Seth takes a closer look at President Trump trying to convince Americans he suddenly cares about the pandemic he’s been ignoring for months.
No better way to start a new thread than with a big
FUCK TRUMP!
https://t.co/WpJizeil3t pic.twitter.com/UAssQqLNBG
— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) July 23, 2020
I love how Seth is not holding back.
Love Peace and FT
“Operation Legend” is better branding than “Operation Extralegal Attacks Snatching Protesters Off the Streets In Unmarked Vans and Beating Veterans With Clubs.”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 22, 2020
Obama didn’t brag half as much about winning a Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is about passing a dementia test.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) July 23, 2020
They need gas masks because you gas them.
They need shields because you beat them. https://t.co/N0pCO6LmOc— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) July 23, 2020
The crowd is projecting a series of demands on the wall of the Justice Center. I do not think Ted is going to like them. pic.twitter.com/09NWIKU44Y
— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) July 23, 2020
The feds have replaced the fence around their embattled courthouse, and they have added a concrete vehicle barrier. pic.twitter.com/yrMOoJ70vW
— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) July 23, 2020
The QAnon disciple and psycho raving ammosexual freakazoid nut sandwich Republican running for Congress in my district flouted gun laws? Get right out of town! https://t.co/hyc0tFNN0R
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 23, 2020
My spiders have started hatching!https://t.co/RvM4viO7ST pic.twitter.com/lp3u6rQYSV
— PZ Myers 🕷 (@pzmyers) July 23, 2020
re: #11 plansbandc
I love you.
This is the kind of emotional validation from anonymous strangers I come to social media for.
Conservatives have nothing to say about the emergence of the president’s secret police force, which is right now undermining the sovereignty of a state (Oregon). When people tread on values they once said were nonnegotiable, it’s time to stop taking them seriously. A THREAD. https://t.co/jFRxmhWo9w
— John Stoehr’s Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) July 21, 2020
The right wing is pressing for a violent showdown, lusting for it in fact. They are walking into the greatest ambush in history. When Beauregard attacked Ft. Sumter, he at least knew that the North was armed. Today’s racist traitors think they have all the guns.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 23, 2020
re: #4 teleskiguy
This is how Gandhi beat the British Empire. No matter how much Trump and conservatives want it, the way to defeat them is to show up in overwhelming numbers.
re: #14 Ace-o-aces
Aw. That is so sweet. I think we know each other a bit better than that, but hey.
In the yeah! Texas is Number 1! lottery, we had 202 deaths today. The only good thing about that is that it freed up some more ICU rooms.
This is just hell. There’s no way we can open schools in August.
We can’t open the schools until we get the virus under control. Businisses can’t open up until we get the virus under control. Child care centers, for dogs sake, can’t open until we get the virus under control. Which means the economy in this State is FUBAR for the forseeable future.
Black lives matter. Get out the vote. Vote as if your lives depend on it, because in Texas, it absolutely does.
Night all. Sweet dreams.
re: #7 jaunte
SS-Obergruppenführer Ken Cuccinelli
SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Chad Wolf
We need to start calling these fuckers what they are.
Trump’s Waffen SS.
These contemptible assholes are shameless. Hillary was fucking spot on with her “deplorable” comment.
Here are the two biggest donors, by far, to the super PAC called Black Americans to Re-Elect the President. Tied for third-biggest donor is their company, Eberle Communications. pic.twitter.com/0BO7uFwS0i
— Alex Kotch (@alexkotch) July 22, 2020
re: #16 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If Trump loses this November, I figure he’s gonna try to go full-on Götterdämmerung. He’ll switch from “Keep America Great” to “America Must Be Destroyed”.
— Emilio Lizardo (@DrELizardo) July 23, 2020
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
He could go out like President Clark in Babylon 5.
The Republican Party must be destroyed. It cannot atone for the damage it’s been inflicting on us for 50+ years.
The Department of Justice is supposed to make prosecutorial decisions INDEPENDENT of the White House. Why would the WH Chief of Staff know that indictments are imminent. This is why Trump should have been removed from office and why Barr needs to go too! https://t.co/UWDZphQT4k
— An Ethical Donald (@donaldonethics) July 22, 2020
Duck and cover https://t.co/FyXE5rq59y
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 23, 2020
annnd portland’s mayor has been tear gassed https://t.co/3Upeoybu2j
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) July 23, 2020
re: #27 teleskiguy
Hey Mr. Mayor… why don’t you put your police force to some good use and start arresting these Waffen SS goons as soon as they step foot off Federal property?
Or was it *your* goons who just tear gassed you?
There was a lovely waxing crescent moon tonight.
Wax on, wane off.
re: #27 teleskiguy
That’s some great optics. “Jackbooted Federal Thugs Teargas Mayor of Portland, Oregon”.
Way to go, DHS. /s
re: #28 Jack Burton
Hey Mr. Mayor… why don’t you put your police force to some good use and start arresting these Waffen SS goons as soon as they step foot off Federal property?
Unfortunately, the PPB (Portland Police Bureau) is pretty much on the side of the Feds. They would most likely refuse to follow such orders.
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
Unfortunately, the PPB (Portland Police Bureau) is pretty much on the side of the Feds. They would most likely refuse to follow such orders.
Are these elected positions? If not, fire them, or call in the state Police. The Governor of Oregon is not a fan of the Nazis either.
Well, I gotta admit…..this is a plot twist I didn’t see coming.
In two killings separated by nearly 3,000 miles, a gunman came dressed as a deliveryman. The individual at the doorstep claimed to be dropping off a package but instead unleashed a hail of bullets.
On Wednesday, the FBI said it had now linked the two slayings to one man.
Roy Den Hollander, 72, a self-described anti-feminist attorney, is suspected in the killing of a well-known men’s rights attorney in the mountains of San Bernardino County earlier this month and the shooting on Sunday of a federal judge’s son and husband in New Jersey.
Attorney Marc Angelucci was fatally shot July 11 at his Crestline, Calif., home. In Sunday’s shooting in North Brunswick, N.J., U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ 20-year-old son was killed and her husband wounded. The body of Den Hollander was found late Sunday in New York’s Sullivan County.
“As the FBI continues the investigation into the attack at the home of U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas (District of New Jersey), we are now engaged with the San Bernardino California Sheriff’s Office and have evidence linking the murder of Marc Angelucci to FBI Newark subject Roy Den Hollander,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday in a statement.
Israeli firm says micro-pancreas to ‘cure’ diabetes ready for UK trials https://t.co/AIu0CB8w9l
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 23, 2020
Cool
And. Here. We. Go.
A Texas hospital has formed an ethics committee to screen all COVID-19 patients for survival potential and send home those with low survival chances, according to Border Report.
Rio Grande City, Texas-based Starr County Memorial Hospital, implemented an ethics committee and a triage committee to review incoming COVID-19 patients, Starr County Health Authority Jose Vazquez, MD, said during a July 21 videoconference call. The committees will determine what type of treatment patients will likely require and whether they are likely to survive. Those deemed too fragile, sick or elderly will be advised to go home. Patients with low recovery chances will be better cared for at home with loved ones rather than dying at a hospital thousands of miles away, Dr. Vazquez said.
“There is nowhere to put these patients. The whole state of Texas and neighboring states have no ICU beds to spare for us,” Dr. Vazquez said. The county of 61,000 residents has recorded 1,573 COVID-19 cases and 16 related deaths with 27 fatality cases pending, according to Border Report. As of July 22, 11,461 of 55,263 hospital beds are available statewide, with 1,088 ICU beds open. Currently, Texas has more COVID-19 patients hospitalized than any other state, with 10,848 COVID-19 patients as of July 22.
VIDEO: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is teargassed on the front line of a demonstration against the use of federal agents to crackdown on protests.
Wheeler has demanded the withdrawal of federal officers from the US city, accusing them of dangerously escalating the situation pic.twitter.com/zVppSm5TEt— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 23, 2020
Notice anything similar?
Black Lives Matter is a Marxist movement — their leadership doesn’t hide it.
Communist fist Black Lives Matter fist pic.twitter.com/Tyjo88ovzm— PragerU (@prageru) July 15, 2020
I’ve been canceled for calling the BLM political organization what it is: A Marxist group.
Here’s what BLM co-founder Patrise Cullers said about herself & co-founder Alicia Garza (who sits on @WNBA’s Social Justice Council): “We are trained Marxists.” https://t.co/2QhphpQqd1— Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) July 22, 2020
BLM is openly Marxist and their founders are racists AF. I actually majored in American History and Political Science, but you keep judging me and talking down to me if it makes your beta male syndrome feel better. 👌🏻
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) July 23, 2020
Conservatives used to call Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a Communist, and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference a Marxist organization. 60 years later they’re still using the same playbook.
New page from me.
Sometimes being a pro skier isn’t glamorous at all, sometimes it takes a hell of a toll on the mind. This ski short film grapples with the darker side of the pro skier life. LOST: A Deeply Personal Ski Memoir by Pro Skier @brodyleven [VIDEO] https://t.co/VIkHaRmvlS
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) July 23, 2020
re: #40 Dread Pirate
Wheeler has demanded the withdrawal of federal officers from the US city, accusing them of dangerously escalating the situation
their job is to escalate and provoke counter-violence so they have an excuse to really crack down.
re: #41 DodgerFan1988
Conservatives have nothing original to add; they just rehash the same old tired tropes and recycled conspiracy theories.
However, it serves to highlight their intellectual bankruptcy.
re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Death Panels! The inexorable outcome of ACA, right?
IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT!! WHY DIDN’T HE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PANDEMIC?! JUST LIKE WHY HE DID NOTHING TO PREVENT 9/11 WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT!! ALL HE EVER DOES IS PLAY GOLF WHILE THE NATION BURNS!!
I can practically hear it now.
Feds just grabbed a women from the crowd pic.twitter.com/m8hkjNkBkx
— Cory Elia (@TheRealCoryElia) July 23, 2020
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
Trump knows he’s going to lose and has already switched to America must be destroyed — specifically Blue America.
re: #50 Patricia Kayden
Trump knows he’s going to lose and has already switched to America must be destroyed — specifically Blue America.
We’re really going to need something like the Nuremberg Trials after all this shit. Trump, Barr, DHS Acting Director Wolf….I wanna see all of them in the dock.
An unfortunate necessity.
Does anyone have a clue as to who has been taken into custody, where they are and if they have been released? Are they actually in a jail or a damned camp or what? As a woman, I’d be scared to death of being raped by these goons. How long before they kill someone? Or have they and we just don’t know yet?
I know that’s the point, but this is terrifying.
Another thought…what if the protesters just stayed home for a night? And instead, find a way to follow these fucking militia fucks to where they are staying and try to ID them. I know protests are important right now, but there has to be a way to counter this and keep people alive. JFC, how can this be stopped? Is that even possible? What good are laws when no one is enforcing them? That’s been a problem with the federal government since trump took office.
re: #52 A Mom Anon
What good are laws when no one is enforcing them? That’s been a problem with the federal government since trump took office.
What is the point of the Emoluments clause if Congress is not going to enforce it?
re: #52 A Mom Anon
Does anyone have a clue as to who has been taken into custody, where they are and if they have been released? Are they actually in a jail or a damned camp or what? As a woman, I’d be scared to death of being raped by these goons. How long before they kill someone? Or have they and we just don’t know yet?
I know that’s the point, but this is terrifying.
Another thought…what if the protesters just stayed home for a night? And instead, find a way to follow these fucking militia fucks to where they are staying and try to ID them. I know protests are important right now, but there has to be a way to counter this and keep people alive. JFC, how can this be stopped? Is that even possible? What good are laws when no one is enforcing them? That’s been a problem with the federal government since trump took office.
