Category: COVID-19

Athenae, COVID-191 Comment

So Far, So Good: Pandemic Edition

Allison Hantschel

You ever hear the joke about the optimist who jumped off a building? Every floor he fell, he said, “So far, so good.” You ever hear something else? “You can do this during the day or not at all.” It worked. My mom is still furious because it would NOT have worked if she had said it, because it’s almost impossible to change a dynamic in an existing relationship, and surprisingly easy to be different for a new partner. — Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) September 7, 2020 I thought of both of those when I read this: So basically America has … Continue reading So Far, So Good: Pandemic Edition

Athenae, COVID-19, Propaganda, Stupid Republican Tricks1 Comment

On Unity

Allison Hantschel

I’ve been done since March 20th with shaming individual people for decisions that should have been handled by the institutions we task with such things. Mad at kids partying in a club? Live from Stillwater, Oklahoma tonight ladies and gentleman. This is how #OkState students are complying to off campus social distancing guidelines. pic.twitter.com/zKQu1PyMP1 — Ryan Novozinsky (@ryannovo62) August 16, 2020 That’s not on “college students,” who make terrible decisions, news at 11. It’s on the city, county and state, and the presumed adults who own and operate that club, to shut that shit down. We keep acting like people … Continue reading On Unity

COVID-19, Free Republic, Tommy T3 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s obsession with the Freeperati – Darwin Award edition

Tommy T

Get those ISO suits on and crank up your oxygen supplies, chillen.

Freeperville has become The Andromeda Strain sequel.

Rep. Louie Gohmert tests positive for coronavirus
The Sun ^ | July 29 | Mollie Mansfield

Posted on 7/29/2020, 10:18:50 AM by RandFan

TEXAS Representative Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus just before he was set to accompany Donald Trump on Air Force 1.

The 66-year-old tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House on Wednesday.

The eighth-term Republican attended the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday where Attorney General Bill Barr was quizzed by reps.

He was sat at the podium asking questions without wearing a face mask.

Gohmert previously told CNN that he was not wearing a covering as he was regularly being tested for the virus.

“[I]f I get it, you’ll never see me without a mask,” he said.

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I wish Congressman Gohmert a speedy recovery. He looked fine the other day so could be asymptomatic like Rand Paul.He will be fine.

1 posted on 7/29/2020, 10:18:50 AM by RandFan
GoodfellasLaughing
To: RandFan

 

No worries Dr Stella Emmanuel is right down the road with Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Zpak in hand.

3 posted on 7/29/2020, 10:20:59 AM by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)

AlienSemen
To: RandFan

 

Strangely enough Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Maxine Waters, AOC, Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Brennan, Obama, Michael Obama, and the test of the treason crew all seem immune

9 posted on 7/29/2020, 10:23:15 AM by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)

Um – that’s because they’re not shit-stupid and take precautions, you brain-dead twatwaffle.

To: RandFan

Not sure why he attended the committee hearing after testing positive.

Let me venture a guess – there are more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the bottom of ponds?

Seems irresponsible to me. Especially since his statements/questions to Barr were silly and worthless.

I usually like Gohmert, but I think he was wrong to attend the hearing.

13 posted on 7/29/2020, 10:25:28 AM by faucetman (Just the facts, ma’am, Just the facts)

Thinkest thou?
To: RandFan

 

Personally If I was a Republican and especially a Trump Supporting Republican I would be careful the other side isn’t sending in a Typhoid Mary to infect them… Dangerous game to play as it may backfire and infect the dems but there are always upsides to every downside…..

62 posted on 7/29/2020, 11:47:36 AM by lakeman (Semper Fi)

TinfoilConspiracy
To: KC_Lion

 

How many well-known people will have to catch this bug and NOT die before people catch on to the scam?

38 posted on 7/29/2020, 10:37:23 AM by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)

Funny you should ask that.

Herman Cain is hospitalized with coronavirus ABC 7 WWSB ^ | July 2, 2020 | Ed Payne Posted on 7/2/2020, 1:41:11 PM by Coronal

ATLANTA (Gray News) – Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain is hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

The 74-year-old found out Monday that he had coronavirus and by Wednesday “had developed symptoms serious enough that he required hospitalization,” a statement on his Twitter account said.

“Mr. Cain did not require a respirator, and he is awake and alert.”

Cain, a cancer survivor, attended a highly publicized Trump political rally last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In photo posted to his Twitter account, he was shown not wearing a mask and not social distancing in the crowd of thousands.

1 posted on 7/2/2020, 1:41:11 PM by Coronal
Love your handle.
To: Coronal

. . . attended a highly publicized Trump political rally last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

here it comes.

