Well said, Mr. Future Speaker. https://t.co/drhzvehhfL
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) July 30, 2021
Biden: "It is clear that if everybody is vaccinated, the existing vaccines work to prevent death, serious illness, and hospitalization. Okay? So if tomorrow I could wave a wand and every American is vaccinated, in fact we would be out of the woods." pic.twitter.com/VD1xFifbqd
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 29, 2021
AP-NORC poll: 6 in 10 Democrats say they’re optimistic about their party’s future, including similar majorities of liberals and of moderates and conservatives. Democrats also nearly universally approve of Biden. https://t.co/gREQcnaHNW pic.twitter.com/x3jlIByDtk
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 30, 2021
NEW — Khizr Khan has been nominated by Biden to serve as Appointee for Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 30, 2021
Absolutely unthinkable a decade ago. You love to see it. https://t.co/oqBeCeQ2j1
— zeddy (@Zeddary) July 30, 2021
Elsewhere… Friday doc dump:
Former President Donald Trump suffered twin setbacks when the Justice Department cleared the way to release his tax records and disclosed a memo showing he had urged top officials last year to falsely claim his election defeat was ‘corrupt’ https://t.co/kVTSpMe9pF pic.twitter.com/aHew8eAfBc
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 31, 2021
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Baud
Curious what 4 in 10 Dems think is wrong with the party.
NotMax
A WW2 capsule biography. Heckuva record (and a heckuva name you won’t soon forget).
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
OzarkHillbilly
zhena gogolia
So nice to see this positive politics post first thing in the morning. Thanks, AL!
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: We haven’t killed all the Republicans yet?
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly:
They really just compete to be the worst people on the face of the earth, don’t they? They all need to take a trip to a Montana fly-fishing shop so Dan Bailey can tell them what’s what.
NotMax
@Baud
Almost 1 in 10 mentioned that for a party it didn’t proffer enough ice cream and cake.
//
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@NotMax:
Legitimate beef.
NotMax
@Baud
Yet another fine band name.
;)
OzarkHillbilly
germy
dmsilev
@Baud: They prefer the brand of toothpaste recommended by the remaining one in five dentists.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Slip of the tongue. He meant to say wealthy ruling class.
OzarkHillbilly
Chef’s kiss
debbie
@germy:
He seemed…recalcitrant.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly:
“She may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. She really is an idiot.” G Marx
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So I’ve had Moderna and Pfizer, both cycles. Shooting for the trifecta with a J&J jab.
This is because I’m back in filthy courthouses with stupid unvaxxed people, forced to do so by too many judges in too many rural circuits who rule as if it is a personal fiefdom in accordance with the prejudices of ignorant hilljacks as they ignore the Chief Justice on opening and safety. Did I mention that our completely retarded (and no nicer word should be applied) legislooters have stripped Andy Beshear’s ability to address the pandemic?
germy
@debbie:
“It seems important to the humans, so I’ll do it. Now where’s my food?”
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Close.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
They should make a subcutaneous version of the vaccine, like Norplant but for corona.
Danielx
@OzarkHillbilly:
seconded.
frosty
@rikyrah: Good morning! Dunno why I’m awake at this hour :-(
@OzarkHillbilly: Blech to you too, at least until 10:00 or so when I get functional.
frosty
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yeah, that Stefanik quote is amazing. I thought “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” was great, but this one outdoes it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Will report on the trackers, the 5G and Magneto power that’s sure to emerge this time.
Geminid
I saw an interesting article in Politico, titled “Crypto currency industry fears big hit in infrastructure bill.” Language in the bill mandates that trades in Bitcoin and assets be subject to the same reporting requirements as stocks and other assets. Industry advocates are crying foul:
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: And the elected chair of the House Republican Conference. The GOP is just chock full of high quality hires.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: But if we were just nicer to them. . .
NotMax
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
“I drank a Corona on board Delta and a rift opened in the space-time continuum.”
//
Zinsky
Given the recent disclosures about Trump pressuring the DOJ to declare the 2020 election “corrupt”, Trump’s recorded phone calls to Georgia’s Raffensperger and the assclown ? in Arizona to change the election results, and his utter dereliction of duty from 11/6/20 to 1/20/21, I hope House Democrats impeach the slimeball a third time via the process outlined in the Constitution (nothing says it has to be a sitting President) and charge him criminally with election fraud!
hueyplong
@Geminid: Perianne seems unaware of the nature of American legislation for the entirety of the experiment.
germy
Priorities:
MattF
Speaking of incremental, Trump’s lawyers haven’t given up.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: “Nice guys finish last.”
