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1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

We haven't heard anything about Ivanka since she self quarantined 3 or 4 days ago. Did she get tested? If so what were the results? 

She just wanted to take a powder and get away from the rest of those idiots.  

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I'd just like to point out that neither myself nor any of my fellow nurses, fellow advanced nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers ever swore an oath that we would lay down our lives for

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Welp, it finally happened. I snapped in public today. I went into work for a bit this morning because I’m trying to figure out the safest way to host physicians we are recruiting given our CV-19 sit

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I don't really know what to say anymore tbh. What happened last night is hard to put into words for anyone who hasn't worked in a hospital healthcare setting. Just unreal. Everyone is getting fucked.

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5 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

It’s the Trump Crash.  That shit needs to be all over Twitter.  Every WH correspondent who asks Trump or his lackeys about the economy needs to use those exact words: “What is the administration doing to address the Trump Crash in the market?”  “Will the Fed be taking any action to stop the Trump Crash?”  “Why haven’t you been able to reassure investors to slow down the Trump Crash, Mr President?”

 

I thought it was the Trump Slump.  Because Slump rhymes with Trump.  Trump Slump.  

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The mechanics are essential. Shit breaks and it's gotta get fixed. 
The majority of America isn't really walkable. A good portion of this country is too unhealthy to lug groceries for a mile or two. Auto repair is essential to some extent. Real opportunities for mobile mechanic services.
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3 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

I thought it was the Trump Slump.  Because Slump rhymes with Trump.  Trump Slump.  

It doesn’t have to be clever or cute.  You’re not dealing with the hip intelligentsia here.  Straight to the point, and unambiguous: “Trump Crash.”  Just like Trump would do (“Chinese Virus,” “Little Marco,” “Crazy Bernie”).

His followers often say they like him because “he talks just like us!”  What they mean is his language is simple, direct, and lacks any nuance.    What he says is what he means.  And he says it in little 2-word ear worms that he repeats over and over and over again.  They are almost always bullshit, unfair, simplistic, etc, etc.  But morons eat them up and Trump’s little sound bites end up driving the beliefs and behavior of his cult.  

Think of Trumpisms as a virus that infects the brains of 35% of Americans.  How do you fight a virus?  With a vaccine, which is itself a benign version of the virus you’re trying to protect against.  “Trump Crash” is one such vaccine.  

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6 minutes ago, gmr548 said:
52 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
The mechanics are essential. Shit breaks and it's gotta get fixed. 

The majority of America isn't really walkable. A good portion of this country is too unhealthy to lug groceries for a mile or two. Auto repair is essential to some extent. Real opportunities for mobile mechanic services.

My concern are the plumbers, linemen, emergency personnel, and all the rest of the essential parts of society that we don't see until we gotta have them. It's a stone cold fact that old beater trucks break down and that's what we, the sweaty and grimy, most likely have to drive. 

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13 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Remember you guys, 46% approve of the job that Il Douche has done with this crisis. If that survey is accurate.

That's higher than his overall approval rate, right? 

Fucking insane

He's gaining ground on reelection 

People haven't started dropping dead on the doorsteps of hospitals yet.  Thus, there are still morons in that 46% who think this is a hoax or overblown.  God forbid it takes that kind of crisis to get through to these shitheads.

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15 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Remember you guys, 46% approve of the job that Il Douche has done with this crisis. If that survey is accurate.

That's higher than his overall approval rate, right? 

Fucking insane

He's gaining ground on reelection 

You're not accounting for the several hundred thousand voters he's going to 'lose'.  Many right in his wheelhouse. 

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

It's all Kushner's fault now:

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/trump-awakens-to-the-covid-19-danger

 

 

 

 

 

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Sources told me Trump is regretting that Kushner swooped into the coronavirus response last week. Kushner, according to sources, encouraged Trump to treat the emergency as a P.R. problem when Fauci and others were calling for aggressive action. “This was Jared saying the world needs me to solve another problem,” a former White House official said. One source briefed on the internal conversations told me that Kushner advised Trump not to call a national emergency during his Oval Office address on March 11 because “it would tank the markets.” The markets cratered anyway, and Trump announced the national emergency on Friday. “They had to clean that up on Friday,” another former West Wing official said. Trump was also said to be angry that Kushner oversold Google’s coronavirus testing website when in fact the tech giant had a fledgling effort. Trump got slammed in the press for promoting the phantom Google product. “Jared told Trump that Google was doing an entire website that would be up in 72 hours and had 1,100 people working on it 24/7. That’s just a lie,” the source briefed on the internal conversations told me.

Reached for comment, a White House official said: “This is just another false story focused on rumors about palace intrigue instead of the actual aggressive measures President Trump has implemented to keep the American people safe and healthy.”

