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

A lot of rumblings that the Burr news was a coordinated hit from Trumpland. Apparently there was plenty of bad blood there.

the only reason nothing will happen here is because nobody in the GOP is actually going to inquire in good faith, they're just going to hope for an explanation that is anywhere in the neighborhood of "plausible deniability".

I predict "what, I can't sell stock because I'm a Senator? Show me what law says that!" comes up a lot in the next month

if it was a coordinated hit from Trumpland, he'll be on TV tomorrow saying "and y'know I mean we have to look at this Burr thing. We have to. He sold a large amount of stock. Lots of stock. Big stock sale. And people are...people are saying that perhaps he used information that, uh, gave him advantages. An unfair advantage. He knew...they say he knew something...something was going to happen. I don't know what he knew, but....he bet against America. Bet against his own country. Despicable. Maybe it's not illegal but we oughta look into changing that law."

Senator Loeffler did this too

I think Burr is toast, possibly Loeffler too, don't know about the others.

xpost while simultaneously tweeting that everybody was blowing the crisis out of proportion.

of course conveniently the American people can't take to the streets and protest about this either rn

This fucking lady, her husband is the chairman of NYSE. Looks preeeeetttty bad.

Concerned about #coronavirus? Remember this:

The consumer is strong, the economy is strong, & jobs are growing, which puts us in the best economic position to tackle #COVID19 & keep Americans safe.

Update following meeting with @realdonaldtrump, @VP, & @StevenMnuchin1: pic.twitter.com/H9t2D6x19k

— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) March 10, 2020

she also invested in a work from home company

America is so bad and stupid

evergreen and otm

problem is, how hard is this going to be pushed at a time where they're voting on yet another relief package?

Her fucking husband is the chairman of NYSE!!!

What???!??!?

idk why after all the ridiculous brazen corruption that’s been happening for years that this is the one that sets me off but man, this administration is obliterating idealist thoughts I didn’t even know I had

like, “of course the chairman of the nyse wouldn’t insider trade, that’s absurd.”

America is so bad and stupid

― silby, Thursday, March 19, 2020

yes

Surely this story won't be lost in the tumult.

Gee, I hope trump didn’t tell his whole family to sell stock in February. After all he did see the pandemic coming before anyone else did

Congressional Democratic leadership made it clear a while ago that they are uninterested in corruption either ethically or strategically https://t.co/H9jcIEUWqH https://t.co/E4GngORaRn

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 20, 2020

If I had the cov, I would stagger to each of these motherfuckers' places of residence just for the chance to rub my plaguey mitts all over their faces.

I think Burr is toast, possibly Loeffler too, don't know about the others.

Fucking LOL, we'll get Mueller right on it!

Absolutely nothing will happen to these people.

if it was a coordinated hit from Trumpland, he'll be on TV tomorrow saying "and y'know I mean we have to look at this Burr thing. We have to. He sold a large amount of stock. Lots of stock. Big stock sale. And people are...people are saying that perhaps he used information that, uh, gave him advantages. An unfair advantage. He knew...they say he knew something...something was going to happen. I don't know what he knew, but....he bet against America. Bet against his own country. Despicable. Maybe it's not illegal but we oughta look into changing that law."

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Gotta say, in addition to rocking the uke, Neanderthal has the Trump cadence down pat

The hits keep coming

On February 28, Sen. David Perdue told his constituents he's regularly attended meetings of the Coronavirus Task Force, reassuring them that "we’re fortunate to have the best and brightest at the CDC working to prepare the country."

That same day, he sold Caesars stock. pic.twitter.com/OJeNWtvPPA

— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) March 20, 2020

everybody's saying Feinstein did too but then I saw others pointing out her situation wasn't the same, that she sold later?

oh guys he's TWEET-STORMING

In a tabloid-style hit piece today, NPR knowingly and irresponsibly misrepresented a speech I gave last month about the coronavirus threat.

