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Old Political Meme: Trump Is an Authoritarian
New and Improved Politico Meme: Trump Is Not Authoritarian Enough! He's a Weakman, Not a Strongman!

This is real.

I mean, they really said this. I haven't juiced it.

This guy's so excited, I bet you he just lapped up a nice musky creampie!!!!

Trump Is an Authoritarian Weakman

Coronavirus would be the perfect opportunity for an autocrat. Trump isn't taking it.

By JOHN F. HARRIS

...

The first pillar [of Trump's governing style] is that Trump, in the near-unanimous view of the opposition, is a terrible person whose terribleness finds expression in terrible policies.

...

It is the second pillar of the anti-Trump case that has wobbled curiously in recent weeks. This president allegedly is not just a near-term menace but a long-term on--a leader bent on amassing personal power and undermining constitutional democracy in ways that would last beyond his presidency (which, under the worst scenarios, he might even try, Vladimir Putin-style, to extend illegally if he loses in November.)

The notion of Trump as authoritarian strongman, however, has been cast in an odd light in this pandemic. Would-be tyrants use crisis to consolidate power. Trump, by contrast, has been pilloried from many quarters, including many liberals, for not asserting authority and responsibility more forcefully to combat Covid-19. Rather than seizing on a genuine emergency, Trump was slow to issue an emergency declaration, moved gingerly in employing the Defense Production Act to help overburdened local health systems, and even now seems eager to emphasize that many subjects--closure of schools and businesses, obtaining sufficient ventilators--are primarily problems for state governors to deal with.

...

Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

Note that the possibility that Trump is not an authoritarian of any stripe was not even considered. They found that the evidence "shook" their previous claims, and so just fashioned a new one. No, he's not an authoritarian strongman; he's too weak for that.

So he's not an authoritarian, then?

No, that can't be it: That would mean the media is wrong, and any suggestion that the media is wrong is Heresy.

So the new hotness is that Trump is an "authoritarian weakman."

This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so.

OUT: Drumpf is Hitler

IN: Drumpf is too much of a coward to be Hitler

Posted by: Ace at 04:45 PM




Comments

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1 wtf?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:47 PM (8fB/R)

2 oxymoron much?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:47 PM (8fB/R)

3 Why yes, I am a moron! Don't do Oxy though, makes me mean.

Posted by: Cold Rage at March 26, 2020 04:48 PM (OXSar)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

5 The Weakman form of government.

Trump is always a pioneer!

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 04:48 PM (N9G0H)

6 He's bad!

Posted by: Carpe Manana at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (bIrK9)

7 Yo !

Posted by: Yo! at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (uZuKb)

8 JOHN F. HARRIS ? This dick is a pussy

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (M+Lyo)

9 Trump is obviously a White HISPANIC!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (e284m)

10 Not first!!

Posted by: Jmel at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (OeWgo)

11 This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so.

This is exactly what this is.

Very nice.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (8fB/R)

12 So basically Orange Man still bad?

Posted by: Yo! at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (uZuKb)

13 "I defer all power to the states. The central government should be weak and passive."

"YOU FASCIST!!!!!"

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (N9G0H)

14 These people are actually retarded.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (KNsKs)

15 I can make Trump anything I want and my followers believe me.

Posted by: THE MEDIA at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (lMn1U)

16 Trump is obviously a White HISPANIC!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (e284m)

Orangemanbadwhitehispanic

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (M+Lyo)

17 A musky, dusky creampie

Posted by: Bruce at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (vd8XM)

18 Damn.. read the content... a rookie mistake!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (CjFDo)

19 Should have just written #ORANGEMANBAD 300 times and called it a day.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (MVR7y)

20

#MAGA-AW

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (8fB/R)

21 This dick is a pussy!
This pussy is a dick!

he's two!
two!
two scoops in one!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (e284m)

22 Daddy didn't love me!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (OuZMr)

23 Worst dictator ever!

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (FduHe)

24

Authoritarian Weakman 2020!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (8fB/R)

25 This is just ridiculous.
An authoritarian weakman. The shy dictator. The hesitant tyrant.

Trump is not presenting them with the drama their fantasies require.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (in24S)

26 These people are so tiresome

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (flINI)

27 The best authoritarians are the weak authoritarians.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (r+sAi)

28 I think they are deluded and insane.

Next they will complain President Trump is obeying the law.

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (+0uDE)

29 Yes; That makes a lot of sense./sarc

Why doesn't the Pravda media take some time off. They could just have as their entire headline or new report, "Everything Trump does is bad. He's an awful leader. The end.". Then they could go out-if their Mayor or Governor allows it- and take many healthful walks in the sunshine and fresh air while maintaining the proper social distance from others, of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (WI7YS)

30

Now I want ice cream.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (8fB/R)

31 Can we now doxx John F. Harris?

He's a partisan douchebag that needs a noogie.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

32 These people are actually retarded.
Posted by: steevy

---

I work with the retarded. Great folks.

A few of them would say of these mediawhores "Wow, and they call me retarded."

Posted by: Tonypete at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (Y4EXg)

33 This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so.

___________


... or an 80 year old Democrat Presidential candidate.

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (FduHe)

34 Along those lines - we need a new anti-Trump future history TV series.

The Dominatrix Maidens tale!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (e284m)

35 I have to think this is the reason he's not seizing one of the OMB media outlets. Cuomo is going to look like a preposterous idiot if he can't even get industry in New York to deliver some ventilators.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (t9PwF)

36 Zero self-awareness.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (ZLI7S)

37 Back in the day, we would go to the traveling circus and pay a dime to se The Weakman.

His act would be to try and break a pencil with his bare hands. But he just...couldn't...do it.

The audience would clap limply and then move on to the next tent, with Slinky Sheba the Snakewoman.

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (N9G0H)

38 What the fuck did I just read? I feel dumber having read it.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (VpIIl)

39 I think they are deluded and insane.

Next they will complain President Trump is obeying the law.
Posted by: rd at March 26, 2020 04:51 PM (+0uDE)


They need to breathe....
And shower.
And probably brush their teeth.
Then look in the mirror and slap the crap out of themselves.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:52 PM (8fB/R)

40 Kinda related, they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

"Further quarantine measures on hold as mobile data confirms discipline of Swiss population"

https://www.thelocal.ch/20200326/
further-quarantine-measures-on-hold-as-mobile-data-confirms-discipline-of-swiss-population

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (zqs/f)

41 So now he's literally not Hitler!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (e284m)

42 So Trump is an oxymoron to them... like icy hot.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (nAiE/)

43 In a way, I sort of agree with the critique.

I would like to see Trump seize control of the media and shut them down Pinochet-style.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (H8QX8)

44 An authoritarian weakman is someone who can make the toy trains run on time, but not actual trains.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (ch6++)

45 Trump is such a weak authoritarian that he believes in free markets and individual freedom.
This is a travesty!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (r+sAi)

46 New Marvel Superhero comic:

Weakman! -- his superpower is impotence.

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (N9G0H)

47 Trump is a an authoritarian weak eminent domain vera johnson hating bigot

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (nRk/c)

48 When HMX-1 has practice runs throwing crash test dummies into the Potomac from 5K feet, they shall know the meaning of authoritarian.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (C1Lsn)

49 Trump is a weak man on a strong horse.

Or something.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (aS1PU)

50 Kinda related, they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

"Further quarantine measures on hold as mobile data confirms discipline of Swiss population"

https://www.thelocal.ch/20200326/
further-quarantine-measures-on-hold-as-mobile-data-confirms-discipline-of-swiss-population
Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (zqs/f)


I'll lock my phone in a lead box.

Screw you. You're not following my every fucking step.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

51
Fox26 in Houston reports there are 410 cases in the greater Houston area. There have been two (2) deaths, the last on March 19th. I'm no public health expert but I would have expected many more if this was the plague the national media have been hyping.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (7rVsF)

52 The Singularity will be achieved when the time it takes politicians and pundits to switch back and forth between diametrically opposed viewpoints reaches zero.

We have made truly remarkable progress toward the Singularity in the last four years.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (+oVP5)

53 Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the way to think of Trump is as a Constitutional Executive.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (OuZMr)

54 40
Kinda related, they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...



"Further quarantine measures on hold as mobile data confirms discipline of Swiss population"



https://www.thelocal.ch/20200326/

further-quarantine-measures-on-hold-as-mobile-data-confirms-discipline-of-swiss-population

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 04:53 PM (zqs/f)
Shit, if I'd written that combat game app I thought of, I could quick mod the sucker and sell it to the Swussies.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (e284m)

55 So the new hotness is that Trump is an "authoritarian weakman."

This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so.

==========

"This fact that invalidates my theory in fact just validates my theory."
-Smart person who fucks Science every night

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (UWqZJ)

56 Wait. So weak is the new strong? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (VpIIl)

57 53 Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the way to think of Trump is as a Constitutional Executive.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (OuZMr)

==========

With a pen and phone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (UWqZJ)

58 By JOHN F. HARRIS

F. for Fucktard?

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (Dhht7)

59
I'll lock my phone in a lead box.



Screw you. You're not following my every fucking step.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)
I keep mine in an old bag of potato chips. I saw it in a Gene Hackman movie, so it has to be true.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (e284m)

60 "This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so."

Perfect one sentence analysis.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (o2MD2)

61 -Smart person who fucks Science every night
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (UWqZJ)


Well, Science IS a whore.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Orange is the new orange.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (r+sAi)

63 Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.
---
Or perhaps somebody should look "authoritarian" up in the dictionary, to see whether it fits or not?

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (Eicbe)

64 By JOHN F. HARRIS

F. for Fucktard?
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 26, 2020 04:55 PM (Dhht7)


Foo. And Mr. T pities him.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

65 They are schizophrenic. Whatever the moment is, that is the new reality. What they perceived, they thought, they felt yesterday. last week, last month, last year, is forgotten, never happened, a hazy mist that evaporated.


Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (bDqIh)

66 they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

In Israel also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (nRk/c)

67 Note that the possibility that Trump is not an authoritarian of any stripe was not even considered. They found that the evidence "shook" their previous claims, and so just fashioned a new one. No, he's not an authoritarian strongman; he's too weak for that.

White Hispanic.

As always, I use Reagan as my starting point due to the level of 29 I am, not because Saint Reagan.

Every Presidential election I can remember since Reagan's reelection, some group is saying the President is going to cancel elections and stay in office. Every single one. Republican or Democrat, some group would read the chemtrails to say the election was going to be cancelled. So, yeah, you'll forgive me if I roll my eyes that Trump is going to do that.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (mf5HN)

68 I actually think Trump is getting kudos for being the guy to make the tough call that we need to move forward and not destroy the economy for a generation over this.

Almost like a General willing to take some casualties to storm the beaches of Normandy.

A "weak" President would be to shut everything down and defer all of this to scientists and doctors that don't have any skin in the game.

Posted by: Blago at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (sjTfF)

69 "56 Wait. So weak is the new strong? I'm so confused."

"Weak" is implicit in "strongman." Check The People's Daily stylebook for updates.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cats at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (puu6v)

70 New Trump Authority, now with twice the weakness power!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (e284m)

71 "This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (+0AKE)

72 Obama was a colossus, I tells ya.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (aKsyK)

73 Dow up 3,300 points in 48 hours. That OrangeManBad is just not inspirational.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (90T4r)

74 May these fucktards keep sacrificing themselves on the altar of their stupidity.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (CKxoR)

75 We have always been at war with EastAsia.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (e284m)

76 moved gingerly in employing the Defense Production Act to help overburdened local health systems
.....

This part is so bullshit..

He got the 8 Billion passed in record time that would pay for all this crap.

And libtards think just because Trump orders ventilators to be built that, like magic, Ford can turn a car factory into a ventilator factory?

