.@IdrisElba and his wife Sabrina Dhowre Elba are working with the @UN to lessen the impact of COVID-19 on farmers in rural areas. pic.twitter.com/TXLjTkUnoL
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) April 20, 2020
Not to stomp Betty, but there are jackals who would never forgive me if I let certain snippets fall under the radar…
Parents, you deserve a break – Michelle’s got storytime handled every Monday. She’s one of the best, I promise. (And I confess it makes me a little nostalgic.) https://t.co/Pmz8kRNMBC
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 20, 2020
Next Saturday, April 25, is the @BillWalton & friends inter-galactic “Bike for humanity” event. 100% of all net proceeds benefit victims of Coronavirus. Bill is encouraging you to ride your bike, & social distance at 6’11 (his true height). Check out https://t.co/GYFcQrUaV2
— Dave Pasch (@DavePasch) April 19, 2020
Bonus: Some good Election Year news:
The Congressional Black Caucus PAC is endorsing Joe Biden’s presidential bid, further cementing his support among the nation’s influential black political leadership.https://t.co/P4bpWihFmH
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 21, 2020
Joe Biden says he raised $46.7 million during March, which marks the campaign’s best performing fundraising month, with 70% of contributions coming online and the average online donation was $40.
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) April 21, 2020
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
rikyrah
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Mousebumples
Posted this in Betty’s thread , and I’ll post it here too –
Fyi to anyone wanting some of Alain’s sourdough starter, there’s details on how to request some , officially , in that thread. I’m on my phone so linking the thread is more time consuming than I can manage for now , but I’m not sure who is all keeping up on the comments of that old thread …
rikyrah
Betty Cracker
Here’s the new Biden ad dropped by the Lincoln Project, a Never Trump Republican outfit:
A competent effort for the genre, I suppose. Appeals to bipartisanship make me stabby, but I’m not the intended audience. And it’s true that uniquely among US presidents, Trump has never even pretended to represent all of us; he’s the avenging avatar for his cultists, and that’s it.
raven
So Brian Kemp, David Perdue & Kelly Loeffler walk into a bowling ? alley Friday night. That’s it, that’s the joke
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Do you think Nazi Miller would look better with his face caved in? Shall we call Harrison Ford?
debbie
@raven:
I’m still laughing at that clip of Kemp donning his mask.
Gin & Tonic
@rikyrah: Um, my son already got his “check” (he got a direct deposit last week.) So I don’t know what this tweet means.
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: We must come together.
Ok! As Democrats to burn the Rethuglican party to the ground, and salt and piss on the ashes.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s based on whether the taxpayer has a SSN. It may be based on who is listed first on a joint tax return.
John S.
$47M in the midst of a pandemic… Joementum is real!
As if Trump needed yet another reason to lose his shit in the daily LOOK AT ME! briefings.
Princess
@Betty Cracker: I usually think their ads are crappy (eg. the one against Collins which had a woman saying “we Mainers” in the flat accent of a midwesterner.) but this one is good. It isn’t even bipartisan: it’s aimed squarely at Republicans.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: My wife is an immigrant too, tho legal and now a US citizen. I suspect he left off the word “undocumented” or maybe “illegal”.
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Want him at The Hague ?
Betty Cracker
@John S.: The $47M haul is good news because Biden’s campaign lagged in fundraising throughout the primary, which was legit cause for concern. But sometimes I wonder if we’re fighting the next-to-last war when we focus on campaign fundraising.
Free media helped Trump beat better-funded opponents in the 2016 GOP primary. The media’s irresponsible coverage of Trump’s freak show campaign helped him get close enough to eke out an Electoral College victory in the general.
I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s definitely a problem.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: Did he file a 2018 tax return with an immigrant spouse who did not have a SSN at the time of the filing? Those are the US citizens being stiffed, from what I read.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: My son and DIL are pretty panicked about that Trump tweet “temporarily suspending” immigration.
WereBear
The key to Republican hegemony has always been lying about their true purpose.
Racism? No, no, it’s state’s rights! And real estate values. And education.
Sexism? No, it’s just reverence for traditional marriage. We put women on a pedestal, see. We want to help them make moral choices. We want to cure gay people. We’re helpful, really.
Cruelty? No, never! Just being law abiding, really lots law abiding. Law and ORDER.
And so forth. Likewise their followers can happily vote their hates because it’s disguised as something good, not something horrible and twisted and very very bad.
Like so many illusions, the pandemic strips that mask off. And we’ve got the Open Up protester I’ll never forget: the guy who wants free tea refills.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: Nope: immigrants who are married to US citizens and are in the process of becoming citizens or obtaining a green card can get a number for tax filing purposes that is not a SSN. The article says those couples (a million US citizens) won’t get a check, which is fucking outrageous if true.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: Well, his wife had a TN (working) visa last year, so I’m assuming she has a SSN. They filed separately, too, for a number of reasons.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Has the viewership of Trump’s Daily Squeal Fest fallen off? He’s so repetitious, that he must get boring after a while.
rikyrah
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: Where are they located? Ukraine, right?
rikyrah
@WereBear:
I want a SuperPaC to make that muthaphucka famous ?