We know who they are, and where they go, etc. It’s not militia fucks, they are Border Patrol BORTAC units shipped in from San Diego. They take the people they are grabbing to the Federal courthouse in downtown Portland. *Attempt* to interrogate them (try get them to admit to a crime probably), the second anyone asks for a lawyer get they released. As far as anyone can tell, no one has actually disappeared, been arraigned or charged with anything, or seriously injured or killed. It’s BAD, but it’s not that bad. It’s concerning bad, something needs to be done bad, but not sheer panic bad yet.
One good thing. The people running this, and the people involved with it are fucking idiots.
re: #54 Jack Burton
One good thing. The people running this, and the people involved with it are fucking idiots.
That has been our only saving grace so far…and again, that is problem with Never Trumpers or the Lincoln Project: not what Trump does, but the ham-fisted and dilettantish way he goes about it…
re: #54 Jack Burton
Yeah - from what we’ve heard, the instant anyone says, “I want a lawyer” they cut ‘em loose. They’re clearly trying to get the people they’re grabbing off the street to incriminate themselves but if those detainees just dummy up and keep repeating, “I want a lawyer…NOW” then they’ll just let them go.
Hell, my advice would be don’t even give them anything more than your name. If they ask anything beyond that, just repeat “I want a lawyer” over and over again like a Buddhist mantra.
re: #54 Jack Burton
I strongly disagree with you. Barr said yesterday that the protests that happened (and are still happening) after George Floyd’s murder were “extreme”. Now, he is overseeing thugs attacking, arresting and harassing peaceful protesters exercising their first amendment rights in Portland with Trump promising to sick them on other Democratic cities. This is alarming. It’s unconstitutional. It’s authoritarian.
If we’re not alarmed now, when do we become alarmed?
North Korea had yet to comment hours after the launch, but Pyongyang has frequently complained of Seoul’s developments in this arena. (By @ColinZwirko)https://t.co/u1eISB03GU
— NK NEWS (@nknewsorg) July 22, 2020
re: #54 Jack Burton
I realize they are actually feds, but seriously any fool with a credit card and the internet can buy that camo ensemble and the patches to make it look real. And the guns are easier to get than that. You honestly think none of these 3 percenters and Nazi shits we have in this country wouldn’t plan something like this? I’m not a paranoid person, I just don’t trust anyone involved in this shit. I also know how serious some of these damned home grown militias are, they want to eradicate liberals in any form and are loving this shit. I do agree with the fact that most of this master planning on their part is fueled by plain ass full out stupid, which is probably our biggest saving grace in this situation. But the feds made it very easy to mimic them by not allowing for any identification of these “troops” and using unmarked rental cars. People are going to end up dead before this is over. I’m not cool with that.
A Facebook friend of mine questioned her Senator about this mess on his Facebook page. An answer came quoting the Senator( Lankford-R Oklahoma) stating that protesters were doxxing the officers and their families were in danger. That’s why they aren’t wearing any badges or ID other than a patch that says Police and maybe some other insignia. This makes no sense. Their faces aren’t visible, and they are covered from head to toe mostly. How can you doxx someone you can’t get a good look at? They have also threatened to shoot anyone who tries to follow them to see where they are taking people. Portland is a warm up. A practice run. We know this. So now the question really is how to stop it. At what point is their excessive use of force going to spark gun battles or worse? They are pushing for a violent response here. If a state governor and AG can’t stop it, who can? Who enforces it?
WATCH: This is the moment “Miracle Larry” left a New York City hospital after being there for 128 days battling COVID-19.@DrTaraNarula shares his story, coming up on @CBSThisMorning pic.twitter.com/pJW6tvyhqA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 23, 2020
re: #61 Dread Pirate
Larry is a bad ass. Damn. And there are some people who think this is meh, just a cold or mild flu, no biggie. There’s no way to predict who will be mild and who will end up dead or on a ventilator like Larry. We could maybe do better if more people could grasp that.
re: #61 Dread Pirate
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WATCH: This is the moment “Miracle Larry” left a New York City hospital after being there for 128 days battling COVID-19.@DrTaraNarula shares his story, coming up on @CBSThisMorning pic.twitter.com/pJW6tvyhqA
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 23, 2020
re: #63 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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How many millions of dollars of medical debt did Larry incur?
re: #62 A Mom Anon
Larry is a bad ass. Damn. And there are some people who think this is meh, just a cold or mild flu, no biggie. There’s no way to predict who will be mild and who will end up dead or on a ventilator like Larry. We could maybe do better if more people could grasp that.
what you said
re: #60 A Mom Anon
Lankford is just using the pre-approved conservative talking point about identification that’s been passed around to the parrots for a couple days. You will also hear that from conservaparrots on social media.
“Doxxing” officers is a red herring. The people have an absolute right to know who are acting in their name as law enforcement officers.
In a town police force, every person on the police force is identified by the town. Those records are available.
It’s also deflection from the fact that none of the people bundled off the streets were ever told what crime they were supposedly being arrested for, given their rights, &c, and immediately released when they asked for lawyers.
We know now that Enterprise Rent-a-Car is the company renting them their vans. The boycott and letters to Enterprise should already be underway, noting that collaborators in crime are also guilty in that crime, as accessories before the fact.
re: #60 A Mom Anon
A Facebook friend of mine questioned her Senator about this mess on his Facebook page. An answer came quoting the Senator( Lankford-R Oklahoma) stating that protesters were doxxing the officers and their families were in danger. That’s why they aren’t wearing any badges or ID other than a patch that says Police and maybe some other insignia.
Police should all wear a badge or insignia so that their identity can be established if needed in the event that they (god forbid) use unnecessary force or intimidation.
Cases are accellerating in the Panhandle again: ten cases yesterday after eleven the day before. That’s double from the previous two weeks each day.
We now have 74 active cases. Cumulative positive rate is 5.7% (+0.1)
pphd.org
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And these guys aren’t actual Police either. They work for DHS. That would make them what then? Agents? What’s their actual job when they aren’t terrorizing citizens?
Nearly 3,500 Public Health Experts Sign Letter Defending Fauci Amid White House Attacks
huffpo
signatories, which include two previous heads of the Food and Drug Administration, a former U.S. surgeon general and a former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said they were troubled by efforts to smear Fauci,
Feral Christians in the state legislature … (video in first tweet, 0:32)
Wow. Sen. Groene gets fired up and seemingly in a tussle with another senator. Not sure what senator he told to shutup. pic.twitter.com/4HLQncMNUN
— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) July 22, 2020
The “shut up” was directed at Senator Pansing Brooks, who had just spoken about how many senators claim to care about protecting “innocent life” until that life turns out to be LGBTQ, like her son, or like me. Then when he sat down, he flipped her off. https://t.co/6rAcx9t2Fa
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 22, 2020
“Shut up…and you call yourself a Christian”…followed by flipping the bird. Interesting approach.
— Jonathan Urbom (@j_urbom) July 22, 2020
Atheists like Megan Hunt and mothers of gay children like Patty Pansing Brooks are supposed to remain civil when feral Christians spout off, and are supposed to accept the endless “not all Christian” parrots who immediately come in.
re: #69 A Mom Anon
And these guys aren’t actual Police either. They work for DHS. That would make them what then? Agents? What’s their actual job when they aren’t terrorizing citizens?
Terrorizing non-citizens.
Why are Christians so worried about other people’s sex lives? Bringing their fetishes into our state legislatures, our federal government? Can’t they take their sick fetish with other people’s sex somewhere else and leave decent people alone?
In the meantime, Sen. Ernie Chambers intends to run out the clock on the bullshyte 2nd trimester abortion bill, because Christians can’t get over their uteri fetish either. Sen. Chambers knows exactly how to use the Unicameral rules to bottle it up until the end of the session.
Panhandle Public Health District has moved all towns which were listed as high risk to moderate. All towns in the Panhandle are moderate or low (except mine, because we’ve had no cases).
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
Unfortunately, the PPB (Portland Police Bureau) is pretty much on the side of the Feds. They would most likely refuse to follow such orders.
Time to disband them then?
Someone should tell state Senator Groene what Senator Groene thinks about flipping the bird in a public position, because Senator Groene wrote about that very issue in the Kearney (Nebr.) Hub.
In Groene’s own words, flipping someone off is an “obscene gesture attack,” and he personally insisted this gesture was a measure of character and the person doing the flipping off could no longer be employed by the state.https://t.co/TsyCqBZN9k
— Adam Hubrig (@AdamHubrig) July 22, 2020
re: #36 Dread Pirate
Oregon National Guard vs. Waffen-SS.
Can’t use the National Guard, Trump could federilse them, no?
re: #77 John Hughes
Can’t use the National Guard, Trump could federilse them, no?
He can do that anyway if he wants to.
The issue with using the Oregon National Guard in Oregon is he would be ordering soldiers to point guns at their own mothers, grandmothers, and neighbours.
If Governor Brown activates the Guard first, it would turn into an immediate fuquetussle in court if he tried to federalise them.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He can do that anyway if he wants to.
The issue with using the Oregon National Guard in Oregon is he would be ordering soldiers to point guns at their own mothers, grandmothers, and neighbours.
If Governor Brown activates the Guard first, it would turn into an immediate fuquetussle in court if he tried to federalise them.
Also, wouldn’t Trump need a governor’s permission to federalize a state’s NG? And what would happen if the governor said, “Go eat a bag of dicks, old man”? Presumably, Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act.
re: #78 John Hughes
Well, they managed to bend that curve. The wrong way.
We’re doing the same, though we haven’t hit the wall yet on hospital space. Gov. Ricketts is determined to see if he can though.
296 new cases yesterday. 343 the day before.
Deaths: 311 (+1)
experience.arcgis.com
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Also, wouldn’t Trump need a governor’s permission to federalize a state’s NG? And what would happen if the governor said, “Go eat a bag of dicks, old man”? Presumably, Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act.
The law concerning when it can be federalised is here.
There is a caveat: If he uses them to “suppress rebellion” he first has to demonstrate there is one (presumably with the Insurrection Act), then show that existing forces (police) cannot deal with said rebellion.
Ordering troops into the streets to shoot unarmed women just before an election is not a real good look.
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Police should all wear a badge or insignia so that their identity can be established if needed in the event that they (god forbid) use unnecessary force or intimidation.
I should take my license plate off my car. I’m not doing anything wrong so they have no need to identify me by my vehicle plate. Same logic.
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States
And what if the governor refuses? Or can they refuse?
There’s an epidemic, so the Republicans in the Unicameral here are focusing on the important stuff. They also reaffirm their commitment to local control.
Nebraska lawmakers advance bill that would prohibit local bans on plastic bags (Omaha World-Herald)
Senators voted 28-10 to add preemption language to Legislative Bill 632, introduced by State Sen. Dan Hughes of Venango. The language bars counties and cities from attempting to regulate the use of plastic bags or any other type of container.
Sen. Rob Clements of Elmwood called the preemption a “pro-business” step that would help businesses keep expenses down. Businesses would benefit by not having to comply with a hodge-podge of local ordinances, Hughes said.
But Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha said the proposal overrides local control and was written by an arm of the plastic bag industry. The industry has been pushing similar laws around the country in response to grassroots efforts to reduce plastic pollution.
(more)
Of issue here for those with mental illness and epilepsy is the way Medicaid forces people off their medications to use cheaper medications, regardless of efficacy. There is a bill in the Unicameral to change that, which is doomed due to conservative control.
