CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[Pig Bellmont 8867]

23 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

The economy was never really closed.  People went home out of fear of spreading the virus.  That fear isn’t going away with thousands dying a day. 

No but see the Attorney General is threatening legal action, you know, based on (gesturing wildly) like laws and stuff

[FondrenRoad 4378]

1 hour ago, Hookah Horns said:

I can't wait until we're safely past the dark age of Trump and I can revisit and enjoy the trove of absurdist hilarity he's provided. 

Its never going away. We have a lot of dumbasses. Russia knows how to reach them. Birtherism and Jade Helm predate Trump. Sleepy Joe bullshit will postdate him. Russia will never let us have a functional country because we don't have the balls to stop them. 

[DigDug 1735]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

HOLY SHIT.

This is a follow up to the Karen getting arrested at the playground. 

This is the mob outside of the arresting officer's house.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/g69sul/protesters_gather_outside_of_officers_home/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

 

Rant.

FUCK YOU ultra right wing motherfuckers. If this were a Latino or black mob confronting this officer's house, the Republican idiots would be calling for a full out SWAT assault on the people. Right wing nutjobs with AR15s would descend on the town looking to lynch people. But since it's crazy fucking suburban Trump idiots, then these people are patriots fighting tyranny. FUCK YOU!

[FondrenRoad 4378]

18 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

The craziest thing about COVID is that it inverted the CR and DT boards. Suddenly, CR is the home of data-driven analysis and DT is full of morons spouting off uninformed bullshit.

Half of that thread is convinced we have herd immunity and they support that view by claiming up to 10% of the US has been infected.  I don’t even know where to begin with such a Russian nesting doll of stupid.

It wasn't covid that inverted the boards. It was Trump. On shaggy, there were right wing trolls, but there were also a significant amount of reasonable right wing voices. After Trump, the reasonable voices either seemingly moved leftward like Brisket, Twice, and LL or quit posting like Wulaw and Auburn fan.  That left only the trolls who quickly ran to the DT safe space.

Hammer and onboard have been spewing nonsense in DT for a few years now.  Every mass shooting thread for the last few years looked just like the DT covid thread.

DT is practically a snake oil board now. 

[gmr548 16681]

Mack Brown: “We could beat OU 500-0 and it wouldn’t be enough for the media.”
Reporter: “You lost 63-14.”

Triggered

[FondrenRoad 4378]

52 minutes ago, F250 said:

I think a lot of these politicians don't understand how the free market works. Trump and company saying they are going to open up the economy is basically this...

Yep. Military escort is gonna show up at your door. Escort you at gunpoint to work at the office instead of at home, make you have dinner out, and then make you have drinks at the bar after.  Forced capitalism. 

Whats really going to happen though is that they want to pull the unemployment rug out from under restaurant and retail workers. So they will have to work. They haven't yet figured out that the restaurants and stores are going to be empty for the next couple months, open or not.  So businesses go bankrupt, and right back to unemployment, but now with no covid stimulus backstop. 

Its really the overarching problem with GOP economic theory. They are unable to ever think of anything except supply.  Tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy and it will trickle down to the people. Force businesses to open during a pandemic and the people will come.  Really, they can't even grasp the idea of demand.  Its a foreign concept.  Which is crazy considering the fact that our economy is built entirely on consumption.  

[AbeFroman 3090]

1 hour ago, SaucyJack said:

I'm in!  Anybody got any money?

[pyrohornIII 4844]

 

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

That's incredible. You are real people. 

I saw what you did there.  X2.

2 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

Dammit is there no way to find out who made the tiktok? She sounds hot and want to confirm. 

Anyone else believe you can tell if a chick is hot based on her voice with a high degree of accuracy? 

I haven't known any hot chicks to willingly do math, though. 

https://vm.tiktok.com/7mRYuW/    won't imbed

[Bama Chick 28596]

White people, man.

That cough at the end though.

[gmr548 16681]

White people, man.





That cough at the end though.

Oh my god I died at the end. I didn't even see your comment so I had no idea it was coming. Hahahaha

[DigDug 1735]

5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

White people, man.

 

 

That cough at the end though.

 

Wo wo, did my man just roll up in a modified rascal in that first scene?Pimpin ain't easy

[Radical Larry 28814]

[Bama Chick 28596]

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

[tx 3 putt 78470]

6 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

 

 

https://medium.com/@AshfordCEO/whats-wrong-with-america-30bbad18aded

[tx 3 putt 78470]

25 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

White people, man 

 

butchers used to damn near give fajitas away, UNTIL fucking white people found out how delish they were and how easy they are to make at home.  @Brisketexan i know remembers 

white people fuck everything up 

[DigDug 1735]

9 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

 

No, but a quick search shows his office just north of LBJ at the Tollway & Spring Valley.  Called his number, was going to see if I could get a quote for the story we're running in tomorrow's Springfield Post Gazette, but no answer.  Go figure

[bluto 4980]

I know one of the board members of ashford hospitality very well, pretty slimy person in general.

