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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
warthog president
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Farthog President
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
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.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
He can't just issue an Executive Order and go HEY AMERICA'S OPEN
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
maybe he finally realized that he won't get get to do his rallies
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
and then they all take turns stabbing him with knives
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
...and THEN then the rapture
ok, now i'm starting to piece this together
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/e/e6/Profile_-_Pumbaa.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190312043302"HEY AMERICA'S OPEN!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
maybe he finally realized that he won't get get to do his ralliesI wouldn’t be surprised if this is basically it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Oh look the cheese slid off of Hobby Lobby Christian's cracker:
https://i.ibb.co/w4968t6/ETr-Cp0p-Xs-AEM-UH-1.jpg
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
realistically, does anyone know what would happen to the global economy if everything stays shut for 5, 6, 10 months?
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
no
― rob, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
No.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
yes, but I'm not telling
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
having got that sorted, could someone tell me what "groom" means in christian-speak?
― rob, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
We all apply to be prayer warriors
xpost
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
"groom" means in christian-speak?
prepare for molestation
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
It means get a perm for the Lord
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Ffs I was going to say 'it's what a priest does at summer camp' but thought it was over the line
― Frederik B, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
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
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
best wishes to them
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
lolnow 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
― rob, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
the trolley problem, updated for 2020
https://i.imgur.com/IH33ay5h.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Zoinks!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
Trump is going to come up with the ultimate compromise - we ship our excess patients to another country.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
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
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
i don't think schumer is going to allow that, based on how he sounded this morning
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
the shoom dawg
Yeah yeah, the GOP is trying to give billions to their friends without accountability, blah blah blah
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
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"
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
that is the conundrum
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
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
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
come on Center for American Progress, hold the line!!!!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
if we're potentially heading toward 25% unemployment, this is a completely different game.
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
Of course people were brainwashed. And no one here is exempt from that either, I'm certainly not immune
― anvil, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
the average democratic then wasn't as aware of the way capital seizes on a crisis.
On what evidence to you base this claim?
― DJP, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
i did a study. polling size was like 200 million people.
― treeship., Monday, 23 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
How many responded with "deez nuts" to each question?
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
i just hope that the Dems win the PR game with this stall, because Republicans are going to push hard on the "D's delayed your relief/D's are obstructionists" crap.
― akm, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
I am enjoying all the "looks like the US could've been paying reparations in $1000 checks this entire time" commentary.
― Yerac, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
I mean Louie Gohmert delayed the first relief bill
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
i sympathize with what you mean, on having a greater awareness of how evil the GOP can be in these times (see: the patriot act, or barr's attempt last week to push for new powers for the justice system, which was so crazy that even mike lee opposed it)
but the thing is - we're roughly the same age - i think it's easy to take what WE learned, as we witnessed those events and changed our understanding, and conflate that with other people learning the same things. there were other, older or wiser people than ourselves, who were fully prepared for the bullshit that went down in the wake of the 2008 crisis, and 9/11 before that. and then there were many more who didn't understand what was happening then, and don't understand how they're trying to fuck us over now. it's abominable to try to screw over other people for the purposes of power and financial gain in the middle of a crisis - that's why most people don't see it coming every time.
so anyway, what i'm trying to say is that just because we may have learned a thing or two from the past doesn't mean that anyone else has, even well-meaning people on the left, and certainly not anyone on the right ("how dare you criticize the ruling party in a time of crisis!")
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link