A TALE OF THREE PEAKS- IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES [Muldoon]

In Colorado, between Ouray and Silverton, lies Red Mountain Pass, a narrow treacherous winding mountain road through the historic silver mining district. On one side is a sheer cliff and on the other side is a several hundred foot plunge into the ravine. Along the way are three peaks named Red Mountain #1, #2 and #3. I have often pondered how silly it would be to try to drive this road with your windshield blacked out, using only the curves of the road in the rearvview mirror to guide your steering. I tell you that story so that I can tell you this story:

With that in mind, let's revisit COVID in Colorado again. Colorado's Health Department graphs indicate that just like Red Mountain Pass, there have been three peaks of COVID "cases"since April. I would like to compare the three periods corresponding to these three peaks and dig into the numbers a little bit. Lets look at Peak #1, the week of April 12-18, Peak #2, the week of July 5-11, and Peak #3, the week of Sept. 27-Oct 3.

COVID TESTS (PCR)

In April (Peak #1), a total of 10,602 PCR tests were reported, and the 7-day overage of new daily positive tests peaked at 452 on April 19.

In mid-July (Peak #2), 58,976 PCR tests were reported,, 5.6 times as many tests as during Week 1. The 7-day average of new daily positive cases peaked at 571 on July 10.
For Week 3, 117,137 PCR tests were reported,, ~twice as many as Peak #2 and over 10 times as many as Peak #1, and behold, the 7-day average of new daily positive cases was hovering at just under 600 (higher than the peak number for either April or July).

TEST POSITIVITY RATE

In Peak #1 (April) test positivity rate exceeded 20%

In Peak #2 (July) test positivity had bumped up slightly to 5.5% from a low of 3.2% in early June.

Now in Peak #3 (October) the positivity rate is less than 4%.

HOSPITALIZATIONS AND DEATHS

April 12-18 there were 1,627 new hospital admissions and 233 COVID deaths.

July 5-11 there were 249 new hospital admissions, up from a minimum of 134/week in May , sevenfold fewer than in April. Deaths in this timeframe maxed at 37/week.

Sept 27-Oct 3 There were 239 new hospital admissions, up from another minimum of 134/week in early September, similar to the July bump and sevenfold fewer than April. There were 35 deaths that week.

Notably, Colorado has had single-digit daily reported COVID-related deaths(7-day average) every day since the end of May.

MASK ORDERS
The governor's initial mask mandate was on July 16, and the latest extension of the order on Oct. 11 coinciding with Peak #2 and Peak #3. There was no mask order during Peak #1

What can we gather from this?

1. When a virus exists within a large population, since many individuals have subclinical infection, the definition of what constitutes a "case" matter greatly. At a baseline prevalence in the range of even 3-5%,, increasing the total number of tests will give a corresponding rise in number of positive tests, irrespective of either the presence of actual disease or infectiousness of an individual.

2. Past trends are not necessarily predictive of future trajectories, especially in a complex dynamic system. Models are NOT real-life data.

3. The individuals being identified in the apparent peaks of July and late September are not getting sick or dying to anywhere near the extent of those in April, indicating that we are tracking merely the residual vestiges of an epidemic that has run its course.

4. Increasing the absolute number of tests run, while producing the illusion of a surge in cases, does not indicate a resurgence of the epidemic. It does not account for the consistently low case positivity rate, deaths and hospitalizations. Where are the second and third peaks for deaths and hospital admissions? They don't exist.

5. A positive PCR test does not equal a diagnosis of COVID.

As pointed out here, in July a minor uptick in hospitalizations prompted an exaggerated model suggesting a huge surge in hospitalizations was imminent, triggering the initial mask mandate. The huge surge never materialized.

I guess "progress" for Colorado is like traveling over Red Mountain Pass with the governor driving while relying solely on the appearance of the road in the rearview mirror, predicting the course of what the road might do. He's jerking the steering wheel back and forth with no idea where he is going. It's time for him to open his eyes

Posted by: Open Blogger at 06:41 PM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: Bete at October 14, 2020 06:42 PM (Ojki1)

2 Trump rally tonight will be fire. I am so excited

Posted by: Jmel at October 14, 2020 06:43 PM (bVhJi)

3 THRUST!

Posted by: Spooge - China is ho! at October 14, 2020 06:43 PM (ZSK0i)

4 Could have been a contender but I read the content.

Posted by: Archer at October 14, 2020 06:43 PM (gmo/4)

5 Huh, so stats lie, what do you think of that Mr. Clemens?

Posted by: Bete at October 14, 2020 06:44 PM (Ojki1)

6 I even signaled a fresh thread.

My good deed for the year.

Posted by: Bete at October 14, 2020 06:44 PM (Ojki1)

7 Twitter needs to be the subject of a cease and desist order then a monopoly investigation.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:44 PM (4NtsG)

8 Somehow this well thought out, reasonable post doesn't match the mood of the hordemind right now I feel like.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 06:45 PM (cnTJD)

9 Seems like misinformation to me. Kill the messenger.

Posted by: Twitter at October 14, 2020 06:45 PM (yp4vs)

10 First Trump, now Saban, guess we can put rest the "they are the devil" claim.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:45 PM (4NtsG)

11 Shorter Muldoon: This shit was all a scam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Hlbc+)

12 Show us your Charts and Graphs!

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Ukhq/)

13 But if you just all wore a mask all the time!!!!

REEEE!!

Posted by: Karens and BtH at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Ojki1)

14 Driven that a few times. Great country.

Posted by: jdubya_mesa_AZ at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (FQ2t6)

15 What time will big daddy be opening the jumbo can o whip ass tonight?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Vxu+H)

16 Open up the country!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (SRRAx)

17 The 'rona is a hoax, only lunatics, Slo and Karens don't get it.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (4NtsG)

18 I was told there would be no math.

Or stats and charts.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (+WWsf)

19 I've driven that road. Got snowed on. In July.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (SchxB)

20 No limerick?

Who are you and what have you done with Muldoon, Mr. "Open Blogger"??

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (3P/5p)

21 Twitter has locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing a New York Post article.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (xPl2J)

22 Damn fine coffee in Three Peaks.

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (Izzlo)

23 Hiya Muldoon !

Posted by: JT at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (arJlL)

24 I was kinda hoping for more of a Travelogue filled with Limerics and Punny Humor.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (Ukhq/)

25 CO governor is very into certain things

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (iTXRQ)

26 Rumor has it that the Dems are up in arms about Trump's latest attempt at voter suppression.

They're saying he locked the cemetery gates.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (Eicbe)

27 11 Shorter Muldoon: This shit was all a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Hlbc+)

We even put on the tin the masks didn't stop the spread of Corona, and you marks _still_ fell for it.

Posted by: Big Mask at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (Ojki1)

28 Shorter Muldoon: This shit was all a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You guys beat me to it.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (Rvt88)

29 Why do people persist in thinking that the Rona Panic has anything to do with health?? That's pretty much been debunked by now.

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (bCLt0)

30 Isn't Three Peaks the sequel to Twin Peaks?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (oVJmc)

31 Caller 32, are you there? Yo have five seconds.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (7RzBN)

32 Of course he's jerking the wheel back and forth.

He's a jerk. It's all he knows. He'd do that even if he could see the road.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (yp4vs)

33 Or the governor is on a power trip and his state expense report reveals an inordinate amount of money spent on athletic socks.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (a5ALn)

34 also if you ever have the chance to ride that road- Durango to Ouray- on a motorcycle, do it.

Thrills chills and dollar bills.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:49 PM (iTXRQ)

35 Colorado is what you get when you combine insane lefties with Bush RINOS who dont know how to fight, and is all like oh golly gee lets all just go along to get along like Chimpy McBushFag was.

Christ even their last government candidate was a Bush relative.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Impressing Amy Coney Barrett With My Manly Notepad at October 14, 2020 06:49 PM (gQBbJ)

36 Why do people persist in thinking that the Rona Panic has anything to do with health?? That's pretty much been debunked by now.
Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (bCLt0)
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Right now, I'm thinking it's mainly about 2 things.

Getting mask laws overturned, so that rioters can't be easily identified.

And making voting lines so long its offputting to go in person.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 06:49 PM (Eicbe)

37 I've got to type faster, willowed again.

In short, Michigan has been trending R for a while and things look better than polling might be indicating.
Posted by: Shenanigans
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Good info thanks.

This correlates with some other information I've seen in the last day or so.

1) Communities are very important toward voting patterns. A county will tend to vote in a similar voting pattern year over year. If you are doing a poll in a state, you really want to get representative samples from every region or county, otherwise you get bad results. So a registration advantage in counties that voted GOP is going to result in a GOP advantage in the next election.

2) The latest NYT poll of Michigan reports a huge lead for Biden. The problem with that poll is that it also claims that Democrat early votes in Michigan are 3 times higher than GOP early votes. This is not true, there is a service out there that is able to measure partisan voting, even in states like MI and VA that don't report party ID. The true current early vote is 1:1 between the parties.

The current activities of the Biden campaign indicate that they think Michigan is trending their way, similar to how the Trump campaign feels about Ohio. But that is probably a mistake, indications are that SE Michigan is trending similar to NE Ohio and NW Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 06:49 PM (5p7BC)

38 Polis is a creepy guy. Only nutters would vote for him. Says a lot about the state.

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (bCLt0)

39 21 Twitter has locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing a New York Post article.
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 14, 2020 06:47 PM (xPl2J)

Well, that's good. I'm glad our tech oligopoly is now censoring the press secretary of the president of the US.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (cnTJD)

40 30 Isn't Three Peaks the sequel to Twin Peaks?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 14, 2020 06:48 PM (oVJmc)

The mutant girl from Total Recall got a spinoff movie

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (Izzlo)

41 160 How come no Democrat ever says I'm no constitutional or legal expert so I'll pass on the opportunity to make an ass of myself

Because they're bitter that they're too ugly for Hellywood?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at October 13, 2020 10:26 PM (SchxB)

All in baby. All in.

Posted by: Twaighters at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (9dzlp)

42 I only read the intro so far.. will finish the rest in a minute..
But, several years ago we stayed on Ouray for a few nights with th plan of taking the highway south to Silverton and through the pass..
We got about a mile.. my wife is afraid of heights and I credit her for even attempting it.. But she was just scared sh*tless.. made me turn around.. no easy feat!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (CjFDo)

43 Masks WORK!

And I have proof.

No one has ever found a raccoon with Covid. NONE!

/truebeliever

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at October 14, 2020 06:51 PM (QzJWU)

44 Remember when groups like the ACLU would have been all over Twitter? Neither do I.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:51 PM (4NtsG)

45 Of course, the problem for all of us is the breathless way that newsreaders report on the number of cases Every.Stinking.Day.

