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Buzzards circling …
“‘Vulture investors, especially in private equity, are waiting in the wings to scoop up scores of struggling businesses on the cheap,’ tweeted Rohit Chopra, an FTC commissioner.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/25/private-equity-eyes-coronavirus-hit-industries-theyve-been-waiting.html
The Senate just passed the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill by a vote of 96-0 and the House will take a voice vote at 9 a.m. Friday.
@ 1
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit mocked Puddy for stockpiling cash.
The entity that published the discredited Steele dossier
begins to pay the price. This is the prologue:
BuzzFeed Slashing Employee Pay Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
It will get worse. And so it should.
And I just don’t understand why it was reasonable for your Green New Deal to offer economic security to people who are unwilling to work for it. Life is funny that way.
@4 Wherein a dumbfuck attributes the economic impacts of the coronavirus to … wait for it … the Steele dossier.
The same dumbfuck thinks it’s “discredited” because Trump called it “fake news.”
Wikipedia says some of the Steele dossier’s allegations are “corroborated” while others are “unverified.” The word “discredited” does not appear in the Wikipedia writeup.
The dumbfuck should look up “corroborated” sometime. It’s not a synonym of “discredited.”
One thing’s for sure though: A dumbfuck is gonna be a dumbfuck.
@5 “Unwilling to work” describes you pretty well unless you call posting on HA all day “work.” Even I wouldn’t go that far.
Twitter: Private Joker, USMC @Infantry0300
All men are equal, but some are more equal than others.
What some models are predicting….
https://covidactnow.org/
https://covidactnow.org/state/WA
Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285
you can scroll down and read the actual document full of If/Thens that would have lessened this disaster.
The only time Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit can get it up is to keep fuckin’ the Steele dossier @ 6 chicken.
Even Maddow has backed off. But not Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. ’cause he’s got a source, you see. It’s right there on the ‘net, so it’s unimpeachable.
Oh, look, The Fucking Moron II @ 10 has a daily gotcha!
Someone with some common sense might notice that if the administration deliberately decided not to use the playbook, then the playbook was not “ignored”.
Someone with third-grade reading level comprehension might have caught this:
Now, The Fucking Moron II is correct that color-coded alert levels have not been part of the administration’s response. Do y’all libbies recall accusing the GWB43 administration of falsely elevating risk levels to raise public fear in order to achieve political advantage? ’cause I still do. And that was when Bushitler, and not Orange Man Bad, was running things. The accusations would be even worse today.
You’re third-tier, The Fucking Moron II. Keep doing what you do, and place your hopes on Creepy Joe Biden.
It’s how you’ll get more Trump.
I’d like to take an opportunity to give Bernie some credit.
Yesterday he forced a few GOP Senate holdouts to cave and permit the bill to be passed as written.
The credit Bernie deserves is that the burden on red state employers who may find that they can’t rehire people who have been “laid off” in order to take advantage of generous benefits the bill provides is due in no small part to the low minimum wage in more than a few red states.
That having been said, the combined benefits some will receive could reach $24/hr in some places, and the senators are right to worry that too many people will sit around like
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbitslovenly fat fucks and not come back to work when needed.Plenty for both sides to think about. Bernie did well, and I have no problem congratulating him, ’cause when the bill comes due it will be YLB’s kids paying it, not me.
12 i read that. I put it into the fake news catalog.
@ 14
Of course you did. It’s what the sources you read tell you to do, The Fucking Moron II. You are choosing to be sheep.
It’s how you’ll get more Trump. You are fully complicit in the reason for it, too. Don’t feign surprise in November.
Private equity firm Apollo Capital Mgmt is up 63+% since close of market on Monday. Up 12% this morning alone.
Golub Capital also up smartly.
Private equity will clean up. There’s $1.5 trillion still on the sidelines. OK, that was a couple of days ago. Maybe a bit less now.
Did I mention the dividend yield from APO is >6%?
Shorter bot-farm pussy @12:
https://youtu.be/urnRVr1P2bc?t=51
Noyce!
bot-farm pussy announces that he has been pilled!
The sweetest humiliation is when they are so deluded they are unaware.
Deserves a new nickname: Q Clearance Pussy
Make it so!
How can you?
By now it is orthodoxy among Q Clearance Patriot’s tribe of Q investigators that Golub finances the harvesting of tiny precious babies for their tissues (and the short-ribs* slow smoked with a dry rub – Yum!).
Does it really mean to confess right here before GAWAD that it supports this wretched industrial processing of beautiful tiny babies? Or is Q Clearance Pussy a mole for the MORLOCKS? Is it merely pretending to be pilled so that it can discover the secret plans?
*Get it? That’s the joke. They are all “short” ribs. Right?
Note the time and date where our beloved Q Clearance Pussy declared his belief that somebody somewhere in a fetid, garbage strewn, impoverished, low wage Red State is going to be receiving 24 weeks of $1000/week UI checks.
Dovetails nicely with the invisible Cannibal Pizza Parlor and the LSD sprayed from NASA jets.
“Note the time and date where our beloved Q Clearance Pussy declared his belief that somebody somewhere in a fetid, garbage strewn, impoverished, low wage Red State is going to be receiving 24 weeks of $1000/week UI checks.”
Not to mention those damned nurses bailing out on their patients during a pandemic so they can grab some unemployment cash. That is, if they can first figure out how to quit their jobs and still collect unemployment benefits.
“Objecting to a provision in the Senate coronavirus bill providing unemployment benefits for people in financial trouble, Sen. Lindsey Graham says nurses are “going to make $24 an hour on unemployment” which he claims would incentivize “taking people out of the workforce.””
https://theweek.com/speedreads/904839/why-gop-argument-about-unemployment-insurance-probably-doesnt-make-much-sense
QoS McHillbilly @ 20 re @ 13
Weekly unemployment possibly as great as $681.
$600 weekly payments under the bill, and the recipient self-certifies as having been laid off or terminated. No way to check whether the company called the recipient back to work.
Add up the two, because both are collected, and it’s 5 large per month. Did I say $24/hr? Make that $30.
Who wants to go back to whatever they were doing for $20/hr if they can make $30/hr until the tap runs dry just for couch-potatoing?
“Oh, look, The Fucking Moron II @ 10 has a daily gotcha!”
And yet, the racist incel posts a daily gotcha, punching down on Gillum and disappointed that his dick isn’t bigger. (The racist incel has definitely got some gay urges. ) Gillum is not killing thousands and thousands of people. Republicans are. The racist incel’s side is doing that.
Here’s an interesting graph. It’s the second one down on this page.
It displays death doubling rate. Washington is improving, with deaths doubling, maybe, every five days or so (eyeballing it). Contrast that with the poor fucks who listened to Bill de Blasio and increased their partying right up until the hammer was dropped. In New York it looks like deaths double every 36 hours or so.
I’m sure there are quite a few reasons for this disparity. Seattleites were worried sooner. We’re not as closely packed-in together. But I think we had more effective and accurate local leadership, too.
We can count on the racist incel to always imagine people in the worst ways,
Do you think he’s projecting himself onto them when he sees everyone else as deadbeat slacker takers, who’s life’s dream is to live off of the government. Seems likely.
The Fucking Moron II @ 23:
The opposition party blames the party in power. That’s how it is in the US. That’s how it is in Canada, where the liberal power base is under fire from conservatives for missteps:
All you are doing, The Fucking Moron II, is parroting your party’s line, and in doing so you make it clear that you possess zero understanding of anything deeper than the daily story headline on MSNBC.
There’s plenty of reason, all around, for a less-than-perfect response. There are the ventilators that Cuomo had a chance to order five years ago but did not. There are the masks that Obama had 7 years to replace and that Trump has had 3 years to replace but did not. There is de Blasio’s behavior (and, to be fair, there is Gavin Newsom’s behavior, which is underreported but probably has saved countless Bay Area lives – good on him). There is hesitation on the part of numerous leaders to hurt people economically. There is eagerness to hurt the opposition politically, and on that note, when Trump in early February spoke of restricting travel from certain areas, he was criticized for doing so by…
…well, by who, The Fucking Moron II? By your side.
