Two-Thirds of Americans Disapprove of Trump's Handling of Coronavirus, Race Relations

Two-Thirds of Americans Disapprove of Trump’s Handling of Coronavirus, Race Relations

PoliticsJuly 2020 • Views: 19,501

Today’s poll from ABC News/Ipsos shows that a large majority of American citizens are not buying Donald Trump’s attempt to create an alternate reality where COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter don’t exist: Broad disapproval for Trump’s handling of coronavirus, race relations: POLL.

He’s gone too far this time. He thought he could lie his way out of a pandemic like he’s lied his way out of everything in his entire life, but this time the American public is feeling the pain themselves; coronavirus is touching everyone, personally. And that tends to make reality un-ignorable.

But don’t expect him to change course, no matter how many people die. He’s wrecking his own re-election chances, just by being himself. It’s poetic justice.

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Interesting Times Jul 10, 2020 • 12:13:53pm

Yeah baby! Want!! pic.twitter.com/FylvBFcEPh

— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) July 1, 2020

Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 12:15:28pm

https://t.co/jJny3d5equ

— And the Wind Cries “For the 1/100th Time!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) July 10, 2020

A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 12:15:30pm

re: #1 Interesting Times

We get more clever when challenged. Unlike that guy who should be forked with a rusty pitchfork.

PhillyPretzel Jul 10, 2020 • 12:16:45pm

kcuf pmurt

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 12:18:08pm

CL’d:

re: #453 jaunte

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They had six fucking months to prepare for this coming onslaught, and wasted it entirely.

Instead of having emergency beds and temporary hospitals ready to receive patients, they’re now scrambling to do what should have been done after seeing NY scramble to do the same exact thing.

This is all so fucking frustrating and avoidable.

wrenchwench Jul 10, 2020 • 12:20:38pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

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All the President’s Men

Nixon was a piker.

bratwurst Jul 10, 2020 • 12:22:13pm

The preferred nomenclature is “true crime podcast” pic.twitter.com/NZYPeXkYAz

— Jeff Betten (@JeffBetten) July 9, 2020

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 12:22:28pm

I suspect the only reason that Trump even has 33% support at this point is that it’s mostly among the folks who aren’t directly affected by covid19. They might be in states/places where covid19 hasn’t completely shut things down or run amok.

Expect his numbers to dive as the number of deaths and cases soar in FL, TX, and AZ in particular. It’ll be hard to blame anyone but the GOP for those - since it’s the GOP that blocked the localities from imposing strong masking/social distancing measures.

The delays have deadly consequences.

And it should end the GOP (but it wont, because party above nation).

jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 12:22:42pm

It’s totally normal for a leader of a country to go golfing at one of his private resorts located in the epicenter of a pandemic he’s bungling the response to.

— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) July 10, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 12:24:14pm

re: #5 lawhawk

CL’d:

They had six fucking months to prepare for this coming onslaught, and wasted it entirely.

Instead of having emergency beds and temporary hospitals ready to receive patients, they’re now scrambling to do what should have been done after seeing NY scramble to do the same exact thing.

This is all so fucking frustrating and avoidable.

Not to mention after we did somewhat get things under control they were like: “Okay, the worst is over now. Open everything back up…and fuck anyone who disagrees.”

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 12:24:16pm

re: #9 jaunte

Of course he’s going to his golf business. He’s worried that he wont get a round in this weekend because of a chance of rain at either Bedminster or Sterling.

Golfing above doing his fucking job. Epitome of Trumpworld - enrich himself and fuck everyone else.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 12:26:19pm

At the rate things are going half a million deaths by election day is not totally out of the realm of possibility.

🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 12:26:45pm

ಡೊನಾಲ್ಡ್ ಟ್ರಂಪ್ ಸತ್ತ ಆನೆ ಡಿಕ್ಸ್ ಅನ್ನು ಹೀರುತ್ತಾನೆ

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 12:27:58pm

from downstairs

littlegreenfootballs.com
lawhawk

They had six fucking months to prepare for this coming onslaught, and wasted it entirely.

Instead of having emergency beds and temporary hospitals ready to receive patients, they’re now scrambling to do what should have been done after seeing NY scramble to do the same exact thing.

This is all so fucking frustrating and avoidable.

if we had done all that preparing and then texas didnt turn into a hot spot, what a waste of time and money

🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 12:28:24pm

Worried about my relatives in South Carolina where COVID is now running out of control…

Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 12:29:28pm

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with Fat Donny.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to the “Asshole of Queens.”

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Mango Moron about it.
“Don, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”

He whispered, “My poor, ignorant, uninformed child, I don’t care about you and never will.
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I was teeing off on the 12 hole at Mara Lago that you were paying for”.

goddamnedfrank Jul 10, 2020 • 12:29:36pm

I’d totally forgotten about this one, which in itself illustrates the scale and endemic nature of the problem. Incidents that perfectly encapsulate the disparity in policing occur so frequently that it’s difficult to cognitively retain it all https://t.co/IG53dd23b9

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 10, 2020

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 12:30:16pm

and re this:

re: #460 Hecuba’s daughter

i wasnt disagreeing with you either

it’s got to be a regional and local approach, like the schools themselves are
and definitely one size doesnt fit all
there are probably lots of clever and innovative solutions
we’ve barely scratched the surface of ideas
or given it much time at all

Hecuba's daughter Jul 10, 2020 • 12:37:47pm

re: #5 lawhawk

CL’d:

They had six fucking months to prepare for this coming onslaught, and wasted it entirely.

Instead of having emergency beds and temporary hospitals ready to receive patients, they’re now scrambling to do what should have been done after seeing NY scramble to do the same exact thing.

This is all so fucking frustrating and avoidable.

From my CL’d response downstairs:

Maybe if they weren’t braindead Trump acolytes and Faux news watchers, they might have understood that there was no guarantee that the disease was going away in the spring. Many really believed that the warmer weather and more intense sunshine would destroy the virus. Our brother assured us that Abbott knew what he was doing and that Texas was handling this much better than those Democratic states out East; he could point to their numbers for the first few months to support that contention.

Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 12:40:28pm

BREAKING: Facebook considers political-ad blackout ahead of U.S. election https://t.co/iE5sFC1Uro pic.twitter.com/QQlHvm5q8S

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) July 10, 2020

sizzzzlerz Jul 10, 2020 • 12:41:03pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

1973. The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Still one of my favorite movies of all time.

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 12:42:22pm

re: #15 🌹UOJB!

Worried about my relatives in South Carolina where COVID is now running out of control…

smart and prudent people can manage this (for a while) if they are somewhat lucky

we’re 20 miles from where this is going on in miami but it could be across the country for all the effect it’s having on us

CNN: According to the latest data released by Miami-Dade County Government… There has been a 74% increase in Covid-19 patients being hospitalized, an 88% increase in the number of ICU beds being used and a 123% increase in the use of ventilators in Miami-Dade.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 10, 2020

we’re lucky we can work from home
like anyone who lives sort of rural-ish, at least theres room to get out and move around
virtually no need to go out except once a week for food and the occasional home depot (we have a pond you know)
then its masks, sanitizer, distancing, and the rest of the checklist

we have almost no other interactions with anybody

we can do this for a while - till enough people get the message or something else positive happens and the tide turns.
it’s not ideal and assumes a lot doesnt go wrong (mrs dm’s lung condition)

so open the bars or dont. i dont care
same with restaurants
and beaches

we’re staying far away (except for 3 local eateries we have become comfortable with for takeout - who are clearly being conscientious and concerned about us)

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 10, 2020 • 12:47:17pm

re: #17 goddamnedfrank

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Truth

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 12:51:45pm

Reports coming in from Phoenix that some local hospitals are getting refrigerator trucks ready because of surge in deaths overwhelming their morgues.

This is the same thing that happened in the NYC metro area. Hospitals got overwhelmed by deaths occurring in a very short time, and funeral homes couldn’t take the bodies fast enough. Everything is accustomed to a pace of deaths, and when you’re in a pandemic, the regular deaths keep happening, but now you have additional deaths from covid19 overwhelming those processes.

It was avoidable too - just wear your fucking masks and social distance.

The more I think about this the angrier I get.

BeachDem Jul 10, 2020 • 12:54:38pm

re: #15 🌹UOJB!

Worried about my relatives in South Carolina where COVID is now running out of control…

As long as they’re done drinking before 11 pm, they should be fine/////////////////////

This is what a total jackass our governor is:

“We know that young adults who are rapidly contracting the virus and spreading it into our communities frequently congregate in late-night atmospheres which simply are not conducive to stopping its continued transmission,” McMaster said. “This measured, carefully tailored approach will lessen the opportunity for South Carolinians to put themselves and their loved ones in harm’s way.”

Yeah, Henry, that will really solve all the problems. Sigh.

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 12:59:15pm

They’re not reopening because it’s not safe to do so.

It’s not safe to do so because daddy refused to require mandatory masking nationwide, and GOPers nationally followed suit. They ignore health experts and 134,000+ Americans are dead.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 10, 2020

But for your daddy’s complete failure to deal with covid19 pandemic, the US would have avoided a complete and total economic collapse, higher unemployment rate than in the Great Depression.

He’s done worse than any other leader on planet.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 10, 2020

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:01:40pm

re: #25 BeachDem

As long as they’re done drinking before 11 pm, they should be fine/////////////////////

This is what a total jackass our governor is:

“We know that young adults who are rapidly contracting the virus and spreading it into our communities frequently congregate in late-night atmospheres which simply are not conducive to stopping its continued transmission,” McMaster said. “This measured, carefully tailored approach will lessen the opportunity for South Carolinians to put themselves and their loved ones in harm’s way.”

Yeah, Henry, that will really solve all the problems. Sigh.

There are so many stupid governors out there. Sigh.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 1:02:05pm

Sure Jan. 🙄

President @RealDonaldTrump outlines his second-term agenda!

🇺🇸 Rebuild the economy and bring back jobs!
🇺🇸 Make great trade deals!
🇺🇸 Finish the wall!
🇺🇸 Rebuild the military!
🇺🇸 Protect the 2nd Amendment!
🇺🇸 Appoint more conservative judges! pic.twitter.com/OKvVpyfgTZ

— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) July 10, 2020

Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 1:03:51pm

It’s laughable that this unimaginably incompetent president whose mistakes have led to catastrophic losses of life and jobs would try to tell us that our leading infectious disease expert, to whom he refuses to listen, has made mistakes. Is anyone falling for this act anymore? https://t.co/AJAdHWmQZP

— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) July 10, 2020

wrenchwench Jul 10, 2020 • 1:04:01pm

re: #26 lawhawk

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It takes a pandemic to see that

-working parents need support
-cops think they can get away with murder
-healthcare is needed by each individual in a society
-one must live in reality, or not live.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 1:04:13pm

Did I post this? I meant to but feel asleep.

Something to keep an eye on. Not much info available. My best guess is, that it is actually COVID-19 and not something new. But 2020 is full of surprises. https://t.co/osdButU3rI

— Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) July 10, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 1:04:46pm

re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Sure Jan. 🙄

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That amounts to: “I promise to fix all the shit I fucked up in my first term.”

LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:05:14pm

re: #29 Dread Pirate

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This is rich coming from the people who thought the disease would disappear.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 1:06:08pm

re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kazakhstan has denied it. Other sources also suggest it’s misdiagnosed Covid-19.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 1:06:58pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Kazakhstan has denied it. Other sources also suggest it’s misdiagnosed Covid-19.

This is my guess.

Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil! Jul 10, 2020 • 1:07:38pm

I was going to put together a list for 1981 films that I really liked, but having over 20 before getting halfway thru the alphabet it turned into an exercise in futility.

lawhawk Jul 10, 2020 • 1:09:17pm

NEW: The day after the Supreme Court decision, Trump’s battle with Manhattan DA Vance returns to SDNY.

Judge Marrero wants the parties to apprise him about the road ahead on Wednesday, before appearing at a telephone conference on Thursday morning. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/lGbw85PgJX

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 10, 2020

Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 1:09:58pm

Are they rolling up the refridgerated #AbbottTrailers up in back of Texas Hospitals yet?

