The Bob Cesca Podcast Sums Up the Week: One Term Loser

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

One Term Loser — [Explicit Language] Major Supreme Court victories against the imperial presidency; Mazars and others have to turn over Trump’s financial documents to investigators; Additional hurdles in court; Deutsche Bank agrees to turn over documents; Too Much Information; Revisiting the New York Times investigation into Trump’s tax scams; Black Lives Matter mural painted outside Trump Tower; Red Hat couple charged with hate crimes; TRex’s awesome new article for The Guardian; The CDC will not revise its reopening guidelines; Tulsa is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases; Jody Hamilton and TRex David Ferguson are here; With music by C.C. Grace and Stone Cold Chakra; and more!

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Grunthos the Flatulent Jul 11, 2020 • 5:17:14pm

Shpx Gehzc!

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 5:18:17pm

GOTV

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 5:18:56pm

Thread.

EXCLUSIVE: Months ago, scientists offered a plan to use coronavirus survivors’ blood to make an upper-arm shot that could inoculate people for months, until a vaccine exists. But HHS officials rejected the plan, and manufacturers declined to make them. 1/ https://t.co/dhl9imMjET

— Emily Baumgaertner (@Emily_Baum) July 10, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:19:38pm

Wait a minute.

What if the anti-mask people are the real sheep?

I’d imagine getting a mask on an actual sheep would be very hard.

They’d likely make a lot of baa baa baa noise, run away while not understanding that you’re trying to protect them and others.

🐑 🏃🏽

— Jeremy Jojola (@jeremyjojola) July 11, 2020

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 5:23:23pm

Trump’s campaign manager is a felon.
His deputy campaign manager is a felon.
His national security advisor is a felon.
His foreign policy advisor is a felon.
His personal lawyer is a felon.
His long time advisor is a felon.

It’s not a campaign, it’s a criminal enterprise. pic.twitter.com/3U2VZNcaiL

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 12, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 5:24:14pm

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

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Trump himself is a felon, just unconvicted because the Senate has no balls and New York hasn’t had a go at him yet.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:24:32pm

Trump wore a mask. Great! Now can he put on a muzzle?

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 12, 2020

PhillyPretzel Jul 11, 2020 • 5:25:02pm

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

It always was a criminal enterprise.

So Cal Greek Hippie Jul 11, 2020 • 5:25:19pm

Ventura 2013 From Grant Park Looking South

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 5:25:44pm

I didn’t know John Oliver did this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

A single billionaire could spend what is to them an imperceptible amount of their money to cancel medical debt for millions of people. Each day, they choose not to.

This is why you tax billionaires: so it doesn’t depend on their mood.

— ‏بوكيبلينكي (@pookleblinky) July 11, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 5:25:47pm

Trump doesn’t wear a mask:

MAGAts: “He’s a manly man who doesn’t need a stupid mask, Libtard!”

Trump wears a mask:

MAGAts: “Dude, Trump looks so badass in his mask! Suck on that, Libtard!”

The Ghost of a Flea Jul 11, 2020 • 5:26:48pm

Today is tridi 23 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXVIII, celebrating the bean. pic.twitter.com/wkFB36g0vG

— Republican Calendar (@sansculotides) July 11, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 5:27:12pm

re: #10 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I didn’t know John Oliver did this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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I have had the same thoughts many times about Billionaires being able to make a big difference with what, to them anyway, amounts to pocket change.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:27:38pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump doesn’t wear a mask:

MAGAts: “He’s a manly man who doesn’t need a stupid mask, Libtard!”

Trump wears a mask:

MAGAts: “Dude, Trump looks so badass in his mask! Suck on that, Libtard!”

just waiting for them to spew green pea soup after their heads stop spinning from whiplash.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 5:27:42pm

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

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Just not Goya beans.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 5:29:08pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

I have had the same thoughts many times about Billionaires being able to make a big difference with what, to them anyway, amounts to pocket change.

I have these thoughts too when campaigns announce how much money they raise and spend. That money could be spent doing such good.

Charles Johnson Jul 11, 2020 • 5:30:05pm

Trump played golf again today as the country begins to break down. He and his cronies are simply pretending it isn’t happening.

Trump talked about a “war against an invisible enemy.” But he’s completely surrendered.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 12, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:32:04pm

17 years ago, 100 people died in the Station Nightclub fire after
Great White’s tour manager lit pyrotechnics inside the small club during a show. One of the band’s biggest hits is called “Once Bitten, Twice Shy.”

Who had this on their 2020 bingo card? https://t.co/43iHWZ98fT

— Billy Jensen (@Billyjensen) July 11, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:33:17pm

Mayor Breed: it would be great to have a little bit more coordination and support from a federal level because again we are doing the best we can here locally…
Question: What more do you want to see at the federal level?
Breed: I’d like to see a new president pic.twitter.com/Ju6abHOWsO

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 11, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 5:34:20pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

What more would I want to see at the federal level? Something. ANYTHING. Right now, the federal government’s response to COVID amounts to our three-year-old child of a President* sticking his fingers in his ears and saying, “LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”

Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 5:39:02pm

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:39:26pm

Trump agreed to wear a mask came after a quiet lobbying campaign by some WH aides & political advisers who urged Trump to set an example for his supporters.
One adviser described it as “lots of negotiation” & repeated “pleading.”
W/ ⁦@Kevinliptakcnn⁩ https://t.co/qJMdBmJVj2

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) July 10, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:42:17pm

5/26:@DanaBashCNN: “[Trump]’s trying to belittle you for wearing a mask, making it seem like it’s a sign of weakness. Is it?” @JoeBiden: “He’s a fool, an absolutely fool to talk that way.” pic.twitter.com/LdnSf9dndB

— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) July 12, 2020

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 5:42:40pm

“Of course Donald Trump would have preferred to wait until November 3 to commute Roger Stone’s sentence. But Stone had let it be known that he might talk if he had to set foot in prison for even a short time. “ https://t.co/x564XErZ6T

— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 11, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 5:43:54pm

This is a lie.

And every single person in the media applauding him finally wearing a mask after 137,000 US dead, after bungling the COVID response, after making doing the bare minimum political…

…is letting this lie take root.#TrumpVirus https://t.co/j06n8Zx9oz

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 12, 2020

NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 5:46:06pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The pivot finally made! “Trump became President today.”

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 12, 2020

Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 5:48:51pm

fwiw (wapo)

Robert Mueller: “The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office.”

“The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 5:49:04pm

re: #26 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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Oh, honey. You’re not confused. You know as well as I do why he hasn’t worn a mask up till now (and won’t in the future). Here’s a hint: Trump refuses to believe in reality.

Ace Rothstein Jul 11, 2020 • 5:56:23pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’d replace “fool” with “fucking moron.”

PhillyPretzel Jul 11, 2020 • 5:57:27pm

re: #29 Ace Rothstein

Joe is being polite.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 5:58:09pm

re: #29 Ace Rothstein

I’d replace “fool” with “fucking moron.”

You know, I think it’s okay if politicians swear sometimes. I know, I know, it goes against the “good Christian” aesthetic many of them wear, but I want to feel them be REAL. Show some goddamn emotion, don’t be like the Romneybot. Obama showed emotion. That’s a man who you knew what he was feeling.

Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 5:59:07pm

In a private letter last week, FedEx threatened to remove its name and signage from FedEx Field if Snyder does not change the name of Washington’s NFL team, potentially costing him tens of millions of dollars. ⁦@lizclarketweet⁩ https://t.co/KQdJwtvlS8

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 11, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 11, 2020 • 5:59:27pm

BREAKING: Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, legally changes her name to “Goya” Cruz in hopes that her husband actually defends her.

— Mike N 🆘🌊 (@MikeyNog) July 11, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 5:59:46pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Ace-o-aces Jul 11, 2020 • 6:00:26pm

makeitstop Jul 11, 2020 • 6:01:37pm

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

I did a couple of benefit shows for the Station fire victims and their families, and I did promotion for the ~~‘Operation Phoenix’~~ ‘Phoenix Rising’ concert with Twisted Sister and Tesla that aired on VH1. I talked a lot to the people in Warwick.

Their anger at Jack was white hot. Probably still is.

Some people never learn.

(Edited because the ol’ memory ain’t what it used to be.)

Charles Johnson Jul 11, 2020 • 6:02:52pm

Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 6:03:55pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

I see there’s a top water bite going on…..

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:04:17pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

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Narrator: “It was in that moment, the seal knew… he fucked up.”

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 6:07:04pm

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third is one step, I say one step, from seeing the Yankee president on the moors at dawn.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Big Senate Race in Alabama on Tuesday. Vote for @TTuberville, he is a winner who will never let you down. Jeff Sessions is a disaster who has let us all down. We don’t want him back in Washington!

Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions
I’ve taken the road less travelled. Not sought fame or fortune. My honor and integrity are far more important than these juvenile insults. Your scandal ridden candidate is too cowardly to debate. As you know, Alabama does not take orders from Washington.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:08:06pm

re: #40 Decatur Deb

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions The Third is one step, I say one step, from seeing the Yankee president on the moors at dawn.

Susan Collins can be his second.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 11, 2020 • 6:08:38pm

Are you tired of winning yet? #MAGA pic.twitter.com/gM6AEyOpMq

— Mindful Majority (@MindfulMajority) July 12, 2020

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 6:10:46pm

re: #41 Teddy’s Person

Susan Collins can be his second.

The fair sex rolls bandages here in the South, Suh.

Jay C Jul 11, 2020 • 6:17:14pm

re: #43 Decatur Deb

The fair sex rolls bandages here in the South, Suh.

So Susan Collins can show up to express worry and concern (her speciality): that other fine Suthrun Gentleman Lindsay Graham can be his second….

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 6:21:53pm

re: #44 Jay C

So Susan Collins can show up to express worry and concern (her speciality): that other fine Suthrun Gentleman Lindsay Graham can be his second….

Don’t think you can quite hide all of Trump behind Colonel Graham.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:23:50pm

re: #45 Decatur Deb

Don’t think you can quite hide all of Trump behind Colonel Graham.

I was going to say, Lindsey Graham would’ve been my choice for a second, but he would most likely be Trump’s second… Who else in the south would dare to challenge Der Trumpenfuhrer?

Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 6:24:17pm

🤢 pic.twitter.com/Kwo3NzlWuL

— Stiles (@PeteStiles) July 12, 2020

Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 6:24:23pm

I just had a conversation with a former #OakvilleTrafalgar high school in Oakville and I was shocked to hear how racist students were. Starting in March 2o2o #Asians were targeted because of COVID-19…

— moveebuff (@moveebuff1953) July 11, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:24:26pm

If it wasn’t for the requirement that the dueling parties be proper Southern gentlemen, I would’ve suggested Mitt Romney to be Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s second.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:25:23pm

re: #46 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I was going to say, Lindsey Graham would’ve been my choice for a second, but he would most likely be Trump’s second… Who else in the south would dare to challenge Der Trumpenfuhrer?

Lindsey and Mitch can have their own duel to see who would be Trump’s second.

makeitstop Jul 11, 2020 • 6:25:56pm

This is crazy, true or not: Is Ghislaine Maxwell secretly one of the most powerful Redditors of all time?

Though this, and everything you find on places like Reddit, should be taken with an enormous helping of salt, it’s the kind of internet nonsense that you can lose an entire day staring at.

The account in question is u/MaxwellHill. For some background, u/MaxwellHill is one of the earliest and most powerful influencers on Reddit — a “charter member.” The user is the 8th highest ranked account in total link karma (a points-based metric for performance curating for the site), was the first poster to reach one million link karma, and is or has been a power moderator for front-page subreddits such as r/worldnews, r/politics, r/science, and r/technology. u/MaxwellHill has been the subject of sitewide discussions, anonymous interviews, AMAs, and profiles. The account was created 14 years ago and has been an active, almost daily, poster since its inception.

