I am very grateful that Seattle has suspended evictions for the time being. It’s not a system that can go on indefinitely, but God almighty it’s needed now. My building posted notices about working with people to pay rent. They should keep that up after the virus is over.
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Your mother’s basement is still available, Carl. Ah, but it might not have convenient mass transportation access, even though she’s paying taxes for it along with everyone else.
Maybe if you move back home you’ll get it. Hell, even Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit gets it.
@1 You should’ve shorted Boeing at $115 yesterday, dumbfuck. But you just didn’t get it. Yesterday seems like a long time ago now.
“Maybe if the airlines cut back on the lattes and Avocado toast they would have saved for this.” Conservative logic.
Selling the 3 shares of Boeing your family owned at $380 each does not make you a market guru, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
It also proves you were never a millionaire.
Here was Hanauer’s offer to Goldy after the latter’s firing by The Stranger and subsequent inability to otherwise feed himself:
Wads of greasy money in exchange for eliminating the other half of every story written, an adjustment for liberalism. Plus options for all of Hanauer’s other pairs of boots to be licked upon demand in the future.
Think of it as reverse journalistic standards.
This virus will be defeated due to the strength of capitalism in the US. Government leaders will take all the photo ops they can get, but the real work will be done with the private sector because they are expert logisticians. They know how to get the goods from point A to point B.
5,
When you’ve got nuthin’, ignore the other guys argument, and attack the guy himself.
Goldy looks like he’s suffered some hair loss. You gonna let that go? You know Trump wouldn’t.
Although he probably should.
Might be some good information in that.
@ 7
Fallon had his chance.
ftfy
We’re basically Italy, but without the fantastic food.
8,
Same network, same executives, same lawyers.
Trump and Fallon playing for the same team.
GOP president RapeHero at daily press contagion spew asked why wealthy elites and pro athletes are getting priority for CPACvirus testing over doctors, nurses, and other essential responders:
“I dunno. I guess that’s just life.”
Man of the People. Man of Action.
@ 10
By this rationale Todd, Mitchell, and Maddow should be a total Trump ass-kisser.
@4 My BA holding was 3X your VAR holding, and I took profits (a LOT of profits), while you’re still surfing on a falling knife, neener neener.
Still, I believe you’re a millionaire. I’ll bet you own 3 rolls of TP,* and I’ve heard they’re worth $333,333.33 each on the black market.
* Anyone as full of shit as you is bound to have an inventory of TP in the hall closet.
@9
We’re basically Italy, but without the fantastic food.
And the pre-existing medical conditions.
99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says
Meet the Dumbfuck’s preferred expert source for all things CPACvirus:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-white-nationalist-has-rebranded-himself-as-coronavirus-expert-and-people-are-flocking-to-him
@11 What’s the point of being rich if you can’t get sick ahead of everyone else, get tested ahead of everyone else, and get a ventilator ahead of everyone else?
After all, what are the chances a hospital will turn away a patient with a hospital wing named after him?
More bot-farm pussy insights:
The US population is exceptionally healthy and physically robust and has no pre-existing medical conditions.
Try telling that to your insurance company.
BTW, the constellation of pre-existing medical conditions in Italy mentioned in bot-farm pussy’s Bloomberg story, that he believes do not exist in the US are:
Hypertension;
Diabetes;
Heart disease.
Really guys. He’s not a doctor.
Meanwhile, Trump’s “spiritual adviser” is milking this crisis for all it’s worth:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paula-white-coronavirus-hospital_n_5e71a3b2c5b63c3b6486dc1a
Let’s hope Trump doesn’t put her in charge of the bailouts, because, well, think of a parachute joke: You’re on a plane, there aren’t enough parachutes … “See you later, boys,” she says as she steps out of the falling plane …
19,
AZ Gov is considering ordering her Phoenix Xtian Passover event canceled, although they are still selling tickets.
Every good hustler has a plan B.
BA stock in freefall, now down 28% today, after company asks for $60 billion bailout while Republicans cut paid leave for sick workers from Covid-19 emergency response bill being held up by Senate Republicans. Dumbfuck should’ve shorted it yesterday.
CPACvirus contagion is now beginning to emerge in US correctional facilities. Showing up first among corrections workers because they are the only ones with access to healthcare, screening, potential testing… soap.
This is a really, really bad time for RapePublicans like Duncan Hunter and Roger Stone to be getting processed into these facilities.
Oh well. As powerful RapePublicans leaders are so fond of saying “I dunno. Maybe that’s just life”.
Thoughts and prayers.
Wherein Oprah Winfrey denies a Twitter rumor that she’s been “raided and arrested.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/oprah-winfrey-after-trending-twitter-i-haven-t-been-raided-n1162551
Really, folks, the bullshit is getting out of control. The tsunami of b.s. didn’t start with Trump, but it doesn’t help to have a commander-in-chief be the bullshitter-in-chief.
Look at Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, a non-millionaire, come @ 23 to the rescue of a billionaire.
Looks like somebody wants to be first in line when Oprah starts giving out free cars again.
@ 20
YLB and gentlemen, I give you The Clinton Foundation.
Gentlemen, I give you a dumbfuck.
I posted this
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Elizabeth Warren just laid out 8 conditions that companies should accept for government bailout money during the coronavirus crisis
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-laid-out-conditions-companies-accept-bailouts-coronavirus-crisis-2020-3-1029006340
Here are the eight conditions:
Companies must maintain payrolls and use federal funds to keep people working.
Businesses must provide $15 an hour minimum wage quickly but no later than a year from the end
Companies would be permanently banned from engaging in stock buybacks.
Companies would be barred from paying out dividends or executive bonuses while they receive federal funds and the ban would be in place for three years.
Businesses would have to provide at least one seat to workers on their board of directors, though it could be more depending on size of the rescue package.
Collective bargaining agreements must remain in place.
Corporate boards must get shareholder approval for all political spending.
CEOs must certify their companies are complying with the rules and face criminal penalties for violating them.
If I can’t get her as president, I’d love her to lead the senate. These are brilliant.
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The raceist incel snarled with:
“Companies that have met the $15 minimum wage requirement and can’t pay out dividends or buy back their own stock from shareholders desperate to sell are gonna do what, The Fucking Moron II?
They’re gonna acquire. Warren’s unintended consequence will be fewer companies and they’ll be flush with cash because she won’t let them share it with their owners, the shareholders.”
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Or they could pay their workers more than minimum wage.
Or they could spend the money on R&D.
Or they could save the money for the next emergency so we wouldn’t to bail them out.
Only 31,000 to go and the DJIA’s performance under Doctor Dumbfuck’s orange moron will finally match that of the black Muslim usurper from Kenya.
@28 “Investor Bill Ackman urged President Donald Trump and corporate America in an impassioned plea on CNBC to shut down the country for 30 days to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus, calling it the only option to rescue the economy.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/bill-ackman-pleads-to-trump-to-increase-closures-to-save-the-economy-shut-it-down-now.html
Because hell is coming to breakfast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1TybA1itI
So is it still true that drumpf is still hellbent to give out more free stuff than the black guy did in 2009?
In an election year.. If a D did that, the repukes would wail about buying votes. Amirite about klownservatic repukes like Tom Cotton flirting with socialism?
drumpf bails out the airlines? Who used their tax breaks to buy back stock?
Who “understands capitalism” better? drumpf buying votes or willard romney with its one time cash handout fretting about moral hazard or offending mormon royalty?
The Clinton Foundation.
Overall Score & Rating 89.33 out of 100.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6903
Charity Navigator had a Low Concern CN Advisory for the The Clinton Foundation but it expired from lack of evidence of wrongdoing.
The Trump Foundation
CN Advisory: High Concern
On September 13, 2016, The New York Times reported on the operations of Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity that has announced intentions to dissolve, in an article titled, “New York Attorney General to Investigate Donald Trump’s Nonprofit.” For this reason, we have issued a High Concern CN Advisory.A High Concern CN Advisory highlights a proven or confirmed allegation against a charity or an employee of a charity that is serious both in nature and scope.
“Trump pays $2 million in damages ordered by judge over misuse of charity funds, according to NY attorney general.”
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16764
Figure it out, Racist Incel. Russian Asset. I know you can, but you won’t.
heh.. dimfuk has lost a buttload of net worth but it clings to its beloved white privilege mindset ever so tightly..
at the very end of times for the freak, that’s all it will ever have left.
You’re a dumbfuck for the ages, Doctor.
The US population is exceptionally healthy and physically robust and has no pre-existing medical conditions.
Who wrote that shit? Looks like that’s straight from the repuke red state ag’s trying to wipe out the ACA right up to the drumpf Supreme Court.
@ 33
Steve, what makes you think I don’t have cash? I’m nearly 60, dude.
The Fucking Moron II @ 31
Look at Clinton Foundations before November 2016, and after.
That tells you everything you need to know. It was a high-dollar grift.
Way to fuck up, Dumbfuck.
Goldy looks like he’s suffered some hair loss. You gonna let that go? You know Trump wouldn’t.
dimfuk probably wears a rug some “cosmetic specialist” made for it at the affirm clinic.
The Fucking Moron II @ 27
Well, surely they could.
Equally likely, Bernie could stay in and run the table, going forward.
Berkshire Hathway has $128B in cash. What’s he gonna do, build a better railroad?
“It was a high-dollar grift.”
True, that, provided one redefines the word “grift”.
Sorry, but of the two, only your orange moron’s charity was a grift.
The lead author of a report that helped persuade President Trump to take the coronavirus outbreak more seriously says he now has symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and is self-isolating.
Neil Ferguson’s report had predicted that if the United States did not introduce strict measures to curb people’s activity and movement, 2.2 million people could die.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-scientist-ferguson-persuaded-trump-on-covid-19-contracts-virus-2020-3
So much for “no pre-existing conditions”…
@32 “at the very end of times”
Yeah, we’re now staring into the maw of societal collapse.
We all knew this could happen someday, but the funny thing is, there are no mushroom clouds.
I wonder if anyone in the White House is researching martial law?
@ 37
Steve, Rubin’s a conservative columnist in the same vein that Dick Morris is a liberal pundit.
Once upon a time territory.
@33 “You’re a dumbfuck for the ages, Doctor.”
