John Oliver on Belarus Dictator Alexander Lukashenko
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John Oliver discusses the longtime leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and the many reasons his country’s citizens have not to like him.
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I have noticed a lot of anti-Western, anti-Capitalist Putinverstehers out there are also signing on as Lukaschenkoverstehers as well.
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
Rep. Lauren Boebert declares that Christians must rise up and remove ungodly leaders from power and replace them with “righteous men and women of God” who realize that the government should be taking orders from the church. https://t.co/y0o5W1bZ1m pic.twitter.com/MDVT40AGqg
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 13, 2021
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
My reply to her would be: Alright, Lauren, you first. Because the way you act, you are even more ungodly than the people you hate.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
He removed Trump on January 21st, and the virus seems to be taking care of others. I’m sure that’s what you mean, right, Boebert?
CL’d repost.
For months DeSantis and his office have pushed back against any suggestion that the governor wasn’t doing enough to promote the vaccine.
Today, he is standing next to people sharing anti-vax conspiracies in a press conference that is airing on taxpayer funded Florida Channel.— Steve Contorno (@scontorno) September 13, 2021
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
If, as I read, she is going to be redistricted into a blue district, she’ll find out that God doesn’t vote.
The American Taliban. https://t.co/FgwdJdry2b
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
It’s really quite stunning to me to see how hard men like Desantis and Greg Abbott work to kill people.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s really quite stunning to me to see how hard men like Desantis and Greg Abbott work to kill people.
What’s even more stunning is how the Trump base worships these men and praises them for the FREEDUMB they provide from mask and vaccine mandates.
To THWARTLE someone is to contradict or argue against them.
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) September 13, 2021
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
From the church or from scripture?
Like all the times Jesus said to feed the hungry, house the homeless, heal the sick, welcome the refugee, pay your taxes, pray quietly at home and don’t make a public spectacle of it… He’s quoted in the book Lauren claims to live by, he’s quoted as saying these things repeatedly.
What that book doesn’t quote him as saying? Anything at all about abortion or homosexuality. Doesn’t think it’s worth a mention.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
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like i said below, she knows shes almost out of a job
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s really quite stunning to me to see how hard men like Desantis and Greg Abbott work to kill people.
What’s killing me about them is, the only reason they are doing these things is pride. They refuse to be wrong. They refuse to even admit the possibility that their approach is wrong, that the vaccines work, that COVID is dangerous, that people’s personal liberties mean nothing if they can’t live to enjoy them. They’re just like Trump - they’re not wrong, and even when they are, they aren’t.
re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ah, so that means my mom is the biggest thwartler I know.
re: #13 Dopamine Fish
I think they’re also doing it because they know they will suffer minimal if any consequences.
Interesting that he doesn’t deny or condemn the existence of “terrorists on the right.” https://t.co/5eMaiZfE4b
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) September 13, 2021
re: #11 sagehen
What that book doesn’t quote him as saying? Anything at all about abortion or homosexuality. Doesn’t think it’s worth a mention.
“He was so incensed, disgusted and appalled by them that it left him speechless!”
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
Never thought I’d see the day that W. would be considered a RINO, but…here we are.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
What’s even more stunning is how the Trump base worships these men and praises them for the FREEDUMB they provide from mask and vaccine mandates.
Even most Kentucky Republicans aren’t quite that evil. Last week when my awful state senator sought to prohibit school districts from instituting mask mandates, her amendment failed because not one of her GOP colleagues would second her motion. They passed the buck entirely to school boards to avoid responsibility.
re: #12 Dangerman
like i said below, she knows shes almost out of a job
She has 14 months of grifting as a congresswoman left.
When dad is yelling at you and you don’t want to hear it.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/KR1SzzZIJ9
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 13, 2021
re: #13 Dopamine Fish
What’s killing me about them is, the only reason they are doing these things is pride. They refuse to be wrong. They refuse to even admit the possibility that their approach is wrong, that the vaccines work, that COVID is dangerous, that people’s personal liberties mean nothing if they can’t live to enjoy them. They’re just like Trump - they’re not wrong, and even when they are, they aren’t.
It’s actually the result of the interweaving of religion with a political ideology. It creates a dangerous fragility, where if the threads are pulled from one end, the whole fabric - politics and religion - starts to unravel entirely.
That is where their minds are right now; challenging the legitimacy of Trumpism is no different than challenging the very legitimacy of their scripture…and having to confront the harsh truth is nothing short of an existential crisis.
re: #286 Dangerman
she (bobert) knows she’s almost out of a job
We can only hope; along with MTG, wheelchair-boy, and a host of others.
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
It’s actually the result of the interweaving of religion with a political ideology. It creates a dangerous fragility, where if the threads are pulled from one end, the whole fabric - politics and religion - starts to unravel entirely.
Plenty of people equate Zionism with Judaism or Islam with Islamism, Hinduism with Hindu Nationalism, Christianity with Dominionism, etc.
Both within and outside the religious groups.
Yikes pic.twitter.com/ENULkxCRci
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) September 13, 2021
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Never thought I’d see the day that W. would be considered a RINO, but…here we are.
Bush made a statement that could be condemning Trump, therefore Trump has to attack.
Drudge: New Yorkers face 61.2% tax rate.
Yeah, if you’re in the top tax brackets overall. ~99% of Americans aren’t in the top tax bracket. About a million people nationwide fall into the top tax bracket overall under the IRS tables. Nearly 80% fall into tax brackets of 15% or below. In other words, this is more bogus framing courtesy of right wingers.
re: #26 Belafon
Bush made a statement that could be condemning Trump, therefore Trump has to attack.
The whole Bush family has no love lost for Trump.
She is all in on politicizing courts. She just doesn’t want the public to realize that is what they are doing.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 13, 2021
re: #25 teleskiguy
False idols and all that crap.
Or…
Riding Trump to the Apocalypse because he’s the guy who bring about the End Times by sabotaging govt and policies.
That’s not what it means. It’s undeniable that the Taliban is a malignant group, not because they’re Muslims but because they’re Dark Ages fundamentalist fanatics. Nobody is saying all Muslims are like that, and that’s not the comparison.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #19 No Malarkey!
Even most Kentucky Republicans aren’t quite that evil. Last week when my awful state senator sought to prohibit school districts from instituting mask mandates, her amendment failed because not one of her GOP colleagues would second her motion. They passed the buck entirely to school boards to avoid responsibility.
The difference is that the Kentucky governor is a Democrat who promotes vaccines and masks and their senior senator, as evil as he may be, promotes vaccines and does not object to masks.
Florida has a genocidal governor. Rubio does encourage everyone to get vaccinated but their criminal senator and ex-governor Scott only says that everyone who wants a vaccine should get one.
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
It’s actually the result of the interweaving of religion with a political ideology. It creates a dangerous fragility, where if the threads are pulled from one end, the whole fabric - politics and religion - starts to unravel entirely.
That is where their minds are right now; challenging the legitimacy of Trumpism is no different than challenging the very legitimacy of their scripture…and having to confront the harsh truth is nothing short of an existential crisis.
Slacktavist has a whole rant about how these people have constructed their political/religious identity in such a flimsy interconnected house of cards that if any one item on their checklist is disproved, it means Jesus doesn’t love you. So they must cling to even the tiniest detail, none of it can be wrong. Ever.
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
It’s actually the result of the interweaving of religion with a political ideology. It creates a dangerous fragility, where if the threads are pulled from one end, the whole fabric - politics and religion - starts to unravel entirely.
That is where their minds are right now; challenging the legitimacy of Trumpism is no different than challenging the very legitimacy of their scripture…and having to confront the harsh truth is nothing short of an existential crisis.
That is the very definition of a cult.
Back in the 90s, I was on the “Cult Beat” and had to spend time with & interview people who had fled Scientology, Branch Davidians, the Mormon polygamists, etc. etc.
Commonality: the people who fled the cults had started out by getting puzzled by some inconsistency in the doctrine, and started questioning things. LIttle by little, the doubt grew … until it all just came crashing down.
It was very painful for them. They felt so stupid and ashamed.
re: #27 lawhawk
Drudge: New Yorkers face 61.2% tax rate.
Yeah, if you’re
in the top tax brackets overall. Rupert Murdoch.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The whole Bush family has no love lost for Trump.
Except George P. He’s a Trumper.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
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I’m perfectly ok with Muslims calling the Taliban the Islamic Evangelicals.
re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter
The difference is that the Kentucky governor in is a Democrat who promotes vaccines and masks and their senior senator, as evil as he may be, promotes vaccines and does not object to masks.
Florida has a genocidal governor. Rubio does encourage everyone to get vaccinated but their criminal senator and ex-governor Scott only says that everyone who wants a vaccine should get one.
True. A ban on mask mandates could only have passed by overriding Governor Beshear’s veto, and the GOP legislators would’ve owned it completely. So they passed the buck to local school boards instead.
re: #33 sagehen
Slacktavist has a whole rant about how these people have constructed their political/religious identity in such a flimsy interconnected house of cards that if any one item on their checklist is disproved, it means Jesus doesn’t love you. So they must cling to even the tiniest detail, none of it can be wrong. Ever.
