While Sen. Elizabeth Warren was demonstrating grace and eloquence in comments to reporters after dropping out of the Democratic primary race, the man she hoped to replace in the White House was demonstrating his inability to tell the truth in an interview with Fox News about the Coronavirus. #Monologue #Coronavirus #Colbert
CL’d.
Cases in NY have tripled in 24 hours, in part due to more testing. Also, the original CDC tests proved faulty so NY got permission to run their own tests instead.
After an initial batch of test kits that the CDC sent to state and big city public health labs proved largely faulty last month, New York City and state officials pressed for permission to run their own tests.
The state got approval Saturday to run its own version of the test. Cuomo, a Democrat, said Thursday the state is now able to run about 100 to 200 tests a day and is now working with other laboratories to boost testing capacity.
New York City, meanwhile, got a new batch of CDC test kits. De Blasio said Thursday that the city ultimately wants the capacity to do hundreds of tests per day or more and needs federal help to get there.
Even 100s of tests per day in NYC is underestimating the problem IMO. With 2700 in preventative quarantine, you need to do even more aggressive testing to make sure that is entire universe of those exposed.
gotta repost from downstairs
Here’s how President Trump tried to reassure Americans about the state of the economy during a Fox News town hall event:
Well, look, we were set to hit 30,000 on the Dow. This is a number that nobody even came close to. And already we have the number. And even though it’s down 10 or 11 percent, it’s still the highest it’s ever been, by far. It certainly might have an impact. At the same time, I have to say, people are now staying in the United States, spending their money in the U.S. — and I like that. People are now staying in the United States, spending their money in the U.S., and I like that. I’ve been after that for a long time.
Here’s what jonathan chait said about it:
“This string of sentences is like an onion of stupidity, and peeling back each layer revealed even more stupidity lying beneath.”
i absolutely love it
Me too…from downstairs.
re: #411 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Secretary of State is going to be such an important position in the next administration. I don’t think Pete B is quite ready for that but I would not mind him as Ambassador to the UN.
Or Obama. :-D
We’ve talked a lot on here recently about how Trump fired the CDCs entire Pandemic response team awhile back. I dug up the article. It actually happened in May 2018. Also, the person responsible for making Trump take that step? John fucking Bolton.
The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.</em>
The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.
Ziemer’s last day was Tuesday, the same day a new Ebola outbreak was declared in Congo. He is not being replaced.
Pandemic preparedness and global health security are issues that require government-wide responses, experts say, as well as the leadership of a high-ranking official within the White House who is assigned only this role.
“Health security is very fragmented, with many different agencies,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It means coordination and direction from the White House is terribly important. “
The personnel changes, which Morrison and others characterize as a downgrading of global health security, are part of Bolton’s previously announced plans to streamline the NSC. Two members of Ziemer’s team have been merged into a unit in charge of weapons of mass destruction, and another official’s position is now part of a unit responsible for international organizations.
White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, is out completely. He left the day after Bolton took over last month.
This post is sponsored by The Department of We Fucking Told You So.
Can’t exactly say CL’d since I’ve been gone for 16 hours, and only went looking for Buck’s name in the old thread after I opened the new one:
re: #332 The Pie Overlord!
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— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
re: #3 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Me too…from downstairs.
Or Obama. :-D
D’oh. Anyhow: reposting: I like Nicholas Burns, Michael McFaul, or Marie Yovanovich for that. I think you need a diplomat for that position. But Obama as the face of our country in the immediate aftermath of Trump would probably reassure a lot of our allies.
re: #6 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
D’oh. Anyhow: reposting: I like Nicholas Burns, Michael McFaul, or Marie Yovanovich for that. I think you need a diplomat for that position. But Obama as the face of our country in the immediate aftermath of Trump would probably reassure a lot of our allies.
We’re going to need someone with a heavy understanding of the State Department since we’re going to have to build it back up.
re: #7 Belafon
We’re going to need someone with a heavy understanding of the State Department since we’re going to have to build it back up.
Yep, that’s why I brought those three names up. They’re lifelong DOS people who probably would do a great job restoring morale to Foggy Bottom. Tillerson isn’t as bad as Pompeo is but Tillerson did some of his own lasting damage there.
Watching my Kitco app, and all stock indices are down (but up from this morning), gold is down, oil is down, the dollar is down.
Can’t eat any of that stuff.
McFaul isn’t a DOS lifer, I take that back but former Ambassador ot Russia and someone who understands FP really well. Could do worse than him.
if yOu CaNt TaKe OuR iNsUlTs AnD tHeN gRoVeL tO uS aFtErWaRdS tHeN yOu HaTe SiCk PeOpLe AnD yOu HaVe BaD pRiOrItIeS
— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) March 6, 2020
And here we go with the false dichotomy logical fallacy.
You want to know why people don’t want to work with you and endorse your guy? Stuff like this.— Deirdre🇺🇸🏴 (@mandalorchick) March 6, 2020
In other COVID-19 news…
SEATTLE - As Washington state grapples with coronavirus, one Seattle research institute is taking matters into their own hands.
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute got the OK to begin its vaccine trials, the first of its kind. Its research team is enrolling 45 healthy people, ages 18 to 55, from the Seattle-area over the course of 14 months.
“[The trial] does not include any form of the live virus, and the trial will not expose participants to the virus,” said Rebecca Hughes, senior media consultant with Kaiser Permanente.
The trial is part one of three-phases that will study the safety of the vaccine and how well the immune system responds to it.
re: #12 Scottish Dragon
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F the Bernie Bros, if they can’t even get a democrat to get on board with them then what are the chances of them convincing ANY republican?
re: #5 Chrysicat
Can’t exactly say CL’d since I’ve been gone for 16 hours, and only went looking for Buck’s name in the old thread after I opened the new one:
I don’t know how Ken Buck felt when he bought his first AR-15, but I remember getting my first strap-on and it must be something like that.
— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) March 6, 2020
re: #14 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
F the Bernie Bros, if they can’t even get a democrat to get on board with them then what are the chances of them convincing ANY republican?
They always emphasize the democratic in democratic socialist but I never see the former. Problem is they’re a bunch of dicks who he has let be the face of his movement.
THANK GOD WE’LL GET THE TRUTH SOON!
Fox’s Jeanine Pirro is interviewing VP Mike Pence at the White House today, @kaitlancollins hears.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 6, 2020
re: #18 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Imagine if someone at Fox News got COVID19…
ebay is banning face masks and hand sanitizers to prevent price gouging: cnbc.com.
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
Imagine if someone at Fox News got COVID19…
We’d never know it. They’d hit them with a bus or thrown them off a building before they admitted their employee was sick.
aaaaaaaand it’s a f***in paper weight. LOL https://t.co/F8UVm1zYg4
— zeddy (@Zeddary) March 6, 2020
After many hours of conversation internally & consultation with local government officials and the tourism bureau, we have decided to move next week’s Emerald City Comic Con to Summer 2020 with date & detail announcement forthcoming. Read more at https://t.co/ahL1TOmHLF #ECCC2020 pic.twitter.com/qq3ZnDPXWb
— Emerald City Comic Con (@emeraldcitycon) March 6, 2020
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sometimes fantasies come true.
We need to have our “thoughts and prayers” ready just in case…
Coronavirus side-effect:
Collateral damage: Marriage registration offices in Chinese city of Xi’an have seen an unprecedented number of divorce appointments since reopen, as #COVID19 evoked the underlying conflicts of couples confined at home. https://t.co/Qe3OK8XBB9 pic.twitter.com/iYKeoIjjUo
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) March 6, 2020
re: #26 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Coronavirus side-effect:
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re: #11 Scottish Dragon
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Did you delete your tweet?
Because otherwise Twitter’s hiding you when I try to open it to RT.
re: #28 Chrysicat
Did you delete your tweet?
Because otherwise Twitter’s hiding you when I try to open it to RT.
still there.
re: #28 Chrysicat
Did you delete your tweet?
Because otherwise Twitter’s hiding you when I try to open it to RT.
weird. I checked my filters and I don’t see why it should be hidden
re: #2 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
gotta repost from downstairs
Here’s how President Trump tried to reassure Americans about the state of the economy during a Fox News town hall event:
Here’s what jonathan chait said about it:
i absolutely love it
Trump is an idiot. (Not exactly a newsflash, I know.)
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re: #30 Scottish Dragon
still there.
For you. This happened to me a few days ago. No clue why.
This is your tweet.
re: #33 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
For you. This happened to me a few days ago. No clue why.
This is your tweet.
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I get that a LOT on mobile.
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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for all it matters, it could have been a picture of a gun
the implied threat is the same
re: #21 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
We’d never know it. They’d hit them with a bus or thrown them off a building before they admitted their employee was sick.
They had that fellow who recovered in an interview along with his small daughter. He was busy coughing all over the stage.
re: #35 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
for all it matters, it could have been a picture of a gun
the implied threat is the same
Capitol rules prohibit even gun replicas. He’s breaking the law by having that in his office.
re: #32 calochortus
Trump is an idiot. (Not exactly a newsflash, I know.)
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re: #31 Scottish Dragon
weird. I checked my filters and I don’t see why it should be hidden
It is weird. I can see it in “replies” when I go to the parent tweets, but Twitter is blocking it when I try to click on its timestamp. That’s true of your response directly to the Bernout too.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Capitol rules prohibit even gun replicas. He’s breaking the law by having that in his office.
As if any Republican cares about rules or laws.
Oil is off 8.24% now. I’m sure we’ll see that reflected at the pump.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Capitol rules prohibit even gun replicas. He’s breaking the law by having that in his office.
i get that part
i was focusing on what he said while standing beside it
Acting IG.
Here’s story on Edwards misuse and abuse of his officehttps://t.co/yPjSHu5IUd
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) March 6, 2020
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oil is off 8.24% now. I’m sure we’ll see that reflected at the pump.
dow 5 day was a net positive
if things continue today, it’ll crash through the 5 day floor
Bernie & Joe need Secret Service protection, like last week.
The display of a Nazi flag by a man at a Sen. Sanders campaign rally in Arizona drew condemnation from Jewish American groups on Friday amid ongoing worries about Democratic candidates’ security at public events. https://t.co/8j5apd1ir5
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2020
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oil is off 8.24% now. I’m sure we’ll see that reflected at the pump.
If people hole up and don’t travel in numbers there will be a drop in domestic demand as well. (Probably after a little surge as people tank up and/or hoard some.)
re: #46 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If people hole up and don’t travel in numbers there will be a drop in domestic demand as well. (Probably after a little surge as people tank up and/or hoard some.)
There is no way in which this could be good for anyone’s economy. Trump’s happy horseshit is just that, and almost anyone should be able to see that.
