Watch Live: President Obama Delivers Eulogy at Rep. John Lewis's Funeral in Atlanta

Watch Live: President Obama Delivers Eulogy at Rep. John Lewis’s Funeral in Atlanta

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Rep. John Lewis’s funeral will be held July 30 at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once led. Former president Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy, along with remembrances from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Anchor Libby Casey will be joined by Post reporters Nicole Ellis, Eugene Scott, Rhonda Colvin and Paul Kane. Spencer Crew, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will also discuss Lewis’s legacy.

Lewis’s family has asked members of the public not to travel from across the country to pay their respects. The civil rights leader died on July 17 at the age of 80, several months after he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. Lewis spent his lifetime preaching nonviolence while enduring beatings and jailings during seminal front-line confrontations of the 1960s. He spent more than three decades in Congress defending the crucial gains he had helped achieve for people of color. Read more: https://wapo.st/2Cn5Jgs. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Jul 30, 2020 • 10:36:44am

RIP Rep. Lewis and GOTFV and FT

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 10:38:36am

Ditto.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 10:39:18am

Watch, Trump will come out as soon as @BarackObama takes the podium.

I hope the networks carry the @repjohnlewis memorial instead. https://t.co/mZQCcHs4jm

— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) July 30, 2020

(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 10:39:34am

RIP John Lewis, a true American hero.

And to a polar opposite, F**K Darth Orange.

stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 10:39:51am

This woman singing is working way too hard at it.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 10:40:16am

Obama at the podium

Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 10:41:05am

Quiet children, the President is speaking.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 10:43:16am

re: #7 Teddy’s Person

Quiet children, the President is speaking.

🤫

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 10:43:32am

re: #7 Teddy’s Person

Quiet children, the President is speaking.

No screaming, no mumbling, no slurring, no made up words. No incoherent word salads. Man, I miss having an actual President.

KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 10:48:52am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

No screaming, no mumbling, no slurring, no made up words. No incoherent word salads. Man, I miss having an actual President.

Just the rhythm of his voice, the sound of someone who has actually written and read the speech before giving it… who isn’t just talking off the cuff and looking for an applause line.

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 10:49:48am

re: #10 KGxvi

Just the rhythm of his voice, the sound of someone who has actually written and read the speech before giving it… who isn’t just talking off the cuff and looking for an applause line.

And the genuinely funny jokes and quips.

Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 10:51:06am

The U.S. Senate on Thursday abruptly canceled a hearing for President Donald Trump’s most divisive nominee to date for a senior Pentagon post, raising questions about whether the controversial retired general had enough support from lawmakers.
Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general who has been an ardent defender of Trump in appearances on Fox News, would hold the most senior policy position in the Pentagon if confirmed.

Tata has falsely portrayed former President Barack Obama as a Muslim and accused him of being a “terrorist leader” working to benefit Iran, according to now-deleted Twitter posts seen by Reuters.

Just before Tata’s confirmation hearing was set to start on Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s website said it had been canceled without giving a reason.

reuters.com

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 10:54:40am

Some of Joe Biden’s allies and top supporters are campaigning against Sen. Kamala Harris as a potential vice presidential pick because, get this: She’s too ambitious, and … they just find her somehow, mysteriously, sort of … well: “I don’t like her, and I don’t like the way she campaigned. She seems not loyal at all and very opportunistic,” someone identified only as a Chicago-based businessman told CNBC.
Gentlemen. When Kamala Harris was campaigning against the former vice president now running for president because ambition, her job was not to be loyal to Joe Biden. And no one in the history of ever has become a vice presidential nominee without having been ambitious. Yet somehow it’s women for whom this is a disqualifying charge. Go f’ing figure.

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 10:57:36am

re: #10 KGxvi

Just the rhythm of his voice, the sound of someone who has actually written and read the speech before giving it… who isn’t just talking off the cuff and looking for an applause line.

Yes.
Like a REAL President.

dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 10:59:22am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

reuters.com

Didn’t have the R support maybe?

🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:00:39am

re: #13 Belafon

What a piece of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream.

Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 11:01:25am

re: #15 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Didn’t have the R support maybe?

That’s what I’m thinking. Maybe this guy was too batshit even for the wingnuts.

🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:02:26am

Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State

newyorker.com

Only took The New Yorker 3 1/2 years to figure that out…

teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 11:02:28am

Fucking wild we went from Barack Obama to fucking Donald goddamned Trump.

KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 11:02:31am

re: #13 Belafon

I really don’t get the recent push for Susan Rice as VP. She has a great resume, and would be top of my list for Secretary of State… but nominating someone with no electoral experience to VP, when you’re likely to not seek re-election, and effectively making them the front runner in 4 years seems way riskier than Biden has ever been in his political career.

That said, the bullshit attacks on Harris just solidifies my belief that she was the right person to support in the primaries.

I Would Prefer Not To Jul 30, 2020 • 11:02:50am

Herman Cain Cancelled himself.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:03:13am

BET showing photos of John Lewis and Lewis with Obama, as Obama speaks

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:03:56am

Obama slamming voter suppression efforts.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:31am

Off-topic:

Californian enters guilty plea in $1B Ponzi scheme that fooled Warren Buffett, NASCAR drivers (Omaha World-Herald via the Sacramento Bee)

The scheme pitched solar-powered generators under the name DC Solar. He is the seventh convicted in the scheme.

Amongst others, they ripped off Berkshire Hathaway, Sherman Williams, and Progressive Insurance.

Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:32am

I like Obama’s Biblical allusions here, obviously not surprising in a Baptist church, but still.

In particular, his linking of the words of Paul about “principalities and powers” to opponents of Civil Rights.

jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:33am

Yes, get angry about voter suppression, people.

Interesting Times Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:34am

So what are the networks showing? Obama or the empty podium?

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:37am

Another absurd “cancel” story from Faux “news.”

Michigan Inn Removes Norwegian Flag as Residents Falsely Believe It’s the Confederate Flag.

Doesn’t pass the smell test unless “bullshit’ is the smell you seek.

(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 11:04:43am

Hearing President Obama eulogize the late great Rep. John Lewis makes me realize just how much I miss hearing a real president speak - in an elegant, moving, well-enunciated and coherent manner.

Anyone else? pic.twitter.com/SpTPfcioz0

— Arch (Soros Antifa Rabbi Commander And Spy Master) (@Arch_LGF) July 30, 2020

Charles Johnson Jul 30, 2020 • 11:05:26am

It’s a death cult, folks. pic.twitter.com/AYwQnjVtmm

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2020

A Mom Anon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:05:31am

re: #19 teleskiguy

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 11:06:09am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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Please proceed

Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 11:06:10am

re: #20 KGxvi

Joe knows her and is comfortable with her. I’m a Big Harris fan but she’s better in the AG spot. My $.02

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:07:09am

re: #27 Interesting Times

So what are the networks showing? Obama or the empty podium?

I’m watching BET.
No way they would switch over to an empty trump

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:07:15am

“George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.”

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 30, 2020

Obama is on with his righteous indignation and eloquently going after the GOP for their attacks on voting and civil rights.

Damn I miss the days where we’d have an eloquent speaker in the WH. Or a competent admin.

Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 11:07:31am

CNN still carrying

goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 11:07:58am

re: #21 I Would Prefer Not To

Herman Cain Cancelled himself.

That one earned a grim chuckle.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 11:08:34am

re: #29 (((Archangel1)))

Turns out Obama eulogizing John Lewis is the perfect antidote to Trump’s tinpot dictator schtick.

— Kate Brannen (@K8brannen) July 30, 2020

A Mom Anon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:09:13am

re: #36 Sir John Barron

Our local cbs affiliate has had the Lewis celebration of life on since it started. But this is Atlanta so…

KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 11:09:24am

re: #33 Dave In Austin

Joe knows her and is comfortable with her. I’m a Big Harris fan but she’s better in the AG spot. My $.02

Maybe I’m just being greedy as a Californian, but if Harris isn’t on the ticket, I hope she stays in the Senate.

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:10:33am

Obama now calling out GHWB and GWB for getting the VRA to done and renewed. Clinton didn’t have to - he enacted law making it easier to vote. But once the SCT weakened the VRA, Trumpist unleashed a series of laws to make it harder to vote, especially where there’s minority turnout. It’s not a mystery or an accident.

It was an attack on our democratic freedoms and we should treat it as such. If politicians want to honor John, and we’re so grateful for his legacy, but there’s a better way than calling him a hero. Want to honor John, revitalize the law he was willing to die for.

— Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:11:29am

Keep marching to make it easier to vote, including inmates, expanding polling places, make it a holiday, expand hours, etc

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:12:24am

He’s also calling for nuking the filibuster to see this done.

(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 11:12:58am

Expanding polling places, National election holiday, ending the filibuster as a relic of the Jim Crow era - damn, Obama is on fire!

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 30, 2020 • 11:13:00am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Come election night, I’ll donate a case of Flavoraid to the local GOP.

— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 30, 2020

A Three Hour Tour Jul 30, 2020 • 11:13:10am

re: #27 Interesting Times

So what are the networks showing? Obama or the empty podium?

The Big Three over-the-air broadcast networks are showing Obama.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:13:28am

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Another absurd “cancel” story from Faux “news.”

Michigan Inn Removes Norwegian Flag as Residents Falsely Believe It’s the Confederate Flag.

Doesn’t pass the smell test unless “bullshit’ is the smell you seek.

St. Johns is the next town south of my hometown in Michigan. This has been reported in local media there as well.

Norwegian flag on St. Johns inn mistaken for Confederate flag. Owners take it down (Lansing State-Journal)

Flag removed from Saint Johns bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion (WILX-TV)

Norwegian flag mistaken for Confederate flag removed (Cadillac News)

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:13:31am

re: #32 Sir John Barron

Please proceed

As long as they don’t try to take me or my family with them, go right ahead.

🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:14:14am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

B+ gets an F for posting this garbage.

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 30, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 11:16:10am

For reference, here’s the flag of Norway:

Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 11:16:43am

Obama is a real man, a real husband, a real father, and a real president. Trump is 0 for 4.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:17:13am

re: #49 🌹UOJB!

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 11:17:14am

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

St. Johns is the next town south of my hometown in Michigan. This has been reported in local media there as well.

Norwegian flag on St. Johns inn mistaken for Confederate flag. Owners take it down (Lansing State-Journal)

Flag removed from Saint Johns bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion (WILX-TV)

Norwegian flag mistaken for Confederate flag removed (Cadillac News)

See what anti-Confederate flag hysteria has done!!!

Romantic Heretic Jul 30, 2020 • 11:17:40am

re: #18 🌹UOJB!

Why America Feels Like a Post-Soviet State

newyorker.com

Only took The New Yorker 3 1/2 years to figure that out…

A society always fails when the people in charge, the elite, mistake their own well being for the well being of society.

Charles Johnson Jul 30, 2020 • 11:17:44am

It’s painful to watch Barack Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis, but it’s a necessary pain. In these dark days, he represents the best of America. https://t.co/T6WllTbqIM pic.twitter.com/7vqPAIiYOG

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2020

Patricia Kayden Jul 30, 2020 • 11:17:52am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

For reference, here’s the flag of Norway:

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It looks nothing like the Confederate flag to my eyes. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:19:30am

re: #33 Dave In Austin

Joe knows her and is comfortable with her. I’m a Big Harris fan but she’s better in the AG spot. My $.02

She might be better at AG for the next four years, but what about the next election? We’re talking about the potential front-runner of the Democratic party. Who else would you put in the VP slot? Her choice as VP would position her to learning what the presidency is.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:20:33am

re: #53 Sir John Barron

See what anti-Confederate flag hysteria has done!!!

Maybe they should run up a Confederate flag so people confuse it with a Norwegian one. /s

Also, I guess that means the people in my old stomping ground don’t know what a Confederate Battle Flag looks like.

See, they’re forgetting history. /s

teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 11:20:46am

Damn. I’m weepy.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:20:58am

and just as Obama finishes, the skies have opened up and pouring down rain here in TheBackwoods

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 11:21:30am

Obama is a gift to us all. I’m crying.

Romantic Heretic Jul 30, 2020 • 11:21:33am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Hey! B+?

I’m sure you’re an ammosexual of some description so that makes it easy for you to die free.

