The Bidens hold hands, kiss, and otherwise show affection for each other, which is proof-positive that it's a fake relationship. Melania slaps Donald's hand away, spent the first two years of Trump's presidency doing everything she could to avoid being in the same state with Donald, and doesn't do much to disguise her distain for him, so yeah--genuine relationship there.
I wonder what kind of marriage Tucker's parents have/had? And is Tucker married?
His mother abandoned the family when he was six to lead a "bohemian" lifestyle, after which his father married the TV dinner heiress, so pretty toxic, I'd imagine. He's been married for 30 years with 4 kids, though, so his personal life seems pretty stable. But they're all all-white relationships. It's just the mixed ones that make him throw up.
But in this case we have an insatiable dark woman comin' for the white boys! I don't knows if I's should hide or just give mysself up and take one for the team!
Or maybe it’s just easier not to yank your mask down for a nanosecond and then put it back on immediately when you’re only giving your spouse a welcoming peck, as opposed to reenacting Rick and Ilsa’s emotional love scenes from Casablanca.
Again, normal people do not care about this. It’s all outrage porn for the base.
I'm now fully vaccinated, and yet, I still wear a mask in public spaces. It's not because I'm afraid the vaccine doesn't work, and not because I'm scared I'll contract some variant, and not because I worry I might bring the virus home to my fully vaccinated wife and her mother.
No. I wear a mask because none of the other people in the store can tell if I'm vaccinated. It's not like the vaccine makes you glow chartreuse or causes a sign to appear above your head. So I wear a mask so people around me don't feel uncomfortable (and don't think I'm one of those anti-mask Rightwing assholes).
It is, in the end, a gesture of compassion, of understanding, of acknowledging that other people exist and deserve my respect. All of which is, I guess, just far too much to ask of any True Patriot.
100%. I hate wearing a mask now that I'm vaccinated, but I know not everyone is vaccinated yet. Am I not allowed to be considerate of others or even do my part to avoid creating variants?
The policy position of "don't transmit deadly diseases to vulnerable populations" might seem rational to us, but to play devil's advocate, may also be atypical in a larger historical sense (Columbus didn't wear no mask!)
Okay, I admit, I'm still double masking inside. And doing it because I do not want even an asymptomatic case of it, because that can apparently still fucking get you long covid. I already have two distinct types of permanent headache. I'm not getting another, and I know people who are.
But yes, also my partner is not fully set in yet, and there are immunocompromised people, and the vaccines aren't 100% because no vaccine is, the rest of the world is spawning variants until we *all* get vaccinated, and THERE. ARE. CHILDREN. DYING. I mean, I'm not good with kids, but I don't actually want them to end up with lifelong diseases or dying.
Once the kids get vaccinated, or they tell us we can't spread it after being vaccinated, I'll still wear a cloth mask because people don't know I am, and given my history with vaccines I may not have made it to immunity. And, frankly, I like being able to mutter "Fuck off" at assholes without them knowing.
All true and correct, but 2 more things. The vaccine does not grant complete immunity, and it's undefined how much the vaccine prevents spread of the virus once you get it. This whole show isn't over until our old pal R0 (remember R0 and his big hit, Its The Exponential Growth Rate, Baby?) gets down to zero or as close as we can make it.
No kidding--I'm not crazy about wearing a mask, but this whole never-getting-sick-and-not-just-from-COVID thing really works for me. When I'm shopping or in other public spaces I'll be masked for the foreseeable future.
Quick reminder that some people lip read, and dealing with us assholes who don't get that is hard enough. Enunciate! Don't just go "Never mind" if they ask you to repeat yourself. Once covid is gone, it is not unreasonable to ask someone to take their mask off so you can understand them. There aren't really good answers to this, so just be aware.
Presented for your consideration: “When I write of ‘best columnists,’ I’m thinking of George Will.” Fred Hiatt, 5/9/21. Another installment is “this is why we can’t have nice things.”
I can't. I'm so fucking allergic to that guy's prose. I came close to dying when I tried to read one of his goddamned baseball books. (The logic was, "I don't care about anything else he wants to write about anyway, and at least this has the benefit of a commonly accepted reality.")
"[Emma Green] suggested that “progressive politics” made people “neurotic” because it “focuses on fighting against everyday disasters, such as climate change and poverty..."
So what are they supposed to fight against? Skeletor?
"We are watching the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable..."
In the overblown sophomoric style of Carlson and his epigones, anything can be made an object of resentment and outrage.
