check it out on bandcamp→ woooong.com
Phoebe Katis - lead vox
Cory Wong - guitar/synth/vox
Claire Wong - vox
Ellie Wong - vox
Jim Anton - bass
Kevin Gastonguay - piano/b3
Marti Fischer - whistle
Steve Goold - drums
John Fields - mix
Joe LaPorta - master
Pete Suttman - cam
Donald Trump sputters through a symphony of slurred words that make Joe Biden sound like Churchill during the Battle of Britain. Seriously, attacking Biden’s stutter is a strategy that Trump, Trumpists, and useful idiots for Russia should avoid. Watch this👇🏼 https://t.co/ymeRBOtvtu
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 11, 2020
re: #407 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the last thread.
Lots of Bernie ableists and rodent copulators on the Scarborough thread as well.
Why do so many Sanders supporters hate the disabled?
Just checked my voicemail and my cardiologist’s office left a message asking me to reschedule my appointment for next Tuesday. My hypertension is extremely well controlled and they’re working hard to clear all non-urgent visits off the books in advance of what’s coming.
The Washington results show the disadvantage of mail voting with over 10% of the vote going to Bloomberg, even though he’s out of the race.
That said, it’s a lot harder to suppress the vote with mail ballots.
Wow.
This has been a very very bad week for Donald Trump … it’s getting worse.
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 11, 2020
Anyone else get the feeling a lot of media folks were hoping a Sanders win would validate their “but her emails” obsession of 2016 and now they’re salty af that they have to admit it really was a fuckton of misogyny after all?
— Salome Strangelove (@salstrange) March 11, 2020
“If my father was making the same gaffes as he was, they would literally invoke article 25 of the uhhhh” pic.twitter.com/Ex9p2criyL
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 10, 2020
To be a Trump is to live in a constant state of denial.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 11, 2020
Gov. Inslee to restrict gatherings of more than 250 people, including sports and concerts
Initially the prohibition would be imposed only in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties, according to The Herald of Everett. The largest concentrations of confirmed coronavirus cases are in King and Snohomish counties.
It’s like we’ve learned nothing from Italy.
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Washington results show the disadvantage of mail voting with over 10% of the vote going to Bloomberg, even though he’s out of the race.
That said, it’s a lot harder to suppress the vote with mail ballots.
It’s probably best to hold off mail in ballots until near voting time just to have an accurate list of candidates still running.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 11, 2020
Fuck.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has declared a state of emergency “to support the commonwealth’s response” to the coronavirus outbreak there. The state has identified more than 90 presumptive positive cases, authorities say. https://t.co/t0SqB06TM7
— CNN (@CNN) March 11, 2020
re: #9 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Gov. Inslee to restrict gatherings of more than 250 people, including sports and concerts
It’s like we’ve learned nothing from Italy.
250 is fucking insane.
Consider EVERYTHING that @realDonaldTrump did to NOT run against @JoeBiden.
He was so scared of Biden that he broke the law, engaged a foreign government in an illegal scheme, withheld documents, withheld witnesses, defied Congress and got impeached.
And now he will face Biden— Don Winslow New book BROKEN on sale APRIL 7 (@donwinslow) March 11, 2020
If I’m reading Twitter right, trump will get no more then the 30% of lunatics they always get. REPUBLICANS are fed up. Bill Kristsl is saying no tax cuts, invest in hospitals. Joe Scarborough. It’s a trump blood bath out there.
Stock futures show nearly half of today’s gains are being erased. One wonders how Wall Street would respond if/when COVID-19 cases were to spike exponentially.
re: #16 TarHellion
Stock futures show nearly half of today’s gains are being erased. One wonders how Wall Street would respond if/when COVID-19 cases were to spike exponentially.
The way things are going, we’ll probably find out tomorrow.
re: #17 stpaulbear
The market has gone down, but there hasn’t been a capitulation moment. Would not be shocked if we saw a 10 to 15 percent decline in a single day, especially if hospitals began to get overwhelmed.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Venn diagram of Bernie loyalists and hard-leftists is a circle.
A lot of “deep greens” are misanthropists who especially hate the disabled for “using up Earth’s resources”. Lots of “lifeboat captains” out there.
Disheartening. I’m as liberal as a liberal, but when disabled people try to participate, we’re ignored. Senator Warren was the first to talk to the disabled community as if we were a real constituency. We are.
re: #18 TarHellion
The market has gone down, but there hasn’t been a capitulation moment. Would not be shocked if we saw a 10 to 15 percent decline in a single day, especially if hospitals began to get overwhelmed.
There’s computer braking programs make that impossible.
Down 7% gets a 15-minute suspension, again at 13% (off the previous day’s close); then again at 20%.
You gotta wonder why Trump is so desperate to stop Biden.
My guess? While everyone is merely speculating about what happened in the 2016 election, Biden knows. And it’s making Trump itch, big time.
re: #13 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
250 is fucking insane.
Probably afraid of angering people who are planning weddings, funerals, etc.
What is furthermore insane is believing that people just won’t go over to the next county for whatever shindig is over 250 people.
re: #12 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Most of the 90 are from that Biogen conference. As of now, there are no cases on the North Shore. No tests, either.
As someone who liked Warren, my vote will go to Biden. I wanted a progressive that is most likely to get the hard work done and Warren was the sharpest tool in the shed IMHO. I’ll take Joe, he knows how to build a coalition and the potential is there, if there’s enough of a mandate to ram through some desperately needed domestic and tax policy.
re: #20 sagehen
Yes, and the brakes came in on Monday. But that would not forestall a 10-15 percent decline. A lot of Wall Street folks were expecting to hit the 13 percent brake on Monday, after hitting the 7 percent mark just four minutes into trading. At 20 percent, the market would close - unless it occurs in the last 25 minutes of trading.
Well.
I’m screaming @ this Jacobin writer who’s been trending lately calling Kamala hard-on-crime as an insult when her dad’s predatory furniture-lending parent company was prosecuted by none other than CA Attorney General Kamala Harris for $28.4 million. pic.twitter.com/SMw4uLck3b
— Maddy S. (@saintmaddysday) March 10, 2020
And Markos really doesn’t like Bernie:
As someone who wouldn’t mind for the primary to end, I do hope Sunday’s debate happens. Biden needs the high-pressure practice of debating one-on-one with another yelly opponent. (They’re all yelly old men)
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) March 11, 2020
re: #18 TarHellion
The market has gone down, but there hasn’t been a capitulation moment. Would not be shocked if we saw a 10 to 15 percent decline in a single day, especially if hospitals began to get overwhelmed.
That’s why I pulled out today. A couple days ago we blew through the Level 1 circuit breaker like it was fucking tissue paper, which we’re hoarding like idiots.
Also, that 2013 essay on normalcy bias in the face of unfolding disasters convinced me that not only are we dealing with massive market instability, but irrationality. In this case the irrationality is easily explained by the fact that it is literally the normal response. 70% people just mill about and react dumbly, as normal, 15% lose their shit entirely and 15% react appropriately.
In any event the public health and financial prescriptions are the same, isolation.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Well.
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She was a great candidate. I know she’s already being considered for VP and I like the idea.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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That’s what I want in an AG. But she’d make a good VP.
Edit: Spelling fix.
My ex talked our daughter out of her trip to the UK. Now everyone is unhappy, but healthy. Daughter is mad, she’s supposed to meet friend and go to Ireland. Ex is unhappy that daughter unit is fighting with her.
So glad I live on my own and can just have a beer and chill.
I’m happy she not going but now that she could get it her and at Yale (they are going online after break). To be a parent is to always worry. PEACE
Killer sunset tonight in Walnut Creek pic.twitter.com/jCqYiu2mqm
— Evan Sernoffsky (@EvanSernoffsky) March 11, 2020
Happening now#BayArea pic.twitter.com/l2y2Xzktg4
— Jason Appelbaum (@JasonAppelbaum1) March 11, 2020
It was a nice 75 degree day, too.
re: #30 Belafon
That’s what I want in an AG. But she’d make a food VP.
I think she’s already turned down AG before. I’m sure Biden has plans for quite the cabinet.
Joe Biden’s day so far:
- Wins Mississippi & Missouri in blowouts
- Biden strong in Michigan
- #MichiganVotes still coming in
- The primary race could be over tonight
- Biden tells heckler he’s “full of shit”
- I love Joe Biden
- Trump is going to prison
- It’s still only 8:45pm— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 11, 2020
re: #7 Ace-o-aces
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There was an element of misogyny which reared its ugly head for a second time this year, but I’d say 90% or better of it was what it appeared to be: Decades of institutionalized Clinton hatred.
97% of precincts counted in Grand Traverse County, home of Sanders endorser Michael Moore’s film festival.
2016: Sanders 65%, Clinton 33%
2020: Biden 48%, Sanders 43%— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 11, 2020
Wow. That’s a hell of a spike.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com
re: #36 Targetpractice
There was an element of misogyny which reared its ugly head for a second time this year, but I’d say 90% or better of it was what it appeared to be: Decades of institutionalized Clinton hatred.
I hate to say it but yeah. A man with HRC’s resume clobbers Trump.
re: #31 I Would Prefer Not To
Given the circumstance, this is the best decision. Because as this thing spreads, there is no guarantee she would be allowed back into the country. She’s young and she will recover from this. I’m not a parent, but I can only imagine the worry you would be having if she were overseas while all this is going on.
re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can we stop calling Moore the working class soothsayer?
Nobody ever got more credibility for being right twice and wrong ten times.
re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can we stop calling Moore the working class soothsayer?
Michael Moore hasn’t been working class in decades.
re: #28 goddamnedfrank
I’m also not about to fuck around with shorts and call options, because irrationality is a double edged sword.
Liar. Bought liar. Russian shill. https://t.co/IWeHQWqb1Y
— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 10, 2020
Neither is your mother, but I am a giver.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) March 10, 2020
re: #42 Rightwingconspirator
Nobody ever got more credibility for being right twice and wrong ten times.
Absolutely. I’ve never trusted his political judgment.
re: #43 Targetpractice
Michael Moore hasn’t been working class in decades.
Yep. I think he just projected his own sexism onto voters.
I haven’t watched the full video, not just the edited one used in the report, but supposedly Biden did say something to the effect of the guy needs to stop saying that Biden was going to take everyone’s guns or he’d slap him. But he didn’t, and he hasn’t put kids in cages allowing them to die, and he won’t.
As for Bernie and his supporters, I’m ready to move on. That whole fight is about to fade so fast from my mind that people around me will hear the vacuum filling in.
OT. Personal stuff. Not good news:
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re: #42 Rightwingconspirator
As much as I have a hate/love relationship with Moore, he was one of the first to say that FFVCS would win in November thanks to the Rust Belt states. His passion gets in the way of his pragmatism nowadays.
JUST IN: Three TSA officers at #SanJose Int’l Airport have tested positive for #coronavirus. TSA: “all TSA employees they have come in contact with (them) over the past 14 days are quarantined at home.” #SJC #airtravel.
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/jj7JKlRYBP— Ian Cull (@NBCian) March 11, 2020
re: #47 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I found him to be rather muling and pathetic myself.
re: #41 TarHellion
Given the circumstance, this is the best decision. Because as this thing spreads, there is no guarantee she would be allowed back into the country. She’s young and she will recover from this. I’m not a parent, but I can only imagine the worry you would be having if she were overseas while all this is going on.
Thanks,
The not getting home was my biggest concern. Also, the more people you have contact with, the more likely you have of getting infected. Never easy being a parent……
Good news:
Democratic voter turnout is up
Many Trump voters in swing states appear to be disaffected and will likely vote blue
Progressive candidates like Warren and Sanders have enough electoral clout to impact the platform
We can flip the Senate and hold the House
TOGETHER— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 11, 2020
True story and this is why I’ve felt Moore a fraud since 2004. But for all the shit he talks on the Clintons and political pragmatism, he supported Wesley Clark for POTUS in 2004 because he thought Democratic voters would make him a modern Ike even though the Democrats of 2004 weren’t the GOP of 1952. Not to mention Clark was the commander of the war he criticized Bill on. He also was a racist dick to Obama. Him and Maher both.
One reason to keep the D primaries going. Down-ballot state races need turnout.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) March 11, 2020
re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can we stop calling Moore the working class soothsayer?
I consider him the maker of boring-as-fuck documentaries which I don not want to watch because they suck. I watched 5 minutes of two of them and I could take no Moore.
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Well, ain’t that just great
I’m suddenly reminded of the TSA guy sniffing the vial full of ‘virus’ in 12 Monkeys
re: #45 gocart mozart
Hark, @DrJillStein! It’s Twitter policy that you mark your tweets as “sponsored” tweets.
I don’t believe they require you to reveal how many rubles you received but it should indicate that it was paid for nonetheless.
I also suggest adding “FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY” TIA! pic.twitter.com/wUNJlgbFrD— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) March 10, 2020
A long discussion about tonight got off topic and ended with me saying I would love for Elizabeth Warren to be my aunt. I caught Joel with the blankest look on his face and was like “What??” He said “For a second I forgot that aunts can be white”
🧐— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) March 11, 2020
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
I’ve been fooling around with shorting the S&P Bear ETF just because it has run up so much. But the swings have been so wild that you just have to get in and get out with every move. Made some money in the last week, but still not convinced we have hit a bottom that would return the market to its normal behavior.
Biden sounded great to me. I’m in. Sounded wonderfully PRESIDENTIAL. Not egocentric and maniacal. Not scolding. Positive and energetic. The real anti-trump for a minute.
re: #57 Dread Pirate
I consider him the maker of boring-as-fuck documentaries which I don not want to watch because they suck. I watched 5 minutes of two of them and I could take no Moore.
I liked Bowling for Columbine and F 9/11 but his arrogance really annoyed me then as it does now.
You don’t bring linear growth plans to an exponential growth fight. pic.twitter.com/mTrAt1rAQu
— 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕫𝕠𝕙𝕒𝕣 (@markzohar) March 11, 2020
re: #63 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I liked Bowling for Columbine and F 9/11 but his arrogance really annoyed me then as it does now.
I think those are the two that I tried to watch.
re: #55 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
True story and this is why I’ve felt Moore a fraud since 2004. But for all the shit he talks on the Clintons and political pragmatism, he supported Wesley Clark for POTUS in 2004 because he thought Democratic voters would make him a modern Ike even though the Democrats of 2004 weren’t the GOP of 1952. Not to mention Clark was the commander of the war he criticized Bill on. He also was a racist dick to Obama. Him and Maher both.
I don’t remember Moore’s support of Clark honestly. I did like Clark myself and worked for him and the campaign while it lasted. Met him too. As a Veteran I liked the way he commanded the Balkan operations and thought he would have been a good President as well.
re: #65 Dread Pirate
I think those are the two that I tried to watch.
I admit I was young and naive then. In hindsight, I get why the Kerry campaign didn’t use him in an official capacity.
re: #66 William Lewis
I don’t remember Moore’s support of Clark honestly. I did like Clark myself and worked for him and the campaign while it lasted. Met him too. As a Veteran I liked the way he commanded the Balkan operations and thought he would have been a good President as well.
Nothing wrong with it mind you but he had attacked Clinton for the Balkan operation but he was endorsing its commander. I just think it showed that Moore’s been about Moore. He’s become a left wing Limbaugh- only happy if he’s out of power.
Me and my mom showing up to vote for @JoeBiden today #MissouriPrimary #Biden2020 pic.twitter.com/ol44iJIbpG
— ✨ Galactica Gay ✨ (@The314Gay) March 10, 2020
re: #43 Targetpractice
Perhaps never: His dad was in management. He never had the background he imagined.
re: #64 Belafon
Each of those smaller numbers is about 12% of the larger numbers after it. That’s equal to an 88% growth rate per week.
Which means that if the rate holds we would be looking at just shy of 10 000 cases by this time next week.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s pretty close to the Italian trajectory.
re: #73 Sherlock Hound
Perhaps never: His dad was in management. He never had the background he imagined.
That’s what I’ve heard too. He wasn’t upper middle class but he was definitely more comfortable than people like my mom and her family.
This morning, I proudly voted for @JoeBiden in the #MissouriPrimary. After 30 years of voting, it was my first time voting for a Democrat in the Presidential primary and it was an honor to do so. I am voting for decency and integrity to restore the heart & soul of America.
— Roger Pine (@RogerPine2) March 10, 2020
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
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Here’s the thing; Biden is ahead with a party that won’t accept cuts to SS/Medicare/safety net/education and demands health care and accountability/taxes from The Rich and Corps
There’s that saying: There go the people! I must hurry after them, for I am their leader.— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) March 11, 2020
Cordelia for the Buffy/Angel fans.
TY @slayerfestx98
What a #slayday !
