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The Commentariat -- April 22, 2021
Afternoon Update:
Both the New York Times, here, and the Washington Post, here, have liveblogged President Biden's global climate summit.
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Thursday are here. The Washington Post's live updates for Thursday are here.
Jordain Carney of the Hill: "The Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at combating a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic in a 94-1 vote, with GOP Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) the only 'no' vote. The bill now goes to the House, where Democrats are expected to soon take up their version of the legislation.... A California State University, San Bernardino study that looked at 16 cities found a 149 percent increase in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans in 2020."
Meagan Flynn of the Washington Post: "For the second time in history, the House passed legislation Thursday to make the District of Columbia the nation's 51st state, bolstering momentum for a once-illusory goal that has become a pivotal tenet of the Democratic Party's voting rights platform. Democrats unanimously approved Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton's Washington, D.C. Admission Act, describing it as a bid to restore equal citizenship to the residents of the nation's capital and rectify a historic injustice.... The bill, symbolically titled H.R. 51, now heads to the Senate, where proponents hope to break new ground -- including a first-ever hearing in that chamber. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer pledged Tuesday that 'we will try to work a path to get [statehood] done,' and the White House asked Congress in a policy statement to pass the legislation as swiftly as possible." A CNN story is here.
Tracy Jan & Lisa Rein of the Washington Post: "The Trump administration put up bureaucratic obstacles that stalled approximately $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico and then obstructed an investigation into the holdup, according to an inspector general report obtained by The Washington Post. Congress requested the investigation into the delays to recovery aid for Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 left residents of the U.S. territory without power and clean water for months. But, the report said, former Housing and Urban Development secretary Ben Carson and another former HUD official declined to be interviewed by investigators during the course of the examination that began in 2019. Access to HUD information was delayed or denied on several occasions.... Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis, appointed by Trump as top HUD watchdog, found unprecedented procedural hurdles set by the White House budget office -- in addition to an extended partial federal government shutdown that also produced delays."
Robert Barnes of the Washington Post: "The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a recent trend of leniency for minors convicted of serious crimes and said judges need not specifically find 'permanent incorrigibility' before sentencing juvenile murderers to life in prison without the possibility of parole.... Donald Trump's three Supreme Court nominees were key to the 6-to-3 ruling, which was written by one of them, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.... The court upheld the life-without-parole sentence a Mississippi court imposed on a 15-year-old who stabbed his grandfather to death in a dispute over the boy's girlfriend." MB: Hmm, that's odd, because Bart I-Like-Beer O'Kavanaugh sure granted himself leniency for his "youthful indiscretions," which allegedly included sexual abuse & attempted rape.
Russia. Andrew Kramer & Anton Troianovski of the New York Times: "Russia's Defense Ministry ordered a partial pullback of troops from the border with Ukraine on Thursday, signaling a possible de-escalation in a military standoff that had raised alarm that a new war in Europe could be looming. The order came a day after President Vladimir V. Putin, in an annual state of the nation address, rattled off a list of grievances against Western nations, including threats of new sanctions." A BBC News story is here.
