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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 4/29/20, 8:04 am

I forgot who, but someone said that shopping online at Pike Place Market was easy. It was not. At least for me. Each store had its own website or you had to call. Some places you still had to go in to. Still, it was good to have much of it done ahead of time.

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  1. 1

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:29 am

    Any time now Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s gonna be online telling us about his big gain in the single Google share he owns.

    It’s been a nice ride back up in the past month or so, from the financial doldrums. I’d like to personally express my gratitude to YLB’s kids for funding it.

  2. 2

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:35 am

    Thank you for freeing up Joe Lieberman for his last Senate term, Markos. Nobody orchestrates third-party runs better than you do.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Markos Moulitsas✔
    @markos
    Justin Amash is a hard-core conservative who just happens to believe that Trump doesn’t meet any minimal standards of human decency and leadership. Why do people think he would take votes from Biden? Libertarians always take votes from the GOP.

    2m

  3. 3

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:37 am

    @1 By what percentage has your dividend income increased during the “nice ride back up”?

    This is, of course, a rhetorical question.

  4. 4

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:38 am

    Cut their benefits. Problem solved.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Darcy Burner✔
    @DarcyBurner
    Just my opinion, but it seems like explicitly running on a platform of “we will make sure your local police & courts & road maintenance people keep getting paid because it’s stupid to bankrupt state & local governments right now” might be a winner.

    13h

  5. 5

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:42 am

    Varian Medical Systems:

    Feb. 12, 2020: 147.38
    Apr. 29, 2020: 114.04

    “Nice ride back up”

  6. 6

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:43 am

    Dumbfuck

    “November 2020

    The party of Whistling past the graveyard and sexual assault vs the party of ‘maybe he did’ “ or words to that effect.

    Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared Florida a coronavirus success story, and on Tuesday, he brought that message to the White House for an audience of national reporters and President Donald Trump.

    The scene made for compelling mid-day television for Fox News, which aired long segments of their Oval Office meeting. Here was DeSantis, one of Trump’s closet allies, explaining how Florida had bucked experts and the virus without clashing with the president, as other governors, including some Republicans, had done. DeSantis took aim at those governors for what he called their “draconian orders” and at the national media that projected Florida would fare worse than most anywhere in the country.

    …

    While DeSantis spoke in Washington, there was grim news back home: Florida reported its deadliest day in the two months since the outbreak began.

    The news was a reminder that even success will be marked by the number of people who leave hospitals in body bags.

    Tampa Bay Times

  7. 7

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:45 am

    @4 Darcy Burner hugs rabbits. You fuck horses.

    Democrats and Republicans aren’t the same.

  8. 8

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:48 am

    Only one party actively wants you to die.

    Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-It’sJustTheFlu) announces that on reopening of state by her decree anyone who does not return to work is considered ‘voluntary quit’ and not eligible for unemployment.

    “So if you are in a high risk category for death if you contact coronavirus, get you ass to work or starve. Fuck you for being poor. And Fuck your preExisting condition. On further reflection, just Fuck you” Kim Reynolds, or words to that effect.

  9. 9

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:49 am

    @6 Those deaths are from the lockdown phase. The DeSantis body count will start showing up in early June.

  10. 10

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:55 am

    Gee, remind me again why we started talking about Varian in the first place, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    Perhaps it was contextual. In comparison with something else, no?

  11. 11

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:58 am

    How many people infected in NY died in FL, I wonder?

  12. 12

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:11 am

    @8 I’m pretty sure Iowa, like other states, has laws that don’t require workers to accept unreasonably dangerous work, and the governor can’t change or suspend these laws by fiat. E.g.,

    “a.(1) In determining whether or not any work is suitable for an individual, the department shall consider the degree of risk involved to the individual’s health, safety, and morals, …”

    (From Iowa’s unemployment insurance statute.)

    But you’re right about the GOP’s platform: To take extreme risks with workers’ lives in order to reopen the economy. We now see Republican politicians, Fox talking heads, and the entire constellation of rightwing hangers-on closing ranks around this theme.

    Of course, it’s not their lives they’re risking, just as they don’t risk their own lives when they start wars. It’s hard to imagine a more repulsive group of human beings; mass and serial killers, but that’s about it. Republicans are only one rung up from them.

  13. 13

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:12 am

    “Cut their benefits. Problem solved.”

    Try and execute treasonous radiologists and take all their money and give it to “local police & courts & road maintenance people”. Problem solved.

  14. 14

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:17 am

    @ 13

    Looks like the medical cuts have already been made, Steve.

    Justin Wolfers
    @JustinWolfers
    ·
    3h
    This is stunning: Nearly half of the Q1 decline in GDP can be attributed to healthcare, which is presumably delaying of elective procedures.

    It’s a strange reality that in the midst of a pandemic, we have a healthcare-led recession.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:24 am

    @11 How many spring breakers who got infected on Florida beaches died in NY, MA, MI, WI, OH, and other states, I wonder?

  16. 16

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:25 am

    @10 To the best of my recollection, you mentioned that you own Varian (why else would we be talking about it?), in the context of bragging about how well it has done.

    And, yes, this is about comparing Varian to, say, Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson raising their dividends by 6% or more last week.

  17. 17

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:32 am

    @13 I’ve never met a Republican who believes public servants should be paid for their work. At least they’re consistent; they don’t believe private sector workers should be paid for their work, either.

  18. 18

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:34 am

    de Blasio is being called an anti-Semite right now, for an ill-considered tweet sent last night. I won’t bother linking, ’cause Cz-252.

    The tweet didn’t make him an anti-Semite; he was already that. But the tweet distracts from the disaster that was de Blasio in late February and early March.

    Bill de Blasio is a failed leader. He told people to go out there and get infected.

  19. 19

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:35 am

    @14 Isn’t it nice to know you work in a profession that just lost half of its revenues, and will lose the other half if people like you advocating benefit cuts get their way?

    Doctors, like barrels of oil, are about to go from shortage to an excess surplus nobody knows where to store.

    There are only so many 5-acre horse farms on Whidbey Island.

  20. 20

    Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:36 am

    Now the Democrats and Republicans are fighting about liability for employers when workers start returning to work. Folks, the people liable for this whole damn thing are the members of the leadership of the Communist Chinese Party.

    Lawyers, if you want to sue somebody over this Wuhan Plague, sue the dishonest Chinese government!

  21. 21

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:37 am

    I didn’t get my stimulus check yet.

  22. 22

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:37 am

    @18 “Bill de Blasio … told people to go out there and get infected.”

    He and Kim Reynolds should consider dating. They have a lot in common, and they think the same.

    For that matter, de Blasio has a large dating pool to choose from. It pretty much includes every Republican out there. This is how Republicans think, and this is what they are.

  23. 23

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:43 am

    CNBC headline: “Gilead says remdesivir coronavirus trial shows ‘encouraging’ results”. And the Dow is up 600 points.

    Crazy. Remdesivir is a treatment, not a vaccine. If it works, it means you only get miserably ill and rack up $50,000 in hospital bills; you don’t die and rack up $25,000 in funeral bills.

    Somehow I don’t think that will be enough to motivate workers to work, and shoppers to shop.

    Hope for a treatment is not sufficient justification for the market to jump like that, because until there’s a vaccine, we’re in for a deep and prolonged recession. Social distancing will have to stay in effect. Theaters and airplane seats will remain empty. People can’t slice and dice chicken, cut hair, or wait tables when they’re in the hospital.

  24. 24

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:53 am

    @21 Not surprising that you haven’t. Retirees without pensions or stock dividends don’t have to file tax returns, and stimulus distributions to Social Security recipients are taking longer. Your dependent (i.e. horse) probably will get his payment before you do, because he still works. Every. Time. You. Visit. The. Barn.

  25. 25

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:57 am

    @20 Are you saying employers should have immunity from being sued for dangerous working conditions? And workers should be forced to work in those conditions? Sounds like communism to me. Do we now have China’s and North Korea’s labor systems?

  26. 26

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:58 am

    @15

    It’s a bullshit claim to start from Dumbfuck.

    never been around Bubbie who winters in Boca.

    How many NY Snowbirds start showing up for their wintering in mid January and February? Some might head back for the Holidays but they aren’t sticking around Manhattan past New Years’ week in the cold when they can get back to Sunny, Sunny, Florida.

    Say, when was that first case reported in New York State?

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:04 am

    @26 “How many NY Snowbirds start showing up for their wintering in mid January and February?”

    And aren’t those who did stuck in Florida now? How are they going to get back to NY? Walk?

  28. 28

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:05 am

    Yep, DeBlasio is on his way out. Probably in a primary. Elections have consequences.

    Now do, “It will just disappear. Nothing to worry about. The Chinese have done a really great job containing this. I don’t read the daily briefing. Closing the businesses is too much. Soon it will be down to zero. Ingest bleach. Hydrochloroquine is the real deal. I hear you’re testing UV lights for internal medicine. I’m doing a hell of a job. 60,000 really isn’t that bad when it could have been worse if not for me. I give my response an A. Ivanka’s husband has it all cured. She’s hot too. I don’t take any responsibility. It’s not the governments’ job to help states.”

  29. 29

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:06 am

    @ 23

    Remdesivir is a treatment, not a vaccine.

    Confidential to Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit: So is TURP.

  30. 30

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:10 am

    @ 26

    How many NY Snowbirds start showing up for their wintering in mid January and February?

    Hey, look at Cz-252, treating coronavirus like it was just a seasonal thing for the snowbirds.

    It isn’t:

    How to Avoid Coronavirus Spread If You’re Rich? Wealthy …www.bloomberg.com › news › articles › new-yorkers-f…
    Mar 11, 2020 – Wealthy New Yorkers Flee to Hamptons, Hudson Valley to Escape … Aerial of the Hamptons, Long Island, New York Photographer: …

    New Yorkers are fleeing the city to escape the coronavirus …www.businessinsider.com › new-yorkers-are-fleeing-th…
    Mar 26, 2020 – … residents have left New York City, now the epicenter of coronavirus … City should self-quarantine for 14 days to prevent spreading the virus to …

    The Wealthy Flee Coronavirus. Vacation Towns Respond …www.nytimes.com › 2020/03/25 › nyregion › coronaviru…
    Mar 25, 2020 – A backlash has grown on the outskirts of the New York region as wealthy people flee to summer homes to avoid the densely packed city, which …

  31. 31

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:12 am

    Hey, how come nobody posts anymore about how all of the stock market gains since Inauguration Day have vaporized?