(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 11:21:36am

Is it weird that I stood and clapped in front of my computer screen at the end of Obama’s beautiful eulogy?
Because I’m inclined to think not…

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:22:31am

The @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell refuses to put the already-passed House bill, the Heroes Act on the Senate floor for a vote. It would put $600 extra/month in the hands of the 1 million+ newly unemployed PER WEEK and help small businesses, renters and struggling folks survive. https://t.co/NAbMAzoYEY

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 30, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:22:41am

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

and just as Obama finishes, the skies have opened up and pouring down rain here in TheBackwoods

The sun just burst forth from the overcast here.

jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 11:22:44am

I couldn’t agree more. It’s been 236 days since the House passed reinvigoration of the Voting Rights Act. The VRA is the crown jewel achievement of John Lewis’s life’s work and we can honor him best by making it law now. https://t.co/zwDf3V0ZCD

— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 30, 2020

teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 11:22:59am

Obama’s eulogy at this funeral may be the best and most important political addresses we have seen or heard in the US in years.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 30, 2020

Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:22:59am

I miss Obama’s decency and humanity. 😢

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 30, 2020 • 11:23:48am

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

St. Johns is the next town south of my hometown in Michigan. This has been reported in local media there as well.

Norwegian flag on St. Johns inn mistaken for Confederate flag. Owners take it down (Lansing State-Journal)

Flag removed from Saint Johns bed and breakfast over Confederate confusion (WILX-TV)

Norwegian flag mistaken for Confederate flag removed (Cadillac News)

I’m not suggesting that Faux ginned this up on their own. One possibility is that one or two possibly impaired locals made the error and others ran with it for the usual benefits of statewide and now national publicity.

plansbandc Jul 30, 2020 • 11:25:04am

re: #61 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Me too.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:25:04am

The unified theme at John Lewis’ funeral: that the way to truly honor Mr. Lewis is to vote, to support democracy, to support Black Lives Matter marchers and to work toward a greater country. Amazing.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 30, 2020

Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 11:25:30am

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

It looks nothing like the Confederate flag to my eyes. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Here’s a side by side from one of the news outlets reporting the story:

I mean…I kind of see it. But like, one has stars and one doesn’t. This isn’t hard.

dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 11:26:55am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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He’d likely still be alive if he merely wore a mask and followed the safety protocols

I guess that was a bridge too far.
Definitely tyranny to want to help you save your life and those around you

It’s a death cult, folks. pic.twitter.com/AYwQnjVtmm

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:27:00am

Hope John Roberts is enjoying another day on earth as the guy who gutted John Lewis’ defining legacy!

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 30, 2020

(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 11:27:22am

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s a side by side from one of the news outlets reporting the story:

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I mean…I kind of see it. But like, one has stars and one doesn’t. This isn’t hard.

I can tell the difference even without my glasses - and those damned things border on qualifying as a pair of telescopes…

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:27:53am

Obama: “There are those in power who are doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting … even undermining the postal service in the run up to an election that’s gonna be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.” pic.twitter.com/BJi56G8OyL

— The Recount (@therecount) July 30, 2020

nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:27:57am

re: #56 Patricia Kayden

It looks nothing like the Confederate flag to my eyes. 🤷🏾‍♀️

That must be because you have a functioning brain.

A Mom Anon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:28:25am

I am all weepy watching this amazing tribute to John Lewis.

I am not a church person, and I am so white I reflect sunlight, but I would love to spend Sundays in a church full of fun, love and joy like this.

Many years ago I was blessed to have a black coworker who was a deacon at a small black church south of Atlanta. He took me and my then 4 yr old daughter with him on many Sundays and it was the only church I ever attended where I felt welcomed and accepted. And the food afterwards…oh my.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:29:13am

In his eulogy of John Lewis, President Obama did not hold back from calling out Trump’s authoritarianism:

“George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.”pic.twitter.com/nw2ao1Wsi4

— Rantt Media (@RanttMedia) July 30, 2020

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:29:58am

re: #78 A Mom Anon

and the ladies’ hats!

goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 11:30:03am

Herman Caine signed a COVID death waiver to attend Trump’s rally, and then died. 2020 is no joke.

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 30, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:30:15am

re: #75 (((Archangel1)))

I can tell the difference even without my glasses - and those damned things border on qualifying as a pair of telescopes…

Lemme take off my trifocals …

[blind]

Yup, still looks like the flag of Norway.

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:30:29am

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

Post racial John Roberts, with assent from Alito and Thomas.

Greup Jul 30, 2020 • 11:30:59am

Funny thing is that Norway voted themselves out of the Union with Sweden in 1905…. So: Norway, the Confederacy of Scandinavia… :)

dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 11:32:23am

Top Republicans offered a rare rebuke of President Trump, condemning his suggestion that the Nov. 3 general election be delayed — something he has no authority to order, the New York Times reports.

Said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA): “Never in the history of the federal elections have we not held an election and we should go forward.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, initially declined to comment, but later dismissed Trump’s suggestion in an interview with WNKY: “Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions, and the Civil War have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3. We’ll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on Nov. 3 as already scheduled.”

Decatur Deb Jul 30, 2020 • 11:34:58am

re: #69 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I’m not suggesting that Faux ginned this up on their own. One possibility is that one or two possibly impaired locals made the error and others ran with it for the usual benefits of statewide and now national publicity.

Visualize the Norwegian flag hanging limp against the staff, not flattened and fully visible.

Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 11:35:26am

re: #85 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I’m actually glad to see McCarthy and McConnell slap Trump’s bullshit down pronto.

Added bonus: Trump will be sulking for the rest of the day.

Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:36:03am

Did anything happen with that sudden call for the press to gather at the White House?

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Jul 30, 2020 • 11:36:05am

re: #30 Charles Johnson

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It’s a death cult, folks. pic.twitter.com/AYwQnjVtmm

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 30, 2020

This reminds me of some weirdness I saw several times after the disastous Aggie Bonfire Collapse in 1999: Devout Aggies praising and eulogizing the dead students for “sacrificing themselves for the Aggie spirit,” as though this “Aggie Spirit” was somehow advanced by a stupid accident that snuffed out a dozen young lives. This must have been an alumni talking point or something; it was that common.

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:37:18am

President Obama just gave the Democrats their agenda for Day 1. Reform Congress, the voting rights, and democracy itself so that Trumpists cannot deny the rights of others.

lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:37:52am

re: #88 Teddy’s Person

Did anything happen with that sudden call for the press to gather at the White House?

John Lewis’ funeral and eulogies by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:38:44am

Going from an Obama speech to Trump’s tweets is like going from a steak dinner to a dogshit sandwich.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 30, 2020

sagehen Jul 30, 2020 • 11:39:25am

re: #20 KGxvi

I really don’t get the recent push for Susan Rice as VP. She has a great resume, and would be top of my list for Secretary of State… but nominating someone with no electoral experience to VP, when you’re likely to not seek re-election, and effectively making them the front runner in 4 years seems way riskier than Biden has ever been in his political career.

Because re-orienting our foreign policy, repairing relationships with allies, telling Trump’s dictator pals to fuck off, regaining our position of leadership in the world, is job number 1. More important even than fixing the economy.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:39:51am

Obama unloads. He assails Trump administration for using tear gas and batons on peaceful demonstrators and slams those who close polling locations and push restrictive ID laws to limit minority and student voting. In the face of this, he says, “We have to be more like John.” pic.twitter.com/CSptnC3n9o

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 30, 2020

The beautiful thing about Obama’s eulogy was just when you thought he was going to just leave the echoes of history for the viewer to discern, he brought it all to the present with the urgency this moment demands.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2020

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:39:58am

Rest in Power, John Lewis.

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Fair winds and following seas.

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:40:01am

re: #81 goddamnedfrank

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I’m just curious if anyone else developed symptoms. It’s been long enough that the people who were at the rally that got sick either got over it.

stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 11:40:19am

re: #88 Teddy’s Person

Did anything happen with that sudden call for the press to gather at the White House?

Trump needs to get the spotlight back and show everyone what a real stable genius decisive president looks like. I don’t think it will work out like he’s expecting.

🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:40:49am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Obama is more like chateaubriand while Trump is like a minute steak.

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 11:40:52am

re: #93 sagehen

Because re-orienting our foreign policy, repairing relationships with allies, telling Trump’s dictator pals to fuck off, regaining our position of leadership in the world, is job number 1. More important even than fixing the economy.

Which would be the job of SoS, not VP.

100

Decatur Deb Jul 30, 2020 • 11:40:56am

Has Trump actually yet said anything to the assembled press pool?

101

KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 11:41:26am

re: #93 sagehen

All fair points, and things that should be in the portfolio of he nation’s chief diplomat, which would be the Secretary of State. And why I think it’s the perfect landing spot for Rice

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BeachDem Jul 30, 2020 • 11:41:38am

Rep. John Lewis dances to “Happy” at campaign event in Georgia

Congressman John Lewis Dancing to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy”: “Nothing Can Bring Me Down”

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Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 11:41:48am

re: #98 🌹UOJB!

Obama is more like chateaubriand while Trump is like a minute steak.

An overcooked minute steak. Served with ketchup.

104

🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:42:02am

Angela Merkel when told of Herman Cain’s death., “Nein, Nein, Nein!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:42:42am

re: #96 Belafon

I’m just curious if anyone else developed symptoms. It’s been long enough that the people who were at the rally that got sick either got over it.

Governor Stitt of Oklahoma tested positive following the rally. From July 16:

Governor Stitt tested positive for COVID-19. He announced the diagnosis in a news conference on Wednesday.

Stitt said the illnesses started as feeling achy, but reported no other symptoms. He is working from home and will remain in quarantine until Interim Commissioner of Health Lance Frye says it is okay to return.

(more)

kjrh.com

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:42:59am

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

An overcooked minute steak. Served with ketchup.

A burnt to a crisp minute steak…

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Decatur Deb Jul 30, 2020 • 11:43:04am

re: #101 KGxvi

All fair points, and things that should be in the portfolio of he nation’s chief diplomat, which would be the Secretary of State. And why I think it’s the perfect landing spot for Rice

We settled this at the dining table yesterday—it’s Rice to SoS. (Despite the risk of historical confusion with Condoleeza R.)

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:44:58am

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And when this happened,

The beautiful thing about Obama’s eulogy was just when you thought he was going to just leave the echoes of history for the viewer to discern, he brought it all to the present with the urgency this moment demands.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2020

The audience softly gasps, thinking oh he’s going there, and gave the big O his first standing ovation of the eulogy. It was a thing of beauty.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:45:00am

re: #97 stpaulbear

Trump needs to get the spotlight back and show everyone what a real stable genius decisive president looks like. I don’t think it will work out like he’s expecting.

Scheduled now for 5:30 PM ET.

President Trump Holds a News Conference

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 11:45:28am

First dog to test positive for coronavirus in US dies https://t.co/to8EdXCMeg pic.twitter.com/tBSNzuJPYV

— The Hill (@thehill) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:48:20am

re: #110 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This chowderhead is spamming every comment there with this:

Recycling it again, @thehill? 🙄

“had lymphoma, a type of cancer”

— Screaming Memee (@screamingmemee) July 30, 2020

112

Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 11:49:52am

A brief news blurb - former Italian interior minister and crypto-fascist Matteo Salvini has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity and now faces trial for refusing to allow refugees to disembark.

abcnews.go.com

According to Czech news sources, if he’s convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

113

goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 11:49:54am

re: #28 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Another absurd “cancel” story from Faux “news.”

Michigan Inn Removes Norwegian Flag as Residents Falsely Believe It’s the Confederate Flag.

Doesn’t pass the smell test unless “bullshit’ is the smell you seek.

I fixed the flag to end any confusion.

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lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:50:01am

You helped arrange his death - by refusing to mask, by having your campaign hold rallies, by removing signs warning people to mask up inside the arena, and by signaling to your base not to mask.

You own his death, and those of +150,000 other Americans and a shattered economy.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2020

You’re still trying to make it about yourself. We know how you do these things. You always try to make it about yourself.

Well, here’s your chance:

Your actions helped kill your friend because you refuse to listen to health experts when they say to mask up and social distance.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 11:50:21am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This chowderhead is spamming every comment there with this:

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Probably a Russian troll working for a bonus payment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:50:28am

A Harvard study found that 59% of Kentuckians approve of Gov. Andy Beshear’s handling of COVID-19. The Kentucky GOP put out a press release saying Beshear’s support is “crumbling” and “in freefall” because it was 79% in April.

— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:51:59am

re: #114 lawhawk

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He didn’t write this. Not enough random capitalization.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 11:54:01am

Obama is Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Trump is box wine from Wal-Mart in a red Solo cup.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:54:15am

i slice yukon gold potato very thin with the deadly mandoline and toss them in olive oil and put them on a cookie sheet in a hot oven until they get translucent and maybe a bit crisp on the edges then i add them to the pizza before cooking the pizza

— darth™ (@darth) July 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:54:16am

Obama is spitting hot fire right now and Trump is being roasted alive.

— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) July 30, 2020

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sagehen Jul 30, 2020 • 11:54:18am

re: #99 Belafon

Which would be the job of SoS, not VP.

In normal times, sure. But the SoS is going to be pretty busy rebuilding the department Pompeo hollowed out, staffing the embassies, training that staff, etc.

The VP can deal with govt-to-govt direct relations.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 11:55:06am

We went from Obama to this babbling, steaming pile of orange shit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:55:28am

re: #118 Ace Rothstein

Obama is Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Trump is box wine from Wal-Mart in a red Solo cup.

Cheap wine libelz.

Hackers post fake stories on real news sites ‘to discredit Nato’ (BBC)

Hackers have broken into real news websites and posted fake stories stirring up anti-Nato sentiment, a cyber-security firm has warned.

The disinformation campaign, nicknamed “ghostwriter”, has been ongoing since 2017, according to FireEye researchers.

It is designed to “chip away” at support for Nato in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, they said.

While the false stories are “aligned with Russian security interests”, it is not known who is behind the attack.

The disinformation campaign uses “falsified news articles, quotes, correspondence and other documents designed to appear as coming from military officials and political figures in the target countries,” FireEye said.

In some cases, false news stories were posted on real news websites without permission.

(more)

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:55:38am

re: #118 Ace Rothstein

Obama is Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Trump is box wine from Wal-Mart in a red Solo cup.

I’d call Trump more of a Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill in a paper bag.

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lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 11:56:09am

re: #124 Teddy’s Person

I’d call Trump more of a Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill in a paper bag.

Wrong.

Mad Dog 20/20.

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teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 11:56:13am

re: #114 lawhawk

All the MAGAts in the replies are saying he died of cancer. Kind of hard to die of cancer when you’ve been in remission for 11 years.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 11:57:59am

“What a gift John Lewis was. We are all so lucky to have had him walk with us for a while and show us the way.” —@BarackObama #JohnLewisMemorial pic.twitter.com/Wm3k8bdkRe

— CAP Action (@CAPAction) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:58:30am

Today we blocked a bill to allow school teachers and staff to use physical force against children by ONE vote.

We say this a lot, but elections matter. They really matter. https://t.co/NvVj8jT3wA

— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 11:58:44am

re: #125 lawhawk

Wrong.

Mad Dog 20/20.

I have a bit of fondness for ole Mad Dog. In college, we’d make garbage can punch. We’d soak the fruit in Mad Dog, but the punch was spiked with Everclear.

130

jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 11:59:27am

Don’t get tired y’all. He done picked a fight.

— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 11:59:39am

Snowflakes.

ICE agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they’re only enforcing the laws https://t.co/sNtmzmyKfi

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 29, 2020

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Decatur Deb Jul 30, 2020 • 12:00:59pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Snowflakes.

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“Are we the ….baddies?”

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Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 12:01:14pm

Hmm…..”Little Green Men 2: Belarus Boogaloo”?

Escalating a simmering feud with Russia, its neighbor and longtime ally, Belarus on Wednesday charged that more than 200 mercenaries from Russia, disguised as tourists, had infiltrated Belarus on a mission to disrupt its presidential election.

Reports of a Russian mercenary force in Belarus, which could not be independently confirmed, followed months of increasingly ill-tempered exchanges between Minsk and Moscow, close but fractious allies that used to be bound together by their shared wariness of the West, but are now intensely wary of each other.

Belta, Belarus’s official news agency, published the names and birth dates of 32 detained Russian fighters whom it described as employees of Wagner Group, a mercenary recruiting company linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a longtime associate of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

The Russian embassy in Minsk said it had asked the Belarusian authorities about the reports of a mercenary force but had received no official information about any Russians being detained.

nytimes.com.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 12:01:24pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sorry ICE agents, that didn’t work for the Germans who were just following orders and it won’t work for you. https://t.co/FBo5xSx3Rn

— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 30, 2020

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 12:01:26pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Snowflakes.

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Yeah, heartrending, isn’t it? These poor guys: getting called out for their actions when all they’re doing is just following orders…..

ADD: re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs — 2 seconds!
GMTA, and quickly!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:03:08pm

re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Needz moar @ICEgov tag.

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EPR-radar Jul 30, 2020 • 12:06:21pm

re: #118 Ace Rothstein

Obama is Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Trump is box wine from Wal-Mart in a red Solo cup.

In that analogy, Trump is methanol.

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lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 12:07:20pm

re: #137 EPR-radar

#ETTD

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 12:07:24pm

re: #132 Decatur Deb

“Are we the ….baddies?”

“But we were just following orders.” They’re not following the law, they’re following orders. The law includes rules about mistreating immigrants and about how to handle those seekign asylum. They’re not following those.

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sizzzzlerz Jul 30, 2020 • 12:10:37pm

I’ll save Obama’s eulogy for this evening when I’m at home. I know its going to cause me to tear up and I’d rather do that in private.

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 12:10:51pm

re: #139 Belafon

“But we were just following orders.” They’re not following the law, they’re following orders. The law includes rules about mistreating immigrants and about how to handle those seekign asylum. They’re not following those.

Yeah, but this is the Trump Administration: “the law” is whatever the assholes at the top say it is: or, as Louis XV might have said:

“La loi, c’est moi”. (hey, it even rhymes!)

142

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 12:12:29pm

I suspect that if I asked the conservative people I work with, most probably wouldn’t know who Herman Cain is.

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EPR-radar Jul 30, 2020 • 12:12:48pm

re: #139 Belafon

“But we were just following orders.” They’re not following the law, they’re following orders. The law includes rules about mistreating immigrants and about how to handle those seekign asylum. They’re not following those.

The Washington War Crimes Trials (honestly run, of course) is my favorite impossible dream. The number of Republicans that would face hanging is staggering, and any Democrats caught up in it would not be missed.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 12:13:09pm

re: #141 Jay C

Yeah, but this is the Trump Administration: “the law” is whatever the assholes at the top say it is: or, as Louis XV might have said:

“La loi, c’est moi”. (hey, it even rhymes!)

And if they think that, that’s all the more trouble they can get into.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:13:24pm

re: #139 Belafon

“But we were just following orders.” They’re not following the law, they’re following orders. The law includes rules about mistreating immigrants and about how to handle those seekign asylum. They’re not following those.

The barest defence you could give the Nazis is many of their people were drafted into the army.

ICE has no excuse, they are all volunteers. They can walk away at any time; they can turn to the House or the press to testify.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:15:10pm

re: #142 Belafon

I suspect that if I asked the conservative people I work with, most probably wouldn’t know who Herman Cain is.

Same here. Most people here don’t pay any attention to politics, they just mark the (R) candidate on their mail ballot.

If the GOP had run a cinder block instead of Trump, the cinder block would have won here.

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goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 12:15:37pm

Fuck, it’s not even August yet …

You killed your “friend” by holding that rally in Tulsa

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2020

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Dr Lizardo Jul 30, 2020 • 12:16:59pm

re: #143 EPR-radar

The Washington War Crimes Trials (honestly run, of course) is my favorite impossible dream. The number of Republicans that would face hanging is staggering, and any Democrats caught up in it would not be missed.

I’d say it’d be more a “crimes against humanity” trial.

Unlike war crimes, crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war. They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. War crimes, murder, massacres, dehumanization, genocide, ethnic cleansing, deportations, unethical human experimentation, extrajudicial punishments including summary executions, use of weapons of mass destruction, state terrorism or state sponsoring of terrorism, death squads, kidnappings and forced disappearances, use of child soldiers, unjust imprisonment, enslavement, torture, rape, political repression, racial discrimination, religious persecution and other human rights abuses may reach the threshold of crimes against humanity if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.

(as per Wikipedia)

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Decatur Deb Jul 30, 2020 • 12:17:08pm

re: #143 EPR-radar

The Washington War Crimes Trials (honestly run, of course) is my favorite impossible dream. The number of Republicans that would face hanging is staggering, and any Democrats caught up in it would not be missed.

It’s easy to over-compare. After 30 million or so dead from their actions, we only hanged a dozen or so of the bastards.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:18:05pm

Probably would’ve been better not to split the tweet there… https://t.co/4VtS6NV0cv

— *you’re (@RKJ65) July 30, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 12:18:36pm

I loved that comment Obama made about how when Law Enforcement pushed the marchers back off the Bridge the first time they thought they they had won, but….

If that’s not a metaphor for our time I don’t know what the hell is.

152

stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 12:22:06pm

re: #114 lawhawk

He’s desperate to have a black friend right now. A dead black friend works even better for him.

153

Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 12:23:36pm

I guarantee you the Cain family is going to sue the fuck out of Trump’s campaign and the city of Tulsa.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:24:00pm

What we saw today was the good America, the kind America, the caring America….the exact opposite of Trump’s America.

— Tom Chapman 😷 🏳️‍🌈 (@realTomChapman) July 30, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 12:24:22pm

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

I guarantee you the Cain family is going to sue the fuck out of Trump’s campaign and the city of Tulsa.

He had to sign a waiver. Not sure if that covers Tulsa.

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plansbandc Jul 30, 2020 • 12:24:35pm

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

Oh but he signed the waiver.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:24:36pm

Vice President Pence obliviously tweets out photos of him speaking to a large audience where people aren’t distancing from each other and almost nobody is wearing a mask https://t.co/g3UGyEWDXY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:25:42pm

They don’t have to run away. They choose to run away. This is cowardice and complicity. https://t.co/de8kEQUFNZ

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:26:09pm

Today, we learned that the most recent quarter was the worst on record for our economy.

Last night, Sen. McConnell confirmed that 20 Republican Senators don’t want to do anything more to fight this crisis.

We won’t stop fighting until Americans get the relief they deserve! pic.twitter.com/156znFd1kZ

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 30, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 30, 2020 • 12:27:00pm

re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He had to sign a waiver. Not sure if that covers Tulsa.

IANAL, but would signing the waiver be sufficient to preclude a lawsuit? After all, Cain was not under duress and forced to sign to preserve his job or prevent eviction.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:27:20pm

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

I’d say it’d be more a “crimes against humanity” trial.

(as per Wikipedia)

Plus no escape from justice. The German government just convicted a Nazi war criminal a few days ago.

Concentration camp guard convicted in one of the last Nazi trials in history (CNN, July 23)

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 12:28:14pm

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL, but would signing the waiver be sufficient to preclude a lawsuit? After all, Cain was not under duress and forced to sign to preserve his job or prevent eviction.

I would say it depends on the language in the waiver.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:29:49pm

Millions of newly unemployed Americans cannot go back to work, cannot afford the rent, cannot put food on the table.

Democrats will not stop fighting for the unemployed, Medicaid, safe nursing homes, Americans with disabilities, hungry kids, renters, and more.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 30, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 12:30:48pm

re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He had to sign a waiver. Not sure if that covers Tulsa.

they’re not always written well
normally, i’d say you still sue
in this case i really dont care

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goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 12:30:50pm

So it really is the upside-down. Where the thing that expands ballot access for voters who live inside the community is bad, but helping “important people” who actually live outside the jurisdiction make decisions that impact the lives of the inhabitants is good.

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2020

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stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 12:30:59pm

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

I guarantee you the Cain family is going to sue the fuck out of Trump’s campaign and the city of Tulsa.

I’m waiting for Mrs. Cain to appear on the news and say how shallow and self-serving Trump’s call was (like his call to George Floyd’s family).

167

Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 12:32:35pm

If the virus is a hoax, why would you make people sign a waiver in case they got the hoax?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:33:12pm

re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg

I would say it depends on the language in the waiver.

I doubt Cain’s family would sue. That would go against their religious faith. Cain died a martyr to conservatism.

On the other hand, shopkeepers, gas station attendants, residents of Tulsa, workers in the venue, &c did not sign any such waiver, and I’ll bet if a hungry enough lawyer came along that person could put together a class-action suit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:34:21pm

re: #165 goddamnedfrank

Go ahead, Donald. Attack the red states like Nebraska and Utah which use mail voting.

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stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 12:34:27pm

re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He had to sign a waiver. Not sure if that covers Tulsa.

