Samantha Bee Explains: Why We Need to Save the Postal Service From Donald Trump’s Vendetta Against Jeff Bezos

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Trump wants to let the US Postal Service (which is actually mandated in the US Constitution, not that he would know that) fail for two reasons:

1. He hates Jeff Bezos.
2. He wants to prevent people from voting by mail.

It’s policy by personal vendetta, with a dash of voter suppression for that special GOP flavor.

Contrary to what you might think, eliminating the Postal Service wouldn’t just pose a threat to the letters filled with cash we all still get from our grandparents. It would also threaten our democracy!

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321 comments
1
Rightwingconspirator  Apr 30, 2020 • 10:54:19am

Seems to me the USPS has been forced to support any number of junk mailing companies with discounted rates. That crap is the most unwelcome thing in my mailbox. My Amazon orders, of course, are welcomed. So hey let’s just get rid of the bulk mail rate for junk mail and watch the money flow. A win for us all.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 10:54:56am

This recession is already bad.

Shutdown USPS and put all those people out of work and see how much worse it gets.

Does Trump even have the power to do this unilaterally or would the GOP have to force something through Congress?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 10:55:25am
Democratic primary voters in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday gave the boot to a Trump rally-attending sheriff who collaborated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by wrongfully holding immigrants for deportation, The Appeal reports. Challenger Charmaine McGuffey, who will become Hamilton County’s first openly gay sheriff should she win the general election, ousted her former boss Jim Neil by a “resounding” 70% to 30%.

Immigration “loomed large over this sheriff’s primary,” The Appeal said. “Neil has long faced protests against his relationship with ICE. He honors ICE’s warrantless requests (detainers), which enable the agency to continue detaining certain people at the local jail beyond their scheduled release. McGuffey told the Political Report in March that she would no longer honor detainers if elected.”

dailykos.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2020 • 10:57:02am
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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:00:12am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:01:12am

My only minor nit with Samantha Bee is that PA was not listed with her states as having mail-in voting.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:06:34am

Oh look, Roger Stone is filing an appeal of his conviction and sentencing along with a demand for a new trial.

Fuck Stone. He was convicted by a jury of his peers and he deserves never to see the light of day again. Everyone in Trump’s orbit is dirty. Everyone.

And Fuck Trump and the GOP for foisting all of this on the American people.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:07:35am

CNN nails it in this story about what a minefield we’re dealing with by trying to open things back up:

In many cases, those who are most at risk if state openings prove premature are not CEOs, governors or a leading member of the Trump empire whisked to work by the Secret Service in armored SUVs.

They are lower paid workers, minorities and manual laborers, who cannot log on to a laptop for eight hours a day in their living rooms and are therefore exposed when they go back on the job.

Many states appear to have concluded that they can bear the costs, in terms of rising deaths and infections, that could result from their determination to get life back to normal. It will take two to three weeks to see with the wager will go wrong given the incubation period for coronavirus.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:11:34am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:11:57am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

And DT will yell fake news even after CNN is proved correct.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:13:30am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

They’re all gambling that they can endure the hospitals stressed to the max, elective procedures delayed, and ERs operating as though everyone entering is a covid19 patient.

It will cause the system to collapse, because there are real people involved here, and they’re under immense pressure to perform at the highest level every moment, and any lapse could result in their own illness or the illness/death of a patient due to spreading covid19 among vulnerable patient populations.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:15:03am

Check out this wisdom from one of my major trumpsters on FB:

Wait for the lawsuits to start. By making people wear masks, they are putting them further at risk. Unless it’s a mask specially made to keep out germs, it will trap germs in the mask. People are putting themselves at more risk by wearing a cloth mask or bandana than they would be without one.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:15:55am

re: #12 plansbandc

Check out this wisdom from one of my major trumpsters on FB:

Wait for the lawsuits to start. By making people wear masks, they are putting them further at risk. Unless it’s a mask specially made to keep out germs, it will trap germs in the mask. People are putting themselves at more risk by wearing a cloth mask or bandana than they would be without one.

Always amazing how many wingnuts are secretly epidemiologists.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:16:36am

re: #12 plansbandc

::: eye roll :::
I should not be but I am amazed at the stupidity of these people.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:17:32am

re: #11 lawhawk

They’re all gambling that they can endure the hospitals stressed to the max, elective procedures delayed, and ERs operating as though everyone entering is a covid19 patient.

It will cause the system to collapse, because there are real people involved here, and they’re under immense pressure to perform at the highest level every moment, and any lapse could result in their own illness or the illness/death of a patient due to spreading covid19 among vulnerable patient populations.

What happens when all Republican-run states pull the stunt they are apparently doing in Florida and suppressing information about deaths? And refuse to provide information to the media? Eventually courts may force them to respond (though who knows what Republican appointed judges will be doing?) but that might not be until after the election.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:17:44am

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

CNN nails it in this story about what a minefield we’re dealing with by trying to open things back up:

In many cases, those who are most at risk if state openings prove premature are not CEOs, governors or a leading member of the Trump empire whisked to work by the Secret Service in armored SUVs.

They are lower paid workers, minorities and manual laborers, who cannot log on to a laptop for eight hours a day in their living rooms and are therefore exposed when they go back on the job.

Many states appear to have concluded that they can bear the costs, in terms of rising deaths and infections, that could result from their determination to get life back to normal. It will take two to three weeks to see with the wager will go wrong given the incubation period for coronavirus.

aside from the ghoulishness of what ‘going back to work’ means, there is no ‘get[ting] life back to normal’

going forward, things will be different. permanently different.
just like when other sorts of disasters occur; natural and otherwise. hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, nuclear plant meltdowns, and on and on. fires, car wrecks, illnesses, surgeries. and on and on.

after all, Why was yesterday “normal”? Why is that the ideal to get back to?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:17:49am

I am not shocked Pence finally decided to wear a mask.

I will, however, be shocked if Trump ever wears one.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:18:33am

re: #9 lawhawk

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the head of the country’s covid response team didnt know?

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:21:29am

re: #16 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

aside from the ghoulishness of what ‘going back to work’ means, there is no ‘get[ting] life back to normal’

going forward, things will be different. permanently different.
just like when other sorts of disasters occur; natural and otherwise. hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, nuclear plant meltdowns, and on and on. fires, car wrecks, illnesses, surgeries. and on and on.

after all, Why was yesterday “normal”? Why is that the ideal to get back to?

There was no going back to “normal” after 9/11. And that was an event that cost 10x fewer lives and occurred in a matter of hours. There’s simply no way this nation would have gone back to “normal” if all those wild-eyed theories about constant terrorist attacks after 9/11 had come true, how in the blue fuck they think people are just going to one day flip a switch and go back to “normal” is beyond me.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:22:15am

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

They might be hiding covid19 as a cause of death, but we’ll still be able to discern excess mortality, and the one thing that is driving excess mortality is covid19.

So there’s ways of indicating what’s behind the deaths.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:22:20am
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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:23:17am

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

I am not shocked Pence finally decided to wear a mask.

I will, however, be shocked if Trump ever wears one.

It’d mess up his makeup. He’d look even more like Immortan Joe than he does right now.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:23:17am

re: #11 lawhawk

They’re all gambling that they can endure the hospitals stressed to the max, elective procedures delayed, and ERs operating as though everyone entering is a covid19 patient.

It will cause the system to collapse, because there are real people involved here, and they’re under immense pressure to perform at the highest level every moment, and any lapse could result in their own illness or the illness/death of a patient due to spreading covid19 among vulnerable patient populations.

i think you’re saying what i’ve been thinking.

they’re using the hospital capacity and ‘arrived sick at the hospital/admitted’ as the measure of how bad it is.

as long as that stays ‘manageable’ (and it wont) they dont give a damn how many other people are infected and sick (or die undiagnosed) . as long as they’re not in the hospital system.

the republican approach - risk it and get sick. and if you have insurance, you can be ‘cured’. this is a very expensive approach. but fine for the good insurance coverage ‘haves’

the democrats approach - distance, test and avoid getting sick in the first place. way cheaper for the individual and society as a whole

the whole idea behind obamacare and preventative medicine. sigh.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:23:54am

re: #21 lawhawk

Ron nails it as always. Can’t believe dude is 70 now.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:24:11am

Michigan state senate:

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:24:18am

re: #12 plansbandc

Check out this wisdom from one of my major trumpsters on FB:

Wait for the lawsuits to start. By making people wear masks, they are putting them further at risk. Unless it’s a mask specially made to keep out germs, it will trap germs in the mask. People are putting themselves at more risk by wearing a cloth mask or bandana than they would be without one.

prove it
write it up
get peer reviewed and published
or shut up

everyone’s a fucking expert

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:24:26am

re: #21 lawhawk

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Fuckin’ A!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:25:43am

re: #19 Targetpractice

There was no going back to “normal” after 9/11. And that was an event that cost 10x fewer lives and occurred in a matter of hours. There’s simply no way this nation would have gone back to “normal” if all those wild-eyed theories about constant terrorist attacks after 9/11 had come true, how in the blue fuck they think people are just going to one day flip a switch and go back to “normal” is beyond me.

jared says june

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:26:13am
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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:26:56am

re: #25 jaunte

Michigan state senate:

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This is the very textbook definition of terrorism. They are using the threat of violence with the intent to achieve political goals.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:27:10am

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

Here’s what happens:

People die in droves because the virus runs rampant. They die in droves because the food chain is gone and they starve and even if it weren’t gone, they starve because they don’t have any money because the economy is gone. They die in droves because illnesses that could have been prevented or cured go untreated. They die in droves because they cannot get life-saving medication. And they die in droves because the ones who don’t get sick pick up a few of the guns they’ve hoarded and start going door to door to kill everyone else who is left so they can take their food and other useful shit.

