CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13644]

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/investigations/defenders/coronavirus-defenders-texas-nursing-homes/269-e6b8a638-6925-439a-9687-2903f386a098

 

"What the state refuses to publish is which nursing homes have those coronavirus cases. 

"What benefit is there to not give the names of the providers," said Brian Lee, the executive director of Families for Better Care. "Who does that benefit? It doesn't benefit the residents. It doesn't benefit the families. It only benefits the people who own and operate the facilities.""

[RomaVicta 30661]

2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

and when the smoke cleared, 71,000 people died from the coronavirus, and it could've been much worse. 

in unrelated news, 394,000 people died from mysterious unreported factors.  talk about an invisible enemy.

The enemy is quite visible, actually. He appears routinely every afternoon.

[Biff Tannen 46219]

5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Protest looks about like you think it looks, although I love Divorced Dads Without Custody:

 

Fuck it.  They have the right and freedom to die.  Let them.  I know that's not how it works though.

[Bama Chick 28596]

If their stupidity wasn’t contagious I’d agree.

Unfortunately in a pandemic, stupidity is contagious and fatal.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13644]

12 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

 

So many Karens, though the Guy Fawkes cracks me up for some reason. I wonder if any of these protesters could be id'ed. You know, in case they show up sick at a hospital that needs to ration resources.

[LABEVO 928]

5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

If their stupidity wasn’t contagious I’d agree.

Unfortunately in a pandemic, stupidity is contagious and fatal.

Maybe we can put them all in camps together....

[Grade of D as in David 13256]

6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Fuck it.  They have the right and freedom to die.  Let them.  I know that's not how it works though.

If we can get enough of them to take a prophylactic that kills them, it just might.

 

Can we step up up those hydroxychloroquine prescriptions?

[HenryJames 67485]

[Aqua Buddha 14813]

That is vintage Fox.  They’re playing it up but if you look in the background, it’s basically 100 people.  I’d bet my life savings they’re all from Northern Michigan and there is some militia overlap.

[Bama Chick 28596]

Those of y’all in big/blue metro areas in Texas are gonna be just as fucked off as those of us stuck in red states.

[RomaVicta 30661]

4 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

 

You know, when I read this the first time, I reached the same conclusion the tweeter did: it's a mistake.

Then I read it again when it was quoted. I thought again. Nothing seems innocent on second thought anymore. 

Poor ability to test seems more calculated and less just a callous bungle. Jared Kushner being assigned to problems that involve lots of money; it's not just incompetence, Jared is a bagman plain and simple.

Now this. Mightn't there be money in sending out checks to those who died in 2019 but still had taxes filed? Couldn't some of those checks be diverted to the wrong party, endorsed, and deposited? Just takes a thousand checks to get you $1.2m. Who'd know if you diverted 10k or 30k?

[jimmyjazz 47360]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

The DT thread is proof that it's only politics if the left does it.

It needs to be repeated, apparently over and over again:  the CR is not "liberal".  The majority of participants are actually conservative by nature, but smart enough to see the malfeasance that is being foisted on this country by what started as the "Tea Party".

I have zero doubt that, were the political state of this country to revert to where it was a while back, many of the CR regulars would also align themselves with that movement.  They're not hippies (well not, all of them).

[RomaVicta 30661]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

But annual trendlines have never seen an increase of over 1.3%.  Let's see what we end up with in 2020.

As if anyone will count and compile the figures officially at the federal level. If Trump loses, though, and these numbers make him the biggest mass murderer since Pol Pot, we might see his support drop down to 35% here in Idiot World.

[Captainant 28613]

4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

It needs to be repeated, apparently over and over again:  the CR is not "liberal".  The majority of participants are actually conservative by nature, but smart enough to see the malfeasance that is being foisted on this country by what started as the "Tea Party".

I have zero doubt that, were the political state of this country to revert to where it was a while back, many of the CR regulars would also align themselves with that movement.  They're not hippies (well not, all of them).

