Senate Republicans like Rand Paul are following Donald Trump’s lead and trying to sew skepticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s advice as it relates to reopening the economy. #Colbert #StephenAtHome #DrFauci
Except one of them isn’t wearing theirs properly. And Trump’s not wearing one as usual.
Leading from the rear as usual.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 14, 2020
The part with the birthday cake was sweet. Made me smile.
Seething with anger. Trump forced my cousin Ron out as Deputy Postmaster General because he was advocating national vote by mail…
Just thinking about Obama’s address to 2020 graduating seniors coming up soon. Obama being Obama, is going to deliver a message of hope and possibility and although he will probably talk about the severe hardships and challenges ahead, I doubt that he will spend any time attacking anyone. He knows who he’s talking to and, unlike some, he won’t turn this into a campaign event. I bet he makes a point of not using the ‘T’ word, and I bet he does his damnedest to make every kid feel like a million bucks.
It’s going to drive Trump into an insane Twitter rage (what else is new). I can’t wait to watch Obama’s address. Multiple times.
A suggestion, Charles: In addition to having the new comments button update periodically, have the panel that indicates there’s a next thread update when a new thread is added.
Looks like all the attention Richard Burr is receiving isn’t so much about insider trading. Source: Daily Kos
re: #7 stpaulbear
Just thinking about Obama’s address to 2020 graduating seniors coming up soon. Obama being Obama, is going to deliver a message of hope and possibility and although he will probably talk about the severe hardships and challenges ahead, I doubt that he will spend any time attacking anyone. He knows who he’s talking to and, unlike some, he won’t turn this into a campaign event. I bet he makes a point of not using the ‘T’ word, and I bet he does his damnedest to make every kid feel like a million bucks.
It’s going to drive Trump into an insane Twitter rage (what else is new). I can’t wait to watch Obama’s address. Multiple times.
It’s gonna be a good thing for those kids. I fear Trump has permanently normalized behavior we should never want from our President.
re: #7 stpaulbear
Just thinking about Obama’s address to 2020 graduating seniors coming up soon. Obama being Obama, is going to deliver a message of hope and possibility and although he will probably talk about the severe hardships and challenges ahead, I doubt that he will spend any time attacking anyone. He knows who he’s talking to and, unlike some, he won’t turn this into a campaign event. I bet he makes a point of not using the ‘T’ word, and I bet he does his damnedest to make every kid feel like a million bucks.
It’s going to drive Trump into an insane Twitter rage (what else is new). I can’t wait to watch Obama’s address. Multiple times.
Not only that, you’ll hear the usual bigots demanding that their children be excused from listening to his message just like they did when he was President.
Fuck all those cracker bigots!
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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Teddy, help is on the way!
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
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Trump and Kayleigh McEnany are now trying to dismiss the pandemic response plan Obama left for Trump as a mere “paper packet” that paled in comparison to Trump’s (nonexistent) plan pic.twitter.com/lsQ8UJUqK7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020
re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
None of the wingnut kids will be allowed to watch him anyway, but I think the majority of kids will appreciate it.
re: #11 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not only that, you’ll hear the usual bigots demanding that their children be excused from listening to his message just like they did when he was President.
Fuck all those cracker bigots!
I remember that. I think that to me back in ‘09 was when I realized there was a large segment of the population that would never accept Onama not just as POTUS but a fellow American. It got me back into actively being involved in politics and I joined the college Dems the following fall.
re: #13 plansbandc
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re: #9 Teddy’s Person
Looks like all the attention Richard Burr is receiving isn’t so much about insider trading. Source: Daily Kos
And this informative thread from Balloon Juice:
(complete with shoutout to Our Charles @ no. 54)
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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This little demon spawn has learned my schedule and if I am not up at 3:00 A.M. she comes in and gets me up to let her out.
Do these dumbfucks know it’s only mid May? Do these immensely out of shape and ugly mf’s really want to get into a cardio and popularity contest with President Barack Obama?
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 14, 2020
So proud. I’m crying.
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I sincerely hope that the media coverage of this event will be proportionate to all of the commentary in the past two months on how game changing it would be if @JoeBiden held such an event pic.twitter.com/ME15k2tFG3
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) May 14, 2020
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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Chica looking for lizards
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
This is Lily getting her belly worshipped. She lies down in front of the other dogs just waiting for them to lick - worship - her belly.
I plant mommy kisses on the belly all the time but it’s not like a good brotherly lick (for 20 minutes, hence the worship).
re: #24 Charles Johnson
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Be secure in the knowledge that the Screw York Times will continue to try to kneecap Joe…
re: #21 Joe Bacon 🌹
Meanwhile Asskisser Kelly Loeffler gets a pass…gosh I wonder why?
Sen. Kelly Loefller (R-GA) was asked by Politico if she’s had any contact with the FBI, like Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC).
She didn’t answer the question
OK, sorry, but I don’t get what everyone is freaking out about over NY letting the temporary morgue refrigerated trucks go back into regular service after thorough cleanings
I really wish the Song of the South wasn’t so racist because Senate Republicans threatening to subpoena Obama is some real let’s throw Br’er Rabbit in the briar patch shit
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) May 14, 2020
re: #31 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Sen. Kelly Loefller (R-GA) was asked by Politico if she’s had any contact with the FBI, like Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC).
She didn’t answer the question
On advice of counsel?
Trump is the only REAL MAN there.
(Do I need the /SARC tag on this?) https://t.co/4pS8qlhmh8— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, sorry, but I don’t get what everyone is freaking out about over NY letting the temporary morgue refrigerated trucks go back into regular service after thorough cleanings
Assumes facts not in evidence:
Trump’s FDA says it’s okay for the trucks in which the bodies of people who died from #COVID19 were kept to be used to store and transport food.
Even if bodily fluids leaked.
It offers “recommendations” about cleaning.
Not regulations. Recommendations.https://t.co/Ehom63ZR9y— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) May 13, 2020
re: #36 Charles Johnson
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If everyone else is wearing a mask I don’t have to
(Forget contaminating the product…)
Trump is the only REAL MAN there.
(Do I need the /SARC tag on this?) https://t.co/4pS8qlhmh8— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
re: #33 goddamnedfrank
I really wish the Song of the South wasn’t so racist because Senate Republicans threatening to subpoena Obama is some real let’s throw Br’er Rabbit in the briar patch shit
The original stories were not racist, but the Disney interpretation was widely seen so.
re: #38 Interesting Times
Assumes facts not in evidence:
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We really mean nothing to him. All this asshole cares about is himself.
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The original stories were not racist, but the Disney interpretation was widely seen so.
Yep, Disney definitely did some fucked up racist shit back in the day.
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, sorry, but I don’t get what everyone is freaking out about over NY letting the temporary morgue refrigerated trucks go back into regular service after thorough cleanings
1) how thorough is the cleaning? who certifies the thoroughness?