That is, until seven days ago to the very hour that Ghislaine Maxwell was taken into custody in her home in Bradford, New Hampshire.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:26:33pm

re: #50 Teddy’s Person

Lindsey and Mitch can have their own duel to see who would be Trump’s second.

Interestingly, I am of the opinion that Mitch McConnell actually loathes Donald J. Trump, and only sucks up to him for the purposes of maintaining his personal fiefdom in the Senate. Lindsey Graham is a true sycophant.

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 6:27:16pm

re: #49 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

If it wasn’t for the requirement that the dueling parties be proper Southern gentlemen, I would’ve suggested Mitt Romney to be Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s second.

You can pretty well rule out Bubba Wallace.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 6:27:28pm

Heck of a vulva.

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 12, 2020

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:28:41pm

Only in D.C. pic.twitter.com/To40Jr2v0c

— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) July 11, 2020

Acemarilllion Jul 11, 2020 • 6:28:43pm

Ted Cruz has already scheduled Gym Jordan’s next fight.

sagehen Jul 11, 2020 • 6:31:32pm

re: #49 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

If it wasn’t for the requirement that the dueling parties be proper Southern gentlemen, I would’ve suggested Mitt Romney to be Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s second.

Is that a requirement? Because Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were very not-Southern.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:32:03pm

re: #57 sagehen

Is that a requirement? Because Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were very not-Southern.

I dunno. The rules aren’t actually rules, they’re more what you’d call… “guidelines.”

Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 6:32:06pm

Amazing woman, when I was growing up in France, she was always considered a hero and brilliant artist🙏🏻 https://t.co/Hv9hUqbLK3

— Sebastian Roché (@sebroche) July 12, 2020

Jay C Jul 11, 2020 • 6:33:34pm

re: #58 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I dunno. The rules aren’t actually rules, they’re more what you’d call… “guidelines.”

IOW, “Target Goals”….

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:34:05pm

re: #57 sagehen

Is that a requirement? Because Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were very not-Southern.

After their duel, a lot of states started to enact anti-dueling laws and/or enforce existing anti-dueling laws. During the antebellum period, dueling was more of a southern honor thing and not so much so in the north.

jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 6:34:39pm

re: #24 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

“Stone had let it be known that he might talk if he had to set foot in prison for even a short time. “

He should stay on the ground floor.

Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 6:34:47pm

re: #57 sagehen

Is that a requirement? Because Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were very not-Southern.

The Kentucky constitution still disqualifies those who have fought a duel from political office.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 11, 2020 • 6:34:50pm

Where we are as a country https://t.co/aDGAhLd9iR

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 12, 2020

Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 6:36:05pm

This is a fascinating claim from your favorite gun-wielding St. Louis personal injury anti-#BLM couple, the McCloskeys. In this story (https://t.co/auJvS5mya5 ) they make a claim that will be completely familiar to any historian of slave revolts. pic.twitter.com/MM6LYyU0pZ

— Human Survival Is A Political Agenda (@Ed_Baptist) July 11, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:38:02pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Trump has introduced an entirely new logical fallacy: argumentum ad ego, when one attempts to convince a party of an idea by illustrating how it portrays them in a favorable light, in an attempt to sway their pride.

Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 6:38:07pm

This is the best public defense for defunding the police I have seen. I hoped the man he was talking to listened and understood.

— The Baldest Boy ᵇˡᵐ (@ShawnTarloff) July 9, 2020

Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 6:38:57pm

REASONS TO NOT WEAR A FACE MASK pic.twitter.com/Ah75mzSF24

— Brittlestar (@brittlestar) July 10, 2020

Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 6:43:32pm

oh shit lol https://t.co/P3DtpU9daZ

— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 12, 2020

🌹UOJB! Jul 11, 2020 • 6:45:39pm

re: #21 Patricia Kayden

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Yes. This is why a man needs an AR-15!

jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 6:46:40pm

This is @RepGrothman *today* at the Wisconsin Republican convention (which was held in-person) pic.twitter.com/MnsVlJryLE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2020

sagehen Jul 11, 2020 • 6:47:06pm

“In the end, Trump did what he said. He built a wall around America and made the world pay for it. He just never told Americans that they’d be stuck inside.” — @indica https://t.co/ALqPvfaqcf

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 11, 2020

makeitstop Jul 11, 2020 • 6:49:23pm

Trump finally wore a mask.

How many tens of thousands of American lives were lost because he wouldn’t do this back in February?

There should have been a national mask order.

A short video. Turn sound UP.#TrumpMask pic.twitter.com/8d3cmkeyjE

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 12, 2020

Hecuba's daughter Jul 11, 2020 • 6:50:05pm

re: #67 Patricia Kayden

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In Chicago, police, firefighters, and teachers have to live within the city. So the same argument would not apply to them.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:53:25pm

Of course you do. Otherwise he’d evict you from your home in his ass. https://t.co/y1W1RlK1ry

— Mike Larsen (@MikeLarsenOH) July 11, 2020

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 6:54:02pm

re: #62 jaunte

He should stay on the ground floor.

No. Go higher, Roger. As high as possible.

Rightwingconspirator Jul 11, 2020 • 6:54:16pm

So quiet by the pool Pepper settled in.

The Ghost of a Flea Jul 11, 2020 • 6:56:33pm

Okay, lay out bets on how many days and hours until Donald Trump disavows today’s mask wearing.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 6:57:21pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, lay out bets on how many days and hours until Donald Trump disavows today’s mask wearing.

I’ll take during tomorrow morning’s bowel movement for $20.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:57:23pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, lay out bets on how many days and hours until Donald Trump disavows today’s mask wearing.

Tomorrow morning, as he rage-tweets from the golden throne.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 6:57:30pm

re: #79 Teddy’s Person

I’ll take during tomorrow morning’s bowel movement for $20.

DAMN YOU!

I Would Prefer Not To Jul 11, 2020 • 6:57:57pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, lay out bets on how many days and hours until Donald Trump disavows today’s mask wearing.

He’s going to try and have it both ways. Pro and anti maks. depends who he is talking to.

Jay C Jul 11, 2020 • 6:58:54pm

re: #82 I Would Prefer Not To

He’s going to try and have it both ways. Pro and anti mask. depends who he is talking to.

Or how he thinks it will make him look.

jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 6:59:03pm

Last moments of the @TexasGOP SREC meeting:
“We didn’t decide anything”
No, we decided to go forward with our meeting in Houston
“We don’t have a contingencee….”
The livestream goes offline #TxLege

— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) July 12, 2020

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 11, 2020 • 6:59:04pm

Scoop from ⁦@shearm⁩: After Hurricane Maria, Trump raised the possibility of “divesting” or “selling” Puerto Rico as it struggled to recover, according to a former acting cabinet secretary. https://t.co/Bxd57hGiWf

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 12, 2020

ozharas Jul 11, 2020 • 7:02:25pm

My 7yo is planning to ask Santa to get rid of the virus for Christmas.

You laugh, but her plan is just as good as Trump’s.

— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) July 11, 2020

jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 7:03:05pm

re: #86 ozharas

Her timing is a lot more accurate than Trump’s.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 7:04:54pm

re: #86 ozharas

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Anyone invoking “tots and pears” to cure the coronavirus clearly doesn’t realize that God doesn’t fuck around with plagues.

jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 7:08:49pm

More of these types of corporate messages, please.

Okay so we were planning on reopening next week but now thanks to all you dumb motherfuckers who refuse to wear masks we won’t be reopening. Fuck each and every one of you who refuse to take Covid seriously. Quote me.

— Courtyard Brewery (@CourtyardBrew) July 11, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 7:12:06pm

re: #89 jaunte

More of these types of corporate messages, please.

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Might order a couple of a Christmas gifts from
these folks. 👍🏼

Also, they are getting a TON of positive responses to that Tweet.

Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 7:14:46pm

Well worth 4 minutes of your time

“I Am Not Throwing Away This Mask”

In honor of Hamilton coming out on @disneyplus tomorrow, we hope this video makes your day.
Don’t forget to wear a mask!
📹: @KimDHolderness pic.twitter.com/wGYAaPqIYW

— What’s Trending (@WhatsTrending) July 3, 2020

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 7:15:32pm

re: #89 jaunte

More of these types of corporate messages, please.

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Part of me wants to see one which reads: “We’re reopening, but you should know that we’ve added a few bulky men to our staff to deal with the Karens (male and female) who decide they’re going to try to force their way in without masks. You come in without a mask, you get removed from the premises by force and 86’d. Fuck off.”

Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 7:16:01pm

re: #48 Dread Pirate

Dang the firewall!!

The Ghost of a Flea Jul 11, 2020 • 7:19:01pm

re: #85 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

…and that’s running a country like a company, reduced to its crudest form.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 11, 2020 • 7:19:37pm

re: #94 The Ghost of a Flea

…and that’s running a country like a company, reduced to its crudest form.

He offers to sell us to Canada, and that might just actually happen.

Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 7:22:04pm

I think we need a central govermemt that functions. The US goverment has unraveled and no one seems to care.

— Lazlo St. Pierre (@Lazegon) July 11, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 7:25:14pm

re: #96 Dread Pirate

At least Fauci refuses to be a sycophantic asshole who only tells Trump what he wants to hear.

teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 7:29:26pm

I’m back at work, doing events at the ski area.

Went back to work at the ski area today. We’re hosting an archery tournament. The amount of people not wearing masks and not social distancing was appalling. We put up signs everywhere, we taped social distance markers everywhere. The more I think about it the angrier I get.

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 11, 2020

Surprise surprise, many of the competitors were from Texas and Oklahoma.

Oh, and I got to see these two again

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.@sunlightmountainresort’s lodge cats, Chimi (top) and Chonga (bottom), chillin’.

They’re worker cats, keeping the lodge pest free.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 11, 2020 • 7:30:32pm

re: #63 Decatur Deb

The Kentucky constitution still disqualifies those who have fought a duel from political office.

That masterpiece of history and critical thinking, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay , has a whole section on dueling. MacKay delves into its history, its prevalence at the time (1841), and the history of efforts at legal suppression. These efforts had been fairly successful in most of Europe, but the practice was still widespread among German university students and in the Mediterranean countries. He also notes the sectional differences in the United States, where it was still more or less acceptable in the south and the far west, and largely extinct in the north.

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Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 7:32:41pm

Is there a comet visible somewhere?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 11, 2020 • 7:33:46pm

re: #74 Hecuba’s daughter

In Chicago, police, firefighters, and teachers have to live within the city. So the same argument would not apply to them.

I used to have a house in a police enclave just at the edge of the city limits. All the neighbors were assholes, every one. I sold that house in less than two years.

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Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 7:34:33pm

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Decatur Deb Jul 11, 2020 • 7:35:54pm

re: #100 Dave In Austin

littlegreenfootballs.com

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 7:36:23pm

Today, the first full day of the mask requirement in Kentucky, I saw only 3 people maskless in Kroger’s. Several weren’t covering their noses though, but it was an improvement from my last visit.

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 7:36:56pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump doesn’t wear a mask:

MAGAts: “He’s a manly man who doesn’t need a stupid mask, Libtard!”

Trump wears a mask:

MAGAts: “Dude, Trump looks so badass in his mask! Suck on that, Libtard!”

To a T.

Life comes at you fast when you’re a brainwashed Trump supporter pic.twitter.com/qYFrS2EQsP

— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) July 11, 2020

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!) Jul 11, 2020 • 7:37:05pm

Classic Trumpian BS

Hilarious. When Trump didn’t wear a mask, & Biden did, the MAGA folks, mocked Biden for it. Now, 130k dead later, Trump finally puts on a mask and they praise him for it.

Or to quote Orwell, 1984: “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia” https://t.co/DEv51oR93e

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 12, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 7:38:28pm

re: #63 Decatur Deb

The Kentucky constitution still disqualifies those who have fought a duel from political office.

Part of the oath of office to take political office or join the Kentucky Bar Association is that you haven’t fought a duel or been a second.