These twatwaffles couldn't pass a statistics case of they wanted to, much less read a graph. Math is such an icky thing, y'know - it's all about the sexy pandemic porn stories and the feelz and how much they are HELPING out the little people watching their awesome selves.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at October 14, 2020 06:52 PM (SRRAx)

46 Trump needs to name and shame Facebook and Twitter tonight.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:52 PM (4NtsG)

47 >Or the governor is on a power trip and his state expense report reveals an inordinate amount of money spent on athletic socks.

well, he does suck a lot of penises
I know that has nothing to do with socks, but it's true

not sure if he pitches or catches

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:52 PM (iTXRQ)

48 They really are covering up for Heywood Joe Blome

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (9dzlp)

49 Dorsey has obviously gone Full Fascist. I prefer to think it's his Hail Mary Pass, an act of desperation ( but a pretty safe one, as I think about it, cause no one will do shit to him over it).

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (bCLt0)

50 @44: "Remember when groups like the ACLU ..."

Skokie '77 seems impossibly long ago.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (+WWsf)

51 also that road has no guardrails- this is so snowplows can push the snow right over the side- there's nowhere else to put it

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (iTXRQ)

52 Anyone who is a registered voter in CO can sing the Polesmoker Recall thru the 1st week in Nov.

Posted by: Infidel at werk at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (/oG9s)

53 Been over that pass a few times. I can only say that Colorado went over the edge and straight down into the depths of democratic hell. I blame the influx of Californians in the early 90s that sent Colorado into its current spiral.

Posted by: morigu at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (uD+HQ)

54 It looks like Ohio's chart. Had they just opened up in May we would be done with this by now. The hysteria is nuts.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (J70i0)

55 I see beer bottles.

More beer.

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (2F8zR)

56 49 Dorsey has obviously gone Full Fascist. I prefer to think it's his Hail Mary Pass, an act of desperation ( but a pretty safe one, as I think about it, cause no one will do shit to him over it).
Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (bCLt0)

He kind of comes off as a huge dope to me. Surrounded by manipulative SJW's and democrat activists.

But I could be wrong.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (cnTJD)

57 Great analysis, Muldoon. Thank you.

Posted by: Ladyl at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (TdMsT)

58 sing=sign

Posted by: Infidel at werk at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (/oG9s)

59 >( but a pretty safe one, as I think about it, cause no one will do shit to him over it).

nope

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (iTXRQ)

60 I drove that Million Dollar Highway once. I never did find a million dollars though.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Impressing Amy Coney Barrett With My Manly Notepad at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (gQBbJ)

61 QUALITY stuff Muldoon.

Appreciate you

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (ifmtJ)

62 THERE ARE THREE PEAKS!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (axyOa)

63 Dorsey has obviously gone Full Fascist. I prefer to
think it's his Hail Mary Pass, an act of desperation ( but a pretty safe
one, as I think about it, cause no one will do shit to him over it).

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (bCLt0)

They are going all in on this election. They will declare Biden the winner no matter what.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (J70i0)

64 Trump should threaten them directly - "If I am re-elected I will break the monopoly power Facebook and Twitter have over our thoughts and ideas."

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (4NtsG)

65 Early testing - March to June - ONLY included sick people... Here in Illinois, you had to have a doctor's order to get a test.. and they would not give an order for the test unless you were showing symptoms.
So.. no shit, Sherlock.. early testing showed more cases because they were only testing people with symptoms!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (CjFDo)

66 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

67 I only read the intro so far.. will finish the rest in a minute..
But, several years ago we stayed on Ouray for a few nights with th plan of taking the highway south to Silverton and through the pass..
We got about a mile.. my wife is afraid of heights and I credit her for even attempting it.. But she was just scared sh*tless.. made me turn around.. no easy feat!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

You should try the Ouray to Telluride road: Imogene Pass. You will never forget it.

Posted by: Joe Mama at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (kHg6S)

68 not sure if he pitches or catches

********

Embrace the power of AND

Posted by: Two Weeks From Impressing Amy Coney Barrett With My Manly Notepad at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (gQBbJ)

69
Dorsey has obviously gone Full Fascist. I prefer to think it's his Hail Mary Pass, an act of desperation ( but a pretty safe one, as I think about it, cause no one will do shit to him over it).
Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:53 PM (bCLt0)

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Of course they won't. The Senate GOP just sent out some little "see you soon, Jack" tweet.

See 'im soon, and what, fags? Nothin', that's what. Like every other time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (eXmcp)

70 He kind of comes off as a huge dope to me. Surrounded by manipulative SJW's and democrat activists.

But I could be wrong.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 06:54 PM (cnTJD)
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I concur with that.

I mean he bears the responsibility for his SJW squad, but it was mainly after he hired the Anti-sex League that Twitter went all fascist.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (Eicbe)

71 Savannah, GA's mayor, a bff with Andy Cuomo (he's a fellow New Yawker), still has a big banner across the front of the city courthouse: WEAR A MASK.

That fat BLM fucker is destroying tourism.

Oh, and last night I decided to watch a City Council meeting. What a damned treat.

One female AA councilwoman:

"We needs inertia in order to move forward."

Thanks, liberal and LIV voters. A pants load.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (ptqGC)

72 >I blame the influx of Californians in the early 90s that sent Colorado into its current spiral.
Posted by: morigu

the legalization of marijuana accelerated that decline-
it attracted a wave of human garbage to the state

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (iTXRQ)

73 Trump needs to name and shame Facebook and Twitter tonight.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:52 PM (4NtsG)

He will. And it will be glorious.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (5FCda)

74 A Muldoon original!

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (dyShS)

75 no offense to the regular bloggers but there's something virtuosic about this guy's writing

Posted by: xogocace at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (xg32G)

76 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

90%

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (J70i0)

77 5. . A positive PCR test does not equal a diagnosis of COVID.

I believe the CDC guidelines classify a positive test with NO symptoms a "suspected case", whatever that means.

Posted by: I M Simpleton at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (jQBOW)

78 >Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

6/5 and pick 'em

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (iTXRQ)

79 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

50/50

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (dyShS)

80 72

the legalization of marijuana accelerated that decline-
it attracted a wave of human garbage to the state
Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (iTXRQ)

I blame John Denver.

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (bCLt0)

81 Twitter has locked the account of White House Press Secretary @KayleighMcEnany

Posted by: navybrat, at large at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (w7KSn)

82 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?
Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)
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They have to. He's going to tweet out "misinformation" that he won.

Nobody will be able to tweet or farcebook-post the "unsubstantiated rumor" that Trump won.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (Eicbe)

83 Even the dipshit Governor of Texas, the execrable Abbott continues with this ridiculous charade of lockdowns and mask Kabuki. I don't know if he's got a Primary opponent yet, but I cannot wait to vote his dumb ass out.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (bzBJx)

84 I went over Wolf Creek Pass during a blizzard in a PT Cruiser. Not the smartest decision I've ever made but I got over and out in one piece.

Posted by: banana Dream at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (l6b3d)

85 If only there were FBI agents and Secret Service personnel white took oaths and meant them.

Financial forensics might not have gotten the applause deserved in the past, but if anyone out there who is capable of navigating this shit can do it, now is your time. But you have to give a shit about this country. I know there are people that can do this. But will they?

Posted by: Denny Crane! at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (7RzBN)

86 Rocky Mountain High

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (2F8zR)

87 66 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?
Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

200%

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (Kpl3J)

88 I recommend the linked article:

https://tinyurl.com/pandemic-hubris

If you want a good take down of Polis' overreliance on. models. Particularly the bit about the projected hospitalizations during the July "peak" compared to the actual number of hospitalizations. That road. didn't curve the way his worst-case modelers predicted.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (m45I2)

89 The best way into silverton is via narrow gauge steam locomotive originated from durango. Slow but beautiful. The horde should give it a go.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (0OmEj)

90 It's time for him to open his eyes

A wise man once said that a man won't see something if it's in his economic interest not to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (2JVJo)

91 I don't get the urgency from the left. The next time they're in the White House and have control of one or both houses of Congress, they can do all they want with bringing in illegals, packing the court, and making up new states to guarantee an majority going forward. If that's the plan, why not be patient? Sooner or later it will happen and once it does - hello single party rule. No reason to upset the apple cart and drive Joe Normie away. Let him think you're still the part of the working people fighting the rich fatcat republicans.

Posted by: KenW at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (dLkkp)

92 I heard someone say the other day "This Covid won't go away until we have A Plan!"

Not herd immunity. Not a vaccine. Not better therapeutics. Not an acceptable tradeoff of risk from a disease and the rest of society. But "A Plan."

This is the state of our Republic.

Posted by: Zek at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (lcQJG)

93 @56: "He kind of comes off as a huge dope to me. Surrounded by manipulative SJW's and democrat activists. But I could be wrong."

Jack quit as CEO back in '08, and his second act since '15 seems like nothing more than being a non-threatening "dude bro" figurehead.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (+WWsf)

94 Thank you Muldoon.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (W2Pud)

95 Look, fat... here's the deal. You can't drive blindfolded down a Parkinson lane. It's the thing.

Posted by: Sloe Joe Bit'em at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (3H9h1)

96 I'll keep Harris County at DefCon Threat Level Red FOREVER!

Posted by: County Emperor Hidalgo at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (DLzZd)

97 Twitter has locked the account of White House Press Secretary @KayleighMcEnany
Posted by: navybrat, at large at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (w7KSn)

Today?

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (dyShS)

98 90 It's time for him to open his eyes

A wise man once said that a man won't see something if it's in his economic interest not to.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (2JVJo)

Wise observation. My cruder take is " follow the money".

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (bCLt0)

99 'Wave of Human Garbage' was The Pixies Best Tune.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (dK9/t)

100 @76
It is a 100pct certainty that they will will lock down his account sometime before election day.

They will also move to block key people and influencers as well under contrived rationales.

This election is for all the cheese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (Hlbc+)

101 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

90%
Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 06:56 PM (J70i0)
*********
Whatever Kamala wants, Kamala gets.
Nancy too.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (+YYKs)

102 @66: "Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?"

Zero, but if he loses the election, then he'll be nuked for some petty reason before year's end.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (+WWsf)

103 Great analysis, Muldoon. Thank you.
Posted by: Ladyl

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (arJlL)

104 We'll see, but I think Twitter just crossed a line.

Pursuant to 18 USCS � 594, whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (5p7BC)

105 Trying to protect Biden??

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (dyShS)

106 JT!

Posted by: Ladyl at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (TdMsT)

107 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?
Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 06:55 PM (Izzlo)

That would be time to break out the military with extreme prejudice, IMO.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (2JVJo)

108 {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (bCLt0)

109 It looks like Ohio's chart. Had they just opened up in May we would be done with this by now. The hysteria is nuts.
Posted by: WOPR

Whoda thunk we'd have a bigger ass than Katshit in DeWine?

