New From Seth Meyers: Trump and Fox Try to Distract From Coronavirus With “Obamagate”

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Patricia Kayden  May 13, 2020 • 8:38:57pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 8:40:35pm

More proof of Orwell’s Law!

The Republican Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The Republican Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. They are not interested in the good of others; they are interested solely in power… . Power is not a means; it is an end … not power over things, but over men… . In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement… . There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Trump… . Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a colored person’s face forever.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 8:48:57pm
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austin_blue  May 13, 2020 • 8:53:19pm

A dear friend of ours is dying in Hot Springs in Arkansas. We need to be there, but we can’t. She has PLS, a flavor of ALS, but much rarer (peripheral).

She is taking last breaths as her body is shutting down. The neural breakers are being pulled. Nothing can be done.

We are dying a little death of our own. She is so dear. Her husband is so dear. So sad, so pointless.

We don’t need tots and pears, we need hugs, all of us, at Anne’s death, and they aren’t available right now for obvious reasons. We can’t meet to celebrate her life, her love, her sweetness.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 8:53:56pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

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But the Pressititutes at the $¢rew York Time$ will continue to push all of those allegations to keep Trump in the White House.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 8:54:41pm

re: #157 calochortus

They probably don’t want to wear a mask all day every day. I wouldn’t like doing that either. But I would do it.

Yup. I don’t want to give a clerk coronavirus if I come down with it, but I don’t want a clerk to give it to me either.

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calochortus  May 13, 2020 • 8:54:45pm

re: #4 austin_blue

A dear friend of ours is dying in Hot Springs in Arkansas. We need to be there, but we can’t. She has PLS, a flavor of ALS, but much rarer (peripheral).

She is taking last breaths as her body is shutting down. The neural breakers are being pulled. Nothing can be done.

We are dying a little death of our own. She is so dear. Her husband is so dear. So sad, so pointless.

We don’t need tots and pears, we need hugs, all of us, at Anne’s death, and they aren’t available right now for obvious reasons. We can’t meet to celebrate her life, her love, her sweetness.

I’m so sorry. {{{{{AustinBlue}}}}}

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retired cynic  May 13, 2020 • 8:55:12pm

re: #4 austin_blue

I am so sorry! Virtual hugs are on the way!

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Patricia Kayden  May 13, 2020 • 8:56:50pm

Vote Trump!! MAGA!

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Jebediah, RBG  May 13, 2020 • 8:57:38pm

re: #4 austin_blue

A dear friend of ours is dying in Hot Springs in Arkansas. We need to be there, but we can’t. She has PLS, a flavor of ALS, but much rarer (peripheral).

She is taking last breaths as her body is shutting down. The neural breakers are being pulled. Nothing can be done.

We are dying a little death of our own. She is so dear. Her husband is so dear. So sad, so pointless.

We don’t need tots and pears, we need hugs, all of us, at Anne’s death, and they aren’t available right now for obvious reasons. We can’t meet to celebrate her life, her love, her sweetness.

So sorry.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 8:57:42pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹

But the Pressititutes at the $¢rew York Time$ will continue to push all of those allegations to keep Trump in the White House.

I haven’t seen much from them on Tara Reade in recent days. Beyond the odd “optics” article/op-ed, they seem to have gone silent on the topic since the divorce trial transcript dropped and totally undermined the idea that she’d been telling the “rape” tale since ‘93.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 8:57:55pm

re: #4 austin_blue

I’m aware of PLS because I’ve handled disability claims involving that “cousin” of ALS. I’m so sorry to hear about your beloved Anne. I saw a coworker struggle with ALS and it hurt my heart to see him in the hospice and hug his mother as she wept.

Sending a hug with love.

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calochortus  May 13, 2020 • 8:58:02pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup. I don’t want to give a clerk coronavirus if I come down with it, but I don’t want a clerk to give it to me either.

On the other hand, unless the clerk is coughing in your face, you probably aren’t in contact with the clerk long enough to pick up sufficient viral load. Assuming the viral load is cumulative, the clerk is probably in more danger from customers than customers are from the clerk.

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gocart mozart  May 13, 2020 • 9:00:20pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 13, 2020 • 9:00:43pm

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gocart mozart  May 13, 2020 • 9:01:50pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:02:03pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

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Actually the mask would fuck up his face powder.

I swear Trump’s face is far more powdered that Little Richard’s ever was!

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gocart mozart  May 13, 2020 • 9:02:27pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 13, 2020 • 9:03:37pm

re: #9 Patricia Kayden

Vote Trump!! MAGA!

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“It’s getting harder and harder to cope with not being able to watch sports on tv”

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Rightwingconspirator  May 13, 2020 • 9:03:38pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

A Raccoon I know would seriously like a word…

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retired cynic  May 13, 2020 • 9:04:06pm

re: #16 gocart mozart

That’s a real Trump Steak, and explains why they didn’t sell.

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plansbandc  May 13, 2020 • 9:04:32pm

re: #4 austin_blue

I’m so sorry.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 13, 2020 • 9:05:49pm

re: #4 austin_blue

A dear friend of ours is dying in Hot Springs in Arkansas. We need to be there, but we can’t. She has PLS, a flavor of ALS, but much rarer (peripheral).

She is taking last breaths as her body is shutting down. The neural breakers are being pulled. Nothing can be done.

We are dying a little death of our own. She is so dear. Her husband is so dear. So sad, so pointless.

We don’t need tots and pears, we need hugs, all of us, at Anne’s death, and they aren’t available right now for obvious reasons. We can’t meet to celebrate her life, her love, her sweetness.

So sorry to see this. I mean Fuck this Plague.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:08:58pm

Dennis Prager Feels Oppressed over the Evolving Language of Race (13:19, caution for coarse language, goes to Utah Outcasts)

Dennis Prager Feels Oppressed By The Evolving Language of Race

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:10:14pm

re: #4 austin_blue

[[[socially-distanced hugs]]]

I am so sorry. That is bad enough, but the epidemic makes things so much worse.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:10:46pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dennis Prager Feels Oppressed over the Evolving Language of Race (13:19, caution for coarse language, goes to Utah Outcasts)

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I remember when that fat fuck was limited to spreading his racist crap on KABC. And he should burn in hell for taking Steven Miller under his wings…

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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 9:11:30pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:12:47pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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And I’m not surprised that was an off-duty New York Cop that got the shit knocked out of him!

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 9:14:09pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon 🌹

And I’m not surprised that was an off-duty New York Cop that got the shit knocked out of him!

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The chubby blue line.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:14:33pm

Twenty-one followers since opening the account in September says what?

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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 9:17:34pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

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I’m really starting to think they should start back up, but require that there be at least one covid-19 positive person for every ten people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:17:44pm

re: #27 Belafon

Did that guy pick up the racist’s cell phone after he laid the guy out and take a picture of him with it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:20:36pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon 🌹

And I’m not surprised that was an off-duty New York Cop that got the shit knocked out of him!

(4:11)

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calochortus  May 13, 2020 • 9:21:39pm

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Did that guy pick up the racist’s cell phone after he laid the guy out and take a picture of him with it?

No, it was his own phone he dropped and picked up afterward.

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calochortus  May 13, 2020 • 9:22:50pm

Anyhoo, I’m out for the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 13, 2020 • 9:22:55pm

Who fights with their arms up that high?

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austin_blue  May 13, 2020 • 9:23:17pm

Thank you all. It’s a hard night for us.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 9:25:10pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Twenty-one followers since opening the account in September says what?

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- A recent poll showed a majority of Americans believe that the Steele Dossier is legit

- To quote Hair Furor: “READ THE TRANSCRIPT!”

- When members of your own party step up and say you need to cool it with the saber-rattling towards Iran, you done fucked up

- Shutting down the economy only became necessary because mitigation (masks/social distancing) did not happen until the outbreak was already well-established and growing explosively. Dems did not force Trump to believe Xi’s BS in the hopes of getting a trade deal before Nov.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:25:24pm

re: #36 I Would Prefer Not To

Who fights with their arms up that high?

Trying to drive him back with the smell from his armpits?

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 9:26:22pm

LOL this is great. 🤣

Baby Trump. This is hilarious!

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gocart mozart  May 13, 2020 • 9:28:36pm

Sad. So this is the kid that David Crosby was a sperm doner for.

I guess C is not on speaking terms with SN&Y at this time

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jaunte  May 13, 2020 • 9:28:54pm

Thread:

“…What does this all have to do with Flynn? It’s very simple, really. Flynn’s (and Kushner’s) activities reveal a group of private persons and entities, who are using the US Government to pursue projects that are decidedly *not* in line with official US policies.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:30:29pm

re: #9 Patricia Kayden

“I left my coat at the church. Can you get it for me?”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:30:36pm

UH OH!

FBI agents executed a search warrant Wednesday night at the Washington, DC-area home of Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the LA Times reports. They reportedly seized Burr’s cell phone as part of their investigation of stock trades he made while getting COVID-19 briefings as chairman of the Senate intel committee. The stock trades occurred before the full scope of the pandemic threat was publicly known in the United States.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 9:31:01pm

re: #28 Joe Bacon 🌹

And I’m not surprised that was an off-duty New York Cop that got the shit knocked out of him!

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That POS got exactly what he had coming to him.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:32:24pm

MORE!

WASHINGTON — Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said.

Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a law enforcement action.

A second law enforcement official said FBI agents served a warrant in recent days on Apple to obtain information from Burr’s iCloud account and said agents used data obtained from the California-based company as part of the evidence used to obtain the warrant for the senator’s phone.

latimes.com

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Hecuba's daughter  May 13, 2020 • 9:33:22pm

re: #4 austin_blue

So sorry for your loss. It is so terrible that we cannot be with loved ones to comfort them.

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Ace-o-aces  May 13, 2020 • 9:35:26pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:38:12pm

An interesting development in Nebraska today.

After Governor Ricketts said the state would not release information on meat processing plants and coronavirus infections, one public health district ignored the order and released information anyway.

Several processors said they would release the information publicly if the state won’t release it officially. (I’m guessing here the companies want to stay on the good side of the towns they are in, and they want help from the state in dealing with this.)

From the Omaha World-Herald:

212 workers test positive for coronavirus after mass testing at Tyson pork plant in Madison

Increased testing at the Tyson Foods pork plant in Madison, Nebraska, which temporarily shut down last week to deep clean, revealed 212 workers had COVID-19.

More than 1,400 workers, contractors and vendors at the plant, south of Norfolk, were tested by either Tyson or local health care providers at the beginning of May.

