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October 02, 2020 06:44 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

  • 77 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”

–Pierre Corneille

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77 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread

  1. What debate?

     

     

     

    What banking crimes?
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/fincen-banks-suspicious-activity-reports-buzzfeed.html

    What fires in blue states?

    What postal issues?

    What tax returns? What personal debt owed to Russians?

    Thoughts and prayers.
    I wonder what Melania and Hope were wearing?
    Was Hope ever an underwear model? Are there any pictures of Melania and Hope together?
    OMG – what about the people around them Wed and since?
    Thoughts and prayers.

    1. President Trump Discovers Cure!

      I am thinking how does having it help his campaign.
      What's the biggest, boldest, helpful lie he can tell?
           I took hydroxychloroquine and I'm fine.
           I am announcing a cure. I discovered a cure.
          I got because I wore a mask.

       

      1. Nope – the worst possible scenario is he only gets a mild case, and comes out roaring two weeks later that it's just like the cold and everyone should stop worrying, so open everything back up fully right now. 

  2. This is a moment I have been anticipating. It is my fondest wish that the Infecter-in-Chief suffers desperately from this virus.

    I am eager to see him and his family and friends pay a price for their decisions. If that attitude damns my soul…so be it.

    There has never been a more hateful, cruel, and corrupt person in such a powerful position in this country. His meanness and selfish malevolence have killed and injured thousands of his countrymen.

    If he survives, perhaps the experience will change him. We can only hope…no pun intended.

      1. That was my first reaction this AM. He lies so much I don't trust anything. He can lay low for 2 weeks, avoid debates, etc. Then come out and say Covid is a piece of cake. I thought the same when Bolsonaro supposedly contracted it. I hate that I've become this way.

        1. You all aren’t the only ones who are highly suspicious of this, and rightly so. Fucker Trump will lie about anything.  At least it means 14 fewer days of idiotic rallies.

        2. I can't see an upside to claiming to have this and in reality, not.

          It will confuse his already easy-to-confuse base. And it certainly won't win him any sympathy votes. Not to mention it underscores how wrong he has been about the pandemic and the advice he has been giving people.

          And it places the pandemic issue front and center when he wants to talk about:  (a) the Supreme Court nomination, (b) "the problem with the ballots" and what is going on in Philadelphia (spoiler alert:  nothing), (c) the Proud Boys, (d) pre-existing conditions and his work in helping those with them (yeah, right!), and (e) Crooked Hillary.

          1. IT CHANGES THE SUBJECT (s)

            It allows him to claim
            – he's cured! He discovered a cure
            – it's no worse than a cold. Just a cold – hoaxy, fake, exaggerated cold
            – monkeys in fact did fly out of his butt
            – Hope Hicks is the polyamory unicorn

            It's the perfect October surprise
            – cannot be fact checked
            – cannot be challenged politely

             

             

            He could step aside temporarily, allow Pence to pardon him (and Jared and Ivanka and a dozen others) and then get CURED! and resume.
            all in two weeks.

            Dream big.

            1. …and as a bonus FLOTUS gets a little distraction from her tape! 

              “I’m working … my a** off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f*** about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?”

              She continued, “OK, and then I do it and I say that I’m working on Christmas and planning for the Christmas and they said, ‘Oh, what about the children that they were separated?’ Give me a f****** break.

              #MelaniasWarOnXmas 

                1. He's due for many more. 

                  Several may happen simultaneously as he's perp-walked out of the WH where Melanoma's attorney and Cy Vance will all be waiting for him. 

                  And they are just the first part of the gauntlet.

                  1. Once an editor, always an editor.

                    A gauntlet is a glove.  You throw the gauntlet to challenge someone.

                    A gantlet is a line of people, on both sides of a
                    Person.  You run a gantlet while they beat you, kick you or maybe just cough at you without a mask.

                    Yes, correcting this is a lost cause.  Gauntlet is misused maybe 80 percent of the time.  My fellow pedant dave barnes will back me up on this.

                     

        3. I hate that it's necessary – but I LOVE that we've become this way.

          If the people don't get really, really suspicious – it's all over but the coronation. FTR – I would accept Elizabeth only if Charles is guaranteed out.

  3. "Your Time Is Gonna Come"
    Led Zeppelin

    Lyin', cheatin', hurtin, that's all you know to do.
    Sourcing every big covid lie in town,
    Puttin' Joe down for wearing' his mask.
    Always the same, playin' your game,
    Drive me insane, trouble is gonna come to you,
    One of these days and it won't be long,
    You'll look for our votes, but they're goin' to Joe.
    This is all I gotta say to you orange man:

    [Chorus]
    Your Time Is Gonna Come [X4]

        1. I will leave this here. 

          I want to take a minute to tell V. and all his song parody troops… I love you guys. You inspire me and entertain me at a time when it is so appreciated. I wrote my first song in 1982. After an extended drought, I have begun to write again. Thank you guys ( I don't need to name names) for the inspiration. Keep up the great (and fun) work! Rock on!

          🎼🎶🎸😎

           

            1. It will be a while, thanks for asking. I stopped performing live in early March and have no intention of resuming until at least next spring. After a particularly indolent summer, I am preparing to start posting songs, etc.

              There are  significant learning curves and an upgrade to my internet service that will be necessary. All of which are subject to procrastination, as that seems to be my guiding principle lately.

              I will certainly let you all know as soon as any material will be available on You Tube..

              Thanks again for asking.😎🎸

  4. Let them eat cake (and make sure they know it came from me)
     

    Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him

    Fox News first reported in July that letters would be included in some boxes over the summer and credited Ivanka Trump with the idea. In response, Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue complaining that the effort could be a violation of the Hatch Act, the federal law preventing executive branch employees from engaging in political activity. They asked the department to end the practice “immediately.”

  5. Bidens test negative. Let’s hope that continues.

     

    $rump’s diagnosis sets up the next debate- it should be remote, conducted on Zoom or a similar platform, hosted by the moderator Joy Reid with a “mute” button for candidates when it is not their turn to speak. 

  6. 32 days to election.  Will Trump still be alive?

    -0-

    Tune: Elvira, Oak Ridge Boys.

     

    The virus

    The virus

    Trump’s heart’s on fire with the virus.

    Giddy up, giddy up,

    Cough and sneeze

    Shoulda worn a mask

    We said pretty please.

    Now his heart’s on fire with the virus.

    *

    Giddy up, oom poppa, oom poppa, mow mow

    I guess Mike Pence is the man in charge now.

    Trump’s heart’s on fire with the virus.

    He told us the virus was just a hoax

    He drank a quart of chlorox

    that was one of his jokes.

    Now his heart’s on fire with the virus.

    Giddy up, oom poppa, oom poppa, mow mow

    His lungs and liver will be next on fire now

    That his heart’s on fire with the virus.

    1. Giving some credit to the songwriter, country star Dallas Frazier wrote "Elvira" in 1965 and did the first recording.

      I had it many years ago on a double vinyl album of late '60s and early '70s country songs. 

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