Donald Trump just doesn't understand: We have an economic crisis because we have a public health crisis — and we have a public health crisis because he failed to act. pic.twitter.com/hRrueGgx2C
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 11, 2020
What are the odds the White House yanks Fauci from testifying before tomorrow morning? https://t.co/qXlnJ8f0r4
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 12, 2020
Trump may well try, but it’s a bit late to be of any use…
… Dr. Fauci, who has emerged as perhaps the nation’s most respected voice during the coronavirus crisis, is one of four top government doctors scheduled to testify remotely at a high-profile hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
It will be his first appearance before Congress since President Trump declared a national emergency in March, and a chance for him to address lawmakers and the public without President Trump by his side. He has been largely out of public view since last week, when Mr. Trump abandoned his daily briefings with his coronavirus task force.
In an email to the New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg late Monday night, Dr. Fauci laid out what he intended to tell senators.
“The major message that I wish to convey to the Senate HLP committee tomorrow is the danger of trying to open the country prematurely,” he wrote. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”…
“We’re not reopening based on science,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re reopening based on politics, ideology and public pressure. And I think it’s going to end badly.”
The much-feared second wave of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say. Instead, it may become a series of wavelets occurring unpredictably across the country…
Biden statistically tied with Trump in Ohio—a state that demographically has been changing in favor of Republicans for years. If Biden improves on traditional Dem numbers with older whites nationally, hard to see how Trump pulls it out https://t.co/gqojQXDrdj
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) May 12, 2020
Biden's lead is the steadiest on record dating back since at least 1944. Up by 6 since April 1. Up by 6 since Jan 1. Up by 6 since Jan 1, 2019. Also, early steadiness does seem correlated with less fluctuation as we get closer to E-Day. https://t.co/0GB1GZSxuK
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) May 10, 2020
Poll of the week: A new Monmouth University poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 50% to 41%. When Rep. Justin Amash is included as the Libertarian Party candidate, it’s Biden 47%, Trump 40% and Amash 5%.
The poll is largely in line with the average poll since April that puts Biden 6 points ahead of Trump nationally.
What’s the point: Biden’s lead is about as steady as it can possibly be. Not only is he up 6 points over the last month or so, but the average of polls since the beginning of the year has him ahead by 6 points. Moreover, all the polls taken since the beginning of 2019 have him up 6 points.
The steadiness in the polls is record breaking. Biden’s advantage is the steadiest in a race with an incumbent running since at least 1944…
"Biden will probably always be an analog candidate in a digital world. But considering how exhausted many Americans are with a president who governs by tweet, an analog candidate may be exactly what the electorate is looking for."https://t.co/f7Z2UQaGHA
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) May 11, 2020
… Political operatives and journalists have a tendency to size up campaigns based on the size of their campaign apparatuses. Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign looked indestructible because his digital footprint was so enormous, he could generate a huge crowd almost anywhere he went. Mike Bloomberg seemed unstoppable because he had hired thousands of field staff, stuffed mailboxes and flooded the airwaves. Now Trump looms large because of his massive war chest and his campaign’s digital savvy, and Biden’s campaign has responded in recent days by hiring several prominent digital strategists from the campaigns of former rivals Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Beto O’Rourke.
But piles of money and social media engagements don’t matter if your fundamental argument falls flat…
From mid-March to mid-April to today, despite Trump’s much-ballyhooed digital advantage, Biden has maintained a stable lead in nearly every national and swing state poll. In the past four national polls, Biden’s lead has ranged from 3 percentage points to 9 points. While in theory Trump can still win the Electoral College while losing the national popular vote, current swing-state polling suggests he won’t. The Electoral-Vote.com snapshot of the latest state polling gives Biden a whopping 352–148 Electoral College lead…
Should Biden run as if the race will come down to handful of votes? Of course. Should he build the best digital operation he can to help connect with hard-to-reach voters? Absolutely. But gutting out a narrow win should be a campaign’s Plan B. Plan A should be to win the argument, decisively. That’s how Biden won the primary. All available data strongly suggests he’s winning today…
Greatness is next year with Biden https://t.co/q93ML2G7dl
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) May 11, 2020
Mustang Bobby
Really? I’m the first? That’s gotta be a first.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech. Fuckin’ Charlie’s remuda kept me up half the damned night. I’m still bruised to fuck from the last bout just 5 or 6 day ago. I tried to preempt them with vicodin at dinner. Fat lotta good it did me. We’ll see how long I last this AM.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Yutsano
@Mustang Bobby: Heh. You East Coast cheater*.