A guarantee you ventilator manufacturers were already ramped up many weeks ago!

This is all just bullshit anyway

Flu deaths this year: 6600
Covid-19 : 1000

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (CjFDo)

77 46
New Marvel Superhero comic:



Weakman! -- his superpower is impotence.

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (N9G0H)

____________


Heh. Somebody should draw that -- all in the new color of Bad Orange of course.

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (FduHe)

78 "authoritarian weakman."

such bullshit. Trump would never pick 20 ga. over 12 ga.

Posted by: x at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (nFwvY)

79 Isn't John Harris one of the Politico founders, a frequent guest on Mornin' Joe who likes to complain about how CRAZY Trump is and how he is DESTROYING the Constitution with his tyrannical ways?!

I can't keep track, they went off the deep end in 2016.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (bDqIh)

80 Ohio Gov is going after Planned ParentHood for staying open. They are being investigated by the Ohio Health Department for violation of being open when they were ordered closed.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (dKiJG)

81 We have 46 confirmed cases of WuHan Kung flu in my State.


No one lives here and I like it that way.

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (gmo/4)

82 If we're stupid enough to elect Trump again he won't start a war with Russia!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (e284m)

83 11 This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so.

This is exactly what this is.

Very nice.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 04:49 PM (8fB/R)


Imma call his parents. Brb.

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (cF8AT)

84 a zerohedge article says the end is near ... they are going to keep extending the #2weeks thing, then they'll come confiscate supplies from the preppers...

I think they'll be disappointed when TP reappears on the shelves, and life returns to "normal". But there is nothing normal about the Government propping up trillions of private stocks and bonds. Sure seems that it is DeepState that is acting as the tyrant ... they got their trillions ... tick tock. MMT up the wazooo ...

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (Cus5s)

85 This reads like a middle school term paper that got a D-. This is a gag- right?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 457 meters at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (0FRWt)

86 Isn't John Harris one of the Politico founders, a frequent guest on Mornin' Joe who likes to complain about how CRAZY Trump is and how he is DESTROYING the Constitution with his tyrannical ways?!

I can't keep track, they went off the deep end in 2016.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (bDqIh)


Has Joe stopped murdering interns yet?

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

87 It's a shame Trump isn't a Hitler. He could wall off NYC.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 04:59 PM (Vddbf)

88 Trump is not presenting them with the drama their fantasies require.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (in24S)
------------

Unlike "All Drama Obama.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at March 26, 2020 05:00 PM (WEBkv)

89 Well, I've noticed that liberals tend to build one assumption upon another assumption, and in the end they come up with a conclusion, which can serve as the foundation for a whole new chain of assumptions.

They can't go back and strike at one of their cornerstone takes.

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:00 PM (Eicbe)

90 Zombie @ 46

You only think you're joking.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:00 PM (o2MD2)

91

You know in the old days
When a orange man was a strong man
All the people they'd step back
When a orange man walked by

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:00 PM (aKsyK)

92 89 Well, I've noticed that liberals tend to build one assumption upon another assumption, and in the end they come up with a conclusion, which can serve as the foundation for a whole new chain of assumptions.

They can't go back and strike at one of their cornerstone takes.
Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:00 PM (Eicbe)

==========

This is the story of SCOTUS jurisprudence, isn't it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (UWqZJ)

93 Oh geez, now they're complaining Trump *isn't* Hitler.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (COzlW)

94 So by that . . . strung together assortment of words . . . what was Obama?
A "Democratic Strongman" perhaps.
I mean, theoretically and oxymoronically and fanboy worshipfully and all that.

Posted by: Sam at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (ohyxL)

95 "The World Health Organization's top official says President Trump is doing a "great job" combating the #coronavirus.

"He's doing all he can," said Dr. Tedros. "That kind of leadership is very, very important."'


Translation: "Please, please, please President Trump, please don't zero out our funding just because we're globalists and Chicom stooges!"

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (NiXyF)

96 We just don't understand, you can say anything now, and if you do it in a breathless panicked dick voice like Brian Stelter, you can make it sound horrible.

"Trump is going to feed the poor!"
" He's going to balance the national budget!"
"Trump is going to cure cancer! How can we trust him!"


Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (e284m)

97 Dow up 3,300 points in 48 hours. That OrangeManBad is just not inspirational.
Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (90T4r)


He should be ringing the bell!

He should be ringing the bell and screaming You're Fake News! and YOU'RE FAKE NEWS!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (8fB/R)

98 I mean, this is, literally and unambiguously, the exact process of doublethink described by Orwell. The simultaneous holding of two diametrically opposed points of view. Genuine inherent contradiction, here the weak strongman. Next, he'll write an article describing how Trump's the world's tallest midget. Unfortunately, this douchenozzle probably never read or understood it.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (87EdW)

99 "undermining constitutional democracy"

That horse has left the barn.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (Tnijr)

100 These people are (effectively, or generally) stupid. As are there readers. As are half or more of your neighbors, colleagues, friends, and family. And misinformed. And disinclined to critical thinking.

Boring, but the Universal Explanation for 99% of what ace ably documents and eviscerates here daily.

Trump has, if anything, acquiesced in a possibly serious weakening of core executive power, and definitely acquiesced in a substantial additional erosion of the constitutional balance, by deferring to lawless courts.

A Real Problem, not a Make-Believe Problem.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (El6T/)

101 98 I mean, this is, literally and unambiguously, the exact process of doublethink described by Orwell. The simultaneous holding of two diametrically opposed points of view. Genuine inherent contradiction, here the weak strongman. Next, he'll write an article describing how Trump's the world's tallest midget. Unfortunately, this douchenozzle probably never read or understood it.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (87EdW)

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Cognitive dissonance?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UWqZJ)

102 Ohio Gov is going after Planned ParentHood for staying open. They are being investigated by the Ohio Health Department for violation of being open when they were ordered closed.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

---

Good for him - it would be okay with me if they bulldozed them. For the children of course.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (Y4EXg)

103 I'm waiting for Marvel to publish SoiBoi. His super power is eating unlimited creampies.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (o2MD2)

104 99 "undermining constitutional democracy"

That horse has left the barn.
Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (Tnijr)

==========

Let's get back to pre-New Deal jurisprudence, and then we'll talk.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UWqZJ)

105 52
The Singularity will be achieved when the time it takes politicians and
pundits to switch back and forth between diametrically opposed
viewpoints reaches zero.



We have made truly remarkable progress toward the Singularity in the last four years.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (+oVP5)

____________


Demonstrably false since the condition you describe has already occurred.

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (FduHe)

106 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UZ8BZ)

107 Yo, nice thread ya got here, be a shame if anything happened...

Posted by: Kazi at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (0x00j)

108 US passes Italy and China for most cases in the world.


We are frightened, Mr President!

Posted by: DNC MEDIA COMPLEX at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (fNWtj)

109 Ohio Gov is going after Planned ParentHood for staying open. They are being investigated by the Ohio Health Department for violation of being open when they were ordered closed.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 26, 2020 04:58 PM (dKiJG
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Good. Nice to hear some good news for a change.

Posted by: bluebell at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (kou+1)

110 Yo, nice thread ya got here, be a shame if anything happened...
Posted by: Kazi at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (0x00j)


Yo's not here.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

111 why are local and national news readers spewing bullshit every day considered essential.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (KP5rU)

112 John F. Harris...He looks like the type that would follow Rick Wilson home for a drink.

Posted by: Tentotwo at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (yhf6w)

113 Weak to Be Strong

by Nick Lowe
(to the tune of "Cruel to Be Kind")

Oh
he does his best to be our Hitler
but
try as he might
he's not a fascist.

He's wrong, no matter what he does.
Never back down
From saying he's bad.

And when he flips to reverse,
you say

You gotta be weak to be strong
in the right measure.
Weak to be strong
It's a very bad sign.
Weak to be strong
it means that he's Hitler
Bayyy-beeeee
You gotta be weak to be strong!

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 05:03 PM (N9G0H)

114 "Look, I am just saying that the Taco Salad is the Best in the City."

"I'm not saying you HAVE to order it."

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (lELxn)

115 Weakman girly boy. We must pump you up.

Posted by: Hans and Franz at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (v0R5T)

116 The worst thing about the bailout is that people like this will continue to exist.

Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (Tnijr)

117 52
The Singularity will be achieved when the time it takes politicians and
pundits to switch back and forth between diametrically opposed
viewpoints reaches zero.



We have made truly remarkable progress toward the Singularity in the last four years.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (+oVP5)

____________


Demonstrably false since the condition you describe -- the time it takes politicians and
pundits to switch back and forth between diametrically opposed
viewpoints reaches zero -- has already occurred.

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (FduHe)

118 Yikes, Breitbart headline.

MICHAEL RAPAPORT: END QUARANTINE ON 'LITTLE F**KING BARRON' TRUMP...

..TELLS IVANKA, DON JR. TO PLAY IN PARK


They want his entire family dead.

He is some has been actor.

OMG, leave the country, dude. Just leave.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (8fB/R)

119 Seattle Slough isn't here. He's busy moussing his hair with napalm.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (o2MD2)

120 >> US passes Italy and China for most cases in the world.


Populations and Accurate Statistics will do that.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (lELxn)

121 Trump Is Not Authoritarian Enough! He's a Weakman, Not a Strongman!

Pretty much where you find me, G Cochran, Razib K, HBDChick, and (to an extent) Glenn Reynolds.

A lot more should have been done a lot earlier.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (ykYG2)

122 108 US passes Italy and China for most cases in the world.


based on the numbers china is giving out?
HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (d7Ww2)

123 Trump Is an Authoritarian Weakman

Oh, man, that's even better than your headline.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (n/eZB)

124 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.
Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UZ8BZ)


Weird how I'm following Trump on the Twatter but that one hasn't appeared on my timeline, isn't it?

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (NiXyF)

125 These people are severely fucked up.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (NWiLs)

126 If Donna with the ampersand is here; my joke about immunity was from being, jokingly, called a racist.

On to the thread itself; I'm convinced what we're witnessing is the death throes of the modern media but instead of violent movement we get confused herky jerky pretzel twists.

Posted by: thathalfrican - sucker free on my phone at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (tWpya)

127 They want his entire family dead.

He is some has been actor.

OMG, leave the country, dude. Just leave.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (8fB/R)


He's a wannabe black guy ginger shit has been actor.

He really should just put himself out of his misery.

Posted by: Sponge at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Yeah, I think cognitive dissonance is the underlying cause of their neuroses. Ace or one of the cobs described the manifestation of it the other day via external appearance (piercings, tats, etc.) How could they not be? With no objective truth and contradictory thoughts, the world must seem mad.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (87EdW)

129 I've hated John Harris ever since he was Dr Smith on Lost in Space

Posted by: kbdabear at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (qAR6u)

130 119
Seattle Slough isn't here. He's busy moussing his hair with napalm.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (o2MD2)
Maybe he's been dining on live baby mousses.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (e284m)

131 Trump has, if anything, acquiesced in a possibly serious weakening of core executive power, and definitely acquiesced in a substantial additional erosion of the constitutional balance, by deferring to lawless courts.

A Real Problem, not a Make-Believe Problem.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (El6T/)

Yes, I can see that. On the other hand, one can say that being scrupulously respectful of judicial rulings and patient in appealing them into ultimate vindication is a sign of a true leader, one respectful of the Constitution.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (H8QX8)

132 What's this I see about Trump's virus team rating risk county by county?

Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (l3+k2)

133 That horse has left the barn.
Posted by: freaked at March 26, 2020 05:01 PM (Tnijr)


Exactly why I'm so "blah" about all this.

Losing our freedoms over covid ? Shit, the Patriot Act says "don't be a weak bitch". And people friggin' applauded that shit. Horse left the barn and died a long, long time ago.

