There is a thread over in Elections about replacing Pence, and how Trump probably can’t do it.
If he gets real sick and/or dead from Covid-19 though, that solves the problem. [/conspiracy theory]
And this from a man who believes you can catch cooties.
This is only phase one. In phase two, Trump is going to mobilize some troops and order them to go out and shoot down some cows.
Ridiculous.
Cows aren’t shot down; they’re sunk.
From today’s Washington post:
But I’m sure this’ll end well. After all,
To be fair, that quote is from someone at the IMF, not Trump himself. However:
I think they were plasma donors, so supposedly people who’ve had the virus and recovered. Still not cool. We don’t even know for sure if the recovered can get it again yet. Somebody probably told him not to wear a mask lest the stock market freak out.
This is such BS plus I thought Congress was supposed to have the purse. This is a blatant kickback from trump to big business using taxpayer money .
Why does this remind me of a child trying to buy someone’s friendship?
Hey, just remember: the real problem is the extra $600/week that some people on unemployment are getting.
Corona means you don’t even need a bathtub - the government will drown in its own mucus.
And making sure those greedy city employees get their pensions defaulted on. /s
If my math is right, he could have given every full time worker in the us a little more than $3,800 each for this amount of money, assuming 130 million full time workers.
But that would just be “free money”* (which is not character-building) and would put the country squarely on the slippery slope of SOCIALISM!! Giving people money, health care, food, survival above a subsistence level, when they’ve done nothing to EARN it?? If God cared about those people, He wouldn’t have made them poor! Who do you think we are anyway-- SWEDES? (And by that, I don’t mean rutabagas.)
- Cf. Unca Moscow Mitch “Let Them Eat Cake” McConnell
Here is a hearty FUCK YOU to each and every one of you that said “Don’t worry, Trump can’t win, and even if he does he will do no real damage because he will be totally ineffective.”
Oh, man. That is a painful memory. All those posts saying what you’ve got here, as well as ‘he’ll be totally bored within a month and will quit!’ and ‘the GOP establishment won’t let him get away with anything–everything will just stay the same as it’s always been, so what’s the big deal if he gets in?’
And then when he got the Oval, it was all ‘you’ve got to give him a chance, everyone deserves a chance!’ and ‘he is going to become Presidential after this’ and ‘you’re over-reacting, he’s just the same-old same-old, nothing ever changes.…’
Some of it was cynical–written by those rooting for chaos in the US. But way too much of it was posted in all seriousness.
Appalling. Appalling stupidity and malice.
Scary optics, indeed. When asked about it afterwards, Mike - who suddenly has a big thing now for eye contact - tried to foist something specious about how he’s tested frequently, which apparently has granted him superhuman immunity in those petri dish environments so he can elbow-rub his way into reassuring the base that all this corona stuff should’ve blown over by now. Even if he’s tested daily, the entitled religiopath has been non-social-distancing, maskless, prior to entering the Mayo, making him, hmmmm, a scumbag vector.
Hey, Mikey Pee. So, you’re gettting tested for corona virus all the time. What about all the other crud you could be inflicting on those folks in the hospital, you moron?
Union busting at its finest.
Congress puts money in the purse, and since Republicans control the senate, they can use their power as leverage to determine how much gets put in, and how it’s supposed to be spent. And then, the executive branch decides how it’s spent (and who gets the goodies, and when).
Can I piggy back on this fuck you to all the people who said “don’t worry, I lived through the sixties, that was a truly turbulent time, you’re overreacting to Trump.”