– Leo Durocher
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I am evidence of that.
Leto
@Geminid: Wonder how Perianne thought we should’ve handled a “currency” that has no value and is basically only used for the drug trade, arm sales, and human trafficking? Wanker.
Geminid
@hueyplong: This is like how the Corporate Transparency Act, mandating disclosure of the real owners of shell companies, was attached to the defense authorization act during the lame duck session. Congress easily overrode trump’s veto of the bill. A writer from Forbes Magazine called the CTA the most significant anti-corruption legislation in decades. New York Representative Carolyn Maloney was a key sponsor..
germy
Geminid
@Leto: Ms. Boring sounded pretty upset. For her.
NotMax
@Baud
“Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked.”
- Peter De Vries
.
Warblewarble
Garland is no show pony .Actions of DOJ will have and are meant to have consequences. Keeping powder dry and firing for effect are more important than showy gestures.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Geminid:
Y’know, it occurs to me that an industry doesn’t really have clout unless it shows that it benefits the common weal, like with jobs, tax revenue and the like.
If you’re not paying taxes, don’t have large campuses involving rent/purchase of real estate and equipment, don’t have a giant cohort of domestic employees and your business model is all about facilitating tax evasion and money laundering for scammers, hackers, narco traffickers, human traffickers, child porn and gun running, it’s going to be difficult to generate legislative sympathy.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
Its how the Dutch make up for being hideously racist shits for most of their history….
MomSense
@Zinsky:
I’m still fucking furious that sanctimonious skyscraper Comey played right into his hands with his announcing the reopening of the investigation right before the election. That’s exactly what Zelensjy was smart enough to know not to do.
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
America was/is hideously racist and our infrastructure is an embarrassment.
mrmoshpotato
Biden refuses to use magic vaccination wand. -All Faux News asshats
Chief Oshkosh
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Did you have side effects with the second complete round of vaccination?
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Zelensky had to consider the possibility that the DEMs might win.
eta: and Comey forgot to consider the possibility that trump might win.
mrmoshpotato
“setbacks”
FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, REUTERS!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
True. Our “make up” infrastructure in the 22nd and 23rd centuries should be amazing, assuming we survive.
Wonder what the Yonkers, Orlando and Paterson seafronts are going to look like? Will there be boardwalks?
zhena gogolia
@Warblewarble:
Yes.
Geminid
@Geminid: Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney first introduced the Corporate Transparency Act a decade ago. So when you ask somebody, “Guess which woman in Congress just got a powerful financial reform measure passed!” and they answer, “Katie Porter!? Elizabeth Warren?!” you can say, “No. Caroline Maloney.”
And they’ll say, “Who?”
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Chief Oshkosh:
Not a bit. I had the Moderna cycle for first jabs; the second shot rocked my world for 30 hours. After that, Pfizer 1 stung, but no side effects. Pfizer 2 was a breeze.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
At least he was mildly nauseous for a minute.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Other Democrats.
MomSense
@mrmoshpotato:
INORITE
MomSense
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Second Moderna jab had me hallucinating. Got me good.
Just Chuck
@Leto: Your picture of bitcoin is naive and inaccurate: you forgot ransomware in that list.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@MomSense:
Mine was 30 hours of fatigue, headache, earache, fog and renewed loud tinnitus (that had faded a few years ago).
Ripley
@Geminid:
LMAO Oh my fucking god… Please, tell me this is an adult human being who walks around doing adult things.
“I’m a pirate spaceman ninja!”
germy
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Here’s the famous climate change lecture from 1958.
Invest in glass bottomed boats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AXBbuDxRY
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Just Chuck:
Such a socially beneficial means of exchange, really. Speeds you right past all that yucky statist currency control.
gene108
@germy:
America inherited its racism from settlers like the Dutch.
This article was published in thejakartapost.com with the title “COMMENTARY: How bad, how cruel were Dutch to us?”. Click to read: https://www.thejakartapost.com/academia/2018/08/23/commentary-how-bad-how-cruel-were-dutch-to-us.html.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Cooool!
“#comment-8241368”>@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: So, my everyday normal.
Baud
@Geminid:
Isn’t she also responsible for the child tax credit?
Matt McIrvin
@germy: Hmm, I guess he was the inspiration for Esther Averill’s The Fire Cat.
germy
@Matt McIrvin:
And not a penny in royalties for him.
Baud
@Steeplejack (phone):
Hard to believe 6 in 10 Democrats are happy with other Democrats though.
Baud
@Ripley:
I can’t believe the actual Chamber of Commerce hasn’t sued yet for trademark infringement.
