I've Got To Get Going

My one-day news boycott was fun but its on with the hip boots and back into the morass!

Comments

[Marlene]

First? I could have commented at 5AM when the sun was streaming thru the window. :) The *literal* crack of dawn.

[JimNorCal]

ABob: "Nobody is dying in prison over Obamagate."
Epstein. Well, it's related, anyway :)

[Threadkiller]

Here is the retweet MM posted on the previous thread:

Donald J. Trump Retweeted

KK 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@LoveYourLife03
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12h
Replying to
@Techno_Fog
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/05/12/very-likely-judge-emmet-sullivan-committed-error-in-connection-with-flynn-sentencing/amp/?__twitter_impression=true…
How can this be used in getting attention to the Judge making a huge error? Shouldn't @GenFlynn plea be thrown out due to Sullivan breaking rule 11?

Haha! SWC has written 5 or 6 articles and he is already on Trump’s Twitter radar

Patterico will not like this as he concludes he was a victim of a conspiracy.

[Marlene]

I heard Maine's Gov. Mills called Gov."Kills" on a radio show,because she's killing Maine's economy. Every festival,fair,parade and other events have been cancelled or postponed. The Bangor July 4th parade has been postponed until Labor Day and will be called "Covid Independence Day." *eyeroll*

[henry]

@vickimckenna

Maxine Waters exposes the Dem's tell: "I don’t want to see these establishments opened back up."

https://twitter.com/vickimckenna/status/1260562270939209730?s=21

[KevlarKid]

Our Freedom

A Refresher.

[Extraneus]

Grenell 2024.

I wonder what he will do after Ratcliff is confirmed.

[MissMarple2]

Posted at end of previous thread. Video at the link.

🔥Dear Dr. Fauci, You are not the be all end all when it comes to this Coronavirus! You have been wrong at least 15 times during this whole pandemic! You predicted hundreds of thousands of deaths! Numbers change every week! And the CDC IS padding death #s! https://t.co/2mhQkjcize

— Diane Boyd (@Boyd_2650) May 12, 2020

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to article.

"It was the worst journalistic fiasco of now my more than 50 some years in journalism."@BritHume called the media's coverage of @realDonaldTrump's alleged collusion with Russia the "worst journalistic fiasco" he's seen in his 50-year career.https://t.co/DecpDsElgQ

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 13, 2020

[henry]

Why are we locked down? Half of all Kung Flu deaths were in just 5 states.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/05/wuhan-virus-watch-over-half-of-all-u-s-deaths-have-occurred-in-just-five-states/

[Marlene]

OL,the daughter and son-in-law were going to come up to Maine the end of the month. She doesn't think she'll be able to work in her D.C. office until mid-June. We were calling it "Escape from Maryland." Between the snowstorm the other day and the 14 day quarantine,they decided Maine wasn't a good option.

[Buckeye]

Marlene

I have it on good authority that Abbott is spending LOTS of money in Maine at the moment, but probably not anything like what the tourists spend in the bars:)

[MissMarple2]

More of the Washington Examiner article:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/brit-hume-mueller-report-coverage-worst-journalistic-fiasco-hes-seen-in-50-year-news-career

[JimNorCal]

Also ABob: "CA-25 flipped D to R yesterday?
I presume recount activities will fix that?"

They've got till mid-June to find ballots.
As of last night the Repub is winning 56%-44%

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President; video at the link:

Does anybody believe this man? Caught! https://t.co/WfnIqs6BsE

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2020

[MissMarple2]

Obama was always wrong! https://t.co/xRU4kJtExs

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2020

Video at the link.

[Marlene]

Maine has 65 deaths. I believe about half in nursing homes. The people with summer residences aren't going to stay out. The plumber was here the other day and said on MDI (Bar Harbor) there are lots of out of state license plates.

[Melinda]

Miss Sydney to Barack:

https://westvirginia.forums.rivals.com/threads/open-memorandum-to-barack-obama-from-sidney-powell.228977/

I have a furhter response but am trying to complete a long overdue mandatory compliance report and am sucked in by a horde of squirrels acting like real lemmings.

[Captain Hate]

Grenell 2024.

I wonder what he will do after Ratcliff is confirmed.

Since the derp state hates Ratcliff that may take a while during which Ric can continue to irritate those monkeys. I think the Golden Scalpweasel has big plans for him and is contemplating ideal landing places.

