We have no idea how far the Coronavirus has spread in the U.S., largely because the Trump administration was unprepared to roll out testing kits where they are needed. #Monologue #Colbert #Coronavirus
Twitter says it’s testing a new feature for tweets that last 24 hours before vanishing — an idea the company is calling “fleets.” https://t.co/yb6O2IhRkD
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 4, 2020
You know what would have been even smarter politics—for Sanders to drop out and endorse Elizabeth Warren after his heart attack.
— David Edward Burke (@DavidEBurke) March 4, 2020
re: #2 Dr. Matt
Tougher to report Nazis and bots that way.
Sen. Tim Kaine on Bernie Sanders saying the establishment is trying to stop his candidacy. “To say that African-American voters in the South are the establishment is not only untrue but it’s insulting,” said Kaine, a Biden backer
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 4, 2020
Democrats are getting fed up with Bernie insulting African-American voters. Thank you Senator Kaine.
Florida has the 3rd-largest population of people experiencing homelessness and yet Trump has never once brought it up. Why? Because he only cares about the issue insofar as he can weaponize it against blue cities and states. https://t.co/h4W9SxzoLH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2020
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Yet he thinks minority voters will fall over him because he’s friends with some rich athletes.
Get the test formulas from a couple of countries, emergency produce them and then test them using drive through stations like South Korea. Run all three tests side by side to see which works best. Tax the billionaires to pay for it as it will keep the people that earn them their wealth healthy.
Sorry the Warren people are getting death threats. My buddy gets death threats every other Monday when his insurance company says if he can’t pay his bills, he’ll stop getting insulin.
— Tom Wojcik🌹 (@TomWojcik) March 3, 2020
Dear Lord. I’m normally on your side and that was STILL a SERIOUSLY bad take. See, Berners, this is the difference between you and us! We drag even “our own”, and we don’t drag the people rightly DRAGGING “our own!”
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 4, 2020
re: #10 Chrysicat
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Bernie red roses are the only people who know anyone who is sick ever. //
You daily reminder that old people vote.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 4, 2020
Just so you know Rick I am still in hospital but guess what I snuck out to vote yesterday. Got back to hospital nobody was there wiser!@jwgop you told me not to fight back & I did. Thank you!
#BidenForPresident #RidenWithBiden #Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/D3vDxKRbCb— Francesca1225 ✡♋🌊🇺🇸 (@frannie1225) March 4, 2020
I’m sick of the emotional blackmail. If you wnat M4A, great. Work on taking back the Senate. Make that your goal instead of an inflexible old fool who didn’t even vote for the Father of Medicare.
re: #6 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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Democrats are getting fed up with Bernie insulting African-American voters. Thank you Senator Kaine.
dems are also getting fed up with Bernie insulting…. dems
he still identifies as an independent. he encourages his ‘outsiderness”
he denigrates dems not as left as he and his base are
he slurs corporations, the establishment, the system, etc
he is not in, of, and part of the team.
he’s just squatting in the dugout because after 30 years, he couldnt manage to build his own stadium.
re: #10 Chrysicat
That schmuck is getting dragged. That was a seriously bad take.
This is a false dichotomy & god damnit it belongs on a gradeschool playground. HOW…how tf did you guys get like this? The fuckery here is off the gd charts hahaha like…jesus merryweather christ on a crackerjack box & holy actual goddamn fuck.
— PrettyGoodMonsters (@severalmonsters) March 4, 2020
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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there are no homeless people in palm beach county//
Florida has the 3rd-largest population of people experiencing homelessness and yet Trump has never once brought it up. Why? Because he only cares about the issue insofar as he can weaponize it against blue cities and states. https://t.co/h4W9SxzoLH
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2020
re: #15 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
dems are also getting fed up with Bernie insulting…. dems
he still identifies as an independent. he encourages his ‘outsiderness”
he denigrates dems not as left as he and his base are
he slurs corporations, the establishment, the system, etche is not in, of, and part of the team.
he’s just squatting in the dugout because after 30 years, he couldnt manage to build his own stadium.
I really hope this is his last term in the Senate. He’s nothing but a bullying chode.
re: #10 Chrysicat
Making perfect necessarily the enemy of good, every time…
re: #2 Dr. Matt
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Uh… I presume that these will be sold as some way to save memory space or something like that. But my initial spit take is that these are simply more ease for manipulation and allowing for tweets with no thought behind them.
So Twitter becomes more of a cesspool since the toilet paper is now biodegradable.
re: #6 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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Democrats are getting fed up with Bernie insulting African-American voters. Thank you Senator Kaine.
Sounds like Bernie going to Selma rather than hanging out with part of Public Enemy would have been a better move?
‘Sorry you had to deal with actual death threats for raising valid points. So had my friend for also valid reasons, so I’m going to be stupidly snarky and passive aggressive about it because I think my politics overrides yours’.
— Josh Scully (@JSxully) March 4, 2020
Just as a heads up from a total leftie in the UK, your tact was made use of very recently here. It crashed and burned so badly that we got lumbered with the worst possible result for the poorest people. Myself included.
— Josh Scully (@JSxully) March 4, 2020
re: #21 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Sounds like Bernie going to Selma rather than hanging out with part of Public Enemy would have been a better move?
It wasn’t even all of Public Enemy. But hey he got to meet Chuck D, means he gets to act like he’s cool, hip Grandpa Bernie even though if you ever played their music around him, he wouldn’t know it.
His fear of running against Joe Biden is so incredibly transparent. He got impeached trying to prevent it. https://t.co/iYnLXKf0aa
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) March 4, 2020
re: #14 Belafon
Warren has a health care plan.
She does indeed, and, I hope when/if she does decide to officially drop out, she gets policy for her support.
re: #25 lizardofid
She does indeed, and, I hope when/if she does decide to officially drop out, she gets policy for her support.
I like this for an idea. How about her and Rep Presley, one of her top surrogates in the House team up on something.
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Allowing politicians to say I NEVER SAID THAT! FAKE NEWS!
screen shots exist…
re: #2 Dr. Matt
Frees up some app space for a Twitter client with a “screenshot this tweet” button.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
screen shots exist…
I see more bots duplicating tweets in the future.
Ellis was ultimately named in the House’s Articles of Impeachment against Trump, as one of nine administration officials who defied a House subpoena for testimony at Trump’s direction. https://t.co/JZVK07SjqI https://t.co/9rIavyINbQ
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 3, 2020
re: #24 The Pie Overlord!
@realDonaldTrump
So selfish for Elizabeth Warren to stay in the race. She has Zero chance of even coming close to winning, but hurts Bernie badly. So much for their wonderful liberal friendship. Will he ever speak to her again? She cost him Massachusetts (and came in third), he shouldn’t!
the most telling part of trump’s statement
For the first time since Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran appears to have enough enriched uranium to produce a single nuclear weapon, though it would take months or years to manufacture a warhead. @SangerNYT @WilliamJBroad https://t.co/IZyfMhrKw0
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 4, 2020
Love how Bernie (and supporters) loves to play the outsider card and then carps when the party follows its established precedents and rules and pretty much acts as expected as candidates drop out of the nomination process. You know, acting like political parties in the US act.
And Bernie didn’t hang around as part of the Democratic Party post-2016. He immediately left back to his “independent” shell. And It’s not like a lot of people failed to notice that.
And per his claimed Civil Rights record he is very open to being asked “What have you done for us lately?” since the answer to that is not very flattering either.
re: #32 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
the most telling part of trump’s statement
He really wanted to run against Bernie so bad because he thought Putin and Putin’s bots would get the Dem base hating Biden. DIdn’t work.
One good sign that you’ve hired a bad lawyer is when your lawyer starts arguing with Ruth Bader Ginsburg about feminist legal history.https://t.co/uxuwhGTi80
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 4, 2020
re: #33 Dread Pirate
For the first time since Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran appears to have enough enriched uranium to produce a single nuclear weapon, though it would take months or years to manufacture a warhead.
Then we have no choice but to undertake a pre-emptive strike.
Just like we have a such a budget deficit from our tax cuts that we have to start cutting social programs to balance it.
One thing I took from today’s abortion argument is NEVER underestimate Sonia Sotomayor.
Justice Sotomayor knows the record of every case better than anyone. And she will beat you mercilessly with it if you get it wrong.https://t.co/uxuwhGTi80— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 4, 2020
re: #35 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He really wanted to run against Bernie so bad because he thought Putin and Putin’s bots would get the Dem base hating Biden. DIdn’t work.
that’s true
i meant the ‘i’d never speak to her again’ part. what a petty manbaby
re: #38 jaunte
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re: #40 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I presume an attempted Gish Gallop against a Supreme Court judge would get slapped down rather heavily?
Well now you know why Ben Shapiro is Ben Shapiro and doesn’t actively practice law. I imagine Ben would get slapped down by judges if he tried the stuff he does in his “debates” in a court room.
re: #40 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The article is pretty interesting. Roberts doesn’t like it when the manipulation gets so obvious, and the lawyers for Louisiana weren’t prepared.
The question of how this “benefits” Louisiana women when a similar law didn’t benefit Texas women remained unanswered.
re: #33 Dread Pirate
But for Trump’s dumbassery in abrogating the JCPOA, Iran would not have resumed enrichment towards building nuclear weapons. They were contained. Everyone said as much - IAEA, EU-6, Russia, and even Israel and the US. But now? Yeah, they’re going to go nuclear and no one will be able to stop them. They’ll join North Korea as a nuclear power and that’s it.
Trump has given up all the leverage we had in both cases, and gotten precisely nothing more than a photo op in return.
He is really, really scared of Joe Biden. (still not sorry I voted for Warren in next week’s Michigan primary)
‘Some of Joe [Biden]’s handlers are further left than Bernie. That’s pretty scary’ — Pres. Trump shares his thoughts on Joe Biden’s campaign pic.twitter.com/MDIk4s0STY
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 4, 2020
re: #45 The Pie Overlord!
He is really, really scared of Joe Biden. (still not sorry I voted for Warren in next week’s Michigan primary)
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Aww he really wanted to do the Third Red Scare against Bernie and now he has to run against the VP of the black guy whose record he lied repeatedly about to get elected. It’s your funeral Donny.
And now, from the important to the trivial: I survived a trip to Costco this morning. It was busy, but not horrible. People are still buying multiple packs of toilet paper, bottled water and paper towels. Also a lot of Clorox wipes. Leading to the question, are you planning to disinfect your entire house? How? Why?
Fortunately, I was allowed to check out without any of those items in my cart.
re: #42 jaunte
The article is pretty interesting. Roberts doesn’t like it when the manipulation gets so obvious, and the lawyers for Louisiana weren’t prepared.
telling
re: #47 calochortus
My experience at Costco was similar - water, toilet paper, and paper towels were MIA, but cleansers were weirdly all available.
Still not sure what dystopian future people are prepping for, but a viral outbreak doesn’t seem like the one Costco shoppers are prepping for.
re: #47 calochortus
And now, from the important to the trivial: I survived a trip to Costco this morning. It was busy, but not horrible. People are still buying multiple packs of toilet paper, bottled water and paper towels. Also a lot of Clorox wipes. Leading to the question, are you planning to disinfect your entire house? How? Why?
Fortunately, I was allowed to check out without any of those items in my cart.
somebody pointed out on FB how Costco panic shoppers were still stopping to sample the food put out for everyone to touch…
re: #45 The Pie Overlord!
He is really, really scared of Joe Biden. (still not sorry I voted for Warren in next week’s Michigan primary)
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why is that scary?
‘Some of Joe [Biden]’s handlers are further left than Bernie. That’s pretty scary’ — Pres. Trump shares his thoughts on Joe Biden’s campaign pic.twitter.com/MDIk4s0STY
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 4, 2020
re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Aww he really wanted to do the Third Red Scare against Bernie and now he has to run against the VP of the black guy whose record he lied repeatedly about to get elected. It’s your funeral Donny.
again you get it in one
Well, off to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription (some of my usual hypertension/diabetes stuff). Though if it looks like long lines of sick people or I hear sneezing I am going abort and go dunk myself in a tank of hand sanitizer.
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The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Stephen Hahn, said each kit should allow a lab to run about 500 tests. That would work out to 1.25 million tests.
Context: The U.S. has an estimated population of 331 million people.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 4, 2020
re: #38 jaunte
Even if Sotomayor managed to gut and filet the respondents, the majority of the court is predisposed to gutting and fileting civil and voting rights for a majority of Americans, and rolling back abortion rights.
Roberts is presiding over a court that will be regarded in the same breath as Taney. It will be an awful legacy. He’s busy trying to roll back civil and voting rights, regulatory oversight and allow companies to pollute and rip off consumers without any consequences.
re: #45 The Pie Overlord!
He is really, really scared of Joe Biden. (still not sorry I voted for Warren in next week’s Michigan primary)
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re: #52 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
again you get it in one
Yeah I’m going to enjoy Biden and Biden’s surrogates responding quickly to Trump’s lies about the Obama-Biden presidency and Biden’s Senate record.
re: #57 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I’m going to enjoy Biden and Biden’s surrogates responding quickly to Trump’s lies about the Obama-Biden presidency and Biden’s Senate record.
And Trump now has a political record that can be quoted and referred to.
re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Aww he really wanted to do the Third Red Scare against Bernie and now he has to run against the VP of the black guy whose record he lied repeatedly about to get elected. It’s your funeral Donny.
And you know that Biden’s not the least bit scared to laugh in his face and tell him he’s full of crap.
And come to think of it, Biden probably knows a lot of things about Trump that most of us don’t - including what exactly went on in the last election.
In 2016, Sanders won Maine easily over Hillary Clinton. But back then it was a caucus - and this was a primary, with many more voters participating. pic.twitter.com/tR1FyoA2CE
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) March 4, 2020
re: #58 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And Trump now has a political record that can be quoted and referred to.
I’ve been saying that the paradox of Trump as an incumbent is Trump isn’t the empty slate candidate anymore. He has a record now too. And that record isn’t good. Biden’s been around the block a few times.
re: #59 makeitstop
And you know that Biden’s not the least bit scared to laugh in his face and tell him he’s full of crap.