Fav quote fr podcast re Buffy:
Her hero’s journey was made stronger bcuz she understood what was @ stake. It wasn’t,”I’m invincible & only doing this 4others”.It was,”I’m fallible & not only have 2do this 4others but 4myself.” @staceyabrams— charisma carpenter (@AllCharisma) March 11, 2020
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
proposal: if you’re over 50, we let you vote, but your child/grandchild has veto power over it and can choose to discard your vote if they feel it endangers the future of life on earth. pic.twitter.com/KquOeRJ8Z2
— Current Affairs (@curaffairs) March 11, 2020
re: #82 Sherlock Hound
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
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I have a better idea. Young people should turn out to vote. I have voted in almost every presidential election since I turned 18 (I think I missed one while I was in the Navy). And my kids vote. But the rest of them their ages aren’t.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 11, 2020
Good info from HealthCanada.
Older adults and people with medical conditions are at a higher risk of serious illness from the #coronavirus disease. Find out how to protect yourself and your loved ones. https://t.co/uUj6WiNI6s#COVID19 pic.twitter.com/rLh6BU0a5V
— GovCanHealth (@GovCanHealth) March 11, 2020
re: #82 Sherlock Hound
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
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And there’s always a place for the angry young man
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand
And he’s never been able to learn from mistakes
So he can’t understand why his heart always breaks
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And he’s fair and he’s true and he’s boring as hell
And he’ll go to the grave as an angry old man
re: #61 TarHellion
I’ve been fooling around with shorting the S&P Bear ETF just because it has run up so much. But the swings have been so wild that you just have to get in and get out with every move. Made some money in the last week, but still not convinced we have hit a bottom that would return the market to its normal behavior.
I’ve always taken the long view. I bought $5,000 of Dell stock in 1990. I sold it all in 1998 (oops) and rolled it all into Apple. Should have let it ride another year. I’ve let that ride since then, until January, when I got out of the market entirely and into a mix of 6M/5Y/10Y notes.
The markets will eventually calm the fuck down, but this is no time to be betting big sums.Like my great uncle Paddy Kelly (a bookmaker in Springfield, IL and who wintered in Hot Springs, AR) told me as a very young man “Boyo, don’t make book unless you can cover the bets. And always, always put your cash in US notes. This country will never go broke.”
Good advice when the world goes tits up.
Lre: #82 Sherlock Hound
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
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I’m 32. I vote. If younger voters want the Democratic Party defined on their terms, then vote and don’t act shocked if you don’t always win. Maybe gtfo Twitter and actually listen to people who don’t think Bernie Sanders has all the answers but are in fact left of center.
re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I fucking hate him. And I used to be a fan.
re: #88 plansbandc
I fucking hate him. And I used to be a fan.
I do too. I hate how he treated Obama and Clinton. He’s a hypocritical douche.
re: #13 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
250 is fucking insane.
Yep, especially in light of this article:
A handful of small music clubs in Japan’s western city of Osaka have emerged as a major transmission ground for the coronavirus, showing the difficulty of stemming the outbreak even as authorities have focused on reining in large gatherings.
Japan has closed schools, zoos and theme parks, and drastically scaled back public events since the outbreak. The annual spring sumo tournament is being held in Osaka without spectators, leaving public broadcaster NHK to televise bouts of wrestlers facing off in an eerily quiet stadium.
Despite those steps, and the government’s urging telecommuting, there are signs that smaller crowds - including those at restaurants and tiny “live houses” where fans stand cheek by jowl to hear live music - are spreading the virus.
Japan on Tuesday reported the single-biggest number of infections in a day, of 59 cases, according to NHK.
Osaka reported its first coronavirus case on Feb 27. As of Tuesday, it had 73 cases - the third-most among Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to data from the local government. So far, 58 of those could be traced back to four small music venues, Osaka’s daily announcements show.
Many of the cases concentrated on three dates: Feb. 15, 16, and 19 - but a possible cluster-type spread wasn’t identified until early March, the data shows. Many of those infected were in their 30s and 40s and showed minimal or no symptoms.
As of Tuesday, 40 cases were linked to one venue in particular - Soap opera classics Umeda - and at least another 20 to Live House Arc. About 100 people attended each performance at the clubs.
Another 19 people outside Osaka, from as far away as Hokkaido, and Kumamoto in Kyushu, have also been traced back to those two venues as of Monday.
And no, nightclubs have not been asked to shut down. At least not yet.
I mean if you want to push the Dems to the left, fine but actually do the work instead of acting like everytime you lose as a conspiracy.
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
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I know a lot of us were excited about replacing the Nazi clown with a progressive idealist. But our elders basically stepped in and said, “You gotta stop the house from burning down before you redecorate, boo.”
— Darryl Stephens (@darrylstephens) March 11, 2020
re: #91 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I mean if you want to push the Dems to the left, fine but actually do the work instead of acting like everytime you lose as a conspiracy.
Push Dems left by destroying Republicans. Make them non-entities. Political pariahs.
That, inherently, pushes the nation’s politics to the left.
Dunno why progressives want to do it the hard way…
re: #83 Belafon
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These kids don’t understand that people who aren’t even 50 yet think they’re a bunch of whiny little shits that need to grow the fuck up.
re: #90 mmmirele
I’m no rocket scientist but DUH! Shut it all down for 30 days. Then reassess.
re: #86 austin_blue
re: #86 austin_blue
To be sure, I have my long-held portfolio - Microsoft, Cisco, 3M, Duke Energy. I just enjoy messing around to get a sense of the psychology of the market. Like Tuesday: Way up at open, give it all back, then rally past the open at the end. And in a week where the big boss is away, might as well have some fun! :-) :-) :-)
re: #94 gwangung
Push Dems left by destroying Republicans. Make them non-entities. Political pariahs.
That, inherently, pushes the nation’s politics to the left.
Dunno why progressives want to do it the hard way…
Because they saw the TP takeover of the GOP and thought it would be easy.
re: #95 Targetpractice
These kids don’t understand that people who aren’t even 50 yet think they’re a bunch of whiny little shits that need to grow the fuck up.
They need to actually learn politics.
re: #97 TarHellion
To be sure, I have my long-held portfolio - Microsoft, Cisco, 3M, Duke Energy. I just enjoy messing around to get a sense of the psychology of the market. Like Tuesday: Way up at open, give it all back, then rally past the open at the end. And in a week where the big boss is away, might as well have some fun! :-) :-) :-)
Understood. But I don’t think of money as fun. I think of it as capital. Just me.
“OLD PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!” scream the members of a cult built around a 78 yr old white guy who’d been a fixture of D.C. for the past 29 years.
re: #95 Targetpractice
These kids don’t understand that people who aren’t even 50 yet think they’re a bunch of whiny little shits that need to grow the fuck up.
I just crossed fifty, so I no longer get to make those statements, but the 20 year old me would have said the same thing. That young man didn’t always have things go his way no matter how much he tried, so he wouldn’t have really cared for dealing with someone like that. He was a nice kid, he just would have walked away.
re: #102 Targetpractice
“OLD PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!” scream the members of a cult built around a 78 yr old white guy who’d been a fixture of D.C. for the past 29 years.
And has no significant legislation to show for it.
My first vote was in 1988. Since then the person I voted for lost in 1988, 2000, 2004, and 2016. Two of those times, the person I voted for won the popular vote.Hope isn’t the right word for what you need. You need optimism, because that means you’re willing to fight.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 11, 2020
Edit, this was in response to another tweet, but I think her settings won’t let it embed.
You could always resign.
— (((BuffaloMeg))) ⚖ (@mwolfers) March 11, 2020
Related:
I wish I had the luxury to sit out an election, but there’s a white supremacist in the White House so, nah.
— HumanityCritic (@HumanityCritic) March 11, 2020
re: #102 Targetpractice
I know. They seem to say OK Boomer a lot and the irony is not lost.
That’s why I say OKBerner a bunch.
We’re also roughly a month away from the next wave of quarterly earnings statements. Most investors are flying blind, into a storm, trusting the instruments.
Now, this, I can understand. My first attempt at college was 1200 miles from home. This would have been a nightmare situation had it happened to me:
Most days, Jordan H. Barton ‘23 wakes up in his Canaday dorm to a 9:30 a.m. alarm.
On Tuesday, though, he woke up earlier. His phone was ringing as he began receiving a flood of texts informing him Harvard College would require undergraduates to vacate campus by Sunday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“To wake up in the morning and receive what can only be called an eviction notice is something that only invalidates what the school’s mission has stated since they’ve been inducted,” Barton said.
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana wrote to Barton and more than 6,000 other undergraduates on Tuesday morning that campus would not reopen after spring break, which stretches from March 14 to 22.
Within hours, the email sent students scrambling to pack up all their belongings and make plans to vacate. But Barton and others say it hit one group of undergraduates particularly hard: first-generation and low-income students, many of whom depend upon Harvard for food, housing, and stability.
“They’ve been evicted from their stability, they’ve been evicted from their homes, they’ve been evicted from their ability to live comfortably and safely,” Barton, who is an FGLI student, said. “There’s already enough concern, and now they’re concerned about being able to get home and have stable housing and food.”
re: #110 Belafon
Now, this, I can understand. My first attempt at college was 1200 miles from home. This would have been a nightmare situation had it happened to me:
Yeah, apparently this is why NYC hasn’t considered closing the public schools, because apparently *114,000* students are considered homeless and depend on the schools for food and other needs. Closing the schools would be a last resort.
re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg
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— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 11, 2020
re: #41 TarHellion
Given the circumstance, this is the best decision. Because as this thing spreads, there is no guarantee she would be allowed back into the country. She’s young and she will recover from this. I’m not a parent, but I can only imagine the worry you would be having if she were overseas while all this is going on.
The woman in Omaha in the National Quarantine Center in critical condition right now (and spread the disease to other family members and carried out to many venues here) caught the virus in the UK.
I imagine though that pretty soon it won’t matter whether you travel or stay home you’re going to be at risk, especially since conservatives here haven’t figured out that Fed rate cuts and tax cuts don’t stop a virus yet.
re: #106 Belafon
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“Sanders would have beaten Biden in a route”.
Hmm…”route”?
Maybe he got “Get your kicks on Route 66” stuck in whatever passes for his brain cells these days.
In addition, why would Warren, or Pete, or Amy, have quit before Super Tuesday? Amy and Pete were competing directly with Biden.
The whole tweet is just insane and shows a complete lack of understanding about how politics works.
Seems that Drumpf wanted Bernie to get to the Convo with a plurality. It’s not going to happen and he’s being a whining maggot because he knows that Bloomberg is going to just fucking flay him to the bone for the next five months.
Life is good, and I am for the rack.
Sweet scaly dreams, Lizards, and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
And if you don’t believe in celestial beings, like myself, sleep easy. This was a good day for this election cycle.
re: #82 Sherlock Hound
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
And if you have no children?
Bernie is on the cusp of 0 delegates in Mississippi with 14.9% and 97% counted.
re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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— Charlotte M. Freeman (@charlottemf406) March 11, 2020
re: #110 Belafon
Now, this, I can understand. My first attempt at college was 1200 miles from home. This would have been a nightmare situation had it happened to me:
If they make those concerns widely known, Harvard certainly has sufficient endowment to make grants to the scholarship students who need that kind of help.
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Early kickoff to prairie fire season in Wyobraska. We’re supposed to have snow this time of year, not fires.
re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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Early kickoff to prairie fire season in Wyobraska. We’re supposed to have snow this time of year, not fires.
It’s been spring here since the end of January. hi 60s to low 70s mostly with a couple of 80 degree days already. I might have to remove my winter beard early this year. I’m hoping not because after several setbacks it’s finally looking regal.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🎃
From the last thread.
Lots of Bernie ableists and rodent copulators on the Scarborough thread as well.
Why do so many Sanders supporters hate the disabled?
The thing that is really frustrating to me is that this entire discussion is aggravating *my* stuttering. I had to go to a new doctor today, (for other things,) And I couldn’t get a sentence out without resorting to at least one really obvious avoidance behavior, which only occasionally worked.
And normally, to someone I don’t know that well, I don’t immediately show up as a stutterer to in most casual conversations- I’m normally pretty good at bailing out of a word or phrase I’m not going to get out easily, and I’ve cultivated enough affectations and dodges to pass as “occasionally awkward.”
Of course, that only holds for as long as I feel *normal.* Start adding stressors to that, and things can fall apart at a pretty rapid clip. And one of the biggest stressors to people who stutter is *thinking about stuttering.* And the social stigma is a HUGE part of that- especially the knowledge that so many think people who stutter are mentally deficient.
I can’t imagine how the many people who aren’t as lucky as me or don’t have good, supportive people in their life must feel about all this.
re: #117 BigPapa
Bernie is on the cusp of 0 delegates in Mississippi with 14.9% and 97% counted.
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re: #123 uriel
My stuttering is mild compared to many, but it is something lifelong. The folks saying “this is going to be some excuse from now until November” don’t seem to get that.
I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to the nonsense they’re spreading, but it does bother me.
I’m the same in conversation in that unless you knew me really well it’s not likely you’d discover I have a mild stutter. My avoidance is primarily leaning on a very large vocabulary. I was once accused of being gay because of the way I speak. I found that to be a strange association: “You know too many words, you must be gay!”
Been at 98% for 45 mins.
FUCK.
OK cool cool. No worries.
FUCK.
Don’t want 2016 again so I’m kinda yelly sweary about it.
re: #82 Sherlock Hound
Oh, that guy. He hates Clinton with a burning passion for intervening in Africa to avert genocide, thinks the only thing worse is Clinton not intervening in Africa to avert genocide.
COVID-19 is really exposing how little emphasis the American education system gives to Statistics
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 11, 2020
Weston hospital full to capacity due to increase in demand
On average, the hospital - which is run by Weston Area Health Trust (WAHT) - had 264 beds available to use each day last week, including three escalation beds, which are used in emergencies and periods of high demand.
Zero beds were free on an average day.
Seems like a problem waiting to happen. I wonder how many other hospitals in the UK are already tight on beds. As COVID-19 explodes in the UK, how will they handle the demand?
Via CNBC:
“Walmart said Tuesday it is deploying an emergency employee leave program as the retailer confirms one of its store associates in Cynthiana, Kentucky, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The infected employee is a woman and Walmart said she is improving with medical care.”
The dead-to-recovered statistic in the US is rather upsetting.
re: #123 uriel
My wife has a severe stutter, which she ofttimes cannot cover.
I’ve heard people talk about her being “slow” or “brain damaged.” (Makes me stabby.)
If college degrees were physical things, I would take all three of hers and choke the next person who said that about her with them.
California mega-church cancels its ‘faith healing’ hospital visits, citing coronavirus (Sacramento Bee)
This would be the mega-church which claimed they were trying to resurrect a dead two-year old last year, were going around to hospitals and laying hands on children to “heal the sick” (without parents permission or knowledge, and try to convert them to Christianity—their version—to boot and harassed parents when they objected).
They’ve cancelled services to prevent the spread of the virus, along with mission trips to Satan controlled countries nations which probably don’t want them in the first place.
In 2006, a man who fell off a cliff in Redding filed a lawsuit against a Bethel student who thought he was dead and thus, instead of calling police, tried to faith heal him back to life and did not notify police until six hours later. That man is now paralyzed and, unfortunately, lost his lawsuit against the student.
There are two types of people in the world.
1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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HT to ‘The Flash’
Meanwhile in the middle of the North Sea:
Equinor confirms coronavirus case on North Sea platform
Oil giant Equinor has a confirmed case of coronavirus on one of its assets in the Norwegian section of the North Sea.
The Norwegian firm said today that one worker tested positive for the virus on its Martin Linge platform.
The worker is not “seriously ill”, Equinor said.
[…]
The infected person has been in isolation in his cabin since 9 March. Measures to prevent further contamination for offshore installations has been introduced.
[…]
It is understood the infected worker has recently traveled to Austria.
[…]
We humans are very mobile, and we carry our pathogens with us wherever we go.
You know what America has an excess of right now?
Failed shopping malls. They’re everywhere.
A competent Presidential administration might have looked into how to turn some of that into overflow hospital capacity— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 11, 2020
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🎃
I guess it’s “die anyway”, cause I don’t have kids either. Closest I’ll get is to have some furry or feathered tenants.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🎃
My stuttering is mild compared to many, but it is something lifelong. The folks saying “this is going to be some excuse from now until November” don’t seem to get that.
I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to the nonsense they’re spreading, but it does bother me.
I’m the same in conversation in that unless you knew me really well it’s not likely you’d discover I have a mild stutter. My avoidance is primarily leaning on a very large vocabulary. I was once accused of being gay because of the way I speak. I found that to be a strange association: “You know too many words, you must be gay!”
First off, I want to say that I have never been able to receive actual speech therapy for my condition, so anything I might say about this subject is in no way solid medical advice. This is all just things I’ve pieced together on my own, some of which are possibly counter productive. (You’ll see what I mean.) But I think they’re Illustrative, so, here I go:
So, vocabulary this is definitely one of the big things I rely on. Another, weirdly enough, is that I’m good banter. So if I’m coming up on something I won’t be able to get out, I’m fairly adroit at substituting a completely unrelated zany ha-ha thing that completely avoids the words at hand.
Some of the non-productive coping mechanisms? I sometimes introduce a false lisp into my speech to avoid certain consonants, or as a backwards fluency-enhancing strategy. I’ve done this to the point that during an after-school Jr. High photography program I led, one of the kids ended up defending my *lisp* rather than my stutter. Also, it’s easier for me to get things out if I’m looking away from the person I’m talking to- so I have a lot of conversations where I’m staring at a computer screen, or a sign, or some other thing while I’m talking to you.
