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

It's been parroted as such by the chuds: "It shows travel bans and closed borders work! Also: Bill Gates & 5G did Corona!"

A lot of these same people are eating up this recent stuff about going after the cartels...they need their scary foreigners fix.

If you lived through Kayleigh McEnany on CNN every day during the 2016 election, this is some kind of bad flashback.

http://wwl.radio.com/articles/radiocom/kayleigh-mcenany-named-new-white-house-press-secretary

"I see the red and the green/I see the yellow and the blue/I see one look like me/I see one look like you. Buffoon, buffoon, buffoon, buffoon, buffoon (buffoon)."

Acting secretary of the Navy has submitted his resignation after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html

Wasn't sure whether to put this here or the outbreak thread.

http://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/5e8c8ed95749570008a1b2a6/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/A24118-dailycartoon.jpeg

Also, he requisitioned that hose with federal dollars and gave it to one of his big donors' companies, which sold it to that firefighter for $7000

one consequence of installing buffoons in every possible position is that it's tough for the buffoons to take each other seriously

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, April 7, 2020

this is deeply OTM. painfully so given that to the extent that the playbook has been to maximize disfunction as an object demonstration that Government Doesn't Work, it's been treated as a feature not a bug by those responsible.

Rand Paul: hero is what’s going to make me go full on ____________

Clad in gloves, a mask and full-length gown, Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos assured voters that it is “incredibly safe to go out” on Election Day despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vos is one of the main reasons the in-person election went ahead Tuesday, as he and his fellow Republicans fought both delaying the election and Democrats’ attempts to provide voters with more mail-in options.

“Actually there is less exposure here than you would get if you went to the grocery store or Walmart,” Vos added in a video captured by the local Journal Times at a polling place in Burlington that he volunteered to help staff.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wisconsin-speaker-robin-vos-2020-elections

Can only hope Wisconsin voters realize who forced them to vote in person today, and hold them accountable. It's not a high hope.

I think if there is a lesson to be taken from recent years it is that we must keep Republicans away from any sort of power at all costs because they just can’t help being blatant f*cking evildoers.

Clad in gloves, a mask and full-length gown, Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos assured voters that it is “incredibly safe to go out” on Election Day despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Okay, well, I guess after four years of complete fucking insanity that is what it ultimately took to melt the contents of my skull down into a protein-rich soup. RIP my brain!!!!!!

are there pinto beans in that soup

when it goes to soup, it's always U.S. Senate Bean Soup

Schumer & co proposing $25k in hazard pay for essential workers, including janitors and grocery clerks

Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans.

Once we OPEN UP OUR GREAT COUNTRY, and it will be sooner rather than later, the horror of the Invisible Enemy, except for those that sadly lost a family member or friend, must be quickly forgotten. Our Economy will BOOM, perhaps like never before!!!

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very on message this morning: the choice is between forcing everyone to vote in person or voter fraud, and also, whenever this is over, please forget what happened. thank you

Schumer & co proposing $25k in hazard pay for essential workers

is that per or total?

(in the spirit of Bob & Ray's paperclip factory sketch)

lol okay

BREAKING: Sen. Kelly Loeffler will liquidate individual stock shares after coronavirus trade furorhttps://t.co/l1aRGL7pUq

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 8, 2020

Good evening!

i was hoping maybe loeffler wasn't running for her seat in this year's election but apparently she is

is Schumer gonna cave again to Mnuchin on latest demand for 250 billion for small businesses but without all Dem priorities? McConnell wants to do it by unanimous vote. Dems could block that with just 1 person objecting (even though Repubs will spin it as Dems against small biz)

Chuck "The Human Cave-In" Schumer?!

Easter looming, Kansas Republican leaders on Wednesday revoked Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s order limiting religious gatherings to 10 people as the state’s coronavirus death toll jumped 40 percent.

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article241861126.html

Trump's approval ratings down again.

