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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Daily Show: Tucker Carlson vs. Tucker Carlson, protest edition.

Jaboukie Young-White: Ending the ban on gay blood donors

Now This: Obama surprises teachers for national teacher appreciation week.

Jonathan Mann: Alex Jones will eat your leftist ass:

The Late Show: John Ratcliffe vs. Bear Inventor.

ТрампPlague:

Bill Maher: New Rule–Sex monster.

Joe Biden gives an address on the economy.

Jonathan Mann: Murder hornets.

Seth Meyers: Hey! Democrats praising George W. Bush.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    I think transit agencies requiring masks is a good idea, and hope Metro does it too. Amtrak is now requiring masks, although patrons at a table in the diner, and sleeper compartment will be exempt.

  2. 2

    Interesting Video celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands and V-E Day. Love the Lancasters participating in Operation Manna dropping food to the starving Dutch. There was some interesting behind the lines negotiations with the German commander to allow the drops.
    https://youtu.be/JCWANopglXI

  4. 4

    @3. Couple of comments. Since conservatives are fine with Flynn pleading guilty twice and then getting a mulligan, they should be fine with this guy thinking he should get a do over also.
    Second. the child had been born and conservatives only care about the unborn. Once it’s out of the womb, all care and concern are over. It’s not like he had an abortion, that would have been unforgivable in their eyes.

    Vote for better people. Vote for Democrats, the real pro life party.

  5. 5

    I see Florida Gov. DeInsanity is also enjoys murdering people.

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/08/florida-adds-71-coronavirus-deaths-as-state-prepares-for-first-weekend-of-reopening/?trk_msg=77TDILKTGNB414MLO488TJPBKS&trk_contact=2LVUQ22E7IOMM9DEEA726PIHT4&trk_sid=PJ5EV78IIRCISUF94KIR5UNGF8&utm_email=1422E4C1E5F9350FC5E7646FE6&utm_source=DayStarter&utm_medium=MG2_Newsletter&utm_term=+biggest+state+death+toll+in+one+week+since+the+pandemic+began&utm_campaign=40+years+after+the+Skyway+Bridge+collapse

  7. 7

    My sister and brother don’t always see eye to eye – we never really have – even before their discovery or knowing that I am gay (Boob). And the same relationship pretty much exists between me an my siblings as it does between themselves.

    Growing up in an Italian household there was a lot of love, but more in the sense of care and well being. The love, from your parents, wasn’t solely directed towards you as a specific individual but more as a person like any other people – you didn’t really get any special love or attention. You weren’t spoiled or singled out as being any more special than the other.

    There is a little bit of coldness there but my parent’s main goal or purpose in life was and still is, even in their late 80’s, the well being of their children in the sense of food, clothing and shelter, although a bit less now than before.

    Aside from our own personalities, I think this had something to do with how me and my siblings interact with each other to this day – with a bit of sibling rivalry being more than just beneath the surface.

    My sister has been kind enough to take me in during this Pandemic, I say this because there will be others. For the last two months I’ve been staying withe her, but as soon as next week I plan on returning to NYC.

    Anyways – politics and partisanship can be filled with irony and hypocrisy. Repukes are the biggest Hypocrites, most bigotry is a form of hypocrisy, the go hand in hand.

    I’m not calling my sister a bigot, but she use to take the attitude that people shouldn’t talk about politics, even though she could be conservatively slanted at times – she always complains how the world has become PC.

    She has taken social distancing very seriously, as it should. She fights with my brother because he doesn’t think he needs to wear a mask. And she gets upset when people don’t do the right thing.

    But it makes me think about the day that she witnessed me an my brother have a discussion/fight over The Hump, which started out via discussion of Climate Change.

    I think it is very ironic that her perspective back then was that I was wrong to have that “controversial” discussion with my brother and should have kept to the motto “never talk about politics”, which I don’t necessarily believe in.

    I haven’t had the opportunity yet, but came close to, to tell her that although the circumstances are very different, in principal ones views on the Pandemic and Social Distancing and Lockdowns are very much like the discussion of Climate Change.

    Yes, although the circumstances are very different, Climate Change still has a profound effect on us but more so in the future. This proves that people like my sister only can see as far into the future as they can hear a neighbor’s barking dog.

  8. 8

    Memo for Puddy: Corrupt isn’t the same as innocent.

    “This attempted dismissal of Flynn’s case has nothing to do with the strength of the evidence against Flynn or a fair application of the rule of law … it represents political cronyism and … is an affront to our system of justice …. With this move, the corruption of the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr is as transparent as it is complete.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/doj-drops-flynn-s-criminal-case-or-least-barr-wants-ncna1203351

  9. 9

    Even for some who don’t get sick and die from Covid-19, the pandemic is far worse than just inconvenient — closed businesses, lost jobs, financial desperation, etc.

    So, naturally, if you’re a Trump-breathing dumbfuck, the thing to do is get madder than hell at doctors.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dr-amy-acton-s-handling-coronavirus-crisis-made-her-ohio-n1202441

    Disease – doctor. Doctor – disease. They go together. Therefore, one causes the other: Disease causes doctors; doctors cause disease. Get it??

    I don’t blame you; I don’t get it, either. It is what it is. You can’t un-dumbfuck a dumbfuck.

  10. 10

    @7 This Harvard psychology prof says some people can’t change (she doesn’t say because they’re too fucking stupid, but you can read between the lines), and all you can do is kick them out of your life.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-conspiracy-theorists-have-now-revealed-themselves-what-can-rest-ncna1200736

    However, I won’t go that far with Doctor Dumbfuck and Puddy, as long as they stay 6 feet away and don’t breathe on me.

    So, Dumbfuck, if you see a rabbit hopping through your garden and chewing up the lettuce, don’t try to pick me up.

  11. 11

    @7 Climate change isn’t an issue. Emissions will drop to nothing and the skies will clear up within a week after BEACH WEEK!!! kills half of you stupid humans and MALL WEEK!!! finishes off the other half. The remaining oil will stay in the ground with no stupid humans around to burn it. Just look what’s happened so far with only a 3% fatality rate! And Republican stupidity is just getting started! The planet is almost home free.

    As I’ve said all along, there’s nothing wrong with this planet that the extinction of one species won’t fix. To which I might add the planet can defend itself and nature will take care of the problem. If not this time, it has millions more viruses in reserve.

  13. 13

    Dumbshit thinks First Amendment gives him a “right” to wear a swastika on someone else’s private property.

    “But one of the deputies pointed out that he was in a ‘family friendly’ private store that ‘can make their own rules.'”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/santee-california-kkk-swastika-videotika-face-mask-dusty-shekel_n_5eb6252dc5b6c3bd86ff45bb

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The First Amendment only applies to the government, not private entities. In other words, Hobby Lobby can encourage the wearing of swastikas in their stores if they want to.

  14. 14

    How Some People Evolve

    2015: Kayleigh McEnany calls Trump “racist.”
    2016: Kayleigh McEnany lands CNN gig and defends Trump.
    2017: Kayleigh McEnany leaves CNN and hosts webcast on Trump’s personal Facebook page.
    2019: Kayleigh McEnany appears on CNN to say, “I don’t believe Trump has lied.”
    Feb. 2020: Kayleigh McEnany hired as Trump campaign press secretary.
    Apr. 2020: Kayleigh McEnany hired as White House press secretary.
    May 2020: Asked about her past criticism of Trump, Kayleigh McEnany responds she was brainwashed into believing Trump was racist by the lying CNN network.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-donald-trump-criticism-explanation_n_5eb6576fc5b6c3bd86ff5ff9

  15. 15

    The people responsible for this virus are the people who make up the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

  16. 16

    Trumpublicans don’t have a plan for containing Covid-19, but they do have a plan for dealing with the fallout: BLAME OBAMA!!!

  17. 17

    Republicans are childish and irresponsible.

    If you vote for them, you’re immature and irresponsible, too.

    Except Doctor Dumbfuck is merely a dumbfuck.

  18. 18

    12,
    Now with 60% more permanent organ damage!

  19. 19

    OMG! It’s a conspiracy! Someone is deliberately spreading The Hump Virus inside the Whitey House!

    #DeepState!

  20. 20

    Climate change isn’t an issue.

    Well yeah, right now it isn’t. But I don’t think we all thought that the a Pandemic was the solution to Climate Change. But of course, that’s because Humans (The Heteros) are very stupid.

    So long as the economy can sputter along and food shortages aren’t so drastic that we are starving in the streets, I’m perfectly fine if we don’t ever go back to “Normal”. This is how I pretty much led my whole life, why change now.

  21. 21

    I’m not sure I get this. We are all waiting for a vaccine. Or at least all of us that don’t believe in a basement child sex ring operation run by the DNC.

    Why can’t we all just move around freely in Astronaut suits? I mean we can manufacture multiple pairs of Levi jeans and other types of pants, but we can’t get one mask for all of us?

  22. 22

    The people responsible for this virus are the people who make up the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

    Whoever, if an individual(s), really started this would be the one to make that kind of comment.

    Whoever smelt it dealt it.

    How many did The Hump murder today?

  23. 23

    The horse might look at Bob with a funny look, seeing him in Astronaut suit, but at least the horse will be safe from getting The Hump Virus.

  24. 24

    The people responsible for this virus are the people who make up the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

    TFW you are watching your house burn down, and the fire truck is stuck a block away with two flat tires, and the fire fighters who dragged hoses from the truck to fight your fire discover that Rapepublicans diverted all the water to a BEACH WEEK!!! wet t-shirt contest, and your stupid Trumpalo neighbor gets in your face and says “it’s all because of the cheap Chinese smoke alarms”.

    Rapepublicans are just not cut out for this work.

  25. 25

    79,000 > 15

    “The dirty FBI was out to get ME! ME! The greatest president ever, ME! It was all a hoax against ME! Soaring unemployment doesn’t effect ME! I have a job. I do it awesome. There are golf course workers because of ME! Liberals cry because of ME! New York Times is failing because of ME! Russia is a hoax about ME! Keep the sick away from ME! Don’t go to any funerals for dead China virus people because that honors the life of not ME! China created the virus to infect ME! Fuck your feelings!”

  26. 26

    Pompeo walking back Covid-19 was a lab created bioweapon because, well, no one agrees with that except the ‘moon landing is fake, jet fuel can’t melt steel, FEMA camps on Texas“ crowd.