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Ellen Knickmeyer & Christina Larson of the AP: "President Joe Biden is convening a coalition of the willing, the unwilling, the desperate-for-help and the avid-for-money for a global summit Thursday aimed at rallying the world's worst polluters to move faster against climate change. The president's first task: Convincing the world that the politically fractured United States isn't just willing when it comes to Biden’s new ambitious emissions-cutting pledges, but also able. Success for Biden in the virtual summit of 40 leaders will be making his expected promises -- halving coal and petroleum emissions at home and financing climate efforts abroad -- believable enough to persuade other powers to make big changes of their own." ~~~
~~~ Marie: The goal seems impossible to reach, but how much more possible would it be if the U.S. had been a consistent environmental leader over the last decades -- and not Donald Trump? ~~~
~~~ Stephanie Ebbs of ABC News: "Using Earth Day to relaunch the U.S. as a leader in the global effort to combat climate change, President Joe Biden is set to host world leaders for a virtual climate summit this week and is expected to announce a new goal for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions -- reportedly by perhaps as much as 50% by 2030.... Biden and his special envoy for climate John Kerry have been working to push other major polluters like China, India, and members of the European Union to set similarly ambitious goals, many of which will be represented at the summit." ~~~
~~~ Peter Fairley of the AP: “New research shows that renewable electricity can move Washington, Oregon and British Columbia off of fossil fuels, do so at an affordable price, and create jobs along the way. After decades of disinformation from fossil fuel producers and utilities, this may sound like a wishful vision. But building a cleaner and more equitable economy — and doing so in just a few decades to head off the worst effects of climate change — is backed by a growing body of regional and international studies. Innovation and mass production have made wind and solar power installations cheaper than most fossil-fueled power plants. The key to moving Cascadia’s economies away from fossil fuels is to make renewable electricity the region’s go-to 'fuel.' The new research highlights three mutually supporting strategies that squeeze out fossil fuels: increasing energy efficiency to trim the amount of power we need, boosting renewable energy to make it possible to turn off climate-wrecking fossil-fuel plants, and plugging as much stuff as possible into the electrical grid.”
Katie Benner of the New York Times: "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced on Wednesday a sweeping investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, signaling that the Biden administration will seek to combat police abuses around the country and apply stricter federal oversight to local forces.The Justice Department will examine whether the Minneapolis police routinely use excessive force or treat minorities unfairly. The inquiry will also scrutinize police training and accountability practices, among other issues.... The Minneapolis police have long faced accusations of racism.... Black people, who account for 20 percent of the city’s population, made up more than 60 percent of the victims in city police shootings from late 2009 through May 2019, police data shows. The police force pledged to cooperate with the federal inquiry.... President Biden had vowed as a candidate to fight excessive force by the police, and he called on lawmakers on Tuesday to resurrect the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a measure by Democrats aimed at curbing police misconduct and racial discrimination. Lawmakers in both parties said on Wednesday that they hoped Mr. Chauvin’s conviction could help revive the bill...." ~~~
~~~ Carrie Johnson of NPR: "One day after a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on murder charges, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into possible patterns of discrimination and excessive force among the police department there. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the new civil inquiry on Wednesday, the first such 'pattern or practice' investigation in the Biden administration, which has pledged to build trust between police and communities." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Tim Arango of the New York Times: "Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in Minnesota’s only maximum-security prison.... He has been placed in an isolated wing of the prison [in Oak Park Heights, near St. Paul] because of fears for his safety, said Sarah Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for the state prison system.... Though prison officials say Mr. Chauvin is being isolated for his own safety, prisoners are often sent to the wing, known as the Administrative Control Unit, as a punishment. The cells are small and contain nothing more than a bench with a mattress pad, a combination toilet and sink, and a tiny shower. Prisoners are allowed to bring in necessities like clothing, toothpaste and soap, as well as a pen and paper. In some cases, they may also receive books, magazines or newspapers, but only if prison officials approve. The cells are monitored by cameras, and guards are expected to look in on prisoners every 30 minutes...."
Lara Jakes of the New York Times: "More than a century after the Ottoman Empire’s killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians, President Biden is preparing to declare that the atrocities were an act of genocide, according to officials familiar with the internal debate. The action would signal that the American commitment to human rights outweighs the risk of further fraying the U.S. alliance with Turkey[.] Mr. Biden is expected to announce the symbolic designation on Saturday, the 106th anniversary of the beginning of what historians call a yearslong and systematic death march that the predecessors of modern Turkey started during World War I. He would be the first sitting American president to do so.... At least 29 other countries have taken similar steps — mostly in Europe and the Americas, but also Russia and Syria, Turkey’s political adversaries." A Guardian story is here.
Jeremy Herb of CNN: "The Senate narrowly voted to advance the nomination of President Joe Biden's nominee to be associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, setting up a final vote expected later Wednesday despite fierce opposition from most Republican senators. Vice President Kamala Harris was on hand in case she was needed for a possible 50-50 tie on the procedural vote for Gupta's nomination Wednesday, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican from Alaska, broke with her Republican colleagues and joined all Democratic senators to advance the nomination 51-49." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ The story has been updated. New lede: "The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general in a narrow 51-49 vote after Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined with Democrats in support of President Joe Biden's Justice Department nominee." MB: One does have to wonder why 49 Republican senators are afraid of an effective attorney who happens to be a woman and an ethnic minority.
