One day, we might be one of them https://t.co/9pLlM3pfiZ
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 17, 2020
Nancy Pelosi is tightening the rules. Late Tuesday, she asked committee chairs to require masks at all hearings — and authorized the sergeant at arms to bar anyone who refuses to cover their face, according to a senior aide familiar with the request. https://t.co/GnzwhwnOtw
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 17, 2020
Details behind the two Capitol Hill proposals on policing changes: pic.twitter.com/U5gPVEUZ9U
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 17, 2020
Meanwhile, on the campaign trail…
Joe Biden said that the 'greatest indictment' of Donald Trump was his 'complete, compelling lack of leadership' in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/RwLW7AMKDU pic.twitter.com/mRSaDFCwFs
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 18, 2020
Joe Biden steps up his attack on Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus, saying the president wants to declare the pandemic over even as it continues to kill Americans and disrupt the economy. https://t.co/JJmJ3HizIR
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 17, 2020
So Joe Biden gives a powerful speech, and Chuck Todd gives us his thoughts about TELEPROMPTERS. No, really. pic.twitter.com/zaZ2w30Pvl
— Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher (@tommyxtopher) June 17, 2020
CHUCK TODD: yes but the visual framing of Joe Biden's speech was weird https://t.co/FwQMU9SdHc
— local jack please ban the nazis person (@pleizar) June 17, 2020
I hereby propose this little dude as a replacement for Chuck Todd:
— Quokka Every Hour (@quokkaeveryhour) May 3, 2020
Much better visuals, and quite as good a grasp on American politics!
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
This guy knows how to American.
Barbara
Trump isn’t the only one who is incapable of rising to meet the moment.
Baud
@Barbara: I’m doing the best I can.
Baud
Something to hope for.
Baud
For some reason, WaPo labels this a “technology” article.
prostratedragon
Dame Vera Lynn (1917–2020):
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: And you are failing spectacularly! Congrats! We’re all proud of you!
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon: RIP
Baud
Any practicing Catholics out there?
mrmoshpotato
Anyone else read the thread title like this?
Elizabelle
@prostratedragon: 103. Had been married for 57 of them. RIP. Will listen to some of those songs with my coffee.
Guess it should be tea but … coffee.
debbie
@prostratedragon:
My mamaw was always humming that tune.
Jay Noble
What is the significance of the name on Nancy’s mask? I’ve noticed she’s been very color coordinated with them. I’m hoping there’s a good story behind them rather than the being a designer thing. sigh
ETA: Google
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a32631070/nancy-pelosi-mask-matching/
Baud
Grain of salt and all that, but if true, I’m not sure the reporters thought this through.
mrmoshpotato
Why is Chuck Todd? Can anyone tell me?
(Yes, that is the full question.)
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
I suppose a meteor strike would literally make things brighter.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Visiting the troops in Burma.
debbie
@Baud:
VOA has been savaged.
Baud
@debbie:
Six months to Biden.
OzarkHillbilly
Hard to read something like this,
and conclude anything other than “God hates America.” Unless of course, it’s only Pentecostals he hates.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: ?Gimme fuel, gimme fossils, wreck the planet, so colossal ?
Why does His Holiness want us to stop investing in our arms? A well-rounded fitness regimen is good for body, mind and soul!
John S.
Chuck Toddler is about as useful as Dancin’ Dave Gregory.
Elizabelle
@Jay Noble: Yeah. It’s a designer thing. Donna Lewis is a high end fashion shop in Alexandria, VA, that makes masks. $22 a pop.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m getting all my devices charged up for tonight’s adventure with Madame to Joshua Tree. I got a remote triggering thingie from Amazon that’s description said that it can shoot lightning with it’s internal sensors, it’s the older model without the internal sensors, it’s going back.
Starfish
@Jay Noble: Local boutique that charges $22 per mask and donates one for every mask sold
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Shoot that lightning! Shoot it dead!
Betty Cracker
Todd’s nitpicking about the teleprompter aside, he’s right about the Biden team’s focus on competence in swing states, and I think it’s a perfect message for this moment. People are sick and tired of the clown show. They’re ready to change the channel.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: Fancy ice cream and fancy masks, certainly not a woman of the people. //
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: I can’t because Amazon’s description was wrong.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker:
Clowns are frightening.
Barbara
@Baud: Reference was meant to be Chuck Todd. But the Haberman article is myopic in its own way as well.
TS (the original)
@mrmoshpotato:
Because in Australia Chuck is what you do after a drunken night out and Todd is a river in Alice Springs that is dry 99% of the time.
Delk
@Baud: I used to be a practicing Catholic but now I’m a practicing homosexual.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
He’s also right about Biden speaking to the room rather than the camera but it makes me like Biden. They’re sitting in front of him so he looks at them and speaks to them. It’s respectful of the people who came out to see him. It’s what all speakers should do.
