Someone in my building got the Coronavirus. My super put a note under the door that all of the common areas would be deep cleaned yesterday.* So I guess this is the best time to do laundry and check the mail, even though they aren’t necessary for a bit?
And yet, I am stay putting. I also found some green tea in an unexpected place, so now I have a source of caffeine that doesn’t require cutting with milk. So I guess I can hold up for a bit longer without leaving the building.
*Weird tenses, but I’m sticking with it.
35,000 > 15
Dr. Drew “We won’t see anything near 20,000 deaths. It’s the flu.”
Dr. Oz “Losing 2-3% of the population is fine if we can get the schools open and the economy going.”
Dr. Phil, “We don’t shut down the economy for smoking deaths. The shutdown is deadlier than the virus.”
It’s better to simply drink your coffee black because putting milk and sugar/sweetener in it blocks some of the good things in coffee.
“I like it black. Like my men.”
-Airplane
I bet this movie doesn’t hold up well. ‘F/X’ does though. Watched last night. Farewell Dennehy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oqrtoFWglMY
Still think vaping is cool, BernieBros? The reality is, vaping doesn’t just guarantee the only sex you’re gonna be having is with yourself. If more than 27% of your lung volume is unhealthy, regardless of cause, you’re gonna be in trouble.
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201433
Also, if you’re a fat fuck like Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, update your will.
@ 3
Never understood why Bryan Brown didn’t advance further.
Editorial: The Postal Service is America’s lifeline. Save it
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/postal-service-essential
Trump’s dislike of the Postal Service is so intense that he reportedly threatened to veto the recent $2-trillion economic relief package if it included any postal bailout. Private airlines and other giant corporations, yes;
the national lifeline that reaches virtually every American in good times and bad, no way.
Congress has hamstrung the agency with an unsound plan to fund future retiree pensions. It also has prevented it from employing modern technologies or adding services that might compete with private companies. It should unleash the agency.
Airplane! is great and remains a classic.
It voted for the pro-vaping candidate. Even did so after hearing that candidate bragging about a lengthy history of violent sexual assaults.
And it will do so again in a few months.
Still, somewhere there’s a vaping 24-year-old who never even voted who’s dying. And this makes it feel better.
It’s Every Republican You Know.
@ 6
Someone please explain to The Even Bigger Fucking Moron about the importance of the USPS pension pre-funding requirement to those who work there.
And that “unleashing the agency” is a dog whistle for making the USPS compete on even footing with UPS, Amazon, and FedEx. Which is what many on the right have been advocating for well over a decade now.
And that in this day and age the premise of the USPS being a lifeline is itself now a false one.
At some point in the future, defined benefit plans (pensions) will disappear. Retirement plans will all be defined contribution plans such as an IRA or a 401k.
Who needs a fucking pension plan when we can get bailouts and handouts from the the Fucking Hump Administration!
It took PBS until Wednesday night to cover the sexual assault claim against Creepy Joe Biden. Amanpour finally asked DNC Chair Tom F-bomb Perez about it.
CBS waited until Thursday, and buried it in a morning segment, until a C-list interviewer finally asked Bernie Sanders about it.
So, this just happened:
Dow 24,001.52 463.84 1.97%
That’s a nearly 31% increase since the close on Election Day, 2016.
With this week’s stimulus check, ‘froggy has taken in more in a month than at any other time in the past 12 years.
He’s gonna vote Trump.
@13
35,000 dead so far.
Would someone tell the racist incel, the post office is 600,000 American jobs. Oh wait. Given what he writes, he does not care.
Judge rules all Texans who wish to vote by mail can do so; GOP attorney general vows immediate appeal
Can’t vote by mail, if the impeached miserable failure destroys the post office.
@12
“ Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.””
11 – Yes, we will eventually all be responsible for our own retirements.
“So I guess this is the best time to do laundry and check the mail, even though they aren’t necessary for a bit?”
Carl, you’re disinfecting your mail, aren’t you? Mrs. Rabbit sprays ours with a solution of water, vinegar, and vodka, then wipes it down. The utility bills are damp, but still payable.
@1 Nobody makes you smoke, except the asshole at the next table who ignores the “No Smoking” signs.