[Hookah Horns 3089]

24 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

 

That is one of the shadiest looking motherfuckers I've ever seen. 

[pyrohornIII 4844]

53 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

White people, man.

 

 

That cough at the end though.

 

I really don't think China's wet dream would be decimating their market for rascal scooters.

25 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

butchers used to damn near give fajitas away, UNTIL fucking white people found out how delish they were and how easy they are to make at home.  @Brisketexan i know remembers 

white people fuck everything up 

'member when no one north of San Antonio knew what they were.    Nor did we have chicken fajitas.  

[justhookit 4205]

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

 

Half of that thread is convinced we have herd immunity and they support that view by claiming up to 10% of the US has been infected.

Huh? Link? Literally no one has said that about herd immunity and I think I see your 10% claim - it was one poster that’s been pulling numbers out of his ass since the start of this thing.

[RPM 26560]

3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

HOLY SHIT.

This is a follow up to the Karen getting arrested at the playground. 

This is the mob outside of the arresting officer's house.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/g69sul/protesters_gather_outside_of_officers_home/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

 

Rant.

FUCK YOU ultra right wing motherfuckers. If this were a Latino or black mob confronting this officer's house, the Republican idiots would be calling for a full out SWAT assault on the people. Right wing nutjobs with AR15s would descend on the town looking to lynch people. But since it's crazy fucking suburban Trump idiots, then these people are patriots fighting tyranny. FUCK YOU!

Late to the thread but wanted to follow up on this. Guy in the hat was Ammon Bundy. Yeah, that Bundy. This whole thing was staged from the get go.

[RPM 26560]

1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4863258/user-clip-trump-oversight

"I'll be the oversight."

[DixonHur 11941]

12 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

Who's that guy that moved to the Czech this year? How does one go about this?

 

12 hours ago, Gap03 said:

That's Dixon Hur, if I recall correctly.  Perhaps we could get our resident expats to prepare a FAQ for some go-to jurisdictions (Czech Republic, Canada, New Zealand, etc.).  If the voter suppression works in 2020, it feels like a lot of us are going to be looking at options - and no time like the present to do a bit of research, just in case.

Correct.

I started thinking about moving when Trump was elected, but thought maybe I was overreacting so I gave him a shot.  Based on conversations with others in the Austin bubble of sanity and listening to the GOP leadership talk shit about him during the primary, I honestly thought the public, and the GOP would hold him in check.

Obviously I could not have been more wrong. 

I used to travel to Prague a lot and had even started taking Czech classes at UT before all this started, so it seemed like a natural landing spot...although the language bit has proven trickier than I thought.  But I digress...

Based on what I was seeing in the stock market, I expected a crash so I sold my house and moved to trailer on a friend's property in rural Kentucky while I applied for my visa.  Needless to say, living in Trump country only served to strengthen my resolve to leave.  Coming from Austin, it was eye opening to say the very least.

Anyway, I used a company called 4Expats  who helped me figure out which type of visa to apply for, and walked me through every step of the process.  I'd assume there are similar services for any country you'd want to move to.   

The visa process itself was painfully slow...took almost 9 months from the initial call...so it's best to plan ahead.  

I'm so happy that I was able to get out before all this shit went down.  It's hard to describe how different the approach by the government, and citizenry has been here compared to what I see and hear is going on back in the US.   

 

[Hookah Horns 3089]

7 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

The craziest thing about COVID is that it inverted the CR and DT boards. Suddenly, CR is the home of data-driven analysis and DT is full of morons spouting off uninformed bullshit.

Half of that thread is convinced we have herd immunity and they support that view by claiming up to 10% of the US has been infected.  I don’t even know where to begin with such a Russian nesting doll of stupid.

I'm sure there's no politics in that thread though. 

You should see the morons we have on Orangebloods. It's gotten nearly unreadable (I'm sure many here will say it already was). Here's a post from tonight that's got around 10 likes:

 If corona happened 25 years ago none of us would have heard about it and the economy would be blowing and going. What a disaster this reaction has been. SMH

[Hookah Horns 3089]

53 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

 

Correct.

I started thinking about moving when Trump was elected, but thought maybe I was overreacting so I gave him a shot.  Based on conversations with others in the Austin bubble of sanity and listening to the GOP leadership talk shit about him during the primary, I honestly thought the public, and the GOP would hold him in check.

Obviously I could not have been more wrong. 

I used to travel to Prague a lot and had even started taking Czech classes at UT before all this started, so it seemed like a natural landing spot...although the language bit has proven trickier than I thought.  But I digress...

