HOWEVER, Illinois recently passed a law making it a felony specifically for anyone who assaults a worker for trying to make them wear a mask. yay?
You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone.
Giles ,'Touched'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Aug 13, 2020 3:50:34 am PDT #24800 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Kalshane - Aug 13, 2020 4:37:09 am PDT #24801 of 30019
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The anti-mask sentiment is so ridiculous. I get it, they're uncomfortable, I hate wearing mine all day at work, but it's such an incredibly minor inconvenience to prevent spreading a virus that even if it doesn't kill you has a 1-in-3 chance of causing long-term health effects.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:05:07 am PDT #24802 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I'm so angry about Trump and Fox News playing the pandemic as a partisan plot. You can't put that genie back even if you reverse course later. The virus isn't fucking playing politics.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:06:13 am PDT #24803 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
The fact that it's been politicized to this extreme degree is depressing.
It would be just dandy if only the anti-mask idiots got sick, but it unjustly doesn't work that way. I am totally okay with all these idiots getting sick. Also, I hate this change in my previously peace love dove personality.
billytea - Aug 13, 2020 5:20:22 am PDT #24804 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Fivethirtyeight has released its forecasting model:
(I'm not entirely sold on the design, it feels like dumbing it down.) It currently gives Trump a 28% chance, which sounds about right to me. If the election were held today, it'd give Biden a 93% chance, which also sounds about right.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:35:24 am PDT #24805 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Can we please have the election today? I want this over with so very much.
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2020 5:37:51 am PDT #24806 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm more worried about what happens when Biden wins and Trump refuses to leave office.
Laura - Aug 13, 2020 5:56:55 am PDT #24807 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point. I hope.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 5:58:55 am PDT #24808 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
I think the election will be won or lost in the courts this year.
Gudanov - Aug 13, 2020 6:02:58 am PDT #24809 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping
It isn't going to be pretty, but I don't think the GOP or Justice will stand with him at that point.
I dunno. If Fox News and its like are out there pushing how the Dems are an existential threat to the country and that the election was fraudulent, that may cow the GOP in backing not accepting the results. Barr already has voiced his opinion that the Dems are an existential threat.