But his family didn’t sign anything.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 12:34:42pm

She seems nice

Idaho teacher fired for saying mayor should ‘get laid’ by BLM members https://t.co/z3tkrpqU6U pic.twitter.com/v3366K8ESY

— New York Post (@nypost) July 30, 2020

“… Soltesz, whose last day was Friday, came under fire after district officials and parents spotted her July 18 Facebook post referencing McLean’s public condemnation of white supremacists who attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Boise, where some demonstrators were assaulted, the newspaper reports.

“Her white supremacist hater a- needs to get laid! … by BLM members,” Soltesz’s post read. “Should be a group activity … and make it go viral! … I’m still deciding if they should wear masks during the activity.” …”

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:35:17pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

I’m waiting for Mrs. Cain to appear on the news and say how shallow and self-serving Trump’s call was.

Now let’s wait for the funeral.
Should be a shit show.
Louie will show up and hold up a mask as the killer.
Mrs. Cain will be quietly paid off.
Tears will be shed over the loss of blah blah.
Mr. Lewis was and will always be an American hero.
Truly I say unto thee, fuck these people until their ears bleed.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:36:08pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

I’m waiting for Mrs. Cain to appear on the news and say how shallow and self-serving Trump’s call was.

I’m not expecting that. She’s every bit the good Communist, er Republican apparatchik Mr. 9-9-9 was!

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:37:37pm

Yesterday Cooper

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Eventual Carrion Jul 30, 2020 • 12:37:37pm

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’ve seen more people assembled for a local band concert in my hometown.

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Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 12:38:07pm

Trump will never be 1/1000 the man Obama is. And inside that blackened rotten heart of his, he knows it.

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William Lewis Jul 30, 2020 • 12:39:48pm

re: #143 EPR-radar

The Washington War Crimes Trials (honestly run, of course) is my favorite impossible dream. The number of Republicans that would face hanging is staggering, and any Democrats caught up in it would not be missed.

Ah, we won’t get anything like that. Now, the South African Truth and Reconciliation? That’s a model we could use.

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 30, 2020 • 12:40:11pm

re: #173 🌹UOJB!

I’m not expecting that. She’s every bit the good Communist, er Republican apparatchik Mr. 9-9-9 was!

It is not likely the family needs the money anyway.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:41:02pm

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I lived for a while in Greensburg. Always has been hard core Republican.

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stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 12:41:51pm

re: #174 nines09

The sun is stealing my blanket! Make it stop!

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 12:42:20pm

re: #165 goddamnedfrank

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the only difference between ‘absentee’ and mail-in voting is the idea that in one case you need an excuse or pre approval

otherwise they are identical
- receiving a printed ballot
- filling it out
- mailing it

you can ‘absentee’ vote from with your district, or state. you dont have to be out of state to qualify for an absentee ballot.

further as if the usps knows or cares where a particular envelope was mailed from, or is going or who it’s from or to and that somehow it would then be handled differently from all the other mail

“Because then the State & local authorities have to investigate ballots that were sent *outside* their jurisdictions” if this is trump’s quote, it’s just wrong.

just like with the usps, those who receive and validate the ballots have no idea where the person was sitting when they filled out the ballot, or where it was dropped in the mail.

this is all nonsense

why are we forced to keep making non issues into ‘legitimate’ issues for discussion?
this is ‘masks’ all over again.

Aside from odor of absolute flop sweat dripping off this tweet the thing I keep coming back to is absentee voting is objectively *worse* than normal Mail-In voting. Because then the State & local authorities have to investigate ballots that were sent *outside* their jurisdictions https://t.co/ZcSSUyxqA2

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2020

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piratedan Jul 30, 2020 • 12:42:34pm

re: #177 William Lewis

I would be perfectly okay to strip them of all of their worldly possessions with the exception of the clothes on their backs, an empty box and a curtain rod

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:43:14pm

Those were truly moving eulogies for the giant of a man Rep. John Lewis. I was moved to tears a number of times.

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Eventual Carrion Jul 30, 2020 • 12:43:27pm

re: #179 🌹UOJB!

I lived for a while in Greensburg. Always has been hard core Republican.

My sister and niece lived there for a while. I never went there much. Last time was to move them out and back up here quite a few years ago. But I can believe it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:43:43pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II.
The ship, with 1,195 personnel aboard, delivered enriched uranium and other parts of the atomic bomb ”Little Boy” that was later dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.

Four days after delivering its top secret cargo, the ship was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945. Of nearly 900 men who went into the Philippine Sea, just 316 survived before being rescued nearly five days later. The death toll of 879 was the largest single disaster at sea in U.S. Navy history.

(more)

starherald.com

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:44:40pm

re: #179 🌹UOJB!

Fucking magical Jeannette along Magical US 30.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:45:37pm

Exactly. And it should set off alarm bells here. Too many people are a step behind. Yes, the law requires what it requires. But Trump’s goal is to create chaos and, if need be, incite violence. He doesn’t need the law on his side to accomplish that. Wake up to the danger, people. https://t.co/Qo3RJ6SZVp

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:46:13pm

re: #181 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

If any conservative seriously brings up those arguments in a discussion on the Internet, deal with it as a PRATT and mock them mercilessly.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 12:46:44pm

re: #187 Backwoods_Sleuth

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i heard he was just kidding

Exactly. And it should set off alarm bells here. Too many people are a step behind. Yes, the law requires what it requires. But Trump’s goal is to create chaos and, if need be, incite violence. He doesn’t need the law on his side to accomplish that. Wake up to the danger, people. https://t.co/Qo3RJ6SZVp

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:47:17pm

re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who the heck are the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club?

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:48:40pm

re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

They were always there with your kids. You didn’t pay attention or didn’t teach your children right from wrong, well….
I guess we can thank Facebook for allowing them to think everyone is as fucked up as they are.
And a lot are.
Some of the fucking shit that some teachers tried to pull.
My wife laid them low.
Then I showed up.

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:49:04pm

...

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:49:20pm

re: #189 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

i heard he was just kidding

What if a state doesn’t open polls on Election Day. Say Florida or maybe Georgia? Governors say not safe. Then election is incomplete and Trump gets his delay. Why can’t that happen?

— Jefferson (@jeffersonalle) July 30, 2020

Then that state has no electoral votes and all of its federal senators and representatives offices expire unfilled. Downballot races are set on fire as well.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 12:49:39pm

re: #192 nines09

Wannabe hard guys.

Sounds like a shitty HBO late night movie…

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:49:55pm

re: #186 nines09

Fucking magical Jeannette along Magical US 30.

And I remember when Jeannette was Democratic…then the mills died…

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:50:23pm

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wannabe hard guys.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 12:50:58pm

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Someone should point out that not only did the constitution provision for that, but we tested it in 1864.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 12:51:06pm

pic.twitter.com/lEwwqlE8CU

— Jared Gray (@MisterJaredGray) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:51:21pm

re: #196 nines09

Wannabe hard guys.

You said that already. (::

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:51:35pm

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who the heck are the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club?

Pennsylvania Blue Knights Motorcycle Clubs consist of police and their supporters. They’re all over PA.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 12:52:56pm

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who the heck are the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club?

cops

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:53:10pm

re: #200 🌹UOJB!

Pennsylvania Blue Knights Motorcycle Clubs consist of police and their supporters. They’re all over PA.

And they were inspired by Joseph Wambaugh’s book & movie “The Blue Knight”

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 12:53:16pm

re: #200 🌹UOJB!

National…… They are all over N. America

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:53:34pm

re: #195 🌹UOJB!

I used to pick up at Jeannette Glass many moons ago.
The Mon valley was a skeleton and the people tuned in to Rush.
Up and down the river was a complete nuclear explosion and they just blamed the wrong people.
The money went.
The steel mills gutted the pensions and packed up.
Route 11 down the WVA spine was ugly.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 12:54:20pm

Putin is not going to be pleased

People are still coming. This must be the most massive political rally in Belarus history. pic.twitter.com/ah9JMA4U0H

— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) July 30, 2020

Officially: at 830pm, at least 34 thousand passed through security control. Thousands are waiting and listening behind the security fence.

— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) July 30, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 12:54:57pm

10 MINUTE WARNING. SpaceX is now less than 10 minutes away from a static fire attempt of Starship SN5!

Watch LIVE: https://t.co/5DqV5OBcXO

— Thomas Burghardt (@TGMetsFan98) July 30, 2020

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:55:23pm

re: #199 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thought I replied to myself. Deleted.
Hey I’m an old fuck, lay off.
//

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 12:56:22pm

re: #204 nines09

I used to pick up at Jeannette Glass many moons ago.
The Mon valley was a skeleton and the people tuned in to Rush.
Up and down the river was a complete nuclear explosion and they just blamed the wrong people.
The money went.
The steel mills gutted the pensions and packed up.
Route 11 down the WVA spine was ugly.

Well aware of that. The mills died and right wing churches, hate radio and right wing newspapers brainwashed the masses to blame the Democrats and genuflect to Saint Pruneface Reagan.

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:57:53pm

re: #208 🌹UOJB!

Route 7.
Long time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 12:58:23pm

No escape for war criminals, as another Nazi has been charged in Germany.

Former Nazi camp guard, 95, charged in Germany (The Local)

The former guard at the Stutthof Nazi camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland, was charged with complicity in the murder of several hundred people, a spokesman for the district court in Wuppertal told AFP.

The ability of the accused to stand trial must now be assessed by experts.

Because he was 19 years old when assigned to work as a guard at the Stutthof camp, the case would be handled by a juvenile court.

The man would be the latest former Nazi camp guard to face trial since a landmark 2011 ruling against John Demjanjuk, a former guard at the Sobibor death camp.

(more)

This comes on the heels of the conviction six days ago of Bruno Dey.

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 12:59:28pm

re: #205 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Putin is not going to be pleased

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I hadn’t heard much/anything about anything going on in Belarus: I thought that country had one of your old-fashioned Russian-style governments: i.e. a kleptocratic oligarchy ruling behind a rickety facade of “democracy” - basically still an SSR with the hammers-and-sickles removed….

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 12:59:56pm

As of right now, the U.S. has almost more Coronavirus deaths than Mexico, the UK, India, and Italy (four of the hardest hit countries)…COMBINED.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:00:54pm

re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Who the heck are the Blue Knights Motorcycle Club?

law enforcement m/c

they’ve been around for years

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:03:04pm

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Then that state has no electoral votes and all of its federal senators and representatives offices expire unfilled. Downballot races are set on fire as well.

exactly
based on current red vs blue states, there is no scenario where this works out well for trump

noting also that just become some states are all or partial red, (either governor, or SOS, or legisluatures) does not mean they would go for this

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:04:07pm

re: #203 Dave In Austin

National…… They are all over N. America

international now

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 1:04:19pm

Died to own the libs

— Thomas Leng (@leng_thomas) July 30, 2020

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 1:07:23pm

re: #211 Jay C

I hadn’t heard much/anything about anything going on in Belarus: I thought that country had one of your old-fashioned Russian-style governments: i.e. a kleptocratic oligarchy ruling behind a rickety facade of “democracy” - basically still an SSR with the hammers-and-sickles removed….

Belarus says it’s arrested Russian mercenaries, as rift grows between strongmen Putin and Lukashenko

” Moscow (CNN)Authorities in Belarus have announced the arrest of 33 Russian mercenaries on suspicion of terrorism, accused of trying “to destabilize” the country ahead of August’s presidential election, the state-run news agency Belta reported.

The detentions come as tensions grow between the neighboring countries and as a rift emerges between their two strongmen leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, once staunch allies. …”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 1:07:34pm

re: #160 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL, but would signing the waiver be sufficient to preclude a lawsuit? After all, Cain was not under duress and forced to sign to preserve his job or prevent eviction.

I doubt his estate could sue. Plus he was there enthusiastically. I can’t see grounds myself.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:08:52pm

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Ugh.

Cain has assumed the role of CEO of Tombstone Pizza.

— The American Curmudgeon (@CurmudgeonUS) July 30, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:09:24pm

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Breaking News: Herman Cain has died at 74. A businessman and former presidential candidate, he had been hospitalized with the coronavirus. https://t.co/OZj91NyIHP

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 30, 2020

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 1:09:28pm

re: #166 stpaulbear

I’m waiting for Mrs. Cain to appear on the news and say how shallow and self-serving Trump’s call was (like his call to George Floyd’s family).

Never gonna happen. The grift must go on.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 1:10:36pm

re: #170 stpaulbear

But his family didn’t sign anything.