It doesn't matter to CTJ and the rest of the goobers in the DT thread who are talking more about politics and CR than anyone else. If they feel any sort of cognitive dissonance, they just shout CR and whine about straw men.

[TexArcher 39080]

Pence is blowing Trump for doing such a great job saving lives.

And Trump is threatening to shut Congress down.

This fucking clownshow.

 

[David Dennison 19573]

This man is lost.

[henrygandorf 29230]

i'm so tired of those crooked democrats acting so partisan.

[hayden_horn 11403]

8 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Pence is blowing Trump for doing such a great job saving lives.

And Trump is threatening to shut Congress down.

This fucking clownshow.

 

yeah, so i wasn't fully paying attention. i think he said something about using his constitutional authority to adjourn congress. then he said they all need to be in session to pass bills?

i think that for him, the fact that he technically has the right to adjourn congress gets his loins all tingly thinking about how fascist an act that would be.

[Continental Op 3934]

So my routine is that I try to shut work down around 4, work out, go for a walk and then flip on the TV to see what kind of mayhem is going on once Im done with all that.  I usually feel like I'm about to return to a house where somebody left a toddler unattended for a couple hours and have no idea what I'm about to see but it probably would have taken me awhile to get to "Trump threatens to unilaterally adjourn Congress in the middle of a pandemic if they don't approve his nominees" if someone had made me guess. 

[GRHorn 105]

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20956]

The responses to this tweet are fantastic:
 

 

[4th&Five 42027]

2 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

So my routine is that I try to shut work down around 4, work out, go for a walk and then flip on the TV to see what kind of mayhem is going on once Im done with all that.  I usually feel like I'm about to return to a house where somebody left a toddler unattended for a couple hours and have no idea what I'm about to see but it probably would have taken me awhile to get to "Trump threatens to unilaterally adjourn Congress in the middle of a pandemic if they don't approve his nominees" if someone had made me guess. 

I watch it until I’m so ready to throw the TV out the window that I go for an hour walk. 

[David Dennison 19573]

The president of the United States is a gigantic whining pussy.

[4th&Five 42027]

1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

 

Then why was Trump praising them in February?

[Michael Knight 13239]

we have alot of partisanship in this country and its bad but the people on the other side are very bad

[JimmyJames 12271]

Just now, 4th&Five said:

Then why was Trump praising them in February?

That’s an inconvenient fact that GRUHorn will simply ignore and move on to the next troll post later on. 

[Hookah Horns 3089]

2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Those of y’all in big/blue metro areas in Texas are gonna be just as fucked off as those of us stuck in red states.

 

Somebody should remind the AG that he's a criminal. 

[henrygandorf 29230]

2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Then why was Trump praising them in February?

what the fuck is "february"?

[Michael Knight 13239]

"it's cold out goodbye"

 what a bitch

[BrickHorn 18463]

4 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Then why was Trump praising them in February?

“The President was at war with the World Health Organization,” thought GRHorn. “The President has always been at war with the World Health Organization.”  

[Bama Chick 28596]

The ego on this motherfucker.

[YChang 3577]

7 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

That’s an inconvenient fact that GRUHorn will simply ignore and move on to the next troll post later on. 

Fucking annoying habit of some of our present-day conservatives. Focuses on a negative aspect... digs in...  use it as raison d'être to blame, while conveniently ignoring everything else about the subject. 

Edited April 15, 2020 by YChang

[Bama Chick 28596]

That’s what you get for selling fake coronavirus cures.

But thoughts and prayers, ya scam artist.

[GRHorn 105]

11 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Then why was Trump praising them in February?

Because he’s a dumbass that assumed a global institution would be doing their job?

[Biff Tannen 46219]

1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:

That’s what you get for selling fake coronavirus cures.

But thoughts and prayers, ya scam artist.

 

Fucking good

[Biff Tannen 46219]

Just now, GRHorn said:

Because he’s a dumbass that assumed a global institution would be doing their job so he didn’t have to do his?

