“Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.”
–Margaret Atwood
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It occured to me this morning that if someone told when I first entered the workforce that shortly after I retired, the United States would be on the brink of an attempted coup de etat by a brutal strongman dictator, I would have asked for the name of your dope dealer.
Optimism is getting more and more scarce. Meanness seems unfettered. The Orange Destruction is ready and eager to get “vicious”, so he is calling in his orcs and trolls… the bloodshed will be tremendous.
Many of those who are duty bound to serve him are also duty bound to stop him. ‘Cause I gotta tell you boys…the Capt’n is off his nut.
Saw an amusing/not amusing story picking out tweets imaging showing 2020 events to a 2019 self: boingboing / Rusty Blazenhoff / People are imagining how they would explain 2020 to 2019
my favorite: Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plants https://cnn.it/3dsdRZI
"I would have asked for the name of your dope dealer."
The response would have been: "Q"
Tune of “Biden my time”
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I’m votin’ for Biden this time
Cuz Trump is nose deep in crime.
I’m voting for Kamala too
Cuz Pence he just doesn’t do.
Yes, votin’ for Biden this time
Had enough of Trumpstink and slime.
Thank God, in just 50 days,
We’ll send these goons on their ways.
Reportedly, Michael Bloomberg is giving $100 million to help Biden carry Florida. Victory there means winning just one of the remaining swing states would oust Trump. The Bloomberg drive also frees Democratic funds to concentrate on other swing states.
Yay, Bloomberg!
If a few other mega-mega-donors pile on would Dump get the message and kick the plan B resignation/pardon into gear?
It might be more effective if he paid the Florida poll tax for felons who already served their time.
If Bloomberg makes crime pay that might make the crime rate go up.
Perfect!!
Doubtful – but perfect.
He can't. The state apparatus has told these ex-felons they cannot vote because they owe money. When the ex-felons ask: "How much?", the state replies: "We can't tell you and won't be able to tell you for a few years".
Florida can't count D votes.
The money needs to be spent now. Bloomberg is pretty late on this. Appreciated, but seriously, ballots start going out this week many places. And his $100M is a lot, but a piss in a bucket for him.
The main effect is going to be Dump's additional, escalating freakouts. Nobody in FL is going to have time to watch ads from the storm shelters.
The quote from Bloomberg's staff is "nine digits" — which COULD be $100 million (and several people have said that, seeing it as an epic trolling of *resident Trump saying he would be using $100 million of his own funds) or those 9 digits could be all 9s … who knows.
Ad messages are going to be there pushing "vote early" in Florida. The state allows processing of ballots starting 22 days before the final day of voting, Election officials must notify people of any problems with their ballots, and the voter can "cure" until 2 days after voting is done. Ballots can be counted on November 3, so all those in early will impact initial ballot counts.
If your supporters won’t show up, just rent new ones. OH Craigslist ad for Trump cheerleaders. Wonder in how many other states similar ads will run.
It's a sad state of affairs in this country when people will risk infection at a super spreader Trump rally, posing as a Magamoron, for 12 bucks an hour.
Provided he's not incarcerated, maybe Trumps final rally a few years down the road from now will feature 100 % fake, paid supporters, and everybody will be aware of the fact but him. Let him ride out into the sunset in his own fantastical bubble…
The 2021 National Western Stock Show has been canceled. Our rural-patriot-brothers have taken to Facebook and are up in arms, yet another sign of how Polis is destroying our state. <sigh>. There's even linkies to his appointment of a vegan to the State Board of Veterinary Medicine as proof!! Forget your guns, he's coming after our livestock!
Meanwhile in Israel…
Israel to Shut Down Nation for Three Weeks to Contain COVID Spread
Aw crikey, recalls are back. I'm holding my breath to see if they can get 600,000 valid sigs in 60 days. How many boxes for cases of Bud will it take to hold that many?
I think Jared should be recalled for wearing a suit and tie.
Polo shirts should be the standard.
Marijuana doesn't kill people. Exchanging spittle at unmasked church services can kill.
This is a delightful thread: a Citibank SVP and a pig farmer are the core of QAnon.
Background if anyone is interested:
QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey
Wilson is hilarious and snarky but he is not always correct.
Not the pig farmer in library with the pipe.
The next step would be to run that safari pic through Clearview AI …. kind of use their own tool against them.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/11/21131991/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-database-law-enforcement
Thank you, Wisconsin Supreme Court…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/wisconsin-ballots-reprinting-election.html
At least Howie won't be the spoiler in the Badger State.