— And the Wind Cries “For the 1/100th Time!!” (@DaveoutofAustin) July 10, 2020

BlueGrl21 Jul 10, 2020 • 1:10:11pm

Our school district, outside of Houston in the center of a COVID tornado right now, is making us decide if we’re going to keep our kids home next semester or send them to school. The boys, 15 and 18, want to be home. They miss their friends but they don’t want to be in a school building in the middle of a pandemic.

My husband is a teacher and has no choice, he must go back. But we’re keeping the boys home. Tough decision but we’ll see where we are in the spring. I work at home so the three of us will ride it out and watch my husband closely for any kind of contact.

Not worth it. Just not worth it for my family. I feel awful for every family having to make this decision. And those who have no choice but to send their kids back.

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 1:15:41pm

re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Sure Jan. 🙄

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Everything - every fucking thing - is on a third grade level with this administration.

I’m so tired of their bluffing and bluster. November can’t come fast enough.

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 1:16:54pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

That amounts to: “I promise to fix all the shit I fucked up in my first term.”

Hasn’t he already taken credit for rebuilding the military?

Belafon Jul 10, 2020 • 1:19:28pm

re: #38 Dave In Austin

“Please, why won’t you stop stabbing her?” said the cop, with a plea of desperation in his voice.

Belafon Jul 10, 2020 • 1:21:00pm

re: #39 BlueGrl21

Right now, I think we’re leaning towards keeping our 15 year old at home, even though some of his friends are supposedly going to school and he’s going to miss out on band.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:22:15pm

Hmm, 1982 movies.

Bladerunner
The Dark Crystal

and fond of My Favorite Year as well.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 1:22:40pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Kazakhstan has denied it. Other sources also suggest it’s misdiagnosed Covid-19.

That was my guess, too. But hey…weeeeee!

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 10, 2020 • 1:23:44pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

I like seeing everyone’s answer to these, so another one: what’s your favorite movie that came out the year you turned eighteen? Mine: pic.twitter.com/tk4YtDkwVY

— Pale || BLM. (@ThePaleNeon) July 10, 2020

1967
Then: The Graduate
Now: In Cold Blood

Hecuba's daughter Jul 10, 2020 • 1:28:22pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Kazakhstan has denied it. Other sources also suggest it’s misdiagnosed Covid-19.

Likely what happens if you follow the Trump policy of not testing — so no Covid-19. Just some other mysterious ailment that kills people.

Mike Lamb Jul 10, 2020 • 1:29:42pm

re: #26 lawhawk

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I’m not sure that the Federal Gov’t could issue a nationwide mask mandate, but it didn’t even need to. If Trump had simply worn a mask voluntarily, the entire dynamic is changed. You don’t have assholes everywhere from Gym Jordan to some run of the mill fucknut racing around without masks. We’d actually be closer to Europe right now.

A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 1:30:37pm

re: #5 lawhawk

CL’d:

They had six fucking months to prepare for this coming onslaught, and wasted it entirely.

Instead of having emergency beds and temporary hospitals ready to receive patients, they’re now scrambling to do what should have been done after seeing NY scramble to do the same exact thing.

This is all so fucking frustrating and avoidable.

Worse than that. Seeing what hit New York, they should have prepared for a nationwide shutdown (together or as individual states), so they’d not get to the point of needing all that.

CA did it — hampered by bad behavior in some (reddish) areas — but even with our setbacks, we’re still able to help other states out.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 1:34:03pm

My favorite movie of 1999? The Matrix.

Because fuck The Phantom Menace.

A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 1:34:04pm

re: #8 lawhawk

And it should end the GOP (but it wont, because party above nation).

That’s for the higher-ups. Not betting on it for (most of) the hoi polloi.

We’ll see….

Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 1:34:29pm

Another first…https://t.co/0dr2RLmva9

— Aaron Payne (@Aaron___Payne) July 10, 2020

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 1:35:11pm

I can relate, kid.

When you are 4 years old and lockdown is starting to frustrate you pic.twitter.com/sZ92h9v9Ax

— Shukela (@Ngu_Spesh) July 9, 2020

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:35:32pm

re: #24 lawhawk

Reports coming in from Phoenix that some local hospitals are getting refrigerator trucks ready because of surge in deaths overwhelming their morgues.

This is the same thing that happened in the NYC metro area. Hospitals got overwhelmed by deaths occurring in a very short time, and funeral homes couldn’t take the bodies fast enough. Everything is accustomed to a pace of deaths, and when you’re in a pandemic, the regular deaths keep happening, but now you have additional deaths from covid19 overwhelming those processes.

It was avoidable too - just wear your fucking masks and social distance.

The more I think about this the angrier I get.

new york - april/may
phoenix - july

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:37:47pm

re: #29 Dread Pirate

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same old story
menaingless broad generalizations
he wont ever talk in any specifics

It’s laughable that this unimaginably incompetent president whose mistakes have led to catastrophic losses of life and jobs would try to tell us that our leading infectious disease expert, to whom he refuses to listen, has made mistakes. Is anyone falling for this act anymore? https://t.co/AJAdHWmQZP

— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) July 10, 2020

(((Archangel1))) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:39:30pm

re: #1 Interesting Times

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SO buying these.

Also need a “F*ck Netanyahu” variant for these parts…

Jay C Jul 10, 2020 • 1:43:20pm

re: #41 makeitstop

Hasn’t he already taken credit for rebuilding the military?

Well, since the military really didn’t need “rebuilding” in the first place, it’s obviously going to need a little more time…..

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 1:44:55pm

re: #48 Mike Lamb

I’m not sure that the Federal Gov’t could issue a nationwide mask mandate, but it didn’t even need to. If Trump had simply worn a mask voluntarily, the entire dynamic is changed. You don’t have assholes everywhere from Gym Jordan to some run of the mill fucknut racing around without masks. We’d actually be closer to Europe right now.

you’re right - it would have been a matter of fact, non-thing
trump made it an issue and it morphed into cultural/political

now that it’s all so out of control, i wonder if he wishes he could take that one thing back - cause there’s almost no way now to reverse course with any kind of moral authority. he’s convinced them all that masks 1) arent necessary, and 2) are 100% a liberal thing

once again shot himself in the bone spurs and is totally zugzwanged

wrenchwench Jul 10, 2020 • 1:45:00pm

re: #57 Jay C

Well, since the military really didn’t need “rebuilding” in the first place, it’s obviously going to need a little more time…..

…to break it good, then we’ll see about the fix.

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 1:46:29pm

re: #49 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Worse than that. Seeing what hit New York, they should have prepared for a nationwide shutdown (together or as individual states), so they’d not get to the point of needing all that.

CA did it — hampered by bad behavior in some (reddish) areas — but even with our setbacks, we’re still able to help other states out.

Trouble is, people everywhere are just getting Covid fatigue. We’ve been sheltering in place for 4 months and nothing has changed. Testing is better, but the hospital where my daughter works still can’t test everyone when they’re admitted to that hospital. Contact tracing is a joke, in part because it’s taking so long to get test results back in some areas that there is no point. States have some responsibility, but without Federal planning and assistance, it’s kind of hopeless. PPE is starting to run low again. A friend of my daughter’s sent her a picture of the bottom of a box of surgical masks provided by Kaiser to their employees* that clearly stated “Not for medical use.”

Some people are in denial, but others have just kind of given up, as far as I can tell.
Mr. C. and I been feeling kind of bad too, but I’m planning on a sit-down with him to come up with a plan to keep us sane for the next 6 months, ‘cause I don’t see an end to this any time soon.

*edit: in this case a doctor, not, say, people in the billing office.

NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 1:53:36pm

Ann Coulter endorses Amy McGrath against #moscowmitchmcconnell.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. pic.twitter.com/UBWMHAcOqU

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 10, 2020

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 1:54:22pm

re: #61 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Ann Coulter endorses Amy McGrath against #moscowmitchmcconnell.

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Maybe her account was hacked?
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NetworkKed Jul 10, 2020 • 1:55:18pm

re: #61 NO SMOCKING GUN!

wut

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 1:55:50pm

re: #62 calochortus

Maybe her account was hacked?
/

Getting ready for her second act, I think.

Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 1:59:12pm

re: #61 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Ann Coulter endorses Amy McGrath against #moscowmitchmcconnell.

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In a serious gunfight you would want Ann Coulter on your side. …Maybe as part of a barricade.

NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:00:37pm

re: #62 calochortus

Maybe her account was hacked?
/

Coulter does this sometimes; she turned on Trump because he wasn’t racist enough.

retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 2:00:40pm

When I saw that “shining city on a hill” ad, it made me want to gag, because I hated Reagan. I was not the only one!

Ronald Reagan Wasn’t the Good Guy President Anti-Trump Republicans Want You to Believe In, by Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue for the win:

Trump is not a foil to Reagan; he is the natural evolution of the GOP’s emphasis on telegenic oppressors. It only makes sense that, 40 years after a movie star set this country on a course toward nationalism and economic exploitation, a reality TV star is doing everything he can to accelerate a downward spiral into mythical American exceptionalism that Reagan wrote the script for.

BeachDem Jul 10, 2020 • 2:01:07pm

Well this is new (to me, anyway.) Wayfair storage boxes, uh huh. (These people truly are certifiable)

Pizzagate/QAnon people have Wayfair trending today. They falsely claim price glitches on storage boxes prove that the company is trafficking children.This took off because of a post on Reddit’s r/conspiracy subreddit yesterday, which is a clearinghouse for anonymous paranoia.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 10, 2020

William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 2:02:49pm

re: #67 retired cynic

As I said yesterday in my comparison to the Soviets aid in WWII we’re starting to see the Lincoln Project via Yalta…

Belafon Jul 10, 2020 • 2:05:57pm

re: #67 retired cynic

When I saw that “shining city on a hill” ad, it made me want to gag, because I hated Reagan. I was not the only one!

Ronald Reagan Wasn’t the Good Guy President Anti-Trump Republicans Want You to Believe In, by Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue for the win:

He’s not, but if you’re going to speak Republican, you have to understand “Reagan.” The local Republican party has a celebration on his birthday. Right now, the first step is to get Trump out of office. Then you can talk about how Reagan lead us all down this route.

Belafon Jul 10, 2020 • 2:06:37pm

re: #68 BeachDem

Well this is new (to my, anyway.) Wayfair storage boxes, uh huh. (These people truly are certifiable)

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Looks like another channel Reddit needs to shut down.

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 2:06:37pm

re: #67 retired cynic

When I saw that “shining city on a hill” ad, it made me want to gag, because I hated Reagan. I was not the only one!

Ronald Reagan Wasn’t the Good Guy President Anti-Trump Republicans Want You to Believe In, by Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue for the win:

I thought it was a good spot. If it makes some OG conservatives turn away from Trump, all for the good.

Jay C Jul 10, 2020 • 2:07:01pm

re: #66 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Coulter does this sometimes; she turned on Trump because he wasn’t racist enough.

Well, that can’t be the problem with McConnell: and even as Minority Leader, he’d still be position to be his usual obstructionist advocate for regressive economics, as always. This is weird.

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:07:17pm

re: #70 Belafon

He’s not, but if you’re going to speek Republican, you have to understand “Reagan.” The local Republican party has a celebration on his birthday. Right now, the first step is to get Trump out of office. Then you can talk about how Reagan lead us all down this route.

True. They aren’t trying to convince us. They’re convincing rabid Republicans.

Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 2:07:46pm

Alabama’s “Every Man For Himself” strategy is not going down well:

Alabama Senate leader’s coronavirus plan: Get sick, try not to die
al.com

makeitstop Jul 10, 2020 • 2:09:10pm

re: #68 BeachDem

Well this is new (to my, anyway.) Wayfair storage boxes, uh huh. (These people truly are certifiable)

[Embedded content]

Not so fun fact - Wayfair had the contract to supply beds for Trump immigrant camps. We stopped buying from them because of that.

EPR-radar Jul 10, 2020 • 2:09:33pm

re: #67 retired cynic

Exactly. The modern history of the GOP is a farce in five acts:

Act I: Goldwater gets the nomination in 1964, setting in motion the long process where bigots and cranks took over the party.

