Brad Mehldau performs the C Major Prelude from Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and an improvised response live in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie de Paris on April 2, 2018.
Brad Mehldau’s album ‘After Bach’ is available at https://smarturl.it/AfterBach
“Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.” https://t.co/XlLZr2gMZz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2020
Link to most recent excel:
drive.google.com
Overall, a lot of good signs. Doublings (whatever you believe in the testing, it has at least increased) are increasing everywhere. IT & Germany seem to be progressing well. Hopefully, US keeps on trend to see 10+ day doublings in another week.
re: #1 Patricia Kayden
Anthony Fauci must want to blow up and resign over all of this bullshit, but at the same time he’s too horrified about what would happen if he’s not in the room. The books that are going to come out after Trump is removed from office….
These fucking MAGA cultists. I’m so done with their shit.
Democrat rep from Michigan just said hydoxycloroquin saved her life. Almost didn’t get it because the Democrat Governor banned it because she hates the President. Playing politics with our lives is unethical and I hope whoever died because this their families sue her.
— Murphy (@murphycharlie78) April 7, 2020
re: #4 Charles Johnson
These fucking MAGA cultists. I’m so done with their shit.
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Governors can’t ban drugs.
There should be a litany or criminal indictments waiting on him the day he leaves office. Profiteering off a pandemic that threatens to kill tens of thousands of Americans. Slimy bastard.
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) April 7, 2020
Replying to the tweet earlier from our esteemed host:
Wondering what might happen if America wakes up, turns off Dancing With The Stars, and gets mad about what the Republican Party is doing to the country.
I know it’s probably not gonna happen. But what if?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2020
Wouldn’t this require the news to actually cover the depth of how badly the GOP is behaving? People won’t wake up if our great arbiters of truth remain dedicated to Bothsiderism with the ‘Dems are still worse’ corollary.
It would only take half a dozen Republicans with integrity to bring this malignant clown down
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) April 7, 2020
That’s just how comprehensively corrupt the party is.
Shipmates & families - These are interesting and unprecedented times - are they not? I very much hope that you and your clan have been successfully enduring the pandemic challenges - Read on for your @RoyalCanNavy ongoing #COVIDー19 updates https://t.co/d6avh44lv8 pic.twitter.com/iSoIk2FDgp
— VAdm/Vam Art McDonald (@Comd_RCN) April 1, 2020
Is there anything, just fucking anything or anybody that Trump has not shit on?
No?
Thought so.
Thanks.
MORE: “There is no impact to Comfort’s mission, and this will not affect the ability for Comfort to receive patients,” according to the Navy statement.
“The crew member had no contact with patients,” the statement said. https://t.co/8SB7dQviKh— ABC News (@ABC) April 7, 2020
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Someone should ask this liar about specifics and links to back up her outrageous claims. What Democrat was saved by this unauthorized drug? When did the Democratic Governor ban it? I find that these idiots wither under scrutiny.
Since mid-January, the @DeptofDefense has worked to combat #COVID19 and issued Force Protection Guidance on 31JAN.
Your military is ahead of the curve. #facts > #rumorshttps://t.co/bQ7seHXLMh
https://t.co/TwB2ejOeCv
He’s as full of shit as the Secretary of the Navy.
re: #13 Dread Pirate
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He’s as full of shit as the Secretary of the Navy.
So, what you’re saying is that you and the rest of the administration, including the President, didn’t even listen to the military.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 7, 2020
After what the five whores did on the Supreme Court today The Democrats have no choice but to pack the court. Expand it from 9 to 15.
re: #15 Joe Bacon 🌹
After what the five whores did on the Supreme Court today The Democrats have no choice but to pack the court. Expand it from 9 to 15.
I would like to think that they have the political will to do so…..
And 1500 at another. They are also getting ready to start our second field hospital at a conference center. https://t.co/7FsMNzQTrW
— Crissy T (@cristinaldt) April 7, 2020
re: #12 Patricia Kayden
Someone should ask this liar about specifics and links to back up her outrageous claims. What Democrat was saved by this unauthorized drug? When did the Democratic Governor ban it? I find that these idiots wither under scrutiny.
Governors can’t ban drugs. They just can’t. It’s not among their powers.
RBG: “The Court’s order, I fear, will result in massive disenfranchisement. A voter cannot deliver for postmarking a ballot she has not received. Yet tens of thousands of voters who timely requested ballots are unlikely to receive them by April 7, the Court’s postmark deadline.”
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) April 6, 2020
re: #19 jaunte
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FUCK THE FIVE WHORES ON THE COURT!
The Court MUST be expanded from 9 to 15.
re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹
As I posted above.
FUCK THE FIVE WHORES ON THE COURT!
The Court MUST be expanded from 9 to 15.
We need to elect a Democratic President and Senate first. Then a serious investigation of Kavanaugh’s financial history by a Democratic AG would likely be enough to persuade him to leave the court; that’s all that is needed. We will then have the majority and can proceed from there.
re: #3 stpaulbear
That’s the point. Trump is pushing this voodoo shit knowing that eventually Fauci will quit or say something “out of line” and get whacked.
re: #23 Ace Rothstein
That’s the point. Trump is pushing this voodoo shit knowing that eventually Fauci will quit or say something “out of line” and get whacked.
He’s pushing it, so for the rest of his life he can claim, without evidence, if we only listened to him we would have been OK.
re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter
We need to elect a Democratic President and Senate first. Then a serious investigation of Kavanaugh’s financial history by a Democratic AG would likely be enough to persuade him to leave the court; that’s all that is needed. We will then have the majority and can proceed from there.
He will not leave. Even if Kavanaugh is convicted of tax evasion the parasites Trump and McConnell put on the bench will overturn the sentence.
The only remedy is to get the Senate, Kill the filibuster and 60 vote threshold and expand the court from 9 to 15 and pack it with six young women so Pulpit Pimps can’t force their garbage religion down our throats.
What does @mitchellvii think exponential means? pic.twitter.com/gpFbpbrOy6
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 7, 2020
re: #19 jaunte
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What’s alarming about this piece, besides the trash headline, is the fact that he and his inner circle have a financial stake in promoting the drug isn’t treated as the centerpiece of the story. https://t.co/LCRTZt2W2Z
— Kaitlin Byrd: Apocalypse Diarist (@GothamGirlBlue) April 7, 2020
You have no shame https://t.co/0mamav135m
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) April 7, 2020
re: #25 Joe Bacon 🌹
The only remedy is to get the Senate, Kill the filibuster and 60 vote threshold and expand the court from 9 to 15 and pack it with six young women so Pulpit Pimps can’t force their garbage religion down our throats.
Because Democrats will be in power forever and this can’t possibly every backfire?
NEW: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin just put up this guide to where to find curbside voting & absentee ballot dropoffs in your city. Can you RT this far & wide? https://t.co/XBROvUVHfA
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 7, 2020
re: #29 jaunte
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NEW: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin just put up this guide to where to find curbside voting & absentee ballot dropoffs in your city. Can you RT this far & wide? https://t.co/XBROvUVHfA
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) April 7, 2020
re: #30 sagehen
Because Democrats will be in power forever and this can’t possibly every backfire?
We have no choice.
re: #12 Patricia Kayden
Someone should ask this liar about specifics and links to back up her outrageous claims. What Democrat was saved by this unauthorized drug? When did the Democratic Governor ban it? I find that these idiots wither under scrutiny.
Think these are the stories being referred to. One an anecdote the other a miscommunication.
Beyond tomorrow’s election—for which this decision is terrible—this is the key holding. The US Supreme Court, perhapsw unintentionally, just endorsed a post marked by Election Day standard (rather than received by). This will enfranchise thousands of voters in November. https://t.co/b6YPJ6R4Bd
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 6, 2020
Navy Stretching Out Investigation Into Carrier Roosevelt CO’s Letter; Trump Says He’s ‘Going to Get Involved’ - USNI Newshttps://t.co/V04Zjvz8Wc pic.twitter.com/K0DX73IzFl
— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) April 6, 2020
Video released by the Venezuelan Navy shows them shooting at the RCGS Resolute cruise ship then it shows the Resolute impacting the side of the GC-23 Naiguata and it shows severe damage to the Naiguata #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/ciI15v6SDt
— CNW (@ConflictsW) April 4, 2020
re: #38 Dread Pirate
No wound he can’t irritate further.
Holy shit this image is literally my life. https://t.co/Okp8YySqay
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) April 7, 2020
re: #38 Dread Pirate
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So what you’re saying is that he’s going to find a way to charge Cmdr. Crozier with treason.
re: #38 Dread Pirate
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I think this is the most likely take:
@realDonaldTrump WAS INVOLVED - HE WANTED CROZIER GONE. But remember what I’m predicting here: @POTUS WILL FIRE @SECNAV TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE HE HAS CLEAN HANDS. He might even give Crozier back his ship. REMEMBER WHAT I SAID HERE.
— Seeker (@PiawacketPlays) April 7, 2020
From the previous thread:
re: #486 jaunte
If this is true, then a civil libertarian organisation like the ACLU needs to jump in with a court injunction to stop conservative experiments on humans.
And Abbot need to go up for that genocide trial too.
We need to deGOP the country like the Nazis after WW2.
re: #43 Belafon
And Modly can be cut loose without complications since he has already said his remarks made on board had not been cleared in advance by Esper or the Trump Administration.
From downstairs:
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
hey, Teo!
