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Watching ‘Humans’ on amazon prime, and I keep wanting the characters to back away from each other to a safer distance.
So I read this thriller novel by David Baldacci, in which the heroic FBI agent uncovers an eeville plot (which I will not go into, because spoiler) but in the end reveals THE TRUTH to the media, who expose the plot & the President decides to not run for reelection.
Ah, escapist fiction.
Is he seriously asking, “What do you have to lose?”.
They can lose their life, you imbecile 🤦🏽♀️
God help us, with moronic questions like these he is turning these press briefings into a public health threat. https://t.co/46s2sXHy0R— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 5, 2020
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
Thrillers have had a hard time keeping up lately.
This is the kind of inefficiency that a national government that cared about its people might consider addressing. https://t.co/Iv2CtmCma0
— Sasha Samberg-Champion (@ssamcham) April 5, 2020
After attacking credible news organizations throughout the day, Trump is spending his Saturday night repeatedly retweeting a tiny cable channel that promotes right-wing conspiracy theories and produces propaganda on his behalf.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 5, 2020
NEW: President Trump is seriously considering installing billionaire investor Steve Feinberg in a senior role at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning. https://t.co/jiPFJw9yZZ
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) April 4, 2020
re: #4 The Pie Overlord!
If I was sick, I’d for sure try it. pic.twitter.com/Fh4AoYEPFT
— posey (@upcuntrydegen) April 5, 2020
If I was not ethical, I’d be bottling up my Miracle Mineral Water here and promoting it with “What have you got to lose? It has strong active ingredients guaranteed to change your life.”
(They’re arsenic and uranium, which will change your life.)
re: #9 Dread Pirate
He’s just totally running amuck, winging things, throwing things at the wall. Nothing to lose. If it is this bad, WHEN he loses in November, what on earth….
South Korea has had 183 deaths, they had their first case on the very same day. https://t.co/SQ651pg2UJ https://t.co/WbpQ8APWx2
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) April 5, 2020
re: #4 The Pie Overlord!
The Democrats need to be telling people that GOP intransigence, greed and incompetency are murdering thousands of people. But that won’t happen.
This is the biggest problem with Biden - even if we win it all and get the White House, Senate & keep the House - the GOP will be allowed to get away with it. They are nothing but murderous fascist thugs intending to destroy the nation and everyone who disagrees with them but Biden thinks they can be reasoned with. < spit >
“Trump also said he’d like to hear a more resounding “thank you” from Cuomo for providing medical supplies and helping quickly add hospital capacity.” https://t.co/T4ogTEt05i
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) April 4, 2020
A new machine designed to churn out millions of masks at high speed during a pandemic was green-lit by the Obama administration. In 2018 the Trump administration received a detailed plan on the initiative. It went nowhere. https://t.co/yeACuFq17z
— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) April 4, 2020
SWEET BABY JESUS… https://t.co/oJm4ABZ2zn
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) April 5, 2020
I’m sick. Getting better. I just want trump to die. I no longer care how. Bolt of lightning works for me. We deserve better. Fuck him.
re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m sick. Getting better. I just want trump to die. I no longer care how. Bolt of lightning works for me. We deserve better. Fuck him.
Def getting better. YAY for you!
And 💯! Fucking right.
There are a whole lot of people (I suspect mostly who live in cities) who do not understand how either agriculture or capitalism work.
As farmers dump the food they usually sell to restaurants, food banks are struggling to feed the spike in people who can’t afford groceries.https://t.co/C6e0NO8wH0
— NPR (@NPR) April 4, 2020
re: #18 I Would Prefer Not To
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I’m surprised Trump hasn’t jumped on Joe Rogan saying he’d vote for him. Maybe he can join Pillow Guy or Dr. Drew or Jim Hoft at a presser and sell cures.
re: #14 William Lewis
The Democrats need to be telling people that GOP intransigence, greed and incompetency are murdering thousands of people. But that won’t happen.
This is the biggest problem with Biden - even if we win it all and get the White House, Senate & keep the House - the GOP will be allowed to get away with it. They are nothing but murderous fascist thugs intending to destroy the nation and everyone who disagrees with them but Biden thinks they can be reasoned with. < spit >
Biden was never my first, second, or even third choice, precisely because of that. He seems far too willing to believe in the better angels of the Republican Party.
That said, it’s a better hand than having a nominee that would treat the party that nominated him as the real enemy that needed to be thwarted and Trump and the GOP as an afterthought, to the point he and his supporters would rather see Trump win than the presumptive nominee.
Unfortunately, regardless of which hand we’re dealt, we’re going to have to deal with a media that will forever extend every benefit of the doubt toward Trump and the Republicans, and will project all of the Republicans actual sins onto hypothetical Dems and punish Dems/reward Republicans appropriately for that.
EDIT: Holy shit, I swear to god I want to scream, so many fucking lefter-than-though idiots wanting to blame Obama for everything we have more than Trump to the point of calling him the most inept or incompetent president ever. and when you point out the immense Republican obstruction he faced, they bring up the ACA as if he could have magicked up the entire revolution in the first two years…forget the actual reality of the ground far as GOP obstruction went. Just…holy goddamn motherfucking fuck.
It happened again. Somerset County NJ officials ordered 35K N95 masks for front-line healthcare workers. 24 have died in Somerset already. The Trump Administration took their *entire* order without warning. Where’d it go? @joshtpm https://t.co/qInLJ77QQs
— Brian Murphy (@Burrite) April 4, 2020
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If a doctor or nurse serving during this crisis ever votes Republican again…
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
He’s probably sending them to his boss in Moscow. /// 1/2
re: #29 William Lewis
He’s probably sending them to his boss in Moscow. /// 1/2
and buying them back.
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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So states try to take getting supplies into their own hands after being told by SlenderJared that the federal gov’t wasn’t designed to help the states…then the federal government swoops in and takes the states’ orders for themselves, presumably for that emergency stock that is for the nation but not for the states.
This administration literally wants our states to die because of his fucking pettiness.
Our twisted president* is doing some serious gloating about Joe Rogan tonight.
No “liberal heads are exploding” over this cretin’s dumbass comments, believe me. pic.twitter.com/1u8ax1aiVf— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2020
As if it weren’t obvious LONG AGO that Rogan is a dim-witted crypto-fascist.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 5, 2020
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d go look for them at Bedminster, which is in Somerset County.
Take a warrant and the NJ State Police. Arrest anyone involved for grand theft.
I got friends in denial about Rogan, and a lot of it is tied to Bernie support.
This is a fangtooth, also known as ogrefish 🐟 it’s only been spotted a few times in decades of ocean research.
pic.twitter.com/ITQy0xLW8C— 🍃🌺🍃ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ🍃🌺🍃 (@LepapillonBlu) April 4, 2020
re: #34 BigPapa
I got friends in denial about Rogan, and a lot of it is tied to Bernie support.
Rogan’s been a libertarian for a long time. I have no doubt the Bernie endorsement was meant as rodent-copulation.
He’s also provided exclusive interviews to Alex Jones, noted democratic socialist.
People’s Republic of Travis County:
460 confirmed cases, 6 fatalities.
Oh, and almost 4” of rain in the last 48 hours, 2.6”in two hours late yesterday afternoon.
Wet, soggy, and sick.
Still waiting to hear Bernie say he’s backing away from Rogan…Maybe I need to needle Shaun King about that…
re: #31 Citizen K
Petty, but likely also a grift.
They’re buying with OPM, passing them along to distributors—who are probably talking directly to someone like Kushner—to be bid on. As desperation goes up, prices in the market goes up. Feds stepping in to buy lots but then not distributing them directly creates artificial scarcity. And as the disease expands through the population, state by state scarcity will increase naturally as well.
I mean, most public-private partnerships are a grift where the “private” sector lobbies to create massively advantageous terms (no bid contracts, for example, or anything relating to criminal sentencing) but also buy politicians so they’ll never be called to account for not delivering what was promised, or only late and at ridiculously padded costs.
Fun…Rain starting tonight going thru all next week here in LA…Wonder if that will reduce the number of marks going to the megachurch tomorrow…naaaaaaaaah…
re: #38 Joe Bacon 🌹
Still waiting to hear Bernie say he’s backing away from Rogan…Maybe I need to needle Shaun King about that…
I don’t think you are going to hear Bernie say diddly-squat.
He’s too busy yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
I’ll never understand Berners.
re: #41 austin_blue
I don’t think you are going to hear Bernie say diddly-squat.
He’s too busy yelling at kids to get off his lawn.
I’ll never understand Berners.
They are hell bent on BERNing everything down in the deluded belief that they can create their Socialist Utopia from the ashes…just like Libertarians want to BERN everything down to create their Galt’s Gulch!
Berniebots doubling down on the phony rape allegations against Biden on Twitter and Facebook. Block button is stating to smoke…
re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹
They are hell bent on BERNing everything down in the deluded belief that they can create their Socialist Utopia from the ashes…just like Libertarians want to BERN everything down to create their Galt’s Gulch!
I agree. But when this MAGAndemic finishes its first round of torching our country and its economy, after which it settles down into a chronic disease, killing *only* 20 to 80 people a day, there will be a reckoning.
The economy will be an absolute wreck. Tens of millions will be unemployed. Millions will be homeless. Millions of companies will be bankrupted, including restaurants, pubs, banks, airlines, insurance companies, rural hospitals, and States. Not mention the entire gig economy.
Someone will have to pay the Butcher’s Bill, and the only ones with the assets will be the smart, the rich, and the Corporations, which, as Mitt reminded us, are people too, and now should be treated as such.
Those who *have* will be *required* to save the country’s economy. There is really no other option. Part of that will be universal health care. The present system is a death knell for too many citizens.
re: #44 Joe Bacon 🌹
Berniebots doubling down on the phony rape allegations against Biden on Twitter and Facebook. Block button is stating to smoke…
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that half the country, rather than being incensed at the GOP’s utter incompetence, would rather see the entirety of the Dem party burn down and watch the country magically become a sublime conservatopia/progressive utopia, because half the country believes that Dems and only Dems are the problem right now.
I’m not fucking sure how we fight that.
re: #46 Citizen K
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that half the country, rather than being incensed at the GOP’s utter incompetence, would rather see the entirety of the Dem party burn down and watch the country magically become a sublime conservatopia/progressive utopia, because half the country believes that Dems and only Dems are the problem right now.
I’m not fucking sure how we fight that.
You get the other half to the polls.
re: #47 Belafon
You get the other half to the polls.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen.
re: #47 Belafon
You get the other half to the polls.
The problem is that the other half also contains the both siders, many of which seem to be unwilling to budge either. And just as prone to blaming Dems more than the GOP for anything that goes wrong.
re: #49 Citizen K
The problem is that the other half also contains the both siders, many of which seem to be unwilling to budge either. And just as prone to blaming Dems more than the GOP for anything that goes wrong.
Then you’re saying it’s not half the country but more like 75%.
re: #49 Citizen K
The problem is that the other half also contains the both siders, many of which seem to be unwilling to budge either. And just as prone to blaming Dems more than the GOP for anything that goes wrong.
But then how did we do so well in 2018?
re: #49 Citizen K
The problem is that the other half also contains the both siders, many of which seem to be unwilling to budge either. And just as prone to blaming Dems more than the GOP for anything that goes wrong.
You are right. We should just give up and stick a pistol in our mouths and pull the trigger.
I’m sorry, but I can’t tolerate that you are giving up the high ground 7 months before election day. This is why we lost in ‘16.
This is what I feared, psychological second order effects.
“No one is supposed to see that much death.”
18/— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) April 4, 2020
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 5, 2020
re: #12 Patricia Kayden
5 weeks ago: 1 death
4 weeks ago: 19 deaths
3 weeks ago: 58 deaths
2 weeks ago: 323 deaths
1 week ago: 2,043 deaths
Right now: 8,488 deaths
Five more doublings:
17,000
35,000
70,000
140,000
280,000
I could read this story every hour of every day.
Washington state nonprofit files lawsuit saying Fox News misled viewers about coronavirus
Anyone else think this will be the only legal action against Fox News?https://t.co/6Opole21XP— Dave #VoteBlueNoMatterWho (@dwh112655) April 4, 2020
re: #52 austin_blue
You are right. We should just give up and stick a pistol in our mouths and pull the trigger.
