Virus thread, the political one.

[thollandpe]

Wow did last night’s address go poorly.

Not only his affect (low energy, labored breathing, barely able to finish sentences and even words) but the content.

How many salient points had to be walked back? All travelers? Well not all travelers. Cargo? Not cargo. Whoever penned that address, rumored to be Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, should be given a long time out.

"This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history."

Predictable use of the word foreign. Also a lie, predictably.

And the ban exempts the UK, where a certain family has several business interests. Predictable. A slap at the EU, predictably.

"We're having to fix a problem that four weeks ago nobody thought would be a problem."

Predictable, again, and demonstrably false. Next move, assign blame with shotgun and shovel responsibility onto states and cities. With bias toward those who vote blue.


Disaster, thy name is tRump.

[thollandpe]

Opinion: he seems ill, and I hope he gets well.

[Chik]

It's seems clear to me that when it comes to a deadly virus, he's a dyed in the wool socialist that puts Bernie to shame.

[bigbill]

I think every politician's nightmare is walking to the podium wearing only his underwear and just when he thinks that is bad, he sees the folder in the podium with Stephen Miller's name on it.

[Too Tall]

I think every politician's nightmare is walking to the podium wearing only his underwear and just when he thinks that is bad, he sees the folder in the podium with Stephen Miller's name on it.

WE can hang.
Anytime Big man.

OK Todd, you called it buddy boy. This thread lives until Todd says it's done.

[mzilliox]

I think every politician's nightmare is walking to the podium wearing only his underwear and just when he thinks that is bad, he sees the folder in the podium with Stephen Miller's name on it.

theres only one politician who would consider hiring stephen miller, so this is all trump's worst nightmare.
This is showing that if it doesnt have to do directly with a money making scheme, DT has neither the ability nor interest. we got what we paid for, chinese made MAGA crap... lets buy a better model next time eh? one that at least tries to use the accessories it comes with?

[j44ke]

I am seeing Otello with Trump in the lead and Stephen Miller as Iago and Desdemona is everyone else.

As you can see, I think this thread should be the Viral Shakespearean thread.

[nahtnoj]

I posted a political thing in the other thread. Oops.

I think if you polled Americans today asked asked if we should have the election in two weeks, the overwhelming answer would be yes.

We're only another bad day or two on Wall Street for the markets to be where they were when Trump took office.

[jclay]

It's seems clear to me that when it comes to a deadly virus, he's a dyed in the wool socialist that puts Bernie to shame.

Most US citizens are; they just don't know it and would never admit it.

[Cookietruck]

Opinion: he seems ill, and I hope he gets well.

times is reporting that...

Vice President Mike Pence warned that the United States will have thousands more cases and said that Americans returning from Europe would need to self-quarantine for 14 days.

RIGHT NOWA senior Brazilian official who was with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago days ago has tested positive for the virus, Brazilian media are reporting.

[davids]

RIGHT NOWA senior Brazilian official who was with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago days ago has tested positive for the virus, Brazilian media are reporting.

Trump was asked about this and replied, "I'm not concerned."

This is just the latest incident where I strongly disagree with the President.

[al415]

I don't know what all you snowflakes are stressing about. Jared wonder-boy Kushner will sort this out: Remember when there was discord in the Middle East and an Opioid Epidemic? Now you can't even FIND heroin and life in Gaza is all lollipops and rainbows.

[Colinmclelland]

I've just gone from thinking as the incumbent Trump's more than likely going to get re-elected to he hasn't got a snowflakes chance in hell. Now how is your 401k looking? It was never Trump that made it rise, but last night's debacle of a speech certainly helped it fall. You can't only claim credit in one direction to my mind.

Banning international travel seems like the logical extreme extension of tarriffs. Bugger, should have built a bigger wall.

Oh, and the world is about to start printing money.

Let's see, the US economy was "strong" but the US was still running a deficit. Umm... so now it's staring into a recession and the Unknown. Emergency rate cuts? Not a lot of room there. Money printing. We're the same.

And wasn't Italy the reason the world was shit scared the Eurozone would break up a few years ago? Weren't going to be able to deal with their debt, now we've shut the country down, but it's all good? I don't understand that.

There doesn't seem to be an answer to any of this that doesn't involve governments printing shit tonnes of money. Which should be good for gold.

[TTX1]

Opinion: he seems ill, and I hope he gets well.

Word is that c19 is most dangerous to those who are already compromised...

Thoughts and prayers!

[guido]

Opinion | It’s a MAGA Microbe Meltdown - The New York Times

[Walter Sobchak]

Word is that c19 is most dangerous to those who are already compromised...

Thoughts and prayers!

Opinion | It’s a MAGA Microbe Meltdown - The New York Times

#magavirus — try not to spread it around

[thollandpe]

I thought this was supposed to be the non-politics thread about COVID-19?

Good point. Moving this here.

And as for Fauci, who I generally admire, I think he's borderline hysterical at this point. How can you call it a failing (in public) when there was (a) no reason to think this would happen until it happened (b) we had relatively little time to ramp up production of valid and reliable test kits? I'm all for placing blame when blame is due, but it's not helpful at this point. We have what we have and we should be looking forward, not backward. You dont solve problems by looking in the rear view mirror.

If the problem is a decision-making structure that's still in place, then I think you need to evaluate what has happened in order to not keep making similar mistakes.

It's not necessarily contradicting, but it's also dumbed down for media and general populace consumptions [sic]. And like I said, things are changing hourly. You are relying on a governor to relay a message about a complex process to a mass of people that can't even spell "reagent." The term "kit" is even simplified for ease of reporting. There is far more to it than that. We say kit because it's palatable to the general populace. The governor doesn't know what a kit is.

What? Reagent was misspelled by the reporter who wrote that quote. And my bad for repeating it. I'm wondering why you seem to be taking potshots at the people and/or governor of California here.

[vertical_doug]

Wow did last night’s address go poorly.

Not only his affect (low energy, labored breathing, barely able to finish sentences and even words) but the content.

How many salient points had to be walked back? All travelers? Well not all travelers. Cargo? Not cargo. Whoever penned that address, rumored to be Stephen Miller and Jared Kushner, should be given a long time out.

"This is the most aggressive and comprehensive effort to confront a foreign virus in modern history."

Predictable use of the word foreign. Also a lie, predictably.

And the ban exempts the UK, where a certain family has several business interests. Predictable. A slap at the EU, predictably.

"We're having to fix a problem that four weeks ago nobody thought would be a problem."

Predictable, again, and demonstrably false. Next move, assign blame with shotgun and shovel responsibility onto states and cities. With bias toward those who vote blue.


Disaster, thy name is tRump.

Actually, I am waiting for the trial balloon on twitter- maybe elections need to be suspended.
Everything is floated as a trial balloon on twitter.

[72gmc]

Trump: am I surrounded by yes men?
Yes men: yes
Trump: am I going to survive this?
Yes men: yes

[72gmc]

I enjoy the Shakespeare idea. I think Reservoir Dogs may also be applicable.