“Parents have to get back to the factory. They’ve got to get back to the job site. They have to get back to the office. And part of that is their kids, knowing their kids are taken care of.”
[Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar]
is he talking about schools or day care centers?
In the alternative universe in which SFB lives, along with his cult, the inhabitants lack several human traits. Thinking, loving and empathy are not part of that world. Murdering fourteen thousand children normally means something and normal people would not do that.
From prior link – Bink, Mnuchin was executive producer (money man) for all but 1 of the films he was credited – Rules Don’t Apply – in which he also acted as a banker. Didn’t see that one? You’re in good company. His film involvement was as a financier.
SFB puts 1. the reopening of the economy above 2. the safety of our kids. DeVoss ranks them as 1. Economy, 2. Kids in private schools, 3. Kids in public schools and cockroaches.
The DeVos family does have a history of killing off “the little people”. Eric Prince is still all cuddly with the Trump family. This article from 2016 is fairly interesting.
It has been a bad few months for conservative politicians who hoped to ignore reality. Governors and mayors, egged on by the Trump White House, reopened their states and encouraged citizens to dispense with masks and other preventive measures. Warnings that it was too early to relax restrictions were ignored or even scoffed at. The result? Record case numbers.
Imagine looking at all that and stillthinking, “You know what else should reopen, regardless of what local health experts think? Schools.” Yet that’s exactly what President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are saying. And they’re threatening to cut funding to schools that don’t go along.
(Continues in similar stupid manner).
Besides, says DeVos, other countries pulled it off! “We know that other countries around the world have reopened their schools and have done so successfully and safely,” she told Fox News host Chris Wallace quickly pointed out the obvious: Other countries have the virus under control. “We’re talking about the world, not the exception,” replied DeVos.
But sadly, the United States is an exception. And as Aldous Huxley wrote, “facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” What works for a country with several hundred new coronavirus cases per day does not work for a country with tens of thousands of new cases every day. We’re already seeing this play out in professional sports, for example. Many leagues in many European countries have resumed play with few positive tests, while 7 percent of NBA players have already tested positive for the coronavirus, two teams have withdrawnfrom MLS’s summer tournament, and players in various sports are opting out of their 2020 seasons.
(Continué, s’il vous plait)
Heartless morons.
it’s the teachers and the bus drivers and the school nurses and the cafeteria servers and the janitors and the crossing guards as well as the kids and their families.
There has been an explosion of COVID in daycare centers in TX. Schools are like small cities in large, metropolitan areas like DFW. How is this going to work? It isn’t. Not without sickening many teachers, support staff, students, and, parents. Some new thinking is needed. We can’t keep doing things the old way. The virus will see to that.
As COVID-19 continues to surge across the U.S., leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to share his thoughts on the outbreak.
In a “virtual fireside chat” with Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Fauci is currently scheduled to answer pre-submitted questions about the pandemic that has been linked to more than three million U.S. infections.
The discussion will cover COVID-19’s “resurgence,” highlights a path to overcoming the pandemic and answers pre-submitted queries, a description of the event reads. It is set for July 13 at 10:30 a.m. PT and can be watched via a free live-stream. You can also view below.
Organizers have said the date and time is ultimately subject to change due to “COVID-19’s quickly evolving conditions.” The stream does not support the Internet Explorer browser, so anyone interesed should use Edge, Firefox or Chrome.
Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services under former President Barack Obama, told CNN efforts to discredit Fauci and other scientists are “potentially very, very dangerous” as the US and other countries work toward a coronavirus vaccine.
“I think people want to know from the scientists that the vaccine is safe, that it is effective, that it will not do more harm than good,” she told Blitzer on “The Situation Room.”
“And if the public scientists have been discredited, if the President says ‘don’t believe them, you can’t listen to them, they’re often wrong,’ we have then undermined a national vaccination campaign which is an essential step to bringing this horrible period to an end.”
BiD – please post a link to the daycare stats in TX.
Yup… it’s about the teachers and daycare workers. Without them mommy can’t get back to work. And that affects the e-c-o-n-o-m-y.
Bink… of course not everyone’s motivated to do what they do because of money. You don’t have to look at Mother Teresa or the Dali Lama…. you nailed it when you said to look at ordinary people. But we weren’t talking about ordinary people. We were discussing what motivates some Gop governors to open up their states in the middle of a raging pandemic. So let me spell it out again…. t-h-e e-c-0-n-o-m-y.