And come to think of it, Biden probably knows a lot of things about Trump that most of us don’t - including what exactly went on in the last election.
Oh absolutely.
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’ve been saying that the paradox of Trump as an incumbent is Trump isn’t the empty slate candidate anymore. He has a record now too. And that record isn’t good. Biden’s been around the block a few times.
But Trump has talking heads to rationalize what he did and how it was Obama’s fault anyways.
re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
somebody pointed out on FB how Costco panic shoppers were still stopping to sample the food put out for everyone to touch…
You know, I’m not sure I saw any food samples out this morning. They could have been there, I suppose since I never pay any attention to them.
re: #60 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Losing Maine is very embarrassing for him. That’s his neighboring state and the EPs said 72% of them wanted M4A. I keep on telling people I know who ask me, if you want Bernie’s vision, focus your interests in the legislature because that’s where it will get done.
re: #53 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Well, off to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription (some of my usual hypertension/diabetes stuff). Though if it looks like long lines of sick people or I hear sneezing I am going abort and go dunk myself in a tank of hand sanitizer.
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You have enough hand sanitizer to fill a tank???!!?? You should sell it on Ebay or something.
Yeah man if we don’t get the government to regulate private companies then you know who wins? The SOCIALISTS https://t.co/5GsCP8c1WL
— SexyVixenHat (@Popehat) March 4, 2020
Democrats won’t say whether they ever got confirmation that Russians hacked Burisma, as a third-party security firm suggested in January.
But they’re expecting a deluge of Burisma attacks on Biden that were widely discredited by impeachment testimony.https://t.co/IPeEYzD8DW— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 4, 2020
re: #66 calochortus
You have enough hand sanitizer to fill a tank???!!?? You should sell it on Ebay or something.
Not after dunking in it! Ewwww….
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But Trump has talking heads to rationalize what he did and how it was Obama’s fault anyways.
I keep on telling you Wendell. Trump with a record is a different beast than Trump as an empty slate. I can’t help that you act like Trump 2016 and Trump 2020 are the same thing. They’re not. We saw turnout in my state’s primary alone go up 67%. People aren’t falling for this bullshit like you seem to think they will. IT’s not going to be easy but you’re acting like it’s going to be impossible. Stop acting like Trump is a political grand chessmaster. It’s insulting to those of us who have been in the trenches.
re: #68 Dread Pirate
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re: #66 calochortus
You have enough hand sanitizer to fill a tank???!!?? You should sell it on Ebay or something.
why should consumers behave differently than pharma and medical companies who are all looking for ways to maximize profits from this epidemic?
re: #70 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I keep on telling you Wendell. Trump with a record is a different beast than Trump as an empty slate. I can’t help that you act like Trump 2016 and Trump 2020 are the same thing.
I understand that, but our media have just grown so very fond of him, they would hate to lose him. and that scares me a lot
re: #36 jaunte
At one point, [Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth] Murrill got into an argument with Ginsburg, the most significant feminist lawyer in American history, about the facts of Craig v. Boren (1976) — a seminal women’s rights decision that was heavily influenced by a brief filed by Ginsburg.
Ouch.
I am surprised they didn’t use the footage of Bernie saying he was “deeply disappointed” in Obama and trying to find someone to primary him in 2012, that is if Sanders himself didn’t primary challenge Obama. https://t.co/URhz09tlyf
— Steve Schale 🥁 (@steveschale) March 4, 2020
Based on Bernie new ad, here’s a little Wednesday #TBT when Sanders talked about how demoralizing the Obama years were, and how he thought someone should challenge Obama in a primary. pic.twitter.com/XaP4fYJkgI
— Steve Schale 🥁 (@steveschale) March 4, 2020
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand that, but our media have just grown so very fond of him, they would hate to lose him. and that scares me a lot
I really feel you need to listen to actual people who have been involved in political campaigns since Trump became President instead of fearing a media narrative that quite simply doesn’t really exist. And if 2016 taught us anything, it’s that the conventional media narrative doesn’t tell the whole story.
re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
When Socialism comes to America, it will be carrying “The Audacity Of Hope” and wrapped in Obama.
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re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand that, but our media have just grown so very fond of him, they would hate to lose him. and that scares me a lot
“Our media” declared Biden dead only last week. So, there’s that.
re: #75 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I’d like someone to tell the Hispanics that back Bernie that Bernie was Steve King nad Lou Dobbs’ favorite member of the Democratic House Caucus in the Bush years. I’ll concede the Biden record on immigration isn’t the best of the Dems that ran but it’s better than nativist fake Tio Bernie.
re: #76 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really feel you need to listen to actual people who have been involved in political campaigns since Trump became President instead of fearing a media narrative that quite simply doesn’t really exist. And if 2016 taught us anything, it’s that the conventional media narrative doesn’t tell the whole story.
I saw some hope in 2018 and I do hope that people will be more motivated to get out and vote and make a difference. Indifference and apathy were both on Trump’s side in 2016.
Bernie: “The American people have got to understand…”
(It’s not me, it’s your lack of understanding)
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I saw some hope in 2018 and I do hope that people will be more motivated to get out and vote and make a difference. Indifference and apathy were both on Trump’s side in 2016.
Can you at least acknowledge the turnout that we’ve seen in these primaries? Because I don’t think you have honestly. You talk a lot about what the media will say but you’re not looking on what the people who actually matter are doing. And frankly it comes off dismissive. I’m not trying to beat up on you but I’m just telling you about what I’ve seen on the ground.
re: #79 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’d like someone to tell the Hispanics that back Bernie that Bernie was Steve King nad Lou Dobbs’ favorite member of the Democratic House Caucus in the Bush years. I’ll concede the Biden record on immigration isn’t the best of the Dems that ran but it’s better than nativist fake Tio Bernie.
Or, Biden could spend more time talking about the issues that they care about. After the last 3 years, I’ve concluded it’s pointless and insulting to people to presume they’d agree with me if only they knew what I know.
Except Bernie Or Busters, because fuck those guys.
re: #83 Blind Frog Belly White
Or, Biden could spend more time talking about the issues that they care about. After the last 3 years, I’ve concluded it’s pointless and insulting to people to presume they’d agree with me if only they knew what I know.
Except Bernie Or Busters, because fuck those guys.
Yeah true, I just think Joe does need to improve with Hispanics.
BREAKING: California reports first coronavirus death in Placer County https://t.co/KHWNgnoLTb
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 4, 2020
re: #85 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Awful. But Trump’s going to go on offering his play by play commentary on the Democratic Primary rather than actually focusing because he wants Sanders so bad.
re: #86 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Tested! Proven!
Like the water in a public swimming pool!
re: #78 Blind Frog Belly White
“Our media” declared Biden dead only last week. So, there’s that.
Exactly. If they smell Trump’s blood in the water (and I believe that is inevitable), all bets are off.
And Joe isn’t some babe in the woods. He’s won a few elections in his day, and he’s not afraid of Trump.
re: #71 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Let em. We’ll point out how Johnson is a big fat hypocrite who was fine with the prosecutor being fired. And no one wants a sham investigation while there’s a potential pandemic.
Also point out that the prosecutor was an obvious crook who abused his authority and is exactly the sort of crook that Republicans want to saddle us with. Go on the offensive with this.
re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand that, but our media have just grown so very fond of him, they would hate to lose him. and that scares me a lot
You’re right
And the media does have a certain kind of power
What they don’t have is enough votes
re: #91 garzooma
Also point out that the prosecutor was an obvious crook who abused his authority and is exactly the sort of crook that Republicans want to saddle us with. Go on the offensive with this.
Yep.
re: #14 Belafon
Warren has a health care plan.
I’m bummed that her campaign just up and died so soon. Biden it is, then.
The candidate who the president got himself impeached over came back from fourth-or-lower finishes in Iowa and NH to win a string of states in three days. Coronavirus case numbers grow. And the markets only rebounded on Biden news. https://t.co/kXKfiOSQ4g
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 4, 2020
Bidenfreude.
re: #78 Blind Frog Belly White
“Our media” declared Biden dead only last week. So, there’s that.
A week is a lifetime in politics
A day is a week
re: #85 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Apparently cruise-related, but this was a San Francisco to Mexico cruise on a Princess ship. I’m guessing this will be very bad for cruising.
re: #66 calochortus
You have enough hand sanitizer to fill a tank???!!?? You should sell it on Ebay or something.
I did manage to find hand sanitizer on line at Walgreen’s on Monday evening, but I had to order a 12 pack of 16 oz. bottles. It hasn’t shipped yet and I’m concerned that they’re going to cancel the order because the single bottles are so in demand.
re: #90 makeitstop
Exactly. If they smell Trump’s blood in the water (and I believe that is inevitable), all bets are off.
And Joe isn’t some babe in the woods. He’s won a few elections in his day, and he’s not afraid of Trump.
I pointed out after Trump won that there’s just as much money to be made on tearing down a President as building one up.
re: #83 Blind Frog Belly White
Or, Biden could spend more time talking about the issues that they care about. After the last 3 years, I’ve concluded it’s pointless and insulting to people to presume they’d agree with me if only they knew what I know.
Except Bernie Or Busters, because fuck those guys.
It is dangerous for the rest of us when any ‘powerful’ person thinks he has the ultimate ideology
re: #41 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Well now you know why Ben Shapiro is Ben Shapiro and doesn’t actively practice law. I imagine Ben would get slapped down by judges if he tried the stuff he does in his “debates” in a court room.
Which is exactly why Rush Limbaugh did not follow his family into Law practice and instead took quick advantage of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. Why not pontificate with no limits on your stupidity to a white-grievance audience rather then being immediately slapped down by a judge in a court of law?
re: #98 stpaulbear
I did manage to find hand sanitizer on line at Walgreen’s on Monday evening, but I had to order a 12 pack of 16 oz. bottles. It hasn’t shipped yet and I’m concerned that they’re going to cancel the order because the single bottles are so in demand.
I was going to pick up some hand sanitizer about a week ago (because my granddaughter is in day care now and generously shares everything she picks up there) but I didn’t because I was sick (with virus shared by generous granddaughter) and of course, now there is no hope. I’ll just stick to hand washing I guess.
(And no, I don’t have coronavirus-or at least not that coronavirus. If covid-19 had been rampant in day care two weeks ago, I feel sure we’d have heard about it by now.)
re: #101 Florida Panhandler
Which is exactly why Rush Limbaugh did not follow his family into Law practice and instead took quick advantage of the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. Why not pontificate with no limits on your stupidity to a white-grievance audience rather then being immediately slapped down by a judge in a court of law?
Yeah I keep on forgetting Rushbo comes from a family of lawyers. He loves to sell himself as a regular guy but he’s not nor has he ever been.
re: #87 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Awful. But Trump’s going to go on offering his play by play commentary on the Democratic Primary rather than actually focusing because he wants Sanders so bad.
Trump focus?
Greta Thunberg brands EU’s new climate law ‘surrender’ (BBC)
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has rebuked the EU’s plan for tackling climate change, telling MEPs it amounts to “surrender”.
Ms Thunberg spoke in Brussels on Wednesday as the EU unveiled a proposed law for reducing carbon emissions.
If passed, the law would make it a legal requirement for the EU to be carbon neutral by 2050.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the law as the “heart of the European Green Deal”.
But 17-year-old Ms Thunberg dismissed the law as “empty words”, accusing the EU of “pretending” to be a leader on climate change.
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re: #90 makeitstop
Exactly. If they smell Trump’s blood in the water (and I believe that is inevitable), all bets are off.
And Joe isn’t some babe in the woods. He’s won a few elections in his day, and he’s not afraid of Trump.
Trump is going to pull out all stops on Biden including having his crony judges throw all kinds of subpoenas and depositions at he and Hunter leading up to the election. Buckle up, it’s going to get completely Banana Republic before it’s all over.
re: #108 Florida Panhandler
Trump is going to pull out all stops on Biden including having his crony judges throw all kinds of subpoenas and depositions at he and Hunter leading up to the election. Buckle up, it’s going to get completely Banana Republic before it’s all over.
Yep hold on tight.
I bet Joe could dismantle Trump in a debate.
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet Joe could dismantle Trump in a debate.
I bet there won’t be any debates, regardless of who wins the Democratic Primary.
re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg
I bet Joe could dismantle Trump in a debate.
Oh he definitely could. I have no doubt of that.
re: #105 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
Kid tested!
“PUBLIC OOL
“You may notice there’s not P in our pool. Keep it that way”
Which made me think:
“PUBLIC L…”
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re: #82 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can you at least acknowledge the turnout that we’ve seen in these primaries? Because I don’t think you have honestly. You talk a lot about what the media will say but you’re not looking on what the people who actually matter are doing. And frankly it comes off dismissive. I’m not trying to beat up on you but I’m just telling you about what I’ve seen on the ground.
I am hesitant to be optimistic.
If he is just hearing about that now, how did his campaign send him out to speak to the media without briefing him on that significant development in the race?
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) March 4, 2020
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I pointed out after Trump won that there’s just as much money to be made on tearing down a President as building one up.
And if anyone is going to cause unforced errors on Team Trump, it’s Biden.
See his ‘Oh, the Stable Genius said that?’ quote from last week. He knows that mockery is potent medicine against a narcissist.
Add in Bloomberg’s team - who has no compunctions about going straight for the throat - and Trump will be the butt of jokes from all directions. Mockery will end him.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I bet there won’t be any debates, regardless of who wins the Democratic Primary.
Then here’s what you do. You call Trump a coward and Joe goes around the country doing town hall discussions one on one with voters where he shines. Biden to me is at his best one on one with people. I’ll be the first to concede he’s not the best natural debater in the Democratic Party but he’s got good retail political skills.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I bet there won’t be any debates, regardless of who wins the Democratic Primary.
I dunno, Trumps ego might not be able to handle that.
