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  1. 1.

    Bobby Thomson

    If things in New York go as badly as expected I would not want to work anywhere near their studios.

  6. 6.

    BretH

    Not a lot of nail salons anyway in the town nearest her Western Mass or Southern VT second home.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
    MNUCHIN: High jobless numbers right now “are not relevant.” He says biz will rehire due to the bill Congress is passing, hopefully.

  8. 8.

    Shalimar

    If your mom is dying and you’re worried about your roots showing at the funeral, you might be a sociopath.

  9. 9.

    PenAndKey

    I now the oft-quoted “let them eat cake” line isn’t actually real, but…. wow. Do they not realize how tone deaf that sounds or how much they’re repeating history by acting like this? It’s like they’re inviting the jacobins to rise up again and offering to stand at the front of the lines when they do.

  11. 11.

    hueyplong

    I’m sorry, but the competition has grown fierce over the last three weeks, so the person saying that is going to have to try harder to get a double-digit tumbrel number.

    For now the best we can do is to say, “You’re on the list” and speak approvingly of the effort.

  14. 14.

    Barbara

    How are they going to return all the online purchases they made and are stores going to waive the 30 day return period?

    It’s true, I admit, I have thought about having to go with my “natural” now not very pretty hair color but I just can’t imagine giving voice to that sentiment in quite that way.  And when I think of my hair color, it doesn’t take long for that concern to center on the man who does my hair, whose distress is likely to be far more profound than mine.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    If you could see when when I haven’t been waxed, you would be more sympathetic to the problem.

  20. 20.

    senyordave

    Hope she gets the virus and ends up on a respirator.  I don’t feel bad because it is not like I’m wishing that on an actual human being.

  21. 21.

    leeleeFL

    @PenAndKey: Will tumbrils be needed or should they have to walk?  Inquiring minds want to know.

    I think the Federalist idea of deliberately infecting kids still tops the list, but Jeebus wept, this is up there.

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I can never keep the Bens straight. Is this Mr I AM JOHN McCAIN’S DAUGHTER!

    Ben Domenech@bdomenech  · 38m

    The 3.3 million unemployment claims today are a direct result of everyone from Morning Joe to Tucker Carlson repeating the baseless predictions of the Imperial College as fact.

  24. 24.

    Just Chuck

    @Soprano2: Their audience is not normal people.  They just need to start on their next two-minute-hate and their audience will shake their collective etch-a-sketch.  Duckspeak bellyfeelwise, prole.

  25. 25.

    BruceFromOhio

    Consider the source. The dominant pathology has been demonstrated previously, and no, they have absolutely no idea or interest in how they sound to normal, rational humans – that’s not their target audience.

    @Betty Cracker: Absolutely! Own the libs and drive ratings – a twofer!

  28. 28.

    opiejeanne

    @Barbara: I am resigned to having a gray ponytail by the time I think it’s safe to venture off the property. My husband may join me in a similar hair style.

    I have been worried about the woman who cuts my hair, too. I don’t think her husband has the kind of job that he can do at home, and their lives were already turned upside down by a house fire that destroyed everything they owned. She often has a cold or some sort of bronchial distress, so she might not survive if she catches this virus. She is very overweight, as well, which will add to the difficulty of treating her.

  29. 29.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    Wow, this one hits close to home. I just found out that my friend’s SIL, who has Parkinson’s, contracted COVID-19. So did the poor woman’s daughter, who kept doing her job at a nail salon instead of social distancing.

    Guillotines look good at moments like these.

  30. 30.

    PenAndKey

    @leeleeFL: I think the Federalist idea of deliberately infecting kids still tops the list, but Jeebus wept, this is up there.

    The first time I saw that I had to do a double-take to make sure someone wasn’t making a dark parody of some warped Hobbesian story. It’s unreal that people not only have these ideas, but feel comfortable enough to say them out loud. There’s tone-deaf and then there’s, well, this. I’m seriously starting to think there’s a segment of the population that legitimately thinks that The Capitol had the right idea in the Hunger Games.

  31. 31.

    donnah

    Welp, that shattered my Outrage Meter, which I’ve repeatedly replaced during this administration. Time for a new one with a wider range,

  35. 35.

    hells littlest angel

    She looks so natural, almost like she’s sleeping. And her nails are gorgeous!

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    Okay, I’ll say it: Trump and Pence should simultaneously take a dirt nap and leave the country in this woman’s capable hands:

    By the way, happy 80th birthday, Madam Speaker.

    PS: Yes, we definitely need to cultivate a younger leadership bench, but by God, Pelosi has earned the right to hold that gavel until she’s 101, as far as I’m concerned. Also, The Post has a great feature essay on Pelosi that is worth a click if you’re on freebies.

  37. 37.

    The Dangerman

    @hueyplong: 

    …so the person saying that is going to have to try harder to get a double-digit tumbrel number.

