“Foremost among the flouters is Mr. Trump himself, who, despite recently contracting the virus and spending three nights in the hospital, has shown little willingness to change his habits,” the Times reported. “On Saturday, he said the virus would soon ‘disappear,’ and on the way to a rally in Florida on Monday, he boarded Air Force One — where reporters were seated in the cabin — without wearing a mask.”
Reporter Demands WH Chief of Staff Wear Mask, He Refuses And Leaves
from today’s NYTimes:
aside from the ego-massage D’ump gets out of the rallies, he also gets tons of free media coverage. that’s the way his campaign that’s trailing right now in fund-raising can compete with all the pro biden ads hitting the airways nationally.
it’s about time the media see they’re being used as well as abused with regard to the rallies.
their health may help to waken them to their unwitting participation in electing him as they did in 2016 with 24-7 free publicity.
and, media, now that he’s answered, please get off joe’s back on this issue. once again you’re playing into D’ump’s hand.
wapo:
Before D’umbass was infected he required the adulants behind him at rallies to wear masks. Now that he’s “immune” and feels powerful he doesn’t. He said he’d walk out into that crowd and kiss the men and the beautiful women. Of course he did no such thing. And the unmasked adulants, packed shoulder to should just lapped it up.
I don’t think he had the virus.
“Now they say I’m immune . . . I feel so powerful.”
so says the man with his finger hovering over the nuclear button.
trump never jokes as michael cohen (who after 10 years with him should know) says according to
cnn:
The U.S. has a confirmed twice infected person. Are there more? Most likely.
The best photo of yesterday was SFB entering Air Force One through the fore door, one that is about seven feet off the ground. The other photos show a plaster on the back of his hand to cover where an IV would be plugged in and an obvious indentation on his snout of where an oxygen mask would sit, for a long time apparently.
Put together the imbecile shows enough circumstantial evidence of being ill and without a lot of lung capacity. Is it COVID-19? I do not trust anything put out by this WH. A major error being committed by the media is comparing this WH to previous U.S. presidential administrations. A better equivalence would be the Soviet regime from years ago. Those are more like what we have now in the WH.
I watched 11pm local TV news coverage of Orlando rally on youtube last night and seems to me these rallies will do him more harm than good because every story focused on the maskless crowds and the health risk, reinforcing voter opinions about the recklessness and incompetence of his virus handling — which is largely what’s driving down his numbers in the first place.
But Poobah, he’s immune (he doesn’t know) and he feels so powerful. And he’s going to walk into the crowd and kiss men and beautiful women … when pigs fly.
While it was wonderful to binge watch all seven seasons of The West Wing over a couple of weeks, it is daunting to realize the majority of the issues are still in existence now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing#Exploration_of_real_world_issues
One maskless guy interviewed on local TV had caught one of the masks Trump tossed out, but didn’t open the package and put it on “because it’s a souvenir”. Although he did say it might be contaminated by the president’s infection and he planned to get tested.
Jamie – West Wing is nice to watch to pretend how the WH should function, at least in a dream way.
I voted! Got there at 6:30 and there were about 50 ahead of me. When I left, the line was just as long. Most were POC, so I hope that means tRUMP will get his ass handed to him, along with Cornyn.
I voted too. Took 30 min. First time in years I’ve had to stand in a line to vote.
Cook Political Report moves Senate races in Texas, Georgia, Alaska toward Democrats
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/520730-cook-political-report-moves-senate-races-in-texas-georgia-and-alaska-toward
Here’s a fun little vid of Ron Desantis high-fiving twenty or so trumpies and then immediately wiping his nose with that same hand, lol
…best case scenario is a Biden presidency governing a society half-full of complete morons, hooray😭
He wasn’t sick. Have they given anyone else Regeneron?