Sanders Supporter Urges Importance Of Listening To Minority Voices Just Not Specifically The Ones Who Handed Victory To Biden https://t.co/4gLnnkBrKD pic.twitter.com/r9hykU7HYu
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 4, 2020
re: #92 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
You’re right
And the media does have a certain kind of power
What they don’t have is enough votes
Hillary had enough votes but she had the media against her
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The image they chose for that is spot on.
re: #103 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yeah I keep on forgetting Rushbo comes from a family of lawyers. He loves to sell himself as a regular guy but he’s not nor has he ever been.
And his old man owned the radio station in Cape Girardeau where he got his start in radio.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
I dunno, Trumps ego might not be able to handle that.
Depends on how it plays out… If Trump says he won’t do any debates and the networks/commission go along with that and they cancel them, it’s probably a net win for Trump - he doesn’t look like an idiot to the electorate and he gets to brag about how tough he is to his base. But if Trump says he won’t do any debates and the networks/commission say “we’re still holding the event” and Biden says he’s showing up and gets two hours with the moderators… well then Trump looks a fool and there’s no way Trump’s ego will let that happen.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am hesitant to be optimistic.
I’m going with cautious optimism
Gets me through the days
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am hesitant to be optimistic.
There’s optimism and realism.
re: #124 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
I’m going with cautious optimism
Gets me through the days
Indeed. I get being cautious but damn it, we should have some optimism. It’s not over but I woke up today feeling good.
re: #108 Florida Panhandler
Trump is going to pull out all stops on Biden including having his crony judges throw all kinds of subpoenas and depositions at he and Hunter leading up to the election. Buckle up, it’s going to get completely Banana Republic before it’s all over.
Hopefully one of the things that Bloomberg can offer to Biden is lawyers. I don’t think Joe will be suffering for a lack of a smart legal team.
The weather radio just popped off with a “test rum watch.” I’m back now.
re: #125 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
There’s optimism and realism.
Can’t I be realistically optimistic?
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re: #117 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Then here’s what you do. You call Trump a coward and Joe goes around the country doing town hall discussions one on one with voters where he shines. Biden to me is at his best one on one with people. I’ll be the first to concede he’s not the best natural debater in the Democratic Party but he’s got good retail political skills.
With two chairs on all the stages
re: #127 stpaulbear
Hopefully one of the things that Bloomberg can offer to Biden is lawyers. I don’t think Joe will be suffering for a lack of a smart legal team.
Bloomberg has a good comms team too.
re: #115 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I could read that as sarcasm, not ignorance.
re: #123 KGxvi
Depends on how it plays out… If Trump says he won’t do any debates and the networks/commission go along with that and they cancel them, it’s probably a net win for Trump - he doesn’t look like an idiot to the electorate and he gets to brag about how tough he is to his base. But if Trump says he won’t do any debates and the networks/commission say “we’re still holding the event” and Biden says he’s showing up and gets two hours with the moderators… well then Trump looks a fool and there’s no way Trump’s ego will let that happen.
The debates are always a big deal so I bet on the latter.
re: #130 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
With two chairs on all the stages
As long as it doesn’t turn into the Eastwood 2012 RNC bit
re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The debates are always a big deal so I bet on the latter.
Refusing to debate will make him look like a coward. And we know his fragile ego hates that. He’ll do a debate, because deep down he knows that he has to, but he wont be any better than he was the last time. His prior debate performances were awful, not that it matters to his base. They voted for him even if he was dumber than a bag of hammers and stalked around like he was going to move on a bitch and grab ‘em by the pussy, or rape a flag without its consent. It’s his thing.
re: #126 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Indeed. I get being cautious but damn it, we should have some optimism. It’s not over but I woke up today feeling good.
Clarity will do that
re: #85 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Fake Newz this is a phony hoax “virus” to deplatform are MAGA potus and oh by the way did you know that OUR PRESIDENT donated his entire salary to fighting the Cornovirus! Checkmate libtards!
re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
The debates are always a big deal so I bet on the latter.
another election of firsts
- debates - biden alone on stage
- meanwhile the incumbent president investigates and actually sues the challenger and his family
re: #134 KGxvi
As long as it doesn’t turn into the Eastwood 2012 RNC bit
He talks to the moderator
There’s a stuffed animal chicken sitting on the other chair
Better yet a bucket of fried chicken
re: #97 calochortus
Apparently cruise-related, but this was a San Francisco to Mexico cruise on a Princess ship. I’m guessing this will be very bad for cruising.
My husband has, for years, referred to cruises as The Petri Dish of the Seas.
re: #23 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It wasn’t even all of Public Enemy. But hey he got to meet Chuck D, means he gets to act like he’s cool, hip Grandpa Bernie even though if you ever played their music around him, he wouldn’t know it.
that pimpwalk with the boombox he did earlier…YOWSER
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am hesitant to be optimistic.
The 2018 midterm was a historic turnout election, when midterms are notorious for low voter turnout.
The 2019 election in Kentucky turned out their GOP governor, and in Virginia flipped control of the legislature to the Democrats, flipping both chambers. (Off-year elections are even worse than midterms for turnout.)
Of the sixteen independents/third party legislative members across the country, in 2019 all but three were wiped out of office (almost all replaced by Republicans, holding on to the adage that an independent is a temporarily embarrassed Republican).
In New Jersey in 2019, the GOP was nearly wiped out of the state legislature.
In Mississippi, the Dems gained a couple seats in the state House, breaking the 2/3 majority of GOP there.
In special state legislative elections in 2019 (even lower turn out than off-year elections), Democrats flipped five seats, Republicans flipped two seats, and independents flipped one seat (from a Republican).
Last night’s voter turn out and determination in places like Texas and North Carolina to wrest the right to vote from Republican suppression leaves me very hopeful.
re: #138 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
another election of firsts
- debates - biden alone on stage
- meanwhile the incumbent president investigates and actually sues the challenger and his family
Moderators.
Biden on stage answering their questions.
A video screen with live updates of Trump tweets.
re: #91 garzooma
Also point out that the prosecutor was an obvious crook who abused his authority and is exactly the sort of crook that Republicans want to saddle us with. Go on the offensive with this.
“Want to”? Isn’t that already what the AG of the US, who Trump basically feels is only the Chief Prosecutor and may be in favour of renaming to it, is already?
re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My husband has, for years, referred to cruises as The Petri Dish of the Seas.
I’m some of a minor germaphobe. My wife booked a cruise for us this fall. We’ll see what happens.
For the record I’ve had Norovirus before and I do NOT want it again.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m some of a minor germaphobe. My wife booked a cruise for us this fall. We’ll see what happens.
For the record I’ve had Norovirus before and I do NOT want it again.
I just do not see any sort of fixed itinerary as fun, even if it is a cruise ship itinerary.
re: #108 Florida Panhandler
Trump is going to pull out all stops on Biden including having his crony judges throw all kinds of subpoenas and depositions at he and Hunter leading up to the election. Buckle up, it’s going to get completely Banana Republic before it’s all over.
If Sanders wins, it will be “communist” the whole time, with investigations into the Vermont college and where his PAC money is coming from.
If Warren wins, it will be investigations into how she used her debunked Native American heritage to get jobs she shouldn’t have.
I’ll be interested to see if the California primary predicted results hold as more votes are counted. We had a lot of mail-ins which don’t have to actually arrive before Friday. A lot more people than usual mailed in their ballots right at the end, and I’m guessing a high percentage were doing what we did-waiting to see who was the most viable non-Bernie candidate. If that is the case, late ballots should skew heavily Biden.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Send that to a few Berners.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am hesitant to be optimistic.
You don’t get a lot of stories about canvasing and GOTV operations where you are, do you?
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
that pimpwalk with the boombox he did earlier…YOWSER
Seriously. He’s everything younger voters I thought hated about politicians. I am for legalization but I actually find Biden’s caution on it somewhat refreshing because I think he will let legalization do its own thing.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
I dunno, Trumps ego might not be able to handle that.
And if Joe goads trump just right, trump will have to do a debate. His ego will make him.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I just do not see any sort of fixed itinerary as fun, even if it is a cruise ship itinerary.
I told her I am not locking myself into anything. She is welcome to enjoy experiences without me but I plan on venturing out when I feel like it and not as some schedule dictates.
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And if Joe goads trump just right, trump will have to do a debate. His ego will make him.
Tie a $100 bill to a string and have him chase it to the stage. /s
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And if Joe goads trump just right, trump will have to do a debate. His ego will make him.
Yep, all it will take is him uttering the word “Coward” in reference to Trump.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m some of a minor germaphobe. My wife booked a cruise for us this fall. We’ll see what happens.
For the record I’ve had Norovirus before and I do NOT want it again.
I had a norovirus the beginning of the year. I’m still not 100%. I spent seven hours in the ER.
For weeks I only ate white rice and chicken, neither of which I really like. Even now I want rice and little else.
I couldn’t drink coffee (my life blood) for six weeks. And I’ve just last week started drinking my fav, diet Pepsi again.
It’s like everything inside of me has been altered.
Here’s my new Super Tuesday column, which the Twitterverse will sharply disagree with: “Why Biden Is the Change Candidate” https://t.co/AORYzjsuFY pic.twitter.com/4QpD4tF5tr
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 4, 2020
Any Democratic president will be an agent of change only if the Democrats hold the House and take the Senate. And my argument is that this is more likely with Biden at the top of the ticket than with Sanders there: https://t.co/qFyKfk7tjB https://t.co/O3nmhnhx21
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) March 4, 2020
re: #143 stpaulbear
Moderators.
Biden on stage answering their questions.
A video screen with live updates of Trump tweets.
yes a real debate / interview
i assumed moderators. just didnt say it
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I’ve been saying a variation of this for awhile. Biden means the most Dems possible in Congress and that means the most progressive agenda.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m some of a minor germaphobe. My wife booked a cruise for us this fall. We’ll see what happens.
For the record I’ve had Norovirus before and I do NOT want it again.
The only cruises I’ve ever been on were Haze Grey Cruise Lines. /s
Of all my deployments, I only got sick on two (TB on one of them, thanks Tunisia).
The other was the ship buying tortellini in Naples and serving it every day from then on until we returned home. We made an emergency stop in Bermuda to off-load a bunch of crew because of food poisoning.
Every shop supervisor in my division (IM-3) but me got to spend time in a Bermuda hospital; I was very sick but still able to perform my duties.
It turns out when you put tortellini stuffed with meat and cheese out on a salad bar every day for three weeks, then put it back in a refrigerator, it goes bad.
re: #151 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Seriously. He’s everything younger voters I thought hated about politicians. I am for legalization but I actually find Biden’s caution on it somewhat refreshing because I think he will let legalization do its own thing.
its one of those issues that isnt really vital (as opposed to health care coverage and costs)
so if he doesnt force it, it’ll be harder for anyone to undo it later
Trump blames Obama for coronavirus because he’s nuts and any reporter who covers this President as if this is normal is failing you.
(My public service announcement for the day.) https://t.co/hRrVzDb2wi— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) March 4, 2020
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And if Joe goads trump just right, trump will have to do a debate. His ego will make him.
frankly, if joe goads trump just right and trump agrees to go, he’s already toast
and it’s further proof of he’ easily manipulated
re: #155 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, all it will take is him uttering the word “Coward” in reference to Trump.
“weak”
“sad”
oldies but goodies
re: #165 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
“weak”
“sad”oldies but goodies
‘Punk’ and ‘wuss’ would also work.
“I think it’s unequivocal that there is widespread community transmission in Seattle and they have to take decisive action now.” https://t.co/48mQkHwIat
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) March 3, 2020
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
He’s desperate. He’s looking for any scapegoat if he’s going for President Obama on this one.
The absolute disaster of a response to a real crisis combined with a crashing stock market might undo this choad.
I don’t want anyone else to get sick or lose any money on his horrid financial decisions, but someone needs to stick these to him where he can’t get away from them.
When my wife was at the doc, and her doc noted she’d love to put the whole country in quarantine for three weeks to end this outbreak, I was right in to note if we didn’t have conservatives and Trump making policy we probably wouldn’t be in this mess now and wouldn’t it be nice if the Democrats were in charge of this?
(I try never to miss telling people about the failings of conservatism.)
re: #162 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
its one of those issues that isnt really vital (as opposed to health care coverage and costs)
so if he doesnt force it, it’ll be harder for anyone to undo it later
It’s almost akin how Obama handled DADT except I think that had more urgency to it due with it being a civil rights issue. Someone will introduce a bill and the country will get talking. Biden’s an open minded guy and I think will consider public opinion and congressional. I trust him on this to make sure legalization is permanent.
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I had a norovirus the beginning of the year. I’m still not 100%. I spent seven hours in the ER.
For weeks I only ate white rice and chicken, neither of which I really like. Even now I want rice and little else.
I couldn’t drink coffee (my life blood) for six weeks. And I’ve just last week started drinking my fav, diet Pepsi again.
It’s like everything inside of me has been altered.
i posted this in June 2019
An Ode to the Colon
not from a norovirus. just misery.
Oy. Vey.
California health official tells citizens to “start working on not touching your face,” as she proceeds to lick her finger pic.twitter.com/JQeTseDBD6
— GrantB911 (@GrantB911) March 4, 2020
Access.
why aren’t reporters walking out of briefings like the one yesterday w/ pence in which no video or audio was allowed?
— Phyllis LaRiccia (@phyllislariccia) March 4, 2020
Trump has tweeted 12 times today, mostly attacking the Dem primary nominees and the Mayor of LA.
Number of tweets about Coronavirus? 0
re: #167 Dread Pirate
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According to a quick and cursory Google search:
The current population of Seattle in 2020 is 3,433,000, a 0.79% increase from 2019.
gonna need mohr test kits…a LOT mohr…
re: #171 makeitstop
Oy. Vey.
California health official tells citizens to “start working on not touching your face,” as she proceeds to lick her finger
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
According to a quick and cursory Google search:
gonna need mohr test kits…a LOT mohr…
For comparison, the current population of Wuhan is about 11 Million.
re: #20 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Uh… I presume that these will be sold as some way to save memory space or something like that. But my initial spit take is that these are simply more ease for manipulation and allowing for tweets with no thought behind them.