I’m sorry, but I can’t tolerate that you are giving up the high ground 7 months before election day. This is why we lost in ‘16.
When it feels like I’m surrounded by folks who, facing the worst president of the modern area, possibly the worst health crisis of the modern era, and potentially one of the worst economic crises within the last 50 years, have decided intractably that it’s the Dems that are the problem and have vowed to work crossways to deny the Dems any victory in NOvember, I can’t exactly help but freak the fuck out. Especially when many of these people are some folks I’ve known for years and have been fairly reliable people who have decided ‘NO, Dems are the enemy and they need to die now!!”while Trump and the GOP seem to get a general pass for everything because they’ve decided they’re a villain for another day.
I’m not in a fucking good place right now and I’m venting, I’m sorry for being the usual fucking debbie downer I always am, but I feel like with all the shit I’m seeing I’m at a fucking breaking point.
re: #58 Citizen K
Please take a deep breath. Calm yourself because you’re not helping yourself. I know it’s hard (in had my annual drink today and may again tomorrow).
Smoke a joint. Run up and down some stairs. Whatever helps get you through. Stay informed but disconnect if it becomes too much.
re: #55 sagehen
Five more doublings:
17,000
35,000
70,000
140,000
280,000
if it doesn’t slow down, then in 4 weeks, Trump could pass the entire swine flu totals.
re: #54 goddamnedfrank
Two brothers who went to school with my kids are making these and selling them for $20. They’re then taking the money and buying snacks for area hospital break rooms. I added the lights. pic.twitter.com/mNlY07AEMe
— Magnum, T.I.(m). (@PostinMonkey) April 5, 2020
Trump here blames the sailors on USS Teddy Roosevelt for making a port call in Vietnam, which was on March 5.
Trump had a party for 200 w/several people infected w/COVID two days after that. https://t.co/f7E0a50D7N— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 5, 2020
Trump should step down.
I know one way to get Donald Trump to wear a mask…
Have Ivanka wear it as underwear, first ;)— Paul Lidicul (@PaulLidicul) April 4, 2020
Choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/l4i3FWP0Fl
— zd alienbabe (@tifffanycuh) April 4, 2020
re: #62 Dread Pirate
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Trump should step down.
For the record, the travel ban that Trump uses to defend himself came on Jan 31. The outbreak on the Diamond Princess became public news on Feb 4. In the weeks that followed, the CinC was golfing, holding rallies, and making public statements about how COVID-19 was “no worse than the flu” and the worry over such was a “hoax.”
BREAKING: @DevinNunes is an idiot.https://t.co/mJP5y1W6fP
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) April 4, 2020
Ordering from Amazon has become an adventure.
Shipping dates can change radically once this or that item is added to the cart, even when the item is “fulfillment by Amazon”.
And given the feeling at the grocery store tonight, I wonder how we’re all going to do this lockdown for weeks on end.
I’m off to bed. Please sleep well and be safe.
The southern states between Florida and Louisiana and to the north are about to explode.
Not enough testing is available nation wide. Not enough PPE is available nation wide.
Not enough masks and gloves are available nation wide to allow people to go and buy food.
Stay at home orders and social distancing are great, but we common folk need to buy food, and that doesn’t work without ground level, individual PPE to to get it safely.
It’s a national, government level holocaust because Our Killer President wanted to keep his ratings up.
Spit.
Looks grand, wizard
— Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) April 5, 2020
That’s the ticket !!! pic.twitter.com/0zkJb8ilBo
— Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) April 4, 2020
New Jersey Department of State official Website.
New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy (D) signed Executive Order #114, a proclamation placing the US and state flag of New Jersey at half-mast indefinitely, as a mark of respect for those lost to the Covid-19 epidemic, until such time as the epidemic ends or the order is otherwise revoked.
I don’t have a source, but I believe that is the first time a governmental entity of any level ever ordered an indefinite half-mast notice.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ordering from Amazon has become an adventure.
Shipping dates can change radically once this or that item is added to the cart, even when the item is “fulfillment by Amazon”.
And given the feeling at the grocery store tonight, I wonder how we’re all going to do this lockdown for weeks on end.
The truth is we’re not.
To be honest, I doubt Americans have the patience for it. The plutocrats are already floating a few trial balloons - graded isolation of just the elderly, 100k deaths are a small price to pay, and so forth - to see what Americans will tolerate. The answer, as always, is that they will tolerate anything they’re told to if the TV repeats it enough, and it will be hard to keep people caring about something as abstract as deaths.
Isolation has slowly started to work in the hardest hit areas. Spain and Italy are losing about a thousand people a day, but the doubling rate has slowed considerably. While the US is behind the curve a bit, I expect that doubling rate will also slow, as it has elsewhere, and we may well start to see the curve level off, maybe at 30,000 deaths or so. At that point, we will have been on lockdown for at least two weeks, which is practically an eternity. The voices crying that 30,000 deaths is a tiny amount, less than car accidents, less than the flu, and that the experts know nothing because they predicted a million deaths and here we are doing fine, will become overwhelming. After a few weeks of isolation, 30,000 or so deaths will seem meaningless, especially when they expected 100k at least. The god emperor will be praised as a deity for only 30,000 deaths. Those who say that isolation is working and we should keep doing what’s working will be scorned as fearmongers. And America will reopen.
The president continues to admit that he is withholding medical equipment while Americans die. Seems like a big story to me. Not like emails big but still pretty big.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 4, 2020
I wonder how many of the DC Press Corpse have to die before they actually stop kissing Trump’s ass?
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ordering from Amazon has become an adventure.
Shipping dates can change radically once this or that item is added to the cart, even when the item is “fulfillment by Amazon”.
And given the feeling at the grocery store tonight, I wonder how we’re all going to do this lockdown for weeks on end.
To be honest I have found walmart.com has been more reliable on delivery estimates and speed. I don’t know if that is because they aren’t prioritizing things the same way amazon is or something about their physical stores making their distribution and supply chain more robust. I am not a big walmart fan, but if they can get me what I need in a reasonable time frame they’ll have to do.
WATCH: Franklin Graham tells Jeanine Pirro coronavirus pandemic is because of people sinning (Raw Story)
“This pandemic, this is the result of a fallen world that has turned its back on God,” he added.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡
WATCH: Franklin Graham tells Jeanine Pirro coronavirus pandemic is because of people sinning (Raw Story)
You ever notice that the wingnut “God” is every bit as petty and bitter as the guy they worship in the Oval Office?
re: #79 danarchy
To be honest I have found walmart.com has been more reliable on delivery estimates and speed.
Ok, so I’m shopping for some fiber. Here’s the product I buy, ordered from Amazon, but here is tonight’s price on Walmart:
Even eBay sellers don’t price gouge that much!
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ok, so I’m shopping for some fiber. Here’s the product I buy, ordered from Amazon, but here is tonight’s price on Walmart:
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Even eBay sellers don’t price gouge that much!
re: #76 Renaissance_Man
California has been on lockdown since the nineteenth (some places longer), the time has just been extended to early May, and I’m not seeing any signs of rebellion. Of course our curve is beginning to bend.
re: #81 Targetpractice
You ever notice that the wingnut “God” is every bit as petty and bitter as the guy they worship in the Oval Office?
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re: #76 Renaissance_Man
What you’ve posted there is almost identical to what’s happening in Czech Republic - and a couple days back, the PM here announced that he’s fine with ending the state of emergency on April 30th. Originally, he and the Interior Minister wanted to continue it until mid-May, but there’s strong opposition to that not only in the Czech Parliament, but opposition to going that long from his silent coalition partners, the KSČM (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia) and without the support of the KSČM, an extension of the current state of emergency can’t get through Parliament (any state of emergency has to be renewed every 30 days with parliamentary approval).
So….looks like the great experiment will soon begin, come April 30th.
re: #84 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
California has been on lockdown since the nineteenth (some places longer), the time has just been extended to early May, and I’m not seeing any signs of rebellion. Of course our curve is beginning to bend.
We haven’t been on “targeted health measures” quite as long, but there doesn’t appear to be any rebellion in Nebraska either. I’d think that my area, the most conservative, would be the first to revolt, but that hasn’t happened.
re: #84 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
It’s not so much rebellion I’m seeing, but people seem distraught in the stores.
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ok, so I’m shopping for some fiber. Here’s the product I buy, ordered from Amazon, but here is tonight’s price on Walmart:
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Even eBay sellers don’t price gouge that much!
I just pulled up the walmart page and got $15.99 for that same item. Maybe it was a glitch?
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s not so much rebellion I’m seeing, but people seem distraught in the stores.
So far pretty cheerful around here. Eggs and paper products were there for a while, Friday gone again.
re: #89 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I just pulled up the walmart page and got $15.99 for that same item. Maybe it was a glitch?
There are several sellers.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Reactionary Childpuncher God and Trump serve the same function for people who support them…a mirror of their own wants, gussied up with authority; the voice that takes their vices and pettiness and declares them sacred and legitimate by fiat.
A self-inflicted straw man fallacy.
Like that Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme, plus the Human Centipede diagram, plus Marx’s 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.
PM and Dominic Raab warn against ‘damaging protectionism’ amid Donald Trump’s face mask row
The Foreign Secretary said countries risked “compounding the harm of COVID-19” with protectionism after the US was accused of intercepting face mask shipments.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Dominic Raab said: “The Prime Minister, Trade Secretary and I are pressing the G7 and G20 groups of major economies to keep trade routes open - and avoid compounding the harm of COVID-19 with damaging protectionism.
“Team-work is essential to beating coronavirus.
“The Prime Minister is determined to unite the country behind the national mission at home, and bring countries together abroad - so we rise to a global challenge that threatens us all.”
His comments come after a German-bound consignment of 200,000 face masks was “confiscated” in Bangkok in what Berlin officials called an act of “modern piracy”.
According to the country’s interior minister Andreas Geisel, the goods were likely diverted back to the US.
[…]
Given Trump’s all-in with war crimes, piracy is just not a bad thing in Trump’s view.
Corporate hospital CEO asshat in New York is bitching about the slow pace of accepting patients aboard the USNS Comfort.
Navy Hospital Ship Sits Mostly Empty As Coronavirus Cripples New York (Vanity Fair)
Said asshat, Michael Dowling of Northwell Health, is complaining about “a tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” keeping patients from being rapidly transferred to the ship.
Okay, corporate asshat (I really hate capitalism uber alles):
a) The Comfort isn’t there for your comfort, or your profit margin.
b) Said “military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” are there to keep the virus off the ship. If it gets aboard, the whole exercise is a waste and your hospital corporation still gets no relief.
re: #84 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
California has been on lockdown since the nineteenth (some places longer), the time has just been extended to early May, and I’m not seeing any signs of rebellion. Of course our curve is beginning to bend.
I’m not either, except from execs and admin types who are seeing how much money they’re losing every day. But the US news media, as a whole, has not put their weight behind it yet. California is bracing for something similar to New York, and it hasn’t happened yet, in no small part because measures were taken early.
I do think that over the next month, we will see the media narrative work to change American’s expectations. The exponential growth is still slow enough that, assuming the US stays at about a thousand deaths a day for a week or so, the narrative will shift to ‘we expected hundreds of thousands dead, this is no big deal’. Once the media narrative starts to pressure governors to lift lockdowns and bow down to the god emperor, it will be a lot harder for them to keep going.
re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There are several sellers.
I didn’t see the one you did — highest price was about $22.
re: #96 Renaissance_Man
I’m not seeing any sign of media pressure to end the lockdown either, despite the best efforts of DT and his cronies.
The Midwest Theatre in Scottsbluff decided, since they are closed due to the epidemic, to run a “pop-up” theatre. (That is, a drive-in.)
They started with a showing at the Legacy of the Plains Museum on the side of a semi trailer.
Since then, several businesses and wealthy people got behind the idea, donating money and equipment to construct a proper drive-in.
They are limiting it to sixty cars per showing. There is no admission, but the Midwest takes donations (the Midwest is a not-for-profit and on the National Register of Historic Places). They also have a drive-through for concessions.