  32. 32

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:20 am

    @12

    That assumes someone working the desk at Supercuts is both aware of their rights and has the financial means to fight a protracted battle with their employer and IA unemployment over the definition of ‘dangerous’ for any length
    of time.

    At the very least they need food and rent money for as long as the state denies their claim.

    Giving many no real choice except serving the masters is the GOP brand.

  33. 33

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:25 am

    Q) How many people infected in NY died in FL, I wonder?

    A) Some very small percentage of the people who relocated from NY to Florida in the last five weeks.
    https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/09/instead-prepping-coronavirus-trump-partied-golfed-held-fundraisers/2941076001/

    Looks like Q Clearance Pussy has its answer. Had it all along.

  34. 34

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:27 am

    @29 In your case, a lobotomy might be efficacious. It might make you smarter, and can’t make you any dumber.

  35. 35

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:29 am

    @31 Because we’re busy posting about how the GOPlague has killed more Americans in three months than the Vietnam War did in eight years.

    Trump has a strategy, of course. His strategy is to deflect and blame others. Also, confiscate medical supplies for his cronies to sell back to their original owners at gigantic markups.

  36. 36

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:30 am

    @30

    Apples to Bowling pins.

    Try to follow along.

    The people who take off to Florida for the winter would have been gone since well before the first infections in their home began. Not seasonal, geographical. You aren’t getting Coronavirus over breakfast at Barney Greengrass when you’re already in Dunedin.

    The people fleeing to the Hamptons well after mass infection is underway and NOT sequestering after arriving are assholes and deserve whatever scorn you want to hurl at them.

    Were I someone who owned a beach house half a tank away when we got word that my wife was definitely exposed and we all needed lock down for 14 days you can be sure I would have packed a couple bags and done lockdown there instead.

    They have contact free grocery delivery in the Hamptons.

  37. 37

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:31 am

    @ 33

    Sure, send me an old reference, last updated on April 13th. That day 18 people died of the Wuhan virus in FL. Two days later 72 people died.

    I’d say the percentage is materially greater than you might estimate, QoS McHillbilly. Especially if you’re using info more than two weeks old.

  38. 38

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:32 am

    28,
    Do you think Bill De will be replaced by a reactionary, conservative, anti-immigration racist bent on favoring the super wealthy and beating the shit out of Guatemalan toddlers?

    Asking for a “friend”.

    Follow up: Do you think “I don’t take any responsibility” will be replaced by another reactionary, conservative, anti-immigration racist bent on favoring the super wealthy and beating the shit out of Guatemalan toddlers?

    Same “friend”.

    Bonus: Is the future looking brighter than ever for reactionary, conservative, anti-immigration racists bent on favoring the super wealthy and beating the shit out of Guatemalan toddlers?

    That one’s pretty much purely rhetorical.

  39. 39

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:35 am

    Ghosts of Obamacare Exchanges …

    “Under pressure to deliver relief to hundreds of thousands of small businesses, banks of all sizes are complaining that the federal government’s loan-entry portal is behind delays in the program.

    “Nine industry groups representing the nation’s banks and credit unions sent a letter late Tuesday to the Small Business Administration and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin voicing concerns over how long it is taking to submit loans via the SBA loan portal known as E-Tran.

    “‘With the start of the second round of funding many lenders are having significant problems submitting loan applications into the SBA’s system, preventing them from delivering this critical financial assistance to small businesses that desperately need it,’ the groups say in the letter.

    “They added that ‘if the pace and performance of the E-Tran system cannot be improved, then we ask that you share that information with the public to help manage expectations for all of the small businesses still counting on PPP for a lifeline.'”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/small-business-relief-program-banks-say-portal-to-blame-for-delays.html

    Republicans run things better. Yah.

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:44 am

    @37 “Sure, send me an old reference, last updated on April 13th.”

    Sez the troll who daily bleats about an alleged sexual assault that allegedly occurred 27 years ago.

  41. 41

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:48 am

    @38 This explains, in a nutshell, why it simply won’t matter whether Tara Reade’s story is true.

    The reason it won’t is because women voters will still choose a sexual harasser over a sexual harasser who also is a reactionary, conservative, anti-immigration racists bent on favoring the super wealthy and beating the shit out of Guatemalan toddlers.

    It’s all relative, you see. The worst Democratic sexual harasser is still much, much better than the best Republican sexual harasser, and Trump is far from being the best of the Republican sexual harassers, which is pretty much all Republicans, in other words, you can find a better Republican than him if you try hard enough, assuming that you want a Republican in the first place for some inexplicable reason.

  42. 42

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 10:51 am

    @ 39

    Republicans run things better. Yah.

    From bill signing to present, PPP/CARES is about four weeks old.
    Four weeks. Let’s round that up to one month, shall we?

    Now let’s compare with, oh, say, the Affordable Care Act. The bill was signed in March of 2010. Healthcare.gov went live October 1, 2013. That’s, um, 42 months.

    How well did healthcare.gov roll out, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit? How about Cover Oregon? ’cause those entities had 42 times as long to get their shit together.

    You’re a fucking clown, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Looking forward to your sneering @ 23 about Gilead’s product not being a preventative when your daughter catches the Wuhan and after 3 days in the hospital she’s looking cyanotic.

    Of course, when that happens, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you won’t be able to afford the Gilead drug, having rolled the dice for far too long on GE’s rapidly declining fortunes, and having depended so heavily on GE’s dividend. You’ll just have to sit there and watch her die. It will be a different sensation of impotence for you than the one you are so used to by now.

  43. 43

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:10 am

    “catches the Wuhan”

    Wuhan? Didn’t you get your stupid orange moron’s memo?

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:38 am

    Trump has made a policy decision to sacrifice lives for the economy, and Republicans are falling in line.

    Your life for their money. It’s every Republican you know.

  45. 45

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:47 am

    @42

    When enrollment opened you still had three months give or take before coverage would kick in. Regale is with your tales of people waiting months with zero ability to choose plans.

    Refresh my memory. Was Obamacare enacted to alleviate a problem where > 2000 Americans were dying daily and no one could work?

    Oranges to Yugos, Dumbfuck!

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:48 am

    I don’t understand this talk about Biden dropping out. The only qualifications to be president are being a U.S. citizen at least 35 years old. He meets those quals, so, end of story.

    Beyond that, a nominee can be anything you like. For example, Republicans want their nominee to be a serial liar with a gangster mentality. I don’t vote in GOP primaries, so I guess that’s up to them.

    Likewise, if Democrats want a sexual harasser to be their nominee, that’s an internal affair. Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t a Democrat, so it’s none of his business.

    That’s how I see it.

  47. 47

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:50 am

    61,000 > 15

    61,000 > “sixty thousand and it could have been a lot worse if I didn’t stop the Chinese from coming here. (Eds note, flights with Chinese nationals continued to arrive for a month with no health screening of passengers) Be fucking grateful you have such a strong leader like me.”

  48. 48

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:51 am

    Especially if you’re using info more than two weeks old.

    I’m not doing anything at all, other than pointing out how fatuous it is to postulate something about people who died in one place having traveled from another place during a period in which travel was essentially forbidden. Two weeks is actually just about right. And therein lies the problem for “Doctor” Q Clearance Pussy and his “new science” of disease.

    Either these imaginary “New Yorkers” who were destined to become ill and die, became infected, then traveled to Florida prior to April 10th when DeSanits imposed check points to prevent entry, and somehow managed to remain alive for 19 days before auguring in. Or they traveled to FLA in the last day or two in a near death state a la Ratso Rizzo.

    Of the 83 DeSantis BEACH WEEK!!! deaths recorded that day, surely the number who became infected somewhere else must number in the ones. Or fewer.

    #MAGAdon’tmath

    Republicans are not cut out for this work.

  49. 49

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 11:56 am

    @ 46

    If Democrats want a sexual harasser to be their president, that’s an internal affair. Doctor Dumbfuck isn’t a Democrat, so it’s none of his business.

    So, Democrats had no skin in the game when the GOP nominated Trump in 2016? The Chardonnay Lady had no skin in the game when she anointed him as her preferred opponent?

    Really, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit? That’s your argument?

    Was it none of Reid’s business when he schemed to make Sharron Angle his 2010 opponent? Was it none of McCaskill’s business when she schemed to make Akin her opponent in 2012?

    You’re a fucking clown, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. An obese, slovenly, bloviating, odiferous, incompetent, impotent clown.

    Hillary desired Trump to be her opponent. Then she went out and lost to him.

  50. 50

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:00 pm

    39,
    Q Clearance Pussy neeeeds you to agree that if the Obama administration could not insure 40 million uninsured Americans in “a month” but the GOP RapeHero could bail out Shake Shack and a small handful of his billionaire pals in the same time period, that is redemptive PROOOOOF!!! against charges of utter failure.

    This is what it believes. Because this is what it neeeeeds to believe.

  51. 51

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:18 pm

    He want’s leeeeks..I got Leenks

    But the coronavirus pandemic has made clear that there is a grain of truth in the cliché. Namely: the people ruling this country have no idea what it costs to live in it.

    The most egregious example comes from Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s secretary of the Treasury. On 25 March the Senate passed a $2trn relief package. Its measures included loans for businesses, an expansion of unemployment benefits, and direct payments of $1,200 to Americans earning up to $75,000. In a television interview on 29 March, Mnuchin said: “I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about ten weeks.”

    $120/wk/40hours full time = $3/hr. That’s what Mnooch thinks is a liveable wage plus half your salary if you qualify for unemployment. (note: if you were a $15/hr non essential employee Dumbfuck got his way and you’re making $10/hr which is way to generous according to Federal minimum wage.)