*I really am going back to sleep now. Just a tough night of gastrointestinal distress.
Baud
@Mustang Bobby: Savor the glory.
@rikyrah: Good morning.
CarolDuhart2
In many ways, this is a bad sign for Trump. The steadiness means that a lot of people have already made up their minds about Biden. They are ready to move on from Trump-and were back in January of 2019. What can you do if you are Trump? Moving infrequent voters to vote for you is hard, even without the corona. With the corona, a lot of those people may look at Biden, realize that nothing bad will happen with him in charge, and decide to stay home rather than risk getting the virus. In addition, a record number of early voters and absentee/mail voters may vote before 10/1, which means that last-minute moves wont work anymore. And about those last minute moves-people already know Joe, so what about those:?
rikyrah
Great Biden ad
Baud
Re Biden, remember from the primary that a lot of voters make their decision late. Keep the pedal to the metal the whole way.
Yutsano
@rikyrah: おはよーございます!
Amir Khalid
@Yutsano:
I’ve had nights like that too. Hope you feel better soon.
Mai naem mobile
I don’t know if Biden is using Bloomberg’s ad guys but his ads have been really good. Ofcourse, Trumpov basically creates the ad for you so the work is easy.
Bruuuuce
From the good news/bad news files:
I’m high risk (59, diabetes, history of CHF), but I’ve managed to stay huddled in the apartment for about 50 days now, with two young adult offspring to go out to do grocery shopping and other errands. Plus, while New York has been on PAUSE, alternate side of the street parking rules have been suspended.
But we’re doing somewhat better here in the epicenter of the epicenter (I live six blocks from Elmhurst Hospital), and our illustrious May-He-Have-A-Chronic-Groin-Rash Mayor has decided that the streets need to be cleaned more than we who can need to stay hermetically (hermit-ically?) sealed, so he’s reinstating alt-side next week, then re-suspending it for the following two weeks.
I guess I’ll use the time to drive over and pick up some items that the kids can’t realistically bring home on the subway. But damn, I dread the idea of going out.
debbie
I think the Supreme Court arguments today will generate a Trumpnado. Lash ’em down, boys!
Jeffro
352-148 EVs?
Can I say it again? I’m gonna say it again: six loooooooooooonnnnnng months ahead for ya, GOP! =)
debbie
@Mai naem mobile:
I wish they’d drop the “he doesn’t understand” line. It’s not that Trump doesn’t understand; it’s that he doesn’t care. His only care now is his reelection, and he is willing to sacrifice however many lives (especially “blue” lives) that may take.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mai naem mobile:
I actively enjoy watching Biden’s ads. They’re brutal.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
It’s amazing, just about everywhere the virus numbers have been good and Trump’s self-indulgence in having a temper-tantrum have over shadowed it. It really feels like Trump wants to crash and economy and bring on an even bigger wave of the virus because how the virus was dealt with the way he wanted.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Grrrr
RF, which your goddamn cellphone, the GPS in your car, and wireless devices use , is analog, you goddamn ignorant, puffed up, moppet of a literature major. Talk about missing the point about Biden’s strong fundamentals over Trump’s appearances.
Gin & Tonic
@Mai naem mobile: Bloomberg laid off all his campaign people like a week after Super Tuesday.
Baud
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Here’s a bit of Trump trivia; Trump’s grandfather died of the Spanish Flue and his inheritance was how Fred Trump got his start to make his money (the Head Office line “to think I came to this town with only a lousy million in my pocket”) I wouldn’t be to surprised if daddy taught little Donny that mass death and destruction is a good thing so that’s why Trump doesn’t care if millions of Americans die, just means more money to the relatives of the survivors.
Matt McIrvin
That Ohio poll is actually the best one for Trump there in a while, that I’ve seen–Biden had been leading in earlier ones–but IIRC Emerson’s numbers also run more Republican than many.
stinger
@Mustang Bobby: You’ve always been first in my book!
Looking at clips yesterday of Trump going off on GY-nah! during his presser — just now during the local morning news/weather, I saw a long Trump2020 ad showing how much Biden luvvvs China and how his position for/against China has changed.
