Choose to fight only righteous fights, because then when things get tough—and they will—you will know that there is only one option ahead of you: Nevertheless, you must persist. pic.twitter.com/GA4vl9tuRl
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) March 7, 2020
I’m slowly moving towards acceptance… when I can be selfishly glad that Elizabeth Warren is still my senior Senator.
Been collecting stories & twitter threads about Warren’s campaign, and the grace & dignity with which she ended it. Worth putting up a post later, or would that just be rubbing salt in the wounds?
Mandatory disclaimer: I got my second (well, third — this was the second booster on the updated vaccine) shingles shot Saturday, and fortunately the vertigo didn’t last, but my arm hurts to move. So my temper is even more untrustworthy than usual. You have been warned.
.@SenSchumer & I are demanding that the Trump Administration prioritize the health and safety of American workers and their families over corporate interests. #coronavirus https://t.co/S8TuwaHQeM
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) March 8, 2020
I don’t mean to sound alarmist but it seems like tomorrow is the day when the rest of the country catches up to close news readers in realizing how everything is fucked.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 9, 2020
This, from Obama's former chief econ advisor, is….concerning. https://t.co/nCsnJY8Gui
— Jeremy WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) March 9, 2020
What started with the biggest oil-price collapse since 1991 is shaping up to be one of the wildest days in years for global markets https://t.co/DGJovmAVjU
— Bloomberg Markets (@markets) March 9, 2020
It's the only thing he has left where cheating works. https://t.co/tBFkbSY8RL
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 9, 2020
JPL
Something to think about. Are we safer when he’s playing golf?
JPL
What I find frustrating is that trump’s economic plans consist of bailing out farmers, and now thinking about bailing out the airlines and cruise lines. I assume next will be money towards the shale industry since trump’s friends are tanking the oil market. All the while we can’t even provide school lunch to every child in America. trump has some f.ked up priorities.
satby
On the one hand, my meagre little IRA is shrinking at an alarming rate. On the other hand with a global respiratory pandemic, maybe I won’t outlive my money anyway. So, good news! (//)
Betty Cracker
Still stuck on the anger phase. Hadn’t managed to move past that stage from 2016, and this bullshit scenario rhymes with that well enough to compound it. Oh well, whatchagonnadoo?
I think Drezner is correct: this is wake-up call week. It’s going to be all kinds of ugly.
OzarkHillbilly
Baud
You don’t want to see Anne Laurie angry. You wouldn’t like her if she’s angry.
Feel better.
Baud
@satby:
Good news is the reduction in carbon emissions from the virus and its economic effects.
FWIW.
NotMax
But- but- it’s the start of a shiny new Infrastructure Week.
//
satby
@Baud: ironic, isn’t it? Beijing is currently enjoying the cleanest air it’s had in years. But the damage from all that pollution will still make people vulnerable to complications from Covid-19.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Come sit by me. I’m hoping to be able to take an anger vacation in January.
debbie
A Warren thread would sure cheer me up on this still-dark morning.
Baud
@satby:
Imagine how much more vulnerable we’d be if people didn’t fight against smoking here for so many years.
Maybe this will kill off the vaping craze too.
debbie
@satby:
I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Promise the exit won’t be painful, and I’m in!
Baud
So two of Trump’s patrons — Saudi Arabia and Russia — are in an oil war.
He’ll need all of his stable genius to figure this one out.
Baud
Mayor Pete on Today show this morning.
OzarkHillbilly
Alabama bill may lift yoga ban in public schools but prohibit ‘namaste’ greeting
Alabama might finally enter the 20th century in 2020.
Yes, we must protect the little chilluns from the ungodly influences of knowledge and well being.
Duck duck goose might sound innocent but that’s just the first step on the slippery slope of Godless hedonism.
Even private gyms in Alabama? Oh my… Those dawg damned libtards are probably in the showers too!
What do you want to bet the phrase, “Jesus loves you.” is perfectly acceptable?
I take it back. Alabama is no where near ready to exit the 14th century.
New Deal democrat
Putin has chosen this moment when he senses his adversaries have enhanced vulnerability to make a power play in the oil market. His targets are (1) the Saudis, who he wants to see invest $$$ in Russia, and bend to Russia’s Middle East ambitions, and (2) the US fracking industry, that he would like to weaken and maybe have his oligarchs take a big stake in.