Kyle Cheney of Politico: "A Capitol Police official radioed units outside of the building on the morning of Jan. 6 and told them only to scout for anti-Trump troublemakers — not pro-Trump protesters, according to Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who described what she said were details of an internal investigation conducted in the aftermath of the mob attack. Lofgren (D-Calif.) revealed the finding while she questioned Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton, who appeared before the House Administration Committee Wednesday to testify about security failures that precipitated the Jan. 6 attack.... Although the details are still disputed, Lofgren's comments are the first insight into specific concerns about the conduct of Capitol Police on the day of the insurrection."
Uh-oh. A $5,000 Pee? Olivia Beavers & Rachel Bade of Politico: "House Majority Whip James Clyburn is facing a possible $5,000 fine for evading the metal detectors off the House floor, which are part of the security protocols House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enacted after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The South Carolina Democrat was caught going around the detectors after he used the bathroom during a vote on Tuesday. If found guilty of violating the House's security rules, Clyburn ... would be the first Democrat to be fined under the new metal detector protocols.... Clyburn’s office denied the way a police referral described the incident. It's unclear exactly what the police referral account said.... Multiple House Republicans have faced the $5,000 fine, including one GOP member who similarly exited the chamber to use the same nearby bathroom."
Trump's “Eighth Wonder of the World” Collapses. Reuters, via CNBC: “Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called 'the eighth wonder of the world.' Under a deal with the state of Wisconsin announced on Tuesday, Foxconn will reduce its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000. The Foxconn-Wisconsin deal was first announced to great fanfare at the White House in July 2017, with Trump boasting of it as an example of how his 'America First' agenda could revive U.S. tech manufacturing.... Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic devices, proposed a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus in Wisconsin that would have been the largest investment in U.S. history for a new location by a foreign-based company.”
The Pandemic, Ctd.
Shannon Pettypiece & Rebecca Shabad of NBC News: "President Joe Biden announced a new tax credit Wednesday to reimburse small businesses that give workers paid time off to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as he touted reaching his goal of 200 million shots administered in his first 100 days. The tax credit, which will be funded by the Covid-19 relief bill passed last month, will be available to businesses with fewer than 500 employees, allowing up to $511 a day for each employee. Biden called on all companies, regardless of size, to offer paid time off, and offer other incentives, such as gift cards or bonuses, to encourage employees to get vaccinated. As the United States this week reached Biden’s goal of 200 million shots administered, vaccine supply is starting to outstrip demand in some areas." ~~~
~~~ Video of the full speech is here. ~~~
~~~ Dan Keating, et al., of the Washington Post: "Daily coronavirus vaccinations have slowed significantly for the first time since February, a sign that demand is slipping even though every American adult is now eligible for the shots. About 3 million Americans are getting vaccinated daily, an 11 percent decrease in the seven-day average of daily shots administered over the past week. The unprecedented drop is rivaled only by a brief falloff that occurred in February, when winter storms forced the closure of vaccination sites and delayed shipments nationwide.... Officials say they need to ramp up efforts to vaccinate hard-to-reach groups such as rural residents and homebound seniors, answer pointed questions from people leery of side effects and convince young people who don’t fear the virus that they, too, benefit from getting vaccinated...."
Sharon LaFraniere, et al., of the New York Times: "Federal regulators have found serious flaws at the Baltimore plant that had to throw out up to 15 million possibly contaminated doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine — casting doubt on further production in the United States of a vaccine that the government once viewed as essential in fighting the pandemic. The regulators for the Food and Drug Administration said that the company manufacturing the vaccine, Emergent BioSolutions, may have contaminated additional doses at the plant. They said the company failed to fully investigate the contamination, while also finding fault with the plant’s disinfection practices, size and design, handling of raw materials and training of workers."
