Seth takes a closer look at right-wing pundits and politicians engaging in cynical finger-pointing as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan.
How did professional journalists let late-night comics become the most accurate commentators on current events?
BREAKING: New poll shows a majority of Americans still support President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, despite media coverage.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 18, 2021
Banff, Alberta, Canada, yesterday.
Ullr just teasing us.
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re: #1 jaunte
Trae Crowder’s (Liberal Redneck) podcast Weekly Skews knocks it out of the park now and then too.
re: #1 jaunte
How did professional journalists let late-night comics become the most accurate commentators on current events?
Why were court jesters able to mock the king?
David Dastmalchian adopted a stray cat who approached him during the filming of The Suicide Squad in Panama, and costume designer Judiana Makovsky sewed a little Polka Dot Man outfit for the cat, named Bubblegum. pic.twitter.com/WfyigTj8eV
— Samantha Barber (@gynoidprincess) August 13, 2021
This shit is adorable.
Remember when @politico @playbookdc led the charge on “Fox is changing its tone on the vaccine” because they saw one Hannity clip on twitter and have never once watched an entire episode of his show in which he firesales horseshit like this every night because he wants you to die https://t.co/tgLDUMgw8z
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) August 19, 2021
An average-sized briefcase (25” x 18” x 4”) will hold $2.4 million and weigh 53 lbs. He would need 70 such briefcases that would weigh more than 3,700 lbs. combined, or nearly two tons https://t.co/lrglwDnR8z
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 19, 2021
re: #6 The Ghost of a Flea
The mini-series we need pic.twitter.com/fxQxKBjPG5
— Brett Gates (@BrettGates) August 13, 2021
2 tons (plus) of loose cash sloshing around is why we were in Afghanistan for 20 years.
This set photo is creepier than any shot in the movie. Max Schreck on break while filming ‘Nosferatu’ (1922) pic.twitter.com/VwtdBrJ8IH
— Hammer Horror Films (@HorrorHammer1) August 18, 2021
I see I’m getting the full LGF experience - CL’d on the downstairs thread!
Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People
The United States insisted on the country’s security architecture but has retrenched from its willingness to pay for it. Since 2014, Washington has provided about 75 percent of the $5 billion to $6 billion per year needed to fund the Afghan National Security Forces while the remainder of the tab was picked up U.S. partner nations and the Afghan government. However, for fiscal year 2021, the U.S. Congress appropriated around $3 billion for Afghanistan’s fighting forces, the lowest amount since fiscal year 2008. This diminution of U.S. support came after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said his government cannot support its army for even six months without U.S. financial aid.
Although much of the U.S. expenditures pertained to defense, the United States has ostensibly invested in other sectors of Afghan governance. As of June 30, the United States has spent about $144.98 billion in funds for reconstruction and related activities in Afghanistan since fiscal year 2002, including $88.61 billion for security (including $4.6 billion for counternarcotic initiatives); $36.29 billion for governance and development (including $4.37 billion for counternarcotic initiatives); $4.18 billion for humanitarian aid; and $15.91 billion for agency operations.
Although these numbers are staggering, much of U.S. investment did not stay in Afghanistan. Because of heavy reliance on a complex ecosystem of defense contractors, Washington banditry, and aid contractors, between 80 and 90 percent of outlays actually returned to the U.S. economy. Of the 10 to 20 percent of the contracts that remained in the country, the United States rarely cared about the efficacy of the initiative. Although corruption is rife in Afghanistan, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction repeatedly identifies bewildering corruption by U.S. firms and individuals working in Afghanistan.
In many cases, U.S. firms even defrauded Afghans. In 2010, one military official with the International Security Assistance Force explained to New York Times journalist Carlotta Gall that “without being too dramatic, American contractors are contributing to fueling the insurgency.” As it neglected to tackle Pakistan and tried to do security on the cheap, Washington also strongarmed the Afghan government it into so-called “peace talks” with the Taliban. More than anyone, the Afghan government understood the Taliban and their Pakistani handlers could not be trusted to honor their commitments, such as they were.
To what I was saying earlier:
The war in Afghanistan was a medium by which US public wealth was transferred to private US companies, the money merely being passed through the occupied nation.
We did nation building and trained an army in the same way that a mob-run contracting company builds a house to code.
re: #15 Blind Frog Belly White
I see I’m getting the full LGF experience - CL’d on the downstairs thread!
Those bikes, are they acoustic or electric?
re: #10 jaunte
Euros come in 200 and 500.
200 Euros is approx 235 dollars.
500 Euros is approx 580 dollars.
This changes the weight calculations.
re: #16 The Ghost of a Flea
Pakistan and the United States Have Betrayed the Afghan People
To what I was saying earlier:
The war in Afghanistan was a medium by which US public wealth was transferred to private US companies, the money merely being passed through the occupied nation.
We did nation building and trained an army in the same way that a mob-run contracting company builds a house to code.
Trump probably decided to pull out of Afghanistan when he found he couldn’t make any money on it.
re: #16 The Ghost of a Flea
So, all the more reason for Biden to get us out.
re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron
Those bikes, are they acoustic or electric?
Strictly mechanical, like my watches. Invulnerable to EMP!
re: #15 Blind Frog Belly White
I see I’m getting the full LGF experience - CL’d on the downstairs thread!
That post is worthy of the named description (CL’d).
On the Taliban’s assurances of safety:
For everyone saying that the Taliban has changed and will not seek revenge, here is some useful history from @gcaw … https://t.co/kAX7cqfxDb pic.twitter.com/M2rwmUpCKx
— nxthompson (@nxthompson) August 18, 2021
I guess YouTube has something called “shorts,” I assume they’re trying to compete with TikTok. Anyway, one of my favorite ASMRtists (guy who usually does long-form ASMR but in his case he just talks about a subject and OMG I fall asleep) did a short. In this case, from “Breaking Bad.”
His voice is so soothing but the subject matter is so hysterical, I don’t know whether to be lured to sleep or start laughing.
re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron
Those bikes, are they acoustic or electric?
My sister once gave me a CD named The Acoustic Motorbike.
re: #22 Blind Frog Belly White
Strictly mechanical, like my watches. Invulnerable to EMP!
While you were gone I got an e-bike. They are so fun. I live on a hill and that has always deterred me from a regular bike. The one thing I hated on a bike was crawling uphill. That extra assist is appreciated at my age.
re: #19 Blind Frog Belly White
Right now I’m too mad to make this about Trump.
All of us got ripped off—American, Afghan, Pakistani—and now a lot of the people who did the ripping off are going to wax voluble about how the Afghans brought this defeat on themselves.
Just like the bad body armor, the fake bomb sniffing equipment, the tofu buildings in Iraq…
…this is corruption like the allotment contracts for the Bureau of Indian Affairs—yeah, this particular corrupt act will kill people AND make a policy goal harder to reach, but why the fuck not make some money?—but the scale, man, the scale.
We killed two countries, hundreds of thousands of people, to use them as pass-through entities for taxpayer money and got nothing in return. The scale of this is horrific.
Now consider that same procurement system is now making decisions about shit like drone deployment and buying jets and littoral combat vessels. We already know we as citizens have been lied to about casualty rates…but the question now is whether there’s a profit-based math to covering that up, to selecting targets? If you’re a company and your sole motive is better profits each fiscal year, chopped up Somali children is worth it to sell a few Hellfire missile (150K a pop) pushes quarterly earning pretty nicely.
A bit on the complexity and how everything is intertwined. Sometimes Alexander’s solution to the Gordian Knot is the best solution.
moved by rail across Russia then via the Central Asian republics into the northern part of Afghanistan. The Russian route was more expensive, but so long as it was available, the US and NATO had some leverage over Pakistan’s misconduct in Afghanistan. 2/x
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 16, 2021
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From that point onward, US and NATO operations in Afghanistan could be conducted only at Pakistani sufferance. There ensued the bizarre predicament: Pakistan was both the most important backer of the Taliban enemy -and the most important supplier of the US & NATO force. 4/x
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 16, 2021
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One important motive for the US to leave Afghanistan was to recover more global freedom of action - not to have to worry that holding Pakistan to account might cause an interruption of supplies to Afghanistan. 6/x
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 16, 2021
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David Frum @davidfrum
Aug 16
It’s always better for the US to be in a position where others need America more than America needs them. And that’s especially the case with a bad actor like the Pakistani state.
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re: #18 sagehen
Euros come in 200 and 500.
200 Euros is approx 235 dollars.
500 Euros is approx 580 dollars.This changes the weight calculations.
1k swiss franc bills still exist and are easy to get.
re: #30 ckkatz
A bit on the complexity and how everything is intertwined. Sometimes Alexander’s solution to the Gordian Knot is the best solution.
So…the part David Frum isn’t going into is that the sinister Pakistani forces that did all that stuff was guided into place by General Zia al Huq, who seized control of Pakistan and had Zulfikar Bhutto executed. From him emanates both the “Taliban” leg of the problem and the “Pakistan is full of profiteers” leg of the problem.
Zia al Huq was the CIA’s guy for smuggling stuff into Afghanistan, but also the guy that implemented more harsh Sharia law and built the Deobandi madrassas that spawned the Pakistani fundamentalist that rioted and attacked foreigners, then trickled across the border and became part of the spine of the Taliban. We were down with that because it wasn’t socialism…not that Bhutto was socialist, but he was close enough that we didn’t like him nearly as much as Zia.
Zia’s protege Nawaz Sharif is the guy that in the 00s and 10s made Pakistan even more conservative, even more antagonistic versus India, and also privatized a bunch of shit generally making the lives of average Pakistanis worse while making the small number of families that control finance, government, and the military much richer. And those very rich people got richer dealing with the Taliban while also leaving average people in the West so vulnerable that they couldn’t say “no” to the Taliban.
Frum is doing a Lady Macbeth, raging at the disobedient left hand that did the King Duncan stabbing, magically, of its own accord. Just like all the other strategic forgetting that’s happened in the US, the Very Serious Pundit who invented the Axis of Evil is picking and choosing his narration of history to duck around the uncomfortable bits, the bits where Reagan and Bush Sr and David Frum were absolutely down with the fanatics and the crooks in Central Asia and gave them what they needed to be that powerful.
American administrations make alliances with shifty criminal oligarchs and then get the vapors when in the course of their appointed shifty criminal activity, the oligarchs also do their own shifty criminal activity. Now they want to expound on how Pakistan deserves the bullet because that’s what the capo de tutti capo always does when their triggerman gets caught.
re: #31 JC1
1k swiss franc bills still exist and are easy to get.
Swiss francs are worth slightly over a dollar each.
So… less than 400 pounds of suitcases. So, a couple of luggage carts.
As Stonekettle said, he hated to be fair to Trump — and so do I. But when everyone talks about how Biden is the one to end (if it indeed ends) our military involvement in Afghanistan, let’s recall that at the time the 2020 agreement was made, Trump thought he would still be President in 2021 and therefore the war would end during his term of office. He wasn’t postponing it to the “next” president.
It is equally clear that he had no plans to evacuate the Afghan allies, otherwise there would have been State Dept plans on how to manage such a task. But Stephen Miller has made it clear that there was no interest in bringing any Afghanis out of Afghanistan and into the United States.
re: #1 jaunte
How did professional journalists let late-night comics become the most accurate commentators on current events?
When they got paid to do it.
re: #37 Dread Pirate Ron
A tale of two Governors.
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What’s the steep drop off, at the end of Florida’s chart? They stop reporting?
re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron
The smoke is still thick here. I can’t see any stars, can’t even see Jupiter. The moon is a dim orange ball. AQI is 80-100, so most of it is not at ground level.
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We have had no outside smoke issues in Austin so far. We still have internal smoke issues from BBQ restaurants that are near Single Family zoned neighborhoods, but that’s a different problem.
re: #38 retired cynic
What’s the steep drop off, at the end of Florida’s chart? They stop reporting?
Oh I am sure one of DeSadist’s Stooges is “adjusting” the stats!
re: #39 austin_blue
It’s our new California summer normal.
Ah, she’s playing GI Jerk!
Why is Kimberly Guilfoyle wearing camouflage? pic.twitter.com/qQSUosmFjc
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) August 19, 2021
re: #37 Dread Pirate Ron
We’re up to 84.2% partially vaccinated, 73.6% full vaccinated (12+). While some counties in California are ahead of us, San Diego County being the second most populous county in the state we’re doing pretty good.
re: #41 Dread Pirate Ron
It’s our new California summer normal.
I fully expect to see an NYT Food Section devoted to Cali restaurant start-ups that simply hang meat in trees as wildfires approach, under the heading of “Pop-up BBQ Restaurant Sites Are Short Lived, But Wildly Popular Until They Are Annhialated.”
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
Adam Silverman, balloon-juice.com, makes the point that Trump promised to get out of Afghanistan and then chickened out when he realized it would look like a failure, and then did the mad rush after the election to make sure it was a problem for Biden.
re: #42 JOE 🥓
Ah, she’s playing GI Jerk!