(more)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 13, 2020 • 9:39:50pm
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Ace-o-aces  May 13, 2020 • 9:41:44pm

re: #9 Patricia Kayden

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:43:05pm

re: #51 Ace-o-aces

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:44:56pm

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At the bottom of the article is a list with maps of the counties in the USA with the highest per capita rate of infections. Two are in Nebraska, one of which is fourth in the nation (Dakota).

Dakota County, Nebraska

Population: 20026

Coronavirus cases: 704

Deaths: 1

Death rate rank: 818

Cases per 10K population: 351

Hard to believe the first case in county that’s part of Sioux City metro did not spring up until April 12. Now only three counties in nation have higher per-capita rate. County is home to an idled Tyson Fresh Meats plant, where reportedly 669 of 4,300 workers have tested positive.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:46:38pm

re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

My guess is it’s controversial to Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo, not France.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 13, 2020 • 9:48:19pm
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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 9:49:06pm

re: #42 jaunte

Thread:

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“…What does this all have to do with Flynn? It’s very simple, really. Flynn’s (and Kushner’s) activities reveal a group of private persons and entities, who are using the US Government to pursue projects that are decidedly *not* in line with official US policies.”

I’m reading through articles from ‘18 where the wingnuts spent the bulk of the year after Judge Sullivan issued his (customary) Brady Rule order convinced that “any day now” he’d come in and allow Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea, order the case dismissed, and then order the DOJ prosecutors held in contempt for “prosecutorial misconduct.”

They believe that right up until Dec 18th, when Flynn went into the courtroom with grins and smiles and left in a dour mood after Judge Sullivan had not only gelded him for actions that he considered “treason,” but then pressed Mike on everything from whether he believed he’d been coerced by the FBI into making a guilty plea (he’s on the record as saying “No”) and if he wished to withdraw his plea (he said “No” and instead asked for more time to cooperate with Mueller). The very next day, Flynn hired Sidney Powell and thus began the efforts to convinced Donny through a media barrage that Mike was a loyal soldier and who deserved a pardon.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 13, 2020 • 9:50:28pm

Oh just the thought of Judge Sullivan jailing Barr for contempt of court…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 9:52:04pm
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Ace-o-aces  May 13, 2020 • 9:56:44pm
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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 10:00:50pm

re: #59 Ace-o-aces

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The cat in the first picture: “Ok, I’ll tell you where the body is.”

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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 10:01:48pm
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Dread Pirate  May 13, 2020 • 10:02:06pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  May 13, 2020 • 10:05:12pm

Is Hunter in charge?

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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 10:05:12pm

That list of names that the GOP is trying to make a bug deal of? This is at the top of the first page:

Each individual was an authorized recipient of the original report and the unmasking was approved through NSA’s standard process, which includes a review of the justification for the request.

balloon-juice.com

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 10:08:21pm

re: #60 Belafon

The cat in the first picture: “Ok, I’ll tell you where the body is.”

Nah, that’s a face that says “What’s that? A new toy?”

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Belafon  May 13, 2020 • 10:10:47pm

re: #62 Dread Pirate

Just another of Trump’s pattern of it’s ok if they do it, but it’s wrong for anyone else.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 10:10:57pm

re: #61 Belafon

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You only have to look at how the original CARES Act bill had no oversight over $500B in business bailout funds, but when the Dems got such language in the final bill Mitch tried to get the original bill passed before Dems realized the revised bill wasn’t the one on the docket.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 13, 2020 • 10:11:01pm

I’m off to bed you lucky devils. I’ll catch y’all later.

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Citizen K  May 13, 2020 • 10:14:14pm

re: #60 Belafon

The cat in the first picture: “Ok, I’ll tell you where the body is.”

re: #65 Targetpractice

Nah, that’s a face that says “What’s that? A new toy?”

“You have nothing to threaten me with! Nothing to do with all your strength!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 13, 2020 • 10:18:40pm
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austin_blue  May 13, 2020 • 10:19:15pm

Night all. Death watch for us.

Thanks for your support.

Sweet dreams. Stay healthy, stay the fuck at home, and wash your fucking hands.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 10:27:25pm

The Patriots are the greatest football team of all time!

(wait, no, that’d just get me disowned…)

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 10:36:58pm

Roland Emmerich is cooking up a new disaster flick. Moonfall.

Disaster film extraordinaire Roland Emmerich has once again set his sights on space with his upcoming action thriller Moonfall, about (you guessed it) the moon falling to Earth. As reported by THR, the first person cast in the ensemble picture is Frozen II’s Josh Gad, and to be perfectly honest, there’s no better candidate for a suicide mission into space. We can only hope he sings the moon a powerfully earnest song to knock it back into orbit in time to save humanity.

collider.com

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Dread Pirate  May 13, 2020 • 10:38:11pm
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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 10:39:54pm

re: #73 Dr Lizardo

Roland Emmerich is cooking up a new disaster flick. Moonfall.

collider.com

Da fuq?

I guess we’re not getting another ID4 sequel./////

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sagehen  May 13, 2020 • 10:43:59pm

re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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During the Irish famine years, vast quantities of food were being sent from Ireland to England. Starving Irish people had to watch the wagons roll by on the way to the port, while armed troops kept them from rushing the convoys…

It’s been 7 generations, but in the Irish cultural memory it might just as well have been last Tuesday.

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 10:51:03pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Da fuq?

I guess we’re not getting another ID4 sequel./////

I have no doubt that Moonfall will be an FX spectacular. There’s very little Roland Emmerich seems to enjoy more than completely destroying human civilization. It’s being co-written with his collaborator on 2012 - which is a good sign, because 2012 was a pretty damn good disaster flick.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 10:58:16pm

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

I have no doubt that Moonfall will be an FX spectacular. There’s very little Roland Emmerich seems to enjoy more than completely destroying human civilization. It’s being co-written with his collaborator on 2012 - which is a good sign, because 2012 was a pretty damn good disaster flick.

I saw the perfect descriptor of Emmerich’s disaster films: B-movie schlock with A-list funding.

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 11:04:18pm

re: #78 Targetpractice

I saw the perfect descriptor of Emmerich’s disaster films: B-movie schlock with A-list funding.

The late, great Roger Ebert summed it up beautifully:

It’s not so much that the Earth is destroyed, but that it’s done so thoroughly. “2012,” the mother of all disaster movies (and the father, and the extended family) spends half an hour on ominous set-up scenes (scientists warn, strange events occur, prophets rant and of course a family is introduced) and then unleashes two hours of cataclysmic special events hammering the Earth relentlessly.

This is fun. “2012” delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year. It even has real actors in it. Like all the best disaster movies, it’s funniest at its most hysterical. You think you’ve seen end-of-the-world movies? This one ends the world, stomps on it, grinds it up and spits it out.

rogerebert.com

He gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. That’s a good review.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 11:17:32pm

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

The late, great Roger Ebert summed it up beautifully:

rogerebert.com

He gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. That’s a good review.

It’s a popcorn flick, like most of Emmerich’s disaster films are. Great to watch in the theater, but when you go later to make sense of them, you can actually feeling neurons imploding in disbelief.

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Dr Lizardo  May 13, 2020 • 11:22:12pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

It’s a popcorn flick, like most of Emmerich’s disaster films are. Great to watch in the theater, but when you go later to make sense of them, you can actually feeling neurons imploding in disbelief.

2012 particularly amused me: Apparently, all that destruction was caused by an exotic new type of neutrinos from a huge solar flare that ended up heating the Earth’s core.

I certainly chuckled when I heard that. It’s almost like a parody of pseudoscience.

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Targetpractice  May 13, 2020 • 11:26:30pm

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

2012 particularly amused me: Apparently, all that destruction was caused by an exotic new type of neutrinos from a huge solar flare that ended up heating the Earth’s core.

I certainly chucked when I heard that. It’s almost like a parody of pseudoscience.

Roland wanted to do a flick to address the 2012 hysteria, but he’d already done a movie with aliens and one with climate change, so it’s like he just pulled up a page on all the insane theories of what was gonna happen on Dec 22nd and stopped when he got to “polar shift” and declared “THAT’S OUR HITLER!”

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 13, 2020 • 11:42:43pm

I did a new meme. Does it work?

Night good people

can probably take out the first “He is.”

or could change 2nd line to “He Still Is.”

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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2020 • 11:44:53pm
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goddamnedfrank  May 13, 2020 • 11:50:39pm

OK, so one question I had back in March was how are they going to handle the updates to the Social Security Death Master File.

What I’m getting at is there should be a way of sussing out the all causes mortality numbers from that data alone. So, I’m asking, does anybody know how long it usually takes from someone being pronounced dead to having their record added to the DMF?

Because the “record count” listed in the weekly updates for the year so far don’t yet reflect the pandemic numbers.

Which seems suspicious, like they’re doing everything to bottleneck the flow of information.

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teleskiguy  May 13, 2020 • 11:57:32pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 12:53:21am

re: #14 gocart mozart

Can you guess what this is?

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Ace-o-aces  May 14, 2020 • 1:01:25am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 1:03:58am

re: #88 Ace-o-aces

Coronavirus infections in Russia are still skyrocketing, but Putin doesn’t want to look bad next to European governments, so he is easing social-distancing restrictions anyway.

Their health system is incapable of dealing with even a mild outbreak, so yeah, fuck it. It will take a lot of pressure off the state pension system…

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 1:52:17am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Damn but I wish people would stop using the Daily Fail as a source.

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ericblair  May 14, 2020 • 1:55:21am

re: #89 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Their health system is incapable of dealing with even a mild outbreak, so yeah, fuck it. It will take a lot of pressure off the state pension system…

It looks more like Putin wants to shove the blame for any bad results onto the relatively powerless pet governors of the regions. He’s easing federal restrictions, but saying that the regions can impose stricter rules if necessary. The regions are run by handpicked unelected governors, many parachuted in from other parts of the country, who have no resources or knowledge to do any of this.

If you look at his history, Putin is extremely risk-adverse, and only wants to be the bearer of good news. Like Trump, he’s only good at dealing with self-generated crises far away, and deals with them by blowing them up, locking them up, lying about them, and/or blackmailing them. These don’t work with COVID, amazingly enough. And, like Trump, he’s being yelled at by oligarchs to put the serfs back to work.

Oh, by the way, at least two Russian ventilators have caught fire in hospitals and killed at least six people. These were the same model of the ones that the US government bought from Russia last month in that hyped up shipment.

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 1:58:27am

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

The only bad part of 2012 was that they cut the scene at the end where the surviving Africans told the Arks to fuck off.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 14, 2020 • 2:10:36am

re: #4 austin_blue

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 14, 2020 • 2:34:22am

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup. I don’t want to give a clerk coronavirus if I come down with it, but I don’t want a clerk to give it to me either.

And a clerk would be a likely vector if they get it from someone else first. (And the masks are more important towards you not giving the virus to people than avoiding getting it yourself.)