California. Catherine Garcia of the Week: "After a tough fall and winter, with record numbers of COVID-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care units and a high death toll, California now has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the continental United States. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows California's seven-day rate of new cases is 40.3 per 100,000 people, compared to the nationwide rate of 135.3 per 100,000 people." ~~~
~~~ BUT. AP: "Oregon health officials reported 989 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday — the state’s highest daily case count since mid-January. The spike follows Oregon’s fourth consecutive week of surging daily cases and increasing hospitalizations. According to most recent data from the state health authority, last week there was a 27% increase in cases. The state’s positivity rate is 5.3%."
Beyond the Beltway
Reid Epstein & Patricia Mazzei of the New York Times: "Republican legislators in Oklahoma and Iowa have passed bills granting immunity to drivers whose vehicles strike and injure protesters in public streets. A Republican proposal in Indiana would bar anyone convicted of unlawful assembly from holding state employment, including elected office. A Minnesota bill would prohibit those convicted of unlawful protesting from receiving student loans, unemployment benefits or housing assistance. And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed sweeping legislation this week that toughened existing laws governing public disorder and created a harsh new level of infractions.... The measures are part of a wave of new anti-protest legislation, sponsored and supported by Republicans, in the 11 months since Black Lives Matter protests swept the country following the death of George Floyd.... G.O.P. lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills during the 2021 legislative session — more than twice as many proposals as in any other year...." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Jeremy Peters of the New York Times: "... G.O.P. resistance to certain [voter suppression] legislation reflects an awkward and delicate dance within the party: As state lawmakers loyal to ... Donald J. Trump try to please him and his supporters by enacting new voting limits across the country, they are facing pockets of opposition from other Republicans who argue that some of the bills go too far or would hurt their own voters. These Republicans see themselves as moderating forces on bad bills. And they are instead proposing less stringent measures that they say will improve the efficiency and security of early voting now that so many more people are using it because of changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The number of Republicans willing to speak out is modest compared with the many Trump-friendly lawmakers in G.O.P.-controlled state capitols...."
Arizona. Bryan Pietsch of the New York Times: “Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have imposed some of the country’s most restrictive rules regarding L.G.B.T.Q. education, calling the bill 'overly broad and vague.' The bill, which was sponsored by eight Republicans and passed the Arizona Senate on a party-line vote, would prohibit schools from teaching about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and L.G.B.T.Q. history unless a student received 'signed, written consent' from a parent or guardian opting them in to the lessons. Students would also be unable to receive lessons about H.I.V./AIDS unless they were opted in to them. Parts of the bill 'could lead to serious consequences,' Mr. Ducey, a Republican, said in a letter explaining his veto.” The Hill's story is here.
Florida. Patricia Mazzei of the New York Times: “The superintendent of the public school district in Broward County, Fla., was arrested on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation that began in the tumultuous months after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland. Robert W. Runcie, the superintendent, was charged with perjury, a felony, for lying to a grand jury that was impaneled to investigate 'possible failures in following school-related safety laws and mismanaging funds solicited for school safety initiatives,' according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The authorities also arrested Barbara J. Myrick, the district’s general counsel. She was charged with unlawful disclosure of statewide grand jury proceedings, which is also a felony.”
Way Beyond
Russia. Andrew Kramer of the New York Times: President Vladimir Putin “warned ominously of 'red lines' in Russia’s security that, if crossed, would bring a powerful 'asymmetric' response. He reminded Western leaders once again of the fearsomeness of his country’s modernized nuclear arsenal. And he boasted of Russia’s moral superiority over the West. Yet even as [he] lashed out at foreign enemies real or perceived in a state-of-the-nation speech on Wednesday, tens of thousands of Russians defied a heavy police presence to pour into the streets to challenge his rule. In Moscow, some gathered across the street from the Kremlin to chant, 'Go Away!'... Faulted for a lagging response to the coronavirus and with his popularity ratings declining, though still high, the Russian leader used the address to outline a vision for Russia as it emerges from the pandemic, one that promised numerous new economic subsidies but was silent about political rights.” A CBS News story is here.