We'd have to unwind at least 150 years of legislation and court opinion to return to the original Constitutional freedoms.

Posted by: I Am No One at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (dfEoR)

134 I love the Weakman, I hear all the kids have one to play records wherever they go.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (COzlW)

135 Some of us wanted a Hiterlian Trump, but alas, we get more H1B and no wall.

Posted by: Hoobgrin at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (c2MoW)

136 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.

Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)

137 The Left wants a dictator - so long as he's theirs.

On the flip side, the Left will pillory anyone as a dictator - so long as he's not theirs and is not actually a dictator.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (e/H31)

138 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.
==

*looks at watch

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (zr5Kq)

139 "President Trump is Hitler!!!!"

"Only the government run by Trump should have all the guns!!!!"

Same people.


Posted by: Sharkman at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (/wA+f)

140 The media is as whimsical as a 15 year old girl. I don't see how people consume this shit. What does the "Snake Diet" Cole have to say about them?

Posted by: it begins... at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (MRjKr)

141 good lord

Why don't you send your f**king son, dick stain Donald Trump Jr., big-toothed Eric Trump, little f**king Barron, f**king Ivanka, junkyard Jared... let them go out there and test the f**king waters. Let them see if sh*t is sweet. Let them take the cars, the trains, the buses, the Amtrak, let them play in the park. And if everything's good after five days of them playing in the streets, we'll all go back to [work].


rapport continues
he put this flaming rant on twitter

Why is it still there?

He is advocating violence against the President and his family.

I edited the f word, he did not

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (8fB/R)

142 136 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)

===========

Surprise that Hollywood guy attached to the hip to James Gunn is a raving progressive? Nah. Just a bit disappointed, I guess.

He was good as Henry, the Serial Killer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (UWqZJ)

143 Never go Full Sea Trout

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (lELxn)

144 It takes a true authoritarian to weaken the government's stranglehold on industry!

BTW, I'm looking at footage of ULA's Atlas rocket launch for USSF. My new favorite phrase is "entering boost phase chilldown...a-a-a-a-a-and we have good separation."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

145 142 136 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)

===========

Surprise that Hollywood guy attached to the hip to James Gunn is a raving progressive? Nah. Just a bit disappointed, I guess.

He was good as Henry, the Serial Killer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (UWqZJ)

=========

I'm thinking of Michael Rooker...

Ugh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (UWqZJ)

146 OK, skimmed the whole piece and. . . Harris was out of ideas and had a deadline. All he does is debate which grotesque Trump caricature (per his critics) is the best description of how he's performing on the pandemic efforts. Like, which flavor of "bad" is Orange Man today?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (bDqIh)

147 I get so tired and worn out from all these idiot people any more. It's been so, so long we keep hearing worn out crap from these little babies. It's just background noise any more and has been for years now. Makes me want to take a nap.

Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (Gylu/)

148
Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

-----

You misspelled "Federalist".



....dickhole

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (nw6Hr)

149 97 Dow up 3,300 points in 48 hours. That OrangeManBad is just not inspirational.
Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 04:57 PM (90T4r)

And, poof! The media bleatings that we're back to where we were when Trump became president just disappeared.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (iuFgi)

150 130 119
Seattle Slough isn't here. He's busy moussing his hair with napalm.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (o2MD2)
Maybe he's been dining on live baby mousses.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (e284m)

A delicacy in Saskatchewan.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (NWiLs)

151 I wonder if the most popular Halloween mask this year will be the Plague mask?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (Vddbf)

152 136 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)
That pic of him with the herpes sore on his chin says it al.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (90T4r)

153 Leftists don't want Trump's gov't to have all the guns because it's Trump's govt, per se, it's because the DOJ is trained by the ADL.

Posted by: Hoobgrin at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (c2MoW)

154 148
Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

-----

You misspelled "Federalist".



....dickhole
Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:09 PM (nw6Hr)

=========

I'd a been an anti-federalist, myself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (UWqZJ)

155
These people are severely fucked up.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo


They always have been but now they broadcast it to the entire planet with a 1.6 gigawatt transmitter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (aKsyK)

156 Long time reader, VERY rare commenter.Way off topic comment though.Just want to say, after 2 months of being in Ukraine (beautiful country!!! A little more on the 3rd worldish side, however) it is refreshing to be able to read posts as they are new and fresh, as opposed to being "yesterdays" news by the time I get around to reading them (Ukraine is 8 hours ahead of us timewise)Oh and yeh, I was one of the "evacuees" on(what to me was Wednesday, but to y'all, well, you were sleeping!)Congrats to ME, my FIRST Evacuee status!!!

Posted by: chefwes_tx at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (nZuoe)

157 124 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.
Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UZ8BZ)

Weird how I'm following Trump on the Twatter but that one hasn't appeared on my timeline, isn't it?
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (NiXyF)

It's the topmost post on his Twitter feed:

@realDonaldTrump

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (UZ8BZ)

158 This weak strongman thing explains why he never just told Punchy MauiMaui the Hawaiin judge to go stuff a pineapple up his keister when one of his regulations was blocked.
And why he worked through the courts, because that's the very definition of a weak strongman.


Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (e284m)

159 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)
---
Showing just how little acting went into a career of oddballs, whiners and jerks.

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (Eicbe)

160
Oh, FFS.

1.) You tell everyone he's a an authoritarian.

2.) He keeps failing to behave in the authoritarian manner you said he would.

3.) You revise your previous assessment of the President.

3.) You tell everyone he's bad at his authoritarianism.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (II2Y0)

161
BTW, I'm looking at footage of ULA's Atlas rocket launch for USSF. My new favorite phrase is "entering boost phase chilldown...a-a-a-a-a-and we have good separation."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (Dc2NZ)
-----
So, you're saying that the Atlas lifts and separates?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (g8Yc+)

162 Yes, I can see that. On the other hand, one can say
that being scrupulously respectful of judicial rulings and patient in
appealing them into ultimate vindication is a sign of a true leader, one
respectful of the Constitution.





Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 26, 2020 05:06 PM (H8QX

---
Trump has also forced the Congress to own it's responsibilities.

They refuse to actually legislate new laws, then get upset when he uses existing laws and file lawsuits to create judicial decrees in lieu of actual legislation.

I'd say Trump has done rather well - far better than anyone could have hoped.

It would be nice if the GOP would stop stabbing him in the back for a few days at a stretch, though.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (cfSRQ)

163 I am VERY concerned.

Posted by: Concern Troll at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (Eicbe)

164 Too bad they got behind Joe Biden. Bwhahaha! As if. It's not like they really give a shit.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (vGJY7)

165
This kind of doublethink is standard for the Left. They can call someone a racist, and if they discover that they actually get along with people from other races, are married to one etc., there is no acknowledgement that this is evidence of non-racism. No, it reveals an incompetent racist.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (ztjvs)

166
So, you're saying that the Atlas lifts and separates?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (g8Yc+)

------

Jane Russel would like a word....

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (nw6Hr)

167 Seattle Slough isn't here. He's busy moussing his hair with napalm.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:04 PM (o2MD2)


Probably at work. As far as I know, the drive thru is still open at Burger King.

Posted by: clutch cargo at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (8B6Ng)

168 163 I am VERY concerned.
Posted by: Concern Troll at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (Eicbe)

==========

Question:

Has your concern been noted?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (UWqZJ)

169
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HyLa6a7j6M




Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (ZQR/T)

170 There is a reason they don't want to air Trump's daily pressers. His numbers only go up.

How dare us plebes think for ourselves.

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (oiNtH)

171 124 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.
Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UZ8BZ)

Weird how I'm following Trump on the Twatter but that one hasn't appeared on my timeline, isn't it?
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (NiXyF)

Same here, what the heck?!

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (zqs/f)

172 OT: 'CoVFeFe' is one of many names for a Cobalt-Vanadium-Iron alloy that was (is?) used for magnetic cores

https://bit.ly/2ycdinY

I'm still using it as "coffee" because this was hard to find with even the new Google. (They think it meant "coverage")

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (asM0l)

173

We need a new gauge for eleventy!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (8fB/R)

174 So Trump is such a loser that he can't even be a good dictator? THAT's the argument?

Posted by: goatexchange at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (iUjXP)

175 Posted by: chefwes_tx at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (nZuoe)


Welcome home. Got any Ukraine gossip about Trump?

Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (l3+k2)

176 174 So Trump is such a loser that he can't even be a good dictator? THAT's the argument?
Posted by: goatexchange at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (iUjXP)

===========

"We need a new president who will be a dictator!"
-Democratic slogan for 2020, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (UWqZJ)

177 Politco, say no more.

I am getting so close to ... the media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (pw+jk)

178 Jane Russel reference - points of her own sitting way up high.

Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (iRZl4)

179
Has your concern been noted?

------

Heh... I havent done that in while

[x] noted
[_] not noted.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (nw6Hr)

180 136 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)

And now we come to the moment when the AoSHQ and The Root actually agree on something:

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/michael-rapaport-is-the-worst-kind-of-white-man-1824263881

Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (iuFgi)

181

I cannot wait for the Trump presser. Madcow was on the verge of tears when she told the networks to stop airing it.

They are losing it big time. November is going to be a slaughterhouse six.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (8fB/R)

182 Maybe this douchenozzle thinks if we think he's not a strong authoritarian we'll stop supporting him.

Because I'm sure we all want a government and a leader that tells us when to get up, what to wear, when and what to eat, who to talk to, and when to go to bed.
Right?

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (e284m)

183 158
This weak strongman thing explains why he never just told Punchy
MauiMaui the Hawaiin judge to go stuff a pineapple up his keister when
one of his regulations was blocked.
And why he worked through the courts, because that's the very definition of a weak strongman.




Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (e284m)

---
His aggressive judicial appointment strategy is arguably more effective. Congress could legislate away national injunctions but they won't, because they like them.

If he ignores them, they'll impeach him, this time for real.

But appointing judges attacks the core of the problem by eliminating activist judges and getting an Article III ruling that no, district judges do not have national jurisdiction.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (cfSRQ)

184 Is he saying this is an Impeachable Offense?


Because I could totally get behind this.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (lELxn)

185 Long time reader, VERY rare commenter.

Posted by: chefwes_tx


Change that lurker status. Welcome home.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (Vddbf)

186 Along those lines - we need a new anti-Trump future history TV series.

The Dominatrix Maidens tale!

Posted by: DamnedYankee



I am actually watching The Handmaid's Tale because my favorite actress is in it.

It is so over the top that every scene is unintentionally hilarious. Can't stop laughing at how insane Hollywood is.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (/wA+f)

187 Anyone whose strategy of fighting Trump is "Trump is a dummy LOL" is going to find a smoking crater where their buttocks meet.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (l9m7l)

188 November is a loooong ways away.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (l3+k2)

189 PDT on Twitter:

A low tweeting day for him. The other day I counted 78, and I think they were all before 7:30am! (not that he actually does them)

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (jOEDM)

190 Rapaport was the worst part of the one season of Justified. I just had to grin and bear it. Him and his stupid accent. He has a punchable face. He's horrible. Nice herpes sore, too jackhole. He is just insane.

Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (Gylu/)

191 [x] Twitter is fucked up
[x] The people who run Twitter are fucked up

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (NiXyF)

192 "We need a new president who will be a dictator!"

-Democratic slogan for 2020, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (UWqZJ)

---
I shall rule by decree! What am I ruling? Where are my pants?

Posted by: El Hefe Maximo Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (cfSRQ)

193 Question:

Has your concern been noted?


They've used up all my concern. I literally have no more fucks to give.

Thats probably not good, but I just can't muster the concern to care.

