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  On 3/20/2020 at 10:48 PM, Bookman said:

He's such a whiny little fucking crybaby.

Reporters should ask "Mr. President, what is your message to Americans who think you're an incompetent, corrupt, failed businessman?"

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This would be awesome and correct and therefore will never occur. The simulation won’t allow it. 

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Johnny Hack posting a supposed signature block from an alleged email from his financial advisor to own the libs - not quite Rocko posting a picture of his paystub level pathetic, but damn close.  


Cashing in your 401k to buy a used Corvette to own the libs!

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“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html

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https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/

 

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LARRY BRILLIANT SAYS he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox,  spoke to a TED audience and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. “A billion people would get sick," he said. “As many as 165 million people would die. There would be a global recession and depression, and the cost to our economy of $1 to $3 trillion would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their jobs and their health care benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.”

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Now the unthinkable is here, and Brilliant, the Chairman of the board of Ending Pandemics, is sharing expertise with those on the front lines. We are a long way from 100 million deaths due to the novel coronavirus, but it has turned our world upside down. Brilliant is trying not to say “I told you so” too often. But he did tell us so, not only in talks and writings, but as the senior technical advisor for the pandemic horror film Contagion, now a top streaming selection for the homebound. Besides working with the World Health Organization in the effort to end smallpox, Brilliant, who is now 75, has fought flu, polio, and blindness; once led Google’s nonprofit wing, Google.org; co-founded the conferencing system the Well; and has traveled with the Grateful Dead.

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We talked by phone on Tuesday. At the time, President Donald Trump’s response to the crisis had started to change from “no worries at all” to finally taking more significant steps to stem the pandemic. Brilliant lives in one of the six Bay Area counties where residents were ordered to shelter in place. When we began the conversation, he’d just gotten off the phone with someone he described as high government official, who asked Brilliant “How the fuck did we get here?” I wanted to hear how we’ll get out of here. The conversation has been edited and condensed.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 12:38 AM, cactusflinthead said:

 

“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html

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Ah, well there's your problem right there in the title. It was American intelligence. That's the Deep State. They've treated Trump very badly. Trump needs to hear it from a trusted source like Putin. Or perhaps the Saudis.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 12:56 AM, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Ah, well there's your problem right there in the title. It was American intelligence. That's the Deep State. They've treated Trump very badly. Trump needs to hear it from a trusted source like Putin. Or perhaps the Saudis.

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When he talked to Azar he wanted to know when flavored vapes were coming back. 

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 12:21 AM, Biff Tannen said:

This would be awesome and correct and therefore will never occur. The simulation won’t allow it. 

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Let's talk more about the simulation meme. Cause I think it deserves a closer examination. When I was a very little boy I use to think to myself, "What if we were all actually just small little humans living on someone else's head? And their hair was trees?"

Think about it. 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 1:09 AM, Anastasis said:

Let's talk more about the simulation meme. Cause I think it deserves a closer examination. When I was a very little boy I use to think to myself, "What if we were all actually just small little humans living on someone else's head? And their hair was trees?"

Think about it. 

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The Men in Black marble theory comes into play somehow too. 

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Trump is a moron, and he will be out in November.  

Let's talk about the real sleezeballs here, all the Congresspeople who were briefed on what the hell was going on and them dumped stock.  That is insider trading, and is illegal.  They should be doing time like Martha Stewart did.

I would like to see some balls on the Ethics committees of our branches of govt, and I would like to see some strict fucking rules.  If you are an member of Congress, you cannot hold ANY stock in any company except through a 401K type instrument tied to the general health of the overall market (i.e. a general fund) with long term growth as its goal.  We have those in most 401Ks, a general growth fund tied to the anticipated year you turn 65.  Already over 65?  Then you get money market or bond funds.  Don't like those rules, don't be in Congress.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 12:38 AM, cactusflinthead said:

 

“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html

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"Kadlec didn’t provide specific recommendations, but he said that to get ahead of the virus and blunt its effects, Americans would need to take actions that could disrupt their daily lives, the official said. “It was very alarming.”

Trump’s insistence on the contrary seemed to rest in his relationship with China’s President Xi Jingping, whom Trump believed was providing him with reliable information about how the virus was spreading in China, despite reports from intelligence agencies that Chinese officials were not being candid about the true scale of the crisis."

Unreal 

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 1:09 AM, Anastasis said:

Let's talk more about the simulation meme. Cause I think it deserves a closer examination. When I was a very little boy I use to think to myself, "What if we were all actually just small little humans living on someone else's head? And their hair was trees?"

Think about it. 

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You do realize you are currently living in my simulation right? I admit I might have fucked up somewhat. Sorry about that.

