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  1. Welp, it finally happened. I snapped in public today. I went into work for a bit this morning because I’m trying to figure out the safest way to host physicians we are recruiting given our CV-19 situation. (Normally we have 18 ICU beds. We currently have 37 CV-19 inpatients with another 17 PUI [positives under investigation, IE symptomatic patients who our pulmonologist has clinically DXed but we don’t have their test back.) So in Surly terms, a utter terrifying shitshow. Anyway, on my way home I stopped at a gas station to fill up and get a Whatchamacallit (shut up, I had a craving). I was wearing my mask and had on my hospital badge because I had been in the hospital. I go inside and this white dude, probably in his 60s, sidles up to me. He was to close even by pre-pandemic standards much less in These Times. I scooted back and he says “Aw, you’re too purty to cover your face! You should take that dumb thing off, the whole things a media creation to hurt Trump.” I normally would just give a fake smile and walk away because I was raised a good southern polite girl. Well, I felt a red hot rage wash over me; thinking about my friend that died, thinking about the daughters I heard wailing when their 45 year old mother died, thinking about my coworkers at the end of their ropes, thinking about the chaos of our ED and our ICU. And reader, I snapped. I took a giant step closer and yanked down my mask. I pointed at my hospital badge and said “See this? I work at the hospital. Our numbers are so high we’ve tripled our ICU beds and taken over a whole other floor. You think this is fake? The how about I lick your face and you put your theory to the test?”. The four other people in the gas station were staring at us like I was Typhoid Mary and Mr. Big Mouth about tripped over himself to get the fuck out. I pulled my mask up, paid for my well earned candy bar and walked out with a hearty “Have a nice day y’all and wear your mask!”. I have no idea if anyone pulled out their phone and recorded me and if they did, I’m probably gonna get in trouble for spouting off about my hospital badge and threatening to lick his face but I don’t care. We are in SERIOUS trouble here and the general public doesn’t know or doesn’t care. I’m beginning to think we need to let media in to film the nightmare and let these fools see it with their own stupid eyes. I drove home in a great mood for the first time in months.
    51 points
  2. Idk if you are being purposefully obtuse or just astonishingly lack self awareness on this topic because you are usually pretty even keeled. Mistrust of the IC, while sometimes being warranted is definitely a huge deal with Trump and his supporters. I know the way you are saying to be wary of IC without blindly accepting it is good intentioned and rooted in logical decision making, but you have to understand the optics dude. I don't trust the IC because most everyone I met while I was involved with it was completely incompetent, but they were all trying to do the right thing. There's a complex truth and then there's a simple truth: The simple truth is that Donald Trump didn't listen to the IC briefing on this, was most likely made aware of it several times over the course of the last 6 months and has not only entirely rejected it, but has lobbied for Russia a known subversive actor to rejoin the G8. People are tired of this bullshit and are wanting to see smoke to yell fire. Meanwhile the same buffoon that blatantly disregards all intelligence and military recommendations. Literally tweeted a video of people yelling "white power". This isn't the "is the IC fucked and trustworthy at all" thread it's the Donald Trump 2020 thread.
    24 points
  3. Aggy: you can’t change history! Also Aggy:
    18 points
  4. President openly retweeting “white power!” chants. Hell, a society where we still have those chants, and they are directly correlated with support for the sitting president. President doing nothing about a foreign power putting a bounty on the beads of US troops. Is it because he’s a moron who can’t listen to 10 seconds of an intelligence briefing? Is it because he doesn’t believe anything he doesn’t want to hear? Is it because he’s a lap dog of a foreign power? Who knows? A president who does nothing to lead during the greatest crisis in generations...he just tweets, and golfs. And occasionally signs some xenophobic EO that an evil little troll drafted for him to sign. Remember the two truths of the Trump era: 1) it only gets worse, and 2) there is no bottom. Between now and January 20th, hundreds of thousands will die (who wouldn’t otherwise have died), and millions of lives will be ruined. And that’s the BEST CASE scenario. We are on a plane plummeting to the ground, piloted by a man who simultaneously claims to be a better pilot than chuck yeager, doesn’t believe in gravity, and blames the passengers for everything going wrong. Enjoy the ride.
    17 points
  5. 13 points
  6. I find it really fucking hard to swallow the President retweeting a video where someone yells “White Power” and his comment was “Thank you”. That’s a real thing that happened in the midst of a massive movement attempting to address racial injustice. This is the Republican Party and this is what it means to support Trump. No more code words. Just racism.
