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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Preznit I.R. Turkee

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Preznit Turkee

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From the Urban Dictionary:

Corncob: Someone who has been brutally owned, yet insists that they are victorious in the online discourse despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary…

Speaking of pwned turkeys… look who’s back, it’s Mr. But the Deficit!, via Politico:

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  3. 3.

    BR

    I mentioned in the other thread that Dems need to stop encouraging the “write in Trump in GA” stuff — it’s a runoff, so I don’t believe there is a write-in option, and Trump brings low-propensity voters to the polls.  We need them to stay home.  I was dismayed to see someone posted that some Dems are going to put up billboards in GA with this message — seems like a terrible idea that needs to be stopped.

  6. 6.

    laura

    Oh Christ, it’s that asshole again. Tan, rested and ready for some deficit scolding and Sunday Show rotations.
    Fuck that guy, his $350.00 wine, his PX 90 workouts, his false piety, his massive self regard, his racism, his never ceasing desire to take away healthcare and every other social benefit we’ve paid for all our collective lives. Fuck him and his owners

    Not having it ????

  12. 12.

    waspuppet

    Oh cool I’m so glad Paul Ryan has weighed in on what he’d like to see. Wait, who did he used to be again?

    So happy someone actually SOUGHT HIM OUT for his opinions. Such a good sign for the next four years in political media.

  15. 15.

    JanieM

    Where was Ryan’s whining voice maundering on about both sides of the aisle for the past ten years, anyhow? Why isn’t he whining at Mitch McConnell about both sides of the aisle, instead of Biden?

    I can’t even. I wish someone would just push them all back into their holes and make them STFU.

  16. 16.

    raven

    @Mary G:

    ATLANTA — The King holiday service at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church bubbled over with election year politics Monday.  And the Georgia politician most on the hotseat was Kelly Loeffler – the new Republican U.S. Senator who replaced Johnny Isakson this month.

    Loeffler upheld Isakson’s tradition by appearing at the event at Ebenezer.

    “I seek to live in a way that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, and the entire King family. Not just on this special occasion, but every day,” Loeffler told the congregation from the pulpit.

    Away from the church, Loeffler’s pronouncements on Twitter and elsewhere have been pro-President Trump and anti-impeachment.

  17. 17.

    sdhays

    Well, you have to admit, he stands by his principles. After all, he “helped” Donny Dump by giving the Democrats the House so that Dump would have the “benefit” of divided government. He must have been pissed when the Republicans took the Senate. “Goddamn it, Mitch, you were supposed to remain in the minority. Now I have to drive the House off the cliff myself. We certainly can’t be trusted with a trifecta!”

  20. 20.

    Brachiator

    Trump is being himself, in a brief White House appearance.

    President Donald Trump briefly emerged to tout the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaking 30,000 for the first time ever, and then vanished after a minute without taking questions…

    “We’ve never broken 30,000, and that’s despite everything that’s taken place with the pandemic.”

    “The stock market’s just broken 30,000 — never been broken, that number. That’s a sacred number, 30,000, and nobody thought they’d ever see it,” Trump said.

    Hell, I think a fucking sacred number is the number of people that Trump should have saved, who died from the pandemic.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    Whoever named those turkeys has a cruel sense of humour. I would be, like all, “tut-tut” and “that’s not nice”, if the butt of the joke were anyone but Trump.

    @laura:

    As Mitt Romney’s running mate many years ago, Paul Ryan was a vacuous pretty boy like Dan Quayle, but with delusions of intelligence. I still remember his ludicrous cargo-cult version of economics wonkery.

  26. 26.

    Kent

    I will offer $10 grand to anyone who can find A SINGLE INSTANCE of Paul Ryan (or any other Republican leader) calling for Trump and the Republicans to work across the aisle with Nancy Pelosi between 2018 and 2020 and to resist pressure from the right to try to “jam” the Democrats.

  27. 27.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Tee Hee I just discovered I can get a bottle of wine delivered from the local store anytime before 10pm.   YESSSS!

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    Trump is taking care of turkeys.  In Canada, they are taking care of moose.

    Canadians, officials have an important message for you: “Do not let moose lick your car.”

    Yes, you read that right.

    Officials in Jasper, an alpine town in Canada’s Alberta province, have put up signs asking motorists to avoid allowing moose to lick the salt, a treat moose find hard to resist, off their cars.

  29. 29.