Based on what I was seeing in the stock market, I expected a crash so I sold my house and moved to trailer on a friend's property in rural Kentucky while I applied for my visa.  Needless to say, living in Trump country only served to strengthen my resolve to leave.  Coming from Austin, it was eye opening to say the very least.

Anyway, I used a company called 4Expats  who helped me figure out which type of visa to apply for, and walked me through every step of the process.  I'd assume there are similar services for any country you'd want to move to.   

The visa process itself was painfully slow...took almost 9 months from the initial call...so it's best to plan ahead.  

I'm so happy that I was able to get out before all this shit went down.  It's hard to describe how different the approach by the government, and citizenry has been here compared to what I see and hear is going on back in the US.   

 

Does watching this shit show at a remove feel kind of good in a way, like seeing an ex who put on 30 lbs?  

[Aqua Buddha 14782]

More pics of the nurse that ran out of fucks to give.  Props to the troll game by her friend, too.  (The people woke up one day, put on a costume and drove to town to yell at nurses.  What is wrong with these fucking people?)

"When they inevitably contract Covid-19 and transmit it to their loved ones, Lauren will be one of the first faces they will see when they are admitted to the ICU. She may also be one of the last faces that they ever see," Saeed said in his post.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/720944/nurse-faces-off-arizona-lockdown-protesters-caring-coronavirus-patients/

[Dahobbs 18185]

5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

More pics of the nurse that ran out of fucks to give.  Props to the troll game by her friend, too.  (The people woke up one day, put on a costume and drove to town to yell at nurses.  What is wrong with these fucking people?)

"When they inevitably contract Covid-19 and transmit it to their loved ones, Lauren will be one of the first faces they will see when they are admitted to the ICU. She may also be one of the last faces that they ever see," Saeed said in his post.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/720944/nurse-faces-off-arizona-lockdown-protesters-caring-coronavirus-patients/

 

[pyrohornIII 4844]

10 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

More pics of the nurse that ran out of fucks to give.  Props to the troll game by her friend, too.  (The people woke up one day, put on a costume and drove to town to yell at nurses.  What is wrong with these fucking people?)

"When they inevitably contract Covid-19 and transmit it to their loved ones, Lauren will be one of the first faces they will see when they are admitted to the ICU. She may also be one of the last faces that they ever see," Saeed said in his post.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/720944/nurse-faces-off-arizona-lockdown-protesters-caring-coronavirus-patients/

That's about as close as you can get to polar opposites in Americans without involving race.

[Upgrayedd 5861]

She’s a Sun Devil

[safe sex 11913]

14 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Here's an anecdote:

I spoke with 2 PA's in Dallas a couple of nights ago that said they are absolutely not allowed to test everyone.  They don't have the quantity of tests needed and have been ordered to save them for only extreme cases, which helps explain our relatively low state totals.  One said she straight up had to turn someone away who she was 100% sure had it, but didn't exhibit the proper symptoms.  

This will be fine I'm sure.

I ~got in trouble~ recently for ordering a test on a polytrauma patient that arrived intubated because I didn't consult with our infectious disease team first. We had no social or medical history on this person when they arrived, so, you know, I figured I'd try to find out whether or not we were admitting a patient with COVID-19. But I didn't pick up the phone to page a resident first while this patient was crashing..

[BLKNSTY 289]

assuming we keep SIP this “stringent” in some places, over/under on it taking a month before we start seeing armed protesters at hospitals?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13707]

20 minutes ago, BLKNSTY said:

assuming we keep SIP this “stringent” in some places, over/under on it taking a month before we start seeing armed protesters at hospitals?

Perhaps it could happen in a place like Idaho but I think that the protest organizations will understand that going after healthcare workers will come across poorly. They're the heroes of America right now, so politicians are still the best enemy.

EDIT: I never understand why people push law enforcement into a corner. "What are you going to do if I don't leave?"  That question puts the cop into a situation where an arrest is almost all but certain unless the person backs down quickly. The police have to answer that you will be arrested if you don't comply right now, and they have to follow through on that comment.

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Pig Bellmont 8867]

Don’t care if already posted. This tweet sums up the Trump administration perfectly. 
 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Perhaps it could happen in a place like Idaho but I think that the protest organizations will understand that going after healthcare workers will come across poorly. They're the heroes of America right now, so politicians are still the best enemy.

I agree, but give it some time. Teachers that protest are now treated scornfully w/o much discussion about the topic with which they are upset. Health care workers in hospitals and other care facilities, IMO, have some worthy topics over which to be protesting, but were they to do so, I expect any discussion would quickly be reframed to blame them for their situation. If more healthcare workers begin counter protesting, even in a silent nonconfrontational way, the dialogue will be lost to the anger that arises against them.

