Every Presidency a lot happens. And so a lot is on the ballot. Big stuff, little stuff. Obviously, we’re focused on a potential global pandemic today.
But! Recently the NLRB passed a rule to make easier for a franchise to fire workers in retaliation for union organizing. It is now on the individual franchisee rather than the larger franchise. A million of these smaller decisions — boards, court cases you never heard of — are on the ballot.
Shockingly, Nutty Ninth conforms to lofty traditions of Fed Soc strict textualism and rejects Dennis Praeger’s pitiful pleading for state control of private enterprise:
https://t.co/EUXbOEd7eQ
Meanwhile, Mr. Megan McCain still continues his campaign to extend federal civil rights protections to unwashed, fat, conservative incels who can’t get a swipe right:
https://thefederalist.com/2017/09/19/refusal-date-conservatives-one-reason-donald-trump/
Hey Democrats!
If Cuba is really so awesome, then why do they allow the world’s most violent military regime to operate a massive torture camp on their little island paradise? Well? Riddle me that!
MAGA!
BREAKING TREASON NEWS!
It is now day seven since Republican president RapeHero appointed a guy literally on Vladimir Putin’s payroll to oversee all US and Five Eyes intelligence.
And EVERY REPUBLICAN YOU KNOW voted for exactly this, is still totes cool with it, and will eagerly vote for four more years of it.
CBS Moderator: “The next topic will be healthcare. And the question to the candidates is…”
(Waits for it… public option?… Medicare for all?… corona pandemic?…)
“… where does your campaign stand on soft drink bans?”
(Fuck. Me.) https://youtu.be/nrqxmQr-uto?t=115
@1 B-b-b-u-t-t … that means Goldy and Darryl can ban obnoxious trolls from HA, too!!!!! Because they’re not government actors …
So that guy’s theory is you’re more likely to vote for Trump if your gf is a closet Trumper who sucks you into rightwing politics? I can see how that would go at election time: “No Trump, no sex!!!”
@2 The tenant won’t leave.
An innocent black kid spent 23 years in prison because
” … the homicide detective on the case used his power to prey for decades on African-American women, including McIntyre’s mother … the prosecutor [intimidated] witnesses … the presiding judge had a romantic relationship with the prosecutor before the trial that neither disclosed … ”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/kansas-man-wrongfully-convicted-double-murder-receives-1-5-million-n1143546
Yes, it’s a Republican state, of course — why do you need to ask?
CNN doing another dishonest analysis of turnout:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/politics/bernie-sanders-turnout-trump-2020/index.html
First cut to the chase: It’s not about Sanders, or really any potential Dem nominee. It’s about Trump. Always was.
Into the weeds (a bit): Once again citing the Knight Found. study CNN concludes that since non-voters are pretty evenly split there can be no advantage from increasing turnout. But this makes a huge, and very important unspoken assumption about non-voters – that all non-voters are uniformly responsive to all turnout signals. And we also know that is not so. The CNN analysis admits to this, ever so briefly, about half way through, agreeing with the Knight study “…that about three-fifths of nonvoters were significantly more engaged with the news and politics than the remainder; that more engaged group was also more skeptical of Trump”.
The devil in the detail is that the older, more educated, and more financially secure a so-called “non-voter” is the more responsive they are to turnout appeals, and the more likely they are to want “anyone but Trump”.
And it’s ironic, because this “settled political wisdom” about turnout habits in general is precisely the basis for the arguments cited by CNN claiming turnout doesn’t change. It does change. We know it changes. We have the data from voter files showing that the composition of turnout varies from one cycle to the next. And that this change in composition operates among so-called non-voters. Many traditional, established Democratic political consultants are deeply skeptical of Big Data. They don’t trust that massive pools of anonymized can be reliably matched to individual voters and so-called “non-voters”. But the fact is that without such Big Data they have absolutely no way of explaining Trump’s steady march to victory in 2016 (and Clinton’s equally stunning failure).
This accounting for variations in turnout among so-called “non-voters” leaves the question (and it’s a pretty fucking important question) what kinds of signals produce the greatest response among these so-called “non-voters”? And the answer increasingly is the strongest response is produced by negative partisanship. And that has almost nothing to do with the ideology, or positioning of the Democratic nominee.
Right now, Trump himself, and to a lesser degree other Republicans like Moscow Mitch are the biggest drivers of negative partisanship. Among the primary candidates the biggest driver appears to be Mike Bloomberg, running $200 million dollar ad buys directly attacking Trump’s hideous record and stoking fears of his re-election. That’s what will trigger more left-leaning “non-voters” to show up in November. Not “bi-partisan unity” fables that nobody believes.