This is the picture of a fisher cat. They are predators and eat small animals including lots of house cats. This morning we had papa fisher, mama fisher, and baby fisher in our front yard. So glad my cats are indoor cats only.
Sure, the economy. Or, they’re homicidal maniacs. 🤷♂️
All B. Devos cares about is destroying public education. This is just another opportunity for her.
She is the perfect example of a dumb bitch.
BiD, thanks for the numbers. What that tells me is that on average 1 1/2 people in each day care center Is infected. We can’t tell whether it’s going from the kids to the teachers or down from the teachers to the kids. Or it could be some combination of the two. Regardless, It’s spreading in daycare centers. It will do the same in schools.
patd, let’s face it. Even though parents pay for schools through their taxes, they always think of school as free child/day care which is what Azar is alluding to.
The “Traitor in a Mask” ad is good. But all of these ads without a voice over are losing all the visually impaired people, blind people, and dyslexic people. Same with some of The Lincoln Project’s ads that quickly whip through a lot of image. In the US there about 4 million people with dyslexia and 12 million who are visually impaired including legally blind. They vote.
And there are about 48 million hearing impaired including deaf and old folks (mostly men) who lose hearing due to blasting music in their cars when they were young. They vote.
Love that VoteVets ad.
Having been in education, all levels, for hundreds of years, here’s my idea. Public schools should start in January – save everyone’s life and put everyone out of their anxiety induced misery. In the meantime, to reduce, but not totally eliminate the risk – because this is a freakin’ VIRUS, parents could group together to have their kids go to one house to do their virtual lessons and have supervision on the order of a one room school house like the olden daze. It’d be even better if the parent is a teacher of some variety. All should still wear masks and maintain physical distance. The thing is, short of everyone just staying home except for food, drugs, etc., there’s risk. The parents of those kids will be working here, there, and everywhere and, again, risk being exposed to the virus, giving it to their kids, and exposing the other kids in the little group.
In as much as this is a worldwide PANDEMIC, it’s not going to matter in 10 or 20 years if they weren’t in school for a regular school day for awhile. Weighing this against the kids getting the virus and the unknown long term effects or getting the even worse COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome known as the Kawasaki -like Syndrome and the unknown long term, effects of that, missing a little school doesn’t even compare.
Of course, there’s still, and it seems always, the poverty, digital divide issue.
RR, didn’t know about the fisher cat. You must live far north.
Interesting news out of the TX Supreme Court. Good luck with those follow-on lawsuits given the 7-1 ruling.
And that CNN article on TX being a swing state mentions Florida and Arizona, but seems to have missed Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which SFB won in 2016 are in Biden +6 land. And unless there are changes in the wind that I’m not noticing, I can see a net 5 point Senate pickup for Dems – of the 8 top senate races RCP lists, only Cornyn in TX leads his Dem opponent.
Today is what would have been Paul Prudhomme’s 80th birthday. I once saw him fry bacon in butter.
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Pogo, mabbe the TX Supremes have some common sense, after all?
renee, one early morning i saw one of those critters once which is rare this far south anymore. maybe they’re making a come back. they have a creepy scream described like someone screeching in distress. that plus coyotes can really scare visitors not used to the the night sounds in the boonies.
here’s a sample from online.
TT… I live in southern NH… right on the Massachusetts border… in a beautiful region called the Monadnock region. We’ve seen lone fisher cats from time to time crossing the road down a piece. Yeah patd… we’ve heard them screaming near our property at night. But we’ve never actually seen them in our yard until this morning.
any predator of porcupines has to be tough. always thought wolverines and badgers were toughies until i learned about these guys.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) released a plan Monday for schools to reopen based on the regional level of coronavirus infection rates.
“Everyone wants to reopen the schools. I want to reopen the schools, everybody wants to reopen the schools,” Cuomo said during a briefing. “It’s not, do we reopen or not. You reopen if it’s safe to reopen. How do you know it’s safe? You look at the data.”
Schools will reopen if a region is in the state’s phase four of reopening and if the daily infection rate remains below 5 percent over a 14-day average by the first week of August, the governor said. Schools will close if the regional infection rate is greater than 9 percent during a seven-day average.
“We’re not going to use our children as a litmus test and we’re not going to put our children in a place where their health is in danger,” Cuomo said. “It’s that simple, common sense and intelligence can still determine what we do even in this crazy environment. We’re not going to use our children as guinea pigs.”
[…]
Cuomo also slammed Trump’s push for schools to reopen.