All told, both sides of government have agreed to throw the nation into an immediate and severe recession in order to protect public health.
It will work and both sides will deserve, and claim, credit for having done so.
You are a simpleton and an embarrassment, The Fucking Moron II, for understanding only half of that.
The racist incel’s revisionist history fantasy. He lies and omit facts to fit his fantasy that the impeached miserable failure and republicans didn’t fuck this up.
“Contrast that with the poor fucks who listened to Bill de Blasio and increased their partying right up until the hammer was dropped.” In his fever dreams.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-in-ny-a-timeline-of-how-the-disease-spread-through-the-metro-area/
This is the time line for New York state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_New_York_(state)
Now do Florida and Mississippi. But you won’t.
What I do expect, if you respond at all, is to find some small factiod and nitpic that that thing could have been done better or sooner or different, and lie that Democrats are just as bad or worse than the republicans.
Saying it does not make it so. Even if your Q Leader says it.
Three days ago on the 23rd the US was at 545.
Today, this morning the US is at 1089.
You’re a fucking idiot. Nobody as shitty at math as you are could have possibly made it through undergrad pre-med. No fucking way you got through differential equations. No fucking way you got through inorganic chem. You can’t think methodically enough.
Three day doubling is probably precisely where we are right now. Although there are brief periods where the reported number jump as agencies in unrestricted Red states like Tennessee become swamped and then catch up. Three days puts us at 1 million dead by the end of next month.
The problem isn’t that there are too many stupid people.
The problem is that too many of the stupid people have been allowed to believe they are anything else.
@ 28
My apologies for being unclear.
“Washington state is improving…”
I did contrast WA with NY.
Yes, while 3-day doubling looks bad if it continues, the point of all of this isolation enforcement is so that it does not continue. Washington’s curve bent to the positive. New York’s will, too.
I wrote nothing incorrect and I disclosed my source. fivethirtyeight.com has also written about Washington and improvement here, BTW.
godwinha, you must be retired. It appears you have nothing to do all day.
https://www.philstockworld.com/2020/03/26/federally-funded-thursday-we-are-not-going-to-run-out-of-ammunition-powell/
“”Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania told Bloomberg yesterday that ANOTHER $4.5Tn is waiting in the wings. Who knew we had this much money sitting around? Certainly not the 700,000 Americans Trump pulled off Food Stamps because he said we couldn’t afford $4.2Bn to feed starving children. Yet if one Octogenarian in the Senate gets a virus – suddenly $4,500Bn is available to ease the pain.
Those who screeched at Obamacare for “death panels” (a lie) are now raving that we should accept a 2-5% US death rate – of mostly older Americans – in order to get planes flying and golf courses humming again”
….Just say’n.
ftfy
And you should apologize. The kinds of sweeping restrictions that superstitious imbeciles like you and your beloved RapeHero are objecting to as being “too extreme” and “politically motivated” are the only things bending that death curve right now. Which is also why you’re about to watch places like Tennessee turn into an open air morgue, while right next door in Kentucky they are staying ahead of your GOPlague. Perhaps before this is over those of us not crippled by strange beliefs in cherubs, demons, ghosts, invisible sky pals, or “invisible hands” will simply have to close the borders between ourselves and you idiots. You put your own community at risk with your stupidity.
It’s clear you’ve chosen the right family. You absolutely belong in the Republican Party along with all the science denial and constant appeals to supernatural interventions. You fit in. They are your tribe.
Now go lick a stripper pole. GAWAD will save you. Sure Jan.
The racist incel is not an idiot who does not know better, he knows he is lying. He chooses to do it.
So let’s test Q Clearance Pussy’s scientific aptitude.
Isolation enforcement bends the death rate curve downward enough to allow the healthcare system to respond more effectively.
Does isolation enforcement confer any immunity on the population?
Does isolation enforcement confer any effect upon the population that can be expected to last beyond the period of enforcement?
The Fucking Moron II @ 27
You need to read the link you shared. Here, let me help you:
I’m just getting started, The Fucking Moron II.
On March 7 Gov. Cuomo declared a state of emergency. Here’s de Blasio on March 14th:
https://gothamist.com/news/pandemic-at-the-disco-nyc-coronavirus-bars
That same day:
William Kulp
@willkulp
I’m a bartender in NYC and watched the bar fill up today with people who were talking 2 inches apart. Young people don’t care and aren’t listening. Staff are at risk. I am uncomfortable working. #shutdownNYC
79.3K
10:13 PM – Mar 14, 2020 · Brooklyn, NY
Three days later de Blasio must have been ready (back to your link):
Got it, The Fucking Moron II? On THE TENTH DAY after Cuomo declared a state of emergency, de Blasio got around to closing NYC bars. Let that sink in.
I’m not saying there have not been similar missteps by GOP leaders. The Florida beaches should have been closed, and that’s on DeSantis for not having done so. But if you look at NOLA, that’s a Democrat mayor and a Democrat governor. Louisiana is becoming a shitshow.
Got it, The Fucking Moron II? If you are going to assign responsibility of citizen deaths, do it fairly and honestly.
You embarrass yourself. The Fucking Moron II, you embarrass the cause of progressivism.
I thought I’d always see the day when dimfuk spikes the ball on 50 yard line over the stock price of greedhead buy-back corps rising over massive government handouts. Handouts that dwarf anything people who live paycheck to paycheck will get.
We’ll be getting a check I guess. Like I said earlier, we’re lucky we don’t need it.. It’s going to the youngest’ college prereq, application and testing fund for postgrad professional school. He will graduate with a B.S. in June.
One less bill.
cause when the bill comes due it will be YLB’s kids paying it, not me.
Heh. Now be a good klownservatic and fill the church pews on Easter. It’s what the orange Hillary killer would want you to do.
But don’t take Mary Kay with you. You wouldn’t want her to suffer the olds would you? Do it for her.
Is that how YOU will get less drumpf?
The Fucking Moron II @ 23 blames Republicans for “killing thousands and thousands of people”.
Reality lays blame elsewhere.
China and the WHO’s chief: Hold them both accountable for pandemic
We’re one spew from The Fucking Moron II referring to the disease as “the Republican virus”.
The Fucking Moron II is the embodiment of what happens when low information voters get their “news” from a single source. In the 2016 election libbies blamed Trump’s win on 62 million low information voters. When Trump is re-elected, you will need to add The Fucking Moron II to that growing list, no matter which way he votes.
@35
Yep DeBlasio should and will get voteD out. He was still going to his Park Slope Y to work out well after a reasonable elected would have stopped (ahem, Senator?)
Now about all the 10s of large fuck ups and hundreds of smaller fuck ups by the White House. We haven’t passed a full month since Larry Kudlow was praising the imminent end of the crisis and the amazing prescience of Barbie Trump at C(orona)PAC.
@ 36
YLB, if buybacks are curtailed (and I am not arguing that this is a bad idea), what will corporations do with excess cash?
Pelosi already tried to force them to pay $15 minimum wages and that failed. So don’t give “pay higher wages” as a response because you’ve tried that for years and have not succeeded at the federal level.
Companies could:
1. Hoard cash. Is it good for the economy, letting Apple and Berkshire Hathaway do that? What about if every other company does the same thing?
2. Increase dividends.
3. Acquire smaller companies. Is this really what you want? Less competition, big fish eating little fish at a faster pace?
4. Spend more on R&D. Well, OK. But what’s the purpose of that? To increase earnings. Which means more cash.
5. Pay down debt. OK, but that harms the bond market by reducing demand, hurting returns to investors dependent on income. And what about companies with little debt? And what about Apple, which sells debt instruments even while it sits on that huge pile of cash?
My point, YLB, is that preventing buybacks is nothing close to a simple solution for what you perceive as a problem.
@ 39
Plenty of time to amass them and break them down prior to the election.