BREAKING: The University of Washington, with more than 50,000 students, is closing classrooms and moving to remote learning amid the coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/aKPmDgviL0
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) March 6, 2020
Thread, thirteen tweets.
The man who unfurled a Nazi flag at the Bernie Sanders rally in Arizona yesterday is Robert Sterkeson, a neo-Nazi who lives in the Phoenix area.
Here are a few things you should know about him. (CW: racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic slurs/hate.)
A thread. 👇 pic.twitter.com/tlJkadG1Pn— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) March 6, 2020
And a local data anecdote. Large supermarket in a distant suburb to a large US city in a state with no explicit Covid19 cases (yet).
No hand sanitizer on the shelves. Depleted stocks of bottled water, toilet paper, soap, and disinfectants. (Not completely out, but you can see that the stock is about 20-25% of what it normally would be.) I wouldn’t call it panic buying, but people are stocking up just in case I’d say.
re: #47 calochortus
There is no way in which this could be good for anyone’s economy. Trump’s happy horseshit is just that, and almost anyone should be able to see that.
Got an email from my financial advisor (went out to all his clients) which was cautionary since the markets are officially in a correction now. Essentially saying that things are fluid and long-term effects on the market are still uncertain.
I wasn’t expecting much more than that. And nothing overtly political in it.
re: #51 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Got an email from my financial advisor (went out to all his clients) which was cautionary since the markets are officially in a correction now. Essentially saying that things are fluid and long-term effects on the market are still uncertain.
I wasn’t expecting much more than that. And nothing overtly political in it.
And, that’s reasonable. Bad things happen. The economy goes up and down. A lot of the economy will rebound nicely eventually. If you were going to buy a couch, you’ll probably go ahead and do that eventually. Travel, restaurants, and that sort of business are going to have to eat a lot of losses.
There’s just no way to tap dance the whole thing away.
Political scientists at Harvard and Boston Universities used mapping algorithms to help develop a tool for addressing gerrymandering that avoids politically biased redistricting designed to maximize the electoral sway of the majority’s base. The researchers proposed what they termed Define-Combine district mapping, a process in which the majority party maps a state by drawing twice the number of desired districts, followed by the minority party recombining neighboring “subdistricts” back into final districts. The minority must predict how the majority will likely draw the subdistricts, and have a corresponding recombination strategy. The researchers algorithmically demonstrated that implementing Define-Combine generates more moderate maps by reducing the majority’s advantage.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Oil is off 8.24% now. I’m sure we’ll see that reflected at the pump.
Low gas prices are something that will help Trump, gasoline prices are a big chunk of rural America’s budget.
re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Low gas prices are something that will help Trump, gasoline prices are a big chunk of rural America’s budget.
Despite having owned our Smart now for seven years, people here will still ask what sort of mileage we get (compared to their Canyonero or Ford F-1250) and blink when I put only $10 worth of gasoline in the tank.
re: #14 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Probably somewhat better. They’re more like tRumpublicans than Dems.
Conservatism kills, chapter eleventy million:
(2:20)
ME: Why didn’t they [send out #coronavirus tests and prepare hospitals] while it was contained? Get ahead of it?
@KellyannePolls: It is being contained. And, do you not think it’s being contained?
MORE: https://t.co/EDtr5CEyFR pic.twitter.com/CuqXMjsESP— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) March 6, 2020
Yesterday, Pompeo defended Trump’s Iran policy by pointing out, “Iran’s current expansion of its uranium enrichment program would have been permitted by the nuclear deal in 2031.”
Apparently we’re supposed to be grateful that Trump advanced Iran’s nuclear program by 11 years. 🧐— Nicholas Miller (@Nick_L_Miller) March 6, 2020
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Despite having owned our Smart now for seven years, people here will still ask what sort of mileage we get (compared to their Canyonero or Ford F-1250) and blink when I put only $10 worth of gasoline in the tank.
I miss our smart. I never worked it out in mpg, but it took 3.4 liters (less than a gallon) to travel 100 km (62.5 miles).
I was out tootling around with our daughter, not quite three years old and saw a sign to the city of Trier (famous for its Roman ruins) 100 km. “That’s three and a half liters, ” I thought, “Let’s go!” and we did.
re: #52 calochortus
And, that’s reasonable. Bad things happen. The economy goes up and down. A lot of the economy will rebound nicely eventually. If you were going to buy a couch, you’ll probably go ahead and do that eventually. Travel, restaurants, and that sort of business are going to have to eat a lot of losses.
There’s just no way to tap dance the whole thing away.
Yep. And made a point that things will probably not even start to clear up until the end of the 2nd quarter (June). Question then is whether it’s just a correction, or if things will slip into a full-out recession with further declines expected.
It’s insane that the CDC is hiding the number of people who have been tested for coronavirus.
It’s even more insane that the number is less than 2000 in the whole country. https://t.co/JUZ1dq66Au— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 6, 2020
#coronavirus Iran: Population seeking help in hospitals for coronavirus. “We estimate that 30 to 40% of Tehran’s population will be infected with COVID-19 by March 20,” says Dr. Massoud Mardani, member of Iran’s National Influenza Committee. Tehran population: 12 million. pic.twitter.com/vs8kfsm229
— nerd (@nerd_hawk) March 6, 2020
re: #60 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Yep. And made a point that things will probably not even start to clear up until the end of the 2nd quarter (June). Question then is whether it’s just a correction, or if things will slip into a full-out recession with further declines expected.
Well, if we all looked at things realistically and had a plan for dealing with an epidemic, our odds would be better, but hey, let’s all go buy toilet paper, shall we?
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I miss our smart. I never worked it out in mpg, but it took 3.4 liters (less than a gallon) to travel 100 km (62.5 miles).
I was out tootling around with our daughter, not quite three years old and saw a sign to the city of Trier (famous for its Roman ruins) 100 km. “That’s three and a half liters, ” I thought, “Let’s go!” and we did.
Our round trip to Cheyenne yesterday (260 miles) cost about five gallons of gasoline (about 50 mpg).
re: #63 calochortus
Well, if we all looked at things realistically and had a plan for dealing with an epidemic, our odds would be better, but hey, let’s all go buy toilet paper, shall we?
I’m expecting run-on effects in the US for months. I currently have a couple trips planned for April, and a wedding to attend in New Mexico in May. I am wondering if there are good alternative to air travel for the latter. And I half-expect one of the April gatherings to be cancelled or postponed.
Because….. pic.twitter.com/iTwyg6z4BI
— KQ_NYRE🌊🌊🥂🍾🌊🌊 (@Bondgirl00422) May 16, 2019
Duffel Blog:
Army’s new coal-powered tiltrotor gaining traction in Congress
As the Army evaluates several prototype aircraft for its Future of Vertical Lift modernization initiative, one coal-powered tiltrotor is quickly gaining popularity with Congress.
“This amazing piece of machinery is something our troops just really, really need to deter clean ener—ahem, the Russians,” said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). “Plus, coal power is organic and all-natural, unlike processed fuels like petroleum, biodiesel, and ethanol.”
Fortunately guys like Whistlin’ Diesel (LGF earlier today) are not allowed to mess with aircraft, so this remains a joke (but don’t let Trump see it).
“The U.S. government has collected persuasive intelligence that the Taliban does not intend to honor the promises it has made in the recently signed deal with the United States, three American officials tell NBC News” - the amazing team of @ckubeNBC @KenDilanianNBC @dandeluce
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) March 6, 2020
re: #67 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Rolling a Shit Ton of Coal!
NEW A union representing federal asylum officers said in a court filing that the Department of Homeland Security’s asylum agreement with Guatemala is unlawful and subjects migrant to persecution https://t.co/7bbbcBFycB
— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) March 6, 2020
Booster rocket🚀to add to Judge Walton’s conclusions about Barr’s misrepresentations of #MuellerReport in Barr’s summary:
1. Barr’s summary letter was not just for the public. It was a formal statement sent to Congress!
2. Intentional false statement to Congress is a crime! https://t.co/uJIUlsHRr6— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) March 5, 2020
Yes. Barr’s lies to Congress were federal crimes. https://t.co/zqPrZmQB4y
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 6, 2020
re: #66 plansbandc
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The lepertarian scumbag who is honcho of Lubbock Right to Life is also an outspoken advocate of price gouging in emergency situations, believing that this is the “fairest way to ensure equitable distribution.” He is in the medical technology business and pretty well off, no doubt thanks to medicare/medicaid and other giveaway programs he would normally decry.
re: #11 Scottish Dragon
Your tweet shows “unavailable” to me.
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The lepertarian scumbag who is honcho of Lubbock Right to Life is also an outspoken advocate of price gouging in emergency situations, believing that this is the “fairest way to ensure equitable distribution.” He is in the medical technology business and pretty well off, no doubt thanks to medicare/medicaid and other giveaway programs he would normally decry.
“Them that’s got shall get
Them that’s not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news”
re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Translation: Donnie got punked again.
#BREAKING: Trump campaign files defamation suit against CNN https://t.co/KT51W4yrFW pic.twitter.com/HOTqoTK8W2
— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2020
re: #68 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Fine. Do you want to evacuate every unmarried female between the ages of 4 and 24 who’ll face acid in the face at best or execution at worst for becoming literate when she “really should have known that the Taliban were still the real legitimate Afghani government”?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
Interesting vector on the VP as we’re all wondering, and appears most are hoping, for Joe to pick one of our awesome woman candidates like Kamala/Liz/Amy. Kamala was my wish and I was crushed when she went out, so I obvi think she’s the top contender with Liz being strong as well.
But: if you want to get as many Talibern to vote as possible… Liz might be The One. A Twitter bud pointed this math out and it’s intriguing.
Not considered: the Senate Vector. Thinking it’s moot.
re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Despite having owned our Smart now for seven years, people here will still ask what sort of mileage we get (compared to their Canyonero or Ford F-1250) and blink when I put only $10 worth of gasoline in the tank.
Remember my 1970 AMC Gremlin with the 25 gallon tank and I could fill it up for $7.50…
re: #77 Chrysicat
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As if he cares. Probably wishes he had that level of control over women.
re: #78 BigPapa
Offer it to Bernie so we can get another Dem senator.
re: #79 Joe Bacon 🌹
Remember my 1970 AMC Gremlin with the 25 gallon tank and I could fill it up for $7.50…
25 gallon tank in that little thing!? Was the entire car a gas tank?
Are we North Korea now? https://t.co/n7qcwZQnMN
— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) March 6, 2020
re: #81 William Lewis
Offer it to Bernie so we can get another Dem senator.
(cocks back empty beer can to throw..)
LOL. Nice one.
