“Incompetent! They called me incompetent!” Donald fumed. “The entire country is only alive because of me!”
“Will no one rid me of this troublesome press corps?” the hat asked the sky of pitiless blue.
The hair coughed and raised himself on Donald’s head, tendrils digging into his scalp as he twirled around and then settled himself back into place. The spring breeze in the Rose Garden ruffled him slightly and he sighed contentedly.
“They said you never do press conferences and they were all bitching about that,” the hat said.
“And then I do press conferences every day and they bitch about that too!’ Donald said.
“There’s no winning with these assholes, Donald,” the hat said.
“How can I be incompetent when I’m the only one that hasn’t done anything wrong?” Donald asked. “Every move has been perfect, just perfect.” He shook his head and the hair giggled softly.
“Fauci,” the hat said darkly. “He’s poisoning the press against us.”
“Fauci,” Donald repeated, spitting the name out like like a curse.
“To the camps with him!” the hat said.
“What camps?” Donald asked.
“Build the camps!” the hat screamed. “And then send him to them!”
“Not so loud,” the hair said sleepily.
Donald looked down at the hat, riding his raised right fist. “Fuck him,” the hat said. “I’LL YELL AS LOUD AS I WANT!”
“Why is this called The Rose Garden?” Donald asked. “No one ever told me.”
“It has roses it in, Donald,” the hair said tiredly.
“This isn’t a rose,” Donald said, pointing an accusing finger at a tulip just minding its own business.
“Yeah!” the hat agreed.
“There’s more than just roses…” the hair began.
“Not a rose! Not a rose!” the hat chanted.
“Look!” Donald said, poking the stamen of the tulip. “I’m Gropey Joe!” He forcefully jammed his fingers into the tender interior of the tulip over and over until all the petals fell onto the mulch of the flower bed, bruised and broken.
“Ha!” the hat said.
Donald bent over the naked stamen of the tulip. “No one will want to marry you now,” he said. “Not even a bee will come by for a nickel pollen job.”
“Can we go back inside now?” the hair asked.
“We’ll go in when Donald wants to go in,” the hat said acidly.
“Still more to do?” the hair asked. “Indulge in a little casual daffodil racism, perhaps? Watersports with the peonies?”
“You ruin all my fun,” the hat and Donald said in petulant harmony
As the three of them walked back inside, a Secret Service agent jammed an NDA form on the bare tulip stem and ordered the flower to sign it.
What next grab a Pussy Willow?
Grab em by the pistils.
Sweet Jesus, you have excellent timing.
I was starting to get cranky again and now the ridiculousness of everything just makes me laugh.
This week’s winner:
Donald bent over the naked stamen of the tulip. “No one will want to marry you now,” he said. “Not even a bee will come by for a nickel pollen job.”
Seconded ?
Not OT, some funny stuff at Powerline, and SF, you always make me laugh,
Bravo!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/mid-week-in-pictures-what-day-is-it-edition.php
Re: Coffee-less coffee that is actually a margarita
Don’t judge me for my breakfast Guinness.
“There’s no winning with these assholes, Donald,” the hat said.
Not true. If he resigns immediately (and has Pence disappeared so Nancy rides out the remainder of the term) in 20 he’ll be remembered fondly as a bold thinker and great statesman.
“Trump is the guy who didn’t buy fire insurance. China is the arsonist. You can obviously have a discussion about the irresponsibility of not buying fire insurance, but you can’t blame that dude for the fire.”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1250447601394241538
That’s a good take, but I think the problem now is trying to smother the fire with money.
+ 1 / oil embargo
-1 / Volcker
I’m not understanding the fire insurance part, sorry. Health care preparedness is the responsibility of the individual states. It is Governor Cuomo that didn’t buy fire insurance. Cuomo is trying to buy fire insurance from FedGov after the fire started – and despite such carelessness, FedGov sold him fire insurance anyway.
The FDA, CDC, HHS, etc. can only assess whether or not a state is prepared. If the governor of a state says “Holy Shit, we’re going to suddenly need 40k ventilators and we we don’t have them”, the federal government is not responsible for providing them and can respond “Your lack of preparation is your problem, not anyone else’s.” Of course, the states know the federal government will come through 999 out of 1000 times, which is why they aren’t prepared.
BREAKING: China is Asshole
https://twitter.com/sarahemclaugh/status/1250450798141747202
“China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days”
https://apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9
Now look on google news for that story. It’s buried.
First article on the world tab.
Look fat, I just checked and it was second. when will your lies stop?