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Why is she wearing fake 1 inch eyelashes? Does she think it makes her look cool? Or just, you know, like an over-the-hill light hook?
re: #45 Belafon
Adam Silverman, balloon-juice.com, makes the point that Trump promised to get out of Afghanistan and then chickened out when he realized it would look like a failure, and then did the mad rush after the election to make sure it was a problem for Biden.
Except the February 2020 agreement did specify May 1, 2021 for the exit. Whatever other plans Trump may have been making for an earlier exit, this was the hard date for withdrawal, a date that would have occurred in the first year of Trump’s second term.
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Except the February 2020 agreement did specify May 1, 2021 for the exit. Whatever other plans Trump may have been making for an earlier exit, this was the hard date for withdrawal, a date that would have occurred in the first year of Trump’s second term.
Set specifically after the first term, so if he lost it wasn’t his problem and he’d ensure it was botched by not cooperating with transition. If he won he could keep coming up with excuses to push the date back ad-infinitum so he wouldn’t have to deal with it. The Brown Shirts MAGAts wouldn’t care, and only OAN and RT would be allowed to report on it. It would be easy for him to Chewbacca defense his way out of it because he can ramble two asinine and mutual exclusive things in the same sentence and the red hats will applaud.
Me: “let’s take in refugees”
Online right-winger: “But what about the British homeless people I didn’t give a fuck about last week??”— Samuel K (@SamuelKOfficial) August 18, 2021
re: #33 The Ghost of a Flea
1. I posted the thread because I believe that Frum made a very good point. The point is that from 2014 on, our Afghan deployment was badly overextended and made us completely dependent upon Pakistan’s good will. This hobbled our ability to effectively pursue other national interests in Southwest Asia.
It seems to me that the deployment of tens of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan right next to a very unstable part of Pakistan might even cause the Pakistanis to worry that if we succeeded in Afghanistan, their Tribal Areas might further destabilize.
(Ie, it was in the national interest of Pakistan that we fail in Afghanistan.)
2. Yes, David Frum was an integral part of the Bush ‘The Lessor’ administration. I certainly feel no need to defend him. Or who he associated with. Truth be told, I also detest many of them.
3. I appreciate that you’re being gentle by only listing a part of the shitty stuff the US and Pakistan have done. And that the lists excludes the shitty stuff others did as well. That brevity is definitely appreciated.
Afghans being gaslighted by Non Afghans on how they should feel about the current situation and Taliban are quite literally delusional. Sit this one out or pls take our place, let the Taliban control YOUR country. Let them replace YOUR flag. Let them take YOUR rights.
— Maryam🌹 (@maryamhaidar_) August 18, 2021
re: #47 Hecuba’s daughter
Except the February 2020 agreement did specify May 1, 2021 for the exit. Whatever other plans Trump may have been making for an earlier exit, this was the hard date for withdrawal, a date that would have occurred in the first year of Trump’s second term.
Yes, and that gave the Taliban fourteen months to pay off local tribal chiefs and Warlords to allow the Taliban free passage into Kabul. Where did they get the money?
This is not rocket science. China wanted access to Afghani mineral resources. They fronted the money to get that access.
This was a big resource win for China and it could only have happened because of the Trump 2020 agreement w/ the Taliban.
Wow, holy shit:
I’ll never forget when I came across a veteran irl and he told me I gave him PTSD Bc I look just like the girls he had to kill overseas…….This is the PTSD we’re supposed to feel sorry for ?
— d rose #SaveSilwan #SaveSheikhJarrah (@drosepali) August 17, 2021
re: #38 retired cynic
What’s the steep drop off, at the end of Florida’s chart? They stop reporting?
They changed how they report to make the day to day not seem as bad. Worldmeters must not have updated their data collection to account for it. Florida has been at about 150/day average over the past 7 days.
Time for me to head to bed. One last Dad joke:
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I have an irrational fear of attached residential dwellings.
My doctor says I have an apartment complex.
Ah Barrett Brown is whining on Twitter about how Andy Ngo is BSing about him being an Antifa operative…
Frankly I am really pissed off that LAPD backed Andy and his thugs when they triggered several riots here in Koreatown.
Oh I called my City Clowncilman about that…and I got shined off…which I expected.
Tomorrow I intend to ride through Martinez to the George Miller Trail and follow that to Port Costa for lunch and several beers.
Even at the height of U.S. presence in Afghanistan, LGBTQ Afghans were not safe. A 2009 Justice Dept report stated that “no death sentences are reported to have been dispensed after the end of the Taliban rule but … this is still technically possible”. https://t.co/MN852Alcmi
— LZ Granderson (@LZGranderson) August 18, 2021
Images and stories about the reported violence in Afghanistan are being instrumentalized to bring migrants in to the WestDo NOT succumb to this emotional blackmail, which is laced with the intended guilt-trip of the ‘botched’ withdrawalSend refugees to neighboring countries
— Noor Bin Ladin (@NoorBinLadin) August 18, 2021
I would gladly trade this niece of a terrorist asshole for 100 Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
re: #54 electrotek
Wow, holy shit:
Wholly crap, who is that asshat?
I see British conservatives are exactly like American conservatives regarding refugees from Afghanistan.
“Why aren’t we helping homeless veterans?” “Why aren’t you taking in refugees in your home?”
What’s the “western way of life”? Eating pork sausages and drinking shitty beer? Or jerking off to their AR15’s?
— blah (@pikuimltd) August 19, 2021
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife took in a homeless vet. She’s done more for homeless vets than the entire Republican Party.
“Would your want them in YOUR community?” “Would your want them in YOUR home?” “Would you want them in OUR schools?”
YES! Yes. Every single time yes.— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) August 18, 2021
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife took in a homeless vet. She’s done more for homeless vets than the entire Republican Party.
something something Libertarian something…
re: #50 ckkatz
1. I posted the thread because I believe that Frum made a very good point. The point is that from 2014 on, our Afghan deployment was badly overextended and made us completely dependent upon Pakistan’s good will. This hobbled our ability to effectively pursue other national interests in Southwest Asia.
It seems to me that the deployment of tens of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan right next to a very unstable part of Pakistan might even cause the Pakistanis to worry that if we succeeded in Afghanistan, their Tribal Areas might further destabilize.
(Ie, it was in the national interest of Pakistan that we fail in Afghanistan.)
2. Yes, David Frum was an integral part of the Bush ‘The Lessor’ administration. I certainly feel no need to defend him. Or who he associated with. Truth be told, I also detest many of them.
3. I appreciate that you’re being gentle by only listing a part of the shitty stuff the US and Pakistan have done. And that the lists excludes the shitty stuff others did as well. That brevity is definitely appreciated.
Look, I’m sorry. Everything going on Afghanistan is making me insane, and I wasn’t really responding to you as much as just white-hot angry at David Frum.
I’m…so incredibly angry about all this.
At six months old I was evacuated out of Lahore because of the student riots; literally my entire life there’s this frond of attention attached to the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I’ve been around people from that part of the world and they’re just people…and yeah, the conservative Islam sucks, you want more from them, better for them…but it’s just always been a part of life to talk about how all the normal people in that part of the world are continuously subject to the whims of these whirling, grandiose factions that just take and take and take and when people die there’s just this yawning indifference.
And when people in “the West” do notice, it’s to the exact extent that they need a patsy. Nobody gave a shit about Pakistan being corrupt and violent until America got a little bit blooded…and in that attention there was no room for compassion. The people who get bombed and murdered the most by fundamentalists somehow share the guilt; the people that built the factory that assembled and powered the fundamentalists get column inches in magazines and arms deals. I’m tired of hearing from people who just dwell in this umbrage that they can only maintain by never engaging in self-reflection, pointing fingers at the people they viewed as below consideration, furious that their pimps and procurers weren’t loyal retainers.
And another Republican under investigation, this time a former senator in the Nebraska Unicameral.
Ex-Lawmaker acknowledges state investigation, denies any wrongdoing (KSID-AM, Sidney, Nebr.)
As a new and controversial Nebraska tax plan is formally rolled out, a former state lawmaker remains accused of breaking state rules while pushing the proposal.
As News Channel Nebraska first reported, former State Senator Jim Smith (Wikipedia) is facing numerous questions, many stemming from a series of emails involving Smith, the Executive Director of Blueprint Nebraska (project of the state Chamber of Commerce, and a top aide to Governor Pete Ricketts.
According to government watchdog Common Cause, Smith failed to register as a lobbyist as he promoted Blueprint Nebraska’s tax plan to two fellow Republicans, Ricketts and State Senator Lou Ann Linehan, chair of the powerful Revenue Committee.
Backers of Blueprint Nebraska insist their tax plan, the so-called Tax Modernization plan, will mean more jobs and a growing economy, while critics argue it’s a tax cut for the rich paid for by the poor and middle class.
In April, Common Cause filed a formal complaint against Smith with the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission.
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re: #62 electrotek
I would gladly trade this niece of a terrorist asshole for 100 Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
I’ll teach a few of them to ski and snowboard. They can bring that back home.
The War on Terror is a brilliant trick.
A peasant woman in a burka is threatening because she’s living in a way that doesn’t confirm “Western” values, but a petrostate monarch that drops billions on routing religious fanatics into causes other than overthrowing his monarchy and can talk pretty at a dinner is somehow part of the solution. An intelligence agent willing to empower fundamentalists because the alternative is too much leftism and not enough “free” trade is somehow the good guy who needs to be given more power to abrogate civil liberties home and abroad.
All of the fucking smart “civilized” people of the world were gulled by aesthetics—a veil, a scary hat, a Kalashnikov—and were willing to batter several parts of the world into bloody lumps on that basis. Meanwhile, actual fundamentalists keep getting stronger because they grow in the cracks empires made, and they’re well armed because there’s a bunch of developed nations that just don’t care who buys their guns and RPGs and an entire trans-national capitalist structure that is perfectly happy to handle the bloodiest of blood money.
The West built a machine that produces werewolves as waste product, and now they’ve decided the real problem is the villagers living in the valley that’s downstream of the outflow pipe.
The High Plains Tropical Update:
The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred are entering the lower tier of New York.
LOCATION…41.5N 76.9W
ABOUT 65 MI…110 KM SW OF BINGHAMTON NEW YORK
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…25 MPH…35 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…ENE OR 60 DEGREES AT 14 MPH…22 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…1013 MB…29.92 INCHES
Flood watches are up for portions of Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine, as the tropical system makes its way north and east.
Tropical Storm Henri, which has been circling Bermuda, is now moving west toward the East Coast. The National Hurricane Center warns though it will likely remain off the coast, it could affect New England and Atlantic Canada. It is expected to become a hurricane on Friday.
LOCATION…29.8N 68.5W
ABOUT 280 MI…450 KM SW OF BERMUDA
ABOUT 790 MI…1275 KM S OF NANTUCKET MASSACHUSETTS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…70 MPH…110 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 265 DEGREES AT 9 MPH…15 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…995 MB…29.39 INCHES
Hurricane Grace is about to come ashore in Yucatan. The storm is expected to cross the peninsula, regenerate over the warm Bay of Campeche, then strike central Mexico. There is a non-zero possibility it will cross the Rocky Mountains and emerge into the Pacific Ocean.
LOCATION…19.9N 86.4W
ABOUT 60 MI…115 KM ESE OF TULUM MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…80 MPH…130 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR 280 DEGREES AT 18 MPH…30 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…986 MB…29.12 INCHES
Meanwhile in local prairie fires, we might be fooked.
17 departments battle fast-moving wildfire near Angora (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, three hours ago)
Eighty volunteers from 17 fire departments worked overnight to contain a 6,000-acre fire in western Nebraska Wednesday morning.
In posts on the Bayard Volunteer Fire Department Facebook page, it was reported that firefighters had been dispatched to the fire near Angora sometime Tuesday night. They worked to contain it until early Wednesday morning.
“Our region is a tinderbox due to dried out vegetation and uncooperative winds,” Region 21 Emergency Management said in another social media post.
Bayard Fire Chief Michael Harimon, who served as incident commander, said that a cause for the fire, called the 118 Fire, was not yet known. He said that crews returned to the fire on Wednesday after a small rekindling occurred.
Forty-five fire engines, vehicles and aerial support all responded to the fire in northern Morrill County, according to the Bayard department’s post.
Among the departments dispatched was the Alliance Fire Department, which responded to two fires at the same time Tuesday night, including one at the city’s landfill. According to a release from the City of Alliance, the Alliance landfill fire had been caused by a piece of equipment catching fire while in operation and spread to a pile of trees.
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The U.S. Drought Monitor has large portions of the Nebraska Panhandle in moderate or severe drought. The Scottsbluff airport has recorded just 2.37 inches of rain since June 1, less than half its normal rainfall.
The Angora fire is the third wildfire in the Panhandle within the last three weeks.
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Angora (population 1) is roughly twenty miles straight-line from me.
The Cross Fire in Banner and Scott’s Bluff Counties has been contained. Fire investigators are investigating, and the originating spot has been found. The incident commander says the fire was not naturally started by lightning or other natural causes. He notes it may have been started by a hot catalytic converter on a car or truck, but the investigation is not complete. Catalytic converters get quite hot, and can start fires if you are not aware of the area where you stop. Other items which can start fires in the Panhandle are chains dragging over cattle guards, throwing sparks.
