Oh, yes, let's go back to the days of "policy via Twitter." If he gets enough sycophants into the bureaucracy this time around, they might actually ignore any silly "rules" or "laws" and actually implement whatever madness his brain worms have whispered to him next time.
To really bring that point home, go find a campaign trail speech from 2015. He was still firing on all cylinders then - an asshole, but a coherent one. Then compare to his rambling present day output. In a normal human being, the obvious decline would be really sad.
Ta, Dok. I worked through it all. For a couple of weeks, we worked four days a week from home and one day a week in the office, then we returned to full time. I started out with one antiviral Curad mask (I'd bought them to visit the FQHC near home) under a painting mask, the entirety wrapped in a pashmina. I had a letter in my bag from the medical director of our clinics, stating that I was an essential worker. I never had to show it to anyone; no one but essential workers was taking the train.
taking flights out of LAX where the entire street was empty was one of the eeriest things I have ever seen. even stranger than the full size plane with like 5 passengers. and yeah the little essential worker permission slips that nobody ever looked at. Work travel agency still attaches it to my tickets lol.
"No one was all that happy during 2020, but it’s impossible to understate how unhappy right-wingers were. Conservative philosophy is big on flag pins and other hollow displays of patriotism, but it tends to balk at any real shared sacrifice. The U.S. was on lockdown for barely a month before conservatives were revolting."
Remember when they were ready to take Gretchen Whitmer out behind the chemical shed because she wouldn't let them hang out at Home Depot, and it was spring, goddammit!
even worse: using toilet paper for coffee filters.... all that linty stuff floating to the top of the cup! (yes, tried this when in my early 20s, not successful and yet somehow memorable)
Or the days I spent making cloth masks because real ones simply couldn't be had for love nor money, knowing that they were better than nothing, while our goddamn medical establishment were blithely telling us that 'You don't need masks'. My (at the time) 35 year old Microbiology degree informed me that they were fucking damned liars; and I was wondering why they were willingly condemning a lot of us to an agonizing, gasping death.
Turned out they were ordered to say that by the fat fuck's administration.
I made dozens and dozens, sent them to family, friends, and I think a couple of wonkers like WomanComingHome, who were working in grocery stores. I still have instructions up on my languishing blog, sort of as a marker in time.
Yeah. In 2020, my kid was in his second year of his residency, working in hospitals in the northeast. One mask per person. It had to last, because of no additional ones (thanks, Jared). No vaccine yet. Everyone in his residency year eventually caught COVID. So, yes , things are better now than 4 years ago.
Just by having these absolutely sadistic people he cuddled up with and hired, President Klan Robe will have now doomed us to defenselessness to the next pandemic. When all is said and done he'll have a death toll of millions.
Yes. This whole "Who needs gubmint for anything?" was a Reagan Rhetorical Special, but it snowballed via the Tea Party and the Trump idiots into what we're looking at now: a pack of deliberately, gleefully incompetent jokers who just want to take control so they can pilfer and ransack everybody else's stuff. Americans are lurching mindlessly towards a form of government in which only one person matters, only one person is free.
I'll never stop wondering if anti-mask and antivax deaths lost him the election. Because by and large only his voters refused to take precautions to STAY ALIVE.
They did what he told them, then died, and Biden won.
I'd forgotten just what a petty, spiteful jerk Trump was every minute of every day, in the execution of all his duties as POTUS (to the extent that he executed them at all). Trump is genuine, all right; he's genuinely despicable.
he was willing to let ~4.5 million of HIS OWN SUPPORTERS die of covid because they had the dumb luck to be a Trump supporter in the blue state of California.
that is the entire Trump-supporting population of like 8-9-10 "red states".
it is shocking he still has ANY support in California.
Yeah there's...a complicated relationship. Honestly she was fine in local office here, I guess...never really thought much about her. I do see her taking a lot of heat for things Andrew Cuomo actually did, and so she gets lessened popularity or something like that. She's definitely following the Spitzer Principe of keeping a clean life.
Honestly though I think it's mystifying how Cuomo ended up being so popular whilst being a real asshole.
Oh, yes, let's go back to the days of "policy via Twitter." If he gets enough sycophants into the bureaucracy this time around, they might actually ignore any silly "rules" or "laws" and actually implement whatever madness his brain worms have whispered to him next time.
Thanks Dok. It hasn't miraculously disappeared (yet).
Even four years ago the Orange One had trouble speaking in complete sentences. Since then it has gotten so much worse.
To really bring that point home, go find a campaign trail speech from 2015. He was still firing on all cylinders then - an asshole, but a coherent one. Then compare to his rambling present day output. In a normal human being, the obvious decline would be really sad.
The brain damage has gotten too obvious.
Ta, Dok. I worked through it all. For a couple of weeks, we worked four days a week from home and one day a week in the office, then we returned to full time. I started out with one antiviral Curad mask (I'd bought them to visit the FQHC near home) under a painting mask, the entirety wrapped in a pashmina. I had a letter in my bag from the medical director of our clinics, stating that I was an essential worker. I never had to show it to anyone; no one but essential workers was taking the train.
taking flights out of LAX where the entire street was empty was one of the eeriest things I have ever seen. even stranger than the full size plane with like 5 passengers. and yeah the little essential worker permission slips that nobody ever looked at. Work travel agency still attaches it to my tickets lol.
