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Fallom posted:I am embarrassed to see something so pathetic on DoS letterhead I bet there are some real howlers from when he was at CIA.
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He just named the first random country he could think of, didn't he? Does he even know where Bangladesh is? This administration is so hosed up.
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Slim Pickens posted:He just named the first random country he could think of, didn't he? Does he even know where Bangladesh is? This administration is so hosed up. At least if you are going to lie make it believable. Like, if he said Georgia or Romania I wouldn't believe it but at least it is on the Black Sea.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:27
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Bangladesh is probably what he was looking at when she picked Ukraine
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:We're all idiots on some scale. Don't steal my email signature thanks.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:30
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Wait, is this the reporter that was born in europe, and has advanced degrees in european studies? Edit: It is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Louise_Kelly
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Jan 25, 2020 17:31
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Based on the statement and without context, they were going to run away to Bangladesh one day. But they were just kids then and things are different now.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:33
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not caring here posted:Wait, is this the reporter that was born in europe, and has advanced degrees in european studies? God drat, so she 100% knows more about international relations than the Secretary of State. Cool cool cool.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:34
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According to the comments she had a masters in EU studies from Cambridge, so yeah she’s not picking a country in Asia
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Jan 25, 2020 17:35
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Casually ignoring the fact that the Secretary of State had an underling print off a blank map to interrogate her with in response to asking a question about an ongoing news story. Pompeo is reportedly interested in running in the Republican Presidential Primary in 2024 and I would pay good money for that sort of entertainment.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Pompeo is reportedly interested in running in the Republican Presidential Primary in 2024 and I would pay good money for that sort of entertainment. Remember when we said poo poo like that about Trump?
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Jan 25, 2020 17:49
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FrozenVent posted:Remember when we said poo poo like that about Trump? He’s not a bigely rich big businessman.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:57
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1221091910078664705 quote:Kelly graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1993, with degrees in Government and French Literature. As a senior editor at The Harvard Crimson, she covered the 1992 Presidential election, including Bill Clinton's inauguration.[3] What a tool.
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https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1220867293510541317?s=19 Nailed it.
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Jan 25, 2020 17:59
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Yeah joking about seemingly idiotic Republucan types running for office dismissively has historically not worked out and may be shouldn't be viewed as side show, especially considering Pompeo would get on his end times kick and lock up 40% of the country based on their ideological approach to foreign policy
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maffew buildings posted:Yeah joking about seemingly idiotic Republucan types running for office dismissively has historically not worked out and may be shouldn't be viewed as side show, especially considering Pompeo would get on his end times kick and lock up 40% of the country based on their ideological approach to foreign policy But how will he differentiate himself from Pence?
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Jan 25, 2020 18:04
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Well the recent report doesn't say anything about his wife in the room during the NPR interview
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Jan 25, 2020 18:06
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Vasudus posted:I mean maybe I'm just an idiot but usually the government does whatever action out of "an abundance of caution". Like giving people reduced price flu shots, or setting up hand sanitizer stations in public transport hubs. That's what you do when you say "an abundance of caution" and actually mean it. Normally you don't quarantine cities at all for public health epidemics, because it fosters distrust of the government and makes the clear transfer of information and resources more difficult as you have the majority of the population who aren't sick fighting to get out, rather than effectively assisting in dealing with the public health crisis. Taking two weeks to set up some kind of containment hospitals is also real loving dumb. This whole thing is a mess and the government response seems to be making it worse.
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Jan 25, 2020 18:26
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It’s almost like this is a test run for something bigger some day. *Stares across the straights in Winnie*
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Jan 25, 2020 18:27
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Am I reading that right that China is building two 1,300 bed hospitals in... about 3 weeks?? Those are monstrous hospitals. Like Mass Gen is 1,000 beds. I realize they’re probably just floor after floor of open space for death cots but still they are throwing a loving rediculous workforce at these things to scream through their construction. I couldn’t even pull this in FrostPunk let alone Starcraft. I have to assume they the Chinese government is withholding numbers of cases. The WHO has been using case # to calculate the R0 (R-“naught”) which is the rate of infectivity. How many people one person will infect. So far it’s like 1.4-2, SARS was near 5. Its way too low for this type of response. So what will happen is this virus will get a foothold in another country, but one WHO can see into with more clarity. They’ll watch the number of cases spread like a forest fire and the R0 will be 8 or something equally horrific, and they’ll have objective proof China was lying its butt off about the numbers. Blind Rasputin fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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Nothing serious going on, just flying our people out of China, no big deal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plans-to-evacuate-citizens-from-epidemic-stricken-chinese-city-11579951256 quote:SHANGHAI—The U.S. government is working to evacuate American citizens by air from the epidemic-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan as soon as possible, according to people familiar with the effort.
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Sorry to DP butBlind Rasputin posted:Am I reading that right that China is building two 1,300 bed hospitals in... about 3 weeks?? They're not permanent structure hospitals, that's why they can be built so fast. They're going to be single level structures, think tent hospitals but prefab poo poo light enough to set on barely cured concrete. They will be plowed over, burnt and buried when the outbreak ends. China did this for SARS.
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Here is a I think federal run map of cases that is Live Updated and quite useful. Bookmark it. https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 Some takeaways:  
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The Bangladesh jab is Pompeo at his Pompeoist. It’s clearly inferring she hosed up the countries, but it’s not actually a claim. So if proof comes out that she did no such thing, he can just smirk and say he never said she confused Bangladesh for Ukraine. He revels in highly misleading words that are technically not a claim.
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Jan 25, 2020 19:23
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He should’ve gone with something in Eastern Europe at least
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Jan 25, 2020 19:25
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Well maybe after *this* manufactured outrage at "the media" and two-minutes-hate session NPR will figure out that "fair and balanced" is a loving dumb slogan even for Fox in our current fascist-wannabe political climate. Or, ya know, just....not and be one more group they put against the wall when Republicans get what they want and need a new "enemy of the people" that day. Wouldn't want to upset  by taking a political party seriously when they say what they want and are going to do. Just wouldn't be polite to believe them.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Here is a I think federal run map of cases that is Live Updated and quite useful. Bookmark it. number...go...up?
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Nuclear War posted:From my friend in Qingdao, northern China 
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I forgot that Sec State requires confirmation by the Senate only, not House and Senate.
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Lake of Methane posted:I forgot that Sec State requires confirmation by the Senate only, not House and Senate. I don't think any confirmation of any position requires a house vote. There is a very real possibility that I'm wrong though.
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Anecdotal and all that, but this is from FB, a family friend's sister lives in Wuhan.
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I would not have cared, but now I really want to listen to this interview with Secretary Pompeo. He must have made a real rear end of himself
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This is the relevant part that I think a lot of people are missing https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1220837170484797445?s=19
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"Do you think Americans care about Ukraine" is a very odd question to ask considering the president is currently being impeached over it.
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Maybe I'm off the mark but seems like a lot of the more mainstream Dems, when a GOP cat gets way out of line, they just write it off as "of course they did" and the other side of the aisle is actively stoked on when they haul off on people for no good reason. So yeah, that poo poo should get WAY more traction and we should have a culture that doesn't tolerate politicians that do poo poo like this, but everything is loving broken and also did you know millenials are killing the mortgage lending industry?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:"Do you think Americans care about Ukraine" is a very odd question to ask considering the president is currently being impeached over it. Those are separate issues. America cares about the president. America doesn’t care about Ukraine.
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:I would not have cared, but now I really want to listen to this interview with Secretary Pompeo. He must have made a real rear end of himself It’s impressive - she gets the knife in, and he is audibly rattled.
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