The Hackberry Fire was started by lightning. It has now burned 6,177 acres of Banner and Morrill Counties.
Fighting the Angora Fire are Scottsbluff, Bayard, Broadwater, Torrington Wyo., Banner County, and others.
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Puny fire.
#DixieFire above the Cresta Dam, Feather River Canyon in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, and Tehama Counties is 662,647 acres and 35% contained.
Unified Command: @CALFIRE_ButteCo, @CALFIRETGU, @CALFIRELMU, @LassenNF and @NatlParkService https://t.co/vMYsruB5cn pic.twitter.com/lQbzxlU0oA— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) August 19, 2021
re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron
Puny fire.
Yikes.
Still, a puny 6,000 acre fire would suck if my house was in the middle of it.
Sheriff’s deputies remained mystified over how a family of three, along with their dog, perished on a remote hiking trail in Mariposa County.https://t.co/M79dmLx9dS
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) August 18, 2021
Investigators were considering whether a toxic substance, such as gas from mines in the area or toxic algae, could have been responsible.https://t.co/M79dmLx9dS
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) August 18, 2021
The area where they were found is being treated as a hazmat site.
IMF blocks Afghanistan’s access to SDR reserves over lack of clarity on government (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it suspended Afghanistan’s access to IMF resources, including around $440 million in new monetary reserves, due to a lack of clarity over the country’s government after the Taliban seized control of Kabul.
The IMF’s announcement came amid pressure from the U.S. Treasury, which holds a controlling share in the Fund, to ensure that Afghanistan’s share of a Special Drawing Rights reserves allocation scheduled for Monday not fall into Taliban hands.
“There is currently a lack of clarity within the international community regarding recognition of a government in Afghanistan, as a consequence of which the country cannot access SDRs or other IMF resources,” an IMF spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
“As is always the case, the IMF is guided by the views of the international community,” the spokesperson added.
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Panhandle Public Health District, corrupted by the state government, is reporting:
The weekly positivity rate has dropped from 21.6% to 4.9%. All testing sites are now closed.
Percent fully vaccinated are 34%.
128 new cases in the last fourteen days, not shown where since counties other than Scott’s Bluff are now all lumped into “Greater Panhandle.”
Testing is only by appointment at various hospitals and are cash-on-the-barrel head.
Vaccinations are available by walk-in in every county. Most counties only have only one place to be vaccinated.
re: #1 jaunte
How did professional journalists let late-night comics become the most accurate commentators on current events?
because the networks’ idea of “balance” is between Democrats and GOP
Our comedy hosts understand that the real struggle in America is not between the parties so much as it is between democracy and authoritarianism, between science and superstition, between enlightenment and theocracy…and since Covid, between life and death.
Because things are working so well in Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, my own state is now moving to challenge mask mandates imposed by county health departments.
Last year the state government deferred to county or city health departments. Since that time, it has become an article of conservative religion to oppose local control to spread disease in a democide.
Douglas County Health Director Lindsay Huse said Wednesday she has been told by Nebraska state officials that a move to issue a mask mandate would be challenged by the state.
Huse said state officials told her last week that such a move most likely would be met with a court injunction that would hold up a mandate while the issue made its way through the legal system.
Huse outlined the results of her query for members of the Douglas County Board of Health on Wednesday. Board members had raised concerns about rising cases of COVID-19 in the county, including among school-age children.
Chris Rodgers, the board’s president, said case counts now are higher than they were last August when the Omaha City Council adopted an emergency ordinance mandating masks in public, indoor spaces.
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Nebraska officials would challenge county-issued mask mandate, health director says (Omaha World-Herald)
Human sacrifice is always required on the altar of conservatism.
re: #49 electrotek
Me: “let’s take in refugees”
Online right-winger: “But what about the British homeless people I didn’t give a fuck about last week??”
There was a famous quote from a German leftist politician in response to people who complained that Germany had money to take in Syrian refugees but not enough to tend to its own homeless.
To which he replied “Even without the refugees, there still would not be enough money for the homeless!”
The Nebraska Environmental Trust director, who oversees the conservation funds from the state lottery, has resigned over the misuse of the funds directed by the governor to purchase ethanol blending pumps for California.
The Nebraska Environmental Trust Board accepted the resignation of the Trust’s longtime director Wednesday, and moved to adopt steps recommended in a recent state audit.
The board, which hands out $20 million a year in state lottery funds for wildlife habitat, recycling and groundwater improvement projects, has been under fire in recent months for defunding some conservation projects to redirect grant funds to purchase ethanol blender pumps.
Some conservation groups, including the recently formed Friends of the Environmental Trust organization, have complained that the Trust’s focus has veered from its original mission of funding environmental projects that otherwise wouldn’t have been funded, to promoting agriculture and economic development.
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Nebraska Environmental Trust director resigns (Omaha World-Herald)
Afghanistan in state news:
Her brother beaten in front of her.
Her cousin beaten, too.
Frightening encounters with the Taliban at checkpoints.
Her small children lost and nearly trampled in the crowd of tens of thousands.
That’s how a Nebraska mother stranded in Kabul, Afghanistan, described to family back home her efforts to reach the airport and a flight out of the country.
Her brother in Nebraska, who has talked by phone with his sister and other family members, relayed their account to The World-Herald.
The woman, her children, ages 2, 4 and 11, and her mother, all American citizens, had gone to Afghanistan to visit family. They had tickets for a flight back in early August but were bumped by a fleeing Afghan official and his family.
Since then, they’ve been trying to get home.
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By chance and determination, some people trapped in Afghanistan escape (Omaha World-Herald, three hours ago)
Russian propaganda and clandestine influence are real, they are pervasive, they are influential, and anyone denying that is either a fool or a stooge. WE and our allies are not the sole authors of evil in the world, never have been. They, too, profit from chaos and war. They do not pay you to say so, though, and consequently there is no niche media industry devoted to documenting, say, the “dire effects of Russian bombing” in Syria.
‘Chaos was inevitable!’ Biden shrugs off shock scenes of Afghans falling from US plane because ‘that was five days ago’ (rt.com) (Stooge George Stephanopolis had cited those scenes in the context of the situation now, and Biden responded in the context of the measures he has taken to get control of the situation. He was not “shrugging it off”)
RT also has a regular feature dedicated to undermining Covid vaccination and Biden administration health policy, with half truths, lies by omission, strawmen, that is, the standard panoply of appeals to goober America. Coronavirus vaccines news
To keep the paranoid masses riled, they include an item attacking Twitter for its new provision to report “misleading” tweets.
Censor-it-yourself: Twitter testing new feature that allows users to flag ‘misleading’ tweets
This is almost funny: The mouthpiece of a dictatorship that routinely assassinates opposition journalists accuses a private company of “censorship” for trying to get control of its own content.
re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So Dion is still trying to get back on the charts, releasing a single a couple of days ago. But he also put it out as a music video yesterday:
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It doesn’t do much for me musically. It is like so many other similar tunes the past 50 years or so in that genre (what do we call it now, “soft rock”?)
How about Dio/Dion doing melodic metal pop?
re: #89 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Another one bites the dust…..
If this keeps up, perhaps we won’t need an updated Fairness Doctrine.
And another may soon be joining them.
Two months ago, in late June, “prophetic minister” Wanda Alger urged her followers to reject COVID vaccines because she believed they were part of some “demonic conspiracy.”
That seems worth mentioning since Alger just announced that her upcoming “Prophetic Mentoring Weekend” will have to be canceled due to a COVID outbreak. But don’t worry! She’s taking care of herself with things… that aren’t vaccines.
… Due to a sudden surge of Covid and other related illnesses in our congregation, we’re having to cancel our upcoming Prophetic Mentoring Weekend that was to start this Thursday, August 19. This was a really difficult decision to make, but we knew we had no other option… I, myself, got hit over the weekend and have been focusing on recovery (I am taking ivermectin along with extra doses of Vitamins C, D, and zinc.) I am praying for speedy healing and restoration! Please pray for our middle son, Nathan, who is also sick and has a highly compromised immune system. He has been dealing with Lyme’s disease for the past three years and is concerned how his body is going to handle this. His doctor is prescribing the same thing I am taking, so we are hoping for the best. Pray for his peace of mind, especially, as he has been given to panic attacks in past years.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support, encouragement, and inspiring comments:-). Once I feel better, I do have some things to share from the Lord concerning the global situation. In the meantime, it’s evident the devil is on a rampage with this virus. Let’s stand strong against his schemes and declare the blood of Jesus over all!
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Anti-Vaxxer Minister Cancels Prohpetic Mentoring Weekend after Catching Covid (Friendly Atheist)
Not much of a prophet if she couldn’t predict she and her son would catch a plague sent by her god.
And taking Ivermectin for that? If she’s not a straight-up Liar for Jesus, all I can say is Godspeed and good luck.
The Pfizer/Moderna Death-Train bags another one!
This past Friday, Tucker Carlson told his audience about a 47-year-old Nebraska man who had been vaccinated that Tuesday at 1:49PM. The man, Tucker told his audience, was dead exactly twelve hours later.
What Carlson didn’t tell them was that the man’s car was hit by a train.— scott immordino (@ScottImmordino) August 18, 2021
I don’t believe this story for an instant (note source, NONE) but it is pretty funny.
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Pfizer/Moderna Death-Train bags another one!
I don’t believe this story for an instant (note source, NONE) but it is pretty funny.
Nebraska man killed, woman hurt when UTV hit by train (Associated Press)
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Pfizer/Moderna Death-Train bags another one!
I don’t believe this story for an instant (note source, NONE) but it is pretty funny.
Or maybe it’s this one which was a little over a week ago in my area:
Police identify 56-year-old man hit, killed by train in Nebraska (KETV Omaha)
Police in western Nebraska say a Missouri man has died after being hit by a train in Scottsbluff.
The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reports the incident happened early Wednesday morning, when police were called to railroad tracks where a man had been hit be a westbound train.
AdvertisementPolice Sgt. Lance Kite says the impact killed 56-year-old Michael Nolde of Missouri. The newspaper reports Nolde had family members who live in Scottsbluff.
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Almost every week someone here is hit by a train. It would be unsurprising if someone just got a vaccine then was hit by a train.
UPDATED: Man dies after being hit by train (York, Nebr. News-Times)
ORK - One person has died as a result of being hit by a train at the Road K railroad crossing, just west of York.
York Fire and Rescue and the York County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to the scene at approximately 9:30 a.m., Tuesday morning, on the report of a car/vehicle collision.
When they arrived, they found a deceased man at the scene, at the crossing.
The deceased man was identified as Travis Stoltenberg, 45, whose addresses have been listed as York and Libby, Mont.
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Columbus police say man hit by train died (Lincoln Journal-Star)
COLUMBUS — Authorities say a man has died after being struck by a train in Columbus.
Police were sent to the scene a little after noon Saturday.
Platte County Attorney Carl Hart said Scott Dirksen, 27, died of blunt force trauma to the head and body that’s consistent with being struck by a train. His body was found lying along the tracks near the 23rd Avenue crossing.
Hart said Dirksen, who is originally from Minnesota but lived in Columbus, was reportedly at a downtown bar Friday night and didn’t have a driver’s license.
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re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So Dion is still trying to get back on the charts, releasing a single a couple of days ago. But he also put it out as a music video yesterday:
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It doesn’t do much for me musically. It is like so many other similar tunes the past 50 years or so in that genre (what do we call it now, “soft rock”?)
New Halestorm track out. I’ll listen to Lzzy instead.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Sunday: “We had this awesome plan to get out and leave a totally functioning Afghanistan in our wake! BIDEN FUCKED UP!!!”
Wednesday: “Uhm, yeah, we never really intended to leave.”
Former Trump defense secretary swears he never really planned to go through with his own Afghanistan planhttps://t.co/ieKPprIrQ0
— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 19, 2021
Speaking to DefenseOne, Miller claimed that there was never any intention to withdraw all of the American troops by May 1, despite the fact that Trump and the Taliban signed an agreement to do exactly that.
It was actually a “play” that masked Trump’s intentions to get Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to resign or get him to do a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban. Trump wanted to ensure some U.S. troops would always remain in Afghanistan for counterterrorism missions.
According to Miller, “many Trump administration officials expected that the United States would be able to broker a new shared government in Afghanistan composed primarily of Taliban officials. The new government would then permit U.S. forces to remain in country to support the Afghan military and fight terrorist elements.”
The GOP strategy is working: Polls indicate that Cuomo and Afghanistan are overshadowing infrastructure in terms of what people are paying attention to in the news.
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP strategy is working: Polls indicate that Cuomo and Afghanistan are overshadowing infrastructure in terms of what people are paying attention to in the news.
Problem for the GQP: The elections aren’t in 3 months, they’re in 15 months. In Sept 2019, polling showed Americans were paying close attention to the impeachment investigations and there were pundits predicting that Trump would ride a successful “acquittal” to a second term.
re: #104 Targetpractice
Problem for the GQP: The elections aren’t in 3 months, they’re in 15 months. In Sept 2019, polling showed Americans were paying close attention to the impeachment investigations and there were pundits predicting that Trump would ride a successful “acquittal” to a second term.