Act II: Nixon, where the GOP learned that it needed to have more unprincipled Senators rather than better presidents.

Act III: Reagan, where the GOP fully embraced illusions in preference to reality.

Act IV: Gingrich, where the GOP declared total scorched-earth partisan warfare.

Act V part 1: W Bush, where all of the preceding combined into a clusterfuck of previously unimaginable scope and scale.

Act V, part 2: Trump, where all of the preceding combined into a clusterfuck of previously unimaginable scope and scale.

mmmirele Jul 10, 2020 • 2:10:20pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

This one. And then in 1981 I moved into an Animal House of a co-op. pic.twitter.com/2FLJGvhZtj

— Dee “I’m not Mrs. Holmes, that’s my mom” Holmes (@mmmirele) July 10, 2020

I’m sure there are cringey moments in NLAH, just as there were (now) cringey moments in real life in 1978, but for being a (possibly bad) influence in my life, this film is one of them.

Interesting Times Jul 10, 2020 • 2:10:22pm

re: #74 calochortus

True. They aren’t trying to convince us. They’re convincing rabid Republicans.

Speaking of which, watch this ad - I wish there were a way to figure out exactly how many of these people there are:

Nothing to add.

Except: a R who voted for DJT in 2016, who has since come to the realization that DJT has done far more harm than good and who speaks out in public is worth a 1,000 Dems re changing people’s minds - simply b/c MAGAts cannot dismiss her/him as “leftist”.@RVAT2020 pic.twitter.com/T8qgEYNXUp

— Chris Lutolf (@ChrisLutolf) July 10, 2020

_{I know, I know - you might watch it and think, WTF took them so long to figure it out? Perhaps they went from only watching Fox in 2016 to venturing beyond the bubble as a result of actual reality catching up to them in a way they could no longer ignore.}

BeachDem Jul 10, 2020 • 2:10:31pm

Compare and contrast:

Fund-raising for Biden, from Carole King:

As a Biden supporter and an online donor, I’ve been getting a lot of emails from the Biden campaign.

At first I thought, I’ve already donated. Why do they keep asking?
Then I remember what’s at stake, and I donate again.

The campaign to elect Joe Biden is more than a campaign. It’s a strong, vibrant movement that I’m proud to be part of.

I know that individuals and families are struggling to get through this historically difficult time of multiple crises. But I also know that President Joe Biden, God willing, will make things less difficult.

If you can give $5, or even one dollar, for each of the next few months until the election, you, too, will be a part of this growing movement…

Fund-raising email from the thing (same bullshit sent three times since yesterday afternoon—with a ONE HOUR DEADLINE)

Friend,

Crooked Hillary just held ANOTHER fundraiser for Sleepy Joe Biden.

Last time this CROOKED duo held a fundraiser, they raked in over $2 MILLION in a single night thanks to their radical base of MEGA HOLLYWOOD DONORS.

Joe Biden might have the liberal MEGA donors on his side, but I have something better…

I have YOU on my team, and that’s all I’ll ever need.

I want to do something HUGE, which is why I’m calling on my BEST supporters, like YOU, to help me make a statement by OUTRAISING these CROOKS.

For the NEXT HOUR, all contributions made will be 500%-MATCHED.

I can’t do this alone, Friend. I need you to step up. I want a list of ALL Patriots who donate in the NEXT HOUR.

If every Patriot who reads this email donates, we’ll CRUSH an all-time record and demolish Joe Biden’s campaign.

I smell desperation, and it’s not coming from Biden’s campaign.

Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 10, 2020 • 2:12:18pm

re: #78 mmmirele

Other 1978 movies:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Capricorn One
Foul Play
Grease
Heaven Can Wait
Jaws 2
Up In Smoke

Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 2:13:24pm

re: #49 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Worse than that. Seeing what hit New York, they should have prepared for a nationwide shutdown (together or as individual states), so they’d not get to the point of needing all that.

CA did it — hampered by bad behavior in some (reddish) areas — but even with our setbacks, we’re still able to help other states out.

What we didn’t do in CA was wait until ubiquitous testing and contact tracing capability was in place before starting to open anything. That was the whole point of the shutdown. Even California basically flushed 3 months down the toilet for nothing.

We just had a few more people taking it seriously is all.

Yes I know this was mostly Trump’s fault, but we should have just stayed shutdown and explained *exactly* why we were.

I think part of the problem was not clearly explaining to everyone from the average person, to county governments what exactly the point of the shutdown was and how long it would actually take. They were literally saying “shutdown for 2-3 weeks” in some places back in March like that was realistic. I told everyone I know back then: “Don’t make any plans before July, and probably none before the end of the year”. Many thought I was overreacting.

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:16:11pm

re: #79 Interesting Times

Speaking of which, watch this ad - I wish there were a way to figure out exactly how many of these people there are:

[Embedded content]

_{I know, I know - you might watch it and think, WTF took them so long to figure it out? Perhaps they went from only watching Fox in 2016 to venturing beyond the bubble as a result of actual reality catching up to them in a way they could no longer ignore.}

We can hope there are a bunch of them. I guess we’ll find out in Nov.

Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 2:17:33pm

Trump’s newly installed chief of global media fires the executive editor of Radio Free Asia and threatens to force as many as 100 foreign journalists working for the VOA to leave the country when their visas expire. @pranshuverma_ @ewong https://t.co/wLK78bZg5u

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 10, 2020

(((Archangel1))) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:18:11pm

I know Friday is supposed to be a slow day for news, but shouldn’t there be at least a few headlines concerning the discovery of Hell’s exact location, and how it is presently frozen solid?

The lovely Amy McGrath is a Marine Corps veteran. The average donation to her campaign is $36.

Mitch McConnell is a broken-down old man owed by cheap labor lobbyists.#DefeatMcConnell

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 10, 2020

mmmirele Jul 10, 2020 • 2:18:28pm

re: #68 BeachDem

Well this is new (to my, anyway.) Wayfair storage boxes, uh huh. (These people truly are certifiable)

[Embedded content]

Yesterday it was Wayfair was trafficking children in armoires.

Today, price glitches at Wayfair indicate child trafficking.

What will those Qwazy QAnons come up with tomorrow?

danarchy Jul 10, 2020 • 2:18:36pm

re: #73 Jay C

Well, that can’t be the problem with McConnell: and even as Minority Leader, he’d still be position to be his usual obstructionist advocate for regressive economics, as always. This is weird.

MCConnell is trying very hard to support Kobach’s opponent in his primary, Coulter is a big Kobach booster.

retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 2:22:31pm

Investigation rebukes Commerce Department for siding with Trump over forecasters during Hurricane Dorian
Report confirms Commerce officials responded to orders from the White House. WaPo

A long detailed report of who dun what to whom.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 2:26:50pm

re: #58 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

you’re right - it would have been a matter of fact, non-thing
trump made it an issue and it morphed into cultural/political

now that it’s all so out of control, i wonder if he wishes he could take that one thing back - cause there’s almost no way now to reverse course with any kind of moral authority. he’s convinced them all that masks 1) arent necessary, and 2) are 100% a liberal thing

once again shot himself in the bone spurs and is totally zugzwanged

I don’t think trump had the ability to think in What If’s or woulda, coulda, shoulda because that would mean he has the ability for retrospection. He doesn’t.

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:26:52pm

re: #82 Jack Burton

What we didn’t do in CA was wait until ubiquitous testing and contact tracing capability was in place before starting to open anything. That was the whole point of the shutdown. Even California basically flushed 3 months down the toilet for nothing.

We just had a few more people taking it seriously is all.

Yes I know this was mostly Trump’s fault, but we should have just stayed shutdown and explained *exactly* why we were.

I think part of the problem was not clearly explaining to everyone from the average person, to county governments what exactly the point of the shutdown was and how long it would actually take. They were literally saying “shutdown for 2-3 weeks” in some places back in March like that was realistic. I told everyone I know back then: “Don’t make any plans before July, and probably none before the end of the year”. Many thought I was overreacting.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people who desperately need financial support because there jobs are gone, or at least on hold. States, even CA, can’t really cover that need.
The longer the shut down goes on, the more damage is done, and the more things people need that aren’t “essential” items. The economy has winners and losers that aren’t equitable. If you can only buy shoes for the kids at Walmart because they also sell groceries and are allowed to be open, that’s where you buy them. The local store goes out of business. If you don’t let Walmart sell non-essentials, then you have to mail order those shoes which may or may not fit. The local store still goes out of business.

I’m not suggesting that we just need to suck it up and reopen the economy, but I don’t think keeping the economy shut down for the next 6 months is practical. We need to have a national plan, and I don’t know where we’re going to get such a thing in time to prevent massive damage to people’s lives and the country as a whole.

Apparently conservatism is a suicide pact.

BeachDem Jul 10, 2020 • 2:28:20pm

re: #86 mmmirele

Yesterday it was Wayfair was trafficking children in armoires.

Today, price glitches at Wayfair indicate child trafficking.

What will those Qwazy QAnons come up with tomorrow?

There was something about throw pillows with the names of every missing child from the past year, but I was so creeped out, I stopped reading.

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:30:05pm

re: #86 mmmirele

Yesterday it was Wayfair was trafficking children in armoires.

Today, price glitches at Wayfair indicate child trafficking.

What will those Qwazy QAnons come up with tomorrow?

So, they just ship the kid in the storage locker? By UPS? Considering how long it takes to get stuff you order these days, it doesn’t seem practical.
//

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:36:34pm

gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 2:37:20pm

I’m very surprised he passed his cognitive test. Are we sure he didn’t pay someone to take it for him?

— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2020

Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 2:37:44pm

No wonder he tried to hide it. Dear Leader Trump isn’t gonna like that number. https://t.co/sziSE737zY

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2020

A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:38:05pm

re: #60 calochortus

Trouble is, people everywhere are just getting Covid fatigue. We’ve been sheltering in place for 4 months and nothing has changed. Testing is better, but the hospital where my daughter works still can’t test everyone when they’re admitted to that hospital. Contact tracing is a joke, in part because it’s taking so long to get test results back in some areas that there is no point. States have some responsibility, but without Federal planning and assistance, it’s kind of hopeless. PPE is starting to run low again. A friend of my daughter’s sent her a picture of the bottom of a box of surgical masks provided by Kaiser to their employees* that clearly stated “Not for medical use.”

Some people are in denial, but others have just kind of given up, as far as I can tell.
Mr. C. and I been feeling kind of bad too, but I’m planning on a sit-down with him to come up with a plan to keep us sane for the next 6 months, ‘cause I don’t see an end to this any time soon.

*edit: in this case a doctor, not, say, people in the billing office.

Every time I find myself feeling sorry for myself, I pull out my copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Two years. And she couldn’t even look out the windows.

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:38:52pm

The small town of Clifton, VA is displaying a Black Lives Matter banner over Main Street. The predominantly white town is getting national attention now that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, asked the town to remove it. pic.twitter.com/EogaOZvRvS

— Drew Wilder (@DrewWilderTV) July 10, 2020

EPR-radar Jul 10, 2020 • 2:39:11pm

re: #90 calochortus

Apparently conservatism is a murder-suicide pact.

FTFY.

Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 2:40:59pm

jesus christ 7000 people hospitalized in Florida and these malevolent sideshow barkers are still pretending nothing’s wrong

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 2:41:55pm

I want all these motherfuckers to die in prison.

Just had a long talk with #RogerStone. He says he doesn’t want a pardon (which implies guilt) but a commutation, and says he thinks #Trump will give it to him. “He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.”

— howardfineman (@howardfineman) July 10, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:41:58pm

re: #25 BeachDem

As long as they’re done drinking before 11 pm, they should be fine/////////////////////
EA
This is what a total jackass our governor is:

“We know that young adults who are rapidly contracting the virus and spreading it into our communities frequently congregate in late-night atmospheres which simply are not conducive to stopping its continued transmission,” McMaster said. “This measured, carefully tailored approach will lessen the opportunity for South Carolinians to put themselves and their loved ones in harm’s way.”