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 7:38:37pm

This quote will stick with me: “Our number one objective is to keep people alive,” said Robert DesRosier, head of the Blackfeet’s covid-19 response team. “We don’t want one person to die. Our elders are the keepers of the culture, and we can’t afford to lose them.”

— Kathleen McLaughlin (@kemc) July 12, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 11, 2020 • 7:41:27pm

This is just a few miles from me.
As COVID-19 cases soar statewide, masks and space hard to find at North Texas rodeo

WEATHERFORD, Texas — While Texas faces a fast-moving COVID-19 outbreak, a beloved rodeo in Weatherford has been going strong since Tuesday. And even though it’s outside, a majority of patrons appear to not be wearing masks or social distancing.

The event is widely known in Parker County as the Parker County Sheriff’s Posse Frontier Days and PRCA Rodeo.

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Teddy's Person Jul 11, 2020 • 7:45:16pm

Judge Box Wine has a sad over the trials and tribulations of being a Trump supporter.

my sense is this is the older phenomenon of people thinking you’re an asshole?

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 7:46:40pm

re: #82 I Would Prefer Not To

He’s going to try and have it both ways. Pro and anti maks. depends who he is talking to.

both sides of every issue
like always

can never be wrong then

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Dave In Austin Jul 11, 2020 • 7:47:08pm

Facebook Post

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Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 7:53:04pm

Dozens of US Marines in Okinawa, Japan test positive for COVID-19 https://t.co/6QZqDhegM8 pic.twitter.com/bQoeAF6oDr

— The Hill (@thehill) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 7:55:52pm

re: #108 Dread Pirate

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the problem everywhere else, in a nutshell:

Our number one objective is to keep people alive

This quote will stick with me: “Our number one objective is to keep people alive,” said Robert DesRosier, head of the Blackfeet’s covid-19 response team. “We don’t want one person to die. Our elders are the keepers of the culture, and we can’t afford to lose them.”

— Kathleen McLaughlin (@kemc) July 12, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 7:59:11pm

re: #110 Teddy’s Person

Nobody ever really wanted to talk with her in the first place.

— Mitch McConnell’s a chupacabra (@RChupacabras) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 8:05:55pm

Not that crazy…

for Trump.

Nuke hurricanes

Waterbomb cathedral

Power Navy vessels with steam

Rake forests

Inject bleach

Pay porn stars

Buy Greenland

Sell Puerto Rico

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 8:06:36pm

Of course the first time this deeply stupid asshole wears a mask in public he fucking wears it wrong. Par for the course. https://t.co/A2RGhCkxd7

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 8:07:53pm

This visit to a hospital was staged for no other reason than to allow Trump to wear a mask without looking like he’s given into pressure. This time, he used Walter Reed as a prop instead of a Church and Bible. https://t.co/ZU6gOROLTb

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) July 12, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 11, 2020 • 8:09:22pm

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jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 8:10:11pm

WHO DID THIS? 💀 pic.twitter.com/OrkSQ5RBC1

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 8:12:01pm

re: #118 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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confirmed

The mask was nothin’ but a photo op, like Lafayette Park, except far more people will die. https://t.co/bAKkVg8Xlx

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 12, 2020

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 11, 2020 • 8:14:26pm

re: #120 jaunte

Although I hate to compare DT, essentially a pipsqueak, with Darth.

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 8:14:32pm

Circular firing squad forming.

Not only is Jeff Sessions the most qualified candidate in this race, but he will also fight to defend Religious Liberty that is under attack across the nation. Senator @jeffsessions has my complete and total endorsement” - Judge Roy Moore

— Judge Roy Moore (@RealJudgeMoore) July 11, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 11, 2020 • 8:15:29pm

Biden campaign on Trump wearing a face mask today: “Rather than taking responsibility and leading, he wasted four months … by stoking divisions and actively discouraging people from taking a very basic step to protect each other.” More from Biden spox @AndrewBatesNC: pic.twitter.com/95R5ca5aWx

— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) July 12, 2020

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 8:24:05pm

pic.twitter.com/8dfoIXLKTh https://t.co/clAO6S8MHs

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 12, 2020

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 8:25:01pm

Yeah well that was under oath. pic.twitter.com/5zOaz0hbeq

— medit8now (@medit8now) July 12, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 8:31:23pm

re: #122 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Although I hate to compare DT, essentially a pipsqueak, with Darth.

Also, the Emperor was relatively competent and succeeded at making himself ruler for life.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 8:33:29pm

Let’s talk about America’s long, weird history of conspiracy theories, how they’re gateways to fascism and fueled by white supremacist paranoia, and why Trump’s shrinking cult poses an incredible threat.

Here’s what I learned writing AMERICAN RULE.

1/https://t.co/84HbGzJKwe

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 10, 2020

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Belafon Jul 11, 2020 • 8:35:56pm

re: #86 ozharas

The last one is the best:

Just so you know what kind of kid this is: this week she cut out pictures from the sales ads of things that she thought each of the neighbors on our street would like, put them in envelopes, then dressed up as a superhero (with a cape) and sneaky delivered them to each house. 🥰

— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) July 11, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 8:37:31pm

That is more true than you realize. https://t.co/cKlMRJXozo

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 12, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 11, 2020 • 8:38:29pm

As Jesus would have taught 😒

— Tom Cotton (@TomCotton6) July 12, 2020

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 8:38:53pm

.@KwCongressional’s Twitter is textbook Poe’s Law.

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 12, 2020

Dude’s Twitter account is what happens when conservative derp AI becomes self aware.

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jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 8:43:17pm

Biden is going to have a very busy first day. Might need a blanket EO overturning everything Trump has done. https://t.co/T1oC0VBDOL

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 12, 2020

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teleskiguy Jul 11, 2020 • 8:44:56pm

Like Journey playing “Don’t Stop Believin’” or Ted Nugent playing “Cat Scratch Fever” at their concerts, bringing out the obvious hits.

Do RINO’S Pat Toomey & Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, & Company illegally spying on my campaign? Do they care if Comey, McCabe, Page & her lover, Peter S, the whole group, ran rampant, wild & unchecked - lying & leaking all the way? NO!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2020

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Rightwingconspirator Jul 11, 2020 • 8:45:32pm

re: #125 teleskiguy

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LOL I gotta find the jeweler that did that

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 8:49:25pm

Called my wingnut brother to wish him a happy birthday. He got very angry with me because I didn’t agree with his covid-19 views, so now I’m dead to him, just like my mother and his daughter. So it seems likely his birthday was the last time I’ll ever talk to him, because I’m done trying.

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jaunte Jul 11, 2020 • 8:50:59pm

We do not have the luxury of despair.

It is incumbent upon every decent American to organize, mobilize, contribute, and get out the vote for decent human beings this November 3.

Despair is the fuel of tyrants.

Hope is our superpower.

— Rabbi Michael Adam Latz #BlackLivesMatter (@RavMABAY) July 11, 2020

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Belafon Jul 11, 2020 • 8:51:07pm

re: #133 jaunte

Current US rules actually prevent mass overturning of rule changes by an incoming president. That would actually take Congress.

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William Lewis Jul 11, 2020 • 8:53:14pm

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

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South Africa has gunz much like America and for the same reason: keeping “them” from revolting. But even after the collapse of Apartheid, the guns were still in massive numbers throughout the country. Combine that with the arms provided to guerrilla fighters and terrorists and you have a nasty mess.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 8:53:32pm

re: #138 Belafon

Current US rules actually prevent mass overturning of rule changes by an incoming president. That would actually take Congress.

Trump’s executive orders can be reversed by Biden. It does take some time to do it right though.

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Belafon Jul 11, 2020 • 8:58:04pm

re: #140 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Trump’s executive orders can be reversed by Biden. It does take some time to do it right though.

They can, but there are rules about requiring a specific amount of time between directing a change and having that change go into effect.

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BigPapa Jul 11, 2020 • 9:04:11pm

I like the cut of this dude’s jib.

Crazy conspiracy theorist yells at people getting COVID-19 tests in Arizona pic.twitter.com/s6ijtlQgu6

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 11, 2020

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 11, 2020 • 9:05:07pm

re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Called my wingnut brother to wish him a happy birthday. He got very angry with me because I didn’t agree with his covid-19 views, so now I’m dead to him, just like my mother and his daughter. So it seems likely his birthday was the last time I’ll ever talk to him, because I’m done trying.

that sucks. But you got to live your life and keep sane. You have a family (slightly dysfunctional) here.

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 11, 2020 • 9:06:29pm

re: #141 Belafon

They can, but there are rules about requiring a specific amount of time between directing a change and having that change go into effect.

But Biden can decide from day one how he wants to enforce trumps racist and stupid EOs.

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goddamnedfrank Jul 11, 2020 • 9:10:27pm

America is a catfish. pic.twitter.com/VkSmcDrOw6

— baby ian (@yaneeera) July 7, 2020

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 9:10:44pm

Seth Cousins, who sat on jury that convicted Stone, calls his commutation by Trump “a shocking act of corruption.” https://t.co/SQ0dzXMpck

— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) July 12, 2020

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stpaulbear Jul 11, 2020 • 9:12:24pm

re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Called my wingnut brother to wish him a happy birthday. He got very angry with me because I didn’t agree with his covid-19 views, so now I’m dead to him, just like my mother and his daughter. So it seems likely his birthday was the last time I’ll ever talk to him, because I’m done trying.

So sorry to hear this. I have a wingnut sister that I text now and then because I can’t have a real-time conversation with her any more. Is there any chance that you could text your brother on days where you just want to send a quick message? He doesn’t need to reply if he wants to stay pissed, and you can end the conversation (and delete) if he wants to be hostile. I’m not saying that you have to keep trying (sometimes it’s best to quit), but it’s a way for you to do it one way if you feel like it.

Maybe mail him a b-day card next year. He can do whatever he wants with the card, but you made your feelings known.

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(((Archangel1))) Jul 11, 2020 • 9:12:28pm

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 12, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 9:15:49pm

re: #147 stpaulbear

So sorry to hear this. I have a wingnut sister that I text now and then because I can’t have a real-time conversation with her any more. Is there any chance that you could text your brother on days where you just want to send a quick message? He doesn’t need to reply if he wants to stay pissed, and you can end the conversation (and delete) if he wants to be hostile. I’m not saying that you have to keep trying (sometimes it’s best to quit), but it’s a way for you to do it one way if you feel like it.

Maybe mail him a b-day card next year. He can do whatever he wants with the card, but you made your feelings known.

I no longer see any point in doing so.

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stpaulbear Jul 11, 2020 • 9:17:04pm

re: #149 NO SMOCKING GUN!

OK.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 9:17:21pm

re: #143 I Would Prefer Not To

that sucks. But you got to live your life and keep sane. You have a family (slightly dysfunctional) here.

And I have a family in my home who don’t hate me.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 9:17:56pm

Everything Donald Trump Touches Dies https://t.co/IgFVXdl256

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 12, 2020

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William Lewis Jul 11, 2020 • 9:20:29pm

re: #152 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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That’s a murder hornet nest!!!!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 11, 2020 • 9:25:21pm

re: #152 NO SMOCKING GUN!

pic.twitter.com/sotSdIr3bo

— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) July 12, 2020

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 11, 2020 • 9:30:03pm

Impossible to tell if he is actually crazy or if he is mocking the crazy people. They are beyond parody.

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 12, 2020

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Ferdinand Jul 11, 2020 • 9:33:26pm

70 mph gusts and a cyclone forming northwest of Oklahoma City. Gonna be a windy night.

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Ferdinand Jul 11, 2020 • 9:36:15pm

TV news storm porn time. “It’s a ball of wind and horizontal rain.” 80 mph gust measured.

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BeachDem Jul 11, 2020 • 9:40:37pm

re: #10 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I didn’t know John Oliver did this. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Had to read the whole thread to see if anyone posted it—guess not, so here’s the clip.

RIP Medical Debt on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 9:45:45pm

re: #157 Ferdinand

TV news storm porn time. “It’s a ball of wind and horizontal rain.” 80 mph gust measured.

