Brett is out and I’ve got Zoom meetings starting in *checks time* one hour. Lets do this!
GO BRETT, GO!
US-Mexico border relations continue to be “You’re not keeping me out, I’m keeping YOU out” for at least another month. This is not a decision based entirely on fear.
“Far-right, former Brazillian Army captain” participates in protests against plauge-related measures put in place by parts of the Brazilian government with checks on his power as president. I don’t really know how that works in Brazil, but this is definitely the actions of a dictator.
“I am here because I believe in you. You have an obligation to struggle for the country!” the 65-year-old president told the assembled crowd in a speech transmitted live on his social media platforms.
C’mon man…you’re not doing yourself any favors with the whole media portraying you as a fascist…thing.
The UN wants PEOPLE TO DIE.
Remember the saying, “when America sneezes the rest of the world gets a cold”? It works for Corona too!
I don’t think he can tell Chevron to leave Venezuela. I’m sure they had a plan to leave anyways.
If they’re isolated, how are they going to catch it?
From the people testing them?
Amazon?
They keep going outside.
Probably after dark. That’s when the virus hunts for victims.
Mostly.
I was thinking the same thing.
MAPINGUARI SMITH GIVE THEM VIRUS
National Geographic
Jim Fowler
They’re not isolated and they haven’t been in a very long time.
This same type bullshit story has been surfacing again and again for more than a decade and polished off and wrapped up as ‘news’.
When those tribes first made contact with modern Brazilians, many years ago, the experts warned that they would be ‘wiped out’ in short order because of diseases they had no immunity to. It didn’t happen. So why is it going to happen now? ‘Experts’, right there is your problem. The definition for ‘expert’ should be ‘a person who claims to know more than anyone else about a subject and makes prediction after prediction, none of which ever come true, yet continues unabated to make the same claims’.
We need to send in some teams of epidemiologists and sociologists to check on those isolated indigenous tribes. Maybe bring some blankets, too.
If anymore isolated tribes actually existed in Brazil, we could all hope those teams wind up as ‘Long Pig’. But they don’t. It’s pure bullshit.
‘
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
/Amazonian rain forest people…
Maybe an inapt thing to say on Bolsanero’s part but I still like the guy relative to most South American politicians.
relative to most South American politicians.
I think i can only think of other extant SA politicians: Pepe Mujica, Kirchner, and Maduro. Not a super high bar.
All I could think of were the Perons – who managed to destroy Argentina’s economy and Pinochet who saved Chile for a while from those kind of assholes.
Noriega? that other Fuck, how came back from the dead?
Bodycam video of AZ cops arresting a guy for having the audacity to open his store. Fucking prole should know that permission to make a living has been revoked.
So the threads are like that today?
They’ve been like that for a week.
Apparently there are some nuts that haven’t been punched.
Winslow, AZ what a fine sight to see.
Winslow, AZ what a fine sight to see.
Unfortunately the girl with the flatbed Ford was sheltering at home.
All she did was slow down and look. She was practicing social distancing.
“As soon as the officers walk in, Mazon starts recording them with his cell phone. When officers tell him he can’t stay open, Mazon argues that he is in compliance, saying he changed his license name to “Indian Department Store.”
He told officers he was now selling hay, paper towels, water and food, which officers noted were just candy bars.”
Nice try peasant.
___________________
Police asked Mazon for his driver’s license, but he refused.
“You don’t need my driver’s license. I’m not driving,” Mazon responds in the video.
Legend.
I am essential to the war effort.
I assume it was taken out of context, but I don’t know how that works in Brazil.
So the ‘vid kills less than 1% of wypipo who get it but 100% of uncontacted tribesfolx who catch it? Talk about your white privilege.
MUH SMALLPOCKZ BLANKETZ!
“U.S. And Mexico Extend Coronavirus Border Restrictions For Another Month”
So you’re saying that we built a wall and Mexico paid for it?
China built a wall and we’re all paying for it.
With scant contact with the outside world
Not socially isolated enough!