Just wondering if the two are related. I don’t see anti-China as being a particularly strong re-election argument, but maybe his campaign manager (Jared?) does.
SFAW
Am I the only one bothered by the “Biden’s got the steadiest lead EVAH” story line? Given how badly the Murderer-in-Chief has fucked over the economy and US citizens’ health in general, Biden’s lead should have increased a few points. Especially after all the apocryphal horse-race stories about “olds are shifting away from the Murderer-in-Chief.” In addition, according to (at least some) polls, Amash seems to be taking votes away from Biden more than from the Murderer-in-Chief.
I vaguely recall Hillary beating the crap out of Trump in polling during Spring 2016
ETA: And since I’m in whiny-asshole mode: can we STOP, JUST FUCKING STOP with the “statistically tied” hot take on polling data? They’re not “statistically tied” in Ohio; the Murderer-in-Chief is leading, but Biden is within the margin of error. And, amazingly enough, the margin goes in both directions.
geg6
@debbie:
Or Fauci’s testimony in the Senate will set it off.
Bruuuuce
I wish Yertle McConnell had just used the phrase he so obviously had in mind (starting with “uppity”) when he made the statement that President Obama “should have kept his mouth shut”. It’s not like we can’t hear it clearly, but getting it on the record would have made his long-time motives clear to the last few people who don’t understand them.
Baud
This should help her in the Veep sweepstakes.
Baud
@SFAW:
Hillary always beat Trump in the polls, but the polls fluctuated wildly IIRC, depending on the bullshit of the day.
Trump is polling near 40%. Almost no presidential candidate loses less than 40% of the vote.
His base knows to stick with him when asked by a pollster. The question is whether they come out to vote for him when it’s time to take action.
WereBear
If this were COVID-19, the movie, we would have to go black comedy.
Because it’s simply unbelieveable.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
And Trump was not an incumbent. I don’t understand these things, but I guess even a horrific incumbent has an edge, witness GWB vs. Kerry.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: It’s getting better now thanks. I’m at the point where I don’t trust things coming out of my butt. Access to adult diapers is helping there.
I also downloaded the Babbel app. I selected Norwegian but Bahasa Indonesia is an option. I haven’t shelled out for it yet but I might just do that. I know there are some differences between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu but I figure it’s close enough. Now to research if Malaysia restricts Baha’is from entering the country…
Baud
NickM
I’ve been checking in 538’s composites every day for weeks and it’s stunning that Trump is at a rock-steady 43-44% approval every day, no matter what happens. Yes, it’s still low, but it’s stunning that nothing – drinking bleach, thousands of deaths, testing chloroquine on veterans, whatever- shakes that 43%. What world are they living in?
Baud
@NickM:
They are living in a world in which solidarity is the only thing that prevents liberal values from destroying their culture.
SFAW
@Baud:
They fluctuated as a function of a number of things, including: Comey’s two thumb-on-the-scales pressers, the aftermath of the RNC and DNC conventions (which happens every cycle anyway), various FTFTFNYT articles screwing-over Hillary, etc. But I think those started in Summer. [For example, Comey’s first presser was in July, I think.]
I’m tired of the whole horse-race coverage, especially at this point in the cycle, and I’m tired of the idiotic “this morning’s polling from Joe’s Polling Emporium and Sub Shop LLC showed a large Biden lead, but this afternoon’s numbers from Cabela’s show Trump taking back the lead!! OMFG!!!” articles and tweets.
As I said earlier, I’m in whiny-asshole mode.
p.a.
I guess there’s no way for a President-elect to exert any pressure on the FBI to lock down all the digital and paper records of the outgoing before the inauguration to preserve evidence. Using proper DoJ channels would of course be a non-starter, but after being called trash and scum by trump you know there’s a reservoir of people in the IC who would like nothing better than help preserve evidence for prosecutions.
SFAW
@Baud:
Unfortunately, you are correct. And, of course, morons that they are, they’re overlooking that RWMF/”conservative” values are actually what’s doing the damage, and that liberal values are what could/would save them/it.