4 posted on 7/2/2020, 1:43:28 PM by JohnBrowdie
Here it comes, indeed.  Click on “continue reading” to – well – you know….

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COVID-19, Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T5 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Benedict Darnold edition

Tommy T

Eeek!

Reek

I said “EEEK”!!

The Darnold has crossed the Ruby Con!

Trump says coronavirus crisis will ‘get worse before it gets better,’ pleads with Americans to wear masks
Fox News ^ | 7/27/2020 | Andrew O’Reilly

Posted on 7/21/2020, 7:01:47 PM by VictoryGal

In his first official press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic since April, President Trump on Tuesday admitted that the public health crisis is likely to worsen as cases surge across the country and asked all Americans to wear masks in public.

While Trump hailed his administration’s response to the pandemic and the work toward developing a vaccine, he bluntly disclosed what many Americans already know: that the crisis is likely to spread more before it can be contained.

“It will get worse before it gets better,” Trump said of the pandemic that has infected close to 4 million Americans. “That’s something I don’t like saying but it is.”

Trump’s comments come after weeks where he either downplayed the virus’ continued spread or focused on other issues – from unrest over racial injustice in American cities to the removal of Confederate statues – despite cases of COVID-19 surging, particularly, in parts of the south and southwest.

Noting the concerns among many of his supporters that facial coverings impinge on their personal freedoms, Trump pleaded with Americans to wear masks out in public to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“We’re asking everybody when you’re not able to socially distance to wear a mask,” Trump said.

1 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:01:47 PM by VictoryGal
Et tu, FOX news?
To: VictoryGal

 

I feel like he’s been duped.

2 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:02:42 PM by Abbeville Conservative

By whom, exactly?
.
Dr. Fauci?
.
IronyMeterPegged
To: VictoryGal

 

DJT has drunk the kool aid.

Masks are less than useless.

3 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:04:18 PM by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)

A Freeper complaining that someone ELSE has drunk the Kool Aid?
I’m running out of irony meters.
.
Let the spin – BEGIN!
To: VictoryGal

 

Reverse psychology?

He’s hoping the Left starts to be against masks if he is for them?

4 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:04:26 PM by CheshireTheCat (“Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering”)

“Sir Galahad: Let us taunt it! It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.“
To: VictoryGal

 

I did not think he was pleading.
Friggin fake news.

10 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:06:44 PM by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)

Only in Freeperville could someone call a transcript of a press conference “fake news”.
To: VictoryGal
Byte me–this means wearing masks until the f***ing New Year at a minimum.I want my life back.

9 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:06:08 PM by Lysandru (f)
You don’t have a frigging life. That’s why you’re on Free Republic.
To: Abbeville Conservative

 

I think he’s been duped too. All of a sudden, it’s MASKS everywhere – Melania has one, Trump LIKES them, every protester in the news has one on, every journalist at the WH. It’s like Trump is Gullivered by a thousand tiny ropes and can’t get free. I don’t like it.

14 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:07:52 PM by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)

“Gullivered” sounds like British slang for an unspeakably nasty sex act.
To: VictoryGal

 

I consider it bullshit and he’s being duped.

30 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:14:11 PM by spacejunkie2001

I remember when posting the redacted word “bulls**t” would get you a Freeperville ban.
To: VictoryGal

 

We’re going to be masked up indefinitely at this rate. Might as well make Biden POTUS now and get the takeover completed. Maybe people will fight back then? Highly doubtful. F*cking sheeple.

38 posted on 7/21/2020, 7:17:47 PM by CatOwner

OtherwiseOK8
More gnashing of dentures and rending of garments below-o the fold-o…

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COVID-19, Free Republic, Guns, Tommy T2 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Unmasked Marauder edition

Tommy T

Welp – this “cancel culture” thing has gotten completely out of hand.

Now, the masked  unmasked marauder has decided to cancel anyone who won’t serve him because he could possibly (and probably, given his refusal to wear a mask) blow his COVID cooties all over the BBQ joint.

Told to wear a mask at Kansas City area BBQ restaurant, man in MAGA hat flashes a gun

Arlo Kinsey was working behind the carryout counter at RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack in Mission last week when a middle-aged man dressed in a red Make America Great Again hat — and no mask — walked through the door.

“I asked him if he could wear a mask, since it’s what Gov. Kelly told us to do,” said Kinsey, 18, who was working shifts at the barbecue joint this summer before heading off to college. He had dealt with a handful of customers who refused to wear masks inside the restaurant despite the statewide mandate — but none like this, he said.

The man said he had an exemption to the mask order: He then lifted up his shirt, revealing a gun in a holster on his hip.