2) in an Orthodox kitchen, there’s literally no level of cleaning that would ever make it okay to serve pot roast on the dish that last week was a cheese platter.
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
She’s got her eyes closed, she’s not even paying attention, you can get that stick right?
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, sorry, but I don’t get what everyone is freaking out about over NY letting the temporary morgue refrigerated trucks go back into regular service after thorough cleanings
It’s the “clean it if you feel like it” that’s really gross.
re: #20 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
This little demon spawn has learned my schedule and if I am not up at 3:00 A.M. she comes in and gets me up to let her out.
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re: #36 Charles Johnson
Owens and Minor hire disabled people for work in their medical supply warehouses. My son was employed by them a few years ago via the Tommy Nobis Center in metro Atlanta. I wonder how many people on the autism spectrum or with other disabilities were exposed by these idiots?And who the fuck let them in without PPE? I would have been on a warpath if that had happened with one of my family members there.
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
Kasper was the last of his litter available at the shelter. He had nearly given up finding his forever home until the wife and daughter walked by him. He was dejected and did not get up to wag his tail as they headed toward the end of the row. On their way back they stopped by his cage and were allowed to leash him up and take him to the play area. That brought him to life and he has been apart of our family since. Kasper has now grown into the ears and paws.
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So proud. I’m crying.
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re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
In which we meet Matthew:
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The voiceover on that video is 👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Matthew! Kitchy kitchy Koo!
re: #51 SerialUpDinger
Kasper’s ears are my everything right now.
re: #51 SerialUpDinger
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Kasper was the last of his litter available at the shelter. He had nearly given up finding his forever home until the wife and daughter walked by him. He was dejected and did not get up to wag his tail as they headed toward the end of the row. On their way back they stopped by his cage and were allowed to leash him up and take him to the play area. That brought him to life and he has been apart of our family since. Kasper has now grown into the ears and paws.
Those ears! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I think that the Allentown PPE plant is same one where employees have been living there so they don’t contaminate the product, and Trump stomps in without a mask after having been exposed at the White House. Trumps is a fucking monster.
Just got back from the local Subway sandwich shop. No social distancing to speak of. Only myself, the employees, and a cop were wearing masks. Grrr.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 14, 2020
re: #59 teleskiguy
Just got back from the local Subway sandwich shop. No social distancing to speak of. Only myself, the employees, and a cop were wearing masks. Grrr.
This is what comes of a President and his admirers/lackeys telling everyone that Covid is a hoax, is no worse than the flu, that it will go away on its own, etc…
re: #39 Barefoot Grin
Does Alvin know that those chipmunks might be Simon and Theodore?
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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re: #58 Teddy’s Person
I think that the Allentown PPE plant is same one where employees have been living there so they don’t contaminate the product, and Trump stomps in without a mask after having been exposed at the White House. Trumps is a fucking monster.
Those running the facility should have barred his entrance. They knew better but everyone is fearful of what the mad tyrant would do next.
re: #62 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #61 Teddy’s Person
Does Alvin know that those chipmunks might be Simon and Theodore?
Ha! Bad caption on my part. The taunter could be any of the trio, but the pup is our rescue named Aki. She’s learning to be pretty good on the leash, but every once in awhile few minutes her hunting instincts kick in.
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So proud. I’m crying.
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So it turns out that the Trump cult’s release of the unmasking requests related to Flynn suggest that Flynn was engaged in OTHER suspicious activity beyond what’s publicly known. Good work, guys. https://t.co/fK4PHKV3Eq
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 14, 2020
re: #59 teleskiguy
Just got back from the local Subway sandwich shop. No social distancing to speak of. Only myself, the employees, and a cop were wearing masks. Grrr.
That is terrible — but, in general, employees are at greater risk since they are repeatedly exposed to many customers during the day who may be infected, whereas the rest of us can significantly limit our contacts.
re: #65 Barefoot Grin
Ha! Bad caption on my part. The taunter could be any of the trio, but the pup is our rescue named Aki. She’s learning to be pretty good on the leash, but every
once in awhilefew minutes her hunting instincts kick in.
A friend’s dogs are mighty, mighty squirrel hunters. One day, an unfortunate squirrel was taunting them from a tree and fell. My friend’s comment, “it was a bloodbath.”
edited for missing apostrophes
re: #67 Charles Johnson
So it turns out that the Trump cult’s release of the unmasking requests related to Flynn suggest that Flynn was engaged in OTHER suspicious activity beyond what’s publicly known. Good work, guys.
This right here, made my day.
Trump, on script, compliments workers at a Pennsylvania medical distribution center for their long hours, then ad-libs that when he asked company reps what the hours are, “They said, ‘You won’t even believe it.’ I said, ‘But I work those hours too. We’re all working hard.’”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 14, 2020
re: #45 sagehen
1) how thorough is the cleaning? who certifies the thoroughness?
2) in an Orthodox kitchen, there’s literally no level of cleaning that would ever make it okay to serve pot roast on the dish that last week was a cheese platter.
Regarding #2, glassware and metal can be kashered.
Trump began his remarks in Pennsylvania by disparaging social distancing pic.twitter.com/N8LdXi5icu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2020
re: #73 Kilroy was here
Rub my belly or the boxes get it.
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
I think that the Allentown PPE plant is same one where employees have been living there so they don’t contaminate the product, and Trump stomps in without a mask after having been exposed at the White House. Trumps is a fucking monster.
Different plant—the one that stood up and said NOPE was the Braskem plant in Marcus Hook, Pa.
re: #70 Teddy’s Person
This right here, made my day.
They’re the gang that not only can’t shoot straight, they can barely breathe on their own accord. Thank goodness.
re: #77 mmmirele
Sharing a picture of my furry landlady, who is wondering when I’m going back to work.
Teddy’s just confused and now thinks anytime I go out, he’s going with.
re: #78 BeachDem
Different plant—the one that stood up and said NOPE was the Braskem plant in Marcus Hook, Pa.
Oh good, I did a quick google before I posted but wasn’t thorough enough in my research.
re: #85 retired cynic
And some bush honeysuckle. (The first iris are not yet open.)
I like the smell of honeysuckle.
re: #83 Teddy’s Person
Oh good, I did a quick google before I posted but wasn’t thorough enough in my research.
Just call me a research nerd (‘cause that’s what I am) and I needed a break from trying to find the right contacts for some phone conferences I’m setting up.
re: #86 steve_davis
Scrolling by, I thought that was a butterfly for a minute.
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is Lily getting her belly worshipped. She lies down in front of the other dogs just waiting for them to lick - worship - her belly.
I plant mommy kisses on the belly all the time but it’s not like a good brotherly lick (for 20 minutes, hence the worship).
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Babies and cats and flowers and dogs, oh my. My spirits are certainly lifting.
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
I think that the Allentown PPE plant is same one where employees have been living there so they don’t contaminate the product, and Trump stomps in without a mask after having been exposed at the White House. Trumps is a fucking monster.
