Bring Out Your Dead

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta finds the data on how Trump’s rallies spread the virus.

How are Trump’s rallies going? Wednesday night Omaha crowd stranded in freezing weather, hospitalized for hypothermia. Yesterday Tampa firefighters hosed down crowd suffering heat exhaustion, some hospitalized. NC rally last night canceled amidst reports of virus outbreak from a recent NC rally.

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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  4. lyrics to above by Stephen Taberner provided by parody project

    We do not speak your name
    Not whisper, not shout
    Not bandy it about

    We do not speak your name
    Because it hurts our mouths, like poison, like dirt

    We do not speak your name
    We do not advertise your brand
    We do not strengthen your hand

    There is a thunderous sound you love to hear
    Part made of worship, part of fear
    You wish to hear it all day long
    But we do not sing that song
    We do not speak your name

    You would cut us into pieces with your knives
    But there is no them
    Only us
    Even you are one of us
    We see what you do

    We do not speak your name
    We’d rather squeeze you like a boil
    You are just the symptom
    Not the disease

    But all things change
    And the time for change is always now

    Until the ink on your final page has dried,
    Until the echo of your final lie has died,
    ’Til history’s verdict is signed and certified
    We do not speak your name
    We do not speak your name

  6. So old man, HD introduced their first electric motorcycle this year at a cool $28k and now appears to be returning to their roots of motorizing a bicycle, this time electrically. Be interesting to see what the bicycle costs. 

  9. Culling the herd.   If the cult of personality is stronger than their most basic survival instinct, well, they brought it in themselves.

  11. wonder if this isn’t the only place where D’ump impatiently tells a woman to hurry up about coming?

    NYTimes:

    All Mr. Trump had to do in Goodyear, Ariz., was introduce Ms. McSally, a fellow Republican, and smile when she offered a unity pitch. No go.
    After starting by saying she was “respected by everybody,” he instantly proved that she was not. “Martha, come up just fast! Fast! Fast! Come on. Quick! You got one minute!” he shouted, as some, but not all, in the crowd laughed. “One minute, Martha! They don’t want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let’s go. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Come on. Let’s go.”

    but the times didn’t quote her 1st anxiously rushed words “I’m coming. thank you …” which brought that odd idea of mine to mind. 

  12. by the way, just earlier on same stage same rally D’ump took time introducing and canoodling with sens rant paul and mike lee – no rushing them on and off the stage even tho they aren’t up for reelection there in arizona

  13. also from the times’ best of late night today:

    ‘Too Afraid to Hope’
    Late-night hosts were skeptical of the latest polls Thursday night. With just five days left before Election Day, Stephen Colbert and others were too nervous to be optimistic about Joe Biden’s sizable lead in red states like Wisconsin and Minnesota.
    […]
    “Experts say that we need hope for the future to help ward off this anxiety. However, some Americans say they’re too afraid to hope. This is likely a protective mechanism in response to the 2016 election. It feels like we’re all Charlie Brown going to kick the football, but we know at the last second Lucy’s gonna give us coronavirus.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
    [continues]

  14. There are multiple reports that SFB cancelled plans to celebrate Tuesday night at the Old Post Office, instead celebrating at the WH.  Does it know something we don’t know?  Also a political group which covers down ballot races is predicting a Dem blowout.

  16. I read so many British authors that I use “Grey”, but it is the same as “Gray”.  

    Grey and gray are two different spellings of the same word. Gray is more common in the U.S., while grey is more common in other English-speaking countries. In proper names—like Earl Grey tea and the unit Gray, among others—the spelling stays the same, and they need to be memorized.

  17. Sturgeone – that is a question I have had going back to those days of the desk with a hole for the ink bottle.  I used “grey” until I was docked on a class lesson for not using “gray”.  Since that horrible day I have struggled with it.  Although referring to a color, a blend of white and black, I was given further instruction that if it is the color, use “grey”.  If it is the mood use “gray”.  Although my knowledge of proper English is limited to scientific usage, I find little comfort knowing the stupid word is spelled both ways no matter what.

  21. Dems are going to need a blow-out to compensate for all the ballots that Rethuglicans are actively trying to get thrown out.
     
    #team”grey”

  22. Knew a Native American bass player in Nashville by name of Jimmie Sam Grey.  Thats him singing harmony with Townes VZ on “Send Me Dead Flowers” at the end of “The Big Lebowski“ as the credits roll.

  24. i don’t think i ever really saw the “gray” spelling, in print, until the internet became widely popular, and people who couldn’t spell were given a platform.🤷‍♂️

  26. Jimmy Sam doin’ some great high backup there…good tune…or was he only on the movie soundtrack?

  27. Go out in the cold and wait for the 2d coming of donald trump, your messiah and savior.
     
    his second coming is just around the corner. 
     
