US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

i'm just tired and hate his stupid face and all of the stupid things he says which add nothing of value to my experience of life

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, May 11, 2020 11:02 AM (one hour ago)

yeah

how about this added value:

"transition into greatness"

I don't think that Dash argument really applies to someone as famous as trump, but definitely for the bottom-feeding chem-trails enthusiasts that he retweets

― dip to dup (rob), Monday, May 11, 2020 1:56 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

well it doesn't apply now. could have done with it around july 2015.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-ends-coronavirus-briefing-female-reporters_n_5eb9c144c5b6a0e85a758f36

Can't spell snowflake without white supremacy.

Can't get to that huffpo page in plain link, private browsing, or via Outline - what's the salient issue?

I posted The Guardian's report to the rolling 'is this racist?' thread:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/11/you-should-ask-china-trump-terminates-press-conference-after-clash-with-reporter-video

Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don’t ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium.

It must infuriate him that nobody else cares about his insipid obamagate tweetstorm

imagine what this fool is going to be like in a month when US numbers are over 150k.

He's going to be like what a great victory, many people said we'd be over 200k, fake news! Then we'll get over 200k...

Trump is trying really hard to make "transition into greatness" the slogan for whatever he's trying to convince his knuckle-walking hordes is going on, but in typically half-assed fashion, he forgot to lock down the domain first.

Can't get to that huffpo page in plain link, private browsing, or via Outline

Dude I cut off all the Facebook hkdu?/ojlknrliudlid8nkjh garbage are you never satisfied?

yahoo asked me to clickthrough three screens, then from there to individually click on, individually read and individually approve the privacy policies, on nineteen external sites, of:

Active Agent AG
Amazon
Atlas / Facebook
dataXtrade GmbH
DoubleClick / Google / Adx
eBay
Ensighten
Flashtalking
Forensiq LLC
Jivox Corporation
Mediametrie
Microsoft
Pixalate, Inc.
PopWallet
Qriously
Quotient
Unruly Group Ltd
White Ops, Inc.
zeotap GmbH

Even if I had been prepared to approve these nineteen separate privacy policies, once I'd reviewed them, just clicking on them seemed like a awful lot of effort to go to merely to find out what the link was about, at all, let alone read the article.

I tried two other methods of getting to the link in good faith, assuming that you'd posted it as being worthy of awareness, but neither of those worked either.

In giving up after all these attempts, I wasn't berating or holding any individudal itt responsible for this. But by this stage, it was genuinely easier to ask what the article was about. It almost certainly took pom much less time to reopen, copy and paste three sentences than it had already taken me to attempt to simply open the link. (ta pom!)

I gotta say I admire your stance sic and it influences what I do online.

(tbc I think of asking what a link is about, if that link isn't public per se and the URL doesn't indicate, as just general conversation. I nearly always try and give context for links, but eg a few months ago quoted & linked a Pet Shop Boys interview in the Hun that I had read in private browsing, but others couldn't reach it, or chose not to, & asked for a full C+P. fair fucken 'nuff! I would have gone back and copied the specific relevant excerpts in full, but someone did the whole thing before I saw the requests.

(ppl posting links that actively attempt to turn ILX into a monetisation factory for an enterprise that has hugely contributed to gutting journalism worldwide, and is actively working illegally to manipulate electoral democracy every day, is a completely different matter that is frustrating in general, and mindboggling when linking to journalism on politics threads.

(bummed that stevie thinks they're both me being personally prissy or w/e, huuuuugs to Matthew!)