As in 2016, this will benefit US consumers in the aggregate even as it delivers pain to the Oil Patch. If it continues, paradoxically it will help defeat Trump, for the same reason that the weak economy helped him in 2016.
The move in stocks and bonds is obviously very emotional, and could reverse at any time. It is driven by short term traders rather than long term investors. People whose financial horizons are longer than a couple of years should not panic.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Amen, y’all” is an acceptable substitute for “namaste.”
msb
It wouldn’t be salt. It would be nourishment, like the SNL skit and the switch dancing video.
satby
In my experience since I moved out of Chicago, that’s the primary reason most people home school. They would rather handicap their children for life than see them abandon their religious beliefs. Especially if those beliefs include creationism.
Baud
Pete makes clear the voters not the Establishment is the reason he dropped out.
Baud
Pete is co-hosting Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday.
MJS
@Baud: That’s exactly what you would expect someone who was forced to drop out by the Establishment to say, isn’t it? //
OzarkHillbilly
So I heard that Elizabeth Warren was on SNL Saturday night and had some harmless fun with Kate McKinnon.
I also heard that a lot of people enjoyed it.
I had no idea there were so many traitors to the cause among us.
eclare
@Baud: Cool! I’ll set my DVR.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: People home school for a lot of different reasons (99.9% of which make little sense to me) but yeah, the vast majority of them are scared to death that little Johnny or Janey might be exposed to facts and science.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: So Pete’s a traitor to the cause too, eh?
ETA: What am I saying, he was always a traitor to the cause. Silly me.
TS (the original)
Amazing how the media is interested in democratic candidates ….. after they drop out of the race.
Meanwhile it seems Nancy Pelosi is president in all but name. Trump won’t/can’t do his job so Ms Pelosi is taking over.
A Ghost To Most
@OzarkHillbilly:
Where Alabama = 40% of America.
A mindvirus is a terrible contagion.
different-church-lady
Unsure whether to read virus-is-going-to-kills-us-all gloom porn or global-economy-in-collapse gloom porn.
Kristine
Second booster? My Shingrix series involved two shots.
Did they split the second dose? Because that flattened me for two days.
Geminid
A good time to raise gasoline taxes (Virginia just did). And while low oil prices theoretically stimulate use, the disruption of the industry could encourage oil producing states to push clean power infrastructure. New Mexico already is. In 2008 economist Robert Pollin started studying the “trade off” between clean energy and and fossil fuel jobs. His findings indicate that a transition to clean energy generates 3 jobs for every fossil fuel job lost. There was a very good interview of Pollin last March in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, titled “We Need a Better Green New Deal” that I learned a lot from. I won’t post a link (just posting a post is challenging for me), but the article is worth checking out if one wants good info on combatting global warming.
eclare
@satby: Unfortunately a small number home school their kids so they can abuse them, like that couple in CA who drove off a cliff.
JPL
@different-church-lady: Two to many choices.
OzarkHillbilly
@A Ghost To Most: I live among them. The first time thru I read your 2nd sentence as, “A mindvirus is a terrible thing to waste.”
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I home schooled #2 son while I was a road warrior for my old job because he was truant while I worked and the college kid I hired didn’t seem able to rein the kid in. Second son was in danger of failing freshman year in high school, and having to sit in a hotel room in North Carolina doing school work instead of hanging out with his friends was a powerful punishment. He home schooled the entire high school curriculum, and was allowed to stay home with the sitter as long as he maintained a B average. But it was an accredited school, unlike the religious curriculum ones that self accredit, and he at least went to college and trade school. So, yes, people select home school for reasons other than brainwashing their children, but most of them to it mostly to make sure the kids don’t interact with anyone “different”. And it’s helping break society.
OzarkHillbilly
@different-church-lady: Flip a coin. If it lands on edge, commit suicide.
eclare
@satby: Wow, that is impressive.
WereBear
@eclare: If it’s fundamentalist religion keeping the kids at home, abuse is a guarantee.
satby
@eclare: except in extraordinary circumstances, I’m beginning to consider almost all home schooling psychologically abusive even if the parents aren’t physically abusive.
eclare
@satby: I can definitely see that, except in cases like yours or for medical reasons.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: My ex “tried” to home school my youngest after he got kicked out for having dope on school property. I say “tried” in scare quotes because she didn’t do shit. Long story short I managed to get my hands on the evidence of what was really going on and gave it to the Juvenile officer in charge of his probation.
