Here is our version of First Song (Charlie Haden) !
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Something my wife saw on Facebook: Hello poison control, I drank unsweetened tea.
re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Multi-level marketeer in Utah has created a multi-level marketing militia scheme. The purpose of the private army is to “intimidate” protestors from “looting.”
They are now working with the local police to intimidate protestors.
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Whats going to happen when Joe-the-Antifa-Guy turns out to be Ted-the-Nazi-neighbor in disguise?
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Not a lot of celebrity deaths hit me, but holy crap the recent passing of Markie Post hit me with bricks:
Her grace, her warmth, her intelligence, her compassion, her optimism, her empathy, her humility, her love and devotion to her family. And her flawless comic timing, her beauty, her laugh and more.. pic.twitter.com/EeB6eQJI4e
— John B. Larroquette (@johnlarroquette) August 8, 2021
Night Lizards. A bit of humor as I call it a night. Yeah, yeah, there’s a typo. I’m sure you’ll live. :-)
A girl & her power tools. Br afraid. Be very afraid. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/tDKsIEdtw3
— Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict (@michele_out) August 9, 2021
re: #3 Belafon
Whats going to happen when Joe-the-Antifa-Guy turns out to be Ted-the-Nazi-neighbor in disguise?
The Second Klan was the model for multi-level marketing. (They were an MLM before MLMs were defined.)
All these wingnuts with guns want to kill people. They are driving us down the same road right-wing death squads have done in every other country.
First Markie and now Jane Withers passed away today. She was 95…
Man, it’s so great to see the tea partiers, deplorables, white nationalists…but I repeat my self…getting to know each other again over Obama’s 60 Birthday Party.
The August War, 13 years later
Part 1: Missed warnings and memories of war
Molly McKew
greatpower.us
Good post about the Russian invasion of Georgia and how it presaged Russia’s invasion of Crimea and then eastern Ukraine. And basically one should say Putin, not Russia. Because it is Putin.
Let this sink in—if each US state was a country… Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama would each be #2, #5, and #7-9 worst hotspots for #COVID19 in the world!
P.s. Oklahoma, Texas, S Carolina, Missouri are also #15-18 worst. https://t.co/55L9CWVhxL— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 9, 2021
I’m Conservative. I love America. What Kurt Schlichter is demanding below is not Conservative, but actually fascist. It is brutally unAmerican, and sadly, it is becoming a mainstream thought in some right wing sectors. This is where Tucker is heading. We must reject it. pic.twitter.com/Si8j7hknih
— ProperGander Stephen Simpson (@BamaStephen) August 8, 2021
The Founders never intended
• slaves to be free
• women to vote
• Senators to be elected by the people
• political parties to exist
• chucklefucks like you to become Senators https://t.co/7TVteYtNlJ— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) August 9, 2021
re: #7 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Night Lizards. A bit of humor as I call it a night. Yeah, yeah, there’s a typo. I’m sure you’ll live. :-)
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re: #14 jaunte
I live in one of those damn states.
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
“Increase America’s Carbon footprint.”
What, just for the hell of it?
I have relatives who insist that when JC returns he will make all the oil we need and there will be no pollution.
re: #21 JOE 🥓
I have relatives who insist that when JC returns he will make all the oil we need and there will be no pollution.
Great! We can change our policies when that happens.
There are 6 ICU beds available in Austin, a city of 1 million people.
There are 25 open ICU beds in San Antonio, a city of 1.5 million.
There are 42 ICU beds in Houston, the 4th biggest US city.
In a state that’s only 44% fully vaccinated, Texas is in a real crisis.— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) August 8, 2021
re: #23 jaunte
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re: #26 JOE 🥓
Yeah, I was wondering when Rick Perry or any other Republican would resort to the Day of Prayer solution to fix the Covid problem, but I guess we aren’t there yet.
“A family Christian prayer & worship event”?
You lying hack. It was a Proud Boys event.
Every time I think, “man, Andy Ngo is the fucking worst”, somehow Andy Ngo finds a way to be worse than Andy Ngo.
Which is impressive, because Andy Ngo is the fucking worst.— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) August 8, 2021
The Founders intended for government to protect the people. What did they do in Boston after a new outbreak of smallpox 18 months after they had shut the city down for the same reason? They shut the city down and inoculated again. https://t.co/0bgXiRJs3Q
— Andrew Wehrman (@ProfWehrman) August 9, 2021
re: #23 jaunte
Welp…… I didn’t vote for him. pic.twitter.com/frGB1xy85A
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 9, 2021
It was a fucking rally, quit lying Milkshake…. pic.twitter.com/2KAbPtJ4J1
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 9, 2021
So we’re sitting across the street having cocktails with the neighbors as we’ve become used to doing in the last year and a half, and the boys, Merle and Milo, know we’re there because they can see us from the dining room window and they’re complaining loudly about not being with us…so I take out my phone, open the Alexa app, and set a reminder for the next minute : “Merle, stop. Milo, stop” and a minute later, they stop barking at us. Held until the next neighbor walked by with their dogs and the cacophony resumed…but it was a good test to see if they listened to ‘her.’
re: #33 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
So is Arizona, where the school districts are going to war with the governor, just like Florida. No one cares nationally though, since we all know Ducey won’t be nominated for a ything ever again, unlike DeSantis.
re: #34 DesertDenizen
So is Arizona, where the school districts are going to war with the governor, just like Florida. No one cares nationally though, since we all know Ducey won’t be nominated for a ything ever again, unlike DeSantis.
I’m just waiting for DeSadist to get sued for his actions. Somewhere in Florida there are irate relatives of Covid Victims who will initiate that action. And there has to be a Saul Goodman looking for notoriety who will file it.
Schools “can’t enforce masks” but sure did enforce not letting us wear shorts or spaghetti straps.
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) August 8, 2021
This could be the straw that break’s Cuomo’s back!
Melissa DeRosa, top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, resigns in wake of state attorney general’s report on sexual harassment
The departure of DeRosa, who served as Cuomo’s fiercest defender and top aide since 2017, represents a huge blow to the governor. The state attorney general’s investigation into allegations of harassment by Cuomo also detailed DeRosa’s role in an effort to discredit one of his accusers.
re: #35 JOE 🥓
I’m just waiting for DeSadist to get sued for his actions. Somewhere in Florida there are irate relatives of Covid Victims who will initiate that action. And there has to be a Saul Goodman looking for notoriety who will file it.
Already happening:
Attorneys challenging mask mandate ban in schools
news4jax.com
Parents of students with disabilities sue Florida governor over mask mandate ban
clickorlando.com
Congressional candidate sues Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop mask-mandate ban in schools
wptv.com
And others in the works.
re: #28 JOE 🥓
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Me to kid: “Public schools already require you to be vaccinated against a bunch of other diseases.”
Kid: “Really?”
Me: “Yep. You are vaccinated against polio, rubella, pertussis, diphtheria, mumps, to name a few.”
Kid: “What? I’ve never heard of any of those.”
Me: “Exactly.”— Dr. Jacqueline Antonovich (@jackiantonovich) August 8, 2021
re: #28 JOE 🥓
how certain is it that was actually “antifa”? ‘Cause shields and helmets and hats with the antifa name on them (but not the logo)… seems a big shift from their MO.
re: #42 sagehen
I’d bet a lot that it was Andy Ngo himself behind it, not “antifa.”
re: #40 Targetpractice
Hey now, take pity on Andy, he’s never been the same since the brain damage from that concrete milkshake hitting his head.
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No thanks after that rat bastard instigated a couple of weekends of riots here in Koreatown…and what really pissed me off is how the LAPD sided with the Proud Boys and Andy’s thugs.
re: #42 sagehen
They can’t comprehend that Antifa isn’t a rigid, hierarchical organization, because that’s the way they think. The PBs have ranks and titles and such because conservatives are inherently hierarchical, and they can’t fathom open, egalitarian groups.
You can see the test positivity rate climbing with Delta to 9% but testing is much less than half of the 3rd wavehttps://t.co/JiwrT9wgjO pic.twitter.com/uSONM8pdQQ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 8, 2021
This should be the norm, supplying high quality masks free charge to all who choose to use them, to help reduce the Delta wave hit https://t.co/slc888ZjyS
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 8, 2021
A picture that denotes the absence of a national strategy, of states rolling on their own, with leaders unwilling to adopt best practices for defending vs Delta, and which puts the whole country in jeopardy of further spread pic.twitter.com/YNZ7yzD55e
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 9, 2021
On Twitter you can never be wrong! pic.twitter.com/J7I22PbgM2
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) August 9, 2021
When All Is Lost is lost, then either:
a) I’m right anyways because of this weird metric I just invented, or
b) “We Won!” just means “We Could Have Lost!”
re: #47 ericblair
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“HA! I win a moral victory!”
re: #45 DesertDenizen
They can’t comprehend that Antifa isn’t a rigid, hierarchical organization, because that’s the way they think. The PBs have ranks and titles and such because conservatives are inherently hierarchical, and they can’t fathom open, egalitarian groups.
They don’t care.