Social isolation is for suckers.
Me today.
http://imgur.com/gallery/r2eshij
http://imgur.com/gallery/Q02wkMn
You get to play with the coolest toys.
Looks like fun! Big Toys,
I WANT TO DRIVE THAT THING!
* sweats the hourly rate *
No shit. Those things aren’t cheap.
8800 dollars to pick the box today, and set it back in place next friday. We are replacing all the bearings and seals in the box and that dollar amount dwarfs what we paid for the lift.
Was that a ladle heater ?
mill stand gearbox.
Holmes Erection. Heh.
Cool. Heavy metal…
I didn’t notice the lid had moved until the video looped.
#cancelDrDouglasRodrigueswhoheadstheXinguProjectattheFederalUniversityofSãoPaulosDepartmentofPreventiveMedicine
There were pro-lockdown counterprotesters at the ReOpen Virginia event in downtown Richmond today. Apparently the irony of their presence there was lost upon them.
I saw a picture of some dude dressed in scrubs. Why wasn’t he down at MCV dealing with the 10,000 patients on ventilators that I am assured are totally there.
VCU/MCV campus and hospital are a couple blocks away. Maybe we’re supposed to believe he’s an heroic plague doctor protesting on his break.
How can he tear himself away even for a second?
Fuck this scum wearing their CV-contaminated scrubs in public. It was repugnant even before COVID-19, let alone now.
And wash their fucking hands before killing another patient.
Because he was an actor.
GENTLEMEN YOU CAN’T FIGHT IN HERE! THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!
“pro-lockdown counterprotesters”
Christ that’s pathetic.
I hope Soros is paying you mooks well.
/ holds sign saying, “please take my rights away”
I am betting mostly astroturf
Convicted serial killer, Earth Day co-founder, and former Harvard teaching fellow Ira Einhorn dead earlier this month.
deadorkicking.com/ira-einhorn-dead-or-alive/
Other co-founder was elected Democrat Gaylord Nelson, died 2005.
He was good at composting, that’s for sure……
No he kept dead girlfriend, Holly Maddox, in his closet where she mummified. Told cops he had no idea she was in there.
RIP unicorns.
Finkle is Einhorn!
Interesting position Mr. Nelson was elected to, Lord of the Gay Democrats.
Fuck. Just back from the liquor store (weird experience) and realized I forgot cherries and bitters. Still have both on hand, but wanted to restock since I was there anyways. I’m not used to buying liquor by the (partial) caseload.
Turn in your glib card
Administrative Professionals Day April 22, 2020
http://www.calendardate.com/administrative_professionals_day_2020.htm
Administrative Professionals Day “highlights the work of secretaries, administrative assistants, receptionists and other administrative support professionals. In the U.S., the day is often celebrated by giving flowers, gifts, candy or cards to your assistant”
https://www.hallmark.com/administrative-professionals-day/administrative-professionals-day-cards/
Like having nooners with the boss?
::shudders::
All the propaganda about how pollution is so much better since the lockdown and all the talk about keeping the lockdown going indefinitely until the third world starts dying in droves…
Seems like an environut wet dream.
New conspiracy theory: ‘environut’s responsible Covid 19
That’s like we were defending against the global warming hysteria for the last several decades–even with some success (withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement)–and then suddenly the coronavirus psychosis attacked us from behind and accomplished the same devastation that the global warming hysteria wanted to do all along.
If we keep this up for much longer Paul Ehrlich may finally be right about something!
Now that the precedent has been set that the government has the power to shut down the economy and lock people in their homes any time there is some event that the government deems a crisis, The door is open for the global warming alarmists to claim that AGW is way more dangerous than a virus and that the government needs to shut it down permanently.
We all have to starve to death to keep up from killing the planet in 12 years. For the children.
“keeping the lockdown going indefinitely until the third world starts dying in droves…”
There will be only one world, and it will be the third world. Equality at last!
I’ve long thought the biggest threat of terrorism is from environmental nuts with genetic engineering equipment.
