Stupid Republican idea of the day

So Ted Cruz will allow Trump to insult his wife and slander his father, but he won’t stand for the gay parts of Bohemian Rhapsody to be cut. A very complex man.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia

So, she planned a protest involving fake medical personnel … and then publicly tweeted that she was planning on doing this, adding convenient tags to make it that much easier to find out about it.
Okay, folks, we’ve finally found someone even more incompetent at arranging hoaxes than Jacob Wohl. Maybe she could hire him as an expert for next time?

Based on the response that the NYT felt comfortable giving, I’m leaning toward the hypothesis that the timeline put forth by Mr. Harder is a bit less than comprehensive.

Never underestimate Congress’ inordinate fondness for silly acronym in laws.
Or, to put it another way

Something something stolen valor.

Of course, the positive effect of this isn’t going to be fewer films censored for China, it’s going to be fewer films that are American military propaganda.

Oklahoma and Utah Criticized Over Spending Millions on Malaria Drugs Touted by President Trump
https://time.com/5828910/oklahoma-utah-hydroxychloroquine-trump-coronavirus/

"…While governments in at least 20 other states obtained more than 30 million doses of the drug through donations from the federal reserve or private companies, Oklahoma and Utah instead bought them from private pharmaceutical companies.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday defended the state’s $2 million purchase, saying the drug was showing some promise. His health secretary attributed buying the 1.2 million hydroxychloroquine pills to something that happens in the “fog of war.”

The high cost of sucking up.

Showing some promise according to whom? And that is still no reason to be throwing around millions of tax dollars on it yet.

Fog of war. Yeah, right. And he calls it that because, of course, his hero is calling himself a wartime president.

Yep. Not only is the Republican party going to get us all killed, they’re going to make sure we’re broke before we die off.

I missed this tidbit in smithsb’s link:

So, does Okalahoma have an inordinate number of lupus patients?

To be fair, dead people don’t need money.

Let’s not overlook the possibility that Ward just invested in a company that makes medical scrubs and she’s trying to drive up the demand.

How did we get to the point where thinking that maybe she was just profiteering actually makes her look better?

Okay, this seems a little odd.

It is the Idaho state primary election absentee ballot request form. On the right-hand side, you see where you mark your party affiliation (Constitution, Democratic, Libertarian, Republican, or unaffiliated) for the state primary and select the ballot you want sent to you.

Observe that every row offers you the choice of the ballot for the party you identify as, or a Democratic ballot, or a non-partisan ballot.

Hence, a person who marks Republican has the option of either a Republican primary ballot or a Democratic primary ballot, but if you mark Democrat, you have only the choice of a Democratic ballot (or non-partisan, which is almost useless).

Which means that we (the Rs) can fuck with your (the Ds) primary, but ours is locked up for you.

It looks like the Democratic Party has consented to have an open primary (for non-presidential races), and the Republican Party hasn’t.

Support for the above hypothesis.

Why you people let politicians run your elections is beyond me.

Grey: In case you haven’t noticed, elections are a political process, legislated by legislation enacted by politicians. Kind of hard to not have them involved. The real question is why we let scum run it.

Close. Prestige fraud.

Prestige posers?