I don’t think it works that way, but IANAL.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 1:10:43pm

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to the Constitution, if a state doesn’t send delegates, they won’t be counted, and the total needed is reduced accordingly (see the 1864 election). For a state to mess with the election, the state would need to cancel their vote, and send delegates they just chose.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 1:11:29pm

Delay the election NOW pic.twitter.com/bjD9ymrNfs

— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) July 30, 2020

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Sinistershade Jul 30, 2020 • 1:11:53pm

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to surviving crew members of the USS Indianapolis, the ship that delivered key components of the first nuclear bomb and was later sunk by Japan during World War II.
The ship, with 1,195 personnel aboard, delivered enriched uranium and other parts of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” that was later dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.

Four days after delivering its top secret cargo, the ship was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945. Of nearly 900 men who went into the Philippine Sea, just 316 survived before being rescued nearly five days later. The death toll of 879 was the largest single disaster at sea in U.S. Navy history.

(more)

starherald.com

The monologue isn’t quite historically accurate, but…

The Indianapolis Speech - Jaws (7/10) Movie CLIP (1975) HD

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Jebediah, RBG Jul 30, 2020 • 1:15:01pm

re: #98 🌹UOJB!

Obama is more like chateaubriand while Trump is like a minute steak.

An overcooked Steak-Um with ketchup on it.

ETA: And of course I was too slow, by hours…

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:16:04pm

re: #223 Belafon

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yup, we’ve discussed this here

states can selected delegates instead of holding an election in accordance with their state law
my understanding is they have to do this before / instead of an election.
they cannot decide to do it after a vote just because they dont like the result.

and again, with the current red/blue split, there’s not enough states to make a difference

According to the Constitution, if a state doesn’t send delegates, they won’t be counted, and the total needed is reduced accordingly (see the 1864 election). For a state to mess with the election, the state would need to cancel their vote, and send delegates they just chose.

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 30, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:16:54pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

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you dont want to vote? dont
your state doesnt want to vote? dont

the rest of us will manage it for you

Delay the election NOW pic.twitter.com/bjD9ymrNfs

— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) July 30, 2020

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 30, 2020 • 1:17:08pm

re: #125 lawhawk

Mad Dog 20/20.

Ripple…

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teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 1:20:48pm

re: #228 dangerman

You do know that’s satire, right?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:21:22pm

re: #228 dangerman

you dont want to vote? dont
your state doesnt want to vote? dont

the rest of us will manage it for you

This is satire. Poe’s Law applies here.

“The corolavirus (cough cough) hoax… .”

Comedian. Podcast: Field Trip w/ Brent Terhune. IG: Brentterhune. You’re here because you thought that video was real.

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NO SMOCKING GUN! Jul 30, 2020 • 1:23:10pm

At least he owned the libs, and really, what greater cause could one lay down your life for?/

— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:26:50pm

Trending on Twitter:

#dyingforTrump

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garzooma Jul 30, 2020 • 1:28:31pm

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

[Embedded content]
Died to own the libs

One way to Blexit.

Too soon?

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jul 30, 2020 • 1:29:08pm

re: #232 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Well, if that Twitter user is that committed to the cause, then they’ll be like Louis Gosset Jr. In Stargate SG-1 as the Jaffa Gerak who was converted into a Prior and screamed: “I die free!” and immolated himself.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:29:21pm

i posted this way back on 5/15.

On November 3, 2020, the Presidential Election *Will* Take Place
There is no delay, there is no postpone, there is no cancel.

- there is no way to postpone the election that benefits trump or republicans

- there are about 5 ways he might try to stay in office past 1/20/21.
only two could work:
win the election.
stage a successful coup (no. not gonna happen).

any other currently circulating scare scenario is based on
- factual inaccuracies (i dont care - trump’s not a magician or that powerful)
- the R’s doing all kinds of shit and the D’s just sitting and watching without taking any action on their own
- that he could actually govern in any sense after delegitimizing the process and the office

the only thing that’s changed since May or before is that he’s actually tweeted it

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:30:08pm

re: #230 teleskiguy

You do know that’s satire, right?

then my error.

stopped after 10 seconds. i dont have the patience any more

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 1:30:29pm

Pompeo tells @timkaine he never had “significant” interaction with Ambassador Yovanovitch.

He declines to speak about her removal, saying he doesn’t discuss personnel matters, just a few minutes after he discussed at length under oath the personnel matter of ousted IG Linick

— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) July 30, 2020

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 1:30:42pm

#DyingForTrump

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:30:56pm

(ninety-three seconds)

DEVASTATING animation—and clear contrast of how other countries succeeded while US has failed under poor leadership. Chaos has a price. #COVID19 @CAPAction pic.twitter.com/yEZyzh48lO

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) July 30, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 1:32:03pm

re: #239 🌹UOJB!

Damn, that’s cold.

I approve.

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lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 1:32:56pm

None of that is actually true.

We’ll know the results election night because you and the corrupt GOP will be wiped out.

But it takes time for the official results to be certified by states - that’s the case in EVERY election.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 30, 2020

Elections may be called by the press on election night, but the election results aren’t official until they’re certified by the states, and that occurs weeks later. The numbers are then sent on and tabulated.

That’s how all elections work. Some close elections take time for the results to become known. Some have been disputed all the way to the Supreme Court. Had we gone with a strict direct voting instead of EC, we’d know who won the WH pretty early on too.

At this point, the media should stop trying to horse race this fucking lunatic and switch to seeing by how big a margin can Biden run up against the worst admin in the nation’s history. No other admin has done as much damage to the nation as Trump since before the Civil War.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 1:32:59pm

Over and over again, tidbits keep coming out about how Trump’s entire team just did not give a shit about people in blue states dying. https://t.co/ucSP51mr0X pic.twitter.com/nVyvKKRy5C

— Jordan Bail-Out-the-Bars Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) July 30, 2020

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:33:25pm

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:34:38pm

re: #240 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(ninety-three seconds)

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ok i watched all of that

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 1:35:08pm

re: #243 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This was the natural evolution of their continued efforts to dehumanize Democrats and “Liberals”.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 1:35:57pm

re: #243 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

It seems like a lack of understanding of history is just going to keep biting them in the butt.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 1:36:28pm

Nines09 I got to ask!

Is that Grady Sutton who was WC Fields’ foil in his classic movies? 🥴

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 1:37:09pm

“The Ebola crisis in the United States has become an anchor threatening to sink the Obama presidency” — The Hill, October 16, 2014.

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 30, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:37:53pm

re: #242 lawhawk

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Elections may be called by the press on election night, but the election results aren’t official until they’re certified by the states, and that occurs weeks later. The numbers are then sent on and tabulated.

That’s how all elections work. Some close elections take time for the results to become known. Some have been disputed all the way to the Supreme Court. Had we gone with a strict direct voting instead of EC, we’d know who won the WH pretty early on too.

At this point, the media should stop trying to horse race this fucking lunatic and switch to seeing by how big a margin can Biden run up against the worst admin in the nation’s history. No other admin has done as much damage to the nation as Trump since before the Civil War.

how may times do we have to say this until we are blue in the face?
the media does not ‘call’ elections. they predict, in shorthand, what they think is gonna happen when everything is counted and verified.

there are two problems here
- one is the chaos he’s sowing
- the other is it’s very like he doesn’t know how any of this works

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:38:41pm

What is devastating about comparing raw numbers between countries of dramatically different population sizes?

You sir are a damn liar and you are sufficiently educated to know better. Here is a population adjusted comparison. https://t.co/MWU4xrGq6v

— FarmerR (@FarmerR11381314) July 30, 2020

Dingbat didn’t actually read the chart at Johns Hopkins on per capita mortality.

We’re doing better than Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, and Peru? Wow, I’m impressed.

Amongst First World countries, the only one which did worse is the United Kingdom (partly because of mismanagement and partly because they were hit early and fast).

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 1:40:45pm

re: #249 Dread Pirate Ron

If you add the Ebola 2 and Benghazi 4 you get 7 which equals the number of American covid fatalities that occurred while I read and replied to this tweet. pic.twitter.com/av8xvuBETS

— Jackie Daytona Is My Co-Pilot (@PhilMcCrakk) July 30, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 1:40:49pm

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s just a bot. Ignore and move on.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:41:14pm

re: #250 dangerman

how may times do we have to say this until we are blue in the face?
the media does not ‘call’ elections. they predict, in shorthand, what they think is gonna happen when everything is counted and verified.

there are two problems here
- one is the chaos he’s sowing
- the other is it’s very like he doesn’t know how any of this works

and just to follow up, i wouldnt be surprised if he doesn’t know that on election day, we vote for electors and not him

imagine saying to him “no one voted for you on election day”

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:42:14pm

re: #248 🌹UOJB!

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 1:44:47pm

re: #255 nines09

?

Jeb sure looks like Grady, doesn’t he?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:45:53pm

re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s just a bot. Ignore and move on.

Propaganda needs to be countered, though I’m not on Twitter.

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:47:59pm

re: #256 🌹UOJB!

Jeb never recovered.

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garzooma Jul 30, 2020 • 1:50:01pm

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

Dingbat didn’t actually read the chart at Johns Hopkins on per capita mortality.

We’re doing better than Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, and Peru? Wow, I’m impressed.

Amongst First World countries, the only one which did worse is the United Kingdom (partly because of mismanagement and partly because they were hit early and fast).

Well, the only First World country in that chart at the top. When you look at a more complete list further down, quite a few others have a greater deaths/100K pop.: Spain, Italy and a few others.

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 1:50:35pm

Asked by @costareports if she has been interviewed to be Biden’s vice president, Sen. Duckworth answered, “I have been interviewed.” On if the experience was positive or negative, she said, “It’s positive. You know, I have always loved interacting with Vice President Biden.”

— Jack Turman III (@jackturmanIII) July 30, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 1:52:37pm

compare and contrast

My grief can’t be contained right now listening to the Congressional staff of @repjohnlewis. Do you know how rare it is for Congressional staff to LOVE, genuinely LOVE, without reservation, the member for whom they work? He was one of a kind. #JohnLewisfuneral

— Melissa Harris-Perry (@MHarrisPerry) July 30, 2020

with

The revelation Wednesday that Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, a renegade lawmaker known for stalking the halls of Congress without a mask, tested positive for Covid-19 has unleashed a fusillade of anger on Capitol Hill — a sudden release of built-up tension over how the institution has dealt with the coronavirus pandemic within the confines of its own workplace,” Politico reports.

“Now, legislative aides, chiefs of staff, press assistants, members of Congress, career workers and maintenance men and women are venting their fury with an institution that does not have uniform rules or masking requirements, does not mandate testing, is run with minimal oversight and must contend with a gaggle of lawmakers who doubt scientists and hold themselves out as experts on everything from disease hygiene to pharmacology.”

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:55:04pm

Have a great rest of your day or night.

Beaumont

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 1:55:36pm

re: #261 dangerman

compare and contrast

I note how Politico does not put the blame on Republican lawmakers, other than Rep. Gohmert.

… contend with a gaggle of lawmakers who doubt scientists and hold themselves out as experts on everything from disease hygiene to pharmacology

Republican lawmakers who doubt. Not “lawmakers.”

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 1:55:40pm

He’s blathering again.

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 1:57:38pm

“America Is Dying”: Russia Giddy at Chaos in the USA

“Trump is still ours”: From the U.S. troop drawdown in Germany to Trump’s refusal to slam Russia over soldier bounties, Russian state media is jubilant over America acting in the Kremlin’s interests.https://t.co/pTvNad9PnT

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 30, 2020

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 1:58:23pm

President Trump my cousin Don Keedic passed away last year from a marijuana overdose. He left behind a beautiful wife and daughter. If you could somehow find it in your heart to acknowledge this it would mean the world. pic.twitter.com/Ears9HSjq3

— Barry McCockiner (@MegaRacismHater) July 30, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 1:59:02pm

re: #261 dangerman

What’s the source for second part of your post on the Gohmert stuff?

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lawhawk Jul 30, 2020 • 1:59:19pm

re: #250 dangerman

He doesn’t know how any of this works. He doesn’t care how any of this works. His base doesn’t know or care.

This is a fucknut who never could figure out his polling place to vote in person, and has voted absentee ballot because the effort to find his polling place was too difficult.

I will drag myself over broken glass, through pits of hell and beyond, to vote this fucker out of office and any other GOPers within my reach.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 2:03:00pm

re: #265 Dread Pirate Ron

When we pry this country out of Republican hands, I will be overjoyed at watching Putin wonder what happened to his plans.

