TS: Protestors in Joker make-up vs. Protestors wearing V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
So, at least there was one protestor observing the CDC recommendation to wear a face mask.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
i finally got my mom and dad to say they wouldn't vote for trump this time around. they claim they were "duped"
awesome, Karl - good work!
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
i finally got my mom and dad to say they wouldn't vote for trump this time around. they claim they were "duped"Yeah that’s rad. My folks were of the ‘hold yr nose and vote GOP’ variety but I’ve got the sneakiest suspicion that they’re a-ok now w the new normal.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
somebody just asked trump about the $1200 stimulus checks that are being delayed because he wants his signature on it.
he says that he doesn't know anything about it, apparently his name is going to be on there, and that it won't delay anything
case closed!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
daniel dale's ulcer is about to explode
That’s why he’s the boss
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Donald Trump is threatening to use a never-before-employed power of his office to adjourn both chambers of Congress so he can make “recess appointments” to fill vacant positions within his administration he says Senate Democrats are keeping empty amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Trump opened his daily virus press conference on Wednesday by griping about Senate Democrats blocking tens of his nominees, alleging many otherwise would be working on virus-related efforts. He offered few specifics, however, on how the federal virus response might be different if a substantial amount of those individuals had been approved by the upper chamber.
Article II, Section 3, Clause 3 of the US Constitution gives a president the power to adjourn both chambers if they cannot agree on an adjourn date. No chief executive, however, has ever used it.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-adjourn-chambers-of-congress-senate-house-white-house-briefing-constitution-a9467616.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
more and more ingersoll lockwood is looking like a prophet (or a tremendous hoax!), especially 1900: Or, The Last President
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-predicted-ingersoll-lockwood-adventures-barron-melania-last-644284
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/baron-trumps-marvelous-underground-journey/
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60479
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 April 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
bitchy! lol task force of hundreds
The Hill reports:
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) is the only Republican senator not on a congressional task force created by the White House to study reopening parts of the country shuttered by the coronavirus. A list released by the White House on Thursday afternoon of the “Opening Up America Again Congressional Group” included nearly 70 senators, including all 52 of Romney’s GOP colleagues in the chamber.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
lol he really gambled and lost huh
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 17 April 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
How will our nation's magic underwear industry restart then, huh? HUH?
― Fleetwood Machiavelli (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 17 April 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
Progress: Trump 2016: Make America Great Again: Build The WallTrump 2020: Opening Up America Again
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:45 (four years ago) link
they'll just have to do a (skid)markdown
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:47 (four years ago) link
lol Florida
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20200417/coronavirus-st-johns-beaches-to-re-open-as-lsquofirst-step-in-our-return-to-normal-lifersquo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
They are insane....Fox News Laura Ingraham tweet:
How many of those who urged our govt to help liberate the Iraqis, Syrians, Kurds, Afghanis, etc., are as committed now to liberating Virginia, Minnesota, California, etc?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 April 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
state house shootings could become the new school shootings
free slogan for the DNC: LIBERATE THE WHITE HOUSE
(tho i'd prefer it done before November... like this weekend)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
Ah, yes, the federal government should send in troops to impose regime change in those states, which are currently under the heavy oppression of their elected governors, operating under emergency powers granted by their elected legislatures, because THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, YOU FUCKFACE!
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
he is the most unfairly treated president
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
One of the weirdest and worst asymmetries in policy right now is that banks and big corporations can get fast, basically unlimited help from the Fed, while small biz and individual help is limited and slowed by congressional process and dysfunction.— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 17, 2020
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
makes u think
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
howjust... how.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
is he real?
Hits the rare Democratic Messaging Trifecta of being narratively incoherent, irrelevant to normal people's lives, and reinforcing of the dominant themes of the opponent's campaign https://t.co/KCblfERUxK— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 17, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 April 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
KING AND KAINE ON THE ATTACK!!!!!!
Washington (CNN) Senate Democrats grilled Vice President Mike Pence over coronavirus testing and President Donald Trump's tweets during a tense phone call Friday afternoon on the pandemic response.A Democratic Senate aide told CNN that "almost every question" from Democratic senators on the call "has been about testing," and said that the administration "has not given clear answers."The source said that at one point, Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said to Pence and everyone on the call, "I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life."...Despite signaling to governors earlier this week that that they would decide when to reopen their states, however, Trump sent a series of tweets on Friday calling to "LIBERATE" Virginia, Minnesota and Michigan, three states with Democratic governors. Michigan and Minnesota have seen protests in recent days as people grow concerned about the economic fallout from the pandemic with protesters voicing opposition to stay-at-home orders.Near the end of Pence's call with Senate Democrats, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine pressed the vice president on Trump's tweets to "LIBERATE" those states, according to another Senate Democratic aide. Kaine, the aide said, "asked Pence why the President was trying to incite division in the midst of a global pandemic."Pence did not answer the question, the aide said, but instead, "tried to deflect by talking about how they are working respectfully with governors, and Kaine jumped back in to say that those tweets are not at all respectful."