Sounds about white -_-
In 2012, I wore a hoodie on the House Floor to make a statement about the deadly consequences of racial profiling. On Wednesday, @RepMattGaetz wore a gas mask in the chamber, making light of an epidemic that has killed 14 Americans.
Guess which one of us was forcibly removed. pic.twitter.com/nh2LHPeIFW— Bobby L. Rush (@RepBobbyRush) March 6, 2020
re: #78 BigPapa
Not considered: the Senate Vector. Thinking it’s moot.
What does this mean? (?? possible replacement Senators??)
Oh no. The passing of a giant. https://t.co/0z3Br5OSom
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2020
Wow, twenty-two tweets.
Thursday begins in the usual fashion…
I’m flattered this guy seems to think I am personally responsible for influencing the results of a primary that is run by a party I’m not a member of, in a state I’m not a resident of, and for a candidate I didn’t endorse.
1/ pic.twitter.com/pnyes8aMEO— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 5, 2020
re: #83 jaunte
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“now”?
We’ve been since 5 Feb at the latest, and arguably whenever you want to admit that Trump controlled the country—which might be BEFORE 20 Jan 2017; HE certainly believes so!—at the earliest!— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
re: #72 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The lepertarian scumbag who is honcho of Lubbock Right to Life is also an outspoken advocate of price gouging in emergency situations, believing that this is the “fairest way to ensure equitable distribution.” He is in the medical technology business and pretty well off, no doubt thanks to medicare/medicaid and other giveaway programs he would normally decry.
These assholes also love the Second Amendment but they could well find it working against them if the prospect becomes real. A shotgun in the face is a pretty strong negotiating tactic.
re: #90 Chrysicat
Another disappearing tweet for me.
Twitter still doesn’t have that makeover working right yet.
I was fortunate enough to play on an album with McCoy Tyner. He was an amazing force of nature, and also a great person. Those two qualities don’t always go together.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2020
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
Trump while visiting tornado victims in TN tells a story about a boy being carried by the tornado, like it’s the greatest thing he’s ever heard! Then he asks about the parents….People tell him they’re dead along with his sister. No emotion, NOTHING! Idiot! pic.twitter.com/0ZqaQN2OzS— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) March 6, 2020
Someone did a fine edit. (NSFW)
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re: #94 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
Trump while visiting tornado victims in TN tells a story about a boy being carried by the tornado, like it’s the greatest thing he’s ever heard! Then he asks about the parents….People tell him they’re dead along with his sister. No emotion, NOTHING! Idiot!
a man of the people who understands us and thinks like we do
Jared Kushner - according to his attorney - used private email.
Pompeo’s response to a question about HRC during an interview w @SteveDoocy @JedediahBila @PeteHegseth earlier today is below - he Calls using private email unlawful. pic.twitter.com/po34PZnZUc— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) March 6, 2020
Strangely, you cannot buy thyme around here. My wife is busy spending lots of money at Penzey’s Website (well, since I’m buying thyme, how about this, and some of this, and ooh that looks interesting I’ll take some of that too… .)
The VA just called. The eye doc I saw yesterday said he wants to see me next year, and it takes over three months to schedule a VA appointment. Since I am priority group 1 for appointments, they made the appointment just now. (They will notify me before the appointment so I don’t forget.)
If anyone’s going to be around Cheyenne, Wyo. on March 30, 2021, we can go out to dinner or something.
The reason behind the privacy bar for the appointment.
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JFC, not this shit again.
No.
This is a lie that originated at a far right anti-Muslim website, and was picked up and recycled by Glenn Greenwald when he was looking for something to attack me with. Now Bernie’s cult is recirculating the lie again. pic.twitter.com/qHe5qdCXxM— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2020
re: #95 plansbandc
Someone did a fine edit. (NSFW)
LOL!
re: #99 Charles Johnson
JFC, not this shit again.
It doesn’t help that RatioanlWiki promotes that crap as well. They define you as having gone from an intolerant right-wing asshole to an intolerant left-wing asshole.
Generally their articles are pretty good, but the one about you is a Dumpster fire of falsehoods.
Even the Daily Caller!: “[T]elling Americans that our government is performing amazingly well and everything will be fine seems reckless.” https://t.co/xza8U6v4vg
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) March 6, 2020
Is she wearing a hardhat while 20 meters from some 10 foot high scaffolding?
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 6, 2020
In exchanges w readers noticing pattern: parents who will have to bring in grandparents for child care if/when schools close. Needless to say, many grandparents will be in age range that makes them high risk. So putting the vectors with the vulnerable.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 6, 2020
re: #85 Interesting Times
Sounds about white -_-
DUI Matty using a gas mask to protect against from a virus. Well played, idiot. I can’t tell which filter he used, but I’m willing to bet it wasn’t one rated for virus protection.
re: #106 goddamnedfrank
More “blessings” of end-stage capitalism. Everyone outside the ruling class is stretched so thin by the rat race that shit like this is absolutely inevitable.
re: #104 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Biden plays tennis?
The Beau Biden Foundation conducts an annual tennis & golf charitable event. The Wilmington Child Protection Classic
re: #82 Dr. Matt
25 gallon tank in that little thing!? Was the entire car a gas tank?
Looked like it.
re: #99 Charles Johnson
JFC, not this shit again.
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re: #102 Dread Pirate
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stop this effing equivocating
Even the Daily Caller!: “[T]elling Americans that our government is performing amazingly well and everything will be fine
seemsIS reckless.
California, population 40 million, has a total of 7,400 coronavirus test kits.https://t.co/9jSnrLNkbk
— Alex Wayne (@aawayne) March 6, 2020
OT, but we did this for Life Saving merit badge in scouts. (except with jeans; oh, and funny comments):
For some reason at school, we all had to dive into the swimming pool wearing pyjamas and get a brick out of the deep end. It was a thing
— Holly Brockwell (@holly) March 4, 2020
re: #110 BlueSpotinAL
Oddly, the gas mask is only the second most absurd thing about that outfit.
The shoes.
Check out his fucking shoes.
DOW staged a late comeback today, still lost 255 points, 1% of its total value.
UPDATE: 15th death from coronavirus confirmed in US.https://t.co/emvFjebiw6
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) March 6, 2020
re: #103 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Yet Michelle having a garden meant she was an elitist.
This video is the best!!
Please let this be the Sanders/Biden supporters when the nominee is chosen.#UnitedWeWin https://t.co/5FACGJMx19
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 6, 2020
re: #107 Dr. Matt
DUI Matty using a gas mask to protect against from a virus. Well played, idiot. I can’t tell which filter he used, but I’m willing to bet it wasn’t one rated for virus protection.
Has anyone determined whether he was being serious or ironically supporting the idea that this is “just the flu” and no big deal?
re: #121 Mike Lamb
Has anyone determined whether he was being serious or ironically supporting the idea that this is “just the flu” and no big deal?
I’m voting for “More wingnut theater” BS.
re: #121 Mike Lamb
Has anyone determined whether he was being serious or ironically supporting the idea that this is “just the flu” and no big deal?
My bet it’s him trying to own the libs by parodying their “mass hysteria” about the “fake news virus”.
Will they nickname the sickness “The Orange Clown” in the US as it spreads?
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re: #119 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Yet Michelle having a garden meant she was an elitist.
lol, no, this is a gardening elitist
eta: I got your sarcasm by the way : )
re: #121 Mike Lamb
Has anyone determined whether he was being serious or ironically supporting the idea that this is “just the flu” and no big deal?
asshattery either way
Glenn’s point is literally that we should try engagement with Russia on an even higher level than we have with Red China. Engagement with Red China enables some of the mid-to-high-level Chinese Communist Party members to own Buicks, but does nothing for personal freedom.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
The second reading of Sen. Megan Hunt’s bill in the Unicameral has passed.
Nebraska’s unicameral state legislature has given a second round of approval to bill that would make it easier for college athletes to make money off name, image and likeness. This sets bill for a final vote, which could come next week.
— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) March 6, 2020
Nebraska is on track to become the 2nd state to allow student athletes the right to profit from their own name, image, and likeness—you know, like every other human is allowed to do.
Proud to lead this effort and grateful to my colleagues for moving this forward. Let’s do this! https://t.co/s9Ww22VNkd— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 6, 2020
re: #125 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
asshattery either way
Disagree with this. If he’s seriously concerned, as over the top as his choice of a gas mask might be, it’s within his right. If he’s mocking the seriousness of the outbreak and the virus, all in support of Trump, it’s way worse.
re: #128 Mike Lamb
Disagree with this. If he’s seriously concerned, as over the top as his choice of a gas mask might be, it’s within his right. If he’s mocking the seriousness of the outbreak and the virus, all in support of Trump, it’s way worse.
While you are correct.. It’s Gaetz.
Gun to your head, or under threat of a charlie horse, which do you think it is?
re: #128 Mike Lamb
Disagree with this. If he’s seriously concerned, as over the top as his choice of a gas mask might be, it’s within his right. If he’s mocking the seriousness of the outbreak and the virus, all in support of Trump, it’s way worse.
Given he’s an emotionally-stunted fratboy who once got kicked in the balls as he was being thrown out of a bar while screaming the equiv of “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!,” I’d say the possibility that this was an example of his being genuinely concerned about a public health crisis is…remote.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 6, 2020
re: #121 Mike Lamb
Has anyone determined whether he was being serious or ironically supporting the idea that this is “just the flu” and no big deal?
The latter. He’s a complete asshole.
Matt Gaetz is “My dad owns a dealership” levels of pathetic, I don’t really buy the idea that he’s doing anything but continuing to play childish pranks because it’s what the alpha jock loser (aka Donald Trump) responds to when looking for underlings.
re: #133 Targetpractice
Matt Gaetz is “My dad owns a dealership” levels of pathetic, I don’t really buy the idea that he’s doing anything but continuing to play childish pranks because it’s what the alpha jock loser (aka Donald Trump) responds to when looking for underlings.
It guaranteed him a degree of notoriety, which is seen as a success by his metrics.
(except he rejects the metric system as Euro-elitist)
I get a kick out of state senator Megan Hunt’s Twitter account.
I welcome our 231st year of male presidents
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 5, 2020
no offense but u are annoying !!!!!!!!! no offense though
— big forehead (@freakinfrick) March 6, 2020
YOU think I’m annoying?? I have to listen to myself even when I’m not speaking https://t.co/HhbitPJ05w
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) March 6, 2020
Investigation finds Boeing needs to fix dozens of safety issues on the astronaut capsule it built for NASA.https://t.co/1G8YBHJPi2
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) March 6, 2020
re: #136 Dread Pirate
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re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🎃
It doesn’t help that RatioanlWiki promotes that crap as well. They define you as having gone from an intolerant right-wing asshole to an intolerant left-wing asshole.
