Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Wednesday-Thursday, June 10-11

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Starbucks says it plans to close up to 400 stores

    Yes, Virginia, there’s always a silver lining.

    //

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. 31 new cases: 20 from local infection, of which one is a Malaysian and 19 are non-Malaysians; 11 imported cases i.e. Malaysians infected while abroad. Total 8,369 cases.

    51 more patients recovered, total 7.065 recovered or 84.4% of all cases. Of 1,186 active and contagious cases five are in ICU and no one is on a ventilator. No deaths, total deaths stands at 118. Infection fatality rate 1.41%, case fatality rate 1.64%.

    ETA: Anyone for TP cake?

  8. 8.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: Next up: Your-In-All® Disinfectant Cake, a hockey-puck size confection of sponge cake, pudding and flavored gelatin. Choice of two colors, pink (strawberry or pink lemonade flavor) or green (lime or pistachio), served with a half-inch of sugared water in a porcelain bowl with a stainless steel drain at the bottom.

    (Have I ruined anyone’s breakfast? You’re very welcome!! ;^p)

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    So,

     

    The Swedes took a look at their five closest neighbors.

    Added up their COVID-19 deaths.

    TRIPLED IT.

     

    Realized that was their death toll-ALONE

     

    And, the bulb went off…

    Maybe, we aren’t doing this right ???

  13. 13.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 11 June 2020, a total of 7,285 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,761 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 6 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 1,711,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.4% have been positive.’

    9 new cases today, all but 1 in Victoria. 18 cases in hospital, 2 in ICU, 2 ventilated. No deaths in Australia for 19 days.

  14. 14.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I like the reply to “which of these states will shut down first?”  to which the answer is “None of them, because treating science like it’s not an opinion is offensive”

  16. 16.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Uh! Is there any issue in the US today that is not a partisan wedge?!!

    Never mind, ramping up great power competition with China has strong bi-partisan support, at least at the national political and policy level.

  17. 17.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Apparently Beijing reported a new confirmed case today (will show up in tomorrow’s China National Health Commission data dump). The case suffered intermittent fevers, and went to a fever clinic for diagnosis on 6/10. He was tested on 6/11, confirmed today. He has not been outside of Beijing in the past 14 days, nor has he had contact with anyone from Medium or High Risk regions. A symptomatic case showing up at a fever clinic, out of the blue, is always the nightmare of public health officials. That likely suggests a cluster has already developed. We will see what contact tracing efforts reveal in terms of  transmission chain.

    Beijing, being the capital, is an extremely sensitive place for the CCP regime, it is paranoid about preventing a large outbreak there. The residential compound where the confirmed case lives is already under lock down.

  18. 18.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    Never mind, ramping up great power competition with China has strong bi-partisan support, at least at the national political and policy level.

    You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

  19. 19.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It is when it distracts from the much more pressing COVID-19 crisis, which requires international cooperation. It is also a bad if one or both parties rush headlong toward economic, technological and even academic decoupling, without thinking through the consequences. Everyone will be worse off, and the decoupling actions will pile economic cost on top of tremendous damage done by COVID-19. It is also bad if it leads the two parties blundering blithely into a new Cold War.

    Great power competition between China and the US is inevitable. Tensions are to be expected between any incumbent power and rising challenger. However, competitions does not always need to be malign and destructive, constantly dancing on the knife’s edge toward hot war. The last two years of the Obama administrations offer glimpse of what a more controlled great power competition looks like. The US corralling the TPP to constrain China, China herding the RCEP in response. China ramping up the Belt and Road Initiative to attain commercial and geopolitical influence, the US launching propaganda campaign to undermine the effort. Both competing to get their candidates into leadership positions of international bodies. Yet, both countries cooperated to pass the Paris Climate Agreement, the Iran JPCOA, and contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

    Just in the past year, we have seen the trade war morph into a tech war, now rapidly heading toward decoupling across all domains, and unrestrained destructive competition, all in the middle of a pandemic. A lot of the heated rhetoric and ill-advised actions are surely part of Trump’s and GOP’s election strategy. However, it has been clear for the past two years that any voice calling for sanity, moderation and realism in relation to China is denounced as “Panda Hugging”. Both parties try to outdo each other in China bashing. Government officials and GOP senators all but cast suspicion on all Chinese international students as potential spies. I do not hear much push back from Democratic politicians. Legislations that target Chinese companies (such as Huawei) based on allegations without public evidence, get Democratic co-sponsors and pass with overwhelming majorities. It’s one thing to ban the likes of Huawei from doing business in the US, it quite another to leverage US’ hold on critical technologies to kill the company, and arm twisting other countries to stop doing business with these companies, without publicly presenting evidence on why such an action is necessary. (The UK and Germany seemed unimpressed by whatever the US presented in private.)

    I suppose this is what the late 40s felt like.

    I don’t know about you, but I do not look forward to Cold War 2.0 being launched in the midst of a once-a-century pandemic. I have far too much ties and interests on both sides of the Pacific.

    The only saving grace is that few other nations in the world appear to be interested in Cold War 2.0. That has not stopped Pompeo traveling around the world calling on countries to choose sides (see his rhetoric in the UK), nor has it stopped China from exacting economic punishment from countries perceived to be siding with the US (see trade sanctions on Australia).

  21. 21.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Barb 2: Yes, my hope is that a Biden administration would keep the great power competition constrained, and keep the neocons and hawks and nationalists relatively marginalized. It has been amazing to see the Overton window for policy discourse on China shift, as previously kooky ideas become increasingly accepted, and the “Thucydides Trap” that Graham Allison warned about three years ago rapidly becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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