Wednesday Reads: Return of the Fly
Posted: October 14, 2020 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |26 Comments“Help me….help me…”
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Okay, so this isn’t a real act two of The Fly…but it was damn fun to think so.
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Here in Georgia, voting in person takes determination…
This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote. pic.twitter.com/rHl4Gr5kEi
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 12, 2020
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Republicans:
If you don't like what we're doing, vote us out.
But if you want to vote, you have to drive 30 minutes to drop off your ballot or show up in a crowd in the midst of a pandemic.
And we might require you to juggle six kumquats first. And you have to buy the kumquats.— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) October 13, 2020
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View this post on InstagramNot pictured: tertiary syphilis, the year 1953, and Scott Baio. #thedailydon
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Thanks for sharing. #ACA #Obamacare #SCOTUShearings #scotus #trumpcourt @AprilDRyan @laloalcaraz @MaggieJordanACN @co_rapunzel4 pic.twitter.com/QjFNYDQr6w
— Ed Hall (@halltoons) October 14, 2020
They lie about everything pic.twitter.com/sIl29ma3vF
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) October 13, 2020
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The best part? Dumbass Kelly Loeffler mistakes Attila the Hun for Genghis Khan. Attila marched on Rome, not China. Itβs too bad Republicans keep cutting education funding. https://t.co/bsh9zG9Hln
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) September 21, 2020
I dreamed a dream they let me moderate the presidential debate. And you were there, @PattiLuPoneβ¦ #IfDonaldGotFired πΆ pic.twitter.com/B9C7tMEnKN
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) October 7, 2020
This is an open thread, try to have a good Wednesday.
View this post on InstagramWoman and Child on the Balcony. Berthe Morisot, 1872. #morisot #impressionism #art #arthistory
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I was watching a bit of Trump’s recent rally in Sanford. Watching all those people blowing their rancid funk on one another. Unmasked and unconcerned for what they are doing to the guy next to them. It is a metaphor for Trumpism in general. They should change their name to the “Fuck You Buddy” party. Their mindset is rude, crude, attitude toward everything and everyone. They inflict Trump on America as if he were a walking talking middle finger to everyone who is not them. He wrecks the economy, loses them their jobs and insurance, loses them their international allies, you name it, but he is an F-U-B to liberals, college grads, blacks, other minorities, LGBTs, uppity women, and on down the line.
They are willing to sink the shipand kill us all if they can go down hollering “FUCK YOU BUDDY!”
Well said, Ron. I got depressed (what else is new?) looking at the big crowds at Trump’s wretched rallies, yesterday. It’s painful to realize how many bigots, haters, and just plain stupid people inhabit and-literally-infect our Country.
My new theory today is that the repugs are going with herd immunity. So that means infect as much as possible right from the start. Unfortunately that means killing off your own supporters and possibly passing it on to as many others as you can. The Uber rich will still be protected and the deaths unfortunate but the long game means repugs could eventually prevail. I think when Trump exposed those wealthy people in NJ fundraising, they werenβt too happy with him. I donβt think they care about poorer folks even if they are white.
It’s been tried before. Some rich people sealed themselves and their select friends in their castles and partied while the people outside died.
Of course, they didn’t go so far as doing their own dishes or anything, so the scurvy scullions were still there and it was generally just a matter of days before the rich boneheads dropped like flies.
We know more about virology, so the process would take longer, but they’ll have the same problem. You want to be an apex predator, you need a pyramid underneath you to be at the apex of.
(During the Black Death, I forgot to mention, re rich people and their castles.)
BTW – My dad got his ballot in his nursing home, filled it out and put it in the mail immediately. He is in Ohio where it may actually matter.
Good for your dad, Ron.
I hopped on my daughter and her husband in Colorado to make sure they mailed theirs in because of all of us in the family they mostly count.
Glad he didn’t have any problem voting!
Oh. My. God.
(Don’t get me wrong. I couldn’t either. Thought, speech, religion; I know those, but the other two I’d have to look up. Nobody, however, has nominated me for the Supreme Court because I’m so brilliant.)
(thought, press, whatever…. Apparently I only know two of them. I’ve since looked them up: right to freedom of speech, religion, press, right to petition for redress of grievances, and right to freedom of movement and assembly. But, actually, about those grievances, what about Repubs keeping Lani Guinier off SCOTUS? Some of us go waaay back.)
Since she’s a Constitutional Originalist, she damn well ought to know what the Constitution says!
Oopsy! Icanβt watch this sham; just wondering if Sasse meant to do that.
I’m sure it was supposed to be a super-softball.
Cory Booker’s turn to question Barrett. He’s speaking about racial discrimination and she’s looking at him dumbfoundedly as if she thinks it doesn’t exist. Maybe I’m reading too much into her body language.
She may be reacting to further questioning about racial issues since yesterday didnβt go too well. She couldnβt condemn using the n-word and apparently one of her kids was sort of traumatized by the whole line of questioning. I just heard a smatter of it in the car on NPR, so not sure of the whole story.
Sheβs a partisan hack who thinks climate change is debatable and her kids come down the line in her priorities, after Gawd, her husband, her career and her partisan hack desire to set us back a couple hundred years.
WTH? Also, her kids shouldn’t be involved in her hearings.
She adopted two black kids from Haiti, one right after the earthquake, when Christianists were hawking kids to fundies under what sure looked like dubious circumstances. Whether her two kids had dubious circumstances or not hasn’t been investigated. Anyway, point being, imagine being black and having to listen to your mother saying n*etc is A-OK. No different that being female and having your mother be a practicing Handmaid, but we’re a lot more used to that.)
Not even subtle about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/council-national-policy-video/2020/10/14/367f24c2-f793-11ea-a510-f57d8ce76e11_story.html
Hillary’s right, as always.
They didn’t have machine guns back then, either.
Hillary IS always right.
And if Handmaid OfDonald is such an originalist, what’s she doing in public and all? ??
The only good that has come from this sham confirmation is that I will probably pick up where I left off in Hand Maid’s Tale.