    13 points
  7. I want trump to lose the popular vote by 7 million votes or more. No way I’d write someone else in. This fucker needs to be embarrassed.
    12 points
  8. So, I used to do weird-ass loser shit like spend all my money on local businesses, because I give a damn about local businesses. This last couple of months though, I have seen many local businesses that don't give a damn about me. Motherfuckers breathing all over each other, no distance, no mask, or mask hanging from lapel button, or maybe mask "chin strap" because, hey, the magic still works if the mask is within a foot of your face. God damn motherfucking regard shit pea-brain fucking fucks pushing back the time I can go hug my old little mama. This is fucking personal. We now avoid the grocery store one block away for ones that make an effort. Hell, we might become Chinamen because those dudes at the Asian market at least can slap on a mask without it meaning that they hate the Baby Jesus' Gun. I started ordering shit online all the time like some broke-dick HOA-dweller because, even if it comes from some Covid-coughing bastard 5 states away, well hell, that's still 5 states for it to cross and die out in before my dumb ass opens the box and breathes it in. Goddammit fuck it all to hell. It doesn't matter who wins any election because we are dealing with a fucking personality defect among half the populace. I am to the point where I will laugh if businesses I used to patronize go out of business. But they won't. What's going to happen is that everything will sort out into Masked Sheeple and Freedom Fries Chest Bump. And everybody will keep passing on this shit no matter what. We can't get as well organized as Italy. ITALY. tldr: fuck you go back and read it because it's awesome.
    11 points
  9. “It smells like B.O. in here I’m going to light an incest candle”.
    11 points
  10. Did a prime strip on Friday that got the same result. I didn't sous vide or reverse sear or anything, just straight up grilled it. Temp was right, but texture was mush...WTF? Otherwise, pretty nice little steak house dinner. Started with a charcuterie board... Wife served salad with a full strip of bacon on the side. Good girl... Bread basket... Scalloped potatoes... Plated... Espresso martinis for desert...
    11 points
  11. Left over jalapeño sausage and baked bean egg scramble with four-cheese blend topped with Jaime’s queso.
    11 points
  12. I love all of these I had a fever and sniffles for a couple of days so I probably already had corona crowd. Lol ok. Even if you had it and have the antibodies, why not just wear a mask anyway? If anything, assuming people respect you, it will serve as a positive means of encouragement to those that should be wearing them. It's a simple piece of cloth, it can be a fucking bandana even, it's not like we're asking you to get in a full hazmat suit. I get that there may be a minor inconvenience especially in these hot and humid summer months, but really, if you can't even be bothered to "suffer" the slightest bother then frankly you deserve the same ridicule and shaming that the non antibody having non mask wearers face. Lastly, if by some miracle you do have the antibodies and my plea above didn't work and you refuse to wear a mask, you can write pendejo on your forehead in sharpie, we'll all know what it means.
    11 points
  13. Trump retweet’s a video with someone saying “white power” this morning and you haven’t made a final decision? Cool.
    10 points
  14. “I love texas am this is not a racist place” directly below a watermelon and kool aid remark.
    10 points
  15. "WHITE POWER!" is screamed three times in the first 11 seconds of that video.
    10 points
  16. “President Trump loves his racist senior citizen supporters, but doesn’t like when they say racist stuff out loud, on camera”
    10 points
  17. I've been thinking a little about this, and am sure there are people here on Surly that have got more wisdom in this area. I'm also aware that this is a possible thread derail; so I'm happy to think through this in another forum/thread). But (and I'll admit I've been influenced by this podcast series), I think that the truth of the bolded above depends on the definition of "great" that we're using. The American Experiment is certainly unique, and has amazing elements that should be celebrated and built upon. But some of our common ways we've described our exceptionalism are incomplete in ways. For instance, we talk about our greatness in terms of liberties and freedoms, but also have an incarceration rate for our citizenry that's among the highest in the world (if not the highest- 'Merica! #1!). We think about our economic greatness, but don't often openly discuss that it is built on hundreds of years of unpaid and enslaved labor. We don't also reflect that much of our current place in the world's economy is due to the manufacturing buildup necessary during WW2 and the benefit of being fortunate enough to be the only remaining industrial power following V-E and V-J days. (We also don't talk a lot about the economic impacts, benefits and losses, of the incarceration situation mentioned earlier). If we define greatness in other ways, (education, equity, environmental stewardship, etc.), the conversation changes somewhat. Taking the idea of equity, if we believe the quote attributed to Ghandi that "“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members", we have real issues. Enormous income and educational imbalances across our nation point to work towards greatness that needs to done. But- to the point that started this... if we're only defining greatness through individual terms, then we can get stuck not caring about others, outside of seeing them as benchmarks by which to measure our individual successes and areas for growth. Which is why it's so frustrating that our religion and spirituality have been co-opted to the point where we've lost this. A hallmark of spirituality is recognizing not just our personal worth, but our interconnectedness and the worth of others. (except for Aggies and Michigan fans. screw those people)
    10 points
  18. This. When Texas hasn’t been in play, you have the luxury of a “send a message” third party vote. If Texas is in play - and current polling said it is - refusing to vote for his opponent is functionally a vote for Trump. You don’t get to sit this one out in the “but I have super-super principles” section. There is no such section this time. Just Trump, and the guy who can beat trump and take electoral votes from him. There’s no sitting this one out. Pick.