Baud
@p.a.:
It’s illegal to destroy federal records. Very few people will be willing to risk prison for Trump, especially after he loses.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Yesterday sucked for me. I’ve been going into the office a few days a week, and done most of the grocery and hardware/Home Depot runs. I got tasked yesterday with mailing a package and picking up some clay pots, potting soil, another petunia tray and a hoe. Tried WalMart and Tractor Supply, but no clay pots, so that meant going further to run the Home Depot gauntlet.
I was fine when I arrived, but between all the inventory temporarily clogging aisles (they’d shifted plants inside because of frost the night before) and the fact that the crowds of folks moving about were wearing masks at about a 98% compliance rate, I really freaked out. Not seeing full faces really bothered me – I started panicking, shaking a bit and had a genuine urge to just flop in an aisle and just plain give up. It just felt hopeless, like there’s no future.
Needless to say, I didn’t go to work, and had to take meds.
To top off a shitty day, the dog (a Tervuren) had a seizure around midnight. Woke me up, flopping about on the bedroom floor. He’d only had one other set a few years ago. Apparently, there’s a high genetic likelihood for this. I kept him still and comforted him – it was just a few minutes, but sleep was a little tough for me after, because I was listening for a recurrence.
stinger
@NickM: He boasted of grabbing pussies, made fun of physically handicapped people, insulted Gold Star families — during the last election run-up I kept thinking, “Now this will sink his campaign” and nothing ever did. I don’t get it either.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Ugh. I’m sorry.
Mary G
Fauci’s already announced that the Republicans’ spin on the virus and mania on reopening too soon is going to get a shitload of people killed and that’ll be all over the again tomorrow. Plus the Supremes hear arguments about tax returns tomorrow, and they’re Twitler’s last resort. So he’s gotta be in a MOOD.
prostratedragon
Somewhat related, Fascists and Art: The Brazilian Case.
The opposition sings back: Samba school of Mangueira performs main samba from 2020 Carnaval, by Manu da Cuica
SFAW
@Baud:
This is probably a stupid question, but: are election records federal, or state? I thought the time/place/manner of voting is regulated by the individual states, even for federal/national office. Amazingly enough, I’m not trying to be a smartass.
Kay
This is a real problem in Ohio. We can’t get anyone thru and approved. They’ve been waiting weeks and now the expanded eligibility finally seems to be up and running but we’re getting so many designated as not eligible. I had hoped they would start getting paid by May 15. This is the expanded eligibility under the federal rule- ordinary unemployment and shared work are going well.
Really disappointing. It’s compounded by the fact that they have been waiting and were relying on it.
I called Sherrod Brown yesterday- his staff are usually really responsive. I’ll try Marcy Kaptur today. I think the problem is how they’re counting their gross. It needs to be spread out as an average because it varies so much. It’s bad enough that it feels deliberate- like they’re making it hard on purpose.
Baud
@SFAW:
I’m not sure what election records are, but I’d imagine they are mostly state.
Cheryl from Maryland
The Politico article (well Politico) reminded me of conversations with my supervisors, who after the 2008 Great Recession wanted to move from making museums exhibitions to apps. They did not understand that online/digital, etc. is the delivery system. Digital can affect content in potential audiences, style (TV has shorter scenes as more commercials are injected into a show), visuals (slightly less polished is deemed more authentic). But, one always needs content, and content and the work to create it doesn’t change much — storyline and visuals. FYI, my bosses gave up as they didn’t understand apps, they just thought apps were cool and magical.
debbie
@geg6:
Some think he will be blocked from testifying at the last minute.
debbie
@Baud:
And yet, there he is tearing up every piece of paper that crosses his desk.
SFAW
@stinger:
Baud’s comment @ 34, along with prevalent
racismeconomic anxiety, are core “values” with his supporters, and those sentiments seem to be unaffected by reality.Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@debbie:
Nothing prevents him from just showing up and giving testimony to a House committee.
Amir Khalid
@Yutsano:
This video, by a Canadian language enthusiast, explains the differences and similarities between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia, the two standard forms of Bahasa Melayu.
I know Malaysians who are Baha’i. As far as I know, there is no discrimination here, official or social, against that faith community.
JPL
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That’s rough, and I hope your day brings you some needed rest.
btw trump is on a twitter tear this morning. Once again he’s suggesting Morning Joe murdered an aide, etc. etc. etc.
Baud
@JPL:
Oh, I hope Mila takes that accusation as seriously as the accusations against Biden.