Yeah, sad but true. And soon enough, everything becomes “the hill to die on”.
Just makes me think of the oft-cited quote from Dune: “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
re: #22 Dr Lizardo
What we’re seeing with these people is the externalization of their ego: God and Trump exist as external voices that confirm their internal voices and little else. This isn’t even ideology, because there’s no actual standard they will hold themselves to: the “rules” continuously evolve to (1) create exceptions such that they are not held to their own standards, (2) novel forms of transgression are invented to justify further cruelty assertion of control over others.
The harder part to winnow out is that there’s a feedback loop between the absolute cynics—the ones who know they’re acting in bad faith—and absolute believers—who have sublimated themselves to their authorities—but most of these Trumpist types are oscillating between the two poles: if you don’t have any standard of “truth” then your sincere beliefs can change constantly while you don’t acknowledge the transition. It’s Super Turbo Ship of Theseus.
re: #25 teleskiguy
Hold up. The name of the billboard company is Reagan?
This seems like a Poe or a photoshop.
I don’t like American Taliban because the Taliban are just the Af-Pak Klan.
oh no how terrible https://t.co/yVi1dS8ynJ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #34 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
That is the very definition of a cult.
Back in the 90s, I was on the “Cult Beat” and had to spend time with & interview people who had fled Scientology, Branch Davidians, the Mormon polygamists, etc. etc.
Commonality: the people who fled the cults had started out by getting puzzled by some inconsistency in the doctrine, and started questioning things. LIttle by little, the doubt grew … until it all just came crashing down.
It was very painful for them. They felt so stupid and ashamed.
I personally knew people in the Harun Yahya cult. Though there are still a few hardcore dead-enders who insist he’s done nothing wrong (and also insist that he is, in fact, the Mahdi), the rest of them feel a good deal of embarrassment at having been hoodwinked for so long. I also personally know the one woman who made a rather daring escape from the now-demolished cult compound in Istanbul - it was her that went to the authorities….along with a few flashdrives of data that was pretty much what ended up getting him put away for the next 1,075 years.
re: #34 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
That is the very definition of a cult.
Back in the 90s, I was on the “Cult Beat” and had to spend time with & interview people who had fled Scientology, Branch Davidians, the Mormon polygamists, etc. etc.
Commonality: the people who fled the cults had started out by getting puzzled by some inconsistency in the doctrine, and started questioning things. LIttle by little, the doubt grew … until it all just came crashing down.
It was very painful for them. They felt so stupid and ashamed.
I watched a tv show about the Branch Davidians. Two of the members were talking to each other, and one said, “but what if he [Koresh] isn’t the Lamb of God?” And I just wanted to scream: “What’s wrong with you, of course he isn’t!”
re: #43 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t like American Taliban because the Taliban are just the Af-Pak Klan.
We could call them Sharists.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Damn, that’s a real fucking tragedy. So, what’s for lunch?
re: #44 Charles Johnson
They will put the money to better use.
Cool, cool.
Hey QAnon freaks-if you’re so concerned about hospitals killing you when you get sick with Covid — how ‘bout you stay away & not clog up hospitals, leaving them to decent people? https://t.co/ovwqjTxLZP— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) September 13, 2021
Next ugly step for QAnons: condemning “murder hospitals” and attacking the already exhausted doctors & nurses.
In Tennessee, the hospitals are already running at 30% of staff, because so many have either quit, are sick, or have died.
They’re asking admin office workers - people who change the toner & work the digital billing systems - to help monitor the intubated in the ICUs.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
Project Veritas’ regular monthly $165,000 attorney bill.
I feel bad for the Mercers who will just have to write a larger check next month.
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re: #43 The Ghost of a Flea
…and I’m not saying that whimsically.
Taliban aren’t just fundamentalist religious guys, there’s a lot of Pasthun nationalism involved, and their preferred version of society is built on localized patriarchal institutions—mens’ councils that act as courts. It’s the rural Afghanistan equivalent of a system of sundown towns, with the central government existing only to impose a minimum of discipline on each local scene.
(What shape their society actually takes now that they’ve won is an entirely different matter)
This is awful, but it is a separate kind of awful from other radical fundamentalist interpretations of an Islamic state: Gulf State monarchies, the several attempts at caliphates, etc.
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
I hate to say this, but I think it’s not going to be much longer before the Qcumbers and other assorted RWNJs start physically assaulting - or killing - doctors and nurses, blaming them (and healthcare workers in general) for the ongoing pandemic. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see a (successful or at least attempted) vaccination center bombing.
re: #41 The Ghost of a Flea
What we’re seeing with these people is the externalization of their ego: God and Trump exist as external voices that confirm their internal voices and little else. This isn’t even ideology, because there’s no actual standard they will hold themselves to: the “rules” continuously evolve to (1) create exceptions such that they are not held to their own standards, (2) novel forms of transgression are invented to justify further cruelty assertion of control over others.
The harder part to winnow out is that there’s a feedback loop between the absolute cynics—the ones who know they’re acting in bad faith—and absolute believers—who have sublimated themselves to their authorities—but most of these Trumpist types are oscillating between the two poles: if you don’t have any standard of “truth” then your sincere beliefs can change constantly while you don’t acknowledge the transition. It’s Super Turbo Ship of Theseus.
My best hope for our future lies in outfits like the Lincoln Project.
I know, I know: many of them helped boost the present shitshow. They profited from the brainwashed masses due to the right-wing noise machine.
But they *did* have that moment of clarity that I referenced above. When they realized that The Base was off the leash, and that they no longer felt the need to hold themselves to ANY standard. Trump was their idol. No lie, no depravity, no transgression was held against him.
It was freedom for them to indulge their worst selves.
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Next ugly step for QAnons: condemning “murder hospitals” and attacking the already exhausted doctors & nurses.
In Tennessee, the hospitals are already running at 30% of staff, because so many have either quit, are sick, or have died.
They’re asking admin office workers - people who change the toner & work the digital billing systems - to help monitor the intubated in the ICUs.
In Kentucky, national guardsmen have been activated to help at hospitals.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
I hate to say this, but I think it’s not going to be much longer before the Qcumbers and other assorted RWNJs start physically assaulting - or killing - doctors and nurses, blaming them (and healthcare workers in general) for the ongoing pandemic. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see a (successful or at least attempted) vaccination center bombing.
They are already harassing mobile vaccination units, forcing them to shut down.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
I hate to say this, but I think it’s not going to be much longer before the Qcumbers and other assorted RWNJs start physically assaulting - or killing - doctors and nurses, blaming them (and healthcare workers in general) for the ongoing pandemic. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see a (successful or at least attempted) vaccination center bombing.
Yeah, the endgame of this anti-vaxx “FREEDUMB!” movement is likely going to be spreadnecks running the medical vans off the road as they head into poor rural areas to vaccinate isolated people.
And yeah, firebombing the vaxx clinics is something I’ve seen crop up repeatedly in the closed Facebook groups frequented by family members I can barely tolerate.
Great! Support M4A so people can get bariatric surgery.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) September 13, 2021
re: #56 No Malarkey!
They are already harassing mobile vaccination units, forcing them to shut down.
Damn. So it’s started already.
Where is this happening? Link please. I have to warn some family members who work in health care (siblings work in a medical lab, and in a big southern hospital).
re: #54 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
My best hope for our future lies in outfits like the Lincoln Project.
I know, I know: many of them helped boost the present shitshow. They profited from the brainwashed masses due to the right-wing noise machine.
But they *did* have that moment of clarity that I referenced above. When they realized that The Base was off the leash, and that they no longer felt the need to hold themselves to ANY standard. Trump was their idol. No lie, no depravity, no transgression was held against him.
It was freedom for them to indulge their worst selves.
If they want to soak up cash from Republican donors that find the current aesthetics of Trump-following embarrasssing, that’s fine.
But I’m not bankrolling the less successful pimp in their attempt to oust the more successful pimp that took their street corner.
Nor am I going to stop pointing out that they’re still pimps.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
They should check his banana stand for cash.
re: #53 Dr Lizardo
I hate to say this, but I think it’s not going to be much longer before the Qcumbers and other assorted RWNJs start physically assaulting - or killing - doctors and nurses, blaming them (and healthcare workers in general) for the ongoing pandemic. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see a (successful or at least attempted) vaccination center bombing.
That’s pretty crazy but considering the madness already here almost anything seems possible and I’ll stand with you on that.
Moments ago, @GovRonDeSantis let someone stand behind the Seal of Florida and say: “The vaccine changes your RNA.”
It does not. No corrections. No shame.
Facts here: https://t.co/t0eRTjOhB8) pic.twitter.com/kxrjPMRoAC— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) September 13, 2021
Meanwhile, the “Blame The Fatties” meme is starting to wend its way through the RWNJ alternate reality network.
Um. Didn’t you freaks condemn Michelle Obama when she rolled out an entire program dedicated to trying to get kids to eat right to cut down on obesity?