Minnesota. In case you were wondering about the fate of the other Minnepolis officers involved in George Floyd's murder.... Denny Spewak of KARE TV (Minneapolis): "The fate of former Minneapolis Police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane depended largely on the outcome of Derek Chauvin’s trial. After a jury found him guilty Tuesday of three felony counts, the three other officers must now put together their own defense strategies for a joint trial that begins August 23. All of them face charges of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter. The State Attorney General’s Office also confirmed that it will argue next month in the Court of Appeals to add a third-degree murder charge against them. Michael Bryant, a KARE 11 legal expert..., said he expects any negotiations about possible plea deals – if they happen at all – to occur after Chauvin’s sentencing. He also said that he would expect a similar, though not identical, trial compared to Chauvin’s."
News Lede
CNBC: “The U.S. jobs market recovery accelerated its pace last week as fewer Americans headed to the unemployment line, the Labor Department reported Thursday.First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 547,000, well below the Dow Jones estimate for 603,000 and a new low for the Covid-19 pandemic era.”
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As Derek Chauvin acclimates himself to his new room in the Minnesota Maximum Security Marriott, confederates are hard at work to try to stem the tide of justice and equality. I mean, hey, that's what they do. That's what they always do. So Fox is attacking Joe Biden, demanding that he acknowledge his role in systemic racism (a thing they claim doesn't exist, by the way, unless of course they're talking about Democrats).
Here's the thing about that. We all discriminate at some point. We're human. Most of us (okay, many of us), fight that tendency. I remember Jesse Jackson once telling a story about how he would be walking down the street, notice young black men coming up behind him, and think about moving to the other side of the street. Jesse Jackson.
So, yeah, we all do it. But most of us don't weaponize this fear. Republicans do. Not only do they weaponize it, and they make money off it, and they claim that there's no way they are racist, claim that racism doesn't exist any longer (see Roberts, John), except in the minds of minorities who use it to get free stuff and Democrats who use the false claim of racism to give it to them. Meanwhile, they whip up the crazies with threats of being overtaken by the mongrel horde. But there's no racism involved.
Which brings us to...
TuKKKer KKKarlson is screeching that the Chauvin jury only found him guilty because they were afraid of BLM riots. Let's just look at that for a second. The fact that Chauvin is clearly guilty of murdering George Floyd, and can be seen doing it on video, has no bearing on the verdict. The only thing that matters is that black people are scary thugs and would have burned down the country unless poor, innocent, WHITE Derek Chauvin was sacrificed to the bloodthirsty mob, and those feckless, cowardly jurors knuckled under.
Ya know, there's propaganda, and then there's a vicious, dangerous subversion of clear, unquestionable, immutable facts. But this is what they do. This is what Trump has been doing his entire life. It's the Big Lies transmogrified. They lie about everything and their lies are made flesh, rising up out of the stinking sewer of right-wing intellectual abattoirs where truth goes not just to die, but to the rewired to serve the cause of hatred. And Fox.
Meanwhile, over at the ever helpful New York Times, Both Siderism is alive and well, and has been eating its Wheaties and pumping iron. Nate Cohn, in an op-ed piece the other day, goes to town with this hoary myth. Both sides are to blame! OMG! But funnily enough, he can only come up with Republican examples. Although at one point, he commiserates with those poor confederates because, as they see the demographics changing, they fear being "ruled by a hostile, alien rival". Alien? Ruled? Well, then, I guess it's completely understandable that they try to jimmy elections, send their thugs out to muscle anyone who doesn't go along with their white supremacy, and weaponize their racist tendencies. Bad Democrats, Bad liberals! Bad, bad, bad. Scaring those poor wingers like that! And, oh yeah, both sides...
This is the sort of addition to the national conversation we don't need. It's like pouring motor oil into the vichyssoise and serving it up as the house special.
And it's getting worse.
Because they got nothin', R's in congress will continue to bait and bark and scream and lie about how it's really Biden and the Democrats who are to blame for all the trouble.
And the Times will be right there to dutifully report that "news", right along with Fox.
