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

Trump himself has been increasingly acknowledging that everyone hates him.

I wouldn't go that far, but I have noticed a lack of tweets in which he refers to himself as "your favorite president" recently.

I had no idea he knew what irony was.

I think affects his supporters, who think along the same lines: you hate Trump, you hate me, so I hate you .

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:01 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is certainly the case. i don't understand why they identify with him so closely. he is not similar to them in any real way.

he's who they wish to be - stupid, boorish, racist, talentless, but always failing upward.

zurprize

Liberty University will reopen this week, Jerry Falwell inviting students to return and ordering faculty to come back to work. https://t.co/JUXEITZnqD

— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) March 24, 2020

I fully support this

^^^

I know it feels like one of those "don't write off the south - liberals live there too!" things, but if you're a student at Liberty University, you made choices.

lemmings eventually reach the cliff edge

If you want to take away their right to contract coronavirus you'll have to pry it from their cold, dead hands.

he's who they wish to be - stupid, boorish, racist, talentless, but always failing upward.

I think it's less who they want to be than a sense that he is their warrior, their avatar. His flaws, which a lot of them not only acknowledge but cackle about, are in a way part of his armor. He's every asshole loner Dirty Harry hero in their own personal revenge flick.

lemmings eventually reach the cliff edge

― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie),

truth bomb

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(xpost) Yeah, Murray Hamilton's Mayor Vaughn is going to be a ubiquitous point of reference for the next couple of weeks. "The United States is a entrepreneurial country. We need entrepreneurial dollars. Now, if the people can't buy here, they'll be glad to buy from the stores of China, India, Japan..." As will a T-shirt that keeps turning up on my FB wall: "The mayor in Jaws is still the mayor in Jaws 2. It is so important to vote in your local elections."

Oh the animals are coming
2 by 2
Lol just kidding
Try to swim, foo

I know it feels like one of those "don't write off the south - liberals live there too!" things, but if you're a student at Liberty University, you made choices.

Choices that will also impact their neighbors, healthcare workers, retail staff, etc. Not a win.

he is not similar to them in any real way.

He is rejected by the people that reject them (or that they perceive to reject them)

I'm sure there are food workers of color at Liberty U?

The thing that confuses me the most is that trump was their neighbor or boss or the owner of the company they work for, they'd fucking hate him and complain about how stupid and terrible he is. Republicans don't care if it doesn't affect personally them etc.

Why do all politicians wear windbreakers when they are in emergency mode?

xxp no doubt, there are also right-wing Chirstians of color at Liberty, something like 20%

It being Liberty U, I'd be surprised if there were any white food workers.

xxp

There's been a massive increase in hot air

Please do not take medical advice from a man who looked directly at a solar eclipse.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2020

loool

haha

Schumer... gettin shit done?!?

The federal government will pay the full salaries of furloughed workers for up to four months under an emerging stimulus deal expected to get a vote as soon as Tuesday.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), who is negotiating the agreement with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, called the bipartisan agreement on unemployment benefits “unemployment insurance on steroids.”

The proposal would allow furloughed workers to continue to collect health benefits from employers and a salary from the government.

“You can keep getting them, but, and most importantly, the federal government will pay your salary, your full salary for now four months,” Schumer said on the floor.

“We had asked for four months, and four months looks like what we’re going to get when we come this agreement,” he added.

Schumer also said he believed a deal was imminent, describing negotiators as being on the 2-yard line after they were on the 5-yard line on Monday.

He said there are a few outstanding issues but predicted, “I don’t see any that can’t be overcome within the next few hours.”

Republicans over the weekend proposed three months of beefed-up unemployment benefits.

The assistance will apply to nonprofit and government workers in addition to private-sector employees, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

Schumer said Democrats are also pleased with funding for hospitals, which sources say will be $100 billion, and an inspector general and oversight board for a $500 billion corporate credit program that will be run by the Treasury Department and allow the Federal Reserve to inject more than $4 trillion into the economy and credit markets.

“We all know there was a load of dissatisfaction with TARP,” he said, referring to the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program Congress set up during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

Markets are up Tuesday on the news that a deal in the Senate could be imminent.

Schumer also said he believed a deal was imminent, describing negotiators as being on the 2-yard line after they were on the 5-yard line on Monday.

In yo FACE, virus!

You can cancel sports but you can't cancel sports metaphors.

Schumer is from New York, being on the 2-yard line doesn't mean shit

Better than rounding third, though.

I love tennis metaphors!

it means four straight fade routes from Eli.

So far, every single coronavirus fatality in Milwaukee has been a black person. The racist structure of our society means that coronavirus will hit poor, black communities the hardest.

Keep that in mind when white people try to downplay this crisis.

— Tom 🌹 (@TomHansberger) March 24, 2020

Just said to someone in a text: The virus makes so physical and real what has always been true: That privilege is being able to push exposure to risk onto other people. Just now it's literal infection/contamination risk instead of every other kind there is. (Or along with every other kind, because it's not like they've stopped happening either.)

if the FULL paid furlough salary piece is true, it leads to a hilarious personal situation: i would make more money if i got furloughed. my company is furloughing a bunch of people and imposing a 20% salary cut on everyone who is left. i have been selected to remain with the 80% essential staff. if i got furloughed, i'm assuming the government would base my full salary on my taxes from last year, or at least one of my paychecks from earlier this year. so if i got furloughed, i'd still be making 100% of what i was making back before my company decided to fuck us all over

Trump says people can go to work and clean their hands five times more than usual, and not shake hands, "and things will happen," but this situation can't go on. "You're going to have suicides by the thousands."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 24, 2020

is it dumb to consider writing a sternly worded to my management, a few layers up, framing it as a morale problem among staff that i'm seeing at the ground level? as a middle manager doofus, perhaps i have my ears a bit more closely to the ground than the people that are making the decisions about cutting pay.

but perhaps i'm unaware of their legitimate business situation and this is all that's keeping them from going under. but...won't the federal government bail them out, like maybe even this afternoon?

xp honestly i do think there will be a bump in suicides

but sadly it's still better than the alternative: many more thousands of preventable coronavirus deaths, with a correlated rise in suicides in that situation as well

privilege is being able to push exposure to risk onto other people.

Absolutely. I have been feeling my extreme social privilege very intensely this past month. All I can do in return is try not to create any extra burden on others, apart from just continuing to breathe and eat.

Good luck, Mississippi.

jesus christ

congrats on...not being China, I guess? fuck.

wonder how good "not being Chinese" is gonna feel when bodies start piling up on your eastern border

Mississippi: 230
Louisiana: 1,172

four months is nothing, during the great recession people were unemployed for years and their careers were curtailed probably for the rest of their lives

you'll never catch me defending this place
― the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, June 30, 2011

re: mississippi

like, suppose someone loses their job. suppose they have 30-40 years left to live (assuming, of course, losing their job doesn't shorten that, which is a big assumption). they get 4 months of salary! great! what about the other 360-480?

i understand the criticism, but did you really think legislation would pass which guaranteed someone their previous income for the rest of their lives?

no, but that doesn't mean I can't find it half-assed

or, proportionally, about 1% assed

sadly, that's more of an -assed than i assumed we'd get out of schumer

Yeah really