Who wasn’t sick? trump? He had a fever for NINE DAYS, that fat bastard could drop dead any minute, don’t be fooled by their propaganda
Mike Lee. Shut up
How is govt-controller healthcare going to destroy Medicare? Cornyn’s ad makes no sense. He’s trying to fear-monger about MJ destroying the energy economy in TX. Nope. Oil and gas are not the only forms of energy. The video of those oil pumps (and they used a spooky filter, for some reason) does not tug on heartstrings. Cornyn is a dinosaur.
Mercury is in retrograde today until Election Day.
Shouldn’t they be pumping Regeneron into Hopey and everyone else, including members of the press, who have the cofeve?
Regeneron isn’t FDA-approved for treatment of COVID, even the CEO of the company that makes it is dubious about it’s efficacy with trump and against COVID, in general.
Occam’s razor: trump acted irresponsibly, got COVID.
dipshit needs you to believe there’s a cure to mitigate the backlash to his incompetence. Regeneron, even if it works as dipshit claims, is outrageously expensive and years from mass-distribution, if that was desirable. Snap out of it.
Snapped! Thanks.
Will any of the Republican Senators on the ballot in 2022 have any survivor instinct and not put through this abomination of a SCOTUS nominee?
Amy Covid Barrett…
Cheers.
💪❤️🇺🇸
Just heard Sheldon Whitehouse on the SCOTUS hearings. Good. That ugly spud, Cruz is on now. I turned the sound off. Hate his voice, even!
The 5th circuit court upheld the ugly spud, Gregg Abbott, and there’s only 1 drop box per county in Tejas to drop off mail in ballots. Voter Suppression! He says it’s for safety. Lies like all the repubes.
Usually I’m the only one at the polling place today, the first day of early voting in Tejas. The line went along the side of the building and across the back. It would have taken hour & hours. So I drove to another place. The line was less long but still hours worth of waiting. I have a Zoom meeting this afternoon and come home. What I’ll do is start out before dawn tomorrow.
I think there are SO many people voting now because they’re unemployed.
Barrett’s talking. About playing the piano. Great!
Barrett has a horrible voice to listen to. She looks and sounds like she could be a real bitch.
BiD you got to the polls at 6:30. Did it open at 8a.m.?
Besides one vote drop box per county, Abbott has fixed it so there’s no straight ticket voting which is adding to the long longs! Voter supression!
Amy Klobuchar kicked butt, Barrett flummoxed
Maybe the Dems should be robo-calling all the swing state rippers, telling them to go attend those trump spreaders, and leave their masks at home.
Amy was the first to provoke some anger from Barrett. Wish she had another 30 minutes
Yep, Craig. When is Kamala Harris on?
Asked by Klobuchar if it is illegal to intimidate voters at the polls, Barrett refused to answer. She said cannot characterize the facts in a hypothetical situation. In response, Klobuchar cites U.S. law barring voter intimidation.
TT – Polling places open at 7 am. First day is always busy with those most motivated to vote. There is an interactive map if you go to WFAA website (it’s a link to the county website) that shows estimated wait times. American Airlines downtown was a short time because who can get there? Did they (Mark Cuban, etc.) set up rides or special public transportation? Some places had two-hour wait times.
Again, could there be any Republican Senators up for re-election in two years who have any survivor instinct? ??? This is their chance to do the right thing.
Boom!
“You would be the polar opposite of Justice Ginsburg,” Klobuchar to Barrett
Amy Culty is out of her depth.
Intimidating voters is only okay when the friends of putin do it.
Thanks, BiD. I’ve been checking the Colin County interactive map since this morning, and it’s WAY off. It shows green for the 2 places I mentioned. So, useless.
A SCOTUS nominee doesn’t know that voter intimidation is illegal?!
Where did she go to school, again?
Nothing in the Constitution gives a woman the right to disobey her husband. Right Judge barret ?
Nothing in the Constitution gives corporations standing in courts, right Judge ?
It’s only unConstitutional old laws and stare decisis, that is the habit of following precedent, that weakens the husband’s power to make his wife obey, and that gives fictional personality to Goldamn Sacks and Exxon. Am I right, Judge barret ?
