bearister said:

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prospeCt said:

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/mar/10/democratic-primaries-live-news-biden-sanders-michigan-2020-winners#img-1

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I'll raise you a Keith Don't Go:



* Rolling Stone thought this was the best album of 1975

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B.A. Bearacus said:

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T's tv network in lockstep. The only reference to CV19 at the top of FoxNews.com right now...

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blungld said:

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okaydo said:

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The King has spoken: "I dismiss you."

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B.A. Bearacus said:

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Today we Democrats and Independents collectively reached that moment where nothing can surprise us anymore in terms of measures taken or events canceled to try to contain the spread. No more wow moments.

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bearister said:

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"Sean Hannity used his syndicated talk-radio program on Wednesday to share a prediction he had found on Twitter about what is really happening with the coronavirus: It's a "fraud" by the deep state to spread panic in the populace, manipulate the economy and suppress dissent."

"The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan told viewers on Monday that the worry over coronavirus "is yet another attempt to impeach the president."

But interestingly enough, Right Wing radio host Michael Savage (who has doctorate degree in nutrition from Cal and whose son just became a billionaire selling Rockstar Energy Drink) said:

" It's a matter of public health. How can these shills face their followers after all the lies and deceit?" asked Michael Savage, the radio host and author who was one of Mr. Trump's earliest supporters in conservative media and urged him to run for president in 2011."

"Are these mouthpieces without any social conscience?" added Mr. Savage, who called the words of Mr. Limbaugh and others "criminal negligence.". All quotes from NY Times

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Cave Bear said:

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The inertia of the administration is incredible. The market is waterfalling and a pandemic has struck the US which is projected to kill hundreds of thousands this year and the public response from the president is focused on attacking his political enemies while maybe getting a tax cut. It's almost as though he doesn't realize his presidency is on the line right now. Not everyone who works for him is an idiot so there must be some thought process behind this. What are they thinking?

Are they thinking the market slide will end soon and a recovery will occur before November? Are they thinking the death toll from Covid-19 will be vastly smaller than projected and they will be able to claim victory in their handling of the pandemic?

Why is the administration not treating the pandemic and market damage as a national emergency of the highest order? Why fight with the media over the scale of the emergency? Why not use the "panic" as an opportunity to use emergency powers that at the very least will give the impression that action is being taken to protect the people of the United States and safeguard the value of their property? Isn't that what the President of the United States is supposed to do in a national emergency?

Trump should issue an executive order authorizing a bigly expensive medical and economic response by both federal and local agencies. Throw federal money at anything that can move. Produce enough Covid-19 detection kits to test the entire Western Hemisphere. Have thousands of new doctors, nurses, and techs hired immediately (or as fast as bureaucracy can move) with grants to hospitals and counties. Have the US Army Corps of engineers build emergency ICU units at all of the major metropolitan areas in the country and have army air units on standby to fly patients to treatment centers. Extend generous emergency unemployment benefits to anyone who lost their job because of the coronavirus, and extend optional emergency Medicare service to all infected. Throw in the payroll tax cut too. This all would cost trillions, but that's the point. The bigger the response, the more presidential it will appear.

Instead they're just going to hunker down and hope this whole thing blows over before November? Just seems like a terrible strategy. If it does basically all blow over by November, they can claim victory best with a vigorous response now. If it doesn't all blow over by November, a vigorous response would give them the best defense against criticism of their handling of the outbreak.

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sycasey said:

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Feels very Herbert Hoover.

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Quote:

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Didn't need no welfare state
ev'rybody pulled his weight
gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days

And you knew who you were then
girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again

People seemed to be content
fifty dollars paid the rent
freaks were in a circus tent
Those were the day

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Cave Bear said:

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The inertia of the administration is incredible. The market is waterfalling and a pandemic has struck the US which is projected to kill hundreds of thousands this year and the public response from the president is focused on attacking his political enemies while maybe getting a tax cut. It's almost as though he doesn't realize his presidency is on the line right now. Not everyone who works for him is an idiot so there must be some thought process behind this. What are they thinking?

Are they thinking the market slide will end soon and a recovery will occur before November? Are they thinking the death toll from Covid-19 will be vastly smaller than projected and they will be able to claim victory in their handling of the pandemic?

Why is the administration not treating the pandemic and market damage as a national emergency of the highest order? Why fight with the media over the scale of the emergency? Why not use the "panic" as an opportunity to use emergency powers that at the very least will give the impression that action is being taken to protect the people of the United States and safeguard the value of their property? Isn't that what the President of the United States is supposed to do in a national emergency?

Trump should issue an executive order authorizing a bigly expensive medical and economic response by both federal and local agencies. Throw federal money at anything that can move. Produce enough Covid-19 detection kits to test the entire Western Hemisphere. Have thousands of new doctors, nurses, and techs hired immediately (or as fast as bureaucracy can move) with grants to hospitals and counties. Have the US Army Corps of engineers build emergency ICU units at all of the major metropolitan areas in the country and have army air units on standby to fly patients to treatment centers. Extend generous emergency unemployment benefits to anyone who lost their job because of the coronavirus, and extend optional emergency Medicare service to all infected. Throw in the payroll tax cut too. This all would cost trillions, but that's the point. The bigger the response, the more presidential it will appear.

Instead they're just going to hunker down and hope this whole thing blows over before November? Just seems like a terrible strategy. If it does basically all blow over by November, they can claim victory best with a vigorous response now. If it doesn't all blow over by November, a vigorous response would give them the best defense against criticism of their handling of the outbreak.

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