[Captain Hate]

SIDNEY!

[Melinda]

I'll work on that. Spousal Gmother was Sydney.

Squirrels are data, not people, FTSAH.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/us-supreme-court-rules-president-trump-reinstates-law-making-felony-encourage-help-people-come-stay-us-illegally/

[Captain Hate]

Since people get my last name wrong all the fucking time, I'm surely overly sensitive to it particularly for those on "our side".

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Your last name is SIDNEY!?

[Extraneus]

That Sidney Powell thing to Obama may be bogus. I don't see it on her website, and the link from Mel's 9:51 is dead.

[JimNorCal]

Breitbart headline: "California’s 25th Congressional District, Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, and Nebraska hold elections today during the coronavirus crisis."

Let's sum up:
The Repub won in CA, used to be a Repub seat before the Blue Wave but the district voted Hillary in '16

The WI race went to the Repub. Dems are celebrating because Trump won the district by 20 and this guy won by less than that
*rolls eyes*

I read somewhere that the Nebraska primary race saw an AOC Dem barely win the primary over a standard Dem. Dems are excited because NE Dems are trending left.
Good luck in the fall, guys, with your AOC aligned candidate

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Even CA progs will have a hard time closing a 12 or 13 point gap, but I'm sure they'll give it the old college try.

[cathyf]

Nahncee's "Letter to Santa" includes stripping voter ID from 35 states that require it

But how can you do contact tracing without ID?

[Captain Hate]

That link works for me and seems to be legit. I don't know why Mel would be lurking on Mountainqueers sports blog.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I think I can sum up Flynn's case since DOJ has fessed up and Van Butt Grack took a hike;

Sullivan is asshoe.

[Melinda]

1804 family graveyard/homestead is there.

[Captain Hate]

Morgantown?

[Melinda]

Outing "The Watergate Prosecutors" who filed the briefing:

Techno Fog
@Techno_Fog
More on Flynn case -

Part of the "Watergate Prosecutors" group who filed a brief opposing the DOJ motion to dismiss is Jill Wine-Banks.

Ms. Wine-Banks is a Trump/Russia collusion nutter who claimed General Flynn would get "immunity for kidnapping"

Good job Judge Sullivan!

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1260373700655841280

[Narciso]

Hes gone full rear admiral tk.

[Melinda]

New River Valley. Go look at the pics, you might understand why, if you think about the bottom of The Gorge.

[Jane]

That's a hell of a Memorandum. BTW "Licensed to Lie" is Sydney Powell's book.

[Extraneus]

That link works for me and seems to be legit.

The one at the top of the memo at the WV site, that links to Sidney's site?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I would like to go on record to assert the natural born citizen requirement should be suspended in 2024 so we can elect John Magufuli, current president of Tanzania, president of the US. Even his name is only one letter off from being perfect.
Has a masters and PhD in chemistry, has slashed government spending and cut his own salary from $15,000 per month to $4,000 and, unlike say Nancy Pelosi, he's an observant Catholic.
And as I linked before, he sent samples of paw-paws, sheep, goats, engine oil, etc to the WHO for Covid testing.
They either came back positive or indeterminate.
If nothing else he'd carry on the Trump entertainment factor.

[Captain Hate]

Patterico will not like this as he concludes he was a victim of a conspiracy.

Conspiracy of being sent packing by Red State? He's a terrible writer for starters. Half his urine tinged comments at his dogshit blog are telling others they're accusing him of things he didn't say. Here's a clue, dolt: write clearly and people won't be confused. Plus his sentences look like they were composed by an awkward idiot which is why he gets caught when he trolls non insane blogs.

[Jane]

I can't figure out why you guys keep reading a guy you hate? Is it to post about him?

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

What's up with the new Nanbill banning M&A?

Is this for real?

[Captain Hate]

Yes, it takes you to her blog. The open memo isn't there because it probably hasn't been posted there yet.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The memo isn't at her blog or at her twitter feed.
Well written whether she wrote or someone else.

[Captain Hate]

I can't figure out why you guys keep reading a guy you hate? Is it to post about him?

Try to bait him into coming here so we can verbally abuse him. I caught him trolling a dead thread at AoS and scorched him; daddy copied it here. He's admitted on his blog he knows what people are writing about him.