Seattle Times thinks you’re stupid.
A fawning article about how great it is to not have to pay cashiers AND stockers, clearly ST doesn’t know how the grocery business and ‘merchandisers’ works, they point out that AmazonGoGrocery pays $16.40/hr.
State minimum wage is $16.39. With that kind of generosity and a 40 hour work week every two months Amazon has paid for you to take a bus to work. On One day. To or from but not both.
In the 2018 mid terms 95% of self identified Democrats voted for a Democratic candidate for the House, and 94% of self identified Republicans voted for a Republican candidate for the House.
In terms of affecting ballot outcomes, “swing voter” crossover is largely a myth.
To be clear, the data shows that among those party voters who were supportive of policies from the other end of the spectrum, significant percentages planned to voter for the other party. And that was more or less equally true of both Democrats and Republicans. But there’s the problem: the two groups cancel each other out. And then there’s the not so insignificant fact that these potential crossover voters make up a tiny percentage of the total. Seldom enough to affect the outcome in even the closest House races.
Turnout is the deciding factor. And, excluding targeted voter suppression, turnout is driven by partisanship. Republicans have known this for decades.
9,
GoGrocery brags about an expanded selection of 5000 SKUs, five times the number in a Go store.
A modern US grocery “super” store carries about 50,000 SKUs. At the smallest footprint the SKU count is around 15,000.
Go and GoGrocery appear right now to be more of a challenge to CircleK and Southland than Kroger. But mere data should never be allowed to get in the way of bad journalism.
@8 “Not ‘bi-partisan unity’ fables that nobody believes.”
Years ago, while passing through Chicago, I was stopped at a red light when I noticed two groups of young men in a vacant lot across the street facing each other. Suddenly they rushed for each other, and a melee ensued.
Tribalism.
I don’t remember seeing anybody standing in the middle between them. In fact, I’m positive no one was there; before the rumble began, everyone in that vacant lot was lined up at one end or the other.
The notion of neutrals amidst tribal fights doesn’t make sense. Sure, there were neutrals in the local population, but they were nowhere near that vacant lot. Neither was I, the moment the light turned green.
Relatively quiet day on Wall Street — DJIA down only 123 points today.
CNBC reports massive outflows of money from 401(k) stock funds into money market funds and other cash vehicles.
Karl Marx was right. The masses are asses. If they don’t want their stocks, I’ll take ’em.
This can’t be good. This is some serious shit.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/14-of-recovered-coronavirus-patients-in-chinas-guangdong-tested-positive-again
12,
Just for fun, look up what percentage of Republican voters voted for Doug Jones in the 2017 Alabama special election.
Ninety one percent of Alabama Republican voters went for the Dairy Queen Groper.
15, cont.
Don’t mistake me. Without that small percentage of GOP voters willing to reject the Republican perverted freak, Jones loses that race. So sure, in a state like Alabama “swing” voters matter. As they do in lots of House races and even a few Senate races for both parties. Part of the explanation for the 2018 California GOP wipeout is that, in addition to big changes in turnout composition in a lot of House districts, practically zero Democratic voters were willing to vote for Republican incumbents in the age of Trump. They don’t call them “swing” voters for nothing.
@16 That perverted freak is a Bible thumper. Wherever you look, the two seem to go hand-in-hand.
Trump is more worried about the stock market and his reelection than whether there’s a U.S. coronavirus epidemic.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/02/26/schumer-calls-for-dollar85-billion-in-coronavirus-emergency-aid-in-rebuke-of-trumps-dangerous-plan/23934955/
Of course, with Trump in office, every disaster of any kind is a disaster magnified, because there is no orderly disaster response. He’s Katrina stupidity on steroids.
The only thing we haven’t seen yet is cops randomly shooting pedestrians wearing face masks (you may recall that in Katrina, they randomly shot pedestrians wearing black skin).
Faithless electors. Nobody’s talking about it, but I sure do hope someone’s thinking about it. Trump cheats at everything, even golf, so why wouldn’t his campaign scheme to seed Democratic elector slates with stealth Trumpistas? We can only hope those elector slates are chosen very carefully and vetted very thoroughly.
@19,
Just have King County Elections count the vote for the next presidential election. Trump won’t even get one vote with those guys and gals doing the counting!
Hey! Look at 20. I think we just located Dino Rossi missing since the last time he volunteered for his regular biennial ass kicking.