So Twitter becomes more of a cesspool since the toilet paper is now biodegradable.
IMO it’s obvious that one of the main points behind this change by Twitter is to facilitate the kind of fact-free and history-free bullshitting that is all the US right ever does these days.
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Licking her finger is not touching her face. /s
right
she’s saving time and introducing it directly into the airway
I see Pence and his coronavirus taskforce are going to visit the state of Washington tomorrow. I would think that this would be better handled with video conferencing, but what do I know?
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Access.
The presence of Fox and Trump’s granding privileges to wingnuts has made it hard for other stations to be willing to leavel.
WOW,
THIS is how ya do an endorsement:
My endorsement of @JoeBiden on @CNN this morning: pic.twitter.com/YNRZ3XeZiD
— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) March 4, 2020
re: #171 makeitstop
Oy. Vey.
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Do you have any idea how hard that is? I’m trying but holy shit… This is an entire reprogramming kinda thing.
re: #169 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s almost akin how Obama handled DADT except I think that had more urgency to it due with it being a civil rights issue. Someone will introduce a bill and the country will get talking. Biden’s an open minded guy and I think will consider public opinion and congressional. I trust him on this to make sure legalization is permanent.
While Biden voted for DADT and used his religious faith to justify that and oppose same-sex marriage, when Windsor case came up, VP Biden floated the idea that the time had come. He publicly reversed his positions in 2012 on television.
In Log Cabin Republicans v United States DADT was declared unconstitutional, and President Obama pushed for a repeal of the law in 2012.
You can thank the Supreme Court for this: https://t.co/5Kf343ALf8
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) March 4, 2020
These two rail travellers aren’t messing with coronavirus and people had questions, lots of questionshttps://t.co/JevXKKPkKv pic.twitter.com/WUAEwnBWyp
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 4, 2020
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Do you have any idea how hard that is? I’m trying but holy shit… This is an entire reprogramming kinda thing.
Oh, I know. I can’t stop myself.
re: #182 calochortus
I see Pence and his coronavirus taskforce are going to visit the state of Washington tomorrow. I would think that this would be better handled with video conferencing, but what do I know?
Significantly more than either trump or pence ever will?
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Do you have any idea how hard that is? I’m trying but holy shit… This is an entire reprogramming kinda thing.
Wait until the GOP weaponizes this into a NoFap campaign.
Schumer declines to comment on leaders’ briefing on the Capitol preparedness on the Coronavirus: “It’s classified”
He wouldn’t explain why it was classified— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 4, 2020
Health and safety is now classified.
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m going to take off election day. I will probably volunteer to go someplace where they have long lines. I might acquire snacks to give to people in line.
A question I have is what if you have to go to the restroom while waiting? Are you done if you ever get out of lin?
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is practice for the General Election.
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Significantly more than either trump or pence ever will?
Yeah, but it’s a pretty low bar.
re: #192 Dread Pirate
Health and safety is now classified.
In this case I’m not surprised, because the deployment of troops in the case of a mass outbreak and incapaciation are probably part of the plans.
re: #192 Dread Pirate
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Health and safety is now classified.
It has to be really, really bad.
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🎃
While Biden voted for DADT and used his religious faith to justify that and oppose same-sex marriage, when Windsor case came up, VP Biden floated the idea that the time had come. He publicly reversed his positions in 2012 on television.
In Log Cabin Republicans v United States DADT was declared unconstitutional, and President Obama pushed for a repeal of the law in 2012.
Exactly. It’s just smart. If we honestly had a more liberal judiciary and not two of our last three executives guided by the Unitary Executive theory nonsense, I’d be more in favor of being more aggressive in this front. And there are certain powers the President does not have that he could not do even if he wanted.
So much winning. Looks like God has let these grifters know what He really thinks of them.
Super Tuesday Not So Super For These Religious-Right Candidates
The most successful of the candidates RWW highlighted this week was Young Kim, who is making her second run in California’s 39th Congressional District. The GOP desperately wants to take back this Orange County seat.
In 2018, Kim appeared to be leading on election night, but lost in a squeaker after all the early and absentee ballots were counted. As of this morning, with 98 percent of precincts reporting, the California Secretary of State shows Kim leading Rep. Gil Cisneros by about 6,800 votes, setting up a November rematch between Kim and Cisneros. Kim has been backed by Lane and Pastor Jack Hibbs, whose Calvary Chapel Chino Hills megachurch ran its own ballot harvesting operation this year. A few weeks ago, Hibbs announced on Facebook, “I just voted for Young Kim.”
Candidates who fell short in California primaries included Sean Feucht in the 3rd Congressional District, Deanna Lorraine in the 12th Congressional District, and Amy Phan West in the 47th Congressional District. West and Lorraine were both endorsed by Hibbs at a Feb. 19 event with Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk at Hibbs’ church. Feucht had prayed with Trump at the White House in December and was endorsed by Lane and Kirk as well as dominionists Cindy Jacobs and Ché Ahn.
In Texas, young oil-and-gas businessman Jeff McFarlin was part of a crowded Republican primary field in the 23rd Congressional District. McFarlin was seeking the nomination to replace Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who decided not to run for reelection. McFarlin’s candidacy was promoted by Lance Wallnau, a Trump-boosting “prophetic” author and proponent of Seven Mountains dominionism. But unofficial results posted by the Texas Secretary of State office this morning show McFarlin in fifth place, with about 10 percent of the vote.
Besides his endorsement from Loathesome Charlie Kirk, Feucht was the candidate of the Bethel freak show in Redding.
good thread about how to be yourself and proud of it
Going out out. I’ve had this coat for five years but never worn it until today. Two reasons; pull up a chair and get comfy… pic.twitter.com/hpC2c0PJyF
— 🌈👩🍳📚Jack Monroe (@BootstrapCook) March 3, 2020
re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth
WOW,
THIS is how ya do an endorsement:
And right away in that clip one of the hosts says “Can I tweet it? It’s not news if you don’t tweet it.”
Gaa.
The overwhelming majority of the USA is not on Twitter.
Protect yourself and your community from coronavirus with common sense precautions: wash your hands, stay home when sick and listen to the @CDCgov and local health authorities. Save the masks for health care workers. Let’s stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 4, 2020
Dude, be chill. Jeeze. pic.twitter.com/nXPsgtsSub
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 4, 2020
re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth
God, I miss having a real US president so damn much.
re: #196 Belafon
In this case I’m not surprised, because the deployment of troops in the case of a mass outbreak and incapaciation are probably part of the plans.
Spanish Flu redux.
Besides, they don’t have to publish troop numbers ill when putting out information about the outbreak.
This isn’t about national security; this is about Trump and his maladministration trying to hide the absolute crapfest they’ve made out of this.
re: #204 EPR-radar
God, I miss having a real US president so damn much.
“Warren Harding, a lonely nation cries out to you.” /s
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Spanish Flu redux.
Besides, they don’t have to publish troop numbers ill when putting out information about the outbreak.
This isn’t about national security; this is about Trump and his maladministration trying to hide the absolute crapfest they’ve made out of this.
Reality, including this coronavirus outbreak, is not kind to wingnut dogma.
Bloomberg’s media guy.
Tell me this guy isn’t going to love his job for the next 10 months or so.
In response to a Trump tweet, Tim O’Brien suggests that he might send the President a box of pampers pic.twitter.com/ZUVwlNPaDw
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 4, 2020
re: #148 calochortus
I want to congratulate Calochortus for reaching 43,499 karma points. Someone needs to add an upfist to make it an even 44,000.
re: #208 makeitstop
Bloomberg’s media guy.
Tell me this guy isn’t going to love his job for the next 10 months or so.
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re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I want to congratulate Calorchortus for reaching 43,499 karma points. Someone needs to add an upfist to make it an even 44,000.
MEMEMEMEME. 😂
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I want to congratulate Calorchortus for reaching 43,499 karma points. Someone needs to add an upfist to make it an even 44,000.
43499 + 1 = 43500
On the other hand, a woman who was released from quarantine, but tested faintly positive walked around a mall in San Antonio last week potentially exposing others and was subsequently swept up and put back into quarantine. So, maybe this tweet is false.
— Mitch (@mitch_billeaud) March 4, 2020
Alrighty then.
“Coronavirus is still not in their translation dictionary so it translates to cocaine (…) so we laughed,” she said about interacting with hospital workers in Japan. https://t.co/ZlWvLkY6XQ
re: #212 Belafon
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I want to congratulate Calorchortus for reaching 43,499 karma points. Someone needs to add an upfist to make it an even 44,000.
43499 + 1 = 43500
Nobody said there would be math……
re: #213 Dread Pirate
Can somebody tell me WTF is going on with the CDC? They’re failing and flailing.
That terrifies me more than the fucking coronavirus.
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Can somebody tell me WTF is going on with the CDC? They’re failing and flailing.
That terrifies me more than the fucking coronavirus.
Trump happened.
A speech-language pathologist taught her dog how to talk and it’s the most wholesome thing on the internet, change my mind (jk you can’t)
📹: hunger4words on instagram pic.twitter.com/ivE76QV1Yf— HITRECORD (@HITRECORD) March 4, 2020
Thread.
NEW: Everything you need to know about the ACA going to the Supreme Court with @nicholas_bagley and me.
We will ask questions back & fourth and try to answer some of yours in the thread.— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 4, 2020
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Can somebody tell me WTF is going on with the CDC? They’re failing and flailing.
That terrifies me more than the fucking coronavirus.
They are being run by conservative politicians rather than scientists.
The man in Nebraska currently in quarantine is from California and owns a Santa Clarita radio station. He says he can work remotely from quarantine in the hospital, and is giving updates about his condition.
His wife was released from quarantine but is still in Omaha waiting for her husband before she returns. She was greeted by Gov. Pete Ricketts when she was released from UNMC.
re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth
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dont give the pricks the satisfaction
yes i know it’s uncomfortable
inconvenient
and you may lose time and money from work (no do not make your job vulnerable)
we get out
we wait
we wait them out
we cast our votes
dont let them turn you away
dont give the pricks the satisfaction
“Come with me if you want to live” is a compelling argument
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 4, 2020
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Can somebody tell me WTF is going on with the CDC? They’re failing and flailing.
That terrifies me more than the fucking coronavirus.
Freepers are reassuring themselves that more people are dying of the flu, so covid-19 is not a problem. Besides it’s only killing old people who aren’t in the peak of health like they are.
re: #204 EPR-radar
God, I miss having a real US president so damn much.
the juxtaposition of obama and trump (esp with obama first) will cement trump in the basement for all posterity
Feds tell Nebraska educators how coronavirus could disrupt schools (Goes to the Omaha World-Herald, eight hours ago):
If confirmed cases of coronavirus disease turn up in Nebraska cities and towns, schools may have to cancel large events or dismiss classes for 14 days or longer, according to new federal guidelines.
Schools then might consider canceling or postponing after-school assemblies and pep rallies, field trips and sporting events, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
School officials should plan for how they would teach kids during a closure, the CDC said, such as providing lessons online. They also should think about how to deal with children who don’t have the Internet or computers at home.
A local (in Omaha) infectious disease expert told officials that large gatherings might need to be cancelled and schools in the state closed if the outbreak spreads into the state here.
It is easier to negotiate a peace deal when you only talk to one side.
Israel/Palestine
Taliban/Afghan govt— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 4, 2020
re: #218 SteelPH
Trump happened.
Basically. He fired all the people who WOULD be handling a situation like this, so the ones that are left are trying to figure it out as they go along, which is pretty bad.
Matt Gaetz, our most normal member of Congress, is wearing a full-on gas mask on the House floor right now, being super normal
— Addy Baird (@addysbaird) March 4, 2020
Reviewing the coronavirus supplemental appropriation and preparing to go vote. pic.twitter.com/wjJ4YY4VZz
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 4, 2020
re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg
Basically. He fired all the people who WOULD be handling a situation like this, so the ones that are left are trying to figure it out as they go along, which is pretty bad.
Senior career people in the federal agencies are accustomed to getting their jobs done with minimal helpful input (if any) from the political appointees.
What’s new with Trump is ongoing damage from the political appointees, combined with an Orwellian propaganda operation run directly out of the Blight House.
re: #224 goddamnedfrank
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They’re working together to elect @JoeBiden as members of #StudentsForBiden. Ready to join them? Sign up now ➡️ https://t.co/228KubAoKb pic.twitter.com/4wsjzneh8x— Team Joe (Text JOE to 30330) (@TeamJoe) March 4, 2020
re: #230 goddamnedfrank
Gaetz is safe. It’s medically impossible for a virus to be infected with a different virus.
could be good news (NYT)
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) “is poised to reverse himself and run for the Senate, a decision that would hand the party a coveted recruit who could help reclaim a majority in the chamber”
You won’t believe the shoes Matt Gaetz is wearing today. #FloridaMan pic.twitter.com/VmFN7t0fjq
— Jim Himes (@jahimes) March 4, 2020
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I want to congratulate Calochortus for reaching 43,499 karma points. Someone needs to add an upfist to make it an even 44,000.
I just broke 10k. Snork.
re: #233 EPR-radar
Gaetz is safe. It’s medically impossible for a virus to be infected with a different virus.
but there could be a merger…
re: #235 goddamnedfrank
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spats…he needs spats if he wants to be taken seriously in those shoes…
But wait. I thought president moron said it was a hoax, a “Democrat” plot.
You mean it’s real? And Republicans have dismantled the scientists and doctors in government who are trained to deal with this so now Pence is heading it up?
I’d wear a gas mask, too.
Go figure.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020
Local media trying to calm fears here.
Coronavirus Needs Caution, Not Fear (Goes to the Sidney, Nebr. Sun-Telegraph, more at the link):
He [Sidney Regional Medical Center Infection Control and Quality Manager Bob Kentner, RN] said much of the treatments and preventions are similar to what most people are taught as children: wash your hands, cover your mouth when coughing and stay home when sick.
He said the big concern is for children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. The CDC says “it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.” The website further says people are believed to be most contagious when they are the most symptomatic (sickest). It is, however, possible to spread the virus before symptoms are identified.
re: #240 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Your tweet is gone from Twitter.