Put him outside! Hold the events outside, mask everyone, and then Biden can get out from behind the podium – which he so wants to do :)
Gin & Tonic
Irony is dead and buried.
Gin & Tonic
@Delk: Does that really take practice?
Delk
@Gin & Tonic: the homosexual agenda is demanding.
Baud
@Delk: This is your way back in!
Baud
Likely decision day in DACA. I’m not counting in another surprise. Hopefully, political forces are such that the Republicans will be forced to cave.
Baud
@Baud: in=on
PsiFighter37
@Baud: I wouldn’t be surprised if Roberts figures out a way to skirt the issue, remand it without anything happening, and prays that it all goes away when Biden wins.
OzarkHillbilly
@Delk: Are you taking your act to Carnegie Hall?
JPL
@Baud: Mitch won’t even bring it to a vote.
Baud
@JPL: He was forced to put up a sham police reform bill.
Baud
@PsiFighter37:
Yeah, a punt is probably the best outcome you can reasonably hope for.
Sab
OT: We are getting my Honda back from the shop three week after its accident. (I was not the driver.) Others in my family apparently drive badly. 4th Honda to be in an accident with us, and every one was repairable. Those cars are little tanks. My late mother even hit a train with my Civic, and it was fixable.
And my husband wonders why I backseat drive.
Kathleen
@Baud: My massage therapist had s client who worked for Fox News and he told my therapist the same thing. Most of the Fox people are liberal.
Spanky
Leave little Chuckie Todd alone! It’s not his fault he’s a neutered lickspittle eager and willing to do his masters’ bidding. He’s only the face of the problem. It is disturbing, though, that his owners think it’s a compelling face.
Delk
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m aiming for an eight part Netflix series. I want to be binged.
prostratedragon
@debbie:
I didn’t know my folks knew the song until we watched Dr. Strangelove together. They said it captured the times. Dad was in a hurt locker unit. He made to within 9 years of his 100th this year. Mom made it to 95.
Geminid
A report in today’s Politico Playbook details National Republican Campaign purchases of TV time intended to defeat Democratic freshman House candidates. Among other purchases: $600,000 in Richmond Va. directed at Abigail Spanberger, $900,000 in Albuquerque and El Paso Tx. targeting Xochitl Torres-Small, and over $4 million in Iowa targeting Abby Finkenaer, Cindy Axne, and the seat now held by David Loebsack. Torres-Small is probably the most vulnerable.
Kathleen
Kay
Such a mean-spirited asshole. “Accidents”. No one should ever, ever buy announcements that he’s changed or learned anything. He hears no one and learns nothing.
prostratedragon
@Sab:
Wow, never mind the car, your mother was fixable is amazing.
OzarkHillbilly
@Delk: Going for the big bucks.
rikyrah
@prostratedragon:
RIP ??
Did I tell the story of how Peanut knew all about her and this song?
I still don’t get how a young American girl knew the song and it’s history ????
rikyrah
@Kay:
After all this time, I blame the families for submitting themselves to this bullshyt ?
They know who the phuck this orange demon is.
Pretending otherwise..wasted your time and allowed yourself to be a phucking prop for his campaign.
Kathleen
@Delk: Then you best be practicing Netflix!
Kay
@Kathleen:
It’s typical Politico would approach it as a “liberal versus conservative” question, but is it really about that? The OAN reporters were interrogated on their political views. They’re given a list of topics they can’t cover negatively – the aren’t permitted to do negative coverage of Tesla because the OAN owner is invested in that company.
They don’t have to be “liberal” to reject OAN. They could just be ethical.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Feel about them the same way I feel about non-White employees at Fox News.
You knew who they were when you took the job. So, shut up and don’t whine.??
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Chuck Todd is another prime example of
The curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL ??
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Considering Chuck Todd never finished college I am amazed at the fact that he apparently has never had difficulty getting hired as a supposed journalist. Apparently working on a couple of political campaigns in college qualifies one for this “From 1992 until March 12, 2007, Todd worked for National Journal’s The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief for six years, Tim Russert brought Todd to NBC from The Hotline in March 2007.[7] He became NBC News political director at that time.”
But we wouldn’t want him to be “Over-prepared” now would we.
prostratedragon
And now this, which the community surely will be watching:
Although they have a story all ready to explain this, I’m sure the police will understand why there is some skepticism.
different-church-lady
Isn’t it Wednesday?
gene108
@Baud:
George W. Bush’s presidency has been deemed very liberal, by true conservatives, which is why it failed.
Baud
Based on my own personal bubble of information, Bolton isn’t really getting away with his refusal to testify when he could have made a difference, or with his attempt to criticize the House on impeachment strategy. Hopefully, he and Trump are each other’s anchors, and they sink together.
different-church-lady
@Barbara: I know — I’m commenting from bed right now.
