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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: Lindsey Graham is on the ropes in South Carolina as Republicans struggle in several red state races.

John Oliver: The Supreme Court

Now This: What you need to know about the Proud Boys

Samantha Bee: How the school choice debate is failing our public schools

Americans for Decency: Good shenanigans vs. GOP purges and Трамп distractions

Biden—Harris 2020:

Songbird: A tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Vice News: Inside Portland’s turf war between proud boys and local antifascists

John Oliver: Census update.

Trevor: Wildfires.

AJ+: How Republicans pulled off a massive voter purge

Trainwreck Трамп and His Toy Storm Troopers:

Meidas Touch: Fire Susan—Susan Collins betrayed us

The Late Show: Great moments in debate history—Nuclear missile worries about Reagan’s age

The Daily Show: The GOP makes it harder for ex-felons to vote in Florida

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Unpatriotic history

Typhoid Donnie and Other Vectors of Disease, Death, and Decay:

Robert Reich: GOP takeover of the Supreme Court—What you need to know

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Trevor: Rev. Al Sharpton—How to protest based on tangible goals

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

Comments

  5. 5

    WaPo

    “Trump thought he could go to the fundraiser and keep it secret that Hicks had it,” Republican donor Dan Eberhart said.

    In concealing her diagnosis and not self isolating but going to New Jersey, Trump violated CDC protocols and put more people at risk.

  6. 6

    Also WaPo

    “Secret Service agents expressed their anger and frustration to colleagues and friends Friday, saying that the president’s actions have repeatedly put them at risk. ‘He’s never cared about us,’ one agent told a confidant…”

    Remember all those stories about how badly a former First Lady treated her service detail and how hated she was?

  7. 7

    6,
    Everyone agrees the Secret Service “loves” Melania.
    Nudge-nude. Wink-wink.

  8. 8

    Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Tom Tillis…

    “Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

    The trick is the timing.

  9. 9

    Out of an abundance of caution, in the unlikely even that he should have to assume the duties, Vice President Mike Pence awoke this morning to a breakfast of Quarter Pounders and Sprite. Later he is scheduled to spend four hours yelling at the television before heading to golf at Trump National.

    All is well.

  10. 10

    Hounddog1971 @houndinater
    Please don’t lose sight of the fact that the man who is now getting the best healthcare in America has lawyers in court trying to take yours away.

    And he only paid $750 a year for it. Bet your new premiums are going to be more than $62.50 a month.

    The modern day most terrifying words in the English language are: “I am from the Republicans and I am here to make sure the government hurts you.” – Every Trump Voter

  11. 11

    “I brought back football. You’re welcome. Me. I started it up. No bread but circus. That was me! I play football. My Pop Warner coach said best he’d ever seen. You all love football. Thank me for football.”

    A total of eight Tennessee Titans players have tested positive for COVID-19 this week after another player and two staff members tested positive Saturday, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

    In all, 16 members of the Titans organization — the eight players and eight team personnel — have tested positive in the past week.

    On Friday, the Titans announced that wide receiver Adam Humphries and practice squad receiver Cameron Batson had been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Also going on the reserve/COVID-19 list this week were starting nose tackle DaQuan Jones, linebacker Kamalei Correa, cornerback Kristian Fulton, long-snapper Beau Brinkley and practice squad tight end Tommy Hudson.

  13. 13

    If Moscow Mitch is unable to assemble a quorum to ram through his final SCOTUS judge-for-life it will be because of Trumpubican/GOP incompetence and soaring hubris.

  15. 15

    In concealing her diagnosis and not self isolating but going to New Jersey, Trump violated CDC protocols and put more people at risk.

    Everyday I go to work (daily), or the gym, which I suppose applies to other forms or conveyance, I have have my temperature taken and fill out a form (work) or answer the question whether I have been present with someone who has tested positive in the last ten days. If I answer yes…..everyone knows what happens.

    I guess the Hump and the Humpsters don’t like to live by rules, go figure. Rules only apply to others, and they are rules that you can die for in their eyes.

    Just imagine if this was an infliction, such as HIV, and a gay person did that and infected another person with HIV what they would….oh wait, they’ve already spoken about that.