“He was wrong on the economic reopening. He’s wrong on the schools reopening,” the governor said Monday.
Fisher cat – heck I lived there in central NH for 6 years literally on the edge of the White Mountains Nat’l Forest and never heard of it, my dog never ran across one (or vice versa), etc.
TT, also having been involved in education up and down the spectrum from KG – grad and law school, and having worked in all the HS & up settings, I think you’re proposing a great idea.
You may know the fisher by another name – sable. They’re like martins on growth hormone.
It’s all about election and staying out of prison.
If there are a M!LL!ON kids sick w/c19, 10 M!LL!ON sick adults, and two M!LL!ON dead, trump can use it as an excuse to call off the election. Then, he can claim that the House isn’t legitimate, because we haven’t had an election. Then he can claim marshal law, and presidency for life , which the repub Senate will ratify.
I’d take my chances w/a fisher, but not with a wolverine. I’ve seen large brown bears, so big that they could hunt down elk, moose, bison or other brown bears, give a wolverine wide berth.
Ole Wolverine is the bigger, badder brother of Honey Badger.
Sables? That’s a different animal than Fisher Cats from what little I know about these things (Wiki) – Sables (mustelid family, in the genus martes, Species M. zibellina) native to Russia and Fishers (mustelid family, in the monospecific genus Pekania, species P. Pennanti) are native to North America. I don’t know what any of that really means but to me it sounds like “close, but no cigar). Interestingly enough, Fishers are not cats although they are called Fisher Cats.
One of the minor league baseball teams for the Toronto Blue Jays is located in Manchester, NH… the team is called The Fisher Cats. Unfortunately their entire season (along with all minor league teams) has been cancelled this year due to Covid.
Porcupines or ‘pines is a fair name. When I was a boy we learned that porcupines were easy prey in that they were slow moving and could be smacked to death with a fallen branch. For those reasons they were set aside as survival fare for people lost or stranded in northern woods. This was many years before handheld comm devices. It was back in the days when people would leave their summer cabins unlocked when leaving in the autumn but stocked with survival food, etc..
I’ve been thinking about nevertrumpers such as Lincoln Project and wondering if they’re really making a difference other than delighting Trump haters. They might be stiffening marginal Trump supporters who could be pulled away from him. I dunno. People don’t like to be told they made a mistake, tends to make them dig in.
xrep – Maybe no election is what Orange Julius is after. Tomorrow is the run-off election here; it was postponed from March, because things were supposed to be better now.
They’ve reduced the number of polling places because they don’t have enough folks brave enough to man them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone at polling place here who is under 60 or so.
Craig -It gets them a bit out of the Faux Noise echo chamber, and, it’s coming from Republicans, not Dems. Some may be too willfully ignorant to listen, but it’s better than doing nothing/letting tRUMPco control the narrative, unfettered.
I’d prefer softer ads for how Trump sadly failed good Americans who hoped he would make their lives better. He wouldn’t know how to deal with that. Hate for him he can handle.
The new name is The Native Americans
Just like Thelonius Monk was known as a “Piano Cat”.
I don’t advise restraint. July, Aug, Sept, October.
Well, maybe softer ads would get to voters on the fence. Nothing will get to the racist asshats. I’m not sure if softer ads would hold any sway with Evangelicals or not. So many are just racists hiding behind Jesus, plus, that’s also a large block of science-deniers.
It will be interesting to see if the lefty, anti-vaxxers will get behind a COVID vaccine, or, if they will join the right-wingnuts on that issue.
They are getting under tRUMP’s rind, though. Maybe he’ll blow his top and tweet something blatantly incriminating in a fit of rage.
If the ads are really mean, stinging and funny, they might appeal to people who like their president to make fun of a disabled guy.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/wine-countrys-farmworkers-are-staying-healthy-against-all-odds/
As with education (TT’s idea), everyone pitching in to fill the gaps works better than the healthcare system we have in place now, which is inaccessible to many. This is a patchwork system that seems to work for a community of workers. Masks in February! They did a great job of providing PPE and bilingual messaging on COVID.
re lincoln pro crowd: at least they find a way to get relevant to news of day ads in timely manner on fox news. even if it’s just a minute or few seconds, it’s good for that audience to be exposed to a taste of truthiness. it also maddens the mad man which is a worthy goal in itself.
flatus, yeah i’ve heard that about porcupines as a last resort food supply. it wasn’t the killing by the fisher cat that impressed me it was how he managed to escape the multi-impalement in the process and in the eating of same… good source of toothpicks tho.
as i understand it, just like with a shark (don’t try this theory out), all one needs to do is hit porcupines in the nose to do them in. at least it gets their attention if nothing else. i think i would only try that method with a very very long pole 🙂
A New York judge on Monday lifted a temporary restraining order preventing Mary Trump from discussing her forthcoming tell-all book about her uncle President Trump and their family on the eve of the memoir’s release.