He always was, and it didn’t take a virus crisis to bring it out. Covid-19 merely puts a magnifying glass on it.
@ 41
Lemme know when he tests positive. I catch a cold twice a year.
That having been said, he’s right about the Westminster incidence of the Wuhan virus.
@35 “I’m nearly 60, dude.”
I knew airline pilots are forced to retire at 60. Didn’t know they have a similar rule for radiologists. Maybe they made a special one for you.
26,
A Democrat’s Plan B is to raise billions to invest in clean drinking water and adequate healthcare in the developing world to prevent catastrophic global pandemics.
A RapePublican’s Plan B is to raise billions to invest in Yacht/Cocaine/Hookers by exploiting a catastrophic global pandemic.
@43 Doc, your dispute is with Wikipedia, not Steve:
“Jennifer Rubin is an American conservative columnist … [b]efore … opinion writing [sge] was a labor and employment lawyer … [according to] trade union leader Steve Hulett … ‘I never got the impression she was anything but a Democrat … it’s somewhat startling to me that she is now hard right.’ … She offered a column to The Weekly Standard …” which is not exactly a “liberal” publication, doc. “Rubin is a conservative.”
Maybe this explains things:
“Other conservatives have disputed that she is a conservative, in part because of her willingness to criticize Donald Trump,” i.e., according to some people’s definition (including doc’s), you can’t be a “conservative” unless you duly give the Sieg Heil salute to a guy the same people not so long ago (before he won the election) criticized as not being a conservative. I guess what has happened is the whole concept of “conservative” has gotten redefined to conform to Trump’s shoe size. And doc, good little follower that he is, now jams his size-10 feet into Trump’s size-8 shoes, too. It must hurt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rubin_(journalist)
@45 “Lemme know when he tests positive.”
So, according to our resident medical expert, you can’t have Covid-19 if you can’t get a test kit, and symptoms, and physical symptoms have no meaning.
Refer to 3rd sentence of #46 above for additional guidance.
39,
Geezus. It can’t let it go.
bot-farm IJIOT insists thatBH, a holding company that produces absolutely nothing and which, once you take out the composite companies, probably has no more than a few hundred employees (fewer given that it’s Buffet who drives a fucking K car), is going to receive taxpayer funds.
Here’s what Teh Orange Event Horizon looks like my dudes. bot-farm IJIOT is so fully captivated by the tribe that it can’t even think, much less form any sort of effective troll. We knew it would come to this. And now we get to see the glory unfold.
In just the last few hours the bot-farm IJIOT has argued that the US will be okay because we have no pre-existing medical conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. It has argued repeatedly that cash flooded tech companies like Apple and useless investor vehicle holding companies like BH will be given hundreds of billions of gold bricks from the US treasury because of invisible infectious pixies. It has argued that Paula White’s depraved peddling of patent elixirs to mewling Xtian dolts is on an equal moral plane as organizing investments in political and healthcare stability in the developing world.
And it has claimed to be under age 60 (also a DOCTOR dammit!).
Lots more sadness ahead I’m afraid. Like a pernicious virus this tribal shit does not stay contained. It has undoubtedly colored its foolish stock gambling and cost it most of it’s savings. It will now be considering options for contract work in the midst of the crisis. Putting it in increased contact with scabby Medicare patients dripping with infectious fluids. All the while seething with tribal anger and poised to lash out.
It won’t be long.
It’s a Hoax. Fake News
51,
Prove it.
Start licking door knobs.
Check out this vid from an almost always wrong wing website:
https://twitter.com/barubin/status/1240068436354568194
Anatomy of a miserable, shambling, lying failure. They get one thing right: never drumpf..
@50 ” It will now be considering options for contract work in the midst of the crisis.”
I read this morning they’re asking doctors to come out of retirement. I don’t think they want this one, though. See #41 above for reason why.
Once upon a time territory.
Heh. yeah once upon a time Rubin was a fire-breathing black guy hater.
I’ll have to check if dimfuk quoted her stuff back in the day..
Now she has no regard for the lyin’, orange shitbag menace. Good for her.
@52 Licking doorknobs won’t hurt him because he’s already dead. This blog has always had crappy trolls, and now it has dead trolls, too. That’s what that smell is.
Dang
The entire Trump stock rally is gone: Dow erases all its gains since Donald Trump took office
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/investing/stocks-erase-trump-gains/index.html
@36. You JUST can’t have facts get in the way of impotent rage and seething tribal anger.
54,
It would have to actually be a doctor.
Seriously, all kidding aside, no MD practicing in the US in the last forty years is unaware that the US population is awash in hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease.
It affects nearly all practice areas of US medicine.
At first I thought that maybe it let Teh Orange Event Horizon tribalism overcome a lifetime of awareness. But it always manages to double down on Teh Stoopid, suggesting that it lacked that awareness in the first place.
My guess is it was some kind of diagnostic tech.
Nothing wrong with that. They’ll also be needed in the dark apocalyptic Trump/GOP wasteland to come.
Erick son of Erick is now out promoting the idea CPACvirus is a China bio-weapon and that China is paying CNN reporters in cash to make up mean shit about the GOP imbecile-in-chief.
And this is how Mike “PizzaGate” becomes the keynote at the RNC.
@59 “They’ll also be needed …”
I assume by “they” you mean ones who know WTF they’re doing.
Too bad Trump wasted all his deficit ammunition on tax breaks for corps and billionaires. Left him short for when it might take trillions to save the economy. This will make Obama’s deficits look puny, and when it’s all over, a new administration will have to raise taxes on corps and billionaires to pay the bills. No one else will have any money. Sick unemployed workers won’t be able to pay for it.
Wherein Trump admits life isn’t fair.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-nyc-mayor-slams-nets-over-testing-trump-weighs-n1162971
After all, the whole point of being rich and well-connected is to make life unfair for others. Just ask Felicity Huffman.
Add 10 more to Washington’s body count. Thank God we don’t get tornadoes here.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/coronavirus-updates-global-cases-approach-200-000-lockdown-becomes-new-n1162561/ncrd1163321#liveBlogHeader
“At Wednesday’s press briefing, Trump said he considers himself a ‘wartime president’ and called the coronavirus the ‘enemy.'”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-hold-news-conference-fda-developments-coronavirus-n1162641
Somebody must’ve told him 9/11 worked miracles for Shrub’s reelection chances. He needs a miracle, too, but calling a plague a “war” might do.
65,
Shame that he surrender-monkey’ed the fuck out of it two months ago.
But perhaps that’s been the story of HIS life.
Urging his members to at least do something to help in the crisis, RapePublican Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch told reporters that helping people struck down by CPACvirus makes him “gag”.
Here’s a little taste of what’s to come:
“Some of them would have needed intubation in intensive care,” anesthesiologist Pietro Brambillasca said. The rest ought to be better isolated, he said, where they can’t contaminate anyone.
That is no longer possible. The number of ill has outstripped the hospital’s capacity to provide the best care for all.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/every-day-you-lose-the-contagion-gets-worse-lessons-from-italys-hospital-meltdown-11584455470?st=3qj58xwuhd6d68z&mod=pkt_fr2&utm_source=pocket-newtab
Miracle the murdoch journal didn’t throw up a paywall on this article. Others might not be so lucky… rupert must have caught a case of the progressives…
Oh but this article is about Italy… sosheelized health care…
Dear Millennials,
First of all, if you’re our children, don’t come visit us. You could be a carrier, especially if you’ve just come from spring break in Florida, where the beaches are open and cesspools of contagion. We’re fine, and want to stay that way. We still love you anyway, virtually.
Second, if you’re out walking our dog, and see us shuffling out of our driveway to take the trash out or bring the mail in, please stop and let us pass, so we don’t have to stop and back up while you walk by. And remember, six feet. Actually, we prefer thirty feet, out of an abundance of caution.
We hear some grocery chains are instituting special hours for seniors. Please don’t put on a wig and fake beard and crash these events to get first crack at the toilet paper. You don’t want to be in a line with a gaggle of coughing and wheezing geezers anyway — you might catch something.
Also, during the regular grocery checkout hours, please don’t stand six inches behind us. We’re paranoid, you know? Don’t try to figure out the logic of this, just accept it. We just are. And please don’t park your grocery basket on the floor right behind our feet for us to trip over if we have to back up for some reason. Fuck. Our hips shatter easily when they make hard contact with concrete floors.
Finally, please take this whole business seriously. We see you going about as if nothing is happening. Heed the social distancing advisories, and if authorities say stay home, then STAY HOME. You may feel fine, i.e. you’re not symptomatic yet. Or you may think that because you’re young and healthy, you’ll weather it without trouble — it’ll only feel like a mild bout of seasonal flu. But you’re carriers. It’s probably too late for you not to be, because you’ve been pretty heedless about the warnings against public gatherings and circulating in large crowds, so it’s inevitable that a lot of you are now infected with this germ that seems to jump so easily from one person to many others.
You’d think I wouldn’t have to say this, but your generation seems to live in a bubble, oblivious to your surroundings, like when you drive with your hands off the wheel and your eyes on your cellphone — you wouldn’t see an elephant in the crosswalk ahead of you, much less a senior citizen. So, a reminder is necessary: There are other people on this planet besides you. HAVE A LITTLE FUCKING CONSIDERATION for them!
Well, that’s about it, except this: If there’s only 12 packages of Kleenex on the shelf, leave one for the senior citizen you muscled past to get at them. You don’t need all 12. Really, you can get by with 11 until they restock next week.
And remember, millennials, we love you. Be good.
Signed, The Boomers
@69 Ok Boomer!
@70 Go fuck yourself. But I say that lovingly.
Dear Greatest and Boomers,
We are crashing the economy so we don’t kill 20% of you. Hope you appreciate it. How about voting for medicare for all or something. Maybe stop voting for republicans. That would be swell.
– Love, Everyone else.
Breaking news: Moscow Mitch hands out free socialized healthcare stuff…
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/18/21185065/congress-coronavirus-tests-paid-sick-days
Couldn’t the klownservatic repukelicans find a free market solution? Guess MM is buying votes. Unless martial law gets here first.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
7150Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124256 Cases which had an outcome:
106 (41%) Recovered / Discharged
150 (59%) Deaths
Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, along with Honda and Toyota, said they will shut down all of their factories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The closing of Detroit’s Big Three alone will idle about 150,000 workers,
Stocks tumbled again on Wall Street on fears of a prolonged recession, falling so fast they triggered another automatic trading halt. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed more than 1,300 points, or over 6 percent, and has now lost nearly all of the big gains it had posted since Trump’s inauguration.