Didn’t you mock the entire “eat healthy veggies” approach, and cheer Sara Palin when she sucked from a giant Big Gulp? pic.twitter.com/gfe5KxyrjW— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) September 13, 2021
Judging by the girth of the attendees of Trump rallies, this isn’t going to go very far before some Fox News producer screams “Cut the feed! She’s shitting all over our entire viewership!”
re: #57 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Yeah, the endgame of this anti-vaxx “FREEDUMB!” movement is likely going to be spreadnecks running the medical vans off the road as they head into poor rural areas to vaccinate isolated people.
And yeah, firebombing the vaxx clinics is something I’ve seen crop up repeatedly in the closed Facebook groups frequented by family members I can barely tolerate.
It’s only a matter of time before the nutburgers get radicalized enough to the point of taking direct and violent action.
Basically…if you pitched Trumpian ideas at a Ronald Reagan level of nastiness, a lot of these rebels would be on board.
Because Trumpism isn’t Trumpism, it’s the end stage of things US conservatives have been doing since Nixon: declaring that half the country aren’t real people and that the government should allocate money only to the better kinds of people and punish the inferior kinds of people who soak up money that would otherwise let the country be great like it was in the 50s.
A kind of socialism, but only for those that prove their loyalty through nationalism or through their family status and good blood.
re: #58 No Malarkey!
Re: obesity, “My body, my choice” right?
Another economic anxiety sufferer. https://t.co/QXNIFC5YPG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #67 EstebanTornado1963
It all depends on who you are.
MTG gettin’ ready to pitch new miracle pills and memberships to a new cross-fit style exercise program called “Muscle Marjorie’s Fitness Barn.”
I just went to give my kittens some Greenies, and found that they shredded the bag and ate them all last night. They expected treats but got shown a shredded bag instead.
They get into stuff that my last cat, who also came to me as a kitten off the streets, never figured out.
The ivermectin Facebook groups are becoming fully anti-western medicine spaces, replete with the concept that ERs are killing you, maybe intentionally.
It’s just a constant stream of DIY vitamin therapies and new, seemingly random antiviral drugs every day — but not the vaccine.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021
re: #63 jaunte
Dammit, Florida! pic.twitter.com/feSATCaMDh
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) September 13, 2021
re: #67 EstebanTornado1963
Re: obesity, “My body, my choice” right?
Yeah, it’s the early progenitor of the whole anti-vaxx movement.
Remember how Hannity and his guests ostentatiously lit up cigars & cigarettes when shitting all over Obama’s attempts to improve Americans’ health?
re: #74 No Malarkey!
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I can only think of one other country with such paranoia and bizarre beliefs—Russia. Probably no coincidence, though America maybe had a head start over the years.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
I’m old enough to remember (not really) when the GOP said JFK wasn’t electable because he’d take his marching orders from the Vatican…
re: #59 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Damn. So it’s started already.
Where is this happening? Link please. I have to warn some family members who work in health care (siblings work in a medical lab, and in a big southern hospital).
Colorado. “Security Guards to Accompany Mobile Vaccination Units After Harassment by Anti-Vaxxers” newsweek.com
re: #64 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Somewhere in here you’re going to get into that these people won’t use the concept of “obese” in another more good faith than they use any other term.
If somebody they don’t like dies, the deceased will be obese and therefore COVID will be a judgement that reinforces their conservative’s sense of being a superior kind that does not need to worry about the disease.
If somebody they like dies, it will be an outrage and a betrayal perpetrated by their enemies, and it won’t matter if they meet the standard of obese…unless it’s unavoidably true, in which case they’ll just discard the person.
re: #64 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Meanwhile, the “Blame The Fatties” meme is starting to wend its way through the RWNJ alternate reality network.
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Judging by the girth of the attendees of Trump rallies, this isn’t going to go very far before some Fox News producer screams “Cut the feed! She’s shitting all over our entire viewership!”
vax: Instantaneous protection
Any weight loss: months or longer
AND by itself not any protection
re: #74 No Malarkey!
Ben Collins
The ivermectin Facebook groups are becoming fully anti-western medicine spaces, replete with the concept that ERs are killing you, maybe intentionally.
It’s just a constant stream of DIY vitamin therapies and new, seemingly random antiviral drugs every day — but not the vaccine.
Might lead to many more Covid deaths but it would lessen the burden on hospitals if the only Covid illnesses they faced were from the vaccinated.
re: #74 No Malarkey!
If it frees up beds for more responsible people, I’m OK with this. Refusing the vaccine, then tying up a bed and making medical personnel watch them die, is their usual approach to this public health crisis.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 13, 2021
re: #82 Dangerman
But the point isn’t to help people.
It’s that all suffering is actually a function of personal responsibility (wooo The Ghost of Margaret Thatcher) and therefore they don’t have to care about COVID deaths.
They’re not interested in explaining how the world actually works, they just want excuses to be cruel.
re: #79 No Malarkey!
Colorado. “Security Guards to Accompany Mobile Vaccination Units After Harassment by Anti-Vaxxers” newsweek.com
Jesus Christ! They threw fireworks into the tent where people were getting vaxxed?
This is already getting worse than I feared.
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did she specify which church will be giving the orders?
And Alabama throws another tiny obstacle in the path of public health. Basically, a teen can’t get a jab from a school nurse or other public source w/o a note from theit RWNJ parents:
Alabama limits teen COVID vaccination options after legislators complain
al.com
Don’t be surprised if Kay Ivey puts Coronavirus on the state EPA protected species list.
re: #87 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Did she specify which church will be giving the orders?
Well hers of course. The rest will either convert or be burned at the stake as heretics.
re: #60 The Ghost of a Flea
If they want to soak up cash from Republican donors that find the current aesthetics of Trump-following embarrasssing, that’s fine.
But I’m not bankrolling the less successful pimp in their attempt to oust the more successful pimp.
Nor am I going to stop pointing out that they’re still pimps.
There was an audit of the group. Less than 10% of the money given to them was kept by the group. The majority of it went out to ads and orgs they were supporting.
re: #77 Barefoot Grin
I can only think of one other country with such paranoia and bizarre beliefs—Russia. Probably no coincidence, though America maybe had a head start over the years.
Gee, the USA only ranks No2 — beaten by Russia.
It’s ranking of nations by levels of #COVID19 #vaccine refusal and skepticism.
So yes, there is one place that’s worse than America.https://t.co/9C7mWZElxG— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 12, 2021
re: #74 No Malarkey!
This is what I’m worried about; the nutcases are getting radicalized to the point where they’re genuinely thinking that doctors and nurses are engaging in wholesale medical murder - and that dovetails into their conspiratorial beliefs about religious persecution, white genocide, “Great Replacement” nonsense, etc., etc., and inevitably, they’re going to lash out based on those insane ideas.
re: #91 Belafon
That’s nice.
They’re still pimps that believe they’re a superior kind of person that are permitted to guide around the Republican base—that they characterize as stupid poor people because obs this all has to be about class and hierarchy.
They like the world-destroying, people-degrading politics of earlier Republicans that did teases with feather boas and ostrich-feather fans, not the exact same world-destroying, people-degrading politics of current Republicans that involve a donkey on stage.
re: #89 Decatur Deb
And Alabama throws another tiny obstacle in the path of public health. Basically, a teen can’t get a jab from a school nurse or other public source w/o a note from theit RWNJ parents:
Alabama limits teen COVID vaccination options after legislators complain
al.comDon’t be surprised if Kay Ivey puts Coronavirus on the state EPA protected species list.
Has she walked back her attack on anti-vaxxers?
With a bit of marketing help, Don Jr. and Eric could sell a homeopathic dynamisation of their noble piss to the True Believers. I gotta go register some trademarks.
re: #72 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I just went to give my kittens some Greenies, and found that they shredded the bag and ate them all last night. They expected treats but got shown a shredded bag instead.
They get into stuff that my last cat, who also came to me as a kitten off the streets, never figured out.
Greenies and catnip are kept in sealed containers here (usually metal ones) or the plastic box is in the filing cabinet. The cats knew where the containers were and would also show up when the filing cabinet was opened.
This “kill the fatties” theme in fascist propaganda might have been thought up by a GRU operative who is not familiar with American physiognomy and the corresponding demographics.
Whatever the source, it seems likely to lead to civil war among Trumpites. I’m down with that. It will give them a use for those ammunition hoards they have built up.
“Quick Cletus! Grab you ARs! There’s a gang of juice monkeys tryin’ to trash the Whataburger!”
“Why, them savages! You’d think they was liberals ‘stead of the Taylor-Greene fan club.”
So, the antivax conspiracy nuts have shifted from ivermectin to the miracle of the day: betadine.
Everybody is just constantly winging it on Ivermectin Facebook. Everything is a miracle cure, or it isn’t, but every drug is worth a shot.
Except, of course, the thing that works: the vaccine. Anything pro-vaccine is instantly written off as “propaganda.” pic.twitter.com/TVQdAqlldD— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021
Yeah, a topical antiseptic that is toxic if ingested is their new fad, instead of getting the safe and effective vaccine.