    But Nancy has a SubZero!

    (yes the article goes on to criticize Dems for not returning to House to fight for more for families that will be sure to die in Mitch’s billfold but whatevs…)

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:25 pm

    @49 I didn’t say it wasn’t her business. I said it isn’t your business. And it isn’t. You didn’t vote in the Democratic primary, so you had no say in choosing the Democratic nominee. And you won’t vote for their nominee in November, so you have no skin in the game either.

    You will, however, spend the next four years complaining about a president you didn’t help choose.

  53. 53

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:48 pm

    @ 52

    You will, however, spend the next four years complaining about a president you didn’t help choose.

    So, I’ll be just a healthier, better-smelling version of Steve, then.

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:48 pm

    Gonna be a lot of dead voters in red states.

    https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/04/29/as-states-move-to-reopen-covid-19-death-rate-numbers-raise-a-red-flag/24144513/

    Not saying that’s a good thing. It just is.

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:51 pm

    @53 I guess that depends it who savors the odor of horse shit on a human cock. If you think so, I won’t argue with you. Opinions of other individuals may vary.

  56. 56

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 12:51 pm

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit ridicules @ 23 results of a drug trial that Anthony Fauci compared to HIV drugs.

    Why so homophobic, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit?

  57. 57

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:01 pm

    Science:

    Meg Tirrell✔
    @megtirrell
    Fauci, per WH pool report, of remdesivir based on NIAID trial results: “This will be the standard of care.”

    Fauci: Remdesivir has a “clear-cut, positive effect in diminishing time to recover.”

    Never reported trial results from pool report of WH remarks. Another #COVID19 first!

    9:11 AM – Apr 29, 2020

    Dumbfuck:

    @ 23 Remdesivir is a treatment, not a vaccine.

    Market:

    Dow 24,648.30 546.75 2.27%
    S&P 500 2,939.72 76.33 2.67%
    Nasdaq 8,914.16 306.43

    Dumbfuck:

    @ 23 Somehow I don’t think that will be enough to motivate workers to work, and shoppers to shop.

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:13 pm

    @57 Next headline Dumbfuck quotes: “Immigrant meat plant workers watch their stock portolios go up, hurry back to work.”

    As I said earlier, Dumbfuck, Republicans have decided to sacrifice workers’ lives for profits; and, as you point out, Wall Street is lovin’ it.

    #itseveryrepublicanyouknow

  59. 59

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:15 pm

    Confidential to gman: Mayor Pete will be on Colbert tonite.

    Here’s the catch: So will Amy Klobuchar.

    If Biden were left in a room alone with the two of them, which pussy would he grab first?

  60. 60

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:17 pm

    Buzzfeed has Team Biden talking points. ’cause Biden trying to address this would be a fucking disaster.

    The New York Times did weeks of extensive investigative research, talking to nearly two dozen former Biden staff from the 1990s, including those who worked directly with Ms. Reade. Here is what they found: “No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of reporting, nor did any former Biden staff members corroborate any details of Ms. Reade’s allegation. The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.”

    ● All four of the people Mrs. Reade says were notified of an official complaint told the New York Times on the record that they have absolutely no recollection of any such conversation — and that they certainly would have remembered it, especially because this alleged conduct would have been so wildly out of character for Joe Biden.

    ● Biden has been a fierce advocate for women, authoring and fighting to pass the Violence Against Women Act and launching a campaign to end sexual assault on college campuses. He has spent his life fighting to end abuses of power against women and using his voice to advocate for women across the country and around the world.

    ● Here’s the bottom line: Vice President Joe Biden has spent over 40 years in public life: 36 years in the Senate; 7 Senate campaigns, 2 previous presidential runs, two vice presidential campaigns, and 8 years in the White House. There has never been a complaint, allegation, hint or rumor of any impropriety or inappropriate conduct like this regarding him – ever.

    ● Biden believes that all women have the right to be heard and to have their claims thoroughly reviewed. In this case, a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the truth: this incident did not happen.

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:18 pm

    @59 “If Biden were left in a room alone with the two of them, which pussy would he grab first?”

    Not yours.

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:19 pm

    Now you know how the Baby Boomer working class felt when they were drafted, sent to Vietnam, and assigned to infantry companies with 100% casualty rates.

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:21 pm

    @60 Nobody cares, given the alternative is another 4 years of Trump. You should’ve helped your party pick a better nominee.

    You chose poorly.

  64. 64

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:23 pm

    …healthier, better-smelling…

    (Must resist… must be strong… must try… slipping… slipping…)

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWePpa2WoAIpjt2.jpg

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/nintchdbpict000295452153.jpg?w=670

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzGOAnhWgAAGhzV?format=jpg&name=900×900

    https://econintersect.com/pages/contributors/images/2019/600_15191126TrumpPussy.jpg

  65. 65

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 1:31 pm

    More evidence Rapepublicans are not cut out for this work: The Q Clearance Pussy learned absolutely nothing from its humiliating cheerleading for fish tank cleaner.

    It’s almost certain that if it were to give a strong buy rec to every issue in the Dow, some of those recs would turn out to be winners. But any investor following those recs would not be able to beat the average. (Some insight into the true nature of its investment prowess?)

    And here we get to see how biological systems differ from casino gambling. Because any Trump Plague survivor who follows all of “Doctor” Q Clearance Pussy’s “medical” recommendations winds up dead.

    Which is quite a bit below average.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 2:30 pm

    Break out the popcorn!

    “As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers …. Within moments, the President was shouting … at his campaign manager … berat[ing] Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html

  67. 67

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 2:33 pm

    “Sen. David Perdue, a Georgia Republican up for reelection and a close Trump confidant, issued a blunt warning to GOP activists during an off-the-record conference call this week: Democrats are in position to turn his state blue and take the Senate. ‘Here’s the reality: The state of Georgia is in play,’ Perdue said …. ‘The Democrats have made it that way.'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/david-perdue-georgia-senate/index.html

    Nope. The Republicans have made it that way.

  68. 68

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 2:43 pm

    67,
    Meanwhile The Q Clearance Pussy and Every Republican You Know is off somewhere chortling confidently about Minnesota.

    And any day now Megs McCain is going to have to issue a carefully timed formal endorsement of her personal grief adviser “Uncle Joe”. But never fear. The Dow breaking 30,000 will drown all those tears and calm that rage.

  69. 69

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 3:02 pm

    @60

    “I have calendars. Squee says he doesn’t remember it.”

    “Exonerated” -Dumbfuck

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 3:28 pm

    @64 The last two are pictures of desperation.

  71. 71

    ArtFart spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 3:44 pm

    #23 “Crazy. Remdesivir is a treatment, not a vaccine. If it works, it means you only get miserably ill and rack up $50,000 in hospital bills; you don’t die and rack up $25,000 in funeral bills.”

    I dunno about you Roger, but I’d pick Door Number One.

  72. 72

    Steve spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 4:41 pm

    WTF? Crass much?

    ‘White House’ Shop Sells the Gift No One Asked for: $100 COVID-19 Commemorative Coins

    In a sales pitch that absolutely no one has asked for, the White House Gift Shop is selling COVID-19 commemorative coins, emblazoned with slogans like “World vs The Unseen Enemy” and “Everyday HEROES Suited Up.” As the deadly virus continues to kill thousands of people and cripple daily life for most Americans, the privately-run White House store is asking buyers to fork out $100 (reduced from $125!) to commemorate the “historic moment.” One coin has an image of a COVID-19 spore superimposed on a world map, while a second coin features an empty White House podium with the names of the coronavirus task force members surrounding it including President Trump, Vice President Pence, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and medical experts Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-gift-shop-sells-covid-19-commemorative-coins?via=twitter_page

  73. 73

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 4:55 pm

    @ 71

    I dunno about you Roger, but I’d pick Door Number One.

    Art, fair enough. But you’ve been successful and have a fulfilling life. However, if you instead had Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s life, wouldn’t you be interested in having it end as soon as could conceivably be blamed on a Republican?

  74. 74

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 5:00 pm

    Regarding Tara Reade’s allegations, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has claimed repeatedly @ 41,63 that it won’t matter, nobody cares etc.

    WaPo editorial board thinks otherwise.

    TARA READE deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.

    The former vice president and probable Democratic presidential nominee has yet to speak publicly about the allegation Ms. Reade has lodged against him: that when she was a member of his Senate staff in the 1990s, Mr. Biden pushed her against a wall and put his fingers up her skirt and then inside her. Mr. Biden’s campaign says “this never happened.” Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim are counterweighted by the denials of her superiors at the time that she reported any misconduct, as well as inconsistencies in her retelling…

    Mr. Biden may have little to say besides what his campaign has already said — that he did not do this, and that this is not something he ever would do. Yet the way to signal he takes Ms. Reade’s case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and to reply.

  75. 75

    @godwinha spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 5:04 pm

    Probably not what the FBI wanted to see the light of day:

    Techno Fog
    @Techno_Fog
    DEVELOPING…

    Unsealed FBI notes reveal the intent of the FBI’s 1/24/17 interview of Flynn:

    “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”

    FBI Notes confirm it was all a pretext.
    3:37 PM · Apr 29, 2020

    Here’s the handwritten note: https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1255627278249349122

  76. 76

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:06 pm

    72,
    WH Gift Shop is an entirely privately held, for-profit operation with no actual connection to the government beyond the name.
    Gross, but private. RapeHero totally approves.

