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

chris cilizza is a fucking scourge, his MO is trying to make obvious claims sound revelatory or some shit. I hate him.

I hope he is taking it and he has both a fucking heart attack and he gets COVID

(trump that is, not Cilizza, but he can too)

I'd have to double-check, but in 2016, I'm pretty sure that if you posted anything on here that even intimated for a second that Trump could win, both the writer and the piece would immediately be ridiculed out of existence. Things have really changed. When I posted that piece earlier, I really didn't think it would lead to an extended discussion on Chris Cillizza.

Trump's "a lot of doctors take it"(hydroxychloriquine) is such a throwback to cigarette ads from the Mad Men era...the first season, before such ads became illegal.

Hydroxychloroquine. It's toasted.

Perfect!

the essence of Cillizza in six words:

Ivanka is a such a boss

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 20, 2017

and the cherry on top?

Try 8 figures https://t.co/Vl9ZoWWI35

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) May 24, 2017

the essence of Cillizza in 1 sentence
"He initially desired to work as a sports writer, but decided that sports "would be less fun" than politics."

8 figures!

And so proud of it he had to drop a brag.

obv Trump is not actually taking that shit, he's just saying he is to "prove" he never misled anyone

next week he'll say he tested positive and it cured him

(misled anyone into believing it isn't harmful)

Pretty clear that Democratic leadership has been more concerned about the internal political dynamics of the party caucus than with the pandemic and crash response. If Pelosi had wanted to keep workers on payrolls, she could have tried. She didn't, because it was Jayapal's idea.

— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) May 14, 2020

Oh yeah! Cory Gardner and Josh Hawley are so trustworthy.

pelosi being pro fat shaming and anti student debt relief just reveals her as a slightly less horrible version of the “awful pta mom” archetype than devos et al

i think devos is infinitely worse of a ghoul but your broader point stands. a lot of us are eager for Democrats to stop being polite and start getting real, but they're not even good at being assholes.

i think both want to protect the status quo in ways that are harmful to most americans

Devos doesn’t want to protect the status quo though. She wants to make things much worse.

Mild good news:

The wave of lockdowns and shuttered economies caused by the coronavirus pandemic fueled a momentous decline in global greenhouse gas emissions, although one unlikely to last, a group of scientists reported Tuesday.

As covid-19 infections surged in March and April, nations around the globe experienced an abrupt reduction in driving, flying and industrial output, leading to a startling decline of more than a billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That includes a peak decline in daily emissions of 17 percent in early April, according to the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. For some nations, the drop was much steeper.

ok buddy

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/jamie-dimon-says-coronavirus-crisis-is-wake-up-call-for-a-more-inclusive-economy.html

comrade jamie

welcome aboard

He can feel the weight of the guillotine blade above him. (Probably not but it’s fun to think about.)

when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have potatoes

A Virginia potato farmer invited Pres Trump to visit his farm.

TRUMP: "I might. I'll be there. We're going after VA. With your crazy governor? We're going after VA. They want to take your second amendment away. You know that, right? You'll have nobody guarding your potatoes."

— Sara Cook (@saraecook) May 19, 2020

"You'll Have Nobody Guarding Your Potatoes" for June thread title.

Damn, all the best thread titles pop up in the middle of the month.

I worry just how bad the greenhouse gas is going to get as things reopen. Presumably a lot of people with the option are going to be avoiding public transportation, meaning more cars on the road. I've yet to see anything official, but I've heard of places either strongly discouraging or straight up not allowing workers to come to the office if they've taken public transportation.

in general this seems like it'll be good for telecommuting in general, I can't see a whole lot of companies go through this whole thing with their work from home policies unchanged

Yeah, it doesn't sound like I'll be back in the office anytime soon, which is fine with me. I'll still have to get out and about, kinda hard to do construction projects without being on site now and then.

I'm curious to know how my old workplace is handling this, since they would never even acknowledge that work from home even existed. They fought tooth and nail against it even if it was hinted at by an employee.

I've heard of places either strongly discouraging or straight up not allowing workers to come to the office if they've taken public transportation.

so, not mcdonald's or grocery stores then

when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have potatoes

irl lol, thanking you for this Mookie.

in the bay area at least I think it will be a couple of years before we see the same numbers of people using public transportation; but I also think that large numbers of those people will be telecommuting rather than driving.

so, not mcdonald's or grocery stores then

Right, not defending the policy. As with most things, it's boneheaded and classist to say the least and I have no idea how one would even enforce a "no public transportation" rule for employees. Just pointing it out that I've heard from several sources that such a thing is being considered by (sizable) companies in Chicago for when they return.

Ford Motor Co. will require the president to wear a face covering — something he has so far declined to do — when he tours the carmaker’s plant in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Thursday, Crain’s Detroit Business reported.

“Our policy is that everyone wears PPE [personal protective equipment] to prevent the spread of covid-19,” Ford spokeswoman Rachel McCleery told Crain’s. “We shared all of Ford’s safety protocols, including our manufacturing playbook, employee pamphlet and self-assessment survey with the White House ahead of time and in preparation for this trip.”

Trump has not worn a mask while visiting other factories recently. He was maskless Thursday while touring a mask distribution center in Allentown, Pa., and was also photographed without a face covering at a mask factory in Phoenix this month.

He later said he did wear a mask in Phoenix for a short time “backstage.”

Either he'll refuse and dare Ford's people to fight his Secret Service detail, or ban photography, or wear a mask and scream tweets about the unfairness for a day or two.

Definitely number one or two

has he ever worn a mask in public?

well, a rictus

Trump nukes Ford

Trump to Ford: Drop Dead

"has he ever worn a mask in public?" all the time. you'd be surprised to see what his real face looks like

has he ever worn a mask in public?

He can probably peel off the self-tanner in a half-inch-thick sheet; does that count?

what the fuck

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/19/21262376/georgia-republicans-cancel-election-state-supreme-court-barrow-kemp-blackwell

tbqh Pelosi calling Trump "morbidly obese" is stupid politics

Predictably saw a bunch of blue wave dipshits sporting YAAAAS QUEEN boners over it on Twitter

but I thought Republicans are all about "letting the American people have a voice in the process"??????????????????????????????????

now I don't know what to believe!

what is a "voice" really, I mean we can just type everything. do we really need vocal cords

I trust the GOP to surmise who I'm going to vote for, not sure what else needs to be done