    Deep thoughts before first coffee … you think a tumbrel would work well as a tenderizer?

    She might be a little tough at Medium Well is all I’m saying.

  41. 41.

    Highway Rob

    Reposting from Alain’s open thread because it’s much more relevant to this one:

    Here’s an article about how a Texas grocery chain (love ’em) prepared for the ‘Rona in ways that would put the White House to shame if they had any.  (Confession, I only read the first bit of it before it occurred to me to share with y’all.  Summary is based on the promo tweet and the headline.)

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/

  43. 43.

    eric

    I cannot wait to be told that no one could have predicted the adverse effects of climate change.  Not sure there will be vaccines for all of those.

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    Coming soon later to a reopened drive-in near you:

    The Cuticle That Devoured Cleveland.

    (h/t: Maynard G. Krebs)

  45. 45.

    cain

    I bought a hair trimmer and scissors – I plan on going to youtube and figuring it out. If I fuck it up, a buzz cut here I come.

    Fox News – keeping it real. :eyeroll:

  46. 46.

    germy

    PELOSI on coronavirus bill: "What we did last night and what we will tomorrow — $2 trillion — is about the cost of the tax scam that the Republicans foisted on the nation to give 83% of the benefits to the top 1 percent … they said it was gonna pay for itself. It never does." pic.twitter.com/AFsqCzQs92— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2020

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @cain: I’m thinking of just going out on the deck with a pair of scissors and hacking away. Somebody can fix it when things calm down. The woman who usually cuts my hair recently moved to a fancier place, since out last appointment, and I’m not sure if I’ll fit in there, though she’s just folks.

  48. 48.

    NotMax

    @germy

    they said it was gonna pay for itself. It never does

    “Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle, that trick never works.”
      – Rocket J. Squirrel
    :)

  51. 51.

    germy

    “People are dying and I realize that, but they can’t get their nails done.”

    It’s an interesting quote, but then she goes on to say that with all the salons closed, we’ll soon see her real hair color.

    So if this continues, all those Fox blondes Roger Ailes hired will slowly revert to their true brunette roots.

    Gasp!

  53. 53.

    Ocotillo

    @Baud:  I thought I had read she plans to step down in 2022 now.  If America throws out the beast, maybe Madam Speaker and RBG can kick back and enjoy the rest of their lives.

  54. 54.

    feebog

    I wish I had a snarky comment for this clip, but I am beyond words.  I guess the best I can say is that the entitlement and lack of self-awareness is astounding.  We now return to your regular program.

  56. 56.

    joel hanes

    @PenAndKey:

    It’s unreal that people … have these ideas

    They’re firmly convinced that the leopard will never eat their face.

    Diseases are for the little people — amirite?

  57. 57.

    Redshift

    I clicked on a tweet this morning about how China kept the epidemic from spreading, with no provinces other than Wuhan getting over 1500 cases, and we already have nine states with more than that.

    The replies were full of “you can’t trust the Chinese!” and “was this written by the CCP?”

    How exactly do they think that’s going to make things any better here?

    (Gotta hand it to the wingnuts, though, “communists” really resonates with their demographic.)

  58. 58.

    BobS

    Watching Cuomo give his daily briefing- I wish he were president right now (so much for “God Bless America”, or “One Nation, Under God”- God flipped us off).

    He fucking gets it.

  59. 59.

    PenAndKey

    @cain: My ten year old son is so against the idea of a buzz clip haircut that he’s already told us that he’ll “just take mom’s hair bands” if he needs to. Whatever works.

  60. 60.

    Ohio Mom

    I used to say that if Marie Antoinette hadn’t said, “Let them eat cake,” someone would have had to make that up because it is so perfect and so needed. Then I found out someone DID make that up. Proving my original observation.

    It would probably be traumatic for male Fox viewers if all the gals on their TVs looked like actual human beings, so maybe the alarm about cuticles and hair roots voiced here is in a weird way a warning to those old farts.

  61. 61.

    The Dangerman

    @germy:

    …slowly revert to their true brunette roots.

    The brunettes will go Manson Women, maybe even carve a T on their forehead. Cults gotta cult…

  62. 62.

    Barbara

    @opiejeanne: My stylist is married to an attorney who has a senior position in the VA, so I think he will be okay, albeit with greatly reduced income, but the people he employs?

  63. 63.

    joel hanes

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    If you have long nails now, you’re probably not getting your hands clean enough.   You will never ever see a surgeon with long nails, and damned few other doctors.   There’s a reason for that.

  64. 64.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Howard Mortman @HowardMortman 5h
    Today is @SpeakerPelosi 80th birthday. Bush began his 1/23/2007 SOTU: “In his day Congressman Thomas D’Alesandro Jr from Baltimore saw Presidents Roosevelt & Truman at this rostrum. But nothing could compare with the sight of his only daughter Nancy presiding tonight as Speaker”

  68. 68.

