to the extent he is capable of "having" "ideas"
― silby, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
Trump's Katrina will be a deadly pandemic. https://t.co/e4rMUQOAqs— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) May 5, 2017
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
who could have foreseen this?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
even in the letter they note that he only referred to "expanding Medicare and Medicaid to include uninsured Americans, including those who have lost their employer-based coverage due to COVID-19."
This is not Medicare-for-All.
It's what a lot of Americans who don't follow politics closely think Medicare-for-All is, though: a public option that works like Medicare and that's available to everyone alongside more expensive private competitors.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
It's probably what Trump thinks Medicare-for-All is!
where does silby fall on that axis
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 April 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I don't get who Rhonda is?
Help me
― ain't no sunshine (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
gonna steal it any way they can
This is good one: Trump campaign wants to send no request absentee ballots only to voters 65+. https://t.co/tF4d6SZHCb— Richard Yeselson (@yeselson) April 3, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
Trump said he is considering... etc.
A few days ago he "considered" slapping a quarantine on NY, NJ and part of CT. He's just churning the news cycle again to keep himself in the center of it.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
xp I'm reading that as an idea that Dems are pushing that Trump admin may be okay with?
jfc that huge closeup of fearless leader is terrifying.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics/trump-fires-inspector-general-michael-atkinson/index.html
this is fine. i'm sure this had nothing to do with his role in impeachment.
this isn't authoritarian or yet another instance of abuse of power.
fuck us all.
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
This has been Trump's M.O. since the day he took office. He fires anyone he sees as insufficiently protective of his interests, regardless of whether his 'interests' are opposed to the clear national interest or even legal, and he trusts so few people that 2/3 of the positions he fires people from are left unfilled. The whole executive branch is littered with temporary 'acting' officials or simply vacant positions.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 April 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
It’s darkly hilarious that SOPDUS (Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary) is an acronym I am well acquainted with thanks to this admin. We’re in the last year of his term and it’s still popping up
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in in voting,” he said. “It should be, you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself.”
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
gross
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link
“I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in in voting,” he said, purely based not on evidence or facts, but out his abundant ignorance.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:54 (four years ago) link
“It should be, you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself.”
Strongly reminding me of the Longmont Potion Castle bit where he called people and asked them if they were willing to vote on stilts, thirty feet high, loud and proud.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 April 2020 06:14 (four years ago) link
I mean, that's the party line though, just translated into Trump talk
xp
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
Like 160,000 other Palm Beach County voters, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have requested vote-by-mail ballots for Florida’s presidential primary.The ballots were picked up for Trump on Monday, and as of Wednesday had not been submitted, according to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website.During his visit to Palm Beach last weekend, Trump apparently chose to forgo an opportunity to go to an early voting site to cast a ballot in the Republican primary, for which he is a huge favorite to win.
The ballots were picked up for Trump on Monday, and as of Wednesday had not been submitted, according to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website.
During his visit to Palm Beach last weekend, Trump apparently chose to forgo an opportunity to go to an early voting site to cast a ballot in the Republican primary, for which he is a huge favorite to win.
― donald failson (sic), Saturday, 4 April 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
people he's really serious about these public health measures, do you not see that?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 4 April 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link
The mail-in voting cheats are mostly Republican men forcing their cowed wives to vote for Trump afaik
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
"I don't think I'm going to be doing it," he said, going on to suggest it was hard to envision such a thing in the Oval Office: "Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — I just don't see it."
First of all, nice job setting an example for your devoted followers. Now at least 40% of Americans will refuse to wear them, even as you half-heartedly roll out your new guidance recommending them.
Second of all, I love that dictators are way up there on his list of heads of state that he greets on the regular.
― epistantophus, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
"where's my favorite little dictator?"
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
"I don't see what's so bad about dictatorships. I mean Charlie Chaplin even made a movie about, uh, how great dictators are!"
I feel like "kings, queens" is even more telling in its unreality
― rob, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
He won't wear a mask because it'll smudge his makeup.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
He won't wear a mask because it'll efface his grandiose self-image.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
that trumo mask in fullhttps://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestfiction/images/f/f4/Immortan_Joe.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20150517025325
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
*reads approval ratings*
MEDIOCRE!
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
“You’re trying to jam in your preexisting support for Medicare for All & social democracy into the covid crisis” yes correct, the crisis violently & horrifically amplifying long-existing inequities can be solved w/ ideas that seek to mitigate those inequities. genius observation!— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 3, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
every POTUS regularly greets dictators, just another example of the Potato's accidental honesty
Re masks: Trump even makes for a terrible germaphobe. May as well have elected David Puddy.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
I agree with Morbius(although the way Trump plays up his enjoyment of hanging out with authoritarian heads of state is pretty exceptional)
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
Feel like this belongs here instead of being dumped in the insane-cartoons thread where fewer people will see it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUOTAOrXgAAHEjo.png
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
Can't wait til they inject me with that devil juice
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
#7: PROFIT
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
You got a preview of the upcoming campaign--whatever form that takes--today (paraphrase): "Joe isn't watching right now--and if he is, he doesn't understand what he's seeing."
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
“Hundreds of thousands of people are going to die... The professionals did the models. I was never involved in a model. At least not this kind of model." He really did say that! pic.twitter.com/UswZxWSCPe— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴☠️ (@g_gosden) April 4, 2020
wtf
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
I am totally shocked by this dude, I don’t think he has the right temperament to be president, tbh!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/i-think-president-struck-different-tone-today-then-again-i-am-goldfish/
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
honestly the sub-Borscht belt tangents are the only times he seems like an actual human being. a bad one obv, but
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Saturday, 4 April 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
"Take my wife, I've just purchased a younger one"
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 5 April 2020 06:23 (four years ago) link
It just galls me to no end that the president is such a selfish, self-centered fuck that he wouldn’t lift a finger to help a fellow human being without first asking if they were going to vote for him. Except when his handlers/advisors are making him do something “presidential”, in which case he always makes it clear that he is doing it unwillingly.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 5 April 2020 07:08 (four years ago) link
After a couple of days last week where he looked as mortified as he's capable of looking, based on yesterday I think he's found his comfort zone with this. Expect more stand-up and more fighting with reporters this week.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
Good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
jesus christ: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
Happened in buffalo too, with a shipment that arrived in Pittsburgh, iirc
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
not sure where to put this, but great thread here re: private equity in general and specifically w/r/t current mess and Trump admin
During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of pressed vegetable matter, I stumbled on Simon Lovell's HOW TO CHEAT AT EVERYTHING at the St Mark's Bookshop.https://t.co/yYGznIkWwp1/ pic.twitter.com/jOaq4oJUMi— Bernie Beats Trump (@doctorow) April 4, 2020
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
Read that thread and ordered the book. (I read a lot of books about cons, hoaxes, scams, etc. anyway.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
You might like this then--nonstop cons, hoaxes, and scams.
http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OvZyNcbJL.jpg
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link