You’re right and I’m wrong. I hit “New Posts” to see what’s new on the board and, as a result, I sometimes don’t notice which particular forum a thread is in. I thought this was a Pit thread (and that mistake is on me). If I had paid attention and noticed it was a Quarantine Zone thread, I wouldn’t have responded as I did.
I don’t think you’re to blame; the OP was political enough and your reply seemed in the same spirit.
I got one of these cards today but didn’t read it yet. I assume it has the same info I’ve been hearing non-stop for weeks. (Not that I mind that, good advice that may help to inhibit the spread of COVID-19 needs to be repeated until people follow it.)
People like you are why so many of our mods are drug addicts.
Trump Tower
Trump University
Trump Steaks
Trump Taj Mahal
Trump National Golf Club (there are a few of these)
Trump International Golf Links (there are a few of these too)
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas
Trump International Hotel Washington DC
… and so on, and so on, and so on.
The postcard was labelled “President Trump’s” because he cannot resist putting his name on anything he can. I agree that there is no reason to put his name on it at all; but if the postcard is coming from the US Government, and he (as head of the government) can put his name on it, he will.
As dumb as I think it is, I wonder if having Trump’s name on it might be why a good 25% of people would actually take it seriously. I mean, he was previously saying it was all a hoax, and they believed that, so they need him to say otherwise.
I’m just happy it’s not someone putting Trump’s face on the conspiracy bullshit. Because I could see people doing that.
Look, that twerp Trump touted long and hard the birther nonsense and then one time and one time only glibly said Obama was born in America. Care to guess how much of the twerp’s base still tout the birther nonsense?
I thought it was China’s virus!? But if he wants to claim responsibility now…
Yeah, but they didn’t get that in the mail. And his demo probably is the type that gets swindled by things in the mail.
So you’re saying the President sent out a political mailing on the taxpayer’s dime?
Sure, I agree, but at least for now, this IS an official U.S. government mailing. Ridiculing it isn’t ‘politics.’
Moderator Note
Seriously? You agree the mailing itself was political, but ridiculing it is not political? That doesn’t make any sense. The ridicule being directed at it from the start is clearly political and belongs in the Pit.
In any case, if you wish to complain about moderation, take it to ATMB.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
Noooo! Don’t ridicule Trump!! He’ll take away our hospital’s ventilators!!!
I thought so too, but then I thought that the kind of morons who would take it more seriously because it has Trump’s name on it may just be the kind of people who need to hear and heed it.
Colibri is in Panama. He’s probably better fixed for ventilators than any of us up in the contiguous 48.
Since it unnecessarily had his name on it, I took it as a campaign mailing. Sure it was good advice, (go figure) but I found it to be another egregious claim for credit.
In his defense (excuse me while I gag), I think most Presidents would take the opportunity to get their names out in public on something ‘helping’ people; it’s what politicians do. It’s just that with our current Narcissist-in-Chief, it’s a lot easier to ridicule it…
And the CDC is shown by their decal on the card…right next to the White House. And it does direct people to the .gov site on the virus, FWIW.
Why would you think that? What evidence have you seen that backs up that thinking, rather than that Trump’s name being prominent is an anomaly?
Because I don’t remember getting President Obama’s Census or President Bush’s Terrorism Fighting Guidelines or President Clinton’s Economic Report, etc.
And sometimes it’s even foisted on them. “Obamacare” was originally the derisive name that opponents used to deride the PPACA (Yet it was those opponents who claimed he had a messianic cult going…). After noticing there was no point on fighting that, everyone sort of accepted calling it “Obamacare” in everyday usage.
Panama is on lockdown, and people are only allowed to leave their houses for two hours a day to go to the supermarket or pharmacy. But worse, the sale of alcohol has been prohibited. I’m well stocked for scotch, but the beer is running low.
SO DON’T TRY ME!
Arg! No Alcohol? At least in many states in the US the state controlled Alcohol retailers are left alone. Definitely an essential service!
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I saw that Australia had restricted alcohol purchases, then I saw the ‘restrictions’.
And just to clarify - that is the per day restriction.