    Bunch of SCUM with gay relatives

  16. 16

    Remember all those stories about how badly a former First Lady treated her service detail and how hated she was?

    That family don’t like anyone….not even each other. Bunch of fucks like Bob.

  17. 17

    Everyone agrees the Secret Service “loves” Melania.
    Nudge-nude. Wink-wink.

    The Neanderthal Race. What would you expect. Hope Hicks – Woof!

  18. 18

    Out of an abundance of caution, in the unlikely even that he should have to assume the duties, Vice President Mike Pence awoke this morning to a breakfast of Quarter Pounders and Sprite. Later he is scheduled to spend four hours yelling at the television before heading to golf at Trump National.

    And then he probably stuck the Bible up his ass, right after pulling out the little mini vibrator that Jim Jordan gave him for Christmas.

  19. 19

    “Even if the all survive, looks like Ginsberg gets the last laugh.”

    Dead people get to laugh? Who knew?!

  20. 20

    @ 11 Patriots Cam Newton also tested positive.

    Stop the Sports Industrial Complex. It is bigoted and hate filled.

    We no longer hear about paying the NCAA students for the athletic prowess, do we? The straight ones, I mean.

  21. 21

    @19 in heaven dude….we all know we get to see each other up there….except you, you’ll be in hell with the rest.

  22. 22

    @12 a message (even one with a x rated picture) between two consenting adults is ok. Not like he texted with a goat or a horse.

  25. 25

    So the timeline shifted. Donald knew HE not just Hope Hicks was positive for 72 hours according to his own doctor.

    72 hours from when it was made public is is debate day. So did he know while on stage and STILL made fun of Joe wearing a mask?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    But it’s safe to say Donald had private fundraisers in MN and NJ and a rally in MN, was photographed without a mask near others all while knowing he was positive.

  26. 26

    @ 22

    a message (even one with a x rated picture) between two consenting adults is ok.

    This is the morality of a guy whose interpersonal relationships are anonymous, are conducted bareback over a garbage can behind a bar in a greasy alley, and last 5-10 minutes at the most.

    They might be consenting adults, gman, but unless each of their spouses also consent it is not OK.

  29. 29

    So now he’s trying to walk it back saying he meant “Day three of Treatment.”

    Which would be a weird way for a doctor to describe treatment as generally late Thursday night tonLate Friday night would be a day, sometime tonight would complete day 2, day three of treatment would commence about 72 hours after the first administration of treatment so….tonight into tomorrow?

    Doctor in Saturday early in the morning, How long have you been on the meds?

    “Since Thursday night”

    Doctor writes 36hrs or maybe two days in chart.

  30. 30

    @ 30

    The number of times what is said in conversation between medical personnel doesn’t match what’s written in the medical record is staggering.

    It’s why there’s a medical record – somewhere there’s an accurate account.

    If a physician is in front of a microphone, without a medical record, that physician’s recollection is all that’s available at the time, and memory is not perfect.

    Stick with show biz, Cz-252. Meanwhile, have your congressional representatives subpoena the physicians, and tell them to bring along their medical records.

  32. 32

    Remember what happened when John Ashcroft lost to a dead guy?

    He didn’t contest the election.

  34. 34

    @3 It’s been around for a long term, and I think that’s the guy who originated the concept and term. He used to have his own blog, but has gone quite, which makes me wonder if he’s still around.

  35. 35

    @9 “Out of an abundance of caution, … ”

    At first I thought you wrote, “Out of an ambulance of caution, …”

  36. 36

    @12 “North Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, a married father of two, sent text messages of a sexual nature to a woman who is not his wife, his campaign confirmed Friday night.”

    Does this fall in the category of concern trolling? I mean what Republican doesn’t do this? The less guilty ones are less guilty only because they’re between marriages.

  37. 37

    @15 “I guess the Hump and the Humpsters don’t like to live by rules, go figure.”

    That’s the very essence of Trumpism. It’s the heart of his platform. And who his hardest core supporters are.

  41. 41

    @19 “Dead people get to laugh? Who knew?!”

    We don’t expect you to know that. After all, you don’t know anything else.

  44. 44

    @30 In other words, what a doctor says and what’s in the record are two different things.

    Yeah, we’re familiar with that.

