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The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

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I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (International) – Monday/Tuesday, April 6/7

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  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Turns out the light at the end of the tunnel trump sees is a freight train,

  3. 3.

    WereBear

    Cruise ships have been a blight on the seas long enough, I guess. If it were something out of the Roaring Twenties, I could be tempted. Now downsized for well-off commoners, it’s more like a habitrail.

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    p.a.

    Int’l corporation/developed nations & local elite tactic of minimizing spread of economic benefits to local populations in 3rd world/developing countries really looking good at present moment.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    There has been a total of 57 imported confirmed cases from Russia (returning Chinese nationals) found via screening at the border crossing near Vladivostok since the beginning of Apr. This does not include the asymptomatic cases. All of them flew from Moscow to Vladivostok over the past week. There likely a very significant outbreak in European Russia. There aren’t that many Chinese expatriates living in Russia.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Well, in the category of “It an’t just Americans who are idiots” a large group of people in my on line role playing again have decided to all huddle together with twenty others in a house in South Africa. To the point some of them flew there from France. Did we mention that France has a huge death rate from the virus and airplanes are an excellent way to spread the virus?

    If that wasn’t dumb enough the host had sail them there in his yacht, because crowded together in a small boat is exactly what one does doing a pandemic. They claim the house has guests houses so it’s not as dumb as it sounds at first blush, but they were quite upset when I pointed out that the boat ride was go to church stupid and they are doing a live action version of Mask of the Red Death. Apparently because they are  good people and not dumb Americans, the virus won’t get them (I getting the vibe that good = white enough to pass the brown paper bag test)

    The US has had 11,000 deaths, the major EU countries France, Spain Italy and Germany 30,000, and this is with president worthless dumbass deliberately trying to undermine the US response. I think this is a moment that shows American exceptionalism is really American citizens aren’t just sheep who sit there and expect to the state to do everything for them, even when the state can’t.

    Contrast this with another member of the on line game who lives in North Eastern California, so Redder than the Red states, was telling me that her mother in laws church is now doing their Sunday service in a drive in! No one gets out of their car and risks getting exposed.  So yes, a bunch of reactionary hicks  know better than that South African group. Did I mention most of the South African group are bankers?

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    mrmoshpotato

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: So much of this situation is darkly humorous, but this part really stands out:

    Apparently because they are  good people and not dumb Americans 

    Yes!  Because we all learned in science class about the racist morality and racist mortality of global pandemics.

     

    Bankers?  That looks so rich that I just want a toothpick-sized piece. Ah yes, that’s very rich and would put me in a food coma if I took a forkful.  Deeeeeeeeeeeeelicious!

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Fair Economist: Sci-fi so yes.

    They claim to be enlightened liberals, but I suppose “masters of the universe” screws their would view.

    The other thing is they spend an excessive amount of time bashing Trump,  like almost as much as we do, which is peculiar for foreigners. To the point that I find it distasteful,  like Trump bashing lets them tell themselves they are really liberals when the supposed governments that are just as an awful as Trump is.

    For example one of these people is an Israeli officer cadet. You know the country whose prime minister is breaking the countries constitution to stay out of jail.  He’s one of the chief Trump bashers, not word about Israel, when I teased him about it he changes the subject.

    Of course the Europeans go on about how bad the US virus response is, even though the deaths in the enlightened  EU are vastly greater the US, something like 29,000+ to 10,000 in the US.

    One of less full of themselves South Africans was snarking that South Africa decided to blame the pandemic on America for reasons, don’t ask why, even though all the sources of infection are people from Italy who flew to South Africa to skip quarantine.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @mrmoshpotato: Bankers? That looks so rich that I just want a toothpick-sized piece. Ah yes, that’s very rich and would put me in a food coma if I took a forkful. Deeeeeeeeeeeeelicious!

    This will put you there then; they are all analysts for Hedge Funds and pride themselves on being the logic and math crowd that brings the truth to the whole massive self love party. Further more passionately into science.

    Apparently a career of denouncing the hubris of others tends to make one blind to one’s own failing.

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