And just so there's no confusion campers, these are the (R)s no less.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (Rvt88)

110 @104

Does this mean we can look forward to a predawn raid on Zuckerman's house with a tipped off CNN standing by the film him being perp walked out in his pajamas?

Posted by: Zek at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (lcQJG)

111 83

Even the dipshit Governor of Texas, the execrable Abbott continues with
this ridiculous charade of lockdowns and mask Kabuki. I don't know if
he's got a Primary opponent yet, but I cannot wait to vote his dumb ass
out.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at October 14, 2020 06:57 PM (bzBJx)

_____
Only way he won't have one is if he doesn't run again. And my bet is he doesn't run again.

Posted by: sharksauce at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (DFZnL)

112 >> I heard someone say the other day "This Covid won't go away until we have A Plan!"

PANAMA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKDBPw8wQA

Posted by: VAN HALEN at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (dK9/t)

113 Yes, today, minutes ago.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (w7KSn)

114 Trying to protect Biden??
Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (dyShS)
---
I can't answer that as that would create headlines.

Posted by: Jack Dorsey at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (Eicbe)

115 Masks WORK!

And I have proof.

No one has ever found a raccoon with Covid. NONE!

No COVID infected clowns either.
Or Imperial stormtroopers.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (3P/5p)

116 {{{Tubal}}}

Gotta leave for a Zoom garden club meeting. Ugh.

Posted by: Ladyl at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (TdMsT)

117 Thanks, Muldoon. Locally, we have four close friends who are docs here, and they say the people hospitalized with COVID are insisting on hospitalization because they're afraid to be at home. So they're staying a couple of days and being discharged. Cases here have plummeted, but Mayor Muh Mask Mandate will not STFU.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (ptqGC)

118 Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (5p7BC)

We're beyond the law at this point.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (J70i0)

119 CO governor is very into certain things
Posted by: DB- just DB

Skiing, unchecked tyrannical power, and other men's asses.

But mostly... unchecked tyrannical power.

Y'all thought I was gonna say "mostly asses," didn't you?

Posted by: mikeski at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (P1f+c)

120 JT!
Posted by: Ladyl

Posted by: JT at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (arJlL)

121 They better explain it as a glitch...,and unlock it...

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (dyShS)

122 104 We'll see, but I think Twitter just crossed a line.

Pursuant to 18 USCS 594, whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 06:59 PM (5p7BC)

That's nice.

Posted by: DoJ, filing its fingernails at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (2F8zR)

123 116 {{{Tubal}}}

Gotta leave for a Zoom garden club meeting. Ugh.
Posted by: Ladyl at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (TdMsT)

Oh bummer. Well, have fun debating the meris of Foxglove.

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (bCLt0)

124 In Colorado are peaks one two three
They soar way above you and me.
In the valleys below
All are masked don't chase know
Except during afternoon tea.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 14, 2020 07:02 PM (axyOa)

125 I had two choices for my analogy. One was boobs, the other was mountain peaks. I knew you people would jump right to the boob comparison.

There actually ARE three Red Mountains. And they are all reddish in coloring. Whoever named them could have gone with Red Peak, Redder Peak and Reddest Peak, but the went with #1, #2 and #3 instead. Lazy bastidges!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 14, 2020 07:03 PM (m45I2)

126 They're saying he locked the cemetery gates.

It's no good without the link: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=RVMvART9kb8

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at October 14, 2020 07:03 PM (SchxB)

127 I just deleted my Twat account.

AoS and Parler for me (and occasionally descending into Gab and /qresearch, maybe).

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:03 PM (NiXyF)

128 281
Not here, on Twitter.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at October 14, 2020 07:03 PM (7RzBN)

129 Excellent Muldoon!

Next I'd like to see a breakdown of testing protocol during the peaks to determine the actual hospitalization and mortality.

I'm guessing that in the beginning, only individuals that were presenting extremely severe symptoms were being tested. From that, they manufactured the severity of the virus.

It would be like testing only individuals with open sores on their penis for herpes, then saying that a high percentage of those tested are positive and that most people with herpes will having oozing sores on their penis.

But if you sampled most of society, you'd probably find that very few individuals with herpes are presently exhibiting sores on their penis.

But instead, you test only those presenting symptoms, build a model, and then say anyone contracting herpes is surely doomed to exhibit oozing penis sores.

Create the severity, then apply the false severity to the general public. This was the strategy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at October 14, 2020 07:03 PM (3S65i)

130 holy sheep they just locked the press secretary's account?!?!

well I guess they're NOT waiting until the day before the election to silence Trump

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (j9HX3)

131 I just got like 19 job offers , you guys!

Posted by: Bruce Ohr at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (3P/5p)

132 Frankly I am far more worried about the gigantic wildfire to my west than I am the stupid wuhan.

The Cameron Peak fire in Northern CO blew up bigly last night because of high winds and very low humidity and we have been under a heavy cloud of smoke all day. Like friggin' Mordor.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (xPJvm)

133 Those stories of people getting "reinfected " are bogus. Correct?

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (dyShS)

134 We were hacked!

Posted by: New York Post at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (Eicbe)

135 117 Thanks, Muldoon. Locally, we have four close friends who are docs here, and they say the people hospitalized with COVID are insisting on hospitalization because they're afraid to be at home. So they're staying a couple of days and being discharged. Cases here have plummeted, but Mayor Muh Mask Mandate will not STFU.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2020 07:01 PM (ptqGC)

A young lady I used to date is an infectious decease doctor in queens. She has since stopped talking to me because she started dating someone else and thought it was weird, but that's neither here nor there.

But anyways, she said like 90% of her covid deaths were people who were on deaths door anyways, and that 50% of her hospitalizations were (in her words) hypochondriacs who would normally be sent home, but because of hospital policy, they were basically serving as a hotel for.

Apparently, and it makes sense but I've never really thought about it, there are a lot of people out there who show up at the hospital with relatively minor things all the time, and are normally sent home. But I guess they can't send them away during covid times. Anyways, that's been driving hospitalization rates a lot, at least her hospital

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (cnTJD)

136 And just so there's no confusion campers, these are the (R)s no less.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 07:00 PM (Rvt8

The sad thing is he was probably making the right moves early on. Lockdown for a month. Then slowly open things up. Instead he went into panic mode with his mask mandate and killed his approval rating. He seems like some people, overly afraid of this thing.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (J70i0)

137 holy sheep they just locked the press secretary's account?!?!

well I guess they're NOT waiting until the day before the election to silence Trump
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:04 PM (j9HX3)

That's why I killed Twat on my devices and bookmarks.

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (NiXyF)

138 Trump needs to tweet the link to the NY Post article and dare Twitter to suspend him.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (xPl2J)

139 I was just looking at the Texas COVID Dashboard, in which much the same thing is happening. Big peak in Cases and Fatalities in 1st or 2nd week of July. Fatalities have continued dropping even as case numbers are still rather high.

In July, at the peak, there were about 10,000 new cases per day, and about 250 fatalities per day. (remember Texas population is right at 30 million) Now, cases seem to be coming in at about 4,000 new cases per day, but fatalities are at about 40 per day and still dropping.

I think the best interpretation is that a lot of the cases now are asymptomatic, and also that the population getting them now is generally much younger and much healthier than before, since the at-risk cohort is now being mostly protected. Therefore, fatality rates are falling back in line with a bad flu like H1N1.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (Kpl3J)

140 @92: "92 I heard someone say the other day 'This Covid won't go away until we have A Plan!'"

France just announced a strict 9pm-6am curfew and lockdown in Paris and several other big cities. They're not saying they'll arrest anyone, but warning you "better have a very good reason" to be caught out late.

I'm starting to think the next six months until late spring 2021 are gonna be even more calamitous than the previous six months since COVID regulations hit the US.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (+WWsf)

141 Very nice, Muldoon.

Though none of it rhymed (just thought I'd point that out).

I believe CO, not content with following the ludicrous IHWE "model" (which has been a random number generator, like "climate change" garbage models), has its own useless and always-spectacularly-wrong model.

Oh, and even the meaningless "case" surge in the latter peak was not what "triggered the mask mandate" - that would be ignorance of relevant science and history, totalitarian impulses, and awareness of a dumbed-down compliant populace that will hop to your every capricious pointless ukaz.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (OTzUX)

142 It looks like Ohio's chart. Had they just opened up in May we would be done with this by now. The hysteria is nuts.
Posted by: WOPR

Further thoughts: It's weird here in the far northern suburbs of Cols. I never wear a mask. Today, I went grocery shopping and went into a restaurant to grab take out.

I was the only one without a mask on, and yet, no one made any effort to avoid me, no one gave me a dirty look or said anything negative to me and no one made any pretense of standing six feet away.

I don't know what to make of it other than most folks are just tired of fighting the powers that be and go along to get along. It's sad.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (Rvt88)

143 >>The Cameron Peak fire in Northern CO blew up bigly last night because of high winds and very low humidity and we have been under a heavy cloud of smoke all day. Like friggin' Mordor.

Holy Crap did it blow across the Divide last night!? 50+ MPH for hours.

Hopefully you are safe from the flames, and moisture should be on the way soon.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (K8YO7)

144 Thanks Muldoon for the rational perspective and facts to back it up. Truth be told my dad died during this pandemic and they listed him as a COVID victim. But we know that's not true, he had other comorbidities that were already killing him. But the coup de gras was the lockdown and lockout orders. We couldn't see him and that broke his heart. He was a strong man, Army Medic who had seen a lot. Smart as a whip with a PHD and several masters degrees. He never quit.

I will never forgive the governor and Democrats, not just for killing him, but causing him to die alone and not even be honored at a proper funeral. We still haven't been able to mourn him. May all behind this political stunt die in a slow burning fire. They are demons.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (Y07NH)

145 It doesn't rhyme!

Posted by: Weasel at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (MVjcR)

146 I heard someone say the other day 'This Covid won't go away until we have A Plan!'"
---
1. Trump "has no plan".
2. Biden has a plan.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (Eicbe)

147 Odds twitter finally blocks Trump's account before the election?

Posted by: josephistan

Why do you think they won't just re-write his comments into the most vile nasty things ever?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (ttBFI)

148 138 Trump needs to tweet the link to the NY Post article and dare Twitter to suspend him.
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (xPl2J)

Yeah, that's good.

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (2F8zR)

149 Holy crap, the Trump campaign is on point.

They play Phil Collins on the AF1 approach.