They will continue this approach with every story that comes along.
And they are not ashamed about being blatantly hypocritical.
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The GOP strategy is working: Polls indicate that Cuomo and Afghanistan are overshadowing infrastructure in terms of what people are paying attention to in the news.
Infrastructure will be back in the number one slot in another two weeks. Right now the focus should be on Covid.
re: #106 darthstar
Infrastructure will be back in the number one slot in another two weeks. Right now the focus should be on Covid.
the focus should be on the Covid situation in red states and why it is that way…
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin says belief has ‘vanished’ in Ireland (Irish Times, August 16, 2021)
With all the fuquery of the Catholic Church, I can’t imagine why.
Evidence of Christian belief in Ireland today “has for all intents and purposes vanished,” Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has said. This “underlying crisis of faith” was “particularly acute among the younger generations,” he said.
“Public commentary in the media in Ireland has not been positive in its understanding of the Church and its need for vocations, and for public support of those trying to preach the Gospel,” he said.
Archbishop Farrell made the comments in an interview with the 2021 edition of ‘Síolta’, the annual journal of the national seminary at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth.
“The challenges facing me are pretty clear. We have an ageing clergy and very few vocations to the diocesan priesthood or religious life. There is a major decline in the number of people who actively practice and live their faith.
“Faith needs ritual, embodiment. One must see in people how faith is lived. Today the visibility of faith has for all intents and purposes vanished. I am also dealing with the legacy of sexual abuse scandals which have damaged the Church’s credibility. Since finance is a function of numbers, financial issues will arise which will be accelerated by the global pandemic and its aftermath,” he said.
“The current model of the Church is unsustainable,” he said. In Dublin there was need “for an effective programme of catechetics throughout the diocese to add to and, eventually, replace the current teaching of faith to the young. With the gradual decline of family socialisation in religion, the role of the qualified catechist will be essential. In my opinion, the handing on of the Faith to the young is one of the most serious challenges facing our Church today.”
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re: #102 Targetpractice
Sunday: “We had this awesome plan to get out and leave a totally functioning Afghanistan in our wake! BIDEN FUCKED UP!!!”
Wednesday: “Uhm, yeah, we never really intended to leave.”
The Taliban would never have accepted a continued US troop presence.
re: #106 darthstar
Infrastructure will be back in the number one slot in another two weeks. Right now the focus should be on Covid.
Actually, I’m going to disagree. It seems like all the major procedural hurdles have been cleared, and the Democrats are going to get their full infrastructure package. I don’t think we’re going to hear a single blip about infrastructure, except for some local pieces about how the money is being spent. I think we’re going to transition back into the slow-news-day pattern of, “Report whatever the latest minor crap is going on and blow it out of all proportion in an attempt to sensationalize and/or both-siderize the current lack of a major story.”
The roosters were just switched on, so it’s time to hit the rack. Catch y’all later.
re: #91 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And another may soon be joining them.
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Anti-Vaxxer Minister Cancels Prohpetic Mentoring Weekend after Catching Covid (Friendly Atheist)
Not much of a prophet if she couldn’t predict she and her son would catch a plague sent by her god.
And taking Ivermectin for that? If she’s not a straight-up Liar for Jesus, all I can say is Godspeed and good luck.
they simply have to reject any ‘suggestion’ from science/the left/outside, whatever.
they must be contrary, just to be contrary
hence the absurd treatment options and pretzel logic
anti masks, distancing/crowds, vaccines
pro hydroxy, ivermectin, bleach, large gatherings etc
otherwise science would be ‘right’, therefore they would be wrong (because of all the absurd stances they staked out) and what a slippery slope that would be for them
re: #110 Dopamine Fish
I suppose you’re right. Networks can’t sell people going along with their daily lives improving and pot-holes being filled and bridges fixed and shit. (Don Henley ear worm time)…
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re: #115 darthstar
I suppose you’re right. Networks can’t sell people going along with their daily lives improving and pot-holes being filled and bridges fixed and shit. (Don Henley ear worm time)…
Right, exactly. The only thing I could think of that might bring infrastructure back around is some theatrics and/or histrionics from Manchin or Synema about the exact contents of the reconciliation package, which as I understand is yet to be fully hammered out, and that would be a great “Dems in disarray” feeder piece. But I assume it’ll get done eventually, and at that point, it’s completely out of the media spotlight. Time to manufacture the next scandal - presumably on the Republican side this time; Biden just had Afghanistan, after all. (Last part = /////)
re: #109 No Malarkey!
The Taliban would never have accepted a continued US troop presence.
And that’s what Trump never appreciated, that the Taliban were playing for all the marbles. They weren’t looking to be “co-equal” with an elected government, they wanted to be the sole power in the country. And a continued US presence, even a small “anti-terrorist” one, was still a threat to their rule. So, in yet another example of how failed he was a foreign policy president, Donny got played by people much better versed in how the real world works.
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin says belief has ‘vanished’ in Ireland (Irish Times, August 16, 2021)
With all the fuquery of the Catholic Church, I can’t imagine why.
I am not against religious faith but I am very anti-clerical, and this proves my assertion that the best way to kill faith is to have an established Church that people simply see as just another state institution that they play no real role in.
re: #116 A Mom Anon
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re: #112 darthstar
There is another version that shows a samurai cutting his kimono so as not to awaken his sleeping lover…
re: #120 Dopamine Fish
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re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #116 A Mom Anon
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re: #124 A Mom Anon
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re: #102 Targetpractice
Sunday: “We had this awesome plan to get out and leave a totally functioning Afghanistan in our wake! BIDEN FUCKED UP!!!”
Wednesday: “Uhm, yeah, we never really intended to leave.”
so you were going to lie and renege?
great way to build trust
re: #124 A Mom Anon
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re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is another version that shows a samurai cutting his kimono so as not to awaken his sleeping lover…
… why does everyone have a knife at the ready if they don’t want to disturb….
oh yeah, Japan
re: #128 William Lewis
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re: #127 Dangerman
ps - it’s still funny even if he’s a pig
yeah, shame about guys like him and Cosby and Louie CK and Kevin Spacey, etc…
re: #37 Dread Pirate Ron
A tale of two Governors.
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And yet it is Newsom who is facing recall. What a world.
re: #118 Targetpractice
And that’s what Trump never appreciated, that the Taliban were playing for all the marbles. They weren’t looking to be “co-equal” with an elected government, they wanted to be the sole power in the country. And a continued US presence, even a small “anti-terrorist” one, was still a threat to their rule. So, in yet another example of how failed he was a foreign policy president, Donny got played by people much better versed in how the real world works.
Fat Donny has always lived in a fantasy world, paid for with other people’s money, particularly his daddy’s money. He play acted businessman, then he play acted President.
re: #134 No Malarkey!
Fat Donny has always lived in a fantasy world, paid for with other people’s money, particularly his daddy’s money. He play acted businessman, then he play acted President.
It worked because everyone around him (and most of the news media) went along with him
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am not against religious faith but I am very anti-clerical, and this proves my assertion that the best way to kill faith is to have an established Church that people simply see as just another state institution that they play no real role in.
Which is my Darwinian theory as to why faith has thrived much better in the US, where churches have to work to get butts in the pews and money in the collection plate, than in Europe, which had official, state subsidized churches, and didn’t have to compete.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It worked because everyone around him (and most of the news media) went along with him
His only real skill has been self-promotion. He’s always been a conman, with help from Fred and Mark Burnett.
Sanity prevails in South Florida.
BREAKING: All South Florida schools have now mandated masks and defied Governor DeSantis.
Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Co.
The last domino to fall was Palm Beach County. The school board eliminated the mask opt-out after a lengthy meeting tonight.— Jay O’Brien (@jayobtv) August 19, 2021
re: #112 darthstar
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I’m less sentimental about these things. I just gently but firmly push her furry little ball of matter a foot to the left and then crawl into the bed with her. sometimes she gets up and looks around like she’s suddenly realized she fell asleep and is now on a train headed for Maine, but then she looks at me and throws herself into my arms.
Isn’t that a felony? Bummer if she’s convicted. No more gun. Oops. https://t.co/6eZ4PdfJ6Q
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 19, 2021
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Federal Election officials are pressing Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), for answers on the apparent personal use of thousands of dollars in campaign funds in a formal FEC letter inquiring about four Venmo payments totaling more than $6,000.
Full story here: https://t.co/jeIDMhD9LP pic.twitter.com/ik0eY9oRXK— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) August 19, 2021
re: #136 No Malarkey!
Which is my Darwinian theory as to why faith has thrived much better in the US, where churches have to work to get butts in the pews and money in the collection plate, than in Europe, which had official, state subsidized churches, and didn’t have to compete.
Very much the case in Germany: people see the church as a social institution where you go to get your kids baptized, get married and hold funeral services (lather, rinse, repeat).
There is even religious instruction in the schools (they have constructed elaborate arrangements and arguments to explain why this does not violate the separation of Church and State) but the classes are looked on as a joke and people who get a good grade in religion are seen as ultimate nerds (as the grades do not count on one’s academic record)
Afghan protesters have defied the Taliban for a second day, waving their national flag in scattered demonstrations that were met with renewed violence by the militants who are facing growing challenges to their rule. https://t.co/zRkOUGGQAs
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 19, 2021
A procession of cars and people near Kabul’s airport carried black, red and green banners in honor of the Afghan flag, which is becoming a symbol of defiance. The demonstrations come as Afghans marked the Independence Day holiday. https://t.co/WmSndbA9SR
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 19, 2021
Did Biden make the right call on Afghanistan?
We asked 27 former senior national security officials now working as defense contractors whose work there failed on every level.
Their verdict — definitely blame Biden and not themselves. And keep the money coming!— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 19, 2021
oh
Kentucky troopers have killed more people in rural communities than any department nationwide, data shows. https://t.co/fCtkt574vR ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 19, 2021
And if everyone got vaxxed and masked, his donor’s business would suffer.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 19, 2021
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It worked because everyone around him (and most of the news media) went along with him
Opportunistic parasites
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky troopers have killed more people in rural communities than any department nationwide, data shows.
I am not at all a supporter or apologist for the Taliban, but this is something we need to keep in mind….
re: #149 Dangerman
Opportunistic parasites
The media want ratings. Trump was ratings gold. Biden is boring.
I sure hope this is just 4chan /pol/ trolls edgelording, but you never know with the chans-which-must-not-be-named….
4chan’s /pol/ board casually floats the idea of starting their own Christianity-based Taliban groupI found it. The worst take. pic.twitter.com/4DcyUcgt61
— Joanna Hardy-Susskind (@Joanna__Hardy) August 19, 2021
re: #152 Teukka
In response, I say it’s time to bring back the League of Militant Atheists!
Judge throws out Trump’s approval for oil drilling in Alaska. Cites climate change. NBC.
— Michael Grossman (@MichaelArt123) August 19, 2021
re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So Dion is still trying to get back on the charts, releasing a single a couple of days ago. But he also put it out as a music video yesterday:
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It doesn’t do much for me musically. It is like so many other similar tunes the past 50 years or so in that genre (what do we call it now, “soft rock”?)
The last time I heard anything about has-been Dion was when he was a part of the Right Wing Xtian Church Tour back in the 80s appearing at my Aunt’s foursquare church. Yeah he did the Xtian “Testimony” shit and said he had to atone singing the Devil’s music. He also did a shtick about the “backward masking” shtick that Xtian Pulpit Pimps endlessly recited in the early 80s…along with the other standard Xtian shit about how Democrats were Godless and Republicans are the Party of Jay-Zuss…
I hope they do once the FDA gives final approval. They are probably too timid to mandate an “experimental” vaccine.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) August 19, 2021
re: #102 Targetpractice
Sunday: “We had this awesome plan to get out and leave a totally functioning Afghanistan in our wake! BIDEN FUCKED UP!!!”
Wednesday: “Uhm, yeah, we never really intended to leave.”
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Whoa! Is that Chris Miller related to SMOTI?
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— Jennifer Shahade (@JenShahade) August 19, 2021
“The reason why all these people are stuck in Afghanistan right now is because the visa program that was created to get them here was purposely shut down by the Trump Administration for the last four years… They’re as complicit as the Taliban are for these people’s deaths” pic.twitter.com/ms5O9m4XDc
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 18, 2021
I didn’t see this yesterday, but this is a great first step in encouraging vaccinations.
ICYMI: Michigan’s largest insurers to stop free COVID-19 treatments for patients on Sept. 30. Those infected after that date will be subject to the usual 30% out of pocket costs. If you’re hospitalized, that’s upwards of $35K-$40K.
Vaccines remain free. https://t.co/Voo3Rizhmd— Dustin P. Walsh (@dustinpwalsh) August 18, 2021
Unfortunately Kentucky State University, the historically black university here in Frankfort, is $15 million in the hole due to, at best, mismanagement, perhaps embezzlement. The President recently resigned, along with some board members.
Early this year, the KSU Board of Regents awarded itself top marks - As - for its financial improvements since its last crisis in 2015, including cash reserves and net revenues.