Barrett is bright, is talking without notes, has memory, and probably has a good academic vitae as do MANY other judges in the U.S. like
Merrick Garland/
This is excellent!
(CNN)As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham had a unique opportunity: He got to kick off the questioning Tuesday of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
How did he mark this historic moment? By giving a purely political speech about the Affordable Care Act in a transparent attempt to bolster his flagging reelection campaign in his home state.
“From my point of view, Obamacare has been a disaster for the state of South Carolina.” Graham began. “All of you over there want to impose Obamacare on South Carolina. We don’t want it. We want something better. We want something different. You know, what we want in South Carolina? South Carolina-care, not Obamacare.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/politics/lindsey-graham-2020-amy-coney-barrett/index.html
The wing nuts have been promising a health bill for 20 years. Time to hack that fur ball up.
Just wondering. Should corporations be considered 3/5 of a person ? Or should they be considered mere inanimate tools, like deeds, trusts and bank accounts ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust
My 3/5 question was a jest, of course.
Mentioned by Whitehouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust
The 18th century was so great, don’t you want to live in it forever?
C’mon xrep, we can dye our clothes with urine and pray we make it through winter, every year- it’ll be great!
Oh, gay rights are defensible within a US legal context if framed as a religious liberty issue. i understand the reticence but time to play hardball.
This is where the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, and other hoax and conspiracy loving folks ought to look into for ‘THE DEEP STATE” they so love to rail about. I suspect they’re collectively night bright nor educated enough to understand this.
From Wiki. As of 2013, Donors Trust had 193 contributors, mostly individuals, and some foundations.[7]
The Charles G. Koch Foundation and the Knowledge and Progress Fund, another of the Koch family foundations, contributed $3.3 million to Donors Trust between 2007 and 2011.[19][22] The Knowledge and Progress Fund contributed $4.5 million to Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund between 2006 and 2012″
Tiptoe
If Leader McConnell wasn’t a greedy, power mad SOB who blocked Obama’s court appointments leaving massive vacancies for Trump to fill, I might consider Barrett as a worthy if super far right appointment.
Because Moscow Mitch blocked Garland, I think she should be prevented from reaching the high court by any possible means.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/13/poll-cunningham-leads-tillis-429181
Pre-existing conditions! That’s a big one. Also, tRUMP has no plan to replace ACA. Pence brought up “replace” during the debate, but NOTHING has been done because THEY HAVE NO PLAN.
Twenty-two, Republican Senators will be up for re-election in 2022. DO THE RIGHT THING! Stop this abomination and SAVE YOURSELVES. Voters won’t forget who screwed them over.
XR
Are they being counted in the census?
Oh come on, Mr Bink ! Urine is for washing clothes, not for dying them. In the 18th Century indigo came from SC, where it was grown by short-lived slaves.
You might pray to get through an 18th C winter, as you might in 2020, but the spring and autumn bred flu and pneumonia. Dry autumns and winters brought small pox. Winter and spring brought chicken pox and measles. The summer bred plague, if cold, or food poisoning, malaria and yellow fever, if hot. Great pox came with all seasons, as we homo sapiens do not experience breeding seasons.
If you got past your 6th birthday you were generally good for 18 years if you were a woman. The bearing years killed half of all women. If you were a six year old male, you would likely live a long life, but only if you stayed out of the army and navy, both of which led to scurvy and infected wounds.
The Senate playing field is collapsing on Republicans
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/politics/senate-2020-november-election/index.html
And of course, Mr Bink, i agree with your call to ‘play hardball’ !
My ‘trump, the baby eater’ post might be considered hardball in some circles.
How bout : 1,269 Kentuckians died of Covid 19. Moscow mitch laughed
Ms Jamie,
Sorry, I don’t know. But if they are, I’ll bet that deutschebank and aramco aren’t asked if they’re foreigners.
If you had to google “vituperative”, today, don’t feel bad- so did i.