Yeah, Henry, that will really solve all the problems. Sigh.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HENRY! I GOT A 92 YEAR OLD AUNT SCARED TO DEATH IN SUMTER WHO WON’T LEAVE HER ROOM FOR FEAR THAT SHE WILL GET SICK!

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Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 2:43:06pm

Great op-ed from my friend @SenDuckworth, a woman with more courage & patriotism in her left pinky than Tucker could ever muster. Some hide behind Klan hoods, others the Fox News logo. No business with integrity should advertise on his hour of hate speech. https://t.co/6A48dQTIZM

— Rep. John Yarmuth (@RepJohnYarmuth) July 9, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:43:43pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

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DeSADIST should be indicted for murder.

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calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:44:28pm

re: #96 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Every time I find myself feeling sorry for myself, I pull out my copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Two years. And she couldn’t even look out the windows.

Yeah. I actually have a metric for whether I really ought to be feeling sorry for myself. I ask myself if other people have it worse (because there is always someone who does-even if it’s not Anne Frank level worse.) If that doesn’t make me feel better, then I really don’t have a problem, which is counter-intuitive, but that’s how it is. If it does make me feel better to realize it could be a lot worse, then I actually do have a problem.

In this case, I’d say I don’t have a serious problem, but it could become one if I don’t pay attention and deal with it.

105

The Pie Overlord! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:45:05pm

AND AGAIN

LIVE VIDEO: Tensions high as protesters gather in Detroit officers kill a suspect in exchange of gunfire. https://t.co/1oj1I53Ulh

— Gary Miles (@GaryMiles_DN) July 10, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:46:16pm

re: #67 retired cynic

When I saw that “shining city on a hill” ad, it made me want to gag, because I hated Reagan. I was not the only one!

Ronald Reagan Wasn’t the Good Guy President Anti-Trump Republicans Want You to Believe In, by Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue for the win:

Remember how Pruneface got away with letting Michael Millken use junk bonds to loot company pension funds, let Savings and Loans get looted, Iran-Contra and letting the red ink flow like the dam was broke.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:46:50pm

re: #96 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Every time I find myself feeling sorry for myself, I pull out my copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Two years. And she couldn’t even look out the windows.

not the same of course

last night we watched the better call saul episode where he walks through the desert for 36 hours.

i’m sitting here in a/c with my feet up
and the internet
and zoom
and cell phone…

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 2:49:13pm

re: #106 🌹UOJB!

Remember how Pruneface got away with letting Michael Millken use junk bonds to loot company pension funds, let Savings and Loans get looted, Iran-Contra and letting the red ink flow like the dam was broke.

Every time I hear or read the name Michael Milken, it makes think of Michael Milton… and then World According to Garp… and I’ll just leave it there.

109

A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:49:31pm

re: #82 Jack Burton

What we didn’t do in CA was wait until ubiquitous testing and contact tracing capability was in place before starting to open anything. That was the whole point of the shutdown. Even California basically flushed 3 months down the toilet for nothing.

We just had a few more people taking it seriously is all.

Yes I know this was mostly Trump’s fault, but we should have just stayed shutdown and explained *exactly* why we were.

I think part of the problem was not clearly explaining to everyone from the average person, to county governments what exactly the point of the shutdown was and how long it would actually take. They were literally saying “shutdown for 2-3 weeks” in some places back in March like that was realistic. I told everyone I know back then: “Don’t make any plans before July, and probably none before the end of the year”. Many thought I was overreacting.

Speak for yourself — my area is still under lockdown, which never ended. New cases in the single digits per day in my 122,000 population town. Positive tests 1.7%. But we’re pretty much all democrats.

110

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 2:49:39pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Florida: 21M people, 7000 hospitalized.
Minnesota: 6M people, 200 hospitalized.

Um.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:49:42pm

re: #100 Teddy’s Person

I want all these motherfuckers to die in prison.

[Embedded content]

must be nice to sit in your house deciding when to go to prison
and having the prez as your best bud so there are no real consequences for you

plus there’s this

Pardoning Roger Stone Could Itself Be an Unpardonable Crime

are the WH lawyers that swift?

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TarHellion Jul 10, 2020 • 2:52:08pm

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

1986
Blue Velvet
Platoon
Back to School
Little Shop of Horrors
(There are others. That year was better than most for movies)

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 2:52:25pm

This is the kind of shit that Megan McArdle’s dad had to put up with.https://t.co/46akP0lWU4

— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2020

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 2:52:32pm

re: #109 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Meanwhile…

Crowds flood into beach in San Diego County on Fourth of July

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garzooma Jul 10, 2020 • 2:52:54pm

re: #79 Interesting Times

Speaking of which, watch this ad - I wish there were a way to figure out exactly how many of these people there are:

[Embedded content]

_{I know, I know - you might watch it and think, WTF took them so long to figure it out? Perhaps they went from only watching Fox in 2016 to venturing beyond the bubble as a result of actual reality catching up to them in a way they could no longer ignore.}

The Russian attack on the 2016 election, with Trump’s collusion, wasn’t known (because the FBI didn’t tell us).

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Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 2:53:06pm

Texas reports 9,765 new cases today. Positivity is 13%. 95 new fatalities. pic.twitter.com/qHJzIMQuNO

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 10, 2020

Not surprising. And the precise day counts may be nudged a bit by the 4th. But you can see here there’s 22 days, basically exactly three weeks between the beginning of the big surge in cases in Texas and the sharp rise in mortality. pic.twitter.com/LOiwhlV8tE

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 10, 2020

Not quite as clear cut in Florida. But cases start to move clearly on 6/3. 6/25 more or less is when you see the mortality start to move. (Trend line is 7 moving avg.) Meanwhile there’s a a bit more than two weeks before the true case surge and steep growth in death toll. pic.twitter.com/l9UMmdAptE

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 10, 2020

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:54:34pm

re: #90 calochortus

On the other hand, there are a lot of people who desperately need financial support because there jobs are gone, or at least on hold. States, even CA, can’t really cover that need.
The longer the shut down goes on, the more damage is done, and the more things people need that aren’t “essential” items. The economy has winners and losers that aren’t equitable. If you can only buy shoes for the kids at Walmart because they also sell groceries and are allowed to be open, that’s where you buy them. The local store goes out of business. If you don’t let Walmart sell non-essentials, then you have to mail order those shoes which may or may not fit. The local store still goes out of business.

I’m not suggesting that we just need to suck it up and reopen the economy, but I don’t think keeping the economy shut down for the next 6 months is practical. We need to have a national plan, and I don’t know where we’re going to get such a thing in time to prevent massive damage to people’s lives and the country as a whole.

Apparently conservatism is a suicide pact.

Mask wearing plus social distancing will drop new infections by at least 80%. We can do limited access for a long time, assuming governmental support. And there’s the prospect of some relief in six months.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 2:55:16pm

Let me put Florida’s hospitalized figure in another perspective: They have more people in hospitals for COVID-19 today than we have had in a hospital for the virus, EVER. As in, from the beginning of the pandemic until now. (The exact number is just a tick north of 4300.) And yet Florida is “winning” and Minnesota is “losing”.

119

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:55:52pm

re: #110 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Florida: 21M people, 7000 hospitalized.
Minnesota: 6M people, 200 hospitalized.

Um.

we have better beaches //

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Nojay UK Jul 10, 2020 • 2:56:36pm

re: #110 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Florida: 21M people, 7000 hospitalized.
Minnesota: 6M people, 200 hospitalized.

United Kingdom, 68M people, 2248 hospitalised as of 8th July 2020.

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calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 2:57:17pm

re: #117 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Mask wearing plus social distancing will drop new infections by at least 80%. We can do limited access for a long time, assuming governmental support. And there’s the prospect of some relief in six months.

If people will just wear the damn masks. I will say most people around here do-it’s required in stores, but even outdoors almost everyone will pop one over their nose and mouth when they’re near anyone.

122

🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:57:21pm

re: #70 Belafon

He’s not, but if you’re going to speak Republican, you have to understand “Reagan.” The local Republican party has a celebration on his birthday. Right now, the first step is to get Trump out of office. Then you can talk about how Reagan lead us all down this route.

If you compare speeches by Republicans to those made by Soviet Communists you’ll notice the only difference between their rhetoric is two words.

Where Soviet Communists used “Marx”, Republicans use “God” and when Soviet Communists used “Lenin”, Republicans use “Reagan”.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 2:57:30pm

re: #120 Nojay UK

United Kingdom, 68M people, 2248 hospitalised as of 8th July 2020.

See, that tracks. And it’s not like the UK has been a shining star of COVID response, but the fact that you guys are STILL doing better than Florida… Jesus.

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 2:57:37pm

re: #111 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

must be nice to sit in your house deciding when to go to prison
and having the prez as your best bud so there are no real consequences for you

plus there’s this

Pardoning Roger Stone Could Itself Be an Unpardonable Crime

are the WH lawyers that swift?

Thanks for the link, it was a good read.

125

jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 2:58:01pm

re: #116 Dread Pirate

Reminds me of the old concept of the dinosaur not receiving pain signals from the end of its tail until it was too late.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:58:56pm

re: #73 Jay C

Well, that can’t be the problem with McConnell: and even as Minority Leader, he’d still be position to be his usual obstructionist advocate for regressive economics, as always. This is weird.

Not if the filibuster and 60 vote threshold are killed.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 2:59:05pm

re: #118 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Let me put Florida’s hospitalized figure in another perspective: They have more people in hospitals for COVID-19 today than we have had in a hospital for the virus, EVER. As in, from the beginning of the pandemic until now. (The exact number is just a tick north of 4300.) And yet Florida is “winning” and Minnesota is “losing”.

it’s all about the governors //

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 2:59:23pm

I also don’t have pictures of any of this but *yesterday* I had to go to the bank. My local one was all locked up at noon on Thursday with a sign on the door “Closed for Emergency. Will reopen ASAP.”

(Assuming there was an incident with a Karen coughing on shit, or an employee tested positive)

So I go to the next closest of the same bank. I get there. The. Same. Damn. Thing. Happened there.

Right next door to this one is a bar. The patio is moderately filled with assholes who apparently just *needed* to go to a bar at noon on a Thursday during a pandemic and of course aren’t masked, but then again you can’t exactly eat or drink with one on so I’m not too pissy about that, but their server looked like he was dressed for surgery. If your server has to look like that to survive a day at work, the place shouldn’t be open and you. do. not. need. to. be. there.

Finally the 3rd branch of that bank I went to was open.

This is urban/suburban California right now people.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 2:59:36pm

re: #104 calochortus

Yeah. I actually have a metric for whether I really ought to be feeling sorry for myself. I ask myself if other people have it worse (because there is always someone who does-even if it’s not Anne Frank level worse.) If that doesn’t make me feel better, then I really don’t have a problem, which is counter-intuitive, but that’s how it is. If it does make me feel better to realize it could be a lot worse, then I actually do have a problem.

In this case, I’d say I don’t have a serious problem, but it could become one if I don’t pay attention and deal with it.

Well, in fact, I haven’t pulled out my copy for a while.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 3:00:05pm

re: #121 calochortus

If people will just wear the damn masks. I will say most people around here do-it’s required in stores, but even outdoors almost everyone will pop one over their nose and mouth when they’re near anyone.

trump made masks a culture war / political issue
i dont know how you unwind that now / quickly

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 3:03:01pm

re: #124 Teddy’s Person

Thanks for the link, it was a good read.

today’s electoral-vote.com pointed me there this morning

today’s was a very good read on
- what the two scotus tax cases ‘really’ mean (not really too good for trump)
- stone and the pardon/commutation
and a bunch of other good stuff - cdc, jacksonville, biden doing fine, and apparently the dems arent in disarray; we are quite unified

132

jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 3:03:14pm

How long until @realDonaldTrump starts making disparaging remarks about the Dutch “for no apparent reason?”

