Soon to appear on ebay- one mask with orange makeup encrusted inside.
If there’s a bright side to covid and the resulting recession, it’s that it might be what it took to end this shitshow. November can’t get here fast enough.
No kidding. I don’t even live in the US, and looking in to the shitshow from the outside used to be funny, but it’s at the point now that the orange fuck is literally bad for my blood pressure. So is the unbelievable, abject stupidity of his supporters and enablers. We are far too close to the shitshow for comfort, both geographically and economically, with only a border (and no wall) in between.
If it’s a widely reported news story about a current event, like “Trump Bites a Dog at Press Conference”, I’ll poke around to find a good comprehensive free link to post, even if I first read the story on NYT or WaPo.
But if it’s an exclusive, like a good piece of In-depth investigative reporting or an insightful OpEd, I’ll link directly to the story. Because MY peeve is when the link in the post talking about this great NYT (or whatever) story links to a free source describing the story Instead of the story itself.
Although sometimes I’ll post both links.
And speaking of—-this isn’t forceful enough for me to say that Mueller finally grew a much needed pair, but at least one of his grew back
“Them’s fightin’ words” may have turned up in an episode of Andy Griffith, but it’s a phrase I grew up hearing. Dad from East Texas.
I remember the Birdman episode well–one of my favorites. It was a poignant story that certainly didn’t need a laugh track.
Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new slingshot, in the front yard. Andy, on his way home from work, spots the dead bird in the yard. At first, he thinks the neighbor’s cat killed it, but when Opie runs to his room - he knows it was indeed Opie that killed it. After Andy makes Opie realize that the birds are now without a mother,* he takes it upon himself to raise the orphaned baby birds. After adopting them, he named them Winkin’, Blinkin’ and Nod. Opie faces the difficult task of setting them free, but after a father-son talk, the birds are finally sent back into the wild. Opie remarks that the cage seems empty and Andy quickly replies, “Yes, son, it sure does. But don’t the trees seem nice and full.”
*As is Opie.
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Individual 1 wants Christopher Steele extradited, tried, and imprisoned.
He also said that the crumbling portion of the border wall that was built with private funds was only built to make him look bad.
Trump on private border wall segment: ‘It was only done to make me look bad’ - POLITICO?
Is it November yet? How many days until we can vote the Orangeman out? 119 days I think? Time for a countdown.
Everyone eligible to vote is registered, right?
Here’s hoping all the young kids are registered and ready to vote, too. They don’t usually make up the largest voting block, but maybe they can break a record this time.
If we can get the youngsters involved, combined with the Trumpsters seemingly determined to kill themselves off via viral pandemic, we might have a chance to start cleaning up the mess.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but my hunch is that we’ve not yet reached the tipping point. That will probably come, like most stock market crashes seem to for some reason, in the months of September or October. The pandemic will rage on. There will be calls to keep schools open, keep bars, restaurants, and small businesses open, and people will ignore the politics of it and when things get crazy with corona outbreaks, people will simply stay home and make Jeff Bezos a trillionaire. But the economy overall will get crushed.
When this is over, I think the real legacy will be the damage sustained by the repeated body blows and headbutts to the middle class. The stocks that are pulling the entire market are the few tech stocks. Others are struggling, and in some cases, getting wiped out. The real suffering will be seen away from Wall Street. Tens of millions unemployed, with empty bank accounts and in danger of losing the roofs over their heads. Millions of small business or self-made contractors losing a lifetime of work. The gap between the rich and the poor will be a sight to behold.
Does using incognito mode or whatever privacy mode your browser has allow you to view it?
I mostly browse using an iPad and hold down my finger over the article select copy and then paste that into Safari’s ‘private’ mode to view it, seem work most of the time for me, and does work on that article.
Welcome!
BTW, a digital subscription to WaPo right now is $29/year.
Thank you. I’ve been registered for around 5 years and viewed without registering for probably another 5.
Guess I just don’t have much to say, and everyone here seems so smart, excepting the usual suspects.
That’s great value but as I’m based in Scotland I generally only use it to follow-up links I’ve found on the Dope.
That wasn’t necessarily aimed directly at you, although you gave me an occasion to share the info.
Some here are smart and some of us are faking it.
I think most of us are faking it. Some more successfully than others.
It’s faking longer than we thought.
See what I mean?? 
Yeah, but remember: their “things are going wrong” concerns are “the field hands are getting uppity” and “they took oor statchoos”, not “people are dying of plague” and “the poors don’t have jobs”
One of Trump’s thugs try to kill a protester.
Video of the entire incident is in the article.
With or without its residents?
We can’t make the mistake of assuming that just because Trump and the GOP are failing so miserably and so obviously that they can’t find ways to cling to power. They probably can’t - or at least they shouldn’t - in a free and fair election in which voters evaluate observable results. But as we’ve discussed, the GOP represents an ethnically-based aristocracy that believes in maintaining its grip on power and influence. Further, they represent the idea that America is a white man’s country and that the country will go to hell if white people lose their grip on power. That “I feel threatened guy” who went viral at a Costco makes for a funny meme, but we also caught a glimpse of the toxic venom that fuels Trumpism. For voters like this guy, if they have to cheat or rig an election to keep power, then that’s just what they have to do, I guess. They absolutely feel threatened by losing their status, by being forced to change the way they think of their nation and their place in it.
This environment of perpetual disaster and chaos is dangerous because it’s an environment that breeds ongoing instability, which is a firestorm that can keep feeding itself. It breeds radicalism, and yes, it does so from both sides, which makes the degree of danger. On one hand, we’re likely to see visible displays of outrage and frustration coming from millions of people from all races who either are slipping into permanent underclass, or fear doing so. Simultaneously, there is the fear among Trump’s mostly white Christian nationalist base and his aristocrats that they may never again have the archetypal white male Christian president in their lifetimes, and maybe never again. It doesn’t matter that this fear is irrational. It exists, and it will influence thoughts and behaviors among Republicans and their voters.