Fun Fact: Bloomberg’s media guy Tim O’Brien will be able to wind Trump’s watch at will.
Why, you ask?
Because Trump tried to sue him for libel - and lost.
Perfect.
re: #235 goddamnedfrank
Matt Gaetz, proving he has no faith in the Trump/Pence Coronavirus response either…
— ElizaDoMuch (@MuchEliza) March 4, 2020
re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Your tweet is gone from Twitter.
No it’s not.
But wait. I thought president moron said it was a hoax, a “Democrat” plot.
You mean it’s real? And Republicans have dismantled the scientists and doctors in government who are trained to deal with this so now Pence is heading it up?
I’d wear a gas mask, too.
Go figure.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020
Cosplay when untold numbers of Americans are infected and dying. https://t.co/SbbzMNBSUE
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) March 4, 2020
re: #230 goddamnedfrank
Matt Gaetz, our most normal member of Congress, is wearing a full-on gas mask on the House floor right now, being super normal
Well it DOES improve his looks….
Reviewing the coronavirus supplemental appropriation and preparing to go vote. pic.twitter.com/wjJ4YY4VZz
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 4, 2020
What if Louise Gohmert is not the dumbest? https://t.co/h2kHOBVTUE
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 4, 2020
re: #238 plansbandc
I’m a mere 4 updings from 25k.
I”m feeling pretty good about having delivered the 25,000th or the 25,001st upding.
re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
No it’s not.
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I still see it:
But wait. I thought president moron said it was a hoax, a “Democrat” plot.
You mean it’s real? And Republicans have dismantled the scientists and doctors in government who are trained to deal with this so now Pence is heading it up?
I’d wear a gas mask, too.
Go figure.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020
Amazing pic.twitter.com/u6BSTOTG1j
— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) March 4, 2020
re: #249 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Reviewing the coronavirus supplemental appropriation and preparing to go vote
I wonder how he’s voting
Christ. Australia is suffering a moronavirus not a coronavirus epidemic. https://t.co/C7Co0ctO0Z
— Bernard Keane (@BernardKeane) March 3, 2020
re: #248 Dread Pirate
Weird. How about this one?
But wait. I thought president moron said it was a hoax, a “Democrat” plot.
You mean it’s real? And Republicans have dismantled the scientists and doctors in government who are trained to deal with this so now Pence is heading it up?
I’d wear a gas mask, too.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 4, 2020
re: #256 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Weird. How about this one?
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When I click on the timestamp of your tweet it does not find it. Weird indeed.
re: #253 makeitstop
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looking forward to some fava beans and a nice chianti
Amazing pic.twitter.com/u6BSTOTG1j
— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) March 4, 2020
Q: What do you think is the clearest explanation for why you have such a good chance of defeating Susan Collins in the Maine senatorial race?
Gideon: I think that voters are tired of decades of constant lying by Susan Collins— if that really is her name.https://t.co/tzntTC6A6F— Dr. David A. Lustig (@drdave1999) March 4, 2020
Yeah, man. When people think of @WhipClyburn and so many African-American voters in the South, first thing that comes to mind is, “corporate establishment”. https://t.co/rJAu0GdZR1
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) March 4, 2020
re: #258 Dread Pirate
When I click on the timestamp of your tweet it does not find it. Weird indeed.
Am I muted or blocked maybe?
Dead Pirate, are you on twitter? If so, Yeah Sure WhatEVs, do you have any restrictions on who can see your tweets?
re: #260 Dread Pirate
I think that voters are tired of decades of constant lying by Susan Collins— if that really is her name.
That is awesome.
re: #254 Sir John Barron
I wonder how he’s voting
Probably will hold out for an equivalent cut to social services.
re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Am I muted or blocked maybe?
I’m thinking it may have something to do if you’re followed or not
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
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this is why bernie is toast
and why he’s alienating more people every day
“Joe and I are running very different campaigns,” he adds. “Joe is running a campaign which is obviously heavily supported by the corporate establishment.”
he keeps shooting into the dugout he begged to be allowed into
re: #263 Belafon
Dead Pirate, are you on twitter? If so, Yeah Sure WhatEVs, do you have any restrictions on who can see your tweets?
No restrictions. Unless I’ve blocked him… Which I rarely do.
If you’re on Twitter, let me know you’re handle and I’ll check.
Funny-I feel the same way about Supreme Court Justices threatening Roe v. Wade. pic.twitter.com/ka0eAGqLJB
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 4, 2020
I’d be upset if Chuck Schumer really threatened Supreme Court Justices.
Thankfully, he was only talking about one guy with a stolen seat and some other guy who is a sexual predator.— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) March 4, 2020
All said with no irony with a cutout of Warren as a Native American. https://t.co/RhzwDuNnW6
— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) March 4, 2020
re: #260 Dread Pirate
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she’s 20 years younger than collins
this adept zinger highlights that
Q: What do you think is the clearest explanation for why you have such a good chance of defeating Susan Collins in the Maine senatorial race?
Gideon: I think that voters are tired of decades of constant lying by Susan Collins— if that really is her name.https://t.co/tzntTC6A6F— Dr. David A. Lustig (@drdave1999) March 4, 2020
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
I still remember with amusement the quip from a young lad as we approached the checkout in a warehouse store with a similar sized package of toilet paper: “Ma, look! They must poop a lot!”
nope, nope, NOPE
👀🤯👀LOOK AT THAT DROP!👀🤯👀@KingsIslandPR’s new giga-coaster “Orion” has a 300-foot drop! Check out this aerial SkyView12 drone footage of the park’s brand new metal monstrosity (READ MORE -> https://t.co/Cwp5VnjEPA) pic.twitter.com/foncxHNtcG
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 4, 2020
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
Luckily, Congress passed an anti-lynching law to deal with all of the white people getting killed. //
“Lock her up”, “Halfrican American”. https://t.co/owKks1jpIe
— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) March 4, 2020
Put another way: despite their ideological similarities, if you’re still voting for Warren at this point, it means you have deep reservations about Bernie.
And the way many high-profile Warren supporters have been treated by the Bernie base doesn’t help.— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 4, 2020
This is another example of how lefty “theory” conflicts with campaign reality.
It’s fashionable to scoff at civility politics, and many (rightly) point out the ways civility is used to crush dissent.
But: voters like people who are nice to them and to others. Period.— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 4, 2020
To be clear: a lot of Warren voters will definitely move to Bernie if she drops out!
They still share a lot of similarly progressive policies, they’re friendly with each other, and Biden has many of his own weaknesses.
But Bernie likely won’t get ALL of her voters.— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 4, 2020
Trying to teach Dorothy Barker how to smile.
It’s not going so well. pic.twitter.com/wfWf4J60ha— Jenny Lawson (@TheBloggess) March 4, 2020
Glad to see that several outlets are (partially) crediting Biden’s big night for the surge in equities.
During this White House photo session to ease concerns, the one over by the flag is touching his mouth with his hand as they discuss efforts to control the spread of coronavirus. https://t.co/JQELAJBBk8
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 4, 2020
Cat Fancy magazine, if you’re listening. https://t.co/k1R8P8OKpG
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 4, 2020
re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Probably will hold out for an equivalent cut to social services.
Ah, yes, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the emergence of Temporary Deficit Hawk Syndrome emerge as a GOP response.
re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Am I muted or blocked maybe?
I’m not on Twitter at all. I look at tweets at the Website; yours does not appear there.
BREAKING: Medical screener at LAX airport tests positive for coronavirus https://t.co/Zxqwrum5sX via @nbcnews
— Laura Strickler (@strickdc) March 4, 2020
Is there a video link to Bloomberg’s presser today anyone can point me?
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) March 4, 2020
I wasn’t watching because I find Bloomberg speeches to be about as exciting as a nap
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2020
File in the same folder with the Trump-Kim Jong Un love affair: https://t.co/JljNZoHlon
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 4, 2020
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jerkoff probably thinks they call the guy “Mullah” because he’s rich.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
And unless the coronavirus lets up enough for people to trust, will be largely empty except for the daredevils.
re: #260 Dread Pirate
Is Susan Collins related to Barnabas Collins? Inquiring minds want to know.
Does her family hail from Collinsport?
We’re still going through the binge-watch of Dark Shadows here; Susan Collins certainly raises questions in my mind. We’re up to episode seventy, perhaps she has not yet been introduced.
re: #260 Dread Pirate
One of them is a blood-sucking vampire, the other is a fictional character from a Sixties soap opera (my wife).
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m glad that he wasn’t around 80 years ago because I’m sure we would hear about his great relationship with the “fuehrer.”
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is that why we attacked the Taliban yesterday? Because we have a good relationship?
re: #59 makeitstop
And you know that Biden’s not the least bit scared to laugh in his face and tell him he’s full of crap.
And come to think of it, Biden probably knows a lot of things about Trump that most of us don’t - including what exactly went on in the last election.
Remember this debate?
Congrats to Michael!
It’s the first time a Canadian has won the international award. It was previously won by cartoonists at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Boston Globe. https://t.co/3oyBwnNbAT
— The Chronicle Herald (@chronicleherald) March 4, 2020
The Real Reason Whales Take Tropical Trips Each Year
No migration is too far for healthy skin. Atlas Obscura
Analyses of the whales’ behavior strongly suggests that sloughing the skin—and thereby letting loose a heavy film of microorganisms that congregate on whales in cold water—is what drives the mammals’ movements. It’s the whale’s version of a spa vacation (complete with a good all-over scrubbing) in the tropics.
It may even be related to the behavior when whales leap out of the water and smack back down hard. Skin care: who knew?
A first in Georgia: A private school is temporarily closing because of coronavirus concerns https://t.co/zW3hqdxrOj
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 4, 2020
This is the guy in the zombie movie who doesn’t want anyone else in the group to find out that he was already bitten. pic.twitter.com/Px0htBlKQc
— JRehling (@JRehling) March 4, 2020
KY panel approves anti-abortion bills as opponents dress in Handmaid’s Tale costumeshttps://t.co/o5piIpLbeN pic.twitter.com/AJw3GG0Nil
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 4, 2020
sigh
Judge tosses Gabbard lawsuit against Google
A federal judge on Wednesday tossed Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s lawsuit against Google, dismissing the Hawaii congresswoman’s allegations that the tech giant censored her free speech rights by briefly suspending her presidential campaign ads.
She’ll always have that delegate from American Samoa…
re: #267 Dread Pirate
When I click on the tweet here on LGF, I get the “This tweet is not available” error.
When I go to your Twitter page, however, the tweet is right there at the top of your feed. No issues.
Dear God. Cenk is redder than a bushel of tomatoes. https://t.co/Vdv7WlCJeC
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) March 4, 2020
A judge has denied efforts by multiple opioid manufacturers & distributors to push back our trial to expose their illicit misconduct.
On March 20th, the deadly scheme perpetrated by these companies will be presented in open court & laid bare before the American people.— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) March 4, 2020
…and 3,799,939 others, including a whole bunch of black ppl. https://t.co/0Dzc45uY3w
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) March 4, 2020
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wish Bernie would just go away into the sunset and take up knitting.
DJIA closes up 4.53% for the day.
I’m glad I’m too poor to own stocks.
shot:
Coronavirus does not belong to a political party and it should not be a political tool. pic.twitter.com/WRvO5lw1Nw
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 4, 2020
chaser:
Reviewing the coronavirus supplemental appropriation and preparing to go vote. pic.twitter.com/wjJ4YY4VZz
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 4, 2020
re: #308 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
IMO there are legit concerns with the plutocracy having enough influence in the Democratic party to kill off any real attempts to curb the power of the plutocracy.
But Sanders and his surrogates have to find better ways of making this point than screaming ‘corporatist shills’ at the targets du jour.
Joe Biden: “I believe people understand the moment we’re in: that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to our standing in the world…they all know that he’s fanning the flames of hate and sought to divide us.” https://t.co/Hc7CmUfXme pic.twitter.com/X03D04aeOC
— ABC News (@ABC) March 4, 2020
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
Assuming this stat is accurate and not something which the Sanders campaign pulled out its collective ass, that’s just 10% of the estimated number of billionaires.
So he’s underperforming with that demographic.— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) March 4, 2020
This marks the 2nd time Chief Justice Roberts has felt compelled by an elected’s public statements to adminish the words. The first, of course, was #Trump. https://t.co/s3pU10ZfzF
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) March 4, 2020
re: #311 EPR-radar
IMO there are legit concerns with the plutocracy having enough influence in the Democratic party to kill off any real attempts to curb the power of the plutocracy.
But Sanders and his surrogates have to find better ways of making this point than screaming ‘corporatist shills’ at the targets du jour.
I don’t like acting like one man is supposed to fix that problem. If Sanders actually read his economic history, he’d know you fix that by building coalitions. Instead he shits on people whose votes he’ll need. That’s my problem with him. And I have a big problem with him lying about being the leader of the opposition to the war in Iraq. That’s a lie.
I’d almost put money on this.
Fat Donny put Mikey on point for Covid-19 for this and this alone. He will fail in so many ways and we cant have failure can we?
#NikkiHaley NET WORTH: #Trump’s Possible New VP Has Over $1 Million In Debt
There are rumors she could be chosen as running mate of President Trump
LOOKING FOR RUSSIAN CASH TOO?#MOG☘️#BlueWave2020#MAGA https://t.co/k0h8UF2WIN— Michael O’Grady (@mog7546) March 4, 2020
Well, I’m about to lose service as we leave Puerto Rico. Thanks for the chance to catch up on all the things.
As to why a woman (I voted for Warren) couldn’t get traction this cycle, I think it’s basically PTSD. We ran a woman last time, we worked our hearts out for her, she even won — and we have suffered DT in the White House for the last century or so.
(Thanks to this tiny virtual keyboard, I just noticed what happens when you type DT and accidentally hit the keys just to the right. Fitting.)
re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Isabela (@IsabelaRM1) March 4, 2020
That was 2 years ago. Trump has gone after Justices as recently as last month (https://t.co/Axnx77ZE1V) and Roberts has been silent.
