Seth takes a closer look at the prosecutor in the criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s business dealings convening a grand jury that could decide whether to indict Trump or executives at his company.
How can we be nearing the end of May 2021 and Republicans are still trying to overturn the 2020 election? WTF is wrong with these people?
Every once in a while it just hits me like this all over again. This shit is not right.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2021
Sorry for the immediate OT and not sure how I ended up on this but what an amazing photo from 1970 Vietnam worth sharing:
Image: vietnam-war-images-from-vietnamese-photographers+%252813%2529.jpg
The citation reads:
A victim of American bombing, ethnic Cambodian guerrilla Danh Son Huol is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp on the Ca Mau Peninsula. This scene was an actual medical situation, not a publicity setup. The photographer, however, considered the image unexceptional and never printed it. 1970. (Photo by Vo Anh Khanh).
It was part of this article: rarehistoricalphotos.com
Here are some salamander zoomies for your Tuesday 🏃🏻💨 pic.twitter.com/wl3BdsUnnr
— Sam Shablin (@SamShablin) May 25, 2021
Works for Wednesday, too.
No matter what you post to Twitter, there’s somebody out there who really wants to tell you how wrong you are.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2021
A New Mexico man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to kill President Joe Biden and others in text messages he sent to people in two states https://t.co/i7rNrZaLqz
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 27, 2021
re: #6 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Resting Douchebag Face.
Some bad news. Looks like I’ve lost my radio show. The network is run by a big Trumper, and he’s wanted to boot me for awhile. Looks like it finally happened.
Not surprised, but I am bummed. I thought it was so important to have ONE anti-Trump conservative voice on the radio.— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 27, 2021
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I don’t think you’re right about that. :D :D
re: #8 Eric The Fruit Bat
Tell me about it.
re: #7 jaunte
He was posing for his mug shot. Maybe he can use it on a dating app or social media. That pic shows he thinks he was right and nothing is going to happen to him. Or that Trump is coming to pardon him.
I assume Franklin Templeton felt the “basic investigation” was fait accompli after they saw the freakin’ video
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 27, 2021
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’m sure now they’ll keep her away based on her attitude.
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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So when is she going to run for Congress?
Peruvian place across the highway from us having a soft opening tonight. We were officially the first customers at the bar.
Bartender was the same gal we had last time the place was open under a different name three years ago. Recognized us. pic.twitter.com/60z7kSCU7W— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 27, 2021
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Karen wants some more attention.
re: #17 plansbandc
Karen wants some more attention.
Speaking of Karen…
She’d like to speak with the manager
NOT BOO HOO 😩💀 pic.twitter.com/ohMcptj8sg
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) May 26, 2021
re: #18 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Of the WHOLE FUCKING AIRPORT!!!
re: #18 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Speaking of Karen…
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Gee that’s a real shame!
With all of these incidents happening on flights I’m really surprised that we’re not seeing Air Marshals being brought back.
Who would you prefer to be the role model for the next generation of Republican Party leaders?
Trump 50%
Reagan 21%
Haley 6%
George W. Bush 5%
George H.W. Bush 3%
Liz Cheney 2%
.@Reuters/@Ipsos, Among Republicans, 5/7-10https://t.co/znHgP62EJl— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) May 26, 2021
Gay Darkrooms are aromatic pi stacking. They end up laying on top of each other in a random pattern.
Then the light comes on and you all slept with Fred from payroll— Dr Horsey McHorseface ⚫ (@IncitatusAlpha) May 27, 2021
My twitter feed has gotten out of hand.
re: #24 wrenchwench
It’s just an ongoing transmedia gesamtkunstwerk.
re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat
With all of these incidents happening on flights I’m really surprised that we’re not seeing Air Marshals being brought back.
Air Marshals never went away
re: #26 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Air Marshals never went away
They don’t seem to be used on domestic flights, otherwise we should have heard that some of them were present on flights where incidents occurred.
Back from protesting at Mark Driscoll’s Circus of “Where the Hell is Jesus?” I had fruitful discussions with some neighbors of the church, as well as some stalkeriffic behavior from the intern assigned to wave a “Honk if you love Jesus” sign when I’m on the sidewalk. pic.twitter.com/pYQEWPsn1x
— Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes (@mmmirele) May 27, 2021
The neighbors! I park in front of this particular house off 86th Street most of the time. A few times I have parked down at the city park, but it’s a longer walk. I really don’t want to be a pain in the ass for the neighbors. That said, when I parked today, the woman (Kim) who lives in this house across 86th from the church came out and said I was welcome to park there any time I liked.
There was also a couple who gave me a thumbs’ up as they drove by, then came back out with their frantic (but who calmed down) German Shepherd puppy. I had a nice chat with them on the east (church) side of 86th St., then crossed the street to talk to Kim and her son. Her son wanted to read my signs.
I learned from the neighbors that the church is loud on Wednesday night, Saturday night and Sundays. The parking is abysmal. A third neighbor I have not met calls the cops on the church every week, I was told. The neighbors have done their research and they know who Mark Driscoll is, but they’re not up on the latest.
The *stalkeriffic* part was when the intern that they send out to wave the “Honk if you love Jesus” sign saw me talking to these four people on the west side of 86th St. (not the church side) and was waving his sign. Unfortunately I didn’t get a good picture. *shrug* I got some audio of me talking about it. But seriously, it was stalkeriffic.
Anyway, this was probably the best day I had this week, even if I did have to get a physical beforehand and get scheduled for a “well woman exam,” a mammogram and a bone density test. Blargh.
re: #8 Eric The Fruit Bat
CNN should replace frothy mix with Walsh.
Seth Meyers’ piece reminded me of how nice it is that Joe Biden doesn’t take questions while yelling over a helicopter engine.
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This is an important thread. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is being diplomatic because people’s lives literally depend on it. But what she’s dealing with is the latest example of a red state government waging economic warfare on its own blue cities. https://t.co/QzYUkMbISP
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 27, 2021
That’s a Godwin Law violation right there dude. I’m gonna have to call foul.
I’m troubled that the many gold stars I earned in fourth-grade Spanish class may have identified me as a candidate for death camps.
— Mike Godwin (@sfmnemonic) May 27, 2021
re: #34 jaunte
It makes me nauseous that Republicans want to hurt their own constituents. We are in a low simmering civil war with fascists.
re: #36 No Malarkey!
That line about cold dead fingers was about their power.
re: #33 The Pie Overlord!
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big centaur stays undefeated pic.twitter.com/nVoGmBNgrt
— outdoor.asteroid.miner (@ggggguillotine) May 27, 2021
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re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
was that a poll of everyone, or just R’s?
‘Cause if it was up to me, I’d vote for HW.
re: #41 sagehen
was that a poll of everyone, or just R’s?
‘Cause if it was up to me, I’d vote for HW.
Among Republicans. Yeah, HW was okay. He should have talked his son out of running though.
I’m really looking forward to the new superpowers, tbh.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 27, 2021
We didn’t touch your dinner! pic.twitter.com/upsmhJliEH
— Benjamin White (@gntlmnking) May 26, 2021
So just today:
-Shell ordered to cut emissions (though that will be appealed)
-Chevron shareholders direct it to cut emissions.
-Exxon gets at least two climate activists on its board
-Ford announces it’s received 70k orders for the Lightning.
-Ford says 40% EV by 2030.— Ben Lefebvre (@bjlefebvre) May 26, 2021
Went and got a few more LPs from my pops. In the last few days I’ve spun John Coltrane, Vangelis, Jethro Tull, The Band, Mussorgsky, Grand Funk Railroad, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
There’s something about listening to old records.
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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White privilege is suing your employer for firing you after you committed a blatantly racist act…simply because you’re white.
re: #45 gwangung
So just today:
-Shell ordered to cut emissions (though that will be appealed)
-Chevron shareholders direct it to cut emissions.
-Exxon gets at least two climate activists on its board
-Ford announces it’s received 70k orders for the Lightning.
-Ford says 40% EV by 2030.— Ben Lefebvre (@bjlefebvre) May 26, 2021
There have to be sufficient charging stations on the road to handle all the new EV and the time for charging has to be drastically reduced in order for these vehicles to make true inroads on traditional vehicles or hybrids.
And we’re off.
Two days ago, the Texas legislature passed permitless carry, a bill *vocally* opposed by police chiefs in every major city in the state. Tonight at least three Dallas area cops have paid the price for @GregAbbott_TX’s eagerness to increase access to guns. https://t.co/mzETBrhBRe
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 27, 2021
re: #48 Hecuba’s daughter
There have to be sufficient charging stations on the road to handle all the new EV and the time for charging has to be drastically reduced in order for these vehicles to make true inroads on traditional vehicles or hybrids.
Oh and a grid that can handle it. Also enough clean power generation that’s not ridiculously expensive. There’s an A-B-C-and-D to this to make it work. Everyone seems to only care about A and sometimes B.
