Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

In my day, never was longer.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

No one could have predicted…

Come on, man.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Sunday/Monday, June 7-8

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  3. 3.

    NotMax

    re: that last item

    Art Linkletter was mistaken. People aren’t funny, they’re pig dog stupid.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Just seven new cases, the fewest since 12 March: five of them from local infection all involving Malaysians, two imported infections. Total 8,329 cases.

    20 more patients recovered, total 6,694 recovered or 80.4% of all cases. Of 1,518 active cases, six are in ICU of whom one is on a ventilator. No deaths, total stands at 117. Infection fatality rate 1.4%, case fatality rate 1.72%.

  6. 6.

    otmar

    FWIW: I got the results of my SARS-CoV-2 antibody test from last week: clear positive result.

    That means that my fever&cough from March was really Covid-19.

    Phew. This is helpful to know. Now I don’t have to worry about the risks of traveling and visiting people any more.

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    JPL

    @otmar:  I’m not sure what to say, because congrats doesn’t seem appropriate, and I’m jealous seems odd. lol Enjoy your new found freedom.

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    JPL

    The AP article about the manager who was punched, suggested that consumers have met their breaking point.   That behavior should never be excused.

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    JPL

    @p.a.: I haven’t read the article yet, so don’t know the details.   lin

    trump is still up on the economy and personally I’d like to see the tax cut for the rich attacked, because   that prevents us from road construction, etc.

  14. 14.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    For weeks Samantha Clarke calmly listened to the insults and threats directed daily at her and her employees by people who learned they couldn’t enter the Modesto, California, store without wearing a mask and following other coronavirus-related rules.

    Dump lost California by 30 points, but nearly tied Hillary in Modesto, which shows how out of wack it is from the rest of the state.

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    Soprano2

    That AP story shows what spoiled, entitled people some of us have become. Instead of inquiring about having a pool ordered for her she thought it was ok to hit the manager! That should never be seen as an ok reaction to frustration no matter the circumstances. I think this is a reflection of Trump’s non-leadership; if he wore a mask and told people it was important to do so,  I think a lot of this defiance would go away. In my local WalMart I’d estimate about 5%of the people I see are wearing masks. Here in Springfield MO people have decided COVID-19 is over!

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    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    The CNN poll is fun, and we should enjoy it, but I have to say I’ve always found CNN’s polls to have a lot of volatility.   So much so, that I’ve come to think it’s done on purpose to produce a yellow-journalist horse race (ie “the candidate is fading!”;  “the candidate is coming from behind!”).

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    Mousebumples

    @otmar:  Glad you’re happy with that news. Best to bear in mind, however, that we don’t know how long your immunity will last from a previous infection. I’m not sure if there’s a study you could enroll in – if you’d be willing to have your blood tested every X weeks/months?
    Hope it’s a long lasting immunity, but we don’t know that yet.

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    Butter Emails

    @JPL:

    People are being asked to wear masks not fucking recite the collected works of Shakespeare from memory.

  21. 21.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 8 June 2020, a total of 7,265 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,706 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 8 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 62% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 1,633,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.4% have been positive

    5 new cases today.

  22. 22.

    Gin & Tonic

    My son sent me some photos from Kyiv yesterday and said that people there are apparently over COVID-19.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    As I said before I first heard the nickname “Karen” to describe abusive customers from retail workers. There is a whole You Tube category on videos of people screaming at store clerks over the dumbest of things. A lot of people deliberately abuse retail workers.

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    Cheryl from Maryland

    @Mousebumples: Thank you for reminding people that COVID-19 immunity is still not clear — whether it exists or how long it exists.  One of its cousin diseases, SARS, only has immunity for about 2 years.

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    Cheryl from Maryland

    @JPL: I disliked those phrases intensely, as well as the mention of the George Floyd protests.  These things are not comparable.  The woman who punched the clerk drove off with her license plate covered — I hope she is found and the book thrown at her.

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    BrianM

    @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: The poll was done by the CDC, though it’s not (to this non-experts eye) super-rigorous. Here.

    The percentages for what I think of as really wacko behaviors is smaller, though: “misting the body with a cleaning or disinfectant spray (10%); inhalation of vapors from household cleaners or disinfectants (6%); and drinking or gargling diluted bleach solutions, soapy water, and other cleaning and disinfectant solutions (4% each).”

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    chopper

    @JPL:

    hoover got 40% in 1932. seems too high but 40% of people will pull the lever for whatever the GOP pukes up, even during the bloody apocalypse.

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    Calouste

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: A former Starbucks worker commented here that in their opinion Starbucks’ business model was selling costumers the opportunity to abuse a retail worker for a few minutes, and with that came a free coffee.

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    otmar

    @Mousebumples: I’ll probably do this. On the other hand, a lot of other people will test their antibody numbers over the next year, so my input might not matter that much.

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    Bill Arnold

    @Butter Emails:

    People are being asked to wear masks not fucking recite the collected works of Shakespeare from memory.

    It’s not fucking hard either. I’m in an area (southern NYS) where face coverings are mandatory indoors in public places and compliance is close to 100 percent. I’ve sat outside a store and watched. People generally put their mask on in less than 4 seconds, while walking from their car to the door, or while inside the car. More time is spent parking. If Cuomo lifts the mask order before there is a vaccine, I will essentially stop shopping retail, except at places that retain the requirement. (Also he would be personally responsible for a lot of deaths. ) I think he understands this; the stats for NYS look pretty good for the last month, considering the peak infection rate. (That’s another story; NYS lockdown should have been a week or two earlier. Mistake, but there was a lot of pressure against lockdown.)

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