And yes, I’m terrified.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:27:30am

re: #25 jaunte

Michigan state senate:

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You mean Michigan allows guns in legislative buildings? Is this something new or has it been around for decades?

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:27:48am

re: #28 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

jared says june

Jared also thinks the Palestinians will drops decades of grievances for a Trump Tower.

Jared’s not very bright.

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lizardofid  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:27:59am

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

Seems to me the USPS has been forced to support any number of junk mailing companies with discounted rates. That crap is the most unwelcome thing in my mailbox. My Amazon orders, of course, are welcomed. So hey let’s just get rid of the bulk mail rate for junk mail and watch the money flow. A win for us all.

I hear ya., As someone who made a living in printing and it’s associated equipment however, may I beg your forbearance on junk mail direct mail advertising.

// :-)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:29:22am

re: #33 Targetpractice

Jared also thinks the Palestinians will drops decades of grievances for a Trump Tower.

Jared’s not very bright.

didnt think i needed to point that out ;-)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:29:35am

Maryland GOP governor is hiding his state’s testing kits in an undisclosed location so Trump can’t sievze themLink

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan told the Washington Post’s Robert Costa on Thursday that he has had to hide COVID-19 testing kits to make sure President Donald Trump doesn’t commandeer them.

During an interview with Costa, Hogan explained how he worked to smuggle testing kits in from South Korea in a complicated process that took over three weeks to pull off.

He said it was important to make sure that the plane containing the tests landed at Baltimore/Washington International Airport and not Dulles International Airport to lessen the change that the cargo could get taken by the federal government.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:30:43am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:30:46am

re: #36 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Maryland GOP governor is hiding his state’s testing kits in an undisclosed location so Trump can’t seize themLink

I really don’t have the words to describe how incredibly fucked up this is.

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Renaissance_Man  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:32:20am

re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter

You mean Michigan allows guns in legislative buildings? Is this something new or has it been around for decades?

Laws do not apply to white men with guns.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:32:26am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:32:47am

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

What happens when all Republican-run states pull the stunt they are apparently doing in Florida and suppressing information about deaths? And refuse to provide information to the media? Eventually courts may force them to respond (though who knows what Republican appointed judges will be doing?) but that might not be until after the election.

“You’ve reported no new deaths, but your population has shrunk by 3%. What happened, and why are your cemetaries full?”

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:33:32am

re: #30 Targetpractice

This is the very textbook definition of terrorism. They are using the threat of violence with the intent to achieve political goals.

Easier crimes to charge/prove: menacing and brandishing a deadly weapon.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:33:48am

re: #26 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

She’s a self-described hillbilly who sells shaved ice and t-shirts.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:34:18am

re: #19 Targetpractice

There was no going back to “normal” after 9/11. And that was an event that cost 10x fewer lives and occurred in a matter of hours. There’s simply no way this nation would have gone back to “normal” if all those wild-eyed theories about constant terrorist attacks after 9/11 had come true, how in the blue fuck they think people are just going to one day flip a switch and go back to “normal” is beyond me.

But remember how hard Bush tried to get us to go back to normal? He told us to all go back to shopping, hid the dead soldiers returning, and never asked for a budget funding Iraq.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:34:50am

re: #39 Renaissance_Man

Laws do not apply to white men with guns.

Seriously. Imagine the response if it had been a group of armed BLACK men who stormed the House.

They’d have a SWAT team there in five minutes.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:36:51am

re: #45 Eclectic Cyborg

It would have been the start of the second Civil War. One of those Michigan gun humpers is going to start shooting. It’s just a matter of time. Then shit is going to get very real.

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:38:55am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:39:39am

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

I am not shocked Pence finally decided to wear a mask.

I will, however, be shocked if Trump ever wears one.

Well “Mayo” Clinic is obviously white. GM facility? Not so much and obviously full of peons who should be ready to die for the sake of the DJIA. So on the mask goes.
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:42:13am

re: #47 Dread Pirate

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Gee I remember all the people who thought Obama was telling them to kill Romney. Trump has inspired a lot of disturbing minds who are the best argument for gun control.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:43:04am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:45:03am

re: #43 plansbandc

She’s a self-described hillbilly who sells shaved ice and t-shirts.

oh. so i wont wait up

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:45:31am

re: #50 jaunte

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:47:11am

re: #47 Dread Pirate

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erm. doesnt biden live in Delaware?

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Teddy's Person  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:47:33am

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

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From where I’m sitting, I can see three framed pictures of Teddy.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:48:06am

re: #53 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

erm. doesnt biden live in Delaware?

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No one accused MAGA of being smart

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:49:08am

re: #53 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Yes. Joe does live in Delaware and when he was in the Senate he used to take Amtrak to and from work.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:50:00am

re: #41 Belafon

“You’ve reported no new deaths, but your population has shrunk by 3%. What happened, and why are your cemetaries full?”

One must be very skeptical of any statistics from those states. Who know what information they might try to conceal — including reporting only a fraction of deaths.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:50:47am

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

One must be very skeptical of any statistics from those states. Who know what information they might try to conceal — including reporting only a fraction of deaths.

as long as we dont get to a fraction of a death

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:53:21am

Re: Scene at Michigan State Capitol:

Not only does security let in people with long rifles, they let them occupy defensible shooting positions and create layered defenses

Incompetence, even if you are enabling such behavior

Years ago female activists infiltrated the offices of a major women’s magazine by wearing all black outfits and makeup, which was the implied dress code of the office and walked right past security because it looked like they belonged

With a no ID check situation like the Michigan scene, letting in a bunch persons, an outside chaos agent can walk in looking like the rest of the yokels and take up a shooting position that allows a lot of death and chaos. Note that the yokels themselves could also become a target in this environment

Insane, especially because as chaos tools go, gun are easy to obtain but not only easy to get mayhem devices in an enclosed space

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:54:10am

re: #56 PhillyPretzel

Yes. Joe does live in Delaware and when he was in the Senate he used to take Amtrak to and from work.

Wilmington iirc. I vacationed in Dewey Beach as a kid. But yeah I am hoping he makes light rail Infrastructure investment a priority due to his affection for Amtrak. Clinton mentioned his love for trains in her endorsement for her on his live-stream yesterday.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:54:12am

re: #41 Belafon

“You’ve reported no new deaths, but your population has shrunk by 3%. What happened, and why are your cemetaries full?”

Why are the refrigerator trucks outside all the funeral homes? Why are you seeing 10x the normal rate of deaths, and need to stack the bodies up for burial or cremation?

This information will get out and it will not be pretty.

We are watching funeral homes in the nyc metro area dealing with crush of bodies, and inability to bury them in a timely manner because the system simply wasn’t meant to handle this kind of surge in cases. In one case, a funeral home was storing them in a u-haul truck while waiting for them to get buried because the funeral home didn’t get a refrigerator truck to store them.

We’re going to hear a lot of awful stories about how this affected so many people and their way of life.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:54:47am

i understand the city is still not thrilled about this and there may be a fight

Said one: “There will be a convention. You can bank on that.”

“But the people involved in the planning said the GOP convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, will likely look drastically different from past political conventions. One plan under consideration is to have only delegates and alternate delegates attend, and to space them out on the convention floor.”

of course they want the free tv
and to appease trump’s ego of course

nevertheless, if they go the bolded route, it’ll look (and sound) awfully anemic

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:55:15am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:55:47am

re: #61 lawhawk

Why are the refrigerator trucks outside all the funeral homes? Why are you seeing 10x the normal rate of deaths, and need to stack the bodies up for burial or cremation?

This information will get out and it will not be pretty.

We are watching funeral homes in the nyc metro area dealing with crush of bodies, and inability to bury them in a timely manner because the system simply wasn’t meant to handle this kind of surge in cases. In one case, a funeral home was storing them in a u-haul truck while waiting for them to get buried because the funeral home didn’t get a refrigerator truck to store them.

We’re going to hear a lot of awful stories about how this affected so many people and their way of life.

