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

I agree with Morbius

(although the way Trump plays up his enjoyment of hanging out with authoritarian heads of state is pretty exceptional)

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

Can't wait til they inject me with that devil juice

#7: PROFIT

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."

“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!

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— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴‍☠️ (@g_gosden) April 4, 2020

wtf

I am totally shocked by this dude, I don’t think he has the right temperament to be president, tbh!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/i-think-president-struck-different-tone-today-then-again-i-am-goldfish/

honestly the sub-Borscht belt tangents are the only times he seems like an actual human being. a bad one obv, but

"Take my wife, I've just purchased a younger one"

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.

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.

Good morning!

jesus christ: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals

Happened in buffalo too, with a shipment that arrived in Pittsburgh, iirc

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/yYGznIkWwp

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— Bernie Beats Trump (@doctorow) April 4, 2020

Read that thread and ordered the book. (I read a lot of books about cons, hoaxes, scams, etc. anyway.)

You might like this then--nonstop cons, hoaxes, and scams.

http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81OvZyNcbJL.jpg

(Roger Lowenstein's Origins of the Crash.)

whats-up-with-the-feds-seizing-ppe-shipments-to-states-and-hospitals

What, states just think they can BUY things? How cute. Don't they know that the right way to get things is to beg Trump for them in flattering tones?

everyone in private equity should be jailed

Here's a twist: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/navy-captain-crozier-positive-coronavirus.html

Knowing what we know about the virus, I'd imagine that everyone on the ship has contracted it? Especially after his send-off...

Captain Crozier Is a Hero
Theodore Roosevelt, my great-grandfather, would agree.

By Tweed Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt is a great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and the chairman of the Theodore Roosevelt Institute at Long Island University.

are you serious with that name

have u met his brother Seersucker

Willing to bet Tweed is a middle name.

Blue Suede Roosevelt

Henry has his uses but his great talent is taking the shape demanded by whoever is in charge. pic.twitter.com/UWY6dCP2VQ

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 4, 2020

hahaha I just read that

and dear lord I don't want George W. Bush trending

It’s pretty amazing that Democrats are praising 15 year old statements from war criminal George W. Bush right now when we still have a presidential candidate who said this about how unprepared we are for a pandemic 15 years ago:

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— Michael (@OmanReagan) April 5, 2020

Of course liberals are cooing over war criminal George W. Bush. Michelle gave them permission long ago. pic.twitter.com/FGisCCmRNs

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) April 5, 2020

Dennis Perrin doesn't know any liberals.

Yes. That's it. Liberals peruse every utterance of Michelle Obama like Kremlinologists, to find out when it is safe to approve of something GWB said or did. aiui, the official list now includes GWB's opening remarks at the WH Easter Egg Hunt in 2007, but not his Mission Accomplished speech, but that may have changed. I haven't read Michelle's memo this morning.

I do find it cute that you can follow Trump's public statements on Rona to pinpoint exactly when he finished learning his multiplication tables

Galaxy brains with their dying-from-covid last breaths: “Dubya...was... worse”

I had so much more respect for Dennis Perrin when I knew him only as the author of Mr Mike, and not the author of countless shitty and stupid tweets smugly added to this thread by Morbs for reasons that make no sense to me beyond masochism

I's standin' over there in the political thraid
And here he come
Postin links to Dennis Perrin's tweeters
As clear as th eye could see
And I hollered over t' Ethel
I said, "Don't look, Ethel!"
But it's too late

I haven’t seen any mention of this “liberals praising GWB” because who gives a fuck I’m not looking for news about that shit.

i feel like he's trying to ship Michelle and Dubya

like what the fuck who fucking cares

xp

there’s politics talk and then there’s this kind of shit which is sub-celebrity gossip

lol otm

Dubya started off an anti-Pandemic thing when he was pres after reading a book about the 1918 flu pandemic and being like, "Woah this happens every hundred years we should mobilise to make sure it never happens again". It's some broken-clock-tells-the-time ish but obviously a jaundiced eye will find some way to make it about the Obamas.

guys? fuck you.

oh come on dude

you all banned me when I called her what she is, so methinks thou dost protest too much

actually i'd amend her most famous task to a more managerial one