Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[some guy]

Presented without further comment, except bolding for emphasis.

White House science office says Trump ended COVID pandemic as US hits record cases



Right, you know what that means. It's 24-hour challenge time! I won't give the list of names, it keeps changing because they keep getting banned for...being themselves. But you know who you are.

Explain, specifically, how the pandemic is over.

Or, admit Trump lied.

If you don't answer in the usual 24 hours, you continue the chain you've been forging. And I get to answer for you.

Well shit, why stop at ending COVID? Didn't he also end world hunger? Brought about world peace? Cured the common cold? Solved cold fusion?

[TigTone]

Well shit, why stop at ending COVID? Didn't he also end world hunger? Brought about world peace? Cured the common cold? Solved cold fusion?

We misunderstood he stopped COVID spring/summer.

We are now starting COVID fall/winter.

and they are going to eat up his bullshit.

[Paranoid Android]

Trump loves the troops!

Trump's former VA director tweeting out this story from
@Stripes
: "Senate Democrats claim Trump’s 2018 veteran suicide prevention order was never implemented

So this is from Trump's own former VA director.

This is really important. Veterans have the highest rate of suicide in the first year after discharge from service. That’s why we wanted every service member to have mental health coverage upon leaving the military.


I know, I know. Deepstate. Everyone hates Trump, blah, blah.

https://www.stripes.com/news/veteran...ented-1.650023

From Stars and Stripes article. Support the Troops!

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Trump loves the troops!

Trump's former VA director tweeting out this story from
@Stripes
: "Senate Democrats claim Trump’s 2018 veteran suicide prevention order was never implemented

So this is from Trump's own former VA director.

This is really important. Veterans have the highest rate of suicide in the first year after discharge from service. That’s why we wanted every service member to have mental health coverage upon leaving the military.


I know, I know. Deepstate. Everyone hates Trump, blah, blah.

https://www.stripes.com/news/veteran...ented-1.650023

From Stars and Stripes article. Support the Troops!

[Breccia]

Well shit, why stop at ending COVID? Didn't he also end world hunger? Brought about world peace? Cured the common cold? Solved cold fusion?

Pfft, you act like he promised to cure cancer and AIDS.

Oh shit he totally did that. Nevermind.

[Benggaul]

It was a joke since DNA and NDA share the same letters in the acronyms : 3

All three words in "DNA and NDA" do. Fun!

[Zan15]

WaPo has a letter signed by 20 former AGs, saying Trump is a threat to the rule of law.



"I suppose they're all Democrats?"

Close. They're all Republicans.

RINO alert..or something like that...till next week when they support something of his then they can be republicans again.

[Breccia]

Trump tells women how much he values them:

Your husbands, they want to get back to work. We're getting your husbands back to work. And everybody wants it

Wanna see the video?

By the way, he said that in Michigan. The reason "your husbands" are out of work, predates COVID in many cases. This article is a year old and goes into a few details. The losses were caused by the trade war(s). Oh, and NAFTA 1.0.0.2 didn't help.

[Adam Jensen]

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White House science office says Trump ended COVID pandemic as US hits record cases

That's even stupider than standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier claiming all combat operations in Iraq are over while insurgencies and terrorists are sprouting like weeds in the desert (if the desert had weeds.)

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All three words in "DNA and NDA" do. Fun!

Disclosure Non Act and Nucleic Deoxyribo Acid.

I don't get it.

[PhaelixWW]

All three words in "DNA and NDA" do. Fun!

Disclosure Non Act and Nucleic Deoxyribo Acid.

I don't get it.

He means that "and" uses the same letters as both "NDA" and "DNA". So "NDA and DNA" is a phrase made up of three words that are anagrams of each other.

It took me a minute, too.

[Felya]

He means that "and" uses the same letters as both "NDA" and "DNA". So "NDA and DNA" is a phrase made up of three words that are anagrams of each other.

It took me a minute, too.

