deSantis’ Little Helpers

No happy elves in sight, only GOPer grinches and gremlins.

Whereas, jolly ol’ St. Joe has an elf on the shelf to guide us through the plight.

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  1. replay of jimmy kimmel’s production last year

    In addition to new warnings from the CDC, the National Institute of Health is turning to private industry to help keep safety at top of mind this holiday season. Introducing Fauci on a Couchi!

    kimmel needs to do a sequel for 2021 

  2. for those who missed it last week, here’s SNL’s doc fauci

    Dr. Anthony Fauci (Kate McKinnon) delivers a special holiday message about the Omicron variant with help from members of the CDC (Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Pete Davidson, Mikey Day, Melissa Villaseñor, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, Andrew Dismukes, Sarah Sherman).

  3. even the judiciary gets its turn

    Need a Laugh? Cobb County Judge Drafts Order Banning Elf on the Shelf | Law.com

     

     
     
     
     
     
     

     
    Judge Rob Leonard
     
    @JudgeLeonard
    Tired of living in Elf on the Shelf tyranny? Not looking forward to the Elf forgetting to move and causing your kids emotional distress? I am a public servant and will take the heat for you. My gift to tired parents. P.S. – If you love your elf, keep your elf. No contempts.
     
     

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    1:12 PM · Nov 4, 2021 from Marietta, GATwitter for iPad

     
     

  4. judiciary also weighed in on the vaccine mandate

    the hill:

    A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses with at least 100 employees, a measure that impacts tens of millions of workers across the country.

    The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit comes after the Biden administration asked the Cincinnati-based court in late November to reinstate its workplace vaccine mandate that was blocked by a court order. 

    The appeals court said in its Friday ruling that “based on the wealth of information” in its 153-page preamble that explains why the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an emergency temporary standard, “it is difficult to imagine what more OSHA could do or rely on to justify its finding that workers face a grave danger in the workplace.”

    “It is not appropriate to second-guess that agency determination considering the substantial evidence, including many peer-reviewed scientific studies, on which it relied. Indeed, OSHA need not demonstrate scientific certainty,” the court continued.

    The court said that it would be dissolving a stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in November as a result. 

    “OSHA has demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers—unvaccinated workers in particular—in their workplaces,” the court said in its ruling.

    [continues]

  5. I don’t think dissentus has the goods required for the long haul.   He’s just a bit much too much.
    haha…..Didius Julianus’ days were numbered.

  6. I’m also thinking that the tide is turning against that bunch of yokels and crackers and the money-persons who drive them like a truck.   It’s just too much stupid concentrated in one spot for much too long;  but as the blind man said to his deaf daughter, “We shall see”.

  9. Well Sturg, I hope the tide turns soon. Maybe that herd thinning thing Bob mentioned last night will help.

  11. It all started when the ex-half gov of Alaska gave evangelicals, gun nuts and others a figurehead to coalesce around.   She’s not needed anymore, either, try as she might to stay in the alt-right limelight.

  12. “Weak mind” just means hateful, in this case.  Plenty of educated folks are on board with this movement.  They don’t feel used, because it’s what they want.

  13. It is hard not to get depressed over the state of the current iteration of the GOP.  That much stupid bolstered by that much greed and lust for power feels like a ten-ton crushing weight on democracy and our ability to live in a decent and cooperative society.  

     

  15. I wonder how Craig is feeling?   I hurt everywhere and have a slight fever, but not as bad as last time…so far.

  16. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/582917-orourke-seizes-on-texas-power-grid-in-bid-against-abbott

    “O’Rourke’s campaign will specifically seek to hammer the governor over those price increases, calling it an “Abbott tax.”

    “He said that if O’Rourke is elected, he would move toward “securing the grid in a way that the Abbott administration has not,” look at “rolling back” price increases and determine additional ways to “fully weatherize” it.“

    In Dallas, it will be 80 degrees on Christmas. December isn’t February, though.

