Alexandria Donkey-Chompers: Of Course It's "Legitimate" To Talk About Tara Reade's Rape Allegation Against Joe Biden

The total Democrat Media Complex embargo is not entirely total.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday addressed a sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by a former Senate staffer, saying it was “legitimate to talk about.”
Ocasio-Cortez was asked about the allegation against the former vice president during an online forum hosted by The Wing, a women’s network and community space, by a questioner who said she was strongly opposed to President Trump’s reelection but that she also "really resent[s] the fact that the other choice is someone who has a really long history of being creepy to women," citing the allegation by former staffer Tara Reade.
"I think it's legitimate to talk about these things," Ocasio-Cortez responded, according to CBS News. "And if we want, if we again want to have integrity, you can't say, you know — both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us."

"I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying old movies in a way."

Speaking of the neoliberal establishment media embargoing this story:

Does anyone remember a single segment on FoxNews -- the TV broadcast, I mean; I've found a few scattered references on the website -- about Tara Reade's allegations before the New York Times gave them permission to cover it (as a media story only)?

Did Hannity ever mention it on Fox? I don't think he did. And I know he would have -- if he weren't told by management that he'd be suspended if he mentioned it.

Laura Ingraham too. Tucker Carlson would have hit the hypocrisy angle.

And yet, none of them did, as far as I know.

Did they all just coincidentally make the same decision not to report a big juicy story?

I strongly suspect the Murdoch boys and the "Brain Room" of Bill Sammon, Chris Stirewalt, Chris Wallace, etc., forbade any mention of the allegation. Making FoxNews as complicit in the coverup as CNN.

You know, one of those suspensions that the controlling liberal junta at FoxNews routinely send conservatives on, and then force conservatives to lie and claim they just took an unscheduled vacation.

(Oh by the way: These absences are in fact suspensions that they suspended people are forced to lie about. FoxNews doesn't want conservatives getting the idea that conservatives are being censored and deplatformed by FoxNews. So they suspend people and force them to lie about it.)

Let me know if you've seen any Fox news reports, on TV, about Tara Reade, prior to the NYT story.

Posted by: Ace at 12:01 PM

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

2 Yes !

Divide them the way they like to divide us !

Alinsky, you magnificent bastard !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 15, 2020 12:02 PM (cqteU)

3 I have a feeling we will be hearing less from AOC.

Her usefulness has outlived itself.

Posted by: SH at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (sX1BW)

4 Show me your tits!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ieuPy)

5 AOC is under new management.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (G1eBa)

6 Ever feel like you are living in a dystopia?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (A5zUN)

7 A-OC muscling in on Creepy Uncle Joe?

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ZCEU2)

8 Tara Reade gets my vote.

Posted by: ALH at April 15, 2020 12:04 PM (Lhcx9)

9 You tell'em Sugar Tits!

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:04 PM (RCPI5)

10 4 Still have a hard time believing they are not out there on the web somewhere

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:04 PM (ZCEU2)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

12 New CDC Guidelines:

https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

13 If she did her press engagements with a wet t-shirt, she'd have a lot more supporters.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (RCPI5)

14 Sun shines on a dog's ass moment:

She's right.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

15 "I think it's legitimate to talk about these things," Ocasio-Cortez responded, according to CBS News. "And if we want, if we again want to have integrity, you can't say, you know -- both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us."

Hmm. Woman with large teeth and cans speak truth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (XVuno)

16 Wow. She has either very high or very low aspirations.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (uEbPt)

17 Well we know where AOC considers herself to be on the Progressive Stack

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (l4C/z)

18 Did Hannity mention it ever on his radio show? Is that a FOX broadcast as well?

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Well we know where AOC considers herself to be on the Progressive Stack
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (l4C/z)

She endorsed Bernie, so.....

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

20 FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

OK I feel better.

Oh and while I am breaking the 100 comment rule, I think this is worth it. I have gotten zilch, nada, nothing from the feds for my business or personal...HOWEVER my mother who died in 2018 just got $ 1200. Gotta love the fed gov ha?

LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (85Gof)

21 I'd say she'll wake up with a horse's head in her bed tomorrow morning but I guess in this case it would actually be two.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (uEbPt)

22 AOC knows if she ever wants to be President, she needs to run 4 years from now. It will have to be 8 years if Biden wins.

Latinas don't age well.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (sjTfF)

23 Reporting from MI. Three lanes of main road King now blocked before road to Capitol Trucks cars and chopper s

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (Z1Gfv)

24 Anyone else seeing a softball hottie ad on the site today? Rowr.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (l4C/z)

25 Hey....AOC fer prez ain't out of the question.

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (X/Pw5)

26 Shouldn't we refer to the allegation as a 'credible allegation,' as that was the preferred term of art for the Kavanaugh allegations??

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (5of6n)

27 I think it's legitimate to talk about these things

Gee, thanks for giving us permission.

Figure out what a garbage disposal is for yet, shit-for-brains?

Posted by: spindrift at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (XQpcb)

28 How does this brainless tart think we're going to 'move on' from things that occurred years ago when these flucking power grabbing assholes were grabbing power AND asses?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (e284m)

29 This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

That include the Fox News Moob Trust.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (m/eiQ)

30 AOC is a Bernie Girl, yes???

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (90T4r)

31 Blue on Blue? More please

Posted by: zeera Moron Author at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (zUdXR)

32 Oh and while I am breaking the 100 comment rule

ace nullified the 100 comment rule on his threads.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (G1eBa)

33 29 This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

That include the Fox News Moob Trust.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (m/eiQ)

The Udder truth.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (90T4r)

34 Media:

**waves Jedi Hands**

There is no rape story here...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (vs2ae)

35 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday addressed a sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by a former Senate staffer, saying it was "legitimate to talk about."

That's real white of her. Thanks, AOC!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (GRbI+)

36 Give credit where it's due. She's been consistent.

Consistently HAWT!!!

Posted by: pep at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (T6t7i)

37 It's digital penetration, not rape. Let's not lose our shit, peeple!

Posted by: The New York TImes at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (XVuno)

38 When did Fox News first run with the Blaze Ford story.

And how was it framed when first run?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (+fPHo)

39 Not surprised AOC says Tara's story is on the table -- she is first and foremost about SJW warfare, and Biden is a white male. No breaks for you, Joe.

She may say she is supporting Joe, but only in the sense that he meets the minimum requirement: Not Trump. If he's hobbled by rape charges that just makes him more receptive to whatever Socialist SJW BS she wants to pressure him into doing.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (bDqIh)

40 AOC wants Biden to lose.

She'll get a lot more publicity out of continuing to be the leader of the brave anti-Trump resistance than she will under a Biden Administration.

Also, the radicals will take over the Democratic Party if Biden loses - they will be able to argue that the party put up "electable" candidates twice and lost, and now its time to put up a left-wing ideological candidate.

She's perfectly positioned to stay "I told you so", as Biden crashes and burns.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (I2/tG)

41
WILX TV in Lansing has a live feed from a camera on the grounds

wilx.com/livestream2

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (yc/34)

42 33 29 This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

That include the Fox News Moob Trust.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (m/eiQ)

The Udder truth.
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (90T4r)

Just keeping abreast of current events.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (GRbI+)

43 Congressional Sexual Assault Slush Fund Records

Make Them Public

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (RCPI5)

44 "I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we
get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we
had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels
like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse
field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying
old movies in a way."
===
What does this word salad mean?
What is she trying to convey?
That is on par to a Preezy Shit Midas answer to a basic question but not as long, nor as many I's, ahhhh's, ummmm's, and errrr's.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (pw+jk)

45 Oh and while I am breaking the 100 comment rule, I think this is worth it. I have gotten zilch, nada, nothing from the feds for my business or personal...HOWEVER my mother who died in 2018 just got $ 1200. Gotta love the fed gov ha?

LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (85Gof)

Seriously, go to the IRS website and click whatever links to check and see if you're eligible. I had to enter my SSN and last submitted IRS tax form (2019 for me) adjusted income and see if they come back with an error.

I had to enter my bank info so they could auto-deposit.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

46 35 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday addressed a sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by a former Senate staffer, saying it was "legitimate to talk about."

That's real white of her. Thanks, AOC!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (GRbI+)

Pretty sure that's RAAAAACIST!!!!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (NWiLs)

47 This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

That include the Fox News Moob Trust.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (m/eiQ)

The Udder truth.
Posted by: tubal

It'll be titillating!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (GvEen)

48 I see four nipples!!

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (90T4r)

49 FOX shows only appear here if they are on You-Tube ... somehow my life has continued just fine without them chirping in my ear. I don't even miss Shemp and his bear on a trampoline favorite video.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (Cus5s)

50 Cat Ass Trophy said it best yesterday.

" Trump was right. Powerful men CAN just grab women by the pussy."

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (G1eBa)

51 >>This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

You hit it right on the papilla.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (RCPI5)

52 So, speaking of boobs, LHGFX Photography on Instagram.

More human than human, is their motto...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (l4C/z)

53 No softball hottie - I got a couple of dogs, Jason Mamoa, and squinchy bladder diagrams.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (e284m)

54
Latinas don't age well.
Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (sjTfF)

Somewhere around their 30th birthday, on average, the birthday song is swapped for "Roll Out the Barrel."

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

55 AOC can't even do a simple stand-up announcement to the press without sounding like an idiot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (rpbg1)

56 You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying old movies in a way."

Caroline Kennedy, is that you? Or just someone of comparable intelligence, if you'll pardon the exaggeration?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (GRbI+)

57 Oh and while I am breaking the 100 comment rule, I think this is worth it. I have gotten zilch, nada, nothing from the feds for my business or personal...HOWEVER my mother who died in 2018 just got $ 1200. Gotta love the fed gov ha?

--

My oh my, NGU. That is hysterical. Sad, yes. But hysterical too. Go Team Government Efficiency!

And tell me again how illegals won't be getting money. Uh-huh.

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (O+I8R)

58 TwoTits says what?

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

59 54
Latinas don't age well.
Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (sjTfF)

Somewhere around their 30th birthday, on average, the birthday song is swapped for "Roll Out the Barrel."
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Bets on when she starts waxing her upper lip??

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (90T4r)

60
*gasp* those people too close together, they're almost touching

haven't seen anyone wearing a mask, except some media camera man

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (yc/34)

61 I think you're right as rain, Ace.

Fox is the same as all the others. That's been evident for a while. Hmm.

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (j9HX3)

62 Great! Now we've got AOC spitting out platitudes like a PEZ dispenser!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (m45I2)

63 POPCORN, get your POPCORN here!!!

can't enjoy the fireworks without your popcorn...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (8D42x)

64 >> Wow. She has either very high or very low aspirations

High aspirations.

She's just found her angle: a compromised Joe Biden makes him easier to push into doing what she wants as a way to repent for his rapey sin.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (bDqIh)

65 It's such a strange time to be alive. It sure does seem, with me living out here in the hinterlands, that I know more about what's going on in the world of politics, then then media, all concentrated up there in New York City and Washington.

I don't watch the news, not because I don't want to remain informed. I don't watch it, because there never seems to be anything new there.

I guess if there's video of car chases or bloody terrorist scenes, I don't see that stuff, but I'm kind of ok with that.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (hku12)

66 AOC can't even do a simple stand-up announcement to the press without sounding like an idiot.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (rpbg1)

Because she sounds like Balsy Ford.......all the time.

She's got the voice and mentality of a 6 year old girl.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

67 Latinas don't age well.
Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (sjTfF)

Somewhere around their 30th birthday, on average, the birthday song is swapped for "Roll Out the Barrel."
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Or as we used to say in SoCal, when they're 18, they're incredible. When they're 30, they're incredible again.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (GRbI+)

68 Bets on when she starts waxing her upper lip??

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (90T4r)

===
2017?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (pw+jk)

69 >>Latinas don't age well.

True Fact : They immaculately conceive at 22 if they don't already have 3 kids.

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (RCPI5)

70 19 Well we know where AOC considers herself to be on the Progressive Stack
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:05 PM (l4C/z)

She endorsed Bernie, so.....
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

And then attacked him for not being Left enough.
Ah...kids. No brains, but tits for days.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (l4C/z)

71 Hey Alton and hog! Been stuck for 20 minutes. Morale is high. Much honking

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (Z1Gfv)

72 64 >> Wow. She has either very high or very low aspirations

High aspirations.

She's just found her angle: a compromised Joe Biden makes him easier to push into doing what she wants as a way to repent for his rapey sin.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (bDqIh)

===========

And then the national Democratic Party reaches out to the State of New York Democratic Party to deal with her and the state says, "Don't worry. We're already eliminating her district."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (LvTSG)

73
Bets on when she starts waxing her upper lip??
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (90T4r)

Laser treatments.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

74 Update from Eris:

She and hogmartin are about a mile out. They're stopping to take more pictures.

I got jealous in the other thread that people were getting info so I texted her. I'm petty like that.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (gd9RK)

75 Garrett well less support, but more votes I' m sure

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (ZCEU2)

76 Wonder if Wretched Gretchen will order National Guard airstrikes?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (G1eBa)

77 74 Update from Eris:

She and hogmartin are about a mile out. They're stopping to take more pictures.

I got jealous in the other thread that people were getting info so I texted her. I'm petty like that.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (gd9RK)

===========

Who's body are they burying? Buzzion's?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

78 I don't watch the news, not because I don't want to remain informed. I don't watch it, because there never seems to be anything new there.

I guess if there's video of car chases or bloody terrorist scenes, I don't see that stuff, but I'm kind of ok with that.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (hku12)

Local news is even worse. Unless you really need to know about cats rescued from trees, and your daily fix of happy talk.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (GRbI+)

79 Where has Mark Steyn gone?

Posted by: The Invisible Hand at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (3wnAv)

80 Fox is now run be a bunch of pathetic liberal cowards.

You want to diet? Think of Bill Sammon, Chris Stirewalt and that guy who has his makeup done by a mortician, Chris Wallace, naked.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (m/eiQ)

81 I wonder if AOC has realized that Bernie was only in the race to keep the younger still commited commies shut out.

The DNC lies to their commie base as much, maybe even more than the RNC lies to us. They have no intention of disturbing their cushy oligarchs who fund their campaigns and 'foundations' and such.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (T9Hmo)

82 As bad as she is, I still believe AOC has a higher IQ than Obama.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (FKi9J)

83 >>"And if we want, if we again want to have integrity, you can't say, you know,both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us."

OK, now do BDS vs. sending money to Iran.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (bDqIh)

84 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (gd9RK)

85 "I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we
get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we
had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels
like we're kind of back in it," she added.

Does that even mean anything? Is there an on-line translator for AOC-speak?

And she should just show is her boobs to end the debate and we can move on to her ideas.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (MxEKc)

86 Did you all hear about the Cuomo online meltdown?

Chris Cuomo melted down on a podcast, saying he hated his job.

And made allusions to hating that he HAD to support positions that were partisan in the extreme.

Yahoo even had an article about it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (NgKpN)

87 Wrote this morning the fraud will be huuuge in this stimulus check bullshit.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (ZCEU2)

88 "Fox News Board Member Paul Ryan"

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (G1eBa)

89 You know, with most people sound stupider in transcripts than recordings. But somehow you read AOC's words, think "daaaaaamn she's dumb," and then see it on video and it's even stupider sounding.

Lady YD's 9yo speaks with much more maturity, and half of her dialogue concerns unicorns, cats, or potential hybrid chimeras made from unicorns and cats.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (hDNne)

90
Or as we used to say in SoCal, when they're 18, they're incredible. When they're 30, they're incredible again.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (GRbI+)

My wife used to work for a dental meat market in TX. The 'specialized' in Medicade fraud, so they had a significant Mexican employee base.

The Christmas party was fucking hysterical with all the overly large buffet-built women were wearing tight dresses with the clear stripper high heels.

There were more rolls on the dance floor than are served at Texas Roadhouse.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (Zz0t1)

91 84 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (gd9RK)

Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (90T4r)

92 Upper class Latinas can age like fine bourbon. The ones that do yoga and spin classes and get their legs, hoohah and upper lip waxed are spectacular at 40.

But...yeah, there's a strong potato gene in them, just like in some Russian chicks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (l4C/z)

93 Where has Mark Steyn gone?

Join the Mark Steyn Club and qualify for all sorts of exciting activities!

Sign up now for our next cruise!

Posted by: The Mark Steyn Club! at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (I2/tG)

94 69 >>Latinas don't age well.

True Fact : They immaculately conceive at 22 if they don't already have 3 kids.
Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (RCPI5)

We wondered if they were the model for Tribbles in the original Star Trek, when McCoy announced that as near as he could tell, Tribbles were born pregnant.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (GRbI+)

95 Local news is even worse. Unless you really need to know about cats rescued from trees, and your daily fix of happy talk.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (GRbI+)

Car accidents and apartment fires...from 2 counties away.

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (X/Pw5)

96 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Until the governor turns the dogs loose.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (GvEen)

97 Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (MxEKc)

She had just listened to those great philosophizers,

The Talking Heads.

And you may find yourself...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (NgKpN)

98 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (gd9RK)

I hope they don't get the hose.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (lwiT4)

99 Bander,

Is there a live stream somewhere?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (d7Ww2)

100 I could buy into the "believe all women" concept if allowed a single exception.

Exception: Believe all women except those that are lying.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (m45I2)

101 Seriously, go to the IRS website and click whatever links to check and see if you're eligible. I had to enter my SSN and last submitted IRS tax form (2019 for me) adjusted income and see if they come back with an error.

I had to enter my bank info so they could auto-deposit.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Ya did not hear? The site crashed and is malfunctioning also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (85Gof)

102 Am I still banned?

Posted by: Puddi Head at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (k9lXi)

103 Wow. She has either very high or very low aspirations

I've said before that Obama gutted the party, and the result is an old guard like Pelosi, Schumer, et. al. who are safely ensconced in deep blue seats, and rising young radicals like AOC who aren't willing to wait a decade for their "turn" at leadership. It looks like the knives are starting to come out.

Running Bernie would have neutralized them in the long run by leading the far left to a humiliating defeat, but it would have cost the Old Guard, both from a fundraising standpoint as well as in down-ballot races. So instead they pushed Creepy Joe across the finish line and are suffering the consequences.

Posted by: Jasper at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (SgjGX)

104 Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

*Mel Gibson voice*

FREEDOM!!!

A bunch of Michigan Morons are going to yell at the government about the sinovirus shutdown.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (gd9RK)

105 Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (MxEKc)

Is it bad that I understand what she's saying? They started with a diverse candidate field and ended with an establishment senile old white guy .

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (FKi9J)

106
Ya did not hear? The site crashed and is malfunctioning also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (85Gof)

My wife did it 30 minutes ago.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

107 77 74 Update from Eris:

She and hogmartin are about a mile out. They're stopping to take more pictures.

I got jealous in the other thread that people were getting info so I texted her. I'm petty like that.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:12 PM (gd9RK)

===========

Who's body are they burying? Buzzion's?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

That which is dead can never die.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (l4C/z)

108 Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (90T4r)

Protesting the Governor Dictator of Michigan

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (lwiT4)

109 I don't watch the news, not because I don't want to remain informed. I don't watch it, because there never seems to be anything new there.

I guess if there's video of car chases or bloody terrorist scenes, I don't see that stuff, but I'm kind of ok with that.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:11 PM (hku12)

Local news is even worse. Unless you really need to know about cats rescued from trees, and your daily fix of happy talk.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (GRbI+)

Our local "news" isn't much to look at. Below average looking youngsters, who seem to be play acting at doing a news show.

It's rather endearing, in some ways. But yeah, I don't really need to know about car accidents or this weekend's crafts show.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (hku12)

110 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (gd9RK)

Playing catchup, what is the rally about???
Posted by: tubal

Civil disobedience to the governor's fascism.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (GvEen)

111 AOC is a blithering idiot.

Posted by: Michael L Blair at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (yiAMj)

112 Getting $ from the gov is so much worst than pawning yu shit.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (84Pcq)

113 AOC is appealing to her Bernie base, and her feminist base ... she is the candidate that came from a revolt against the DNC anointing Hillary the last time, so of course she is instructed to Bash Biden a little ... he is a worse establishment candidate than Hillary.

(and yeah, she auditioned for the part of candidate, and gets her talking points from those that placed her in her current role)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (Cus5s)

114
Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM

protesting obergruppenfuerer whitmer's lock-down order

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (yc/34)

115 104 Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

*Mel Gibson voice*

FREEDOM!!!

A bunch of Michigan Morons are going to yell at the government about the sinovirus shutdown.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (gd9RK)

Thanks, Bander. The happy, festive mood part threw me off.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (90T4r)

116 I am pretty sure Laura Ingram did a segment on Joey Fingers.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (r+sAi)

117 Ya did not hear? The site crashed and is malfunctioning also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (85Gof)

My wife did it 30 minutes ago.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Does not matter. I know I am eligable and I file electronically.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

118 97 Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:14 PM (MxEKc)

She had just listened to those great philosophizers,

The Talking Heads.

And you may find yourself...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM (NgKpN)

We're getting close to 'Life in War Time'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (l4C/z)

119 "I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying old movies in a way."

What the hell does this even mean?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (jrTqB)

120 Seriously, go to the IRS website and click whatever
links to check and see if you're eligible. I had to enter my SSN and
last submitted IRS tax form (2019 for me) adjusted income and see if
they come back with an error.

I had to enter my bank info so they could auto-deposit.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Ya did not hear? The site crashed and is malfunctioning also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:16 PM

---

I got in a just little while ago, no problems. Had to enter my info because they said they didn't have it.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (JUOKG)

121 If Detroit has to be shut down due to coronavirus, we are going to make damn sure that the rural white parts of Michigan are shut down too!

