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Defund the Police. Disarm the Police. Disband the Police. Distrust the Police. Don't lick the Police. - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:12 7
- I can abide by all but one of those. -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 09:19
- Fix What's Broken -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:19
- Really, defunding an organization will stress it, and we've seen how they handle stress, so ... -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:17 2
  - "Don't stress out the terrorists, they may do more terror" -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:18 1
    - Yes, exactly. Quit fucking around and take them out of the equation. -- (edited) - Beryllium Nov 20, 09:35
- Rethink the Police. -- nm - mara Nov 20, 09:15
- 1312. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:14
Send the good vibes. My wife is recording on an episode of the "ADHD for Smart Ass Women" podcast in a few minutes :) -- nm* - oblique Nov 20, 08:48
I'm sure this happens to everyone... - Dano Nov 20, 08:42 2
- "No New Tale to Tell" and yeah... I kinda hear it. -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 08:48 1
  - Heh... got it right the second time. Not sure what happened the first time. -- nm - Dano Nov 20, 08:56
Biden considering Merrick Garland for AG -- (link) - budice Nov 20, 08:41 47
- Thats ironic -- nm - Jovian Nov 20, 09:11
- Why would he leave a lifetime job for an at-will job as a basic chief prosecutor? - Will Hunting Nov 20, 08:48 1
  - Mad Dog Merrick gonna get some payback -- nm - decline Nov 20, 08:52
- "Garland is considered a judicial moderate and a centrist." Cool, yep, just what we need. Great. Biden's diving for the center immediately. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:48 42
  - I'm not sure if it's that, or if it's an attempted 'make-up' for the SCOTUS debacle -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 08:50 2
    - he was a weak SCOTUS nominee as well. he was an appeasement to GOP then, he's an appeasement now. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:52 1
      - He was definitely an appeasement pick as SCOTUS nom, no question. I think it's more complicated now. -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 20, 08:53
  - Good. Progressive messages didn’t win this cycle. The only Dem who really won was Biden and that was closer than it should have been. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 08:49 38
    - Independent of personal philosophies, this isn't the correct data takeaway from the election. It's moderates who underachieved. -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:14
    - oh, we supposed to start reaching across the aisle now? -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:51 6
      - Correct me if I'm wrong. He doesn't have the senate, he needs to reach accross the aisle. - Marlowe Nov 20, 09:15 3
        
        Remains to be seen. Georgia will determine that. -- nm - David Nov 20, 09:17
        
        Mitch is already laughing about how he's going to gum up the works. Trump has already shown how you work outside of the legislative branch. do that. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:17 1
        
        reminder: Trump didn't have the House and managed to do a ton of damage. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:19
      - Let them have their 40% of idiots. Focus on the shifting 20% in the middle and move left as a whole. - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:00 1
        
        what middle? 71 million people voted for Trump. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:02
    - Yes and no. Progressive *ISSUES* very much did win the cycle. - ty97 Nov 20, 08:51 29
      - i like that it's dumb because it requires a sentence to explain. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:54 28
        
        i'll also say that complaining that people who got tear gassed by police are saying police shouldn't have tear gas was bad for politics is missing the - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:58 18
        
        The majority of Americans, myself included, support police reform! - ty97 Nov 20, 08:59 17
        
        "police reform" is meaningless. it lets you say you're for it, but doesn't get specific in any way. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:01 16
        
        Whereas Defund the Police is specific and not what you really mean. It’s not Defund the Police* - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:03 4
        
        Back-up the police is the best I have came up with in conversation. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 09:04 3
        
        that kind of requires you to come from a place of "cops are basically all good, but overworked" - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:09
        
        "decrease the police" -- nm - Andie Nov 20, 09:06 1
        
        Still comes across (to some people) as making people less safe. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 09:10
        
        "defund" costs us the majority in the Senate and a good part of the 73M votes Trump got. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 09:02 10
        