    Mary G

    @raven: I’m sure the congregation was gracious and polite in that way “bless your heart” means “fuck off and die, bitch.” She’s been calling Black Lives Matter thugs for months now, and refused to let the players on the WNBA team she owns put it on her jersey. Showing up once at Rev. Warnock’s own church won’t get her votes.

  31. 31.

    L85NJGT

    CNN:

    Nearly a third of the nurses who’ve died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.

  32. 32.

    Brachiator

    @WaterGirl:

    Does he not know the stock market is up because THE OTHER GUY won the election?

    Oh, he knows. His standard operating procedure is to take credit for anything positive, especially when he had nothing to do with it. That’s the Trump way.

  33. 33.

    JPL

    @raven:  Volunteers for Loeffler door knocked during the primary, and although I saw them walk up the driveway, I didn’t answer.   If they return, I’ll answer and say sorry, but I refuse to vote for someone who runs racist ads.   Of course, I’ll say thank you, before shutting the door

  34. 34.

    LAO

    @WaterGirl: Well, he spoke for 68 seconds and refused to take any questions.  I’m pretty sure Trump knows his faux-concession was responsible for the stock market rise. He just can’t help himself.

  35. 35.

    Kent

    @L85NJGT: That is an astonishing statistic.

    What explains it given that, for example, the entire country of the Philippines with over 100 million population has only seen 8,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic?

  38. 38.

    JustRuss

    What the hell does “building pressure from the left to jam the other side” even mean?  Pass legislation Republicans don’t approve of?  Cry me a river Ryan.

  39. 39.

    RSA

    @BR: I mentioned in the other thread that Dems need to stop encouraging the “write in Trump in GA” stuff — it’s a runoff, so I don’t believe there is a write-in option, and Trump brings low-propensity voters to the polls. We need them to stay home.

    Good point. Maybe it would be better to emphasize that if Trump supporters vote, they’re voting for establishment Republican candidates. It’s true, and I think it would be a disincentive.

  40. 40.

    Delk

    How’s Foxconn going Paul? Still have your gold shovel? Oh don’t forget that thanksgiving is coming up. I’m sure there’s some clean plates to pretend wash.

  43. 43.

    LAO

    @WaterGirl: Not really — just his “allowing” the GSA to begin working with the Biden Administration. (OMG how great it is to type the Biden Administration)

  46. 46.

    BruceFromOhio

    Given what I’ve seen of the incoming Biden administration picks, the President-elect and Vice-president-elect, and now the First-Lady-elect, I’m confident any “I personally think it’s in Joe Biden’s best interest to” statements from Republicans will be given the thorough and careful consideration such statements deserve.

    Right now, that feels like something between “hard pass” and “talk to the hand.”

    @RandomMonster: also, this.

  47. 47.

    Peale

    @Kent: Well, the Philippines has a more robust lockdown for a longer period of time.  Want to go out and you’ve used your pass? SOL. So the deaths will be lower.

    I’m actually surprised the % of Filipino nurses is so low, but then the nursing crowd I know is about 100% Filipino.  I think the issue is probably how they are recruited overseas. They are basically recruited to be sent first to work in areas where there are nursing shortage, but its not like the local doctors office will be paying the headhunt fees to the agency. Hospitals and the large nursing home chains are the ones using the recruiters and paying for sponsorship. So they probably make up a much larger percentage of the nurses who work in hospitals.

  48. 48.

    zhena gogolia

    Donald Trump’s one-term legacy: impeachment, COVID-19 failure, subverting democracy. Let’s hope he becomes an outlier who becomes a historical lesson of what a president should not be.— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) November 22, 2020

  50. 50.

    zhena gogolia

    This is:1) Melania and her handsome "nephew"2) Melania being escorted from the WH, with 150 rolls of toilet paper under her coat3) Melania starring as Mame at West Point4) Lindsey Graham's prom fantasy5) The coat you wear after a big Thanksgiving meal pic.twitter.com/BUSJOkCtDd— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) November 24, 2020

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    @WaterGirl:

    Does he not know the stock market is up because THE OTHER GUY won the election?

    It’s not so much that the other guy won the election as the fact that the other guy signaled his intention to nominate someone the markets know and trust as SecTreas.

  52. 52.

    LAO

    @WaterGirl: Oh yeah.  I expect he’ll pretend till the day he dies; he will never stop complaining about how the election was stolen from him.  NEVER!!!

  53. 53.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    Two quotes for Paul Ryan:

    Deficits don’t matter – Dick Cheney

    STFU, Paul Ryan – Bluegirlfromwyo

    It’s bipartisan, even!