Poison control center workers aren’t getting paid enough for this crap.
re: #13 Dopamine Fish
It’s not just that. They genuinely enjoy the power of deciding whether or not someone lives or dies. They get off on it.
re: #99 lawhawk
So, the antivax conspiracy nuts have shifted from ivermectin to the miracle of the day: betadine.
Yeah, a topical antiseptic that is toxic if ingested is their new fad, instead of getting the safe and effective vaccine.
Poison control center workers aren’t getting paid enough for this crap.
See #96.
Words fail me. https://t.co/LJSzRTapbS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #74 No Malarkey!
Just following the continuing saga of delegitimizing any profession they can as part of the standard US conservatism anti-intellectualism trend.
Teachers are out to get you. Especially college professors and their liberal indoctrination.
Can’t trust elections since the electoral officials will rig the results against you. (Except, of course, if the conservatives win.)
Can’t trust the doctors and medical profession since they are out to take your money via tests and use of unnecessary drugs and procedures.
Can’t trust “BIG PHARMA”, BIG this or BIG that since the entire capitalist structure is out to cheat you out of your hard-earned money.
Once they have their base totally working on emotion and rejecting any sort of education and logic the mob is ready to aimed at any target they want it to go after.
The radical Christian fascist roots of the right wing are really showing lately.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
LOL how much longer before the crazy MFers start chugging this stuff…..
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re: #99 lawhawk
So, the antivax conspiracy nuts have shifted from ivermectin to the miracle of the day: betadine.
Yeah, a topical antiseptic that is toxic if ingested is their new fad, instead of getting the safe and effective vaccine.
Poison control center workers aren’t getting paid enough for this crap.
No, No, and JFC NO!
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
My skin burns just thinking about it or betadine.
Or wait til they go for mercurochrome.
re: #92 Belafon
…..I can only think of one other country with such paranoia and bizarre beliefs—Russia. Probably no coincidence, though America maybe had a head start over the years.
There are a lot of immigrants from Russia over the past 40 years or so — and many seem to be carriers of conspiracy theories, on many subjects, and certainly very susceptible to stories from others. OTOH, we certainly have our fair share of home grown fanatics
re: #99 lawhawk
So, the antivax conspiracy nuts have shifted from ivermectin to the miracle of the day: betadine.
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Yeah, a topical antiseptic that is toxic if ingested is their new fad, instead of getting the safe and effective vaccine.
Poison control center workers aren’t getting paid enough for this crap.
All it takes is a bot to write “It is very effective” (it doesn’t even have to try to get contractions correct) at the appropriate time to kill off more people.
re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth
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No, No, and JFC NO!
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. They’re going to come right around to injecting bleach and ramming ultraviolet lights up their bums to avoid the one thing we know actually works to mitigate the disease, aren’t they?
also, Betadine stains like crazy.
(as a farmer with dogs and livestock, I know this to be very true)
Prove me wrong. Find me an issue in which the American right’s consensus position is to maximally protect the lives of human beings who have been born.
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) September 13, 2021
A thing that I attend closely to is that these new “centrist Republican” types have exactly one thing they’re consistent on…that nobody should listen to progressives or leftists, that we must cling to moderate liberal positions so as not to upset the nation.
The thing is…we’re being destroyed by centrist policies as much as we are conservative ones: generally, conservatives don’t get everything they want but they do get to fuck with the country’s money, and most of our woes are not the product of extreme social conservativism being implemented, but from the compromise positions that slowly allocate more and more cash to private institutions that are taking over the functions of government.
So…no, I’m not going to cheer on this development where people claim these new converts are “reasonable” because they’re not advocating for the worst possible forms of social conservatism.
Like, if you want to learn something from the end of the War in Afghanistan, consider how often anti-war positions have been straw-manned as unreasonable, hysterical, and factually incorrect by “centrist” pundits. Now go look at the “in retrospect” pieces by people who cheered on the war and mocked the critics, where they look backwards and admit that they were wrong but refuse to acknowledge that all of this was entirely predictable.
…because that’s what we’re dealing with, when you encounter someone who imagines that Trump is the problem, not an entire political and cultural network that has created the ground in which Trump could flower.
re: #108 lawhawk
My skin burns just thinking about it or betadine.
Or wait til they go for mercurochrome.
IODINE FTW!!
just checking supplies here…still have just under a quart of Betadine on hand for the animals. (Glory the goofy elderly coonhound needs an application every once in a while on her elbow and stump, which are easily abraded these days.)
Have a good one Lizards, and stay healthy. Time for me to call it a day.
re: #102 Charles Johnson
I’m starting to seriously believe in the anti-Christ.
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
“How are 103% of all hospital patients anti-vaxxers?”
SCOOP: Jan. 6 committee instructed telecom and social media companies last week to preserve records of Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows — positioning the probe at the Oval Office. @GuardianUS https://t.co/FZNXzbaYJ4
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 13, 2021
re: #50 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
Next ugly step for QAnons: condemning “murder hospitals” and attacking the already exhausted doctors & nurses.
In Tennessee, the hospitals are already running at 30% of staff, because so many have either quit, are sick, or have died.
They’re asking admin office workers - people who change the toner & work the digital billing systems - to help monitor the intubated in the ICUs.
It’s also a problem in Canada:
⚡️ Federal and provincial leaders have denounced planned protests at hospitals against #COVID19 public health measureshttps://t.co/ep834Pf8qM
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) September 13, 2021
Pat Metheny with a distorted rock guitar tone and a WHAMMY BAR. Never thought I’d see the day.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
Wrinkles collect the COVID.
Veronica Wolski is already on sorryantivaxxer.com, along with 3 other losers, 2 of them brothers, added today.
The walk of shame.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/QAc7ckPV0Q
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) September 13, 2021
re: #126 Mike Lamb
Wrinkles collect the COVID.
If you take it orally, it smooths your brain right out.
Chicken Soup for the stomach. pic.twitter.com/DzfC1p3smF
— Liddle Honey Apple Pie 🌈🍯🍎🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) September 13, 2021
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
Botox?
aw fuckit. Let ‘em ingest that. It’ll be a quicker payoff.
Read the whole script at the link. It’s hilarious.
It’s 9/11. If you haven’t read the incredible Seinfeld 9/11 spec script yet, I highly recommend you do so today. https://t.co/rO6vAXZfOK pic.twitter.com/eYaWi45va6
— Carol Grant (@carolaverygrant) September 11, 2021
re: #131 lawhawk
Botox?
aw fuckit. Let ‘em ingest that. It’ll be a quicker payoff.
why pay for it? Just open up a swollen jar/can of green beans…
Twitter Rips Anti-Vax NFL Star For Dropping Pass: Well, He Did Tell Us That He Can’t Catch Anything [VIDEO] - https://t.co/gi28w03zSg pic.twitter.com/0yTe8xKba0
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) September 13, 2021
re: #124 The Pie Overlord!
Their choices created predictable consequences that led to another death, but rather than acknowledge that internally they choose to externalize—this death could not be the product of me being wrong, therefore there is an outside force making me appear wrong…so my task is now to punish somebody within reach.
I realize I lean into the language of domestic abuse a great deal, but the reason I do it is because of situations like this, where it seems less like we’re dealing with an ideology and more with a mass-movement of people that externalize their emotional needs.
Every neighborhood needs a BAND 😂
(via frostwoods75/TT) pic.twitter.com/2Pc2R5v6uo— Overtime (@overtime) September 13, 2021
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
Botulinum toxin is one of the most toxic sustenances known to man. I say let them at it and don’t worry about dose. Take 1000x the recommend anti-wrinkle application just to make sure.
re: #43 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t like American Taliban because the Taliban are just the Af-Pak Klan.
I like “Jihadlicans”.
re: #105 Dr Lizardo
LOL how much longer before the crazy MFers start chugging this stuff…..
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Well, you will note that there is no “do not take internally” warning on the bottle.
SO what are THEY covering up….???
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Well if you can’t breathe, you won’t inhale any viral particles so there’s that.
re: #139 GlutenFreeJesus
I like “Jihadlicans”.
Jihad has a different meaning for devout Muslims and would be considered an insult to all Muslims.
Fox News host storms out of restaurant after he’s asked for photo ID with his vaccine card https://t.co/dqxmEf9iNG
— AlterNet (@AlterNet) September 13, 2021
Hemmer is just mad he wasn’t recognized.
— Tanya 21st Century Elder (@Elderta) September 13, 2021
re: #120 Decatur Deb
Fuck me. Current on Freep:
Could BOTOX protect people from getting Covid? Wrinkle-fighting toxin could be useful in fight against the pandemic, study suggests
Polonium isn’t far behind.
re: #139 GlutenFreeJesus
They are struggling.
Struggling to understand why they can’t have their way 100% of the time.
It’s not a fair comparison.
Meet the Democrats’ Answer to Sting Artist James O’Keefe (The Daily Beast)
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
reposting from downstairs because this is beyond outrageous and needs to be smacked down hard
This coming from a woman who met her future husband at a bowling alley bar on the same night he exposed himself to some teenage girls.
re: #98 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
This “kill the fatties” theme in fascist propaganda might have been thought up by a GRU operative who is not familiar with American physiognomy and the corresponding demographics.