Posted by: SS-Gruppenfuhrer Widmer! at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (I2/tG)

122 3 I have a feeling we will be hearing less from AOC.

Her usefulness has outlived itself.
Posted by: SH at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (sX1BW)

She was never useful to the current cabal in charge. They didn't want her. She's a threat to them. Sure their goals are the same but it's about who gets to wield the power that is at stake. What's most likely is that she's trying to thread the needle in wanting to let her inner commie out completely or getting to keep her seat. I figure she was told to fall in line or New York will redraw the lines to ensure she loses her primary in 2022. And this is a temper tantrum because she wanted Bernie.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (Sg/64)

123 84 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (gd9RK)

Nice! I wish I was there.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (Ez6QX)

124 This is good, from Robby Soave, commenting on Michelle Goldberg's hypocrisy:

Robby Soave
@robbysoave
·
20h
NYT columnist on Kavanaugh accuser: Hero

NYT columnist on Biden accuser: What to do with this inconvenience

Posted by: m at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (M5wRT)

125 "Playing catchup, what is the rally about???

Posted by: tubal

Civil disobedience to the governor's fascism.

Posted by: rickb223 "

So White Nationalist Nazis then, right?

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (MxEKc)

126 I'll check the noon news, see how many locals got murdered for their stimulus loot. Fake Magic 8-Ball sez: Three is a round number.

Posted by: klaftern at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (RuIsu)

127 Eris: signs and flags are everywhere and people are in a happy and festive mood.

-
Needs more torches and pitchforks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (+y/Ru)

128
So, Toothy McBigTits isn't going to sell out after all? Does she not realize that every Commie policy she masturbates over is what the regular Dems want, but just on the sly?

If she's too dumb to see that, wow. But, if she and Jill Stein split the Dems in half, so much the better.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (pS94+)

129 I know I am eligable and I file electronically.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

We do too. Still, the site said it did not have our bank information. This was right after they took our 2019 tax withdrawal. Out of the same bank.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (lwiT4)

130 I lose 10 points off my IQ every time I read that chicks quotes. You know.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (m/eiQ)

131 What the hell does this even mean?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (jrTqB)

She is pussyfooting around saying what she actually wants to say (or is just an idiot and this is word salad.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (A5zUN)

132 Is there an on-line translator for AOC-speak?

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

Right index finger in left palm, tap, tap, tap. Hook 'em Horns. "OK" sign, index finger of other hand through the hole, open palm vertical squiggle, twice. Dolphin leaps right to left then left to right. Two fingers up bunny hop, hands in armpits flap elbows, flap, flap. Thumb and finger "L" to forehead, tap, tap, tap, squiggle, mark of Zorro in the air, hesitate, catch breath.

Thumbs in ears waggle fingers, thumb and pinkie "Hang Loose" waggle,

Posted by: Mandela funeral fake sign language guy at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (m45I2)

133 ANARCHY IN MICHIGAN!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (NWiLs)

134
Protesting the Governor Dictator of Michigan

You should actually make a Home Depot run on the way to the protest. 5 gallon bucket of roof patch tar, bust open a pillow for feathers and a 10 ft 4x4 will make a nice rail too.

Just sayin...

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (G1eBa)

135 Let me know if you've seen any Fox news reports, on TV, about Tara Reade, prior to the NYT story.

If you have to hunt for it, it's the same thing.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (8fB/R)

136 It's a mistake we all tend to make assuming that (a) the other side is really more in step than they are, and (b) that someone who is on the other side's motives can always be inferred from that.

The latter, in particular, is an interesting question. I'd have to dig out the volumes, but Orwell was very interesting on this point. He disavowed his earlier use of "objectively pro-fascist", for several reasons. But the relevant one is that if you ignore the underlying motives you will never be able to predict their future actions.

And motives, of course, can only be inferred from the reasons they give; it's pure BS to just assign the worst ones to your opponents. Leave that to the left. Admittedly, with AOC, inferring motives from her words takes something more like archaeology than logic.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (ZbwAu)

137 White Nationalist Nazis. Heh. Shoot left my robes at home

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (Z1Gfv)

138 Is Eris in Michigan?

Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (O+I8R)

139
Anybody on the ground or near Lansing? Would love an eyewitness report.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (pS94+)

140 "Needs more torches and pitchforks."

And crew served weapons.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (m/eiQ)

141 Not surprising me about Michigan, people been locked up for weeks

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (ZCEU2)

142 You know, with most people sound stupider in transcripts than recordings. But somehow you read AOC's words, think "daaaaaamn she's dumb," and then see it on video and it's even stupider sounding.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (hDNne)

Once, as an experiment, one of my grad students and I planned out a manuscript with a dictation tape recorder running, which my secretary transcribed completely literally.

From the transcript you'd have thought a pair of gibbering idiots were talking. It was a very humbling experience.

Turns out in tete-a-tete conversation people often drop the end of sentences when they see the other person has already taken their meaning (because, e.g., he is nodding in agreement).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (GRbI+)

143 >>And then the national Democratic Party reaches out to the State of New York Democratic Party to deal with her and the state says, "Don't worry. We're already eliminating her district."

We'll see. IIRC, she's one of top recipients of campaign donations in the House, along with Ilhan Omar. She has national appeal and reach despite not having a lot of fans in her district.

I'd be thrilled if the DNC managed to sideline her, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (bDqIh)

144 I know I am eligable and I file electronically.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

We do too. Still, the site said it did not have our bank information. This was right after they took our 2019 tax withdrawal. Out of the same bank.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (lwiT4)

I do it and it says it can not determine my eligibilyt?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (85Gof)

145 So White Nationalist Nazis then, right?
Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (MxEKc)

Why did you say that three times?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (A5zUN)

146 Snowing like mad here in Michigan. Fox Outnumber will be showing video from the Michigan protest so they say.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (ny07Z)

147 134
Protesting the Governor Dictator of Michigan

You should actually make a Home Depot run on the way to the protest. 5 gallon bucket of roof patch tar, bust open a pillow for feathers and a 10 ft 4x4 will make a nice rail too.

Just sayin...
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (G1eBa)

Make it a modern version.

Use the patented fill, made in America, for the My Pillow, guaranteed by an Ex Druggy to make you have the best sleep of your life!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (NgKpN)

148 Is it bad that I understand what she's saying? They started with a diverse candidate field and ended with an establishment senile old white guy .
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 15, 2020 12:17 PM (FKi9J)

Well sure. It makes sense. We've been through this before, several times. In '96 we got Dole. Granted, there wasn't much choice that year, and everyone stayed away, except for the one guy I am not even going to mention by name.

Then in '08, if there was a chance to nominate somebody who would take up the conservative cause, after it languished for 8 years under Bush, we got... McCain. Really? REALLY??

Then Rombly. Enuff said.

We know what she must be thinking. How DARE they!! It was OUR turn!!!

Yeah, no, sugartats. It wasn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (hku12)

149
Just read what I bolded and tell me she doesn't talk like a Stupid Child:

"I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying old movies in a way.""

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (+voN6)

150 Anybody on the ground or near Lansing? Would love an eyewitness report.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (pS94+)

Eris, Hogmartin, Governor Morris

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (lwiT4)

151 I got my Wuhan Payment!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (r+sAi)

152 We're getting close to 'Life in War Time'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you.

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Tina Weymouth ftw.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (Y4EXg)

153
Anybody on the ground or near Lansing? Would love an eyewitness report.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM

there's at least three Morons in the AO, or getting close too it

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (yc/34)

154 128
So, Toothy McBigTits isn't going to sell out after all? Does she not realize that every Commie policy she masturbates over is what the regular Dems want, but just on the sly?

If she's too dumb to see that, wow. But, if she and Jill Stein split the Dems in half, so much the better.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (pS94+)

It's not about the goals. It's about who gets to wield the power to get to those goals. And she's of the outsider group that wants to take over from Pelosi's wing and be more out and proud commie.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (Sg/64)

155 152 We're getting close to 'Life in War Time'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you.

---

Tina Weymouth ftw.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (Y4EXg)

"James Brown? JAMES BROWN!!!!"

- - Genius of Love

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (pS94+)

156 Admittedly, with AOC, inferring motives from her words takes something more like archaeology than logic.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2020 12:20 PM (ZbwAu)

Never mind motives, inferring sentience from her words is an act of faith.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (GRbI+)

157 I do it and it says it can not determine my eligibilyt?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (85Gof)

I got that too. I went in ten minutes later and it took my info. Crazy

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (lwiT4)

158 Honestly, the first time I can recall seeing Tara Reade's name is here. Perhaps we need a Moron News Network?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (HmZuC)

159 Operation Gridlock on cavuto

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (ny07Z)

160 Was it just months ago we were wanting to arrest anyone who was wearing a mask while protesting?

You remember, Antifa?

Now, you'd get arrested for NOT wearing a mask?

/mind exploding

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (NgKpN)

161 154 Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (Sg/64)

Dumb beyond belief. Yeah, I get that she's an egomaniac, but if my rivals share my goals, then they ain't really rivals.

Dumb.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (pS94+)

162 I do it and it says it can not determine my eligibilyt?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (85Gof)

I got that too. I went in ten minutes later and it took my info. Crazy
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (lwiT4)

It is a widely reported problem. I do not have the time to keep going in.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (85Gof)

163 War been here for awhile. Cold, luke warm , hot fudge sundae ...maybe the heavy metal part is approaching like a furry kitten.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (84Pcq)

164 When do I get my reparations check from Premier Xi?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (I2/tG)

165 Lady YD's 9yo speaks with much more maturity, and
half of her dialogue concerns unicorns, cats, or potential hybrid
chimeras made from unicorns and cats.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 12:15 PM (hDNne)

I'd like to sign up for her newsletter.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (8B6Ng)

166
Let's not the let the cocksucking police in Michigan and in all the other states who are acting like gestapos. It's only a matter of days until one of these trigger-happy Barney Fifes shoots an innocent citizen.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (+voN6)

167 Anybody on the ground or near Lansing?

See Gouverneur Morris' posts.

Posted by: spindrift at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (XQpcb)

168 I know I am eligable and I file electronically.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

We
do too. Still, the site said it did not have our bank information. This
was right after they took our 2019 tax withdrawal. Out of the same
bank.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM

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Same here. We filed 2019 and it said they didn't have our bank info.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (JUOKG)

169 I dunno. I dated a girl from Spain. She took me home to meet her mom who was probably in her mid forties. I was like, "whoa. how you doin?"

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (m/eiQ)

170 Yo Mf din koo shinka Joe Biden den dat fukir bucco Bernie Sanders Yo!

Posted by: CardiBee at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (MDN/K)

171 149
Just read what I bolded and tell me she doesn't talk like a Stupid Child:

"I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it's like, how did we get here? You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we're kind of back in it," she added. "You know, the most diverse field that we've ever seen -- that we're kind of back kind of replaying old movies in a way.""
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (+voN6)

I know you are but what am I??

Posted by: AOC at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (vs2ae)

172 167 Anybody on the ground or near Lansing?

See Gouverneur Morris' posts.
Posted by: spindrift at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (XQpcb)

============

I knew Gouverneur Morris, and I can say that that man is no Gouverneur Morris.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

173 Some Police and Some civilians are acting like good little nazis and I bet they are all left wingers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (85Gof)

174 161 154 Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 12:22 PM (Sg/64)

Dumb beyond belief. Yeah, I get that she's an egomaniac, but if my rivals share my goals, then they ain't really rivals.

Dumb.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (pS94+)

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (Sg/64)

175 273 hogmartin just texted me a pic. Pickup in front of him flying two American flags.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 11:46 AM (ptqGC)

Same here.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (TdMsT)

176 I'd be thrilled if the DNC managed to sideline her, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Lizzy
______________

I saw an AOC bumper sticker on an Arizona car. She's something like a Ron Paul and can jump into any blue NY district and raise $8 million with direct mail in all 50 states.

I don't think they can get rid of her, which is good for us.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (sjTfF)

177 Nevergiveup - don't use spaces in your social security number. That's what I think kicked it out the first time.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (lwiT4)

178 Look at the dead guy being all talky and brainy and such.

It's almost like he didn't die at all!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (9wmyx)

179 Perhaps we need a Moron News Network?
Posted by: Citizen Cake

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See J.J.'s Morning Report for all your news needs.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (Y4EXg)

180 My wife work calls are way more interesting than mine

I going to change jobs after the time of Wuhan

Posted by: Yo! at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (uZuKb)

181
RE: Lansing gridlock

Does this COVID hoax lockdown mean that the non-left who normally have jobs and more important shit to do are free to show ANTIFA how protesting is done?

Posted by: fktheleft at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (I54dk)

182 169 I dunno. I dated a girl from Spain. She took me home to meet her mom who was probably in her mid forties. I was like, "whoa. how you doin?"
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (m/eiQ)

Dear Penthouse,

You won't believe this, but...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (vs2ae)

183 Question for the Horde: is it okay for me to be White, and Nationalist??? I suppose I could ditch the White part, if I " identified" differently.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (90T4r)

184 Does this COVID hoax lockdown mean that the non-left who normally have jobs and more important shit to do are free to show ANTIFA how protesting is done?

!!! hmm! silver lining!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (j9HX3)

185 We'll see. IIRC, she's one of top recipients of campaign donations in the House, along with Ilhan Omar. She has national appeal and reach despite not having a lot of fans in her district.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (bDqIh)

Nationally, she polls (?) at circa 9%, IIRC.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (GRbI+)

186 164 When do I get my reparations check from Premier Xi?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (I2/tG)

Thread winner.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 12:26 PM (TdMsT)

187 Just made quick trip to Home Depot. I get a sense part of the country is Sick Of This Shit and ready to rebel. Unfortunately heavily outnumbered by the Verge Of Mass Panic And We Are All Going To Die but still time to buy flowers crowd. It is surreal.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (MxEKc)

188 This is good, from Robby Soave, commenting on Michelle Goldberg's hypocrisy:

Robby Soave
@robbysoave

20h
NYT columnist on Kavanaugh accuser: Hero

NYT columnist on Biden accuser: What to do with this inconvenience
Posted by: m at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (M5wRT)

It's not unlike the abortion movement.

Lady who's married to the nice dentist: It's a baby!

Single gal, still in grad school: It's an inconvenience. Just a clump of cells.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (hku12)

189 Nevergiveup - don't use spaces in your social security number. That's what I think kicked it out the first time.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (lwiT4)
++++++++++++
That's a stupid failure mode. I wonder if it is a government-written application or the farmed it out to someone's B-team.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (hYcqw)

190
just heard from hogmartin & Eris: parked & walking, traffic is not moving about a mile from the capital

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (yc/34)

191 Nevergiveup - don't use spaces in your social security number. That's what I think kicked it out the first time.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (lwiT4)

no spaces.

It is being reported as a system wide issue.

Much like the Miliitary, I tell people the best programmers and computer people went to work with Apple and Google and Microsoft. The others got yobs with the Federal Gov and it shows

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (85Gof)

192 That's a stupid failure mode. I wonder if it is a government-written application or the farmed it out to someone's B-team.

guarantee you they farmed this out

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (j9HX3)

193

I bet as soon as the Trump administration opens up a state or region or industry to get back to work, the libgoons will send in people who are dying, or fake deaths. Doctors paid to change reason for death, etc.

There is NOTHING they won't do now. We see it. It is real. There is NOTHING they won't do. Nothing.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (8fB/R)

194 I strongly suspect the Murdoch boys and the "Brain Room" of Bill Sammon,
Chris Stirewalt, Chris Wallace, etc., forbade any mention of the
allegation. Making FoxNews as complicit in the coverup as CNN.
Ace

Fox News has been drifting left for a long time now. I quit watching it a long time ago even before I dropped my Cable/Satellite.

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (mpXpK)

195 just heard from hogmartin & Eris: parked & walking, traffic is not moving about a mile from the capital

this is exciting! I'm ready to head out to Harrisburg! Let's GO!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (j9HX3)

196
Speaking of shit the little girl says that's smarter than anything AOC could come up with:

A few weeks ago, I was texting something important to someone when she came out and informed me that my help was needed with the baby's bottle.

I said "Hang on for one minute, I'll be right --" when she interrupted with "PUT THAT PHONE DOWN, YD! Phones are for closers!!"

Funnier and sharper than AOC could ever hope to be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (hDNne)

197 Huh, Jesse Watters did a segment on fox with Huckabee that I saw on YT, but it's been scrubbed. Maybe it's on Bitchute. I was starting to think he did it on his own, but here's a video showing it by somebody else.

Guessing fox pulled it and Jesse got taken to the woodshed.

Posted by: clutch cargo at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (8B6Ng)

198

Oh, and Soup with Ace!

Scotch Broth. nom nom

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (8fB/R)

199 Wanking motion!

Posted by: Mandela funeral fake sign language guy at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (m45I2)

200 I just had to use my lunch break to make a run to Ace Hardware. The staff were masked up, which is increasingly common. One thing I noticed is that they were all wearing different kinds of masks. One guy had a surgical mask, one guy a painter's mask (which are usually N95s by another name), several had cloth masks.

I suspect they are not company-issued, which makes me wonder if they are making with self-provisioning masks or if they are dictated to wear them and Ace doesn't have any in the supply chain right now and so are throwing everything they can find at employees.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (hYcqw)

201 >>And motives, of course, can only be inferred from the reasons they give; it's pure BS to just assign the worst ones to your opponents. Leave that to the left. Admittedly, with AOC, inferring motives from her words takes something more like archaeology than logic.

Fair point. I have done some mind-reading with AOC. Based on watching how she operates: she never backs down on her causes, so when there is the appearance of consistency in this one case (#MeToo for Biden), I assume it is because it still fits into her Intersectional frame of reference.

Biden is a white male, just as Trump and most of the others snagged with #MeToo, so there is no inconsistency is saying we can't let Biden off the hook. I'd be more surprised if she said we should apply #MeToo to, say, Cenk Uyger and his TYT crew, or to Ilhan Omar -- non-white, one non-male, immigrants.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (bDqIh)

202 When do I get my reparations check from Premier Xi?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (I2/tG)

Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit. Number in the trillions.

We'll see how that goes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (hku12)

203 That's a stupid failure mode. I wonder if it is a government-written application or the farmed it out to someone's B-team.

They should've gotten the Post Office's programmers on it.

Posted by: advanced digital product at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (XQpcb)

204 First there is a comment, then there is no comment, then there is

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (90T4r)

205 Does anyone remember a single segment on FoxNews -- the TV broadcast, I
mean; I've found a few scattered references on the website -- about Tara
Reade's allegations before the New York Times gave them permission to cover it (as a media story only)?

___________

Well, to be fair, the NYT was waiting for permission from Yahoo News.

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (QiIE4)

206 Hubby just texted me. Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.

Posted by: jewells45 at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (BLT3V)

207 Anarchy for Michigan
It's comin' sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
Your future dream is a shopping scheme
'Cause I wanna be anarchy
It's in Lansing city

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (NWiLs)

208 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

209 Our gubna is holding a presser in 30 minutes to talk about our current lock down status, presently set to expire tonight.

I will either be pumping my fist or my big screen with have a big hole in it.

Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (377Zs)

210 In gov, spaces are data.

Posted by: klaftern at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (RuIsu)

211 just heard from hogmartin & Eris: parked & walking, traffic is not moving about a mile from the capital

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (yc/34)
++++++++++
Sounds like they accomplished "Gridlock"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (hYcqw)

212 There is NOTHING they won't do now. We see it. It is real. There is NOTHING they won't do. Nothing.

Yeah. This is real.

And the Nevertrump/ FOX News enablers will be all-in

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (G1eBa)

213 Unfortunately, she gets her consistency from stupidity.

She really thinks that Believe All Women is the way to go. I.e. surrender vetting of information to an uniform ideological abstract belief.

Of course Socrates often put himself into the role of "stupid student" to compel his blatherer to elaborate his theories and display inherent weaknesses in the narrative before him. So being a real-live example of what Socrates pretended to be, she leaves it up to us to have the discernment of Socrates for her.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (Eicbe)

214

Speaking of Faux News....

what of Shannon Bream?
Where'd she land?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (+voN6)

215 208 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

I'm enjoying their streaming service in the lockdown.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (l4C/z)

216 We do too. Still, the site said it did not have our bank information. This was right after they took our 2019 tax withdrawal. Out of the same bank.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:19 PM (lwiT4)

---------------------------------------

Did your banking info change from last year, or did you not do direct deposit last year? Only thing I can think of is when they calculated your payment, they had not finished processing your current taxes, so they used last years. By the time they got to disbursing the money, they had finished processing your taxes.

Either that, or usual IRS incompetence.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (CAJOC)

217
And, why did no one at Faux News stand with Shannon Bream??

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (+voN6)

218 First there is a comment, then there is no comment, then there is

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (90T4r)

Whack!.....WHACK!!!

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (X/Pw5)

219 160 Was it just months ago we were wanting to arrest anyone who was wearing a mask while protesting?

You remember, Antifa?

Now, you'd get arrested for NOT wearing a mask?

/mind exploding
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:24 PM (NgKpN)

January - SF demands reusable bags for groceries.
March - SF bans reusable bags for groceries.
August (?) - SF demands reusable bags for groceries.

Zombie Ribbentrop and Molotov shake their heads in disbelief.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (GRbI+)

220 Just made quick trip to Home Depot. I get a sense part of the country is Sick Of This Shit and ready to rebel. Unfortunately heavily outnumbered by the Verge Of Mass Panic And We Are All Going To Die but still time to buy flowers crowd. It is surreal.
Posted by: Ripley

_______________

I get a sense that people are sick of this and have decided to move on. When I go out, it's almost only the elderly that have masks and gloves, etc. Which I'm fine with.

