This video, from the Vietnamese Health Department is fun and informative, and the Tik-Tok under it is just fun. I got them via the John Oliver story that Anne Laurie posted in her COVID-19 post. The whole Oliver video is worth watching.
In other topics, if you’re voting today, and a Warren stan, or even Warren-curious, I agree with Paul Campos.
Wag
I dropped off my ballot for Warren in Colorado last week. Haven’t looked back.
sdhays
I had this argument with myself last night, and it comes down to that while I trust Elizabeth Warren, I don’t trust her delegates, and I don’t want a brokered convention. I have come to believe that Bernie will lose us the election and is thus an existential threat, and so he needs to be shut down as expeditiously as possible.
ETA: We would have had a much better primary if the 3 ancient B’s (Bernie, Biden, and Bloomberg) had all stayed the fuck out.
Eric U.
If Trump wins, Bernie has cemented his place in the list of the world’s greatest monsters. I feel like voting in PA might be easier this time, I suspect it will be obvious who to vote for.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Listening to the TN Sec of State talking about efforts to find new polling places for the people whose usual polling places are damaged/destroyed.
Dupe1970
@sdhays: This! I was so sad when they entered because I really liked all the other candidates and wanted to see them debate the issues.
Kraux Pas
Getting ready to vote for Warren after breakfast. Considered voting for Sanders because I absolutely do not want Biden to win, but I figured spite voting is kind of a dick move.
Uncle Cosmo
Funny that (you claim) that should bother you – “dick moves” have been one of your specialties ever since you showed up here using a nym that ended in DOPE.
Kraux Pas
@Uncle Cosmo: Hey, how do you think you’d respond to months of bullying and harassment from a community you’ve been part of for a decade.
And, for the record, I calmed down after two weeks. You’re still going.
TaMara (HFG)
Proudly dropped off my ballot for Warren yesterday. Again, #teambrokenglass, but she is quite possibly one of the most qualified and prepared (dare we say, overprepared = fuck you chuck todd) candidates ever.
E.
After much anguish, I have decided to go with Warren. I want to see her in the next debate surrounded by barky old white guys with half her drive and at most half her brains.
PJ
@sdhays: I don’t know why you think Warren’s delegates would vote for Sanders. Everyone I’ve met volunteering is pretty anti-Sanders.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m using knuckles, my elbows or my cuffs to open doors and punch elevator buttons. Hopefully, I stay clear of the thing.
However, if I get anything that seems cold-like in terms of symptoms, it would be fun to visit the Kentucky offices of Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Tom Massie, the Kentucky GOP (as well as their campaign HQs and the business premises of their top 10 local donors) to lick the doorknobs, bathroom faucet handles and the pour spouts on the coffeepots….
;D
Jager
My polling place is 10 minutes from the house, I’ll be voting at 10 after 8. For Elizabeth. In Califonia
Ohio Mom
I don’t get to vote for two weeks and by then the entire landscape could be much different. So I am delaying any decision-making.
My goals though are set in stone: try to stop Sanders and whatever else, Broken Glass.
(I really don’t get Sanders-love at all, but that might be that I grew up among abrasive, argumentative, uncompromising and ill-mannered old Jewish New York men, and as a result, find no novelty in this type.)
Aleta
From Tehran, actor/ mime danial_kheirikhah (w/ music)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FFVnigLEE/
O. Felix Culpa
@Ohio Mom: I don’t get the love for BS either. Nor did I understand the “charm” of Ronnie Reagan. Maybe I lack the proper DNA to respond to their alleged allure.
Amir Khalid
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
You naughty, naughty boy.
Chyron HR
@Kraux Pas:
I’m sure nobody asked you to come back after you covered yourself in glory last time. Hence the new name.
Brachiator
I’m glad I voted Monday in the California primary instead of waiting until Super Tuesday. The new electronic voting system implemented in Los Angeles County is easy to use, but it was good to have a poll worker show me the steps involved. I could see a couple of steps in the process where a person could make a mistake, and maybe have to start over.
The old method of casting a ballot was simple and repetitive, marking selections on a ballot paper. In the electronic system, you have to read, press selection choices on screen and sometimes make a branching choice: more, next or skip. And any time you introduce extra steps and decisions, you increase the chance of confusion and errors.
But it worked, and I complimented the people there for explaining everything well and for offering helpful tips. Yeah, it helps to be offered a seat because of the placement of the voting device.
It was a good thing that I brought my sample ballot book, because they could scan information to identify me and to make sure I got a Democratic Party ballot.