Maybe this is why we allow the FDA to actually test drugs for safety and efficacy instead of listening to a reality TV host play doctor. https://t.co/RBeBtKGGZt
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 6, 2020
And the apologists are out in full force in the Twitter thread.
It took a lot of time - but I did a deep dive to get to bottom of this. https://t.co/EiXqqIgpiT
— Leslie Mac (@LeslieMac) April 6, 2020
re: #4 Charles Johnson
Which “Democrat” representative? The imaginary one in her head?
re: #46 Teukka
From downstairs:
And the apologists are out in full force in the Twitter thread.
Let me guess, the possible “benefits” are worth the risk, this is just Sweden trying to undermine Trump, socialism = bad, etc?
re: #49 Targetpractice
Let me guess, the possible “benefits” are worth the risk, this is just Sweden trying to undermine Trump, socialism = bad, etc?
Trying to paint Swedish docs as incompetent, when from what I’ve heard, they’ve been trying to replicate Didier Raoult’s results, and AFAICT, using the dosages Didier has claimed to be using.
Yeah, I’ve read up on it since it became widely known Didier Raoult’s study is nowhere near up to snuff.
A good explainer for us mere mortals why prolonged QT give medical professionals the jitters: https://t.co/x3iPGSSjZ2— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 7, 2020
How is a fake cheesesteak sandwich better at this than the president and a large number of elected officials? https://t.co/XLqNp4BcKP https://t.co/2Dosw45XxV
— It’s a party, Jonathan! (@naima) April 7, 2020
re: #51 goddamnedfrank
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re: #43 Belafon
I think this is the most likely take:
I think the take most likely is Trump wants to entirely destroy Captain Crozier’s career.
Crozier committed the unforgivable sin: He made Trump look bad (whether he released that letter to the press or not).
The one thing you can depend on is Trump always seeks revenge. He’s like a revenant.
re: #50 Teukka
Trying to paint Swedish docs as incompetent, when from what I’ve heard, they’ve been trying to replicate Didier Raoult’s results, and AFAICT, using the dosages Didier has claimed to be using.
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Yeah, I’m reading it now, and I shouldn’t be surprised that they’re trying to argue the same shit that Donny is, which is that it’s considered “safe” by the FDA and the possible side-effects have been known for ages, so why would it be dangerous to test it against COVID-19 or even just letting people try it on themselves.
Yes, it is safe…for the uses the FDA has approved! It’s like saying that since your lawnmower is viewed as safe for mowing normal laws, it should be perfectly safe being used to trim trees.
re: #54 Targetpractice
That analogy would be a good one to respond to conservative douchecanoes on Twitter with.
“A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers” https://t.co/ccL1cmEoJ5
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) April 5, 2020
Firmer confirmation Gov. Gregg Abbot is a Nazi experimenting on people.
The headline is trash as it doesn’t match either the article nor the interview.
Gov. Abbott says patients there are being given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which was being touted by President Trump as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
“As of today, about 30 patients are being tested with the hydroxychloroquine to determine whether it will be a successful treatment for the patients,” said Gov. Abbott. “They are in the second day of this testing regimen that will last several more days. We look forward to updating you as the week progresses about how this drug is aiding or not these patients.”
(more)
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I think the take most likely is Trump wants to entirely destroy Captain Crozier’s career.
Crozier committed the unforgivable sin: He made Trump look bad (whether he released that letter to the press or not).
The one thing you can depend on is Trump always seeks revenge. He’s like a revenant.
Crozier’s career is already over. He rose as far as he could on merit and time-served, to get that first start would require Modly as Acting SecNav and the Joint Chiefs as a whole to pass the recommendation on to Trump, who then would have to pass it to the Senate for a majority vote. There’s no way in Hell that Modly would ever recommend Crozier if he wanted to taking that “Acting” off his resume. Assuming Crozier is allowed to continue serving, he’s never going to command a ship again. He’ll likely serve out the remainder of his 30 years in some posting at the ass-end of Nowhere, then quietly retire from the service with his pension and benefits.
As for the investigation, the purpose of it is pretty clear: Keep Crozier quiet until after the election or until they can find an excuse to shit-can him, whichever comes first. Last thing Modly wants is Crozier to put in his papers, and then walk from the Pentagon immediately to the media to tell his side of the story absent worry of a court martial. Which really says to me that they know he didn’t “leak” the letter, that someone in his chain of command did, and so now they’re looking to justify all the shit they’ve already said about him.
re: #58 Targetpractice
I don’t mean that he won’t ever get advanced to rear admiral. That isn’t happening.
I mean the goal is to either force him out early (recall suspending the FBI director just before he could retire) or actually find some way to courts-martial him and jail him, or strip him of his rank as well as his command.
Anyone wanna go halfsies?
Just checking out the 72lb wheel o’ parm avail on Costco, as one does pic.twitter.com/PFWKTNrifU
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 7, 2020
Can’t remember a service secretary handling something this badly since…five months ago, when the last Navy Secretary bumbled his way through controversy. https://t.co/FkiPgZTE99
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 7, 2020
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Which “Democrat” representative? The imaginary one in her head?
Michigan Rep. Karen Whitsett is real, but also just another anecdote.
Got an E-mail from Sen. Deb Fischer.
It was a warning about tax scams, but she says there have been reports from the Panhandle area that people are going around door-to-door saying they’re from the IRS trying to collect “underpayments” or “fines.”
(I presume they’re going round door-to-door because some enterprising scammer knows that you can’t scam the majority of people here over the Internet, because no Internet.)
re: #61 Dread Pirate
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re: #61 Dread Pirate
And even in his so-called apology, hours after he doubled down and said he meant what he said, he’s still trying to shift the blame to Capt. Crozier.
re: #62 danarchy
Michigan Rep. Karen Whitsett is real, but also just another anecdote.
Thanks for that. She’s newly elected to the Michigan House from District 9 with over 95% of the vote.
She says she needs to give credit where credit is due. I’m not sure why she comes by that.
As you note it’s just an anecdote, and the plural of that isn’t data.
I’m off to watch more “Dark Shadows.” Catch y’all later.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡
And even in his so-called apology, hours after he doubled down and said he meant what he said, he’s still trying to shift the blame to Capt. Crozier.
And remember that according the GOP it’s the Democrats who don’t respect military service.
//
Mylan’s CEO is the daughter of Sen. Joe Manchin. (D-Republican Party)
Mylan is ramping up production of the drug Trump is hawking like snake oil. 🧐 https://t.co/4kc7T9YzaC— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) April 7, 2020
re: #60 goddamnedfrank
Just checking out the 72lb wheel o’ parm avail on Costco, as one does
I saw one of those at a kitchen fest. They scooped out an indentation in the middle, tossed the warm gnocchi into it and stirred it around before serving
Former FDA Commissioner @ScottGottliebMD tells @AndrewRSorkin what many have suspected: School is over for this year, summer camps probably will be closed, and large gatherings in the fall are unlikely. https://t.co/y1N2zOM6OL
— Willie Geist (@WillieGeist) April 6, 2020
I’m sorry, but the US military does not operate like the Riddler from Batman comics. They don’t drop “clues” for random assholes to decipher.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 7, 2020
No, top secret military operations do not plant “clues” for your entertainment. They’re the military, not the Sunday crossword puzzle.
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 7, 2020
re: #71 Dread Pirate
So Trump won’t be able to hold rallies before the election.
Oh god, he screwed himself! pic.twitter.com/0NDXeZSVjY— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 7, 2020
re: #71 Dread Pirate
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb MD tells Andrew R Sorkin what many have suspected: School is over for this year, summer camps probably will be closed, and large gatherings in the fall are unlikely
Tourist season on the Middle Rhine is shot. I even got a booking for August, but I find that almost too optimistic.
I am hoping things might come back in September/October at the earliest, not the cruise ships full of US & UK retirees, but in the form of “locals” (from neighboring metropolitan areas of Frankfurt and Cologne) who don’t want to risk flying to distant locations.
Peter Navarro preparing to restart the economy pic.twitter.com/mADoxbaHhf
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) April 7, 2020
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was looking at our local school district. They are going to finish this year late online and next year will probably start online in the fall, too.
BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana just released COVID-19 data which shows that African-Americans account for 70% of ALL DEATHS in the state.
African-Americans makes up roughly 32% of the population. #COVID19— Elizabeth Thomas (@lizzkatherine_) April 6, 2020
re: #77 Dread Pirate
BREAKING NEWS: Louisiana just released COVID-19 data which shows that African-Americans account for 70% of ALL DEATHS in the state.
African-Americans makes up roughly 32% of the population.
Every Governor who fought Medicaid expansion under ACA needs to be taken out.
re: #77 Dread Pirate
Note that a great many of Louisiana’s deaths are in the New Orleans area, and about 60% of New Orleans report as African American.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Every Governor who fought Medicaid expansion under ACA needs to be taken out.
Before Obamacare I had a blood pressure of 200/120. one doctor visit and a cheap prescription later I’m at 130/85. When I became disabled and lost my job, continuing on Cobra health coverage cost $2400 a month, eating up my savings quickly. Now I pay $50 a month for my family to live healthy. Fuck Republicans.
re: #81 Dread Pirate
Before Obamacare I had a blood pressure of 200/120. one doctor visit and a cheap prescription later I’m at 130/85. When I became disabled and lost my job, continuing on Cobra health coverage cost $2400 a month, eating up my savings quickly. Now I pay $50 a month for my family to live healthy. Fuck Republicans.
and it is exactly the case that people with pre-existing conditions are more susceptible to Covid…and the poor & uninsured cannot afford even the most basic treatment.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡
there have been reports from the Panhandle area that people are going around door-to-door saying they’re from the IRS trying to collect “underpayments” or “fines.”