Whatever the source, it seems likely to lead to civil war among Trumpites. I’m down with that. It will give them a use for those ammunition hoards they have built up.“Quick Cletus! Grab you ARs! There’s a gang of juice monkeys tryin’ to trash the Whataburger!”
“Why, them savages! You’d think they was liberals ‘stead of the Taylor-Greene fan club.”
Alternately:
The vast majority of obese American men I know don’t think they’re fat because only unattractive women are obese.
The considerable number of obese American women I know that are wealthy don’t think of themselves as obese because they are “trying” to perform rituals of health, but do think of poorer Americans that wear unflattering clothes as obese.
Fatness does not exist as a social stigma to accurately assess how fat a person is, it’s just another form of inferiority that’s used to draw distinctions where there are none.
re: #113 lawhawk
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Prove me wrong. Find me an issue in which the American right’s consensus position is to maximally protect the lives of human beings who have been born.
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) September 13, 2021
re: #149 The Ghost of a Flea
Alternately:
The vast majority of obese American men I know don’t think they’re fat because only unattractive women are obese.
The considerable number of obese American women I know that are wealthy don’t think of themselves as obese because they are “trying” to perform rituals of health, but do think of poorer Americans that wear unflattering clothes as obese.
Fatness does not exist as a social stigma to accurately assess how fat a person is, it’s just another form of inferiority that’s used to draw distinctions where there are none.
Look at the trumpers…they look at tfg and see a handsome fit guy instead of the reality that is a pasty old fat man.
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.
A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse
By Jeff Horwitz Sept. 13, 2021 10:21 am ET
(paywalled)
If Joe Biden mandated not walking off a cliff we could wrap this thing up today
— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) September 13, 2021
re: #140 The Ghost of a Flea
I like “horsefuckers.”
i’m sticking with ‘paste eaters’
it works for what’s happening now
and also goes waaaaay back to kindergarten
A scene from the Thoroughbred State this past weekend https://t.co/NgOg94TEkk
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) September 13, 2021
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at the trumpers…they look at tfg and see a handsome fit guy instead of the reality that is a pasty old fat man.
Ultimately there is no accounting for taste—people like all kinds of bodies and people—but I think it’s a part of Trumpism because of a string like this:
Base assumption 1: I am attractive because I am a better type of person.
Corollary assumption 1: Anyone that finds me unattractive is an inferior kind of person that I’m entitled to treat with contempt at minimum…
Corollary assumption 2: …but also society should be configured in a way that people can’t say “No” to me.
Base assumption 2: Donald Trump is like me because I like his contemptuousness and disregard for the feelings of others.
Conclusion: Donald Trump is attractive.
I think we’re seeing a bunch of people who lean heavy into everything as a power dynamic, leading to the result that Trump must be sexy because sex is just an expression of power.
I mean, there might be people who are just into white dudes that are somewhat tall—I mean, that’s a thing, some people just have a basic-ass tall white dude in suit aesthetic as their thing—but mostly I think it’s about that sense that he is something they want to be and that potential has a self-gratifying quality.
Further proof that Trump’s executive branch was WELL AWARE of the threat to the Capitol and all its inhabitants on 1/6, and set the Capitol up for failure. #ChargeTrump https://t.co/DwKi2LoZ5j
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) September 13, 2021
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hemmer is just mad he wasn’t recognized.
Brings up the great Robert Merrill story—Merrill was out in NYC without his wallet, and tried to cash a check at a bank. The teller wasn’t an opera fan, but he told the baritone:
“If you’ll sing a few notes, I’ll know you’re a star”.
Merrill: “Sir, if someone offers to sing a few notes for one hundred dollars, you can be sure it isn’t Robert Merrill.”
The last time there was a major pandemic, commercial air travel had not yet been invented. https://t.co/q8mMSAzVlO
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) September 13, 2021
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
The real reason a mission to Mars is doomed.
re: #160 Belafon
The real reason a mission to Mars is doomed.
we’ll definitely need better potato varieties, too
re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth
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know what else they didnt have in 1918? A vaccine.
The last time there was a major pandemic, commercial air travel had not yet been invented. https://t.co/q8mMSAzVlO
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) September 13, 2021
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies that there are about 100 Americans left in Afghanistan who have communicated they want to leave the country pic.twitter.com/RSikGIZXUf
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
Rep. Sires appears to be questioning Sec. Blinken from his closet pic.twitter.com/w44wTDD5iJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
Since my brain tumor diagnosis and surgery announcement I have been repeatedly reminded of the incredible humanity of people—and the inhumanity of others.
The former encourage me to do this work and to have joy in the middle of days when it seems counterintuitive.
Thank you.— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) September 13, 2021
re: #102 Charles Johnson
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this guy?
NYC talk radio show, 1992:
Host: “So, why did you and your (then-1st) wife Ivanka get divorced?”
Donald Trump: “Because her new fake tits didn’t feel right.”Note he also pressured his 2nd wife (Marla Maples) to appear nude in Playboy but she refused.
Words fail me. https://t.co/LJSzRTapbS
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #102 Charles Johnson
I Googled it, found a link that Snopes said is TRUE but it’s for A DIFFERENT BILLBOARD!
Massie is still a moron
George Washington was not an advocate of naturally acquired immunity lolololololol https://t.co/LuAdW16OPg https://t.co/hxv1Qsc1Do
— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) September 13, 2021
Yes, he understood and respected the latest research around smallpox.
The latest research around covid is that immunity (either naturally acquired or from the vaccine) doesn’t last very long.
Do you get a flu shot every year?— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) September 13, 2021
re: #151 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at the trumpers…they look at tfg and see a handsome fit guy instead of the reality that is a pasty old fat man.
They look at a pasty fat old man and see a Ben Garrison cartoon.
CV Day 4—Everybody’s vertical.
Yesterday I wrote of our concern at the open-ended problem with releasing ourselves from CV self-isolation. (Pedant kid reminded me that it’s “isolation” if you’re infected, and “quarantine” if you’re exposed/suspect.)
Overnight a more specific version occurred to me—us Olds routinely see a bunch of docs and staff throughout the year. Wife and I are up for a few dental and eye-surgery visits, which are nose-to-nose unmasked for moderately long sessions. We don’t know when to resume such care without risk to the docs and their people. I’m going to pose that question to the docs of course, but want to brain-pick our lizard medics as well. How do you handle post-infected patients?
THERE SHOULD BE GENERIC GUIDANCE FOR THIS—WE DON’T HAVE IT.
re: #132 gocart mozart
Read the whole script at the link. It’s hilarious.
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“The guy you were seeing was murdered by terrorists!”
“I was going to break up with him anyway.”
OMG, hahahahahahahahaha.
and this makes no fucking sense at all
George Washington contracted smallpox as a teenager. Why can we find no record he took the smallpox inoculation after that? He knew natural immunity acquired as a result of a prior infection of smallpox was real.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 13, 2021
“natural immunity”, my aunt fanny. I am so sick of that phrase.
to me, natural immunity means that for whatever genetic reason, you are immune period.
Not immune because you got the vaccine and for sure not naturally immune because you had the disease.
If you were naturally immune YOU WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INFECTED AT ALL.
re: #44 Charles Johnson
O’Keefe isn’t a “right wing sting artist” he’s a right wing scam artist.
Kudos to whomever did this.
Larry Elder has made a living for decades making white people feel comfortable about blaming all problems on black people. They paid him well to give them peace of mind about their racism. https://t.co/sMuWa59Etf
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) September 13, 2021
“How could I be a racist when I’m a fan of Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, David Clarke, & Allen West?”
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
George Washington contracted smallpox as a teenager.
Probably slept on one of those cool Hudson’s Bay blankets General Amherst gave him at Ft. Pitt.
.@POTUS getting a wildfire briefing @NIFC_Fire in Boise, ID with @GovernorLittle. pic.twitter.com/6xaTaDUiXW
— Meghan Hays (@MegHays46) September 13, 2021
I know it’s a waste of time to engage this fanatic, but she thinks she is so terribly terribly put upon. She’s not.
I’m popping up this thread because I think it’s a GREAT example of how anti-abortion fanatics think. There are reasonable comments in here but KSPrior blows them off. That’s because she believe there is NEVER a reason for abortion. NEVER. You can’t reason with people like this. https://t.co/9lrVVNXkOk
— Dee *Inerrancy is a tool of the patriarchy* Holmes (@mmmirele) September 13, 2021
“We have no time for idiots in this country anymore, we don’t want you,” Stern said later on Monday’s broadcast. “Stay home, die there with your COVID. Don’t take the cure, but don’t clog up our hospitals with your COVID when you finally get it. Stay home, don’t bother with science, it’s too late. Go fuck yourself, we just don’t have time for you.”
