I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

IllinoisLady

Way to go Patagonia:

IllinoisLady

There's a guy who accidentally left his brains somewhere before he started tweeting.

exbrnxgrl

Love your latest crop of memes illinois! Did anyone notice that in the meme showing the man wearing the Jesus is my savior T-shirt, the woman behind him is wearing rainbow Mickey Mouse ears? Those happen to be from Disney's 2020 Pride merchandise collection (really, Google it). I'm kind of thinking the woman might not know that because according to right wing Christians, Jesus says that's a big no-no. Or perhaps just a bad case of cognitive dissonance 🤷🏻.

IllinoisLady

Here is another picture of the Alabama rally. I almost can't believe the get-ups. After some of the remarks he has made about some of the people who show up at his rallies.

I note the fairly grey looking sky in the picture because the next picture it is definitely raining and no one looks at all happy. I presume they may have expected some rain. A lot of people had poncho's on but many did not. One of the things said at the side of the picture was " at least they didn't get masks wet " and that is for sure.

I really can't quite fathom they guy that is dressed in the brick patterned clothing.

Betrayal

I thought I had seen some ugly men's suits in my time but nothing beats that brick one. LOL.

As far as Trump Girl, he would have a field day disputing her right to wear that shirt since she is far from his type: think foreign and bimbo.

IllinoisLady

Got to thinking about the brick clothes as in " thick as a brick ". Bimbo is the word I was missing for that lady as I could easily tell she wasn't a Trump type.

IllinoisLady

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door--or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Rabindranath Tagore

IllinoisLady

So true.

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

It's actually called the chickens come home to roost or delicious karma, Dershowitz.

IllinoisLady

Sure seems true.

IllinoisLady

I feel this way about the whole damn orange family.

IllinoisLady

Hi all, Earlier this month, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell held a cyber symposium once again (falsely) insisting the 2020 election was stolen. One of the "speakers" spreading these lies was Mesa County, Colorado elections official Tina Peters. Peters sent secretly recorded video and election data to Ron Watkins, the 8kun administrator whom many believe was secretly the "Q" of QAnon. The video shows Peters asking questions to a Dominion Voting Systems employee in an attempt to perpetuate election fraud falsehoods. Watkins shared the materials to his followers without redacting Peters' password to the election system's basic input/output system motherboard. Now, The FBI is investigate the data breach. And, it is reported that Lindell is now hiding Peters in an undisclosed safehouse. He went from conspiracy theorist to harboring a fugitive. George Takei

ruthbru

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DivineMrsM

Oh, fabulous memes! To Dershowitz, I'd ask "Is da Donald worth it to lose all those friends?" People follow the orange thing all the way down to the graveyard.

pingpong1953

When I see Trump supporters, I more easily understand the Rasputin phenomenon.

magiclight

Individuals with masklophobia ( masklophobia, or fear of masks) is surprisingly common. Those who suffer from it, rather than facing their own fears, turn instead to preventing other people from wearing masks. Those people are not in need of compassion, which only enables them to condemn others for wearing masks. They look to deSantis and his kind to be their enabler so they do not have to face their fear.

ChiSandy

My dear California BCO sisters, please vote "NO" on the recall. But then turn to the list of candidates, go to the space for write-ins, and write in..."Gavin Newsom." If he gets even one more vote than Elder that way, he wins even if the recall itself passes! (BTW, your state's recall law is one of the most insanely bass-ackward laws ever passed by any state legislature).

I actually saw a clip of DeathSantis speaking the other day, in which he referred to COVID as a "minor illness" for children. I have family down in the S. Broward area and am dreading if one of them, a nonagenarian, passes away before the plague abates. How can I not go to his funeral...but how can I take the risk of going to Florida? Yes, I mask (double now when I don't have a KN95 with me), and as of two days ago am triple-vaccinated. But if prior advice holds up, those new antibodies won't fully kick in for another couple of weeks. (Although they knocked me on my ass yesterday, much more intensely than after shot #2. Fauci wasn't kidding when he mentioned a "tenfold" increase).

Yeah, it's been only 6 months since my second Moderna shot, but there's data out of Israel showing that fully-vaccinated senior citizens are an increasing proportion of COVID hospitalizations & deaths there. That's why they've been giving out boosters to anyone over 60 who wants one.(Yeah, I know Israel administers Pfizer shotss and didn't release data about Moderna, but still...). Not just that, but the CDC is saying that at 6-8 months out, protection against mild COVID wanes significantly even in younger & healthier people. I'm 70, and the radiation from last summer's plaque brachytherapy for my ocular melanoma is still showing effects. (They can't say I'm cancer-free except when it comes to my breast cancer...kinahurrah). That could be affecting my immune system. Plus, with asthma and two antibiotic allergies, I'm at higher risk of severe disease should I get infected even "mildly." So I bit the bullet and rolled up my sleeve Friday. Bob is getting his this Wed.--one of his hospitals is offering it to any staffer >age 60 or whose second shot was before Feb. 2021. (My shots were 1/26 & 2/24; Bob's were 12/10/20 and New Year's Eve).

As to that young brunette Trumpist wearing rainbow-pride Mickey Mouse ears, appearances can be deceiving. We had a couple of fans in Manitowoc,WI who used to put us up overnight when we played near there. Though they were a lesbian couple, one of them was a dyed-in-the-wool gun-toting Tea Partier. (Pre-Trump, of course).