Generally their articles are pretty good, but the one about you is a Dumpster fire of falsehoods.
I know. It’s pretty clear that one of their editors has it in for me, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
re: #136 Dread Pirate
Investigation finds Boeing needs to fix dozens of safety issues on the astronaut capsule it built for NASA
737s in space…
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
737s in space…
Yeah, but in space, only the enemy’s gate is down.
BREAKING: National Organization for Women (NOW) urges Warren not to endorse Sanders.
“He’s really, as far as we know, done next to nothing for women and for our issues.”
The organization credited Biden for achieving the Violence Against Women Act.
https://t.co/wqzLKjvWcl— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) March 6, 2020
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
737s in space…
To be fair, various models of the 737 have been in service for decades with a fairly enviable safety record.
The problem has been in the last 2 decades, when the whole “We can save so much gov’t money by shifting safety inspections to the companies themselves!” deregulation has led to execs pushing for profitability over safety.
Greenwald is really a frightening case. He considers there 2b such an absence of redemption possible for the circa-1991 USA that he considers Russia to be “our natural ally” even though as an out gay man, it would be legally REQUIRED for the average RU subject 2beat him on sight. https://t.co/QbOFFhg41o
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
Grifting Old Parasite isn’t a bad description of Trump, and I like how the initials work out.
VATICAN: After registering its first positive test, the Vatican is suspending all foreign activities including a mission to investigate clerical abuse in Mexico. https://t.co/VmUzNXvl5t
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) March 6, 2020
re: #141 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
National Organization for Women (NOW) urges Warren not to endorse Sanders.
Low-information voters, obvs.
Or corporate elites. I can’t decide.
President Trump doesn’t just reject economists’ warnings that he needs to act to avert recession
he told me today coronavirus is helping the economy by keeping American dollars from traveling abroad
my @CNN analysishttps://t.co/VJLbOVdMJw— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 6, 2020
Security line at Boston Logan Airport, about 830 am on a Friday - I’ve never seen anything like it. #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/5kLYAe0BUr
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 6, 2020
On Wednesday night I flew out of Newark EWR. The fewest number of people id ever seen at that airport during rush hour since first flying through there in 1991. But there were significantly more travelers on Weds as compared to today.
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) March 6, 2020
re: #142 Targetpractice
To be fair, various models of the 737 have been in service for decades with a fairly enviable safety record.
The problem has been in the last 2 decades, when the whole “We can save so much gov’t money by shifting safety inspections to the companies themselves!” deregulation has led to execs pushing for profitability over safety.
No, the real problem is that it’s physically impossible to keep using the 737 wing location on a fuselage of that diameter with the unavoidably-increased diameter of modern jet engines.
Admittedly, it passed testing only via regulatory capture, but it should have been stopped even before mock-up stage as theoretically not an option, and a clean-sheet replacement commenced instead!
i was about to post this picture and explain what it is and whodathunkit, i wrote a post in 2017
18 hour no knead bread
that’s ‘the stove’ in the background (it cooks just fine)
Governor Pete Ricketts (R-Ameritrade) is opposed to it and will likely veto it if it gets to his desk.
With the endorsement of business groups beginning to move the needle within the Nebraska Legislature, backers of a law banning LGBT job discrimination have made plans for a push in the final days of this year’s session. https://t.co/5YFjPe77zW
— Omaha World-Herald (@OWHnews) March 4, 2020
re: #146 makeitstop
Low-information voters, obvs.
Or corporate elites. I can’t decide.
Just call them “the establishment,” it’s quicker that way.
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re: #146 makeitstop
Low-information voters, obvs.
Or corporate elites. I can’t decide.
Nope, just that third category: women.
re: #143 Chrysicat
A charitable view of Greenwald’s mental malfunction is that he has so deeply internalized letting the perfect be the enemy of the good that he literally cannot see Republican atrocities because he is too fixated on Democratic disappointments.
But I no longer feel like being so charitable to Greenwald.
geez this mourning for liz is really just getting out of hand. i’ve even seen some bewailing how it must be sexism that stopped her, a woman, from getting the nomination. i mean, hillary clinton has practically been erased here…
you know, i love liz but imho she made a crummy candidate. from the point of view of people who are not committed progressives who dine daily on details of positions, policies, and votes, she came across as a schoolmarm breathlessly overwhelming them with details, details, details. they weren’t one bit interested in hearing about her plan for that
amy is a practiced and accomplished politician and she makes inspirational speeches. she is also, may i point out, a progressive or at least a liberal democrat, and, incidentally, a female person. what about her?
given that liz garnered all of 12.5% here in CA, but that the media is draped in black these past two days over her departure, i have to conclude that that small slice of the democratic electorate contains many of the most influential opinion makers around
Did Sirota do a Twitter flounce here?
Logging off. Goodbye.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) March 6, 2020
re: #145 Dread Pirate
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re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He’s a moran.
If this gets out of hand, it’s going to screw up the whole world’s economy. There won’t be any travelling in the USA either.
Heck, people might go to Mexico where it’s safer.
re: #148 Chrysicat
No, the real problem is that it’s physically impossible to keep using the 737 wing location on a fuselage of that diameter with the unavoidably-increased diameter of modern jet engines.
Admittedly, it passed testing only via regulatory capture, but it should have been stopped even before mock-up stage as theoretically not an option, and a clean-sheet replacement commenced instead!
All very true. But you’re looking at this from the perspective of anybody but a company exec, whose biggest focus is on making more profit with each jet sold. And selling an “upgraded” 737 to existing customers today versus a whole new jet tomorrow is a no-brainer to such types. So if the engineers say “It won’t work,” the answer is generally not “You’re right, let’s go back to the drawing board,” it’s generally “Make it work or we’ll find somebody who can.”
re: #128 Mike Lamb
Disagree with this. If he’s seriously concerned, as over the top as his choice of a gas mask might be, it’s within his right. If he’s mocking the seriousness of the outbreak and the virus, all in support of Trump, it’s way worse.
if he was serious, he’d do something serious
or say something serious.
instead he sat there reading like everything was normal.
almost pretending he wasnt wearing the thing
not saying he didnt have the the right, just that it was ineffective
how do I know?
because ‘the message’ is unclear, open to interpretation and we’re trying to ‘figure it out’
Stanford launches its own coronavirus test https://t.co/T2i7yS2387 pic.twitter.com/HP9O6Xgeqp
— SFGate (@SFGate) March 6, 2020
re: #142 Targetpractice
To be fair, various models of the 737 have been in service for decades with a fairly enviable safety record.
The problem has been in the last 2 decades, when the whole “We can save so much gov’t money by shifting safety inspections to the companies themselves!” deregulation has led to execs pushing for profitability over safety.
Boeing pretends to be a private company but it as subsidized as much Airbus is in Europe through its extensive military and aerospace contracting.
Thread (Sherman)
It is so galling that Trump continues to tell the country that everything Dems are doing and saying on coronavirus is all about *hurting him,* even as Dems are responsibly pushing the administration in a way that has *improved* its response immeasurably. https://t.co/11dAgium8p https://t.co/A2CRJuVH5U
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 6, 2020
re: #154 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
geez this mourning for liz is really just getting out of hand. i’ve even seen some bewailing how it must be sexism that stopped her, a woman, from getting the nomination. i mean, hillary clinton has practically been erased here…
you know, i love liz but imho she made a crummy candidate. from the point of view of people who are not committed progressives who dine daily on details of positions, policies, and votes, she came across as a schoolmarm breathlessly overwhelming them with details, details, details. they weren’t one bit interested in hearing about her plan for that
amy is a practiced and accomplished politician and she makes inspirational speeches. she is also, may i point out, a progressive or at least a liberal democrat, and, incidentally, a female person. what about her?
given that liz garnered all of 12.5% here in CA, but that the media is draped in black these past two days over her departure, i have to conclude that that small slice of the democratic electorate contains many of the most influential opinion makers around
When there are two candidates in the race with high name recognition, it’s hard for other candidates to gain traction. Now that younger candidates like Kamala, Pete and Amy have introduced themselves, and will have the chance to get high federal offices, they will have a better chance next time.
re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
President Trump doesn’t just reject economists’ warnings that he needs to act to avert recession
he told me today coronavirus is helping the economy by keeping American dollars from traveling abroad
Because that is the sort of “common sense thinking” that appeals to his base.
re: #160 Dread Pirate
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In a time of national crisis, we’re seeing more and more localities dropping the CDC tests in favor of their own due to inaccuracy or uselessness.
If I were conspiracy-minded, I’d almost think this was all an effort to further undermine public confidence in federal institutions.
re: #147 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Airlines are grounding planes and consolidating schedules because demand for seats has dropped - here and internationally. Lufthansa has grounded 150 planes, canceled 100s of flights, and other airlines are following suit.
There’s a reason. People are taking the situation more seriously than fuckin’ lunatic Trump.
re: #163 NO SMOCKING GUN!
When there are two candidates in the race with high name recognition, it’s hard for other candidates to gain traction. Now that younger candidates like Kamala, Pete and Amy have introduced themselves, and will have the chance to get high federal offices, they will have a better chance next time.
barack obama, 2008
re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because Trump and the GOP have a public health policy (and general outlook) that boils down to #GOPDontCare unless millionaires get richer and the burdens fall to everyone else.
re: #155 makeitstop
Did Sirota do a Twitter flounce here?
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Oh. People were mean.
The threats against me & others on our campaign on this website have become increasingly aggressive. I’m not talking about mean tweets of C-Span videos. I’m talking about open threats and calls for harm. I have a pretty thick skin, but this is not OK.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) March 6, 2020
Ya gets what ya gives, Skippy.
Donny is a zero-sum kinda guy, that’s been obvious for a good long while. So in his mind, if Americans can’t travel because of worry over a viral pandemic or do business in foreign locales, then the US can only benefit because those dollars will be spent here instead. The idea that people will just sit on their money because they can’t spend it in Italy or buy products from China is totally lost on him.
re: #165 Targetpractice
In a time of national crisis, we’re seeing more and more localities dropping the CDC tests in favor of their own due to inaccuracy or uselessness.
If I were conspiracy-minded, I’d almost think this was all an effort to further undermine public confidence in federal institutions.
There’s a straight line from the present issues at CDC at least all the way back to Reagan and his dismissal of the possibility of helpful government activity.
This is tinpot dictator bullshit and Redfield has more to answer for than almost anyone. https://t.co/Oi72RssnxV
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2020
This is absolutely batshit crazy. But Louie Gohmert and Steve King took to the House floor to openly speculate that the Deep State had killed a former DHS official because he knew too much. https://t.co/WmDiFbci4p
via @willsommer— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 6, 2020
More aggressive testing in NY equals more cases identified: now up to 44. Scroll back a bit, and you’d see that we had 33 just a few hours ago.