I’m not crazy with cabin fever! *jumps in frying pan
(it wasn’t there earlier)
“a Secret Service agent jammed an NDA form on the bare tulip stem and ordered the flower to sign it”
It’s SugarFree’s world, we’re all just renting space.
Yup.
“Not even a bee will come by for a nickel pollen job.”
A whole new avenue of rapey perversion.
Also, “press corps.” Think of them as a corpse, not the center of an apple.
If they didn’t want the ‘p’ pronounced, why did they put it in there then?
Fucking autocorrect.
They are dead to me.
“You ruin all my fun,” the hat and Donald said in petulant harmony
Trump just wants to have fu-un.
Oh, Trump just wants to have fun.
Had to run to Walgreens and just got back. One employee in the store, not a single other customer and the employee is practically wearing a hazmat suit. The pure absurdity of the situation was jarring. Unless the employee had preexisting conditions, she was probably in her late 30s and not obese; the chances of getting severe disease are miniscule. I’ve been in that particular store 100 times and what changed? Talking heads got on a screen and scared everyone to death with doomsday predictions and splashed a bunch of epidemiology models that we now know are bogus. Granted, the gown, gloves and mask on the employee were probably corporate policy, but it got me thinking:
Are we a nation of indoor cats or sheep? Indoor cats because we’re so spoiled and comfortable and expect to have our needs provided by an omnipotent force, or sheep because we don’t want to think for ourselves and prefer to be herded around?
I guess we’re both.
Indoor Miniature Sheep.
Haven’t you heard of our product line?
Some even come with acrylic wool.
One of our most popular models: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzvIhrcFeBWoWK-YbcapG-x0HV1FGIfSDzut-rAsSRq0W09lVB&s
Sean!
After the Walmart lawsuits last week, I don’t blame Walgreens for providing hardcore PPE.
Sheep, sheep dog, wolf.
About the only PPE that’s effective for protection from the virus is a mask. It’s not absorbed through the skin so gloves aren’t really necessary. Better if the employee uses hand sanitizer (or washes their hand, but that’s not practical) between customers and wipes down surfaces regularly.
For protection of customers from the employee, wearing a face covering provides more benefit. Frankly, clerks, food service workers, bus drivers, UPS drivers, and any employee with large numbers of public interactions should be wearing face coverings (surgical mask style) all along and particular in cold and flu season.
late 30s, not obese… did you get her number?
“This isn’t a rose,” Donald said, pointing an accusing finger at a tulip just minding its own business.
Hate to break it to you, Donald, but
A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Argggh! No one promised you a rose garden
Well, I never!
Hey there, O superannuated one! Attempting to jump on the “who can post the worst music” bandwagon. In the immortal words of the late mayor Crotch, “How’m I doin’ ?”
Attempting to jump on the “who can post the worst music” bandwagon.
::perks up:: Roses, you say? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmM_eKGa28
Hmmmm. A thorny situation for sure.
But mine is really bad.
Rosegarden funeral of sores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH63m4D5tZw
I like this song, but it is weird.
Screaming whores!
Madeline Kahn did it best.
I love that whole album.
When I was a kid I tried to master the mandolin lines on guitar, but the cheap little Sears ScheissBox I had and the disobedient fingers I was born with never added up to competence. Might take another run at it now with all the spare time.
Actually thought it was pretty cheesy myself, not a big country fan. But the musicianship on this stuff is top notch, no doubt. Wish I had some spare time… maybe not, it’s good to be busy, I hope everyone here and everywhere gets busy real soon.
It’s far from my normal cup of tea, but the session was stocked. And the tunes were by Joe South, Kristofferson, and Conway Twitty; a chick covering those was pretty interesting.
Not the Marines
A play on words as a Parris Island punishment used to involve crawling through the “Rose Garden” of thorns.
What about these guys?
…there it is. Thank you.
Dragging this over from the corpse of the AM thread, just because:
An Indiana congressman said Tuesday that letting more Americans die from the novel coronavirus is the “lesser of two evils” compared with the economy cratering due to social distancing measures.
Speaking with radio station WIBC in Indiana, Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth asserted that, while he appreciated the science behind the virus’ spread, “it is always the American government’s position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter.”
“The social scientists are telling us about the economic disaster that is going on. Our (Gross Domestic Product) is supposed to be down 20% alone this quarter,” Hollingsworth said. “It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils. It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction. That is our responsibility and to abdicate that is to insult the Americans that voted us into office.”
Hollingsworth told CNN, in a statement provided by his office later Tuesday, that “It’s hyperbolic to say that the only choices before us are the two corner solutions: no economy or widespread casualties.”
