Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 24, 2020

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    Cheapskate0  over 4 years ago

    Well, I guess Scott’s trying to be funny.

    At least, he’s trying.

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    Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Hey, just trying to keep it limber.

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    braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The Plan:

    When the weather gets warmer in April, it’ll disappear.

    Hydroxychloroquine is the answer! What have you got to lose.

    The cure is worse than the virus.

    Ultraviolet light! Inside.

    Disinfectant! Also inside. Right, Doc?

    “You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump. I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, ’How do you know so much about this? ’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

    We have a wonderful task force working really hard, doing tremendous work, really incredible.

    We’re gonna end up with only 60 thousand deaths, maybe 50 thousand. We’re doing a tremendous job.

    “I don’t take responsibility for any of it!”

    .

    His Disciples believe and celebrate every one of The Messiah’s pearls.

    Every one. He never lies, He’s never wrong.

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    Sanspareil  over 4 years ago

    Coyotes on bicycles! next you’ll be telling me that they can order rocket propelled skates from Acme Inc.

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Bill Bryan, who leads the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology division, gave a presentation on research his team has conducted that shows that the virus doesn’t live as long in warmer and more humid temperatures.

    Bryan said, “The virus dies quickest in sunlight,” leaving Trump to wonder whether you could bring the light “inside the body.”

    “So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light — and I think you said that hasn’t been checked because of the testing,” Trump said, speaking to Bryan during the briefing.

    “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too.”

    He added: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute.”

    “And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”

    “As you see, it gets in the lungs, it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-injection-disinfectant-beat-coronavirus-clean-lungs-n1191216

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Well, at least the Billionaires are somehow surviving this.

    And for our RW friends…

    Isn’t that what’s really important?

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    Though the coronavirus itself may not discriminate in terms of who can be infected, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from a great equalizer.

    In the same month that 22 million Americans lost their jobs, the American billionaire class’s total wealth increased about 10%—or $282 billion more than it was at the beginning of March.

    They now have a combined net worth of $3.229 trillion.

    The initial stock market crash may have dented some net worths at first—for instance, that of Jeff Bezos, which dropped down to a mere $105 billion on March 12.

    But his riches have rebounded: As of April 15, his net worth has increased by $25 billion.

    Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, was one of the few to see an increase in net worth even as the markets crashed, and he’s now up $2.58 billion.

    These “pandemic profiteers,” as a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, calls them, is just one piece of the wealth inequality puzzle in America.

    In the background is the fact that since 1980, the taxes paid by billionaires, measured as a percentage of their wealth, dropped 79%.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90494347/american-billionaires-have-gotten-280-billion-richer-since-the-start-of-the-covid-19-pandemic

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Party!

    Party!!

    Party!!!

    Let’s have a YUGE crowd for 4th of July party!!!

    (During a pandemic…)

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    Trump used the coronavirus task force briefing to announce that he is throwing himself a 4th of July party on the National Mall.

    Trump said:

    “The Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels crews who wanted to show support to the American medical workers who just like military members in a time of war are fiercely running toward the fight.”

    “It’s going to be great. I want to see those shows. I’ve seen them many times and I can’t get enough of them.”

    “And on July 4th, we’ll be doing what we had at the mall, as you know.”

    “Last year was a tremendous success. And I would imagine we’ll do it. Hopefully, I can use the term forever.”

    “That was a great success, as you remember, even though it was pouring.”

    “It was raining so hard. It was raining about as hard as I’ve seen in a while.”

    “But it was an amazing success. Didn’t bother the pilots. Didn’t bother the military. Didn’t bother the crews we had there.”

    “We’re going to be doing it again on July 4th.”

    ~

    (But remember, Biden supposedly is the senile one….)

    ~

    https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/22/trump-announces-hes-throwing-himself-a-4th-of-july-party-during-a-pandemic.html

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Meanwhile…

    Back in Reality….

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    Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a “third world” country and on course for a second Great Depression, one of the world’s leading economists has warned.

    In a withering attack on the president, Joseph Stiglitz said millions of people were turning to food banks, turning up for work due to a lack of sick pay and dying because of health inequalities.

    The Nobel prize-winning economist said: “The numbers turning to food banks are just enormous and beyond the capacity of them to supply. It is like a third world country. The public social safety net is not working.”

    Stiglitz, a long-term critic of Trump, said 14% of the population was dependent on food stamps and predicted the social infrastructure could not cope with an unemployment rate that could hit 30% in the coming months.

    “We have a safety net that is inadequate. The inequality in the US is so large. This disease has targeted those with the poorest health.

    In the advanced world, the US is one of the countries with the poorest health overall and the greatest health inequality.”

    Stiglitz said Republicans had opposed proposals to give those affected by coronavirus 10 days’ sick leave, meaning many employees were going to work even while infected.

    “The Republicans said no because they said it would set a bad precedent. It is literally unbelievable.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/22/top-economist-us-coronavirus-response-like-third-world-country-joseph-stiglitz-donald-trump

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    RobinHood  over 4 years ago

    Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

    John Adams in a letter to Abagail July 7, 1775.

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    RobinHood  over 4 years ago

    Hey Carman sounds just like Darsan54.

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    The first places open for business should be government buildings and offices.

    Starting in DC.

    If the White House isn’t doing public tours…

    Then the rest of the country is not ready to open.

    If your state’s capital building is not open to the public…

    Then the rest of your state is not ready to open.

    If your governor is not out shaking hands and kissing babies…

    Then it’s too soon for the rest of us.

    If your city’s court house and mayor’s office are not open for business…

    Then your city is not ready.

    If the governing body and lawmakers aren’t ready to take those risks…

    Then what does that tell you?”

    - Originator unknown.

    ~

    I would just add…

    If the CEOs, VPs, and Top Management aren’t willing to show up in person…

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    William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Cnbc just now: “Market’s down because Hydroxychloroquine trials were stopped due to deaths. Apparently that’s not a desirable outcome but don’t worry, White House says you can mainline Lysol.”

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Well…

    That’s a little awkward….

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    But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion.

    The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.

    Steps away from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block.

    Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures.

    Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign.

    But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475

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    Silly Season   over 4 years ago

    Oh… It was a grift all along…

    How entirely… expected….

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    The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.

    In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it “can rid the body of Covid-19”.

    A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus.

    To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant “knocks it out in a minute. One minute!”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

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    mistercatworks  over 4 years ago

    Way to trivialize the greatest tragedy of the 21st century – so far.

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