    CaseyL

    @Just Chuck: Etch-a-Sketch is perfect!   I am continually impressed with the Animal Farm efficiency of Fox viewers’ (and RWs in general) forgetteries.  It’s like they greet each new day with their memories completely re-initialized.

  69. 69.

    MomSense

    There are so many times when “but” is not appropriate.

    I’m not a racist but

    I’m not sexist but

    I’m not trying to be mean but

    People are dying but

    When this is done I want FOX to pay for all the misinformation they have put out that has risked and cost lives during this pandemic.

  71. 71.

    TS (the original)

    @BobS:

    Watching him as well – can hardly believe my thought – Why is he not the President.

    I do think he is playing on being 360 degrees around in policy and outlook and knowledge from Trump.

  73. 73.

    Barbara

    @germy: I predict that someone will hire an unemployed hairdresser to provide services at the Fox Studios.  Wealthy people in NYC know how to adapt to these kinds of “hardships.”

  74. 74.

    germy

    Trump will be remembered as a great president if he rises above the pettiness of our times and rallies the U.S. through the coronavirus crisis, writes @DanHenninger https://t.co/Xt11xF7gsQ— WSJ Editorial Page (@WSJopinion) March 26, 2020

    John Wayne Gacy Will Be Remembered as a Great Birthday Clown if He Rises Above the Whole Murdering Children Thing https://t.co/cPJR6xSDGI— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) March 26, 2020

    I just love this. “Trump will be remembered as a great president if he just starts acting completely differently than he ever has before”
    I mean, sure, but that’s a huge, unlikely fucking if right there
    — Damien (@DamienMShirley) March 26, 2020

  75. 75.

    Soprano2

    I’ll just let my hair grow, except for the bangs – I know the right way to trim them.  It’s not that easy for women to cut their own hair.  I was supposed to have an appointment on April 1st.  Now it’s on April 30th, I pray things are good enough that I can keep it.  We’re lucky here that our mayor and city council are a lot smarter than our governor, and issued a shelter-in-place order yesterday that started at 12:01 a.m. today.  I hope most people take it seriously, but there are a lot of people around here who care more about their “freedum” than other people’s health.

  77. 77.

    germy

    @Barbara:  There’s a scene in the Michael Keaton 1989 Batman movie where the Joker infects all personal care products with poison.  The news anchors are shown looking hideous on TV reporting this.

  78. 78.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zhena gogolia: I keep thinking of Lisa Murkowski: People might be mean to the Chief Justice…

    I spent a couple of days trying to figure out who pissed me off more, she or Lamar Alexander, who basically said, of course he did it, but it got me tax cuts and judges. Then I figured as loathsome as he is, at least Lamar said it flat out.

  81. 81.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

    – Mark Twain

  82. 82.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Redshift: Then you can show them Japan, Taiwan, you can show them South Korea and Singapore, you can compare Kentucky with Tennessee.

    They still won’t believe but they won’t have that particular excuse.

  89. 89.

    Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

    @MomSense: John Cleese noted that anyone saying “I’m not “x” but…” is really saying “I’m “x” AND…”

  91. 91.

    Shalimar

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: The thing is, she makes more than enough money to pay someone to come to her house and do her nails.  So she is showing empathy, it’s just empathy for the poorer sociopaths who can’t afford that.

  92. 92.

    Ruckus

    @WereBear:

    How could there be Peak Wingnut?

    If the crazy isn’t working it’s because you aren’t doing it enough.

    The corollary is of course that if what you are doing is working, do it more.

    Notice any problem with this logic?

    It comes from being fucking crazy themselves, not just being paid to act/talk crazy.

  94. 94.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Chad Pergram @ChadPergram 24m
    McCarthy contends Pelosi added money for the Kennedy Center. Notes he sits on the board of the Kennedy Center. But money for the Kennedy Center was there from the beginning

    People who have no idea what the Kennedy Center is will be outraged about the Kennedy Center bail-out for years. It will be interesting to see what they will say the Kennedy Center is and does (kind of like happens with the “DNC” on the other side of twitter)

  95. 95.

    germy

    As a former health insurance exec, I don’t think any story better illustrates my old industry’s racket than the one I’m about to tell you: Right now, as we enter the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes (#COVID19), health insurers are still raking in record profits. (1/11)— Wendell Potter (@wendellpotter) March 26, 2020

  97. 97.

    Elizabelle

    I love how Cuomo emphasizes that none of us have been in this situation before, and that we will get through it together.

    The contrast is so sharp.  I wonder if we can get Trump out before the end of his term.  He is making too many cruel and inadequate decisions.

  98. 98.

    The Moar You Know

    The agenda at this point is pretty obvious:  they want most of us dead and are going to take active measures to insure that happens.

  99. 99.

    dfh

    Love the post title… had to look it up, of course. Been a long time since I heard Elvis Costello, thanks!

  101. 101.