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gocart mozart Jul 30, 2020 • 2:03:07pm

Birth of a conspiracy theory.
1. Angela Stanton King is running for John Lewis’ seat (R-Q)
2. M. K. O. Abiola was a Nigerian political prisoner who died in 1998. Envoy Pickering and Rice were visiting at the time he became ill. Expect to hear a lot of “Susan Rice murdered a man in 1998” if she is Biden’s VP pick.
news.bbc.co.uk
en.wikipedia.org

👀 https://t.co/lB2blDw916

— Angela Stanton King 🇺🇸 (@theangiestanton) July 29, 2020

If you read the BBC article, she did not “prepare the tea” and he did not “drop dead right in front of her”

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 2:05:23pm

re: #267 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s the source for second part of your post on the Gohmert stuff?

politico (link to the article)
via politicalwire.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 2:05:27pm

He’s still refusing to withdraw. He has until September 1.

Chris Janicek not electable (Grand Island, Nebr. Independent opinion)

With all the controversy he has stirred up, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Chris Janicek is succeeding in doing one thing — ensuring that Sen. Ben Sasse will be re-elected in November.

“I am a proud Democrat,” Janicek said in a Facebook post and email last week.

He has a funny way of showing it.

(more)

He claims his apology to the woman on his staff he suggested be gang-raped should be sufficient cause for support by Democrats.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 2:06:27pm

re: #269 Belafon

When we pry this country out of Republican hands, I will be overjoyed at watching Putin wonder what happened to his plans.

he wont be happy but he’s not an idiot
he knows what’s coming

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 2:06:59pm

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Motion to start the Anymouse Write In Campaign.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 2:08:25pm

re: #274 KGxvi

Motion to start the Anymouse Write In Campaign.

that’s spelled “Anymouse” not “Anonymous”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 2:08:45pm

re: #274 KGxvi

Motion to start the Anymouse Write In Campaign.

The Democratic Party already has Alisha Shelton to put in if Mr. Janicek withdraws, with the backing of all the other primary candidates (there were seven).

Thanks for your support though.

I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.

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EPR-radar Jul 30, 2020 • 2:12:17pm

re: #273 dangerman

he wont be happy but he’s not an idiot
he knows what’s coming

Putin’s meddling in the 2016 US election has already netted him returns far beyond whatever resources Russia put into that operation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 2:13:34pm

Batten down the hatches, South Florida and eastern North Carolina. Tropical Storm Isaias is now forecast to become a hurricane. Later it has the potential to strike Cape Cod as a tropical storm.

Tropical storm watches are up for the southeast coast of Florida.

nhc.noaa.gov

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 2:14:03pm

re: #270 gocart mozart

Birth of a conspiracy theory.
1. Angela Stanton King is running for John Lewis’ seat (R-Q)
2. M. K. O. Abiola was a Nigerian political prisoner who died in 1998. Envoy Pickering and Rice were visiting at the time he became ill. Expect to hear a lot of “Susan Rice murdered a man in 1998” if she is Biden’s VP pick.
news.bbc.co.uk
en.wikipedia.org

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I’m going to give that as much thought as I give to any QAnon conspiracy. And…I’m done.

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(((Archangel1))) Jul 30, 2020 • 2:19:19pm

The last thing Americans need is for the very person responsible for unleashing the #TrumpVirus upon America in full force to be anywhere near them.

The same goes for his enablers - who you encounter whenever you gaze into a mirror…#TrumpDeathToll #ResignNow

— Arch (Soros Antifa Rabbi Commander And Spy Master) (@Arch_LGF) July 30, 2020

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 Jul 30, 2020 • 2:21:59pm

re: #266 Dave In Austin

He’s trolling . This pic is from a porn scene 😂😂😂😂

— Prof_RDA (@RDA5050) July 30, 2020

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retired cynic Jul 30, 2020 • 2:22:31pm

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools! Jul 30, 2020 • 2:25:17pm

re: #265 Dread Pirate Ron

…and he still hasn’t figured out that all the benefits are going to China.

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 2:25:52pm

On the one hand, I know this sort of thing is necessary if we are ever to travel across the galaxy…

If all goes as planned, the Perseverance rover will touch down in the red planet’s once-wet Jezero Crater next February. In addition to deploying a helicopter named Ingenuity and generating oxygen from Mars’s thin, 95 percent carbon-dioxide atmosphere—a useful proof of concept for future crewed missions to Mars—Perseverance will spend the next couple of Earth years searching for biosignatures, or signs of ancient life that thrived before most of Mars’s atmosphere was lost to space and its liquid water boiled away. A decade after the rover starts rolling, NASA hopes, another spacecraft will carry rock and soil samples collected by Perseverance back to Earth for further analysis.

On the other hand:

Escape from the Water Zombies | The Waters of Mars | Doctor Who

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EPR-radar Jul 30, 2020 • 2:26:38pm

re: #281 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The name of the deceased sounding out to “Donkey dick” is a bit of a giveaway.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 2:27:02pm

re: #284 KGxvi

On the one hand, I know this sort of thing is necessary if we are ever to travel across the galaxy…

On the other hand:

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gocart mozart Jul 30, 2020 • 2:28:29pm

This guy has 957 thousand followers

…She is the classic and quintessential shape-shifting reptilian: an evil, dangerous, unfeeling, cold-blooded and callous woman who is utterly ruthless, who lacks compassion and the milk of human kindness and who is capable of doing anything to achieve her objectives.

— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) July 30, 2020

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 2:31:00pm

re: #287 gocart mozart

Who’s he talking about?

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 2:31:57pm

re: #287 gocart mozart

This guy has 957 thousand followers

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Apparently he’s a Nigerian politician with an interesting history…

en.wikipedia.org

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 2:31:59pm

I do wonder what would happen if/when we discover archaeological evidence of long since vanished intelligent life on Mars. I’m sure plenty of people will call it a hoax, but that seems like something that would be a paradigm shift for most people - not quite at the level of extraterrestrial life actually showing up, but still, big.

291

dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 2:32:18pm

im gonna go whip some cauliflower into submission
cook some pasta
and then mix it with some oil, garlic and bread crumbs

+ salad with creamy caesar

and i think take some moral support from a glass of bourbon

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 2:32:19pm

re: #288 Belafon

Who’s he talking about?

Susan Rice.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips Jul 30, 2020 • 2:36:17pm

awww, no flying off for a weekend in Florida.
Bet he heads to Jersey

Trump cancels Miami golf resort fundraiser as Tropical Storm Isaias nears Florida https://t.co/3tp9O3jdgw pic.twitter.com/lGhmQMqOr4

— New York Post (@nypost) July 30, 2020

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 2:36:38pm

Why it’ll never work.

LINES ALREADY FORMING in Greensburg PA to see VP @Mike_Pence at the COPS for Trump event at noon. President @realDonaldTrump will #MakeAmericaSafeAgain 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/amh5dW211Z

— Marc Lotter - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@marc_lotter) July 30, 2020

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gocart mozart Jul 30, 2020 • 2:36:48pm

re: #288 Belafon

Susan Rice.
en.wikipedia.org

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 2:38:15pm

re: #293 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

awww, no flying off for a weekend in Florida.
Bet he heads to Jersey

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I thought Trump’s all powerful sharpie could alter the course of storms.

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 2:42:35pm

Fat Donny is eulogizing HC

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Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 2:43:03pm

#ChinaVirus

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:43:18pm

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Dingbat didn’t actually read the chart at Johns Hopkins on per capita mortality.

We’re doing better than Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Guatemala, and Peru? Wow, I’m impressed.

Amongst First World countries, the only one which did worse is the United Kingdom (partly because of mismanagement and partly because they were hit early and fast).

We’re doing Grate! And the election needs to be delayed until whenever daddy MAGA says it’s OK for us to have one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:43:32pm

Except that federal law gives states *at least* 35 days after the election to certify its results—and for good reason:https://t.co/SkKMOxVHYX pic.twitter.com/DpIRK0CDv7

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 30, 2020

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 2:44:10pm

re: #294 Dave In Austin

America was safe before Trump became president, ergo, the way to make it safe again is to vote him the fuck out of office.

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:45:04pm

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Right, Donny, Constituion sez that if election results are not known to everyone in the U.S. right away election night then the election is a fraud.

303

Dave In Austin Jul 30, 2020 • 2:45:47pm

re: #301 KGxvi

My comment has to do with the Maskholes in the Vid.

304

Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 2:45:53pm

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

The 2000 election.

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:46:22pm

re: #297 Dave In Austin

Fat Donny is eulogizing HC

“Saw the funeral for Herman Cain today, just terrific, many turnout, lots of good people said things. “

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:47:43pm

So great that Obama didn’t shrink during his eulogy from calling out the crime of voter suppression we’re witnessing in the runup to November. That’s what John Lewis would’ve wanted. Satyagraha!

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:48:31pm

Steven Calabresi. https://t.co/Vf99LoiRi9 pic.twitter.com/F8OqFI0Ky3

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) July 30, 2020

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:49:30pm

Trump: So everyone agreed with me today about delaying election

Aide:

Trump: When should we allow an election to happen?

Aide: November

Trump: Can we get away with delaying it till then?

Aide: Yes, sir, great idea sir.

309

Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:50:44pm

NEWS: Dems first learned that a pro-Russian Ukrainian sent anti-Biden material to NUNES when they were inadvertenetly sent the DHL shipping receipt.

Dems reported it to the FBI on Jan. 27. Nunes declined to tell them if he got it or what he did with it.https://t.co/tc30OiOqwI

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 30, 2020

Dems are growing increasingly alarmed about the role of the Ukrainian official ANDRII DERKACH in foreign interference. He’s been posting tapes of Biden’s conversations with Ukrainian leaders and, of late, openly seeking relationships with Republicans. https://t.co/tc30OiOqwI

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 30, 2020

In case anyone was wondering, my phone autocorrects ‘pressed’ to ‘presser.’

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 30, 2020

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Camp Waconda Jul 30, 2020 • 2:51:10pm

PLOSMA

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:51:37pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Doesn’t Steven know that Trump was joking, being sarcastic, and to not take the POTUS literally and that what Trump says doesn’t mean anything which is the same standard we’ve held every other president to?

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 2:55:26pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

Labor Day is coming early this year, apparently.

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Sir John Barron Jul 30, 2020 • 2:55:38pm

The Constitution gives the President of the United States—that would be me—the sole authority to determine all elections. Not many people know that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:57:52pm

I was going to give the John Lewis eulogy, but I, uh, was just too busy saving America from the China Virus and working like super hard on … stuff. Like, really so hard. Working. On stuff.
— Trump, probably https://t.co/VVrglwBguA

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 30, 2020

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 30, 2020 • 2:58:03pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:58:26pm

And the White House vaccine czar shouldn’t have $10 million of stock in a company seeking funding to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, or be able to exploit loopholes to avoid disclosing or divesting that conflict. That’s insane. #StopCOVIDCorruption https://t.co/71icwMB9VW

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 30, 2020

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Ming5000 Jul 30, 2020 • 2:59:07pm

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

OMG, is this real?
If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 2:59:12pm

Donald Trump just took credit for the immune system — “Amazing, the immune system.”

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:00:25pm

re: #317 Ming5000

OMG, is this real?
If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.

it sounds clear as mud to me

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goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 3:03:53pm

It’s literally ghoulish

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:03:59pm

“Next year is going to be one of our best years,” @realDonaldTrump says (he may not be president next year)

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 30, 2020

Trump says he wants more direct payments.

He’s framing this as something Democrats are obstructing but the fact is the Senate GOP can’t even agree on what should be in their bill.

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 30, 2020

.@realDonaldTrump now claiming without evidence that everything will be opened up after the November 3rd election.

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:04:52pm

.@realDonaldTrump getting a bit slurry, he’s confusing a @WSJ editorial with the fact-based journalism in the rest of the paper.

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 30, 2020

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 3:07:10pm

re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth

On the eviction front, remember, he is basically a ~~slum~~landlord… so of course he sees people getting evicted as a boom for business.

324

JC1 Jul 30, 2020 • 3:07:58pm

re: #270 gocart mozart

Birth of a conspiracy theory.
1. Angela Stanton King is running for John Lewis’ seat (R-Q)
2. M. K. O. Abiola was a Nigerian political prisoner who died in 1998. Envoy Pickering and Rice were visiting at the time he became ill. Expect to hear a lot of “Susan Rice murdered a man in 1998” if she is Biden’s VP pick.
news.bbc.co.uk
en.wikipedia.org

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If you read the BBC article, she did not “prepare the tea” and he did not “drop dead right in front of her”

If this conspiracy theory was true, it would make me like her more. That’s pretty bad ass, lol

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 30, 2020 • 3:11:08pm

I swear they are letting this idiot babble just to give him more rope to hang himself with…

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:14:35pm

🚨 NEW TONE! 🚨 https://t.co/uyoVbivMRG

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 30, 2020

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Hecuba's daughter Jul 30, 2020 • 3:14:56pm

re: #322 Backwoods_Sleuth

.@realDonaldTrump getting a bit slurry, he’s confusing a @WSJ editorial with the fact-based journalism in the rest of the paper.