Also, changing Joe Average’s commute to all electric is only a small percentage of emissions. They could have left cars, suvs, and light trucks as is since the 90s and focused on dealing with emissions caused by shipping/freight, air transportation, those god awful floating polluting petri dishes (cruise ships), manufacturing, and of course, power generation and we would be way better off.
re: #49 jaunte
And we’re off.
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This particular instance doesn’t seem to be associated with the new open carry legislation but just reflects the traditional widespread gun ownership in Texas (and throughout the country). The man involved apparently was in his home.
re: #50 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Oh and a grid that can handle it. Also enough clean power generation that’s not ridiculously expensive. There’s an A-B-C-and-D to this to make it work. Everyone seems to only care about A and sometimes B.
Also, changing Joe Average’s commute to all electric is only a small percentage of emissions. They could have left cars, suvs, and light trucks as is since the 90s and focused on dealing with emissions caused by shipping/freight, air transportation, those god awful floating polluting petri dishes (cruise ships), manufacturing, and of course, power generation and we would be way better off.
Although highly controversial, nuclear power would be one way to handle this, especially if we can improve handling of nuclear waste.
Getting anxious to see if the corrupted court will kill the Affordable Care Act…
why the fuck would they not call them s’moreos?????I’m so fucking angry pic.twitter.com/PQMFoSnjdt
— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) May 21, 2021
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
Although highly controversial, nuclear power would be one way to handle this, especially if we can improve handling of nuclear waste.
Advocated by me. Truly the only way to fix this without talking everyone involved into creating a worldwide smart grid and setting up 2 or 3 50-100sq km solar array fields in the deserts on every continent.
I don’t see how we are going to get around all the misguided anti-nuclear people to do this. Gen IV and newer reactors have none of the problems old one have but everyone thinks we want to setup 100s of Chernobyls or Fukushima Daiichis. Doesn’t matter how many times we debunk it. This is one of the things where “the left” is just as bad as the right when it comes to disinformation.
Have an ice day pic.twitter.com/UKrhN0Kgvs
— Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) May 26, 2021
re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
My understanding from working in power trading (buying/selling virtual electricity which I know sounds weird but is a thing) is that nuclear nodes are impressively more stable and consistent on the grid than pretty much anything else. So much so they basically become a non-factor when it comes to volatility calculations.
re: #45 gwangung
There’s a lot of talk in Boston about electric commuter rail. Usually the Republicans in Massachusetts stomp on that because Taxes. But it’s not going away. Best part is that the rail line in MY town is prioritized for electrification! The train is a very meaningful and important part of my town’s culture. If we don’t get behind this, we’re stupid.
re: #55 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Advocated by me. Truly the only way to fix this without talking everyone involved into creating a worldwide smart grid and setting up 2 or 3 50-100sq km solar array fields in the deserts on every continent.
I don’t see how we are going to get around all the misguided anti-nuclear people to do this. Gen IV and newer reactors have none of the problems old one have but everyone thinks we want to setup 100s of Chernobyls or Fukushima Daiichis. Doesn’t matter how many times we debunk it. This is one of the things where “the left” is just as bad as the right when it comes to disinformation.
Amen to that.
re: #48 Hecuba’s daughter
A 230 mile charge, the distance on the smaller model F150, whill get me to and from work for four days without me having to do another charge. I could trickle charge it every evening no problem. Even when I’m driving all over the place, I wouldn’t come close to using 200 miles.
200+ miles will cover 80% of driving in the US without any issues. Now, I couldn’t take from Texas to Kentucky like we are planning next week, but I wouldn’t mind doing that on a train if we could get those in place.
re: #58 Sherlock Hound
I hope the upgrades happen. I grew up in rural Mass and when we went to Boston we drove to the nearest T station and did the park and ride thing - it was awesome :)
re: #60 Belafon
A 230 mile charge, the distance on the smaller model F150, whill get me to and from work for four days without me having to do another charge. I could trickle charge it every evening no problem. Even when I’m driving all over the place, I wouldn’t come close to using 200 miles.
200+ miles will cover 80% of driving in the US without any issues. Now, I couldn’t take from Texas to Kentucky like we are planning next week, but I wouldn’t mind doing that on a train if we could get those in place.
On my bucket list is to ride Amtrak around the US and ride ViaRail’s Canadian across Canada.
re: #60 Belafon
A 230 mile charge, the distance on the smaller model F150, whill get me to and from work for four days without me having to do another charge. I could trickle charge it every evening no problem. Even when I’m driving all over the place, I wouldn’t come close to using 200 miles.
200+ miles will cover 80% of driving in the US without any issues. Now, I couldn’t take from Texas to Kentucky like we are planning next week, but I wouldn’t mind doing that on a train if we could get those in place.
Putting together a modern multi-modal transportation system has *got* to be based on electricity. The UK has already achieved it it except for the Last Mile component, which is based on gasoline powered single and double-decker buses.
re: #58 Sherlock Hound
There’s a lot of talk in Boston about electric commuter rail. Usually the Republicans in Massachusetts stomp on that because Taxes. But it’s not going away. Best part is that the rail line in MY town is prioritized for electrification! The train is a very meaningful and important part of my town’s culture. If we don’t get behind this, we’re stupid.
Republicans in Massachusetts are not capable of stomping on anything. They may make a lot of noise but even with a republican governor the legislature can override any veto they choose.
re: #46 teleskiguy
Went and got a few more LPs from my pops. In the last few days I’ve spun John Coltrane, Vangelis, Jethro Tull, The Band, Mussorgsky, Grand Funk Railroad, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
There’s something about listening to old records.
Congrats! My nephew caught the vinyl bug about a year ago and I’ve had it for about 55 years. 2500 albums here which ain’t a lot by collectors standards.
When you go to Ikea to buy Kallax shelving, you know you’re hooked.
Found an actual Nazi. Please report.
Never threaten. Just do. But why Biden? There are much better objectives. https://t.co/WhI20m79GL
— Aodh Ascan (@AodhAscan) May 27, 2021
Yes, the Germans were critical of the Jewish Bolsheviks who hated the German people and quite literally committed tens of thousands of acts of sedition, treason, & violence. These Bolsheviks were the co-ethnics of the Frankfurt School Critical Theorists. https://t.co/091vlQ6iFJ
— Aodh Ascan (@AodhAscan) May 27, 2021
Feeling cynical. Time for bed.
Shitty drive by post, I know. Got bad news about a close friend. Still processing. Love that fucker.
What about poverty and hunger on Mars? Wouldn’t it be easier to achieve that?
Sorry… But I know how we Americans actually act.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 27, 2021
Here’s a good laugh before you go to bed.
Richard Marx wrote a brilliant song in response to @RandPaul: “It’s not my fault that people hate you.” 🎶 pic.twitter.com/qhSJ4rR6jN
— Nancy Levine (@nancylevine) May 26, 2021
re: #68 darthstar
Feeling cynical. Time for bed.
Shitty drive by post, I know. Got bad news about a close friend. Still processing. Love that fucker.[Embedded content]
His implication that one has to do with the other or they are mutually exclusive is borderline insulting.
Especially since the latter can actually done for peanuts, like… today… but requires political will.
EDIT: I mean the former… the solving hunger one.
re: #68 darthstar
Feeling cynical. Time for bed.
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“Alright, we’ve put off colonizing Mars until we can get hunger and poverty under control. Now, what’s your plan?”
“Plan? I never said I had a plan, I just wanted to be a contrarian asshole.”
I hate to break it to Reich, but not only are poverty and hunger likely to remain problems for the foreseeable future, but they’re only going to grow as the global economy embraces automation more and more with each passing year. If anything, colonizing new worlds would likely do for Earth of the 21st century what colonizing new lands did in centuries past: Create jobs and opportunities for people who cannot find either in their native lands.
re: #68 darthstar
re: #72 Targetpractice
Reich’s claim is an old one, heard since the beginning of space exploration.
The idea that spending money on big ticket items wrt that are off of Earth somehow is negative to helping people on Earth is just false.
All the money spent to do with anything about Mars is spent on Earth. That creates jobs. Creating jobs is itself a way to address poverty. Billions of dollars in regards to Mars exploration is spent in local economies (ok, mostly in CA, TX, FL, and MD) emplying thousands and thousands of people directly, and probably many more as those in the industry spend their earnings locally.
Creating jobs that accomplish big things is, AFAIK, one of the principal means of helping people that a government can do.
And for what it’s worth, we will not colonize Mars. Humans cannot live on Mars without massive expenditures of resources, and the only reason such an endeavor enters into discussions is because we humans are curious animals and, frankly, we need to look for things to do.
re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Reich’s claim is an old one, heard since the beginning of space exploration.
The idea that spending money on big ticket items wrt that are off of Earth somehow is negative to helping people on Earth is just false.
All the money spent to do with anything about Mars is spent on Earth…
As long as we have met some basic standards, like feeding and housing everyone who needs it, I am all for investment in space exploration.
