US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.

But America said fuck you to Jeb! in 2016

antonym, "revenge is a dish best served cold"

chuck and nancy

On Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to the Trump administration demanding paid sick leave requirements for workers impacted by COVID-19.

The Democratic leaders said that they were prompted to impose the demands after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow mentioned on Friday that the administration was mulling tax breaks for airline and other travel industries as fear of the coronavirus puts a squeeze on international travel.

“In light of reports that the Trump administration is considering new tax cuts for major corporations impacted by the coronavirus, we are demanding that the administration prioritize the health and safety of American workers and their families over corporate interests,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote.

The letter included a list of demands aimed at assisting workers in the administration’s next response to the deadly coronavirus.

“Workers impacted by quarantine orders or responsible for caring for children impacted by school closures must receive paid sick leave to alleviate the devastating consequences of lost wages,” the Democrats asserted.

Other requests included protection measures for those who may be exposed to the illness in their line of work, along with unemployment insurance for workers who “may lose their jobs from the economic impacts of the epidemic.”

Pelosi and Schumer also urged the administration to facilitate access to anti-virus efforts for lower income Americans by conducting free testing and combating price gouging of medical supplies and treatment.

they write letters

any predictions on when trump will flip from "this isn't happening" to "it was so overwhelming and obvious and there was nothing that anyone could have done, worst ever many are saying"?

He's already trotted out "it's Obama's fault," so I guess that's the next of his greatest hits that he's saving for the encore

has he done "coronavirus is good for you" yet?

Fully expect the next three months to be taken up with some retired Democrat dying of Coronavirus and Trump refusing to lower the flag

What *can’t* he do badly, I ask you pic.twitter.com/rP6GOi9cGf

— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) March 9, 2020

Gaetz learned after Air Force One lifted off from Orlando that he had been in touch with an infected person at CPAC. He then essentially quarantined himself, sitting in a section of the plane alone. @maggieNYT https://t.co/ezZ7izjXmn

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 9, 2020

Cross your fingers.

lol at this Politico headline: Republicans who came in contact with Trump self-quarantine

let us pray

Couldn't let anyone know, Trump would have had him tossed out the door without a parachute.

Press conference in progress, President Asshole truly has no idea what's going on. Pence knows just a bit more. Not reassuring at all whenever anything starts with any Dear Leader bullshit.

pretty surreal to see him walk off without taking questions while everyone shouted "HAVE YOU BEEN TESTED!!?!?" at him

pence said he didn't know, but he would have the white house look into it. lol

Seriously. He's right there, ask him!

There are worse people, but Mnuchin is often the one I want to punch the most.

Mnuchin drives me completely crazy. He's so uncharismatic and a terrible speaker/thinker that I constantly wonder how he progressed in life. Then I have to remind myself that it was his dad.

During his two minutes of remarks or whatever, Trump didn't say a single word about people who are sick or have died, it was all economy economy economy. He talked more about making sure cruise companies are OK than actual people suffering.

And of course, "This isn't our fault."

but guys - think of the low gas prices!

vrooooooom!!!

I find it cathartic to go through my wallet once in a while and black out mnuchin’s name on any recent bills with a sharpie

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/486744-trump-has-not-been-tested-for-coronavirus-white-house-says

Dems...ATTACK

Give it a few weeks, then ATTACK.

also Trump's heart....ATTACK.

a payroll tax cut, loooooooooool FUCK YOU

ATTACK

Becz the Republican response to literally everything is a tax cut. They're magic, there's nothing they can't fix.

can you wipe your butt with a tax cut?

you can wipe a small percent of it, sure

useful krugman thread

If the goal of a short-term stimulus is to put money in people's hands, then we should put money in people's hands: just mail out checks. There is no reason to structure it as a payroll tax cut, which does nothing for those not getting paychecks 1/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 10, 2020

plus can you imagine how popular trump would be??

BREAKING: DC Circuit holds that @HouseJudiciary can access portions of the Mueller Report that were redacted as grand jury materials. Judge Rogers writes majority. Judge Griffith writes concurrence. Judge Rao dissents. Opinion to follow. pic.twitter.com/tSdl0MRU9I

— Ashwin Phatak (@aphatak) March 10, 2020

Payroll tax cut has bonus effect of putting less money in Social Security, making it even more underfunded and in need of immediate supplementing abolishment.

yes, this is a clever way of accomplishing what the GOP has long wanted

also has no chance of passage

plus can you imagine how popular trump would be??

Rudd issued his stimmy in February 2009, and got boned in June 2010 after a Nielsen poll found he would lose re-election

this decision was mysteriously reversed a few hours later, but jfc

An email obtained by the ⁦@MiamiHerald⁩ shows the Trump administration has ordered all immigration courts to immediately remove coronavirus posters from all its premises. ⁦ https://t.co/xOtc05bdqp

— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 10, 2020

wind power? an unforgivable killer of birds as well as the nation's leading source of unbearable noise and "whooshing" noises, many are saying

fracking? too big to fail

BREAKING: White House likely to push federal aid for shale companies hit by coronavirus/international energy shock

Trump confidante & oil billionaire Harold Hamm lost $2 billion yesterday. Hamm reached out to admin but says he didnt make “direct" contacthttps://t.co/GsjHIJE6VI

— Jeffrey Stein (@JStein_WaPo) March 10, 2020

Well at least it looks like we'll have a nominee hellbent on banning fracking to take up the fight

wait

b-b-b-b-but that's socialism!!!

shouldn't Trump and Kushner tap into their amazing relationship with MbS to get him to stop his oil price war? Oh wait, lol.

Trump: "I've been briefed on numbers. Some very large numbers. Some very small numbers too."

— Heisenberg Report (@heisenbergrpt) March 10, 2020

"It will go away, just stay calm," Trump says of the coronavirus. He adds, "Be calm. It's really working out. And a lot of good things are going to happen." He talks about the US consumer, then walks off.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 10, 2020

we deserve this man

TMZ on the case:

Congressman Matt Gaetz apparently made the rounds before he self-quarantined ... because we got this pic of him chowing down Friday at a West Palm Beach taco joint.

Gaetz hit up Rocco's Tacos and according to eyewitnesses, he was having a great time ... problem is, he had been exposed to someone diagnosed with coronavirus. Gaetz had been at a Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland late last month and came in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the virus.

The Congressman flew on Air Force One with President Trump Monday. Sources close to Gaetz tell TMZ ... the Congressman found out he had been exposed just after boarding the Presidential plane. We're told he then separated himself from others during the flight. Trump has not yet been tested for the virus.

I love the margarita: https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/10/matt-gaetz-coronavirus-taco-self-quarantine-air-force-1/

Would totally endorse the idea of this guy going to a Trump rally and shaking as many hands as possible

Make Republicans Sick Again

= MRSA!

got a real thrill reading these paragraphs

A CPAC attendee infected with coronavirus attended multiple days of the conference on a gold-level VIP ticket as well as a Friday night Shabbat dinner associated with the event, according to people familiar with the situation.

The infected attendee was a CPAC regular who made a hobby of meeting high-profile conference speakers and taking photographs with them. His gold-level ticket gave him access to a private lounge directly outside the green room for speakers on the conference’s main stage.

sometimes you have to compromise with strategic allies, so: critical support for coronavirus