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Another Democratic congresswoman tests positive for Covid after being in hiding with Republicans who refused to wear masks.

https://jayapal.house.gov/2021/01/11...

Sheldon Adelson is dead.

Reaper81 wrote:

Sheldon Adelson is dead.

Here is a pre-emptive
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Ok I laughed at that. Well played.

Interesting. I wonder who inherits his estate.

JC wrote:

Interesting. I wonder who inherits his estate.

One of his 5 children i would assume, or divided among them. Maybe his wife first? i think she is still alive.

SallyNasty wrote:

Ok I laughed at that. Well played.

I figured I would save everyone the trouble and not buy myself another month in P&C jail.

Looks like the Q stuff is even too batsh*t crazy for Alex Jones now.

DSGamer wrote:

Another Democratic congresswoman tests positive for Covid after being in hiding with Republicans who refused to wear masks.

https://jayapal.house.gov/2021/01/11...

And now a third. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois

"Unfortunately, I received a positive COVID-19 test this morning following being tested yesterday on the advice of the House Attending Physician," Schneider said in a statement Tuesday.

"Last Wednesday, after narrowly escaping a violent mob incited by the President of the United States to attack the Capitol and its occupants, I was forced to spend several hours in a secure but confined location with dozens of other Members of Congress. Several Republican lawmakers in the room adamantly refused to wear a mask," the congressman said.

"Today, I am now in strict isolation, worried that I have risked my wife's health and angry at the selfishness and arrogance of the anti-maskers who put their own contempt and disregard for decency ahead of the health and safety of their colleagues and our staff. I am at least the third Member from that room paying the price, including Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a 75-year-old cancer survivor," he said.

Someone wrote "Trump" on a manatee.
IMAGE(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4NAWXSU3H5GBDOVGLVG554WFAA.png&w=916)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...

i think those are scars. they CARVED it there. ::sick::

Trophy Husband wrote:

Someone wrote "Trump" on a manatee.
IMAGE(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4NAWXSU3H5GBDOVGLVG554WFAA.png&w=916)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...

Noah, get the boat.

thrawn82 wrote:

i think those are scars. they CARVED it there. ::sick::

From the article wrote:

A spokesperson with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told The Post that the manatee does not appear to have suffered any serious injuries “as it seems that the word was written in algae on the animal’s back.”

Not carved, but still super f*cked up and illegal which is what you would naturally expect from a Trump supporter in Florida.

thrawn82 wrote:

i think those are scars. they CARVED it there. ::sick::

According to the Article, it looks like they scraped the algae off the back of the Manatee. It sounds like the sea cow will be fine over time, but no one needs to be screwing with them and the person/people should be sitting in jail right now

Well that is a relief

It was noted on Twitter that manatees use the algae as sun screen of sorts. So this manatee might get a sunburn that says "Trump".

Either way, what happens to ones brain that they're that into Trump that they're risking hurting a manatee to spread their message of hate in the sea? Just the absolute worst, most deplorable people.

Paleocon wrote:

Looks like the Q stuff is even too batsh*t crazy for Alex Jones now.

It’s not that it’s too crazy for Jones, Qanon is nearly indistinguishable from Jones’ narrative in a lot of ways, this was just the culmination of a beef between Jones and the Qanon world that goes back to at least 2018.
Jones basically slept on Qanon too long, he didn’t pay much attention to it at first and it was too established for him to crack when he eventually started trying to fold it into his own narrative. Some of the existing Q grift-leaders took offense at Jones trying to horn in on their territory and labeled him as “controlled opposition” of the deep state.
Since then Jones has been pissy about it and has been dismissive of Q while still periodically trying to subsume it and this interview was just another attempt that went wrong. After wednesday he had been building a narrative around the Coup and he interviewed the Q Shaman hoping to piggyback off his viral fame and poach him from Qanon. I think Jones just assumed the guy was a pushover but Q Shaman wouldn’t play along and Jones was getting increasingly frustrated as the interview progressed. The segment linked is from the end of the interview- he gave Q Shaman a moment to make some closing statements but hung up on him mid-sentence and just started ranting about Q.
If it had went better Jones would have 100% offered the guy a job.

New charges in the Flint, Michigan water poisoning event....

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, which devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water and was blamed for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014-15.

The Q idiots, while whining about an imaginary 'Deep State', have now attracted the attention of the real Deep State- the national security bureaucracy.

QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State
(medium link, will use up monthly article count)

To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:

The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations, and the internet. I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.

You attacked America. Maybe you think it was justified — as a response to a stolen election, or a cabal of child-trafficking pedophiles, or whatever — but it was still a violent attack on the United States. No matter how you describe it, that’s how the real Deep State is going to treat it.

The impact of that will make everything else feel like a LARP.

JC wrote:

New charges in the Flint, Michigan water poisoning event....

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and other ex-officials have been told they’re being charged after a new investigation of the Flint water scandal, which devastated the majority Black city with lead-contaminated water and was blamed for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014-15.

Speaking as someone who is originally from Michigan, it's about time.

As usual black women should be in charge.

thrawn82 wrote:

Well that is a relief

I'd say it's more of an engraving.

Stele wrote:

As usual black women should be in charge.

Right? Every single time I look at one of these kinds of crosstabs, I'm all "yup, black ladies got it figured out."

The smallest "Very unfavorable" group: 18-29 year-olds at just 35%.
Did not see that coming.

JLS wrote:

The smallest "Very unfavorable" group: 18-29 year-olds at just 35%.
Did not see that coming.

Also the largest "favorable" group with a total of 26% very and somewhat favorable. That's kinda sad.

JLS wrote:

The smallest "Very unfavorable" group: 18-29 year-olds at just 35%.
Did not see that coming.

Yeah, that surprised me, but it also speaks to how so many social media sites are just awash in conspiracy sh*t.

But as a Twitter person pointed out, many people believe Q conspiracies, they just don’t realize where the conspiracy originated.

I don't think it'd be hard to canvas people in your neighborhood and find ones who may not even know what QAnon is, but believe in QAnon and QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theories. When the whole, absurd Wayfair thing happened last year, I saw a BUNCH of very, very young people lapping it up as truth.

NSMike wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:

Well that is a relief

I'd say it's more of an engraving.

i tip my hat to you sir

Some good news on the Census count

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday indefinitely halted efforts to comply with President Donald Trump’s order demanding data on who is in the country illegally after receiving blowback from civil rights groups and concerns raised by bureau statisticians about the accuracy of such figures.

Bureau workers laboring to comply with the presidential order were instructed to “‘stand down’ and discontinue their data reviews,” Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said in a memo.

BadKen wrote:
JLS wrote:

The smallest "Very unfavorable" group: 18-29 year-olds at just 35%.
Did not see that coming.

Also the largest "favorable" group with a total of 26% very and somewhat favorable. That's kinda sad.

It shouldn't be surprising. The alt-right has been targetting teen boys for recruitment using memes & social media for years now.