Oil dropped below $21 per barrel for the first time since 2002.
Oil dropped below $21 per barrel for the first time since 2002.
We top off the tank every other month.. This should save us a few dollars.
The buses are so empty these days they’re like limo service.
@72 “We are crashing the economy so we don’t kill 20% of you.”
We appreciate that. Your jobs, our lives. In return, the 52% of us over age 60 who aren’t Republican assholes will support deficits to pay your unemployment benefits, even though we know we’ll get criticized for it later. And I don’t mind smaller dividend increases for a couple of quarters. I wasn’t going to sell my stocks anyway, and they’ll bounce back after this blows over.
“How about voting for medicare for all or something.”
I’m on board. Many of us are, as long as they don’t take it out of our Part A, B, C, or D. By voting for Biden, we’re not voting against for your generation. Whatever you get from him is more than you’ll get from Trump or the GOP. You’ll get less than zero from them; they’ll take away what little health benefits you have now.
“Maybe stop voting for republicans.”
I’ve been a New Deal Democrat forever. Worked for Democratic campaigns, walked in union picket lines. I can’t do anything about the 48% of my generation who are Republican assholes. They were hippies when I was fighting in Vietnam, and they were assholes then, too. So nothing’s changed over the years. We’ve had our own intramural divide ever since they spit on me and my buddies back in the sixties. I don’t mind if you cough on them after picking up covid-19 at one of those Florida beaches during spring break; if they croak that leaves more in the Social Security Trust Fund for me.
@72 P.S., this isn’t my lawn. I’m just shitting on it. I don’t know who it belongs to.
@74 “Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, along with Honda and Toyota, said they will shut down all of their factories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The closing of Detroit’s Big Three alone will idle about 150,000 workers,”
That’s not out of any concern for the health and well-being of their workforce; it’s because car sales are falling off a cliff.
@74 “Stocks tumbled again on Wall Street on fears of a prolonged recession,”
Not everyone on Wall Street is using the word “recession” to describe what they think is coming.
These always wrong wing scribblers like ace of spades are going nutso.. They can’t spew hate at “SJW”‘s, nepots, cucks and the MSM hard enough.. like dimfuk, huge hits to the portfolio – gotta throw flaming bile on the usual targets.
But drumpf… no.. it can do no wrong.. never.. drumpf can babble about “we got it under control”, drumpf can make a fumbling speech about nothing on the tube and the markets can meltdown the next day… kudlow can cackle about a “lock down”.. all that shit is ok…
Gotta give ’em points for speed freak prose.. Must be jacked on dexedrine or adderall or something.
Kinda symbolically, that little round ball with the red fuzzies sticking out of it has now invaded, quite literally, the trading floor of the NYSE.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/nyse-to-temporarily-close-trading-floor-move-to-electronic-trading-because-of-coronavirus.html
Having to spend $1.2 trillion of emergency fiscal stimulus on top of the $1 trillion of deficit financing for corp and billionaire tax cuts is creating problems for Fed money manipulators.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/interest-rates-are-rising-a-bad-sign-as-the-economy-slides-toward-recession.html
It would have been easier to deal with this genuine crisis without the trillion-dollar discretionary deficit.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Open Borders For Epidemics Bombshell News – During War On Epidemic Evil Demorats Sabotage And Divide America, Regurgitate Chicom Propaganda.
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President Trump ignited accusations of racism after he referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese Virus” in a tweet on Monday. Trump’s tweet stated how the United States “will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus.”
Reporters and Democrats on Twitter rushed to say Trump was either being racist or xenophobic for reminding people the virus starting out in Wuhan, China and spread across the globe because of the authoritarian government’s incompetent response, attempts to hide the outbreak, and its silencing of whistleblowers who tried to raise the alarm over the disease. Even the state media in China came out to deflect blame by posting an infographic with a subtle jab towards Trump.
As Townhall previously reported, the media had long described the new disease as the “Wuhan virus/coronavirus” prior to it being officially named COVID-19 in early February. The media also had described COVID-19 as the “Chinese” virus multiple times in their coverage.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/03/17/democrats-and-the-media-accuse-trump-of-racism-after-calling-covid19-the-chinese-virus-n2565080
This is bad.
Please learn from this, vote for better Democrats.
How soon before we start to steeply progressively tax millionaires and billionaires to cover the debt?
January?
@85 If Democrats win the White House, Senate, and House in November, I would expect some tax policy changes.
And when Republican minority members object to those changes, the majority leaders should wag their fingers at them and say, “Deficits. We must do something about deficits. We must reduce the deficits.”
“Big Al” @ 83
Any words for “loot rail” or “dfns”?
@83 The difference between “Wuhan virus” and “Chinese virus” is like the difference between “African-American” and “n****r.”
Just thought I’d mention it.
Massive increase in primary turnout in FL in spite of Malaria a Lago contagion.
In South Korea they had the Shincheonji cult, whose membership lists told them exactly who to test and isolate first.
Here in the US we have EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE who disbelieve science because QUEERBAIT NERDS! and refuse to admit who they really vote for every single chance they get.
69,
Yeah, um, remember your old pal Associate Justice Beer Bong and BEACH WEEK!!! with Squee, Tobin, PJ, Donkey Dong, and Timmy.
Over privileged 20-year-old douche nozzles with their parent’s credit cards haven’t changed any in 30 years.
Maybe part of the solution has less to do with expecting 20-year-olds to behave intelligently and more to do with eliminating more of the privilege.
And these children are not millennials. (1981 – 1996)
Seattle Jew has succumbed to COVID-19.
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/university-of-washington-coronavirus-death-15141714.php
78 years old. We all have to go somehow.
@92. Oh. My. God.
Another Right Wing dictator and monster.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51955679
@92/93,
Sounds like a great guy who wanted to make a positive difference in life to the benefit of others in mind and not himself….or a complete opposite of Boob.
All I can say is that we recovered from 9/11, but I’m not to sure we can recover as well with the current situation.
I hope we get this Trump Virus under better control soon.
Catching up on comments – if I were an outside I would say that all the comments here seem to be spot on except for Bob’s and the rest of the trolls.
Shameful Bob, you did this to yourself. You should have spared everyone else.
Hey trolls, in your heart of hearts, bet you wished Hillary was in charge right now
Republicans values. Vote accordingly.
USDA fights to purge food stamps recipients despite pandemic
Health Mar 18, 2020 7:13 PM EDT
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/usda-fights-to-purge-food-stamps-recipients-despite-pandemic
A1, Racist Incel, are you proud of this?
Eighty six percent of all infections undocumented (undetected) with a transmission rate among undetected cases about half that of detected cases.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/science.abb3221
And this is measured in a population with considerably better availability of and access to testing.
The implication would be that in Washington State right now, for example, there are more than 8000 undetected cases out in your community heading to the store, the post office, the bank, dropping by the office, picking up garden supplies, walking their dogs, etc. etc. etc. And that each one of these 8000 they will infect an an additional 1.3 other persons.
Browsing SJs site I see shortbus relocated there to babble after being banned here.
@ 100
From your link, The Fucking Moron II:
Yes, I’m in agreement. This isn’t “for the children”. It’s double-dipping for some and enabling couch potato-ing for many others. It’s a holdover from The Great Recession, and it contributed to the continuing decline in the labor force participation rate despite the improvement in the economy.
Does it need to be revisited, going forward? Maybe. But a bunch of people sat on their asses and got paid to do it because states were asleep at the wheel.
Yes, The Fucking Moron II. That should end. If you would pull your head out of whomever’s ass you’re currently rimming and look carefully, you’ll understand why.
I’m hearing that the Northshore School District got its online instruction up and running, and that it was at least OK in terms of the ability of teachers to stream lessons.
And I’m hearing that it’s now ended, because not all students were able to participate and there were threats of lawsuits because of it.
Any input from others?
Short-covering going on and profits being taken. Oil way up, transport-related shares like rental car companies also way up.
Would be nice if things are finding a bottom.
It’s fear and greed – the only two emotions on Wall Street. The trick is to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when other are greedy.
Following on @ 104
It’s not “ended”. It’s “paused“.
NetflixSesame Street is a human right.104,
Read your state constitution.
I believe that it guarantees basic educational services to all public school students in your state. However, not all students in all districts statewide facing closures have been provided with notebook computers to allow for remote instruction.
If your state legislature sees fit to include notebook computers for every public school student as a feature to be included in “basic education” then any district facing closure would be free to proceed with distance learning. Alternatively such a district could open up to transfers from all other districts.
What’s your poison?
@ 108
No, I get it. When the school bus goes off the bridge and into the river, all of the kids should be made to drown if you can’t save the one whose leg is in a cast.
Makes totes sense.
@95 Steve aka “Seattle Jew” had been posting on HA from its start in 2004, and eventually set up his own blog here: http://handbill.us/
He was a medical doctor employed by the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology as a researcher. The Washington Times called him a “titan” in the field of pathology.
He would hold social gatherings at his home that pulled together an eclectic crowd of interesting people. I very briefly met Puddy in person there at one of these gatherings.
Steve had a power boat and liked to motor up the inside passage to Alaska from Puget Sound in summers. He would send emails to his friends and correspondents describing the passage and their doings along the way. He invited me to participate in one of these cruises, but the old rabbit is in no mettle for such a venture, and only reads travel stories and daydreams of far-flung places.
Steve’s father was a medical officer on Eisenhower’s staff. At the end of the war, as the Nazi regime was collapsing, Eisenhower sent his father to the continent, pretty much at liberty to go wherever he wanted, and the elder Dr. Schwartz stumbled onto Buchenwald, apparently the first American to discover it, arriving there with his medical team a couple of days ahead of Patton’s leading troops. Steve and his family are Jewish, and if the Holocaust came up in one our conversations, Steve would break down and start crying. He was deeply and emotionally affected by it.
Steve was a brilliant man. He was probably the most intelligent person I’m ever going to meet — extremely high IQ, very active mind, very committed to his profession and to doing good in the world, a very decent and honest man, with some interesting quirks, affable and friendly, I never saw him lost his temper but he was capable of getting angry about the wrongs and injustices of this world.