Antifa is a label applied to anyone they want to hurt.
re: #49 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m not normally a conspiracy theory guy. But a bunch of people show up at a PB event wearing matching clothing that says Antifa on it? That’s the clumsiest false flag ever. They can’t understand the anarchistic nature of Antifa, and why uniforms would be anathema to them. But get two conservatives together and they will establish a hierarchy. They can’t help it. My conservative leaning friends do it instinctively and can’t understand why I don’t participate. At best, it confuses them and they don’t know what to do with me, but in secret they all seem to like having someone who talks to them like an equal rather than a superior or subordinate. But they can’t shake the need for a distinct, formalized structure and hierarchy.
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There’s a gasoline shortage in Nebraska because out-of-state fuel haulers are coming in and buying up all our gasoline.
This also causes long waits for local fuel haulers, so gas stations are running out of gasoline here.
Part of this is a long-term problem of fuel haulers leaving for better jobs over many years, and exacerbated by the pandemic.
There are only two gasoline distribution points in Nebraska, Omaha and North Platte. Fuel haulers from the Panhandle and businesses in the North Platte area are both complaining … it used to be a hauler could drive from Scottsbluff to North Platte, drop of a load of goods, pick up gasoline and bring it back.
Now out-of-state fuel haulers are causing as long as five-hour waits at the North Platte terminal, meaning drivers go over the legal limit of hours mostly waiting in line in North Platte. The alternative has been to stop hauling goods from Scottsbluff and Wyoming to shorten the total drive time.
Governor Ricketts signed an emergency order to allow lengthening the total hours a fuel hauler can work, with a caveat that if the hauler tells their employer they are tired the employer must allow a continuous ten-hour rest period.
Fast, heavy rains cause street flooding, property damage in Omaha
Much of Omaha is under mud and many streets are closed from last night’s storms there, as torrential rains flooded the city.
Man recalls being trapped in flooding elevator in downtown Omaha
Seven people were trapped in two elevators in basements, with water flooding up to their necks from the rain as the cars entered the water then sank. One group called friends and the other called the Fire Department to rescue them, as the elevator cars were poised to be completely flooded.
Bulk of Nebraska’s $200 million in federal rental aid has yet to be distributed (Omaha World-Herald articles)
The bulk of the aid was earmarked for the rural areas with fewer rentals, with only a fraction allotted to the two largest cities.
The rural areas are more likely to have mom-and-pop landlords, who are also more likely to work out arrangements for renters who are behind, and more likely to work out arrangements with banks (if they don’t have a mortgage with one of the too-big-too-fail banks, which actually aren’t common out here in the Old West).
re: #46 Dread Pirate Ron
See, what the South did wrong there was they didn’t imitate Nebraska. (Note we have no cases except a couple counties.)
Had they simply completely blocked data like Governor Ricketts did, they too would have no cases.
So it turns out the pilot of the plane that crashed in Minnesota was a University of Nebraska Medical Center physician.
UNMC doctor James Edney, 72, among three killed in Minnesota plane crash (Omaha World-Herald)
An Omaha surgeon died Saturday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a community outside of Minneapolis.
Dr. James Edney, 72, was a well-known breast cancer specialist and professor emeritus in the Department of Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, according a med center statement reporting his death.
According to the Star Tribune in Minnesota, Edney’s stepson, Jacob Mertes, 42, and his wife, Sara Mertes, 37, were also on the plane. All three died.
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re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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And now it’s time for the Nebraska Tropical Weather Outlook, brought to you by me, safely a long ways from the Tropics.
Five Day Graphical Tropical Outlook
The National Hurricane Center is becoming concerned about a tropical wave three hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands, in water and weather favourable for development. NHC is concerned they may have to issue a tropical storm warning with little time to prepare in the Leeward Islands.
Further out, the storm may become a threat to the Greater Antilles and Florida.
A low pressure system located about 380 miles east-southeast of the
Leeward Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for some
development over the next few days, and a tropical depression could
form while the low moves west-northwestward at about 15 mph. The
disturbance is forecast to reach portions of the Lesser Antilles by
late tonight, then move near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on
Tuesday, and be near Hispaniola around the middle of this week.
Tropical storm watches or warnings could be required with
shorter-than-normal lead times for portions of the Leeward Islands,
the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. In addition, heavy rains and
flooding are likely for the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands, and
Puerto Rico. Interests in those areas should monitor the progress
of this system.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days…medium…60 percent.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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2016:
“I see no downsides to Brexit, only a considerable upside”
2018:
“There will be adequate food”
2021:
“Send in the army or we’re screwed” pic.twitter.com/z7J00CvHx8— David Schneider (@davidschneider) August 8, 2021
But if you point this out, you hurt the Brexiters’ feelings, and therefore it’s all your fault.
A judge overturned Oklahoma Gov. Stitt’s blocking of pandemic federal unemployment payments.
A judge has temporarily restored extra unemployment payments for Oklahomans (The Frontier, August 6, 2021)
Oklahoma is now the third state where Republican orders to block the $300 payment has been overturned.
The judge in the case, Oklahoma County District Judge Anthony L. Bonner, Jr., who Stitt appointed to the bench by Stitt earlier this year (my emphasis), heard arguments on Thursday from attorneys for the 13 plaintiffs in the case, which was originally filed in Tulsa County, and from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, who represented defendant Oklahoma Employment Security Commissioner Shelley Zumwalt.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission must reinstate additional federal unemployment benefit programs and cannot withdraw the state from the program until a final judgment in the case is rendered or the program expires in September, Bonner said In an email to attorneys late Friday afternoon. The judge said he will issue a full order with more details on Monday,
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Conservatives must hate it when it turns out the judges they appointed aren’t corrupt.
Business owners large and small, of course, need slaves, so they are supporting the state’s case.
No doubt the Stitt Administration will take whatever Oklahoma tax dollars necessary to defend the poor downtrodden businesses against people who want to eat.
The suit claims Stitt did not have the authority to order the Employment Security Commission to end the extra benefits and that state law requires the commission to secure all available advantages for the unemployed from the federal government.
A group of 10 workers also filed a second against Stitt and the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission last month at the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
The U.S. The Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, and the National Federation of Independent Businesses have filed a brief in support of the governor in the second case, arguing that cutting off payments early will address a labor shortage caused by the increased unemployment benefits. The business groups argue forcing more people back to work will stimulate the state’s economy and reduce unemployment.
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re: #56 Dread Pirate Ron
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re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, I screwed up and posted the whole article, rather than the section relevant to my comments. That’s fixed now if you recycle the comment window.
I don’t want to get our Esteemed Host Mr. Johnson in trouble over a copyright issue. Sorry about that.
re: #57 TedStriker
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Buried in this chilling account of seditious behavior by Jeffrey Clark, is a serious allegation that a Member of Congress—Scott Perry—may have aided and abetted him. The House MUST investigate this and take appropriate action.https://t.co/0sy1lcgLzb
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 7, 2021
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A judge overturned Oklahoma Gov. Stitt’s blocking of pandemic federal unemployment payments.
A judge has temporarily restored extra unemployment payments for Oklahomans (The Frontier, August 6, 2021)
Oklahoma is now the third state where Republican orders to block the $300 payment has been overturned.
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Conservatives must hate it when it turns out the judges they appointed aren’t corrupt.
Business owners large and small, of course, need slaves, so they are supporting the state’s case.
No doubt the Stitt Administration will take whatever Oklahoma tax dollars necessary to defend the poor downtrodden businesses against people who want to eat.
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Here were are in the first week of August and not a single red state that has pulled this shit has been able to claim that it’s worked to address the “labor shortage” in their state. Most states are either at or below their pre-COVID UE levels, yet businesses across the country are still bitching up a storm that they can’t find workers. Perhaps the answer is that it’s not a “labor shortage,” it’s a wage slave shortage since most of those folks who got no warning and no support from their old bosses decided they had no loyalty to their old jobs.
re: #64 Targetpractice
Here were are in the first week of August and not a single red state that has pulled this shit has been able to claim that it’s worked to address the “labor shortage” in their state. Most states are either at or below their pre-COVID UE levels, yet businesses across the country are still bitching up a storm that they can’t find workers. Perhaps the answer is that it’s not a “labor shortage,” it’s a wage slave shortage since most of those folks who got no warning and no support from their old bosses decided they had no loyalty to their old jobs.
All of them are claiming that it helped, but economists dispute the claims.
The other two states which were blocked were Indiana and Maryland (there is no such thing as a good Republican governor, including Larry Hogan).
DeSantis is so concerned about the pandemic ravaging his state that he traveled to Michigan for a fundraiser https://t.co/VkHlcwKpRe
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 6, 2021
Mini-me DeSantis copying the former guy. Like other Republicans, he claims credit for what Democrats push over the line.
Check your mail, Florida teachers! Governor Ron DeSantis used $3.6 million of tax money for $1,000 bonus checks to be distributed with his name and signature, even though the funding came from federal legislation passed by Democrats and signed by President Joe Biden. #GovernorWho pic.twitter.com/n9DPtW92Q9
— Richard Thripp for Congress 🌊 (@Thripp2020) August 6, 2021
What you fight you feed.
Debating fascists tacitly conveys their ideas merit consideration.
Say what you’re for. And yes call out the opposition but don’t hand them airtime. https://t.co/jkWIidIue9— Anat Shenker-Osorio (@anatosaurus) August 6, 2021
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #69 Targetpractice
He and Ironside are fighting for the same job, hoping that Cheetolini won’t decide to jump in and just snatch it away from them for another 4 years.