Reich’s is the sort of argument I’m sure he’s met with disgust when used to attack some effort he supports at the national or international level. You hear variations of it from wingnuts all the time: “WHY ARE WE SPENDING MONEY TO HELP [insert foreign locale] WHEN WE COULD USE THAT MONEY HERE!?!” Hell, it’s the entire basis for the long-running fallacy that the US could save so much money from the federal deficit if we just ended foreign aid.
The argument is itself a fallacy, the idea that problems as nebulous as poverty or hunger could be solved if you just threw more money at them. But then you actually begin to haul them into focus and realize that there are roadblocks that either can’t be easily overcome with more money or are impassable short of major social and economic changes. I mean we could just adopt something like “Basic Assistance” from The Expanse, giving every person access to free food, clothing, and shelter, but then what?
re: #70 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
His implication that one has to do with the other or they are mutually exclusive is borderline insulting.
Especially since the latter can actually done for peanuts, like… today… but requires political will.
EDIT: I mean the former… the solving hunger one.
There was a famous quote from a German leftist politician in response to people who complained that Germany had money to take in nearly a million Syrian refugees but not enough to take care of its own homeless.
To which he replied “Even without refugees, there still would not be enough money for the homeless!”
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re: #18 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Can you imagine how many times I’d be tasered or beaten if my Black behind behaved like that? She is so entitled!
Never yell out your plans during a criminal conspiracy. Its an insurrection, you’re not auditioning to be the next Bond villain, https://t.co/muSbG7mJjv
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) May 27, 2021
re: #71 Targetpractice
“Alright, we’ve put off colonizing Mars until we can get hunger and poverty under control. Now, what’s your plan?”
“Plan? I never said I had a plan, I just wanted to be a contrarian asshole.”
“Homeless vets” is one of the favourite go-tos of the contrarian. The righeeous asshat might say “when did we see one of you?”
Hey, asshat, when I was hungry, you were cutting soup kitchens. When I needed shelter, you were a NIMBY asshat fighting those and saying “get a job” and tried to jail me for being indigent. When I was thirsty, you were an asshat who closed public water fountains and bathrooms. When I was sick, you asshats tried to cut the budget for veterans health care or privatise it.
Matthew 25, the Asshat Version, if Jesus was talking to Christians today.
re: #77 Teukka
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re: #81 Patricia Kayden
https://t.co/Kq4ZRWRbs5
“VICE News interviewed Milkshake @ an “End Antifa” rally in Portland, Oregon, last Sept….
“‘I came here becuz they said there’s going 2 b beer & the American flag arouses me,’ Milkshake said. “It just makes me feel really patriotic, u know?’”— Hayden Hall (@HaydenHall5) May 27, 2021
re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Who are we to kink shame?///
re: #86 Dopamine Fish
Who are we to kink shame?///
Whatever gets the sap flowing in your personal Tree of Liberty, right?
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever gets the sap flowing in your personal Tree of Liberty, right?
Well, they do say it needs to be watered with blood…
NEW: Biden Administration Defends Massive Alaska Oil Drilling Project https://t.co/6Vt1UEMcF9
— Lisa Friedman (@LFFriedman) May 27, 2021
re: #36 No Malarkey!
It makes me nauseous that Republicans want to hurt their own constituents. We are in a low simmering civil war with fascists.
No, it makes you nauseated that republicans are generally nauseous. This goes along with my other pet peeve (okay, one of my many pet peeves), where people say something like “give it to whomever asks for it,” and I find myself shouting at them like John Malkovich in Burn After Reading, with that almost monologue quality to the shouting. It happened again last night, while watching episode 2 of season 3 star trek discovery. Somebody who was supposed to be smart said something like “you’ll give it to whatever r whomever asks for it,” and I was shouting “to WHOEVER asks for it, you stupid c*&^!” and I was wearing headphones at the time, so the entire apartment complex may have heard me shouting that, as I shouted it loud enough so I could hear myself shouting it over the noise cancellation headphones.
Tots & pears
Many of Trump’s former appointees have been ordered to immediately repay months of payroll taxes that had been deferred under a bid by the former president to boost the economy ahead of last year’s elections https://t.co/BU4E2mS4E6 @Brian_Faler@dlippman
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) May 27, 2021
“… It’s a little-noticed addendum to Trump’s much-criticized plan last summer to prime the economy.
In August, he issued an executive order allowing employers to put off paying their workers’ share of the 12.4 percent Social Security tax for the rest of the year. The idea was to boost consumer spending by putting more money in the pockets of millions.
But the initiative was widely rejected by private sector employers, in part because they feared workers would be unprepared to pay the money back.
It was mandatory, though, for federal employees making less than $4,000 per biweekly paycheck, and the government began implementing it in September.
Trump said many times he expected Congress to eventually forgive the debts. Lawmakers didn’t do that, though they did agree to give people more time to pay the money back. While the IRS had initially wanted the money paid back this year between January and the end of April — matching the four-month length of the deferral — Congress agreed to give people this entire year to repay it.
For current federal employees, the taxes are now being incrementally withheld from their paychecks.
Often overlooked, though, were people who left the government because they quit or retired — but, perhaps more likely, because they were political appointees who had to leave with Trump’s defeat.
Some of those former appointees say they don’t blame Trump, even if his initiative is now coming back to haunt them.
“I thought it was a good plan — I don’t think it got the traction it deserved,” said one former appointee. “I just wish I had the option to opt-out.”
Some point a finger at President Joe Biden. …”
re: #50 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Also, changing Joe Average’s commute to all electric is only a small percentage of emissions. They could have left cars, suvs, and light trucks as is since the 90s and focused on dealing with emissions caused by shipping/freight, air transportation, those god awful floating polluting petri dishes (cruise ships), manufacturing, and of course, power generation and we would be way better off.
Transport is 16.2% of CO2 emissions.
Road Transport is 11.9%
Aviation 1.9%
Shipping 1.7%
So, no, you’re wrong, “those god awful floating polluting petri dishes” are not a priority target, road transport is.
Sixty percent of road transport emissions come from passenger travel (cars, motorcycles and buses), so actually “Joe Average’s commute” is a priority target.
re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As long as we have met some basic standards, like feeding and housing everyone who needs it, I am all for investment in space exploration.
So you mean you’re against investment in space exploration.
re: #92 John Hughes
Thing is, though, improving Joe Average’s car mileage from 25mpg to 35mpg doesn’t save as much fuel as one might initially think.
And the problem with electric vehicles is that the majority of electricity generation in the world is still by fossil fuels.
And furthermore, battery production is another energy intensive industry.
There are many reasons why global CO2 emissions have not slowed down. It’s not just malice (though there is plenty of that from the denier industry.)
Global demand for living an energy-intensive lifestyle (as we have here in the US) is not something one can just bottle up.
re: #93 John Hughes
So you mean you’re against investment in space exploration.
If it were truly a case of either/or then I say feed and house the people first.
But again, even without a space exploration budget at all, there would still not be enough money for the needy.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This is why the incredibly slow development of effective fusion energy is frustrating. It has the potential to solve a lot of the problems associated with current energy sources - incredibly clean immediate waste (maybe some radioactive material to deal with during decommissioning, but far less than fission), plentiful availability of fuel, and in theory, a massive amount of available energy per unit of fuel. The problem is that fusion energy exists in a realm of physics that is poorly understood, and researchers keep running into unexpected barriers that lower its potential. At this point, it’s still unknown if it’s even possible to make it viable without some physics-shattering technological breakthrough we can’t currently foresee.
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it were truly a case of either/or then I say feed and house the people first.
But again, even without a space exploration budget at all, there would still not be enough money for the needy.
Exactly. I think we should do both. I fear we will do neither.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Global demand for living an energy-intensive lifestyle (as we have here in the US) is not something one can just bottle up.
We still tend to gauge wealth and prosperity in terms of how much we consume and not the quality of life we generate.
I recall back the good old days when Pravda would publish its annual production figures for various industries to show how much they increased over past years.
Electronics production was always listed in tons, because producing more tons of electronics than last year means our industry is doing better, right?
re: #97 John Hughes
Exactly. I think we should do both. I fear we will do neither.
we will cut taxes for job creators
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Most of what you say is true.
But it’s all irrelevant. Just because the problem is hard doesn’t mean we can ignore it.
re: #91 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
When this was announced, my employer said they weren’t going to play that game with the cutting of FICA withholding for that very reason.
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If it were truly a case of either/or then I say feed and house the people first.
But again, even without a space exploration budget at all, there would still not be enough money for the needy.
re: #73 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Reich’s claim is an old one, heard since the beginning of space exploration.
The idea that spending money on big ticket items wrt that are off of Earth somehow is negative to helping people on Earth is just false.
