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

Sen. Amy Klobuchar's husband in the hospital, diagnosed with coronavirus

Damn

we cannot sacrifice the economy just for the sake of a few million human lives

they were going to die anyway, for the most part. probably

C'mon guys you don't REALLY love your grandma

Supposedly Tom Fitton's tweet inspired Trump.

He's reacting to dire prognostication but if Congress actually passes a package he'll probably pivot again as the market will react positively, the converse of how it's acting negatively today because there isn't one.

We joke about it, but that’s likely the direction this is going. Trump is infamously impatient. He’s not going to let this play out according to public health recommendations and cede control to a bunch of people that he’s likely already internally investigations for their connections to the Democratic Party and the clintons

warthog president

Farthog President

Besides, he's in over his head. Not all companies will reopen. Most governors will continue sheltering in place. Concert tours aren't going to resume, many bands that aren't U2 are going to need a while to regroup.

I could see him dangling rescinding federal assistance from those states, but that would be political suicide. But even that wouldn't convince most Governors to reopen. They were taking actions long before that cock declared the emergency.

He can't just issue an Executive Order and go HEY AMERICA'S OPEN

maybe he finally realized that he won't get get to do his rallies

i feel like we're less than a couple weeks away from a press conference where he actually does say "HEY AMERICA'S OPEN!" and then one of the stooges behind him has to actually rebut him and argue on the spot

and then they all take turns stabbing him with knives

...and THEN then the rapture

ok, now i'm starting to piece this together

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/e/e6/Profile_-_Pumbaa.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190312043302
"HEY AMERICA'S OPEN!"

maybe he finally realized that he won't get get to do his rallies

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is basically it

Oh look the cheese slid off of Hobby Lobby Christian's cracker:

https://i.ibb.co/w4968t6/ETr-Cp0p-Xs-AEM-UH-1.jpg

realistically, does anyone know what would happen to the global economy if everything stays shut for 5, 6, 10 months?

no

No.

yes, but I'm not telling

having got that sorted, could someone tell me what "groom" means in christian-speak?

We all apply to be prayer warriors

xpost

"groom" means in christian-speak?

prepare for molestation

It means get a perm for the Lord

Ffs I was going to say 'it's what a priest does at summer camp' but thought it was over the line

was this posted yet?

My husband has coronavirus. I love him & not being able to be by his side is one of the hardest things about this disease. So many are going through this & much worse. I pray for him & you & meanwhile I will do all I can to get help to the American people.https://t.co/fqQU6tA29r pic.twitter.com/SjyfdQxe1R

— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) March 23, 2020

best wishes to them

lol
now that I think about it, xtians already conceive of themselves as sheep, so imagining yourself as a horse in god's stable is akin to a promotion

the trolley problem, updated for 2020

https://i.imgur.com/IH33ay5h.jpg

Zoinks!

Trump is going to come up with the ultimate compromise - we ship our excess patients to another country.

Hang on, now the @GOP likes #deathpanels? I'm so confused. #LarryKudlow #LivesOverMoney #TrumpVirus #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #FoxNewsIsComplicit pic.twitter.com/QzRpD69pVI

— Susan PhysicallyDistanced Courtney (@sdec) March 23, 2020

If they pass this stimulus to include the administration not being requried to disclose for 6 months who they gave money to...good luck USA.

i don't think schumer is going to allow that, based on how he sounded this morning

the shoom dawg

Yeah yeah, the GOP is trying to give billions to their friends without accountability, blah blah blah

i mean, usually mass privatization, a further centralization of wealth, is the outcome of crises of all kinds. if the democrats don't want that to happen, they need to actively prevent it. and it will be politically difficult because the republicans will say--are saying--that they are "withholdiing necessary aid"

that is the conundrum

the world is watching, though, now, in a way they weren't in 2008. the average democratic then wasn't as aware of the way capital seizes on a crisis.

if schumer knows what's good for him, he won't cave. this is in the open.

That no-bid contract to provide us all with Trump Steaks and Trump Water can't be delayed

i know he is everyone's cartoon of a "wall street dem" but he knows the party is different now.

Pelosi holds more cards than Schumer

exactly - we're watching, but that doesn't mean we're participating in any meaningful way. the "public" is basically two huge teams, divided by party lines, screaming, completely ignored by the opposing party and barely tolerated within their own. the actual public "participants" in these negotiations are think tanks and lobbyists.

xp

come on Center for American Progress, hold the line!!!!

if we're potentially heading toward 25% unemployment, this is a completely different game.

Of course people were brainwashed. And no one here is exempt from that either, I'm certainly not immune

the average democratic then wasn't as aware of the way capital seizes on a crisis.

On what evidence to you base this claim?