    TS (the original)

    @Gin & Tonic:  I probably do – and I’m not sure I like the end of his question time when he just discussed both fighting the virus and getting people back to work. I believe it is way too early to be talking about work – if the virus is controlled, the economy will recover, the former has to come first.

  104. 104.

    germy

    Coronavirus is a reminder that the welfare state is not “a burden” but a form of collective insurance against life’s hazards: ill-health, disability, the death of a partner, unemployment. It should never have been so weakened by cuts.
    — George Eaton (@georgeeaton) March 25, 2020

  105. 105.

    JMG

    Alice and I both got hair cuts the week before Mass. shut down, so we’re lucky there. Today, however, we face a challenge. The sink in one bathroom has started to back up and leak. Won’t call a plumber, because that wouldn’t be right, so we’ll DIY. I am the world’s unhandiest person, so there could be some slapstick involved.

  106. 106.

    laura

    The gall of that entitled (“that word”). Nary a thought for the service workers who keep her looking like a media skank. The vacuousness and absence of self awareness is staggering. What is so difficult for these “infotainers” to look beyond their nose and not see how offensive their entitlement and self regard  sounds to decent people?

  107. 107.

    chris

    @TS (the original):

    he just discussed both fighting the virus and getting people back to work.

    Maybe he’s just trying to comfort people? You know, that “normal” will return?
    Whether he believes that is a whole other question.

  109. 109.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    I rolled the dice and went out for a haircut last Friday. I was overdue for one and thought I should get it in. I hate the feeling when my hair gets too long, and it was. Another month and I would have been screeching like that idiot in the video.

    My hair-cutter wore a mask, but only part of the time. I offered to pay her ahead for a few haircuts. She said no but thanked me. And then early this week I got an e-mail that her (two-person) shop is closed for the duration.

  112. 112.

    Feathers

    I’m kinda laughing, because this shows y’all just don’t know many high upkeep women. It is very expensive, always done by someone else, and there is a huge amount of judgement of themselves and other women going on. I swear you could find some sort of anxiety disorder that was agoraphobia, but for letting anyone see you not perfectly turned out. And her comment about seeing what everyone else’s real hair color is shows it.
    And yes, this is monstrous, but it is treated as normal within the media, because there are so few public-facing women not affected by it. While watching TV documentaries I realized that the only women you saw who were aging naturally were tenured faculty. 

  113. 113.

    Barbara

    @Amir Khalid:

    I seem to recall that infection parties for kids are an anti-vaxxer thing.

    For chicken pox.  For which their parents and grandparents and extended adult family members almost all have immunity because they too had the disease when they were kids (like I did).   But when the people who are supposed to be taking care of those kids don’t have immunity, well, let’s just say he didn’t think this theory through very well.  That’s being charitable.

  114. 114.

    germy

    Capitalism 1970: " work hard, you too can be rich "
    Capitalism 1990: " work hard & a few crumbs will fall down "
    Capitalism 2020: " you should be willing to die in order to save the economy for the top percent "

    Are you guys still all in for this?

    — The Special K ??? (@IamKarenBoBaran) March 25, 2020

  115. 115.

    M31

    Trump will be remembered as a great president if he infects Mike Pence with COVID-19, they both die, and Nancy Pelosi takes over

  116. 116.

    cmorenc

    The female Fox News host’s observation seems callous and shallow, but true in that many people are frustrated by the unavailability during the CV crisis of many mundane services that are are nonessential, but nonetheless awkwardly inconvenient to do without.  The real problem is that she spoke out loud a thought most people DO have in mind and DO grumble about, but are more discreet in where and around whom they say it – that it’s a real PITA to do without technically nonessential thing X or Y (e.g. their regular workout gym is shut down).   But most sensible people would realize that a national TV broadcast is a poor context to blurt out the woes of women who can’t find an open salon to get their nails done – it’s the sheer indiscretion of the remark that makes the female host come across as callously shallow, and not the fact that lots of folks (including progressive-minded non-fox watching folks) who find themselves thinking similar thoughts about the various inconveniences we’re enduring, but are sensible enough to be more discreet against the far more serious concerns of illness, death, and general economic disruption facing people.

  117. 117.

    germy

    @Barbara:  Meghan McCain’s husband runs the Federalist.  They’re publishing Covid-19 parties editorials.

    Of course, Meghan is broadcasting remotely on The View from the comfort of her home, where she says she is angry and scared.

    It reminds me of Glenn Beck telling people over 50 to go back to work, while he broadcasts from the safety of his man cave.

  118. 118.

    Ruckus

    @germy:

    trump will be remembered as a great president if he gets the virus and gives it to everyone of his upper staff, including dense and family. And they all succumb on the same day.

    See, this is the kind of thought that his ignorant, dangerous self drives me to. And I’d bet to a lot of others…….

  119. 119.