In recent years, he wasn’t posting on HA anymore, but was very active on his own blog, to which he gave me access, and where I had free reign to write and post articles, and moderate reader comments. I regularly edited Steve’s own postings for typos and other errors, and helped maintain the site by performing other housekeeping chores. His blog was designed to be a vehicle for expressing views about University of Washington governance, but evolved into a platform for wide-ranging commentaries on politics, society, current news events, and a fair amount of satire and spoof “news” articles. He also posted commentaries touching on the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions.
There is no replacement for him. His shocking death leaves a great big gaping hole in the Seattle progressive-intellectual community. In life, he was unique and larger than life, one of the more interesting characters you’d ever met. Now, he’s gone.
Damn this virus for taking him from us.
@102 Yeah, and guess who moderates his comments? He has an editor there: me. I let him post his crazy opinions, but any personal information and the comment is gone, gone, gone.
@ 110
Take heart, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
We’ll always have
What Citizens Don’t Understand About Police Use Of Force
http://handbill.us/2014/11/15/.....-of-force/
If I had known the owner of that blog was a physician pathologist I would have asked him why he permitted you to bloviate about a “fleeing felon” when the coroner’s written report had already demonstrated quite clearly that the felon was a thug who was in the process of bull-rushing a cop when he was shot.
Now I’ll never have that chance. RIP, Dr. Seattle Jew.
Now @ 111 I understand why such a shit piece of writing was permitted on handbill.us.
The author and editor were the same asshole.
@103 “a bunch of people sat on their asses and got paid to do it”
I’ll pass that along to the single moms whose husbands or boyfriends abused them and were restrained by court orders, and/or abandoned them and didn’t pay child support, who have significant barriers to employment such as lack of transportation and child care, lack of job skills, medical conditions and/or disabilities, etc.
I’m sure they’ll appreciate your empathy and understanding of their struggles in life. Also, your endorsement of Trump’s food stamp policies such that the only meal their child(ren) will get is a school lunch or a snack in daycare, and they themselves will have to live on sawdust.
It’s tempting to respond with something like, “Fuck you, you inhuman piece of shit.” But that wouldn’t be fair to you. Living on a doctor’s income, you can’t be expected to understand what it’s like to live on a welfare income, or appreciate that they’re in those circumstances for reasons mostly beyond their control. In this case, sheltered ignorance is a defense.
But it would be nice to see you make an effort to set aside the Republican b.s. about “welfare queens” and try to learn something about how the world actually is, and the real struggles of real people. Your failure/refusal to do that is culpable.
The last time I saw statistics on the subject, the average welfare recipient was white, middle class, was on welfare for an average of 14 months, and once off never returned. For most of these single moms, it was a temporary transition from a shattered previous life into work. Programs like child care assistance (and help finding child care, which can be a major challenge in itself), transportation to a job, and skills training proved to be highly effective and were just as important to getting these people (mostly women with young children) back on their feet as cash assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, and housing and utility assistance.
Also let’s not forget that when people like you defend a minimum wage that no one can live on, that makes it inevitable that taxpayers have to step in and provide rent and food assistance, and Medicaid, to the working poor. A low minimum wage is a subsidy to often-wealthy business owners that transfers a major part of their labor cost to taxpayers. You can’t have it both ways. Either you’re going to join us in supporting laws to make employers pay wages their workers can live on, or you’re going to pay taxes for the welfare programs that are necessary to make up the difference.
109,
Just like the fucking bus, Dumbfuck, notebook computers required for distance instruction would be classified as NERCs under your state’s funding formulation.
All districts must meet the same basic minimum transportation requirements. We all know that. Why the fuck don’t you? Are you just this stupid after all?
If Northshore wants to transport kids to school in chauffeur driven Bugattis they are free to do so, as long the state legislature includes within the basic funding formula enough money for all districts to pay for First Student Blue Birds.
And if Northshore wants to send all their kids home with Mac Pros they are welcome to do so. And they would not be expected to share in that extravagance any more than they’d have to share the fucking Bugattis. But before they can resume distance instruction using those $6000 Apples your state legislature has to step up with some $200 Chromebooks.
That’s on Republicans. We all know that too.
You’re stupid. Okay?
This is a dumb argument you are trying to have. And you’re just too stupid to even know it. I can forgive some of those parents in districts like Northshore for getting a little whiney. They’re the ones dealing with distracted, Adderal addicted middle schoolers Jonesing on daytime television.
But there’s no excuse for you, bot-farm pussy.
You are just stupid.
And don’t look now, but your weak-sauce attempt to distract from GOP CPACvirus catastrophe by going local class warfare has only succeeded in reminding us all how GOP failure is a universal that transcends time, place, location, and social class.
@ 114
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, the whole issue pertains to recipients without dependents.
So you can pass it on to the single moms but that will only expand the pool of people who realize that you’re an asshole and a dumbfuck. Go right ahead.
@113 lmao. please bust a rape fantasy while you’re at it. asshole? too funny!
@110 My condolences for your loss Rog but SJ’s legacy is complicated. He had his detractors. Some of his behavior here at HA and at DL was not appreciated.
But that’ll be enough piling on from me. May he RIP.
A good day for Boeing is one in which its shares are only down in the single digits.
It IS a stupid question, and it’s because there’s an obvious answer: There is no benefit to be gained from misquoting an expert. The benefit to be gained is from misquoting the president.
@110
I understand the guy had health issues that made the virus more dangerous to him. Plus he was elderly. Health issues and old age are definitely risk factors in this epidemic.
@113 Reading this, that, or any other blog is a voluntary activity. Nobody makes you do it. You’re here of your own free will. It’s reasonable to assume you get pleasure from it or you wouldn’t do it.
We all know what your game is, doc. You troll, because it’s fun and you have nothing better to do with your time.
It’s interesting that you’re still spending as much time here as ever, amidst a public health crisis, when other doctors and nurses are being called out of retirement to help. I guess they don’t want you. Can’t say I blame them.
Probably everybody’s better off if you spend your time here, instead of there, and bleating about a dead man’s blog with an uncertain future instead of looking after desperately sick people in a critical care ward.
So stick around, doc. Don’t go anywhere. Your country needs you to stay right here, doing what you’re doing, far away from the temporary tent hospitals.
@104 “Any input from others?”
Instead of “I hear,” how about a link to a source?
Jim Craemer says Boeing ’bout to run out of money:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/jim-cramer-says-boeing-will-run-out-of-money-if-it-is-not-saved.html
If only they had planned better and not gone out for avocado toast.
Thoughts and prayers.
@107 So, it’s not “lawsuits,” it’s complying with strings attached to federal and state funding. Like satisfying curriculum requirements and meeting instructional standards. Yup. Damn lawyers.
Shorter Racist Incel. Men, women and children starving? he approves.
@109 I’m guessing you either sent your kids to private schools or didn’t have any kids. And also that you couldn’t get a job driving a school bus even if you wanted to, for obvious reasons.
@112 He wasn’t just a physician pathologist, he was a “titan” in his field. He, like you, was a doctor. The similarities stop there. He towered over you.
He also entrusted me with complete editorial control over his blog, including the ability to edit his articles, post my own aritcles, and remove other people’s articles and comments.
On the flip side, he entrusted you with nothing. I wouldn’t either. I don’t know how someone with your warped judgment and perspective ever got into, much less through, a medical school. At least no law school ever had to put up with you. You’re a clown, doc.
@115 “Are you just this stupid after all?”
Yes, he is, and that’s everything you need to know about him and explains every word of his constant flow of rantings.
122,
It is true from what I’ve read, that a few days ago a couple of PSDs in your state were preparing to implement distance lessons using district supplied notebook computers. And my understanding is that your OSPI had to intervene to prevent those districts form violating state law that would have deprived them of funding.
Similar things are happening and will happen in other states to a greater or lesser extent. The problem has to do with access to the computing devices and also connectivity. And this honestly goes way beyond the Dumbfuck class warfare framing.
Rural districts are some of the most impacted. With higher than average transportation costs and lower income student populations requiring additional nutritional assistance and other support, these districts are way behind in preparing for any kind of distance learning. And connectivity is the big challenge for many of them. Obviously these are predominantly Caucasian PSDs.
This is aggrievement politics intended to distract people from GOP calamity and utter failure. Ironically all it does is demonstrate yet another abject failure by Republicans. PSDs should have been receiving state funding for these contingencies for years in order to prepare for this. In the long run it would save taxpayers. Restoring required instructional days lost to weather, earthquakes, and now CPACvirus pandemic is a foreseeable need. Implementing connectivity solutions and sending kids home with Chromebooks is now more affordable than ever. It’s a lot more affordable than re-negotiating contracts to run the school year through August.
But Republicans simply despise the idea of any of “those people” (whoever the fuck they are) getting any “goodies”. And the average mouth breathing Dumbfuck probably still thinks of notebook computers as electronic jewelry.
@116 “recipients without dependents”
Oh, I get it now. You want the
“two-thirds of participants [who] are children, elderly, and people with disabilities” to get jobs, and where “SNAP also helps workers, both to supplement low wages and support them when they are between jobs,” you want working stiffs holding down three jobs but still unable to make ends meet to get two or three more jobs on top of those jobs.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/most-working-age-snap-participants-work-but-often-in-unstable-jobs
Personally, I don’t think I’d want the person driving my kid’s school bus to be someone who can’t keep her eyes open because she has to work three 8-hour shifts a day to make enough to pay rent. I think it’s better to pay that person enough so she can give all her energy and attention to that one job; or, if you’re not going to do that, then at least to have the decency to give her government benefits (including food assistance) to make up the difference between what her employer pays and what she needs to live.
Your entire attitude toward low-wage workers makes slavery look like an enviable position by comparison. And the fact you’re a privileged white guy while a high percentage of the working poor are minorities makes you look like a racist, too.
@ 130
Oh, I get it now.
Well, you certainly had your head up your ass earlier, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Nice to see you admitting to it.
Ford suspends its dividend.
Guess there won’t be a whole buncha Boeing machinists lining up to buy King Ranch F-250s with their annual bonuses any time soon.
