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

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

you're the only person itt who thinks about Michelle Obama, ever

everyone in private equity should be jailed

on a pike

post dumb shit, get called out. it happens to me all the time morbs, but I assume you’re smarter than me and know when to stop but you apparently like needling people so whatever. go ahead and say hurtful stuff to me I don’t care.

there's gotta be a way to ban Dennis Perrin tweets

autoreplace the word Perrin with jigglypanda

Replace it with Clinton and they'd be gone in two seconds

I will defend Morbs’ right to post all the Perrin tweets he wants, they always liven it up around here

for every Perrin tweet, we post a Jeff Foxworthy stand up clip

Trump says a friend of his was amazed to discover during this that there were 182 countries in the world. I wonder who the friend could be...

John Barron

I narrowed it down to either him or John Miller.

he has been saying that in every single press conference, but last week it was 150 countries

there are 195 countries

Along those lines, all 50 states have at least 200 known cases, 40 state governors have issued official "stay at home" orders, Kentucky has a "stay at home advisory".

Nine states have yet to give any official order to limit the spread of the virus: South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming and Utah. It's a roll call of crimson shame, but there no surprising names among them.

do those crimson governors offer a consistent explanation for their position? Are they STILL trying to downplay the threat of the virus?

George Takei’s comment that it’s like a peeing section in the pool is right

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

Ugh yes make it stop plz

White House economic adviser Peter Navarro confirmed Monday that he and Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, engaged in a heated dispute in the White House Situation Room about how enthusiastically the administration should tout the prospects of using an anti-malaria drug to treat the coronavirus.

Appearing on CNN, Navarro was asked to respond to an Axios report that he arrived on Saturday with studies promoting the potential of hydroxychloroquine, a drug that President Trump has said could be a “game-changer” but that Fauci has repeatedly cautioned is unproven to combat covid-19.

“There was that discussion on Saturday,” Navarro said. “If we didn’t have disagreement and debate in the Trump administration, this administration would not be as strong as it is.”

After being shown a clip in which Fauci said the data on treating coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine is “at best suggestive,” Navarro suggested seeking advice from doctors besides Fauci.

“I’ll let him speak for himself, but I would have two words for you: second opinion,” said Navarro, whose work for Trump has largely focused on trade.

Pressed on why he is more qualified to weigh in on treating the novel coronavirus than Fauci, Navarro said he was competent to read the literature.
“Doctors disagree about things all the time. My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist. I have a PhD, and I understand how to read statistical studies,” he said. “You could be a plumber and read that and come to the same conclusion.”

Not only has Asshole surrounded himself with the worst people, he's also surrounded himself with the worst people.

Only because I just finished watching Ozark, Omar Navarro would probably do just as well.

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Last night, John Oliver had his main segment on One America News. That thing is even shittier than I thought.

icymi

A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.

https://apnews.com/090600c299a8cf07f5b44d92534856bc

Under our merciless form of government, COVID-19 will exact a cascading sequence of miseries: first your job, then your health insurance, then your life… https://t.co/ebz4deZmbr

— CounterPunch (@NatCounterPunch) April 5, 2020

Good morning!

! Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt that their former commander Capt. Brett Crozier -- who warned of dangerous conditions on the ship -- was either "too naive or too stupid" to be in command. https://t.co/R7P7qSqGnE

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 6, 2020

Fire Modly

Modly said he was incensed that Crozier wrote in his memo that the United States is not at war. In fact, China is to blame for the current coronavirus pandemic because it hid the scope of the problem, said Modly, who also accused the Chinese of not being as transparent as the Navy.

you know who else hid the scope of the problem?

the rats feel their backs against the wall

Seriously the worst line of defense for that dickrubber to take rn

the modly speeches

China, what, physically prevented you from reading several months of news stories about the epidemic they were suffering? Those bastards.

is it normal to end a speech like that with "Go Navy"?

'Every time I tried to read the newspaper, a Chinese official would rush over and pull the newspaper from my hand while softly saying 'no'. It was literally out of my hands.'

Modly & Creme

Dastardly and Modly

Mödly: Crüde

ban all modlys

Modly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x3aIWs76E

moldy

Fired IC IG Atkinson has released a statement on his severance, including “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me derived from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial Inspector General” and "...I have spent my entire seventeen-year career as a public servant acting without regard to partisan favor or political fear," and concluding with a plea to all gov't employees and contractors who see unethical or illegal behaviour in the federal government “Please do not allow recent events to silence your voices.”

Infrastructure week rescheduled, date TBA:

Asked about Pelosi's call for additional money for Americans in a Phase 4 bill, Trump says, "I like the concept of it. I think it's good. We're talking about a different way of doing it, but I like the concept." He says he'd also like an infrastructure bill.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 6, 2020

zing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EU8d6iUWsAEmrAu?format=png&name=small

ouch

Major Producer of Hydroxychloroquine Once Paid Michael Cohen Hefty Sum for Access to Trump

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/major-producer-of-hydroxychloroquine-once-paid-michael-cohen-hefty-sum-for-access-to-trump/ar-BB12eeHz

there is just no way the Trumps are not invested in this drug

holy shit @ this audio

The acting Navy secretary is unfit for office. He should resign or be removed immediately. https://t.co/6hfiIkFQfa

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 6, 2020

navy sec. 100% on board w/ "media is the enemy"

ah sorry I didn't see the audio was posted up there^

is there a branch of the military this admin had *not* pissed off yet?

space force