  56. 56.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: Melania is pretending that she really, really wanted the White House lit up in rainbow lights, but that mean Mark Meadows stopped her.   What about before Meadows was there?

    She doesn’t really care and she really fks all this Christmas stuff.

  57. 57.

    TS (the original)

    I’m very slow on the uptake – today being no exception – Just came to mind that Donny is really really really upset that he is a one term president. To be seen as lesser among others  is not something he ever had to face before.

    Someone else’s misery should never make me happy – but I might give myself a pass on this one.

  59. 59.

    Mary G

    Look! A readout of a call with a foreign leader, just set off free into nature instead hiding it on the super-secret-server. And it’s soooo nice to see good writing and error free copy again.

    ICYMI: Readout of President-elect Biden's call with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand earlier this week. pic.twitter.com/Iwkwef9mi5— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) November 24, 2020

    Though now I said that one of youse’ll find a boo boo.

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    Lord help us all the coming month.

    In the most troubling moment since the COVID-19 crisis hit, Sacramento County on Tuesday registered by far the highest one-day total of new infections, nearly 1,000, prompting the county’s health chief to sound the alarm.

    The virus is now spreading exponentially in Sacramento, county Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye said.

    “I am really concerned,” she said. “I really am. This will impact our ability to have schools, places of worship and restaurants open. We are looking for state guidance on additional restrictions.”

    She urged residents to avoid Thanksgiving get-togethers and to do Black Friday shopping online from home rather than attempt to crowd into stores and malls.

    The 957 cases reported Tuesday are far higher than the previous record of 559 set last week, and exponentially higher than the daily totals of 200 and 300 the county was experiencing a month ago. The 957 figure could include some cases that occurred in previous days, but that weren’t registered by the county until Tuesday.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article247402220.html#storylink=cpy

    Seat belts, bumpy ride, etc.

  65. 65.

    HumboldtBlue

    @trollhattan:

    Two weeks ago Humbo9ldt was described as an island surrounded by red and purple counties.

    We went to purple today and knowing the assholes who live here Thanksgiving is going to be the cause of a lot of suffering at Xmas.

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

    @Mary G:

    The Biden-Jacinda Ardern relationship getting off on stronger footing than the New Zealand leader’s awkward dealings with Trump.

    How could this be? Fox News assures me that Trump was the best world leader ever, and made the leaders of all other nations swoon before his Orange Majesty.

    //snark

  69. 69.

    The Moar You Know

    I appreciate that Paul Ryan is honest about his appraisal of the intelligence of our President-elect, as well as Democrats in general.

    He thinks we are abjectly stupid.  If so, what are you losing, Paulie?

  70. 70.

    randy khan

    @BR:

    Apparently if you write in someone on a mail-in ballot, it’s disregarded, so a write-in campaign would work for mail-in voters (in the sense of taking votes away from the Republicans).  And from what I’ve seen, the crazies also are encouraging people not to vote to protest that Loeffler and Perdue are RINOs.  (Which is hilarious, since Loeffler in particular has been trying to stay no more than one atom’s distance from Trump all the way through this.)

  71. 71.

    The Moar You Know

    @HumboldtBlue: it’s not like you have a healthcare system up there that is any way remotely equal to dealing with it.  I am sorry.  I have spent some time there and love it and the people. Even the weird scary ones.  They don’t deserve what’s heading their way.  Take care of yourself.

  73. 73.

    White & Gold Purgatorian

    @HumboldtBlue:  That is so neat. Thank you for these links. I had no idea there was a black tank regiment, although i was aware the army was segregated in WWII.

  74. 74.

    mrmoshpotato

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Alyssa Milano came up with one of the brand new “it’s up to us to reach out to our Republican friends to work together” or some such bullshit statement and thankfully, no one is having it. 

    Who is this Alyssa Milano you’re talking about?  Certainly not her?

    Oh wait.  Yes.  Yes it is.  WTF Alyssa?

  77. 77.

    Brachiator

    Very convincing, high-level #analysis from Paul Ryan,

    I remember an early interview with Ryan in which he assured his questioner that if Trump tried to do anything excessive, constitutional checks and balances would restrain him.

    I am not interested in anything a GOP leader or former leader has to say about the incoming administration. But they should be held to answer why they aided and abetted the slow destruction of democracy by an infantile autocrat like Trump.

  80. 80.

    Mary G

    @trollhattan: @HumboldtBlue:

    Orange County’s increases are insanely high. Today’s 7-day average of daily new cases rose to 17.2  from I think 10.8 yesterday, and test positivity rate is 6.8 after we spent months flirting with Tier 4 at 3.2. The confirmed cases chart is just a straight line upward. Hospitalizations the same – change in 3-day average hospitalized patients 26.8%.