Playing with nice with Republicans is not in the cards. That only works if both sides agree to the same understanding of the game and abide by the rules. They don't and they won't. So it's a waste of time to even try. Biden and the Democrats need to get on with it. Fuck those assholes. Fuck Jim Jordan and fuck TuKKKer KKKarlson and Aunt Pittypat and the whole sickening lot of 'em.
Do the right thing. And do it fast. 2022 is right around the corner and the R's are stacking the deck.
Again.
While libs consider earth, Chauvin and whatall: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/magazine/liz-cheney-vs-maga.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer. What Darth Cheney's daughter is scheming/doing with help from a NYT puff piece. I've got more Wyoming in the lint in my sock than Liz has in her whole body. Teton county has one of the highest per capita incomes in the entire country. Her dad has been a presidential somebody since she was in single digits. She has been bred to be Margaret Thatcher. If only Nixon can go to China, only Liz can become the first woman president. Trumpers can't think longer than the length of a tv commercial; Cheneys are really good strategic thinkers. I happen to disagree with them and their strategy.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/21/opinion/us-politics-quiz.html?
Missed one. Guess I don't pay enough attention to what Ted Cruz says.
America is back in the driver's seat says Michael Regan re: the Global Climate Summit: an earthy summary on this Earth Day:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/global-climate-summit-to-prove-americas-back-in-the-drivers-seat-michael-regan-says?utm_medium=event&utm_source=playlist__link
Thinking this morning about Dereck Chauvin: what is it like to hear the jury findings––that in minutes you will be handcuffed and led away to a tiny cell until your sentencing and then knowing you will spend many years in prison. I tried to imagine what that feels like and somehow I couldn't capture it. I can, however, any day of the week, feel what it must be like for all those families who have lost loved ones to police brutality.
And AK? I share, deeply, your fury but today I feel emptied out––I'm taking my anger and bringing it outdoors where I can smell the dirt–-the kind that I can plant seeds in, unlike the other kind that only brings the stink that has permeated our system of political discourse and is hanging by a limp, badly soiled piece of the American flag and all it stands for.
Happy Earth Day
PD,
I’m with you there. Time to spread some new mulch, otherwise known as mulch ado about something.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis opined that the Chauvin verdict was beacuse of the jury being afraid of what "The Mob" could do.
Headlines I had trouble reading today:
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Patience"Patients with long Covid face lingering,worrisome risks, study finds."
What, I wondered, is a "long Covid face"? A worried expression? An elongated face? Huh?
"Suspect charged with using large magazine."
What? "Life" magazine? "Look" magazine? A special large-format edition of photographs? Clearly, I don't know enough about guns & ammo.
@Marie
Wasn't it the word "patience" that got you?
@Ken Winkes: Oops! My mistake. That s/b "patients," not "patience." Caught by a homonym.
A patient horse walks into a bar...
Marie,
It’s the Homonymual Agenda! Aieeee! Call Fox!
@Akhilleus
Yeah. Thanks to the libs, they're everywhere!
NiskyGuy,
How about a horse walks into a patient bar?
Prob’ly the same bar with a priest, a rabbi, an imam, a talking dog, a three legged cat, three vampires, and a man with two heads. The regulars are used to it.
Which brings us to this:
Two Trump supporters die and go to heaven
(Hey, you buy the premise, you buy the joke...)
God meets them at the pearly gates and asks if they have any questions. One of them says, “Yes, what were the real results of the 2020 election and who was behind the fraud that screwed our pal Trump?”
God says, "My son, there was no fraud. Biden won the electoral college fair and square, 306 to 232.”
After a few seconds of stunned silence, the one guy turns to the other and whispers, “This conspiracy goes higher up than we thought.”
I’m tempted to type “Ba-dum-bum”, but this joke is probably entirely accurate. Oh, except for the part about Trump supporters going to heaven...
Ak: No more mention of mulch. We worked on 12 cubic yards
today at a client. My patients is running out for this kind of work.
Who knew that on a day when I should be contemplating earth's dire straits, I'd get so many laughs?
Thanks to all.
I think it’s got to be a patient horse, ‘cause she’s heard that joke so many times.