Must be another statewide office opening up. Are you losers so down on Trump’s chances that you expect Inslee to be leaving to DC next year? The only thing more pathetic than a Washington state Republican is a California Republican.
Hey, here’s a thing.
A thing that is true.
It has been twenty years since the last time Dino Rossi ran a successful election campaign.
#winning
19,
Don’t you honestly think that might be a bit too subtle for these people?
Now, Putin might be capable of something like that.
But not the guy who just appointed a high school senior to the Office of Personnel Management because he like the sound of the guy’s name. The one thing you can say about Trump, when it comes to the corruption he tells you exactly what he’s going to do and then he does it. Get worried with he rage-tweets that he’s going to have Barr file treason charges against any elector who votes for the other candidate.
@20 Give it up. That John Carlson myth died 16 years ago. And you’re not Danny Westneat. He should prosecute you for identity theft.
Who could forget that Rossi-Carlson bullshit, unless they weren’t here then? It was the WSRP lie of the decade.
Two million dollars down the tube on Davis-Wright-Tremaine lawyers whose handpicked Chelan County Republican judge purged 4 of their client’s votes. And Jenny Durkan, the winning side’s lead lawyer, is now mayor of Seattle. I’m still laughing at those clowns.
Rossi? He’s part owner of a minor league baseball team. A very fitting post-politics role for a minor league failed politician, if you ask me. You could say he’s the Bull Durham of Washington state politics.
@23 Being criminal doesn’t rule out being clever. Not all of them are as clumsy as their candidate. Or Rossi and his lawyers.
25,
Just curious, are there any credible GOP survivors left in your state? Rossi is the last name I can recall. I know you have three GOP House members. But don’t they survive by staying mostly out of sight? Seems like at least one of them pretends to not be in a political party. I’m sure they do whatever the fuck they need to do to get re-elected. But that kind of hiding in plain sight would make it awfully difficult to have a go at statewide office.
If that’s all true, then I suppose that means the only Republicans in your state who can hope to make a run for statewide office have to be complete and total political novices with no record and no platform of support other than money. Are there any tech billionaires up there wearing Resistol hats and big belt buckles?
@27
The front runner to go against Inslee is a convicted shoplifter who also may be on trail for campaign finance and tax fraud during the campaign so yeah, things are great for WAGOP.
Speaking of on trail, there’s now a bench warrant for failure to appear for the nitwit racist running against Ilhan Omar which might make doing campaign events tricky. The other challenger, an Iranian born journalist, moved to the district just a few months ago from DC and accuses Omar of not understanding her community. OkleyDokely.
Two million dollars down the tube on Davis-Wright-Tremaine lawyers whose handpicked Chelan County Republican judge purged 4 of their client’s votes.
IIRC, the wa state repukes stiffed DWT (in good part, anyway) on the bill.
The DNC donors who were permitted to attend last night?
Same ones who booed Bernie.
BernieBros will be fucked once again.
@27 Tim Eyman, who doesn’t hide his party affiliation and couldn’t if he wanted to, is running for governor. Not sure who posted his bail. Maybe his mother, if he has a mother.
Other than him, the only statewide elected in Washington who’s a Republican is Kim Wyman, secretary of state, who says she isn’t going to vote in the primary because she doesn’t want to declare her party affiliation. She probably plans to retire from that position, if voters don’t kick her out. There’s no career ladder for her.
@30 Maybe that’s why the firm went bust a couple years later. Or maybe this was why:
“Davis Wright Tremaine has been the subject of numerous malpractice lawsuits. Of particular note however, was a suit alleging that they played a key role, in assisting retirement home operator Sunwest Management Inc. in its running of a $400 million Ponzi scheme. The lawsuit, which was filed by a group of Sunwest investors, alleged that Davis Wright Tremaine encouraged individuals and businesses to invest in Sunwest, even though they were aware of the company’s financial troubles. The suit was resolved before trial, when Davis Wright Tremaine agreed to pay a $30 million settlement to the plaintiffs, the largest malpractice award in the history of the State of Oregon.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Wright_Tremaine
WSRP’s lawyers. Yeah. Fitting.
The Washington State Democratic Party is represented by Perkins Coie. They have better clients. They get paid by their clients, too.
@31 That’s nothing. It costs 200 grand to get past the doorman at Mar-o-Lago. Unless, of course, you’re a Chinese spy. Then admission is free.
Dow futures down 221 points on news of a “community spread” coronavirus case in California.