Medicaid would not be able to force people off psychiatric or anti-seizure medications that are working well for them under a bill advanced to the second round of debate Wednesday.
LB 1052, introduced by Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, would allow Medicaid recipients to stay on their current antidepressant, anti-psychotic or anti-convulsant medications if their doctors deem the drugs medically necessary.
Wishart said the bill takes aim at situations in which people are denied coverage for medications that they have been taking and are forced to go onto something else.
re: #84 Dr Lizardo
And what if the governor refuses? Or can they refuse?
The law says “shall be issued through the governor of the state.” Trump can’t directly do it.
I imagine that would turn into another court crapfest.
12 times the president called in the military domestically (Chicago Tribune)
This involves the active duty military though, not the National Guard. Most of the times were over school desegregation, though they were also called in over rioting after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, and by Richard Nixon to New York City over a postal strike (the military was ineffective in breaking the strike), and Hurricane Hugo.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The law says “shall be issued through the governor of the state.” Trump can’t directly do it.
I imagine that would turn into another court crapfest.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking as well.
“As far as I’m concerned, his talking about it the way he is talking about it is failing the test.” — @MaryLTrump
“Bragging about passing a cognitive test is one of the ways you fail a cognitive test.” — @StephenAtHome https://t.co/VkO8bNQgZq— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) July 23, 2020
re: #80 Dr Lizardo
Also, wouldn’t Trump need a governor’s permission to federalize a state’s NG? And what would happen if the governor said, “Go eat a bag of dicks, old man”? Presumably, Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act.
California did when Trump sent National Guard troops to the Mexican border and Jerry Brown complied. When Gavin Newsom was elected, he terminated the state order, calling it political theatre and a manufactured crisis. Governor Grisham of New Mexico did the same.
Trump bellowed, issued threats, but did nothing.
moron
Liz Cheney is only upset because I have been actively getting our great and beautiful Country out of the ridiculous and costly Endless Wars. I am also making our so-called allies pay tens of billions of dollars in delinquent military costs. They must, at least, treat us fairly!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
Huge thread,
What’s considered trashy if you’re poor, but classy if you’re rich?
— Ana Samways (@AnaSamways) June 6, 2016
Getting handouts from the government. https://t.co/QF7q1GideU
— Cope (@cxcope) July 22, 2020
I can’t stop laughing (wheatdog would like this one)
LMAAOOOO WHO IS THIS HILARIOUS DUDE??????? 😂😂😂😂😂 THIS RICE COOKING IS A HATE CRIMEpic.twitter.com/V4N4gS4W77
— Jenny Yang (@jennyyangtv) July 23, 2020
Gonna rewrite The Beach Boys song “Kokomo” as “Kosovo” and change all the place names to the nine you can travel to on a US passport. pic.twitter.com/pVkFDx96Al
— Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry) July 23, 2020
re: #93 (((Archangel1)))
With so many changing their twitter handles lately, figured it was high time i followed suit… What do you think, too long for a gag or ok?
You left out “Deep State” and “Illuminati.” /s
Again and again: a vacinne never saved a life, only a vaccination has.
A vaccine distribution plan, in the midst of a pandemic, will be one this nation’s greatest ethical and logistical challenges. It requires speed and fairness and transparency.
Vote accordingly. #logistics https://t.co/CChgQJ6Tsw— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) July 23, 2020
On classy=rich and trashy=poor, I remember this controversy.
For Many Designers, Homelessness Is A Trend (Nylon, a fashion magazine)
It wouldn’t be a New York Fashion Week without a controversy, and this latest iteration is no exception with perhaps the most glaring—and frankly disturbing—example being a new “trend” promoted by several different designers: “homeless style.”
Several runway shows this year featured looks that were inspired by the homeless, including that of Daisuke Obana’s N. Hoolywood. Showgoers at N. Hoolywood received notes before the presentation, which explained Obana’s inspiration, saying:
As our designer traveled the cities of America, he witnessed the various ways in which people there lived on the streets and the knowledge they have acquired while doing so. His observations of these so-called homeless or street people revealed that them [sic] to be full of clever ideas for covering the necessities of life. Space blankets or moving blankets can be fashioned into coats for cold days, and plastic bags can double as waterproof boots when it rains. This season features designs that embrace their unique style of combining traditionally contrasting elements, such as unconventional layering or senses of color, along with experimental sizing.
(more at the link)
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good. Then Oregon Governor Brown could just tell Trump to go fuck himself (well, more diplomatically, of course). And then we could kick back and enjoy the spectacle of Trump howling in impotent rage.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On classy=rich and trashy=poor, I remember this controversy.
For Many Designers, Homelessness Is A Trend (Nylon, a fashion magazine)
(more at the link)
re: #99 Dr Lizardo
Good. Then Oregon Governor Brown could just tell Trump to go fuck himself (well, more diplomatically, of course). And then we could kick back and enjoy the spectacle of Trump howling in impotent rage.
No need for diplomacy.
As for Jerry Brown, he personally negotiated with Donald Trump on the scale and purpose of the call up.
As soon as Brown provided the troops they agreed to, Donald Trump started publicly attacking Jerry Brown saying he was undercutting his attempt at stopping “drug crime.”
Brown never received acknowledgement for working with Trump. There is no need for Kate Brown to be civil with a deeply uncivil man.
When Texas deployed the National Guard to the border, the Texas Legislature did not appropriate the necessary money for supplies; the federal government under Donald Trump did not either.
There were scenes in the press of locals providing food packages and water for National Guardsmen stationed out in the desert.
That deployment continues today. People have sought to find out why the Texas National Guard rented tens of millions of dollars of vehicles they never used and tons of office supplies. Texas is stonewalling the information.
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why are Christians so worried about other people’s sex lives? Bringing their fetishes into our state legislatures, our federal government? Can’t they take their sick fetish with other people’s sex somewhere else and leave decent people alone?
Augustine.
re: #103 BlueGrl21
Augustine.
Well, he got a beach in Florida named after him where all sorts of sexytimes goes on now.
Freedom from Religion Foundation:
Opponents vowed to use every means possible to stop the ban, and courts in other states have ruled that such bans create an unconstitutional undue burden to accessing abortion care.@stoddardOWH has the story: https://t.co/PXfD9ecKpR
— Omaha World-Herald (@OWHnews) July 22, 2020
Thank you @NebraskaMegan for calling this abortion ban for what it is - an unconstitutional waste of taxpayer time that will never hold up in court.
“It’s not a threat, it’s a promise,” she said. “In every state where it’s been challenged, it’s been struck down.” https://t.co/0knrI8mo1i— FFRF (@FFRF) July 22, 2020
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Our heat wave continues unabated. We had a round of storms come through last night, but nothing so bad as the last round where we had quarter sized hail fall here. They’re expecting more bad weather tonight, but we’ll see what materializes. If we get enough sun, the atmosphere will get energized to go boom.
Kinda like protests. The jackbooted thugs are the ones elevating and escalating the violence. They don’t care how many people are arrested or gassed or beaten. They’re out there to cause mayhem, not prevent it.
Graffiti isn’t a felony. It’s a misdemeanor, and often treated with a summons. It doesn’t call for federal authorities to go in and block off buildings and tear gas peaceful protesters. The protesters are themselves taking protective measures - like getting masks and implements to prevent being injured when these jack booted thugs start wailing on them like they did that other gent who had his hand broken, or get shot in the face like countless people have all around the country by “less lethal” rounds. Those are the kinds of actions that break bones, blind people, and for what? Because they’re speaking out against injustice and police brutality.
Trump’s goons are displaying both in one neat package.
Meanwhile, the death toll continues climbing in covid19 cases, and while the official counts show around 143,000 deaths, the true count is much closer to 200,000.
Excess mortality always tells the tale.
Official death tolls, versus excess mortality death toll.
So where states/local authorities aren’t giving COD as covid19, we still see excess deaths. In overwhelming percentage of cases, they can’t be attributed to anything but covid19. That means we’re closer to 180,000 deaths. https://t.co/eqkR9wSzcm— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 23, 2020
All of these deaths are on Trump. All of them. He had the opportunity to implement measures comparable to what South Korea and other countries managed, and did nothing. He did worse than nothing, and the result is widespread outbreaks, economic ruin, and no chance at a full economic recovery until nationwide masking and social distancing rules are in place because travel is integral to so much of what we do (local, intracity, intercity, etc.). Covid19 doesn’t care about borders. It just spreads because people are asshats who don’t wear masks and social distance.
He has always whined about the press
This is so excellent I actually snort-laughed at the end https://t.co/BeRITQYTfJ
— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) July 23, 2020
Off-topic:
I wonder if any politicians (federal, state, county, municipal) read this site and its comments.
We know conservative politicians read such sites as Daily Wire or RedState.
Wonkette has Lucy Lawless (Xena), Rachel Maddow, and Joe Scarborough amongst their acknowledged readers. Mr. Scarborough had Rebecca Shoenkopf on “Morning Joe” a couple years ago.
They’re not politicians though.
Just heard on the radio that the GOP scrapped the payroll tax cut part of the coronavirus relief bill. Score one for the little guy? This wouldn’t help someone out of work anyway. One down, who knows how much more to go.
Trump and GOPers in Congress are trying to negotiate a stance on the next round of relief, and they mostly agree with the following sentiment: Fuck the poor.
That’s all you need to know about the GOP. They’ll do the bare minimum to try and retain their seats in Congress, bamboozle their base, and lie about their intentions, all while their kids avoid schools (have private tutors), to avoid getting sick in the schools they demand reopen for everyone else.
At time where Florida and RNC are looking to severely curtail number of convention attendees and delegates in the “room” at any one time, they want schools fully reopened.
Do as I say, don’t do as I do.
The relief package is more of the same baffling bulkshit, and it’ll be up to Democrats to make sure that the folks hardest hit see any kind of relief at all.
🚨NEW … @MarkMeadows and @stevenmnuchin1 are returning to Capitol Hill at 9:30 this morning to meet with @senatemajldr.
There are several open issues between senate Rs and the White House on covid relied No agreement yet. Bill is supposed to be released this morning.— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 23, 2020
re: #109 A Mom Anon
Gah. But there’s money to get schools open again. The GOP bill is actually 18 parts written by 18 senators. It’s going to be a shitshow.
re: #109 A Mom Anon
Just heard on the radio that the GOP scrapped the payroll tax cut part of the coronavirus relief bill. Score one for the little guy? This wouldn’t help someone out of work anyway. One down, who knows how much more to go.
GOP solution for everything is a tax cut, especially a payroll tax cut.
Pandemics aren’t stopped with tax cuts. They’re stopped with masking, social distancing, and listening to the fucking health experts, not know nothing dumbasses like Jared or Meadows or Kudlow or Ivanka or Navarro (all of which are on the so-called reopening committee). None of them are health experts. None of them are experts in anything except advancing their own interests above all else.
The payroll tax cut is designed to destroy the safety net funding mechanism and destabilize it so the GOP can go back and point to a deficit between what is in the funds and what is owed to people who have paid in and say it’s not workable. They’re the ones who damaged this. They’re the ones who want the safety net gone, all so millionaires like Trump can keep even more money. That’s all this is ever about.
And a reminder that this is just a deal among Republicans. Democrats will have their say too as negotiations get going further.
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) July 23, 2020
from seth’s video: “right wing husks”
outstanding
re: #111 GlutenFreeJesus
Here’s the full video. Lol
LOL
“You just get a baby? Put MSG on baby. He’ll be a better baby, smarter.”
re: #114 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yup. That’s the baseline from which Democrats have to work. They don’t have to deal with GOP payroll tax cut/holiday bulkshit. GOP negotiated against themselves and lost on that. Heh.
