I am starting to run out of stuff that I can’t replace at Pike Place Market or the corner store. I am currently eating some toast with the last of the Marmite. And I am nearly out of my favorite hot sauce. Both of these are things that I would pick up at the World Market, but it’s closed. I know that I could probably get these things online, but I would prefer not to have delivery people come into the building — that has elderly and immunocompromised people — just so I can get my preferred spread or hot sauce when others are available.
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Coronavirus is also closing meat processing plants.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-meat-plants-are-closing-as-workers-get-sick/amp/
They say its nothing to worry about. We need universal testing asap.
Well Carl, what is your favorite hot sauce? If I haven’t already tried it, I’d like to give it a go.
The reason Batman doesn’t cover his whole face is because he needs the police to know he’s white.
Steve sure as fuck did, too.
Sanders — And The Media — Learned The Wrong Lessons From Trump In 2016
I’ve got news for Steve. Bernie was wrong about the Democratic establishment.
He’s wrong about the GOP, too. Just look at who the fuck you’re gonna nominate if something doesn’t change, and right quick.
Goldy, 2017-2019: Trump is gonna do something draconian, just you wait and see.
Goldy, 2020: Trump wasn’t draconian enough.
@ 3
The reason Batman doesn’t cover his whole face is because he needs the police to know he’s white.
Couldn’t he just dispense with the codpiece, then, to minimize any confusion?
@ 1
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron burnishes his cred.
Any idea how much pork is already frozen but still in the US, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron?
On this Good Friday, maybe untwist your panties just a bit. You’ve cut off circulation to your peabrain.
Do we have a new troll who’s dumb as a post…yes.
Sure, that vast stretch of land somewhere between Ennis and Big Springs. Build a whole community out there. What are the job prospects for say 2,000 families? Commute on HWY87 to the Lick A Dee Lube or sling Eggs and Cocktails at the Bowling Alley Bistro?
I say that as someone who loves the idea of living in Cle Elem or Ronald and if WA ever did build the high speed rail that could get me to Seattle in an hour, I’m gone! But gas and 2-2.5 hours one way anytime I need to meet a client doesn’t pencil out.
Somebody went from agrarian Pioneer history straight to Software telecommuter and skipped the middle parts in History/Social Studies.
@3 Good point. People of color, with the rest of us, are told to wear masks in public — then threatened when they do.
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/video-police-illinois-black-men-face-masks-walmart-coronavirus/
I wonder how many people are going to be shot for Wearing A Mask While Black?
https://www.cbs46.com/news/why-some-people-of-color-say-they-wont-wear-homemade-masks/article_bfd00ac8-7a95-11ea-ac6b-2b1bd1f1035a.html
” … [A] sociologist whose work focuses on racism and culture, said the inflamed racial politics in this country make it difficult for the government to expect universal compliance with any health guidance.”
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10888886-181/two-black-men-say-they
@6
Weird how when Dumbfuck was a little boy he was staring at the crotch of the Superheroes in the comic books.
Never did measure up, eh son?
From Obama’s CDC Director:
NY could’ve reduced coronavirus deaths by 80% if it acted sooner, ex-CDC director says
Add this to the NYT piece faulting Cuomo and deBlasio for their failure to act promptly, libbies.
There will be plenty of blame to go around, when all of this is said and done.
Bill deBlasio, like The Chardonnay Lady, will never, ever be president.
Between Bernie and the CPAC Virus body pile, the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate are now including basic income, student loan forgiveness, universal healthcare, and $15 min in every package they will be willing to vote on.
Conservatives have lost. Again.