And, of course, wearing one yourself even if you’re not sick is sort of worth doing for two reasons:
1. Social stress easing since others don’t know whether you might be carrying the virus or not and everyone wearing masks is showing some consideration. (Secondarily also making it so that wearing a mask is not creating a pariah thing.)

2. You might have the virus even though you think you don’t and are asymptomatic.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 2:39:55am

re: #91 ericblair

It looks more like Putin wants to shove the blame for any bad results onto the relatively powerless pet governors of the regions.

And with oil prices so low, he has almost no resources at his disposal to help anyone financially.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 14, 2020 • 2:47:01am

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

I have no doubt that Moonfall will be an FX spectacular. There’s very little Roland Emmerich seems to enjoy more than completely destroying human civilization. It’s being co-written with his collaborator on 2012 - which is a good sign, because 2012 was a pretty damn good disaster flick.

???
Once you ignored all the physics and everything else scientifically involved, maybe.
(I watched it with two geologists and I was the person saying “It doesn’t work that way.” constantly. They’d both essentially turned their brains off right at the beginning knowing that the science was never going to make any sense.)

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ericblair  May 14, 2020 • 2:56:58am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And with oil prices so low, he has almost no resources at his disposal to help anyone financially.

Russia does actually have a $160bn sovereign wealth fund. However, with oil prices so low, that will go to bailing out the oligarch-controlled oil companies, not to help the peasants.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 3:00:09am

re: #97 ericblair

Russia does actually have a $160bn sovereign wealth fund. However, with oil prices so low, that will go to bailing out the oligarch-controlled oil companies, not to help the peasants.

Their whole system is about feeding the oiligarchs first and then tossing some scraps to the rest of the population.

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steve_davis  May 14, 2020 • 3:21:16am

re: #96 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

???
Once you ignored all the physics and everything else scientifically involved, maybe.
(I watched it with two geologists and I was the person saying “It doesn’t work that way.” constantly. They’d both essentially turned their brains off right at the beginning knowing that the science was never going to make any sense.)

i made it to the point where for the second time, early in the movie, the world fell away behind the plane as the family escaped. it was just idiotic to imagine that things would be timed up like that, twice.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 14, 2020 • 3:24:06am

re: #99 steve_davis

i made it to the point where for the second time, early in the movie, the world fell away behind the plane as the family escaped. it was just idiotic to imagine that things would be timed up like that, twice.

I turned mine off permanently for the duration when the dust cloud from the Yellowstone thing caught up with the plane. (Basic failure of how aerodynamic lift works.)

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 3:38:10am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Can you guess what this is?

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I would, but then I‘d have to come after you…..

😉

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 3:57:31am

I think this didn’t go as barr et al expected

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 4:04:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 4:05:32am

re: #103 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

BREAKING: federal judge Amy Berman Jackson just ordered the White House to turn over 20 emails directly relating to President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine.

Deep State getting deeper every day…

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Targetpractice  May 14, 2020 • 4:21:08am

re: #102 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I think this didn’t go as barr et al expected

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Wingnuts are losing their minds over this. They’re not only demanding Judge Sullivan be forced to recuse himself from the case for…reasons, but “Judge” Box Wine was over on Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour to demand Sullivan “hang up his robe.”

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 4:26:52am

re: #102 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I think this didn’t go as barr et al expected

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True. For now, anyway.
But the Regime can (and likely will) just wait a bit, and milk Judge Sullivan’s “delaying tactics” for all the angry whining and bogus self-victimization they can (I heard Sullivan has already been dragged on Fox by that brilliant legal theorist “Judge” Jeanine
Pirro).
I’ve always thought the whole Flynn- case flap has been basically a sidestep attempt by Trumpworld to avoid the embarrassment of Donny having to overtly pardon one of his crooked cronies - while simultaneously trying to tar his political rivals with whatever bullshit “charges” he feels like spewing out on Twitter - outside of the RW media bubble, it doesn’t seem to be working all that well so far: but I’m sure they’ll come up with a new tack before long.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 4:31:19am

re: #106 Jay C

He has been calling this a Witch Hunt since day one, now he is just breaking out the duck and the weighing scales.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 4:44:22am

re: #18 gocart mozart

Per the comments that white guy was an off duty cop. Not sure I’m buying that though.

I did watch that on loop a dozen times though. 😂😭

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 4:47:00am

re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Per the comments that white guy was an off duty cop. Not sure I’m buying that though.

I did watch that on loop a dozen times though. 😂😭

I have no idea what this video is about. Find it hard to believe that the assailant could be that stupid and inept. Not about to make any assumptions about it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 4:51:31am

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

For you.

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A Mom Anon  May 14, 2020 • 4:58:53am

So Sen. Burr got his phone confiscated and his home searched? (Stifling giggles and neener neeners here, yes I am 9 yo this morning) Soooo….when is it Kelly Loeffler’s turn? Please oh please…..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 5:03:44am

re: #110 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

For you.

👍🏻

An incredibly in-depth article about Moomaw Corner at Wikipedia.

Moomaw Corner, Nebraska

Next time I go through there I should take a photograph and upload it to Wikipedia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 5:13:06am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

👍🏻

An incredibly in-depth article about Moomaw Corner at Wikipedia.

Moomaw Corner, Nebraska

Next time I go through there I should take a photograph and upload it to Wikipedia.

And put up a Devin Nunes memorial plaque

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 5:14:32am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And put up a Devin Nunes memorial plaque

Why? Is that where his cow is from?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 5:16:50am

re: #114 Jay C

Why? Is that where his cow is from?

and his mom

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Florida Panhandler  May 14, 2020 • 5:20:44am

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

No disaster film will ever top Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown.

That one was fucking awesome dude.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 5:23:00am

re: #116 Florida Panhandler

No disaster film will ever top Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown.

That one was fucking awesome dude.

Working on one about the polar vortex scooping up a load of displaced bears and dropping them on downtown Toronto: Grizzlard

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 5:32:39am

re: #110 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There is the town of Why Arizona.

It was originally just “Y”, as it is situated on a Y-junction between State Routes 85 & 86, but changed its name to “Why” when the state required all names to have at least three letters.

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jeffreyw  May 14, 2020 • 5:34:05am

Surrounded. Defiant. Cursing the negotiator.

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 5:35:35am

awwww. they miss the humans.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 5:54:28am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 5:59:45am
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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2020 • 6:01:44am

re: #122 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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If the GOP loses the 65+ crowd, they’re finished.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 6:02:07am

re: #122 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Joe Biden leads against Pres. Trump by five points nationally, and Biden also leads by 15 points among voters age 65 and older, according to a CNN/ SSRS

This is going to call for dramatic measures on the part of the GOP to ensure another EC victory.

Unless these polls change, the best thing for the GOP to do is to totally derail the election, turning it into such a massive clusterfuck that it produces no verifiable results.Then they can claim a victory by default.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 14, 2020 • 6:12:28am

re: #85 goddamnedfrank

OK, so one question I had back in March was how are they going to handle the updates to the Social Security Death Master File.

What I’m getting at is there should be a way of sussing out the all causes mortality numbers from that data alone. So, I’m asking, does anybody know how long it usually takes from someone being pronounced dead to having their record added to the DMF?

Because the “record count” listed in the weekly updates for the year so far don’t yet reflect the pandemic numbers.

Which seems suspicious, like they’re doing everything to bottleneck the flow of information.

The Commerce Department handles the Social Security Death Master File.

And you know what crook runs that department.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 6:16:04am

They thought they could actually hide a pandemic?
Because it would be good for the reelection.
So they went to Jared instead of Dr. Science.

President Trump didn’t want to make preparations for the coronavirus pandemic because he was concerned doing so would sent the stock market into a panic, the Financial Times reports.

Said one Trump confidant: “Jared had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it… That advice worked far more powerfully on Trump than what the scientists were saying. He thinks they always exaggerate

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SteelPH  May 14, 2020 • 6:17:36am

re: #126 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

They thought they could actually hide a pandemic?
Because it would be good for the reelection.
So they went to Jared instead of Dr. Science.

Where’s @infinite_scream when you need him?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 6:18:20am

re: #90 John Hughes

Damn but I wish people would stop using the Daily Fail as a source.

A key question before Thursday protest at Capitol: What does it mean to brandish a weapon? (Lansing, Mich. State-Journal)

LANSING — A key question faces protesters who gather at the Capitol on Thursday and the law enforcement officers patrolling what could be a busy scene: What does it mean to brandish a weapon?

Armed protesters who appeared at previous demonstrations outside and inside the Capitol have renewed debates about whether firearms should be allowed inside.

Firearms remain allowed, but on Tuesday, Sen. Michael Shirkey said law enforcement should act if armed protesters are seen “brandishing” weapons.
But what does ‘brandishing’ mean?

(more)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 6:19:33am

Good thread.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 6:24:20am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Their whole system is about feeding the oiligarchs first and then tossing some scraps to the rest of the population.

So they copied our system, then? I guess we did win the Cold War.

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BigPapa  May 14, 2020 • 6:27:18am

I’m still waiting for somebody to explain what a ‘perjury trap’ is.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 6:30:09am

re: #131 BigPapa

I’m still waiting for somebody to explain what a ‘perjury trap’ is.

Where you lie with the full expectation that you won’t get caught.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2020 • 6:31:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 6:32:28am

re: #126 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

They thought they could actually hide a pandemic?
Because it would be good for the reelection.
So they went to Jared instead of Dr. Science.

Because Trump’s tunnel vision only saw the equation “strong economy = reelection”.

He did not understand that people will rally around a President in a crisis if he demonstrates strong and resolute leadership and offers them hope and a way out, even if it means blood, tears, toil and sweat.

Because that means work, and Trump wanted to phone it in, go golfing, give rallies and let things run themselves…

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 6:32:47am

California actually offers a counter argument: Republicans won a vote-by-mail election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 6:33:55am

re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There is a meme that Americans are deeply divided about Coronavirus: What we should be doing in response, how well it has been managed, and how we should re-open.

There is a small and vocal group that is against any sort of restrictions and they are getting MBFd up way beyond their actual size.

And they are certainly not going to be enough to turn the economy around if we were to heed them and ease restrictions.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 6:36:11am

re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There is a small and vocal group that is against any sort of restrictions and they are getting MBFd up way beyond their actual size.

And they are certainly not going to be enough to turn the economy around if we were to heed them and ease restrictions.

How do you counterprotest against it?

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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 6:37:19am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is from the Daily Mail (UK tabloid with a high “Fake News” content) I have not seen anything like this in any of the local news sources.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 6:37:24am

re: #137 Belafon

How do you counterprotest against it?

especially when you don’t have a lobby backing you up

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 6:38:21am

re: #138 The Pie Overlord!

