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

The deleted tweet: pic.twitter.com/z26KydtDYO

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 16, 2020

My wife's older sister has been trending conservative in recent years since she married a conservative. She mentioned martial law on the phone last night.

― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:18 (two hours ago) link

for or against?

― rob, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:39 (one hour ago) link

implication is that pandemic was overblown and martial law was government overreach.

the nice thing about this pandemic is that instead of just feeling the urge to stay away from people like that, we will now have a good reason to literally stay away from them, for public health reasons

I know a libertarian-leaner who was simultaneously like "this is government overreach" and "it's being done too oate; the horses have left the barn, maybe if they'd done this two weeks ago it would be effective."

And I am like dude, pick one. Surely the Ayn Rand crowd would have been even MORE up in arms about the "omg gov't overreach" had it been attempted earlier. But now you're both dismissive AND smugly superior? Fuh. Huck. Yew.

god, watching trump talk about this is a nightmare. his instincts for this kind of thing are SO bad.

asked what the test was like, he grimaces and says "not good...it's a test....it's not pleasant...", etc. jfc man, obviously you need to communicate that it's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. don't scare people away from taking the fucking test you IMBECILE

he rated his efforts at a 10/10, of course.

seriously the optics of having all these people standing next to each other sniffling and coughing while doctors are desperately trying to convince everyone to stay home is literally going to get people killed

Q: "does the buck stop with you, mr president"

A: "yeah, normally..." before changing the subject

do not get why every American I know seems to have at least a couple of libertarian asshole friends and hasn't told them to fuck off and never come back many years ago

because they're mostly non-voters

It's painful to watch Fauci have to literally interrupt people to correct them and clarify.

xp no, I mean decent, intelligent people, voters, who all seem to associate with this one guy who acts like Herman from the Simpsons.

It’s tough when you’re related to them

"do not get why every American I know seems to have at least a couple of libertarian asshole friends and hasn't told them to fuck off and never come back many years ago" I told them to do this FWIW.

same with my republican friends and family

ok Trump is very visibly shook now

Would you say he's... isolated? Unhinged?

sorry, "increasingly" isolated

yeah I knew someone was gonna make that joke but seriously this is the first time since that bizarre 'apology' for the Access Hollywood video that I've seen him look so defeated

ok Trump is very visibly shook now

― frogbs, Monday, March 16, 2020 1:34 PM (two minutes ago)

read this as "visibly sick"...

ok Trump is very visibly shook now

Details? I have y'all masochists to watch this shit so I don't have to.

for once he's actually being kinda honest with how bad it's gonna be rather than insisting left and right that it's a hoax or is going to be easily contained or whatever

Baby steps, but there was still a lot of denial in there.

Is he dead yet

stock market worst day in history. hard to see how this guy's goose isn't completely cooked at this point.

This is good not bad:

and all of the sudden Housing for All was possible... https://t.co/NwS4AEdOtb

— gal debored (@__acadame) March 15, 2020

genuinely curious how the approval polls are gonna look in a few weeks when everyone's daily life has been significantly upended and the whiniest generation in history has to fumble around looking for someone to blame

His support will never waver

I don't know any Trump supporters, but I know people that do, and they don't think any less of him now than they did six months ago.

Every once in a while there is a profile that claims behind the scenes he is not at all like the person he presents himself as. The bluster is toned down, he's gracious and accommodating and funny, a good host, that apparently his public persona is all an act. But if you are in public all the time, and your public act is that you are a racist stupid asshole, then it really doesn't matter what you're like in private.

my sr. citizen Florida Trumper in-laws are having a fucking party w 20 ppl right now

a party on a Tuesday afternoon?

Maybe that party has been going on since Friday.

they're fucking morons and they're retired

"it's just the flu" she says

anyway - Schumer's latest emergency bill is $750 billion in programs/aid

My cop cousin is on IG railing against Pritzker and claiming this is a deep state conspiracy. He was still going out to the bars right up to the end. Hope he doesn’t get my Parkinson’s afflicted uncle passively killed.

hard to see how this guy's goose isn't completely cooked at this point.

let's not do this; whomp it til it's dead and in pieces

this is my last resort

how many people were on that stage with Trump? how many in the room? Christ on a bike

I guess he's too social to speak from a Strangelovian bunker

anyway - Schumer's latest emergency bill is $750 billion in programs/aid

amazing thinking that it was only a couple weeks ago when they were pushing for $8 billion

I don't know any Trump supporters, but I know people that do, and they don't think any less of him now than they did six months ago.

my sr. citizen Florida Trumper in-laws are having a fucking party w 20 ppl right now

well that's why I'm saying in a few weeks. I think a lot of older people just do not get the scope of this right now. at work there's apparently been a lot of emails from managers saying something to the effect of "I guess you can work from home, if you FEEL THE NEED TO"

anyway, glad the GOP still has their eye on the ball

Senator Ron Johnson tells me he will continue to probe the Bidens as the nation deals with coronavirus.

“We’re going to pursue the subpoena,” he said this eve, referring to a planned subpoena for a firm targeted by his investigation. “We can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 16, 2020

NARRATOR: They couldn't.

It was insane to negotiate this with the WH and concede a ton before it ever even got to the upper chamber. Unless they weren't concessions and this is what leadership wanted all along! We're in great hands and I can't wait for a Biden administration! https://t.co/CVNEv1hly6

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 16, 2020

we may see riots this year

how I see it right now.

"self-isolate. work from home if you can."

"I can't. actually I just got laid off."

"bummer. well we have something in the works for you."

"cool. hey I'm being evicted to."

"can you use your 401(k)?"

"lol my what?"

"well sorry you won't have a home. you better not be on the street though, there's a curfew"

"...what??!!!"

He said once the disease is contained, there would be a “tremendous surge” in the economy as a result of “pent-up demand.”

has Trump confused how the economy works with ejaculation?

lmaoooooo

I apologize for the typo.

I meant to type stupid rumors about marital law not marshall law

My bad https://t.co/vK5ED6M98r

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 16, 2020

xp I think that's the common late-capitalism transposition