— Yankee Bastardo (@BigMouthYank) July 10, 2020

133

calochortus Jul 10, 2020 • 3:04:16pm

Hmm, I think all this talk of masks has given me an idea for a fun little project. I’m going to do a little embroidery on some fabric and use it to make a mask. I think I’ll have plenty of time that I can wear it over the next few months.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 3:04:48pm

re: #132 jaunte

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he’ll just pardon russia (// 1/2)

Netherlands Takes Russia to Human Rights Court Over MH17 Crash https://t.co/5FP7Qd32X5 @MollyQuell

— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) July 10, 2020

135

gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 3:05:26pm

So McArdle responds to me. What should I say?

tbh it was the striped socks that really made him miserable.

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 10, 2020

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piratedan Jul 10, 2020 • 3:07:21pm

re: #135 gocart mozart

I’d say be polite and say thank you…. maybe she’ll read more and begin to be less…. troublesome.

137

HRH Stanley Sea Jul 10, 2020 • 3:09:04pm

South Carolina media update:

Whenever Lindsey Graham’s ad plays (Jaime Harrison = Pelosi etc.)

Jaime’s ad plays directly after (heartfelt for SC)

Amazing ad buy/placement.

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 3:09:58pm

re: #136 piratedan

I’m trying to think of something a bit snarky.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:11:00pm

re: #86 mmmirele

Yesterday it was Wayfair was trafficking children in armoires.

Today, price glitches at Wayfair indicate child trafficking.

What will those Qwazy QAnons come up with tomorrow?

George Soros activated the 5G Weather Machine to disrupt Trump’s Rally

NO I AM NOT KIDDING…THEY ARE THAT FUCKING STUPID!!!!

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:14:22pm

re: #121 calochortus

If people will just wear the damn masks. I will say most people around here do-it’s required in stores, but even outdoors almost everyone will pop one over their nose and mouth when they’re near anyone.

If I’m outdoors in a park or empty street, I take the damned thing off, when I approach a street with people (“Crowds? What are these ‘crowds’ of which you speak?”) I put it on. Pretty much everyone I see does the same.

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piratedan Jul 10, 2020 • 3:15:12pm

re: #138 gocart mozart

I know, but since she replied in good faith and without any of her usual idiocy, I thought perhaps reciprocity could be employed. Usually she’s obtuse and in this fleeting instance seems a tad more human…

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 3:15:31pm

re: #139 🌹UOJB!

George Soros activated the 5G Weather Machine to disrupt Trump’s Rally

NO I AM NOT KIDDING…THEY ARE THAT FUCKING STUPID!!!!

Jared Yates Sexton had a pretty long Twitter thread a few days ago explaining that the whole QAnon thing is basically yet another modern retelling of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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piratedan Jul 10, 2020 • 3:17:11pm

re: #137 HRH Stanley Sea

we’re seeing similar placement here in AZ when McSally comes on and attempts to portray Biden and/or Kelly as being in the pocket of the Chinese, we get a Kelly ad following that is remarkably less unhinged

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:17:19pm

re: #100 Teddy’s Person

I want all these motherfuckers to die in prison.

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Howard Fineman needed a dozen bong hits to recover from talking to Stone.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:17:54pm

re: #128 Jack Burton

I also don’t have pictures of any of this but *yesterday* I had to go to the bank. My local one was all locked up at noon on Thursday with a sign on the door “Closed for Emergency. Will reopen ASAP.”

(Assuming there was an incident with a Karen coughing on shit, or an employee tested positive)

So I go to the next closest of the same bank. I get there. The. Same. Damn. Thing. Happened there.

Right next door to this one is a bar. The patio is moderately filled with assholes who apparently just *needed* to go to a bar at noon on a Thursday during a pandemic and of course aren’t masked, but then again you can’t exactly eat or drink with one on so I’m not too pissy about that, but their server looked like he was dressed for surgery. If your server has to look like that to survive a day at work, the place shouldn’t be open and you. do. not. need. to. be. there.

Finally the 3rd branch of that bank I went to was open.

This is urban/suburban California right now people.

As I already remarked, not all of it.

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 3:18:15pm

Did he have one of those big hats? If you have a big hat you shouldn’t sweat the striped socks.

— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 10, 2020

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:20:10pm

re: #130 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

trump made masks a culture war / political issue
i dont know how you unwind that now / quickly

Tie DT into a mask. With a complicated knot. He’ll never get it off, and since he can do no wrong, he’ll start telling everyone why it’s the in thing, wearing a mask.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:22:02pm

re: #131 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

today’s
and a bunch of other good stuff - cdc, jacksonville, biden doing fine, and apparently the dems arent in disarray; we are quite unified

Shhh! Don’t tell! It’s our secret weapon.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 3:22:58pm

It’s the free market when he boycotts, suppression of speech when he doesn’t https://t.co/jxBInjdIfn pic.twitter.com/UUr5Sau8Aq

— Emil Caillaux (@emilcDC) July 10, 2020

As his constituents die, Ted Cruz remains focused on kulturbeankampf.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 10, 2020 • 3:23:43pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

That amounts to: “I promise to fix all the shit I I promised and still fucked up in my first term.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 3:26:59pm

re: #131 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I find it troubling that Trump is still polling as leading in so many states.

The failure of Trump being President is not just Trump’s failure, but America’s failure.

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HRH Stanley Sea Jul 10, 2020 • 3:27:57pm

re: #143 piratedan

we’re seeing similar placement here in AZ when McSally comes on and attempts to portray Biden and/or Kelly as being in the pocket of the Chinese, we get a Kelly ad following that is remarkably less unhinged

It’s brilliant. Hinged followed by way less hinged.

Sure it costs more but very effective.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jul 10, 2020 • 3:29:17pm

re: #152 HRH Stanley Sea

It’s brilliant. Hinged followed by way less hinged.

Sure it costs more but very effective.

SO glad I do not watch TV.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 3:31:46pm

How reality-averse do those Great Plains states have to be, to buy into Trump? Trump has been a spectacular failure when it comes to agricultural exports, to the real problems of rural America.

I surmise that Je$u$ has been telling all his followers out there that Trump is his man.

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piratedan Jul 10, 2020 • 3:31:58pm

re: #152 HRH Stanley Sea

I see the pattern followed on the local news and on the heavily syndicated channels that folks use to escape, shows like wheel of fortune and the game show network and even the hallmark channel. They appear to be targeted to exhausted working people who are trying to find something normal. The contrast is really striking.

156

Patricia Kayden Jul 10, 2020 • 3:33:52pm

‘Nobody ever heard of it until I came along, nobody remembered it for a long time…Abraham Lincoln was a Republican’ —Pres. Trump suggests he alone has informed people Abraham Lincoln was a Republican pic.twitter.com/nD4MDgkQN0

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 10, 2020

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 3:35:45pm

re: #147 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Tie DT into a mask. With a complicated knot. He’ll never get it off, and since he can do no wrong, he’ll start telling everyone why it’s the in thing, wearing a mask.

If Trump ever is seen in a mask, we’ll know for sure that the Deep State has him in its pocket.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:38:31pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How reality-averse do those Great Plains states have to be, to buy into Trump? Trump has been a spectacular failure when it comes to agricultural exports, to the real problems of rural America.

I surmise that Je$u$ has been telling all his followers out there that Trump is his man.

It’s complicated, but basically the plains states hate Democrats because of FDR. Yes, really.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 3:40:32pm

re: #158 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

It’s complicated, but basically the plains states hate Democrats because of ~~FDR~~ Je$u$ hates Democrats. Yes, really.

And Je$u$ hated FDR too.

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retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 3:41:17pm

regulations.gov

This rule is open for public comment for another 5 days.

Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear

SPLC: The proposed rule would end longstanding protections, making it nearly impossible for most migrants to win asylum. It would block many asylum seekers from even getting to court in the first place, and it would generally deny people asylum if they fled gender-based persecution, domestic abuse or gang violence. This means that a person who has received death threats because of their sexual orientation, who is fleeing a forced marriage, who is being abused by their spouse or who is being threatened by gangs would generally not be granted asylum.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 3:45:40pm

re: #131 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

today’s electoral-vote.com pointed me there this morning

today’s was a very good read on
- what the two scotus tax cases ‘really’ mean (not really too good for trump)
- stone and the pardon/commutation
and a bunch of other good stuff - cdc, jacksonville, biden doing fine, and apparently the dems arent in disarray; we are quite unified

That was a good read. Thanks.

I have to say, this makes no sense. Look at the Klobuchar to trump. Huh?

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:46:36pm

re: #157 Decatur Deb

If Trump ever is seen in a mask, we’ll know for sure that the Deep State has him in its pocket.

This is the mask we should glue onto Trump!

163

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 10, 2020 • 3:47:06pm

A fellow producer just sent me this and I’ve been crying for at least 5 minutes: pic.twitter.com/gCI5qppwRp

— Jess Duffy (@JessDuff_y) July 9, 2020

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mmmirele Jul 10, 2020 • 3:47:56pm

Goodbye tourism.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 3:49:24pm

Unless the big hat is striped. That could work.

As long as it’s not too matchy-matchy. There’s a fine line.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 10, 2020

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 3:52:34pm

Adventures in Coronavirus Testing, Florida Edition.

DIL is Bad Sick for 4 days.
Goes to VA clinic in nearby city. (She’s a Kuwait vet, 3rd female soldier in her line.)
VA: “Come back when you’re sicker.”
Checks around—free public testing day July 23.
Bites bullet, goes to local for-profit clinic. $125 out of pocket.

Test result expected in 5 (working?) days.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 3:55:45pm

re: #163 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It’s not real but it’s hysterical. 😂😂😂

168

jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 3:55:47pm

They’ve been working up to this for a long time in the “who’s a real veteran/American” game, but “Our Party’s One-Eyed White Operator Is More American Than Your Party’s Legless Multiracial Army Aviator” is a little too on the nose https://t.co/HguPI8omLE

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) July 10, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 3:58:38pm

The only surprise is that he was fired.

News: @TuckerCarlson’s top writer has resigned after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks under a pseudonym on an online forum. Here’s our story: https://t.co/69IVc1mxzG

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 10, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 4:01:33pm

re: #169 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The only surprise is that he was fired.

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I guess only the guy in front of the camera gets to do racism.

They were pissed he did it under a pseudonym.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 4:02:23pm

Another Friday night news dump at DOJ.

This time, EDNY’s top prosecutor is replaced in an unusual transfer of power, and unlike his old SDNY counterpart, accepts a promotion at Main Justice. https://t.co/ssMeJkxs8q

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 10, 2020

172

jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 4:02:48pm

How unusual?

Ex-SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman told Congress YESTERDAY that such a transition would have been “unprecedented, unnecessary and unexplained.”

“Unprecedented” no longer, with DuCharme’s swearing in today. https://t.co/noYnydjdks pic.twitter.com/700cvhQuF6

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 10, 2020

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 4:03:30pm

“Barr’s old principal associate deputy AG Seth DuCharme”

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:03:42pm

hDpyHjbhUm0AfDzDIUbnq0VgUrzZaxm+CSbWs/JBEf0B6theBLPCYamun/ytwWOssHdqHSlGrIfXM/vvUuo8+0FnNGwvw0Iw65x6ofjoKWzCdOtpyjLmcevIpbHDNaxrd7gmGEUtYtfStqMfzzo+7f8qii932robD59n06631kHWRtxwLnqCiE8JUrlh6CzjzkrowTOC45k=

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 4:05:08pm

re: #174 NO SMOCKING GUN!

pp4JWAPCL2P8On7lOKJsuA==

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:06:28pm

😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/YmB8yOYWGs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:06:46pm

re: #168 jaunte

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I’m sure KKKrenshaw added a heaping helping of racism in his attack on Tammy.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:08:43pm

This is what “America First” looks like under President Trump: pic.twitter.com/jSmJOeG13G

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 10, 2020

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Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 4:09:09pm

THAT UMBRELLA HATES HIM pic.twitter.com/jlvgeA2IVp

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 10, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 4:09:34pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

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Are people meeting the president instructed to emulate the way he stands?

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 4:10:41pm

re: #179 Charles Johnson

THAT UMBRELLA HATES HIM

Keeps grabbing it in the wrong place.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 4:10:51pm

re: #176 The Pie Overlord!