I saw that story, and the reason people knew about it is that the truck smelled so bad people reported it.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:56:38am

re: #61 lawhawk

Why are the refrigerator trucks outside all the funeral homes? Why are you seeing 10x the normal rate of deaths, and need to stack the bodies up for burial or cremation?

This information will get out and it will not be pretty.

We are watching funeral homes in the nyc metro area dealing with crush of bodies, and inability to bury them in a timely manner because the system simply wasn’t meant to handle this kind of surge in cases. In one case, a funeral home was storing them in a u-haul truck while waiting for them to get buried because the funeral home didn’t get a refrigerator truck to store them.

We’re going to hear a lot of awful stories about how this affected so many people and their way of life.

but no worries; back to normal by june!!!

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:57:40am
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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:57:49am

re: #65 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

but no worries; back to normal by june!!!

Easter. Trump said we’d start to reopen by Easter.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:58:02am

re: #64 Belafon

I saw that story, and the reason people knew about it is that the truck smelled so bad people reported it.

and fwiw, nyc in the early spring vs florida anytime of the year

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:58:34am

This is awful. It made me cry. It might make you cry, so…

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:59:12am

I think somebody broke Gallup.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 11:59:40am

re: #63 Dread Pirate

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When the book is written on this administration, I feel safe in predicting most of the biggest errors will end up falling at that smirking shithead’s feet. The boy prince who decided he’d play the scheming vizier to the addle-brained emperor.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:00:32pm

re: #70 Dread Pirate

I think somebody broke Gallup.

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Approximately 1 out of every 20 times, a poll will just be wrong.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:01:29pm

re: #33 Targetpractice

Jared also thinks the Palestinians will drops decades of grievances for a Trump Tower.

Jared’s not very bright.

Uh they aren’t gonna welcome a Trump Gaza Plaza.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:02:40pm

Wrong location of the vid. It’s still awful, but it’s Ecuador, not Florida.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:03:36pm
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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:05:50pm
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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:07:43pm

re: #59 So Cal Greek Hippie

Re: Scene at Michigan State Capitol:

Not only does security let in people with long rifles, they let them occupy defensible shooting positions and create layered defenses

Incompetence, even if you are enabling such behavior

Years ago female activists infiltrated the offices of a major women’s magazine by wearing all black outfits and makeup, which was the implied dress code of the office and walked right past security because it looked like they belonged

With a no ID check situation like the Michigan scene, letting in a bunch persons, an outside chaos agent can walk in looking like the rest of the yokels and take up a shooting position that allows a lot of death and chaos. Note that the yokels themselves could also become a target in this environment

Insane, especially because as chaos tools go, gun are easy to obtain but not only easy to get mayhem devices in an enclosed space

Even easier way to crack most security is to wear workman’s cloths, a safety vest, hard hat and carry a clipboard. Actvlike you’re from a utility and Bob is your uncle. I have a friend who watched an NFL playoff game for free that way.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:09:58pm

re: #76 Dread Pirate

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He’s going after legalized pot.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:10:04pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

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Financed by the DeVos family…

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:11:38pm

re: #77 William Lewis

Never underestimate the power of a placard that says fire alarm repair, sunglasses and a collection of bright yellow, orange and red polo shirts

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:12:04pm

re: #77 William Lewis

Even easier way to crack most security is to wear workman’s cloths, a safety vest, hard hat and carry a clipboard. Actvlike you’re from a utility and Bob is your uncle. I have a friend who watched an NFL playoff game for free that way.

it’s the clipboard that does it

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:12:22pm

re: #80 So Cal Greek Hippie

Never underestimate the power of a placard that says fire alarm repair, sunglasses and a collection of bright yellow, orange and red polo shirts

tvtropes.org

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HypnoToad  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:15:40pm

re: #81 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

it’s the clipboard that does it

Indeed. Whenever I needed to take a decent break from what I was doing, I’d take a folder of papers and go for long walks around the facility. Never did find that meeting…

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:17:34pm

re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg

tvtropes.org

sort of relates to anymouse’s story last thread about not knowing a particular commander in uniform and so not letting him in

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:18:03pm
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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:18:13pm

re: #83 HypnoToad

I may have utilized both of those techniques.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:19:51pm

re: #81 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

And I have one of those aluminum folding clipboards that you can jam canary colored papers into for maximum official looking effect

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Mike Lamb  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:21:03pm

I can’t see any way that the death toll doesn’t greatly exceed the ~72k estimates from the UHME. We’re at 62k per Worldometer, with more than 1k reported today (we will almost assuredly exceed 2k for the day again).

To hit 72k, the daily mortality rate would need to be about 100 from now through August 4th. There is no way that happens—and that’s irrespective of states re-opening. Given what we’ve seen in Italy and Spain—a long, slightly descending plateau-like effect—something approaching 100k by August 4th seems much more likely.

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lawhawk  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:21:45pm
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:23:30pm

re: #88 Mike Lamb

I can’t see any way that the death toll doesn’t greatly exceed the ~72k estimates from the UHME. We’re at 62k per Worldometer, with more than 1k reported today (we will almost assuredly exceed 2k for the day again).

To hit 72k, the daily mortality rate would need to be about 100 from now through August 4th. There is no way that happens—and that’s irrespective of states re-opening. Given what we’ve seen in Italy and Spain—a long, slightly descending plateau-like effect—something approaching 100k by August 4th seems much more likely.

At our current rate, we’ll hit 100K the middle of May. Maybe we’ll slow down, but then again, states have decided to relax their rules now.

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stpaulbear  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:23:39pm

re: #75 DodgerFan1988

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The comments on the original tweet are all accusing her of being a liar. They suck.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:23:57pm

re: #84 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Did not read that but I am glad he challenged the officer for ID

I did that once years and years ago to the Base Commander, because he was wearing a zipped up flight jacket and sunglasses and trying to come into the building.

He looked like Central Casting CO too. To his credit Base CO thought it was a sign of good conops, and told our local CO good work keeping alert status

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:24:34pm

Kayleigh McEnemy of the People

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:28:50pm

re: #25 jaunte

Michigan state senate:

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Mike Lamb  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:29:42pm

re: #90 Belafon

At our current rate, we’ll hit 100K the middle of May. Maybe we’ll slow down, but then again, states have decided to relax their rules now.

I suspect that we would have slowed down, but even with that slow down, 72k never seemed realistic. Even if we only stayed at the current Italy/Spain levels of daily deaths, we’d still be north of 90k.

But with states re-opening with wildly varying restrictions, who the hell knows what it will look like—other than it won’t be good.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:29:50pm

re: #88 Mike Lamb

I can’t see any way that the death toll doesn’t greatly exceed the ~72k estimates from the UHME. We’re at 62k per Worldometer, with more than 1k reported today (we will almost assuredly exceed 2k for the day again).

To hit 72k, the daily mortality rate would need to be about 100 from now through August 4th. There is no way that happens—and that’s irrespective of states re-opening. Given what we’ve seen in Italy and Spain—a long, slightly descending plateau-like effect—something approaching 100k by August 4th seems much more likely.

china did it // (1/2)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:31:41pm

re: #92 So Cal Greek Hippie

Did not read that but I am glad he challenged the officer for ID

I did that once years and years ago to the Base Commander, because he was wearing a zipped up flight jacket and sunglasses and trying to come into the building.

He looked like Central Casting CO too. To his credit Base CO thought it was a sign of good conops, and told our local CO good work keeping alert status

whenever i’ve been the flunky being challenged i always wondered whether i was being tested

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:32:48pm

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

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that’s because 2>1 - in fact twice as important

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:33:14pm

re: #67 lawhawk

Easter. Trump said we’d start to reopen by Easter.

I have had Corona since Easters…

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calochortus  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:33:47pm

re: #81 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

it’s the clipboard that does it

Mr. C. once was with a group that wanted to document native plants on a site slated for development. People had been thrown out before trying to do the same thing.
He and a couple other people went out with orange safety vests and clipboards and no one bothered them.
Sadly, the site got developed anyway, but it was a lesson in acting like you belong there.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:33:52pm

re: #69 plansbandc

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:36:29pm

re: #98 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

that’s because 2>1 - in fact twice as important

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Betcha that wouldn’t be the case if they were black!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:39:51pm

A new survey finds that voters in all 50 states say their governor is doing a better job than President Trump in handling the coronavirus pandemic.

it’s a pdf
go to page 9

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BeachDem  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:41:23pm

re: #65 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

but no worries; back to normal by june!!!

And Kathy Mattea sings through my mind:

I love life, as we knew it
I still can’t believe we threw it away
Goodbye that’s all there is to it
Life as we knew it ended today

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makeitstop  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:41:41pm

re: #47 Dread Pirate

Jesus, the stupidity.

“I’m at the Comfort,” Prim said in the video.

In fact, Prim had mistaken the Comfort for the U.S.S. Intrepid, a former aircraft carrier that now serves as a museum.