Point being, it’s a very complicated subject, and everyone deals with it in their own way. And a lot of us feel very alone in dealing with this issue.
And this whole Biden is in mental decline thing is really not helpful.
I’m off to bed.
I seem to be on a 4-4-4-4-4-4 wake/sleep cycle.
New chlamydia species discovered deep under the Arctic Ocean
When people hear the word chlamydia, they usually think about sexually transmitted infections.
And it’s true that the specific bacteria that causes chlamydia typically depend on interactions with other organisms to survive.
So when a team of researchers discovered several new chlamydia-related species deep below the Arctic Ocean, in a place with no oxygen and without an apparent host organism, they were surprised.
Michael Tracey’s mask slips…
Here he is, literally pitching national socialism pic.twitter.com/OOJ3JLppDm
— Dravid Chropperfield (@ShrimpMeatMom) March 11, 2020
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🎃
My stuttering is mild compared to many, but it is something lifelong. The folks saying “this is going to be some excuse from now until November” don’t seem to get that.
I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to the nonsense they’re spreading, but it does bother me.
I’m the same in conversation in that unless you knew me really well it’s not likely you’d discover I have a mild stutter. My avoidance is primarily leaning on a very large vocabulary. I was once accused of being gay because of the way I speak. I found that to be a strange association: “You know too many words, you must be gay!”
Thanks, BTW.
re: #156 The Pie Overlord!
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Rabbi Dayna missed the most obvious reason Jewish villages had less plague than the Christian village down the road — because a house that’s had a proper Peach-clean is a house that cannot possibly contain rats (or the fleas that rats carry).
Troubling indications that South Korea’s COVID-19 epidemic is entering a new phase:
Community spread on horizon in Seoul and surrounding areas
The South Korean government said Wednesday that it plans to distribute guidelines for densely populated workplaces where employees are especially vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, amid mounting concerns over community spread of the deadly virus in the country’s capital and surrounding cities.
The move came after at least 90 people, including 77 employees at a call center in Guro-gu and 13 people who came into contact with them, tested positive for COVID-19, making it the largest cluster of infections in Seoul so far.
For the whole of the country, 242 novel coronavirus cases and six more deaths were reported Wednesday, taking the total number of infections to 7,755 and the death toll to 60, according to data from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Fears about community spread grows as the transmission route remains unidentified and some of the employees at the call center began to show symptoms in late February.
One 48-year-old patient showed symptoms of infection Feb. 29 but continued her daily routine until she tested positive Tuesday. She used public transportation to go to work, visited a hospital for treatment and had after-work dinners with coworkers, according to the inspection by the health authorities.
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The packed working environment at the call center, where employees sit close to each other in confined spaces and constantly talk into phones, is believed to have made it easier for the virus to spread.
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Of the 242 new cases confirmed Wednesday, 52 were reported in Seoul and 12 each in Incheon and Gyeonggi Province. Most were linked to the call center in southwestern Seoul.
The call center case shows that the virus may have been spreading undetected in the country’s most populated areas and this time it may be harder to contain, experts say.
“So far, there have been hospitals and churches so the spread of the virus could be controlled to some extent,” said Kim Woo-joo, a professor of medicine at Korea University Guro Hospital who specializes in infectious disease.
“But in the case of the call center, there are many employees at the call center, they were confirmed to be infected days after they showed symptoms, which means those around them and many commuters on public transportation could have been exposed to the virus already.”
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Some 80 percent of the country’s total cases have been linked to infection clusters, 69.9 percent of which can be traced to the Daegu branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, according to the KCDC.
The increase in cases in the country is driven by emerging clusters of infections involving medical facilities, social welfare facilities, religious facilities and workplaces, the agency said.
[…]
The number of new cases in SK had been going down before the 11th:
However, with Wednesday’s report it is clear that ability to track the infected is rapidly being lost, and this is going to cause problems.
Tracey’s mask slips, part Deux:
It’s been obvious he’s been laying the foundation for a Bernie-to-Trump pipeline since 2016https://t.co/aythFzGOwR
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) March 11, 2020
Meanwhile, in Russia, changes have been made that will allow Putin to be the leader until 2036.
Trump is probably jealous.
Priming the pump while the well is on fire
The Bank of England said the decision came following the spread of Covid-19, which has seen stock markets and shares plunge around the worldhttps://t.co/OAHtl0yvUG
— ITV News (@itvnews) March 11, 2020
There’s just a mountain of salt where the Fark Politics Tab used to sit. The Berners are so fucking salty right now, you could substitute them for saltines. And they’re playing all their greatest hits from 2016, from “BIDEN’S GONNA GET CREAMED BY TRUMP!!!” to “THE DEMS HAVE LOST MY VOTE!!!”
re: #148 goddamnedfrank
Priming the pump while the well is on fire
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Markets: “We need to see some evidence that the governments of the world are taking this matter seriously, trying to reassure their people, and working to get the pandemic under control.”
Politicians: “What’s that you say?! You want more money?! OPEN THE FLOODGATES!!!”
Max Blumenthal is not happy.
As a pandemic bears down on America, a decrepit babbler with a shell of a campaign kept on life support by 60 billionaires in a wine cave is being sent into battle against an animalistic casino baron. This campaign promises a ghastly portrait of the decadent rot of US politics.
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 11, 2020
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Bernie Bros hate Biden (Hilary Clinton and President Obama) more than they purportedly hate Trump. We already know who they’re going to vote for in November.
re: #151 Sherlock Hound
I love how easily Max dismisses Black voters who overwhelmingly support Biden. Racist much? And does he really believe that Sanders could beat Trump? Let’s be real.
Things you may need to know:
Study: COVID-19 Is Also Spread by Fecal-Oral Route
New research from China indicates that the novel coronavirus is also spread by fecal-oral transmission, not just by respiratory droplets or environmental contact.
Hong Shan, MD, PhD, of Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, and colleagues noted that the gastrointestinal tract is a welcoming environment for the virus, also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) CoV-2. “Our immunofluorescent data showed that the ACE2 protein, which has been proved to be a cell receptor for SARS-CoV-2, is abundantly expressed in the glandular cells of gastric, duodenal, and rectal epithelia, supporting the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into the host cell,” the team wrote.
Among the key findings of the study, published online in Gastroenterology:
A significant portion of coronavirus patients experience diarrhea [I guess the run on toilet-paper is justified?], nausea, vomiting, and/or abdominal discomfort before the onset of respiratory symptoms
Viral RNA is detectable in fecal samples from suspected cases, indicating that the virus sheds into the stool
Viral gastrointestinal infection and potential fecal-oral transmission can last even after viral clearance from the respiratory tract
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In a second paper posted on the same day in the journal, Jinyang Gu, MD, of Xinhua Hospital of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, and colleagues noted that evidence from the 2003 SARS epidemic also showed enteric involvement and the presence of virus in the stool of patients even after discharge from hospital. Interestingly, the team said, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S., which occurred in Washington state, reported a 2-day history of nausea and vomiting on admission, followed by a loose bowel movement on the second day of hospitalization. The viral nucleic acids of loose stool and both respiratory specimens from this patient later tested positive.
Gu’s group also noted recent reports of mild to moderate liver injury in COVID-19 patients, including elevated aminotransferases, hypoproteinemia, and prothrombin time prolongation, while in the SARS epidemic of 2003, as many as 60% of patients had liver impairment.
[…]
re: #151 Sherlock Hound
Max Blumenthal is not happy.
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People tried to warn the Berners that it was too early to write Biden’s obituary, that campaigns have made major comebacks in SC and gone on to win the nomination. But NO, they wanted to believe their own bullshit about how Bernie would either win SC or cut Biden’s victory down to a hair, before burying him in CA and TX on Super Tuesday.
re: #153 Patricia Kayden
I love how easily Max dismisses Black voters who overwhelmingly support Biden. Racist much? And does he really believe that Sanders could beat Trump? Let’s be real.
We’re going to hear some UGLY shit over the next weeks about black voters. Most of it will not come from Republicans, but from so-called “progressives”. Disabled Twitter has had a taste of this from people who see us as in the way of their Revolution, and it is not cute.
re: #40 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Can we stop calling Moore the working class soothsayer?
Michael Moore was right about the EC in 2016, he just figured out what the GOP strategy was based on. Can Trump carry MI, WI, OH and PA against Biden?
Unless Trump can get all four, he cannot win
re: #62 Rightwingconspirator
Biden sounded great to me. I’m in. Sounded wonderfully PRESIDENTIAL. Not egocentric and maniacal. Not scolding. Positive and energetic. The real anti-trump for a minute.
Trump ran on the image of the anti-politician. Biden can run successfully as the anti-Trump.
@davidfrum’s classic comment about conservatives works just as well for leftists. Both will give up on democracy before they will give up their ideologies, though leftists instead claim that “electoralism is NOT democracy” and that’s what they’re abandoning. https://t.co/KbQAHXl9kJ
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 11, 2020
re: #128 goddamnedfrank
COVID-19 is really exposing how little emphasis the American education system gives to Statistics
and media studies
and science
and civics
Why even bother fact checking him anymore
— DDrake444 (@Cocoa_lady7) March 9, 2020
re: #161 Dread Pirate
In remarks at the White House, President Donald Trump faulted his predecessor for making it harder for the government to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, or COVID-19
We all know that any bad things that happen in this administration are the Democrats’ fault!
Holy Shit!!! The most honest, most real, most clear thing I’ve heard on the networks all day and it’s at 1:25am!! pic.twitter.com/0YAtMQbSz3
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) March 11, 2020
Man this is scary stuff. https://t.co/LajYRtcbSJ pic.twitter.com/iHLLqXal8B
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 11, 2020
re: #165 goddamnedfrank
Even still. This isn’t fruit of poisonous tree — if you shut down a doctor that’s getting positives, you MUST make sure that testing is done in an ethical manner immediately.
— Luke Kasdan (@TheHyperCritic) March 11, 2020
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Something weird is happening with the Trump world, Belgrade, and the network of lobbyists linking the two. https://t.co/tzlb8QmYdp
— Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) March 10, 2020
re: #167 Barefoot Grin
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Because there are VERY few arguments I’d listen to that tell me that removing all non-Kosovar troops from Kosovo is anything other than paving the way for a Serbian invasion.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) March 11, 2020
If this is the best economy ever then why is the White House currently shitting kittens?
Now Trump is calling for a gigantic economic stimulus — a total holiday on the payroll tax, which is 5.9 percent of GDP 2/ https://t.co/jKQKmRcJd0
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 11, 2020
What happened to Republican fiscal restraint? OK, that was always phony. But beyond that, this isn’t a plan; does anyone think Trump has done the math? It’s flailing. And he even said the quiet part out loud: tax holiday *until the election* 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 11, 2020
re: #167 Barefoot Grin
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Add the Kosovars as another group that we’ve historically protected that Trump plans to sell out. I’ve said it before but Trump’s FP may not start wars in themselves but lead to bigger ones down the road.
Important News from NextDoor neighbor !!11!!
You can make your own hand sanitizer with witch hazel, aloe vera, and tea tree oil. There are studies out there showing hand sanitizers to be carcinogenic. I don’t use them
Yep…. bad advice.
Criminal negligence is the term you are all looking for. pic.twitter.com/7SOFM4YjZQ
— Ced (@cedfunches) March 11, 2020
Really wish some people had thought of this in 2016, or perhaps, listened to Trump’s repeated recitations of “The Snake,” which is such a didactic narrative device that I can’t believe the writers went with it. pic.twitter.com/KVC9pXhSyV
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 11, 2020
re: #87 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
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I’m 32. I vote. If younger voters want the Democratic Party defined on their terms, then vote and don’t act shocked if you don’t always win. Maybe gtfo Twitter and actually listen to people who don’t think Bernie Sanders has all the answers but are in fact left of center.
Or, alternately, look at everyone and see if anyone has any actual plans other than SHOUT THE CONCEPT…DONE! because that is not how things work.
There’s a saying…I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. For Bernie, his Bernians are just like Bernie and they are all (mostly all) pretty damn unpleasant. And after trump, sorry not sorry, I am tired of it.
re: #173 goddamnedfrank
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They hated HRC more than they loved their country. That’s why we are where we are. A woman, a highly qualified woman lost to a supremely unqualified man because a lot of people wanted every excuse to shit on her and make every excuse for him.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Via CNBC:
“Walmart said Tuesday it is deploying an emergency employee leave program as the retailer confirms one of its store associates in Cynthiana, Kentucky, has tested positive for the coronavirus. The infected employee is a woman and Walmart said she is improving with medical care.”
Walmart’s emergency leave program: “LEAVE!”
cillizza does not get this wrong:
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Here’s the President’s response:
“I don’t think it’s a big deal, I would do it, I don’t feel any reason — I feel extremely good.”
Trump then added that he has “no symptoms, no anything.”What the actual hell? As anyone who has watched even five minutes of cable TV over the last few weeks knows, feeling good or even “extremely good” and showing “no symptoms, no anything,” is not evidence that you don’t have coronavirus.
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…In moments of crisis like these, the country looks to its leaders — most specifically the President — to provide moral leadership.…[if] he understood his role as a moral leader, Trump would submit to the test — modeling appropriate behavior for the public.
Sure, it would be done out of an abundance of caution, given that he almost certainly hasn’t been infected. But it would also provide leadership, destigmatizing and demystifying the idea of being tested. It would show that Trump was willing to go above and beyond prescribed conduct for the good of the American people.
The Point: Trump has never understood the moral responsibilities and imperatives of being President. And he doesn’t appear to be starting now.
re: #176 BlueSpotinAL
Walmart’s emergency leave program: “LEAVE!”
emergency employee leave program = unpaid leave
re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Or, alternately, look at everyone and see if anyone has any actual plans other than SHOUT THE CONCEPT…DONE! because that is not how things work.
There’s a saying…I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. For Bernie, his Bernians are just like Bernie and they are all (mostly all) pretty damn unpleasant. And after trump, sorry not sorry, I am tired of it.
That too. That goes without saying. As for Bernie, fuck him for what he’s done to a lot of young people. Fuck him for creating a false narrative of what Presidents actually do. He’s a narcissistic jerk who never cared about building up a real movement but he sure does love having naive kids think he’s their only hope.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump ran on the image of the anti-politician. Biden can run successfully as the anti-Trump.
There is a big anti-Trump majority, and misogynistic attacks on Clinton won’t work on Biden. I think Trump is toast, his approval rating is getting worse, and we could be in the grips of a major crisis by the end of the month.
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones charged with DWI near Austin, authorities sayhttps://t.co/WFvjoXSgfS
— And the Wind Cries “TEST THE MONSTER SHIP!!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) March 11, 2020
re: #180 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There is a big anti-Trump majority, and misogynistic attacks on Clinton won’t work on Biden. I think Trump is toast, his approval rating is getting worse, and we could be in the grips of a major crisis by the end of the month.
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I hope so but I find it unfortunate that it took a life-threatening crisis to finally bring him down…
re: #161 Dread Pirate
Because if you give in, he wins.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 11, 2020
re: #180 NO SMOCKING GUN!
There is a big anti-Trump majority, and misogynistic attacks on Clinton won’t work on Biden. I think Trump is toast, his approval rating is getting worse, and we could be in the grips of a major crisis by the end of the month.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com
I still think Wendell underscores the political misogyny that Trump benefited from. I too think Trump is at a unique disadvantage. Biden being a known quantity is to our advantage right now. IMO pair Biden with a younger VP, begin repairing the damage Trump has done and in 2024, we can have a great conversation about where we go. By the end of this decade, we’re going to have new leaders. We need to value coalition building instead of a cult of personality around one man. Biden himself gets this. He’s said he sees himself as a bridge to a new generation of leaders. It’s a pity imo that Sanders lacks this humility.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hope so but I find it unfortunate that it took a life-threatening crisis to finally bring him down…
It didn’t bring him down. He was never a shoe in for re-election. I don’t know why you act like he was. There’s a difference between being slightly favored due to incumbency and a decent economy to being overwhelmingly favored. Trump in the end like Bernie I feel will have failed because neither guy wants to see people who see things differently than they do as anything other than bad.
re: #184 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Biden…said he sees himself as a bridge to a new generation of leaders. It’s a pity imo that Sanders lacks this humility.
I cannot see Bernie nurturing and engendering a new generation of Democratic leadership, which is what we realistically need to recover from Trumpoclysm
re: #185 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It didn’t bring him down. He was never a shoe in for re-election. I don’t know why you act like he was. There’s a difference between being slightly favored due to incumbency and a decent economy to being overwhelmingly favored.
I find it bad enough that Trump had any reasonable chance of getting re-elected. And although a sound economy & low unemployment would favor him, he is losing those advantages as we speak.
re: #186 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I cannot see Bernie nurturing and engendering a new generation of Democratic leadership, which is what we realistically need to recover from Trumpoclasm
Biden has literally done that. Bernie only cares if you supported him. He’ll get his place in history but history will reveal Bernie as an imo a cynical politician who talked a big game but never really delivered. I don’t deny he has legitimate youth support but he benefited immensely from promising them everything while doing none of the actual work to improve on the issues he’s made a priority in his two presidential runs.