Meanwhile, what you’ll see is Trump wanting to get Americans back to work as soon as possible, restrained only by medical necessity.
Trump. Working for Americans.
There was a reason GWB43’s approval ratings spiked in September 2001. For awhile there everyone was working together. That’s a problem for Democrats, going forward. A recovering economy into Fall is not going to help them.
What’s a good Democrat to do, Cz-252?
Are y’all libbies reading any “draft Cuomo” stuff in your blogs and other sources?
shorter dimfuk @40
Look here @40.. Don’t look over there at “free stuff”. Don’t look at dimfuk gloating at its “improved” net worth thanks be to Moscow Mitch and crew voting for handouts to corps whose executives and big shareholders are lousy with GOP donors.
What’s your Easter plans dimfuk? Both you and Limbaugh gotta get right with “the Lord”!
Another jackass likely looking at jail time:
“A grocery store threw out $35,000 in food that a woman intentionally coughed on”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/us/woman-coughed-on-produce-trnd/index.html
They should make her pay for it, too.
Was 38 really an ardent appeal from a klownservatic “Patriot” demanding a more powerful and authorutative un-elected world government?
Why, I suppose the next thing we can expect will be Q Clearance Pussy demanding Basic Income payments!
@27 and @35 “What I expect, is the racist incel will to find some factiod and nitpic that that thing could have been done better or sooner or different, and lie that Democrats are just as bad or worse than the republicans.”
And he did not fail me.
“de Blasio took 10 days!” followed by this hand wave of ….
“I’m not saying there have not been similar missteps by GOP leaders.”
de Blasio made mistakes and learned from them. He change his response when facts and data showed he was wrong.
What’s impeached miserable failure’s and the republicans excuse? The impeached miserable failure is not responsible? It’s the black guys fault?
39 million masks.
https://www.seiu-uhw.org/press/union-locates-massive-supply-of-n95-masks/
Five bucks each.
@8 “A reminder that @TedCruz is being paid $174,000/yr, $14,500/month, $3,346/wk, $669/day to be on Paid Sick Leave but wants YOU to believe that providing Paid Sick Leave to anyone earning $7.25/hr, $290/wk, $1,255.70/month, $15,080/yr is Socialism.”
The theory is that paid sick leave ruins moral fiber, but Ted Cruz has no moral fiber to ruin.
BTW,
masks work. Look at S Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Czech Rep
@11 Ain’t me who’s fuckin’ that chicken. You brought it up.
@13 Speaking of “sources,” if you’re going to plagiarize rightwing talking points, at least link your “sources,” so we can see whose silliness you’re parroting. It’s hard to tell otherwise, because they all sound the same.
A reminder @ 48 that Cruz’ wife has a good job, and is the family’s main breadwinner.
A reminder, too, that Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s got nuthin’.
46,
What Q Clearance Patriot is essentially arguing here is that Red States don’t get influenza.
It is just that dumb.
@ 49
I think that looking back, the greatest failure was to tell people not to use them.
@47 Heaven forbid! dimfuk is reading union “thug” propaganda!
And SEIU??? Oh my, one remembers the days when the babbling butthole troll linked SEIU with…
ACORN!!!! in the same building in Lousyana..
a klownspiracy theory to drop in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2..
@16 Looks like the dumbfuck is finally bottom fishing for dividends. Maybe if you repeat something enough times, even a dumbfuck can learn. We can always hope.
@40 “if buybacks are curtailed … what will corporations do with excess cash?”
Buybacks are curtailed only for corporations receiving bailouts, and if they have excess cash, they don’t need a bailout.
I guess you can’t expect a dumbfuck to figure that out.
“The masks are $5 each, and the union has no financial interest in the transactions. The masks are being distributed to unionized and non-unionized facilities alike.”
For New York, 58-Cent Medical Masks Now Priced at $7.50 Each, and as high as $12
Now the racist incel is not a greed driven capitalist? I feels like he is only outraged because there is a union somehow involved.
@40 “5. Pay down debt. OK, but that harms the bond market by reducing demand, hurting returns to investors dependent on income.”
Dumbfuck has it backwards. High demand drives up bond prices and pushes down yields, hurting investors dependent on income.
Also, in case dumbfuck hasn’t noticed, corporations in general have taken on a lot of debt, making them and their shareholders vulnerable if there’s a recession or interest rates rise. It would be better if they paid down some of that debt.
“And what about companies with little debt?”
Buy them, other things being equal.
Teh Dumbfuck is outdoing himself with dumbfuckery this morning.
@47
Trying to spin something nefarious.
The union doesn’t posess the masks nor are they selling them. Read the article you linked.
Fake News
@41 “Meanwhile, what you’ll see is Trump wanting to get Americans back to work as soon as possible,
restrained only by medical necessity.”ftfy
@ 47, 57
I was merely marveling at the existence of 39 million masks, innocently unknown to the entire world until SEIU dogs sniffed out their existence.
It’s a miracle, that’s what it is. A union-glorifying miracle. Nothing less.
And it’s $195 million for someone who undoubtedly has an unreported relationship with union higher-ups, too.
The Fucking Moron II, google “SEIU fraud” sometime. You might learn something.
The apogee of dumbfuckery is attained when a dumbfuck argues that Trump operates under restraints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlVcAJFU-5E
@47 No mention of what they cost, only an insinuation that Dumbfuck doesn’t think health care workers’ lives are worth $5 each.
Note: Even though he claims to be a doctor, he’s not a health care worker. He’s trolling on HA. You can’t do that and be a frontline health care worker at the same time.
@51 A reminder from Dumbfuck to workers not drawing a Senate salary to go fuck themselves if they get laid off.
Did ever notce the only thing the racist incel finds more automatically guilty of wrongdoing besides a black man is a union?
@53 I think that, looking back, the medical experts who asked the public not to hoard masks desperately needed by frontline health care workers are smarter than Dumbfuck is.
Happy 80th Birthday, Speaker Pelosi!
@57 He’s frustrated because he can’t buy stock options in unpaid volunteers sewing masks. He approves their wages, though.
How some people shelter in place:
“Some stores, restaurants and bars are putting up plywood to protect their businesses in preparation for the two week long ‘Stay at Home’ order. ‘We are doing it so people don’t break in and drink our alcohol or try to move in or live,’ says Josiah Sumerlin, a bartender at the Comedy Underground in Pioneer Square.”
https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/so-people-dont-break-in-and-drink-our-alcohol-stores-board-up-for-stay-at-home-order
How about that stock market? Up 20% in 3 days!
@67 Looks like the ghoul is building coffins again. It’s his hobby, when he isn’t fucking horses.
“Trump administration urges UN Security Council to state coronavirus originated in China”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-un-security-council-coronavirus-china
Even amid crisis Trump isn’t too busy to be racist.
Blaming China for this crisis is the latest lie right-wing media is using. It’s all over Facebook.
@ 73
It boggles the mind.
The Fucking Moron II, on the other hand, blames the US military. As does China.
Headline du jour:
The Stimulus Bill Just Lifted the Dow Back Into a Bull Market
66,
At the same time they could have advised people to begin making their own. Frankly even a simple scarf or bandanna is going to be significantly more effective than nothing at all.
For healthcare professionals, I think the problems was multi-fold, at least where trailerbilly Murikans and Trumpalos are concerned. Most of these people would have immediately sought to buy up all available approved masks and then begin price gouging their neighbors, depleting stocks available for healthcare and essential first responders. Then, ignorantly assuming that their motocross face masks render them invulnerable, they would have ignored stay-at-home orders and separation protocols and resumed their normal daily routine of beer bong parties and sucking $1s from the dank cootches of aging strippers.
Healthcare professionals have more first hand experience with Republicans than the rest of us civilized people. Every single day, in every ER and urgent care all across this great land they watch in silent resignation as a steady parade of FREEEDUMB loving klownsurvative Republicans passes by having blown off a digit or toe or lit himself on fire washing car parts in gasoline. That sort of intimate familiarity tends to breed pesimism.