In coming weeks it will be entertaining to see Goldy transition from demanding wages be paid to restaurant workers that they don’t deserve, and instead demand high unemployment benefits be paid to restaurant workers that they don’t earn.
@117 We’re all complicated. But none of us are compromised like doc is.
@ 129
But Republicans simply despise the idea of any of “those people” (whoever the fuck they are) getting any “goodies”.
Bullshit. I referred to the cancellation, or “pause”, of online instruction because 100% of the student body is not currently able to participate.
It’s within a single, urban school district so can the bullshit about rural. I was referring to one single district.
The district is handing out laptops to those who need them, observing social distancing in doing so. The district is 10 miles north of Microsoft so you can spare me the Intro to Chromebook 101 preaching, asswipe. The issue apparently has to do with the inability of special needs students in this district to receive instruction because that instruction has to be delivered personally, and can’t be done remotely. Because of this, those who are receiving instruction are perceived by current rules to be gaining unfair advantage, and therefore so that the lowest common denominator does not sue and because waiver of a rule during an emergency is not something that SJWs will permit, the solution is to shut the whole thing down.
THAT was my point.
What will “capitalist” Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit do when his dividend income stream is curtailed?
Will he still mock those of us who choose to work, which provides us the wherewithal to continue to invest into the market during its trough period?
Or will he listen to the complaints from his family?
@118 Then why don’t you short it, dummy? It’s been only a few days since I suggested that, and it’s already down double digits from there.
Boeing is a no-brainer. They’ve already burned through the $14 billion they borrowed just a few weeks ago, and now they’re begging for a $60 billion bailout. They’re selling zero planes and are using employee parking lots to store planes that can’t fly. Does anyone believe the shareholders won’t be wiped out in this scenario?
I didn’t see the coronavirus coming when I sold my BA shares for $380, which were acquired for a third of that, but I know a sick company when I see one. Boeing’s collapse wasn’t an Act of God or accident of nature. When rot at the top trickles down and pervades the entire organization, the business is not investable. I took my fat profits and left. Now taxpayers will have to pick up the pieces.
@119 More to the point, the case for re-electing Trump — if there ever was one — is collapsing. Completely. From all angles.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-crisis-trumps-argument-for-reelection-is-collapsing.html
But you continue to shill for him, because you’re a dumbfuck.
135,
Nice! So in addition to going for some class warfare you also want to go after the Short Bus? Very well played indeed!
This was across the board involving all students. Yes, within the PSD their own lawyers are advising them that under federal law unless they can provide basic instructional services to SN students on a par with all other students they will be in violation, lose federal funding, probably lose state funding, and probably face a class action. Fucking DUH. This is the United States. However much you wish it, you don’t get to drag the “tards” out into the playground and throw rocks at them for your amusement. And you don’t get to send them home to stare at the wall while you bathe all the other “cool kids” in a Gates Foundation educational fantasy.
All this shit is old news. It comes up in perpetuity whenever PSDs discuss distance learning alternatives. Nobody ever wants to deal responsibly with the SN student population.
But of course it goes beyond that as well. Not wanting to blame their own PSD counsel, and always eager for a scapegoat, you’ve got district drones pointing fingers at the state too. And in the case of your state, they aren’t wrong. This has to be addressed at the state level. And Republicans in most state legislatures absolutely refuse to do that. They’d rather hire “School Resource Officers” to beat up legless 12-year-olds and conduct monthly “live shooter” drills.
Asswipe.
Breaking news from CNN:
@120 Accurate on all counts.
@ 139
It hasn’t come up at a time when the Speaker of the House is pushing Trump to take over manufacturing by private corporations due to the severity of an emergency.
None of this “shit” is old news. Northshore School District has not previously implemented online instruction for thousands of students and then ended it for everyone else due to concerns that a few dozen are being left out for now.
Back to my drowning analogy. This isn’t segregation, QoS McHillbilly.
But at least you didn’t lecture me about rural students this last time. I’m making some progress.
@125 That’s the size of it. This rich doctor — we know he’s rich, because he brags about his millions, his pickup truck and horse trailer, and his horse farm — resents the restaurant staff who cook his food, wait on him, and wash his dishes being paid $15 an hour. And if they’re not paid $15 an hour, he resents them getting food stamps. It’s almost as if he enjoys watching the working poor suffer, and is annoyed by anything that relieves their suffering. Maybe because he was a half-starved slave himself back in his intern days. Often former slaves make the worst slavedrivers.
!Gol!
King County to site Temporary Field Hospital at Shoreline B Soccer Field
I think ‘froggy lives in the woods right next to this park.
@129 “PSDs should have been receiving state funding for these contingencies for years”
In this state, school districts had to sue the state just to get the bare-bones basic instructional funding guaranteed by the state constitution, and after they won, the state supreme court fined the legislature $100,000 a day for not complying with the court order. The problem? Republicans in the legislature, representing the 20% of the population that doesn’t live in western Washington. The solution? Pay ransom to the 20% in the form of school tax cuts funded by raising taxes on Seattle-area homeowners by hundreds of dollars a year. Anybody who thinks these Republicans give a damn about schoolkids has rocks in his head. All they care about is free stuff — highways and roads, schools and sidewalks, fire departments, and above all irrigation water and electricity for irrigation pumps at below cost, all paid for by taxpayers living elsewhere. The red counties of eastern Washington, where no Democrat can get elected to anything, are the most socialist counties in America. Literally everything they have over there is subsidized by urban taxpayers and ratepayers, and they never cease bitching about how they have to pay miniscule taxes to “support Seattle.” They take our tourist money, too. Or, let me say, they used to, before Covid-19 ended tourism.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you might finally be able to afford to take your family on a holiday cruise.
Carnival offers use of its cruise ships as temporary COVID-19-care hospitals
Time to go lick a few doorknobs, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Maybe you’ll get a berth with a balcony!
@131 In a way you’re right, in that I didn’t believe any human being — not even you — was capable of the crass selfishness you exhibited in your earlier comments of this thread. I know better now.
Charles Dickens built a lucrative career from writing novels about guys like you.
@133 “wages … restaurant workers … don’t deserve”
Shorter Doctor Dumbfuck: Restaurant staff should work for nothing, and starve when they lose their jobs because doctors like you couldn’t stop a pandemic.
Did a chef spit in your salad? Can’t say I blame him.
because waiver of a rule during an emergency is not something that SJWs will permit
oh.. the agenda was to trigger and rage spew at the sjw’s.
But poor dimfuk has been “feminized” so much by the lost of its net worth…
the freak rages on! please dimfuk, do continue… do continue..
@ 129, 145
There is no amount of monetary support that will enable personal instruction necessary for special needs students when the instructors are prevented from being in the same room with the students, and instruction requires that they be in the same room with the students.
It’s not a monetary issue. It’s a logistical issue. There’s no solution to the logistical issue because of the health risk to both teacher and student.
You can either teach 98-99% of the students and work on make-up instruction for the others, or you can please the SJW crowd by forcing everyone to do without.
I don’t see the OH governor in too much hot water for having defied the courts and postponed the primary in that state.
“But he broke a rule!” Go fuck yourselves.
@135 My cat lives within 10 miles of Microsoft, too, but that doesn’t make him a Chromebook expert.
Did a chef spit in your salad? Can’t say I blame him.
The chef at the country club even.. Along with every member of the wait staff…
Few could be more deserving.
While QoS McHillbilly twists his panties over the Northshore School Districts failure to teach 99% so it can avoid disenfranchising the 1%, this is happening a little bit south of him:
Coronavirus: California prepared to enact martial law if its a ‘necessity’, governor says
If it’s used rarely, it’s not unprecedented. It’s rare.
Entertaining watching a Dem governor considering the type of dictatorial behavior that y’all have accused Trump of wanting to do for the past three years.
@136 “mock those of us who choose to work,”
Yeah, you’re working, I see. (sarcasm) Do you really think we’re stupid enough to believe anybody would pay for the drivel you spend all day posting on HA?
The First U.S. Company Has Announced an Upcoming Home COVID-19 Test
No, YLB, you don’t have those symptoms because of the virus. You have them because you’re pregnant.
@140 See #88 above, in case you missed it earlier.
142,
Still stupid. Double down stupid not better.
PSDs engage in contingency planning for emergency closures all the time. Distance learning alternatives have been a part of that planning for at least a decade. And probably for most of that time in states like yours, the persistent recurring theme has been that until such time as the state takes it up, the local PSDs will have to hold off. And even in states without a McCleary decision, you still risk class action at the federal level if your PSD decides to implement distance education services for every student except the Special Needs population. Brief closures with DL outreach and support extended to parents and caregivers have been done. But nothing on this scale or duration. But the planning has gone on since at least Northridge.
I know of some districts where they have contingency plans in place for implementing long term remote educational support for Special Needs students. But they are small relatively affluent districts with very small populations of SN students in close proximity to support services.
The reason to have contingency plans, and laws protecting vulnerable populations like special needs students, homeless kids, the poor, the disabled, is so that in times of emergency like these we don’t use it, as you would, as an excuse to fuck them over, order them to the back of the bus, leave them in the hallway to drown in their own fluids, pack them into an unheated portable in the corner of the playground to wait out the day soiling themselves, or lock them in a cell to die without medical assistance.
When Trump is listening to the Speaker urging him to implement war production powers, and his Treasury Secretary is begging him for authority to begin writing basic income checks, that’s you Dumbfuck, watching your Darwinian paradise of cruelty and suffering receding permanently in the rear view mirror.
This certainly is unprecedented. I can’t even imagine what this must be like for you. Having abandoned every single principle of conservative ideology in order to be absorbed into Teh Orange Event Horizon, having watched your financial security and sense of self-worth evaporate over the course of only four days, you must now embrace every hated precept of the dirty filthy SJWs and bleeding heart liberals if you are to have any hope of political survival.
As he has before, Trump will lead you there. Can you follow him one more time?
@144 “I think ‘froggy lives in the woods right next to this park.”
Are you crossing your fingers and hoping he gets sick and dies? I’m asking because I wouldn’t put it past you.
I went grocery shopping with my wife yesterday. It was an eye-opener.
Not just all the bread was gone. All the flour was gone, too. BTW I’m learning to bake bread – send your simple recipes my way, please.
