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Sticking to their own side.https://t.co/STdWx4gtvP pic.twitter.com/d5dNVxTHMT
— Tom Toles (@TomTolesToons) July 27, 2020
Gonna be hard for the Friday Doc Dump to top yesterday’s headlines, but I’m sure the GOP Death Cult will do their best!
Here’s the day so far: it’s 11:22am pic.twitter.com/iUKAH3qYza
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 30, 2020
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“and before I go I’d like to give all of you a very special personal gift, a cocktail napkin I’ve been coughing into” https://t.co/3jefqx9Qod
— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 29, 2020
a good rule of thumb is take whatever opinion you have of these people as human garbage and remember it’s always ten times worse https://t.co/jQi8wbR35I
— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 29, 2020
My God this gets even worse. Louie Gohmert is a horrible human being. https://t.co/ELLr8LGepZ
— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) July 29, 2020
Does McConnell's proposed liability protection extend to Congress as an employer?
— Michael Link (@MichaelLink) July 29, 2020
There’s always another shoe to drop…
ACTUALLY… here is a video of AG Barr and Gohmert.
While Barr arrived with a mask, it was off when he walked into the hearing room, so both men were not wearing masks at this time. pic.twitter.com/xm6wuq6QvW
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) July 29, 2020
Justice Dept. Spokeswoman Kerri Kupec says "The Attorney General will be tested today."
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) July 29, 2020
And, presumably, at intervals for the next three weeks.
Another thing to think about is which members shared the mic after Gohmert questioned Barr.
He is the 4th most senior GOP member of the Judiciary Committee and therefore among the earliest Republicans to question Barr.
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) July 29, 2020
“I swear, I must’ve gotten it off a toilet seat Louie Gohmert’s spittle-flecked mic.”
The way 2020 is going, no more of them will get the ‘rona — or at least they’ll have sufficiently weak cases to pretend they didn’t get it — which their fellow death cultists will insist ‘proves’ that it’s ALL A HOAX WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!…
I don’t know why after four years of this there’s still a prevailing opinion the GOP could somehow exit this in any functional state. there’s only dysfunctional states at various paces of dysfunction, so this is like arguing over what station is on the radio as the bus crashes https://t.co/EhQLh4ZdC1
— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 29, 2020
answer: it literally does not matter
— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 29, 2020
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I know I can’t throw the first stone on appearance, but he looks like his 14 words are the Big Mac jingle pic.twitter.com/e5KhU1a0Q1
— SellOffPuertoRicoHat (@Popehat) July 11, 2020
Some of you may have seen that Tucker Carlson’s head writer got busted last week for posting approximately the same stuff he writes for Tucker Carlson (and also the Daily Caller), but without the all-important reputation-protective asterisks.
I genuinely, unironically, do not understand why the red line is posting racist things online under a pseudonym and not turning in equally explicit racist things as work product for the country's big cable new show https://t.co/gA6XIOhs8f
— Climate Doomer (@MenshevikM) July 11, 2020
shocked to learn that an 8chan poster was at least at one point employed https://t.co/tvyEKG21S4
— The Online-Normie Complex (@canderaid) July 12, 2020
Since Faux News advertisers have been abandoning Carlson’s show in droves, the immediate outcome was predictable:
Tucker Carlson responds to his head writer being a white supremacist ghoul by threatening the people who exposed him pic.twitter.com/FBb02PmpUn
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 14, 2020
“Shock twist!”
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You have my full support!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2020
Not to pick on Mr. West, because he’s biochemically wired for the occasional grandiose overstatement.
Elon Musk, however, is hereby confirmed as a giant unrepentant dick.
Worsts July 4th party of the year…
pretty sparse crowd out here at this gun weirdo event outside the capitol in richmond. the speaker just cheekily asked how many people here are racists, expecting everyone to say none, and three guys in skull masks gave a hitler salute. pic.twitter.com/HviBVYtz0C
— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 4, 2020
Angry violent mobs with no respect for private property are boarding ships and throwing chests of tea into the Atlantic. Very Unamerican. Vote for me I will crush the mobs https://t.co/ZW3PH5nUU5
— Kerry Howley (@KerryHowley) July 4, 2020
His heart isn’t in it, and neither is his mouth, tongue, or teeth https://t.co/qVkgcKYJA5
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2020
Hello, Senator. Have you met Mr. Donald J. Trump? He is the president of the Vladimir Putin Fan Club, the Kim Jong Un Stanning Society, the Recep Tayyip Erdogan BFF Association and, I hear, of something else as well. https://t.co/IMwq1EFZFe
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) July 4, 2020
Twice as many Civil War soldiers died of disease than died in battle but you go on with your bad self, ma’am. https://t.co/v5QQYdA0xU
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 3, 2020
bring it https://t.co/dsGop5dyJ9 pic.twitter.com/HYstz9ykjC
— Viridian Forest Autonomous Zone (@weedlewobble) July 5, 2020
This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes, Just Shut the Fuck Up
This fucking idiot:
Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday took his most drastic action yet to respond to the post-reopening coronavirus surge in Texas, shutting bars back down and scaling back restaurant capacity to 50%.