  28. 28

    GOP RapeHero’s OAN network last night ran a “news” segment last night informing their viewers that COVID-19 is part of “a globalist conspiracy” backed by Soros, Gates, Fauci, Clinton Foundation and PRC to wipe out a third of the planet’s population and enslave the rest.

    This is their version of REAL news.

    Rapepublicans are just not cut out for this work.

  29. 29

    27,
    Too many fire engines.
    Not enough BEACH WEEK!!!!!

  31. 31

    Just saw the troll, indian name forgets sky daddy, waving a tedros klownspiracy sign outside the state capitol…

    BREATHE IN TROLL…

    FREEDUMB!!!

  33. 33

    Those of you celebrating the largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression are gonna celebrate the largest job gain when it occur in July or August, right? Goldy?

    Deathfrogg is celebrating now. He’s getting more in unemployment right now than he has ever earned as an employee. Ever.

  34. 34

    Attorney who leaked cell phone video of Arbery murder was close friend of McDaniels and believed it would exonerate them.

    Bad attorney.

  35. 35

    @ 8

    “This attempted dismissal of Flynn’s case has nothing to do with the strength of the evidence against Flynn or a fair application of the rule of law … it represents political cronyism and … is an affront to our system of justice …. With this move, the corruption of the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr is as transparent as it is complete.”

    Substitute The Chardonnay Lady 2.0 for Flynn and Loretta Lynch for Barr.

    Works every bit as well.

  36. 36

    Those of you celebrating the largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression are gonna celebrate the largest job gain when it occur in July or August, right?

    One thing I know for sure. You’ll be IGNORING a large snapback in Covid cases due to inadequate to the task testing, contact tracing and quarantine.

    You’ll be IGNORING the hospitals blowing up with a new wave of deathly ill patients needing to be intubated.

    Because? Hmmmm. November – Silly Season – Stock market.

    Like my Indian friend Forgets Sky Daddy is fond of saying..

    gfy

  37. 37

    the largest job gain when it occur in July or August,

    In which one of the very stable geniuses who daily regales us with tales of global conspiracies to consume the flesh of live babies now predicts that all 50 million Americans who lost their jobs in the last two months will get them back in the next two months.

    It really will “just go away”. And thanks to The Q Clearance Pussy we now know the precise date.

    Let’s all make plans now. Don’t forget to book early everyone. The cruise ships are going to fill up fast!
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8301937/Satellite-images-reveal-fleets-cruise-ships-clustering-Caribbean-Philippines.html

  40. 40

    Becker Friedman at University of Chicago School of Economics (home of neoclassical supply side voodoo – that’s Friedman as in Milton) estimates 42 percent of these layoffs will become permanent in the next year:
    https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/covid-19-is-also-a-reallocation-shock/

    Fits the trend so far as alarming numbers of large employers who initially announced either “temporary reductions” or “furloughs” are now gradually announcing that they are making them permanent.

    Meanwhile in Florida, fewer than 30% of those who filed for UI in last six weeks have been able to receive any money because of flaws in the overwhelmed state system.

    Rapepublicans are really just not cut out for this work.

  42. 42

    41,
    Where do you go for your bread crumbs?

    Asking for a friend.

  43. 43

    @33

    Right about the time you praise Jay Inslee for saving lives and admit your postings for 90 days about death blows to the economy were bullshit.

    Open it up!

  45. 45

    @29 It should be obvious that if a $2 million fire engine can’t reach a house fire because two $250 truck tires went flat, the solution is to buy another $2 million fire engine as backup.

    And if that fire engine gets two flat tires, too, you buy another $2 million fire engine as backup of the backup.

    Et cetera ad infinitum; thus, you can never have too many fire engines.

  46. 46

    @33 “Those of you celebrating the largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression”

    You’re a minority of one in that department.

  47. 47

    @35 Substitute a dumbfuck of a doctor for Jack the Ripper and it works just as badly, i.e., you get the same body count.

  48. 48

    @42 Ted Kaczynski is a brilliant, albeit twisted, man; so it was inevitable that if a troll impersonated Kaczynski, the impersonation wouldn’t be as intelligent as the real Kaczynski.

  49. 49

    “It won’t come to the US. We’ll be safe here.”
    (Damn!)
    “It’s here. But it’s really no worse than the flu.”
    (Damn!)
    “Okay, it’s kinda worse than the flu. But It will go away quickly because of aquarium cleaner.”
    (Damn!)
    “Okay, it’s way worse than the flu and it isn’t going away quickly. But it’s only in the libby shithole places. And it won’t spread.”
    (Damn!)

    “Hey everybody! BEACH WEEK!!!!!”

  51. 51

    Those of you celebrating the largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression are gonna celebrate the largest job gain when it occur in July or August, right?

    The largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression is quite real. The largest gain in July or August is merely a desperate hope, drawn from a dumbfuck’s fevered imagination.

    14.7% unemployment.
    33.4 million unemployed
    80,000 dead

    Better call Putin.

  52. 52

    @ 36

    One thing I know for sure. You’ll be IGNORING a large snapback in Covid cases due to inadequate to the task testing, contact tracing and quarantine.

    You’ll be IGNORING the hospitals blowing up with a new wave of deathly ill patients needing to be intubated.

    You know that for sure, do you, YLB? With your background in medicine and epidemiology to support your contention?

    ’cause I don’t.

    I’ll admit that an unfortunate rise in infections is a possibility, particularly if we try to come back too soon and too fast. But it’s far from a certainty, YLB.

    Consider:

    • Not everyone has to re-enter normal life. People at increased risk can stay sheltered. For many of them it becomes an option. YLB, if you’re so fucking certain that we’re gonna enter a second pandemic, stay home and keep your kids home. You’ve made a lifetime of hiding behind others, so hide behind the Chicken Littles whose real purpose is to defeat Trump, who are using hysterical pronouncements to do it. None of us would be surprised by your silly behavior.
    • Predictions of disaster in FL didn’t come true. OK, not yet, but you can always hope for death there, can’t you? But deSantis isn’t looking too bad right now, except on CNN.
    • South Dakota didn’t shut down, and the numbers there are significantly better than in neighboring MN. Why is that, YLB?
    • The virus spread through prisons, infecting many or even most, and yet almost all infected remained asymptomatic. YLB, why is that?
    • The economy can re-open, with masks. A model was just published in which universal masking is more effective than lockdowns. Look at photos of people in Asian cities when they’re dealing with an outbreak of the flu. Lots and lots of masks, and lots and lots of economic activity.
    • Different areas can open at different rates, based on the data. Right now south Whidbey (liberal) should be open for business while north Whidbey (conservative) should stay hunkered down at least a little longer. Inslee has given 10 counties in WA the ability to accelerate their transition to a more open economy, for this reason. Island County isn’t one of them but regions can make specific appeals. I think south Whidbey’s would be successful.
    • Your claimed “wave” of new patients would most likely be a small swell. A couple of months ago we were hearing 2 million dead. Now we’re looking at something around 150,000. A couple of months ago we were hearing about not nearly enough ventilator shortages. Turned out that wasn’t the case. Most of the field hospitals that were set up to handle the current wave have been dismantled without treating anyone, YLB.

    YLB, you are uninformed and unserious. But you make a great DNC parrot. A useful idiot, indeed.

  54. 54

    @52 wooo hooo. snowflake triggered..

    I’ll admit that an unfortunate rise in infections is a possibility,

    Can I get a hydroxychloroquine/z-pack chaser with that?

    “Serious” pinhead explosion from our rapey troll. Heh. Some of the asian countries have some good experience with combatting “serious” outbreaks of infectious disease.. Quibble with their methods all you want, are we anywhere close to that? Testing, contact tracing, quarantining of the infected?

    Not even fucking close.. Instead red state governors are suppressing information about outbreaks in hot spots because??

    FREEEDUMMB!!!

    Again quoting my native american friend:

    gfy

  55. 55

    34)Wonder if the Georgia State Bar will buy that excuse? Probably wasn’t priveledged though.

  56. 56

    Very cerebral response @ 54, YLB.

    Clearly you have given this a lot of thought. Which is important, as one should always have a reason for cowering behind others.

  57. 57

    OK, not yet, but you can always hope for death there, can’t you?

    I gotta say it again. Not a doctor.

    Nobody who completed advanced training in medicine would ever conflate or atribute the potential for the innate mechanisms of viral infection as a consequence of human ambition, be it “hope” or “prayer”. Not even a Christian Scientist. This is literally on a par with blaming an outbreak on witchcraft. Plenty of Docs pray. None of them rely on it as a means of cure nor do they attribute disease as an outcome of human will.

    This is beyond idiotic. And in that sense, an absolutely perfect encapsulation of how Trumpers are thoroughly degraded in every respect.

    Perhaps The Q Clearance Pussy really was a Doc once. But then Trump won the nom. And that was the end of that.

  58. 58

    “Look at photos of people in Asian cities when they’re dealing with an outbreak of the flu. Lots and lots of masks, and lots and lots of economic activity.”Only fags and pussies wear masks!

    Wearing a mask announces to the world that you’re a scared little Chardonnay sipping Snowflake pussy liberal.
    Patriots breathe free!

    And the constitution guarantees us the right to go anywhere we want without a Pink Pussy Mask!

    MAGA!

  59. 59

    @ 57

    Wasn’t a medical opinion.

    deSantis focused on protecting nursing homes.

    Cuomo didn’t, and in fact issued policy that directly resulted in many nursing home deaths.

    Merely an observation.

  60. 60

    Socialism is AWESOME GOP edidtion;

    The U.S. will start rolling out a program to purchase $3 billion of dairy, meat and produce from farmers and ranchers early next week, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday.

    So I imagine RW radio is all over this “free market decides winners and losers” and “why should the goverment bail you out for poor business decisions” and “That’s my money you’re redistributing!”

  62. 62

    Speaking @ 59 of Cuomo’s failure to protect the most fragile of his citizens, the AP has a nice piece about precisely that:

    NY’s Andrew Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll

    Cuomo faced criticism at a recent briefing for saying that providing masks and gowns to nursing homes is “not our job” because the homes are privately owned.

    “It was such an insensitive thing to say,” said state Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Queens Democrat who noted that it wasn’t until just this past week that New York and neighboring states announced a plan to combine forces to buy protective gear and medical supplies for nursing homes.

    “If we had focused on that early on,” he said, “we could have saved a lot of lives.”

    Indeed. But Florida beaches…

  63. 63

    stay home and keep your kids home.

