Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

In after Baud. Damn.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Let there be snark.

I really should read my own blog.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Coronavirus spread at Rikers is a ‘public health disaster’, says jail’s top doctor

    The top doctor at Rikers Island said the coronavirus-hit New York jail is a “public health disaster unfolding before our eyes” as he warned of the rapidly rising number of infections in the city’s jails. In just 12 days, Ross MacDonald, the jail’s chief physician, said confirmed cases at Rikers had soared from one to nearly 200.
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    He warned that it is “unlikely” they will be able to stop the growth, predicting that 20% of those infected will need hospital treatment and 5% ventilators. He also called for the release of “as many vulnerable people as possible”.

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    Jared Trujillo, president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, said Rikers was effectively the centre of the entire pandemic.

    “Now, Rikers proportionately is the epicentre of the Covid-19 epidemic and our clients are terrified, my members of the union are horrified about it, they’re horrified for their clients, being in court is dangerous for them. We have about two dozen members, probably more, that have either tested positive or just showing signs of Covid-19.” For some vulnerable prisoners, he added, being in jail amid a coronavirus outbreak is “ultimately a death sentence for them”.

    He claimed a lot of inmates, many of whom he said are pre-trial, don’t have access to hand sanitiser or soap, are “caged” in large communal areas and that many clients have complained that they are not having symptoms of illness taken seriously. He said the current environment is also having an impact on their mental health. “Just psychologically it’s really horrifying for people because they’re hearing that these people that they’ve been in close contact with, that they have been caged with for some length of time, have an illness, have a contagion, and there’s just nothing they can do.”

    Unless more action is taken to release people from Rikers, he warned: “The conditions will only get worse.”

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    prufrock

    @WereBear: I’m thinking of one huge retirement condo community in Clearwater that will be utterly devastated.

    As far as the churches go, most of them have suspended services voluntarily. Only the most committed moron ministers are still trying to grift.

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Except it will be given to a minion who will make it into a disaster because they want to skim some money off the top.

    Like our current PPE crisis caused by blatant profiteering. Organized by the White House.

  7. 7.

    WereBear

    @prufrock: Only the most committed moron ministers are still trying to grift.

     
    Yes, but Florida has more of them than most :(

    My SBC-drenched childhood there tips me off about that. It also sends a scofflaw message.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @OzarkHillbilly: I wonder who said letting them die would mean him losing Florida.

    Cynical?  No.  He’s a sack of shit who only does things if he can wet his beak.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WereBear: I have no illusions about the motives behind the move, nor the efficacy of it’s execution, but death ships being denied berth in port after port, forever wandering the seas leaving a trail of corpses in their wake…

    We are better than that. At least I hope we are.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s pathetic that basic humanity is startling when his administration does it.

    Also, the federal government is clearly profiteering from everywhere they can. Blatantly. Free market!

  13. 13.

    BellyCat

    Gov. Wolf (PA), a generally heads-up and progressive leader, has also declared Religious institutions as “essential” in his new order yesterday for stay-at-home until April 30.

    WTF?!?!

    I am fine with that, as long as people who go to religious services are locked into their places of worship for two weeks.

    Fvcking ridiculous….

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