The Stimulus BillSocialism Just Lifted the Dow Back Into a Bull Marketftfy
The future inside Teh Orange Event Horizon will be filled with such ironies.
For example, given the dreadful math that lies at the nexus of CPACvirus and Teh Konimee, your beloved RapeHero, though he is too dumb to see it yet, will soon be faced with a miserable Hobson’s choice: he can either bend the knee to Speaker Pelosi and her Birthday Wish List, or he can watch the markets fall again, whether because of extended shut downs or the growing piles of bodies. Ironic.
@75
Other Headline Du Jour,
Trump capaign sues to keep ad using actual audio of his quotes off the air. Says it’s misleading.
Narrator: The ad was completely true.
@74 the racist incel is making up lies again to fit his fantasies
I don’t watch such nonsense. But I’m curious to hear how the Masters of the Universe from the world of the financial media are talking about the market responding very positively to Big Gubmit Handout Program.
How do they explain the sight of The Invisible Hand reaching with such eager delight for Obama Phones and EBT Lobsters?
79,
“Making up” seems to give him more creative credit than he is due.
Most of the time he merely transcribes the lies of his betters and superiors in the Q Conspiracy food chain.
I’ve never watched a GOT episode. Still, found this interesting.
Watch as Game Of Thrones creator Dan Weiss, Tom Morello of Audioslave/Rage Against The Machine, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Brad Paisley, and Game Of Thrones composer Ramin Djawadi shred on the all-new Sigil Collection Guitars from The Fender Custom Shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=436&v=6i0a7RDPkM8&feature=emb_logo
Brad Paisley seemed out of place. Like in the Allstate commercials.
At 10:30 am the number of US dead at the hands of the Trump virus was at 1089.
At 2:00 pm the number is at 1186.
Wondering what the daily death toll needs to be before the threat becomes real enough for Trumpalos? The US will be at a few hundred today for sure. By next week when that daily number is over 1000 will that do it? Will a few thousand a day do it? Ten thousand?
Staying indoors hasn’t somehow magically bought us resistance or immunity to the virus. It has only limited contact transmission. Announcing that BEACH WEEK BEGINS ON EASTER will only create a massive spike in contact transmission leading inevitably to a massive spike in TRUMP DEATH a month later.
Not hard to figure out where people are most likely to die in droves.
“The decision to forgo an increase in state Medicaid programs, an ideological resistance borne of fiscal conservatism in Republican-controlled state legislatures, has left nearly 5 million people across the country without access to health care coverage and meant states turned down billions of federal dollars that would have come with the expansion.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uninsured-front-lines-america-s-working-poor-face-pandemic-without-n1169026
@83 True to form, Trump is telling people what they want to hear, not what health experts advise. And, unfortunately, the dumbfuck element listens to him. The last time stupid people blindly followed a lying demagogue, this is what their cities looked like afterward:
https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/11/1423680855861/Dresden-After-the-Bombing-009.jpg
Where this is going is Covid-19 could be Dresden without the rubble.
@76 “That sort of intimate familiarity tends to breed
pesimismfatalism.”ftfy
“Thousands of people die every day in America so this is nothing.” Rudy Giuliani Sept. 12th, 2001
https://twitter.com/rudygiuliani/status/1243219538562482177?s=21
87,
Somebody also pointed out that people die in tornadoes.
Some Dumbshit.
So how much does it cost to convert a card carrying tea party Republican into a socialist … it’s $1,200 per adult and $600 per child.
@89 And a 4 trillion plus dollar bailout for big bidness so the baggers can look at their diminshed nest eggs and feel superior to “those people”.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
71,209Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124More than 150 Boston hospital workers test positive for coronavirus
Hospitals pushed to limit as coronavirus cases rise
Gov. McMaster says SC will do stay-at-home policy ‘only if it becomes necessary’
UPDATED: USS Theodore Roosevelt Quarantines Sailors on Guam as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads – USNI News
The US has surpassed China in total cases, becoming No. 1. The US is at 81,983 cases currently, while the official Chinese number is 81,285
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
TIME’S UP SAID IT COULD NOT FUND A #METOO ALLEGATION AGAINST JOE BIDEN, CITING ITS NONPROFIT STATUS AND HIS PRESIDENTIAL RUN
C’mon, man.
https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story
Believe all women.
“…the thing that I remember most, almost more than the assault itself, was just being told I was nothing.”
I bet Bill Clinton never told Monica she was @ 95 nothing. It’s why Bill got some
on Monica’s dress.Believe all women.
Especially when they don’t want a klownservatic fratboy rapists’ spawn..
https://heavy.com/news/2016/06/brock-turner-parents-father-dad-mother-mom-dan-carleen-facebook-page-20-minutes-of-action/
20 minutes of “action”..
Indeed I can happily vote for a President Sanders in November.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/03/tara-reade/
1. Reade Alleged in a Podcast Interview That Biden Sexually Assaulted Her Against a Wall
2. Reade Previously Came Forward With Other Allegations After Another Woman Accused Biden of Being Inappropriate
3. Reade Was Criticized for Comments She Made About Vladimir Putin & Has Urged People to Vote for Bernie Sanders “wrote in December: “I love Russia with all my heart … President Putin scares the power elite in America because he is a compassionate, caring, visionary leader.” ”
4. Reade Described a Difficult Relationship With Her Father & Time Spent in Hollywood (Not sure how that matters)
5. Joe Biden Denies That He Ever Acted Inappropriately Around Women
This reads like republican dirty tricks. . It’s not like the republicans have a track record of promoting the truth.
We can always chose Warren at the convention and still beat the impeached miserable failure.
New info from the WHO center in Hong Kong and from Harvard School of Public Health:
Wuhan case fatality risk was 1.4%. Published in Nature.
Using public and published information, we estimate that the overall symptomatic case fatality risk (the probability of dying
after developing symptoms) of COVID-19 in Wuhan was
1.4% (0.9–2.1%), which is substantially lower than both the
corresponding crude or naïve confirmed case fatality risk
(2,169/48,557 = 4.5%) and the approximator1
of deaths/
deaths + recoveries (2,169/2,169 + 17,572 = 11%) as of 29
February 2020.
You’re a lot more likely to die if you’re older than 59, and a little less likely to die if you’re younger than 30.
Tales of the amorous repukelican Bob Packwood:
But Packwood was caught in a web of his own dumbfounding (if exaggerated) words in the sexed-up diary entries. He boasted of “22 staff members I’d made love to and probably 75 others I’ve had a passionate relationship with,” of copulation on his office rug with “a very sexy woman,” and of sympathy sex with a lonely hearted staffer as an act of “Christian duty.”
In one of his final entries, Packwood acknowledged “perhaps overeagerly kissing women.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/senator-1995-resignation-years-sexual-misconduct-article-1.3643124
“action” dimfuk could only dream of… heh.. the scumbag Packwood remains happily engaged in lobbying well into its eighties..
Would Moscow Mitch railroad this freak today? Sure. If it meant holding on to power.
YLB @ 100
And then Packwood was forced to resign and retire from public life.
What was your point? That Biden’s behavior was no worse than Packwood’s? Fine. Then his punishment should be no worse, either. Retire from public life, Creepy Joe.
Seriously, YLB: What did you gain from bringing up another old white male senator who couldn’t keep his hands to himself?
@99. But that assumed the health care system was still working and not overwhelmed.
—
US Population, 331,002,651
Assuming only 50% of population gets infected…. 165,501,326
That’s only 23,170,186 dead at 1.4% of that.
23+ Million dead. Is that a “republican who cares”?
The Fucking Moron II @ 98
Watch Chris Coons’ daughter recoil from Biden.
Then go fuck yourself.
@103 Wow, watch the racist incel weep crocodile tears of outrage
lmao @100 we’re celebrating “believe all women” right now dimfuk..
I believe the 19 women who came out against Packwood.. Moscow Mitch did as well – just like he believed the
womengirls abused by Roy Moore.I believe the 23 women that have come out against drumpf..