Yesterday, it acknowledged this was all wrong, and it likely will need a state aid package. ^JC pic.twitter.com/E8IZ3ewsRb— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 19, 2021
re: #158 No Malarkey!
Not too timid. The regular process for going from EUA to full authorization is typically a few months and has thousands of data points based on controlled studies.
Here? We’ve got over 60% of the US population having received 1+ doses of one of the three EUA vaccines. That’s hundreds of millions of data points. They have to evaluate it on VAERS as well. Overall, Pfizer’s application is being reviewed and should get a ruling in the next few weeks. Moderna is a few weeks behind that. No word on when J&J gets their application done.
re: #162 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t see this yesterday, but this is a great first step in encouraging vaccinations.
market mechanism can be useful ways to influence behavior
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
market mechanism can be useful ways to influence behavior
They will scream “mah freedumbs!” (The ones who can still breath anyway), but the remaining unvaccinated need to be coerced into getting the shots.
re: #166 No Malarkey!
They will scream “mah freedumbs!” (The ones who can still breath anyway), but the remaining unvaccinated need to be coerced into getting the shots.
They believe in being free riders, rather than freedom. They want the benefits of our society without making any slightest contribution, and instead try to tear it down.
re: #162 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t see this yesterday, but this is a great first step in encouraging vaccinations.
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The tweet was corrected as to max out of pocket. Usually, plans (if you are lucky enough to have one) have max out of pocket per year at $10k or less.
The article is behind a paywall. I am not clear on how vax vs unvaxx will be billed differently. Are CV19 patients now not subject to normal copays?
Edit: nothing found in Detroit Free Press about this yet
re: #168 Ming5000
The tweet was corrected as to max out of pocket. Usually, plans (if you are lucky enough to have one) have max out of pocket per year at $10k or less.
The article is behind a paywall. I am not clear on how vax vs unvaxx will be billed differently. Are CV19 patients now not subject to normal copays?
They will just go bankrupt and force the clinics to eat the losses and pass them on to the remaining few who are vaccinated and insured
1/6 insurrection to overthrow the govt is memory holed by right wing propagandists like yourself. Most Americans have determined for themselves that Afghanistan isn’t as great a threat as right wingers who actually did try to overthrow the govt to install Trump in the WH.
— lawhawk #vaxxingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 19, 2021
I know reason doesn’t work with these people, but here is food for thought. I can name a bunch of prominent conservative anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers who are either dead, vaccinated, seriously ill or regret not taking Covid seriously, starting with Herman Cain. Can anyone name a single prominent vaccine advocate who got seriously ill, or died, or regrets getting vaccinated? I can’t.
I guarantee that lots of militia dudes are looking at Taliban photos and thinking “good look.”
Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against the Afghan war: “I almost wish … I had been wrong” https://t.co/sUcRr2DQin
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2021
More on the costs of CV-19.
From July: “Michigan hospitals still expect to lose millions after $850M in federal coronavirus funds”
freep.com
“Michigan, a national coronavirus hot spot in March and April, received $31,045 per patient. The national average payout per COVID-19 patient was $160,286. “
re: #171 No Malarkey!
I know reason doesn’t work with these people, but here is food for thought. I can name a bunch of prominent conservative anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers who are either dead, vaccinated, seriously ill or regret not taking Covid seriously, starting with Herman Cain. Can anyone name a single prominent vaccine advocate who got seriously ill, or died, or regrets getting vaccinated? I can’t.
Because they all live in fear of retribution/cancellation from Soros and the MSM!!!
Refugees who lived their entire lives in Afghanistan are arriving in the US after fleeing the Taliban.
One such refugee, 30-year-old Tamana, tells @GaryTuchmanCNN she felt she was dreaming when she finally touched down in the Washington DC area. pic.twitter.com/zC2F9v7js1— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 19, 2021
re: #154 Dr Lizardo
In response, I say it’s time to bring back the League of Militant Atheists!
I sometimes toy with something much, MUCH scarier… *chuckles evilly*
re: #173 Belafon
There is no joy in being Cassandra.
Personally, I think the booster is unnecessary for most Americans right now, but:
Republicans soon: Why won’t Biden give the unvaccinated booster shots?
Scientists I spoke to today had a lot of questions about the administration’s decision to start giving Americans 3rd doses of the mRNA vaccines next month. “I’m not sure we had enough [data] to pull the trigger right now,” one said. https://t.co/eHUndOrQL4
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 18, 2021
re: #162 Dopamine Fish
I didn’t see this yesterday, but this is a great first step in encouraging vaccinations.
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Ah the revenge of the Corporate Beancounters as they ration nonprofitable care…
re: #164 lawhawk
Not too timid. The regular process for going from EUA to full authorization is typically a few months and has thousands of data points based on controlled studies.
From what I understand full FDA authorisation typically takes years, even for a drug or treatment that’s permitted under emergency use. It’s not just the trials and efficacy data and such, there’s a large but necessary bureaucratic tail that needs to be nailed down before authorisation based on the principle that this authorised drug or vaccine will be produced and dispensed for decades to come.
Who are the suppliers of precursor chemical and biological components? What are the QA testing procedures like? What are the recall procedures if needed, labelling and packaging standards, are the delivery chains to point-of-use robust and verified as safe and secure etc. etc. I’m surely missing out dozens more factors that the FDA want cast in stone before they say yes.
re: #179 Belafon
Personally, I think the booster is unnecessary for most Americans right now, but:
Republicans soon: Why won’t Biden give the unvaccinated booster shots?
Boosters for the immunocompromised, I get and agree with. Boosters for everybody, mmm, not so much. The rate of breakthrough cases IS rising; that is indisputable. However, the incidence rate is still so low - and the severity of said breakthrough cases is also so minor - that I would rather wait and continue to push for first shots as much as we can, maybe wait to see if the booster can be made more effective against Delta/Gamma specifically.
Anyway he’s either lying about this little scheme, which is bad, or the secretary of defense genuinely thought a Taliban government would approve 800 SOF on a counterterrorism mission, which is even WORSE. Why was this reported straight? It’s a much different story.
— Josh (@jr_foust) August 19, 2021
I may be nuts, but I feel more hopeful about negotiating with the Taliban going forward than I am hopeful about working with republicans.
I suppose, worse case, the Taliban will be as bad as there were in the past, and republicans will be as bad as the are now, AKA; American Taliban.
re: #182 Dopamine Fish
Boosters for the immunocompromised, I get and agree with. Boosters for everybody, mmm, not so much. The rate of breakthrough cases IS rising; that is indisputable. However, the incidence rate is still so low - and the severity of said breakthrough cases is also so minor - that I would rather wait and continue to push for first shots as much as we can, maybe wait to see if the booster can be made more effective against Delta/Gamma specifically.
I’m not finding much info on the length of time a fully-vaxed breakthrough case with few or no symptoms remains a transmission threat to the unvaccinated. That has implications for continued spread in the face of relaxing travel and control measures.
re: #185 Decatur Deb
I’m not finding much info on the length of time a fully-vaxed breakthrough case with few or no symptoms remains a transmission threat to the unvaccinated. That has implications for continued spread in the face of relaxing travel and control measures.
They are massively more threatened by the hordes of unvaccinated spreading the virus. Breakthrough cases are rare.
Sonny Chiba has died of COVID-19 related pneumonia.
Source, in Japanese: oricon.co.jp
re: #184 Ming5000
I may be nuts, but I feel more hopeful about negotiating with the Taliban going forward than I am hopeful about working with republicans.
I suppose, worse case, the Taliban will be as bad as there were in the past, and republicans will be as bad as the are now, AKA; American Taliban.
The Taliban just got it back.
They want to hold on to power
The Rs want to hold on to power too.
They think what they’ve been doing for the last 50+ years is working for them
re: #184 Ming5000
I may be nuts, but I feel more hopeful about negotiating with the Taliban going forward than I am hopeful about working with republicans.
I suppose, worse case, the Taliban will be as bad as there were in the past, and republicans will be as bad as the are now, AKA; American Taliban.
You aren’t. The American Taliban are an exponentially greater threat to national security than the Afghans.
re: #187 Dr Lizardo
Here’s an English-language source: animenewsnetwork.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: Police investigating report of possible explosive in truck near Library of Congress, area being evacuated.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 19, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to be immediately removed from office and thrown in jail forever.
She’s a disgusting traitor and an unhinged lunatic.
She’s a deplorable, irredeemable psychopath, and a monsterous disgrace to our nation. pic.twitter.com/FeoaAGtFWa— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) August 19, 2021
Hehehehe.
Ever wanted to be a “Hamas spokesperson” AND a “Zionist mouthpiece” AT THE SAME TIME?
Haaretz is hiring pic.twitter.com/DzzQxseILD
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP-NORC poll: Roughly two-thirds of Americans say they don’t think the war in Afghanistan was worth fighting.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 19, 2021
re: #186 No Malarkey!
They are massively more threatened by the hordes of unvaccinated spreading the virus. Breakthrough cases are rare.
True, but we are planning a long road trip in a “moving bubble”. It might involve seeing old people we will not see again and a great-grandchild we have never seen. Data would help with the decision to proceed and managing safeguards. We are also about to restart voter registration outreach, and hate to maintain a masked/distanced/no-contact effort. That’s way ineffective, and will cripple our valuable college VR Weeks for the second year in a row.
re: #194 Dangerman
As I commented a couple of days ago when the whole thing broke down and MAGAts and neocons were trying to make hay out of Afghanistan, in general the American electorate just isn’t going to care about it.
That’s why so many Afghanistan tags on twitter dropped out of trending so quickly.
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) husband “made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert’s congressional campaign and only reported in her financial disclosure forms filed this week,” the AP reports.“Jayson Boebert received the money as a consultant to ‘Terra Energy Productions’ in 2020, and earned $460,000 as a consultant for the firm in 2019.”
“Boebert did not report the income last year, when she stunned the political world by ousting incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton during the GOP primary in Colorado’s sprawling 3rd district, which stretches from ski resorts to energy-rich basins in the state’s west.”
But wait
There’s more
Because apparently
“There is no company called Terra Energy Productions registered with the state. But Terra Energy Partners, a Houston-based firm that boasts it is “one of the largest producers of natural gas in Colorado,” has a heavy presence in Boebert’s district. The company did not return a call for comment.”
So does she not know who her husband works for?
re: #194 Dangerman
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oh the DC Press Corpse and the Neocon pals don’t like that poll…
re: #197 Dangerman
But wait
There’s moreBecause apparently
“There is no company called Terra Energy Productions registered with the state. But Terra Energy Partners, a Houston-based firm that boasts it is “one of the largest producers of natural gas in Colorado,” has a heavy presence in Boebert’s district. The company did not return a call for comment.”
So does she not know who her husband works for?
Well she “didn’t know” what hubby did with those underage girls…
re: #179 Belafon
Personally, I think the booster is unnecessary for most Americans right now, but:
Republicans soon: Why won’t Biden give the unvaccinated booster shots?
Hey. If it’s good enough for Greg Abbott…
re: #196 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
As I commented a couple of days ago when the whole thing broke down and MAGAts and neocons were trying to make hay out of Afghanistan, in general the American electorate just isn’t going to care about it.
That’s why so many Afghanistan tags on twitter dropped out of trending so quickly.
95% of Americans agree with Biden while 95% of the media does not.
RIGHT NOW: Police are investigating the report of an explosive in a truck near the US Capitolhttps://t.co/3HVThiI6iE
— WCBD News 2 (@WCBD) August 19, 2021
Well… there’s that.
At the same time right wing lunatics are looking to overthrow the govt by armed insurrection and right wing propagandists are memory holing 1/6, we get yet another situation that may ultimately tie back to right wing domestic terrorists.
re: #195 Decatur Deb
True, but we are planning a long road trip in a “moving bubble”. It might involve seeing old people we will not see again and a great-grandchild we have never seen. Data would help with the decision to proceed and managing safeguards. We are also about to restart voter registration outreach, and hate to maintain a masked/distanced/no-contact effort. That’s way ineffective, and will cripple our valuable college VR Weeks for the second year in a row.
When meeting strangers indoors, masking is essential. If everyone is vaccinated and asymptomatic, you’re pretty safe, to the best of my understanding.
re: #184 Ming5000
I may be nuts, but I feel more hopeful about negotiating with the Taliban going forward than I am hopeful about working with republicans.
I suppose, worse case, the Taliban will be as bad as there were in the past, and republicans will be as bad as the are now, AKA; American Taliban.
Honestly, the Taliban stand to gain everything if they just chill out a bit. If they go back to their old ways, they gain nothing.
RIP to one of the Gods Of Cinematic Ownage, Sonny Chiba pic.twitter.com/8LLuBa2CBS
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) August 19, 2021
re: #202 lawhawk
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Well… there’s that.
At the same time right wing lunatics are looking to overthrow the govt by armed insurrection and right wing propagandists are memory holing 1/6, we get yet another situation that may ultimately tie back to right wing domestic terrorists.
Now we have Pipe Bomber #2…MEANWHILE Ali Alexander still hasn’t been arrested and his pals Gosar, Biggs, Hee Hawley and Brooks are still plotting a coup…
re: #204 GlutenFreeJesus
Honestly, the Taliban stand to gain everything if they just chill out a bit. If they go back to their old ways, they gain nothing.