Did they let him in? They had barred him the other day.
re: #80 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
They’re the gang that not only can’t shoot straight, they can barely breathe on their own accord. Thank goodness.
Oh, the Trump Gang can shoot straight, all right.
Every time they take aim, they put a slug straight into their own foot…..
Downstairs there was a discussion of the significant length of time to develop a new vaccine and, for some diseases, even after many years of efforts the scientists have not succeeded. There have been previous attempts to develop a vaccine for SARS, which were apparently abandoned when the disease no longer appeared to be a threat. So certain facilities could start from where this effort left off, thereby potentially creating a vaccine on a much abbreviated time scale.
re: #44 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, Disney definitely did some fucked up racist shit back in the day.
that was from Uncle Remus, no? Yeah, those were pretty freakin’ racist. I mean, a white author writing in his interpretation of plantation dialect. Hurston could get away with that. Harris, not so much.
re: #98 Belafon
Did they let him in? They had barred him the other day.
See BeachDem @ # 78. I was mistaken. It’s a different plant.
re: #100 Hecuba’s daughter
Is that infrastructure and research still attainable?
Trump logic.
And it’s correct. We’d have very few documented cases.
But many more dead people.
He seems perfectly OK with that. https://t.co/VUVT2rIhNA— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
White House Security Officials Relieved Ivanka Trump’s Computer Just Cardboard Box With Mirror On It https://t.co/ZaKOrC1M5R pic.twitter.com/YE5XlHqesy
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 14, 2020
Wait a second!
How could John Brennan be on MSNBC right now when Q said he was arrested on Monday along with Page and Stzrok?
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
Wait a second!
How could John Brennan be on MSNBC right now when Q said he was arrested on Monday along with Page and Stzrok?
Because Q is on more bath salts than the guy who ate the homeless guy’s face in Florida.
re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter
That is terrible — but, in general, employees are at greater risk since they are repeatedly exposed to many customers during the day who may be infected, whereas the rest of us can significantly limit our contacts.
And this is what my wingnut friends who are screaming for parks and such to reopen don’t understand or are willing to admit. The closure isn’t tyranny trying to stop them from having fun*, it’s to protect the state park employees.
* - I got my fill of that particular argument thirty years ago dealing with fraternity undergraduates who did not want to face up to the requirements and responsibilities involved with events like parties and the related liability control; e.g. the steps you take to prevent something really stupid and potentially fatal to someone happening.
Werner Herzog gave his very last fuck back in the womb. (h/t @dongwon) https://t.co/qXSvbkEsXA pic.twitter.com/fK58QFUFyd
— Matt Wallace (@MattFnWallace) May 14, 2020
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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re: #78 BeachDem
Different plant—the one that stood up and said NOPE was the Braskem plant in Marcus Hook, Pa.
Good for them. (I used to work for Braskem.)
re: #101 steve_davis
that was from Uncle Remus, no? Yeah, those were pretty freakin’ racist. I mean, a white author writing in his interpretation of plantation dialect. Hurston could get away with that. Harris, not so much.
I dunno: even from a cursory read of his bio, Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) seems to have been (for a white Southerner of that era) fairly “woke” when it came to racial matters. One of his main concerns in recording the African-American folktales he collected as the Uncle Remus stories was to present them as actual, respectable folklore, (and connecting them to the African folk-tales they were modeled on): his “dialect” - awkward as it appears to us today - was actually praised back then as being far closer to the actual speech patterns of black Southerners: vs. the hackneyed “darky” patois common in blackface minstrels shows and the like. Maybe not what we would consider palatable nowadays, but I’d give old Joel a break.
re: #112 I Would Prefer Not To
I wish I was as happy when I tried to run! Take Care
Delightful doggo aside, that’s a great picture.
Social distancing is renewing my appreciation for the smallsword.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 14, 2020
re: #105 Charles Johnson
Out of sight. Out of mind.
Could you imagine if the Russians worked as hard to improve Russia as they do to destroy Democracy!
— I see a pattern here (@tuckersgrove) May 14, 2020
Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats as of yesterday:
Confirmed cases: 2050 (+54)
Total tests: 9789 (+268)
Deaths: 213 (+16)
Doubling rate is 20-21 days.
re: #120 Dread Pirate
Then Putin would have followed their constitution and been term limited.
re: #121 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
As per The Washington Post Philly has cracked the 1,000 mark. This is really depressing.
re: #94 steve_davis
err….the only way that’s a brotherly lick is if he is malcolm mcdowell and this is something from the director’s cut version of Caligula.
I swear it’s a belly lick. When he gets too close to her ladyparts, she kicks him in the head, gets up and then plops down in front of him again. They do this all day long.
The other male just spends his time humping her. He’ll hump any end in any position. And she lets him. Then they play fight which sounds like the world is ending.
Doggie dynamics are fascinating.
re: #115 Teddy’s Person
Delightful doggo aside, that’s a great picture.
Taken by a friend. Chewey (Chewbacca) is a great dog to photo.
re: #118 A Mom Anon
I was hoping Cleo would make an appearance.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
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“Today on the Masked Singer, we have ‘The Donald’.”
“Take it off, take it off!”
re: #128 Belafon
Off the stage? I would not want him to strip.
re: #123 PhillyPretzel
As per The Washington Post Philly has cracked the 1,000 mark. This is really depressing.
With 9 times the confirmed cases than Chester County their death rate per case is quite a bit lower than here. That might be an indication of broader testing in Philadelphia.
re: #97 Teddy’s Person
Babies and cats and flowers and dogs, oh my. My spirits are certainly lifting.
I’ll rummage around in my Image Library. What I pull out may not be mine, nor of any of those 4 categories.
There’s a lot in there.
re: #118 A Mom Anon
How’s Cleo doing? Have you gotten her training under control? I know you were having some issues.
re: #130 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
According to an email I go from Rite-Aid they are now allowing testing for those who asymptomatic. The only thing I do is go to the local Acme and back I am afraid to do anything else outside.
re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The striped one did it!
re: #128 Belafon
“Today on the Masked Singer, we have ‘The Donald’.”
“Take it off, take it off!”
Good God NO. (I think that is one of the most overrated shoes on TV.)
re: #131 wrenchwench
I’ll rummage around in my Image Library. What I pull out may not be mine, nor of any of those 4 categories.
There’s a lot in there.
That bat pic is cool.
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re: #134 Eric The Fruit Bat
He’s going to be 17 in September:
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I thought you had to leave Ozzie behind.
I’m so glad he’s with you. He’s such a cool looking kitteh.
re: #136 PhillyPretzel
According to an email I go from Rite-Aid they are now allowing testing for those who asymptomatic. The only thing I do is go to the local Acme and back.
