People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

one of my friends, who has all sorts of medical ailments, as does her husband, wore a mask to the local BP and some asshole made a "baaaaaaaa" bleating sound at her, and my friend walked back over to her and said "hey my husband has COVID, want me to breathe on you?" and the asshole ran away fassst.

(her husband didn't have COVID, but she thought that aws funny)

There needs to be a national database of every anti masker for hospitals to cross reference and refuse treatment when they show up with COVID symptoms. I'm so fucking angry about these goddamn dipshits.

just imagining a Xtian Right wing horror film in a few years where government officials are stapling masks to people's faces and they're dying of carbon monoxide

NEW: CDC Director Redfield to US Senate cmte.:

“These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have ... I might even go so far as to say that this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/7LJZ3U9xi1

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2020

Yeah, after four years of angry-making shit, it's really something that they're able to make my rage spike like they do. Something about the smug disavowal of the basic tenets of civil society, maybe?

Coupled with the unabashed glee and genuine enjoyment they take from that disavowal.

It's almost like these people don't care about anyone or anything!

I mean, to the extent that this is all the ongoing unresolved fights of the Civil War, it's not exactly surprising that the inheritors of the mantle of slavery and Jim Crow are OK with harming other people.

We're losing thousands of acres of wildlife regions by the day so I love when Dems ::checks notes:: hand over another million acres to the military to bomb to hell as a practice range. https://t.co/HiUgKA8aMy

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) September 16, 2020

Whoever DropTheMic2020 is started that up today but apparently it was averted?

https://www.facebook.com/nevadaconservationleague/posts/amazing-news-after-lots-of-hard-fighting-in-congress-nevadas-democratic-delegati/10157634465803348/

oh nice!

xps Check those notes again. The "Dems" haven't handed anything over, yet. This was a voice vote of the House Armed Services Committee members on an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act, which may or may not be removed when the bill reaches the floor vote.

This mostly means the Armed Services chair Adam Smith backs the amendment. He's a military hawk, like most members of that committee. What happens next is more maneuvering from both sides. We'll have to see who wins.

rob bishop is a notable p.o.s.

Forcing someone to wear a mask for public safety is a bridge to far, but forcing a woman to have a hysterectomy against her will is nbd.

one of my friends, who has all sorts of medical ailments, as does her husband, wore a mask to the local BP and some asshole made a "baaaaaaaa" bleating sound at her, and my friend walked back over to her and said "hey my husband has COVID, want me to breathe on you?" and the asshole ran away fassst.

(her husband didn't have COVID, but she thought that aws funny)

I'm in Trumpland and one of my neighbors wrote TAKE OF THE MASKS AND SMELL THE TYRANNY on their SUV, but surprisingly most everyone does wear a mask here

TAKE OF THE MASKS

like... eat them like communion wafers?

i have taken to coughing loudly when i wear a mask and am surrounded by the maskless; that tends to make the point

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-mask-mandate-abc-town-hall_n_5f617ac9c5b68d1b09c9541a

Sorry for HuffPo

Posted for Neanderthal:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/orlando-democratic-voters-trump-reelection-415526

NEW: Multiple White House staff have tested positive for COVID-19 today. The White House press pool was just informed, but Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is not releasing any further information.

This comes less than 24 hours after international leaders met with President Trump.

please let Netanyahu and Trump get it

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

TAKE OF THE MASKS BUT GUARD THE SEED

just give me this ONE fucking thing this year

Good lord, we don't need to give Trump a bunch of "sympathy votes" because he is suffering, while the nasty libs are all gloating about it, the poor man. And yes, there would be gloating and people silly enough to give him pity votes.

lord, please, do not listen to aimless! strike down trump! he deserves it more than all of the people of sodom and gomorrah combined. that is an impossibly large number of people, impossible for anyone except perhaps for yourself to comprehend. strike him down!!

The way 2020 has gone, he'd pull a Boris Johnson on us and recover.

listen, god is just. and he has a plan. you know he's gotta strike trump down.

Bolsinaro, too. He recovered. And now that Trump is 6'3" instead of 6'2", he's not obese, so you can scratch off the comorbidity tick mark.

lol as if Boris actually had it

Seconding the hope than Netanyahu, Trump, and McConnell bite it from COVID

Can’t find any legit source for those White House covid tests

On a Rosh Hashanah call with Jewish leaders, Trump told them “we love your country also” and said he’s disappointed Jews seem to “almost automatically” vote for Democrats. He said he saw he got only 25% in 2016 even though “I have a son-in-law and a daughter who are Jewish.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020

He needs to get the word out about that obviously

The way 2020 has gone, he'd pull a Boris Johnson on us and recover.

These men need to be choking to death on a pudgy fistful of peanuts while on the toilet, not actual illness.

fucking piece of fucking shit

This is quite simply one of the most appalling and inhuman statements ever uttered by an American President. https://t.co/YTSyBuFP47

— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) September 16, 2020

Does Trump have any businesses in any red states (assuming Florida is neutral)?

Perhaps he should relocate all his businesses to red states and see how that goes.

Trump insisting that Redfield didn't understand the question about vaccines and masks:

Trump throws the CDC under the bus, says Dr. Redfield "made a mistake" during his testimony on Wednesday when he said a Covid vaccine might not be available until well in 2021 pic.twitter.com/3h4mObDKsf

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

and again

Donald Trump really thinks he knows more about public health than the director of the CDC. This is the second time he's tried to correct different parts of Director Redfield's testimony during this press briefing. Tragicomical. pic.twitter.com/vXm0JZCvBK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2020

Donald Trump will win the election if you take the blue states out.

inclusion in "america" is now judged by if you like donald trump, seems sustainable.

turns out Orange Shitpile aspires to be Ming the Merciless

Officers requested a "heat ray" weapon for possible use against protesters in a park next to the White House in June, a National Guard major has said.

Military police allegedly asked the National Guard for the Active Denial System (ADS), which makes targets feel their skin is on fire.

It happened before Lafayette Square was cleared of people protesting against the killing of black man George Floyd.

The National Guard did not possess the heat ray and it was not used.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54187961?

god i hate this smug dumb fuck Barr so much. he's right behind his boss right now in terms of who I most want to see beneath a guillotine.

I've got him first in line. He knows what he's doing.

Ditto--him and Pence.

Yeah Barr is slightly worse to my mind. Orangekins is actually running third behind Barr and Moscow Mitch.

im w/ jvc because of immediate efficacy and lasting power for the unbuilding america proj

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Barr is currently the most dangerous person in/to the US.

otm

sorry to post a trump tweet, but i feel like the actual thing is needed, here, to see what he's quoting, to see what he's saying, to see the weak-ass twitter info "correction" on it:

Because of the new and unprecedented massive amount of unsolicited ballots which will be sent to “voters”, or wherever, this year, the Nov 3rd Election result may NEVER BE ACCURATELY DETERMINED, which is what some want. Another election disaster yesterday. Stop Ballot Madness! https://t.co/3SMAk9TC1a

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2020

seriously, get this fucking guy out of office. he's not just nodding toward civil war 2 in the days after the election, he is openly promoting it and has been for months