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Apr 27, 2020
Overheard
2020 Stress Factor:
People locked down by themselves just want some company, while people locked down with others just wanna be left the fuck alone.
People locked down by themselves just want some company, while people locked down with others just wanna be left the fuck alone.
Lemme Just Say
...fuck John Bolton.
And fuck whoever lets him continue playing his stoopid little power games - never calling him on the bullshit he floats every time he opens his mouth.
Jeff Toobin gets most of it right, even though he bogs down a little, doing the lawyer thing where he concentrates on the law itself instead of the effects of the actions of the people who always think they have the right to fuck around with the law in order to get what they want at the expense of the greater good.
If there's no greater good being served by the law, then the law becomes a selective boutique serving only the interests of plutocrats.
And yes, you can argue that we have to test the law so we can tweak it, trying to make it work better. But that process itself gets hijacked on a regular basis, and we end up fighting about the wrong thing - we fight about whether or not someone has sufficient power to bend the law to his will, instead of addressing the fact that he broke the fucking law and he has to be held to account for it.
New Yorker:
During the impeachment investigation, John Bolton, President Trump’s onetime national-security adviser, played a cagey game with Congress. He dropped hints suggesting that he knew a great deal about the President’s dealings with Ukraine—information that would have been highly relevant to the investigation. He also had a big deal with Simon & Schuster for a tell-all about his time in the Trump Administration, and the book had a tantalizing title: “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Bolton dodged testifying before either the House or the Senate, thus preserving his news-making disclosures for the book-buying public.
But Bolton may have outfoxed himself. Like anyone with access to classified information, he signed a prepublication-review agreement. Each government agency that allowed Bolton access to its information—and, in the case of a national-security adviser, that would have been virtually all of them—has the right to review his manuscript and to excise purportedly improper disclosures. Bolton left the government on bad terms with Trump, and it looks like the Administration may be taking revenge through the review process. Charles Cooper, Bolton’s lawyer, has already complained about how the Administration is delaying and revising Bolton’s book, and his publication date has already slipped from March to May. But there’s no guarantee that the review process will even be finished by May, either. (Cooper and a spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster declined to comment.)
And fuck whoever lets him continue playing his stoopid little power games - never calling him on the bullshit he floats every time he opens his mouth.
Jeff Toobin gets most of it right, even though he bogs down a little, doing the lawyer thing where he concentrates on the law itself instead of the effects of the actions of the people who always think they have the right to fuck around with the law in order to get what they want at the expense of the greater good.
If there's no greater good being served by the law, then the law becomes a selective boutique serving only the interests of plutocrats.
And yes, you can argue that we have to test the law so we can tweak it, trying to make it work better. But that process itself gets hijacked on a regular basis, and we end up fighting about the wrong thing - we fight about whether or not someone has sufficient power to bend the law to his will, instead of addressing the fact that he broke the fucking law and he has to be held to account for it.
New Yorker:
During the impeachment investigation, John Bolton, President Trump’s onetime national-security adviser, played a cagey game with Congress. He dropped hints suggesting that he knew a great deal about the President’s dealings with Ukraine—information that would have been highly relevant to the investigation. He also had a big deal with Simon & Schuster for a tell-all about his time in the Trump Administration, and the book had a tantalizing title: “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Bolton dodged testifying before either the House or the Senate, thus preserving his news-making disclosures for the book-buying public.
But Bolton may have outfoxed himself. Like anyone with access to classified information, he signed a prepublication-review agreement. Each government agency that allowed Bolton access to its information—and, in the case of a national-security adviser, that would have been virtually all of them—has the right to review his manuscript and to excise purportedly improper disclosures. Bolton left the government on bad terms with Trump, and it looks like the Administration may be taking revenge through the review process. Charles Cooper, Bolton’s lawyer, has already complained about how the Administration is delaying and revising Bolton’s book, and his publication date has already slipped from March to May. But there’s no guarantee that the review process will even be finished by May, either. (Cooper and a spokeswoman for Simon & Schuster declined to comment.)
COVID-19 Update
Kinda of a glaring discrepancy in today's numbers.
At the Johns Hopkins site, the numbers indicate a pretty significant slowing, but the Worldometer numbers are higher, and show the thing running apace.
First and foremost, you have to consider the high probability of Operator Error on this stuff - it's plenty reasonable to doubt my perfection.
Second, when something looks too good to be true, one must assume there's a glitch somewhere. Check your input - there are no miracles.
At the Johns Hopkins site, the numbers indicate a pretty significant slowing, but the Worldometer numbers are higher, and show the thing running apace.
First and foremost, you have to consider the high probability of Operator Error on this stuff - it's plenty reasonable to doubt my perfection.
Second, when something looks too good to be true, one must assume there's a glitch somewhere. Check your input - there are no miracles.
Apr 26, 2020
Brenda Varda
Yes - 45* is that one drunken fuck at the end of the bar who's stuck in a foggy brain state where he knows he has nothing worthwhile to contribute, but he can't stand thinking he's the dumbest one in the bunch, and his need to be in on the whole thing overrides his safety mechanisms - so he just lets it rip - proving what everybody already knows, and what he's always so desperate to hide.
Ms Varda, if you please:
Ms Varda, if you please:
Today's Tweet
Truth is an art form.