All schools in Nebraska are now closed. The state Education Commissioner says he’s concerned that many students won’t be able to participate in remote learning in the state (due primarily to lack of Internet service). He notes his fourth-grade son receives paper packets from his school.
Asked about what happens if closures continue into the next year, he said like last year’s historic floods in the east, there are lessons to be learned now which can be applied to next school year.
There are about 366,000 students out of school in Nebraska.
The company which makes #Hydroxycloroquine has been sanctioned in the past under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for running kickback schemes on public contracts. https://t.co/2honMzgbUu pic.twitter.com/lYg7M3WZ4X
— ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇʀ (@SheWhoRises) April 5, 2020
re: #96 Renaissance_Man
I’m not either, except from execs and admin types who are seeing how much money they’re losing every day. But the US news media, as a whole, has not put their weight behind it yet. California is bracing for something similar to New York, and it hasn’t happened yet, in no small part because measures were taken early.
I do think that over the next month, we will see the media narrative work to change American’s expectations. The exponential growth is still slow enough that, assuming the US stays at about a thousand deaths a day for a week or so, the narrative will shift to ‘we expected hundreds of thousands dead, this is no big deal’. Once the media narrative starts to pressure governors to lift lockdowns and bow down to the god emperor, it will be a lot harder for them to keep going.
We’re already over a thousand deaths a day, most States haven’t even picked up steam and the fuckery in Red States is still bearing rotten fruit. Pretty sure we’re going to hit numbers that just shock the conscience of anybody with one.
Disinfecting Pericles who died from the plague in 429 B.C. pic.twitter.com/mbhesRxn4b
— Dimitar Bechev (@DimitarBechev) April 4, 2020
Why disinfect outdoors? It’ll die quickly and nobody is there.
re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea
Petty, but likely also a grift.
They’re buying with OPM, passing them along to distributors—who are probably talking directly to someone like Kushner—to be bid on. As desperation goes up, prices in the market goes up. Feds stepping in to buy lots but then not distributing them directly creates artificial scarcity. And as the disease expands through the population, state by state scarcity will increase naturally as well.
I mean, most public-private partnerships are a grift where the “private” sector lobbies to create massively advantageous terms (no bid contracts, for example, or anything relating to criminal sentencing) but also buy politicians so they’ll never be called to account for not delivering what was promised, or only late and at ridiculously padded costs.
I assume there are kickbacks to the Trump family and the Kushners, since they must be desperate for cash at this point with almost all their properties shut down. I’m sure they decided that they deserve it for all their public service, you know.
I don’t consider this random cynicism: they are going to be desperate, and they’re all sociopaths.
re: #102 goddamnedfrank
My lizard brain keeps telling me “No, it’s not gonna be that bad, this is gonna taper off, and everything will be fine, and then we can argue over whether or not this was an overreaction.”
My lizard brain is an idiot.
re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For those facing supply chain issues with Amazon, here are some ‘vetted’ alternatives and other ideas. Obviously, when there are absolutely none in the supply chain at all, the alternatives are also unlikely to have it on hand.
Beyond mail-order suppliers, other alternatives are to see if a local shop might have it on hand and to see if the manufacturer will sell to the public.
Amazon Is Having Supply Chain Issues. Here Are Some Trustworthy Alternatives.
thewirecutter.com
Bill Gates is setting up factories to manufacture 7 leading vaccine candidates before we know which is best & safest; we can test the vaccines in parallel, and then throw away all but the factory for the best vaccine. May save many months.
Just extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/JGjkJ6FKNa— michael_nielsen (@michael_nielsen) April 4, 2020
re: #107 ckkatz
For those facing supply chain issues with Amazon, here are some ‘vetted’ alternatives and other ideas. Obviously, when there are absolutely none in the supply chain at all, the alternatives are also unlikely to have it on hand.
Beyond mail-order suppliers, other alternatives are to see if a local shop might have it on hand and to see if the manufacturer will sell to the public.
Amazon Is Having Supply Chain Issues. Here Are Some Trustworthy Alternatives.
thewirecutter.com
I was hoping for some not so obvious alternatives. They basically just gave links to big box store web pages, as if people don’t already try those.
May the Cull not be with you. Some interesting parallels here. I’ve known about this for years.
“Highly lethal pathogens (e.g., hantaviruses, hendra virus, anthrax, or plague) pose unique public-health problems, because they seem to periodically flare into outbreaks before disappearing into long quiescent phases. A key element to their possible control and eradication is being able to understand where they persist in the latent phase and how to identify the conditions that result in sporadic epidemics or epizootics. In American grasslands, plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, exemplifies this quiescent-outbreak pattern, because it sporadically erupts in epizootics that decimate prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies, yet the causes of outbreaks and mechanisms for interepizootic persistence of this disease are poorly understood.”
It’s worth a minute or 2 for a deeper looksee
re: #4 The Pie Overlord!
Hydroxychloroquin was supposed to be his Hail Mary play of plays: a simple, inexpensive “cure” that would save millions and forever prove his brilliance and eminence to all those doubters and so-called “experts”…he is still clinging to it.
re: #13 Dread Pirate
South Korea also has a functioning government, we don’t.
I believe the reason given on Fox News is that they are “not a democracy”.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡
There are a whole lot of people (I suspect mostly who live in cities) who do not understand how either agriculture or capitalism work.
As farmers dump the food they usually sell to restaurants, food banks are struggling to feed the spike in people who can’t afford groceries
Our established systems of agriculture and food supply are only tenuously connected to anything we might understand as a “free market”…
re: #109 danarchy
I was hoping for some not so obvious alternatives. They basically just gave links to big box store web pages, as if people don’t already try those.
Understand, and to some degree, I agree.
On the other hand, I am not expert, nor always completely up to date, with every class of products and their sellers. I was not familiar with some that they mentioned. With others, I was not knowledgeable whether they were trustworthy. And, frankly, I had forgotten about some.
Certainly, any knowledgeable suggestions on which vendors to use, or even who to avoid for any particular product class certainly would be welcomed, at least by me.
re: #28 retired cynic
If a doctor or nurse serving during this crisis ever votes Republican again…
or Tory…
re: #35 jaunte
This is a fangtooth, also known as ogrefish 🐟 it’s only been spotted a few times in decades of ocean research.
truly one of the awesomest creatures of the bathysphere
re: #47 Belafon
You get the other half to the polls.
we already have more than half, we just need to make sure they get to the polls, in the right places and that their votes are properly counted and tallied.
we can no longer take that as a given, either.
re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
truly one of the awesomest creatures of the bathysphere
They and some of their deepsea ‘friends’ are indeed fierce looking.
On the other hand, the biggest one apparently only reaches about 6” size.
And on either hand, I have absolutely no interest in handling one.
re: #118 ckkatz
They and some of their deepsea ‘friends’ are indeed fierce looking.
On the other hand, the biggest one apparently only reaches about 6” size.
And on either hand, I have absolutely no interest in handling one.
oh no, and I appreciate the thought that they inhabit a part of the world I am not likely to ever get near unless I am on the way down after being buried at sea…
I agree. I suspect that were I buried at sea I would not be particularly bothered about invading their ‘space’.
As I am a fairly large individual (6’5”), I have generally avoided enclosed spaces, like bathyspheres.
When I was in the Army I specifically went to towed artillery because I found self propelled artillery a literal headache.
Plus there are all sorts of moving parts that it is better not to be near at inopportune moments. Like the breach of of the cannon when the driver decides to stop or turn suddenly. Fortunately that learning opportunity of a faceplant was performed by someone else.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Hydroxychloroquin was supposed to be his Hail Mary play of plays: a simple, inexpensive “cure” that would save millions and forever prove his brilliance and eminence to all those doubters and so-called “experts”…he is still clinging to it.
Ayep. Every “solution” he’s tried to offer (chloroquine, quarantining the “at-risk,” cloth masks, etc) has at its core the same concept: Getting back to “normal” as quickly as possible. Why? Because every week, every month, that goes by with the country paralyzed due to shelter-in-place orders is shortening the time that the economy has to “boom” before November.
re: #122 Targetpractice
Ayep. Every “solution” he’s tried to offer (chloroquine, quarantining the “at-risk,” cloth masks, etc) has at its core the same concept: Getting back to “normal” as quickly as possible. Why? Because every week, every month, that goes by with the country paralyzed due to shelter-in-place orders is shortening the time that the economy has to “boom” before November.
Because he is fixated on the simple equation booming economy = re-election and cannot begin to see that people will support him, even with a damaged economy, if he shows determined and effective leadership.
Because he has no concept of what that means, nor does he have the character, experience nor the right people around him to assist in providing it.
Israel’s Health Minister Yaakov Lizman, head of Agudat Yisrael party,
who weeks ago declared that coronavirus is a “divine punishment for homosexuality”, has been infected. His wife too. This forces PM Netanyahu to have to isolate himself for another 15 days pic.twitter.com/JpEAX8iMwb— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) April 4, 2020
G-d-bothering and coronavirus don’t mix well, it looks like.
‘Morning, All. Another day awaiting the painful rebirth of the national psyche.
Portugal has temporarily given all migrants and asylum seekers full citizenship rights, granting them full access to the country’s healthcare as the outbreak of the novel coronavirus escalates in the country https://t.co/HOjCmKtXg8
— CNN (@CNN) April 4, 2020
re: #124 ericblair
G-d-bothering and coronavirus don’t mix well, it looks like.
Maybe they have it backwards, and all the buttsecks is the cure for the virus.
What then?
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Maybe they have it backwards, and all the buttsecks” is the cure for the virus.
What then?
It has already been proven that religious gatherings have been a major vector in spreading the disease…I think the answer is clear.
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Maybe they have it backwards, and all the buttsecks” is the cure for the virus.
What then?
Then you check the values for K & Y in the Kabbalah.
re: #123 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because he is fixated on the simple equation booming economy = re-election and cannot begin to see that people will support him even with a damaged economy, if he shows determined leadership.
Because he has no concept of what that means, nor does he have the character, experience nor the right people around him to assist in providing it.
To be fair, for months now every pundit from here to Azerbaijan has said that if he got to November with a booming Dow and UE under 4%, he had a better than even chance of winning reelection. That the “undecideds” could break for late in the game because they’re convinced that a “strong” economy is worth putting up with the other shit he’s gotten up to.
re: #130 Targetpractice
To be fair, for months now every pundit from here to Azerbaijan has said that if he got to November with a booming Dow and UE under 4%, he had a better than even chance of winning reelection. That the “undecideds” could break for late in the game because they’re convinced that a “strong” economy is worth putting up with the other shit he’s gotten up to.
And the opposite of that: Every pundit from here to the Central African Republic has been saying the Democrats want the economy to fail to get him out of office.
It’s friggin’ maddening. Nobody wants the economy to fail. Do they think liberals are breatharians or something?
Looks like Putin’s decision to delegate to the regions on coronavirus measures is working really well. Several are now issuing permits for movement - which you can only receive if you stand for ages in a massive queue, close to scores of other people… pic.twitter.com/X071zsBfre
— Tom Parfitt (@parfitt_tom) April 5, 2020
This is the line for the Department of Unintended Consequences.
Fucking bloodymindedly stupid bureaucrats are getting people killed all over.
re: #3 The Pie Overlord!
So I read this thriller novel by David Baldacci, in which the heroic FBI agent uncovers an eeville plot (which I will not go into, because spoiler) but in the end reveals THE TRUTH to the media, who expose the plot & the President decides to not run for reelection.
Ah, escapist fiction.
Like the end of the movie version of “Clear and Present Danger” when Ryan is testifying to Congress.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And the opposite of that: Every pundit from here to the Central African Republic has been saying the Democrats want the economy to fail to get him out of office.
It’s friggin’ maddening. Nobody wants the economy to fail. Do they think liberals are breatharians or something?
Binary partisanship: If one side wants something positive, the other side has to want the negative because it will mean the former fails and gets voted out of office. It’s (of course) taken to its logical extremes by the far ends of both sides of the spectrum.
Ex: Wingnuts want abortion banned period, so they assume any opposition to this means the person wants abortion to including babies the moment they’re born.