Goosebumps.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (5p7BC)

150 You can also say that based on this data, masks don't do shit.

If the initial mask order was July 16? And Hospital cases and deaths are statistically flat both BEFORE AND AFTER said order,

Then the order didn't do a damn thing, now did it?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (NgKpN)

151 O check Trump's tweet just now!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1316515656360099841

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (iTXRQ)

152 It is possible to ignore twitter and facebook.

Posted by: f'd at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (4oQS8)

153 >Trump needs to tweet the link to the NY Post article and dare Twitter to suspend him.

he just tweeted Fox News' coverage of the story

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (iTXRQ)

154 I'm bored of this virus it was an op all along

they're just keeping it alive at this point for the fear factor it's sad and pathetic

the pos results can be vestigial RNA it means nothing to come up pos on a PCR test esp ones with 30 plus cycles

it's all fake it's been fake whatever whatever whatever

meanwhile we're at war basically with BigTech

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:08 PM (j9HX3)

155 https://bit.ly/3j3XBkd
*******
BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Locked Out of Twitter For Sharing NY Post Article on Hunter Biden

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:08 PM (6p/Y6)

156 >Then the order didn't do a damn thing, now did it?

It helped The Right People protect their phoney baloney jobs!

harrumph!

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:08 PM (iTXRQ)

157 143 >>The Cameron Peak fire in Northern CO blew up bigly last night because of high winds and very low humidity and we have been under a heavy cloud of smoke all day. Like friggin' Mordor.

Holy Crap did it blow across the Divide last night!? 50+ MPH for hours.

Hopefully you are safe from the flames, and moisture should be on the way soon.
Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (K8YO7)

So, will we now here from some posters here that Colorado deserves this? As some posted here about California?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2020 07:08 PM (NgKpN)

158 Via Ukrainian Gas Expert Poso:

Text from a WH source:

"Let your people know, tonight could end up being one of the most insane rallies he's ever done. He's going after everyone."

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (5FCda)

159 When I was in college my two buddies and I decided to drive from Louisiana to Colorado in my 1977 Delta 88 to go skiing. We had driven all day across Texas and passed Amarillo after dark . We continued to drive in the pitch black and about 2 or 3 am my car started to sputter and finally just quit. We were in the middle of nowhere and decided to just sleep in the car until morning and take it from there. I woke up at first light to the most beautiful site of the Rockies surrounding me. We had broke down on the Raton Pass. Apparently below sea level Louisiana boys didn't think about adjusting the carb to allow for the thin air and flooded the car. Fortunately for us there was a weigh station or something like that about a mile away where we called a mobile mechanic who changed the fuel filter and adjusted the carb.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (2DOZq)

160 DAMN! Air force 1 lands right at the start of the drum solo!

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (5p7BC)

161 I've done that road by motorcycle in summer and winter by car. What a ride.

First time, on a bike, I had the great fortune of following a local worker in a big dump truck for the long tortuous set of neverending twisties down into Silverton.

He was probably descending the road for the thirteenth time that day, making it like a thousand thirteen lifetime, and taking it as fast as he could.

If on a bike, you hope for a lead like that. Without it, you gotta look at the road, way out at the limit of vision, and you go where you look. Sightsee the San Juans, and it's down that 3,500 foot bank you go.

But with a noisy big lead, you can sightsee plenty, using your ears and peripheral vision to keep the bike steady-center-lane.

A memorable one was a bluebird day late winter early spring, Ms K and I beginning after an overnight in Cortez, and except for a few parked cars up at the passes, backcountry skiers, we were the only car on the road, Durango to Ouray.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (cN+DP)

162 >>meanwhile we're at war basically with BigTech

And any municipality run by Democrats.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (K8YO7)

163 So where is the bloom in cases from schools re-opening in-person classes?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (DLzZd)

164 I've considered researching the same for NC. (Though not with Muldoon's expertise)

Too bad the NCDHHS changed the format of their database info on their website. It now only goes back a month or so.

Posted by: golfman at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (hOMhY)

165 >BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Locked Out of Twitter For Sharing NY Post Article on Hunter Biden

This is how Big Tech hopes to throw the White House to Harris/Biden

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (iTXRQ)

166 >>Air force 1 lands right at the start of the drum solo!

They do all that shit with mirrors.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (K8YO7)

167 Another very interesting observation that comes out of the Texas fatalities breakdown: currently, Texas population overall is listed as 41% hispanic, 12% African American, and 47% non-hispanic whites. (anglo)

Covid Deaths by Race:

30% Anglo, lower than would be expected.
11% African American, about what would be expected.
56% Hispanic, clearly much higher than would be expected.

The bulk of the new infections currently seem to be happening in the Hispanic community; perhaps it is because multiple generations typically live in the same household.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:10 PM (Kpl3J)

168 Release the Trumpenkracken!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 14, 2020 07:10 PM (hGohp)

169 My barber is in Harris County, youngish black guy - he hates Hidalgo as do most of his group of friends. She is over her head and they (Dems in Harris County) have fucked up.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 07:10 PM (4NtsG)

170 165 >BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Locked Out of Twitter For Sharing NY Post Article on Hunter Biden

This is how Big Tech hopes to throw the White House to Harris/Biden
Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (iTXRQ)

They are daring Trump to share it, and then they are going to block him. It's clear, they think they can get away with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (Kpl3J)

171 I don't know what to make of it other than most
folks are just tired of fighting the powers that be and go along to get
along. It's sad.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 07:05 PM (Rvt8

But see that's how things start. One guy walks in without a mask and no one cares. A few people were probably thinking that it's time to stop wearing it. I try to break the rules whenever possible. The thing with restaurants and public venues is it only takes one idiot telling the health department. Every non-public place I go, no one wears them.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (J70i0)

172 How long til YouTube squelches Trump?

OANN
RSBN

???

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (iTXRQ)

173 All I have to say about this is, the drive between Ouray and Silverton should be made by everybody, at least once in their life.

We attempted to go on Labor Day, but the damn fire obstructed views all around. Literally, on the mountains in and around Ouray, you couldn't even see the damn mountain.

So we didn't try the mountain pass. Maybe another chance before winter sets in, but if not, next year.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (hku12)

174 It is possible to ignore twitter and facebook.
Posted by: f'd at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (4oQS

I'm definitely proof of that.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (2DOZq)

175 You can't lock out the Press Secretary - Trump needs to bring the power of government down on that fuck Dorsey.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (4NtsG)

176 I need help in a discussion I'm having with my son. Anyone have a link to the poll Ace posted a couple months back where support among blacks was way up? Like 30+%?

Posted by: MrObvious at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (k+h+d)

177 Haven't seen any updates on just how much the fire grew, but the mandatory evacuations now include all the hills immediately west of Fort Collins, so less than ten miles from where I am now in Old Town. Towns like Masonville, Drake and Glen Haven and all the rural residential areas are in the path.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (xPJvm)

178 From the sidebar:
Notice that Special Report never has Mollie Hemingway on unless she's opposed by three liberals (and Bret Baier).

Still not a fair fight. Mollie needs to be in a Hannibal Lecter gimpsuit to lose.

Posted by: pep at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (v16oJ)

179 Whoa. We've actually got a gen-yoo-wine doctor and smrt person to break this shit down for us. The HQ is truly an amazing place.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (NWiLs)

180 Well after the Press Secretary the next would be Donny Two-scoops himself

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2020 07:12 PM (OjZpE)

181 They are daring Trump to share it, and then they are going to block him. It's clear, they think they can get away with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:11 PM (Kpl3J)

Trump could probably get a court ruling that blocked Twitter. They had the case that said he couldn't block anyone. Of course, who knows. Laws are for the plebes.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (J70i0)

182 149 Holy crap, the Trump campaign is on point.

They play Phil Collins on the AF1 approach.

Goosebumps.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:07 PM (5p7BC)

It's no fun being an illegal alien?

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (Izzlo)

183 This is how Big Tech hopes to throw the White House to Harris/Biden
Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (iTXRQ)

They're pulling out all of the stops. This one is for all the marbles.

I know you've heard that before, pretty much every election.

But has all of the leftist garbage happened in previous election seasons?

No.

Vote. Vote Trump. Vote (spit) Republicans.

Get your family, neighbors, friends to vote Trump and (spit) Republicans.

It is not hyperbole to say that the future of the entire world is at stake, right here, right now.

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (NiXyF)

184 You can't lock out the Press Secretary - Trump needs to bring the power of government down on that fuck Dorsey.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness

They're counting on that.

The normies won't understand and won't be happy with it.

It's a losing proposition all around.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (ttBFI)

185 The second two peaks are fraudulent. The second was engineered (through a too-sensitive test) because reopening during the summer was going too well. The third was engineered to shut down in-person voting.

Posted by: sangrass at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (hCqcJ)

186 deranged liberal establishment shill AB Stoddard is spiraling on Special
Report, screeching that everything Hunter did was legal and even if
it's not legal ivanka and jared did it too

I saw it differently. I think BB made it very clear that he was sick of her yapping and cut her off. That's why Charlie Hurt was smiling.

Posted by: pep at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (v16oJ)

187 155 https://bit.ly/3j3XBkd
*******
BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Locked Out of Twitter For Sharing NY Post Article on Hunter Biden
Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:08 PM (6p/Y6)

Not to be the "and so it begins" guy, but... you know.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (cnTJD)

188 @51: "also that road has no guardrails ..."

Oh, fuck, no thanks. I just read the content after skipping the first few paragraphs for the graphs instead.

Yeah, I did that drive with my dad when he was retiring out in Arizona. I was behind the wheel, and I've got a fear of open heights. It was hours of low level constant panic trying not to do anything but stare straight ahead at the yellow center line.

To this day, what I remember most about the drive was constantly wondering why the fuck there were no guardrails, and who was stupid enough to think that was a good idea.

Now I know!

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (+WWsf)

189 AF1 doing donuts on the runway

slow motion donuts but still

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (iTXRQ)

190 Muldoon -- Few weeks back I stumbled across a longish piece on problems with PCR-based testing in the UK. TLDR -- "worse than useless." Was discovered by comparison of independent testing firm data. Do we have any validation of US test quality? I was left with understanding that PCR was really a lab tool and not reliable enough for human results.

Posted by: Second City Lurker at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (MEbkQ)

191 The only reason I am on Twitter is to get Trump tweets and those of his supporters.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (w7KSn)

192 >>All I have to say about this is, the drive between Ouray and Silverton should be made by everybody, at least once in their life.

Pro Tip : Don't do it in a bone stock 65 VW Bus. Not fun.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (K8YO7)

193 AF1 is a big and luxurious way to make an entrance. Never fails to impress!

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (5FCda)

194 We're seeing a "surge" in Kung Flu cases in our county, but the death rate is like 0.2%. I told y'all about the decision Pookette's Christian school had to make after the local hospitals pressured them to make the kids wear masks. Well, the school said that masks aren't effective, they harm developing social skills and the kids aren't high-risk. I'm sure the hospitals will try again and get rebuffed... again.

