CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[Wanker Bob 379]

Is there a way to short the entire country? I'm trying to think of how I can make some money off the destruction of America. Guess I'd need to be born an ultra rich white to do that. 

Watching a little of that propaganda moment with the president just made me think of the republican motto

The country, the country, the country's on fire. 

We don't need no water let the mother fucker burn

Burn, mother fucker... Burn. 

[RPM 26687]

I didn't say fire Fauci. That was just someone's opinion.

But you retweeted it.

Edited April 13, 2020 by RPM

[HenryJames 67488]

[Anastasis 23718]

I want an iso cam on fauci during all this. 

[Bama Chick 28596]

I refuse to watch his daily circus but I love reading y’all’s reactions.

Meanwhile in Virginia......if he infected any of his parishioners during his stunt, his church should be on the hook for all their medical bills and lost income.

[Kel Varnsen 8749]

Who's this lady reporter? I kinda want to bang. She got gusto.

[Neonmoon 38130]

I came for the tantrum, but I'm staying for the tantrum

[Upgrayedd 5917]

Just now, Kel Varnsen said:

Who's this lady reporter? I kinda want to bang. She got gusto.

Who's grilling him?

[RPM 26687]

You're so disgraceful!

Press finally pushing back.

[BrickHorn 18464]

Trump: CNN has its lowest approval rating ever, “times 3.” 
 

So... they have nowhere near their lowest approval rating?

[cactusflinthead 27628]

7 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

I just turned it on, and the CNN chyron literally reads “Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session.”   I want to make CNN the beneficiary in my will.

 

[Queen Bitch 1692]

Good for her. Refusing his bullshit.

They absolutely should not air any more of these.

[Longhorn_Fan68 34108]

8 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

I just turned it on, and the CNN chyron literally reads “Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session.”   I want to make CNN the beneficiary in my will.

since I just watched this episode again last night, someone should do a mashup:

[HenryJames 67488]

2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Trump: CNN has its lowest approval rating ever, “times 3.” 
 

So... they have nowhere near their lowest approval rating?

It was infinity plus one.

[wildcat09 29601]

I can't wait for the New York Times headline that normalizes this.

[4th&Five 42027]

 

[RPM 26687]

Refuses to admit mistakes. 

They could just run that everytime he's speaking.

[Neonmoon 38130]

Ha blaming the states. Love it

[cactusflinthead 27628]

3 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

Who's this lady reporter? I kinda want to bang. She got gusto.

 

2 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

Who's grilling him?

Check out Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS): https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS?s=09

[Michael Knight 13239]

This is so presidential

[CowboyFred 1162]

oh he mad now and is freestyling now lol

[Kel Varnsen 8749]

1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Check out Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS): https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS?s=09

Definitely would

[Beantown Express 2.0 6598]

1 minute ago, longhornmatt said:

If Texas didn’t have a majority of people who would vote for Trumpy human excrement like Dan Patrick, I would be in favor of secession at this point.

You are going to have to wait until we have another black president if you want Texas secession talk to start up again.

[Radical Larry 28827]

I just turned it on, and the CNN chyron literally reads “Angry Trump turns briefing into propaganda session.”   I want to make CNN the beneficiary in my will.

[Neonmoon 38130]

"My administration inherited a stockpile where the cupboards were bare"

[RPM 26687]

No ammunition!

[henrygandorf 29230]

cnn chyron writer is crushing this today.

at least 3-4 highlights.  snl-style.

[GreenspointTexas 9995]

 

[HenryJames 67488]

 

[henrygandorf 29230]

9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

I refuse to watch his daily circus but I love reading y’all’s reactions.

well that's why we do it.

[4th&Five 42027]

 

Edited April 13, 2020 by 4th&Five

[Anastasis 23718]

So now he is pimping remdesivir based on open label compassionate use data. great.

[cactusflinthead 27628]

 

[4th&Five 42027]

[Grade of D as in David 13256]

Just now, cactusflinthead said:

 

X, 1

[Beantown Express 2.0 6598]

2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!

-Hanover Fiste

[4th&Five 42027]

[wildcat09 29601]

3 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

The federal government is seizing all the things the states and local governments buy, and then letting their cronies mark it up and resell.   But Trump blames the states and local governments for not getting enough supplies.