    Shakti

     

     

     

     

    @germy:

    Ainsley Earhardt is older than I am. So, there’s an excellent chance we’ll see her grays soon, never mind her brunette, dishwater blonde hair. Nothing is more boner shrinking to  men than realizing women age! Even in a pandemic!

    I mean, how is she going to get a wig? The wig stores are closed too!

  124. 124.

    Feathers

    @JMG: Try a drain volcano. Wet a rag. Put 1/2 cup baking soda down the drain. Pour 1/2 cup vinegar down after it. Stuff with rag. After a minute or two, very quickly pull rag up and pour down another 1/2 cup white vinegar. Wait 20-30 minutes. While waiting, boil a kettle of water. When time is up, pour the hot water down the drain. Should get things running again, and it’s not dangerous should you need to open the pipe.

  126. 126.

    germy

    This is Kious Kelly, he was an assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West in New York.

    His colleagues tell me he was caring for COVID19 patients.

    Hospital confirms he died: "Today, we lost another hero – a compassionate colleague, friend and selfless caregiver.” pic.twitter.com/FRGVZSTRDz

    — Emmanuelle Saliba ? (@_esaliba) March 26, 2020

  128. 128.

    TS (the original)

    @chris:

    Maybe he’s just trying to comfort people? You know, that “normal” will return?

    He spoke earlier about the fact that “normal” will never return, That after this, we will be different.  That we are in this together, everyone is involved etc etc. Things will get better but we will not come through it the same. He referenced his children, their fear & what is changing for them.

    I think he was pandering to those who listen to trump & demand that economics is more important than people – and I don’t doubt that he is extremely worried about the New York economy & budget – but to me it is way too soon to be talking about  some resuming work. I’m not even sure what type of work he may have been talking about.

  129. 129.

    Ruckus

    @laura:

    A crude but valid reference.

    It’s tough to see the world when there is no light where you’ve stuck your head.

    In your own colon.

  130. 130.

    Barbara

    @BobS: “Let’s make a bunch of kids sick and then not let their parents take care of them because otherwise they might die.”

    I have my share of warped and distorted thoughts about current events but I try to right myself when I communicate with others.

  131. 131.

    germy

    @Shakti:

    Nothing is more boner shrinking to  men than realizing women age! Even in a pandemic!

    I find real women more attractive than the perfect barbie doll look the fox network ladies affect.

  134. 134.

    Barbara

    @germy: My daughter is in NYC and skipped the chance to come home and ride it out with us.  I worry for her, but I know that people like Mr. Kelly are truly brave and I worry almost as much about them as I do about her.

    ETA: It’s when I see things like this that feelings of rage start to return, that our president and every agency head out there is not on duty 24/7 trying to do whatever they can to lessen risks to people.  It’s just obscene.

  135. 135.

    Sloane Ranger

    Be fair, everyone. She did admit, having her hair and nails done weren’t priorities!

  136. 136.

    Ruckus

    @Barbara:

    I’m never charitable for people who are willfully blind, willfully ignorant, willfully fake and only see life as a competition in a beauty contest. Because they are never actually beautiful, being willfully blind, willfully ignorant and willfully fake.

  138. 138.

    AliceBlue

    I was supposed to have a trim today, but I wasn’t going to keep the appointment even if my salon wasn’t closed.  Since I have a short pixie haircut, I figure it will be a while before I start looking like a character from a Cormac McCarthy novel.

  139. 139.

    Martin

    @TS (the original): It’s not too early to talk about it. In a lot of ways, halting the spread through lockdowns is the easy part for policymakers. We of course have the grueling task of keeping hospitals running and hospital workers safe, but we have to very soon turn to the task of how do we reopen.

    The reason is that the lockdown can only work if people see an end to it, otherwise it becomes jail. We need to start to see plans for how we reopen, what services get turned on, how we do this without reinfecting everyone, and all that. It’s much harder to do, and people really need to understand it because its going to require public support to implement. It’s going to take weeks to work out, so they need to focusing on it now while we wait for the lockdown to do it’s thing. It’s also complicated by problems like ‘what do we do for people from non-lockdown states?’ a problem that Trump has dumped in the hands of the states without the tools needed to solve it.

    So, I don’t think he’s wrong to be thinking about this. You can ask everyone to stay home and eat soup for a while, but the longer it goes on the more new problems start to stack up. By outlining a  plan, even if it’s very crude at first and start to fill in over time, gives everyone something they can mentally plan into.

  140. 140.

    Raoul

    This is quite the Marie Antionette moment, huh. I realize that the press has a lot on their plate to cover these days. But one trend that I am seeing on twitter at least, but I think widely unnoticed by the media, is that the populism anger that fascinated them when it was Republican voters mad at ‘liberal elites’ is now incendiary, white hot anger at the clueless rich (and rich-adjacent courtesans like Kim). But hardly even noticed. It’s an undercurrent that I think will emerge to rip through the nation once movement restrictions begin lifting (not too soon, though! No point in making a second wave infection spike in protesting the Noblesse of sleaze).