…his son is working for the Daily Mail, it’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer…

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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 6:48:03am

This is the origin of my response, from Jewish foodie Twitter:

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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 6:52:28am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 6:55:28am

JFC

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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 6:57:19am

The Daily Fail is full of shit. Plenty of people “brandishing firearms” & nobody is getting arrested.

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 6:58:37am

Making American Reel Again

36 million out of work in just about 8 weeks.

Worst economy since the Great Depression. And the effects were nearly entirely avoidable had Trump followed the Obama pandemic playbook to use aggressive testing, support states efforts and coordinate from the get-go.

Instead, he ignored the problem, watched as his fellow GOPers profited from insider info, and tried his hand at market manipulation himself repeatedly.

The result? Trillions in economic damage, a stock market that is being held up by vaporware and ignores that Main Street is decimated and that we’ve seen 85,000+ dead Americans in 2 months with no sign of this ending anytime soon even as states reopen before they’ve even managed to contain the spread.

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lizardofid  May 14, 2020 • 7:00:13am

re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…his son is working for the Daily Mail, it’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer…

Does he have a thousand pages, give or take a few?

Good morning!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 7:01:10am

re: #131 BigPapa

I’m still waiting for somebody to explain what a ‘perjury trap’ is.

When you get caught

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 7:01:48am

“Why isn’t my word salad working anymore?”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 7:01:53am

re: #126 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

They thought they could actually hide a pandemic?
Because it would be good for the reelection.
So they went to Jared instead of Dr. Science.

Hiding deaths from a genocide is always one of the steps of fascism.

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 7:05:06am

re: #143 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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Also: notice those Fox chyrons? They’re still blithering away about
“Hunter Biden and $1.5B from China”??
Wasn’t that shit debunked about five scandals ago??

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 7:05:06am

re: #116 Florida Panhandler

No disaster film will ever top Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown.

That one was fucking awesome dude.

I can’t find a “Scorcher VI,” but I can find a “Scorcher.”

The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, California.

Also available at Amazon for the amazing price of $1.42 used or $13.99 new.
amazon.com

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:06:08am

We are having thunderstorms all day and for tomorrow and the day after. Lotsa boomers.

TAX RETURN CASES: WHY THE SUPREME COURT HAS TO PRETEND TRUMP IS A NORMAL PRESIDENT
This is the last stand for the idea that the president—any president—isn’t above the law. And though Trump is the subject, Chief Justice Roberts is really on trial. by Cristian Farias, Vanity Fair

Federal immigration law, Roberts told us in his ruling upholding Trump’s decision to shut out travelers from Muslim-majority countries, “exudes deference to the president.” But as a private citizen and businessperson who happens to be president, the equities are different. In both cases, which stem from attempts by the House of Representatives and Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance to seek financial records and other documents going back several years, Trump was the one who initiated the litigation, running to federal court to quash a series of congressional and prosecutorial requests that weren’t directed to him personally, but to financial and accounting firms holding records belonging to his businesses, his adult children, and related entities.

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:06:29am

delete second copy, lightning must have doubled it!

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2020 • 7:08:40am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I can’t find a “Scorcher VI,” but I can find a “Scorcher.”

Also available at Amazon for the amazing price of $1.42 used or $13.99 new.
amazon.com

Here you go:

Tropic Thunder (1/10) Movie CLIP - Tugg Speedman, Action Hero (2008) HD

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:12:03am

Long, but interesting, since Rep Steve King was saying he was going to get all his seniority back (maybe not, and maybe he won’t win his primary):

From the Daily Kos Elections email on this race:

• IA-04: State Sen. Randy Feenstra is out with another poll of the June 2 GOP primary that shows him gaining ground, though still narrowly trailing, white supremacist Rep. Steve King. The new survey by the firm American Viewpoint gives King a 39-36 edge over Feenstra, while the rest of the field takes a combined 9% of the vote. This is an improvement for Feenstra from the late April poll he released that showed the incumbent up 41-34.

The House GOP leadership stripped King of all of his committee assignments early last year after he mused to the New York Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” Both Feenstra and his allies at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently went up with a $200,000 ad buy, have run ads portraying King as completely ineffective and unable to look out for his rural western Iowa seat now that he’s lost his posts, including his spot on the “vital” House Agriculture Committee. However, King has been arguing in recent weeks that his exile is only temporary.

In late April, King said that he and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had reached “an understanding.” He continued, “The only barrier in the way of putting back all my committees, perhaps incrementally as there are openings that can be created, is to get a formal meeting of the steering committee because they’re officially the ones who make that decision.”

McCarthy didn’t say anything to confirm or deny this claim, and King made a similar one at a forum on Monday. “On April 20, Kevin McCarthy and I reached an agreement that he would advocate to the steering committee to put all of my committees back, all of my seniority.” McCarthy has remained silent through Wednesday afternoon, but unnamed sources close to him told Politico that he’d only allowed King to make his argument “at some point” to the GOP steering committee, which handles committee assignments, for why he should be reinstated in the next Congress.

There are 35 votes on the committee (McCarthy has four, Minority Whip Steve Scalise has two, and the remaining members have one vote each), and two members have already come out and said they oppose restoring King. Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, who chaired the NRCC last cycle, declared that King “will not be serving on any committee,” while a spokesperson for Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who is the third-ranking Republican in the leadership, said she also didn’t support King.

While King is arguing he deserves to be rehabilitated, he characteristically isn’t showing the slightest bit of contrition for his pro-white supremacist comments. King has constantly argued that the Times misquoted him, and at a recent debate he said of his opponents, “They’re all here because they believe the New York Times.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 7:12:34am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

You know what runaway freight trains usually do? Crash and burn (never mind the fluffing on “why are you so popular”).

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:15:01am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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You know what runaway freight trains usually do? Crash and burn (never mind the fluffing on “why are you so popular”).

Good grief. Make me gag.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 14, 2020 • 7:15:36am

re: #119 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

Morning yoga — single wing stretch
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 7:17:22am

re: #154 Dr Lizardo

Here you go:

The first half-hour of that movie is just brilliant, but it very rapidly goes downhill and starts piling it on way too thick.

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:18:13am

Two good articles on Press Run, Eric Boehlert’s blog:

Small “reopen” protests grab media attention — remember when huge anti-war rallies got ignored?
The so-called liberal media

Why are small bands of right-wing protesters deemed to be more important than huge throngs of liberal ones? That’s the media question that arises as modest clumps of “reopen America” activists continue to garner a huge amount of press attention, even though their numbers remain slight, and an overwhelmingly majority of Americans disagree with their message. Back when tens of thousands of liberals rallied against the Iraq War, the press often took a very different approach to them, downplaying their significance.

Memo to media: Don’t take the “Obamagate” bait
Trump distractions aren’t news

Desperate to turn attention away from America’s run-away pandemic death toll, now hurtling towards 100,000 by the end of the month, Trump and Fox News are rolling out a choreographed distraction called “Obamagate.” Even more hollow and bogus than previous White House attempts to discredit his popular predecessor, the scheme is all about public relations and media manipulation. It will only work if the Beltway press takes the bait.

I find I agree with him a lot. I’m a subscriber.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 7:18:43am

re: #152 retired cynic

We are having thunderstorms all day and for tomorrow and the day after. Lotsa boomers.

People born between 1946 and 1964 are flying through your area. /s

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 7:19:01am

re: #142 The Pie Overlord!

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That’s exactly what he said about Hillary (after 7 investigations had found nothing).

So his admin did a few more investigations. And surprise surprise, they still found NOTHING.

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 7:20:41am

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

People born between 1946 and 1964 are flying through your area. /s

Some of us even live here, even the old ‘uns.

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 7:27:10am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

You know what runaway freight trains usually do? Crash and burn (never mind the fluffing on “why are you so popular”).

Train wrecks are pretty popular too. People slow down to look at them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 7:28:01am

I know we don’t really need more proof of it, but Jesus Christ, Republicans are trying to get us all killed:

(WaPo) On Wednesday night in the heart of downtown Platteville, Wis., just hours after the Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the state’s stay-at-home order, Nick’s on 2nd was packed wall to wall, standing room only.

It was sometime after 10 p.m. when “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” by the Hollies came over the sound system and a bartender took out his camera. In a Twitter broadcast, he surveyed the room of maskless patrons crammed together, partying like it was 2019. A few were pounding on the bar to the beat. Some were clapping their hands in the air and some were fist-pumping, a scene so joyous they could have been celebrating the end of the worst pandemic in a century.

Instead, as Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) knew, they were just celebrating the apparent end of his power over them — at least for now.

“We’re the Wild West,” Evers told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Wednesday night, reacting to the state Supreme Court’s ruling and the scenes of people partying in bars all across Wisconsin. “There are no restrictions at all across the state of Wisconsin. … So at this point in time … there is nothing that’s compelling people to do anything other than having chaos here.”

Chaos it was.

Right after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority issued a 4-to-3 ruling, invalidating the extension of the stay-at-home order issued by Evers’s appointed state health chief, the Tavern League of Wisconsin instructed its members to feel free to “OPEN IMMEDIATELY!”

Photo of a crowd at a bar in Wisconsin last night:

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that A) The Wisconsin Supreme Court leans heavily Republican and B) A good number of people in this photo will be sick in a couple of weeks time.

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unproven innocence  May 14, 2020 • 7:30:38am

US healthcare system seems to be broken.

US healthcare workers face growing unemployment

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 7:38:44am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Actually I think it’s the virus that has the momentum of a runaway freight train…especially in this country.

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BigPapa  May 14, 2020 • 7:39:34am

re: #166 unproven innocence

It’s going to be a long summer and fall. Brutal.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 7:43:36am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 7:47:14am

Wonkette weighing in on a new conservative conspiracy theory. Expect it to go up the minor leagues of conservative media, and if it gains enough traction with the faithful, to appear in the Big Show (FOX News):

Cannibal-Curious Alex Jones Has Sick New COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory. Wait, Where Are You Going? (Stephen Robinson, watching InfoWars so you don’t have to):

If you believed the COVID-19 outbreak would cause repulsive people to consider an indefinite hold on their grossness, you are just adorable. Cannibal-curious Alex Jones is at it again. This time he’s defaming frontline health care workers with putrid conspiracy theories. He’s claimed without evidence, as his wont, that hospital workers were straight-up murdering patients, saying they died of COVID-19, and raking in the profits as part of a diabolical “globalist eugenics plot.” And the brilliance of this plan is its simplicity.

No one has time for this “X-Files” shit. In the real world, Fox Mulder is an asshole because there are no government conspiracies. Aliens aren’t infecting us with COVID-19 as a part of an overly complicated invasion strategy.