I’m still of the opinion, especially now with the recording out that the entire purpose of the Texas suppression bills is to cement one-party rule in the state by fiat, that a bill should be brought in the US House if that bill passes, to remove Texas representation in the House.
Texas is moving away from the constitutionally-mandated republican form of government. Constitutional remedies must be applied for Potemkin elections to maintain one-party rule.
Frank Luntz complaining about Republicans purposely disconnected from reality is like Colonel Sanders complaining about chickens purposely disconnected from their heads. https://t.co/ukVkeNX7P6
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 8, 2021
re: #69 Targetpractice
He and Ironside are fighting for the same job, hoping that Cheetolini won’t decide to jump in and just snatch it away from them for another 4 years.
Trump’s going to be too busy in court.
I’m all for Trump grifting from his supporters though. Every dollar they send to Trump is one that can’t support the GOP’s electoral chances.
Modern men’s gymnastics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to prepare men for soldiering.
Women’s gymnastics had a different agenda: to prepare women for their roles as wives and mothers by teaching elegance, flexibility, and good posture.https://t.co/kSCIKrvZKZ pic.twitter.com/9nOVU83FcL— Sports Insider (@SportsInsider) August 7, 2021
When elite gymnast @thorpeheath posted a video performing a leap typically seen in women’s gymnastics, commenters suggested he submit it for valuation.
But the leaps aren’t listed in the Code of Points for men’s gymnastics. 👇https://t.co/kSCIKrvZKZhttps://t.co/CkJBaGIaDK— Sports Insider (@SportsInsider) August 7, 2021
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m still of the opinion, especially now with the recording out that the entire purpose of the Texas suppression bills is to cement one-party rule in the state by fiat, that a bill should be brought in the US House if that bill passes, to remove Texas representation in the House.
Texas is moving away from the constitutionally-mandated republican form of government. Constitutional remedies must be applied for Potemkin elections to maintain one-party rule.
I’m genuinely beginning to think that there exists no political will within either party to stand up against this shit anymore. The GQP are scared shitless that if they don’t steal the next two elections, they’ll never hold power at the national level for at least a generation. And the Dems seem to be buying more and more into the idea that their crazed colleagues can either be reasoned with or (in the case of the infrastructure bill) bypassed in favor of “reasonable” Repubs.
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Trump’s going to be too busy in court.
I’m all for Trump grifting from his supporters though. Every dollar they send to Trump is one that can’t support the GOP’s electoral chances.
There’s only two scenarios where Trump does not try to make a run in 2024: He’s dead or he’s in Club Fed. Even if he’s sitting in courtrooms for the entire elections, he’ll throw his hat into the ring in the hope he can squeeze a few more millions out of the GQP coffers.
REPORT: Vegetables Do Feel Pain, and They Love It: https://t.co/SPjzn3oMk0 pic.twitter.com/dsT2r7yPQF
— Reductress (@Reductress) August 8, 2021
re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #64 Targetpractice
Here were are in the first week of August and not a single red state that has pulled this shit has been able to claim that it’s worked to address the “labor shortage” in their state. Most states are either at or below their pre-COVID UE levels, yet businesses across the country are still bitching up a storm that they can’t find workers. Perhaps the answer is that it’s not a “labor shortage,” it’s a wage slave shortage since most of those folks who got no warning and no support from their old bosses decided they had no loyalty to their old jobs.
How many Mexicans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorans, etc did Trump brag about keeping out of the country, they’d have been here if not for his border policies. And how much of the labor shortage is in the kind of jobs that the MGNSetc would have been doing if they were here?
re: #17 JOE 🥓
The Founders never intended the federal government to grow to this size.
The Founders understood that the world would change from wooden sailing ships, muskets and horse-drawn transportation and wrote a Constitution to be amended accordingly to accommodate things like modern weaponry as well as modern communication and transportation.
re: #15 JOE 🥓
Conservatives wanting to nationalize private companies?
aha, only the ones they cannot control and manipulate
re: #58 ericblair
But if you point this out, you hurt the Brexiters’ feelings, and therefore it’s all your fault.
This is because the EU “ganged up on them” in order to “make an example of them”.
Those are the talking points.
Like spoiled boarding-school brats, the Brexiteers expect the EU to let them get away with everything without consequences.
re: #79 sagehen
Plus there was no H2B’s last year or this year.
And 600,000+ dead.
A significant number of the dead were elderly, but… in my family growing up, and probably a lot of other families, grandma and grandpa were the childcare while mom and dad were both working.
Unless you actually are one of the Founding Fathers (in which case we might consider dunking you as a possible witch), then your opinion on what they may or may not have wanted is likely as valid as that of most other folks (i.e. fucking useless). They are not alive, they do not have control from beyond the grave, they were simply men who set this Great Experiment in motion. Some survived to weigh in on its early years, but all have long since left this Earth and all we have left is their writings and recordings of their thoughts. You are no better equipped to know what they wanted than anybody else, so STFD.
“The main thing that’s good about it is that it indirectly led to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks” https://t.co/1McG4m2SsD
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) August 5, 2021
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is because the EU “ganged up on them” in order to “make an example of them”.
Those are the talking points.
Like spoiled boarding-school brats, the Brexiteers expect the EU to let them get away with everything without consequences.
It’s been the impression for a long time that the UK/EU relationship was a marriage of convenience: The UK got access to the single market and economic support, while the EU got the international clout of having one of the major banking centers of the world in its club. But like most marriages of convenience, when one party decided that the convenience was no longer in their favor and tried to exit, they thought that they’d be able to do so without penalty or even that they’d be begged to stay. What they didn’t count on was that the EU, realizing that just allowing the UK to walk away without penalty, would make the process as painful as possible in order to discourage them and then discourage others if they went through with it anyway.
One thing we know the Founders wanted, from Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (which was signed by President Adams, and unanimously ratified in 1797 without debate by a Senate made up primarily of people who’d signed the Declaration and/or been at the Constitutional Convention of 1787) —
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
also stumbled across while googling about the Libya treaty…
In 1786, Morocco and the United States of America signed a Treaty of friendship that is still in force, making it the longest-standing unbroken treaty in US history.
re: #87 sagehen
One thing we know they wanted, from Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (which was signed by President Adams, and unanimously ratified in 1797 without debate by a Senate made up primarily of people who’d signed the Declaration and/or been at the Constitutional Convention of 1787) —
And as a treaty ratified by the Senate, that is US law.
Christians ever since have tried to deny it.
The most common apologetics arguments against Article 11 of what is formally known as The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary (Ottoman Empire):
a) No copies exist now of the treaty as signed by the Bey of Tripoli or the witness from Algiers in Arabic containing Article 11, the purpose of which was to show the United States was a secular nation and had no enmity toward Muslim nations based on religion.
(Doesn’t matter: What matters is what the Senate passed into our laws. The treaty was passed by Unanimous Consent, with no debate, by a veritable who’s who of Revolutionary War participants)
b) The Secretary of the War at the time claimed that if the United States wasn’t founded on the Christian religion, then what was it founded on? (Christians have always tried to jam their religion into our government.)
The treaty was published in papers in Philadelphia and New York; there was no dissent from citizens at the time.
re: #87 sagehen
A third Christian apologetics argument against the treaty which comes up from time to time is that Tripoli broke the treaty, therefore it is null.
Another doesn’t matter. The treaty is still US law, and the Bey of Tripoli breaking the treaty was the causus belli for the Second Barbary War, to enforce the treaty. The 1805 peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire did not abrogate the previous treaty.
#Florida is the epicenter of the summer 2021 #Covid19 epidemic. Climate change is causing the Florida Keys to sink, Miami buildings to collapse and precious manatees to die in record numbers. This fucker thinks he’s the Governor of Texas. https://t.co/a6piKM9Ujh
— Look at This Asshole ⬇️ (@assholeofday) July 18, 2021
Here’s what I’m figuring is the most likely scenario for the next few years with regards to Trump: The only real way he’ll commit to running earlier than summer 2023 is if he thinks there’s a way he can bypass the FEC to continue siphoning off “campaign funds” to pay off his debts. Which is why he’ll keep teasing a run, keeping telling the rubes that he’s really thinking hard about it, but he won’t ever file the paperwork until the last possible second. If his favored candidates do well next year, he might even decide that running for the WH is not as profitable as being a “kingmaker.”
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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The thinking between DeathSantis and Ironside seems to be that since xenophobia got the racists out in force for Hair Furor back in ‘16, then the guy with the most “scalps” will win the nomination in ‘24.
re: #93 Targetpractice
The thinking between DeathSantis and Ironside seems to be that since xenophobia got the racists out in force for Hair Furor back in ‘16, then the guy with the most “scalps” will win the nomination in ‘24.
I’m still not sure what the calculus is for Gov. Ricketts here though to send the State Patrol to Del Rio.
Ricketts cannot run for governor next year due to term limits, there is no open Senate seat next year, and to run for the US House he would have to run against one of the three Trumpists (Don Bacon, Jeff Fortenberry, or Adrian Smith).