I've mentally decided this like 2-3 flus in one year. Not "nothing" but not Ebola or smallpox.

I'm not going to be quarantined until I get a vaccination in my arm a year from now. We still can't even get masks, somehow I doubt we get all get a vaccine in 10 more months.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (sjTfF)

221 213 Of course Socrates often put himself into the role of "stupid student" to compel his blatherer to elaborate his theories and display inherent weaknesses in the narrative before him. So being a real-live example of what Socrates pretended to be, she leaves it up to us to have the discernment of Socrates for her.
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (Eicbe)

============

Hence, my theory that The Republic is a satire of students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

222 Thread winner.

And stolen from Iowahawk.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (I2/tG)

223 Ew. The governor of Michigan looks like one of those chicks with a dick. What the hell.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (m/eiQ)

224 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
++++++++++++
Meh, they're both southern hick states and the towns have the same name. Close enough.

Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (hYcqw)

225 Our gubna is holding a presser in 30 minutes to talk about our current lock down status, presently set to expire tonight.

I will either be pumping my fist or my big screen with have a big hole in it.

Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (377Zs)

Oh I hope it's good news!!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (lwiT4)

226 I love all these headlines about "plummeting" and "crashing" retail sales. No shit, Sherlock.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (xPl2J)

227 215 208 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

I'm enjoying their streaming service in the lockdown.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (l4C/z)

===========

I do hear very good things, but then I did just see Universal Soldier for the first time through Prime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

228 OK...someone help me out here.

Apparently the press is nothing but a mouthpiece for the CCP.

And yet today, over at WZ there's a story that The Associated Press reported late on Tuesday night that leaked internal documents from China show that Xi knew that the situation was dire and that the 'risk of transmission and spread' was 'high' by January 14 at the latest, the same day that the WHO downplayed the outbreak.

If the assumption that the MSM is a mouthpiece for the CCP, then this would seem to be the MSM trying to get out ahead of some serious shit about to go down. In China.

Thoughts?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (C+yOi)

229 Uuh, nope. They didn't allow Jesse Waters to ask Dr Fauchi about the 2.2 million dead presentation to The Potus demanding a total shutdown. Btw, I think the play by Fauchi & Birx back then was done under the assumption that DJT would NOT shut everything down, so they could go on CNN, ET AL and blame Trump for all of the deaths caused by him NOT shutting it down
And when he followed their recommendation, they were stuck doing all of these daily briefings.

Posted by: Vlog xx xx at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (nlfS4)

230 If Obama had done the website nobody would get their money until 2023.

He could have done it himself and it would have worked right out of the gate but he delegated the portal design.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (pw+jk)

231 230 If Obama had done the website nobody would get their money until 2023.

He could have done it himself and it would have worked right out of the gate but he delegated the portal design.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (pw+jk

The money would have gone to ACORN.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (pS94+)

232 Ace, do you think the other networks and the politicians are in on the Fox News joke? They love to bash Fox as conservative but they have to know the Murdoch boys have taken over.

Posted by: abbynormal at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (I849g)

233 >>Oh, and Lasagna Soup with Ace!

Posted by: garrett at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (8lPnA)

234 Whitmer was on Today show this am whining that Michigan has the third highest number of cases in the US. No Detroit has the third highest case numbers.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ny07Z)

235 209 Our gubna is holding a presser in 30 minutes to talk about our current lock down status, presently set to expire tonight.

I will either be pumping my fist or my big screen with have a big hole in it.
Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (377Zs)

I'm going to be watching that. If you guys open up I can head over and go out to dinner!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (Ez6QX)

236 FAUX News Harris Faulkner already breaking out the "risk of infection" horseshit and quoting Meggie Mac.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (G1eBa)

237 And the Nevertrump/ FOX News enablers will be all-in
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (G1eBa)
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And some NeverTrumpers consider that it is the most time-honored thing to remove a questionably-conservative president for a guy who has just disowned his two longest-held conservative stances to curry favor with the progs to the left.

Self-imposed stupidity cannot be accounted for.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (Eicbe)

238 Beginning programmers write it so that it can work.

Experienced programmers try to write it so that it can't fail.

Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (zV/fi)

239 From the livestream linked above more than half the Michiganders already standing around in the cold outside the capitol are not wearing masks while there is some attempt at "social distancing". Gotta give 'em props. They are putting their beliefs into practice to fight their idiot governor.

Posted by: corn and beans at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (tkNkP)

240 I dunno. I dated a girl from Spain. She took me home to meet her mom who was probably in her mid forties. I was like, "whoa. how you doin?"
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (m/eiQ)

Well Spain is different.

Not too long ago, when these things were permitted, I was at an event, and the row in front of me was occupied by a family. About 4 sisters... you could tell they were sisters, a few of their kids. Mexican Americans. Not gibberish speaking Mexicans, clear English. So... all these gals, who were maybe late teens to late 20s, drop dead gorgeous.

Then mom showed up.

Yeesh! What happened to you, lady!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (hku12)

241 224 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
++++++++++++
Meh, they're both southern hick states and the towns have the same name. Close enough.
Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (hYcqw)

===========

The name of the town that I actually live in, and is listed on the order, is not actually Charleston, though. Which makes it weirder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

242 208 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
=========

I believe that happened to Patrick O'Brian when he came to the States on a book tour. Landed in DC and took a cab. Was supposed to go to SC but went to WV instead.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (dfRN6)

243
that's the second bass boat I've see being towed through the protest

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (yc/34)

244 Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.

Had enough in Iowa too. We aren't on the draconian model but businesses are voluntarily locking down even still. Curbside or by appointment only. It's becoming harder and harder to try to do what little work that we can.

The revolt is coming.

Posted by: IP at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (CTv2h)

245 Repubshaviks and Demcrapshaviks?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (e284m)

246 Did your banking info change from last year, or did
you not do direct deposit last year? Only thing I can think of is when
they calculated your payment, they had not finished processing your
current taxes, so they used last years. By the time they got to
disbursing the money, they had finished processing your taxes.

Either that, or usual IRS incompetence.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (CAJOC)

File electronically and paid electronically for three years, all with the same bank account. Tis a mystery.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (lwiT4)

247 236 FAUX News Harris Faulkner already breaking out the "risk of infection" horseshit and quoting Meggie Mac.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (G1eBa)

There is a narrative, you know.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (90T4r)

248
And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

You're here for me, how?

All these car makers are running these ads telling me they're here for me. What they're really saying is "We're Still Open For Business And Ready To Take Your $$."

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (+voN6)

249 No Detroit has the third highest case numbers.

75% of the CCP virus cases in Michigan are in metro Detroit.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (I2/tG)

250 No-one is 'forced' to do anything at Fox. If any of them had any real foundation, they would tell Fox to pound sand. But what they are are a variant of prostitute. If someone has the money , honey, they have the time.

Posted by: Dougf at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (VeAQx)

251 The set up for excusing Slow Joe from the nomination at the last minute.

*Scene Democratic Convention - Empty Hall - Lights Dark - Cameras rolling, Music Begins to Play "Enter the Sandman", spotlight illuminates Podium. Into the spotlight steps the figure of -*

Posted by: stay tuned at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (5r/qU)

252 I dunno. I dated a girl from Spain. She took me home to meet her mom who was probably in her mid forties. I was like, "whoa. how you doin?"
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:25 PM (m/eiQ)

We warned you about this.

Posted by: The Makers of Tag Body Spray at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (SgjGX)

253 158 Honestly, the first time I can recall seeing Tara Reade's name is here. Perhaps we need a Moron News Network?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 15, 2020 12:23 PM (HmZuC)

We do, it's JJ Sefton

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (l4C/z)

254 210 In gov, spaces are data.
Posted by: klaftern at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (RuIsu)

And 0 is replaced by O.

I learned this when I downloaded information from a government database that blew up a database I'd written.

Reason? An obligately numeric field in my database had capital O in place of 0 from the government data. There were 1OOs and 1OOs of instances.

Top. Men.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (GRbI+)

255 Gee thanks for the OK, Ms. Corpuscle.

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

256 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

omg Sooth preach it!

I am making a ginormous list of these - not patronizing any of them. b/c they are patronizing ME

stahhhhhp

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:34 PM (j9HX3)

257 Anybody on the ground or near Lansing? Would love an eyewitness report.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:21 PM (pS94+)

Breitbart has it-

https://tinyurl.com/swhu8pz

Posted by: WeBoned! at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (8k7U7)

258 Whitmer was on Today show this am whining that Michigan has the third highest number of cases in the US. No Detroit has the third highest case numbers.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ny07Z)
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When she shrugs her shoulders over a shitty economy we should just come at her like "You should have opened the economy before!"

Then micromanage her timeline.

"What else could I have done?!"

Be better.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (Eicbe)

259 Beginning programmers write it so that it can work.

Experienced programmers try to write it so that it can't fail.
Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (zV/fi)
++++++++
That's a fool's errand.

Write it so it fails *well* - gives you a relevant, human-readable message and have the message provide resolution guidance that the user can follow.

Bad: Silent failure with no message
Less bad: error code or highlighting the bad input
Better: "Social Security number was not input correctly."
More better: "Social Security number could not be processed. Ensure you enter your Social Security number with no spaces, dashes or other special characters."

Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (hYcqw)

260 Hubby just texted me. Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.
Posted by: jewells45

The numbers the experts claimed, never materialized.

Then the governor compounded it with a draconian lockdown response.

You don't treat free people that way.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (GvEen)

261
And nobody will tell that Assho in Michigan SO JUST LOCKDOWN DETROIT AND LET EVERYONE ELSE ALONE!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (+voN6)

262 Does not matter. I know I am eligable and I file electronically.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)

Mine was only a suggestion.

You do what you feel is best.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

263 75% of the CCP virus cases in Michigan are in metro Detroit.

which is kind of amazing considering how desolate and empty that city is!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (j9HX3)

264 what of Shannon Bream?
Where'd she land?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (+voN6)

hopefully on her head...its made of condensed rubber

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (32YRo)

265 Yeah this time has been enlightening. We always said inside any Leftist is a tyrant waiting to rule over others, and we have seen it in spades from govts and police. Most surprising was the realization of the "Karens" (both genders) that were perfectly willing and enthusiastic to become the Stasi.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (r+sAi)

266 ARGH

:: Sprays UBIK sock restorer ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (hYcqw)

267 Hannity , Fucker & Laura are hypocrites ! just all talk about it & let them suspend them & then talk about what happened oh Utube, FB, Twitter what have ya. who is the fat faggot Stirewalt, Sammon & the Murdoch retards going to get to replace them

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (aNkIJ)

268 bat soup

Yucky

Posted by: Yo! at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (uZuKb)

269 Whitmer was on Today show this am whining that Michigan has the third highest number of cases in the US.

Which is why I banned gardening in Michigan!

Posted by: SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Widmer! at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (I2/tG)

270 212 There is NOTHING they won't do now. We see it. It is real. There is NOTHING they won't do. Nothing.

And the media will provide the distribution and delivery service to their manufactured evil.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (H8QX8)

271 Now Chicks with Legs on the Couch whining about social distancing.

Fuck off, nagging ninnies.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (G1eBa)

272 @MaybeAmes

This is like a party...car next to me blasting "Born in the USA" girl standing through her sunroof waving an American flag #OperationGridlock

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (cF8AT)

273 Fox News has been drifting left for a long time now. I quit watching it a long time ago even before I dropped my Cable/Satellite.

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:28 PM (mpXpK)

Turn on FOX, yell at it, turn it to Friends for mom.
Mom who had mild dementia couldn't stand it.
That's a denominator.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (7Pobc)

274 Yeah, I'm pretty Sure if they don't start opening up these states the citizens are going to do it for them. You want to lock down NYC, Detroit, LA and Newark until Fall? Go ahead. We'll be over here living free.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (m/eiQ)

275 Damn Roads fixed or saved.

Posted by: Frau Gretchen Vitmer of the Governorate of Michigan at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (Eicbe)

276 Breitbart has it-

https://tinyurl.com/swhu8pz
Posted by: WeBoned! at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (8k7U7)

That link is not valid.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (LIhNq)

277 Donkey Chompers off the ranch, so to speak.

Posted by: dananjcon at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (u6xw0)

278 The gov website tells me it can not determine my payment at this time.

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (mpXpK)

279 Let's not the let the cocksucking police in Michigan and in all the
other states who are acting like gestapos. It's only a matter of days
until one of these trigger-happy Barney Fifes shoots an innocent
citizen.
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Life can get brutal and short for those who enforce the will of tyrants, too.

Posted by: Methos at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (kOpft)

280 Wrote this morning the fraud will be huuuge in this stimulus check bullshit.
======

Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16 gets $2000/month for the next six months.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

281 227 215 208 Somehow my Criterion order went to Charleston, WV instead of Charleston, SC.

Weirdness.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

I'm enjoying their streaming service in the lockdown.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (l4C/z)

===========

I do hear very good things, but then I did just see Universal Soldier for the first time through Prime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:31 PM (LvTSG)

You know, I don't have Universal Soldier. It's an ok action movie, with good action. I really like Dolph in his role. He really uses his size and physicality. And playing reanimated corpse really plays into JKVD's, um, acting range.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (l4C/z)

282 for the record, fox is covering the protest right now.

and they all agree so far that they shouldn't be so close together and how dare these people stand so close together.

fuck harris and her "virtual couch" friends.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (8D42x)

283

Think about it for just a minute and you realize that it comes to about 20 cities in just 6 states that are making an Entire Nation come to a Standstill.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (+voN6)

284 Hannity , Fucker Laura are hypocrites

If any of them believed what they said, they would jump over to OANN or somewhere else.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (G1eBa)

285 I strongly suspect the Murdoch boys and the "Brain Room" of Bill Sammon, Chris Stirewalt, Chris Wallace, etc., forbade any mention of the allegation. Making FoxNews as complicit in the coverup as CNN.

Von Ryan's Express.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (y7DUB)

286 Donkey Chompers off the ranch, so to speak.

Posted by: dananjcon at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (u6xw0)

Silly.

I LOVE Ranch Dressing!

Posted by: Alexandra Ocrazio CoTits at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

287 New NC poll

Trump +7

Posted by: Ha at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (pUwNX)

288 Corruption between the donors and candidates seemed to reach new heights this year.. Leon Cooperman, major biden donor, and his hideous crying rants on CNBC about Warren and her mean words about poor Leon, worked to disrupt Bernie's campaign by painting Warren as the true warrior against the rich. Warren stayed in the race long enough to ruin Bernie's chance to win and now she endorsed an accused rapist. How convenient. Ppl talk about Bernie and his houses, I'd like to see what Warren received.

Posted by: EveR at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (ZZDMQ)

289 @MaybeAmes 20 minutes ago

I'm in a massive dead-zone for my phone - we haven't budged in 20 min. I can't tweet the pic right now of the guy who just ran up and down the line of cars waving his GIGANTIC "Don't Tread on Me" Flag (no mask) #OperationGridlock

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (cF8AT)

290 281 You know, I don't have Universal Soldier. It's an ok action movie, with good action. I really like Dolph in his role. He really uses his size and physicality. And playing reanimated corpse really plays into JKVD's, um, acting range.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (l4C/z)

===========

I felt the exact same way.

What sort of saved it is that it is occasionally pretty funny. Like when the girl is steps off the bus to stay with JCVD, the bus pulls away, and there's a wall of cops behind her. I laughed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (LvTSG)

291 I use Axe n Mace Body Spray.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (84Pcq)

292 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

You're here for me, how?

All these car makers are running these ads telling me they're here for me. What they're really saying is "We're Still Open For Business And Ready To Take Your $$."
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (+voN6)

An email from the company that installed our solar panels said that they cared about me, hoped I was safe from the corona virus, and oh, by the way, they wanted to take this opportunity to tell me that the solar panel monitor was now out of warranty, but that I could replace it with a new one that had a five-year warranty for the low low price of $600.

Gee, they really DO care.

Nice try.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (GRbI+)

293 Perky, Bubbly Jan from Toyota > Comforting, Consoling Jan from Toyota

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (dfRN6)

294 They need to burn the Michigan governor's mansion to the ground.

Posted by: Sooner at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

295 287 New NC poll

Trump +7
Posted by: Ha at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (pUwNX)

=============

8 months out, but it's nice to see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (LvTSG)

296 Weird seeing a successful organization that looks at their failing competition and says "We have to do what they're doing."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (E+OcO)

297 236 FAUX News Harris Faulkner already breaking out the "risk of infection" horseshit and quoting Meggie Mac.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (G1eBa)

Note, they all have jobs right now.

None of THEM are wearing masks, including the reporter covering the protest.

The realization hit me yesterday.

They are willing to take away YOUR Freedom, for THEIR safety.

Wine Moms and Karens now rule us.

How the F did we get here? (damn, sounding like AOC!)

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (NgKpN)

298 Live feed here

[LIVE] 'Dump Trump' Counter-Protests Against Trump Rally in Minneapolis
https://tinyurl.com/tmrnmmd

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (8fB/R)

299 Harris Faulkner is a man, baby!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (ieuPy)

300 Well, the IRS "cannot determine the status of my payment".Something tells me I'm going to have to work for this money.

Posted by: drerbrerard at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (EA1BR)

301 Hopefully as more people cut the cord and drop cable the cable news channels will fade away just like any other obsolete technology. From the ads they run you can see their target demos are pretty much the retirement set anyway.

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (cG+eD)

302 They SC'd Shannon Bream, damn.

Martha MacCallum's got a job for life.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (7Pobc)

303 Hannity , Fucker Laura are hypocrites ! just all talk about it let them suspend them then talk about what happened oh Utube, FB, Twitter what have ya. who is the fat faggot Stirewalt, Sammon the Murdoch retards going to get to replace them

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (aNkIJ)
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You realize that right now, purism *is* the debilitating weakness the left is inflicting on itself?

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Eicbe)

304
It's a huge political winner if the President says everyone but the worst areas can resume Normal Life.

Let the governors and Fake News try to oppose it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (+voN6)

305 OH, NIX my link!

Wrong link!

October date. Sorry

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (8fB/R)

306 Think about it for just a minute and you realize that it comes to about 20 cities in just 6 states that are making an Entire Nation come to a Standstill.

very very true Soothsayer

for now.

the end is near! one way or another

<- that's my little bit of soothsaying there

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (j9HX3)

307 294 They need to burn the Michigan governor's mansion to the ground.
Posted by: Sooner at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

============

I don't know why, but I read this as "They used to burn the Michigan governor's mansion to the ground."

I wanted to see the history books detail that, regular governor mansion burnings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

308 The gov website tells me it can not determine my payment at this time.
Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (mpXpK)

This is what we got, I think, initially. I had to enter my SSN, then the gross adjusted income on the last submitted tax form. Then they requested my bank info.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

309 Thoughts?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

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The deep state has decided that the virus narrative is played, and now they are shifting to --create a war as backup plan (what are we up to now- "r" or "s"?)

After war fails, the next step is the traditional thing that happens to non compliant presidents of the US.

Interesting times kind of suck.

Posted by: stay tuned at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (TBavc)

310 Whitmer was on Today show this am whining that Michigan has the third highest number of cases in the US. No Detroit has the third highest case numbers.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ny07Z)

I saw on Joshua Phillips show last night, pics from the Detroit hospital. Bodies in white bags, laying on a bed that apparently gets used for sleep studies.

Is anyone gonna want to do a sleep study in that hospital ever again?

I mean, if you live in Detroit, do you WANT to sleep??

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (hku12)

311 She was never useful to the current cabal in charge.

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Her usefulness was basically keeping the base excited - maybe not all that necessary since TDS is all the excitement they need.

Also in talking about kids in cages. Border enforcement is probably not going to be at the top of Dem radars this cycle since they know it will be a loser during a pandemic.

Posted by: SH at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (sX1BW)

312 259 Beginning programmers write it so that it can work.

Experienced programmers try to write it so that it can't fail.
Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:32 PM (zV/fi)
++++++++
That's a fool's errand.

Write it so it fails *well* - gives you a relevant, human-readable message and have the message provide resolution guidance that the user can follow.

Bad: Silent failure with no message
Less bad: error code or highlighting the bad input
Better: "Social Security number was not input correctly."
More better: "Social Security number could not be processed. Ensure you enter your Social Security number with no spaces, dashes or other special characters."
Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (hYcqw)

-----------------------------------

Every time you make something fool-proof, the universe comes up with a better fool.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (CAJOC)

313 Weird seeing a successful organization that looks at their failing competition and says "We have to do what they're doing."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (E+OcO)
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It's only weird if you assume that increasing business value and profitability are their goals.

They aren't the goals. The goal is to push propaganda and con the rubes. The money is at best secondary. As long as they remain in business, the primary objective is being pursued.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (hYcqw)

314 And FAUX News cuts over to Governor Pierced Nipples' incessant babbling.

What "protest"?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (G1eBa)

315 just heard from hogmartin & Eris: parked & walking, traffic is not moving about a mile from the capital

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:27 PM (yc/34)

Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-now with MOAR TP) at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (N3El/)

316 https://bit.ly/2VbQUUQ
********
Ep. 1228 A Stunning Turn of Events - The Dan Bongino Show® - YouTube

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (aNkIJ)

317 sigh have = hate

I hate my brain sometimes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (l4C/z)

318 Did your banking info change from last year, or did
you not do direct deposit last year? Only thing I can think of is when
they calculated your payment, they had not finished processing your
current taxes, so they used last years. By the time they got to
disbursing the money, they had finished processing your taxes.