I cannot believe that this is in the morning CNN briefing. This is the most primeist examples of how Dems are held to a different standard.
And on social media, video of Biden engaging in a testy exchange with an auto worker in Detroit has won him praise for straightforwardness, though others criticized it as lacking presidential decorum.
Are you fucking kidding me?
re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I find it bad enough that Trump had any reasonable chance of getting re-elected. And although a sound economy & low unemployment would favor him, he is losing those advantages as we speak.
Favor but not guarantee. I really think you’ve overestimated Trump’s actual political strength compared to that an incumbent with those numbers in general. Who knows where we are it Coronavirus doesn’t happen but Trump was always imo going to have his shitty leadership skills tested and he was always going to fail no matter how hard his allies spin.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hope so but I find it unfortunate that it took a life-threatening crisis to finally bring him down…
He’s not down yet. Just sayin.
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I cannot believe that this is in the morning CNN briefing. This is the most primeist examples of how Dems are held to a different standard.
Are you fucking kidding me?
They call him senile repeatedly. And then they get mad when he calls out the same bullshit that’s been said about Democrats and guns for years.
re: #191 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Favor but not guarantee. I really think you’ve overestimated Trump’s actual political strength compared to that an incumbent with those numbers in general. Who knows where we are it Coronavirus doesn’t happen but Trump was always imo going to have his shitty leadership skills tested and he was always going to fail no matter how hard his allies spin.
I don’t underestimate how much our media (even the ones without an agenda) adore him and would be happy to keep him on as he is a reality TV star who is a great ratings draw…
re: #192 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s not down yet. Just sayin.
No he’s not and that’s why Biden should be rallied around now. We’re going to get a progressive platform just not the Bernie platform which is you know a consequence of Bernie not winning.
re: #181 Dave In Austin
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Odds are he’ll walk on a technicality.
Jones had a blood alcohol level of 0.076 at 11:55 p.m. and a level of 0.079 at 11:59 p.m. The legal blood alcohol limit while driving in Texas is 0.08.
re: #195 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
No he’s not and that’s why Biden should be rallied around now. We’re going to get a progressive platform just not the Bernie platform which is you know a consequence of Bernie not winning.
I hope that Bernie drops out during the debate and heartily and handily endorses Biden on national television.
That would give some top notch ratings.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I don’t underestimate how much our media (even the ones without an agenda) adore him and would be happy to keep him on as he is a reality TV star who is a great ratings draw…
Please look at the primary vote turnout. Sometimes I really think you obsess about the media and overlook the reality of what’s happening on the ground. Oh and the media right now seems pretty interested in Biden as a comeback story. So that may be more interesting to them right now than a trashy reality tv show star who is bungling our response to a potential pandemic.
re: #197 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I hope that Bernie drops out during the debate and heartily and handily endorses Biden on national television.
That would give some top notch ratings.
Be a good thing. Honestly I’m not feeling as willing to make nice with them. They need to learn how democracy actually works.
re: #198 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Please look at the primary vote turnout. Sometimes I really think you obsess about the media and overlook the reality of what’s happening on the ground.
It is not just a matter of the votes, it is about getting them in the right places to gain an EC majority…
re: #176 BlueSpotinAL
Walmart’s emergency leave program: “LEAVE!”
It’s probably a bit more comprehensive because if they become the center of an outbreak because they would let an employee stay home, people will completely stay away from that store.
I think Joe Biden has given us our slogan for the 2020 campaign:
“YOU’RE FULL OF SHIT!”
Think about it: Racists, conspira-liars, Russian intervention deniers, trickle-down quacks, anti-vaxxers, creationists, the whole galaxy of fundy/evangelical charlatans. It fits them all.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not just a matter of the votes, it is about getting them in the right places to gain an EC majority…
No shit. But the increased turnout is reason for optimism.
re: #198 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Please look at the primary vote turnout. Sometimes I really think you obsess about the media and overlook the reality of what’s happening on the ground. Oh and the media right now seems pretty interested in Biden as a comeback story. So that may be more interesting to them right now than a trashy reality tv show star who is bungling our response to a potential pandemic.
And the media is made up of people. They may love their horse race, but they love their family members more…well, assumingly so.
re: #199 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Be a good thing. Honestly I’m not feeling as willing to make nice with them. They need to learn how democracy actually works.
They need time to get over their butt hurt. We all need to go full on kumbaya right now. Full. On. Welcome them to the fold. Defeat the monster. It doesn’t matter if they were assholes before…bring them into the house.
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is not just a matter of the votes, it is about getting them in the right places to gain an EC majority…
Dude, seriously. Stop. It’s not like we don’t know this and I am pretty sure that Biden has got it covered.
re: #202 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I think Joe Biden has given us our slogan for the 2020 campaign:
“YOU’RE FULL OF SHIT!”
Think about it: Racists, conspira-liars, Russian intervention deniers, trickle-down quacks, anti-vaxxers, creationists, the whole galaxy of fundy/evangelical charlatans. It fits them all.
The swiss army knife of slogans!
Oh, god morning! <— Typo or no? ; )
If we want to understand how powerful an opponent SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is, let’s take a look what has been required to stop it in China. The Chinese government has essentially used a social nuclear weapon in its efforts. Let’s talk about this, to understand what US is facing. 1/
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) March 9, 2020
re: #203 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
No shit. But the increased turnout is reason for optimism.
In the special election for Doug Jones, there was increased turnout on both sides. The Republican base will turn out, but I think a lot more people are fed up with the bullshit. Getting them to carry through on subsequent elections is going to be key to sending the Republican party to the dustbin of history.
re: #62 Rightwingconspirator
Biden sounded great to me. I’m in. Sounded wonderfully PRESIDENTIAL. Not egocentric and maniacal. Not scolding. Positive and energetic. The real anti-trump for a minute.
Thanked Bernie nicely
Acknowledged progressives and the overall agenda
Effectively, smoothly and gently pivoted to the general right there
re: #203 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
No shit. But the increased turnout is reason for optimism.
Apathy and indifference are the most effective forms of GOP voter suppression, that is what put them over in 2016.
re: #8 Ace-o-aces
Article 25?
Junior’s as much a dumbass as Trump is. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Junior does the word salad nearly as bad as Trump.
It’s the 25th Amendment. It should have been applied to Trump long ago, but the GOP and Trumpists continue enabling the most incompetent, corrupt, and criminal admin in our nation’s history.
Our failed covid19 response is directly related to Trump’s refusal to act aggressively to stop it - including failing to aggressive test for cases even if it meant we had identified cases. When you identify cases, public health experts can do contact tracing and limit the spread. But if you’re not doing testing and don’t have the kits to test, you limit the ability to do all that.
Trump’s CDC sat on tests out in Seattle despite local doctors warning that we needed to test (one did so anyways and revealed an outbreak there). They’re still limiting tests to those who know they came in contact with someone who was diagnosed or traveled to China, South Korea, and Iran, but we have outbreaks in Italy and NYC metro. TSA isn’t asking people about travel to Italy or NYC or Seattle, which means domestic travelers don’t get additional screening.
Trump’s public health team is in shambles - by design and incompetence. Not having confirmed people heading agencies. Having lackeys and toadys telling Trump what he wants to hear instead of what he needs to hear.
Having Trump and GOPers get classified briefing about the potential spread of the disease that suggested 70% of US would be infected before long, and then lied about the spread and containment (which isn’t going to happen because the admin still can’t get the tests out to those needing them).
Local officials are struggling to keep up, and health experts warn of dire consequences once they reach a tipping point of community spread.
Meanwhile, Walmart announced new emergency sick leave policy after a store employee was diagnosed in Kentucky. That too points to the failure to have nationwide sick leave policies. Throw in fact that Trumpworld is saying that Medicare/Medicaid and health insurers will now cover costs for tests and not require copays belies fact that Trumpists and GOP sought to massively cut Medicare in their FY20-21 budget and are still in court looking to invalidate Obamacare, which expanded coverage of Medicaid in the states.
Everywhere you turn, Trumpists and GOPers are lying that they have things under control, when the numbers show differently. They’re continuing to prioritize big business and the markets over public health and safety, and that’s actually counterproductive as the markets gyrate between big selloffs and bargain hunters looking to pick through the wreckage.
re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Dude, seriously. Stop. It’s not like we don’t know this and I am pretty sure that Biden has got it covered.
It really makes it hard to talk with him. Wendell, I respect ya but you have to stop living in the wreckage of 2016 and look at what has changed since then. You’ve said it yourself that Trump benefited from this anti politician mindset, imo I think it was sexism but the fact is this is a new environment.
re: #213 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It really makes it hard to talk with him. Wendell, I respect ya but you have to stop living in the wreckage of 2016 and look at what has changed since then. You’ve said it yourself that Trump benefited from this anti politician mindset, imo I think it was sexism but the fact is this is a new environment.
I agree that the political landscape has changed, what has not changed (and what still dampens my badly shattered optimism) is that the media landscape has not changed and has done a lot no normalize and mainstream Trumpism. That still scares me.
re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Apathy and indifference are the most effective forms of GOP voter suppression, that is what put them over in 2016.
And where is that this time? This isn’t 2016. Biden is running a different campaign than HRC not to mention is a different person. Stop living the wreckage of 2016 and actually look at the pushback against Trump.
national Quinnipiac poll this week among voters 18-34:
Biden 59%, Trump 30% https://t.co/PB4NFZOqWg— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) March 11, 2020
re: #82 Sherlock Hound
This Twitter thread is as fucked as I expected. They’re serious, too.
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It’s so unfair when other people don’t want what I want
And i cant build a broad enough coalition
So I gotta game the rules
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I agree that the political landscape has changed, what has not changed (and what still dampens my badly shattered optimism) is that the media landscape has not changed and has done a lot no normalize and mainstream Trumpism. That still scares me.
You need to stop letting the media define your perceptions alone. It makes you at times hard to talk to because you come off ignorant of what’s actually happening. You seem to want to look for every reason to despair about beating Trump yet Trump is polling terribly and we unfortunately haven’t seen the worst of Coronavirus yet.
re: #216 jaunte
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It’s gonna be a challenge for sure but I think can be done. I also wonder what Obama-Romney looked like with these voters.
re: #215 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
And where is that this time? This isn’t 2016. Biden is running a different campaign than HRC not to mention is a different person. Stop living the wreckage of 2016 and actually look at the pushback against Trump.
Yes, I think Trump has done a lot to motivate the voters who sat out or voted protest in 2016.
Biden has won every county in Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi. What service does Bernie do his supporters by continuing to campaign?
re: #87 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
*I’m 32*. I vote. If younger voters want the Democratic Party defined on their terms, then vote and don’t act shocked if you don’t always win. Maybe gtfo Twitter and actually listen to people who don’t think Bernie Sanders has all the answers but are in fact left of center.
I thought you were taller
re: #218 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You need to stop letting the media define your perceptions alone. It makes you at times hard to talk to because you come off ignorant of what’s actually happening. You seem to want to look for every reason to despair about beating Trump yet Trump is polling terribly and we unfortunately haven’t seen the worst of Coronavirus yet.
I will be optimistic again when Trump is soundly voted out of office.
Its a psychological thing: I was a Cubs fan from childhood and I got so frustrated that I stopped rooting for them until they finally overcame the curse in 2016…
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I will be optimistic again when Trump is soundly voted out of office.
Its a psychological thing: I was a Cubs fan from childhood and I got so frustrated that I stopped rooting for them until they finally overcame the curse in 2016…
Ah I get that as an Orioles fan. Really chin up. We can do this. We’ve come a long way from 2016.
re: #109 goddamnedfrank
We’re also roughly a month away from the next wave of quarterly earnings statements. Most investors are flying blind, into a storm, trusting the instruments.
…and that flight following and approach control *aren’t lying to them*
re: #222 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
I thought you were taller
6 even when I want to feel good. 5’11 if I’m feeling honest.
Rolling coal? think again. Muzzle the pigs.
Diesel Brothers Hit With $850,000 Fine for Tampering With Truck Emissions
The TV hosts were found guilty of violating the Clean Air Act.
The stars of Discovery Channel’s Diesel Brothers television show are being ordered to pay $851,451 for their role in producing and selling modified diesel pickups that wreaked environmental havoc in the state of Utah. David “Heavy D” Sparks, Joshua Stuart, Keaton Hoskins, and Dave Kiley—a.k.a. “Diesel Dave”—were the targets of a case that reached a federal judge after being initiated by Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. It was then ruled that the defendants must pay the aforementioned dollar amount to the United States government and Davis County with additional restitution potentially on the way.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I agree that the political landscape has changed, what has not changed (and what still dampens my badly shattered optimism) is that the media landscape has not changed and has done a lot no normalize and mainstream Trumpism. That still scares me.
There is no normal when your friends and family are dying.
Assuming we survive this virus, we got this.
re: #221 jaunte
Biden has won every county in Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi. What service does Bernie do his supporters by continuing to campaign?
Hate to say it but by continuing to stay in, he’s adding to their misery. He needs to realize and communicate to his supporters that they just don’t have the votes and he’s not going to be the nominee. I hope he surprises me and sees the big picture and communicates that to his supporters.
re: #216 jaunte
[national Quinnipiac poll this week among voters 18-34:
Biden 59%, Trump 30% ]
Republicans make up 30% of the electorate. If trump gets 30% of that 30% he’s so well done someone might put ketchup on him and eat him.
re: #231 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m not confident he will accept an incremental good.
re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There is no normal when your friends and family are dying.
Assuming we survive this virus, we got this.
It’s a different game now. Trump like all Presidents was going to face a crisis. He’s failing at this one.
re: #233 jaunte
I’m not confident he will accept an incremental good.
It’s tough. Biden did a smart thing by acknowledging his supporters though. But unfortunately I think a lot of his supporters have shut themselves off to political reality which I think is a failing of their candidate.
re: #234 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s a different game now. Trump like all Presidents was going to face a crisis. He’s failing at this one.
He’s faced multiple crises and failed miserably at all of them.
His failure re: Maria and Puerto Rico is well documented. Thousands of Americans died thanks to his depraved indifference and active efforts to block aid flowing to Americans that he considered the enemy because they didn’t vote and support him.
His failure on foreign policy is also stunning: capitulation to Taliban; photo op with Jong Un and giving North Korea time and space to build nuclear program and missile tech; and abrogating JCPOA giving Iran time and ability to enrich uranium to build their own nuclear weapons.
re: #235 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
It’s tough. Biden did a smart thing by acknowledging his supporters though. But unfortunately I think a lot of his supporters have shut themselves off to political reality which I think is a failing of their candidate.
I disagree. There are vocal ones on twitter. Only a fraction of the electorate is on twitter.
re: #237 lawhawk
He’s faced multiple crises and failed miserably at all of them.
His failure re: Maria and Puerto Rico is well documented. Thousands of Americans died thanks to his depraved indifference and active efforts to block aid flowing to Americans that he considered the enemy because they didn’t vote and support him.
His failure on foreign policy is also stunning: capitulation to Taliban; photo op with Jong Un and giving North Korea time and space to build nuclear program and missile tech; and abrogating JCPOA giving Iran time and ability to enrich uranium to build their own nuclear weapons.
Exactly.
re: #153 Patricia Kayden
I love how easily Max dismisses Black voters who overwhelmingly support Biden. Racist much? And does he really believe that Sanders could beat Trump? Let’s be real.
Lose the primary, win the general
re: #237 lawhawk
He’s faced multiple crises and failed miserably at all of them.
His failure re: Maria and Puerto Rico is well documented. Thousands of Americans died thanks to his depraved indifference and active efforts to block aid flowing to Americans that he considered the enemy because they didn’t vote and support him.
His failure on foreign policy is also stunning: capitulation to Taliban; photo op with Jong Un and giving North Korea time and space to build nuclear program and missile tech; and abrogating JCPOA giving Iran time and ability to enrich uranium to build their own nuclear weapons.
re: #238 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I disagree. There are vocal ones on twitter. Only a fraction of the electorate is on twitter.
True that. I do think Biden could and I think will benefit from youth voter outreach. I don’t think many of them know his entrance story into national politics. I think they know about him losing his wife and daughter but not that he was not even 30 years old when he won an election in one of the worst defeats for a Democratic Presidential candidate.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Michael Moore was right about the EC in 2016, he just figured out what the GOP strategy was based on. Can Trump carry MI, WI, OH and PA against Biden?
Unless Trump can get all four, he cannot win
There’s always someone who predicted the outlier result who then after is lauded as somehow prescient while everyone else isn’t/wasn’t
It’s effectively the same as being the sole lottery winner
Doesn’t necessarily mean your number picks were inspired
re: #229 Rightwingconspirator
Rolling coal? think again. Muzzle the pigs.
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Diesel Brothers Hit With $850,000 Fine for Tampering With Truck Emissions
The TV hosts were found guilty of violating the Clean Air Act.