"Lines have always been incompatible with a free society. Waiting in line denies people their freedom to be individuals. We used to know that. Our forefathers didn't wait in line at the local saloon to be served, they bellied right up to the bar like free men. Waiting in line transforms us from free citizens into obedient automatons. Lines prevent intimacy and human contact. If I can’t see your face, I can’t know you. Does any one of us benefit by staring at the ass of the person in front of us for the purpose of some discredited liberal idea of 'order?' Waiting in line is a sign of meek obedience, almost cowardice. Is that who Americans are? Is that who we want to be?"
Before there were roads, you could drive anywhere you wanted to. Then the socialists decided we better stay inside certain lines. They even built guardrails and concrete barriers -- literal walls and fences to control Americans. Liberals were the first ones to Build The Wall -- classic radical left hypocrisy.
If you’ve been to Nebraska, you know they’ve been flouting this a long time. Everybody drives in the left lane on the interstate, no matter how slow they’re going or whether they intend to pass.
"[S]ince when do conservatives, who make up most of the vaccine abstainers, take their social cues..." from facts?
"Dumber conservatives like Meghan McCain... insisted that if vaccinated persons were themselves safe from serious illness, they have no need to concern themselves with the welfare of anyone who may not be."
I confess: I'm pretty much in agreement. Happy torso my vaccinated self against the possibility of infecting whatcha can call a Republican or likely Republican voter's health and wellbeing. You know, doing my share is supporting Jehovah's plague of the 'rona by which he attempted to send a message to Xian heretics, the sociopathically greedy, et al.
As for the efforts described in today's post, the snowflakes need all the reassurance they can get because they're far too cowardly to own their beliefs. They need bullshit for reinforcement. Then again, being complicit -- actually accomplices -- in the gratuitous, avoidable Covid deaths caused by their beloved Donnie choosing to ignore the pandemic as much and as long as he could, they need even more reassurance of lies than normal.
A new study from IMHE estimates that almost 900,000 Americans have died of COVID. That Trump and his propagandists turned every element of this pandemic into yet another idiotic means to divide the populace and score political points has resulted in mass murder. The fact that there is now an oversupply of the vaccine due to the lack of demand is just obscene. In a just world Tucker Carlson would be burned at the stake.
For anyone who doesn't know about it, here's what happened in a more enlightened time, when there was a brief outbreak of smallpox in NYC in 1947:
"Within three weeks of the discovery of the outbreak, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with New York City health officials, had procured the smallpox vaccine and inoculated over 6,350,000 adults and children.[1] Of that number, 5,000,000 had been vaccinated within the first two weeks. The rapid response was credited with limiting the outbreak to 12 people, 10 of whom recovered, while 2 died."
'We are ... the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable'...is Fox's real slogan.
I can’t wait for fall when Emma Green scolds everyone on the propriety of wearing white after Labor Day. Maybe just mind your own fking business, Gladys Kravitz.
EAIAC - Every Accusation Is A Confession - without Trump dominating the political discourse of hate, we are left with this bunch of losers and their screeching about sensible health politics. This after the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has estimated that the US had more than 900,000 excess deaths since March 2020 including the more than 500,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths. They have no credible policy responses to Biden so it's just the truly endless culture wars.
Pretty much shorter Tucker et al: "How dare that n****r show herself in public?!?!?"
Yep. “Tonight on Tucker Carlson: Kamala Harris Continues to Exist -- What is She Trying to Prove?”
I had to check: When Joe and Jill kiss in public, Carlson complains that it's a "fake" relationship https://people.com/politics/biden-granddaughter-responds-after-tucker-carlson-criticizes-their-marriage/ When Doug and Kamala do, he's can't even give any reasons, he's purely nauseated. He's really going all the way back to miscegenation terror in this, isn't he?
The Bidens hold hands, kiss, and otherwise show affection for each other, which is proof-positive that it's a fake relationship. Melania slaps Donald's hand away, spent the first two years of Trump's presidency doing everything she could to avoid being in the same state with Donald, and doesn't do much to disguise her distain for him, so yeah--genuine relationship there.
I wonder what kind of marriage Tucker's parents have/had? And is Tucker married?
His mother abandoned the family when he was six to lead a "bohemian" lifestyle, after which his father married the TV dinner heiress, so pretty toxic, I'd imagine. He's been married for 30 years with 4 kids, though, so his personal life seems pretty stable. But they're all all-white relationships. It's just the mixed ones that make him throw up.
Interesting, trying to find out anything about her specifically is nearly impossible.
I'm confused. If daddy married the Swanson heiress after Tucker was born, how'd he get the middle name? Or get any of the Swanson fortune?
I like procaiming 'Carlson:thought::Swanson:food'.