Well, if you’re not interested in an 18th-century living standard, Mr. X, you’re going to have to settle for an 18th-century legal standard.
I don’t have the links for this. SFB released the Puerto Rico FEMA funds and other funds (IIRC) last week. Yesterday he demanded the good citizens of PR vote for him. The unelected governor is a SFB toadie, but her citizens are not of the same persuasion. The imbecile does not know that citizens of territories cannot vote for president!
He probably released the funds to “buy” the votes, but he has no clue they cannot vote for him. I like it when a plan goes bad.
The ones who flooded to Florida can vote for him. It is a matter of that would be enough to put Florida in his column unless they do the sensible thing and vote for Biden.
Another maskless Trump rally crowd today but a wig for the kid
The San Juan coal-fired station
When this and other big coal plants were built in the Southwest back in the 70’s , these bozos tried to high jack West Slope water in Colorado . They wanted to mix the water with ground up coal to form a slurry , That could be pumped in a pipe line West .
All these big coal stations were originally supposed be sited closer to Vegas , and SoCal.
Needless to say they were a day late , a dollar short on buying water rights, the Front Range cities were well underway in their efforts to tilt The Rockies to the East , and make West Slope water flow East.
A factoid about how big a deal this fight was.
In Colorado, you can’t catch the rain water off your roof in a rain barrel,
That rain drop on your roof belongs to somebody else the second it wets your shingles.
Joe cunningham in sc holding strong against Nancy mace, first woman grad of the citadel, but a self-professed trumper.
Generals endorsing politicians , ( See that CNN clip upstream )
That Airforce 4 Star was in the Hanoi Hilton for 7 years. He wasn’t moved to speak when Trump attacked McCain, as not being a hero. But when he read the Atlantic article about “Losers, and Suckers” ………….. That got his blood up.
This yet another wall that has been breached by Trump .
These guys understand that this tradition by American Military goes way back , That’s why the founders made Trump “Commander and Chief” .
The Praetorian Guard developed this nasty habit of slitting . emperor’s throats after Caesar . And as time dragged on the rate to slit to the throat , dropped in price.
Is sanity coming to South Carolina ??????????????
It’s seeping in thru the cracks because of all the Yankees moving south.
If geography made people smart, South Carolinians would all be bloody geniuses, book the numbers don’t use paper OR pencil.
Voting is way more fun that , than stabbing The Emperor’s chest to pick a new leader.
I tease South Carolina , Texans tease everyone.
Be glad you ain’t an Okie.
Sometimes it just don’t pay to be a Gracchi.
There is a reason why Alabama leads in football. And MIT is leads in making hydrogen from sea water,
It’s called “Values” .
You don’t know how many stars I have thanked that I’m not in Oklahoma…….and Alabama, missississippi, LousyAnna, Arkysaw, Tennessee, Either Virginia, Florida, Kaintucky, and several other contenders for Palookaville States of America.
KAMALA questioning Barrett at 6:50 pm ET after the dinner break, on CSPAN
I escaped being an Alabamian by the skin of my teeth. It was touch and go but for a simple twist of fate.
You see, it all started when Hitler invaded Poland. No, it was before that, in ‘33.
That was the year my dad and my uncles left the farm and moved to Birmingham so their dad could die in the hospital there in 35, then was the Spanish civil war and THEN Hitler invaded Poland. All just to get me the hell out of Alabama.
I felt bad about all that world upheaval and all, but hey, it is what it is.
OK, Corey! Fill in Amy Phoney’s blank note pad!
tRUMP sounded a lot like Drunk Uncle at the last rally. Steroids and Adoral? Coke?
“Keep clear of I-40, when possible” is my rule
My fave Biden quote at Broward County seniors event today: Trump “throws super spreader parties at the White House. Republicans hug each other without consequences. How many of you have been unable to hug your grandkids?”
“tRump…Steroids and Adoral? Coke?“
Uh, COVID-induced blood clots in his brain, more likely.