Either that, or usual IRS incompetence.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (CAJOC)

File electronically and paid electronically for three years, all with the same bank account. Tis a mystery.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:33 PM (lwiT4)

******

I didn't get mine either

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (flINI)

319 for the record, fox is covering the protest right now.

and they all agree so far that they shouldn't be so close together and how dare these people stand so close together.

fuck harris and her "virtual couch" friends.
Posted by: SturmToddler

♪
Don't stand
Don't stand so close
Don't stand so close to me
♫

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (GvEen)

320 Think about it for just a minute and you realize that it comes to about 20 cities in just 6 states that are making an Entire Nation come to a Standstill.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (+voN6)

Yup, this is city vs. country.

Just like we've been saying, the next Civil War will be urban vs. rural.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (NgKpN)

321 That's a fool's errand.
...
...
Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (hYcqw)

I did say 'try' - like following the North Star, it's a guide, not a goal you hope to actually reach.

Fully agree with providing meaningful feedback when you can - I once wrote an error handling routine that would do an automatic retry, then try to log the error to a database, then try to write it to a file, and then throw up a message box begging the user to either call a developer over or give them a screenshot (if the retry did not work, user notification was always attempted).

The environment was so unreliable as to call for belt, suspenders, duct tape, safety pins, and spare pants...

Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (zV/fi)

322 That link is not valid.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (LIhNq)

I just tried it again, works for me.

Posted by: WeBoned! at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (8k7U7)

323 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

-------

Yup.

I reached the point of prohibiting news broadcasts (besides the very occasional Trump presser) from playing if I am in earshot. Too much CV bullshit, I can't take it anymore.

I am now strongly considering banning any broadcast TV in my presence because of the incessant, maudlin ads.

Salvation Army begging for money to help people who've been laid off? Fine.

Hyundai selling me Virus Financing like they're doing me a favor? Fuck off with that.

And most of them are incredibly lazy. A background photo, generic stock footage, or simply a color block, overlaid with type blocks full of bromides about "In These Uncertain/Difficult Times" and "#AloneTogether," etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (hDNne)

324 Nothing sexual you cretins. She was just drop dead gorgeous and didn't shave her lip.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (m/eiQ)

325

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE!

Hey, I'm right almost all the time!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (+voN6)

326 The alphabets are not the only ones silent on the Biden rape allegations.

https://tinyurl.com/rtqpedo

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (mpXpK)

327 Just like we've been saying, the next Civil War will be urban vs. rural.

and it's happening in about... two weeks!

should be fun

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (j9HX3)

328 Well, the IRS "cannot determine the status of my payment".Something tells me I'm going to have to work for this money.

Posted by: drerbrerard at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (EA1BR)

I got that message too. When I tried again later, it went through. The first time, I used dashes in my social security number. The second time I did not. Don't know if that was the determining factor, but I did manage to complete the form successfully.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (lwiT4)

329 ---
You realize that right now, purism *is* the debilitating weakness the left is inflicting on itself?
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Eicbe)
*****
AND

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (aNkIJ)

330 What is the greatest emotional force at work in our world right now?

Virtue signaling PC conformity.

It isn't love, or love of truth, or freedom.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (H8QX8)

331 322 That link is not valid.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 12:36 PM (LIhNq)

I just tried it again, works for me.
Posted by: WeBoned! at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (8k7U7)

Still not working for me...weird

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (LIhNq)

332 Cuomo is hopeless as a speaker.

"You still have new people ..."

I do?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (GRbI+)

333 Not on any news yet. Cuomo is talking as he likes to do as the new front runner for the Democrat Presidential candidate

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (ZCEU2)

334 @mattdizwhitlock

People are going to remember this response.

When Michiganders took to the streets to protest absurd, overreaching orders.. her response was about the weather.

https://tinyurl.com/qvv92tu

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (cF8AT)

335 "You still have new people ..."

I do?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (GRbI+)

Illegals.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

336 Write it so it fails *well* - gives you a relevant, human-readable message and have the message provide resolution guidance that the user can follow.

Bad: Silent failure with no message
Less bad: error code or highlighting the bad input
Better: "Social Security number was not input correctly."
More better: "Social Security number could not be processed. Ensure you enter your Social Security number with no spaces, dashes or other special characters."
Posted by: Coastal dude in charge of addressing

----

After interview:

Senior programming staff - "Get him in here!!"

Manager - "I don't feel he is a good fit. Next."

Posted by: Tonypete at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (Y4EXg)

337 328 Well, the IRS "cannot determine the status of my payment".Something tells me I'm going to have to work for this money.
Posted by: drerbrerard at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (EA1BR)

I got same message. But I qualify without question. So I'm not fretting it.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (H8QX8)

338 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

339 292 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."
-------------------------

My computer anti virus updated itself today.
One of the new features is protection from corona.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (7Pobc)

340 The Latinas that have money can (somewhat) work around their issues later in life.

I know a woman from Mexico in her 40s and she looks like Salma Hayek. She's had an absurd amount of plastic surgery, tummy tucks, lipo, boob jobs, crazy workout schedule, extreme diets etc. Even with all of that, she's still thick. If she let herself go for a few months she'd probably look like all the rest pretty quick. Very few people are willing to put in that much effort or money for their appearance.

A good 9 out of 10 just have metabolism issues later in life. It's a shame because I think Latina women are beautiful. Too bad they have a shelf life. Asian women almost don't age or gain weight, but I've never really found them all that attractive.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (sjTfF)

341 Cuomo is the Chairman for the League of Ordinary Governors organization

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (ZCEU2)

342 I dunno. You still think Slo Joe is going to pick the governor of Michigan as VP to win that state?

Yeah, me neither.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (m/eiQ)

343
One of credit cards mass-emailed me to say they know times are tough so they decided, get this, not to report any late payments to Credit Bureaus until, get this, customers are 30 days past due.

So, in other words, Business As Usual!

Can you believe the balls on these people??

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (+voN6)

344 The environment was so unreliable as to call for belt, suspenders, duct tape, safety pins, and spare pants...
Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (zV/fi)
+++++++++++++
I love those kinds of environments. Like when I used to work on an online transaction processing system based on MS Fox SQL with a home-brew clustering and queuing and file-transfer system that was written in Visual Basic glued onto it.

That system kept me in a panic 100% of the time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (hYcqw)

345 So am I being paranoid in thinking that the IRS wants my bank info so it can claw back money it wants?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (gd9RK)

346 You realize that right now, purism *is* the debilitating weakness the left is inflicting on itself?
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Eicbe)
*****
AND
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:41 PM (aNkIJ)
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And replicating their weakness on our side with our own brain-locking purism is probably not going to work any better.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (Eicbe)

347 File electronically and paid electronically for three years, all with the same bank account. Tis a mystery.
Posted by: grammie winger

I think we just solved the mystery.
They had said, "filed electronically and RECEIVED A REFUND direct deposited".

You paid. Their system is set up to put money INTO a bank account that they sent money to before.

Yeah. Government can't do a two way street.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (GvEen)

348 342 I dunno. You still think Slo Joe is going to pick the governor of Michigan as VP to win that state?

Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (m/eiQ)

==========

Two weeks ago?

Solid chance.

Now?

Probably a better chance.

Democrats are stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

349 NY health care has stabilized to a average 750 deaths a day

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (ZCEU2)

350 I wonder if AOC has realized that Bernie was only in the race to keep the younger still commited commies shut out.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 15, 2020 12:13 PM (T9Hmo)

If AOC was a true Bernie stan, she'd have simply backed Biden, as Bernie is doing. People claim she sounds like an idiot, but that's only a mirror image of Trump being "vulgar." Both are authentically playing to their audiences.

This chick wants power, and she knows she's too useful to the Dems to be silenced this cycle. Which is why she's making it clear: give me more power, or four more years of Trump. Not even Nancy Pelosi is that desperate, though.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (WIraL)

351 338 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
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Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

So far, law enforcement, generally, are just following orders. Unsurprising, but significant for all of us.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (90T4r)

352 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov
Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked
their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.

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Breach them.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

This. Freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government for dictator things.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (lwiT4)

353 Still not working for me...weird
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 15, 2020 12:42 PM (LIhNq)
+++++++++++
It goes to Brietbart's Facebook page. Are you at work with Facebook blocked, by chance?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (hYcqw)

354 A good 9 out of 10 just have metabolism issues later in life. It's a shame because I think Latina women are beautiful. Too bad they have a shelf life.

Asian women almost don't age or gain weight, but I've never really found them all that attractive.
Posted by: Blago

Maybe because they look 12 for 35 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (GvEen)

355 Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16 gets $2000/month for the next six months.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

don't knock it, we might need something along those lines.
People keep saying "oh the economy will come back fast!"

No, it won't. A lot of it is dead already, and it will take years before we ever get close to where we were 2 months ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (trdmm)

356 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (ZCEU2)

357 And FAUX News cuts over to Governor Pierced Nipples' incessant babbling.

What "protest"?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:40 PM (G1eBa)

Well, they can't show happy people utilizing their god given right to assemble with no repercussions. otherwise, people will get ideas.

and when they get ideas, they get uppity.

and then they start Pinocheting US...

--media and government

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (8D42x)

358 If there's one group of females who don't age well it's Polynesians.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (xPl2J)

359 338 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
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Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

But, that would run counter to a happy, festive attitude.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (90T4r)

360 So, in other words, Business As Usual!

Can you believe the balls on these people??
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (+voN6)
+++++++++++++
Easily. Credit card companies are a nasty corner of a nasty business.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (hYcqw)

361 As I have promised, my replacement will select a woman as Vice-President...

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (aKxkI)

362 ace,

If FOX was reluctant, they're over it. The website headline is about the *crickets* from Biden's female veep-sters.

OTOH, it seems like FOX is now the Cuomo News Channel.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (Ndje9)

363 I wanted to see the history books detail that, regular governor mansion burnings.

some lefties set the Texas governor's mansion on fire in 2008 -- it was under renovation at the time. no one was ever actually charged but the Rangers said it was some lefty group. typical Austin

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (cG+eD)

364 More better: "Social Security number could not be processed. Ensure you enter your Social Security number with no spaces, dashes or other special characters."

Would it be beyond the wit of man to program a search and delete for non-numeric characters in a Social Security number before updating the input to the database?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (GRbI+)

365 This. Freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government for dictator things.
Posted by: grammie winger

North Carolina was arresting them because protesting your government wasn't essential.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (GvEen)

366 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (ZCEU2)
++++++++++++++
It'll be over for NYS and NYC well before then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (hYcqw)

367 WILX TV in Lansing has a live feed from a camera on the grounds

wilx.com/livestream2

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:08 PM (yc/34)

thanks Alton

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (8fB/R)

368 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.
=====

I'm not doing this for 18 months. I'm just not.

There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (vg8iE)

369 So far, law enforcement, generally, are just following orders. Unsurprising, but significant for all of us.
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (90T4r)

...

I have it on excellent, unassailable authority that this is unpossible; the police will side with citizens when told to enforce unconstitutional orders.

It's recorded front and back of both tablets of the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (yL25O)

370 Surgeon General came out and said that while there are still questions, the virus looks natural.

Why did I get a flashback to just after 9/11 when we were told the Saudi's had nothing to do with it? Remain calm!

Note, MAD doctrine for weapons of mass destruction include Nuclear, BIOLOGICAL, and Chemical weapons.

A Biological attack on the US is SUPPOSED to be responded to just like a nuclear attack.

If this was a man made virus, the US Government will never admit it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (NgKpN)

371 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (m45I2)

372 260

Hubby just texted me. Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.

Posted by: jewells45

The numbers the experts claimed, never materialized.

Then the governor compounded it with a draconian lockdown response.

You don't treat free people that way.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM

And don't forget that Governor Half-Whitmer wanted a 70-day extension from her initial emergency stay-at-home order. 10 week extension from 04/14/20 would have taken us well into June.

She wanted that last week, when numbers were going down.

It was only because of the Republican Legislature that we were stuck only with a 23-day extension.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (Do5/p)

373 343
One of credit cards mass-emailed me to say they know times are tough so they decided, get this, not to report any late payments to Credit Bureaus until, get this, customers are 30 days past due.

So, in other words, Business As Usual!

Can you believe the balls on these people??
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (+voN6)

---------------------------------

I've seen ads about being able to put off payments on auto loans for a month or two. In the fine print, though, is that interest will continue to accrue during that time. So, really, just an opportunity to make a little more money.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (CAJOC)

374 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

You're here for me, how?
===================
I have a Lowes and Home Despot equidistant from me. I'm a solid Lowes guy now. No bullshit access, mandatory PPE crap. Just open for bidness.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (7Fj9P)

375 Can't see anything from Fox if you don't watch TV.

Then again I haven't seen any print stories about it from them either.

Posted by: Gmac- The light at the end of the tunnel is the Trump 2020 train. at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (qZdIZ)

376 The civil war II will be well started by then

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (ZCEU2)

377 349 NY health care has stabilized to a average 750 deaths a day
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (ZCEU2)

What's their average deaths/day over the past five years or so? 500? 800? 12?

Or has it always been a law that we are forbidden to provide or ask for meaningful context for these numbers?

Posted by: Parker at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (zV/fi)

378 Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16 gets $2000/month for the next six months.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

Fuck yeah!

Posted by: $40T debt at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (pUwNX)

379 Governor Whitless will spread the virus by causing people to leave their cars. It creates a perfect infection vector.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (7Pobc)

380 Would it be beyond the wit of man to program a search and delete for non-numeric characters in a Social Security number before updating the input to the database?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (GRbI+)
+++++++++++
Oh, sanitizing the input is wildly preferable. But barring that (because shit breaks that you never think of, or never even know is *possible* to break), good messaging at every layer of your software is crucial.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (hYcqw)

381 I'm not doing this for 18 months. I'm just not.

There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (vg8iE)

...

Herd immunity, absorb the losses.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (yL25O)

382 The gov website tells me it can not determine my payment at this time.
Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (mpXpK)

This is what we got, I think, initially. I had to enter my SSN, then the gross adjusted income on the last submitted tax form. Then they requested my bank info.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

The website is typical gov horseshit. Obviously hit or miss...mostly miss.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (85Gof)

383
OTOH, it seems like FOX is now the Cuomo News Channel.

All of these talking head fake-newsies live in New York.

It's the only place in the US that matters, you know.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (G1eBa)

384 368 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.
=====

I'm not doing this for 18 months. I'm just not.

There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (vg8iE)

Aw, he's just saying shit to stay in the spotlight and OrangeManBad, and give me more money.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (90T4r)

385
I've seen ads about being able to put off payments on auto loans for a month or two. In the fine print, though, is that interest will continue to accrue during that time. So, really, just an opportunity to make a little more money.

Posted by: No One of Consequence

Yeah, I forgot about that one!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (+voN6)

386 260

Hubby just texted me. Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.

Posted by: jewells45

God, I hope so.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (H8QX8)

387 NY health care has stabilized to a average 750 deaths a day
Posted by: Skip

That's a great idea for an ad campaign you've got going there.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (jyVW0)

388 It's almost as if the DNC is saving Tara Reade's rape allegation for the convention

Posted by: SMOD at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (3aI0K)

389 366 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (ZCEU2)
++++++++++++++
It'll be over for NYS and NYC well before then.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (hYcqw)

Well, you know,

We could always, like, build walls around the zones of contagion.

Might be hard to escape from.

Posted by: Snake Plisken at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (NgKpN)

390 " Trump was right. Powerful men CAN just grab women by the pussy."
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:09 PM (G1eBa)

I thoroughly disagree with pinning Biden or anyone's rapes on Trump. Trump never advocated sexually assaulting women. It was not close to the point of his remark. Reade did not "let" Biden do anything.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (uEbPt)

391 If AOC was a true Bernie stan, she'd have simply backed Biden, as Bernie is doing. People claim she sounds like an idiot, but that's only a mirror image of Trump being "vulgar." Both are authentically playing to their audiences.

This chick wants power, and she knows she's too useful to the Dems to be silenced this cycle. Which is why she's making it clear: give me more power, or four more years of Trump. Not even Nancy Pelosi is that desperate, though.
Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 12:45 PM (WIraL)

Someone(s) is handling her with a script for everything except when she starts improvising because of an unexpected query.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (y7DUB)

392 If there's one group of females who don't age well it's Polynesians.
Posted by: Mark1971 at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (xPl2J)

*******

Da

Posted by: Svetlana Pushkin at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (flINI)

393 There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (vg8iE)
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Take a pain pill and save us the money.

Posted by: 2009 Barack Obama at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (Eicbe)

394 They're eating people at the MI capitol building!

Posted by: Frocks News at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (r+sAi)

395 So am I being paranoid in thinking that the IRS wants my bank info so it can claw back money it wants?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (gd9RK)

Some years back I was saying no to direct deposits, automatic payment transfers, and even online banking.

There comes a point though, where you realize, it's really NOT my money. It's a number in an account with my name on it, but it just comes in and goes out. As long as I can still eat, pay my mortgage, I guess I'm alright.

Because, when the day comes and they can arbitrarily take out whatever they want, we're in Lord of the Flies/Day of the Dead territory anyway. What difference is it going to make if I have some cash stashed in a jar in the backyard or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (hku12)

396 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.
=====

I'm not doing this for 18 months. I'm just not.

There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?
Posted by: bicentennialguy

There won't be. There is no cure or vaccine for the common cold, which the 'Rona is of the family.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (GvEen)

397 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.

We've got a cure (maybe several). Not interested in the vaccine.

Posted by: t-bird at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (jyVW0)

398 And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."
You're here for me, how? Posted by: Soothsayer

Emails are worse. Got one like that from my Life Insurance Company this morning. That's not creepy at all.

Posted by: corn and beans at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (tkNkP)

399 There may never be a vaccine. What the fuck then?
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (vg8iE)
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Nah...we will have a vaccine within 6 months if not sooner

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (85Gof)

400 I've seen ads about being able to put off payments on auto loans for a month or two. In the fine print, though, is that interest will continue to accrue during that time. So, really, just an opportunity to make a little more money.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (CAJOC)
+++++++++++++++
I don't think it's *quite* that cynical. Back during the '09 crash, I needed to buy a car. My bank offered a similar program for auto loans. The interest accrual piece was disclosed and the agent went over it with me in person. I was happy to have it regardless. Yes, if I had to use it would have cost me more on the loan (like most deferrals), but knowing it wouldn't hammer my credit score or send me into default if I lost my job was comforting insurance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (hYcqw)

401
Hubby just texted me. Things are getting crazy in Michigan. People have had enough.

Posted by: jewells45

God, I hope so.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 15, 2020 12:49 PM (H8QX

I'm cheering on the protesters!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (TdMsT)

402 345 So am I being paranoid in thinking that the IRS wants my bank info so it can claw back money it wants?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (gd9RK)

Paranoia keeps you on your toes.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (7Pobc)

403

One of my brother's is freaking out. He thinks the Democrats are winning ground over Trump.

I don't agree. Not one thing the Dems have done have worked, and they know it. That is why they are doubling down.

He says Obama endorsement plus long drawn out pressers plus this Minnesota protest is hurting Trump.

Again, I disagree. 100%

If it weren't Trump, maybe a different story.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (8fB/R)

404

Posted by: ...

Lighten up , Francis.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (G1eBa)

405 Hannity, Tucker, Ingram all have integrity... until the check clears.

We didn't sell out for money... we sold out for a shitload of money!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (dNzKv)

406 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

But, that would run counter to a happy, festive attitude.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (90T4r)

maybe we get lucky and the lines to use the exits are blocking the freeways for tens of miles.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (8D42x)

407 382 The gov website tells me it can not determine my payment at this time.
Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (mpXpK)

This is what we got, I think, initially. I had to enter my SSN, then the gross adjusted income on the last submitted tax form. Then they requested my bank info.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

The website is typical gov horseshit. Obviously hit or miss...mostly miss.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (85Gof)

I would VERY carefully watch your bank account for the next few days.

Because this sounds exactly like the type of information online fraud hackers ask for.

Posted by: Snake Plisken at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (NgKpN)

408 what of Shannon Bream?
Where'd she land?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:30 PM (+voN6)

hopefully on her head...its made of condensed rubber
Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (32YRo)

I would prefer directly on my coc...er...lap.

Posted by: JC. Idaho bot. at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (377Zs)

409 Oh, sanitizing the input is wildly preferable. But barring that (because shit breaks that you never think of, or never even know is *possible* to break), good messaging at every layer of your software is crucial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (hYcqw)

...

With the release of Half-Life Alyx, Valve has finally started talking about HL development and why they can't count to three, etc.

I thought one of the most interesting comments was they realized how foolish it was to develop a game engine and a game for that engine at the same time. Took them forever. There were levels that would not load and they had to hard-code a work around into the software just to load those certain levels.

That had nothing to do with why they stopped releasing episodes, but a great insight into why the process was so long.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (yL25O)

410 Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit. Number in the trillions.

We'll see how that goes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (hku12)

___________

Between the Clintons and Hunter Biden, there should be a couple billion stashed somewhere that we can at least recover.

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (1FyRy)

411 So am I being paranoid in thinking that the IRS wants my bank info so it can claw back money it wants?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:44 PM (gd9RK)

In reality, it already has it or can obtain it in a ny minute.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (85Gof)

412 (sings) O Torricelli Torricelli/Gropey Biden's got to go

Posted by: One More Zap Rowsdower for the Road at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (cUpB1)

413 Thinking back to week 1 my suggestion to blow up the bridges into NY city, would have saved billions right then.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (ZCEU2)

414 If AOC was a true Bernie stan, she'd have simply backed Biden, as Bernie is doing. People claim she sounds like an idiot, but that's only a mirror image of Trump being "vulgar." Both are authentically playing to their audiences.
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Trump never tells you "BELIEVE" something categorically, automatically, systematically.

