“But this isn’t the end. I promise you, this is not the end, and we have to regroup and we have to continue to fight and continue to work day in and day out to create the better society for our children, for this world, for this country, that we know is possible.” ~~Jon Stewart
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03...mpression=true
Texas AG say gun stores are "essential businesses" because...I guess we're gonna have to put a cap in the coronaviruses ass.
This is truly unhinged nonsense.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/e...rent-convinced
The issues with the response to the coronavirus aren't just a Trump problem. Yes, he's spectacularly failing to lead the country, but it's not all him.
It's conservatism in the US that's the root of the problem. Case in point, the reporting in this ProPublica article - https://www.propublica.org/article/e...rent-convinced
As with his presidency, Trump is a symptom of the broader problem within American conservatism.More than 160 million Americans have been urged to stay home in what the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. Nonessential businesses and schools in states like New York, Illinois and California have shuttered. In parts of the country, coronavirus patients are flooding hospitals.
Yet listeners of Mark Levin’s syndicated radio program heard on March 16 that much of the furor is a politically motivated overreaction. “I don’t want to be part of the hype machine,” Levin said. One of the country’s most-listened-to talk radio hosts, Levin averages 11 million listeners a week, according to the trade publication Talkers. “People on TV who lied to you about Russia and the Ukraine and so forth, trashing the president, using this as another opportunity to hype and dramatize their agenda.”
Levin, a prominent conservative commentator, called the virus a “serious” matter. But he also emphasized that the death toll from the “Wuhan coronavirus” was significantly lower than that from the seasonal flu in the U.S. “We have 30,000 deaths this flu season,” he said, according to a ProPublica review of broadcasts since March 10.
To be fair, after being deluged with covid-19 stuff nonstop...24/7...on the radio (the only format I primarily use for news and music), well, after 15mins, I turn it off.
“But this isn’t the end. I promise you, this is not the end, and we have to regroup and we have to continue to fight and continue to work day in and day out to create the better society for our children, for this world, for this country, that we know is possible.” ~~Jon Stewart
While you may be banned, I know you will just make another account, but fucking seriously? You think Democrats are even close to Republicans? Are you high?
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I don't think his original account exists anymore. This guy has made hundreds of accounts over the last few years, and MMO-Champ won't do anything about it.
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I don't know why that is a shitshow, she is right, fuck the corporations. Did you get your opinion from Andrew McCarthy again?
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He get's almost all of his opinions from Andrew McCarthy, so that tells you all you need to know about him.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...-and-terrorism
Right wing extremism
Wait, so were the Democrat Congressional Leaders simply not invited to the White House stimulus signing... or were they just smart enough to avoid this complete lack of physical distancing?
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R.I.P. Democracy
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
They weren't invited. Trump is that fucking childish and petty. I wouldn't want to go to it either anyway.
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In other news Trish Regan from Fox Business was fired, "supposedly" for her comments about the Corona Virus being another "Democratic Impeachment Scam".
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-bu...ment-scam-rant
Who wants to bet she ends up on something like Sputnik TV, OANN, or some other right wing bullshit conspiracy laden channel. Probably Infowars wouldn't be out of the question.
The briefing right now is fascinating.
You guys really should get him into a clinic and treat him for dementia.
The best part was "we call it data"![]()
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1243633539226177536
They weren't invited.
Let's all take a moment to apprciate a room of smiling Republicans, almost elusively white dudes, being in the room for this. Republicans, the party of "small government", smiling and congratulating themselves on being the very thing they have professed to be against most of their political careers.
Oh the sweet, delicious irony.
"It's our currency. We can do whatever we want."
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Yeah, go tank the Dollar, you idiot
So what will be the next world reserve currency? Yuan?
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Obviously Yuan, I doubt it will be the Yen![]()
Said by the guy who kept whining about China being a currency manipulator.
Also:
"You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is."
Fuck him and anyone who still supports him.
LOL, he just called Murdoch's newspaper, the Wallstreet Journal, fake news. Wonder how Murdoch is going to respond to that.
...god damnit.
In other news - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...icans-created/
I didn't realize that Trump and Massie used to be so close.
Also, the article is god-damned right. Massie, like Trump, isn't "the problem", but a symptom of the bigger problem. Which is that the Republican party has been completely co-opted by nutters that have rewarded this kind of pointless, dangerous behavior.
By putting it on the front page and selling more copies, I imagine.