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 30, 2020

Confusing an editorial with a fact based article is not particularly uncommon among readers, even those who have some semblance of intelligence. Most people in his base would not even recognize this as an error. On FB I have repeatedly pointed out that a WSJ column is an opinion piece but that doesn’t deter them from treating it as gospel truth.

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 3:16:36pm

If Trump keeps implying (or just stating outright) that the election will be rigged, one wonders if some of his supporters might not bother to show up.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 30, 2020

Add this to the “He’s Trying To Lose” File

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:25:00pm

And trump walks off. In that brief, mind-melting press conference, @RealDonaldTrump just:

- Claimed the authority to suspend American elections

- Called protesters in Portland “terrorists”

- Refused to restore the $600 #COVID19 unemployment benefit

— Max Burns (@themaxburns) July 30, 2020

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BlueSpotinAL Jul 30, 2020 • 3:25:47pm

re: #229 Eric The Fruit Bat

Ripple…

Thunderbird Cola.

331

goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 3:27:16pm

LOL

Hey guys it’s Herman Cain’s team here, we’re going to be holding nightly seances so we can tweet what Herman thinks about the evil Democrats from beyond the grave!!!!

— Ira Madison III (@ira) July 30, 2020

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 3:29:47pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s like he is doing everything he can to cost himself votes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jul 30, 2020 • 3:30:12pm

re: #315 I Would Prefer Not To

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:33:09pm

“America was built by John Lewises. … John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America,” former President Barack Obama says in his eulogy for the late civil rights icon https://t.co/YRwvPuKsqO pic.twitter.com/ZMWpJIuXr9

— CNN (@CNN) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:34:33pm

is it jared https://t.co/wdd0Gavpla

— darth™ (@darth) July 30, 2020

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 3:34:57pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So is this Ukrainian-sourced crapola supposed to part of one of AG Barr’s “bombshell”/”October surprises” he is alleged to be planning to drop to try to sway the election in Trump’s favor?

(The other one (according to something I read at dKos a few days ago) is said to be related to the “Durham Report” - i.e. “indictments” of various folks over the “Obamagate campaign spying” bullshit Trump has been whining about for years now)

The second “bombshell” is supposed to be some of big hoo-ha “Biden-Ukrainian-corruption ‘scandal’”; but if this mysterious-package stuff with Devin Nunes is what it sounds like, it looks like Bomb 2 (like the Durham mess) is going to collapse under the weight of its own bullshit in short order. I mean, seriously: blatantly soliciting foreign “help” (i.e. interference) from some Russian stooge to try to dig “dirt” on some Biden or other? These tools never hear of the word “credibility”???

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:36:20pm

It worked.

Trump’s nonsense talk about delaying the election dominated the very few reporter questions Trump allowed at his briefing.

That was exactly what Trump wanted.

Nothing about the worst collapse of GNP in history.

— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 30, 2020

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garzooma Jul 30, 2020 • 3:42:22pm

re: #336 Jay C

[…] I mean, seriously: blatantly soliciting foreign “help” (i.e. interference) from some Russian stooge to try to dig “dirt” on some Biden or other? These tools never hear of the word “credibility”???

Not just “some Russian stooge”, Andrii Derkach, who “graduated with a PhD in Law from the Dzerzhinsky Higher School”, i.e. literally an alumnus of KGB U.

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i(m)p(each)sos Jul 30, 2020 • 3:43:16pm

My local Sinclair stations have been doing their usual 5:30 newscast on their ABC station and running Trump on their Fox station in place of the Peoples Court.

Today? Not even on Fox.

340

nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 3:45:34pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:46:31pm

It’s got electrolytes! https://t.co/LpYDpmgfWF

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) July 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 3:47:28pm

re: #340 nines09

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 3:50:43pm

Mitch McConnell with AirPods just doesn’t seem right pic.twitter.com/pxtAbst7W5

— Calvin Exotic 🧢 (@CalvinBROberts) July 30, 2020

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nines09 Jul 30, 2020 • 3:51:55pm

re: #342 Teddy’s Person

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 3:53:04pm

“Arch conservative and Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi has written extensively about Robert Mueller’s probe being unconstitutional, but when it came to Trump’s tweets Thursday, the game is over.”
“In an op-ed for the New York Times Thursday, Calabresi said that the president’s idea to delay the election is fascist and that he must be impeached immediately.”

But gosh, Steve! He was only joshin’ to piss off the lib’ruls……When you’ve got the federalists, calling you a fascist then you know you’re screwed

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KGxvi Jul 30, 2020 • 3:56:24pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

I get what O’Donnell is saying, but the economy doesn’t matter if the republic falls. Besides, everyone is pretty well aware that the economy is fucked.

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 3:57:45pm

Enemies of democracy around the world rejoice as America’s president pre-emptively de-legitimizes the upcoming election.

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) July 30, 2020

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 3:59:06pm

BREAKING:

Judge REJECTS the emergency conference requested by Ghislaine Maxwell.

“At this juncture, the Court has determined that an emergency conference is not necessary. Counsel shall proceed with unsealing as previously ordered.” @CourthouseNews https://t.co/wAQ6XqNKyR

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 30, 2020

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stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 3:59:12pm

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

His eyes are so dead…

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 3:59:52pm

re: #346 KGxvi

I get what O’Donnell is saying, but the economy doesn’t matter if the republic falls. Besides, everyone is pretty well aware that the economy is fucked.

and it didn’t work
that news has been out since the early AM

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 4:00:58pm

re: #347 jaunte

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he deligitmized nothing
its just meaningless blather

Enemies of democracy around the world rejoice as America’s president pre-emptively de-legitimizes the upcoming election.

— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) July 30, 2020

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BeachDem Jul 30, 2020 • 4:02:47pm

re: #349 stpaulbear

His eyes are so dead…

There are a whole bunch of them with dead eyes.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jul 30, 2020 • 4:04:50pm

re: #352 BeachDem

There are a whole bunch of them with dead eyes.

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It’s like they come off an assembly line or something.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:04:54pm

“Congressional Republicans don’t support delaying the election, but Washington’s attorney general says he is ready to file a lawsuit in 24 hours if the president tries.” https://t.co/TPqJd0xwLE

— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 30, 2020

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 4:05:35pm

re: #352 BeachDem

White Walkers

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Sinistershade Jul 30, 2020 • 4:11:51pm

re: #290 KGxvi

I do wonder what would happen if/when we discover archaeological evidence of long since vanished intelligent life on Mars. I’m sure plenty of people will call it a hoax, but that seems like something that would be a paradigm shift for most people - not quite at the level of extraterrestrial life actually showing up, but still, big.

Scientists have engaged in some interesting thought experiments about how we could know whether, say, 10 or 100 million years ago there was an intelligent species on Earth with a technological civilization. Any artifacts would likely be long gone by now. I think it would come down to discrepancies in the elements and isotopes in geological layers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:12:01pm

John believed that in all of us, there exists the capacity for great courage and a longing to do what’s right. We are so lucky to have had him show us the way. I offered some thoughts today on his life and how, like him, we can give it all we have. https://t.co/7UHT86OzEj

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 30, 2020

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retired cynic Jul 30, 2020 • 4:12:03pm

courtesy of Juanita Jean’s:

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 4:15:44pm

re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s like they come off an assembly line or something.

And somebody in the QC Department has definitely been slacking off…

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 30, 2020 • 4:15:55pm

re: #333 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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garzooma Jul 30, 2020 • 4:17:14pm

YouTube

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:17:55pm

❤️ @Alancumming https://t.co/eYireWCCh8

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:19:05pm

John Lewis asked The NYT to publish this on the day of his funeral. It is necessary reading. He writes, “When you see something that is not right, you must say something … Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part.” https://t.co/gNWQDpeAZt

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) July 30, 2020

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William Lewis Jul 30, 2020 • 4:21:34pm

re: #361 garzooma

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That was delightful. Thank you!

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 4:22:38pm

Republican:

Make no mistake: the election will happen in New Hampshire on November 3rd. End of story. Our voting system in NH is secure, safe, and reliable. We have done it right 100% of the time for 100 years – this year will be no different.

— Chris Sununu (@GovChrisSununu) July 30, 2020

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Barefoot Grin Jul 30, 2020 • 4:23:30pm

re: #352 BeachDem

There are a whole bunch of them with dead eyes.

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Dead Eyes-Guadalcanal Diary

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BeachDem Jul 30, 2020 • 4:30:16pm

re: #365 Belafon

Republican:

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But what about that endless caravan of buses from Massachusetts?

“We should have won the election, but they had buses being being shipped up from Massachusetts,” he told his booing supporters at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. “Hundreds and hundreds of buses. And it was very, very close even though they did.”

Anncr: There were no buses.

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 4:33:22pm

Republican politician Louie Gohmert, who claims to have caught COVID-19 from wearing a mask, is now claiming he got pregnant after several people told him to go fuck himself.

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) July 30, 2020

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 4:35:03pm

Bill Barr is the Attorney General of the United States — not the president’s private attorney. pic.twitter.com/XVfyErCZu9

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 30, 2020

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Patricia Kayden Jul 30, 2020 • 4:35:07pm

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 4:35:13pm

re: #367 BeachDem

But what about that endless caravan of buses from Massachusetts?

They won’t be a problem this year: the ones that aren’t going to be used moving illegal aliens around to vote in California have been chartered by Antifa to transport their mobs to their scheduled riots.
Supply and demand, man…..

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 4:36:50pm

re: #371 Jay C

They won’t be a problem this year: the ones that aren’t going to be used moving illegal aliens around to vote in California have been chartered by Antifa to transport their ~~mobs~~ moms to their scheduled riots.
Supply and demand, man…..

FTFY

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:36:52pm

pic.twitter.com/RF5leqoJjt

— Nora Nye (@NoraNye1) July 30, 2020

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GlutenFreeJesus Jul 30, 2020 • 4:39:08pm

Ya know. I too think Harris would make a great AG. But she’d make a fantastic VP, and I can think of two people who would also make a great AG.

Preet Bharara
Merrick Garland

Joe’s got this.

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piratedan Jul 30, 2020 • 4:39:34pm

I can’t wait until we can actually get to talking about policy, like the President’s health plan that was promised almost two weeks ago… should be announced tomorrow, right? Everyone forget about that already? anyone… anyone… Buehler?

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gwangung Jul 30, 2020 • 4:39:52pm

re: #374 GlutenFreeJesus

Ya know. I too think Harris would make a great AG. But she’d make a fantastic VP, and I can think of two people who would also make a great AG.

Preet Bharara
Merrick Garland

Joe’s got this.

Sally Yates instead of Merrick Garland, I think

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:39:55pm

Location of the rescue was Barrio Río Hondo, in the municipality of Mayagüez

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) July 30, 2020

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piratedan Jul 30, 2020 • 4:41:05pm

re: #374 GlutenFreeJesus

agreed, hell, I could even see Adam Schiff as AG, lots of good choices of people who I may not agree with totally, but know that they’ll be fair and won’t tolerate any bullshit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:41:05pm

This is a must watch. Presumably a lawyer with his training - or in fact any American who can Google - can say definitively any such power rests with Congress. Just a remarkable non-answer. https://t.co/DMZOIomi3x

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 30, 2020

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KingKenrod Jul 30, 2020 • 4:45:03pm

Turley is still trying to attack Biden and defend this.

Biden’s claim that Trump plans to halt the election is utterly without factual or constitutional support. Yet conspiracy theory was called a “prediction” by Politico, even though it should be sold in a set with a tin foil hat and an EMT ghost detector. https://t.co/hRLPgQvEts

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 26, 2020

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retired cynic Jul 30, 2020 • 4:46:45pm

Self-Care & Healthy Work Habits for the Pandemic

This is written by Ada Palmer, who is a sci-fi author, a researcher and instructor on the renaissance in Italy, and commentator on all things. She is young, has some immune disorder that cripples her and causes her great pain. She is one of the smartest people I have ever heard of, and so I thought I should pay attention.