That's what AOC is experiencing cognitive dissonance over, but resolving by preferring automatic bromides of the diversity herd.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (Eicbe)

415 And don't forget that Governor Half-Whitmer wanted a 70-day extension from her initial emergency stay-at-home order. 10 week extension from 04/14/20 would have taken us well into June.

She wanted that last week, when numbers were going down.

It was only because of the Republican Legislature that we were stuck only with a 23-day extension.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 15, 2020 12:47 PM (Do5/p)

maybe her and gov coonman are planning a secret rendezvous? he want's to extend our shutdown past the already declared Jun 10th...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (8D42x)

416 If I were a legit conservative under contract at Fox, I would, at worst, work the contract until the end then LEAVE.

Posted by: RICO aka msm/dnc/bureaucracy at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (x6XkS)

417 Because, when the day comes and they can arbitrarily take out whatever they want, we're in Lord of the Flies/Day of the Dead territory anyway. What difference is it going to make if I have some cash stashed in a jar in the backyard or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (hku12)
+++++++++++++
In that scenario, cash may be of marginal value, but I doubt zero value. You should have some regardless.

More likely than that, I think, is a system failure. Whether because it's all stuck together with toothpicks and bubble gum or if someone - say the Chinese - initiate a major cyber attack on the banking system or the payments processors, having access to cash is extremely useful. That kind of non-doomsday scenario is a lot more likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (hYcqw)

418 My student loans went into forbearance until Sep 30 with 0% interest. I can still make payments, but they shut off Auto Pay.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (dNzKv)

419 @356

There is not going to be a vaccine otherwise they would've developed one's for other coronavirus, like the ones that causes the "common cold."

This is all so stupid.

Posted by: Matt Hoffman at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (V+U0x)

420 Time for VA to hold a stay-in-car version of the 2A rally.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (G1eBa)

421 259
Bad: Silent failure with no message

Less bad: error code or highlighting the bad input

Better: "Social Security number was not input correctly."

More better: "Social Security number could not be processed. Ensure
you enter your Social Security number with no spaces, dashes or other
special characters."

best: "we couldn't figure out what the hell you thought you were trying to tell us, so we just asked the NSA for your social security number. here it is:"

Posted by: Anachronda at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (kf5Ci)

422 I am fucked here in NJ..this fuck gov of mine murphy is determined to ruin the economy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (85Gof)

423 Barricades? Why? Nothing is moving on 496 in Lansing anyway. Downtown has been full stop since 10 a.m.

Governor Bitchmer is seeing her V.P gig being cancelled and is freaking out.

Posted by: Grand Rapids at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (Xo3T0)

424 This is what we got, I think, initially. I had to enter my SSN, then the gross adjusted income on the last submitted tax form. Then they requested my bank info.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Not that they might misuse your information

But that their incompetence allowing your information to be misused is highly probable.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (7Pobc)

425 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Must suck to learn your back up is outside the wire and blocked by 100,000 people.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (GvEen)

426 I went to the IRS.gov site to check the status of the payments. I just put in my SSN and birthday and zip code. It was deposited today. My bank has been down completely all day, even phone service.

Posted by: megthered at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (4OLIE)

427 time for VA to hold a stay-in-car version of the 2A rally.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (G1eBa)

Yes it is. I'm in

Posted by: spypeach at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (Up/Jb)

428 >>Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.

NO

As far as saying it's not over until a vaccine and test -- is he assuming these are mandatory before restarting nomal life? I don't see 330 million people agreeing to that given that almost most who have it don't nee a ventilator and/or die.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (bDqIh)

429 Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (85Gof)

Brought to you by the Patriot Act (TM)

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (dNzKv)

430 Protesting by sitting in my car is kinda anticlimactic Wait. Moving now

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (Z1Gfv)

431 I kinda want Cuomo to close it down past the election. But there are some good people in NY.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (r+sAi)

432 425
Must suck to learn your back up is outside the wire and blocked by 100,000 people.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (GvEen)

============

This sounds like the end of V for Vendetta.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

433
Anyone else besides me notice there are no big sales going on??

Where Are The Bargains??

Supposedly the Economy has crashed and Unemployment is skyrocketing (which it is) but I'm seeing so no sales from the Big Corporations. None. Zero.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (+voN6)

434 Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit. Number in the trillions.

We'll see how that goes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:29 PM (hku12)

___________

Between the Clintons and Hunter Biden, there should be a couple billion stashed somewhere that we can at least recover.
Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (1FyRy)

This stuff is beyond my understanding, but it would be interesting to see the U.S. confiscate real estate and other holdings that are China owned. Just take it back. Put it up for auction, or forgive the debt and send it back to the Treasury.

Or whatever.

What would China do?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (hku12)

435
Brett Baier is asshoe.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/04/15/fox-

host-conservative-heads-wouldve-exploded-if-obama-

claimed-trumps-total-authority/23993388/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (pS94+)

436 Thinking back to week 1 my suggestion to blow up the bridges into NY city, would have saved billions right then.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (ZCEU2)

Visionaries are always denounced and derided.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (Z4rgH)

437 Indeed! Why don't all the pro-Trump people on Fox REDUCE their visibility and influence FOR PRINCIPLE!!

FOX is TOO FAR TO THE LEFT!

IT SHOULD BE FURTHER, FOR CONSISTENCY!!

Posted by: People Who Don't Know They Sound Like NeverTrumpers at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (Eicbe)

438 Tucker and related could just be holding their powder. You report on this too soon, and it will be forgotten and baked-into-the-candidate-cake old news by the time it matters.

Posted by: other_joe_mama at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (gcnRJ)

439 Supposedly the Economy has crashed and Unemployment is skyrocketing (which it is) but I'm seeing so no sales from the Big Corporations. None. Zero.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (+voN6)
++++++++++++
I suspect that comes as things reopen. Everything is in panic "will I be open next month" mode right now and I suspect maintaining every penny of capital and cashflow is a top priority.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (hYcqw)

440 I kinda want Cuomo to close it down past the election. But there are some good people in NY.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (r+sAi)

yes

I want all the states to open back up other than NY, California and Washington. Let the others prosper.

But close their borders.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (8fB/R)

441 He says Obama endorsement plus long drawn out pressers plus this Minnesota protest is hurting Trump.

Again, I disagree. 100%

If it weren't Trump, maybe a different story.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (8fB/R)

Remind him that Obama endorsed Hillary. How'd that turn out?

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (cF8AT)

442 363 I wanted to see the history books detail that, regular governor mansion burnings.

some lefties set the Texas governor's mansion on fire in 2008 -- it was under renovation at the time. no one was ever actually charged but the Rangers said it was some lefty group. typical Austin
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (cG+eD)

It was just one arsonist with a molotov cocktail, surveillance video caught a shot of him but iirc, his face was covered and no one could ever make an ID. Probably did it on his own without telling anyone else, which would be why no one could ever turn him in - the true Lone Wolf.

I had been in Austin that summer, and in fact I had walked in front of the Governor's Mansion (It's just across the street from the State Capitol, so if you're looking at one, you'll see the other) I remember noting, about 3 weeks before the fire, that although they had surrounded it with a chain link fence during renovation, it was knocked down in places, and had huge holes in it in others. On weekends when the construction crews were off, anybody could have walked inside the vacant building if they dared. It was very sloppy, no security at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (trdmm)

443 I would VERY carefully watch your bank account for the next few days.

Because this sounds exactly like the type of information online fraud hackers ask for.
Posted by: Snake Plisken at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (NgKpN)

We were on the IRS secure site and the cert was valid, so I think we're safe, but this is always good advise.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

444 I'm like totally against digital insertation.

Posted by: Little Lupe at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (EgshT)

445 If I were a legit conservative under contract at Fox, I would, at worst, work the contract until the end then LEAVE.
Posted by: RICO aka msm/dnc/bureaucracy at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (x6XkS)

I think they leave Ol' Yeller alone because he gets high ratings in a not particularly primo time slot.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (y7DUB)

446
When the dust settles from this, we're going to see that the 1% got even richer. Much richer.

And you know what else?
Small Businesses, i.e. competitions for Big Corporations, will be wiped out within a year.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (+voN6)

447 This is what we got, I think, initially. I had to enter my SSN, then the gross adjusted income on the last submitted tax form. Then they requested my bank info.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Are you sure you are on IRS.gov? Scammers tryna get your digits? If you did direct deposit for your refund last year, they know where to send it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (dNzKv)

448 425 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Must suck to learn your back up is outside the wire and blocked by 100,000 people.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (GvEen)

Wait, so their answer is to barricade the protesters INSIDE the city so they can't get out?

OK, sock at first was a joke, now its getting more appropriate.

Posted by: Snake Plisken at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (NgKpN)

449 Ladyl, I emailed hogmartin's pics and video to you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (ptqGC)

450 Supposedly the Economy has crashed and Unemployment is skyrocketing (which it is) but I'm seeing so no sales from the Big Corporations. None. Zero.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (+voN6)

...

Well, oil's on sale.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (yL25O)

451 4 Show me your tits!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ieuPy)

Ahh, another member of the Ron White school of thought.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (Z4rgH)

452 In these trying times, it's nice to know someone is here for you. We want to assure you that we are here, and we always will be.

Posted by: Skynet at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (lwwTC)

453 Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16 gets $2000/month for the next six months.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

That's insane.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (Ez6QX)

454
Protesting by sitting in my car is kinda anticlimactic Wait. Moving now

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM

how far out are you?

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (yc/34)

455 Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (85Gof)

Brought to you by the Patriot Act (TM)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (dNzKv)

No, they had it long long long before that. When I broke up from my dental partner in 1987, the payroll taxes got messed up and they froze my account for a week till we straighen it out. They have your back account infor

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (85Gof)

456 Brett Baier is asshoe.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/04/15/fox-

host-conservative-heads-wouldve-exploded-if-obama-

claimed-trumps-total-authority/23993388/
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (pS94+)

He's not wrong.

However, Trump declared a state of emergency which gives him significant powers not normally provided.

Owebama shockingly never used it.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

457 Because, when the day comes and they can arbitrarily take out whatever they want, we're in Lord of the Flies/Day of the Dead territory anyway. What difference is it going to make if I have some cash stashed in a jar in the backyard or not.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:50 PM (hku12)
+++++++++++++
In that scenario, cash may be of marginal value, but I doubt zero value. You should have some regardless.

More likely than that, I think, is a system failure. Whether because it's all stuck together with toothpicks and bubble gum or if someone - say the Chinese - initiate a major cyber attack on the banking system or the payments processors, having access to cash is extremely useful. That kind of non-doomsday scenario is a lot more likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (hYcqw)

I tend to think of the bitcoins types as a bunch of kooks. But I don't know. Maybe they're onto something.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (hku12)

458 I am fucked here in NJ..this fuck gov of mine murphy is determined to ruin the economy

Yeah, I'm new to New Jersey so I didn't really have an opinion about Murphy. Then he tweeted this:

Governor Phil Murphy
@GovMurphy
To all the jackasses out there who we now have to carry -- get with the program. We know who you are and we will not relent until we have 100% compliance.

So now I know that our governor has totalitarian instincts and also doesn't like us very much. When he closed the parks he said it was our fault because people weren't social distancing enough.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (gd9RK)

459 405 Hannity, Tucker, Ingram all have integrity... until the check clears.

We didn't sell out for money... we sold out for a shitload of money!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Maybe a level of consistency. They rightfully weren't outraged at the Kavanaugh allegations, so maybe likewise with this.

I'd say overall from all appearances, Reade's case is a bit flimsy, but still more solid and credible than Blaise-Ford's, which is, however, the lowest bar imaginable.

Posted by: theATL at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (TwFHr)

460 The numbers the experts claimed, never materialized.

In fairness, there are two obvious possibilities:

1. The models were grossly wrong in the first place, and the policies put in place had little or nothing to do with the less than predicted numbers of cases/deaths we later got; and

2. The models may not have been grossly wrong a priori, but the stringent policies we put in place to minimize the number of cases/deaths actually had a beneficial effect.

So from information presently to hand we cannot distinguish between those possibilities. We moved the earth to minimize the impact of the virus; it's possible that what we did had that effect.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (GRbI+)

461
And add me to the list of people here sick of the phony bullshit tv ads by Big Corporation telling me "they're here for me."

#HomeAloneTogetherWithME

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (aKsyK)

462 I want to escape to Switzerland. Here from their plan to open up from COVID-Lockdwon in three phases...

"Phase one: April 27th

The first phase will take place on April 27th, with hairdressers, physiotherapy practices, garden centres and nurseries set to reopen."

Source: https://www.thelocal.ch/20200415/
inside-switzerlands-official-three-phase-plan-to-rollback-the-coronavirus-lockdown

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (zqs/f)

463 Plague money in bank.

Yay!

Not going on a spending spree tho

Not sure yet how badly shutdown will damage business yet

Posted by: naturalfake at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (9wmyx)

464 Remind him that Obama endorsed Hillary. How'd that turn out?
Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (cF8AT)

I will! Thanks.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (8fB/R)

465 Cuomo says its over when there is a vaccine, probably in 12 - 18 months and after proper CDC testing.

NO

As far as saying it's not over until a vaccine and test -- is he assuming these are mandatory before restarting nomal life? I don't see 330 million people agreeing to that given that almost most who have it don't nee a ventilator and/or die.
====

The vaccine angle is being pushed.

Had a work "ERMERGERD!!! We're all gonna die!!!11!!" conference call today and the same notion was mentioned - until there's a vaccine.

And this is a healthcare entity. They (should) know, or at least have a basic understanding of the science behind vaccine development and how long it takes and success rates.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (vg8iE)

466 I tend to think of the bitcoins types as a bunch of kooks. But I don't know. Maybe they're onto something.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (hku12)
+++++++++
If there's a cyber war on, the *last* thing you want is an "asset" that is wholly dependent on the network to access, process or clear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (hYcqw)

467 446
When the dust settles from this, we're going to see that the 1% got even richer. Much richer.

And you know what else?
Small Businesses, i.e. competitions for Big Corporations, will be wiped out within a year.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (+voN6)

Yup, the last 'crises' with those evil TOXIC Mortgages? That money was used to consolidate the banking industry into fewer larger banks, with more control over the Federal Reserve.

Now they are saying, here, hold my beer.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (NgKpN)

468 Indeed! Why don't all the pro-Trump people on Fox REDUCE their visibility and influence FOR PRINCIPLE!!

They already have for money.

Principle got nothing to do with it.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (G1eBa)

469 Ahh, another member of the Ron White school of thought.
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (Z4rgH)

I'm always fine with this.

Any woman that wants to voluntarily show me her tah's, I WILL NOT STOP you.

I may only want to see them once, however, so don't be offended. I mean you no harm.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

470 Payment Status Not Available

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (aNkIJ)

471 >>Brett Baier is asshoe.

Brett Baier is pretending TFG never took authority he did not have? Srsly???

I don't feel like writing up the list, but that guy was all pen and phone, "I'll do what I want and even a SCOTUS ruling against it won't stop me" for 8 long years. STFU, Brett.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (bDqIh)

472
425 Just heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy

Looking at it another way; she just sealed herself and her lackeys in. No escape now.

Posted by: Sooner at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (Fs5vw)

473 I think I'll go binge watch some more Time Team episodes....

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (cF8AT)

474 I am on Allegan by Hall of Justice

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (Z1Gfv)

475 Trump, if asked anything off-virus and off-economy, anything at all about the campaign, about Biden in particular, needs to say to the democrat propagandist asking it:

"There is a leading voice in the Democrat house caucus that is saying there is legitimate reason to talk about Tara Reade's rape accusation to Joe Biden. What do you and your network have to say to that member of congress, and what do you and your network have to say to the American people about this?"

Full Alinsky against them. And best done to that snarky snit Paula Reid of CBS.

In fact, if asking it of Paula Reid, the wording needs to add Georgie. As in, "what do you and your network and your news director George Stephanopolous have to say to the American people about this?"

Posted by: Les Kinetic at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (+fPHo)

476 Are you sure you are on IRS.gov? Scammers tryna get
your digits? If you did direct deposit for your refund last year, they
know where to send it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (dNzKv)

Yes. That is from the IRS.gov website / coronavirus or some such. They have my bank info and I still had to input it.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (lwiT4)

477 The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.

Do you have access to a sword?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (dNzKv)

478 time for VA to hold a stay-in-car version of the 2A rally.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (G1eBa)

Yes it is. I'm in

Posted by: spypeach at April 15, 2020 12:5

Lol have fun.

I'll be inside signing more leftwing bills into law.

Posted by: Northam at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (pUwNX)

479 saw a news clip (cbs) showing how to gently handwash a disposable mask and oven dry it
ehhhh?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (G546f)

480 I tend to think of the bitcoins types as a bunch of kooks. But I don't know. Maybe they're onto something.
Posted by: BurtTC

Until the guy running it dies and takes the password with him. Then, poof! All that money gone.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (GvEen)

481 However, Trump declared a state of emergency which gives him significant powers not normally provided.

Owebama shockingly never used it.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Obama should've declared a national disaster on election night 2008. Because it was.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (GRbI+)

482 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (GRbI+)

The models factored in social distancing from what I understand which if accurate is answer number 1.

That or the modelers are lying sacks of shit.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (t32Jd)

483 473 I think I'll go binge watch some more Time Team episodes....
Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (cF8AT)

" Escape from New York" is in my queue. Wonder if it is worth watching.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (90T4r)

484
If you were the Democrats, the EU, and China and wanted to kill the Trump Economy that's based on Prosperity and Independence, what would be more perfect than what is happening right now?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (+voN6)

485 Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus
bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16
gets $2000/month for the next six months.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

Now *this* is an idea we can get behind.

Posted by: The Weimar Republic at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (lwwTC)

486 422 I am fucked here in NJ..this fuck gov of mine murphy is determined to ruin the economy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (85Gof)

I don't understand. Trump said in early April it will be to the end of the month. That's not changed.

He's also said the governors are not going to override him and he's not been rolled yet.

People are jumping the gun.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (7Pobc)

487
Brett Baier is pretending TFG never took authority he did not have? Srsly???

Guess old Brett forgot Ofuckstick shutting down STATE PARKS with Barrycades in a fit of petulance tyrannical rage.

Asshoe Baier should stick to hairspray and reading his lines.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (G1eBa)

488 Holy cats. hogmartin just texted me a video from Lansing. They're not to the Capitol yet, and the cars ahead and behind him are as far as you can see. Everyone's blowing their horns.

It's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

489 The good news is you get $2,000 a month for the next six months. The bad news is a loaf of bread will cost $1,000.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (lwwTC)

490 In fairness, there are two obvious possibilities:

1. The models were grossly wrong in the first place, and the policies put in place had little or nothing to do with the less than predicted numbers of cases/deaths we later got; and

2. The models may not have been grossly wrong a priori, but the stringent policies we put in place to minimize the number of cases/deaths actually had a beneficial effect.

So from information presently to hand we cannot distinguish between those possibilities. We moved the earth to minimize the impact of the virus; it's possible that what we did had that effect.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (GRbI+)

I ain't buying it. There were reasonable people early on saying the numbers were absurdly out of whack with everything we know about how viruses operate.

However...

If there was credible evidence this thing is NOT a typical virus, but we had reason to believe it was manufactured... then maybe there was good reason to over-inflate the numbers.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (hku12)

491 >>People are jumping the gun.

No way.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (ZLI7S)

492 I'm not completely against a good motorboating, tho.

Posted by: Little Lupe at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (EgshT)

493 AOC will be brought to heel. She will analyze the situation and conclude that it is totally different from Kavanaugh, and has a much higher standard of evidence.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (dNzKv)

494 OT: Survived grocery shopping for folks for another week. Limiting who gets in (Market Basket) at one time, 40-minute wait

Could be worse, won't tempt fate on that one.

Posted by: acethepug at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (qPKAe)

495 Our personal bank is still down. Has been all morning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (ptqGC)

496 >> 19 Well we know where AOC considers herself to be on the Progressive Stack

AOC fronts the Progressive rack - I mean stack.

Posted by: 40 miles north at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (o2vOl)

497
obama declared a National Emergency in October 2009 for the previous chinese virus

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (+voN6)

498 >>And this is a healthcare entity. They (should) know, or at least have a basic understanding of the science behind vaccine development and how long it takes and success rates.

It also assumes that everyone agrees to get said vaccine, that everyone agrees that the federal government has the authority to say "Each of you must get a vaccine before you can stop sheltering." Do we really want to go there?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (bDqIh)

499 Holy cats. hogmartin just texted me a video from
Lansing. They're not to the Capitol yet, and the cars ahead and behind
him are as far as you can see. Everyone's blowing their horns.

It's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

This makes me happy

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (lwiT4)

500

...after 20,000 American deaths

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (+voN6)

501 Obama should've declared a national disaster on election night 2008. Because it was.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (GRbI+)
++++++++++++++++
I wonder which state governor will be the first to declare a statewide state of emergency and activate the Guard if Trump wins in November.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (hYcqw)

502 apparently in a true end of the world scenario we'll be using toilet paper as currency

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (cG+eD)

503 Trump never tells you "BELIEVE" something categorically, automatically, systematically.

That's what AOC is experiencing cognitive dissonance over, but resolving by preferring automatic bromides of the diversity herd.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:52 PM (Eicbe)

True, but they're playing to vastly different audiences with vastly differing styles. AOC knows her crowd eats that up, if you're one of them.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (WIraL)

504 I don't understand. Trump said in early April it will be to the end of the month. That's not changed.

He's also said the governors are not going to override him and he's not been rolled yet.