[henry]

The three warefares. Inscrutible meets show me.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/did-missouri-just-out-lawfare-china-153126

[Rocco]

I would think Judge Maddow would be furious with the prosecution for lying to him but instead, he offers Rachel's fans a platform to keep the resistance alive.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

My stupider nature sometimes prompts me to go poke him in the eye myself.
Fortunately, I've been able to suppress it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That purported Sid the Squid memo declares Judge Sullivan the judicial hero of her book.
Not sure if that's a red flag as to whether she wrote the memo or not.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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26m
When the so-called “rich guys” speak negatively about the market, you must always remember that some are betting big against it, and make a lot of money if it goes down. Then they go positive, get big publicity, and make it going up. They get you both ways. Barely legal?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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14m
As I have said for a long time, dealing with China is a very expensive thing to do. We just made a great Trade Deal, the ink was barely dry, and the World was hit by the Plague from China. 100 Trade Deals wouldn’t make up the difference - and all those innocent lives lost!

[Thomas Collins]

I acknowledge that the dot i and cross t theory is highly unlikely, OL. However, if Richard Dawkins was only 666-1 odds at the Paddy's Place book during the most recent election for Pope, there must be some non-infinity to one odds amount that Judge Sullivan is simply running the laundry through the washer and dryer again to make sure it's shining clean!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Wiki has Tuesday's usual spike in new deaths at the lowest level since late March and much smaller than the last several such spikes.
New cases continue to trend down and the trend seems to be accelerating a bit.

[Captain Hate]

She spoke very highly of Sullivan in Licensed to Lie.

[clarice]

I believe Powell's memo was linked elsewhere, maybe Techno Fog.

A must read :https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-flynn-almost-free-and-clear-the-scoundrels-need-to-be-brought-to-justice_3349205.html

[JimNorCal]

Google, Facebook and Cal State University system all extend shutdown to end of the year.
LUNACY

[JimNorCal]

TM: "My one-day news boycott was fun but its on with the hip boots and back into the morass!"

It's Twitter that brings a sparkle to TM's eye, a spring to his step and a lilt to his voice, amirite? :) :)

All the more reason to appreciate his willingness to host a flock of Deplorables.

[Extraneus]

I agree it's well written, and doesn't read like a hoax, but it's not at Techno_Fog, Margot, Huber, Sundance, Solomon, Mollie, and Sidney hasn't tweeted in 17 hrs.

[clarice]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/judge-gall-not-throw-impeached-harvard-attorney-alan-dershowitz-judge-sullivan-overseeing-general-flynn-case/

I think I saw it here, too.

[henry]

@vickimckenna

Rep John Kennedy Explains Why Pelosi’s Leftwing Wishlist House Coronavirus Bill Is As ‘Dead As Fried Chicken’

https://twitter.com/vickimckenna/status/1260582920487567360?s=21

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Anyone at JOM have a pending request to join the JOM FB Group? I have 3 requests pending and since it is difficult to match real names to JOM names...

2 days and I'm going to delete the requests.

[clarice]

And it's here:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/sidney-powell-hits-back-judge-sullivans-dirty-political-move-delay-flynn-case-proposed-amicus-brief-no-place-court/

[Buckeye]

Google, Facebook and Cal State University system all extend shutdown to end of the year.
LUNACY

Bet you could make a fortune smuggling 5.56 ammo to Cali.

[JimNorCal]

IG: "I would like to go on record to assert the natural born citizen requirement should be suspended in 2024 so we can elect John Magufuli, current president of Tanzania, president of the US."

I'm in.

[Extraneus]

Clarice, Mel's 9:51 is a link to an open memo from Sidney to Obama, which I can't find anywhere else. The Gateway links all show her brief to the court, opposing the amicus stuff, but not the memo to Obama.

[Davod]

Instapundit has a link to an Amazon for 50 face masks. When I looked up the additional info about the product it says:

This is a general use face mask.

This mask is not intended for medical use, and not proven to reduce the transmission of disease...

Made in China.

[Extraneus]

amom, Helen Smith has been linking that 50 mask thing for weeks. In the comments, people say the masks are from Wuhan, and everyone's complaining that she would link those.

Btw, someone also said that if you click an Insty Amazon link, they get a percentage of anything you buy from Amazon within the next 24 hours, not just if you buy the thing they linked. Does anyone know if that's true?

[Porchlight]

Cal is closing the universities so a bailout will be even more necessary. It's madness. I hope the other state unis don't follow them off a cliff.