    Both my kids are of age dimfuk.. One is at home because he’s “serious” about getting into professional school and we’ve got the resources to help him out.

    One is on his own, out of the house and has been laid off. But it’s not too much of a concern because he has multiple years of income saved up.

    We’re hoping he decides soon on post grad study.. gfy..

  64. 64

    @ 63

    YLB, hopefully each of your young men has developed critical thinking skills clearly not taught at home.

  65. 65

    Dumbfuck is a big fan of touting every move past an even 1,000.

    The Dow is not going to reach 80,000 in his lifetime.

    The death count from “This is so much less than a tornado and the flu kills more” just did.

  66. 66

    Donald did great, right? None of this is his fault. He surrounded himself with really bright people and THEY made the call so he’s blameless.

    WaPo has the actual e-mail:

    It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong.

    Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs.

    …

    (text of email to HHS)‘‘We are the last major domestic mask company,’’ he wrote on Jan. 23. ‘‘My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.’’

    In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant.

  67. 67

    @ 65

    The Dow is not going to reach 80,000 in his lifetime.

    And Hillary Clinton is not going to reach 270 electoral votes in yours, Cz-252.

  68. 68

    Lots and lots of masks, and lots and lots of economic activity.

    “serious” boob the dimfuk should watch a south korean baseball game.. fans packed shoulder to shoulder wearing masks..

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/sports/baseball/coronavirus-baseball-korea-opening.html

    Kind of hard to consume ballpark food through the mask though. That’s gotta suck.

  69. 69

    Biggest loser: Steve.

    Carpe Donktum🔹
    @CarpeDonktum
    ·
    4h
    Revealed this week about RussiaGate:

    Everything the MSM told you was a lie

    Everything Congressional Democrats told you was a lie

    Everything the “Intelligence Community” told you was a lie

    Everything we told you about the Russia Hoax was the Truth

    Nobody on the left cares

  70. 70

    YLB, hopefully each of your young men

    Young… nice to be young… attending funerals of the old sucks though..

    well maybe not in one particular case… especially if there’s a funder of liberal causes they can meet there.

  71. 71

    deSantis focused on protecting nursing homes.

    Cuomo didn’t, and in fact issued policy that directly resulted in many nursing home deaths.

    Wherein one can only presume that it was Gov DeSantis’ fervent hopes and prayers that protected nursing home residents and workers, and Cuomo’s lack thereof that left them vulnerable?

    (Rome) AP — It was in a deeply reverent celebration today that Pope Francis departed from a millennia of tradition by directly canonizing the sainthood of a living person in Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida in the United States.

    A spokesman for the Vatican said “The Holy See found no other appropriate course of action in response to one so blessed living among us. Of course, the miracle of his election was unprecedented. But then his miraculous intervention to protect his people from disease is a thing of such holiness and wonder that we have not witnessed on this earth in modern times. Sainthood was the only option.”

    Keep lickin’ that stripper pole!

  72. 72

    @ 68

    YLB, I wasn’t referring to present day. I was referring to how Asian urban societies have dealt with previous epidemics.

    Try the photograph in this pre-Wuhan piece, for instance:

    Flu vaccinations ‘do little’, wear face mask instead says health expert

    The photo is from 2009. I refer you back to the model paper linked to in @ 52, YLB.

    If that’s what it takes to safely accelerate a restart to the economy, most of us can handle it. You can still cower, YLB. That’s OK.

  73. 73

    @72

    Who is still insisting that mask wearing is a violation of their rights, hmmm?

  74. 74

    babblin’ butthole is hewing to kult practice today..

    It could preach repent!, repent! here if it wanted to… that’s allowed under the rules..

    Instead it’s scarfing veggie cuisine and struttin’ like foghorn leghorn at a proper “social distance” from its fellow kultists. heh.

    oh well there’s always showtime at 8:33 pm.. entertainment!

  75. 75

    Compare and contrast:

    Doctors/Hospitals/HHS:

    “We’re really low in masks. We need to ramp up production and delivery of masks”

    Donald:
    “I cant use emergency powers to order production of masks even if manufacturers are saying they can definitely ramp up production of masks. That would be taking over private Enterprise and socialism.”

    Meat processing industry:

    “We have thousands of employees infected we need to shut down, sanitize and come up with temporary new procedures. Maybe masks and better sanitation.”

    Donald:

    “I’m using emergency powers to order meat processors to stay open. It’s ok for you to insist infected employees work, The good of the country at stake.”

    Trump 2020
    “Not my Fault!
    KAGA

  76. 76

    If that’s what it takes to safely accelerate a restart to the economy, most of us can handle it.

    How pessimistic of you dimfuk. So little faith in medical science. Vaccines that eradicated scourges like smallpox. But then..

    Some things are more important than death..

    Were you in Olympia just recently with my friend forgets sky daddy?

    Were you here? Look kids! No masks!

    No? How cowering of you…

  77. 77

    @ 73

    Who is still insisting that mask wearing is a violation of their rights, hmmm?

    Some on my side. No argument. At least a few on your side as well.

    Now: Who is still insisting that even one death resulting from an earlier opening is too high a price to pay and therefore a violation of their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Cz-252?

  78. 78

    YLB @32.

    You’re a paisan? Dove? Don’t know how to put the little slant emphasis symbol on the letter e.

    Oh, and I’ll take a look at that cooking link. I don’t do much cooking, it’s a crying shame, but maybe in my older age I’ll do more. But I can make a great pasta fagioli soup. And I love to make turkey or beef chili

  79. 79

    Those of you celebrating the largest monthly job loss since the Great Depression

    I don’t remember doing that? Anyone else?

    I do remember the hump murdering 100’s of thousands though. Oh and that had something to do with those job loses. The Hump Virus not only killed people it’s killed the jobs!!! bravo

  80. 80

    Just got done watching a movie with my sister, “The Prince”. Omg, heteros are a bunch of Neanderthals, sorry guys.

    And onto the next. “The Gentleman”, probably a bunch of the same.

  82. 82

    79,
    Point is, Rapepublicans like The Q Clearance Pussy actually believe that job losses are occurring, and Americans are dying because of “liberal cheers and prayers” or “disloyalty” or some idiotic superstitious bullshit.

    They neeeeeeeed to believe such things if they are to have any hope of overlooking the plain fact that people are losing their jobs and dying because we have a dangerously unqualified and incompetent Rapepublican they elected to the White House.

    Again, America is standing in the street watching our only home burn to the ground while the fire trucks are broken down two blocks away, the fire hydrants are empty, and the ignorant fuck sticks responsible for all that want to get in our faces and lecture to us about moral hazards and the Chinese communist party.

    We don’t need lectures. Hopes and prayers can’t help us. Loyalty does not inactivate a virus.

    Masks would help. Sanitizer would be nice. Tests would help.
    Trump wants you to have a pork chop instead.

    Rapepublicans are really just not cut out for this work.

  83. 83

    @52 “I’ll admit that an unfortunate rise in infections is a possibility”

    Better be careful there. That may get you fired from Trump’s outer circle, because he doesn’t admit that, and won’t tolerate anyone who does. His inner circle has already been purged, so you’re probably next in line for the hammer to fall.

  84. 84

    @53 Send it to the big tree in the northeast corner of Green Lake Park near the wading pool. I pick up my mail there. My burrow is only a short distance away. Please handle it with gloves and wipe it down with disinfectant wipes; if you don’t have gloves or wipes, then label the outside of the package “Handle With Caution — Packaging Material May Be Hazardous To Your Health”. Thanks.

  85. 85

    But I can make a great pasta fagioli soup. And I love to make turkey or beef chili

    Awesome.. There’s all that and more (even some mexican) at that link. Most Italian recipes are pretty simple actually.

    Dove?

    Sicilia…

  86. 86

    @57 “This is literally on a par with blaming an outbreak on witchcraft.”

    Don’t give them ideas. A couple of them may be reading this blog. Also, the correct spelling is:

    WEETCHKKKRAFT!!!

  87. 87

    @58 Wearing masks also interferes with their constitutional right to infect others.

    But if you have to wear a mask, e.g. can’t buy groceries without one, then wear a KKK hood or a mask with a swastika on it. When germs see this, they’ll run away.

  88. 88

    @59 “Wasn’t a medical opinion.”

    What is these days? Certainly nothing emanating from your tribe. Even counting as “medical opinion” the statement “another 2,000 patients aren’t breathing anymore.”*

    * See 3rd last paragraph of #54 for explanation.

  89. 89

    @62 “is ‘not our job’ because”

    The main difference between this and Trump’s (now-discontinued) daily briefings is the latter leaves off the “because.”

  90. 90

    @64 “YLB, hopefully each of your young men has developed critical thinking skills clearly not taught at home.”

    Which would put them way ahead of you.

  92. 92

    @68 Making all those banners put a lot of people to work, too. Standing 6 feet apart on the production line, of course.

  94. 94

    @76 Don’t argue with him. He’s over 50 like the rest of us. Just chisel that on his tombstone.

  95. 95

    Source: Flake with his own Facebook page

    It’s all he’s got. I hope he hasn’t been to the WH. The Resolute Desk is nation’s newest hotspot.

    (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, tells CNN he will begin a “modified quarantine” after making a “low risk” contact with the White House staffer who tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/politics/fauci-modified-quarantine-coronavirus/index.html

    Take a guess who had high risk contact.

  97. 97

    Very Christian.

    Where Evangelical Senator John Kennedy, R-LA says people who lost their jobs are like the damned and undeserving of aid.

    referring to more stimulus for unemployed:

    ‘People In Hell Want Ice Water Too’

  98. 98

    Where in one tweet a U.S. President says State’s Rights are illegal, accuses an entire state of fraud and doesn’t seem to understand how the GOP has manipulated voting locations and availability of machines for decades and suggests that in-person voting is invalid too.

    Oh, and PreDeclares an election ‘void’?

    So in California, the Democrats, who fought like crazy to get all mail in only ballots, and succeeded, have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State. They are trying to steal another election. It’s all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!

  99. 99

    Where a republican Governor declares travel bans illegal and Sovereign Nation First People say, “Go Fuck yourself.”

    Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe leaders have rejected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s demand that they remove checkpoints meant to regulate traffic through their reservation, set up to prevent the spread of coronavirus on tribal land.

    The irony…..

  101. 101

    Hey dumbfuck, the May 11 edition of Barrons, at page 12, says “data showed that reduced mortality wasn’t statistically significant in theNI-AID study” of remdesivir. I.e., the latest Covid-19 wonder drug has no “mortality benefit.”