Let us recap:
Even in the time of TrumPlague and “Hands up, Don’t shoot,” I can go to my nearest public park and burn a US flag;
I can say “Fuck You” to any cop I see whenever I like;
I can take hundreds of thousands of dollars and all my costs from local taxpayers if they are ever so foolish as to chant superstitious prayers to invisible sky buddies in my local public schools;
I can buy an abortion online for about $40;
Rule 34 – I can download any kind of porn imaginable;
We have atheists in the US Senate;
The vast majority of Americans believe that ensuring access to minimum health care is a government responsibility;
The NRA has collapsed upon itself;
Even president RapeHero is considering a female running mate;
More than 100 women won House seats in the 2018 mid terms;
Half of newly elected Senate members were women;
42 of 101 newly elected Representatives were women;
Republicans now routinely demand new deficits in each budget cycle, enthusiastically voting their way past appropriation limits;
All mail voting will soon be the norm in most US states and every large state;
Rush Limbaugh will be dead in less than 12 months.
And so on….
The leading candidate to challenge Governor Inslee for the GOP has to come up with a quarter million give or take in a month or risk full asset seizure.
Remember when Dumbfucknused to brag about the deep GOP bench?
Maybe he can run to the left of Jay as an advocate for the homeless.
@4 “Just look at who the fuck you’re gonna nominate if something doesn’t change, and right quick.”
That’s nothing! You should see who your tribe nominated and elected, and will re-elect if you can, despite overwhelming evidence of massive corruption and incompetence.
You’re in no position to criticize anyone else’s nominee, dumbfuck. People who build glass houses shouldn’t go around throwing rocks. Someone might think you’re a vandal.
The Lord could send Her angels to the earth to clean up this place, and if Democrats nominated one of them, Doctor Dumbfuck would call her “awful” and vote for Satan’s emissary.
So would Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., and Tony Spell.
I suspect that at some point God will run out of patience and sue all of them for trademark infringement and disparagement.
Also NY Times today heaping praise on Jay Inslee’s quick response and Washington’s current handle in the virus.
Makes you wonder if Chamber of Commerce and
Master Builders Association and Wa Hospitality (Formerly Wa Restaurant Industry Association) Would have had the ear of a Governor McKenna after bankrolling his political career for decades and prioritized profits over lives?
@6 Trump wears one to hide what he hasn’t got.
@8 If high speed rail connected Ronald or Cle Elum to Seattle, Ronald and Cle Elum would become crowded and expensive suburbs of Seattle.
Meanwhile, 6th grade dropouts who never took a civics class flaunt maps of “red counties” and make demands that the 2,000 people living in Redneck County have more say in choosing our presidents than the 2,000,000 people living in Seattle and its urban surroundings.
@18
Yup, but by then I’d be retirement age and I could move to some quiet lake property somewhere between Whitefish and Shelby.
But yeah, the plenty of land theory breaks down pretty quickly.
@10 My thoughts, too. See #17.
@11 “There will be plenty of blame to go around, when all of this is said and done.”
Here we have Dumbfuck playing his dishonest false equivalency games again. Yes, it’s evident there will be much deserving blame. And there’s not a shred of doubt about who will deserve most of it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-spy-agencies-collected-raw-intel-hinting-public-health-n1180646
Elections have consequences, and one of the consequences of electing Republicans is that good people die.
Nixon expanding the Vietnam war.
G. W. Bush asleep at the switch before 9/11.
Trump turning a blind eye and deaf ear to coronavirus warnings.
Voting Republican is taking your life in your hands.
11 & 21
The initial blame belongs to the Chinese Communist Party and its members’ egos.
@12 “The NRA has collapsed upon itself”
Yep, I’ve noticed that working for the NRA doesn’t exactly guarantee job or income security.
https://www.newsweek.com/national-rifle-association-covid-19-wayne-lapierre-1493853
@22
But who’s the bigger fuckup?.
The person who confronted something new and handled it awfully?
Or the Person who comes next, has piles of data to consider a case scenario to look at, a playbook suggesting how to deal with it and chooses to play golf and hold rallies and insists it’s a political plot against him?
(This is where millennia of parenting tells the Toddlers, “Two wrongs…)
@22 Too bad our leadership isn’t any smarter than yours. Both the Chinese people and American people deserve better — the majority of us, anyway. Both countries have undemocratic governments appointed by small numbers of people against the wishes of majorities of their citizens.