Well, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald hijacked Hillary Clinton’s slogan “Stronger Together” for their Twitter banner. Is there anything a conservative won’t steal?
Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic? https://t.co/CIl7XKaDxH
— Star-Herald (@sbstarherald) July 23, 2020
re: #34 Dr Lizardo
Well, I gotta admit…..this is a plot twist I didn’t see coming.
This makes no sense to me. Isn’t the guy killed in CA on this morons side?
I want the back story here.
Failed ‘Money Heist’: Kitten tries to sneak off with a bundle of cash but gets caught twice pic.twitter.com/euUX4MxATF
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 23, 2020
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
OK, I’ve never heard of washing/rinsing rice before cooking
Rice frequently has things like dirt in it. The same goes for dried beans.
Dollar Tree has revoked their mandatory mask requirement. They now only will require masks if state or municipal ordinances require them.
What is the Company’s face mask policy?
In accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we are requiring all Associates and vendors to wear face coverings when inside our stores. We also request that our customers wear face coverings, and require face coverings where required by state or local ordinance.The Company is providing face masks to Associates.
White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus “red zone.” Unpublicized recommendations say states should return to stringent #COVID19 control measures https://t.co/rcYAh6aNPs
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) July 23, 2020
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Dollar Tree: the opposite of whatever Walmart does, updated daily.
re: #123 Belafon
GOP and Trumpworld doesn’t want people knowing how bad things truly are - and how badly the GOP fucked up their response, so they’re burying all manner of details relating to the response, and even their belated efforts are all about keeping the true scope of the disaster under wraps.
These extremists continue killing Americans.
re: #109 A Mom Anon
Just heard on the radio that the GOP scrapped the payroll tax cut part of the coronavirus relief bill. Score one for the little guy? This wouldn’t help someone out of work anyway. One down, who knows how much more to go.
They probably reckoned that’d be political suicide in an election year where their prospects aren’t exactly looking all that rosy.
The main reason to rinse rice is to remove surface starch, which can make grains stick together.
re: #124 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
80%(!) Of Texans approve of a mask mandate
Trump and Abbott are opposed
That might be the only reason that the pandemic isn’t even worse in Florida or Texas or Arizona - there’s enough people with common sense to preserve their own lives by masking up. That can help slow the spread, but it’ll keep spreading because this corrupt and feckless admin refuses to take the necessary steps: mandatory nationwide masking and requiring masking on all flights and intercity travel by common carrier (bus, train, air).
re: #123 Belafon
Right away grifters jumped in that thread to sell their “cures” or “preventions” for Covid-19.
Did you know that TSG (tetrahydroxystilbene glucoside, an extract used in Asian fake medicine as an anti-aging treatment) is now being promoted by quacks alternative medicine promoters?
re: #120 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This makes no sense to me. Isn’t the guy killed in CA on this morons side?
I want the back story here.
Apparently, the deceased MRA lawyer in CA this guy killed stepped on what he considered to be his “turf”, a case regarding the Selective Service.
re: #124 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
80%(!) Of Texans approve of a mask mandate
Trump and Abbott are opposed
That 80% doesn’t mean crap unless they vote the anti-science religious nuts out of their state legislature and federal offices.
Culture wars and tax cuts mean a lot more to conservatism’s religious adherents.
Tropical storm updates:
Tropical Depression 8 has formed in the Gulf & the entire upper Texas Coast is under a Tropical Storm Watch. Late Friday through Saturday night will be the main time for the heaviest rain and strongest winds. pic.twitter.com/RvCHGRy8nn
— David Tillman (@TillmanWeather) July 23, 2020
That tropical depression is likely to turn into a hurricane before landfall along the Texas coast. As I’ve remarked elsewhere, disaster response relies heavily on volunteers from groups like ARC. Those volunteers are often older - 40-60 and above. They’re at higher risk of contracting covid19 and suffering complications. If that happens among these volunteers, who is there to backstop? That would fall on an overburdened national guard.
It’s a recipe for compounding disasters.
Oh, and there’s also Tropical Storm Gonzalo, which is likely to have impacts in the Gulf Coast:
July 22 | It’s too early to say whether newly named Tropical Storm #Gonzalo will have any impacts on east central Florida. However, this serves as a good reminder that we are now well into hurricane season.
Are you prepared? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/YYKOXcPapJ— NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) July 22, 2020
Same deal. Hit the Gulf of Mexico, strengthen, and whack somewhere on the Gulf Coast in the middle of a pandemic. When you see the states struggling with covid19, they’re all the ones in the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida - the entire Southeastern US is fooked with covid19, and a natural disaster on top of it would be icing on the cake given Trump’s fucked up FEMA responses to every prior hurricane and disaster since taking office.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That 80% doesn’t mean crap unless they vote the anti-science religious nuts out of their state legislature and federal offices.
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In Texas, isn’t that most of the Lege and Congress?
re: #133 lawhawk
Tropical storm updates:
Same deal. Hit the Gulf of Mexico, strengthen, and whack somewhere on the Gulf Coast in the middle of a pandemic. When you see the states struggling with covid19, they’re all the ones in the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida - the entire Southeastern US is fooked with covid19, and a natural disaster on top of it would be icing on the cake given Trump’s fucked up FEMA responses to every prior hurricane and disaster since taking office.
My brother-in-law, who has gone full-metal wingnut on the severity of Covid-19 (despite being at risk both as a teacher and as a heart patient) lives in the Houston area, in the path of the storm.
My wife cut him off yesterday, saying she could not associate with someone who teaches children and is anti-science. There is no chance my wife will ever speak to him again.
When I asked her if she should contact him about the tropical depression headed his way, her answer was “Why? You can’t educate a conservative.”
This is the same state that won’t repeal a law prohibiting more than one sex toy in your house.
Don’t sweat it. The anti-maskers are equally anti-vaccine, too. They’ll self select and well, whatever happens happens.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 23, 2020
re: #134 Jay C
In Texas, isn’t that most of the Lege and Congress?
Yup.
If you reframed that question as “If you could only pick one, require masks or ban abortions, which would you choose” answers that.
They don’t give a flying fuque about masks, that 80% is giving the “politically-correct” answer. How many of them are pounding the telephones demanding more from the Texas government? I’ll bet a lot less.
re: #106 lawhawk
200,000? We’ll see that by mid-August. We’ll be lucky to not see 500,000 dead and it’ll likely be more.
re: #136 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The triage requirements for a putative new vaccine will entirely be based on capitalism in this country. Who has the most money gets it first.
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There is an urgent necessity for Congress and the media to investigate if there are ANY security contractors deployed alongside Federal “Agents” thugs in any American city. There should be no opaqueness around this operation. Who are these men armed with M-4’s equipped with
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) July 23, 2020
re: #136 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #137 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yup.
If you reframed that question as “If you could only pick one, require masks or ban abortions, which would you choose” answers that.
They don’t give a flying fuque about masks, that 80% is giving the “politically-correct” answer. How many of them are pounding the telephones demanding more from the Texas government? I’ll bet a lot less.
You might want to come to Texas before you make that kind of answer, Mouse.
We could have won, but our “wartime” president surrendered.#TrumpVirus pic.twitter.com/igAzBDX1i1
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 23, 2020
re: #143 makeitstop
Trump never even bothered to join the fight in the first place. He denied its existence, refused to act, treated it as something that’d go away with warm weather, blamed China, and took no responsibility. All these deaths are on him. True death toll closer to 180,000.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 23, 2020
re: #142 Belafon
You might want to come to Texas before you make that kind of answer, Mouse.
I don’t go to Texas any more. It’s too dangerous.
Within the last decade, Texas was still prosecuting people for possession of sex toys. The law was declared “functionally unconstitutional,” but that doesn’t stop Texas from continuing.
It’s also an open-carry state where wingnuts deliberately provoke and terrorise people.
It’s full of Christian bigots who would beat me to a pulp or string me up in a second.
As for masks, if the polling is 80% in favour of a mandatory mask requirement, where in Texas are 80% of people wearing them voluntarily?
Texas right now is a leper colony. Our own state, with its lax requirements, has a mandatory quarantine for anyone who comes from Texas for two weeks.
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
Everybody who doesn’t have brain damage passes the test. That’s what the test is for.
“Hi guys! I’m qualified to be president because I have a functioning brain(*)” is a pretty low level of qualification.
(* Narrator: He doesn’t have a functioning brain).
re: #141 Belafon
I think that, when they release the vaccine, everyone gets a card that businesses can scan to see if you have received it.
I worry that people will see the Trump vaccine as a panacea that turns out to not do what it was intended to do. I’d sooner trust the EU approvals on a vaccine than the Trump FDA at this point. They’re so desperate to get a “win” that they’ll approve something that isn’t ready, doesn’t confer immunity, and no better than a placebo. It’ll be the World War Z equivalent of phalanx. Trump has so thoroughly corrupted every aspect of federal public health that they’ve created chaos and layers of corruption that will take decades to overcome and repair.
re: #126 lawhawk
GOP and Trumpworld doesn’t want people knowing how bad things truly are - and how badly the GOP fucked up their response, so they’re burying all manner of details relating to the response, and even their belated efforts are all about keeping the true scope of the disaster under wraps.
These extremists continue killing Americans.
The problem the GOP had is that in Texas 66% of people said they personally know someone with COVID19. That’s not going away.
It takes a personal experience and there ya go. I expect Arizona and Florida are the same.
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Ryan Struyk had tweeted that Louisiana now exceeded NY on per capita cases of covid19. California is quickly eclipsing NY on the total number of cases. NY sadly still has the most deaths. But other states are climbing steadily thanks to Trump.
re: #145 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t go to Texas any more. It’s too dangerous.
Within the last decade, Texas was still prosecuting people for possession of sex toys. The law was declared “functionally unconstitutional,” but that doesn’t stop Texas from continuing.
It’s also an open-carry state where wingnuts deliberately provoke and terrorise people.
It’s full of Christian bigots who would beat me to a pulp or string me up in a second.
As for masks, if the polling is 80% in favour of a mandatory mask requirement, where in Texas are 80% of people wearing them voluntarily?
Texas right now is a leper colony. Our own state, with its lax requirements, has a mandatory quarantine for anyone who comes from Texas for two weeks.
People can be a little weird on that front. If we ever passed a law that made owning an assault weapon illegal, 80% would give up theirs pretty easily. After Abbott finally gave in and gave his order, even though he made it tough to enforce, the number of people wearing majks jumped dramatically.umped big time.s
re: #131 Dr Lizardo
Apparently, the deceased MRA lawyer in CA this guy killed stepped on what he considered to be his “turf”, a case regarding the Selective Service.
Paywalled. But I get it.
Apparently the only groups who didn’t want women in selective service were conservative women’s groups. Natch.
re: #23 Jack Burton
He could go out like President Clark in Babylon 5.
Travis County DA Margaret Moore will not bring Javier Ambler’s and Mike Ramos’ officer use-of-force cases to a grand jury before she leaves office this year.
Moore previously planned to present both cases to a special grand jury in August.https://t.co/8iJODsIl0S— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 23, 2020
re: #93 (((Archangel1)))
With so many changing their twitter handles lately, figured it was high time i followed suit… What do you think, too long for a gag or okay?
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Noted RINO Tom Ridge
Tom Ridge
Recently watched failed RINO Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security, trying to justify his sudden love of the Radical Left Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out of existence by the agitators & anarchists. Love watching pathetic Never Trumpers squirm!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
re: #152 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Paywalled. But I get it.