But in this case we have an insatiable dark woman comin' for the white boys! I don't knows if I's should hide or just give mysself up and take one for the team!
Or maybe it’s just easier not to yank your mask down for a nanosecond and then put it back on immediately when you’re only giving your spouse a welcoming peck, as opposed to reenacting Rick and Ilsa’s emotional love scenes from Casablanca.
Again, normal people do not care about this. It’s all outrage porn for the base.
Exactly.
when i get asked why i'm still wearing a mask, i always reply that it's too trigger sensitive right-wing snowflakes.
I'm now fully vaccinated, and yet, I still wear a mask in public spaces. It's not because I'm afraid the vaccine doesn't work, and not because I'm scared I'll contract some variant, and not because I worry I might bring the virus home to my fully vaccinated wife and her mother.
No. I wear a mask because none of the other people in the store can tell if I'm vaccinated. It's not like the vaccine makes you glow chartreuse or causes a sign to appear above your head. So I wear a mask so people around me don't feel uncomfortable (and don't think I'm one of those anti-mask Rightwing assholes).
It is, in the end, a gesture of compassion, of understanding, of acknowledging that other people exist and deserve my respect. All of which is, I guess, just far too much to ask of any True Patriot.
100%. I hate wearing a mask now that I'm vaccinated, but I know not everyone is vaccinated yet. Am I not allowed to be considerate of others or even do my part to avoid creating variants?
The policy position of "don't transmit deadly diseases to vulnerable populations" might seem rational to us, but to play devil's advocate, may also be atypical in a larger historical sense (Columbus didn't wear no mask!)
Am I not allowed to be considerate of others or even do my part to avoid creating variants?
What kind of Republican are you?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Republican_Automatons_George_Grosz_1920.jpg
Okay, I admit, I'm still double masking inside. And doing it because I do not want even an asymptomatic case of it, because that can apparently still fucking get you long covid. I already have two distinct types of permanent headache. I'm not getting another, and I know people who are.
But yes, also my partner is not fully set in yet, and there are immunocompromised people, and the vaccines aren't 100% because no vaccine is, the rest of the world is spawning variants until we *all* get vaccinated, and THERE. ARE. CHILDREN. DYING. I mean, I'm not good with kids, but I don't actually want them to end up with lifelong diseases or dying.
Once the kids get vaccinated, or they tell us we can't spread it after being vaccinated, I'll still wear a cloth mask because people don't know I am, and given my history with vaccines I may not have made it to immunity. And, frankly, I like being able to mutter "Fuck off" at assholes without them knowing.
I believe that's called empowerment.
All true and correct, but 2 more things. The vaccine does not grant complete immunity, and it's undefined how much the vaccine prevents spread of the virus once you get it. This whole show isn't over until our old pal R0 (remember R0 and his big hit, Its The Exponential Growth Rate, Baby?) gets down to zero or as close as we can make it.
a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable...
When it comes to you, Tucker, you're probably right.
Wearing a mask should be de rigeur in cold & flu season from here on out (if not only because it will be lingering mutating COVID season as well).
RW idea of "socialized medicine": all of us equally share a deadly virus.
No kidding--I'm not crazy about wearing a mask, but this whole never-getting-sick-and-not-just-from-COVID thing really works for me. When I'm shopping or in other public spaces I'll be masked for the foreseeable future.
Quick reminder that some people lip read, and dealing with us assholes who don't get that is hard enough. Enunciate! Don't just go "Never mind" if they ask you to repeat yourself. Once covid is gone, it is not unreasonable to ask someone to take their mask off so you can understand them. There aren't really good answers to this, so just be aware.
They're so pro-life.
Yeah, right, Edward Roso... "try..." <eyeroll>
Presented for your consideration: “When I write of ‘best columnists,’ I’m thinking of George Will.” Fred Hiatt, 5/9/21. Another installment is “this is why we can’t have nice things.”
I think Hiatt is referring to Will's latest column, which is Will's observations on turning 80. It's actually very good and worth reading.
I can't. I'm so fucking allergic to that guy's prose. I came close to dying when I tried to read one of his goddamned baseball books. (The logic was, "I don't care about anything else he wants to write about anyway, and at least this has the benefit of a commonly accepted reality.")
Per se isn't. No good can come from someone who's done as much harm as Will has.
"[Emma Green] suggested that “progressive politics” made people “neurotic” because it “focuses on fighting against everyday disasters, such as climate change and poverty..."
So what are they supposed to fight against? Skeletor?
So what are they supposed to fight against?
biweekly disasters
It's the imaginary disasters we should spend real time and resources on, not the everyday ones. Duh.