A crime that is likely to include it’s own punishment. Door-to-door!
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tourist season on the Middle Rhine is shot. I even got a booking for August, but I find that almost too optimistic.
I am hoping things might come back in September/October at the earliest, not the cruise ships full of US & UK retirees, but in the form of “locals” (from neighboring metropolitan areas of Frankfurt and Cologne) who don’t want to risk flying to distant locations.
Maybe we’ll see a little spike in domestic tourism - the Czech government is mulling over a program to increase domestic tourism within the ČR to help out the ailing tourist/hospitality sector, which has pretty much collapsed, hitting some of the UNESCO cities here particularly hard (they’re big international tourist attractions)
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
Maybe we’ll see a little spike in domestic tourism - the Czech government is mulling over a program to increase domestic tourism within the ČR to help out the ailing tourist/hospitality sector, which has pretty much collapsed, hitting some of the UNESCO cities here particularly hard (they’re big international tourist attractions)
Jeez, imagine being able to see from one end of the Karlův most to the other without throngs of people in the way
Fuck the majority of BreadTube through both ears with one device.
Apropos of very little if NOT nothing, why do we still refer to “PLAUSIBLE deniability” even once a dog whistle starts turning into a civil-defence siren? https://t.co/NUW3GWFepO
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) April 7, 2020
On a brighter note, not sure if it showed up in threads yesterday, but one of the liberal-to-left types who has rejected the full BreadTube label updated yesterday: has everyone seen the new Alt-Right Playbook yet?
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jeez, imagine being able to see from one end of the Karlův most to the other without throngs of people in the way
Prague’s effectively a ghost town now. One of my students was there last week on business and he said the last time he’d seen it that quiet was in the early 1980s, during the Communist era. Must be weird to see; I didn’t arrive here until 2001 and back then, Prague was bustling all year round with tourists from all over Europe and the rest of the world.
If this were Mastermind, there’d be one peg indicating a correct digit, with none for a correct place. This is *1929*, not 2008, and there was absolutely nothing that could prevent that other than having a non-contact economy BEFORE the coronavirus jumped to humans. https://t.co/qlspmyHGKu
— (((Chrysi Cat))) [no, Karen is STILL my sister!] (@chrysicat) April 7, 2020
Just to clarify:
1) The day before he fired Crozier, he insisted to reporters that he wouldn’t be fired.
2) Then he fired him.
3) Then he dumped all over Crozier, and insisted he stood by every word he said.
4) Now, he regrets many of the words he said about Crozier— Bay Brat (@Bayl3rat) April 7, 2020
re: #90 Targetpractice
Just to clarify:
1) The day before he fired Crozier, he insisted to reporters that he wouldn’t be fired.
2) Then he fired him.
3) Then he dumped all over Crozier, and insisted he stood by every word he said.
4) Now, he regrets many of the words he said about Crozier
Now we know why Trump hired him: he is eminently qualified to serve in his administration…
Running theory is that Donny is gonna try to play “hero” by having Modly “resign” and then reinstating Crozier.
re: #92 Targetpractice
Running theory is that Donny is gonna try to play “hero” by having Modly “resign” and then reinstating Crozier.
Not going to happen Capt. Crozier embarrassed him and will stay fired. Modly has also now embarrassed him and will also be fired (asked to resign). His non-apology was only the first step.
Homemade Masks https://t.co/cMid6kMAeO https://t.co/VW3jIzOjZa pic.twitter.com/Wa2pfTSCZs
— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) April 7, 2020
re:
Is it OK to go for a drive if I don’t get out of the car?
It is better to stay home. Stay off the roads unless necessary.
Reduce the load. Pressure by example everyone to stay home.
Even if just joy riding, you could have a car wreck or other problem requiring interaction with others or first responders.
Stay home if you are able to
“Just stay home”
what a fucking concept.
Get out for exercise, that is a good thing, walk, jog in your vicinity.
Get out to shop for necessities, but only when needed and as infrequently as possible/practical.
I combine the two by walking to the nearest supermarket once a week.
Of course, I have the advantage of living in a scenic tourist region to start with.
Just realized this. Not only is Modly acting Secretary, he’s also acting undersecretary as well. These guys are such a shit show.
re: #98 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Just realized this. Not only is Modly acting Secretary, he’s also acting undersecretary as well. These guys are such a shit show.
so he will get fired and replaced by a guy who likes to build model boats and sail them in his bathtub?
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the Trump administration.
…he’ll be replaced by a country club guy who’s stern with his yacht crew.
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so he will get fired and replaced by a guy who likes to build model boats and sail them in his bathtub?
That, or it will be another job to add to Jared’s portfolio.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡
I’m off to watch more “Dark Shadows.” Catch y’all later.
About Dark Shadows, I tried watching it a few years ago on a 50” TV and the image was so fuzzy and dark I could barely make out the scenes.
Is there a better copy available? Where are people watching it?
re: #54 Targetpractice
Yeah, I’m reading it now, and I shouldn’t be surprised that they’re trying to argue the same shit that Donny is, which is that it’s considered “safe” by the FDA and the possible side-effects have been known for ages, so why would it be dangerous to test it against COVID-19 or even just letting people try it on themselves.
Yes, it is safe…for the uses the FDA has approved! It’s like saying that since your lawnmower is viewed as safe for mowing normal laws, it should be perfectly safe being used to trim
treesYOUR HAIR.
I’d like some people to do just that.
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so he will get fired and replaced by a guy who likes to build model boats and sail them in his bathtub?
Probably but it was more an comment of the executive branch being filled with acting secretaries under Trump because he recycles these bullshit people.
re: #101 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That, or it will be another job to add to Jared’s portfolio.
Jared knows a lot about boats.//
re: #102 Ming5000
About Dark Shadows, I tried watching it a few years ago on a 50” TV and the image was so fuzzy and dark I could barely make out the scenes.
Is there a better copy available? Where are people watching it?
Fifty-inch television might be part of the problem, since the show was originally put on video tape or kinescope for televisions of the Sixties and Seventies with regular NTSC resolution.
What we’re watching it on is from the 138-DVD set my wife bought for Valentine’s Day, on a computer with a 20” diagonal screen.
We’re only part-way through season two (so still in black-and-white), up to the part where Barnabas Collins is preparing to marry Maggie Evans then turn her into a vampire, whilst the town is searching for her. The secondary plot is Jason McGuire trying to force Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard into marriage by threatening to expose her over her murder of her husband Paul eighteen years prior.
re: #57 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Firmer confirmation Gov. Gregg Abbot is a Nazi experimenting on people.
This is not how drug trials should be conducted. Nazi is correct. Let’s watch the stick person die from complications from taking chloroquine.
re: #101 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
That, or it will be another job to add to Jared’s portfolio.
Ivanka, first female Secretary of the Navy.
If North Carolina stops social distancing at the end of April — as Trump and administration officials have pushed for — there could be 750,000 state residents infected by June, said state health officials.https://t.co/FnuPObVuXR
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) April 7, 2020
Stand by for outrage from the Bros.
Civil rights icon and Democratic Rep. John Lewis is endorsing Joe Biden, promising to campaign for the former vice president and saying that “we need his leadership now more than ever before.”https://t.co/W72Hjv4nFt
— Justin Hendrix | wash your hands & stay at home (@justinhendrix) April 7, 2020
re: #107 Colère Tueur de Lapin
This is not how drug trials should be conducted. Nazi is correct. Let’s watch the stick person die from complications from taking chloroquine.
We’ll never know about that. It’s not like these people will keep Nazi kernel records… They’ll just perform Nazi level experiments.
re: #89 Chrysicat
Dimon had his heart surgery last month, and even without COVID-19 his odds of a full recovery are dicey - add COVID-19 in the picture and his risk factors are insanely hihg,
re: #102 Ming5000
About Dark Shadows, I tried watching it a few years ago on a 50” TV and the image was so fuzzy and dark I could barely make out the scenes.
Is there a better copy available? Where are people watching it?
I recall watching it on a 1963 model RCA Vista color TV with a rounded screen
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Stand by for outrage from the Bros.
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He was never going to endorse Bernie anyhow. Anyhow I hope Rep Lewis is doing well. I imagine he’s particularly vulnerable to Covid due to his cancer and age.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Stand by for outrage from the Bros.
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After all, black people are totally mindless, easily lead fools too stupid to understand they’re on the evil Democratic Plantation tools of the Nefarious DNC.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We’ll never know about that. It’s not like these people will keep Nazi kernel records… They’ll just perform Nazi level experiments.
Good point.
I just unleashed my letter to the editor pen and fired off a letter to the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald. It’s been about a month since they published their obligatory once-a-month letter from a liberal, let’s see if they print it.
This whole area is chock full of veterans, and I have no doubt that FOX is going to spin this as hard as they can to make Captain Crozier look like the bad guy here, so someone needs to bring a truthful viewpoint to my area. I guess that job falls on me.
With my seventeen years in the Navy, Acting SecNav Modly gave the most unhinged disgusting display I ever heard from a civilian leader to a command.
In the military you sort of expect civilian politicians to crap on you occasionally; it’s sort of par for the course.