As the right when on this 40 year binge to kiss Rush’s butt. They did what they have done through out history , they purged to party of “nonbelievers”. Now I know Stalin did the same thing , but he would be right at home at the elbow of Trump. And the French , and Hitler , this relentless drive to purify the party is an evolutionary process as these movements roll along.
So what does that do ? It boils off all the bright people , like the cracking process to refine oil.
At that bottom of the cracker, one is left with tar .
Sturg –
You should have been a stand-up comic. You can pop a balloon with a with a dull needle.
Remember , this if you forget everything I ever taught you , we all here Love you . And we always will.
My last orgasm was back in the 20th Century . Voting today reminded what I’ve been missing.
I still have a warm glow.
Well the crawling across glass theory is panning out. Tomorrow I will call the Lubbock County Dems. and volunteer to drive voters .
Barret has cooties.
This Abbott stunt , it’s just going to make people . Really mad.
I hope that guy gets a badder infection and lands in the ICU , and burnt out doctors try to save his life.
Everytime I see Greg Abbott , I thick of Peter Sellers. Deciding which blondes to sent into the bunkers to service the “the leaders’.
Let the Fender Telecaster bloom in a thousand places,
https://youtu.be/GL9rBAjut2g
Here you go, Blue.
Or this one. 🙂
And so, somehow, the repubes figure that justices don’t bring their opinions into their decisions & decision making and rulings.
How the hell is that possible?????
It’s not!
Waylon Jennings had a ‘shoe’ on his Telecasters most of his life.
Elvis , Buddy Holly , the early rockers all had a shoe , Eddie Cochran had a shoe .
Holy Cow !
Guitar Shoes what line, some folks are really making shoes.
I think that is a great title, for a book.
I still say if they’re looking back to 1791, and they’re an “originalist” then I want to hear about.
Book Samantha Fish !
Tip –
The evolution of fires arms moved forward , the law did not,
I love this idea –
If we are all “originalist” , then you can own a flintlock pistol And no more , Because in the eyes of the “originalist” nothing has changed since the 18th century.
This entire idea of originalist is a canard,
The courts are packed with these weasels, see Abbott’s stunt being upheld.
One drop box in Harris County ? To severe 4 million people .
I hope amy turns out to be an earl warren. or a wm brennan or john paul stevens.
old man, that’s exactly my point!
Before Lincoln was shot by a Turnip supporter .
He said this , “Let them up easy”.
We did not shoot one rebel for treason. Then they came back . In 1920’s hanging black people from all manor of things was a fashion,
1925
Old Man – That’s great, driving voters to the polls or to your county’s drop box. What we need for the enormous counties are for Mark Cuban and his counterparts in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, set up transportation, too.
Amy Culty/Phony didn’t know voter intimidation was illegal…or just wouldn’t say it. Either way, she is disqualified. Any Republican Senator up for re-election in two years should think long and hard before siding with tRUMPsky on this joke of a nominee.
Taking away healthcare from folks and not protecting folks with pre-existing conditions (which almost everyone has by age 25, in this country) … tRUMP has done a better job of destroying the Republican Party than any Dem.
And, we will still talk about his taxes, his mental and physical health, and, the rest of the crime spree SFB, his family, and, his cohorts continue to carry out.
Pounding back this crazy has always been our task.
This is very, very old fight .
I just don’t understand people’s need to decide & control other people’s birth control, IVF, or abortion. And still never men & their role in SEX.
Now that journalists aren’t going to cover tRUMPsky up-close, to protect their health, what are they doing? It seems like an opportune moment to do some investigative journalism.
Also, what is The Lincoln Project doing to reach Republicans who are fixated on Fox Noise? How would they, for instance, get to my relatives in California who believe absolute BS like Harris taking over and making Pelosi VP?
BiD, really? ” Harris taking over and making Pelosi VP? ” LOL
I like it!!!
Tar
Tar Heels ?
In the 18th century there was one place to get this (NC) , and a lot of it from pine trees . British sea men were called “Tars” .