That wasn’t dumbfuckery. That was just fucking stupid.
Strikes me that you having your treasonous noggin up Putin’s ass for the last four years has fucked with your mind, Doctor.
Corona virus has claimed the life of the “All Praise Donald we won’t have any kneelers! FLAG! MERCA!” game.
Cz-252, are you as happy about all of the newly opened restaurants that had to close and won’t re-open as a result of the virus? Or just the ones that seem more GOP-affiliated?
Is your glee at the folding of the XFL due in part to your desire that the NFL’s monopoly continue, Cz-252?
@ 26
Having Trump as your president has definitely fucked with yours, Steve. Seek help.
You’d have our response to a pandemic threat be predicated on the actions or lack thereof of the President of the PRC? Republicans would have us all place our lives, our safety, and our economic stability into the hands of foreign dicatators?
Why that is unprecedented!
Oh, wait. No. I guess it isn’t actually.
Republicans are not cut out for this work.
“Having Trump as your president has definitely fucked with yours, Steve. Seek help.”
More stupidity. What a fucking bore.
The bottom fell out of Starbucks traffic.
McDonald’s was prescient.
@28
Just pointing out that Vince McMahon is a shitty investor.
It’s probably better this way for him. The league was seeing week by week TV and attendance drop offs and he would have kept the cash flowing for a few more seasons but he got the chance to pull the plug.
Republicans are not cut out for this work.
We might debate how well Republicans are capable of responding to a booming economy without a killer pandemic sweeping the globe. I think such a debate is pointless. But some people seem to think this “Supply Side” orthodoxy crap could work under perfect circumstances.
But slashing government spending right now is not going to be something most voters will agree is a good approach when they see the effects. Gutting police and fire agencies, closing prisons, closing public schools, slashing support for battered and abused children, closing parks and libraries, closing courts and public buildings, canceling transportation projects, and firing huge numbers of public employees is something that would alarm the fuck out of most voters and most consumers right now.
Yet that is precisely what GOP economic chiefs are calling for and what Moscow Mitch and House Republicans hope to pull off in the next year or two, if they are allowed. If president RapeHero is reelected and can gain control of the House that is exactly what they will do. They will premise it as a “responsible remedy” for recovery. It will be the US version of the austerity disaster that unfolded in most of the EU following the last GOP Recession. And the 25 million unemployed that the GOP created last month will soon become 50 million unemployed.
Republicans don’t know anything else. They’ve been stuck on Supply Side Stoopid for so long now it has become a reflex. And if they are allowed to, they will push the US into another Great Depression.
Republicans are not cut out for this work.
Doctors/Medical experts. ‘Masks should be discarded often and never reused and we’re running out of masks.”
Donald, More experter “We have plenty of masks and are working on how they can be cleaned and re-used. I’m doing great.”
18,000 > 15
@26 “That wasn’t dumbfuckery. That was just fucking stupid.”
It isn’t even that. It’s trolling. It’s baiting. And you’re the fish he’s hoping to hook.
The Dumbfuck is here for only one reason: The entertainment he gets from getting a rise out of us.
I play along because it’s so much fun to kick him back.
Rush Limbaugh will be dead in less than 12 months.
And so on….
and pos rapey mdimfuk’s demise due to stroke or heart failure is only a few maryk donations to liberal causes away..
My kids won’t celebrate or mourn. Can’t celebrate or mourn about anyone they’ve never knew existed.
@32 So what? I paid $1.10 a share for my Starbuck’s stock, and last year’s dividends were $1.44 a share, so there’s no possible way for me to lose money on SBUX. Otoh, you haven’t made any money on VAR for, oh, several years now.
From previous thread
151. Again criticism without solutions.
are you advocating endless unmitigated sprawl? Are you willing to pay for more roads public transportation infrastructure traffic jams environmental degredation global warming? Can you get everyone else to vote for that? Are you factoring in the benefits of density allows as mentioned in 152?