Apparently the only groups who didn’t want women in selective service were conservative women’s groups. Natch.
Den Hollander had once been a member of the National Coalition for Men (NCFM), the organization where Angelucci volunteered, until he was drummed out.
The two men had filed dueling lawsuits, challenging the military’s male-only draft policy, on opposite coasts. But while Angelucci scored a huge win in his case in February, Den Hollander’s was still pending in New Jersey—in Salas’ courtroom.
Paul Elam, the men’s rights activist who called the connection between the two crimes “the craziest plot twist,” nevertheless said Den Hollander “had a motive to kill Marc Angelucci, one that I’ve known about for years.”
re: #77 John Hughes
Can’t use the National Guard, Trump could federilse them, no?
Ok, so many people of pointed out that this probably wouldn’t work out for Trump, the governor could veto it.
But, on reflection, using the NG is still the wrong move. Sending the state’s military forces against Federal “police” (not police) forces is not a good idea.
If Federal “police” (not police) are behaving illegally the right way to handle it is to send real police to arrest them. Apparently the Portland Police Bureau are useless or complicit so it should be up to the Oregon State Police.
The very last paragraph of that Daily Beast article seems to give a likely motive for the murders.
In online screeds, Den Hollander made it clear that he blamed Salas for robbing him of a legal victory in the Selective Service case. Bizarrely, he also referred to her as a “hot Latina” and said he wanted to ask her out on a date—then slammed her as “lazy and incompetent.”
Den Hollander, who was dying of melanoma, reportedly also had a photo of the chief judge of New York State with him, along with several other people—raising the specter of a hit list he was working his way through.
Is Jared Kushner working for the American people, or the Trump campaign? https://t.co/lcTuUzQxMC
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 23, 2020
Unemployment claims rose to 1.4 million last week, the Labor Department reported, ending 15 weeks of consecutive declines in new applications.The increase in the number of workers seeking new aid follows several states delaying their reopening plans and closing some businesses down again as coronavirus cases spike.
The Department of Labor data will likely fuel the urgency in Washington to quickly extend enhanced federal pandemic unemployment benefits set to expire this weekend, as lawmakers debate another economic rescue package.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Open to US citizens(*) (provisionally)”.
P.S. — unless these countries are run by morons, or Donald Trump, but I repeat myself, it’s “open to US residents”. Viruses don’t check passports, they only care who breathed on you.
re: #161 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well if anybody can send campaign texts to my phone that I didn’t sign up for. Then I would like to be able to send my opinion to that candidates personal phone.
— Kat (@6katsandrabbit) July 23, 2020
INBOX: @TeamTrump announces a new “Lawyers for Trump” coalition, co-chaired by Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX, who has been awaiting trial on a felony securities fraud indictment since 2015. https://t.co/pzEkzZn6Br pic.twitter.com/mCEYsbKbWP
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 23, 2020
#BGOTD pic.twitter.com/3CrALC8NA6
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) July 23, 2020
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What is the point of the Emoluments clause if Congress is not going to enforce it?
Well, it’s awful difficult to enforce when #MoscowMitch runs the Senate and he enables the traitorous piece of shit in the White House!
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, all of these are doing better than the US, but except for Tunisia, and to a lesser extent Turkey, they are all going the wrong way.
I hope not too many Americans decide to go on holiday in Tunisia, those guys just don’t need this shit now.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No need for diplomacy.
As for Jerry Brown, he personally negotiated with Donald Trump on the scale and purpose of the call up.
As soon as Brown provided the troops they agreed to, Donald Trump started publicly attacking Jerry Brown saying he was undercutting his attempt at stopping “drug crime.”
Brown never received acknowledgement for working with Trump. There is no need for Kate Brown to be civil with a deeply uncivil man.
Definitely not after 4 years in
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
People have sought to find out why the Texas National Guard rented tens of millions of dollars of vehicles they never used and tons of office supplies.
I am neither a court or a government. I have no obligation to assume “innocent until proven guilty”. I know why. So do you. So does everyone.
Republicans and other tories — kakistocracy or kleptocracy. Or both.
re: #148 lawhawk
I worry that people will see the Trump vaccine as a panacea that turns out to not do what it was intended to do. I’d sooner trust the EU approvals on a vaccine than the Trump FDA at this point. They’re so desperate to get a “win” that they’ll approve something that isn’t ready, doesn’t confer immunity, and no better than a placebo. It’ll be the World War Z equivalent of phalanx. Trump has so thoroughly corrupted every aspect of federal public health that they’ve created chaos and layers of corruption that will take decades to overcome and repair.
Rep. @AOC Speaks Out! https://t.co/4CzxCuIzte
— Marcus Montana (@aboutmontana) July 23, 2020
The Nebraska GOP is a Career Placement Service for White Supremacists (goes to Seeing Red Nebraska, a left-leaning political blog and podcast).
The state GOP here is chock full of white supremacists and open Nazis, including the state governor’s staff and Rep. Don Bacon’s (R-NE2) and Mayor Jean Stothert (R-Omaha) association with the Nebraska Proud Boys.
re: #119 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Yeah, I never did either until I got serious about cooking rice. Besides cleaning the rice, rinsing removes excess starch which will make your end product have grains sticking together. To get fluffy rice, it imperative to rinse the rice in cold water until the water runs clear, prior to cookinbg the rice. I have a special rice sifter for this ;). Start doing this, it really becomes easy and you are rewarded with fluffy rice instead of sticky glop.
Now if you are cooking sticky or glutinous rice, that’s a whole other topic…
Another day, another business going bankrupt. This time, it’s the parent company of Ann Taylor.
All of these retail bankruptcies are going to ultimately fall on the real estate businesses that manage properties around the nation.
re: #168 🌹UOJB!
Well, it’s awful difficult to enforce when #MoscowMitch runs the Senate and he enables the traitorous piece of shit in the White House!
Part of the emoluments clause is that it’s up to Congress to decide if it’s a big deal or not. And, as you say, #RichMitch has decided it isn’t.
re: #149 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Like gay marriage. Tons of right-wingers were against it, then they went to their gay nephew’s (or niece, or sister, or son, etc) wedding and never fought against it again. Bumper sticker politics is terrible politics and even worse policy.
re: #175 Acemarilllion
Yeah, I never did either until I got serious about cooking rice. Besides cleaning the rice, rinsing removes excess starch which will make your end product have grains sticking together. To get fluffy rice, it imperative to rinse the rice in cold water until the water runs clear, prior to cookinbg the rice. I have a special rice sifter for this ;). Start doing this, it really becomes easy and you are rewarded with fluffy rice instead of sticky glop.
Now if you are cooking sticky or glutinous rice, that’s a whole other topic…
Same applies to potatoes. I have a spiralizer, but I should remember to do the same thing however I slice potatoes.
You really are senile, @RealDonaldTrump. You said the guy who spent a *year* opposing u & calling u #SleazyDonald ‘really gets you’ ?😂
You’re a gullible old man who is easily suckered by false flattery. Anyone can take a ride on you, get rich off you. You’re nothing but a sucker— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) July 23, 2020
SCOOP: Amtrak says that it will remove customers from trains or ban them from traveling for not wearing face masks https://t.co/dWjBGaRDhT
— Victoria M. Walker (@vikkie) July 23, 2020
re: #177 lawhawk
Another day, another business going bankrupt. This time, it’s the parent company of Ann Taylor.
All of these retail bankruptcies are going to ultimately fall on the real estate businesses that manage properties around the nation.
Plenty can be done with empty stores: Affordable housing, temporary schools, field hospitals/testing centers, emergency shelters, etc.
Still weeks since the last update on how Herman Cain is doing.
My guess is that if he dies the wingnuts will not screw up and put up pictures of Ben Carson.
re: #182 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I haven’t heard a thing about Greyhound or other intercity bus services.
re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I ought to be able to set a rate for receiving unsolicited texts. It’s the capitalist way.
For the record: 48 tweets before 9 am today. https://t.co/HG5ir1JGgC
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) July 23, 2020
Note the use of past tense…
re: #189 makeitstop
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Loving Trump’s new tone! He sure has turned a corner! So presidential!
re: #184 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
No word on Gov. Stitt either. His twitter has been active, but it’s probably standins doing the basics.
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Police should all wear a badge or insignia so that their identity can be established if needed in the event that they (god forbid) use unnecessary force or intimidation.
Seeking power without responsibility.
re: #69 A Mom Anon
And these guys aren’t actual Police either. They work for DHS. That would make them what then? Agents? What’s their actual job when they aren’t terrorizing citizens?
Terrorizing immigrants on the border (CBP) or convicts in federal prisons (riot police units).
OT rant below:
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re: #144 lawhawk
I’ve seen Trump compared to Chamberlain in this, which is an insult to Chamberlain — Chamberlain needed to delay the start of the war for as long as possible to give the UK time to finish rearming. Arguably he left it too late, and, given the debacle of the battle for France lots of it was wasted effort, but he had an actual plan, and a valid reason for that plan.
Trump? Not so much.
re: #184 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
Still weeks since the last update on how Herman Cain is doing.
My guess is that if he dies the wingnuts will not screw up and put up pictures of Ben Carson.
There was a tweet from his staff on the 15th saying he was making progress so the hospital was going to try different therapies, or some similar non-sequiter. Nothing since. I assume if anything good were happening we’d have heard about it.
re: #83 Eventual Carrion
I should take my license plate off my car. I’m not doing anything wrong so they have no need to identify me by my vehicle plate. Same logic.
Amazing how this stuff starts to loop into some of the nutty claims by the posse comitatus libertarians.
re: #184 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
Still weeks since the last update on how Herman Cain is doing.
My guess is that if he dies the wingnuts will not screw up and put up pictures of Ben Carson.
Knowing how stupid the Qbots are they will post that Soros killed him.
re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wearing oversized or worn-out clothing.
re: #150 lawhawk
Ryan Struyk had tweeted that Louisiana now exceeded NY on per capita cases of covid19.
Louisiana has, Arizona will within days, Florida within a week or so, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama are all on track.
California has a way to go to get into the per-capita race.
Big morning ahead in SDNY.
In an hour, Michael Cohen’s attorneys will try to persuade a judge that Trump’s ex-fixer was sent back to prison for writing his book.
A half hour later, a judge will decide whether to unseal documents in an old suit against Ghislaine Maxwell.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2020
re: #204 John Hughes
Louisiana has, Arizona will within days, Florida within a week or so, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama are all on track.
California has a way to go to get into the per-capita race.
We do seem to be working hard to get there though-especially southern CA.
BREAKING: Judge Hellerstein finds that the purpose of the first clause of Michael Cohen’s agreement was to interfere with his First Amendment rights. @CourthouseNews
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 23, 2020
Judge Hellerstein finds that Trump operates like a mafia don.
“Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man.”
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), responding to Rep. Ted Yoho’s (R-FL) non-apology after calling her a “fucking bitch.”
they simply wont learn to leave her alone
re: #128 BlueSpotinAL
The main reason to rinse rice is to remove surface starch, which can make grains stick together.
I’ve seen that done post-cooking. A rinse while it’s in the strainer.
Pre-cooking you always rinse and pick over legumes (peas, beans, lentils) to get bad ones out and rinse off any dirt. I’ve seen instructions to do so with rice a few times before steaming just in case there is dirt.
re: #197 Jay C
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“Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) voiced opposition to offering drop boxes for absentee ballots, telling a U.S. Senate panel that the state requires returning those ballots by mail in the name of security,” the AP reports.
while his goal is otherwise, and his argument is bullshit, he’s pretty much stating that tennessee considers the USPS to be secure
re: #141 Belafon
I think that, when they release the vaccine, everyone gets a card that businesses can scan to see if you have received it.