She suddenly decided to enroll him in a Catholic HS.
satby
@eclare: well, desperate times. I had to keep my job, and I had to get the kids to finish high school. Fortunately, I had a lot of points to bring the kid with me on flights. And a very supportive boss. So it worked out ok. That kid was a bigger challenge than many of the foster kids were ?
satby
@eclare: agreed on medical and maybe cases like mine. But I hope in the future they tighten up the ability of parents to home school, because most aren’t capable and the curriculum I’ve seen are garbage. It just appalls me, and these kids will only be marginal workers and struggle their entire lives.
Morzer
Cory Booker has just been pressured by the establishment into endorsing Joe Biden. So there’s that.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The grade school where my DIL teaches has instituted three daily hand wash breaks, in addition to whatever happens in the bathroom. And a nephew who’s in grad school at Stanford will finish the winter quarter with online only classes. It’s a quarter so it ends in a couple of weeks, but still. I’m glad some institutions are capable of planning farther than one news cycle ahead because the Trump administration sure doesn’t seem to be. I see Pelosi and Schumer want Congress to put a plan together.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I was way too happy to have my son out the door on school mornings to ever consider home schooling him. Besides, he was happy and learning stuff, so let’s both get on with our lives.
Gin & Tonic
@New Deal democrat:
So I’ve been starting to plan on retiring from work next year. Think it’s OK to panic?
Baud
@Morzer: They are ruthless.
Gin & Tonic
@satby: Always exceptions. I know a woman who home-schooled 5, and they turned out to be wonderful people. But she’s a crunchy-granola-Birkenstock type – raises sheep and goats, makes her own cheese and soap, grows most of her own food, kids play multiple musical instruments. She has more energy than a half-dozen normal humans combined.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Same – especially after watching Hillary on Hulu. To think of the competent cabinet she would’ve had instead of these fucking robber barons and grifters…
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Gin & Tonic:
Yeah, I’m a little torn between wanting Trump to preside over a market crash and a pandemic and the knowledge that we’re living off our investments and in an age group that’s more at risk with COVID.
Seriously we rode out the 2001 crash after 9/11 and the 2008 one after W screwed us. We’ll ride out this one too. There aren’t a lot of other good options.
Baud
Max Von Sydow has died.
different-church-lady
@New Deal democrat:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: The best infrastructure week EVER!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@mrmoshpotato:
As someone on twitter said this morning, we could have had taco trucks. On every corner.
different-church-lady
@mrmoshpotato:
Denali
Am still in mourning for not being able to support Elizabeth Warren. Do not understand why she lost her home state. That really hurt her as it did Albert Gore. I understand now why Gore lost – but I thought that Mass voters would vote for EW.
Ran into my first anti-vaxxer while petitioning on Saturday. Really scary how passionate he was and how convinced. He was horrified that New York withdrew the religious exemption for vaccination, citing his God-given right to decide for himself to keep his children from being vaccinated. We were able to disagree civilly, but it was very unsettling.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: that’s the thing, most of them don’t do shit. It’s more about control than education.
OT: I know it’s cliche, but Pachalbel’s Canon and sunrise = happiness.
Baud
Some good news.
OzarkHillbilly
You mean you HAD been planning on retiring from work.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
This.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: I don’t think the truth is ever cliche. :-)
Nora
Sorry to hear about your shingles shot — the second one really does hurt like mad, much more than the first one, but it does get better in about a week (I’m speaking from experience).
As for Elizabeth Warren, I think it really is a repeat of the way I (we?) felt in 2016: furious and cheated and wanting to shake people who wouldn’t support her.
All this past week I’ve been saying, “Just think how different this would be if we had a competent woman in charge of the government during this crisis.” Not that it makes any real difference, but it makes ME feel better.
Chyron HR
@Baud:
Well, you have to understand that Michigan is full of the Democratic Establishment. Identity politicians. You know, ni-clangs.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly:
Alabama needs to chill the fuck out. Maybe some yoga and meditation would help with that.
satby
@Denali: I get to talk to them all the time, and the ones who think diluted vinegar water with lavender or rosemary essential oil is disinfectant, because I make soap so they think I’m in the cult of ignorance. I take an almost vicious pleasure in disabusing them of that impression.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: ?