  77. 77

    A1 spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:11 pm

    Demorat-China Party Of Hate America & Always Believe Women, Unless They Accuse Demorats, Then They Are Lying Sluts Bombshell News – Demorat Committee On Digital Exploration Calls For Constitutional Amendment Eliminating Women’s Right To Be Believed – Committee Chairman Stickyfingers Joe Biden-Einstein Explained, “These Lying Sluts Should Never Be Believed.”
    ——————–
    Nolte: Fact Checking 3 Falsehoods in Biden Campaign’s Tara Reade Talking Points
    CLAIM #1: The New York Times conducted a “thorough review” of Reade’s allegations.
    VERDICT: False.
    We now know the Times did no such thing. A ton of corroborating evidence has been exposed since the Times released its sloppy “investigation,” which proves the Times was nothing close to thorough.
    CLAIM #2: The Times’ reporting “has led to the truth: this incident did not happen.”
    VERDICT: False.
    Even the far-left Times felt the need to debunk that straight-up falsehood —
    “Our investigation made no conclusion either way,” a Times spokesperson told BuzzFeed Wednesday morning.
    CLAIM #3: There has never even been a “hint” or “rumor” of similar behavior from Biden “ever” in history.
    VERDICT: False.
    To begin with, while Reade’s allegation — that Biden shoved his hand up her skirt in 1993, penetrated her vagina with his fingers, and then fired her after she complained — is by far the most serious, Tara Reade is the eighth woman — number eight! — to accuse Biden of misconduct.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/29/nolte-fact-checking-3-falsehoods-in-biden-campaigns-tara-reade-talking-points/

  78. 78

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:14 pm

    @71 The best option is neither.

  79. 79

    YLB spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:16 pm

    Hey, how come nobody posts anymore about how all of the stock market gains since Inauguration Day have vaporized?

    cuz socialism for the rich is the flavor of the month.. sheesh what a dumbass..

    now wait for it..

  80. 80

    YLB spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:19 pm

    pig feces @77 defecated:

    “These Lying Sluts Should Never Be Believed.”

    Yeah, right…

  81. 81

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:22 pm

    @73 How many bleach injections did you prescribe today?

  82. 82

    YLB spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:23 pm

    Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute [Flynn] or get him fired?”

    i.e. they had the goods on the idiot and instead of coming clean, he lied to them..

    Why lie? Oh yeah, he had something to hide and he’d rather shill to line his pockets on the inside than the outside. More money that way.

    yawwwwwn…

  83. 83

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:26 pm

    Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim

    There are none.

    The fact that the WaPo editorial board made this glaring conflation between her hostile workplace and retaliation claims, and her claim of sexual assault is merely more proof of the board’s decline. Not really a decline in terms of ideology, although it’s clear that the board has become stridently anti-Democratic in recent years. But more significantly a decline in professional standards. They know that there are no corroborating accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim of having been sexually assaulted in a public hallway in the middle of the work day in one of the busiest and most public buildings on earth. They will simply claim they are being misinterpreted.

    Deliberately so. And just as dishonest. Put into context, not so surprising. Only just last week the straight news desks of major independent news orgs were struggling to equivocate and balance the comments of the president as he recommended that people inject themselves with bleach and shove lights up their asses.
    This is the sad state of corporate media today. WaPo Ed board is no exception. In many ways they are the bellweather.

  84. 84

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:40 pm

    82,
    Either way, it isn’t Brady material.
    Sullivan already ruled on this shit.
    This is about the dumbest take and what can only be described as the dumbest criminal defense ever.

    Here’s a guy who had the sweetest of sweatheart deals all locked up and approved. And he blew it up. Why?
    Well, why was Flynn fired from DIA?

    He’s fucking nuts. Not “impetuous”. Not “impulsive”. Although he’s all those things too. Somewhere along the line Flynn became clinically bi-polar, delusional with manifestations of grandiosity. He’s unwell. And despite his decades of service, fine record of service at JSOC, and many accomplishments, it became impossible for colleagues in government intelligence to overlook his mental unraveling any longer.

    So naturally he wound up in the highest ranking intelligence position within Trump world.

  85. 85

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:41 pm

    @74 “TARA READE deserves to be heard … ”

    And she will be. It won’t make any difference. He’ll be elected president anyway. Why?

    In Biden, you have an accused crotch grabber.

    In Trump, you have an admitted crotch grabber who mismanaged the worst health crisis in U.S. history, mismanaged foreign policy, is corrupt and immoral, throws tantrums and blames others, accepts no responsibility for his actions, is a prolific liar, a deadbeat and serial bankrupt, a serial adulterer, a draft dodger and tax cheat, and the worst president ever.

    It’s no contest. Even if Biden grabbed Tara Reade’s crotch 27 years ago, women will vote for him because your candidate is so fucking awful.

  86. 86

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:44 pm

    @75 Where’s the memo that says they got him to lie by pulling out his fingernails?

  87. 87

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:46 pm

    “there is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do 20 million tests a day, or even five million tests a day.”

    So much winning failing

    Rapepublicans are not cut out for this work.

  88. 88

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 6:56 pm

    Well, I do hope Dumbfuck and his pal Pussybutt give Tara Reade more opportunity to be heard than they were willing to give Bowe Bergdahl. She deserves to be heard, and if her accusation is true, President Biden will have to wear a necklace of shame around his neck while cleaning up the mess Trump left behind.

  89. 89

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:01 pm

    86,
    When has “I have proof that those cops were trying to do their job” ever been grounds for a favorable ruling on a motion like this, or any motion?

    It’s their job to try and get dumbshits to implicate themselves.
    And it’s never illegal or improper just because someone is arrogant and dumb enough to do it.

    This latest Qanon DERP STATE take would entirely upend the last thirty years of Republican Dick Wolf’s career in television

  90. 90

    YLB spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:01 pm

    remdesivir.. wow such a breakthrough to cut 15 days in the hospital to 11 days.. an icu productivity enhancer..

    Open up the bars and couch dance palaces.. LIBERATE!

  91. 91

    YLB spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:06 pm

    a prolific liar, a deadbeat and serial bankrupt, a serial adulterer, a draft dodger and tax cheat, and the worst president ever.

    Never forget he always cheats at golf…

  92. 92

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:09 pm

    @90 It’s a good thing if it saves lives. But not being in the position of needing your life saved is a better thing.

  93. 93

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:12 pm

    88,
    Roger, she has been heard. Repeatedly. If she is to be heard any more it will be up to her.

    It’s very important to understand here that she is not responding to most requests for interviews, either in person or in writing. She of course has legal representation at this point. And they are guarding her from any further inquiry. That’s her decision.
    But unless that changes, it also effectively ends the story.

    We have her statements and interviews such as they are. We have a small assortment of very confusing, imprecise, and shifting contemporaneous reports from friends/family corroborating some of the self-reported details in her claims of being subjected to a hostile workplace and possible sexual harassment. And none of those implicate Vice President Biden.

    Nothing at all, contemporaneous or otherwise, to corroborate her allegation of rape.

    And that’s where this stands. Lots of people are continuing to try and follow up by cold calling neighbors, friends, coworkers, and family. And it’s not producing results.

  94. 94

    Let My People Go spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:19 pm

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay!
    Jay, Jay who says he doodles
    We are not your baby poodles.

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay!
    We will not sit and stay.

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay!
    We will revolt to earn our pay;
    We do not want goverment’s give-away.

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay!
    We will not bow today
    For you to dictator play.

    10 Steps to a Police State.
    1. Invoke a terrifying enemy.
    Check.
    Climate Change, Terrorism, Immigrants, and now Pandemic.

    2. Eliminate/ridicule morality in favor of progressive pragmatism.
    Check.
    Both major political parties have fully embraced “ends justify the means” progressivism.

    3. Establish surveillance.
    Check.
    Patriot act. Data mining. Real-time cell data tracking. Drone cameras. Snitch networks. Etc.

    4. Establish control over the press.
    Check.
    All major outlets are now effectively State Media, advancing their respective R/D narratives.

    5. Establish wealth control.
    Check.
    Economy intentionally crippled, forcing the majority of Americans on government handouts while increasing massive, unsustainable debt.

    6. Establish medical control.
    Check.
    Medicaid/Medicare, Obamacare, and government bureaucracy in all levels of practice.

    7. Establish food supply control.
    Check.
    Supply lines disrupted, crops destroyed, grocery shelves increasingly bare.

    8. Target/remove key dissidents.
    Check.
    Cancel culture.

    9. Target/prohibit disloyal assemblages.
    Check.
    Shelter in place. Or else.

    10. Disarm the remaining population.
    Check.
    And they’re going for it.

    https://tinyurl.com/yad58app

  95. 95

    Mojo spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 7:27 pm

    The entrapment of Mike Flynn by the FBI is the worst recent example of the Deep State destroying th Constitution. Those agents involved should be immediately fired and charged with obstruction of justice, convicted and sent to maximum security prisons for decades.

  96. 96

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:14 pm

    Well. This is interesting. According to new polls released today, Biden has pulled ahead in Texas.

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/general_election/

    According to a PPP poll conducted April 27-28, Biden leads Trump in Texas by 47% to 46%. True, that’s only 1%, and within the margin of error … but Texas for God’s sake?

    If Trump loses Texas, he loses. He simply has no path without Texas.

  97. 97

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:40 pm

    @93 Maybe I should ask Lynn Hummer. She knows Tara Reade better than I do.

    https://medium.com/@eddiekrassenstein/biden-accuser-tara-reade-allegedly-stole-from-a-non-profit-organization-e276cac68a2b

  98. 98

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:44 pm

    @95 Yes, that’s certainly unfair. I don’t understand why Trump hasn’t pardoned him. Do you? You don’t think Trump is the kind of person who would let an innocent friend who was railroaded by the evil FBI rot in jail, do you?

  99. 99

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:50 pm

    @94 Somebody needs a mental health checkup. Some serious paranoia is happening there.

  100. 100

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:54 pm

    Some serious paranoia is going on here, too:

    “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing ‘will do anything they can’ to make him lose his re-election bid.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/us-president-donald-trump-says-china-wants-him-to-lose-re-election-race.html

  101. 101

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:57 pm

    95,
    You can’t even define entrapment.

    He told repeated lies. He did it deliberately. He was not tricked. He was given multiple opportunities to cure the lies. He repeated them. And in the end he confessed his guilt, and gave a sworn statement attesting to his guilt.

    That’s about as far from entrapment as it is possible for a criminal to get.

  102. 102

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 8:59 pm

    Some serious paranoia is happening there.