But an unhinged rant attacking freedom of the press (something all military personnel affirm or swear to defend as part of the Constitution), a presidential candidate (which would be a violation of the UCMJ if a sailor did it), whinging about how badly the Acting Secretary was being treated back in Washington while your commanding officer was doing his duty to protect his command and save your lives; all of that was the most shameful display I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
This will not just resonate amongst the officers and crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Those men and women have husbands and wives, children and parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles and friends and neighbours, all of whom will remember just which CinC it was who hired him to assuage his Jupiter-sized ego.
They will remember who saved the lives of their family members and friends.
And every other command across all the Armed Services will know that they could be next for Trump’s wrath, along with their family and friends.
Veteran social media is absolutely livid.
If there is a better way for the GOP to lose the support of just about every active duty person, reservist, or veteran, I can’t think of one.
This colossal machine is called the SLJ900/32, or the Segmental Bridge Launching Machine and it’s building bridges across China https://t.co/PLpcTP8kCJ pic.twitter.com/DrLMcbLBRr
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 7, 2020
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall watching it on a 1963 model RCA Vista color TV with a rounded screen
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That’s “Get Smart” on the screen. We have that on DVD too. (I feel old now.)
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Which “Democrat” representative? The imaginary one in her head?
happy to note that even twitter apparently decided this was full robotroll. tweet is unavailable.
re: #11 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The Comfort is now going to be taking covid19 patients from both NY and NJ as of this morning, according to NJ Channel 12.
Greets and saluts and Fuck Trump.
Hands down the best brand account on Twitter for many reasons but also this reason https://t.co/oqSS7jW7aZ
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) April 7, 2020
re: #124 lawhawk
So boxes of sliced beef are smarter than many humans. Like we didn’t know that….
////snark, sort of….
re: #93 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not going to happen Capt. Crozier embarrassed him and will stay fired. Modly has also now embarrassed him and will also be fired (asked to resign). His non-apology was only the first step.
A lot of folks don’t know that the first thing they tell you to do when they appoint you to a position is to write up a resignation letter to be kept on file.
Unfuckingbelievable.
1. The coronavirus is still spreading rapidly in the US
More than 1,000 Americans are dying each day.
But @PetSmart JUST REOPENED ITS DOG GROOMING SALONS
I obtained the internal guidance for Petsmart staff.
And it’s breathtaking.https://t.co/SuR2BhZyb5— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 7, 2020
Here’s a look at 1 of 5 polling sites in Milwaukee. Typically the city has 180 locations open. https://t.co/ZgLMXe4piy
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 7, 2020
This is the GOP playbook for all future elections, suppress the vote in Democratic strongholds as much as they can. This is an absolute disgrace.
Conservatives have been forcing people to risk their lives to vote since the days of Jim Crow. https://t.co/mrqNmzj7Uj
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 7, 2020
re: #127 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s of a piece with CVS and Walgreens not making their stores curbside pickup or drivethru only. They’re putting people who are sick into close quarters and likely to infect staff. It’s up to individual stores to take action, and many aren’t. Pharmacists and employees working at these stores are fucking pissed, because if they get sick who does that critical job?
All these businesses are putting their fucking profits over public health and safety. Of course, the notion that business must go on comes from Trump, despite the fact that this prolongs the carnage and makes it more likely to see huge death tolls.
re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡
Stand by for outrage from the Bros.
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I saw that betting markets are now giving Clinton and Cuomo better odds of being the nominee than Sanders, on the off chance Biden contracts the virus I guess.
re: #128 teleskiguy
This is an outrage, and it’s all on the GOP. This is a callous indifference to human life. Fuck the GOP.
Polls open in minutes. Here’s a look at the line in Waukesha, the city’s only polling location pic.twitter.com/Uqg08gannt
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) April 7, 2020
re: #131 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I saw that betting markets are now giving Clinton and Cuomo better odds of being the nominee than Sanders, on the off chance Biden contracts the virus I guess.
Cuomo. Ok sure. How about Newsome who took early action? Don’t get me wrong, I congratulate Cuomo for what he’s doing, but it just reinforces, to me, how bad American leadership is right now.
re: #130 lawhawk
That’s of a piece with CVS and Walgreens not making their stores curbside pickup or drivethru only. They’re putting people who are sick into close quarters and likely to infect staff. It’s up to individual stores to take action, and many aren’t. Pharmacists and employees working at these stores are fucking pissed, because if they get sick who does that critical job?
All these businesses are putting their fucking profits over public health and safety. Of course, the notion that business must go on comes from Trump, despite the fact that this prolongs the carnage and makes it more likely to see huge death tolls.
I’m not sure how curbside would work with my CVS since I swear that 50% of the customers ahead of me to pick up prescriptions pre-pandemic wanted to spend five minutes arguing with the clerk about the prescription being filled wrong, having the wrong amount of pills, costing too much and/or had a hand basket of stuff to be cashed out at the same time.
Last couple of times I’ve been it to pick up a refill I’ve been the only person there to pick up, and they are maintaining distancing and wearing masks.
Also, CVS does do refills by mail as well, though I have not signed up for that yet.
Boxes of sliced beef could also learn some punctuation and capitalization. Just saying.
As a layman.
Just stop right there. Because we’ve had actual doctors treating patients with RA and lupus with HCQ and found that they’re getting sick and dying just like everyone else with covid19.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 7, 2020
re: #132 teleskiguy
Election officials are furious about this. They say it’s both voter suppression and a dangerous disregard for safety by asking people to risk their lives to vote in a pandemic when it easily could have been delayed. https://t.co/JLc0qOjAzr
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) April 7, 2020
This is infuriating me to no end. The GOP are evil scumbags.
re: #137 teleskiguy
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This is infuriating me to no end. The GOP are evil scumbags.
But you don’t understand. There were emails. There was nothing incriminating in them, but there were emails. The existence of emails is disqualifying.
re: #136 lawhawk
Do you have any links to that? It would be super useful with some local stupids.
Your dumbassery and the sheer incompentence of Trumpworld coupled with the GOP covering for Trump daily is why we’ve got +10,000 dead and the economic wreckage from Trump’s poor handling of the crisis.
It may have originated in China, but Trump made it his own.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 7, 2020
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re: #139 NetworkKed
I’d check out this timeline:
HCQ “works” oversimplification Options pre-exposure postexposure prophylaxis, early active treatment, or sick patients. May/may not benefit all, some, or none options. For example, PrEP effect size of 30% incident cases 50/100 to 30/100 properly sized RCT still not a panacea
— Lupus Doctor (@LupusMD) April 7, 2020
The international alliance was formed to “help guide rheumatology clinicians in assessing and treating patients with rheumatologic disease.” The alliance — which is supported by the Lupus Foundation of America, Lupus Research Alliance and the American College of Rheumatology — has called on clinicians to report “all cases of COVID-19 in rheumatology patients, including those with mild or no symptoms.”
As of April 2, the group had information on 110 validated patients: 36% with rheumatoid arthritis, 17% with psoriatic arthritis and 17% with systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, an autoimmune disease.
“One frequently asked question: over 25% of patients who developed a COVID-19 were on HCQ at the time of diagnosis,” the group said in a tweet thread on April 2, referring to hydroxychloroquine.
“Based on early data currently available in our registry, we are not able to report any evidence of a protective effect from hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19,” the group said in an April 4 tweet.
re: #128 teleskiguy
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This is the GOP playbook for all future elections, suppress the vote in Democratic strongholds as much as they can. This is an absolute disgrace.
Well I see two three things in that pic. One is people willing to vote. two they are performing social distancing and three, they all appear to be wearing masks. If it was the GOPs plan to suppress the vote (and it is/was) it looks like it is failing miserably by the responsible voter turnout..
So, for those at home, here’s a little nugget from 1971. Hopefully, it’s not geoblocked for you.
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re: #143 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well I see two three things in that pic. One is people willing to vote. two they are performing social distancing and three, they all appear to be wearing masks. If it was the GOPs plan to suppress the vote (and it is/was) it looks like it is failing miserably by the responsible voter turnout..
Though as someone pointed out there are a lot fewer polling stations than normal in places. So there are some of the standard suppression tactics already in place and being used.
And I’m not holding my breath waiting for Lindsey & Co. to say anything about the profiteering and insider trading stock manipulation that has come out of this virus either.
Maybe they should be taxed 100% of their profits.
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re: #132 teleskiguy
This is an outrage, and it’s all on the GOP. This is a callous indifference to human life. Fuck the GOP.
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These people on the other hand, not so much. SMDH.
re: #143 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well I see two three things in that pic. One is people willing to vote. two they are performing social distancing and three, they all appear to be wearing masks. If it was the GOPs plan to suppress the vote (and it is/was) it looks like it is failing miserably by the responsible voter turnout..
We’ll see. Remember the vast majority of polls are closed, so even long lines could represent a fraction of what the turnout could’ve been. And SCOTUS yesterday threw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots, doing it’s part to suppress the vote. My wife has asthma, so if I were in Wisconsin I would not risk her life to vote, which is what these psychopathic motherfuckers are counting on.
Got a DYI mask to use for my supply run tomorrow. And found a package of gloves in the basement that I had gotten a while back to use when I was finishing a wooden IKEA furniture piece. Now putting together the purchase list and hopefully I’ll find everything available. I modified the list to make sure I will have ingredients to make some pasta sauce, chile, and maybe a batch of bean soup as well. (Got plenty of dried legumes on hand; peas, lentils, and multiple kinds of beans.)
Fascinating thread.