Number of identified cases climb, mortality rate should begin dropping towards what we see elsewhere in the world.
re: #171 Targetpractice
Donny is a zero-sum kinda guy, that’s been obvious for a good long while. So in his mind, if Americans can’t travel because of worry over a viral pandemic or do business in foreign locales, then the US can only benefit because those dollars will be spent here instead. The idea that people will just sit on their money because they can’t spend it in Italy or buy products from China is totally lost on him.
re: #174 Dread Pirate
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re: #171 Targetpractice
Donny is a zero-sum kinda guy, that’s been obvious for a good long while. So in his mind, if Americans can’t travel because of worry over a viral pandemic or do business in foreign locales, then the US can only benefit because those dollars will be spent here instead. The idea that people will just sit on their money because they can’t spend it in Italy or buy products from China is totally lost on him.
While this kind of transactional thinking is wholly in-character for Trump, he may not be able to cognitively work his way through even this simple-minded stuff these days.
What I mostly see in the bullshit from the White House about covid-19 is inauguration crowd size style Trump happy noises, whose relation to reality can only be purely coincidental.
re: #170 makeitstop
David doesn’t get much benefit of the doubt from me. All I see is him trying to rebut the threats that Warren talked about. This just feels like the equivalent of a white man complaining about his shirt being mocked when a woman complains about being harrassed.
re: #175 lawhawk
More aggressive testing in NY equals more cases identified: now up to 44. Scroll back a bit, and you’d see that we had 33 just a few hours ago.
Number of identified cases climb, mortality rate should begin dropping towards what we see elsewhere in the world.
You’d think that would be an ideal situation for this administration, but when you’ve hinged your entire credibility on the idea that the viral outbreak is smaller than being reported, increased testing is the last thing you want to do.
JUST IN: South by Southwest canceled, “local disaster” declared in Austin, Texas, amid growing coronavirus fears, Austin mayor announces. https://t.co/uktXUEaeda pic.twitter.com/di4pBE6PBn
— ABC News (@ABC) March 6, 2020
re: #174 Dread Pirate
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The spread of conspiracy theory bs by elected officials is yet another aspect of the Age of Trump that is disturbing af.
Sanders said he’s seen plenty of protesters at his events — many of them Trump supporters — “but this was something different,” he told reporters in Phoenix today, describing the swastika as “unspeakable” & the “most detestable symbol in modern history.” https://t.co/zaNGWoybyE
— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) March 6, 2020
It is admittedly hard to see those who care about civility + toxicity (which I understand) sit in silence about the disturbing antisemitism emerging around Sen. Sanders. A pundit also compared him to a disease on national TV.
It’s disturbing. If you care, please care everywhere. https://t.co/hMSJ87Id52— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 6, 2020
re: #180 Belafon
David doesn’t get much benefit of the doubt from me. All I see is him trying to rebut the threats that Warren talked about. This just feels like the equivalent of a white man complaining about his shirt being mocked when a woman complains about being harrassed.
He did a lot of lying about O’Rourke too. Precisely I think because he saw Beto as a threat.
re: #138 Charles Johnson
I know. It’s pretty clear that one of their editors has it in for me, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
I got $5 on Greenwald bro.
Those entries are from August 2014.
Yesterday
BREAKING: Alabama inmate Nathaniel Woods executed; Woods’ co-defendant, who has confessed to being the triggerman and denies Woods was complicit, implored for his execution to be stopped. https://t.co/3pSM83X1eZ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 6, 2020
re: #171 Targetpractice
Donny is a zero-sum kinda guy, that’s been obvious for a good long while. So in his mind, if Americans can’t travel because of worry over a viral pandemic or do business in foreign locales, then the US can only benefit because those dollars will be spent here instead. The idea that people will just sit on their money because they can’t spend it in Italy or buy products from China is totally lost on him.
The more states that get filled in by the evening news as having coronavirus patients, the less peole are going to want to travel in the US. And if it starts sounding like it’s local, they’re not going anywhere.
re: #155 makeitstop
Did Sirota do a Twitter flounce here?
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We should only be so lucky.
SXSW finally did the right thing.
re: #171 Targetpractice
Donny is a zero-sum kinda guy, that’s been obvious for a good long while. So in his mind, if Americans can’t travel because of worry over a viral pandemic or do business in foreign locales, then the US can only benefit because those dollars will be spent here instead. The idea that people will just sit on their money because they can’t spend it in Italy or buy products from China is totally lost on him.
his economic theory is naïve 17th century mercantilism, which calculates the “wealth” of a country by how much gold it has sitting around in piles
this is the view of the economic world that adam smith overthrew
re: #163 NO SMOCKING GUN!
When there are two candidates in the race with high name recognition, it’s hard for other candidates to gain traction. Now that younger candidates like Kamala, Pete and Amy have introduced themselves, and will have the chance to get high federal offices, they will have a better chance next time.
It’s so cute that you believe that.
(Snarky, sorry…I hope you know I luvs ya. Sexism won’t allow us a woman POTUS in 2024. Maybe 2028. Likely after that, though.)
I’m supposed to go to a convention mid June to Vegas… looking like a gnu now.
re: #191 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
his economic theory is naïve 17th century mercantilism, which calculates the “wealth” of a country by how much gold it has sitting around in piles
this is the view of the economic world that adam smith overthrew
I’m no economist or even particularly great at economics but my belief is economics can and should adopt with the times.
re: #194 lizardofid
NO!
OK, maybe I will after all. Might roast some jalapeno tonight. Still working off those habaneros I pickled. Those should last until 2078.
Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the @space_station – the final mission of the first version of Dragon. Launch is targeted for 11:50 p.m. EST → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/2PE1BmjNYh
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 6, 2020
re: #179 gocart mozart
Live music, if you can go GO. (This will always be my answer.)
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We should only be so lucky.
SXSW finally did the right thing.
Also Ultra/Calle Ocho in Miami, and Women of the World in Baltimore.
Keep your eye on Coachella. If they cancel, the entertainment industry is in for a really bad year.
Remember when the President of the United States was capable of getting through a major national crisis without being such a sick, sick, sick black hole of insecurity and neediness that he required these grotesque sideshows of self-abasement? https://t.co/edqTMSTjfQ
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) March 6, 2020
I keep hearing stories like this of Iranian-Americans waltzing through CBP during coronavirus… which is like…. … https://t.co/6Or273jALr
— Nilo Tabrizy (@ntabrizy) March 6, 2020
Breaking: Austin officials have announced that the 2020 #SXSW festival has been canceled amid coronavirus fears https://t.co/5TDNI2ztr3
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 6, 2020
I suspect the petition did not have anything to do with this; Internet petitions rarely have any real effect.
A https://t.co/LGULFxlmLd petition to cancel the event gathered nearly 55,000 signatures prior to the announcement https://t.co/fbWGUNWKUQ
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 6, 2020
Ninth of ten:
Don’t tell me that you’ve washed your hands of responsibility for civilization and then demand civilivity.You live in red state? So what. So do I. Show up anyway. Cast your vote and spit right in fascism’s eye. This is the moment. Right now. Stand up and be counted. 9/
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 6, 2020
“The [coronavirus] tests are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. This was not a perfect as that, but pretty good.” — is Trump referring to the transcript of his phone call with the Ukrainian president here? pic.twitter.com/FU5XxPTu7Z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 6, 2020
“Anybody that needs a test… that’s the important thing.”
Notice that he hasn’t actually made a promise here.
Trump says he’s given no thought to cancelling his MAGA rallies because of coronavirus risk to the 1000s of attendees.
“Doesn’t bother me at all and it doesn’t bother them at all,” he says.— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) March 6, 2020
Typhoid Trumpys
The Atlantic contacts all 50 state health departments to reconstruct the number the CDC is hiding, and finds that 1,895 people have been tested for the coronavirus in the US.https://t.co/syNJsGZ2Sd
— Paul Graham (@paulg) March 6, 2020
re: #204 jaunte
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“Anybody that needs a test… that’s the important thing.”
Notice that he hasn’t actually made a promise here.
State and local agencies are developing their own tests due to the CDC’s test being unreliable, yet this shit-for-brains is yammering that the test is “perfect.”
You’re actually watching him shred not only his own credibility, but that of the CDC in real time.
Trump proclaims that the doctors around him wonder “how do you know so much about this?” “Maybe I have a natural ability” he says.
— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) March 6, 2020
Doctors in tears.
Trump says he “doesn’t necessarily agree with proactive testing,” because he thinks we’ll be able to find out where people are infected “by waiting.”
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) March 6, 2020
Trump at CDC: “You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT. He taught at MIT for a record number of years. He was a great super genius, Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it…Maybe I have a natural ability.”
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) March 6, 2020
Sir, can you taste this specimen and let us know with your natural ability if it’s contaminated?
re: #211 jaunte
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Meanwhile, infectees are contagious for 5 days before them become symptomatic, assuming there are no asymptomatic carriers out there who are spreading the virus without ever so much as spiking a fever.
If you’ve ever watched a zombie movie and asked yourself “How could it get so bad so fast without people noticing,” here’s your answer.
re: #213 jaunte
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My uncle was a brickmason, that doesn’t make me one. Fucking idiot this guy.
re: #204 jaunte
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“Anybody that needs a test… that’s the important thing.”
Notice that he hasn’t actually made a promise here.
Is there even a possibility it’s NOT the latter?
I’m increasingly believing he was a Flat-Earth geocentrist who further believes DC is the centre of Earth, BEFORE he was elected president.
Which clashes slightly with his worshippers who say JERUSALEM is the centre.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
re: #211 jaunte
Gaaa.
We do proactive testing for all sorts of diseases. I wonder how many people I would have infected with tuberculosis if I hadn’t been screened for it.
re: #213 jaunte
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I’ve a great-uncle who is so artistically gifted that he can make stunningly realistic copies of photographs in paint.
That doesn’t mean I’m any sort of artist by relation.
re: #220 Targetpractice
I’ve a great-uncle who is so artistically gifted that he can make stunningly realistic copies of photographs in paint.
That doesn’t mean I’m any sort of artist by relation.
Seriously how anyone who remotely supports him talks shit about Biden. Better a stutterer than a syphilitic riddled mind.
re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Gaaa.
We do proactive testing for all sorts of diseases. I wonder how many people I would have infected with tuberculosis if I hadn’t been screened for it.
By the man’s own logic, the people we evacuated from Ebola hot zones should never have been tested and just released back into the general population to eventually crash and bleed out in an ER.