These people are giving me a headache.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:41:58pm

in the ‘what’s one more hypocrisy’ department

“An emergency plan for Louisiana’s delayed spring elections was approved by the state Legislature after Republican lawmakers rolled back an expansion of mail-in ballots for people concerned about the coronavirus,” the Baton Rouge Advocate reports.

“Lawmakers voted by mail on the emergency plan.”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:45:14pm

re: #103 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

A new survey finds that voters in all 50 states say their governor is doing a better job than President Trump in handling the coronavirus pandemic.

it’s a pdf
go to page 9

That’s damning. There’s a reason had the freak out at Parscale. Trump is going down. This is his legacy. This is how history will remember him.

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lizardofid  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:50:43pm

re: #96 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

china did it // (1/2)

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Maybe they embraced the bleach?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:51:00pm

re: #107 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

That’s damning. There’s a reason had the freak out at Parscale. Trump is going down. This is his legacy. This is how history will remember him.

i thought it was gonna be kids in cages
then the impeachment (remember 3 months ago!!)
but the timing if this is …fortunate

totally botching the virus response at every turn

and of course bleach boy will not wash out

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:51:12pm

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator

Seems to me the USPS has been forced to support any number of junk mailing companies with discounted rates. That crap is the most unwelcome thing in my mailbox. My Amazon orders, of course, are welcomed. So hey let’s just get rid of the bulk mail rate for junk mail and watch the money flow. A win for us all.

The bulk mail rate is actually more profitable to the Post Office than the First Class mail rate. At one time it was called Third Class, now it’s called Marketing Mail.

To qualify for bulk mailing rates, companies, not-for-profits, politicians, civic society organisations, &c are required to do all the sorting of mail in bulk packages (hence bulk rate) that the Post Office would normally do.

That saves a significant amount of money for the Post Office.

The win-win here is for the postal customers.

As for Trump’s claim that the Post Office should “raise rates” to add money, he doesn’t understand that postal rate increases must be approved by Congress if it exceeds an inflation-based cap. Postal rate increase, meet Mitch McConnell, who absolutely doesn’t want the Post Office to get that. In fact, when the GOP controlled the House and Senate in 2017, they reduced the First Class rate by two cents, to further starve the Post Office.

The second sort of bulk rate is called EDDM. This is a reduced rate for groups which do not have Marketing Mail privileges, such as our public library. EDDM requires a standard size card (8.5 x 11 in) and addressed to every mail address in a Zip Code.

One of the arguments made in my wife and my fight to save our and Lisco’s Post Offices was by people claiming the Post Office should discontinue commemorative stamps, since they require artists and engravers not normally employed for standard stamps.

At both town halls with the Post Office, we asserted that the Post Office actually makes a metric fuquetonne of money on commemorative stamps, since people around the world purchase them from the Post Office and never use them except for collections. (A good recent example of that was the special Solar Eclipse stamps sold along the route of the eclipse, including our post office. Practically everyone in town bought those stamps and never used them.)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:54:28pm

Is Chris Hayes really at it again? I unfollowed him in 2016 because he was so Bernie bro. And he’s doing it again?

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:57:20pm

re: #111 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is Chris Hayes really at it again? I unfollowed him in 2016 because he was so Bernie bro. And he’s doing it again?

Who exactly is he cheering?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:57:46pm

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:58:11pm

re: #106 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

in the ‘what’s one more hypocrisy’ department

“An emergency plan for Louisiana’s delayed spring elections was approved by the state Legislature after Republican lawmakers rolled back an expansion of mail-in ballots for people concerned about the coronavirus,” the Baton Rouge Advocate reports.

“Lawmakers voted by mail on the emergency plan.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:59:09pm

re: #112 Belafon

Who exactly is he cheering?

This is what the tweet tweets said…

Hayes cheerleading a 3rd party candidate to project white identity politics will give Trump a 2nd term, a majority Senate and Supreme Court permanent majority by replacing RBG. This is utopia for revolutionary white identity bros ⁰#FireChrisHayes

They will then say we must have Bernie as President to truly counter this Trumpian draconian administration and Bernie’s policies. Burn down the House. Trump is good for their business model.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 12:59:36pm

re: #112 Belafon

Who exactly is he cheering?

Chris Hayes wants Bernie and if he can’t have him he’ll BERN down the country.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:01:42pm

re: #31 plansbandc

They die in droves because they get into car wrecks, but no ER beds available, so they die in the hallways or the sidewalks. They die in droves alone because no visiting nurse services. I can go on all day with this. My people in the disabled community…well, but ThE EcOnOmY!

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:02:02pm

Germany is now officially at 4% mortality rate among reported cases, with about 20% of cases still active.

Of course, there remains the Diamond Princess, with a CFR of 1.8% and 54 cases (7.6% of total cases) still active. Given that the ages skew much older on cruise ships, that would certainly suggest that a true rate of 1% (or possibly even less) among a typical population, assuming the health services are not overwhelmed.

But we will have to wait and see. Garcetti announced that any resident of LA county who wants a test can get one — but since they can handle only 18,000 tests a day, it doesn’t really appear that is a practical promise.

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Interesting Times  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:02:13pm

An argument that *might* work with some members of the anti-Biden left…?

She was a Bernie supporter in 2016 but went for Warren this time around.
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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:04:22pm

re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

re: #101 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:04:31pm

I swear, “the markets are not the economy’ needs to be pointed out over and over. The markets are generally doing well, even though 30 million people have filed for unemployment. There is a serious disconnect here between Wall Street and Main Street if we have this kind of result.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:05:30pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:05:54pm

She hits it out of the park again

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:06:30pm

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🏡

The postage rate that is least profitable for the Post Office is actually what used to be called Fourth Class Mail, then called Media Mail (otherwise known as “Book Rate”), then split into several categories in 2004.

Library Mail rate was created to allow shipping of library media (including certain other uses such as academic papers). Bound Printed Matter rate is used to mail things such as telephone directories. Media mail can be used by anyone to mail books, sound recordings, or video recordings (rates are determined by weight, distance, and shape of the package).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:06:31pm
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:07:22pm

re: #123 gocart mozart

The voice on the first one was a complete turn off.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:08:28pm

re: #41 Belafon

“You’ve reported no new deaths, but your population has shrunk by 3%. What happened, and why are your cemetaries full?”

“I see a lot of cremation urns about. More than ever.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:09:31pm

re: #119 Interesting Times

An argument that *might* work with some members of the anti-Biden left…?

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The anti-Biden left isn’t very large. The question is whether mainstream media will worry over the Reade allegations like a dog with a bone, the way they did Clinton’s emails, to make it appear that there is a moral equivalency between Trump and Biden. Opposition to Clinton extended far beyond Berniebros, which is why the third party and stay-at-home vote was just large enough to cost her the election, IMHO.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:09:50pm

re: #119 Interesting Times

An argument that *might* work with some members of the anti-Biden left…?

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I kind of sort of want to know why she believes Reade, but not enough to try to find her.

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BlueGrl21  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:10:36pm

re: #105 makeitstop

Jesus, the stupidity.

These people are giving me a headache.

My aunt did something like this. She wasn’t stupid, she was a paranoid schizophrenic that needed to be institutionalized, which she was.

What is interesting to me is when someone who is obviously struggling with severe mental health issues becomes just another member in a group…their crazy is indistinguishable from the norms of the group itself.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:12:08pm

The Sarah Cooper gifs

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:12:27pm

re: #127 Sherlock Hound

“I see a lot of cremation urns about. More than ever.”

“The cremation urn industry is booming!!11!!”

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Interesting Times  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:13:04pm

re: #121 mmmirele

I swear, “the markets are not the economy’ needs to be pointed out over and over. The markets are generally doing well, even though 30 million people have filed for unemployment. There is a serious disconnect here between Wall Street and Main Street if we have this kind of result.

Most likely explanation here:

Between January 1, 2020 and April 10, 2020, 34 of the nation’s wealthiest 170 billionaires saw their wealth increase by tens of millions of dollars. Eight have seen their net worth surge by over $1 billion.

As of April 15, Jeff Bezos’s fortune had increased by an estimated $25 billion since January 1, 2020. This unprecedented wealth surge is larger than the Gross Domestic Product of Honduras, $23.9 billion in 2018.

Between March 18 and April 10, 2020, over 22 million people lost their jobs as the unemployment rate surged toward 15 percent. Over the same three weeks, U.S. billionaire wealth increased by $282 billion, an almost 10 percent gain.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:13:17pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:13:25pm

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡

The postage rate that is least profitable for the Post Office is actually what used to be called Fourth Class Mail, then called Media Mail (otherwise known as “Book Rate”), then split into several categories in 2004.

So as Kurt Vonnegut explains, comic books and other illustrated journals (including girlie mags) could qualify for book rate mailing if they contained at least four pages of nothing but print.