Howard Stern Mocks Joe Rogan for Taking ‘Horse Dewormer’ (The Daily Beast)
“The leading Republican candidate would not commit to accepting the results of the election” pic.twitter.com/qyMGyqoKD8
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2021
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
Of course not. Our lawless right abandoned democracy when faced with the need to abandon their bigotry and misogyny or lose elections.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 13, 2021
This is why the GOP is the anti-life party. https://t.co/dp5QxsrdxZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
re: #166 The Pie Overlord!
This billboard is in the Rossville/Fort Oglethorpe, Ga area. As a Christian and proud American I find this very disturbing, I would be troubled no matter the president. It is time for people that want a unified America to be louder than those that want to divide us. finish strong pic.twitter.com/tVmx21h7Xd
— Jeff L. Scott, Ph.D (@ushistoryleader) September 9, 2021
re: #93 Dr Lizardo
This is what I’m worried about; the nutcases are getting radicalized to the point where they’re genuinely thinking that doctors and nurses are engaging in wholesale medical murder - and that dovetails into their conspiratorial beliefs about religious persecution, white genocide, “Great Replacement” nonsense, etc., etc., and inevitably, they’re going to lash out based on those insane ideas.
We’ve been there before, with terror at abortion clinics. A friend of mine who has long COVID went to a Baltimore area ER late last week due to chest pains and weakness. She noticed there were four uniformed security on hand. She noticed only one back in January. It was definitely noticeable.
These know-nothing politicians and pundits are conflating natural immunity with acquired immunity. But they want you to believe they are the “smart ones”.
— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) September 13, 2021
Trump coup plotter Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) attacks Sec. of State Blinken for not appearing in person at the House Afghanistan hearing, and falsely claims that Blinkin could not be bothered to appear in person. (The House is not in session). pic.twitter.com/i7LgzGvvS7
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) September 13, 2021
Believing natural immunity will fully protect you from Covid is like believing you can drive anything with wheels because you have a drivers license.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
And will be re-elected for doing so.
Lifted my skimmer cover to vac my pool and this guy was there. So I looked and..
And I’m in central Pennsylvania.
Odd.
You can call it a fuckin’ hearing, @MollyJongFast. You don’t have to use a euphemism.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 13, 2021
we just had our first Hunter Biden mention during the Blinken hearing pic.twitter.com/LcBmO9wSEj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
Anti-vaxxers are now experimenting fighting Covid by ingesting Betadine, an anti-bacterial topical solution used for cuts and scrapes and in douches. Betadine is highly toxic and poisonous when ingested.
re: #183 GlutenFreeJesus
This guy says he’s running for Chicago Governor and he’s going to beat Lightfoot (who I do in fact have issues with myself). He blocked me after I told him to go fuck himself. Check how many followers he has on the Twatter.
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I don’t know his background, but Patrick Keegan sounds awfully CPD police-unionesque.
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
I knew it wasn’t poisonous. But first I saw one with an orange ring and belly.
He’s in the garden now safe and sound.
Thanks. Back to work..
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
northern ring neck snake.
native to PA and just about everywhere nearbyalso, Cooper is safe.
Juan Carlos isn’t. They eat lizards.
re: #192 Teukka
No problem. Says it’s OK in douches.
re: #197 Juan Carlos Mescalero
I knew it wasn’t poisonous. But first I saw one with an orange ring and belly.
He’s in the garden now safe and sound.Thanks. Back to work..
very slightly venomous, but not critically so.
also, extremely docile
re: #197 Juan Carlos Mescalero
I knew it wasn’t poisonous. But first I saw one with an orange ring and belly.
He’s in the garden now safe and sound.Thanks. Back to work..
orange belly confirms the ID
Anti-vaxxers are now experimenting fighting Covid by ingesting Betadine, an anti-bacterial topical solution used for cuts and scrapes and in douches. Betadine is highly toxic and poisonous when ingested.
Well, at least they are staying on label this time.
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re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
and this makes no fucking sense at all
“natural immunity”, my aunt fanny. I am so sick of that phrase.
to me, natural immunity means that for whatever genetic reason, you are immune period.
Not immune because you got the vaccine and for sure not naturally immune because you had the disease.If you were naturally immune YOU WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INFECTED AT ALL.
Anti-vaxxers believe “natural immunity” acquired from surviving a Covid infection is superior to vaccination. It’s a lie, and it’s insane to get infected to acquire immunity to infection.
In Kentucky, General Flynn seemed to imply we should intentionally give COVID to our children, and then pushed Ivermectin, claiming it cured his family. pic.twitter.com/uygEcNQx6k
— frank (@the_cancel_mob) September 13, 2021
If Larry Elder thought he was going to win, he would have said, “Of course, I will accept the results.”
Instead, he is cynically laying the groundwork to be yet another sore loser à la Donald.
Californians, prove him right.
VOTE TOMORROW if you haven’t already. https://t.co/9OR1OVyoXx— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 13, 2021
😱OOR MANNIE HAS BEEN STOLEN!😱
Disappointed and frankly a bit confused to learn that our ‘Mannie’, made from the rowan tree which once grew from #OusdaleBroch, has mysteriously disappeared.
Honestly it’s sooo heavy and it’s not worth anything so WHY?#Caithness #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/fWE62vyR3z— Caithness Broch Project (@TheBrochProject) September 13, 2021
If you have an iPhone make sure to get the latest update ASAP. It fixes a major security problem.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 13, 2021
New werd day:
autogenocide: a group committing genocide on themselves by their own choice of (in)action.
Beshear begins his bi-weekly update w/mention of Covid-19 & 9/11:
“If first responders in 9/11 can charge into a collapsing building to save a few people, surely we can do this [masking, vaccinations] to save tens of millions of people around the globe.”— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) September 13, 2021
Saturday in KY: 4,470 new cases, 18 deaths.
Sunday: 3,111 cases, 21 deaths
Today: 2,526 cases,29 deaths.
“In every single one of these days, the largest group by incident rate [is] 10-19 years old,” Beshear says.— Alex Acquisto (@AcquistoA) September 13, 2021
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
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‘only if i win’
“The leading Republican candidate would not commit to accepting the results of the election” pic.twitter.com/qyMGyqoKD8
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2021
re: #158 Decatur Deb
Brings up the great Robert Merrill story—Merrill was out in NYC without his wallet, and tried to cash a check at a bank. The teller wasn’t an opera fan, but he told the baritone:
“If you’ll sing a few notes, I’ll know you’re a star”.
Merrill: “Sir, if someone offers to sing a few notes for one hundred dollars, you can be sure it isn’t Robert Merrill.”
And I once was able to cash a check with no ID on the basis of the teller saying “oh, you look just like your mother.” (early 1970’s)
re: #209 Charles Johnson
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Forwarded to those in my circle of friends and acquaintances with iPhones.
Rep. Scott Perry was one of 17 Republicans who last year voted against a resolution condemning QAnon https://t.co/7WTMamighT https://t.co/GvJpcfNajR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
Kentucky wants to put a big company in a small town. A key official owns land there.https://t.co/jLWidCDZGA pic.twitter.com/NW3rQ8zA35
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) September 13, 2021
re: #209 Charles Johnson
ANOTHER one? Wow, it’s been a rough year for iPhones.
Ignoring state legislators and the number of anti-choice bills passed is necessary for Emily’s point to make sense. “Its also pro-abortion men that coerce women into abortion their babies against their will.” - Flat out lie. https://t.co/2AvgCRfF00
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) September 13, 2021
re: #209 Charles Johnson
Downloading now…
First footage from @SkyNews. It looks like they’re actually training with jet skis to ‘nudge’ inflatables, pushing them into French waters, then ‘alert the French’ the boats are in their territory. I don’t think I have seen a more idiotic plan, in all my years covering news. ~AA pic.twitter.com/sGJkKSowrf
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) September 13, 2021
Rep. Castro uses his time during the Blinken hearing to highlight the impact of Sen. Ted Cruz throwing “a tantrum” to block the State Department from filling positions pic.twitter.com/7eVYn6DkIu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I need a bit more context. Who is doing the jet ski and what are they trying to do?
re: #224 Belafon
I need a bit more context. Who is doing the jet ski and what are they trying to do?
People trying to cross the channel in zodiacs, from the continent, to become undocumented refugees in the UK. The jetski people are trying to keep those boats out of UK waters.
I stayed with my grandma one summer between 2nd and 3rd grade. It was the Price is Right AND Match Game (shout out to Betty White and Charles Nelson Reilly) and then her stories. Then the damn Watergate hearings ruined everything.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) September 13, 2021
Jeff Bridges says he got Covid while in chemo and it made ‘cancer look like a piece of cake’ https://t.co/IJzHmfJY5B
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) September 13, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) “will fine local governments $5,000 for each employee who is required to be vaccinated, threatening some cities and counties with millions of dollars in penalties for adopting strict vaccine mandates,” the Miami Herald reports.Said DeSantis: “We are not going to let people get fired because of the vaccine mandate. You don’t just cast aside people who have been serving faithfully over this issue, over what’s basically a personal choice over their individual health.”
‘cept it aint individual health
its community health
Joe’s comin’ to Colorado.