    9 points
  19. We've been discussing the senior aggie qb challenge for a few weeks now, and now that the racial issue is really rearing it's head over in BCS, there is a real possibility that Mond will not be the starter by the end of the season. Maybe not even before the season. With that said, years ago on some previous version of Surly/shaggy/hornfans, I compiled a history of aggie qb's in this century. Not having a clue where to look for it, I decided to make it again, so here you go. 1987 - 1991 Your Holiness, John “Bucky” Powell Richardson – The Patron Saint of aggie football (until Johnny Manziel) Bucky came off the bench in his freshmen season and beat none other than Brett Favre in Mississippi. Has any sip QB done that? Didn’t think so! From that win, Bucky went on to start 41 in a row and graduated a hero. Aggies everywhere offer their goats as penance. 1992 – 1995: Corey Pullig Like Saint Bucky, Pullig wasn’t the announced started in his true freshmen year, but he came off the bench and took the job and never looked back. 40 consecutive starts, and winning nothing due to the fact that they were on probation much of that time. 1996 – 1999: Randy McCown The last of a dying breed; yet another four year started for the fightin’ Texas aggies. Randy came in during the 8th game of his RS freshmen year and got a win. He didn’t start them all between then and his final game, mostly due to injuries, but he did start the final game of his senior season, which, as we know, is no small feat these days. Here we go: 2000 – 2002: Mark Farris Farris cut his illustrious AA baseball career short just have the opportunity to don the marron and white. He came in as a 26 year savior and did not disappoint. He played a few of the games that McCown was injured in 1999 then started every game in the next two seasons. In 2002, Farris struggled in the first two and was ultimately benched in the second for Dustin Long, and by game three, Slocum was ready to go with the freshmen savior du jour…. 2002 – 2005: Reggie “The Real Deal” McNeal, infinitely better than some scrub named Vincent. Real Deal was able to unseat a 28 year old professional baseball player through shear will and determination and aggie spirit. Unfortunately, he got injured soon thereafter and Dustin Long had to start for a while. Reggie did start all of the games in 2003 and 2004 and was a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brian award. But then…his senior year arrived. In 2005, Reggie struggled with injuries and competence, which doesn’t bode well for aggie seniors. Especially when one of the most aggie of all aggies, phenom Stephen McGee is waiting in the wings to snatch that job. As it ends, despite being better than Vince Young, Reggie was forced to watch from the bench as Vince Young won at Kyle Field on his way to Pasadena. 2005 – 2008: Stephen McGee After stealing the job from Reggie McNeal, McGee went on to start every game for the next two years. You would think that a senior coming off of a season where they generated 62% of the team’s offense and had started 25+ in row would be the undisputed starter, but you’d be wrong. McGee had to compete with another QB that was better than Vince Young, Jerrod Johnson, for the starting spot. He barely edged out Johnson for the first game start. McGee struggled in that start and ended up losing it. In game 2, McGee was “injured” and had to relinquish the spot to Johnson until……The final game of the season, against the dreaded sips, McGee was allowed to start. Much like his previous games, McGee put on a “gritty” performance in the loss, but won the “Aggie Spirit” award at the teams December banquet for being such a good sport about his senior year benching. 2008 – 2010: Jerrod Johnson In 2009 Johnson beat out the number two best QB on the team so badly that he was removed from the QB room to play WR instead. Johnson proved his chops by starting every one of the games in the 6-6 campaign. 2010 started with Johnson as the preseason Big12 Offensive player of the year, and you won’t believe this, but also as a “dark horse Heisman contender”. Johnson watched the last 5 games of the season from the comfort of the bench as some WR went on to throw for 13 TD’s to go with the 11 TD receptions he had in the first half of the season. 2011: Ryan Tannehill Coming off the heels of the wildly successful 2010 season where he was able to unseat the amazing Jerrod Johnson as the starter, the former WR was able to something rare for a senior aggie QB this century and he was able to start every game of that senior season. His career as an aggie ended as Justin Tucker sailed a ball through the uprights at Kyle Field and a huge win over Big10 POWER, Northwestern University in a riveting Texas Bowl matchup. 