Maybe Morning Joe should open up his papers so we can investigate.
Gin & Tonic
I get a daily e-mail from Dictionary.com called “Word of the Day.” Today’s word is “cleek.”
NotMax
Well that was different. Stretched out on the couch at 6 p.m. to rest my eyes, maybe grab a snoozelet.
Awakened a full 8 hours later.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Oh wow. I’m sorry. Take it easy today.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Actually, you’re still asleep. This thread is all a dream.
Chyron HR
@JPL:
So do we, to be fair.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ll take your word for it. When I tried to read it, all I get is something about pie.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@stinger:
I saw a Biden ad on twitter this morning about Trump shipping PPE to China. What made it perfecto was that the clip of the cargo ship and chyron were from a Fox channel. A local channel, I grant, but still.
Clearly Biden is trying to make it hard for Trump to accuse him of being soft on China. And Biden has footage
WereBear
@Baud: Having grown up in Trump culture, I can say it sucks and the sooner it dies the better.
NickM
@Baud: Never heard it put quite that way but you are right on target. With political acumen like that, you ever thought of running for office?
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Biden was on GMA and the full interview is on their twitter feed. GMA
Nicole
@WereBear:
Yeah, I’m with you. I’ve cut some people I’ve known since childhood out of my life during the past 4 years and it’s amazing how their petty meanness lingers- I recall terrible racist and homophobic and sexist things they’ve said and done over the years and I find it very hard to wish them well going forward. Like, I read that Sweet Tomatoes had closed, and that was one of the places one of these people LIVED to go to, and I could not help but think, “Good.”
(My sympathies to any b-j readers who are also mourning the demise of Sweet Tomatoes, though)
On a happier note, the hole-in-the-wall bodega around the corner from us, owned by a family from Yemen, closed in late March but has now just reopened. Not 24 hour anymore, but they’re back. I’m so glad; they stayed open through Hurricane Sandy, through blizzards; it was crushing to think of them gone. And I love the new sign in the window: “No mask no gloves NO SERVICE.”
Soprano2
@NickM: They live in an alternate reality where Trump is a hero slaying all the liberal dragons. My other simple answer to this has always been that he hates the same people they do, and he gives them permission to hate them openly. If you think of it not as a political party but as a cult, that makes it a lot easier to understand.
Oh, and they’re not that unhappy with the virus because in their eyes it’s killing all the ‘right’ people – black and brown people in cities, people in prisons, and those immigrants who are “taking our jobs”. They’re willing to sacrifice some people in nursing homes to get rid of people in the other three categories. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all the “open up” protests started once the statistics on who was dying started coming out. I think they honestly believe the virus won’t get them, or if they get it they won’t die, that’s why they want everything to open up. This pandemic has truly exposed the “party of life” for what it really is – the “party of controlling women’s bodies”.
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Sweet.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Yutsano: My second year of grad school, my roommate was from Indonesia, my GF was Malay; they had no trouble communicating.
danielx
@Soprano2:
It’s theological at this point – they believe in Trump the way they believe in Baby Jeebus, except that Trump – as you noted – doesn’t clutter things up with all that love-thy-neighbor bullshit. Makes things a lot easier.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
Absolutely correct, and having lived in it, that culture is built top to bottom on bigotry and hate. They are in real danger of losing it, of losing their ability to shit all over everyone else freely. They’re not imagining it and they have been watching this process move faster and faster for generations. They are at panic stage.
JMG
It’s important to remember that the “open up now” people are a distinct minority, somewhere between 20 and 33 percent depending on the poll. So given Trump’s baseline 43 percent or so of support, there are folks on his side who don’t want to reopen, lots of them.
Kay
Looking at the emails they’re getting it seems many of them applied for “regular unemployment” because expanded was not available as n option and were turned down for that but are now getting emails that they must apply for “expanded” so some of this is still playing catch up, I suppose.