Nicole
Elizabeth Warren posts are always welcome. I’m sorry about your arm, Anne Laurie. :(
My son’s elementary school is affiliated with a university that just closed this week due to virus concerns, and so his school is closed this week, too (as a precaution; there’s no indication there’s been any cross-pollination between his school and the university students/faculty). They just informed us last night. Sigh. Gov. Cuomo recommended avoiding crowded public transit, and so I had considered roller blading to and from to my last week of radiation, but now with the kiddo off school, we’ll have to go by subway.
As he’s a kid and currently I feel fine (the radiation is prophylactic), I’m not worried about our own health, but man, I hate to think either of us would end up a disease vector for someone older or with compromised lungs. Well, at least the facility has LOTS of soap and hand sanitizer.
And I imagine a lot of the other parents are scrambling for child care this week. Ugh.
OzarkHillbilly
Live long and prosper, Merrick.
mrmoshpotato
@different-church-lady:
Don’t be silly. You can totally read both! ?
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Another of those “wow, I didn’t realize he was still alive” moments.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Steve Bullock confirms he running for Senate
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Excellent news.
Mai naem mobile
Fucking Gary Cohn is on the Twitter machine talking about stimulus which actually doesn’t involve tax cuts for the rich. Guess even Gary Cohn realizes he will be strung up by his balls if he talks about more tax cuts for the rich.
Dow futures are showing 1300 pts down weeeeee… on the GOP Russian Roulette stock market. I am sure Kudlow will be talking about buying on the dip. Also whatever happened to Trumpov and Kushner’s great relationship with MBS and the Saudis? Apparently Donnie has such an excellent relationship with MBS that he couldn’t talk to then about not upping their oil production. And,oh yeah, NK shot something into South Korea.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
Do they actually expect me to believe there really is such a person?
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Sad news. He was a terrific actor. Had a good run, though, and kept right on working.
MattF
Got my second shingles shot and my flu shot at the same time, which in retrospect was not so smart. Didn’t know that vertigo was a side effect, but now I do. I do better though, several weeks later.
Jeffro
I’m just trying to picture what the Republican Noise Machine would be doing if President Hillary Clinton had kept a cruise ship full of Americans from docking because “…I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
This, after having fired the entire previous administration’s pandemic response team.
And then retweeted a picture of herself fiddling (while the country metaphorically burns) saying “Who knows what this means, but it sounds good to me”.
And then had the nerve to go golfing for two straight days after that. At her own resort.
WereBear
When I tell them the doctor involved made it all up to get money and has had his license to practice taken away, it has no effect.
So there’s nothing anyone can say.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Finally. A bot that delivers good news.
New Deal democrat
@Gin & Tonic: I really don’t know when things will turn around. Just that they will turn around once the acute coronavirus crisis passes. Usually when you see emotional moves like this, you are getting close to a bottom.
This is not to in any way diminish the health crisis. I think that 10,000s will die needlessly because of Trump’s narcissism.
Gin & Tonic
@MattF: The Shingrix was very bad for me. Actually called out sick the day after each one, could barely get out of bed.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: ? RIP Antonius Block
Betty Cracker
@Jeffro: I read somewhere that the weird Trump playing the fiddle photoshop is a Q-nut meme. Figures that neither Trump nor the deluded Q-morons knew not to invoke Nero under the present circumstances.
Baud
@New Deal democrat:
The tree of email best practices must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.
Immanentize
When I saw Booker endorsed Biden this morning, I thought, “Looks like Kamala Harris beat Booker like a rug. Again.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @Baud: Good news indeed. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yup. And I can stick my head out my front door and see 8 corners. ?
mrmoshpotato
@different-church-lady: Waahhh! Boring, competent people doing their jobs well?
Skepticat
The shingles shots are indeed less than fun, and the second of the new version seems even more uncomfortable. It might be a bit late to help you, but I found that ice and massage short-circuited the pain considerably. However, I’m sure you’re reminding yourself how much better that is than having shingles.
JPL
@Mai naem mobile: Ain’t trump world grand.
Ken
By Rule 34 there is actual nekkid-body pornography for both, as well as crossovers.
By the strong form of Rule 34, it did not exist until you mentioned it, at which instant the websites (complete with ten years of posted videos) sprang into existence. The strong form is generally viewed as unscientific because, like Gosse’s Omphalos, it is untestable in principle.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: I had to look that up to make sure I was thinking of the right song – and YouTube suggested ‘pachelbel’s canon but it’s played by hundreds of train horns’
Here you go.