'
Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen
In the dark
Where all the fevers grow
Under the water
Where the shark bubbles blow
In the mornin'
By yer radio
Do the walls close in to suffocate you
You ain't got no friends
And all the others: they hate you
Does the life you've been leadin' gotta go?
Well, lemme straighten you out
About a place I know
(Now, get yer shoes and socks on people
Because it's right aroun' the corner!)
You go out through the night
And the whispering breezes
To the place where they keep
The imaginary diseases
'
No, no. If you're a republican, Skeletor is a good guy.
Democrat: We should fund science so the planet doesn't die.
Republican: Science gives us men who pee in ladies' restrooms, which leads to murder!!!
Yes, one party has a long history of fighting against Skeletor. And other cartoon threats.
Actually, the planet will not die until the sun goes nova.
Animal and plant life will do what they've always done: adapt.
The only Q that matters is whether we can or will adapt.
N-gg-rs.
"We are watching the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable..."
Wow, that's top notch projection.
In the overblown sophomoric style of Carlson and his epigones, anything can be made an object of resentment and outrage.
"Lines have always been incompatible with a free society. Waiting in line denies people their freedom to be individuals. We used to know that. Our forefathers didn't wait in line at the local saloon to be served, they bellied right up to the bar like free men. Waiting in line transforms us from free citizens into obedient automatons. Lines prevent intimacy and human contact. If I can’t see your face, I can’t know you. Does any one of us benefit by staring at the ass of the person in front of us for the purpose of some discredited liberal idea of 'order?' Waiting in line is a sign of meek obedience, almost cowardice. Is that who Americans are? Is that who we want to be?"
Not to mention driving on the right side of the road. Who's to say the right side is the right side?
Before there were roads, you could drive anywhere you wanted to. Then the socialists decided we better stay inside certain lines. They even built guardrails and concrete barriers -- literal walls and fences to control Americans. Liberals were the first ones to Build The Wall -- classic radical left hypocrisy.
If you’ve been to Nebraska, you know they’ve been flouting this a long time. Everybody drives in the left lane on the interstate, no matter how slow they’re going or whether they intend to pass.
"[S]ince when do conservatives, who make up most of the vaccine abstainers, take their social cues..." from facts?
"Dumber conservatives like Meghan McCain... insisted that if vaccinated persons were themselves safe from serious illness, they have no need to concern themselves with the welfare of anyone who may not be."
I confess: I'm pretty much in agreement. Happy torso my vaccinated self against the possibility of infecting whatcha can call a Republican or likely Republican voter's health and wellbeing. You know, doing my share is supporting Jehovah's plague of the 'rona by which he attempted to send a message to Xian heretics, the sociopathically greedy, et al.
As for the efforts described in today's post, the snowflakes need all the reassurance they can get because they're far too cowardly to own their beliefs. They need bullshit for reinforcement. Then again, being complicit -- actually accomplices -- in the gratuitous, avoidable Covid deaths caused by their beloved Donnie choosing to ignore the pandemic as much and as long as he could, they need even more reassurance of lies than normal.
Just slap me on my mask. I like my pandemic play a little rough.
A new study from IMHE estimates that almost 900,000 Americans have died of COVID. That Trump and his propagandists turned every element of this pandemic into yet another idiotic means to divide the populace and score political points has resulted in mass murder. The fact that there is now an oversupply of the vaccine due to the lack of demand is just obscene. In a just world Tucker Carlson would be burned at the stake.
For anyone who doesn't know about it, here's what happened in a more enlightened time, when there was a brief outbreak of smallpox in NYC in 1947:
"Within three weeks of the discovery of the outbreak, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with New York City health officials, had procured the smallpox vaccine and inoculated over 6,350,000 adults and children.[1] Of that number, 5,000,000 had been vaccinated within the first two weeks. The rapid response was credited with limiting the outbreak to 12 people, 10 of whom recovered, while 2 died."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_outbreak
Not only don't our leaders give a shit about the masses, the masses no longer give a shit about the masses. (Just a slight exaggeration.)
So it's possible they were just trolling the wingnuts?
'We are ... the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable'...is Fox's real slogan.
I can’t wait for fall when Emma Green scolds everyone on the propriety of wearing white after Labor Day. Maybe just mind your own fking business, Gladys Kravitz.
EAIAC - Every Accusation Is A Confession - without Trump dominating the political discourse of hate, we are left with this bunch of losers and their screeching about sensible health politics. This after the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has estimated that the US had more than 900,000 excess deaths since March 2020 including the more than 500,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths. They have no credible policy responses to Biden so it's just the truly endless culture wars.