Judge Hal Greenwald of the Dutchess County Supreme Court denied Robert Trump’s bid for a preliminary injunction preventing Mary Trump or her publisher, Simon & Schuster, from publishing or distributing “Too Much Is Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
The development marked a win for the president’s niece and a loss for his brother, who filed multiple lawsuits to block the release on the grounds that Mary Trump was violating a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) signed by members of the Trump family. It will allow Mary Trump to promote her book when it hits bookshelves on Tuesday.
I think you hit the fat bastard with harshly critical ads, softly critical ads, comic ads and factuaL ads. And blanket the fucking airwaves and cable outlets. Shoot for everyone.
Yeah, throw the entire pot of spaghetti at the wall. Some of it will surely stick.
“Parents have to get back to the factory. They’ve got to get back to the job site. They have to get back to the office. And part of that is their kids, knowing their kids are taken care of.”
[Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar]
is he talking about schools or day care centers?
In the alternative universe in which SFB lives, along with his cult, the inhabitants lack several human traits. Thinking, loving and empathy are not part of that world. Murdering fourteen thousand children normally means something and normal people would not do that.
From prior link – Bink, Mnuchin was executive producer (money man) for all but 1 of the films he was credited – Rules Don’t Apply – in which he also acted as a banker. Didn’t see that one? You’re in good company. His film involvement was as a financier.
SFB puts 1. the reopening of the economy above 2. the safety of our kids. DeVoss ranks them as 1. Economy, 2. Kids in private schools, 3. Kids in public schools and cockroaches.
The DeVos family does have a history of killing off “the little people”. Eric Prince is still all cuddly with the Trump family. This article from 2016 is fairly interesting.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-under-federal-investigation/
Speaking of DeVoss, James Downie has a nice piece at WaPo this morning about this idiot aptly titled
Betsy DeVos wants you to ignore reality
Heartless morons.
it’s the teachers and the bus drivers and the school nurses and the cafeteria servers and the janitors and the crossing guards as well as the kids and their families.
There has been an explosion of COVID in daycare centers in TX. Schools are like small cities in large, metropolitan areas like DFW. How is this going to work? It isn’t. Not without sickening many teachers, support staff, students, and, parents. Some new thinking is needed. We can’t keep doing things the old way. The virus will see to that.
Honest Abe is now a RINO.
Him and Ike.
newsweek:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-fauci-disagrees-with-trump-on-virus-white-house-takes-aim/ar-BB16EzA5?ocid=msedgntp
BiD – please post a link to the daycare stats in TX.
Yup… it’s about the teachers and daycare workers. Without them mommy can’t get back to work. And that affects the e-c-o-n-o-m-y.
Bink… of course not everyone’s motivated to do what they do because of money. You don’t have to look at Mother Teresa or the Dali Lama…. you nailed it when you said to look at ordinary people. But we weren’t talking about ordinary people. We were discussing what motivates some Gop governors to open up their states in the middle of a raging pandemic. So let me spell it out again…. t-h-e e-c-0-n-o-m-y.
This is the picture of a fisher cat. They are predators and eat small animals including lots of house cats. This morning we had papa fisher, mama fisher, and baby fisher in our front yard. So glad my cats are indoor cats only.
Sure, the economy. Or, they’re homicidal maniacs. 🤷♂️
All B. Devos cares about is destroying public education. This is just another opportunity for her.
She is the perfect example of a dumb bitch.
back to school…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/06/health/texas-coronavirus-cases-child-care-facilities/index.html
Pogo – The numbers are higher now; TX daycares from last week.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/13/greg-abbott-critics-texas-coronavirus/
Abbott sees that tRUMP’s a loser, so he’s decided not to back down from the science-deniers in the TX GOP.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/13/texas-supreme-court-gop-convention/
The TX SC has saved GoOPerz from themselves.