While I feel for sane friends in blue states, my reaction is increasingly: buy the ticket, take the ride. You (collectively) voted for this.

No pro-lockdown person is going to be able to complain to me about the obvious and predictable sequelae to their prescribed policy and not get an earful.

[clarice]

Hmm, curious about that memo. Maybe she removed it from her page.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Joel Kotkin with his usual calm excellence;
Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?

[Porchlight]

Robin, I am very sorry to hear about your daughter's friend's mom. With my co-worker, I don't know how much the lockdown affected her mental state. But I imagine it must have had some impact.

[JimNorCal]

A note I've been meaning to write for a couple of days:
For all the people (this includes ME) who wanted Trump to roll out indictments earlier, look what's happening.

The Flynn case is clear as day. The enemedia is ignoring it or, amazingly, claiming it is not important. After Russia Hoax 24/7 for 3 years.

The enemedia is trying to normalize behaving like 3 year olds. Total emotion. No logic. No truth. They seem to hope that citizens across the nation will join in their hysteria.

It would have been no easier 3 years ago. In fact, it would have been harder.

[Davod]

Just when the push to relax quarantine is gaining momentum, a report shows children are affected by virus:

“The idea that children either don’t get Covid-19 or have really mild disease is an oversimplification,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, the director of pediatric infectious diseases at New York University School of Medicine and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at N.Y.U. Langone Health. It’s true — and comforting — that there have been fewer cases detected in children, and that the case fatality rate is much lower in children than in adults, especially older adults, he said, but “we have had some extremely sick children.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/well/family/coronavirus-children-covid-19.html

[Porchlight]

Via The New Criterion, a free online tutorial/class on historic brickwork.

https://www.classicist.org/articles/historic-brickwork-a-design-resource/

You can get AIA credit for it. Pretty cool. I have always been fascinated by bricks.

[Extraneus]

Gretchen Whitmer Targets 77-Year-Old Barber’s Livelihood, Strips Operating License ‘Without a Hearing’

[Captain Hate]

Here's another site that has it

https://centipedenation.com/transmissions/open-memorandum-to-barack-obama-from-sidney-powell/

Who knows why the usual suspects don't have it.

[Porchlight]

I think it's increasingly important not to lose the distinction between the pandemic and the panic over the pandemic which led to the lockdowns.

The virus did not cause great economic damage. The PANIC over the virus and subsequent LOCKDOWNS caused great economic damage.

The virus, which eventually became a pandemic, and the panic over it, are being fused into the same thing - called generally "the pandemic" - by the folks creating the narrative. Don't fall for it. Some smart righties are already just calling it "the pandemic" which is just what they want.

It didn't have to be this way.

[Jane]

"Try to bait him into coming here so we can verbally abuse him."

Sounds like he's got you just where he wants you - plus all that free advertising!!

[Extraneus]

Weird, Captain.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Just when the push to relax quarantine is gaining momentum, a report shows children are affected by virus:

They might want to investigate the 'paralysis' disease that illegal immigrants were suspected of causing primarily in the midwest due to their lack of immunizations.

Selective outrage over 'the chillrens' is such BS.

[Rocco]

If that memo's legit, Sidney goes for Obama's throat.

These examples are obvious and well-known. Perhaps you will soon find some remarkably good “jailhouse lawyers” to consult for further assistance on your search for precedent.

Of course he'll never go to jail but she sure is trolling that his friends are. I love this woman!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I have always been fascinated with chucking bricks.

[lyle]

Me: Harris
CH: Rice
jimmyk: Klobuchar
JiB: Whitmer
henry: Hilligula
Marlene: Warren
rich: satan
Clarice: Clarice
TC: Masto
Ignatz: fluke
TK: Romney
joan: Mad Max
MM: Big Mike (heh)
Jane: Jill
Steph: F’in Kerry
Buckeye: Birx
Catsmeat: Synema
Momto2: Oprah
TB: Hassan
Boris: Tulsi
Matt: Karen
Jim: Whoopi cushion
Melinda: Katie Throuple
D: Sanders
Kev: nemo
GUS: Howdy Doody
cindyk: Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
peter: "Jacob" LeMay
Dave: Tank Abrams
James D: JoeMentia
mih: Sparkle Markle
JMH: MR/MS Nobody
Rocco: Bernardine Dohrn
Elliot: Amy Chua
1/2aboy&1/2aman: MaligNancy

[Narciso]

I give up, lyle

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Very funny short video of the unspeakable Brian Stelter's newfound disdain for discussing anything about the Russia probe vs his three year long obsession with it.