Mob boss gonna mob boss.

I mean, it's even worse than a bust out:

At least those fictional mobsters sold the stolen shit at a discount.

[Biff Tannen 46229]

Is he still going?  What'd I miss?

[4th&Five 42027]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Is he still going?  What'd I miss?

He’s more unhinged than Derka in a bball thread. 

[WhatTheBuck 28943]

8 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Seriously this is true. This is the fulfillment of Ayn Rand’s vision of the “ideal man.” It’s like when she wrote about William Hickman, that he had  "no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"

Donald Trump is no John Galt. 

8 hours ago, Nivek said:

I'll never understand interest in Ayn Rand.  She was an idiot.   Her writing was shit and her ideas were worse. 

 

7 hours ago, jw4381 said:

This right here. It's unbelievable how much her followers have fucked this county up. I tried to get through Atlas Shrugged to see what all the hoopla was about, many years ago. It was terrible and I couldn't finish it. 

Sometimes I think Rand's supporters haven't read much more of her work than her detractors. I've read some of her philosophical writing and that's garbage. What she did and said in real life I have no regard for. But I enjoyed Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. I've read Atlas Shrugged three times. Once in my teens, once in my 20's, and once in my 30's. I started to read it again in my 40's but my copy is one of those small paperbacks with small print and yellowing pages and my eyes weren't as good as they used to be and I know the story thoroughly anyway. 

I think it's a great book. It's important to understand it's a work of fiction and isn't an accurate portrayal of reality. But it's a fun story. It's weird, it's cheesy, it's funny, it incorporates some science fiction. I'm probably one of the few people that others would describe as a liberal who likes that book and knows it well. I'd argue that I know it better than Rand Paul or Paul Ryan do. 

Late in the book, our hero John Galt addresses the nation on the radio and gives a speech laying out his philosophy. In my paperback copy, that monologue is 57 pages long. I think it's coherent and well written and I read it in its entirety in one sitting each of the three times I read the book. I'd be willing to bet that most so-called libertarians who claim to be Ayn Rand fans never did anything more than skim it. (I was really hoping they'd complete that movie trilogy just to see how they'd handle that part, but the first movie sucked and I never bothered to watch the second so it's no surprise that project got shitcanned.)

In the summation of his speech, Galt makes this declaration: "I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." You see, it's that second part that really matters but which is lost on the libertarian crowd. 

For example, when you cut back on environmental regulations and allow industry to pollute my air and my water, you're cutting their costs at the expense of my increased costs of health care. You're shifting their costs to me. You're forcing me to live for the sake of another man. I help bear his costs but don't share in the profit. Is that a libertarian ideal? John Galt would not support that arrangement. We could come up with many more examples. Like if our industrial titans were all men like John Galt and Hank Rearden then there would be no need for labor unions because they would value and respect the contributions of labor and compensate them fairly, not exploit them as much as possible for the sake of their own personal enrichment. 

It's interesting to note that the recent GOP administration's much more closely resemble the dysfunctional government in Atlas Shrugged than the Democratic administrations have. 

[lemonlime 5503]

Best one yet. Watching this on mute.

[Grade of D as in David 13256]

Mnuchin looking rough

[4th&Five 42027]

 

[4th&Five 42027]

 

[henrygandorf 29230]

i was watching cnn, then they cut away straight to wolf talking to daniel dale (their resident fact-checker) but i wanted more, so i turned it to msnbc, which lasted about 30-40 more seconds, then they cut away to whatever anchor is on (i don't watch msnbc) but he was like, "well, good to see that's how the president has been spending his time and energy, while the country deals with the horrible pandemic."  whatever it was, it was well timed and well delivered.

i refuse to turn to fox news, but i assume they kept the whole thing running.

[Grade of D as in David 13256]

1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

 

i refuse to turn to fox news, but i assume they kept the whole thing running.

They did.

Looks like CNN is back

[cactusflinthead 27628]

 

[henrygandorf 29230]

tracy jordan : "panic"

 

[washparkhorn 9974]

Commerce Clause is going to be the death of millions.