Yesterday I thought it was Thursday all day, so I was sorely disappointed when I sat down to write the DOT and realized that no, it was not Thursday yet.
But now it is, so let’s see what’s going on, shall we?
Pardon me, but I think Rip covered a lot of this yesterday, but srsly?
How much protection can Trump offer his family with his pardon power? A lot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/02/how-much-protection-can-trump-offer-his-family-with-his-pardon-power-lot/
Covid updates on Wapo are free.
CDC director issues chilling warning: This winter will be ‘most difficult time’ in U.S. public health history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/02/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-ZKMDHTXKI5APJEJLRO5QH2W574
Meanwhile…
UK approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine for rollout next week
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/02/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-wins-licence-for-use-in-the-uk
Thanks I love it.
Mark Kelly sworn in as US senator, flipping Arizona seat from red to blue
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/politics/mark-kelly-swearing-in-arizona-senator/index.html
Sprots!
The thoughtless husks who plunged this NFL season into chaos deserve a public shaming
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/12/02/nfl-covid-masks-tracing-devices/
Stonks!
S&P 500 ekes out record close as Wall Street weighs new round of stimulus talks
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
I think I’ve mentioned I love this mess:
Oligarch’s son flees to Russia as mother sues over ‘hidden’ divorce millions
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/02/oligarchs-son-temur-akhmedov-flees-to-russia-mother-sues-over-hiding-divorce-millions
LOL; worth a watch.
2020 almost over!
Have a good Thursday, Deadsplinterati!
Thanks for sharing the Match.com advert – that is some genius creative work.
I legit LOL’d
Ah, Pompeo. “Do as I say, not as I do.” So quintessentially Republican.
Pompeo is making a vicious power move where he is demanding people put their bodies on the line in a show of loyalty. It’s well known he wants to run in 2024 and he is trying to lock in people now.
I think he’s overplaying his hand, and the post Trump GOP weasels are going to chew through the wire of his cage a lot faster than he thinks.
Yes. There are a lot of vultures tearing at the corpse of Trumpism. Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis are making plays to become the next Trump. Matt Gaetz, Rick Scott, probably a dozen or more that I’m missing.
I think the essential ingredient that these cretins are all missing is profile. Sure, they can do racist and sexist and all the horrible things that make up Trump, but the one thing they all lack is a reality TV show to raise their profiles among the MAGAs. I don’t think Trump would have been successful in his initial run if he wasn’t already basically a household name. None of these garbage humans have that level of recognition. None of them can appeal to the people who are drinking beer and watching TV in their garages.
In a real way, I think The Apprentice is responsible for the shitstorm of the last four years.
Oh, dear. Voter fraud uncovered in Georgia runoff:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999664/-Florida-GOPer-tries-to-commit-voter-fraud-in-Georgia-runoff-gets-caught
Y’all pardon me while I bwah-ha-ha for about 2 minutes over here.
Drunk star witness:
“All Chinese look alike”:
America 2020
First I laughed. But upon further reflection, this is seriously fucked up. They’re trotting these idiots out to bolster their case? Holy shit. How senile is Rudy?
Let’s say we issue voter IDs to all those people who look alike. Won’t they be able to interchange IDs indiscriminately because, you know, they all look alike? What am I missing here?
Exactly. If “all Chinese look alike” then “all Chinese IDs look alike.”
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say logic is not the default reasoning system for this woman. And who is that poor schmuck sitting next to her while this train crashes into a flatbed carrying flaming dumpsters which is then pushed into a natural gas tanker which then ignites an oil pipeline? (Train wreck doesn’t sufficiently describe this.) Every attorney who signs on to this shit needs to be censured if not disbarred. Every. One.
Exactly. What would be next? Fingerprints? DNA swabs?
Considering the fact that all these conspiracy idiots, who believe the conspiracy theories out of paranoia and a belief that the ultimate goal for the conspirators is to eventually invoke martial law, are calling for actual martial law (which is fucking fascinating) I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they ended up supporting dna swabs and implanted rfid chips to ensure their freedumb.
I guarantee you that if the RFID chips were implanted only in white people, these idiots would stand in line for days to get theirs.
oh hey….i guess america now gets christmas too
after 40 years someone finally translated flappie in to english
its not chrismas in the netherlands till flappie plays on the radio