Perhaps by grandstanding with our state police and getting us to pay for it, he might be calculating that will help downballot Republican candidates next year.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Modern men’s gymnastics emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to prepare men for soldiering.
Javelin throwing and discus throwing? Shot putting? All combat-
-based disciplines.
Not to mention the guys at Thermopylae playing Beach Volleyball.
“The United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
US Congress— Pat A. (@pataz1) August 2, 2021
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m still not sure what the calculus is for Gov. Ricketts here though to send the State Patrol to Del Rio.
Ricketts cannot run for governor next year due to term limits, there is no open Senate seat next year, and to run for the US House he would have to run against one of the three Trumpists (Don Bacon, Jeff Fortenberry, or Adrian Smith).
Perhaps by grandstanding with our state police and getting us to pay for it, he might be calculating that will help downballot Republican candidates next year.
Possible, though I wouldn’t rule out hope for the VP slot in ‘24.
re: #84 Targetpractice
I still love Sarah Palin’s response to “who is your favorite Founder?”, namely “All of them!”, indicating that she could not name or talk about a single one.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Frederick Douglass, one of the many men that Mike’s party wants to erase from history so white kids don’t feel bad about racism.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Explain Dune in one sentence.
actually dead easy. “In the future, humanity has banned all technology that replaces human beings, outlawing all forms of genetic engineering and computers, so that the psychoactive spice of planet Dune is needed to allow space navigators to see into the future to plot a safe route through space.”
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
actually dead easy. “In the future, humanity has banned all technology that replaces human beings, balling all forms of genetic engineering and no computers, so that the psychoactive spice of planet Dune is needed to allow space navigators to see into the future to plot a safe route through space.”
Well, when you put it that way, it doesn’t sound so silly.
/
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m still not sure what the calculus is for Gov. Ricketts here though to send the State Patrol to Del Rio.
Ricketts cannot run for governor next year due to term limits, there is no open Senate seat next year, and to run for the US House he would have to run against one of the three Trumpists (Don Bacon, Jeff Fortenberry, or Adrian Smith).
Perhaps by grandstanding with our state police and getting us to pay for it, he might be calculating that will help downballot Republican candidates next year.
Maybe he thinks the next R president will give him a cabinet spot; or a desirable ambassadorship.
re: #86 Targetpractice
What they didn’t count on was that the EU, realizing that just allowing the UK to walk away without penalty, would make the process as painful as possible in order to discourage them and then discourage others if they went through with it anyway.
They are being made an example of, and that rankles them greatly.
And the Referendum was not tied to any particular deal, just wishful thinking and promises of Blue Passports, an end to Brussels Bureaucrats and No More Foreigners.
Imagine if they’d had to first negotiate the deal and then pass it on for a referendum…
Thick smoke that held down winds and temperatures began to clear Sunday from the scenic forestlands of Northern California as firefighters battling the largest single wildfire in state history braced for a return of fire-friendly weather. https://t.co/UT6wnof0eL
— KTVU (@KTVU) August 9, 2021
“The live trees that are out there now have a lower fuel moisture than you would find when you go to a hardware store or a lumber yard and get that piece of lumber that’s kiln dried,” Mark Brunton, operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said in an online briefing Sunday morning. “It’s that dry, so it doesn’t take much for any sort of embers, sparks or small flaming front to get that going.”
Fueled by strong winds and bone-dry vegetation, the fire incinerated much of Greenville on Wednesday and Thursday, destroying 370 homes and structures and threatening nearly 14,000 buildings in the northern Sierra Nevada.
The Dixie Fire, named for the road where it started nearly four weeks ago, grew overnight to an area of 725 square miles (1,875 square kilometers) Sunday morning and was just 21% contained, according to CalFire. It had scorched an area more than twice the size of New York City.
725 sq. mi. = 463,360 acres.
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
actually dead easy. “In the future, humanity has banned all technology that replaces human beings, balling all forms of genetic engineering and no computers, so that the psychoactive spice of planet Dune is needed to allow space navigators to see into the future to plot a safe route through space.”
I’d have gone with, after enough climate change, you wouldn’t believe how fucking rare and precious a glass of water will be.
Nebraska stopped publishing public reports of daily coronavirus statistics because @GovRicketts doesn’t think the information is important.
As new variants continue to spread and families prepare for the return to school, resuming reports is vital to building public trust. https://t.co/7IkHC4Km56— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) August 9, 2021
re: #101 Targetpractice
Well, when you put it that way, it doesn’t sound so silly.
/
That is what makes it a great book: the premise is sound. But David Lynch never read the damn book and missed the point.
The Mentats and Bene Gesserit Sisterhood all took to developing their mental faculties as there were no computers, and the BG breeding program was there because genetic engineering was also outlawed.
re: #105 sagehen
I’d have gone with, after enough climate change, you wouldn’t believe how fucking rare and precious a glass of water will be.
That was because the sandworms were trapping it all below the surface, that also does not come out in the David Lynch version.
Same with Starship Troopers:
“When the world governments collapse, ending WW3 by default, the stranded soldiers and POW’s form the only groups able to maintain order, and develop an international system by which service to the State is a condition for full citizenship.”
re: #105 sagehen
I’d have gone with, after enough climate change, you wouldn’t believe how fucking rare and precious a glass of water will be.
Heart plugs are a bad idea.
This will be coming our way later.
Through coordination with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, The National Weather Service Office in Cheyenne has issued an Air Quality Alert through 1 PM MDT Monday as sensitive groups should avoid excessive physical exertion and minimize time outdoors. #wywx pic.twitter.com/kJ8LOJotl2
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) August 8, 2021
The alert is for the whole state.
“God told me to come here.” https://t.co/8Nx3FlucUS
— KRON4 News (@kron4news) August 9, 2021
When officers asked Koch if he was intoxicated, he replied that he had gotten high on methamphetamine before arriving. He then reportedly said that God told him to go and get his family out of the prison.
After handcuffing Koch, officers searched his vehicle and found a backpack with a suspected bag of meth, which he said he owned, authorities said.
Koch was then escorted inside OCC and booked on one count of drug possession.
I think I know where his plan went wrong.
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Explain Dune in one sentence.
“What this situation needs is an aristocratic white guy to take charge.”
Of course that’s the plot of a lot of Hollywood movies (Black Panther being a special case).
State of emergency declared in Banner County (the county to my west) as the Hackberry prairie fire is out of control. It has burned 5,500 acres (2,225 ha).
The Hackberry Fire southeast of Harrisburg in Banner County is now estimated at 5,500 acres after burning about 3,000 acres Friday.
Region 22 Emergency Management Director Tim Newman says the fire was reported around 7:00 Thurs night on private land and burned onto county-owned property..
There have been no injuries and no houses are currently in danger, but a wind shift Friday blew the fire straight back and forced the main staging area for firefighters to be moved twice.
Gov Pete Ricketts issued a state emergency declaration, clearing the way for state and federal aid that includes a Type 3 Incident Management team from the Nebraska State Emergency Response Team taking over command.
(more)
Hackberry Fire Now 5,500 Acres (KCSR-AM, Chadron, Nebr., includes photo of the fire)
re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Central Nebraska fire brigades are assisting in both Banner and Morrill Counties to try to bring the prairie fire under control.
The fire is burning very close to the county line with my county.
Via KSID-AM (Sidney, Nebr.)
Central Nebraska fire departments provide assistance with Hackberry Wildfire in Panhandle
BANNER COUNTY - Firefighters battling the Hackberry Wildfire in the Nebraska Panhandle got assistance from fire departments in central Nebraska.
According to Custer County Emergency Management, fire departments from Anselmo, Broken Bow, Callaway, Merna, Ansley and Sargent left for Banner and Morrill Counties Saturday night.
The Arnold Fire Department left for the panhandle earlier Saturday.
(more, with photo of firefighters from Central Nebraska)
Should the fire continue to grow, my village fire brigade will be activated to fight the fire.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Colorado and Wyoming have also sent firefighters, and the Nebraska National Guard is also on scene fighting the fire.
Air quality in the southwestern Panhandle (where I live) is listed as unhealthy for all groups.
re: #105 sagehen
I’d have gone with, after enough climate change, you wouldn’t believe how fucking rare and precious a glass of water will be.
This isn’t quite relevant, because as Wendell said the sandworms were trapping it, but in general any plot involving easy space travel means no problems with water. A great deal of the things whipping around up there quite close to us are either covered in ice or just big dirty iceballs, and there are clouds of water vapor lightyears wide. So if the aliens come here to take all our water, the aliens are complete idiots and will get along fine with the Republican party.
Former President Donald Trump told Fox News that critics would have been so much harder on him than on President Joe Biden had there been a COVID-19 “attack” on his watch like the one occurring now.Said Trump: “Could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus? If that were me, they would say, ‘What a horrible thing, what a horrible job.’ And I don’t ever hear that.”
Except you did.
This is not Clinton 9/11 or
Obama Katrina
This was you and 400k dead.
Plus:
Armchair Quarterback Trump 2013: “Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.”
Candidate Trump 2016: “I alone can fix it.”
President Trump 2020: “No, I don’t accept any responsibility at all.”
