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

(CNN recruited him on the basis of his tweet-fact-checking for the Toronto Star for the earlier decades of this presidency.)

The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this ad. https://t.co/BG5NHKJBzd https://t.co/j0A4JoztFL

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 25, 2020

lol thus elevating it from an ad to a news story

whatta dumbass

I can't believe Daniel Dale is still sane.

Gonna be interesting to see how that approval rating holds up once the US leads the world by far in both cases and deaths while Americans are locked in their homes for the 13th consecutive week

I mean fact is if you’re white and don’t live in Puerto Rico the last few years probably haven’t been that bad, and the corruption and constant lying obviously aren’t enough to get these folks to turn against him. Being unemployed and having loved ones die, on the other hand...

but won't the people celebrate Boeing's survival?

Even his cease and desist letters sound like a whiny bitch

do you hear the people sing
singing the song of complacent men
it's the music of a people
who'll be gladly fucked again

xpost

Boeiiiing!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmNkZTM3MjgtNzdjYi00ZTNlLTlhNDItZDBlYjA4MzU0YTg3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

NINETEEN SEXTYSEX

TONY JERRY LEWIS CURTIS

"They give one the Heimlich Manuever...."

they don't put actor's measurements on movie posters anymore huh

Eddie "40-36" Murphy

At the bottom of the poster, one of the three young female actors is a brunette. In the main body of the poster, all three are blondes.

"Hey Lady!"

why aren't Thelma Ritter's measurements on there. I need to know before I see this movie

Could well be wrong here, but as I listen to Fauci on CNN's weekly coronavirus call-in, I get the feeling that they're laying the groundwork for common sense to prevail and Trump having to postpone his reopening or whatever he's calling it. "Aspirational" sounds like code for "We're letting him bluster away, but it won't happen."

just posted this same snippet elsewhere, but seems relevant:

“People might get the misinterpretation you’re just going to lift everything up,” Dr. Fauci said, explaining Mr. Trump’s impatience to jump-start the economy and tell Americans they could resume everyday life. “That’s not going to happen,” Dr. Fauci said. “It’s going to be looking at the data” in regions of the country where there was not an obvious outbreak of the virus.

As a practical matter, however, Mr. Trump does not have the power to decide whether the country can reopen. He can issue federal guidelines, but the decision of whether to return to business as usual is up to each state.

Xxp Is there a word for a rotten pun that doesn't work like substituting a plane manufacturer name for the supposedly onomatopoeic phrase for bouncing?

& was this an attempt at setting Lewis up with a new partner pre or post Martin?

I am reminded of a study I heard about years ago about air stewardesses being forced to smile constantly. & this having the effect of alienating them from their own emotions. Think it was done in like 1968 I came across it in a talk by one of the societies in my old university Psychsoc.came across a book on the study but never read it.
Think it was supposed to be an effect felt by people in all walks of hospitality where you have to keep a forced smile. It screws up the ability to feel naturally.or something to that effect.

I think book may have been the Managed Heart by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Cover looks right for the copy i saw.

was this an attempt at setting Lewis up with a new partner pre or post Martin?

No, this was nearly 10 years after he broke up with Martin! And Lewis had a very successful solo film career, although by '65 it was sliding before grinding to a halt around '69. It was an attempt by Lewis to play an "adult" role (no high-pitched voice or mugging).

The movie was based on a French stage farce that ran in London for SEVEN YEARS. Both Tony and Jerry have better performing chemistry in that film w/ Thelma Ritter than they do with each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing-Boeing_(play)

Back to regularly scheduled crisis.

Thelma Ritter’s the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoS1MCF8AeI

I think book may have been the Managed Heart by Arlie Russell Hochschild. Cover looks right for the copy i saw.

― Stevolende, Friday, March 27, 2020 5:42 AM (three hours ago)

It does sound like that book. Incidentally, it's where the term/concept of emotional labor comes from

New Washington Post poll: Trump job approval 48 percent disapproval 46 percent. Highest approval, lowest disapproval in Trump presidency. Also first time not underwater. https://t.co/ZXTjrV3iv1 pic.twitter.com/YixjqXK1ZB

— Byron York (@ByronYork) March 27, 2020

for posterity, lets all remember the brief moment where Trump was not underwater

Perhaps most puzzling of all: having "no opinion" on Trump.

I'm not sure I have an "opinion" on trump, it's more like an ulcer

"How do you feel about people who abduct children and forcibly turn them into heroin addicts?"

"No opinion."

i wonder if "no opinion" also counts as "inaudible" or "other", for phone polls? for example,

"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?"

"......Nnnnnnghhh..."

"Excuse me, can you please repeat your answer, I didn't-"

"*BLOODCURDLING SCREAAAAAAAAM"

"ok we'll just put you down as No Opinion on that one. Now regarding Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin-"

About that poll:

In the poll, 48 percent approve of Trump’s overall job performance — the first time his approval has been higher than his disapproval (46 percent) in any Post-ABC poll. His approval on his handling of the coronavirus is 51 percent, vs. 45 percent negative. All of that is in line with other polls.

But the Post-ABC poll asked one very specific question on the coronavirus that doesn’t reflect so favorably on Trump. It asked people whether they thought Trump was too slow to respond to the crisis or whether he reacted with the right speed. Fully 58 percent of people said he was too slow, while just 38 percent said he reacted as quickly as he should have.

So 58 percent say he was too slow, but just 45 percent disapprove of his handling of it. In other words, at least 1 in 8 Americans believe Trump failed to recognize and act upon the severity of the situation in the early days of the crisis but still give him a positive grade.

from here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/27/bad-news-trump-amid-his-coronavirus-poll-bump/

If you look at the massive approval boost Bush got after 9/11, despite handling it terribly, this is nothing more than a gnat's fart of crisis bump.

I just have to assume that people must secretly hate the loved ones who are suffering and dying as a result of Trump's inaction.

all Trump needs to do to keep those numbers up is to invade China.

we have to locate the secret supervirus factory in china

i nominate lt col. Tom Cotton to lead the squad

As usual with “this” General Motors, things just never seem to work out. They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, “very quickly”. Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke “P”.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2020

US Politics, April 2020: Invoke "P"

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

christ almighty

What does that mean

but wait, is that his first acknowledgement that the ventilators are "much needed"? within a week, of course, he'll be saying that he knew they were important the entire time

https://i.imgur.com/ZBnHT1o.png

This is confirmation that he's tweeting via speech-to-text, right?

lol frogbs

his first acknowledgement that the ventilators are "much needed"?

His worldview is very adaptable.

please remove my brain and throw it into the ocean i can't take it anymore

this motherfucker is so tiring