He also shut down river-rafting trips, which have been blamed for a swift rise in cases in Hays County, and banned outdoor gatherings of over 100 people unless local officials approve.
“At this time, it is clear that the rise in cases is largely driven by certain types of activities, including Texans congregating in bars,” Abbott said in a news release. “The actions in this executive order are essential to our mission to swiftly contain this virus and protect public health.”
Bars must close at noon Friday, and the reduction in restaurant capacity takes effect Monday. Before Abbott’s announcement Friday, bars were able to operate at 50% capacity and restaurants at 75% capacity.
“At this time.” Let that sink in. “AT THIS TIME.” Motherfucker this was clear MONTHS ago and why every state run by reasonable, sane, people, including my redneck gomer Jim Justice and right wing anti-abortion nutjob Mike Dewine in Oho shut their fucking states down. “AT THIS TIME.” Fuck you.
Side note- some days I worry that I am losing control of the English language, because I am so exasperated with these people that all I can muster half the time is “fucking asshole” or “this fucking idiot” or “you stupid cocksucker” or something similar. I tried to come up with something different to begin this, and sat there for five minutes, and really all I could write was “This fucking idiot.” It’s just where I am now, so humor me.
Back to the point- this has been obvious for, well, in 2020 terms where every day is a week and every week is a month and every month is the longest century ever, this has been obvious for fucking ever. People with an iq over room temperature have been expecting a second wave since the start of this thing. Where they erred was that YOU FUCKING PEOPLE ARE SO AWFUL you never let us get out of the first god damned wave.
It didn’t have to be this way. Other civilized nations handled the crisis. I don’t know if it is the racism because these yokels in the south saw it hitting minority communities worse than other groups and said fuck it. I don’t know if it is just a fear of the base. I don’t know if they are just that fucking stupid. I don’t know if it is because they are greed pigs who only care about the stock market. I don’t know if they are just sociopaths who don’t care about other people. Probably some combination of all of the above plus the Baby Jeebus.
But it just didn’t have to be this way. After decades of rushing off to fight elective wars of choice, for once there is a battle we have to fight, and Republicans surrendered. And we had ample warning.
CHINA BUILT A FUCKING HOSPITAL IN TEN DAYS. That’s when I ordered masks and supplies, fer fuck’s sake. And I am no rocket surgeon. And I am bracing for the fall, when the supply chains and economy are really going to tank. I have a turkey picked out, I’m splitting a pig with a friend, I went in on a 1/4 cow with three others, I spent my stimulus check on raised beds and an irrigation system and mason jars and lids, and I am going to grow and can my ass off.
But it didn’t have to be this way. You stupid motherfuckers.
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I just don’t know what turns people so mean and bitter and racist. Regardless, I have been on a facebook purge.
I’m Completely Over 90% of My High School FriendsPost + Comments (163)
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This is insane:
“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post.
Trump’s posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter read, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”Within two-and-a-half hours of the post, Twitter had placed a warning label on it saying it glorified violence.
Facebook, by contrast, remained silent on the matter for 18 hours until Zuckerberg’s post appeared.
Justifying leaving the posts on Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg wrote, “We looked very closely at the post that discussed the protests in Minnesota to evaluate whether it violated our policies. Although the post had a troubling historical reference, we decided to leave it up because the National Guard references meant we read it as a warning about state action, and we think people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force. Our policy around incitement of violence allows discussion around state use of force, although I think today’s situation raises important questions about what potential limits of that discussion should be.”
Testifying before Congress in October, Zuckerberg said, “If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm … we will take that content down.” He was answering questions from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when he made the claim.
In case you need that interpreted, what it means is if you or I say “Kill the Jews,” it’s no bueno. But if we’re talking about a state policy of killing the Jews, well then that’s just a reasonable discussion.
I remembered giggling the first time I played CIV VI and one of the endgame government options was Corporate Libertarianism. I think about that a lot and it scares the hell out of me now.