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

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

it's early still

Former vice president Joe Biden spoke with President Trump on Monday afternoon about the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a senior administration official and another person with knowledge of the conversation.

The conversation was “very cordial,” the administration official said. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the exchange.

Biden’s campaign said last week it was working on setting up a call with the president after Trump told reporters that he would “absolutely” be willing to speak with Biden on the matter.

News of Monday’s conversation was first reported by NBC News.

I hope they discussed our nation's critical shortage of hen fap

And also whether there are too many kids on their respective lawns

Loefflet’s Senate seat is in play:

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) holds a significant lead over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in the race for her Senate seat, a new poll found.

A Battleground Connect survey of likely voters in the upcoming special election first reported by Politico revealed that 36 percent support Collins, who has represented the 9th district in Georgia since 2013, for the Senate seat currently held by Loeffler.

Loeffler currently trails both Collins and a Democratic opponent, pastor Raphael Warnock of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and sits at 13 percent in the poll. Warnock registered support from 16 percent of voters, indicating that Collins has a clear advantage in the race.

In the sense that she’ll lose, seems unlikely any of the Dem candidates will grab it. But who knows...

I think this'll be big, I don't know: Birx, with Trump standing right beside her in-shot, just said "You can see what happens when you come at this a little too late." I doubt she meant to put it that way, although Trump had just, in his special way, been rather callous about Birx's granddaughter, who'd been running a temperature of 105.

Xo Doug Collins is even worse

the main question with the Loeffler race is which two candidates will make it to the runoff on January 5

By the way, Trump made reference today to "an election the Democrats shouldn't be allowed to win." I'm sure he doesn't mean it.

Modly's a real piece of shit, huh
angry enlisted man yelling "WHAT THE FUCK"

Kelly Loeffler is awful, and after losing my retirement savings I can’t even stomach reading about her insider trading, but Doug Collins is a fascist and it does seem like he’s going to win

hours after ‘standing by every word’ he said, modly has issued an apology

Standing by his words from 6 ft away

hope he is standing at the bottom of the ocean soon

dunno if this is being discussed in the primary thread but what just happened in Wisconsin (the conservative majority state supreme court overturned the governor's order to postpone the election) is a fucking travesty and is going to get people killed

in the Nino thread

If there's one thing both parties can agree on it's that our votes and our lives aren't really that important.

I'm never gonna get to release my double rap album

Treating the events as breaking news updates, the briefings, where Trump lies and chats casually about a national health crisis, represent a Beltway news culture gripped by paralysis, unable to make the correct decision to unplug the misinformation happenings.

These are same TV networks that made a very different decision in 2014 when President Barack Obama wanted to address to nation for 10-15 minutes about immigration reform, and ABC, CBS, and NBC all told him they would not air his Oval Office speech because it wasn't worth covering. That followed up the networks' decision a year earlier to deny the Obama request to carry a primetime address regarding the seven million people who had signed up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act.

The endless Trump coverage today, often featuring two-hour briefings each day, is all being done voluntarily. TV networks in the United States are under no obligation to carry the president live when he makes appearances or addresses the press.

There was never any reason given for why, after 20 years of not airing daily press briefings, the cable news channels all decided simultaneously to essentially air every Trump White House briefing live, and usually in its entirety. Early on, the cable news channels aired 93 percent of the Trump White House press briefings live, after having aired just three percent of Obama press briefings live, according to Media Matters.

https://pressrun.media/p/networks-will-air-trump-10-hours

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Ah, the days of grunge typography

what a shame we don't have a transcript of the Biden-Trump phone call, eh

it was "cordial" ie Beckettian facepalms galore

the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard (mêlée, final vociferations) tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished. . . .

Stephanie Grisham out as PressSec, going back to being Melania's chief of staff. Never had a press briefing.

the perfect tenure

Makes sense. In these difficult times, we need our nation's best minds to be focused on the operations of Melania's staff.