Today Trump asked Congress for $1.25 billion of funding to fight the pandemic, plus he plans to poach $1.25 billion more from existing health program budgets. Schumer said that’s too little and said Democrats will vote for $8.5 billion. Trump apparently doesn’t want it. He’s buying lots of surgical masks, though. And rolls of paper towels.
Friends of yours, dumbfuck?
https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/seattle-extremist-group-arrest/281-0e64ade6-0f72-427c-9f74-66f471882fb2
They’re sure not from my affiliate group.
28, 32,
At least with Timmeh! you know he’s only doing it for the chance to live well off Other
People’sDumbfuck’s Money.There goes bot-farm pussy running for his checkbook.
Sweet.
33,
Wait. The firm and/or its partners recommended investments in which they held a financial interest?
The.
Fuck.
Setting aside the securities licensing requirements, why the fuck are these people not disbarred immediately?
What the fuck kind of unsophisticated, hayseed, idiot investor would not run screaming in the opposite direction?
My GAWD Republicans are some stupid motherfuckers.
@38 “My GAWD Republicans are some stupid motherfuckers.”
Republican lawyers have known and thrived on that for decades.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Economic Terrorism Bombshell News – New Demorat Plan To Defeat Trump; Create Panic, Crash Stock Market, Wreck Trump Boom Economy. Nancy Pelosi (D- Hysterical Dingbat Speech-Ripping Loon) Explains, “Our only chance to beat Trump is to kill the Trump economic boom and get unemployment back to Obama levels, we can do that if we create enough panic over coronavirus to crash the stock market.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of responding “too late” to halt the possible spread of China’s deadly coronavirus in the United States.
“This is shameful,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked about the administration sending a $2.5 billion supplemental budget request to combat the illness. “He puts forth a proposal now that is meager, anemic in terms of addressing this. Ebola, we did $5 billion. And now they’re trying to take the Ebola money and spend it here.”
“Hopefully we can make up for the loss of time…and not be using scare tactics about people coming back to our country.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Trump administration’s response against coronavirus is “late—too late—anemic.” https://t.co/YJqdmP1bDA pic.twitter.com/nY0wmhStWe
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 26, 2020
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/26/nancy-pelosi-trump-administration-response-to-coronavirus-is-too-late/
The Dow is having its worst week since 2008. Paper wealth is being destroyed right and left. This afternoon, Trump blamed it on the Democrats and coronavirus, in that order. He may have thrown in a jibe against the Federal Reserve, too — I wasn’t paying that close attention. (Why should I?) The strange thing is, some people are actually stupid enough to believe him. I’ll be happy to take their money. I’m in the market for cheap stocks.
It’s time for another episode of Name That Party!
Have I told y’all libbies that y’all have lost OH for good yet?
40,
The stock market still is not the economy.
Not when you are stupidly hip-trhusting over 30,000, and not when that meaningless threshold is rapidly receding from view.
42,
probably also had the appallingly poor taste to use the dinner fork for her salad too.
Meanwhile your much beloved president RapeHero who plainly admitted to bragging about a history of violent sexual assaults four weeks before you voted for him just named a guy on Putin’s payroll to oversee all US and Five Eyes intelligence products.
Something, something about motes and beams and shit.
Thou hypocrite.
And pussy.
Not as bad as CNN showing up at Roger Stone’s home at 6a in time to witness the raid, but still.
Bernie about to end Warren’s candidacy.
She’s savvy, but dishonest and unlikable. Good riddance, Fauxchahontas.
Biggest losers: YLB and gman.
Village People, on Facebook:
I’m a socialist, and I want to suck Bernie’s dick to prove it.
Guy voting for the party that has forbidden a nominating primary has “concerns” about the conduct of primaries in a completely different party.
Next up: the very same guy who is curiously insistent about his own heterosexuality will express “concerns” about the oral sex techniques employed by gay men, lesbians, and younger more attractive single people.
He may also need to watch you poop. For reasons.
Sometimes I find myself wistfully wishing bot-farm pussy would stop serving them up fat and slow down the middle like that.
Home runs are nice. But sometimes it’s also nice to know if you can still keep your head still and reach to make a single off a backdoor slider.
@42 Non-partisan.
@43 Some idiot is blaming Pelosi for the stock market correction?
@48 If Bernie’s dick isn’t available, ask Doctor Dumbfuck if he has a horse dick he can lend to you.
It’s loose in the community and the Trump administration is so confused and uncertain how to handle it they put Mike Pence in charge without telling anyone.
Last Wed. a patient with a serious resp infec was transferred to UC Davis MC. Davis requested the CDC test for COVID-19. CDC refused. Sunday CDC agreed to test. Today CDC finally reported that the patient is infected with COVID-19, acquired here in the US. Trump and Pork Sauce need to blame a hippie while waiting a week in order to adjust their portfolios.