Oh my. Alex Jones jailed, albeit temporarily. These goobers fined to hell and gone. Is this the faint beginning of the “Great Payback” that will reach tsunami levels after January 20?
I think Trump fatigue is a real thing. People just want a President again. Unfortunately I think Trump at a minimum gets 40% of the vote and 200 EVs but I think fatigue is real.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump ran on the image of the anti-politician. Biden can run successfully as the anti-Trump.
You wanted an antipolitician, see what you got?
You need an experienced professional to clean his mess up
re: #243 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
There’s always someone who predicted the outlier result who then after is lauded as somehow prescient while everyone else isn’t/wasn’t
It’s effectively the same as being the sole lottery winner
Doesn’t necessarily mean your number picks were inspired
Moore projected his own sexism on to the voters imo. And his strategy would have probably had us doing in fact worse.
re: #246 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
You wanted an antipolitician, see what you got?
You need an experienced professional to clean his mess up
GTMA. And that’s how a lot of people are thinking.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hope so but I find it unfortunate that it took a life-threatening crisis to finally bring him down…
We tried everything else…
re: #108 BigPapa
Dennis Miller just joined RT to host a show.
This guy has to have the biggest grudge against not having a successful Hollywood career that I’ve ever seen. Get over it, Bub. Your quasi-intellectual schtick played well for a short while on SNL amongst the college-educated liberals on TV, but translates poorly to an audience that views Archie Bunker not as a cultural pariah, but a role model.
re: #251 Florida Panhandler
This guy has to have the biggest grudge against not having a successful Hollywood career that I’ve ever seen. G.
Is he another one of those losers who blames “Hollywood Liberal Bias” on his lack of success?
re: #142 Sherlock Hound
Michael Tracey’s mask slips…
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So — maybe it is fair, after all, to call Michael Tracey a fascist or is Nazi a better term?
re: #245 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I think Trump fatigue is a real thing. People just want a President again. Unfortunately I think Trump at a minimum gets 40% of the vote and 200 EVs but I think fatigue is real.
I’ll say I’ve never seen Republicans openly and publicly tell other Republicans to hop the fence and vote for the other team. And it’s been happening a lot in the past few days, and not just from the usual ‘Never Trump’ suspects.
It’s honestly pretty stunning to watch, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it increase as the election gets closer. A lot of people have let Trump skate on a lot of things, but I think COVID-19 and Trump’s total lack of a coherent response has people giving up on trying to defend the indefensible. Finally.
Contagion was right in the mark:
The tragedy is that this was *very much* on the agenda of experts at least since since SARS. Almost exactly as it happened. I’m trying to see if I can find my slides but this is pretty much the scenario I taught when I used to teach introduction to sociology (roughly 2005-2010). https://t.co/HtF9HQOpff
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 10, 2020
re: #254 makeitstop
I’ll say I’ve never seen Republicans openly and publicly tell other Republicans to hop the fence and vote for the other team. And it’s been happening a lot in the past few days, and not just from the usual ‘Never Trump’ suspects.
It’s honestly pretty stunning to watch, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it increase as the election gets closer. A lot of people have let Trump skate on a lot of things, but I think COVID-19 and Trump’s total lack of a coherent response has people giving up on trying to defend the indefensible. Finally.
A landslide would be so nice.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Michael Moore was right about the EC in 2016, he just figured out what the GOP strategy was based on. Can Trump carry MI, WI, OH and PA against Biden?
Unless Trump can get all four, he cannot win
Nope. If Trump gets Ohio (+everything else he won before), he needs to win only ONE of the remaining 3 states. When Trump won Ohio, Hillary needed Michigan + Wisconsin + Pennsylvania to win the office.
re: #253 Hecuba’s daughter
So — maybe it is fair, after all, to call Michael Tracey a fascist or is Nazi a better term?
I won’t be surprised if he’s openly right wing by year’s end. It’s an easier road to fascism from his worldview than it is from the “centrists” him and Glenn despise.
A disease specialist in Seattle had the ability (and instinct) to test for coronavirus as early as January.
Officials told her she wasn’t allowed to test.
She did it anyway and found a bunch of cases.
So what happened? They told her to stop.
https://t.co/lG7vhsi1lc— Edmund Lee (@edmundlee) March 11, 2020
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Is he another one of those losers who blames “Hollywood Liberal Bias” on his lack of
successtalent?
The guy had success when he had writers. He was an actor and when he was on his own he failed.
Looks like my play in toilet paper and hand soap futures is paying dividends. /half.
The markets are again in decline, and the usual pundits will associate the problem to the following:
1) ego driving the Russia-Saudi oil price war
2) lack of a stimulus plan from Trump.
Neither of those is the true underlying cause here.
It’s the failure of the US to aggressively test and contain covid19, which means that the economic affects will be far more severe. It’s a failure of leadership, and the sooner the pundits treat that as the real reason, the sooner we can begin to address the problems (and it starts and end with the enabling GOP).
re: #259 goddamnedfrank
Curious…how is your dad in all this?
” … Trump’s luridly delusional response to the coronavirus and his conspiracy theorizing about Democrats and the news media aren’t really that different from the way the right dealt with the financial crisis a dozen years ago,” writes @paulkrugman. https://t.co/uch1VnfjsG
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) March 11, 2020
“… it’s worth noting that basically everyone on the Trump economic team was totally wrong about the 2008 crisis. It seems to be a job requirement.
The bottom line is that like so much of what is happening in America right now, the coronavirus crisis isn’t just about Trump. His intellectual and emotional inadequacy, his combination of megalomania and insecurity, are certainly contributing to the problem; has there ever been a president so obviously not up to the job? But in refusing to face uncomfortable facts, in attributing all bad news to sinister conspiracies, he’s actually just being a normal man of his faction.”
re: #149 Targetpractice
There’s just a mountain of salt where the Fark Politics Tab used to sit. The Berners are so fucking salty right now, you could substitute them for saltines. And they’re playing all their greatest hits from 2016, from “BIDEN’S GONNA GET CREAMED BY TRUMP!!!” to “THE DEMS HAVE LOST MY VOTE!!!”
So they are acting exactly as many predicted they would act.
A well oiled machine https://t.co/Z1FYHlYBoD
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) March 11, 2020
re: #266 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
So they are acting exactly as many predicted they would act.
I do hope they eventually wake up to the fact that Sanders hoodwinked a lot of them. And I mean that. I think Sanders is a political con artist closer to Trump in how he sells policy and it’s worse honestly since Sanders has been around the block and he knows how Washington actually works unlike Trump going into 2016.
#Coronavirus hearing in the House will end early as health officials testifying have been called to the @WhiteHouse for an “emergency meeting,” says @RepMaloney.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 11, 2020
Wonder what’s up…
I’m still catching up on the morning thread so apologies if this has been posted, but here’s some great news:
What we just witnessed in Michigan’s wealthy suburbs is a five-alarm fire for Donald Trump.
Read my deep dive into the numbers. Really ominous stuff here for the GOP.https://t.co/hGzlyZyuiu pic.twitter.com/Cwlo3kvoqJ— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) March 11, 2020
re: #269 makeitstop
White House: “Our plan is, you have to lie.”
Suburbia will be Trump and honestly in the end the GOP as we know them’s undoing.
re: #268 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I do hope they eventually wake up to the fact that Sanders hoodwinked a lot of them. And I mean that. I think Sanders is a political con artist closer to Trump in how he sells policy and it’s worse honestly since Sanders has been around the block and he knows how Washington actually works unlike Trump going into 2016.
He thought he saw a way he could catapult himself into the presidency with less than overwhelming enthusiasm support
Ie thread the needle
Imo his goal was the presidency, not necessarily the policy
re: #269 makeitstop
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Wonder what’s up…
Maybe that CV test trump said he was maybe going to take turned up something as he already took it (there is NO WAY they didn’t test him already. none.)
re: #276 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Maybe that CV test trump said he was maybe going to take turned up something as he already took it (there is NO WAY they didn’t test him already. none.)
The guy their afraid of telling the truth to?
re: #196 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Odds are he’ll walk on a technicality.
Jones had a blood alcohol level of 0.076 at 11:55 p.m. and a level of 0.079 at 11:59 p.m. The legal blood alcohol limit while driving in Texas is 0.08.
What is the Texas law between DUI and DWI?
From Wikipedia on “Drunk Driving”:
All states have a “catch-all” provision designed to cover those circumstances where the person is below 0.08%, but the person still appears impaired by definition of law. These types of “catch-all” statutes cover situations involving a person under the influence of drugs or under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs. With the advent of the legalization of marijuana, these catch-all provisions cover those prosecutions pursuing those charged with driving under the influence of drugs or even drugs and alcohol.
So perhaps he doesn’t get the major charge due to being under 0.08%, but still gets caught by the “catch-all”.
re: #237 lawhawk
He’s faced multiple crises and failed miserably at all of them.
His failure re: Maria and Puerto Rico is well documented. Thousands of Americans died thanks to his depraved indifference and active efforts to block aid flowing to Americans that he considered the enemy because they didn’t vote and support him.
His failure on foreign policy is also stunning: capitulation to Taliban; photo op with Jong Un and giving North Korea time and space to build nuclear program and missile tech; and abrogating JCPOA giving Iran time and ability to enrich uranium to build their own nuclear weapons.
His foreign policy chops are the main reason I always put Biden second on my list of candidates. This is going to be really important, and Biden was always the only candidate who had the right experience and interest.
re: #274 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
He thought he saw a way he could catapult himself into the presidency with less than overwhelming enthusiasm support
Ie thread the needle
Imo his goal was the presidency, not necessarily the policy
I really think he and his advisers saw how Trump took over the GOP and remade it in Trump’s image that they could do the same to the Democrats. That was a big miscalculation. I have a lot of respect for AOC because I feel she put her money where her mouth was but it wasn’t AOC types that gave the Democrats a majority in the House and it won’t be that return them to the Presidency and Senate. Progressive types or whatever they want to call themselves (I consider myself ideologically in between Biden and Bernie) need to learn about coalition building. They wanted to declare Bernie as the new FDR. They need to learn about how FDR actually built a coalition that lasted for 36 years.
“Joe Biden could start wearing his underwear outside his pants and start calling people Beau during handshake lines and I will still walk across hot coals to vote for him rather than that corrupt POS Trump”
Rando commenter
re: #278 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What is the Texas law between DUI and DWI?
From Wikipedia on “Drunk Driving”:
So perhaps he doesn’t get the major charge due to being under 0.08%, but still gets caught by the “catch-all”.
Likely because he is a belligerent asshole. That would be so sweet.
re: #144 sagehen
Rabbi Dayna missed the most obvious reason Jewish villages had less plague than the Christian village down the road — because a house that’s had a proper Peach-clean is a house that cannot possibly contain rats (or the fleas that rats carry).
Thank you for reminding me that Pesach cleaning begins today. I’ll get started just as soon as I finish drinking my morning coffee (which should take all morning).
re: #281 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
“Joe Biden could start wearing his underwear outside his pants and start calling people Beau during handshake lines and I will still walk across hot coals to vote for him rather than that corrupt POS Trump”
Rando commenter
That’s a rando I can totally get behind!
Off to the gym (still open, implementing new policies on separation of patrons).
re: #279 A hollow voice says, Guilty, guilty, guilty!
His foreign policy chops are the main reason I always put Biden second on my list of candidates. This is going to be really important, and Biden was always the only candidate who had the right experience and interest.
I think that has definitely been underrated. TBH before Obama chose him as his running mate, I thought Biden would have been a good choice for Secretary of State too. Who knows who Biden would consider for that at this point but I definitely would trust his judgment.
re: #217 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
It’s so unfair when other people don’t want what I want
And i cant build a broad enough coalition
So I gotta game the rules
And bring out the guillotines!
re: #196 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Odds are he’ll walk on a technicality.
Jones had a blood alcohol level of 0.076 at 11:55 p.m. and a level of 0.079 at 11:59 p.m. The legal blood alcohol limit while driving in Texas is 0.08.
There is no “legal limit”. .08 is the presumptive/prima facie limit for driving while impaired.
re: #262 lawhawk
Looks like my play in toilet paper and hand soap futures is paying dividends. /half.
The markets are again in decline, and the usual pundits will associate the problem to the following:
1) ego driving the Russia-Saudi oil price war
2) lack of a stimulus plan from Trump.Neither of those is the true underlying cause here.
It’s the failure of the US to aggressively test and contain covid19, which means that the economic affects will be far more severe. It’s a failure of leadership, and the sooner the pundits treat that as the real reason, the sooner we can begin to address the problems (and it starts and end with the enabling GOP).
Standard conservative playbook:
1) Blame foreigners.
2) Ask government for a tax cut/hand out that mainly benefits themselves.
What is the best place to get accurate COVID19 case counts for the U.S.?
re: #269 makeitstop
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Those who testified will be called traitors for doing so and then be fired, perhaps.
re: #263 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Curious…how is your dad in all this?
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re: #289 Mike Lamb
There is no “legal limit”. .08 is the presumptive/prima facie limit for driving while impaired.
They still pulled him over for a reason in the first place
Erratic driving? Weaving?
re: #270 Flying Squirrel Girl
I’m still catching up on the morning thread so apologies if this has been posted, but here’s some great news:
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That reflects similar to 2018 election results in eastern PA where the two most conservative counties in the state just outside of Philadelphia both voted heavily for Democrats for local office.
re: #294 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
They still pulled him over for a reason in the first place
Erratic driving? Weaving?
They heard someone yelling about Hillary turning the frogs gay again. Joking aside, I wouldn’t be surprised if Alex has a serious booze problem.
re: #293 goddamnedfrank
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re: #277 Belafon
The guy their afraid of telling the truth to?
After openly calling it a hoax repeatedly coming out and saying he’d already been (or would be) tested sounds like admitting that he was lying about it earlier, no?
re: #295 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That reflects similar to 2018 election results in eastern PA where the two most conservative counties in the state just outside of Philadelphia both voted heavily for Democrats for local office.
Which I think bodes well for the Fall. I love Obama but I want to point out that there were quite a few places where she actually outperformed him and I think there will be places where Biden just might outperform both of them.
re: #294 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
They still pulled him over for a reason in the first place
Erratic driving? Weaving?
Dunno. But if it is a particular time of day or location, cops will pull people over for the most minor moving infraction in order to test. Things like not finishing a left hand turn into the nearest lane to the center, not using the indicator, etc.
re: #293 goddamnedfrank
Here’s that term you were telling us about the other day:
“People have tried to deny so many atrocities that were right in our faces. Rising fascism, systemic racism, climate change. Now, with the coronavirus, they’re being pushed out of their normalcy bias in the most tragic way possible.” — @gaslitnation https://t.co/9Xa2APRHD6
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 11, 2020
re: #296 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s got a major prescription pill addiction. Someone I know in Austin sees him at the “doctor” all the time.
re: #302 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s got a major prescription pill addiction. Someone I know in Austin sees him at the “doctor” all the time.
I believe that completely. He’s gotten more nuts than he was before and he’s always been a bit nuts.
re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg
What is the best place to accurate COVID19 case counts for the U.S.?
I’m using a site via John Hopkins (?). But I have noted that it is often a day or two slow reporting some things, like nothing yet noted in South Dakota, but I think I read last night that they have cases now. I also saw that after a point they just put a red dot on a state rather than smaller dots for within the state for the reported cases; e.g. PA went to a big central dot once they went past 4-5 cases in the state.
re: #97 TarHellion
To be sure, I have my long-held portfolio - Microsoft, Cisco, 3M, Duke Energy. I just enjoy messing around to get a sense of the psychology of the market. Like Tuesday: Way up at open, give it all back, then rally past the open at the end. And in a week where the big boss is away, might as well have some fun! :-) :-) :-)
i’m holding on to everything at the moment. But my sideline cash is staying right there. If I could buy more berk at 150, or exxon at 25, that would be fine.
re: #261 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The guy had success when he had writers. He was an actor and when he was on his own he failed.
Barry Crimmins was Dennis’ main gag writer…until Dennis got a swelled head and fired him. Without Barry, Dennis was his usual asshole self. Now he’s on RT reciting Russian propaganda proving that he’ll say anything for money…
re: #297 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #273 Belafon
“Don’t talk to Democrats.”
“No more freelancing. You must say only what we have authorized. You must stop states from independently reporting information that we haven’t approved”
re: #300 Mike Lamb
Dunno. But if it is a particular time of day or location, cops will pull people over for the most minor moving infraction in order to test. Things like not finishing a left hand turn into the nearest lane to the center, not using the indicator, etc.
I once finished a left turn into the nearest lane to the center and less than a minute later had a motorcycle cop verbally chastise me for making an “illegal” turn. Since I so happened to end up in the lane he was in ahead of him (I guess).
re: #307 goddamnedfrank
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NY Auto Show, which sees more than 100k people attend daily, is postponing to the late summer. Another bunch of cases were confirmed in NYC - rising 10 to 46, and NJ saw first fatality.
My commute on NJ Transit saw 20-30% fewer people earlier this week, but today it was more like 50% fewer. That’s due to more and more companies telling people to work from home, school closures, and no amount of tax breaks will encourage people to travel.