“President Roosevelt, do not allow a single American life to be wasted in this futile struggle against an inexorable and undefeatable enemy. Let us not take up arms against the Japanese, but rather accept their rule over us with gracious obedience. Unconditional surrender is the only reasonable option.”
CNN, 12/8/1941
Link at end of prev. thread
Related … and sad if true.
And I’m sorry to say I think it is.
Enough to make you understand why a quarantine (40 days, approx. six weeks) became the defacto standard after centuries of human existence.
Except, a lockdown is not a quarantine.
Sick (or, at most, exposed) people are quarantined.
Healthy people are placed under house arrest.
Yet another perversion of the language to advance the cause of universal oppression. For your own good.
Can anyone get to the link to the paper? I would prefer the direct source over reporting about it.
There’s a link in the article. But it’s in Hebrew.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rkM9YI-ZviHAHUblcMv3w7vQSmDw7EXC/view?fbclid=IwAR2inl-
BqU8x_ountheRmB_UPWnEI3LRKNevVSa7bdsrU9HH3xtysAkDAOY
That was the link I couldn’t get to open. But, yeah, I can’t read hebrew anyway, so nevermind.
“Nickel pollen job” – nice
Floral porn unlike any we’ve seen from Georgia O’Keefe
Well, there’s this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86QgZVgbyQ
Bravah!
Breakdown I found from CDC, I had to calculate percentages myself:
85 2756 28.5%
What are the column headers? And what is it in reference to?
bad formatting, but columns are age, us deaths, percent of total deaths.
okay.
Trying again:
under 1 0 0.0%
1-4 2 0.0%
5-14 1 0.0%
15-24 9 0.1%
25-34 90 0.9%
35-44 217 2.2%
45-54 558 5.8%
55-64 1271 13.1%
65-74 2152 22.2%
75-84 2625 27.1%
85 and up 2756 28.5%
Older and those with conditions should self-quarantine, everyone else needs to burn thru the virus and create immunity so the old are less likely to catch it.
Looks to me like SS is a killer. Those 65 and older hardest hit. That’s proof for me. My guess is that even those younger that died were on some kind of welfare handout.
The cheques have been the traveler all this time and we’ve been looking in all the wrong places, mistaking it for love.
If we can just get Trump to say he doesn’t want this to happen
There is a draft of a back-to-work strategy for the nation, created by a team led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to The Washington Post.
The plan offers guidance for local and state governments on how to reopen the country safely and in phases, the newspaper reported.
Unnamed sources familiar with the process.
If you can’t trust those guys, whom can you trust?
There is a draft of a back-to-work strategy for the nation, created by a team led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Does it include “back-to-work” camps that FEMA will take you to?
Those camps will help you concentrate on what you’re supposed to be doing.
So the exact opposite of Glibertarians.com….
Reading your post I got to ‘according to The Washington Post’ I guessed it would contain ‘according to anonymous sources familiar with….’.
Per the CNN article – ‘…according to an official who spoke to the newspaper on the condition to remain anonymous.’
Per the WaPo article – ‘…according to two administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity…’
If either one of those outfits said that the sky is blue I would go outside to check.
“If either one of those outfits said that the sky is blue I would go outside to check.”
I wouldn’t even go outside to check. I’d just start wondering when the sky stopped being blue and why.
Where’s Tulip when we most need her?
Chafing, it sounds like.
Hiding. Gah!
Pissed off peeps in Michigan.
Good. Let’s see more of this.
Sugar-coated marshmellows unite!
Blocking traffic to protest anything is never a winning solution.
No one is really working there, right? I think that might mitigate pissing off commuters.
Right. What they should do instead is put the witch in stocks out on the capital lawn and leave here there until they can take some rotten fruit form the plants they grew from seeds that they bought without her permission, and giver her a good pelting with them.
Some them rednecks got some them racist flags with the snake.
Is this where one says daffodils are inferior to Irises, or that Emerald Light shouldn’t crossbreed with Wendover?
And what is it causing anyway?
How dare you ask questions! Release the Snapdragons!
Gentlemen: ready your tin foil!
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=44143
Oh, that’s hardly InfoWars stuff. It could have easily come from a lab or bat virus research.
I have no trouble believing that this was a fuckup by one of their labs.
I still have trouble with the whole intention part.
I’d like some follow-up on the briefly reported story that the lab techs were selling research animals to the wet market. Because that is some Cronenberg-level nasty if true.
Rick Sanchez is their lab director.