On another note, did none of these stupid ass motherfuckers in the Trump government ever read The Stand? Did that book come out after they stopped reading books? 

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This just shows you what I always thought

if you are Republicans candidate, you can Be 

-stupid

-ignorant,

-criminal

-just overall a bad human
=Electable 

 

for democrat

-fail to pay a speeding ticket And you have no chance

 

the mental gymnastics the stupid ppl will do to elect a R candidate is amazing 

 

 

 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 1:13 AM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Trump is a moron, and he will be out in November.  

Let's talk about the real sleezeballs here, all the Congresspeople who were briefed on what the hell was going on and them dumped stock.  That is insider trading, and is illegal.  They should be doing time like Martha Stewart did.

I would like to see some balls on the Ethics committees of our branches of govt, and I would like to see some strict fucking rules.  If you are an member of Congress, you cannot hold ANY stock in any company except through a 401K type instrument tied to the general health of the overall market (i.e. a general fund) with long term growth as its goal.  We have those in most 401Ks, a general growth fund tied to the anticipated year you turn 65.  Already over 65?  Then you get money market or bond funds.  Don't like those rules, don't be in Congress.

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He won’t, the base will say; its thanks to him ONLY Xxxxxx number of people died, Hilary would have caused us to lose 100x more

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  On 3/20/2020 at 9:01 PM, cactusflinthead said:
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Thanks for posting. Almost all of the attention is understandably focused on what the next 3 months looks like, but acquired immunity is massively important topic for what the next five years look like. It’s a bit of hope for an aspect I’ve been stressed about.
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So all sides agree, Trump haters and lovers alike, that it is assured that the Chinese government initially downplayed this thing from November-January.  Even if our CDC had been let in and our advance teams left in place and budgeted properly, that their government still would have kept the rest of the world somewhat in the dark for some period of time.  Right?  

Now, here's where we diverge:

1.  This WaPo story is  true.  Our own intelligence community got wind of this and assembled intel in January that suggested this thing was much bigger and more serious than China was letting on.  So some people sell some stocks because this thing is bad, Trump tweets nice shit so as not to cause a panic, and he wisely shuts down travel with China in early February.  

2.  This WaPo story is not true.  We did not know, either our intelligence community nor our political leaders/CDC folks, how serious this was.  China continued to obfuscate the truth so how could we know?  No intel report was developed until it was too late.  So why then institute the travel ban 6 weeks ago?  If we didn't know, why do that?  If this story is untrue, there would have been no reason to take those steps.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 2:12 AM, Lobo said:

So all sides agree, Trump haters and lovers alike, that it is assured that the Chinese government initially downplayed this thing from November-January.  Even if our CDC had been let in and our advance teams left in place and budgeted properly, that their government still would have kept the rest of the world somewhat in the dark for some period of time.  Right?  

Now, here's where we diverge:

1.  This WaPo story is  true.  Our own intelligence community got wind of this and assembled intel in January that suggested this thing was much bigger and more serious than China was letting on.  So some people sell some stocks because this thing is bad, Trump tweets nice shit so as not to cause a panic, and he wisely shuts down travel with China in early February.  

2.  This WaPo story is not true.  We did not know, either our intelligence community nor our political leaders/CDC folks, how serious this was.  China continued to obfuscate the truth so how could we know?  No intel report was developed until it was too late.  So why then institute the travel ban 6 weeks ago?  If we didn't know, why do that?  If this story is untrue, there would have been no reason to take those steps.

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Since the intelligence briefings were and are classified, we have no way of knowing exactly what they said.

We do know that Senators of both parties briefed on the matter in January and February, mainly republican but whatever as it don’t matter, sold off numerous stock, and that Republican Senators who received those classified intelligence briefings repeatedly got on the media to downplay the seriousness of the situation and at least for Burr told people in a more private matter that it was like the Spanish flu that killed millions. All the while they were shorting America and killing Americans. Sorry about your grandma. 

It don’t take a genius to figure out what happened and what they knew. 

As for what should happen next? 

Arrest. Trial. conviction. Death penalty. Incarceration. Appeal. Resolution. 

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No, I get it.  It's just that nobody on his side is gonna be convinced by a WaPo article.  But a question is then prompted though... why is he pointing all these fingers at China all of a sudden if that intel briefing way back then?  

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I am still going to pray tonight for my family and my planet but it's gonna come with a generous, heaping side of, "We're in a simulation, aren't we God?"  

This is how fucked up today was for my country...I read that and my first thought wasn't Gov. Mike shoving corn cobs up his ass or the inevitable plumbing issue, was, or why you  wouldn't want to eat more corn with less toilet paper, all those corn niblets are gonna make a mess around your butthole.  Nope, my worry was, "What do you say when people ask why you have a bunch of shit-stained corn cubs in your bathroom wastebasket?"  

