US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

honestly, i don't believe that quote from her husband -- that she needs to cook dinner by six every night -- and i also don't believe her parents went to south korea to flee the clinton.

i think that republicans are liars and self-mythologizers.

So........again, I don't want to yuck anybody's kink here but can we pleeeeeeeease acknowledge the BDSM roleplay in the room. Except for the incesty bit, we can yuck that.

follow me, my children. i will take you to my worst nightmare, so that you can understand the real world is going to be that bad someday.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

I perfectly recall how Bill Clinton's ended "welfare as we knew it", just so he could destroy people and their happiness with heaps and heaps of socialism.

xp sure, they might roleplay the honeymooners-style male tyranny. but it's fantasy, not reality. she is an ambitious washington media person.

One who will never break kayfabe in front of the rubes, though.

Ms. Rion went to Harvard. She is smart, understands precisely what her career path in the 'news' media entails, knows what her talents are, what audience she plays to, and how to cast herself in the necessary role. There is no naivety there. She will make good money.

she's definitely a plant, the first time I saw her she was asking something about since the term "Chinese food" isn't racist why is the liberal media saying that "Chinese virus" is racist

Forget it Dan. It's Tiger King Town.

lol

"There exists no proof that Rion actually attended Harvard College, much less graduated from it."

I trust everyone filed their census.

welp. it’s finally come to this. i finally accidentally read a Haberman tweet so egregious I had to share it.

Listening to the WH briefings over the last two days, the portrait of how long the measures to stop the spread will last is growing starker, and longer. With so much focus on NY/NJ, folks lose sight of what happens if it rolls through the rest of the country.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 1, 2020

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Marvel%27s_What_If...%3F_logo.png

guilty lol

Imagine if there was a world beyond the asshole where my head is lodged, wow

there is a mountain above the mountain

Then there is

You must forgive Maggie. She was more than half in the bag when she wrote that.

Uh, you say she wasn't two sheets to the wind? Sober, or mostly?

WTF, Haberman, what hole have you been hiding in? Ain't no ifs ands or buts involved. This is going to roll through every city, town, village and hamlet in the US and the whole freaking world. Damn, girl, u out of your mind?

You know, it occurs to me that I've never seen a picture of Haberman. Does she slather on the full-bore Barnum & Bailey grease paint or is she one of those more minimalist commedia dell'arte clowns?

whoops bye chanel https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/oan-white-house-correspondents-coronavirus-160598

I'm not sure what was egregious about that tweet

she said "if" instead of "when"

ok

From harbl's linked story:

a representative for the WHCA who asked her to leave because she wasn’t in the rotation to cover that evening’s briefing. Rion refused, saying she was there “as a guest of Stephanie Grisham,” the White House press secretary, according to the Times.

things that make you go 'hmmmm'

WITCH HUNT!!!!

I'm not sure what was egregious about that tweet

with how much focus?

ok not much, sorry

I caught this part of this at the briefing yesterday, but I was doing something else and missed the context. That's terrible (the death threats, I mean, not the security detail).

http://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/politics/anthony-fauci-security-detail/index.html

(Redundant "this"...every post I put up lately has a typo or three.)

she said "if" instead of "when"

― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ok

― Dan S, Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

also it's buying into the annoying narrative that this doesn't really matter if it's only new york and new jersey. we're not part of the real america.

Good morning!

she might not realize she's reproducing this bias, but that's the whole thing. it's why fox news country is less worried about the virus.

The hell is this tweet supposed to mean?

enrollment periods seem like a bad idea propping up another bad idea lol https://t.co/0YPubOFL9f

— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) March 31, 2020

that there should just be open enrollment on the healthcare exchanges all the time. or better yet, a national health service providing equitable care for everyone.

still a bad tweet. the point right now is that republicans won't even do the bare minimum of helping people in a crisis -- people they were elected to represent

"Should be," yes. Never gonna happen.

if it's only new york and new jersey. we're not part of the real america.

I guess that takes care of that commie Springsteen

I consider myself pretty far left and it’s discouraging to see so many of the thought leaders out here consistently fail to learn any lessons about coalition building.

My acquaintance with Breuning does not lead me to conclude she has thoughts.

*Bruenig

absolutely galling that the only person with a mainstream “legacy” media platform who even comes close to unapologetically socialist is also a prolife tradcath

about that polling bump in support for Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-norc-poll-less-half-181322979.html

just curious - what are the approval ratings for pandemic responses in other countries? trump's at 43% (specifically for his Covid19 response) in the poll Shakey just posted, which seems embarrassing. A public crisis is a big easy softball for a leader, due to the Rallying effect. all you have to do is not be a complete fucking moron, which Trump is failing to do. but what about other leaders?

speaking of not being a complete fucking moron

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3h
Somebody please explain to Cryin’ Chuck Schumer that we do have a military man in charge of distributing goods, a very talented Admiral, in fact. New York has gotten far more than any other State, including hospitals & a hospital ship, but no matter what, always complaining.....
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3h
...It wouldn’t matter if you got ten times what was needed, it would never be good enough. Unlike other states, New York unfortunately got off to a late start. You should have pushed harder. Stop complaining & find out where all of these supplies are going. Cuomo working hard!

Johnson, Merkel, Conte all at around 70% approval

Why is johnson getting any popularity out of the farcical response so far.
He wanted to sacrifice a lot of the public didn't he?
Is it the martyr bit?

Is it fair to suspect our feckless U.S. government has absolutely no recovery plan for when this is all over, whenever that is? (Answer: yes.)

This is actually the thing driving me nuts. There's not even an attempt to try to do anything creative or original for this specific moment. Congress can't even consider anything that isn't already part of an existing longstanding agenda. https://t.co/xRTwKuwlxV

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) April 2, 2020

P@reene should know you can't do "much of anything" when the Senate and executive branch are controlled by the opposite party. Come the fuck on. And it's not like Pelosi hasn't already done what she can to piss off McConnell and Trump:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/04/02/pelosi-trump-coronavirus-oversight/