Thought for the Day

[broncofan]

Public servant announcement

I get the master of the malapropism award for yesterday. I don't think there were any other nominees but I'd like to self-nominate and graciously accept the award.

[filghy2]

You'll need to lift your game if you want to compete with the master and his tenants' innuendos.

[Stavros]

Two thoughts-

1) I would love to ban the word ‘misspoke’, because it does not mean a lingual mistake. A politician says something he or she believes, that others find offensive, or that reveals that he or she has not been briefed on their policy. That is not ‘misspeaking’, it is either the natural thought expressed, or a matter of incompetence. Boris Johnson did not ‘misspeak’, he couldn’t be bothered to read the detail of his government’s policy on Covid-19. The President did not ‘misspeak’ when he said “stand down and stand by”, it came to him naturally.

2) There is a presumption that if the result of the election goes to the Supreme Court, the in-built Conservative majority will rule in favour of the incumbent, even if, should Amy Barrett be selected, she were to recuse herself from the judgment. I am not sure that this is a predictable outcome, first, because we don’t yet know, if the case goes forward, what the legal arguments might be. And second, because even Kavanaugh has voted against his sponsor, and in the past Conservative justices have voted on the basis of law, rather than political party.

[Stavros]

All rise for Congresswoman Katie Porter. This is what the scrutiny of policy looks and sounds like.
Her confrontation of Redfield is an outstanding example of an elected politician doing what they are elected to do.

California, can we borrow her please? I want her to kebab Boris Johnson!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/01/katie-porter-whiteboard-congresswoman

[broncofan]

As a general rule I think people should not wish harm or death even on bad people. This rule is challenged if and when the harm comes to someone who repeatedly causes harm to others. But then to be comfortable wishing harm on that person one has to take a utilitarian view.

So let me cut to the chase. I think Donald Trump has caused between 50 and 100 thousand deaths because he is selfish and incompetent. His messaging on mask wearing has been inconsistent because his imperative is not to protect the public but to try to find some advantage, either by mocking mask-wearers, by flouting mask-wearing recommendations, or even in one case by questioning the effectiveness of broad compliance with mask wearing by the public.

He's caused a lot of deaths, continues to cause death and this is why so many people don't know what to say about his illness. He's not the only person who's gotten ill. Thanks to him over 7 million people in the U.S. have. Thanks to him, those who repeatedly downplay the danger of the virus and make ignorant arguments against public health precautions don't face much political cost.

[broncofan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...43f_story.html

Another example of how Trump has been reckless about the safety of others. He heard that he had been exposed to the virus on Wednesday and a day later he flew to New Jersey and met with dozens of people but was not wearing a mask.

Those of us here who are not covidiots know that masks are not (primarily) to protect the wearer but other people. One reason for this is that virus laden saliva projected from a sick person's mouth diffuses and is most likely to be caught by a mask right when it's expelled. Therefore, whatever limitations masks have in terms of microscopic particles passing through them is far less significant if an infected person wears a mask. This is the President though...

[sukumvit boy]

If Trump dies we end up with the bobblehead...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ce-bobblehead/
https://gop.world/products/vice-pres...xoC-pwQAvD_BwE

[broncofan]

If Trump dies we end up with the bobblehead...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ce-bobblehead/
https://gop.world/products/vice-pres...xoC-pwQAvD_BwE

The more time passes the more reckless his behavior appears to have been. If he didn't develop symptoms that were bad enough to scare him would he have revealed his diagnosis? I'm going to wait until our knowledge of the timeline is certain but it looks very bad. The Trump era needs to be behind us as soon as possible....and Pence wouldn't be any better.

Trump was very likely infectious on Tuesday for his debate with Biden even if he didn't know it and certainly didn't tell him as soon as he was diagnosed.

The number of infections from their super spreader event also keeps rising.

[sukumvit boy]

The 30 th Annual Ig Nobel Science Awards' for 2020 theme was "bugs" , a nice coincidence considering Pence's "head fly" . Including an operetta"Dream,Little Cockroach" crocodiles sniffing Helium ,and all kinds of fun stuff.
https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/...rize-ceremony/

[Stavros]

A weird 24 hours. Not sure Speaker Pelosi needs to formally investigate the 25th Amendment, as the President is demonstrating a bizarre spiral of hysterical twittery that suggests to me the Democrats should stand back and stand by while the 45th, so physically fit, so young, makes the case for the funny farm rather than four more years.

And yet, some thoughts-

1) "A top Republican senator has said that “democracy isn’t the objective” of America’s political system.....Lee, who is among a swath of Republicans who recently tested positive for coronavirus, wrote: ‘The word “democracy” appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-lee-democracy

-Hmmmm...."We, the People..." Start from there Mr Lee, and replace the word 'People' with 'Demos' and you might discover something you clearly don't know or understand.

2) According to the President, Senator Harris is a 'Communist' and a 'Monster' -but without Communists and Monsters, we mght not have the baked potato.

3) “I want you to get the same care that I got,” he said. “You’re going to get the same medicine. You’re going to get it free, no charge, and we’re going to get it to you soon.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/u...gtype=Homepage

-Free at last, free at last...

4) "I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.”
-Nurse, come quickly!