I just wish there were more of a sense of urgency with these programs. They must understand that if you’re a beauty shop worker who is not an “employee” you just don’t fucking HAVE reserve money. They make like 20k a year when they “rent” those chairs. Why would they have reserve money? Republicans should be aware that if these people can’t get money I’m sending them to get food stamps, where they will then be informed they qualify for Medicaid. Choose. Spend it now or spend more later. I’m putting them on everything. :)
sanjeevs
@NickM: Trump’s approval has been steady in the low 40s but in Monmouth at least his strong approval is down from mid thirties to mid twenties.
cmorenc
@NickM:
MAGAs are living in a world where Michael Flynn is a patriotic hero and the dismissal of charges against him by DOJ is an event worth celebrating. And of course, a world where the whole COV thing is the same or milder than the impact from normal flu seasons, the whole shutdown is a farce unjustly keeping people from working and violating civil liberties YADDA YADDA YADDA.
If you have any relatives who are MAGAs, their Facebook Pages will confirm the above. If you can stand to look.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: Yes, and the “margin of error” can be misleading too: it’s about random sampling error, not any systematic bias that might be in the poll. By aggregating several polls one can effectively reduce the MoE, and establish a solid lead among candidates who are “statistically tied”. But if they’ve all got the same systematic bias, that won’t help you at all. MoE both understates and overstates the actual uncertainty, in different senses.
In this case, we only have the one poll with a Trump lead–there are several from earlier this year and late last year in which Biden led in Ohio.
But I think we can discount everything from before COVID really started to bite.
It does feed my suspicions that on balance COVID has helped Trump. But I do have to amend that–the polls in which Trump’s national floor has risen since COVID are of “all adults”; you can’t really see it in registered-voter polls. I suspect the people who rate him highest on his handling of the crisis are the people with the least propensity to vote.
Bruuuuce
@Matt McIrvin:
Maybe the second-least, after the online wannabe radical left youth who most resemble his base.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud:
Remember, voting and approval are different. This is higher than Trump’s personal approval rating on Election Day 2016, which was around 38%. It all depends on how much people love or hate the opponent.
mrmoshpotato
@CarolDuhart2:
So it’s great news for John McCain!
debbie
@Kay:
I remember the lag in setting up that second system. Thanks, Husted!
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Maybe he’ll storm off from today’s media questioning too! Fucking Soviet shitpile mobster manchild!
LOL
Eural Joiner
@stinger: re “I don’t get it either”
…until I did. It’s when, sadly, I realized quite a few of my (now former) friends and family members were just really horrible, horrible people who lived their lives behind a mask of civility. Trump allows them to take it off and it is heartbreaking to live with that truth.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW:
As Bob Cesca says, “Don’t get happy.”
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
We call that “sleep” on the mainland. It’s normal. No need for alarm.
Jeffro
Biden/Warren 2020 or Biden/Harris 2020 need to remind trumpov & Co. (publicly and loudly) of this on a weekly basis
WaterGirl
@geg6: It was a smart move for Fauci to publicize what he was going to say before Trump could stop him from testifying.
Brix on the other hand, is turning out to be the toady I thought she was at the very first (and only) “press conference” I watched. That was the one with all the rich CEOs.
Scratch that, he has surely brought you more rich CEOs since then. It was the first set of CEOs.
WaterGirl
@Bruuuuce: My first thought was “boy” rather than “uppity”. The words do have something in common, though.
BruceFromOhio
@Eural Joiner: Yup, seen this too. Its the herrenvolk that put the Gaia-damned Nazi’s in power all over again. What irks me is they don’t even realize it; if it was a “Yes, I’m a white-power nationalist seeking the return of fascism!” decision, I can understand that, even as it is destructive and disgusting, at least it’s conscious.
Today’s herrenvolk are just idiots, without empathy or self-awareness, treading a path of least resistance, to the ruin of everything.
Jeffro
VERY irritated at the usually on-point Catherine Rampell and WaPo: why is this piece titled “Washington…” when it should be “The GOP can’t be depended upon to help America”???
WaterGirl
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: That sucks big time. All of it.
One word about your dog’s seizure? Two decades ago, one of my dogs had occasional seizures. We kept them pretty well under control so they were a rarity.
For some reason, stress can make a big difference, and they definitely pick up on our stress.
But the day my -ex left me, my dog had 4 seizures in one day.
Jeffro
Mods please help w/ comment #88 – too many block quotes or something?
Miss Bianca
@Baud: Veepstakes?
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Oh, you mainlanders and your impenetrable jargon.
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Hehehehehe.
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: Hey Jeffro,
There are a zillion links in this post, so it went into moderation. Released just now.
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
Too many links! I the limit is now seven.