Posted by: pookysgirl, mask-free is the way to be at October 14, 2020 07:15 PM (XKZwp)

195 It's also now suggested that 25% of excess all cause deaths are due to the lockdown (overdose, suicide, etc.) suggested by a published paper and ethical skeptic independently.

Posted by: InCali at October 14, 2020 07:15 PM (9AFWN)

196 189 AF1 doing donuts on the runway

slow motion donuts but still
Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (iTXRQ)

Baron Driving?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2020 07:16 PM (NgKpN)

197 Yeah, I did that drive with my dad when he was retiring out in Arizona. I was behind the wheel, and I've got a fear of open heights. It was hours of low level constant panic trying not to do anything but stare straight ahead at the yellow center line.

To this day, what I remember most about the drive was constantly wondering why the fuck there were no guardrails, and who was stupid enough to think that was a good idea.

Now I know!
Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (+WWsf)

Drove route 150? or 120? something during a huge rain storm from Staunton, va in to west virginia. Same thing. Crazy switch backs, no guard rails, and very intimidating drop offs, with no shoulders.

Not my favorite drive ever.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 14, 2020 07:16 PM (cnTJD)

198 They're counting on that.
The normies won't understand and won't be happy with it.
It's a losing proposition all around.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (ttBFI)

I don't think they're counting on anything, I don't think they're even making any coherent plans. They're saying Fuck It, We've got the Power, and we're gonna use it Steal This Election. Right in Front of Everyone's Faces, and Fuck You if You Don't Like It.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:16 PM (Kpl3J)

199 Marcus T, very sorry to hear your story. Someday these Fascists will have to answer to a higher authority, and they won't be able to weasel out of their consequences.

Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (bCLt0)

200 weft cut loop - you don't fight today and maybe lose or fight today and maybe lose? I'm for some bloody noses and scorched earth today and see who is standing on Nov 3rd.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (4NtsG)

201 Models are NOT real-life data.

According to climate computer models we were all supposed to have either burned up or frozen to death at least 6 or 7 times by now since I was in high skool.

GIGO.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (HaL55)

202 Asked if AG Bill Barr would serve in the second Trump term, President Trump said: No comment.

emerald just reported this

heh I take that as ... well Im not sure! but it amused me

the President JUST retweeted the Post article himself. tweet still there so far, maybe just suppressed or something

whew today is fun. Rudy should start dumping more stuff now, why wait til morning

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (j9HX3)

203 5. A positive PCR test does not equal a diagnosis of COVID.

Needs to be re-stated, again and again and again and again.

Along with MOST "CoVID-19 cases" are ASYMPTOMATIC.

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (NiXyF)

204 Of course, who knows. Laws are for the plebes.

Posted by: WOPR - Free Kyle Rittenhouse at October 14, 2020 07:13 PM (J70i0)
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I AM THE LAW!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge Dredd at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (Eicbe)

205 May all behind this political stunt die in a slow burning fire. They are demons.

Posted by: Marcus T

Sorry, no words.

These "people" are absolutely evil.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (3P/5p)

206 Zuckerberg ain't Thomas Paine and Dorsey ain't Hamilton. Shame them and take away their empires.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (4NtsG)

207 @JackPosobied

Text from a WH source:

"Let your people know, tonight could end up being one of the most insane rallies he's ever done. He's going after everyone."

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (ZLI7S)

208 According to climate computer models we were all supposed to have either burned up or frozen to death at least 6 or 7 times by now since I was in high skool.

GIGO.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (HaL55)

Yeah, always loved how in the 70's we were entering a new Ice Age, and by the 90's were burning to a cinder,

All based on the supposedly same data set.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (NgKpN)

209 A memorable one was a bluebird day late winter early spring, Ms K and I beginning after an overnight in Cortez, and except for a few parked cars up at the passes, backcountry skiers, we were the only car on the road, Durango to Ouray.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at October 14, 2020 07:09 PM (cN+DP)

A surprisingly lovely drive, one I hadn't heard anyone mention to me before, is Route 92, from just west of Gunnison, to Hotchkiss. It's more of a meandering drive, and just off the road is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Access to the National Park is off that road, but I didn't stop when we took the drive.

Stunning views, but not a lot of space to pull over and gawk.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (hku12)

210 GIGO.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:17 PM (HaL55)
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Nadler in, Nadler out.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (Eicbe)

211 Tom - Don't underestimate their ability to fuck up. Their record since 2016 is pretty much 0-25.

They don't think. They are leftists. They just throw tantrums.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (5p7BC)

212 I will post this a third time since it is timely

I have a couple of links:

From the website rationalground.com/

"Have
you been looking for charts that show the (lack of) correlation between
mask mandates and cases or hospitalizations? Your wish is our
command!"

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

I have a second link

"The German Corona Investigative Committee has taken testimony
from a large number of international scientists and experts since July 10, 2020.

Their conclusions are the following: "

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yy5t6tgz

they are using terms like Crimes against humanity and open fraud here (also Tort claims which might be a bigger draw)

Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (WyVLE)

213 the words "asymptomatic spread" are evil. that's the thing that started ALL of this insanity

a new, and evil, concept in public health

so to me, public health is no longer a thing. it does not truly exist. the thing called "public health" is simply an anti-human tool of authoritarians.

it probably already was, but now we know.

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (j9HX3)

214 Golden Scalpweasel has landed

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (i9ZF7)

215 Asked if AG Bill Barr would serve in the second Trump term, President Trump said: No comment.

Trump ought to drive Barr out to the wilds of NOVA, then throw him and a case of Little Debbie snack treats out the window and yell, "you're free, boy! Run!" before burning rubber and taking off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (2JVJo)

216 Dr. Deborah Birx predicts up to 200,000 deaths 'if we do things almost perfectly' The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is "very worried about every city in the United States" and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.
Mar 30, 2020

Posted by: Menack at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (buTO7)

217 "Let your people know, tonight could end up being one of the most insane rallies he's ever done. He's going after everyone."
Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (ZLI7S)

He might even call out Barr. That'll be interesting.

I can only think he's got Rudy releasing this stuff because Barr chose to go all Deep State on us. But we'll see tonight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (Kpl3J)

218 The excitement is palpable and I'm not even there. Just feels like this is gonna be epic and lit

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (i9ZF7)

219 Bodies all over the highway.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (63Dwl)

220 If twitter banned Trump he would find a way to get his message out. Just stop using twitter. Is that so impossible?

Posted by: f'd at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (DDXgG)

221 trump is tweeting all about the censoring.
to 200 million people

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (AwPyG)

222 The durango to siverton railway is a must do trip. Narrow gauge steam locomotive. Take the train one way bus back. The round trip on the train is an all day trip.

Cool trip we took our kids when they were young they still remember to this day.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 14, 2020 07:20 PM (0OmEj)

223 https://tinyurl.com/y3zgwjsk

Mr. Gates muses on things Covid

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (4vNgL)

224 To this day, what I remember most about the drive was constantly wondering why the fuck there were no guardrails, and who was stupid enough to think that was a good idea.

Now I know!
Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (+WWsf)

*Raises hand*

I'm stupid enough!

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (hku12)

225 https://bit.ly/3nTWJ5m
*******
Hunter Biden Email Bombshell: Obama Conference Call Addressing US Policy Toward Ukraine Leaked to Burisma

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (6p/Y6)

226 I truly think today marks the end of Biden.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (i9ZF7)

227 Haint been to ouray in fifty years. Drinking beer there seemed to have little affect, then bartender told me it was 3.2 "training beer".

Posted by: Banned at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (qY5Gg)

228 >>I can only think he's got Rudy releasing this stuff because Barr chose to go all Deep State on us. But we'll see tonight.

I think Rudy has always been planning to release this.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (ZLI7S)

229 38 Polis is a creepy guy. Only nutters would vote for him. Says a lot about the state.
Posted by: tubal at October 14, 2020 06:50 PM (bCLt0)

***************

The Colorado leftist who is in the latest Veritas video, on how great of a control the far left has on the Colorado Democrat party:

https://tinyurl.com/yxekmrwl

12 out of 14 members of the Weld county Democrats who go to the state-level Democrat party (he doesn't exactly say which committee), are radicals like him.

Which explains why a weird individual like Polis would be leading that state party.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the original trans-Wookie at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (xxG/v)

230 226 I truly think today marks the end of Biden.

sigh! a girl can dream!

maybe the name will finally be what it so richly deserves to be - MUD

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (j9HX3)

231 225 https://bit.ly/3nTWJ5m
*******
Hunter Biden Email Bombshell: Obama Conference Call Addressing US Policy Toward Ukraine Leaked to Burisma
Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (6p/Y6)

I posted that earlier too.

Get a load of the dem PR firm.

Blue horseshoe

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (i9ZF7)

232 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

233 @217
Yeah, my guess is that Barr has weaseled, and this is plan B.
Go, Rudy, and all the twitter warriors, the battle has been joined.

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (AwPyG)

234 Dr. Deborah Birx predicts up to 200,000 deaths 'if we do things almost perfectly' The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is "very worried about every city in the United States" and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.
Mar 30, 2020
Posted by: Menack at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (buTO7)

Wood chipper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (hGohp)

235 BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Locked Out of Twitter For Sharing NY Post Article on Hunter Biden

This is how Big Tech hopes to throw the White House to Harris/Biden

Still trying to figure out how any of this is legal in any way. And still haven't found that part of the Constitution that says, "...except for private companies. They all can ignore every bit of this document."

That must be underneath one of those penumbra thingys I keep hearing so much about. Keep the rain offa them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (HaL55)

236 226 I truly think today marks the end of Biden

Issat an obscure jewish holiday?

Posted by: Banned at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (qY5Gg)

237 What time Pacific does DT speak?

Posted by: Just Saying at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (DPOfv)

238 I truly think today marks the end of Biden.

Posted by: AlaBAMA
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I think you are right.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (5p7BC)

239 211 Tom - Don't underestimate their ability to fuck up. Their record since 2016 is pretty much 0-25.

They don't think. They are leftists. They just throw tantrums.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:18 PM (5p7BC)

I do agree, I've seen it. I'm not down about this far from it, but - I think a big of anxiousness is not undeserved. This has been setting up, and setting up, and suddenly all the Chess Pieces on the board are starting to move.

We've been anticipating what is going to happen at this moment for a long time, and it's all starting to break now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (Kpl3J)

240 Rudy fought the mafia.

Biden and his soy army of commies doesn't scare him a bit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (i9ZF7)

241 What time Pacific does DT speak?

Pretty much now, AF1 has the door open.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (5p7BC)

242 OT - Prayer request: A friend of mine is a teacher & a 4th grader is missing from his school. He's going out with the search party now. Please pray for her safe rescue.

Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (Izzlo)

243 @229
A lot of these people are creepy. the mayor of Chicago, for starters.

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (AwPyG)

244 What time Pacific does DT speak?
Posted by: Just Saying at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (DPOfv)

Any time now.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (5FCda)

245
I'm starting to think the next six months until late spring 2021 are gonna be even more calamitous than the previous six months since COVID regulations hit the US.
Posted by: Walter Freeman

========

Israel, the UK, a couple more are returning to or intensifying lockdowns. The world economy is going to suffer like we've never seen.

ONe reason why I'm not sure china is behind this. How could this help them?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (G51Gf)

246 "Fortunate Son" blasting out at the rally right now

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (iTXRQ)

247 Of course Josephistan.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (Rvt88)

248 213 the words "asymptomatic spread" are evil. that's the thing that started ALL of this insanity

a new, and evil, concept in public health

so to me, public health is no longer a thing. it does not truly exist. the thing called "public health" is simply an anti-human tool of authoritarians.

it probably already was, but now we know.
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 14, 2020 07:19 PM (j9HX3)

Asymptotic spread, or really anything that made it difficult to quarantine, ought to have been a point against lockdowns, not in favor. Why lockdown if you expect the lockdown to have no effect?

Posted by: Someguy at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (Zm+LZ)

249 Posted by: Marcus T at October 14, 2020 07:06 PM (Y07NH)

I m so sorry, Marcus. That's a terrible, terrible thing they did to your dad and family and others-the isolation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 14, 2020 07:25 PM (WkPC9)

250 237 What time Pacific does DT speak?
Posted by: Just Saying at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (DPOfv)
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In about 5 minutes

Posted by: Menack at October 14, 2020 07:25 PM (buTO7)

251 The clown governors, and county hacks ordering the mask mandates are not doctors, nor are they scientists, and they are certainly not statisticians. All those professions take lots of hard stuff like mathematics. They are the glorified versions of the shitass busybody who aspires to be on the HOA so she can tell her neighbors what color drapes are allowed, or punish someone for having a bicycle in the front yard. They wield power because they love to wield power.

Despite the huge amount of information out there indicating the uselessness of masks, and lock downs, few people bother to inform themselves. They go through life between the smartphone and the telescreen. So you see people alone on the street, out on the bike path, or even at the beach all muzzled up like farm animals. These poor folks are living in terror. Worse they believe they occupy the moral high ground and are justified in participating in this humiliating ritual.

I had to get a handful of items at the local hardware store today. I hung a mask from my ear and did my shopping. When I got to the checkout, the masked up girl behind the plexiglass barrier said, "Sir please put your mask on." That was it. I looked at her, and said, "Do you want to sell me this stuff, or enforce the mask thing?" She looked away, and rung up the order. While I was putting my ATM card in the reader I felt a breeze on my face. The girl turned a fan on me to blow the cooties away. I was half way between pity for this terrified creature, and rage at what these fuckers in charge have done to us. Mostly rage. There will be a reckoning for these bastards, and a special place in hell for them when it comes.

JWM

Posted by: jwm at October 14, 2020 07:25 PM (HnUoF)

252 Hate fortunate son because it's a commie anti war song.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:25 PM (i9ZF7)

253 I was told there would be no math.

Or stats and charts.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (+WWsf)
......

Well, we could have PIE charts. Of various fillings.

Posted by: wth at October 14, 2020 07:25 PM (v0R5T)

254 Kindltot has posted a very useful link (the website rationalground.com) for independent analysis and info on C19. The people who put it together are among the more active and better non-specialists on ..... ewwww! hold your nose, brace yourself ...... *Twitter* ....... who finally decided to get together and do a website.

There is so, so much wrong with so, so much of the whole govt./public health response (duh), and the most worrisome thing is it starts at the top. The entire framework in which every aspect of this situation is viewed is incorrect, and that's not going to change unless/until the CDC/WH restore some common sense and science to it all.

A few lucky states like FL and SD and others have leaders competent and responsible enough to junk the false framework and get on with life. But the large populations in many other states suffering under the idiotic govts. they've elected will suffer much more/longer if their vandal governors continue to have top-cover from DC.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (OTzUX)

255 Hahaha.

Now Billy Jean?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (i9ZF7)

256 now it's "Billie Jean"

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (iTXRQ)

257 nobody looks good next to Sweden

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (4vNgL)

258 [@224: "I'm stupid enough!"

I remember the long, gentle clockwise curves, driving on the outer edge of the road, no shoulder, and being able to see perfectly well just how steep and deep the cliff slope was ahead.

Stomach churning even now.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (+WWsf)

259 OT - Prayer request: A friend of mine is a teacher & a 4th grader is missing from his school. He's going out with the search party now. Please pray for her safe rescue.
Posted by: josephistan

You got it, pal !

Posted by: JT at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (arJlL)

260 A surprisingly lovely drive, one I hadn't heard anyone mention to me before, is Route 92, from just west of Gunnison, to Hotchkiss.

*********

North Rim of the Black Canton! A great drive. Time it for color week the third week of September or so. Not at all scary, lightly traveled alternate route from Gunny to G.J.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (m45I2)

261 89 The best way into silverton is via narrow gauge steam locomotive originated from durango. Slow but beautiful. The horde should give it a go.
Posted by: USNtakim at October 14, 2020 06:58 PM (0OmEj)

It is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't follow any road so the only way to see those particular waterfalls, etc. Is by train.

Hubby went on an early morning motorcycle ride the next day on the Million Dollar Hiway. Almost froze to death. In August. Bring a coat. And gloves. And full-faced helmet.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (yp4vs)

262 A serious cynic like myself might even wonder if fewer tests were processed in early September and then the testing was ramped way up in coordination with the Biden/DNC campaign strategy of claiming Trump didn't do enough to fight COVID. Polis aint on the ballot till '22 so he doesn't have to worry about a voter backlash for HIS actions in response to the virus either from Karens or people who prefer freedom. I know the FNM was helping the DNC story. They suddenly went to reporting 2 week case totals rather than 1 week totals.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (Aashi)

263 Newsmax

"Trump refuses to say if Barr will join him in second term...

'I'm not happy', Trump says."

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (3P/5p)

264 the words "asymptomatic spread" are evil. that's the thing that started ALL of this insanity

a new, and evil, concept in public health

so to me, public health is no longer a thing. it does not truly
exist. the thing called "public health" is simply an anti-human tool of
authoritarians.

it probably already was, but now we know.

And I wondered why the progs were so intent on gubmint controlling everyone's health and health care. I can be somewhat slow on the uptake at times.

This flu epidemic (nee ChiCom biological warfare attack) has been an epic fuckup of near-Biblical proportion. I'm starting to get the notion that the rest of the world doesn't seem to like America very much.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (HaL55)

265
I think Rudy has always been planning to release this.
Posted by: JackStraw

=======

Rudy got smoking guns (he said) straight from Ukraine when he went there a few months ago with OANN. DIdn't he turn that over to the DOJ?

What's up, is he getting impatient?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (G51Gf)

266 "We've got the Power, and we're gonna use it Steal This Election. Right in Front of Everyone's Faces, and Fuck You if You Don't Like It."

Ben Franklin just zombie e-mailed me: "You couldn't keep it."

Posted by: some guy out west at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (XpDOS)

267 I really like this post! Well written. Nice work OpenBlogger.

Posted by: thewallsareclosingin at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (NVj5y)

268 Ted Cruz calls Facebook and Twitter censorship obvious election interference.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:27 PM (i9ZF7)

269 nobody looks good next to Sweden
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (4vNgL)

Ja!

Posted by: ABBA and the Swedish Bikini Team at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (NiXyF)

270 I mean Muldoon - sorry

Posted by: thewallsareclosingin at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (NVj5y)

271 ONe reason why I'm not sure china is behind this. How could this help them?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (G51Gf)

Leaves them in the lead if everyone else shoots themselves in the foot.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (2DOZq)

272 All I have to say about this is, the drive between Ouray and Silverton should be made by everybody, at least once in their life.
------------

Pro Tip : Don't do it in a bone stock 65 VW Bus. Not fun.
Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2020 07:14 PM (K8YO7)

I'm going to take your word for it. Next couple months I'm going to be buying a 4WD truck, for these types of roads, and the dirt ones I don't dare take my pretty little car on.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (hku12)

273 Posted by: josephistan at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (Izzlo)

Will pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (WkPC9)

274 I was told there would be no math.

Or stats and charts.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (+WWsf)
......

I think all this about CO is mostly geography. Which is also verboten.

Posted by: wth at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (v0R5T)

275 Did Trump just tweet that Section 230 (the one that protects all the social media platforms) should be repealed?

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (4Yddh)

276 I'm a fan of good campaigns. As much as I hated him, I had to admire how good a campaign Obama ran in 2008.

So I'm kind of a junkie for seeing a campaign hit the little details like timing the landing of Air Force 1.

The obvious professionalism really speaks to me, and I think to many others.

This Trump campaign is one of the best I've ever seen. Honestly, I'm having a hard time remembering one better.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (5p7BC)

277 I think they play Billy Jean for Hunter

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (i9ZF7)

278 A few lucky states like FL and SD and others have leaders competent and
responsible enough to junk the false framework and get on with life.

My county still has the ID10T mask order in effect. We're not free yet down here.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (HaL55)

279 238 I truly think today marks the end of Biden.

Posted by: AlaBAMA
----------
I think you are right.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:23 PM (5p7BC)

I hope you both are correct. I know our side is right; I think why I can't buy into that yet is that I still think our enemies have an incredible amount of raw power on their side, and they're about to deploy all of it. I don't see the value in underestimating them.

This truly is a coup attempt to take control of this nation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (Kpl3J)

280 "The entire framework in which every aspect of this situation is viewed is incorrect, and that's not going to change unless/until the CDC/WH restore some common sense and science to it all. "

There is every incentive to keep common sense and science well apart from this situation.

Posted by: some guy out west at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (XpDOS)

281 271 ONe reason why I'm not sure china is behind this. How could this help them?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (G51Gf)

Leaves them in the lead if everyone else shoots themselves in the foot.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 14, 2020 07:28 PM (2DOZq)

We can be confident that China intentionally spread it to the rest of us. It's less clear whether they started this whole thing intentionally in the first place. They did seem to catch on fairly earl that it wasn't a big deal which is why they stopped their counter-measures and stopped paying much attention to it.