People keeping saying he’s got some kind of disability or is experiencing decline, but…

…I kind of think he’s just a narcissist who doesn’t work out at all and wears absolutely massive lifts in his shoes.

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 4:10:57pm

re: #179 Charles Johnson

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That umbrella is all of us.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:11:08pm

re: #170 Teddy’s Person

I guess only the guy in front of the camera gets to do racism.

OR

They were pissed he did it under a pseudonym.

Imagine if Carlson got a Black transgender writer. One can dream, right?

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:12:12pm

re: #182 The Ghost of a Flea

People keeping saying he’s got some kind of disability or is experiencing decline, but…

…I kind of think he’s just a narcissist who doesn’t work out at all and wears absolutely massive lifts in his shoes.

He did pass the cognitive test, which surprised the doctors at Walter Reed.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 4:12:21pm

Took us six months, but we have our motto, 2020. https://t.co/2muemm0uE7

— Alejandro Lazo (@AlejandroLazo) July 8, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 4:13:15pm

re: #184 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Imagine if Carlson got a Black transgender writer. One can dream, right?

To be honest, I never occurred to me that Carlson has writers. He’s been doing the same shtick for years.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 10, 2020 • 4:14:18pm

re: #187 Teddy’s Person

To be honest, I never occurred to me that Carlson has writers. He’s been doing the same shtick for years.

haters need help.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 4:15:23pm

re: #185 NO SMOCKING GUN!

He did pass the cognitive test, which surprised the doctors at Walter Reed.

Kind of a serious answer, and admittedly something I’ve said here before:

When he starts spouting crazy shit it’s not because he has no faculties, it’s because he doesn’t have an executive part of his conscience that instructs him that every rando thing going through his head isn’t preciously smart and important.

In a sense, he’s never actually in the real world because he can’t conceive that his whims aren’t reality.

ETA: and I do mean “conscience” not “consciousness. His internal world is more important than stuff like…people dying of an illness en masse, women not wanted to be sexually assaulted, any and all rules.

The rambling speech is because he doesn’t care if the audience understands or if his point is clear: because the point of talking is not to communicate but proclaim, there’s no reason to structure what’s said.

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Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 4:16:01pm

I mean, how do you deal with this and still justify running for reelection? pic.twitter.com/Jwg0vayITO

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 10, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:16:04pm

re: #178 The Pie Overlord!

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I talked to a woman working here in Kentucky who is a Canadian citizen. She hasn’t gone to visit her family, because she would have to quarantine for two weeks. Trump has turned America into a shithole country.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 4:17:18pm

re: #169 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The only surprise is that he was fired.

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Holy shit. Read what this asshole wrote. What a colossal asshole.

The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content. The writer has now resigned. https://t.co/3DBUNp9fGa

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 10, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:19:12pm

re: #192 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Holy shit. Read what this asshole wrote. What a colossal asshole.

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What else would you expect from the lead writer for the Tucker Carlson White Power Hour?

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 10, 2020 • 4:19:29pm

Christ, the idiot is going to be tweeting about umbrellas tonight, isn’t he?

195

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 4:22:46pm

Hot in SoCal this weekend:

NWS San Diego Briefing - July 10, 2020

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!) Jul 10, 2020 • 4:24:10pm

re: #169 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The only surprise is that he was fired.

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Holy Crap! Shocked, shocked, I say!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 10, 2020 • 4:26:04pm

re: #135 gocart mozart

So McArdle responds to me. What should I say?

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I would have guessed it was the hats and pants

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Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 4:26:12pm

🤯 https://t.co/i48G46WLct

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 10, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 10, 2020 • 4:31:27pm

re: #149 jaunte

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As his constituents die, Ted Cruz remains focused on kulturbeankampf.

Goya was selling in Cuba all that time?

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 4:33:29pm

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

Christ, the idiot is going to be tweeting about umbrellas tonight, isn’t he?

Trump tweet: I’m the BEST umberella handler IN the WORLD. No one KNEW about umbrallas before ME. Big TOUGH men come UP to me WITH tears in THEIR eyes and say SIR thank you FOR telling us about umbrelas.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!) Jul 10, 2020 • 4:39:01pm

re: #193 NO SMOCKING GUN!

What else would you expect from the lead writer for the Tucker Carlson White Power Hour?

I wonder how Tucker will publicly respond to this news?

Attack another person of color or one of the usual ones?

202

Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 4:39:39pm

Couple things from the wildest Freep day in a while:

SMOTI is quoted as saying Stone’s sentence has been commuted. Celebration. SMOTI

Telemundo is quoted that Trump promised an EO in 4 wks, giving a citizenship path to DACAs. Total Freepout.

203

William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 4:41:46pm

Sitting at work, things are quite quiet. Was reading earlier today about how the second round of stimulus checks is still alive because the GOP is desperate about November. Window shopping at gun stores as a result, laughing at myself when I get tempted by an inexpensive US made AK-47 🤣

Gotta get one before the new administration bans them! 😇

204

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 4:42:30pm

It’s only the 10th https://t.co/TGdKPPqSjD

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 10, 2020

205

plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 4:42:43pm

re: #21 sizzzzlerz

Great movie!

206

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 4:43:43pm

OK, this is bad. Very, very bad

32% of U.S. households missed their July housing payments. https://t.co/CZbQZEESql

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) July 10, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 10, 2020 • 4:44:38pm

208

🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:45:31pm

And another Karen makes an asshole of herself!

North Carolina woman refuses to wear a mask & causes a huge scene saying “Trump 2020” pic.twitter.com/OiXok1jRoB

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 10, 2020

209

Mattand Jul 10, 2020 • 4:45:50pm

Today’s poll from ABC News/Ipsos shows that a large majority of American citizens are not buying Donald Trump’s attempt to create an alternate reality where COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter don’t exist: Broad disapproval for Trump’s handling of coronavirus, race relations: POLL.

And yet…

And yet…

This fucking election is still going to come down to the wire.

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 4:50:47pm

re: #209 Mattand

And yet…

And yet…

This fucking election is still going to come down to the wire.

That’s a very good working assumption.

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plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 4:50:55pm

re: #63 NetworkKed

Wish I could find that old wut helicopter gif.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:51:05pm

re: #209 Mattand

And yet…

And yet…

This fucking election is still going to come down to the wire.

I really don’t think so, unless Trump suddenly decides to do the right thing, and there is no sign of that happening.

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 4:53:07pm

June 10: Trump’s going to have a massive rally in Tulsa that propels him to victory in November.

July 10: The rally didn’t go so well and, also, Tulsa is now a Native American reservation.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 10, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 4:55:07pm

re: #207 Patricia Kayden

Absolutely everything that US evangelicals have done to their own religion, god, theology, and sacred texts is just a swath of data points for my general theory, “all reactionary accusations are actually confessions.”

I don’t what they fuck they’re worshipping, but it’s wearing Ed Gein skin-suit made out of the preserved stuffed carcass on some Jewish dude named Yeshua.

And whatever that thing is it’s totally down for some Trump.

Youtube Video

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:55:30pm

MSNBC reporting that Trump will commute Stone’s sentence for not flipping on Trump.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 4:56:22pm

#BREAKING: Donald Trump calls Roger Stone and tells him that he’ll commutes sentence: NBChttps://t.co/boCUfyGdfp

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 10, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:56:24pm

re: #214 The Ghost of a Flea

Absolutely everything that US evangelicals have done to their own religion, god, theology, and sacred texts is just a swath of data points for my general theory, “all reactionary accusations are actually confessions.”

I don’t what they fuck they’re worshipping, but it’s wearing Ed Gein skin-suit made out of the preserved stuffed carcass on some Jewish dude named Yeshua.

The REAL Gawd of the Religious Right is Ayn AS IN MINE Rand!

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:57:14pm

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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More proof that Republicans are above the law.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 4:57:38pm

INBOX: Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grant of Clemency for Roger Stone, Jr. pic.twitter.com/uiIekvLDWv

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 10, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 4:59:06pm

re: #218 🌹UOJB!

More proof that Republicans are above the law.

LAW AND ORDER! /

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 4:59:19pm

re: #217 🌹UOJB!

The REAL Gawd of the Religious Right is Ayn AS IN MINE Rand!

Damnit now I have a really vivid “Silence of The Lambs” image in my brain except it’s Ayn Rand at the top of the pit screaming at Jesus to put the lotion in the basket.

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Targetpractice Jul 10, 2020 • 4:59:55pm

re: #220 NO SMOCKING GUN!

LAW AND ORDER! /

*dundun*

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 5:00:38pm

Stone is asking for a new trial. Will he get a new sentence in a year or so?

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PhillyPretzel Jul 10, 2020 • 5:01:09pm

re: #219 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The Washington Post version of the story:
washingtonpost.com

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 5:02:26pm

As journalists are reporting out the Roger Stone commutation, please remember to point out he was found guilty of lying about his efforts to coordinate the release of hacked emails between the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks and Russian intelligence.

Trump is rewarding collusion.

— Nunca Trump (@NeverTrumpTexan) July 11, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 5:02:38pm

Happening in my house right now. pic.twitter.com/sZO6TMCrCc

— Beth S. (@PolkaDotFoxTrot) July 10, 2020

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dnlS Jul 10, 2020 • 5:04:00pm

71k new cases today

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Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 5:05:36pm

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is leading a Trump administration effort to demand the Food and Drug Administration reverse course and grant a second emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine… https://t.co/sFsnAyMM2z

— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 10, 2020

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Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 5:09:24pm

We all knew the shithead in chief was going to do this. It’s not like he made a secret out of it.

The cronies who can get him in the most trouble need to be kept out of prison so they don’t get too angry at him. https://t.co/XtWLgXn4l3

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 5:09:47pm

Roger Stone got 3 years in prison for lying to Congress & obstructing justice & has sentence commuted before serving a day

Crystal Mason, a black woman in Texas, got 5 years for voting on supervised release when she didn’t realize she was ineligible & her ballot wasn’t counted

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 11, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 5:11:50pm

I think today proves that Trump does not care for Paul Manafort

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 5:11:53pm

Anyway, here’s Roger Stone DMing the avatar of the same Russian spy agency that’s now tied to paying bounties to the Taliban. https://t.co/WOqbE8uA6F pic.twitter.com/3nWosjwsLQ

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 11, 2020

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plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 5:14:23pm

re: #208 🌹UOJB!

I can’t imagine try to talk to any trumpster who acts like that. Lost cause forever.

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Patricia Kayden Jul 10, 2020 • 5:16:14pm

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

So much for the law and order President.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 5:16:54pm

So good! Nom nom nom!

Don’t ever again send me a text that treats me like an idiot.

I am hearing from A LOT of supporters of the President that they are getting EXTREMELY insulted and angry at this garbage.

Stop it. @parscale @GOPChairwoman

cc @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/FrR63MP2YK

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 10, 2020

Hey @parscale —

It’s as if Ronna @GOPChairwoman ROMNEY and @GOPLeader are deliberately sabotaging #Trump2020.

YOU need to get them under control and on board for the win.

— Col Joe (Parler: gkjoe) (@GKJoe) July 10, 2020

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 10, 2020 • 5:19:32pm

commuted? Does that mean he admits to committing the crime or not? Can he now be subpoenaed?

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PhillyPretzel Jul 10, 2020 • 5:19:43pm

re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kurt never heard of blocking a call or text? If he wants some tips on how to block tell him to go to the Apple website and they can take him through the process.

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stpaulbear Jul 10, 2020 • 5:19:49pm

re: #232 jaunte

So I wonder how much personal security is Roger Stone going to have to travel with now.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 5:23:41pm

Stone can still plead the fifth as to these crimes.
So Trump ensures that Stone does not talk. https://t.co/leBxb4xb1C

— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) July 11, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 5:24:20pm

😁😁😁

WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Borowitz Report)—Laying out his plans for reopening the nation’s schools in the fall, Donald J. Trump expressed concern that social distancing would make it “really hard” for students to cheat off one another’s papers.

