Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I was promised a recession.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

This fight is for everything.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Second rate reporter says what?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (Domestic) – Tuesday/Wednesday, March 31 – April 1

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“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”


Found this on a tweet stream under the comment “I figured we’d find a minority to blame the virus on but I didn’t think it’d be Cajuns.” —

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Some states like Oklahoma and Florida have gotten all they've asked for — and more. Other states are begging for ventilators and gear. Some states say gear is contaminated. Other states say they don't know when packages are coming or what's in them. https://t.co/e1LBqLbNSb— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 31, 2020

  2. 2.

    Chyron HR

    Army National Guardsman tells Project Veritas #C)VID19 Media Coverage Overblown: “It’s the flu! It’s the flu!… I’m in the tents with them!”

    Imagine spending time and money generating the Party’s propaganda and the idiot setting the Party’s agenda changes his mind on a whim three times a day.

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waiting for Trump to tell him what to do:

    TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said he had no plans to issue a statewide stay-at-home order, partly because he says he hasn’t been told to do so by the White House task force…

    “I’m in contact with (the White House task force) and I’ve said, are you recommending this?” DeSantis said. “The task force has not recommended that to me. If they do, obviously that would be something that carries a lot of weight with me. If any of those task force folks tell me that we should do X, Y or Z, of course we’re going to consider it. But nobody has said that to me thus far.”

    That deference to the White House was later applauded by President Donald Trump, who lauded DeSantis, a close political ally.

    When asked if Florida needed to issue a blanket order, Trump replied that DeSantis is a “great governor who knows exactly what he’s doing.”

    The linked story says that an epidemiologist working with the task force DID tell Florida’s top public health official (a man appointed by DeSantis) that he should shut the state down. But that’s not the same as Trump personally saying “pretty please,” so DeSantis has taken no action so far.

    My guess is one of the scientists prevails upon a Trump administration political appointee or perhaps even Trump himself to advise DeSantis to shut the state down soon. Barn doors, horses, etc.

    Meanwhile, in my all-GOP ruled county, a twisted version of reality seems to be settling in among the suddenly unemployed MAGAs and golf-deprived Fox rage-bot retirees who write letters to the editor of the local rag. The boastful screeds about the stock market and WINNING have been replaced by whining about how Trump’s critics are MEAN and don’t offer constructive advice.

  4. 4.

    Dr. Ronnie James, D.O.

    “It’s truly unbelievable. Our volunteers are amazing, but we cannot force standardized state reporting. https://twitter.com/cmyeaton/status/1245165261554176001 …

    Caitlin Rivers, PhD

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    @cmyeaton

    Spain, Italy, Germany, Singapore publish daily, data-rich epi updates. In the US, situational awareness is largely courtesy of volunteer projects and 50 state health dept websites. We must modernize our surveillance and reporting infrastructure to be able to respond effectively.”

     

    Kinda makes you wish there was a Federal agency set up for just this purpose…it could be like a center for disease control…maybe another one just for prevention…

     

    When the full tale is told, one of the biggest contributors to this crisis has been Federal agencies (FEMA, CDC) not fulfilling their roles under the law. Hopefully this gets covered more as we approach November – Maddow has covered it, and Joe Biden has mentioned it on social media.

  5. 5.

    Redshift

    @Chyron HR: Imagine being conspiracy-minded enough to believe that a random National Guard (who probably got his info from watching Fox) is telling the truth and all of the public health experts are lying. If it only affected people who ignore public health advice directly instead of endangering all of us, this could really improve the electorate.

  6. 6.

    opiejeanne

    I can’t tell you what’s happening in Washington right now because the flood of information has broken the reporting system.  It has been overwhelmed and the local media has been reduced to adding up data collected county by county.

    That’s right, COVID-19 broke my calculator.

  7. 7.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    re: jokes about the Seattle Freeze… I was a transplant to Seattle, and I noticed two things (from my perspective, as an empathic introvert):

    1) they respected personal space, far more than other parts of the country, and

    2) they’d wait until you were ready to join in – rather than dragging  you in (for the most part).

    And I’d like to note, Seattle has long stretches of dim days – we don’t get torrents of rain, we get lots of misty dribbles, where  you feel stupid for having your umbrella, unless you don’t have it and wish you did (but just barely). That leads to a lot of winter depression, where respecting personal space, and not trying to drag a person out and about are good things.

    (If you’ve never been depressed, you may not understand critical those things can be!)

    I don’t know any jokes about any Seattle Freeze – I’m an introvert, with chronic fatigue, so I just don’t get out enough to learn that sort of pop culture; but it sounds negative. In my experience, Seattle and the surrounding area is a lovely, and loving, place, and I’d like to pretend that if people had a different  perspective, they wouldn’t find anything off-putting.

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    LongHairedWeirdo

    @Betty Cracker: I saw an exchange where people said that Mardi Gras went on as normal. A shocked observer (the reporter?) was all “WTF?” and the response was “remember, we had no warning or declared state of emergency telling us to reduce public contact”.

    Right – DuckDuckGo brings up this link.

    Feb 25 – “everything’s contained!”

    And this time? This time there isn’t a flooded group of school buses that “conservatives” think the mayor could have used to, I dunno, dump people at the side of the road (but OUTSIDE New Orleans, you see) WHILE A CAT 4 HURRICANE WAS ABOUT TO STRIKE.

    (The scare quotes around “conservatives” is because I don’t want to break the profanity filter for saying they’re feces-brained, mendacity-vomiting, total, worthless stench carriers, bound and determined to destroy anything good and wholesome, whenever that’s needed to win the news cycle.)

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