  143. 143.

    Martin

    @germy: Yeah, the Fox host that got pulled off for her ‘this is a democratic hoax’ rant is very uncanny valley. Most of these hosts are. Not only not attractive, but kind of unsettling, TBH.

  146. 146.

    Barbara

    @Bill Arnold: I saw this last night, and of course, the content of the ad is just quotes from Trump himself, that he said in public, during press conferences and official briefings.

  149. 149.

    Raoul

    @MattF: If they’re trying to claim it is deceptively edited, that’d be (darkly) hilarious. Though with the new McConnell judges, we can’t be entirely confident that one wouldn’t rule capriciously for their dear leader.

    But, mainly what this and the other Trump legal scattershot suits are meant to do is waste people’s money and time. They won’t win, but they can throw shit and it has to be swept up by responsible people. At, I dunno, $500 or $800 an hour per attorney?

  150. 150.

    Mandalay

    @laura:

    The vacuousness and absence of self awareness is staggering.

    There was no absence of self awareness. She knew exactly what she was saying, and I’m sure the phrases she used (“all the bills stacking up at my apartment“, “thirty day policy” ) were very carefully crafted by her minders before the show.

    She doesn’t have any “bills stacking up”, nor does she have anything to return to the store. But some people do, and her words are indirectly supportive of Trump’s back-to-work-by-Easter policy.

  152. 152.

    Tdjr

    @cmorenc: I found myself whining via text to some friends that I finally retired in January and now I can’t travel like I’d planned. Then I realized most of them were still working and dealing with that along with everything else.

  153. 153.

    BobS

    @Raoul: There are shitloads of attorneys with time on their hands who’d probably defend that pro bono for the chance to say ‘fuck you’ to Trump and his minions.

  157. 157.

    zhena gogolia

    @Steeplejack (phone): 
    I sent my hairdresser and my cleaning person checks for their next three appointments, and I’m still paying my trainer although I’m not going. I feel so helpless but this is one little thing I can do.

  160. 160.

    Mandalay

    @Bill Arnold:

    IANAL, but it’s hard to understand how “cease and desist” is going to work. All the ad does is directly quote Trump’s public statements.

  161. 161.

    Jess

    @Feathers: So true! “While watching TV documentaries I realized that the only women you saw who were aging naturally were tenured faculty.”

  163. 163.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @opiejeanne: I feel the same way. Spousal unit will either grow a ponytail or have me shave his head.  I am just going to find some headbands and ponytail holders and go with it.  I let mine go gray/white 3 years ago so that part is already taken care of.  I really worry about the women who work at the salon I go to.  One is a new mom with a 1 year old, Another is pregnant and has two teenagers.

  164. 164.

    Jess

    “While watching TV documentaries I realized that the only women you saw who were aging naturally were tenured faculty.”

    I’m tenured faculty, btw, about to do a Google Chats meeting with my department. It just occurred to me that I’ll want to get the pile of dishes behind me, in view of the laptop camera, washed before the meeting… so there’s that.

  165. 165.

    PenAndKey

    @Bill Arnold: The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this

    The Trump campaign doesn’t have a leg to stand on with that demand. All the ad does is use Trump’s own statements juxtaposed against a ticking case-count trend-line and ends with his “I don’t take any responsibility at all” statement after the exponential spike. It’s a hard hitting ad that doesn’t require anyone else say a word.

    His campaign doesn’t like that a tightly edited ad against him uses his own words “out of context”? Enough that they’re threatening to sue to have the TV station’s licenses revoked if they don’t pull it down? Even when a full reading of the statements matches with the sections pulled together in the ad and doesn’t “mislead” anything? Yeah, that’s not a fight they’re going to win, and I hope it Streisand’s the heck out of this thing.

  166. 166.

    WereBear

    @Martin:

    So, I don’t think he’s wrong to be thinking about this. You can ask everyone to stay home and eat soup for a while, but the longer it goes on the more new problems start to stack up. By outlining a  plan, even if it’s very crude at first and start to fill in over time, gives everyone something they can mentally plan into.

     

    Very true, and having watched many of them by this time, he does this on purpose: hints at something, talks more about it each time, putting the idea across and then slowly solidifying it.

    Your basic Lowest Common Denominator communication is needed.

  167. 167.

    joel hanes

    @Mandalay:

    A cease and desist for accurately quoting Trump’s public statement.

    But for all of 2016, the National Enquirer ran a demon-face “Hillary Eats Live Babies” story at least once a week.

  169. 169.

    Humdog

    @Jess: Did you see the clip of a woman at a video meeting who took her laptop into the bathroom with her and all her coworkers got to see her pull her pants down and sit on the pot?

  170. 170.

    WhatsMyNym

    @JMG:   @Feathers:   @germy:
    Operating temperatures of pipe materials.
    Plastic pipes are not made for boiling water, especially PVC. Let it cool a bit and don’t do very often.
    ETA:

    Maximum Short Time Operating Temperature

    – for pipes without pressure.