There were plenty of frozen pizzas available for purchase but all of the frozen veggies were gone. I wonder if it’s that way in Seattle and Redmond.
We grabbed the last six cans of Progresso lentil soup and the last 55 gallon drum-size salsa container.
@146 Now in my case, your death wish is understandable because I expose you for what you are, and that’s got to be uncomfortable on your end.
@ 158
Through my mention of ‘froggy I was merely acknowledging the frighteningly high incidence of severe mental illness among the homeless and unemployable, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
I think it’s because Trump killed Soleimani.
@153 “Entertaining watching a Dem governor considering the type of dictatorial behavior that y’all have accused Trump of wanting to do for the past three years.”
Let’s just say, as a thought experiment, that you volunteered to help on the front lines, contracted Covid-19, and then were sent home and told to stay there.
If you acted like a typical Republican, I wouldn’t necessarily oppose Gov. Inslee surrounding your home with National Guard troops to keep you there. Even if you borrowed Matt Gaetz’s gas mask.
What’s good enough for a virus-free Ebola hero nurse is good enough for a dumbfuck doctor whose stupidity is a danger to the public health and welfare.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/talks-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox-fail-governor-full/story?id=26569596
@159 “We grabbed the last six cans of Progresso lentil soup and the last 55 gallon drum-size salsa container.”
Of course you did, and the only reason you didn’t grab the last 6 packages of toilet paper and the last 6 loaves of bread is because 6 other customers got to them before you did.
@161 You expect us to believe that? Sorry, those dots don’t connect.
@162 Not surprising. Much of your thinking is disordered, incoherent, and illogical. In fact, all of it is. How you ever became a doctor is a mystery. Maybe you’re lying about that.
We can’t have 99% of the student body learning remotely while social distancing is being enforced, for similar reasons:
(currently headlining at instapundit.com)
I was just thinking how much more drastically things would have cratered in the Seattle area right now had Boeing kept its production lines within Washington state rather than opening factories in South Carolina.
Discuss.
@162 Probably not for that reason, and your celebration might be a little premature:
“U.S. crude oil climbs to its highs of the day, with April WTI +18.3% at $24.11/bbl while May Brent +7.4% at $26.72/bbl after both benchmarks plunged to multi-year lows yesterday, but analysts see today’s gains as only temporary.
“Jefferies says 4M bbl/day could flood the markets starting next month, potentially pushing down crude oil prices into the teens, adding that ‘unless somebody intervenes, no oil producer benefits from the current environment.’
“Rystad Energy says the negative impact on oil demand from the coronavirus could hit 10M bbl/day in the coming weeks, and Morgan Stanley cites real time data showing traffic congestion has fallen 50%-60% Y/Y in many major cities across the globe.”
Also worth noting:
“The U.S. Department of Energy says it will buy 30M barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as an initial step to fulfill Pres. Trump’s directive to fill the reserve to help domestic crude producers.”
https://tinyurl.com/r7fl8xg
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If demand falls 10M bpd, and producers increase production by 4M bpd, then buying 30M bbls. for the strategic reserve absorbs two days of surplus production. Two days. That’s not very likely to sustain a bounce in crude pricing, but even if crude does bounce, the bounce might be from $16 to $18 or something like that.
It isn’t just the Russians that the Saudis are targeting. They’re taking another run at wiping out the U.S. shale industry. In fact, that may be their primary motive. It’s almost certainly not an accident they timed their move to coincide with when the U.S. producers were already on the ropes from a natural disaster. The Saudis are not our friends and it’s time we recognized that fact. If he’s going to turn his back on NATO and South Korea, then the least Trump can do is stop kissing Saudi ass, too. But Trump being Trump, that’s asking too much. He’d rather spend taxpayer money to subsidize the Saudi attack on our oil economy.
@168 Yeah. Laying off a $10-an-hour worker has less economic impact than laying off a $40-an-hour worker, if you disregard the economic impacts of unskilled, undertrained, and poorly supervised $10-an-hour workers leaving wrenches inside fuel tanks, which are on the order of $1 billion per plane crash in direct costs and indirect losses of many times that.
@167 snore… It’s why we have legislators ready and willing during emergencies (except for maybe Repukes?).. Wasn’t that Elijah’s point? And oh my it’s Glenn headupitsass Instahack’s point too.
@169
You’re a fucking clown, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
First, you assume all of those scenarios that begin with the word “if” as if they are facts. Then, you ignore that the 30 million barrel purchase for the Strategic Oil Reserve is the “initial” action and treat it as if it will be the only one.
You’re a fucking clown. Go back to disappointing your family, because you never disappoint with your moronic commentary here – you have that part of your existence nailed, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
No, YLB, you don’t have those symptoms because of the virus.
Don’t have any symptoms at all, dimfuk. Not planning to either.
I’d miss so much fun here at HA watching you being “feminized”.. Let’s see.. it gloats about oil prices but..
Distaste for Stocks So High Even the Bears Are Starting to Run
The cash rich are feeling for the bottom.. Losing their shirts in the process.. Must be nice.
The Saudis are not our friends and it’s time we recognized that fact. If he’s going to turn his back on NATO and South Korea, then the least Trump can do is stop kissing Saudi ass, too.
drumpf has the 757 fueled and waiting to high tail it out of here to escape U.S. justice when the whole thing melts down.. He has a shitpile business to keep him “afloat” and maybe a few markers to call in to sustain him to the grave..
That is, if stress eating Wendy’s and Burger King doesn’t kill him first.
BTW I’m learning to bake bread – send your simple recipes my way, please.
LMAO!!! mary kay is too busy writing checks to good causes.
too feminine… it’s ok dimfuk.. I’m at least a year ahead of you..
Here’s the least favorite of my occasional looks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTVR5DSxWPpAVI8TzaaXRqQ
Be assured I’ll never clue you in on my favorites..
159,
Get the Tartine Bread book. Chad Robertson is a bit of a Surfer-bro, so some of his recipes may not be super well tested and edited. But the methods are very solid. And method is everything. I think it’s a better bread book to learn from because it forces the user to pay more attention to the dough and less attention to the book.
If you prefer a more meticulous and scientific approach, Ken Forkish’s Flour, Water, Yeast, Salt might be more to your taste. The recipes are more structured, more thoroughly tested and edited, and some are a bit more advanced.
Brotforms are affordable on Amazon now. Look for 8″ coiled cane. If you follow Chad Robertson’s math (ish) and work primarily with 1000 gram doughs you’ll need two of these (500 gr per boule).
The best baking cloche is the Lodge 5 quart cast iron dutch oven L8DD3. It can be inverted so that the brotform is turned out onto what would be the lid and then the bottom is placed over it. For handling it at temp get a pair of Ove Gloves.
You can make your own dough lame with a wooden chop stick and a razor blade.
For a good simple recipe to dip your toes:
https://www.markbittman.com/recipes-1/no-knead-bread
This will tend to produce a more free form loaf owing to a little less gluten development. But still very tasty for very little effort.
Mylan, scourge of the left after the Epi-pen kerfluffle as well as the inversion acquisition of Abbott Labs, is being turned to for the rapid ramp-up of hydroxychloroquine production.
@ 176
That first book was a gift to me a couple of years ago, to commemorate “retirement”. It’s a bit daunting.
Thanks for the info.
@176 Sigh… the same misogynist freak whose food chefs and wait staff spit in, didn’t deserve that.
It’s puzzling.. Some people have a really hard time making naturally leavened bread..
I can count my mishaps on two fingers. Pay attention to detail. Never rush it.
175,
Oh fuck me. I hope this doesn’t turn into another fucking bread blog.
@ 175, 180
YLB, thank you.
@172 In which a Doctor of Philosophy indicts the word “if” and then proceeds to assume there will be continuing purchases of oil for the strategic reserve.
Those purchases would have to average 28 million barrels every two days to soak up the surplus, in which event the Saudis could simply pile on more production.
And you call ME a clown?
180,
I think timing is a challenge for many. When you can devote an entire day watching over it while doing other things maybe less so. But I see people struggling with wild variations in proofing time because of weather, room temp, etc. and trying to coordinate that with other activities… like sleeping.
“President Donald Trump said Thursday he would consider having the federal government take equity stakes in companies accepting federal aid in a bailout geared toward blunting the economic impact from the widening coronavirus outbreak.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/coronavirus-bailouts-trump-would-consider-federal-equity-stakes-in-companies.html
SO-SHUL-IZM!!!
Trump was against bailouts when Obama did them.
https://hillreporter.com/trump-derided-obamas-auto-bailout-but-his-farm-bailout-has-cost-more-than-twice-as-much-54237
But it’s a different tune when he does it, although you gotta give him credit for putting it off to the very last minute.
@184 It is a challenge. Some approaches will cut into a good chunks of a busy person’s weekend. If that person finds that relaxing, fine.
I’ve seen some methods that fit around workdays and produce decent enough bread.
All I know is that I really like not paying $6 plus for an artisan loaf at the store. I’ve haven’t done that since I started.
Buy hey, hey… I’m about to whip up another two loaves..
one half organic all purpose flour from central milling (via Costco) and one half fresh milled whole grain – combo of rye, yecora rojo hard red and spelt..
I’ll autolyse that for two hours.. Some bakers go for 5 to 6 hours but I’m too busy to experiment at the moment.
Geez. Bread nerds.
I mean, I’d understand if it was ale or even red wine, but…
Sad about Seattle Jew. Rest in peace.
There are some very wonderful tributes being left by his peers from around the world on a page at the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO) site, an organization which he co-founded.
http://www.navbo.org/events/2-uncategorised
189,
pretty hard to make good quality of either of those at home without making a crazy investment of time, space, and money.
Bread scales down pretty well. Beer and wine not so much.
You run the numbers and it’s hard to even see how small commercial wineries and breweries make it, except that one way or another they end up in the hospitality business whether they like it or not.
Making your own, with friends, either at home or at a BOP/custom facility makes even less sense except for the fun of it. And it can be fun. But, as an example, the scale of it means you wind up paying $20 to $30 per bottle for red wine of pretty below average quality. Go for it. Have fun. Make your own label. Give it away as gifts. But if you just want to drink good wine leave it to the pros. It does not scale down very well.
OTOH if you enjoy having good, perfectly fresh, amazing bread at home you can bake it yourself very easily. Doesn’t take up a bunch of space, require special equipment, or too much of your time. That Bittman recipe is dead simple and works every time.