With Mike Pence in charge, I guess all the lady epidemiologists and virologists are just going to have to go home and bake cookies with “Mother”.
Where is everyone today?
Got the Flu? Virus? Or buying cheap stocks?
Fucking a horse? Blowing the horse?
“Domestic right-wing extremists have killed over 300 people in the United States in the last 10 years …. There were 42 murders in the U.S. committed by extremists in 2019 …. Of those murders, 38 were committed by people subscribing to far-right ideologies.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/right-wing-murders-united-states-white-nationalists_n_5e56dec4c5b68f79fdc45e3d
Roger Rabbit Commentary; No question who the source of domestic terrorism and political violence is. Not “leftists” (whatever that is).
@56 Doctor Dumbfuck more likely is buying a cheap trick than a cheap stock. Gotta say, though, his cheap stock is getting cheaper by the day, so maybe he’s stocking up on it.
@55 I’d rather have him in charge than the bloviator-in-chief in charge, but the preference is only incremental. Very incremental.
But don’t you know this stock market correction is Pelosi’s fault?
@58….I’m under the impression that this isn’t a good situation and even cheap stocks aren’t going to be a silver lining or a benefit. I think this virus can make all stocks meaningless after this Country is shut down.
But over the course of the last 3-4 day, I only lost like $10,000 in my 401k. I could imagine how much others are losing that were heavily invested in stocks and not bond.
@61 A Wall Street sage once said, “The world doesn’t end all that often.” This, too, shall pass. The hits to earnings and stocks will be temporary.
@ 61
I only lost like $10,000 in my 401k. I could imagine how much others are losing that were heavily invested in stocks and not bond.
Er, more than $10,000.
Yawn.
I went through this in late 2018 – a downturn with a duration of months. It likely contributed to the Democrat success in the midterms. It forced me to buy stocks at not-such-attractive prices due to pre-existing naked put exposure. It wasn’t a fun time.
As a result, I ended up with more dividend-producing stocks purchased at prices well below where they are today. Money is not made only when stocks go up. It is made as a result of the oscillations in the market.
This is a 10% correction. As I type this it’s barely that – S&P 500 is down about 9%. These corrections happen all the time. All the time.
Who should be worried? People like Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, who have harmed their families through decades of poor investments – how’s that 3M stock you bought last Fall doing, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit? How far did you permit your GE holdings to plummet before finally being shamed into exiting, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit? – and due to age and poor health have very little time left, have a disappointing portfolio to begin with, and who are already fully invested because they need to roll the dice on the future, having rolled the dice and failed with the past. Those people, without ongoing substantial income, should be worried.
Who should not be worried? John Bogle disciples. People who still have earned income and/or a substantial amount of investment income above and beyond what is needed to live, who continue to invest on a regular basis, and who will have an opportunity to “buy on the dip”, or somewhere along that temporary negative oscillation curve.
A shit-ton of money was made during the Great Recession little more than a decade ago. It followed the loss of a slightly smaller shit-ton of money.
gman, this is not End of Days. This is a time not to be Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Just like always.
Best wishes, and stop staring at your portfolio.
@42. So if a city councilwoman in Cincinnati loses the whole state to conservatives, then by the racist incel’s logic, the impeached miserable failure’s corruption will lose the entire nation to liberals.
@46. I am consistently amazed at how threatened the racist incel is of competent women.
We should all fervently hope that doesn’t happen.
Not for reasons of wealth or greed. But for reasons of public health.
In our current system of employer subsidized private health insurance, curtailment of economic activities intended to contain the spread of infectious disease are likely to have the opposite effect. People who lose their access to health care services because of layoff provide a giant pool of unprotected population in which an infectious disease agent can flourish and spread rapidly to dangerous proportions.
Ironic if the rest of the post industrial economies manage to effectively contain the spread of the pathogen because of their reliance on single payer healthcare funding systems, while the United States becomes an isolated hot spot of disease because of our reliance on a system that collapses in response to temporary economic disruption.
Even more ironic if the people in the United States most likely to be killed or injured by such an epidemic also happen to be those citizens most likely to oppose single payer.
65,
I am consistently amazed at how fascinated the racist incel is by the sexual behavior and toileting habits of complete strangers.
But I avoid paying much attention to it in the same way I avert my gaze when when encountering a florid schizophrenic in a place of public commerce. Nothing I can do to help them. Saddens me to see it.