Omg I have CHILLS. This is an ANIMAL. I’m guessing it’s over a hundred feet long, forming a spiral in the middle of the deep sea. I’ve gone on numerous expeditions and have never, EVER, seen anything like this. Let me tell you what this is and why it is blowing my mind [a thread] https://t.co/6SoWmfxsJH
— Open Ocean Exploration (@RebeccaRHelm) April 6, 2020
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡
That’s “Get Smart” on the screen. We have that on DVD too. (I feel old now.)
I enjoyed that show as a kid as well…have not bothered with the remake.
re: #147 NO SMOCKING GUN!
We’ll see. Remember the vast majority of polls are closed, so even long lines could represent a fraction of what the turnout could’ve been. And SCOTUS yesterday threw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots, doing it’s part to suppress the vote. My wife has asthma, so if I were in Wisconsin I would not risk her life to vote, which is what these psychopathic motherfuckers are counting on.
True. And sadly, probably the only reason that Idaho has moved so quickly to implement vote by mail for the May primary is that it’s so deeeeeeep red, that refusing to do so would hurt the GOP more than it would the DNC.
re: #143 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Well I see two three things in that pic. One is people willing to vote. two they are performing social distancing and three, they all appear to be wearing masks. If it was the GOPs plan to suppress the vote (and it is/was) it looks like it is failing miserably by the responsible voter turnout..
In one video. In another they were somewhat distant but I saw next to no masks.
re: #149 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
en.wikipedia.org is one of the varieties, and one name for it in New Zealand apparently is “long stringy stingy thingy”.
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In one video. In another they were somewhat distant but I saw next to no masks.
As I noted in my #146.
This brings up an interesting point. Are open PAWN shops essential? Someone needing money may think so.
ICYMI: Two London pawn shops have been fined $750 each for violating the COVID-19 rules. https://t.co/9402SqTvFe
— 980 CFPL London News (@AM980News) April 7, 2020
freaking autocorrect.
Milwaukeean here. I will be headed off to vote soon, and report when I get back.
I am absolutely furious about this. The rules have been changing about every 12 hours for the last week. Every time I think that I’m just going to skip this election because it’s too risky, I remember that is EXACTLY what the WI GOP want me to do.
Fuck them. Mask on-I’m going to vote.
Despite making up just 13 per cent of the UK population, a third of patients who fall critically ill with COVID-19 are from black, Asian or minority ethnic (BME) groups.https://t.co/SlImR2qBo8
— Dr Kailash Chand OBE (@KailashChandOBE) April 6, 2020
“In late January, President Trump’s economic adviser Peter Navarro warned his White House colleagues the novel coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and cost close to $6 trillion, according to memos obtained by Axios.” https://t.co/0Q0W88iZBV
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) April 7, 2020
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That video is from Waukesha, a slightly less-red spot in a deep red ring county around Milwaukee. No masks and no social distancing is not terribly surprising.
David Frum: “That the pandemic occurred is not Trump’s fault. The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. The loss of stockpiled respirators to breakage because the federal government let maintenance contracts lapse in 2018 is Trump’s fault. The failure to store sufficient protective medical gear in the national arsenal is Trump’s fault. That states are bidding against other states for equipment, paying many multiples of the precrisis price for ventilators, is Trump’s fault. Air travelers summoned home and forced to stand for hours in dense airport crowds alongside infected people? That was Trump’s fault too. Ten weeks of insisting that the coronavirus is a harmless flu that would miraculously go away on its own? Trump’s fault again. The refusal of red-state governors to act promptly, the failure to close Florida and Gulf Coast beaches until late March? That fault is more widely shared, but again, responsibility rests with Trump: He could have stopped it, and he did not.”
“The lying about the coronavirus by hosts on Fox News and conservative talk radio is Trump’s fault: They did it to protect him. The false hope of instant cures and nonexistent vaccines is Trump’s fault, because he told those lies to cover up his failure to act in time. The severity of the economic crisis is Trump’s fault; things would have been less bad if he had acted faster instead of sending out his chief economic adviser and his son Eric to assure Americans that the first stock-market dips were buying opportunities. The firing of a Navy captain for speaking truthfully about the virus’s threat to his crew? Trump’s fault. The fact that so many key government jobs were either empty or filled by mediocrities? Trump’s fault. The insertion of Trump’s arrogant and incompetent son-in-law as commander in chief of the national medical supply chain? Trump’s fault.”
“For three years, Trump has blathered and bluffed and bullied his way through an office for which he is utterly inadequate. But sooner or later, every president must face a supreme test, a test that cannot be evaded by blather and bluff and bullying. That test has overwhelmed Trump
Trump allowed a massacre to happen. https://t.co/KaUE9t4vsf
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 7, 2020
re: #156 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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freaking autocorrect.
You could say that about any job too though.
re: #58 Targetpractice
Which really says to me that they know he didn’t “leak” the letter, that someone in his chain of command did,
One thing that stands out to me, is that the acting Secretary asked Crozier to contact him by telephone if he had concerns that weren’t being addressed in his chain of command.
I’m pretty sure the sequence of events were something like:
1) Crozier reports concerns through chain of command.
2) Acting Secretary either orders or has standing orders in place for navy to not listen to those concerns.
3) Acting Secretary offers to talk to Crozier by phone.
4) Crozier documents his disagreement with his orders through his chain of command.
5) Someone between Crozier and the acting secretary leaks the letter.
The Trumpists were trying to cover up that the valid concerns that Crozier had, and had asked him to use an non-official communications channel in order that is concerns could be take out of his chain of command, and so that they wouldn’t be documented.
And that’s the thing they didn’t want other people in the military to do, start letting people know exactly how bad the Trump regime is fucking up.
As for the investigation, the purpose of it is pretty clear: Keep Crozier quiet until after the election or until they can find an excuse to shit-can him, whichever comes first.
I agree with that. Is he allowed to resign his commission if he wanted to?
Does anyone happen to know how many ‘levels’ there would be between the Acting Secretary and Commander Crozier? I’m guessing it can’t be that many.
As a former White House reporter, I don’t say this lightly: Media should ignore the Trump follies, abandon the WH briefing room, and interview governors, doctors, nurses, victims and anybody else approaching the truth.
Stop being props.
Just stop.— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) April 7, 2020
re: #149 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is the content I want and need. Amazing.
re: #25 Joe Bacon 🌹
He will not leave. Even if Kavanaugh is convicted of tax evasion the parasites Trump and McConnell put on the bench will overturn the sentence.
The only remedy is to get the Senate, Kill the filibuster and 60 vote threshold and expand the court from 9 to 15 and pack it with three young women of color and three gay young men so Pulpit Pimps can’t force their garbage religion down our throats.
Fox News is the #1 cable network, Sinclair is the #1 provider of local TV news, and Rush Limbaugh is the most popular radio show in America (Hannity #2) yet there’s a convention of talking about Trump and “the media” as if none of this is media.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 7, 2020
re: #160 Done Ben Wrote
That video is from Waukesha, a slightly less-red spot in a deep red ring county around Milwaukee. No masks and no social distancing is not terribly surprising.
No masks and not social distancing is the new red hat.
re: #157 Done Ben Wrote
Milwaukeean here. I will be headed off to vote soon, and report when I get back.
I am absolutely furious about this. The rules have been changing about every 12 hours for the last week. Every time I think that I’m just going to skip this election because it’s too risky, I remember that is EXACTLY what the WI GOP want me to do.
Fuck them. Mask on-I’m going to vote.
Stay safe and thank you for doing this.
re: #163 danarchy
You could say that about any job too though.
What is it you do? Sorry, I don’t recall.
Global pandemic forcing mass shut-down now joins “storm surge overtopping New Orleans levies” and “earthquake/tsunami causing nuclear reactor meltdown” as “unforseen” catastrophes that I absolutely sat through insurance conference presentations on circa 2003.
— R.J. Lehmann (@raylehmann) April 5, 2020
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Every Governor who fought Medicaid expansion under ACA needs to be taken out.
Didn’t Louisiana accept Medicaid expansion? They have had a Democratic governor since 2015.
re: #168 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The Truth: Wake Up Sleepers; Hospital Worker Admits The Virus Is A Lie.
With a “if viruses can exist outside a host for five days, why doesn’t everyone in the world have AIDS?” BOOM
See, you Sheeple? Huh, huh?
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You know, I am just about at the point I expect the aliens to appear and say, “The virus was a test. Based on it we have decided that your species is too stupid to be allowed to live and potentially threaten intelligent live elsewhere in the galaxy.”
After which they obliterate us in some ironic way. (Perhaps saving a few examples for their zoo to serve as a bad example.)
BREAKING: Stephanie Grisham out as West Wing press secretary without having held a briefing https://t.co/CRDIUylAON pic.twitter.com/Vea5WJhlZ6
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 7, 2020
re: #176 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Steph, we hardly knew ye.
re: #177 Decatur Deb
Steph, we hardly knew ye.
Guess it was a good gig while she had it given that she was paid for doing what? Writing memos to let OANN into pressers despite rules saying it wasn’t their turn to attend?
re: #72 Ace-o-aces
Wait.. so that’s not what Q team have been doing since October 28, 2017? 👏🏽🤦🏽♂️
— RGT (@eyendeye) April 7, 2020
Who wants to tell him that “Q” is a bunch of random assholes from the depths of the Internet who have nothing to do with any actual military.
re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What is it you do? Sorry, I don’t recall.
I’m a network engineer, not sure what that has to do with anything though.
re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Guess it was a good gig while she had it given that she was paid for doing what? Writing memos to let OANN into pressers despite rules saying it wasn’t their turn to attend?