Do you?
Packwood remains in public life. Its lobbying clients have included Northwest Airlines, Freightliner Corp and Marriot International (a pious, repukelican leaning Mormon outfit). All companies lining up to feed on “free stuff” at Moscow Mitch’s corporate robbery trough.
Packwood serves on the board of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Ironic, no?
The Fucking Moron II @ 102
As soon as you see the Wuhan virus kill 150 million Chinese you be sure and let all of the rest of us know, Chicken Little.
Fake Trump Explains How He Will Bring The Economy Back To Life On Easter
“It’s when Jesus and the two Corinthians met the Easter Bunny and he came back from the dead,” Fake Trump says.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/fake-trump-explains-how-he-will-bring
Church, dimfuk, go to Church on Easter! The place’ll be packed!
@106. The impeached miserable failure said this will be over by Easter so I estimate 50% infection rate is about right. 40% for his core base and 10% spillover.
Wait. are you NOT going to rush out to a tightly packed church? Don’t you trust the impeached miserable failure’s medical skills?
It’s too bad the black guy is no longer President, blaming him by consensus would be so much easier to sort this all out.
Thinking of a liberal arts degree? Well, 10 years later this could be you!
Sweet.
“Yeah,maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal.”
moron @ 110
29 B.A. degrees right here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/successful-liberal-arts-majors-2014-9
Use your brain or GTFO..
It had the word “liberal” in it, therefore the racist incel hates it. it’s a Pavlov response. He has the same reaction to the phrase “innocent black man” .
“Creepy Joe Biden”
Apparently Biden being too huggy redlines the needle on our doctor’s Creep-O-Meter.
What’s the word for people who grab pussy, fuck farm animals and gang-rape prep school girls and caged toddlers?
Republicans.
“…despite Coronavirus.”
Sort of a follow to @ 35.
The Fucking Moron II, this is the guy you were defending earlier. “Get out on the town.”
And catch coronavirus, so The Fucking Moron II can blame Republicans for your death.
@111 No rightwing meme is too stupid, disproven, or discredited to deter Doctor Dumbfuck from picking it up and running with it. He truly doesn’t have original thoughts of his own; he’s just a hack troll who puts a slightly embellished spin on the nonsense spit out by the r/w bullshit factories. Same old meatballs, though. The dumbfuck can’t pitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Ancd0WztU
@115 Some people have more capacity for learning and adapting to evolving circumstances than others. Here’s your guy two days ago:
” … Trump said Tuesday he wants the country back to business by April 12, Easter Sunday, even though his own public health officials have warned that the outbreak will get worse. ‘You’ll have packed churches all over our country,’ he said in an interview on Fox News. ‘I think it would be a beautiful time. And it’s just about the timeline that I think is right.'” — Trump, March 24, 2020
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-tells-governors-he-setting-new-coronavirus-guidelines-n1169751
And today, he’s pressing ahead with “new guidelines” for social distancing — against the advice of every responsible voice out there.
But Doctor Dumbfuck? Not a peep. Even though he claims to be a doctor, the only voice you’ll hear from him is that of a bleating sheep regurgitating Trumpian talking points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5MmhLQBng
@ 117
What’s the point of me echoing something someone else writes?
No point to me being here unless it’s to provide another perspective.
“Democratic and Republican leaders are scrambling members of Congress back to Washington late Thursday night because they suddenly believe the $2 trillion economic relief package might not pass by the voice vote planned for Friday and could be delayed if at least 216 members don’t show up to vote on the floor.
“Members are now racing to get back to D.C. by Friday morning — in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic — because leaders fear at least one member, likely Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., will demand a recorded vote.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-members-race-back-washington-amid-fears-2-trillion-bill-n1170051
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If there’s a spoilsport, you can bet he’s a Republican.
@118 See #110 for example of “another perspective.”
In this example, “another” is a euphemism for “same old meatball.” See #116 for details.
Bashing liberal arts education isn’t exactly original. Dumbfuck didn’t dream it up.
Baa-aa-aaa.
@115
I’m not here to defend DeBlasio – after all I have, here, criticized the Mayor.
But to put your stupid little comment in perspective, March 2nd, was only one day after the first known confirmed case of the virus in NYC….maybe that’s why the Mayor responded the way he did? Put that into context Boob. Also, put the timing of the promised 2 Million test kits that were supposed to arrive around the Country? Words are expressed differently, at different times of when they occur. After all, it was a big Hoax that was going on.
Secondly, by March 16th or earlier, there was definitely a noticeable reduction of people on the streets of NYC. People were already social distancing, but not all. Remember the amount of people and tourists that are in this city, not everyone is going to comply or do what they should be doing with respect to being the right thing. By March 16th it started to feel like a ghost town, all be it with still many out doing the “essential” stuff like shopping for food. Sure with 7M People, even if 1/10 of 1 percent weren’t doing the right thing, that is 70,000 people. 70,000 people crammed into say 5 square miles, makes the whole city look like nobody cared. The only one that truly didn’t give a shit was the fat ass in the Whitehouse – his re-election is much too important for his baby daughter Ivanka.
The lack of leadership that came from Washington and the White House is appalling to say the least and a bunch of lies. Just imagine if you had a person in the White House who didn’t look at cities, and in particularly NYC, with disdain and revengeful hatefulness. Just imagine how much different the situation would be.
Bob you are off on a thin tree limb.
Perspective of a revisionist of History and facts or some type of meaningful perspective? There is a difference. One is to be a Troll and the other is to help solve the world’s problems.
@118 – These people hate your guts. You’re wasting your time.
300 people in Iran have died from consuming methanol in vain attempts to treat Corona Virus 19.
@124 sounds like advice that the fucking Hump would give…..(applause – terrific job).
Dumbass Anti-Vaxxers and Just Plain Lazy People Dep’t
“Experts say the number of flu deaths could be drastically reduced if more people got their flu shots. But about half of Americans don’t get vaccinated, including most children who die from the flu.”
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-questions-answers/
@124 The reason why is obvious. Shipments of vodka from Russia were delayed by Russians trying to innoculate themselves against coronavirus.
@123 I love Bob, it is he who hates me.
What this Government should be doing right now is allowing people, who choose to do so, to withdraw from 401k’s and Ira’s without penalty and without taxing, or lower the tax rate.
I don’t need $1000-2000, nor will I get one of those checks. But if I did get one – what’s it going to do for me, allow me to stay in my house for 1 extra month.
Tweet du jour, so far:
@ 129
gman, if you wanted a check every month you should have backed Yang instead of the guy that sucks cock and takes it in the ass the same way you do.
“With few representatives in Washington this week as the outbreak tears across the country, House leaders hoped to approve the legislation quickly Friday by voice vote — which simply decides whether shouted yeas or nays from members present are louder. But Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said he plans to force a typical recorded vote, which could hold up passage for hours as the House needs a quorum of 216 representatives present.
“In a series of tweets announcing his plan to request a full vote, Massie argued the unprecedented rescue measure spends too much taxpayer money, criticizing Democrats for pushing for changes this week rather than approving an earlier version of the legislation.”
To wit:
“@Rep. Thomas Massie I swore an oath to uphold the constitution, and I take that oath seriously. In a few moments I will request a vote on the CARES Act which means members of Congress will vote on it by pushing ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ‘present.'”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-stimulus-package-updates-house-to-vote-on-relief-bill.html
What an asshole.
He didn’t “uphold the constitution” [sic] when he voted against the articles of impeachment against Trump. Massie can’t distinguish between the GOP partisan agenda and the Constitution; to him, they’re one and the same. Like Doctor Dumbfuck, he’s a partisan hack without any independent judgment.
Maybe Massie just wanted to see Pelosi use the bill to put more windmills in Kentucky.
Or maybe he wanted to see the Kennedy Center get $35M, like in Pelosi’s version of the bill, instead of only $25M in the bill currently under consideration.
