"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

terrifying, in my view. sorry. i know i'm prone to overreact to these kinds of things.

but they were doing this to try to start civil war II. that was the aim. and if they really would have gotten the 200 people they were looking for to kidnap whitmer and "try her for treason" before the election, they may very well have succeeded in inciting violence across the country. and i very much doubt that trump or anyone in his orbit would have the courage to do the right thing in that situation. he likes people that like him. Wolverine Watchmen are probably leaning toward Trump, i'm guessing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQuSXE25vd4

(you just want the simplest form of the url possible. h t t p s colon slash slash www youtube com / watch ? v = skdlasjld )

((watch this not work...))

Lmao at his new proof of video seems like the steroid high is wearing off and someone showed him his polling with seniors and women.

"Wolverine Watchmen" was the name of their group

Rorschach was not the hero you fucking morons

thanks koogs!

Happy birthday, Tricia, would've been the appropriate response

please, the debate must be held in person so our candidate can interrupt and talk over the entire proceedings. remote debates are not possible because the constantly disruptive behavior of our dumb boy could be easily counteracted by muting him.

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:05 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

please, the debate must be held in person so our candidate can have one last go at infecting old Joe

Def no reason not to have it in person they can just social distance
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0YiZgsA4CPD2TqwPkbjvXVstb5Q=/0x0:4465x2836/920x613/filters:focal(2101x700:2815x1414):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/56330823/613703308.0.jpg

"Wolverine Watchmen" was the name of their group

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, October 8, 2020 1:17 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Current me looks back in shame at 17 yo me.

🚨 Biden campaign rejects Trump camp proposal to delay both Oct. 15 and Oct 22. debates; Biden camp only wants Oct. 15 town hall-style delayed to Oct. 22 pic.twitter.com/OlbcLD42RC

— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) October 8, 2020

why are they accepting any delay? If Trump is "symptom free" make him prove it

remotely, that is

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JbcW7ewATGo/TT4KkBQP7PI/AAAAAAAADMw/c3PCcruoRRM/s1600/Foghorn_Leghorn2.jpg

"Remotely, that is!"

ugh it's Michigan Militia by Moxy Fruvous. I don't know how to do this shit

um sorry Moxy Fruvous is CANCELLED

thanks for getting that song stuck in my head again

why are they accepting any delay?

― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:44 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk struggling to care about this

given the way Trump's performed in those debates you probably want them as close to the election as possible

Not if he's bloated from steroids and gasping for breath

all Biden has going for him is Trump's humiliation

I don't think the Biden campaign is "accepting a delay." They want to go forward with the already scheduled Oct. 22 debate. The statement leaves open the possibility that that debate could be held remotely, just as the Oct. 15 debate was supposed to be. But the ball is in the Debate Commission's court now to make that decision.

xps i was looking up what you meant, damn, didn't realize a member of Moxy Fruvous is now a famous sex pest

Biden tested negative today, 9 days after the debate.

i hope every bird in America shits on Trump every day, forever, even after he's dead

also when he dies I want him left in the middle of Wacker Drive

didn't realize a member of Moxy Fruvous is now a famous sex pest

yeah kind of the last band you'd expect huh

WASHINGTON (AP) — Feds charge prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy in covert lobbying effort to drop Justice Department probe.

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 8, 2020

also looks like this guy has seen enough

At event in Kentucky today, McConnell also said: “If any of you have been around me since May the 1st, I’ve said, ‘Wear your mask. Practice social distancing.’ ... Now, you’ve heard of other places that have had a different view, and they are, you know, paying the price for it.”

— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) October 8, 2020

Mitch throwing shade from a social distance.

xpost - Wow I remember those awful stories about Ghomeshi, but I always read about it with him framed as a CBC broadcaster. Had no idea until today he was in Moxy Fuvous.

i hope every bird in America shits on Trump every day, forever, even after he's dead

― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal)

i respect this, but i also think some of the birds should be assigned to take a shit on the people who supported Trump, every day, forever. divide and conquer

I knew Ghomeshi only as "that Canadian Billy Bob Thornton was rude to"

these stories hit more or less at exactly the same time and directly contradict each other in their conclusions/headlines but not in their facts?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/08/fact-check-trumps-antibody-therapy-not-made-fetal-stem-cells/5901542002/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/08/world/covid-coronavirus

bocck bok bok bok

God yes, Biden's dumb folksiness could 110% sell calling Trump a coward. Belittling him is the most effective tactic, if Biden's strategists had thought to pay attention to his reactions to Graydon Carter (checks notes) between 1985 and 2016.

