Wednesday, March 31, 2021
FT Indianoplace 87 Miami "Streak" 92
“One of the weirdest interviews I’VE ever conducted” lolol
I have never watched Carlson so don’t know his personal facial expressions...But lol there is a universal “What on earth is this man talking about?” face
And Matt, while you're at "clarifying": You have had living with you since he was 12 years old, a male Cuban immigrant, now 19 years old, who you have identified by name, Nestor Galban. What exactly is the relationship there?
1) Nestor is somebody you “met while dating his sister” (?!) (How old was she, Matt? 18+, I assume. Should I assume that, Matt?) ;
2) Nestor is, “My son” [“is a college freshman.”]. DID YOU KNOCK THAT YOUNG CUBAN IMMIGRANT GIRL?! No, Nestor is not Matt's love child;
3) then, He's “my adopted son”;
4) minus the formal, like legal, adoption paperwork;
5) then that you “feel like a single step-parent at times” to Nestor. Other times?;
6) then “We share no blood” (nor any, like, legal “paperwork”
7) who nonetheless, “is my life,” “the light of my life,” who you “couldn't imagine loving...any more if he was my own flesh and blood.”
Matt has exhausted all of the possible labels I can think of, except one, that would clarify his relationship with Nestor. So for completeness only Matt, have you ever had a sexual relationship with Nestor?
Do you have any other children you met while dating their sisters, Matt?
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Shit, the “Heat” won a game of basketball last night and I didn’t even notice. Beat a team with a better record than them too, the New York “Dolans”, in the Medium-Sized Apple to boot. Erik Spoelstra “followed” Pat Riley’s orders to “use,” “not experiment,” use the new trade guys. Sorta. Victor Olidipo is still not with the team, for some reason. Trevor Ariza played 27’, for all the good that did, tyu pernts on 1/7 (0/3), 4 ‘bounds, 1 aasist, one steal. I “used” Nemanja Belijica if you say 5’ is use which you don’t. The starters other than Ariza were the usual, Jimmy, Bam, the 🐉, and Duncan. Tyler was the last guy off the bench and still played starter’s minutes, 34’, with 18 points. Goran is still in a shooting slump and now he’s not shooting much, only 4 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists with 4 TO’s. Not a flattering stat line. It was Jimmy and Bam, the former 27 points, the latter 20 points and 18 boards. Duncan had 24 points on 4/10 (4/9). Miami now 23-24 and residing on SE 8th St in Middlesbrough.
COVID-19 BIDEN+68*
14-day changes
2,769,331. Vax (through March 30). Up. Oh! Speaking of which, I'm gonna be helping POJO out on Thursday. Gettin' my first vaccine. Great success.
Matt Gaetz, R-FL, Investigated for Sex With Underage Girl
It seems to me there's more of this perverted shit----Remember Judge Roy Moore, Alabama's Finest!--furries, "Cuck Conservatives," the preachers, that goes on among R's than in the Party of God. Yeah, we'll dildo an intern now and again, cheat on our wife--Here!-- but for this creepy type sex you have to turn to the Grand Old Pedophiles.
Monday, March 29, 2021
Sergio Aguero to Leave Manchester City at Season's End
CDC Director Feels "impending doom"
Dr. Rochelle Walensky...issued perhaps her most impassioned warning to date about a possible fourth surge of the coronavirus, saying she feels a sense of “impending doom.”
The nation has “so much reason for hope,” she said, her voice trembling with emotion. “But right now I’m scared.”
“I am asking you to just hold on a little longer, to get vaccinated when you can, so that all of those people that we all love will still be here when this pandemic ends,” she said at a White House briefing.
But we freed that ship. Doesn't that count on the other side of the Doom ledger?
I certainly hope that's her fucking most impassioned! Look, she meant well, meant to convey the sense of urgency, but your doctor does not get to say "I'm scared." Dumb ass.
COVID-19 BIDEN+67
COVID-19 BIDEN+66*
*Updated with H numbers.
3/28/21, 9:25 pm,
"No data reported" by NYT for Hospitalizations today. The 7-day graph line looks clearly up.
Anyway,
14-day changes
-31%. Deaths.The Times article cited earlier today explained this continuing huge drop in Deaths when Cases have risen into + territory and Hospitalizations drop at smaller and smaller rates: "Because many of the highest risk people have been inoculated, hospitalizations and deaths may not show a steep rise along with infections."
-Sunday is a reporting lag day-
Biden Calls on States to
Reimpose Mask Mandates
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Covid-19 News: Variants and Eased Restrictions Push U.S. Cases Up Again
"It was a CNN report in August that got horrible pushback. That was a very difficult time, because everybody in the White House was upset with that interview and the clarity that I brought about the epidemic. I got called by the President. It was very uncomfortable, very direct and very difficult to hear." Asked by Gupta whether she was threatened during the call, Birx responded, "I would say it was a very uncomfortable conversation."
Then why didn't you leave, bitch?