  17. Pogo – thinning the herd is a good term to use.  Right now almost 1300 die each day.  Probably 1240 of them are unvaccinated, which is probably around 1100 are the anti-Democracy party voters.  That alone should be a kick in the teeth to gqp to get its act to change to “get vaxxed”  (all numbers except daily deaths are SWAG) 

  18. You got Moderna, right, BiD?
     
    i got Pfizer, same effects all 3 times: moderately sore arm, slight wooziness that passed relatively quickly

  19. Never forget these anti-vax nouveau-nazis are only 25% of the population, of course concentrated higher regionally
     
    25%, driving the narrative, undermining the rest of us 

  20. I got Moderna and I had no ill effects all 3 times! Out of all my client’s minimal side effects. My friend in Australia is now a bat shit crazy right-winger. Not sure how it happened? He now goes to stop the lockdown rallies. Anti mask and anti-vax. Tells me so many around him aren’t right and suffer lingering health problems due to the vaccine. 

  23. There’s obviously a genetic component of vulnerability to covid, and i wonder if something in the British gene pool makes them more susceptible, because they are getting rocked by it, and have been, every wave

  24. Hey Bink
    Yes, it’s been distressing. Thankfully, I only WhatsApp with him now. I’d never visit him in Australia now cause we wouldn’t get along. I told him it’s really good we don’t even talk on the WhatsApp phone, lol

  25. Rick and I had Pzifer 3 times…   just slightly sore arms.
     
    Tony…  we have a similar friend.  He’s not a Trumper…  but has gone anti-government because of going down rabbit holes on the internet.
     
    It’s snowing here….   it’s sooooo pretty!

  26. Yes, Moderna.  I had trouble with the second one, too; it was much worse than this one.  Giving up a Saturday is a small price to pay.  

    My aunt (by blood) got Moderna. No problems except a little headache and a little achy. My cousins (so 25% of the same DNA), got Pfizer and didn’t have issues other than a sore arm and a little headache.

    I had a terrible reaction to the pneumonia shot several years ago, too.

    My uncle (by marriage) had a reaction to Moderna, as did my cousin’s husband to Pfizer.

    My brother has had zero reaction, as he refuses to get vaxxed and still refuses to believe it’s a big deal. The difference between him and the rest of my very Republican family: he listens to alt-right radio.

  27. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/politics/white-house-omicron-warning-joe-biden/index.html

    I don’t know what the vax numbers are in the UK, but it’s north and darker (less vitamin D); colder already, so they’re gathering inside more; maybe poorer/older ventilation systems in buildings.

    They did say blood type might impact severity when this began, and that some blood type was most susceptible to severe impact. That would track with the UK, too, if that turned out to be valid.

  28. perhaps it’s time to name & begin calling out the willingly UNvaxed.  we need a really derogative but catchy epithet.  typhoid mary (wiki: Today, the phrase “Typhoid Mary” is a colloquial term for anyone who, knowingly or not, spreads disease or some other undesirable thing) just doesn’t ring the right alarm bell anymore.

    am glad media are finally covering quotes like:

    [from NYpost]

    President Biden sounded like he’d been watching “Game of Thrones” as he warned Thursday that the unvaccinated “will soon overwhelm” US hospitals and vaccine refusers will experience “a winter of severe illness and death.”

    “It’s here now and it’s spreading and it’s going to increase,” Biden said of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 at the White House, seated near his chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci.

    “For [the] unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families and the hospitals they will soon overwhelm,” Biden said.  [continues]

    [and from abc via msn]

    The White House’s chief coordinator for the U.S. coronavirus response has a strong warning for unvaccinated Americans ahead of a projected surge in cases over the next few weeks.

    If you’re vaccinated, “we’ve done the right thing, and we will get through this,” White House COVID coordinator Jeff Zients said.

    “For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.”

    plus headlines need to be changed to focus on the number of hospitalizations & deaths instead of just the number of infections. emphasizing that 90% or more of these are the unvaccinated and maybe the other 10% wouldn’t have been hospitalized or dead had it not been for the unvaxed who exposed them.

