Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

The lights are all blinking red.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

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Been quite the year, this week, hasn’t it? And in the latest cliffhanger, another ‘libertarian’ Repub has decided to play vandal for the cameras:

… Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he opposed the bill, approved unanimously by the Senate on Wednesday, as it would add to the national debt. The libertarian lawmaker also is concerned that voting without a quorum present — the majority of the House chamber — would violate the Constitution. He said he has yet to decide whether to press the issue, which could delay a House vote until late Saturday or Sunday…

Pelosi indicated that any future effort would involve all four leaders in Congress. She intends to hunker down in Washington to work on the next steps, rather than heading back to her home in San Francisco, even though the House is not expected to be in session for weeks to come…

SOMEBODY has to be the grown-up in the room, after all. And the Repubs can’t even keep their own team in line.

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    Ok weird. I see more tweets with the ad blocker on than with it off.
    The Hillary and Schatz tweets don’t show up.

    ETA: The last Schatz tweet shows up. Not the others.

  7. 7.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I have the misfortune of living at the far west end of Massie’s sprawling red pustule of a House district, but work in John Yarmuth’s glorious blue KY-03. I’m actually going to pay a visit to his local office (I was surprised to learn he bothered, but it is a huge geographic spread from Ashland to the Cincy suburbs to the Louisville exurbs) to scream at them until I’m removed by law enforcement. I’ll let you all know how it goes; I want them to hate their jobs.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    @Baud:

    I SEE FOUR TWEETS!

     

     

    I see nine with the ad blocker ON.  I’ll check how many I see with it off.

    ETA: five with the ad blocker off.

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Heaven forbid…. Being overprepared is just the absolutely worst thing in the world one can be! Imagine being ready for anything.

  15. 15.

    Quinerly

    Can someone free Jo Jo las Orejas from moderation? He’s barking up a storm. I’m afraid he will wake his neighbors in his new home. ?

  16. 16.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I have to also say how much better msnbc is without Tweety.

  17. 17.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: I need to note, I don’t actually see embedded tweets, I see tweet text only. I thought this was normal but listening to others makes me think they see the graphics too. The only way I see the graphics is if I click on the tweet and go to it.

  19. 19.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud: My post included one tweet (with video ad) from Ben Wexler, a WaPo extract, a Nancy Pelosi tweet, a Joe Biden tweet, a nested double-tweet from Elizabeth Warren, and a Brian Schatz tweet (with a different video ad).

    If you’re getting more than that, well… could they be some kind of furtive scams / ads?

  20. 20.

    ThresherK

    I have never heard of T. Massie (R) from KY, but it appears they just grow these dipshits in labs somewhere.

    Hey, someone’s got to be the next Ginny Fox.

  23. 23.

    Jeffro

    I’ve kind of had enough of this asking-nicely stuff re: the Defense Production Act.

    Step up, national Dems!  Tell the Ill Douche that if he won’t invoke it, it will be the first line out of their mouths in every speech they give (and every TV ad they run) going forward, even as cases skyrocket and people start dying for lack of ventilators.

  24. 24.

    WereBear

    @Jeffro:

    I’ve kind of had enough of this asking-nicely stuff re: the Defense Production Act.

     

    We need to make a great big noisy fuss.

    We are all Ramona Quimby now.

  25. 25.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    My son just came in to say that the UK PM tested positive. Trump is probably freaking about this. It’s coming his way!

    ETA: And I see others beat me to it!

  27. 27.

    Quinerly

    @Anne Laurie: Hi Anne! Can you restore Jo Jo las Orejas comments? He is not spam or troll. He’s just a little bi lingual puppy wanting to make the morning crew smile. Water Girl told him earlier in the week he could comment off of my account. ?

  28. 28.

    Ten Bears

    Looks more and more everyday like an outright case of waging biological warfare on the American people, that this “pandemic” is no different than Christians handing out smallpox laced blankets to the natives. The Trump Virus because Trump brought it here and turned it loose to kill off a bunch of us.

    This goes beyond providing aid and comfort …

  29. 29.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Quinerly: There is a pack of beagles down in the valley that spends most of it’s time “stuck in moderation”. As bad as their barking/howling gets, it’s worse when they get out.

  30. 30.

    Anne Laurie

    @Quinerly: Damn!  I’m so tired, I accidentally trashed two Jo Jo comments as spam… and had to go fish them out from between multiple multi-screen copypasta screeds from ‘bible believers’ going blog-to-blog.  Sorry, Jo Jo!