2012 – 2013: Johnny Football!! What can I say here? The guy came in with all of the accolades of a three star player that had been arrested for a racist fight before his RS freshmen season. It was such a tizzy that he contemplated leaving when then Coach Sumlin threatened to discipline him. As common sense prevailed, Johnny won the starting spot and went on to really do nothing of real substance that season except for beatin’ bama that one time! And coming in third in his division. For that, Johnny won the Heisman trophy! 2013 came in with John assuredly the favorite to repeat as the Heisman winner and hoist a Natty!! He built on the success of the Heisman by illegally selling autographs to fans and going on cocaine fueled benders to Vegas. This dedication to his craft led to the aggies again finishing third in their division. Unable to cope with the stresses of following NCAA rules and general coaching, Johnny sought the greener pastures of the NFL and made good on his previous tweet promise that stated “I can’t wait to get out of College Station”. I believe that this marks the first senior aggie QB to voluntarily bench himself before his senior campaign. 2014: Kenny “Trill” Hill After backing up the GOAT in 2012, Trill was ready for his chance to shine. He came out gunsablazin and whooped South Carolina. He was so exhausted in his effort that he fell asleep on a planter in the famous Northgate district. He continued to shine against some FCS greats but noticeably suffered fatigue once the actual Division 1 games started. Kenny was ultimately benched for True Freshmen extraordinaire, Kyle Allen. Hill took the benching well and was disciplined by the team and ultimately quit to become a Horned Frog. 2014 – 2015: Kyle Allen Coming off the successful season and the tremendous effort Allen put up after taking the reins from Kenny Trill, the path to the starting job in 2015 was simple. All Allen had to do was beat aggie legacy, Texas High School Football legend, Native Endorian, Kyler Murray. Allen won the starting job and then won the first five games of the season. In the 6th game against Alabama, Allen threw three pick sixes and was suddenly “injured” and had to be replaced by Murray. 2015: Kyler Murray Murray came in as a projected four year Heisman winner and future NFL Hall of Famer. Once given his shot on the field, Murray was able to show both his penchant for sliding and his thin skin. Though “injured” against Alabama in game 6, suddenly Allen was thrust back into the starting role as Murray struggled. This was the fastest known quitting of a “leader” in aggie school history. Through superior coaching and roster management by Sumlin, both Allen AND Murray left at the end of the 2015 campaign. 2016: Trevor Knight/Jake Hubestank Knight makes the cut of aggie QB’s that even played in their senior year simply by virtue of all of the other aggie QB’s from the previous year leaving in order to avoid being aggies. Trevor likely would have followed in the footsteps of aggie great, QB>WR>QB, Ryan Tannehill, and been a senior year ONLY started for the ags. Unfortunately, the injury bug struck Trevor and he was replaced by “the Stank” for a few games. Fortunately for Trevor and the LSU Tigers, the injury Gods shined down on Trevor just in time to heal him and get him back into game for a loss to the Tigers late in the 2016 season. 2017 – Present: Kellen Mond With heavyweights such as Nick Starkel and Jake Hubestank breathing down his neck, Kellen Mond was able to secure the starting QB slot during the 2017 season and has not relinquished it since. Known for consistency and stepping up in big games, Mond expects big things in his upcoming senior season. Barring a racial war on campus or a COVID shutdown, Mond is poised to join the elite club of 20th century aggie qb’s who finish their senior season.
    9 points
  20. Remember the posters on shaggy who kept saying Obama was the most divisive president ever when it came to race? too sweet.
    9 points
  21. From the NYT story: Vetting the intelligence to understand "nuance", particularly given an administration that sees the media as the enemy, would be difficult if not impossible. Revelations to the UK could have been the source of the leak as well. Regardless, the story is as much or more about Trump's refusal to do anything after receiving the information as it is the information itself. Kudos to you for again focusing on a tangential issue.
    9 points
  22. This is the shit were Democrats will not make a big stink about it, I mean look what republicans did with Benghazi. This is another softball they get thrown and do nothing about it. Go start doing hearings and get in front the camera
    9 points
  23. It’s impressive in a disgusting sort of way that he’ll stick to acting as if voting is nothing more than a self-affirming consumer choice, like whether one should buy North Face or Columbia, while there’s a pandemic that most of the rest of the world has controlled raging through the country because one of our two political parties has gone insane.