    At 94 and 95. It’s the florid DERP STATE!!! lunacy.
    Everything is conspiring against them. This is I guess just how it’s going to be for Rapepublicans from here on out.

  103. 103

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Wednesday, 4/29/20 at 9:40 pm

    95,
    Legally, Mr. Mojo, under the US code, it does not matter that the feds knew he was lying. It does not matter that the lies he told failed to mislead them. Or that they knew he was misleading them at the time. Under the US code it only matter that the defendant intended to mislead them. That is the materiality standard as YOUR CONGRESS wrote the statute.

    It was, AND IS, the intent of every member of Congress who is not at present sponsoring legislation to change the code, that a subject who tells the feds a lie that has no detrimental impact whatsoever on an investigation shall be guilty themselves of a criminal violation under 18 sec 1001. They wrote the section that way on purpose. They have left it that way on purpose. That is our system.

    I personally think it’s wrong. I think the materiality standard should be changed. I think that to bring a prosecution under the section prosecutors should be required to show that such a lie had a detrimental impact upon an active investigation. But Congress disagrees with me.

    And Congress disagrees with you to. Including every single Rapepublican member you will watch rending their shirts on FOX for the next 48 hrs. They also disagree with you. They are just simply lying to you about it. Because they know you are a stupid, gullible, credulous Rapepublican voter who can be manipulated into activated rage with relative ease.

    Now go run along and grab your check book or debit card.

  104. 104

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:08 am

    Thank you for freeing up Joe Lieberman for his last Senate term, Markos. Nobody orchestrates third-party runs better than you do.

    Bob is such a bore. He likes to dip his toe in a prediction, so one day he can pretend that he was right about something.

    Dude – give it up, your futuristic predictions are about as bad as the management and temperament skills of the Fucking Hump.

    Forget about The Hump, you voted for Palin.

  105. 105

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:10 am

    Simply said….Repukes are destructive beings. I was going to add Human to the beings, but there is nothing human about them.

  106. 106

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:12 am

    Bob thinks the Stock Market is coming back….oh my. I definitely see why he failed to become a pro athlete or a real doctor. Even The Hump succeeded to greater heights than he, as an individual and a doctor.

    #MAGA

  107. 107

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:14 am

    China, China, China. Dirty Mexican, Dirty Mexican, Dirty Mexican.

    Where’s my Food!

  108. 108

    Robinson Jacqueline spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:00 am

    I just came to say – this guide is a written and self indulgent reading.
    Thank you for it. I’ve recently found another wonderful piece at https://www.onlinetutorforme.com/calculus-tutor/. Seems like
    I’m being exceptionally lucky this week. Thank you a
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  109. 109

    ATanSuitWithGreyPoupon spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:05 am

    Well past midnight Donald was rage tweeting about news anchors again.

    People were dying of coronavirus.

    Very Presidential

  110. 110

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:28 am

    The GOP has a deep bench. Like in CA-37 (Santa Monica, WestLA, Koreatown)

    Errol Weber for Congress CA-37
    @ErrolWeber

    Beyoncé makes songs about being rich & savage, flaunting her wealth – but what has she done with her money to help the black community?

    What has she done for the people who gave her success?

    Typical Democrat.

    Once they get to office, they forget the people who got them there.

    One: Beyoncé holds no elected office. Maybe Queen.

    Two: what got him in a lather is an old song remixed with her permission by Meagan TheeStallion

    Three: And I cannot stress this enough, Bae and Meagan released the track with support of Columbia/Parkwood records and 100% of sales benefit Bread of Life, a disaster relief organization based in Houston.

    And googling Beyoncé and charity for the millions she’s given would have taken….well 8 seconds for a slow typist.

    This guy says he’s the real ‘get off the plantation’ voice of black Americans. Now I’m not saying all black people love Beyoncé but to be black and seem to have zero exposure to Beyoncé takes effort. Never watched ‘106th and Park’ don’t listen to ANY ‘urban’ radio. Don’t follow Jay-z, never watch NBA (Bae has high profile ‘bump’ video for the league) and Brooklyn Nets, never be out and about and hear ‘Irreplaceable’ on the PA, didn’t follow Ferguson and BLM….

  111. 111

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:51 am

    Florida guv, yesterday:

    Ron DeSantis: (07:36)
    We’ve talked about hospital capacity and I remember reading that by last week, so this was in March, they said by April 24th, Florida would have 465,000 people hospitalized because of COVID-19. Well that is something that’s really scary, especially when you consider Florida only has 70,000 licensed hospital beds. So if you’re predicting that you’re predicting the biggest break of the healthcare system probably in human history. So what ended up happening? So that’s the 465,000, way up there for hospitalizations. You look down, 2,111 hospitalization. So they were off by about 463,000 hospitalizations. Again, that was a scary thing when you’re saying that because you would have hundreds of thousands of people that would have no medical care at all and you would have way excessive fatalities. It would be an absolute catastrophe. So we’re at 2000, they predicted 460,000.

    Ron DeSantis: (08:43)
    Projections say the state could run out of ICU beds by April 14th. Very scary. If you need to be in intensive care, you need certain types of treatment and there’s no beds, what’s going to happen? Obviously that’s not going to be good. Well, what did happen? Florida’s ICU bed availability today, 36.5% of the ICU beds in the state of Florida sit empty. We didn’t run out of ICU beds.

    Ron DeSantis: (09:12)
    Ventilators. When no more ventilators are left. They said there will likely come a point where there will be no more ventilators to shuffle around and then what happens next? Again, doom and gloom. People are in trouble. They have lung problems because of Coronavirus and there’s only three ventilators, but you have 10 patients, what happens? That was constantly put out as something that was going to happen. So what did happen? Florida’s never had a shortage of ventilators, not even close. In fact, here’s the ventilator usage. So we have about 379 patients currently on ventilators. We have 6,300 plus ventilators sitting idle, unused, in the state of Florida. Nobody was going without a ventilator. So again, the facts should be more comforting than the fear.

    Meanwhile, today Gavin Newsom plans to close all of the beaches and parks in CA.

  112. 112

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:58 am

    @ 110

    Black candidate:

    Beyoncé makes songs about being rich & savage, flaunting her wealth – but what has she done with her money to help the black community?

    Cz-252, in reply:

    “Well, she shot a promo video for the NBA.” OK, I’m paraphrasing. But not much.

    To Cz-252, NBA = black people. Then he’ll wonder why Trump doubled his black voter support between 2016 and 2020. Moreover, he’ll never realize he underscored Errol Webber’s point, which is that high-profile videos promoting the NBA aren’t the same as doing something tangible for black people.

  113. 113

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:00 am

    Fish.

    Tank.

    Cleaner.

    And bleach injections. And anal flashlights. And “It will just go away”.

    It’s nice to think people can just relax and give their trust to authorities. It’s easier. It’s comforting. But sadly, in the age of Trumpism it can also be deadly.

    Rapepublicans are just not cut out for this work.

  114. 114

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:05 am

    112,
    In which The Q Clearance Pussy boldly underscores I’llHaveAPilsner’s point by insisting, as Errol Webber insists, that black celebrities must behave differently from white celebrities because… black.

    That’s how you get to be “one of the good ones”.

    Classic.

  115. 115

    @godwinha spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:12 am

    Hey, Cz-252:

    The Obama’s aren’t “black people”, either.

    Barack Obama Goes Golfing at Country Club the Day After Michelle Urged African Americans to Stay Home

    Instead, Cz-252, they’re like Beyonce. And like you.

    They’re part of the entertainment world.

  116. 116

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:13 am

    @112

    Reading comprehension.

    Being part of a community is knowing about the community. Even if you aren’t an active participant in all the community embraces. It is LITERALLY not possible to be part of the black community and be unaware of the charitable works of Beyoncé and Jay-Z. It would require never ever consuming the kinds of media that 90% or more of your community consume and enjoy. Which would put you ‘outside’ the community.

    That Beyoncé NBA promo plays during Sunday Night Football too. Well it did. And NBC Prime Time. So like 99% of the Black community the candidate is saying, “I don’t even OWN a TV.”

    It would be like a white person who has no clue about what ‘Friends’ is. You’d be an extreme outlier. Someone who’s never been to someone’s house when it was on. Never been in a mall selling t-Shirts. Never been in a grocery line where they have magazines.

    Or try a Mexican who doesn’t know who ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe’ is. Even if not Catholic it would be impossible to move through life and not know.

  117. 117

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:15 am

    @111

    I’m sure the families of the 50 Floridians who died yesterday are nodding in agreement.

  118. 118

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:24 am

    New GOP Orthodoxy.

    The thing you said could happen if we did absolutely nothing spurred us to do something and then the worst case do nothing scenario didn’t happen so you were wrong and we were right.

    Florida diagnosed 500 new cases in last 24 hours.

  119. 119

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:54 am

    Florida diagnosed 500 new cases in last 24 hours.

    Maybe if they declare BLEACH WEEK!!! it will just go away like Professor Doctor Pwezident says it will?

    Let’s just hope and pray they never stop doubling down on this stooopid.

    Yes, I admit it is killing people. And that’s unfortunate. But it’s also killing the brand big time.

  120. 120

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:11 am

    @108 How long have you been a bot? All your life? Are your parents computers, too? They must be. Probably early models, and your teachers too, because you obviously were never programmed to write proper English.

  121. 121

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:15 am

    @111 Shorter version: GOP governor is pissed because his state didn’t run out of hospital beds or ventilators and not enough people died. All because of shutting down BEACH WEEK!!!

  122. 122

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:15 am

    Today marks twelve weeks since Americans began dying by the thousands from Rapepublican stoopidity.

    And still not so much as a single kind word or expression of sympathy from the GOP RapeHero to the grieving masses.

    Rapepublicans are just not cut out for this work.

  123. 123

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:20 am

    Biden named his vice presidential search committee today. Its chairperson probably won’t pick herself.

  124. 124

    YLB laughing at "ofmaryk", official fellator of "the one" and very stoopid, gender-confused misogynist. spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:21 am

    I’d like to personally express my gratitude to YLB’s kids

    They’ll return the favor to mary kay who will write the check to the liberal cause that will send pos rapey mcdimfuk to a none too early grave.