He is making an even more complicated joke, based on the previously confusing joke... I like it...

[Fugus]

Trump admin dismantles 'firewall' for editorial independence at U.S.-funded outlets
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=uxbndlbing

Evidently, they are trying to turn our media into the American version of RT.

[DarkTZeratul]

Presented without further comment, except bolding for emphasis.

White House science office says Trump ended COVID pandemic as US hits record cases

Explain, specifically, how the pandemic is over.

I'm not the sort of person your challenges are directed at, but I think I can provide an answer nonetheless.

It starts with a story. Years ago I worked a summer as a QA Tester for Electronic Arts. Now, part of their process at the time was that in order for a game to move from Alpha to Beta, or from Beta to Final, there had to be zero open bugs in the database. The way this was accomplished was by telling the QA Testers to stop entering new bugs, closing all existing bugs as "Known Shippable," transitioning to the next phase, and then reopening all the bugs that had been closed.

Trump "ended the pandemic" in the same way that EA had zero open bugs when Sims 2: Castaway came out of beta.

[Breccia]

Trump "ended the pandemic" in the same way that EA had zero open bugs when Sims 2: Castaway came out of beta.

Difference is, of course, EA didn't actually kill people.

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And once again, it's time for Guess the Speaker!

Testing may be identifying some more cases, I think that's clearly true, but what we're seeing is a real increase in the numbers

"Some librul commie science-believer".

It's four-star admiral Brett Groir.

"Oh, and some random military guy's opinion...that name sounds familiar."

He's Trump's COVID testing czar. As in, currently.

Well you know what that means, another 24 hour challenge! Trump supporters, if Trump's own testing czar joins, um, basically everyone in saying "the rise in numbers is due to a rise in actual cases, not just testing" explain how Trump is right when he says it's the testing.

I can't wait to hear those responses. Or, you could admit Trump lied. You can just say "Trump was wrong", that'll work. Or, you could stay silent, which means I get to answer for you, and, well, you know the rest.

[PhaelixWW]

Years ago I worked a summer as a QA Tester for Electronic Arts. Now, part of their process at the time was that in order for a game to move from Alpha to Beta, or from Beta to Final, there had to be zero open bugs in the database. The way this was accomplished was by telling the QA Testers to stop entering new bugs, closing all existing bugs as "Known Shippable," transitioning to the next phase, and then reopening all the bugs that had been closed.

Lucky. I worked QA for a while years ago as well. A game that I worked on for over a year and a half went gold with more than 3000 open bugs in the database. The launch was a fiasco.

[Felya]

Lucky. I worked QA for a while years ago as well. A game that I worked on for over a year and a half went gold with more than 3000 open bugs in the database. The launch was a fiasco.

The main job of QA is actually to make sure everyone else is doing their job. The main problem of being QA is that you have absolutely no power to make anyone do their job.

[fwc577]

The main job of QA is actually to make sure everyone else is doing their job. The main problem of being QA is that you have absolutely no power to make anyone do their job.

Ain't this the fucking truth. Right now, I'm working at a place that launched a companion web app to our 20-year old+ desktop software and (I can't get into too much detail) our Engineering team has scrapped some basic processes due to crunch and it's causing the QA test team to find bug after bug after bug and we keep letting bugs get shipped out the door because we just don't have the time to get everything fixed and it's like I want to shake my DoE and tell him to slow the fuck down and make sure everyone is doing the absolute basic unit testing and code reviews.

[Benggaul]

75,072 new cases; a little over 12k more than last Tuesday. The US has now passed 9 million confirmed cases.