When genetic engineering equipment is outlawed, only outlaws will have genetic engineering equipment. And they WILL commit acts of terror with it.
Hey Lachowsky- would you drop one of those big yellow things on Foochy? I’ll buy you a beer.
US Domestic Box Office April 17-19, 2020
# 1 Resistance (Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save orphans during World War II)
#2 Swallow (someone swallows stuff not meant to be swallowed)
# 3 The Other Lamb (cult with male leader and all female members)
There is no #4.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2020W16/
From yesterday:
Donation Not Taxation on April 20, 2020 at 3:34 pm
Most of you are US, so using that country. The numbers for the ‘weekend’ of 17-19 April are not yet posted, so 10-16 is the latest set.
Swallow is the #1 movie in US box office with $2,787 for those 7 days, not cumulative. The Other Lamb is #2 at $2,490. There is no #3.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekly/2020W15/
“#2 Swallow”
#2 in mainstream theaters, #1 on PornHub.
“#2 Swallow”
Isn’t that the basic plot line for ‘Two Girls, One Cup’?
Little Timmy Pool is a scaremonger, poor kid, I kind of like him,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ORO0PluNY8
He is a scaremonger but that’s what gets him clicks and he knows it. There’s mostly good reporting underneath it all though but it can get tiresome after a while.
This, he impressed me with his Classical Liberal thing, now it’s clicky clicky….
My brother listens to him and all I want to do is choke the motherfucker out for his chicken little shit.
Rosland Capital is really upping their “buy gold” commercials – clearly works for William Devane since he hasn’t aged in 30 years.
no Dann Florek?
/GOLD!1111
“As Latinos lose jobs, remittances to their relatives in Latin America dry up”
TRUMP WANTS BROWN PEEPLE TO STARVE!
Also: Points to NBC for not using “Latinx”.
“Also: Points to NBC for not using “Latinx”.”
broken clock
LA Times does that. Its annoying but I don’t pay for their content either,
He said there’s “a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.”
Wait, I thought that was a Rethuglican talking point, and that people were only complaining about the shutdown due to consumerism and corporate greed?
Ass Wednesday is all about gorgeous gams and fabulous fannies.
http://archive.li/LP8EI
#1 is a good opener.
#24 – “Make Money Not Friends” – hmm… possibly one of us?
New Yorker mag interviews Jeffrey Sachs.
I recently spoke by phone with Sachs about the coronavirus and the challenges that the crisis poses to international coöperation and the world economy. In our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we also discussed the root causes of American decline, why some poorer countries have so far avoided large outbreaks, and how Donald Trump has failed to meet even the low expectations that internationalists have for the United States.
Edited for length and clarity:
“Blah blah blah President Cartoon Villain is, like, totally the worst. Let us bond together in our burning hatred and fear of him.”
“…and how Donald Trump has failed to meet even the low expectations that internationalists have for the United States.”
So he’s failing to please the people who are ideologically opposed to his policies? Huh.
“…and how David Ben-Gurion has failed to meet even the low expectations that Arab despots have for the State of Israel.”
“…and how Gil-galad has failed to meet even the low expectations that Morgoth-worshippers have for Lindon.”
The protest also called for an end to social isolation measures introduced by governors and mayors in many cities to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has so far claimed more than 2,500 Brazilian lives.
Bolsonaro has been widely accused of endangering the public by greatly underestimating the threat posed by the coronavirus. He has called it “a little flu” and is campaigning to end shutdowns. He wants isolation to be restricted to people over age 60 and other medically vulnerable groups in order to avoid further massive losses of jobs and businesses.
Bolsonaro got something right.
He said there’s “a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.”
UN food agency chief putting profits over people? We’re going to hear that from the usual suspects right?
Apologies if already posted, but some evidence that hydroxychloroquine is not a total answer. TW: TOS
One caveat in the story: “The fact that this is an observational study rather than a randomized controlled trial is an important caveat with respect to evaluating its conclusions.”
