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
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
everybody's saying Feinstein did too but then I saw others pointing out her situation wasn't the same, that she sold later?
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
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
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
Good morniing!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
lol he mentions nothing about the stock at all
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
lmao what the hell
#New National @HarrisPoll (3/17-18),Trump's Approval RatingOverall: 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
― frogbs, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
great!
― k3vin k., Friday, 20 March 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
fighting terrorism? why are they even asking that anymore?
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
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
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
Americans have a storied tradition of rallying around presidents, no matter how pustulant, in times of crisis. No surprise if his numbers increase.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
The Trump years are going to turn me into a full-blown nihilist yet.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
Just use that anger to defeat him in November
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
sure we have, just not in America
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
And not counting Manson, Jones, etc.
― clemenza, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Koresh for Prez
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
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.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
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
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
We have a candidate eating hay rn
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
The US hasn't been that badly hit. Yet. If that changes, his numbers should come down.
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
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
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
murc’s law remains a brilliant insight into how we create and process narrative in this country
― El Tomboto, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
Because Guatemalan 9-year-olds are basically terrorists donchaknow
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
lmao of course they'd use this framing
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETjuU4TUwAAS_1q?format=png&name=large
― frogbs, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
The NYT made sure to mention Feinstein as well. It seems she sold when the stock was unusually low. Murc.
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
btw it is ridiculously irresponsible for the news networks to air these press conferences
― frogbs, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
So there was a flurry of reports last night based on cursory reviews of senators who, it appeared, may have engaged in suspect stock transactions similar to Burr and Loeffler. I don't think the ones that I've seen hold up. I'll take them one by one— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 20, 2020
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Can we all shut up about his Burr story until such time as he is in handcuffs and/or has resigned (neither of which will ever happen)? This is the dumbest story, goes on all the time in congress (with members of both parties I'm sure), and is a waste of fucking breath given the general climate of white collar legal enforcement.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
it "goes on all the time in Congress" because for a while it wasn't actually illegally.
have you forgotten Chris Collins already?
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
*illegal
The Burr story is incredibly abhorrent and not at all what goes on all the time.
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
It's not the stock sale that makes this so terrible, it's doing it while willfully misleading the public about the immanent danger that puts it on a whole other level.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read on one of these politics threads.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
He realized something horrible was going to happen. That people would die. That the market would crash. He told people behind closed doors. He sold his stock. But he kept on saying things were going great in public, because Trump was saying so. That is so horrifying.
This is a great example how 'they are all monsters!' mostly helps hide what is actually monstrous.
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
reposting an agraybee tweet well-actuallying jamelle freaking bouie. a new level of resistanceholing, even for alfred
― k3vin k., Friday, 20 March 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
xxxxxp Ahem, I had in fact forgotten about Chris Collins. Still skeptical anything is going to happen to the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, March 20, 2020 11:17 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^^^^^
I don't care about a Senator getting rich by unethical means because that's been a longstanding tradition in American politics, on both sides of the aisle I might add. But we are increasingly finding out that taking this seriously in January as opposed to now (when it's totally out of control) may have wound up potentially saving hundreds of thousands of lives & millions of jobs, and if the people in charge took the opportunity to make themselves rich instead then it should quite literally be treated as a crime against humanity
― frogbs, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
This is kinda besides the point, but I don't think it made them rich, right? They just avoided a loss, they didn't short the stock? It doesn't make it any less horrifying in my book, though
― Frederik B, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
The right thing would be for them to donate any realized gains (which I am sure they have) from each of those sales. This is what most financial institutions make employees do when some violates a trade rule for their personal accounts. But also, they should never have been able to trade single name stocks in their accounts if they had the ability to direct trades.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
petty bitch time. Trump just wants to mention DIane Feinstein.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
going to to never stop loling when she’s the only one who gets shit for this
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
Her sale looks somewhat more innocuous
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
all while Loeffler’s notoriety will just to skyrocket her to 2024 GOP candidate short list
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link