A Democratic Senate aide told CNN that "almost every question" from Democratic senators on the call "has been about testing," and said that the administration "has not given clear answers."The source said that at one point, Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, said to Pence and everyone on the call, "I have never been so mad about a phone call in my life."
...Despite signaling to governors earlier this week that that they would decide when to reopen their states, however, Trump sent a series of tweets on Friday calling to "LIBERATE" Virginia, Minnesota and Michigan, three states with Democratic governors. Michigan and Minnesota have seen protests in recent days as people grow concerned about the economic fallout from the pandemic with protesters voicing opposition to stay-at-home orders.Near the end of Pence's call with Senate Democrats, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine pressed the vice president on Trump's tweets to "LIBERATE" those states, according to another Senate Democratic aide. Kaine, the aide said, "asked Pence why the President was trying to incite division in the midst of a global pandemic."
Pence did not answer the question, the aide said, but instead, "tried to deflect by talking about how they are working respectfully with governors, and Kaine jumped back in to say that those tweets are not at all respectful."
get 'em! you show 'em kaine!!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/politics/coronavirus-testing-trump-pence-democrats/index.html
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
"these leaders, in washington, they are, i tell you with all due regret and sadness, not as good as they could be, nor, indeed, as good as some would say in darker moments, as they should be. some would say.."
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
lol, i jumped the gun before i even got to the punchline:
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, according to the aide, closed the call saying that all of the Senate Democrats agreed with what Kaine had just said.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:35 (four years ago) link
in his schmendricky whine
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
don't hate on Ezra
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link
I've read and listened to him long enough to know that he doesn't actually find it surprising. "Weird" was probably not the best choice of words there.
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
‘gee whiz I’m starting to think Paul Ryan isn’t the wonky idealistic deficit hawk that we guilelessly marketed to you for a solid decade’like I know this guy isn’t stupid, but
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
just say What It Is, Ezra. just acknowledge that it’s a never ending loop of the Globetrotters dunking on the Washington Generals in the service of billionaires, until we all die. or get the fuck off my screen bc otherwise it’s just insulting.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
some say the generals won six games. the generals themselves claim to have won 3 times - one game each in 1954, 1958 and 1971. this is the story of those 3 games
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
what i don't understand is why the billionaires continuing funding the globetrotters, even after so many years. what was in for them? why do they even play games? why don't they just do tricks?
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:24 (four years ago) link
a never ending loop of the Globetrotters dunking on the Washington Generals in the service of billionaires, until we all die
― maura, Saturday, 18 April 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
more like a COVention amirite
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/full-steam-ahead-rnc-chairwoman-says-gop-plans-to-stage-august-convention-despite-coronavirus
plz avoid delegates in the aftermath
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
Cool -- they'll die!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
Too bad for all those living in North Carolina... well, the not-stupid ones.
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
yeah, this gathering won't affect only the unwashed wingnuts
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
The governor of NC and they mayor of Charlotte (both Democrat) might have something to say about that.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
If you thought the response to the financial crisis was a complete policy success with a backlash caused by too much oversight and transparency, you would do everything Pelosi has been doing https://t.co/qZ3wlXGnjY— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 18, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
I guess that's better than nominating Shalala (older than Biden!) for VP, which is what Thomas Friedman recently proposed.
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
huh? She was a Cabinet secretary and for 14 years the president of the University of Miami. That's "expertise."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
What's the complaint -- that she'd be too soft? that she can't oversee a budget?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
Read Dayen's follow-up tweets:
Katie Porter actively lobbied for this job8:20 PM · Apr 17, 2020
The key committees that prep you for this oversight panel would be Oversight and Financial Services. Porter is on both.Shalala is on Rules and EdLabor.8:54 PM · Apr 17, 2020
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
it almost seems inevitable. the GOP leadership doubtlessly knows that too. why revise your own convention plans when you can instead let your opponents cancel it for you and fan the flames of grievance politics? it gets their voters fired up, and also contributes to the idea that if they do lose the election in Nov, it's because democrats cheated. win-win!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
wow! i completely missed that, even though i did hate-skim the piece when it came out. i like how his alternative to Shalala is Gina Raimondo (governor of RI), whose entire pre-politics career was venture capitalism
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
Just remember we are talking about the contents Thomas Friedman's brain. This explains much.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
Read Dayen's follow-up tweets: Katie Porter actively lobbied for this job8:20 PM · Apr 17, 2020The key committees that prep you for this oversight panel would be Oversight and Financial Services. Porter is on both.Shalala is on Rules and EdLabor.8:54 PM · Apr 17, 2020
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
Grancy doesnt want to be 'too divisive'
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link