St. Patrick’s Day parades are being cancelled across nation, but NYC hasn’t made a decision yet (expect them to cancel). NYC half marathon was cancelled.
I’m sure we discussed this but this is what’s happening in Russia right now.
npr.org
Putin is setting himself up to be President until 2036 and if he makes it there, he will have been in charge of Russia longer than any Russian leader since Stalin and before Stalin, you have to go back to Catherine the Great I think.
re: #281 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
“Joe Biden could start wearing his underwear outside his pants and start calling people Beau during handshake lines and I will still walk across hot coals to vote for him rather than that corrupt POS Trump”
Rando commenter
Joe and Jill could just sing Shake Your Groove Thang and I’d still vote for Joe!
re: #269 makeitstop
Dear Leader wants the lies to continue even as the facts continue to show his abomination of a response has allowed the disease to gain a community foothold and spread uncontrolled - the very thing the experts warned would happen without aggressive and early testing.
re: #278 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What is the Texas law between DUI and DWI?
From Wikipedia on “Drunk Driving”:
So perhaps he doesn’t get the major charge due to being under 0.08%, but still gets caught by the “catch-all”.
Would be nice to see. That fucker need to spend dome time in jail.
And btw FP is exactly even if he didn’t have the Magnitsky Act no vote, the Tad Devine ties, or the acceptance that Russia interfered for his campaign that Bernie would be a huge no to me. I’ve never trusted Bernie on FP at all. Biden is someone I can genuinely see getting a hero’s welcome in other countries.
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
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isn’t Sears already on life-support? It wouldn’t be that much of a reach.
Oh, and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is being sentenced in NY court this morning.
Headlines are still minimizing the fact that he’s a convicted rapist.
All the headlines should include “Convicted rapist Weinstein faces sentencing…” or some similar wording. He’s not a disgraced movie mogul. He’s a convicted rapist.
The Guardian has more on this convicted rapist and the piece of work he was - including trying to get Bezos and Bloomberg to salvage his position at the film production company, attacking Jennifer Aniston in media, and red flagging people who might speak out against Weinstein’s sexual assaults and proclivities.
MOO-VING IN? A young bull gets to come indoors out of the rain at an Oklahoma farm. https://t.co/NTlW9eQnCW pic.twitter.com/mrHYlnFlel
— ABC News (@ABC) March 11, 2020
Likely why there is a crisis in the white house.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
24,042.09 −976.07 (3.90%)
They don’t exactly care about us. This is all they care about.
re: #317 steve_davis
isn’t Sears already on life-support? It wouldn’t be that much of a reach.
Yes. And this is a case study of how they failed to plan long term. They had everything in place to become Amazon but failed to gage the potential!
re: #310 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #322 goddamnedfrank
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Bernie is at 14.8% with 100% reporting in Miss. Holy shit. That’s no delegates.
Black folk went 83% for Joe.
Bernie has to be considering dropping now.
re: #320 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Likely why there is a crisis in the white house.
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24,042.09 −976.07 (3.90%)They don’t exactly care about us. This is all they care about.
But it’s the health officials that have been called into the White House. What would they be able to contribute to handling of the DJIA? They are physicians not economists.
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
But it’s the health officials that have been called into the White House. What would they be able to contribute to handling of the DJIA? They are physicians not economists.
Loyalty to the Trump Empire is of paramount importance!
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re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
But it’s the health officials that have been called into the White House. What would they be able to contribute to handling of the DJIA? They are physicians not economists.
So how much coke has Kudlow snorted this morning?????
re: #325 Hecuba’s daughter
But it’s the health officials that have been called into the White House. What would they be able to contribute to handling of the DJIA? They are physicians not economists.
It makes perfect sense if you think about everything, and I mean everything, trump has done to date. :-)
re: #324 BigPapa
Bernie is at 14.8% with 100% reporting in Miss. Holy shit. That’s no delegates.
Black folk went 83% for Joe.
Bernie has to be considering dropping now.
I really hope that his supporters going forward take lessons from his failures with the African-American community. But unfortunately I fear they won’t because leftists made mistakes like that in the past too.
Science to the rescue!
Connecticut bioscience entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg says he’s on the fast track to develop a low-cost home test for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Rothberg, the serial entrepreneur and innovator behind next-generation, high-speed DNA sequencing and groundbreaking medical devices like a pocket-sized ultrasound wand and portable MRI machine, started brainstorming and crowdsourcing ideas for his coronavirus test on Twitter over the weekend.
He said in an interview Monday that he and his team at Homodeus, one of seven startups housed in his Guilford-based life-sciences incubator 4Catalyzer, are now “working around the clock” to develop an instant home test that is based on the genetic code of the deadly virus.
re: #323 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #324 BigPapa
Bernie is at 14.8% with 100% reporting in Miss. Holy shit. That’s no delegates.
Black folk went 83% for Joe.
Bernie has to be considering dropping now.
HA.
re: #324 BigPapa
Bernie is at 14.8% with 100% reporting in Miss. Holy shit. That’s no delegates.
This is my jam.
re: #329 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really hope that his supporters going forward take lessons from his failures with the African-American community. But unfortunately I fear they won’t because leftists made mistakes like that in the past too.
Much easier to blame some DNC conspiracy and low-information “others” than to do a self-evaluation and question one’s own positions and assumptions.
re: #324 BigPapa
Bernie is at 14.8% with 100% reporting in Miss. Holy shit. That’s no delegates.
Black folk went 83% for Joe.
Bernie has to be considering dropping now.
We can say all those things quietly, but we’re gonna have to let him come to his own decision, like you have to do with any young adult.
This is heartbreaking to watch.
The president said again yesterday: “…when people need a test, they can get a test.”
We’ve been testing that claim around the country.
Clay Bentley’s experience in Georgia tells a very different story. pic.twitter.com/XEjcJ4Zwwo— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 11, 2020
re: #324 BigPapa
Bernie has to be considering dropping now.
If he’s capable of any sort of effective, strategic thinking, he could stay in for now and use Sunday’s debate as a chance to a) advocate for his policies and how they can be achieved b) push a unity message in order to better accomplish a)
Yeah, I won’t hold my breath -_-
According to DK, Washington is stuck at 67% reporting, with only .2% separating Sanders and Biden. Bernie could run on the strength of his win in North Dakota.
re: #334 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Much easier to blame some DNC conspiracy and low-information “others” than to do a self-evaluation and question one’s own positions and assumptions.
Yeah unfortunately I think you’re right. What I do honestly worry about is the horseshoe theory. History is full of former socialists who went hard right. We saw Tracey pretty much giving away where we might see him on the spectrum in a few years.
Kudlow ain’t looking too good.
Ari, look at Larry Kudlow on the stage, he is sick. pic.twitter.com/1tHFOYnnO6
— Obi Ward Kenobi (@WardDurossette) March 10, 2020
Odds are good that somebody in the White House is coming down with this thing.
re: #338 Belafon
As it stands now, if WA remains razor thin, that splits the delegate count there. ND netted Bernie 2.
Bernie needs to essentially sweep the remaining delegates winning 57% of the remaining delegates.
Biden needs to get 50.1% of remaining delegates to get to 1991 first. At this rate, he’ll easily crush Bernie well before June.
It’s over.
BREAKING: House Democrats plan to introduce bill today on sick leave, UI, food stamps, free testing. Aim to vote tomorrow before recess
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) March 11, 2020
re: #340 makeitstop
Kudlow ain’t looking too good.
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Odds are good that somebody in the White House is coming down with this thing.
If someone is, that’s more paranoia for an already paranoid WH.
re: #342 Belafon
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Pelosi should go down as one of the greatest Speakers of all time. I hate how little she’s appreciated by what one might call the activists. She won’t be Speaker at decade’s end but we will have been better off as a nation for her two stints as Speaker.
Harvey gets 23 years.
Aw shit I guessed 5 in the pool… 😂
Oh boy. Breaking news on tv. Weinstein getting 23 years. Good. Let him die in prison.
re: #340 makeitstop
Kudlow ain’t looking too good.
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Odds are good that somebody in the White House is coming down with this thing.
1st one who coughs gets fired.
re: #340 makeitstop
Kudlow ain’t looking too good.
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Odds are good that somebody in the White House is coming down with this thing.
A repeat of what happened in Iran?
Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) March 11, 2020
re: #349 Hecuba’s daughter
A repeat of what happened in Iran?
Considering the arrogant approach most of them have taken with this thing, it wouldn’t surprise me.
re: #349 Hecuba’s daughter
A repeat of what happened in Iran?
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For a “moderate” Biden will run on the most progressive platform in major party history.
I believe most, if not all of those issues are included in his platform at https://t.co/GFYk7bX5Nj https://t.co/mR1TTRqezO
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 11, 2020
re: #340 makeitstop
Kudlow ain’t looking too good.
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Odds are good that somebody in the White House is coming down with this thing.
It’s Kudlow, so there’s decent odds that he’s just been swimming around in a pool filled with cocaine in an attempt at prophylaxis.
Hey California, you up? https://t.co/csodZO74qS
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) March 11, 2020
re: #356 goddamnedfrank
It’s Kudlow, so there’s decent odds that he’s just been swimming around in a pool filled with cocaine in an attempt at prophylaxis.
As if Scrooge McDuck fucked Tony Montana
re: #341 lawhawk
As it stands now, if WA remains razor thin, that splits the delegate count there. ND netted Bernie 2.
Bernie needs to essentially sweep the remaining delegates winning 57% of the remaining delegates.
Biden needs to get 50.1% of remaining delegates to get to 1991 first. At this rate, he’ll easily crush Bernie well before June.
It’s over.
I hope if Sanders stays in the race, at the debate he focuses on his issues and not on attacking Biden, who will be the nominee.
re: #355 NO SMOCKING GUN!
For a “moderate” Biden will run on the most progressive platform in major party history.
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People haven’t been paying attention to his platform. His policy on transgender rights alone is far from a return to the status quo as you can get. Bernie just got seen as the “cool” guy because he talked a big game. Biden I’ve felt can always deliver. If you look at who the Presidents who accomplished the most progressive legislation. They weren’t people who were elected to change the world. FDR was just someone who would be an alternative to Hoover at first and LBJ was just the other guy to Goldwater’s extremism. Both of them and LBJ especially though were very smart at understanding the times and systems they were working within. I’ve been trying to tell people that if they want something closer to what Sanders’ talks about, you need to build up strong majorities in your legislatures.
re: #358 goddamnedfrank
As if Scrooge McDuck fucked Tony Montana
First you get the coins and then you get the nephews.
Not that *any* Federal charges are great, but these are *not* the units you want filing charges on you. pic.twitter.com/2Um2mLmWVk
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 11, 2020
I just wanna post this here from 12 days ago.
“When you have 15, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
re: #355 NO SMOCKING GUN!
For a “moderate” Biden will run on the most progressive platform in major party history.
I think the only Democrat who might not support Matt’s list is Manchen, and he probably supports everything but the green energy investment.
re: #359 NO SMOCKING GUN!
LMAO. You almost had me there at avoid personal attacks.
re: #363 Ace Rothstein
I just wanna post this here from 12 days ago.
“When you have 15, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”
Yep. Biden probably already lining up campaign ads using this clip.
You’re one of the reasons we’re now facing a massive public health crisis and Trump’s response is to deny its existence, slow-walk the testing, and to lie and commit crimes endlessly.
You’re the problem along with all the enabling complicit GOPers.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 11, 2020
re: #329 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I really hope that his supporters going forward take lessons from his failures with the African-American community. But unfortunately I fear they won’t because leftists made mistakes like that in the past too.
I’m going to qualify that I have a lot of Bernie supporting friends and I’m sure there are some Bernie supporting lizards on LGF. I feel your pain as my candidate of choice left and I was crushed. I don’t consider them Talibern though.
The Talibern are roughly equivalent to Trumpers. I call them Blue Trumpers. They are up in their feels and acting like shits right now and I’ll give anybody some slack when their candidate is going down or cratering. We all know some will get over it and move on and some won’t. Those that won’t I give zero fucks about. They can suck it. They cannot be reasoned or bargained with, they’re just toxic shits. It’s a waste of time to cater to earn their vote. They deserve mockery, scorn, derision, or, ostracism. They deserve to be ignored.
Time to put the boot on the throat of the GOP and focus on complete electoral eradication. The detritus of Blue Trumpers can get caught up in the house cleaning for all I care. They’re as much part of the problem as the Trumpes themselves.
Quite the contrast up north.
https://t.co/VsmriB4EIO— Jessie Flagg (@JessieFlagg1) March 11, 2020
re: #362 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s in the picture?
re: #368 lawhawk
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OT. Personal stuff:
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The DOW is melting down again today. -1,102
Well, fuck.
Fauci: “[Coronavirus] is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu”
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) March 11, 2020
Fauci’s gonna get his ass fired. But I’m thinking maybe he’s done lying for Trump at this point.
re: #376 makeitstop
Well, fuck.
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Fauci’s gonna get his ass fired. But I’m thinking maybe he’s done lying for Trump at this point.
I knew he would eventually run out of fucks to give.
I wonder if Trump realizes how extraordinarily bad it would look if he fired Fauci right now?
re: #369 BigPapa
I’m going to qualify that I have a lot of Bernie supporting friends and I’m sure there are some Bernie supporting lizards on LGF. I feel your pain as my candidate of choice left and I was crushed. I don’t consider them Talibern though.
The Talibern are roughly equivalent to Trumpers. I call them Blue Trumpers. They are up in their feels and acting like shits right now and I’ll give anybody some slack when their candidate is going down or cratering. We all know some will get over it and move on and some won’t. Those that won’t I give zero fucks about. They can suck it. They cannot be reasoned or bargained with, they’re just toxic shits. It’s a waste of time to cater to earn their vote. They deserve mockery, scorn, derision, or, ostracism. They deserve to be ignored.
Time to put the boot on the throat of the GOP and focus on complete electoral eradication. The detritus of Blue Trumpers can get caught up in the house cleaning for all I care. They’re as much part of the problem as the Trumpes themselves.
Yeah I should be clear. I’m not talking about all Bernie supporters but I am talking about his supporters who RT doctored clips and spread lies about Biden. They’re people I could care less about but people who want to move the platform left, I’m sympathetic because I’m one of them. I just thought and still do that Biden was the best instrument for that and not Bernie.
re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #376 makeitstop
I think it’s 20 times more lethal than seasonal flu. Lowest risk groups go from .02 mortality with flu to .2 with COVID-19.
I should eventually dive into exactly how the ^VIX is calculated, because one thing that triggering my trust issues is how it’s steadily moving opposite to the market. That seems problematic because large upswings lower the number but don’t exactly smack of stability.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that the coronavirus was likely to infect about two-thirds of the German population.
“Given a virus for which there is no immunity and no immunization, we have to understand that many people will be infected. The consensus among experts is that 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected,” she said.
re: #376 makeitstop
Seasonal flu: 0.1% mortality rate.
WHO rate is around 3.4%
Current US rate: 2.8%
Even Fauci is being optimistic that it gets to 1%. That’s 10 times more lethal. We’re currently seeing lethality 20-40 times higher.
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The Washington results show the disadvantage of mail voting with over 10% of the vote going to Bloomberg, even though he’s out of the race.
That said, it’s a lot harder to suppress the vote with mail ballots.
Having 30 days of early/mail in voting is a double edge sword. On the one hand you likely get higher turn out. On the other, people who vote early can’t change their minds when something bad comes out closer to election day. I’m not sure what the correct answer is to balance these concerns, though.
re: #385 KGxvi
Having 30 days of early/mail in voting is a double edge sword. On the one hand you likely get higher turn out. On the other, people who vote early can’t change their minds when something bad comes out closer to election day. I’m not sure what the correct answer is to balance these concerns, though.
Primaries have shorter mail in periods? Accept that people vote for someone who is out?
Ranked choice voting in primaries. That’s the winning answer IMO.
re: #385 KGxvi
Having 30 days of early/mail in voting is a double edge sword. On the one hand you likely get higher turn out. On the other, people who vote early can’t change their minds when something bad comes out closer to election day. I’m not sure what the correct answer is to balance these concerns, though.
Ranked choice voting could address much of this.
re: #354 Interesting Times
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Didn’t the UK Director of Health in Boris Johnson’s government get diagnosed with COVID-19 already? Which implies that it’s in the UK government and probably spreading there as well.
re: #385 KGxvi
Having 30 days of early/mail in voting is a double edge sword. On the one hand you likely get higher turn out. On the other, people who vote early can’t change their minds when something bad comes out closer to election day. I’m not sure what the correct answer is to balance these concerns, though.
Allow choice. Early mail and same day voting. Mail in the vote on the last day if you want.
re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg
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Michigan Auto Worker who confronted Joe:
Reading his question, not a very deep one, off his phone
Now on Fox being interviewed
has T-Shirt with Twitter tag
Wears baseball cap with Gadsden Snake with yellow and black, same colors of the Fred Perry polo that Proud Boys wear
Stinks of grift and Joe the Plumber 9.0
re: #388 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t the UK Director of Health in Boris Johnson’s government get diagnosed with COVID-19 already? Which implies that it’s in the UK government and probably spreading there as well.