Trump can fight his way out of a corner. He does it over and over again and people keep assuming he'll trip himself up. MAYBE this time it's different, I just wouldn't bet the farm on it.

He also loses a lot and just drops it and walks away - the fuss he makes about everything else is very effective at minimising his failures and bankruptcies and defeats.

It's more specific: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/feds-thwart-militia-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/5922301002/

(This was the same link btw, if you meant to post a different one?)

MCCONNELL: “I haven’t actually been to the White House since August the 6th. Because my impression was that their approach to how to handle this is different from mine and what I suggested that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing."

dammit:

Barr and Mitch would be very very satisfying, yes; I assume McConnell has been more cautious than Barr about reducing his risk.

― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, October 7, 2020 10:28 AM (two days ago)

trump using a green screen for his show today ?

God yes, Biden's dumb folksiness could 110% sell calling Trump a coward

he should bring back calling people "yellow-bellied"

dog-faced pony soldier

Biden should challenge him to a duel.

why you two-timin' good for nuthin', lily-livered blunderbuss, why i oughtta...

lots of obvious but worthwhile points here that dem leadership would do well to hammer home:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/upshot/trump-hospital-costs-coronavirus.html

President Trump spent three days in the hospital. He arrived and left by helicopter. And he received multiple coronavirus tests, oxygen, steroids and an experimental antibody treatment.

For someone who isn’t president, that would cost more than $100,000 in the American health system. Patients could face significant surprise bills and medical debt even after health insurance paid its share.
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Health economists are only starting to understand the full costs of coronavirus treatment, just as scientists are mapping out how the disease works and spreads. They do have some early estimates: The median charge for a coronavirus hospitalization for a patient over 60 is $61,912, according to a claims database, FAIR Health.

That figure includes any medical care during the hospital stay, such as an emergency room visit that led to admission or drugs provided by the hospital.

For insured patients, that price would typically be negotiated lower by their health plan. FAIR Health estimates that the median amount paid is $31,575. That amount, like most things in American health care, varies significantly from one patient to another.

In the FAIR Health data on coronavirus patients over 60, a quarter face charges less than $26,821 for their hospital stay. Another quarter face charges higher than $193,149, in part because of longer stays.
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The biggest billing risk for a patient receiving treatment similar to Mr. Trump’s would probably come from helicopter rides to the hospital.

Air ambulances are expensive and often not in major health insurance plans’ networks. The median charge for an air ambulance is $38,770, according to a study in the journal Health Affairs published this year. When the helicopter trip is out of network — as about three-quarters of them are — patients are left with a median charge of $21,698 after the insurance payout.

Taking two helicopter rides, as Mr. Trump did, could plausibly result in more than $40,000 in medical debt for patients without access to their own aircraft (though of course most people do not leave the hospital by helicopter).

Billboard that went up in my neighborhood (this particular spot always has weird right wing billboards, like previously it was one calling for the recall of our democratic mayor, who's definitely disappointed the left by giving lip service to defund the police, but doing nothing and reassuring police orgs):

Trump = jobs
Biden = mobs
Paid for by the WI Chinese American Business Assocation (um, doubtful?)

CABA = ACAB = ABACAB

Apparently 7 more Michigan Militia members arrested, bringing the total to 13.

I guess, 7 more "charged" is more accurate.

Apparently 7 more Michigan Militia members arrested, bringing the total to 13.

If they out and out got them this easily and clearly i would think they didn’t work real hard to catch them

I’m assuming this is more serious than the half-assed entrapment they do to Muslims.

This came from informants, so I wouldn't assume that at all.

It really can't be emphasized enough how with his pandemic approach Trump is doubling down on a 16 against a dealer 10 https://t.co/JM2BIZfPU8 pic.twitter.com/TgrgLT1kJ0

— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) October 8, 2020

Nice

JUST IN: @ABC News will host a town hall with @JoeBiden moderated by @GStephanopoulos on October 15th. The primetime event will take place in Philadelphia where the former vice president will answer questions from voters. pic.twitter.com/7IPzdqK9Sx

— ABC News (@ABC) October 8, 2020

loool

Oh, that's delicious.

twist that knife

"Paid for by the WI Chinese American Business Assocation (um, doubtful?)"

dunno, asian business associations in CA tend to back awful republicans, like most business associations.