“Boy, Morty, I really coronavirused the world up, didn’t I?”
I vaguely recall that there was a scandal in another Chinese lab around selling research animals for food. Haven’t heard it confirmed at Wuhan. But I would be more surprised if it wasn’t happening than if it was.
I, for one, can’t get past the amazing coincidence that this broke out literally within sight of the Wuhan virology lab.
Wuhan Institute of Virology security system
I think Epoch Times published the Ancient Aliens newsletter.
I don’t know about that, but they are an arm of Falun Gong.
Falun Gong? Aren’t those Evil reactionary revolutionaries? So i have heard from my edition of “CCP Today”….
Boo fucking hoo
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday that he has “given up” on receiving federal assistance to help combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, saying instead that his state is “doing what we need to do despite” President Donald Trump.
“We have gotten very little help from the federal government. It’s fine. I’ve given up on any promises that have been made,” Pritzker, a Democrat, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.” “I hope something will get delivered from the federal government, but I don’t expect it anymore.”
His comments follow the President’s statement earlier Tuesday at a White House news conference that governors “are supposed to do testing” for Covid-19, despite many state leaders saying they need federal assistance to do so. The lack of testing has been a point of contention between governors and the federal government, as the number of coronavirus cases increases.
You can’t expect the State of Illinois to support themselves, or prioritize their pending. That’s crazy.
It’s almost like the States were intended (and were at the beginning…) to be separate political entities that are mostly self-sufficient, having delegated only a few, select authorities to a common government among them, mostly having to deal with foreign policy.
That sounds like Neo-Confederate talk!
It depends on what Donald Trump is up to. If he wants them to be separate political entities, then they aren’t. If he doesn’t want them to be, then they are. Hey, I’m not making them behave in that way, they’re doing it all on their own.
He takes it so seriously that the very first thing he did was go on CNN and throw a temper tantrum.
It’s a lie, anyway. They’re getting half a billion for schools, and up to 5 billion more for other stuff. And they were already given millions for COVID testing.
Federal assistance = federal bailout.
I’m sure the State Of Illinois is still in billions of dollars of arrears with Abbott Labs since Pat Quinn’s administration.
Given how far in the hole they are that is likely what this is about. They will divert most of it to bailing out their public pensions. Slimy bastards.
Maybe he could throw some of his own billions at it.
“I hope something will get delivered from the federal government, but I don’t expect it anymore.”
Some accidental maturity from the obese trust fund baby.
Related … and sad if true.
Mass hysteria. No shit.
President Trump urged a strong coronavirus response after consulting with Dr. Fauci and his team, who relied on a British model predicting 2.2 million deaths in the United States and 500,000 deaths in the U.K. But that model was developed by Professor Neil Ferguson, who had a history of wildly overestimating death rates through his prediction models. Professor Ferguson was not known for his reliability, and his 2001 disease model was criticized as “not fit for purpose” after it predicted that up to 150,000 people could die in the U.K. from mad cow disease (177 deaths to date). Ferguson’s U.K. coronavirus deaths prediction is now down to 20,000 people, 4% of the original prediction.
President Trump always seems to rely on people who make bad decisions…. Perhaps that should be reflective of his leadership.
I agree. However, Trump doesn’t have access to smart advisers in large part because of the profound anti-intellectualism of the educated class. Their embrace of the CAGW is the evidence of that anti-intellectual rot. And that was going on for decades.
Sugarfree,
This is an intervention. We need you to put down the Pink Floyd.
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I
Keep that up, Swiss will send an army of hammers out to get you…
Per the CNN article – ‘…according to an official who spoke to the newspaper on the condition to remain anonymous.’
Per the WaPo article – ‘…according to two administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity…’
If either one of those outfits said that the sky is blue I would go outside to check.
Yeah, and if the CDC tells me not to drink paint thinner, I’m going to need a second opinion.
Yeah, and if the CDC tells me not to drink paint thinner, I’m going to need a second opinion.
“Fuck, yeah!”
/’Sconnies
And people from PA soon.
Ohio cuts off liquor sales to PA residents.
Dick move.
There seems to be a lot of that going around these days. I am not even going to hope that the moron voters remember any of this come Election Day.
Remember when interstate commerce was a fed thing?
Not for Liquor!
Yeah, I dont think that is legal.
The bigger dick move is Wolf closing down the liquor stores. What the hell is that?
They are unionized state employees and Wolf is also a dick.
Beer & wine still available at grocery stores & distributors. Which is not helpful for us keto folks.