Also – rubber chicken
Immanentize
@mrmoshpotato: I have the full Bergman set on DVD. Time to watch Seventh Seal again. Crusades? Check. Plague? Check. Chess with Death? Check.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know that the yoga practised by non-Hindus around the world is already completely secular. But isn’t there a Constitutional issue with mandating that secularisation?
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: I look forward to Florida next week – oh Comrade Wilmer…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@JPL: from the Virus yes, away from other people and out in the sun.
Immanentize
@mrmoshpotato: I love that the one high note is played by Thomas the Tank Engine.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
You would hope he would drop out of he loses tommorow badly. But you wouldn’t expect it.
satby
From Bill Penzy’s latest email:
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Old, possibly apocryphal story (for the jazz fans) that when Paul Desmond was in the hospital, Charles Mingus came for a visit – Mingus was partial then to wearing a cape, like an overcoat. Desmond said “set up the chessboard.”
Bex
@Baud: Also appeared on Morning Joe and will be on Good Morning America. Co-hosting on Jimmy Kimmel Thursday. Got a standing O at a performance of “Inheritance” last night.
satby
@mrmoshpotato: that train horn one is genius! The chicken one kinda is too, but annoying ?
Baud
@satby:
I can’t believe the Establishment got to Big Condiments.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: My coin flips have been coming up on the side for nigh on three years. I thought that was a good thing via The Twilight Zone….
satby
@Bex: people are going to come to appreciate him in the future.
OzarkHillbilly
Selling the snakeoil.
What a killjoy. We could make millions, MILLIONS I tells ya!
jonas
I really, really want there to be a Hindu PE teacher somewhere in Alabama who brings a suit claiming that this gag order amounts to a violation of his or her religious freedom.
Gin & Tonic
The trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian (none of whom showed up) in the MH17 shootdown has begun in the Netherlands.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: like?
A Ghost To Most
@OzarkHillbilly:
I tried that for 50 years. It wasn’t worth it. I ain’t never goin’ back to buttholeville.
MattF
@mrmoshpotato: I have a love-hate relationship with that number. It stops me in my tracks and brings tears to my eyes, while the irritated aesthete in my head screams WTF!
jonas
One minute the kids are saying “namaste” and doing a vriksasana, and the next they’re sacrificing goats and listening to Taylor Swift. It’s a slippery slope.
OzarkHillbilly
I feel certain that the Conservative wing of our Supreme Court using their originalist interpretations will rein in this obviously unconstitutional practice. s//
RedDirtGirl
@different-church-lady: Hey, at least you have options, right?
MattF
@OzarkHillbilly: Also, may turn your skin blue. Permanently.
jonas
@OzarkHillbilly: Not only does it not kill anything when taken orally, it actually turns you blue as a smurf. Google “argyria.”
ETA: oops, MattF was there first.
Baud
@jonas: I think that’s backward.
Skepticat
Because I’m out of the country, it’s often difficult to find a site from which I can download SNL’s cold open. However, I just saw this past weekend’s episode with Elizabeth Warren, and it nearly brought me to tears because of our missed chance to have her in charge. So very happy she’s still in the Senate.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Sssssshhhhhhh….
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
My reaction too. There really needs to be a word for that. I’ll bet the Germans have one
Wapiti
@Denali: Do people own their kids or are they their custodians? Views differ.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic:
Well, he’s not anymore!
RIP Father Merrin.
OzarkHillbilly
@A Ghost To Most: It has it’s upsides: There’s the quiet, and the beautiful sunrises….
The quiet, the beautiful sunrises….
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: that colloidal silver bullshit has been circulating for years, just freshened up for whatever the new illness du jour is. It’s frightening to me how much our society, including supposedly educated people, have run away from science and prefer magical thinking.
And all because of the need of a few gazzilionaires to dumb down people enough to keep them voting against their own interests.
oatler.
@jonas:
Similar to what happened to Evangeline Walton.
OzarkHillbilly
@jonas: We also have this “free speech” thing in this country. Or so I thought anyway.
prostratedragon
@Gin & Tonic:
Can well believe it. I’ll also plan to watch The Seventh Seal soon, or failing that, Flash Gordon, in which von Sydow plays Ming [“… this — ‘Earth’ …”].
(Mingus’s wife related that the two of them went to Mexico at one point seeking a treatment for his ALS. The treatment involved something derived from sheep or lambs. After a few days, he turned to her one morning: “B-a-a-a-ah!”)