No dude i'm not thinking you're being prissy about stopping the gutting of journalism, it's because f your efforts that i consciously try to strip links of all the FB bollocks. It's just, I thought I had done that here! I didn't have to click on any stuff to get to this story, iirc (certainly not three clickthroughs)

Will precis links in future tho, it's definitely a thoughtful process to get in the habit of

huuugs to stevie

huuuugs as ever gratefully received

No hugging in here this is the politics thread

rand paul.

https://i.imgur.com/yQwVKFk.png

(btw, his comment/question for fauci was, rather than saying "there's no evidence for immunity" for people who have had coronavirus, shouldn't we instead be saying "there's no evidence for non-immunity"?)

also, dr rand paul would like to reprimand those who have warned about surges in cases and deaths after re-opening up parts of the country. he says that most of the models have been wrong. also, he wants everyone to pledge, right now, that if the re-openings do NOT lead to surges in deaths, that they'll admit they were wrong.

he's turning into a werewolf

he proposed that each school district should have a different plan

sorry, i'll quit remote liveblogging the remote hearing. but interesting that lamar alexander (chair of committee) seems to hate rand paul's guts. at the end of his 5 minutes, fauci interrupted (which is rare) and asked to use the remaining 32 seconds of paul's time to address all the bullshit he just spouted. alexander granted the time to fauci, and also asked him to respond to a particularly dumb thing Paul was saying about never opening up schools again. then alexander grinned and laughed at someone else in his home.

you gotta feel for the libertarians out there, though. coronavirus is an especially time for their dumb ideology

especially ^trying^ time

don't apologize, I appreciate it and don't have to watch it this way

I'm FB friends with pizza-delivering Libertarian Sean Haugh and have sent out a couple of exploratory anti-Libertarian needles, but he's been pretty quiet during all this and hasn't taken any bait.

susan fucking collins is standing up for the dentists of the world. she wants them to go back to work. she has heard from some of her dentist friends that people that had mere cavities now are facing root canals.

harbl, over to you

lol i turned it off during susan collins

Tim Kaine, Senator from Virginia <<< Timothy Cain, anti-hero from a Cormac McCarthy novel pic.twitter.com/NZ9C0lOBXT

— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) May 12, 2020

pat roberts says that fauci and crew are "like the fab four", although "it was the fab five, back in the day"

obviously he's referencing george martin as the 5th beatle there. or brian epstein. i guess.

'trump is increasingly isolated'

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-eyes-campaign-shake-up

"Dr Fauci, who is your favorite beatle in three different categories: best overall songwriter (career), potential (as in who was capable of producing the most brilliant song in a short burst of creativity), and cuteness"

'mr. chairman, here's a clue for you all . . .'

the walrus was Fau

Donald Trump just doesn't understand: We have an economic crisis because we have a public health crisis — and we have a public health crisis because he failed to act. pic.twitter.com/hRrueGgx2C

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 11, 2020

(btw, his comment/question for fauci was, rather than saying "there's no evidence for immunity" for people who have had coronavirus, shouldn't we instead be saying "there's no evidence for non-immunity"?)

― porlockian solicitor (Karl Malone), Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:33 AM (fifty-five minutes ago)

lmao, Dr Fauci, would you not disagree that we lack an absence of non-evidence about the unknown properties of non-immunity?

xp more like tim bain amirit

does susan collins have parkinson's?

Senators NOT wearing a mask while attending the COVID-19 hearing in person: Kelly Loeffler, Bill Cassidy, Richard Burr, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mike Braun, Rand Paul.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 12, 2020

Susan Collins has stupidsons.

She has this:
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/spasmodic-dysphonia

just want to document rand paul's actual words, because lol:

"The power over COVID-19 health policy, Paul said, “needs to be dispersed because people make wrong predictions. And really the history of this, when we look back, will be of wrong prediction after wrong prediction after wrong prediction.”

We’re opening up a lot of economies around the U.S. and I hope that people who are predicting doom and gloom and who are saying, ‘We can’t do this, there’s going to be a surge,’ will admit that they were wrong if there isn’t a surge, because I think that’s what’s going to happen,'” Paul said.

i'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the virus will do virusy kinds of things, like spreading

well Karl, keep in mind there are right right predictions, right wrong predictions, wrong right predictions, and wrong wrong predictions

"hahaha you thought a lot of ppl were gonna die but that didn't happen! bet you feel stupid now!!"