    PVC : 95 C
    PP : 100 C
    PE : 95 C

  171. 171.

    The Moar You Know

    The Federalist resurrected Dr. Mengele to use as their medical consultant.

    @BobS: Wow, now I have to defend Mengele.  Mengele was a sadist, not a moron.  He’d never have signed off on a plan like that for people outside of a hugely controlled environment…like a concentration camp.

    In addition, he knew damn well what would happen to him if he’d even been partly responsible for getting something like SARS-2 out into the general German population.

    So my point is, these people are actually far worse than Nazis.

  172. 172.

    Soprano2

    @Feathers: I have to say this is true.  I heard an interview with a woman who helped get a woman who killed her abusive husband out of jail early (the Scarsdale Diet doctor, for anyone who remembers that).  They had a luncheon for her and all the people who helped right after; she said she hadn’t realized how many women must color their hair until she saw that the only woman in the 50-70+ aged people at the lunch who had gray hair was the one who just got out of prison!

    I agree, there should be a word for people (not just women, BTW) who are terrified that someone will see them in their natural state.  I knew a woman who wouldn’t even let her husband see her undress! I thought that was crazy.

    We got an e-mail this morning that someone in Public Works here has tested positive.  They outlined all the things they did to keep others from getting it, to try to tamp down rumors, but I’m sure I’ll hear within a day who it was.

  173. 173.

    James E Powell

    Woke up to find twitter boiling over with praise for Trump and for Bernie Sanders. Apparently those two guys just saved America

    Also, a March 2nd tweet from NYC mayor telling people to go out and see a movie. This is produced as a “both sides” cover for Trump’s malfeasance and negligence. And it’s “This is why NYC is having problems, libtard!”

    Also too, quite a few “It’s time for liberals to admit that the reason we don’t have enough ventilators or hospital beds is Obamacare.”

    I would laugh, but a pretty high percentage of people still blame Clinton for 9/11 and Carter for the 2008 financial collapse.

  175. 175.

    planetjanet

    @JMG: Oh, I recently had this problem.  I watched a lot of YouTube videos and managed to pull out the pop up stopper, but could not get to the trap.  A cup of baking soda and a cup of vinegar worked magic.

  176. 176.

    Martin

    @WhatsMyNym: To add: it’s no so much that the pipe will melt, it’s that the thermal shock can cause the welded or threaded joints to crack.

  177. 177.

    Leto

    On topic, but sort of OT, just got off the phone with National Guard hq with regard to my ongoing insurance claim and basically everything has taken a backseat to their Covid response. I mean this has been an 18 month process and we need the money but ffs man…

  178. 178.

    Poe Larity

    Why not let the rich have their measles/nail parties? It will save on the wear and tear on the guillotines.

  179. 179.

    Kent

    I don’t get it.  My bored teenager is doing her nails about 2x a day during this crisis.     Have the Fox news droids forgotten how to do their own nails?

  181. 181.

    BobS

    @The Moar You Know: Not really- the real difference is that the Nazis (the German ones, not the pretenders in the White House & at The Federalist- the guy who wrote the article is an unlicensed dermatologist) frequently deferred to expertise, not to mention their frightening efficiency.

  182. 182.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    suicide blonde (“dyed by her own hand”).

    Ha! thirty-odd years I’ve been listening to this song and never made that connection. Though watching the video for maybe the first time (in a couple of decades at least), it seems the band got it.

  183. 183.

    Kent

    @JMG:Alice and I both got hair cuts the week before Mass. shut down, so we’re lucky there. Today, however, we face a challenge. The sink in one bathroom has started to back up and leak. Won’t call a plumber, because that wouldn’t be right, so we’ll DIY. I am the world’s unhandiest person, so there could be some slapstick involved.

    YouTube is your friend.  There are more homeowner DIY instructional videos on YouTube than you can possibly imagine.

  184. 184.

    BC in Illinois

    The Smothers Brothers song comes to mind:

    Black, Black, Black

    is the color

    of my love’s true hair . . .  

  185. 185.

    LuciaMia

    Why not let the rich have their measles parties?

     

    Oh, but they dont mean themselves. Its us, the hoi-poli that are expendable.

  189. 189.

    Kattails

    @Feathers: I’m going to write this down for future reference, but fun correlation–a few days ago someone posted a link to the WW11 chocolate cake on the King Arthur website. It uses no eggs, but the baking soda/vinegar combination for leavening. Not in quite your proportions.  I tried it–pretty good, fudge-y.

  190. 190.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Ben Domenech

    He’s another on my list of people I would not save if they were on one side of a Trolley Problem. (Unless somebody worse was on the other side.) Choice between Ben Domenech and an innocent wolf spider with an egg sack, my choice might (would) be Life for the spider-mom and her unborn children.

  191. 191.