    Just thought I’d pass that along. Tell your buddy The Hump when you see him. Also the GOP “reopen” governors. So they can’t say they weren’t warned.

  103. 103

    Sandmann is going away to college in a Maserati paid for by CNN.

    Nicholas Sandmann
    @N1ckSandmann
    ·
    May 8
    Very excited to say I will be graduating!
    After being told I would never get into college and my life was done, I’ll be going to an amazing school on a scholarship! Don’t back down and keep winning!

  104. 104

    @ 101

    reduced mortality wasn’t statistically significant in theNI-AID study” of remdesivir. I.e., the latest Covid-19 wonder drug has no “mortality benefit.”

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, Proscar is effective at keeping your prostate gland from exploding. It won’t bring back your erection. That was the last millenium, dude.

  105. 105

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you piece of shit @ 101

    There WAS a mortality benefit. It just was not quite statistically significant. It was a preliminary study. I suspect that larger numbers of enrolled patients with the same results would reach statistical significance.

    Instead of reading Barron’s, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, read the report of the study at the NIH site. Here, you asshole, let me help you out.

    Preliminary results indicate that patients who received remdesivir had a 31% faster time to recovery than those who received placebo (p<0.001). Specifically, the median time to recovery was 11 days for patients treated with remdesivir compared with 15 days for those who received placebo. Results also suggested a survival benefit, with a mortality rate of 8.0% for the group receiving remdesivir versus 11.6% for the placebo group (p=0.059).

    https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19

    When your daughter catches the Wuhan, tell her physician you don’t want her receiving the Gilead drug because the survival benefit fell just short of statistical significance, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Wait a minute, what am I saying? Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you can’t afford to care for your daughter. You’re Shelly, Jack Lemmon’s character in Glengarry Glen Ross.

  106. 106

    Eli Lake at Bloomberg:

    Eli Lake
    @EliLake
    ·
    13h
    I’ve been going through the interview transcripts that ODNI forced
    @AdamSchiff
    to release. It’s now clear why every Republican on his committee in 2019 called for his resignation. He knew the closed door witnesses didn’t support his innuendo and fakery on Russia collusion.

    They don’t support Steve’s innuendo and fakery, either.

    Do they. Steve.

  107. 107

    @103 Let me guess: He got into a junior college and his lawyers will keep 1/3 of the $7,500 nuisance settlement.

  108. 108

    Apparently Alameda County doesn’t think Tesla’s Fremont plant should open until June 1st.

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk
    Replying to
    @elonmusk

    @GerberKawasaki
    and
    @thirdrowtesla
    Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.
    9:44 AM · May 9, 2020

    YLB, hurry up and inform Elon Musk of your data that makes it certain there will be another pandemic if Tesla does this.

  110. 110

    @104 Shorter Doctor Dumbfuck: The 78,795 U.S. deaths from Covid-19 are insignificant because a certain garden rodent can’t fuck anymore. Trump isn’t the only rightwing dumbfuck with an empathy problem.

  113. 113

    @ 111

    @105 Looks like #94 hit a nerve.

    No, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You posted something factually incorrect, easily provable. So I did.

    You’re a fucking clown.

  114. 114

    Actually, I made a full recovery from that condition several years ago; but I can see why a doctor who took early retirement would assume otherwise if his own patients never recovered.

  115. 115

    @112 At least she was trying to help out.

    Pence: Where do you want the rest of these empty boxes delivered?

  116. 116

    @ 115

    @112 At least she was trying to help out.

    No, she was telling people to donate money for what likely would end up being her political campaign instead of the food bank.

    There is nothing about Omar that is intended to help anything but herself, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  118. 118

    Omar won 78% of the vote in 2108, and her most visible 2020 Republican challenger may be in prison by November, so I don’t see why she even needs campaign donations.

  121. 121

    @108

    This is what’s known as an idle threat.

    1. Governor Newsom gave the go ahead to restart production
    2. Alameda county health department put conditions on it.
    3. Elon threatens to leave the state IMMEDIATELY despite being well behind on deliveries and there is no plant in Texas or Nevada.
    4. Tesla files suit against the county rather than finding a new place to do business.

    Boeing moved HQ to Chicago. How many IL manufacturing plants are running?

    And yes I have a vested interest in what TSLA is doing and prior to Elon’s temper tantrum (new baby, lack of sleep?) it gained over 100 last week. That might change if a billion is committed to relocating a company that is behind on deliveries.

  122. 122

    Good to see Rep. Omar still running laps in their heads.

    Keep lickin’ that stripper pole.

  123. 123

    121)A few years ago, a major bus builder announced they were closing their plant in Hayward. I thought, cue the people who complain about California. Turned out GILLIG only moved to Livermore, just needed more room, and didn’t leave Alameda County. Love this manufacturer for keeping their older low floor style in production, in addition to the streamlined model, giving customers a choice, same with propulsion options.

    I believe they suspended production, but they may have resumed, at least to provide spare parts, Plus, the normal life of a transit bus is 12 years, although Gillig buses are very reliable. Metro has 4 30ft Gillig Phantoms that were built in 1999 still on roster, parked due to service reductions, but planned to be retired by the end of the year. Can’t social distance on a 30ft bus.

  124. 124

    With the recent passing of a Metro Driver due to COVID-19, I was thinking about the last time a Metro Driver was kilked in the line of duty.(Although not sure if she contracted it on the job). I believe the last high profile death while on duty was Mark McLaughlin aboard now permanently retired Route 359 in 1998. Found a photo montage of the funeral procession back in 1998 posted on YouTube.. The photos have a sad link to Amtrak 501 derailment.

    https://youtu.be/ipvKm83dHPk

  125. 125

    The shopping cart theory. – Anonymous

    The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.

    To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.

    A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.

    The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
    —–
    I would wager that all of the progressives here would pass the Shopping Cart test. I imagine that, for all his venom and squid ink, Puddy would also. The racist incel and A1? Hell no. They would leave that sucker jammed in the grass, or blocking the handicap spot, or accelerating toward another car.

  126. 126

    @ 121

    Boeing moved HQ to Chicago. How many IL manufacturing plants are running?

    You know that Tesla already has a gigafactory operating in Nevada, outside Reno, don’t you?

    You know that Texas is one of the finalist sites for the production plant for the Tesla Cybertruck, don’t you?

    So Cz-252, your point about a Boeing manufacturing plant not being in the same state as Boeing HQ is…

    what, exactly?

  128. 128

    @125

    but what about when it’s so cold out and I need to rush back to pack the skis in the car for the ski trip?

  129. 129

    @ 124

    With the recent passing of a Metro Driver due to COVID-19, I was thinking about the last time a Metro Driver was kilked in the line of duty.

    Oh, please. The Wuhan could have been contracted by him anywhere.

    If the guy had drunk 12 tequila shots before starting his shift and then killed himself and everyone on board by driving off a bridge, you could claim he “died in the line of duty”, Railfan.

    I guess the Roy half of Siegfried and Roy “died in the line of showbusiness duty” because he might have picked up the Wuhan by walking through a casino after a show.

    Then there are all of those Mount Vernon choir members who “died in the line of their vocal duty” when they were exposed during choir practice.

    The stupidity of claiming that a Metro driver died “in the line of duty” when he might have picked up the Wuhan while riding light rail to or from work is akin to YLB’s pronouncement of any liberal who posts here as an ‘HA hero’.

    Railfan, don’t become like The Even Bigger Fucking Moron. Just don’t.

  130. 130

    @ 120

    …a motion to dismiss isn’t necessarily tantamount to exoneration:

    And Comey’s decision not to charge The Chardonnay Lady 2.0 isn’t tantamount to innocence, either.

    She was awful. She is why you got Trump. It wasn’t the Russians – with the releases of the House IC transcripts, now even Steve knows that. He just can’t admit it to himself, and he certainly won’t ever admit it to me.

    Think on your sins. Soon.

  131. 131

    130. We get it racist incel. You hate and are terrified of strong women who are measurably much better than you. You can spew lies all you want but repetition doesn’t make them true. Hillary Clinton would have been a better president for all Americans. If we have free and fair elections we won’t be complacent again.

  133. 133

    And Comey’s decision not to charge The Chardonnay Lady 2.0 isn’t tantamount to innocence, either.

    How does this in any way explain the dozens of Trump appointees who took on, reviewed, approved, and advanced the prosecution of Flynn for the past two years prior to this?*

    Asking for a friend. And friend named Sullivan.

    *A non-DERPSTATE answer is needed.

  134. 134

    The Even Bigger Fucking Moron @ 131

    If we get free and fair elections we won’t be complacent again.

    Your spelling of complicit is incorrect.

  135. 135

    As in the impeached miserable failure conspired with the Russians. Project all you want but that was republicans who enabled and forgave that. Lie all you want but we know the truth

  136. 136

    BTW, FBI doesn’t decide whether or not to charge. They can make a referral.

    Know who else can make a referral?

    Chuck Grassley can make a referral.
    (crickets)

  137. 137

    Tara Reade update:

    “Biden’s lead is about as steady as it can possibly be. Not only is he up 6 points over the last month or so, but the average of polls since the beginning of the year has him ahead by 6 points. Moreover, all the polls taken since the beginning of 2019 have him up 6 points. The steadiness in the polls is record breaking. Biden’s advantage is the steadiest in a race with an incumbent running since at least 1944. That could mean it’ll be harder to change the trajectory of the race going forward …”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/politics/biden-polling/index.html

  138. 138

    @ 133

    How does this in any way explain the dozens of Trump appointees who took on, reviewed, approved, and advanced the prosecution of Flynn for the past two years prior to this?*

    It doesn’t. But the scheming and witholding of Brady material does.

    I don’t think you meant Trump-appointed people took on the prosecution of Flynn in July, 2016, when Comey announced there would be no charges against The Chardonnay Lady 2.0.

    Did Wray advance the prosecution of Flynn? He’s not a prosecutor. Which Trump appointees?

  139. 139

    Try to remember, as we watch The Q Clearance Pussy decompensate into a shrieking mass of bitter resentments, that at the exact same time that he is mewling with suppressed rage about the horrible injustice over his ButteryMales conspiracy failures JarJar and his COVID-19 Fyre Festival team are out in plain sight trying to arrange government purchase contracts and negotiate obligations on behalf of the US Treasury using personal, private social media accounts, email, and encrypted phone messaging.