        Whenever we say that, we should add that Biden got 79.7 million. - David Nov 20, 09:17 1
        
        Yup. People keep talking like Biden was a disappointment. He jacked turnout to the best level in 100 years! -- (edited) - Reagen Nov 20, 09:20
        
        i don't think a single democrat ran on "defund the police" as their slogan. are you suggesting dems should have silenced activists for the sake of - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:06 7
        
        The GOP ran *against* defund. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 09:13
        
        Because they realized it was terrible. They won 1 senate seat instead 3 or 4. Most races went GOP by 5-8% vs polling. - Will Hunting Nov 20, 09:11 4
        
        i think you just believe in a better US than i do. i think people watched police brutality and voted in favor of it. simple as that. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:13 3
        
        Police brutality, when it's demonstrated to people, is one thing that gets near universal panning. But it doesn't get viewed in a vacuum. - Reagen Nov 20, 09:19
        
        I disagree with that. I think they voted against reduced policing. Again, the policy or improved training and supplemental staffing is popular. - pmb Nov 20, 09:17 1
        
        my concern is that instead of taking that message that is very new and continuing to work on it, they're going to fight it instead. yes, it could be - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:18
        
        Hard to get anything done if you don’t win. -- nm - znufrii Nov 20, 09:08
        
        A dumb slogan is far worse than 100 paragraphs of the greatest logic ever written. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 08:57 1
        
        I mean, an incompetent clown won the presidency with MAGA and LOCK HER UP -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 08:58
        
        It's dumb because people misunderstand it and it hurt multiple Dems in house races this year when we should have picked up seats. -- (edited) - ty97 Nov 20, 08:57 6
        
        see my other message. i'll back that message because the people actually getting hurt by police do. black lives matter was a dumb slogan 5 years ago - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:00 5
        
        To be clear though, the concept of defunding the police is actually not popular among the African-American community as a whole. And even in the city - pmb Nov 20, 09:13 4
        
        absolutely. it is not. but it also was not a Dem slogan. to blame on the ground protesters for Dem losses is pointless and offensive. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:16 3
        
        The problem is that the slogan gets attributed to all dems regardless of whether they run on it. And it's a bad look to have to run against a vocal - pmb Nov 20, 09:20 2
        
        Dems have shown unwillingness to work with on the ground activists to even try to do this. Spanburger didn't reach out once to the local - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:21 1
        
        They do need to do this, but the activists need to be more sensitive to the messaging and less demanding about defending it. They are hurting their - pmb Nov 20, 09:26
- Interesting -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 08:43
STIS&F: We're helping out a friend. What could I send to a quarantined college student who is also having her golden birthday? -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:34 18
- booze. you're 20 in 2020, you deserve to underage drink. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:49
- Just now learned what a golden birthday is...And even though I have a 20 y.o. daughter, that's a tough question. There are lots of concerts streaming - zunkskunk+ Nov 20, 08:45
- Do they have a cookie delivery place in town? Those are all over college towns now. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:41 2
  - Waverly, Iowa. It seems vary sparse -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:46 1
    - Yeah unless Wal-Mart or Hy-vee are doing it seems like a no go. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:55
- Which day? -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:35 12
  - now -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:35 11
    - LOL -- nm - JaxSean Nov 20, 08:38 4
      - we're a little behind but it doesn't have to arrive today :) -- nm* - oblique Nov 20, 08:39 3
        
        (I think Spawn meant which birth*day* age; "now" really made me laugh.) -- nm - JaxSean Nov 20, 08:49 2
        
        yeah, I didn't quite get the question until later realizing it was related to the golden birthday thing :) -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:50 1
        
        Oops, sorry. You used the term so I figured you knew what it was! -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:58
    - 20? So not legal to drink yet. Hmm. (Mine was 21, so it was rather easy). -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:36 5
      - When I think of the quarantine my first thought is some kind of variety platter of sweets. Local bakery that delivers? -- nm* - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:40 4
        
        charcuterie -- nm - decline Nov 20, 08:42 1
        
        “Shark eatery” -- nm - what Alexa put on my shopping list Nov 20, 08:51
        
        This was my thought as well. Was thinking Insomnia cookies or something like that but I'm not sure how long those would take to get there. - oblique Nov 20, 08:41 1
        