Matt McIrvin
@MomSense: I had generally mild side effects from the Moderna but the oddball thing after the second shot was stomach upset. Not nausea, more stomach rumbles, and it might just have been from eating some junky food around that time.
The vaccine that knocked me on my ass was Shingrix.
Ken
@Ripley: @Baud: The power of the real Chamber of Commerce is that they have dues-paying members, and use those funds for lobbying activities. I wonder if this Digital Chamber of Commerce has any members other than its founder and president.
And would any sane person want to ask Bitcoin users for money, or accept it if offered? You’re certain to be contacted a couple weeks later by a couple of bulky fellows with Russian accents who say “we did you a favor, now we need you to do a favor for us….”
Just Chuck
@Ken: I’m sure they have tens of thousands of
membersemail list signups.MomSense
@Matt McIrvin:
Stepmom also had a really bad reaction to Shingrix. Had Bell’s Palsy – and some other bizarre things. She recovered fully but it was scary.
OzarkHillbilly
“Please, please don’t tell anyone I don’t dance on the interstate anymore.“
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: I suspect they are a couple of bulky fellows with Russian accents.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
I’ve always wondered if we have our own, lefty version of The Crazification Factor. Not exactly the same mental makeup as the RWNJ version but something that explains this.
My working theory (developed this morning) is that this number represents a combination of Blue Dog types (WE’RE SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!) and Our Progressive Betters (IT’S NEVER ENOUGH!!!! BIDEN IS A NEOLIBERAL CORPORATE SCHILL!!!!!!!).
The problem with the latter is that they never typically identify themselves as Democrats, they’re the lefty version of glibertarians.
MomSense
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MKm5RyYAIxI There must be some kind of planet, for all the people who can manage, all of us who can handle it with all of this damage
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: “All my friends say we mustn’t live in fear, so they dance on the interstate. Some even do it carrying knives with the point up, and wearing plastic bags over their heads. But I’m kind of worried….”
Geminid
@Baud: She could well have been in on the child care credit. Maloney has a lot of seniority and sounds like a hard worker. She has served in Congress since 1993.
I was interested to see that Caroline Maloney was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Greensboro College. According to Wickipedia, Maloney visited New York City in 1970 and decided to stay.
Born in 1946, Maloney would be part of the Congressional “gerontocracy” people sometimes complain about.
Baud
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Perhaps. It could just as easily be moderates who think we’re moving to the left to quickly or too much. Or a combination.
dr. bloor
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
If you don’t mind my being nosy, what was your reaction after each of the injections?
Cameron
@Baud: Part of it may be people who are fixated on a specific issue. The issue can be very important, but there are a ton of such issues and the government can only handle so many at one time.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: Shhhhhhhhh….
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
I’m super moderate (used to call myself “conservatively progressive”), but I’m starting to see everything as being broken by conservatives to such a point that there are way fewer institutional needs to hold off on big changesshould some decent consensus arise.
dr. bloor
@Geminid:
“Digital Chamber of Commerce” is the 21st century version of New York’s Five Families.
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Cheryl from Maryland
@NotMax: Dick Bong, Ace of Aces, flew one of my favorite WWII planes — the P-38 Lightning, supposedly nicknamed Der Gabelschwanz-Teufel (Fork Tailed Devil) by the Luftwaffe. Antoine de Saint Exupery flew the French variant.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I’m more of a momentum guy. Sometimes you have a lot, sometimes a little, but you should always push to move forward, and try to keep the other side from gaining ground in the other direction.
Geminid
@Baud: It could be the 20% at either end of the party who have reservations along the lines of, too far, not far enough; or, too fast, not fast enough. Not objections so much as reservations. The really strident criticisms I see of Democratic policies are coming from people outside the party: Republicans on the right, and “Brogressives,” as Mr. Lobster calls them, on the left.
debbie
@Geminid:
Is she a self-appointed corporation of one?
Frankensteinbeck
@MattF:
Someone in the comments says the court aspect is already decided, that delay is built into the process rather than a win for Trump, and is likely to be short – whatever that means.
Baud
@Geminid: That’s the thing. 20% seems high for either wing. I would have put the dissatisfied on either end at about 5%.
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense:
Can you tell us what a purple monkey dishwasher looks like?
(I really hope it’s not a purple monkey washing dishes.)
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
As a party that actually tries to do things right, almost no one agrees that the sausage that finally results is what we should be doing because there are a hundred opinions of what works best. You see it a lot here, and yet we are (very) faithful Democratic voters.
Geminid
@Baud: Maybe the dissatisfied are concerned about the slow pace of things. I know a lot of people are. We live in an age of impatience. And there is the possibility that one of our Senators from a red-Governor state could keel over.