Have You Tried Reducing Turnover (Eschaton)
It’s the liberal fantasy a bit - pay your workers more AND profit more - but I don’t think it’s just fantasy in many cases. I am no expert on the insides of corporate culture, having been largely outside of it, but I did do some time in fastish food jobs when young, and I learned that in corporate chain/franchise models, the managers/owners basically can control only one thing: labor costs. Everything else is determined from above (products, marketing, supplies). Your job is essentially to minimize labor costs as there’s nothing else you can do.
I can’t speak to the details of all chains, of course, but what I did witness was tremendous pressure on managers to do just that, because what else were they for? Or, at least, what else did they do that could be measured and that they could judged by?
Labor costs are wages/etc., not the extra unclocked time the manager puts in for hiring. My manager at one establishment I worked for basically worked 16 hour days so she could have one fewer person on staff so the spreadsheet looked better. That’s how you got promoted up to corporate.
Aside from constant costs of dealing with turnover, the customer service quality of course plunges, but that isn’t as easily measured.
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Honest, truthful and virtuous. None of those traits were associated with the Trump administration which Pompeo served so enthusiastically. Who is he fooling? Douglass was a civil rights activist and would have called out Trump’s white Supremacist leanings.
re: #121 Patricia Kayden
Honest, truthful and virtuous. None of those traits were associated with the Trump administration which Pompeo served so enthusiastically. Who is he fooling? Douglass was a civil rights activist and would have called out Trump’s white Supremacist leanings.
The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ […] ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’. (Attributed to Karl Rove)
Seek them https://t.co/g0R6zauWSs
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 9, 2021
re: #84 Targetpractice
Unless you actually are one of the Founding Fathers (in which case we might consider dunking you as a possible witch), then your opinion on what they may or may not have wanted is likely as valid as that of most other folks (i.e. fucking useless). They are not alive, they do not have control from beyond the grave, they were simply men who set this Great Experiment in motion. Some survived to weigh in on its early years, but all have long since left this Earth and all we have left is their writings and recordings of their thoughts. You are no better equipped to know what they wanted than anybody else, so STFD.
Well, the Federalist papers do give a good overview and early legislation that implements things like the Militia or SCOTUS tells us to a certain degree what they intended. And some, like Jefferson, Adams, Madison, etc did hang around long enough to leave fairly interesting writings if people choose to pay attention to them.
If you have people in your life refusing to get vaccinated, share this story with them.
If logic and science doesn’t convince them, perhaps fear, will. https://t.co/9AAkx5QBBP— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 8, 2021
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) August 9, 2021
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ana is still thinking like a “reasonable conservative.” She might be the only one. Fear isn’t going to reach them either. They go under ventilators denying they have Covid. Their religious faith cannot allow them to admit their religion of conservatism got something wrong.
UPDATE: 21 states have now fully vaccinated more than half of residents: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, NH, NJ, NM, NY, Oregon, Pennsylvania, RI, Vermont, Virginia, Washington & Wisconsin (+ D.C.)
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) August 9, 2021
Not good:
According to Our World In Data, the U.K. is at 57.5 percent fully vaccinated and 69.2 percent partially vaccinated. Israel is at 62.3 percent and 67 percent, though they have a younger population. The U.S. is at 49.61 percent and 58 percent. Those numbers vary a little source to source, but we are definitely behind.
We only got to 50 percent now. And we’ve basically been flat for many, many weeks, you know, peaked out in April. So I think that’s one thing. The second thing is Delta. Our vaccination defense has been leaking. We’re seeing a lot more spread in vaccinated people. And that’s a real problem because, unlike the U.K., which went from having a lot of restrictions to being totally wide open, and Israel, where as soon as they started to see problems, they went back to restrictions, we’ve been pretty much open the whole time.But holding all else equal, if vaccines were still doing a good job preventing severe disease but a considerably worse job preventing spread, wouldn’t that drive the gap wider between cases and hospitalizations, or cases and deaths?
Yeah. But —It’s a lot to hold equal.
What I’m hearing — and I’ve been helping with a bunch of patients — is that people who are breaking through are getting very sick. They’re getting Regeneron antibodies. There may be something to this waning immunity story. It’s fuzzy, but the people who are getting hit are more apt to be people who were vaccinated very early. I had a patient in recent days, who’s in her 70s. She got vaccinated in January. And, I mean, she almost died. I mean, it’s just terrible. I think — I hope — the monoclonals are going to save her life. But she was a healthy 70-year-old lady, and just following her case was illuminating — she thought she was protected, but she also wore masks everywhere. She was on guard and still got infected and desperately ill.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Woohoo! Go Maryland!
Just sent to my anti-vaccination friend. She’ll probably just ignore it.
Sigh
If you have people in your life refusing to get vaccinated, share this story with them. If logic and science doesn’t convince them, perhaps fear, will. https://t.co/9AAkx5QBBP
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 8, 2021
re: #133 Patricia Kayden
Just sent to my anti-vaccination friend. She’ll probably just ignore it.
Sigh
You do what you can. At some point there is diminishing returns. At that point I suppose you can only wish them “good luck” (and stay away if they haven’t gotten a vaccine).
I’m going to mosey off to bed. Catch y’all later. Let’s hope this prairie fire to my west doesn’t get much bigger.
Today
Areas of smoke. Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. West southwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Tonight
Areas of smoke before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 93. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast in the afternoon.
Tuesday Night
Clear, with a low around 57. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southeast in the evening.
Wednesday
Sunny and hot, with a high near 96. Northwest wind around 5 mph.
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Javelin throwing and discus throwing? Shot putting? All combat-
-based disciplines.Not to mention the guys at Thermopylae playing Beach Volleyball.
Wait ‘till Biggus Dickus hears of this!
— Edwin (@EdMix13) August 9, 2021
— Edwin (@EdMix13) August 9, 2021
re: #36 KingKenrod
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Schools can’t enforce masks, but they can demand someone cut their hair for a sport competition. They can send kids home who are wearing clothes deemed unsuitable. They can discipline students who wear inappropriate clothes.
So yeah, they can enforce masks. The problem is the adults who refuse to follow health expert guidance to keep those kids safe.
Thing is, if people don’t care enough about kids getting slaughtered in school mass shootings, why does anyone think that those same people would give a shit about those kids getting sick, hospitalized, or die from covid19?
Maybe the businesses that employ those people might want to know why their employees are missing significant time, seeing their health insurance maxed out, because of preventable covid19 cases that required hospitalization or worse.
GOP extremists: it’s the immigrants who brought delta covid19 variant and causing the spread.
Umm… where’s the fucking border and where are the cases surging? Because the border regions are seeing far less per capita cases, which shows that it’s not immigrants but rather fucknut dumbass GOPers who are spreading and enabling the spread of covid19 nationwide.
— Erik Halvorsen (@erikhalvorsen18) August 9, 2021
re: #141 lawhawk
GOP extremists: it’s the immigrants who brought delta covid19 variant and causing the spread.
Umm… where’s the fucking border and where are the cases surging? Because the border regions are seeing far less per capita cases, which shows that it’s not immigrants but rather fucknut dumbass GOPers who are spreading and enabling the spread of covid19 nationwide.
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re: #75 Targetpractice
I’m genuinely beginning to think that there exists no political will within either party to stand up against this shit anymore. The GQP are scared shitless that if they don’t steal the next two elections, they’ll never hold power at the national level for at least a generation. And the Dems seem to be buying more and more into the idea that their crazed colleagues can either be reasoned with or (in the case of the infrastructure bill) bypassed in favor of “reasonable” Repubs.
pretty much the entire texas democratic house is in Washington at the moment, so yes, I think one political party is standing up to this shit and does so pretty consistently. There are two senators who are stopping a lot of stuff from getting done.
re: #142 Dangerman
If so many “immigrants” were spreading it that they are “the cause” then some of them would be really sick and in the icus dying
What do you think you’re doing bringing logic and reasoning into this discussion. These people feel like the immigrants - especially the damned dirty dark immigrants - are bringing in the covid.
Fuck them and their feelings.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Glad PA is on the list. But my county is just barely over 42% full vax, so lagging behind the state numbers (or dragging them down).
The hill
The owner of a Missouri taxi company said his transportation service will not pick up passengers who wear masks or have received the COVID-19 vaccine, despite a surge of new cases in the state.
“We don’t allow any type of masks in our vehicles. The second one, we’re very against the vaccines, and we do not wish to have people in our vehicle that did the vaccines,” owner Charlie Bullington told KMOV in an interview that was published on Thursday.
According to the taxi service’s website, Yo Transportation operates in Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, St. Charles, St. Louis and Warren counties. KMOV reported that the business has operated for 16 years.
heck of a business model
Masks are obvious. How you gonna check if someone is vaccinated?
Plus: He also claimed he knew people who had been adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccine shots.
I’d want names and exactly what “adversely affected” means
re: #141 lawhawk
GOP extremists: it’s the immigrants who brought delta covid19 variant and causing the spread.
Umm… where’s the fucking border and where are the cases surging? Because the border regions are seeing far less per capita cases, which shows that it’s not immigrants but rather fucknut dumbass GOPers who are spreading and enabling the spread of covid19 nationwide.
Because the Biden Border Guard is packing up sick illegals and sending them off to Red States as punishment. I have seen that explanation being offered…
re: #146 Dangerman
The hill
heck of a business model
Masks are obvious. How you gonna check if someone is vaccinated?Plus: He also claimed he knew people who had been adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccine shots.