The GQP has become increasingly "tribal." Espouse any view other than the Trumpian orthodoxy, and you are a traitor in their eyes. (Remember the good ol' days when the worst possible epithets that could be hurled at us were "snowflake" and for the men, "cuck")? I, too, watched all episodes of HBO's "Into the Storm," and how can anyone after seeing it not know (not merely believe) that Q is the twisted, bitter, asocial Ron Watkins (a chip off the old dry-rotted blockhead, BTW)? It matters not one whit to them to realize that he's making up all that crap, because it still comports with their preexisting biases.

exbrnxgrl

Oh dang, sandy! I sent off my ballot the day I received it but it never occurred to me to write in Newsom’s name. Most of us got our ballots last week.

I always new there we’re LGBTQ Republicans . There were always Log Cabin Republicans (LGBTQ) marching in the SF Pride parade. I still find it baffling!

ChiSandy

As to Afghanistan, Caryn nailed it. The reason the Taliban met almost no resistance was that the nation's men were at best indifferent to and at worst (maybe more likely) in favor of it. Their culture has always espoused an extreme form of Islam that views women as a necessity for procreation, unpaid domesticity, and satisfaction of male sexual desires (which are viewed as innate and therefore not subject to self-control but rather women's obligation not to provoke men's desires). Even after the Taliban declared it would preserve women's rights, male shopkeepers and passerby almost gleefully resumed telling women they were inadequately-veiled. Reclaiming the power of male-dominance felt as natural as breathing, as comfy as a well-broken-in pair of slippers. It was only a matter of time before whoever pulled up stakes, be it 1980s Russia or us.

But our misguided and jingoistic self-image of "American exceptionalism" keeps us making the same mistake over and over again. News flash: we didn't recently win our independence or defeat the Nazis, and the modern world is neither 1789 France nor Marshall Plan-era Germany. We are repeatedtly shocked when, given the opportunity to adopt American-style democracy, country after country says "no thanks" and culture after culture doesn't want us to "build" them a "nation." As odious as we justifiably find the repression of women and suppression of free speech, it's not our ball and not in our stadium. (How naive were we when, in the wake of the Berlin wall falling, Germany unifying, and the USSR dissolving, we naturally assumed that all of Europe and the former Iron Curtain republics would eagerly buy our blueprint and build to its specs? That's a rhetorical question, of course). We should have learned this after Vietnam, but no--we had to keep indulging our macro-rescue fantasies. Of course, the flip side of that should also be welcoming acceptance of those who wish to escape repressive regimes...but if history is any indicator, we do that only for refugees from Communist or similarly left-wing regimes. (We didn't even accept those European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities until well into WWII).

(Sorry if I'm being less than eloquent, it's tough to think clearly with a hungry giant purring kitty smashing into my face, neck & chest and putting its paws all over the keyboard & trackpad).

ChiSandy

The FDA is expected to issue full approval to the Pfizer vaccine this week (and probably by implication its kindred mRNA Moderna). So there goes the COVIDiot anti-vaxer argument "but it's only experimental!" But how much do you wanna bet that they'll now pivot on a dime and squawk "It's Federal! It's the Biden government!"?

exbrnxgrl

Sandy, as ghoulish as it sounds, I’m convinced that no matter what is said, no matter how much research or how many facts are presented there will remain far too many people who refuse to be vaccinated… until one of their loved ones die. Please read about Phil Valentine, a conservative talk radio host who passed away from Covid19 yesterday. He is, among other things, responsible for re-writing the Beatles song The Taxman and turning it into The Vaxman. And no, it was not praising the vaccine. I am sorry about any death and I feel for his survivors but how many believed the nonsense he spouted about COVID and vaccines and sickened and died themselves?

PS: I wish I wasn’t so aware of Afghanistan and Afghan culture. It fills me with pessimism and fear for what’s to come.

ChiSandy

Caryn, that's precisely the frustration John Oliver expressed on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. After (justifiably) lambasting Dubya for getting us in, Obama for keeping us in and Trump for boxing us into an exit deal promising the Taliban it'd have power to govern, he did light into Biden a bit too unfairly. Botching the exit was an inexcusable "oops" for which Biden acknowledged ownership, especially for failures of national intel. But he took Biden's remarks about leaving behind those who'd helped us ("remember Vietnam?") and harping on the next part of the sentence ("Nixon & Kissinger got away with it") literally, portraying him as cluelessly cynical and tone-deaf. "Sarcastic" (cringe-y optics aside) is a better descriptor than "cynical." Biden, albeit "gaffe-ily," was expressing his frustration as did Oliver (and most of us) over the increasingly apparent futility, lack of a viable solution, and the slowly-dawning realization that no longer can America expect to be able (nor be expected to be able) to solve the world's problems...and that we should never have had that patronizingally nationalistic Kipling-esque "white man's burden" attitude to begin with.

Speaking of failures of national intel, it cannot and must not be overlooked that Blinken and the heads of intelligence are stuck with severely-gutted and hollowed-out agencies (by design of the Trump regime, or more precisely, Steve "dismantle the administrative state" Bannon). It's the equivalent of having to manage the Cubs with all of its star players suddenly traded away (which has actually happened) and nothing in the dugout but plastic bats and Nerf balls.

IllinoisLady

Humanity's attempts to override nature have separated us from our source and destroyed what can save us. A camera can point to the glory of a pristine forest, but cannot create it. No smartphone is smart enough to spin a planet into orbit. God speaks to us daily, but we rarely take the time to listen. Nature is my church. When I walk in nature I know the Tao. No building, altar, or ritual is necessary. Human beings have created magnificent, awe-inspiring cathedrals, but none can surpass the wonder of a starry night. Alan Cohen

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

Hmmm, this and Fox Faux News.

IllinoisLady

I just cannot fathom this, but then I was amazed at the number of people who used bleach. Just simply amazes me.

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