@ 65
Barack, Nancy, and Chuck have about five more days to endorse said competent woman, before it’s too late and Bernie takes either a compelling plurality of delegates, or an outright majority of delegates, to the convention in Milwaukee.
Third Tier Red, you should be amazed at how threatened the powers that be in the Democrat party are of BernieBros.
Especially since their fear is not misplaced.
Warren introduces bill to redirect wall money to coronavirus
Where it’ll die of McConnellvirus
$8.5 billion is too much to spend quickly.
The problem with all that money is that it won’t be used for the current emergency. It will be used to expand government and to bloat the system, thereafter requiring annual increases in spending to support the bloat. If you read about how the money will be used, some of it goes into “reserves”. That’s not emergency spending.
We already know about “emergencies”, like the closure of national park entrances during government shutdowns. The fact is that words like “emergency” have lost meaning as they are misapplied to anything a zealot on either side does not like.
Schumer doesn’t want to spend the money. He wants the appropriation authority, which helps him gather thankful Democrat votes on election day.
70,
Now do WALL SHITDOWN MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun!
70,
Now do BORDER RAPE CAMP MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun!
70,
Now do 2016 UKRAINE ELECTION INVESTIGATION MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun!
70,
Now do 2020 CENSUS CITIZENSHIP MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun!
70,
Now do ASSOCIATE JUSTICE GANG RAPE CONFIRMATION MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun.
70,
Now do GOP SENATE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL MURJINSEEE!
Go on. It’ll be fun!
Know what GOP bot-farm pussy will never have to do?
He’ll never have to do a TWENTY SIX PRE-SCHOOLERS SLAUGHTERED BY HIGH CAPACITY MILITARY WEAPONS MURJINSEEEE! At least not so long as Republicans have the filibuster.
@ 77
You forgot AND THE SENATE.
You forgot AND THE PRESIDENCY.
You forgot AND THE SUPREME COURT.
And it’s not as if there aren’t other methods to kill a lot of people.
@63 ” It likely contributed to the Democrat success in the midterms.”
Well, at least you don’t have the cause and effect backwards.
Just a couple days ago, our commander-in-chief was referring to COVID-19 as “flu.”
Don’t even bother to ask if this administration is prepared to deal with a global pandemic.
@ 79
Well, at least you don’t have the cause and effect backwards.
Well, at least you didn’t offer a defense @ 63 for your miserable financial decision-making, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
You failed your family. When you open your February 2020 statement and look at not just your change in investment value but really consider how far your pitiful account balance will get your family, think about that. You failed.
@63 “It forced me to buy stocks at not-such-attractive prices due to pre-existing naked put exposure. It wasn’t a fun time. … This is a time not to be Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Just like always.”
I’m sorry that wasn’t a fun time for you; it was for me. I picked up ITW for $129 (it’s $174 today after this week’s declines) and added to several existing positions. My dividend income is 54% higher now than it was when 2017 ended, and is about to go even higher. I didn’t lose a penny on naked puts; just because emperor has no clothes doesn’t mean I have to go around in my birthday suit. I have a nice fur coat that I wear all the time, in low markets, and high markets.
I’m glad I’m me, because it sure sucks to be you.
Boeing sponsored an Al Sharpton even in SC this morning. Oops.
@68 Are you fucking her in your daydreams? If you are, don’t let her husband find out. He’s a lawyer.
@78 Missing from your list is THE HOUSE, which seems to be more omission than your pied piper can stand. As for the rest of the list: This, too, shall pass.
@ 82
Yeah, it’s a pity you soiled your fur Depends garment, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
Don’t forget, if you take a pittance and increase it 54%, it’s still a pittance.
@81 I don’t need one. I’m not the gambler who got burned on naked puts. Do you spend your dividend checks on scratch-off tickets? Oh, that’s right, you don’t get dividend checks. Not to rub it in, but my dividends are up 54% in the last 2 years and 2 months. Well, okay, I’m rubbing your face in it.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
@83 Can’t blame the Boeing guy. I wouldn’t answer that asshole’s loaded questions, either.
It’s the only way of preventing the Republican Guard from shooting them down.
@86 I’m obviously not wearing that fur coat. Even a dumbfuck like you should be able to figure that out.
79,
No evidence in any data source that differential turnout in 2018 was driven by a brief economic downturn almost all of which occurred after the GOP election wipeout*.
It’s possible that Teh Dumbfuck did get cause and effect reversed.
September of 2018 saw all time records set. December was a disaster. And surely we all realize that bot-farm pussy knows all of this. He neeeeeds to lie about the 2018 election. It’s the only thing keeping him trolling.