That is why we have a football team called Tar Heels.
Meanwhile in Maine the British were backing “mast ships” into the coast.
This is really amazing , They designed Mast Ships where the back of the ship opened up , and logs over 100 feet long sailed of to England,.
The fleet that stopped Napoleon, had main masts from Manine.
And, my relatives have said that they don’t like tRUMP. These are folks who are shocked and appalled that another relative who is almost 30, has moved in with his girlfriend. These are folks who think it’s still 1950 and some of them are younger than I am…but they’re very churchy, as we say. The don’t like tRUMP, be Fix Noise has made them fearful of a socialist take-over and they don’t even know what they mean when they parrot it. How do real Republicans get to those folks and peel them off?
Speaking of peeling off, I can’t wait to see what happens to Orange Julius when he stops taking steroids…if he ever does, now that he knows how powerful they make him feel, even though he’s the same loser he was before.
Yep. I hadn’t heard that one before and said it wasn’t true and asked them to stop watching Fox and read an actual newspaper.
I am really really sick of folks wearing peddle pushers , telling me what America is.
1789 law was pretty simple and bad. It was so simple that any dumbo could set HIMself up as a lawyer. The country was crawling with Judge roy beans.
If these stripped contraptionists are really sticking to their little god’s ways, it should be legal to whip bankers at church and kick the bank assets into the sewer. Maybe it should even be mandatory.
Judge roy beans.
I have been there !
It’s Bean there is no S .
It was not fun,
It is a state site. The little old at the counter asked what I did ?
I said , I drive an 18 wheeler.
She said –
Oh you kill people on the highway,
I said , “Lady all all your tampons , and toil paper came in a Big Truck”.
I turned on my heel and left.
And that is all there is to say about “The Law West of the Fucking Pecos”.
Tampons, and toilet paper,
Everyone roll this marble …………
I hauled countless loads out of Lewiston, Ida, to North Las Vegas , so people could wipe their ass in Vegas.
Kitty Litter, there is one mine in America , that supplies all these Brands. That clay in Wyo. . is perfect. We are Not About to run out of kitty litter.
Paper towels
Next time you step out , on the “Big Rode” and run with the “Big Dogs” , that 53 foot trailer out your window is filled with paper towels, toilet paper , or kitty litter.
Next time you all sit on the throne , think about that roll , It came from a mill , and it traveled hundreds of miles to save your ass.
This was living trees 2 weeks ago.
So , if the world falls down what next ?
Why do people shake hands with the right? Because people for thousands of years wiped their ass with that long left finger. Then they cleaned that finger, as best as they could.
If there was way to make toilet paper locally that would over turn the world as we know it.
Let’s crawl the Grapevine …… in a Rambler .
Let’s cross the country on 85 cents.
Let us do the impossible everyday. It is at our finger tips.
Do not surrender to darkness,
Tell the guy cleaning carts at your store he is most important man in the wheel.
Above all be kind. Mean is such an easy thing.
Blues after 10 .
Funny how that warm feeling melts in sand.
The wisdom of Leon Russel –
Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Fueled by 10 kilos of Coke.
I thought they would all die before the end of tour.
Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
That s on the name bean was meant to express the plural. In the early years of this nation, we had an abundance of MEN in the field of law, who were every bit as crazy and ignorant as Judge roy. On a couple of occasions one such would become a supreme court injustice. The name mcreynolds comes to mind.
But, not the scheming scaly ant. He wasn’t iginent, he was just corrupt.
“I got my brown paper bag , and my take home pay”.
Sitting in the stands of life, watching the game is a bitch.
“what is The Lincoln Project doing to reach Republicans who are fixated on Fox Noise?”
BiD, Lincoln Project guy on 60 minutes said they were running their ads mainly on fox in order to reach the faux faithful. you’ll also see their ads on twitter & facebook (or at least you did until some social media banned campaign type stuff in the last days before the election). their other goal is their audience of one – D’ump – to gig him into saying more stupid things so they can make more ads.
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