So that created a massive market for short stories of any sort, detective, adventure, and science fiction, which is where Kurt Vonnegut got his start.

In Breakfast of Champions, the obscure sci-fi author Kilgore Trout is invited to a literature festival being put on by an admirer in Indianapolis. So he goes out and buys a collection of porno magazines which contain his stories as filler, explaining to the clerk: “They’re for a literary festival”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:13:34pm

re: #119 Interesting Times

An argument that *might* work with some members of the anti-Biden left…?

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She supported Warren this time around — that’s enough to doom her argument among the 2020 Bernie supporters.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:14:04pm

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡

The postage rate that is least profitable for the Post Office is actually what used to be called Fourth Class Mail, then called Media Mail (otherwise known as “Book Rate”), then split into several categories in 2004.

Library Mail rate was created to allow shipping of library media (including certain other uses such as academic papers). Bound Printed Matter rate is used to mail things such as telephone directories. Media mail can be used by anyone to mail books, sound recordings, or video recordings (rates are determined by weight, distance, and shape of the package).

Oh, dear. That’s the part I use most: mailing out books.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:14:51pm

re: #122 NO SMOCKING GUN!

This isn’t a damn beauty pageant. If three candidates would be “good,” how about four? One hundred? One thousand?

It is the height of self-centeredness to think “the candidate has to earn your vote.” That’s not how elections have ever worked anywhere. You’ve been presented with the candidates: Biden, Trump, who the hell knows for the Libertarians because they are not bound by their delegates and can select anyone, Ventura for the Greens maybe?

The parties don’t even need to hold primaries or caucuses, they can just select a candidate.

Your job as a voter if you didn’t run yourself is to select who you view as the best candidate on offer. If your complaint is “well, Biden didn’t earn my vote, so I don’t give a rat’s ass if Trump wins” your not a participant in our democratic republic. Your a back bench rock thrower who doesn’t care if the whole country burns down.

Quoting Stonekettle: If you want a better nation, you have to be a better citizen. This does not include saying “I didn’t get what I want so I’m taking my ball and going home” like a six year-old.

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Omar Comin’ Yo  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:14:57pm

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:15:07pm

re: #128 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The anti-Biden left isn’t very large. The question is whether mainstream media will worry over the Reade allegations lije a dog with a bone, the way they did Clinton’s emails, to maje it appear that there is a moral equivalency between Trump and Biden. Opposition to Clinton extended far beyond Berniebros, which is why the third party and stay-at-home vote was just large enough to cost her the election, IMHO.

All Emailgate really did was give people who had misgivings about Hillary an excuse to stay home or vote third party. Based upon most polls so far, the portion of the voting population that feels the same way about Biden is simply not on the same level. Not to mention that the media could at least try to argue that emails about daily itineraries or recipes were a matter of “national security.” Right now, they’re looking like fools for trying to carve out a special exception in the #MeToo movement to give Donny a pass.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:15:08pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:16:04pm

re: #128 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The anti-Biden left isn’t very large. The question is whether mainstream media will worry over the Reade allegations like a dog with a bone, the way they did Clinton’s emails, to make it appear that there is a moral equivalency between Trump and Biden…

Remember how it was always “Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein?” but never “Trump’s playboy buddy Jeffrey Epstein?”

They will pass up no opportunity to discuss how these “rape allegations” are dogging his campaign. Because they can…

And that article is just just damning with faint praise.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:16:15pm

re: #120 plansbandc

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:16:56pm

re: #90 Belafon

At our current rate, we’ll hit 100K the middle of May. Maybe we’ll slow down, but then again, states have decided to relax their rules now.

So I wonder when we’ll hit the next “benchmark” of 116K fatalities ( number of US combat deaths in WWI)?

I’m guessing by Fourth of July….

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Mike Lamb  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:17:01pm

re: #96 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

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Well, you raise a good point. There will definitely be some Southern states that probably have graphs like that, reality be damned.

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makeitstop  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:17:12pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:18:59pm

re: #137 retired cynic

Oh, dear. That’s the part I use most: mailing out books.

There’s nothing wrong with that. You could mail books First Class if they weigh 13 ounces or less, or Priority Mail if they weigh more, but no reason to. The Post Office offers the service for books because a whole lot of people use it. (There’s no way FedEx or UPS would offer such a rate.)

Speaking of FedEx and UPS, I don’t know what the idea about them being “cheaper” than the Post Office is. I never found that to be so, and the Post Office will also pick up or deliver packages to your house (just call them and ask, it is part of their service detailed on their Website).

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:19:28pm
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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:20:01pm

re: #12 plansbandc

Check out this wisdom from one of my major trumpsters on FB:

Wait for the lawsuits to start. By making people wear masks, they are putting them further at risk. Unless it’s a mask specially made to keep out germs, it will trap germs in the mask. People are putting themselves at more risk by wearing a cloth mask or bandana than they would be without one.

yes, it will trap germs in the mask. not trap them in you. and if you and the person next to you are both wearing masks, it means you have a slight but measurably better chance of not infecting one another if one of you is sick.

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Omar Comin’ Yo  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:20:02pm

re: #146 makeitstop

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:20:47pm

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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This isn’t a damn beauty pageant. If three candidates would be “good,” how about four? One hundred? One thousand?

It is the height of self-centeredness to think “the candidate has to earn your vote.” That’s not how elections have ever worked anywhere. You’ve been presented with the candidates: Biden, Trump, who the hell knows for the Libertarians because they are not bound by their delegates and can select anyone, Ventura for the Greens maybe?

The parties don’t even need to hold primaries or caucuses, they can just select a candidate.

Your job as a voter if you didn’t run yourself is to select who you view as the best candidate on offer. If your complaint is “well, Biden didn’t earn my vote, so I don’t give a rat’s ass if Trump wins” your not a participant in our democratic republic. Your a back bench rock thrower who doesn’t care if the whole country burns down.

Quoting Stonekettle: If you want a better nation, you have to be a better citizen. This does not include saying “I didn’t get what I want so I’m taking my ball and going home” like a six year-old.

‘i want pizza’
sir, this is a wendy’s

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makeitstop  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:21:31pm

re: #150 Omar Comin’ Yo

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:21:57pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:22:02pm

DK is through with her story. There are three diaries pointing out how her story is inconsistent, with two of them talking about her dad’s book. I did like this in one of them:

Look, Biden is gonna win regardless of any attacks. In the real world, people have HAD IT. His polling just keeps better, not worse. People’s fears with this story reflects the widening split between reality-based actions of the base and the social-media driven melodramas of the extremes.

I also found out in that one what Hayes was doing, turning this into a “real” story.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:23:05pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:23:14pm

re: #148 gocart mozart

I have no idea but it sounds good. :)

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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:23:16pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

I am not shocked Pence finally decided to wear a mask.

I will, however, be shocked if Trump ever wears one.

normally he would wear one when they electrocute him.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:23:27pm

re: #140 Targetpractice

All Emailgate really did was give people who had misgivings about Hillary an excuse to stay home or vote third party. Based upon most polls so far, the portion of the voting population that feels the same way about Biden is simply not on the same level. Not to mention that the media could at least try to argue that emails about daily itineraries or recipes were a matter of “national security.” Right now, they’re looking like fools for trying to carve out a special exception in the #MeToo movement to give Donny a pass.

without going into the merits of reade
there are more than 25 accusations against trump

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:24:35pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:24:54pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:25:08pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:25:29pm

re: #148 gocart mozart

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:25:42pm

re: #149 steve_davis

yes, it will trap germs in the mask. not trap them in you. and if you and the person next to you are both wearing masks, it means you have a slight but measurably better chance of not infecting one another if one of you is sick.

i.e. -its purpose

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:26:40pm
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steve_davis  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:26:55pm

re: #29 gocart mozart

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not quite. in the biden story, he says something like “come on, man! I’m told you like this.” that isn’t in the book because nobody other than a moron would ever imagine somebody would say something like that while raping them.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:27:05pm

What’s most telling about the media’s coverage is that they’re moving away from “Is she telling the truth?” to “Even if she’s lying, Biden needs to make this ‘go away.’” The effort on their part is now to try to flip the burden of proof, make him “prove a negative” by saying he has to prove he didn’t rape her.

It’s the ol’ allegorical tale about LBJ wanting his campaign to spread the rumor that his opponent fucked pigs, only for his response when told that they couldn’t call his opponent a “pigfucker” because it wasn’t true of “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:27:41pm

German authorities are issuing €200 fines (around $220) to anyone shopping or using public transportation without a mask on.