  140. 140

    @ 139

    …out in plain sight trying to arrange government purchase contracts and negotiate obligations on behalf of the US Treasury using personal, private social media accounts, email, and encrypted phone messaging.

    Well, midnight clandestine drops of a billion dollars in shrink-wrapped taxpayer cash stacked on pallets to a hostile foreign nation has already been tried, QoS McHillbilly.

  141. 141

    Sullivan has previously ruled on everything that Powell has claimed is disco under Brady. He ruled against her.

    Leaving The Q Clearance Pussy with: “It doesn’t.

    About the only honest thing to come out of it in the last three years.

  142. 142

    132. The impeached miserable failure killed 80,000+. Be outraged about that. It’s worse.

  143. 143

    “The Labor Department last week reported unemployment at 14.7%, with 20 million jobs lost in April. Administration economists warn US output may plummet at a 40% annual rate in the second quarter. Those staggering measures of economic suffering … underscore the uphill fight Trump faces, and explain his abrupt shift from coronavirus containment to economic reopening.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/politics/trump-reelection-economy-unemployment/index.html

    And to hell with saving lives! Winning is all that matters!

    Invest your grandma in a Trump second term.

  144. 144

    midnight clandestine drops

    LOOK! Haley’s Comet!

    A Squirrel!

    Mick Jagger!

    But still no invisible email server, no invisible pizza baby-cannibal dungeon, no re-animated corpse of Seth Rich.
    Just a growing pile of 80,000 dead Americans and 63 million Trump voters desperate to draw attention elsewhere. Anywhere.

  145. 145

    What Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit prefers you not see in his @ 137 link:

    The obvious catch here is that a 5-point difference between where the polls have been and the November result could be huge this year. Biden’s up by only 6 nationally on average. A 5-point shift in Trump’s direction would mean a 1-point win by Biden in the popular vote. This could very much leave him on the wrong side of a popular vote and electoral college split. Remember, Trump lost by 2 points nationally in 2016 and still pulled out a victory in the electoral college.

    Choose a better nominee. You are running out of time.

  146. 146

    I can wait.

    George Papadopoulos
    @GeorgePapa19
    ·
    May 8
    Am learning that some of the CIA guys who started “bumping” into me in London and Athens have been interviewed by Durham months ago! This investigation is far more along than anyone can imagine.

  147. 147

    @145 What you don’t want to acknowledge is that Tara Reade hasn’t moved the needle at all. Zero, nada, zip. Go ahead, wait all you want for that 5-point shift, you’ve still got almost 6 months. (snicker)

  149. 149

    @125 Republicans will argue that if people return shopping carts the guy who goes around the neighborhood rounding up abandoned shopping carts won’t have a job so the progressives who return their shopping carts are selfish bastards who put good people out of work.

  150. 150

    137,
    Regard with caution.

    739 registered voters from across the US.

    So does not account for turnout diff.
    And does not account for electoral college.

    But as a gauge of the effects of Parscale’s overall messaging strategy, it has some value. Bearing in mind that Trump2020 is certainly focusing outreach and communication on battleground states. And that they are micro-targeting aggrieved, liver-spotted, peri-diabetic mobility scooters. So there may be significantly different effects on those potential voters in those states.

    It’s clearly a “negative partisanship” approach. And at least on a nationwide basis, it is not yet producing the negative sentiments that Trump will need to overcome his substantial deficit in that regard. Among Democratic and leans Democratic voters Trump is viscerally despised. Parscale has yet to produce a corresponding response in Rapepublican and leans Rapepublican voters. But time will tell. So far, Biden is out-playing and out-maneuvering the traitors.

  152. 152

    @ 147

    ..Tara Reade hasn’t moved the needle at all.

    I wouldn’t expect her to. After all, your ilk has quickly morphed into a “Trump did it, too.” defense of Biden, as the evidence that she’s telling the truth begins to mount.

    Tara Read’s value is in building evidence that Biden is too damaged to win when it counts. Her value is in building evidence that Biden should not be the nominee.

    You understand that, don’t you, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit? Or do you need to see more evidence against him, which probably will be found, now that people are looking for it?

  153. 153

    @ 150

    Regard with caution.

    739 registered voters from across the US.

    Of course you’re correct here. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t have a critical-thinking neuron left. He has repeatedly posted useless national poll data and he doesn’t look at the poll mechanics. He wouldn’t understand if he did.

    The sad thing is that people like The Even Bigger Fucking Moron don’t understand, and don’t have the skills to look further.

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit is not a millionaire, he’s not a knowledgable attorney, and he’s not welcome at his own dinner table.

    He’s a failure. Full stop.

  154. 154

    @129 Doctor Dumbfuck “facts”: “If the guy had drunk 12 tequila shots before starting his shift and then killed himself and everyone on board by driving off a bridge, you could claim he ‘died in the line of duty’, Railfan.”

    What actually happened:

    “On November 27, 1998, in the worst bus accident of Metro’s 25-year history, the driver of a southbound Route 359 express bus is shot twice as the bus begins crossing the Aurora Bridge, which crosses the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Seattle. After shooting the driver, the shooter, Silas Garfield Cool, 43, originally of New Jersey, turns his .380 automatic handgun on himself. The bus drops 50 feet into the Fremont neighborhood, killing one passenger and injuring 32 others. The driver, Mark McLauglin, 44, passenger, Herman Liebelt, 69, and the shooter die.”

    https://www.historylink.org/File/734

    Doctor Dumbfuck responding @113 to Roger Rabbit @111: “em>@105 Looks like #94 hit a nerve. No, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. You posted something factually incorrect, easily provable. So I did. You’re a fucking clown.”

    Paraphrasing Doctor Dumbfuck @112: Only way bus could have gone off bridge after passenger shot driver is if bus driver was drunk.

    Yep. Factually correct. Easily provable. Trump has the empty Tequila bottle found under the driver’s seat after the crash. He just won’t let us see it. Executive privilege. No problem. Doctor Dumbfuck will take Trump’s word for it.

  155. 155

    Parsing Doctor Dumbfuck’s election analysis:

    “Typically, an incumbent president’s share of the vote closely resembles his job approval rating. … But Trump faces two big obstacles …. First, his share of the vote in polling matchups against Biden has run significantly behind his approval rating. That shows even some otherwise Trump-friendly voters weary of [his] divisiveness and erratic behavior. In the national Fox poll last month, for example, 49% approved Trump’s job performance but just 41% planned to vote for him against Biden. Fox polls in the battlegrounds of Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania pegged the gap at eight, six and five percentage points, respectively. Biden led in all three states.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/politics/trump-reelection-economy-unemployment/index.html

    I won’t even gp into Darryl’s election analysis. Don’t need to.

  156. 156

    @130 “She was awful. She is why you got Trump. … Think on your sins.”

    Shorter Dumbfuck: Hillary was awful, so vote for someone who’s much, much worse. Dumbfuck probably doesn’t think on his sins much, either; dumbfucks never do.

  157. 157

    Her value is in building evidence that Biden should not be the nominee.

    The now essentially moribund Marcos Moulitsas analysis of the Democratic Party is The Q Clearance Pussy’s favorite.

    I’m no fan of Third Way, and I certainly don’t think Biden will be as successful a president if he is preoccupied with “reaching out” to soulless freaks like Lindsay Graham or Marco Rubio. I’d rather we had a different nominee. One better prepared to confront the obstructionism. But 2020 is not 2016. Biden surged past *all* of his rivals for the nomination. And there is no other credible candidate. Moreover, and most importantly, there is no lingering source of resentment or bitterness to fuel an uprising against him.

    So Rapepublicans see it as their role to manufacture such a source. However, the problem as I see it is they chose the wrong horse in just about every way. Reade and her story are neither calling Biden’s nomination into debate, nor are they connecting with key demographics of November swing voters. All her story can possibly do is reinforce pre-existing negative sentiments toward Biden among Rapepublican and leans Rapepublican voters. Matched against this sociopath her story will not suppress turnout among suburban, white, female voters.

  160. 160

    153,
    It’s reassuring that most Rapepublicans are unable to see where they have wandered off the path since 2016.

    They destroyed Clinton in 2016. They managed to turn her into a monster. And they did it in a way that crossed party lines to produce not only increased turnout among the Mobility Scooter Armadas, but also and probably more importantly reduced turnout among Bernie Bros and POCs.

    It’s not as if the media aren’t waiting, in precisely the way they were in 2016. But for going on 18 months now it’s been one massive false start after another. How long ago was it that the freaks were flogging Biden corruption? Or his son’s failures? Or openly committing impeachable offenses to frame him with an assist from Ukraine? The list has been endless. And so far every one has fizzled and gone limp. It’s become a pattern of failure.

  161. 161

    @157 – Yep, you’re right: Biden was the most electable of all the Democrats running. Some of those guys and gals were absolutely horrible choices, so we’re all glad they are out of the running.

  162. 162

    @138 Well let’s see. Trump has purged the Justice Department, put a nakedly partisan AG in charge of it, and still no charges against your favorite hate object. Why is that? Are they incompetent, or just lazy?

  163. 163

    @140 “Well, midnight clandestine drops of a billion dollars in shrink-wrapped taxpayer cash stacked on pallets to a hostile foreign nation ….”

    Of their own money. (You left out that detail.) And it wasn’t very clandestine if you know about it, was it?

    But I won’t call you a “clown.” That would be insulting legitimate clowns. You’re a dumbfuck. Calling you a dumbfuck doesn’t worry me, because there are no legitimate dumbfucks.

  164. 164

    @141 But Sullivan is an honest judge, and that makes it very, very unfair. Flynn deserves an unqualified partisan hack judge whose confirmation was railroaded through the Senate by Moscow Mitch and acquiesced to by the meek sheep constituting his GOP Senate flock. That was the whole point of blocking hundreds of Obama appointees and keeping those seats vacant for years. Why go to all the trouble of seating partisan judges if your corrupt underling has to face an honest judge anyway?

  165. 165

    Bloviating fat fuck @ 158

    …Tyson killed my dad.

    1. It’s not Father’s Day.
    2. Everyone will still buy Tyson. Including your wife, who hopes you die soon so her family is spared your presence. Bon appetit!

  166. 166

    The same judge Sullivan dismissed Ted Stevens’ conviction.

    Prosecutorial misconduct.

    Don’t know why you fucks think he won’t dismiss the Flynn guilty plea. Justice now says it can’t even prove Flynn lied.