    (And now: to bed… )

  32. 32.

    germy

    congrats america. now we’re all the central park five. we’re all the stiffed vendors. we’re all the abused women. we’re all puerto rico. we’re all the kids in cages. now everyone gets know how it feels to be his tortured plaything. well done.

    — kilgore trout, stonks autographer (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 27, 2020

  35. 35.

    Quinerly

    @Anne Laurie: he is very smart and thought he had it set up as a morning surprise with Watergirl. He was up early wanting to be the first commenter and to meet Baud! Bi lingual puppies are challenging.

  36. 36.

    germy

    Trump says he's having a big problem with "the young, a woman governor, you know who I'm talking about, from Michigan."

    — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 27, 2020

    Hi, my name is Gretchen Whitmer, and that governor is me ?

    I've asked repeatedly and respectfully for help. We need it. No more political attacks, just PPEs, ventilators, N95 masks, test kits. You said you stand with Michigan — prove it. https://t.co/FtWlTLZdqW

    — Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) March 27, 2020

  37. 37.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Anne Laurie: post included one tweet (with video ad) from Ben Wexler, (check) (but no video)
    a WaPo extract, (check)
    a Nancy Pelosi tweet, (check)
    a Joe Biden tweet, (check)
    a nested double-tweet from Elizabeth Warren, (shows as 2 seperate tweets)
    and a Brian Schatz tweet (with a different video ad). (I have 2 Schatz tweets sandwiched around a Hillary tweet)

  41. 41.

    Patricia Kayden

    Unfortunately this does have to be said @JoeBiden. This is what a President should do. Unfortunately, the current occupant of the White House is not capable of being Presidential. His failures to listen to the experts is already killing people. https://t.co/j8HepDy6g2— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) March 27, 2020

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud: Okay… thought I’d transferred a couple of those into the coronavirus thread, so I tried hand-loading them again, and some of them now show up for me, but some don’t.

    Gonna blame it on the FYWP gremlin that chimera’d Betty’s and Dave’s posts yesterday morning!

  50. 50.

    Baud

    I hate when they interview little kids about the coronavirus because they are all more articulate than I am.

  51. 51.

    Amir Khalid

    @WereBear:

    No, no. no. The free market doesn’t exist to solve problems. It exists to profit from problems, sometimes by solving them but not necessarily.

  52. 52.

    JPL

    Was anyone else watching the Today show?   After an interview with Drew Brees, Hoda had a teary moment.   It was an expression that we all feel.   \

  57. 57.

    JPL

    @Baud: It was painful for me to watch, because that is where we are at.  We know that the president would not be capable of expressing any type of empathy.

  59. 59.

    MJS

    I am in favor, if it’s safe, for all Dems to stay in Washington while all the Republicans take a recess. No need to meet – just pick two Dems, each day, to do a press briefing, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, explaining what the Democrats’ plans are, and pointing out that the Republicans are nowhere to be found.

  60. 60.

    germy

    I think about the thousands of Puerto Ricans who died after Maria, whose bodies rotted in trailers, whose deaths were uncounted, and I think that what the empire does in the colony, they will eventually do in the empire’s heart https://t.co/qY3twq3n2r
    — Molly Crabapple?? (@mollycrabapple) March 26, 2020

  62. 62.

    Betty Cracker

    I didn’t watch the latest episode of the Trump Reality Show: Coronavirus Survivor last night, but I’ve seen some disturbing recaps from epidemiologists about Dr. Birx’s contributions.

  65. 65.

    germy

    @Betty Cracker:  Yes.  I was hoping she was one of the good people, but lately she’s been disappointing.

    The one comment by Birx that worried me that she’s trying to present an overly rosy picture.

    She’s a number cruncher // surely she knows that 20/50 mostly lower-pop states isn’t equivalent to 40% of the country’s population https://t.co/oED4eJyWeL

    — Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 26, 2020

  68. 68.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    @rikyrah: Hola. ¡He estado esperando toda la mañana para darte los buenos días! Mi mamá dijo que te gustaran los perritos.

  69. 69.

    Patricia Kayden

    DOCTORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FURIOUS. The things we are learning about the lack of U.S. preparedness are truly alarming. And after weeks of ringing alarm bells, we still don't have the tests, PPE, and support we need on the front lines. Here is what we know right now. (1/16)— Committee to Protect Medicare (@cmteetoprotect) March 26, 2020

  70. 70.