Apparently didn’t do that with satisfactory elan.
The Milwaukee voters I’m talking to are preparing to wait for about 5 hours. Remember, the city went from 180 polling locations to 5
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) April 7, 2020
re: #47 Belafon
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re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I enjoyed that show as a kid as well…have not bothered with the remake.
Have you seen this AmeriTrade advert? It’s an extremely good reconstruction of the original Get Smart intro.
re: #180 danarchy
I’m a network engineer, not sure what that has to do with anything though.
You said your job could be considered essential. I didn’t know what you did which is why I asked.
And I suppose it could be depending on who you do it for.
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You said your job could be considered essential. I didn’t know what you did which is why I asked.
And I suppose it could be depending on who you do it for.
I never said my job was essential. I said the argument that pawn shops could be considered essential because people need money could be applied to any job.
re: #186 danarchy
Sorry I misunderstood.
re: #170 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
No masks and not social distancing is the new red hat.
Literally dying to own the libs.
re: #173 Belafon
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— R.J. Lehmann (@raylehmann) April 6, 2020
re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Guess it was a good gig while she had it given that she was paid for doing what? Writing memos to let OANN into pressers despite rules saying it wasn’t their turn to attend?
Appearing on Fox News.
re: #190 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Cherry picking results
Howzzzat work?
Just like everything else in the conservative wing:
1. Bible verses
2. Anecdotes
3. Quotes by political opponents
4. Quotes by political candidates
etc. etc.
re: #164 Danack
One thing that stands out to me, is that the acting Secretary asked Crozier to contact him by telephone if he had concerns that weren’t being addressed in his chain of command.
I’m pretty sure the sequence of events were something like:
1) Crozier reports concerns through chain of command.
2) Acting Secretary either orders or has standing orders in place for navy to not listen to those concerns.
3) Acting Secretary offers to talk to Crozier by phone.
4) Crozier documents his disagreement with his orders through his chain of command.
5) Someone between Crozier and the acting secretary leaks the letter.The Trumpists were trying to cover up that the valid concerns that Crozier had, and had asked him to use an non-official communications channel in order that is concerns could be take out of his chain of command, and so that they wouldn’t be documented.
And that’s the thing they didn’t want other people in the military to do, start letting people know exactly how bad the Trump regime is fucking up.
I agree with that. Is he allowed to resign his commission if he wanted to?
Does anyone happen to know how many ‘levels’ there would be between the Acting Secretary and Commander Crozier? I’m guessing it can’t be that many.
This whole thing would have been forgotten by now if the admin just let it go.
They doubled down
Then modly added the stupid
And here we are
Modly under the bus by week’s end
re: #194 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
This whole thing would have been forgotten by now if the admin just let it go.
They doubled down
Then modly added the stupid
And here we areModly under the bus by week’s end
This is one I could support Drive then Reverse then D, R, D, etc.
re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You know, I am just about at the point I expect the aliens to appear and say, “The virus was a test. Based on it we have decided that your species is too stupid to be allowed to live and potentially threaten intelligent live elsewhere in the galaxy.”
After which they obliterate us in some ironic way. (Perhaps saving a few examples for their zoo to serve as a bad example.)
Alt ending
No obliteration
They just shake their multi heads and leave us to ourselves
re: #196 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Alt ending
No obliteration
They just shake their multi heads and leave us to ourselves
“Miracle cure stored at Area 51!”
re: #197 Belafon
“Miracle cure stored at Area 51!”
Caller east of the Rockies?
Oh, good morning all!
re: #196 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Alt ending
No obliteration
They just shake their multi heads and leave us to ourselves
After burning “DNR” into the Antarctic rainforest.
re: #98 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Just realized this. Not only is Modly acting Secretary, he’s also acting undersecretary as well. These guys are such a shit show.
Modly is the undersecretary of the Navy, not the acting undersecretary. He was confirmed for the position. Per Wiki, he is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Georgetown University, and Harvard Business School. He served on active duty in the United States Navy as a helicopter pilot and spent seven years as a U.S. Navy officer. So, not a terrible resume for an undersecretary.
IMHO, Trump was, on a personal level, ready for this pandemic in one significant way. He is definitely NOT vitamin-D deficient, whereas MOST people in this modern world ARE, including most Americans, but ESPECIALLY the elderly, shut-ins, the disabled, people with darker skins, and people whose budgets are so tight that inexpensive vitamins are never even considered in their shopping lists. And I’m flabbergasted that this seems to get near-zero attention/emphasis by much of the world’s most reputable health professionals.
Cudos to Dr Seheult and Dr John Campbell for acknowleging and drawing attention to the importance of vitamin D in our immune systems.
re: #122 steve_davis
happy to note that even twitter apparently decided this was full robotroll. tweet is unavailable.
Afraid not.
It’s just one of those circumstances where you can’t get to it directly; I loaded Charles’s tweet and that response was still there though you had to click “additional responses” to reveal it.
Not sure if you can click on it once it’s displaying within Twitter to add nasty responses or not; also not sure whether it’d be advisable even if you can, though.
This two will surely make your day better 😄💕💕
pic.twitter.com/fiTy7yPw9x— Akki (@akkitwts) April 7, 2020
re: #196 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
Alt ending
No obliteration
They just shake their multi heads and leave us to ourselves
While insuring Earth coordinates are locked out on all known Star Gates.
New Zealand has its own Andy Beshear, Ashley Bloomfield. slate.com
Repost this thread the next time you see some MAGA-hat wearing moron tweet that we are overreacting to this virus. https://t.co/gsHTPbiMH0
— ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) April 7, 2020
A typical hospital morgue might hold 15 bodies. Those are now all full. So OCME has sent out 80 refrigerated trailers to hospitals around the city. Each trailer can hold 100 bodies. These are now mostly full too. Some hospitals have had to add a 2nd or even a 3rd trailer. 3/
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
It’s not just deaths in hospitals which are up. On an average day before this crisis there were 20-25 deaths at home in NYC. Now in the midst of this pandemic the number is 200-215. *Every day*. 5/
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic. 7/
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
Soon we’ll start “temporary interment”. This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line.
It will be done in a dignified, orderly—and temporary—manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take. 9/— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
Thankfully the Dept. of Defense and the NY National Guard have already sent teams, and volunteer medical examiners have come from around the country. But we are going to need much more help if we’re going to avoid disaster. 11/
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
To recap: Nothing matters more in this crisis than saving the living. But we need to face the gruesome reality that we need more resources to manage our dead as well. Or the pain of this crisis will be compounded almost beyond comprehension. 13/13
— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) April 6, 2020
What a tragedy. https://t.co/vY1uwJiw00
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 7, 2020
I wake up to find out that BloJo is on oxygen and Stephanie Grisham is on her second case of vodka…
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham leaving post to become first lady’s chief of staff https://t.co/m3fivqUlDR pic.twitter.com/1zTFjLYsmq
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) April 7, 2020
Can WI state senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald and WI Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos be charged with felonies in the case of coronavirus upsurge due to the state holding the spring primary today. It is the legislature’s fault and not Gov Evers. Politics before lives. Games played.
re: #210 terraincognita
Can WI state senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald and WI Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos be charged with felonies in the case of coronavirus upsurge due to the state holding the spring primary today. It is the legislature’s fault and not Gov Evers. Politics before lives. Games played.
Afraid not.
re: #210 terraincognita
Can WI state senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald and WI Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos be charged with felonies in the case of coronavirus upsurge due to the state holding the spring primary today. It is the legislature’s fault and not Gov Evers. Politics before lives. Games played.
Nope.
Republicans are above the law.
re: #111 jeffreyw
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It’s a crazy world out there — better to stay in.
Grisham is the first major target of the Meadows era. They had clashed in last few days, per multiple WH officials > https://t.co/suW02zAxK4
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 7, 2020
So this means Trump is moving on to his fourth Press Secretary of his first term?
i do
re: #215 Dave In Austin
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— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 7, 2020
this twit?:
BOOM: @realDonaldTrump obliterates CNN ⬇️
“I want to keep the country calm.”
The coronavirus “will go away.”
“We’re going to have a great victory!”
“People don’t want to listen to CNN anymore…”pic.twitter.com/r5J4h5Lmj2— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 30, 2020
re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg
So this means Trump is moving on to his fourth Press Secretary of his first term?
having never held one press conference does grisham count?
re: #219 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
having never held one press conference does grisham count?
PSINO
moron
The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2020
re: #175 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You know, I am just about at the point I expect the aliens to appear and say, “The virus was a test. Based on it we have decided that your species is too stupid to be allowed to live and potentially threaten intelligent live elsewhere in the galaxy.”
After which they obliterate us in some ironic way. (Perhaps saving a few examples for their zoo to serve as a bad example.)
This.
They blow up our planet for an intergalactic highway. The story has already been documented.
re: #181 Decatur Deb
Apparently didn’t do that with satisfactory elan.
Didn’t I read that she is going to be melanoma’s new CoS?
re: #168 Colère Tueur de Lapin
The Truth: Wake Up Sleepers; Hospital Worker Admits The Virus Is A Lie.
With a “if viruses can exist outside a host for five days, why doesn’t everyone in the world have AIDS?” BOOM
See, you Sheeple? Huh, huh?
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Probably don’t even work in a hospital, all get the basic protocol to follow when using PPE.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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Always lashing out, always trashing other people, always making himself the hero.