Wine is fine. That’s my version of the diet.
I’ll drink some red wine occasionally, but I don’t want to get wine drunk often.
This is one of the few things that the states may actually have authority on. The federal government gave lots of leeway to the states to set up their own rules for alcohol. From what I’ve read, WV and NJ has also banned PA customers from coming into their states to buy liquor.
I blame PA’s governor for shutting down the liquor stores primarily. It really is like a pissing contest between PA, MI, and OH to see which tiny tyrant can do the most damage to their state right now, isn’t it?
Those states look familiar. Wasn’t there something in the news in late 2016 that tied them all together?
NJ has? I’ll have to buy something this afternoon just to see if I’m carded.
Just bought a bottle wine – no carding to see where I’m from. Maybe 20 miles from PA border.
Relearning the lessons of 1919 in 2020
I never realized the extend of changes caused by the Spanish Flu. Good article.
Relearning the lessons of 1919 in 2020
I never realized the extend of changes caused by the Spanish Flu. Good article.
Relearning the lesson of the threading flu.
I dont think so. My understanding is that the Feds put the interstate commerce clause in the Const. because states were pulling this kind of shit.
21st Amendment gives the states broad powers over liquor.
I always wondered why govt has such a hard-on for alcohol.
Someone here put me on to it and I looked it up. In a nutshell: People were using liquor as currency…essentially minting their own money. If there is anything the govt won’t tolerate it is private citizens engaging in commerce outside the control of govt. Thus the clampdown and thus the whiskey rebellion. In my opinion the whiskey rebellion flared up, was not put down but put on a low boil up until the end of prohibition. It ended in a compromise.
That, and people get into a frothing rage over other people enjoying themselves in an “immoral” way.
21st Amendment gives the states broad powers over liquor.
Yes, but not that far.
It was the height of the “progressive” movement, and the “temperance” movement was an offshoot of that, I think.
Don’t drink paint thinner.
Don’t drink any more paint thinner.
Or any less?
Are you paint? Are you fat?
Drink up, dammit.
Suddenly I know what its like to get yelled at by Biden.
Ether is ok though, right?
Huh. Things I learned today.
Should I drink it thicker?
I’m sure if they did it was only because Trump cut their budget.
Federal assistance = federal bailout.
As somebody suggested the other day, The Federal Reserve will be buying up the State of Illinois’ (and Chicago’s) bonds in the very near future. At face value, more likely than not.
If that’s not a bailout, nothing is.
And it won’t make a bit of difference. Fat, Drunk, and Stupid (Pritzker, Madigan, Lightfoot, et al) will piss that money away in a matter of seconds and will never stop crying poor. Worse than welfare mothers.
Okay – As long as they send Marshals and troops to collect, break legs, and seize state property in the event of missed payments.
So, halfway through week 5 of lockdown. All of the vacations I had planned have all been cancelled on me. But I got my Trumpbucks, so I’ve got that going for me.
Thinking it through… I’ve got the feeling that separate vacations are going to be much more popular, once they become possible again.
No trumpbucks for kinnath. But I did get a 10% pay cut.
It’s a good thing I was rich to start with.
No trumpbucks for me, but they did fix my unemployment claim.
All raises, bonuses, and 401k matching have been suspended indefinitely. But I’ve still got a job.
We are still getting matching on 401Ks, but getting paid less. Raises were deferred a month ago.
Same here.
I still get 401k matching, but the limit is a princely 25% on the first 6% of your income you put into it.
Better than nothing, I suppose.
Mr. Mojeaux still employed but the workflow process his job depends on has slowed because THOSE people can’t be sent home to work.
People are still wanting to publish their stuff–for now. It’ll change when the money stops for good.
Got Trumpbux and tax return. Promptly withdrew it from the bank. Who knows when the bank is going to be able to get around to us. We DO have a place who’ll rent to us though not ideal for WFH.
We’re set for the moment and in a better position than most. For the moment.
Sitting in the car waiting my turn at the DMV for DL renewal (bday next Tues–take note). Had to go to one 45 mins away and it’s by appt only. This is the last day they’re open till May 1, which I did not know until I got here. Appt was 20 mins ago. *sigh*
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKwnUa3txo
???
Got the Drumpfdrachmas and paid off some bills/credit cards. That wiped out about half of it. Gonna go on a meat buying spree this evening and stock up the chest freezer – whoever made the comment about meat prices jumping up and supply nosediving in the morning lynx put that idea in my brain.
During WWII there were nearly no wild animals around. No squirrels, rabbits, hogs, deer….
Looking for a freezer right now.