@34 I think there are certain narrowly-defined situations where carefully tailored and targeted* supply-side policies can result in a net increase of economic output. For example, a capital-starved economy in which demand outstrips supply and suppliers can’t expand output due to a general shortage of capital; then, policies designed to increase savings rates, etc., if done right, may raise economic growth, expand supplies of goods and services, and reduce inflationary price pressures caused by shortages.
But applying a supply-side “solution” to every economic problem is like prescribing the same pill for every ailment, or painting a picture with only one color.
*And then there’s the fact that Republicans aren’t capable of tailoring and targeting anything, and aren’t careful about anything, in any situation. Adding this ineptness to Republican dogmatism, you get Supply Side Stoopid. Every. Fucking. Time.
“The Dumbfuck is here for only one reason”
The doctor’s problem is, having crossed what Elijah calls the Orange Event Horizon, the closer he gets to the orange singularity, instead of spaghettification he seems to be experiencing something akin to stupidification.
@42 He does seem caught in a mental death spiral from which there’s no escape. Also has an HA addiction. Better HA than opioids, I guess.
39,
Besides being well paid for your investment, you can also feel good about it. They haven’t let anyone go regardless of whether they continue to work or not. SBUX employees have all kept their benefits too. It’s a good company run by good people. They realize that once we get past the initial TrumPlague peak and people begin to return to work many of their competitors will struggle to fill shifts and attract new hires.
Companies like McDonalds who force their employees to work in crowded unsanitary conditions without protection or any other options will lose both employees and customers. Why in GAWAD’s name would anybody buy food from a place so filthy the employees are afraid to work there?
Speaking of stocks, if Doctor Dumbfuck’s orange moron was a stock, technical analysis his stock chart would be screaming “SELL!”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/public_approval_of_president_trumps_handling_of_the_coronavirus-7088.html
40,
Rural trailerbillies get it precisely backward.
Density is a consequence, not a cause.
These stupid fucks think that intensive development of underlying land resource is public policy rather than a consequence of market forces.
The public policy is adequate transportation, good schools, abundant water resources, publicly owned utilities, well trained and well equipped emergency services, and ample investments in infrastructure. Those public policies attract private investments which in turn drive up land values. Intensity of development is in direct proportion to the value of the land.
There’s nothing out there in rural America because stoopid, lazy, ignorant, self-harming greed-head klownsurvaturds refuse to make any public investment in anything. All they ever manage to do is periodically perform begging-bowl stunts at state capitals with convoys of farm tractors, logging trucks, and dump trucks.
But Trump has introduced The New Federalism. So now trailerbillies will just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, fix their own fucking potholes and extinguish their own tire fires. The 80% of Americans who live in metros are cutting off their allowance.
Nearly 2000 Americans will die today who would not have died otherwise, but for the decision that 63 million Republican voters made after listening to their candidate confess to a lengthy history of violent sexual assaults against women.
Twenty five million Americans are out of work today who would not otherwise be out of work, but for the decision that 63 million Republican voters made after listening to their candidate confess to a lengthy history of violent sexual assaults against women.
Fifty million Americans who otherwise would have retired on time, will now have to work additional years for their retirement because of the decision that 63 million Republican voters made after listening to their candidate confess to a lengthy history of violent sexual assaults against women.
Maybe Republicans are good at something.
But this ain’t it.
Republicans are not cut out for this work.
@46 “There’s nothing out there in rural America because [they] refuse to make any public investment in anything.”
I wouldn’t say there’s “nothing” in rural America. There’s junk. Drive through rural America and you’ll see abandoned cars and trash piles littering every 5-acre plot. Rural America is ugly. They live like pigs.
@47 “Maybe Republicans are good at something.”
Nothing I can think of. Like an infectious disease, they corrupt everything they touch.