Here’s what this fool said on the May 5 edition of his show.

(goes to clip of InfoWars then continues on in text)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 7:49:23am

re: #169 jaunte

WE NEED A NATIONAL TESTING STRATEGY

we will never get one with Trump

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 7:50:15am

re: #169 jaunte

Bright: Let us speak without fear of retribution.
Trump: Then what’s the point of me being president?

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 7:50:53am

re: #172 Belafon

They’re already gearing up to “investigate” Bright.

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jeffreyw  May 14, 2020 • 7:51:07am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 7:51:21am

re: #170 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wonkette weighing in on a new conservative conspiracy theory. Expect it to go up the minor leagues of conservative media, and if it gains enough traction with the faithful, to appear in the Big Show (FOX News):

Yes, this will start #TrendingonTwitter and find its way onto YouTube and FB, at which point it will develop a life of its own and be picked up by the networks and reported on as if it had some merit, #Obamagate is already roaring out of the gate in that respect.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 7:52:25am

re: #170 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wonkette weighing in on a new conservative conspiracy theory. Expect it to go up the minor leagues of conservative media, and if it gains enough traction with the faithful, to appear in the Big Show (FOX News):

Cannibal-Curious Alex Jones Has Sick New COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory. Wait, Where Are You Going? (Stephen Robinson, watching InfoWars so you don’t have to):

(goes to clip of InfoWars then continues on in text)

The difference between these people and Mulder is when Mulder was confronted with evidence that his current lead was a dead end, he didn’t continue to say it was aliens, even when it was a human that could shape shift.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 7:54:18am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 8:02:51am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

we will never get one with Trump

At some point conservatism if it stays in power long enough always leads to genocide.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:04:47am

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At some point conservatism if it stays in power long enough always leads to genocide.

One major tenet of Conservatism is Property Rights over Human Rights. We have seen what that can lead to.

In 2020, it means sending people out to risk their lives to ensure that the 1% don’t have to lose any of the 40% of the country that they already own.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 8:07:06am

re: #177 jaunte

Bright’s testimony here is why Trump won’t fire Fauci.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:10:43am

We’re in the midst of a huge and necessary change for the country’s survival, but the deniers are in the driver’s seat.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:14:44am

re: #181 jaunte

We’re in the midst of a huge and necessary change for the country’s survival, but the deniers are in the driver’s seat.

And they have convinced a sizable share of the population that Covid is just a hoax or a liberal plot or nothing worse than the flu., all of which is going to confound efforts to contain it until we have a vaccine or a treatment in place.

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BigPapa  May 14, 2020 • 8:15:08am

An old schoolboy crush of mine is melting down on my FB. She tried to explain what unmasking is and how it is illegal and corrupt. I’m being gentle, but firm.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:15:48am

Just got a text from a friend in California:

“Here’s today’s factoid: “In less than a year, from May 2019 to March 2020, the share of weekly church-attending white Protestants convinced that Donald Trump was anointed by God to be President grew from 29.6 percent to 49.5 percent.

Hope you guys are staying safe and away from the AR toting militia opening up the tattoo parlors there.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 8:16:03am

Here’s a scary as fuck dose of reality for you: If Trump somehow wins the election this fall, we may NEVER get a National testing strategy for Covid-19.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 14, 2020 • 8:17:32am

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At some point conservatism if it stays in power long enough always leads to genocide.

You mean like Pol Pot and Robespierre? Or maybe Stalin?

All of them were power-hungry radicals, just like the humorless radicals who have taken over the name of conservative (a movement that arose in the 17th century in reaction to the Civil Wars, later reinforced by the excesses of the French Revolution). And got the rubes to believe that they had something to do with conserving something while they went around breaking social mores and accepted norms.

Please cut the crap.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 8:18:05am

re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And they have convinced a sizable share of the population that Covid is just a hoax or a liberal plot or nothing worse than the flu., all of which is going to confound efforts to contain it until we have a vaccine or a treatment in place.

THIS.

If with a non-functioning Federal government, if we actually adhered to social distancing and most of us wore masks and followed proper sanitation procedures, WE COULD KEEP THIS THING UNDER CONTROL.

But when 27% of our country doesn’t want to do this, we are kind of screwed.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 8:18:46am

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s a scary as fuck dose of reality for you: If Trump somehow wins the election this fall, we may NEVER get a National testing strategy for Covid-19.

Also, he’ll get at least one, possibly two more SCOTUS appointments too.

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 8:19:21am

re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And they have convinced a sizable share of the population that Covid is just a hoax or a liberal plot or nothing worse than the flu., all of which is going to confound efforts to contain it until we have a vaccine or a treatment in place.

Sizable, yes, but probably under 20%. They will keep whacking away at it, trying to raise that percentage, but I’m betting it’s a losing battle. As restrictions are lifted, the virus will take advantage, and the 80% that believe in reality (at least as far as covid-19 is concerned), will be confirmed in that belief by the cases and deaths on the ground.

Not sure they will be able to villainize the individual health care workers, because they all know some, are family members of some. May even be supported by some. So that is an uphill climb, too.

The media will report all their thrashing around, of course, and Fox and OANN will make a hash of it. SNAFU.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 14, 2020 • 8:20:22am

re: #184 jaunte

Just got a text from a friend in California:

From the same article:

Notably, believing that all presidents were anointed also increased over the past year and in just as dramatic of fashion.

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austin_blue  May 14, 2020 • 8:21:07am

re: #76 sagehen

During the Irish famine years, vast quantities of food were being sent from Ireland to England. Starving Irish people had to watch the wagons roll by on the way to the port, while armed troops kept them from rushing the convoys…

It’s been 7 generations, but in the Irish cultural memory it might just as well have been last Tuesday.

Better a bastard in the family than an Englishman.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 8:21:13am

re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And they have convinced a sizable share of the population that Covid is just a hoax or a liberal plot or nothing worse than the flu., all of which is going to confound efforts to contain it until we have a vaccine or a treatment in place.

re: #184 jaunte

Just got a text from a friend in California:

Which is why God sent a plague.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:21:30am

re: #189 retired cynic

Sizable, yes, but probably under 20%. They will keep whacking away at it, trying to raise that percentage, but I’m betting it’s a losing battle.

The smaller the percentage, the more blatant and militant they will get about it. That is the frustrating part. Because that will get them even more media attention.

But they will not be enough to pull the economy out of a tailspin.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 8:21:50am

re: #190 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

From the same article:

Because Republicans can’t think beyond last week.

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 8:23:02am

This is a good news story. I am sure Netanyahu is not happy about it.

The Israeli Hotel Where COVID-19 Recovery Meets Standup Comedy
When every guest is a coronavirus patient, you’re allowed to hug, hang out in the lobby, and gather for meals. Atlas Obscura.

Hotels throughout Israel have been appropriated so that COVID-19 patients can quarantine and convalesce. “We have a special case here in the Jerusalem hotel, because the young people are taking care of the old people, there are Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, secular, religious, Palestinian, Jewish,” says Shuster-Eliassi, laughing. “I don’t know what this is, but we’re all getting along and I’m having the biggest identity crisis of my life.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:24:27am

re: #186 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

You mean like Pol Pot and Robespierre? Or maybe Stalin?

All of them were power-hungry radicals, just like the humorless radicals who have taken over the name of conservative (a movement that arose in the 17th century in reaction to the Civil Wars, later reinforced by the excesses of the French Revolution). And got the rubes to believe that they had something to do with conserving something while they went around breaking social mores and accepted norms.

Please cut the crap.

I don’t think Anymouse was referencing Pol Pot or Stalin or Robespierre. There has been a lot of genocide out there done for a lot of reasons.

Genocide to preserve a racial supremacist ideal or to secure colonial hegemony, for example.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2020 • 8:26:23am

re: #99 steve_davis

i made it to the point where for the second time, early in the movie, the world fell away behind the plane as the family escaped. it was just idiotic to imagine that things would be timed up like that, twice.

To be fair, apparently the original concept for the movie was to be a parody of every disaster film for the past 40 years. Think of it as basically closer to a comedy but then the CGI took over and it became a little more serious — but its original purpose peeked throughout the film.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:26:26am
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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:27:07am

Up to 10 years is the conservative estimate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:33:38am

re: #199 jaunte

Up to 10 years is the conservative estimate.

No way to tell at this point as we know very little about the virus.

Then we have to address the issue of availability and distribution, which could also really turn out to be a clusterfuck given the way that many nations handled ventilators and other protective gear & supplies…

But until then, the disease will be with us. A national testing strategy could do much to track and contain it, but I do not see that coming as our leader has made it clear that he does not like testing…

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 14, 2020 • 8:34:12am

re: #190 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Also in the DT years, there are fewer protestants.

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Florida Panhandler  May 14, 2020 • 8:34:24am

re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, he’ll get at least one, possibly two more SCOTUS appointments too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump were to be able to get 3 picks- Breyer is ancient, Ginsberg IMO is 90% likely to step down next year regardless, and I believe Clarence Thomas will fall on his own sword and retire for the sake of hard-right wing ideology and allow a full blown Nazi to ascend for the next 30-40 years.

This election is an election to determine if full-blown Nazis take over the SCOTUS. Everything else is secondary.

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BigPapa  May 14, 2020 • 8:35:06am

Can you imagine the shame if another country found a vaccine first, and Trump was tasked with buying it? He would fight it.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 14, 2020 • 8:36:21am

re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t think Anymouse was referencing Pol Pot or Stalin or Robespierre. There has been a lot of genocide out there done for a lot of reasons.

Genocide to preserve a racial supremacist ideal or to secure colonial hegemony, for example.

Those were counterexamples.

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2020 • 8:37:22am

Workers thought it was bad when they were competing with China for the jobs. Wait til they learn they’re competing for the baby back ribs.

reuters.com

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:38:16am

Snake oil salesmen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:42:34am

re: #206 jaunte

Republicans keep trying to get Bright to admit that hydroxychloroquine works if administered early enough. Bright will have nothing to do with that.

They are still clinging to that forlorn hope.

Had that functioned, it would have been the ultimate political Hail Mary Play, it would have cemented Trump’s reelection and created his reputation as a visionary and savior of the economy…

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 8:43:11am

re: #206 jaunte

Snake oil salesmen.

“Come on, Dr. Bright, say something that gives Trump credit.”
“President Trump has made obvious through his missteps the need for competent leadership and a comprehensive plan for dealing with new viruses.”

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 8:44:00am

re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are still clinging to that forlorn hope.