I didn’t realize that I could have marked my sample ballot at home and printed out a single sheet with all my choices turned into a QR code that could be read by the voting device. This would have made the process even faster. I assume that they will also use this system for the general election. I give it two thumbs up.
About 93,000 have already voted electronically (this doesn’t include mail ballots).
Now I get to relax and see the results roll in.
ETA. I voted for Warren.
Omnes Omnibus
Don’t overthink things. Wash your hands. Vote for the person you think will be the best president. Don’t panic.
PJ
@Brachiator: I hope California has paper records for every vote, or y’all (and us generally) are screwed. I would not be surprised if Russians (and others) make a concerted effort to hack electronic voting machines this year.
Brachiator
@PJ:
After all the electronic voodoo, a ballot is printed on some plastic type material. You can check to see what your choices were. This is then placed in a ballot box. The electronic vote can thus be checked against a physical record of the ballot.
joel hanes
I agree with Paul Campos.
and with Loomis!
A rare moment of inter-blog and intra-blog comity.
Ruckus
@sdhays:
The point is that we can leave them out by not voting for the 3 elders. They have no bigger chance than anyone else. They may have a bigger opportunity, AKA bloomers, to buy their way in but their chance is the same as everyone else. But this election is so important because of the shit stain in office now and the apparent human condition which seems to say, you don’t get ahead by effort, you get there by segregation and hate. There is at least one candidate who has and is putting in the effort and is selling better, not sideways and worse. Elections are about not the best, they are about the best asking for the position. That’s as good as it gets. Everyone has faults, otherwise they aren’t human, it is – does the good outweigh the not so good. We have to stop trying to elect the most popular kid, this isn’t
seniorjunior class president we are voting for. We are hiring someone to run the federal government, our federal government.eclare
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Hahaha….
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I almost appreciate the effort to confirm my opinion
Kraux Pas
@Chyron HR: Oh, but I love it here. Why do you think I’ve been here for now 12 years?
It’s a great community. Most conversations I have here are perfectly pleasant, can go in suprising directions, and show me things I may not have seen otherwise.
People here helped me find an affordable lawyer for my boyfriend last year when we had some trouble. There are so many wonderful people here.
Maybe you should spend some time observing them more closely.
germy
germy
germy
Thread:
Another Scott
Another Warren vote. I was #384 in my precinct on one of the two paper scanner machines. It seems like a very good turnout in my little corner of NoVA.
Cheers,
Scott.
Bill Arnold
Anyother face-touching-stopping guide:
How To Stop Touching Your Face – Amid the coronavirus outbreak, experts offer advice for doing the (seemingly) impossible and altering this common habit. (Caroline Bologna)
Again, my approach, not mentioned, is to make one finger on each hand smelly (with a liquid skin crack sealant or liquid bandage); that, with a working nose, is a real-time hand-near-face proximity alarm. Biotech, not high tech, but hey.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: it’s a bold move, Cotton
I wonder which of Tom’s potential rivals will point out to trump that Cotton is betting on a trump loss in 2020. Probably Christie, if he’s still one of trump’s phone buddies. Or Haley, she looks like one who enjoys putting the knife in.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Is Tom the competent fascist everyone worries #45 is paving the way for?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@germy: a lot of people say that, I’d worry more about a Hawley or a Haley. Cotton gives me a strong, strong that-boy-ain’t-right vibe, like the squirrel population was decimated in his neighborhood when he was in middle school, and little girls would find their dollies out in the yard without heads
Uncle Cosmo
More like two years, boychik. If then. I guess I’ll give you part credit for not going out to vote for BS’s BS. But the persisting holier-than-thou attitude of you & your ideological friends is more likely to help drag this nation over the cliff’s edge than back from it, so yes, I am still going. Deal with it.
zhena gogolia
@germy:
Speaking of Tom Cotton, my trainer just said one of her clients (a veterinarian) told her that Covid-19 was no worse than the flu and that it was created in a lab in China. (The trainer’s daughter, a nurse, had just written her an urgent message about hand-washing and such, and this client said, “Oh, she’s overreacting.”)
Redshift
I cast my vote for Warren here in NoVA, after spending a couple of hours outside the polls collecting signatures to get Mark Warner and Don Beyer on the ballot. People were coming in at a good clip the entire time, making me feel very good about Virginia this year. Not that I should have worried; the anti-Trump vote has produced record turnout in the past three years, and we’ll do the same this November.