  167. 167

    From link @148: “When people were asked to shelter in place, they did so in amazing numbers and with no plan. But nobody envisioned the shelter-in-place would last this long.”

    It was like that in Vietnam, too. Some things take on a life of their own.

  168. 168

    Here’s where Americans are laying blame for the Wuhan:

    Nearly 3 in 4 Americans Blame the Chinese Government for America’s High Death Rate
    China is the most blamed entity among Republicans, and the fourth most among Democrats

    Furthermore, a message test shows that Americans are more likely to say China gave the United States insufficient warning about the outbreak than they are to say the United States squandered time after China first alerted the global community. Asked which statement is most correct, 26 percent selected “The Chinese government gave the U.S. plenty of warning about the pandemic, but the U.S. did not use that time to better prepare for the pandemic,” while more than twice as many (56 percent) selected “The Chinese government did not give the U.S. enough warning about the pandemic, so the U.S. could not better prepare for the pandemic.”

    Plenty of blame to go around. Look at all of the Democrats blaming state governments (63%) and local governments (57%), WHO (51%), and even immigrants (51%).

    Democrats even blame scientists/the scientific community (37%).

    Apparently Steve was not polled. Steve blames me. For everything.

    How many of y’all believe that China gave adequate warning? Does Joe Biden think this?

    Hell, does Joe Biden think?

  169. 169

    From link @148: “Like it or not, we may have to trust the public to be as safe as possible with masks and the like and hope for the best …”

    BEACH WEEK!!! Assaulting store employees who ask customers to wear masks!! Pushing a park ranger into the lake!

    Who needs rules and enforcement?

  170. 170

    @ 167

    It was like that in Vietnam, too.

    GIs were not asked whether they wanted to go shelter in Vietnam, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. They were forcibly sent if they didn’t want to go.

    It’s far past time for the life of your own to end, clown.

  171. 171

    @150 “And at least on a nationwide basis, it is not yet producing the negative sentiments that Trump will need to overcome his substantial deficit in that regard.”

    That’s where massive vote suppression, collapsing the postal service, and Russian interference come into play.

  172. 172

    “I feel very trapped,” said Ana Maria Archila, the co-executive director of the progressive Center for Popular Democracy, of having to support Mr. Biden if he is the nominee. She was one of the two women whose confrontation of Jeff Flake, then a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, over how he would vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation went viral.

    You don’t have to be trapped, Democrats. You can choose a better nominee.

    You are running out of time.

  173. 173

    @152 “After all, your ilk has quickly morphed into a ‘Trump did it, too.’ defense of Biden”

    Untrue. Not one of us has defended Biden, much less by saying “Trump did it, too.” Biden is the least-worst of our options. And there’s no “too” here; there’s no equivalency between Biden and Trump. Your candidate did it much, much more. He is much, much worse. And naturally you go with the far, far worse candidate because you’re a dumbfuck.

  174. 174

    @153 “Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit doesn’t have a critical-thinking neuron left.”

    Sez the dumbfuck who won’t acknowledge a single one of Trump’s lies, corrupt actions, incompetencies or failures.

    Because all the dumbfuck cares about is stacking the federal bench with as many unqualified partisan hack judges as possible.

  175. 175

    @165(2): I won’t. But you will.

    In future, please don’t impute either your dietary indiscretions or your moral failings to me. I’m not you.

  176. 176

    @166 “The same judge Sullivan dismissed Ted Stevens’ conviction. Prosecutorial misconduct. Don’t know why you fucks think he won’t dismiss the Flynn guilty plea.”

    Yup. Honest, nonpartisan, incorruptible judge.

    So if Sullivan doesn’t accept DoJ’s motion to dismiss Flynn’s guilty please, what will that say about Flynn and DoJ?

    You’re going out on a bit of a limb, doc.

  177. 177

    @ 176

    So if Sullivan doesn’t accept DoJ’s motion to dismiss Flynn’s guilty please, what will that say about Flynn and DoJ?

    It will say that Judge Sullivan is unwilling to apologize for telling Flynn that he sold out his country, when the truth is that Flynn did nothing of the sort.

    Which is why I think he’ll accept the motion, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  179. 179

    @170 Not surprising that you completely missed my meaning. Try again. Here, let me help you out with a clue:

    When you are under attack, the time to come out of the bunker or from cover and start walking around in the open again is:

    [ ] A. When you get tired of being in the bunker or behind cover.
    [ ] B. When the shooting stops.

  180. 180

    @177 Shorter Dumbfuck: An honest judge is no longer honest if he doesn’t yield to corruption of the criminal justice process.

  181. 181

    Pence, December 14, 2017: “What I can tell you is I knew that he lied to me,” Pence replied, “and I know the president made the right decision with regard to him.”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pence-i-knew-flynn-lied-to-me-about-russian-contacts-when-he-was-fired/

    Pence, May 10, 2020: “During a pre-taped interview with Axios published Sunday, Pence was asked about bringing Flynn back into the Trump administration. … ‘I think Gen. Michael Flynn is an American patriot, he served this country with great distinction,’ Pence said in an excerpt of the interview. ‘And for my part, I’d be happy to see Michael Flynn again.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/politics/mike-pence-michael-flynn-interview/index.html

    The facts haven’t changed. Pence’s attitude has changed.

  182. 182

    Something to consider when Wuhan-presumptive cases are included along with the confirmed Wuhan cases in any published total:

    Florian Krammer
    @florian_krammer
    ·
    May 5
    2) The data describes PCR and serology findings in the first 1343 plasma donors screened at Mount Sinai. Initially, there were two groups of donors: people who at some point had PCR confirmed COVID19 and people who had suspected COVID19 (but were never PCR confirmed).

    Florian Krammer
    @florian_krammer
    ·
    May 5
    3) The majority of these donors were mild cases. Now, almost all PCR-confirmed donors had antibodies, while the majority of the suspected COVID19 individuals did not. This tells us two things: a) the assay works and b) many people who think they had COVID19 might not have had it.

    To me, this suggests two distortions:

    1. The number of infected cases and the number of deaths might be artificially inflated.
    2. The mortality rate might be artificially deflated.

    Neither of these is good, because both distortions might affect policy.

  183. 183

    Justice now says it can’t even prove Flynn lied.

    Mooted by defendant’s confession of guilt sworn to the court.

    The question Sullivan may ask is not whether prosecutorial misconduct. But by whom.

    For the last two years this DOJ aggressively pursued this prosecution before this court and in so doing offered pleadings and responses that now stand in direct conflict with this motion to dismiss.

    Again, The Q Clearance Pussy is right (twice in the same day, violating his usual Rule of Clocks). Sullivan is no “friend” to DOJ, despite two solid consistent years of declarations to the contrary by The Q Clearance Pussy stenographic copy-pasta from the alt-Right Nazi media. But it’s more accurate to say that Sullivan is historically skeptical of the DOJ.

    Somehow I’m not assured that this sudden about face ordered by the AG after dismissing the entire team is going to restore Sullivan’s confidence in DOJ. I think he’ll have tough questions. Barr’s responses will be nothing if not lawyerly. How timely and thorough they are may not work to benefit Trump2020 and the credulous dupes who have hitched themselves to his flaming meteor dumpster fire.

  184. 184

    @ 181

    Interesting that both the CBS printed article and the video of the Pence interview refer to a Christmas Day (2016) text exchange between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.

    Whatever Flynn is supposed to have lied about didn’t involve the exchanges on that day (12/25).

    It was four days later, 12/29/16, that the sanctions were announced, and it was on 12/29 that Flynn had five separate phone conversations with the Russian ambassador.

    So there must have been some other conversation between Flynn and Pence in which a “lie” was told. The exchange between Flynn and the ambassador very likely did not occur on Christmas Day.

    Just some housekeeping because the dates don’t match.

    I do have to wonder whether Pence, today, would still insist that Flynn had lied to him. Pence no doubt was relying on info given to him by the FBI, and it’s now increasingly clear that the FBI ginned up almost everything involving Flynn.

  185. 185

    @ 183

    Mooted by defendant’s confession of guilt sworn to the court.

    What level of coercion is necessary for a confession to be considered false?

    Please answer if:

    • the confession is written by someone you like
    • the confession is written by someone you dislike

  186. 186

    176,
    Don’t forget that time Ted Stevens filed a sworn guilty plea.

    Who could ever forget that?

  187. 187

    You can look up the model filing for a criminal plea of guilty in any federal court. It’s formulaic.

    It includes swearing both verbally and in writing that the plea is entered freely and not coerced in any way.

    Damn!

  188. 188

    No. I get it. Now we’re supposed to believe that, in addition to Rod Rosenstein, Mueller, Whitaker, Barr 1.0, Liu, that Covington is part of the DERP STATE conspiracy. Mmmkay.

    Sullivan will accept the motion. He has no choice if the prosecution declines to proceed. But he does not have to dismiss with prejudice. And he does not have to take the prosecution’s motion at face value. He is entitled to inquire before ruling. And given the circumstances he is somewhat obligated to do so.

    That would normally implicate a defendant’s right to a presumption of innocence. But there’s that damn plea. It bears some examination to what if any extent Flynn participated in misleading the court. So defendant’s presumption of innocence is fundamentally weakened absent an establishment of some coercion. Powell has talked about that in the media lots. And she’s filed lots of motions arguing coercion. But the court hasn’t been persuaded thus far. So defendant’s “innocence” may have abide while that question is answered as well.

    Yes. That’s right. It’s another #owngoal

  189. 189

    @129 “Oh, please. The Wuhan could have been contracted by him anywhere.”
    The racist incel seem to have nothing for disdain for a person doing a job that puts them at risk and fantasizing all ways he could have contracted the virus outside of work. Really I don’t understand his visceral hatred of people who work in the public sector. Did a bus driver punish high school version of the racist incel for beating up on a disabled elementary school girl of color or something and he’s resented them ever since?

  190. 190

    “The number of infected cases and the number of deaths might be artificially inflated.”

    “Hey, you 80,000 corpses, stop faking it. You are not really dead. Stop being crisis corpses trying to make the president look bad. “

  191. 191

    @149. Then by republican logic, pedophiles are simple generous people who are spending one on one time with young children who need the attention.
    And when they plead guilty, they should get a mulligan like Flynn got.

  192. 192

    @159. Complacent. Complicit
    “What do you call a person who barely passes the tests and is dead last in their medical class?”
    “Doctor”
    Just because he was a radiologist doesn’t mean he comprehends.

  193. 193

    The Hump killed 80,000 people some of which were veterans.