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Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 5:26:46pm

Interesting that they pulled this shit at 5 pm on a Friday, not so much because it’s the usual news dump time but because that old way of dealing with news like this really doesn’t apply any more. Especially with this many people at home all day.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 5:30:00pm

NEW: It wasn’t just the weather. While the Trump campaign postponed Saturday’s NH rally due to safety concerns over a tropical storm, GOP advisers said fears over low turnout also motivated the decision to scrap the event. W/ @PeterAlexander @JulesJester https://t.co/3KXMnOqzuU

— Monica Alba (@albamonica) July 11, 2020

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Charles Johnson Jul 10, 2020 • 5:30:41pm

Roger Stone’s just lucky he didn’t deface a Confederate statue.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 11, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 5:31:48pm

lmao this is what tucker carlson’s racist ghost writer blake neff looks like, why are these people afraid of the white gene pool diluting, seems to me like it needs it. pic.twitter.com/nGIXEaSYjy

— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) July 10, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 5:32:14pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Roger Stone strikes me as someone who’d abduct the statue and leave behind a series of clues to provoke Batman and Robin into an elaborate death trap involving his wife’s massive fake tits.

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 5:33:44pm

Something to cheer everyone up.

Unfortunately for Roger Stone nobody can commute his eternity in hell.

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) July 11, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 5:33:59pm

re: #244 🌹UOJB!

pic.twitter.com/bpBzXL3Fix

— the rent canceler (@AllezLesBoulez) July 11, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 5:34:50pm

re: #227 dnlS

71k new cases today

Good dog, on our way to 100k cases a day.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 10, 2020 • 5:36:12pm

re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Good dog, on our way to 100k cases a day.

Fauci was right, trump was wrong.

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 5:36:57pm

re: #248 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Good dog, on our way to 100k cases a day.

We locked down hard on Mar 12. Right now, Alabama is far more infectious than it was then.

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Jay C Jul 10, 2020 • 5:37:55pm

re: #244 🌹UOJB!

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This guy’s gene pool looks like it’s already been diluted….

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PhillyPretzel Jul 10, 2020 • 5:37:55pm

re: #250 Decatur Deb

We should not have reopened until cases were 0.

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Decatur Deb Jul 10, 2020 • 5:38:48pm

re: #252 PhillyPretzel

We should not have reopened until cases were 0.

Or at least some case-traceable number.

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sagehen Jul 10, 2020 • 5:38:53pm

re: #236 I Would Prefer Not To

commuted? Does that mean he admits to committing the crime or not? Can he now be subpoenaed?

It means the conviction is still on the record, but time dilation sped through his sentence and he’s done with it now.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 10, 2020 • 5:39:57pm

re: #254 sagehen

It means the conviction is still on the record, but time dilation sped through his sentence and he’s done with it now.

Thanks

So he can’t be forced to testify?

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 10, 2020 • 5:45:39pm

re: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Christ, what an asshole.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 10, 2020 • 5:48:41pm

re: #244 🌹UOJB!

Don’t worry, ol’ Neffer will land a gig at OAN…

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 5:52:02pm

Biden campaign reacts to President Trump commuting Roger Stone’s sentence, accusing Trump of abusing his power. Full statement from @BillR: pic.twitter.com/tw0UPJQwqC

— Sarah Mucha CNN (@sarahmucha) July 11, 2020

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jul 10, 2020 • 5:52:13pm

re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat

Don’t worry, ol’ Neffer will land a gig at OAN…

#ONAN forever!

What have you got to lose?

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ibob Jul 10, 2020 • 5:52:59pm

I just found out there are 10 patients holding for COVID 19 beds in our ER.

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sagehen Jul 10, 2020 • 5:54:03pm

re: #260 ibob

I just found out there are 10 patients holding for COVID 19 beds in our ER.

Are you in Texas?

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 5:55:11pm

Trump commuting Stone in exchange for Stone not rolling on Trump is of course a quid pro quo. Is it politically incorrect in these circumstances to remind people, maybe in a whisper, that the Constitution defines “Bribery” as a “high Crime,” automatically an impeachable offense?

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 11, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 5:58:15pm

NINGEN ISU / Great king of terror (人間椅子 / 恐怖の大王)

Hm. Kind of like Japanese Sabbath with a side order of lit references.

Don’t know why the Mayor of Flavortown is the drummer, tho

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 10, 2020 • 6:00:40pm

re: #186 jaunte

Took us six months, but we have our motto, 2020. https://t.co/2muemm0uE7

— Alejandro Lazo (@AlejandroLazo) July 8, 2020

Reminds me of a chilling short story by Harlan Ellison that I read decades ago: “I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream”

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 6:04:53pm

The commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence should serve as a reminder that no legal outcome is safe as long as Trump is still president.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 11, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 10, 2020 • 6:06:14pm

re: #247 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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He’s an incel as well as a racist. Hope him getting fired doesn’t trigger a shooting spree!

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ibob Jul 10, 2020 • 6:13:06pm

re: #226 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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My daughter did.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 10, 2020 • 6:17:06pm

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

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ibob Jul 10, 2020 • 6:17:10pm

re: #261 sagehen

Are you in Texas?

Alabama.

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 10, 2020 • 6:17:33pm

re: #234 Patricia Kayden

So much for the law and order President.

Trump does not believe perjury is a crime. He lies as naturally as he believes and will intervene to help anyone who lies on his behalf.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 6:20:04pm

re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter

He doesn’t believe that anything that he does or that benefits him is a crime or immoral.

Anything that slightly inconveniences or causes him distress deserves all available retaliation.

…which is disturbingly a trait a he shares with all his followers.

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 10, 2020 • 6:22:02pm

re: #255 I Would Prefer Not To

Thanks

So he can’t be forced to testify?

It wouldn’t have mattered. He would have lied anyway and Trump would have pardoned him.

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EPR-radar Jul 10, 2020 • 6:23:17pm

re: #271 The Ghost of a Flea

He doesn’t believe that anything that he does or that benefits him is a crime or immoral.

Anything that slightly inconveniences or causes him distress deserves all available retaliation.

…which is disturbing a trait a he shares with all his followers.

There is no pathology in Trump that is not also dominant in the Republican Party. The lying, the stupidity, the narcissism, the treason, and the corruption all fit this pattern.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 6:35:15pm

Whelp … Sleeping Giants comes under fire for misogamy aimed at the female founder from the male founder. She left the group and detailed the issue in a Medium post, which Wonkette sumarised.

Sleeping Giants Not Very Woke

When Matt and I came out in July 2018 on the front page of the business section of the New York Times, I believed it was as equal partners. It was through Matt’s subsequent media appearances I realized he considered me an optional part of the story.

In the weeks after we went public, he positioned himself as Founder of Sleeping Giants and went on to take interviews with Pod Save America, Kara Swisher and AdWeek. In AdWeek, I ended up portrayed as “one of the individuals who helps him run the accounts.”

Without my knowledge, my story was being defined by someone else — a white man who could use his platform to exclude me, diminish me, or disappear me entirely. He never once invited me to join him. I never had any idea he was doing any of these interviews until it was too late.

(more)

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mmmirele Jul 10, 2020 • 6:37:19pm

re: #263 The Ghost of a Flea

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Video

Hm. Kind of like Japanese Sabbath with a side order of lit references.

Don’t know why the Mayor of Flavortown is the drummer, tho

I love these guys. Nobu Nakajima (drummer) is actually going for the Japanese gangster look.

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Dave In Austin Jul 10, 2020 • 6:37:46pm

Maddow-Wallace would be one hell of a team.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 10, 2020 • 6:40:25pm

re: #275 mmmirele

_{technically I knew that but then the Guy Fieri impression struck and I had to say it; I was compelled by forces beyond my control}

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 10, 2020 • 6:42:16pm

This is really simple: Trump ordered Roger Stone to work with Wikileaks. Stone lied to Congress about it, Trump lied to Mueller about it, and Stone protected Trump’s lie by choosing prison over flipping. Now Trump has repaid him.

— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) July 11, 2020

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Dread Pirate Jul 10, 2020 • 6:44:11pm

NEW: As @AVindman is forced into retirement, @realDonaldTrump is bringing allies of Mike Flynn back into government.

Current & former @WHNSC & @DeptofDefense officials worry that this “C-team” of “nut jobs” could be “a serious national security threat.”https://t.co/3tsi27c0Ok

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 10, 2020

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marcusgorillius Jul 10, 2020 • 6:45:10pm

re: #246 Teddy’s Person

I’d really like to say some things right now that I can’t say on the internet.🤬

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 6:47:16pm

**race baiting https://t.co/9nbQuaIRB1

— Lesley Abravanel🆘 (@lesleyabravanel) July 11, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 6:52:27pm

Evening Lizardim.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 6:53:10pm

re: #281 jaunte

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So is that piece of trash a Qbot, too?

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EPR-radar Jul 10, 2020 • 6:53:36pm

re: #279 Dread Pirate

It really does seem silly for former DOD officials and the like to talk of national security threats from clowns in the Trump administration without mentioning the biggest security risk of all — Bozo the Clown in the Oval Office.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 6:54:10pm

re: #273 EPR-radar

There is no pathology in Trump that is not also dominant in the Republican Party. The lying, the stupidity, the narcissism, the treason, and the corruption all fit this pattern.

Cancelling the rally allegedly due to Tropical Storm Fay. The place his rally was scheduled for is entirely outside the predicted path of the storm.

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Teddy's Person Jul 10, 2020 • 6:56:31pm

Law and Order for the rich white man demo.

In my view it would be justified if President @realDonaldTrump decided to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence.

Mr. Stone is in his 70s and this was a non-violent, first-time offense.https://t.co/jbbGTucRpq

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 10, 2020

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 6:58:41pm

re: #281 jaunte

A big party?

Maybe they will all get the ‘vid.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 7:01:42pm

A roundup of the comprehensive, ongoing, widespread corruption (that we know about) in the Roger Stone case:

Since all eyes are on Roger Stone (+Trump) tonight, let’s take a stroll through all the OMG, WHAT JUST HAPPENED moments in this case. Thread:

— Katelyn Polantz (@kpolantz) July 10, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:02:18pm

On the Sleeping Giants fiasco:

A businessman is aggressive; a businesswoman is pushy.
He is good on details; she’s picky.
He’s confident; she’s conceited.
He loses his temper at times because he’s so involved in his work; she’s bitchy.
He knows how to follow through; she doesn’t know when to quit.
He stands firm; she’s hard.
He isn’t afraid to say what he thinks; she’s mouthy.
He’s close-mouthed; she’s secretive.
He drinks martinis because of excessive job pressures; she’s a lush.
He exercises authority diligently; she’s power mad.
He’s climbed the ladder of success; she’s slept her way to the top.
He’s a stern taskmaster; she’s hard to work for.
He’s a man of the world; she’s been around.

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Jack Burton Jul 10, 2020 • 7:11:02pm

re: #279 Dread Pirate

“C-team” of “nut jobs”

and Traitors. They forgot to mention that.

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stpaulbear Jul 10, 2020 • 7:11:48pm

re: #282 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I saw your private note you left yesterday. I did think of your family while I was commenting about my family.

I had my first social visit today. I had told my oldest sister that I would be out on my scooter today and probably near her neighborhood. When I stopped, I called from their driveway because I didn’t want to go into the house (mostly because I’d been experiencing a sore throat this morning like I do most mornings due to allergies). I was wearing my mask until they brought out a drink for me. We sat outdoors in a nice breeze with proper distancing. They talked about visiting a lot with the kids and grandkids and going out for dinner the night before. I was starting to get a little freaked out when they were passing me their cell phones to show me pictures of the grandkids. I left feeling that I’d been pretty neurotic to them, but I also pulled over a few miles from their house and slathered my hands (and scooter hand grips) with sanitizer.

PS: Today’s weather was as perfect a MN summer day as possible. What a nice day.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:13:31pm

re: #291 stpaulbear

It was a beautiful day today. I went out and mowed the front nine after work today.

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stpaulbear Jul 10, 2020 • 7:14:45pm

re: #292 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It was a beautiful day today. I went out and mowed the front nine after work today.

I was planning on doing that this evening, but I didn’t.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:18:23pm

Future breaking: Trump to release weather map of New England with a Shapie marking showing the storm was really predicted to hit New Hampshire.