Zoom Radar has a storm chaser out. The lightning looks like a strobe light at a dance.

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Belafon Jul 11, 2020 • 9:58:38pm

👀 Spotted at the White House tonight. As I was live on @washingtonweek this crew wandered out of a bush… 🦝 🦝🦝Photo: Brian Fuss pic.twitter.com/ntAETHWwdZ

— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) July 11, 2020

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 10:02:52pm

White supremacist will tackle the issue of white supremacy on his show on Monday. https://t.co/oPt0jSSc55

— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) July 11, 2020

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Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil! Jul 11, 2020 • 10:03:50pm

re: #146 Dread Pirate

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I think it should be mentioned that Stone’s t-shirt is based off of a neo-Nazi meme where the claim is “Hitler did nothing wrong”.

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 10:09:27pm

pic.twitter.com/8vrdFVsVxP

— R.K. Hayes (@RK_Hayes) July 11, 2020

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Eventual Carrion Jul 11, 2020 • 10:21:47pm

re: #47 Dave In Austin

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Ballchinian

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 10:45:19pm

“By Saturday, Trump had grown frustrated that he was not getting more credit from conservative media and others for the Stone announcement, the official said.” https://t.co/TBj7DmkQrf

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 12, 2020

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sagehen Jul 11, 2020 • 10:53:41pm

re: #122 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Although I hate to compare DT, essentially a pipsqueak, with Darth.

Darth Vader wore a mask.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 11, 2020 • 10:58:22pm

re: #166 sagehen

Darth Vader wore a mask.

He made his stormtroopers wear them too.

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 11:03:42pm

deleted wrong link

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Dr Lizardo Jul 11, 2020 • 11:05:41pm

re: #166 sagehen

Darth Vader wore a mask.

re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg

He made his stormtroopers wear them too.

All very true, but we should always bear in mind that Darth Vader had to wear a mask - after being turned into the human equivalent of a baked potato by his former mentor and friend.

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 11:07:24pm

corrected link

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

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Dread Pirate Jul 11, 2020 • 11:07:40pm

Oh, fuck me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 11, 2020 • 11:30:02pm

re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Called my wingnut brother to wish him a happy birthday. He got very angry with me because I didn’t agree with his covid-19 views, so now I’m dead to him, just like my mother and his daughter. So it seems likely his birthday was the last time I’ll ever talk to him, because I’m done trying.

I’m sorry to read about that, as I can relate (though for different reasons).

Hopefully he’ll come round, but if not, there are those who care about you in other places. I know it hurts when your family turns on you. [[[distant hug]]]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 11, 2020 • 11:57:45pm

re: #158 BeachDem

Had to read the whole thread to see if anyone posted it—guess not, so here’s the clip.

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Video

The libertarian Christian think tank “Acton Institute” whinges why what John Oliver did isn’t really a giveaway.

Acton is one of those libertarian outfits which think you should have to give up your children, left arm, and grandmother to fulfil a contract (if you are not a wealthy and powerful corporation).

There argument is solipsism: Technically he didn’t buy any debt (because the statute of limitations was expired on the debt), all he bought was information (to harass people into oblivion).

If any person had made even one payment on those debts, that clock restarts again.

The liebetarian piece is quite the display on telling you why you are wrong for believing Mr. Oliver (while engaging on personal attacks against him and his brand of comedy).

You can watch the clip here. But I warn you it’s crude, simplistic, misleading, overly long, and filled with Oliver’s attempts at what he considers to be “humor.”

No asshats, it wasn’t humour. That’s the point. Medical debt is a travesty.

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piratedan Jul 12, 2020 • 12:01:03am

re: #142 BigPapa

with Arizona being like it is, he’s probably safe because no one will want to go within six feet of that crazy ass motherfucker.

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Dread Pirate Jul 12, 2020 • 12:03:29am

YouTube

I’m classically trained flutist and I’m watching Jethro Tull for the very first time and reacting!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 12:05:39am

Goya Trades Loyal Hispanic Customers For Laura Ingraham and James Woods! (Wonkette)

Michael Mora has fun tearing this douchecanoe apart.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 12, 2020 • 12:06:23am

Prokofiev - Roméo et Juliette : Mort de Juliette

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teleskiguy Jul 12, 2020 • 12:11:44am

Hey, look what I found. This is unlisted on YouTube.

VAULT CLIP: City of Tiny Lights

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teleskiguy Jul 12, 2020 • 12:21:43am

Yikes. It’s still 100° F in the Phoenix metro area.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 12:32:11am

re: #179 teleskiguy

Yikes. It’s still 100° F in the Phoenix metro area.

Covid-19 should be going away any minute then.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 1:26:46am

Don’t read Twitter hashtag #frazzledrip

MInds are a terrible thing to waste.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 1:30:14am

re: #5 Teddy’s Person

Trump’s campaign manager is a felon.
His deputy campaign manager is a felon.
His national security advisor is a felon.
His foreign policy advisor is a felon.
His personal lawyer is a felon.
His long time advisor is a felon.

It’s not a campaign, it’s a ~~criminal enterprise~~ VICTIM OF A DEEP-STATE WITCH HUNT!!!!!.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 1:31:59am

re: #12 The Ghost of a Flea

Today is tridi 23 Messidor in the year of the Republic CCXXVIII, celebrating the bean.

Vive legume!!!

Make a Haricot Great Again!

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Dread Pirate Jul 12, 2020 • 1:51:11am

YouTube

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Dread Pirate Jul 12, 2020 • 2:02:32am

pic.twitter.com/yjYVvYt0ya

— Janna Smith (@superjanna) July 12, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Jul 12, 2020 • 2:19:38am

Let’s be honest, the only beneficiaries of the current red table situation are students writing term papers on quantum physics

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2020

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BigPapa Jul 12, 2020 • 2:38:26am

re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Don’t read Twitter hashtag #frazzledrip

MInds are a terrible thing to waste.

two of my co workers wanted a quick talk on the whole Q-anon ting ting and we’ve been shouting FRAZZLEDRIP at each other ever since. It’s our morning greeting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 2:45:39am

re: #187 BigPapa

two of my co workers wanted a quick talk on the whole Q-anon ting ting and we’ve been shouting FRAZZLEDRIP at each other ever since. It’s our morning greeting.

sounds like a carving on a tombstone

FRAZZLED

RIP

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 2:51:25am

re: #136 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Called my wingnut brother to wish him a happy birthday. He got very angry with me because I didn’t agree with his covid-19 views, so now I’m dead to him, just like my mother and his daughter. So it seems likely his birthday was the last time I’ll ever talk to him, because I’m done trying.

Who brought up the topic of Covid during your phone call to wish him happy birthday?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 2:52:18am

re: #139 William Lewis

South Africa has gunz much like America and for the same reason: keeping “them” from revolting. But even after the collapse of Apartheid, the guns were still in massive numbers throughout the country. Combine that with the arms provided to guerrilla fighters and terrorists and you have a nasty mess.

And white people who truly are a minority, and don’t just feel like one.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 2:52:27am

Nebraska numbers presented differently today.

Cases: 20,998 (+221)
If this was a Nebraska city, it would be the tenth largest, more than Papillion, less than Columbus.

Deaths: 285 (+2)
This is more than half the population of any of thirteen counties.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 3:02:40am

The start of a letter to the editor in the Omaha World-Herald.

This past week I’ve read many stories of parents expressing their concern over their children wearing face masks in school this upcoming school year. Their justification is that their children are “too little” to understand, or that it is essentially a “petri dish” over their mouth, or that it’s their “right” to decide to wear one or not.

For those who have children who are “too little,” I’d like you to note the number of infants who wear eyeglasses and hearing aids to help them. Is your child in school unable to cope with a mask, or are you unwilling to help protect others, through the reduction of airborne spread, in the classroom?

And for those that claim a mask is dirty and will only lead to more infections and face lesions, when a baseball cap or sunglasses that are worn all day at a game, does this present the same problem? What about the doctors and nurses who wear masks for hours at a time for their job, especially in the current condition?

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omaha.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 3:05:32am

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (a Deaf activist in the United Kingdom) on the worth of clear window masks for lip reading (15:11)

Are clear masks helpful? [CC]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 3:17:12am

Dengue Prevention Efforts Stifled by Coronavirus Pandemic (New York Times)

This is not wonderful.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — To slow the spread of the coronavirus, governments issued lockdowns to keep people at home. They curtailed activities that affected services like trash collection. They tried to shield hospitals from a surge of patients.

But the cascading effects of these restrictions also are hampering efforts to cope with seasonal outbreaks of dengue, an incurable, mosquito-borne disease that is also known as “breakbone fever” for its severely painful symptoms.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 12, 2020 • 3:19:43am

Because, with one exception, Republican senators violated their oaths of office and left a criminal in the Oval Office without even hearing the evidence. The basic consideration of putting country before party, and before fear of a mean tweet, is our strategic imperative. https://t.co/rRMHN6vJqs

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 12, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 12, 2020 • 3:25:50am

Trump’s Banana Republic pic.twitter.com/b6Of0RmZJG

— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 11, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 12, 2020 • 3:29:31am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The start of a letter to the editor in the Omaha World-Herald.

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omaha.com

Mrs. Fish makes my kids wear masks when she takes them grocery shopping. Again, to repeat: Neither of us think our kids are in danger. (Though there is an argument to be made, based on the evidence that there is some link between COVID-19 and some rare childrens’ disorder that I can’t remember the name of.) But with my mother-in-law just having celebrated her 79th birthday, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to try and shield my kids from contracting the disease, or becoming asymptomatic carriers, so that they don’t unwittingly kill my in-laws… unlike my sister-in-law, who visited the elderly couple - complete with hugs and cheek-kisses - and then, as she was leaving, asked my mother-in-law to “please pray for my co-worker, she tested positive for COVID this week.”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 12, 2020 • 3:36:11am

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 12, 2020 • 3:40:30am

From Barr’s confirmation hearing: “Q: Do you believe a president could lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient’s promise to not incriminate him?” Barr: “No, that would be a crime.”

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 11, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 12, 2020 • 3:41:02am

re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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Technical point: It wasn’t a pardon, it was a commutation of his sentence. Take that, libtard/////

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 12, 2020 • 3:41:46am

notwithstanding trumps efforts to make it so

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 3:47:13am

Experts say a study that was just released is bad news for proponents of natural “herd immunity.” https://t.co/9au2XkI9gu

— globalnews.ca (@globalnews) July 12, 2020

A study released this week found that only around five per cent of the Spanish population had antibodies showing they had encountered the virus. In Madrid, which had one of the biggest outbreaks, the number was only about 10 per cent. And what’s more, it looked like those antibodies faded away over a matter of months.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 3:47:58am

re: #197 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The rare children’s disease is similar to Kawasaki Disease, known as Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (Wikipedia).

This syndrome appears somewhat similar to Kawasaki disease (a rare disease of unknown origin that affects young children, in which blood vessels become inflamed throughout the body).[4] It can also show features of other serious paediatric inflammatory conditions, including toxic shock and macrophage activation syndromes.[1][8] Older children tend to be affected.[9] The first symptoms may be acute abdominal pain, diarrhoea or vomiting.[1] Low blood pressure is common.[1] Other possible symptoms include conjunctivitis, rashes, enlarged lymph nodes, swollen hands and feet, sore throat, cough, fainting, irritability and confusion.[1][3][4] Inflammation of the heart muscle is one of several forms of cardiac involvement,[8] and coronary artery abnormalities (such as dilatation and aneurysms) may occur.[1][3][4] A cytokine storm may take place,[9] in which the innate immune system stages an excessive and uncontrolled inflammatory response.[10]

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 12, 2020 • 3:50:01am

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The rare children’s disease is similar to Kawasaki Disease, known as Paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (Wikipedia).

A gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.