BiD, thanks for the numbers. What that tells me is that on average 1 1/2 people in each day care center Is infected. We can’t tell whether it’s going from the kids to the teachers or down from the teachers to the kids. Or it could be some combination of the two. Regardless, It’s spreading in daycare centers. It will do the same in schools.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/us/coronavirus-no-childcare-working-parents-wellness/index.html
Even if you want to send your kid to daycare, there may not be an opening. Millions of latchkey kids? Maybe, the virus will get us to live in family groups so the grandparents can be home with the kids while the parents work. You know, they way things used to be done.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-austin-texas-child-care-day-care-cases-update/269-49ec5dcf-d3d2-4c36-811a-59b1c1c2837b
Pogo – That was as of last Monday. By Friday, it exceeded 1,700.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/12/politics/texas-swing-state-2020-election-polls/index.html
Well, how about that!
patd, let’s face it. Even though parents pay for schools through their taxes, they always think of school as free child/day care which is what Azar is alluding to.
The “Traitor in a Mask” ad is good. But all of these ads without a voice over are losing all the visually impaired people, blind people, and dyslexic people. Same with some of The Lincoln Project’s ads that quickly whip through a lot of image. In the US there about 4 million people with dyslexia and 12 million who are visually impaired including legally blind. They vote.
And there are about 48 million hearing impaired including deaf and old folks (mostly men) who lose hearing due to blasting music in their cars when they were young. They vote.
Love that VoteVets ad.
Having been in education, all levels, for hundreds of years, here’s my idea. Public schools should start in January – save everyone’s life and put everyone out of their anxiety induced misery. In the meantime, to reduce, but not totally eliminate the risk – because this is a freakin’ VIRUS, parents could group together to have their kids go to one house to do their virtual lessons and have supervision on the order of a one room school house like the olden daze. It’d be even better if the parent is a teacher of some variety. All should still wear masks and maintain physical distance. The thing is, short of everyone just staying home except for food, drugs, etc., there’s risk. The parents of those kids will be working here, there, and everywhere and, again, risk being exposed to the virus, giving it to their kids, and exposing the other kids in the little group.
In as much as this is a worldwide PANDEMIC, it’s not going to matter in 10 or 20 years if they weren’t in school for a regular school day for awhile. Weighing this against the kids getting the virus and the unknown long term effects or getting the even worse COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome known as the Kawasaki -like Syndrome and the unknown long term, effects of that, missing a little school doesn’t even compare.
Of course, there’s still, and it seems always, the poverty, digital divide issue.
RR, didn’t know about the fisher cat. You must live far north.
Interesting news out of the TX Supreme Court. Good luck with those follow-on lawsuits given the 7-1 ruling.
And that CNN article on TX being a swing state mentions Florida and Arizona, but seems to have missed Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all of which SFB won in 2016 are in Biden +6 land. And unless there are changes in the wind that I’m not noticing, I can see a net 5 point Senate pickup for Dems – of the 8 top senate races RCP lists, only Cornyn in TX leads his Dem opponent.
Today is what would have been Paul Prudhomme’s 80th birthday. I once saw him fry bacon in butter.
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Pogo, mabbe the TX Supremes have some common sense, after all?
renee, one early morning i saw one of those critters once which is rare this far south anymore. maybe they’re making a come back. they have a creepy scream described like someone screeching in distress. that plus coyotes can really scare visitors not used to the the night sounds in the boonies.
here’s a sample from online.
TT… I live in southern NH… right on the Massachusetts border… in a beautiful region called the Monadnock region. We’ve seen lone fisher cats from time to time crossing the road down a piece. Yeah patd… we’ve heard them screaming near our property at night. But we’ve never actually seen them in our yard until this morning.
any predator of porcupines has to be tough. always thought wolverines and badgers were toughies until i learned about these guys.
the hill:
Fisher cat – heck I lived there in central NH for 6 years literally on the edge of the White Mountains Nat’l Forest and never heard of it, my dog never ran across one (or vice versa), etc.
TT, also having been involved in education up and down the spectrum from KG – grad and law school, and having worked in all the HS & up settings, I think you’re proposing a great idea.
You may know the fisher by another name – sable. They’re like martins on growth hormone.
It’s all about election and staying out of prison.
If there are a M!LL!ON kids sick w/c19, 10 M!LL!ON sick adults, and two M!LL!ON dead, trump can use it as an excuse to call off the election. Then, he can claim that the House isn’t legitimate, because we haven’t had an election. Then he can claim marshal law, and presidency for life , which the repub Senate will ratify.