I’d say they stand to lose a lot
right quick.
Probably by drones
At night
On empty buildings
Making the point crystal clear
re: #204 GlutenFreeJesus
Honestly, the Taliban stand to gain everything if they just chill out a bit. If they go back to their old ways, they gain nothing.
Fanatics generally don’t make those kind of calculations. However, I think their hosting of Al Qaeda had more to do with their long relationship with bin Laden than with a deep commitment to international terrorism. I think it’s reasonable to think that with Osama long dead, the Taliban aren’t going to rush to open terrorist training camps.
Happy 100th birthday! (I know he’s dead).
Gene Roddenberry was born on this date August 19 in 1921. Photo credit: NASA. #OTD pic.twitter.com/tJgasYnOJr
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 19, 2021
re: #203 No Malarkey!
When meeting strangers indoors, masking is essential. If everyone is vaccinated and asymptomatic, you’re pretty safe, to the best of my understanding.
Mostly concerned with being a carrier to students or family members if we pick up something along the way. We will be fairly isolated except for gas stops and controlled dealings with campground check-in. (We already gave up the stay at an NYC campground and the trip though Brooklyn and Queens to Montauk.)
The “Redneck Riveria” is emerging as a COVID-19 hot zone, to the surprise of absolutely no one with two functioning brain cells.
Tourists and servers alike dance atop tables and in the aisles at one restaurant on the “Redneck Riviera,” a beloved stretch of towns along the northern Gulf Coast where beaches, bars and stores are packed. Yet just a few miles away, a hospital is running out of critical care beds, its rooms full of unvaccinated people fighting for their lives.
On maps that show virus “hot spots” in red, this part of the U.S. coast is glowing like a bad sunburn. And a summer of booming tourism that followed the lockdowns and travel restrictions of 2020 is making the turn toward fall with only a few signs of slowing down.
Health officials believe the spike is due to a combination of some of the nation’s lowest vaccination rates, unabated tourism, a disregard for basic health precautions and the region’s carefree lifestyle, all combining at a time when the mutated virus is more contagious than ever and conservative states are balking at new health restrictions.
re: #209 No Malarkey!
Happy 100th birthday! (I know he’s dead).
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re: #213 Teukka
And they’re still circulating the
claimlie that the majority of cases are breakthrough infections…
“liberal bias”
I spoke to a veteran communications professional who has been trying to place prominent voices supportive of the Afghanistan withdrawal on television and in print.
They told me it has been next to impossible.https://t.co/mBQy5AnCuq pic.twitter.com/iuhQ1qXDiJ— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 19, 2021
re: #215 No Malarkey!
Because war is good for business and in the media’s case, ratings (and clicks) are business.
re: #215 No Malarkey!
“liberal bias”
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This is one of those things that frustrates me about the ‘Try Harder!!’ crowd. Sometimes, you can try as hard as you fucking want to get your voice out there, if the people with the megaphones don’t want you to be heard, then you don’t get fucking heard.
The Sunday Show disease has spread far and wide, if it was ever really restricted to Sunday Show booking ever.
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The way things are going I guess I will have to push my 2022 Birthday Amtrak ride back another year…
re: #216 JOE 🥓
Oh and this guy is 75 today, too…
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Fuck him. His magic dick put us where we are today. (Wife and I worked the line at his PCB campaign rally for HRC.)
USCP lock down Cannon Hse Office Bldg along with Jefferson/Madison Library of Congress Bldgs due to a suspicious vehicle
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) August 19, 2021
I’ve been to Destin and Gulf Shores plenty of times. They are fucking tourist traps but in Destin at least, the beaches are quite nice.
“Redneck Riviera” is definitely an accurate name. Hell, MTV was filming reality shows in Gulf shores not long ago.
I really wonder though, these being major tourist spots, how much Covid is being exported out of Florida to cause problems in other states.
Chalk up another Darwin Award winner!
Missouri Lawmaker’s Unvaccinated Husband Dies From COVID-19
Missouri state Rep. Sara Walsh announced Thursday that her husband has died from COVID-19. They were both unvaccinated and contracted the coronavirus earlier this month. “It saddens my heart to share that this morning my best friend and beloved husband Steve Walsh was welcomed to Heaven’s glory into the arms of Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior. Arrangements pending. Thank you to everyone who has lifted us up in prayer,” the Republican lawmaker tweeted. Walsh, who announced her candidacy for for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s congressional seat last month, has said she refused to get the COVID-19 jab because it has yet to be approved by the FDA, some of her friends had adverse reactions, and she’s remained healthy throughout the pandemic. She did not specify why her husband—Hartzler’s spokesperson—declined to get the vaccine.
Notably missing from this tweet is the clear “no” Biden offered before the below quote. https://t.co/LCpSHSMvN8
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 19, 2021
They’re dead set on “Benghazi”-ing Biden with this shit. They’ve dug in their heels and their teeth on this one. Where was this fucking dogged persistence when Trump was doing literal crimes out in the open and literally, literally fucking encouraging strongarm violence against their entire industry?!
re: #225 JOE 🥓
Chalk up another Darwin Award winner!
Missouri Lawmaker’s Unvaccinated Husband Dies From COVID-19
Missouri state Rep. Sara Walsh announced Thursday that her husband has died from COVID-19. They were both unvaccinated and contracted the coronavirus earlier this month. “It saddens my heart to share that this morning my best friend and beloved husband Steve Walsh was welcomed to Heaven’s glory into the arms of Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior. Arrangements pending. Thank you to everyone who has lifted us up in prayer,” the Republican lawmaker tweeted. Walsh, who announced her candidacy for for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s congressional seat last month, has said she refused to get the COVID-19 jab because it has yet to be approved by the FDA, some of her friends had adverse reactions, and she’s remained healthy throughout the pandemic. She did not specify why her husband—Hartzler’s spokesperson—declined to get the vaccine.
Wonder what kind of adverse reactions? Like, localized swelling at the injection site, fever, and very mild symptoms of whatever you’re jabbing against are to be expected from any jab… And far from all get even the first two…
And she’s baaaaaaaaacccckkkk!
Melissa Carone, Rudy Giuliani’s star witness, says that COVID-19 was brought in to take away our rights and to steal the biggest election of our lives. pic.twitter.com/sjADVoDGxZ
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 19, 2021
re: #227 Teukka
So, she considers flu-like symptoms for a day to be side effect to avoid, but not hospitalization, ICU, intubation, and an underground wood recliner to be a greater risk.
How many others did she infect.
re: #229 lawhawk
So, she considers flu-like symptoms for a day to be side effect to avoid, but not hospitalization, ICU, intubation, and an underground wood recliner to be a greater risk.
How many others did she infect.
Sheesh. Like I had chills, swollen arm and fatigue between 24..48 hours after the jab, practically all gone by 72 hours. None on the second jab. Like, if you’re that concerned, schedule your jab for a Friday and prepare so you can have a very mellow weekend…
re: #227 Teukka
Wonder what kind of adverse reactions? Like, localized swelling at the injection site, fever, and very mild symptoms of whatever you’re jabbing against are to be expected from any jab… And far from all get even the first two…
I had an adverse reaction to shot #3 when my temperature went to 102 for 2 days and I had hives break out. Drs warned me that might occur which is why they gave ma an Epi-Pen.
re: #170 lawhawk
Yes, because right-wing idiots live in an upside-down fantasy-world because of absurd propagandists like you who lie to fools for money, and they have now become violent. Nice going, idiot.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 19, 2021
re: #232 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yes. Trouble caused by your pals in the Proud Boys, 3%ers, Militias and other right wing thugs that you encourage!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 19, 2021
re: #234 JOE 🥓
Josh Mandel once again out-assholes himself.
Josh Mandel Falsely Claims US Postal Service Is Unconstitutional, Vows to Eliminate It
Won’t stop Ohio from sending this asshole to the Senate.
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Seems determined to be the most insane candidate in the primary, which I hope bites him in the ass in the general.
re: #215 No Malarkey!
“liberal bias”
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It’s like I said over the weekend, these asshats are leaning in hard on the “optics” story, blowing past the facts that Biden held true to a campaign promise and that the war was unpopular to crucify him for things looking “bad” in Afghanistan. Even as more and more voices from the Trump admin admit that the whole idea of leaving was not only unworkable but would be disastrous, we’re supposed to believe that there was a “right” way to do it and Biden totally fucked that up.
re: #234 JOE 🥓
Josh Mandel once again out-assholes himself.
Josh Mandel Falsely Claims US Postal Service Is Unconstitutional, Vows to Eliminate It
Won’t stop Ohio from sending this asshole to the Senate.
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I’m suspicious of anyone named Josh. Even Whedon turned out to be abusive, and Hawley would end our democracy if he could. Then there’s this guy.
re: #225 JOE 🥓
Chalk up another Darwin Award winner!
Missouri Lawmaker’s Unvaccinated Husband Dies From COVID-19
Missouri state Rep. Sara Walsh announced Thursday that her husband has died from COVID-19. They were both unvaccinated and contracted the coronavirus earlier this month. “It saddens my heart to share that this morning my best friend and beloved husband Steve Walsh was welcomed to Heaven’s glory into the arms of Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior. Arrangements pending. Thank you to everyone who has lifted us up in prayer,” the Republican lawmaker tweeted. Walsh, who announced her candidacy for for U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s congressional seat last month, has said she refused to get the COVID-19 jab because it has yet to be approved by the FDA, some of her friends had adverse reactions, and she’s remained healthy throughout the pandemic. She did not specify why her husband—Hartzler’s spokesperson—declined to get the vaccine.
I think the flaw in the parable of God sending a two boats and a helicopter is that it ends with the guy in Heaven. It really should end with God saying “Why would I want someone who won’t listen to me? It didn’t work out that well with Lucifer.”
re: #234 JOE 🥓
Eliminating the USPS. Good luck getting elected on THAT platform.
Even the GOP aren’t so dumb as to want to give that up.
re: #235 No Malarkey!
Seems determined to be the most insane candidate in the primary, which I hope bites him in the ass in the general.
I used to bank on that, but the worst Presidential candidate won the Republican primary, then won the general in 2016 as well. I thought Americans were better than we are.
re: #240 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I used to bank on that, but the worst Presidential candidate won the Republican primary, then won the general in 2016 as well. I thought Americans were better than we are.
We haven’t seen if this guy will win. He’s just trying out the next crazy.
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
Eliminating the USPS. Good luck getting elected on THAT platform.
Even the GOP aren’t so dumb as to want to give that up.
Memories of high school and later the Pitt Campus with the Young Americans For Freedom pushing for full privatization of the Post Office.
Bumper stickers—Let Free Enterprise Move The Mail!
re: #232 Punish Domestic Terrorists
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I would probably have to do a Google search for the last act of “Islamic terrorism” on US soil. And even those were not conducted by foreign nationals who’d come to the US to attack us, but generally were first or second generation immigrants who’d been “radicalized.”
Meanwhile, it hasn’t even been a full year since a domestic terrorist attack, one that not only lead to deaths but also posed a threat to our national government.
re: #240 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I used to bank on that, but the worst Presidential candidate won the Republican primary, then won the general in 2016 as well. I thought Americans were better than we are.
6 years delivering 2 paper routes as a kid PLUS 40+ years working at Social Security disproved any notion that a majority of Americans aren’t…
re: #243 Targetpractice
I would probably have to do a Google search for the last act of “Islamic terrorism” on US soil. And even those were not conducted by foreign nationals who’d come to the US to attack us, but generally were first or second generation immigrants who’d been “radicalized.”
Meanwhile, it hasn’t even been a full year since a domestic terrorist attack, one that not only lead to deaths but also posed a threat to our national government.
I can just think of the Boston bombing, and the terrorists sociopath Pam Gellar baited so she could have them killed. Both were quite a while ago.
So we bought two leather spinning recliners for the front room with ottomans at West Elm and I took the one chair Merle ate as a puppy to the dump and the other to the curb to freecycle. He refuses to sit on the ottomans and only sits on one of the leather chairs if we’re in it…after two days on the curb, I finally brought ‘his’ chair back inside. Looks like we’ll have three chairs in front of the window for a while.
re: #244 JOE 🥓
6 years delivering 2 paper routes as a kid PLUS 40+ years working at Social Security disproved any notion that a majority of Americans aren’t…
I worked with the public for a while when I was breeding Ball pythons. The public are why I stopped, and I do not like to think of those days. People are stupid, and sometimes even drunk, when they act out at you. I did not need that shit, when I can choose to just deal with office people who are 92% sane.
re: #246 darthstar
So we bought two leather spinning recliners for the front room with ottomans at West Elm and I took the one chair Merle ate as a puppy to the dump and the other to the curb to freecycle. He refuses to sit on the ottomans and only sits on one of the leather chairs if we’re in it…after two days on the curb, I finally brought ‘his’ chair back inside. Looks like we’ll have three chairs in front of the window for a while.
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Another one bites the dust….
Greenville County Republican Party leader Pressley Stutts died Thursday morning after battling COVID-19 for nearly a month.