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ericblair  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:28:31pm

re: #158 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

without going into the merits of reade
there are more than 25 accusations against trump

It’s not necessary to show any sort of equivalence. It’s all in bad faith: if Biden releases all the Senate records and there’s nothing incriminating in them, then obviously he removed all the incriminating stuff and he’s still guilty:

I think Biden’s doing the right thing. As Warren found out, any sort of reasonable dialog is just more chum for the sharks. Now the usual suspects are pissed that Biden isn’t giving them any meat to chew on.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:28:35pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:29:05pm

re: #166 Targetpractice

What’s most telling about the media’s coverage is that they’re moving away from “Is she telling the truth?” to “Even if she’s lying, Biden needs to make this ‘go away.’” The effort on their part is now to try to flip the burden of proof, make him “prove a negative” by saying he has to prove he didn’t rape her.

It’s the ol’ allegorical tale about LBJ wanting his campaign to spread the rumor that his opponent fucked pigs, only for his response when told that they couldn’t call his opponent a “pigfucker” because it wasn’t true of “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”

Which is why the best response is for Biden to do what he’s doing.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:29:10pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:30:14pm

re: #164 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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This is basically the only strategy left to defend Reade: “By questioning her, you’re hurting all victims who will be afraid to come forward!”

Oh, and to label anybody who calls BS on her claims a “rape apologist.”

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:31:23pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:31:41pm

re: #32 Hecuba’s daughter

You mean Michigan allows guns in legislative buildings? Is this something new or has it been around for decades?

It was permitted when the GOP had a stranglehold on the state legislature.

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Omar Comin’ Yo  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:32:22pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:33:02pm

re: #172 Targetpractice

This is basically the only strategy left to defend Reade: “By questioning her, you’re hurting all victims who will be afraid to come forward!”

Oh, and to label anybody who calls BS on her claims a “rape apologist.”

Yes, suddenly the #MeToo movement is a major issue for the GOP.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:33:23pm

re: #172 Targetpractice

This is basically the only strategy left to defend Reade: “By questioning her, you’re hurting all victims who will be afraid to come forward!”

Oh, and to label anybody who calls BS on her claims a “rape apologist.”

21st century tumblr brand “advocacy.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:34:31pm

The fact that Berners and MAGAts alike will not accept any response to Reade’s allegations besides “I totally believe her and Biden needs to go” shows that it’s not about the allegations, it’s about the goal of defeating Biden in a way they never could/will at the polls.

It’s not about “justice,” it’s not about “Believe Women,” it’s not about #MeToo , it’s about the fantasy that if they kneecap Biden now, then they’ll get a nominee they prefer.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:34:38pm

re: #173 Dread Pirate

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Matthew Yglesias has said we need to let volunteers, both vaccinated and control groups of unvaccinated, be deliberately infected so that we can speed the development process. Because the normal, careful method of vaccine development takes years, not months.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:36:07pm

re: #172 Targetpractice

This is basically the only strategy left to defend Reade: “By questioning her, you’re hurting all victims who will be afraid to come forward!”

Oh, and to label anybody who calls BS on her claims a “rape apologist.”

- an accuser should not be dismissed *a priori*
- she wasn’t
- after the facts, whatever they are, come out - we are allowed to use our critical thinking skills and evaluate them
- this particular issue is way past the legal system stage so no standards of proof or innocence etc

the right to be heard does not require that we accept the story

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:36:22pm

re: #168 ericblair

Katie Halper cohosts a podcast with Matt Taibbi, who used to brag about sexually harassing teenage Russian interns.

chicagoreader.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:36:53pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:38:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:40:27pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:41:10pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

The fact that Berners and MAGAts alike will not accept any response to Reade’s allegations besides “I totally believe her and Biden needs to go” shows that it’s not about the allegations, it’s about the goal of defeating Biden in a way they never could/will at the polls.

It’s not about “justice,” it’s not about “Believe Women,” it’s not about #MeToo , it’s about the fantasy that if they kneecap Biden now, then they’ll get a nominee they prefer.

i said yesterday
- if biden did it
- and something else came out that compelled him to resign
- it still would not be bernie

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:41:52pm

re: #180 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

- an accuser should not be dismissed *a priori*
- she wasn’t
- after the facts, whatever they are, come out - we are allowed to use our critical thinking skills and evaluate them
- this particular issue is way past the legal system stage so no standards of proof or innocence etc

the right to be heard does not require that we accept the story

That should be the biggest red flag in all this: Tara is not making any effort whatsoever to seek “justice” or restitution. She refused to name herself or Biden in the “criminal complaint” and excuse the refusal as “wanting a paper trail,” every lawyer who’s talked to her says she’s only interested in suing people on social media to make the allegations that she’s a Russian plant go away, she sought out Trust Us with the goal of getting them to run PR for her interactions with the press, and she’s even gone so far in her actions that an ex-prosecutor wrote an op-ed in the USA Today saying she’d never take this case to court because there is so much “wrong” about it that she would feel compelled to question Tara’s credibility herself.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:42:44pm

re: #175 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:43:09pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

juante said earlier that Abbott is polling at about 58%. Which, while in positive territory, is nothing to write home about.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:43:14pm

re: #148 gocart mozart

It is the theme to “Inspector Gadget.”

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:44:13pm

re: #185 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i said yesterday
- if biden did it
- and something else came out that compelled him to resign
- it still would not be bernie

That’s what they don’t get, that if they truly believe that the DNC “rigged” the primaries and is “protecting” Biden, then there’s no chance that his dropping from the race would automatically make Bernie the nominee. The reality would be a brokered convention that would could mean virtually anybody ends up the nominee. Hell, we could come out of the convention with Hillary as the nominee if such a scenario occurred.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:50:42pm

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:52:02pm
“The Secret Service rented a room at President Trump’s Washington hotel for 137 consecutive nights in 2017 — paying Trump’s company more than $33,000 — so it could guard Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin while he lived in one of the hotel’s luxury suites,” the Washington Post reports.

“Mnuchin, a financier from New York, lived in the Trump International Hotel for several months before moving to a home in Washington.”

i wouldnt doubt mnuchin paid for his room too

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:53:51pm

re: #191 Targetpractice

Nah. Just making ribs and rings.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:54:38pm
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Interesting Times  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:57:09pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:57:26pm

‘large gatherings’ = 25k campaign rally

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:57:42pm

re: #191 Targetpractice

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Nope, just making a

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:57:44pm

re: #194 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Thank you AFT.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:58:12pm

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Nah. Just making ribs and rings.

cacio e pepe and a salad over here

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 1:58:48pm

re: #199 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Potato Gnocchi

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:00:31pm

re: #198 PhillyPretzel

Thank you AFT.

the 22-page proposal — titled the “Plan To Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities” — is “based on the science as well as educator and health care expertise ― not on politics or wishful thinking,” the union said.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:00:31pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:02:18pm

re: #179 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Matthew Yglesias has said we need to let volunteers, both vaccinated and control groups of unvaccinated, be deliberately infected so that we can speed the development process. Because the normal, careful method of vaccine development takes years, not months.

Him first.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:02:55pm

re: #200 PhillyPretzel

Potato Gnocchi

kept it simple today, just spaghetti with tomato sauce and green beans.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:03:41pm

Have you noticed that many of the ammosexuals who carry around AR-15s (or their doppelgangers) are obese?

Gee, I wonder why….

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:05:09pm

re: #205 Eric The Fruit Bat

Have you noticed that many of the ammosexuals who carry around AR-15s (or their doppelgangers) are obese?

Gee, I wonder why….

all that field training?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:07:13pm

re: #206 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

all that field training?

At their local McDonalds? Makes sense to me….

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Interesting Times  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:07:17pm
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DodgerFan1988  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:07:20pm

The Police has done a lot worse with Black Lives Matter protesters.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:08:47pm

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:14:51pm

re: #202 Charles Johnson

I get stuff from whacky gun guys, all MAGA. So earlier today I gave in to a small temptation on FB to step on a tail or two.

Iframe

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Interesting Times  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:15:23pm

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who started out as a Canadian version of trump, has done almost a complete 180 since the pandemic. Here he is with the perfect description of the anti-lockdown idiots (can you even begin to imagine the pearl-clutching vapors from the both-siderist media if Gov. Whitmer dared speak like this?)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:15:30pm

re: #208 Interesting Times

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from down that thread

and:

Law Enforcement: “I feared for my life, he may have been 11, but he looked like he had a weapon”
Also Law Enforcement: “It’s wypipo defending 2A, we stand with them.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:16:09pm

re: #211 Rightwingconspirator

I can’t see anything, it’s blank for me.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:17:30pm

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I can’t see anything, it’s blank for me.

Its a Facebook thing about a super tiny AR to shoot the virus with.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:17:48pm

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Him first.

Do you want to wait 4 years for a covid-19 vaccine? Because that is as fast as it happens normally.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:18:45pm

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Just a sec…

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:21:00pm

I know it’s said all the time, but if you want better gun policies in Michigan and elsewhere, have a large group of armed black men storm the capital. Of course, they’d be risking their lives from law enforcement.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:21:34pm

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:23:20pm

re: #216 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Do you want to wait 4 years for a covid-19 vaccine? Because that is as fast as it happens normally.