Someone please explain to The Even Bigger Fucking Moron about the importance of the USPS pension pre-funding requirement to those who work there.
Memo to Biggest Fucking Moron aka pos rapey mcdimfuk (ha’s sad sack sufferer of the mental illness of projection):
https://www.truthorfiction.com/is-usps-losing-money-because-of-a-2006-pension-law/
The USPS is clearly hamstrung by repukelican laws designed to do exactly that.
@2 The issue seems to be the added calories, not what milk and sugar do to whatever beneficial effects coffee has.
https://evoke.ie/2017/02/05/health/adding-milk-to-your-coffee-is-bad-for-your-health
There are workarounds. Artificial sweeteners can substitute for sugar. (This may be news to you, but most people have been aware of that for years. Restaurants even have packets of the stuff on their tables.) And, believe it or not, there’s zero-calorie milk that even diabetics can drink. It’s a Kroger brand, sold locally in Seattle by QFC and Fred Meyer stores, called “Carbmaster.”
Dow 24,001.52 463.84 1.97%
That’s a nearly 31% increase since the close on Election Day, 2016.
Heh. 24k.. it’s the new 30k!
@4 Hey doc, federal prosecutors don’t recommend writing prescriptions based on Trump’s medical advice. Just thought you should know.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/us/doctor-charged-hydroxychloroquine-trump/index.html
P.S., I’ll let you know when I’m dead. For now, I’m still here, so whatever health risks you see as being associated with my rotundity or sexual prowess have yet to materialize.
Personally, I think fucking horses is more dangerous than anything I do, especially if you stand directly behind them.
@6 “Trump’s dislike of the Postal Service is so intense that he reportedly threatened to veto the recent $2-trillion economic relief package if it included any postal bailout. Private airlines and other giant corporations, yes; the national lifeline that reaches virtually every American in good times and bad, no way.
Because they deliver absentee ballots.
“
Congress hasRepublicans have hamstrung the agency with an unsound plan to fund future retiree pensions.”ftfy
@8 Covid-19 has now killed more Americans than Nixon’s secret plan to end the war did. Much quicker, too. The latter weren’t old enough to vote, so it wasn’t even their fault. Can’t say the same for the dumbfucks now dying in Red America, or the dumbfucks in Michigan who will be on ventilators by the end of this month.
@9 I doubt Amazon is on board with letting USPS go under. What would Bezos do without USPS to deliver packages for him?
@10 When the beneficiaries of defined benefit plans die off, or Republicans succeed in repudiating defined benefit plans’ legal obligations and abrogating pensioners’ contractual rights, whichever occurs first.
Contract Law 101
To form a binding contract with a Democrat, you need his signature on a written document.
To form a binding contract with a Republican, you also need collateral, a judgment of execution signed by a judge, and sheriff’s deputies to execute the writ.
@12 I don’t care what Biden has done. He could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone, and I’d still vote for him.
You see, Dumbfuck, I’m really not so different from you after all.
Republicans eating each other. Gotta love it. Best show on C-Span in these times of forced isolation.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/politics/tom-massie-liz-cheney-stimulus-vote/index.html
@13 Election Day 2009 – April 17, 2012 = +36.3%
Jan. 20, 2009 – April 17, 2012 = +65.0%
March 9, 2009 – April 17, 2012 = +100.3%
@13 What were you muttering about the stock market?
If I were nothing more than a greed-driven capitalist who cared about nothing except money, I’d still vote for Obama before I’d vote for Trump. Do I need to explain the math?
I doubt it’s working…..
Lets say your a middle of the road voter who really didn’t like Hillary and voted for Trump. In a state like say…uh…Michigan.
Your staying home, trying not to get infected or get others infected and watching a bunch of people demanding their right to not just get the virus themselves but pass it along as much as they damn well please. They don’t have a coherent message but a majority of them are not waving signs about freedom and Staying safe. They’re waving big Trump flags and signs.
Does that make you want to be:
A:With those protesters
B:Not with those protesters
Do roughly .5% of moderates who voted for Trump think the protesters are assholes who want to kill? That’s all it would take.