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BigPapa Jul 12, 2020 • 3:52:55am

Omg this made me laugh so hard 😂 pic.twitter.com/H7jqRlR8TI

— kat 😽💙 (@winightcheese) July 12, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 3:53:25am

re: #204 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

A gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.

Gentleman: I wasn’t an officer, I worked for a living. /s
Scholar? Well, I read a lot if that matters.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:05:07am

This is what amounts to conservative mayors in my state.

Democrats care more about votes than anything.

— AJ Dahlgren (@ajdahlgren) July 11, 2020

You kind of need votes to get elected sir.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 12, 2020 • 4:06:40am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is what amounts to conservative mayors in my state.

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You kind of need votes to get elected sir.

I would argue that they should care more about votes than anything (right now), because the only way to stop the Republicans’ destruction of America in the name of their Russian overlords is to kick their asses out of office, which as you said, you need votes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:06:43am

Conservative free association and speech warrior here.

Tik Tok needs banned, as does Grindr

— The Joshua (@J0SHUA_HARR1S) July 11, 2020

Ban the latter and conservatives will revolt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:08:49am

Get sick or die for the glory of capitalism.

Coronavirus outbreak hits Los Angeles Apparel with more than 300 infections, 4 employee deaths https://t.co/BHkjXuAkU0

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 11, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:15:58am

The state senator running against Republican Jeff Fortenberry for NE-1 (Lincoln)

Jeff Fortenberry voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

Yes. You read that correctly.

Jeff Fortenberry voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

— Senator Kate Bolz (Text “WIN” to 33339) (@katejbolz) July 10, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:23:07am

The birds have been switched on.

(11:03:09)

😴🦜Tranquil Birdsong, 11 hours - Birds Chirping, nature sounds, natural sound of birds singing

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 4:25:25am

This is hard to read but it explains Frazzledrip.

My mouth hit the floor.

Could this be related to anything on this picture?#frazzeldrip #SAVETHECHILDERN pic.twitter.com/bAbHVVMFye

— win2win (@win2win16) July 8, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 4:27:45am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservative free association and speech warrior here.

[Tik Tok needs banned, as does Grindr]

Such English good. Sense makes, da?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 4:29:02am

re: #214 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Such English good. Sense makes, da?

That is perfectly normal usage for Scotland and northern England.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:31:28am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is hard to read but it explains Frazzledrip.

My mouth hit the floor.

What the hell are they talking about?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:34:51am

Samantha Bee in two parts (6:02 and 2:33)

Trump Attacks Our Nation’s Free Press Part 1 | Full Frontal on TBS

Trump’s Ongoing Attacks On Our Nation’s Free Press Part 2 | Full Frontal on TBS

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 4:39:55am

re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is perfectly normal usage for Scotland and northern England.

He’s supposed to be located in the US.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jul 12, 2020 • 4:41:25am

re: #218 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He’s supposed to be located in the US.

then he needs educated

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 4:45:51am

re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What the hell are they talking about?

There’s a snuff video on Anthony Weiner’s laptop and the file name is Fragglerock (whatever, I forget what it is now) and it was so horrific it make all the NYC cops cry (I wonder if they called it Sir). Hillary and Huma killed a baby and cut off its face and they both then wore the face as a mask. That’s what Fuzzypop (whatever) is about.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:47:22am

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There’s a snuff video on Anthony Weiner’s laptop and the file name is Fragglerock (whatever, I forget what it is now) and it was so horrific it make all the NYC cops cry (I wonder if they called it Sir). Hillary and Huma killed a baby and cut off its face and they both then wore the face as a mask. That’s what Fuzzypop (whatever) is about.

My brain hurts.

Shorter: They’re stupid. Promoters of such propaganda are evil.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:48:36am

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Ms. Abadin and Ms. Clinton are stealing our atheist gig.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 12, 2020 • 4:57:59am

I’m going to head off to bed. Catch y’all later.

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jeffreyw Jul 12, 2020 • 5:02:19am

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 5:05:57am

re: #224 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Morning! How are you feeling?

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jeffreyw Jul 12, 2020 • 5:52:03am

re: #225 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Morning! How are you feeling?

Somewhat improved, not there yet. Thanks for asking.

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Barefoot Grin Jul 12, 2020 • 5:52:49am

re: #175 Dread Pirate

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Video

That was cool. In the late 1970s I took my older bro to a Jethro Tull concert for his birthday. Within the first three songs someone threw a rose to Ian Anderson. Except they also threw it AT Ian Anderson and it scratched his eye causing the band to have to cancel the rest of the show. I never got to see them again.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 12, 2020 • 5:58:17am

re: #68 Dave In Austin

For every one of these jokers who refuse to wear a mask, an army must arise whose sole purpose is to sneeze around them. Call them Ah-Choo, son of Ah-Sneeze….

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jaunte Jul 12, 2020 • 5:59:06am

Don’s Scottish Laundry

Fun project you can do at home for FREE:

Look at public records for Trump’s Aberdeen property:https://t.co/nyxfIfDgVp

Look for “Accounts for a Small Company” start with 22 Aug 2007 and do every year after.

1/

— adamdavidson (@adamdavidson) July 12, 2020

This is (he says) his own money. But if you look at his public accounts and the data Michael Cohen provided, he doesn’t have this kind of money.

Also, think of all you know about Trump—does he spend 100s of millions on long-term projects that bring minimal glory?

9/

— adamdavidson (@adamdavidson) July 12, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Jul 12, 2020 • 5:59:43am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

then he needs educated

This is not uncommon where I’m from in downstate east central Illinois. In restaurants I worked in I’d hear my managers often say things like “the tables need wiped” or “the coffee needs made.”

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 12, 2020 • 6:01:00am

re: #95 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

He offers to sell us to Canada, and that might just actually happen.

If he included Michigan in the deal, I’d be for it.

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stpaulbear Jul 12, 2020 • 6:14:24am

re: #227 Barefoot Grin

That was cool. In the late 1970s I took my older bro to a Jethro Tull concert for his birthday. Within the first three songs someone threw a rose to Ian Anderson. Except they also threw it AT Ian Anderson and it scratched his eye causing the band to have to cancel the rest of the show. I never got to see them again.

I got to see Jethro Tull once post-Aqualung but pre-Thick. They were my favorite band at the time so I loved the show (although by this time all of the original members except Anderson had been replaced). My two bandmates were with me and they were put off by how thoroughly choreographed the concert was. They thought it was too much of a performance at the audience. Most concerts at the time were a lot more spontaneous (like Deep Purple and Faces). I kind of enjoyed some of the bits Tull did but I could see what they meant when looking back at the show. A lot of the continuity and interest depended upon tapes being cued up and played at the right time.

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Jay C Jul 12, 2020 • 6:16:03am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My brain hurts.

Shorter: They’re stupid. Promoters of such propaganda are evil.

So much brain-hurt in such little space.
“Frazzledrip” is bad enough, but WTF does this (anything?) have to do with Tom Hanks and his volleyball friend?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 6:17:54am

It has finally happened: A White House reporter tests positive for #coronavirus

They attended WH briefings on Monday and Wednesday pic.twitter.com/Zj7fdVQQ2O

— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) July 9, 2020

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plansbandc Jul 12, 2020 • 6:20:04am

re: #175 Dread Pirate

That was fun! Here’s Ian Anderson doing a little cameo with Love and Rockets:

Love And Rockets - “No New Tale To Tell”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 6:21:08am

re: #233 Jay C

So much brain-hurt in such little space.
“Frazzledrip” is bad enough, but WTF does this (anything?) have to do with Tom Hanks and his volleyball friend?

Tom Hanks, Oprah, Ellen, (pretty much everyone in Hollywood who’s a seemingly* decent person) is actually a pedophile to the Q nuts.

*I say seemingly because America’s Dad, Cosby, was seemingly a decent person.

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goddamnedfrank Jul 12, 2020 • 6:23:09am

Nature is healing https://t.co/pSUpeDe2ax

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 12, 2020 • 6:33:46am

If they want to ban TikTok cuz it’s owned by China shouldn’t they ban Trump since he’s owned by Russia

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 12, 2020

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 12, 2020 • 6:35:02am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ban the latter and conservatives will revolt.

Losing Grindr Wilkes definitely put a hitch in the giddy-up of the GOP - especially it has no known connections to China.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Jul 12, 2020 • 6:48:35am

re: #205 BigPapa

I’m getting those texts, too. Plus the offer to be the first evah platinum member.

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Patricia Kayden Jul 12, 2020 • 6:50:15am

I assumed that when he was fired for posting racist stuff anonymously it was because they were mad he wasn’t doing it openly.

— brycebgood (@brycelarson) July 12, 2020

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stpaulbear Jul 12, 2020 • 7:02:23am

re: #241 Patricia Kayden

Tucker’s owners aren’t really racist, they just know how well it sells.
/

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makeitstop Jul 12, 2020 • 7:08:04am

re: #142 BigPapa

I like the cut of this dude’s jib.

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I was wondering what Ted Nugent’s been up to.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:13:56am

re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Tom Hanks, Oprah, Ellen, (pretty much everyone in Hollywood who’s a seemingly* decent person) is actually a pedophile to the Q nuts.

*I say seemingly because America’s Dad, Cosby, was seemingly a decent person.

It’s a bunch of creepy projection given they support someone who actually has had a child accuse them of sexual assault. So much of how Trumpland operates is in projection.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 12, 2020 • 7:17:23am

re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ms. Abadin and Ms. Clinton are stealing our atheist gig.

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Killing babies & eating them is literally the original Blood Libel.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:19:34am

re: #245 The Pie Overlord!

Killing babies & eating them is literally the original Blood Libel.

No doubt you remember when Palin likened criticism of her to it. But yeah that’s the original BL right there. Very common in Tsarist Russia.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 12, 2020 • 7:19:57am

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aww, the snowflake has his fee-fees hurt….

— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) July 12, 2020

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:26:13am

I bet you can’t watch this entire thing without laughing? If you can, we wouldn’t be friends in real life…I was loud laughing….
pic.twitter.com/eSMx3riPev

— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) July 12, 2020

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jaunte Jul 12, 2020 • 7:26:23am

This entire interview was Betsy not answering questions https://t.co/IVV13B1x8Y

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 12, 2020

The Plan is to babble about “private sector” examples.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 7:27:51am

New cases, yesterday:

UK: 820
Japan: 410
Germany: 224
South Korea: 35

These countries combined have the same population as the United States.

Cumulative cases: 1,489

US cases, yesterday: 61,719

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) July 12, 2020

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William Lewis Jul 12, 2020 • 7:29:31am

re: #232 stpaulbear

I got to see Jethro Tull once post-Aqualung but pre-Thick. They were my favorite band at the time so I loved the show (although by this time all of the original members except Anderson had been replaced). My two bandmates were with me and they were put off by how thoroughly choreographed the concert was. They thought it was too much of a performance at the audience. Most concerts at the time were a lot more spontaneous (like Deep Purple and Faces). I kind of enjoyed some of the bits Tull did but I could see what they meant when looking back at the show. A lot of the continuity and interest depended upon tapes being cued up and played at the right time.

The problem of tapes was one thing - the Who still managed to be fairly spontaneous seeming despite all the tapes and effects post Tommy.

But what I hated was when a band like KISS made there performance indistinguishable from their records. I mention them because that was their ideal.

Id rather Husker Du or Replacements shows thst were a bit more radically unpredictable 😎

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jeffreyw Jul 12, 2020 • 7:29:34am

YouTube

Gabe, wearing a GPS collar. This was in 2016 and we were not sure that he would not wander off, chase deer, whatever. Buddy, his immediate predecessor, was prone to tour the countryside.
Gabe turned out to be be a home bound “needs his momma” sort. He will not abide squirrels. He has be known to chase cats although more than one of them will reach out to claw the boy if he is unwary.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 12, 2020 • 7:31:22am

re: #250 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Now what are deaths? C’mon, if you are going to do the infection rate, you need to do the death rate as well.

— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericfruitbat) July 12, 2020

I hate when folks do half the work….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 7:34:33am

re: #248 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

We’d DEF be friends cuz I was laughing my ass off.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 7:35:22am

re: #249 jaunte

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The Plan is to babble about “private sector” examples.

DANA BASH: What the Fairfax County superintendent is saying is they would need a building the size of 5 Pentagons in order to accommodate their students and meet the CDC guidelines. So should they follow them?

BETSY DeVOS: The CDC guidelines are meant to be flexible. pic.twitter.com/4FVlCOU7QY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 7:36:24am

re: #253 Eric The Fruit Bat

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I hate when folks do half the work….

That’s what all the trumpers are whinging about. Sure there are cases but less people are dying. Take that libtard.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:36:36am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s the county I attended school in.

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A Cranky One Jul 12, 2020 • 7:38:16am

Okay, so this is WAY better than it should be. Crank up the volume and watch it to the end, it’s worth the six minutes.

Zeppelin!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:38:19am

re: #256 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s what all the trumpers are whinging about. Sure there are cases but less people are dying. Take that libtard.

There’s also long term damage that people get from having the virus. FFS it’s not like the common cold or flu where you recover and your body is okay. These fucking morons are going to be why we’ll still be dealing with the long term consequences of this for generations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 7:38:37am

Weeks before millions of U.S. schoolchildren go back to class, much is still up in the air. President Trump is calling for new guidance from health officials to reopen schools. But many school leaders say they’re sticking with their plans. https://t.co/iGRFHZBll1

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 7:40:28am

moron

…rounds, no problem. When I play, Fake News CNN, and others, park themselves anywhere they can to get a picture, then scream “President Trump is playing golf.” Actually, I play VERY fast, get a lot of work done on the golf course, and also get a “tiny” bit of exercise. Not bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 7:41:33am

Police: Man arrested in Mt. Lebanon had 30 improvised bombs, detonators in car https://t.co/zTU8ept56j

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 12, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:44:19am

re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Another day, another whiny tweet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 7:45:14am

I’m pretty sure this is a fake. Look at the ear.

Thoughts?

YOU HAD ONE JOB TODAY.
For God’s sake, man. pic.twitter.com/OwjFPZsAon

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 7:46:59am

Trump supports the most violent protesters in American history: Confederate generals. https://t.co/YjGadtzbCV

— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 12, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:49:26am

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sorry?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:50:15am

His tweets reflect him perfectly. A whiny brat out of his depth.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 7:56:29am

re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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This from the same guy who claimed the body has a finite amount of energy and exercise is akin to “wasting it”

Also, Mr. Trump, we don’t care that you’re golfing,

We care that you’re golfing IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL FUCKING CRISIS!

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stpaulbear Jul 12, 2020 • 7:56:35am

re: #251 William Lewis

The problem of tapes was one thing - the Who still managed to be fairly spontaneous seeming despite all the tapes and effects post Tommy.

But what I hated was when a band like KISS made there performance indistinguishable from their records. I mention them because that was their ideal.

Id rather Husker Du or Replacements shows thst were a bit more radically unpredictable 😎

The one time I saw The Who live (the Who’s Next tour), they were having a rough time with the tapes. It was a bad night. I agree they were spontaneous and alive despite the use of tapes on some of the new songs.

Jethro Tull, when I saw them, was using tapes to set up transitions to the next song. It was kind of a substitute for actually talking to and interacting with the audience. Not for every song, but still the show was pretty independent of the audience. At the time, I liked the way a lot of the transitions worked. My buddies thought it was bullshit.

Control freak John Fogerty was another one who felt like his band CCR had to go out and duplicate the records live. Most of their live albums are pretty boring because of it.

I think every one of my high school buddies saw Kiss live except for me. I was too much of a music snob to think of their concerts as ‘fun’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 7:57:10am

Have you been comatose for the last four years? My god the normalization, even now in the midst of a catastrophically botched response to a pandemic, is mindblowingly dumb. Delete this. https://t.co/BAz7xqG0g9

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 12, 2020

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Ace Rothstein Jul 12, 2020 • 7:58:03am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe they can have classes on one of her 90 yachts.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 7:58:46am

I’m old enough to remember when he didn’t want to be photographed in a mask. Enough of the no expectations. He’s President. He doesn’t respect the office but he does have that title because of enough morons.

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wrenchwench Jul 12, 2020 • 7:59:41am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The more that is covered, the less bad he looks. Gotta start somewhere.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:00:00am

Well look who his role model is! “Doctor” Ben Carson. BTW, these screenshots are from the official @HUDgov video shot in FL. pic.twitter.com/8kHMYijKO1

— Spocko (@spockosbrain) July 12, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 8:00:40am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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JFC

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:03:05am

re: #224 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Another shot of the wildlife sanctuary — no wildlife. Jeffrey, how are you feeling?

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Ace Rothstein Jul 12, 2020 • 8:03:07am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

That blimp is about to explode.

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Eventual Carrion Jul 12, 2020 • 8:03:20am

re: #262 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Some very fine people from my neck of the woods.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:03:41am

You’ll be fine so long as you yourself didn’t criticise your predecessor for playing golf… Oh. pic.twitter.com/DfnTHSfM7t

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 12, 2020

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!) Jul 12, 2020 • 8:03:48am

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

This from the same guy who claimed the body has a finite amount of energy and exercise is akin to “wasting it”

Also, Mr. Trump, we don’t care that you’re golfing,

We care that you’re golfing IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL FUCKING CRISIS!

Trump is good at golfing because its main thing is keeping your head down:

From @svdate’s pool report: Trump was greeted by protesters at his golf course this morning, including “one dressed as the grim reaper,” carrying a scythe and invoking the 137,000 dead from coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/4XfBs5rxgK

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 12, 2020

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 12, 2020 • 8:04:09am

Excellent! Lord Soros and Comrade Hillary are very pleased with the Miller operation. It takes real creativity and effort to make conservatives seem even more deranged, ignorant and gullible than they normally do, but Miller has succeeded admirably and will be duly rewarded.

— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:06:22am

What sorcery is this?!pic.twitter.com/MuKR3W5exb

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 12, 2020

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plansbandc Jul 12, 2020 • 8:06:57am

re: #254 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s exactly how I read those texts in my head.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:09:54am

O_o

Trump yesterday on his clemency for Roger Stone: “What I did — what I did — I will tell you this: People are extremely happy. Because, in this country, they want justice.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2020

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jeffreyw Jul 12, 2020 • 8:11:56am

re: #276 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Western good morning!

Another shot of the wildlife sanctuary — no wildlife. Jeffrey, how are you feeling?

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I am feeling some better, a bit wobbly walking.

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goddamnedfrank Jul 12, 2020 • 8:12:04am

I don’t know who needs to hear this but most people with a nose who’ve worn a mask know by now that it’s pretty hard not to notice when it’s fallen down below, which means we also know you’re either leaving it that way on purpose or are too high to feel your own face

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 8:13:06am

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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People = Roger Stone and his family.

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garzooma Jul 12, 2020 • 8:15:19am

re: #264 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m pretty sure this is a fake. Look at the ear.

Thoughts?

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It’s got to be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:18:05am

Life comes at you fast.

So does death in Trump’s America https://t.co/H1vFaEnoO2

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 12, 2020

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 8:18:32am

So much for the #RepublicanParty being the party of law and order. Have we not lost our minds in not condemning as a party the president’s pardon of corruption by #RogerStone.

— Mark Sanford (@MarkSanford) July 11, 2020

Once this nightmare is over, let’s stop having Republican presidents.

— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) July 11, 2020

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 8:19:40am

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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People are happy in Moscow and St. Petersburg I’m sure. And I don’t mean Idaho or Florida.

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Teukka Jul 12, 2020 • 8:19:42am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

This is hard to read but it explains Frazzledrip.

My mouth hit the floor.

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re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What the hell are they talking about?

re: #220 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

There’s a snuff video on Anthony Weiner’s laptop and the file name is Fragglerock (whatever, I forget what it is now) and it was so horrific it make all the NYC cops cry (I wonder if they called it Sir). Hillary and Huma killed a baby and cut off its face and they both then wore the face as a mask. That’s what Fuzzypop (whatever) is about.

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My brain hurts.

Shorter: They’re stupid. Promoters of such propaganda are evil.

re: #233 Jay C

So much brain-hurt in such little space.
“Frazzledrip” is bad enough, but WTF does this (anything?) have to do with Tom Hanks and his volleyball friend?

re: #236 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Tom Hanks, Oprah, Ellen, (pretty much everyone in Hollywood who’s a seemingly* decent person) is actually a pedophile to the Q nuts.

*I say seemingly because America’s Dad, Cosby, was seemingly a decent person.

I’ve said it before, to many people’s chagrin, and I’ll say it again… These Qucks appear to me as “unwell”…. The level of unwell where they’ll have no qualms about literarly try to manufacture evidence because of their absolute belief that what they manufacture evidence for has happened.

And I well and truly fear of scenarios where events happen which unleashes these people on a rampage…

re: #245 The Pie Overlord!

Killing babies & eating them is literally the original Blood Libel.

re: #246 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

No doubt you remember when Palin likened criticism of her to it. But yeah that’s the original BL right there. Very common in Tsarist Russia.

Yep. Classic. I’ve learned to recognize the classic antisemitic canards in their base form, i.e. when you direct the same basic canard, but not at the expected group. How easy people fall for the same scam when you simply change the scapegoats and bogeymen, or have more than one of them. Or how far simply changing the name of something, e.g. by synonym or anglification, can go in terms of concealing that it’s the same old shit, just refurbed, repackaged, and with a snazzy new paint job…

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This mask instruction from Nürnberg comes to mind…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior) Jul 12, 2020 • 8:21:19am

re: #281 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Exit Steve King, enter this moron.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 8:23:31am

Last night someone posted a Tweet criticizing Disney for putting profits over people by reopening during a time of surging cases.

But I was thinking some of those Disney employees at those parks would be quite happy to be working again if for no other reason than it means they’ll have an easier time paying their bills and keeping a roof over their head.

Which made me realize how much a job is tied to our livelihoods in this country since: 1) We have a practically non-functioning social safety net and 2) Many of us don’t have health insurance if we don’t have a job.

People can’t afford to stay home for weeks at a time because of how our society is.

Something to think about as you see the infection curve shooting up.

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William Lewis Jul 12, 2020 • 8:25:41am

re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg

Last night someone posted a Tweet criticizing Disney for putting profits over people by reopening during a time of surging cases.

But I was thinking some of those Disney employees at those parks would be quite happy to be working again if for no other reason than it means they’ll have an easier time paying their bills and keeping a roof over their head.

Which made me realize how much a job is tied to our livelihoods in this country since: 1) We have a practically non-functioning social safety net and 2) Many of us don’t have health insurance if we don’t have a job.

People can’t afford to stay home for weeks at a time because of how our society is.

Something to think about as you see the infection curve shooting up.

Basic income/Negative Income Tax would solve the problem and be cheaper than all the programs it could replace.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:27:14am

re: #259 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

There’s also long term damage that people get from having the virus. FFS it’s not like the common cold or flu where you recover and your body is okay. These fucking morons are going to be why we’ll still be dealing with the long term consequences of this for generations.

Some of the aftereffects we’ve seen look like they’ll be around for a long time, but we have much less than a year of data on its effects, much less its aftereffects. For the effects, scientific and medical reports of a few cases for their colleagues’ edification are being read by scientifically illiterate journalists and amplified to ZOMG WE’RE DOOMED! reports for the public. They’re doing the same thing with the aftereffects we’ve seen so far.

The fact is, at this time we have no idea what the long term effects will be, and all we can do to find out is to wait and see.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 8:29:32am

re: #295 William Lewis

Basic income/Negative Income Tax would solve the problem and be cheaper than all the programs it could replace.

Agreed…but Republicans.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:31:06am

TRUMP’S AMERICA

Roger Stone. Found guilty by a jury on 7 federal criminal counts. No jail time.