I’d want names and exactly what “adversely affected” means
Why would it matter for the purposes of his business? It sounds to me like he’s bought into the anti-science woo that vaccinated people do damage to other people around them. (Or like my sister-in-law, who believes she has magically become vaccinated because of all the vaccinated people around her shedding on her. And she’s supposedly the smart one in their family.)
re: #148 Dopamine Fish
Why would it matter for the purposes of his business? It sounds to me like he’s bought into the anti-science woo that vaccinated people do damage to other people around them. (Or like my sister-in-law, who believes she has magically become vaccinated because of all the vaccinated people around her shedding on her. And she’s supposedly the smart one in their family.)
If it’s about shedding… why is it that the states that have the lowest vaccination rates have the highest per capita cases? The states in the Northeast have the highest vaccination rates, and among the lowest per capita rates of cases.
I know, facts…
Bret Baier to Rick Scott: “Senator, you’re talking a lot about the deficit and debt … but it wasn’t that way during the Trump administration. In fact, if you look at the numbers, the debt went up … the Trump administration Republicans added $6.7 to the debt.” pic.twitter.com/3dkOW4CD9V
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2021
NEW: Health officials say children now make up 20% of all new COVID-19 cases across the U.S. https://t.co/cdQ5WbYfh3
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 8, 2021
With the number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 rising across the U.S., more education and health officials are shifting gears, calling for mandatory vaccinations among teachers and mask requirements in schools https://t.co/wqPaDRXpsS pic.twitter.com/OgSZ0JDrmz
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 9, 2021
We almost had to remove the spouse of a patient from the hospital last night because he refused to believe that his wife, who had signs/symptoms of COVID for 10 days and was found with an oxygen saturation of *9%* after having a probable stroke, had COVID. Violently in denial.
— Ryan (@NurseRyanRN) August 7, 2021
We see this a lot. Unvaccinated folks having signs/symptoms of covid for 1-2 weeks before coming to the ED, then by the time they get to us they need an emergent intubation. Denial is killing so many of these patients - getting to the hospital sooner means decreased mortality.
— Ryan (@NurseRyanRN) August 7, 2021
COVID denial didn’t pop up out of thin air. There are actual people to hold accountable for this. Carlson, Hannity & others have blood on their hands. Immeasurable loss of life.
The patients know it too, but most find out minutes before intubation and never wake to regret it.— Ryan (@NurseRyanRN) August 7, 2021
And I have not heard or seen anybody offering more money for schools to add staff, expand facilities or implement safety measures.
WHCA President @stevenportnoy emails members saying that the Biden admin has imposed a vaccine mandate on all White House visitors. “This requirement will include journalists,” Portnoy says, adding those who don’t attest to vaccine status will have to pay for same-day Covid test. pic.twitter.com/vT0nX9mFBJ
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 6, 2021
We talk about the Darwin Award as something you earn by removing yourself from the gene pool. But you can still receive the reward if you remove your children.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 9, 2021
re: #152 Belafon
That’s horrifying and sad. It frustrates me so much that people are so willfully in denial about all this, for literally no other reason than political partisanship. It beggars belief that people are so fucking attached to their political identity that they’re willing to deny reality itself and literally die, alone and in pain, isolated in a hospital ward, rather than accept and admit their beliefs are incorrect.
So the IPCC released their first large report in several years.
This will be the usual song and dance routine.
The usual crowd, the deniers (who will on a Venn diagram overlap the COVID-deniers to some significant degree), will claim it is all lies.
Those who accept the reality of AGW will of course try to be all convincing to the deniers.
And nothing will be done.
re: #46 Dread Pirate Ron
There is a national strategy, involves vaccination and mitigation thru social distancing and masking.
We just have an absurd amount of people pushing against it in the Republicans side.— Nick Done 🇺🇸 (@NickDone8) August 9, 2021
Here is the summary for policy makers, of the Physical Science basis. At 39 pages for just a summary for just one section of the 6th assessment … it’s still too long. Those folk at the IPCC have to find a way to be more succinct.
re: #15 JOE 🥓
90% of the people who called themselves “a Conservative” are fascists. This has been obvious for years now, since their demagogue came along to lead them off a cliff. What did you think being unable to adapt to change, or accept equal rights for all Americans would lead to?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 9, 2021
A Massachusetts vax update as we continue to slowly add
85% of all adults have had at least 1 jab…pretty impressive. 3 out of 4 adults fully vaccinated. Via @CohoKelly pic.twitter.com/fJx8vy6lnn— Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) August 8, 2021
re: #161 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“Nationalize Big Tech” is amazing.
Ready to sacrifice Free Market Capitalism and Private Property wherever it fails to serve their ideology and agenda.
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Nationalize Big Tech” is amazing.
Ready to sacrifice Free Market Capitalism and Private Property wherever it fails to serve their ideology and agenda.
Democracy as well. They were just onboard if they always get their way.
re: #83 sagehen
Plus there was no H2B’s last year or this year.
And 600,000+ dead.
A significant number of the dead were elderly, but… in my family growing up, and probably a lot of other families, grandma and grandpa were the childcare while mom and dad were both working.
re: #141 lawhawk
GOP extremists: it’s the immigrants who brought delta covid19 variant and causing the spread.
Umm… where’s the fucking border and where are the cases surging? Because the border regions are seeing far less per capita cases, which shows that it’s not immigrants but rather fucknut dumbass GOPers who are spreading and enabling the spread of covid19 nationwide.
I see a bunch of border states on that map that have a much LOWER rate of COVID infectionsl
Oh wait, that’s because Trudeau closed that border.
I took a look at the video from the plane crash that happened over the weekend, and managed to pause it just before the plane impacted the ground. It looks like something was seriously mechanically wrong with the plane; parts of the tail were missing, and the wings were tilted at a very unusual angle relative to the fuselage. Those people never stood a chance.
re: #165 The Pie Overlord!
I see a bunch of border states on that map that have a much LOWER rate of COVID infectionsl
Oh wait, that’s because Trudeau closed that border.
SEE, HE DIDNT LET THOSE FILTHY ILLEGALS IN! //
re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here is the summary for policy makers, of the Physical Science basis. At 39 pages for just a summary for just one section of the 6th assessment … it’s still too long. Those folk at the IPCC have to find a way to be more succinct.
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tl;dr version: We’re fucked without immediate action and investment by the leading polluters worldwide.
re: #133 Patricia Kayden
Just sent to my anti-vaccination friend. She’ll probably just ignore it.
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Won’t work on the Luntzheads thoroughly brainwashed by the Republican Party who believe the only “immunization” they need is Jay-Zuss.
re: #168 lawhawk
tl;dr version: We’re fucked without immediate action and investment by the leading polluters worldwide.
My Alexa briefing this morning was all about how fucked we are. We should have shut down polluters in the 70s or 80s.
re: #148 Dopamine Fish
Why would it matter for the purposes of his business? It sounds to me like he’s bought into the anti-science woo that vaccinated people do damage to other people around them. (Or like my sister-in-law, who believes she has magically become vaccinated because of all the vaccinated people around her shedding on her. And she’s supposedly the smart one in their family.)
It wouldn’t but its a weasel word for the story.
Even mtg said she knew women who miscarried. That’s specific. I’d still want proof.
Adverse affect could mean a day in bed after the vax and then nothing more.
Some may be interested in the new “interactive atlas” that the IPCC put together:
New Rule: If you refuse to take the vaccine over religious reasons cause “God got your back”, you should be taken to a church instead of a hospital if you get sick from COVID.
— YS (@NYinLA2121) August 8, 2021
re: #157 Dopamine Fish
That’s horrifying and sad. It frustrates me so much that people are so willfully in denial about all this, for literally no other reason than political partisanship. It beggars belief that people are so fucking attached to their political identity that they’re willing to deny reality itself and literally die, alone and in pain, isolated in a hospital ward, rather than accept and admit their beliefs are incorrect.
Id settle With “were manipulated”
re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So the IPCC released their first large report in several years.
This will be the usual song and dance routine.
The usual crowd, the deniers (who will on a Venn diagram overlap the COVID-deniers to some significant degree), will claim it is all lies.
Those who accept the reality of AGW will of course try to be all convincing to the deniers.
And nothing will be done.
Nevertheless something will happen…
re: #175 Dangerman
Nevertheless something will happen…
For sure.
The IPCC is sticking with the idea of modeling for difference scenarios of the future (scenarios of human actions.)
The most optimistic is that we reduce emissions very sharply over the next couple of decades.
The most discouraging is the business as usual, which means we’ll burn everything we can get our hands on.
The last scenario gives us not a Pliocene, but a near Miocene climate by the end of the century (with subsequent polar ice sheet melting in the following centuries.)
re: #166 Dopamine Fish
I took a look at the video from the plane crash that happened over the weekend,
There’s a reason the US General Aviation community call light aircraft accidents “doctor killers”. Doctors have lots of money, especially the older ones who have risen up the ranks and a six-seater turboprop is a fine tax-avoidance addition to the McMansion’s indoor pool and mid-life crisis car collection in the four-bay garage. They have a God Complex par excellence, they believe can never make a mistake (and they get to bury their most egregious errors while the malpractice insurance covers the tab) and they continue in this manner way too long because they’re so far up the greasy pole no-one under them can tell them to let go and retire from the medical business.