1 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:09:44 PM by yesthatjallen

(here’s an unsolicited dick pic of the asshole brandishing his manhood – the tan patch on his left side is the inside of his jacket where he’s pulling it back)

MAGAnutBrandishing

Freepers? How say ye?

To: yesthatjallen

 

I’m not fan of wearing masks, but their business, their rules. If you don’t want to follow a businesses rules, then don’t patronize it. But don’t be an ass.

2 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:13:42 PM by bigdaddy45

No, you dickless wonder – being an ass is unscrewing the top of the saltshaker, or refusing to leave a tip.
Brandishing a handgun to someone inside their business is a felony.
To: yesthatjallen

 

This is not a good story… if it is actually true.

3 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:15:09 PM by Sicon (“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – G. Orwell)

…says the nitwit too lazy to click on the link to watch the security cam footage…

To: yesthatjallen
jesus. someone lock that guy in a closet until mid-November.

4 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:18:01 PM by JohnBrowdie

Oh, if they catch the moron, he’s liable to be in the closet until well after November. Nice to see you acknowledge that he’s a Trump-humper, though. Polls making you a little nervous?
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Also, felons can’t vote.
To: yesthatjallen

 

sounds like a “false flag” by to me…

5 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:20:39 PM by samkatz

Bite to me.
To: yesthatjallen

You know folks, we’re the front lines of Conservatism, andall eyes are on us.

Nope – just mine.

One dumb ass like this can cause negative ripples across
a wide body of the public.

Please don’t wear a MAGA and go all postal on folks. Good
grief. Do we need to tell folks that? Really?

7 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:21:35 PM by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)

Looks like you do, sonny.  Looks like you do.
To: yesthatjallen

 

What he did was a felony. If true.

8 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:22:04 PM by JusPasenThru (If Biden wins he will kill Republicans.)

DuhHouse
And yet another one too lazy (or afraid) to click on the link and watch the security cam footage….

To: yesthatjallen

Showings(sic) the gun was probably not a great idea.

YaThink

Just turn around and walk out.

Makes Trump supporters look like dangerous jerks.

9 posted on 7/13/2020, 10:22:06 PM by proud American in Canada (But Gollum and the evil warlock crept up and wslipped away with her …)

It’s not a bug – it’s a feature.

Is the part not mentioned in the story that it was a BLM hat and the perp was black ?

48 posted on 7/14/2020, 12:47:12 AM by elbook

Let’s take a closer look :
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MAGAgun
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Yep.   Definitely black.
One eighth.
On his mom’s side.
To: Blue Jays

“…It was definitely a threat…”

Fake. Why were police not called? Where is the security camera footage?


About 99% of these stories are bogus with the retraction posted two weeks later in a small box on page 27 under the classifieds.
55 posted on 7/14/2020, 1:30:34 AM by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
No, that would be where they put the stories about Republicans getting caught committing voter fraud, and LBGTQ-bashers getting caught with a rent boy.
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Continue reading at the “continue reading”….

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COVID-19, Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T2 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – shits and pieces edition

Tommy T

Still catching up from my crash-bang-aplooza, so let me start with the oldest first – Parlour games!

(you may have already heard that Parler is the alternative social media outlet for morons who have been kicked off Twitter and / or Facebook for being Nazis)

Parler Is a Trap. Stay away!
Thread app /twitter ^ | 6/28/20 | Brian Cates/Various

Posted on 6/28/2020, 11:36:27 AM by Revel

He tells how you need to give them a selfie and a drivers license scan in order to direct message.

They can delete anything anytime they want even without reason.

Account deletion by email only. And forced arbitration

Terms of service can be changed any time without notification to users.

If one of your posts leads to legal action against them then you agree to pay all legal fees.

They may have the right to use the information in the contact lists of your devices.

______________________________________________________

Then we have the obvious:

“Are millions of Conservatives being led into a new Conservative ghetto from which they will become completely invisible to the outside world?”

“It’s brilliant if this was an actual strategy. Get the Conservatives to SILENCE themselves outside a bubble to promote ‘free speech’.”

“We retreat in the culture war into a silo where we all talk to people who already agree with us.”

“Any Conservatives who retreated behind the Parler login wall and abandoned their accounts on this platform is now invisible for the upcoming election.”

1 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:36:27 AM by Revel
Freepers?
To: Revel

And Twitter can kiss my grits.Probably few are abandoning the bloated forums until they are personally banned outright. I’m reminded of some great advice given immediately after the 1994 election:

“Abandon all illusions of media sympathy,” and “find, forge and maintain your own lines of communication.”

