US Politics, May 2020 — I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.

Bosses are the vanguard of the proletariat tbh

We need a revolutionary government with show trials. https://t.co/nejsxtozJ1

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 6, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRhcjOG1es

well done

so i guess he decided on the No Masks at the Mask Plant strategy. or they all decided

such leadership skills, leading by example

why worry about infection at the mask factory? I mean what's the worst that could happen

let's go cubes

So @jimtankersley talked to Kevin Hassett about the whole "cubic model" mess, and long story short, I'm pretty sure Hassett owes @NateSilver538 $538.https://t.co/wRDLk6KgyG https://t.co/cP6zsdVEuU pic.twitter.com/43ml5VHBjw

— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) May 6, 2020

maybe somebody on the staff's read Thomas Bernhard.

i don't know why i am continually astonished at the depths of incompetence in this administration. using the cubic trendline to "smooth out the volatility"??? jeeeeeezus

Kushner's most recent screwups highlighted in Washington Post and NY Times thanks to a whistleblower volunteer:

The coronavirus response being spearheaded by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has relied in part on volunteers from consulting and private equity firms with little expertise in the tasks they were assigned, exacerbating chronic problems in obtaining supplies for hospitals and other needs, according to numerous government officials and a volunteer involved in the effort....The document alleges that the team responsible for PPE had little success in helping the government secure such equipment, in part because none of the team members had significant experience in health care, procurement or supply-chain operations. In addition, none of the volunteers had relationships with manufacturers or a clear understanding of customs requirements or Food and Drug Administration rules, according to the complaint and two senior administration officials...Supply-chain volunteers were instructed to fast-track protective equipment leads from “VIPs,” including conservative journalists friendly to the White House,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushner-coronavirus-effort-said-to-be-hampered-by-inexperienced-volunteers/2020/05/05/6166ef0c-8e1c-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html

Instead of having actual government employees do the work, Kushner had his financial scene buddies use their own private emails and such while working out of a FEMA office

From the NY Times article on Kushner's volunteers task force:

Trump allies also pressed FEMA officials directly: A Pennsylvania dentist, once featured at a Trump rally, dropped the president’s name as he pushed the agency to procure test kits from his associates.

Few of the leads, V.I.P. or otherwise, panned out, according to a whistle-blower memo written by one volunteer and sent to the House Oversight Committee. While Vice President Mike Pence dropped by the volunteers’ windowless command center in Washington to cheer them on, they were confused and overwhelmed by their task, the whistle-blower said in interviews.

“The nature and scale of the response seemed grossly inadequate,” said the volunteer, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity and, like the others, signed a nondisclosure agreement. “It was bureaucratic cycles of chaos.”

I'm starting to hate Kushner as much as his father-in-law.

Once Trump is out of office, the Congress is going to have to actually do some work and change the rules on some of this sh!t. Non-elected family members of a President should not be able to waltz in and take over any of the crap the Chump has had the Kush doing.

It is not surprising though, these people don't believe in government unless it something they can bilk for cash. In reality, the drown the government in the bathtub types, really Trump is their ultimate President.

abolish the Presidency
abolish the Senate
abolish Republicans
abolish politicians who have served for more than 10 years
abolish millionaires from holding office
abolish billionaires
allow drive-through voting

"abolish politicians who have served for more than 10 years"

Bye Bernie, we hardly knew ye.

we'll let him Cyrano a young budding politician who is struggling to find his voice. sort of like a ghostwriter

The partisan gap in the latest CNBC battleground state poll shows a divide between delusion and reality:

Is it safe to go to a:
Nail salon: 77% R; 9% D
Dine-in restaurant: 70% R; 5% D
Bar: 52% R; 4% D
Large sporting event: 37% R; 2% D

Is the economy in a recession?
50% R; 89% D

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 6, 2020

eek

I'm starting to hate Kushner as much as his father-in-law.

Once Trump is out of office, the Congress is going to have to actually do some work and change the rules on some of this sh!t.

not going to hold my breath on this one. Republicans would never do it for ideological reasons, Democrats will never do it because they never do anything.

I would rather go to a baseball game with thousands of other people (not 40k but maybe 10k?) than step foot in a nail salon or get my hair cut.

xp re: to poll
"It's merely a flesh wound!"

Recently realized that the Democratic party is perfectly summed up by a joke Norman Finkelstein once told me, about a man who is such a schmuck that if there was a worldwide schmuck competition he would come in second

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) May 7, 2020

Good morning!

Ah! Well, nevertheless,

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/07/us/coronavirus-states-reopen-criteria.html

A visual demonstration of how dumb a cubic polynomial fit is with this data:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXWWy7eUYAAlDw-?format=jpg

Why is the cubic polynomial fit dumb? Seems to approximate the existing data pretty well?

Is it because you don’t expect the # of USA cases to fall off?

learned something from Roy Cohn I guess

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/06/trump-pence-pentagon-point-man-disloyal/

Why is the cubic polynomial fit dumb? Seems to approximate the existing data pretty well?

Oh sweet! That means we can stop distancing cos then new infections will just even out!

For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.

In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time. pic.twitter.com/aJgCNfx1m0

— Brad Parscale - Download our Trump 2020 App today! (@parscale) May 7, 2020

much to lol at there, but "Political"...?

Trending in Canada
Death Star
12.5K Tweets

I assume 90% of those are gifs of Alec Guinness saying "I fear something terrible has happened"

there is a disturbance in the Farce

James Carville's a piece of shit who should be devoured by hogs, but this clip amused me:

Carville on Trump: "They’re a pack of grifters. His campaign manager got two condos, a Ferrari, a yacht, a Range Rover and they’re all just fleecing the campaign. This is all about making money and they’re going in there and giving him fake polls."pic.twitter.com/rigtoZHt5w

— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 7, 2020

like a crumblin' empiah, right before ya eyes

One of Trump's valets tested positive for COVID-19.

lol these people are so fucking stupid

For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.

In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time. pic.twitter.com/aJgCNfx1m0

— Brad Parscale - Download our Trump 2020 App today! (@parscale) May 7, 2020

he's not wrong at calling this a kleptocracy

"In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time."
*death star explodes*

I get that the fact the DS got blowed up twice is the key self-own here, but before that happened they used it to commit genocide, which seems also relevant

It is firing on all cylinders? Would have thought a juggernaut Republican Death Star would have better than an internal combustion engine.

This shit is too on-the-nose to even function as self-parody anymore. Is there a word for an allusion that's actually just a word-for-word transcription? Because we're nearing that point, I feel.

before that happened they used it to commit genocide, which seems also relevant

Don't worry; that'll be self-directed, too. Fox News hosts are starting to encourage their (largely 60+) viewers to go outside and catch COVID-19 to "build herd immunity."

Fox News' Pete Hegseth calls for people to go out and get infected by coronavirus: "Now that we are learning more, herd immunity is our friend. Healthy people getting out there -- they are going to have to have some courage." pic.twitter.com/PCSHm9yUAW

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) May 7, 2020

so much courage

Herd immunity: you first

herd immunity: where some humans are asked to become animals