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jumping in late to this discussion
i didnt read reich’s comments in detail
when i’ve had this argument in the past it falls on two different dimensions
one is the either /or, cant we do two things at once
it also tends to split between the economics and audacious ‘problem solving’
it’s not merely just ‘throw money at the hungry and homeless’
its more like if we’re gonna do another moonshot declaration - spend all that time and effort and technology and smarts to develop an outlandish solution for a problem we dont really have at the moment (having to get to the moon or mars) why can’t/don’t we put that level of problem solving on an identifiable and achievable problem on earth.
one that it would seem should not be so impossibly difficult as space travel
And we’re tired of you crying about pronouns and cereal boxes. https://t.co/EQjAPSPsg9
— Godless Cranium 1984 (@GodlessCranium) May 26, 2021
re: #101 Eric The Fruit Bat
When this was announced, my employer said they weren’t going to play that game with the cutting of FICA withholding for that very reason.
anyone with half a brain saw it as the loan/scam that it was
the federal employees had no choice
and in the end, it did nothing.
just another meaningless bit of performative gesture
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And we’re tired of you crying about pronouns and cereal boxes
Then buy only clearly-marked traditional gender-specific breakfast cereals.
Wheaties
Cheerios
Cocoa Pebbles
Unfortunately, this is not at all surprising. She is quite a disturbed woman.
“Mass Shooting Plotter Is Allegedly Sending Prison Letters to Influential Neo-Nazi and Is Calling for Violence”https://t.co/IFXql6bdkU— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) May 27, 2021
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Thing is, though, improving Joe Average’s car mileage from 25mpg to 35mpg doesn’t save as much fuel as one might initially think.
And the problem with electric vehicles is that the majority of electricity generation in the world is still by fossil fuels.
And furthermore, battery production is another energy intensive industry.
There are many reasons why global CO2 emissions have not slowed down. It’s not just malice (though there is plenty of that from the denier industry.)
Global demand for living an energy-intensive lifestyle (as we have here in the US) is not something one can just bottle up.
While we’re shifting more cars to electric, we shift more electricity production to renewables.
re: #107 Belafon
While we’re shifting more cars to electric, we shift more electricity production to renewables.
Almost any big city could make the move to convert its fleet of vehicles to electric, this would really raise the density of recharging stations and really kick-start that process.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
For me, a change from 25 to 35 mpg (my Fiesta actually averages slightly higher than that for all of my normal driving), is a change from 520 to 371 gallons a year according to my calculator. Thus, just under three barrels per year. Multiply that by a few million vehicles.
re: #110 Belafon
For me, a change from 25 to 35 mpg (my Fiesta actually averages slightly higher than that for all of my normal driving), is a change from 520 to 371 gallons a year according to my calculator. Thus, just under three barrels per year. Multiply that by a few million vehicles.
The other point is to make driving long distances on a regular basis less of a necessity for so many people. That requires a lot of infrastructure and urban planning work.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
She’s in prison. Why are the authorities allowing her to send Neo-Nazi materials from her prison cell?
re: #107 Belafon
SUVs or pickups that used to get 10mpg are now getting 15 mpg, which is a 30% improvement (reducing consumption by 1/3). That’s an even bigger improvement than a sedan that might go from 25 to 30 (20%). Pickups have not seen the rise in fuel economy seen in other vehicle classifications, in part because consumers and manufacturers are both fixate on horsepower. Higher horsepower while no change in fuel economy.
re: #107 Belafon
While we’re shifting more cars to electric, we shift more electricity production to renewables.
and power production at the plants is more efficient than a car’s internal combustion multiplied by lots of cars
re: #115 Dangerman
and power production at the plants is more efficient than a car’s internal combustion multiplied by lots of cars
I definitely would like to find actual numbers on this.
re: #116 Belafon
I definitely would like to find actual numbers on this.
quick search found a forbes article
The reason is as simple as it is obvious: energy produced in a power plant is much more efficient than in the small engine of a vehicle, no matter how much technology has improved the efficiency of these vehicles. The average coal plant about 35% efficient, with the very best ultra super critical coal plants at about 42% efficient. Even the best combined cycle natural gas plants are about 60%, which still implies that 40% of the energy obtained from the fuel used is lost in the process of producing electricity. An internal combustion engine in a car is at best 25%, efficient, with most energy simply lost as heat. In a large power plant, the possibilities of reusing that heat are obviously much greater than in the small engine of a vehicle.
re: #102 Dangerman
distilled to one sentence:
why are we willing to dedicate so much expertise and money to solve a problem we dont have instead of addressing obviously solvable humanitarian ones we do have
re: #107 Belafon
While we’re shifting more cars to electric, we shift more electricity production to renewables.
The US has been spending big and making renewables happen for the past decade or so so you would think they now represent a large part of the US generating capacity, yes?
Actually no. The IEA reports that wind and solar produced only 10% or so of US electricity in 2020. The big winner is gas at 40% with coal and nuclear neck and neck for second place at 20% each. There’s another 10% or so of older hydropower capacity to add to that and it’s renewable but it’s not the sexy wind turbines and solar plants which everyone thinks of when the word “renewables” is mentioned.
More EVs will mean more electricity consumption and it’s easier and cheaper to run gas plants harder or build more of them than it is to build out renewables ten times faster than the current rate to keep up with demand and actually replace coal, never mind gas.
re: #115 Dangerman
and power production at the plants is more efficient than a car’s internal combustion multiplied by lots of cars
Power plants typically have far better emissions controls than tailpipe emissions. As power generation shifts to renewables, like wind or solar, there are no emissions at all, which makes EVs emission free altogether.
Power plants are typically more efficient at power production than motor vehicle ICEs. It’s a function of scale and the ability to recapture heat in further energy generation. Motor vehicles can’t, since they lack the space or weight constraints limit what can be done.
re: #111 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And the actual planning is the key. I live in a seriously overdeveloped area with no end in sight. There are dozens of sites that were developed and abandoned because of poor access, deals falling through or shiny new stuff being built while perfectly good buildings were abandoned by businesses who had to expand. Many of which are gone now, and not coming back.
One debacle was 25 wooded acres cleared and made ready for a gun club. Supposedly would bring all kinds of business to the area, blah blah. That lot had one office building put on it after the gun club deal fell through(the gun club built near the county airport instead, because the title on the land was in question. Wouldn’t you check all that before promising to build there?) Three years later, the building is empty. They build tons of overpriced subdivisions and don’t widen roads to accommodate traffic increases. And this is one county with a lot of insanely affluent people who have moved here over the last 20 yrs. Georgia is full of wasteful shit like this. And no affordable housing anywhere that wasn’t built in the 60s and 70s.
Get Vaxxed, get a free education. So the kid’s also vaccinated against becoming a Republican when he’s older.
Congrats, Joseph! You just won a full-ride college scholarship! If you’re between 12 and 17 years-old and had at least one dose of the vaccine, you could be next! Sign up at https://t.co/ZmJ8iKoSlV! pic.twitter.com/StHlWewhW5
— Mike DeWine (@MikeDeWine) May 27, 2021
We get our punditry from people with a 12 year old’s idea of what old-fashioned manliness is. https://t.co/kbPAaujjY4
— Prophet of Zod (@Prophet_of_Zod) May 25, 2021
re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yes, we need to be led by someone who moves on her like a bitch…when you’re powerful, they let you do it.
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re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah we need a bunco artist in the Oval Office who wolfs down Super Sized Big Mac meals…
I see that Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar has died.
We could dedicate a posthumous book to him: The Very Hungry Earthworm…
Gave a talk today @karolinskainst on the global response to covid-19. One thing I discussed: the piece I wrote with @clarewenham on how the US & UK were ranked the 2 nations best prepared. Yet Trump & Johnson performed among the very worst on earth.
1/n https://t.co/1SEfG7xgQd— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) May 25, 2021
As @clarewenham and I say, the scorecard “did not account for the political context in which a national policy response to a pandemic is formulated and implemented”
In particular, it didn’t account for the behavior of illiberal populists (eg Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, Modi)
4/n— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) May 25, 2021
In class today, one of the @karolinskainst students asked: how can we prevent another Trump from dropping the ball again in a future pandemic?
It’s a great question!
I don’t have the answers, obviously. But I think that on crucial protection needs to be put in place.
5/n— Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH (@GYamey) May 25, 2021
re: #110 Belafon
I switched to a Prius a few years back. I typically get 55-60 mpg now, though I rarely drive it more than 20 miles a day, sometimes not at all. I do a lot on my electric bike though, usually the trips to the dive bar…LOL.
I am looking at the Prius prime, 25 miles of electric, then hybrid.
re: #120 Nojay UK
And that’s mostly political will. Iowa is now producing most of it’s electricity from wind.
More very good #COVID19 #vaccine news — durable responses.
It’s possible your vaccine will protect you for years.https://t.co/DWGQ9tNrW0— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 26, 2021
“The most important takeaway is that a vaccination approach with an adenovirus-vectored vaccine followed by an mRNA vaccine is likely to be safe and immunogenic, but further evaluation is needed,” said @IVACtweets director William Moss. https://t.co/O9m3m0d1xN
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) May 25, 2021
The paper also shows substantial discrimination against atheists @GodlessLiz https://t.co/XLMNAVdOmS
— José Tomás Quiroga (@atunlover) May 25, 2021
re: #128 Belafon
France, ranked 11/195 on the list also did pretty badly, and many of the criticisms of the US and UK also apply — failure to implement track&trace, poor stockpiles of PPE (huge stockpiles had been built up in 2010 for the potential H1N1 flu epidemic then just squandered or even left to rot over the intervening years).
re: #128 Belafon
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re: #130 Belafon
And that’s mostly political will. Iowa is now producing most of it’s electricity from wind.