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: @SiubhanDuinne:
Max Von was in a movie just released last year about the Russian Kursk nuclear sub that sank, called “The Command.” And of course in the Star Wars movie just a few years ago. I didn’t think he would ever die.
mrmoshpotato
@Jeffro: Everyone at Faux News – apologies to Lewis Black
Gin & Tonic
@mrmoshpotato:
Thanks for clearing that up.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: That alone makes all the bullshit on the internet worthwhile. Well, almost.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: LOL
Googles global-economy-in-collapse gloom porn out of curiosity.
Just One More Canuck
@OzarkHillbilly:
That name brings to mind an image of what BernieBros watch, and I don’t need that
Geminid
Bullock may have been waiting to see if he would have to run with Sanders or not. I can now count 12 winnable Senate seats. In approximate order of winnability: ME, AZ, CO, and NC. Then IA, GA1 (Isaacson’s seat, Warnock D), TX, KS, MT, KY, SC, and GA2. It looks like we will have strong candidates in all but maybe GA2.
Bex
@satby: I think the future is already here.
Immanentize
@Geminid: I like the way you count!!
mrmoshpotato
@Immanentize: And it’s also a great movie!
prostratedragon
Note: According to IMDb, von Sydow’s own favorite movie was Pelle the Conqueror.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: LOL – I’m still hoping he drops out in May 2016!
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: He has apparently said he’s not dropping out even if he does badly tomorrow.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: You’ve lived in Chicago and have no love for rubber chickens? For shame!
P.S. Berwyn!
wvng
@New Deal democrat: certainly things will turn around after the acute phase of the COVID19 crisis passes, but the question is how deep will the canyon be that we need to rise out of. The travel and leisure industries, and every aspect of the economy related to them, will take a terrible hit. The construction trades will as well. The retirement community and nursing homes will be creamed. And so many others. A lot of underlying building blocks of the economy. This isn’t like 2008 when someone made the mistake of asking what all those subprime bundles were actually worth.
Speaking as a 66 year old retired person who is looking at both the value of our retirement portfolio and the mortality statistics that provide the odds that we will live long enough to worry about it.
OzarkHillbilly
@MisterForkbeard:
He embraces his irrelevance!
Betty
To help deal with my Warren sorrow, I have been scolding people on Twitter who have come out now with ringing endorsements about what a really good ad smart person she is. This includes several Senators who could have made a difference earlier on. Shame on them. This was too important to hold back based on political calculations when you knew what the options were.
mrmoshpotato
@MattF: Stops you in your tracks? :P
Geminid
Steve Bullock may have been waiting to run for the Montana Senate seat to make sure he did not have to run with Sanders. I can now count 12 winnable Senate seats. In approximate order of winnability: ME, AZ, CO, and NC. Then IA, GA1 (Isaacson’s seat, Warnock D), TX, KS, MT, KY, SC, and Georgia2. Looks like we will have strong candidates in all but maybe GA2.
mrmoshpotato
@Skepticat: SNL puts them on YouTube the next day.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: You’re welcome! ?
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Sometimes YouTube suggests genius.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: And, of course, all videos on YouTube can be accessed from all countries at all times.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@satby: So, both sides?
Uncle Cosmo
@mrmoshpotato: OMG Praha hlavní nádraží!! My home away from home & jumpoff of so many European travels! Trust the Czechs to come up with something like this (however offkey in places)…
New Deal democrat
@wvng: I am not a spring chicken either, and completely appreciate and agree with your health concern.
I am not a financial advisor etc., but just speaking as someone who has watched the markets for nearly 30 years, hopefully your retirement portfolio has been set up so that you don’t have to panic about a 20% downturn that is going to pass (just as, hopefully, you didn’t back in 2008).
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: :P
mrmoshpotato
@Uncle Cosmo: Some notes are off-key, but I think it adds to the charm.
Uncle Cosmo
@A Ghost To Most: Here’s the clip you want:
A few miles from where I grew up, Beth Steel’s Sparrows Point steel mills once employed 30,000 people, including the fathers of most of my schoolmates. There was a small community in the lee of the mills, and while you could still tell that the siding on the houses was originally offwhite, it was always tinted with a patina of rust-colored dust…and the mothers there doomed to always be “hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze…”
satby
@Bex: I just watched it online, and as always, Pete did good and made me proud. The symmetry of such a good guy talking about how Joe Biden’s decency was a deciding factor in his quick endorsement and such a contrast to the indecent obscenity in the White House was so “Pete”.