    It feels like a horror movie.

  87. 87.

    sdhays

    So, after the attempt to fuck up the mail-in ballots failed to deliver the election to his Dumpiness, will the USPS still try to fuck up mail-in ballots for the run off elections in Georgia? Or will they decide that this time Republicans should mail in ballots too?

    Or is no one even trying to coordinate their ratfucking anymore?

  90. 90.

    H.E.Wolf

    @White & Gold Purgatorian: i was aware the army was segregated in WWII.

    Yep! Democratic President Harry S. Truman integrated the military via Executive Order on July 28, 1948, in the middle of a presidential campaign which included a segregationist 3rd-party candidate.

    Truman had big brass ovaries. :) And a sense of integrity utterly foreign to the current desecrator of the People’s House.

  92. 92.

    HumboldtBlue

    @White & Gold Purgatorian:

    Yeah, more than 700K black men and women served during WW2 and initially almost all were put into service units. By 1943/44 the Army realized it needed manpower for combat units and that’s when they realized they had an untapped cohort to use.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yup.

    @H.E.Wolf:

    Yep! Democratic President Harry S. Truman integrated the military via Executive Order on July 28, 1948, in the middle of a presidential campaign which included a segregationist 3rd-party candidate.

    And to think that German prisoners of war were aghast when they were allowed to sit on American diners on their way to prison camps but their black guards had to eat at the back door.

  94. 94.

    J R in WV

    @Kent:

    November 24, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    @L85NJGT: That is an astonishing statistic.

    What explains it given that, for example, the entire country of the Philippines with over 100 million population has only seen 8,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic?

    Perhaps, not saying I could know anything factual, but perhaps, just maybe that 8,000 deaths statistic is a fuqin lie?? Maybe?

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @MomSense:

    Fuck Paul Ryan. Just wanted to see that again.

    He has a lot to answer for, and I hope some of it is still able to come back and bite him in the ass. NRA contributions denominated in rubles, say. ?

  96. 96.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The vile granny-starving twat that is Paul Ryan can stick a sock in any advice he cares to offer to Joe Biden.

  97. 97.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HumboldtBlue: I don’t remember anything about the KKK in McCullough’s bio of HST, but he does not come across well as an ex-president in Perlstein’s Nixonland, in particular his comments about MLK

  98. 98.

    MisterForkbeard

    @J R in WV: Duterte absolutely lies about the PH impact from Covid, but they actually have spent an enormous amount of political and social capital on severe restrictions, especially in their cities.

    Apparently these restrictions are regularly flouted by the elite, and Duterte not only excuses them but in some cases promoted and praised those people. Most of the Filipinos I know think Duterte is basically the worst, but they’re stuck with him for the moment and continue dealing with the pandemic and following the rules. I can sympathize.

  99. 99.

    Nicole

    @sdhays:

    Wasn’t he even once briefly a member of the KKK?

    He absolutely was a white supremacist, and his family were unreconstructed Confederates.  That said, he was the President who first began to split the South away from their loyalty to the Democratic Party, due to his firm belief in the Constitution granting rights to all citizens.  In addition, he was really affected by Black soldiers returning from WW2 and being beaten by Whites in their hometowns.  Super complicated individual.  In some ways, when you look at how he was raised, it’s startling that he came as far along on his journey towards racial equality as he did. I think the office of the Presidency changed him to an extent.

  100. 100.

    NotMax

    @Nicole

    David Susskind’s 1961 interviews with Truman available on Prime. Listed as “Give ’em Hell, Harry.” Not to be confused with the later James Whitmore movie of the same title.

  102. 102.

    sdhays

    @Nicole: This is what I was getting at – I wasn’t trying to detract from what he did, but rather to point out that his integration order was a pretty huge step for him personally, not just the nation.

  103. 103.

    Miss Bianca

    Why, it’s almost as if Paul Ryan has forgotten a certain occasion in 2012 where some guy named Joe kicked his smarmy little ass in a debate somewhere.

  105. 105.

    Brachiator

    @J R in WV:

    What explains it given that, for example, the entire country of the Philippines with over 100 million population has only seen 8,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic?

    The low figure may be a deliberate undercount. However, only about 5.3 percent of the population of the country is age 65 or older and this may reduce the number of people who may be most at risk.

  107. 107.

    brantl

    Please, please, someone tell Paul Ryan to fold it until it is all corners and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine.

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