I’d take my chances w/a fisher, but not with a wolverine. I’ve seen large brown bears, so big that they could hunt down elk, moose, bison or other brown bears, give a wolverine wide berth.
Ole Wolverine is the bigger, badder brother of Honey Badger.
Sables? That’s a different animal than Fisher Cats from what little I know about these things (Wiki) – Sables (mustelid family, in the genus martes, Species M. zibellina) native to Russia and Fishers (mustelid family, in the monospecific genus Pekania, species P. Pennanti) are native to North America. I don’t know what any of that really means but to me it sounds like “close, but no cigar). Interestingly enough, Fishers are not cats although they are called Fisher Cats.
One of the minor league baseball teams for the Toronto Blue Jays is located in Manchester, NH… the team is called The Fisher Cats. Unfortunately their entire season (along with all minor league teams) has been cancelled this year due to Covid.
Porcupines or ‘pines is a fair name. When I was a boy we learned that porcupines were easy prey in that they were slow moving and could be smacked to death with a fallen branch. For those reasons they were set aside as survival fare for people lost or stranded in northern woods. This was many years before handheld comm devices. It was back in the days when people would leave their summer cabins unlocked when leaving in the autumn but stocked with survival food, etc..
I’ve been thinking about nevertrumpers such as Lincoln Project and wondering if they’re really making a difference other than delighting Trump haters. They might be stiffening marginal Trump supporters who could be pulled away from him. I dunno. People don’t like to be told they made a mistake, tends to make them dig in.
xrep – Maybe no election is what Orange Julius is after. Tomorrow is the run-off election here; it was postponed from March, because things were supposed to be better now.
They’ve reduced the number of polling places because they don’t have enough folks brave enough to man them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone at polling place here who is under 60 or so.
Craig -It gets them a bit out of the Faux Noise echo chamber, and, it’s coming from Republicans, not Dems. Some may be too willfully ignorant to listen, but it’s better than doing nothing/letting tRUMPco control the narrative, unfettered.
I’d prefer softer ads for how Trump sadly failed good Americans who hoped he would make their lives better. He wouldn’t know how to deal with that. Hate for him he can handle.
The new name is The Native Americans
Just like Thelonius Monk was known as a “Piano Cat”.
I don’t advise restraint. July, Aug, Sept, October.
Well, maybe softer ads would get to voters on the fence. Nothing will get to the racist asshats. I’m not sure if softer ads would hold any sway with Evangelicals or not. So many are just racists hiding behind Jesus, plus, that’s also a large block of science-deniers.
It will be interesting to see if the lefty, anti-vaxxers will get behind a COVID vaccine, or, if they will join the right-wingnuts on that issue.
They are getting under tRUMP’s rind, though. Maybe he’ll blow his top and tweet something blatantly incriminating in a fit of rage.
If the ads are really mean, stinging and funny, they might appeal to people who like their president to make fun of a disabled guy.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/wine-countrys-farmworkers-are-staying-healthy-against-all-odds/
As with education (TT’s idea), everyone pitching in to fill the gaps works better than the healthcare system we have in place now, which is inaccessible to many. This is a patchwork system that seems to work for a community of workers. Masks in February! They did a great job of providing PPE and bilingual messaging on COVID.
re lincoln pro crowd: at least they find a way to get relevant to news of day ads in timely manner on fox news. even if it’s just a minute or few seconds, it’s good for that audience to be exposed to a taste of truthiness. it also maddens the mad man which is a worthy goal in itself.
flatus, yeah i’ve heard that about porcupines as a last resort food supply. it wasn’t the killing by the fisher cat that impressed me it was how he managed to escape the multi-impalement in the process and in the eating of same… good source of toothpicks tho.
as i understand it, just like with a shark (don’t try this theory out), all one needs to do is hit porcupines in the nose to do them in. at least it gets their attention if nothing else. i think i would only try that method with a very very long pole 🙂
the hill:
I think you hit the fat bastard with harshly critical ads, softly critical ads, comic ads and factuaL ads. And blanket the fucking airwaves and cable outlets. Shoot for everyone.
Yeah, throw the entire pot of spaghetti at the wall. Some of it will surely stick.
Another day, another meme.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/delayed-use-defense-production-act-ppe-shortages/index.html
Running out of PPE.
Chuck’s probably due for a medal from SFB, now.
Hmmmm. Not very many years ago Woolery was supporting ACA. Maybe he injured his head.
Mr Pogo,
Thanks for the clarification on fishers & sables.
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