    Steeplejack

    @Martin:

    “Something [to] mentally plan into.”

    True. I got back in town March 18, hadn’t done any “hoarding” before or since. Have been getting groceries/​supplies on about a one-week cycle. But now I see that my local goverments (Arlington and Fairfax counties, Virginia) are locking down until late April, D.C. the same. And from the national news it seems like the coronavirus tsunami is going to hit a little later than I thought and be a lot worse than I thought.

    So now I am considering whether I need to “plan into” the changed environment by getting enough provisions to last me two weeks—or longer—between foraging expeditions. I need to do one in the next day or two anyway, so I’ll see what the situation is at my go-to supermarket.

  195. 195.

    Nicole

    I love the bit where she kind of cuts herself off when she starts talking about how she’s no longer in the city (because she fled to her second home, obv, away from the unwashed NYC masses) and seems to realize it’s not a good thing to say on air.

    I’ve been living for The Daily Social Distancing Show With Trevor Noah, and see that a lot of the other late night hosts are now following suit, but I can’t stand Jimmy Fallon, who, after ruffling Trump’s hair in 2016, is, of course, broadcasting from his home in Easthampton.  F.  U.  J.  F.

  196. 196.

    Steeplejack

    @zhena gogolia:

    I try to do what little I can. I feel blessed, because I have enough money to cover my modest needs. I’m mostly retired, and what work I do is at the computer at home.

    Tomorrow I’m giving my former Barnes & Noble friend a ride to and from her current job at Trader Joe’s. Washington Metro just closed three train stations in Arlington County, two of which are the ones my friend uses to get to work. There are bus alternatives, but they involve complicated transfers and a lot more time. Not to mention exposure to an unknown number of people. So I’ll pick her up and drive her the 12 minutes (per Google Maps) to work. I’m not crazy about getting out there and—to be honest—exposing myself to her, but I feel like it’s the least I can do for someone who is one of the underpaid workers that we expect to keep society running while we shelter in place and practice social distancing.

    When this crisis is over, I hope we can really address income inequality and the fact that it is basically impossible to live on the wages that far too many jobs pay. Fifteen dollars an hour is just a start.

  198. 198.

    Mike G

    @germy:

    So if this continues, all those Fox blondes Roger Ailes hired will slowly revert to their true brunette roots.

    Given that she was hired essentially as a hairstyle and body shape mannequin for geriatric bigots to ogle with no journalistic skills or intelligence to fall back on, I can kind of understand her concern.

  200. 200.

    Suzanne

    So just yesterday, I realized that my nails looked really bad and that I was overdue for a manicure… but that I wouldn’t be getting one any time soon. I typically get dip powder. So I ripped that dip powder off and cut my nails short and got the fuck over it.

    I also dye my own hair with stuff from Sally. Which I can order.

  201. 201.

    joel hanes

    @James E Powell:

    Bernie did something constructive.   Sometimes a gadfly is useful, and this was one of those times, and he rose to the occasion.   Credit where credit is due.

    Gadflies do not make good administrators.

    One of the President’s chief responsibilities is administration.

  202. 202.

    trollhattan

    @joel hanes:

    Vader sans helmet is the recurring and probably accurate parallel to Trump’s actual look before paint and cotton-candy topping are applied. Lord help anybody sharing the club locker room with him.

  203. 203.

    joel hanes

    @Steeplejack:

    If you feel you can do so, put her in the back seat and turn the vent fan to outside air/medium.   And/or wear a mask.

    Feelings count, so I don’t know if you can do this or not.

  204. 204.

    Ohio Mom

    Soprano2 @171: I remember that story. I’m pretty sure it’s from a Nora Ephron essay, from before she got into movies, when she was writing columns for Esquire and such.

  206. 206.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @joel hanes:

    I appreciate the suggestion. I might wear a mask, if I can find the single one that I have, but that’s about all that I feel comfortable doing at this point. I might be taking her to and from work a lot over the next few weeks. I’ll just have to monitor the general situation and see how things go.

  207. 207.

    lgerard

    I don.t get it.

    Why doesn’t she just get Steve Doocy to do her nails

    He is sitting right there

  208. 208.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Mandalay: IIRC, the claim is that Trump didn’t actually call COVID-19 a hoax, he called Democratic attempts to politicize it and scare people a hoax.

    And therefore, you can’t ever quote Trump on it without including that he was yelling at Democrats.

    Which is fine! We should all be noting that while Democrats were trying to sound the alarm and tell Trump to do more, he was fucking around at rallies and pretending that everything was okay because it was Democrats who were rightly telling him to get off his ass.

    It wasn’t even that Trump ignored it – it’s that he caused the deaths of potentially hundreds of thousands of people so he could make fun of liberals.

  210. 210.

    D Gardner

    I realize Kilmeade and Doocey make a habit of looking like slack-jawed doofuses (doofi?) but even they seem gobsmacked by this callous pseudo-human.

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