Had that functioned, it would have been the ultimate political Hail Mary Play, it would have cemented Trump’s reelection and created his reputation as a visionary and savior of the economy…

That’s what they hope, just like Iraq worked for Bush 1.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:44:15am

re: #189 retired cynic

Sizable, yes, but probably under 20%. They will keep whacking away at it, trying to raise that percentage, but I’m betting it’s a losing battle. As restrictions are lifted, the virus will take advantage, and the 80% that believe in reality (at least as far as covid-19 is concerned), will be confirmed in that belief by the cases and deaths on the ground.

Not sure they will be able to villainize the individual health care workers, because they all know some, are family members of some. May even be supported by some. So that is an uphill climb, too.

The media will report all their thrashing around, of course, and Fox and OANN will make a hash of it. SNAFU.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:45:06am

re: #190 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

From the same article:

Notably, believing that all presidents were anointed also increased over the past year and in just as dramatic of fashion.

‘all’ ?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 8:47:45am

re: #211 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

‘all’ ?

Maybe they weren’t thinking about the brown one at the time.

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 8:48:18am

re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg

Maybe they weren’t thinking about the brown one at the time.

/

only the REAL Presidents…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:49:19am

re: #203 BigPapa

Can you imagine the shame if another country found a vaccine first, and Trump was tasked with buying it? He would fight it.

wait till they told him ‘the price’

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 8:49:59am

re: #206 jaunte

The GOP keeps falling back to the same bulkshit because they’ve got nothing else.

They have to keep hoping someone believes that HCQ type treatments are valid because there’s no strategy to stop the spread nationally. And the body count will keep rising without one.

HCQ and zinc is the latest attempt to claim that HCQ does something.

The reality is that HCQ is not a valid treatment no matter what it’s paired with. It’s got too many deadly side effects and shouldn’t be considered. Zinc? It might be no better than a placebo. You’d have to test zinc separate from HCQ and placebos as a double blind to see if there’s any effect.

I see FB postings claiming that NYU had a study showing HCQ+zinc is successful, but Langone is first beginning to study this. They’d have results some time this summer after enrolling 2000 people.

They’re latching on to early indicators that zinc plus other stuff can benefit. There’s a whole lot of wishful thinking here that this is a valid treatment.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:50:06am

re: #205 Decatur Deb

Workers thought it was bad when they were competing with China for the jobs. Wait til they learn they’re competing for the baby back ribs.

reuters.com

i am all out of quelle surprises to give

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 8:50:28am

re: #186 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

You mean like Pol Pot and Robespierre? Or maybe Stalin?

All of them were power-hungry radicals, just like the humorless radicals who have taken over the name of conservative (a movement that arose in the 17th century in reaction to the Civil Wars, later reinforced by the excesses of the French Revolution). And got the rubes to believe that they had something to do with conserving something while they went around breaking social mores and accepted norms.

Please cut the crap.

Pol Pot and Stalin were Communists. They were concerned about their power first. Leftist Communists were purged by Lenin early on in his rule. Pol Pot executed people who wore glasses because he felt that represented education, the very thing conservatives for 2,000 years have promoted as vital to civilisation. /s

Robespierre? Worked for that famous liberal Napoleon. After going after the aristocracy (remember, Napoleon made himself new aristocracy taking the title Emperor), Robespierre went after minor functionaries of government such as civil servants (remind you of anyone), then after anyone who opposed the Committee on Public Safety (whether wanting crueler policies or less cruel ones).

The literal only good thing Robespierre did was abolish slavery in the French Empire.

But since you asked, “I’ll cut the shit.”

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 8:53:09am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:56:11am

re: #215 lawhawk

The GOP keeps falling back to the same bulkshit because they’ve got nothing else.

They have to keep hoping someone believes that HCQ type treatments are valid because there’s no strategy to stop the spread nationally. And the body count will keep rising without one.

HCQ and zinc is the latest attempt to claim that HCQ does something.

The reality is that HCQ is not a valid treatment no matter what it’s paired with. It’s got too many deadly side effects and shouldn’t be considered. Zinc? It might be no better than a placebo. You’d have to test zinc separate from HCQ and placebos as a double blind to see if there’s any effect.

I see FB postings claiming that NYU had a study showing HCQ+zinc is successful, but Langone is first beginning to study this. They’d have results some time this summer after enrolling 2000 people.

They’re latching on to early indicators that zinc plus other stuff can benefit. There’s a whole lot of wishful thinking here that this is a valid treatment.

this is how all manner of woo and ‘supplements’ get past the FDA

1 - indicators
2 - ‘can’
3 - ‘benefit’

compare to
‘support’
‘boost’
‘help improve’
‘fight’
‘immune system’ - like it’s a single thing
‘has been linked to’

on and on

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Dread Pirate  May 14, 2020 • 8:56:12am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 8:58:11am

re: #214 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

wait till they told him ‘the price’

“Resign as President and every person in your country gets this vaccine.”

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 8:59:36am

re: #183 BigPapa

An old schoolboy crush of mine is melting down on my FB. She tried to explain what unmasking is and how it is illegal and corrupt. I’m being gentle, but firm.

I’m confused, I thought republicans were for unmasking? Trump and Pence don’t wear masks, do they?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 8:59:55am

re: #221 Eclectic Cyborg

“Resign as President and every person in your county gets this vaccine.”

down in one!

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2020 • 9:00:38am

re: #215 lawhawk

The GOP keeps falling back to the same bulkshit because they’ve got nothing else.

They have to keep hoping someone believes that HCQ type treatments are valid because there’s no strategy to stop the spread nationally. And the body count will keep rising without one.

HCQ and zinc is the latest attempt to claim that HCQ does something.

The reality is that HCQ is not a valid treatment no matter what it’s paired with. It’s got too many deadly side effects and shouldn’t be considered. Zinc? It might be no better than a placebo. You’d have to test zinc separate from HCQ and placebos as a double blind to see if there’s any effect.

I see FB postings claiming that NYU had a study showing HCQ+zinc is successful, but Langone is first beginning to study this. They’d have results some time this summer after enrolling 2000 people.

They’re latching on to early indicators that zinc plus other stuff can benefit. There’s a whole lot of wishful thinking here that this is a valid treatment.

Hydroxychloroquine+zinc+Grey Poupon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:00:51am

They know that “unmasking” sounds underhanded and all Deepy-Statey…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:01:13am

what happens when you elect an idiot

President Trump threatened China on Fox Business for the country’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Said Trump: “There are many things we could do. We could cut off the whole relationship.”

He added: “Now, if you did, what would happen? You’d save $500 billion if you cut off the whole relationship.”

what the fucking fuck?

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 9:01:18am
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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2020 • 9:02:26am

re: #206 jaunte

Snake oil salesmen.

I watched a few questions and it was clear that the Republicans are continuing with their efforts to make hydroxychoroquine a success to support Trump. None of them appeared to acknowledge that the reason so many doctors have been requesting that drug was solely due to Trump’s promotion of it as a treatment — and not because they read a journal or medical newsletter that recommended its use.

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 9:03:44am

re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They know that “unmasking” sounds underhanded and all Deepy-Statey…

And besides, President Trump has told them that it’s Bad and Evil, so there… what more do they need to know?

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 9:05:23am

re: #220 Dread Pirate

Judge Sullivan has history with DOJ. Hard to imagine his fury if he determines top leadership misrepresented facts to him in the motion to dismiss.

How hard can THIS be to determine?
All he has to do is read the newspaper….

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:05:29am

re: #226 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

what happens when you elect an idiot

what the fucking fuck?

It’s about $$$$ to him.

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Dave In Austin  May 14, 2020 • 9:05:46am

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 9:06:19am

re: #226 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

what happens when you elect an idiot

what the fucking fuck?

He thinks ending all trade with China somehow creates $500 billion in economic activity in the US?

He’s a fucking lunatic with a microphone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about and baffling with bulkshit. No one in his crony crime syndicate will ever correct him.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:06:51am
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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2020 • 9:07:02am

For a concrete measure of our family’s guess at Reopening: we just took delivery on a good treadmill. Alabama weather will soon shut down isolated walking, and the cancelled gym membership will eventually pay for it.

We aren’t surfacing soon, here.

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A Mom Anon  May 14, 2020 • 9:08:30am

re: #203 BigPapa

We’re also going to have to contend with anti vaccine CT and ridiculously awful information keeping people away from the shots out of fear and stupidity when there is an actual vaccine and treatments.

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Barefoot Grin  May 14, 2020 • 9:08:56am

re: #233 lawhawk

He thinks ending all trade with China somehow creates $500 billion in economic activity in the US?

He’s a fucking lunatic with a microphone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about and baffling with bulkshit. No one in his crony crime syndicate will ever correct him.

“Decoupling” has long been the goal of people like Navarro and Moore.

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:09:02am

re: #204 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Those were counterexamples.

You mean whataboutery.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:10:16am

re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter

I watched a few questions and it was clear that the Republicans are continuing with their efforts to make hydroxychoroquine a success to support Trump. None of them appeared to acknowledge that the reason so many doctors have been requesting that drug was solely due to Trump’s promotion of it as a treatment — and not because they read a journal or medical newsletter that recommended its use.

the thing about medicine and science is, for the most part, they are self correcting towards things that work

if the drug worked, they’d be using it
they’re not, because it doesn’t

no way to spin that politically

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teleskiguy  May 14, 2020 • 9:11:44am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 14, 2020 • 9:12:07am

I’m off to do other stuff like play my hammered dulcimer. I think I might have overstayed my welcome. Needz rum or something, or maybe more sleep. /s

Catch y’all later.

“Good Night” - from the Lawrence Welk stars

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:13:09am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The literal only good thing Robespierre did was abolish slavery in the French Empire.

Well, Robespierre didn’t do that on his own, rather he allowed it to happen. And of course Napoleon reestablished it, the ****.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2020 • 9:13:11am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:13:49am

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m off to do other stuff like play my hammered dulcimer. I think I might have overstayed my welcome. Needz rum or something, or maybe more sleep. /s

Catch y’all later.

not at all, your point was well made, it just seemed to rankle someone

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:14:00am

re: #236 A Mom Anon

We’re also going to have to contend with anti vaccine CT and ridiculously awful information keeping people away from the shots out of fear and stupidity when there is an actual vaccine and treatments.

electoral-vote.com this am

If a Vaccine Is Available, Will People Get It?

Many research groups are racing to discover a vaccine for COVID-19. Hopefully, one or more will succeed. However, that is only the first step. The second step is to test it thoroughly. If it passes the tests, the third step is to manufacture and distribute a few billion doses. Those are all the “easy” parts. The hard part will be convincing everyone to get the vaccine, as opposition is far-reaching and growing.
…
Anti-vaxxers are already campaigning against it by spreading lies all over social media.
…
Anti-vax protesters don’t break cleanly along partisan lines. They come from both the left and the right, which makes them extra hard to battle.