  46. 46

    @42 preaching morality and expressing a bit of jealousy, speaking of his dreams and fantasies.

    But I’m still trying to figure out how he gets the horse over a garbage can behind the bar in a greasy alley.

  47. 47

    Rog,

    I don’t want to upset the apple cart with this suggestion, but I think the Ave Blog would be more appealing if the font size was upped by 1px or 2px.

  48. 48

    Hey Bob, I just made a small donation to the Police Athletic League.

    How about you? Did you donate some sperm to the Horse today? Did you donate to OPEC and waste some gas in that speedboat?

  49. 49

    @47 Agree, but I don’t know how. It might be possible; I’ve been learning new website tricks as I go along. The problem is I have limited access and don’t have Steve’s site administrator password, so I don’t have access to the settings.

  51. 51

    @49 I was a “webmaster” Administrator (I was no master) for a non-profit organization which I may have mentioned here before. I created the website using one of the Website Builders, such as GoDaddy; it’s been 6-7 years so I forgot which company it was.

    Who is the company that you are using? Who is paying the annual fee? The person paying the annual fee for hosting should be able to get access to or reset the password, I would think.

  52. 52

    @50 that’s just bold. And not font size. But it is better than not bold.

    Are you using Tags or <Strong? to do that? Or are you using a canned program as an editor (for lack of better description of the hosting company software).

  53. 53

    https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font_size.asp

    But if you are using tags…..just change the heading size. “, or , or , ….etc., Having trouble showing you because, is it WordPress? is not letting me show the “<". (Restricted)

    but use h1, h2, h3, h4, etc. as one way or option

    But depending the way you are doing it, you may want to be careful, so that you aren't changing the heading or font size to full page versus the paragraph intended.

  54. 54

    I just looked at The Ave Blog Website, I see now that it is WordPress and free. But there should be a way to contact them and let them know of the situation. But there may not be nothing that can be done to get admin access in light of the passing of the Steve, and it being “personal property”

  55. 55

    @31 @46

    ‘I didn’t mean to say 72 hours I meant three days and 2 days is not 48 hours”

    The nonsensical walk back still puts Donald knowingly going to events while positive.

    How many of these are his high dollar donors

    Meanwhile none of this matches the narrative of rigorous testing of POTUS and close staff. The medical consensus is 2-3 days from you will see a positive result before any physical symptoms Though it’s possible there will be no symptoms at all. So how did Hope Hicks get sick on AF1 and no one knew she was positive? How Did McDonald become symptomatic, according to the official account, in less than 12 hours.

    And now we find out not only did the family refuse masks but Don showed up late to the debate and there was not time to test, as was agreed upon for the venue use and debate commission.

    I’m pretty out of sympathy. This MFer at every opportunity took every possible gamble. And then when he lost gambled that he would be 100% asymptomatic and put a whole lot of people at mortal risk AND gave all those people false assurances of his health so they had a sense of safety so attendees left and exposed more people….

    I assume Dumbfuck is saying he can hide behind HIPAA. See how saying no one has a right to know about his health info goes after the tax returns just blew up.

    One month left.

  57. 57

    @53 “but use h1, h2, h3, h4, etc. as one way or option”

    That’s what all those “test” words are. There’s 6 of them, and except for Headline 2, they all come out smaller.

    I just added a headline so you can open the test post and look.

  58. 58

    @54 It is indeed WordPress. If I log in and go to the dashboard, and click on “settings,” I get “Jetpack is powering your site, but to access all of its features you’ll need to create an account.” And there’s a “Create Account” button. I haven’t tried that yet. There’s also an option to create a WordPress account, but I don’t know if that would give me access to this specific site. I messed with setting up accounts because I’m nervous about screwing up the access I have now.

  60. 60

    Ron Johnson, R-WI Asshole, has it too. The Judiciary Committee is depleting fast.

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/ron-johnson-coronavirus/index.html

    “In God We Trust.” Remember that? Can somebody convince me that God is still on the GOP’s side? It looks to me like the True Believers now have only two choices about what to believe:

    [ ] God is not on their side, or
    [ ] God doesn’t exist,

    because they’re sure not getting much divine help right now.