Texas: 6,889 new cases; 74 deaths
Wisconsin: 5,262 new cases (new record); 64 deaths (new record)
California: 4,914 new cases; 78 deaths
Fuck Florida.
Illinois: 4,000 new cases; 46 deaths
Michigan: 2,675 new cases; 33 deaths
Missouri: 2,619 new cases; 54 deaths
Ohio: 2,537 new cases; 20 deaths
Pennsylvania: 2,273 new cases; 23 deaths
Minnesota: 2,164 new cases; 15 deaths
North Carolina: 2,141 new cases; 41 deaths
New York: 2,056 new cases; 20 deaths
Indiana: 1,983 new cases; 51 deaths
Tennessee: 1,908 new cases; 44 deaths
New Jersey: 1,848 new cases; 17 deaths
Kentucky: 1,771 new cases (new record); 18 deaths
Georgia: 1,491 new cases; 17 deaths
Colorado: 1,433 new cases; 10 deaths
Massachusetts: 1,260 new cases; 7 deaths
Iowa: 1,174 new cases; 14 deaths
Arizona: 1,158 new cases; 16 deaths
Utah: 1,145 new cases; 4 deaths
Virginia: 1,134 new cases; 19 deaths
Alabama: 1,115 new cases; 26 deaths
South Carolina: 1,078 new cases; 19 deaths
Oklahoma: 1,010 new cases; 22 deaths (new record)

Nebraska did not report today which is unusual, but they probably add another 1k to the total. Kansas did not report today because of their alternating "full report" days but they'll also likely be down for 1k tomorrow. At least a half-dozen states just missed my cutoff but I expect to see them up there in the next few days. New England as a whole is slowly crawling upward with the exception of Maine which is the only state that is trending better--though their positivity is inching towards 1%. Something to watch for later.

New England, however, along with the West coast are doing considerably better than the vast majority of the rest of the US which with few exceptions are listed as "uncontrolled spread". You never really want to hear "uncontrolled spread" unless you're @Breccia banging Lindsey Graham's wife. The way this is going the US might see 10 million confirmed cases by mid-to-late November. I fully expect tomorrow to bring another 70k+, maaaaaybe 80k if things continue escalating horribly compared to last week. It would take a 16k jump over last Wednesday to happen, but we've already seen worse.

1,039 deaths is about a hundred more than last week and makes the national total 232,084. Florida's been even more dishonest than usual so they haven't been topping that gruesome leaderboard as much lately. At least not publicly. DeathSantis has been desperate to start shutting down the daily reports for a couple weeks now, oddly enough.

Related news:

Hospitals across 38 states report increase in coronavirus patients--This is the worst indicator. This also blows those "more testing means more cases!" bullshit arguments out of the water.
Trump's pitch to women on coronavirus recovery: 'We're getting your husbands back to work'--So he can bring back fun for the whole family! Also, is he assuming women don't work?
Covid spreading faster than ever in U.S.--*sigh*
White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic as US hits record cases--Cool. Guess these daily reports are useless then.

Stay safe, folks.

[Paranoid Android]

Trump tells women how much he values them:



Wanna see the video?

By the way, he said that in Michigan. The reason "your husbands" are out of work, predates COVID in many cases. This article is a year old and goes into a few details. The losses were caused by the trade war(s). Oh, and NAFTA 1.0.0.2 didn't help.

Think same rant where he says Ivanka could be at home taking care of the kids but she is working.

[Breccia]

1,039 deaths

Well, shit. I mean, there's nothing magic about 1,000 but I was hoping we'd stay below it a bit longer.

[Felya]

Ain't this the fucking truth. Right now, I'm working at a place that launched a companion web app to our 20-year old+ desktop software and (I can't get into too much detail) our Engineering team has scrapped some basic processes due to crunch and it's causing the QA test team to find bug after bug after bug and we keep letting bugs get shipped out the door because we just don't have the time to get everything fixed and it's like I want to shake my DoE and tell him to slow the fuck down and make sure everyone is doing the absolute basic unit testing and code reviews.

I’m telling you, a lot of the defiance is fear of job security. People feel like if they are not stressing out with tight deadlines, they are expendable. When you introduce something that saves times, they don’t seem to connect the dots that it’s not to get them fired, but to relieve some of the stress.