Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 1)

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There was only one comment on Variety, but it blamed the “Twitter mob,” which is ridiculous because Lorne Michaels canceled his appearance due to Morgan breaking SNL pre-show protocols. He was the person who Tik Tok’ed his way off the show and fully admits to doing this.

The right wing truly has a video-watching comprehension deficiency. It’s in their faces, on video, and they still blame the left. :roll_eyes:

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Win-win.

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I’m morbidly curious about how Mike Pence is going to attempt to justify his job performance at the debate tonight. If you recall, he’s ostensibly been heading up the White House task force on Covid-19 since February.

There are now more recorded cases of Covid-19 in the White House alone than in the nations of Vietnam, Taiwan and New Zealand combined.

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the preview i heard on an npr interview was the same old: a) it would have been worse. and b) only old infirm weaklings have to worry anyway.

i personally dont think biden did a good job of deflating that during the presidential debate. i’m 99% sure harris will do a better job of poking that bubble

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With luck she’ll turn Pence into a blubbering child the way she did with Kavanaugh.

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What “debate?” You mean that televised stream of constant interruptions which flowed from 45’s diseased mouth?

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Yeah. I don’t know that musician but found the linked article kind of a bright spot. The hosting organization (SNL) actually held people to their safety protocols. The artist admitted to messing up and blamed no one but himself. And it sounds like everyone involved acted like respectful humans in the aftermath. If only it could be like this more often. :woman_shrugging:t2:

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Or as soldiers do, blazoning their names, insignia of rank, and identification of their force and unit. It’s identifiable at a glance that this man is SSGT Williams of the 25th Infantry Division, US Army. (His name on the right breast, ‘US ARMY’ on the left, the three-chevrons-and-rocker of an E-6 on his cap and the placket of the uniform blouse, and the ‘tropical lightning’ badge of the 25th Infantry on the right sleeve.)

(This is why I claim that Trump’s little green men don’t look like soldiers. Soldiers want to be protected by the Geneva Conventions, so they display the insignia of their services, units, and rank, and their names. A soldier without distinctive insignia is a spy. )

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Pence is chump change - she needs to focus on attacking Trump.

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Yup. There’s only so many ways to whip mayonnaise.

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Of course “THIS is the sniveling piece of shit that the President put in charge of keeping us all safe from Covid-19??” could turn out to be a pretty effective line of attack against Trump too.

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I don’t know why he calls his spouse mother. He’s clearly the “mother”.

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Well technically you can tell that he USED to be with 25ID, or at least deployed with a unit that was task-organized under 25ID, but you cant see what his current assignment is because that’s on his left sleeve.

But otherwise yes, I agree.

ETA: (BTW, we used to call that patch the “Electric Strawberry”)

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I resent that slur against mothers.

Wait, why isn’t Mother demanding a plexiglass shield between him and another woman?

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This just keeps getting worse and worse…

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When this is all done there needs to be a memorial in Washington DC. It will be 10-20 times larger than the Vietnam memorial. And it should be built between the congressional parking garage and the congressional offices, so that everyone who works there has to walk through it every day.

And it should not just include the names of all those who died, but on a separate set of plaques all the assholes who made it happen, from the Republicans in State and Federal government, to Hoover Institute trash (and funders) to the Mammon-worshipping fake Christians to the social media executives and investors.

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Heh. I knew one guy who was with the 47ID, and they would jokingly turn their patch upside down and call it the Flying Jockstrap.

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