It’s entirely possible God invented Cessnas just to thin the herd.
re: #174 Dangerman
Id settle With “were manipulated”
I’m on board if you add “incredibly easily” in the middle. These people are willfully dopey and live to be manipulated.
re: #178 Nojay UK
And in fact, the people who died in the plane were doctors (and a spouse). The article didn’t give ages, but one of them was a professor emeritus, which isn’t a status you usually get when you’re young.
re: #178 Nojay UK
There’s a reason the US General Aviation community call light aircraft accidents “doctor killers”. Doctors have lots of money, especially the older ones who have risen up the ranks and a six-seater turboprop is a fine tax-avoidance addition to the McMansion’s indoor pool and mid-life crisis car collection in the four-bay garage. They have a God Complex par excellence, they believe can never make a mistake (and they get to bury their most egregious errors while the malpractice insurance covers the tab) and they continue in this manner way too long because they’re so far up the greasy pole no-one under them can tell them to let go and retire from the medical business.
It’s entirely possible God invented Cessnas just to thin the herd.
Your personality doesnt change with an increase in altitude.
They fly the way they drive
Your personality doesn’t change when it gets wet
Your asshole boy friend pushing you to dive is no going to be a considerate buddy
re: #50 DesertDenizen
I’m not normally a conspiracy theory guy. But a bunch of people show up at a PB event wearing matching clothing that says Antifa on it?
I have watched the video several times and can’t make out any antifa labels. All I see is classic Portland black bloc.
re: #168 lawhawk
‘We’ also need a time machine to back to about 1980 or so and tell everyone to stop extracting and burning fossil carbon (coal, oil, gas). Good luck with that.
TL,DR: we’re fucked and have been fucked for the past forty years and more. Let’s have another Big Meeting of Big People and make a Big Statement that gets signed by the Big People and then continue with Business As Usual because the Little People want cheap gas and lights that work and washing machines and clean water and all the Little Things that prevent their lives from being nasty, brutish and short.
Federal judge is putting the US Attorney’s office on the spot for why they’re not insisting on addressing the full costs of the 1/6 insurrection, which is closer to half a billion dollars:
Putting the U.S. Attorney’s Office on the spot here: https://t.co/KjcRlJ9OAh
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 9, 2021
All of these treasonous insurrectionists are getting off lightly, and the judge seems to agree that the US Attorney’s Office isn’t properly addressing the costs to society.
Over the weekend, authorities imploded the former Bayonne Military Ocean Terminal, which was used from the 1940s until the 1980s to provision military ships throughout the Cold War. The reinforced concrete structure required 10,000 pounds of explosives to demolish as the structure was designed to resist bombings.
The site will become a UPS regional hub.
re: #184 lawhawk
They’re setting us up for an even worse coup 2.0.
Example: here is the (generation 6) model output for the burn-it-all scenario, for the change in the number of days (per year) with highs above 40C, by the last two decades of the century:
All you folk in the great plains (well y’all will probably be dead by then, but your grandchildren if you have any) are going to be quite uncomfortable.
The deserts here in the SW are toast.
Awwwww. Poor middle Screwdy got stabbed in the back by Trump…
As Rudy Giuliani’s legal bills have piled up in recent months—and as federal investigators intensify their probe into Donald Trump’s longtime associate—the former president appears willing to provide just as much help as he usually does when his friends are in need: next to nothing.
Capitol rioter who destroyed media equipment re-arrested for allegedly strangling family member
So why was this psychotic asshole out on bail, folks?
re: #189 JOE 🥓
Capitol rioter who destroyed media equipment re-arrested for allegedly strangling family member
So why was this psychotic asshole out on bail, folks?
Why was everybody allowed to leave the building unhindered? Why was anybody allowed to leave without at least having their ID checked?
And in today’s edition of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Radical right-wing preacher Joshua Feuerstein tells Christians “you don’t have to wear the mask, you got Jesus. You don’t need the vaccine, you got Jesus.” pic.twitter.com/AwfBigYsS5
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 9, 2021
re: #191 JOE 🥓
Radical right-wing preacher Joshua Feuerstein tells Christians “you don’t have to wear the mask, you got Jesus. You don’t need the vaccine, you got Jesus.”
Jesus is my intubation pipe!
Jesus is my Oxygen supply!!!
re: #188 JOE 🥓
And despite Trump screwing Rudy, there’s this:
According to a person with knowledge of the matter, Giuliani has reminded those close to him to not name Trump when complaining in public or on social media about how top Republicans have abandoned Giuliani in his time of distress.
“We are allowed to call out the RNC and other Republican leaders,” this source said. “But not Donald Trump.”
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why was everybody allowed to leave the building unhindered? Why was anybody allowed to leave without at least having their ID checked?
In the end, it was the white decision.
/
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jesus is my intubation pipe!
Jesus is my Oxygen supply!!!
Yeah. And Jesus provided the Pine Condo for the Dirt Nap!
I received an email this morning that the company is reverting back to its previous restrictions. Face masks to be worn when at the company, everyone who can work remotely is encouraged to do so as much as possible. Sigh. Fucking covidiots are why we can’t have nice things.
This is a most interesting right to repair case. Basically, McFlurry machines break down and it requires a Taylor tech to come out and fix them. This company Kytch made a device that can help franchisees do basic diagnostics on the machines so that they could do some repairs. Taylor hates it, tried to stop franchisees from buying the Kytch device and said it was damaging, while at the same time getting hold of a Kytch device to reverse engineer. A California judge entered a temporary restraining order against Taylor.
Details in the article.
At the center of the story is a long running cold war that explains why you often can’t get a McFlurry when you want to. https://t.co/Z6ZjibAgJ2
— Motherboard (@motherboard) August 9, 2021
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
In the end, it was the white decision.
/
A question that seems to have gone unasked/unanswered. Whose call was it?
For context, Trump added $7.8 trillion to the national debt and the New York Times wrote 0 headlines about it. pic.twitter.com/aNsn4YD091
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) August 9, 2021
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
And despite Trump screwing Rudy, there’s this:
According to a person with knowledge of the matter, Giuliani has reminded those close to him to not name Trump when complaining in public or on social media about how top Republicans have abandoned Giuliani in his time of distress.
“We are allowed to call out the RNC and other Republican leaders,” this source said. “But not Donald Trump.”
Keep kissing Trump’s ass and whiff them farts, Rudy. Such a pathetic wimp…
re: #197 mmmirele
This is what happens when Monopoly-lever players dominate a market.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jesus is my intubation pipe!
Jesus is my Oxygen supply!!!
“JESUS WHY DIDN’T YOU PAY MY $250,000 DOCTOR BILL?????”
re: #202 JOE 🥓
“JESUS WHY DIDN’T YOU PAY MY $250,000 DOCTOR BILL?????”
Jesus: “Why didn’t you take the shots when my friends offered them? Idjit.”
re: #202 JOE 🥓
“JESUS WHY DIDN’T YOU PAY MY $250,000 DOCTOR BILL?????”
“Render unto God what is God’s, and unto Behemoth HealthCare what is Behemoth HealthCare’s….”
re: #205 lawhawk
That’s what the gofundme is for.
…because them church bake sales & bingos won’t raise enough cash to pay those bills…but there’s always those donation cans at the local 7-11!
LMAO.
The Founders would have strung up people who backed an armed insurrection to overthrow the government they created. They would have impeached/removed Trump the day after 1/6 occurred for inciting the overthrow and to remain in power despite losing in a landslide.— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 9, 2021
thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210808 edition ———————->
“Half Way Through the Third to Last”
Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion
re: #208 lawhawk
The Founders would have strung up people who backed an armed insurrection to overthrow the government they created.
If I’m not mistaken the Founders started an armed insurrection to overthrow the existing government which they saw as illegitimate. They got away with it though so no backsies.
re: #211 Nojay UK
They also had to deal with insurrections of their own immediately after THEY insurrected…
so don’t pass racist bills…..there is an easy solution https://t.co/qYTfr1wa5z
— Charlie Bonner (@CharlieKBonner) August 9, 2021
re: #211 Nojay UK
If I’m not mistaken the Founders started an armed insurrection to overthrow the existing government which they saw as illegitimate. They got away with it though so no backsies.
Yes and when Western Pennsylvanians staged a revolt against a whiskey tax Washington & Hamilton led the army to crush that rebellion.
Just hit my inbox. Dallas is “temporarily” requiring masks of all students and teachers in its schools. This appears to directly contradict Governor Abbott’s order that schools are not allowed to require masks. This is a huge relief for Dallas parents. Credit to @dallasschools. pic.twitter.com/u3PUApjuh6
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 9, 2021
re: #215 jaunte
Texas sues Dallas over this in 3…2…1…
re: #217 JOE 🥓
And we got a Monday Bonus in Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Oh look out folks! Tennessee gonna lock up unvaccinated people…gonna put them down in them there underground tunnels with the mole children?????