Yes, I’ll wait.

both vaccinated and control groups of unvaccinated

Some of them may die, but that’s a chance Yglasias is willing to take.

He thinks some people should be sacrificed on the altar of a vaccine? Fine. Let him volunteer to be one of the placebo controls.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:25:39pm

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Yes, I’ll wait.

Some of them may die, but that’s a chance Yglasias is willing to take.

He thinks some people should be sacrificed on the altar of a vaccine? Fine. Let him volunteer to be one of the placebo controls.

How many more people do you imagine will die if we have to wait four years for a vaccine? It could be in the millions.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:25:40pm

re: #218 Barefoot Grin

They would all be killed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:26:43pm

that’s why he’s shit-tweeting at midnight.

O_o

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:27:08pm

Expect a surge of new cases in Georgia in mid-May. fivethirtyeight.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:27:36pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:29:29pm

re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth

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that’s why he’s shit-tweeting at midnight.

O_o

He’s so full of shit, I can smell it through the monitor.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:29:32pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:29:38pm

re: #221 NO SMOCKING GUN!

How many more people do you imagine will die if we have to wait four years for a vaccine? It could be in the millions.

Or not.

There’s a reason medical researchers do not use unvaccinated “controls” (the argument of anti-vaxxers): It is unethical to withhold a potentially life-saving vaccine by giving someone a placebo.

In vaccine trials, all persons involved are told the known risks, and all persons are given the real vaccine. The “unvaccinated control” is the populace-at-large. The people given the vaccine infection rate is compared to the populace-at-large.

It will not speed up development of a vaccine one second, and until there is a vaccine, then this is the new normal.

There is no benefit to doing a vaccine trial the way he (or anti-vaxxers) recommend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:30:45pm

moron

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:32:22pm

good grief

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:32:26pm

re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

And someone in the White House will tell him “no” or he’ll forget about it in a few microseconds.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:33:07pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:34:32pm

He’s propagating virus conspiracy theories.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:35:32pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

I would be more concerned about the wingnuts with the rifles.

One of them puts a hand on the trigger, or moves a rifle to “ready,” instant arrest for brandishing.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:36:04pm

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s been a debate at work: Will we be opening the pool this year? It’s usually open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but right now the shelter-in-place and social distancing rules at the state level extend into June. With the beaches likely to be closed that long, if not through the summer, then the few families we see coming here are likely going to be driving us bonkers with questions about when the pool’s gonna open because their kids want to swim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:36:13pm

JFC
since when has the moron let “I’m not allowed to say…” stop him?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:36:16pm

re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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1 - trump of course ‘i had that very thought just last night and was gonna bring it up today…..’
2 - while the headline will read “biden manipulates trump into doing his bidding’

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:36:37pm

This piece by Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the 50th anniversary of Kent State is quite good, but while less important, this stood out to me:

“Another prominent far-right thinker — the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan — argued that low or sometimes free university tuition encouraged protest. Increasingly conservative governors and lawmakers — under budget pressure during the stagflationary 1970s anyway — took this to heart, slashing taxpayer money for public universities and sending tuition to unheard-of levels. Ronald Reagan — who became California’s governor in 1966 by ridiculing long-haired campus protesters — ended that state’s free tuition on his way to the White House and a new American conservative hegemony.”

I didn’t know that the fiscal attacks on public higher education went back that far. Anyway, here’s a link to the article and a reminder of what a protest song sounds like:

inquirer.com

Neil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video)

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:37:50pm

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief

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Leave it to Trump to undermine his own side.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:38:09pm
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:39:29pm

re: #235 Targetpractice

That’s been a debate at work: Will we be opening the pool this year? It’s usually open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but right now the shelter-in-place and social distancing rules at the state level extend into June. With the beaches likely to be closed that long, if not through the summer, then the few families we see coming here are likely going to be driving us bonkers with questions about when the pool’s gonna open because their kids want to swim.

forget whether some kid peed in the pool, it’s gonna be coronavirus soup

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:40:49pm

re: #239 Targetpractice

Leave it to Trump to undermine his own side.

shhhhhhhhhh!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:41:27pm

Wonkette:

Obama Did A Golfing, And Tucker Carlson is ON IT like it’s 2009.

Fox News reminds me of that person who can’t let go of their ex. You feel like screaming at them, “They’re gone! You’re free. Enough with the campfire stories about how awful they are!” Barack Obama is no longer president, but few people on the network can shut up about him.

Last night, COVID-19 truther Tucker Carlson complained about Obama golfing. Wow. It’s like it’s April 2012 again and I’m enjoying a cross-country drive with my wife to New Orleans for Jazz Fest.

CARLSON: First, we want to begin with an update on the state of this country.

Yeah, that’s how Carlson introduced the segment about a black man on a golf course. Conservatives complained about Obama’s golfing for eight years straight while simultaneously claiming he was willingly destroying the country when not golfing. Pick a lane. Donald Trump even criticized the Kenyan birth certificate forger for golfing on the taxpayer’s dime. He tweeted about it 27 times, which is 27 times more than he’s told Donald Trump Jr. he loves him.

(more)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:41:43pm

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

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maybe the press is starting to troll him

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:41:50pm

re: #241 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

forget whether some kid peed in the pool, it’s gonna be coronavirus soup

Yep. But anybody who travels here on vacation when most everything is either closed or at minimal capacity, all the major attractions are closed, and the beach is off-limits…is gonna be dumb enough to think that the pool should be open because their kids want to swim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:43:56pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:44:44pm

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Which means he’s either bullshitting…or he’s bullshitting about having a fucking clue.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:45:19pm

re: #245 Targetpractice

Yep. But anybody who travels here on vacation when most everything is either closed or at minimal capacity, all the major attractions are closed, and the beach is off-limits…is gonna be dumb enough to think that the pool should be open because their kids want to swim.

“lady, you should have seen the group that was in here yesterday.
believe me, you do not want your family anywhere near that water”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:45:49pm

gaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:46:11pm

re: #247 Targetpractice

With DT it is both. He has no idea whatsoever.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:46:28pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:46:51pm

re: #248 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

“lady, you should have seen the group that was in here yesterday.
believe me, you do not want your family anywhere near that water”

“The chlorine will kill anything they brought into the pool! That’s what it’s there for! Why am I paying so much to stay here when I can’t use the pool and there’s no hot breakfast?!”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:47:00pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:47:04pm

I’ve considered the fact I may have had Covid-19 and been only very mildly symptomatic (I’ve had several symptoms of the condition on and off for weeks now, but no major breathing issues or fever) but I honestly think that is NOT the case because no one around me has gotten sick and I have to believe that someone would have if I were an active carrier.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:47:52pm

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wyoming doesnt have an international airport

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mmmirele  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:48:08pm

re: #235 Targetpractice

My HOA sent a notice out a couple weeks ago saying the pool was closed for the duration…and due to the governor’s orders.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:49:23pm

“Some of you may die, but that’s a chance I’m willing to take.”

IOWA CITY — A team of experts advised Gov. Kim Reynolds last week not to relax social distancing rules, warning that doing so at this point could cause a second wave of infections and that Iowa could suffer “catastrophic loss of life” even under strict limits, according to documents released Tuesday.

Days after receiving that warning, the Republican governor signed orders to partially reopen 77 of Iowa’s 99 counties and allow in-person church services and farmers markets to resume statewide. She said Monday that the state must learn to live with the coronavirus and balance health and economic concerns.

The warning came in a research paper authored by seven professors of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health. The governor’s office released the paper Tuesday after Reynolds outlined her rules to reopen restaurants this week.

Researchers warned Iowa governor not to relax virus limits (AP via the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, article continues at the link).

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:55:15pm

Perhaps the explanation is because the networks have been burned enough times to know that putting an improperly vetted “victims” on live TV never leads anywhere good for them and their legal departments.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:55:36pm

re: #252 Targetpractice

“The chlorine will kill anything they brought into the pool! That’s what it’s there for! Why am I paying so much to stay here when I can’t use the pool and there’s no hot breakfast?!”

i dont know. you picked it.

(no, i dont do customer service well)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:56:17pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:56:18pm

Why am I up in the middle of the afternoon? I only needed to be up this morning to mail my postcard and call my homeowner’s insurance company about what they required to complete my claim over my roof replacement. (That went easier than expected, even though the office has everyone working from home.)

No, they won’t send someone out to take photos of the new roof, they did that last year and the new roof is identical to the one put on last year.

Yes they need a copy of the payment to the roofer to prove it was actually done, so please mail it to the office (went back to the Post Office to do that).

They said it usually takes about three weeks to close a claim when the job is completed, and considering how much it cost, they will probably send a second cheque to me (the first cheque was only about 1/8 of the actual cost).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:58:46pm

re: #258 Targetpractice

Perhaps the explanation is because the networks have been burned enough times to know that putting an improperly vetted “victims” on live TV never leads anywhere good for them and their legal departments.