Ok, the CDC appearance was the most disturbing one yet from Trump. He literally said experts were telling him to take sick Americans off a cruise ship but he doesn’t want to do it because it WILL MAKE THE NUMBERS GO UP and it “wasn’t our fault.” Holy Jesus.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2020
so, I make a habit of reporting robocallers and telemarketers who violate the Do Not Call lists.
In my mail today was a check for $257.99, my portion of a class action settlement (Abante Rooter and Plumbing, Inc. v. alarm.com Inc.).
Totes surprise!
re: #206 jaunte
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Did he just basically say that his god will actively prevent covid19 carriers from spreading the virus at HOT, SWEATY RALLIES?!?
100% infection rate, here we come.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 6, 2020
re: #221 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Too many of the podcasters I listen to are ranting about Joe’s addled mind. It’s really not helpful.
In the last hour the markets climbed enough for rich people to profit off those who put money in thinking “the market is at the bottom.”
All indices still closed down on the day.
Somehow, even if Biden is not the most mentally solid guy in the race, I still feel he’d be more likely to trust the experts in the midst of a viral pandemic rather than substituting his own ramblings as national policy.
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
Bless my eyes this morning
Jah sun is on the rise once again
The way earthly things are going
Anything can happen
You see men sailing on their ego trips
Blast off on their spaceships
Million miles from reality
No care for you, no care for me
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
All you’ve got to do is give a little (give a little)
Give a little (give a little)
Give a little (give a little)
One more time yeah! (give a little)
Yeah! (give a little) yeah! (give a little) yeah!
So you think you’ve found the solution
But it’s just another illusion
So before you check out this tide
Don’t leave another cornerstone standing there behind
We’ve got to face the day
Ooh we come what may
We the street people talking
Yeah, we the people struggling
Now they are sitting on a time bomb (bomb, bomb, bomb! bomb, bomb, bomb!)
Now I know the time has come (bomb, bomb, bomb! bomb, bomb, bomb!)
What goes on up is coming on down (bomb, bomb, bomb! bomb, bomb, bomb!)
Goes around and comes around (bomb, bomb, bomb! bomb, bomb, bomb!)
So much trouble in the world
So much trouble in the world
re: #227 plansbandc
Too many of the podcasters I listen to are ranting about Joe’s addled mind. It’s really not helpful.
As a stutterer I’ve had it. Bastards.
re: #229 Targetpractice
Somehow, even if Biden is not the most mentally solid guy in the race, I still feel he’d be more likely to trust the experts in the midst of a viral pandemic rather than substituting his own ramblings as national policy.
Exactly
By the way, the man who is arguing that cruise passengers who are likely infected with an airborne virus that has infected hundreds of thousands and lead to over a thousand deaths was arguing just 6 years ago that anybody who voluntarily went into a hot zone to help in the fight against a bloodborne illness that doesn’t come close to those numbers on average should have been barred from reentry and left to die as a sort of pseudo-punishment for their benevolence.
re: #233 Targetpractice
I don’t believe in the Antichrist, but …
Shit, looks like summer 2020 will be cancelled.
re: #202 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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Fortunately, local officials, businesses, and private citizens are ignoring Cheeto and his flying monkeys and stepping up to handle this crisis. We need overall leadership, but we don’t have it, so we have to make do and survive as best we can.
re: #238 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Fortunately, local officials, businesses, and private citizens are ignoring Cheeto and his flying monkeys and stepping up to handle this crisis. We need overall leadership, but we don’t have it, so we have to make do and survive as best we can.
Ayep. For example, even without a single confirmed case here in VA, Gov. Northam has already go out and announced that the state is taking the threat seriously and deploying resources to contain any possible outbreaks.
The wingnuts who hate anything Dem will undoubtedly think this is “overblown” and “a waste of money,” but the rest of us see a government that actually gives a shit about its people.
It doesn’t matter how hard conservatives in the federal government try to hide the numbers, they will still get out.
Daily updates will be posted every afternoon
March 6
The number of guests on the UNMC/ Nebraska Medical Center campus from the Diamond Princess cruise ship remains at eight. One continues to be treated in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, and seven are being monitored in the National Quarantine Center. The earliest that another person could be cleared to leave the quarantine unit is over the weekend, pending test results.
COVID-19 cases in the U.S. reached 240, with 14 deaths. Globally, cases have surpassed 100,000, with more than 3,400 deaths.
I am going off the Internets for 24 hours. See you on the other side of Shabbat!
Now, why was it that the CDC decided that the best course of action was to dvise it’s own COVID-19 test?
BREAKING: Trump could still own stock in a company that, according to the CDC, will play a major role in providing coronavirus test kits to the federal government, which means that Trump could profit from coronavirus testing. #COVIDー19 #coronavirus https://t.co/Kwl3ylMZRk
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 6, 2020
re: #241 The Pie Overlord!
I am going off the Internets for 24 hours. See you on the other side of Shabbat!
Catch ya later. Bring back pie. /s
re: #242 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Now, why was it that the CDC decided that the best course of action was to dvise it’s own COVID-19 test?
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At this point, it’s impossible not to assume there is something to any potential conflict of interest. Why? Because every time we’ve said “He’s not that dumb,” he’s proven that he’s actually dumber than we assumed.
re: #242 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Of course. $Ka-ching$. Everything with Trump is a con. Absolutely everything.
re: #206 jaunte
Good. Because if I get it, I’m going to everyone of those motherfuckers and shaking everyone’s hand I can.
I see a man who needs a longer jacket to cover his adult diaper. @MysterySolvent https://t.co/kndbeF7LrB
— Amy Aiello Lofgren (@azsweetheart013) March 6, 2020
So, logged onto Twitter, and I see that Marion County is “Trending in Indiana
First case of COVID-19 in Indiana.
Just because I’ve taken a ton of pictures of Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson doesn’t mean I can play professional football, you bloated orange deranged animal.
Driftglass hits one out of the park on radicals vs. moderates. driftglass.blogspot.com
The start
Based on my keen observation of the obvious, it seems clear that, on a very basic level, many politically moderate Liberal persons fundamentally do not understand how politically radical Leftists persons think and act, and vice versa. So, as a public service, allow this tiny blog in the middle of Middle America to be your bridge to a greater understanding.
For politically moderate Liberals, the complexities of the world are … complex and costly. Providing health care for everyone while not bankrupting the country is a complex problem. Operating a humane border with Mexico that serves both countries interests is a complex issue. Making sure college is affordable to anyone who wants to attend is a complex issue. Amending to constitution, whether to guarantee a woman’s reproductive rights or to drastically curtail the power that wealthy donors and dark money have over our politics, is a fraught and hugely complex undertaking.
Each of these are laudable goals, but each come with a very high degree of difficulty given the deliberately hobbling setup of our constitutional democracy, and the inevitable lockstep and well-funded opposition each of these noble projects would face from the Republican party and the mainstream media.
For the radical, the complexities of the world are radically simplified. Whatever the problem, the revolution will solve it, which is why the revolution is the all-important goal, and why all conditions and circumstances are seen within the revolutionary context. That which advances the revolution is to be nourished. That which stands in the way of the revolution must be converted or destroyed.
re: #252 EPR-radar
Driftglass hits one out of the park on radicals vs. moderates. driftglass.blogspot.com
The start
Smart dude, that Drifty.
re: #252 EPR-radar
Driftglass hits one out of the park on radicals vs. moderates. driftglass.blogspot.com
The start
Very much like religious apologists (to which Driftglass compares them).
Finally, like any other form of fundamentalism, the radical worldview is reduced to a simple, all-inclusive Manichean struggle between the Saved and the Damned, which dooms any debate over any issue from the start. Since the only acceptable solution to all problems — the only path to salvation — is revolution, if you are down with the revolution, you are Saved. And once in a state of revolutionary grace, it not only doesn’t really matter that Trump won in 2016 (or that the Both Parties Are Equally Damned ethos of the revolution may have helped him get elected) but Trump winning re-election might actually be a good thing because it heightens the contradictions! Because all suffering and catastrophe are grist for the revolutionary mill.
re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth
so, I make a habit of reporting robocallers and telemarketers who violate the Do Not Call lists.
In my mail today was a check for $257.99, my portion of a class action settlement (Abante Rooter and Plumbing, Inc. v. alarm.com Inc.).
Totes surprise!
How do you report? I would be happy to do that. I have been screaming and blocking, but they still come in by the litter.
re: #248 gocart mozart
I’m sure that gentleman would rather not wear them, not cool, not funny.
re: #252 EPR-radar
Driftglass hits one out of the park on radicals vs. moderates. driftglass.blogspot.com
The start
Just happened to look over at Fark, which has generally been a den in recent months of unvarnished “With us or against us!” orthodox Bernerism, and there’s a topic over 700+ posts now. The topic? Professor-Senator Warren calling out Berners for being a bunch of assholes. And the top “smart” comments are Warren supporters laying out the truth to the Berners that assuming a 30% share of the vote would carry them to the nomination and so shitting on anybody who didn’t jump on the bandwagon is why they’re (again) headed for “also-ran” status.
re: #252 EPR-radar
That’s why I won’t call myself progressives. I’ve come to hate self-described progressives. These are the same people that tell the disabled community, “You’re using up resources!”
Fuck them kindly.
re: #128 Mike Lamb
Disagree with this. If he’s seriously concerned, as over the top as his choice of a gas mask might be, it’s within his right. If he’s mocking the seriousness of the outbreak and the virus, all in support of Trump, it’s way worse.
Gaetz is the guy who wanted to have my friend Amanda Kondrat’yev imprisoned for a year because she yeeted a Slushie at him last June. (The judge sentenced her to two weeks in jail and three years of probation.) So all the laughter and humiliation he gets, YEAH. I’m all for it.
re: #248 gocart mozart
Yeesh. He’s supposedly rich, and he can’t afford clothes that fit.
By the way, one Farker laid out the stunning reality to Berners that needs to be repeated:
The miserable youth turnout figures so far this year are really undercutting the “well I’ll just stay home” threat. Biatch you’re already staying home, that’s why your man faceplanted on Super Tuesday.
— Working With RW = Suicide (@wildwestpie) March 6, 2020
— John Cook (@johnjcook) March 6, 2020
re: #174 Dread Pirate
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🚨#NewYork announces 44 new #coronavirus cases, double the number yesterday, including 8 in Westchester, 3 on Long Island.
Unfortunately, we should expect the number of #COVID19 cases in the U.S. to surge over the next several weeks.#CoronavirusOutbreakhttps://t.co/Gzg9BTyA9q— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 6, 2020
re: #256 retired cynic
How do you report? I would be happy to do that. I have been screaming and blocking, but they still come in by the litter.