Short version: I’m posting today to share two files I made for my university. One is a Healthy Work Habits and Self-Care Guide for the Pandemic Crisis, which many people have said they found helpful and refreshingly different from others that are going around (details below). Some bits are academia specific but most of it is applicable broadly, and I’ve left in the links to university services because it’s likely you can find such services . The other is teaching-specific, a guide to Adapting a Syllabus for the Crisis, not focused on remote teaching, but on the fact that everyone on Earth is already on the verge of breaking down, so it’s vital to do all we can to structure courses and assignments to have a little more leeway, and paths to recover when students (and instructors) do break down.

I want these to help as many people as possible, so please download them, share them, excerpt them, adapt them, make a version for your school or business, use them any way you wish; while credit would be nice my only firm request is that, as you pass them on, you also pass on the wish to pass them on. (If you want .docx files they’re here for self-care and here for syllabus design.)

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 30, 2020 • 4:48:08pm

Did trump have a “news” conference today?

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Jay C Jul 30, 2020 • 4:52:58pm

re: #382 I Would Prefer Not To

Did trump have a “news” conference today?

Yes, I think: I think he tried scheduling it to step on Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis, and when that didn’t happen, he went out and jabbered a bit about how great the economy was going be *when* he was re-elected - or some such shit. The usual.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 4:55:11pm

‘I’m pretty much fighting two wars: a war against COVID and a war against stupidity’ — This front-line doctor in Texas is absolutely OVER anti-maskers’ ignorance pic.twitter.com/4qnIf2H0RQ

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 30, 2020

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I Would Prefer Not To Jul 30, 2020 • 4:59:13pm

re: #383 Jay C

Yes, I think: I think he tried scheduling it to step on Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis, and when that didn’t happen, he went out and jabbered a bit about how great the economy was going be *when* he was re-elected - or some such shit. The usual.

Thanks. I loved Obama’s eulogy. the man has smarts and class. He said good things about Bush Sr. and Jr. (re-approving the VRA).

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BeachDem Jul 30, 2020 • 4:59:20pm

re: #383 Jay C

Yes, I think: I think he tried scheduling it to step on Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis, and when that didn’t happen, he went out and jabbered a bit about how great the economy was going be *when* he was re-elected - or some such shit. The usual.

He called the Portland protesters “a beehive of TERRORISTS”
He warned of “hundreds of millions of mail-in ballots”
When asked how he can assure parents kids will be safe in school, he said,”Can you assure anybody of anything?”

You know—the usual.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 5:07:02pm

re: #347 jaunte

He didn’t. The states will run the election, he will lose, and if he’s still in the White House when Biden becomes president, I will watch the Secret Service drag him out

— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 31, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 5:11:49pm

re: #387 Belafon

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That kind of ignores how much damage he can and will do in the interim.

I still don’t think he finishes the whole term, not when his pathology progression and stress response curves are in such positive reinforcement.

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 5:12:37pm

re: #380 KingKenrod

Turley is still trying to attack Biden and defend this.

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Do you have a recent tweet? That’s from April.

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retired cynic Jul 30, 2020 • 5:13:17pm

How Far Will Bill Barr Go to Promote a Lie?
The attorney general isn’t afraid to endanger America’s national security.
by Nancy LeTourneau, Wash. Monthly

The question this whole obsession with the Steele dossier raises is why Trump and his enablers continue to lie about how it was used by the investigators. When the Attorney General of the United States and the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee are willing to risk national security in furtherance of a lie, are they simply trying to punish the president’s accusers or are they attempting to cover up something much more serious? Perhaps both.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:13:26pm

Because you kiss the ass of the most corrupt president in American history you coward. https://t.co/Qf60sIHeB8

— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) July 31, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:14:50pm

You’re like a parody account. https://t.co/azy7F6cWLf

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 31, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:15:32pm

And a silver bobbypin… pic.twitter.com/oby8fP22sK

— Dawna (@VaGyver) July 30, 2020

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Florida Panhandler Jul 30, 2020 • 5:15:57pm

re: #328 KGxvi

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Add this to the “He’s Trying To Lose” File

More like Trump is trying to encourage a mass attempt at voter fraud by his looniest supporters. Expect lots of reports about Republican voters getting busted for voting twice this Fall.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:19:36pm

LIVE: Our newest ad is premiering NOW. https://t.co/78igJgE60p pic.twitter.com/NUDNSK8DCJ

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 31, 2020

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goddamnedfrank Jul 30, 2020 • 5:21:19pm

TFW you think Black people only exist to entertain you https://t.co/HYZ4ZGnHDX

— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 31, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:26:07pm

In yet another 2020-election-related dispute, the Supreme Court pressed pause on a district court order relaxing state rules for ballot initiatives in Idaho. The order was brief but came with a Roberts concurrence and Sotomayor dissent. From @AHoweBlogger: https://t.co/uGkOGN7K5z

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) July 31, 2020

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 5:26:19pm

Here’s a topic that could use some clear PSA’s, tweets, websites, and whatever else can be used to clearly explain how to vote by mail.

Anyone? https://t.co/eikX6OH5Xq

— Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) July 31, 2020

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 5:27:54pm

re: #387 Belafon

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Ace Rothstein Jul 30, 2020 • 5:28:31pm

re: #374 GlutenFreeJesus

I think Merrick Garland would make a fantastic Supreme Court justice. So did Obama, four years ago.

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dangerman Jul 30, 2020 • 5:32:02pm

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

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if they’re not gonna stepin fechit, i want em out
not that I actually pay to go to the games

You’re like a parody account. https://t.co/azy7F6cWLf

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 31, 2020

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 30, 2020 • 5:34:49pm

Tucker thinks Obama is running for office.

Tucker Carlson goes after Obama for his eulogy. pic.twitter.com/HL18rps5Z8

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 31, 2020

This is just one of the strangest clips from this show I have ever seen. pic.twitter.com/stxrdog6J6

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) July 31, 2020

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 5:35:11pm

re: #401 dangerman

Charlie could start up a Parler league, see if anyone shows up.

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 5:35:19pm

Not sure if any lizard posted this particular piece McConnell derp. Seems he’s been derping all day. He’s projecting so hard, he’s gotta have light shining out of his ass.

Democrats are holding up urgent help for struggling people over completely unrelated liberal wish-list items, like massive tax cuts for rich people in blue states. Economists across the spectrum say it’s a terrible idea. This is how serious they are about these negotiations.

— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) July 30, 2020

Oh yes, the old Democrat chestnut - tax cuts. ///

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:37:37pm

10,000 Tyson Foods meat processing employees have contracted Covid-19 since the pandemic began, according to a study by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Tyson announced it would implement weekly Covid-19 testing at a number of plants. #ETTD https://t.co/BjpvbNiiPG

— Doc #VetsResist #DisasterAssistTeam (@Dobieblue) July 30, 2020

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 30, 2020 • 5:40:37pm

Hey Kim. You are confused. The Moms I know would love their kids to go back safely, including my wife. See, we like our kids healthy and alive. One dead kid is too many. So NO, we are not listening to Mr. Trump. You need to reassess your priorities. #VoteJoeBiden2020

— DRapps (@DaveRapps) July 30, 2020

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jul 30, 2020 • 5:43:29pm

Kimberly Guilfoyle, archetype for steatopygous primitive woman statuettes 🤮

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BeachDem Jul 30, 2020 • 5:43:53pm

re: #396 goddamnedfrank

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Has Charlie Kirk ever had an actual, you know, job? (I did see he was awarded an honorary doctorate from—wait for it—Liberty University)

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Teddy's Person Jul 30, 2020 • 5:45:10pm

re: #408 BeachDem

Has Charlie Kirk ever had an actual, you know, job? (I did see he was awarded an honorary doctorate from—wait for it—Liberty University)

I don’t think right-wing welfare has a job requirement.

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plansbandc Jul 30, 2020 • 5:51:22pm

Imagine going to see the doctor and refusing to wear a mask.

Seems that’s the latest derp.

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 5:57:45pm

I’m looking forward to 3AM EDT.

We have an explosive surprise for you 💥💥 Watch the opening scene of The Umbrella Academy season 2 before the rest drops into your timeline on Friday. pic.twitter.com/m4ntwXcbGx

— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) July 29, 2020

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 5:57:52pm

Absolutely unacceptable. https://t.co/o0vPDa0lSB

— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) July 31, 2020

It’s like no one ever saw JAWS.

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jaunte Jul 30, 2020 • 6:04:42pm

New Orleans:

Protesters block access to courts, force City Hall to lock its doors in anti-eviction demonstration
thelensnola.org

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Belafon Jul 30, 2020 • 6:05:53pm

re: #411 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m looking forward to 3AM EDT.

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I find it funny that people are whining that

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that the Russians are invading.

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🌹UOJB! Jul 30, 2020 • 6:11:06pm

re: #410 plansbandc

Imagine going to see the doctor and refusing to wear a mask.

Seems that’s the latest derp.

It’s happening…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jul 30, 2020 • 6:16:52pm

Texas succeeded in zooming right past California in Covid-19 total deaths per capita. California has kept the per capita deaths comparatively low to some states, but only a couple of weeks ago Texas had an even lower per capita total deaths.

Not any more.

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KingKenrod Jul 30, 2020 • 6:17:11pm

re: #389 Belafon

Do you have a recent tweet? That’s from April.

Biden supporters are claiming that this proves that he was not insane to declare that Trump would stop the election or use the Postal Service to steal it. No, it means that Trump is pushing equally delusional ideas. What Biden suggested is still absurd and will not happen…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 30, 2020

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KingKenrod Jul 30, 2020 • 6:17:45pm

re: #411 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m looking forward to 3AM EDT.

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Crap, I thought that got cancelled!

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The Pie Overlord! Jul 30, 2020 • 6:26:35pm

re: #410 plansbandc

Imagine going to see the doctor and refusing to wear a mask.

Seems that’s the latest derp.

I went to the doctor last week. Nobody was allowed into the clinic building without a mask.

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 6:27:34pm

It’s official: Q2 GDP shrank by 9.5% (or an annualized rate of 32.9%) — by far the worst quarterly drop on record.

Business investment plummeted
Consumer spending on services plummeted

Gov’t spending was one of the only positives in the quarter.https://t.co/YuwTQJHeT5

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 30, 2020

The bulk of this historic GDP decline came from a massive 10% drop in consumer spending, esp. services.

Consumer spending on services: -13%
Consumer spending on goods: -3%
Business investment: -7.5%https://t.co/YuwTQJHeT5

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) July 30, 2020

This recession is already deep. If Congress fails to act, a lot of damage could be permanent. Via ⁦@byHeatherLong⁩ https://t.co/YMUIXTK4b4

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 30, 2020

Republicans are determined to crater the economy.

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stpaulbear Jul 30, 2020 • 6:30:31pm

Wake Up

422

Cheechako Jul 30, 2020 • 6:39:42pm

The Lincoln Project has arrived in Alaska. Dan Sullivan’s seat could be an unexpected flip. Sullivan’s predecessor, Mark Begich, was a Democrat, so it’s very possible Alaskans would send another ~~Democrat~~Independent to the Senate.

Real

‘Never Trump’ Republican group targets Dan Sullivan in new ad buy

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 6:39:45pm

Department of Homeland Security issued internal legal guidance telling officers they would not be held liable for tear gassing journalists as long as they weren’t directly targeted, per documents leaked to me:https://t.co/vLyuk3ZECo pic.twitter.com/rkjwWxniU7

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 30, 2020

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plansbandc Jul 30, 2020 • 6:40:47pm

re: #419 The Pie Overlord!

Yep. Just read about a guy who went nuts at his Urologist’s office because they required a mask and he refused to wear one.

So I guess the Chading and Karening has moved to doctor’s offices and hospitals. FFS

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Dread Pirate Ron Jul 30, 2020 • 6:42:21pm

I’ve never advised a former intelligence community colleague to quit her or his job. In many cases, I’ve encouraged them to stay.

But I’ll make a public exception: If this is what you’re being asked to do, you should absolutely resign. https://t.co/m0suUxVMIG

— Ned Price (@nedprice) July 30, 2020

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teleskiguy Jul 30, 2020 • 6:42:22pm

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

Charlie Kirk has been tweeting about why he’s done watching the NBA for seven years. pic.twitter.com/iaNk2wOWYj

— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) July 31, 2020

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Jul 30, 2020 • 6:50:55pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Eventual Carrion Jul 31, 2020 • 6:22:17am

re: #420 Dread Pirate Ron

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Republicans are determined to crater the economy.

It’s kinda been their thing over the last 30 years or so.

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