Let me set the record straight. 1/

— Richard Burr (@SenatorBurr) March 19, 2020

Good morniing!

lol he mentions nothing about the stock at all

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-heads-fema-amid-reports-equipment-shortages-data/

A closeup photo from Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford of the president's briefing notes revealed in a section where the prepared remarks read, "Corona Virus," "Corona" was crossed out and "Chinese" was written in its place, in what appeared to be Trump’s handwriting.

lmao what the hell

#New National @HarrisPoll (3/17-18),

Trump's Approval Rating

Overall: 53%
Handling COVID: 56%
Stimulating jobs: 60%
The economy: 60%
Fighting terrorism 58%
Immigration: 53%
Foriegn affairs: 52%
Administrating the government: 51%https://t.co/xLRxtvgAf9 pic.twitter.com/YhZjcPldmc

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) March 20, 2020

great!

fighting terrorism? why are they even asking that anymore?

tbf After literally years of being a total confrontational asshole, toning things down and conducting long, daily press conferences is by definition an improvement, even if he's still a stupid asshole. So yeah, I'm not surprised his numbers are not tanking. I can't wait for this to be over and his rallies to resume for him to boast that while other countries had tens of thousands of deaths, he managed to keep our deaths down to mere thousands, like a hero.

Lol Harris is an extreme outlier poll, if you look at polls from the same date range on 538 it's like 9 points higher than most polls, six higher than Rasmussen. Nate handicaps them with a 4% Republican lean

Americans have a storied tradition of rallying around presidents, no matter how pustulant, in times of crisis. No surprise if his numbers increase.

The Trump years are going to turn me into a full-blown nihilist yet.

Just use that anger to defeat him in November

The Burr story, which was one of the three leads on the CNN page, is nowhere that I can see right now--not on the front page, not on the politics or business page (they don't have a crime section). Unless I'm missing it. I hope I am. (I'm not trying the downplay the main story...if they're even separate.)

Breaking!

The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, who had expressed confidence in the country’s preparedness for the coronavirus outbreak, sold a significant share of his stocks last month, according to public disclosures.

Burr said he relied solely on public news reports on the sales but asked the chairman of Senate Ethics Committee for a complete review.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.

yeah my hope is that this is gonna be like GWB where the upcoming months will reveal what a disaster this really was and cause people to turn against him en masse as people start losing their jobs and dying, though we've never seen anything like the Trump cult of personality before

sure we have, just not in America

And not counting Manson, Jones, etc.

Koresh for Prez

There was definitely a smell in the air towards the end of Obama's presidency. People were rallying around bullshit folk hero types like Cliven Bundy, Kim Davis, and Ron Paul.

There was definite unrest after same-sex marriage ban was lifted, and ACA was upheld by SCOTUS.and well also after a Black president got elected twice, of course.

Trump road a convenient current of fear that came about in the wake of several, high profile terrorist attacks/spree shootings in the US that all occurred in a short window.

Boston Marathon bombings stirred up racist, anti-Islam sentiment, as did Pulse (even though that guy's connections to Islamic terror were questionable). He just said the racist thing the other candidates were thinking but wouldn't say.

Definitely following in Reagan's footsteps re: ignoring an epidemic

maaaaaaybe it’s Too Soon, but I feel like an effective opposition front-runner would be making hay right now. Instead we have a guy who in normal circumstances would have his keys taken away

We have a candidate eating hay rn

The opposition front-runner is demanding that companies pledge not to blow their profits on stock buyback to reward rich investors as a condition of getting bailed out, that is a certain amount of hay

Re: approval rating. People seem to actually think Trump is doing a good job/not doing a stinker re this virus (see also thraed of controv opinions). I can't get my head around this.

The US hasn't been that badly hit. Yet. If that changes, his numbers should come down.

I want someone to describe to me a hypothetical scenario that would be politically good for Democrats. Because everything, literally everything, from the most grotesque Republican scandals to major Democratic victories, end up being evidence Democrats suck. https://t.co/eM3U8H6MK2

— Staying inside to own the virus (@agraybee) March 20, 2020