No empathy, no compassion, no leadership.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
“Yes, I completely ignored the advice of everyone from the WHO to my own economic advisor about needing to respond to the coronacrisis, but it’s really all their fault for letting me stay on as president.”
It’s all about testing, testing, testing.
We have done more testing than any state in the nation, but we need to do even more.
Private companies: If you are interested in working with us to accelerate testing methods, call[no phone numbers allowed] or email covid19supplies@esd.ny.gov.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 7, 2020
re: #227 Eclectic Cyborg
re: #223 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Didn’t I read that she is going to be melanoma’s new Co’s?
Yes.
However, I Don’t Really Care, Do U?
The state of emergency in Czech Republic will end on 30 April. The Czech Parliament has refused to grant an extension until 11 May, 2020 as the government requested - they simply do not trust Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Even elements within his own ruling minority coalition refused to go longer than April 30th, saying they had “no intention to simply give the PM a blank check”.
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
moron
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HOW MANY AMERICANS (AND OTHERS) DID YOU LET FLY INTO THE STATES IN JAN AND FEB?
The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2020
re: #226 Eclectic Cyborg
Always lashing out, always trashing other people, always making himself the hero.
No empathy, no compassion, no leadership.
that italics part not so much
re: #223 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Didn’t I read that she is going to be melanoma’s new CoS?
oh, then we’ll def never hear from her again
Greetings from Israel, where we’re T minus 30 minutes to the national COVID-19 curfew…
Israel in lockdown for Passover holy days, confined to homes on Seder night
The whole of Israel will be on a strict lockdown for the first few days of the Passover holiday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday night, as part of the measures to fight the spread of coronavirus.
He also said that there would be a full curfew on Wednesday night, to deter people who may be tempted to visit family and friends during the Jewish festival.The prime minister said the nationwide lockdown would last from 4 pm Tuesday until 7 am Friday. The curfew will last from 6 pm Wednesday until 7 am Thursday,m during which time people would be confined to their homes.
Speaking a televised address, Netanyahu urged Israelis to adhere to the restrictions, which he said would be enforced by police. “It is important to protect your health and the health of your loved ones,” he said.
While virtually no one knew about them here a year ago, seems that most of tomorrow’s Passover seders in the country will be done via Zoom …
re: #29 jaunte
My Mom used to love Dr. Oz. Guess because he’s a doctor, good looking, well spoken and has a sense of humor. It’s disappointing to see that he’s nothing but a quack who is now jumping on the bandwagon to promote an untested drug. Huge sigh.
seen here is the nyt political desk responding to criticism from the left pic.twitter.com/gbF8PnEk8x
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 7, 2020
re: #228 Belafon
“Yes, I completely ignored the advice of everyone from the WHO to my own economic advisor about needing to respond to the coronacrisis, but it’s really all their fault for letting me stay on as president.”
there are perverse arguments to be made:
- it’s the senate’s fault for not convicting me
- it’s the cabinet’s fault for not using the 25th
- it’s the secret service’s fault for not pushing me down dozens of possible staircases
- ivanka could have easily poisoned me lots of times
.
.
.
re: #229 lawhawk
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where we’re at as a nation:
the governor begging, by tweet, for private companies to help
Christi Grimm is a career official, not an Obama appointee. She began at the IG’s office in 1999. She was there for 1+ years of Clinton, 8 years Bush, 8 years Obama, now 3 years Trump. The report on hospital shortages is based on interviews with administrators at 323 hospitals. pic.twitter.com/6I6vxisMjn
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 7, 2020
The RW/Fox narrative is now set in stone that leftists and elitist scientists are “blocking” the “miracle cure” because they will do anything, even let people die and wreck the economy, to make Trump look bad…
re: #238 jeffreyw
We catch a fox here and there with our camera array but I have no idea where they have their dens.
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The set of dens near my brother’s place has 3-4 entrances and is like a hotel in the winter (at least). The camera has spotted woodchucks, fox, and raccoons at a minimum all using them at the same time. There’s also a fisher living down that way as well since we have heard it, found tracks in the snow, and he has a couple of night photos of one.
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The RW/Fox narrative is now set in stone that leftists and elitist scientists are “blocking” the “miracle cure” because they will do anything, even let people die and wreck the economy, to make Trump look bad…
What proof is there that this is a miracle cure? I must be missing something but I have yet to hear about anyone being cured.
Not directing this question to you. Just wondering out loud.
i’ve watched this video maybe 300 times today pic.twitter.com/r1vjDFkOod
— Scott Hoying (@scotthoying) April 5, 2020
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
What proof is there that this is a miracle cure? I must be missing something but I have yet to hear about anyone being cured.
Well, Trump says so, so therefore it must be true….
(Snark, but unfortunately accurate for a disgracefully large number of of our fellow-citizens)
Then maybe we should have listened to our own scientists. pic.twitter.com/0dQ70dx1yT
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 7, 2020
re: #244 Patricia Kayden
What proof is there that this is a miracle cure? I must be missing something but I have yet to hear about anyone being cured.
Not directing this question to you. Just wondering out loud.
I know. But the point is that it is now a well-established talking point.
Had it worked, it would have been the Hail Mary of all Hail Mary plays, established Trump as a visionary, hero and savior of the nation and sent all those liberal elitist intellectual Deep State types scurrying back to their ivory towers to wither away in oblivion…
They have to cling to it because Trump cannot let it go: he knows he is fucked.
Why were you listening to the Chinese government then?
I mean, that seems like a failure on YOUR part. pic.twitter.com/PKwfAogWxG— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 7, 2020
you can stop hiding now stephanie pic.twitter.com/dba1U0zUP7
— darth™ (@darth) April 7, 2020
#Coronavirus: The PM is breathing without a ventilator and has not been diagnosed with pneumonia, Downing Street has said https://t.co/nGGL3TMZ3R
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) April 7, 2020
— 🦦Marie-Caroline🦥 (@NoWay7790) April 7, 2020
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even if not another American dies of covid19 after today, the death toll is on Trump and his incompetent and failed admin. They failed to heed the public health warnings in Jan, Feb, and March. They didn’t aggressively test, and we’re still not aggressively testing enough to get ahead of this.
But Trump wants to blame everyone else for his incompetence and dumbfuckery. Blame the WHO. The WHO had a working test. The CDC version initially gave screwed up results. That was time lost. Trump refused to use the WHO version. Time lost.
Trump then claimed this would disappear with warm weather. That we’d have this under control. 10,000+ deaths later and closing on 400,000 cases later, and they’re still lying their asses off.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I know. But the point is that it is now a well-established talking point.
Had it worked, it would have been the Hail Mary of all Hail Mary plays, established Trump as a visionary, hero and savior of the nation and sent all those liberal elitist intellectual Deep State types scurrying back to their ivory towers to wither away in oblivion…
They have to cling to it because Trump cannot let it go: he knows he is fucked.
Who would have thought that Trump would play the Jude Law character in Contagion?
Isn’t the actual claim from some early study that hydroxychloroquine, if administered at an early point in the disease, alleviates the symptoms and may prevent progression to a more serious stage?
Gotta be honest. Thank You Sean Penn.
latimes.com
As the need for COVID-19 testing grows, the city of Los Angeles received an unexpected boost from actor Sean Penn and his nonprofit organization, Community Organized Relief Effort. The group, known as CORE, has been working with L.A. officials to run operations at some coronavirus drive-through testing facilities.
“We are accustomed to working in foreign places supporting other communities,” Penn said in an emailed statement. “In this situation, every single one of us responding, including myself, are also experiencing the impact of this crisis in our own personal lives.”
According to Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Jeff Gorell, CORE’s efforts will allow more city and county residents to be tested while freeing up first responders, including firefighters, for other emergency services.
re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter
Who would have thought that Trump would play the Jude Law character in Contagion?
Isn’t the actual claim from some early study that hydroxychloroquine, if administered at an early point in the disease, alleviates the symptoms and may prevent progression to a more serious stage?
There is also a worry that as an immune suppressor, not what you want at the onset. If you get a cytokine storm, (damaging immune over response, damaging tissue) there are many drugs they can turn to.
re: #256 Rightwingconspirator
Governors, actors and sports team owners stepping up to do what the Federal Government won’t.
Strange times, indeed.
re: #254 lawhawk
Even if not another American dies of covid19 after today, the death toll is on Trump and his incompetent and failed admin. They failed to heed the public health warnings in Jan, Feb, and March. They didn’t aggressively test, and we’re still not aggressively testing enough to get ahead of this.
But Trump wants to blame everyone else for his incompetence and dumbfuckery. Blame the WHO. The WHO had a working test. The CDC version initially gave screwed up results. That was time lost. Trump refused to use the WHO version. Time lost.
Trump then claimed this would disappear with warm weather. That we’d have this under control. 10,000+ deaths later and closing on 400,000 cases later, and they’re still lying their asses off.
But Trump must be pure and infallible, for he is Donald Trump, the billionaire everyman supergenius that jiujitsus Dems against one another with deft populism and pure working man ideals. He can never be at fault by definition, everything else must have failed around him, especially science and Democrats.
Nah, Aqua Buddha protects his own.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) April 7, 2020
Speaking of…
I appreciate all the best wishes I have received. I have been retested and I am negative. I have started volunteering at a local hospital to assist those in my community who are in need of medical help, including Coronavirus patients. Together we will overcome this! pic.twitter.com/9SeypT7rL6
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 7, 2020
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
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He did all he could to dismiss it. Fucker. His shithead of a father too.
re: #218 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
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Yep—Kayleigh has been the perfect spokesmodel for the orange thing for quite some time. As I mentioned in 2018…
and 2017…
re: #71 Dread Pirate
Former FDA Commissioner @ScottGottliebMD tells @AndrewRSorkin what many have suspected: School is over for this year, summer camps probably will be closed, and large gatherings in the fall are unlikely.