Locally some places produce most if not all of their electricity from wind and solar or even hydro but a lot more places rely on fossil-carbon thermal plants or nuclear to keep the lights on. Even the renewables-rich places burn a shitload of gas and oil for home and premises heating in the winter when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine and all that combustion ends up as additional CO2 in the atmosphere and more climate change.
re: #65 danarchy
Republicans in Massachusetts are not capable of stomping on anything. They may make a lot of noise but even with a republican governor the legislature can override any veto they choose.
The Speaker of the House usually goes, “I’m in East Bumwick. The T doesn’t run out here. Vetoed.” There are a lot of Massholes who vote Republican to “balance out” the Dems.
re: #104 Dangerman
anyone with half a brain saw it as the loan/scam that it was
the federal employees had no choice
and in the end, it did nothing.
just another meaningless bit of performative gesture
You are so right. Totally unnecessary and designed to increase the deficit. The problem was not that people who were continuing to work needed this extra money because of the pandemic.
re: #137 Hecuba’s daughter
You are so right. Totally unnecessary and designed to increase the deficit. The problem was not that people who were continuing to work needed this extra money because of the pandemic.
I lucked out since I’m in the old Civil Service Retirement System and just have Medicare tax deducted from my pay. Lots of coworkers are really pissed off that their pay is being docked for unpaid FICA tax.
re: #137 Hecuba’s daughter
You are so right. Totally unnecessary and designed to increase the deficit. The problem was not that people who were continuing to work needed this extra money because of the pandemic.
Not designed to increase the deficit. Designed to break Social Security, a goal of the Republican Party ever since it was founded nearly ninety years ago.
re: #131 Belafon
I was briefed back in January by my company which did a lot of work for the vaccine rollout and databasing that the early word was that the vaccines would last for 2 years, but that there was no concrete data on that. The VP also said back then, that by June we would mostly be back to normal. We were skeptical then, but everything he said was correct.
re: #142 Dangerman
If the coup had succeeded, January 6th would have become Second Independence Day.
A federal judge on Wednesday wrote that Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him could still inspire some of the former President’s supporters to take up arms, as they did in January during the deadly US Capitol insurrection.
The judge’s blunt assessment of the current, charged political climate came in a legal decision about a defendant who was drawn to Washington, DC, in January. And it adds to a growing chorus of warnings from the officials most closely weighing the aftermath of the Capitol riot about what the threat level still might be.
“The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away; six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near-daily fulminations of the former President,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the DC District Court wrote in an opinion to keep defendant Cleveland Meredith Jr. in jail because he could endanger the public if released.
re: #129 Egregious Philbin
I switched to a Prius a few years back. I typically get 55-60 mpg now, though I rarely drive it more than 20 miles a day, sometimes not at all. I do a lot on my electric bike though, usually the trips to the dive bar…LOL.
I am looking at the Prius prime, 25 miles of electric, then hybrid.
Buddy of mine just picked up a used one. He’s really happy with it. His drives are local enough that he’s using mostly electric. He estimates that he’s used maybe a quarter of the tank from the last time he filled up.
I went all electric with the Chevy Bolt 3.5 years ago. Best car I’ve ever had. Cannot say enough good things about it. It has its issues but it’s the only car I’ve owned I’ve ever actually cared about.
My partner is circling the plug-in hybrid RAV4 for maybe next year.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve found the best way to unite any group of religious people, regardless of how strong their faith is, is to simply state “I really don’t believe in that stuff any more.”
Even the most liberal person in the group will slowly start inching away from you, LOL.
Fucking hell.
On Wednesday, WSMV reported that a woman in eastern Tennessee was arrested after she drove recklessly through a drive-in COVID-19 vaccination site to protest the administration of the vaccine — nearly hitting several health workers in the process.
“Deputies arrested Virginia C. Brown, 36, of Greenback, TN, on Monday morning after she drove through a vaccination center set up at the Foothills Mall,” reported Chuck Morris. “Deputies assigned to assist at the site saw a blue Chrysler SUV traveling at a high rate of speed through a closed cone course and through an enclosed tent with several Health Department and National Guard personnel working under the tent. The deputy observed the Chrysler SUV exit the tent and continue to drive recklessly through the cone course. A deputy was able to follow Brown after she drove through the site and arrest her. She was charged with seven counts of felony reckless endangerment.”
According to the report, workers reported that she shouted something that sounded like “No vaccine!” as she blew past them, and after being apprehended, she denied driving recklessly.
“While sitting in the back of the deputy’s car, she made several statements to deputies about wanting to protest the vaccine,” said the report. “She said she was driving through the course and once she got to the tent, she told the personnel working she was not there for the vaccine. She told deputies she was only doing 5 miles per hour through the tent.”
I wonder if the GOP will start passing laws to make doing this legal too?
Half /
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rudy Giuliani’s head seepage would be the new stigmata if 1/6 were successful in overturning the Government
Buffalo head dude would have his own TV show on Fox
Dying of covid19 would be spun as a tribute to Trump
Counting my blessings multiple times a day for missing that timeline
there is no actual evidence. there is a bunch of supposition and misunderstanding of Chinese political contexts and bad contrarianism and reporters getting played by formal Trump officials with dodgy documents. nothing else has changed. https://t.co/3P7X4RbOy5
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) May 27, 2021
Media outlets keep amplifying the whole China lab started the pandemic bulkshit, despite no actual evidence.
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
The same type of mentality of the guy above who took time out to take a picture of the cereal box and tweet about it.
The guy’s good at crunching baseball stats and sometimes poll numbers, but he’s no virologist.
Maybe the term ‘credible people’ needs to be qualified… pic.twitter.com/BjGme30ftK
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 27, 2021
re: #149 lawhawk
I do like that Palmer has adopted the Game of Thrones Biden avatar.
I’m not hopeful, but I have my fingers crossed. In an interview posted on vox.com, one analyst said that if HR1 doesn’t pass, his analysis of the crisis level is “move to another country after 2024.” And it won’t pass unless the filibuster is reformed.
I hope you are right. So far, he has been absolutely adamant that he will not vote to end the filibuster.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 27, 2021
re: #151 darthstar
The guy’s good at crunching baseball stats and sometimes poll numbers, but he’s no virologist.
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re: #153 No Malarkey!
I’m not hopeful, but I have my fingers crossed. In an interview posted on vox.com, one analyst said that if HR1 doesn’t pass, his analysis of the crisis level is “move to another country after 2024.” And it won’t pass unless the filibuster is reformed.
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Joe has a lot of “Why are you helping the blacks?” constituents.
Initial jobless claims fell for a fourth straight week to 406k, a new pandemic low.
I am getting tired of that lab leak theory. And also, even if it DID somehow get released from a lab due to human error, that’s STILL not proof it was CREATED there.
What if it had been found in nature and some samples had been collected and taken to the lab for analysis and then a problem occurred?
And we don’t know why those 3 lab workers ended up in the hospital and even if it was something they came into contact with at work, there’s no guarantee it was Covid-19.
There had to have been any number of other biological pathogens in that lab.
On January 6 commission bill, McConnell says “there’s no new fact about that day that we need the Democrats’ extraneous commission for”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 27, 2021
McConnell is more interested in protecting GOP from consequences of their complicity and involvement in 1/6 than getting the facts out. Party > nation.
The GOP is covering up their own role/crimes as part of Trump’s criminal actions.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 27, 2021
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Fucking hell.
On Wednesday, WSMV reported that a woman in eastern Tennessee was arrested after she drove recklessly through a drive-in COVID-19 vaccination site to protest the administration of the vaccine — nearly hitting several health workers in the process.
“Deputies arrested Virginia C. Brown, 36, of Greenback, TN, on Monday morning after she drove through a vaccination center set up at the Foothills Mall,” reported Chuck Morris. “Deputies assigned to assist at the site saw a blue Chrysler SUV traveling at a high rate of speed through a closed cone course and through an enclosed tent with several Health Department and National Guard personnel working under the tent. The deputy observed the Chrysler SUV exit the tent and continue to drive recklessly through the cone course. A deputy was able to follow Brown after she drove through the site and arrest her. She was charged with seven counts of felony reckless endangerment.”
According to the report, workers reported that she shouted something that sounded like “No vaccine!” as she blew past them, and after being apprehended, she denied driving recklessly.
“While sitting in the back of the deputy’s car, she made several statements to deputies about wanting to protest the vaccine,” said the report. “She said she was driving through the course and once she got to the tent, she told the personnel working she was not there for the vaccine. She told deputies she was only doing 5 miles per hour through the tent.”
