Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Not all heroes wear capes.

In my day, never was longer.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

You cannot shame the shameless.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The willow is too close to the house.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Accountability, motherfuckers.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  4. 4.

    Hellbastard

    I feel like Sanya Stark, listing off the names of the people I’d like to see dead. “Joffrey, Cersei, Walder Frey…”

  6. 6.

    Kent

    I must say that I’m taking extreme pleasure in seeing the president of Notre Dame come down with Covid.

    They were threatening to expel students who defied mask and social distancing rules to go to college parties.

    He flies to Washington DC on the university’s dime to party and celebrate ramming through a right wing Catholic SCOTUS appointee and gets Covid.  For exactly the same kind of partying that they threatened to expel students for.

    Apparently the campus newspaper is now calling for him to be fired.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Pigdog:

    The Hoarse Whisperer@TheRealHoarse·1h
    Rumors circulating that Chris Christie has also contracted COVID. I’m skeptical because usually there’s nothing positive about Chris Christie.

  9. 9.

    Just Joe

    I think Chris Christie is next to announce that he’s positive.  He must have some symptoms because he tested again after testing negative.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    Three Republican Minnesota Congressmen were exposed to Trump on Air Force One amd boarded a Delta Flight TODAY. This is expressly against airline rules. And human rules.

    Emmers, Stauber, Hagedorn shame shame shame. 4/
    — Andy Slavitt @ ? (@ASlavitt) October 3, 2020

  12. 12.

    Kent

    @danielx:Odds on Barr?

    It’s WAY too early for testing to put him in the clear.

    Unfortunately same goes for Biden.

    Personally if we are rooting, I’d be rooting for Chief Justice Roberts who was there too.

  13. 13.

    Shalimar

    3 points.

    1) suspected timeline on Conway suggests she caught it Saturday, so she would not have been contagious during that exchange with Barr;

    2) It seems to have been memory-holed, but Conway was co-campaign manager with Bannon.  So 2 of Trump’s 6 campaign managers tested positive on the same day;

    3) There seem to be 3 candidates so far for patient zero.  Barrett had it at some undetermined point in the summer, which only ended 10 days ago.  McDaniel was tested because a colleague had it, not because of this event. Same for Jenkins of Notre Dame.

  14. 14.

    Kent

    @HumboldtBlue: Some thoughts from a Doctor on CNN

    If he is there for testing and observation because they have better facilities than the White House then fine.  If he is truly being hospitalized then something is amiss.

  16. 16.

    Kent

    Newest Trumper to fall.?

    His new campaign chair Bill Stepien

    It’s raining MAGA

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/02/trump-campaign-manager-tests-positive-for-covid-19-425722
    Donald Trump’s campaign manager has tested positive for Covid-19, dealing another blow to his reelection effort on a day that saw the president and the head of the Republican National Committee report contracting the disease as well.
    Bill Stepien received his diagnosis Friday evening and was experiencing what one senior campaign official described as “mild flu-like symptoms.” People familiar with the situation said the 42-year-old Stepien plans to quarantine until he recovers.

  19. 19.

    Shalimar

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Conway’s daughter says she is angry because her mom was around the house all day without a mask even though she already had a positive result back that she lied about.  Christie had a test at roughly the same time as Conway but hasn’t revealed the result. Not evidence,  but suspicious.

  20. 20.

    daryljfontaine

    They can close Gitmo and transfer/release the prisoners, then repurpose it for high-level officials entering forced quarantine, right?

    D

  28. 28.

    LeftCoastYankee

    I’ve been having breathing issues all day… I’m very out of practice at laughing my ass off….

  29. 29.

    Poe Larity

    Can someone recommend a popcorn that isn’t too fattening but doesn’t taste like cardboard? I may need it by the gallon.

  31. 31.

    BR

    There was discussion earlier about antibodies.  Head of UCSF has some helpful discussion:

    15/ In fact, there’s no approved treatment for ambulatory patients at high risk of deterioration. But the early, not yet published, trials of monoclonal antibodies are promising, the treatment seems safe, and it makes sense to give it in this special case https://t.co/wXXGROkbCr— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) October 3, 2020

    16/ To give it, Trump’s doc invoked "compassionate-use." https://t.co/NDXY7dfqcZ Yes, it’s line-jumping & ethicists will have a field day, but it doesn’t bother me much. Based on data to date, it’s likelier than not to be beneficial, even if it’s not proven enough for approval.— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) October 3, 2020

  34. 34.

    Calouste

    @Kent: 

    Well, if a couple of GOP Senators get ill and, Amy Covid Barnett can’t get confirmed, and the Roberts gets it and gets so ill that he decides to retire, then there would be two vacancies to fill come January. Wouldn’t that be a massive plot twist?

  35. 35.

    Jesse

    That tweet about “all those Democrats not getting this”. That’s really stunning and reflects a new twist of all-too-typical right-wing thinking about covid. Think it through: it seems that that guy honestly thinks that Dems somehow are able control the virus and give it to Trump etc. while being able to avoid getting it themselves. “Why?!”, he wonders. I can’t help but wonder if this guy is actually just one step away from realizing that covid is real, or is stepping even deeper into the looking glass.

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    From an old Newsweek story…

    Trump heavily touted hydroxychloroquine as a “game changer” during the early months of the pandemic. In May, he took a two-week course of the drug as a preventative measure, hoping it would prevent his infection after several White House staffers were diagnosed with the virus.

    When does he get the bleach and the light bulb shoved up his butt?