Kristine
@MattF: I made the same mistake–1st shingles shot and flu shot pretty close together. Chills and aches from flu shot that started about 12 hours post-injection and lasted through the night. The reaction to Shingrix the Sequel was so bad that I thought the pharmacist had given me another flu shot by mistake.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Soft spot for the short film Bergman parody/homage, De Düva (The Dove), wherein a somewhat different competition takes the place of chess.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: I love happy finds I luck into.
OzarkHillbilly
@Comrade Scrutinizer: That’s only the D side. Jus’ sayin’.
Geminid
@Geminid: but I repeat myself
wvng
@New Deal democrat: I presciently mostly got out of the market into cash before the 2008 crash, but then I waited forever to get back in because I expected the republicans to f#$%k everything up every way they could to “own the libs.” Kinda wishing I had been that smart a week ago, but now I just need to ride it out..
artem1s
@JPL:
Only if he resigns.
J R in WV
@Gin & Tonic:
We have a dear friend and neighbor who home schooled two kids. One is a computational geneticist in RTP working on plant biology and the other is a custom woodworker in NYC. Turned out OK.
Other not-so-close “friends” have kids who can’t read or write… go figure!
J R in WV
@Baud:
That IS good news… thanks!!
Hard for Sanders to bullshit around a loss like that in a state like MI~!!~ I think it would put him out of the running, actually, and nothing he could do about it. Oh, what a relief it is!!!
Dadadadadadada
@Amir Khalid: If anything, the secularization is more constitutional than not secularizing a religious practice for use in public schools. Keeping the religious elements might constitute a state endorsement of religion.
J R in WV
@Immanentize:
Well, actually I think it’s better for these endorsements to come out continuously over time, than to have happened all at once right after the Super Tuesday primaries. But still funny!!!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: Further proof of the wide spreed conspiracy among the Democratic rank and file against Sanders.
J R in WV
@mrmoshpotato:
OK, the train horns were pretty painful, as mostly they were off tune. But the rubber chicken versions are hysterical.
Does anyone know how they get different specific notes from a rubber chicken? I always thought they were one note being squeezed out and one note sucking back in… two notes does not make a musical instrument!
;-)
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Of course there is — but religious nut jobs don’t read nor believe in the Constitution, except for the 2nd Amendment about precious gunz !!!
Otherwise it’s against Mandatory Christian Religion for all, so it’s a bad thing!
J R in WV
@New Deal democrat:
Yes, and when I was preparing to retire at the end of 2008, my retirement account lost nearly 50% of it’s value just before and right after I retired. Yes, it has completely recovered and done very well since then. I am also 12 years older, and thus less able to wait it out.
My goal was to spend it all in high living until it hits zero about a week after we die of old age and too much caviar. And so that won’t take very long now, huh? //s
I mostly kid. But it is still hard to see that same mismanagement of the world economy happen all over again with Trump Republicans in charge just 12 years after Bush Republicans did in our economy in 2008.
Thanks, RWNJs for the repeat failure!!!
Feathers
@wvng: One problem is that the travel and leisure sectors will probably need to die because of climate change. I’ve always tried to worry more about avoiding what future generations will find awful and can’t believe we did, rather than correctly recognizing the wrongdoings of the past.
I have a feeling our grandchildren will feel about our travel pictures the way ours do about racist foolery. (Meaning racist shit the fools thought was funny.)
KSinMA
@mrmoshpotato: That’s a hoot!
misterpuff
@OzarkHillbilly: What a doggy downer.
I mean Downward Dog!
Anotherlurker
@Skepticat: I delt with severe shingles for over a year. The affected part of my body was the left side of my face, between my cheek and my eyebrow ridge, my nose, lower sinus, my left eye and my mouth. It would start sort of “mild”, progress to “I’m now praying for death and its merciful touch”, improve to “I’m feeling a bit better but this still is the sickest I’ve ever been” and finally “wow, I feel kinda normal but I’m still not quite right”. This cycle lasted for 4 months and would start again. 3 times.
I’m still dealing with post therpatic neuralgia, nerve damage that presents Shingles like symptoms. As a result, I can’t get the vaccine until I go a year without any symptoms.
Tell your friends to get the vaccine and deal with 2 days of misery, rather than a super economy sized year’s worth of it.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: What did you mean by “Berwyn”? That’s where I grew up.