Stutts’ death was confirmed by Dan Harvell, who represents the Anderson County Republican Party on the South Carolina Republican Party’s executive committee.
He died as he lived….trying to own the libs.
As he heads for that giant NewsMax newsroom in the sky, we wish him a fond farewell and a safe journey. He is with Rush Limbaugh now.
re: #247 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I worked with the public for a while when I was breeding Ball pythons. The public are why I stopped, and I do not like to think of those days. People are stupid, and sometimes even drunk, when they act out at you. I did not need that shit, when I can choose to just deal with office people who are 92% sane.
One of the BIG PLUSSES of teleworking is that I do not have to deal with the Wacko Xtians and MAGATS getting in my face. Now I just deal with IMs and e-mails which record their actions—and they can’t get away with their racist BS when nobody else is in listening range…
Apparently Twitter is now as desperate as Facebook has been, as you can do virtually nothing on their platform anymore unless you sign up, helping them with their stockholders by bumping up the “user” statistics even if you never post a single tweet.
re: #240 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I used to bank on that, but the worst Presidential candidate won the Republican primary, then won the general in 2016 as well. I thought Americans were better than we are.
We aren’t. But Trump’s trick was to run well to the left of the other GOP candidates in the 2016 primary by promising to protect Social Security and Medicare.
re: #249 Dr Lizardo
Another one bites the dust….
He died as he lived….trying to own the libs.
As he heads for that giant NewsMax newsroom in the sky, we wish him a fond farewell and a safe journey. He is with Rush Limbaugh now.
Yeah…he’s with Rush…in the new Richard Nixon Wing of the 10th Level of Hell…
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By “turn for the worst,” they mean the teabagger dipshit killed himself by refusing to take some personal responsibility and get vaccinated because he was a tribal dumbass.
South Carolina Tea Party Leader Takes A Turn For The Worse (Fits (probably crackpot) News)
I ran out of fucks to give about these suicidal and homicidal morons some time ago. Natural selection is back in play, and we’ve clearly missed it since we built our safety-labelled civilization where any imbecile could thrive.
666 - the number of times he refused lifesaving vaccines.
— Nomen Dubium (@EJPointer) August 19, 2021
re: #254 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #256 JOE 🥓
Damn, they really are starting to drop like flies.
This Tweet needs to be reported:
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re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
AMAZING!
I logged on to Twitter from Firefox and I was FINALLY able to report that Tweet.
Still can’t do that on Safari and Safari still won’t bring up any Tweets I click on LGF’s page…but I can do that on Firefox…
re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #245 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I can just think of the Boston bombing, and the terrorists sociopath Pam Gellar baited so she could have them killed. Both were quite a while ago.
The Pulse Nightclub shooting.
re: #48 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Set specifically after the first term, so if he lost it wasn’t his problem and he’d ensure it was botched by not cooperating with transition. If he won he could keep coming up with excuses to push the date back ad-infinitum so he wouldn’t have to deal with it. The
Brown ShirtsMAGAts wouldn’t care, and only OAN and RT would be allowed to report on it. It would be easy for him to Chewbacca defense his way out of it because he can ramble two asinine and mutual exclusive things in the same sentence and the red hats will applaud.
I disagree. He would have pulled our forces out on the specified date and made no effort to rescue ANY Afghans. There wouldn’t have been the mad rush at the airport because the Taliban would have been in charge. Trump had no problems abandoning our Kurd allies in Syria; he didn’t care about the optics and neither does his base. These people are not white Christians so they all don’t care. That is the message Stephen Miller was promoting in his recent tweets and the message the RW propaganda networks are promoting now.
re: #245 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I can just think of the Boston bombing, and the terrorists sociopath Pam Gellar baited so she could have them killed. Both were quite a while ago.
Do not get me started about what happened at Tree Of Life in Pittsburgh…especially when I knew a couple of the victims even though 43 years passed by…
Health update!
No heart attacks, cancer diagnoses, or covid scare this time, for a welcome change. I did however stub my left pinkie toe on the coffee table leg. It made a loud crunching sound and hurt like the fires of hell. Worse, I was on the phone with a nice lady from the insurance company when the table jumped out and assaulted me. By a superhuman effort of will I managed to forego my customary burst of foul language in such situations.
The toe started swelling and turning purple and I had to go to the clinic in town. The place was overflowing with potential covid cases. They threw a yokel out for refusing to wear a mask. I got in pretty quickly, though, and they X-rayed it. Sure enough, it is broken. They wrapped it up and told me to do the same for a while. This is the only treatment yet devised by science and much more effective than thoughts and prayers. I will be scanning the table for Russian sourced components, not that I’m paranoid or anything.
re: #230 Teukka
That was opposite of my experience. First jab was mostly feeling like my arm got hit by Mike Tyson in his prime.
Second jab was like getting the flu - feverish and sluggish for 24 hours and improving well after that.
Outcome still holds. I’d take that over dying (and I know ppl who’ve died from covid19 who were in good health and no comorbidities).
re: #260 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #271 lawhawk
That was opposite of my experience. First jab was mostly feeling like my arm got hit by Mike Tyson in his prime.
Second jab was like getting the flu - feverish and sluggish for 24 hours and improving well after that.
Outcome still holds. I’d take that over dying (and I know ppl who’ve died from covid19 who were in good health and no comorbidities).
I used to get regular flu shots every season when I was on an immunosuppressant. It was a roulette what side effects I’d get. Sometimes nothing, sometimes fever, aches and swollen arm.
If you had right wing domestic terrorist on the domestic extremist bingo card, you’d likely be right:
Update on Library of Congress bomb threat—Man is from N. Carolina, says he has propane tanks, has Anti-government views, criminal past, per Pete Williams @MSNBC
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) August 19, 2021
re: #271 lawhawk
That was opposite of my experience. First jab was mostly feeling like my arm got hit by Mike Tyson in his prime.
Second jab was like getting the flu - feverish and sluggish for 24 hours and improving well after that.
Outcome still holds. I’d take that over dying (and I know ppl who’ve died from covid19 who were in good health and no comorbidities).
Same with me. My second injection left me feverish for a week, and my arm sore for two.
Beats a hospital bed by several country miles.
re: #246 darthstar
So we bought two leather spinning recliners for the front room with ottomans at West Elm and I took the one chair Merle ate as a puppy to the dump and the other to the curb to freecycle. He refuses to sit on the ottomans and only sits on one of the leather chairs if we’re in it…after two days on the curb, I finally brought ‘his’ chair back inside. Looks like we’ll have three chairs in front of the window for a while.
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re: #275 lawhawk
If you had right wing domestic terrorist on the domestic extremist bingo card, you’d likely be right:
He brought a white board and a pile of dollar bills. This has conspiracy dupe written all over it. No matter what happens to him, the quacks and snake oil vendors who duped him will stay free to enjoy their profits.
re: #259 Eclectic Cyborg
Damn, they really are starting to drop like flies.
On the plus side, there are lots of job openings for Xian radio hosts. On the minus side, there are lots of young wanna-be prosperity-gospel millionaires willing to fill the spots.
re: #272 Sherlock Hound
As of yet, asshat blue tick hasn’t had his tweet taken down yet, but a number of the 101st Keyboard Kommando Korps have chimed in.
Conservatives have been so thoroughly brainwashed over the last sixty years they all seem to believe:
a) The military would side with them
b) Liberals are afraid of guns
When the gun shop owner first introduced himself to me (I had a prominent Obamacare sticker on my car so he could guess where I stood), he was genuinely surprised to learn I owned a shotgun. He was convinced liberals didn’t own guns.
We didn’t, to our everlasting shame.
That’s the whole fucking point, you colossal bag of festering diseased dicks. pic.twitter.com/VVBprwRvxV— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 19, 2021
re: #279 darthstar
On the plus side, there are lots of job openings for Xian radio hosts. On the minus side, there are lots of young wanna-be prosperity-gospel millionaires willing to fill the spots.
Yeah, I know one—one of my wacko nephews who is starting his own “mini$try”…
re: #278 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
He brought a white board and a pile of dollar bills. This has conspiracy dupe written all over it. No matter what happens to him, the quacks and snake oil vendors who duped him will stay free to enjoy their profits.
One of these days, there will be too much evidence pointing to a snake oil vendor or quack to be able to ignore…
re: #282 JOE 🥓
Yeah, I know one—one of my wacko nephews who is starting his own “mini$try”…
If I had no shame or ethics, I would get in on that grift.
Alas, my black atheist heart is saddled with an ethical streak that says “don’t con a grandmother out of her grocery money for next month.”
re: #278 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
He brought a white board and a pile of dollar bills. This has conspiracy dupe written all over it. No matter what happens to him, the quacks and snake oil vendors who duped him will stay free to enjoy their profits.
Is he wearing a red ballcap?
The TAB (Twitter Action Badge)
For those who “Almost” joined the military but are now experts on the War in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/aRfAP1Rygz— Chicano Marine 🇲🇽🇺🇸🧩 (@kingsrush) August 18, 2021
LOL, cold calculation? How about knowing the American people.
Media wants so badly to roast Biden on anything.
The Biden team’s cold political calculation is that Americans won’t care what happens in Afghanistan as long as Americans are safe. To their point, today there are no front-page stories on Afghanistan in cities like Boston, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Fresno or Miami.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 19, 2021
Jesus…Noem is an idiot…and the kid’s wearing a leather skirt and heels. WTF?
Our strategy of doing nothing and also preventing anyone else from doing anything is really paying off!
— Texas Republicans https://t.co/xmdARdnzCG— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 19, 2021
re: #218 Dr Lizardo
Because war is good for business and in the media’s case, ratings (and clicks) are business.
But (speaking of Gene Roddenberry) someone should remind them of the 35th Rule of Acquisition.
re: #275 lawhawk
If you had right wing domestic terrorist on the domestic extremist bingo card, you’d likely be right:
Guy rants about Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, 52 democrats, saying that he can’t detonate the bomb but that it will detonate if he dies.
Also claims there’s 4 people with bombs around the US Capitol.— wheelie cool | naisa nai?bi | queer historian ♿♿ (@piaparua) August 19, 2021
“They chose me to do this shit”
“America needs a voice and I’m giving them one”
“There’s 4 more sitting around town. This is just the start. I don’t wanna sit here when it blows up. I don’t wanna sit and die in this truck. I’ll die in federal prison.”— wheelie cool | naisa nai?bi | queer historian ♿♿ (@piaparua) August 19, 2021
more in the thread
Speaking of people who got draft deferments for religious missionary work (in violation of the law) in Paris of all places, another military specialist weighs in.
I don’t how we lost Afghanistan, given the staggering number of military and nation building experts in our government. https://t.co/xkARfCaSEx
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 19, 2021
re: #283 Teukka
One of these days, there will be too much evidence pointing to a snake oil vendor or quack to be able to ignore…
re: #287 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
LOL, cold calculation? How about knowing the American people.
Media wants so badly to roast Biden on anything.
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- 1900 people died in Haiti last week
- about 1000 died here of covid last week
where are those daily, breathless “front page’ stories
The Biden team’s cold political calculation is that Americans won’t care what happens in Afghanistan as long as Americans are safe. To their point, today there are no front-page stories on Afghanistan in cities like Boston, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Fresno or Miami.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 19, 2021
re: #287 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
Hey Peter Baker, is Omaha chopped liver? There is a story with a local connexion on the front page of the Omaha World-Herald.
Omaha is about the same size as Fresno.
By chance and determination, some Nebraskans trapped in Afghanistan escape (forty-eight minutes ago)
re: #287 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
LOL, cold calculation? How about knowing the American people.
Media wants so badly to roast Biden on anything.
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Again, “optics.” It’s driving them bugfuck insane that the only question people are asking is “Are all the Americans safe?” and not “How will we ever live with ourselves knowing that the Afghan people are not wolfing down McD’s anymore?!”
re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth
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they cannot allow the blue/left/dem/sane/scientific side to be proven ‘right’.
and at all costs
Our strategy of doing nothing and also preventing anyone else from doing anything is really paying off!
— Texas Republicans https://t.co/xmdARdnzCG— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 19, 2021
good grief
***Site is run by the state, city supported. I’ve also reached out to the state. City says the volume of patients at this state operated facility more than doubled yesterday.
— Kailey Tracy (@KaileyTracy) August 19, 2021
… contact a medical professional for guidance on the proper treatment for their situation.” (2/2)
— Kailey Tracy (@KaileyTracy) August 19, 2021
re: #237 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m suspicious of anyone named Josh. Even Whedon turned out to be abusive, and Hawley would end our democracy if he could. Then there’s this guy.
What about Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo)?
Among other admirable qualities, he’s long-time friends with his high school classmate John Scalzi.
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
Two more free COVID-19 testing & vaccine sites are now open:
🔺Emmett Reed Community Center-1093 W. 6th St.
🔺Cuba Hunter Community Center-4380 Bedford Rd.
These sites that are open for testing M-F 9-6 & Sat 9-4.