My exposures currently are a weekly (roughly) trip to Wegmans. I’m getting my prescriptions refilled via mail now. Vet interactions are picking up stuff (or leaving a cat) in their vestibule. And I might be able to get some of that stuff shipped via Chewy now as well. And a take out sandwich once every week trying to help keep a few local businesses going. (Actually my main exposure is probably talking to my neighbors - just distancing and no masks there.)
re: #134 Eric The Fruit Bat
Kneel before Oz(zzie)
https://t.co/0tadMJ1ON8 pic.twitter.com/VhjMkuX7kd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
re: #129 PhillyPretzel
Off the stage? I would not want him to strip.
I’m thinking of taking the mask off, and finding out who is really in there.
re: #138 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Good God NO. (I think that is one of the most overrated shoes on TV.)
At least it’s not another Rescue 911. And Wayne Brady winning last year was pretty cool.
re: #139 Teddy’s Person
That bat pic is cool.
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I need the ability to do that IRL.
I’m gonna find my cats.
That’s 13 years ago next month. They got bigger.
re: #139 Teddy’s Person
That bat pic is cool.
edited to make sense
That bat pic has a coronavirus feel to it, life is telling an origin story.
re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
We’re struggling still. She’s alpha female-ing the daylights out of me, lol. I’m also recovering from a torn knee ligament so working with her is on hold, and going for walks ain’t happening right now.Training classes got put on hold, the trainer is great but super expensive. She works at a veterinary clinic that’s expanding to include a doggie day care soon, so Cleo will go there a couple days a week for a few hours to make some new dog buddies and be socialized with other doggos. We have a huge fenced in yard, a few more things need cleaning up (to make sure we don’t have copperhead nests) and she can be outside more. We have a pool too, so if she likes water, we’ve got another training tool. I love her tons, but she is not an easy pup at all.
Trump says doctors and nurses are “running into death just like soldiers running into bullets” and that “it’s a beautiful thing to see.”
Says the motherfucker who dodged the draft.
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Trump is a fucking psychopath.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever (@YeahSureWhatev2) May 14, 2020
re: #146 wrenchwench
I need the ability to do that IRL.
I’m gonna find my cats.
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That’s 13 years ago next month. They got bigger.
Names please.
I await the protests
JUST IN: DC Metro to require face masks https://t.co/4DHxOckdkx pic.twitter.com/OkQ0obtzQp
— The Hill (@thehill) May 14, 2020
re: #144 Charles Johnson
Trump can’t utter a sentence without throwing in his cheap sales talk non-specific adjectives “Beautiful” “Incredible” and “Tremendous” he should be fitted with a collar that gives him a shock every time he uses those words.
re: #152 Teddy’s Person
Names please.
Presta and Schrader. Bicycle people will know which is which.
(Presta is on the left.)
Causally talking about the death of friends at a political rally, as one does.
Trump says he’s lost “five people that I know,” including two “very good friends,” to the coronavirus.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 14, 2020
re: #103 A Mom Anon
Is that infrastructure and research still attainable?
It certainly appears that at least the research is available nbcnews.com
re: #156 Teddy’s Person
Causally talking about the death of friends at a political rally, as one does.
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Fuck him.
My aunt Elenor died from the flu…
re: #156 Teddy’s Person
Causally talking about the death of friends at a political rally, as one does.
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He’s incapable of showing even the most basic of human emotions.
re: #156 Teddy’s Person
RIP David Dennison and John Barron.
re: #126 Teddy’s Person
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Ooh, I love to dance a little sidestep (major apologies to Charles Durning)
You’ll remember this genius policy resulted in the Covid-19 Czar’s spokesperson getting Covid-19. https://t.co/TJbe0dBuA9
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 14, 2020
re: #156 Teddy’s Person
Causally talking about the death of friends at a political rally, as one does.
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He has zero empathy or compassion. He is a textbook sociopath who is simply incapable of showing any kind of emotion other than rage and anger.
In otherwords, he is the posterboy for both Toxic Masculinity and the current conservative movement.
Trump: “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.” 🤔
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 14, 2020
I saw this meme on FB this morning that enraged me. It was attached to a picture of Morgan Freeman as God and said that mandatory facemask policies is some super secret government experiment to find out who is a follower and who isn’t.
And I’m just thinking “fuck you with a chainsaw for mocking me (and others) for deciding to follow the rules”.
At least she isn’t sitting on her hands like #MoscowMitch and is reflecting the sense of urgency demanded by the dire situation Americans are in. The gross indifference coming from Trump and #MoscowMitch is infuriating.
— Eric Takamiya (@ektaka) May 14, 2020
If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.”
A major medical breakthrough by donald twerp. Testing causes Corona- 19 infections!!
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
I saw this meme on FB this morning that enraged me. It was attached to a picture of Morgan Freeman as God and said that mandatory facemask policies is some super secret government experiment to find out who is a follower and who isn’t.
And I’m just thinking “fuck you with a chainsaw for mocking me (and others) for deciding to follow the rules”.
Considering the cultural admiration and obsession with masked figures like bandits, cowboys, ninjas, etc, I’m somewhat amazed how it’s suddenly become unmanly to wear masks. It’s just such a weird incomprehensible contrarianism.
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
My spirits are really quite low today. Please help cheer me up with pic of your furry (or not ) friends, flower and/or landscapes. I’ll start.
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Who will bell the cat?
I will!
But first, we must get him drunk on ‘nip…
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
I saw this meme on FB this morning that enraged me. It was attached to a picture of Morgan Freeman as God and said that mandatory facemask policies is some super secret government experiment to find out who is a follower and who isn’t.
And I’m just thinking “fuck you with a chainsaw for mocking me (and others) for deciding to follow the rules”.
Yeah, it’s a test to see who cares about their fellow citizens.
re: #169 Citizen K
Considering the cultural admiration and obsession with masked figures like bandits, cowboys, ninjas, etc, I’m somewhat amazed how it’s suddenly become unmanly to wear masks. It’s just such a weird incomprehensible contrarianism.
But all of them chose it. //
re: #166 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s more than following the rules though. It’s giving a shit about your fellow citizens because you are a good citizen. That shit is what’s missing in the world.
Join me for a virtual roundtable on COVID-19 with Governors Gretchen Whitmer, Phil Murphy and Ned Lamont who are at the forefront of this crisis: https://t.co/qMB1AT6ST1
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 14, 2020
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
Both SARS and MERS wound up with the same result - no vaccine for the next time those virii (or a variant) surfaces.
Now the world will pay the price for such heedlessness.
re: #174 gocart mozart
Just wound up. I enjoyed it!
No standardization for reporting requirements. I’m shocked.
How Virginia and Other States Are Juking COVID-19 Data - The Atlantic. https://t.co/j9Ms7BYeBn
— Marc Lipsitch (@mlipsitch) May 14, 2020
re: #174 gocart mozart
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I would offer a word of advice to the Biden campaign: the next video “roundtable” you plan: disable the comments. While I didn’t sign on, I did notice the first page was disfigured by a column of stupid nasty one-liners (some positive, but few) - the trollbots are almost certainly ready and waiting to swamp things like this: why give them a forum?
re: #170 jeffreyw
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re: #180 Jay C
I would offer a word of advice to the Biden campaign: the next video “roundtable” you plan: disable the comments: while I didn’t sign on, I did notice the first page was disfigured by a column of stupid nasty one-liners (some positive, but few) - the trollbots are almost certainly ready and waiting to swamp things like this: why give them a forum?