One reason the president’s attitude may be changing is that coronavirus showed up at his doorstep, literally: Mar-a-Lago is now a hot spot. Last weekend, Trump interacted with a Brazilian government official who tested positive for COVID-19. The appearance of coronavirus inside the president’s bubble jolted the president’s inner circle that up until that point treated the virus more like a Democratic plot. With coronavirus lurking on the property, about a hundred guests sipped cocktails by the pool at a 50th birthday party for Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle. RNC chairwoman Ronna McDanielannounced after attending the party that she was self-quarantining after experiencing flu-like symptoms. Another turning point was an intervention by Guilfoyle’s former colleague Tucker Carlson. A source who attended the party told me Carlson went to Mar-a-Lago to confront Trump directly about his failure to take the virus seriously.

Now that Trump is engaged and the crisis is accelerating—the Dow dropped nearly 3,000 points on Monday—Republicans fear he is operating without a playbook at a time when one is desperately needed. On Sunday night, with no unified message coming from the government, rumors swirled online that Trump would imminently announce a national lockdown (the White House tweeted that the rumor was false). But several former White House officials told me they believed the rumor to be true. “This is not what he likes to do,” a former West Wing official said. “There’s no boogeyman he can attack.” On Monday, Trump reportedly told governors they’re on their own. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment—try getting it yourselves,” Trump said on a conference call, according to the New York Times.

Every hour seems to bring about a future that would have been unimaginable only days ago. Ohio might be postponing Tuesday’s primary. Would Trump try to delay the election? In another news conference on Monday afternoon, he announced federal guidelines banning gatherings of 10 or more people, auguring the rumored national lockdown. Republicans fear a lockdown could compound the crisis if Trump is cooped up in the White House with nothing to watch but the news. “What’s he going to do, watch reruns of the Masters from 2017? He’s just going to watch TV and tweet and it’s going to get worse,” the former official said.

 

So Tucker Carlson might have saved the country?  What fucking time line is this 

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

People haven't started dropping dead on the doorsteps of hospitals yet.  Thus, there are still morons in that 46% who think this is a hoax or overblown.  God forbid it takes that kind of crisis to get through to these shitheads.

Oh no, they've moved on -- this is a manufactured pandemic by China and Democrats because they're furious about tariffs.

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

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Asked if domestic travel restrictions are still under consideration, he said, "We’re not really. We hope we don’t have to. We think that hopefully, we won’t have to do that. But it’s certainly something we talk about every day. We haven’t made that decision."

Does anyone have a clue what in hell trump's saying here?  And that's a rhetorical question, because he's saying absolutely nothing. 

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My concern are the plumbers, linemen, emergency personnel, and all the rest of the essential parts of society that we don't see until we gotta have them. It's a stone cold fact that old beater trucks break down and that's what we, the sweaty and grimy, most likely have to drive. 

No doubt. The essentials are simple enough: water, food, shelter, medicine, power. There are a lot of people that are essential to the essentials.
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4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Car dealerships make most of their money from their service departments, at least good ones do.  That's a big part of why they don't want to lose their mechanics.

And a big reason why they are against electric cars. But that’s for another thread. 

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29 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

Asked if domestic travel restrictions are still under consideration, he said, "We’re not really. We hope we don’t have to. We think that hopefully, we won’t have to do that. But it’s certainly something we talk about every day. We haven’t made that decision."

Does anyone have a clue what in hell trump's saying here?  And that's a rhetorical question, because he's saying absolutely nothing. 

"situation's fluid"

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50 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Remember you guys, 46% approve of the job that Il Douche has done with this crisis. If that survey is accurate.

That's higher than his overall approval rate, right? 

Fucking insane

He's gaining ground on reelection 

No he isn’t.

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1 hour ago, HornPhD said:

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Well in a few weeks when we get enough tests I have been told that all the major pharmacy groups will  have drive through testing.  If you are on the brink death.  

 

 

And some people actually thought Ted Crus was in quarantine and not hiding...

 

 

 

 

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It's all Kushner's fault now:
 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/trump-awakens-to-the-covid-19-danger
 
Last Thursday, as the stock market was on the way to losing nearly 2,400 points—its biggest single-day plunge since the 1987 Black Monday crash—Donald Trump was worrying about the fate of the football season. NFL players aren’t scheduled to report to training camp for months, but according to a source, Trump feared that the league might preemptively announce it was following the NBA and NHL and suspend or delay operations due to the coronavirus. So Trump called NFL owners to see if any action was on the horizon. “Trump begged them not to cancel the season,” a source briefed on the call said.
 
Trump’s concern for the NFL’s well-being was a stark reversal given that he spent the first two years of his presidency attacking the league and its kneeling players. It reflected Trump’s magical thinking that he could manage the coronavirus pandemic by convincing people life would remain normal and sports would be played. (Last week, Trump also spoke with Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White and advised him not to cancel UFC events.) “Trump thinks this is a media problem,” a Republican close to the White House told me. Treating COVID-19 as a public-relations crisis put Trump at odds with the medical community, including the White House’s chief coronavirus adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci. During an interview on Meet the Press this weekend, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases urged the United States to move toward a national lockdown similar to the actions taken by Italy and Spain. “I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting,” Fauci said.
 