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re: #217 JOE 🥓
What a dope. National Guard personnel (my daughter’s age) gave me a vaccination.
re: #217 JOE 🥓
Unfortunately none of his audience will download the executive order .pdf and read what it says for themselves.
re: #188 JOE 🥓
Awwwww. Poor middle Screwdy got stabbed in the back by Trump…
As Rudy Giuliani’s legal bills have piled up in recent months—and as federal investigators intensify their probe into Donald Trump’s longtime associate—the former president appears willing to provide just as much help as he usually does when his friends are in need: next to nothing.
Ha! link within that article:
When asked about President Biden’s tan suit,… Marjorie Taylor Greene had this to say:pic.twitter.com/1UHQqvWzFb
— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) August 7, 2021
re: #217 JOE 🥓
And we got a Monday Bonus in Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Oh look out folks! Tennessee gonna lock up unvaccinated people…gonna put them down in them there underground tunnels with the mole children?????
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re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg
Texas sues Dallas over this in 3…2…1…
Maybe not. DISD can argue that their mandate is a temporary measure needed to keep children and teachers safe(r) and therefore falls outside of the Guv’s EO.
And Abbot, if he has half a brain, will let it slide as a just “temporary” measure. DISD has given him an out. He should hug it to his bosom as if it is a Houston home builder with a million-dollar campaign check.
Old Pulpit Pimp Cult Leader Moon was bad enough but his kids are even worse!
Sean Moon took some of his father’s flock when he split off, now finds that guns and biker jackets work better than robes to bring the new kind of followers he wants, his own divine army. Here he is “scouting” DC on Jan 5. He must be held accountable for actions on Jan 6. 22/ pic.twitter.com/0QyDDdWlLH
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters) August 9, 2021
re: #211 Nojay UK
If I’m not mistaken the Founders started an armed insurrection to overthrow the existing government which they saw as illegitimate. They got away with it though so no backsies.
That government was not a legally elected one. That is a BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
But to the Tea Baggers and the MAGATs that they metamorphosed into, there is no difference between a foreign tyrant and a domestically elected government if they disagree with it.
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That government was not a legally elected one. That is a BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE.
But to the Tea Baggers and the MAGATs that they metamorphosed into, there is no difference between a foreign tyrant and a domestically elected government if they disagree with it.
Yep, “you can’t silence the voices of 74 million people” as they try to silence the voices of 81 million people.
Why is Critical Race Theory?https://t.co/9cTA4CQ3ej pic.twitter.com/GXlVPQFKnk
— Some More News (@SomeMoreNews) August 7, 2021
So we’re basically seeing why racism is winning the battle for the souls of our schools w/r/t the CRT boogeymen and the like.
It’s not that they’re even winning: they just flat out won and are making sure to strangle any more resistance in the crib before they can be challenged any further. It’s not the last gasp of a dying movement, but the final insult from the victors to taunt us over our failures.
Hey look everybody: the long-time representative for one of the biggest moochers of federal funds in the U.S. and enabler for trillions more in debt under the last GOP administration has issues with governmental debt now!#MarshaTheMooch pic.twitter.com/fNRq1JI8Yx
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 9, 2021
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why was everybody allowed to leave the building unhindered? Why was anybody allowed to leave without at least having their ID checked?
Probably because capital police was seriously outnumbered and likely outgunned. They were afraid that if shit escalated 100s would die on both sides.
re: #224 austin_blue
Maybe not. DISD can argue that their mandate is a temporary measure needed to keep children and teachers safe(r) and therefore falls outside of the Guv’s EO.
And Abbot, if he has half a brain, will let it slide as a just “temporary” measure. DISD has given him an out. He should hug it to his bosom as if it is a Houston home builder with a million-dollar campaign check.
Sorry, man: assuming facts not in evidence…
And maybe (I hope) I’m wrong, but I think it’s more likely Abbot will react like any would-be “strongman dictator” - his apparent role-model - and double down on the threats and retaliations. I’m guessing he has some state legal official in court ASAP (probably already) to fight the District’s actions tooth and nail: and, likely as a backup, threaten to withhold every penny the State possibly can until they repeal their mask mandate. All in the cause of “Freedom”, of course….
re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That government was not a legally elected one.
History and reality begs to differ.
Of course the self-selected Founding Traitors Fathers immediately called free and fair elections after the Declaration of Independence to give credence to their democratic ideals… some 12 years later.
re: #231 JC1
Probably because capital police was seriously outnumbered and likely outgunned. They were afraid that if shit escalated 100s would die on both sides.
and no reinforcements arrived even after the initial assault?
Jezzofuck
re: #233 Nojay UK
History and reality begs to differ.
Of course the self-selected Founding
TraitorsFathers immediately called free and fair elections after the Declaration of Independence to give credence to their democratic ideals… some 12 years later.
It was elected by the citizens of England, not the colonists
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Washington and most of the Founding Fathers were of UK stock born and bred, they could have voted in the election of 1774 but chose not to attend the hustings in their appropriate parish, borough or constituency to cast their ballots. Their choice, no need to throw their toys out of their prams afterwards but like good Republicans they had to blame someone else (and the wrong someone at that) for their lack of democratic efforts.
re: #236 Nojay UK
Wait a sec, so (at least some of ) the colonists did have a vote?
I thought it was all about taxation without representation.
re: #211 Nojay UK
If I’m not mistaken the Founders started an armed insurrection to overthrow the existing government which they saw as illegitimate. They got away with it though so no backsies.
Our revolution, like every successful revolution anywhere ever, had plenty of outside help — personnel, weapons and money — from the existing government’s other enemies. People who probably didn’t care one way or the other about us, but had their own reasons for wanting to harm the people we were resurrecting against. (in our case, France. They spent so much money on our revolution it bankrupted King Louis, and had a lot to do with why his people insurrected against him a few years later).
And the mercenary troops the British Crown brought in for backup? Turns out mercenaries don’t stay bought. We gave the Hessians 50 acres each to switch sides, and more than 20% of them did.
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think he’s arguing that a few of the Colonists had the right to take an expensive, dangerous, multi month sea voyage back to England to vote, so therefore everyone had representation.
re: #241 DesertDenizen
I think he’s arguing that a few of the Colonists had the right to take an expensive, dangerous, multi month sea voyage back to England to vote, so therefore everyone had representation.
Just like every American has the chance to take a day off work to travel an hour to the nearest polling place to stand in line to vote for three and a half hours to find out that their name had been purged from the voter rolls without knowing?
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Exactly.
re: #241 DesertDenizen
I think he’s arguing that a few of the Colonists had the right to take an expensive, dangerous, multi month sea voyage back to England to vote, so therefore everyone had representation.
That option was available to them so they were not disenfranchised in the way Jim Crow operated or the Chinese Exclusion acts or the manner in which the Native Americans, slaves, French, Spanish residents etc. were excluded from voting in the super-ultra-democratic wipepo-only United States for centuries.
Winners write the histories, basically. Remember the Alamo!
re: #244 Nojay UK
I think someone is sad they’re not a Colonial Empire anymore. Do you miss the Raj as well?
America’s penis is infected. https://t.co/jByLHF0WT1
— Edwin (@EdMix13) August 9, 2021
re: #246 gocart mozart
It looks like it’s gotten gangrenous. We should cut it off to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the country.
re: #246 gocart mozart
I thought it was America’s mullet.
re: #230 (((Archangel1)))
As predicted by many the GOP turns into massive deficit hawks the moment it’s not a Republican president.
re: #152 Belafon
This woman’s husband should be charged with negligence or abuse. If he truly gave a shit and loved her, he would have got her care before she suffered permanent brain damage. 9 percent oxygen saturation? She’s never going to recover from that. If she lives. I have to wonder if he denied her hospital access til she turned freaking blue.
re: #245 DesertDenizen
I think someone is sad they’re not a Colonial Empire anymore.
The biggest mistake any dick-swinging country can make is to create an Empire. Look at the US for example, fighting in Afghanistan for decades for no good reason other than Imperial ambitions. What a maroon! Britain should never have created its Empire to start with but it sorta happened for reasons, many of them the same as the process the US followed (basically the Navy protecting the oceanic trade routes, from the shores of Tripoli to the Panama Canal zone to dominating the Pacific militarily in the early 20th century, with land grabs to provide bases and harbours).
The US spends over 700 billion dollars a year and contorts its entire social structure to enable and preserve global military dominance for imperial reasons. Because it can never be seen to backtrack every time the US claims a foothold somewhere, like Guantanamo Bay or Okinawa it can never be seen to retreat because defeat == retreat. Criticism of the military is treason, criticism of militaristic thinking is similarly deemed unpatriotic. Thankfully this wasn’t a big thing in the British Empire as Kipling said:
O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”;
But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins,” when the band begins to play
Britain deliberately turned its back on Empire — I was (just) old enough to remember the Press reports when Aden was freed from the shackles of its evil colonialist masters, although the later under-the-counter deal that transferred the British Indian Ocean Territories into the US Military Empire (AKA the unsinkable aircraft carrier on Diego Garcia) was not widely publicised.
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Trump’s “Stolen Election” Lie Based on Evidence From Pervy Bathroom Cam-Spy OK, this really takes the cake. If you have relatives that still cling to the “election was stolen, dadgum, I jes’ KNOW IT … This should be a slight remedy to the stubborn madness Thanks to online anonymity, the ...
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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