Don’t worry what Trump, GOP governors, or team owners do, or fail to do; the free market will take care of this:
“Spectator sports pondering a comeback in the coronavirus era got a harsh reality check in a new poll indicating that most fans will stay away. In a Seton Hall University survey published Thursday, 72% of Americans said they would not attend games until a vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is developed. Only 13% said they would feel safe to attend under any circumstances, while 12% would go only if some form of social distancing was practiced.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poll-sports-fans_n_5e907e17c5b6cac1e8127ef5
48,
They don’t believe in collective recycling or public sanitation. So whenever something either breaks, wears out, or they get tired of it, it goes “out the back” and into a pile. Eventually every such pile earns its own blue tarp weighed down with old tires.
Beyond land, structures, and an appalling abundance of “project” vehicles, this is their family “inheritance”.
Speaking of rural, by this time in 2016 if you needed to be on the highway to the Eastern half of the state along I-90 you would have seen many fairly large MAGA signs along farm fences and if you wandered off the highway more in yards. One in particular right about Thorp that was yuge.
So last Saturday out of sheer boredom loaded the kids over to Yakima to wave and visit from a distance with their cousins. Wanna know how many MAGA signs I saw? None. Not a single one. The subdivision we visited that’s a hotbed of MAGA and the water is “free” because it’s still in the irrigation zone and everyone’s lawn is green in the desert thanks to socialism? Zero MAGA signs.
Hey dumbfuck. I wonder if that Bar-B-Que joint in Cle Elem that has had “Thank you President Trump” on their sign for the last 3.5 years is open? Nope…died sometime in 2018. Maybe the tax cut let them just stop working?
@50
Was listening to a podcast, shoutout to Edge of Sports and Dave Zirin!, about the economics of sport going forward. At some point the NFL will restart. And the NBA. Both have very large TV contracts and could conceivably play in empty stadiums and still be profitable.
The tough ones are Hockey and MLS since their TV deals are pretty small and a huge part of league revenue is gate receipts.
Added pressure the big three, MLB, NBA, NFL the owners are largely independently billionaires for whom an NFL team is a plaything not a primary income stream. That’s not necessarily the case with NHL, rare with MLS and not at all in NWSL.
Though I’d wonder about who are the “fans” in the poll. Are they season ticket holders, 2-3 baseball games a year? “Die-Hard” 12s who have never set foot in Century Link? Looks like they polled “Americans”. there’s an old CNBC poll that says only 34% of American’s spend money on Pro Sports in their entertainment budgets. so down from about 1/3 to 1/4 post Corona so it’s probably not as bad as it seems.
Here in the far west, after Washington, it’s more rural states that lead in TrumPlague infections. Tops after Washington come Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.
LDS connection? Or just ignorant trailerbillies mindlessly killing themselves with too many trips to WalMart and choir practice? You be the judge!
@51 Beyond land,
structuresdeteriorating manufactured homes, and an appalling abundance of “project” vehicles, this is their family “inheritance”.ftfy
@53 Superbugs aside, think what am attractive nuclear target a fan-packed stadium is. Oops, they already made a movie about that.
53,
With box sales having become a big part of the stadium finance packages I think more than a few cities and their taxpayers may take a beating.
As individuals we engage in very different risk calculation when compared to business. Plenty of individual fans might decide they are comfortable wearing a mask and heading to the cheap seats to cheer on their beloved team.
But does the client really want to attend a game in the vendor’s luxury box and have that drunken sales rep spitting in his face for five hours? Who cares if the beer is free? Nobody is wearing a mask or practicing social distancing in those boxes. Box sales could plummet. And without the box sales the stadium authorities have to turn to the taxpayers for a bailout.
Another day, another dotard….
When asked what metric Donald would use to decide to reopen (pssst… He can’t order governors to open their states…state’s rights or something) he pointed to his cottage cheese filled nogin, “This is the only thing I’ve got.”
Antibiotics. For a virus. The germ went to University?
“Antibiotics used to solve every problem and now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten to brilliant that the anti-antibiotic can’t keep up with it.”
This makes perfect sense to pos rapey mcdimfuk because…
that bitch..
Sunset is at 7:52 pm..
We gonna have a countdown???