    The “grandkid” will be grateful to grandma as well.

  125. 125

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:28 am

    Where’s my Food! Freedumb!

  126. 126

    WTF!? spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:32 am

    Best month on Wall Street in decades. Looking good, right Bob.

    That Orange Fuckwad is so great!

  127. 127

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:38 am

    @126 Even a sinkhole can look good after climbing out of a punji pit.

  128. 128

    Politico spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:50 am

    From us:

    ‘One page of handwritten notes dated the same day Flynn was interviewed, Jan. 24, 2017, appears to show a debate about how forthcoming to be with him or others at the White House about the nature of the FBI investigation.

    “If we’re seen as playing games, WH will be furious,” the notes say. “Protect our institution by not playing games.”’

    So, stating the obvious, the FBI is a corrupt organization that needs to be abolished.

  129. 129

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:57 am

    Fun Fact:

    If only ten percent of the Rapepublicans who voted for Amash in his district in 2018 decide to vote for him in 2020 for President, the GOP RapeHero loses Michigan.

    Strike one.

  130. 130

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:12 am

    So, stating the obvious, the FBI is a corrupt organization that needs to be abolished.

    HAHAHAHA!.. drumpf said it loves the FBI save for a few at the top it doesn’t like.

    FBI is staffed top to bottom with repukes.. this shit is too funny!

    “Protect our institution by not playing games.”’

    i.e. by the book.. Flynn lied to cover up its corrupt mentally unstable behavior. Chris Christie said the guy was a train wreck. ‘n uff said.

    whack job somewhere else troll..

  131. 131

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:12 am

    @129 A Fox News poll conducted April 18-21 shows Biden up 8 points in Michigan, so Amash probably won’t make much difference one way or the other.

    Losing Michigan, if he keeps every other state he won in 2016, wouldn’t cost Trump the election. Also losing Pennsylvania (where he also trails) and one other state would.

  132. 132

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:25 am

    Barack Obama Goes Golfing at Country Club the Day After Michelle Urged African Americans to Stay Home

    Heh. Nothing drives a white supremacist nut crazier than a person of color indulging in traditional whiteness pursuits..

    the black millionaire athlete or celebrity ruffles enough feathers, but a black politician who served TWO TERMS, TWO TERMS, TWO TERMS in the highest office in the land.. oh yeah that’s beyond the pale.

    putting a small ball in a little round hole with a stick.. whatever.. it’s a challenge of sorts..

    But for the typical African American, his or her lot is to bear the brunt of a white privileged society, i.e. they’re the ones who suffer and die the most in a pandemic.

    Yeah they’re more likely to survive if they stay at home. They’re more likely to get sick and die if they show up to work at the meat packing plant on the orders of the white drumpfist governor.

    Yet another chapter in the book of the always wrong wing..

  133. 133

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:29 am

    128,
    I’d really love to believe any of you fucks are the slightest bit sincere about this.

    I agree, the way federal law enforcement uses the statute given to them by Congress is troubling, and does not promote justice. But it is not corrupt. And it is not unethical in our federal criminal legal system. And moreover, they are commanded to do it this way by their superiors rising all the way up to the President. They use the statute to gain leverage over defendants in order to obtain guilty pleas and cooperation. That is a designed feature of the system and key to its efficiency.

    So let’s say you’re a scummy, greedy, lazy, incompetent rediologist who has been participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare for a few years. The feebs are looking into it. But you know you and your partners have covered your tracks and that there is no evidence. They ask for an interview, “just to clear a few things up before we close the file”. And you tell yourself that sounds like a great plan to get this over with. They’ve got nothing. And you’ll give them nothing.

    Your interview lasts for about thirty minutes. Seems very routine. Then about half way in they ask you about your family life, your wife, kids, etc. Are things okay? Good with the wife? Good relationship? Then they mention a report they got. “Probably just a rumor” but they’d like to clear it up. Ever cheated on your wife? “Of course not”, you insist (lie one – you have). Ever been to this motel? “Certainly not”, you proclaim (lie two – you have, many times). In fact you were fucking a pharma sales rep off and on for about six months last year at that very motel. But your pre-nup includes an infidelity clause. You stand to lose the house, the ski cabin, and up to half your business. Caught off guard you lied. And now they own your ass.

    In about three days your lawyer will be receiving a copy of your charging file and asked to arrange for your surrender. At your first post-arrest interview with your lawyer present they’ll present you with all the receipts. That’s your signature on the motel register. That’s you on the security video with “not-your-wife”. And here’s the transcript of the interview with Ms. Thang describing dates, times, and distinguishing moles. You will be offered a deal: give up your Medicare fraud co-conspirators and you’ll walk on the 18 – 1001 charges. You agree. They bring down the Medicare fraud conspiracy and chalk up a big win for the home team.

    Now remember that Flynn was treated a thousand times better than this.

    This is how it’s done every day in America. It’s done to drug dealers, and conspirators, and bank robbers, and tax cheats.
    If you think it’s wrong, why the fuck didn’t you ever say anything before? If you want to see it changed, where the fuck have you been? Shouldn’t you be demanding that Bill Barr be fired? Because as a federal prosecutor he did this. Hundreds of times. And he ordered it done. Thousands of times. He did his job. He wasn’t corrupt. He followed the law, did as he was told, and got the results he was ordered to get. That’s how he became Attorney General. Twice.

  134. 134

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:36 am

    …and one other state…

    Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia. And it isn’t even May.

    Amash doesn’t win MI for Biden. The candidate must still campaign there. It’s just a question of resources, including time. It’s terrifying how many voters make up their minds in the last week or two before an election. And it puts enormous strain and pressure on even a successful campaign and candidate. If Amash can be counted on to pull 20,000 Republican votes off the board for the GOP RapeHero it makes Biden’s job a whole lot easier.

  135. 135

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:57 am

    “So let’s say you’re a scummy, greedy, lazy, incompetent rediologist who has been participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare for a few years.”

    Nobody we know, of course. Purely hypothetical. Just like the “failed lawyer” bit propagated by a certain scummy radiologist who, as far as we know, is not actually lazy or incompetent, nor a participant in a scheme to defraud Medicare. Those are merely unproven allegations; and, of course, he has a right to be heard on those allegations.

    Although all I’ve heard so far is crickets. But that may be because he’s fully occupied by his obsessesions with Hillary, Hunter, and Tara.

  136. 136

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:01 pm

    Yes, when you’ve got nothing else left, there’s always Tara.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ5ICXMC4xY

  137. 137

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:05 pm

    @134 Florida. Don’t forget Florida.

    Fox News poll, 4/18 – 4/21: Biden 46%, Trump 43%, Biden +3
    Quinnipiac poll, 4/16 – 4/20: Biden46%. Trump 42%, Biden +4

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_biden-6841.html

    29 Electoral votes. And if Biden wins Michigan and Pennsylvania, he needs only 2 of ’em, other results being equal with 2016.

  138. 138

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:08 pm

    Here’s something everyone in the back of their head knew but didn’t worry about GOP Economics and the death of the single income household…

    Families where one parent works full time and the other works a few hours a day, filing for a law firm or working the lunch shift at a cafe or running a small business’ Quickbooks entries. You lost your job and you get NOTHING! You don’t qualify for Unemployment. You don’t really work and your piddling $150 week is a luxury. You can get by on half the EMPLOYED member of the family’s salary.

    The family was doing ok but not well enough to have a full-time stay at home parent.

    I’d bet suburban moms are the majority of this class of wage earner and they’re coming to this understanding right when thinking about if the current government is doing a good job and deserves another four years.

    “Go get a new job, losers.” -Donald, or words to that effect.

  139. 139

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:14 pm

    Speaking of police interviews, this dumbass talked himself right onto death row. The cops had nothing until he opened his mouth. Of course, he denied everything at first, and it took a little clever psychological manipulation to get him to do that. But not much.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfsKHfaZEu4

  140. 140

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:32 pm

    @138 There are openings in meat packing plants. Bring your own mask and gloves. Overtime will be mandatory for the foreseeable future until staffing issues are straightened out.

    MAGA!!!

  141. 141

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:34 pm

    You can always recognize a Republican: A “work ethic” is something he expects someone else to have, and “working hard” iNot him. He’s privileged.

    MAGA!!!

  142. 142

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:43 pm

    How many of the people in this photo had upper-middle-class Republican parents?

    https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2017/08/vietnam1210-h_2017.jpg

    Well, maybe the ROTC lieutenant.

    MAGA!!!

  143. 143

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 12:47 pm

    Reform school graduate.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-vice-president-mike-pence-wears-mask-after-criticism.html

    MAGA!!!

  144. 144

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 2:11 pm

    You could takeaway three things:

    Abolish ICE

    Embrace Trump at your own peril

    Maybe black Americans don’t hate the gay quite as much as people think

    Hamilton County (Cincinnati,
    26% black population) Sherif Jim Neil, who held press conferences about how proud he was to work with ICE on both legit and very questionable immigration holds AND Attended Trump Rallies lost the Democratic Primary to Charmaine McGuffy, a former dept officer who is openly gay and sued the department stating her sexual orientation and her advocacy for stronger punishments of officers found to be in violation of sexual harassment policies was the reason she was terminated by Neil.

    It was 70-30.

    She is expected to easily beat the Republican candidate in a very safe Democratic region in November.

  145. 145

    LET MY PEOPLE GO! spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 2:41 pm

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    How many jobs have you killed today?

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay, let’s talk about your cute little ‘Western States Pact’, today
    Colorado – Democrat
    Nevada – PANDERING IDIOT Democrat
    California – Democrat
    Oregon – INSANE Democrat
    Washington – DOODLING Democrat

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Why not Idaho, Jay? Oh yeah, – REPUBLICAN!
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Why not Wyoming, Jay? Oh yeah, – REPUBLICAN!
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Why not Utah, Jay? Oh yeah, – REPUBLICAN!
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Why not Arizona, Jay? Oh yeah, – REPUBLICAN!