    8 points
  24. No. Red herring. The issue is not your criticism of the IC. It is 1) that you repeatedly use it to distract from criminal failures/intentional acts of the Trump regime, 2) so much so that you won't even commit to voting for his opponent. Sorry, any credibility you have rings fucking hollow when you openly state the functional equivalent of "hey, I know I could maybe cast a vote that would deny Trump Texas's EC votes...but I won't." If you were wondering how you completely piss away credibility, that's how you do it.
    8 points
  25. Remember when you said you'd be happy to do this in a new thread?
    8 points
  26. Got inspired by some of this. Allow me to present one of the few good things that came out of Waco, the “gut pack”. For those that don’t know, now you know (Fritos, brisket, sausage, cheddar cheese, beans, bbq sauce, japs and pickles).
    8 points
  27. The big difference from my perspective is that we kept the individualism but have lost track of individual responsibility. Corporations don’t practice it, our leaders don’t practice it, now every day Americans have started to decide not to practice it. It’s discouraging.
    8 points
  28. Trump winning was a fucking embarrassing electoral college tally. Don’t ever fucking forget that. If you sit it out and don’t vote for someone who can beat him, you’re being a shithead, and you know it. We shipped weapons to fucking Stalin to best Hitler. And it was the right choice. You can fucking hold your self-important nose and vote for Biden.
    7 points
  29. Copperhead loses.
    7 points
  30. 7 points
  31. I haven't commented on the IC-fueled war machine, @Anastasis, and I certainly haven't defended it. Again, you are struggling with the point: POTUS was briefed on Russia-funded actions against American soldiers and did nothing about it. In fact, he continued to kowtow. That's the story we're talking about. You, as usual, are trying to deflect. Not this time.
    7 points
  32. The anti IC morons are always the funniest brand of idiot.
    7 points
  33. Some elective surgeries are less "elective" than others, and those patients are unfortunately unable to wait this peak out. Sucks for them and sucks for us. COVID ICU is full. COVID M/S units, already expanded twice, are full. ED has plenty of PUIs. My trauma ICU is full, and the traumas themselves are all sick af. Most are for reasons completely avoidable or unnecessary. The rest of our m/s floors are full, so the handful of stable patients we do have in my ICU are taking up precious ICU beds. We are short staffed. Everyone is tired and stressed the fuck out. I've managed around fifty-five thousand steps over the last three nights and I want to saw my feet off. If any of you Surly 1%ers want to do a good deed tonight, send food to the ICUs at my hospital. Free food tastes hollow and bitter when it comes from management, but quite the opposite from any of y'all, and we could use it tbh. PM me if you're interested, and I can give you info later this afternoon. (It still feels weird to refer to this place as Surly. It will always be ShaggyBevo in my heart)
    7 points
  34. “And then one day it will be gone. Like a miracle.” Trump has literally gambled with the lives of Americans. Gambled that covid-19 was overblown. That it would respect his ban on travel from China. That a vaccine would be found in record time. That existing medicines would be an effective treatment. That summer months and warmer temps would stop the virus. He’s lost all of these bets to the tune of 127,000 dead Americans. Now he’s gambling that Americans are so stupidly shallow that they will ignore all this and gamble themselves and their loved ones on a “return to normal” that is his only chance at a legit reelection. To anyone who still supports Trump: Fucking stop it. Don’t invest your life or those who you care about in the inveterate gambler that keeps coming back with his hand out looking for a little more help so he can bet himself out of the hole. Betting on such a man is the biggest sucker’s bet of them all.
    7 points
  35. I’m shocked to learn Karen is homophobic along with racist.
    6 points
  36. How hard is it to keep a thread about the worst fucking president in our history on-track? This silly motherfucker does not care about any of the American soldiers that are the targets of those bounties. Somehow though this is just another thing to throw on the pile of awful things this narcissistic shitstain has allowed to happen. The election can’t get here soon enough.
    6 points
  37. of course she's in the 15 item or less lane, with a fucking basket FULL of groceries !!!!! fuck that bitch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also, wood
    6 points
  38. Of course that bread is white.
    6 points
  39. The all kamado wagyu ribeye from central market. Smoked until 110 degrees then turned up the temp to a little over 500 for the sear with some butter. Best steak I've ever consumed so far.
    6 points
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