  29. BiD, they say that a reaction is a good indication the vax has taken.  look on the bright side that maybe your discomfort indicates you are even better protected.

  33. PatD – Moderna is a higher dose than Pfizer.  Even the booster is a higher dose than the full dose of Pfizer.  I think it just depends on the person, though. Again, one day in bed is a small price to pay.  

    ME TV is airing The Monkees today and tomorrow.

  36. “bubonic bubba” would be ideal if for the nit-picky fact it’s the wrong plague.   

    maybe something that rhymes with covid other than bovid (bovidae aka cattle) ’cause “covid bovid” isn’t harsh enough.

     

  38. horsey has a good op ed in seattle times this week

    The Scrooges of politics | The Seattle Times

    […]
    There was once a time – like most of American history – when party discipline did not outweigh every other consideration, a time when senators, in particular, made their own independent judgments about how to vote, a time when it was not at all uncommon to have support from members of both parties on even the most controversial bills. But no longer.
    McConnell and McCarthy are like a pair of Scrooges intent on ruining the holiday dreams of anyone who happens to have a “D” at the end of their official title. If they came across Tiny Tim hobbling along on his crutches, they would toss him into a blizzard if they found out he was a Democrat.

  40. Watching Seder on the Zoom, all I can picture is all those Tiki Torch waving Charlottesville Proud Boys chanting “Jews will not replace us”.  

     

  47. From the article Jamie posted above.

    Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt summed it up neatly, saying on CNN Trump’s comments “fall somewhere between stunning and stupid.”

    No real need to have such a narrow view.  They are both and all points in between  
     

  48. Out of the blue, my now retired music engineer cousin called and proceeded talk my ear off for an hour plus with five years of catch up.  Once we did a run through of the remaining cousins, A great deal of this consisted of raving about the Beatles “Get back” special, going into huge detail of what it took to lay down those individual tracks and how much he hated the modern computerized non-music music. 🙂

    Fun call, but apparently Nashville has turned into nothing but tourists, crime and studios fit only to visit rapidly and then get out of town which has driven him and the wife out into the country in company with the delivered food and visiting deer while avoiding anyone they know who think vaccines are the devil’s tool shop.  

    We both may be becoming cranky. lol

     

  49. Clapton’s lowered the WTF bar even lower. Or is that raised it higher? WAPO

    When a German woman listed an Eric Clapton CD on eBay over the summer, she thought the rock music purchased by her late husband decades earlier could fetch her around $11 in the online marketplace if she was lucky.

    Instead, it somehow got the attention of Clapton, who sued the woman for copyright infringement and accused her of selling a bootleg CD of one of his live shows from the 1980s. Now, the 55-year-old widow, who did not sell the CD and claimed she did not know it was a bootleg, owes thousands of dollars in court fees.

    A German judge on Wednesday sided with Clapton in his lawsuit, ordering that the woman known only as “Gabriele P.” pay nearly $4,000 in court costs for copyright infringement, according to the German news outlet  DW.

    (Continues)

    Really, Eric?

  50. So, the “science” doesn’t support a need to mask outdoors, especially in windy and sparsely populated settings, so if we noble liberals are going to chide the dolts for not following the “science”, we should follow it, too.
     
    Plus, you look like a doofus in a mask standing alone in the middle of a field or parking lot.

  51. …looking forward to the Beatles doc.  Take a time machine to the ‘60s and hang out with them at Abbey Road for 16 hours?  Yes, please.

  54. Listen: i know your bodies are broken, and mine’s getting there, but your minds aren’t, and you made it to the future that you all dreamed about- might as well enjoy it as much as you can, shitty electronica and all🚀

  55. …self-driving cars, handheld supercomputers, wireless global video chat (that’s fucking insane, people), etc., etc.,

  59. A vaccine that isn’t even a virus that uses the body’s own genes to program its own immunity!  WTF?!

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