It’s like God is purging conservatives and assholes world wide.
I jest of course and this is black humor because a whole bunch of people are affected. Please accept my black humor for what it is.
re: #392 BigPapa
Michigan Auto Worker who confronted Joe:
Reading his question, not a very deep one, off his phone
Now on Fox being interviewed
has T-Shirt with Twitter tag
Wears baseball cap with Gadsden Snake with yellow and black, same colors of the Fred Perry polo that Proud Boys wear
Stinks of grift and Joe the Plumber 9.0
I would wonder that if one interviewed any of that guys co-workers they’d say “Yea, he’s a complete asshole.”
Mike Pence: Health Insurance Executives have agreed to give you the test for free.
Executives: We’re heroes basically.
Pence: Sorry, you were infected before we made the agreement. Pre-existing condition.
Execs: We’ll send you an invoice. https://t.co/HVyHDBhmjQ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 11, 2020
In case you were wondering which party Dan Lipinski actually belongs in, here’s what he’s doing in is primary:
The Affordable Care Act has many provisions that help working families, including coverage protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Marie Newman wants to throw that all away and switch to a government-run plan that would raise taxes on the middle class. pic.twitter.com/rbUjZLODaA
— Dan Lipinski (@DanLipinski) March 9, 2020
Lipinski voted against the ACA.
re: #392 BigPapa
Michigan Auto Worker who confronted Joe:
Reading his question, not a very deep one, off his phone
Now on Fox being interviewed
has T-Shirt with Twitter tag
Wears baseball cap with Gadsden Snake with yellow and black, same colors of the Fred Perry polo that Proud Boys wear
Stinks of grift and Joe the Plumber 9.0
So, Joe was 100% correct: he is full of shit.
Only Democrats get asked this.
‘How insane and cruel is it to suggest that we have to figure out how to pay for it when we can actually go to war and not ask one question’ — This nurse went off after a reporter asked @BernieSanders how he’d cover free COVID-19 vaccines pic.twitter.com/AhiMJ1DZoK
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 11, 2020
re: #398 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Only Democrats get asked this.
If they actually asked a Republican, he would answer “tax cuts” and the reporter would nod and report it as a serious answer.
Richard Marx will cut you.
The ones your girl fucked to before she met you. https://t.co/n6whpEPXrK
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) March 11, 2020
BTW, while obsessively eyeballing checking the stock-market figures on Bloomberg, I ran across this gem of cluelessness and unaware self-pity re Harvey Weinstein:
Weinstein Compares #MeToo to McCarthy Era
Harvey Weinstein addressed the court in the final moments before sentencing, warning of a “crisis” in America that he compared with the McCarthy era.
“I’m worried about this country,” he began. “We are going through this crisis right now in our country, it started basically with me. I was the first example and now there are many men who have been accused of abuse, something I think that none of us understood.”
“It is not the right atmosphere for the United States of America,” he said. “Everybody is on some kind of blacklist. I had no power. Miramax was a small company. I couldn’t blackball anybody.”
“I think possibly men like myself, like Dalton Trumbo — they said they were Communists, and now there’s a scare, just like that now.”
No expert on the period, but I have a feeling Dalton Trumbo might have a few points of disagreement with Mr. Weinstein (a type which I’m certain D.T. was familiar with from his Hollywood days).
re: #385 KGxvi
Having 30 days of early/mail in voting is a double edge sword. On the one hand you likely get higher turn out. On the other, people who vote early can’t change their minds when something bad comes out closer to election day. I’m not sure what the correct answer is to balance these concerns, though.
fill in and mail close but before to the deadline
re: #392 BigPapa
Michigan Auto Worker who confronted Joe:
Reading his question, not a very deep one, off his phone
Now on Fox being interviewed
has T-Shirt with Twitter tag
Wears baseball cap with Gadsden Snake with yellow and black, same colors of the Fred Perry polo that Proud Boys wear
Stinks of grift and Joe the Plumber 9.0
what i said yesterday:
offer to sit him down with joe one on one
let them both watch his clip
let them both see the original unedited comments
let them discuss
re: #400 Mescalero09
I’d like to report a justifiable homicide.
Bernie Sanders will address the media today in Burlington, Vermont at 1 p.m.
— Tyler Pager (@tylerpager) March 11, 2020
re: #387 goddamnedfrank
Ranked choice voting could address much of this.
It would be interesting because I found things I genuinely liked about a lot of the so called moderate lane candidates. Mayor Pete was lower on my list because I felt and still do that going from mayor of South Bend to the Presidency is a huge step but I think he has a lot to offer going forward.
re: #392 BigPapa
Michigan Auto Worker who confronted Joe:
Reading his question, not a very deep one, off his phone
Now on Fox being interviewed
has T-Shirt with Twitter tag
Wears baseball cap with Gadsden Snake with yellow and black, same colors of the Fred Perry polo that Proud Boys wear
Stinks of grift and Joe the Plumber 9.0
He planned for this.
Interesting. Wonder what he’s going to say.
— Chris Savage (@Eclectablog) March 11, 2020
re: #409 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Interesting. Wonder what he’s going to say.
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re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg
Knowing Bernie, probably that he’s in it for the long haul.
Floppy, pointy hands: “We. Will. Not. Concede. Until. It. Is. Too. Late!”
Trump’s former pandemic adviser (before Trump dumped him and refused to fill the position): ‘We are 10 days from our hospitals getting creamed’ due to Trump’s ongoing incompetence and failures https://t.co/jLjfglhG8P via @TheWeek
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 11, 2020
A day later, the US now reports over 1,000 cases and 29 deaths. Trumpworld has absolutely failed to protect the nation by refusing to test for the disease. He instead denied its existence. https://t.co/gg9nPIjPOK
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 11, 2020
There’s a reason health experts are warning of dire consequences - it’s because the pattern of the disease spreading is such that it will quickly overwhelm health facilities nationwide - first where the outbreaks are currently clustered, but soon elsewhere as the disease spreads unchecked.
Trump. Fucked. Up. He claimed we’d soon be down to zero. He thought that it would end with spring and warmer weather. He ignored the advice of experts to aggressively test.
re: #409 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Interesting. Wonder what he’s going to say.
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I got the perfect way for the next President to pay for Coronavirus Vaccines: Seize all Trump properties and sell them off.
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Bitch the Antivaxxers been quiet as hell…
— the bareback contessa (@sheikhofchic) March 11, 2020
re: #413 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Or it was planned for him.
Also a possibility. Fortunately, I think it’s only going to work on Fox.
re: #412 lawhawk
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There’s a reason health experts are warning of dire consequences - it’s because the pattern of the disease spreading is such that it will quickly overwhelm health facilities nationwide - first where the outbreaks are currently clustered, but soon elsewhere as the disease spreads unchecked.
Trump. Fucked. Up. He claimed we’d soon be down to zero. He thought that it would end with spring and warmer weather. He ignored the advice of experts to aggressively test.
It’s entirely possible that the hospitals would eventually get creamed regardless, but telling people it’s contained; that it’s a hoax; that they shouldn’t consider staying home; etc. etc., with the associated lack of testing, is certainly going to accelerate/exacerbate the issue. Instead of the potential of a more gradual ramping up of the pressure on hospitals and medical providers, we will see an inundation of hospitals, probably in the reddest areas of the country, as people realize that Trump was wholly and entirely full of shit.
re: #409 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Interesting. Wonder what he’s going to say.
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I hope it’s a concession speech. He has no path. It’s over.
Just because the COVID-19 is predominantly fatal to those over 80 years old, that doesn’t mean it’s a walk in the park for the under-40 set:
Take the case of Patient One, the 38-year-old Unilever worker who was the first in Lombardy to contract COVID-19 on Feb. 21 after trying desperately to get someone to test him. Because he had no ties to China, he went from clinic to clinic until someone took him seriously, spreading the virus as he went. He got out of intensive care on Monday after nearly three long weeks. He is still testing positive for the virus, but he is no longer on a respirator. He has no underlying conditions and the disease nearly killed him.
Italy is a window into the future of Florida. Those retirement communities chock-full of angry MAGAts are going to be mass graveyards.
Okay so the ^VIX is a 30 snapshot of S&P volatility, so the reason its movements are inverted right now is that its forward looking calibration is actually optimistic.
That seems, um, suboptimal in the current circumstance, where the event being forecast will both create a new normal and play out over much, much longer than 30 days.
re: #418 Mike Lamb
Aggressive testing is meant to buy time for the response to build up. Instead, it’s going to come like a wave and completely overwhelm public health workers.
China first tried the Trump approach to squelch all talk of an epidemic, silencing doctors issuing warnings, and then began aggressive testing and lockdowns of entire regions. They got compliance because of how authoritarian the regime is there and that has helped to slow the spread there.
That wont work here, because Trump’s already lost the time advantage and cases are flying around the nation and no effort to aggressively test is underway nationwide. Trump’s still insistent on business as usual, which adds to the cases spreading uncontrolled, and no attempt to contain things. This will not end well.
re: #417 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Also a possibility. Fortunately, I think it’s only going to work on Fox.
Maybe.
re: #419 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I hope it’s a concession speech. He has no path. It’s over.
Assuming it *is* a concession I will be curious what path going forward Sanders espouses.
re: #425 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
This guy will be yesterday’s news soon enough.
How long was Joe the Plumber able to milk it?
re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How long was Joe the Plumber able to milk it?
Too damn long.
re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How long was Joe the Plumber able to milk it?
Too damn long but it’s not a major story. Maybe we’d be talking about it if the virus wasn’t an issue or maybe the country as a whole knows people like that guy who are full of shit who think their absolutist view of the 2A is the only one that exists. I’m sorry but I’m sick of fucking pessimism.
Breaking: World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 11, 2020
re: #429 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Congratulations on beating me by four seconds. Your prize is one random 🐿 emoji
An Ontario oncologist who had returned from a personal trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. https://t.co/FpcZUeSVSn @jennlagrassa
— CBC News (@CBCNews) March 11, 2020
this is one hundred percent because they are not organized enough to implement this
just tell the fuckin truth— darth™ (@darth) March 11, 2020
re: #431 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
For context, Hamilton is part of the greater Toronto area. The largest metro area in Canada.
re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg
For context, Hamilton is part of the greater Toronto area. The largest metro area in Canada.
And a cancer doctor to boot. Whose patient’s systems are probably already under a lot of stress as it is.
re: #434 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Well fuck.
I edited my comment and now yours makes less sense in context.
re: #388 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Didn’t the UK Director of Health in Boris Johnson’s government get diagnosed with COVID-19 already? Which implies that it’s in the UK government and probably spreading there as well.
ONE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES HAS A WILDLY INFECTIOUS NOVEL VIRUS WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOING pic.twitter.com/Xavg7eiwaT
— hern (@alexhern) March 11, 2020
re: #430 goddamnedfrank
Congratulations on beating me by four seconds. Your prize is one random 🐿 emoji
Awww, gee…shucks. Thank ya, thank ya vurrah much!
Houston Rodeo axed. A huge economic impact for the city.
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
These clueless motherfuckers.
Another thing that’s in the back of my mind.
At some point the ratings agencies have to weigh in on all this, right?
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 11, 2020
One major exception to major event cancellations so far? Wrestlemania.
Vince McMahon and the WWE still plan on bringing 70 000 people to Tampa in a few weeks time for the big show.
re: #429 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This cornoros virus thing is overhyped media democrat fake news and also MAGA POTUS has SAVED us from the FLU!!
I really take issue with media companies who put important Coronavirus stores behind a fucking paywall.
Just paged this:
We all know the pattern by now.
Trump/Fox/Rush/Republicans, finally face-to-face with a reality they dismissed, denied, attacked, mocked and ignored … will now try to convince America that THEY NEVER SAID WHAT THEY SAID.
It is absolutely ESSENTIAL that we preserve & maintain the receipts in the weeks and months to come, as the COVID-19 virus spreads across America, overloading hospitals and killing thousands - if not HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS - of Americans. (Note: I didn’t say millions. Not yet. The death toll won’t hit millions until a year from now, and by then Trump will either be out of office, or dead himself.)
They’ll try to squirm and wriggle and deflect the blame onto the Democrats for a crisis that they claimed would never be a crisis.
Proposing a tax cut in the middle of pandemic is max GOPism. However, I don’t think a hybrid of Ronnie Raygun and dubyah would publicly support such a notion.
I knew the Left would do this. They failed at moral suasion, so violence is next. Always is.
Yeah.. we’ve reached the part of the program where poplar Bernie Sanders supporter Beth Lynch is encouraging her followers to get violent… The fact that Sanders campaign blue checks RT & platform Beth makes my stomach turn.. Please report… pic.twitter.com/NXpIEBA23z
— Naomi S. #Biden2020 #ImnotgoingtomakeUaSandwich (@NomiBlockS) March 11, 2020
re: #448 Sherlock Hound
I knew the Left would do this. They failed at moral suasion, so violence is next. Always is.
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I’m starting to hate these types as much as I do the Trumpers.
The page is up here. It is going to be up to us to keep bringing the receipts.
Because as the US goes the way of Italy - hospitals overloaded, patients dying unattended in the parking lots - Trump, Fox, Rush & the Republicans will all try to lie, deny, and weasel out of their earlier statements that COVID-19 was just a “Democrat Hoax”
Here’s the link to my page: littlegreenfootballs.com
Collect your links, videos, etc. They are going to be necessary evidence to convict these awful fucks of criminal negligence.
re: #447 Dr. Matt
Proposing a tax cut in the middle of pandemic is max GOPism. However, I don’t think a hybrid of Ronnie Raygun and dubyah would publicly support such a notion.
Yeah, but that was then…. Trump is now.
re: #451 Dr. Matt
I think it’s just a shadow from his chin but it’s tough to tell.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🎃
“You know too many words, you must be gay!”
Friend of mine visiting Texas gets a cab, has a nice chat with the driver during the trip, at the end the driver says: “Say, are you English?”
My friend replies, “why, yes I am”.
Driver: “Thank God, I thought you was one of them fags”.
But of course he is.
Of course. https://t.co/B1ZXslYcCv
— Rocky Mountain Mike (@RockyMntnMike) March 11, 2020
re: #395 The Pie Overlord!
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So, what they are doing is proving the point that Big Government does have a role after all in regards to Health Care, and in fact has directly interfered in the “Free Market” to extend coverage. This was another Trump Mafia-ish way to do it, but there it is.
I don’t seem to recall other developed countries having Executive Branch leadership sit down with private companies for a little “it would be a shame if something happened to your little insurance company“ kind of chat like it seems Trump likes to do.
re: #455 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
But of course he is.
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Gotta be a martyr.
re: #446 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Just paged this:
We all know the pattern by now.
Trump/Fox/Rush/Republicans, finally face-to-face with a reality they dismissed, denied, attacked, mocked and ignored … will now try to convince America that THEY NEVER SAID WHAT THEY SAID.
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It is absolutely ESSENTIAL that we preserve & maintain the receipts in the weeks and months to come, as the COVID-19 virus spreads across America, overloading hospitals and killing thousands - if not HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS - of Americans. (Note: I didn’t say millions. Not yet. The death toll won’t hit millions until a year from now, and by then Trump will either be out of office, or dead himself.)
They’ll try to squirm and wriggle and deflect the blame onto the Democrats for a crisis that they claimed would never be a crisis.
Does the fact that Drump is wearing a campaign cap during this time for these specific virus related events not concern anyone in the GOP or the media?
I know, I know…..
re: #432 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yeah: doctor/patient “relationships” should be the primary considerations in dealing with a more-highly-fatal-than-normal pandemic. Not much utility in that when the biggest danger is that the “relationship” is that the doctor and his patient might be dying of COVID-19 in adjoining beds…
PS: nice juicy zinger in that Twitter thread: (re Trump, I’m guessing):
David Frum
@davidfrum
*
Mar 10
The rooster who took credit for the sunrise is outraged to be blamed for the sunset.
Republicans hate socialism until they need it.
re: #455 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
But of course he is.
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the fact that he needs to ‘announce’ this speaks volumes
Of course. https://t.co/B1ZXslYcCv
— Rocky Mountain Mike (@RockyMntnMike) March 11, 2020
re: #459 Sir John Barron
Does the fact that Drump is wearing a campaign cap during this time for these specific virus related events not concern anyone in the GOP or the media?
I know, I know…..
that is so 2-3 years ago… on the outrage scale
re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and SisyphusSeems like a problem waiting to happen. I wonder how many other hospitals in the UK are already tight on beds. As COVID-19 explodes in the UK, how will they handle the demand?
How are they going to handle it? Ask the Italians.
Italy: 3.18
USA: 2.77
UK: 2.54
Italy is currently not providing hospital treatment to COVID-19 cases over 70 years old or with major co-morbidity problems. Full scale disaster triage is in effect.