    There’ll be free paper towels.

  28. saying much the same as jamie and BB have said, there’s also this from onlineblog spellcheck.com on the issue:

    Interestingly, it seems that there indeed is a difference in color perception when it comes to grey and gray. Findings of a survey had actually showed that people imagine grey as a hue of silver whilst gray is perceived as the scale between black and white.
    When it comes to the aforementioned dog breed, however, the “grey” part of the Greyhound does not refer to the dog’s color. According to several etymological findings, grey rather stems from an Old Norse word for a female dog, “bitch”.

    Grey or gray

     

    that tidbit of etymology gives another shade to consider in “50 shades of grey”

  29. That was recorded live in 1980 at Springwater, close to the Parthenon in Nashville.   Some semi-pros came in with good recording equipment and got the whole night. You can also hear Danny “Ruester” Rowland playing guitar, Jimmie Sam on bass.  Coens got ahold of it somewhere to use for the movie.  I have a cassette tape of later when the whole band joined in.
    Everyone was quite drunk.

  30. NYTimes:

    A presidential election that has driven a nation to drink is being fought to the bitter end by two men who do not.
    For the first time in modern history, both major party candidates for the White House are teetotalers. President Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., have not had an alcoholic drink over the course of their lives, by their own accounts.
    This Teetotaler Campaign, and the fact that this circumstance has drawn so little notice, is to some extent evidence of how the once hard-drinking culture of politics is changing. Candidates, campaign aides and reporters are drinking less, aware of the scrutiny that comes in the age of cellphones and Twitter, not to mention the nonstop demands of a round-the-clock campaign.
    But it also goes to the way Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump, for all their stark differences, share some similarities in character and background, according to biographers and others who have observed them over the years. They each grew up in families shadowed by the specter of alcoholism — Mr. Trump’s brother died from it, and one of Mr. Biden’s favorite uncles, whom he lived with growing up, was a heavy drinker.
    […]
    Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump rarely discuss their non-drinking ways, much less present their abstinence as any kind of virtue. Mr. Trump once joked about it as he noted he had never had a glass of alcohol in his life. “Can you imagine if I had?” he asked. “What a mess I would be.”
    There have been presidents over the centuries who practiced abstinence — Rutherford B. Hayes, William H. Harrison and George W. Bush — as well as presidents who loved their cocktails, among them Richard M. Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and Martin Van Buren, or Blue Whiskey Van as he came to be known. Mr. Bush stopped on his 40th birthday because he decided he was drinking too much, though his father, George H.W. Bush, was known to enjoy a martini at day’s end. Jimmy Carter kept a dry White House, which added to his reputation as being strait-laced (and no doubt sapped some of the fun out of state dinners).
    [continues]

  31. so joe must really literally not figuratively believe in the transfiguration/transubstantiation of communion wine if he thinks he’s never had an alcoholic drink.   interesting. 

  32. the guardian:

    US unions have begun discussing the idea of a general strike if Donald Trump refuses to accept an election result showing a Joe Biden victory.
    Such a move would be unprecedented in the modern era. There has not been a general strike in the United States since 1946 – and that was restricted to Oakland, California.
    The local labor federation in Rochester, New York, was the first union group to officially support the idea. Union federations in Seattle and in western Massachusetts have followed suit, approving resolutions saying a general strike should be considered if Trump seeks to subvert the election outcome.
    Dan Maloney, president of the Rochester-Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, said his 100,000-member group adopted the resolution to get people discussing the idea – from local unions to the AFL-CIO, the nation’s main labor federation which represents more than 12.5 million people.
    On 8 October, the Rochester federation voted to support preparing for and holding “a general strike of all working people, if necessary, to ensure a constitutionally mandated peaceful transition of power as a result of the 2020 presidential elections”. The union leaders voted to stand “firmly in opposition to any effort to subvert, distort, misrepresent or disregard the final outcome” of the election.
    The Rochester move spurred discussion and debate of a possible general strike in union after union, even though some labor leaders see it as a drastic, hard-to-pull-off action. “The idea has gotten a lot more legs than I ever thought it would,” Maloney told the Guardian. “Our democracy is in jeopardy of a wannabe dictator. It’s time to be counted and do whatever it takes to remove him from office if he attempts to retain power against the will of the American people.”
    Maloney acknowledged that a general strike would be an extraordinary measure. “In drastic times, you need drastic measures,” he said.
    The Rochester federation’s resolution states: “The extreme risk currently posed to the historic institutions of democracy in our nation may require more widespread and vigorous resistance than at any time in recent history.”
    Maloney said that in a 22 October call with labor leaders, Richard Trumka, the AFL-CIO’s president, stressed that until 3 November, unions should overwhelmingly focus on maximizing voter turnout for Biden. After that, Trumka said, unions can focus on what to do if Trump resists a peaceful transition.
    The AFL-CIO’s executive council, approved a resolution on 19 October saying: “Democracies are not, in the last analysis, protected by judges or lawyers, reporters or publishers. The survival of democracy depends on the determination of working people to defend it. And America’s labor movement is indeed determined to defend our democratic republic.”
    [continues]

  33. A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Puerto Rico. We must never forget Donald Trump’s inactions led to the loss of over 3000 American lives. Thank you, Marc Anthony for being a voice for the Puerto Rican community and a #LincolnLatino.