    The Hump Virus killed many and will continue to kill more.

  194. 194

    @ 188

    That would normally implicate a defendant’s right to a presumption of innocence. But there’s that damn plea. It bears some examination to what if any extent Flynn‘s legal team participated in misleading the court.

    ftfy

    So, yes. Covington.

    I can wait.

  196. 196

    194,
    Starts with Flynn. You still don’t get how this works.

    In a criminal proceeding in federal court a defendant who wishes to plead guilty to a charge has to make a direct personal statement to the court (that means the fucking judge, imbecile). Flynn himself stood in front of Judge Sullivan and entered his guilty plea. That guilty plea included a series of questions from the court and responses by the def. Flynn himself asserted to the court under oath that he was entering the plea freely and without any coercion.

    So the process begins with the defendant. And one way or another, no matter how you slice it, at some point Flynn lied. Really, it looks like even under the best possible light, Flynn lied a lot. He lied to the FBI. He lied to the V.P. He lied to his attorneys. He lied to the media. He lied to the court.

    Take your pick.

    Maybe he was coerced as you claim. But then that raises questions about DOJ oversight and the direct involvement of the half dozen senior appointees in that coercion. That all took place almost a year after Obama flew off to go kite surfing with Richard Branson like a rock star. There’s your DERP STATE now, coughing into their red trucker hats.

  197. 197

    154)I was also mentioning the recent death of a Metro Driver due to the virus. As In said, don’t know if it was caught on the job. There is one case where it did happen, a D-DoT driver in Detroit , who claimed to be coughed on by a passenger, and was dead within 2 weeks. Although Metro should be providing masks for the drivers, the ATU has stepped up on that.

    The photo montage in the video, came from photos taken by a lifelong transit fan, and later a IT specialist at Pierce Transit, who was killed in the Nisqually derailment. When he had a website, was a regular visitor.

  198. 198

    @184 “I do have to wonder whether Pence, today, would still insist that Flynn had lied to him.”

    I don’t have to wonder at all whether you would trust Trump lackey’s word on that farther than you could throw him.

  199. 199

    @185 Something less than a waterboarded confession, but that never stopped any Republicans who wanted to find someone guilty.

    For the record, mere stupidity doesn’t get you there.

  201. 201

    @189 “Really I don’t understand his visceral hatred of people who work in the public sector.”

    Oh, I understand it, alright. I worked too long in the public sector, and encountered too many “my taxes pay your salary!” types, not to.

    Public sector jobs basically involve governing an otherwise primitive, savage, and unruly society; and some people just don’t like being told they have to follow the same rules as everyone else.

    The rules that keep society civilized, keep us off each other’s throats, keep us from descending into savagery. Like not habitually driving drunk, passing a stopped school bus at 50 mph, or shoplifting every time you go into a store.

    https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/republican-aiming-to-unseat-ilhan-omar-charged-with-felony/

    Human nature being what it is, the average human is more than willing to take out their frustrations with not being allowed to be unrestrained antisocial assholes on the public servants who are just doing their job because “my taxes pay your salary!” gives them special privileges to be rude, obnoxious, abusive, and even assaultive.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjLQD6ts2xI

    Because … freeDUMB!!! What’s the point of living in America if you can’t be a complete jerk?

  203. 203

    @192 Anybody can interpret an x-ray incorrectly, just as anybody can interpret a court decision incorrectly.

  204. 204

    @194 Ah, the old “my lawyer fucked me” defense.

    “My lawyer fucked me, too.” — Paul Manafort

    “My own brother fucked me!” — Ted Kaczynski

    “Honestly, I fucked myself.” — Michael Cohen

  207. 207

    Stinks of borscht, huh? So does the fascist traitor Doctor Dumbfuck.

    Bill Barr Twisted My Words in Dropping the Flynn Case. Here’s the Truth.
    The F.B.I.’s interview of Mr. Flynn was constitutional, lawful and for a legitimate counterintelligence purpose.

    By Mary B. McCord
    Ms. McCord was an acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department from 2016 to 2017.

    That report, commonly referred to as a “302,” is an interesting read. It vividly describes disagreements between leadership of the Justice Department and the F.B.I. about how to handle the information we had learned about Mr. Flynn’s calls with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and, more specifically, Mr. Flynn’s apparent lies about those calls to incoming Vice President Mike Pence.

    But the report of my interview is no support for Mr. Barr’s dismissal of the Flynn case. It does not suggest that the F.B.I. had no counterintelligence reason for investigating Mr. Flynn. It does not suggest that the F.B.I.’s interview of Mr. Flynn — which led to the false-statements charge — was unlawful or unjustified. It does not support that Mr. Flynn’s false statements were not material. And it does not support the Justice Department’s assertion that the continued prosecution of the case against Mr. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to knowingly making material false statements to the FBI, “would not serve the interests of justice.”

    Notably, Mr. Barr’s motion to dismiss does not argue that the F.B.I. violated the Constitution or statutory law when agents interviewed Mr. Flynn about his calls with Mr. Kislyak. It doesn’t claim that they violated his Fifth Amendment rights by coercively questioning him when he wasn’t free to leave. Nor does the motion claim that the interview was the fruit of a search or seizure that violated the Fourth Amendment. Any of these might have justified moving to dismiss the case. But by the government’s own account, the interview with Mr. Flynn was voluntary, arranged in advance and took place in Mr. Flynn’s own office.

    Why was that so important? Because the Russians would have known what Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak discussed. They would have known that, despite Mr. Pence’s and others’ denials, Mr. Flynn had in fact asked Russia not to escalate its response to the sanctions. Mr. Pence’s denial of this on national television, and his attribution of the denial to Mr. Flynn, put Mr. Flynn in a potentially compromised situation that the Russians could use against him.

    The potential for blackmail of Mr. Flynn by the Russians is what the former Justice Department leadership, including me, thought needed to be conveyed to the incoming White House. After all, Mr. Flynn was set to become the national security adviser, and it was untenable that Russia — which the intelligence community had just assessed had sought to interfere in the U.S. presidential election — might have leverage over him.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/opinion/bill-barr-michael-flynn.html

  209. 209

    204,
    It’s a tiny bit more than the routine “my lawyer fucked me” defense.

    It’s the “my lawyer conspired with opposing counsel at the direction of unnamed ‘globalist” enemies and senior members of the current administration to coerce me to confess to crimes I only ‘sort of’ committed and in so doing commit a vast fraud against this court” defense. Can’t fault Powell for vigorously defending her client. Can’t fault Flynn… so long as these allegations have some foundation beyond FBI field notes and Lisa Page’s mash notes.

    The court is obligated to consider it. And with the prosecution refusing to proceed they are obligated to grant the motion in part. Sullivan is bound to be pragmatic but he doesn’t have to abandon the court’s credibility entirely. He can leave it open for the next administration to re-file and let it be on them. Either way, I’d sure hate to be the next DOJ prosecutor to face him. Or the one after that. Or the one after that.

  210. 210

    @ 209

    Either way, I’d sure hate to be the next DOJ prosecutor to face him. Or the one after that. Or the one after that.

    In the words of Aaron Sorkin, “There it is.”

    There’s the damage to the credibility of the FBI and the DOJ as a result of the conspiracy to take down Flynn.

    I’d be wary as a DOJ prosecutor about how I’d be perceived before ANY judge, after this.

  212. 212

    @210 “There’s the damage to the credibility of the FBI and the DOJ as a result of the conspiracy to take down Flynn.”

    That’s nothing. You should see the damage to Flynn’s credibility. But the idiots you daily shill for apparently are going to put him back into a position of national responsibility and trust if they can spring him from jail. Now, would you like to discuss the credibility of GOP governance?

  213. 213

    There’s the damage

    Easy to cure.
    Re-file on Jan 20th.

    No aquarium cleaner required. Just a pen.

  214. 214

    @126

    Take a day off and a Dumbfuck happens.

    Is there a facility currently available to continue to manufacture Tesla automobiles in Nevada or Texas? Had he said he was moving to Michigan or Tennessee maybe he’s got his eye on something rather than threatening the very expensive prospect of building a new automobile factory from the ground up.

    Does Tesla have a backlog of partially or fully paid orders for Automobiles?

    Can Tesla halt production in CA and still fill that backlog?

    What will be the material cost of building new Tesla Automobile factories in Texas or Nevada?

    Is a gigabattery factory in Nevada designed to make Automobiles? Can it be converted quickly? If it can, where does Tesla now make the batteries to power the vehicles?

    Having a finalist for where a company is maybe going to put a truck factory is relevant to where they can currently manufacture passenger cars for which they have a backlog of orders because reasons. There’s a reason why the F-150 and the Mustang, though both made in Dearborn (F-150 in multiple factories) come from entirely different factories.

    And finally, market analysts agree that if Tesla falls behind further on deliveries of ordered product that could drive sales to upstart manufacturers and legacy car brands now bringing electric models to market.

    The Fremont factory will be up and running within weeks.

  215. 215

    But the idiots you daily shill for apparently are going to put him back into a position of national responsibility and trust if they can spring him from jail.

    The minute they do they lose the five eyes and SSEUR.

    And Hatch act would prevent them using him on the campaign trail.

  216. 216

    Virus death rates, data from CNN:

    World – approximately 6.9%

    US – approximately 6.0%

  217. 217

    While we were driving around on Sunday we saw a bunch of people standing on the lawn and when we got close there was an old woman in the window of the nursing home and all the people on the lawn were her friends and family there to see for mothers day. It was quite cold and blustery. She was very frail and looked like she was about to cry.

  218. 218

    “The Trump administration has pulled funding for a group of scientists studying coronaviruses in bats and the risk of their spillover into humans — the very kind of infection that started the COVID-19 pandemic” because they traced it to bats. Not Wuhan lab. Bats.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/trump-admin-pulls-nih-grant-for-coronavirus-research-over-ties-to-wuhan-lab/ar-BB13sOb9

    CBS 60 Minutes report on same subject:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iagUDDyhf64

  220. 220

    Looks like Amtrak is restarting the Acela Express with three daily round trips, but at 50% capacity in Coach, Business, and Acela FIRST classes. Effective June 1st.

  221. 221

    @216 Looks like we’re doing slightly better than overpopulated third world shithole countries with no clean drinking water, no sanitation, and no medical facilities.

