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

does he even want to be president. I mean, I know he wants to “be president” but I mean having to explain things and do “work”, he just doesn’t seem that into it

he doesn't want to do anything, he wants credit for things and to eat KFC original recipe thighs.

his most relatable qualities, imo

Hardly. KFC is crap.

I wish I could just buy a spice jar of KFC spice to sprinkle on chips/popcorn/etc

Go buy some Old Bay: close enough.

yeah? right on, thanks.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PkaWQDpVbuE/maxresdefault.jpg

according to Donald Trump the hospital ships are 'big white ships with a red cross on the side' - good to know

That’s all true I suppose and maybe I was just venting/doomsday thinking which I know isn’t helpful, but since 2016 I’ve been in a constant state of surprise at what the WH, the Justice Department and the Senate have been able to get away with. Not sure what new thing could surprise me at this point. Sorry, pointless, I’ll leave it at that.

Asked whether professional athletes and wealthy Americans could access the tests more quickly than others, Mr. Trump said “I wouldn’t say so,” but added, “perhaps that’s the story of life.”

i love when the president gets all philosophical

The Senate overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to approve the coronavirus relief package approved by the House last week, which would provide paid leave, enhanced unemployment benefits, free coronavirus testing and food and health care aid.

The package passed by a vote of 90 to 8 after the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a Republican of Kentucky, urged conservatives who disapproved of it to “gag and vote for it anyway.”

choke on it

who were the 8

Louie Gohmert voting 8 times

Rand Paul for sure

Mike Lee?

Yup -- Paul and Lee, plus Marsha Blackburn, James Inhofe, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Ben Sasse, and Tim Scott.

so many RIP threads to create:

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), James Inhofe (Okla.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.), Mike Lee (Utah), Paul, Sasse and Tim Scott (S.C.)

oh lol xp

Inhofe is such a worthless human

did any of them provide a reason? "worried" about the deficit?

the only headscratcher for me is Tim Scott, the rest are just garden variety ghouls that don't believe in science

Tim Scott voted to exonerate Trump during impeachment. He can jump off a cliff.

uh didn't all of them?

I just don't know what particular principle Tim Scott thinks he adheres to that prompted him to buck his party leader on this one

Inbox from the Trump campaign: "America is under attack – not just by an invisible virus, but by the Chinese."

"What is Joe Biden up to as all this is happening? Siding with the Chinese and attacking the presidential candidate China fears most: Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/SRgyEMVebN

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) March 18, 2020

Yeah let's go ahead and alienate the first country that's likely to make it to the other side of the outbreak, surely they have no firsthand expertise or trained and mentally prepared doctors to offer us in a month's time

the chinese connection

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5d0bf443a2036c7015753f28/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/The-Muppet-Movie-The-Rainbow-Connection.jpg

FWIW i subscribe to all the trump email shit because i like to see what they are saying to their constituency and i am fairly certain that's fake.

The Discourse requires that Republicans be judged on their stray vague gestures towards attractive-sounding policies, not their actual votes or actions https://t.co/9HBQexbUJ0

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) March 18, 2020

lol of course South Florida:

Miami Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart became the first member of Congress to test positive for the novel coronavirus, his office said Wednesday.

Diaz-Balart entered self-quarantine on Friday, March 13 and stayed in Washington because his wife Tia has a pre-existing medical condition. On Saturday evening, Diaz-Balart devleoped symptoms, including a fever and headache, according to his office.

On Wednesday afternoon, he tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus.

Yeah, I don't remember getting that particular Trump email.

Keeping Iran under a crushing blockade right now is easily one of the most psychotic acts of US foreign policy in our lifetimes, which is an incredibly high bar to clear https://t.co/DsCxNU2Su6

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 18, 2020

I honestly just came here to post just about the same thing. This is a war crime. This is biological warfare with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians.

(3,5 million seems to be about 4,5% of people in Iran, which seems high, but that does not make it any less psychotic)

4.5% is unacceptably high.

3.4%, though, is acceptable to Ron Johnson, who was one of the people who voted against the relief bill this afternoon:

“… getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population (and) I think probably far less.”

Ron Johnson is a verifiable raging psychopath

= "except for maybe no more than 11 million Americans"

Fucking nuts

So, uh did anyone ELSE explain their no vote, other than Johnson?

very Buck Turgidson of him

Trump's going to speak and pass on something pertaining to the FDA.

How CNN handled this, without specifically saying so: they're worried (probably even terrified) he'll go out there and say the FDA has a promising treatment, everything's fine, everybody, we've been doing a great job and we've won.

There's no percentage in trying to predict exactly how Trump is going to fuck something up, but nobody ever went broke defaulting to a general 'Trump will fuck this up.'

Incredible. First sentence: "Me, media, Chinese virus."

I don't think that qualifies as a sentence.

"If only we'd known about it."

Hardest workers:

1. Trump
2. Mike Pence
3. everyone else

Incredible. First sentence: "Me, media, Chinese virus."

jesus, seriously?

Seriously.

Now that he's onto the medical news, perhaps he should hand the mic to someone else.

this guy is a fucking disaster on wheels