  61. 61

    @55,
    What puny humans like you and other girly-men wimpy liberals just don’t understand is that it is virtually impossible for medical science to pin down when a titan of health and vigor like the Great and Powerful God-Emperor Trump becomes ill with a deadly virus. His is not a regular human mortal immune system.

    It is a Trump immune system.

    The Trump immune system routinely swats away Ebola and Small Pox as if they are mere nuisance.

    And the Trump physique and physical constitution far surpasses anything normal people are familiar with. Crippling maladies to you weaklings are only capable of producing mild discomfort in a Trump. How can we know if he’s ill? Because he shifts in his seat or momentarily winces?

    Your “questions” are irrelevant and meaningless. Can you know the mind of a God? Can you “diagnose” a Deity?

    MAGA!
    KAG!
    KOUGH!

  62. 62

    @57 yeah I saw that – I thought that the “test” were the different headings. Unfortunately they don’t appear any bigger or smaller relatively, as you indicate.

    I did a Domain name search. I can provide a link if you wish – I elect not to because it has Steves’ personal information, but anyone here can do what I did. so I can provide you with the link if you wish.

    But the hosting company is GoDaddy.com…..maybe if you call them they can help you gain access.

  63. 63

    @57 the link has some pertinent information. the Domain name will expire on 2026-01-05 (I believe that is January 5th). Typically there is an annual charge or every 2 or 3 year renewal. It might be paid up to 2026, but not necessarily, but probably. You should call them.

  64. 64

    @57 maybe not, but the access you have now may allow you to change the font size. If you can specify headings, but they don’t seem to be changing, or they are over ridden (not like Bob rides the horse) by other script, so maybe not.

    There is a WordPress for (you know what)..I’m too nice of a guy to use that word, especially towards someone who is a dummy.

    But Bob!? Now he’s a Dumbfuck!

  65. 65

    https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_font-size_px

    This might help….just be careful where you make any changes, it could change more of the site (area) than you want it to change.

    See if there is someway you can apply the information in the link to that test page you were linked to .

    In the link provided. The “Body” is what you are authoring…..the “Style” area is where the commands are that dictate what you web page will look like. Colors, Font Size, etc.

  66. 66

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what is jetpack wordpress&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS915US915&oq=what is jetpack wor&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l2.9445j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    This might help too. I’ve never used WordPress., so unfamiliar with it. I downloaded it tonight but still not sure how to install, but haven’t spent any additional time other than downloading it, for now.

  67. 67

    last comment – for now – so others don’t get burdened. But, after thinking about my comment @63 – I hate to say this with 100% certainty but it’s probably paid up to 2026, then will have to be renewed, or the site will “go dark”.

    And link @66 doesn’t work – just google “what is Jetpack WordPress”

  68. 68

    G-man: Contact Daryl at djholman@u.washington.edu and ask him to forward an email to me. Let’s take this conversation private. I might want to let you borrow my password.

    @67 Makes sense. He left 100 posts scheduled for future posting. The last ones are in 2026.

  72. 72

    In the 48 hours (officially) since the President first became symptomatic the White House Chief of Staff’s office still has not made any official communication to the 377 White House Office agency staff, hundreds of Secret Service agents (exact numbers classified), or the more than 2000 United States Marines detailed in support of the President, alerting them to the risk of deadly pandemic infection or offering them guidance and next steps to ensure their own safety and that of their families.

    All of these folks who daily serve the president anonymously have learned whatever they know by watching the news, and nothing more. There is no effort underway by the White House Office to assist any of them with testing or contact tracing. Calls continue to go unreturned.

    I’m sorry so many Republicans are sick. And I’m sorry that some of them may die. But that is no excuse for these people to be abandoning their responsibilities to the people who serve them.

    This is absolutely disgraceful and shameful conduct.
    These a pigs. These are pig people. Their only concern is for their own safety and their jobs and power. Every other human being is nothing more than furniture to them.

    No one need feel a moment’s regret or remorse over their suffering. Ever.

  74. 74

    Probably not helpful.

    Texas AG R-Paxton, already under indictment for Securities Fraud is now accused of bribery.

    One of the Whistleblowers is Paxton chief Deputy and Trump federal court Appointee (Withdrawn) Mateer.