Redshift
Also, I got into a town hall with Nancy Smash on Thursday. If I get called on, I’m going to ask what can be done about Barr, unless anyone has a better suggestion.
catclub
The Fed dropped the federal funds rate by an emergency 1/2 %. ….To keep the best economy ever from collapsing.
Kraux Pas
Dude, you’re being so hypocritical.
I have plenty of conversations with people on here whom I disagree with without being especially disagreeable. But I stand up to bullies. Some people on here are bullies. Chyron got called out by a FPer not too long ago for going way over the top.
You’re attacking me for what? What did I say here that’s so bad that you can’t attribute to a 4 year old chip on your shoulder or guilt by association?
Omnes Omnibus
@catclub: How will panicking help?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Redshift: good place to start– I’m one to trust Pelosi’s judgment, but I’d like an explanation as to why oversight seems to have stalled somewhat since impeachment
(and yes, I’m sure the “frontline Dems” are worried about scandal-fatigue, and I think that’s valid, but I hope Pelosi and Schiff are trying to figure out how to get back to it)
sdhays
@PJ: It’s not that I believe they’ll do the wrong thing, it’s that I don’t trust them to do the right thing. They’re a big variable that I would like to not introduce if I can help it.
Brachiator
@catclub:
It is a global economy and the various government and international economic agencies have agreed to do whatever is necessary to help prevent problems.
I would love to see intelligent questions asked of the presidential candidates about this issue in an upcoming debate.
I’d like to see Trump asked about it as well, but I know he would either lie or sputter bullshit.
Kelly
The Oregon primary is May 19th. We invented primary elections we really should be earlier than all these copycats.
CarolDuhart2
@Brachiator: While I kind of understand investor panic, none of that is going to re-open closed factories, give people the confidence to go outside again, or make sick people well enough to work. The only thing that would work as an economic stimulus would be putting money in people’s pockets to make up for lost wages.
catclub
@Omnes Omnibus: Ask the Fed. I was not the one who panicked.
catclub
From Bloomberg.
I always find these statements amusing. It is so strong we are cutting rates.
gene108
@Ohio Mom:
I don’t get to vote for another 2 months and 29 days.
I so badly want to swap places with New Hampshire and have the first primary. I just want to see those fuckers faces, when they have to wait till the primary should essentially be over to vote.
Brachiator
@CarolDuhart2:
According to NPR Marketplace, many Chinese workers are on extended vacation. The virus also coincided with the Lunar New Year. There are concerns about getting manufacturing back on line in March.
Investor panic and the stock market is not a big concern.
Various countries and central banks are working on stimulus programs. Proposals include helping to make up for lost wages, and also helping businesses stay afloat during any cash crunch. And after a while, having money to spend doesn’t help if there is nothing to buy.
joel hanes
@Kraux Pas:
Maybe I’ve changed, maybe you have, maybe something else has changed …
but I’ve enjoyed reading the comments by Kraux Pas more consistently than II did the comments by Kropadope.
CarolDuhart2
@Brachiator: There will always be something to buy-even if its only necessities like food and toilet paper. And sadly, funerals have to be paid for too. Not to mention utilities and rent. And after several weeks of not working, and the time comes (somehow) to restart, people are going to have to have their needs met until that first paycheck.
The most tenuous time for me as a seasonal was the time between resuming work and that first paycheck. If I was lucky, the unemployment money lasted long enough till then.
Brachiator
@CarolDuhart2:
Yep, I noted that the stimulus that countries are considering involves putting money into people’s hands. But that is only part of it. If there is a shortage of goods, prices increase and the money in hand loses value. And small businesses may fail and not be able to pay workers at all if they don’t have a cash flow because they cannot produce anything.
An economy that is little more than a subsistence economy cannot sustain itself.
A severe economic contraction is a worst case scenario to be avoided.
J R in WV
@zhena gogolia:
I must imagine the vet client is a solid fascist Trumpite, because that lab-creation story is solid right-wing nut job nonsense. The nurse daughter has her head on straight and your trainer should pay attention to her advice.
Ruckus
@Bill Arnold:
Glad you put that in there about the working nose part. My sense of smell is zero. I’m not the only person on the planet with this issue. For me I have to remember “Don’t touch your fucking face, dumbass!”
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
I am a permanent vote by mailer in CA. But I can take my ballot to a voting center and drop it in the box. Which I did Saturday. I also got an email telling me that I had dropped it off and it had been counted. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.