Michigan Likely Voters April 6-8
Biden 50%
Trump 41%
This is no outlier. Although this fact-check is a bit outdated, nothing has happened since then to alter the basic conclusion that Democrats are vastly better than Republicans at managing the economy.
From Harding In 1921 to Bush in 2003:
–Democrats held White House for 40 years and Republicans for 42.5 years.
–Democrats created 75,820,000 net new jobs — Republicans 36,440,000.
–Per Year Average: Democrats 1,825,200, Republicans 856,400.
–Republicans had 9 presidents during the period of whom 6 presided over a depression or recession.
–The Dow Average grew 52% more under Democrats.
–GDP grew 43% more under Democrats.
Comparing Clinton to Reagan:
–Jobs grew 43% more under Clinton.
–GDP grew 57% more under Clinton.
–The Dow Average went up 700% more under Clinton..
–The NASDAQ Composite Index grew 18 times more under Clinton.
–Federal spending grew 28% under Clinton, but 80% under Reagan.
–Federal debt grew by 43% under Clinton but 187% under Reagan.
–Deficits grew by 112% under Reagan; Clinton produced a large surplus.
–National income grew 100% more under Clinton.
–Personal income grew 110% more under Clinton.
Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.BLS.gov); Economic Policy Institute (EPI.org); Global & World Almanacs from 1980 to 2003 (annual issues)
More evidence that Republicans are economic illiterates:
Jobs Records of Presidents (as percentage of workforce)
Democrat Roosevelt 5.3%
Democrat Johnson 3.8%
Democrat Carter 3.1%
Democrat Truman 2.5%
Democrat Clinton 2.4%
Democrat Kennedy 2.3%
Republican Nixon 2.2%
Republican Reagan 2.1%
Republican Coolidge 1.1%
Republican Ford 1.1%
Republican Eisenhower 0.9%
Republican Bush Sr. 0.6%
Republican Bush Jr. (0.7%)
Republican Hoover (9.0%)
@16 Time to bring back Jennifer Granholm to remind voters of the difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to saving jobs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPxvGd0BDW8
@17 They’ll get Trump’s DNA sample about the same time Congress gets his tax returns.
@18 We’ve always been responsible for our own retirements, dumbass. You don’t get a pension unless you work in a job. The pension is part of your earned compensation. So is your health care. The fact employers are contributing less to employee pensions and health care simply means workers are being paid less while corporate profits soar.
Obviously, it’s much better to be a stockholder than a worker. And that’s even before considering that capital gains and dividends are among the most tax-privileged forms of income, while wages for work are the most tax-disadvantaged form of income there is, thanks to 40 years of Republican tax legislation.
Coddling capitalists and fucking over workers is what Republicans are all about. More evidence of this: Staffing agencies firing health workers who get Covid-19 from patients and telling them to apply for unemployment benefits.*
* Wrong. They’re eligible for workers’ compensation, which includes wage loss payments (which usually are significantly higher than UI benefits) and full medical benefits for their work-related illness or injury. Also, they can sue for personal injury damages if the employer was grossly negligent in failing to provide PPE or enforce infection-prevention protocols.
@myself
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You’d think stuck at home I’d use my computer more and proofread but no. I love my phone like I’m a teenager on TikTokee.
@21 No private corporation is required to pre-fund retirement benefits 75 years out. Instead, Republicans changed the bankruptcy laws to make it easy for corporations to ditch their union contracts and pension obligations, and many of them did.
If you’re a blue-collar working stiff, and you intend to vote Republican, you might as well shoot yourself, because the end result will be the same.
Still no stimulus deposit received. The IRS doesn’t have my direct deposit information, but the Social Security Administration does. The IRS says my stimulus payment’s “status is unavailable.”
Not exactly a well-oiled machine.
But I’m not complaining. It’s much, much worse for medical workers who can’t get PPE, dying patients who can’t get ventilators, small business owners who can’t get SBA loans, unemployed workers who can’t get UI benefits, tenants being evicted by landlords despite no-eviction orders, etc. I’m one of the lucky ones: I’m not sick, I can pay my bills, and I can still get lettuce and carrots.
