Stupid Republican idea of the day

[Maus_Magill]

@Kobal2

I mean, by all means, vulnerable conspiracy-spouting, Trump-suckling boomers and assorted Rugged Individualists - do go out, socialize, kiss each other on the fucking mouth to show everyone that you’re NOT AFRAID OF NO HOAX and WON’T BACK DOWN. It is brave and noble. This goes triple for fundie christians - that chalice won’t communion itself !

Fundies don’t take communion from a chalice. What are you some kind of Papist? They sip their grape juice and eat their cubed wonder bread from the safety of the pews, just like Supply Side Jesus intended.

One condition though : first you gotta agree not to go to no hospital neither when y’all come down with the flu, 'cause that would be SOCIALISM and also they need the beds and ventilators for people who actually *should *keep breathing.

When the tornadoes blew through here two weeks ago, I’m ashamed to admit that I caught myself thinking all the displaced people now had the opportunity to put their money where their mouths were and turn down their FEMA payments.

[Andy_L]

@Rick_Kitchen

David Clarke, former Sheriff of Milwaukee, Individual 1’s favorite black cop:
“GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW!
If government doesn’t stop this foolishness…STAY IN THE STREETS.
END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
THIS IS AN EXPLOITATION OF A CRISIS.”
https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/1239320085778571266

“It is now evident that this is an orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM. First sports, then schools and finally commercial businesses. Time to RISE UP and push back. Bars and restaurants should defy the order. Let people decide if they want to go out.”
https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/1239318325097910272

So he’s asking for people to DEMAND that the government care for people’s children? Socialist!

[CalMeacham]

A 'glaring partisan divide' in public attitudes on coronavirus

The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted late last week, generated some top-line results that were easy to predict. Nearly every American has heard about the coronavirus outbreak, for example, and most are concerned about loved ones getting sick. Similarly, a majority believes the worst is yet to come.

But as the NBC News report on the poll results noted, there’s a “glaring partisan divide” in the data.

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Just as importantly, if not more so, while 61% of Democrats said they’re steering clear of gatherings, roughly half (30%) of Republicans said the same thing. More than a third (36%) of Democrats are avoiding restaurants during the crisis, while only 12% of Republicans are making the same choice.

This is a scary idea – are Republicans making themselves more vulnerable to COVID 19 infection because of the message they’re accepted? It would be a helluva sad thing if they effectively lowered their numbers because of this.

[TonySinclair]

@elucidator

That man makes Daffy Duck look like Bertrand Russell.

And here I thought I was the king of topical references.

[commasense]

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[commasense]

@CalMeacham

A 'glaring partisan divide' in public attitudes on coronavirus

This is a scary idea – are Republicans making themselves more vulnerable to COVID 19 infection because of the message they’re accepted? It would be a helluva sad thing if they effectively lowered their numbers because of this.

If they are voluntarily speeding up the demographic decline that was already pushing them towards irrelevancy, well, to paraphrase a quote attributed to Yogi Berra, if they don’t want to survive, nobody’s gonna stop them. The crime is that they will keep the curve from flattening, putting the rest of us at greater risk.

[ThelmaLou]

Behind the scenes, Unca Mitch is hard at work, making hay while the (Republican) sun still shines.

McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit

WASHINGTON — Running out of federal court vacancies to fill, Senate Republicans have been quietly making overtures to sitting Republican-nominated judges who are eligible to retire to urge them to step aside so they can be replaced while the party still holds the Senate and the White House.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who has used his position as majority leader to build a judicial confirmation juggernaut for President Trump over the past three years, has been personally reaching out to judges to sound them out on their plans and assure them that they would have a worthy successor if they gave up their seats soon, according to multiple people with knowledge of his actions.

It was not known how many judges were contacted or which of them Mr. McConnell had spoken to directly. One of his Republican colleagues said others had also initiated outreach in an effort to heighten awareness among judges nominated by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush that making the change now would be advantageous.