No Trump Check, but they did take an extra 2K in taxes. It’s okay, I’m only down to 18 hours/wk of work.
No trump check here, but somehow 2 years ago I stumbled into a successful startup (adtech/third party verification) unaffected (so far) by this – if anything we’re actually making out. Makes up for my rather poor decision to take a consulting gig with Lehman on August 27 2008 (cost me a year of work). Really hoping things work out for everyone, but the damage already done to both the economy and freedom is enormous.
March 2008 I turned down a job at AIG. Dodged that bullet.
Nice. Prior to my next fulltime gig I landed a 3 month contract as a dev DBA with BNP Paribas hedge fund development group. They were hit hard (eventually disbanded, I think) by the Madoff scandal. After seeing the Madoff “returns” first-hand, I vowed never to put my trust in MegaBank investment analysts. Madoff was scum, but there is no way someone with even a cursory knowledge of finance did not see that his numbers were bullshit. They were all making out and chose to ignore the obvious.
Well, I already prefer going somewhere to get away from everybody else.
A 64-year-old Frenchman accidentally ejected himself from a fighter jet because he was stressed out by the ride
Something something only dropped once
I’ll bet that calmed him right down.
Premature ejectulation
Fun fact: there are no roses in the rose garden. I don’t know if that’s an until they replant it all thing or a permanent thing.
It’s interesting that the Democratic party is charting a course of defending the ChiComs and their stooges at the WHO because “…but, DRUMPF!”
I really don’t think that’s going to work out for them the way they envisioned.
I have a relative who is much like the Democrat party. it is amazing. They take the wrong position on everything. They arent even a blind squirrel.
They know they have a very powerful ally in the press. It remains to be seen if they’re powerful enough to convince the American people that the ChiComs are the good guys and ORANGEMANBAD is to blame for Kung Flu.
It’s possible…..but I honestly think they’re going to push a fair number of people who don’t like Trump, but who still recognize the PRC for the poisonous entity it is, into at least sitting out the election if not actually voting for Trump. I mean, Chris Murphy goes on TV and babbles that “The reason that we’re in the crisis that we are today is not because of anything that China did”
Seriously? Fucking SERIOUSLY? You can hate Trump all you want, think he bungled this thing every day and twice on Sunday, and yet observe how China is responsible for this shit happening in the first place and lying their asses off about it back when all the right people were writing columns in the Atlantic and Daily Beast and Vox that WuFlu was no big deal.
If they actually nominate Grpoey Senile Joe, Trump wins a Reagonese landslide.
I think everyone is wrong about how close this is. Biden is not guaranteed to win or loose.
Very true. Well, I would say the Dem nominee, not Biden, because I don’t think he will be the nominee, but my predictions have all been caveated with “Barring unforeseen events”, and I think that just happened.
This is very much up in the air. Trump can easily botch the pullback, and I would argue that he is already started on botching it by not declaring victory (the purpose of “flattening the curve” has been achieved) and putting a lot of pressure to call off the whole thing. Also, by not getting some doctor or other to really lay out the relatively low risk that most people run, and how pretty unintrusive measures (masks, hand washing, good sanitation) can reduce that risk even more.
IMO the only way Biden doesn’t become the nominee is that he dies. The people running his campaign aren’t going to give up the prize without a hefty payoff, and i don’t see it happening. They are controlling the golden ticket. The DNC is just along for a ride.
The people running his campaign
Can easily be bought off. They just want to be on the DNC nominee’s campaign; they don’t care who it is. Easily done when they swap in a new nominee.
Biden was the sacrificial nominee, when it looked like there was little chance to beat Trump. The cards are all up in the air now, and I think the DNC is looking for someone who actually has a chance to win in a blowed-up election. God knows they are test-driving Cuomo, but running the governor who had a bigly disproportionate number of Commie Cough patients and deaths is going to be tough.
‘Member when all the clown-car candidates were on stage, pre-apocalypse, declaring that China is our biggest geopolitical foe? I ‘member.
Of course, it was all a ruse.
Opinions from Glibertariat:
The USA breaks off relations with PRC and formally recognizes Taiwan.
What happens?
Nuke if from space. It’s the only way to be sure.
Kissinger croaks.
Win win
A disaster of biblical proportions.
Dogs and cats, living together….MASS HYSTERIA!
Surprisingly little, thus demonstrating once again that most of our public intellectual elite class (this time in the sphere of foreign policy) still have their heads shoved firmly up their posteriors.
China stops buying treasury bonds and the us govt is unable to borrow enough to stay afloat.
