CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[horn4life 3,838]

Here's today's  example of how fucking incompetent the Trump Administration is.  TODAY - is the first day the Whitehouse has begun screening every person entering the grounds for their temperature!  The simplest and easiest thing that Nursing homes have been doing for several days, has FINALLY been put in place at the Whitehouse to protect the oldest President ever sworn into office.

Today - we are all Puerto Ricans... Just now like those poor bastards the incompetence on every level, along with the lying bluster of endless self praise is what we get instead of leadership, intelligence and execution in a crisis.

[4th&Five 42,023]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

Probably just a 13 year old kid in his mom’s basement. 

[Nivek 17,422]

8 hours ago, TexLonghorn said:

Holy crap!  Even Dr. Manhattan has caught the coronavirus?!

And now you know why psychics/astrologers exists.  

[Bookman 4,768]

My work instituted a "work from home" policy yesterday, which means I get to watch the stock market crash in real time.

[UDontKnow 10,572]

15 minutes ago, horn4life said:

Here's today's  example of how fucking incompetent the Trump Administration is.  TODAY - is the first day the Whitehouse has begun screening every person entering the grounds for their temperature!  The simplest and easiest thing that Nursing homes have been doing for several days, has FINALLY been put in place at the Whitehouse to protect the oldest President ever sworn into office.

Today - we are all Puerto Ricans... Just now like those poor bastards the incompetence on every level, along with the lying bluster of endless self praise is what we get instead of leadership, intelligence and execution in a crisis.

2 minutes ago, Bookman said:

My work instituted a "work from home" policy yesterday, which means I get to watch the stock market crash in real time.

[bad_teammate 13,566]

We need rent/mortgage and utility freezes.

[Ghost of LL 15,705]

8 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

We need rent/mortgage and utility freezes.

Can't do it--Contracts Clause.

[Jive Turkey 13,018]

cross-post from the Trump thread.  this is Trump's number one concern.  

 

[yoladu 4,191]

12 hours ago, Bigpoppapump said:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ You can drill down by country as well.

So our neighbors Canada and Mexico are fairing better.

Factors: I guess lower populations, less social mobility (ie: global travel), warmer temps (myth?). anything else?

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

1 minute ago, yoladu said:

So our neighbors Canada and Mexico are fairing better.

Factors: I guess lower populations, less social mobility (ie: global travel), warmer temps (myth?). anything else?

Fewer cult members

[Hank Scorpio 17,924]

2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

Holy shit. The virus is in cyberspace now. 

[UDontKnow 10,572]

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Holy shit. The virus is in cyberspace now. 

Lucky for us we have the Space Force designed to thwart attacks in any space!

[Ghost of LL 15,705]

2 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Holy shit. The virus is in cyberspace now. 

I'm assuming it's Russia.  And if it's Russia, then attacking us during a pandemic requires a massive response.  Shut down their entire internet and electric grid.

[Dahobbs 18,379]

3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm assuming it's Russia.  And if it's Russia, then attacking us during a pandemic requires a massive response.  Shut down their entire internet and electric grid.

Sure, however I'm assuming Russia thinks its agent will not do that. 

Edited March 16, 2020 by Dahobbs

[Ghost of LL 15,705]

Just now, Dahobbs said:

Sure, however I'm assuming Russia thinks its agent will not do that. 

Yeah.  But wouldn't that be precisely what he needs to help his reelection chances?  Become a wartime president?

[Gap03 3,395]

5 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm assuming it's Russia.  And if it's Russia, then attacking us during a pandemic requires a massive response.  Shut down their entire internet and electric grid.

That would be the rational response.  Of course, we have a Russian agent with a toddler's temperament in the WH though, so it certainly won't be that - more likely that it's either nothing or a full-out nuclear strike (if he feels like he needs a distraction that he can turn up to 11).

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,950]

13 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Damn right it is. Actual usable information 

 

How could you tell?

[gmr548 16,704]

Yeah.  But wouldn't that be precisely what he needs to help his reelection chances?  Become a wartime president?