Posted by: I Am No One at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (dfEoR)

194 "We need a new president who will be a dictator!"
-Democratic slogan for 2020, apparently
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (UWqZJ)
---
"Shoot through the door"

I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (Eicbe)

195 The communists at politico think that we are supporting Trump because we want a dictator, beyond stupid. This is why they are trying this subtle (haha) tact to separate his base from Trump. Leftists are so smart.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (pw+jk)

196 MICHAEL RAPAPORT: END QUARANTINE ON 'LITTLE F**KING BARRON' TRUMP...

..TELLS IVANKA, DON JR. TO PLAY IN PARK

Fear makes people act irrationally. He's afraid he's going to get coronavirus or that his livelihood is affected, and when you add that on top of the hatred they have for him based on his winning an election, it's not a pretty sight.

Trump hasn't yet said anything about people not being quarantined. Rappaport needs to speak to his own Mayor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (WI7YS)

197 Well now we know what the F in John F. Harris stands for.
h/t Fred Thompson speaking of F. Ross Johnson in Barbarians at the Gate.

Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (hHxp2)

198 Aye boss 'm back toit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEeXfQea0dA

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (ZQR/T)

199 ---
His aggressive judicial appointment strategy
is arguably more effective. Congress could legislate away national
injunctions but they won't, because they like them.

If he ignores them, they'll impeach him, this time for real.

But
appointing judges attacks the core of the problem by eliminating
activist judges and getting an Article III ruling that no, district
judges do not have national jurisdiction.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:14 PM (cfSRQ)
Well, not very aggressively, because, he's weak, weak I tell you!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (e284m)

200 I shudder to to think how Obama, Bush, or Clinton would have handled this. Hell, throw in the other Bush too. We really are fortunate.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (90T4r)

201 We need a new gauge for eleventy!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette



Plaid or ludicrous.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (Vddbf)

202 I don't have a Twitter account. I'm just typing this:

@realDonaldTrump

into the search box of my Safari brower.

I get this at PDT's Twitter account, at this moment:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
19m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.

It has 23.4 K likes!

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:16 PM (UZ8BZ)

203
Youre conern is:

[_] NOTED
[_] NOT NOTED
[X] SIT THE FUCK DOWN
[X] SHUT THE FUCK UP

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (nw6Hr)

204 Nah, not really, DanSmoot. Equating "respect the constitution" with every/any judicial action that eviscerates it is how we got here. Important - and time-sensitivie - executive decisions based on unambiguous constitutional or statutory authority, with real-world consequences, are now playthings for *district courts* issuing national injunctions. National security area - one the judiciary has mostly, rightly, stayed out of, forever.

In just a 20-year timeline, this is mind-blowing.

Now - it's just Thursday.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (El6T/)

205 Trump *should* take this opportunity to launch a broad investigation of Chinese collusion in the media and congress - and run it out of military intelligence not the FBI.

That Di Fi isn't in prison now is an outrage.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (WdocV)

206 So Trump is such a loser that he can't even be a good dictator? THAT's the argument?
Posted by: goatexchange at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (iUjXP)


We need another empty shallow Puppet like Obama.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (8fB/R)

207 203
Youre conern is:

[_] NOTED
[_] NOT NOTED
[X] SIT THE FUCK DOWN
[X] SHUT THE FUCK UP
Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (nw6Hr)

===========

Remember when killing General Salami was going to ignite a new regional war in the Middle East and there was concern?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (UWqZJ)

208 190 Rapaport was the worst part of the one season of Justified. I just had to grin and bear it. Him and his stupid accent. He has a punchable face. He's horrible. Nice herpes sore, too jackhole. He is just insane.
Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (Gylu/)


Yeah, that sore looked Sentient.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (90T4r)

209 Hi! My name is,
uh,
I used to have more hair on my legs and I like small furry animals.

Posted by: Joe Biden College Professor at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (e284m)

210 These people are so frivolous, they think "authoritarian" = "loud voice", and that's it. Ergo, Trump is authoritarian, because he speaks loudly and forcefully. Did anyone ever hear Stalin raise his voice? I've never seen or heard Stalin yell, yet he was the most absolute tyrant the 20th century ever had.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (dEU4B)

211 205 Yes it is. DiFi should be in prison and her chauffer or whatever he was. The spy.

Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (Gylu/)

212 Dagen wants to strangle Juan. So do I.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (wiXsO)

213 189 PDT on Twitter:

A low tweeting day for him. The other day I counted 78, and I think they were all before 7:30am! (not that he actually does them)
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM (jOEDM)

If it's not always him, his proxies sure have his voice and style down.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:18 PM (UZ8BZ)

214 There is a reason they don't want to air Trump's daily pressers. His numbers only go up.



How dare us plebes think for ourselves.

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (oiNtH)

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This isn't fair my numbers go down when the media show my press conferences.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (pw+jk)

215
I shudder to to think how Obama, Bush, or Clinton would have handled this.

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If anybody else was President.... the Press would be calling this the flu and noting how bad this years season is. On page 17.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (nw6Hr)

216 I shudder to to think how Obama, Bush, or Clinton would have handled this.

***

In 2009 when a flu pandemic killed 650K people world wide Obama did nothing.

Well, that isn't exactly right - he let our medical supply reserve get depleted without refilling it and then shipped more jobs to China.


Note that flu pandemic came out of China as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (WdocV)

217 Well, this sucks, and shows that some people can't be trusted.

90yo nursing home resident is positive for china flu.

wtf people.

Posted by: ghbucky at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (s9Eo8)

218 The person we really need back in the White House is a real man, a strong man.

Valerie Jarrett

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (e284m)

219 When is old Joe doing his next virtual townhall or whatever he calls it?

Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (a0IVu)

220 215
I shudder to to think how Obama, Bush, or Clinton would have handled this.

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If anybody else was President.... the Press would be calling this the flu and noting how bad this years season is. On page 17.
Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (nw6Hr)

Fair point.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (90T4r)

221 Willowed from last thread, but vey important,

471 Don't worry about reports from China that say you can get reinfected after you recover from their coronavirus. Their tests are only accurate 20-30% of the time, with both false positives and negatives. So no one in China really knows for sure who has had or hasn't had the virus.
Posted by: zmdavid at March 26, 2020 04:50 PM (xqRaG)

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Just ask Spain about the piss poor Communist Quality Coronavirus Test Kits. Also the Chinese Communist Party seized all the US Medical Equipment Manufacturing Plants when the virus hit, cutting off our supply.

https://tinyurl.com/qojt7e7

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (+0uDE)

222 Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (UWqZJ)

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I sure as hell remember.

Posted by: Faygo (it's a Michigan thing) at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (cfSRQ)

223 Note that flu pandemic came out of China as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (WdocV)

Noting this fact is racist. Or xenophobic. Something like that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (NWiLs)

224 Progda press members are not dumb.

They are cancer cells of the American body.

Cancer cells.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (sy5kK)

225 I'm craving a pulled pangolin sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (Vddbf)

226 Jesus, Juan is hitting a new low today

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (nRk/c)

227 Oh, and why aren't we banning Chinese nationals from the US?


If this disease is serious enough to cause us to destroy the economy and imprison a good portion of the population in their homes it is more then important enough to keep foreign nationals from an enemy nation out.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (WdocV)

228 Remember when killing General Salami was going to ignite a new regional war in the Middle East and there was concern?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (UWqZJ)

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Remember when Mueller was going to blow the doors off of Trumps collusion with the Russians.???

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (nw6Hr)

229
If this disease is serious enough to cause us to destroy the economy and imprison a good portion of the population in their homes it is more then important enough to keep foreign nationals from an enemy nation out.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (WdocV)

I got no problem with dat

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (nRk/c)

230 225
I'm craving a pulled pangolin sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (Vddbf)
How long do you smoke yours? I usually give em about 10 hours over a really low heat. Mesquite smoke wood of course.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (e284m)

231 He won't be impeached over any action to restore constitutional balance, and especially over repudiating unlawful injunctions. Not a chance.

And personnel changes are not a solution, just the obvious thing you'd do anyway.

Explicitly switching to rule of men, and not of law, as an official policy and strategy, is sort of the definition of expedient with great dangers.

And the process outrage of these injunctions is actually just a detail - and an example of internal collapse of integrity in Roberts' crumbling system - and not an outright usurpation of executive authority.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (El6T/)

232 The person we really need back in the White House is a real man, a strong man.

Valerie Jarrett
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:19 PM (e284m)


She'd be caught in the first rodent trap that Trump has set all over the House.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (8fB/R)

233
Oh, and why aren't we banning Chinese nationals from the US?

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Because that is NOT who we are ..... deplorable.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (nw6Hr)

234 214 There is a reason they don't want to air Trump's daily pressers. His numbers only go up.

How dare us plebes think for ourselves.

Posted by: Cheri at March 26, 2020 05:12 PM (oiNtH)


And he teaches federalism and preaches work.

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (ZQR/T)

235 blah blah blah ...Rather than seizing on a genuine emergency, Trump was slow to issue an emergency declaration,...blah blah blah.

You mean, slow like the LightBringer slow on H1N1?

That slow? If Trump was that slow, we'd have seen a response in -- July. After at least 1,000 dead Americans had been piled up.

Wow. I'm convinced of his weakman argument now. Only the target is wrong.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (Z4rgH)

236 Governor Kemp is pissed! All of this is traced back to 1 infected person from Atlanta spreading it. The numbers are increasingly dire. (Remove spaces)

https://www.wrbl.com/news/health/coronavirus/ kemp-what-happened-in-albany-could- happen-elsewhere-if-people-are-not-diligent/

Posted by: it begins... at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (MRjKr)

237 226 Jesus, Juan is hitting a new low today
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (nRk/c)

Cannot abide that simpering little prick.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (90T4r)

238 praises work.

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (ZQR/T)

239 You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (n6bs1)

240 I'm craving a pulled pangolin sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:20

I'm pulling pork tonight!

Posted by: Buttgig at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (fNWtj)

241 C-SPAN is showing the WH Coronavirus Briefing room, with reporters seated.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/svmrkux

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (UZ8BZ)

242 The media and the left know they are losing and it's killing them. They honestly thought they were smarter than us and could lie and cheat and win forever.

And now they are watching it all fall apart because of Orange Man and us deplorables who just won't listen and fall in line.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (ZLI7S)

243 Its the whole stupid/evil genius thing again.

Basically, if it is a Republican, it is bad, with whatever bad words you can use to describe it, and whatever bad motive you can ascribe to it.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (ZfRYq)

244 What did Juan say now?

Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (88xKn)

245 You know I haven't heard about the wheels closing in or the walls coming off for a while now.

And I'm very concerned that this is the beginning of the end!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (e284m)

246 Headline at Breitbart : "Escape from Wu-York".

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (zr5Kq)

247 174 So Trump is such a loser that he can't even be a good dictator? THAT's the argument?
_______________

Yes, and it's brilliant I tell you! Just brilliant! And you're a bunch of dim-witted raaaaaaaacists if you don't agree!

Posted by: Seattle Slug at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (k4dH2)

248 239 You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (n6bs1)

Did the same shit with W.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (90T4r)

249 I'm craving a pulled pangolin sammich.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:20 PM (Vddbf)
How long do you smoke yours? I usually give em about 10 hours over a really low heat. Mesquite smoke wood of course.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (e284m)
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I'm partial to the spicy Pangolin Bowl.

The best part is that each pangolin comes with its own bowl!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (g8Yc+)

250
Dagen wants to strangle Juan. So do I.
Posted by: redridinghood


I want to maintain a respectable distance from him.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (aKsyK)

251 How long do you smoke yours? I usually give em about 10 hours over a really low heat. Mesquite smoke wood of course.
Posted by: DamnedYankee



Sounds good. Saw on a cooking show where they cooked low and slow over oak and then for the last couple of hours they used peach wood.