The Kennedy Center is very, very important to Kentuckyans, you see.
who says that’s what I wanted. I didn’t say that that’s what I wanted. I don’t want it.
I can get a $1000.00 check by doing 6 hours of work per month.
I’d prefer to be able to have access to my own money. Don’t need Ying Yang’s dumb ass proposal.
@130
Massie isn’t unique to the GOP, they should know that by now. Maybe you should introduce yourself to them too.
Sure, The Hump wants to give away free money to friends and business, he doesn’t give a shit about lives, especially lives of libbies.
You are a fucking Clown Godwina!
@121 “Bob you are off on a thin tree limb.”
I think of him as Wile E. Coyote on no tree limb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1d4AVC24D8
Does this mean it will be swearing off the copypasta shit posting? Q Clearance Pussy hasn’t had an original idea in the 3+ years I’ve been watching. The only “originality” has been the bizarre depths of hysterical DERP STATE conspiracy peddling. Sourcing ever creepier and more unhinged dank memes is not original or creative. It’s a way of life for modern klownservatives.
Fox Corp’s five media networks and 28 locals are presumably too reluctant to run with Invisible Pizza Cannibalism.
Hey, he’s learned it from the best of the GOP….it’s SOP with them, surprise they are surprised.
you love me Bob, you’re just upset you can only act out and not fulfil your dreams. Get another horse for the horse.
@134 More likely he objected to funding masks and gowns for “Kentucky and New York” after his amendment to insert the word “screw” between “and” and “New York” was rejected.
Relax. Moscow Mitch is just getting started.
It’s a whole new world, thanks to CPACvirus. And there’s no place in it for a Q Clearance Pussy except 8chan meetups and choke-fapping in Mary Kay’s closet.
“Y’all” remember three weeks ago, before Super Tues, when Q Clearance Pussy was fixated on “Socialism”?
Salad days they were.
Bob sucks horse cock.
Kennedy Center – Absolutely one of the best things about that town, along with Jack Rose Saloon and FDR Memorial.
New Yorkers need not apply.
Next up: Concentration camps for Yankees.
Bob is so insecure he had to express that he bought the horse to keep his wife happy. Ashamed of owning a horse Bob – not masculine enough? Or was it some type of Freudian slip, not wanting anyone to catch on that you bought the horse for it’s cock?
How often do you milk that horse?
Yabbut it was a buzz for the ages, man.
Hundreds dead in Iran after consuming methanol thinking it was coronavirus protection
@147 already posted. They all believed in The Hump
Kathy Griffin doesn’t have COVID-19, after all.
Is Trump good, or what? He didn’t just break her. From all the way across the country, he gave her a nasty yeast infection, too.
@145 Federal government had already indicated that all New Yorkers leaving NYC and entering into other States should self quarantine for 14 days.
Makes sense.
I think Elijah asked you a couple of questions yesterday, that you couldn’t answer.
Anybody know if Trump shook hands with Boris Johnson and then picked his nose before washing his hands?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-prime-minister-boris-johnson-tests-positive-coronavirus-n1170196
@143
Then you love a cocksucker.
@145 “Concentration camps for Yankees.”
Funny you should mention that, because Ann Coulter has been advocating concentration camps for Yankees for years, except she used the word “liberals” instead of “Yankees,” but they mean the same.
Trump approval in a just-released ABC News/Washington Post poll:
49%.
That’s 3% higher than Rasmussen got – the two polls overlapped on two of three days.
Probs just fake news. Like Biden trapping and finger-banging a subordinate woman.
Cue the world’s smallest violin.
$349B stimulus comes too late to save many newspapers
@149
Kathy Griffin famously bought a $10.5M house in cash well before Donald had a reality TV show so she would never have to worry about a mortgage.
Performed at SXSW last year, had a theatrical Release of a kind of documentary that was well reviewed and earned her a reported $500k. It has 4.5 stars on Amazon.
Her net worth is estimated at $35m.
It’s good to have ‘never need to work another day’ assets. Your jealousy is noted.
The unanswered questions by…….of all people……. a doctor?
@152 I love anyone I want to love.
Even you – you cocksucker
Single GOP Rep forces a Quorum to come to the floor for a foregone conclusion.
Says he’s protecting the Constitution by endangering lives.
Kevin McCarthy bitch slaps him with the Speaker’s help.
Plenty of cushion there for when the bodies start piling up.
US is still doubling every three days. Just like Italy.
And even without testing, we now lead the universe in confirmed cases.
#youbuiltthat
@ 160
We all built that. We’re a high-functioning society. We travel a lot, for business and for pleasure.
There’s a downside to that exposure to the rest of the world.
QoS McHillbilly, do you really think there are more cases in the US than in China? Really?
RapeHero minions now walking back the ventilator promises while the RapeHero is blaming GM.
Why doesn’t he just get out his Magic Presidential Sharpie?
@161
15 < 100k
But if, “We don’t have the most cases in the world because China is probably lying. We took the silver” is the best you’ve got…
I know there are more cases in the US than in Italy.
From just seven days ago:
Italy cases near 50,000
Italy today reported 5,986 newly confirmed cases, boosting its overall total to 47,021, according to the health ministry. It also reported 627 deaths, putting the fatality count at 4,031.
Italian officials announced today that the military will be called in to help enforce the lockdown in Lombardy, the country’s most-affected hot spot, according to a CNN report that also said intensive care unit patients are being sent to other regions and that a field hospital will be built in Bergamo to handle some of the overflow. Source: CIDRAP
Future’s so bright, I gotta wear a respirator.
Fun Fact: Compared to the US, Italy had an abundance of test kits.
Maybe in a couple of weeks when it’s time for the GOP RapeHero to open BEACH WEEK!!! he can pose over a pile of dead bodies wearing a cod piece in front of a giant banner.
Speaking of ventilators…
“We don’t really need them. The sick is under control.”
“Private industry is making ventilators. I don’t have to do anything. We’ll buy and distribute plenty of ventilators.”
“Oh fuck, ventilators are expensive. We don’t need them.”
“Stupid GM needs to reopen the plant I helped them save from closing and build ventilators. Maybe at a loss. We need ventilators. Shutting down the plant was stupid! VENTILATORS NOW, GM!”
All that from Donald in about 48 hours.
“It’s good for the little guy, but it may be even better for CEOs and investors.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/if-you-liked-tarp-you-ll-love-new-coronavirus-bill-n1169776
But too good for the little guy, and still not enough for CEOs and investors — that’s why 4 GOP senators and at least 1 GOP representative criticized it and tried to stall it.
Republicans: Golfing buddies of every CEO you know. And a whole bunch of CEOs and corporate lobbyists you’ve never met and never will meet (but whom they know very, very well).
What was the US body count yesterday?
Oh, that’s right. 1089. http://horsesass.org/technical.....nt-1400012
This morning, 24 hrs later we made it to 1434.
Pro Tip: that pace puts us at doubling the body pile every two days, which would beat Italy handily.
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
@154 I heard Hitler’s approval rating went up after Berlin was bombed — but only temporarily.
165,
And Q Clearance Pussy feeeeeels the unfairness of blaming his RapeHero…
… and by extension the racist asswipes who voted for him anyway.
Massie turned out to be a nothingburger – bill passed the House and it’s on the way to Trump’s desk.
Pelosi didn’t come off looking too good. Other than keeping Lincoln Center’s lights on, I mean.
@155 Whereupon Dumbfuck dances an Irish jig on news of further decimation of independent news media.
Makes sense: Fake news loves a news vacuum, and Dumbfuck loves fake news.
Of course, Dumbfuck doesn’t realize that without news he wouldn’t get news of the demise of news.
I wonder how “good” Speaker Pelosi needs to look.
In comparison to, oh I dunno, a giant body pile.
@157 By now, Dumbfuck should be immune to every equine disease that ever existed. If he’s working on building his immunity to coronavirus, he can stay the hell away from me.
Anyone know if Covid-19 can be transmitted through blogs? I’m not trying to start a rumor; I’m only concerned he might be uniquely contagious.