Given how disorganized and ineffective this administration is, I won’t be surprised if some people get multiple stimulus payments and others none at all. It seems to me that misdirected payments are inevitable, given who’s running things.
24k is still not good enough to take the skirt an Pom Poms out, but it did open the drawer to take a nice look at them. Hope it doesn’t make the mistake of actually putting it on and looking at itself in the mirror in anticiapation.
The dumbass running our country doesn’t know the difference between “China” and “Chinatown.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/trump-appears-equate-chinatown-china-n1185796
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Should someone explain it to him? I don’t think so. He might require visas to emigrate from Chinatown to San Francisco.
Trump attack ad strategy: Link Biden to China, who are “bad folks.” And not mention this:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1186221#blogHeader
Roger Rabbit Commentary: This will reinforce the mindless partisan biases of idiots who’d vote for Trump anyway. It won’t fool anyone else.
But so what if Biden sexually harasses women or stands in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoots someone? If Republicans can vote for someone like that, so can I.
36,000 > 15
“If only they had told us before I went golfing.”
@45 “She wanted everyone to pack into Chinatown long after I closed the BORDER TO CHINA”
Doctor Dumbfuck really knows how to pick’em.
@13
Gallup: “Americans’ evaluations of the economy have abruptly turned negative amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index is now -32, down from +22 in March.”
“The 54-point drop is the largest one-month change in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1992.. Just two months ago, economic confidence was the highest it had been in 20 years.”
The stock market is up for the day
And up for the last 5 days
And up for the month….
but
Lower than it started in the last 6 months
Lower than it started year to date
Lower than it started for the last 12 months
Lower than it started for the 2 years.
The Economy is not the Stock Market.
When you can’t tell the difference between what Trump tweets and what Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit spews, it’s time for a new president.
“[Insert preferred term here] must arm!” is as moronic coming from a president as it is coming from a Democrat at any level.
Come up with a better candidate than Biden. There’s no point exchanging one moron for another.
@ 49
The Economy is not the Stock Market.
No, but both will be improving in mid-Fall. That’s your problem.
@47 They did tell him. In November. Just like they told W. about Al Qaeda.
“During the transition between administrations, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger arranged several extensive briefings on [terrorism] for Bush’s incoming national security adviser, Condoleeza Rice, and others on the Bush team, including Vice President Cheney. One briefing lasted half a day. Berger told them that Osama bin Laden was an ‘existential threat’ and told them that he wanted ‘to underscore how important this issue is.’ In another briefing, Richard Clarke, head of counterterrorism in the NSC, the single most knowledgeable expert in the government, gave them a complete tutorial on the subject. In yet another briefing, CIA officials were brought in to go over all the intelligence available on terrorism. Don Kerrick, a three-star general and outgoing deputy national security adviser, overlapped for four months with the new Bush people. He submitted a memo for the new National Security Council warning of the danger of terrorism. ‘We are going to be struck again,’ he wrote. But as Kerrick explained to me, he received no answer to his memo. ‘They didn’t respond,’ he said. ‘They never responded. It was not high on their priority list. I was never invited to one meeting. They never asked me to do anything. They were not focusing. They didn’t see terrorism as the big megaissue that the Clinton administration saw it as. They were concentrated on what they thought were higher priorities than terrorism.’ The Principals meeting of national security officials took up terrorism only once, after constant pressure from Clarke, on September 4, 2001, and at that meeting they discussed using unmanned Predator drone spy aircraft, but no decision was made. ‘Unfortunately,’ said Kerrick, ‘September 11 gave them something to focus on.’”
— Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003), pp. 797-798.
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Now fast forward to November 2019, Trump, and Covid-19. Same warnings. Same heads-in-sand response. Lather, rinse, repeat. Republicans are incapable of learning from experience. They keep making the same mistakes over and over. Another of 10,000 reasons to never vote for Republicans. They’re collectively, institutionally, and incurably incompetent.
39 – We know we are all responsible for our own retirements, but many people still haven’t figured that out. I know of a person approaching 40 who has zero in retirement investments and won’t even participate in his/her employer’s matching 401k. This person lives paycheck to paycheck and will do for the rest of his/her life. He/she finds it too much more important to spend, spend, spend versus forgoing buying consumer crap and plan for retirement.