Intriguing.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:24 PM (Vddbf)

252 Fake Journalists think this will save them from being spitted on pikes. It won't.

Posted by: WonkishRogue at March 26, 2020 05:24 PM (WyZLq)

253 If this disease is serious enough to cause us to destroy the economy and
imprison a good portion of the population in their homes it is more
then important enough to keep foreign nationals from an enemy nation
out.





Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:21 PM (WdocV)

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Oh good grief. The economy isn't destroyed. A two-week furlough is not the Apocalypse mixed with Armageddon and topped by Nuclear War.

The unemployment numbers are jacked because laid-off autoworkers are being included, even though they are idled two weeks every year and claim unemployment.

But that's "seasonally-adjusted" you see, so no one ever notices.

Since it's out of season, everyone's lighting their hair on fire.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:24 PM (cfSRQ)

254 https://www.wrbl.com/news/health/coronavirus/ kemp-what-happened-in-albany-could- happen-elsewhere-if-people-are-not-diligent/
Posted by: it begins... at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (MRjKr)

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tiny url is your friend

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:24 PM (nw6Hr)

255 246 Headline at Breitbart : "Escape from Wu-York".
Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:23 PM (zr5Kq)


Lolol!

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:24 PM (90T4r)

256 NOT violating the Constitution is now an Impeachable Offense.

Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (N9G0H)

257 These asshats should really have listened to Lincoln.

You can fool, etc.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (e284m)

258 Jane Russel reference - points of her own sitting way up high.

Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:13 PM (iRZl4)

Well to be honest, Playtex 18 Hour Bras that lift and separate help us full-figured gals showcase our generously proportioned charms.

Posted by: Jane Russell at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (5v5Zx)

259 239 You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.
____________________

Who needs credibility when we have musty cream pies to suck on???

Posted by: Seattle Slug at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (k4dH2)

260 Our restaurants in my little town are dialing up the take-out options. I sure do hope they all make it.

I'm in the shit and garbage business. There has been no slow down in these sectors. And I'm free to travel as I please as are most everybody else under this 'lockdown' it seems.

House construction is exempt so the illegals are working.

Posted by: DanMan at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (XTiHL)

261 Sigh - just another example of twisting word definitions into a chimeric pretzel.

Posted by: civil truth at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (ymrPC)

262 In just a 20-year timeline, this is mind-blowing.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (El6T/)

I get what you're saying.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (H8QX8)

263 LOL

https://twitter.com/PolishPatriotTM/status/
1243218773164855297

Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (G546f)

264 257 These asshats should really have listened to Lincoln.

You can fool, etc.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:25 PM (e284m)

He MADE them listen.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (90T4r)

265 239 You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (n6bs1)


Yes, I can, I do it every day.

Posted by: MSM at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (ZQR/T)

266 Look, you can't row your bicycle against the wind in the east and hope to go west.

My word as a Biden.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (pw+jk)

267
Dagen can come strangle me anytime.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (nw6Hr)

268 Oh good grief. The economy isn't destroyed. A two-week furlough is not the Apocalypse mixed with Armageddon and topped by Nuclear War.



But we did not take a furlough for flu ! People die everyday and we don't take furloghs !1!!

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (zr5Kq)

269 Drs. Fauci and Birx on the stage....

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (cF8AT)

270 Their tests are only accurate 20-30% of the time, with both false positives and negatives.

Even a monkey flipping a coin is better than that.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (n6bs1)

271 >>This is a eight year old boy shitting his pants and thinking he's awfully clever for doing so."

It's a mess when they do that.

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (2cuLk)

272
Andersen Cooper - cancer

Jake Tapper - cancer

Fredo Cuomo. - cancer






Don Lemon. - FABULOUS!!!!!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (sy5kK)

273 Maybe PDT is waiting until Kevin McCarthy's news conference is over. It's showing at the same C-SPAN link that has a thumbnail view of the Coronavirus Briefing Room:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/svmrkux

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (UZ8BZ)

274 McCarthy's on CSPAN

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (ZQR/T)

275 Remember when killing General Salami was going to ignite a new regional war in the Middle East and there was concern?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at March 26, 2020 05:17 PM (UWqZJ)

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The Iranian Kleptocracy all breathed a sigh of relief. The guy was a true believer, and had the loyalty of the one force in Iran strong enough to overthrow the mullahs.

Nothing is a bigger threat to your scam than having a true believer in charge of the enforcers. How will they react when they discover your corrupt deals?

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (+0uDE)

276 And here's Trump...

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (cF8AT)

277 These are the ravings of a madman. Unfortunately, he is mad and cannot recognize it.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (9hauA)

278 Virus team coming out to the stage.

Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (l3+k2)

279 He MADE them listen.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (90T4r)

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Everyone used to listen to me.

Posted by: E.F. Hutton at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (cfSRQ)

280 219 When is old Joe doing his next virtual townhall or whatever he calls it?
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He did one last night that attracted all of 2800 viewers. Many of those were Berniebots. They had to shut down comments because Joe was getting torched.

https://tinyurl.com/tfbj5c3

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (sWM8x)

281

At some point these bag lickers are going to be forced to admit they have no idea of how to defense Trump and admit defeat.

I'm beginning, between bouts of laughter, to feel a bit embarrassed for them.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (KATBx)

282 How long do you smoke yours? I usually give em about 10 hours over a really low heat. Mesquite smoke wood of course.


___

Cook? Tastes best still squirming

Posted by: The guy in China that started it all at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (WdocV)

283 I think it's instructive, and important, that Nike reported that its sales in China leaped exponentially after the shutdown ended there.

Demand is dormant, but it comes back FAST.

Posted by: mnw at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (Cssks)

284 Show time.

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (ZQR/T)

285 Pulled Pangolin sammiches and Buffalo Bat Wings.

With a nice tall frozen glass of Coronavirus beer.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (e284m)

286 Fauci and Birx in the conference room.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (UZ8BZ)

287 PDT!

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (UZ8BZ)

288 Oh if only Trump would bully the virus away.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (6/uwW)

289 Talking about the G20 phone meeting this morning...

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (cF8AT)

290 Why haven't Trump's hotels and casinos been seized yet? Hollywood celebrities are demanding this because we're running out of hospital space.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (95j/9)

291 Fauci can sit on it

lol

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (j9HX3)

292 You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (n6bs1)
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That's not what all their friends who agree with them think.

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (Eicbe)

293 Long time reader, VERY rare commenter.Way off topic comment though.Just want to say, after 2 months of being in Ukraine (beautiful country!!! A little more on the 3rd worldish side, however) it is refreshing to be able to read posts as they are new and fresh, as opposed to being "yesterdays" news by the time I get around to reading them (Ukraine is 8 hours ahead of us timewise)Oh and yeh, I was one of the "evacuees" on(what to me was Wednesday, but to y'all, well, you were sleeping!)Congrats to ME, my FIRST Evacuee status!!!
Posted by: chefwes_tx at March 26, 2020 05:10 PM (nZuoe)


Welcome to.....the machine

Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (M+Lyo)

294
Oh good grief. The economy isn't destroyed. A two-week furlough is not the Apocalypse mixed with Armageddon and topped by Nuclear War.

IF it's only two weeks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (aKsyK)

295 "How the world has changed. But it's going to end up being better than ever."
-PDT

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (UZ8BZ)

296 Pangolin is great. You can pull off those armor segments and eat like artichoke leaves. Delicious.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (NWiLs)

297 welcome back chefwes_tx

!!!!

Laskavo prosymo do domu!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (j9HX3)

298 Listing all the leaders that were on the call.

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (cF8AT)

299 Cook? Tastes best still squirming


Posted by: The guy in China that started it all at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (WdocV)

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The cocks I smoke are always squirming and spitting. It's FABOULOUS!!

Posted by: Shep Now with Spare Time at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (pw+jk)

300 >>Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an authoritarian weakman.

Trumpcamps, an Inner-Party nomenklatura, struggle sessions, Transborder Industrial Mastic Human Flypaper Array, medals on his suit lapel.

Perhaps the way to think of Trump is as an unproductive potentiality.

Posted by: Zod at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (yvnmY)

301 The Iranian Kleptocracy all breathed a sigh of
relief. The guy was a true believer, and had the loyalty of the one
force in Iran strong enough to overthrow the mullahs.



Nothing is a bigger threat to your scam than having a true believer
in charge of the enforcers. How will they react when they discover your
corrupt deals?



Posted by: rd at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM (+0uDE)

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I think you have that exactly backwards. He was the regime's enforcer and without him, their operations are crippled.

That's why their allies freaked out so much. He was their Rommel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (cfSRQ)

302  You can't both claim that he's a dictator and complain that he doesn't act like a dictator and expect to keep much credibility.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:22 PM (n6bs1

*********

I am old enough to remember Geo W Bush, the Super Genius Evil Retard.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (flINI)

303 124 PDT on Twitter:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

4m
Will be going out in 10 minutes for the press conference.
Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (UZ8BZ)

Weird how I'm following Trump on the Twatter but that one hasn't appeared on my timeline, isn't it?
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:05 PM (NiXyF)

You might want to look into that.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (UZ8BZ)

304 IF it's only two weeks.


where I am in we're in Week Three, two of pretty normal semi-lockdown, this week shelter in place

it sucks

and we have supposedly at least two more weeks of this

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (j9HX3)

305 Lord on High protect the President and his family.
amen

Posted by: azalea city at March 26, 2020 05:31 PM (WX+x0)

306 Zod complains that he is not a dictator.

Posted by: Zod at March 26, 2020 05:31 PM (yvnmY)

307 IF it's only two weeks.





Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (aKsyK)

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By the time the fortnight ends, we'll know whether or not it was effective and see signs of containment.

At that point, you may prepare to light your hair on fire.

But we're not there yet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (cfSRQ)

308 I forgot about the evil retard genius President that 'The One" saved us from!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (e284m)

309 I am old enough to remember Geo W Bush, the Super Genius Evil Retard.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2020 05:30 PM (flINI)

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Ever notice every Republican President since Ike has been sub-normal in intelligence but all Democrats are rated Rhodes Scholar Super Genius Almost Godlike types.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (nw6Hr)

310 LOL

https://twitter.com/PolishPatriotTM/status/
1243218773164855297
Posted by: vmom 2020 at March 26, 2020 05:26 PM (G546f)

LOL is right.

LOL.

Posted by: chique d'Epstein didn't off hisself at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (9hauA)

311 Fake new reference! lmao

Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (e284m)

312 I knew a kid in 3rd grade that would dump in his pants at least once a week. These weren't accidents. He didn't have a condition. They were pathetic attempts at attention-getting. Funny thing was, his parents were not distant or unattentive. He later burned his own house down, supposedly accidentally.
They then moved away, but later came back.

Yeah, he works in the media these days. No joke.

Posted by: Tantumblogo at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (MWO2y)

313 Zod complains that he is not a dictator.

Bit of a whiner, that one.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (SchxB)

314 "How the world has changed. But it's going to end up being better than ever."

-PDT
===========

Someone rescue us from the lying sack o' shit!

Posted by: WaPo/CNN/MSDNC/NYT at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (NVYyb)

315 306 Zod complains that he is not a dictator.
Posted by: Zod at March 26, 2020 05:31 PM (yvnmY)

Acquire a funny hat, and epaulettes.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (90T4r)

316 I work from home all the time so life is kinda unchanged for me.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (P6ZCq)

317 so when do MSNBC and CNN pull away?

Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (hHxp2)

318 ''Oh if only Trump would bully the virus away.''

Impeached for being a bully.