Fixed 

[Anastasis 23718]

5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

That’s what you get for selling fake coronavirus cures.

But thoughts and prayers, ya scam artist.

 

Easter miracle, imo. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

7 minutes ago, GRHorn said:

Because he’s a dumbass that assumed a global institution would be doing their job?

So are you still voting for the dumbass in the fall?

[UDontKnow 10572]

3 hours ago, Upgrayedd said:

 

Some of 'em are bound to become infected and die. Actions have consequences.

[Bama Chick 28596]

I’m officially out of outrage.

Someone knock me out and wake me on Election Day.

[henrygandorf 29230]

following up, gloria borger on cnn said while there are ~85 appointees waiting confirmation, there are another ~150 spots that remain empty with no appointments, and most of those have been empty for a while.

to me, the underrated highlight of today's very brief briefing (it was so cold), was trump bragging about how great we're doing vs other countries, then when confronted with the actual statistics, claimed that the other countries weren't reporting their numbers accurately so we can't trust the statistics. 

[TXSG8R 3362]

1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

Because he’s a dumbass that assumed a global institution would be doing their job?

The WHO is a UN body that relies on information freely given from world governments, relies on said governments for funding, and has relatively zero leverage on world governments.  They have no ability to make decisions for any world government, it only offers guidance based on the data made available to them.  

The US has a vast intelligence gathering apparatus (human intelligence, satellite imagery, signal intercepts, the list goes on) in China, and has vast leverage on almost all world governments due to its prolific economy and military power.  Even if we couldnt directly squeeze China, we can normally get enough support to collectively squeeze something like China into getting back in line.  

Tell me again why you would put the blame on the WHO, when the president and his staff has access to better information than them on a daily basis?  

[UDontKnow 10572]

3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

You know, when I read this the first time, I reached the same conclusion the tweeter did: it's a mistake.

Then I read it again when it was quoted. I thought again. Nothing seems innocent on second thought anymore. 

Poor ability to test seems more calculated and less just a callous bungle. Jared Kushner being assigned to problems that involve lots of money; it's not just incompetence, Jared is a bagman plain and simple.

Now this. Mightn't there be money in sending out checks to those who died in 2019 but still had taxes filed? Couldn't some of those checks be diverted to the wrong party, endorsed, and deposited? Just takes a thousand checks to get you $1.2m. Who'd know if you diverted 10k or 30k?

When you say Jared is a bag man...I think all he can literally do is hold a bag of money. He's too stupid and incapable to do anything else.

[Message Board User 12409]

 

[4th&Five 42027]

1 minute ago, TXSG8R said:

The WHO is a UN body that relies on information freely given from world governments, relies on said governments for funding, and has relatively zero leverage on world governments.  They have no ability to make decisions for any world government, it only offers guidance based on the data made available to them.  

The US has a vast intelligence gathering apparatus (human intelligence, satellite imagery, signal intercepts, the list goes on) in China, and has vast leverage on almost all world governments due to its prolific economy and military power.  Even if we couldnt directly squeeze China, we can normally get enough support to collectively squeeze something like China into getting back in line.  

Tell me again why you would put the blame on the WHO, when the president and his staff has access to better information than them on a daily basis?  

Trump took China’s word over US intelligence. Reason number 8,763 that’s he’s the worst president in history. 

[henrygandorf 29230]

sidenote, he keeps mentioning these 20 states that are ready to reopen sooner than others (really 29 he keeps saying).  i just looked on worldo, and if 29 is the number, that would basically be every state currently reporting ~5000 or fewer cases (missouri is 30th with 4895).  dude likes round numbers.

[Message Board User 12409]

 

[Bama Chick 28596]

Look at these Michigan fucks.

(I’m glad Ohio and Michigan took the PR hit on this one because this shit is usually SO Alabama.)

They gonna shoot the virus?

[Message Board User 12409]

 

[Message Board User 12409]