Yeah - it needed a qualifier. “Came out roaring like a drunken monkey”?
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Vanguard?
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Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky (!) have Democratic governors, and Kentucky borders Virginia. There’s a bloc for you.
We border CA, but I know which way the Doug is going to Douchey when Trump starts giving orders.
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Get Ohio and Michigan and you’ve got a sensible Great Lakes pact (we’ll skip over Indiana).
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Actually, the news from Wisconsin this week is the first ray of hope I’ve seen in quite a few years from that state, which shockingly changed affiliation, seemingly overnight. Minnesota, too, has gone from Scandi socialism to Michele Bachmann. Michigan has a large number of militia groups. And Kentucky…have you met their senators???
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I have not gotten around to watching these yet, but it seems like they’ll be worth while…
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Oh, Elon
I made a bet with some random twitter person (loser gives to a food bank) about Elon never delivering. We settled on Elon actually producing (not merely buying) a single solitary working ventilator and delivering it to a medical facility in 3 weeks. Offered to double it for another 3 weeks. I would have given him 6 months on the initial bet but he was quite optimistic, as Elon fans tend to be.
It seemed like miraculous news at a moment when the state was desperately searching for ventilators to help save critical coronavirus patients. But was it true?
Newsom’s office now says Musk was supposed to deliver the ventilators directly to hospitals. So far, however, the governor’s office says no California hospital has received them.
It’s also not clear whether Musk actually has any ventilators to give. A report by the Financial Times’ Alphaville column revealed that Musk had purchased Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BPAP) machines, which he then plastered with Tesla stickers and shipped to New York.
BPAP machines might have some use but there isn’t actually a shortage of them (go order yourself one if you wish!). Nothing miraculous about a rich guy bulk buying some machines that aren’t even hard to find. ELON MUSK, ENGINEERING SUPERGENIUS, is not a real thing, and politicians really should stop falling for his bullshit.
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cool, well. i guess south dakota won’t last till october now… so problem solved? /s
i hope pine ridge and standing rock et al are able to do their own thing. i know with all the economic issues they face normally, it’s got to be hard enough already
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Please. We all know that those machines will be upgraded to full self breathing ventilators when the next software version is pushed out.
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But those upgrades will switch off because the current operator isn’t authorized to have them.
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Sorry Scientology, I contact the Buddhists for all my sanitation needs.
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I have a friend who works at the University of Chicago Hospital Center, which has the only trauma unit on the south side of Chicago. She just sent me a photo of the entrance to their trauma bay:
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Hey look, a new word for the president to struggle with saying
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This may turn into a great way for Planned Parenthood to continue providing health care in every state, no matter what, even after the coronavirus crisis is contained:
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Meanwhile, despite Trump’s attempt to sabotage the work:
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That Mary Barra - bested Elon by getting the first general consumer ev with a decent range to market way before his model 3 - beats him by producing actual critically needed ventilators in record time during a crisis while he twiddles with his - uh - thumb and purchases some cpap machines.
Countdown to when he starts calling her pedo gal?
Edit:
“ Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also said that the company’s shuttered solar panel factory in Buffalo, New York, will be repurposed to produce ventilators “as soon as humanly possible,” although New York officials have since clarified that once the Buffalo factory does begin operations again, it would only be making a single component, not complete ventilator devices.”
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