People are jumping the gun.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (7Pobc)

Well actually that is not accurate. PDT did backtrack or move laterally at least. He said the other day he will open the economy in rolling stages IN CONJUNCTION AND CONSULTATION with the Govs.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (85Gof)

505 First rule of 'papers please' and barricades: always have a sword

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (l4C/z)

506 ust heard on our local AZ radio station that Gov Adolph Whitless has closed the roads into Lansing. The police clicked their heels upon hearing the order and barricaded the exits.
=======

Breach them.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:43 PM (vg8iE)

But, that would run counter to a happy, festive attitude.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:46 PM (90T4r)

maybe we get lucky and the lines to use the exits are blocking the freeways for tens of miles.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 12:51 PM (8D42x)

Time for Convoy!!

Them bears was a gettin smart,
They'd brought up some reinforcements
Form the Michigan National Guard,
There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps
And rigs of every size
Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears
And Choppers filled the skies.

Well, we shot the line
We went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks

***

Hey Pig Pen, this here's Rubber Duck,
We just aint gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' 98
I says let them truckers roll
Ten-Four.

Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (Ed8Zd)

507 69
>>Latinas don't age well.

Ouch.

Posted by: JEB! at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (OOIVL)

508 I'm getting a 404 when I go to http://www.freemoney.gov/

Posted by: SMOD at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (3aI0K)

509 Limiting who gets in (Market Basket) at one time, 40-minute wait

One person allowed in the store at a time??

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (lwiT4)

510 Emperor Shit Midas actually blocked the view of Mount Rushmore.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (lwwTC)

511 The snow is also a nice Michigan touch

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (Z1Gfv)

512 502 apparently in a true end of the world scenario we'll be using toilet paper as currency
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (cG+eD)

Twilight Zone episode where lead replaces gold in the future after some nuke-u-luhr holocaust.

Now TP>>Pb.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (pS94+)

513 My opinion of Bitcoin was its really based on nothing, but much of our money isn't either so there is that

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (ZCEU2)

514 Posted by: The Weimar Republic at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (lwwTC)

Lol but seriously if the GOP doesn't shut this down full stop we are fucked financially.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (t32Jd)

515 Kav was still appointed to the bench for a lifetime even though the number of violent rapes he likely committed may be in the hundreds of thousands, then what is the big deal about Biden's lone accuser, who strains credibility anyway?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (dNzKv)

516 All the countries pissed off that Trump stopped payments to the WHO can pony the fuck up and make up the difference and suffer the consequences for that corrupt shithole organization.

Eat Shit. STFU.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

517 Q: Is this a Denial of Service attack on the banks?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (Ndje9)

518 Governor Phil Murphy
@GovMurphy
To all the jackasses out there who we now have to carry -- get with the program. We know who you are and we will not relent until we have 100% compliance.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (gd9RK)
~~~~~

Who is that idiot talking about here?

Posted by: Howard Cosell at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (sGotD)

519 And you know what else?
Small Businesses, i.e. competitions for Big Corporations, will be wiped out within a year.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 12:56 PM (+voN6)

You're far too optimistic. 40% of small businesses are already gone. The rest will be finished in another 2 - 3 months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (trdmm)

520 @460

Actually no, the models took into account full social distancing when they predicted 2.5 million dead.

And that phrase they keep tossing around, "flatten the curve" is not about reducing total infections and deaths overall, it's about doing the social distancing and other measures in order to spread the case load over a longer period of time so as not to overwhelm the system.

Per the models, we should of still had 2.5 million deaths but over an 8 month period instead of 4 month period.

This entire thing is one sick joke, and it's on us the taxpaying citizen.

They are now throwing around money to the peasants like they're Colonel Brandon on the back of the carriage.

This is all a sick joke.

Posted by: Matt Hoffman at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (V+U0x)

521 The vaccine angle is being pushed.

Had a work "ERMERGERD!!! We're all gonna die!!!11!!" conference call today and the same notion was mentioned - until there's a vaccine.

And this is a healthcare entity. They (should) know, or at least have a basic understanding of the science behind vaccine development and how long it takes and success rates.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (vg8iE)

Yet another casualty of the corona virus: anti-vaxxers.

Think they'll be spouting their New Age bullshit about a corona virus vaccine, and getting Buffy and Chad exempted from it?

I doubt it. I doubt it very much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (GRbI+)

522 Herd immunity, absorb the losses.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 12:48 PM (yL25O)

_________

Exactly. Pay me now or pay me later ...

Saw something with that idiot Biden saying no one should have to choose between voting in a democracy and risking their health regarding the Wisconsin election.

Can you imagine this mentality while leading the country or commanding the troops in World War II? I grieve for what once was my country ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (1FyRy)

523 oh and fuck dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

fuck you very much. i'll shove your burning fucking card up your fucking squeekhole.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (8D42x)

524 I tend to think of the bitcoins types as a bunch of kooks. But I don't know. Maybe they're onto something.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (hku12)
+++++++++
If there's a cyber war on, the *last* thing you want is an "asset" that is wholly dependent on the network to access, process or clear.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 12:58 PM (hYcqw)

Right, that's why I assume they're mostly kooks playing with Monopoly money.

I guess they're banking on the collapse of governments and banks, and assuming the tech infrastructure remains.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (hku12)

525 >>>I don't see 330 million people agreeing to that given that almost most who have it don't nee a ventilator and/or die.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (bDqIh)

When HCQ or one of the new meds is proven all of this will be moot.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (7Pobc)

526 Huh, the first reasonable COVID-type message I have seen so far, on my Credit Union website:

How can we help? Just because we have to remain apart, doesn't mean we can't pull together. If there's anything we can do to help you during this crisis, please call us at...

Not offering a come-on, not a generic "keep well" message, just a "let us know if we can help, here's our number and E-Mail address."

Not bad, Credit Union.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (hYcqw)

527 He's not wrong.

However, Trump declared a state of emergency which gives him significant powers not normally provided.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)
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While his political opposition was castigating him for not using more power.

Trump's never expressed envy for a dictator's power. He's saying he has a lot--especially in a National Emergency (which his opposition is asking why he didn't declare one earlier), and he clearly distinguished the difference between having power and using it.

That's the definition of Martial Law right there. Any president could have declared Martial Law to various degrees of success. That most presidents have avoided that, is an illustration of not using power.

It's not that they don't have draconian power, it's that American tradition frowns upon using that draconian power, unless it is determined to be critical.

Posted by: People Who Don't Know They Sound Like NeverTrumpers at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (Eicbe)

528 Plague money in bank.

Yay!

Not going on a spending spree tho

Not sure yet how badly shutdown will damage business yet
Posted by: naturalfake

Paying bills, buying tires, buying a gun.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (GvEen)

529 I'm getting a 404 when I go to http://www.freemoney.gov/
Posted by: SMOD at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (3aI0K)

Because it's https://www.gimmiemyfreeshit.gov/NOW

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

530 I remember Emperor Barry the Ponce blocking the WWII Memorial because mean-assed reasons. And blocking the view of Mt. Rushmore from the road leading into the park because he's a pissy little bitch.

But the MFM never uttered a word.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ptqGC)

531 Holy cats. hogmartin just texted me a video from Lansing. They're not to the Capitol yet, and the cars ahead and behind him are as far as you can see. Everyone's blowing their horns.

It's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

If the Hog ends up ruling from Lansing with a Lord of the Flies motif, it'll be one of the prouder moments of my life.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (WIraL)

532 >>Well actually that is not accurate. PDT did backtrack or move laterally at least. He said the other day he will open the economy in rolling stages IN CONJUNCTION AND CONSULTATION with the Govs.

He does this all the time. He makes a declarative line in the sand and then he makes conciliatory noises to make everyone feel they are part of the decision. It's his style. But he pretty much gets what he wants in the end.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

533 486 422 I am fucked here in NJ..this fuck gov of mine murphy is determined to ruin the economy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 12:53 PM (85Gof)

I don't understand. Trump said in early April it will be to the end of the month. That's not changed.

He's also said the governors are not going to override him and he's not been rolled yet.

People are jumping the gun.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (7Pobc)

Yeah, wow, its almost like Americans get upset when you take both their jobs, and Civil Rights away.

Who would have thunk it!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (NgKpN)

534 Who knew that I'd agree with anything that waste of human sperm would say. Never say never I guess.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (jZbS6)

535
President Trump isn't stupid -- he sees what's unfolding here better than even us.

You watch, he's gonna lift the emergency on all but the worst areas and issue guidelines. He has to.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (+voN6)

536
Flattening the curve was not about curing or preventing disease. It was about relieving overcrowded hospitals.

And that NEVER even happened.

Total BS. Lift the Lockdowns.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

537 Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (GvEen)

Pretty much this. I have to buy a door too.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (t32Jd)

538 Yesterday, there was no line at Costco and there was plenty of TP and water.

The end is in sight.

Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (Ed8Zd)

539 Q: Is this a Denial of Service attack on the banks?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives

I think it is a DOS or DDOS but the question is , is it malicious or just resulting from excessive traffic from the gawkers?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (G1eBa)

540 501 Obama should've declared a national disaster on election night 2008. Because it was.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (GRbI+)

I certainly felt that way at the time. The feeling has never really lifted, even though Trump has fought a good fight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (trdmm)

541 It's not that they don't have draconian power, it's that American tradition frowns upon using that draconian power, unless it is determined to be critical.
Posted by: People Who Don't Know They Sound Like NeverTrumpers at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (Eicbe)

Agreed, however, Brett was not wrong in stating that had Owebama said what Trump said, the right would've had a shit fit.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

542 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 12:57 PM (GRbI+)

The models factored in social distancing from what I understand which if accurate is answer number 1.

That or the modelers are lying sacks of shit.
Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (t32Jd)

One could say patient zero has been identified.

That patient is Niall Ferguson. He surely did infect a lot of people.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (hku12)

543 Rack - stack, same difference

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (ZCEU2)

544 Who is that idiot talking about here?

People who aren't taking the proper covid care and forcing their burdens on society. The tweet came with a WWII pic of people actally carrying donkeys, jackasses, on their backs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (gd9RK)

545 People are jumping the gun.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (7Pobc)

Well actually that is not accurate. PDT did backtrack or move laterally at least. He said the other day he will open the economy in rolling stages IN CONJUNCTION AND CONSULTATION with the Govs.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 01:02 PM (85Gof)

Softer words.
Pity the antagonist governor IN CONSULTATION with Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (7Pobc)

546 Where is your antibody mask? Huh?

Posted by: Little Lupe at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (EgshT)

547 531 Holy cats. hogmartin just texted me a video from Lansing. They're not to the Capitol yet, and the cars ahead and behind him are as far as you can see. Everyone's blowing their horns.

It's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

If the Hog ends up ruling from Lansing with a Lord of the Flies motif, it'll be one of the prouder moments of my life.
Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (WIraL)

He will rule from his throne of skulls.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (NWiLs)

548 You're far too optimistic. 40% of small businesses are already gone. The rest will be finished in another 2 - 3 months.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (trdmm)

So commerce is generally shut down, but the banks and landlords still have to be paid? I think an issue like that is tailor made for Trump: and if he doesn't exploit it, he deserves to lose.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (WIraL)

549 453 Saw this morning, don't know how true it is, that there is a stimulus bill being put forward in the House wherein everyone over the age of 16 gets $2000/month for the next six months.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at April 15, 2020 12:37 PM (vg8iE)

That's insane.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April

If they catch me alive and put me in very assisted non care or prison im gonna beat up all the old hippies.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (84Pcq)

550 Grammie- I didn't have to put any bank info into the IRS website. When it told me that it had deposited the cash, it gave me the last four of the bank account. I just put in my SSN and birthday.

Posted by: megthered at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (4OLIE)

551 I got a blackmail email today.

They included my very old, very weak password I use when I have to create an account to use a service, but don't care at all about security.

They included some BS about how they had used this information to install a man in the middle between me and some porn website I supposedly was using. They further said they turned on my webcam and got video of me masturbating.

They threatened to email that video of me to all of my email contacts if I didn't send some bitcoin to a bitcoin wallet they included the info for.

Pretty lame stuff, but I suspect they have tricked more than a few people with this con.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)

552
Fattening the courveh...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (pS94+)

553 532 >>Well actually that is not accurate. PDT did backtrack or move laterally at least. He said the other day he will open the economy in rolling stages IN CONJUNCTION AND CONSULTATION with the Govs.

He does this all the time. He makes a declarative line in the sand and then he makes conciliatory noises to make everyone feel they are part of the decision. It's his style. But he pretty much gets what he wants in the end.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

Yup. The 'push pull', once you know about it, you can't help seeing it. Insult, compliment or demand, compromise...keeps people off balance so you can get what you want.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (l4C/z)

554 so should I buy a ventilator with my $1200 plague money or what

Posted by: DB- just DB. at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (iTXRQ)

555 dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near
future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that
card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

uh. no. If I wanted to live under the Nazis, I would have moved to Germany before I was born.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (lwiT4)

556 Yeah, wow, its almost like Americans get upset when you take both their jobs, and Civil Rights away.

Who would have thunk it!

Yeah, stupid gun-jumpers.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (G1eBa)

557 My opinion of Bitcoin was its really based on nothing, but much of our money isn't either so there is that
Posted by: Skip

________________

I really don't have a good comeback for why we should value federal reserve notes printed out of thin air but not bitcoin.

I still think though bitcoin is like selling a video game score or something.

I'm still pissed at myself though when I was going to maybe do something with this new fangled bitcoin as just a side project when we were talking about before it was a household name.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (sjTfF)

558 345. Do you not think your bank would just give the IRS your information (if the IRS does not already have it)?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (JRaU+)

559 The models factored in social distancing from what I understand which if accurate is answer number 1.

That or the modelers are lying sacks of shit.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 12:59 PM (t32Jd)

The models were originally based off data from Wuhan and Northern Italy, and their social distancing efforts. We know China's data was garbage, but perhaps the U.S. is just better and earlier overall with the social distancing measures. I dunno, just a theory of how model is adjusting up and down.

By the way, does anyone know the original death total projection for New York State?

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (zqs/f)

560 Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)

LOL, my wife got that email.

She wanted to know just what they thought she was watching. So did I....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (l4C/z)

561 554 so should I buy a ventilator with my $1200 plague money or what
Posted by: DB- just DB. at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (iTXRQ)

Thompson SMG = ventilator.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (pS94+)

562 Flattening the curve was not about curing or preventing disease. It was about relieving overcrowded hospitals.

And that NEVER even happened.

Total BS. Lift the Lockdowns.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

Yup. This is what astonishes me, even after I see it happen again and again. A month ago everyone "knew" flattening the curve was not about preventing infections, it was about delaying them.

So what happened?

What changed?

Nobody is answering that question.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (hku12)

563 525 >>>I don't see 330 million people agreeing to that given that almost most who have it don't nee a ventilator and/or die.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (bDqIh)

When HCQ or one of the new meds is proven all of this will be moot.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (7Pobc)

Headline over at MSN says study of 150 from China shows HCQ does not work.

Yet Doctors in US with 1000's of patients say it does work.

Its almost like there is disinformation coming from China, parroted by the US Media.

/yes, this is my surprised face, NOT

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (NgKpN)

564 Flattening the curve was not about curing or preventing disease. It was about relieving overcrowded hospitals.

And that NEVER even happened.

Total BS. Lift the Lockdowns.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

********

That's NOT what the girls on Nextdoor are saying! I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!

Posted by: Karen at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (flINI)

565 We are all Michiganders!

Posted by: LASue at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (Ed8Zd)

566 He does this all the time. He makes a declarative line in the sand and then he makes conciliatory noises to make everyone feel they are part of the decision. It's his style. But he pretty much gets what he wants in the end.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

Yes I agree

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (85Gof)

567 I got a blackmail email today.

Scammer and hackers are hurting right now. COVID-related and other scams are skyrocketing.

Stay frosty.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (G1eBa)

568 Just got an alert that highway into downtown Lansing is completely shut down

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (Z1Gfv)

569 Abbott Labs will ship million corona antibody tests ("a lab-based serology blood test for the detection of the antibody, IgG, that identifies if a person has had the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)". Planning on 20 million by June.

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (zr5Kq)

570
Isn't it really weird that Congress, especially the "Republicans" are dead set against Tax Cuts or a halt on all Taxes but are eager to support bills that cost Trillions of $$?

It makes no sense.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (+voN6)

571 My bank has been down completely all day, even phone service.
Posted by: megthered at April 15, 2020 12:54 PM (4OLIE)
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Our personal bank is still down. Has been all morning.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:01 PM (ptqGC
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Q: Is this a Denial of Service attack on the banks?
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (Ndje9)
~~~~~

Both of my banks are down too. Something's up.

Posted by: Howard Cosell at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (sGotD)

572 When we are all submitting health screening before flying and mask checks at police check points 8 years from now Americans can be proud We Are All In This Together!

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (MxEKc)

573 Grammie- I didn't have to put any bank info into the
IRS website. When it told me that it had deposited the cash, it gave me
the last four of the bank account. I just put in my SSN and birthday.

Posted by: megthered at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (4OLIE)

Huh - I had to do SS, address, routing number and account number.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (lwiT4)

574 Isn't it likely that the idiot in Michigan could have avoided this if she hadn't decided that she got to decide what people could buy in an open store and that you aren't allowed to go to your own residences in your own state?

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (Sg/64)

575 Actually no, the models took into account full social distancing when they predicted 2.5 million dead.

First, I'm not aware of that. Is that really true? A link would be great.

Then why are areas with high population densities, where social distancing is difficult to practice - e.g., NYC - hit so hard, whereas those with low population densities have relatively few cases (at least so far)?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (GRbI+)

576 Trump saying the country should be opened should have made us relize the Democrats would want it locked down longer

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (ZCEU2)

577 523 oh and fuck dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

fuck you very much. i'll shove your burning fucking card up your fucking squeekhole.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 01:03 PM (8D42x)

Here's why that's idiotic - suppose you're naturally resistant (maybe up to 80% of the population) and you never catch it, even after exposure, and thus you never develop any antibodies? Does someone have to inject you with the disease to force you to develop antibodies before you're allowed to leave your house?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (trdmm)

578 He does this all the time. He makes a declarative line in the sand and then he makes conciliatory noises to make everyone feel they are part of the decision. It's his style. But he pretty much gets what he wants in the end.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)
---
Bingo.

It's the same kind of tactic as asking for 80% of the deal. It's more likely to make the governors glad he didn't do what he was never intending to do anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (Eicbe)

579 Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (+voN6)

Grifters bro. Grifters.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (t32Jd)

580
These uncertain times test us all. Aperture Laboratories wants you to know that we're always standing by to test by your side.

#TestingTogether.

Posted by: GLAdOS at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hDNne)

581 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

Yup. This is what astonishes me, even after I see it happen again and again. A month ago everyone "knew" flattening the curve was not about preventing infections, it was about delaying them.

So what happened?

What changed?

Nobody is answering that question.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:07 PM (hku12)

What I meant was, it astonishes me when I see how quickly people forget what we knew just a short time ago. It's like collective amnesia, and it happens over and over and over again.

Humans really are dumb.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hku12)

582 553
Yup. The 'push pull', once you know about it, you can't help seeing it. Insult, compliment or demand, compromise...keeps people off balance so you can get what you want.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (l4C/z)

==========

But Trump is a dummy who just keeps getting lucky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

583 >>Yup. The 'push pull', once you know about it, you can't help seeing it. Insult, compliment or demand, compromise...keeps people off balance so you can get what you want.

Did you hear how Cuomo responded yesterday? He said he had no intention of fighting with Trump, appreciated all the feds have done for him and will work with Trump to reopen NY.

Trump's a deal maker. That's why we elected him, to get shit done we wanted done. Don't watch the sausage making if you don't like the process.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

584 I really don't have a good comeback for why we should value federal reserve notes printed out of thin air but not bitcoin.
...
Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (sjTfF)
++++++++++++
The defining characteristic of the dominant currency is whether or not it can be used to pay your taxes. This is one of the key reasons that John Law's experiments with Assignats in France failed - they were for commerce, but your taxes still had to be paid in gold.

I get paid in dollars and use dollars to pay my taxes. I will not accept payment in a form that I cannot use to pay my taxes. If I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin, I will accept Bitcoin.

But I can't. The ability to pay taxes is the basic measure of legitimacy among fiat currencies - because if I don't pay taxes, I am imprisoned or killed (depending on country).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hYcqw)

585 If Trump knew in 2015 what he knows now, would he still run?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (dNzKv)

586 This is political calculus. With her reeeee trigly puff ultra SJW style she probably just figures 4 more years of Trump benefits her influence and prominence much more than 4 years of Sundown.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (Y6UV7)

587 Flattening the curve was not about curing or preventing disease. It was about relieving overcrowded hospitals.

And that NEVER even happened.

Total BS. Lift the Lockdowns.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

Yup. This is what astonishes me, even after I see it happen again and again. A month ago everyone "knew" flattening the curve was not about preventing infections, it was about delaying them.

So what happened?

What changed?

Nobody is answering that question.
Posted by: BurtTC

_____________

Exactly and hospitals are empty.

It was about making sure everyone didn't arrive at one time, that threat is now behind us.

We're not going to destroy the economy and make ourselves Venezuela over health care workers' demands because it might make their life easier.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (sjTfF)

588 oh and fuck dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

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Will African Americans know how to get such identification?