Look, Birx is not a real doctor. She was a flack for 46-1, the medical equivalent of his legal traveling clown show. Sidney Powell with an MD instead of a JD. Birx effused over 46-1's attention to and knowledge of the COVID situation in an early spring interview; she spent the early summer telling him, the White House staff, and other members of the coronavirus task force that things were in hand, that there were mere "embers" in some of the cities that were being tamped down. She is disgraced having shilled for a disgraced president. Both are trying to rehabilitate themselves. Trump, please, I beg you: RUN AGAIN! Announce your candidacy for 2024 now! Embers, please campaign for him. Hell, maybe he'll make you his VP choice.
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Event 201, Johns Hopkins University, October 2019.
In October 2019 Johns Hopkins began a symposium to highlight the lack of preparedness for an anticipated pandemic. Called Event 201 the symposium even included simulated newscasts on the outbreak:
Very good column by Maureen Dowd today:
...Mr. President, here’s a suggestion: Ditch that other old habit of yours, bending over backward to appease Republicans. I know it’s a point of pride, but let’s be honest. It has led to all of your worst moments — letting Anita Hill down, letting the Iraq war start, letting Mitch McConnell sucker you on the 2012 fiscal cliff deal. [Owie]
Biden should do what he can to help Senate Democrats dilute the filibuster. And he should insist on the passage of the voting rights bill the Senate designed to target the voter suppression efforts enacted in Georgia, just a preview of what’s to come in other states...[And] couldn’t he finally make progress on the nation’s most shameful issue — blind worship of the AR-15?
Bipartisanship — or Bidenpartisanship — ain’t happening now. Washington is not built for unity at the moment. We live in a world where everyone is unappeasable.
...it must be dawning on Biden that “the willingness of most congressional Republicans to endorse Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the November election and their unwillingness to convict Trump for his role in the violent putsch of January 6” proves “there can be no illusions of accord, or even of civilized dispute.” (quoting Fintan O'Toole)
With the Senate and House majorities threatened in next year’s elections, there is a very narrow window to do great things. And with his first two initiatives, the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill and the $3 trillion spending package, beginning with infrastructure, that is laced with climate change and income inequality measures, he seems to be savoring his new image as someone who goes for the big and bold.
[As an article in the same issue of NYT relates the problem with everything Ms. Dowd writes is two words: Joe. Manchin. Going big is not in Biden's sole discretion, nor even in the discretion of the Democratic Party. Because: Joe. Manchin. Biden has seen the light coming from that narrow window. Bipartisanship flew out of there. Biden made little attempt to gain even one Republican's vote on his COVID bill. But to get that done he had to have Joe. Manchin. To Manchin, bipartisanship is not a distant past chimera, it lives, it breathes. To Manchin the filibuster is not the brick wall to doing big things, the filibuster is a big thing. Gun control? "Guns are part of our culture in West Virginia."]
One recent evening, Biden met with historians in the East Room for two hours...The president seemed interested in activist presidencies, ones that took on big problems, like Lincoln, F.D.R. and L.B.J.
...
Republicans are out of touch with their own voters...“Republican voters agree with what I’m doing,” Biden said. [at his Wednesday press conference.]
The president knows that the American identity is on the line.
COVID-19 BIDEN+65
March 27, 1:32 pm:
Hospitalizations are going in the same direction as Cases did. On Monday H's were -17% and Cases fell into single digits, -7%. I wrote then that that was an ominous sign, as it turned out to be. On Wednesday Cases were -7%, H's -13% and I predicted that in a day or two Cases would be in +% territory. On Thursday Cases were flat. Yesterday, Cases were +3% and +4% and H's -10% and -8%. Today, preliminarily, C's are up to +8 and H's up to -7%. I predict that, just as yesterday, the final day's percentage for H's will be up from -7%. This is the last day of the full reporting week, which makes predictions over the weekend more uncertain. I will hazard a semi-informed prediction that when the final numbers come out Monday, H's will be +% over 14 days. As C's and H's rise so too will Deaths, the decline in which has lessened this week.
President Biden has a tiger by the tail with this thing and vaccinations will not let him hold it. He is going to have to impose the restrictions he can. Air travel should again be cut back. That's about all he can do on his own. The other, infinitely more effective mitigants, masking, schools and restaurants not reopening, he can only use his bully pulpit as suasion and the the public is sick of them. Eleven months ago I analogized lockdowns to a one-way street with multiple exits but no reentry ramps. Vax will take time that POJO does not have. Over 100,000 more people will die by July 23, the NYT new estimate (down from July 29), the date that the Times' predicts 90% of the country will be vaccinated (herd immunity level). 548k Americans have today been killed by COVID. By herd immunity date it will be 650k unless the president acts vigorously and now.
Full post on COVID-19 BIDEN+65 when data updated.
Larry McMurtry, 1936-2021
Friday, March 26, 2021
Sorry, there is something I have been meaning to post since Wednesday afternoon but haven't been able to "fit in" to another post, and wasn't sure it deserved a whole separate post itself. That it bothers me more than 48 hours later is justification enough.
Generally, I do not like a successful candidate for the presidency criticizing his disgraced predecessor for the "mess" he inherited. Everybody does it! It's just how I feel. Dude, then why'd you run? That's what I think. COVID/the economy, that is President Biden's problem now. Every fucking shit puddle your disgraceful predecessor stepped in is now yours. If you didn't break it and you don't fix it you own it. That's the rule.