Gee whiz, if the CCP’s goal was to weaken America and improve their own standing, it sure looks like it’s working eh?
https://americanmind.org/essays/a-time-for-statesmanship/
I’m getting fitted for a PAPR suit tomorrow (Ebola suit) I volunteered to work a specialized COVID unit. It’s a few extra hours and I have no elderly or children in my home, plus I never seem to get sick so hopefully I’ll be immune to this too.
::salutes::
*doffs respirator*
Oh shit! I’m not supposed to take that off!
Stay safe.
The good thing is they are known positive, so we know to take precautions. The mission is to perform tracheostomies for the intubated patients, because we are running out of sedatives. It’s also easier to suction a patient with a trach than with an endotracheal tube.
I… don’t know which of those procedures is which.
Trach is slicing a hole in the throat to breathe through it.
Endoscopy is a tube down the throat to force air in the lungs.
icky stuff with the throat.
https://youtu.be/nzTfPO1SKIs
You preform tracheotomy on the back of a jeep with the hollow part of a pen.
THANK YOU!!!!
I knew there was a reason I love you.
+1 boxing-priest
Cordless drill? And do you autoclave the bits between patients, or are they one use only?
Fresh trachs are my least favorite patients. I guess if I was in a PAPR it might be a little more bearable
Good luck.
Good luck.
Too bad you can’t show up in a rigged deLorean to go with it. Wood really complete the look .
I hear they are bringing the deLorean back, so maybe.
Careful there, podner.
*Benny Hill salute*
Call has come here in NJ for RNs at $90/hour!
My wife says she would have signed up if she was 10 years younger and recognized the risks as part of the job. She worked with AIDs patients before transmission was well understood.
That’s some serious scratch. Hopefully some young nurses are building a nice little nest egg.
Absolutely!
We’re hearing of offers to nurses for $9,000/week, expenses (travel, housing, etc.) paid.
My good friend is a nurse. He headed off to NY this week.
He is young and healthy. He should make out like a bandit.
Craigslist had an ad for a medical group here in Queens looking for trauma nurses – $103 per hour, 60 -80 hour weeks.
Unanticipated
The economic reports showed the double whammy of state shutdowns in mid-March on two pillars of the economy — the consumer and business. The reports were even more dire than expected, and foreshadow even worse declines in April’s activity, with state shutdowns affecting areas responsible for more than 90% of the economy.
March retail sales fell 8.7%, a record drop, with the only sign of activity at grocery and beverage stores, which saw sales grow by 25.6%. Economists expected an 8% decline in monthly sales. The consumer accounts for 70% of the economy.
“The economy is clearly in ruins here,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank. “Nobody is buying cars, down 25.6%, nobody is buying furniture, down 26.8%, and eating and drinking places were down 26.5%.”
Nobody knew this would happen, right?
RIGHT?
SHUT THE FUCK UP TARD-TARD
Wasn’t it the Bee that pointed out that most businesses fail within their first year of not being allowed to serve customers?
Don’t look at me. I’m still spending money.
I’m trying. I’m actually splurging on stuff that I’d normally think I’m wasting money and think twice. But fuck, someone has to do something!
on two pillars of the economy — the consumer and business
Uh, what other pillars of the economy are there?
The State Comrade! Back to the re-education camp with you.
Porn.
Y = C + I + G + X – M
Trump Announces He Has Hidden 5 Golden Tickets Among Stimulus Checks
Well done. You owe me a new keyboard.
LOL
Oom pa oom pa oompa dee dox
I’ve got trump bux in my mail box
Oom pa oom pa oompa dee doo
I’m just kidding it was taken from you
Needs work. I’m not as talented as you guys.
I wonder what the next Supreme Court Justice vacancy will look like. The Kavanaugh “hearing” was a gross miscarriage of justice. Should have been thrown out but to this day it’s put forward as proven news. Meanwhile not a peep about Biden.
If the next vacancy occurs under Trump, the fight will be dirtier than anything we’ve ever seen. It will make the Kavanaugh battle look like a school playground fight.
If Trump gets a new pick you can bet your house that the Dems will pack the court when they get back in.
This is what we are up agaisnt…far-right Republicans….
https://apnews.com/61d9bbe247e03a90b8071d3529d35e31
When you know no matter what you say you’ll be called a Nazi, you might as well just say whatever you want.
It’s pure liberation.
So far right to say that the government is enacting totalitarian controls.
Many callers mistakenly thought a statewide ban might be imposed.