I wonder if the GOP will start passing laws to make doing this legal too?
Half /
half is generous
re: #155 Belafon
Joe has a lot of “Why are you helping the blacks?” constituents.
Thanks to the nearly miraculous sweep of the Georgia Senate runoffs, the Democrats have this window of opportunity to save democracy and head off a massive crisis in 2024-25. But that window will close soon if all 50 Democratic Senators don’t come together to seize the moment. It’s not just Manchin and Sinema either, there are others reluctant to end their hoary old tradition.
re: #145 Mattand
My partner is circling the plug-in hybrid RAV4 for maybe next year.
I get to go for a ride in a Tesla this weekend, buddy is coming out in his model that he has had for over a year now…
re: #149 lawhawk
Media outlets keep amplifying the whole China lab started the pandemic bulkshit, despite no actual evidence.
And it’s still a deflection from the awful response of the maladministration.
While the origin is important (to prevent future outbreaks), it is immaterial to statements like Tex. Lt. Gov. Patrick’s assertion that grandma should die for the economy.
re: #156 No Malarkey!
Initial jobless claims fell for a fourth straight week to 406k, a new pandemic low.
I was told everything would go straight to hell if Joe was elected.
What’s taking so long?
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re: #145 Mattand
My GF bought a regular Rav4 last year, she loves it. She finally got something new after 250,000 miles on her ancient Matrix. I think the Matrix will survive nuclear war, but all the hub caps fall off on the model, its quite fun to spot them.
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
I was told everything would go straight to hell if Joe was elected.
What’s taking so long?
/
Trump did such a job of Making America Great that it is taking Joe longer than expected to wreck it…
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re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Explain the difference to me between extremist Muslims who kill vaccination workers, and extremist Christians who kill vaccination workers?
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump did such a job of Making America Great that it is taking Joe longer than expected to wreck it…
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If you listened only to Fox News, you would think the nation is falling apart, with hyperinflation and an ongoing terrorist onslaught at the southern border. /
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Explain the difference to me between extremist Muslims who kill vaccination workers, and extremist Christians who kill vaccination workers?
Nothing, but did the story identify her as a Christian?
re: #167 No Malarkey!
If you listened only to Fox News, you would think the nation is falling apart, with hyperinflation and an ongoing terrorist onslaught at the southern border. /
Which my relatives believe…just like they believe Crackhead Mike saying that Trump will be restored to the Presidency on Memorial Day and JFK Jr. will become Vice-President…
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Explain the difference to me between extremist Muslims who kill vaccination workers, and extremist Christians who kill vaccination workers?
One of the worships the True God and the other is an Infidel.
re: #171 🌹UOJB!
“It’s all been put down the memory hole. Which is why we need to forget about it and move on…”
re: #171 🌹UOJB!
And yet the GOP doesn’t want to hold a bipartisan investigation to err… prove… these allegations. Weird.
That’s not weird. It’s just proof that the GOP knows they are 100% at fault for 1/6, the subsequent coverups to protect Trump and their fellow GOP treasonweasels.
Matt Gaetz was one of the first to offer “proof” that it was an Antifa false flag.
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re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And it’s still a deflection from the awful response of the maladministration.
While the origin is important (to prevent future outbreaks), it is immaterial to statements like Tex. Lt. Gov. Patrick’s assertion that grandma should die for the economy.
What gets me is that it ignores all the full-some praise that Trump lavished on Xi Jinping. Politico has a list. Some examples:
Jan. 24, Twitter:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Feb. 7, Remarks at North Carolina Opportunity Now Summit in Charlotte, N.C.:
“I just spoke to President Xi last night, and, you know, we’re working on the — the problem, the virus. It’s a — it’s a very tough situation. But I think he’s going to handle it. I think he’s handled it really well. We’re helping wherever we can.”
Feb. 23, remarks before Marine One departure:
“I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?”
Trump was basically doing PR for China.
The notion that this was an engineered bio-weapon only makes it worse:
“So you’re saying that Trump downplayed an attack with a deadly virus and you think this makes him look good?”
re: #175 garzooma
What gets me is that it ignores all the full-some praise that Trump lavished on Xi Jinping. Politico has a list. Some examples:
Trump was basically doing PR for China.
The notion that this was an engineered bio-weapon only makes it worse:
“So you’re saying that Trump downplayed an attack with a deadly virus and you think this makes him look good?”
It had nothing to with Trump wanting to look good. it had to do with him wanting to protect his business interests in China.
re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg
It had nothing to with Trump wanting to look good. it had to do with him wanting to protect his business interests in China.
We lived in a Media Reality where what he said at one venue to one audience had no relation to what he said at a different spot to a different group of people.
That Media Reality still exists to a degree but it is losing its ability to distract our attention from that Man Behind the Curtain.
re: #171 🌹UOJB!
And the Communist, er, Republican brainwashing continues…
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And my brainwashed sister voted for this ass in the 2012 Republican Primary because Jesus told her to…
Well if that is the case then all these “patriots” should be in favor of hanging every insurrectionist that raided the house, right? Death sentence for all of them, those fucking antifa, leftist scum. We have them on video, what more evidence do we need?
re: #118 jeffreyw
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(There are three or four of these bushes in the plot behind this (you can see the bases in the picture. This one is the largest.)
I’m not making this shit up, really…
“Battle gays are attacking Belarus from the Baltics”
Is somehow not a parody headline in Russia pic.twitter.com/LhCFf4Bw5p— Natalia Antonova (@NataliaAntonova) May 27, 2021
re: #180 Teukka
I’m not making this shit up, really…
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“Battle Gays”. Is that a game I can get on Epic Games site?
Relevant https://t.co/C8MUeZI1AJ
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 27, 2021
re: #181 Eventual Carrion
“Battle Gays”. Is that a game I can get on Epic Games site?
No, but you can get Unreal from Epic and build it.
re: #151 darthstar
The guy’s good at crunching baseball stats and sometimes poll numbers, but he’s no virologist.
Yeah, Nate, we call this “a guess.”
Sure you can. In fact, people unavoidably do it all the time. It may not be a particularly robust estimate. But this is the whole basis of Bayesian thinking. https://t.co/4jMgty2z24
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 27, 2021
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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Stole and weaponized:
Are they supposedly trained at this location in 🏴?
😉😉 pic.twitter.com/EGLApPZPQK— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) May 27, 2021
re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg
I am getting tired of that lab leak theory. And also, even if it DID somehow get released from a lab due to human error, that’s STILL not proof it was CREATED there.
What if it had been found in nature and some samples had been collected and taken to the lab for analysis and then a problem occurred?
And we don’t know why those 3 lab workers ended up in the hospital and even if it was something they came into contact with at work, there’s no guarantee it was Covid-19.
There had to have been any number of other biological pathogens in that lab.
When this was first bruited about, the arguments that it was not lab-created were also reviewed (I don’t remember them well enough to relay them here), and I found them convincing. Also, with a two-week incubation it would be a lousy biological war weapon, and who would bother creating viruses in a lab when there are so many natural ones?
re: #168 Belafon
Nothing, but did the story identify her as a Christian?
No it did not.
However, the number of atheistic/humanist organisations promoting “vaccines are evil” are around nil.
The number of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and other religions outside of Christianity in the USA are tiny percentages.
Innumerable churches of all denominations are promoting they are evil.
When you have God on your side and you are fighting evil, then you can rationalise everything as “opposition to evil.”
re: #181 Eventual Carrion
“Battle Gays”. Is that a game I can get on Epic Games site?
$39.99 For the regular version
$59.99 for the Extra Fabulous Edition
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When you have God on your side and you are fighting evil, then you can rationalise everything as “opposition to evil.”
Except for the lack of ‘rational’ in ‘rationalise’.
re: #151 darthstar
The guy’s good at crunching baseball stats and sometimes poll numbers, but he’s no virologist.
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People think Nate is smart just because he doesn’t bathe. He must be one of those pre-occupied geniuses!
re: #173 lawhawk
And yet the GOP doesn’t want to hold a bipartisan investigation to err… prove… these allegations. Weird.
That’s not weird. It’s just proof that the GOP knows they are 100% at fault for 1/6, the subsequent coverups to protect Trump and their fellow GOP treasonweasels.
Also, that they know they’re lying when they say antifa had something to do with it. (If they believed it, there would be 50 repug votes for the commission.)
re: #90 steve_davis
No, it makes you nauseated that republicans are generally nauseous. This goes along with my other pet peeve (okay, one of my many pet peeves), where people say something like “give it to whomever asks for it,” and I find myself shouting at them like John Malkovich in Burn After Reading, with that almost monologue quality to the shouting. It happened again last night, while watching episode 2 of season 3 star trek discovery. Somebody who was supposed to be smart said something like “you’ll give it to whatever r whomever asks for it,” and I was shouting “to WHOEVER asks for it, you stupid c*&^!” and I was wearing headphones at the time, so the entire apartment complex may have heard me shouting that, as I shouted it loud enough so I could hear myself shouting it over the noise cancellation headphones.