Ads coast to coast.
Make it clear
THIS IS WHY HE WANTS TO ENDANGER YOUR LIFE ???
Baud
@rikyrah:
In GOP world, that’s considered being a good leader.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes.
Anne Laurie
I think a lot of potential donors assumed, like me, that Good Ol’ Uncle Joe was a lock if he ended up with the nomination. So we gave what we could scrape up to people who we were more enthusiastic about, or who we didn’t perceive as having Biden’s ‘clout’ with the Permanent Party. But now that he’s Our Guy in 2020, for better or worse, the monthly stipends that aren’t going to Kamala/Liz/Beto/Pete have been re-routed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: @Gin & Tonic: Every damn trump day I am ever so happy I convinced my wife to become a citizen all those years ago. I also apologize a lot.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: According to the article, the US citizens getting stiffed by this provisions filed jointly with an immigrant spouse, so your son is fortunate.
rikyrah
I see no lie told ?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah:
I can’t imagine Pelosi reads Trump’s tweets. She probably has a staff person who alerts her if she needs to see something. Otherwise, she’s working the grown ups to get things done.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: So sorry. It’s gotta be tough.
Betty Cracker
@Anne Laurie: I’m sure that’s the case. I even coughed up a few bucks last week and am now deluged with campaign spam. I’m just wondering if the money game has shifted to “earned media.”
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: My Bomba order arrives Friday.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
I am too. The phrase “enemy within” doesn’t calm me down, either.
low-tech cyclist
“The Gruffalo” is one of the best children’s books ever, just sayin’.
So in case you missed Michelle Obama reading it in real time, here’s the vid.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: I don’t think the game has moved to unearned media. Campaign workers, street captains, computer infrastructures — they all cost a lot. Advertising on TV doesn’t make the dent it used to and I am not sure that unearned media speaks to anyone but the choir. If you hate him, when you see him you hate him more.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
What kills me is there’s no chance of people pouring into the streets to protest this, because our people are social distancing now. Can’t anyone do anything about this????
zhena gogolia
@Anne Laurie:
Yep. I’m on a weekly (I couldn’t find an option for monthly, which I prefer).
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Enjoy.
Immanentize
In lighter news, Lucinda Williams has a new album coming out on Friday. As I haven’t heard it yet, maybe it won’t be lighter at all.
OzarkHillbilly
Ifn’s any one is bored.
John S.
@Betty Cracker: I don’t know if the constant free media will help him this time around. Back in 2016, Trump was able to play the outsider with an unknown track record con-game, and barely eked out an EC victory.
This time around, he’s a known quantity with a trail of carnage in his wake. His original schtick only plays to his most die-hard supporters, and there just aren’t enough of them to deliver a victory this time around.
Live by the media exposure, die by the media overexposure.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So the preppers couldn’t last two weeks without begging to go to Applebee’s, the gun nuts found out that they couldn’t shoot a virus and that the virus doesn’t create zombies which they can shoot, and that the real economic drivers aren’t Master of the Universe jerb creator financial geniuses but are instead the cab drivers and hairdressers and waitstaff and chefs and small retailers and ….
Betty Cracker
@Immanentize: What you say makes total sense to me, but we aren’t representative of the dumb bloc of fickle un- or weakly affiliated voters who unfortunately seem to decide elections. I’m convinced Biden will win in November because Trump has been a disaster in ways that directly affect hundreds of millions of Americans. But I do think the rules may have changed in a way campaigns aren’t accounting for yet.
germy
@Gin & Tonic:
And he did this on Hitler’s birthday.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
That we know of.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
OT, kinda – is anybody else starting to have trouble sorting out which day of the week it is without referring to a calendar?
Amir Khalid
If you were hoping to take part in this July’s bull run in Pamplona or visit Bavaria this September for Oktoberfest, you’re out of luck: both events have been cancelled because of You-Know-What.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: I worry way more about Book of Faces, Neighborhood, and other media platforms for the olds than I do about CNN, for example.
ETA which is a way of saying that I agree the rules have changed, but also that no one has the key to that difference yet.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Ha. They’re holding out hope that their collection of Bushmasters and other high cap mag weapons will actually be useful to do something beyond cratering their household budgets.
Immanentize
@germy: That little homage to Hitler was all Steven Miller, I’m sure.
JMG
@Immanentize: According to polling, it isn’t us old olds (65+) who’re Trump’s strongest age cohort, it’s the getting olds (50-64).
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I can hear the grumbles starting at kitchen tables in trailers and cracker box homes now, as beleaguered women look at their laid-off/furloughed partners and say “you said we needed the gun collection to stay safe. Can you shoot the virus with your Bushmasters? Is anybody willing to buy them from you so we can go buy groceries? You spent all your time shooting at targets of people, but you don’t know how to hunt or field dress game…”
rikyrah
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
The opposite.