That’ll bring out its own share of nuts thinking that this is the scary DEEP STATE slipping in a National ID under the radar.
And the card would need to be a picture ID wouldn’t it? Otherwise people would just share the cards after one got vaccinated.
re: #211 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #214 John Hughes
Strainer? What is the rice doing in a strainer? Don’t let Uncle Roger know.
If it’s been boiled there is excess water that has to be drained out. Which I will do for small amounts of rice, usually when making stuffed peppers. For larger amounts I use a steamer and then there is not the excess water (since the rice absorbed it) and no need for a strainer.
re: #215 Jay C
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“Failed RINO Tom Ridge” earned a Bronze Star w/ “V” device in Vietnam, was elected to Congress 7 times by voters in PA-21, was twice elected Governor of Pennsylvania, and was the man GW Bush’s turned to for help standing up the new @DHSGov as the first Homeland Security Sec’y. https://t.co/x1AtxM3O2U
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 23, 2020
re: #215 Jay C
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re: #217 Sherlock Hound
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re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If it’s been boiled there is excess water that has to be drained out. Which I will do for small amounts of rice, usually when making stuffed peppers. For larger amounts I use a steamer and then there is not the excess water (since the rice absorbed it) and no need for a strainer.
I AM Uncle Roger.
re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If it’s been boiled there is excess water that has to be drained out. Which I will do for small amounts of rice, usually when making stuffed peppers.
I guess I don’t have any experience with “small amounts of rice”.
Pre-lockdown we bought 1 25Kg bag of Thai perfumed rice, 1 25Kg bag of parboiled rice and 10 Kg of broken rice (As well as lots of TP). It almost lasted to the end. (The rice that is, the TP ran out).
Washington Post News Alert—Judge releases Michael Cohen from prison.
re: #222 John Hughes
I guess I don’t have any experience with “small amounts of rice”.
Pre-lockdown we bought 1 25Kg bag of Thai perfumed rice, 1 25Kg bag of parboiled rice and 10 Kg of broken rice (As well as lots of TP). It almost lasted to the end. (The rice that is, the TP ran out).
For stuffed peppers it’s also efficient use of a pot of boiling water that you just used to parboil the peppers for a few minutes as part of the prep work.
re: #222 John Hughes
I guess I don’t have any experience with “small amounts of rice”.
Pre-lockdown we bought 1 25Kg bag of Thai perfumed rice, 1 25Kg bag of parboiled rice and 10 Kg of broken rice (As well as lots of TP). It almost lasted to the end. (The rice that is, the TP ran out).
I’ve made small amounts of rice. If she used the 2-1 ratio, how on Earth did she wind up with that much water? It’s impossible. Not unless the rice is uncooked and teeth-breaking crunchy.
re: #216 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If it’s been boiled there is excess water that has to be drained out. Which I will do for small amounts of rice, usually when making stuffed peppers. For larger amounts I use a steamer and then there is not the excess water (since the rice absorbed it) and no need for a strainer.
we’re basically talking around different methods to cook rice, though the pre-rinse is the same
- absorption - exact ratios, just finishes with no water left at the end
- gentle boiling - draining the excess water near the end, then steaming (ie cover on, off burner about 10 minutes) till done - no, it does not leave ‘wet’ rice
- fast boiling - don’t go there
;-)
re: #223 🌹UOJB!
Washington Post News Alert—Judge releases Michael Cohen from prison.
Trump’s gonna be on the phone yelling at Barr, demanding to know WTF is going on.
Heh.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Of issue here for those with mental illness and epilepsy is the way Medicaid forces people off their medications to use cheaper medications, regardless of efficacy. There is a bill in the Unicameral to change that, which is doomed due to conservative control.
Medicare plan administrators have done that in the past. My mother, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, who was doing just fine on her high-powered antipsychotic, was told she had to go on a cheaper one (“step therapy”). She regressed into a semi-psychotic state, which tends to involve her waving knives around. To buy the medication outright was going to cost $300/month and I was all in favor of (a) doing that (which I would pay for, even though I didn’t have the money) and (b) then I would go over to the Medicare plan administrator’s office on the other side of Phoenix and yell at a bunch of people. My brother called up the plan administrator instead and told them that mom was on the verge of needing to be hospitalized (yeah, it was that serious) and can you please authorize the previous medicine? That worked.
If people are doing fine on their medication, don’t fuck with it is my very strongly held opinion.
More from the Post!
Michael Cohen to be released from prison after judge sides with claims of retaliation
Get ready for the Tweetstorm! It’s coming.
Honest to God they’re needs to be a reckoning.
Over 160 pairs of white nursing clogs lined the lawn facing the US Capitol on Tuesday in memory of the nurses who’ve died during the coronavirus crisis https://t.co/fOpJp08PqV pic.twitter.com/3eiYN2XOaL
— CNN (@CNN) July 23, 2020
re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Trials. Sentences. Expose every rotten, shitty thing they’ve done. Imagine what we DON’T know. That’s what keeps me awake at night.
re: #223 🌹UOJB!
Washington Post News Alert—Judge releases Michael Cohen from prison.
tRump will be burning up the phone lines to Barr to come up with some equally shitty excuse to have him tossed back into the clink. Give it a week or do.
re: #219 Eric The Fruit Bat
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re: #197 Jay C
The only thing I have been able to do is use the unlimited data on my ATT iPhone as a hot spot. There are times when it slows way down, but overall, the service is pretty good. It would be even better if I had good phone reception here! LOL
The Democrats have stated strongly that they won’t approve a Payroll Tax Cut (too bad!). It would be great for workers. The Republicans, therefore, didn’t want to ask for it. Dems, as usual, are hurting the working men and women of our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time!), is now making a commercial of support. Remember, I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for them. I wouldn’t be President. They did a terrible job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
Really, watch the whole thing.
This is an incredibly powerful speech by @AOC that calls out not just the shameful comments by @RepTedYoho but the pattern of dehumanization and impunity that got us here. https://t.co/eWFLtnFQBP
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) July 23, 2020
re: #228 mmmirele
Medicaid has done that to my son, who was doing well on a diabetic medication that was doing wonders at getting his A1C down so he could have surgery and go back to work. Medicaid took him off of that, and his doc has tried EVERYTHING, and nothing has worked as well, and his A1C went way up, and he couldn’t have surgery, so he couldn’t be released to go back to work.
SOOO self-defeating, and frustrating, bang your fist against the wall frustrating.
Oh…one of my old college buddies from the co-op (so yeah, she’s in her late 50s) lives in Portland. She said that she and her daughter would be going to downtown Portland to protest some night this week. Now S has some experience with this (I believe she got arrested during anti-apartheid protesting at the university), but you know, like most of us, she’s gotten older and has left the protesting to the young’uns, but this is what Trump’s “surge” has done. It’s re-radicalizing people who may not have protested for a few decades and they’re bringing their kids along. (S’s daughter is a college student.)
re: #239 mmmirele
I wouldn’t even call it re-radicalizing. More like a re-awakening. ;)
re: #227 Dr Lizardo
Trump’s gonna be on the phone yelling at Barr, demanding to know WTF is going on.
Heh.
um…we screwed it up again
re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg
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Obama, who wouldn’t even endorse Biden until everyone else was out of the primaries (and even then waited a long time!), is now making a commercial of support. Remember, I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for them. I wouldn’t be President. They did a terrible job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 23, 2020
re: #238 retired cynic
Medicaid has done that to my son, who was doing well on a diabetic medication that was doing wonders at getting his A1C down so he could have surgery and go back to work. Medicaid took him off of that, and his doc has tried EVERYTHING, and nothing has worked as well, and his A1C went way up, and he couldn’t have surgery, so he couldn’t be released to go back to work.
SOOO self-defeating, and frustrating, bang your fist against the wall frustrating.
Yeah, I ran into that recently when my work insurance required my medical provider to certify that I needed the expensive injectable as opposed to cheaper diabetes pills (we’re not talking metformin). Luckily I have a history with diabetes pills like Actos (I ballooned to 300 pounds) and Januvia (caused almost constant nausea, yeah, I lost the weight but I was sick the whole time). So I got the approval, but this is just ridiculous. You’d think they’d be happy that I’m able to keep my blood sugar in a nearly-normal range instead of stressing me out and possibly leading to other health complications because they want to save money.
re: #239 mmmirele
Oh…one of my old college buddies from the co-op (so yeah, she’s in her late 50s) lives in Portland. She said that she and her daughter would be going to downtown Portland to protest some night this week. Now S has some experience with this (I believe she got arrested during anti-apartheid protesting at the university), but you know, like most of us, she’s gotten older and has left the protesting to the young’uns, but this is what Trump’s “surge” has done. It’s re-radicalizing people who may not have protested for a few decades and they’re bringing their kids along. (S’s daughter is a college student.)
experience, guidance, leadership
like the retired doctors coming back in to help fight the covid
re: #244 mmmirele
Yeah, I ran into that recently when my work insurance required my medical provider to certify that I needed the expensive injectable as opposed to cheaper diabetes pills (we’re not talking metformin). Luckily I have a history with diabetes pills like Actos (I ballooned to 300 pounds) and Januvia (caused almost constant nausea, yeah, I lost the weight but I was sick the whole time). So I got the approval, but this is just ridiculous. You’d think they’d be happy that I’m able to keep my blood sugar in a nearly-normal range instead of stressing me out and possibly leading to other health complications because they want to save money.
And the same FUCKING Republicans who scream about Single Payer “rationing” health care see NOTHING wrong with corporate beancounters rationing care by denying claims or overriding doctor’s treatment plans.
re: #244 mmmirele
Yeah, I ran into that recently when my work insurance required my medical provider to certify that I needed the expensive injectable as opposed to cheaper diabetes pills (we’re not talking metformin). Luckily I have a history with diabetes pills like Actos (I ballooned to 300 pounds) and Januvia (caused almost constant nausea, yeah, I lost the weight but I was sick the whole time). So I got the approval, but this is just ridiculous. You’d think they’d be happy that I’m able to keep my blood sugar in a nearly-normal range instead of stressing me out and possibly leading to other health complications because they want to save money.
If you die they saved lots of money.
re: #241 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
um…we screwed it up again
The Trump crime family is more like the Apple Dumpling Gang. The only saving grace they have is their utter incompetence.
re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg
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Stephen Collinson: “President Trump’s new political self-preservation effort to show he has a grip on a pandemic that is killing hundreds of Americans every day is being exposed by his refusal to share the stage with scientific experts — or the facts…”
“The anchor of Trump’s new, punchier briefings is a scripted opening in which he cherry picks the most hopeful aspects of a pandemic that has destroyed the rhythm of American daily life and turned the economy upside down. Wednesday was yet another tragic day, with another 1,195 new deaths and 71,695 fresh infections.”
the problem is not who’s delivering the sanitized information
or the fact that a lot of it is cherry picked
the real problem with not having the experts at the briefings is that they cant be asked questions and i dont mean ‘trump says no masks, should we wear masks?’.
i mean serious, real, hard questions that no president would be expert enough to answer.
re: #244 mmmirele
Yeah, I ran into that recently when my work insurance required my medical provider to certify that I needed the expensive injectable as opposed to cheaper diabetes pills (we’re not talking metformin). Luckily I have a history with diabetes pills like Actos (I ballooned to 300 pounds) and Januvia (caused almost constant nausea, yeah, I lost the weight but I was sick the whole time). So I got the approval, but this is just ridiculous. You’d think they’d be happy that I’m able to keep my blood sugar in a nearly-normal range instead of stressing me out and possibly leading to other health complications because they want to save money.
you’d think they’d want you healthy enough to work and be productive
Trump, seeking distractions from the pandemic and the staggering economy, will keep trying to paint his Democratic rival as a soft-on-crime stalking horse for the radical left, and Biden would be foolish to assume his polling advantage on the issue is going to hold through November. Yet Cornell Belcher, a strategist for both of Obama’s presidential runs, sees hopeful trends, not simply for Biden’s chances but for the country as a whole. “Trump’s law-and-order attacks aren’t working because America isn’t as racist as it was,” Belcher says. “America is still a country that is deeply troubled by its institutional, structural racist past. But by and large, Americans in 2020 do not associate themselves comfortably with racism. I’m looking at a battleground poll right now, and you have a large majority who think racism is a big problem. That’s a watershed kind of moment, because in 2008, we had more white voters in the battleground states thinking that reverse discrimination was a bigger problem than classic race discrimination. The coalition of people who are taking to the streets look an awful lot like the core of Obama’s youth coalition. It’s harder to scare white suburban moms about the mob in the street when the mob in the street is their kids.”
