Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:57 am
:olo: was gunna ask the same... doesn't he have meltdowns on the daily? Was it the "total authority" one?
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Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:58 am
Daily occurrence...
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:35 am
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:46 am
Best thing on tv at the moment.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:10 am
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:44 am
He's decided to make the World Health Organisation the villain now
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:39 am
OMG!seremtan wrote:https://www.newsweek.com/stimulus-checks-may-delayed-trump-requires-us-treasury-print-his-name-them-1497916
wtf :olo:
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:21 pm
The ego is just astounding. Last night's briefing was hilarious as well... reeling off names of companies from a bit of paper, and the constant deflection of any responsibility at all. There always has to be someone else at fault because it's impossible that he could have done anything better!
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:12 pm
There's a quote of his from 2005 that states to never accept responsibility for your mistakes and to always find someone else to blame... As I write this it sounds like no one would ever say this as it's obviously terrible advice but then this IS Trump we're talking about.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:44 pm
Best part is, the checks go directly to the banks and the treasury has assured them there's nothing to prevent the banks from taking the money and paying off customers' debts with it. The people will get $0. Capitalism :olo:
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/banks- ... pay-debts/
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/banks- ... pay-debts/
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:09 pm
Are you fucking kidding me.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:12 pm
He isn't entirely wrong with some of his arguments. Lots of countries ignored the WHO and closed borders/restricted travel. It went against the guidelines set out by the WHO so their reluctance to make that call and tell countries to restrict travel has without doubt cost lives.phantasmagoria wrote:He's decided to make the World Health Organisation the villain now
At the same time I can also see that the WHO might have been led down a path that didnt strictly represent the truth or scale of what was occurring.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:53 pm
Got mine. :shrug:Captain Mazda wrote:Best part is, the checks go directly to the banks and the treasury has assured them there's nothing to prevent the banks from taking the money and paying off customers' debts with it. The people will get $0. Capitalism :olo:
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/banks- ... pay-debts/
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:57 pm
Need groceries? Oops, looks like you have a loan so we'll just prepay into that for you. Don't forget your monthly minimum payment though.They'll come in direct deposit if you set up your taxes to direct deposit last year.
However if you didn't then it won't.
Also if you have a court order for judgement due to collections that would normally result in garnishment of wages the banks can take the money and directly apply it to that somehow since it's technically a tax credit. It is not protected from private creditors like social security, etc. You are protected against garnishment from federal and state garnishments for things like taxes owed and federal student loans that you have defaulted on, except for some instances like child support.
Love,
America
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:21 pm
The wife and I saw ours deposited last night. Luckily the memo didn't mention Trump's name.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 3:59 am
The US is such a dumpster fire... holy hell in a hand basket.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:41 am
If you have 4 minutes, this makes interesting viewing 
George W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005
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George W. Bush Urged Us to Prepare for Future Pandemics in 2005
[youtube]uSDC5L7qYUc[/youtube]
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:05 am
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:38 am
That just sounds like a bank bailout with extra steps.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:47 am
basically Trump just did to indebted Americans what the Troika did to Greece :dts:
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:01 pm
Reported cases
9 Apr 1,501,685
11 Apr 1,700,378
13 Apr 1,853,464
15 Apr 1,999,019
17 Apr 2,178,149
Source
9 Apr 1,501,685
11 Apr 1,700,378
13 Apr 1,853,464
15 Apr 1,999,019
17 Apr 2,178,149
Source
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:40 am
well fuck me even the death figures are an undercount:
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... -countries
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... -countries
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:59 pm
sub wall.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:14 pm
Since when has containing a pandemic become a partisan issue? A bunch of fucking children upset because they’ve been told it’s bedtime.
Re: no coronavirus thread ?
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:58 pm
We made it.Ferrao10 wrote:There's this guy Christian Drosden seen more and more often on german public TV lately. [...]
"We have to get the 1:3 infection rate down to 1:1." - Stagnation, no more spread of the virus.
"If 1:3 keeps going we will hit our (hospital-)capacity-ceiling within 6 months."
"We have to spread those numbers of new infections over a course of 24 months. That, we can handle.
Took us 2 months but we made it. And we did good.
We are down to 1: 0.7 by today.
We have to keep it at that. 1:1 - 1:1.2 is the absolut maximum we can handle with the global situation of protective gear at the moment.
Fingers crossed.