Sign up for the Do Not Call Registry (or verify you are signed up) here:
donotcall.gov
How to report robocalls (you have to give your personal information if you wish to be part of any settlement the FTC or others might earn):
consumer.ftc.gov
The good news is it’s fucked pretty much everywhere.
Despite all warnings, the Orthodox Church insists that #COVID19 isn’t a threat to believers and they should go to church and receive holy communion from the same holy spoon. Worst part is that TV amplifies the message. #Greece pic.twitter.com/8Dpugv3CEk
— 🕊️Tassos✌️Morfis🦄 (@TassosMorfis) March 6, 2020
re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Thank you! I should have just used Google and saved you the effort.
Another cruise ship controversy right here at home.
Cruise ship turned away from Asia ports over coronavirus is headed to Alaska
My understanding is that the ship will not have had any passengers for over a month and will have just a skeleton crew. The ship will also have been disinfected and the crew tested before arrival.
The ship is coming here for “storage” until the cruise line company decides what it’s plans are for the coming season.
One reason Juneau is so attractive for long term storage is that this time of year the large cruise ship docks are empty and that off-shore power, water, and sewer services are available at our docks. For several years Juneau has been activity developing these connections to reduce air and water pollution while cruise ships are in town. Many days there are as many as 4-5 ships (and +/- 15,000 people) visiting us.
Yes, there’s been a lot of discussion about what could happen this season. Some are even threatening to block the Channel to prevent cruise ships from arriving.
One thing no one has noticed is that having a 1500 person(s) capacity, empty cruise ship in town is that it would make an excellent isolation facility should the pandemic ever reach our town.
re: #269 Cheechako
One thing no one has noticed is that having a 1500 person(s) capacity, empty cruise ship in town is that it would make an excellent isolation facility should the pandemic ever reach our town.
Such a good idea. Like Kirkland buying a motel and quarantining people there, but on steroids. They should bring it on down to Seattle!
re: #268 retired cynic
Thank you! I should have just used Google and saved you the effort.
You’re welcome.
Besides, it gave me the opportunity to see if I’m still signed up, since I’m getting a bunch of robocalls lately.
The Do Not Call registry does not prohibit charities, politicians, and certain others from calling.
And Brave Sir Romney ran away…
JUST IN: @MittRomney will vote for the subpoena next week seeking records about Hunter Biden and Burisma, his spokeswoman confirms to me. pic.twitter.com/QrPqiuQblU
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) March 6, 2020
The core of the impeachment case was Trump’s unwillingness or inability to distinguish between the public interest and his own personal political interest. We’re now seeing that exact same dynamic playing out amidst a global pandemic.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 6, 2020
re: #272 Targetpractice
And Brave Sir Romney ran away…
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And of course Sen. Johnson wouldn’t dream of letting any leaks of testimony out of that committee.
re: #273 Blind Frog Belly White
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What we’re seeing is exactly what people have speculated would happen for years: A national crisis would hit and he’d look for an angle that only benefits himself.
re: #274 retired cynic
And of course Sen. Johnson wouldn’t dream of letting any leaks of testimony out of that committee.
Ayep. Just like Collins totally thought she was getting that vote on her ACA “fix” bill.
re: #275 Targetpractice
What we’re seeing is exactly what people have speculated would happen for years: A national crisis would hit and he’d look for an angle that only benefits himself.
Every damn time he’s asked a question or given a chance to speak the truth about what’s happening, he defaults to lying to try and look better. Every. Single. Time.
And if it isn’t frightening enough, the Pentagon—if you read down Natasha’s thread—is increasing staffed by “acting” appointees. Just fucking eating the heart out of government like a heart worm.
The White House “has taken total control over staffing at DoD and anything that they perceive as disloyalty is a disqualification.”
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“They want to make sure that there’s no hint or indication of conflicting loyalties,” the person said. “It’s complete and total control.” https://t.co/rREooVGwBw— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 6, 2020
Classic Trump. He just can’t help blurting out the reality of why he’s acting like this. https://t.co/5q5qDJPyca
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2020
We’re so fucked…
When the President is given advice he disagrees with — even if it comes from someone well versed in the field of discussion — he often seeks outside counsel in hopes of reinforcing his own instincts. In the fourth year of his presidency, aides are well aware of the President’s tactics, and often work around him by calling outside advisers in hopes of catching them before they speak with the President.
I had a meeting in our SE MN office today. Someone there is about to leave for a week-long vacation with family, then fly home via Seattle. No one in the office sounded too thrilled about that.
We have our first official case in MN. I’ve been away from the news all day so I don’t have details.
Silver lining on today is that I can finally tweet this truly epic shot of Warren staff reacting to Jacob Wohl claiming our boss was having a BDSM affair with a young marine. #GoCougars pic.twitter.com/LcmB1eSnFj
— Lee Sova Claypool (@lee_gsc) March 6, 2020
re: #281 stpaulbear
The week long vacation is in CA.
re: #272 Targetpractice
Republicans acting like total pieces of shit is always the safe bet.
re: #272 Targetpractice
And Brave Sir Romney ran away…
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It’s a measure of how far we have fallen that a compulsive weasel and frequent coward like Romney is by far the most ethical and courageous person among prominent Republicans.
The media should add the Grand Princess cases to the US numbers, since it’s likely within the 12 mile limit.
And, to piss off Trump— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 7, 2020
re: #239 Targetpractice
Ayep. For example, even without a single confirmed case here in VA, Gov. Northam has already go out and announced that the state is taking the threat seriously and deploying resources to contain any possible outbreaks.
The wingnuts who hate anything Dem will undoubtedly think this is “overblown” and “a waste of money,” but the rest of us see a government that actually gives a shit about its people.
Lucky you. Colorado’s probably nearly as universally-infected as Washington;
two cases in City and County of Denver and one in El Paso County (Colorado Springs) were announced two hours ago to go with last night’s cases in Douglas County (my county, and she’s a local resident), and Summit County (an out-of-stater who’s likely going to be locked in his vacation home for a long time).
Considering that known cases are the tip of the iceberg…😏
re: #285 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It’s a measure of how far we have fallen that a compulsive weasel and frequent coward like Romney is by far the most ethical and courageous person among prominent Republicans.
Life is graded on a curve, and of all the disgusting Republican pieces of shit in DC, Romney is the least loathsome and revolting.
That really is not saying much, of course.
Congresscritter announces his tiny, shriveled penis to the world. https://t.co/BspVQSIaYX
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) March 6, 2020
If you’re on the Grand Princess cruise ship - you’re being stranded and left to possibly die of a contagious disease because Donald Trump doesn’t want “the numbers to go up.”
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 7, 2020
— Iain Kirk (@IainKirk3) March 6, 2020
So there’s a case of confirmed Covid-19 a few miles from where I’m sitting.
South Jersey in da quarantine, y’all.
On a more serious note: there’s a high school about 300 yards up the road from the hospital. That’s gonna get crazy real soon.
Also, there’s a pizza place across the street that’s been there for decades. Geniunely worried about them surviving this.
re: #292 Mattand
Just one?
Three new novel coronavirus cases, including two who were aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship docked off the coast of San Francisco, have been confirmed in Contra Costa County, health officials said Friday.
The three patients are currently quarantined in their homes, according to the Contra Costa County Health Services Department.
In addition to the two cruise ship passengers, the third patient is confirmed to have had close contact with a coronavirus patient in another jurisdiction.
The three confirmed cases of the virus brings the total to four in Contra Costa County. On Tuesday, health officials confirmed the county’s first case of the virus. That patient, who is being treated at a local hospital, is not known to have a travel history that put them at risk to contract the virus and did not have close contact with another patient prior to showing symptoms.
re: #290 Charles Johnson
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MAGAt logic doesn’t exist:
Oh, they undoubtedly HAVE to be medically quarantined. But there are hospitals all around the Bay that are much better equipped to do that than the ship is (though if the perishable portion of the food loaded aboard for the cruise is still good, not with as appetizing of meals).
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 7, 2020
re: #293 Dread Pirate
Just one?
LOL, so far. I think Philly has one.
Between them and NYC, it was a matter of time.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Capitol rules prohibit even gun replicas. He’s breaking the law by having that in his office.
Representative’s don’t have offices in the Capitol building.
His office is in the Rayburn building.
re: #294 Chrysicat
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I had two MAGAts at work waxing philosophic about what a great person Ann Coulter is.
One guy was genuinely baffled as to why no one hears from anymore.
Gee, Ev, I don’t know: maybe her brand of bile tinged with racism and nativism doesn’t sell anymore, despite the fact are society now openly condones that shit?
re: #281 stpaulbear
I had a meeting in our SE MN office today. Someone there is about to leave for a week-long vacation with family, then fly home via Seattle. No one in the office sounded too thrilled about that.
We have our first official case in MN. I’ve been away from the news all day so I don’t have details.
First Minnesota case of COVID-19 coronavirus reported in Ramsey County cruise passenger (St. Cloud, Minn. Times)
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has confirmed Minnesota’s first presumptive case of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, health officials announced today.
The case is an older Ramsey County resident who recently traveled on a cruise ship with a known COVID-19 case, according to a statement from the Minnesota Department of Health.
The patient began to show symptoms Feb. 25 and sought health care Thursday.
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re: #257 Shropshire Slasher
I’m sure that gentleman would rather not wear them, not cool, not funny.
After all the ruthless bull-shit, lies, hypocrisy and self-serving mockery of others, I could give a fuck whether or not it’s a sore spot for him.
Maybe if he tried “being best,” or whatever it is his loopy wife is promoting, people might be a bit more empathetic.
re: #287 Chrysicat
Lucky you. Colorado’s probably nearly as universally-infected as Washington;
two cases in City and County of Denver and one in El Paso County (Colorado Springs) were announced two hours ago to go with last night’s cases in Douglas County (my county, and she’s a local resident), and Summit County (an out-of-stater who’s likely going to be locked in his vacation home for a long time).Considering that known cases are the tip of the iceberg…😏
I imagine it won’t be long before it jumps across the state line to my area then. I guess we need to build a wall on our southern border and make Colorado pay for it. /s
re: #297 Mattand
I had two MAGAts at work waxing philosophic about what a great person Ann Coulter is.
One guy was genuinely baffled as to why no one hears from anymore.
Gee, Ev, I don’t know: maybe her brand of bile tinged with racism and nativism doesn’t sell anymore, despite the fact are society now openly condones that shit?