@ 167
Probably need to add one to the total – one of Biden’s money men tested positive posthumously.
@158 Jesus loved everybody. Trump and Doctor Dumbfuck love nobody. Compare and contrast.
@161 “We all built that.”
No, we didn’t all build that. Dumbfuckery built that, and in this country, dumbfuckery is decidedly one-sided. You’re on its side.
Every. Fucking. Day. Of. Your. Life.
One dumbfuck – de Blasio in New York state’s case – can really screw it up for everyone else around him.
Washington seems not to have that dumbfuck anywhere close to decision-making authority.
@170 “Massie turned out to be a nothingburger …”
… if you overlook all the reps who had to travel back to Washington D.C., potentially exposing themselves and their families, and what that travel cost the taxpayers (I read $200k somewhere).
@ 176
Well, you’re right, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
You didn’t, because you and your family can’t afford to travel anywhere.
You’re safe sheltering at your residence as well, because your shithole smells so bad that no one dare approach it. You’re the hermit named Dave.
@174 And no doubt you’re disappointed it was him instead of Biden. I’m sure Trump is. But worst of all, from your point of view, is that RBG is still alive and there’s no report of her having it.
@ 178
There was no traveling back to Washington. There was two hours of kerfluffle and then it passed with a voice vote.
Pelosi caused more damage with her failure and face plant earlier this week than Massie caused with his stunt.
@170
Speaking of looking bad…
The banner headlines about the tax break for real estate investors in the relief bill. Seeing some published estimates based on 2018 taxes what Jarod will ‘earn’ when Papa signs the bill.
Wouldn’t it be something if C-19 knocked off all the conservatives on SCOTUS but bypassed all the liberals. It’s plausible, you know — the glad-handing at conservative meetups etc.
@179 My burrow smells like a rabbit has been in it, but your dick smells like it has horse shit on it. I’ll take my burrow over your dick.
@181
He actually accomplished something…
AND
@ 182
No one cares.
Rich people get richer.
The Clintons are filthy rich. The Bidens are now quite rich – look at what Creepy Joe was paid to be a “professor”.
Rich people get richer.
No one cares.
@181 “There was no traveling back to Washington.”
Tell that to this guy:
“Also in the evening Thursday, Fox News spoke to a Republican member who was returning to Washington due to the potential Massie situation. The member expressed shock that there could be delays given that the Senate passed the stimulus bill by a 96-0 unanimous vote.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/extreme-precautions-ordered-in-house-ahead-of-historic-vote-on-largest-stimulus-package-in-us-history
Or these folks:
“A Kentucky Republican forced dozens of House lawmakers to travel to Washington for an in-person vote on coronavirus relief legislation — only to see it pass easily.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-coronavirus-vote-massie-delay_n_5e7dfc0ec5b6cb9dc19e9b22
Nice going, Baghdad Bob.
@177 Dumbfuck is sad because UW Medicine makes Trump look bad.
“[Covid-19 has shown us that] … civilization … is a whole lot more fragile than we thought. And that is why, in the long term, the coronavirus will one day be seen as a fire drill for climate change.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-climate-change-pandemic-fire-drill-our-planet-s-future-ncna1169991
A Republican is someone who fears vaccines more than superbugs or ventilator shortages, and unemployment benefits and minimum wages more than rising oceans.
“Stocks tanked on Friday as the fate of the $2 trillion economic relief package suddenly came into question overnight. …
“Members of Congress were scrambling to get back to Washington due to fears the bill might not pass by the voice vote planned for Friday after being advised the measure could require an in-person vote ….”
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/stocks-fall-questions-rise-over-passage-2-trillion-economic-relief-n1170221
As it turned out, the measure did require an in-person vote, because Rep. Massie did pursue his delaying tactic. Which accomplished exactly nothing, other than inconveniencing his colleagues and costing taxpayers money, because the bill passed and Trump will sign it at 4 p.m. (ET).
Meanwhile, a dumbfuck posted here, “There was no traveling back to Washington.”
GOP body pile is up 15% on the day.
And we are only at the halfway mark.
“Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, infuriated members in both parties by bringing them back to Washington amid uncertainty over whether he would request a full roll call vote.
“That uncertainty forced many to travel during the public health emergency simply to deny his demand in order to ensure swift passage of the measure on Friday.
“Ultimately, however House leadership was able to deny Massie a sufficient second in support of a roll call vote when he made a request for it, shutting down the demand and allowing the House to approve the package by voice vote instead.
“But members still had to return to Washington in order to establish a quorum and deny the attempt.”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/coronavirus-stimulus-house-vote/index.html
#therewas
notraveling189,
““[Covid-19 has shown us that] … civilization … is a whole lot more fragile than we thought.”
Only when Republicans in control of government opt to invest in NASCAR, guest suite Infinity Pools, and Yacht/Cocaine/Hookers instead of in…
… civilization.
After all, it was “The World’s Most Moderate Senate Republican®”, Susan Collins, who gutted funding for pandemic response supplies back in 2009 because, according to her “there is no plausible relationship between pandemic response and the economy”.
It turns out a Republican is someone who fears civilization.
@193 A Republican is someone afraid of someone else earning a liveable wage.
192,
Who are you going to trust? Q Clearance Pussy or your lying eyes?
These people are not there. You cannot see them. They do not exist:
https://twitter.com/RepDustyJohnson/status/1243509384254296065
However, oddly enough, an Invisible Pizza Parlor Cannibal Dungeon that nobody has ever seen or photographed MUST EXIST!
BENGHAAAAZIIII!!!!!!!!!
Ironically, because Rep. Massie’s demand for a recorded vote was defeated for lack of a second, and the bill passed by voice vote, we’ll never know for sure whether he voted against it — possibly the only member to do so.
That “nay” heard in the hallway during the voting might have the janitor. Or maybe even Dumbfuck’s horse.
Here’s the moment that someone somewhere will have to die for:
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1243596658891534338
Absolute best part is Massey risen to address the chair to move for a recorded vote. Check out the woman seated behind him.
At the 23 sec. mark, I think that is the definition of the term “Divorce Eyes”.
One quarter of Massie’s PAC funding comes from the House GOP leadership PACs.
Wikipedia:
“Thomas Massie was born in Huntington, West Virginia. … His father was a beer distributor. Massie earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
In 1993, … Massie and his wife started a company called SensAble Devices Inc. … The company was re-incorporated as SensAble Technologies, Inc., in 1996 …. They raised $32 million of venture capital, had 24 different patents, and 70 other employees. … Massie sold the company, and he and his wife returned to their hometown in Lewis County.”
The quintessential “I’ve got mine, fuck you” Republican.
Rolling Stone captured the highlight of Massie’s congressional career, which occurred a year ago:
“Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history. At a House committee hearing Tuesday on ‘The Need for Leadership to Combat Climate Change and Protect National Security,’ the Kentucky Republican thought he could pwn former secretary of state John Kerry. …
“The transcript of the literally unbelievable exchange follows:
“Massie: Sec. Kerry, I want to read part of your statement back to you: ‘Instead of convening a kangaroo court, the president might want to talk with the educated adults he once trusted his top national security positions.’ It sounds like you’re questioning the credentials of the president’s advisers, currently. But I think we should question your credentials today. Isn’t it true you have a science degree from Yale?
“Kerry: Bachelor of arts degree.
“Massie: Is it a political science degree?
“Kerry: Yes, political science.
“Massie: So how do you get a bachelor of arts, in a science?
“Kerry: Well it’s a liberal arts education and degree. It’s a bachelor…
“Massie: OK. So it’s not really science. So I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudo-science degree is here pushing pseudo-science in front of our committee today.
“Kerry: Are you serious?! I mean this is really a serious happening here?
“Massie: You know what? It is serious. You’re calling the president’s Cabinet a ‘kangaroo court.’ Is that serious?
“Kerry: I’m not calling his Cabinet a kangaroo court, I’m calling this committee that he’s putting together a kangaroo committee.