The overt effort by Republicans to create vacancies reflects a realization that Mr. Trump could lose the presidency, or that Republicans could lose the Senate majority and deprive Mr. Trump of his partner on judicial confirmations even if he did gain a second term.
…

Even that motherfucker is seeing the handwriting on the wall. :mad:

I don’t hate The Donald, but I hate Mitch with every molecule of my being.

[Gyrate]

@ThelmaLou

McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit

I imagine the sentiment is mutual.

[commasense]

@CalMeacham

A 'glaring partisan divide' in public attitudes on coronavirus

This is a scary idea – are Republicans making themselves more vulnerable to COVID 19 infection because of the message they’re accepted? It would be a helluva sad thing if they effectively lowered their numbers because of this.

@commasense

If they are voluntarily speeding up the demographic decline that was already pushing them towards irrelevancy, well, to paraphrase a quote attributed to Yogi Berra, if they don’t want to survive, nobody’s gonna stop them. The crime is that they will keep the curve from flattening, putting the rest of us at greater risk.

I mentioned this to my wife, and she said someone should do an epidemiological study of correlations between infection and death from coronavirus and political party.

[Rick_Kitchen]

After those conspiracy theory tweets by David Clarke that the coronavirus is a leftist hoax, he has now turned around and is calling for the election to be canceled.

Ally of Donald Trump Calls for Shut Down of 2020 Presidential Election Amid...

[Chronos]

Got a link for him saying that? The one you linked to just has an article saying (without quote) that he said that, and quotes of a lot of people responding to it.

[Chronos]

Got a link for him saying that? The one you linked to just has an article saying (without quote) that he said that, and quotes of a lot of people responding to it.

[Fugazi]

@ThelmaLou

Behind the scenes, Unca Mitch is hard at work, making hay while the (Republican) sun still shines.

**McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit**Even that motherfucker is seeing the handwriting on the wall. :mad:

I don’t hate The Donald, but I hate Mitch with every molecule of my being.

Unfortunately, this is not a stupid Republican idea. From their POV it’s actually pretty smart. Nobody ever accused Mitch of being dumb, just evil.

[JohnT]

As I said in another thread, the odds of an aging Federal judge giving up his government benefits and salary while staring at the beginnings of a raging global pandemic and financial meltdown in the private markets approaches zero.

[ThelmaLou]

@JohnT

As I said in another thread, the odds of an aging Federal judge giving up his government benefits and salary while staring at the beginnings of a raging global pandemic and financial meltdown in the private markets approaches zero.

Maybe Mitch will offer ginormous buyouts.

[Rick_Kitchen]

@Chronos

Got a link for him saying that? The one you linked to just has an article saying (without quote) that he said that, and quotes of a lot of people responding to it.

You mean, other than right there in the middle of the link I provided?

David A. Clarke, Jr.

[Kobal2]

@rick kitchen

after those conspiracy theory tweets by david clarke that the coronavirus is a leftist hoax, he has now turned around and is calling for the election to be canceled.
READ: Sheriff David Clarke Tweets in Favor of 'Shutting Down Society for the Rest of the Year' Including the '2020 Nov Elections' - Second Nexus

let’s end government control over our lives and also establish a permanent dictatorship !
I am smart because i type in all caps.

[Sherrerd]

@commasense

I mentioned this to my wife, and she said someone should do an epidemiological study of correlations between infection and death from coronavirus and political party.

Or of correlations between coronavirus infections/death and IQ. Though perhaps the results would be the same.
my emphasis

[elucidator]

Is it expected to be a largely urban pandemic? Seems likely. Please tell me I’m wrong, so I can feed that fact to my dark suspicions. Shut 'em up for a while. Really ugly, dark suspicions.

[jasg]

The Republican Governor of Ohio wants to delay the primary. A judge rules against him. The Ohio Department of Health Director (a political appointee) halts the vote anyway.