[Another Bob]

“Since people get my last name wrong all the fucking time”

People get “Hate” wrong? WTH?

[Porchlight]

More on language:

--I never say "quarantine," only "lockdown." "Quarantine" is meant to convince you that you are doing the Right Thing for Public Health. This is not even a true quarantine. It is a lockdown.

--I never say "COVID-19" or "COVID." While it's technically correct, of course, it is the preferred term of those Karens who want you to know that they are Up To Date with Science and that they would Never be Racist by referring to the virus's Chinese origin. I only say CV, coronavirus, China virus, Wuhan, or more frequently something slangy or derogatory like rona or Kung Flu.

[Jim Eagle]

Porchlight,

Thanks for that link to Bricks. I passed it onto Mrs. JiB, as she is an AIA member. My great-great grandfather was a brick maker during the early mornings of the day and then a famous cricket bowler later in the day:) His kiln was set up in Brighton, England in a park setting that eventually got surrounding by Georgian and Victorian villas built with those bricks.

[Jim Eagle]

An addendum on Bricks:

Those kilns in Brighton were used to make and cure the bricks used to build the fortifications around Paris. A number of them still exist.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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6m
THANK YOU, WORKING HARD! #MAGA

You KNOW that has to be driving Obama nuts! (Nancy is already 'round the bend.)

[Neo]

The handling of the nursing homes during the COVID pandemic seems to resemble the scene in “Death Race 2000” when the staff put the aged residents outside so the race contestants could run them down for extra points.

[MissMarple2]

Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
·
2h
For years, Democrats—including Adam Schiff—claimed there was evidence of Russian collusion. It was a lie.

Obama officials knew it was a lie, yet they continued to publicly share misinformation. They betrayed the trust of the American people.

[Neo]

Pennsylvania Health Secretary moved own mother out of a nursing home during pandemic while directing infected patients into them.

[Dave (in MA)]

Lileks:
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/20/0520/051320.html

... the Wuhan Virus changed everything (I call it that because it is a virus that came from Wuhan) ...

On any given day at Southdale before the Wuhan Virus (I call it that because they were probably tinkering on a virus to learn things, and crap crap, that shouldn't have happened, well, hope for the best) ...

I could get the Wuhan Virus (I call it that to push back against Newthink that insists the smart people call it the European Virus) and I could die. I know that. I keep that in mind all the time when I leave the house, and gather my tools and shields, and mind my actions with care, for the same reason I signal a lane change on an empty highway. You never know what's in your blind spot. ...

[MissMarple2]

The Forgotten American
Flag of United States
@NoLongerIgnored
·
1h
"A former deputy assistant secretary of the State Department, who oversaw diplomatic security training until 2018 & previously headed Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s security detail, was arrested...and charged w/molesting a child between 2011 & 2013"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/05/07/former-top-state-department-official-arrested-child-molestation-charges/

[Extraneus]

The problem with reopening is the fear of frivolous lawsuits, which McConnell has been talking about trying to fix for weeks. Considering what's in the latest Dem $3T wish list in the House, it's hard to see how anything can pass, so the litigation problem will be a major drag on economic recovery.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That's a sick but true LOL at 11:53, Neo.

[Porchlight]

That's super cool, JiB.

[Porchlight]

lyle, sorry I missed it - what are we voting on?

[MissMarple2]

2 comments on hydroxychloroquine and COVID spread:
(1) a smaller viral load for shorter a period of time = a lower probability of transmission;
(2) pre-test, pre-symptom prophylaxis seems to be a key factor in India's ability to stamp out family clusters and contain contagion. pic.twitter.com/hVFBjG1RvO

— Covid19Crusher (@Covid19Crusher) May 12, 2020

Link goes to a screen cap of a memo from the Health Ministry of India.

(Anonamom, you might want to print off a copy.)

[James D.]

Ext's link @ 11:23 is horrifying.

Any state employee carrying out Whitmer's orders is morally no different than the Nazi troops who rounded up Jews and stuffed them into railroad cars.

I don't think that's hyperbole, not one bit. And they should be dealt with exactly the same.