And now, a message from Dr. Anthony Fauci. #SNLAtHome pic.twitter.com/LYemNAWaAT— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 26, 2020
The Big Breakthrough
Cult45 is pleased so announce that a new and exciting COVID-19 cure has been developed and will be available at a Walmart near you very soon.
There's also a DIY kit for all you rugged individualists.
There's also a DIY kit for all you rugged individualists.
Once Upon A Time
...in a land quickly fading from our memory, there was a real president. But we grew stoopid and lazy, and 61,000,000 of us got snookered into believing that a guy who had never succeeded at anything but being a game show host was a good choice to lead the biggest baddest bestest country on Earth.
And here we are.
And here we are.
COVID-19 Update
Caution is advisable on this one, but for the first time since I started keeping track, the World Growth Rate For Cases is under the magic number 1 (0.97), which is down from 1.03 yesterday - a drop of almost 6%.
That could be significant in that it may indicate we're passing the inflection point, but it could just be a sign that we're reaching another plateau.
With the north heading into summer, and the south into winter, they're worried about the thing shifting back and forth between the hemispheres, continuing to fuck things up for as long as it takes to get the therapeutics &/or a vaccine in place.
That could be significant in that it may indicate we're passing the inflection point, but it could just be a sign that we're reaching another plateau.
With the north heading into summer, and the south into winter, they're worried about the thing shifting back and forth between the hemispheres, continuing to fuck things up for as long as it takes to get the therapeutics &/or a vaccine in place.
Meantime, President Stoopid has decided not to do the daily "briefing".
He caught so much shit about his "ideas" on injecting disinfectant into patients that maybe he's finally reached his own little inflection point, and he's starting to realize that no matter what he says, he's not getting past this by throwing some weird smokey shit up in the air today in order to keep us from dwelling on the weird smokey shit he threw up in the air yesterday.
Apr 25, 2020
COVID-19 Update
President Stoopid's live on-air musings about how maybe we should look at using disinfectants and UV light inside the body to kill the virus caused something of a stir.
NYT:
In Maryland, so many callers flooded a health hotline with questions that the state’s Emergency Management Agency had to issue a warning that “under no circumstances” should any disinfectant be taken to treat the coronavirus. In Washington State, officials urged people not to consume laundry detergent capsules. Across the country on Friday, health professionals sounded the alarm.
Injecting bleach or highly concentrated rubbing alcohol “causes massive organ damage and the blood cells in the body to basically burst,” Dr. Diane P. Calello, the medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, said in an interview. “It can definitely be a fatal event.”
Even the makers of Clorox and Lysol pleaded with Americans not to inject or ingest their products.
The frantic reaction was prompted by President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday at a White House briefing that an “injection inside” the human body with a disinfectant like bleach or isopropyl alcohol could help combat the virus.
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute,” Mr. Trump said after a presentation from William N. Bryan, an acting under secretary for science at the Department of Homeland Security, detailed the virus’s possible susceptibility to bleach and alcohol.
Poison Centers across the country have been reporting big increases in calls about toxic exposures - mostly, thank the fake lord, have been non-emergency or informational.
We keep hearing about under-reporting, so there's a fair chance that the numbers are low - both Cases and Deaths.
A month ago - March 25,2020 - in USAmerica Inc:
NYT:
In Maryland, so many callers flooded a health hotline with questions that the state’s Emergency Management Agency had to issue a warning that “under no circumstances” should any disinfectant be taken to treat the coronavirus. In Washington State, officials urged people not to consume laundry detergent capsules. Across the country on Friday, health professionals sounded the alarm.
Injecting bleach or highly concentrated rubbing alcohol “causes massive organ damage and the blood cells in the body to basically burst,” Dr. Diane P. Calello, the medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, said in an interview. “It can definitely be a fatal event.”
Even the makers of Clorox and Lysol pleaded with Americans not to inject or ingest their products.
The frantic reaction was prompted by President Trump’s suggestion on Thursday at a White House briefing that an “injection inside” the human body with a disinfectant like bleach or isopropyl alcohol could help combat the virus.
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute,” Mr. Trump said after a presentation from William N. Bryan, an acting under secretary for science at the Department of Homeland Security, detailed the virus’s possible susceptibility to bleach and alcohol.
Poison Centers across the country have been reporting big increases in calls about toxic exposures - mostly, thank the fake lord, have been non-emergency or informational.
We keep hearing about under-reporting, so there's a fair chance that the numbers are low - both Cases and Deaths.
And there's just as good a chance that the earliest actual cases and deaths happened well before any official acknowledgement.
A month ago - March 25,2020 - in USAmerica Inc:
Cases: 55,243 Dead: 802
Apr 24, 2020
Today's Beau
Be the free alpha - the one that leads by example instead of by force, and understands that the pack comes first - and not the one who is caged and fearful and alone.
Justin King - Beau Of The First Column
Justin King - Beau Of The First Column
Today's Tweet
There's that feeling of something ain't right - that something ominous is going on - that 45* is running one of his stupid little loyalty tests on Dr Birx.
The stress has to be enormous.
At which point do you think she tuned him out and started questioning her own life decisions?— 🌷Robyn (@rsmale) April 24, 2020
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