expect the pee tape to drop tonight around 11pm eastern
― rob, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
See those "laying hands on Trump" photos and start humming "Touch Me, I'm Sick".
― Sanpaku, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
More like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd9yxSHYpRU
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
More than ever, such a sickening feeling every time he speaks now--still going on about his great early response. And what on earth does "Maybe luck, maybe talent" mean?
― clemenza, Friday, 13 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
He is so over his head.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Australia's Minister for Fascism and Looking Like A Potato has tested positive for the 'vid. Here he is taking a meeting last week:
https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2020_11/3268211/200313-australia-coronavirus-mc-930_a9605cc9722d54ef4bf0f8007701044b.fit-760w.jpg
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
btw
It takes all those people to coax the president into taking a crap
worst public enemy LP ever
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison)
retitled as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Whirl_Odor after focus group testing
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
so he's running out a parade of CEO's to save america ~
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
is this fool seriously trying to boost their stocks right now
― frogbs, Friday, 13 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
wow congrats it worked
― frogbs, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
lots of handshakes goin' on...
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
holy shit, his answers to repeated questions on why he's not worried about his own health, given that he was recently photographed next to a person who is now covid-19 positive.
earlier in the press conference, he said it was fine because he isn't showing symptoms (even though you can carry it for weeks before showing symptoms).then he said that he "doesn't know" the person that was positive. then a reporter asked a follow-up question noting that whether or not you know the person makes absolutely no difference, and asked why he isn't self-quarantining, as Fauci has been advocating. he said that he's following his doctors' advice - and apparently his doctors are telling him not to worry about it?? (assuming this is a lie on his part). then he was asked whether americans should follow the advice of Fauci, or the presidents doctor's, and he said that everyone should listen to their doctors.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
or you know, americans could just do whatever they want. after all, they're the president! wait what
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
he just shook hands with every major CEO
― frogbs, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
guys is it possible Trump is antifa
QUARANTINE THE PRESIDENT
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
I’m a simple country idiot...why exactly did simply bringing out a bunch of CEOs at the press conference trigger a stock market rebound?
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
i assume investors have way more faith that those guys will make the best moves to benefit them
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
investors are emotionally unstable idiots
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
they literally behave like naive tweens
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
idk Trump essentially declaring he cares more about stock prices than human lives seems like it would be good for the Dow
― frogbs, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
always unrealistically hoping for the best then TOTALLY FREAKING OUT about the worst
xps
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
spending their money on garbage in the vain hope that one day it will be worth something, constantly trying to undermine one another etc
"the President LIKES MEEEEE!"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
market gains will all be erased with the next wave of bad news, deaths, unemployment numbers, defaults etc
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
market gains America will all be erased with the next wave of bad news, deaths, unemployment numbers, defaults etc
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
oh stop it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
i want to be Bible lady from The Mist
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
trump also bought a bunch of oil to prop the price up. you know, because we will need it for our excess toilet paper.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
how does oil and TP help with poop removal
+ people covering for the weekend and also most traders make more money when the market is more volatile.
― Yerac, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
good news everyone! the trump presidency is over!
The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
whew, that was close
― whistling (brownie), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
ah well, nevertheless
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
nobody cares what the Atlantic thinks
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
see, the thing that's different about THIS time is that americans are going to see his incompetence up close, i mean really notice it. it's unmistakable. surely they will come to their senses now!!!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
the atlantic still publishes good stuff every once in a while
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Trump has finally run out of hinges
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Tremendous hinges. The best.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
deal supposedly reached for coronavirus relief between House and White House.
hoping like hell Nancy didn't cave. or that they didn't gut the 3 months extended sick leave
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
cmon, covid, please:
It is my great honor to declare Sunday, March 15th as a National Day of Prayer. We are a Country that, throughout our history, has looked to God for protection and strength in times like these....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2020
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 13 March 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
I think the hyde anendment was the real sticking pt
Xp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 13 March 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
cos of course abortion is what's important right now.
seething. can't even read a friend's anguished post talking about how she couldn't make an emergency appointment with her PCP for an asthma treatment because they were afraid she had COVID and referred her to call the CDC to get tested...
...without seeing someone say "this is why the libs shouldn't be in charge" (dafuq?)
I will probably get in a fist fight with someone I met 24 hours earlier online
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
I read that Atlantic piece yesterday. I part ways with any kind of political certitude since 2016, but I am inclined to agree with their conclusion that this is a turning point for Trump, especially having just watched the lowlights from today's press conference: the "I don't take responsibility at all" for the slowness in testing, and the claim to not be aware of the pandemic unit being disbanded in 2018 (one of those statements where it's equally alarming whether he's lying or telling the truth). And then there's the lifeless, robotic monotone as he prattles on. I think it's been so drilled into his head that he must try not to rant invective in these situations, that this is the best approximation of calm he can muster.
If I were a cynic, which is something I'm not, I'd say that fake empathy from a president is better than zero empathy. But--without getting into specific cases--I do believe that presidents are usually able to find something within that is genuine in situations like this. With Trump, there is nothing there.
― clemenza, Saturday, 14 March 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/article/156901/dismantled-state-takes-pandemic
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
Oof
― stet, Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
had no idea about the HHS and CMS fight. fuckin hell.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 March 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged.
Ah, but is he more isolated? If not, good. I want him crowd surfing in a mosh pit by Monday.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 14 March 2020 06:05 (four years ago) link
increasingly isolated, sources say
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 14 March 2020 06:41 (four years ago) link
Brooke Gladstone of On the Media points out on this week's show that when Shithead goes into "presidential" address mode, his sleepy singsongy monotone sounds like he's trying to hypnotize you.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 March 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link