A small non profit I belong to has a small convention each year, moved around the country. We have already cancelled it.
if only Trump put as much heart into stopping COVID-19 from killing people as he puts into stopping Inspectors General from uncovering wrongdoing https://t.co/t2aJuc6CXL
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 7, 2020
Maybe most of you have this link. But just in case you want to keep up on the science of COVID by way of legit studies try this one. WARNING. May co-purpose as an insomnia treatment. :-)
clinicaltrials.gov
re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg
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Does this mean that Rand Paul has had an epiphany and is now working to help real people, and not just corporations?
Never leave your phone near a Fox pic.twitter.com/S0XRInmsbn
— Reinaert (@PluizigeVos) April 5, 2020
re: #269 Hecuba’s daughter
Does this mean that Rand Paul has had an epiphany and is now working to help real people, and not just corporations?
Ha.
That’s a joke, right?
re: #267 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s purging people who
knowcare about the truth. Criminal asshole.
FTFY
— James Hickey (@JamesHickey_MHS) April 7, 2020
re: #239 I Don’t Take Responsibility At All (dangerman)
there are perverse arguments to be made:
- ivanka could have easily poisoned me lots of times
At this point she’d get a fukkin’ medal.
re: #269 Hecuba’s daughter
Does this mean that Rand Paul has had an epiphany and is now working to help real people, and not just corporations?
My guess is that he has mixed motives. On some level, he’s probably doing it because he is an actual doctor (though I don’t know how much an ophthalmologist can help). But I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s also doing it to counter the terrible press he got a couple weeks ago when he was an asshole about testing. But I’ll give him mild applause because he is trying to help in a real way, even though he’s probably still going to be a dick about the role the federal government should play in this.
re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That thing needs an episode of Thunderbirds.
Proof of what you can get when you have a REAL leader:
New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.
HAVELOCK NORTH, New Zealand — It has been less than two weeks since New Zealand imposed a coronavirus lockdown so strict that swimming at the beach and hunting in bushland were banned. They’re not essential activities, plus we have been told not to do anything that could divert emergency services’ resources.
People have been walking and biking strictly in their neighborhoods, lining up six feet apart outside grocery stores while waiting to go one-in-one-out, and joining swaths of the world in discovering the vagaries of home schooling.
It took only 10 days for signs that the approach here — “elimination” rather than the “containment” goal of the United States and other Western countries — is working.
Trump only wants people to believe Trump, which is why he’s undermining the veracity and authority of literally everyone who’s not Trump — the Mad King who’s lied to his own people 18,000+ times. https://t.co/T6j5eWJVzb
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 7, 2020
Fun fact about the WHO… while the US pays the most of any member, guess who is number two on the list?
That’s right… China.
Followed by Japan.
My Canadian cousin getting in on the action https://t.co/wl4ZcqdtHH
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 7, 2020
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders
Inside an old factory building north of Boise, a few dozen people gathered last week to hear from Ammon Bundy, the man who once led an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge.
The meeting, which appeared to violate orders by Gov. Brad Little of Idaho to avoid group gatherings, was an assertion of what Mr. Bundy said was a constitutional right to peacefully assemble. But Mr. Bundy said he also hoped to create a network of people ready to come to the aid of those facing closure of their businesses or other interference from the government as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“If it gets bad enough, and our rights are infringed upon enough, we can physically stand in defense in whatever way we need to,” Mr. Bundy told the meeting. “But we hope we don’t have to get there.”
Farther down:
While the state was one of the last in the country to identify a coronavirus case, it now has far more cases per capita than California. Blaine County, which includes the popular Sun Valley ski resort, now has the largest per capita concentration of coronavirus cases in the nation.
re: #278 William Lewis
Proof of what you can get when you have a REAL leader:
New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.
and a willing and cooperative public
Lre: #282 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders
Farther down:
OFFS can they go one fucking day without being whiny libertarian dickheads?
Lies. On 2/28/20 on the South Lawn I ASKED you about the W.H.O. telling us the risk for COVID19 had increased. You blew off the question to tell us about Your rally that night. You blew it. Not the W.H.O. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/DHhSgURGRt
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 7, 2020
re: #284 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
OFFS can they go one fucking day without being whiny libertarian dickheads?
It’s Idaho, the state with police chiefs that believe they supercede federal laws.
re: #286 Belafon
It’s Idaho, the state with police chiefs that believe they supercede federal laws.
True enough.
re: #235 Disloyal Archangel
Greetings from Israel, where we’re T minus 30 minutes to the national COVID-19 curfew…
Israel in lockdown for Passover holy days, confined to homes on Seder night
While virtually no one knew about them here a year ago, seems that most of tomorrow’s Passover seders in the country will be done via Zoom …
חג כשר שמח וסגור!
re: #137 teleskiguy
Katy Tur
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@KatyTurNBC
Election officials are furious about this. They say it’s both voter suppression and a dangerous disregard for safety by asking people to risk their lives to vote in a pandemic when it easily could have been delayed.
Wanna bet that at the end of the day republicans are going to say that people standing 6’ apart doesn’t constitute a line so they’ll close the polls?
I just spoke to a healthcare worker from Milwaukee, 34, who is 17 weeks pregnant, and has coronavirus.
She requested an absentee ballot a week ago. It never came.
She can’t go out in public without putting others in danger. Now, she can’t vote. https://t.co/zMmN2CmbF2— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) April 7, 2020
She tried calling the election commission late last night, but could only leave a voicemail. This morning, she heard back.
“They kind of said, yeah, that really sucks, hopefully you’ll have better luck with the next election.”https://t.co/zMmN2CmbF2— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) April 7, 2020
Epstein accuser awaiting test results, but just take a look at the comments — lots of quackery:
I’m so scared right now, having trouble breathing, fever & cough. Getting tested for Covid-19 praying it’s not positive 🙏 🦋 pic.twitter.com/GfAzxut82Q
— Virginia Giuffre (@VRSVirginia) April 7, 2020
re: #282 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders
Farther down:
Asshole needs to be arrested again. The stay at home order is Constitutional
re: #292 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Asshole needs to be arrested again. The stay at home order is Constitutional
Sovereign citizens gotta sovereign…
re: #284 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
OFFS can they go one fucking day without being whiny libertarian dickheads?
“But Mah FREEDUMB!!!11ty!!!”
re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sovereign citizens gotta
sovereignneedlessly endanger others…
FTFY
re: #286 Belafon
It’s Idaho, the state with
police chiefssheriff’s that believe they supercede federal laws.
Police Chiefs = Hired by city or town. Can be fired for cause.
Sheriff’s = Elected by the county residents. Can only be removed by a recall election.
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
I almost said some very explicit things about what I’d like to see happen but I remembered our hosts rules about such things. Imagine instead.
re: #296 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Police Chiefs = Hired by city or town. Can be fired for cause.
Sheriff’s = Elected by the county residents. Can only be removed by a recall election.
Thanks. I couldn’t remember exactly which one.
re: #284 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
L
OFFS can they go one fucking day without being whiny libertarian dickheads?
No.
No, they can’t.
re: #297 William Lewis
I almost said some very explicit things about what I’d like to see happen but I remembered our hosts rules about such things. Imagine instead.
If it’s an act of nature rather than human action, is that ok with our host?
I have some mining stocks you might be interested in. Huuuge deposits … in the far north. Gold, Chromium, you name it!
😉— Barry J. Cooke, m.sc., Ph.D (@barryjcooke1) April 7, 2020
Wasn’t there a movie about that?
— Rudy Ferraz ☝️🚗💰🚀🌏 (@rudyferraz) April 7, 2020
Thanks!
— phanindra is @ 🏠 (@ph4ni) April 7, 2020
re: #281 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lisa LaFlamme always had the best hair. I like her a lot.
re: #282 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders
Farther down:
GODDAMMIT. The wrong freaking people are getting this.
Texas, Ohio, and Alabama have all used the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to force abortion clinics to close, but they’re still allowing anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers to remain open. It’s not about preventing COVID-19; it’s about ending abortion. https://t.co/7iXbnR35zX
— Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) April 7, 2020
As a Karen can I officially set the record straight
Karen is not a slur
And if you don’t agree I need to speak to your manager— Karen Pollock MBACP (@CounsellingKaz) April 6, 2020
That’s true, the primary is over, nobody should be talking about Bernie at all. https://t.co/HNJZKhNNtN
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) April 7, 2020
As she often does, @SenWarren provides a cogent summary of how federal policymakers should be thinking about the pandemic in the coming months. https://t.co/zkX0E7ncK5
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 6, 2020
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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President Asshole’s Lonely Farts Club Band…
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 7, 2020
re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Rather than institute more social welfare measures, increasing our safety standards, and making us rethink how we treat the worst of us, it looks like all this crisis will manage to do is entrench the eternal conservatopia even further because fuck everything.
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
Like maybe…May the fleas of a thousand camels take up residence in their underwear?
re: #282 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
A ‘Liberty’ Rebellion in Idaho Threatens to Undermine Coronavirus Orders
Farther down:
Who’s gonna be the “Tarpman” of Covid-19?
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