Posted by: Tuna at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (gLRfa)

319 8m
WOW! New from Fauci:
"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (SOqed)

320 It's not analysis, it's just marketing. Very bad marketing but the media has a job to do.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (uEbPt)

321 Leftist love dictators

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (ZCEU2)

322 The left has only a few ways to describe Republicans or the right:

Stupid

Evil

Religious nutcase

or some combination of the above three.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (WI7YS)

323 >>Ever notice every Republican President since Ike has
been sub-normal in intelligence but all Democrats are rated Rhodes
Scholar Super Genius Almost Godlike types. Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (nw6Hr)


I got *much* mileage out of this phenomenon in the GWB years.

"You guys run your Mensa candidate, and we run our village idiot, and we *still* beat you!"

Posted by: Zod at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (yvnmY)

324 I forgot about the evil retard genius President that 'The One" saved us from!
***


It is amazing....everything Bush did half assedly right, Oblala did a 180 on. And everything Bush did half assedly wrong, Oblala told Biden to hold his Zima and put the pedal to the metal on.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (WdocV)

325 What is with the cerimonial reading of the names?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (1g7ch)

326 nurse practitioner who is a lunatic lefty got a fever and a cough over the weekend. she got tested. negative.

she is clearly disappointed today. and her doom and gloom predictions are about to cause me to do something stupid.

"the world has forever changed,"
"society will never recover"
"civilization is doomed"

ugh, just go kill yourself so the rest of us can keep on keeping on. please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (d7Ww2)

327 LOL! Every presser, at ;east one broadside hit on the fake newsers.

Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (l3+k2)

328 Rapaport was the worst part of the one season of Justified. I just had to grin and bear it. Him and his stupid accent. He has a punchable face. He's horrible. Nice herpes sore, too jackhole. He is just insane.
Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM


Spoiler

At least his exit was cold.

Posted by: Charlie's Wife at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (r6GXX)

329 314 "How the world has changed. But it's going to end up being better than ever."

-PDT
===========

Someone rescue us from the lying sack o' shit!

Posted by: WaPo/CNN/MSDNC/NYT at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (NVYyb)

LMAO!

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (cF8AT)

330 Who was he talking about? Cuomo, sounds like.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (El6T/)

331 96-0.

A shutout!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (YqDXo)

332 WaPo, so no link, but :

The Trump administration unsealed sweeping indictments against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and members of his inner circle on narco-terrorism charges on Thursday, a move that dramatically escalates the U.S. bid to force the authoritarian socialist from power. The indictment, which officials said was a decade in the making, comes as supporters of the U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition movement to oust Maduro is fading, particularly as the outbreak of the coronavirus has effectively halted calls for citizens to turnout in the streets.

I wonder if Trump might make a mention of this today?

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (Z4rgH)

333 Quint my question is when will CNN and MSNBC got out of business?

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (ZCEU2)

334 327 LOL! Every presser, at ;east one broadside hit on the fake newsers.
Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (l3+k2)

Until they shape up!

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (UZ8BZ)

335 Honestly the last really intelligent Democrat president was probably Woodrow Wilson and that guy was straight up evil. He was a nazi before being a nazi was cool....

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (WdocV)

336 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).


well surprise SURPRISE surprise!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (j9HX3)

337 It is amazing....everything Bush did half assedly right, Oblala did a 180 on. And everything Bush did half assedly wrong, Oblala told Biden to hold his Zima and put the pedal to the metal on.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (WdocV)

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Almost.

GITMO is STILL open.

Rub salt in THAT wound with a lefty and behold the sadz.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (nw6Hr)

338 Authoritarian....uh...uh...authoritarian WEAKMAN! Yeah! That's the ticket!

Posted by: FloridaMan - still believes this is overreaction at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (cnPvr)

339 >>I wonder if Trump might make a mention of this today?

I've been told it's off topic and not important.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (ZLI7S)

340 He was a nazi before being a nazi was cool....


yeah Wilson was like a hipster nazi

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (j9HX3)

341 Fox26 in Houston reports there are 410 cases in the greater Houston area. There have been two (2) deaths, the last on March 19th. I'm no public health expert but I would have expected many more if this was the plague the national media have been hyping.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2020 04:54 PM (7rVsF)

These are about the same numbers as for all of Alberta, which probably has a little less population than Greater Houston.

If I go home now, I am subject to a mandatory 14 self-isolation, even if I am healthy. And Alberta's dumb c*nt minister of health still seems unaware of the chloroquine treatment.

I think I may end up staying longer here in AZ. The crazy is less.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (miJU3)

342 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).

That's gonna' send the Panic Addicts right over the edge.

Posted by: I Am No One at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (dfEoR)

343 Quint my question is when will CNN and MSNBC got out of business?

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (ZCEU2)

soon i hope.

Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (hHxp2)

344 OMG Trump wants people to go back to work and DIE!

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (KNsKs)

345 I successfully ran the lockdown blockade from Cypress to Magnolia, Texas. Had a package of TP in the backseat as cover in case I was stopped.

I have become an outlaw.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (5v5Zx)

346 Oh good grief. The economy isn't destroyed. A two-week furlough is not the Apocalypse mixed with Armageddon and topped by Nuclear War.

IF it's only two weeks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2020 05:28 PM (aKsyK)
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Exactly. *Easter* IS two weeks away, but Trump saying he would "love it" if they could get the economy restarted BY Easter was two and a half strokes and a conniption for these people.

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (Eicbe)

347 336 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).


well surprise SURPRISE surprise!
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (j9HX3)

Bets on how much the MFM trumpets this???

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (90T4r)

348 342 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).

That's gonna' send the Panic Addicts right over the edge.
Posted by: I Am No One at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (dfEoR)

And we are being put through so much of misery for that?

Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (a0IVu)

349  I knew a kid in 3rd grade that would dump in his pants at least once a week. These weren't accidents. He didn't have a condition. They were pathetic attempts at attention-getting. Funny thing was, his parents were not distant or unattentive. He later burned his own house down, supposedly accidentally. 
They then moved away, but later came back. 

Yeah, he works in the media these days. No joke.

Posted by: Tantumblogo at March 26, 2020 05:32 PM (MWO2y)

********

Fuck you Dude... really...

Posted by: Chunk Todd at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (flINI)

350 Meme on Facebook for the Tribe:

For Hanukkah 2020

Toilet Paper Menorah
To remind us of the time we had one roll of toilet paper but we made it last for 8 days and nights.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (Vddbf)

351 Hello nurse!

326 nurse practitioner who is a lunatic lefty got a fever and a cough over the weekend. she got tested. negative.

she is clearly disappointed today. and her doom and gloom predictions are about to cause me to do something stupid.

"the world has forever changed,"
"society will never recover"
"civilization is doomed"

ugh, just go kill yourself so the rest of us can keep on keeping on. please.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:34 PM (d7Ww2)

So she WANTED to have COVID19? So she could what, be living proof that OrangeManBad? What a headcase.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (NWiLs)

352 'Curly' Neal of the Globetrotters has died. RIP

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (KNsKs)

353 OMG Trump wants people to go back to work and DIE!
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (KNsKs)


Oh, man, a sure sign of an authoritarian weakman!

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (NiXyF)

354 348 342 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).


in other words,
Meep Meep motherfuckers

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (d7Ww2)

355 Rapaport was the worst part of the one season of Justified. I just had to grin and bear it. Him and his stupid accent. He has a punchable face. He's horrible. Nice herpes sore, too jackhole. He is just insane.
Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:15 PM

Yeah. He sucked. The soul stealing redhead made up for his dismal presence.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (x8Wzq)

356 He's killing the elderly. Obviously.

Posted by: Joe Scarborough with His Nose Up Minka's Ass at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (sWM8x)

357 Enforced shutdown and isolation is just plain nuts. In NYC, for example, quarantines in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan could be decided neighborhood by neighborhood. Combine that with close examination of airport arrivals and the rest of us could go about our lives largely untouched.


That's how Japan did it and they are the most successful nation in the world at closing down this virus. That's also how Taiwan has been so remarkably successful. This shutdown is driving businesses under, and creating huge and completely unnecessary unemployment. The panic is ridiculous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (NVYyb)

358 And we are being put through so much of misery for that?


out of AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION doncha know!

the New Normal

we're all OCD hypochondriac spazbots now

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (j9HX3)

359 >>>"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%)***.
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (SOqed)


***Based upon gross estimates of annual infected. Of the actually tested positive for the flu the mortality rate is 10%.

For each actual positive test, they "estimate" 100 have NOT been tested. Now do that same neat trick with Kung Flu and see what the mortality rate is.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (1g7ch)

360 I think it's instructive, and important, that Nike reported that its sales in China leaped exponentially after the shutdown ended there.

Demand is dormant, but it comes back FAST.
Posted by: mnw at March 26, 2020 05:27 PM


When this is over, I'm going to spend on a lot of things, but Nike will not get one cent.

Posted by: Charlie's Wife at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (r6GXX)

361 Bets on how much the MFM trumpets this???
Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (90T4r)


Sure. " Trump overreacted and killed the economy." "Trump forced governor of NY and Cali to take unnecessary steps".

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (zr5Kq)

362 Don't forget the union-promoting provision, Don.

Thank gawd you're gonna pre-empt those evil CEOs on pay-raises, too.

I believe this is the first time this kind of envy-based idiocy has actually made it into law since the Dems started pushing it in the 1980s. Yeah yeah it's for companies taking the danegeld, and temporary, but still.

I'm sure the GOP and the WH insisted on sticking some goodies in there for this "must pass" legislation. Somebody find those yet?

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (El6T/)

363 they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

In Israel also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (nRk/c)

Nice that I have a Blackberry with a removable battery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (miJU3)

364 off sock from failed joke from last night ONT.

Posted by: Chuck C at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (r6GXX)

365 333 Quint my question is when will CNN and MSNBC got out of business?
Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (ZCEU2)

Someone on the AOSHQ observed that these channels can provide a loss to offset profits in other sectors of the parent company. So, a tax benefit. Does anyone feel better?

Posted by: FloridaMan - still believes this is overreaction at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (cnPvr)

366 Meep Meep motherfuckers


that's what I'm talking about, lady Nurse!

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (j9HX3)

367 'Curly' Neal of the Globetrotters has died. RIP

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (KNsKs)

that is a shame. Those guys were huge in the 70s and early 80s. They were always positive from my recollection.

Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (hHxp2)

368 >>"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).


They won't care.

I can't believe the shit I am seeing people claiming. They started a stampede of stupid and it's only gonna stop when it tires itself out.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (lELxn)

369 So she WANTED to have COVID19? So she could what, be living proof that OrangeManBad? What a headcase.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo


yes, yes she did.
TDS. It is real.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (d7Ww2)

370 I successfully ran the lockdown blockade from Cypress to Magnolia, Texas. Had a package of TP in the backseat as cover in case I was stopped.

I have become an outlaw.
Posted by: Count de Monet


Out 290?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (Vddbf)

371 @emilyelarsen

Pretty intense statement here from Biden.

Joe Biden blames record unemployment surge on President Trump:
"The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don't have jobs because our president didn't do his job when it mattered."


Tell us bumblefuck, exactly what didn't he do? You useless stunad.

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (cF8AT)

372 The worst part of this hysteria right now is we're at the "everyone is a witch!" phase.

Anyone who dares say a word of caution or scepticism comes under vicious attack from the mob

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (vPKfA)

373 LOL! Every presser a reminder of the failures of the predecessor.

Posted by: davidt at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (l3+k2)

374 AuthoritarianWeakManBad.

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (Eicbe)

375 And we are being put through so much of misery for that?
Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 05:36 PM (a0IVu)


We're getting ready to learn which Govs simply over-reacted with the best of intentions, and which ones are out and out power mad dicks.

Mistakes made with good intentions I might forgive - if heads pop out of asses quickly.