There are exceptions! President Obama was eminently justified in railing against Shrub and the Great Recession that was bequeathed him. Because: the fucking Great Recession (technically December 2007-June 2009) did not burst into public and political consciousness until the collapse of Lehman Bros, Sept. 15, 2008. Right at the end of the presidential campaign. John McCain, in fact, suspended his campaign and flew back to Washington. The point here is that Barack Obama had no fucking idea he was signing up for the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression when he announced his candidacy on Feb. 10, 2007. Motherfucker had been campaigning for nineteen months before the thing exploded. What's he going to do, pull out? "Oh, I thought, bring the boys home, I thought this was a decent time to be president. Later." So that's the exception. The rule is I don't like "waving the bloody flag" at opponents of wars past. The better writerly practice is to make your fucking point between enunciation of your rule and the exceptions. Less confusing to readers. And so now, out of order, to the point of this post.
I watched the entirety of President Biden's first ever press conference. He mentioned the name of his disgraced predecessor and the misdeeds of same a number of times. In fairness, all that I can remember were responsive answers to questions asked of him. He didn't start the fucking press conference pointing at a picture of Trump and yelling "WITCH!" That said in fairness, this in honesty: I noticed it the first time he did it and instantaneously didn't like it. In further fairness, he was asked about immigration, the conditions on the Southern Border, and had to explain how the Disgraced One changed the rules that had been in place and didn't enforce longstanding law or policy. In honesty, I still didn't like it.
In my view (it's my rule and my exception) the Obama Exception does not apply to President Biden. The immigration actions of the Disgraced have been meticulously and long-chronicled. They were, in fact, his campaign signature from the time he announced at the bottom of the fake gold escalator in 2015. Everything that Trump did was telegraphed ahead of time and announced in an ALL CAPS tweet followed by an ! Including at the time Joe Biden announced his candidacy. They are in fact the reason Joe threw his hat in. So the Obama Exception for sandbagging does not apply. Therefore, I didn’t like POJO bringing up the Disgraced’s name.
I cannot say that this has been worth it, this writhing, this writing, and I cannot say that over 48 hours later this subject warrants a post of this length, but it is what I wanted to say and the way I wanted to say it. Later.
COVID-19 BIDEN+64
Pat Riley on His New Team and Erik Spoelstra
States are racing to vaccinate as many people as possible as the United States’ coronavirus infection curve continues its plateau for a third week at more than 55,000 new cases per day, a level that health experts warn could rapidly escalate into a new wave.
That prospect adds further urgency to vaccination efforts, even as some states appear confident that their inoculation levels justify loosening restrictions.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
But looking at the box score I have no idea how you lose a game where you shot 56% (47.1%)! Miami didn’t defend terrificly, Portlandia shot 47.8% (43.5%) but they didn’t shoot as well as the “Heat” did! How the fuck do you lose that fucking game.
Jim Creau
Georgia G.O.P. Passes Major Law to Limit Voting Amid Nationwide Push
The law, which has been denounced by Democrats and voting rights groups, comes as Republican-controlled legislatures across the country mount the most extensive contraction of ballot access in generations.
Georgia Republicans on Thursday passed a sweeping law to restrict voting access in the state, introducing more rigid voter identification requirements for absentee balloting, limiting drop boxes and expanding the Legislature’s power over elections...COVID-19 BIDEN+63
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
COVID-19 BIDEN+62
14 day changes
7% Cases.13% Hospitalizations.
40% Deaths!
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Biden has a long, frustrating history of pushing for gun control.
Instead, he delegated the task of coming up with a package of reforms to Mr. Biden...
Now, I was just curious. I text messaged the Second Unfortunate:
Hmm. What was it with Obama? Terminal caution? Jeez.
She responded:
I remember that as well. Biden was much stronger in gun control. Any insight from the Obama book?
I texted back that her memory was better than mine and that no, A Promised Land was only 1,067 pages long and so just covered Obama’s first term.
I asked my ex if she had ever read why President Obama was so cautious and half-measured. Before she could respond,
I just thought of something. Obama’s mantra was DDSS, “Don’t do stupid shit.” Very cautious governing philosophy.
Now tonight, after POJO made a speech on Boulder, the headline is,
COVID-19 BIDEN+61
-8% Cases.
-17% Hospitalizations.
-35% Deaths.
“I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true.”-QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Sidney Powell's 'No Reasonable Person' Election Lawsuit Admission Divides QAnon Believers
Sidney Powell Defamation Defense: “No reasonable person” would believe her election lies-The Guardian
HAHAHAHAHA!
Monday, March 22, 2021
COVID-19 BIDEN+60
U.S. Rushes to Expand Covid Vaccine Eligibility in a ‘Race Against Time’
As coronavirus cases nationwide have plateaued, at least 20 states have committed in recent days to widening the list of people who may get a vaccine.
the country finds itself at a precarious point in the pandemic. Cases, deaths and hospitalizations have all fallen sharply from January peaks, yet infection levels have plateaued this month, at about 55,000 new cases a day.