Concentration camp guard convicted in one of the last Nazi trials in history
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I’d go easy with that “last” thing.
re: #248 Dr Lizardo
The Trump crime family is more like the Apple Dumpling Gang. The only saving grace they have is their utter incompetence.
Good way of putting it. Or, to answer the constant “malice or incompetence?” question:
1) If it’s a horrible thing that succeeds, it’s malice.
2) If it’s a horrible thing that fails (e.g. SCOTUS strikes it down for being badly written), it’s incompetence.
re: #252 retired cynic
vanityfair.com
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The coalition of people who are taking to the streets look an awful lot like the core of Obama’s youth coalition. It’s harder to scare white suburban moms about the mob in the street when the mob in the street is their kids
…with their moms
Like 80 percent of what makes @AOC great is that she’s just willing to say the damn thing.
Most of the time, the thing that needs saying is pretty clear, but most politicians have trained themselves not to say the damn thing. https://t.co/fPTkkG7DFF— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 23, 2020
re: #252 retired cynic
“It’s harder to scare Archie about the mob in the street when the mob in the street is Edith.”
re: #237 HRH Stanley Sea
Really, watch the whole thing.
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I want Ocasio-Cortez as President some day. Let her keep growing and absorbing as she is now, and she will really be something. In fact, she’s something now!
re: #247 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
If you die they saved lots of money.
But the Pimp CEO’s who run the health care rackets need the cash from denied claims to buy another mansion, yacht or jet.
This is my favorite scene from “Good Will Hunting” pic.twitter.com/ybhAuDGGDk
— Benjamin Siemon (@BenjaminJS) July 23, 2020
re: #254 Decatur Deb
Concentration camp guard convicted in one of the last Nazi trials in history
cnn.comI’d go easy with that “last” thing.
“One of” the last. WWII ended 75 years ago: if only through the passage of time, the number of old “original” Nazi war-criminals even available for trial is going to get vanishingly small before too long. This latest convict, I noticed, was 93, i.e. 18 at war’s end: There may be a few unpunished Hitlerjugend still around: but eventually, the supply is going run out.
re: #263 Jay C
“One of” the last. WWII ended 75 years ago: if only through the passage of time, the number of old “original” Nazi war-criminals even available for trial is going to get vanishingly small before too long. This latest convict, I noticed, was 93, i.e. 18 at war’s end: There may be a few unpunished Hitlerjugend still around: but eventually, the supply is going run out.
I was thinking of the new crop.
re: #263 Jay C
I think he meant we are producing plenty of them NOW!
This Congressman is attacking Black Lives Matter with white nationalist talking points. These companies are supporting him. Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria
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Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-MN)
In a Facebook post published on June 23, Congressman Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) used white nationalist rhetoric to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. Hagedorn wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is “at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture.” He insisted that Americans must oppose the Black Lives Matter movement to defend the nation’s “Judeo-Christian values” and “way of life.” Hagedorn represents a congressional district just 50 minutes south of where a police officer murdered George Floyd in May.
Go, Judd!
re: #113 lawhawk
GOP solution for everything is a tax cut, especially a payroll tax cut.
Pandemics aren’t stopped with tax cuts. They’re stopped with masking, social distancing, and listening to the fucking health experts, not know nothing dumbasses like Jared or Meadows or Kudlow or Ivanka or Navarro (all of which are on the so-called reopening committee). None of them are health experts. None of them are experts in anything except advancing their own interests above all else.
The WPA’s initial appropriation in 1935 was for close to 7% of GDP. At its height, they employed close to 10% of the entire American workforce.
Conservatives on why this was federal overreach, and unnecessary interference:
“the economy will work itself out in the long run.”
Harry Hopkins (designed and ran the program):
“People don’t eat in the long run, they eat every day.”
this is why in 1936 FDR got 60% of the popular vote (523 electoral votes). Alf Landon got Maine and Vermont, and that’s all. There were a few states where FDR got more than 90%.
re: #264 Decatur Deb
I was thinking of the new crop.
Plenty of candidates for the Julius Streicher chair at the new Tribunal.
I don’t say this often (or ever) but yay Mitt.
Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah said he will vote against Judy Shelton, one of two Trump administration nominees to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.https://t.co/7h0ujqIjCr
— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) July 23, 2020
Welp, apparently today Trump talked to the leader of an economically failed and corrupt state for something like the 7th time in the last couple of months. Wonder why. What kind of advice could Putin possibly give that Fauci can’t?
I caught the Fox chyron on my way to the cafeteria:
Trump: Chicago leaders ‘In their own way’ want the feds to come in.
re: #270 Barefoot Grin
Welp, apparently today Trump talked to the leader of an economically failed and corrupt state for something like the 7th time in the last couple of months. Wonder why. What kind of advice could Putin possibly give that Fauci can’t?
“Donald, this is how you slip polonium into Miss Maxwell’s tea!”
re: #267 sagehen
The WPA’s initial appropriation in 1935 was for close to 7% of GDP. At its height, they employed close to 10% of the entire American workforce.
Conservatives on why this was federal overreach, and unnecessary interference:
“the economy will work itself out in the long run.”Harry Hopkins (designed and ran the program):
“People don’t eat in the long run, they eat every day.”this is why in 1936 FDR got 60% of the popular vote (523 electoral votes). Alf Landon got Maine and Vermont, and that’s all. There were a few states where FDR got more than 90%.
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
re: #272 Belafon
I caught the Fox chyron on my way to the cafeteria:
Classic abuser/rapist language.
re: #276 Eclectic Cyborg
Classic abuser/rapist language.
I meant to write that. That’s exactly what it is.
re: #262 Barefoot Grin
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I’ve taken these tests
For insurance
The words are usually more unrelated
Person woman man is too ez
As is camera tv
These are what trump said, right?
And I had to remember 10
Colors animals places names things…
Release the Kraken!
SEATTLE — The NHL’s newest team finally has its name: the Seattle Kraken.
The expansion franchise unveiled its nickname Thursday, ending 19 months of speculation about whether the team might lean traditional or go eccentric with the name for the league’s 32nd team.
“The Kraken is a name born of the fans. It was suggested and championed by the fans,” Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said.
In opting for the sea creature of Scandinavian folklore, Seattle bypassed options like Sockeyes, Evergreens or Metropolitans, the last of which would have been a nod to Seattle’s hockey history. There was even a push from some fans for the team to try to acquire the Thunderbirds name from the local junior team.
Oh, no he didn’t….
Cuomo dropping a Beastie Boys reference is what I’m here for pic.twitter.com/Z3fcZLiBz9
— Jeremy Long (@JLong591) July 23, 2020
re: #270 Barefoot Grin
Welp, apparently today Trump talked to the leader of an economically failed and corrupt state for something like the 7th time in the last couple of months. Wonder why. What kind of advice could Putin possibly give that Fauci can’t?
Not advice, orders
re: #242 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
‘if it werent for them’?
obama didnt run in 16
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I mean…he’s right that he’s there because a bunch of white people lost their fucking minds that the US had the unmitigated gall of electing a black president, who, worst of all, was a really good president. The rest is bullshit.
re: #283 Belafon
Next: You’re gonna take it.
He’s about to tell me I can’t Rock and Roll all night and party every day, isn’t he?
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Ouch.
This is not the military. @votevets pic.twitter.com/8uSWIftLFQ
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 23, 2020
U.S. poised to cross over 4 million total confirmed Covid-19 cases by days end, almost DOUBLE next highest country (Brazil).
re: #279 Eric The Fruit Bat
Release the Kraken!
SEATTLE — The NHL’s newest team finally has its name: the Seattle Kraken.
The expansion franchise unveiled its nickname Thursday, ending 19 months of speculation about whether the team might lean traditional or go eccentric with the name for the league’s 32nd team.
“The Kraken is a name born of the fans. It was suggested and championed by the fans,” Seattle CEO Tod Leiweke said.
In opting for the sea creature of Scandinavian folklore, Seattle bypassed options like Sockeyes, Evergreens or Metropolitans, the last of which would have been a nod to Seattle’s hockey history. There was even a push from some fans for the team to try to acquire the Thunderbirds name from the local junior team.
Short video about the 1978 “kraken” attack on USS Stein. #NHLSeattle pic.twitter.com/WZQw8AT9gI
— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) July 23, 2020
The best think about this is that fans are trending as #Krakheads https://t.co/eWxwuRvytR
— Kevin Baron (@DefenseBaron) July 23, 2020
re: #279 Eric The Fruit Bat
Release the Kraken!
hard pass 😬
— Seattle Kraken (@NHLSeattle_) July 23, 2020
Sigh
excited about the Seattle Kraken but concerned about “Krakheads” trending in relation to the team’s fanbase. it is a derogatory term steeped in anti-Blackness and stigma against people who use substances & the team needs to explicitly condemn its use
— Moira Wyton (@moirawyton) July 23, 2020
While trump is trying to blame the Dems for this,
Playbook: “What an abject disaster of a morning for the three Ms: Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows and Mitch McConnell.”
“After a few weeks of anticipation, the Senate GOP leadership had to abandon its plans to release a Covid relief bill after disagreements on policy with the Trump White House.”“To put this in context: Republicans can’t even get on the same page with each other for a bill that is simply meant to jumpstart negotiations with Democrats. In other words, the bill that the White House and Senate GOP leadership are arguing over will never get a vote. Now think about how hard it will be for Republicans to put together a big package with Democrats over the next few weeks.”
re: #291 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Sigh
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2020, the year of the concerned……
Arooo! @emmettdoog pic.twitter.com/Vvq5ZnkXv4
— I’ve Pet That Dog (@IvePetThatDog) July 23, 2020
re: #291 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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To be a pedant
It is not a derogatory term
It is not that word
Not spelled like it
Doesn’t mean the same thing
it just sounds like it
excited about the Seattle Kraken but concerned about “Krakheads” trending in relation to the team’s fanbase. it is a derogatory term steeped in anti-Blackness and stigma against people who use substances & the team needs to explicitly condemn its use
— Moira Wyton (@moirawyton) July 23, 2020
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
We have a piece of our farmhouse’s sidewalk with a WPA stamp on it.
re: #223 🌹UOJB!
Washington Post News Alert—Judge releases Michael Cohen from prison.
I’m definitely going to want to read his book.
re: #295 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
To be a pedant
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It is not that word
Not spelled like it
Doesn’t mean the same thing
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Is “tweaker” steeped in anti-Whiteness?
re: #298 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Is “tweaker” steeped in anti-Whiteness?