She wants to prosecute whatever case she thinks she has in the media.

Even if this wasn’t rodent copulation and she hadn’t scrubbed her story on Medium and quoted her father’s book as her story, doing such a thing would poison a potential jury pool.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 2:58:59pm

re: #259 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i dont know. you picked it.

(no, i dont do customer service well)

Honestly, neither do I. It’s taken years for me to learn to bite down my first instincts, which are usually to berate the moron across the desk for coming to me with their stupid observations. I work at a business-oriented hotel, the demographic we’re supposed to cater to are people here on business for weeks or months at a time. We’re not a tourist trap, that’s our sister hotel down the street which is pretty much empty right now.

If the last couple nights are any indication, the reason we’re seeing any business other than long-term stays right now…is we’re the only hotel in the local area with rooms large enough to hold a party in without everybody squished together like sardines. All the others either offer the “two queens and a bathroom” as standard or are closed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:03:52pm

Science-challenged conservatives in Michigan doing what’s best today: Entering yet another pointless lawsuit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:07:35pm

re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth

Video of the armed mob in the Michigan state capitol (0:44).

“We don’t need no social distancing—guns can’t catch a virus.”

And the douchecanoe wearing the US Flag as a cape, good job on that respect for the flag code, yo.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:07:57pm

re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:08:02pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:08:16pm

One word: “optics.” It’s the same reason they kept “Emailghazi” going long after it became obvious that there was no “there there.” They keep edging right up to the line and seeming to want to accuse Biden of rape, but they hold back and instead just do everything in their power to talk about the “optics.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:10:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:14:37pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:15:25pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:23:15pm

Nebraska:

Tests: 25,498 (+1,690)
Cases: 3,794 (+10)
Deaths: 68 (+13)

nebraska.maps.arcgis.com

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:27:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:28:11pm

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡

One-fifth of the deaths in Nebraska since this started were reported yesterday.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:29:57pm

re: #171 Eric The Fruit Bat

that cartoon kills me, i can’t stand it!

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:31:22pm

re: #275 retired cynic

I just have to glance at it and it makes me cry. :(

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CBGB  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:32:48pm

re: #148 gocart mozart

GO GADGET GO

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Dread Pirate  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:32:58pm
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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:33:56pm

re: #268 Targetpractice

Also:

I follow a lot of women in my timeline, but I’m still gutted to see so many women I otherwise respect who fully buy into the idea that Biden was “forced” into the nomination (“The DNC didn’t pick a better candidate”) I’m convinced that had Warren clinched the nomination, these same women would find a reason to stab her in the back. I’ve already heard “SHE WAS A REPUBLICAN!” And Cherokee Nation is traumatized by her candidacy so she should drop out.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:35:36pm

re: #263 Targetpractice

re: #275 retired cynic

that cartoon kills me, i can’t stand it!

I cry for 20 minutes every time I see it.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:36:39pm

re: #280 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It probably makes Needy Amin laugh.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:41:48pm

re: #281 plansbandc

It probably makes Needy Amin laugh.

There is something that’s is so provacitively fucking wrong about how trump talks about dogs. I know he has no compassion for people and dogs aren’t people (unless you live with me, because my kids are my people, but I digress), but it’s how he talks about dogs that sets me off like mad.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:52:48pm

New Bob Cesca show is up. and I think Bob has been in isolation a bit too long.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:53:10pm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:53:26pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:53:34pm

re: #281 plansbandc

It probably makes Needy Amin laugh.

He’s basically illiterate. He wouldn’t be able to read, or, more importantly, understand past the first panel.

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:54:13pm

re: #279 Sherlock Hound

Also:

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I follow a lot of women in my timeline, but I’m still gutted to see so many women I otherwise respect who fully buy into the idea that Biden was “forced” into the nomination (“The DNC didn’t pick a better candidate”) I’m convinced that had Warren clinched the nomination, these same women would find a reason to stab her in the back. I’ve already heard “SHE WAS A REPUBLICAN!” And Cherokee Nation is traumatized by her candidacy so she should drop out.

Let’s play out a hypothetical, shall we? Let’s say Biden drops out tomorrow (highly unlikely), or (may the gods forbid it) he were to drop dead over the weekend… why does anyone think that:

a. Bernie should automatically get the nomination?
b. That there wouldn’t be the world’s greatest clusterfuck of a contested convention?

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Teddy's Person  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:56:46pm

re: #139 Omar Comin’ Yo

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:58:45pm

re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Look at how tightly they are packed in. How many will be sick in a couple of weeks? ARGH.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:59:08pm
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jaunte  Apr 30, 2020 • 3:59:45pm

The “I don’t feel sick” test is going to kill a lot of us.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:00:09pm

re: #289 Eclectic Cyborg

Look at how tightly they are packed in. How many will be sick in a couple of weeks? ARGH.

Good?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:00:56pm

re: #185 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i said yesterday
- if biden did it
- and something else came out that compelled him to resign
- it still would not be bernie

The BernOUTS don’t realize that if they mortally wound Biden they will probably see Andrew Cuomo drafted on the convention floor. And they will double down on their sabotage.

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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:01:12pm

re: #234 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I would be more concerned about the wingnuts with the rifles.

One of them puts a hand on the trigger, or moves a rifle to “ready,” instant arrest for brandishing.

I’m terrified of them. And I would think a sensible police officer would be, too. Those in the photos, if not shot, are very likely to become infected. B@stards!

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:02:18pm

re: #266 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I’m not a gun person, never owned one, never even fired one. I absolutely do not understand why anyone would find it necessary to brandish a gun in public for any reason other than intimidation.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:03:16pm

re: #295 KGxvi

That is most likely what it is. A form of intimidation.

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:04:10pm

re: #293 Joe Bacon 🌹

The BernOUTS don’t realize that if they mortally wound Biden they will probably see Andrew Cuomo drafted on the convention floor. And they will double down on their sabotage.

I could absolutely see a brokered convention ending with Cuomo and/or Newsom on the ticket.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:07:08pm

re: #282 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Me too. The loathing I feel for him as a survivor and a dog lover? It’s not a thing I can fully express in words.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:07:21pm

Trump to fire the DNI in 3…2…1…

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:10:36pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:10:48pm

re: #290 jaunte

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And Trump says we will have 100 million tests by January.

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KGxvi  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:13:49pm

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

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Trump to fire the DNI in 3…2…1…

Nah, that just means that Trump will go back to praising Xi’s tireless work… because it’s not like he’s ever fucking consistent

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Teddy's Person  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:14:36pm

So I got Needy Amin’s campaign letter today in the mail. I’m contemplating the best means of disposal. One option is to use it to clean up Teddy’s morning poo. But then I think, Teddy’s poo is to good for him.

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plansbandc  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:16:10pm

re: #303 Teddy’s Person

Tear it up, throw it in the toilet and “sit and think”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:18:38pm

re: #303 Teddy’s Person

So I got Needy Amin’s campaign letter today in the mail. I’m contemplating the best means of disposal. One option is to use it to clean up Teddy’s morning poo. But then I think, Teddy’s poo is to good for him.

Fire good. 😂

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stpaulbear  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:18:38pm

re: #303 Teddy’s Person

So I got Needy Amin’s campaign letter today in the mail. I’m contemplating the best means of disposal. One option is to use it to clean up Teddy’s morning poo. But then I think, Teddy’s poo is to good for him.

I got mine today too and didn’t even take it out of the envelop. It went straight to recycling. I may put it in the garbage bin instead just to let it get soiled.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:20:59pm
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retired cynic  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:27:23pm

re: #307 Patricia Kayden

He doesn’t care about security clearances. He’s the boss.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:30:06pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:30:18pm

re: #307 Patricia Kayden

Didn’t Trump discover he can override any official security clearance and grant top secret access to anyone, regardless of their background? He probably has been passing information to Putin since the day he took office.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:30:23pm

We know the Flynn pardon is coming and Trump will get away with that just like every other fucking Republican does. Every last one of them get away with high crimes!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:36:47pm

re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter

Didn’t Trump discover he can override any official security clearance and grant top secret access to anyone, regardless of their background? He probably has been passing information to Putin since the day he took office.

I was going to say, I’m not sure there’s much else left to be sold or given away at this point.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:37:19pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:38:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:38:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:41:06pm

this guy and his thread…O_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:42:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:43:37pm
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b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:43:59pm

re: #310 Hecuba’s daughter

Didn’t Trump discover he can override any official security clearance and grant top secret access to anyone, regardless of their background? He probably has been passing information to Putin since the day he took office.

You don’t need a security clearance to watch FoxNews, that is all the daily intel he’ll need to keep up.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:45:59pm

This is an example of the talk around Tara Reade. Now this is “rape culture”.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2020 • 4:57:20pm

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