    Watch this space.

  75. 75

    I can’t get real excited about polls when GOP legislatures are coiled to override government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but fwiw …

    Today:

    Florida – Biden +5
    Pennsylvania – Biden +7
    Missouri – Trump only +5

    Yesterday:

    Arizona – Biden +4
    Arizona Senate – Kelly +9

    Thursday:

    Georgia – Biden +2
    Iowa Senate – Joni Ernst down -13 points

    Most recent polls in key contests:

    Ohio – Biden +3.3
    Iowa – Biden +0.5
    Nevada – Biden +5.3
    Georgia – Biden +0.3
    Colorado – Biden +10
    NC Senate – Tillis down by -6 points
    Maine Senate – Collins down by 6.5 points

  76. 76

    “Now we’re sort of the stupid party”

    Ed Rollins, minutes ago.

  78. 78

    I find it very unusual or weird that we have a President that is in the hospital and we are getting very little in the form of updates on the situation. Possibly because print media isn’t covering it and it’s the weekend? I don’t watch TV – I haven’t watched TV in 4 years.

    If there was anything positive in its health you think they would be bragging about it.

  79. 79

    78,
    They can save him. And I think they will.

    But he’s going to require weeks if not months to recover.

    And the good news is he’ll finally lose the extra forty pounds he’s been battling for the last two decades.

  80. 80

    About Tom Tillis, he wore a mask and still got Covid. Looks like one of those N-95 masks. So much for the power of masking.

  81. 81

    Another person who wore a mask and got covid. Unfortunately she died.

    Before Bowling Green even had their first case of coronavirus, Rebecca was encouraging others to wear masks regularly and stay out of crowds.

    So what does that say about masks again assesHorse dummocretins?

    Seems Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi only wear them when it’s politically expedient

  82. 82

    80,
    Masking is not much use when Rapepublicans routinely rub their vaginas together and lick doorknobs, is it?

    Doctors and nurses get colds too. Amazing news, isn’t it? DOH!

    When the dust finally settles on this monumentally incompetent failure of yours, nobody in all of human history will have been more deserving of the immense suffering and defeat in store for you.

    They will build a monument. They will build it out of fetal tissue, broken mobility scooters, spent condom wrappers, and broken chunks of Stephen Bannon’s fake wall. They will hire all-foreign workers to build it and they will pay them prevailing wage. It will be paid for by huge new taxes on coal rollers and boat parades. The opening day ceremony will be accompanied by the swearing in of six new Supreme Court Associate Justices.

    And on that day as the cheers of joyous celebration rise up into the heavens the name “Trump” will not be heard.

    #youbuiltthat little guy. You really did.
    The imminent unfolding of “Satan’s Reign” you are about to witness is entirely the result of foolish, irrational, vainglorious decisions you made over and over again. We offered you President Pence. We offered it to you in time to avert the pandemic disaster.
    You did what you did. And you will live with the consequences in this life and in the next.

  83. 83

    24 hrs after Trump is publicly diagnosed with the fatal pandemic virus, there are still no protocols in place at the White House. Credentialed media visitors continue to report that masks are voluntary, temperatures are not taken, visitors are not screened for recent illness or symptoms, distancing is voluntary, sanitation supplies are entirely absent, hand shaking and even hugging remain routine.

    Nor are any protocols in place to provide response and testing for the thousands of employees who work in and visit the White House daily. No follow up screening. No contact tracing. No isolation. Nothing.

    These include the National Security Council and the NSC liaisons to the Joint Chiefs.

    Thanks to Rapepublicans the United States is right now more vulnerable than it has ever been.

  84. 84

    Masking is not much use when Rapepublicans routinely rub their vaginas together and lick doorknobs, is it?

    It’s only the beginning of the week, and that has to be the best quote of the week. Aside from funny, hopefully they can learn from it.

    And make that the #1 comment of the week.

    Let’s watch Bob put on the cheerleaders skirt.

  85. 85

    Eat Tu Mike DeWine?