Kalief Browder. Accused of stealing a backpack. Couldn’t post bail. Spent 3 years at Riker’s awaiting trial. Ultimately committed suicide after released.

We have two justice systems in our country. pic.twitter.com/AjIYgAgNOm

— Kristen Clarke (@KristenClarkeJD) July 11, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 8:31:42am

Are there any reliable statistics on what the percentage of people who develop severe complications after recovery is?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 8:32:06am

Lying to Congress and witness tampering = commuted sentence.

Defacing a monument = “automatic 10 years.” https://t.co/bcZrITB7E0

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) July 12, 2020

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 8:32:41am

re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, except Disney could afford to take care of their employees.

I work for a defense contractor. And the one thing about a defense contractor is they don’t get to do big projects without a contract. At one time, the company hit a spot where they were in between contracts, for something like 6 months. Now, they could have let the employees go for six months, but, instead they put these people to work on some improvement projects at the site.

I’m sure Disney could find something for them to do.

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Dr Lizardo Jul 12, 2020 • 8:35:01am

re: #301 Belafon

Walt’s cryogenic chamber could probably do with some maintenance. 😁

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 8:35:03am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

Are there any reliable statistics on what the percentage of people who develop severe complications after recovery is?

The disease is 7-8 months old, and the outbreak less. The estimate right now is 30-40%, but we still don’t know all of the effects.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 8:35:19am

re: #301 Belafon

Agreed 100%.

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William Lewis Jul 12, 2020 • 8:36:40am

re: #297 Eclectic Cyborg

Agreed…but Republicans.

That’s where sneaking it in under “Negative Income Tax” (as Milton freaking Freidman called it :) is good. Also tell them how all kinds of people will put their money in the stock market (even if they won’t :) and so forth. Plus tell them that it replaces X, Y & Z programs for less money. A good politician (admittedly, we’re talking someone on Pelosi or O’Neil’s level here) could get it through.

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A Cranky One Jul 12, 2020 • 8:37:05am

Finally the long wait is over. We have a version of Bohemian Rapsody in Klingon.

Yay???

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - KLINGON cover version - Recorded by Rusty Matyas and the Qapla’! Band Players

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 8:38:39am

Biden now has a five point lead in Texas: dallasnews.com

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goddamnedfrank Jul 12, 2020 • 8:38:43am

HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE?

These assholes’ gross negligence killed scores of their own fans 17 years ago and they’re still out here trying to kill more.

I mean sure, you gotta admire the work ethic but … https://t.co/ieJpzUtG2X

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2020

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Teukka Jul 12, 2020 • 8:41:49am

re: #292 Teukka

I’ve said it before, to many people’s chagrin, and I’ll say it again… These Qucks appear to me as “unwell”…. The level of unwell where they’ll have no qualms about literarly try to manufacture evidence because of their absolute belief that what they manufacture evidence for has happened.

And I well and truly fear of scenarios where events happen which unleashes these people on a rampage…

Yep. Classic. I’ve learned to recognize the classic antisemitic canards in their base form, i.e. when you direct the same basic canard, but not at the expected group. How easy people fall for the same scam when you simply change the scapegoats and bogeymen, or have more than one of them. Or how far simply changing the name of something, e.g. by synonym or anglification, can go in terms of concealing that it’s the same old shit, just refurbed, repackaged, and with a snazzy new paint job…

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So, what if this whole Quck thing basically is repackaged, refurbed canards and conspiracy theories relating to the Jews, only with names changed… So, as a mental exercise, take a list of classic antisemitic stuff, excise away the target being jews, so it can be directed at anyone. How much of this is afloat in the clusterquck [read: Qsphere]?

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:43:58am

This is the best thread you will see all day:

Sydmar Lodge Care Home residents and carers have been recreating classic album covers. The home has now been in lockdown for 4 months. pic.twitter.com/XS5YQ4f1Sw

— Robert Speker (@robertspeker) July 10, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:45:34am

re: #309 Teukka

So, what if this whole Quck thing basically is repackaged, refurbed canards and conspiracy theories relating to the Jews, only with names changed… So, as a mental exercise, take a list of classic antisemitic stuff, excise away the target being jews, so it can be directed at anyone. How much of this is afloat in the clusterquck [read: Qsphere]?

Jews are still included in the Qonspiracy because SSSSSSORRRRROSSSSS!!!!!!

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Teukka Jul 12, 2020 • 8:46:55am

re: #311 The Pie Overlord!

Jews are still included in the Qonspiracy because SSSSSSORRRRROSSSSS!!!!!!

Exactly. Like the Rothschilds before him…

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:49:20am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

Are there any reliable statistics on what the percentage of people who develop severe complications after recovery is?

From the CDC:

Cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates since March 1, 2020, are updated weekly. The overall cumulative COVID-19 hospitalization rate is 107.2 per 100,000, with the highest rates in people aged 65 years and older (316.9 per 100,000) and 50-64 years (161.7 per 100,000).

This is hospitalizations, but might suggest an upper limit.

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 12, 2020 • 8:50:04am

They finally got the Disney World ad right. pic.twitter.com/avy2PUOQXQ

— Jimmi Simpson (@jimmisimpson) July 12, 2020

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 8:53:07am

re: #314 The Pie Overlord!

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The next Disney ad will have people without masks so that you can’t put voices over them.

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Patricia Kayden Jul 12, 2020 • 8:57:59am

Trump’s drop in polls has confident Democrats sensing “a tsunami coming” in November https://t.co/41xF3O73Na

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 12, 2020

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Dr Lizardo Jul 12, 2020 • 9:02:09am

re: #316 Patricia Kayden

“Great, kid! Don’t get cocky”

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 9:05:25am

re: #317 Dr Lizardo

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The only people to worry about are those who decide they can “vote their conscience.” Not sure what they’re conscious of, though, but that group wasn’t going to be a reliable vote in November anyway.

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retired cynic Jul 12, 2020 • 9:05:25am

This HORRIBLE! And entirely on brand, Steven Miller.

How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones
by Catherine Rampell, WaPo

The Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones.
That is, the “show me your papers” administration has literally switched off printers needed to generate those “papers.”
Without telling Congress, the administration has scaled back the printing of documents it has already promised to immigrants — including green cards, the wallet-size I.D.’s legal permanent residents must carry everywhere to prove they are in the United States lawfully.
In mid-June, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ contract ended with the company that had been printing these documents. Production was slated to be insourced, but “the agency’s financial situation,” USCIS said Thursday, prompted a hiring freeze that required it to ratchet down printing.
USCIS, which is funded almost entirely by fees, is undergoing a budget crisis, largely caused by financial mismanagement by political leadership [Trump wasted so much money harassing immigrants that his agency needs a bailout]. The printing disruptions are no doubt a preview of chaos to come if the agency furloughs about 70 percent of its workforce, as it has said it will do in a few weeks absent a congressional bailout.
…
Some 50,000 green cards and 75,000 other employment authorization documents promised to immigrants haven’t been printed, USCIS said in a statement.
…
“The bottom line is that applicants pay huge filing fees, and it appears that these fees have apparently been either squandered through mismanagement or diverted to enforcement-focused initiatives, to the great detriment of applicants as well as the overall efficiency of the immigration process,” says Anis Saleh, an immigration attorney in Coral Gables, Fla. “The administration has accomplished its goal of shutting down legal immigration without actually changing the law.”

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 12, 2020 • 9:08:13am

re: #316 Patricia Kayden

…but don’t get complacent. Don’t get complacent. Don’t get complacent.

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ericblair Jul 12, 2020 • 9:10:27am

re: #317 Dr Lizardo

Sure, don’t get cocky, but it’s probably time to give up the endless doomerism by our side. Dems are up, up a lot, getting better, and the window for anything to miraculously turn this around for the worst president in history are closing fast, even if the virus magically went away tomorrow like he wants. It’s not going away, Trump is not going to change, and the GOP aren’t going to let go of the anchor until it’s too late for them.

You fight a war being realistic, expecting some things to go wrong, and expecting counterattacks, but to go into it just expecting to lose somehow is about the worst thing you can do.

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DodgerFan1988 Jul 12, 2020 • 9:13:27am

ESPN has suspended Adrian Wojnarowski after he replied “F*ck you” in an email to U.S. senator Josh Hawley. pic.twitter.com/g7BE5QdyT4

— BallerAlert (@balleralert) July 12, 2020

Where are the “Free Speech” Conservatives now?

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Decatur Deb Jul 12, 2020 • 9:14:12am

re: #321 ericblair

Sure, don’t get cocky, but it’s probably time to give up the endless doomerism by our side. Dems are up, up a lot, getting better, and the window for anything to miraculously turn this around for the worst president in history are closing fast, even if the virus magically went away tomorrow like he wants. It’s not going away, Trump is not going to change, and the GOP aren’t going to let go of the anchor until it’s too late for them.

You fight a war being realistic, expecting some things to go wrong, and expecting counterattacks, but to go into it just expecting to lose somehow is about the worst thing you can do.

We are two points behind. On 4 Nov we might be 15 points ahead, but on election day morning we will be two points behind.

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Teukka Jul 12, 2020 • 9:15:33am

re: #322 DodgerFan1988

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Where are the “Free Speech” Conservatives now?

Nowhere to be found…

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Renaissance_Man Jul 12, 2020 • 9:16:04am

re: #323 Decatur Deb

We are two points behind. On 4 Nov we might be 15 points ahead, but on election day morning we will be two points behind.

Being up in polls does not translate to being up in votes. You can be up in polls all you like, but if people can’t vote, don’t vote, votes aren’t counted, and vote results are disregarded, it means nothing.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 12, 2020 • 9:16:22am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sorry!

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DodgerFan1988 Jul 12, 2020 • 9:17:15am

re: #324 Teukka

Nowhere to be found…

I thought they were against “Cancel Culture.”

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:18:45am

re: #321 ericblair

Sure, don’t get cocky, but it’s probably time to give up the endless doomerism by our side. Dems are up, up a lot, getting better, and the window for anything to miraculously turn this around for the worst president in history are closing fast, even if the virus magically went away tomorrow like he wants. It’s not going away, Trump is not going to change, and the GOP aren’t going to let go of the anchor until it’s too late for them.

You fight a war being realistic, expecting some things to go wrong, and expecting counterattacks, but to go into it just expecting to lose somehow is about the worst thing you can do.

Think the best argument at this case is to keep in the mindset of the midterms: Things still have the opportunity to go to shit, but the odds are increasing that it be less “flip the entire result” and more “make it a closer race.” The fact that Trump has no led in the polls at any point in the race, particularly given all the advantages of being an incumbent with a “good” economy before March, is enough reason to suspect that it would take a very major event to move the polls decisively in his direction.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 12, 2020 • 9:19:05am

Rug #3. Just experimenting with abstract shapes, no real design in mind pic.twitter.com/rRF9d3Be3t

— Connor (@Yogalnstructor) June 8, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 12, 2020 • 9:21:55am

Today is July 12, which means the first phase of Pandemic related lockdowns started 4 months ago.

In other words, we’re not as far into this as it might seem.

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:22:17am

re: #325 Renaissance_Man

Being up in polls does not translate to being up in votes. You can be up in polls all you like, but if people can’t vote, don’t vote, votes aren’t counted, and vote results are disregarded, it means nothing.

Being up in the polls makes a wild swing in the final result less believable. If you’re within 1-2% in the final polls going into the election and you lose, then it’s possible to argue polling error. If you’re 5%+ ahead and the other guy wins, then something very fucking fishy is going on.

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Teukka Jul 12, 2020 • 9:24:10am

re: #329 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Rugtse? *slaps self*

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Decatur Deb Jul 12, 2020 • 9:31:30am

This article is a masterpiece of divorcing the headline from the self-contradicting content. Nevertheless….