Vaccines offered 7 days a week from 9-6https://t.co/67reH2yyZJ pic.twitter.com/rPeAXYnsAd— City of Jacksonville (COJ) (@CityofJax) August 19, 2021
re: #292 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On top of that, the US State Department put out a warning on its Afghanistan Embassy Website urging Americans to depart then (April), and prohibiting travel to Afghanistan except on government business.
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
Called it. People will be too late for monoclonal treatments and half of them will wind up on ventilators…or dead.
re: #133 No Malarkey!
And yet it is Newsom who is facing recall. What a world.
Because
1. It’s California that has a flawed Constitution that permits such a recall
2. The GOP succeeded back in 2003 with this ploy. Now that they are fully Trumpist, it was time to try again.
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief
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Yeah, shocker, people showing up thinking that monoclonal antibodies are a miracle cure, dropping dead while waiting in line instead. But hey, Ronny’s buddies are gonna make a mint, which he’s probably counting on to help him next year with campaign expenses.
re: #296 Targetpractice
Again, “optics.” It’s driving them bugfuck insane that the only question people are asking is “Are all the Americans safe?” and not “How will we ever live with ourselves knowing that the Afghan people are not wolfing down McD’s anymore?!”
This has a LOT to do with it too:
The media aren’t looking out for you, they are looking out for themselves.
Struck by this in today’s @ReliableSources. Been thinking a lot about which journalists are allowed to feel an ongoing story is ‘personal’ and have that be ok
cc: @WesleyLowery @mitrakalita @Deggans @s_m_i @newsbysamuels pic.twitter.com/IZjNceJjHf— Madhulika Sikka (@madhulikasikka) August 19, 2021
Oh, this is a real dilemma. Sanctions vs humanitarian needs. Lebanon is largely ignored in the US apart from wartime or when a massive conventional explosion takes out a big chunk of the harbor. So we get this. That’s an Al Jazeera link btw.
Hezbollah says Iranian fuel oil ship to sail to Lebanon in hours
Lebanon needs practically everything. Once vibrant and strong this place is again in big trouble. Hezbollah of course is famous in the Middle East for humanitarian and medical aid. Of course, it’s a long list of places that need help. One would think this is a very good thing, a local country helping another. But Iran and sanctions.
What will Pres. Biden do with this hot potato?
re: #287 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
LOL, cold calculation? How about knowing the American people.
Media wants so badly to roast Biden on anything.
Your typical Pre$$titute at the Screw York Times who lusts for the return of Trump.
re: #306 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
This has a LOT to do with it too:
The media aren’t looking out for you, they are looking out for themselves.
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So journalists are trying to crucify Biden because they known people in Afghanistan who have had weeks of warning that shit was about to hit the fan but stuck around because they thought they might be able to make bank on the evacuations/fall of the country to the Taliban.
Imagine my surprise.//////
The scene on NJ & D SE.
MPD Special Operations is assisting USCP. You can see a heavily armed officer with a gas mask in this video. Dozens of construction workers ran out of the buildings. pic.twitter.com/66itAq4ZI6— Julie Tsirkin (@JulieNBCNews) August 19, 2021
re: #297 Dangerman
they cannot allow the blue/left/dem/sane/scientific side to be proven ‘right’.
and at all costs
There are a lot of morans spouting conspiracy theories in that thread, some contradictory. The 24/7 GOP Bulkshyte Machine is working its magic.
re: #309 Targetpractice
So journalists are trying to crucify Biden because they known people in Afghanistan who have had weeks of warning that shit was about to hit the fan but stuck around because they thought they might be able to make bank on the evacuations/fall of the country to the Taliban.
Imagine my surprise.//////
Some of the people they know couldn’t get out of the country to the US because Trump sabotaged the visa program.
re: #307 Rightwingconspirator
Oh, this is a real dilemma. Sanctions vs humanitarian needs. Lebanon is largely ignored in the US apart from wartime or when a massive conventional explosion takes out a big chunk of the harbor. So we get this. That’s an Al Jazeera link btw.
Hezbollah says Iranian fuel oil ship to sail to Lebanon in hours
Lebanon needs practically everything. Once vibrant and strong this place is again in big trouble. Hezbollah of course is famous in the Middle East for humanitarian and medical aid. Of course, it’s a long list of places that need help. One would think this is a very good thing, a local country helping another. But Iran and sanctions.
What will Pres. Biden do with this hot potato?
It is probably in response to this
Fuel explosion in Lebanon kills 20, wounding dozens (SF Gate, four days ago)
BEIRUT (AP) — A warehouse where fuel was illegally stored exploded in northern Lebanon early Sunday, killing 20 people and burning dozens more in the latest tragedy to hit the Mediterranean country in the throes of a devastating economic and political crisis.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion near the border with Syria. Fuel smuggling operations have been ongoing for months.
The Lebanese Red Cross said a fuel tanker exploded and its teams recovered 20 bodies from the site in the border village of Tleil. In a statement, it said it evacuated 79 people who were injured or suffered burns in the blast. Hours after the blast, Lebanese Red Cross members were still searching the area for more victims as Lebanese soldiers cordoned the area.
(more)
re: #302 darthstar
Called it. People will be too late for monoclonal treatments and half of them will wind up on ventilators…or dead.
I know anti-vaxxers that have waited TEN DAYS before seeking treatment because they were convinced Covid wasn’t that serious and thought they were actually sick with something else.
re: #312 Belafon
Some of the people they know couldn’t get out of the country to the US because Trump sabotaged the visa program.
And instead of taking Trump to task for that, we’re back to the “Green Lantern Theory of Leadership” where Dems are supposed to be able to make anything happen through sheer willpower and their failure to do that is a major policy failure.
re: #237 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m suspicious of anyone named Josh. Even Whedon turned out to be abusive, and Hawley would end our democracy if he could. Then there’s this guy.
Whedon is Joss Whedon, not Josh. Full name is actually Joseph
Someone compiled a list of cranks who have killed or severely injured themselves thanks to their strategy of using denial to cope with a pandemic.
fuckedantivaxxer.com
re: #316 danarchy
Whedon is Joss Whedon, not Josh. Full name is actually Joseph
D’oh. I’m getting senile.
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
I know anti-vaxxers that have waited TEN DAYS before seeking treatment because they were convinced Covid wasn’t that serious and thought they were actually sick with something else.
There was a Twitter thread on here a couple of weeks back about one of these who, when brought into the ER for treatment, had a SpO2 of 9%. NINE. PERCENT. BLOOD. OXYGEN. And then, when they were diagnosed with COVID, the spouse complained bitterly that “This is why we didn’t want to come to the hospital, they’re sick with something else but you’re saying it’s the COVID so you get paid!”
more about that bomber guy
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re: #237 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I’m suspicious of anyone named Josh. Even Whedon turned out to be abusive, and Hawley would end our democracy if he could. Then there’s this guy.
Whedon’s first name isn’t Josh, or even Joshua. His birth name is Joseph, and he goes by Joss, not Josh.
Whatever the name, he’s still abusive, egomaniacal scum, though.
ETA: Never mind. I hadn’t yet scrolled down to the other posts giving the same info
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
casually seeing witnessing a bomb threat on the way to class nbd love this country #capitol #libraryofcongress pic.twitter.com/inpBJP0cCy
— fupa mama (@nirvananoir) August 19, 2021
News from @PeteWilliamsNBC on the bomb threat outside the Capitol: ‘The man has been identified. He’s a white male from North Carolina, and he is making anti-government statements.’
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 19, 2021
Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi just tested positive for COVID-19.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 19, 2021
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
I know anti-vaxxers that have waited TEN DAYS before seeking treatment because they were convinced Covid wasn’t that serious and thought they were actually sick with something else.
and when they finally get into an ICU, they STILL insist they don’t have Covid.
Aziz: Herat, 2010.
From @MattBors’s trip to Afghanistan that year. https://t.co/s8kfn6zYRh pic.twitter.com/xmlGuJ7VWv— The Nib ✒️ (@thenib) August 19, 2021
re: #305 Targetpractice
Yeah, shocker, people showing up thinking that monoclonal antibodies are a miracle cure, dropping dead while waiting in line instead. But hey, Ronny’s buddies are gonna make a mint, which he’s probably counting on to help him next year with campaign expenses.
i’m good with shoving this stuff in my body but not the vax?
WTELF?
re: #322 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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News from @PeteWilliamsNBC on the bomb threat outside the Capitol: ‘The man has been identified. He’s a white male from North Carolina, and he is making anti-government statements.’
Man, I knew Cawthorn was having a bad time, but I never expected him to become a suicide bomber.
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re: #326 Dangerman
i’m good with shoving this stuff in my body but not the vax?
WTELF?
The ostensible reason is that mRNA is scary, because people don’t understand how it works, whereas “monoclonal antibodies” doesn’t sound quite as nerve-wracking.
re: #326 Dangerman
i’m good with shoving this stuff in my body but not the vax?
WTELF?
Ron is promoting it, so it must be safe!
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re: #306 b.d. (Cough Louder Conservatives!)
This has a LOT to do with it too:
The media aren’t looking out for you, they are looking out for themselves.
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wait just a second here…
so all these opinionated and prescient people didnt know this was coming?
(i mean they all knew we went way past the 5/1 drop dead date, right?)
they didnt see this coming and plan for their own safety and evacuation?
Struck by this in today’s @ReliableSources. Been thinking a lot about which journalists are allowed to feel an ongoing story is ‘personal’ and have that be ok
cc: @WesleyLowery @mitrakalita @Deggans @s_m_i @newsbysamuels pic.twitter.com/IZjNceJjHf— Madhulika Sikka (@madhulikasikka) August 19, 2021
re: #311 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There are a lot of morans spouting conspiracy theories in that thread, some contradictory. The 24/7 GOP Bulkshyte Machine is working its magic.
the only thing that keeps me from total outrage is that at least for now i can protect me and mine from their insanity
re: #328 Dopamine Fish
The ostensible reason is that mRNA is scary, because people don’t understand how it works, whereas “monoclonal antibodies” doesn’t sound quite as nerve-wracking.
Johnson & Johnson is not mRNA based. I am sure if you really wanted a vaccine and that was your only excuse you could still find one.
re: #330 Dangerman
Whenever I was overseas I followed my much better traveled father’s advice and ALWAYS had a bug out plan. Be ready to get to the airport and on a plane, right now. And have the cash to execute said plan.
re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth
Right wing extremist “Ray Roseberry,” live posting outside the Library of Congress in his truck claiming he has enough explosives to blow up the area. pic.twitter.com/6NrSvdGFUj
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 19, 2021
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
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re: #332 danarchy
Johnson & Johnson is not mRNA based. I am sure if you really wanted a vaccine and that was your only excuse you could still find one.
Yeah, but that one causes other side effects.///
So she still is refusing the shot. Is she drinking Sheep Dip then?
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 19, 2021
re: #309 Targetpractice
So journalists are trying to crucify Biden because they known people in Afghanistan who have had weeks of warning that shit was about to hit the fan but stuck around because they thought they might be able to make bank on the evacuations/fall of the country to the Taliban.
Imagine my surprise.//////
Gotta stay for that last story!
//
re: #333 DesertDenizen
Whenever I was overseas I followed my much better traveled father’s advice and ALWAYS had a bug out plan. Be ready to get to the airport and on a plane, right now. And have the cash to execute said plan.
I always have a bugout plan during travel, even domestically.
What happens in a natural disaster. Do I have a way of returning to home if airports are closed? Or roads are cutoff for extended time? Do I have enough contingency means at disposal. Overseas, had same rule.
Only place the contingency rule had a specific caveat: on a cruise ship, which had one simple rule - don’t be below deck when the ship goes down.
re: #326 Dangerman
i’m good with shoving this stuff in my body but not the vax?
WTELF?
At breakfast.
“I’m not taking a vaccine with undisclosed or mystery ingredients!”
Lunch.
“Extra mustard on that hot dog, please”.
re: #332 danarchy
Johnson & Johnson is not mRNA based. I am sure if you really wanted a vaccine and that was your only excuse you could still find one.
And when I bring that up they just have other excuses, mainly that it’s still experimental. And then I point out the millions that have received it and they move on to personal choice.
re: #314 Eclectic Cyborg
I know anti-vaxxers that have waited TEN DAYS before seeking treatment because they were convinced Covid wasn’t that serious and thought they were actually sick with something else.
InternetMD //
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re: #328 Dopamine Fish
The ostensible reason is that mRNA is scary, because people don’t understand how it works, whereas “monoclonal antibodies” doesn’t sound quite as nerve-wracking.
right, but they could explain how monoclonal antibodies work //
re: #329 Targetpractice
Ron is promoting it, so it must be safe!
///
absolutely
that’s why i’d only get a reverse mortgage from tom selleck
or medicare advantage from joe namath
or jj walker
or mike ditka
or…
or CarShield from Chris Berman
or Ice T
re: #340 lawhawk
The plan always included a stash of crisp, clean US $100 bills. The size of the stash depends on where I was. As Sandman Slim says, Cash is the magic anyone can do.
re: #341 Rightwingconspirator
At breakfast.
“I’m not taking a vaccine with undisclosed or mystery ingredients!”
Lunch.
“Extra mustard on that hot dog, please”.
re: #254 The Pie Overlord!
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