Remember when we had people who were attempting to downplay SARS-CoV-2 by comparing it to the H1N1 outbreak in 2009? Remember when we were told that the estimate was 60k, then 80k? Remember when we had posters making comparisons to the H2N2 and H3N2 flus?
Well, the US just officially tipped over 200k deaths, at least according to worldometers.
R.I.P. Democracy
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/barr...-carroll-case/
Barr's DOJ is a fuckin shitshow and keeps fucking up their attempts to get the Carroll defamation case thrown out. Thankfully, corruption often goes hand-in-hand with incompetence.
That isn't a mistake, that is a delaying tactic. Barr isn't dumb, he knows what documents he didn't provide. He didn't provide them because he knew the court would order him to provide them, and give him several weeks to do so. Trump has no case here, and he knows it, but all he has to do is drag the case past Nov. 3.
On November 4, Trump can give a speech on the White House lawn about how much she deserved to be raped and it won't matter. But he can't have this case actually spill the beans before then.
I don't agree. If the DoJ is allowed to take over Trump's defense the case can then easily be dismissed. The filing will designate the US--not Trump--as the defendant, moving the case to a federal court. Since federal officials are immune in defamation cases, the case gets dumped.
I sure am glad the taxpayers (including me) are paying for Trump's legal defense [heavy sarcasm tag just to be clear]
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...s-staff-415206
So piece of shit conspiracy theorist Michael Caputo, the guy who went on the unhinged rant about how government scientists are committing "sedition", admits he didn't even fucking read the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports that he and his teem keep trying to edit.
Caputo also acknowledged that he had never read one of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, despite his team's ongoing efforts to try to edit those documents.
Do people not realize that the fires aren't starting or propagating in forests? They're happening in chaparral/scrubland.
36,447 new cases.
Texas: 4,667 new cases; 148 deaths
Fuck Florida.
California: 2,822 new cases; 153 deaths
Missouri: 1,837 new cases; 26 deaths
Georgia: 1,496 new cases; 45 deaths
Illinois: 1,466 new cases; 18 deaths
Wisconsin: 1,348 new cases; 10 deaths
North Carolina: 1,106 new cases; 51 deaths
Oklahoma: 1,091 new cases; 7 deaths
Pennsylvania: 1,036 new cases; 5 deaths
The Midwest continues trending upwards. Wisconsin has had nearly a full week of high numbers. Pennsylvania is on the list again but they've kissed 1k repeatedly for several weeks so I'm not concerned it's a spike just yet. On the bright side California's cases continue to drop while their daily testing remains around 100k. Positivity in California continues dropping and is down near 3% now. Florida, on the other hand isn't being honest. Big duh, I know. But they're doing an average of only 20k tests per day which is bullshit. The positivity there is upwards of 12%--which means they're DEFINITELY not doing enough testing. Texas is also beginning to slack off, often doing fewer than 40k per day with a positivity around 8%. New York crept back up to 1% positivity but so far it looks like they're handling their shit.
1,197 deaths--a bit more than two weeks ago Tuesday--puts the total over 200k as surmised. 200,197 Man that's hard to look at. Especially considering it's likely nowhere near over yet. Europe is beginning to brace for a fall surge...it seems as if the US is going to get caught not paying attention. Again.
Stay safe, folks.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
S: The US has 4% of the population and more than 20% of the deaths
T: Well, we do much more testing
Holy fucking dog shit for brains. Not enough h's and a's for the amount of crazed laughing that turns to tears that I'm doing over this one.
Must. Hold. On... a little longer!
How anyone can look at that and say that Trump is playing with more marbles than Biden, or is even a fully functioning human being is beyond me. Like, for all his gaffes and stupidity Biden can sit down and talk policy and stats. He can talk specifics. Trump can barely do more than vomit out a handful of slogans "Democrat run cities" "Sanctuary cities" "Radical leftists" "Herd developed (immunity)" without any any of that actually fuckin means. He goes from attacking "Democrat run cities" to saying he's the president of everyone in the same fuckin sentence, a fuckin contradiction when he frequently talks about hurting or letting those in "Democrat run cities", or states, suffer.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1306050203687026691
This one in particular fuckin gets me. I don't think we have ever had a president this completely and utterly self centered and infatuated with himself. Even if we are to believe this "totally real story that is a thing that really actually happened in real life for realz"...why brag about it? How fucking tacky is that when going on an unfounded, unhinged rant about some fictitious war with North Korea. Just talk about the beautiful love letters with another married man and say you've made more progress by saluting a North Korean general on international cameras than any president ever.