Ex: Berners want M4A, so they assume anybody who so much as criticizes such as wanting people dying in the streets due to lack of care.
re: #132 ericblair
It’s all cool, several of them are wearing masks.
re: #133 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Like the end of the movie version of “Clear and Present Danger” when Ryan is testifying to Congress.
There are a lot of sci-fi movies and series where the whole point is to hijack the Big Omnipresent TV Screens for one minute to Tell the People The Truth, which causes them to revolt and overthrow the government in about five minutes. Seems touchingly naive now, to us anyway.
I’m going to log out and watch some more uplifting television: “Dark Shadows.”
Currently, the doctor is trying to figure out why Maggie Evans (the waitress in the hotel coffee shop) has puncture wounds in her neck and is extremely anaemic, while Barnabas Collins continues to ingratiate himself to the Collins family.
This is the greatest of human-eradication movies:
Five individuals from five nations, including the “Superpowers” (USA, USSR and China), suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft. An alien gives each a container holding capsules. No power on Earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given. Each person has been provided with the power of life and death. Any of these individuals has the capability to instantaneously launch the capsules to whatever coordinates he/she chooses, and each capsule will then eradicate all human life within a 3,000-mile radius of its designated location.
Spoiler protection:
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re: #136 ericblair
There are a lot of sci-fi movies and series where the whole point is to hijack the Big Omnipresent TV Screens for one minute to Tell the People The Truth, which causes them to revolt and overthrow the government in about five minutes. Seems touchingly naive now, to us anyway.
Like the Arnold film version of “The Running Man”.
Some (potentially) interesting goings-on in Brazil….one of those “big if true” sort of things:
Jair Bolsonaro’s irresponsibility in the face of the SARS-CoV-2 virus crisis may have irritated the Armed Forces into choosing Chief Minister of the Civil House, Walter Braga Netto, as the new operational president of Brazil, it was reported today.
Brasil 247 portal quoted Argentine investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky, saying that a high-ranking officer in the Brazilian Army told a peer from Argentina in a telephone conversation, that Bolsonaro is not heard by authorities when making decisions.
‘The Brazilian party reported they had made the decision to ignore President Bolsonaro in all important decisions,’ said the communicator on the program. ‘There will be consequences’, says the quote by Radio El Destape.
Verbitsky stated that Bolsonaro acts as ‘a monarch without effective power’ and that General Walter Braga Netto of the Civil House is now in charge of the country.
Military website defesanet.com.br, considered the most important news page in the areas of defense, strategy, intelligence and security in Latin America, also confirmed that Braga Neto will be in charge of directing and centralizing all government administration, at least while the crisis lasts due to the Covid-19.
So far, this is still in the “grain of salt” category for me. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if this actually happened, given Brazil’s history.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And the opposite of that: Every pundit from here to the Central African Republic has been saying the Democrats want the economy to fail to get him out of office.
It’s friggin’ maddening. Nobody wants the economy to fail. Do they think liberals are breatharians or something?
Wasn’t Marco Rubio going on about liberals “rejoicing” at the falling stock market and rising death toll? It fits in well with their baby-killer death-cult narrative.
re: #134 Targetpractice
Binary partisanship: If one side wants something positive, the other side has to want the negative…
Ex: Berners want Bernie or bust, so if they can’t get Bernie, might as well vote for Trump
just endorse Trump already.
this is getting boring https://t.co/KC2enGkxNg— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 5, 2020
The fire that broke out in the #Chernobyl exclusion zone on April 4 has spread over 100 hectares, with the radiation in the center greatly exceeding the norm.https://t.co/IiPocdqrQU
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) April 5, 2020
NOT NOW, CHERNOBYL
re: #145 ericblair
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:dons Scottish accent:
Brilliant. Foookin’ Brilliant.
I found an abandoned vodka bottle on my last walk, just in the right position to act as a magnifying glass and ignite a forest fire. I removed it to a safer location.
Watching Trump sign a printouts of a Dow Jones Industrial Average chart as his rubes cheered on, was the equivalent of watching Jim Jones signing Dixie Cups in Guyana on November 18, 1978.
re: #59 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please take a deep breath. Calm yourself because you’re not helping yourself. I know it’s hard (in had my annual drink today and may again tomorrow).
Smoke a joint. Run up and down some stairs. Whatever helps get you through. Stay informed but disconnect if it becomes too much.
I agree. I am not sure why I am reading all this doom and gloom.
Well, maybe I do and it is somewhat warranted.
I would agree with stepping away for a few days. Recharge the battery, watch some meaningless junk.
I knew, even in my most optimistic mood that things would have to get worse before they could get better, but the latest developments are taxing my optimism.
I went to my local Acme and found … rubbing alcohol.
re: #157 Teukka
she is infectiously pretty…
re: #79 danarchy
To be honest I have found walmart.com has been more reliable on delivery estimates and speed. I don’t know if that is because they aren’t prioritizing things the same way amazon is or something about their physical stores making their distribution and supply chain more robust. I am not a big walmart fan, but if they can get me what I need in a reasonable time frame they’ll have to do.
I have been working from home with 4 teenagers so I had to order equipment from Best Buy. We had enough computers for tooling around but after pressure testing we learned some were just to slow etc.
Best Buy has twice delivered the equipment a day early.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ex: Berners want Bernie or bust, so if they can’t get Bernie, might as well vote for Trump
Please remember that Twitter is very far from real life. Your average person isn’t on Twitter and only pays attention in the weeks leading up to a primary (if then), and again on the approach to the General (if then).
Dem turnout is double digits higher everywhere… Proven fact from actual voting.
I know it’s easy to see everything bad right now. There is a lot of bad. But Bernie Bros in Twitter isn’t one of them.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Corporate hospital CEO asshat in New York is bitching about the slow pace of accepting patients aboard the USNS Comfort.
Navy Hospital Ship Sits Mostly Empty As Coronavirus Cripples New York (Vanity Fair)
Said asshat, Michael Dowling of Northwell Health, is complaining about “a tangle of military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” keeping patients from being rapidly transferred to the ship.
Okay, corporate asshat (I really hate capitalism uber alles):
a) The Comfort isn’t there for your comfort, or your profit margin.
b) Said “military protocols and bureaucratic hurdles” are there to keep the virus off the ship. If it gets aboard, the whole exercise is a waste and your hospital corporation still gets no relief.
All the NYC metro area hospitals are treating every patient coming thru the door as a potential covid19 vector, because the number of patients that initially come in for anything as innocuous as a broken leg can suddenly present as covid19 within hours.
They have to treat everyone as a risk for covid19, so even the Javits center is now being treated as a covid19 facility. The Comfort too.
It’s not just about asshat CEOs who are forcing staff to work with limited PPE. It’s about the fact that this disease is so pervasive among patients that they have to treat all patients as possible covid19 cases (and to prevent spread to those patients too).
It’s all fucked up precisely because there’s insufficient testing.
Wake up this AM, find that US has 312,000+ cases; 8500+ deaths, and Spain has overtaken Italy in the total cases reported but Italy has ~3000 more deaths than Spain.
I hate this alt-universe Sportscenter.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 5, 2020
re: #162 lawhawk
A corporate hospital CEO might know how to run medical operations for private profit, but not for the benefit of the greater community.
re: #132 ericblair
Just like how Trump’s idiot TSA screening on arriving international flights funneled everyone from all manner of flights into a single line with no social distancing, and then allowed them to fly on to their domestic locations with no screening at all.
It’s a recipe for spreading this disease far and wide.
re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please remember that Twitter is very far from real life. Your average person isn’t on Twitter and only pays attention in the weeks leading up to a primary (if then), and again on the approach to the General (if then).
Dem turnout is double digits higher everywhere… Proven fact from actual voting.
I know it’s easy to see everything bad right now. There is a lot of bad. But Bernie Bros in Twitter isn’t one of them.
Yep.
Not real but so so funny.
The headline’s good, but the rest is even better pic.twitter.com/HHpmPNxR1x
— Jesskier (@JessCluess) December 28, 2019
re: #163 lawhawk
Wake up this AM, find that US has 312,000+ cases; 8500+ deaths, and Spain has overtaken Italy in the total cases reported but Italy has ~3000 more deaths than Spain.
I hate this alt-universe Sportscenter.
Germany, with just over 1/4 the US population (83 million vs 330 milion), has nearly 100K cases and around 1500 fatalities. Their rate of doubling is now nearly 10 days. The US and UK are still doubling every 5 days.
But for that, New York State, with a population of 20 million, has more cases and fatalities than Germany…that is f*cking scary.
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It’s not just scary, it’s mass fucking murder.
re: #163 lawhawk
Just wait….
In the American South, a Perfect Storm Is Gathering
In states with many uninsured citizens, few hospitals and leaders who have not required citizens to stay home, a disaster is looming.
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Totally scary. And people in red states think that they’re not going to get this so they’re not going to bother with social distancing or stay at home orders? They’re fucking insane.
Why? Because this disease is in all states and regions. And it takes just one person to infect dozens or hundreds. A single church gathering could result in 100s or 1000s of cases from direct contact. We’ve seen that repeatedly here in the US and around the world.
The New Rochelle outbreak was centered on a bar mitzvah. A single person infected spread it to dozens of other people, who spread it to dozens of other people, and pretty soon you had it ripping through NYC. South Korea had over 1000 cases tied to a single church gathering. It’s nuts.
Georgia’s Gov. Kemp issued a shelter in place, and immediately rolled back the rule to allow people to go to the beach. Other states, like FL issued shelter in place late, but then loosened stricter rules in the localities that were trying to get ahead of the problem since DeSantis dragged his feet.
DeBlasio in NYC fucked this up in any number of ways, including not shutting things down sooner, but without the public complying with these rules, it’s even harder. You can’t assume that even a statewide shelter in place will get 100% compliance. But NYC and urban areas have it even harder since getting food requires going into dense population areas - going into an elevator for instance, or on buses and public transportation.
If this were a zombie apocalypse, I don’t think we’d be doing any better because people would ignore the facts in front of them.
Wildlife is finally returning to Britain’s streets. Nature is healing 😍✌️ pic.twitter.com/p4xYmf1oPx
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 4, 2020
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #173 lawhawk
The New Rochelle outbreak was centered on a bar mitzvah. A single person infected spread it to dozens of other people, who spread it to dozens of other people, and pretty soon you had it ripping through NYC. South Korea had over 1000 cases tied to a single church gathering. It’s nuts.
If this were a zombie apocalypse, I don’t think we’d be doing any better because people would ignore the facts in front of them.
The outbreak in France centered around a religious festival in Mulhouse near the Rhine.
Although I am no big zombie fan, I found World War Z (the novel, the the awful film) exemplary for describing how humanity deals with most any crisis: first covering up, then denying, then releasing false or misleading information to avoid “panic”, all of which contribute to making the crisis worse, followed by even greater panic resulting from people finding out what has been really happening all along, etc….
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The book is fabulous about how ability to deal with a crisis. And right now, I am watching Trumpists look to the antimalaria drugs in the same way that the book dealt with phalanx - it was a placebo that did nothing to stop the spread.
And I find it ironic that the NY outbreak centered on New Rochelle, which is just down the road from Yonkers.
But that book assumed that the government would at least be aggressive in trying to fight the disease. Instead, we have a federal government that is failing in every way imaginable, and it’s up to the individual states to try and hold things together.
re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡
WATCH: Franklin Graham tells Jeanine Pirro coronavirus pandemic is because of people sinning (Raw Story)
Like drunkenness?
re: #178 lawhawk
The book is fabulous about how ability to deal with a crisis. And right now, I am watching Trumpists look to the antimalaria drugs in the same way that the book dealt with phalanx - it was a placebo that did nothing to stop the spread.
And I find it ironic that the NY outbreak centered on New Rochelle, which is just down the road from Yonkers.
But that book assumed that the government would at least be aggressive in trying to fight the disease. Instead, we have a federal government that is failing in every way imaginable, and it’s up to the individual states to try and hold things together.
At this point in ways the Federal government is making it worse. The hijackings, bidding wars, and unnecessary competition for equipment is not a reasoned out response. It’s either blatant incompetence or purposeful malevolence to allow a few to profit at others’ expense (their lives).
Today is a good day for oatmeal, brown sugar, butter, and a little heavy cream on top for breffist.