Second caveat: it’s not entirely clear from the story but it appears the drugs were administered to people already on ventilators. My understanding is that it was probably most effective in patients with the virus but not yet that severe.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/five-problems-with-the-study-that-claims-more-deaths-from-treating-coronavirus-with-hydroxychloroquine/
Another article on the same topic.
Yeah the talk/rumors about that stuff was that if you gave it to people early on, it helped them fight the infection off.
Well, nobody’s ever claimed it’s a total answer. Good’s better than perfect.
Back at the end of Feb and the beginning of Mar when there were first maps coming up looking ugly in PRC, Iran, and Italy, there was a big “hole” in places like India and Bangladesh. I noted that that was odd at the time, but in retrospect it may be that lots of the population had some kind of resistance because of unrelated use of antimalarials.
What’s the rate of covid infection of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis that are already taking hydrochloroquine vs general pop?
My wife has RA and is relieved that she is on it (plaquanil, I believe). She is immuno-compromized due to the biologic she takes. Granted, she is also not afraid of the WuFlu and we are over cower in place. If she ever is tested (which I’m sure she will be since she is pregnant and due in June), I’ll share our anecdotal evidence.
What medical conditions do we have a Total Answer for?
Where have I heard that before? We set the war on poverty back over ten years in a matter of months. Nice work Karen!
Señor, I m so fucking sick of Zoom.
You have my sympathy. I hope there is a hottie on the call at the very least.
Our governor has once again moved the fucking goalposts. Today, to great fanfare and backslapping, he announced that his “expanded partnership” with Mayo and the U of MN will result in the ability to do 20,000 tests a day!
Reporter’s first question: “When?”
*crickets*
I hate this state sometimes.
The spouse and I were talking about this today – where are all the University and Government funded labs in this?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-29/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-3/
Thanks.
Welcome.
Thought experiment- how do you think Ventura would have handled it ?
Dumb question.
FUCK! Wrong clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylnZ22mJuBw
Anybody ask him what the rate of negatives are? Next county over is at about 95% coming back negative doing about ten tests a day. I don’t get what increased testing is going to do unless it is anti-body testing.
You can’t get straight answers from these fuckers.
“Testing has actually decreased over the last tow weeks. Why is that?”
*pregnant pause*
“Look! A squirrel!”
That is my point. Testing is down because the criteria for a test are symptoms or known contact with a Vidite. That is why they are doing ten tests a day next door. Last time I looked here it was like 3. And even then almost all are negative. So unless they are going to test everybody what is the point?
I looked at Twitter today. CO dept of health and Polis are getting slagged by the true believers who are all his supporters. He has pissed off a bunch of his base.
He has pissed off a bunch of his base.
Lol. That means he’s doing the right thing.
And is possible scared.
That means he’s doing the right thing.
Oh that is getting posted next time I see one of their tweets and the screeching starts. ?
The Left takes the wrong position on everything. EVERYTHING.
I hear he is headed to Eagle tomorrow for a meeting and Mesa county is wanting a meeting with him for the go ahead with their own opening schedule. I hope it becomes a trend. 90% of the state should be under no restrictions. Hell nobody should but some places can come up with valid rationale.
Robin Hood will save us/a>
The International Monetary Fund is pushing governments around the world to consider implementing wealth taxes to raise revenue as the pandemic slams economies.
In a “Tax Issues” policy paper released earlier this month, the IMF said policymakers should review ramping up income, property, and wealth taxes, modeled as a “solidarity surcharge,” the organization said.
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IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in a blog post earlier this year: “Inequality of opportunity. Inequality across generations. Inequality between women and men. And, of course, inequality of income and wealth. They are all present in our societies and – unfortunately – in many countries they are growing.”
In the US, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders helped thrust wealth taxes into the mainstream with their unabashedly progressive presidential campaigns.
Sanders Warren
Both wanted to use wealth taxes as a mechanism to rein in runaway inequality and shrink billionaires’ fortunes to finance sweeping proposals for universal healthcare and elimination of student debt.