Posted by: Someguy at October 14, 2020 07:30 PM (Zm+LZ)

282
KayleighMcEnany's account retweeted this:

House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP�2hTwitter has blocked users from tweeting the link to the @nypost's story on Hunter Biden.

So we put it on our website for you to read and share.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2020 07:30 PM (WyVLE)

283 You said there wouldn't be any math!

Posted by: iandeal at October 14, 2020 07:30 PM (aA66N)

284 > Ted Cruz calls Facebook and Twitter censorship obvious election interference.

Ted is wicked smaht

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:30 PM (iTXRQ)

285 A surprisingly lovely drive, one I hadn't heard anyone mention to me before, is Route 92, from just west of Gunnison, to Hotchkiss.

*********

North Rim of the Black Canton! A great drive. Time it for color week the third week of September or so. Not at all scary, lightly traveled alternate route from Gunny to G.J.
Posted by: Muldoon at October 14, 2020 07:26 PM (m45I2)

Exactly, not a scary drive at all. I think maybe we saw one other car on the road until we got closer to "civilization."

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (hku12)

286 The democrat commies all lied,
they wanted to keep you inside.
They wanted you fearful,
all sobby and tearful,
They laughed while America died.

Posted by: Eromero at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (XhWtx)

287 Trump up.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (sWM8x)

288 I'm going to love it if it turns out Barr was trying to slow walk this past the election and Rudy and Donald said, sure--it's up to you, you can decide.
and then they blindsided him.
But I'm still not convinced Barr is a black hat. we'll see

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (AwPyG)

289 >>What's up, is he getting impatient?

October Surprised come in October. He's rolling this stuff out over 5 days at least.

He's not winging it, he has a plan.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (ZLI7S)

290 For the past several months have been going through the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space 9 for the first time. Last night got through most of Episode 9 of Season 6 "Statistical Probabilities" before falling asleep (a lot of insomnia lately owing to anxiety).

It's about three other brilliant mutants like Dr. Bashir who use statistical probability models to predict that the Dominion will crush the Federation -- and failure to surrender will result in a war and 900 billion deaths for the Federation.

Amazing how far we've come and just a couple decades: Captain Sisko won't tolerate talk of surrender -- saying he won't ask a an entire generation for the Federation to surrender their freedoms, even if it results in all that death, and that he'd rather go down fighting.

This view was held by the vast majority of Americans even in the '90s. Today, I'm guessing it would be a minority ... My, how far we've fallen. This episode should be mandatory viewing for the past couple generations ... not that their brainwashing and indoctrination can be overcome that easily now.

Posted by: ShainS at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (Q1IjI)

291 Trump.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (3P/5p)

292 @245: "One reason why I'm not sure china is behind this. How could this help them?"

If they were, I think it was a calculated risk on China's part that assumed their style of centralized authoritarian government could weather the storm better than the western world in the mid-to-long term. Use the strength of more liberal society against itself. Try and upset the current worldwide economic balance then let the proverbial chips fall where they may.

*shrugs*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (+WWsf)

293 ok here comes the big guy

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (iTXRQ)

294
So we put it on our website for you to read and share.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2020 07:30 PM (WyVLE

That's awesome! Let them try and start blocking congressmen.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (i9ZF7)

295
I think they play Billy Jean for Hunter

I think you're right. For Joe they may play "Young Girl".

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (SchxB)

296 Hospitals following protocols were killing the fuck out of people suffering from the China Virus.

News slowly got around telling them to quick fucking doing what they were doing to kill their patients.

That dissemination eventually took hold, and forced ventilation and laying-off steroids finally were understood to be old-wives' tales. The count of deaths then plummeted.

Hospitals fucked up. Doctors fucked up. Nurses fucked up. That said, they have to be trusted. The ones that are denying that they fucked up cannot be trusted.

Posted by: fktheleft at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (lvXKd)

297 Thank you all for the sentiment. I really appreciate it.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (Y07NH)

298 PDT should definitley call out barr publicly. Ask if he wants to be on the side of the forces of evil or of the american people. Your actions this week will be remembered throught history....

Posted by: HB at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (RSeYn)

299 Just saw an interesting story. A French museum was set to open an exhibit on Genghis Kahn and the Mongolian Empire. China told them they could not use the words Genghis Khan, Mongolia, or Empire. The museum has to cancel the exhibition.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (E/UdA)

300 I still daily log deaths reportedly from Covid-19 daily Pa, NY, NJ and Wisconsin which seems to have been in a big for them high numbers in last two weeks.

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (OjZpE)

301 Going over that pass, is there a ski resort on top and if so, going up the western side of the past, can you see old mine workings on the side of the mountain?

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (R5lpX)

302 Newsmax

"Trump refuses to say if Barr will join him in second term...

'I'm not happy', Trump says."

Hire me as AG, Mr. President. I have nothing to lose by prosecuting these Swamp Things. I hereby promise to burn, scatter and salt DC.

And I may do a bit of pillaging first if that's OK with you.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (HaL55)

303 Trump looks serious and resolute. Like he has awesome news.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (i9ZF7)

304 5 https://bit.ly/3nTWJ5m
*******
Hunter Biden Email Bombshell: Obama Conference Call Addressing US Policy Toward Ukraine Leaked to Burisma
Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:21 PM (6p/Y6)

I posted that earlier too.

Get a load of the dem PR firm.

Blue horseshoe
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (i9ZF7)

Whoa. Its all coming fast and furious now. *rubs hands together gleefully*

I hope Barr hangs on though, I really believe he's a good guy and plan to dig into the unmasking issue but think there's lots of room to know there was bad stuff going on but not be able to prove a criminally actionable case.

Posted by: LASue at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

305 Trump about to rip

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (6p/Y6)

306 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

The asshole governor of Maskachusetts is going to do that, I am sure.

Hey, who said masks were never going away?

**points thumbs**

This Guy!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (2JVJo)

307
ONe reason why I'm not sure china is behind this. How could this help them?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:24 PM (G51Gf)

Have you met our new/old state Hong Kong?

And we will soon be reunited with Taiwan will you Westerners are covering your faces.

Posted by: China at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (Ojki1)

308 How does Covid help china???
Trump was cleaning their clock on trade negotiations.
The Impeachment had failed.
This was no accident, and they colluded with the Democrats in congress to maximize the effects of it.
If someone would like to talk to me sometime, I know some things.

Posted by: attilla the unreasonable at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (w7KSn)

309
Peak 4:

Can you spell "COVID"? You're positive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (mht8P)

310 Tear this shit up.

Fuck You. War.

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (2F8zR)

311 IN governor mask idiocy, perfect example.

As long as he has the truly outrageous buffoon of Redfield at CDC, ignoring a century of observation and 7 decades of randomized controlled trials showing no value to anything like a mask mandate, and citing some ridiculous anecdote from a hair salon in MO - he's got cover.

The "vaccine" thing may be the most disastrous bungle at the WH/CDC level. There's no need for a vaccine, and dim prospects of a safe and effective one - but the nanosecond it was mentioned as a priority - boom, THAT will now be the last, and most disastrous, confected goalpost for the authoritarians.

As prospects for renewal or repair look bleak, not even sure one can say that one valuable thing out of all this is the revelation/confirmation that govt. at all levels and public health in particular are technically grossly incompetent, and power-mad vandals. And the character of a large % of the American people has been on display, and that's the darkest indictment of all.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (OTzUX)

312 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

That MOTHERFUCKER!!! If that asshole thinks he is getting reelected..... He can fuck right the fuck off!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (Vxu+H)

313 My hair is very powerful!!

Lol

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (i9ZF7)

314 I'm going to love it if it turns out Barr was trying to slow walk this past the election and Rudy and Donald said, sure--it's up to you, you can decide.
and then they blindsided him.
But I'm still not convinced Barr is a black hat. we'll see
Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (AwPyG)

Good Glad Im not the only one.

Posted by: LASue at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (Ed8Zd)

315 "My hair is very powerful!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Counter-Revolutionary She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (Dc2NZ)

316 306 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

The asshole governor of Maskachusetts is going to do that, I am sure.

Hey, who said masks were never going away?

**points thumbs**

This Guy!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (2JVJo)

Being right sucks.

Or at least, being right about shit that isn't winning lotto numbers sucks.

Posted by: Bete at October 14, 2020 07:35 PM (Ojki1)

317 POWERFUL HAIR

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:35 PM (iTXRQ)

318 I hope you both are correct. I know our side is right; I think why I can't buy into that yet is that I still think our enemies have an incredible amount of raw power on their side, and they're about to deploy all of it. I don't see the value in underestimating them.

==

This is where I am. I can't forget, above all, there is an entire world structure really, that is working behind the scenes to make sure Trump is not reelected. These are powerful, very nefarious people who will not allow it. We're going to find out soon if they're successful.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 14, 2020 07:35 PM (nlc6V)

319 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

The asshole governor of Maskachusetts is going to do that, I am sure.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:33 PM (2JVJo)

Oh, you can count on Charlie Lockdown doubling down on this bullshit

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at October 14, 2020 07:35 PM (4Yddh)

320 @292
China didn't "weather" it, they avoided it. One of the obvious signs that this was a planned op was the fact China sent wuhan flights all over the world except to its own major cities. Shanghai and Beijing didn't get the flu.
That, and the whistler blowers told us it was cooked up in a lab

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:35 PM (AwPyG)

321 Boom. Right out of the gate.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (5FCda)

322 OH SHIT HE STARTS RIGHT IN ON BIDEN

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (iTXRQ)

323 Boom right out of the gate, hitting Biden.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (5p7BC)

324 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.

"Our great governors, fantastic governors. The best!"

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (3P/5p)

325 "And the character of a large % of the American people has been on display, and that's the darkest indictment of all."

We are not voting our way out of this.

Look at the voters.

Posted by: some guy out west at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (XpDOS)

326 Biden news, right out of the gate. Trump starts off with this.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (3GzTP)

327
MSNBC zero words on Hunter today. They're deliberately burying it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (G51Gf)

328 Yep. Trump's going there. And I think he'll STAY there.

"Enjoy the show."

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (NiXyF)

329 The Hunter becomes the hunted

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (2F8zR)

330
Bars reopening in Montgomery and Brazoria Counties. But not Harris County, by decision of the teen Gauleiter Lina Hidalgo.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (mht8P)

331 Trump goes for the throat right off the bat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 14, 2020 07:37 PM (DLzZd)

332 'PAY FOR PLAY SCANDAL AT THE HEART OF HIS VICE PRESIDENCY'

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:37 PM (iTXRQ)

333 314 I'm going to love it if it turns out Barr was trying to slow walk this past the election and Rudy and Donald said, sure--it's up to you, you can decide.
and then they blindsided him.
But I'm still not convinced Barr is a black hat. we'll see
Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:31 PM (AwPyG)

Good Glad Im not the only one.
Posted by: LASue at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (Ed8Zd)

He doesn't have to be a black hat, he just has to lack the will/effort to be a white hat.