295

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 7:18:55pm

This is hysterical because you are asking yourself if it’s real… It’s believable that it could be.

In case you’re wondering why #CreepyTrump is trending 🤔 pic.twitter.com/rnYWpyTMdc

— Karen’s Manager (@aaron415sf) July 8, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 7:19:42pm

re: #286 Teddy’s Person

Law and Order for the rich white man demo.

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Pretty much what I said.

LAW AND ORDER, rich, white, republican traitor style.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 11, 2020

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Interesting Times Jul 10, 2020 • 7:22:08pm

One of the few Dems who can punch up (and back) as effectively as The Lincoln Project:

GOP boycotting Nike over Kaepernick = “free speech”

Dems boycott anything= “suppression”

I know consistency isn’t your thing, but pick a lane. Trump targeted Latinos on Day 1. Caged our kids. And you defend it.

Your habichuelas probably taste like your politics anyway: 0 sazón https://t.co/h21ZREFMTH

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 10, 2020

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Teukka Jul 10, 2020 • 7:24:35pm

re: #162 🌹UOJB!

This is the mask we should glue onto Trump!

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Wouldn’t that provoke the ire of an Elder God, insulting him like that?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:29:17pm

Nebraska man who plotted to blow up competing pharmacy pleads guilty (Omaha World-Herald)

A Maryland man was also involved in the plot.

Unrestricted capitalism, yo.

The plot to blow up his competitor’s pharmacy was so he could expand his business of illegally selling Oxycodone over the Dark Web from his pharmacy.

He also produced a bogus skin cream product which he paid model Kathy Ireland to promote on her YouTube channel.

When his home was raided, the police captured an arsenal of guns and firebomb-making materials.

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jaunte Jul 10, 2020 • 7:30:03pm

and Trump commuted Stone’s sentence on the anniversary of Rich’s murder.

That can only be gloating. A sick joke.

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 11, 2020

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William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 7:31:26pm

Home from work, time for supper. Let’s pretend I’m in college! Box of mac and cheese and the last two corn dogs into the air frier. 🤣

(I occasionally threaten my son with it, I never did the tuna & peas thing. Had a roomie who did it though).

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:33:42pm

re: #301 William Lewis

Home from work, time for supper. Let’s pretend I’m in college! Box of mac and cheese and the last two corn dogs into the air frier. 🤣

(I occasionally threaten my son with it, I never did the tuna & peas thing. Had a roomie who did it though).

Mrs. Fish’s equivalent of “tuna and peas” was frozen veggies and ramen. She still makes it (occasionally with air-fried chunks of frozen chicken breast) as a peasant dish. Brings back memories of those days in my bachelor pad, a naive young 22-year-old college grad playing World of Warcraft in the spare bedroom after work.

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William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 7:35:36pm

I like a bit of corn or green beans in my ramen too. I’ve thought about buying a bag of those itty bitty shrimps to try in shrimp flavored ramen but never got around to it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:35:48pm

A federal judge has ordered a stay of execution in the first person scheduled to die under federal law in seventeen years.

The reason given was the Covid-19 outbreak: The family of the victims stated they feared travellng to Terre Haute to witness the execution citing the ongoing epidemic.

The judge’s stay will remain in place until the emergency is passed, so with conservatives in charge, he will live a long life in prison.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:35:53pm

re: #303 William Lewis

I like a bit of corn or green beans in my ramen too. I’ve thought about buying a bag of those itty bitty shrimps to try in shrimp flavored ramen but never got around to it.

It’s quite good, we’ve done that too.

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mmmirele Jul 10, 2020 • 7:37:15pm

This is a great thread about a lost gold ring, a curse tablet and JRR Tolkien.

1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait of the pagan goddess Venus, inscribed backwards SUNEV for use as a signet ring by the owner. Curiously… pic.twitter.com/Ls0QcDVNzq

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) July 10, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:37:40pm

re: #303 William Lewis

I like a bit of corn or green beans in my ramen too. I’ve thought about buying a bag of those itty bitty shrimps to try in shrimp flavored ramen but never got around to it.

Ghost peppers in ramen noodles for the win.

Also, pineapple.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:41:51pm

re: #306 mmmirele

This is a great thread about a lost gold ring, a curse tablet and JRR Tolkien.

2) …around the ten-sided ring is crudely inscribed the identity of a later Christian owner, “Senicianus” who it proclaims with spelling errors “lives in god” (vivas in deo). A ring passing from pagan to Christian hands - certainly possible in the 4th century - but remarkably…

A conservative, obviously. /s

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fern01 Jul 10, 2020 • 7:43:06pm

re: #181 Decatur Deb

Keeps grabbing it in the wrong place.

Has to use right arm - left is all used up stopping him falling down the steps. Soon as he uses left arm - all is fixed.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:43:06pm

Other cheap meals from the bachelor pad:

* Hot dogs in mac and cheese
* All the scrambled eggs
* Homemade mac and cheese, with cheap noodles and a block of crappy cheese shredded into it and baked
* Mini chicken pot pies: Canned biscuits layered into a cupcake pan and filled with frozen veggies and cream of chicken soup

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William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 7:46:41pm

re: #310 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Other cheap meals from the bachelor pad:
(snip)
* Mini chicken pot pies: Canned biscuits layered into a cupcake pan and filled with frozen veggies and cream of chicken soup

I like this idea. A bit of canned chicken added in could make that really quite good.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:47:24pm

re: #311 William Lewis

I like this idea. A bit of canned chicken added in could make that really quite good.

I think we did that once I got a little money and we could afford nice things like chicken.

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stpaulbear Jul 10, 2020 • 7:56:51pm

re: #281 jaunte

re: #296 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Someday there is going to be a really satisfying viral video of Stone being punched in the face. Even if he’s 85 years old when it happens, it will still feel appropriate.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 7:57:13pm

re: #313 stpaulbear

Someday there is going to be a really satisfying viral video of Stone being punched in the face. Even if he’s 85 years old when it happens, it will still feel appropriate.

Buzz Aldrin approves of this post.

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William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 7:58:38pm

re: #313 stpaulbear

I have had a number of very inappropriate thoughts since that news was released.

Especially about aluminum baseball bats…

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plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 8:01:04pm

re: #310 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The one I lived on for 10 days when flat broke? Fried egg sandwiches on wonder bread.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 10, 2020 • 8:07:07pm

re: #315 William Lewis

I have had a number of very inappropriate thoughts since that news was released.

Especially about aluminum baseball bats…

You’re not alone.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 8:09:14pm

re: #314 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Mrs. Fish informed me that she just saw the famous video of the great Mr. Aldrin’s bout of fisticuffs a few days ago. She said, “I thought he was around my dad’s age. I didn’t realize that he was around my dad’s age NOW.”

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 8:10:56pm

God damn cows, man. https://t.co/nxXf3tgrHd

— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 11, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 8:12:07pm

re: #319 gocart mozart

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I love how the steer just saunters off after, almost like a cat… “I totally meant to do that. Nothing to see here, move along.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 10, 2020 • 8:17:43pm

So the US broke another record today, zooming right past the 70k new cases in one day.

So much winning!

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retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 8:18:12pm

re: #320 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

steer

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plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 8:18:23pm

re: #319 gocart mozart

The steer’s opinion:

Ren & Stimpy Mr. Horse - No Sir I Didn’t Like It

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Sherlock Hound Jul 10, 2020 • 8:18:28pm

re: #317 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You’re not alone.

Aluminum. Blood washes off easily.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 10, 2020 • 8:18:34pm

re: #322 retired cynic

steer

Thank you for the correction.

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retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 8:20:55pm

re: #325 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

grin It was the fault of whoever labeled the tweet.

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BlueSpotinAL Jul 10, 2020 • 8:23:59pm

re: #269 ibob

Alabama.

Unfortunately, that could be almost anywhere in Alabama right now. :(

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil! Jul 10, 2020 • 8:26:25pm

re: #169 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The only surprise is that he was fired.

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Except he wasn’t fired, he resigned, and all Carlson and his FoxNews cohorts have all refused to comment. According to the story, he has been posting openly racist comments on the forum for the past FIVE years, as recently as last week, and I guarantee that it was with Carlson’s full knowledge.

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gocart mozart Jul 10, 2020 • 8:28:22pm

Life is cheap for Bill Barr what they actual FUCK? https://t.co/61HegJmhI5

— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) July 11, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 8:31:42pm

re: #320 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I love how the cow just saunters off after, almost like a cat… “I totally meant to do that. Nothing to see here, move along.”

Lots of tone police in there: So you find it funny that a cow got its head stuck in a shelter for calves. So you didn’t try to intervene and help the cow (really? 2,000 lb of cow? The only way you’re going to stop that is with a rifle.)

Cows do stupid crap like this all the time. The cow was not hurt.

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retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 8:32:49pm

re: #330 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of tone police in there: So you find it funny that a cow got its head stuck in a shelter for calves. So you didn’t try to intervene and help the cow (really? 2,000 lb of cow? The only way you’re going to stop that is with a rifle.)

Cows do stupid crap like this all the time. The cow was not hurt.

Yep. All you can do is curse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 8:33:16pm

re: #322 retired cynic

steer

This isn’t NASCAR, the animal didn’t turn left. /s

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retired cynic Jul 10, 2020 • 8:33:43pm

re: #332 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

ssssssssss

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William Lewis Jul 10, 2020 • 8:34:52pm

Welcome to No Fun Monday on a Friday because, as he says, no one knows what day it is anyway…

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day - A New England

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BlueSpotinAL Jul 10, 2020 • 8:40:02pm

re: #330 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of tone police in there: So you find it funny that a cow got its head stuck in a shelter for calves. So you didn’t try to intervene and help the cow (really? 2,000 lb of cow? The only way you’re going to stop that is with a rifle.)

Cows do stupid crap like this all the time. The cow was not hurt.

When I was growing up, had a neighbor with an enormous bull (red angus?) that would walk right over a barbed wire fence like it wasn’t there when a cow was in heat.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 10, 2020 • 8:44:00pm

I will not be surprised to wake up tomorrow morning and find out Maxwell was found hanging in her cell.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 10, 2020 • 8:44:25pm

State senator Ernie Chambers’s field of fuques is barren.

Chambers returns birthday card from Ricketts unopened, citing ‘racist’ campaign flyer (Omaha World-Herald)

State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha is not really one to mark birthdays to begin with, but he was particularly steamed Friday when he received a card, via interoffice mail, from Gov. Pete Ricketts.

He didn’t open it, so he had to assume it was a birthday card. And he quickly penned a message on the front of the envelope to send back through the same delivery system.

Friday was Chambers’ 83rd birthday. It may be the last one he spends as a state senator, Nebraska’s longest-serving one, as his term expires in January.

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plansbandc Jul 10, 2020 • 8:48:47pm

re: #330 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Always the tone police with animal vids. I put up a vid of a dog riding a skateboard and then crashing into a plastic trashcan (obvious no animal was harmed. He got up and went looking for his board.) I had an internet friend lose her shit over my cruelty, block me on all social media, shit post about me on our mutual fan boards and generally stalk me on the internet for several years. All because I posted the vid on twitter and thought it was funny.

Yeah, no “controversial” animal vids for me.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jul 11, 2020 • 6:18:10am

re: #335 BlueSpotinAL

When I was growing up, had a neighbor with an enormous bull (red angus?) that would walk right over a barbed wire fence like it wasn’t there when a cow was in heat.

My brother-in-law who raised Clydesdales commented once that gates and fences were merely suggestions to them. Though they’d been raised to generally obey them as limitations. The one stallion used to trot around and “bump” the gate repeatedly in the one paddock when he was feeling ornery.

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Eventual Carrion Jul 11, 2020 • 7:16:36am

re: #100 Teddy’s Person

I want all these motherfuckers to die in prison.

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So there is much information to “turn on him” with I take it by that statement. Pretty much an admission that tRump is dirty as hell.

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dell*nix Jul 11, 2020 • 10:00:55am

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

For A few Dollars More.

Spy Auto

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