That’s clearly what Elie is referring to.— donhausen (@Donball) March 4, 2020
anyway the coronavirus funding emergency package passed 415-2
— Addy Baird (@addysbaird) March 4, 2020
The two “nay” votes were Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ5) and Ken Buck (R-CO4)
re: #311 EPR-radar
IMO there are legit concerns with the plutocracy having enough influence in the Democratic party to kill off any real attempts to curb the power of the plutocracy.
But Sanders and his surrogates have to find better ways of making this point than screaming ‘corporatist shills’ at the targets du jour.
If Sanders wins, and Bloomberg pledges to back him, what are they going to do?
re: #320 Belafon
If Sanders wins, and Bloomberg pledges to back him, what are they going to do?
That’s different
re: #320 Belafon
If Sanders wins, and Bloomberg pledges to back him, what are they going to do?
Sanders already said he didn’t want the assistance and Bloomberg said, well ok, bye.
This is a very clever receipt service for those expensive purchases your partner might not entirely appreciatehttps://t.co/XVsUcW7WKF pic.twitter.com/fJGQJzxmfI
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 4, 2020
re: #320 Belafon
If Sanders wins, and Bloomberg pledges to back him, what are they going to do?
I just want him to actually A) show his work like Warren does and B) actually acknowledge that he’s going to need a strong Democratic congress to do it but because he acts like he’s running against everyone and everything, he’d be ineffective and it would be an open invitation for a right wing backlash and that’s the last thing we want. I’m sorry but if you want change, you want to go with the person who will give us the most Democrats in Congress. That’s going to be very important especially if we can get McConnell defeated.
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s pretty damn brilliant right there…so long as you pay in cash.
Hey lizards
Did my voting bit here in NC yesterday.
Blocked lots of Berners on twitter
Today I noticed the Berners seem to be advocating for total scorched earth/tear down the temple and destroy the party tactics.
If they can’t have the nomination….nobody can.
Just incredible that Roberts was silent in the face of Trump’s attacks on Sotomayor and Ginsburg and yet this rouses him from his torpor. https://t.co/L0L3wykVJ1
— Andrew Cohen (@JustADCohen) March 4, 2020
re: #326 Scottish Dragon
Hey lizards
Did my voting bit here in NC yesterday.
Blocked lots of Berners on twitter
Today I noticed the Berners seem to be advocating for total scorched earth/tear down the temple and destroy the party tactics.
If they can’t have the nomination….nobody can.
They call themselves democratic socialists. I see the socialists but there’s the democratic. This is looking to be the second time they’ve lost the popular vote. Now I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I think something needs to be done to get the younger GOTV and I’d love to see what I could do on that front because I was in the 18-29 bracket until 2016.
Before and after images give a small glimpse of the strength of the tornadoes that moved through Nashville, Tennessee, and surrounding communities early Tuesday morning https://t.co/OxKQkNhWyP pic.twitter.com/nQLRYP0xUc
— CNN International (@cnni) March 4, 2020
re: #326 Scottish Dragon
Hey lizards
Did my voting bit here in NC yesterday.
Blocked lots of Berners on twitter
Today I noticed the Berners seem to be advocating for total scorched earth/tear down the temple and destroy the party tactics.
If they can’t have the nomination….nobody can.
Let’s just keep enough perspecitve to realize how big this group actually is, and that twitter makes the group seem bigger than it is.
Oh Yeah? Well Lookie Here. (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, more at the link):
In Texas, the Titus County Republican Party Charwoman and State Republican Executive Committee member Sue Evenwel took herself to Facebook in her continuing battle against mattress thrashing in any form except missionary in the dark for procreation only with your government authorized marriage license clutched in your hand.
The Log Cabin Republicans have tried for 15 years to have a booth at the State Republican Convention. Honey, as long as there are white headed chubby old Republican women living in absolute terror that their husbands are going to leave them for Jake at State Farm, Log Cabin Republicans cannot defile their State Republican Convention.
Sue Evenwel just ain’t having that stuff. She says that Log Cabin Republicans is an “advocacy group,” which is a discovery that they don’t deny. They favor love, and, you know, mattress thrashing.
Sue Evenwel says, “The party would also not allow express advocacy groups for murders, burglars, adulterers or fornicators.”
This view of Jupiter’s atmosphere from @NASAJuno reveals two storms caught in the act of merging. JunoCam captured this new merger, which typically takes place over the course of only a few days: https://t.co/jyAbMpneqs
Image processed by citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik. pic.twitter.com/KT3ZZhUh6r— NASA (@NASA) March 4, 2020
re: #330 Belafon
Let’s just keep enough perspecitve to realize how big this group actually is, and that twitter makes the group seem bigger than it is.
I think most of them are bots or people who don’t usually vote anyhow. I dunno. I tend to notice talking points that get spread. The latest seems to be making something out of nothing when Biden “mistook” his wife for his sister.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oh Yeah? Well Lookie Here. (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, more at the link):
“adulterers or fornicators”
I’m pretty sure they’ll allow Trump.
Links:
Oprah: https://t.co/6Fs6qzDpRQ
Limbaugh: https://t.co/vdQRPmOpZK
Dr. Oz: https://t.co/BbPiIHlGVT
Tucker, see attached. (They’re “journalists.”) pic.twitter.com/lPBBpa9wAn— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) March 4, 2020
There’s not a single confirmed case of an Asian infected in NYC. Stop discriminating cause the virus definitely doesn’t. #racist #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/Wt1NPOuQdy
— Celia Au (@ItsCeliaAu) March 4, 2020
re: #102 calochortus
I was going to pick up some hand sanitizer about a week ago (because my granddaughter is in day care now and generously shares everything she picks up there) but I didn’t because I was sick (with virus shared by generous granddaughter) and of course, now there is no hope. I’ll just stick to hand washing I guess.
(And no, I don’t have coronavirus-or at least not that coronavirus. If covid-19 had been rampant in day care two weeks ago, I feel sure we’d have heard about it by now.)
Soap is better. (I just got the full lecture from cruise people. Hand sanitizer is around because lots of people don’t wash their hands properly.)
Remember when Obama said this about Ebola? Yeah, that time.
— And the Wind Cries “THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) March 4, 2020
Plus: The state of Nebraska designated gas lines in the state a common carrier owned by a single regulated corporation, and therefore every gas company in the nation could compete to supply gas to your home.
Minus: This is the time of year that gas companies make their pitches (along with things that have nothing to do with gas, such as “internal electrical wiring insurance”).
Got another call just now from a gas company neither of us ever heard of asking us to switch companies.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oh Yeah? Well Lookie Here. (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, more at the link):
I’m sure the Log Cabin Republicans will understand and accept that line of reasoning.
No one else should, though.
I spoke with @atrupar yesterday for this article he wrote about the top stories on Facebook. It wasn’t Super Tuesday, it wasn’t coronavirus, it was… Hillary Clinton’s emails. https://t.co/sjJ1sfkMzg
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 4, 2020
re: #330 Belafon
Let’s just keep enough perspecitve to realize how big this group actually is, and that twitter makes the group seem bigger than it is.
They are the ones who tend to be the delegates at the convention, and campaign manger Sirota is definitely the sort to go nuclear and try to destroy the party from within and make any candidate untenable..
In fact, i suspect this was a primary aim all along. I don’t think they were ever really serious about the presidency this time around. This was about killing the Democratic Party and replacing it with their preferred type of socialist party.
They’ve actually been pretty candid on some of that.
re: #337 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Soap is better. (I just got the full lecture from cruise people. Hand sanitizer is around because lots of people don’t wash their hands properly.)
Oh, I know, it’s just that it would be handy from time to time. And I don’t own any because most of my life doesn’t require it. I’m not deeply concerned.
re: #331 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oh Yeah? Well Lookie Here. (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, more at the link):
But you left out the best part, the last line:
What the damn hell, Sue Evenwel? Murders, burglars, adulterers, and fornicators? You just described your president. In fact, he’s a one-man advocacy group for all that.
re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My husband has, for years, referred to cruises as The Petri Dish of the Seas.
I must point out (good thing the ship hasn’t sailed) that the “outbreaks” you hear about are reported when 3% of the ship — or maybe 100 people — get sick. I’m sure that happens all the time on shore, but how would you know?
Schumer spox responds to Justice Roberts https://t.co/4ttNe2P3vv pic.twitter.com/hDSRmEfT4r
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 4, 2020
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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The two “nay” votes were Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ5) and Ken Buck (R-CO4)
Because they are fiscal hawks, unless the proposal is a tax cut for the 1%, of course.
“Hello my lovely daughter,
Mummy is still alive. I’m not dead. It’s only daddy who died that day.”
Imagine starting that letter. pic.twitter.com/kCfXcq0Ydq— UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) March 4, 2020
re: #157 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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YOU. LITERALLY. ELECTED. AOC. OUT. OF. ALL. YOUR. PRIMARY. CHALLENGES. FROM. THE. LEFT.
Not a single Justice Dem unseated a REPUBLICAN incumbent. Your path is one back to not even holding the HOUSE, though we might turn the Senate just because those candidates are already set.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 4, 2020
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The two “nay” votes were Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ5) and Ken Buck (R-CO4)
Such heroes these, two, very brave and virtuous.
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That meeting looks familiar. I wonder what the context was. (Ties are the same)https://t.co/ZwC554HYG3
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 4, 2020
re: #338 Dave In Austin
Wholly shyte:
Trump hails ‘positive impact’ of coronavirus: “It’s affecting the airline business…people are staying in our country and they’re shopping and they’re using our hotels…so from that same point I think…there’s a positive impact,” he said
He’s literally arguing people die for capitalist profit.
And conservatives wonder why so many younger adults are looking toward socialism (welcome, we have cookies).
re: #353 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Wholly shyte:
He’s literally arguing people die for capitalist profit.
And conservatives wonder why so many younger adults are looking toward socialism (welcome, we have cookies).
Trump, in three months: “In good news, casket sales are through the roof.”
re: #350 Chrysicat
Thank you, ma’am, for being a voice of sanity against these morans.
re: #354 Belafon
Trump, in three months: “In good news, casket sales are through the roof.”
“We’re going to save billions in Social Security payments!”
re: #351 Sir John Barron
Such heroes these, two, very brave and virtuous.
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WHAT THE BUCK, KEN?!?
So glad I live just outside his district.
re: #346 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
I must point out (good thing the ship hasn’t sailed) that the “outbreaks” you hear about are reported when 3% of the ship — or maybe 100 people — get sick. I’m sure that happens all the time on shore, but how would you know?
If 3% of 320,000,000 people came down with the same illness, I think you would know.
That meeting looks familiar. I wonder what the context was. (Ties are the same)https://t.co/ZwC554HYG3
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) March 4, 2020
re: #358 Anymouse 🌹🎃
If 3% of 320,000,000 people came down with the same illness, I think you would know.
I meant an outbreak involving 3% of a local group… like a cruise ship. Losing signal in minutes… laters!
re: #338 Dave In Austin
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Trump hails ‘positive impact’ of coronavirus: “It’s affecting the airline business…people are staying in our country and they’re shopping and they’re using our hotels…so from that same point I think…there’s a positive impact,”
Besides being horrific, it’s just wrong. People aren’t going to malls or hotels during an epidemic.
At least Sanders was technically right about literacy in Cuba.
“prosecuted” — love living in a country where asking questions about sexual harassment is “prosecution” and actual prosecution of sexual harassment is incredibly rare. https://t.co/lgpFXL3YfA
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) March 4, 2020
re: #350 Chrysicat
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that same old ‘if everyone voted for the same guy, he’d win”.
as long as it’s my guy
Your argument relies on the assumption that the DNC should fight Sanders and support more conservative candidates. If the DNC got behind Sanders and pushed his progressive agenda, urged its adoption by down ticket candidates—they’d blow out the Republicans in November.
— Michael W. Wilson (@michaelwwilson) March 4, 2020
Careful, now they’ll hit you with that “horseshoe politics” png with the moonbat, the nazi, and us saying “I can’t tell them apart!”
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 4, 2020
*Attention Delaware*
Allister Barker was a Korean War Vet who bravely served our country. He doesn’t have any family who will be able to attend his service tomorrow in Bear. If you’re available, I encourage you to attend to honor Allister. @jaketapperhttps://t.co/g9DHuv24eL— Rep. Blunt Rochester (@RepLBR) March 4, 2020
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The Trumpers who have been trying so hard the past few days to deny the problem of COVID-19 intentionally ignore that the reason health officials are so worried is because the lethality appears to be several times that of the flu.
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Up another 1400 or so from last night. Deaths up, too.
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Silly figures!
Don’t you know that we gauge the severity of the Coronavirus by the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
And of course no one would know more about bullying than Walker Bragman. Thank you for reminding me that Sirota and Shaun King aren’t even the worst SURROGATES Bernie keeps on hand.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 4, 2020
My bookie now has Trump being elected at -180 which I still think is absurdly high.
re: #362 Patricia Kayden
Dimwit weighs in:
Or he was money laundering for the deep state because Trump stopped the gravy trains.
— Dave O. Anderson (@daveoanderson) March 4, 2020
Wholly crap his Twitter timeline is a Dumpster fire of derp.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
what…what on earth is going on with that woman’s hair?
I saw that style on the original Star Trek. Don’t remember which episode.
re: #370 Ace Rothstein
My bookie now has Trump being elected at -180 which I still think is absurdly high.
Your bookie is trying to get people to bet on Trump so he (your bookie) will make money (by not having to pay out.)
Montana’s Democratic governor plans last-minute run for Senate
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) is likely to challenge Sen. Steve Daines (R) this year, reversing his position after a ferocious lobbying campaign from top Democrats who hope he can put another Senate seat in play.
