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

The graph that Sanpaku posted would be much more effective in linear scale rather than log on the y-axis.

more effective to those that don't know what a logarithmic scale is (which is almost everyone), at least

one of the minor low-key bummer things about all this is watching the confusion over linear vs log play out in real time. we need to have a national conversation on "what does a logarithmic scale mean, and why is it a much better option to track exponential growth than linear scales", but we're still trying to reschedule the last nat. convesation on one of the school shootings from several years ago

but yeah, what's crazy is that even the log scale graphs look frightening! it's like, "actually...it is WAY worse than that if you look at the linear version, dude"

Alfred I really appreciate your voice on the political threads, measured sanity

'Trump adopts the greatest hits of the 2020 Dems': https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/19/trump-economy-coronavirus-democrats-136462

his populist heart might actually lead him towards the kind of stimulus packages Obama refrained from in 2009. and we'd be fools to resent him for doing the right thing, but imagine the kind of boasting he'll be doing in the wake

his voters are giving him credit for things he literally HAD to do this week

For now I think I’ll wait to see if he manages to do a good thing first.

Gary Johnson would have done all this shit.

i think the way to spin doing something you literally have to do is to say "when we all really needed him, he was there for us"

like when you finally remove your car from someone's living room, 3 weeks after driving into it on accident. sure, some might say they're mad that it took 3 weeks, but hey, when it really counted, you got that car out of the way

do the right thing when ya tried all else

itll be 75 degrees in NYC tom'w, so let's see if heat does the trick!

yeah I got the flu test last month and it definitely sucks, I thought they were just swabbing my nose and instead jammed it way up into my brain (came back negative, probably had corona virus instead)

― frogbs, Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:52 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

negative for brain?

― silby, Thursday, March 19, 2020 1:01 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ok I laughed really hard at this

I didn't, can someone explain the joke to me

I don’t think he was being mean!

his voters are giving him credit for things he literally HAD to do this week

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:10 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

are you talking about trump’s or pelosi’s cheerleaders?

Fauci is at least semi obsequious about every 5 public pronouncements

He is, to an extent. He's on CNN right now trying to clean up Trump's briefing today, and he just said "I don't think I necessarily heard anyone say 'game-changer'..." (in connection to these two treatments Trump was hyping today).

Well...he might not have said "is," but he definitely said "could be."

we spent so much time worrying about this facial expression that we didn't even imagine this facial expression

https://i.imgur.com/o8md7Zz.png

wtf is wrong with his mouth? It’s upside down

Holy shit

NEW: Sen. Kelly Loeffler sold between $1.2M and $3.1M worth of stock in the three weeks beginning on Jan 24—the day of a closed-door, all-Senator briefing on the coronavirus https://t.co/euaTv2JtIL

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 20, 2020

Loeffler also purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, which offers popular teleworking software and has actually seen a slight bump in its stock price https://t.co/euaTv2JtIL

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 20, 2020

Remember the GOP line at the time was “nothing to worry about, it will go away soon”

xpost It's the best the doctors could do after Hannibal induced Mr. Verger to hack pieces of his own face off.

Gonna be intersting to see which congresspeople wind up getting the Mussolini special in the coming months.

This guy too

Matching @propublica: Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million in stock on Feb. 13, before the coronavirus outbreak sent the markets into a downturn https://t.co/oWocrP0Kyo

— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) March 20, 2020

While we're at it

So uhhh... that all-senators Senate Health Committee briefing was on 1/24, right? pic.twitter.com/VuIQhClgt1

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 20, 2020

Things are about to get reaaaal interesting.

I know absolutely nothing's gonna happen because this is the sort of corruption we expect from the GOP but seriously people ought to be locked up over this

not necessarily because of the insider trading but because clearly they all knew how bad it was gonna get and could've taken action to slow the spread and save lives and instead decided to lick the president's boots and cash out

Tucker Carlson was calling for Burr to resign on Fox News

I know absolutely nothing's gonna happen because this is the sort of corruption we expect from the GOP

^^^

xpost is he aliens now?

if he resigns then it's admitting wrongdoing. that is not the way of the Trump GOP.

annnnd...Tucker Carlson agrees with us. I'm going to bed.

Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign and await prosecution for insider trading if he cannot provide a reasonable explanation for his actions. He goes on to say it appears that Senator Burr betrayed his country in a time of crisis pic.twitter.com/q7yJa5wjuA

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 20, 2020

and retweeted by AOC

Lolololol, nothing matters

In a report filed today, Sen. Ron Johnson R-WI with a very large stock sale earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/c9QbjYOcPa

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) March 20, 2020

it's crazy that they let people in congress have self-directed accounts.

*sigh* well i guess there's never been a better time for someone to do this and assume nothing will come of it, even if/when it goes public.

like, what's the point of them having disclosures if no one is going to do anything about it.

What's the point of literally anything from the past four years, really

a lot of busy work

i pay zero attn to Tucker (perhaps erroneously) but can someone tell me why this sticks in his craw while Trump's easily verifiable malfeasance doesn't cross that line? is Tuck Tuck on some literal GEOTUS shit or

he also was saying the virus was real before everyone/most on fox. maybe he's tired of his schtick.

Diane Feinstein too

hahaha goddamnit of course

If they're even a little bit smart, they'll donate a disposable percentage of their ill-gotten booty to a covid charity and come off like superheroes to the undiscerning public.

...and then all lez it up commit suicide.

Congress began requiring its members to disclose their stock sales in 2012, when it passed a law called Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, which was intended to prevent lawmakers from using inside information to profit.

If we just expose this wrongdoing and make it public, they’ll alter their behavior to avoid bringing shame on themselves!!

2012, man, those were some heady days

Seriously though, once you vote to acquit trump, what is the point of pretending

gotta build a nest egg for whatever happens in the end stage of life after you're out of office and the target of unremitting hate for your betrayal of your country, i guess

I'm trying to take these stock sales in. I'm naive enough to think he/they won't get away with it, and that watching them go down (resign, I guess; they'll get to keep their millions) will provide some small measure of vindication.

I'm tempted to sign up for Twitter so I can join in on the shaming going on on Burr's page.

Tucker would stab his own mother if it meant a chance at playing the Goebbels role in a Fourth Reich.

watching them go down (resign, I guess

but don't you see? that would just play into the hands of the DemonRats, who are all corrupt, communists, traitors, and would sell this country to Satan in a NY minute. so, what's a little harmless venality when weighed against destroying all that is godly and righteous in this world?!

there will be a point when the American Titanic finally begins sinking where these rich and well-to-do GOP Senators will try to get on lifeboats. do not let them on the lifeboats.

i think if theyre "smart" and have an (R) after their name they should just go full on dominionist, cf

During a sermon in 2012, Rafael (Cruz) had described his son’s Senate campaign as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy that “God would anoint Christian ‘kings’ to preside over an ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ from the wicked to the righteous.”

“According to his father and Pastor Larry Huch, Ted Cruz is anointed by God to help Christians in their effort to “go to the marketplace and occupy the land … and take dominion” over it, Fea continued. “This ‘end-time transfer of wealth’ will relieve Christians of all financial woes, allowing true believers to ascend to a position of political and cultural power in which they can build a Christian civilization. When this Christian nation is in place (or back in place), Jesus will return.”

obv Cruz isn't part of this (as far as we know), just pointing out there's an easy escape hatch if these ghouls want to commit to the bit