  38. 38.

    TS (the original)

     Bill Stepien received his diagnosis Friday evening and was experiencing what one senior campaign official described as “mild flu-like symptoms.” People familiar with the situation said the 42-year-old Stepien plans to quarantine until he recovers.

    I wish the media pundits and everyone else understood the vocab of this virus. If you have the virus you are not in quarantine.  You are in isolation.

    Trump has dumbed down the US media in regard to covid-19 compared to every other country in the world

    If you have been in close contact with someone who has the virus, you put yourself into quarantine. If you have a test & do not have the results, you put yourself into quarantine.

  39. 39.

    RaflW

    Will Delta ban those three embarrassments from MN? They certainly should, as they violated published DL policy (and all the other pax on the 40% full flight now should isolate and test).

    Delta has come down hsrd on mask-scoffs before, including famous people. But we’ll see.

    Other tweets today (not gonna look now it’s late!) showed a different GOP Senator with his mask on his throat, and clearly on a Delta flight per the seat color/trim.

    Fuckers.

  44. 44.

    JWR

    Hmm. Stephen Colbert is live tonight. They usually put up a recent, popular show on Friday. Don’t get me wrong, this makes me happy!

  47. 47.

    patrick II

    I haven’t heard of McConnell being at the Rose Garden Nomination celebration. Was he there? If not, why not? Was he not invited?  Did he have something better to do? Or was he too smart to hang around Trump administration Covid deniers?

  48. 48.

    trnc

    @Kent: Donald Trump’s campaign manager has tested positive for Covid-19, dealing another blow to his reelection effort on a day that saw the president and the head of the Republican National Committee report contracting the disease as well.

    Considering how the campaign has been going, I’m not sure how Stepien being sidelined could be considered a blow to it.

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    @TS (the original):

    I wish the media pundits and everyone else understood the vocab of this virus. If you have the virus you are not in quarantine.  You are in isolation.

    It is useful for the media and health officials to get the lingo correct. It is much less important for the general public.

    The world is not a freaking English usage test.

  52. 52.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @CaseyL: My dearest wish right now is for Bill Barr to test positive. Since he was interacting with Kelleyanne Conway at the Rose Garden spreader event, I’m hopeful.

  53. 53.

    trnc

    Is there not a rule that can keep members of congress out of the capitol buildings if they should be quarantining?

  54. 54.

    smike

    @John Revolta:

    I think we should at least show some respect for the orifice of the President.

    No. I mean, just no. We should not, and there is no need to, show respect. Clever, though.

    ETA BQ

  55. 55.

    Redshift

    @Jesse: Don’t bother going too far down that rabbit hole. She’s the wackadoodle who ran against Nancy Pelosi, a couple of weeks ago she decided that The Masked Singer was a plot to get people used to the idea of wearing masks, so the pandemic is fake or something.

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    A little something for Amir Khalid:

    Herzliche Grüße zum der Tag der Deutschland Einheit!

  58. 58.

    Jay

    Notre Dame launched a site for students to snitch on each other for COVID-19 violations.Instead, they awesomely have used it to report the university president for shaking hands and not wearing a mask at the White House, demanding his resignation.— Andrew Goldstein DEEP CANVASSING GETS VOTES (@AndrewMakeTweet) October 2, 2020

  60. 60.

    Jay

    crazy how some folks get an instant hospital bed for supposedly mild symptoms but when my husband tested positive we got a recording from the health department saying we should go to the ER if his lips turned blue— Alix E. Harrow (@AlixEHarrow) October 2, 2020

  61. 61.

    YY_Sima Qian

    My foreboding of the evermore unpredictable/chaotic 2020, and sympathies with the families of the infected persons, notwithstanding, I will enjoy the schadenfreude for the moment. They are setting fire to the world, may they self-immolate befor they fully success.

    Too bad the list of people here will have access to much better health care than the vast majority of Americans.

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    What’s the best way to beat the Russthuglicans with the bell?

    Discuss.

    Good night.

  68. 68.

    Calouste

    So, possible scenario:

    ACB gets contacted about the Supreme Court gig shortly after RGB’s death. ACB at that point knows she has Covid, but she also knows that, because of the rush to ram the confirmation through, if she says that, they will pick someone else. So she lies about it, goes to the show on Saturday, and infects a large number of people.

  69. 69.

    TS (the original)

    @Brachiator:

    The world is not a freaking English usage test.

    I didn’t say it was – but as far as the virus is concerned the difference is important – could be why the US cases keep rising.

    Isolation when you have covid keeps you away from all other people.  Quarantine is a safety precaution – families often stay together.

     

  70. 70.

    Richard

    @West of the Rockies: i’ve been living here in Utah for the past 40 years. That Mike Lee is a piece of shit, pardon my language. If you  live in Utah you will see these types. That guy is not good and he is a disgrace to all honest people.

  71. 71.

    Cermet

    @cliosfanboy: Likely his oxygen levels fell a bit or his fever climbed. Otherwise, being the baby he is, he cried so hard to go, they finally called the helicopter. Your choice – selecting all three is also a correct answer.

  74. 74.

    JPL

    @Cermet: I agree with you.   If he were that ill, he would have been in the helicopter within minutes.    Having people watching for over a hour was a nice touch.   It brought back memories of watching a empty podium

  76. 76.

    p.a.

    Remember when a big fear (may still be) was that our enemies would attempt to ‘decapitate the government’ to gain major advantages in a confrontation?  tRump: “hold my beer…”

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