Otherwise, you could argue its a re-implementation of Jim Crow.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (Eicbe)

589 Hahaha.

I still had my toupee joke sock on.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (sGotD)

590 582 553
Yup. The 'push pull', once you know about it, you can't help seeing it. Insult, compliment or demand, compromise...keeps people off balance so you can get what you want.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (l4C/z)

==========

But Trump is a dummy who just keeps getting lucky.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

That's just the psyker mask he wears as TGEOTUS walks among us.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (l4C/z)

591 Mark Knoller
@markknoller
·
5h
Today at the WH: Pres has a series of conference calls with people named to his advisory council on reopening the economy. Has Coronavirus press briefing scheduled at 5pm/ET, which has proven to be more aspirational than actual.

Posted by: m at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (M5wRT)

592
dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near

future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that

card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

I'm sick to death of these Fox docs. All of them. You're not storming the beaches of Normandy, so drop the G-d complexes.

And to the talking heads on Fox, quit running your stupid ads about how "we're all in this together." No we're NOT. Not you overpaid talking faces, curled up in front of your fireplaces snuggling your dogs while you're still drawing your too generous paychecks.

Just shut up. Read us the news and stop patting yourselves on your backs.

/rant

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (ptqGC)

593 583 Trump's a deal maker. That's why we elected him, to get shit done we wanted done. Don't watch the sausage making if you don't like the process.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

===========

I thought we elected him to make government smaller.

Why is everyone laughing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

594 oh and fuck dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in
the near future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies.

GATTACA

Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (G1eBa)

595 These uncertain times test us all. Aperture Laboratories wants you to know that we're always standing by to test by your side.

#TestingTogether.
Posted by: GLAdOS at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hDNne)
+++++++++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (hYcqw)

596 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

Hey, was meaning to ask...how's the new place?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (l4C/z)

597 These uncertain times test us all. Aperture Laboratories wants you to know that we're always standing by to test by your side.

#TestingTogether.
Posted by: GLAdOS at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hDNne)

...

For any morons who have never played them, the Portal games, in particular the original, are simply gems.

The writing for GLAdOS is fantastic and hilarious. And then Cave Johnson in the sequel, voiced by the Farmers Insurance guy.

They're so worth the price of admission.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (yL25O)

598 First, I'm not aware of that. Is that really true? A link would be great.

Then why are areas with high population densities, where social distancing is difficult to practice - e.g., NYC - hit so hard, whereas those with low population densities have relatively few cases (at least so far)?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 15, 2020 01:08 PM (GRbI+)

Someday we might have answers to those questions, but I'm not sure we will.

All I can do right now is answer the question with a question: Why New York and not Los Angeles?

Why New York and not London or Paris?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (hku12)

599 fuck you very much. i'll shove your burning fucking card up your fucking squeekhole.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 15, 2020 01:0

If pro sports are absolutely desperate to send their whole industries destroyed, keep at it. It'll be great to see people shut the fuck up about which set of overpaid ghetto hoodlums is going to beat which.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (WIraL)

600 They're so worth the price of admission.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (yL25O)
+++++++++++
It was the primary reason I bought a PlayStation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (hYcqw)

601 Anyone know if there is anything stopping private purchases of those 15-minute Abbot test machines for COVID? Do you need to be licensed to use diagnostic machines like that? Could see a scenario where businesses buy them in order to screen employees before they start their work shift. Some plans call for universal testing of all 330 million Americans every few days... which is fucking impossible, UNLESS... anyone can buy an Abbot machine for the cost of an iPhone.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (zqs/f)

602
Someone tell me how Democrats and Republicans (who are supposed to be for low taxes/small govt) won't support a $1 Trillion Tax Cut but are all for $4 Trillion in spending programs?

This is outrageous what's going on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)

603 I wish the Leftists would just make up their minds, do they want Trump to go all tyrant or not?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (r+sAi)

604 596 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

Hey, was meaning to ask...how's the new place?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (l4C/z)

============

Big. We don't have our new bed, so we're sleeping in the guest bedroom downstairs.

The huge TV is in the media room upstairs, though. Priorities.

Junior was too scared to sleep in his new room the first night, so he slept on the couch. I forced him to sleep in his room the second night and he had no troubles.

Still got lots o unpacking to do.

Thanks for asking.

How are your guns?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (LvTSG)

605 I had a letter show up that was from a different city and state, BUT HAD THE SAME PO BOX NUMBER that I had. I thought that one was pretty funny.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (JKNZq)

606 551 I got a blackmail email today.

They included my very old, very weak password I use when I have to create an account to use a service, but don't care at all about security."

I got almost the same thing! Although with me they made financial threats, I could laugh it off because I quit using that password about 10 years ago.

I probably didn't get the sexual stuff because I never made videos of myself whacking off like you did. HA!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (trdmm)

607 Oh Dear Lord! #592 Jane--I could not agree more. I am so incredibly sick of "we are all in this together." Plus I refuse to have some sort of card allowing me to enter places. If someone thinks that's a great idea they can take a leap! Maybe qe can have a star to sew on our jacket!

Posted by: AnnaS at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (l4l/z)

608
Grifters bro. Grifters.

Posted by: thathalfrican

Yep. The Spice must flow.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (2ROZf)

609 I only checked the IRS site because my bank website was completely down. I didn't realize other banks were having the same problems. Made me nervous with even phone service down.

Posted by: megthered at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (4OLIE)

610 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hYcqw)

Note, historic fact.

The Fed Reserve Bank system came into existence at the SAME TIME as the Federal Income Tax.

Most don't know that your withholding? Does not go to the Federal Government. It goes to an account in the Fed Res Bank.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (NgKpN)

611 547 531 Holy cats. hogmartin just texted me a video from Lansing. They're not to the Capitol yet, and the cars ahead and behind him are as far as you can see. Everyone's blowing their horns.

It's a beautiful thing!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

If the Hog ends up ruling from Lansing with a Lord of the Flies motif, it'll be one of the prouder moments of my life.
Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (WIraL)

He will rule from his throne of skulls.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (NWiLs)

Yet another proud day for the Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 01:13 PM (TdMsT)

612 Ladyl, I emailed hogmartins' vids to you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (ptqGC)

613
Big. We don't have our new bed, so we're sleeping in the guest bedroom downstairs.

The huge TV is in the media room upstairs, though. Priorities.

Junior was too scared to sleep in his new room the first night, so he slept on the couch. I forced him to sleep in his room the second night and he had no troubles.

Still got lots o unpacking to do.

Thanks for asking.

How are your guns?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (LvTSG)

Heh, healthy and numerous. I 'found' my PPQ...it was in the library. Dunno why I decided to stash it there.

That new house feeling is a good one. All that possibility, waiting for you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (l4C/z)

614 I get paid in dollars and use dollars to pay my taxes. I will not accept payment in a form that I cannot use to pay my taxes. If I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin, I will accept Bitcoin.

But I can't. The ability to pay taxes is the basic measure of legitimacy among fiat currencies - because if I don't pay taxes, I am imprisoned or killed (depending on country).
Posted by: Joe Mannix
________________

But is the extra conversion before you pay your taxes really an issue?

When I pay my quarterly taxes, I usually have to sell "shares" in my money market mutual fund first. I still consider that to be "money" despite the conversion.

My big issue with Bitcoin is volatility, you can't have a currency that bounces around like that. I also think a few investment operations "move on" and it could be worthless.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (sjTfF)

615 I think Cuomo is still talking live on MSNBC.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (ZCEU2)

616 The Bill Gates sponsored COVID-19 vaccine is a just under the skin style (not into the muscle like all the others) and supposedly requires a small electrical shock be delivered to the injection site to 'open the cells up' to the synthetic DNA based vaccine.

That doesn't sound quite like a vaccine to me. That sounds like an implant that needs a small charge to activate.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-now with MOAR TP) at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (N3El/)

617 294 They need to burn the Michigan governor's mansion to the ground.
Posted by: Sooner at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

Don't do that. I might want to live there someday.

Posted by: jwest at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (mrrpT)

618 I get paid in dollars and use dollars to pay my taxes. I will not accept payment in a form that I cannot use to pay my taxes. If I can pay my taxes in Bitcoin, I will accept Bitcoin.

But I can't. The ability to pay taxes is the basic measure of legitimacy among fiat currencies - because if I don't pay taxes, I am imprisoned or killed (depending on country).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (hYcqw)

I suspect part of the reason people accept Bitcoin is to avoid fiat taxes and currency as much as possible. Only using fiat dollars provides legitimacy to the government and removes an avenue for reducing your dependence on them. But it's fine, live however you like.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (WIraL)

619 612 Ladyl, I emailed hogmartins' vids to you.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (ptqGC)

{{{Jane}}}

Thank you!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (TdMsT)

620 602
Someone tell me how Democrats and Republicans (who are supposed to be for low taxes/small govt) won't support a $1 Trillion Tax Cut but are all for $4 Trillion in spending programs?

This is outrageous what's going on.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)

Masks, continue to be taken off.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (NgKpN)

621 We're not going to destroy the economy and make ourselves Venezuela over health care workers' demands because it might make their life easier.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (sjTfF)

It wasn't about making our lives easier, asshole. We were projecting off of the best data we had from China and Italy. We quickly optimized treatment and realized that early ventilator support was making worse outcomes, and people were doing really well with oxygen saturations in the 80-85% range without vent support. Hence, the big overcrowding and vent shortage never materialized.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (dNzKv)

622 I thought we elected him to make government smaller.

Why is everyone laughing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (LvTSG)
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Frankly, I would say it's much more important to defeat the propaganda enemy right now. The IC, the deep state, the courts, the press.

Fighting, right now, is a more important quality than political philosophy because the Democratic Party has infested the host country too deeply.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (Eicbe)

623 I thought we elected him to make government smaller.

Why is everyone laughing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

No, those people voted for Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (zqs/f)

624 I checked, was able to log into my banks (yes, I bank with several).

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (zr5Kq)

625 620 602
Someone tell me how Democrats and Republicans (who are supposed to be for low taxes/small govt) won't support a $1 Trillion Tax Cut but are all for $4 Trillion in spending programs?

This is outrageous what's going on.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)

Masks, continue to be taken off.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (NgKpN)

===========

Other theory:

They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

626 From a strategy standpoint, conservatives want Biden, not Bernie. Biden is an uninspiring train wreck. Taking Biden out would have left Bernie in play and his base is motivated. No one wants that.

Posted by: Squid_Hunt at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (S5OQe)

627 They fight a voter ID but they want to have an ID to join the human race outside the house?

Posted by: AnnaS at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (l4l/z)

628 Lol. Latest vid from hogmartin: heavy traffic still, and a guy pulling a boat full of people.

'murica

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (ptqGC)

629
That doesn't sound quite like a vaccine to me. That sounds like an implant that needs a small charge to activate.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-now with MOAR TP) at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (N3El/)

Anyone down for a Microsoft sponsored vaccine might not have brains at all.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (WIraL)

630 It's not an implant!!!

Posted by: Bill Grates at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (EgshT)

631 Anyone see the adverts from Mt Sinai Hospital in NYC begging for donations?

Totally grinds my gears....

Posted by: stumck at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (w9Wax)

632 616 The Bill Gates sponsored COVID-19 vaccine is a just under the skin style (not into the muscle like all the others) and supposedly requires a small electrical shock be delivered to the injection site to 'open the cells up' to the synthetic DNA based vaccine.

That doesn't sound quite like a vaccine to me. That sounds like an implant that needs a small charge to activate.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-now with MOAR TP) at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (N3El/)

So, a genetically engineered 'cure' to a genetically engineered plague?

Isn't this the plot of a whole bunch of very bad Sci Fi movies?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:16 PM (NgKpN)

633 But the MFM never uttered a word.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:04 PM (ptqGC)

I don't remember Republicans making too much noise about it either.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (FBu6l)

634 Did you guys try to log out, shut your electronic devise/smartphone down completely ???

Posted by: runner, tech support at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (zr5Kq)

635 WILX 10 livstream ended.

Posted by: Methos at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (kOpft)

636 Someday we might have answers to those questions, but I'm not sure we will.

All I can do right now is answer the question with a question: Why New York and not Los Angeles?

Why New York and not London or Paris?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 15, 2020 01:11 PM (hku12)

Best guess for LA is that it actually started to circulate there quietly last October, and herd immunity started to build. I don't think London got off easily, don't know about Paris. I think NYC got hit by their reliance on Public Transit - buses, taxis, trains. Everybody crammed into these confined spaces together, everybody getting each others germs. Those of us who own our own vehicles never deal with that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (trdmm)

637 Cuomo was just on announcing he's going to count anyone who does going forward as having died "probably" of Corona, whatever the fuck that means...says he's using newly released loose guideline by the CDC...but I assume it means that if you die of a heart attack next week, they ain't testing you for Corona, they are just going to add you death to the statistic pile of Corona deaths...just to scare the shit out of anyone who thinks that they want to protest like those all Michigan hooligans!

So the scam is now being legitimized by the CDC...pathetic.

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (32YRo)

638 Other theory:

They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

******

THIS. It's not like this money will ever be repaid because it won't. We'll all be dead by the time the SHTF

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (flINI)

639 This is outrageous what's going on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)
_________

I grudgingly had to accept some years ago set the national debt we never be paid off. It's just a matter of time before the consequences smack us upside the head -- I always assumed hyperinflation.

Anyway, this definitely will make that inescapable reality occur sooner.

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (1FyRy)

640 Husband's business bank has been up all morning. Our personal bank is still down.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (ptqGC)

641 Trump's a deal maker. That's why we elected him, to get shit done we wanted done. Don't watch the sausage making if you don't like the process.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:09 PM (ZLI7S)

Or watch and learn.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (7Pobc)

642 Michigan's governor is a petulant, spoiled child.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (JRaU+)

643 294 They need to burn the Michigan governor's mansion to the ground.
Posted by: Sooner at April 15, 2020 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

Would you settle for some honking horns?

Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (pUwNX)

644 "If pro sports are absolutely desperate to send their
whole industries destroyed, keep at it. It'll be great to see people
shut the fuck up about which set of overpaid ghetto hoodlums is going to
beat which.

Posted by: trev006

I stopped going to pro-sports years ago because overpriced ticked parking, food etc... The terrorist security gauntlet and a health screening would be a good way to make absolutely sure I never set foot in a pro stadium until death. And write anybody out of my will that does so.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (MxEKc)

645 But is the extra conversion before you pay your taxes really an issue?

When I pay my quarterly taxes, I usually have to sell "shares" in my money market mutual fund first. I still consider that to be "money" despite the conversion.

My big issue with Bitcoin is volatility, you can't have a currency that bounces around like that. I also think a few investment operations "move on" and it could be worthless.
Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (sjTfF)
++++++++++++++
Volatility is a major problem. If I get paid the equivalent of $100k when Bitcoin is at, say, $20k per, then I get paid 5 Bitcoins. I have to pay my taxes, say the equivalent of $40k. If bitcoin crashes to $10k per bitcoin, I have to sell 4 of 5 Bitcoins to pay my taxes. If it's stable - like a bond fund I may have to sell, a money market, a CD, etc., then that risk is minimized.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (hYcqw)

646 I have $1 billion in bitcoin. Oops, my hard drive crashed. Aaaannnnnnd it's gone.

Oh, I put my bitcoin in a secure "offsite" wallet. Oops, the wallet shutdown and the owner is nowhere to be found.

I can access my bitcoin over the internet whenever I want! Internet? Helllooooo? Where'd you go? Shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (dNzKv)

647 They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)
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Or, it was no closer to being paid down with Hillary.

Some people seem to have really internalized the cost of the real alternative principle.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (Eicbe)

648 It wasn't about making our lives easier, asshole. .
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
_______________

You're just trying to be offended, asshole.

It was fairly obvious I meant moving forward, we're not shutting the country down until everyone is vaccinated because health care workers demand it.

Maybe quit if you are so worried about an "intense" schedule?

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (sjTfF)

649 I like to watch sports, but I do hope this shutdown might break the weird obsession many have with it... a couple months off could do some people a world of good.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (hDNne)

650 I don't know how willing I am to get a vaccine that's only been around for 6 months.

nope.

not gonna do that.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

651 It wasn't about making our lives easier, asshole. We were projecting off of the best data we had from China and Italy. We quickly optimized treatment and realized that early ventilator support was making worse outcomes, and people were doing really well with oxygen saturations in the 80-85% range without vent support. Hence, the big overcrowding and vent shortage never materialized.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (dNzKv)

Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (NgKpN)

652 I stopped going to pro-sports years ago because overpriced ticked parking, food etc... The terrorist security gauntlet and a health screening would be a good way to make absolutely sure I never set foot in a pro stadium until death. And write anybody out of my will that does so.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (MxEKc)

When I can get a hamburger more cheaply at a World Cup playoff game in Brazil than I can at any American stadium, it's time to pull the plug. Shameless, insane assholes.

Posted by: trev006 at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (WIraL)

653 551
I got a blackmail email today.

They included my very old, very weak password I use when I have to
create an account to use a service, but don't care at all about
security.
-------------------------------

There are password lists out there that include millions of emails and their passwords from hacked sites. Easy for any idiot to send an email like that.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (FBu6l)

654
Other theory:

They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

Not a theory.

Look to history.

Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (pUwNX)

655 650 I don't know how willing I am to get a vaccine that's only been around for 6 months.

nope.

not gonna do that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

Gulf War Syndrome, Part 2.

National Buggaloo.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (NgKpN)

656 Longer and higher the " death count" keeps the population in fear and under thumb

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (ZCEU2)

657 Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (NgKpN)
+++++++++++++++
A lot of them will end up in the SNS.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (hYcqw)

658 602
Someone tell me how Democrats and Republicans (who are supposed to be for low taxes/small govt) won't support a $1 Trillion Tax Cut but are all for $4 Trillion in spending programs?

This is outrageous what's going on.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)

I'm advocating a $45 trillion spending program, but I'm totally against any borrowing.

Posted by: jwest at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (mrrpT)

659 654
Other theory:

They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.

Posted by:TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughtsat April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

Not a theory.

Look to history.
Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (pUwNX)

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*raises eyebrow*
-Andrew Jackson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (LvTSG)

660 Yeah, pretty sure I remember Tu-Ca covering Gropey McFingers on a segment -- in which he compared the Kavanaugh coverage to Biden.

These things merge but might have been Monday.

Course I could've hallucinated it all.

FOX wouldn't dare do anything to Tu-Ca. I seriously believe that -- even though he complied with the Ciraremella embargo too.

Posted by: DJSMITH at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (AHPA+)

661
fuck you very much. i'll shove your burning fucking card up your fucking squeekhole.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Haz newsletter now pls?
kthxby

Posted by: Gooshy at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (+anEM)

662 650 I don't know how willing I am to get a vaccine that's only been around for 6 months.

nope.

not gonna do that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

...

this x1000

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (yL25O)

663 They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

If you keep inflation up, the $20 trillion gets smaller every year.

Remember when reagan ran up $3 trillion in debt. Everyone was freaked out. Chump change now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (dNzKv)

664 Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (NgKpN)

********

The gubmint will lose track of 67.4355% of them and they will be a remarkable "Barn Find" in the year 2134

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (flINI)

665 If you keep inflation up, the $20 trillion gets smaller every year.

Remember when reagan ran up $3 trillion in debt. Everyone was freaked out. Chump change now.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (dNzKv)
++++++++++++
And that is just wonderful news for those of us who save.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (hYcqw)

666 647 They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

A thread on - Investing for the coming inflation - would be interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (7Pobc)

667 Would you settle for some honking horns?
Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (pUwNX)

Watch out, we're about to get really serious and break out the vuvuzelas!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (trdmm)

668 Look to history.
Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:19 PM (pUwNX)

===========

*raises eyebrow*
-Andrew Jackson
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (LvTSG)

..

Exception that proves the rule etc. etc.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (yL25O)

669 Someone tell me how Democrats and Republicans (who
are supposed to be for low taxes/small govt) won't support a $1 Trillion
Tax Cut but are all for $4 Trillion in spending programs?

This is outrageous what's going on.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 15, 2020 01:12 PM (2ROZf)

Because in the first scenario, workers get their own money back, and in the second, they grift worker's money to friends and relatives? The two aren't even remotely the same thing. Not the same ballpark. Not the same league. Not even the same sport.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (FBu6l)

670 The vaccine is just sugar water, with a little voltage.

Posted by: Bill Grates at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (EgshT)

671 dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near
future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that
card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.

uh. no. If I wanted to live under the Nazis, I would have moved to Germany before I was born.
Posted by: grammie winger

A lot of people get pissed at me on Facebook when I reply with a picture of a saluting Hitler.
F 'em.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (GvEen)

672 612 Ladyl, I emailed hogmartins' vids to you.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 15, 2020 01:14 PM (ptqGC)

Thank you for the pics, Jane!

I'm glad Hogmartin and Eris made it into the Capitol.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (TdMsT)

673 666 647 They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

A thread on - Investing for the coming inflation - would be interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (7Pobc)

==============

"I love goooooooold!"
-Goldmember

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (LvTSG)

674 663 They know the national debt is never going to get paid down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

If you keep inflation up, the $20 trillion gets smaller every year.

Remember when reagan ran up $3 trillion in debt. Everyone was freaked out. Chump change now.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (dNzKv)

...

This was my whole plan.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (yL25O)

675 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (trdmm)

Simpler.

In LA you get around in your car. There is no mass transit.

In New York? its all subways, busses, and Taxis.