Geminid
@debbie: That’s what Ms. Boring sounds like. She could be grifting. Or maybe she is self funding, and just wants to be Somebody.
S. Cerevisiae
@Cheryl from Maryland: One of the bridges between Duluth and Superior is named for Bong, legend has it that he flew a P-38 under the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth.
Fair Economist
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Because neutralizing immunity falls off pretty quickly, I don’t think getting a whole bunch of shots in sequence would be all that useful. Getting bolstered every 3 to 6 months would be a better try for sustained high immunity. I also found my third challenge, in my case 2 Moderna after having had it, less problematic than my second, so maybe repeated boosters won’t be much of a problem.
Ksmiami
@mrmoshpotato: I was so dizzy from the second Moderna-
zhena gogolia
Love this. Perfect.
Kathleen
@Geminid: She’s being primaried.
germy
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Fair Economist:
So my sequence was March Moderna, June Pfizer and J&J mid August.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
“To safeguard our future, we must reject socialist healthcare schemes.” Reject sociailst schemes like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid…
This Stefanicq woman is dumber than a fuckin’ rock, isn’t she?
To be able to speak two different things from the same mouth like that, it’s almost as good as being a comedian.
Thanks for sharing, Ozark.
germy
@J R in WV:
Welcome to upstate NY republicans.
It’s their world up here, people like me just live in it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
About the only thing our useless federal judiciary gets righteously pissed off about enough to do anything with speed or certitude about is the sacred calendar.
Everything else is dithery.
MagdaInBlack
@zhena gogolia: Made me laugh, and yes, its perfect. ?
frosty
@Cheryl from Maryland:
You must have heard about Glacier Girl then, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Girl
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/15-p-38-glacier-girl-pictures.html
J R in WV
@S. Cerevisiae:
There is 16mm news film of Chuck Yeager flying under bridges on the Kanawha river here in Charleston WV, out of the AF base in Dayton OH.
Strictly against all the rules, but Chuck was never one much for rules. He used to race cars on narrow country roads around Lincoln county, WV. Was one hell of a driver of anything from Chevys to the X-1 spacecraft series.
Geminid
@Kathleen: Last year, Carolyn Maloney beat “progressive” challenger Suraj Patel in the Democratic primary by only 4%.
In 1992, Maloney won her first Congressional election in what had been called the “Silk Stocking District” of the upper East Side. Previously, it had been in the hands of Republicans, but redistricting changed it some.
frosty
@J R in WV: I just saw a short History Channel bio of Bong this morning. He may or may not have looped the Golden Gate Bridge, but he did fly down Market Street in San Francisco, so low he could see in the windows and knocking down some poor woman’s laundry hanging out to dry. General Kenney chewed him out, then had him go back and help her with the laundry.
He also raced cars before he got into aviation.
J R in WV
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Dude, mid-August hasn’t happened yet… pretty sure J&J wasn’t available at all last August.
According to the FDA…
ETA: No offense intended, I can’t tell what month it is without a computer… just struck by the mid-August here in July. ;~)
J R in WV
And where will we get hot-shot pilots without stock car street racing?
Cheryl from Maryland
@frosty: Yes. My other fav WWII plane is the F4U Corsair, aka “Whistling Death.” You can tell I’m big on nicknames.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@J R in WV:
Scheduled for mid August….
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Baud: 3 in 10 are unrepentent chaos agents of #ourrevolution.
1 in 10 are holdover lester maddox democrats who still don’t trust a party of linqoln.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@NotMax: big john cornyn energy
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@germy: maybe he wanted to serve from the grave, like nv state sen dennis “qhost pimp” hoffs (r – qathouse)
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@MomSense: you can take the man out of ken starr’s retinue of crack climpton inquisitors, but you can’t take the climpton inquisition out of the man
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Geminid: clearly, maloney is a neoliberal fascist shill propping up endstage kapitalism.
justice democrats must primary her.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Cheryl from Maryland: i enjoy his recreation area
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Kathleen: called it
Kathleen
@MontyTheClipArtMongoose: They already are.
Kathleen
@MontyTheClipArtMongoose: Yup.
Marc McKenzie
@Warblewarble:
I wish more people would understand that.
I mean, only a couple of weeks ago there were calls for his head on a pike.
Uncle Cosmo
@J R in WV: FTR the X-1 series were rocket planes, and most definitely NOT “spacecraft.”
Richard
@Baud:
2 of the 4 think the platform is not progressive enough, one doesn’t really care about politics, and the other is a closet republican.