The youtube comments when Governor Newsom does COVID-19 announcements are such that I have to hide them so I don’t have chronic ass-twitch.
When Trump says “if we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases” he isn’t just being stupid, although it is that.
He’s also telling us what’s important to him: the numbers.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
If nothing else, he’s aware that all the numbers are very, vary bad for him politically.
This is also the reason for his blundering and foot-dragging on ramping up testing. The numbers. He’s said it from the start. He likes it when the numbers are lower.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
He couldn’t care less about public health or accurate measures of COVID-19, because dealing with those things realistically would mean acknowledging that the situation is far worse than he wants to admit in an election season.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
Wait, what? https://t.co/wNDVrBj14T
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 14, 2020
Buddy pic.twitter.com/xzCvKebWNx
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) May 14, 2020
re: #184 Charles Johnson
That’s one reason IL’s numbers are so high and climbing. Gov Pritzker is PUSHING to get more testing done each day, as fast as we can get supplies in. New testing center opening. And of course, the people availing themselves of that opportunity are people who feel sick, or who think they were exposed.
re: #58 Teddy’s Person
No that was in Marcus Hook. That plant respectfully declined the visit. Why bring a COVID vector into your midst after you’ve gone to such lengths to stay well and ramp up production?
re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In case you forgot.
If I come to your home and you give me your absentee ballot to mail in for you because I’m going door to door telling people I can save you a trip, that’s one form of ballot harvesting. It happened in a congressional race in NC last year. Federal crime.https://t.co/rE1fHz1Wum
— L-Rod (@LRod_is_ok) May 14, 2020
re: #189 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
In case you forgot.
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So it’s a federal crime everywhere except CA? Is that what Nunes is attempting to argue?
re: #187 retired cynic
That’s one reason IL’s numbers are so high and climbing. Gov Pritzker is PUSHING to get more testing done each day, as fast as we can get supplies in. New testing center opening. And of course, the people availing themselves of that opportunity are people who feel sick, or who think they were exposed.
Do you know if they’re testing people who died? My friend in IL thinks they’re miscalculating deaths by being too broad. Her friend died in a motorcycle accident but he had lung issues and his death cert says he died of CV.
re: #190 Mike Lamb
So it’s a federal crime everywhere except CA? Is that what Nunes is attempting to argue?
That’s my guess. Pretty big chutzpah on that one.
re: #190 Mike Lamb
So it’s a federal crime everywhere except CA? Is that what Nunes is attempting to argue?
Yes that’s what he says… But I don’t think that’s legal in CA either?
re: #194 BlueSpotinAL
Future diplomat right there.
re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #191 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Do you know if they’re testing people who died? My friend in IL thinks they’re miscalculating deaths by being too broad. Her friend died in a motorcycle accident but he had lung issues and his death cert says he died of CV.
I don’t know. I’ve heard CT of that going on, but I think our news media would be jumping up and down if that was a real thing. Tell her to contact a reputable reporter, like one from NPR, and let them research it. How did she get her friend’s death certificate? I suppose a spouse could have shared, but that’s odd.
How can a middle aged adult who has been in quarantine for the most part of 2 months. And who has no contact with children for the most part come down with Chicken Pox? Any ideas on this?
re: #183 Jack Burton
The youtube comments when Governor Newsom does COVID-19 announcements are such that I have to hide them so I don’t have chronic ass-twitch.
Yeah it’s hard for me to read comments on any topic really. I just know there’s going to be trolls galore. I don’t engage with that. And while I follow Biden’s feed on Twitter, I don’t comment on it. I feel bad for the person who has to read the comments because Biden gets a lot of trolls left and right.
re: #198 retired cynic
I don’t know. I’ve heard CT of that going on, but I think our news media would be jumping up and down if that was a real thing. Tell her to contact a reputable reporter, like one from NPR, and let them research it. How did she get her friend’s death certificate? I suppose a spouse could have shared, but that’s odd.
The spouse was who told her about it. I don’t know the friend nor do I know if what she’s saying is true.
She (my friend) is pissed because she’s thinking WTF, maybe this is overblown and why am I doing all this bullshit? and I hate that she’s thinking that.
re: #199 Dave In Austin
How can a middle aged adult who has been in quarantine for the most part of 2 months. And who has no contact with children for the most part come down with Chicken Pox? Any ideas on this?
Mayo Clinic:
“A person with shingles can pass the varicella-zoster virus to anyone who isn’t immune to chickenpox. This usually occurs through direct contact with the open sores of the shingles rash. Once infected, the person will develop chickenpox, however, not shingles”
The swabs may in fact be made of the proper material, but packaged in available material causing confusion. Also, the swabs are bulk packaged, leading to additional use instructions having to be sent out by CDC to avoid contamination. Also, they are regular Q-tip length, which will make them difficult to use to gather samples for testing
Shipment of Swabs for COVID-19 Testing Appears to Show Another Mix-Up from Federal Government https://t.co/w0vBziZq0s
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 14, 2020
re: #202 Decatur Deb
Nope. I’ve had the shot and the pox as a child
re: #204 Dave In Austin
Nope. I’ve had the shot and the pox as a child
What about surface transmission via deliveries? Alternately, review the tightness of the quarantine.
Texas fixing to take off
BREAKING: Texas officials report 58 new deaths since yesterday - single largest death toll in one day since this started. We have had 116 deaths over three days. Worst three day total this month.
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) May 14, 2020
re: #201 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Ask her if she has car,home,life, health insurance. She probably does, right? As a backup for IF things go bad or something happens. It’s better to have it than not need it, than to need it and not have it. I see no difference in using a mask and isolating. If we do it right, it will look like we didn’t have to do all this. If not it’s going to be catastrophic. So why not do something small that has a potential to do so much good? What’s the sacrifice of distancing and wearing a mask really? I get people wanting to work and economic concerns, but you can’t work if you’re dead. Your business won’t survive if your customer base is dead or permanently health compromised. We lack an ability to handle delayed gratification in America, this mess has made it glaringly obvious.
re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The swabs may in fact be made of the proper material, but packaged in available material causing confusion. Also, the swabs are bulk packaged, leading to additional use instructions having to be sent out by CDC to avoid contamination. Also, they are regular Q-tip length, which will make them difficult to use to gather samples for testing
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This is what happens when you have a Government of people who don’t know what the fuck they are doing. Instead of getting the right supplies, they bulk order Q-tips and call it a day. Fucking assholes.
re: #204 Dave In Austin
Nope. I’ve had the shot and the pox as a child
Ah—“The shot”. The new shingles series is two shots, about twice as effective as the old one-shot. I’ve done both, with an attenuated bout of shingles between the series.
re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Texas fixing to take off
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And remember, these are lagging indicators. We’re going to get to see just how bad things are when the ‘reopening’ has been going on for a couple of weeks. It’s spiking this badly now, I expect the numbers will get horribly worse by next Friday.
re: #210 Citizen K
And remember, these are lagging indicators. We’re going to get to see just how bad things are when the ‘reopening’ has been going on for a couple of weeks. It’s spiking this badly now, I expect the numbers will get horribly worse by next Friday.