With the markets in free fall despite emergency action by the Fed over the weekend, Trump is waking up to the reality that’s been clear to everyone: Coronavirus poses a once-in-a-hundred-years threat to the country. “In the last 48 hours he has understood the magnitude of what’s going on,” a former West Wing official told me. As Trump processes the stakes facing the country—and his presidency—he’s also lashing out at advisers, whom he blames for the White House’s inept and flat-footed response. Sources say a principal target of his anger is Jared Kushner. “I have never heard so many people inside the White House openly discussed how pissed Trump is at Jared,” the former West Wing official said.
 
 
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Sources told me Trump is regretting that Kushner swooped into the coronavirus response last week. Kushner, according to sources, encouraged Trump to treat the emergency as a P.R. problem when Fauci and others were calling for aggressive action. “This was Jared saying the world needs me to solve another problem,” a former White House official said. One source briefed on the internal conversations told me that Kushner advised Trump not to call a national emergency during his Oval Office address on March 11 because “it would tank the markets.” The markets cratered anyway, and Trump announced the national emergency on Friday. “They had to clean that up on Friday,” another former West Wing official said. Trump was also said to be angry that Kushner oversold Google’s coronavirus testing website when in fact the tech giant had a fledgling effort. Trump got slammed in the press for promoting the phantom Google product. “Jared told Trump that Google was doing an entire website that would be up in 72 hours and had 1,100 people working on it 24/7. That’s just a lie,” the source briefed on the internal conversations told me.
Reached for comment, a White House official said: “This is just another false story focused on rumors about palace intrigue instead of the actual aggressive measures President Trump has implemented to keep the American people safe and healthy.”
One reason the president’s attitude may be changing is that coronavirus showed up at his doorstep, literally: Mar-a-Lago is now a hot spot. Last weekend, Trump interacted with a Brazilian government official who tested positive for COVID-19. The appearance of coronavirus inside the president’s bubble jolted the president’s inner circle that up until that point treated the virus more like a Democratic plot. With coronavirus lurking on the property, about a hundred guests sipped cocktails by the pool at a 50th birthday party for Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle. RNC chairwoman Ronna McDanielannounced after attending the party that she was self-quarantining after experiencing flu-like symptoms. Another turning point was an intervention by Guilfoyle’s former colleague Tucker Carlson. A source who attended the party told me Carlson went to Mar-a-Lago to confront Trump directly about his failure to take the virus seriously.
Now that Trump is engaged and the crisis is accelerating—the Dow dropped nearly 3,000 points on Monday—Republicans fear he is operating without a playbook at a time when one is desperately needed. On Sunday night, with no unified message coming from the government, rumors swirled online that Trump would imminently announce a national lockdown (the White House tweeted that the rumor was false). But several former White House officials told me they believed the rumor to be true. “This is not what he likes to do,” a former West Wing official said. “There’s no boogeyman he can attack.” On Monday, Trump reportedly told governors they’re on their own. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment—try getting it yourselves,” Trump said on a conference call, according to the New York Times.
Every hour seems to bring about a future that would have been unimaginable only days ago. Ohio might be postponing Tuesday’s primary. Would Trump try to delay the election? In another news conference on Monday afternoon, he announced federal guidelines banning gatherings of 10 or more people, auguring the rumored national lockdown. Republicans fear a lockdown could compound the crisis if Trump is cooped up in the White House with nothing to watch but the news. “What’s he going to do, watch reruns of the Masters from 2017? He’s just going to watch TV and tweet and it’s going to get worse,” the former official said.

 


If he dies, he dies

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44 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

Why not both? It's simultaneously a condition that originated in China (which they lied and covered up) and the President's callous and idiotic son-in-law cares more for the economy over human life and well-being. It can definitely be both.

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Silvio Brusaferro, the president of Italy’s Higher Institute of Health, said on Friday that the average age of coronavirus victims was 80.3, with the majority having suffered underlying illnesses. The most common additional health issue was arterial hypertension followed by chronic heart disease, atrial fibrillation and cancer.

 

More than 70% of those who have died were men. The two 39-year-old victims were a man with diabetes and a woman with cancer. The vast majority of deaths have been in the northern Lombardy region (1,420 as of Monday night), followed by Emilia-Romagna (346) and Veneto (69).

 

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You don't get this kind of leadership just anywhere:

https://www.kxxv.com/your-hometown/texas/gov-abbott-waives-laws-to-allow-trucks-from-alcohol-industry-to-deliver-grocery-supplies

Governor Greg Abbott has waived state laws that prohibit trucks from the alcohol industry from delivering supplies to grocery stores.
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"This is yet another example of the private sector stepping up...."
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Heard on KXAN this morning that Adler will be holding a press conference at 11AM to announce closing of Austin bars & restaurants. Round Rock is following suit. 

The lines at fast food restaurants in a week are going to make the HEB lines look tame by comparison. Not a problem for us as my wife & I cook all the time, but we have friends who eat out 5 nights a week & order in the other two. It's stunning how many people don't know how to prepare their own meals.

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