  222. 222

    The way I see it, every time Roger Rabbit has really gotten under the racist incel’s skin, the racist incel fantasizes about Roger Rabbit death. It’s been escalating over time.
    It’s an interesting mindset. Progressives would like people like the racist incel to think and be better. The racist incel would like his enemies to die.
    What do you think it means?

  223. 223

    222,
    Arrested emotional development.

    Conservatives want a strong daddy either to worship or to rebel against. They do not wish to be burdened with the daily struggle of reasoning toward a moral framework. Faced with opposition from a peer, and in the absence of an omnipotent sky pal daddy to visit His wrath upon their “enemies” they become nihilistic.

    And of course, in the absence of a Cart Narc they push their cart into the nearest Prius and peel away on smoking tires listening to Judas Priest.

  224. 224

    This came through the Socials from a place I went to occasionally as a child, much more often in my early 20s (first serious girlfriend worked there) and any time I’ve been able to take my favorite coast drive over the years which admittedly it’s been at least seven.

    $15/hr is not the problem for most restaurants that will close in the next 3-5 years.

    Our lease was due to renew on June 1. The proposal received by our landlord would have raised our rent more than 300% from $8372 per month to $28,000 per month, under the current lease, with no option to renew after one year. The landlord also offered an alternative lease, with new, restrictive and onerous conditions, that would extend the term to four years at $21,000 per month.

    This info is not in dispute by the landlord. It’s what happens when a sleepy farm town morphs into a retirement community for first wave tech money. Saw it coming about the time the 3/4M dollar cheese shop renovation went in.

  225. 225

    Memo for Wabbit @5:

    Corrupt is the name for Comey’s FBI. Kirschner is a libtard and its proven working for MSNBC!!!

    Niuff Said Sucka!

  226. 226

    224. That’s unsustainable. Are they expected to raise the price of food by 300% ?

  227. 227

    Meanwhile in real news… Mexico’s president calls for investigation into Obama-era Fast and Furious Operation

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/fast-furious-mexican-president-obama

    Seems Obrador has demanded the US clarify or apologize for the Obummer era gun-running program under Eric Wingman Holder.

    Did you know that:
    Fast and Furious guns were used by assesHorse friends ISIS in Paris. – WikiPedia – The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks that took place on 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city’s northern suburb, Saint-Denis.[13] Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football match. This was followed by several mass shootings and a suicide bombing, at cafés and restaurants. Gunmen carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were shot or blew themselves up when police raided the theatre.[14]

    Fast and Furious guns were discovered at Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s hideout in Mexico. – CBS News – One of the guns that Mexican officials say was found at the hideout of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been found to be associated with Fast and Furious, a failed “gun-walking” operation, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

    Fast and Furious guns were used in the Garland Texas terrorist attack. – LA Times – What Soofi could not have known was that Lone Wolf was at the center of a federal sting operation known as Fast and Furious, targeting Mexican drug lords and traffickers. The idea of the secret program was to allow Lone Wolf to sell illegal weapons to criminals and straw purchasers, and track the guns back to large smuggling networks and drug cartels.

    Fast and Furious guns were linked to over 200 murders. – Townhall – In a conference call this morning with Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, reporters were told the Attorney General in Mexico has confirmed at least 200 murders south of the border happened as a result of Operation Fast and Furious.

    Thank you Wingman Holder. You really did that one so well.

  229. 229

    Gotta love the libtard fingers – https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-dem-lawmaker-lashes-out-at-elon-musk-with-vile-message-but-it-goes-horribly-wrong

    “Musk announced over the weekend that he planned to “immediately” move Tesla HQ and future company projects from the Bay Area to freedom-loving states like Texas or Nevada. Musk’s announcement came after Alameda County, the county in which Tesla HQ resides, prevented Musk from reopening his factory on Friday despite Gov. Gavin Newsom directing California manufacturers to reopen in limited capacity.

    Gonzalez responded to Musk with a vile, three-word message: “F*ck Elon Musk.”” https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/statuses/1259287879177531392

    Elon Musk @elonmusk · 4h
    Replying to @LorenaSGonzalez
    Message received

    ‘You might just be the most short-sighted, petty, vindictive, selfish, destructive, proof-progressivism-is-evil lawmaker in the country’

    Puddy knows y’all won’t read the article because you’d learn what Californian’s think of DUMMOCRETIN Lorena Gonzalez.

  230. 230

    Wow – You go Rose McGowan

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/rose-mcgowan-bill-maher-metoo

    “”I was on your show Politically Incorrect in the late 90s — as the show returned from a commercial break, you leaned over to me & whispered in my ear, ‘my parents didn’t give me a good face, but they did give me a huge c***,'” McGowan wrote. “I could feel your hot breath on my ear as an image of both your hideous face & alleged big c*** flashed in my mind. Both turned my stomach. I’ve always wondered what you say & do to the girls that aren’t famous?””

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMOOOOOOO!

  232. 232

    Recent episode of Japan Railway Journal, on NHK World. Love the social distancing, with the presenter and expert in residence doing their show from home.This episode focused on station improvements to the JR East Yammomote line in Tokyo, but also showed how some railways in Japan are handling the Pandemic.

    https://youtu.be/WI3dcetWpho

  233. 233

    @227

    Holy shitballs! Fast and Furious? That ATF operation started by Bush II that you tried to make an issue in Obama’s re-election?

    How sad are you that to prop up a steaming pile of Viral Shit you’re going with “Obama did something and he served two terms but maybe say Biden did it?”

    Got any Chappaquiddick updates?

    Maybe Anthony Wiener can be on the ticket.

    Did YOU hear a Democrat lost helicopters in the desert on the way to Iran.

    ABSCAM, that was really something. Biden knew.

  234. 234

    @222 “What do you think it means?”

    I think it means he has a voodoo doll resembling a rabbit on his mantelpiece that now has so many pins in it he’s going to have to get a bigger doll.

  235. 235

    Puddy knows y’all won’t read the article because you’d learn what Californian’s think of DUMMOCRETIN Lorena Gonzalez.

    You mean like in her 2018 election when she got 75% of the vote to Lincoln Packard (R) 25%.

    Or the recent Primary where Lincoln Packard came in 3rd (9.4%) to 2nd place finisher John Vogel (R) 17.9% and Gonzalez came in first 72.7%.

    If she keeps losing 2.3% of her voters, the GOP will get that seat…..in 2040.

    You’re right, didn’t read because
    a: The Blaze found a handful of GOP trolls on Twitter who may or may not have been Californians
    b: It really doesn’t matter what Californians think of her as long as her district in California is 75% in favor of her.

    Go have a cry.

  236. 236

    BeerPong@235,

    Won’t be Puddy crying. Her political location notwithstanding in a DUMMOCRETIN state in a DUMMOCRETIN district, the message is lost on you as always. Musk, through his Tesla Plant employs ~10,000 people in Fremont making ~$94,000 per employee. If Gonzalez’ BULLSH^T comment causes him to relocate, she won’t be getting 75% of the vote you moron, and Californians will “thank” her profusely for removing another entrepreneur from the ranks of California!

    DAYUM, you be still as stooooooooopid as when Mike Rogers was in congress! Stay stooooooooopid. Each time fingers hit the keyboard you prove it!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!

  237. 237

    ” … the reality of the hardened partisanship is beyond reason. We’ve become really unmoored from our best civic traditions.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/opinions/why-dont-editorial-boards-call-for-trump-to-resign-lockhart/index.html

    Also from: The Constitution, democracy, and American values in general; truth, honesty, decency, and basic morality; maturity and responsibility; and, above all, reality and common sense.

    In short, 42% of Americans have become an ignorant, unruly, screaming mob. Hitler would relish this moment, but can’t, because he’s dead. In his place, Trump is relishing it.

  238. 238

    “A leading model has increased its US coronavirus death toll projection again as governors continue lifting measures toward a reopening. The model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington now forecasts more than 137,000 Americans will die by early August.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

    If these projections are accurate, roughly 57,000 Americans who are walking around healthy today will be stone cold dead three months from now.

  240. 240

    If Gonzalez’ BULLSH^T comment causes him to relocate

    Most of those 10,000 will move. There are over 200,000 voters in the district. Starting today they all get their ballots in the mail. The district is over 65% Latino. It’s voted overwhelmingly Democratic for as far back as it matters. If 10,000 Democrats move to Texas they’ll be replaced by another 10,000 Democrats, six out of ten of whom will have a name that ends in “Z”… just like her.

    Was Piddles always this stupid? When did the change happen? How does Trump support produce this rapid decline in mathematical reasoning? Does this mean that as they lay dying from the TrumPlague virus they won’t be able to count their own final breaths?

  243. 243

    “A former Justice Department official says Attorney General William Barr ‘twisted’ her words to justify the decision to drop the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

    “Mary B. McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security, wrote in a New York Times op-ed Sunday that Barr cherry-picked from her 2017 testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller, which the DOJ cited more than 25 times in the motion to dismiss Flynn’s case. She said her testimony is ‘no support for Mr. Barr’s dismissal of the Flynn case.’

    “‘It does not suggest that the F.B.I. had no counterintelligence reason for investigating Mr. Flynn,’ she wrote. ‘It does not suggest that the F.B.I.’s interview of Mr. Flynn — which led to the false-statements charge — was unlawful or unjustified. It does not support that Mr. Flynn’s false statements were not material.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/11/politics/mary-mccord-william-barr-nyt/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I think everyone understands what’s going on here. Except Puddy, who’s too stupid. Doctor Dumbfuck understands, but he’s too dishonest.

  244. 244

    241,
    Every Trumpalo silver lining contains another Trumpalo silver lining.

  245. 245

    If 10,000 Democrats move to Texas they’ll be replaced by another 10,000 Democrats, six out of ten of whom will have a name that ends in “Z”… just like her.

    Once again dot bombed misses the point too. So another 10,000 DUMMOCRETINS take their place. Do you really think they are going to move into a depressed area when Tesla moves? Do you think they will find jobs that make $94,000 on average? And those whom move into that “place” with a “Z” ending their last name will remember the reason the area is depressed. They will vote for another person with a “Z”.

    Stooooooooooooooooopid as evah!

  246. 246

    Wherein the babbling buttthooole declares Sand Diego county to be a “depressed area”.

    It’s a lot like Seattle.
    If a state Senator from Olympia insulted Jeff Bezos and Amazon moved 10,000 jobs you guys would celebrate with a parade. And who could blame you, since seven out of ten of those assholes live in Sammamish.
    And like the rest of us, for the next eighteen months you’ll all be too busy dealing with the Trump Depression to worry about it.

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