The Daily Show is bringing the receipts as well:
This new movie from Executive Producer @GOPChairwoman looks good pic.twitter.com/p1L4wALwmS
— andy lassner (@andylassner) March 10, 2020
Keep bringing these up. Force the somnolent, normalizing TV news to repeat again & again, that Trump and the GOP knew about COVID-19, and chose to LIE
(EDIT: oops. Double-posted the Twitter linkie)
re: #462 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
the fact that he needs to ‘announce’ this speaks volumes
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He really is a lot like Trump in many ways. I’m really disappointed that people my age who vote think this what we should be doing.
re: #461 Ace Rothstein
Republicans hate socialism until they need it.
“it’s not socialism when we do it”
Here’s the link if you want to watch Bernie being Bernie. Starts in about 3 minutes.
re: #464 John Hughes
Seems like a problem waiting to happen. I wonder how many other hospitals in the UK are already tight on beds. As COVID-19 explodes in the UK, how will they handle the demand?
Italy is currently not providing hospital treatment to COVID-19 cases over 70 years old or with major co-morbidity problems. Full scale disaster triage is in effect.
Americans are going to find out exactly what “Death Panels” look like.
My hope is that Sarah Palin & the rest of her wretched clan wind up on the wrong side of one of those.
The Trump Administration isn’t dedicated to solving the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump Administration is only concerned with shaping public perception of how badly they’re mishandling the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/RwqYCJ0LmD— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) March 11, 2020
Who could have predicted that the Trump administration’s first move would be to hide?
re: #462 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
the fact that he needs to ‘announce’ this speaks volumes
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Not changing anything is not news and is not in need of an announcement.
re: #449 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I’m starting to hate these types as much as I do the Trumpers.
Starting?
re: #471 b.d. (We’re gonna win)
Not changing anything is not news and is not in need of an announcement.
Left wing Trump I’ll say it again. I have no problem saying that.
Now live.
OMG how did we not think of this hashtag:
Watching Matt Schlapp and Raheem Kassar five about the identity of the CPAC #TyphoidMAGA is… pic.twitter.com/vwgKWr8R1F
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 11, 2020
Translation: news is bad for us so lets censor! https://t.co/y7f9EbGmqo
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) March 11, 2020
The local station here that carries Rush (740 KTRH) just led off the top of the hour news update with “Coronavirus mania shuts down Houston Rodeo.” These fuckers are minimizing the situation.
re: #476 jaunte
Those health officials should resign en masse immediately in defiance.
re: #464 John Hughes
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Italy is currently not providing hospital treatment to COVID-19 cases over 70 years old or with major co-morbidity problems. Full scale disaster triage is in effect.
I saw a Twitter thread suggesting this. Has it been confirmed? I’d like to have some links I could post.
re: #478 Ace Rothstein
The local station here that carries Rush (740 KTRH) just led off the top of the hour news update with “Coronavirus mania shuts down Houston Rodeo.” These fuckers are minimizing the situation.
You know maybe if that anal cyst of a man dies from it, maybe then they’ll see how serious this shit is. There’s talk of canceling the Olympics but I’m siure that shitbag Limbaugh would lie and convince the delusional people who hold on to his every word that too is just a plot to make Trump look bad.
re: #468 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Here’s the link if you want to watch Bernie being Bernie. Starts in about 3 minutes.
Thanks but nah.
re: #477 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I do.
re: #481 garzooma
Two doctors in Italy posted about it like three days ago.
In case you were wondering if people get it yet.
🙄
— Sue Chambers (@schambers6) March 11, 2020
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This should calm the markets https://t.co/go1Ui3rzIt
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) March 11, 2020
re: #485 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I do.
I’m sorry. I’m just really frustrated. This has been such a long year and we’re not even in Spring yet. TBH I’m still getting over my grandma passing away. Not a day that I don’t think about her with all that’s going on in the world. She was why I’m a current events/politics junkie.
JOE WILL NOT VETO MFA IF CONGRESS PASSES IT
Hang it up Bernie.
re: #490 The Pie Overlord!
JOE WILL NOT VETO MFA IF CONGRESS PASSES IT
Hang it up Bernie.
As I said the man is the Trump of the left. His way or the highway. If the left is weakened in the next decade, there’s one man to blame and it’s selfish Bernie Sanders.
Well, that was 10 minutes of my Wednesday I’m not ever getting back.
Bite me, Bernie. And your supporters with you.
slightly OT regarding biden and ‘misspeaking’
- he may be past his prime (so am i)
- he understands briefings
- he can make decisions
- he’s surrounding himself with smart people
and mostly
- he has not demonstrated a misunderstandings of facts.
(or worse, a willful disregard)
Great thread. Great read.
Here’s the truth…I’m a straight, white, christian, educated American male who makes a fuckton of money. Elections can’t even touch me. Fuck it, vote for Trump. Or ignore Biden because your favorite Grandpa didn’t get the nod. Go for it. I still win. Trump is a plus for me. 1/
— Granite (@oneminutecall) March 11, 2020
I’m fine with this.
PRESIDENT TRUMP is looking at delivering an Oval Office address, per multiple sources.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 11, 2020
re: #494 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
slightly OT regarding biden and ‘misspeaking’
- he may be past his prime (so am i)
- he understands briefings
- he can make decisions
- he’s surrounding himself with smart peopleand mostly
- he has not demonstrated a misunderstandings of facts.
(or worse, a willful disregard)
yeah, but what about Hunter Biden?
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re: #496 goddamnedfrank
Maybe that’s why the market has dropped 40 points the last hour. I can’t think of a worse idea.
re: #494 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
slightly OT regarding biden and ‘misspeaking’
- he may be past his prime (so am i)
- he understands briefings
- he can make decisions
- he’s surrounding himself with smart peopleand mostly
- he has not demonstrated a misunderstandings of facts.
(or worse, a willful disregard)
TBH the shitting on him about his stutter made it very easy for me to rally to him. I stutter when I get nervous and I know what dementia looks like too. I’m seeing assholes far left and far right who have a blatant agenda to smear Joe as a senile, old fool who doesn’t know what he’s talking about for the benefit of one fool who has the same stump speech everywhere and no depth to his policies and another fool who thinks his opinions on the Democratic primary should be seen by the whole world.
Holy shit, this thread is weapons-grade truth-telling. If you’re an unhappy voter this morning, read this, and make sure you get at least to the sixth and especially the tenth tweet in this storm. Stop your whining and save the country. https://t.co/KfeVypJlZy
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 11, 2020
re: #496 goddamnedfrank
I’m fine with this.
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The only thing I ever want to hear this fucker say is that he quits.
re: #442 Eclectic Cyborg
One major exception to major event cancellations so far? Wrestlemania.
Vince McMahon and the WWE still plan on bringing 70 000 people to Tampa in a few weeks time for the big show.
Governor Beshear decided not to cancel the Sweet Sixteen High School basketball tournament in Rupp Arena this week. But I bet attendance will be way down.
The Houston Rodeo has officially been cancelled as of today. https://t.co/kEqHcozZL0
— angelica perez (@Angie_Perez99) March 11, 2020
re: #499 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
TBH the shitting on him about his stutter made it very easy for me to rally to him. I stutter when I get nervous and I know what dementia looks like too. I’m seeing assholes far left and far right who have a blatant agenda to smear Joe as a senile, old fool who doesn’t know what he’s talking about for the benefit of one fool who has the same stump speech everywhere and no depth to his policies and another fool who thinks his opinions on the Democratic primary should be seen by the whole world.
as someone tweeted in that thread from 495 above
The Berniacs are So WORRIED about their futures can’t see the irony that not rallying behind Biden means another four years of the Trump regime, under which many disenfranchised humans will die. The maxim for every rational adult should be about saving lives beyond their own.
re: #503 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Governor Beshear decided not to cancel the Sweet Sixteen High School basketball tournament in Rupp Arena this week. But I bet attendance will be way down.
and that will be the clincher for events that aren’t cancelled…people not showing up
for now, people who already hold tickets might decide to go, but I think only major MAGAts are going to be buying tickets for upcoming mass events
another endangered profession: ticket scalper
re: #505 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
as someone tweeted in that thread from 495 above
I’m a young but I hate how dickish they are to their elders*
*Elders not named Bernie Sanders
re: #506 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and that will be the clincher for events that aren’t cancelled…people not showing up
for now, people who already hold tickets might decide to go, but I think only major MAGAts are going to be buying tickets for upcoming mass events
another endangered profession: ticket scalper
I agree with this assessment.
People do get that the nation’s foremost infectious disease expert was finally telling the public the truth about his coronavirus outbreak in front of Congress this morning and the president of the United States invented a meeting to stop him, right?
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 11, 2020
Coronavirus confirmed as pandemic by World Health Organization
But, it’s just a hoax….
Also note that the reporting said that the White House directed that coronavirus meetings at HHS had to be classified and conducted in SCIF, not that White House meetings themselves were classified. So this is both misdirection and a non-denial. https://t.co/Lj7pYCHxnb https://t.co/Vku8nlWeXo
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) March 11, 2020
re: #510 Dr. Matt
Coronavirus confirmed as pandemic by World Health Organization
But, it’s just a hoax….
it just proves that the WHOle world is out to get Trump
re: #494 #thegreatpoolpondconversion (dangerman)
slightly OT regarding biden and ‘misspeaking’
- he may be past his prime (so am i)
- he understands briefings
- he can make decisions
- he’s surrounding himself with smart peopleand mostly
- he has not demonstrated a misunderstandings of facts.
(or worse, a willful disregard)
And he isn’t an ignorant, psychopathic, racist grifter planning on stealing everything not nailed down.
Do I have to save all my old paper credit card bills if all my accounts are paid up to date? I have switched all my accounts to electronic billing but I have a shitload of paper (from before the switch) on my desk and I want to toss it.
Probably using the situation room so they can use all the big screens to many and various graphics to the President.
Best means to communicate with him
And, location might make him grasp the seriousness of the problem— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 11, 2020
re: #513 NO SMOCKING GUN!
And he isn’t an ignorant, psychopathic, racist grifter planning on stealing everything not nailed down.
and he is the kind of guy who can take a joke and does not hold a personal grudge against people to speak unfavorably of him
JOE BIDEN WILL NOT:
4. Spend your money playing golf at properties he owns
5. Make cruel, juvenile nicknames for people he doesn’t like
6. Lie repeatedly even after being fact checked #Biden2020 #resist #VoteBlue2020— Lemon Harangue Pie (@Pie_Overlord) March 11, 2020
re: #496 goddamnedfrank
I’m fine with this.
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That should be good for another 1k point loss on the DOW.
re: #386 lawhawk
Primaries have shorter mail in periods? Accept that people vote for someone who is out?
Ranked choice voting in primaries. That’s the winning answer IMO.
We’re starting to talk about ranked choice voting in Illinois.
re: #514 The Pie Overlord!
Do I have to save all my old paper credit card bills if all my accounts are paid up to date? I have switched all my accounts to electronic billing but I have a shitload of paper (from before the switch) on my desk and I want to toss it.
If you feel the need, take pictures and then toss.
re: #519 retired cynic
We’re starting to talk about ranked choice voting in Illinois.
I like the idea honestly. And I really think Biden is humble enough to understand he wasn’t the first choice of everyone who voted for him.
re: #490 The Pie Overlord!
JOE WILL NOT VETO MFA IF CONGRESS PASSES IT
Hang it up Bernie.
No, he won’t, because if it passes Congress, it won’t be crap like the GOP tax law.
re: #516 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and he is the kind of guy who can take a joke and does not hold a personal grudge against people to speak unfavorably of him
I was really disappointed that people who wrote for the Onion were bothered by the fact that Biden liked the Diamond Joe character. I’ll tell you this much. A Sanders type character in The Onion would never flow because Bernie has no sense of humor about himself or anything that I can see.
re: #514 The Pie Overlord!
I do paper billing for most part - I reconcile my cc bills and then shred receipts after they reflect on the bills (at least that’s the plan). I also hold on to cc/utility statements for a year or two, and shred older. Investments I tend to keep longer. Tax papers I keep 7-10 years.
re: #514 The Pie Overlord!
Do I have to save all my old paper credit card bills if all my accounts are paid up to date? I have switched all my accounts to electronic billing but I have a shitload of paper (from before the switch) on my desk and I want to toss it.
Three years is what I’ve heard.
re: #514 The Pie Overlord!
Do I have to save all my old paper credit card bills if all my accounts are paid up to date? I have switched all my accounts to electronic billing but I have a shitload of paper (from before the switch) on my desk and I want to toss it.
I keep about two years of credit card, utility, etc bills before tossing them (shredding).
I keep medical, pay stubs, and tax stuff longer.
re: #520 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If you feel the need, take pictures and then toss.
Shred, then toss. Or burn. Don’t want your account number getting around.
When a top expert says the best option we’ve got is for universities & lab companies to initiate a plan for test rationing, it means Trump’s Coronavirus “policy” is an abject failure. That’s what happens when you have a president who cares more about reelection than people. https://t.co/NNa9RkWDTZ
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 11, 2020
Been checking your Magic 8 Ball?
Well done— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 11, 2020
re: #529 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
S&P 500 bull market will soon end: Goldman Sachs
It is safe to say that the decline will be arrested and the market will recover…before falling again.
I’m going to toss all the old statements of accounts that I have switched to electronic, and save the ones that I still pay by check.
re: #527 makeitstop
Shred, then toss. Or burn. Don’t want your account number getting around.
Most these days don’t show the entire account number.
But I never throw anything out. Don’t ask.
re: #500 Eclectic Cyborg
Incoming shitshow alert.
We’ve had lots of practice. Five years worth about.
re: #529 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
From the No Shit Sherlock file. Geniuses they are.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
INDEXDJX: .DJI
23,756.72 −1,261.44 (5.04%)
Dr. Fauci is asked about the president cutting the NSC desk that would have handled coronavirus.
“We worked well with them. It would be nice if it was still around”— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) March 11, 2020
Sen. Patty Murray went to the Senate floor to try to pass by unanimous consent a bill that would “allow Americans to earn paid sick leave time.”
But Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander objected to the bill, causing it to fail. https://t.co/WN5wdZbWZO— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 11, 2020
Republicans will defend their money to the death.
The title says it all: Tax cuts won’t save the economy from recession if no one is leaving their homes.
re: #530 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #534 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Markets are still open, but it looks like the main equity indices (DJIA, S&P, NASDAQ), have fallen off from yesterday’s “Rally”, and are now trading back around the levels of Monday’s sell-off debacle. Whether they stay there or not (basically at the years’ low) is going to be the BIG indicator….
re: #534 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the No Shit Sherlock file. Geniuses they are.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
INDEXDJX: .DJI
23,756.72 −1,261.44 (5.04%)
FYI. 2018 closed out at 23,433. Donnie is going to a need diaper change.
re: #538 jaunte
Republicans will defend their money to the death.
I might actually take the new left seriously if they went after shit like this rather than declaring people who want incremental improvements to ACA the enemy.
GOP chairman cancels Hunter Biden-related subpoena vote https://t.co/2hgLYjougl
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 11, 2020
re: #544 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Pigfuck should have never even done it in the first place. He knows what really happened in Ukraine but he needs to protect Trump’s fat orange ass at all costs.
re: #486 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Two doctors in Italy posted about it like three days ago.
If you’re referring to the Twitter threads, I think I saw them. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity or veracity, but I’d like something more curated. And I do think it’s odd that “Italian hospitals leaving 70-year-olds to die” isn’t more of a story.
The numbers coming out of #Italy are just horrific. This is not just spread; it is not just testing. It is a system that is vastly overwhelmed by cases and facing case fatalities at increasing rates. 196 new deaths. 23% more cases. #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/ibtQda38VZ
— (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) March 11, 2020
So I was walking home from the gym (pretty empty, but all classes that can be taught remotely are being taught remotely), and as I was walking through the empty campus (see above), I had a conversation with a woman who was walking her unemployed therapy dog (hospital visits cancelled for now).
The topic of the election came up and she said she was so disappointed about Bernie’s losing. (OT: when I started to type “Bernie,” my autofill suggested “BernieDolts.”)
“I’m not,” I said. He has no coattails and he can’t network. We need the House and Senate as well as the White House.”
And
She
Didn’t
Argue.
She agreed with me that she’d vote for a cinderblock with a “D” on it this fall (h/t whichever lizard said that first here).
This is the attitude I keep seeing among Berners who aren’t employed as public assholes, and it makes me more and more hopeful about the next election.
But don’t get complacent.
re: #546 garzooma
If you’re referring to the Twitter threads, I think I saw them. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity or veracity, but I’d like something more curated. And I do think it’s odd that “Italian hospitals leaving 70-year-olds to die” isn’t more of a story.
Both of the above are EU news agencies. Neither state “leaving 70 year olds to die” just a little more In an interview that went viral after it was published in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera Monday, Christian Salaroli, an anesthesiologist from a hospital in Bergamo, recounted scenes of wartime triage, where old patients have to be left by the wayside. “The choice is made inside of an emergency room used for mass events, where only COVID-19 patients enter. If a person is between 80 and 95 and has severe respiratory failure, he probably won’t make it.”
The principle of “first come, first served” has been abandoned, said Mario Riccio, an anesthesiologist who works at a hospital in Cremona.
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