    Ohio Mom

    Le Comte de @7: Just go to Masse’s web site and keep scrolling until you find the list of his offices with their phone numbers. Then everyday, call the interns who answer the phone.

    Ask them their names, and refer to them by their names, often. Ask them questions to see if they truly understand the facts (I had to explain what per capita meant to one of my Rep’s underlings who said the numbers from Italy didn’t count because they are a much smaller country than the US).

    I always tell them I don’t expect my call to sway their incorrigible boss but that they are young, have their whole lives ahead of them, and I want them to have good lives, doing good things, and they can change the path they are on.

    You can take a different approach to your phone calls, but please stay home, this is no time to not socially distance. Plus, you will get to annoy them many times rather than just once.

  73. 73.

    Ohio Mom

    Amir@51: What a wonderfully pithy observation about the Free Market existing to profit off of problems. I writing that down to use the rest of my life.

  76. 76.

    Quinerly

    @Gin & Tonic: The vet in Espanola, New Mexico who fostered him while he was recovering from a badly fractured left hindleg (fractured before he was 6 weeks old) named him Joey. I didn’t care for it. Changed it to Jo Jo. Pronounced “Joe Joe.” Obviously I did not realize that he mostly understood Spanish when he rescued me.

  81. 81.

    SFAW

    @Ten Bears:

    This goes beyond providing aid and comfort …

    Disclaimer: not a lawyer, nor Constitutional expert. But I don’t think the definition of “Treason” currently includes “aiding and abetting the deaths of shitloads of Americans from COVID-19.”

    Check and mate, libtard.

  82. 82.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    When we moved to the Millennial Epicenter, aka Denver, I’ve been overwhelmed by the urban dog population.  It’s a residency requirement it seems.

    But no beagles.  Meanwhile, for 22+ years living back in Misery, I learned to hate beagles because everybody had em and it was more or less as you describe.  It’s unfair to blame the beagles when it was their dumbass bubba owners.

  84. 84.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    @Baud: Me gusta mirar por la ventana. A veces ladro cuando veo una ardilla. ¿Te gusta el queso? Me gusta el queso americano. Me siento para el queso. Aprendí esa semana ladt.

  85. 85.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Anne Laurie: I’m pretty sure the adblocker is having some fun at our expense. I have long assumed as much, don’t ask me why because I’m sure I did not come up with that idea on my own. Some techie geek had to have planted that seed in my Luddite brain.

  87. 87.

    SFAW

    @WereBear:

    I was told the free market would solve all these problems!

    It is. It’s just that the “free market” definition of “all these problems” is somewhat different from that used by a rational/compassionate human being.

  89. 89.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Amir Khalid: It exists to profit from problems, sometimes by solving them but not necessarily.

    But only after the pain of sickness and death have sufficiently raised the profit margins.

  94. 94.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    @Baud: Me tiro un pedo y corro. Si mi mamá me atrapa, le doy ojos de cachorro. Ella no sabe que yo sé que está mal.

  98. 98.

    Immanentize

    @Baud: You and JoJo better be careful, that kinda talk got Ola Azul kicked off the site.  And C’mon — you ? the Overton Window!

  102. 102.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    @SFAW: Adiós. Me voy de paseo. Por favor, diles a Subaru Diane y Elizabelle que los estaba buscando. Los veré luego. Me gusta este lugar. Volveré. Me gusta hacer sonreír a los humanos.

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    In today’s coronavrius post, I count 33 separate tweets. 15 presses of the Page Down button on keyboard before getting to first comment. You as well?

  107. 107.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: It really ticks me off when they show up here hot on the trail of some deer that passed thru 3 hrs ago, lose the trail and then spend the rest of the day and night trying to make me feel guilty for not taking them in and forcing me to keep my 2 hounds inside. Sometimes they are gone by morning but more often not.

    They are well fed, but that is the only good thing I can say for their treatment.

  110. 110.

    Immanentize

    @OzarkHillbilly: There used to be this guy in NYC who would come on a Subway car with his sax.  He would pass the hat and get little, then he would blow like a crazed and trapped Ornette Coleman for about two minutes.  Then he would say, would you spare a little to get me to leave?  And pass the hat again.

    Sounds like your neighborhood beagle plan.

  115. 115.

    germy

    Is Tara Reade going to be the next big story?