Know the day…
Need the calendar for the date
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: The Tour de France was cancelled last week. Another iconic European event.
germy
@Immanentize:
He took “rebelling against my parents” to a whole new level.
raven
@Immanentize:The Athens mayor was just on CNN!
danielx
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, and chief among the rules that have changed is the one about free and fair elections. Trump, his minions and his handlers don’t give a flying fuck about free and fair elections and would just as soon do without them altogether.
Gin & Tonic
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Hoping for some new business?
Immanentize
@JMG: I was thinking persuadables. But you are right about that cohort. But they are heavy users of the Olds apps. They are not so much the Instagram or Tik Tok generation. And I bet, although I haven’t seen the research, that Trump supporters are heavily aligned with Facebook and Reddit?
ETA — According to the Youngs, the ‘getting olds’ are old.
danielx
Item: an old friend’s daughter is serving on board the Comfort in NYC. A covid-19 patient told her he’d done two years on Rikers Island and “being on this boat is worse!”
Immanentize
@raven: Cool!
rikyrah
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OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: The AM open threads let me know.
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: FYI, the sourdough thread is in the sidebar for easy access
It’s in the Calling All Jackals section on the right. (on mobile, it’s at the bottom, after comments.)
Sab
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: We olds have our little pill cases so we always know what day of the week it is by the empty v full spaces.
satby
Because I was sick of being blocked from reading stuff at WaPo I resubscribed. Still can’t read anything, because it’s been a clusterfuck of email verifying with links that are expired by the time I get them.
I’m already thinking about cancelling it.
Sab
@rikyrah: So anyone laid off from those jobs now has to go back to work or starve.
Gin & Tonic
Very well done music video encouraging the residents of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) to “Stay Home.” Spoken and sung mostly in Russian, but really good camerawork and other production values. ~5 minutes.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Gin & Tonic:
Yeah, but I think a lot of the funding is going to be a problem. I’ve always done a few bankruptcies every year, though, spend the money for the Cadillac form and upload program. I’m brushing up, because the BK judges are anticipating a wave that would knock over the SS Poseidon, (based on a telephonic hearing I was on a couple of weeks ago), and the climate is going to be VERY debtor friendly by agreement among the bk judges.
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker: Exactly. His campaign spent $10M on advertising and got something like $2B in “earned media”. Ridiculous.
Uncle Joe and all the members of the Democratic Justice League need to start bigfooting trumpov’s press conferences, and start pounding on the media to ask trumpov, “aren’t these just substitute hate rallies?” to his face.
Jeffro
Glad to see Michael Steele throwing some truth around in his latest podcast (per the Post, anyway):
“Abused” is the word we should keep using from now ’til November. He is a textbook abuser, and that resonates with plenty of people (unfortunately)
zhena gogolia
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Great comment.
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab: I have one of those. When ever I look at it I wonder, “Did I take my pills yesterday?”
WaterGirl
@raven: Hopefully not because of hospital shortages because of all the rural hospital closures stressing the city?
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: The abusive President. That could catch on.
WereBear
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: This reminds me of my lawyer, a utility player who liked me because my bankruptcy wasn’t because I’d bought boats and trucks and tropical vacations. It was because we’d had a predatory second mortgage, a death in the family, and loss of our business.
He’s going over my forms and was all, “You spend this little on entertainment? Do you ever buy clothes?”
He practically hugged me.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: I admire your ability to work around any system :)
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: Redundancy helps: Calendars, computers, pill containers, wife….
frosty
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That’s what my 7-day pill container is for!
J R in WV
My computer says, at the very top of the laptop screen:
So that’s how I know what day of the week it is, the date, the time. It’s right here. We gave the puppies their last dose of parasite-preventers the first week of the month. So I called the Vet office, and they were perfectly prepared to accept an over-the-phone order for those meds, to weigh the material for postage cost, and to mail us the meds, after taking my CC info over the phone.
But I already knew Vets were pretty well educated regarding disease transmission and epidemiology. Good friend was a horse doctor before a back injury, then turned to being a prof of epidemiology at NC State.
Feathers
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I woke up yesterday and was very annoyed to realize I had forgotten to put the trash out. Awoken this morning by the trash truck and realized I had forgotten Monday was a holiday! Patriot’s Day for us Massholes. Sigh.
taumaturgo
FEC reported campaign donations:
Feb 2020 -Trump – $86m Biden – $18m Bernie – $47m
March 2020 – Trump $63m – Biden – $46.7m – Bernie – $33m
tam1MI
@Gin & Tonic: My parents are still waiting on their stimulus checks.
Schmendrick
@frosty: I keep an old iPad next to my 7-day pill box and use it to verify the day of the week so I can be sure I don’t take my pills twice in one day. They say when you get old your memory is the second thing to go. I can’t remember what the first thing is.