More good news…
This article argues that the Democrats should consider the risk of nominating Biden because the right-wing will smear him with false accusations of corruption based on a small kernel of truth (Hunter was hired by Burisma because his last name was Biden) which the mainstream media will credulously report like they did in 2016. The problem with this argument is that they would do that to Sanders (he’s a commie!) or Warren (Pocahontas!) as well.
vox.com
re: #373 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
He is in Texas lol. It’s a fantastic play for him with all the donkeys around here.
re: #374 Kilroy was here
Montana’s Democratic governor plans last-minute run for Senate
More good news…
I forget, was Daines the one who bodyslammed a reporter, or is that the guy who’s soon to be Montana’s final at-large representative for a decade because somehow they’ll get their second seat back?
— Wayne from Kettering (@barbedquill) March 4, 2020
re: #375 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This article argues that the Democrats should consider the risk of nominating Biden because the right-wing will smear him with false accusations of corruption based on a small kernel of truth (Hunter was hired by Burisma because his last name was Biden) which the mainstream media will credulously report like they did in 2016. The problem with this argument is that they would do that to Sanders (he’s a commie!) or Warren (Pocahontas!) as well.
vox.com
Bernie has the issue of the college his wife was in charge of. And yes, they will go after Warren to see if she gained any advantage from claiming to be of Native American descent.
re: #375 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This article argues that the Democrats should consider the risk of nominating Biden because the right-wing will smear him with false accusations of corruption based on a small kernel of truth (Hunter was hired by Burisma because his last name was Biden) which the mainstream media will credulously report like they did in 2016. The problem with this argument is that they would do that to Sanders (he’s a commie!) or Warren (Pocahontas!) as well.
vox.com
They would do that to every Democrat. They’ve been smearing Democrats all my life.
These two back to back answers are just damning af. It’s hard to read them as spelling out anything other than “contested convention for me, but not for thee.”
Sanders refusing to say that a second vote with superdelegates that doesn’t award him the nomination is legitimate if he has a plurality. “I think that would cause massive dismay within the American people.”
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 4, 2020
NEW: Don’t look now, but RT just launched a new app aimed at Americans… which doesn’t disclose any links to RT. https://t.co/h0XdG0PXKa
— Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) March 4, 2020
re: #377 Chrysicat
I forget, was Daines the one who bodyslammed a reporter, or is that the guy who’s soon to be Montana’s final at-large representative for a decade because somehow they’ll get their second seat back?
That was tech millionaire and now congress critter Greg Gianforte.
re: #377 Chrysicat
I forget, was Daines the one who bodyslammed a reporter, or is that the guy who’s soon to be Montana’s final at-large representative for a decade because somehow they’ll get their second seat back?
No, that was Greg Gianforte (the at-large representative from Montana).
He was a Libertarian, now a Republican.
He is a Young Earth Creationist, and has a multi-million dollar foundation to promote that and Christianity (his version) in political discourse.
re: #375 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This article argues that the Democrats should consider the risk of nominating Biden because the right-wing will smear him with false accusations of corruption based on a small kernel of truth (Hunter was hired by Burisma because his last name was Biden) which the mainstream media will credulously report like they did in 2016. The problem with this argument is that they would do that to Sanders (he’s a commie!) or Warren (Pocahontas!) as well.
vox.com
Does it honestly matter who the Dem candidate will be? This will happen no matter who it is.
Biden had a squeeky clean record with Obama.
Timed out on twitter for telling Sean Hannity to go get waterboarded for charity. I appealed with the video of him saying he’d do it and 5 minutes later, Twitter denied my appeal. Asswipes.
re: #358 Anymouse 🌹🎃
If 3% of 320,000,000 people came down with the same illness, I think you would know.
Happens all the time — seasonal flu has a higher incidence than that.
re: #386 GlutenFreeJesus
Timed out on twitter for telling Sean Hannity to go get waterboarded for charity. I appealed with the video of him saying he’d do it and 5 minutes later, Twitter denied my appeal. Asswipes.
Libertarians do not believe in free speech. Jack Dorsey is a libertarian.
re: #387 Hecuba’s daughter
Happens all the time — seasonal flu has a higher incidence than that.
And we hear about how severe the flu is in the media.
The flu doesn’t have the death rate of Covid-19.
re: #387 Hecuba’s daughter
Happens all the time — seasonal flu has a higher incidence than that.
I thought the 3% rate floating around was the percentage of fatal cases. Where most years it’s well under 1%. Or am I missing something?
Dont Need To Read Article Headline Is Enough
Washington Post
Yesterday at 1:20 PM *
Sexism was only part of the equation. Chris Matthews was also, increasingly, doing his job badly, writes columnist Margaret Sullivan</em>.
Can I just ask…where was Roberts when Trump demanded that Sotomayor and Kagan recuse themselves from anything to do with him, just because?
re: #393 Citizen K
Is this a serious question?
re: #391 KGxvi
I thought the 3% rate floating around was the percentage of fatal cases. Where most years it’s well under 1%. Or am I missing something?
10-year mortality rate for flu using CDC data and found it was 0.1%. That 0.1% rate is frequently cited among experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
re: #395 Kilroy was here
10-year mortality rate for flu using CDC data and found it was 0.1%. That 0.1% rate is frequently cited among experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
So, this (potential?) pandemic is 30 times more deadly?
re: #396 KGxvi
So, this (potential?) pandemic is 30 times more deadly?
That is what the numbers say..
re: #395 Kilroy was here
And the Diamond Princess lethality is 6 out of 706 cases, so far, so a little less than 1%.
But again, the lethality of these kind of sicknesses depends upon the quality of healthcare, and the Diamond Princess cases are cared for in Japan, so first world healthcare.
re: #396 KGxvi
So, this (potential?) pandemic is 30 times more deadly?
Maybe not 30x, but for sure more dangerous than the current flu strains.
@joebiden just hit Bernie where it hurts. Bernie will feel that punch after next Tuesday’s results in MI, MO, MS. https://t.co/PV0A6PSYgP
— Blank Slate (@blankslate2017) March 4, 2020
re: #394 Ace Rothstein
Is this a serious question?
No, just a rhetorical, again marveling at how swift Roberts is to to assert the independence of the court when a Dem says boo. Meanwhile, McConnell gloats about having rigged the courts for a generation and Trump basically trying to deny any existence of checks or balances on the Judiciary’s part toward the Executive.
re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
fuck populism. and with those words of wisdom, I’m off to the gym.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
what…what on earth is going on with that woman’s hair?
It is tumescent and wants to mate with whatever it is that is on Cheetolini’s head.
There are around 35 people from the Diamond Princess still in “serious” or “critical” condition. If they were not in a place where they could get quality health care, many likely would be dead.
Amusing sidebar on the Trump effort to persuade Republicans to vote for Bernie in the Democratic primary. Matt Lewis, a conservative Republican who is not going to vote for the Democrat in the general, voted in the Democratic primary in Virginia — but not for Bernie, but for Biden, his rationale being that Biden has the best chance of defeating Trump. Matt will not be voting for President but his intent was to try to stop a Sanders-Trump match-up. And he clearly feels that Biden would make a much better President than Trump, though he cannot bring himself to vote for a Democrat.
There are two Coronaviruses making people in China sick. One virulent, the other mild.
Maybe we got lucky, and the nasty virus is contained, because symptoms show quickly.
Scientists in China say they have identified two types of coronavirus | TheHill
re: #401 KGxvi
fuck populism. and with those words of wisdom, I’m off to the gym.
One thing that drew me to Obama 12 years ago was the diversity of the campaign. At the time I probably favored more populist economic policies but I was and always am a social liberal first. I’m fine with criticizing corporate power, government power, etc but I’m not fond of populism especially as it has become vocally nativist. And Sanders until very recently was fine with nativism. And yes that’s a great one. Shows that it’s Biden with the diverse coalition behind him.
re: #392 I Would Prefer Not To
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Yeah, I probably need to read that but Chris was starting to really fail at his job.
His deal was having an inside viewpoint from The Hill and his grasp of the current reality has gone. Chris was great at his when folks like Ed Rendell represented the views of the unheard but those days are long gone. Chris would still be chasing the views of the coal miners when Arbys employs more people than the coal industry, Chris could never accept that as the truth.
I enjoyed watching Chris and learned a lot from him but he did not survive the switch to the new media and the new political and social reality. I guess we have evolved to where that when we say that we like someone that we need to put that into context of the reality of the times of when that person appeared, I liked Chris Matthews’ on air persona. I still like the guy and always will based upon what I saw on a TV screen, I never was near to him in person.
re: #404 Hecuba’s daughter
Amusing sidebar on the Trump effort to persuade Republicans to vote for Bernie in the Democratic primary. Matt Lewis, a conservative Republican who is not going to vote for the Democrat in the general, voted in the Democratic primary in Virginia — but not for Bernie, but for Biden, his rationale being that Biden has the best chance of defeating Trump. Matt will not be voting for President but his intent was to try to stop a Sanders-Trump match-up. And he clearly feels that Biden would make a much better President than Trump, though he cannot bring himself to vote for a Democrat.
I wish he would vote for President if he feels that way but yeah this actually does remind me of the handful of Democrats I knew that actually voted for Kasich because they wanted to prevent Trump from being on the ballot.
Roberts has had nothing to say about the president attacking federal judges by name. I wonder why he decided to speak out now. https://t.co/6USEOO7yFg
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 4, 2020
re: #409 jaunte
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This is a very good point. If he’d simply come right out and said that SCOTUS would consist of 11, or even 13, Justices were we to get a Senate majority, hold the House, and elect Biden, no one would have made it out to be a threat on their lives. And it’s the minimum necessary.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 5, 2020
re: #407 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Yeah, I probably need to read that but Chris was starting to really fail at his job.
His deal was having an inside viewpoint from The Hill and his grasp of the current reality has gone. Chris was great at his when folks like Ed Rendell represented the views of the unheard but those days are long gone. Chris would still be chasing the views of the coal miners when Arbys employs more people than the coal industry, Chris could never accept that as the truth.
I enjoyed watching Chris and learned a lot from him but he did not survive the switch to the new media and the new political and social reality. I guess we have evolved to where that when we say that we like someone that we need to put that into context of the reality of the times of when that person appeared, I liked Chris Matthews’ on air persona. I still like the guy and always will based upon what I saw on a TV screen, I never was near to him in person.
Hell the coal industry was on the decline in Pennsylvania when my grandparents were newlyweds. It’s honestly probably why I’m a Virginian. Well that and my grandfather who got a trade school education with his Korean War GI money wanted a different life for himself and my grandma. And I don’t blame him. Both of my grandparents’ fathers were impacted by black lung. That’s why the whole Trump using miners thing infuriated me so much because I’m from a mining family. I know how much my grandma’s father especially suffered.
re: #400 Citizen K
No, just a rhetorical, again marveling at how swift Roberts is to to assert the independence of the court when a Dem says boo. Meanwhile, McConnell gloats about having rigged the courts for a generation and Trump basically trying to deny any existence of checks or balances on the Judiciary’s part toward the Executive.
Roberts is just as much of a GOP apparatchik as any of the other wingnut tools on SCOTUS.
The only difference is that he tries to hide it more than the others do, which seems like a quaint and wholly unnecessary pretense from the distant past.
Even so, it is useful, since this means sometimes he will not mindlessly vote the GOP party line in cases where he can’t find (or isn’t even given by counsel) a plausible excuse for voting that way.
The measure, which removes religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccines, will take effect next fall. https://t.co/qaQMtQhSQS
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) March 5, 2020
re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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establishment also includes latinos, women, single parents, union members, etc.
re: #414 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good. It’s a public health issue.
Embassy exposed at least 5 employees to fully virulent coronavirus sufferers from the Diamond Princess; when they asked to be tested, the Deputy Consul General not only refused to do so, he strongly discouraged them from outside testing. h/t @MollyJongFast https://t.co/uoDKA1ZNzr
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 4, 2020
BREAKING: The first public school district in New York has announced it will close in response to coronavirus. https://t.co/STV5QbboLA
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) March 4, 2020
re: #416 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Good. It’s a pubic health issue.
you might want to check your spelling… :D
1. Let’s talk again about what an idiot @mattgaetz is. Gas masks and C-95 respirators do not protect against respiratory viruses. (Check FDA & CDC on this.) The virus is not airborne. It is on water droplets that get on your hands. Gaetz may as well be wearing a halloween mask… pic.twitter.com/unmMsLFV6l
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 4, 2020
3…exposed to droplets constantly, and it allows them to work without touching their mouth area with the viruses that get on their hands. But by communicating “get a mask” of any kind, #MoronMatt @mattgaetz is going to set off a run on what health pros need and public does not. pic.twitter.com/jggyrxCqbv
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 4, 2020
re: #414 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Derp response from this fool who registered in December 2019:
I’m a Lolyer NOT a Lawyer. Proudly registered NPP voter. Can’t vote in the primaries
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more children will be harmed due to this forced eugenics… vaccines do harm children, I just hope it’s not mine that’s injured
— A Colyer (@TheColyerLolyer) March 5, 2020
re: #420 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It was a schizophrenic stunt from an immature fuckwit that really doesn’t merit deeper analysis but I’ll offer one anyway. Gaetz’s politics tell us he wasn’t trying to protect himself or raise concerns over COVID-19, but was instead almost certainly making fun of what Republicans are desperately trying to sell as Democratic alarmism. Cosplay legislating.
As the architect of an 80-case barrage of partisan, 5-4 decisions for big Republican donor interests, Chief Justice Roberts has zero credibility playing umpire in any political squabble.https://t.co/1Z5dOl9fjn
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) March 4, 2020
re: #419 Backwoods_Sleuth
you might want to check your spelling… :D
Do you have something against pubic health? /s
re: #423 Backwoods_Sleuth
But tell us how you really feel, Senator.
Though really, he basically says it all.
re: #423 Backwoods_Sleuth
Roberts makes Rehnquist look like Earl Warren with how nakedly partisan he can be in looking out for right wing interests.
re: #421 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Derp response from this fool who registered in December 2019:
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twitter profile claims location is Gallagher Law Library in Seattle. Also links to a Rochester, NY area TV station story about him and his service dog.