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Fremont staue take away
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    Lenin should be where YOU stay

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    I have a quote for you today:
    “Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies.” – C.S. Lewis

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    You put lives in disarray;
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    with your phony doomsday.
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    I won’t do what you say;
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    I’m not your sheep or sycophant popinjay.
    Dictator Jay is not okay.

    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    CHOOSE today:
    “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
    Hey, Hey, Jay, Jay,
    I chose my way;
    I’ve had my say.

    Respectfully, and LET MY PEOPLE GO!
    Moses and MLK

    Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. – Robert Frost

    “Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.” -Winston Churchill

    “Proclaim Liberty throughout All the land unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.” -Inscription on the Liberty Bell

    A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey

    Hey, Hey, fluffy ear Jay,
    “If the person you’re talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.” — Winnie the Pooh

  146. 146

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 2:49 pm

    @145

    Hey hey Ho Ho
    Your candidate stole a chair.

    What do we want
    -Fiscal Responsibility and freedoms from tyranny!
    When do we want it
    -When we don’t have $65 to be comfortable at our desks!

    When I say “Inslee killed the economy” You say
    “I’m voting for the guy with a quarter million dollar judgement against him for defrauding political donors!”

  147. 147

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:01 pm

    Plurality of Americans blame Trump and China.

    China isn’t on the ballot.

  148. 148

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:09 pm

    145,
    Send me $75 dollars and I’ll send you not one, not two, but three high quality, washable, protective* face masks proudly emblazoned with the Gadsden Flag Timber Rattler and proclaiming #reopen(yourstate) in bold neon print!

    All net proceeds** of #reopen(yourstate) go to support the reopening of the American economy and a return to normal life NOW! For a donation of $150 dollars you will also receive an additional three protective* face masks as well as a jug of bleach, a turkey baster, and a jar of petroleum jelly.

    Show your pride in American Freedumb and do your part today!!!!

    *not protective
    **there are no net proceeds

  149. 149

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:27 pm

    @145 “How many jobs have you killed today?”

    How many people would you kill to save those jobs?

    Thanks for asking. This is an election year, and voters won’t be confused if there’s a clear choice. And there is: Your job or your life. Republicans will save your job. Democrats will save your life. Your call.

  150. 150

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:40 pm

    @145 If only Dino 4-time Lossi or Timmeh Lieman was running things.. We’d beat New York.. in deaths.. we’d be #1….

    instead of a role model for keeping people alive.

    hat tip to ha’s own pos rapey mcdimfuk troll for that article.

    btw, Exodus 8:1 reads:

    “And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.”

    ooops you’ll burn in hell for not giving due credit to sky daddy.

  151. 151

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:42 pm

    149,
    The Loon doesn’t work. The Loon is not essential. The Loon has never been essential. The Loon is only frustrated because it can’t sneak out to the local tavern and throw away this week’s tithe playing pull tabs. The elders have grave concerns and will continue to pray for The Loon as they seek to comfort Mrs. Loon.

  152. 152

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 3:47 pm

    You know if someone called 9-11 and said there are people brandishing weapons at the Michigan Capitol police would roll up and open fire within two seconds of arrival.

    Oh, wait. That was a 12-year old kid with a fake gun. In a park. Where the 9-11 caller twice said he thought it was probably a fake gun.

    These are white people implicitly threatening the Governor of Michigan. Carry on with your oppressed lives law abiding white folks.

  153. 153

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:16 pm

    Carry on with your oppressed lives law abiding white folks.

    Yes! By all means please do so. But don’t forget to also visit my website to obtain your three very high quality ProTEKT* face masks proudly emblazoned with a Gadsden Flag timber rattler to show your DEFIANCE!

    Order today and we’ll include at no additional cost a bunch of somewhat stale Lipton tea bags.

    *mask is not protective. ProTEKT is a registered trademark of #reopen(yourstate) LLC.

  154. 154

    Tara Reade spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 4:21 pm

    I’m still waiting for CNN and MSNBC to call me so I can tell everyone my story about Joe Biden. What’s up with that? Am
    I not entitled to be believed like other women who came forward in the #MeToo movement?

  155. 155

    John Stankey, CEO, WarnerMedia spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:17 pm

    Tara,
    I’ve called, emailed, texted, invited you to ZOOOM, even tried sending a candygram. Your lawyers and business agents are telling me to send a check, but they won’t say how much. I’ll be happy to send a pallet of cash if you can just give me a hint how much.

    I even had John Cusack stand outside of your condo holding a boom box. WTF girl?

  156. 156

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:24 pm

    @152 Black jogger shot dead by white men who assumed he must be up to no good.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-shot-dead-while-jogging-southeast-georgia-two-months-n1196621

    What was he thinking? Jogging in a white neighborhood? Cost him his life.

  157. 157

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:28 pm

    @154 More importantly, when is your agent going to get back to you with an offer for a book deal? I’ve heard you need the money.

    https://medium.com/@eddiekrassenstein/biden-accuser-tara-reade-allegedly-stole-from-a-non-profit-organization-e276cac68a2b

  158. 158

    Stephen Burke, Chairman, NBCUniversal spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:28 pm

    Hey Tara,
    what’s with the ghosting?

    I thought we were close on an exclusive and now I see you’ve been working with Warner? You can do better with us. I promise.
    I think you could be part of our future here at NBCUniversal. News, entertainment, wherever. You follow your bliss. We could build a weekly drama around your story. Make it into something really important for the movement.

    I’m seeing something like Touched by an Angel only built around the Me Too movement. Or maybe something like Route 66 but built around #MeToo. You and a partner travel around small town America encountering MeToo stories and “hearing” the victim’s truth. I could see Maura Tierney as the partner. But you can always have approval, of course. There’s a future in this. I’m sure of it. And I believe you can build that future with us at NBCUniversal.

    Please, call me any time. You have my personal cell. I mean it. Any time.

  159. 159

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:32 pm

    @145 The polls show 9 of 10 Americans think you’re full of crap.

    Polls also show Biden gaining on Trump while a sexual harassment allegation against him is getting extensive media play and he’s unable to campaign.

    It really sucks to be in your shoes, doesn’t it?

  160. 160

    Alan Riquelmy, The Union spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:47 pm

    Tara,
    It’s been nearly four weeks since we here at The Union published your first public account of your experiences of workplace harassment while working as a staff assistant for then Senator Biden in 92-93. Since publication you’ve given several follow up interviews to other outlets in which your story has changed, and expanded dramatically to include an allegation of rape. But in all that time you haven’t returned a single one of my phone calls for follow up.

    The Union even gave you an exclusive two page feature in which to tell your story in your own words. We’d like to do more. But it has never been our policy at The Union to report on other’s reporting. We’d like to hear you respond to our questions directly and help us tell a more complete version of your story. It’s a shame you’ve refused our offers. But they remain open.

    Whenever you are ready, we at The Union will be here for you.

  161. 161

    Crystal Mangum spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:50 pm

    Tara baby.

    Call me. I’ve got a great branding idea I’d like to share with you.

  162. 162

    Don Cheeseman, Post Master, Nevada City, CA spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 5:59 pm

    Ms. Reade,
    This will be our final notification.

    We continue to receive and hold several thousand pieces of first class mail addressed to you at your former residence without forward. This is to let you know that first class letters like these can only be held for thirty days. Beginning May 3rd we will begin returning these first class letters to the sender given. Those without a return address will be transferred to our dead letter facility in Omaha.

  163. 163

    LET MY PEOPLE GO! spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:21 pm

    Just for Mason Jar Mammary Glands and HEY, HEY, JAY, JAY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=Q0dzwjPtAwY&feature=emb_logo

  164. 164

    LET MY PEOPLE GO! spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:30 pm

    Oh my God. HEY, HEY, DON’T TELL COMRADE JAY!

    . . . “But the point is to keep people out of the city park.”

  165. 165

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:33 pm

    @163 bzzzzzzzt…. anyone with half a brain doesn’t click on troll links to yt..

    if you wish to stand a prayer of avoiding eternal damnation, don’t show your troll ass here after 8:21 pm tomorrow evening.

  166. 166

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:39 pm

    Oh my God. HEY, HEY, DON’T TELL COMRADE JAY!

    LMAO!!! Faux Snooze holds up Sweden as a role model..

    try to keep up troll..

    *note yours truly didn’t click on the link to the moonie upi. reading the url was enough. Try the epoch times next time troll. More entertaining for us.

  167. 167

    A1 spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:40 pm

    Demorat-China Party Of Hate America & Travel Bans Are Racist Bombshell News – Demorat-China Axis Tries To Divert Attention From Demrat-Chicom Attempt to Keep Virus Flights From China Inbound (e.g.,https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/28/democrats-no-ban-act-coronavirus-china/;“As President Donald Trump was using his authority to ban travel from China, House Democrats were pursuing legislation to restrict the president’s authority to limit immigration.”) With Increasingly Frenzied Attacks On Trump –
    ——————–
    By Hu Xijin Source:Global Times
    China is also the president’s biggest stunt to divert Americans’ rage toward the his administration’s own incompetence in fighting the virus. It is believed Trump and his team are aware of how they have failed their jobs in epidemic prevention and control. Only by making Americans hate China can they make sure that the public might overlook the fact that Trump’s team is stained with the blood of Americans.
    https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1187210.shtml

    In Donald Trump’s endless quest to escape responsibility for his bungled and failed response to the worst public health disaster in living memory, it’s now becoming clear that he has settled on blaming China for failing to alert us early on to the serious nature of the pandemic.
    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/30/1941663/-China-s-official-news-agency-releases-embarrassingly-accurate-video-mocking-U-S-pandemic-response

  168. 168

    LET MY PEOPLE GO spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:46 pm

    @166: Yawn. Mason jars don’t have mammary glands for a reason. They are inanimate, non-sentient and, therefore, useless.

    Now for those who do have a conscious mind . . .