Baud
Some poor soul on Reddit tried to say people who support the protests should vote, and that triggered the “voting is useless,” “both sides are the same” trolls.
Kathleen
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: shoot lightning? Like, out of your hands?
germy
I saw a stand up comedian a few days ago on the CW network. Marina Franklin.
I’d never heard of her before, but she was great. Funny and wise. They gave her almost an hour. (It was taped back in December or January
Joe Falco
@Baud:
Good. I hope the bigots and pro-forced-birthers render unto Ceasar to GTFO of politics forever.
Aleta
@different-church-lady: lollol (also lolling)
This short is also very funny.
Edited to fix link.
Gin & Tonic
@different-church-lady: Not any more.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: It’ll be back.
Soprano2
One of my servers at the pub was wrongly arrested as a murder suspect on Tuesday night. She was on her way home from work and stopped at a local convenience store to get gas. She said she saw a bunch of flashing lights down the street at an apartment complex and just figured something bad had happened there. She was getting ready to start her SUV when someone hollered at her “Stick your hands out of the car and don’t move!”. She said she had no idea what was going on. They yelled it again, and she looked out of the vehicle to see four police officers with guns pointed at her! Evidently there had been a murder and murder/suicide at the apartment complex, and she and her SUV “fit the description” of the suspect they were looking for. She told them she had a handgun in her purse (totally legal in this state to have a concealed weapon without any permit or training, BTW). That’s when they got really nervous. She said they handcuffed her really tight, and when she complained the cop said he could put his finger in them so they were OK. (Last night she said the backs of her hands still really hurt, I told her to go see a doctor today if they still hurt like that.) It took until 6 a.m. for them to figure out she wasn’t the person they were looking for. They wouldn’t let her call her kids, who she had texted she was on her way home from work before she got arrested! Yesterday afternoon she went to get her vehicle and all her stuff back, and they said it “wasn’t ready” and if she wanted to pay for the tow and all the storage she could have it now, but otherwise she would have to wait. I gave her the name of an attorney I know and told her to call them so they could help her and get the cops to quit dicking around with her. I understand why they arrested her, it’s the dickishness I don’t understand. And then they wonder why people are angry at them. Sheesh! I told her I’m just glad she’s still alive, and she’s white!
artem1s
@Baud:
don’t worry they will still have ‘religious exceptions’ to discriminate against whores and harlots. Until the Supremes quit monkeying around with women’s reproductive rights, the Talibangelicals will never leave us.
germy
@Soprano2: The comedian Jay Pharoah was handcuffed, held at gunpoint and had his neck knelt on because he “fit the description” of someone else.
He says he’s lucky to be alive. One wrong move and they would have killed him.
When they realized their error, they let him go.
prostratedragon
Remember Rover from The Prisoner?
Kay
I feel like these stories are really important. Interactions with police are obviously the most dangerous, but an interaction with police is a (relatively) rare event. Banking, real estate, retail, health care treatment disparities- those are every day, for everyone who is black.
OzarkHillbilly
@different-church-lady: There are some who call him… Tim.
WereBear
Pentecostals hate America. They are deeply into the culture wars.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: Dickishness is a job requirement. Glad she survived.
Elizabelle
@Baud: For giggles, try suggesting that “defund the police” is not the most informative slogan out there. I watched this happening on a social media thread overnight, and all I could think was “Portlandia as documentary.”
“Edit with self crit.” Some (white and young) bimbeau felt this was so useful, she suggested it twice in a row.
WereBear
It’s at the point where one has to have an attorney involved to have a shred of fair treatment.
We had a trooper car hit US out of nowhere because he was already going 20 miles over the speed limit with no siren, and I had no line of sight until I made the turn and it was too late.
If we haven’t gotten an attorney, we would have gotten the blame.
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: My knowledge of Christianity is limited to Catholicism and Southern Baptist and I know more about them than I want to. I will remain blissfully ignorant of most things Pentecostal.
Barbara
@different-church-lady: Very funny.
Sab
@Kay: My stepson knocked the side mirror off the neighbor’s car. We reimbursed him with a check. The bank fimgerprinted him when he went to cash the check! Talk about adding insult to injury. He never said a word. We only found out when we got the cancelled check back.
Joe Falco
@OzarkHillbilly:
One has all the iconography and the other has all the potluck fellowship meals. That sounds about right?
germy
@WereBear: Here’s something I see all the time, because we live near an intersection with a traffic light:
Police car stops at the red light, then officer decides he doesn’t want to wait. Puts on flashing lights (no siren), goes through red light and then turns the flashing lights off again.
No police emergency, just doesn’t feel like waiting.