Some variation of those taxes on the richest earners in the US could ostensibly be used to cover federal spending during the pandemic.
We’ll steal from the rich and give to the poor. Additional service charges may apply.
The “rich” Robin Hood was stealing from was the tax collector. I have no problem with that.
could be used to cover federal spending during the pandemic
Sure, there’s 3trillion in Scrooge McDucks vault alone.
Florida woman.
https://apnews.com/29a0bddc0e3d7556507ba3335ac9dbca
Oh, man, I have tears from laughter at that picture.
That is the most ridiculous costume I’ve ever seen.
And it’s news? International news?
Masks protect others, not wearer. Morphing from courtesy. Media starting meme masks political.
US Left:
Across nation, masks are the latest political, cultural divide
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Across-nation-masks-are-the-latest-political-15211794.php
US Right:
The Mask As a Symbol of Fear
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/20/the-mask-as-a-symbol-of-fear/
Bah!
“isolated indigenous tribes could be devastated by the coronavirus”
So isolation doesn’t work
Toilet paper has returned to the local Wal-Mart!
Also a couple meat packing plants here have had people test positive for the VIRUS!, I don’t know if they are shuttering or not and no mention if anyone was actually, you know, sick.
I was in Rite Aid yesterday and the TP aisle had 4 or 5 packages of TP available. On the other hand, the greeting card aisle was taped off with an note that they weren’t allowed to sell anything in this aisle because the county considered it “non-essential.”
RE: Hydroxychloroquine
Every time I see a news story about this, it’s referred to as the drug “promoted’ or “touted” by Trump.
I haven’t watched the constant press conferences from Trump, so this is an honest question: Has he actually talked about it a lot? Or did he mention it like once or twice as something that looked promising and the media just decided this was something to latch onto and freak out about?
Here’s how I remember it. (Please correct me if this is not correct). For a week or two, I saw a few articles about it being used in France and China. The gist was that it looked promising. Then, during a few of Trump’s briefings
He mentioned it once as an exciting possible cure and the media went nuts that he was promoting junk science.
It’s hardly new. It’s an old drug that was identified as a treatment for the original SARS in 2005. Different studies studies have shown it, and similar anti-malarials in combo with zinc and anti-biotics work better than nothing. Some have found they work very well early on in the infection – not with old guys on death’s door in a VA hospital.
He mentioned it a couple times, which is to say he said it along with 6 other half thoughts within a single sentence. There is some actual scholarly work out there that suggests it might have some positive effect but ultimately its a virus, and requires the host’s immune system to fight it off.
Yep. It seems to help prevent the lung inflammation that can kill people.
Shit. I am wrung out. You know you’re having a bad interview when you fail to realize the function name is misspelled in a javascript call. Guess I’ll cross that job off the list.
Sorry.
Did you give up? I’ve known interviewers who gave points to people that didn’t give up on coding/design problems.
Nope. I was halfway down the stack to the Chrome interpreter before he helped me out. I did tell him that it was the most realistic JS test I’ve ever encountered. Shit, mistyped the function name, spend an hour looking at everything else.
Didn’t you get to use an IDE with red squigglies?
No, the Chrome debugger. It was a production error. I correctly identified all the WORKING code that was calling it, at least.
You might be fine.
Translation guide
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1252683874653605894?s=09
Some of the commenters were not aware that it’s satire.
I’m not so sure, myself.
Which is the best kind of satire.
NY is lucky to have this kind of leadership.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/04/22/this-is-your-guy-dems-andrew-cuomo-just-took-a-giant-crap-on-unemployed-new-yorkers-with-utterly-tone-deaf-take-on-the-covid19-economy-video/
Let them eat cake
Wait, haven’t all those public health wonks been saying that economic hardship and inequality leads to poor health, like hypertension and diabetes and heart disease? Good to know Cuomo has decided they’re full of shit.
No, no these aren’t the droid you’re looking for.
I swear if I watch one more video like this I’m going to stroke out.
