186 RBG says no RIP


Ok, let's do this. Bring on the screencraps.
Who is we?
At this point, all Joe Biden needs to do is stand on the debate stage and say, "I'm an idiot, don't vote for me," and dear leader will rip into him, "No, I'm the real idiot! Don't vote for me me me!"
Why not the 1946 Collection? Isn't that when America got great, the year dear leader was born? And he could do a spin-off, the 1970 Line, for Spylania's birth, the 1977 Series for Con Jr., or  the 1981 Compendium for Iwanka.

While we're on the subject of rewriting history. 
What pandemic?
There's nothing to see here.
Nothing.
Nothing.
How is the effort to deflect attention from Russia and put heat on China going?
There's a lot of tough talk. WeChat was dragged in, severing a lot of P2P ties in the Chinese diaspora.

But dear leader is letting this ticking box he wound up go Tik Tok till after the voting.

Apparently, when my glasses start to fog up, I'm holding my breath.
And speaking of boxes, maybe I need to try this.
File under: "Fly out to the coast, it'll be fun"
Just, you know, follow this chart:

Does anyone else get the sense that with all of this reopening, things are about to go haywire?

Yep, looks like we've got this totally under control.

And since we're comparing curves...
Above is the US. That's New York on the left, and the rest of the USA on the right.
And here's all of us, together.
Next week I have a dentist appointment. I'm not sure about it. It's the first time I'll be mask-free indoors around other people in six months. I go to the student clinic at UCSF. They have supposedly taken precautions, but it's a big room filled with people, all together for 2-3 hours at a stretch. This is exactly the type of situation I've been avoiding.

It might be my fear of the dentist talking, but going to the museum sounds safer.

They're limiting capacity to 25%, and recommended getting tickets ahead.

File under: central planning

You can open outside on September 1st. Get ready!

And finally, the biggest news of the day.

See you outside the Hall of Justice tonight at 8pm. We've got to make enough noise to be heard all the way in Kentucky.

At top, why I was ok giving up coffee.

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