He/she will get Social Security, but that’s about it. Who knows what Social Security will be able to pay in 25 years from now? My guess is that it won’t be 100% of the obligation accrued.
@51
Right about the time people can start burying their dead in person.
@53. So what’s your point? Everyone knows of a friend who knows a friend who has a buddy who’s an idiot.
Are you arguing?
55 – The point is young people, in particular, don’t have it in their minds that they should be putting money away for retirement earlier rather than later. A colleague of mine suggests that a young person who can contribute $10,000 or more to a retirement plan (IRA, 401k, 403b, etc.) by the time he or she reaches age 25, will be very likely to have a comfortable retirement, regardless of what happens to Social Security. Remember, the participants in defined contribution plans own their contributions regardless of what his/her employer contributes. Yes, there may be a vesting schedule for the employer’s contribution, but, in time, the participant owns those contributions as well.
Overall, defined benefit plans will decline in number to the point where their effect will be negligible. Defined contribution plans, like it or not, will be the rule for American retirement planning. Smart people know this and are acting accordingly.
The late actor Brian Dennehy, it seems, was prone to exaggerating his military service.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/04/16/marine-who-fought-rambo-somehow-lives-age-81.html?ESRC=eb_200417.nl
@50 “Come up with a better candidate”
You first.
Know what’s even more moronic than “(blank) must arm”? Gun=toting yahoos without face masks bunching together on the steps of a state capitol to protest protecting public health. This is what true morons look like:
https://www.krqe.com/photo-galleries/photos-thousands-in-michigan-protest-social-distance-order/
Not sure what you look like, so I don’t know if you were one of ’em; were you?
@53 Discretionary spending is one thing; being unable to save for retirement is another. Even in “normal” times, millions of Americans struggle to get by on less than a living wage. Do you expect someone working full-time who qualifies for food stamps to set aside money for retirement?
@56 “A colleague of mine suggests that a young person who can contribute $10,000 or more to a retirement plan (IRA, 401k, 403b, etc.) by the time he or she reaches age 25”
And young people who can’t?
The FBI has deactivated a local militia that planned to supersede governmental responses to Covid-19 with his own makeshift hospital patient reduction plan.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-says-man-killed-missouri-wanted-bomb-hospital-amid-coronavirus-n1169166
59,
Don’t forget, it’s measurably more difficult to amass a retirement savings pile when the entirety of a younger person’s working years have been defined by a massive shift of income away from workers and when every ten years, like clockwork, Rapepublicans crater the job market.
Republicans are not cut out for this work.
@56
And how does that work? A 22-23 year old comes out of college needing to come up with an average $400 a month for student loan payment, unless they can move back home at least $500/mo for rent With roommates, $150 to stay fed on a budget, maybe $100 in utilities and unless they manage to find an affordable place very very close to work to live in $5/day x 5/week x 4 weeks $100 to get to and from work with a bus pass. Probably doesn’t have a traditional phone line anymore but has a phone plan for $80? So if they get an entry level corporate job making $40k and they have zero other expenses, never spend a dime on entertainment, clothes, never have to see a doctor by their 25th birthday they could maybe have come up with $8,000 in savings.
Side note, if recent college grads don’t buy $1000 rebate recent grad cars and gym memberships and Nikes the economy crashes.
Yeah your friend is full of shit, boomer.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
737,154Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
212429,204 killed died in the battle of Normandy, America is at 37,154. godwinha is a dick.
@64 Already surpassed Korea, will soon surpass Vietnam. If those dumbfucks protesting in Michigan got their way it might go over a million.
Some landlords are demanding sex from tenants who can’t pay rent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/landlords-are-targeting-vulnerable-tenants-solicit-sex-exchange-rent-advocates-n1186416
They probably voted for Trump, too.
37,000 > 15
“Take up arms and DEMAND your Governor reopen. LIBERTIES! muh freeeeeeeeedoms!”
“President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top Republicans with knowledge of the payments.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-payments-sons-wife-girlfriend_n_5e9a1c46c5b635d25d6c747a
Please donate to the Trump campaign today. They urgently need your money for, uh, expenses.