    On what kind of notification he got that Donald and his staff brought Covid-19 to the debate hall and potentially infected Ohioans who worked at the venue

    “Well, (Team Donald) have not reached out to me. I know that I talked to the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic the other day who gave me an update, who gave me a report so I don’t know whether they have reached out to Cleveland Clinic or not. They have not talked to me about it, no,”

    But it’s OK. Mike declares a State Day if Prayer for the President’s health. What about the guys who had to break down the stage?

  86. 86

    Where Piddles doesn’t understand what the mask use does.

    It to protect others from you. If literally everyone did it there would be fewer transmissions.

    But if Tillis was breathed on by a not mask wearer, touched a door handle shortly after it was breathed on or worse coughed on by a non mask wearer, took a buffet spoon that was also handled by a non mask wearer….

    Sweet Jeebus, we’re six months into recommended mask wearing and you still don’t know a thing about why? Really, honest question, how stupid are you? How intellectually void?

    Your care for others and compassion is noted. Others are watching too if you’re right about the general meaning of life.

  87. 87

    84,
    Aw shucks, thanks.
    The Pudiot really deserves all the credit. He brings out my best work. Long may he rage.

  88. 88

    Trump now on massive doses of steroids suddenly grows silent about drug testing.

    But hasn’t stopped babbling about ears.

    #winning

  89. 89

    Following Trump’s most recent ‘Rona Rally in Duluth, three Rapepublican House members from Minnesota who had traveled round trip aboard the AF-1 plague plane then forced their way onto a commercial Delta flight back to Minneapolis despite having been exposed and being possible carriers.

    Stay away from Rapepublicans. They are a manifest danger.
    They violently grab genitals, they steal everything in sight, and they are all dripping with deadly germs.

  90. 90

    @89 – Steal everything in sight? They have that in common with Black Looters Matter.

  91. 91

    Alternatively, or possibly better than no mask, if you don’t want to wear a mask just keep the your mouth closed and don’t breathe on people. You don’t want to wear a mask then at least shut the trap

  92. 92

    One massive of SWING of the reality bat and the trolls are too FUCKED UP!

    It’s not just drumpf and its miserable family who is going down.. Look at all those miserable sicko-phants at those ‘rona rallies and those whitey house suck-up fests.. Maskless, brainwashed into believing they’re so privileged, entitled, above it all – gloating about their miserable “victories”..

    The Biden-Drumpf debate was too funny.. One side of the audience was Dem – masked up, clued into reality. The other half the repukes walked in with masks (mostly) but almost all of them took the masks off once they seated. They didn’t want to offend orange dear leader..

    SMACK DOWN! How’s that for an October surprise? REALITY!

  94. 94

    48 hours.

    That’s how long it took Trump Pence 2020 to give New Jersey Health officials the attendance list of the potential superspreader fundraiser so they could begin contact tracing.

    Utter failure on every level.

  96. 96

    @83 The place will need thorough fumigating in January before the new occupants can move in.

  97. 97

    @80 & @81 Puddy has finally attained pork sauce’s level of incoherence, i.e., too stupid to be worth the effort of a reply. See @86 for details.

  98. 98

    Here’s another view of the Rose Garden fiasco.

    http://handbill.us/wp-content/.....0c1306.jpg

    The only safe person in that crowd was Amy Comey Barrett, because she’s already had it.

    Special note to Pudiot: Check out the social distancing of the two mask-wearing senators in the second row on the left.

  100. 100

    @90

    So if I see a Republican and shoot him dead I have to do is say, “I was protecting my property” or “I felt my life was in danger” and you will pump millions into my GoFundMe legal defense page?

  101. 101

    @94 They’re so disorganized they probably couldn’t have done it faster if they wanted to, but they probably didn’t want to, either.

  102. 102

    I’m beginning to think they intend to kill off as many Americans as possible so they can have his country to themselves, then they’ll bring in 100 million Mexicans to do the work 200 million dead Americans are no longer doing.

  103. 103

    There’s a rumor that at the event they were serving GOP hopes for Winning Wisconsin on little cocktail forks.

    U.S. Senator Ron Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday. But, after finding out he had the virus, which has killed more than 220,000 Americans to date, the Wisconsin Republican still chose to attend an Oktoberfest fundraising dinner that evening.