“To whomever” is grammatically correct. Object of the preposition.
re: #144 Dangerman
From DC District Court👇 pic.twitter.com/P56MTXcCxv
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) May 27, 2021
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, Nate, we call this “a guess.”
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That’s why I said he wasn’t a Bayesianist. I see no consideration of any prior knowledge of how viruses mutate in his “estimate.”
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, Nate, we call this “a guess.”
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(From Wikipedia… much more to be found there)
Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes’ theorem is used to update the probability for a hypothesis as more evidence or information becomes available. Bayesian inference is an important technique in statistics, and especially in mathematical statistics. Bayesian updating is particularly important in the dynamic analysis of a sequence of data. Bayesian inference has found application in a wide range of activities, including science, engineering, philosophy, medicine, sport, and law. In the philosophy of decision theory, Bayesian inference is closely related to subjective probability, often called “Bayesian probability”.
“Baesian probability” is the chance that my bae is gonna be on time for our next date…
re: #193 A Three Hour Tour
“To whomever” is grammatically correct. Object of the preposition.
Actually, they both are, since it’s an object of one clause and the subject of the other. This generates lengthy discussions among grammarians.
And they also know you were named Adulterer Of The Year by these folks! pic.twitter.com/HAFLTmFjA3
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 27, 2021
re: #199 🌹UOJB!
Despite every effort of the Woke left and its allies in the left-wing news media, a recent poll for Gingrich 360 found most Americans remain proud of our country and value patriotism.
Patriotism is much more than blind chauvinism and ignoring/suppressing/rewriting/CANCELLING bad things that have happened.
re: #199 🌹UOJB!
Yeah I am sure that each and every one of the treasonous criminal mob who ransacked The Capitol on 1/6 considered themselves PATRIOTZZZ!!11!! who LOOOOOVE AMURIKKKA!!!!1!!1!!!
“Who’s Afraid of Naomi Wolf?” pic.twitter.com/5z1GoLx8b7
— Edwin (@EdMix13) May 26, 2021
re: #199 🌹UOJB!
Newt Gingrich, treating Americans like 8 year olds.
re: #181 Eventual Carrion
“Battle Gays”. Is that a game I can get on Epic Games site?
The DLC is fabulous.
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re: #201 wrenchwench
Word of the day:
canard
1. canard (plural canards): n. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
4. (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
Le Sauce: en.wiktionary.org
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
$39.99 For the regular version
$59.99 for the Extra Fabulous Edition
Goddamnit, I need to scan the thread before posting my Original Witty Takes™.
Researching New York’s new Marijuana laws for a writing project and I’m just reading the text of the bill. I never thought I’d see words like this written in a bill that has passed in the US. New Yorkers, you should be proud. https://t.co/qJdHyFCZ5c pic.twitter.com/QLmVo7qxiN
— 🇨🇦Courtney Heard (Godless Mom) (@godless_mom) May 26, 2021
re: #208 Teukka
1. canard (plural canards): n. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
4. (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
The French word for “duck”
Funny that German uses Ente and Russian утка (útka) for the very same thing. They both mean “duck”
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The French word for “duck”
Funny that German uses Ente and Russian утка (útka) for the very same thing. They both mean “duck”
White man prays to Donald Trump for help after cop shatters his window because he refuses to get out of the vehicle. Black officer has to drag him out of the car. pic.twitter.com/dbZfe5NObB
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) May 27, 2021
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Spanish word is “pato.” I guess ducks were discovered after the romance language split?
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
That is just fucking astounding…the total lack of self-awareness. “I’m doing nothing wrong”.
Remember how many times black people have been told that they have nothing to fear if they have done nothing wrong?
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
The Trump-worshipping white dude should’ve complied with the cops.
re: #218 A Three Hour Tour
The Trump-worshipping white dude should’ve complied with the cops.
Sovereign Citizens do not have to…it’s not his homestead, but whatever.
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
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Memories of my aunt’s prayer altar with a picture of Pruneface Reagan on it…and she actually prayed to Pruneface because her Pulpit Pimp told her to.
re: #216 Belafon
The Spanish word is “pato.” I guess ducks were discovered after the romance language split?
that sounds perfectly pato-logical
The Christian Nationalist Bible has been cancelled. Cancel culture strikes again. It’s not safe to be a fascist anymore.
friendlyatheist.patheos.com (Patheos)
re: #220 🌹UOJB!
Memories of my aunt’s prayer altar with a picture of Pruneface Reagan on it…and she actually prayed to Pruneface because her Pulpit Pimp told her to.
Nancy had a White House Astrologer but they still revered Ronnie…
re: #198 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Actually, they both are, since it’s an object of one clause and the subject of the other. This generates lengthy discussions among grammarians.
right up there with the oxford comma, two spaces between sentences, and pineapple on pizza.
More on 🇧🇾 :
Purported bomb threat Belarus cited in plane interception was sent after flight diverted, email provider says https://t.co/EcvYuVRn8p
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 27, 2021
24 minutes after the plane was diverted.
It is said that people who lie for too long lose the “compass” that tells them what they can get away with…
re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg
$39.99 For the regular version
$59.99 for the Extra Fabulous Edition
Aren’t ALL the versions Fabulous???
It’s like Abraham begging G-D not to destroy Sodom if he can find 10 righteous people.
“I think we’ll come together. You have to have faith there’s 10 good people,” Manchin added, referring to the 10 Republicans that Democrats need to reach the 60-vote threshold to pass the Jan. 6 commission bill. https://t.co/soZfS9qchm
— Axios (@axios) May 27, 2021
re: #216 Belafon
The Spanish word is “pato.” I guess ducks were discovered after the romance language split?
Doubtful, ducks are everywhere. Sometimes local terms are picked up and turn into standards for no particular reason.
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is just fucking astounding…the total lack of self-awareness. “I’m doing nothing wrong”.
Remember how many times black people have been told that they have nothing to fear if they have done nothing wrong?
different definitions of ‘wrong’
Mitch McConnell has reached out to certain Republican Senators and asked them to vote against the commission as “a personal favor” according to this. pic.twitter.com/arExPBz2be
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 27, 2021
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
LOL one of the comments on the stream was “SAVE ME TOM CRUISE!!”
That’s same Grade-A dumbassery.
re: #228 The Pie Overlord!
It’s like Abraham begging G-D not to destroy Sodom if he can find 10 righteous people.
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re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
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is part of a senator’s job description and obligations to do ‘personal favors’ ?
for anyone
Mitch McConnell has reached out to certain Republican Senators and asked them to vote against the commission as “a personal favor” according to this. pic.twitter.com/arExPBz2be
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 27, 2021
re: #228 The Pie Overlord!
It’s like Abraham begging G-D not to destroy Sodom if he can find 10 righteous people.
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“I’m not willing to destroy our government.” But you are, Joe, you just think you’re not.
re: #236 Belafon
“I’m not willing to destroy our government.” But you are, Joe, you just think you’re not.
He’s destroying it in order to save it.
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re: #236 Belafon
“I’m not willing to destroy our government.” But you are, Joe, you just think you’re not.
This is how empires fall.
I was just followed by a Greg Housh with 124K followers. I wondered who this guy was and so I Googled and cool, I guess.
re: #229 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Doubtful, ducks are everywhere. Sometimes local terms are picked up and turn into standards for no particular reason.
Canard for duck is from the old French “quanart”, probably from the sound ducks make — “coin coin” (pronounced KWAN KWAN) in French.
What noise do Spanish ducks make?
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
A “personal” favor? What is Mitch worried they’d find?
re: #214 The Pie Overlord!
Looking at the thread, I see that someone cried “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war twitter sleuths…
re: #236 Belafon
“I’m not willing to destroy our government.” But you are, Joe, you just think you’re not.
He actually means “I’m not willing to defend our government”.
re: #243 John Hughes
A “personal” favor? What is Mitch worried they’d find?
That was my first thought, but the second was that the former guy may have asked Mitch for a personal favor.
Sure? Occam’s razor. So many people are exposed to bats every day in South East Asia. So many chances for this to happen. Day in day out. Versus a lab accident where all stars would have to align.
— Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) May 27, 2021
President Biden will visit Tulsa next week to commemorate 100 years since a white mob flattened the section of the city known as Black Wall Street and killed at least dozens, possibly hundreds.More on the Tulsa race massacre: https://t.co/fan6TBOKoQhttps://t.co/BIT1jKnIJK
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2021
This week, ahead of planned commemorations, journalists across the @AP will explore how the Tulsa Race Massacre’s economic, political and cultural impacts have echoed across generations. Read the stories here: https://t.co/P2nQ4C1ApU
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2021
Edit: I applaud their use of the word massacre.
re: #248 Belafon
Critical Race Theory, anyone?
my latest a—no media victory laps for the Democrat; https://t.co/29xSCdKsBN
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 26, 2021
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Critical Race Theory, anyone?
You can bet Screwpert Murdoch will be beating that drum all week long.
re: #228 The Pie Overlord!
