doesn’t take an insurrection to disable the VP; someone might experience a health emergency.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would be sending my Civil War gunboats up and down it to take Vicksburg…
I’d jump in to recreate the New Madrid earthquakes that sent the river in reverse for several hours!
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would be sending my Civil War gunboats up and down it to take Vicksburg…
A little raft with Huck and Jim.
Damn, that rain is really coming down and I need to shop for dinner and walk the dog.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would be sending my Civil War gunboats up and down it to take Vicksburg…
A museum there with stuff on history along the river (including models of Civil-War era ships) and wildlife to be found in or along the river.
re: #271 Barefoot Grin
I’d jump in to recreate the New Madrid earthquakes that sent the river in reverse for several hours!
re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter
What would have happened if he had been unable to preside over the counting of the ballots? Does anyone know the rules in effect under those circumstances? After all, it doesn’t take an insurrection to disable the VP; someone might experience a health emergency.
iirc it’s the senate president pro tempore (at the time, Grassley)
re: #266 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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It was closed for repair work when I was in Memphis recently. I have to go back to visit it and their copy of the Parthenon ;) well, that’s the excuse at least :LOL:
re: #278 William Lewis
It was closed for repair work when I was in Memphis recently. I have to go back to visit it and their copy of the Parthenon (in Nashville but still) ;) well, that’s the excuse at least :LOL:
re: #244 Belafon
Some responses to Jacob’s calling out Harris for saying “thee” dailykos.com, and these are a couple of my favorites:
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Surely, a reporter from Iowa is familiar with The Ohio State University. Are we all faking a French accent then?
— Craig Harrington (@Craigipedia) November 12, 2021
(maybe we should ask Vance and Mandel how they pronounce it)
re: #266 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
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I graduated high school a bit south of Memphis in a town on the river in Mississippi.
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