This. My state has been partially reopened for - checks calendar - exactly one week as of today.
re: #59 teleskiguy
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Around here I see attempted compliance with masks at nearly 100 percent. Attempted because nostrils are sometimes uncovered 🤡
The only thing I don’t like about wearing a mask is it sometimes makes my glasses fog up. But I put up with it to stay safe.
re: #210 Citizen K
And remember, these are lagging indicators. We’re going to get to see just how bad things are when the ‘reopening’ has been going on for a couple of weeks. It’s spiking this badly now, I expect the numbers will get horribly worse by next Friday.
And June will be terrifying.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
Same here. My readers fog up and things are difficult to read.
re: #205 Decatur Deb
We let all packages sit for a few days. Could be anything I guess. We’ll know when the tests come back
re: #85 retired cynic
And some bush honeysuckle. (The first iris are not yet open.)
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Seeing a honeysuckle in bloom makes me want to scream. I’ve been wrestling with honeysuckle for the last two months, sometimes the 15’ wide bushes have writhing trunks 9 inches to a foot across.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
The only thing I don’t like about wearing a mask is it sometimes makes my glasses fog up. But I put up with it to stay safe.
What I don’t like (above what you said… My glasses fog up sometimes, too) is that sometimes I feel the mask is getting up into my eye, which freaks me out. If feels like it’s touching my eye but I keep looking in the mirror and it’s not, it just feels that way. Creeps me out!
re: #108 Joe Bacon 🌹
Wait a second!
How could John Brennan be on MSNBC right now when Q said he was arrested on Monday along with Page and Stzrok?
Clones. After they executed Obama down at Gimo, A new clone was decanted to take his place.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
The only thing I don’t like about wearing a mask is it sometimes makes my glasses fog up. But I put up with it to stay safe.
Sew tucks in the sides of the nose area, or add a nose wire.
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
The only thing I don’t like about wearing a mask is it sometimes makes my glasses fog up. But I put up with it to stay safe.
I basically have to wear mine high enough that my lenses press into the top of the mask and essentially seal it so my breath doesn’t leak through the top. Doesn’t always work, but it’s as close as I can get it. At the very least it ensures my nose is covered properly.
re: #184 Charles Johnson
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trump needs to define ‘cases’ (yeah, never happen)
of course there would be less ‘known’ cases
but there are exactly the same number of cases whether they are tested, identified, diagnosed or not. we are in that situation right now and at any sub par level of testing
what is true is that if more cases were diagnosed, traced and treated, then we would have less cases overall over time
When Trump says “if we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases” he isn’t just being stupid, although it is that.
He’s also telling us what’s important to him: the numbers.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 14, 2020
re: #219 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Clones. After they executed Obama down at Gimo, A new clone was decanted to take his place.
I’ve seen that. They actually do believe that.
re: #223 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’ve seen that. They actually do believe that.
Damn thing is, the clones are just as Democratic as the originals.
re: #224 Decatur Deb
Damn thing is, the clones are just as Democratic as the originals.
Well, they do say you pick up your political outlooks from your family: I guess with clones it’s just more sure…..
re: #225 Jay C
Well, they do say you pick up your political outlooks from your family: I guess with clones it’s just more sure…..
I know I was born a Democrat.
Pikachu holds an AR-15 at a demonstration against @GovWhitmer’s executive orders. #COVID19 #michigan @detroitnews pic.twitter.com/S0eqAvWcLj
— Andy Morrison (@AndyMorrison_DN) May 14, 2020
The cosplay is getting more obvious.
They should all be carrying toy guns to these things.
re: #217 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Aargh! I’ve been working with my son building a new disc golf course in a park with an overgrown oak savanna, a very specific and rare one, Oak Openings, which we are doing some restoration of as part of the course development and maintenance.
Seeing a honeysuckle in bloom makes me want to scream. I’ve been wrestling with honeysuckle for the last two months, sometimes the 15’ wide bushes have writhing trunks 9 inches to a foot across.
Sorry for the trigger! It is a rampant spreader, for sure, and hard to get out. But I love it and hate it together.
re: #199 Dave In Austin
How can a middle aged adult who has been in quarantine for the most part of 2 months. And who has no contact with children for the most part come down with Chicken Pox? Any ideas on this?
contact with someone experiencing shingles can result in transmission of chickenpox
re: #227 jaunte
It’s all about fashion accessories with these fuck weasels. Like the guy at the protest last week(?) with the fake rifle made from a 2x4 and plumbing parts. And their camo and tattoos, all fashion accessories. Like purses and heels and pretty jewelry. With added violence and bullying.
Facebook has a huge truth problem. A high-priced ‘oversight board’ won’t fix it. Margaret Brennan, bless her, WaPo. Her answer: an executive editor. My answer: Make it Judd Legum!
re: #235 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Amen.
NEW: @AmyMcGrathKY agrees to join upcoming @KET forum setting up clash with Democratic primary rivals @Booker4KY and @MikeForKY. https://t.co/DKkBKZHM8k #KYSen
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) May 14, 2020
We’re going to hear more and more of these stories https://t.co/VNIbHM5M4p
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) May 14, 2020
“Innocent Until Proven Guilty & Even After Pleading Guilty” only applies to Republicans.
Remind me: The MAGAts complain that Mike Flynn didn’t get due process right? pic.twitter.com/qmBjXCd4X0
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 14, 2020
Question for some QAnon reporters:
When did you realize you were covering something that had fully transformed past grifting and trolling into a religion?@travis_view @willsommer @brandyzadrozny @rothschildmd @kellyweillhttps://t.co/Vgel55IcAU— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 14, 2020
We didn’t so much “flatten the curve”; as “suppress the stupid”.
For about 2 months, we managed to keep the most ignorant Americans from disregarding direction.
