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

good thing Dem voters want an ancient and diminishing shitbag

man i still don't doubt that his support _can_ be broken (and maybe by this?), and that if it does happen it maybe another “only a f’ing nazi would admit they liked nixon trump.”

mostly, as morbs said correctly- don't need to think too hard, keep kicking at that mf until it is dead dead dead.

obviously this isn't going to "sink him", but the common thread the last few days is "his approval rating hasn't even moved", as an indicator of him being teflon, and...it has moved, and that's what I'm replying too. also, it is a good indicator of the way the wind is blowing leading up to the election. I don't think there are any of us here who aren't planning on voting, and a fair amount of us are probably going to be helping to GET OUT the vote via a variety of means.

Of course he's not gonna sink to 20%, who the hell cares?

fwiw here's Politico yesterday:

Voters overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak — but are significantly less impressed by Trump’s overall handling of the crisis, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

The vast majority of voters, 84 percent, support Trump’s decision last Friday to proclaim a national emergency, the poll shows. Just 7 percent oppose it.

But amid the fast-moving developments, Trump earns lower marks for his response. A combined 41 percent rate Trump as “excellent” or “good” for his response to the coronavirus — only barely more than the 39 percent who rate Trump’s handling of the outbreak as “poor.” Twelve percent rate Trump’s handling of the virus as “only fair.”

Voters split sharply along party lines: Only 10 percent of Democratic voters rate Trump’s handling of the situation as “excellent” or “good,” compared with 80 percent of Republicans who give Trump those ratings.

The fact that his approval is Teflon shows to me that his approval has nothing to do with him. It’s about his voters. And what they think about other “things.”

it's about how much his voters hate us, basically

his approval ain't teflon. no Republican president is going to ever hit anything below like 30-35% ever. this election is winnable, we just have to accept that there are millions of people whose votes we can't win and move on to the millions we can (and will) win.

turnout in every demographic in our own party is gonna be esp key

who are the 10% of Democrats who think he's done a great job with this

trolls

there are tons of conservative Democrats. or old Dixiecrats taht would probably still vote Wallace

turnout in every demographic in our own party is gonna be esp key

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal)

good thing we're nominating someone who appeals to every part of the democratic base oh wait

agree with n-thal, the “trickier” way to win Nov is to get great broad dem turnout. can either candidate and supporters do that?

the harder way is to get trumpites to disown HIM. anything for that?

a) shame, or
b) actual perception of shared identity, political or social, of lower 98%
c) policy disaster aimed sharply at trumpy wites
d) internal gop decision to sacrifice him

i have other even more unlikely shit, and most anything can happen

you'd have more luck getting a mets fan to root for the phillies. will. not. happen

maga hats = plague caps

not for all of them, for sure. i grew up a mets fan pre- and during straw, and i assure you I have no pref for mets over phils. but i was dumb would choke up like felix millan.

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