*Hey! Maybe suburban white women have themselves a TIME MUSHEEEN too! Or maybe they just turned out in record numbers to vote for Democrats because RapeHeros. Could that even be a thing?
@89 You’ve got a point, and if Trump plans his flight path home from India like he plans everything else, the Republican Guard could be a problem.
78,
With control of the House, Ryan and Romney banished, and your party leader permanently crippled by impeachment, we can wait a few more months.
And while we await the next in the recent powerful trend of GOP wipeouts, you’ll be waiting for Durham and the Q Storm while Andrew McCabe lives rent free in your head.
We’ll count seats. You’ll count “devastating” Twitter memes.
Dumbfuck!
“27,000!”
“28,000!”
“29,000!”
“Fucking awesome!”
26,000
“Tis but a scratch. A flesh would. It’s fine. I timed it.”
@94 The S&P is back to where it was on October 25. All that’s happened is coronavirus or Bernie Sanders (take your pick) has erased December’s irrationally exuberant multiple expansion-driven rally. So it’s almost dishonest to call this a “correction.” As corrections go, it’s a pretty punk one, if this is all there is to it. We buyers want to see another 10% or 15% off the top. As for the sporting types wagering on naked puts, well, I can’t speak for them. Maybe someone here can.
94,
“Come back and fight, ya
pansy!pussy!Shorter 63: I’ve had worse!
Like the Pythons, bot-farm is a classic.
@96 Seems pretty obvious God is choosing our next president, and it’ll be even more obvious if this correction drags the economy into a recession. Don’t you know Jesus was a socialist?
Something doesn’t add up.
Bernie will fer sher to lose to Donald. Bernie is the front runner. Wall Street worried Bernie is the next president.
Go back to start
“Goldman Sachs is warning Wall Street that the coronavirus could cost President Donald Trump the election.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/business/goldman-sachs-trump-election-coronavirus/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: See? What did I tell you? Divine intervention.
“The captain of the celebrated 1980 Olympic men’s ice hockey team told CNN on Thursday that ‘it’s unfortunate’ the players from the legendary team have faced so much online backlash after their appearance at President Donald Trump’s rally … some of the players wore the President’s signature red ‘Keep America Great’ baseball caps.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/miracle-on-ice-eruzione-trump-rally-trnd/index.html
Shouldn’t somebody explain it to them? Nah, let them figure it out.
Wherein a GOP Super-Pac gets a cease-and-desist letter from Two-Term Former President Obama.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/26/politics/obama-cease-and-desist/index.html
For, you guessed it, stealing intellectual property.
The Evolution of the Maine Senate Race
6/24/19:
Collins – 52%
Gideon – 36%
2/13/20:
Gideon – 43%
Collins – 42%
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/me/maine_senate_collins_vs_gideon-6928.html
Confirming a rapist and acquitting an extortionist isn’t winning hearts and minds in Maine.
98,
That algorithm is no less valid than the one that operates bot-farm pussy. An animated stack overflow error with a bad comb over.
102,
Far worse for Collins are her numbers with Maine’s college educated women.
Lucky for her there won’t be any name on that November ballot that would trigger a spike in turnout among those voters….
Oh. Yeah. That one.
Trump’s emergency response to coronavirus: Silence the people who know what they’re talking about.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/report-white-house-locking-down-messaging-from-federal-government-on-coronavirus-79563845972
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Economic Terrorism Bombshell News – More Proof Demorats Plan To Defeat Trump By Crashing Stock Market, Janet Yellen, Demorat Fed Chairwoman (2014-18) Whips Up Recession Panic.
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Janet Yellen, who served as the first chairwoman of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018, said on Wednesday that the concerning spread of the coronavirus across the world could put the U.S. economy on a path toward recession.
“We could see a significant impact on Europe, which has been weak to start with, and it’s just conceivable that it could throw the United States into a recession,” Yellen said in Michigan, Bloomberg reports.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/economy/484919-former-fed-chair-warns-coronavirus-could-throw-the-us-into-recession
Cool, rich data from Senior Living .org on what things people fear more than death:
https://www.seniorliving.org/americans-2020-fears/
Democrats greatest fear overwhelmingly is Trump re-election across all age groups.
Republicans greatest fears are “TERRISM” and “medical bills” all before “Socialist Sanders” which only ranks third.
Interestingly the only Republicans who list “Fear of Sanders”/”Fear of Warren” are Boomers. No other Republicans list any such fear of Democratic President.