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  On 3/21/2020 at 2:22 AM, Lobo said:

No, I get it.  It's just that nobody on his side is gonna be convinced by a WaPo article.  But a question is then prompted though... why is he pointing all these fingers at China all of a sudden if that intel briefing way back then?  

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Come on.

When reality set in that this administration was in waaaaaaaay over its head and obvious to everyone (including themselves), the only card left to play was blame it on someone.  Enter China.

It's a wet dream for Team MAGA.  Point fingers to the Chinese, float holding the Chinese accountable, "billing" them for damages done, paint the Dems as siding with them spreading propaganda, etc.  

Trump needs a boogyman.  He can't have one this time, so he blames an entire country. It's sort of working, at least among the mouth breathers.

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I'm old enough to remember Jade Helm.  

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/breaking-trump-eyes-2-week-quarantine-only-drug-grocery-stores-open

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President Trump, moving with haste to slow the spread of the coronavirus, is preparing a plan to mobilize the National Guard to help enforce a two-week quarantine of the public if his tough-love efforts so far fail.

The unprecedented action would require everyone to “stay at home,” according to a source knowledgeable of the evolving plan.

The effort, which is still being mulled and wouldn’t be announced until early next week if needed, would urge that all businesses, except grocery stores and pharmacies, be closed.

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It comes on the heels of other insider reports that the president is considering grounding all U.S. passenger flights to force a halt in people interacting and moving around the country.

Senior officials have said that dozens of radical ideas are being considered and that the president and his virus task force are moving quickly to protect the nation.

Trump has praised the public for following the rules he has put in place, but the new plans are an acknowledgment that many people are not taking the warnings seriously.

In some areas, the National Guard has already been called out to enforce “stay in place” orders, a model of what Trump is considering.

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I don't hate Bernie. I think he really believes in what he preaches. However, now isn't the time. The world is burning and we need a fireman. Stop campaigning a lost cause and let's get Biden in the WH before everyone is dead.

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  On 3/21/2020 at 1:13 AM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Trump is a moron, and he will be out in November.  

Let's talk about the real sleezeballs here, all the Congresspeople who were briefed on what the hell was going on and them dumped stock.  That is insider trading, and is illegal.  They should be doing time like Martha Stewart did.

I would like to see some balls on the Ethics committees of our branches of govt, and I would like to see some strict fucking rules.  If you are an member of Congress, you cannot hold ANY stock in any company except through a 401K type instrument tied to the general health of the overall market (i.e. a general fund) with long term growth as its goal.  We have those in most 401Ks, a general growth fund tied to the anticipated year you turn 65.  Already over 65?  Then you get money market or bond funds.  Don't like those rules, don't be in Congress.

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They directly violated the STOCK Act.  The ethics committees are in on it. The DOJ is a shitshow run by the biggest traitor of them all.  Only way this is going to stop is with tribunals following a revolution.

But we don't have the balls for it. 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 3:03 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
Could there be anything more on personal brand than [mention=115]Johnny Sack[/mention] walking away from Trump’s 4 years, with a wake of financial destruction and societal ruin that will take years for us to recover from, totally content knowing he turned a profit?

He’s actually the poster child for the modern American ethos: there is only me, there is no we.
Perfect, flawless selfishness bordering on sociopathy is our brand.
That brand will kill us - it’s doing just that right now.
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  On 3/21/2020 at 1:16 AM, Doc Sam Beckett said:

"Kadlec didn’t provide specific recommendations, but he said that to get ahead of the virus and blunt its effects, Americans would need to take actions that could disrupt their daily lives, the official said. “It was very alarming.”

Trump’s insistence on the contrary seemed to rest in his relationship with China’s President Xi Jingping, whom Trump believed was providing him with reliable information about how the virus was spreading in China, despite reports from intelligence agencies that Chinese officials were not being candid about the true scale of the crisis."

Unreal 

 

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Trump's ability to make the dumbest fucking read possible when trying to weigh options is astounding. 

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  On 3/21/2020 at 3:03 AM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Could there be anything more on personal brand than @Johnny Sack walking away from Trump’s 4 years, with a wake of financial destruction and societal ruin that will take years for us to recover from, totally content knowing he turned a profit?

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I don’t know whether the sack has personally profited from our latest  republican induced depression, but I can tell you that he’s very upset about the suspension of rat fucking exhibitions, as we all are. 
 

Maybe someday people will all  be able to pay 10k to watch rats fuck again. Maybe not. The future is unknown. 

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