        Is CT in Iowa? He can make her some and deliver. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:43
I need it! Baskin-Robbins has a turkey shaped ice cream cake -- (link) - decline Nov 20, 08:33 5
- i did this two years ago. your freezer has to be REALLY cold - the legs get loose otherwise. (but, big hit.) -- nm - Andie Nov 20, 08:59
- Our local Baskin-Robbins has shut down. :( -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 08:38 3
  - (also, I've been there once in my nearly 20 years here) -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 08:39 2
    - so it's all your fault -- nm - decline Nov 20, 08:39 1
      - I mean, partially, yes. -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 08:46
Anything Goes revival to come to West End May 2021 for a limited run. Megan Mullaly to star. -- nm - MDH Nov 20, 08:26 2
- and Robert Lindsay as Moonface Martin. :) -- nm - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 20, 08:27 1
  - Yep! I’d see this if it comes to Broadway. After I see the much delayed Music Man and Company. -- nm - MDH Nov 20, 08:29
I let one of my students pull out his Bluetooth speaker since it's a work period. The last three songs in his playlist: - Reagen Nov 20, 08:24 1
- Vetoed for you, earworm for me -- nm - con_carne Nov 20, 08:44
if a cap were placed on US car speeds, the entire Getaway Music Industry would be thrown into disarray. Every song in their catalog would have to be - prayformojo Nov 20, 08:23
So do I win the ST contest? - spamlet Nov 20, 08:21 [Attachment] 44
- best wishes -- nm - mud Nov 20, 09:17
- Which test was this? The viral nose swap or the rapid finger prick? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 20, 08:55 2
  - Brain tickler. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:57 1
    - Good. That's the accurate one. - Strongbad Nov 20, 08:59
- Spamlet is sus. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 20, 08:46 2
  - No more than normal. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:50 1
    - tRu is sus? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 20, 08:55
- Prayers headed your (and your families) way -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 08:43 3
  - I know this doesn’t alleviate your anxiety any. You can probably get a test for travel reasons. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:44 2
    - I played around with the testing site in Florida (the main public one) and it looks like I can probably get an on-demand appointment now - ty97 Nov 20, 08:45 1
      - It wasn’t terrible. Took maybe three seconds of uncomfortableness and a bit of drainage/burning after. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:49
- hopefully its mild. be well. -- nm - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 08:42
- Thanks everyone. I’m so far lucky I don’t have any symptoms and none of my immediate family do as well. - spamlet Nov 20, 08:39 7
  - Your IM makes me laugh but is a good point! -- nm - ty97 Nov 20, 08:45
  - Your IM is a great point. -- nm - David Nov 20, 08:44
  - Sense of smell still normal then? -- nm - mara Nov 20, 08:42 4
    - Yup. Smell and taste completely normal. I was shocked when I got the result this morning. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:43 3
      - Several people here have complained that fatigue was their biggest symptom - Strongbad Nov 20, 09:02
      - I can hardly imagine what that felt like. -- nm - mara Nov 20, 08:58 1
        