Half of “Independents” list “Fear of Trump Re-election”.
Zero “Independents” list fear of any Democrat.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Economic Terrorism Bombshell News – Demorats Can Still Take Time Out From Spreading Panic To Rig Elections – DNC To BoinieBros, “Tough shit suckers, whatcha gonna do, vote for Trump, hahaha.”
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Dozens of Democratic superdelegates say they’re willing to sacrifice party cohesion to prevent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders from becoming their party’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention in July.
The New York Times spoke with 93 superdelegates following Sanders’s victory in the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22, the vast majority of which said they believe the Democratic Party is headed toward a contested convention. Of the superdelegates interviewed, 84 said Sanders does not deserve to become the party’s nominee based solely on having secured the most, but not over 50%, of the delegates during the primaries and caucuses.
“If 60% is not with Bernie Sanders, I think that says something, I really do,” Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas told The Times.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/27/democratic-superdelegates-sanders-nominee/
108,
Gosh! Wow! 93!
4765
Keep fuckin’ that chickin Pork Sauce!
105. Silencing the people who can help mitigate the virus is just going to make the virus worse. I assume that would make things even worse for the impeached miserable failure.
@110
If the Democrats run Bernie Sanders in 2020, the chances of defeating Trump drop significantly. Elizabeth Warren’s nomination will have the same effect. The Democrats’ best choice for 2020 is Joe Biden.
110,
The first thing we need to do to control the spread of the virus is to stop testing for the virus.
Once the reported number of new cases begins to decline we can hold a rally, declare victory and have a big parade!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
MAGA!
109,
You’re forgetting that as “superdelegates”, like all “supers” they have special super powers.
For example, as one of the Mushroom People I possess the super power of being able to shoot spores as well as sticky jizz covered non-disclosure agreements to defeat my enemies.
MAGA!
@109 In the GOP, every delegate is a superdelegate, and no grassroots Republican gets to vote for the candidate he or she prefers, or something damn close to that.
No stone will be left un-turned as my boss single-handedly searches for the coronavirus cure.
Today he met with top bio-medical investigators Diamond and Silk to complain about Lisa Page’s text messages.
MAGA!
If Trump is defeated in November the entire world will celebrate, except in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.
BREAKING DUMBFUCK NEWS!
Last weekend Country Pop star Garth Brooks was photographed wearing a “Sanders” #20 football jersey while performing in Detroit.
Very Smart Republicans are outraged, holding rallies to burn Brook’s CDs and running wild on FB organizing a boycott of Brooks for supporting a “Socialist Democrat”. Megs McCain wants Brooks to shut up and play. GOP president RapeHero threatens to investigate Brooks for “Treason”.
Dixie Chicks have sent flowers and an 8 piece bucket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sanders
Deer In Headlights Dep’t
“President Donald Trump is hoping for a ‘miracle’ that will make the coronavirus disappear but tanking stock markets and signs the disease is stalking America are delivering their verdict on his scattershot management of the crisis. … ‘It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,’ Trump said at the White House Thursday as the virus marched across Asia and Europe after US officials said the US should brace for severe disruption to everyday life.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-miracle-stock-markets/index.html
@117 Probably took one look at his 401(k) statement and said, “Fuck this.”
The ephemeral nature of pixel money never fails to fascinate me.
If God is on their side, why do they keep getting hit by lightning?
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/fox-news-britt-mchenry-says-she-has-brain-tumor-will-n1144606
Nevertheless, I wish her a successful surgery, speedy recovery, and good health.
@117. “Very Smart Republicans are outraged, holding rallies to burn Brook’s CDs and running wild on FB organizing a boycott of Brooks for supporting a “Socialist Democrat”.”
>> But Bernie bros are the real problem. Riiiighhhht.
122,
There have clearly been a few problematic Sanders supporters. Problem is that empirically they are no more numerous and no more problematic than supporters of any other candidate. And certainly not as bad as the worst of the Republican supporters.
But again, it serves mass media business interests to develop and support a character driven narrative of rival factions engaging in outrageous conduct. At least Sanders (and the other Dem campaigns) have quickly fired these people when the offending conduct is revealed. Trump holds an award ceremony and Republicans sob with pride and gratitude.
I think what the Brooks episode reveals (other than the remarkable stupidity of rank-and-file Republicans) is precisely how poised and loaded the Republican ranks really are to go into mindless oppositional outrage the very instant any Democrat appears to emerge from the field. If Brooks had appeared in Seattle wearing a “Warren” #42 jersey the reaction would be the same – every bit as extreme and every bit as stupid.