    I don’t know much about the situation.  I don’t trust much of what I read on the subject.

  116. 116.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Immanentize: My all time favorite Spanish phrase has always been “Lo siento, mi no hablo mucho Espanol.” Well, that and “Cerveca fria por favor!”

    ETA depending on circumstances, “Donde es el bano?” can be #1.

  119. 119.

    Immanentize

    @OzarkHillbilly: I once counted and back in the late 90s I had picked up the ability to say, Two beers, please! In 8 languages.  9 if you include saying it in Scotland.

  125. 125.

    Sab

    @Quinerly: I had a rescue dog year ago in Las Vegas NV. He was found running loose in a parking lot. He was obviously from a loving home. We ran found dog ads but no luck. A couple of years later I was out walking him when I stopped to chat with our new Puerto Rican neighbor. Turns out the dog understood Spanish and responded to Spanish commands.

    We’d been running the ads in the wrong papers. Should have had them in the Spanish papers.

  127. 127.

    raven

    @Sab: I found an Aussie once and named him Pepper. He’d ride in the back of my truck, (I know, don’t do that)  watch through the windshield for oncoming cars and bit at them as they passed! After about 2 months I was at a grocery store and a kid came up and said “hey, that’s my dog”. I gave him back.

  128. 128.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: That all depends on how much Montezuma hates me. ETA, Numero uno was always done behind the back wall, one does not waste water

  131. 131.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    So Boris Johnson has COVID19, Trump doesn’t believe NY needs all those ventilators, and Rudy G is apparently just experimenting with whatever drugs he has in his medicine chest, getting ready to cure us with some combination he discovers.

    The good news is, the day can only get better from here.

    I saw the cover for The Wysman, the book coming out in June. I’m not sure if I like it but it’s too late now. And I do think the book is not bad. I guess that’s my morning good news.

    Have we really been in lockdown for only a week?

  132. 132.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: I’ve had them twice. Once in a little mountain village during a monsoonal downpour at 6 AM. Came flying out of my sleeping bag and barely got my pants down before the gushing began in the middle of the dirt road. Looked up and saw a small child watching me from the door of her hut. I could only imagine what she was thinking about the gringo loco.

    The bright side? I didn’t need to wipe, the world was my bidet.

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    It’s sheer dumb luck there wasn’t an episode of Star Trek which began thusly:

    “Stardate 54321 point oh. Orbiting planet Covid 19.”

    ;)

  140. 140.

    raven

    @NotMax: We took a couple of quarters of great red Lebanese . We camped on the beach where they filmed Catch 22 and had a ball. They last day we still had a good bit left and you didn’t want to go north in Mexico holding so we smoked it all! We got about 10 miles and hit one of the roadblocks. I got out and dealt with the feds and the other folks sat in the car staring at the Mexican soldiers with their 30 cals pointed at them. I was fine but they were scared shitless!

  142. 142.

    germy

    Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years.

    This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting.

    Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you.

    Bob Dylan

  144. 144.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Those were the days, my friend
    We thought they’d never end
    We’d sing and dance forever and a day
    We’d live the life we choose
    We’d fight and never lose
    For we were young and sure to have our way

  149. 149.

    Gin & Tonic

    One here for raven.

    A rapidly growing rate of coronavirus infections has the southwest Georgia city of Albany under siege. Its main hospital is so overrun with sick and dying patients, the administration turned to the underground market to find essential supplies. #gapol https://t.co/hndHLbjNi1
    — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 27, 2020

  150. 150.

    raven

    @NotMax:
    While riding on a train goin’ west
    I fell asleep for to take my rest
    I dreamed a dream that made me sad
    Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
    With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
    Where my friends and I’d spent many an afternoon
    Where we together weathered many a storm
    Laughin’ and singin’ till the early hours of the morn
    By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
    Our words were told, our songs were sung
    Where we longed for nothin’ and were satisfied
    Jokin’ and talkin’ about the world outside
    With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
    We never much thought we could get very old
    We thought we could sit forever in fun
    But our chances really was a million to one
    As easy it was to tell black from white
    It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
    And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
    That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split
    How many a year has passed and gone?
    Many a gamble has been lost and won
    And many a road taken by many a first friend
    And each one I’ve never seen again
    I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
    That we could sit simply in that room again
    Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
    I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that

  151. 151.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: Heh. On my first trip to Mexico, we got stopped in the mountains by a small army convoy. They made us all get out and lined all 8 of us up on the side of the road while they strip searched the Suburban. I knew it wasn’t a big deal but I still felt this almost over powering urge coming over me to get up and start running down the road, just like in so many movies, and in my mind’s eye ending with my bullet riddled body laying in the middle of the road, of course.