Posted by: Bete at October 14, 2020 07:37 PM (Ojki1)

334 The Hunter becomes the hunted
Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 07:36 PM (2F8zR)

Noticed that, did you? (evil, ominous chuckle)

Posted by: filbert at October 14, 2020 07:38 PM (NiXyF)

335 Goes right into the new content.

Posted by: Menack at October 14, 2020 07:38 PM (buTO7)

336 Going over that pass, is there a ski resort on top and if so, going up the western side of the past, can you see old mine workings on the side of the mountain?
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at October 14, 2020 07:32 PM (R5lpX)

I don't believe there's a resort, but then I don't really look for ski resorts.

It does have remnants of mines, but then so does pretty much every mountain in Colorado.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 14, 2020 07:38 PM (hku12)

337 If there's more to come (likely) and if leaked images are coded messages communicating what images haven't been leaked (yet) then, the early lid today may have been about negotiating terms of surrender (metaphorically). How does one tank one's own campaign? Maybe avoid Wisconsin?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 14, 2020 07:38 PM (aZNw/)

338 299 Vasha Nerada- What were they going to do, sue or declare war?

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (OjZpE)

339
Have you met our new/old state Hong Kong?

And we will soon be reunited with Taiwan will you Westerners are covering your faces.
Posted by: China

========

There's that, but with the whole world's economy staggering, China suffers right along. It's the economic damage.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (G51Gf)

340 Trump hits the first pitch into the upper upper decks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (DLzZd)

341 The NY Post story dropped right after Chicago Jesus announced he would hit the campaign trail for Biden.

Lol

Posted by: BluesFish at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (WQZ1O)

342 These "republican" governors who were put in place for this are like the kamikaze house members who said they'd never vote to impeach ; they lied to be put in place, and are willing to go down with the ship, even though it is beginning to look as though their big plan is in ruins.
None of them could care less about reelection, and I'm sure they will be compensated for their service

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (AwPyG)

343 Trump is on a war footing now

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (iTXRQ)

344 337 If there's more to come (likely) and if leaked images are coded messages communicating what images haven't been leaked (yet) then, the early lid today may have been about negotiating terms of surrender (metaphorically). How does one tank one's own campaign? Maybe avoid Wisconsin?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 14, 2020 07:38 PM (aZNw/)

Do what the Biden campaign was already doing? Or rather, not doing?

Posted by: Someguy at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (Zm+LZ)

345 Nood.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (3GzTP)

346 Listening to POTUS now.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (2JVJo)

347 There is a nood!

Posted by: attilla the unreasonable at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (w7KSn)

348
Is Hunter a "Republicans pounce" or a "Republicans seize" story? When the MSM deign to acknowledge it, of course

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (mht8P)

349 OK PDT, go scorched earth on biden's wrinkled old ass. Take him from depends to a colostomy bag.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (L+got)

350 341 The NY Post story dropped right after Chicago Jesus announced he would hit the campaign trail for Biden.

Lol
Posted by: BluesFish at October 14, 2020 07:39 PM (WQZ1O)

Obama has that kind of effect.

Posted by: Someguy at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (Zm+LZ)

351 Doctors in NYS were only allowed to vent patients.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (4vNgL)

352 341 The NY Post story dropped right after Chicago Jesus announced he would hit the campaign trail for Biden.

Joe must be really behind if his lazy ass is actually going to campaign for him.

Posted by: jsg at October 14, 2020 07:41 PM (2F8zR)

353 @337
Interesting thought. But I doubt Trump is in a mood to make deals

Posted by: artemis at October 14, 2020 07:41 PM (AwPyG)

354 I think all this about CO is mostly geography. Which is also verboten.
Posted by: wth at October 14, 2020 07:29 PM (v0R5T)
---
I was told there wouldn't be any foreign language here.

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 07:42 PM (Eicbe)

355 Trump needs to name and shame Facebook and Twitter tonight.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at October 14, 2020 06:52 PM

And Mirriam-Webster while he's at it.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at October 14, 2020 07:42 PM (OssQ4)

356 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

That MOTHERFUCKER!!! If that asshole thinks he is getting reelected..... He can fuck right the fuck off!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 14, 2020 07:34 PM (Vxu+H)

He extended it to November 14. Doesn't matter - I'll be voting for the Libertarian (Rainwater). No - that guy won't win. Yes - he is from the party of dope smoking hippy open borders idiots. Yes - it just means the maniac DNC candidate gets that much closer to winning. No - I don't care.

I try not to get pissed at those who were so much smarter than me, back when this all started, when they mocked and scolded me for saying that these mask orders would never end. I fail - I do get pissed at them. Granted, I don't try too hard not to.

I'd like, just once, for all those oh so much smarter with their hair decidedly not of fire folks to admit that their default toward optimism was wrong. Just once, I'd like to hear it from their ever so cheerful mouths.

Posted by: English Lycanthrope at October 14, 2020 07:42 PM (r7veS)

357 Is Hunter a "Republicans pounce" or a "Republicans seize" story? When the MSM deign to acknowledge it, of course
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 14, 2020 07:40 PM (mht8P)
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I heard that Republicans resurrected this story.

So congratulations on achieving such a high level of spell!

Posted by: Axeman at October 14, 2020 07:43 PM (Eicbe)

358 He is not wasting anytime. He is a little hoarse but going right after Biden.
I saw a Don Jr video where he layed out everything point by point About the Biden family corruption. Very well done and easy to understand.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 14, 2020 07:44 PM (sd8p8)

359 Laying it right out on the line.

Ok Joe, you're turn. The accusation is right out in open. How do you respond?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 14, 2020 07:44 PM (5p7BC)

360 nood

topic

Twitter assholes....

Congratulations, if you are posting below this post, you have been willowed.

But, if you have high blood pressure and loathe Twitter, this is a safespace.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 14, 2020 07:44 PM (v2c9/)

361 Thank you for this presentation Muldoon!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at October 14, 2020 07:45 PM (2C38g)

362 Where did Biden take jobs from?
Iowa.
Iowa, remember that.
Iowa, that' where Joe Braden took their jobs.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 14, 2020 07:45 PM (kh8w4)

363 Going over that pass, is there a ski resort on top and if so, going up the western side of the past, can you see old mine workings on the side of the mountain?
Posted by: Traveling Man

********

Definitely lots of old mine tailings and buildings on Red Mtn Pass, but no ski resort. You may be thinking of Wolf Creek Pass...

...way up on the Great Divide.

Wolf Creek Pass is on Hwy 160 between South Fork and Pagosa Spgs. Ski area right at the top of the pass.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 14, 2020 07:45 PM (m45I2)

364 >>> Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

=====

Fortunately, our city ordnance has a loophole. Mask exemption for those with breathing difficulties. No medical proof required. So I don't where a mask.

Now, I'm not proud of what happened not just 20 min ago, but I am tired of this Covid BS!: So I come out the door from picking up a pizza and the 60 year old lady that was two customers in front of me is still sitting in her car, which is next to mine. I noticed that she is giving me the death stare all the way to my car, and continues to do so after I get in. I mouthed "what?" to her. She says something back, so I roll down my window. But she doesn't roll down hers but keeps talking (I was happy to explain to her, politely, why I'm not wearing a mask). She keeps giving me death glare, then pulls out. Obviously, this woman thinks I'm actually killing people by not wearing a mask!

I thought, fine. She thinks it's a good idea to make herself the mask police, maybe she should have first considered how I might respond. And my response was to follow her to her home. Not that I even considered doing anything. I just wanted her to know actions are not without consequences. Not my proudest moment, but again, this shit has got to stop!

Posted by: Goody2shoes at October 14, 2020 08:00 PM (umQHI)

365
Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.

That MOTHERFUCKER!!! If that asshole thinks he is getting reelected..... He can fuck right the fuck off!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

He is reportedly way ahead in the polls. I'm voting Libertarian in the goobernatorial race.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 08:03 PM (63Dwl)

366 11 Shorter Muldoon: This shit was all a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 14, 2020 06:46 PM (Hlbc+)

-------

This is my take also.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 14, 2020 08:07 PM (jUVms)

367 312 Indiana Republican Governor extends mask mandate indefinitely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 14, 2020 07:22 PM (63Dwl)

That MOTHERFUCKER!!! If that asshole thinks he is getting reelected..... He can fuck right the fuck off!

New polls out and he's trailing the Libertarian Candidate. Gee....I wonder why???

Posted by: MrObvious at October 14, 2020 08:25 PM (k+h+d)

368
New polls out and he's trailing the Libertarian Candidate. Gee....I wonder why???

My bad. He's not actually trailing the libertarian but all the votes taken by the libertarian come off the GOP vote leaving him open to a Dem win.

Posted by: MrObvious at October 14, 2020 08:27 PM (k+h+d)

369 I did that road last month on the Harley and it started sleeting while in Ouray. Headed back to Durango ASAP so as not to get stuck even though Ouray is beautiful! My wife recorded the ride. https://www.facebook.com/100000382720499/videos/3436353266387397/

Posted by: DudeIam at October 14, 2020 08:50 PM (YJaO+)

370 And I live in Indiana and will never vote for Holcomb again. Voting Rainwater this time.

Posted by: DudeIam at October 14, 2020 08:51 PM (YJaO+)

371 I'm with post 20.

No limerick?

Posted by: scottst at October 14, 2020 08:52 PM (ojBxe)

372 Now, consider, Open Blogger is not a genius. Surely our politicians, news spokes holes, and scientists know all this stuff. The data is readily available, and the conclusions are inescapable.

Are they acting even remotely like they know this? Or are they manipulating the data to frighten you and convince you that things are MUCH worse than they are?

Vote accordingly.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 14, 2020 09:07 PM (nkp5d)

373 It would be 'unfortunate' if somehow the urls for:
Twitter.com
facebook.com, and
google.com

twitter.com
all, suddenly, resolved to:
'127.0.0.1'

Posted by: ChrisP at October 15, 2020 12:07 AM (FClOy)

374 As a kid on vacation w/ my parents in there old truck and camper....I will always remember when they took the Red Mountain Pass.

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Posted by: Micheal Pan at October 15, 2020 06:03 AM (AYaY2)

376 I have driven that pass in a raging snowstorm heading south and it scared the living crap out of me. Thank goodness I was chained up driving a 4WD Titan. When I got into Ouray I had myself 5 fingers of something.

Posted by: MMinAR at October 15, 2020 07:45 AM (nNZM0)

377 Whoever blew the margins....I have words for you.

Posted by: runner at October 15, 2020 08:26 AM (LZJOv)

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