“Massie: Are you saying it doesn’t have educated adults now?
“Kerry: I don’t know who it has yet because it’s secret.
“Massie: Well you said it in your testimony.
“Kerry: Why would he have to have a secret analysis of climate change?
“Massie: Let’s get back to the science of it.
“Kerry: But it’s not science, you’re not quoting science!
“Massie: Well, You’re the science expert. You have the political science degree.”
Myself, I’ve always been suspicious of guys with engineering degrees. They’re good with slide rules, but don’t know anything else. And, it turns out, they can’t design an airplane either.
I wouldn’t trust an engineer to vote on anything having to do with a collapsing economy. Herbert Hoover was an engineer. That should be warning enough against electing engineers to make economic decisions.
Massie is smirking MAGA Teen’s Rep.
Of course.
3 Friday CNN Headlines
“More Than 100,000 Coronavirus Cases in US”
“At least 359 coronavirus-related deaths were reported Friday, the most in the US in a single day”
“Fact-check: Trump utters series of false and misleading claims at coronavirus briefing”
B-b-b-utt — lying liberal media …
“Except for Na Hoku*, Avo-Poke*, Happy-Lemon and that Jap noodle place. Those shifty bastards and anyone associated with that ‘Chink” disease needs to move. I have land in Minidoka and Tule lake they can have.” Ghost of Kemper Freeman Sr.
*Hawaiian, but racists like Freeman can’t tell the difference between Kepanī (eds. note, racist term) and any other asian.
Trump Orders Pence To Boycott Governors Who Don’t Worship Him
“President Donald Trump said Friday that he instructed Vice President Mike Pence not to reach out to governors who aren’t ‘appreciative’ of his administration’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus in their states. ‘If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call,’ Trump said of those state leaders. …
“The president mentioned Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, both Democrats who have been critical of the White House’s actions to combat the deadly pandemic.
“Trump said that Pence ‘calls all the governors. And I tell him, I’m a different type of person, and I say, ’Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington. … Don’t call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens,’ Trump added.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-trump-told-pence-not-to-call-washington-michigan-governors.html
204,
Shorter RapeHero: “Fuck Michigan!”
Michigan GOPlague deaths up 53% today.
He knows it’s over.
Even if Q Clearance Pussy does not.
http://horsesass.org/drinking-.....nt-1397943
@godwinha spews: Tuesday, 3/3/20 at 1:21 pm
US deaths from coronavirus infection (so far):
71,607Tennessee deaths from last night’s tornado (so far):
2124Trump on urgent requests for ventilators: ‘I don’t believe you need 30,000’
Governor Cuomo: “I hope NY doesn’t ultimately need 30,000 ventilators. But I don’t operate on opinion and hope. I operate on facts and data and science. All the projections say we will need 30,000-40,000 ventilators. So that is what we will strive to have.”
Governor Cuomo: The temporary hospital in the Javits Center will fully open on MONDAY. I congratulate FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers for their work at Javits. I thank the Javits staff. I thank the National Guard. You built a hospital in a week. You are the best of us.
SF Gate: Mayor: Teenager with COVID-19 died after initially being denied care for lack of health insurance.
Almost one in four Americans lost job or furloughed because of coronavirus, poll finds
Cable channel Fox Business has fired primetime television programme host Trish Regan after she claimed earlier this month the coronavirus crisis was a Democratic “scam” to impeach President Trump
I hope this turns out to be fake news
Austin company looking to dock paychecks for those receiving stimulus checks
https://www.kxan.com/news/austin-company-looking-to-dock-paychecks-for-those-receiving-stimulus-checks/
It reads like something out of “The Jungle”.
How good are Republicans at predicting the future? Not very good, it turns out. A former Bush administration official (whose name is of no consequence) wrote the following in the Feb. 8, 2019, issue of USA Today:
“Another week, another apology from Sen. Elizabeth Warren for her phony claims of Native American heritage. But the latest evidence against her should spell the end of her presidential ambitions. …
“This [evidence] supports two critical charges against her: that she knowingly and personally claimed Native American heritage, and that she did so for the purpose of career advancement. …
“It is fair to speculate that Warren’s presidential campaign will soon be over. … As a nominee, Warren would have to spend the entire campaign explaining to people of color why her candidacy is not a standing indictment of the cynical abuse of affirmative action programs for personal gain.”
As it turned out, Warren’s presidential campaign wasn’t “soon over” — she remained a top contender, and was one of the last candidates to withdraw.
Nor did she “spend the entire campaign” defending herself against the GOP-manufactured controversy about her ethnic background. The media and public ignored it. And well they should have, because she had the most comprehensive and detailed policy positions of all the Democratic candidates.
Nor did Democratic primary voters reject her because of those policy positions. As Danny Westneat wrote in the Seattle Times a couple weeks ago, in choosing Biden they opted for “safety” — i.e., the candidate most likely to beat Trump.
Had Warren become the nominee, voters wouldn’t have given a damn what percentage of Native American blood she has, or whether claiming she was part Native American helped her get a job at Harvard University. They have bigger concerns.
And if the 2020 election was to be a contest about who lies the most, she would have won against Trump hands-down. To the average not-Red-Hat voter, her alleged dissembling and dishonesty would have looked puny and trivial compared to his.
The lessons from this op-ed are as follows:
1. Don’t let Republicans pick Democratic nominees;
2. Don’t believe Republicans who claim to know the future;
3. Don’t hire a Republican stock adviser.
Because Republicans don’t know shit from shinola.
@207 Seems to me if this company is docking paychecks for work performed, or paid vacation or sick leave time, as opposed to continued pay to employees sent home on “coronavirus break,” it would be illegal. No different from saying to an employee, “If you win $100 at the Saturday night poker game with your friends, I’ll take $100 out of your paycheck for this week.”
Most folks would call it “stealing.”
If you work there, you might as well tell them to shove it and refuse to sign the form, because if they’re that hard up for cash, they’re probably not going to be in business much longer anyway.
206,
With Tennessee adding over 100 new GOPlague infections daily, and with their Trump Body Count doubling daily, it won’t be long at all before the Tennessee Trump Body Count surpasses the Tennessee Tornado count.
Who’s up for Dollywood?
@206 “Cable channel Fox Business has fired primetime television programme host Trish Regan after she claimed earlier this month the coronavirus crisis was a Democratic ‘scam’ to impeach President Trump”
Good. Now let’s fire Trump for doing the same thing. He’s not Fox’s employee, he’s our employee, so it’s our job to give him the pink slip.
Speaking of Trump, today he reversed himself on the Defense Production Act …
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/27/in-reversal-trump-uses-federal-act-for-virus-aid/23963728/
… further evidence that he’s losing control over events, and events are now controlling him.
Meanwhile, it sure looks like Trump’s FEMA is intercepting medical supplies that were destined for blue states in urgent need of them.
Just today, Trump made comments that seemed to imply retaliation against governors who didn’t praise him enough.
Maybe there’s no connection between those dots. But it’s tempting to connect them.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/michigan-governor-medical-supplies-cnntv/index.html
“A former aide to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said this week that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 …. Last April, Reade was one of eight women to accuse the former vice president of inappropriate touching. …”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-sexual-assault-tara-reade_n_5e7e69c8c5b6256a7a2a88f2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I guess, at this point, I have to say: So what? At worst we’ll have to choose between two men now in their 70s who both have a past history of sexual assault, and between the two of them, Trump’s behavior was worse. In that respect, having Biden in the White House can’t be worse than having Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. Biden has other imperfections as well, and there are things to criticize in his voting record, but having Trump as his opponent makes the choice in November a no-brainer. In coming months, the burden shouldn’t be on Democrats to justify their nominee, but on Republicans to defend their nominee. Let’s not lose focus. We can live with Biden’s imperfections. The country can’t live with Trump’s imperfections. No matter what may be said about Biden, the 2020 election choice is no more complicated than that.
Biden: No worse a man than Trump and a hell of a lot more competent.