Per SER's recent brilliant article, Republicans shouldn't claim they were better off 4 years ago either, even though their God King was squatting in the WH: https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/republicans-were-against-2020-before
"No one was all that happy during 2020, but it’s impossible to understate how unhappy right-wingers were. Conservative philosophy is big on flag pins and other hollow displays of patriotism, but it tends to balk at any real shared sacrifice. The U.S. was on lockdown for barely a month before conservatives were revolting."
Remember when they were ready to take Gretchen Whitmer out behind the chemical shed because she wouldn't let them hang out at Home Depot, and it was spring, goddammit!
They needed their mulch and grass seed.
I found conservatives revolting even before the lockdown... (ba-dum, sissss!)
I for one don’t miss the days when we were using coffee filters for toilet paper.
even worse: using toilet paper for coffee filters.... all that linty stuff floating to the top of the cup! (yes, tried this when in my early 20s, not successful and yet somehow memorable)
Or the days I spent making cloth masks because real ones simply couldn't be had for love nor money, knowing that they were better than nothing, while our goddamn medical establishment were blithely telling us that 'You don't need masks'. My (at the time) 35 year old Microbiology degree informed me that they were fucking damned liars; and I was wondering why they were willingly condemning a lot of us to an agonizing, gasping death.
Turned out they were ordered to say that by the fat fuck's administration.
I made dozens and dozens, sent them to family, friends, and I think a couple of wonkers like WomanComingHome, who were working in grocery stores. I still have instructions up on my languishing blog, sort of as a marker in time.
I guess Joe Lieberman just died. 82.
See?? Even Lieberman was alive 4 years ago!! Jeez!! Libs.
Was he vaxxed?
Clearly
Yeah. In 2020, my kid was in his second year of his residency, working in hospitals in the northeast. One mask per person. It had to last, because of no additional ones (thanks, Jared). No vaccine yet. Everyone in his residency year eventually caught COVID. So, yes , things are better now than 4 years ago.
GM should have dropped $2bn into Jared's account. The DPA would have been invoked that afternoon.
Trump:
Christ, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're gonna crucify me
I certainly am better off now than four years ago. I am...
...not so worried I am going to die.
...cooking better food with new skills learned at a helpful mommy blog.
...much more satisfied with the White House occupant and his support staff.
...just LOVING all these new crime and legal dramas dogging the man now known as the 'predecessor'.
There are so many ways to say "Yes I am better off than four years ago because..."
But an exhaustive list will take up time better spent with my sweetheart who I did not know four years ago.
For all this and more all I can say is "THANK YOU PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN! THANK YOU FIRST LADY DOCTOR JILL BIDEN!"
On the plus side, four years ago is when I learned that I _do_ like working from home, actually, and that putting on pants was overrated.
Narrator: He already knew that pants were overrated.
Just by having these absolutely sadistic people he cuddled up with and hired, President Klan Robe will have now doomed us to defenselessness to the next pandemic. When all is said and done he'll have a death toll of millions.
Yes. This whole "Who needs gubmint for anything?" was a Reagan Rhetorical Special, but it snowballed via the Tea Party and the Trump idiots into what we're looking at now: a pack of deliberately, gleefully incompetent jokers who just want to take control so they can pilfer and ransack everybody else's stuff. Americans are lurching mindlessly towards a form of government in which only one person matters, only one person is free.
40% of US COVID deaths resulted from Trump's negligence.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/us-coronavirus-response-donald-trump-health-policy
I'll never stop wondering if anti-mask and antivax deaths lost him the election. Because by and large only his voters refused to take precautions to STAY ALIVE.
They did what he told them, then died, and Biden won.
The MAGA base do lots of things against their basic self interest, yeah.
I'd forgotten just what a petty, spiteful jerk Trump was every minute of every day, in the execution of all his duties as POTUS (to the extent that he executed them at all). Trump is genuine, all right; he's genuinely despicable.
How could you forget?
How could you forget "I take no responsibility at all!"
?
How could anyone forget that? Am I just missing the blocking out gene?
Am I so traumatized mine is just not functioning?
"Stop the testing! That's how we get more cases" My head very nearly exploded.
he was willing to let ~4.5 million of HIS OWN SUPPORTERS die of covid because they had the dumb luck to be a Trump supporter in the blue state of California.
that is the entire Trump-supporting population of like 8-9-10 "red states".
it is shocking he still has ANY support in California.
I live here. Orange County is still purple with Vietnamese offsetting the departing Reagan Republicans
I thought the Vietnamese would be just as right-wing as the old Reagan worshipers.
Same in New York!
"Upstate".
What some in my family like to call "Deliverance Country"
And then of course, there's Staten Island
Buffalo, where I'm from, used to be the center of the so-called "pro-life" movement.
So you know Kathy Hochul better than the rest of us, I'm guessing ...
Yeah there's...a complicated relationship. Honestly she was fine in local office here, I guess...never really thought much about her. I do see her taking a lot of heat for things Andrew Cuomo actually did, and so she gets lessened popularity or something like that. She's definitely following the Spitzer Principe of keeping a clean life.
Honestly though I think it's mystifying how Cuomo ended up being so popular whilst being a real asshole.