Posted by: I Am No One at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (dfEoR)

376 Don't fear the meeper!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (NWiLs)

377 "This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).


-----

Whom are we quoting here??

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (nw6Hr)

378 >>'Curly' Neal of the Globetrotters has died. RIP


Awww, shit. We met the Globetrotters back in 82 or so. Such nice guys, all of them.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (lELxn)

379 Yeah. He sucked. The soul stealing redhead made up for his dismal presence.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (x8Wzq)

Agree on both counts!!

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (uEbPt)

380 Thomas Sowell
@ThomasSowell
·
42s
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (NiXyF)

381 Always wanted a Globetrotters Pinball Machine

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (lELxn)

382 He is advocating violence against the President and his family.



I edited the f word, he did not

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (8fB/R)

Actors, musicians, and other artists are known for their mental and emotional stability so we should totally take their advice on everything.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (in24S)

383 Don't fear the meeper!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (NWiLs)

-------

We'll be able to fly !!!

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (nw6Hr)

384 367 I saw them at circus I think(another thing killed by the pants wetting left) and they came to my grade school gym once.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (KNsKs)

385 371 @emilyelarsen

Pretty intense statement here from Biden.

Joe Biden blames record unemployment surge on President Trump:
"The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don't have jobs because our president didn't do his job when it mattered."

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (cF8AT)

Jeez.

Posted by: m at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (UZ8BZ)

386 358 And we are being put through so much of misery for that?


out of AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION doncha know!

the New Normal

we're all OCD hypochondriac spazbots now
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (j9HX3)


I am not, BlackOrchid. And I have friends, a few, who are declaring me " insensitive" to the " crisis".

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (90T4r)

387 fixerupper that was Fauci

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (j9HX3)

388 Obama was a Dictator went over the heads of Congress and the Senate and abused his power of office its Obama who belongs in a Federal Prison

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (FLiOE)

389 333 Quint my question is when will CNN and MSNBC got out of business?

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:35 PM (ZCEU2)



Someone on the AOSHQ observed that these channels can provide a loss
to offset profits in other sectors of the parent company. So, a tax
benefit. Does anyone feel better?

Posted by: FloridaMan - still believes this is overreaction at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (cnPvr)

Maybe so. I remember when CNBC touted GE all the time when it was the parent. But GE has fallen so far.

Posted by: Quint at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (hHxp2)

390 you and me tubal!

I don't care everyone already thinks I'm a loony

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (j9HX3)

391 369 So she WANTED to have COVID19? So she could what, be living proof that OrangeManBad? What a headcase.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo


yes, yes she did.
TDS. It is real.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (d7Ww2)

You work with some real lunatics.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (NWiLs)

392 Don't fear the meeper!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (NWiLs)
---
We don't.

Posted by: The Four Seasons at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (Eicbe)

393 Don't forget the union-promoting provision, Don.

Unions are un-American.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (YqDXo)

394 Why are they sending hospital ships ?

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (zr5Kq)

395 Spaghetti for dinner tonight.

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (MVjcR)

396 'Curly' Neal of the Globetrotters has died. RIP
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (KNsKs)

Aw, man. He was my favorite Globetrotter when I was a kid.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (x8Wzq)

397 Not at all unlike traffic fatality rates -
- For even DRT they scrape of the pavement DOT assumes 100 managed to crawl from the flaming wreckage and not even call for help.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (1g7ch)

398 When this is over, I'm going to spend on a lot of things, but Nike will not get one cent.
---
I used to have several items bearing the swoosh. They all went to the thrift store, never to be replaced.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (sWM8x)

399 "How the world has changed. But it's going to end up being better than ever."

-PDT


The MFM liked it better when "Hope and Change" was an obvious lie. They hate this!

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (elfAG)

400 Out 290?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:38 PM (Vddbf)

249 to Decker Prairie

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (5v5Zx)

401 The media will constantly argue both sides of an argument so that BOTH SIDES of the argument point to the conclusion they want.


Trump is overreacting/Trump is not taking this seriously = Trump failed!


Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (oVJmc)

402 they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

In Israel also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (nRk/c)


As if people can't just leave their phones at home when they go out?

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (NiXyF)

403 394 Why are they sending hospital ships ?


my guess is for fun quarantine havens

that are tough to sneak out of

you ARE going to need to kind of force people to stay put

not so easy with New Yawkers

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (j9HX3)

404 'Curly' Neal of the Globetrotters has died. RIP
Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:37 PM (KNsKs)
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Hope Trump is HAPPY!

Posted by: A. Troll at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (Eicbe)

405 BTW, Faucci is full of shit, regardless what he says. I'll wait till some else comments on COVID #s.

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (zr5Kq)

406 @emilyelarsen



Pretty intense statement here from Biden.



Joe Biden blames record unemployment surge on President Trump:

"The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don't have
jobs because our president didn't do his job when it mattered."





Tell us bumblefuck, exactly what didn't he do? You useless stunad.

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (cF8AT)


Joey wouldn't have close travel to China and made the situation much better because

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (5l4ki)

407 Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (in24S)

Really depends on the individual actors/actresses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (WI7YS)

408 'Curly' Neal dead at 77
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/362769/

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (KNsKs)

409 If I don't see "meep, meep" I get a bit sad. It always makes me laugh whenever I see it each day I read here. LOL

Saw the Globetrotters while a Boy Scout and once with a church youth group. Both times were a lot of fun. RIP Curly. You were awesome.

Posted by: turambar at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (Gylu/)

410 Actors, musicians, and other artists are known for their mental and emotional stability so we should totally take their advice on everything.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Quarantine Special - Free Delivery of Lockdown Laments from The Outrage Outlet! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (in24S)


I only trust the ones who cut off one of their ears.

The rest? Pffft.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (YqDXo)

411 383 Don't fear the meeper!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (NWiLs)

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We'll be able to fly !!!
Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (nw6Hr)

40,000 men and women everyday
Redefine happiness

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (NWiLs)

412
I'm watching the financial and economic shit, now, so just yell at me if I get too posting too much about this shit.

The Fed data has started coming out. They've bought $587B worth of Ts and MBSes, mostly Ts, and with the repos (loans) the total is about $650B.

That is to say, the Fed has injected 6/10 of trillion dollars into the system in just one week.

Printing presses are at ludicrous speed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (rCwaK)

413
fixerupper that was Fauci
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:40 PM (j9HX3)

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Oh Shit. THATS epic. The expert that Trump doesnt listen to will now become the expert that got memory holed and discredited.

I wonder if he knows his 15 minutes of fame are up.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (nw6Hr)

414 You know when Obama was President, Curly Neal was STILL ALIVE!

Racist Trump!

Posted by: A. Troll at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (Eicbe)

415 Why is that Faucci guy only four feet tall?

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (MVjcR)

416 Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (nw6Hr)

Fauci

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (WI7YS)

417 Trump, in his letter to all the Governors today, said he wanted to put in place a system of risk, data driven, county by county. High-risk, medium risk and low risk. Good idea!
Pritzker hates it, because: science! But Pritz also said he thinks we are starting to 'bend the curve' in IL, slightly.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (L3Rsz)

418 Joe Biden blames record unemployment surge on President Trump:

"The harsh reality is that at least 3 million people now don't have jobs because our president didn't do his job when it mattered."


3 million and one, if you count Joe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (YqDXo)

419 Tell us bumblefuck, exactly what didn't he do? You useless stunad.
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:39 PM (cF8AT)

This is the story they will tell the rest of our lives. "Trump was unprepared and didn't act fast enough and that's the reason for all this suffering."

It is just the latest non-falsifiable accusation to be leveled at Trump. Except this time it's actually pretty falsifiable because he intstituted the travel ban.

But what can't be proven is that Trump did "enough".

At some point we need to shift this discussion to border control, etc. And I guarantee Trump will.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (uEbPt)

420 And we are being put through so much of misery for that?

out of AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION doncha know!

the New Normal

we're all OCD hypochondriac spazbots now
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE!


I am not, BlackOrchid. And I have friends, a few, who are declaring me " insensitive" to the " crisis".
Posted by: tubal


I'm in the same boat. I'm cruel and don't care that people might die. When I bring up the 20,000 deaths this year and 34,000 from last flu season, I hear crickets.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (Vddbf)

421 Biden has tapioca for brains.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (NWiLs)

422 Daddy! Where's my Daaaadddddy?

Posted by: klaftern at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (RuIsu)

423 Pritzker hates it, because: science! But Pritz also said he thinks we are starting to 'bend the curve' in IL, slightly.


what happened, did he step on it?

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (j9HX3)

424 The hospital ships won't be used for virus patients. The idea is to provide beds for non-virus patients to increase available beds in hospitals.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (sWM8x)

425 3 million and one, if you count Joe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (YqDXo)

Oh!

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (uEbPt)

426 Heh. I think he's feeling the financial pain.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (L3Rsz)

427 The Deep Left won't stop the war just because economic sanctions (the Plannedemic) didn't work. They'll just pivot to the newer, sportier thing. Whatever that might be.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (mhs6e)

428 Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)

Rapaport is when the spirit medium makes contact with a dead urban poet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (miJU3)

429 "Why are they sending hospital ships?"

A) Because Trump was stampeded, and everyone's panicking, by a model they didn't actually use, or something

B) Because they want to add to the surge capacity for acute cases in case the peak exceeds current capacity - the actual thing they've been saying they're focused on since the very outset

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (El6T/)

430 Border wall $$$ will be easy to obtain now.

Posted by: azalea city at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (WX+x0)

431 The battleships will begin shelling New York in five minutes. You have no chance to survive make your time.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (NWiLs)

432 I'm in the same boat. I'm cruel and don't care that people might die

lol well I wouldn't go THAT far

but there is a point where you have to look at the other side of the equation

I keep thinking about the non-essential medical things that aren't being done, possibly for months

like colonoscopies, mammograms, etc

the lack of these will cause deaths also

Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (j9HX3)

433 Yo drump done suunke dat wehezz din do nufin Bernie sanders yo.

Posted by: CardiBee at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (Tnijr)

434 I'm in the same boat. I'm cruel and don't care that people might die. When I bring up the 20,000 deaths this year and 34,000 from last flu season, I hear crickets.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2020 05:43 PM (Vddbf)

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I hear "COVID IS NOT THE FLU YOU FUCKING UNCARING ASSHOLE!!!!" shreiked at the top of lungs filled with irrationality.

YMMV

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (nw6Hr)

435 BTW, I'm looking at footage of ULA's Atlas rocket
launch for USSF. My new favorite phrase is "entering boost phase
chilldown...a-a-a-a-a-and we have good separation."

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 26, 2020 05:08 PM (Dc2NZ)

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So, you're saying that the Atlas lifts and separates?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 26, 2020 05:11 PM (g8Yc+)

____________


Atlas Plugged?

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (FduHe)

436 No matter what happens Trump will have done the wrong thing.Soon they will move on to the next catastrophe whatever it might be.Wild fire,school shooting,heat wave,hurricane .Literally anything and everything. "X will be his Katrina"

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (KNsKs)

437 Seems like it's time for a new post, I should probably comment here to force the issue.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (z79tQ)

438 415 Why is that Faucci guy only four feet tall?
Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2020 05:42 PM (MVjcR)

He comes from Hobbiton, related to the Bracegirdles.

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (90T4r)

439 I've gone past the hospital ships when they were docked in Baltimore harbor a few times. They're BIG!

Posted by: Weasel at March 26, 2020 05:45 PM (MVjcR)

440 Meant to say "pick one" - much of the Horde is clinging to some incoherent version of A.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (El6T/)

441 Aye boss it's time to go back to work.

Me hands is clean.