I mean, I’d understand if it was ale or even red wine, but…
Take two slices of your homemade, naturally leavened bread, toast them to beauty..
drizzle ev olive oil over both slices and spread 1/4 hass avocado over each slice. Season with a touch of salt.
Top both slices with two sunny side up eggs seasoned with freshly ground salt and pepper
rain both eggs with chopped chives freshly harvested from your herb patch..
better yet..
How about a BLT with your own smoked and cured bacon??
Roll ’em if ya got ’em dimfuk
650,000 new UI claims in just two weeks.
Not gonna blow over. This is what it will take to avoid killing a few hundred thousand older and sicker Americans. But then what? This massive uptick in UI claims is going to be the story for the next few days. Delays in applications, delays in processing, and delays in reporting are all holding down the true numbers right now. But people sent home from their jobs to wait this thing out are not going to just forget to file or give up because the shitty state web site keeps crashing.
When the true early numbers emerge, and continue to rise, the market panic will really set in.
Anybody think Senate RapePublicans will magically start to give a shit then?
Like he cared one bit about “special needs students” before this.
It’s been pointed out before, but it’s worth repeating, the racist incel will hold up, with impotent rage, some small fraction of a liberal initiative does not work 100% perfectly and try to conflate that the whole thing would be a failure and we shouldn’t try, or liberals are just as much a failure as conservatives.
That 650k is probably about 10% of what’s coming immediately.
Hospitality, travel, and retail are reporting about 6 to 7 million sent home due to national SHITDOWNS, as well as state and local closures.
But already supply, warehouse, and transportation sector supporting all those closed businesses are getting ready to surplus a bunch of people and operations because of canceled orders and contracts. So that will add to the next wave as retail closures expand further.
My guess is when all is said and done unemployment will be closer to 10%
194,
The failure, and it really is a perennial one, is PSDs and state legislatures refusing to adequately plan for all students.
We’ve all seen this movie. It is decades old. In the 1950s is was states and PSDs somehow forgetting to replace the boiler in the “colored” school. These days it’s special needs students.
The current closures don’t prohibit in-person services. They prohibit the mass gathering of students in one place in order to do it less expensively. That doesn’t preclude making support services available. I know of a half dozen PSDs still offering nutritional support via pickup, and delivery services.
Educational support for special needs students is lots more complicated than to-go lunches. But all that means is it requires more planning and costs more. Not impossible. Just harder.
@ 191
At that outlay the wine is pretty decent. Last two harvests I worked with friends who purchased one or two tons. Grapes ran about $5/produced bottle.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
7185Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124Island County reports its first death related to the virus #KOMONews
9% of working Americans (14 million) so far have been laid off as result of Coronavirus; 1 in 4 workers have had their hours reduced.
And the racist incel is pissed that some of them might be given food.
GOP Senator Kept Coronavirus Info Secret for Weeks, But Shared It With Wealthy Donors
https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/gop-senator-kept-coronavirus-info-secret-for-weeks-but-shared-it-with-wealthy-donors/
I hope his voters remember who he values.
Here is the list of jobs the US considers Critical.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA-Guidance-on-Essential-Critical-Infrastructure-Workers-1-20-508c.pdf
If the internet is a critical service, shouldn’t it be categorized as a utility? Some thing to revisit in January.
If you can afford to eat at a Tom Douglas restaurant your income is so high you won’t get a government check, just the eventual higher deficit and interest rates.
Damn you, $15 minimum wage!
TRUMP CONSERVATISM:
The intense fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is inferior is being treated as your equal.
Rep. Don Young (R-AK) never wastes any opportunity to be a jackass.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/politics/alaska-don-young-coronavirus/index.html
“…two tons. Grapes ran about $5/produced bottle.”
$3500/ton? Not in Napa. Maybe in Sonoma. Maybe Washington Cab or Merlot from Col Val AVA. Possibly first harvest.
Now all you have to do is come up with another $10,000 for new oak, cork, bottles, boxes, and then couple of weeks production space including de-stemmer (unless you are fermenting whole clusters) bulk fermenters, clarifying tanks, transfer pumps, chemistry set, etc. We’ll assume you and your pals each store one new and one old barrel each in your basement (?).
You’re somewhere between $10 and $15 per bottle conservative with free labor and barrel storage.
Pro/Am tip: get your hustle on and seek out fully vinified and aged orphan barrels* from wineries in your state. They can be had surprisingly affordably. Then you just need a food grade bulk tank and a trailer you can pull behind the horse truck. Fuck, horses weigh a lot. Maybe you can use the horse trailer? The winery transfers their barrels to your bulk tank and sends you down the road. Now you’ve got five barrels worth ready to bottle and all you need is a place to do it and maybe a dozen people. I know people who do this every year and seem to do okay. But it’s a little bit of a crap shoot in my opinion.
*You’re looking for 3 to 5 orphan barrels that did not make it into that winery’s blending program that year. That fits well in your state. You have quite a number of moderate sized premium producers who blend reds. You’ll need a decent palate. Some of it is harvest that just didn’t come around or marginal vineyard sites. Often it’s just odd ball stuff. Some “blending” varietals. So if you like Cab Frac (I actually do) or Petit Verdot (hmm), Lemberger (under appreciated owing to a terrible name), etc….
In the catastrophic Trump economy to come later this summer going into fall you may be able to find some deals. There will be a wine glut with all these closures.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Open Borders For Epidemics Bombshell News – Public Opposition Puts Demorat “No Ban Act” On Hold, Rep. Judy Chu (D-China) Explained; “I don’t want the public to know how lucky they are to have Trump instead of a Demorat as president, we would have let thousands of Chinavirus carriers into the country and made the epidemic a hundred times worse. So I’m waiting until after the election to bring it up again.”
————-
Democrats were so opposed to Trump’s travel bans with China and Iran that they literally attempted an act of Congress to prevent him from carrying them out. On March 5, 2020, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced the “No Ban Act”, which would have prevented Trump from implementing his travel ban. It was co-sponsored by 219 House Democrats. Senate Democrats also tried to prevent Trump from implementing his travel bans, introducing legislation that would block funds from being used to enforce them.
This was after World Health Organization experts conceded that Trump’s travel ban with China saved lives.
Congressional Democrats may not understand that travel bans will help slow the spread of the coronavirus, but the American public does. A recent poll found 80 percent of Americans agree with Trump’s travel bans.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/shame-democrats-opposed-travel-bans-now-being-implemented-worldwide-to-slow-coronavirus/
@117 He had strong opinions, was assertive, had a tendency to fill the room he was in, and could be annoying at times. But he was a decent person and his heart was in the right place. And he trusted me with full access to his blog, including the ability to edit his own postings.
@205 Better check your dates again, dummy. Your own link shows that bill was introduced on 4/9/2019, before anyone heard of coronavirus. Or maybe you know that (comment @ 3/11/20 #101 put you on notice) and you’re lying about it.
@195 Mnuchin says 20%, but you gotta consider the source.
@201 Looks like Dumbfuck won’t get anything. Except the deficit. Maybe he can sneak under the $99K AGI limit by claiming his horse as a dependent, or if he files joint returns with his horse.
Puddy is sad that Dr. Stephen Schwartz has died.
Till next time – when John H. Durham publishes the real truth about DUMMOCRETIN coordination with Russia during the 2016 election cycle; when all 17 (only 3 in reality) agencies confess their lies about the Trump Campaign.
BYE BYE
@199 That ain’t the half of it.
“Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and his wife sold as much as $1.7 million in stock last month ahead of the sharp market decline that’s resulted from the novel coronavirus global pandemic, according to Senate documents.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/politics/richard-burr-coronavirus-comments/index.html
@210 Look who’s back.
@207 Too bad after being gone for almost two years the DUMB Wabbit still has reading problems.
House – 03/05/2020 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 333. (All Actions)
She may have written the bill in 2019 but submitting it to the House calendar for discussion is timely eh silly bunny?
Now BYE BYE!
@195 “That 650k is probably about 10% of what’s coming immediately.”
It’s going to be a lot more than that. The governor of California just ordered 40 million people to stay in their houses.
@213 “after being gone for almost two years”
Did they let you out, or did you escape?
Durham: “Cardinal Fang! Fetch…THE COMFY CHAIR!
Confess, woman. Confess! Confess! Confess! Confess!”
Classic stuff!
Thanks dropping by and stomping on rakes for our amusement.
Bye Felicia!
If that’s really Puddy:
Be well.
212,
I thought we had all pretty much agreed that Greeeezy Dripping PorkSauce was him all along. Not that there’s any point in any of it. One unhinged pathological lying asshole Republican is a good as the next as far as I’m concerned.
@213 “She may have written the bill in 2019 …”
BINGO!!!
In response to Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Specifically references those executive orders. Has nothing to do with coronavirus. No reference to those executive orders. Here’s the actual text of the bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2214/text
You’ve learned nothing in two years, you’re just as addled as you always were. And still speaking of yourself in third person.
So what brings you back?
Admit it, HA libbies and Dr. Darryl:
Your day @ 210, 213 got a little better.
Mine did.
@218 I didn’t think so. Forensic analysis suggested different brain wave lengths, both of them in the dark energy range.
But you might be right. Why would Puddy care what I said to pork sauce unless he’s pork sauce?
But if he is, why would he reply as Puddy?
It’s a mystery.
@221 He adds another dimension to trolling on this blog. Yours is kinda flat.
This is interesting:
“In the midst of the economic collapse happening during the coronavirus crisis, the Trump administration—according to The New York Times—is asking state labor officials to hold off on releasing figures on unemployment claims.”
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-trump-admin-asking-state-officials-to-hold-off-releasing-unemployment-numbers-80998981982
Details of McConnell’s cash stimulus scheme:
“Married couples who file their taxes jointly would have to make less than $150,000 to qualify for their payment, which would be $2,400.
“From there, according to McConnell’s proposal, the payments would decrease. For individuals, the sum of the payment would fall by $5 for each $100 earned over $75,000.
“The payment would phase out entirely for individuals making more than $99,000 annually, meaning people who make more than that would not get any money from the government, according to the proposal.
“For married couples earning more than $150,000, the payment would also decline gradually, and it would phase out completely for couples making more than $198,000, according to the plan.
