Trump probably won’t succeed in his attempted coup. He’s too much of an idiot and the people who work for him are mostly incompetent or delusional. And most of his followers are all hat, no cattle.
But oh yeah, you better believe the next one will.
Day: November 10, 2020, 10:49 PM
Scars
A lot of liberals are going to emerge from this pandemic extremely psychologically scarred. I see all the people who have only left their homes like three times since March and are terrified of even going outdoors.
I don’t know what went wrong with them, but it’s only going to get worse as the pandemic intensifies during the winter months.
This is going to have a noticeable and long-term effect on culture — probably a quite bad one.
Color Too Full
Why is this “wrong”?
Color is a preattentive feature. We see it in miliseconds, before paying attention. So we learn calendar is blue, mail is white & red, etc. By making everything a combination of the same 4 colors, we lose that cognitive shortcut. 🙁 https://t.co/VBXkoc7bOg— César A. Hidalgo (@cesifoti) November 10, 2020
This atrocious mess was designed by “experts.”
Although it very likely might’ve been forced on them by MBAs.
Don’t Give a Cluck
‘A fowl of the law’: men sentenced for cooking chicken in Yellowstone hot spring.
You should only be chicken the place out; otherwise make like a poultry-geist, take the hen-t, and float away.
I’m glad they did pullum up on charges, though, because that stuff is a really gallus misuse of resources. I’ll never stop beakause I cannot. You just can’t put a capon my punning.
Outside Interest
If progressives let Biden replicate Obama's sellouts to Wall Street & health insurers, we could get a fascist worse than Trump in 2024.
Put another way: a third Obama term could create a first term for President Cotton – which would be a disaster. https://t.co/00xusZhDpF
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) November 10, 2020
I think a competent fascist in 2024 is extremely likely. We got “lucky” with Trump because he was incompetent and unfocused. He won’t even be capable enough to steal an election he could’ve easily stolen if he’d had someone like me advising him — if I were a complete moral failure, that is.
Getting out of the country before 2024 is becoming a top priority for me and for my partner.
Coup
Let’s not mince words: The United States is experiencing a coup attempt by a corrupt autocratic incumbent.
As with most everything else 😡 does, it is farcical, shambolic, badly executed, and doomed to fail.
But let’s call it by it’s proper name. https://t.co/fjNAFZj0z9
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 10, 2020
Yeah, it is a coup attempt, but a badly-executed one.
Have to get out of this country. It is fucked. Eventually. Probably 2024 will be the dying gasp of anything resembling anywhere a person would want to live.
Mino
It's also an extraordinary inversion of the truth. Republicans try to suppress the vote because their policy agenda is so extraordinarily unpopular if you describe it to focus groups they refuse to believe it https://t.co/9HgOihhoei
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) November 10, 2020
We’re essentially a minority-ruled country, and have been since ~2000. Completely obvious if you don’t have your head up your ass.
Don’t Prop Me
Not everyone who voted for Trump is an utter moron, but anyone who believes in the manufactured election fraud narrative absolutely is.
Good way to find those who need to be cut out of your life, as they have no ability to withstand propaganda.
Show
Important to note: they are exactly the same ballots. Republicans are challenging the exact votes that elected their House and Senate members. https://t.co/w8OUqieZM5
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) November 10, 2020
That fact has been making me laugh all day. These people are absolute morons. Just total clownshows.
Frauding
Longtime Republican election lawyer —> https://t.co/liGtnraezz
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 10, 2020
There was basically no election fraud. Anyone who believes there was is a fucking huge idiot. What the Repubs define as “fraud” is just how normal elections work. There’s always a large number of mail-in ballots that take days to weeks to be counted — there are just even more this time due to Covid.
I’ve been watching US elections since I was eight years old. I always noted that the vote tallies went up for 2-3 weeks after, and unlike most I bothered to research why. See above for your answer.
Our Experts
Our “experts,” ladies and gentleman:
Lets be clear: No vaccine prevents initial infection. If a virus gets into a cell, THAT is infection. Vaccine reduces productive infection & prevents disease.
Let’s not forget that infection without acute disease does not = no health consequences with this virus.— Heather Lander, PhD (@PathogenScribe) November 9, 2020
HPV vaccine (and others) prevents initial infection. It doesn’t matter that most don’t work that way — and that the SARS-Cov-2 probably won’t. She’s simply wrong.
She has a PhD. I read some textbooks. Yet I knew something that she didn’t in her own field. Some “experts” we have going on here. (And the point she’s making is 99% of the time irrelevant, and kind of a “well, actually” type of tech-bro point, anyway.)
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