Also, population density is MUCH higher in New York, LA is spread out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (NgKpN)

676 A thread on - Investing for the coming inflation - would be interesting.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (7Pobc)
++++++++++++
There might not be one, at least not generally. The amount of money being pumped in has to be greater than the amount of debt defaulting to get a meaningful broad-spectrum inflation push.

Unlike in the 2009 debacle (and subsequent years), they are putting a lot of money directly into the hands of spenders this time, and that may have some effects. I have no idea. It's all so big and so fast and so unusual that I am not making any predictions on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (hYcqw)

677 623 I thought we elected him to make government smaller.

Why is everyone laughing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

No, those people voted for Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:15 PM (zqs/f)

Sigh.

*Raises hands*

Trump is still Not-Hilary and has been better than I ever imagined....but he's not fiscally conservative.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (l4C/z)

678 I'm tired of the Coronavirus. Let's call it the John McCain virus. Dispatched by a foreign enemy to damage the President and economy. Who better than the ol' Mav?

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (y7DUB)

679 Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.
Posted by: Romeo13

____________

But our brilliant health care experts said we absolutely had to have these for every man woman and child or everyone is going to die.

Had to shut down car factories so we could make ventilators like it was World War II.

I can't wait for their next demand.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (sjTfF)

680 not gonna do that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

...

this x1000

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (yL25O)

Me either.

Not a chance.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (TdMsT)

681 Remember when reagan ran up $3 trillion in debt. Everyone was freaked out. Chump change now.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (dNzKv)

...

And yet, we will never reduce the debt by even half that amount.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (yL25O)

682 @636

Also don't forget they are massively inflating their numbers.

That's how "new science" is done now, you model it, then you make reality conform to your model.

Posted by: Matt Hoffman at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (V+U0x)

683 Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (NgKpN)

********

The gubmint will lose track of 67.4355% of them and they will be a remarkable "Barn Find" in the year 2134
Posted by: Truck Monkey

2134? Try 2021.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (GvEen)

684 I am doing a HCQ trial now. UMN is doing a RCT for pre-exposure treatment of healthcare workers. We should get some good data whether it works or not.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (dNzKv)

685 Recall Whitmer ? Can that be done ??

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (zr5Kq)

686 I endorsed Blowin Biden while buzzed. Blowing Biden distinguished himself at Syracuse University being accused of plagiarizing law review articles. Biden received his Juris Doctor graduating at lower 10 percent of his Law class and he dropped out of the Presidential race in 1988 and 2008. That is a horrible track record. I have created an Obama-Biden Covid19 Donation website which looks exactly like the IRS website for economic stimulus payments with my Chinese bundlers and code monkeys. You can donate part of your covid19 economic stimulus money to the Biden Presidential Campaign via the Obama Foundation, the non-profit organization that is over spending on the construction of the Barack Obama Presidential Palace. Fifty percent of your donation dollars will go to Obama Foundation, 45 percent to the DNC, 5 percent to other expenses and a fraction to the re-hashed Biden Presidential Campaign of 2020. Apply, early and often. Make sure to give me your bank account number, Social Security number and a photo copy of your Driver's License. Thank you for your donation.

Posted by: Barkier One at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (ZA5QI)

687 Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)
*********
I have gotten that email & I sent an email back that said nothing buy BLOW ME BLIND

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (aNkIJ)

688 677 Sigh.

*Raises hands*

Trump is still Not-Hilary and has been better than I ever imagined....but he's not fiscally conservative.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (l4C/z)

==========

The political will does not exist to make government smaller in America. It may never materialize, but it definitely won't materialize when one of the two major parties is essentially socialist. Destroying them is a potential first step.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

689 662 650 I don't know how willing I am to get a vaccine that's only been around for 6 months.
nope.
not gonna do that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)
...
this x1000
Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:20 PM (yL25O)

If this idea catches on, I see a burgeoning market in papers that *say* you've been tested. If that's gonna be required to go out in public. Besides, you know every illegal in the country will have those papers the day after it's required.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (trdmm)

690 I seem to remember after Trump was elected, Bannon and a few others were pushing a budget that eliminated NPR, PPH, and a bunch of unnecessary spending. Then Ryan and McConnell told them to STFD and STFU, and let the professionals develop a bipartisan budget.

I remember Congress Critters specifically saying cuts like that were DOA, and not possible.

Posted by: rd at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (+0uDE)

691 551 I got a blackmail email today.

They included my very old, very weak password I use when I have to create an account to use a service, but don't care at all about security.

They included some BS about how they had used this information to install a man in the middle between me and some porn website I supposedly was using. They further said they turned on my webcam and got video of me masturbating.

They threatened to email that video of me to all of my email contacts if I didn't send some bitcoin to a bitcoin wallet they included the info for.

Pretty lame stuff, but I suspect they have tricked more than a few people with this con.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)

Yep I've gotten a few of those emails too. The thing is that wherever I might have used that password was one on computers without webcams. And two 99% of the time my laptop is closed and hooked up to a monitor through hdmi. So they don't have anything.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (G2zl5)

692 >>When HCQ or one of the new meds is proven all of this will be moot.

Isn't that why the Left/MSM borg has gone gangbusters telling us HCQ doesn't work? It is bizarre watching them reject an unexpected miracle cure - there's a political angle, there must be.
- - - -

>>The Bill Gates sponsored COVID-19 vaccine is a just under the skin style (not into the muscle like all the others) and supposedly requires a small electrical shock be delivered to the injection site to 'open the cells up' to the synthetic DNA based vaccine.

Is that for real?
I've seen some disturbing things about Bill Gates and his vaccine work on the internet. I don't know what's true, but his alleged premise of vaccinating the world and tracking us is unsettling.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (bDqIh)

693 Flattening the curve was not about curing or preventing disease. It was about relieving overcrowded hospitals.

And that NEVER even happened.

Total BS. Lift the Lockdowns.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 15, 2020 01:05 PM (pS94+)

Yup. This is what astonishes me, even after I see it happen again and again. A month ago everyone "knew" flattening the curve was not about preventing infections, it was about delaying them.

So what happened?

What changed?

Nobody is answering that question.
Posted by: BurtTC

Bait in switch, the FAQ on the IHME site spells it out clearly. Purpose of social distancing is to get infections back down to levels that a country or state can return to fill time containment:

****
When can social distancing measures be relaxed?

Our model assumes social distancing stays in place until the pandemic, in its current phase, reaches the point when deaths are less than 0.3 per million people. Based on our latest projections, we expect social distancing measures to be in place through the end of May.

The timeline could change based on what data show about the trajectory of the pandemic. In the meantime, we are working to forecast what would happen if social distancing measures were lifted before the pandemic is under control, and we will share these projections as soon as our work is complete.

Our forecasts of zero deaths in July and August assume that appropriate measures are put in place to guard against the reintroduction of COVID-19 from another state or country. These measures may include mass screening, contact tracing, testing of all individuals entering the country, and quarantine of people who test positive. Details on what these strategies need to be will be analyzed in future editions of the forecasts.

****

330 "million Americans" * 0.3 == 99 deaths per day.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (zqs/f)

694 I thought we elected him to make government smaller.

Why is everyone laughing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, those people voted for Rand Paul or Ted Cruz.
Posted by: Serious Cat

I voted simply for retribution.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (GvEen)

695 Trump is still Not-Hilary and has been better than I ever imagined....but he's not fiscally conservative.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (l4C/z)
++++++++++++++
He never was. It was my biggest problem with him when I was deciding who to support in the Primary. But he was the only nationalist and the only looking to put Americans before all others, and I made my decision. I may rue the day, I may not - but he was *never* a fiscal hawk.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (hYcqw)

696 So the scam is now being legitimized by the CDC...pathetic.

Posted by: Boswell at April 15, 2020 01:17 PM (32YRo)

__________

This morning, Rush was talking about how fed.gov has incentivized this false reporting of coronavirus deaths because they're giving states money for each such reported death -- and you always get more of what you subsidize.

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (1FyRy)

697
Exception that proves the rule etc. etc.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (

Yep countries don't pay off their national debts.

Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (pUwNX)

698 687 Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)
*********
I have gotten that email & I sent an email back that said nothing buy BLOW ME BLIND
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (aNkIJ)

...

Send them back a jerk video.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (yL25O)

699 You will be able to buy a ventilator on American Pickers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (aKsyK)

700 This is a simple equation. Nobody can cut spending significantly and get reelected. Ever. First of all, no Democrat will *ever* cut spending, unless it's to our military but they will just divert the money elsewhere.

Of course D's will always piss and moan about Republican "spending" but if Republicans try to cut one thin dime *anywhere*, the D's and their simps in the media will yell about how Republicans are LITERALLY killing people.

Posted by: ... at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (FBu6l)

701 My commie Mayor tried to push the shutdown until November 15th. what a piece of sh*t.

Posted by: Bosk at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (9m9TT)

702 677

Sigh.

*Raises hands*

Trump is still Not-Hilary and has been better than I ever imagined....but he's not fiscally conservative.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (l4C/z)

A Patriot, he is, but not Calvin Coolidge.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (90T4r)

703 In Sep, they will show warehouses full of unused vents, and eviscerate Trump for invoking the defense production act. Every decision he makes will be the wrong one and terrible. Even when complying with the demands of the left at the time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (dNzKv)

704 Remind him that Obama endorsed Hillary. How'd that turn out?
Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2020 12:55 PM (cF8AT)

Just told him. He called all upset.

Geez. He's okay now. Told him to lay off the news for a while.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (8fB/R)

705 697
Exception that proves the rule etc. etc.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (

Yep countries don't pay off their national debts.
Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (pUwNX)

==========

Debt is not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

It's when debt becomes too large, so large that it cannot be managed, that it becomes bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (LvTSG)

706 >>Prediction. All those ventilators now rolling off assembly lines in huge numbers?

>>They will sit gathering dust in warehouses.

My prediction is Trump will sell them to countries around the world that have been begging for them.

China won't stop being an asshoe when this current crisis passes.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (ZLI7S)

707 I voted simply for retribution.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (GvEen)

Yes, Uniparty destruction.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (y7DUB)

708 688

The political will does not exist to make government smaller in America. It may never materialize, but it definitely won't materialize when one of the two major parties is essentially socialist. Destroying them is a potential first step.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

Yep.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (90T4r)

709 Yup. This is what astonishes me, even after I see it happen again and again. A month ago everyone "knew" flattening the curve was not about preventing infections, it was about delaying them.

So what happened?

What changed?

Nobody is answering that question.
Posted by: BurtTC

The numbers those in charge used to fuck over people's civil rights never materialized and they are now afraid of lynching parties.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (GvEen)

710 Bill Gates still can't produce a good OS for a computer. Why would anyone trust his 'vaccine'??

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (vs2ae)

711 nood, rules do not apply to the rich and famous

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (d7Ww2)

712 I like to watch sports, but I do hope this shutdown might break the weird obsession many have with it... a couple months off could do some people a world of good.

Why the fuck does it bother you that people who aren't you like something you don't like?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (gd9RK)

713
You will be able to buy a ventilator on American Pickers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (aKsyK)

-------

In a hundred years, the surplus 2020 vintage ventilators will be prized by collectors as a relic of past medical insanity, like the various early x-ray devices that gave people cancer, or the Radithor dick-juice that would make your mandible fall off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (hDNne)

714 *Raises hands*

Trump is still Not-Hilary and has been better than I ever imagined....but he's not fiscally conservative.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at April 15, 2020 01:22 PM (l4C/z)
---
And I told conservatives in 2016, Trump is not the conservative "Ragu" president. (Ragu:"It's in there.").

He's definitely grown as a Constitutionalist, as I predicted could happen with positive reinforcement.

Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 01:28 PM (Eicbe)

715 Just told him. He called all upset.

Geez. He's okay now. Told him to lay off the news for a while.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020

Good grief. Tell him to calm down.

Posted by: Wine Moms at April 15, 2020 01:28 PM (pUwNX)

716 705 697
Exception that proves the rule etc. etc.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:21 PM (

Yep countries don't pay off their national debts.
Posted by: The Founders at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM (pUwNX)

==========

Debt is not, in and of itself, a bad thing.

It's when debt becomes too large, so large that it cannot be managed, that it becomes bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (LvTSG)

...

If there were a system that required and/or rewarded politicians to at least seek to retire debt, debt would not be in and of itself a bad thing.

When every politician is rewarded for stuffing their pet pork projects with tax dollars and then crying that they need more money for salaries for teachers and roads, debt is terrible.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 15, 2020 01:28 PM (yL25O)

717 >>dr. siegal on fox too, talking about envisioning a time in the near
future when you have a card that shows you have the antibodies. and that
card WILL ALLOW YOU TO ENTER A STADIUM.
- - - -

Dr. Seigal was for Obamacare when that legislation was making its way through Congress. I have not listened to that guy since then.

Being told I must carry a vaccination card by the same people who say voter ID is impossible is beyond ridiculous.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 15, 2020 01:28 PM (bDqIh)

718 This morning, Rush was talking about how fed.gov has incentivized this false reporting of coronavirus deaths because they're giving states money for each such reported death -- and you always get more of what you subsidize.
Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:25 PM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: San Francisco, formerly known as "Baghdad by The Bay" at April 15, 2020 01:29 PM (DMUuz)

719 690 I seem to remember after Trump was elected, Bannon and a few others were pushing a budget that eliminated NPR, PPH, and a bunch of unnecessary spending. Then Ryan and McConnell told them to STFD and STFU, and let the professionals develop a bipartisan budget.

I remember Congress Critters specifically saying cuts like that were DOA, and not possible.

Posted by: rd at April 15, 2020 01:24 PM (+0uDE)

I do understand there is a bit of horsetading involved in these things. So even if you really don't careabout the taxpayers' money going to NPR, you have to pretend it's on the chopping block so you can get the D's to spend money on something you want for your district in "exchange" for agreeing to fund NPR.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 15, 2020 01:29 PM (jK8Z7)

720
Why the fuck does it bother you that people who aren't you like something you don't like?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:27 PM (gd9RK)

--------

It doesn't, bruh.

It's their choice to get completely sucked into some meaningless cultural phenomenon and spend obscene quantities of cash on it.

No skin off my ass.

Do ya thang.

Why the fuck does it bother you that I think it's silly and dumb?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 01:29 PM (hDNne)

721 Fox news reporting Cuomo is ordering mandatory face masks in NY state

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:30 PM (ZCEU2)

722 684 I am doing a HCQ trial now. UMN is doing a RCT for pre-exposure treatment of healthcare workers. We should get some good data whether it works or not.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (dNzKv)

Not a trial but all of the patients treated at the TX City assisted care are OK.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:30 PM (7Pobc)

723 @688

Dealing with the size scope and reach of government as well as the debt went out the window in in 2009.

Our debt to GDP to went from the 60pct range to the 90pct range and now we are at 107pct of GDP.

With 4 trillion dollar budgets every year and adding a cool trillion in deficit spending every year.

And now because of this little operation we will add any where from 4 to 6 trillion when all is said and done.

We will be staring down the barrel of a 30 trillion dollar outstanding debt.

I think this little operation may just break the entire system.

Posted by: Matt Hoffman at April 15, 2020 01:31 PM (V+U0x)

724 Commies burned their draft cards, we burn the vax cards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (ieuPy)

725 Fox news showing some protest in Michigan,, not many in the camers

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (ZCEU2)

726 ... He called all upset. ...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM

The phrase "Calm your pectorals" is recommended as efficacious by a vast majority of The Horde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (DMUuz)

727 When Soros chooses the running mate and they steal the election, the tictoc starts on Biden's arkancide date.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (XhWtx)

728 My prediction is Trump will sell them to countries around the world that have been begging for them.

China won't stop being an asshoe when this current crisis passes.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 15, 2020 01:26 PM (ZLI7S)

He is already figuring out the next deal.

As I told my wife last night, we are going to go hard against China for Kung Flu, not because of the merits of it, but because it will be used as leverage for the next trade deal with them.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (jK8Z7)

729 687
Posted by: bonhomme at April 15, 2020 01:06 PM (i0wNm)

*********

I have gotten that email I sent an email back that said nothing buy BLOW ME BLIND

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (aNkIJ)
_______

My response was literally "lol get fucked."

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (1FyRy)

730 But our brilliant health care experts said we absolutely had to have these for every man woman and child or everyone is going to die.

Had to shut down car factories so we could make ventilators like it was World War II.

I can't wait for their next demand.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (sjTfF)

Trump, Fauci, and Birx all agreed that the requests for ventilators was over the top.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (7Pobc)

731
the "Trump Unity Bridge" is parked in front of the capital

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (yc/34)

732 Fox news reporting Cuomo is ordering mandatory face masks in NY state

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:30 PM (ZCEU2)

This would be a lot more tolerable in the Fall & Winter, assuming cold weather headwear would suffice.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (zqs/f)

733 Why the fuck does it bother you that I think it's silly and dumb?

Because you want them to change their behavior. I hate video games and I think gaming is stupid, but I don't tell my gamers to not play.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (gd9RK)

734 I don't know how willing I am to get a vaccine that's only been around for 6 months.
nope.
not gonna do that.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 15, 2020 01:18 PM (d7Ww2)

Yeah, ask Texas how that attempted forcing of the HPV vaccine worked out.

There's a lot more brain dead kids walking around than there were before.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 15, 2020 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

735 Because you want them to change their behavior. I hate video games and I think gaming is stupid, but I don't tell my gamers to not play.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (gd9RK)

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I said no such thing. I said the situation may change their behavior. And that would likely be a positive development.

I don't try to change a thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 15, 2020 01:35 PM (hDNne)

736 727
When Soros chooses the running mate and they steal the election, the tictoc starts on Biden's arkancide date.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2020 01:32 PM (XhWtx)

___________

*Joe Biden died earlier today from a combination of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Hyoid Traumatic Stress Disorder."

Posted by: ShainS at April 15, 2020 01:36 PM (1FyRy)

737 people were doing really well with oxygen saturations in the 80-85% range without vent support.

(finds O2 dongle, plugs in finger)

Okay, 97. Still good. Time to do the 1 hr treadmill test.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 15, 2020 01:36 PM (e1mEI)

738 But our brilliant health care experts said we absolutely had to have these for every man woman and child or everyone is going to die.

Had to shut down car factories so we could make ventilators like it was World War II.

I can't wait for their next demand.

Posted by: Blago at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (sjTfF)

Consider it a Trump 2020 election contribution. Being able to say "Every single patient who needed a ventilator got one because we built them in time" is a great talking point.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2020 01:37 PM (zqs/f)

739 Fox news reporting Cuomo is ordering mandatory face masks in NY state

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2020 01:30 PM (ZCEU2)

Lone Ranger word a mask. That okay?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 15, 2020 01:38 PM (e1mEI)

740 Yeah I can see that people would be okay in 88-80% range of O2. I was at 88% before they put me on Advair. If I was active, it was lower than that. Didn't have problems functioning until it was in the 70s.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 15, 2020 01:38 PM (JKNZq)

741 684 I am doing a HCQ trial now. UMN is doing a RCT for pre-exposure treatment of healthcare workers. We should get some good data whether it works or not.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy. COVID Free since 1975 at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM (dNzKv)

Weren't you last week declaring that HCQ wasn't effective and we shouldn't be putting our hopes on it.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 01:41 PM (G2zl5)

742 733 Why the fuck does it bother you that I think it's silly and dumb?

Because you want them to change their behavior. I hate video games and I think gaming is stupid, but I don't tell my gamers to not play.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:33 PM (gd9RK)

Cause you don't want Alex to tell you to fuck off. :p

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 01:44 PM (G2zl5)

743 Cause you don't want Alex to tell you to fuck off. :p

That would technically be entirely true. What do you have against self-preservation?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 15, 2020 01:53 PM (gd9RK)

744 I'm already dead so it's not something to worry about.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 15, 2020 01:56 PM (G2zl5)

745 Be better.
Posted by: Axeman at April 15, 2020 12:35 PM (Eicbe)

Be Best.

Posted by: Napoleon Soli, Section 2, Number 1 at April 15, 2020 02:05 PM (xn335)

746 This is going to be an entire thread about boobs, isn't it.

That include the Fox News Moob Trust.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (m / eiQ)

The Udder truth.

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2020 12:07 PM (90T4r)

We'll milk it for all it's worth.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 15, 2020 02:14 PM (ZOAr/)

747 There's a lot more brain dead kids walking around than there were before.

Must.resist.low.hanging.fruit..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 15, 2020 02:16 PM (ZOAr/)

748 685

Recall Whitmer ? Can that be done ??

Posted by: runner at April 15, 2020 01:23 PM

Yes. But unlikely, considering this state is full of Karens. Which is how Half-Whitmer got elected in the first place.

Law stipulates that you need 25% of the number of total votes for Governor in the previous election (201

.

Which means we need ~1.062 million signatures to initiate a recall process.

The only petition out there I know of for this right now only has about 200,000 - 250,000 signatures.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 15, 2020 02:22 PM (Do5/p)

749 "But our brilliant health care experts said we absolutely had to have these for every man woman and child or everyone is going to die. "
Blago 4/15/2020 1:23
By health care experts I hope you meant Trump. Trump did that. Not doctors.

Posted by: Squid_Hunt at April 15, 2020 02:30 PM (S5OQe)

750 Ace, somebody's probably already mentioned this, but The Five covered the Tara Reade/Joe Biden story pretty well tonight

Posted by: Pat Mac at April 15, 2020 07:24 PM (XXYRe)

751 yes dumb and getting dumber that's what Liberal Democrats are getting good at being total morons which is nothing new for these profesional hucksters and snake oil salesmen

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 17, 2020 11:44 AM (FLiOE)

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