Our President on January 20, 2025 is on with Chris Wallace.
Details matter. USA Today fucked it up.
Thread.
.@USATODAY rates as TRUE the claim that Obama admin depleted the federal stockpile of medical supplies, and says “for whatever reason” recommendations to replenish the stockpile were not needed. But they really should have looked at budget submissions made by Obama in early 2010s pic.twitter.com/z2haihatEB
— Yeganeh Torbati (@yjtorbati) April 4, 2020
And the spoiler…
Any discussion of the stockpile history that doesn’t mention debt ceiling battle, Budget Control Act, + sequestration is incomplete. We link to all the source docs we drew from in our story https://t.co/WWGpCAmy5s
— Yeganeh Torbati (@yjtorbati) April 4, 2020
There’s more. 🤬
Life goes on in these crazy times. Here is a bit of good news:
My daughter, in Israel, just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! This makes 45 grandkids!
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re: #162 lawhawk
All the NYC metro area hospitals are treating every patient coming thru the door as a potential covid19 vector, because the number of patients that initially come in for anything as innocuous as a broken leg can suddenly present as covid19 within hours.
They have to treat everyone as a risk for covid19, so even the Javits center is now being treated as a covid19 facility. The Comfort too.
It’s not just about asshat CEOs who are forcing staff to work with limited PPE. It’s about the fact that this disease is so pervasive among patients that they have to treat all patients as possible covid19 cases (and to prevent spread to those patients too).
It’s all fucked up precisely because there’s insufficient testing.
All sadly, but very true. My wife had to be admitted to the hospital on Friday (a Northwell facility, by the by) for a serious, but unrelated matter: they tested her immediately upon arrival (with some sort of expedited process: we found out she was CV-negative within several hours, my testers said it would take a week to hear back), and treated her as a suspected COVID-19 case every minute she was there. Until she proved “clean”, in which case it was off to the “regular” areas of the hospital, with their “normal” standard of care - i.e. like a jail, but with oxygen.
That last bit is snarky and unfair though: that hospital (like all of them in the City) is working overtime and with diminished resources to deal with a pandemic situation unseen in a century: every single healthcare person I spoke to while waiting to be tested said they had never had to work so hard in such potentially-dangerous conditions with so little equipment in their entire careers. And these were not all young folks.
But your last line is spot-on: all the people I talked to made the same point: the optimal way to get a handle on epidemics is to try to mass-test as many people as possible: though when I broached this point to the med personnel, they quite agreed with, but then had to just shrug….
re: #178 lawhawk
The book is fabulous about how ability to deal with a crisis. And right now, I am watching Trumpists look to the antimalaria drugs in the same way that the book dealt with phalanx - it was a placebo that did nothing to stop the spread.
That was Trump’s last attempt at a Hail Mary play - had it worked it would have secured his re-election and elevated him to the status of hero, visionary, and savior of millions, while sending all those so-called “experts” and elitists scurrying back to their ivory towers to cringe and wither away in ignominy.
Which is why people are still clinging to it…
re: #185 The Pie Overlord!
Life goes on in these crazy times. Here is a bit of good news:
My daughter, in Israel, just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! This makes 45 grandkids!
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Reporter: “Do you think it’s time to level with the American people that we may not have enough #ventilators?”
Trump: “…always a nasty question from @CNN.” #TrumpPressBriefing pic.twitter.com/oew0ilAnJi— ❤️ Dr. Allison Berkowitz ❤️ (@SocialWorkItOut) April 4, 2020
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was Trump’s last attempt at a Hail Mary play - had it worked it would have secured his re-election and elevated him to the status of hero, visionary, and savior of millions, while sending all those so-called “experts” and elitists scurrying back to their ivory towers to cringe and wither away in ignominy.
Which is why people are still clinging to it…
Of course. It’s the hope to cling to rather than admitting you’ve been led down the primrose path and are essentially fooked.
I fully expect that they’ll quickly forget this drug and hype something else the moment anything pops up that looks like a successful treatment. Fox has already shown how quickly they can memory hole “Covid-19 is a hoax” and pivot towards something else.
(Much like how Trump will disappear down such a hole the moment he loses power. And Fox will be leading the lynch mob crying how they knew he was bad all along.)
re: #182 Shropshire Slasher
Today is a good day for oatmeal, brown sugar, butter, and a little heavy cream on top for breffist.
You lost me at the cream. ICK! Liquids should be mixed with oatmeal before cooking, not after.
I am spending another day watching my collection of TV shows and movies. Today’s selection is Pride and Prejudice (1995). There are a few things on PBS but they are on later today.
“The United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.”
Blame @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/xfwS80Zq4y— Truth Matters (@TruthsOverTrump) April 4, 2020
There are so many ads for the Democrats with Trump’s own words. If they don’t use it effectively it’s criminal malpractice.
re: #194 PhillyPretzel
I am spending another day watching my collection of TV shows and movies. Today’s selection is Pride and Prejudice (1995). There are a few things on PBS but they are on later today.
Started binge watching Picard yesterday. Just about to the end of season 1
re: #197 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Hmm. That gives me an idea. I will download my Downton Abbey collection and I will watch a season a day starting on Monday.
re: #185 The Pie Overlord!
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Mrs dm wants the job of presidential slapper.
Every lie he starts to utter…..slap!!
Slap slap slap.
How long would it take him to stop lying? Probably he wouldn’t.
Imagine this:
Trump: “I”. Slap!!
Trump: ” the”. Slap slap!!!
Trump: “my” wappo slappo!
If he never stops lying she would sacrifice herself for us and never stop slapping
re: #199 Kilroy was here
Dalek accessible. Nice.
re: #203 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Has a nice ramp rather than stairs.
Daleks could just levitate past stairs if necessary, no?
re: #204 makeitstop
Daleks could just levitate past stairs if necessary, no?
They were shown doing that at some point. But it’s been a running joke as a Dalek obstacle for years.
Lies, damned, lies and Fox statistics:
It’s the liegarithmic scale.
— Adrian Hempel (@athempel) April 5, 2020
re: #198 PhillyPretzel
Hmm. That gives me an idea. I will download my Downton Abbey collection and I will watch a season a day starting on Monday.
I’m doing it on the cheap. Got the 30 day free trial through Amazon Prime and plan on canceling once I get to the last season. If Disney has the same free offer I plan on hitting up the Mandalorian next.
re: #207 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
That is how I am watching Rick Steves’s Europe. Since it is listed as Amazon Prime I can watch them whenever I want.
re: #173 lawhawk
Totally scary. And people in red states think that they’re not going to get this so they’re not going to bother with social distancing or stay at home orders? They’re fucking insane.
Why? Because this disease is in all states and regions. And it takes just one person to infect dozens or hundreds. A single church gathering could result in 100s or 1000s of cases from direct contact. We’ve seen that repeatedly here in the US and around the world.
The New Rochelle outbreak was centered on a bar mitzvah. A single person infected spread it to dozens of other people, who spread it to dozens of other people, and pretty soon you had it ripping through NYC. South Korea had over 1000 cases tied to a single church gathering. It’s nuts.
Georgia’s Gov. Kemp issued a shelter in place, and immediately rolled back the rule to allow people to go to the beach. Other states, like FL issued shelter in place late, but then loosened stricter rules in the localities that were trying to get ahead of the problem since DeSantis dragged his feet.
DeBlasio in NYC fucked this up in any number of ways, including not shutting things down sooner, but without the public complying with these rules, it’s even harder. You can’t assume that even a statewide shelter in place will get 100% compliance. But NYC and urban areas have it even harder since getting food requires going into dense population areas - going into an elevator for instance, or on buses and public transportation.
If this were a zombie apocalypse, I don’t think we’d be doing any better because people would ignore the facts in front of them.
Shorter:. The virus doesn’t care who you are where you live or what you “believe”
re: #155 PhillyPretzel
I went to my local Acme and found … rubbing alcohol.
These days we live for those moments.
Meh. Not exactly brutal. Mild at best.
‘WE NEED TESTS NOT LIES’ — This striking ad puts Trump on blast for America’s COVID-19 testing failures pic.twitter.com/AhAtrPwj0v
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 5, 2020
re: #212 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Yes. Even the cashier did not know that it was in stock. It is 90% rubbing alcohol and comes in a quart sized bottle.
God this unemployment thing is confusing as hell. I’ve been trying to help my son through this and ack. He filed last weekend and got an email that he should apply every Sunday for the previous week. So he did last week and went to do this week’s. They said he got a payment (with taxes taken out after he waived that in the application) direct deposited on the third, but it’s not in his bank account. He also didn’t get that extra 600 dollars I thought was supposed to be there. The site also said his employer filed for him at some point during the week so he didn’t have to do that. This is confusing. Anyone dealing with this mess? I could use some help.
re: #207 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’m doing it on the cheap. Got the 30 day free trial through Amazon Prime and plan on canceling once I get to the last season. If Disney has the same free offer I plan on hitting up the Mandalorian next.
I made the mistake of signing on too early in the season…
re: #214 PhillyPretzel
Yes. Even the cashier did not know that it was in stock. It is 90% rubbing alcohol and comes in a quart sized bottle.
I learned something about alcohol as a disinfectant. More powerful at 70% strength because it evaporates slower. So I added a little water to my 90%. We started alternating alcohol, then bleach for common area surface cleaning sessions.
re: #209 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
‘Morning.
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re: #217 Rightwingconspirator
I have to remember that. And I made my homemade disinfectant with Clorox. Thanks for the “recipe.”
COVID killed Democracy in Hungary. It could happen here. europeaninterest.eu
re: #219 PhillyPretzel
I have to remember that. And I made my homemade disinfectant with Clorox. Thanks for the “recipe.”
Safet at home, but still working together. :-)
re: #194 PhillyPretzel
I am spending another day watching my collection of TV shows and movies. Today’s selection is Pride and Prejudice (1995). There are a few things on PBS but they are on later today.
Last night the family had movie night. Popped some popcorn, plopped down and watched a double feature of Toy Story 4 and Guardians of the Galaxy.
re: #161 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I know it’s easy to see everything bad right now. There is a lot of bad. But Bernie Bros in Twitter isn’t one of them.
I wouldn’t go that far! What it isn’t is particularly significant.
And here’s the difference.
The right will build a wall of support around their side.
The left says THEY ALL MUST GO.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) April 5, 2020
Dr. Fauci on Face The Nation: basically:
At least another 8-10 days before any slowdown in CV
Testing is vitally important
re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Meh. Not exactly brutal. Mild at best.
considering the kid-glove treatment he gets…
re: #225 Jay C
Dr. Fauci on Face The Nation: basically:
At least another 8-10 days before any slowdown in CV
Testing is vitally important
and what he means is a slowdown in the rate of growth, not in the overall numbers
re: #225 Jay C
Dr. Fauci on Face The Nation: basically:
At least another 8-10 days before any slowdown in CV
Testing is vitally important
And , CEO Dowling of Northwell Health on now
So I guess we can judge the asshat quotient for ourselves
So I did not wait until 6pm, there were people out in the vineyards, so I went and belted four songs for them out my open window AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. Some even applauded.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I figured as much. At least he is getting solid scientific facts out to the public. Now to get the people to follow his instructions is another story.
Anyone else watch Fuck Todd and Meet the Press? Let me summarize:
Republicans: Trump is doing a great job. How dare anyone criticize him. That’s akin to people blaming Roosevelt for Pearl Harbor!
Democrats: The pandemic response has been a complete shit show.
Chuck: Great. Thanks for being here!
re: #215 A Mom Anon
God this unemployment thing is confusing as hell. I’ve been trying to help my son through this and ack. He filed last weekend and got an email that he should apply every Sunday for the previous week. So he did last week and went to do this week’s. They said he got a payment (with taxes taken out after he waived that in the application) direct deposited on the third, but it’s not in his bank account. He also didn’t get that extra 600 dollars I thought was supposed to be there. The site also said his employer filed for him at some point during the week so he didn’t have to do that. This is confusing. Anyone dealing with this mess? I could use some help.
Good luck; you are not alone. I read an article about how it’s extremely difficult to apply in Florida by design because Rick Scott didn’t want people eligible for unemployment to apply to keep Florida’s unemployment rate artificially low.
re: #185 The Pie Overlord!