Pretty sure he is not a Maine voter
“I find it very interesting that someone is referring to African American voters in South Carolina as the establishment,” Clyburn said. “I don’t understand how that vote can be dismissed.” https://t.co/kkZq34aCr4
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 4, 2020
Health Officials Ask Americans To Stop Buying Face Masks https://t.co/NxFP75EmCO #WhatDoYouThink? pic.twitter.com/2r88xr1Z4U
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 5, 2020
take a fucking seat, moron
This is a direct & dangerous threat to the U.S. Supreme Court by Schumer. If a Republican did this, he or she would be arrested, or impeached. Serious action MUST be taken NOW! https://t.co/WqQUbyzaJU
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020
Fools speaking their “minds”.
Thanks for sharing your “thoughts”.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 5, 2020
re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth
Absolutely no self-awareness.
New Hampshire coronavirus patient broke quarantine to attend Dartmouth Business event https://t.co/N9oGT1zkTT pic.twitter.com/sHC1kvuhXq
— The Hill (@thehill) March 5, 2020
Yah.. the stupid will kills us all..
re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth
twitter profile claims location is Gallagher Law Library in Seattle. Also links to a Rochester, NY area TV station story about him and his service dog.
Pretty sure he is not a Maine voter
So that likely puts him somewhere in middle Siberia? 😁
So, according to President Random Words, there’s a benefit from the coronavirus: Americans are shopping and staying in American hotels instead of traveling abroad. His entire response to this pandemic is about manipulating the stock market to rescue his chances for re-election. https://t.co/Ug1Kzf805b
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 5, 2020
re: #435 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So that likely puts him somewhere in middle Siberia? 😁
Don’t know how good the wi-fi there is. Probably St. Petersburg. That’s where most of them are.
Treason boy says what?
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 5, 2020
This is how they sell condos.#Grifter https://t.co/tY6AlVjzEd
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 4, 2020
re: #436 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s also bullshit. My grandnephew was supposed to come out here for a conference, but it was cancelled, as was all travel at the very large company where he works. That’s 5 nights at a hotel and flights for 2, not to mention cab and Uber trips, all not being purchased.
Your vote is bigger than one party or candidate. It’s your voice, and you deserve to have it heard this November.
That’s why I am so thrilled to join @WhenWeAllVote in Detroit on March 27th.
Get registered to vote and get the word out to your family and friends, too. https://t.co/X0JljCTeis— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) March 4, 2020
re: #438 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This from the stable genius that checks notes went after Sotomayor and Ginsburg for doing what normal SCOTUS decisions involve. Concern Troll Trump is most pathetic Trump because no one not even his fucking moronic base believes him tehre. And you know what, it wouldn’t be totally out of bounds to increase SCOTUS. The only reason why I’m against it because I don’t know what it would start but after what McConnell did to Garland, I’m feeling a little petty.
re: #441 Backwoods_Sleuth
Can’t wait to hear how this is “rigging” the primary too.
re: #440 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s also bullshit. My grandnephew was supposed to come out here for a conference, but it was cancelled, as was all travel at the very large company where he works. That’s 5 nights at a hotel and flights for 2, not to mention cab and Uber trips, all not being purchased.
Salesforce grounded 50,000 of its employees. No travel.
Okay, let’s try the other way…
NOT ME, US
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EMU SNOT
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OUST MEN
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EMO NUTS— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 5, 2020
He’s still digging. 🙄 https://t.co/MdaTPviOn8
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) March 5, 2020
re: #444 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Salesforce grounded 50,000 of its employees. No travel.
Trump really is a fucking idiot.
re: #438 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Big proponent of free speech here:
Have Chuck Schumer arrested!
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 5, 2020
re: #319 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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The two “nay” votes were Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ5) and Ken Buck (R-CO4)
Thanks…off to go give my congresscritter some grief.
re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth
First round’s on me for the lizard who responds “Ok, Boomer” to this.
Ya know what 60 billionaires get? 60 votes.
Ya know what Joe got? A bunch of regular Joe votes from a bunch of regular Joe people.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 5, 2020
Conservatism is a cult, part eleventy million, I don’t suppose the actual clip of Trump saying there were “good people on both sides” will convince her:
How insane that this hoax is still being spread.
— Phillygirl74 (@Phillygirl741) March 5, 2020
STFU old man
There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices. This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020
Gotta love getting a Cenk for Congress letter in the mail the day after the election. Money fucking well spent there bud, hard to see how such a well run campaign could have lost
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 5, 2020
re: #452 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Conservatism is a cult, part eleventy million, I don’t suppose the actual clip of Trump saying there were “good people on both sides” will convince her:
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“Very fine people on both sides” was the actual line, I believe.
But look, everything they don’t like is a hoax to them.
This from a man who is anything but law abiding or civil.#GimmeABreak you crook.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) March 5, 2020
re: #454 goddamnedfrank
It’s almost like running for office is a totally different animal than just being a professional blabbermouth aka influncer.
He doesn’t know how government works; you cannot impeach senators.
Even allegedly educated conservatives are idiots.
Should Senator Chuck Schumer be impeached / removed from the Senate for his threats against Supreme Court justices?
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 5, 2020
re: #337 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Soap is better. (I just got the full lecture from cruise people. Hand sanitizer is around because lots of people don’t wash their hands properly.)
Soap may be better, but some of us have sensitive noses and the soap available most places gives me a headache if I absolutely don’t scrub hard enough to remove traces from my skin.
re: #459 Anymouse 🌹🎃
He doesn’t know how government works; you cannot impeach senators.
Even allegedly educated conservatives are idiots.
Civics is hard when you’re a dumbass like Cerno who hasn’t had ever had an original thought in his body.
Parker Malloy at MMFA is having entirely too much fun with anagrams of campaign slogans, but I think the best ones are based on Trump’s.
Okay…
KEEP AMERICA GREAT
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ACE TIARA, MR. PEE KEG
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I EMERGE, TAKE A CRAP
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PEAK AGE, MAC. RETIRE!— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 5, 2020
re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth
take a fucking seat, moron
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Was it just last week that he threatened 2 SCOTUS justices? Or maybe it was 3.
re: #459 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Schumer responds through a spokesman pic.twitter.com/99aItlKmOm
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 4, 2020
re: #462 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Civics is hard when you’re a dumbass like Cerno who hasn’t had ever had an original thought in his body.
Obviously a JD from Pepperdine is not worth the same as my high school diploma from Michigan.
Judge Strikes Down Medicaid Work Rules in Michigan https://t.co/roJAxXAwg5
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) March 5, 2020
re: #450 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
First round’s on me for the lizard who responds “Ok, Boomer” to this.
It would almost be worth signing up for twitter just to do that… ;)
re: #468 William Lewis
It would almost be worth signing up for twitter just to do that… ;)
(Neither of them is a Boomer)
re: #468 William Lewis
It would almost be worth signing up for twitter just to do that… ;)
BTW your assessment of him as a racist was right on. He never ever misses an opportunity to shit on black people’s voting decisions. No wonder why he white flighted to Vermont.
re: #469 Blind Frog Belly White
(Neither of them is a Boomer)
They are, paradoxically, “The Silent Generation”.
re: #461 unproven innocence
March 5? Where did that tweet come from?
says March 4 now
must be a disturbance in the Force…
re: #469 Blind Frog Belly White
(Neither of them is a Boomer)
I know. That’d be half the fun for me < whistles innocently >
re: #472 Blind Frog Belly White
They are, paradoxically, “The Silent Generation”.
Fun fact but Bernie was in college when JFK got elected. Other fun fact, Bernie said the sound of JFK’s voice made him sick.
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
re: #475 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Fun fact but Bernie was in college when JFK got elected. Other fun fact, Bernie said the sound of JFK’s voice made him sick.
So he moved to New England. That makes sense.
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
My brother liked the Percy Jackson series at that age and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He’s 18 now.
This was probably not picked up most cable network coverage.
“Can the uninsured get tested?”
“Gentlemen, ladies…Can the uninsured get tested?”
WH staffer(?): “Screaming for the camera can’t get you anywhere.”
These people. SMH. pic.twitter.com/zBxPmPrCsn— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) March 4, 2020
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
My 10 year old grandson is loving Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
“Harriet the Spy,” if she hasn’t read it already. One of the most subversive kids’ books out there, even though it’s over a half-century old. Also has the related books “The Long Secret” and “Sport.”
re: #477 Blind Frog Belly White
So he moved to New England. That makes sense.
I’m not saying it did heh.
I’m ducking out for a nap. Cue sighs of relief from the commentariat.
re: #484 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I’m ducking out for a nap. Cue sighs of relief from the commentariat.
Flyover states!
(That’ll ruin his nap!)
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re: #483 Blind Frog Belly White
Ye cahn’t get theah from heah.
Jokes aside, I’m still shocked Biden won Maine and Massachusetts and is getting a delegate from Vermont.
re: #486 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Jokes aside, I’m still shocked Biden won Maine and Massachusetts.
I know. That must really be burning Bernie’s biscuits.
re: #487 Blind Frog Belly White
I know. That must really be burning Bernie’s biscuits.
Also, in 2016, HRC didn’t clear ‘viability’ in Vermont, but Biden hit 22%, and picked up 5 delegates.
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
Hmm…
Hunger Games
Percy Jackson
His Dark Materials
OH, better yet, The Vorkosigan Series. Start with Cordelia’s Honor. Er… OTOH, if she’s not ready for LOTR, then there are bits in that book that might well be too adult. Keep in mind for when she is ready because Cordelia is a hell of a role model for a young woman.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Dune
Discworld
re: #487 Blind Frog Belly White
I know. That must really be burning Bernie’s biscuits.
See my edit, I actually forgot that he didn’t even completely sweep things in Vermont. His popularity really is down from four years ago.
BREAKING: A 70-year-old Fort Bend man has tested “presumptively positive” for the coronavirus, according to county public health officials, the first such case in the area and state.https://t.co/bfBp4r6a2D
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 4, 2020
re: #489 William Lewis
If you’re considering Hunger Games, look at the Divergent series.
“The Houston health lab has one testing kit with capacity to test 700 specimens, which equates to roughly 350 patients.”
re: #490 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
See my edit, I actually forgot that he didn’t even completely sweep things in Vermont. His popularity really is down from four years ago.
He’s done nothing to grow his base. That gives him a ceiling problem if there’s a viable alternative.
I’m still heartbroken Warren did so poorly. I feel like she’s really what we need as a country.
re: #494 Blind Frog Belly White
He’s done nothing to grow his base. That gives him a ceiling problem if there’s a viable alternative.
Yep and his opponents if they have their own weaknesses with voter blocs see that, they’re well within their right to drop out and throw their support behind someone who will. Bernie really showed how poor his political instincts were when he decided to declare that the nominee should have a plurality of the vote. Wouldn’t it be something if Biden eventually beat him with a majority? He’s the heads I win, tails you lose candidate.
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
My kids loved the Percy Jackson series, too.
re: #495 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m still heartbroken Warren did so poorly. I feel like she’s really what we need as a country.
I’m hoping she can become like her predecessor and become a dynamo legislator. That’s what Senator Kennedy turned his disappointment in 1980 too. I really would have liked to seen her emerge as a finalist over Bernie because she actually has a clue what she’s talking about.
re: #497 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
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Biden’s getting better I think at branding himself as this gets going. I loved seeing Keegan Key with him. Can we get a sketch where Luther the anger translator translates for Biden?.Would love to see Joe make the talk show round too.
re: #493 jaunte
The greater Houston area is at least 6 million people.
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
Hunger Games trilogy is outstanding, although I think Mockingjay is flat out military science fiction.
re: #502 Scottish Dragon
Hunger Games trilogy is outstanding, although I think Mockingjay is flat out military science fiction.
My youngest daughter loved Hunger Games and also the Twilight series, when she was an older teenager (17-19), but I don’t think those are appropriate for my 10-year-old granddaughter.
re: #503 The Pie Overlord!
My youngest daughter loved Hunger Games and also the Twilight series, when she was an older teenager (17-19), but I don’t think those are appropriate for my 10-year-old granddaughter.
Try just the Hobbit. It’s a much easier book to get a grasp of than the full LOTR.
Or Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea”. Glorious.
re: #339 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Plus: The state of Nebraska designated gas lines in the state a common carrier owned by a single regulated corporation, and therefore every gas company in the nation could compete to supply gas to your home.
Minus: This is the time of year that gas companies make their pitches (along with things that have nothing to do with gas, such as “internal electrical wiring insurance”).
Got another call just now from a gas company neither of us ever heard of asking us to switch companies.
I see that every year about now about my electricity since the carrier is standard, but the provider can vary. Had a person from one of them going door-to-door* and I chewed on them about how they were carrying badges**, information, and their mailers, were labeled deceptively to imply they worked for the carrier itself. Started when the guy asked to see my electric bill. (Which is a de facto no-no.)
* - Which is frowned upon in this apartment complex. Very clear No Solicitation signs about, and a few residents actively call the office when they see people like these about.
** - Badge has the abbreviation of the utility carrier on it in large letters, with the actual company info under it in smaller lettering. Kind of thing that sets the BS detector off. And I open what I think are solicitation mailings every so often just to see what the current tricks are. Like using labeling and letter codes that make it look like Federal Tax information. (“Form T-2” and having “2020” in different colors.)
re: #476 The Pie Overlord!
It’s my granddaughter’s 10th birthday and my son has suggested that she loves to read & would love a book set. What books are popular with 10 year olds? She already has the Harry Potter series & I think she is not ready for LOTR (which were my favorites as a kid). My daughters loved “Anne of Green Gables” and “Little House on the Prairie” but that was 30 years ago. What’s popular with kids today?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Old Boomer Bubbie
_The Hobbit_ is lower key and a more youth-friendly tale than LOTR.
I’d also recommend some of Pratchett’s Disc World books:
_The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents_
And the Tiffany Aching series that starts with _Wee Free Men_.
re: #506 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
_The Hobbit_ is lower key and a more youth-friendly tale than LOTR.
I’d also recommend some of Pratchett’s Disc World books:
_The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents_And the Tiffany Aching series that starts with _Wee Free Men_.
Agreed.
All good options, and you can never go wrong with Tolkien or Pratchett.
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