        When you get the negative, you still read it a couple times to make sure you are reading it right. That one, I would have read it for 5 minutes. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:59
- Aw damn...take care of yourself, man! Also - what you wanna lucky trade? -- nm - Johnny Lawrence Nov 20, 08:38 1
  - I’ve got a couple of Mewtwo with Psystrike if you want a reroll. -- nm - spamlet Nov 20, 08:42
- hope you remain symptom free and hope no one else gets it either. i'm sure that's going to make things challenging on all fronts. :( -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:37
- Oh, that sucks :( Hopefully it is easily vanquished. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 20, 08:37
- Be safe... and kudos for being proactive. -- nm - Dano Nov 20, 08:37
- Thoughts are with ya—hope you bounce back quick -- nm - Flavorize 🎄 Nov 20, 08:35
- Eek. Be safe and well. -- nm - znufrii Nov 20, 08:34
- I'm so sorry. My best wishes to you and your family. -- nm - crash davis Nov 20, 08:33
- Good thoughts to you. We're headed there this weekend. We got tested on Wednesday, but now we're being told tests are taking 6-7 days (they were - pmb Nov 20, 08:32
- oof. sorry. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 20, 08:32
- Ugh! I hope you continue to feel fine. Healthy thoughts for you and your family. - Krusty Nov 20, 08:32
- Glad no symptoms but it still must be scary. Hoping the family comes out fine and enjoy not having direct contact with you for awhile. 😉 -- nm - zunkskunk+ Nov 20, 08:31
- oh no. be safe -- nm - decline Nov 20, 08:29
- *hugs* Good for you for being pro-active. You may have literally saved your parents lives. -- nm - Andie Nov 20, 08:28
- Oh, no. Take care. Lots of healthy thoughts for you guys. -- nm - mara Nov 20, 08:27
- well, more time to play PoGo or Among us. -- nm -- (edited) - tRuMaN Nov 20, 08:27 2
  - Is spamlet has it does that mean truman needs testing? -- nm - TT Nov 20, 08:29 1
    - I mean, does the covid affect all personalities in a host? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 20, 08:39
- Yikes. Be safe, get better soon. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 20, 08:27
- You win, and I am so sorry. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:25
- oh dear. very sorry. -- nm - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 20, 08:25
- so sorry to hear this. Hope you're back in the pink fast! -- nm - prayformojo Nov 20, 08:25
- oh shit, good thoughts -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 08:23
- Dude, I'm so sorry. -- nm - David Nov 20, 08:23
in kilbo's honor I am ordering chipotle for lunch. -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 20, 08:20 2
- well, now I *have* to :) -- nm - oblique Nov 20, 08:34 1
  - they had $1 delivery, and I had a free coupon for Guac. - tRuMaN Nov 20, 08:55
Andrew Giuliani, special assistant to the President and son of Rudy Giuliani, tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani works in The Office of Public - mara Nov 20, 08:17 1
- Does he also rub his own snot all over his face? -- nm - Dano Nov 20, 08:52
Nov. 20 Birthdays: Estelle Parsons (93), Jerry Hardin (91), Dick Smothers (81), JOE BIDEN (78), Samuel E Wright (74), -- (edited) - Max Nov 20, 08:17 3
- why is everyone famous so old? -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 08:19 2
  - You should see the older famous people. They're all dead. -- nm - Max Nov 20, 08:24 1
    - I blame Jessica Fletcher -- nm - Beaker Nov 20, 08:28
colin, are you trypophobic? -- nm - Reagen Nov 20, 08:14 1
- Holes are BAD, mkay? -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:34
Rachel Maddow talking about her wife last night was possibly the most romantic thing I've witnessed in a long time. -- nm - Diva🦃🦃🦃 Nov 20, 08:11 3
- People need to see more of that. She's right, people are getting blase. -- nm - Andie Nov 20, 08:21
- When she repeated that one part due to stepping away for a moment, I was unnerved at how good she was. - Beryllium Nov 20, 08:15 1
  - Almost like acting is her career. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:23
I may have to drop my resolve and go to a movie theater soon. They are releasing "Mank" here. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 20, 08:08 3
- Do you have the option to rent out the whole theater? -- nm - Krusty Nov 20, 08:10 2
  - I don't think so. (NM) - Marlowe Nov 20, 08:26 1
    - I mean, technically, yes. Just buy all the tickets... -- nm - Mop Nov 20, 08:58
*phew* - znufrii Nov 20, 08:07
Very. -- nm - 🦃Spawn🦃 Nov 20, 08:06

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