  34. NBCnews about the above LP ad:

    Just days before Election Day, a new ad has Latin music singer Marc Anthony urging over 4 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. who are of voting age “to send Trump a clear message. … I urge all of you to join me and vote him out.”
    “We remember the lies. We remember the disrespect. We remember you left too many of us to die,” the Puerto Rican artist said, in reference to Hurricane Maria, the deadliest U.S.-based natural disaster in 100 years, which led to the deaths of at least 2,975 people in 2017.
    The ad is from the Lincoln Project, a political action committee of former Republicans opposed to President Donald Trump and working to elect Joe Biden. In addressing Puerto Ricans, the ad is targeting a growing voting bloc in key battleground states such as Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio that has seen a steep rise in Puerto Ricans who have left the island.
    “Puerto Ricans came together to rebuild because we are strong and resilient. Puerto Ricans deserve better than Trump because we are better than Trump, better than his contempt, better than his neglect, better than his lies,” said Anthony in the ad.
    The ad seeks to remind Puerto Ricans of when Trump opposed granting more disaster aid to the island after the hurricane and when he suggested selling Puerto Rico in exchange for Greenland, according to a former administration official.
    “Time and again, we have found that the most persuasive arguments to make against Donald Trump are to simply use his own words against him,” Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson told NBC News in a statement, adding they are “grateful to Marc Anthony for lending his voice to this powerful ad and helping us make a powerful closing statement.”
    [continues]

  35. Can you just imagine what a documentary on the trumpity presidency will look like? From russians in the oval Office to……….injecting bleach to…..oh god.

  37. At Michigan rally today Trump made fun of FOX host Laura Ingraham who was there wearing a mask, “Is that you? I don’t recognize you. I’ve never seen you in a mask. She’s so politically correct”

  38. This needs to end on Election Day. I’m sick of trump and he needs to be gone .  We need a giant landslide on Tuesday.  And Goopers should not encourage challenges

  40. If the only thing you did was watch the videos on this post today, there’s no way a decent person could consider that man anything but a jerk, a pig, a self-serving creep.

  42. So does that mean I need to vote again on Tuesday? I already voted early, so should I also vote often?

  45. In states where Trump plans to claim victory with only Election Day totals released (before mail ballots counted) can officials legally decide they won’t report any results until all the votes are counted?

  48. Ms 21, This disappearing act was pioneered by MN mis-Representative vin weber. He got married after his election and the amount of missing money matched the cost of his luxurious honeymoon in Hawai’i. He refused to prosecute the alleged embezzler, saying SHE was troubled and seeking treatment. 
     
    Gotta blame it on a woman, y’know. 

  49. I should say, vin, who came from lower middle class people, had just gotten through school on loans, and had never worked a day in his life. But he had $10GRAND in cash to blow on a honeymoon.

  51. Ivanka Trump Declares She Is ‘Unapologetically’ ‘Pro-Life’ For The First Time
     

    Ivanka Trump, a self-styled empowerer of women, has come forth to “unapologetically” state her opposition to abortion, reportedly the first time she has explicitly done so — the claim, which undermines her efforts to aid women’s development, comes mere days before multitudes of anti-abortion voters are expected to turn out in support of her father, president Donald Trump, as he faces off in an election against Democrat Joe Biden.

  53. Meme:
    picture of guy wearing t-shirt sporting confederate flag and the words: “Try burning THIS flag!”
    below that picture is a pic of General Sherman, with the caption:   “Again?!?”

  63. Latest Fox News poll:

    @JoeBiden +10 w/seniors; +22 w/Independents; +18 in the suburbs.

    @realDonaldTrump carried them ALL in ‘16.

    And Trump’s lead among white voters? Just 6 points! He won them by 20 four years ago.

  64. Alas, Mr Pogo, the turtles came back and beat the Gophers by a point. 
     
    I don’t think we’ll be playing the Tide this year.

  66. When these sports people endorse trump, all i read is, “Hi, everyone, I’m a moron, in case you didn’t know”.

  67. “Hi, everyone, your favorite has-been athlete, here, just letting you know that even though i’m completely ignorant of current events in my wealthy, insulated lifestyle, i support the racist crook, ‘cuz ‘Merica”.

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