Posted by: Tarrier at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (ZQR/T)

442 President 18-1 would have laid land mines across the whole southern border and banned Chinese nationals from entering the US - and immediately deported all of them here.

But I'm guessing the FNM doesn't want a president who was "serious" about the issue.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (WdocV)

443

Restaurant industry is crashing, the world over. They are giving away produce and food that is piling up. No business.

Nothing like that is has even happened to this industry before. The damage may be permanent if this shutdown doesn't end.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (rCwaK)

444 The Deep Left won't stop the war just because economic sanctions (the Plannedemic) didn't work. They'll just pivot to the newer, sportier thing. Whatever that might be.
Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (mhs6e)
---
Impeachapalooza: The Pandemic Edition.

What didn't Trump do in time, in hindsight?

Posted by: Axeman at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (Eicbe)

445 nood Joe

Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (a0IVu)

446 "Border wall $$$ will be easy to obtain now"

LOL

Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (El6T/)

447 Mirror Universe Newt Gingrich = MUNG

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (KxVoZ)

448 443

Restaurant industry is crashing, the world over. They are giving away produce and food that is piling up. No business.

Nothing like that is has even happened to this industry before. The damage may be permanent if this shutdown doesn't end.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2020 05:46 PM (rCwaK)

Cheesecake Factory has told all their landlords they can't pay April's rent.

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (cF8AT)

449 When The Comfort gets here I promised to supply the Pizza.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (nRk/c)

450 This is the story they will tell the rest of our lives. "Trump was unprepared and didn't act fast enough and that's the reason for all this suffering."

Just the way Lee Oswald became a militant right-winger.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (YqDXo)

451 Every time the press tries to get Trump with a gotcha! on unemployment, he uses it as an opportunity to press for getting the workforce back into play.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (Dc2NZ)

452 They laughed about Space Force but you know that if an asteroid threatens us it will be "why didn't Trump authorize a space force sooner?"

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (KNsKs)

453 Why is that Faucci guy only four feet tall?

Dude's 80 years old. "Some shrinkage may occur"

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (asM0l)

454 423 Pritzker hates it, because: science! But Pritz also said he thinks we are starting to 'bend the curve' in IL, slightly.


what happened, did he step on it?
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 26, 2020 05:44 PM (j9HX3)

Pretty cunning, IMO. Possibly. Looks more moderate than other Dem guvs. ( though certainly not). Maybe angling for national office?

Posted by: tubal at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (90T4r)

455 nood Joe
Posted by: IC at March 26, 2020 05:47 PM (a0IVu)


very tempted to stay here, on this thread...

Posted by: runner at March 26, 2020 05:48 PM (zr5Kq)

456
Oh fuck.

My deranged sister posted the following mem.

Picture Godzilla ravaging a burning Tokyo.

Caption. Godzilla kills 1,000 people. Dont worry... the flu kills 30,000 every year.




Im so fucking tempted to write "well that doesnt change the fucking fact that statistically you are more likely to die from the flu than Godzilla and that 30,000 people are still dead....."

but..... I *LIKE* going home for THanksgiving.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (nw6Hr)

457 Trump did more to fight China Virus than Obama did for ebola.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (oVJmc)

458 >>nurse practitioner who is a lunatic lefty got a fever and a cough over the weekend. she got tested. negative.

she is clearly disappointed today. and her doom and gloom predictions are about to cause me to do something stupid.

"the world has forever changed,"
"society will never recover"
"civilization is doomed"

ugh, just go kill yourself so the rest of us can keep on keeping on. please.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I don't know how you stand it. At least when I go to the hospital people are talking about the new suppressor they just got or how evil democrats are.

Posted by: Aviator at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (2cuLk)

459 The impact on the resteraunting business should be interesting.


Presuming we are back to normal in a few weeks the surviving restaurants are going to have more business then they can handle.


Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (WdocV)

460 When Trump says "hidden enemy" every day I'm pretty convinced he's not talking about the virus.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (uEbPt)

461 Why is that Faucci guy only four feet tall?

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Related to AtC????

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (nw6Hr)

462 nood Joe
No thanks we've seen that.
Female Secret Service Agents

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:50 PM (KNsKs)

463 This is the story they will tell the rest of our lives. "Trump was unprepared and didn't act fast enough and that's the reason for all this suffering."

"And he also over-reacted for such a weak virus!"

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2020 05:50 PM (asM0l)

464 I like kicking Crazy old Joe's ass

Posted by: Skip at March 26, 2020 05:51 PM (ZCEU2)

465 There is simply no way to reconcile with these people. Don't even try.
They are a fifth column. Treat them as such.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at March 26, 2020 05:51 PM (jWe5r)

466

New jobless claims are 3.3 million. That is a 30 sigma event, the stats wonks say. That is five times the peak weekly maximum during the Crash of '08.

At the same time, the Dow seems to be turning, thanks to the Fed turning the printing presses to ludicrous speed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at March 26, 2020 05:51 PM (rCwaK)

467 Creepy Uncle Joe,

Nood


Again

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:52 PM (1g7ch)

468 "Trump was unprepared and didn't act fast enough and that's the reason for all this suffering."

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Is the "... and I STILL dont undertand how he carried 55 states in 2020!!" implied.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2020 05:52 PM (nw6Hr)

469 Maybe, Tubal, but I bet he's getting a LOT of back-chat from the pensioners, restaurateurs, gov't workers, conference centers and others in the state who rely on us peons working and buying stuff and paying taxes.

In Illinois' case, the financial hit is absolutely horrendous because we're more broken than broke. We were never going to get out of our financial quagmire, and this just brings the reckoning sooner.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2020 05:53 PM (L3Rsz)

470 >>Why is that Faucci guy only four feet tall?
Posted by: Weasel

So he can get in his office in the hollow tree at the CDC.

Posted by: Aviator at March 26, 2020 05:54 PM (2cuLk)

471 "Moved gingerly" - I believe that was included in the first draft of impeachment articles by our founders.

Posted by: Jeremy Hollis at March 26, 2020 05:54 PM (2KkD9)

472 they're monitoring location data of phones in Switzerland to determine if people are social distancing...

In Israel also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 26, 2020 04:56 PM (nRk/c)

As if people can't just leave their phones at home when they go out?
Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (NiXyF)


I just dummy cord mine to the wall with that little cable it came with. Never lose one again.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:56 PM (1g7ch)

473 WOW! New from Fauci:
"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 26, 2020 05:33 PM (SOqed)

Walkin' it back, he is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2020 05:56 PM (miJU3)

474 The unemployment numbers are not the result of an economic crash,the economy was super healthy than voluntarily shut down.Totally different than a crash.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2020 05:58 PM (KNsKs)

475 As if people can't just leave their phones at home when they go out?

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (NiXyF)


From what I have observed, no, they can't.

Posted by: Ripley at March 26, 2020 05:58 PM (MxEKc)

476 Presuming we are back to normal in a few weeks the surviving restaurants are going to have more business then they can handle.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2020 05:49 PM (WdocV)

I'm not so sure. There are enough nervous nellies out there that will be afraid of eating out - latent corona virus!!! - that business might not recover for a while.

Posted by: Floyd of Rosedale at March 26, 2020 05:59 PM (O6DoG)

477 >>"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%).



DON'T CALL IT THE FLU!

Posted by: Our Media Betters at March 26, 2020 05:59 PM (UNCqV)

478 The delusional wishcasting is fantastic.

In an earlier thread, Morons were talking about that Morning Joke guy calling trump anti-Veteran.

Now he's Mussolini.

At least NYC's fascist is Italian.

The media are getting into self-parody.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 06:00 PM (II2Y0)

479 In Illinois' case, the financial hit is absolutely horrendous because we're more broken than broke. We were never going to get out of our financial quagmire, and this just brings the reckoning sooner.
Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2020 05:53 PM (L3Rsz

Maybe governor Jaba the hut is starting to notice that people not working means no tax money, no toll money etc. but he couldn't be that bright coulld he?

Posted by: Cheriebebe at March 26, 2020 06:01 PM (a4qVe)

480 Cuomussolini.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2020 06:02 PM (II2Y0)

481 >> Presuming we are back to normal in a few weeks the surviving restaurants are going to have more business then they can handle.


Their Employees will all be on vacation with higher pay.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2020 06:02 PM (lELxn)

482 I'm not so sure. There are enough nervous nellies out there that will be afraid of eating out - latent corona virus!!! - that business might not recover for a while.
Posted by: Floyd of Rosedale at March 26, 2020 05:59 PM (O6DoG)

Disney is reopening on March 31, I want to be there, just to be able to say I was there.

Posted by: Cheriebebe at March 26, 2020 06:03 PM (a4qVe)

483 Any chance of stopping the creampie talk? It's evolved from lots of cuckold talk regarding certain turncoats (or likely two-faced liars from the start) to full-on headlines of creampie eating. Enough, please. It's fucking nasty.

I get it, they are scumbags.

I'd like to recommend this blog to more people including my father but it would be too embarrassing. Been perusing AoS multiple times per day for years now.

Posted by: SamIam at March 26, 2020 06:05 PM (oasF3)

484
Rapaport is seriously fucked up, like rabid dog bad.
Posted by: rammajamma at March 26, 2020 05:07 PM (iRZl4)







That cockholster was a has-been even when he was popular.

Funny thing is that the one role I really remember him in is in a shitty TV show called Boston Public. In one episode, he's an inner city teacher talking about the power of words, and uses THAT word as an example (yeah, that one). The black kids in class freak out that their pasty white teacher even said the word in class, even to teach them about how awful the word is. Of course, he gets in big trouble with the school admin for even mentioning the word.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2020 06:07 PM (EGyGV)

485 I'm waiting for Marvel to publish SoiBoi. His super power is eating unlimited creampies.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (o2MD2)


Name him

SNOWBALL

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 06:08 PM (1g7ch)

486 434- right.
And hetrosexuals can get AIDS.
And Pedophiles who prey on young boys arent' homosexuals.

Posted by: vivi at March 26, 2020 06:09 PM (11H2y)

487 397 Not at all unlike traffic fatality rates -
- For even DRT they scrape of the pavement DOT assumes 100 managed to crawl from the flaming wreckage and not even call for help.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 05:41 PM (1g7ch)

Interesting, I would not have guessed that.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 06:11 PM (zqs/f)

488 Name him

SNOWBALL
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 26, 2020 06:08 PM (1g7ch)


Sidekick: CREAMPUFF

Posted by: filbert at March 26, 2020 06:12 PM (NiXyF)

489 i like Mike (Pence).

Posted by: vivi at March 26, 2020 06:14 PM (11H2y)

490 485 I'm waiting for Marvel to publish SoiBoi. His super power is eating unlimited creampies.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 26, 2020 05:02 PM (o2MD2)
Name him

L A mayor eric garspermicetti

Posted by: getting the banned back together with plastic sheets at March 26, 2020 06:18 PM (mvcwc)

491 Dr Birx throwing the ridiculous Imperial College study under the bus, hard.

Posted by: Serious Cat at March 26, 2020 06:20 PM (zqs/f)

492 Interesting how private industry and individuals are stepping up to help.....
...but where are the musicians and actors and performers donating anything?
Where are the online fundraising "challenges?"
Where are the late night talk show hosts - Colbert, Fallon and Meyers....out raising money for hospitals, or for out of work restaurant workers? They are based in NYC - the epicenter.

I guess some people prefer to curse the darkness.

Posted by: vivi at March 26, 2020 06:20 PM (11H2y)

493 Good for Dr. B. to call out the panic-mongering among the media.

Posted by: vivi at March 26, 2020 06:22 PM (11H2y)

494 Uh oh, Fauci mentioned "animal models". Cue PETA.

Posted by: vivi at March 26, 2020 06:27 PM (11H2y)

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