Quarantanal Cribs.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/pornhub-launches-show-lets-viewers-21909113
Here’s how I remember it. (Please correct me if this is not accurate).
For a week or two, I saw a few articles about it being used in France and China. The gist was that it looked promising. Then, during a few of Trump’s briefings (yes I did watch one of them), he mentioned that it looked promising. Within a few days there were a ton of articles about Trump giving false hope and “pushing” unproven drugs. I remember one in particular that was something like “the inside story of how Trump pressured the FDA to approve use of the drug”.
That was weird…
Happens to us hockey players a lot. Don’t worry about it.
The media is pissed because Trump isn’t running around screaming “this is the end of civilization!” Trying to stay calm, and give people hope, is lack of leadership. The saints Barry and Hillary showed how to handle a crisis in Benghazi.
How dare he not stick to doom and gloom so we can criticize him for doom and gloom!
That matches pretty well with my recollection.
Any idea what Andrew Cuomo was doing professionally between his failed run for governor in 2002 and his 2006 run for AG?
Wikipedia and other places I checked don’t have anything.
I assume he was hanging upside down like a bat somewhere, feeding off an especially plump taxpayer.
Getting divorced.
Beyond that… no clue.
The “rich” Robin Hood was stealing from was the tax collector. I have no problem with that.
That version of the story has been memoryholed. Now Robin Hood is the government, forcing the evil rich kkkapitalists to disgorge the profits they have stolen from the Working Man (and womyn).
https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1252414635258425344
what is going on in this thread?
here in BhC, many of us prepay our electrical service, which is fine, I can monitor my usage, and have gotten the base load down to 2.25$ a day, neato. I knew the day would come, I have a choice, and I choose keeping my food cold over running the A/C. So far it’s only 90 inside, with windows and fans, I’ll be fine, and when I get the various monies owed, I’ll be fine. 98 tomorrow,
/old man found dead of heatstroke……………………..
/jk I’ll be fine
I stopped using AC because the bills just pissed me off. Often hit 100 here in the summer and my living space is in a loft. I survive.
I’m thinking Sweet Vidalia burgers tonight. My local butcher shop makes them with 80/20 ground beef and at a respectable 1/3 lb.
Deeeelicious.
And Deee-Lite-Ful.
Sloppy Joes and corn on the cob. Maybe a salad too.
Seriously. Bootsy and Q-tip.
So good.
Yes, those are great! had my first set recently, yum!
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1252934356924071936
LOLOLOLOL
Learn that bass line and you can clear out a Guitar Center every time. Glorious.
That was as silly as Shirley’s Giraffes, but I love it.
And yes, I love the bass line.
Two observations:
Talking with a neighbor who owns a marketing and consulting firm for builders and you can tell he’s stressed about his business closing down but even more stressed about letting his employees go. He’s still paying his employees but if this continues through the summer he’s going to have to make some hard decisions. It fucking bums me out because his Dad started the business but also because he’s a down to Earth guy who expanded his father’s business once he took over and really care about his employees. The fact that the Left and the media basically telling this guy to fuck himself reminds why I even in my own little way have to fight against these tyrannical assholes.
The second observation is hearing Left acquaintances wishing death on folks who are protesting the shutdown not realizing that they are pissed because their economic future are in jeopardy and the ability to feed themselves and their families diminishes each day this goes on. Every time individuals rise up against their bullshit, they refuse to ever thing that perhaps they are wrong and maybe need to rethink their premises but it’s because they are dumb and need to die.
thing = think
There are a number of people on my Nextdoor feed squealing that the protesters just want to kill grandma.
It’s much more noble to doom a young family with kids to poverty and squalor because they can’t work, pay their rent/mortgage, etc., if only to potentially protect “grandma.”
My Nextdoor is actually getting entertaining. Lots of people fighting back.
An idiot on my NextDoor was insisting that people needed to stop using fire pits and charcoal grills because they are a respiratory hazard and COVID is a respiratory disease. She wasn’t popular.
What a nutcase.
I don’t want Grandma dead; I want Karen dead.