Life goes on in these crazy times. Here is a bit of good news:
My daughter, in Israel, just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! This makes 45 grandkids!
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shout-out to teleskiguy
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and what he means is a slowdown in the rate of growth, not in the overall numbers
nor is it ‘the end and we’re back to normal’
this way of living is not going to change any time soon
re: #185 The Pie Overlord!
Life goes on in these crazy times. Here is a bit of good news:
My daughter, in Israel, just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy! This makes 45 grandkids!
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re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wasn’t Marco Rubio going on about liberals “rejoicing” at the falling stock market and rising death toll? It fits in well with their baby-killer death-cult narrative.
And in the real world, the GOP worked to making the economy fail to try to deny Obama a second term.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and what he means is a slowdown in the rate of growth, not in the overall numbers
Math innumeracy will kill us all. 2nd vs. 1st derivative. It’s important and ‘Merikans are to stupid to want to understand
re: #232 NO SMOCKING GUN!
GA isn’t being difficult, as far as the actual process goes. They’re doing it all online and the actual process isn’t any worse than any other things one does online. They’re saying they deposited money into his account but it isn’t there. The company also paid him with 52 hours of his accrued vacation time for the week after he was laid off on 3/20. Maybe that effected things? I have no clue.
Looking for a scapegoat & found some.
“Cockroaches.” “They have their own laws.”
This is how some Americans are talking about Orthodox Jews now - just as our community members are dying left and right.
“I went to high school with these people,” a friend wrote to me in shock, sending these screenshots. pic.twitter.com/3PoShKr3gT— Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (@avitalrachel) April 5, 2020
Pat Robertson opens his piehole and reveals his laughable stupidity:
“Some of these young uns are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs,” said Robertson. “When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the virus came from. We never had this kind of thing when I was coming up. But no one was committing oral sex back then.”
Pat trying to stay relevant.
re: #238 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Math illiteracy will kill us all. 2nd vs. 1st derivative. It’s important and ‘Merikans are to stupid to want to understand
Mainly, IMO, because that “understanding” will have to be the acknowledgment and acceptance of bad news, and the prospect that their lives are going to have to be disrupted for an indefinite period into the future. I don’t think anybody can really deal well will this, it just seems that Americans deal less-well than others….
re: #235 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
nor is it ‘the end and we’re back to normal’
this way of living is not going to change any time soon
nor is the economy going to magically reset itself to pre-covid levels
If you are looking to be entertained, Lifeforce, an interstellar vampire movie, is rather campy fun. Please don’t read into my comment, it’s not like I’m trying to feeding you oatmeal with cream on top, or cranberry sauce with cranberry chunks in it.
re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
True. DT will push for a lot of things for his cronies and it will only help them and not those who need it.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I made the mistake of signing on too early in the season…
Well I never really had any real intentions of watching it, but with the stay at home order in effect there really isn’t a whole lot I can do.
re: #245 Shropshire Slasher
If you are looking to be entertained, Lifeforce, an interstellar vampire movie, is rather campy fun. Please don’t read into my comment, it’s not like I’m trying to feeding you oatmeal with cream on top, or cranberry sauce with cranberry chunks in it.
Upding for Lifeforce. I liked that film.
Heh.
Wow, we haven’t seen National Mall this empty since Donald Trump’s inauguration. pic.twitter.com/HVVcb8AYyF
— Translate Trump (@TranslateRealDT) April 3, 2020
re: #247 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well I never really had any real intentions of watching it, but with the stay at home order in effect there really isn’t a whole lot I can do.
I started watching Picard but found myslef rather underwhelmed. I need to find someone else to piggyback off so I can catch the last three episodes.
Here’s the transcript of Trump’s response to being challenged on the claim about how there is “enormous” testing for people getting on and off planes. (He muttered a response suggesting that he is actually right.) pic.twitter.com/vpggmEeFm1
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 5, 2020
Huh…well I’m gonna have a few extra bucks in a month or so 😂 pic.twitter.com/hcA6qKaq7T
— Private Joker, USMC (@Infantry0300) April 5, 2020
re: #240 A Mom Anon
GA isn’t being difficult, as far as the actual process goes. They’re doing it all online and the actual process isn’t any worse than any other things one does online. They’re saying they deposited money into his account but it isn’t there. The company also paid him with 52 hours of his accrued vacation time for the week after he was laid off on 3/20. Maybe that effected things? I have no clue.
Hard to say. The states are being swamped with massively more claims than they have ever had to process before, so there’s going to be a lot of confusion and delay.
Here is a website projecting cases and deaths in the US and individual states through August 4. Note the shaded areas demonstrating the massive amount of uncertainty. covid19.healthdata.org
The Bay Area counties were the first in the nation to issue restrictions and then stay-at-home orders to residents - before the rest of California. Almost a month later, there are only about 88 coronavirus deaths among approximately 7.7 million people. https://t.co/ffc1tXxq7K
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 5, 2020
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
Pat Robertson opens his piehole and reveals his laughable stupidity:
Pat trying to stay relevant.
Yikes! Harmful “chemicals” from “ladies’ private parts”? One wonders what kind of weird trauma in Pat’s experience has led him to conclude such a thing.
re: #258 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Yikes! Harmful “chemicals” from “ladies’ private parts”? One wonders what kind of weird trauma in Pat’s experience has led him to conclude such a thing.
(P)reach-around Pat
how dare an inspector general do his job:
President Trump suggested that he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community in retaliation for impeachment, saying the official was wrong to provide an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress as the law requires, the AP reports.
Said Trump: “Never came in to see me, never requested to see me… That man is a disgrace to IGs.”
re: #260 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
He still thinks everyone in government is there to work for him personally.
re: #258 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Yikes! Harmful “chemicals” from “ladies’ private parts”? One wonders what kind of weird trauma in Pat’s experience has led him to conclude such a thing.
Polyvinyl chloride is a known carcinogen.
re: #242 Dr Lizardo
thebiznews dot com is a satire site.
re: #262 Decatur Deb
Polyvinyl chloride is a known carcinogen.
Pat is probably one of those people who refer to the clitoris as “the devil’s doorbell.”
WTAF: This woman claims she can’t get COVID19 because she is “covered in the blood of Jesus”
To laugh or cry or rage. That is the question. pic.twitter.com/PWJ4zrcYRQ
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) April 5, 2020
2016: We’re going to win so much you’re going to get sick and tired of winning2020: https://t.co/tENO11cOZr
— Gabriel Roth (@gabrielroth) April 5, 2020
For those of you fortunate enough to not know the illustrious Mr Mitchell, he’s decided to make a living by being the world’s biggest Trump ass remora.
Oh yeah, shocker, Trumpism is a death cult.
What if we were to learn that Trump suppressed scary information re COVID-19 (and the needed federal response) in January to postpone the economic turndown until it could no longer endanger his Senate acquittal? Retweet if you wouldn’t be surprised by his making that tradeoff.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 5, 2020
Plausible.
re: #258 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Yikes! Harmful “chemicals” from “ladies’ private parts”? One wonders what kind of weird trauma in Pat’s experience has led him to conclude such a thing.
Not necessarily trauma, could be that he’s just plain old psychotic.
Here is an uplifting message from someone on the “front lines” of COVID19:
SHABBOS: AN ISLAND OF HEALING AND PEACE
After a week of living in a war zone, tens of funerals of towering lights of our community, including a few in the prime of their life between 55-75 years of age, dozens of acquaintances, close friends, members of the community and even family members hospitalized and in critical condition. Zoom Shiva calls, painful prognosis’s.
20 hour workdays coordinating with a network of Hero’s, volunteers, workers, donors and organizations to get large amounts of critical PPE supplies to hospitals across NY and NJ.
Acting as a patient advocate for families whose loved ones are in critical condition and need access to different potential therapies or medical advice from doctors.
Late Friday afternoon I was spent, broken and exhausted. Leah finally came home after the most grueling week of work in her career at the hospital. Seeing sights that one wishes they can forget.
Then, Leah and the girls lit Shabbos candles.
At that moment together with our children we entered the time capsule of Shabbos. 25 magical hours spent in meaningful and joyful conversations and even good debate and arguments, delicious meals, melodious prayer, interactive games, deep and enjoyable learning, and much needed rest.
No iPhones, Videos, Phone calls, Texts, News, Whatsapp’s, Zooms, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Media. Nothing from outside our home entered our lives. We focused only on the positive and honored those who have tragically passed away last week and prayed to G-d almighty for the full and speedy recovery of all those who are in critical condition.
re: #262 Decatur Deb
Polyvinyl chloride is a known carcinogen.
Indeed. Dildos should always be kept where the sun don’t shine, literally. (UV in sunlight breaks down the polymer.)
re: #220 Rightwingconspirator
COVID killed Democracy in Hungary. It could happen here. europeaninterest.eu
Hungarian democracy has been on life support since Orban was elected in 2010. It’s been treading in this direction since then. But Trump has certainly demonstrated the similar fragility of our democracy. It needn’t have turned out this way — but he is the apotheosis of contemporary Republican ideology.
re: #268 makeitstop
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I personally doubt this. If he actually perceived COVID as a threat in January, he’d have hollered that we’re in a crisis and how dare the Democrats try to interfere with the government in such a critical time when it’s all hands on deck. He probably would have scared off wobblier Dems. He’s trying to use this stupid distraction argument now to excuse his failure.
re: #273 Hecuba’s daughter
Hungarian democracy has been on life support since Orban was elected in 2010. It’s been treading in this direction since then. But Trump has certainly demonstrated the similar fragility of our democracy. It needn’t have turned out this way — but he is the apotheosis of contemporary Republican ideology.
It could be it’s what motivating the conspicuously incompetent response to the Coronavirus, trying to cause things to become so bad that knives can be stuck into democracy’s back…
Before you hate on these folks you need to understand how influential pastors can be w/in evangelicalism. These folks are duped not by faith but by men of vast vanity who won’t give up an audience or a “love offering” for the sake of something so small as other people’s lives. https://t.co/VZRkQ38DYe
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) April 5, 2020
Dark dad joke:
Man, you never see Jim Jones jokes anymore.
The punchlines are too long.
Morning Lizardim from the gorgeous and mild wild north country. Palm Sunday is shaping up to be a real beauty. Minnesota’s new numbers: 70 new cases in 1300 tested brings us to 935 and 25,700; 1 new death brings us up to 29. Once again, our trend of keeping new cases at or below 75 holds. I got more details on my church’s “Easter Drive-Through” experience - apparently, they actually called the Minnesota Department of Health and went over their plan before they advertised it. I’m glad they’re doing it the right way and not just making stuff up in defiance of the orders. How go things among the lizardfolk on this glorious spring day?
The man has no self-awareness.
I agree! https://t.co/8QO4QquG4A
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2020
re: #278 Kilroy was here
Dark dad joke:
Man, you never see Jim Jones jokes anymore.
The punchlines are too long.
*WHACK!*
re: #278 Kilroy was here
Dark dad joke:
Man, you never see Jim Jones jokes anymore.
The punchlines are too long.
How do you pick up a Koresh chick?
-With a Dust Buster!
re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How do you pick up a Koresh chick?
-With a Dust Buster!
And one for you, too. *WHACK!*
On top of all the other shit this man has had to go trough in the past week…
New on @NYTimesAtWar: Capt. Brett Crozier, former commanding officer of USS Theodore Roosevelt, has tested positive for Covid-19. Story w/ @EricSchmittNYT https://t.co/xS9wwq8Gab
— John Ismay (@johnismay) April 5, 2020
Fuck Trump.
re: #204 makeitstop
Daleks could just levitate past stairs if necessary, no?
That’s right! It was shown on screen in “Remembrance of the Daleks” way back in 1988! This ability was hinted at in previous stories, but this is the first time we actually see it.
re: #279 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Morning Lizardim from the gorgeous and mild wild north country. Palm Sunday is shaping up to be a real beauty. Minnesota’s new numbers: 70 new cases in 1300 tested brings us to 935 and 25,700; 1 new death brings us up to 29. Once again, our trend of keeping new cases at or below 75 holds. I got more details on my church’s “Easter Drive-Through” experience - apparently, they actually called the Minnesota Department of Health and went over their plan before they advertised it. I’m glad they’re doing it the right way and not just making stuff up in defiance of the orders. How go things among the lizardfolk on this glorious spring day?