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:14:10am

re: #242 John Hughes

(By the way, my post as typed includes no asterisks).

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 9:14:20am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:15:04am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jim Risch of Idaho is the likely replacement I think. Don’t know him that well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2020 • 9:16:48am

moron

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:17:15am

re: #226 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

A pre-Adam Smith understanding of economics. Thinks markets are a zero-sum game.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2020 • 9:17:20am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:17:56am

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m off to do other stuff like play my hammered dulcimer. I think I might have overstayed my welcome. Needz rum or something, or maybe more sleep. /s

Catch y’all later.

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that thing is never sober is it?

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:18:16am

re: #239 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

the thing about medicine and science is, for the most part, they are self correcting towards things that work

if the drug worked, they’d be using it
they’re not, because it doesn’t

no way to spin that politically

Between climate change and this, Republicans have convinced themselves that scientists do what they do for money. Republicans think everyone acts like them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2020 • 9:19:20am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 9:20:43am

re: #233 lawhawk

He thinks ending all trade with China somehow creates $500 billion in economic activity in the US?

He’s a fucking lunatic with a microphone who doesn’t know what he’s talking about and baffling with bulkshit. No one in his crony crime syndicate will ever correct him.

HUH! HUUHH!! WORLDS MOAST GREATEST, TEH MOAST BEYOOTIFULL, INCREDIBBLE DEALMAKING BUSYINESS MAN IN ALL TEH HISTORY OF TEH GALACKSY1!1!!!11

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:21:06am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

I don’t have to meet you, Trump, to know you’re an idiot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 9:21:17am

re: #245 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Fuck anti-vaxxers. Give me my damn needle.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2020 • 9:22:02am

Janey absolutely murders Austin in this thread

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:22:27am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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He says this about every professional who speaks out against him.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:23:09am

Etta James is the bomb

YouTube

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:23:47am

re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

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florida says ‘hold our beer’

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 14, 2020 • 9:27:22am

re: #248 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Jim Risch of Idaho is the likely replacement I think. Don’t know him that well.

James E. Risch Committee Assignments

He’s also my Senator and a tRump enabler along with Crapo.

*spit*

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:28:41am

re: #262 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

James E. Risch Committee Assignments

He’s also my Senator and a tRump enabler along with Crapo.

*spit*

Figured. Hopefully if all goes well in November, Warner will become Intel chair.

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Dread Pirate  May 14, 2020 • 9:29:27am
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Dread Pirate  May 14, 2020 • 9:32:25am

Do it, I double dog dare you, Donny.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:33:52am

re: #234 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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lindsey responds:

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:35:43am

re: #266 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

lindsey responds:

The worst thing that could happen to the GOP would be for Obama to get a stage to explain how the president is supposed to behave.

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b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)  May 14, 2020 • 9:37:16am

re: #267 Belafon

The worst thing that could happen to the GOP would be for Obama to get a stage to explain how the president is supposed to behave.

LOL, Has Obama volunteered to testify yet?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:37:38am

re: #267 Belafon

The worst thing that could happen to the GOP would be for Obama to get a stage to explain how the president is supposed to behave.

now that lindsey’s ‘declined’ all obama has to do is announce “i’m ready. anytime”

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retired cynic  May 14, 2020 • 9:41:16am

re: #247 lawhawk

But this is a step with collateral issues - namely the release of the report on foreign interference into 2016 election.

I would bet that McConnell puts in someone who shuts that down, or drags it out, more likely, until past Nov 3.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:44:15am

Can you imagine Trump’s twitter feed if Obama were to testify?

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:46:27am

re: #183 BigPapa

An old schoolboy crush of mine is melting down on my FB. She tried to explain what unmasking is and how it is illegal and corrupt. I’m being gentle, but firm.

Christ, every effing day with these people; there’s always a new fucking conspiracy theory to research and shoot down.

I keep on top of the stuff partly because my partner’s mom is glued to Fox News, and she’s always telling my partner about some new crazy shit Fox is pushing.

It’s really tiring.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 9:46:40am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:48:29am

re: #273 jaunte

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I wouldn’t want a guy like Rand Paul to be my ophthalmologist let alone my Senator.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:49:01am

re: #274 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I wouldn’t want a guy like Rand Paul to be my ophthalmologist let alone my Senator.

or your neighbor…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 9:49:03am

re: #274 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I wouldn’t want a guy like Rand Paul to be my ophthalmologist let alone my Senator.

Or your neighbor, I bet.

/

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:49:21am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or your neighbor…

That goes without saying.

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:49:38am

re: #272 Mattand

Christ, every effing day with these people; there’s always a new fucking conspiracy theory to research and shoot down.

I keep on top of the stuff partly because my partner’s mom is glued to Fox News, and she’s always telling my partner about some new crazy shit Fox is pushing.

It’s really tiring.

I’m not even sure I completely understand this unmasking horseshit. Is it the Obama administration investigated Flynn for (eventually proven) corruption while the campaign was going on, and now the DOJ and Barr are “unmasking” him, Biden, and others as secret evil masterminds?

Do I have this right? Is it really that fucking stupid?

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:50:00am

re: #183 BigPapa

An old schoolboy crush of mine is melting down on my FB. She tried to explain what unmasking is and how it is illegal and corrupt. I’m being gentle, but firm.

See my comment at #64.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 9:50:19am

re: #278 Mattand

I’m not even sure I completely understand this unmasking horseshit. Is it the Obama administration investigated Flynn for (eventually proven) corruption while the campaign was going on, and now the DOJ and Barr are “unmasking” him, Biden, and others as secret evil masterminds?

Do I have this right? Is it really that fucking stupid?

Sounds that way.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 9:50:33am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Got me by TWO SECONDS lol.

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:51:23am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

or your neighbor…

Yeah, administering the regular beatdowns would get to be a chore after a while.

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 9:51:59am

re: #278 Mattand

I’m not even sure I completely understand this unmasking horseshit. Is it the Obama administration investigated Flynn for (eventually proven) corruption while the campaign was going on, and now the DOJ and Barr are “unmasking” him, Biden, and others as secret evil masterminds?

Do I have this right? Is it really that fucking stupid?

Unmasking is when someone in a department, like State, decides that it’s important to know the identity of an American in order to do their job. Flynn was talking to foreign agents, and varioius departments that needed to know abou the agents also came to realize they needed to know who was on the other end of the line.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:52:20am

re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg

Or your neighbor, I bet.

/

you stopped to add a sarc tag!

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Dread Pirate  May 14, 2020 • 9:52:48am
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 9:54:10am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

Wow, that’s a fucking word salad there.

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:54:37am

re: #283 Belafon

Unmasking is when someone in a department, like State, decides that it’s important to know the identity of an American in order to do their job. Flynn was talking to foreign agents, and varioius departments that needed to know abou the agents also came to realize they needed to know who was on the other end of the line.

So how does this cast Obama, et. al., as criminals?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:55:26am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

Senior GOP aide: “Only those in the hipster antitrust movement think banning mergers is a good idea and it’s clear they’ve let their kombucha ferment for too long

They sure have their talking points down.

FFS. A Free Market is supposed to operate for the benefit of all participants: producers as well as consumers, employers as well as employees, lenders as well as borrowers, insurers as well as the insured.

Monopolies tip the balance. Opposing them is not kombucha-fueled hipsterism, it is sound social and economic policy.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 9:55:37am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

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amazing how fast the word ‘some’ by democrats becomes ‘all’ by republicans

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:55:45am

re: #278 Mattand

I’m not even sure I completely understand this unmasking horseshit.

The NSA was running surveillance on some Russians, which they’re allowed to, and recorded them talking to an American, who has to be “masked” (transcripts show him as “American #1” or something like that). There is a legal process for “unmasking” people who seem to be doing really bad shit.

As Flynn was.

Interestingly since Trump’s election the number of requests for “unmasking” has massively increased.

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:55:59am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

The hell is a “hipster antitrust movement”, LOL? Sounds like when Gingrich kept screaming that Obama was an “anti colonialist”.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 9:56:43am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

When did Dennis Miller become a senior GOP aide?

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:57:27am

re: #285 Dread Pirate

Only those in the hipster antitrust movement think banning mergers is a good idea and it’s clear they’ve let their kombucha ferment for too long

Bring back Standard Oil!

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 9:57:52am

re: #291 Mattand

The hell is a “hipster antitrust movement”, LOL? Sounds like when Gingrich kept screaming that Obama was an “anti colonialist”.

An antitrust movement that starts in coffee shops?

/

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:57:58am

re: #290 John Hughes

The NSA was running surveillance on some Russians, which they’re allowed to, and recorded them talking to an American, who has to be “masked” (transcripts show him as “American #1” or something like that). There is a legal process for “unmasking” people who seem to be doing really bad shit.

As Flynn was.

Interestingly since Trump’s election the number of requests for “unmasking” has massively increased.

Okay, that makes more sense. Thank you.

Still makes my head hurt that this is the new CT from Republicans, but now I know how to refute it.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 9:58:00am

Overheard in a hIpster antitrust kombucha shop.

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John Hughes  May 14, 2020 • 9:58:08am

re: #287 Mattand

So how does this cast Obama, et. al., as criminals?

It doesn’t. It’s bullshit.

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 9:58:38am

re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg

An antitrust movement that starts in coffee shops?

/

Lots of avocado toast is served at the meetings, which are held over Slack.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 9:59:29am

re: #291 Mattand

The hell is a “hipster antitrust movement”, LOL? Sounds like when Gingrich kept screaming that Obama was an “anti colonialist”.

I really thought at first that he said that Obama had a “Keynsian world view”, which rather made sense, but he said “Kenyan world view”.

This of course was a major dogwhislte: namely Mau-Maus rising up and chopping white folks up with machetes in their sleep.

Certainly not a reference to a British colony seeking its independence, since that has nothing at all to do with what America is about…

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 9:59:37am
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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 10:00:10am

re: #287 Mattand

So how does this cast Obama, et. al., as criminals?

I think it involves a picture of Obama and Trump’s sharpie.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 10:00:46am

Trump has got to have invested heavily in hydroxychloroquine.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 10:00:48am

re: #300 jaunte

“Operation Warp Speed”

Let me guess. This is going to be the slowest initiative ever.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 10:01:11am

Operation Warp Reality.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 10:01:43am

The virus can’t be bullied, you moron.

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Mattand  May 14, 2020 • 10:01:44am

re: #299 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I really thought at first that he said that Obama had a “Keynsian world view”, which rather made sense, but he said “Kenyan world view”.

This of course was a major dogwhislte: namely Mau-Maus rising up and chopping white folks up with machetes in their sleep.