Electricity comes from the wall, ie, they have no clue how important all of the “deplorable” jobs are,
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
-Aldo Leopold
Yeah, I saw a Facebooker saying they need to hand out Darwin Awards preemptively at the protests and that quip got a lot of yuk yuks. It’s disgusting in every sense of the word.
HOW DARE YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOUR ECONOMIC FUTURE!??!
GET THE FUCK BACK IN YOUR HOUSE PEASANT!!!!!
They should have to sign a waiver saying they refuse medical assistance if they get the corona!!!!
I assume these people have gone to their bosses and requested to be first in line for any layoffs?
That’s never the case. Most of the people saying this shit have office jobs that allows them the ability to work from home. Fuck the deploribles, maybe they should have went to college and also got office jobs.
I think a better idea is to start putting riders into these bailouts.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN2242U7?taid=5ea08ad3e3c40700015e94ed&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&__twitter_impression=true
You want aid? OK, all these unconstitutional gun laws have to be nullified. Also, you need to lower your income tax rate. And by the by, why don’t you legalize charter schools too?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWOrutyXYAElQjp.jpg
LOL
+1
That inspired a hearty laugh here!
?
That’s just not right. And yes I literally LOL’d
That is an excellent idea.
Pritzger – whose state explicitly requested aid to plug up their broken pension system – chimed in.
That’s fucking chutzpah.
That dude doesn’t give a fuck at all. Former Governor Rauner and the Illinois Republicans should be ashamed of being beaten by that gasbag commie.
And the kicker is despite the impending economic chaos coming to Illinois, Pritzker is still trying to put the progressive tax amendment on the ballot this November.
I hope Trump and the Senate Republicans demand that any state who wishes to have access to funds can not use them to bail out their unfunded pension systems and should be used only for corona related issues and unemployment.
Doesn’t work. They’ll just take the money they would normally spend on corona issues and put that all in the pension system, then use the federal money for the corona issues.
And then squeal that they didn’t get enough and need more.
Related to the post in the last article about public transport in NY, you’ll be relieved to know that the Roaring Fork Transit Authority is taking action. They’re waiving fares for the duration and allowing a maximum of 9 passengers on a bus at any one time.
Ridership is down 90% in NYC. I know there are service cuts but I don’t think it’s anywhere near 90%, so in theory there should be plenty of room for personal space. The media of course is full of doom-and-gloom so it’s impossible to get an accurate picture.
But they cut out Rifle and Carbondale? No need to pick up the low lifes anyways.
It’s actually hilarious: part of the procedure is that the bus won’t stop for new passengers if there are already 9 people on board but RFTA will send a new bus as soon as possible to pick up those stranded.
Mojeaux – finished the Proviso and started 1520 Main today. I’m finding the Dunham family a real comfort right now, given that the majority of people I know for real are total pussies. Thank you.
I finally picked up a book today after probably a year hiatus. I started David Goggins book that Chafed recommended months ago. Holy smokes you want to read about an F’d up childhood.
Thanks, LemonGrenade. That’s a lovely compliment.
Pussies they are not, but I write aspirationally, meaning, I AM a pussy and I wish I weren’t! LOL
Hey, I’m not down at the capitol protesting to open things up, so I won’t judge. Aspirational writing is not just fine, it’s a must. What a dreary world it would be in literature if every character in every book were no better than the actual author.
You’re just not hitting it hard enough
Nobel prizewinning economist Paul Krugman said the federal government’s fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic has been “way insufficient” so far.
“We need to un-bottleneck those unemployment benefits,” Krugman said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. The U.S. should set up a federal program to disburse the assistance to workers who have lost their jobs rather than through the patchwork of state systems, which are struggling to handle the volume.
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Krugman also said there should be more aid for cities and states, which will be crucial to the recovery.
“It looks like we’re falling way short of the challenge here,” he said.
What we need is a massive federal program to bail out the states. We get to fire every single state-level employee as redundant, starting with the governors, right?
RIGHT?