It’s like Abraham begging G-D not to destroy Sodom if he can find 10 righteous people.
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I think this isn’t some act; he honestly is this confused by the goopers’ behavior.
I haven’t ever followed his career in detail, but is it possible that he may be, how should I put this, stupid?
re: #252 ericblair
In my experience people of good faith assume everyone operates in good faith, and people of bad faith assume everyone operates in bad faith. The Republicans operate in bad faith and presume everyone else does too. Is Machin so naive that he assumes otherwise?
re: #254 DesertDenizen
He’s more worried about his job as a Democrat in a red state. He’s not that dumb, just worried about his own ass. Same with his buddy Sinema.
Crazy play
El Mago magic!
Have you ever seen anything like this?! pic.twitter.com/aHQs6eAxCG— MLB (@MLB) May 27, 2021
re: #252 ericblair
I think this isn’t some act; he honestly is this confused by the goopers’ behavior.
I haven’t ever followed his career in detail, but is it possible that he may be, how should I put this, stupid?
i ‘believe’ he is not stupid
he’s old school. he knows these arent republicans of old** but he hasn’t yet come to accept it yet.
i ‘hope’ he pushes it as far as he can and in the end says ‘i did everything i could and now there’s no choice”
that would likely mean reconciliation for infrastructure and hope he holds the line on the originally $4T and tax increases (because there’s no point in sticking with any now abandoned R proposal since zero of them are gonna vote for it)
and going back to a talking filibuster on voting rights, police, DC ,etc
**rollcall via electoral-vote.com
Former Republican senator John Warner of Virginia, a towering figure, died on Tuesday.
Warner’s death reminds Washington what it’s missing
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re: #255 A Mom Anon
I live in Arizona, and while the rural areas like I’m in are getting reactionary red, but the overall urbanization is solidly turning the state blue.
re: #255 A Mom Anon
He’s more worried about his job as a Democrat in a red state. He’s not that dumb, just worried about his own ass. Same with his buddy Sinema.
Someone should ask Sinema why Kelly is polling better than she is, and why her polling went down after he defeating the minimum wage hike.
anyone post this yet?
My statement on the January 6th Commission: pic.twitter.com/ZfNhQfKzmh
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 27, 2021
re: #259 Belafon
Someone should ask Sinema why Kelly is polling better than she is, and why her polling went down after he defeating the minimum wage hike.
Bingo. I don’t know who she’s trying to pander to, since Kelly is so much more popular.
re: #255 A Mom Anon
He’s more worried about his job as a Democrat in a red state. He’s not that dumb, just worried about his own ass. Same with his buddy Sinema.
she could lose to a D who could still win the general
Manchin cannot
A Proud Boys member seen wielding an ax handle during the U.S. Capitol insurrection wants to be released from jail so his disability payments aren’t discontinued.
Fuck you, Asshole. If you’re in jail your benefits are stopped. Period.
re: #262 Dangerman
she could lose to a D who could still win the general
Manchin cannot
Just remember the Berniebot who challenged Caputo in West VIrgina got slaughtered at the polls last November.
I did not know this existed.
One thing I learned from CRUELLA is that Tina Turner once covered “Whole Lotta Love” and it’s incredible. https://t.co/X2cjgKayF9
— Rob Thomas (@robt77) May 27, 2021
re: #242 John Hughes
Canard for duck is from the old French “quanart”, probably from the sound ducks make — “coin coin” (pronounced KWAN KWAN) in French.
What noise do Spanish ducks make?
Cuac cuac.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into Eli Lilly focused on alleged manufacturing irregularities and records tampering at a New Jersey factory that produces the pharmaceutical giant’s COVID-19 therapy and other drugs, sources say https://t.co/We7bUurmrP pic.twitter.com/jXNzjRilLb
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 27, 2021
re: #256 gocart mozart
That’s some little league magic
re: #265 gocart mozart
I did not know this existed.
Damn, this is the first I’ve heard this cover as well, but Tina ripped the hell out of this…it just oozes sex.
re: #229 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Doubtful, ducks are everywhere. Sometimes local terms are picked up and turn into standards for no particular reason.
Picnicking Woodies pic.twitter.com/Ri2EwKsBBk
— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) May 27, 2021
re: #265 gocart mozart
I did not know this existed.
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And then there’s Prince’s version…
re: #257 Dangerman
i ‘believe’ he is not stupid
he’s old school. he knows these arent republicans of old** but he hasn’t yet come to accept it yet.
i ‘hope’ he pushes it as far as he can and in the end says ‘i did everything i could and now there’s no choice”
that would likely mean reconciliation for infrastructure and hope he holds the line on the originally $4T and tax increases (because there’s no point in sticking with any now abandoned R proposal since zero of them are gonna vote for it)
and going back to a talking filibuster on voting rights, police, DC ,etc
I’m willing to entertain that he’s the Last Dinosaur, although you would think he would have noticed the lack of any other remaining dinosaurs by now and not be sniffing around like a confused puppy.
I would also be quite happy if he is maneuvering himself out of his support for the filibuster, or possibly being maneuvered out of it, and most of the things he has said could be consistent with that. But this crap about “destroying the government”; where the fuck did he get that? It sounds like it came right out of the Turtle’s mouth.
Sinema seems to be some sort of pathological contrarian. The stunt with her curtsy voting against the increased minimum wage was disgusting: that could have made so many people’s lives so much better, and all she could manage was a flippant no. I’m thinking that she may be trying to be McCain II: the Mavericky Senator from Arizona, who gets all the attention and great press. She’s been a disaster at reading the room, but I think if she’s the last holdout she’d fold. Maybe.
Guess we gotta get used to this
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) “is hiring retired police officers to investigate aspects of the November election, joining with Republicans from around the country who have questioned President Joe Biden’s victory,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. “Is there a whole lot of smoke or is there actual fire? We just don’t know yet,” Vos said.
No smoke
No fire
Just one big liar
re: #262 Dangerman
she could lose to a D who could still win the general
Manchin cannot
All the Very Serious Pundits seem to have coalesced around the idea that Manchin is somehow this miraculous once-in-a-generation Democrat who can keep winning general elections in WV as a Democrat as long as he hews to some sort of magic right-of-center line.
I call bullshit on that. If Manchin were up for reelection in 2022, or if he’d been up in 2020, he’d lose to a Republican in the general, period. You’d have (or you’ll have) TFG and the Trumpsters out there pulling away all those mythical (and now probably dead) “moderates” who may still be registered as Dems for historical reasons, but who voted for Justice for governor and TFG for president. They’re not just going to send a Democrat (even Manchin) to the Senate because grandpa used to vote for Democrats and had a picture of JFK hanging above the fireplace. His percentage of the vote plummeted from 60% in 2012 to just under 50% in 2018, and WV isn’t getting bluer.
And when those West by god Virginians go to the polls in 2024 to vote for TFG or Junior or whoever the hell ends up as the R nominee, they’re not going to split the ticket then, either. The TV ads and social media and pronouncements from the pulpit will all be a constant drumbeat of how liberal Manchin is and how a vote for him is a vote for soshulism, and that’s going to be the case no matter how he votes on ANYTHING for the rest of this session while he still holds a little power. (It’s almost impossible to imagine that after the 2022 elections, he’s still going to be vote #50 for the Dems - either we do well and he’s a less-relevant vote #53 or 54 or 55, or we do worse and he’s vote #49 and still irrelevant.)
Manchin has to know this, deep down inside, which makes his weird attempts at self-preservation even weirder. He’s in his last three years in office, period. If he wants a legacy beyond 2024, he ought to try to become president of WVU or somesuch.
And yes, it’s a VERY different situation from Sinema, who just seems to be unable to read the room and see the very different way her state is shifting and the likelihood that she’ll be primaried in 2024 and lose.
re: #248 Belafon
Edit: I applaud their use of the word massacre.
It was an organized pogrom. Also see Rosewood (1922), Ocoee (1920) and all of the events of the Red Summer of 1919. This was a confluence of law enforcement, local government and ad hoc militias engaging in ethnic cleansing.
re: #263 🌹UOJB!
Benefits will stop only when he is convicted.
re: #275 Dangerman
Guess we gotta get used to this
No smoke
No fire
Just one big liar
We don’t gotta get used to any of this.
These saboteurs and insurrectionist adjacents are intent on undermining legitimacy of elections because they will question any and all elections they do not win and cast them as illegitimate.
Trump signaled as much way back in 2017. He followed through in 2020. The GOP is all-in on this approach, because the GOP cannot win nationally without it - they can’t win the popular vote, and voter suppression is their best chance of retaining power in Congress and the state level.
They will use all the levers of power within their grasp to consolidate their power and refuse to relinquish it even after losing elections handily.
None of these elections were particularly close. None of the down-ballot races were in question. They seated themselves in Congress and the statehouses, even as they questioned Trump’s loss on the very same ballots.
Fuck all the GOP to Hell and then on through all the Planes of Hell. Tartarus isn’t good enough for them.
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