Wait until she hears about crackers.
re: #290 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
They should go with Cthulhu - the Kraken in cosmic-horror garb.
Don’t know if Cthulhu is a registered trademark or anything…..only thing that’d come to mind is Arkham House Books.
re: #280 makeitstop
Oh, no he didn’t….
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I want to see what the interpreter did with it.
re: #292 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
While trump is trying to blame the Dems for this,
Further
It appears trump doesn’t even have the clout to push through his desires on the senate Rs.
Maybe the D’s in the house would have balked at the payroll tax cut ,(likely) but this is a hell of a way to pick a starting negotiating position
I mean from a seasoned pro who wrote art of the deal and all
Barack Obama had to be a double Ivy League graduate, President of the Harvard Law Review, a constitutional law professor, a bestselling author, and a United States Senator.
Trump had to remember five words in order. https://t.co/V0xF8pV0Mr— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 23, 2020
re: #295 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
It’s the Liberal anti-fun police.
re: #301 Dr Lizardo
They should go with Cthulhu - the Kraken in cosmic-horror garb.
Don’t know if Cthulhu is a registered trademark or anything…..only thing that’d come to mind is Arkham House Books.
“Cthulhu” comes with the inherent problem of people not knowing how the hell to pronounce it.
re: #264 Decatur Deb
I was thinking of the new crop.
We call call the WWII era Nazis dying off the OG Nazis.
Trump’s campaign has continued to pay Trump’s company for other services, in transactions that turn political donations into private revenue for the president. In all, Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party have paid $8.3 million to Trump’s company since he took office, including $45,000 last month alone, campaign records show
This is the most infuriating Karen video you will see all hour. I want to punch her right through the computer screen.
Woman in Los Angeles won’t let a young black Postmates driver into her building to bring food to another resident pic.twitter.com/eGChSmIZtp
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 23, 2020
re: #307 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Cthulhu” comes with the inherent problem of people not knowing how the hell to pronounce it.
Spell it Cthulhu
Pronounce it “krakhead”
re: #307 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“Cthulhu” comes with the inherent problem of people not knowing how the hell to pronounce it.
Heh. But on the other hand, they’d have a plethora of merchandise already available, like this cute ‘lil eldritch abomination:
Florida is the ballgame. There is no path to 270 for Trump without it.
Apparently seniors don’t take it well when you and your pet governor try to kill them.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 23, 2020
re: #310 The Pie Overlord!
She sounds mentally ill.
re: #314 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I was talking about that with some students on Wednesday - I told them to keep an eye on Florida, because he desperately needs to win there or it’s all over.
re: #301 Dr Lizardo
Miskatonic University’s football team is the Fighting Cephalopods aka the Pods. You can get the team merch from various outlets.
re: #314 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Florida is the ballgame. There is no path to 270 for Trump without it.
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re: #310 The Pie Overlord!
This is the most infuriating Karen video you will see all hour. I want to punch her right through the computer screen.
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Note she’s not wearing a mask.
Quinnipiac today. Florida poll
In the race for the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden opens up a big lead over President Trump. Voters back Biden 51 - 38 percent over Trump. In an April 22nd poll, it was close with Biden at 46 percent and Trump at 42 percent.
Democrats back Biden 89 - 2 percent, independents back Biden 48 - 32 percent, compared to 44 - 37 percent in April, and Republicans back Trump 88 - 10 percent
re: #314 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Florida is the ballgame. There is no path to 270 for Trump without it.
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Took me longer to type it all out…
I don’t see a downside here. ‘Bye, Brenden.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 23, 2020
re: #314 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Florida is the ballgame. There is no path to 270 for Trump without it.
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Florida is also the current tipping point state on electoral-vote.com
re: #322 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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They still don’t understand natural selection
MAGA life coach Brenden Dilley declares that not wearing a mask is “a hill I’ll die on” and vows to sue anyone who tries to make him wear one. pic.twitter.com/v9pRLLEEz0
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 23, 2020
re: #324 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
They still don’t understand natural selection
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re: #322 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Good!
Let him die and that’s one less vote for Trump!
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
The Little Rock zoo was WPA built, had the distinctive local stone and cement construction.
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
NYC subway stations all have beautiful mosaic tile walls. Even at the height of subway graffiti years, they were the one part of MTA property that didn’t get defaced
re: #310 The Pie Overlord!
This is the most infuriating Karen video you will see all hour. I want to punch her right through the computer screen.
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Wow, the white privilege is strong in that one.
Score another one for FloriDUMB!
Black Woman Says White Woman Had Police Called on Her Family at Fort Lauderdale Pool
Three Fort Lauderdale Police officers showed up, shutting the pool down and forcing everyone to leave.
Another reason to stay out of FloriDUMB—Can’t Swim While Black because a Karen will call the cops on you!
re: #323 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Florida is also the current tipping point state on electoral-vote.com
fivethirtyeight.com has Biden up 7.5 points in Florida, and in a virtual tie in Texas. It will cost Trump massive amounts of money to campaign in those two must win states for him, which he won’t be able to spend in swing states. Of course it may be that his campaign now exists solely for Trump to grift off of.
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
The MN State Parks are filled with WPA and CCC projects. I was lucky enough to spend quite a bit of time working on building repair and restoration projects for them during my late career. They’re marvelous buildings and the there is a wonderful book about them and the CCC.
Stories in Log and Stone: The Legacy of the New Deal in Minnesota State Parks
(The book was $20 when published in 2002 so these Amazon prices seem kinda high.)
Under lock and key due to rather ugly image. But this is something that’s happening to peaceful protesters. And it’s vile.
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re: #329 Teddy’s Person
Wow, the white privilege is strong in that one.
Here is a longer video. It looks like the woman who placed the order did receive her food even though Karen tried to prevent the transfer.
re: #109 A Mom Anon
Just heard on the radio that the GOP scrapped the payroll tax cut part of the coronavirus relief bill. Score one for the little guy? This wouldn’t help someone out of work anyway. One down, who knows how much more to go.
“Best thing for everyone like Unemployed is Payroll tax cut so they can go Back to work. Not many people know that. Believe me. FAST.”
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re: #327 BlueSpotinAL
Timberline Lodge up near Portland, OR is also a WPA project.
re: #331 NO SMOCKING GUN!
fivethirtyeight.com has Biden up 7.5 points in Florida, and in a virtual tie in Texas. It will cost Trump massive amounts of money to campaign in those two must win states for him, which he won’t be able to spend in swing states. Of course it may be that his campaign now exists solely for Trump to grift off of.
A distinct possibility - his last big con, a way to feather his nest for his twilight years.
re: #274 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If you go to MacKenzie Park in Lubbock, you will find various out-buildings scattered around the beautifully landscaped grounds. These are public restrooms, storage for tools and machines for maintenance, and the like; basically very modest structures for modest uses. They are beautifully designed and built, from dressed stone. They look like they were put up a few years ago but they were in fact built by the WPA more than 80 years ago. WPA also designed and executed the landscaping.
There are similar relics of the WPA scattered all over the country, and most of them are still in daily use.
Then there was the jobs program for students, which during the New Deal was headed in Texas by some guy…oh yeah, Lyndon Baines Johnson. There were limits on what they could do that wouldn’t replace other work, and they came up with roadside rest stops. Very interesting story, told in the first volume of Robert Caro’s Path to Power series on LBJ.
re: #338 Dr Lizardo
A distinct possibility - his last big con, a way to feather his nest for his twilight years.
And Trump’s Army of MAGATS are too stupid to realize he’s grifting off of them. They will continue to bow down before him because their Pulpit Pimps brainwashed them.
re: #337 Dr Lizardo
Timberline Lodge up near Portland, OR is also a WPA project.
Alabama state parks are full of CCC structures. Chewacla SP has a monument to them.
What a clusterfuck.
“RNC plans in jeopardy as Jacksonville council president opposes city bill”https://t.co/GbFtPLRr2l— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) July 23, 2020
“…A majority of Jacksonville residents oppose the convention coming here, a poll has found. And the day after the mayor announced the city had secured the Republican convention, community and business leaders as well as local Democratic Party leaders protested the planned event over health, crime and crowd concerns.”
Republicans are sharply focused on cementing themselves into the minority.
re: #335 The Pie Overlord!
Here is a longer video. It looks like the woman who placed the order did receive her food even though Karen tried to prevent the transfer.
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She lives in the second largest city in the country and claims to know everyone in the building and neighborhood like it’s Mayberry.
re: #340 🌹UOJB!
And Trump’s Army of MAGATS are too stupid to realize he’s grifting off of them. They will continue to bow down before him because their Pulpit Pimps brainwashed them.
Trump lucked into the ultimate scam. He found out that about one-third of the nation are hopelessly gullible rubes….and he’s gonna pick their pockets so clean, they won’t even find any lint.
re: #336 Sir John Barron
“Best thing for everyone like Unemployed is Payroll tax cut so they can go Back to work. Not many people know that. Believe me. FAST.”
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What type of payroll tax cut were they talking about?
A payroll tax cut for employers means that it is cheaper for employers to hire new people, or keep on the existing people they have. Tying it to some combination of keeping people employed, adding back any hours scaled back, or hiring back some of their employees let go might be a good idea, especially the first and third.
A payroll tax cut on the employee end means employees have more money in cash, which is good if you want them, and they’re able to spend it. But that won’t help those who are unemployed.
There is nothing more Washington than not being able to come up with a real plan, kick the can down the road, make no one happy and look like a complete bunch of inept morons.
It begins here… pic.twitter.com/CHCCZ64W81
— Washington Football Team (@WashingtonNFL) July 23, 2020
re: #347 b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)
There is nothing more Washington than not being able to come up with a real plan, kick the can down the road, make no one happy and look like a complete bunch of inept morons.
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People have been pushing back against their name for decades. And they, nor the NFL, had any semblance of a contingency plan
re: #244 mmmirele
Yeah, I ran into that recently when my work insurance required my medical provider to certify that I needed the expensive injectable as opposed to cheaper diabetes pills (we’re not talking metformin). Luckily I have a history with diabetes pills like Actos (I ballooned to 300 pounds) and Januvia (caused almost constant nausea, yeah, I lost the weight but I was sick the whole time). So I got the approval, but this is just ridiculous. You’d think they’d be happy that I’m able to keep my blood sugar in a nearly-normal range instead of stressing me out and possibly leading to other health complications because they want to save money.
The medical system makes them want to do that. They are trying to make a profit. They’re supposed, I guess, to trust your doctor’s recommendations, but there are industry-related bribes incentives out there to have doctors prescribe or patients to ask for certain expensive medications. So they’ll cyclically question the use of the more expensive medications - and that check is probably triggered by a computer program that goes around on a yearly or monthly basis to generate the list to check. And it wasn’t programmed well enough or flexibly enough* to be told to stopped flagging a particular prescription.
* - Or a bureaucrat at the upper end doesn’t know how to, or doesn’t care enough, to have it flagged as being good enough as is.
re: #291 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Maybe “Krak-ers” instead?
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re: #301 Dr Lizardo
They should go with Cthulhu - the Kraken in cosmic-horror garb.
Don’t know if Cthulhu is a registered trademark or anything…..only thing that’d come to mind is Arkham House Books.
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I think Lovecraft’s main stuff is out of copyright now. One reason it gets used for game themes, etc. since you don’t have to pay for the right to do so.
re: #337 Dr Lizardo
Timberline Lodge up near Portland, OR is also a WPA project.
Isn’t there a lot of WPA work along US 30 as it goes through the Columbia River gorge?
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