But what does Winston’s Mom say?
“You’re just not hitting it hard enough.”
That’s what she said.
Go fuck yourself Krugnuts.
Cities and states have been raiding the coffers for decades.
What would a quadrillion dollar coin be made from?
Unobtanium.
And now for something completely different. This should bring joy to anyone’s heart.
Giraffes
Share and enjoy.
That was delightfully silly. Thank you for the distraction.
10/10
Glad you enjoyed it! We all need positive silliness in the face of this utter nonsense.
I’ve seen that before, but forgotten it. I needed that little bit of silliness.
We all do.
That is why I drink. Also, ya, liked the vid.
The subtle, nuanced analysis one would expect from a Nobel laureate
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is ripping the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, cautioning that the U.S. could be headed toward a second Great Depression as a result.
“The numbers turning to food banks are just enormous and beyond the capacity of them to supply,” Stiglitz told The Guardian in an interview. “It is like a third-world country. The public social safety net is not working.”
He added: “The inequality in the U.S. is so large. This disease has targeted those with the poorest health. In the advanced world, the US is one of the countries with the poorest health overall and the greatest health inequality.”
Stiglitz, a long-time critic of the president, said that 14 percent of Americans relied on food stamps and that due to the country’s mediocre social infrastructure, the unemployment rate, which has already ballooned during the pandemic, could hit 30 percent.
When asked about the possibilities of the U.S. slipping into a second Great Depression, the economist told the publication that it would happen if the management of the country was left to “Donald Trump and [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell.”
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COVID-19 has killed more than 45,000 people in the U.S. so far, and the economic tailspin that it caused has led to the unemployment of more than 22 million Americans in just more than a month.
It wasn’t murder. It was suicide.
A Nobel Prize-winning economist who doesn’t know where wealth comes from.
Or how and why people get fat.
The disease has motive now. And it hates fat people who smoke.
the economic tailspin that it caused
Bullshit bullshit bullshit. The tailspin was cause by government picking winners and losers as ineptly as they always do. There would have been undoubtedly a recession, but the depression was due to government action.
I hope there isn’t a depression.
Don’t you people work? I don’t, right now. They “furloughed” me until the start of the next fiscal year, June, with no pay and won’t give me my unused PTO because I’m not fired. Filed for unemployment on the 2nd. Had a bad morning stressing out on upcoming rent with the unemployment site still saying my claim was pending and the IRS saying they have no information on my stimulus check. For weeks I’ve been getting the same non-response for weeks.
So I called unemployment this morning. I was hold for 2 1/2 hrs. The nice man who eventually answered said the site was way behind, that I’d been approved, that the federal government was adding $600 every week to what Colorado was paying me, and that I should have the money in my bank account tomorrow.
What a nightmare! I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Please keep us posted.
Small mercies. I hope the apparatchik was correct!
Fingers crossed for you!
Damn bummer DJ. Glad something is going to come in soon.
won’t give me my unused PTO because I’m not fired
Wow. That is insane. And desperate.
Sorry 🙁
Good thing you got through, I heard the whole unemployment thing has a massive backlog almost everywhere.
Very sorry to hear that and hope you get that money deposited asap.
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1253052910394540032
Not creepy at all
I’m not ready to fire up the helicopters just yet but I do hope the maintenance crews are starting to do the prechecks.
Thanks for all the good wishes. And… my boss just called, the school lined up a small business loan, and I’m back to work on the 1st.
Well, at least I got really really really stressed for a couple weeks.
Huzzah!
O Frabjous Day!
Yay!
Sometimes good things come to those who stress. 😉
? This BS is putting way too many people into stress.
It’s very bad. 23 million out of work so far.
Yay!!!
Huh. I’m kinda pissed. With the extra federal money, I would be making more not working.
A lot of that going around. Family members of friends are making more now than when they worked.
Same here in Canada. Politicians love them some perverse incentives.
I’m sorry. I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
Oh I’m not sincere. I’d much rather be working than suckling on the government teat.