Good King Trump

[Ari]

Dunce in president retweets himself as Nero.
'Nero' Trends After Trump Shares Ominous Meme Of Himself Fiddling Amid Chaos | HuffPost

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by BrotherMan

And if it was my fault, Obama started it. ~ Also Trump, probably

And if it was my fault and Obama didin't start it it's not as bad as they say. ~ Also Trump, actually.

I was (poorly) referencing the stock market, but yeah, that too.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Is ‘401K’ some kind of error message?

— Colin Johnston (@colinjohnston) March 9, 2020

[Crumb]

haha, yeah. I believe it is 401k: Retirement not possible

[SR71]

Originally Posted by Ari

Dunce in president retweets himself as Nero.
'Nero' Trends After Trump Shares Ominous Meme Of Himself Fiddling Amid Chaos | HuffPost

I was referencing the narcissistic tendencies at the time, but sure, we can fold all the golf at critical moments right in there. Wasn't it Nero who liked to be an actor in plays?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Eamon Javers on Twitter: "Kudlow says the president’s Econ plan is: a temporary payroll tax holiday. Use assistance to “unpaid sick leave people,� small and medium businesses and possibly to some distressed industries and sectors of the economy. “We are consulting with leaders in the House and Senate.�… https://t.co/P2FCOjebOM"

Global pandemic? TAX DEFERRALS!

Wait until the tax bill next year.

[Stephen Maturin]

Calm down, ya ninnies. This administration has everything under control:

There’s no deadline for a decision [regarding whether to issue an emergency declaration per the Stafford Act], but one of the people familiar with the talks said the task force will not give Trump its final verdict until Jared Kushner, the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law, finishes his research and comes to a conclusion himself.

[SR71]

They probably gonna prop up frackling amid the crashing oil price and the insane debt the industry carries, instead of letting it die a natural death, or at least catch a really mean case of corvi. This is what happens when Libertarian meets sacred cow. All that doctrinaire self sufficiency claptrap flies right out the cobgobbling window.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Jared Kushner

Well shit. A Millennial really is about to doom us all.

[ChuckF]

Actually watched the speech. Dude is not well.

[Stephen Maturin]

Kudos, Chuck. I haven't been able to look at the fucker for more than 15 seconds at a time since the last debate in 2016.

[ChuckF]

I generally limit intake to snippets that I can withstand. Watched tonight to split screen with futures markets.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

That's some high end masochism right there.

[erimir]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Actually watched the speech. Dude is not well.

[fragment]

So, paranoid me is wondering... would Trump try to use the coronavirus as a reason to suspend the election? Can he? If the federal govt can't, what about Repub-run states?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

While announcing a travel ban from Europe over a virus that surfaced in China:

Also: I missed "foreign virus."

Damn these people to Hell.

— OneMileContainmentHat (@Popehat) March 12, 2020

Message received, America! -The World

[Sock Puppet]

I’d say that would be constitutionally impossible, but we’ve been in a mostly unacknowledged constitutional crisis at least since Inauguration Day. So who the fuck knows.

ETA: response to fragment. Not Sneaky In Between Poasters.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I did spot that, and if it were possible to delete and repost I would have.

:oldchap:

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

REMINDER: In 2018, Trump fired the entire US pandemic response team.

These were the experts with decades of experience dealing with precisely the kind of situation we are in today.

Trump did not replace them.

He eliminated the positions.https://t.co/ftbQJ57PnL

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 11, 2020

[erimir]

Honestly, we're lucky it took this long for Trump to put the entire country at risk.

Trump's Katrina was Hurricane Maria, where thousands died and the response was awful. But it's far removed from most Americans' lives and affected far fewer people overall. Coronavirus is disrupting millions of people's lives already and in many scenarios could result in millions of Americans dying.

Coronavirus is Trump's... something else. It doesn't have a direct equivalent. And you can tell he is freaking the fuck out.

But I just knew something like this would happen eventually... ugh

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The spin machine is pinning the economic meltdown on the virus and you can bet they'll be milking that cow for ages and buy at least another of these disaster economic policy cycles for the oligarchy.

[slimshady2357]

America is about to take the coronavirus seriously at last:

show spoiler

Tom Hanks Positive for COVID-19

Not Tom Hanks!

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

Actually watched the speech. Dude is not well.

‘He’s gonna get us all killed’: sense of unease after Trump coronavirus speech | US news | The Guardian

And the message was delivered by a 73-year-old man with a sniffing habit who did not seem to be a glowing picture of health nor entirely at ease reading from a TelePrompter. His bold assertion last week – “I like this stuff. I really get it … Maybe I have a natural ability.” – seemed even more incredible than before.

David Litt, who wrote speeches for Obama, posted: “As a former presidential speechwriter, my careful rhetorical analysis is that he’s gonna get us all killed.”

[LarsMac]

Maybe he'll sign an emergency measure to keep TP on the shelves?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mike Pence said that there has been "irresponsible rhetoric" from people who have downplayed the seriousness of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/OKR7pmkYGH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 12, 2020

This fucking guy.