    HEY, HEY, JAY, JAY!
    As well as this, I wish I could say:

    After being told in early March we needed “15 days to flatten the curve” we were then told we need “30 days to slow the spread” and then every blue state government went insane with power after that. The goal posts keep changing and every day more and more Americans are throwing up their hands in frustration. Everyone wants to know what “reopening” will look like.

    Well, I can tell you exactly how America will reopen.

    America will reopen when people show up at the beach anyway.

    America will reopen when small businesses have been pushed to the point where they have to decide if feeding their families is worth risking arrest.

    America will reopen when your neighbor goes ahead with that small birthday party they were planning.

    America will reopen when you start meeting in the park for playdates.

    America will reopen when performers start playing in the streets for tips.

    America will reopen when nail salons start figuring out how to quietly and safely serve desperate housewives and barbershops start figuring out how to quietly and safely serve hairy husbands.

    America will reopen when block parties start and Sunday visits to grandma and cocktail dates with your best friend on the front porch or in their kitchen.

    America will reopen when the teenagers decide there’s no way they’re living one more day without their friends.

    America will reopen when Americans who are ready feel safe to mix and mingle and protect each other where possible and appropriate.

    I’m not telling you to be reckless. I’m telling you I trust Americans to be safe because no one loves your family more than you do.

    The point is – America’s reopening will not be an act of “permission” from the ruling class. It will be like everything else important in this nation’s history – from the American Revolution to suffrage to the Civil Rights Era. It will be an act of will by the American people themselves. It will be resisted by the elitists in charge and we’ll do it anyway. It will be scolded by our “betters” in government and we’ll do it anyway. It will be ridiculed by the coastal Harvard set and we’ll do it anyway. Everything that has ever been good for the citizens of this country has been demanded and won by the people, not the permanent political class.

    We’ll win our freedom (again) by small acts of rebellion and autonomy. One by one they’ll pile up – hugging your neighbor, meeting a friend, cutting hair. Civil liberties groups will file their suits and Americans will remind their politicians – big and small – that they serve at the will of the people, not the other way around.

    America will reopen when you say it’s time . . . not when they do.

  169. 169

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:53 pm

    @166 “Faux Snooze holds up Sweden as a role model.”

    Better now, before that country is depopulated.

  170. 170

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 6:58 pm

    @168 Committing suicide is illegal, but shouldn’t be. Enforcement is impossible. Abortion should be legal, too, for the same reason.

  171. 171

    YLB spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:09 pm

    Everyone wants to know what “reopening” will look like…

    Jonestown.. kultists (like @168) offering up people to their green demon…

    money.

  172. 172

    A1 spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:11 pm

    Demorat-China Party Of Hate America & Travel Bans Are Racist Bombshell News – Demorat Governors Face Mounting Resistance To Demorat Operation Strangle Economy But Still Vow To Destroy More Jobs. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-China) explained, “As if I give a shit if a bunch of deplorables lose their jobs so long as Trump loses his, hahaha.”
    ——————–
    The Michigan House of Representatives declined to extend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s [D-China] state of emergency another 28 days, and instead voted on Thursday to sue her.
    The House also passed a resolution restricting a governor’s state of emergency declarations to 14 days. Whitmer has vowed to veto that legislation.
    Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the capitol and demanded the state be reopened.
    “We want Michigan open, we want Michigan back to work,” Jason Howland, one of the protest organizers, told Fox 17.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/30/michigan-house-wont-extend-state-of-emergency-votes-to-sue-gov-gretchen-whitmer-instead/

  173. 173

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:37 pm

    @172

    Breitbart. Typical Piddles move.

    Come November, will Michigan voters side with Armed nutjobs who literally shouted violent threats at legislators or Democrats who would prefer staying alive?

    MI Legislature is Republican majority (for now) but not enough to overturn a veto where in MI 2/3rds of BOTH houses are required to overturn. Today’s vote was a foregone conclusion. The party of death and the minority party of pro-life (Dripping with irony.) They’ll need 14 Democrats to pull off re-opening the state.

    So the Governor’s power to shut down the state remains intact and voters know Republicans want them to die.

    the Detroit Chamber of Commerce put out a poll:

    In a survey of 600 Michigan residents, respondents disapproved of Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic 44%-50%, while approving of Whitmer’s actions 57%-37%. The polling was conducted between April 15-16.

    57%. that’s a lot in a state Donald won by 2/10ths of a percent.

    The armed nuts aren’t with the people and most Americans find calls for armed insurrection and parading around in body armor and carrying assault rifles…..unseemly.

    Doing GREAT MI GOP!

  174. 174

    I'llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:43 pm

    VP Pence is threatening a media outlet that is LITERALLY a propaganda outlet for the U.S. Government. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as VOA has a specific role to fill for Troop morale and broadcast into civilian ears of hostile countries. That and the historical role of getting coded information to CIA assets where direct communication is kind of difficult.

    Vice President Mike Pence’s office has threatened to ban a White House reporter.
    …
    Pence’s wife, Karen, claimed later he didn’t know about the rules, but Voice of America (VOA) White House reporter Steve Herman, who accompanied him on the trip, said in a tweet that Pence’s staff did know: “All of us who traveled with him were notified by the office of @VP the day before the trip that wearing of masks was required by the @MayoClinic and to prepare accordingly.” Pence’s office claims Herman violated the off-the-record rules of the planning memo sent before the tour, normally put in place as a security precaution.

  175. 175

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:52 pm

    Republicans think it’s right to make strangers bear children, but wrong to make them wear masks in public during a deadly pandemic.

    Republicans have a weird sense of right and wrong.

  176. 176

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 7:56 pm

    @172 “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-China) explained, ‘As if I give a shit if a bunch of deplorables lose their jobs so long as Trump loses his, hahaha.'”

    I gather that’s an attempt at paraphrasing, not a verbatim quote.

  177. 177

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:08 pm

    Funny that Piddles The Pious Liar has chosen to return in shame by going incog. Is it hiding from The Elders or from itself, or from its shameful past?

    Here Piddles: Have an abortion!

  178. 178

    I’llHabeAPilsner spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 8:20 pm

    Side note @ Myself.

    No one is arguing Gov Whitmer has no power to take executive action in emergency situations.

    A better summary of what happened today:

    Michigan GOP votes to sue that the Michigan Constitution is unconstitutional.

    That’s a weird flex for the party of strict construction. You’d almost think they have no guiding principle except that which benefits their party.

    Should make for fun pubic court hearings as we get closer to November. If it’s not tossed out immediately. Keep this going for months. Great job MI GOP!

  179. 179

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 9:38 pm

    @178 Even better summary: Babies throwing tantrum.

  180. 180

    Ten Years After - ROGER RABBIT IS A LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE TROLL. THERE, FIXED! spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 10:10 pm

    The illegal and immoral treatment of General Flynn by the FBI traitors needs to be answered. Those egotistical liberal progressive FBI agents should be publicly flogged for their traitorous behavior, fired and permanently banned from employment in any government employment anywhere in the Universe. Comey, in particular, deserves extreme physical punishment for his slander and evil deeds.

  181. 181

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Thursday, 4/30/20 at 11:57 pm

    @180 Thanks for the endorsement! I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist. I admit it, now deal with it.

    I’m not, however, a liberal troll. This is a liberal blog, and it’s not possible to be a liberal troll on a liberal blog. You’re the troll.

    https://img0.etsystatic.com/050/1/7588035/il_fullxfull.711487338_c1sj.jpg

  182. 182

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 6:06 am

    174,
    The point of interest we should note in this instance is that according to the agreed upon facts, the content of the planning memo, and the public statements issued, it is the policy of this White House, as set forth in their “off-the-record rules”, that substantive lies told by the administration are not to be exposed by the members of the “independent” media who cover the administration without the administration’s permission.

    The media are not on America’s side. And they too are not cut out for this work.

  183. 183

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 6:30 am

    One by one they’ll pile up – hugging your neighbor, meeting a friend, cutting hair.

    Piddles, the trailer court HOA has been over this with you at least a dozen times. It’s right there in the bylaws. Before you get any hugs you’ll first need to take a shower and stop tossing dog shit over the fence into their Dough Boy pool.

  184. 184

    Elijah SFA McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 6:57 am

    “Look, from the very beginning, I’ve said believing women means taking women’s claims seriously when she steps forward and then vet it. Look into it. That’s true in this case as well,” he said Friday, adding that he believes women should be heard but also that the press should “rigorously” investigate the accusations being made.

    “I’ll always uphold that principle. But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters. In this case, the truth is that the claims are false,”

    -Vice President Joe Biden.

    Notice he does not address Ms. Reade. His statement does not characterize or comment upon her. He only states clearly that the story is false and that the events she has described never took place. He’s smart. He listens to his attorneys and the other experts he has at his disposal. In that regard alone he’d make a better president.

  185. 185

    RedReformed spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 7:59 am

    The White Privilege to Terrorize
    https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/05/01/the-white-privilege-to-terrorize/

    As a white man watching the Michigan protests of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders, all I could think was:

    Black people don’t get to do this.
    Muslims don’t get to do this.
    Latinos don’t get to do this.
    People who don’t look like this don’t get to do this.

    They don’t get to swarm American capitol buildings in tactical gear with high-powered weapons, screaming in close proximity to police officers.
    They don’t get to dress up like Call of Duty cosplayers and attempt to physically intimidate politicians into bending to their wills.
    They don’t get to get to stop traffic in city streets decked out like they work at the Death Star and brazenly wield semi-automatic rifles.
    They don’t get to terrorize decent people and walk away.

    Only white people get to do this.

  186. 186

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 10:59 am

    Although Trump’s response to Covid-19 generally has been confused and disorganized, there are signs of better preparation for his “reopen” policies.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/while-trump-minimizes-toll-government-orders-100-000-new-body-n1197316

  187. 187

    ITakeNoResponsibilityForAnything spews:

    Friday, 5/1/20 at 5:30 pm

    @86

    I hear they are red body bags. Very Unique. White block letters. “Obama Didn’t Restock the Ventilators”

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