“The checks, however, would reduce to $600 (or $1,200 for married couples) for taxpayers who have little or no income tax liability but have at least $2,500 in qualifying income, according to a GOP summary of the plan.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/see-who-s-eligible-coronavirus-checks-senate-gop-releases-details-n1164311
The income figures refer to your adjusted gross income (AGI) on your 2018 tax return. It’s not clear if you’d have to claim it, or the IRS would just mail checks to everyone who filed a 2018 tax return. But that would leave out some people, and because some people move around a lot, I would think you’d have to claim it somehow, otherwise they wouldn’t know where to send it. Plus children might have been born since then, and some taxpayers have died since then. NBC News calls this an “unanswered question”:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/needing-urgent-help-americans-await-answers-stimulus-n1163501
213,
Still a liar. Two years hasn’t changed a fucking thing.
at 205 PorkSlop (you) stated very clearly the following:
” On March 5, 2020, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) introduced the “No Ban Act”,
That’s a lie. You even admit it is. Rep. Chu introduced the bill a year ago.
It’s on the calendar because it was reported out of House Judiciary with an amendment. Chu isn’t even on the committee you dunce.
Mind that rake, Forest.
Bye Felicia.
224,
See 195.
Republicans think they can manage their economic fuckup the same way they tried to handle the CPACvirus fuckup.
By lying about it.
Poodebutt is sad
Never more sad when IT PUT HA HEROES FIRST..
Heh. Never more sad when the kult threatens shunning or excommunication over its very sad choices over the years…
“Bubeleh”, wasn’t the Horowitz Report enough for you?
BYE BYE
Stay away longer next time..
“Seven states doing surprisingly little to curb the spread of coronavirus”
You guessed it, they’re all red states: ID, MO, MS, OK, TN, TX, WY
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/seven-states-doing-surprisingly-little-to-curb-spread-of-coronavirus-80951877857
You could call them the Dumbcluck States.
Covid-19 isn’t just an old people’s disease anymore.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-updates-young-people-ages-20-to-44-hospitalizations-20-percent-adults-spring-break-social-distancing/
@227 – The liars in this entire sorry adventure are the Communist Party of China. Communism doesn’t fucking work, and they know it. Still, they cling to their power and privilege while
enjoying what they can from the wealth China can still grow in a country whose leadership is corrupt, self-centered and arrogant.
If the bastards would have been honest from the start, we’d all be in better shape. They’re just a bunch of commie bastards, benefitting from crony capitalism and whose commitment to their fucking communist revolution is a joke.
It’s nice to see you guys baking bread, now about breaking bread for once.
My mother has baked bread every Saturday for the last fucking 60 years, good to see Neanderthals are finally catching up.
That applies to making homemade pasta and ricotta filled ravioli, and fresh sauce weekly.
All while she worked a full time job on an assembly line at Wiremold, and raising 3 kids (washing and ironing even the underwear).
And she never complained about taxes or life.
Nobody will beat that. All while her and dad (US Postsl worker) became multi millionaires.
Oh and I cut my own hair and haven’t paid a barber in over 6 years.
Cut down on deodorant to once every two days and take a shower.
That saves money too.
And those single use plastic bags, I use them a second time (how about that) as a garbage bag. I haven’t bought a trash bag I ducking 7 years.
Another two loaves?
Mom baked about 8 to 10 loaves at a time and stored them in a freezer. Not as great as a fresh loaf, but sacrificing its so damn hard(sarcasm).
Wealth, power and privilege? Something must be working for someone, genius.
What’s wrong?
Got tired of blaming the Durty Meskins for all your troubles?
@236
Go live in China, you fucking idiot! You are certainly one of the dumbest trolls on this blog!
@231 Instead of worrying about ideology 10,000 miles away, let’s deal with the problem here, okay? Can we do that? For once?
But go ahead, beat your chest and spew your dogma, if it helps you get through your last days. These are the end times. You’re gonna die, so you might as well go happy, doing what you love to do.
Here’s a message for you racist, xenophobic, immigrant-baiting Breitbart-breathing numbskulls:
YOU NEED MEXICAN WORKERS AND YOU’RE GONNA STARVE WITHOUT THEM:
“If farmers get sick or have to significantly alter the way they work because of safety measures, the food supply could take a hit. … Duvall is particularly concerned over a recent decision by the federal government to suspend immigrant visa services in Mexico …. Farmers rely on immigrant labor, and Duvall worries that the changes will affect harvesting in the spring and planting in the summer. … ‘Empty shelves can be frightening, but empty fields and barns would be devastating,’ he warned. … For now, however, the system is working. ‘The supplies are there,’ Newton said. ‘The key is making sure that the supply chain remains very strong, and the key component of that strong supply chain is access to labor.'”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/panic-buying-how-stores-restock-coronavirus/index.html
Note: Breitbart is not a ventilator and can’t move air in and out of your lungs. If Breitbart is all you’ve got, and you get Covid-19, get in line for your pine overcoat. Supplies eventually will be available.
237,
Its own words. Merely quoted.
Massively triggered by its own words. Let’s try some more:
Honest like GOP Senator Richard Burr, his GOP donors, and the other seven GOP members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence who all got the “hot tip” three weeks ago?
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/818192535
@237 Must be looking at itself in a mirror.
So some troll calling itself “Mao” shows up here fulminating about the Chinese being bad guys. Guess what, we knew that before Nixon began cozying up to them, and every GOP administration since has sent good-paying American union jobs to China to line their own pockets with more profits. And it’s upset because it can’t buy anything without Chinese germs on it. As I’ve complained many times before, this blog’s trolls are other blogs’ rejects. They come here after getting kicked out of Free Republic, not for being too over the top, which is not possible on Freep, but for being too stupid even for Freep. I can see this is going to be another one of those days when a visiting troll makes Dumbfuck and Puddy aka pork sauce look like the intelligentsia of our troll cadre, which isn’t saying anything complimentary about those two. As I’ve said for years, HA needs better trolls, but I don’t know where the hell to get them. It’s easier to find toilet paper.
240 (cont),
Let’s not kid ourselves. If three weeks ago GOP Senator Richard Burr was sharing classified intelligence with wealthy donors alerting them about the calamity that was about to unfold, then he certainly knew well before that and had already covered his own ass.
Most of the US is about to descend into an economic crater. Republicans in charge have known about it and prepared for it months ahead of time all the while pretending that “everything is perfect”. They’ve been lying about this since December. We all could have been warned. We all could have prepared. Instead Republicans and the White House soft peddled it and lied about all the projections in order to sell at the top of the market.
“Panama City Beach’s chamber of commerce declared Thursday that beaches there aren’t closed and the town is ‘open for business.'”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-concerns-still-not-closing-some-florida-beaches-remain-open-n1164676
Let me guess. Betcha these assholes aren’t left-leaning, progressive-socialist Bernie Bros. I just have that feeling …
A constant, like the speed of light, you can rely on during these unsettling times is: Trump will be himself:
“President Donald Trump excoriated an NBC News correspondent as a ‘terrible reporter’ on Friday after he asked the president to calm Americans who were scared because of the coronavirus pandemic.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-rips-reporter-who-asked-him-calm-scared-americans-terrible-n1165031
Just so you know …
“Wednesday night, 280 clinicians in Washington state dialed into a three-hour webinar to hear about the possibility that medical professionals across the state will have to begin rationing health-care — including precious ventilators — for coronavirus patients.
“Officials say the trigger for rationing care, or invoking what are known as ‘crisis standards,’ will be when there are more COVID-19 patients than ventilators.
“‘If you are above a certain age and we have a shortage of ventilators, you don’t get one,’ Cassie Sauer, CEO of the Washington State Hospital Association explained. …
“A 2010 study found Washington state had fewer than 1,000 ventilators. As of Thursday it had more than 1,300 confirmed cases of coronavirus ….”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/coronavirus-updates-california-issues-stay-home-order-no-new-local-n1164541/ncrd1165091#liveBlogHeader
Roger Rabbit Commentary: To be fair about this, you also shouldn’t get one if you’re under a certain age and have been frolicking at a Florida spring break beach.
@242 B-b-b-u-t …
“Sen. Richard Burr, under fire for selling off much of his stocks ahead of the coronavirus-caused downturn in the market, said Friday he made the move because of TV reports — not inside information obtained in his role as Senate Intelligence Committee chairman. …
“‘I relied solely on public news reports to guide my decision regarding the sale of stocks on February 13. Specifically, I closely followed CNBC’s daily health and science reporting out of its Asia bureaus at the time,’ Burr said in a statement.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-burr-i-sold-stocks-because-tv-reports-not-inside-n1165036
Presumably he also shorted Boeing’s stock, based on public news reports or by reading the HA comment threads, both of which also were available to Doctor Dumbfuck.
Here’s the problem with Burr’s “public news reports” defense:
” … Burr — who co-wrote an op-ed for Fox News in early February saying ‘the United States today is better prepared than ever before to face emerging public health threats, like the coronavirus’ — unloaded the stock around mid-February,” i.e. after giving that reassurance a few days’ time to calm the suckers’ nerves.
Wherever he was getting his “public news reports,” it obviously wasn’t from his own fucking op-ed, which might make this defense a tough sell to a jury.
He isn’t the only one. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) also dumped stock. Unlike Burr, she isn’t a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, so she didn’t sit in those classified briefings. Her source of insider information more likely was her husband, who happens to be the president of the New York Stock Exchange.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-calls-senate-intel-chair-richard-burr-resign-stock-selloff-n1164401
But you don’t really need the details. These people are Republicans. That means you can take it for granted they’re corrupt criminals. They all are. There’s no such thing as an honest or law-abiding Republican.
It turns out Pocahontas Liz’s main monetary backer was some snot-bitch psychiatrist who used to be married to some Silicon Valley venture capitalist. This loony-tune gave Liz around $15 million. That’s almost as bad as that idiot Bloomberg and his failed campaign.
@248 I bet you wish you had that kind of money to give to the orange menace – like the Mercers..
But you don’t. Sux to be you.
and 15 million compared to almost A BILLION?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/488767-bloomberg-spent-over-900-million-on-presidential-campaign
Not even in the ballpark. Innumerate to boot. And probably a fucking misogynist.