Sitting on my deck drinking ice tea and listening to the birds chirp.
re: #272 Teukka
When The Sun uses the word “ridiculous” in a story in their own newspaper, you know shit’s got real.
Capt. Brett Crozier, the Navy captain who was removed from command of the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, has tested positive for Covid-19. May he recover swiftly. #HERO
via @NYTimes https://t.co/QDD1FzefVD— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) April 5, 2020
re: #289 goddamnedfrank
Capt. Brett Crozier, the Navy captain who was removed from command of the coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, has tested positive for Covid-19. May he recover swiftly.
I can no longer laugh at Trump jokes. Just numb from the malicious stupidity of the man and all who support/defend/rationalize his words and actions…
re: #290 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can no longer laugh at Trump jokes. Just numb from the malicious stupidity of the man and all who support/defend/rationalize his words and actions…
Agreed. It’s just not funny anymore.
Pretty sure I saw a Dalek hovering up an elevator shaft or something like that in a 1st/2nd Doctor ep back when Twitch streamed everything the BBC could authorize (80s Dalek eps were apparently off limits?). That was a hell of a thing - 60 days of Who. But I didn’t remember stairs until the first time they showed up in New Who.
At this point, it’s basically impossible to defend Trump without being drunk. pic.twitter.com/QegTCSruW1
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 5, 2020
You don’t WIN a fucking briefing you fucking sycophant.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 5, 2020
re: #294 Ace-o-aces
You don’t WIN a fucking briefing you fucking sycophant.
Actually, if you get away with telling lies unchallenged, you have won…which is why the major networks want a chance to be able to highlight all the example of him talking out of his ass.
Roflmao pic.twitter.com/HAiaJTBzbI
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) April 5, 2020
re: #266 The Pie Overlord!
This woman claims she can’t get COVID19 because she is “covered in the blood of Jesus”
She may actually be right-COVID-9 infection is visa mucousal pathways, not via direct cuts.
Nevertheless, she’s a whackjob.
re: #266 The Pie Overlord!
WTAF: This woman claims she can’t get COVID19 because she is “covered in the blood of Jesus”
This is also right out of a chapter of World War Z
Now we have reached the Vogon Poetry phase of the pandemic.
This poem sucks monkey balls. I mean, fuck the bullshit conflation of Trump and God. The poem is utter garbage. The syntax is in service of the rhymes. The imagery is absent. It’s terrible. You should be embarrassed that you posted it. https://t.co/MHlaWo54ve
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) April 5, 2020
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
That reads like Carbon and Fiber wrote it.
re: #278 Kilroy was here
Dark dad joke:
Man, you never see Jim Jones jokes anymore.
The punchlines are too long.
Here’s one:
I heard there was a giant butterfly in NYC, but when I went there to see it I found out it was an urban moth.
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
I can hear the banjo accompaniment.
re: #240 A Mom Anon
It’s possible the funds won’t post until after Monday end of day. But he should be able to see them in his account, but as not yet available.
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
You can sing that to The Yellow Rose of Texas.
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
Now we have reached the Vogon Poetry phase of the pandemic.
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“Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturitions are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t.”
re: #299 The Pie Overlord!
Now we have reached the Vogon Poetry phase of the pandemic.
Tie them to the Trump appreciation chair!!!
re: #306 Alephnaught
“Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturitions are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles,
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and slipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turling dromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t.”
That is actually much better than Shirley’s rhymes.
re: #308 The Pie Overlord!
That is actually much better than Shirley’s rhymes.
Make sure you let the Vogons know that.
re: #304 mmmirele
They aren’t there at all. We even checked his savings account, linked to his checking account and there isn’t any deposit from GA DOL.
re: #278 Kilroy was here
Dark dad joke:
Man, you never see Jim Jones jokes anymore.
The punchlines are too long.
That’s a horrible joke. So bad I had to post it on FB to see how horrible it is.
All my Horrible Joke friends love it.
re: #310 Rightwingconspirator
I remember for one of my older cell phones I took a picture of a piece of paper to get a plain white background.
re: #304 mmmirele
It’s possible the funds won’t post until after Monday end of day. But he should be able to see them in his account, but as not yet available.
They could also be posted as available funds but not posted until Monday.
re: #309 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Make sure you let the Vogons know that.
Well, we’d better let them know. They’re supposed be demolishing the planet for an interspace bypass…
I don’t remember this. Do you?
Remember this? Plane lands on Washington State road pic.twitter.com/sJzNRlLFpS
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 5, 2020
re: #310 Rightwingconspirator
Need a plain gray Wallpaper for your monitor?
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Perfect. Looks like the main scene from The Mist.
I like the Kobayashi Maru Conspiracy fallacy:
They are inflating the numbers if you get in a car accident but you tested positive for covid-19 or the Communist Chinese virus the counter to that tool (sic)
So ‘they’ inflated the numbers, the virus is hoaxy, but it was started by Communists. The conspiracy bread is buttered on both sides.
Oh I feel you on that. pic.twitter.com/lmCnOwKtSI
— Jordan Beane (@JordanBeane_SD) April 5, 2020
One thing with growing old and your beard gets varying shades of gray and white and clear and WTF is that?:
When you are young, beard stubble can make you look “outdoorsy” or “rugged” like in the cologne commercials.
WKhMEWEZi6RdNnriMatlC2HOjInjil7KYm632BSEu5lTgsPBeHOhkhWKZQg7H6AckRJujSKpHAwfz2kd8EA77A==
re: #289 goddamnedfrank
I guaran-damn-tee you Trump will mock him on Twitter.
re: #308 The Pie Overlord!
That is actually much better than Shirley’s rhymes.
Vogon poetry was the second worst in the galaxy.
The guys blaming Covid-19 on unregulated Chinese wet markets over there are the same guys who don’t want any regulation over here.#SundayThoughts
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 5, 2020
There will never be handlebars or a coifed mustache on this face. Every once in a while I let it out and shave a Civil War stache or handlebars and I look in the mirror and laugh for a bit then shave it off. Other people can pull it off, but not me. Sorta like singing: I can’t hear my own voice singing it just sounds too weird and comical.
PBS is running a story about the 1918 flu epidemic, and some of the things that happened are being paralyzed now:
1. Initially, government officials ignored what was going on.
2. Rather than shutting businesses down and making people stay home, officials ordered people to wear cloth masks, which did very little to keep people from getting sick.
3. A company came up with what they believed was a cure, and everyone got excited. San Francisco even ordered a large number of doses and vaccinated people. The problem is that it was a vaccine for a bacterial infection - they didn’t know enough about viruses - and it did nothing.
The PBS story was made in 98.
Trump’s Virginia golf club is still open for business. And it looks like the Secret Service is still renting golf carts there. https://t.co/WZXIB9ZJwJ
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 5, 2020
re: #321 Ace Rothstein
I guaran-damn-tee you Trump will mock him on Twitter.
Hearing about Captain Crozier’s Covid was the point that I had to just shut down and take deep breaths to keep from screaming
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1. The Taliban released a statement accusing the Afghan government & U.S. of violating the Feb. withdrawal agreement. The Taliban notes (correctly) that nothing in the accord prohibited them from continuing to launch attacks, but the group says it’s focused mainly on rural areas. pic.twitter.com/CtUTvEEpNx
— Thomas Joscelyn (@thomasjoscelyn) April 5, 2020
This morning’s mental health must:
what a penguin weigh-in looks—and sounds—like: pic.twitter.com/p7Ogz9HZLP— Alexandra Rosas (@GDRPempress) April 4, 2020
re: #332 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
They’re cute, but from what I heard, they are stinky as all hell.
re: #309 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Make sure you let the Vogons know that.
Doesn’t matter, they’ll still blow your planet up.
Erick, son of Erick is ramping up his assholishness as he attempts to be the next Todd Kincannon…
— jay (@random__name) April 5, 2020
This aged poorly. pic.twitter.com/ndHgZLZlxv
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) April 5, 2020
re: #333 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They’re cute, but from what I heard, they are stinky as all hell.
That sounds fishy to me..
/s
re: #333 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They’re cute, but from what I heard, they are stinky as all hell.
they stink on ice!
Here are these three paragraphs. https://t.co/cQZ7sD86X6 pic.twitter.com/6DY52xOjkw
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) April 5, 2020
All the King’s rent: https://t.co/J25xatL00R pic.twitter.com/3bZhkzlJTQ
— The Nib ✒️ (@thenib) April 5, 2020
Deep cut. Nicely done.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) April 5, 2020
re: #324 Rightwingconspirator
Math… how does it work. Or logic. Or reasoning.
Updated #COVID19 data.
Note: Because #Ohio can currently only test the sickest individuals and those working on the frontlines, the total number of cases is most certainly higher. #InThisTogetherOhio#StayHomeOhio#COVID19OhioReadyhttps://t.co/3lWx4IRScb. pic.twitter.com/Tk8uMcKibA— Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) April 5, 2020
re: #322 Belafon
Vogon poetry was the second worst in the galaxy.
Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings can rest easily now.
Beaumont Health bioengineers create process to disinfect used N95 masks https://t.co/5El17dOe38
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) April 5, 2020
re: #346 The Pie Overlord!
Beaumont Health bioengineers create process to disinfect used N95 masks
From now on we can call them the “Beaumont Rags”
IHME has erased the promise of a new updated model by 4 April. Given it is 5 April and the new update is not here yet, I guess that’s a good idea.
re: #335 Sufficient unto the day…
Especially that lit 🔥 cross in the front yard Erick. That shines pretty bright there dude.
re: #324 Rightwingconspirator
As to who we haven’t heard of hydroxyquinine, from what I’ve understood from tests here in Sweden, they’ve seen some effects in mild CoViD-19 cases, but they’ve yanked the plug on further trials because of side effects dangerous enough for them to have difficulties justifying continuing, and in some cases even producing resuts opposite to those expected.
And you know shit is getting real when you have a a convention center converted into a field hospital, and another field hospital erected next to another.
And being told to prepare mentally for the restrictions to remain in place until the last of December.
Erick Erickson, for someone who claims to despise socialism, you sure do love being publicly owned
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 5, 2020
re: #350 Teukka
As to who we haven’t heard of hydroxyquinine, from what I’ve understood from tests here in Sweden, they’ve seen some effects in mild CoViD-19 cases, but they’ve yanked the plug on further trials because of side effects dangerous enough for them to have difficulties justifying continuing, and in some cases even producing resuts opposite to those expected.
That was Trump’s last hope of turning this mess around in his favor.
When your humans are isolating, but you’ve got to have those Dreamies… pic.twitter.com/crcm2aUnaA
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 5, 2020
re: #340 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I think the author is completely missing the point.
Trump survived the Russia investigation because Robert Muller, the Republican who ran it, refused to call Trump’s corruption what it was. He basically said “Yeah, he’s probably guilty of something, but whaddya want me to do about it?”
Because Republicans protect Republicans no matter how corrupt.
Trump survived impeachment because the GOP controls the Senate and they circled the wagons. They’ve got a death grip on power and they’ve shown that they do not give two shits about the rule of law or the Constitution.
Because Republicans protect Republicans no matter how corrupt.
He most likely will get re-elected despite completely fucking up the COVID-19 response, because the MAGAts and the idiot independents will make excuses why so many preventable death were not his fault.
Sorry, I’m just sick of seeing articles like this. They ascribe some sort of political genius to Trump that he just doesn’t possess. His only real skill was assessing how racist and stupid your average Republican can be, and played up to every worst instinct in their bodies.
It’s stuff like this from his alleged enemies in Post, CNN, and NYT that inadvertently feeds this idea that he’s a political savant. He’s not. He’s a fucking racist monster that is being protected at all costs by one of the major political parties in the US.
It’s crazy that this quote is from *the pollster* https://t.co/ccFwiOyYMU
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 5, 2020
Erick Erickson (overheard at a rally): Unless you light up the cross, you’re not making a statement, amirite?
re: #333 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They’re cute, but from what I heard, they are stinky as all hell.
