would prefer they see the inside of a coffin
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
Let’s also keep in mind that judges are nonpartisan, disinterested, and neutral interpreters is the law, of course
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
My wife's older sister has been trending conservative in recent years since she married a conservative. She mentioned martial law on the phone last night.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
for or against?
― rob, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
someone on the radio -- maybe quoting Cuomo? -- said that the army corps of engineers should be brought in to help construct triage centers, extended hospital functions in nearby buildings, etc.
not a bad idea, but the batshit crazy people are definitely going to see martial law in that
imo just deploy the goddamn national guard for what they're meant to be doing -- in country service
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
the military is the only consistently-funded civil service in america, so they'll undoubtedly be better prepared to lend brain and manpower than most (intentionally-hobbled) agencies
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
Even this is to the right of what Romney proposed. $1,000 for literally every American adult. https://t.co/6UaOdszhZj— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) March 16, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 March 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
I have to do more? No — YOU have to do something! You’re supposed to be the President. https://t.co/tYeDt1lcOZ— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 16, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
The deleted tweet: pic.twitter.com/z26KydtDYO— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) March 16, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 16 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:18 (two hours ago) link
― rob, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:39 (one hour ago) link
implication is that pandemic was overblown and martial law was government overreach.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
the nice thing about this pandemic is that instead of just feeling the urge to stay away from people like that, we will now have a good reason to literally stay away from them, for public health reasons
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I know a libertarian-leaner who was simultaneously like "this is government overreach" and "it's being done too oate; the horses have left the barn, maybe if they'd done this two weeks ago it would be effective."
And I am like dude, pick one. Surely the Ayn Rand crowd would have been even MORE up in arms about the "omg gov't overreach" had it been attempted earlier. But now you're both dismissive AND smugly superior? Fuh. Huck. Yew.
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
god, watching trump talk about this is a nightmare. his instincts for this kind of thing are SO bad.
asked what the test was like, he grimaces and says "not good...it's a test....it's not pleasant...", etc. jfc man, obviously you need to communicate that it's not a big deal and nothing to worry about. don't scare people away from taking the fucking test you IMBECILE
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
he rated his efforts at a 10/10, of course.
― DJI, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
seriously the optics of having all these people standing next to each other sniffling and coughing while doctors are desperately trying to convince everyone to stay home is literally going to get people killed
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Q: "does the buck stop with you, mr president"
A: "yeah, normally..." before changing the subject
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
do not get why every American I know seems to have at least a couple of libertarian asshole friends and hasn't told them to fuck off and never come back many years ago
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
because they're mostly non-voters
― mh, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
It's painful to watch Fauci have to literally interrupt people to correct them and clarify.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
xp no, I mean decent, intelligent people, voters, who all seem to associate with this one guy who acts like Herman from the Simpsons.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
It’s tough when you’re related to them
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
"do not get why every American I know seems to have at least a couple of libertarian asshole friends and hasn't told them to fuck off and never come back many years ago" I told them to do this FWIW.
― akm, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
same with my republican friends and family
ok Trump is very visibly shook now
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Would you say he's... isolated? Unhinged?
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
sorry, "increasingly" isolated
yeah I knew someone was gonna make that joke but seriously this is the first time since that bizarre 'apology' for the Access Hollywood video that I've seen him look so defeated
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
ok Trump is very visibly shook now― frogbs, Monday, March 16, 2020 1:34 PM (two minutes ago)
― frogbs, Monday, March 16, 2020 1:34 PM (two minutes ago)
read this as "visibly sick"...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
Details? I have y'all masochists to watch this shit so I don't have to.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
for once he's actually being kinda honest with how bad it's gonna be rather than insisting left and right that it's a hoax or is going to be easily contained or whatever
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
Baby steps, but there was still a lot of denial in there.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
Is he dead yet
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:50 (four years ago) link
stock market worst day in history. hard to see how this guy's goose isn't completely cooked at this point.
― akm, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
This is good not bad:
and all of the sudden Housing for All was possible... https://t.co/NwS4AEdOtb— gal debored (@__acadame) March 15, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
genuinely curious how the approval polls are gonna look in a few weeks when everyone's daily life has been significantly upended and the whiniest generation in history has to fumble around looking for someone to blame
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
His support will never waver
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
I don't know any Trump supporters, but I know people that do, and they don't think any less of him now than they did six months ago.Every once in a while there is a profile that claims behind the scenes he is not at all like the person he presents himself as. The bluster is toned down, he's gracious and accommodating and funny, a good host, that apparently his public persona is all an act. But if you are in public all the time, and your public act is that you are a racist stupid asshole, then it really doesn't matter what you're like in private.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
my sr. citizen Florida Trumper in-laws are having a fucking party w 20 ppl right now
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
a party on a Tuesday afternoon?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Maybe that party has been going on since Friday.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
they're fucking morons and they're retired
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
"it's just the flu" she says
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
anyway - Schumer's latest emergency bill is $750 billion in programs/aid
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
My cop cousin is on IG railing against Pritzker and claiming this is a deep state conspiracy. He was still going out to the bars right up to the end. Hope he doesn’t get my Parkinson’s afflicted uncle passively killed.
― omar little, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
hard to see how this guy's goose isn't completely cooked at this point.
let's not do this; whomp it til it's dead and in pieces
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
this is my last resort
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
how many people were on that stage with Trump? how many in the room? Christ on a bike
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
I guess he's too social to speak from a Strangelovian bunker
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
amazing thinking that it was only a couple weeks ago when they were pushing for $8 billion
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
I don't know any Trump supporters, but I know people that do, and they don't think any less of him now than they did six months ago.
well that's why I'm saying in a few weeks. I think a lot of older people just do not get the scope of this right now. at work there's apparently been a lot of emails from managers saying something to the effect of "I guess you can work from home, if you FEEL THE NEED TO"
― frogbs, Monday, 16 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link