    Johnson, who didn’t reveal his diagnosis until Saturday, justified his behavior in comments to the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times by saying he only took his mask off when it was time to address the crowd. He also insisted that he was “at least 12 feet from anybody” during his speech at the event, which was sponsored by the Ozaukee County Republican Party.

  105. 105

    Over at Cook Political Report they’ve taken notice of a trend in the WSJ/NBC polling

    Biden’s fav/unfav:
    1/20 = -10
    8/20= -6
    9/20 = -2
    10/20 = +2

    They had a strategy of painting Joe Biden as an extremist who is also corrupt and a feeble old man.

    Now Trump the candidate is unmasked as a tax evader and could drop dead soon.*

    *Not wishing for this. Most of us want him to live through the humiliation of losing but if you don’t accept this as a possibility (probability?) you are lying to yourself. At his age, even if he pulls through this immediate illness the odds of him dying from some other complication related to Covid Infection in the next two years is what the insurance industry calls ‘unacceptable risk’.

  106. 106

    @102

    Are you sure there are 200 million Americans who actually work for a living?

  107. 107

    90,
    Ah sonny boy, you should hold yourself to a higher standard.

    Your fellow Rapepublicans certainly do.

    Duncan Hunter stole hundreds of thousands. Defense Industry share holders lost millions to him. Brad PubeBeard McWifeBeater stole more than $24 million from Trump2020. Kolfage and Bannon stole tens of millions from credulous mouth breathing dupes like you.

    When it comes to stealing, nobody surpasses Rapepublicans.

    And whenever your ready, Shortbus, we can get into what Rapepublicans have burned to the ground in the last few years. The $17 trillion in household equity you destroyed as “W” was slipping out the White House back door is pretty hard to surpass. But Trump is giving him a run for his money.

    You’re a fucking disgrace.

    You really are.

  108. 108

    @106 The pre-Covid workforce was 164.6 million. I left some room for future economic growth in my capacity planning, as any competent CEO would do.

  110. 110

    The Rose Garden Casualty List is now 8, up from 6, and in other news:

    “Saying their fight for justice is not over, attorneys for Breonna Taylor’s family asked the governor of Kentucky to appoint a new special prosecutor to reopen the case and slammed state Attorney General Daniel Cameron for ‘intentionally’ not presenting homicide charges against three white officers who fatally shot the 26-year-old Black woman in her own apartment. …

    “‘Unfortunately, Cameron did not serve as an unbiased prosecutor in this case and intentionally did not present charges to the grand jury that would have pursued justice for Ms. Taylor,’ reads the letter addressed to Beshear and posted online by attorneys for Taylor’s family.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys-breonna-taylors-family-kentucky-governor-appoint-special/story?id=73418515

    Hell, Cameron didn’t present any charges against the officers for Taylor’s death, not even reckless endangerment; he sided with the cops from the beginning and pretended to go through the motions. And then tried to lay it at the feet of the grand jury, which pissed off a juror enough to go to an attorney and blow his cover story for him.

  111. 111

    94,
    They’re still radio silent to the DC health authorities.
    White House Office employs, schedules, and/or oversees thousands of folks who all live in the DC metro area.

    They just don’t give a shit.

  112. 112

    Latest poll shows Biden’s nationwide lead doubled after debate to 14 with Trump now down around 39% and that’s before his lordship’s immunity to Covid-19 was divinely revoked.

  113. 113

    Trump will get his Supreme Court nominee on the Court. That’s sounds for sure.

    But look on the bright side – there’s a good chance Biden will win in November.

  115. 115

    113,
    Dude. It was never a question of “if”.

    The only question ever was “at what cost”.

    Cha-ching, motherfuckers!

    GOP is like that father of the bride having just now heard the expression “Destination Wedding” for the first time. Do not plan your retirement any time soon, fool.

  116. 116

    Donald released his twitter video today.

    I learned a lot about Covid. I learned it by really going to school. This is real school. This isn’t the let’s read the books school.”

    Holy shit. You haven’t been learning as much as you can about Covid since fucking JANUARY?!

    And you admitted it?

    You know that 3/4 of Americans have been googling about Covid constantly and you with your staff and briefing books and super genius intellect are just now realizing it’s bad?

  117. 117

    116,
    If he survives this, in another year or two he’ll be learning about rape the same way.

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