OzarkHillbilly
@Joe Falco: That and you don’t have to bring extra beer for the one because they always bring their own and the other you do have to because they can’t be seen buying beer in town.
Soprano2
@germy: Twice I’ve seen a police car run a stop sign near my workplace. No lights or sirens, just ran the stop sign. They seem to believe the law doesn’t apply to them.
germy
@Soprano2: They are the law. That’s their logic.
Jeffro
Off to go donate blood, BJers – hopefully 3rd time’s the charm this cycle!
(1st time: too dehydrated/too much coffee/not enough breakfast, so everything just stopped flowing mid-donation(!) Grrr…. 2nd time: got bit by a tick the day before I was to donate, so I waited a few weeks to see if any Lyme disease symptoms developed.)
Have a great morning!
Gin & Tonic
@Jeffro: Good luck. Donating is a good thing. I’m O-neg, so I’m very popular with my regional blood center.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud:
I listened to Pod Save the World yesterday and two guys on there couldn’t think of that group’s name and finally decided it was Bug-a-boo. I laughed every time they said it.
Aleta
By Michele L. Norris, in the Post
gene108
@Sab:
Fingerprinting is standard practice at most banks, if you cash a check, but do not have an account at the bank.
Immanentize
@prostratedragon:
Robin Hitchcock — acoustic — The Yip! Song
WaterGirl
@germy: The knee on the neck thing must be their big dominance display. My anger about all this knows no bounds.
Uncle Cosmo
@Baud: IMO he doesn’t go far enough. Even a 60-40 landslide with 400+ EVs will leave something like 50 million Trump voters seething with resentment & plotting revenge – which they’ll get once the sane people get tired of standing with shotguns 24/7/365 over the flat rocks they’ve skedaddled under. And the sane people always get tired of standing guard; there’s so many other things they’d rather be doing. And the Trumpisti only have to win once behind a clever enough demagogue, and finis democritae americansis (or whatever the actual Latin is, you know what I mean).
What the US – fuck, what the world – needs is a victory so epic it represents a shift in the culture. Openly advocating for fascism (crypto-, crapto-, full-frontal) needs to become a shunning offense for the vast majority of USAns. Its proponents don’t get taken seriously, don’t get a hearing in the common culture except for pointing & mocking. By common agreement it must become (as for our forbears for a generation post-1945) an unacceptable ideology, antidemocratic and antihuman.
And the only way we’re going to get that is to back-burner policies & programs in favor of putting together the largest no-to-fascism coalition possible. Biden is the one guy that can coalesce around, which is precisely why he is the necessary candidate today & has been from the git-go. All the purity-ponies here & elsewhere need to stop whimpering over their lost sweetiepies, suck it up, get behind him 110%, and build that earthquake.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Soprano2: That is a scary story. Her kids must have been crazy worried. I’m glad it turned out less bad than it could have been. But even then, there’s trauma.
WaterGirl
@germy: Just like Trump.
Cops believe that if cops do it, it’s not illegal.
Mel
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Terrifying,. They are horror incarnate, especially the “childrens’ birthday party clown” variety.
Soprano2
FUCK ALL, THE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DACA! How did that even happen? Wow, the MAGAs are going to be mad…..
J R in WV
@Baud:
Sounds like an ethics-free zone if you ask me. Only liberals with no — as in zero — ethics would work for a fascist news group!
Origuy
Mephistopheles gave a better deal.
sherparick
@Baud:
@prostratedragon: The Parade passes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weDBlOTgmo
Ruckus
Anne, wanna bet a better grasp of political reality than chuckles?
I’d bet chuckles would be a rabid shitforbrains supporter if only he wouldn’t say the quiet parts out loud. But because he does say all of the parts out loud, chuckles is reserved in his approval. Hasn’t and won’t go over all the way to the dark side, but is in awe of the sales pitch that shitforbrains has made to all the rabid right.
Just Chuck
That little rodent is far too cute to be a Chuck Todd replacement. And I hate that I share a name with that festering pile of feces. How about a picture of a festering pile of feces?
Dmbeaster
@Sab: I am assuming that the check recipient cashed the check at your bank, and had no checking account. Fingerprinting is common in that scenario as its a rampant bank fraud scenario.
J R in WV
@prostratedragon:
At first I was willing to accept that it wasn’t impossible the “hanging” was a suicide, although it appears that most people regard that final act as quite private.
But with a convoy of unmarked cops basically running this second connected guy down and shooting him, now it is impossible that the hanging was anything but a modern lynching. And everyone in the convoy to successfully attempt to bust and kill this guy is probably connected to that lynching as well.
And wasn’t a second black man found hanged in the same neighborhood as well? Sounds really bad to me. And NO ONE in law enforcement cares is the worst, in fact they appear to be the criminals here. As so often lately~!!~