Virus thread, the political one.

[davids]

Are we really sure Bruce Day and Blue Jay aren't the same person?

I can assure you they are not.

Please be polite and respectful to everyone here.

[theflashunc]

God this a frightening and not at all surprising must read. Public health officials were screaming about this to the administration in late January, and the President didn't respond on this until mid-March with a belated and useless travel ban from Europe.

There needs to be a full accounting of what an incompetent, willfully negligent administration did that's led to people needlessly dying.

The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus - The New York Times

[htwoopup]

So much more could be added from more of those who know but I will just leave this here....

How Trump decides, and doesn’t: I watched his supposed executive skills up close for years - New York Daily News

[Bob Ross]

What an accomplishment!!! All 50 states!!!

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[theflashunc]

We tired of all the winning yet?

[Mabouya]

It's a durn good thing we're winning - given the current state of affairs I'd hate to see what losing is like.

[mzilliox]

What an accomplishment!!! All 50 states!!!

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this is real? exclamation marks? did someone pat him on the shoulder when they told him and whie they meant "i know sir, im sorry", he took it as "atta boy" ? is he even human?

[Sbti]

What metrics are used to measure winning?


George Spelvin

[caleb]

What metrics are used to measure winning?


George Spelvin

Winning is not measured, it is declared.

[BBB]

What an accomplishment!!! All 50 states!!!

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Question for a journalist..."Why do you need a disaster declaration for something you declared as a hoax? And if it is a hoax as you claimed, why does this country have the highest rate of infections and deaths in the world?" I put it to you sir that this in fact is evidence of losing."

[Lionel]

OK I think this goes here:

An Open Letter to the "president" From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee:

Dear Fucking Lunatic,

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell downstairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soleil acrobats...

In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking india — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out...

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket.

[ides1056]

I saw that one. I think Joyce would approve.

He missed his calling as a drill sergeant.

[vertical_doug]

I think the Wisconsin results will cause the Republicans to redouble their efforts. We are about to go full scorched earth.

[Matthew Strongin]

He takes no responsibility, but his authority is total...

Trump’s latest coronavirus press briefing featured one of his most memorable meltdowns yet

[BBB]

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

I'm guessing he's not a fan...

[Sbti]

I saw that one. I think Joyce would approve.

He missed his calling as a drill sergeant.

"What is your major malfunction, numb-nuts?"

[guido]

Opinion | Republicans Don’t Want to Save Jobs - The New York Times

"However, while the Trump administration refuses to aid hard-pressed institutions that employ around 25 million Americans, it has gone all-out to help the oil industry.

Trump’s possible success in brokering a deal to cut global oil production — I say “possible” because oil prices haven’t moved much, which suggests that markets aren’t impressed — made headlines Monday. But I haven’t seen much commentary about just how strange it is for a U.S. president to be playing that role.

First, since when is it the president’s job to organize international cartels?

Second, why are higher oil prices in the U.S. national interest? We’re not a major oil exporter — in fact, we import more oil than we export. And if Trump’s cartel were actually successful in raising oil prices back to what they were before the current price war, U.S. consumers would pay a heavy price, on the order of $200 billion a year.

So why is propping up oil prices a priority? Trump says that it’s about jobs. But U.S. oil and gas extraction employs only around 150,000 workers. That’s less than 1 percent of the number of jobs America has lost in the past three weeks. It’s only around 0.1 percent of total U.S. employment. It’s a rounding error compared with the jobs at risk in hospitals and local government, which Trump is refusing to help.

So what makes oil worthy of aid when hospitals aren’t?

One answer is that investors have sunk a lot of money into oil, even though few jobs were created. Net fixed assets in oil and gas extraction are around $1.8 trillion, almost twice the total for hospitals, despite far smaller employment. So maybe this isn’t about protecting jobs, it’s about protecting capital."

[guido]

Trump’s latest coronavirus briefing featured an epic meltdown - Vox

"Trump’s latest coronavirus press briefing featured one of his most memorable meltdowns yet

“When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total.”"

[mzilliox]

americans, can we please fucking end this farce, please. this is killing our culture, killing any tiny semblance of culture this country ever had. we never had much to call culture anyway beyond hollywood, but jesus, this is literally the end of anything pure and good that was american. this taints even Jazz.

please can we stop this? and please to his supporters, why? please see sense. i beg of all Americans, see sense, put your ego aside and think long term here. this is not ok with me, is it ok with you? im so tired

[Chik]

OK I think this goes here:

An Open Letter to the "president" From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee:

Dear Fucking Lunatic,

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell downstairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soleil acrobats...

In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking india — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out...

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket.

It seems there are 100 other letters penned by the same guy: Tommy Lee’s ‘letter to Donald Trump’ goes viral – but the Motley Crue star didn’t pen it | London Evening Standard