Certainly not a reference to a British colony seeking its independence, since that has nothing at all to do with what America is about…

The bolded was always my response to that stuff: “You know who were anti colonialists? The Founding Fathers, dipshit.”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 14, 2020 • 10:01:49am

re: #300 jaunte

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Shameful assholes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2020 • 10:02:14am

re: #305 jaunte

The virus can’t be bullied, you moron.

No, but the people who tell the truth about the virus can be.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:04:07am

re: #292 jaunte

When did Dennis Miller become a senior GOP aide?

there isnt that big a pool to choose from //

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 10:05:09am

re: #309 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

A full spectrum from chacha to chachi.

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Dread Pirate  May 14, 2020 • 10:06:26am

Trump likes hydroxy so much he bought the factory.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:07:27am

re: #295 Mattand

Okay, that makes more sense. Thank you.

Still makes my head hurt that this is the new CT from Republicans, but now I know how to refute it.

‘crackpot’
and move on

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 10:07:49am

re: #287 Mattand

So how does this cast Obama, et. al., as criminals?

Apparently, just because Donald Trump says so.

And for an disgracefully large number of people, that seems to be enough.

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lawhawk  May 14, 2020 • 10:09:03am

Remember when Trump touted the Abbott labs rapid covid19 test? You know, the presser where Trump showed off the machine upside down?

Yeah?

Well, turns out that independent study suggests that the test is unreliable and should not be used.

A new study from New York University found that Abbott Laboratories’ rapid COVID-19 coronavirus test, which gives results in less than 13 minutes, missed diagnosing up to half of known positive cases, signifying a major potential hindrance to ramping up testing in the United States.

In fact, this is the same NYU that’s conducting a covid19 study re: HCQ and athryomycin and zinc (that right wingers are touting as a miracle cure, when there’s no evidence that HCQ is what’s causing any of the results, especially when other studies had to be stopped over deadly side effects and consequences).

This rapid test is what Trumpworld had been using at the WH.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:09:04am

re: #303 Eclectic Cyborg

“Operation Warp Speed”

Let me guess. This is going to be the slowest initiative ever.

and with the death star announcement from the other day im not sure what universe they’re in

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2020 • 10:10:44am

re: #303 Eclectic Cyborg

“Operation Warp Speed”

Let me guess. This is going to be the slowest initiative ever.

It’ll go straight to plaid.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 14, 2020 • 10:11:31am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 10:18:07am

re: #317 The Pie Overlord!

“They would rather see our country fail, and you know what that means because part of failure is death.”

Which is why he advocates sending workers to their deaths to help the economy recover…

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Eventual Carrion  May 14, 2020 • 10:20:47am

re: #16 gocart mozart

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Onto the grill

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 14, 2020 • 10:22:07am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 14, 2020 • 10:22:50am

re: #314 lawhawk

This rapid test is what Trumpworld had been using at the WH.

You really have to wonder how many WH staff are infected, sick, or dead - and their status is being covered up with another rave-a-thon….

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teleskiguy  May 14, 2020 • 10:23:40am

re: #271 Belafon

Can you imagine Trump’s twitter feed if Obama were to testify?

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 10:27:06am

re: #247 lawhawk

Should be resigning and prosecuted for insider trading along with Loeffler.

They won’t make him resign; that would put his seat up this year in a State that’s trending D.

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Mike Lamb  May 14, 2020 • 10:29:11am

re: #317 The Pie Overlord!

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Just so we are clear…he says that Democrats would rather see more death than have him get re-elected, while at the same time he is leaning on (mostly) Democratic governors to re-open despite not satisfying CDC guidelines.

The gaslighting is tiresome.

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VegasGolfer  May 14, 2020 • 10:30:43am

re: #323 sagehen

They won’t make him resign; that would put his seat up this year in a State that’s trending D.

Burrs term ends in 2023
ballotpedia.org

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 10:31:51am

re: #323 sagehen

They won’t make him resign; that would put his seat up this year in a State that’s trending D.

True: Burr’s NC colleague Thom Tillis was recently polling at - what? nine points down to the Dem challenger?

(And in any case, NC law specifies that “replacement” Senate appointees have be from the same party as the old one. Though who NC’s (D) governor might appoint is an interesting question)

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Interesting Times  May 14, 2020 • 10:32:17am

...

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:33:16am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 200510 edition ———————>
“Red, no black! Aaaaaaaaaarrrrggghh”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2020 • 10:33:17am

re: #327 Interesting Times

Found the kid playing with her dog instead of Zooming with her teacher. She told me not to worry. She took a screenshot of herself “paying attention,” then cut her video & replaced it with the picture. “It’s a gallery view of 20 kids, mom. They can’t tell.” She is 10.

that has been going around for weeks now

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Interesting Times  May 14, 2020 • 10:34:10am

re: #329 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I posted the wrong tweet and deleted it immediately. Please delete your comment as well, because it makes me antsy.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:34:32am

re: #326 Jay C

True: Burr’s NC colleague Thom Tillis was recently polling at - what? nine points down to the Dem challenger?

(And in any case, NC law specifies that “replacement” Senate appointees have be from the same party as the old one. Though who NC’s (D) governor might appoint is an interesting question)

at this point Tillis has all but disowned Burr

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Belafon  May 14, 2020 • 10:35:40am

re: #317 The Pie Overlord!

“Ignore they bodies of you’re dead relatives, they don’t matter anymore anyway.”

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Dave In Austin  May 14, 2020 • 10:38:12am

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 10:39:07am

re: #331 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

at this point Tillis has all but disowned Burr

And come November, the state may well disown Tillis as well…..

Though a more-thorough look says that NC - like many another state - has to have a “replacement” Senator stand at the “next general election” - or at least someone has to. It would be delicious to see both of NC’s Senate seats (like Georgia’s) come up in a possible “blue wave” year: but, sadly, probably unlikely…..

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Interesting Times  May 14, 2020 • 10:39:24am

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 10:39:55am

re: #287 Mattand

So how does this cast Obama, et. al., as criminals?

It’s the mirror-verse.

Trumpers are trying to claim that Obama was wire-tapping Flynn. In truth, they were wiretapping various Russians and Turks and so on, who were speaking with Unspecified US Person. The conversations alarmed them enough that they decided they needed to know who was saying those things to Russia and Turkey, so they unmasked Unspecified US Person and that’s where they first realized it was Flynn.

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Interesting Times  May 14, 2020 • 10:43:06am

Don’t you hate it when you copy the wrong tweet by accident, and someone quotes it before you even have a chance to fix the comment? -_- Anyway, here’s what I meant to post:

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:43:58am

re: #336 sagehen

It’s the mirror-verse.

Trumpers are trying to claim that Obama was wire-tapping Flynn. In truth, they were wiretapping various Russians and Turks and so on, who were speaking with Unspecified US Person. The conversations alarmed them enough that they decided they needed to know who was saying those things to Russia and Turkey, so they unmasked Unspecified US Person and that’s where they first realized it was Flynn.

once again, if you don’t want to get recorded on a wire tap, don’t talk to people likely to be wire tapped.

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 10:44:39am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 14, 2020 • 10:45:01am

It’s starting….
upnorthlive.com: Man carrying Barbie doll hanging from noose causes fight on steps of state Capitol

A fight started on the front steps of the Michigan State Capitol building after a man carrying a Barbie doll from a noose claimed it was Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Investigators said the man brought an ax or hatchet of some sort to the protest with the Barbie attached to an American Flag. The ax was confiscated by Michigan State Police.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 14, 2020 • 10:45:39am

re: #339 jaunte

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but hunter biden something someting

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 14, 2020 • 10:46:47am

re: #332 Belafon

“Ignore they bodies of you’re dead relatives, they don’t matter anymore anyway.”

And if there is a connection between COVID-19 infections in children and them developing Kawasaki disease we’ll be burying more children* as well as elderly.

* - Wikipedia indicates that mortality for Kawasaki is 1% if untreated and 0.2% with treatment. Symptoms don’t look like fun in any case with the aneurysm risk.

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 10:46:57am

re: #321 Eric The Fruit Bat

You really have to wonder how many WH staff are infected, sick, or dead - and their status is being covered up with another rave-a-thon….

Nobody’s seen Mick Mulvaney for what seems like a long time…

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sagehen  May 14, 2020 • 10:50:54am

re: #338 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

once again, if you don’t want to get recorded on a wire tap, don’t talk to people likely to be wire tapped.

corollary: don’t put anything in e-mail you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the NYT.

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A Mom Anon  May 14, 2020 • 10:51:07am

re: #342 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I was listening to the radio earlier and another thing that’s happening is huge blood clots in major arteries in some cases. Babies having heart attacks. So yeah, this is beyond horror movie level terrifying.

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Jay C  May 14, 2020 • 10:52:51am

re: #339 jaunte

SRSLY: Can anybody explain exactly what Jared Kushner has done in the 3+ years of the Trump Admin? (aside from leveraging his WH-insider status to score a billion-dollar bailout for his failed office-building project? Which, come to think of it, is probably “accomplishment” enough by his lights….)

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William Lewis  May 14, 2020 • 10:58:46am

re: #340 Eric The Fruit Bat

It’s starting….
upnorthlive.com: Man carrying Barbie doll hanging from noose causes fight on steps of state Capitol

Meanwhile the Chickenshit Republican Court here overturned the “Stay At Home” order. One wonders how many will die from the Instant reopening of the bars that caused last night. Someday there will be justice; I just hope I live long enough to see it.

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Teddy's Person  May 14, 2020 • 11:00:44am

re: #346 Jay C

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SRSLY: Can anybody explain exactly what Jared Kushner has done in the 3+ years of the Trump Admin? (aside from leveraging his WH-insider status to score a billion-dollar bailout for his failed office-building project? Which, come to think of it, is probably “accomplishment” enough by his lights….)

I would like to think that all of Jared’s MBA-speak leads to failure. However, I have this ominous feeling that we don’t really know everything Jared’s done. What’s been made public is bad enough, but he’s probably been using his security clearance to gather massive amounts of information. Jared’s post White House income will be generated on all the blackmail.

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lizardofid  May 14, 2020 • 11:03:15am

re: #340 Eric The Fruit Bat

It’s starting….
upnorthlive.com: Man carrying Barbie doll hanging from noose causes fight on steps of state Capitol

They confiscated his ax. If he had brought an AR-15, he would have been ok. : (

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jaunte  May 14, 2020 • 11:31:54am

re: #346 Jay C

What he’s done is to keep his private self-dealing using the power of our government very very quiet.

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gocart mozart  May 14, 2020 • 12:35:25pm
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Eventual Carrion  May 14, 2020 • 2:00:26pm

re: #234 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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And Obama should tell them FUCK OFF


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