I suspect Coulter’s career has faded precisely because 1/2 of society openly condones that shit. Why should a deplorable pay to get a hate-fix from Coulter when Trump is giving it away for free in all his tweets and wretched rallies?
re: #252 EPR-radar
Driftglass hits one out of the park on radicals vs. moderates. driftglass.blogspot.com
The start
To the Revolutionary Hammer all problems look like nails.
re: #257 Shropshire Slasher
I’m sure that gentleman would rather not wear them, not cool, not funny.
Trump is no gentleman. He’s the kind of shit or worse that you have to thoroughly scrape off your shoes if you end up stepping in it, preferably using implements that can be disposed of in fire.
Since all Trump ever does is mock and abuse people, it is simple justice for him to be mocked and abused at least as severely.
He is the worst person in the world. https://t.co/XUBV8dRbRE
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) March 7, 2020
re: #258 Targetpractice
Just happened to look over at Fark, which has generally been a den in recent months of unvarnished “With us or against us!” orthodox Bernerism, and there’s a topic over 700+ posts now. The topic? Professor-Senator Warren calling out Berners for being a bunch of assholes. And the top “smart” comments are Warren supporters laying out the truth to the Berners that assuming a 30% share of the vote would carry them to the nomination and so shitting on anybody who didn’t jump on the bandwagon is why they’re (again) headed for “also-ran” status.
Kos’ article pretty much went over that same ground.
Damn. This is absolutely insane. https://t.co/Yf5mlIfSsX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 7, 2020
re: #302 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
To the Revolutionary Hammer all problems look like nails.
Even though Berniebro revolutionaries irritate me, there is an underlying serious issue. If it is certain that incremental progress is no longer possible, then Revolution with all its faults is the only option.
So everything depends on whether incremental progress is possible, which is a hotly contested issue. So far in US history there has been a great deal of incremental progress, but Republicans are getting more and more intransigent about that, and much more efficient at seizing and wielding power to prevent and undo progress.
South Korea also has five times the hospital beds per capita. American exceptionalism can’t change that. https://t.co/NALqOhb0kk
— Schooley “Flatten the Curve” (@Rschooley) March 7, 2020
re: #299 uriel
After all the ruthless bull-shit, lies, hypocrisy and self-serving mockery of others, I could give a fuck whether or not it’s a sore spot for him.
Maybe if he tried “being best,” or whatever it is his loopy wife is promoting, people might be a bit more empathetic.
Yeah, let me work up a little sympathy for Preznit Insult Comic…
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Nope, fresh out. Fuck that guy and his adult diapers.
re: #307 EPR-radar
Even though Berniebro revolutionaries irritate me, there is an underlying serious issue. If it is certain that incremental progress is no longer possible, then Revolution with all its faults is the only option.
So everything depends on whether incremental progress is possible, which is a hotly contested issue. So far in US history there has been a great deal of incremental progress, but Republicans are getting more and more intransigent about that, and much more efficient at seizing and wielding power to prevent and undo progress.
In part because far too many people never believed they would do what they are doing.
In which a weary voice on the intercom tells thousands on the Grand Princess that, regretfully, the coronavirus is spreading aboard their ship and the veep broke the news on TV before they had a clue themselves. pic.twitter.com/JFeUpUBVpE
— Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) March 7, 2020
re: #310 Belafon
In part because far too many people never believed they would do what they are doing.
If someone had told me when I was growing up that Republicans are basically evil and that Democrats, while often falling short of being good, are at least reliably not-evil, I would have laughed at such a ridiculously cartoonish view of US politics.
But that is the reality in all of the 21st century and reaching back significantly into the late 20th century.
Way too many people simply don’t want to see things as they are on this point.
Total cases have blown through 102k.
I wonder how long it will take before Republicans get very uncomfortable defending Trump.
re: #313 goddamnedfrank
Jesus what an absolute clusterfuck!
It is both malice and stupidity from the top for the US federal response to covid-19.
Red flag warnings went up just east of me in Garden, Sheridan, and Deuel Counties. I guess it’s dry around here.
63°F/16% humidity here. Whar winter?
re: #314 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
When they’re dying in droves. Maybe.
re: #314 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Total cases have blown through 102k.
I wonder how long it will take before Republicans get very uncomfortable defending Trump.
Rampant infections in the megachurch crowd might do it.
re: #314 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Total cases have blown through 102k.
I wonder how long it will take before Republicans get very uncomfortable defending Trump.
They won’t. They care about power.
re: #309 makeitstop
Yeah, let me work up a little sympathy for Preznit Insult Comic…
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Nope, fresh out. Fuck that guy and his adult diapers.
[Hidden for tmi reasons from someone who went “little” partly because it was the easiest way to reconcile “any time I wear big-girl panties there’s a 20% chance they need washing as soon as they come off” with “but maybe I’m not already dying and I can think of myself as ‘too young’ rather than ‘too old”]:
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And this has been “TMI with Chrysi Kitten”.
You know, if you’re going to trap people on a plague boat the least you can do is give them lots of drugs
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 7, 2020
Now in hour 6 of my latest Bernie cult harassment pile-on. So tedious.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 7, 2020
re: #316 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Red flag warnings went up just east of me in Garden, Sheridan, and Deuel Counties. I guess it’s dry around here.
63°F/16% humidity here. Whar winter?
We were having 80 degree days in the early part of the week. We actually have a chance of rain tomorrow, 60%! Still at 6.87” on the gauge.
This presidency is like if a small town made a joke out of electing a dog who routinely got into trash mayor and then a major disaster hit and for some reason everyone just expected the dog to make decisions.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 6, 2020
When they stop acting like cultists, I’ll stop calling them cultists.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 7, 2020
I’ve not paid any attention to the usual Salem Communications blatherers in quite some time, but the latest Allahpundit post found its way onto the aggregator I’m looking at now.
Allahpundit goes hard on Trump, really belittling him for the response to this crisis.
Sure enough, the HotAir knuckles are full on in Trump defense mode, attacking Allahpundit.
Over time I wonder how eroding these crises that Trump bungles will be on the entire religious right-wing echo chamber.
re: #316 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Red flag warnings went up just east of me in Garden, Sheridan, and Deuel Counties. I guess it’s dry around here.
63°F/16% humidity here. Whar winter?
After dark, when it’s still getting down below 20 degrees, even with those ridiculous highs?
Unfortunately for the Bernie cult, I’m a very stubborn motherfucker and trying to bully me into shutting up will never work.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 6, 2020
2/… and there’s a girl.Young, fresh, clear-eyed, ribbon on a ponytail, izod on the shirt. There was a global stare.You could reach out & touch the collective thought bubble, hovering above the crowd: “WTF is she doing here?”A man with too many piercings made his move…
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 25, 2018
4/ “Really? That’s a real place?”And the girl surprised them all:”Yes. It’s actually called a state. We have fifty of them in our union: 48 continguous, one in the upper northwestern part of North America (a continent) and an archipelago in the Pacific.”
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 25, 2018
6/ She is a bubble. Sir Piercings - though more ignorant than your average Joe, articulated the broader POV of NYC, which often sneaks up on those who live & work there.it’s a creeping, stream of consciousness worldview that gets hardened over time by the city itself…
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 25, 2018
8/ “…because this is the whole world in a city, and how could anyone be from anywhere else, and if they are, they must know what we know, how could they not know what we know, they must not be real or from a real place if they don’t know what we know…
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 25, 2018
I know exactly what happened to her.https://t.co/Ooav6BmXhL
— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) April 26, 2018
We call it Voight-Kampff for short
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 7, 2020
re: #324 jaunte
More crudely, it’s as if a nation went collectively crazy enough to make a literal goat fucker its president.
Then a crisis hits.
1) Dear Leader continues with the goat-fucking because it is the only thing he knows how to do. The crisis is utterly irrelevant for Dear Leader.
2) The pundits of the nation attempt to divine crisis management meaning from Dear Leader’s goat-fucking because that is the only thing they know how to do.
re: #317 plansbandc
They’ll blame Obama up until their last breath. And from beyond the grave.
#GRANDPRINCESS UPDATE: Of the 21 positive cases, 19 of them are crew members and the two others are passengers.
— KTVU (@KTVU) March 6, 2020
re: #200 jaunte
Steve Silberman
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@stevesilberman
Remember when the President of the United States was capable of getting through a major national crisis without being such a sick, sick, sick black hole of insecurity and neediness that he required these grotesque sideshows of self-abasement?
I bet he’s SCREAMING at his advisors to set up a rally somewhere so he can tell his HUGE crowd of followers how they’re safer than they’ve ever been in all of history.
And his advisors are having to tell him ‘no’.
re: #315 EPR-radar
It is both malice and stupidity from the top for the US federal response to covid-19.
“Never attribute to mere incompetence that which can be best explained by malicious stupidity” - Trump’s Razor?
re: #330 goddamnedfrank
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With LUCK, sore loser laws should already apply to her.
So I suspect that the Greens have the best Russians money can buy figuring out the best way to get those in front of SCOTUS, and overturned, by September.— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 7, 2020
re: #314 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Total cases have blown through 102k.
I wonder how long it will take before Republicans get very uncomfortable defending Trump.
Never. NEVER. NEVER.
re: #256 retired cynic
How do you report? I would be happy to do that. I have been screaming and blocking, but they still come in by the litter.
I always reported to my state Attorney General when it was Andy Beshear. There used to be a fill-in and submit form at his website.
We have a Republican AG now and the form isn’t there anymore. Instead we now get referred to the FTC report form at donotcall.gov (where you click on the green “Continue” button)
re: #329 gocart mozart
CBGB. 1987. I’m standing in line for the pisser.
This was always the worst of propositions: I really had to pee, but it was the most disgusting bathroom in the history of time.
I can vouch for this. The bathroom at CB on it’s best day was disgusting and went downhill from there.
I loved that place, though.
re: #333 Dread Pirate
Gotta ask… what other cruises did they recently work on? What about the other crew members they worked with… What other cruises did they go on to work?
Christ. Just friggin Christ.
re: #229 Targetpractice
Somehow, even if Biden is not the most mentally solid guy in the race, I still feel he’d be more likely to trust the experts in the midst of a viral pandemic rather than substituting his own ramblings as national policy.
Since the remaining candidates in the race are the Donald, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Biden, wouldn’t that make Biden be the most mentally solid guy in the race by default?
re: #39 Chrysicat
It is weird. I can see it in “replies” when I go to the parent tweets, but Twitter is blocking it when I try to click on its timestamp. That’s true of your response directly to the Bernout too.
I am getting tweet not available when i click the embedded timestamp. twitter.com /mandalorchick/status/1236000503718281217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1236000503718281217&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2flittlegreenfootballs.com%2Farticle%2F49696_Colbert-_Elizabeth_Warren_Bows
when I remove the reference the tweet is available twitter.com /mandalorchick/status/1236000503718281217
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