That was the best… A stream of babbling bibble babble from the babbling butthole and then..
peace…
We’ll check back later.
@47. They were pissed that the black man was measurably better than they were, and the strong woman too. They didn’t care that the to be impeached miserable failure was flawed, terribly flawed. They knew all that when they voted for him anyway. They wanted desperately to believe lies he specifically told and the lies republican told in general. That he would restore their power and privilege over the Others they hated. He would make the Others suffer more than them. They could be greedy assholes with immunity. They didn’t have to give a fuck. That’s why they voted for him.
@40 – For the record in case i wasn’t obvious was reversed in the blockquote text
I guess if you can get to liking a blue tarp, to cover the hole in you roof, as a new look on your trailer or shack as a fashion statement then that’s subjective.
I can’t believe I didn’t use any commas @62.
It should have read – For the record, in case it wasn’t obvious, @40 was reversed in the blockquote text.
I don’t know if any of you are fans of “Ozark” on Netflix, but I just finished Season 3 of the series, and it was the best yet! Lots of good twists and turns in the plot, with the relationship between Marty and Wendy going through some crazy machinations. I am impressed with the actor that portrays Ruth, the curly-haired blond. She’s a pistol, no doubt about it!
8
Cle Elm/Ronald/Roslyn are an hour and a half from Seattle.
IF it takes you 2 1/2 hours, you should probably turn in your license.
https://www.facebook.com/617401698339835/posts/2854798014600181/?vh=e&d=n
This little (Italian) girl is smarter than the American President and 62 million other Americans.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
718,725Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124@66. Obviously someone who has never commuted from Seattle to Roslyn on a daily basis.
@66 “Cle Elm/Ronald/Roslyn are an hour and a half from Seattle.”
Sounds like you’ve never driven it during commuter hours. Or winter. Or Memorial Day, Labor Day, or any summer weekend, or when there were construction delays, or a blocking accident.
“A group of international vacationers who flew from London to the south of France in a private jet were turned away by French police after they landed. … The passengers, seven men between the ages of 40 and 50 and three women who were ‘around 25,’ were heading to Cannes ….”
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/private-jet-turned-back-cannes-france/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Should read “seven men between the ages of 50 and 50 and three women ‘around 25’ who were not their wives …”
Apparently “batches” of absentee ballots for Wisconsin’s primary were not delivered by the postal service in time for the election.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/politics/absentee-ballots-postal-service-wisconsin/index.html
Thank the five conservatives on the Supreme Court for taking away the voting rights of these citizens that in some cases they fought for and/or their relatives died for on distant battlefields.
@70
There’s also a pass and seasonal wild cards.
Next time a troll tries to blame this on Obama, shove this video up his ass.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/10/barack-obama-2014-pandemic-comments-sot-ctn-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/
That was in 2014. He said “five to ten years.” It was six.
I heard there’s no PPE shortage and Doctors and RNs are just saying that to get on TeeVee because everyone wants to be on the TeeVee and ratings are great.
Partial List of Republican Clusterfucks That Cost American Lives
Nixon’s “secret plan to end the Vietnam War”: ~21,000
Bush43’s failure to heed 9/11 warnings: ~3,000
Bush43’s war against the wrong country: ~4,400
Trump’s ineffectual response to Hurricane Maria: Who knows?
Trump’s failure to heed Covid-19 warnings, lack of preparedness, and incompetent crisis management: 18,000 and counting
Trump’s Covid-19 clusterfuck is not only the mother of all clusterfucks, it’s on track to stack up more bodies than all of his GOP predecessors’ clusterfucks combined.
69,
Knows it has reached Seattle when it sees the first person driving while reading.
How d’ya like that Trump ad portraying Gary Locke as a Chinese official?
Trump isn’t just a gutter liar, he’s a creative gutter liar!
Better start figuring out now what you’ll do if the U.S. Postal Service doesn’t survive, because Trump doesn’t want it to.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/postal-service-funding_n_5e90ce94c5b672672149db2b