Gee, I wonder why they might think that…
Only far-right/nazi’s believe in Constitutionally limited government.
Time for reverse Manifest Destiny.
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/04/14/newsom-six-creepy-conditions/
Just get rid of it.
“I hope all of us are sobered by the reality of the moment but left with a little optimism that this is not a permanent state.”
But just a little optimism. Just enough to keep the people from rising up.
Hiding. Gah!
To be clear, I was looking at pics of the Rose Garden and just saw tulips and they are in season. Not drawing you into this vortex of madness and stamen-fondling.
THANK YOU!
From Ownbestnemy’s link:
The developments across the U.S. worry Eric Ward, executive director of the Portland, Oregon-based Western States Center progressive civil rights group.
He accused the politicians of “performative drama and exaggeration that puts their constituents at more risk.″
“I know you are, but what am I?”
Another proud graduate of the Peewee Herman School of Rhetoric and Argumentation.
Great googlymoogly!
Someone has not been slacking in their bandwagon jumping. I’ve just been assigned FIVE training classes on the ‘vid. They are helpfully called
Coronavirus 101 – What You Need to Know (Newest Version)
Coronavirus 102 – Preparing your Household
Coronavirus 103 – Managing Stress and Anxiety
Coronavirus 104 – Transitioning to a Remote Workforce
Coronavirus 105 – Cleaning and Disinfecting your Workplace
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but these were assigned along with:
Active Shooter and Other Acts of Targeted Violence
1. Shoot back.
I think according to my job description, I’m supposed to McGuyver up something from the chemicals already in the lab. Piranha is quick and easy, and at least moderatley effective . SC2 (sub 29% ammonia for the sulfuric) might be more quickly incapacitating because of the inhalation effects.
Active Shooter and Other Acts of Targeted Violence
Stick with the classic “run, hide, fight” to ambush the shooter. They actually changed our training curriculum after my session to specify “run away” after I pointed out that they were training people to ambush the shooter. I may or may not have suggested that they supplement the training with “find, fix, finish”.
Shoot, shovel, shut up?
No need to shovel. We have a morgue.
In a separate conversation with our security chief, as we were marvelling over the improvised weapons easily to hand in the administration area (use your imagination, people), I may or may not have said “I have to live with myself if anything like that happens here. And running away and hiding while people are getting gunned down doesn’t sound it would really work for me.”
Let’s just say, he may or may not have looked very thoughtful after that.
Paper cutter with removable blade and Paslode cordless nailer?
Paper cutter, check. I may or may not have replaced the nut holding the blade on with a wing nut.
Also, fire extinguishers, scissors, various awards and trophies out by the reception area (which combine some heft with some sharp corners), a really nasty aerosol cleaning solution, the knives in my office and briefcase, etc.
As one of my senseis told me once “A sword is a tool. You are the weapon.”
*RC Wick grabs pencil
https://www.wfmz.com/health/coronavirus/pa-health-secretary-signs-order-directing-businesses-to-require-employees-to-wear-masks/article_4de8746a-7e80-11ea-ac4a-43ff85c572e3.html
OFFS.
We’re at the tail end of this and these fuck-sticks are turning the screws harder.
Further from the order:
None of this has to do with reopening shuttered businesses. Just the ones “allowed” to operate per King Douche Bag.
Meant to be a new thread.
*sigh*
If they didn’t tighten the screws, people would realize how much bullshit this is. Instead, they are busy coping with the latest tranche of restrictions.
And none it is a bad idea, but just like wearing clean underwear, it’s not government’s role to mandate it.
^^ Yup.
Not to mention, masks are out of stock everywhere anyway. Except the China made ones all over Amazon, with long lead times.
So, it’s OK to take the masks off in the break room, likely to be the most densely populated part of the worksite. Top Men.
The City made us do 101 and 102. Terrible. Then the City also made their own class for us. Also terrible.
Fuck fuck fuck. According to the IRS website, they can’t determine our eligibility for Trump bucks at this time. Not that it’s needed at the moment, but still annoying as fuck.
Haven’t gotten mine yet, but set up for direct deposit.
I get the same thing when I check. Not sure what that means. I was thinking that the income limit for married couples is $150,000?
Best line:
Donald bent over the naked stamen of the tulip. “No one will want to marry you now,” he said. “Not even a bee will come by for a nickel pollen job.”
Although this one:
“How can I be incompetent when I’m the only one that hasn’t done anything wrong?” Donald asked. “Every move has been perfect, just perfect.”
Well, let me just say that I would appreciate it if you would ask permission before using transcripts of my conversations in my office.