I would think that decline is still largely pandemic-related, and hasn't fully factored in the economic fallout yet.

just wondering, what is the appropriate thread to wonder (whine?) about what will or will not happen in these united states if the November election plays out as Trump, the GOP, and republican-appointed judges ally together to prevent Vote-by-Mail, suppressing Democratic votes from the top to the bottom of the ticket?

i know we'd all like to think that after stealing the election in 2000, stealing a supreme court seat in 2016/17, and a WI supreme court ordering people to Vote Dangerously or not vote at all earlier week, that it couldn't possibly happen during the national election. but it seems worth it to point out that it's a very real possibility, and if it happens - what do we do? what can we do?

Drink Campari and listen to Black Tie White Noise.

I'M IN HELL

actually, campari is great, this can't be hell

Jagermeister and Tin Machine, then. xp

peach schnapps and the laughing gnome or gtfo

you all do what you want. i'm going with everclear and carter tutti void

*carter tutti void plays at top volume*

Vice President Mike Pence is reportedly banning top health experts from appearing on CNN in an effort to pressure the network into airing the daily White House coronavirus task force briefings in full.

According to a CNN report Thursday morning, Pence’s office will only permit experts such as Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear on the network on the condition that it airs the portion of the briefings featuring the vice president and other coronavirus task force members.

CNN typically only broadcasts the first part of the briefing when President Trump takes questions from reporters in real-time, which sometimes includes responses from health experts. The network often ends its live broadcast of the briefing to air its analysis of Trump’s latest remarks.

A CNN executive cited the extensive length of the briefings, which have run past two hours, as a reason for why the network often cuts out of it after Trump leaves the podium.

if Obama was president they wouldn't air them at all. fuck him

referring to Pence. but also Obama, I guess, in his own way

Wait, they're literally broadcasting hours of random live unfiltered Trump content on CNN? Why.... are they doing that?

I'M IN HELL

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone),

and there is no hell like an old hell iirc

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-sD9WWDT3A/

Wait, they're literally broadcasting hours of random live unfiltered Trump content on CNN? Why.... are they doing that?

same reason why they gave him $2,000,000,000 worth of free coverage, it gets good ratings

it's called showing appreciation

this is so fucking awesome

Incredible, take a second and listen to this https://t.co/2n6oRKPcDo

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) April 9, 2020

lol. hero. chamath has some strong opinions and and has surely popped up in the Silicon Valley thread but he’s putting the Facebook fu bucks to very good use there.

Trump had only days before prevented Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from securing 500 ventilators from a private company, instead, taking the ventilators for the federal government. Polis sent a formal letter pleading for medical equipment, but the president took the time to make clear he was responding to a request from Gardner. We are left to believe that if Colorado didn’t have a Republican senator in office, our state would not be getting these 100 ventilators. How many ventilators would we be getting if we had a Republican governor and a second Republican senator? Would that indicate we had more Republican lives in our state worth saving for Trump and resources would start flowing? Should Utah be concerned that Sen. Mitt Romney voted to remove the president from office?

This behavior comes, of course, weeks after Trump informed states they would have to compete against one another in the procurement of medical supplies at a time of global shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The federal government should be procuring medicine, masks, and ventilators and distributing them to states on a set formula based on population, rate of infection and need. Instead, Trump’s messaging makes it feel as though he will watch with glee from the White House as people suffer in states being led by his enemies. If that’s not the case, then the president needs to act as though he’s working on behalf of all of us, not just those who voted for him or cow-towed to his corrupt administration.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/04/but-what-he-really-loved-to-do-was-steal-i-mean-he-actually-enjoyed-it

remember the ancient argument, a couple months ago, about how bad trump really was, compared to say, bush? it came down to how you felt about the body count (iraq and afghanistan) vs the potential for complete disaster (trump, facing any sort of emergency). welp, trump seems to be intent on evening up the score on the body count, while graduating at the head of his class in corruption all the while

tbh I don't get the Bush vs Trump arguments. Both men killed American citizens; we shouldn't need a calculator to add how many bodies they packed in mounds.

otm. i feel the same way, though that wasn't clear in my post.

Rightly or wrongly, is the argument meant as a response to people that say Trump is uniquely bad, something that hasn't been seen before?

what is ilx about, if not ranking things

I think trump is uniquely bad, something that hasn’t been seen before

He also emboldens his followers in more horrible ways.