August 17, 2020

Thank you! Oleander is known to be poisonous.

I can understand how a lab might extract a useful compound from this plant or other somewhat poisonous plants (digitalis/foxglove) but it's not something to encourage people to randomly consume. And we all know oleander will no more treat Covid any more than colloidal silver or hydroxychloroquine but the Fox News crowd is doomed to believe.

This is just as bad as suggesting bleach. Good lord, this man is a killer.

August 17, 2020

Damn. That feeling when you agree with Liz Cheney.

https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1295138721239629824

August 17, 2020

Key sentence:

Just stopping the carnage is not enough. Mme Speaker is demanding a return of service to that before the tampering started. She and the House Dems are on this.

August 17, 2020

Too right. It is willful destruction of national infrastructure

and blatant election tampering as well. It is most definitely an attack on our country. Mme Speaker is about to take care of business defending the nation and keeping her oath. I trust her, and her allies in the House, to get the job done.

August 17, 2020

*snerk* Good one. Here's another response about trump cheating at golf:

https://twitter.com/mr_ldap/status/1294669146550972416



Sad.

August 17, 2020

Yes! As much early voting as possible

by either requesting/mailing ballots ASAP, dropping off ballots in person, or taking advantage of early voting. Not all states allow every option, so everyone needs to check availability and dates. Get it done as early as you can.

https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

Thanks to DUer Budi for posting this link:
https://www.postcardsforamerica.com/vote-by-mail.html

August 17, 2020

You can always unsubscribe from texts. They will honor it, or people wouldn't

keep recommending the service. From the FAQ:

I get where you're coming from. I hesitated HARD on giving them my email address, but I don't expect my reps to spam me or refuse to honor an unsub request. If they do, I know how to block them.

I have balked every time on these in the past for the same reason but, like you, this time I did it anyway.

✨ !Solidarity for the USPS! ✨

August 16, 2020

Well that was fast. How convenient to have a way to leave mailboxes in place but still

render them unusable. Someone has already gamed it out, has plans locked and loaded from now to November. It's clear there's a plan C and so on. Hearings will mean nothing unless the source of those plans is revealed, and it's not the dancing tangerine. He is not smart enough, but someone else is, and there must be a paper trail. That trail needs following, and people have to start going to jail or, election or no election, we will no longer have a postal service.

August 16, 2020

And a good question.

Meanwhile, this is going on as well:

House Dems propose strengthening Congress’ contempt power to break administration stonewalls
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213913505

I think they ought to go back to threatening arrest by the Sergeant at Arms👇, but this is at least a step in the right direction.

House Democrats Are Ignoring This Key Lesson of Watergate
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/how-to-break-trumps-stonewall/598450/

https://www.house.gov/the-house-explained/officers-and-organizations/sergeant-at-arms

August 15, 2020

I'm glad he ignores them. It's the rest who pay attention I'm worried about.

Especially Jared, who should never, ever have gotten a security clearance.

It's scary as hell that I'm hoping nobody in the current WH admin is getting real intelligence briefings anymore.