That’s all we’re gonna get. We held back the stupid for 8 wks but there is too much stupid and it can’t be held back.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 14, 2020
While Jeff Bezos is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire in the middle of a pandemic, Amazon is ending overtime pay for warehouse and delivery workers on the front lines. This is immoral. pic.twitter.com/aeR4bCXVHi
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2020
re: #1 Teddy’s Person
Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen or sensed in any way. This is a fundamental concept in the field of developmental psychology that addresses the development of young children’s social and mental capacities. https://t.co/60m7gMoPxA
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) May 14, 2020
Just so we’re clear: Sec HHS Alex Azar was unwilling to testify before Congress today on the pandemic response, but he found time to fly to Allentown, PA to do a campaign event with Trump.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) May 14, 2020
Blondie is her nickname. Her real name is Debbie Harry
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 14, 2020
The level of anger directed at the media from these protestors was alarming. As always, I will tell a fair and unbiased story today. pic.twitter.com/5jCR0YY9VH
— Kevin Vesey (@KevinVesey) May 14, 2020
Fearful people trying to beat a viral pandemic by attacking reporters and chanting like cultists.
re: #250 jaunte
The little boy there looked puzzled and scared. I hope the reporter had PPE, that was quite a mess of walking disease vectors there.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”
— Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Somehow the administration that couldn’t get PPE where it was needed in a timely manner really rose to the occasion when it came to distributing cash to friends. https://t.co/g8KeRl0ZOF
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 14, 2020
re: #182 Shropshire Slasher
Double the fun!!!!
re: #199 Dave In Austin
How can a middle aged adult who has been in quarantine for the most part of 2 months. And who has no contact with children for the most part come down with Chicken Pox? Any ideas on this?
Chickenpox is not just transmitted by children; adults can get chickenpox and anyone with shingles can transmit the disease as well.
Moreover, immunizations or actually having the disease is not 100% immunity from that disease.
I contracted chickenpox as a small child. I contracted it again in 1993 at Naval Station Rota.
I had scarlet fever as a child, and contracted it again in 2007 in Oklahoma. I even got a fancy quarantine sign on the door of my house for that.
I had mumps as a child. I contracted that again in 2012, and nearly died from it with a 105 degree F fever for several days. Thanks, antivaxxer parent who sent Christmas caroling child to my house.
No disease or vaccine confers 100% immunity.
re: #251 A Mom Anon
All these parents teaching their kids to attack people when they believe they have a disagreement.
re: #253 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m expecting an OKC type crime. I wish I was wrong, I pray I am. I tend to believe what Maya Angelou said, when people show you who they are, believe them. A lot, probably most of them are just typical bullying cowards. But all it takes is one horrible asshole.
These hillbillies are wacko. A Trump supporter at the Michigan re-open rally showed up with a doll on a noose tied to the American flag.
The doll appears to represent @GovWhitmer. He also has an ax. pic.twitter.com/kpZDzDoCtb— Big Boss (@escapedmatrix) May 14, 2020
re: #253 I Would Prefer Not To
This will end in violence.
That would be tough if they come down with the disease. Tough to brandish an AR-15 whilst on a ventilator.
Wingnuts will get the idea when it affects them personally.
re: #175 Eric The Fruit Bat
Both SARS and MERS wound up with the same result - no vaccine for the next time those virii (or a variant) surfaces.
Now the world will pay the price for such heedlessness.
Though I wonder how difficult it is to test the effectiveness of a vaccine when there are no cases. Both MERS and SARS basically vanished. Testing the safety of a vaccine can proceed but effectiveness? No medical training here so not competent to judge this.
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another reason to like Warren’s wealth tax.
Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all pic.twitter.com/ukdM84gufs
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) May 13, 2020
re: #262 Belafon
Another reason to like Warren’s wealth tax.
For reasons of practicality, I have long been opposed to the wealth tax and believe a significant increase in the estate tax is a simpler alternative, but I’ve gradually been coming around to thinking that maybe a wealth tax is really needed.
Somehow I missed this epic court filing in which a mythical cow demurred, stating as cause the lack of opposable thumbs by which to respond to a libel suit
“The Congressman is also suing a Twitter account @DevinCow claiming to be a cow from the Nunes herd… According to the court filing in that case, the cow could not comply with a subpoena because cows do not have thumbs.” https://t.co/6oXmfd9QU8
— Brian Bartel (@bbartel) May 14, 2020
My life is poorer because of it.
OT I went to the local Acme this morning. And I was surprised to find a lot more items on the shelves than in previous weeks. A lot of paper goods are still missing. The baking goods are coming back slowly. I saw 5 pound bags of King Arthur All Purpose flour back on the shelves. I did not see cans of Lysol yet except for that time that I bought one can. And everyone who I saw was wearing a mask.
Went out for a couple of errands. Masking was okay. Still too many going without. Grocery store checkout guy said they’re back to regular business hours. Flour was in stock, not lots but if you wanted it was there. If you wanted meat, most kinds were in stock but they’re limiting quantities.
Pandering to your pets and occasional grandchildren have gotten me to almost 10,000 karma points (9,991).
Thanks to all who shared photos. It did help lift my spirits and brighten my day.
re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter
For reasons of practicality, I have long been opposed to the wealth tax and believe a significant increase in the estate tax is be a simpler alternative, but I’ve gradually been coming around to thinking that maybe a wealth tax is really needed.
A wealth tax is (likely) unconstitutional, at least as proposed. Wealth/property taxes are direct taxes and thus have to be based on apportionment. While the courts have regularly narrowed the definition of direct taxes, property taxes have always been one of the “yup, that’s a direct tax” items. Even the legal defense provided by Warren’s campaign were mostly hand waving on this point. Unless/until someone can answer the question: if a property/wealth tax is not a direct tax, then what is?; the proposal won’t survive the slightest legal challenge.
“Loitering?
Loitering, really?
I’m a damn cat, my job is to freakin’ loiter.
It’s what we do!”— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 14, 2020
This is, translated from sterile court language, a total beeyotch-slap:
“The remainder of plaintiffs’ complaint is bereft of any factual allegations pertaining to the truth or falsity of the challenged statements. Rather, the remainder of plaintiffs’ complaint is conclusory in nature,” the judge wrote. “Without knowing which of the facts plaintiffs allege are actually false, defendants are left not knowing how to answer the complaint.”
re: #266 PhillyPretzel
OT I went to the local Acme this morning. And I was surprised to find a lot more items on the shelves than in previous weeks. A lot of paper goods are still missing. The baking goods are coming back slowly. I saw 5 pound bags of King Arthur All Purpose flour back on the shelves. I did not see cans of Lysol yet except for that time that I bought one can. And everyone who I saw was wearing a mask.
But did you remember the Anvils?
/
OK, upon further reflection, I *MAY* have seen this.
It’s still hilarious.