Update: Joe Biden will be in Denver on TUESDAY and he will visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. His Colorado trip will span about 5 hours.https://t.co/6uo2LLMd5p #copolitics
— Jesse Aaron Paul ☀ (@JesseAPaul) September 13, 2021
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
When I was a Boy Scout in the 1960’s we used to catch ring necked snakes along the Tionesta Reservoir in Northwest Pa. I always found them mellow. (Or as Backwoods_Sleuth says ‘docile’.)
The ones with a really bad attitude were the Northern Water snakes. ( non-venomous)
The brown water snakes local to Northern Virginia also cop to the bad attitude. And while I cannot say from personal experience, friends who have encountered them, say the same about Water Moccasins/cottonmouths.
re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth
The picture at the top of the article is Jeff Bridges wearing a T-shirt from a Birmingham brewery - Trimtab Brewing. The Dude imbibes.
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
Perry (Seditionist, PA )
re: #225 sagehen
People trying to cross the channel in zodiacs, from the continent, to become undocumented refugees in the UK. The jetski people are trying to keep those boats out of UK waters.
Who the hell would be trying to get IN to the UK right now? Have they seen what a mess Brexit is?
Rand Paul and Thomas Massie must be so proud
‘On fire’ with COVID-19, six KY counties are in the Top 10 nationally for new caseshttps://t.co/UMKFgw4b1s pic.twitter.com/I6Xa3VzTEx
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) September 13, 2021
re: #233 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the hell would be trying to get IN to the UK right now? Have they seen what a mess Brexit is?
There are worse places. Why are people trying to get into here?
re: #233 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the hell would be trying to get IN to the UK right now? Have they seen what a mess Brexit is?
Obviously coming from some place that is a worse mess than the UK. Of which there is, unfortunately, a plentiful supply…
Bon Iver does Jones.
they turned alex jones’ rants into a folk song and i love it like light loves lilies pic.twitter.com/RXHrweYFV9
— tweety (@weirdwithwords) September 12, 2021
Americans be like yeah, we’re putting light bulbs and horse dewormer paste up our butts, but is that really crazy enough? What if we could do something even more stupid? https://t.co/oHx7s2uXo0
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 13, 2021
Rep. Mast’s questioning time ends with a complete shit show pic.twitter.com/bSbv33KEzV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2021
re: #233 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the hell would be trying to get IN to the UK right now? Have they seen what a mess Brexit is?
I waiting for the French to start pushing boats from the UK back into British waters to keep the rampant idiocracy from spreading to the Continent.
And the familiar cycle begins again. An anti-vaxxer I know, a cousin of my FiL, has contracted Covid and is in the ICU, asking for prayers.
re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth
This guy? pic.twitter.com/z7FkGtgNoM
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 13, 2021
re: #244 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’ll have to watch it later, but I still remember Automan.
Just went to IMDB, and Chuck Wagner is reprising his role for the short.
re: #245 Belafon
I’ll have to watch it later, but I still remember Automan.
Then definitely watch through the after-credits scene.
I don’t know how anyone who isn’t getting paid can possibly watch a congressional hearing like that Blinken one today. I turned it on until I realized how utterly soul-destroying that bizarre process has become. Took less than a minute.
.@GerryConnolly: “Were there any known terrorists or declared terrorists by the United States among those 5,000 people released with the consent and negotiated agreement of the Trump administration?”@SecBlinken: “Almost certainly, yes.” pic.twitter.com/tG4qblnrOV
— Mike Gwin (@MGwin46) September 13, 2021
re: #244 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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Watch to the end if you liked Automan.
I’ll watch anything with Dr Rodney McKay
NEW: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on Biden’s nomination of Elizabeth Prelogar to be solicitor general, the federal government’s top lawyer at the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/9e84wSBV1V
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) September 13, 2021
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
Aaron Rupar
Rep. Castro uses his time during the Blinken hearing to highlight the impact of Sen. Ted Cruz throwing “a tantrum” to block the State Department from filling positions
How long do these holds last? Is there any way to stop them?
Blinken, asked what kind of Trump admin planning it received for the May 1 Afghanistan withdrawal the Trump admin agreed to, suggests almost none: “We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan.”
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) September 13, 2021
I admit that I never listened to Alex Jones before the song posted above and had no idea about the particulars of the content he spews. I know Jones is the trashiest of trash fire people but not that he was that far round the bend. People eating horse paste and chugging betadine makes a little more sense to me now. If someone can listen to Jones with putting their fist through a wall or rolling on the floor with laughter, they are too far gone.
Oh, sweet meteor of death. Take me now.
re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter
How long do these holds last? Is there any way to stop them?
from wiki
Holds, like filibusters, can be defeated through a successful cloture motion. However, the time required to bring around a cloture vote often allows fewer than 40 senators to block unimportant legislation when the majority is not willing to force the vote. The countermeasure to excessive holds may be increased determination on the part of the leadership to bring up measures despite holds, but the delay involved in cloture votes constrains the leader’s ability to do this.[4]
re: #238 jaunte
No. We should encourage vaccine resisters and others who reject the satanic blandishments of Biden, Fauci and the global cannibal cult to avail themselves of this miracle at once. We should also make the “good stuff” stored at Hanford available to them in any amount desired.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) September 13, 2021
If this is true…
SCOOP: a group of “hackers on steroids” gained access to a large dataset belonging to Epik, the web host of the Texas GOP website, Texas Right to Life website, and anti-abortion snitch website. pic.twitter.com/2meRX9CAPm
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) September 13, 2021
re: #238 jaunte
When Trump ridiculously claimed that UV light could be put up our behinds to cure Covid-19, he sure knew his audience.
UPDATE: I’ve been doxxed and defamed by a customer of Epik. Rob Monster just publicly acknowledged the website.https://t.co/LliRrrvYVH
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) September 13, 2021
is it jared https://t.co/1IZTDeD1Pm
— darth™ (@darth) September 13, 2021
TMZ has been sold to Fox Entertainment. https://t.co/XWQsgTC8Gr
— Axios (@axios) September 13, 2021
LOL, sure thing Jan…
My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 13, 2021
Michael Gove celebrates ‘stamping on toothless face of northerners’ in resurfaced speech pic.twitter.com/ANWGBPydYT
— The Independent (@Independent) September 13, 2021
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tell me your cousin’s friend has an STD without telling me your cousin’s friend has an STD: https://t.co/pRTZ1pfhcP
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 13, 2021
BURN!!!
“If anybody believes that the previous administration would’ve evacuated any Afghans to the US much less tens of thousands as President Biden did, I would suggest they ask the Kurds their opinion of that” pic.twitter.com/nJhDbUN7uS
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2021
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
I hope everyone reports her for spreading misinformation.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL, sure thing Jan…
Your cousin’s friend caught a bad case of gonorrhea or chlamydia weeks before his wedding. That’s pretty awkward. I can see why he lied. I can’t see why you’re repeating the lie while idiots are dying in agony because they’re irrationally afraid of vaccines.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 13, 2021
I’m at the beach! There’s a rainbow. And soon the mom lady will have to brush all the sand from my fluffy pantaloons. pic.twitter.com/2ZnhKbCcmL
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) September 13, 2021
re: #262 The Ghost of a Flea
He’s a Conservative so honestly I’m not surprised that he’s a bigot.
re: #266 Patricia Kayden
I hope everyone reports her for spreading misinformation.
Oh yeah. The moment I saw the Tweet. She’s in a position to save or kill stupid people who are only engaged with pop culture.
I’m not entirely sure why I’m trying to save stupid people.
re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth
my cousin’s friend took the vaccine and two weeks later BOOM! he got bitten by a møøse. do your research.
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) September 13, 2021
You probably want to read this thread.
Note especially the addendum where parents were going TO THEIR CARS AND PULLING OUT THEIR OWN GUNS BECAUSE APPARENTLY THEY JUST HAVE GUNS IN CARS AT YOUTH SPORTING EVENTS. https://t.co/pC3fNA6Ujx— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 13, 2021
re: #271 Patricia Kayden
“A moose bit my sister.”
A center-left bloc headed by the Labor Party is poised for an election victory over the ruling Conservatives in Norway. With the campaign dominated by climate change, Labor has promised to funnel support to new green industries, like wind power. https://t.co/7ozYHJNyUH
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 13, 2021
re: #230 ckkatz
When I was a Boy Scout in the 1960’s we used to catch ring necked snakes along the Tionesta Reservoir in Northwest Pa. I always found them mellow. (Or as Backwoods_Sleuth says ‘docile’.)
The ones with a really bad attitude were the Northern Water snakes. ( non-venomous)
The brown water snakes local to Northern Virginia also cop to the bad attitude. And while I cannot say from personal experience, friends who have encountered them, say the same about Water Moccasins/cottonmouths.
All watersnakes have a shitty attitude. I never met one that wasn’t bitty. Interesting snakes though. They actually live in Family groups.