This is why the Russians would wait until October if they intended to do that. Don't give him the chance to stumble through the response.

[Dnaguy 12,709]

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

Probably just a 13 year old kid in his mom’s basement. 

It’s that damn fat guy in New Jersey, again.

[shakes fist at sky]

[SimonBolivar 11,067]

6 months from now...."I never said martial law"

[DDD Dad 14,661]

20 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

I'm assuming it's Russia. 

I don't know why it would be.

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

Marshall law?

[FondrenRoad 4,378]

6 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

It’s that damn fat guy in New Jersey, again.

[shakes fist at sky]

Chris Christie?

[FondrenRoad 4,378]

4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Marshall law?

Martian law.

[DDD Dad 14,661]

Just now, Biff Tannen said:

Marshall law?

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

Haha, from the comments:

 

 

Not a targeted harassment guy

 

@BowlcutThanos

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37m

 

Replying to

@marcorubio

THIS MF SAID MARSHALL LAW

[Dnaguy 12,709]

22 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Holy shit. The virus is in cyberspace now. 

 

[SmokeyTheBear 5,569]

We're calling up Marshall Law to help fight this? 

I'm partial to Lei Wulong, but Law will do. 

[Post Oak 20,577]

Abbott not closing bars.  Fuck head

[UDontKnow 10,572]

11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Marshall law?

Marco Rubio is a gamer.

EDIT: SmokeytheBear beat me to the Marshall Law Tekken reference.

Edited March 16, 2020 by UDontKnow

[Huckleberry 34,727]

8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Haha, from the comments:

 

 

Not a targeted harassment guy

 

@BowlcutThanos

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37m

 

Replying to

@marcorubio

THIS MF SAID MARSHALL LAW

I mean it's double dumb if you think about it. First of all, it's martial. But then you realize that the law enforcement officers are spelled marshal with one L.

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

This just made my morning.

 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,636]

I think we SHOULD declare marshall law. Fuck high prices.

 

 

[cactusflinthead 27,628]

25 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

How could you tell?

I'm fluent in coonass 

[yoladu 4,191]

10 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

So not close to zero?

 

2/26 - Donald Trump - "When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."

[softlynow 1,894]

57 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Can't do it--Contracts Clause.

Not saying I would do it, but a concerned government could do it knowing it would be later invalidated. See, Lincoln, suspension of Habeas Corpus.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23,367]

Edited March 16, 2020 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Jive Turkey 13,018]

[Chooky 13,341]

36 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Marshall law?

[Dnaguy 12,709]

[yoladu 4,191]

we have dumbasses running this country.

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

1 minute ago, yoladu said:

we have dumbasses running this country.

You could say that generally during a lot of times, but now it is run by REALLY big dumbasses.  Colossal morons.  Unbelievable dipshits.

[SmokeyTheBear 5,569]

The best dumbasses

[TexLonghorn 5,737]

55 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Marshall law?

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia law?

Edited March 16, 2020 by TexLonghorn

[Ted Lange 16,434]

[Biff Tannen 46,197]

Hays County apparently going against the CDC and telling people to go on about their normal lives, according to Statesman.

[Kyrie Eleison 9,312]

49 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I'm fluent in coonass 

[kevwun 16,446]

Texas Republican officials are being rather passive aggressive in their response to this.  It is a huge gamble on their parts.

Edited March 16, 2020 by kevwun

[conVINCEd 21,477]

1 minute ago, kevwun said:

Texas Republican officials are being rather passive aggressive in their response to this.  It is a huge gamble on their parts.

They can’t piss off the base.

[TexLonghorn 5,737]

52 minutes ago, yoladu said:

So not close to zero?

 

2/26 - Donald Trump - "When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."

I'm thinking he had been told at the time that those 15 people were probably gonna die within those couple of days.  I don't want to make it sound like this will be killing all of us, but there certainly wasn't a cure on 2/26 - what would make him say the number would go down?  Oh, wait... I forgot stupidity and incompetence...  nevermind.

Edited March 16, 2020 by TexLonghorn