“No reasonable person would believe that Devin Nunes’ cow actually has a Twitter account, or that the hyperbole, satire and cow-related jokes it posts are serious facts,” reads the filing in Virginia’s Henrico County Circuit Court. “It is self-evident that cows are domesticated livestock animals and do not have the intelligence, language, or opposable digits needed to operate a Twitter account. Defendant ‘Devin Nunes’ Mom’ likewise posts satirical patronizing, nagging, mothering comments which ostensibly treat Mr. Nunes as a misbehaving child.”
re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Stalking? I was just admiring those tail feathers on that bird. Honest officer I was just looking.
re: #202 Decatur Deb
Mayo Clinic:
“A person with shingles can pass the varicella-zoster virus to anyone who isn’t immune to chickenpox. This usually occurs through direct contact with the open sores of the shingles rash. Once infected, the person will develop chickenpox, however, not shingles”
It’s no fun when shingles flares up. Been dealing with that since Sunday. Even after taking the new vaccine the flare ups still hit but they are milder.
re: #266 PhillyPretzel
OT I went to the local Acme this morning. And I was surprised to find a lot more items on the shelves than in previous weeks. A lot of paper goods are still missing. The baking goods are coming back slowly. I saw 5 pound bags of King Arthur All Purpose flour back on the shelves. I did not see cans of Lysol yet except for that time that I bought one can. And everyone who I saw was wearing a mask.
Here in Los Angeles, hardly any paper products, no Lysol, no disinfecting wipes and now there is restriction on how much meat you can buy.
These days, I want Jared behind bars more than I do his father in-law. Don’t get me wrong, I want them all to die in prison, but if we have to assign numbers, Jared’s number in the prosecution line is pretty damn high.
“Jared [Kushner] 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.” https://t.co/yeLMnHQzjS
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) May 14, 2020
This agency oversees @VOANews @RadioFreeAsia @RFERL. Menendez is top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is reviewing his nomination
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) May 14, 2020
“Chairman Risch never should have put Mr. Pack up for a committee vote … Taking note of what we now know—that there is an active OAG investigation into Mr. Pack’s business dealings—I urge Chairman Risch to hit pause on this nomination” Menendez says of SFRC chairman
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) May 14, 2020
Crooks, all the way down.
re: #217 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Aargh! I’ve been working with my son building a new disc golf course in a park with an overgrown oak savanna, a very specific and rare one, Oak Openings, which we are doing some restoration of as part of the course development and maintenance.
Seeing a honeysuckle in bloom makes me want to scream. I’ve been wrestling with honeysuckle for the last two months, sometimes the 15’ wide bushes have writhing trunks 9 inches to a foot across.
Sweet. I just got into disc golf and then the covid-hammer came down. I’m dreaming of when I can get out and experience all the sport has to offer. Seems like such a great community.
I never really thought about honeysuckle as a problem. Learn something new everyday!
re: #268 KGxvi
A wealth tax is (likely) unconstitutional, at least as proposed. Wealth/property taxes are direct taxes and thus have to be based on apportionment. While the courts have regularly narrowed the definition of direct taxes, property taxes have always been one of the “yup, that’s a direct tax” items. Even the legal defense provided by Warren’s campaign were mostly hand waving on this point. Unless/until someone can answer the question: if a property/wealth tax is not a direct tax, then what is?; the proposal won’t survive the slightest legal challenge.
A direct tax might be unconstitutional, but a progressive income tax isn’t, nor is raising the capital gains tax. Neither is a stock-trade tax unconstitutional (that would be an excise tax.)
“Wealth tax” makes a good soundbite, but I imagine Sen. Warren knows exactly how to craft such legislation to ensure it’s legal whilst providing a sound bite (wealth tax).
re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter
For reasons of practicality, I have long been opposed to the wealth tax and believe a significant increase in the estate tax is a simpler alternative, but I’ve gradually been coming around to thinking that maybe a wealth tax is really needed.
I would even support it temporarily, basically as a means to get back the money they were given by the government taking out a loan.
Pulse nightclub mural in Orlando defaced by right-wing extremists. https://t.co/cO94VfxiKi
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) May 14, 2020
re: #274 Joe Bacon 🌹
It’s no fun when shingles flares up. Been dealing with that since Sunday. Even after taking the new vaccine the flare ups still hit but they are milder.
My condolences. Shingles is no fun. My great-grandmother used to suffer greatly from shingles, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
re: #62 The Pie Overlord!
Here is a sweet Purrito to cheer you up. His eyes are a little goopy because kitten sickness is lifelong, but he’s a good boy who loves snuggling.
Forward the following video to your state’s attorney general. I’m serious. https://t.co/QfL40VE3ou
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 14, 2020
I reached 10,001 karma points. All I can say is “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
re: #286 Teddy’s Person
Congrats. I am very happy for you. :)
re: #260 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would be tough if they come down with the disease. Tough to brandish an AR-15 whilst on a ventilator.
Wingnuts will get the idea when it affects them personally.
I was in an online discussion a while ago with someone who was convinced that fears about the virus was overblown. When asked what it would take for him to take it seriously he said, “When someone I personally know under 50 dies, then I’ll take it seriously.”
It’s this weird form of solipsism.
re: #289 uncah91
I was in an online discussion a while ago with someone who was convinced that fears about the virus was overblown. When asked what it would take for him to take it seriously he said, “When someone I personally know under 50 dies, then I’ll take it seriously.”
It’s this weird form of solipsism.
That’s just stupid. Italy and NYC alone are enough to prove this has to be taken seriously.
re: #241 gocart mozart
That was really interesting, including all the articles and replies to that thread.
re: #286 Teddy’s Person
I reached 10,001 karma points. All I can say is “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
Are you sure it’s not pity?
//
re: #278 uncah91
Sweet. I just got into disc golf and then the covid-hammer came down. I’m dreaming of when I can get out and experience all the sport has to offer. Seems like such a great community.
I never really thought about honeysuckle as a problem. Learn something new everyday!
You haven’t lived until you’ve spent 4 hours untangling and cutting down a 40x40’ patch of 15-year old honeysuckle, grape vine, olive, and wild rose.
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So proud. I’m crying.
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re: #266 PhillyPretzel
OT I went to the local Acme this morning. And I was surprised to find a lot more items on the shelves than in previous weeks. A lot of paper goods are still missing. The baking goods are coming back slowly. I saw 5 pound bags of King Arthur All Purpose flour back on the shelves. I did not see cans of Lysol yet except for that time that I bought one can. And everyone who I saw was wearing a mask.
I finally got my hands on a can of Lysol. The stocker even asked me how many I wanted (1 was enough). Still no yeast to be found.
re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That’s a mer-cat. 😁
re: #233 retired cynic
Facebook has a huge truth problem. A high-priced ‘oversight board’ won’t fix it. Margaret Brennan, bless her, WaPo. Her answer: an executive editor. My answer: Make it Judd Legum!
And Brooke Binkowski!
re: #278 uncah91
Sweet. I just got into disc golf and then the covid-hammer came down. I’m dreaming of when I can get out and experience all the sport has to offer. Seems like such a great community.
I never really thought about honeysuckle as a problem. Learn something new everyday!
White honeysuckle is an aggressive invasive. Between it and multiflorate rose it can make monstrous brambles that are almost impossible for humans to get through. And both are very hard to eradicate.
re: #71 jaunte
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re: #241 gocart mozart
Is it just me, but when reality ceases to matter, aren’t you at least delusional, if not psychotic?
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