US Politics, February 2020. They want to kill your cows.

Did Morbs' head just explode?

is that news? what the hell else wd she say

she could've expressed "nervousness" like various other Senators and Dem party apparatchiks (Rahm Emmanuel, etc.) have

BUT

Pelosi is a) better at counting votes/reading polls than anybody else in the federal gov't and b) doesn't give a fuck about Senate "comity" or "perogatives" or whatever else worries the Dem Senate caucus

She could shriek "GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO well okay sure"

I'm pretty sure Morbz could imagine some other things she could've said lol

It also means she's ensuring -- as is there's any doubt -- that there will be no "brokered" convention.

I know the Dems have pretty bad political instincts but even they know that if Bernie keeps up these margins and the DNC still finds a way to give the nom to Bloomberg they'll be signing their own suicide pact

most of them know it even if the donors don't

It's very unsurprising, the issue has never seemed to be with elected Democrats (who he's worked with amicably for 30 years) but the consultant/donor class.

the 'donor class' i meant xp

but Hillz said nobody liked him!

the donut class also isn't fond of Bernie

If Sanders take the nomination I'd bet money his VP pick is someone that will mollify the "centrists" and rally the African American community, and the best bet there is Stacey Abrams.

Trump to have news conference on coronavirus, which says to me the White House is worried despite his tweets to the contrary.

the DNC still finds a way to give the nom to Bloomberg

Never happen. They'd give it to Marianne Williamson first. They're tolerating him 'cause he's rich as fuck, but they'd go straight to Biden, convinced that if the public just got to know ol' Joe a little better, they'd come around.

imagining the prospect of voting for a billionaire whose catchphrase was "you're fired" vs a billionaire who wants to be referred to as "the boss"

Bloomberg is trying to sell "You're fired" memorabilia right now too. obviously to use Trump's catchphrase against him but it really has the effect of making him seem even more like Dem Trump

we don't love dem trumps

Ds up, hoes down

I'd bet a few dollars that this press conference today is going to be a larf, with CDC officials directly contradicting Trump if they get a chance to speak at all.

the last time trump had an opportunity to show leadership in a public health crisis, he drew an extra part of a hurricane zone onto Alabama with sharpie, just because he wanted it to be true

his every instinct is wrong

Hey guys, did you know thousands of people die from flu every year? So this Caronavirus is basically nbd!

Boy oh boy do I ever want him to contract and succumb to this shit.

Oh and Pence is in charge of Caronavirus so we can breathe easy. At least until we are inevitably infected with Caronavirus.

These are the first words I've heard from Pence in probably two years.

Well! The House passed its anti-lynching bill 410-4 a hundred years after it was first proposed.

The Senate version, written by Kamala Harris and Tim Scott, passed unanimously last year. After reconciliation, it heads to the Trump White House for his signature. I doubt very much he wouldn't in an election year when he still postures as a president who's done wonders for POC.

lol this 5-point plan sucks

principled conservative justin amash was one of the four

I'm assuming Pence is in charge of the government's anti-coronavirus efforts because when Trump looked up from his desk, Jared Kushner was not in his immediate field of vision.

Official US government anti-coronavirus prayer cloths, specially blessed by Jim Bakker, will be on sale to Trump donors starting tomorrow, and to everyone else two weeks from now.

the response to the coronavirus will be an 'offshoot of the Indiana model' of mike pence

they have no fucking idea what they're doing. this is incredibly unimpressive

As an emergency provision, medicare for all should be instituted on a permanent basis

it sounds a lot like they're just outsourcing responsibility to state government

that concerns me because my state, maryland, has one of the dumbest governors in the nation

Good thing you've got Pence stepping in with the assist, then.

When all else fails, stare blankly until the day is over

I have the perfect opening to a film:

-Sixty seconds of that press conference (really, any sixty seconds will do) with kind of this unnerving tone rising in the background
-Screen goes black, then 'ONE YEAR LATER' in stark white text
-Smash cut, slow pan across abandoned, trash-strewn streets, stopping on a skeleton in a state of repose

Should work equally well for any post-apocalyptic thriller you have in mind, really.

If you set it in Ocala, FL, you could start shooting today

harbl... your governor has some competition

gotta come up with a snappy nickname tying Cornovirus to the Trump admin, the way the right did when they blamed every single instance of Ebola on Obama, e.g., "Obola"

covfefe-19

so, he put pence in charge.

shows what i know. i assumed that whoever led the effort (up until now, Azar?) would be getting fired eventually, taking the fall for incompetence, past and future. so when there were murmurs that trump was choosing a czar, i figured it would be the kiss of death for whoever was chosen. but pence? ooooooook

it bears mention that pence is...not a public health expert

As governor, Pence’s science denial contributed to one of the worst HIV outbreaks in Indiana’s history.

He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health.
https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2020

want to hear some dumb galaxy brain shit? what if the thinking is that either A) the lethality of coronavirus is at least somewhat mitigated in the US and Pence is a national hero who many are saying would have a terrifying giant statue in many countries, or B) he will fail and the evil left will rise to burn him and cancel him and hate him, but then trump will stand by his silent man pence through all the very unfair insults, and the evangelical vote will be secure once and for all

what if there’s no thinking

i think that's gotta be it. he just doesn't get that there is a serious risk of failure here

so we are literally gonna be told to pray the coronavirus away

I rate there's a high chance that prayer will be invoked, approved and explicitly encouraged by Vice President Pence. It's efficacy will be implied, but only where the supplicant's faith is sufficiently strong and directed toward the correct deity.

I heard that kids are for some reason less susceptible to this, maybe silver lining is it knocks out some of these dummy 45+ voters

present company and myself excluded