    They were really quite nice and polite. One of us had gotten some bad burns on his rib cage the night before (2nd degree bordering on 3rd) and when the commander saw it he called a medic over to treat him.

    35 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday.

  153. 153.

    germy

    Twas’ a dark day in dallas, november ’63
    the day that would live on in infamy
    President Kennedy was a-ridin’ high
    good day to be livin and a good day to die

    being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb
    he say wait a minute boys you know who i am
    of course we do, we know who you are
    then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
    shot down like a dog in broad daylight
    was a matter of timing and the timing was right
    you got unpaid debts we’ve come to collect
    we gonna kill you with hatred, without any respect
    we’ll mock you and shock you and we’ll put it in your face
    we’ve already got someone here to take your place

    the day they blew out the brains of the king
    thousands were watching no one saw a thing

  158. 158.

    mad citizen

    @germy: Oh my, I’ve never heard this one.  By google it appears to be something new.  Can’t listen to it all until I have non-work time, but the first minute and a half has me tearing up.  Thanks Bob and germy!

  162. 162.

    Ohio Mom

    WereBear @153, as a Jewish Mother, it is my heritage to lay on guilt.

    OH@156: if you lose it and start cussing, they do as trained: “I don’t have to listen to this, CLICK!” I admit, sometimes their thick-headedness gets to me. They tend to be on the not-so-smart, not-well-educated side, walking examples of the kind of white privilege Republicans champion.

  165. 165.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ohio Mom: I actually never have called, for the plain and simple reason that #1; I know for a fact I could never get past “FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKS!!!” and #2, I don’t believe in abusing people over the phone, no matter how much they may deserve it. So I write, and rewrite and rewrite until I finally get something down that is at least somewhat respectful. It’s still gonna hit the round file, but hopefully they read it first and at least I tried.

  166. 166.

    Another Scott

    17,224 new COVID-19 cases in the USA yesterday according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

    Twice that of Spain. More than twice that of Germany or Italy.

    SP Warren is right – the only way forward is more testing, extended social isolation, and people following the recommendations to Wash Your Hands!!

    Hang in there, everyone.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  167. 167.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Another Scott: Where are you getting that number? Your link says 327. ETA Never mind, I found it.

    ETA2 : Seems awfully high for at this point, I wonder where it is coming from (as in old cases of it newly counted etc)

  168. 168.

    japa21

    @Another Scott: In addition to there being far more cases that we don’t know about due to lack of testing, the same is true of deaths.

    JH has the US with 1301 deaths, but it may be close to double because it only officially counts when an official diagnosis has been confirmed.

  169. 169.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @raven:

    I always wondered whether the service at the Rex was as good as it was when we went there and sat on the roof – delightfully crisp Grey Goose martinis delivered quickly,  some sort of awesomely spiced peanut snacks to nibble on while we looked at the towers a of a gigantic Asian city devoted to piles and piles and piles of money.

    All as we listened to a cover band playing “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King. Knowing the history of the Follies, I had to chuckle.

  170. 170.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    BTW – yesterday, I entered the brave new world of trying to mediate a case (I was the mediator) where everyone appeared electronically.  I never liked it when one side did it in the past – and this was triply bad, and doomed to fail.

    Some things really require some physical presence, all you introverts notwithstanding.

  171. 171.

    NotMax

    Cutting to the bone.

    Starting Sunday, Hawaiian’s long-haul transpacific network will consist of one daily nonstop flight between Honolulu (HNL) and Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO), and one weekly flight connecting Hawai‘i to its Pacific island neighbor of Pago Pago, American Samoa (PPG). All routes will be operated with wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft. Source

  172. 172.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Betty Cracker: I’ve seen some disturbing recaps from epidemiologists about Dr. Birx’s contributions.

    she also went on  Pat Robertson’s network to praise the president

    Dan Diamond @ddiamond 16h
    White House coronavirus coordinator DEBORAH BIRX touts Trump’s response in Q&A yesterday on Christian Broadcasting Network. CBN HOST: How would you describe the job President Trump is doing? BIRX: He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data.