Trump gets some good election news: GOP voter registrations outpace Dems
politico.com

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CarolJ Jul 12, 2020 • 9:31:34am

re: #328 Targetpractice

Think the best argument at this case is to keep in the mindset of the midterms: Things still have the opportunity to go to shit, but the odds are increasing that it be less “flip the entire result” and more “make it a closer race.” The fact that Trump has no led in the polls at any point in the race, particularly given all the advantages of being an incumbent with a “good” economy before March, is enough reason to suspect that it would take a very major event to move the polls decisively in his direction.

We have some real advantages this time. Trump is going to be Trump, incompetent and insane. He’s incapable clearly of doing anything that could turn this around, and the time to do so is quickly running out anyway.

Corona is an opponent that can’t be dealt with by his usual bag of tricks, either. Nothing will convince people not already convinced by him about what’s going on. He can’t bully it, bribe it, frighten it. The solution requires patience, science, and some self-sacrifice, and none of these qualities he has, and none of the people he works with have those qualities either.

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goddamnedfrank Jul 12, 2020 • 9:31:52am

America is just a Brothers Grimm fairy tale at this point, where the people in power are literally trying to convince everyone else to let the virus feast upon the young

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 12, 2020

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CleverToad Jul 12, 2020 • 9:33:58am

re: #310 The Pie Overlord!

This is the best thread you will see all day:

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Those are wonderful!
Old coots having a grand time. That’s what I wanna be in twenty years.

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Decatur Deb Jul 12, 2020 • 9:38:07am

re: #334 CarolJ

We have some real advantages this time. Trump is going to be Trump, incompetent and insane. He’s incapable clearly of doing anything that could turn this around, and the time to do so is quickly running out anyway.

Corona is an opponent that can’t be dealt with by his usual bag of tricks, either. Nothing will convince people not already convinced by him about what’s going on. He can’t bully it, bribe it, frighten it. The solution requires patience, science, and some self-sacrifice, and none of these qualities he has, and none of the people he works with have those qualities either.

We have disadvantages we didn’t face in 2016 as well. The opponent can spin up an hour of free live TV on a moment’s notice. He can fly to pseudo-official campaign events at our expense, and no one is at all concerned that he uses the federal workforce as apparatchiks and props.

It is always cheaper and easier to prevent an incumbent than to dislodge one.

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PhillyPretzel Jul 12, 2020 • 9:39:37am

re: #321 ericblair

re: #328 Targetpractice

re: #334 CarolJ

The key to this upcoming presidential election is getting people to the polls to vote on Election Day. In-person voting (COVID-19 will probably be a big issue), mail-in ballots, absentee ballots must be used to get as many people who are registered to vote to do so.

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:43:40am

re: #337 Decatur Deb

We have disadvantages we didn’t face in 2016 as well. The opponent can spin up an hour of free live TV on a moment’s notice. He can fly to pseudo-official campaign events at our expense, and no one is at all concerned that he uses the federal workforce as apparatchiks and props.

It is always cheaper and easier to prevent an incumbent than to dislodge one.

These disadvantages are not as daunting or as powerful as they seem at a glance. If anything, his substitution of press “briefings” for his rallies worked against him (see: bleach injections). And as we saw yesterday, even when he flies off to do “tours,” he ends up drawing more criticism for his cavalier attitude towards public safety than he once did. As for the use of federal workers as props, even that is counterbalanced by his relentless attacks on any who do not show absolute loyalty to him.

Even his previous big advantage, namely his reliance upon “huge” public rallies to fire up his base, got doused pretty thoroughly in Tulsa. He’s now afraid to venture to anywhere that he isn’t guaranteed a packed house full of sycophants.

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Teddy's Person Jul 12, 2020 • 9:45:15am

re: #337 Decatur Deb

We have disadvantages we didn’t face in 2016 as well. The opponent can spin up an hour of free live TV on a moment’s notice. He can fly to pseudo-official campaign events at our expense, and no one is at all concerned that he uses the federal workforce as apparatchiks and props.

It is always cheaper and easier to prevent an incumbent than to dislodge one.

To be honest, he had that advantage in 2016 with networks showing an empty podium and the pundit class breathlessly awaiting Needy Amin’s arrival.. The Hatch Act violations are frustrating as hell since he’s basically been campaigning since 1/20/17.

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Decatur Deb Jul 12, 2020 • 9:47:04am

re: #339 Targetpractice

These disadvantages are not as daunting or as powerful as they seem at a glance. If anything, his substitution of press “briefings” for his rallies worked against him (see: bleach injections). And as we saw yesterday, even when he flies off to do “tours,” he ends up drawing more criticism for his cavalier attitude towards public safety than he once did. As for the use of federal workers as props, even that is counterbalanced by his relentless attacks on any who do not show absolute loyalty to him.

Even his previous big advantage, namely his reliance upon “huge” public rallies to fire up his base, got doused pretty thoroughly in Tulsa. He’s now afraid to venture to anywhere that he isn’t guaranteed a packed house full of sycophants.

This time around I’d like to see us go for massive overkill. Getting free of Trump isn’t enough. Obliterate every fucking Republican candidate in the country, and maybe we can start building some kind of workable society.

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:48:20am

re: #341 Decatur Deb

This time around I’d like to see us go for massive overkill. Getting free of Trump isn’t enough. Obliterate every fucking Republican candidate in the country, and maybe we can start building some kind of workable society.

That should be the ultimate goal and we’re seeing the “Never Trump” crowd lead the way by going after virtually every Repub who voted to give him a pass on treason.

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Teddy's Person Jul 12, 2020 • 9:49:23am

I’m sick of Donald Trump’s brand of fake patriotism.

Our new video:#DemocratsStandTall pic.twitter.com/3aqLhpBe9F

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 12, 2020

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 12, 2020 • 9:51:16am

People that were down for the perfidies that got a million Iraqis killed and severely curtailed US civil liberties in the 00s, being performatively angry about the Trump admin’s lies, will never not set my teeth on edge.

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Teddy's Person Jul 12, 2020 • 9:51:44am

re: #341 Decatur Deb

This time around I’d like to see us go for massive overkill. Getting free of Trump isn’t enough. Obliterate every fucking Republican candidate in the country, and maybe we can start building some kind of workable society.

We need to crush our opponents, to see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentations of rightwing snowflakes.

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Decatur Deb Jul 12, 2020 • 9:55:31am

re: #345 Teddy’s Person

We need to crush our opponents, to see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentations of rightwing snowflakes.

Yesterday I saw a question, perhaps here:

“Are the skulls of our enemies dishwasher-safe?”

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:55:49am

re: #344 The Ghost of a Flea

People that were down for the perfidies that got a million Iraqis killed and severely curtailed US civil liberties in the 00s, being performatively angry about the Trump admin’s lies, will never not set my teeth on edge.

My best suggestion? Don’t give money to the fuckers. Donate it to the Biden campaign, donate it to your local Dems, donate to Dem-aligned PACs, but don’t give a dime to “Never Trump” groups. Let them burn their own money, because it will be less money for them to spend between now and 2022 trying to get “true conservatives” elected.

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 9:56:06am

re: #345 Teddy’s Person

We need to crush our opponents, to see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentations of rightwing snowflakes.

Good, that is good.

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 9:59:48am

re: #323 Decatur Deb

We are two points behind. On 4 Nov we might be 15 points ahead, but on election day morning we will be two points behind.

“You’ve given your all, you opponent has fumbled five times, scored for you twice, their star receiver lost a leg, and you’re only down two points. Keep it up.”

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Belafon Jul 12, 2020 • 10:01:44am

re: #325 Renaissance_Man

Being up in polls does not translate to being up in votes. You can be up in polls all you like, but if people can’t vote, don’t vote, votes aren’t counted, and vote results are disregarded, it means nothing.

And when has someone been significantly up in the polls and yet lost the vote (note I said vote, not the EC).

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 10:03:11am

Betsy DeVos today: “There’s nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is dangerous to them”

This will be very comforting to parents and teachers. After all, the Trump Admin. is doing such a great job taking care of its own employees pic.twitter.com/l9b38IYUm3

— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 12, 2020

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Targetpractice Jul 12, 2020 • 10:03:13am

I’ve seen the frequent use of the analogy that working with the “Never Trump” crowd should be viewed like that of working with Stalin in WWII to defeat the Axis. If anything, the lesson there should be not to provide them the means to wage the next war against us. Not only should we avoid giving them funds, but we should also make it clear that Trump didn’t just spring from the ether. Rick Wilson? Jennifer Rubin? Bill Krystal? George Conway? Just because they hate Trump doesn’t mean they hate his ideas, they just wish he wouldn’t broadcast them over a bullhorn.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 10:04:23am

THE DEMS NEED TO GO ALL OUT IN TEXAS. Not because of the Biden numbers, which are excellent, but because of the Cornyn numbers, which are shocking. He is at 37%, against MJ Hagar. When the number two GOP Senator is a 37% that is a very bad sign for the GOP in Texas https://t.co/zyfPUf89fl

— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) July 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 10:05:25am

Apparently education and “patriotism” are inversely proportional. pic.twitter.com/VcGn595IRy

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 12, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 12, 2020 • 10:06:30am

When the GOP tweets come with a CDC warning. https://t.co/BIPn36nLWt

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) July 12, 2020

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 12, 2020 • 10:07:49am

Florida already reports more than 15k new cases today. That blows away their previous daily high (set only a few days ago.)

What will happen to the death count in Florida in the next month?

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Dr Lizardo Jul 12, 2020 • 10:08:31am

re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is shockingly bad for Cornyn; looks like the GOP is in serious trouble in Texas.

And that’s good news, because they’re now going to have to expend resources there in what should be a very safe state for them.

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wrenchwench Jul 12, 2020 • 10:09:57am

re: #356 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Florida already reports more than 15k new cases today. That blows away their previous daily high (set only a few days ago.)

What will happen to the death count in Florida in the next month?

It used to be medical. Now it’s mathematical.

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Patricia Kayden Jul 12, 2020 • 10:10:01am

It never ceases to amaze me that Trump sycophants think they can sell the idea that Joe Biden is corrupt two days after Trump commuted the sentence of a co-conspirator in his corruption.

— Steven (@StevenMartens23) July 12, 2020

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wrenchwench Jul 12, 2020 • 10:14:23am

re: #359 Patricia Kayden

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Giuliani hits the all-caps. Look out, Joe!

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sagehen Jul 12, 2020 • 10:27:56am

re: #344 The Ghost of a Flea

People that were down for the perfidies that got a million Iraqis killed and severely curtailed US civil liberties in the 00s, being performatively angry about the Trump admin’s lies, will never not set my teeth on edge.

No inconsistency.

Their main issue, then and now, is wanting the US to be top dog worldwide, that all the other countries would roll over and let us do whatever we want.

That’s why they supported what they supported during the GWB admin, and why they hate Trump now.

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The Ghost of a Flea Jul 12, 2020 • 10:29:51am

re: #352 Targetpractice

Yeah, but my point isn’t about Never Trumpers, it’s that the degree to which each round of more egregious abuse of power is framed as a discontinuity, a prodigy, as opposed to a continuation of previous abuses of power…retroactively rendering prior abuses of power “normal.” That’s not a problem with Never Trump, that’s a problem with…pundits, politicians, the way news is read to the audience and the way that the news-consuming audience has become accustomed to deboned information sauced with supercilious rhetorical exercises by people whose only job is to decontextualize everything into the aesthetics of “two sides debating.”

The analogy is flawed because Stalin-as-metaphor has been part of the government’s decision making process since…and I’m being generous here…the Dulles brothers were ascendant.

I don’t expect people to try and solve this right now, all in one go, while cutting out everybody that did wrong in the past…but I feel it is necessary to repeat it over and over because…frankly…in my twenty five years of engagement with politics this process of strategic forgetting recurs.

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BigPapa Jul 12, 2020 • 10:32:23am

re: #360 wrenchwench

Giuliani hits the all-caps. Look out, Joe!

DEMS IN DISARRAY!

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re: #338 PhillyPretzel

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re: #364 cat-tikvah

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re: #365 PhillyPretzel

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