I can confirm that.
re: #354 Mattand
It’s stuff like this from his alleged enemies in Post, CNN, and NYT that inadvertently feeds this idea that he’s a political savant. He’s not. He’s a fucking racist monster that is being protected at all costs by one of the major political parties in the US.
He will not fall unless things get so bad that enough members of his own party start to turn on him.
I remember seeing a short clip of a guy on a boat going down a river in Indonesia when suddenly an orangutan jumped out of a tree and into the boat and got right in the guy’s face. He turned to the camera and said “that’s the foulest smelling thing I’ve ever encountered.” And then he climbed back into the tree.
re: #359 Mattand
Looks carp-ish to me. Someone flushed a goldfish?
re: #362 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Looks carp-ish to me. Someone flushed a goldfish?
Maybe. Not a lot of fish in this branch of the creek. Although I did see a snapping turtle in it once.
re: #361 Barefoot Grin
I remember seeing a short clip of a guy on a boat going down a river in Indonesia when suddenly an orangutan jumped out of a tree and into the boat and get right in the guy’s face. He turned to the camera and said “that’s the foulest smelling thing I’ve ever encountered.” And then he climbed back into the tree.
Dr. Zauis’s practical joker ancestor.
re: #359 Mattand
And now that I’ve brought the room down, anyone know what kind of fish this is? Washed up in a branch of the Cooper River, which eventually empties into the Delaware. I’m assuming that’s how he got to my neck of the woods.
It’s got this weird round mouth up front. About a foot in length.
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Probably a sucker of some sort.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #359 Mattand
And now that I’ve brought the room down, anyone know what kind of fish this is? Washed up in a branch of the Cooper River, which eventually empties into the Delaware. I’m assuming that’s how he got to my neck of the woods.
It’s got this weird round mouth up front. About a foot in length.
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It’s a White Sucker
re: #359 Mattand
They’re common fresh water suckers. en.wikipedia.org
How am I just finding out about this now? pic.twitter.com/kOOWqRyQkN
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) April 5, 2020
Q: When you go in public going forward, will you be wearing a mask?
Biden: “Yes. Look, I think it’s important to follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you … He may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of the matter is that, follow the science.” pic.twitter.com/tE1cKhpngU— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 5, 2020
WATCH: @GovInslee says on #MTP it is “ludicrous that we do not have a national effort” against the coronavirus.
Gov. Inslee: “To say we are a backup … can you imagine if Franklin Roosevelt said, ‘I’ll be right behind you Connecticut; good luck building those battleships’?” pic.twitter.com/BHqI3YkYxd— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) April 5, 2020
Porn Hub gives young people an unrealistic and unhealthy idea of how quickly a plumber will come to your house.
— Carleen Ceraldi (@ceraldi_carleen) April 5, 2020
Now Wunderground has a COVID map.
When you post your blazing hot grandpa during Quarantine pic.twitter.com/Er3VckEzJV
— Buttigieg, Buttijury, Butticutioner (@ValarMorDollars) April 5, 2020
re: #375 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That is a good one.
re: #375 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
yes, already forwarded to dog-loving friends
re: #365 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Probably a sucker of some sort.
en.wikipedia.org
Very common: I’ve heard there’s one born every minute.
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
What’s the over/under on the survival rate of that pile of horseshit right there?
re: #352 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was Trump’s last hope of turning this mess around in his favor.
Trump’s last hope of not doing the hard work and hoping instead a hail Mary would turn this mess…
re: #379 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
All you have to do is dress those two in Eagles Green and they will be perfect “boo boids.”
re: #354 Mattand
I think the author is completely missing the point.
Trump survived the Russia investigation because Robert Muller, the Republican who ran it, refused to call Trump’s corruption what it was. He basically said “Yeah, he’s probably guilty of something, but whaddya want me to do about it?”
Because Republicans protect Republicans no matter how corrupt.
Trump survived impeachment because the GOP controls the Senate and they circled the wagons. They’ve got a death grip on power and they’ve shown that they do not give two shits about the rule of law or the Constitution.
Because Republicans protect Republicans no matter how corrupt.
He most likely will get re-elected despite completely fucking up the COVID-19 response, because the MAGAts and the idiot independents will make excuses why so many preventable death were not his fault.
Sorry, I’m just sick of seeing articles like this. They ascribe some sort of political genius to Trump that he just doesn’t possess. His only real skill was assessing how racist and stupid your average Republican can be, and played up to every worst instinct in their bodies.
It’s stuff like this from his alleged enemies in Post, CNN, and NYT that inadvertently feeds this idea that he’s a political savant. He’s not. He’s a fucking racist monster that is being protected at all costs by one of the major political parties in the US.
+100
The GOP is a fucking death cult now.
The goalposts are moving so fast pic.twitter.com/A9GEJZHseV
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) April 5, 2020
Liz is 93 yet she is still better at giving a speech than Trump.
re: #385 Ace-o-aces
The GOP is a fucking death cult now.
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By contrast, wingnuts to this day are still obsessed with the deaths of 4 Americans in a town they’d never heard of before 2012.
re: #387 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Liz actually made me feel a little bit better. From across the pond thank you.
re: #389 PhillyPretzel
Not only can she speak in complete sentences, but she can read a teleprompter without getting lost.
re: #385 Ace-o-aces
I swear, someone needs to make these fucks go sit in a hospital morgue and not leave for 24 hours. If there’s nothing to be afraid of and the whole thing is a fraud, it should be a cakewalk, right?
The GOP could be described as a death cult from the time they opposed FDR’s and Truman’s attempts at getting health care more widely available.
But the GOP really became a death cult when the Christian fundamentalists decided to take it over, to make it a tool for implementing theocracy.
Even if you did care about winning the news cycle *today* for some reason, it’s a pretty bad one for Trump. Lots of straight news stories are saying he and the White House effed up. Cherry-picked examples aside, there is *not* a lot of both-sidesing. https://t.co/Nj3fJWkXAG
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2020
Important subtext: The absolutely horrid US COVID-19 infection & death curves are directly attributable to Trump modeling the worst goddamned kind of personal behavior.
We are all living the predictable endgame of having a US President who is the antithesis of a role model— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 5, 2020
That’s over a 3% infection rate, higher than NYC. Yeah, sure, ‘only’ 155.
— Brian P. McKeon (@bpmckeon64) April 5, 2020
re: #395 Dread Pirate
Another candidate for Sit Your Ass In The Morgue for a Day. Since it’s not a big deal and no number of dead seems to be enough.
First of all, no, nobody ever said that.
Second of all, at peak, we will be loosing about 3000 people a day. That’s more deaths than 9/11, every day, for 2-4 weeks. If you thinks that’s a good job by Trump, I’d hate to see your version of failure.— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 5, 2020
re: #385 Ace-o-aces
The GOP is a fucking death cult now.
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In this pandemic “die-hard” is taking on a whole new meaning. https://t.co/bph7IHoqyo
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 5, 2020
re: #398 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Oy Vey. It is people like this who are going to say DT was the best president ever even though they may die from it.
re: #397 Ace-o-aces
Bill, and especially his followers, don’t understand “area under the curve”.
Remember: Every GOP Rep and every GOP Senator but Romney voted for this path. They had a chance to hold the president accountable for misconduct and mismanagement and chose to protect him, rather than the country. https://t.co/FfxBIrYsh6
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 5, 2020
re: #389 PhillyPretzel
Liz actually made me feel a little bit better. From across the pond thank you.
Do you think she would take the colonies back if we asked real nice?
re: #402 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Hmm. I do not think too many people would like that. I personally would not mind it.
re: #400 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Bill, and especially his followers, don’t understand “area under the curve”.
INTEGRATION!
Ah bachelor cuisine…
A baking dish, egg noodles, corn, generic spam (from food pantry) and mushroom soup. Something of a comfort dish for me and enough leftovers for a couple of days. Boiled the pasta, mixed it together & popped it into a 350 oven to be done in a half hour from now.
Nom. :)
re: #391 A Mom Anon
I swear, someone needs to make these fucks go sit in a hospital morgue and not leave for 24 hours. If there’s nothing to be afraid of and the whole thing is a fraud, it should be a cakewalk, right?
That might not work. Many morgues are already full, and a live camera stream of “See! Nothing Happening Here” may not send the intended message. The rows of refrigeration trucks parked outside would be a different story.
re: #400 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Bill, and especially his followers, don’t understand “area under the curve”.
As a serious aside, it is times like this that makes me wish first year calculus was a high school requirement. I do believe it would help if more people actually understood the math involved here.
re: #407 unproven innocence
Hey, I’m all for giving them a blankie and setting their asses in one of those trucks too. Maybe they can help with the paperwork while they’re sitting there being assholes.
re: #403 PhillyPretzel
Hmm. I do not think too many people would like that. I personally would not mind it.
Wait a sec… Boris Johnson ya know… Not really trading up at the moment. :-)
re: #406 William Lewis
Ah bachelor cuisine…
A baking dish, egg noodles, corn, generic spam (from food pantry) and mushroom soup. Something of a comfort dish for me and enough leftovers for a couple of days. Boiled the pasta, mixed it together & popped it into a 350 oven to be done in a half hour from now.
Nom. :)
Always good to see the leader of the free world describe a virus as “tough and smart.” Everything is fine, people. https://t.co/qzPIwCxGJx
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 5, 2020
re: #387 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Liz is 93 yet she is still better at giving a speech than Trump.
and he is still a moron with no sense of self-awareness
A great & wonderful woman! https://t.co/6ivEcwk12Z
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2020
*THUD*
I will be having a White House CoronaVirus Task Force meeting in a short while. May or may not do a News Conference after the meeting, depending on new information. Talks & meetings today are proving promising, but a rough two weeks are coming up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2020
We are learning much about the Invisible Enemy. It is tough and smart, but we are tougher and smarter!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 5, 2020
re: #201 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Mrs dm wants the job of presidential slapper.
Every lie he starts to utter…..slap!!
Slap slap slap.
How long would it take him to stop lying? Probably he wouldn’t.Imagine this:
Trump: “I”. Slap!!
Trump: ” the”. Slap slap!!!
Trump: “my” wappo slappo!If he never stops lying she would sacrifice herself for us and never stop slapping
Melanie is the presidential slapper.
(That position must be filled though. Find another title. Thwack checker?)
re: #412 Rightwingconspirator
Wait a sec… Boris Johnson ya know… Not really trading up at the moment. :-)
Even Boris would be an improvement. Plus we would have our own parliament and Governor General, not Boris. Pelosi would be PM.
re: #412 Rightwingconspirator
Petition for a vote of no confidence. That might help.
re: #400 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Bill, and especially his followers, don’t understand “area under the curve”.
that’s calculus…much too difficult to understand…
Electron microscope gives us first high resolution image of initial virus before it mutated to killer status.
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Thank you, Navy CPT Larry Seaquist, for speaking out. Who’s next? Every voice of truth helps. #VoiceOfTruth. https://t.co/CR92yRVGcG
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) April 5, 2020
re: #423 Backwoods_Sleuth
Very well done Capt Seaquist.
re: #422 Mescalero09
Electron microscope gives us first high resolution image of initial virus before it mutated to killer status.
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re: #425 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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I just went outside in a mask and three people who were one foot apart from one another walked past and one yelled “Don’t be so paranoid!” and I yelled “Don’t be a fucking idiot!” Human contact like that is so important right now.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) April 4, 2020
The #QAnon people are going to take this tweet and run with it. https://t.co/M3T999Nid9
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 5, 2020
The Virus has no intelligence. It just is.
trump is a fucking moron.
re: #397 Ace-o-aces
When it comes to Trump, it’ll only be when Bill is himself infected.
re: #429 I Would Prefer Not To
The Virus has no intelligence. It just is.
trump is a fucking moron.
Who also has no intelligence.
So I had a callback this afternoon from Northwell Health re my Coronavirus test (not the “week” I was told, but just about 24 hours) - and YAY! it was negative.
I thought I’d feel relieved to find out, but I’m still uneasy over the whole thing. Though obviously, it could be worse…
re: #429 I Would Prefer Not To
The Virus has no intelligence. It just is.
trump is a fucking moron.
Which makes the virus smarter than trump.
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