    Reminds me of Karen Hughes going on TV during the controversy over stem-cell research, to hold up the great big books Our Only President had really and truly read.

  175. 175.

    danielx

    BIRX: He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data.

    Donald Trump, attentive to any kind of data aside from the stock market? Really?

    My bullshit detectors burned bright red for so long the bulbs have burned out.

  178. 178.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @raven:

    It is pretty well dwarfed now by all the big money towers in the vicinity.

    I wouldn’t have minded staying there for the nostalgia (we were at the Intercontinental, which was, as they are in every location,  beautiful, modern and stylish).

  179. 179.

    Tenar Arha

    I’ve got arthritis & a herniated disc, so I try not to power walk my hills every day, but I’m actually contemplating breaking that schedule bc I’m so angry about that fuckhead & his criminal clan in the WH right now.

    The news about his treatment of Gov. Whitmer (gee I wonder what’s different about her from the other governors) & the shoulda-been-sperm-dribbles’ balking at the cost of the ventilator contract bc there might have been a surplus, well that broke me last night & I’m still furious.

    On an semi-unrelated note, as part of my spring cleaning I found where I’d stashed my lightweight dumbbells & my Thermabands (resistance bands). So if anyone has a suggestion for online resources for orthopedically gentle weight training, feel free to recommend.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I don’t know if instituting DPA could put a stop to this, but it strikes even my cynical, skeptical self as something an effective use of the bully pulpit could address

    Lacy M. Johnson @lacymjohnson 5m
    This morning I read that the mayor of Houston is struggling to secure masks for our healthcare workers. Normally they pay 50 cents a mask. He offered $4 to one supplier, but the company rejected the offer because they had another bidder willing to pay more.

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    germy

    @schrodingers_cat:

    If you are tweeting #IBelieveTara without realizing that she praised Putin, got caught and then deleted her praise of him, and then attacked Mueller in a Russian language blog post, maybe you should change your attention to the 19 women Trump sexually harassed and/or assaulted.— Ms. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) March 25, 2020

    This is a blog post that Tara Reade posted in 2018. She then deleted it before she began accusing Biden of these allegations. She literally said she loves Putin. #IBelieveTara is a Trump/Russia smear campaign. pic.twitter.com/pJMUsycTHV— Ms. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) March 25, 2020

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    JPL

    @Gin & Tonic: I saw the number out of Albany yesterday.   They are rapidly catching to the county I live in, but there is a major difference.    Fulton Cty has over a million and Dougherty Cty has under 100,000

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    catclub

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Birx is a holdover from the Obama admin, where she was a global  AIDS coordinator.

     

    She is known to be ‘diplomatic’ – maybe she thinks staying and doing her job is important.

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Twitler turned the firehose of hate onto baby-faced nutbag Massie.  Every single line is busy, and has been busy for quite a while this morning.

    Wonder how it feels to have both left AND right unified against you in abject hatred? And how stupid do you have to be to be dumber than Louie Gohmert?

    Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy probably claimed more fans.

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Oh, fuck – I don’t know how to embed tweets, but here’s what John Kerry had to say:

    Breaking news: Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an asshole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity. He’s given new meaning to the term #Masshole. (Finally, something the president and I can agree on!)

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    NotMax

    @JPL

    Absolutely irrelevant. Only memories have of a trip to Albany are uniformly negative except dining at (now history) Keeler’s.

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    raven

    @JPL: My bride has health department contacts there and they trace this to a funeral and subsequent gathering. The entire area is still really in bad shape from the hurricane. We drive through there on the way to the beach.

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    sdhays

    @catclub: Well, keeping the public well-informed should be part of the job she’s trying to hold, so we know she’s failing at that. And there’s no real evidence that what she’s doing behind the scenes is all that important since Dump continues to do absolutely nothing.

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    Citizen Alan

    @germy: I am livid over this transparent bullshit. I don’t hate Bernie and his cult more than Shitgibbon and the MAGAts, but damned if it’s not nearly as much.

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    Cedichou

    Can anyone get through Biden’s team and tell them to NEVER use “if I’m elected,” but “WHEN  I’M ELECTED.” There should be no doubt from him that he’s going to win. He MUST win.

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    SteverinoCT

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    My all time favorite Spanish phrase has always been…

    I was flipping ahead in my Spanish I book and found what became my favorite phrase (and it worked when I used it on Sra. Perez!): ¿Qué sé yo? — How should I know?

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