[Francisco 2.0 32543]

Capitalism.

 

 

[workswithseed 2201]

7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

butchers used to damn near give fajitas away, UNTIL fucking white people found out how delish they were and how easy they are to make at home.  @Brisketexan i know remembers 

white people fuck everything up 

I was born in the 90s when everyone was doing fejitas. I didn't have the chance to fuck it up for everyone.

[SameSame 1745]

wrong thread

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by SameSame

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

9 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Capitalism.

 

 

From that article, it mentions BARDA being involved in the discussion to develop a low cost ventilator in the old contract from 2014. BARDA is where Richard Bright was employed before being transferred, correct? Weird how Tea Party driven cuts to spending back in those days have led to an even greater waste of money now. Those Tea drinkers have us drinking Kool-Aid and we'll like it or else.

[gmr548 16681]

x, 1

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

5 minutes ago, SameSame said:

This about perfectly sums up the current Republican party

 

 

 

He also retweeted the following on his account, so his grift game is strong. Plus, he's an author! Guess he should thank academia for learning how to read and write or is that unpatriotic?

 

[Gengs1 2583]

9 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

White people, man.

 

 

That cough at the end though.

 

I am rooting for the virus against these people, just saying 

[Gengs1 2583]

23 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I agree, but give it some time. Teachers that protest are now treated scornfully w/o much discussion about the topic with which they are upset. Health care workers in hospitals and other care facilities, IMO, have some worthy topics over which to be protesting, but were they to do so, I expect any discussion would quickly be reframed to blame them for their situation. If more healthcare workers begin counter protesting, even in a silent nonconfrontational way, the dialogue will be lost to the anger that arises against them.

At this point who gives a fuck, let them get mad. What else they gonna do? Go find treatment where?

[huge 3825]

15 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Name one.

according to Forbes 13 donated to Beto before he dropped out

 

[Gengs1 2583]

3 hours ago, DixonHur said:

 

Correct.

I started thinking about moving when Trump was elected, but thought maybe I was overreacting so I gave him a shot.  Based on conversations with others in the Austin bubble of sanity and listening to the GOP leadership talk shit about him during the primary, I honestly thought the public, and the GOP would hold him in check.

Obviously I could not have been more wrong. 

I used to travel to Prague a lot and had even started taking Czech classes at UT before all this started, so it seemed like a natural landing spot...although the language bit has proven trickier than I thought.  But I digress...

Based on what I was seeing in the stock market, I expected a crash so I sold my house and moved to trailer on a friend's property in rural Kentucky while I applied for my visa.  Needless to say, living in Trump country only served to strengthen my resolve to leave.  Coming from Austin, it was eye opening to say the very least.

Anyway, I used a company called 4Expats  who helped me figure out which type of visa to apply for, and walked me through every step of the process.  I'd assume there are similar services for any country you'd want to move to.   

The visa process itself was painfully slow...took almost 9 months from the initial call...so it's best to plan ahead.  

I'm so happy that I was able to get out before all this shit went down.  It's hard to describe how different the approach by the government, and citizenry has been here compared to what I see and hear is going on back in the US.   

 

Big props to you for having the balls to gtfo.

how has your life been there? 

What about job?

i been to Prague and loved it, great city, beer, food and women. Seems like a good city to be in

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

11 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

At this point who gives a fuck, let them get mad. What else they gonna do? Go find treatment where?

You are thinking like a rational person. I don't think that works in this situation. That anger is channeled by the GOP to a purpose and across disparate groups. It's how Trump got elected in the first place. I don't think it should be ignored, but I also don't think the media should give it out-sized coverage as they've been doing. It plays into their hands plus gives it and Fox propaganda legitimacy.

[Aqua Buddha 14782]

What I love about these pics (aside from her being clearly out of fucks to give) are the ages of the people involved.  These nurses look to be in their 20's and 30's while the protestors are old whites named Karen and Larry.

This country will be fine in the future.  

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13619]

9 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Any of y’all know this jackwagon?

 

I wonder why Trump included a signing statement saying he was going to ignore the oversight provision in the bailout bill taxpayers will ultimately be on the hook for? Oh well. DRAIN THAT SWAMP! DRAIN THAT SWAMP!....

[bolverk 30230]

2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

Calf bovine monkey kidney?

[DigglerontheHoof 21516]

1 minute ago, bolverk said:

Calf bovine monkey kidney?

Forget it, they're rolling. 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13619]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Capitalism.

 

 

That's just how capitalism works in Trump Land. If you default on a loan of hundreds of millions dollars, it actually helps your credit and you qualify for an even bigger loan from the very same bank. Likewise, when you take taxpayer money and deliver jack shit, you get rewarded with a new contract.