We live in a two-party system and one of the two is anti-democratic. For political reporters that’s a challenge. Here the @PhillyInquirer meets the moment by refusing to describe the latest hyper-politicized recount as an “audit.” via @kylegriffin1 https://t.co/Sl2oeu6GnG pic.twitter.com/J9KqR20skF
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) September 12, 2021
Tacos from last week’s leftover brisket 🌮 pic.twitter.com/780ooL6cZl
— Liddle Honey Apple Pie 🌈🍯🍎🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) September 13, 2021
re: #231 BlueSpotinAL
The picture at the top of the article is Jeff Bridges wearing a T-shirt from a Birmingham brewery - Trimtab Brewing. The Dude imbibes.
Well phrased.
re: #273 A Three Hour Tour
“A moose bit my sister.”
We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
My cousin on Mars said his friend Perseverance got the vaccine and his drill got swollen and now his helicopter rover girlfriend won’t land near him anymore. Says he was not “drilling” strange rocks. pic.twitter.com/L3GDxCj13T
— Fake Dispatch (@Fake_Dispatch) September 13, 2021
Saying farewell to “Citadelle” and putting more tracks in my rear view, as I head from my last sampling location off to new targets ahead. New personal best for “auto-nav” driving: ~548 feet (167 meters) in one day.
My location: https://t.co/uPsKFhW17J pic.twitter.com/4853HglNwJ— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) September 13, 2021
From the NY Times: A map of COVID hot spots based on average daily cases per 100,000 people shows much of Kentucky and all of Tennessee and West Virginia are on fire. 1/2 ^JC pic.twitter.com/JCIne0TyDP
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) September 13, 2021
re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth
The problem is obviously because of the border they share with Mexico.
Joe Manchin asks, “what’s the urgency,” as extra unemployment benefits expire, millions face eviction, Covid rages on, California wildfires spread, and New York and Louisiana are under water. Hello?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 13, 2021
re: #241 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
I waiting for the French to start pushing boats from the UK back into British waters to keep the rampant idiocracy from spreading to the Continent.
Could this be made an Olympic sport in time for the next Winter Games?
re: #269 Patricia Kayden
He’s a Conservative so honestly I’m not surprised that he’s a bigot.
I don’t know what’s happening here,, but I can see that those quotes are 34 years old. People sometimes change.
re: #286 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
I don’t know what’s happening here,, but I can see that those quotes are 34 years old. People sometimes change.
He’s still an asshole.
re: #231 BlueSpotinAL
The picture at the top of the article is Jeff Bridges wearing a T-shirt from a Birmingham brewery - Trimtab Brewing. The Dude imbibes.
Completely off the subject but “Trimtab” comes from Buckminster Fuller. It’s on his gravestone in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA, in the same plot as a memorial to his great aunt, the Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.
And now completely off the subject, I really like walking through Mount Auburn Cemetery.
I’ve been reading the internet intensively since ‘96.
Pretty much God-like at this point. If you need to know anything at all, just ask.
I mean scientists are laughable. Imagine spending a few years just studying one thing.
2021 Met Gala seems weirdly inappropriate to me right now. I know we’re supposed to be opening things, but that over-the-top conspicuous consumption is somehow sitting wrong with me this year. I’ve never much cared in the past.
why does the press go to extraordinary lengths in Covid coverage to *not* acknowledge that there is is a choreographed, deep-pocketed political and media campaign designed to make sure millions of people don’t get vaccinated.
Period. https://t.co/1GGpErw3bm— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 13, 2021
re: #290 Barefoot Grin
2021 Met Gala seems weirdly inappropriate to me right now. I know we’re supposed to be opening things, but that over-the-top conspicuous consumption is somehow sitting wrong with me this year. I’ve never much cared in the past.
Eat the Benefactors.
re: #290 Barefoot Grin
Conspicuous consumption becomes a political item during recessions/depressions.
It happens over and over: the well off become disconnected with the masses and masses really notice it during hard times.
This is a problem for the Democratic party: the educated elite are mostly Democrats but when they show up to these events the masses out in the hinterland notice that and thus the entire party becomes the party of the “elite”.
thread
Hi, I’m back to work after taking a few days to recover from a COVID-19 breakthrough case!
Vaccines are amazing. Would not have wanted to experience this virus without that antibody protection.
But these so-called mild breakthrough cases are not fun. Tbh I learned a lot 1/— Ariel Cohen (@ArielCohen37) September 13, 2021
re: #289 plansbandc
I’ve been reading the internet intensively since ‘96.
Pretty much God-like at this point. If you need to know anything at all, just ask.
I mean scientists are laughable. Imagine spending a few years just studying one thing.
Oh yah? Let’s check.
WHAT is your quest?
WHAT is your favorite color?
WHAT is the rotation speed of the hamster wheel that runs the LGF generators?
Speaking of John Oliver, I went back to watch Mock The Week episode 1 and he was a guest.
Would not have guessed that many years later Oliver would have reached success far beyond the other guests.
re: #293 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Conspicuous consumption becomes a political item during recessions/depressions.
It happens over and over: the well off become disconnected with the masses and masses really notice it during hard times.
This is a problem for the Democratic party: the educated elite are mostly Democrats but when they show up to these events the masses out in the hinterland notice that and thus the entire party becomes the party of the “elite”.
Part of the folklore of the 1929 Crash was a robber-baron family that put up their gilded-age yacht for the duration of the Depression, lest they be targeted. To their credit, or the credit of their PR staff, they were said to have kept the crew on the rolls.
re: #285 Decatur Deb
Could this be made an Olympic sport in time for the next Winter Games?
Ocean-based sports are all Summer Games.
re: #293 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Conspicuous consumption becomes a political item during recessions/depressions.
It happens over and over: the well off become disconnected with the masses and masses really notice it during hard times.
This is a problem for the Democratic party: the educated elite are mostly Democrats but when they show up to these events the masses out in the hinterland notice that and thus the entire party becomes the party of the “elite”.
The blowup in CA over Newsom’s dinner at The French Laundry is a good example of this.
re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Greenies and catnip are kept in sealed containers here (usually metal ones) or the plastic box is in the filing cabinet. The cats knew where the containers were and would also show up when the filing cabinet was opened.
I see they also cleaned out a big tub of treats. I am not in control here. I’ll move to better containers.
re: #290 Barefoot Grin
2021 Met Gala seems weirdly inappropriate to me right now. I know we’re supposed to be opening things, but that over-the-top conspicuous consumption is somehow sitting wrong with me this year. I’ve never much cared in the past.
The Met’s hurting for cash, they lost a year of admission tickets and gift shop sales. The relief bills covered enough to keep payroll and the electric bills, but money for restorations and new acquisitions? The Gala brings in about $15 million just from tickets, and the attendees often make more donations besides. Plus, the featured designers all get a boost.
ETA: and the date was set in early summer, back when we thought things were getting ready to be good.
that being said… 9/11 weekend wasn’t great timing.
⚠️“Who needs healthy kidneys anyways”—is what folks who ignore #LongCovid / don’t care about mild infections are de facto saying. New study (in a top nephrology journal) finds huge drops in kidney function if #COVID19 infected, even if not hospitalized! 🧵 https://t.co/Z1mpMOPAOE pic.twitter.com/i57dZl7ZVC
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 9, 2021
6) So let’s talk hard endpoint numbers— how much increased risk to kidney damage are we talking about here? Acute Kidney Injury—94% higher ⬆️risk. Collapse of your kidney filtration rate by 50% or more—64% higher ⬆️risk. End-Stage-Kidney-Disease—almost **TRIPLING** of risk!!! ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/9PiL6Dfkvw
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 9, 2021
re: #302 sagehen
A good chunk of Lincoln Center survives off the David and Julia Koch Foundation. That’s the Carnegie Effect.
re: #300 EPR-radar
The blowup in CA over Newsom’s dinner at The French Laundry is a good example of this.
I saw an interview with a Latino small business owner last week who said he was independent but would have a hard time voting to keep Newsom. Why? “That whole French Laundry thing while I have to keep my business going.”
re: #295 A Cranky One
Oh yah? Let’s check.
WHAT is your quest?
WHAT is your favorite color?
WHAT is the rotation speed of the hamster wheel that runs the LGF generators?
What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
re: #306 sagehen
What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
What do you mean - African or European Swallow?
re: #103 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Just following the continuing saga of delegitimizing any profession they can as part of the standard US conservatism anti-intellectualism trend.
Teachers are out to get you. Especially college professors and their liberal indoctrination.
Can’t trust elections since the electoral officials will rig the results against you. (Except, of course, if the conservatives win.)
Can’t trust the doctors and medical profession since they are out to take your money via tests and use of unnecessary drugs and procedures.
Can’t trust “BIG PHARMA”, BIG this or BIG that since the entire capitalist structure is out to cheat you out of your hard-earned money.
Once they have their base totally working on emotion and rejecting any sort of education and logic the mob is ready to aimed at any target they want it to go after.
re: #275 Dave In Austin
All watersnakes have a shitty attitude. I never met one that wasn’t bitty. Interesting snakes though. They actually live in Family groups.
Which more than likely explains the shitty attitudes. “You could have been a gynecologist, like your cousin Moisha….” “Ah Mom…..enough already!!!”
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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