7 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:45:20 AM by Prospero (Lex est rex)
For reals?
.
Pretty soon, you asswipes will be down to using two tin cans and a piece of string.
And Free Republic.
But I repeat myself.

To: Revel

Other then FreeRepublic I do not feel compelled to share my wisdom with the world.

The world weeps silent tears of joy.

That is what my two dachshunds are for and even they usually ignore me.

13 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:52:57 AM by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)

Ignore you?
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You’re lucky they don’t tear your throat out while you sleep.
To: RandFan

 

So we should just allow ourselves to be run off the Twitter platform and made to setup camp in a backwater echo chamber that nobody ever visits?

33 posted on 6/28/2020, 12:11:07 PM by SamAdams76

IronyMeterPegged
To: Revel

 

Conservatives need to stop retreating, we are running out of places to retreat to.

10 posted on 6/28/2020, 11:49:06 AM by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

Ah – but we’ll always have Paris.
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And Stormfront.
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“Endut” indeed.
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Click “read more” to read more…

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Athenae, COVID-191 Comment

No Good Choices

Allison Hantschel

If we wanted the schools to be open, we should have left everything else closed:  I want schools to open. I’ve got a five year old and a fifteen year old in a 900-square-foot house with only two bedrooms, and I’d love to have them literally anywhere else. And we’re among the lucky ones. Public schools don’t just teach. They provide subsidized breakfast and lunch for many of their students, plus access to counselors, community, and nurses. Figuring out how to deliver food and healthcare to these children is more important than how to stagger classes. But it’s time to … Continue reading No Good Choices

COVID-19, Free Republic, The Darnold, Tommy T1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – What power! edition

Tommy T

Morning everyone – let’s get into our ISO suits (I wear mine all the time these days) and crack open some of the simmering barrels of Freep Power!

Video retweeted by Trump shows supporter yelling “white power”
Axios ^ | 6/28/20 | Axios

Posted on 6/28/2020, 10:21:37 AM by sam_whiskey

President Trump tweeted, “Thank you to the great people of The Villages” on Sunday morning in response to a video of protesters verbally clashing with Trump supporters — including one man who yelled “white power” while passing pissing in a golf cart.

FIFY.

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I’m sure the senior citizen’s remark was toungue(sic) in cheek, but, Mr. President, if you’re going to retweet videos please WATCH the video first.
1 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:21:37 AM by sam_whiskey
What makes you think he didn’t?
.
So – he didn’t mean it?
To: sam_whiskey

 

So Black Power is just fine, but heaven forbid someone espouse White Power?

2 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:24:35 AM by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)

So he did mean it?
To: sam_whiskey

 

After watching the video I’m pretty sure the intent was to annoy the foul mouthed leftists, but you’re right, this is is the sort of unforced error that emboldens the Satanic left.

10 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:28:20 AM by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)

Funny – I thought this was the kind of  unforced error  shit-stupid thing that emboldens his re-election staff to jump out of windows.
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Now, where did I put that pentagram?
.
And WTF is keeping the tinfoil hat brigade??
To: sam_whiskey

 

This is very likely a Democrat Set-Up. The old guy in the golf cart, the Trump signs, the shouting of white power, the videographer and Twitter.

11 posted on 6/28/2020, 10:31:01 AM by Meatspace

SlimPickensCahoots
Much much more stupid after the white powder below…

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Athenae, COVID-19

Solidarity and What It Gets Us

Allison Hantschel

I’ve been thinking about this since reading this tweet: The Iraq and Afghanistan war dead, too. Once it became clear the wars were going badly and also were never going to end it became convenient to act like "we" were no longer at war. https://t.co/YyuOV3Qj9C — Allison Hantschel (@Athenae) May 24, 2020 That every movement turns on itself eventually, that every fire burns out, that nothing can be sustained forever, are I think things we all know. That you can’t stay in the middle of the war forever, or it wins. But Jesus, this, we barely tried. A month ago … Continue reading Solidarity and What It Gets Us

Athenae, COVID-19

‘As Leadership on Virus Fails’

Allison Hantschel

Jesus Christ, we STILL can’t name the problem:  Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Cases Soar Past 2.5 Million as Leadership on Virus Fails With new cases of the coronavirus suddenly surging across multiple states that had low and manageable caseloads just months ago, confusion and anger is swirling among those who obeyed lockdowns and drastic social measures out of a sense of civic duty to help bring the U.S. outbreak under control. Nationwide, cases have risen 65 percent over the past two weeks. On Friday, the country reported more than 45,000 new infections, its third consecutive day of record new cases, … Continue reading ‘As Leadership on Virus Fails’